Well, yeah -- unless they want to start their own distributor, someone has to make the prints and send them to theatres. That's why George Lucas has a deal with Fox for the Star Wars prequels.
I can't believe this FUD came from Moby. I can't believe he had this thought and then sat down at his computer and then typed his thought out and then sent his thought to his website.
It's worse than that. Look closely at the story -- the Geocities sites are the article submitter's. And they're not even in Google's cache. Poorly planned, that...
[...] I'm amazed just how much blowback I've seen all over various sites regarding the jokes this year (moreso than in past years). Maybe it's because people are using the net more and more as a primary newssource that they have less tolerance for this stuff.
That, and more humorless twits are online this year than last year, it seems. Man, I would pay to have a bag of mod points on April Fools' Day, so I could mod down (1) people complaining about the jokes, because they come here for serious news, dammit, and now what will they do, and (2) anyone who feels the need to point out that a joke is, in fact, a joke.
This really needs to be rated higher than 0; hopefully this particular Anonymous Coward won't mind if I repost:
Scientology was the first organization, back in the early and middle '90's, to use copyright law abuse to shut down its critics, on remailers, newsgroups, and the web.
I would opine firmly that they were at the forefront in the design and passage of the DMCA, using front groups and political influence.
A cult, a nasty little money making corporation that hates daylight, because it would destroy their ability to recruit.
While adult sites aren't doing as well as they did a few years ago (when there weren't so freakin' many), the top ones still do pretty well. Playboy's is actually one of the few big adult sites that has never been profitable. (Reportedly, Penthouse's pay site became profitable the day it opened.)
You'll probably draw more attention to yourself, for atypical usage. And anyone who only uses cash and money orders clearly has something to hide. Get 'im, boys!
It would be nice if more people did "fake" product placements to crowd out real brands, like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith making up Red Apple and Nails brand cigarettes, respectively. Or most of the brands in the Simpsons universe.
The thing is, MS isn't the old democratic "a computer on every desk" company that it used to be.
I don't think they ever were "democratic" -- when they said "a computer on every desk," they always meant "a computer on every desk running Microsoft software."
In future years, it may be the crap that people are interested in. For example, researchers looking at old newspapers get a lot of useful information from advertisements, but they wouldn't seem particularly useful at first glance.
Why is Katz talking about "browsing alone"?
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It should be trademark, not copyright. Windows and Lindows are trademarks used to identify products.
I assumed computers were already responsible for top 40 music.
Accepting ads for Scientology seems like helping Evil.
Alas, they seem to have stopped making them in 2000. A moment of silence, please...
Softlinks have escaped from E2 to the rest of the Web! No one is safe!
Do you *really* think so?
Well, yeah -- unless they want to start their own distributor, someone has to make the prints and send them to theatres. That's why George Lucas has a deal with Fox for the Star Wars prequels.
The stats on the computer are nice - a 166 MHz RISC processor with 64MB RAM and 8MB video. That seems like a lot for a car.
Well, it is running Windows. (ba-dum-dum!)
Reprinting the CDs without the PINs would also delay it.
Really, though, who can quarrel with the delay of a Bon Jovi album?
I can't believe this FUD came from Moby. I can't believe he had this thought and then sat down at his computer and then typed his thought out and then sent his thought to his website.
Eh, he says a lot of stuff in his journal. Myself, I read it for the gratuitous Simpsons references.
It's worse than that. Look closely at the story -- the Geocities sites are the article submitter's. And they're not even in Google's cache. Poorly planned, that...
Because if there's anyone who can be trusted with perfect security, it's Microsoft.
That's okay -- this has River Raid. And I still suck at it...
Ah-ha, but the USPTO could be considered prior art.
That's :-(®, not :( (tm). Though I wonder if someone could get a registered trademark for the simple colon-and-left-parenthesis frowning emoticon...
[...] I'm amazed just how much blowback I've seen all over various sites regarding the jokes this year (moreso than in past years). Maybe it's because people are using the net more and more as a primary newssource that they have less tolerance for this stuff.
That, and more humorless twits are online this year than last year, it seems. Man, I would pay to have a bag of mod points on April Fools' Day, so I could mod down (1) people complaining about the jokes, because they come here for serious news, dammit, and now what will they do, and (2) anyone who feels the need to point out that a joke is, in fact, a joke.
This really needs to be rated higher than 0; hopefully this particular Anonymous Coward won't mind if I repost:
Scientology was the first organization, back in the early and middle '90's, to use copyright law abuse to shut down its critics, on remailers, newsgroups, and the web.
I would opine firmly that they were at the forefront in the design and passage of the DMCA, using front groups and political influence.
A cult, a nasty little money making corporation that hates daylight, because it would destroy their ability to recruit.
Remember Lisa McPherson.
Geez, who do you you root for in that war?
While adult sites aren't doing as well as they did a few years ago (when there weren't so freakin' many), the top ones still do pretty well. Playboy's is actually one of the few big adult sites that has never been profitable. (Reportedly, Penthouse's pay site became profitable the day it opened.)
You'll probably draw more attention to yourself, for atypical usage. And anyone who only uses cash and money orders clearly has something to hide. Get 'im, boys!
Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research is worth checking out, too. It also has a nice little blurb memorializing Chuck. *sniff*
It would be nice if more people did "fake" product placements to crowd out real brands, like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith making up Red Apple and Nails brand cigarettes, respectively. Or most of the brands in the Simpsons universe.
One XP tester flew in on short notice from CA to help fix it, another missed the birth of his first child! That's devotion.
No, that's insanity and a misplaced set of priorities.
The thing is, MS isn't the old democratic "a computer on every desk" company that it used to be.
I don't think they ever were "democratic" -- when they said "a computer on every desk," they always meant "a computer on every desk running Microsoft software."
In future years, it may be the crap that people are interested in. For example, researchers looking at old newspapers get a lot of useful information from advertisements, but they wouldn't seem particularly useful at first glance.
I think Jon's lonely. Poor guy.