I should also state that in that time, thanks to the efforts of the phine pholks at etree.org, I've amassed a collection of over 1500 cds and 600 concerts. It's addictive. "Hi, my name is John and I listen to Phish."
The easiest way to show record labels that you won't buy their crap is to not buy their crap.
Seriously, I have bought maybe 15 cds in the past 3 years. Three of those were replacements of cds I'd have for years had been remastered, and the rest were by bands that allow me and others like me to freely record and trade their live concerts. Radiohead and U2 are two big name acts that have recently figured out that people who trade their concerts are more likely to buy their albums and attend their concerts than someone who doesn't trade.
Check out the links above, there is something for all tastes. There is plenty of music to be had for the price of your bandwidth and blank CDs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the networks fight for a royalty fee added to the price of PVRs to account for all the advertising revenue they're "losing."
What I don't get here is this: corporations pay for the advertising. Nielsen ratings determine the price paid for the advertising. Whether commercials are skipped or not is irrelevant. The company doing the advertising is the company that pays, not the person that watches the commercial.
It seems to me that the network/affiliate is getting paid whether the commercials are seen or not.
Maybe the PVR users should start charging the advertisers/broadcasters for taking up their precious disk space with worthless commercials?
I'm interested in seeing what all these idiots are sending me (call me nosy; I also look at car wrecks when I drive by). What's the safest way to open these attachments on a Windows 98 machine that is not running Outlook?
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If there was ever a clear cut case for prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, this is it. The company in question holds near-monopoly power over the dial-up internet service provider industry and is using that power (and extension into other markets) to squeeze out the competition. Let's see them chalk this one up to "innovation."
Both the iMac and G4 Cube use fanless enclosures. The G4 will even connect to a nice digital flat-panel display, making for a nice high tech looking machine. Both machines now come installed with MacOS X, which is stable at this point and will even act as an X server to connect to another *nix machine. My iMac is pretty quiet as long as there's no CD in the drive.
Personally I use CD-Rs to archive my vast collection of Phish and Grateful Dead recordings. These are traded online (note this is sanctioned by the bands, some of which leak shows to us from their own archives), so it's very economical now, especially with CD-R prices at $.35. That's what I've been paying for months, so this CD-R drought won't affect me. I've amassed over 1200 CD-Rs in three years, and there's no end in sight. There is always one more show...
I know of people who have upwards of 3000 CD-Rs. This is normal. Check the link in my sig.
In the beginning of the film, the apes "discover" that a bone can be used as a weapon and a tool. The Discovery, man's main tool in the film, is colored and shaped like a bone. I haven't read the book, but surely this would have been mentioned in the review.
There are so many allegories and insights to be gained from watching this film that to undertake writing a book about them is almost a superhuman endeavour.
A good point. Many considered Sony to have bought their way into the gaming business, which is exactly what M$ is trying to do now. The gaming industry now looks far different than it did ten or even just five years ago, largely due to Sony's participation.
The reality of the situation is that people will make decisions based on product name alone. If you don't believe me, ask yourself the name of the President of the USA.
M$ is going to be a major player in the industry if for no other reason than people recognize the name. Games based on "The Matrix" are going to sell like crazy because it was a cool movie and people will assume it's a cool game. The hardcore gamers won't buy them because they know better than to buy licensed games (they generally suck quite a lot of ass), but since they make up less than 25% of the market, that won't matter in the least.
There are well over 100 games still in development for the system, which will still see some life in licensed machines like the TiVo-style settop box we see here on/. from time to time. Many of those games are surefire hits, such as Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, and Sega's fantastic "2K" sports series.
Let's not forget all the fantastic games that are already available for the system, like NFL 2K1, Daytona, Jet Grind Radio, Tony Hawk, Shenmue, and especially Soul Calibur. Sega may no longer be producing the hardware, but that won't make *MY* Dreamcast stop working.
Somehow this was posted as an AC although I was plainly logged in. Sigh...
In late 1997 I was commisioned by my boss, the Registrar of a small women's college in central Virginia, to create a web-based instructor evaluation. The system was to simplify and streamline an existing paper based process (which was pretty time consuming and inconvenient for all involved). This evaluation was to:
Allow instructors to add and modify questions;
Save a list of students that had completed the evaluation;
Do the above securely so that an instructor could not match a student to a response;
Require secure logins;
Allow statistical reporting of evaluation responses, on a per-instructor, per-class, and per-year basis; and
Allow the evaluation results to be released only after a certain date (when grades had been submitted).
I made a damn good product if I may say so myself, and my colleagues were impressed as well. Due to political reasons, we never rolled it out, but I created it nonetheless (ironically enough using Active Server Pages and Perl!).
It seems to me that I have prior art on this patent. All of my files are (obviously) dated, and they were created before the patent filing date. Obviously, the dates on the files could have been faked, but there must be some way to use this to invalidate this ridiculous patent.
I wouldn't call those scenes "gratuitous." The scenes with the sex/semi-nudity were scenes of intimacy; they showed the spiritual and emotional connection between characters. If you hadn't seen Paul and Chani making love or half-dressed in the same room, you would have heard Princess Irulan say: "Paul and Chani's love grew." And that's what the director was trying to avoid.
