Say the RIAA sends me a C&D letter for forgetting to put a robots.txt file in my web-accessible directory of MP3s and letting Google index them. The first call I'm going to make is to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to have them recommend a good lawyer. If you're going to find a pro-bono attorney, that's going to be the best place to at least get some direction.
My roommate took his Toshiba laptop and digicam to Guatemala earlier this year - he claims that the locals were not, in fact, cut throats and thieves, but rather were far too entertained by the cam's instant photo turnaround to bother with robbing him. Especially the kids.
A new generation of kids too lazy to even close their hands.
This bring up a valid point. The ability to grasp and manipulate objects is a crucial motor skill for children to comprehend. Giving an infant velcro gloves is the equivalent of handing a first-grader a calculator before a math quiz. Sure, they may finish faster and more accurately, but they do so by taking a developmental shortcut.
This is not a good thing.
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What's the big deal?
Well, if I had a new klez worm varient to unleash, what better way to introduce it to the world than jumping on some poor sap's low security WAN?
Crack attempts, spam, kiddie porn, whatever. Any internet activity that people avoid for fear of being traced down can be easily, safely pulled off by leeching off of some poor sap's WAN.
I'm glad to see geeks making a fuss about a glaring security hole like this. The more fuss, the more press, the more dummies with LinkSys wireless routers start securing their connections.
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why not supply the link to the patch as well
That's what comments and moderation are for - in case the author misses something glaring, like a link to a bug's patch, the general public has a voice to let everyone know.
Says who? 'Anamorphic' DVDs are HDTV quality. IIRC, they display on regular TVs by dropping every second or third vertical column of pixels. Just wait for HDTV quality video capture and more DVD burners. It'll happen.
You know, I bet you were one of the people to bug their coworkers on August 29, 1997 and excitedly ask them if they were all prepared for the Terminator/SkyNet apocalypse. I can't give you those long ago squandered minutes of your life back.
Here's the scoop. The guys at Fox aren't dummies. They know what a salivating fan base the X-Files carries. The way to cash in here is to:
a) Take the next few months off and start (or continue) development on an end-all, be-all second X-Files movie, which will no doubt include more scenes of Scully and Mulder necking around spaceships. This will neatly tie up some of the loose ends left open by the series finale and give everyone warm, fuzzy feelings deep in their cockles.
b) Q3, 2011. Fox introduces a new series based on the X-Files' impending fictional doomsday featuring sexy, wise-cacking teens outwitting grodey, bug-eyed alien conspirators. But it'll have a story arc, so the geeks are forced to watch it all.
I graduated college just after Sept. 11th and got laid off Sept 19th. I was out of work for three months and finally got a terrible position cleaning up HTML in a marketing shop. Now that job seems to be in jeopardy. If there's a post-9/11 boom, then I have yet to see it.
So if I'm looking for content that is likely to have been on the Internet for a year or more, Google is great. But if I'm looking for fresh content, I'll go elsewhere.
How do you explain this, then? It's a standard Google search for the terms 'Andrea', 'Yates' and 'verdict'. The top link is hardly a year old, but rather an extremely recent and relevant link to CNN's site about the trail verdict.
~5.6% unemployed in the general population, let's not forget. 2 years ago, if you worked in tech and didn't have a job, it was because you weren't looking. Now unemployment in the tech sector is all the way up to 9% in some metro areas. With numbers like that, how can they expect computer geeks to throw away money for their favorite music? This is the wrong economy to be stiffing consumers in.
One of the best site designs I've seen uses this to great dramatic effect. Fixed width, plain, calm soothing colors and a semi-low contrast. Besides, everybody knows white on black pages are so 1998.
Yes yes, we all know that Lance Bass is a rich popstar twit and we loathe to think that he can get a ride on the space station and we can't. Boo-freakin'-hoo.
Last time I checked, just about everybody here was 100% for space-tourism. Shooting Lance's jiggy ass up there is going to promote that just as much as it is his crappy band. Just be thankful that he wasn't going to be the first. Personally, I'd love to see as many tourists up there as we can get with an orbiting Hilton to house them all.
Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space
So you're telling me that the new japanese PleasureVibe erotic force-feedback controller I got off Ebay won't work when I get shot on Halo? God damn that Microsoft...
Prehaps ET decides we aren't worth the trouble and saves us from our suffering by harvesting the human race to make Alien Powerbar nutritional suppliments. Bet you never thought of that, didja??
If you spent enough time with Peter Jackson's dick outside of your mouth, you would have seen that 95% of McKellen's 'Gandalf' was played by the fake beard. Now away with you - go rent Sexy Beast and witness what real acting is like.
I convinced everyone to come over to my house to watch the game this year because I had the DirecTV/Tivo combo and could back up cool ads and plays with ease. At 10pm, with 5 minutes of video buffered, the god damned thing stopped recording the game and switched over to record another show. As a result, we missed the Pat's dramatic march downfield and field goal. By the time I realized the error, we switched back to live TV and the confetti was falling.
Everyone was FUCKING PISSED OFF. This sort of thing happens all the time for sporting events. Before Tivo does ANYTHING else, they need some kind of software solution to record the enitrity of sporting events and go over their scheduled time. I should NOT have to explicitly tell it to record for an extra half hour or hour for every game that comes on.
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Do you see what I see?
Say the RIAA sends me a C&D letter for forgetting to put a robots.txt file in my web-accessible directory of MP3s and letting Google index them. The first call I'm going to make is to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to have them recommend a good lawyer. If you're going to find a pro-bono attorney, that's going to be the best place to at least get some direction.
Who gives a shit if you can't stick the whole thing in a riced up ColorCase with neon lights, LEDs and water-cooled CPU? NOBODY. So fuck it.
Have a look at the top critic out there, Mr Ebert:
Star Trek IV 3.5 of 4 stars
Star Trek V 2 of 4 stars
Star Trek VI (no review)
Star Trek VII, 2 of 4 stars
Star Trek VIII, 3.5 of 4 stars
Star Trek IX, 2 of 4 stars
Star Trek X, 2 of 4 stars
3 and a half stars is pretty damn good, too. That's better than As Good As It Gets, Austin Powers or A.I..
My roommate took his Toshiba laptop and digicam to Guatemala earlier this year - he claims that the locals were not, in fact, cut throats and thieves, but rather were far too entertained by the cam's instant photo turnaround to bother with robbing him. Especially the kids.
A new generation of kids too lazy to even close their hands.
This bring up a valid point. The ability to grasp and manipulate objects is a crucial motor skill for children to comprehend. Giving an infant velcro gloves is the equivalent of handing a first-grader a calculator before a math quiz. Sure, they may finish faster and more accurately, but they do so by taking a developmental shortcut.
This is not a good thing.
What's the big deal?
Well, if I had a new klez worm varient to unleash, what better way to introduce it to the world than jumping on some poor sap's low security WAN?
Crack attempts, spam, kiddie porn, whatever. Any internet activity that people avoid for fear of being traced down can be easily, safely pulled off by leeching off of some poor sap's WAN.
I'm glad to see geeks making a fuss about a glaring security hole like this. The more fuss, the more press, the more dummies with LinkSys wireless routers start securing their connections.
why not supply the link to the patch as well
That's what comments and moderation are for - in case the author misses something glaring, like a link to a bug's patch, the general public has a voice to let everyone know.
So stop bitching, ass.
128 MB compact flash card: about $85, $0.66/MB
10 pack of Fuji floppy disks from Best Buy (.com, no less): $4.99, $0.35/MB
Now, consider the fact that nobody actually pays for 3.5" floppies anymore. Bang for buck is clearly with the floppy disk.
Does drawing on experience infringe on others' intellectual property?
No. Inspiration does not count as stealing. Mind the slippery slope.
Why not just shoot the thing at 5 in the morning and digitially chop out any people that may be hanging around the streets?
Because Cameron Crowe got to shut down Times Square for a few minutes while making Vanilla Sky. The Wachowskis pissing match does not impress me.
you can't stuff a HDTV movie onto a DVD
Says who? 'Anamorphic' DVDs are HDTV quality. IIRC, they display on regular TVs by dropping every second or third vertical column of pixels. Just wait for HDTV quality video capture and more DVD burners. It'll happen.
