Well, the phrase could be interpreted as a club (disco, organisation, etc.) with the name "Foot" - hence Club Foot.
However, Club Foot is also the common name for the disease called Talipes which causes club-like deformity of the foot.
I've taken this one step further with my site, which I've subtitled "The Lamest Site On The Web", since lame could mean both unable to walk properly (as in someone suffering from Club Foot), or of poor quality.
I know; it's in poor taste, but so's most of the rest of my site, so what the hell. Hope this cleared things up for you; learning a language with as many contradictions and tricks as English must suck (I'm learning Japanese at the moment, and I can see the grammar is way easier than English).
No, actually I couldn't abide the show and avoided it whenever possible (still been subjected to it by family members or on planes, so my dislike isn't unfounded). Rowan Atkinson was much funnier in Blackadder.
Did the same low-quality pun get made on the show as well? I genuinely came up with the name myself, but was faintly surprised that I'd not head it done before (although since then I've heard of some bar in Chicago or somewhere with the same name).
Remember the plaque on that space-probe (Voyager? Can't remember) that had a pic of a man and woman plus a map pointing out Earth and some other stuff (a H2O molecule or something) so that the aliens would know a bit about us if they found it?
Well, when they pick this up are they going to learn a bit about the fauna of Earth, namely penis-birds?
Seriously, does anyone review these before the launch?
"It was a
very, very mutually satisfying agreement," said Robert Koolen for Knowledge Mechanics, a computer-based education company that is the main holder of XBOX Technologies. [my emphasis]
Man, I hope M$ decide to call the next major product they release in the UK the Club-Foot : )
Surely if it sounds like trash then it's your parent's fault?
Unless, of course, you've got some ST:Voyager-style retro-viruses that have been re-writing the O-Town tunes in your base-pairs as Bach or Rob Zombie whilst removing those nasty Borg implants etc.
This is only to be used for non-spying means. Really. There is no need for users to worry about invasion of privacy as we at the NSA are above that.
Additionally, please ensure that you give your files clear names such as "Nuke blueprints" or "Kiddie Porn". We suggest this purely to help you organise your file system.
So, how difficult would it actually be to make your own Tivo? Way I see it, get a basic PC (something like a PII 500 should do fine), stick in a TV card, graphics card that can do MPEG compression (don't ATI make combined TV/graphics cards) and a big HD. Then hack at it a bit and bingo - you've got your own Tivo to use as you see fit. Maybe I'm grossly simplifying things (especially saying "hack at it a bit"), but if people are prepared to try and do that in-car MP3 player that was up here a couple of days ago, then surely this wouldn't be too tough.
Though frankly I don't expect to see them laying the sort of bandwidth to support something like this any time soon here in the UK (hell, BT's still dragging it's heels over DSL while not exactly making it easy for others to compete).
And what's to stop someone downloading a show on demand, then re-broadcasting (time-delayed and advert-less) it themselves for say 5% (per subscriber) of the price it cost them? I know I'd pay for a pirate TV network with no ads that came cheaper that the regular one.
OK, I'm kinda all over the place cos it's past quitting time at work and not thinking too straight, but I'm just trying to provoke some discussion : )
A hardware review site? What's next from the ZD monster? A News For Nerds discussion site? I say bring it on! Then we can send all the trolls, sporks and other ACs over there : )
Um, am I just being dumb, or is there a very obvious problem here? If you shield the antenna so it can't irradiate your brain then surely it attenuates the signal that it broadcasts/receives. If this signal is attenuated, then your reception is going to suck. And most new phones will up their broadcast power if they're not getting a great signal - the end result is just as much microwaving of your brain, only now your batteries last half as long and the sound quality is worse and you're more likely to lose your connection.
OK, so maybe I'm wrong (& i'm sorry if this has already been mentioned - i'm on my lunch break and don't have time to read the whole topic). Please correct me if you've got some proper info cos I'm genuinely interested.
Here's some more suggestions for them if they feel that their solution was so much better than just getting an MP3 player and a car-kit:
Replace your car steering wheel with a fly-by-wire system using a force-feedback gamepad.
Replace your suspension with a liquid N2 cooled ceramic HT superconducting magnetic levitation system.
Replace your wipers with dozens of tiny robots that constantly crawl across your windscreen blasting dirt off with teeny lasers ripped from CD players.
Thomson are just one of several manufacturers - I don't care how many units they've slod - it's just a drop in the ocean. So they sell stuff with content protection and hype it big-time. Other companies jump on the bandwagon with similar but non-compatible schemes cos they're bigger than Thomson and don't want to pay to licence their tech. A standards committee is set up, who might come up with something in 5 years that no-one pays attention to.
Some people buy it. That's right, some people will give up their rights if a snazzy advert tells them to.
Other people go - what, so I've got to replace all the TVs, VCRs, DVD players and PCs in my house with ones that conform to this one format (and since there's several competing ones it's difficult to pick which one to go with), and I have to pay extra for the privalige. Hmm, no, I don't think that sounds like a reasonable deal.
Mean time, there'll be a small manufacturer or two, who can't afford to produce something like this, and go on producing un-restricted platforms. Which everyone starts to buy.
