A good tip to get nice clothes is to buy them at end of season or at clearance from each of the retailer's websites. Sure you might not find the 5XL shirt you need or a medium one at Banana Republic, but the sites always have them.
has released this all in one media device that can play mp3's, wma's, cd's, and DVD's
Where does it say this plays WMAs? I couldn't find it in the article. What I did see is that it provides enough playback for 1.5 hours of DVD, so less than a lot of movies.
This should be a nice alternative to car DVD players which are always ridiculously expensive.
Any Flaming Lips fans in here?
A few years ago Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Cohen thought of the "Parking Lot Experiments" -- he created a symphony with each instrument recorded on a single tape. Then he had a group of forty people with cars that had tape players show up to his parking lot and he would "conduct" them.
Something similar could be found a few years later in the Lips' release of Zaireeka a 4-disc set that is meant to be played simultaneously.
At least that's what popped into my mind when I read this.
Who in their right mind spends $2000 on a television?
Why, me of course. I bought this puppy open-box for $2000 a few months ago, and it's one of the best investments I've made. Sure, our regular cable-feed looks like crap, but DVDs and console systems look great. You can finally play 4-player games and each person gets their own miniature widescreen 19" TV. And Lord of the Rings looks awesome. There's that have these TVs. Sad to say, but I can't go back to a regular TV. If you get used to it long enough you have to buy your own (a few of my friends did/will) -- basically, it's not a waste.
Now if you don't like TV, or watching movies, or playing video games, then complaining about how people can spend $2000 on a TV is a moot point since you're not an enthusiast to begin with.
If you want to wonder about people with too much money, go see the Prada store in NYC and find someone who is casually spending $3,500.00 on a jacket. Now that's scary.
You can. If you currently own an X-Box, then you can still run mods to your heart's content.
If you don't own an X-Box, you will still be able to modify your X-Box is you really want, you'll just have to do without a roadmap and/or UPS'd chip sent to you.
Slightly offtopic, but here's a way to get Linux to the masses in China using existing lines of distribution:
According to this article (Enter the Dragon):
Last year, Legend cleared 2.9 million units, claiming 30 percent market share - three times more than its nearest domestic rival and six times more than IBM, the closest international brand. A Legend spin-off, Digital China, is also the main Chinese distributor of HP printers, Cisco routers, Toshiba notebooks, and IBM minicomputers, as well as a leading player in handhelds, systems integration, and servers. With $3.5 billion in revenue, a 35 percent annual growth rate, and a $3 billion market cap, Legend is the fifth-largest publicly traded Chinese enterprise.
Maybe we should concentrate on getting Legend to switch their PCs, not the government... I'm sure this early on, the Chinese are learning about computers and software no matter what it is - you could teach them XP, OSX, or OS/2 for that matter, it's all the same. They've never seen anything else before. So why not Linux?
50,000,000 Star Warriors Can't Be Wrong
This article on Wired is pretty neat --- it mostly talks about the cultural effects of SWG on both the world culture and the Star Wars canon. The amount of work and detail that they've put up is amazing.
I think what is interesting is that the flat-fee model rewards playing a lot -- I guess these companies have balanced out server loads with making sure the game is popular. More people playing for long periods of time = better word of mouth, happier players, more $10-15/m in the future.
For the record, I only ever played Ultima Online and I think I got to be a Noble Master Warrior, all on a friend's account and PC. I played so much I made him fail freshman comp sci and drop out of school. So beware! Don't let me play Star Wars, say, at your work, or you'll be fired!
Another interesting article is 'Africa Rising' by John Perry Barlow. His argument is that Africa will sidestep becoming an Industrial country and go straight to being an information economy. The article is a very interesting read -- recommended.
Now, after I read that I talked with two relatives who had both worked in Africa (the Gambia and South Africa respectively) and they thought most of it was a bit hopeful. I guess all the problems created by colonization still exist and trouble the continent.
I'm not going to read that interview. In a few weeks they're just going to release the 2-disc special edition of it. I'm really looking forward to the behind-the-MPAA featurette and the director's commentary by Matt Preston and David Lynch.
I'm really hoping for a new anamorphic transfer because the currently panned article I have to "scan" downwards to see the entire thing! That and where is the DTS?
To me, Napster died that summer of 2000 when it was suddenly thrust into the front cover of Newsweek and every other magazine I can think of. I spent that summer creating a database in Germany and/. became an hourly ritual, which is about how fast those stories came about.
I find it funny that Napster came and went, the FBI raid came and went and it seems to be business as usual as the new Eminem album is leaked as well as a (bad) cam job of Episode II.
Piracy may never be so widespread and popular again, but it will always exist. Anytime you don't have a free market, a black one will exist.
I went to see Collateral Damage over the weekend and it was not that bad of a movie... A decent plot, and Arnold has some amazing one-liners like "I'll show you collateral damage!"
But it's not as chilling as Enemy of the State, the Will Smith movie where his character, lawyer Robert Dean, is thrown into a whirlwind of coverup and espionage by rogue NSA agents.
