Unfortunately, it's a winblows-only product, but this is a CDROM supposedly containing the contents of every MAD magazine ever produced. Here's a description:
Over 500 issues of MAD Magazine--including all cover variations
All MAD super specials Animated MAD cartoons View every page with startling (and disturbing) clarity High-quality images of low-quality humor
Speaking of poor format choices, does anyone remember the 'mad magazine movie'-- "Up the Academy"? Too bad it's only on VHS and not on DVD.
Having worked in various levels of technical support for the past four years, I've seen a lot of support people mock the users who seek their assistance. I think that this is often done to help bolster the self-image of the support person. In the heirarchy of the tech industry, I think most support people recognize that they don't occupy the upper echelon and some try to make themselves feel better about what they're doing by belittling others.
So, I'd say I agree with Kurtz. The horror, the horror...
Well, from the trailer, it looks like Cameron Diaz is the owner and she's all over the coach for being old and lacking drive. That sounds like Al Pacino's character would be Tom Landry, who Jerry Jones canned because he was really too dim and aged to really kickstart the Cowboys. I'll have to see the movie to know how the other character match up that you mentioned.
It's going to be impossible for a city to implement most of the bait people have been recommending (i.e. great transportation system, high tech jobs, low rent). A city is looking to attract geeks in order to get those other things to happen.. It sort of begs the chicken or the egg question.
One way to encourage geeks to move to a city would be for a city to declare itself a geek sanctuary. It could do this by passing laws that favor geeks. Such as:
No pickup trucks jacked up more than 2.5 feet from the ground.
Citizens may carry copies of their SAT scores. If a dispute breaks out (i.e. fender bender, who's next in line at post office, etc.) -- highest SAT score wins.
All movie theaters must show at least one sci-fi movie for every children's movie. Sci-fi children's movies (i.e. Galaxy Quest, Iron Giant, etc.) will count for both categories.
Library computers for public use shall only run Linux or another minority operating system.
Add ".com" to name of city and issue options to all residents.
From the trailers I've seen for Any Given Sunday, the film looks like it's an unlicensed look at the evolution of the Dallas Cowboys.
From what I can tell, Pacino is playing Tom Landry, the aging quarterback actor is Roger Staubach, Cameron Diaz is Jerry Jones, and LL Cool J and that guy from Living Color are something like Michael Irving and Deion Sanders. Of course the timeline of these people being involved with the Cowboys is wrong for this to be a literal interpretation, but the movie looks like a cool adaptation of this theme. Escpecially since the trailer contains at least one shot in Texas Stadium. After the disappointing North Dallas Forty, I am really looking forward to a good 'Dallas Cowboys' movie.
Since we're doing these reviews 'open source' I'll assume some other reviewer will come along and fill in the actor's names I've omitted.
Just because an alien is green you think all aliens look the same.
Man, you better recognize! Some green aliens have sucker tentacles, some have three heads, some are real slimy, some have acid for blood.
You probably also stereotype aliens as all wanting to kill the human race. Some also want to enslave all humans, while others just want to extract a special fluid produced in our brains when we have sex (see Liquid Sky).
AOL4FREE- Some college student up north used his Mac to monitor the tokens sent back and forth between the AOL server and the proprietary client app. He was able to discern the tokens sent to the server that told the server not to charge the client account because the user was in a 'free' area such as a tech support forum. By patching the client app so it always sent these tokens, the user could be chatting with 45 year old men posing as 15 year old female bisexuals for free. Hence, AOL4FREE.
PSX Modchip- By soldering one of these chips to the logic board of a PlayStation, it is possible to defeat the copy protection scheme of the PlayStation. At boot, the hardware checks for specific corruption within the disc (consumer disc recorders will not write discs with corrupted data) and country codes. This chip tells the hardware, "Yeah, it's all corrupted. Let's get to the game." No idea who invented this.
Capturing video images from cat's brains- This was reported a month ago or so. By decoding the electrical signals sent within a certain region of the cats brain, a video image may be derived that looks astonishingly similar to what the cat is viewing.
Woz's programmable infrared device- This device could learn any infrared signal and then project it on demand. This was used by Woz and others to capture the infrared signal sent from emergency vehicles to stop light sensors that would change the traffic light to green. Once the signal was captured with this device, changing traffic lights to green was as simple as switching to Barney Miller when Quincy was in a commercial break.