Joe Public may not care too much about violations of his rights, but he doesn't want to have people try to restrict how he watches TV. You can supress minorities (Linux users & DeCSS), but if you try to stop everyone you're going to have a lot of problems. Will Joe Public vote again for his seanator if his seanator restricts his cable? Nope. So government are going to be reluctant to pass this too. Nice try Thomson.
Yeah, OK, I admit I couldn't be bothered counting - you got the gist, right? BTW, thanks to whoever moderated this up to being visible; let's hope it has the desired effect.
Man, where does Katz come up with this stuff? I used to quite enjoy his articles over on Hotwired, and he never bothered me too much here, even with his Geek/Jock fixation.
But this......
This is just Jon writing an easy essay to score points. It's largely his opinion, with the actual facts of the matter sadly lacking (as numerous other posters have mentioned). I'm wondering; is there a karma system for the editors as well as for us mere mortals, cos if so Katz is acting like the biggest karma-whore alive. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of M$, but this article almost amounts to a troll.
Next time Jon, try the following:
Research - don't just try to use a B-movie as a metaphor and stretch it to 300 words; find out about the subject and provide us with new and useful information.
Links - repeat after me; HYPERTEXT. When you've researched your article point us to information to back it up or further reading that we might find interesting.
Go For A Harder Target - C'mon, dissing M$ is like shooting fish in a barrel round here and there's plenty of other folk who've said it a thousand times before. No-one (except the secret M$pies lurking) here loves them.
I doubt Jon reads all these little posts that don't get above 3 points, so please could Hemos or Rob or someone tell Katz to try harder. Cheers.
So, if I publish something her in the UK that Saddam doesn't like, and both UK and Iraq laws support me being tried in Iraq (here's hoping they don't), then I could be up for whatever form of punishment they see fit to hand out over there?
OK, an extreme example, but as we know laws are frequently twisted by people with the capital to pursue such cases. Surely if this goes ahead it sets a precedent for people in other countries to try US citizens outside the US. I'm guessing the Chinese government will be paying attention.
Sooo, no surprises that AOL and M$ are up there, what with their browsers sending lamers straight to their sites. Frankly though, I'm surprised no pr0n sites made it to the top - I can see the statistics - 50% of traffic to the lamer magnets, then another 35% going to look for "Cristeena Auglieria nekkid".
These stats are presented in a way to make the big companies feel good (not really taking account of people like me who tend to browse several sites simultneously in seperate windows cos of crappy d/l speeds), so I think it's time to harness the Slashdot Effect to screw up the next set of stats. Suggestions for sites that could use the publicity anyone?
How about a giant House Of The Future? I suggest it might be nice by a lake near Seattle (say, Redmond or somewhere). Or perhaps they should look around for a house that's already there....
It could be lined with the plutonium, as well as other unpleasant stuff, like, um, a bunch of NT servers for example.
Say, wait a minute, I know just the place we can use....
That's OLED - the LE is short for Light Emmitting, so these devices don't need a backlight since they produce their own light. From what I recall, they're substantially brighter than a typical LCD screen too, so they'd work better outdoors. And they consume less power than a backlit LCD too.
However, if you're wanting something that changes colour but isn't illuminated you're going to have to look elsewhere I'm afraid - these don't work like LCDs. Hope this clears things up a bit.
It seems like I hear about these every few months - I remember first reading about them in Focus magazine (UK) 5-6 years ago, and they always seem to be coming "soon", but never getting here because of the problems with them burning out too soon (esp the blue).
Finally it looks like we might be getting there, seeing as people are actually trying to use them in devices rather than just hypothesising. But I think their imagination is still a bit limited since the potential for these is huge - fancy a HUD in your sunglasses, or a spherical TV screen? OLEDs make this substantially easier to achieve. So c'mon already; I wanna buy!
I've noticed that my site traffic has gone from about 45/month to about 600 just from leaving a little link in my.sig here on Slashdot. It's great for those of us running small sites in our free time that the search engines ignore. I imagine it wouldn't make much difference to big players though
Hmm, hadn't really considered quite how big the MPAA is. Still, I'd fancy the chances of an M$ legal team winning an argument over whether code is speach rather more than 2600's chances. Let's hope it doesn't come to that though.
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However, Club Foot is also the common name for the disease called Talipes which causes club-like deformity of the foot.
I've taken this one step further with my site, which I've subtitled "The Lamest Site On The Web", since lame could mean both unable to walk properly (as in someone suffering from Club Foot), or of poor quality.
I know; it's in poor taste, but so's most of the rest of my site, so what the hell. Hope this cleared things up for you; learning a language with as many contradictions and tricks as English must suck (I'm learning Japanese at the moment, and I can see the grammar is way easier than English).
Did the same low-quality pun get made on the show as well? I genuinely came up with the name myself, but was faintly surprised that I'd not head it done before (although since then I've heard of some bar in Chicago or somewhere with the same name).
Well, when they pick this up are they going to learn a bit about the fauna of Earth, namely penis-birds?
Seriously, does anyone review these before the launch?