The movie argues that privacy has been invaded too much, that we need more freedom. The NSA agents say that we need more surveillance because America has many enemies and the American people don't realize it.
At the time I first saw it, it sounded like alarmist propaganda. When I saw it last night, it shut me up.
As a student, you seem to immensely dissapointing. Have you seen any movie that is from before 1995?
I wouldn't be so obviously confrontational if you hadn't stated that you "know everything" and then said that your favorite director is Cameron Crowe who has had the luck to bake up such snores as "Jerry Maguire" and then tries to one-up Abemanar by remaking "Abre Los Ojos"... Pfft!!
I never installed a Quicktime plugin, so going to a URL ending in.mov just lets me save the file. These are direct links to the Quicktime files on Pixar's server.
I wonder how many rounds of litigation it will take for the RIAA to figure out that stamping out one service just makes a half dozen appear. Meanwhile, (hundreds of?) thousands of people are still listening to digital music the old-fashioned way: rip it yourself and trade it with other people via newsgroups, IRC, school networks, or vast nets of FTP sites (which is the way the files eventually end up on KaZaa et. al).
Napster was a nice distraction, but I'm back to doing the same thing I did before Napster came about and there's no way for the RIAA to stop it.
Not that they should. What they should do is just get a clue. But they're not thinking outside the box, they're not adjusting to a new form of distribution for music. Napster came out late 1999. MP3s have been around since 1997, and that's not counting how old CDDA trading is. You'd think in 4 years they could've come up with a smart, valuable system. Oh well...
I'm wondering if anyone here has ever come across research that was accessible for a fee... Instead of owning a copy of a $50 manuscript, I'd be more than happy to look at it for 10 hours for $5 or less... I wouldn't do this with fiction or any book I want to own, but there are lots of books I only need to look at, and if the choice is own for $35 right now, read for free from an interlibrary loan and get it in a week or two, or read it now for $1, which will I pick?
...I don't listen to radio. I've been blatantly anti-radio for the past five years or so, only playing the occasional college station or Philly's 95.7 Jammin' Gold (funk and r&b hits from the 60's and 70's). What passes for "music" these days on big market stations like (again, in Philly) Y100 (100.3) or Q102 (102.1) is absolutely deplorable. The only "new" music station I like is WHFS in Washington DC and Baltimore, although I haven't heard them in the past 3 years so it's possible they've changed.
Yes, I may feel a bit out of touch ("What? You haven't heard the new Staind song?") but it pays off in the end. Less ads clouding my time, more good music. Hunting for new music is something I do out of word of mouth or trial through MP3. Had it been for radio, I would not have found out about Badly Drawn Boy or Grandaddy.
The way I see it, for those people who truly enojy music, radio is but a small stepping stone in the path to enlightenment (not to say I am "enlightened"). It comes early, and is very optional.
So, what can you do? Get mp3s by new artists to listen to, listen to college/community radio, loan CDs from your local library, ask your friends what they listen to and likewise, share your music with everyone else. Radio is lazy and creatively broke, and has been for a long time.
This is a Japanese show. They would never say "I don't like it" or "It is just too salty." That would me the American equivalent of being on Good Morning America and tellimng the host "I'd rather eat my own feces than be here."
At most, the harsher comments come across as "Sir, perhaps, this soup might taste a bit different with less salt -- this might make it a bit better, although I find its other aspects wonderful." This would be said in a very honarable way (Japanese has, AFAIK, 7 different intonations for respect).
Usually, they will have one of the new young Japanese actress girls, and they will say the soup is quite good, and they will giggle and cover their mouth. The only impossible-to-please woman is the food critic, and let me remind you that no matter how harshly she judges the Iron Chef, most of the time she always sides with him.
I love the cheesy lines some characters speak in CSI. For example, when the unit was investigating a crime scene at an upscale party and had to keep everyone there for questioning...
"Come for the cocktails... stay for the interrogation!"
The deliveries are always so brazenly shlocky you can't help but laugh.
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Actually I was referring to the article. The article doesn't state it plays WMAs at all.
A good tip to get nice clothes is to buy them at end of season or at clearance from each of the retailer's websites. Sure you might not find the 5XL shirt you need or a medium one at Banana Republic, but the sites always have them.
s/Banana Republic/your favorite retail store.
Where does it say this plays WMAs? I couldn't find it in the article. What I did see is that it provides enough playback for 1.5 hours of DVD, so less than a lot of movies.
This should be a nice alternative to car DVD players which are always ridiculously expensive.
A few years ago Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Cohen thought of the "Parking Lot Experiments" -- he created a symphony with each instrument recorded on a single tape. Then he had a group of forty people with cars that had tape players show up to his parking lot and he would "conduct" them.
Something similar could be found a few years later in the Lips' release of Zaireeka a 4-disc set that is meant to be played simultaneously.
At least that's what popped into my mind when I read this.
3.4 Gigaplant obeys all known architecture normalcy!
Newest and best for electronic number machines!
Joy increases self 34.5% over time!
Now if you don't like TV, or watching movies, or playing video games, then complaining about how people can spend $2000 on a TV is a moot point since you're not an enthusiast to begin with.