WHAT DVDs? If I thought WB was going to put out a complete set, I'd have waited...
Perhaps he is refering to these DVDs...
Or not.
You know, I bet you were one of the people to bug their coworkers on August 29, 1997 and excitedly ask them if they were all prepared for the Terminator/SkyNet apocalypse. I can't give you those long ago squandered minutes of your life back.
Here's the scoop. The guys at Fox aren't dummies. They know what a salivating fan base the X-Files carries. The way to cash in here is to:
a) Take the next few months off and start (or continue) development on an end-all, be-all second X-Files movie, which will no doubt include more scenes of Scully and Mulder necking around spaceships. This will neatly tie up some of the loose ends left open by the series finale and give everyone warm, fuzzy feelings deep in their cockles.
b) Q3, 2011. Fox introduces a new series based on the X-Files' impending fictional doomsday featuring sexy, wise-cacking teens outwitting grodey, bug-eyed alien conspirators. But it'll have a story arc, so the geeks are forced to watch it all.
Just my vision of the future.
I graduated college just after Sept. 11th and got laid off Sept 19th. I was out of work for three months and finally got a terrible position cleaning up HTML in a marketing shop. Now that job seems to be in jeopardy. If there's a post-9/11 boom, then I have yet to see it.
So if I'm looking for content that is likely to have been on the Internet for a year or more, Google is great. But if I'm looking for fresh content, I'll go elsewhere.
How do you explain this, then? It's a standard Google search for the terms 'Andrea', 'Yates' and 'verdict'. The top link is hardly a year old, but rather an extremely recent and relevant link to CNN's site about the trail verdict.
~5.6% unemployed in the general population, let's not forget. 2 years ago, if you worked in tech and didn't have a job, it was because you weren't looking. Now unemployment in the tech sector is all the way up to 9% in some metro areas. With numbers like that, how can they expect computer geeks to throw away money for their favorite music? This is the wrong economy to be stiffing consumers in.
Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity.
One of the best site designs I've seen uses this to great dramatic effect. Fixed width, plain, calm soothing colors and a semi-low contrast. Besides, everybody knows white on black pages are so 1998.
Yes yes, we all know that Lance Bass is a rich popstar twit and we loathe to think that he can get a ride on the space station and we can't. Boo-freakin'-hoo.
Last time I checked, just about everybody here was 100% for space-tourism. Shooting Lance's jiggy ass up there is going to promote that just as much as it is his crappy band. Just be thankful that he wasn't going to be the first. Personally, I'd love to see as many tourists up there as we can get with an orbiting Hilton to house them all.
Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space
So you're telling me that the new japanese PleasureVibe erotic force-feedback controller I got off Ebay won't work when I get shot on Halo? God damn that Microsoft...
Perhaps not.
Prehaps ET decides we aren't worth the trouble and saves us from our suffering by harvesting the human race to make Alien Powerbar nutritional suppliments. Bet you never thought of that, didja??
God damn your sig is lame.
Supporting Actor - McKellen takes it.
If you spent enough time with Peter Jackson's dick outside of your mouth, you would have seen that 95% of McKellen's 'Gandalf' was played by the fake beard. Now away with you - go rent Sexy Beast and witness what real acting is like.
I convinced everyone to come over to my house to watch the game this year because I had the DirecTV/Tivo combo and could back up cool ads and plays with ease. At 10pm, with 5 minutes of video buffered, the god damned thing stopped recording the game and switched over to record another show. As a result, we missed the Pat's dramatic march downfield and field goal. By the time I realized the error, we switched back to live TV and the confetti was falling.
Everyone was FUCKING PISSED OFF. This sort of thing happens all the time for sporting events. Before Tivo does ANYTHING else, they need some kind of software solution to record the enitrity of sporting events and go over their scheduled time. I should NOT have to explicitly tell it to record for an extra half hour or hour for every game that comes on.
There have been a few, but they don't do a very good job of helping anyone's cause.