Man, I hope M$ decide to call the next major product they release in the UK the Club-Foot : )
Unless, of course, you've got some ST:Voyager-style retro-viruses that have been re-writing the O-Town tunes in your base-pairs as Bach or Rob Zombie whilst removing those nasty Borg implants etc.
This is only to be used for non-spying means. Really. There is no need for users to worry about invasion of privacy as we at the NSA are above that.
Additionally, please ensure that you give your files clear names such as "Nuke blueprints" or "Kiddie Porn". We suggest this purely to help you organise your file system.
Though frankly I don't expect to see them laying the sort of bandwidth to support something like this any time soon here in the UK (hell, BT's still dragging it's heels over DSL while not exactly making it easy for others to compete).
And what's to stop someone downloading a show on demand, then re-broadcasting (time-delayed and advert-less) it themselves for say 5% (per subscriber) of the price it cost them? I know I'd pay for a pirate TV network with no ads that came cheaper that the regular one.
OK, I'm kinda all over the place cos it's past quitting time at work and not thinking too straight, but I'm just trying to provoke some discussion : )
And maybe Michael too.
OK, so maybe I'm wrong (& i'm sorry if this has already been mentioned - i'm on my lunch break and don't have time to read the whole topic). Please correct me if you've got some proper info cos I'm genuinely interested.
Very kind of you to say so. Cheers. Just shows what happens if you're bored and cynical enough : )
- Replace your car steering wheel with a fly-by-wire system using a force-feedback gamepad.
- Replace your suspension with a liquid N2 cooled ceramic HT superconducting magnetic levitation system.
- Replace your wipers with dozens of tiny robots that constantly crawl across your windscreen blasting dirt off with teeny lasers ripped from CD players.
- Replace your engine with a cold-fusion reactor
Etc. etc. etc.Can you say "Overkill"?
Some people buy it. That's right, some people will give up their rights if a snazzy advert tells them to.
Other people go - what, so I've got to replace all the TVs, VCRs, DVD players and PCs in my house with ones that conform to this one format (and since there's several competing ones it's difficult to pick which one to go with), and I have to pay extra for the privalige. Hmm, no, I don't think that sounds like a reasonable deal.
Mean time, there'll be a small manufacturer or two, who can't afford to produce something like this, and go on producing un-restricted platforms. Which everyone starts to buy.
Joe Public may not care too much about violations of his rights, but he doesn't want to have people try to restrict how he watches TV. You can supress minorities (Linux users & DeCSS), but if you try to stop everyone you're going to have a lot of problems. Will Joe Public vote again for his seanator if his seanator restricts his cable? Nope. So government are going to be reluctant to pass this too. Nice try Thomson.
Yeah, OK, I admit I couldn't be bothered counting - you got the gist, right? BTW, thanks to whoever moderated this up to being visible; let's hope it has the desired effect.
But this......
This is just Jon writing an easy essay to score points. It's largely his opinion, with the actual facts of the matter sadly lacking (as numerous other posters have mentioned). I'm wondering; is there a karma system for the editors as well as for us mere mortals, cos if so Katz is acting like the biggest karma-whore alive. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of M$, but this article almost amounts to a troll.
Next time Jon, try the following:
I doubt Jon reads all these little posts that don't get above 3 points, so please could Hemos or Rob or someone tell Katz to try harder. Cheers.
OK, an extreme example, but as we know laws are frequently twisted by people with the capital to pursue such cases. Surely if this goes ahead it sets a precedent for people in other countries to try US citizens outside the US. I'm guessing the Chinese government will be paying attention.
These stats are presented in a way to make the big companies feel good (not really taking account of people like me who tend to browse several sites simultneously in seperate windows cos of crappy d/l speeds), so I think it's time to harness the Slashdot Effect to screw up the next set of stats. Suggestions for sites that could use the publicity anyone?
Personally, my vote's for.....
Heh, anyone notice that comment at the end of the article about Dell helping IBM with it's exploding Thinkpads? This would sound like further scaremongering, had this exact same thing not been happening to Dell laptops!
Now, let's see, a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, etc.
It could be lined with the plutonium, as well as other unpleasant stuff, like, um, a bunch of NT servers for example.
Say, wait a minute, I know just the place we can use....
However, if you're wanting something that changes colour but isn't illuminated you're going to have to look elsewhere I'm afraid - these don't work like LCDs. Hope this clears things up a bit.
Finally it looks like we might be getting there, seeing as people are actually trying to use them in devices rather than just hypothesising. But I think their imagination is still a bit limited since the potential for these is huge - fancy a HUD in your sunglasses, or a spherical TV screen? OLEDs make this substantially easier to achieve. So c'mon already; I wanna buy!
Wow, hyperlinks in a Katz article! And I hear they're having a bad frost in Hell right now too : )
While they're at it, can we get Jar-Jar altered so he's not the most annoying thing ever (even worse than Jake Lloyd)? Or better yet, DELETED!
By the way....
Hmm, hadn't really considered quite how big the MPAA is. Still, I'd fancy the chances of an M$ legal team winning an argument over whether code is speach rather more than 2600's chances. Let's hope it doesn't come to that though.