in trucks running around in the general public, but this might help to alleviate congestion at already borked up Mexican border crossings. I'm in SD, and I regularly hear of 2+ hour border waits during local traffic reports. Maybe this will help to speed up checks for vans and trucks.
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Oh, and Fuck the TSA.
Now: Half Life 3. I repeat: HALF LIFE 3. People are already picketing over it (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/half-life-2/1187378p1.html)
In all seriousness, TF2 and Portal 2 were great. I hope that the new CS and the eventual HL:3 are just as awesome.
...and this merger won't be good for me. I went to my local public dialog forum here in San Diego, and found quite a few others like me. Yet, we weren't able to talk because AT&T had lined up minority group after minority group after interest group after volunteer group talking about how "good AT&T is for the community." I shit you not, one lady even came up and spoke for her whole two minutes about how her pregnant 14-year old daughter wouldn't be able to function without this merger.
The sad thing? Almost every person who stood up disclosed that they had received grants, money or deals from AT&T. Two hours later, I walked of the forum disgusted. I've been an ATT customer before, and I don't want to be again, and people must agree with me, because 50k people jumped ship from T-Mobile last quarter.
I'm bummed because T-Mobile has historically been a great company to work with. Any company that rings you up to make you aware of and retroactively pay for an overcharge is okay in my book. For some reason, I couldn't see ATT doing that kind of thing. Oh well, at least I'll be able to jump ship to Sprint when ATT officially acquires T-Mobile. I don't trust the FCC or the FTC to lift a finger to stop this merger.
Let's stop cramming all this electronic shit into our cars. The wireless capabilities of the newer cars these days is really starting to get scary. The tech is awesome, but the potential for wrong-doing (government, vandals, or otherwise) is just too great. Only so much of the new stuff they're coming out with is actually useful; the rest of it is just junk meant to distract from the actual act of driving, or to add to the billfold of whoever builds the replacements for these in-car computers.
Fuck you, Ubisoft. Your DRM is 'working' because your games suck balls. Nobody's downloading them because they suck. You've succeeded only in alienating your customers. How can you call this success? Bullet, meet foot.
I recently bought a Samsung TV. I really like it; one of the cool things about it is that I can play AVI and various other types of video\music files on the TV from a USB stick or external hard drive. As far as I can tell, there are no "protection" measures at all; it'll play whatever is on the drive (even some MKVs!). With Walmart getting into the content streaming game, what are the odds that media companies might start to lean on Walmart to push "protection" of digital content? Walmart's known for pushing vendors around; what are the chances that Wally World starts to act as content police and begins telling vendors to remove features like the one I described above?
I'm only concerned because when content creators and content providers get chummy, things tend to get more restricted.
It's pretty late in the game for this generation of consoles. This seems like a 'who finished first' situation. Who cares? I'd rather the console makers concentrate on product support while working on making things better for the next generation of hardware.
I grew up building LEGO (my mom still has my massive brick collection in a closet somewhere), and even though I'm in my mid-twenties, I am still awed by what people do with such a simple building block. One is never too old to play with LEGO.
This is a sign of how out of touch Microsoft is. Outside of their lucrative enterprise market, it seems their best solution for making money is to simply troll with their patent portfolio. The numbers I can find seem to show that the moneys they're collecting from these 'that's a nice android you got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it' payments outnumbers their revenues from Windows phones. That's just sad.
Microsoft needs to be careful. There's a time bomb hidden in their business strategy, just waiting to go off. The same thing happened to IBM; they managed to re-invent themselves. Will Microsoft be able to do the same thing?
Make no mistake, space travel ain't easy. Yes, those accidents were horrible. But over the course of thirty years, they put the Hubble telescope into orbit, repaired said telescope, built the international space station, launched three probes and carried many people and satellites into orbit. All of these tasks increased our understanding of the world and worlds around us, and has shown that countries can cooperate in space. These efforts were expensive and dangerous; yes, there were accidents and yes, there were budget over-runs. But NASA and all the people involved work towards the genuine improvement of mankind, and some people have died for it. I'd say that's good work, and I tip my hat to everybody involved.
I just watched the launch via the live feed. 30 years of good work. Now...what's next? Here's hoping NASA will have the budget to get its next vehicle up and running.
For being so clear in their TOS. The only legalize I saw ("your stuff" qualifier) actually made me chuckle a little bit. I wish more companies would take this route in drafting their legal copy.
