This is possible? I guess it would work on the Fat Albert & the gang, but the Minister of Silly Walks would fool this thing faster than your machine can go "bing"!
"Webcasts are limited to three songs from one album in any three-hour period."
Am I alone in wishing that the traditional media (i.e., radio) would be forced to do the same? It'd be well worth it to avoid another Lou Bega/Macarena tragedy that have scarred past generations.;^D
Views expressed here are solely those of the author and the biotech firms that own his gentic code
Ack! Ok, I've learned my lesson...no more politics from me - and no more abbrev. (had to get one last one in) Just trying to be witty before 10 Ante Meridiem Eastern Standard Time - always a mistake. Sorry to offend any Western Australians. I live in the Washington, District of Columbia in the United Stated of America and out here we are innundated with this politics stuff.
Interesting that this "invention" press release was issued right after the heavy campaigning of Al Gore, "Inventor of the Internet" in WA. Methinks Al and the Bill-ionaires had a "power lunch" together or something...
The pool will become somewhat less valuable to Microsoft when the news breaks that 90% of that 63% followed up their affirmation of MS with the comment "Yeah, it's good, but not as cool as Seventeen. Their articles are,like, the best."
...so this may be abrasive. I don't think that the issue of copying DVDs and making MP3s will have that much relevance in 2-3 years. As the technology becomes more prevalent, these actions will become more and more ubiquitous. Just as copying CD's and audio/video tapes is now rampant (and often goes unprosecuted). The companies won't really lose out because, and this is the key, they will always have the Ignorant Masses (TM) to bail them out. Most people are not going to want to bother to learn how to copy these things. A lot will be scared away by the warnings on the original media. And many will simply not know how to make the copies and will not bother to learn how. It's the same reason why people get their car's oil changed at a garage, laziness and convenience. It often seems much simpler to a non-techie person for them to just go out and by a CD instead of downloading it off the net. If the industry loses a percentage of its tech saavy audience, the likelihood is that these people would not have paid for the music no matter what. The real solution would be for the record labels to keep prices reasonable. CDs should not cost $17. If they moderated the prices, say if CDs were $10 for example, I'd think their sales would skyrocket. I'd like the know the margins on the sale of a music CD these days...where does all that money go?
I live just outside our nation's capitol and I work in IT, I was discussing the DeCSS flap with a mixture of Techie and Non-techie friends. I said "What do you guys think of this DeCSS (I pronounced it Dee-see ess ess) stuff?" A non-techie friend responded "What is that? The new capitol Gestapo?"
Despite the obvious drawbacks of being dead for decades, the famed biologist was available for comments on Dafoe's seminal work. He noted "Yeah, being stranded on an island is one thing, spending all of your waking hours classifying Finches is another. I don't understand why the author didn't take the time to incorporate this aspect into this otherwise classic work of fiction." Wakka wakka wakka.
The Radiola company announced the release of a new hardware kit that allows your Linux box to play vinyl records! Just turn your case on its side, attach platter, arm, needle and viola! You can be listening to Frampton Comes Alive in no time! No need to wait for pesky downloads and no fear of grubbing music industry lawyers lookin' to throw the book at ya! Get one now before the other kids on the block have one!
Morbo:Is it just me... Nixon:Or do these guys... M:Have a problem... N:With interrupting... M:One another constantly? Gates: Okay, I have my billions, my solid gold house and my rocket car...I gotta go! See ya!
Hmmm...I'm wondering how this reader feels about NWA's role in promoting and promulgating misogynistic thoughts and actions. I seem to recall a fondness for the terms ho and bitch used in lieu of more respectful names for women. Perhaps they are adding to this detremental social programming?
The new female characters in the Starcraft Expansion Set:Brood Wars (the Medic and Valkyrie units), are problematic in some respects. Their utterances seem more like sexual innuendos than any of the other units. It's like the folks at Blizzard took 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Not bright.
other ideas for Holland, MI signmakers and graffiti artists, add some punctuation and pluralization to liven up the material, some suggestions: "Yes, 2 King Jesuses" - Life of Brian? "Yes, 2 Kings!, Jesus!" - Jesus learns that his pair of eights is a losing hand. "Yes 2 King, Jesus" - Martin, Rodney and Don all receive billing with the Big Guy "Yes: 2 King Jesus" - The new album from everyone's favorite syntho-pop band.
