This is a "race" for consumers. Mozilla has set "the record" by implementing Ogg/Theora in HTML5. Now all the other runners keep complaining about how they want to run on a different track and that it's way too fast for them and because they could stumble on the last few yards. To me the analogy still works that way. Now the W3C is the olympic committee that basically rejected the "world record" because too many competitors complained that they couldn't compete and therefore the "standard" which it could have been never existed.
You've got that one upside down. A standard is a set of requirements you put up that enables those who deliver on it to be recognized. A standard is not something that you make up for everyone to spit in the pot. Following your logic what good is a world record in 300 yard sprint if "no one is willing to run that fast"? You set the rules, those that play by them get your seal of approval (and the complementary hat) and the others just don't. It's this "I don't want this, we won't support that" that makes the whole notion of "standards" in the computer world a joke. Rather that too many institutions are willing to water down their requirements if a big enough player keeps bitching about it. Look at the ODF/OOXML debacle that was meant to be a standard but Microsoft just thinks it can make up it's own rules. I hope HTML5 with Ogg/Theora will get a killer app pretty soon and all those vendors can kiss my ass anyway. Xvid ftw!
germans tend to be technical, detail oriented and saavy and there is no way I can believe the population would WANT this.
Flattering stereotypes aside, the general populous here is just as uninformed and boon-ish as anywhere else. They take their information pre-digested from the mass media and believe that politicians act in the best interest of the people. Combine that with an outstanding history of propaganda culture in my country and you have an uninformed flock of obedient yay-sayers. Most people read as far as "child pornography" and whatever is proposed to fight it can't be wrong, now can it? The majority of internet users will never even notice the blockades until their weblogs, gambling, filesharing and porn sites end up on the "to burn" pile. I'm disgusted by the shameful lies and deceit campaigns run by elected officials and I am bound to believe that this won't change in the near future. People are just too caught up in their daily existence to realize the big picture and fathom the depths of power structures within governments. One would think that Germany had learned lessons from her past but it seems like the only lesson learned is how to effectively manipulate the public opinion. Our media and political parties are largely bound by industry rule and won't take the risk of losing ad contracts or parliament alliances to defend freedom. After all, freedom makes a ruler's life hard. A sad and remarkable episode in German history has begun. This is the beginning of some disgusting schemes to protect the ruling class and their outdated ideas from reality. Next on the list are copyright infringements, there are several officials that have already mentioned this as the next logical desirable step. I doubt we can still stop it. The way this country is run by right-wing nuts and infiltrated from left over Nazis ever since WWII ended is despicable and unbeknownst to most a reason for this direction we're heading. I would say I'd emigrate but I just can't find any country where to.
For thousands of years comedy has not developed past Aristophanes -- indeed, fewer than a hundred years ago the great cultural historian Edith Hamilton compared the popular entertainment of the previous generation to his oeuvre. The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of. In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
So there's that.
Oh so you haven't heard? I was under the impression that everybody had heard that latest news of a certain avian variety.
And just to break your stride... there are several episodes that are just un-funny. Just because you cut to something completely apeshit crazy during a sketch doesn't mean it's fun to watch or entertaining. Yes I go "what the fuck?", yeah I think "that was brilliant" but I don't laugh. If I see a joke and go "That was good" but no smile ever crosses my face... it's not that good. I've seen every episode of Family Guy and American Dad... high, drunk and completely sober. Some of them are just awfully bad. Painfully predictable and can't be saved by a two second cutaway to a giant chicken beating a guy. Then again... the entire last season of Simpsons didn't have more than a handful of good jokes in it. Maybe I'm getting a little overfed and/or spoiled.
As for the Futurama movies I thought most of the plot was too irrelevant and merely spooned in to stretch it out to 90 minutes format on all four occasions. Had they told two distinct stories per 90 minutes instead of shoe horning all of them into one I thought it would have been much more enjoyable but who am I to argue. Still love the movies.
If you get cancelled, voted back on petitions, re-released as direct-to-dvd and get back on TV you can stay no matter how crap most of your episodes are. I truly love Seth MacFarlane's shows but some of it is just: meh (and that's a gross overstatement). Even more so after they got back on the air. The Futurama movies were twice as long as they should have been. I would have liked 45min episodes much better.
Blackjack and Hookers or we are all doomed... DOOOOOOMED.
Really, this is supposed to be the fabled "democracy" ancient greeks thought up? Oh no, wait. We've transformed that into a PR farce that every four years proves how rotten the people at the top are. Your votes don't matter. They are merely a numeral representation of how much you "don't" have to say. Lies, populism and ignorant phrase flinging wherever you look. None of this will matter AFTER the election that's why everything they tried to introduce lately was meant to be established before voters aren't important again. Look at our ministry of family and health. They neglected their resort for 3 1/2 years and all of a sudden when the election goes into the confrontation phase they start tossing around stuff like "DNS filters" and "address filtering" against alleged child pornography. All of which could be removed through application of existing laws but since they chose to balance the budget by cutting funds to investigators and connecting departments they now have to start flapping their arms REAALLY fast.