Canadian Cell Phone calls on Shoutcast- Those kids up in Canada tiptoed through regulations by simply connecting a frequency scanner to a computer running software that relayed the analog cell phone calls into a digital signal broadcast around the world via the internet. In America, it's illegal to monitor cell phone calls with a scanner. It's not, however, illegal to listen to calls via the internet. In Canada, it's illegal to monitor cell phone calls if the intent is malice. Since these kids were simply acting as a relay for the signals, no malice could be proven and so far as I can tell, they're still doing it to this day.
And not only that, but there are Voodoo 3 drivers available in Beta from 3dfx for those cards to run on Macs. I'd imagine they will continue evolving that code base to support the 4 and 5 cards on the Mac platform as well. Seth
That's what it might look like at face value, but I have found rarely that engineering makes these decisions: >because they choose the best features to include This is usually done by the marketing department, and often to the chagrin of the engineers, who would like to think they know better...
About two weeks ago slashdot had a reference to a press release from some company called Hangjin or something that had developed such an mp3 player in conjunction with Compaq. It will cost about $800 when released in November. All the relevant issues were already discussed on slashdot (hard drive spinning down to conserve juice, shock resistance of the mechanism, etc.)-- so check the previous slashdot discussion for some good info.
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Having worked in various levels of technical support for the past four years, I've seen a lot of support people mock the users who seek their assistance. I think that this is often done to help bolster the self-image of the support person. In the heirarchy of the tech industry, I think most support people recognize that they don't occupy the upper echelon and some try to make themselves feel better about what they're doing by belittling others.
So, I'd say I agree with Kurtz. The horror, the horror...
Well, from the trailer, it looks like Cameron Diaz is the owner and she's all over the coach for being old and lacking drive. That sounds like Al Pacino's character would be Tom Landry, who Jerry Jones canned because he was really too dim and aged to really kickstart the Cowboys. I'll have to see the movie to know how the other character match up that you mentioned.
One way to encourage geeks to move to a city would be for a city to declare itself a geek sanctuary. It could do this by passing laws that favor geeks. Such as:
From the trailers I've seen for Any Given Sunday, the film looks like it's an unlicensed look at the evolution of the Dallas Cowboys.
From what I can tell, Pacino is playing Tom Landry, the aging quarterback actor is Roger Staubach, Cameron Diaz is Jerry Jones, and LL Cool J and that guy from Living Color are something like Michael Irving and Deion Sanders. Of course the timeline of these people being involved with the Cowboys is wrong for this to be a literal interpretation, but the movie looks like a cool adaptation of this theme. Escpecially since the trailer contains at least one shot in Texas Stadium. After the disappointing North Dallas Forty, I am really looking forward to a good 'Dallas Cowboys' movie.
Since we're doing these reviews 'open source' I'll assume some other reviewer will come along and fill in the actor's names I've omitted.
Just because an alien is green you think all aliens look the same.
Man, you better recognize! Some green aliens have sucker tentacles, some have three heads, some are real slimy, some have acid for blood.
You probably also stereotype aliens as all wanting to kill the human race. Some also want to enslave all humans, while others just want to extract a special fluid produced in our brains when we have sex (see Liquid Sky).
Get the O'Reilly & Associates book "Regular Expressions". (Amazon.com has these $10 gift coupons: FIRSTGIFT and AMZNPRESENT2)
Another hardcopy gift is a subscription to the Onion.
And not only that, but there are Voodoo 3 drivers available in Beta from 3dfx for those cards to run on Macs. I'd imagine they will continue evolving that code base to support the 4 and 5 cards on the Mac platform as well.
Seth
That's what it might look like at face value, but I have found rarely that engineering makes these decisions:
>because they choose the best features to include
This is usually done by the marketing department, and often to the chagrin of the engineers, who would like to think they know better...
Seth
About two weeks ago slashdot had a reference to a press release from some company called Hangjin or something that had developed such an mp3 player in conjunction with Compaq. It will cost about $800 when released in November. All the relevant issues were already discussed on slashdot (hard drive spinning down to conserve juice, shock resistance of the mechanism, etc.)-- so check the previous slashdot discussion for some good info.
Dillrod