It is interesting to note that those founding fathers who founded the Jeffersonian-Democratic party were not advocates of referendum-style democracy. Rather, they were big fans of establishing an Intellectual Elite to rule over the masses. I would suspect that it is exactly just this kind of referendum that this Intellectual Elite would be responsible for screening out(at least in the minds of the original Democrats). The irony is that Representative Democracy does not actually represent the ideals of the masses. This can be both constructive and destructive. Of course...Morbo thinks humans do not yet KNOW the meaning of suffering!...but that may be beside the point.
Instead of a De-Gaussing button, you may need a De-Brown-Sugar-&-Cinnamon button, though, eh?;-) Excellent idea, though. Any particularly useful monitor brands for "toasting"?
I just wanted to say that the program I believe you are talking about, LOGO, was the coolest program ever! I wish that someone had invested in developing a true LOGO operating system, LOGO2000 or some such, so we could give the turtle it's fair share of the glory along with the gnu, the penguin and the mouse!:^D And we could all be making multicolored fractal looking things for a living!
To augment Slamdance how about SPAMdance? It could be the festival that celebrates the annoying users who e-mail these friggin' mpegs and such to all their friends and waste my bandwith and diskspace! The winner could be given a lifetime supply of SPAM and a trip to Hawaii (where SPAM is a delicacy) in exchange for promising *never to touch a computer again*! Who's with me?
I would like to install an oven door in the side of my case so I could use it to bake small pastries and such. I think the heat generated in some older desktops could well outpace that of a 30 watt bulb.
Clinton also announced a related program to counter-balance this unprecedented proposal: "You see, Computer nerds are predominantly male, in order to offer a program equally rewarding for women I will be setting up the White House Intern Scholarship Program. I will be hand-picking the candidates and I hope to have the program up and 'operational' before my term ends next year...hehehe...I mean, uh, ignore that last part! Hillary!!! I'm doin' it again!"
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"Gait identification"?!?
This is possible? I guess it would work on the Fat Albert & the gang, but the Minister of Silly Walks would fool this thing faster than your machine can go "bing"!
...ahem...
Command line power
yet some prefer point-and-click
What's intuitive?
"Webcasts are limited to three songs from one album in any three-hour period."
;^D
Am I alone in wishing that the traditional media (i.e., radio) would be forced to do the same? It'd be well worth it to avoid another Lou Bega/Macarena tragedy that have scarred past generations.
Views expressed here are solely those of the author and the biotech firms that own his gentic code
Ack! Ok, I've learned my lesson...no more politics from me - and no more abbrev. (had to get one last one in) Just trying to be witty before 10 Ante Meridiem Eastern Standard Time - always a mistake. Sorry to offend any Western Australians. I live in the Washington, District of Columbia in the United Stated of America and out here we are innundated with this politics stuff.
Interesting that this "invention" press release was issued right after the heavy campaigning of Al Gore, "Inventor of the Internet" in WA. Methinks Al and the Bill-ionaires had a "power lunch" together or something...
Can anyone tell me why SGI is not traded on NASDAQ? Is it some company policy deal-io or what?
476 Dems +
417 Reps +
231 Indies =
1124 Total
417/1124 * 100% = ~37.1%
100%-37.1%= 62.9%!
Coincidence?!?
The pool will become somewhat less valuable to Microsoft when the news breaks that 90% of that 63% followed up their affirmation of MS with the comment "Yeah, it's good, but not as cool as Seventeen. Their articles are,like, the best."
...so this may be abrasive. I don't think that the issue of copying DVDs and making MP3s will have that much relevance in 2-3 years. As the technology becomes more prevalent, these actions will become more and more ubiquitous. Just as copying CD's and audio/video tapes is now rampant (and often goes unprosecuted). The companies won't really lose out because, and this is the key, they will always have the Ignorant Masses (TM) to bail them out. Most people are not going to want to bother to learn how to copy these things. A lot will be scared away by the warnings on the original media. And many will simply not know how to make the copies and will not bother to learn how. It's the same reason why people get their car's oil changed at a garage, laziness and convenience. It often seems much simpler to a non-techie person for them to just go out and by a CD instead of downloading it off the net. If the industry loses a percentage of its tech saavy audience, the likelihood is that these people would not have paid for the music no matter what. The real solution would be for the record labels to keep prices reasonable. CDs should not cost $17. If they moderated the prices, say if CDs were $10 for example, I'd think their sales would skyrocket. I'd like the know the margins on the sale of a music CD these days...where does all that money go?