Politicians are lying pricks that are always a couple of decades behind when it comes to reality. Unfortunately this generalization stands to be disproven for all of the major parties in my country. They can't stop anyone from selling these games to me and if they do I'll personally book a cheap ticket to one of our less ridiculous neighboring countries. Other than that I or someone else will sue at the surpreme court that no government can tell an adult tax payer what to watch or what to play. Not unless they give up all their ludicrous make-belief jobs. This will all die down when these shit elections are finally over. Remember: Vote Pirate!
We haven't even finished screwing up our own planet and already people are establishing "no-go-areas" on a moon. That's ludicrous... clearly in breach of federation law... oh wait, you're not supposed to know that just yet.
Come on really, you couldn't think of that? Every major OS now has secondary accounts for christ's sake.
Name it something appropriate though "AnnoyingNoseyPrick" or something. Then some people might get the message. Alternatively you could hire an actor dressed in black suit and in-ear radio that talks to whoever is using the laptop. "Sir I'm from the FBI, we are currently tracking this device, would you please step outside." Nobody would ever use it again... not speak to you either but that's what you want right?
I did that for a few month when I was younger. The test I had to take in order to get a yellow beginners belt consisted mainly of slamming yourself into the ground. All we basically did was fall down and roll around on the floor. Then again, I know so much more about child molesters now...
And history repeats itself. Anyone remember WindowsME?
You mean that piece of shit OS that was supposed to revolutionize the consumer OS but was little more than a tainted bloated version of Windows 98 but served as a springboard for the very little revolutionary but usable Windows XP?... Oh the irony.
The source engine is actually coming to Linux according to the Postal 3 devs later this year. I emailed them and they confirmed that they are working on a Linux Source port and semi-confirmed that other Source titles and Steam would be on Linux in the close future too. So that's that.
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I'm more than happy to cut you in on the profits.
How does 60% of nothing sound to you?
I knew I'd seen that guy and the mom before ...
Distributing porn over the internet ... what where they thinking.
This is a "race" for consumers. Mozilla has set "the record" by implementing Ogg/Theora in HTML5. Now all the other runners keep complaining about how they want to run on a different track and that it's way too fast for them and because they could stumble on the last few yards. To me the analogy still works that way. Now the W3C is the olympic committee that basically rejected the "world record" because too many competitors complained that they couldn't compete and therefore the "standard" which it could have been never existed.
You've got that one upside down. A standard is a set of requirements you put up that enables those who deliver on it to be recognized. A standard is not something that you make up for everyone to spit in the pot. Following your logic what good is a world record in 300 yard sprint if "no one is willing to run that fast"? You set the rules, those that play by them get your seal of approval (and the complementary hat) and the others just don't. It's this "I don't want this, we won't support that" that makes the whole notion of "standards" in the computer world a joke. Rather that too many institutions are willing to water down their requirements if a big enough player keeps bitching about it. Look at the ODF/OOXML debacle that was meant to be a standard but Microsoft just thinks it can make up it's own rules. I hope HTML5 with Ogg/Theora will get a killer app pretty soon and all those vendors can kiss my ass anyway. Xvid ftw!
Limiting the free market 'n shit ...
germans tend to be technical, detail oriented and saavy and there is no way I can believe the population would WANT this.
Flattering stereotypes aside, the general populous here is just as uninformed and boon-ish as anywhere else. They take their information pre-digested from the mass media and believe that politicians act in the best interest of the people. Combine that with an outstanding history of propaganda culture in my country and you have an uninformed flock of obedient yay-sayers. Most people read as far as "child pornography" and whatever is proposed to fight it can't be wrong, now can it? The majority of internet users will never even notice the blockades until their weblogs, gambling, filesharing and porn sites end up on the "to burn" pile. I'm disgusted by the shameful lies and deceit campaigns run by elected officials and I am bound to believe that this won't change in the near future. People are just too caught up in their daily existence to realize the big picture and fathom the depths of power structures within governments. One would think that Germany had learned lessons from her past but it seems like the only lesson learned is how to effectively manipulate the public opinion. Our media and political parties are largely bound by industry rule and won't take the risk of losing ad contracts or parliament alliances to defend freedom. After all, freedom makes a ruler's life hard. A sad and remarkable episode in German history has begun. This is the beginning of some disgusting schemes to protect the ruling class and their outdated ideas from reality. Next on the list are copyright infringements, there are several officials that have already mentioned this as the next logical desirable step. I doubt we can still stop it. The way this country is run by right-wing nuts and infiltrated from left over Nazis ever since WWII ended is despicable and unbeknownst to most a reason for this direction we're heading. I would say I'd emigrate but I just can't find any country where to.
For thousands of years comedy has not developed past Aristophanes -- indeed, fewer than a hundred years ago the great cultural historian Edith Hamilton compared the popular entertainment of the previous generation to his oeuvre. The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of. In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
So there's that.
Oh so you haven't heard? I was under the impression that everybody had heard that latest news of a certain avian variety.
