You give a list of titles that are currently GameCube exclusives, which highlights the fact that Microsoft would gain 2 things from purchasing Sega, games for them, and lack of games for their competitors.
"we can't see what Ralsky* is doing behind all those mailbags"
Seriously though, the problen is not that the FTC can't 'investigate' the spammers, it's that they don't/can't DO anything about them. Ralsky has stood up in public and admitted it, how much more information do they need?
*I'm referring to Alan M Ralsky of 5016 Patrick Rd. West Bloomfield, MI 48322 telephone number 248-661-3355 fax number 1-248-661-3054, just in case anyone finds that address useful.
Seconded, we never got a bug free version of Mozilla, the last one still has the debilitating problem that when you collapse the front window you lose the inability to type anything, in any program at all, and we never got the spam filtering.
If only a few of those people would stop porting linux to hairdryers, making tcp/ip stacks made out of christmas tree lights and casemodding PCs into happy meal toys, the open source movement could really get a strong foothold in the Mac market:-/
If there was a port Moz to OS9 fund, I'd donate to it.
OS9 is a LONG way from dead, and a very large portion of the Apple community that will stick with it for the forseeable future.
Moving to OSX requires learning a new interface, and repurchasing software, and the printing, graphic design, typography and arts community won't do this without a VERY good reason. Pretty widgets and a few less crashes simply isn't enough of a reason.
A lot of OSX sales are to people who tried it, hated it and went back to OS9.
50% of the two dozen mac users in my building have done exactly this, and they have told the other 50% that OSX is a pile of $%^&$%^&. I'm not saying that OSX is actually a pile of anything, but that's what every Mac user I know who has tried it says to me.
Add to this the fact that Quark haven't even got XPress for OSX into a state where people in the printing community trust it (let alone actually making noticable improvements over the OS9 version) and the fact that OSX has a command line (It's amazing how quickly people forget that the whole reason most people buy macs is because they don't have a command line!).
OSX is great for programmers and geeks like us, but for Apple's core of non-techy users who rely on Macs for a living, it just doesn't cut it.
Apart from the obvious one that the 'low quality DVDs' are probably exactly the same data that is being touted as a high quality bit-torrent file...
There was no 'co-ordinated worldwide release' for Reloaded, here in Britain we got it a week an a half later than the US.
There were a whole host of pirate versions on alt.pictures.binaries.divx before the film was even released over here.
As for a solution to the problem, I've seen the film at the cinema, and I'd buy it on DVD, but guess what, there is no legitimate DVD yet.
I'd be tempted to download a divx as a stop-gap until the DVD is released (in it's final, most complete version) but I know that divx files rarely play back with sound even with the latest 5.05 release of the divx codec for Mac.
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True, but 'civet cat' is the common name for them, so that is rather like complaining that Guinea pigs aren't real pigs, or that gnus are not unix:-)
Sars came from Mars, in Jars strapped to Cars
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If you are publishing a respected medical journal, when reporting the words of a widely published doctor, it is important to check if it's this particular doctor or not!
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I expect the author of the theory that 'The Lancet' printed in their letter page will now follow up with an equally believable theory that the cats flew here from Mars.
My father (who was a LEO programmer in the 60s) told me of the 'drum drive', precursor of the disk drive. The principle was the same, but the 'platter' was a cylinder, which had the benefit of constant track length, but the drawback of being similar in form factor, noise level and maufacturing tolerances to a washing machine.
If I recall correctly, they managed to cram ana amazing 50k of data onto a drum.
I understand your legal point, but surely PA's drawing IS a parody of American Greeting's original character?
It clearly picks out the absurdity of the original's cuteness and lack of sex-appeal and the fact that the character never grows up or misbehaves, and parodies these points by giving her curves, age and a bad attitude.
If the references to Mr McGee were removed, the comic would still function as a humorous visual parody of the work American Greetings is claiming it infringes.
I suggest PA put the picture back up, but change the words to read "What if Strawberry Shortcake was as nasty as American Greeting's Lawyers?"
This would clearly be a parody of the material in question.
Try making the window thinner - first the content gets squeezed down to a thin strip between those two huge menus, then eventually one menu disappears and random bits of text obscure the content! (ymmv, I'm using Mozilla 1.2 for MacOS).
Not to be confused with Underworld, already on DVD
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No, it's a slow day when we get DUPES of stories from the Weekly World news and the Druge report!
Shouldn't they file when they get ONE complaint?
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I'm not an American (I wonder how much karma I lose for saying that?) but if I was I'd be mailing my congressperson to complain about the FTC not doing their job properly.
No, that's not what I said. I have negative view of the company because they wasted a large amount of time and money on doing something in a very inefficient way. If the company makes bad management decisions like this, why should I trust it's cars?
There is nothing at all in the advert that makes me want to buy a Honda in preference to any other car, and apart from the complete car in the last few seconds, there is nothing that is even a recognisable Honda part there (unless you take apart cars for aliving, I guess?).
All I get from this advert is the message that Honda have a lot of time and money to waste. Now I also know that and they insist on doing things in a very dumb way when they could have saved a lot of time and money by using a computer.
Way to go, advertising agency, you just put me off the Honda brand.
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Lara Croft got an entire movie.
Several movies if you count the pr0n ones...
You give a list of titles that are currently GameCube exclusives, which highlights the fact that Microsoft would gain 2 things from purchasing Sega, games for them, and lack of games for their competitors.
...because Sega know how to make successful modern consoles, right?
"we can't see what Ralsky* is doing behind all those mailbags"
Seriously though, the problen is not that the FTC can't 'investigate' the spammers, it's that they don't/can't DO anything about them. Ralsky has stood up in public and admitted it, how much more information do they need?