It's a long article, but is really worth a read. It talks about Ailes and his plans for what would be Fox News. It uses primary sources, and goes into some depth about an interesting bit of history. Murdoch may not have come up with the idea, but he sure has done well with the execution.
Not even the government follows them. The hypocrisy here is ridiculous. I'd much rather have Google sniffing my SSID than the FBI making a phone call to $TELCO to get warrant-less access to phone records and wiretaps, in addition to the rest of their available tracking tech and methods. The fed should police up their own people and regulations before going after Google.
and voter apathy are the main causes behind this country's approaching decline. This shit needs to stop. This kind of thing was rampant in the US around the late 1800s and the country went through war and economic depression before finally turning itself around. I fear that history is repeating itself, and that nobody who can actually do anything about is bothering to give a fuck. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the country's crumbling infrastructure (physical and digital), and the horrible US economy are all symptoms of those underlying three causes. Take care of those and the sinking ship that is the US would eventually right itself.
Yes, cold calls are a waste of my time and theirs. But the sheer volume of spam propping up the USPS and various printing companies just oozes waste. Waste of paper, waste of time, waste of money. Pretty much the only positive thing about spam is that it keeps somebody, somewhere, employed. I wonder just how much money goes into the junk mail business.
While this is great news, I really think that reducing the volume of physical spam needs to be a high priority as well. I get nothing but junk in my physical mailbox these days. Well, that and bills. I should have the option of automatically refusing anything sent to me that is addressed to 'Our friend at' or 'Resident'.
Pretty much all the big players are being sued by somebody. That graphic's a little old, but it still illustrates just how messed up the patent system must be.
but they really have a tasteful approach to their advertising. On their sites and services, the plain-text ads go almost un-noticed. I'm glad to see them making an attempt to get rid of the 'You won! Shoot the monkey to claim your prise!' type ads. Next up: content farms.
Google seems to fail at social networking. Didn't they learn from the flop that was Google Wave? Granted, Wave was a collaboration-based network, but it was still focused around a small group of friends or colleagues. The fact that it's based around real-time communication is interesting (and really cool for businesses not using MeetingPlace), but it would seem like this approach will fail just like Wave did.
about what people call themselves? When it comes down to it, you either are, or aren't, a geek. That chick can call herself whatever she wants as long as she is willing to treat the real geeks with some respect. That's all a lot of us want anyway.
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in trucks running around in the general public, but this might help to alleviate congestion at already borked up Mexican border crossings. I'm in SD, and I regularly hear of 2+ hour border waits during local traffic reports. Maybe this will help to speed up checks for vans and trucks. -- Oh, and Fuck the TSA.
Bruce Willis and the space shuttle would save us from any comet threat. What's that you say? The shuttle's been retired? Great, we're fucked.
Now: Half Life 3. I repeat: HALF LIFE 3. People are already picketing over it (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/half-life-2/1187378p1.html) In all seriousness, TF2 and Portal 2 were great. I hope that the new CS and the eventual HL:3 are just as awesome.
The sad thing? Almost every person who stood up disclosed that they had received grants, money or deals from AT&T. Two hours later, I walked of the forum disgusted. I've been an ATT customer before, and I don't want to be again, and people must agree with me, because 50k people jumped ship from T-Mobile last quarter.
I'm bummed because T-Mobile has historically been a great company to work with. Any company that rings you up to make you aware of and retroactively pay for an overcharge is okay in my book. For some reason, I couldn't see ATT doing that kind of thing. Oh well, at least I'll be able to jump ship to Sprint when ATT officially acquires T-Mobile. I don't trust the FCC or the FTC to lift a finger to stop this merger.
Let's stop cramming all this electronic shit into our cars. The wireless capabilities of the newer cars these days is really starting to get scary. The tech is awesome, but the potential for wrong-doing (government, vandals, or otherwise) is just too great. Only so much of the new stuff they're coming out with is actually useful; the rest of it is just junk meant to distract from the actual act of driving, or to add to the billfold of whoever builds the replacements for these in-car computers.
Fuck you, Ubisoft. Your DRM is 'working' because your games suck balls. Nobody's downloading them because they suck. You've succeeded only in alienating your customers. How can you call this success? Bullet, meet foot.
It's clear they should make another Uma Thurman movie :)
I recently bought a Samsung TV. I really like it; one of the cool things about it is that I can play AVI and various other types of video\music files on the TV from a USB stick or external hard drive. As far as I can tell, there are no "protection" measures at all; it'll play whatever is on the drive (even some MKVs!). With Walmart getting into the content streaming game, what are the odds that media companies might start to lean on Walmart to push "protection" of digital content? Walmart's known for pushing vendors around; what are the chances that Wally World starts to act as content police and begins telling vendors to remove features like the one I described above? I'm only concerned because when content creators and content providers get chummy, things tend to get more restricted.