... there are several episodes that are just un-funny. Just because you cut to something completely apeshit crazy during a sketch doesn't mean it's fun to watch or entertaining. Yes I go "what the fuck?", yeah I think "that was brilliant" but I don't laugh. If I see a joke and go "That was good" but no smile ever crosses my face ... it's not that good. I've seen every episode of Family Guy and American Dad ... high, drunk and completely sober. Some of them are just awfully bad. Painfully predictable and can't be saved by a two second cutaway to a giant chicken beating a guy. Then again ... the entire last season of Simpsons didn't have more than a handful of good jokes in it. Maybe I'm getting a little overfed and/or spoiled.
And just to break your stride
As for the Futurama movies I thought most of the plot was too irrelevant and merely spooned in to stretch it out to 90 minutes format on all four occasions. Had they told two distinct stories per 90 minutes instead of shoe horning all of them into one I thought it would have been much more enjoyable but who am I to argue. Still love the movies.
If you get cancelled, voted back on petitions, re-released as direct-to-dvd and get back on TV you can stay no matter how crap most of your episodes are. I truly love Seth MacFarlane's shows but some of it is just: meh (and that's a gross overstatement). Even more so after they got back on the air. The Futurama movies were twice as long as they should have been. I would have liked 45min episodes much better.
... DOOOOOOMED.
Blackjack and Hookers or we are all doomed
Really, this is supposed to be the fabled "democracy" ancient greeks thought up? Oh no, wait. We've transformed that into a PR farce that every four years proves how rotten the people at the top are. Your votes don't matter. They are merely a numeral representation of how much you "don't" have to say. Lies, populism and ignorant phrase flinging wherever you look. None of this will matter AFTER the election that's why everything they tried to introduce lately was meant to be established before voters aren't important again. Look at our ministry of family and health. They neglected their resort for 3 1/2 years and all of a sudden when the election goes into the confrontation phase they start tossing around stuff like "DNS filters" and "address filtering" against alleged child pornography. All of which could be removed through application of existing laws but since they chose to balance the budget by cutting funds to investigators and connecting departments they now have to start flapping their arms REAALLY fast.
Politicians are lying pricks that are always a couple of decades behind when it comes to reality. Unfortunately this generalization stands to be disproven for all of the major parties in my country. They can't stop anyone from selling these games to me and if they do I'll personally book a cheap ticket to one of our less ridiculous neighboring countries. Other than that I or someone else will sue at the surpreme court that no government can tell an adult tax payer what to watch or what to play. Not unless they give up all their ludicrous make-belief jobs. This will all die down when these shit elections are finally over. Remember: Vote Pirate!
After all where did the shooters get their illegal ideas? Must have been from the evil interwebz ... queue lockdown in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ...
I'd go with the Ankh-Morpork model ... lets start a Thief's Guild, an Assassins Guild and a Child Molesters Guild ...
We haven't even finished screwing up our own planet and already people are establishing "no-go-areas" on a moon. That's ludicrous ... clearly in breach of federation law ... oh wait, you're not supposed to know that just yet.
Or Steve Jobs will lose his temper ... turtle necks are the new uniforms. Apples the new swastikas ... want proof: http://www.apfelfront.de/propaganda.html
Come on really, you couldn't think of that? Every major OS now has secondary accounts for christ's sake.
... not speak to you either but that's what you want right?
Name it something appropriate though "AnnoyingNoseyPrick" or something. Then some people might get the message. Alternatively you could hire an actor dressed in black suit and in-ear radio that talks to whoever is using the laptop. "Sir I'm from the FBI, we are currently tracking this device, would you please step outside." Nobody would ever use it again
and ever ... and ever ... and ever ... and ever
Hook up an external hard-drive or NAS and one of those USB displays http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9676037801.html to create something like this: http://technewsline.net/displaylink-for-linux-turns-a-humble-wireless-router-into-a-beautiful-pc/. I'd build myself a nice BitTorrent client for which I don't have to leave my computer on all the time. Other than that I'd use those as fileservers and for routing/processing duties. Any bets on when the first Beowulf wall cluster will emerge?
you insensitive clod!
now even more disgusting ... BUT YELLOW.
I did that for a few month when I was younger. The test I had to take in order to get a yellow beginners belt consisted mainly of slamming yourself into the ground. All we basically did was fall down and roll around on the floor. Then again, I know so much more about child molesters now ...
Wouldn't it be awful if something happened to it?
Linux remains free of value to noob consumers that are already confused when the colors of their Word icons change.
There, fixed that for you.
And history repeats itself. Anyone remember WindowsME?
You mean that piece of shit OS that was supposed to revolutionize the consumer OS but was little more than a tainted bloated version of Windows 98 but served as a springboard for the very little revolutionary but usable Windows XP? ... Oh the irony.
I don't get it. My theory of Vista as an expectation lowering decoy gets more and more plausible.
The source engine is actually coming to Linux according to the Postal 3 devs later this year. I emailed them and they confirmed that they are working on a Linux Source port and semi-confirmed that other Source titles and Steam would be on Linux in the close future too. So that's that.