*I'm referring to Alan M Ralsky of 5016 Patrick Rd. West Bloomfield, MI 48322 telephone number 248-661-3355 fax number 1-248-661-3054, just in case anyone finds that address useful.
Seconded, we never got a bug free version of Mozilla, the last one still has the debilitating problem that when you collapse the front window you lose the inability to type anything, in any program at all, and we never got the spam filtering.
:-/
If only a few of those people would stop porting linux to hairdryers, making tcp/ip stacks made out of christmas tree lights and casemodding PCs into happy meal toys, the open source movement could really get a strong foothold in the Mac market
If there was a port Moz to OS9 fund, I'd donate to it.
You have misunderstood what the parent post was claiming.
Linux certainly is optimised for x86, but no-one would claim that the x86 has been optimised specifically for Linux!
Go talk to some Mac users, not just programmers!
OS9 is a LONG way from dead, and a very large portion of the Apple community that will stick with it for the forseeable future.
Moving to OSX requires learning a new interface, and repurchasing software, and the printing, graphic design, typography and arts community won't do this without a VERY good reason. Pretty widgets and a few less crashes simply isn't enough of a reason.
A lot of OSX sales are to people who tried it, hated it and went back to OS9.
50% of the two dozen mac users in my building have done exactly this, and they have told the other 50% that OSX is a pile of $%^&$%^&. I'm not saying that OSX is actually a pile of anything, but that's what every Mac user I know who has tried it says to me.
Add to this the fact that Quark haven't even got XPress for OSX into a state where people in the printing community trust it (let alone actually making noticable improvements over the OS9 version) and the fact that OSX has a command line (It's amazing how quickly people forget that the whole reason most people buy macs is because they don't have a command line!).
OSX is great for programmers and geeks like us, but for Apple's core of non-techy users who rely on Macs for a living, it just doesn't cut it.
Apart from the obvious one that the 'low quality DVDs' are probably exactly the same data that is being touted as a high quality bit-torrent file...
There was no 'co-ordinated worldwide release' for Reloaded, here in Britain we got it a week an a half later than the US.
There were a whole host of pirate versions on alt.pictures.binaries.divx before the film was even released over here.
As for a solution to the problem, I've seen the film at the cinema, and I'd buy it on DVD, but guess what, there is no legitimate DVD yet.
I'd be tempted to download a divx as a stop-gap until the DVD is released (in it's final, most complete version) but I know that divx files rarely play back with sound even with the latest 5.05 release of the divx codec for Mac.
True, but 'civet cat' is the common name for them, so that is rather like complaining that Guinea pigs aren't real pigs, or that gnus are not unix :-)
If you are publishing a respected medical journal, when reporting the words of a widely published doctor, it is important to check if it's this particular doctor or not!
The World Health Organisation are now saying it's likely to have originated in civet cats
I expect the author of the theory that 'The Lancet' printed in their letter page will now follow up with an equally believable theory that the cats flew here from Mars.
Does 'stable' mean that decay hasn't been observed, or that it NEVER occurs?
How does quantum mechanics apply to decay?
Does an atom decay when a certain set of positions occur within it, and if so why can't the frequency that this would occur at be calculated?
How does Saddam Hussein store his CDs?
In Iraq!
My father (who was a LEO programmer in the 60s) told me of the 'drum drive', precursor of the disk drive. The principle was the same, but the 'platter' was a cylinder, which had the benefit of constant track length, but the drawback of being similar in form factor, noise level and maufacturing tolerances to a washing machine.
If I recall correctly, they managed to cram ana amazing 50k of data onto a drum.
I understand your legal point, but surely PA's drawing IS a parody of American Greeting's original character?
It clearly picks out the absurdity of the original's cuteness and lack of sex-appeal and the fact that the character never grows up or misbehaves, and parodies these points by giving her curves, age and a bad attitude.
If the references to Mr McGee were removed, the comic would still function as a humorous visual parody of the work American Greetings is claiming it infringes.
I suggest PA put the picture back up, but change the words to read "What if Strawberry Shortcake was as nasty as American Greeting's Lawyers?"
This would clearly be a parody of the material in question.
It's just the same old range of 3 iBooks, but with an extra 100 Mhz and an extra 10Gb drive capacity all round.
Any other changes are too subtle for me to spot comparing the applestore spec with ads in last week's MacUser.
1. Cluttered website
2. ????
3. Profit!
God is dead...I wouldnt be throwing a wake just yet...
:-)
Yeah, Easter would be a dumb time to do that
Try making the window thinner - first the content gets squeezed down to a thin strip between those two huge menus, then eventually one menu disappears and random bits of text obscure the content! (ymmv, I'm using Mozilla 1.2 for MacOS).
http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews2/underworldd vd.html
It's the printing/design industry's standard piece of dummy text, used by designers like me when making mockups.
It dates from about 1500, and is a garbled version of Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC.
www.lipsum.com has more info, translations, the ungarbled version and so on.
No, it's a slow day when we get DUPES of stories from the Weekly World news and the Druge report!
I'm not an American (I wonder how much karma I lose for saying that?) but if I was I'd be mailing my congressperson to complain about the FTC not doing their job properly.
No, that's not what I said. I have negative view of the company because they wasted a large amount of time and money on doing something in a very inefficient way. If the company makes bad management decisions like this, why should I trust it's cars?
There is nothing at all in the advert that makes me want to buy a Honda in preference to any other car, and apart from the complete car in the last few seconds, there is nothing that is even a recognisable Honda part there (unless you take apart cars for aliving, I guess?).
All I get from this advert is the message that Honda have a lot of time and money to waste. Now I also know that and they insist on doing things in a very dumb way when they could have saved a lot of time and money by using a computer.
Way to go, advertising agency, you just put me off the Honda brand.