It's pretty late in the game for this generation of consoles. This seems like a 'who finished first' situation. Who cares? I'd rather the console makers concentrate on product support while working on making things better for the next generation of hardware.
I grew up building LEGO (my mom still has my massive brick collection in a closet somewhere), and even though I'm in my mid-twenties, I am still awed by what people do with such a simple building block. One is never too old to play with LEGO.
it's been jailbroken: http://gizmodo.com/5821905/ios-434-has-been-jailbroken
This is a sign of how out of touch Microsoft is. Outside of their lucrative enterprise market, it seems their best solution for making money is to simply troll with their patent portfolio. The numbers I can find seem to show that the moneys they're collecting from these 'that's a nice android you got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it' payments outnumbers their revenues from Windows phones. That's just sad. Microsoft needs to be careful. There's a time bomb hidden in their business strategy, just waiting to go off. The same thing happened to IBM; they managed to re-invent themselves. Will Microsoft be able to do the same thing?
Make no mistake, space travel ain't easy. Yes, those accidents were horrible. But over the course of thirty years, they put the Hubble telescope into orbit, repaired said telescope, built the international space station, launched three probes and carried many people and satellites into orbit. All of these tasks increased our understanding of the world and worlds around us, and has shown that countries can cooperate in space. These efforts were expensive and dangerous; yes, there were accidents and yes, there were budget over-runs. But NASA and all the people involved work towards the genuine improvement of mankind, and some people have died for it. I'd say that's good work, and I tip my hat to everybody involved.
I just watched the launch via the live feed. 30 years of good work. Now...what's next? Here's hoping NASA will have the budget to get its next vehicle up and running.
For being so clear in their TOS. The only legalize I saw ("your stuff" qualifier) actually made me chuckle a little bit. I wish more companies would take this route in drafting their legal copy.
It's a long article, but is really worth a read. It talks about Ailes and his plans for what would be Fox News. It uses primary sources, and goes into some depth about an interesting bit of history. Murdoch may not have come up with the idea, but he sure has done well with the execution.
Not even the government follows them. The hypocrisy here is ridiculous. I'd much rather have Google sniffing my SSID than the FBI making a phone call to $TELCO to get warrant-less access to phone records and wiretaps, in addition to the rest of their available tracking tech and methods. The fed should police up their own people and regulations before going after Google.
And it all started with the Hays codes in the 1930s. Get your religion-based censorship out of my TV and radio broadcasts already.
and voter apathy are the main causes behind this country's approaching decline. This shit needs to stop. This kind of thing was rampant in the US around the late 1800s and the country went through war and economic depression before finally turning itself around. I fear that history is repeating itself, and that nobody who can actually do anything about is bothering to give a fuck. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the country's crumbling infrastructure (physical and digital), and the horrible US economy are all symptoms of those underlying three causes. Take care of those and the sinking ship that is the US would eventually right itself.
Yes, cold calls are a waste of my time and theirs. But the sheer volume of spam propping up the USPS and various printing companies just oozes waste. Waste of paper, waste of time, waste of money. Pretty much the only positive thing about spam is that it keeps somebody, somewhere, employed. I wonder just how much money goes into the junk mail business.
While this is great news, I really think that reducing the volume of physical spam needs to be a high priority as well. I get nothing but junk in my physical mailbox these days. Well, that and bills. I should have the option of automatically refusing anything sent to me that is addressed to 'Our friend at' or 'Resident'.
Pretty much all the big players are being sued by somebody. That graphic's a little old, but it still illustrates just how messed up the patent system must be.
but they really have a tasteful approach to their advertising. On their sites and services, the plain-text ads go almost un-noticed. I'm glad to see them making an attempt to get rid of the 'You won! Shoot the monkey to claim your prise!' type ads. Next up: content farms.
Google seems to fail at social networking. Didn't they learn from the flop that was Google Wave? Granted, Wave was a collaboration-based network, but it was still focused around a small group of friends or colleagues. The fact that it's based around real-time communication is interesting (and really cool for businesses not using MeetingPlace), but it would seem like this approach will fail just like Wave did.
about what people call themselves? When it comes down to it, you either are, or aren't, a geek. That chick can call herself whatever she wants as long as she is willing to treat the real geeks with some respect. That's all a lot of us want anyway.