In a later Fresh Air interview, satirist Al Franken related to Terry Gross his own encounter with Gene Simmons. According to Franken, he was awaiting a racquetball partner at a club when Simmons, whom Franken had not recognized, challenged him to a match, stating "I'll kick your ass" only to suffer an embarrassing loss to Franken. Simmons responds by calling for another match and when Franken indicates that since his racquetball partner has arrived, he can't play Simmons again, Simmons responds by making loud "bock, bock, bock" chicken sounds. Franken then offers to play Simmons with $500 at stake, at which Simmons walks away.[3][4]Franken tells Terry not to blame herself for her experience with Simmons, and that Simmons behavior at the racquetball made him "the most awful person I've ever met."
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand using that stupid touch pad as a mouse. You would think that in the years that have gone by, they would have developed something better.
In some states you could easily get two years for selling pot. Why couldn't we send a clear message to other spammers here by giving this guy a decade or three in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
He does a hell of a lot more damage to the economy than a drug dealer, anyway.
If the "standard of living" in America goes down, it's not the elite fat cats you are railing against that will suffer. It will be the poor and middle class.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Youtube was started by a couple nerds who wanted to create a simple, easy to use video sharing site. Hulu is being created by decree from old media executives with conflicting priorities- they want lots of people to see their content but also want to control its distribution. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the engineers and programmers working for NBC are slightly less capable than those working for Google.
"In a perfect world, spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra, and are looking for a new relationship."
You're right, I should have said liable instead of guilty. But had this been a criminal trial (and the threshold had been beyond a reasonable doubt), I think the RIAA's case was so strong that they would have still won.
This really was an open and shut case. There was very little doubt the woman was guilty, that's why the RIAA didn't drop the case. I think her hope was that the jury would see a bunch of rich record labels going after some poor ignorant middle aged woman, and the jury would say "fuck you" to the labels. The only gripe I have with this was the size of the award- $10K per song is pretty stiff.
New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup.
I'm confused. When have you ever had to enter a product key when installing a service pack?
The original NES was $200 or $250 (depending on the bundle) in 1985. If you add in inflation, that $200 becomes $375 in 2006 dollars, and the $250 is roughly $468. How many units of the NES did Nintendo sell at that price, anyway?
How the hell is Facebook worth $10 billion? Less than a year ago, they were estimated to be worth $1 billion...does anyone seriously think this site can bring in real revenue?
If Vivendi doesn't like the terms of the contract, no one is forcing them to renew. I don't see what this guy thinks he will accomplish by whining to the press.
Maybe the first step towards keeping inflation stable is making sure developers aren't allowed to create epic/rare items repeatedly. That would be a good start.
There's a lot of good info there, but here are the cliff notes:
A University of Minnesota Civil Engineer in a report to MN-DOT recently noted that this bridge is considered to be a non-redundant structure. That is, if any one member fails, the entire bridge can collapse. A key factor is that there are only four pylons holding up the arch. Any damage to any one pylon would be catastrophic. The textbook example of a non-redundant bridge is the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River. It failed shortly before Christmas in 1967 resulting in 46 deaths. A single piece of hardware failed due to a tiny manufacturing defect. But that piece was non-redundant, and the entire bridge collapsed into the icy river. Today, bridge engineers design bridges so that any single piece of the bridge can fail without causing the entire bridge to collapse. It is tragic that the I-35W bridge was built a few years too early to benefit from that lesson.
There's conflicting reports about it. The Feds inspected it a few years ago and said it was in immediate need of repair, but the state sent in people who claimed it would be viable until 2020. While it might appear that the state just didn't want to spend money, keep in mind that Minnesota has the third lowest percentage of structurally deficient bridges, so it's not like there were other major priorities that were sucking up funding.
Could someone enlighten me on this issue? I don't really understand the problems with the existing format...
From TFA: "JPEG XR features include fixed or floating point high dynamic range, wide gamut image encoding, better compression compared to JPEG, lossless compression, the ability to store 16 or 32 bits of data per color, and support for CMYK, RGB, monochrome, and embedded ICC color profiles."
Is any of this going to matter to the vast majority of users? It's not like I care about compression when I'm dealing with 500kb image files.
I remember when it was first getting discussed (under the code name "Ginger") they were talking about how it would "revolutionize transportation in cities" and a lot of people, myself included, thought it might be a personal jetpack. When the product materialized, it was a huge letdown and almost no one wanted to shell out five grand for one.
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This is not the first stupid thing Mr. Simmons has said or done.