If you want to wonder about people with too much money, go see the Prada store in NYC and find someone who is casually spending $3,500.00 on a jacket. Now that's scary.
If you don't own an X-Box, you will still be able to modify your X-Box is you really want, you'll just have to do without a roadmap and/or UPS'd chip sent to you.
I think what is interesting is that the flat-fee model rewards playing a lot -- I guess these companies have balanced out server loads with making sure the game is popular. More people playing for long periods of time = better word of mouth, happier players, more $10-15/m in the future.
For the record, I only ever played Ultima Online and I think I got to be a Noble Master Warrior, all on a friend's account and PC. I played so much I made him fail freshman comp sci and drop out of school. So beware! Don't let me play Star Wars, say, at your work, or you'll be fired!
Now, after I read that I talked with two relatives who had both worked in Africa (the Gambia and South Africa respectively) and they thought most of it was a bit hopeful. I guess all the problems created by colonization still exist and trouble the continent.
...but it pisses everyone off because I'm the only one doing it so I leave my crap everywhere.
I'm really hoping for a new anamorphic transfer because the currently panned article I have to "scan" downwards to see the entire thing! That and where is the DTS?
256kbps MP3 files which can have CD-styled quality...
I find it funny that Napster came and went, the FBI raid came and went and it seems to be business as usual as the new Eminem album is leaked as well as a (bad) cam job of Episode II.
Piracy may never be so widespread and popular again, but it will always exist. Anytime you don't have a free market, a black one will exist.
Could be worse... his friend could be having sex with the gf... ;)
As long as I can hit the monkey and still get $20...
But it's not as chilling as Enemy of the State, the Will Smith movie where his character, lawyer Robert Dean, is thrown into a whirlwind of coverup and espionage by rogue NSA agents.
The movie argues that privacy has been invaded too much, that we need more freedom. The NSA agents say that we need more surveillance because America has many enemies and the American people don't realize it. At the time I first saw it, it sounded like alarmist propaganda. When I saw it last night, it shut me up.
A film student that names Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson as his favorite directors? Of what? The past 5 years?
Where's Godard? Clouzot? Fellini? Eisenstein? Bergman? Cocteau? DeSica? Truffaut? Antonioni? Powell and Pressburger? Hitchcock? Coppola? Kurosawa? Argento? Sirk? Tarkovsky? Svankmajer? Buñuel? Bertolucci? Lean?
As a student, you seem to immensely dissapointing. Have you seen any movie that is from before 1995?
I wouldn't be so obviously confrontational if you hadn't stated that you "know everything" and then said that your favorite director is Cameron Crowe who has had the luck to bake up such snores as "Jerry Maguire" and then tries to one-up Abemanar by remaking "Abre Los Ojos"... Pfft!!
Pixar Animated Shorts (Direct Links)
These are the high-quality (320x180) versions... Enjoy.
Napster was a nice distraction, but I'm back to doing the same thing I did before Napster came about and there's no way for the RIAA to stop it.
Not that they should. What they should do is just get a clue. But they're not thinking outside the box, they're not adjusting to a new form of distribution for music. Napster came out late 1999. MP3s have been around since 1997, and that's not counting how old CDDA trading is. You'd think in 4 years they could've come up with a smart, valuable system. Oh well...
I'm wondering if anyone here has ever come across research that was accessible for a fee... Instead of owning a copy of a $50 manuscript, I'd be more than happy to look at it for 10 hours for $5 or less... I wouldn't do this with fiction or any book I want to own, but there are lots of books I only need to look at, and if the choice is own for $35 right now, read for free from an interlibrary loan and get it in a week or two, or read it now for $1, which will I pick?
Yes, I may feel a bit out of touch ("What? You haven't heard the new Staind song?") but it pays off in the end. Less ads clouding my time, more good music. Hunting for new music is something I do out of word of mouth or trial through MP3. Had it been for radio, I would not have found out about Badly Drawn Boy or Grandaddy.
The way I see it, for those people who truly enojy music, radio is but a small stepping stone in the path to enlightenment (not to say I am "enlightened"). It comes early, and is very optional.
So, what can you do? Get mp3s by new artists to listen to, listen to college/community radio, loan CDs from your local library, ask your friends what they listen to and likewise, share your music with everyone else. Radio is lazy and creatively broke, and has been for a long time.
At most, the harsher comments come across as "Sir, perhaps, this soup might taste a bit different with less salt -- this might make it a bit better, although I find its other aspects wonderful." This would be said in a very honarable way (Japanese has, AFAIK, 7 different intonations for respect).
Usually, they will have one of the new young Japanese actress girls, and they will say the soup is quite good, and they will giggle and cover their mouth. The only impossible-to-please woman is the food critic, and let me remind you that no matter how harshly she judges the Iron Chef, most of the time she always sides with him.
Good! Maybe by then new computers will be able to actually run Ultima IX.
"Come for the cocktails... stay for the interrogation!"
The deliveries are always so brazenly shlocky you can't help but laugh.