I live just outside our nation's capitol and I work in IT, I was discussing the DeCSS flap with a mixture of Techie and Non-techie friends. I said "What do you guys think of this DeCSS (I pronounced it Dee-see ess ess) stuff?" A non-techie friend responded "What is that? The new capitol Gestapo?"
Despite the obvious drawbacks of being dead for decades, the famed biologist was available for comments on Dafoe's seminal work. He noted "Yeah, being stranded on an island is one thing, spending all of your waking hours classifying Finches is another. I don't understand why the author didn't take the time to incorporate this aspect into this otherwise classic work of fiction." Wakka wakka wakka.
The Radiola company announced the release of a new hardware kit that allows your Linux box to play vinyl records! Just turn your case on its side, attach platter, arm, needle and viola! You can be listening to Frampton Comes Alive in no time! No need to wait for pesky downloads and no fear of grubbing music industry lawyers lookin' to throw the book at ya! Get one now before the other kids on the block have one!
Morbo:Is it just me...
Nixon:Or do these guys...
M:Have a problem...
N:With interrupting...
M:One another constantly?
Gates: Okay, I have my billions, my solid gold house and my rocket car...I gotta go! See ya!
Hmmm...I'm wondering how this reader feels about NWA's role in promoting and promulgating misogynistic thoughts and actions. I seem to recall a fondness for the terms ho and bitch used in lieu of more respectful names for women. Perhaps they are adding to this detremental social programming?
The new female characters in the Starcraft Expansion Set:Brood Wars (the Medic and Valkyrie units), are problematic in some respects. Their utterances seem more like sexual innuendos than any of the other units. It's like the folks at Blizzard took 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Not bright.
"Death Penalty"? @Home? Is it possible we could get Kevorkian in there for an assisted suicide?
other ideas for Holland, MI signmakers and graffiti artists, add some punctuation and pluralization to liven up the material, some suggestions:
"Yes, 2 King Jesuses" - Life of Brian?
"Yes, 2 Kings!, Jesus!" - Jesus learns that his pair of eights is a losing hand.
"Yes 2 King, Jesus" - Martin, Rodney and Don all receive billing with the Big Guy
"Yes: 2 King Jesus" - The new album from everyone's favorite syntho-pop band.
It is interesting to note that those founding fathers who founded the Jeffersonian-Democratic party were not advocates of referendum-style democracy. Rather, they were big fans of establishing an Intellectual Elite to rule over the masses. I would suspect that it is exactly just this kind of referendum that this Intellectual Elite would be responsible for screening out(at least in the minds of the original Democrats). The irony is that Representative Democracy does not actually represent the ideals of the masses. This can be both constructive and destructive. Of course...Morbo thinks humans do not yet KNOW the meaning of suffering!...but that may be beside the point.
If you think IT's image was tarnished, just look at the Presidency! I apologize to any offended.
Instead of a De-Gaussing button, you may need a De-Brown-Sugar-&-Cinnamon button, though, eh? ;-) Excellent idea, though. Any particularly useful monitor brands for "toasting"?
So, which candidate would win in a Quake III tournament? *That's* the real question that would influence the vote of many /.'ers.
I just wanted to say that the program I believe you are talking about, LOGO, was the coolest program ever! I wish that someone had invested in developing a true LOGO operating system, LOGO2000 or some such, so we could give the turtle it's fair share of the glory along with the gnu, the penguin and the mouse! :^D And we could all be making multicolored fractal looking things for a living!
To augment Slamdance how about SPAMdance? It could be the festival that celebrates the annoying users who e-mail these friggin' mpegs and such to all their friends and waste my bandwith and diskspace! The winner could be given a lifetime supply of SPAM and a trip to Hawaii (where SPAM is a delicacy) in exchange for promising *never to touch a computer again*! Who's with me?
I would like to install an oven door in the side of my case so I could use it to bake small pastries and such. I think the heat generated in some older desktops could well outpace that of a 30 watt bulb.
Clinton also announced a related program to counter-balance this unprecedented proposal: "You see, Computer nerds are predominantly male, in order to offer a program equally rewarding for women I will be setting up the White House Intern Scholarship Program. I will be hand-picking the candidates and I hope to have the program up and 'operational' before my term ends next year...hehehe...I mean, uh, ignore that last part! Hillary!!! I'm doin' it again!"