In a later Fresh Air interview, satirist Al Franken related to Terry Gross his own encounter with Gene Simmons. According to Franken, he was awaiting a racquetball partner at a club when Simmons, whom Franken had not recognized, challenged him to a match, stating "I'll kick your ass" only to suffer an embarrassing loss to Franken. Simmons responds by calling for another match and when Franken indicates that since his racquetball partner has arrived, he can't play Simmons again, Simmons responds by making loud "bock, bock, bock" chicken sounds. Franken then offers to play Simmons with $500 at stake, at which Simmons walks away.[3][4]Franken tells Terry not to blame herself for her experience with Simmons, and that Simmons behavior at the racquetball made him "the most awful person I've ever met."
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand using that stupid touch pad as a mouse. You would think that in the years that have gone by, they would have developed something better.
Why the hell would the US cede any control over the Internets to Iran? Do they have something to offer us in return, or something?
Your world. Wiretapped.
He does a hell of a lot more damage to the economy than a drug dealer, anyway.
If the "standard of living" in America goes down, it's not the elite fat cats you are railing against that will suffer. It will be the poor and middle class.
Don't mean to go too OT here, but actually the first widespread use of nanotechnology was in Damascus, Syria about 500 years ago
This has been on the front page of digg at least four times before.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Youtube was started by a couple nerds who wanted to create a simple, easy to use video sharing site. Hulu is being created by decree from old media executives with conflicting priorities- they want lots of people to see their content but also want to control its distribution. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the engineers and programmers working for NBC are slightly less capable than those working for Google.
Here's a pretty good example of what this looks like on a weather map
"In a perfect world, spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra, and are looking for a new relationship."
[insert Asian version of goatse link]
I'm pretty sure you're talking about www.lemonparty.org
You're right, I should have said liable instead of guilty. But had this been a criminal trial (and the threshold had been beyond a reasonable doubt), I think the RIAA's case was so strong that they would have still won.
This really was an open and shut case. There was very little doubt the woman was guilty, that's why the RIAA didn't drop the case. I think her hope was that the jury would see a bunch of rich record labels going after some poor ignorant middle aged woman, and the jury would say "fuck you" to the labels. The only gripe I have with this was the size of the award- $10K per song is pretty stiff.
New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup.
I'm confused. When have you ever had to enter a product key when installing a service pack?
Or, better yet, perhaps the government of Burma has control of the only ISP and simply obtains logs through them?
The original NES was $200 or $250 (depending on the bundle) in 1985. If you add in inflation, that $200 becomes $375 in 2006 dollars, and the $250 is roughly $468. How many units of the NES did Nintendo sell at that price, anyway?
How the hell is Facebook worth $10 billion? Less than a year ago, they were estimated to be worth $1 billion...does anyone seriously think this site can bring in real revenue?
If Vivendi doesn't like the terms of the contract, no one is forcing them to renew. I don't see what this guy thinks he will accomplish by whining to the press.
This is absolutely true. Bose products are junk, but years of marketing have convinced the public that they sell "premium" sound equipment.
Maybe the first step towards keeping inflation stable is making sure developers aren't allowed to create epic/rare items repeatedly. That would be a good start.
There's a lot of good info there, but here are the cliff notes:
A University of Minnesota Civil Engineer in a report to MN-DOT recently noted that this bridge is considered to be a non-redundant structure. That is, if any one member fails, the entire bridge can collapse. A key factor is that there are only four pylons holding up the arch. Any damage to any one pylon would be catastrophic. The textbook example of a non-redundant bridge is the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River. It failed shortly before Christmas in 1967 resulting in 46 deaths. A single piece of hardware failed due to a tiny manufacturing defect. But that piece was non-redundant, and the entire bridge collapsed into the icy river. Today, bridge engineers design bridges so that any single piece of the bridge can fail without causing the entire bridge to collapse. It is tragic that the I-35W bridge was built a few years too early to benefit from that lesson.
There's conflicting reports about it. The Feds inspected it a few years ago and said it was in immediate need of repair, but the state sent in people who claimed it would be viable until 2020. While it might appear that the state just didn't want to spend money, keep in mind that Minnesota has the third lowest percentage of structurally deficient bridges, so it's not like there were other major priorities that were sucking up funding.
Could someone enlighten me on this issue? I don't really understand the problems with the existing format...
From TFA:
"JPEG XR features include fixed or floating point high dynamic range, wide gamut image encoding, better compression compared to JPEG, lossless compression, the ability to store 16 or 32 bits of data per color, and support for CMYK, RGB, monochrome, and embedded ICC color profiles."
Is any of this going to matter to the vast majority of users? It's not like I care about compression when I'm dealing with 500kb image files.
I remember when it was first getting discussed (under the code name "Ginger") they were talking about how it would "revolutionize transportation in cities" and a lot of people, myself included, thought it might be a personal jetpack. When the product materialized, it was a huge letdown and almost no one wanted to shell out five grand for one.