I think the series turned out pretty well, although the ending was weak. Actually, I sort of liked the ending, but my wife asked, "What just happened?" There really was no closure. Of course, they wanted to leave it open for a sequel...
I bought a Dell *HOME* computer in April and it came loaded with *gasp* RedHat 6.0, Enlightenment, Windowmaker, Gnome, and KDE. Sounds like a non-story to me.
Any *serious* DVD player nowadays will have built-in DTS. So you get a Sega Genesis, big deal. Those games can be had for a song if you look hard enough on the net.
I would hardly consider an open source project/promoter "charity." (Not to mention that you wouldn't get a tax break) The EFF is about as close as you could come to a "geek charity."
Donate a few bucks to cure cancer or AIDS, save the rainforests, or help some kids in the ghetto. That would really help the world.
Did you ever notice that you never hear of a "Save the Deserts" charity?
Whether we can develop brain-like computers and whether we should develop brain-like computers are two completely different questions. All it should take is one viewing of either "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "Terminator 2" to convince you that it's not a good idea to create this kind of "life."
Technologists tend to overlook the ethical and moral implications of their work. It's hard enough for the human race to comprehend ethics and morality, let alone a computer that would have to be programmed with said traits.
It might be interesting to note that only 25 states bind their electoral voters to vote with the state's popular vote. The unbound voters are expected to vote along the lines of the popular vote, but not required by law.
Another interesting note is that Maine and Nebraska specifically allow for proportional casting of electoral ballots. Theoretically, the election results could change between now and January 6, when the electoral votes are actually counted.
The IDSA announces they are putting the kibosh on a particular gamez site. Slashdot links to gamez site. Gamez site goes down in a blaze of glory as thousands of geeks try to download "Strip Poker '87" at the same time. IDSA wins.
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I should also state that in that time, thanks to the efforts of the phine pholks at etree.org, I've amassed a collection of over 1500 cds and 600 concerts. It's addictive. "Hi, my name is John and I listen to Phish."
Seriously, I have bought maybe 15 cds in the past 3 years. Three of those were replacements of cds I'd have for years had been remastered, and the rest were by bands that allow me and others like me to freely record and trade their live concerts. Radiohead and U2 are two big name acts that have recently figured out that people who trade their concerts are more likely to buy their albums and attend their concerts than someone who doesn't trade.
Check out the links above, there is something for all tastes. There is plenty of music to be had for the price of your bandwidth and blank CDs.
Mod this up!!!
What I don't get here is this: corporations pay for the advertising. Nielsen ratings determine the price paid for the advertising. Whether commercials are skipped or not is irrelevant. The company doing the advertising is the company that pays, not the person that watches the commercial. It seems to me that the network/affiliate is getting paid whether the commercials are seen or not.
Maybe the PVR users should start charging the advertisers/broadcasters for taking up their precious disk space with worthless commercials?
I'm interested in seeing what all these idiots are sending me (call me nosy; I also look at car wrecks when I drive by). What's the safest way to open these attachments on a Windows 98 machine that is not running Outlook?
There's also a database of 2500 preset pitches in a database.
I've been trying to figure out for years how to include a database as a field in another database. How'd they do it?
And public health!
...and got rejected both times. What the fuck. This site is a piece of shit and so are the story authors.
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If there was ever a clear cut case for prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, this is it. The company in question holds near-monopoly power over the dial-up internet service provider industry and is using that power (and extension into other markets) to squeeze out the competition. Let's see them chalk this one up to "innovation."
Both the iMac and G4 Cube use fanless enclosures. The G4 will even connect to a nice digital flat-panel display, making for a nice high tech looking machine. Both machines now come installed with MacOS X, which is stable at this point and will even act as an X server to connect to another *nix machine. My iMac is pretty quiet as long as there's no CD in the drive.
I know of people who have upwards of 3000 CD-Rs. This is normal. Check the link in my sig.
There are so many allegories and insights to be gained from watching this film that to undertake writing a book about them is almost a superhuman endeavour.
The reality of the situation is that people will make decisions based on product name alone. If you don't believe me, ask yourself the name of the President of the USA.
M$ is going to be a major player in the industry if for no other reason than people recognize the name. Games based on "The Matrix" are going to sell like crazy because it was a cool movie and people will assume it's a cool game. The hardcore gamers won't buy them because they know better than to buy licensed games (they generally suck quite a lot of ass), but since they make up less than 25% of the market, that won't matter in the least.
RIP Dreamcast, RIP.
Au contraire!
/. from time to time. Many of those games are surefire hits, such as Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, and Sega's fantastic "2K" sports series.
There are well over 100 games still in development for the system, which will still see some life in licensed machines like the TiVo-style settop box we see here on
Let's not forget all the fantastic games that are already available for the system, like NFL 2K1, Daytona, Jet Grind Radio, Tony Hawk, Shenmue, and especially Soul Calibur. Sega may no longer be producing the hardware, but that won't make *MY* Dreamcast stop working.
In late 1997 I was commisioned by my boss, the Registrar of a small women's college in central Virginia, to create a web-based instructor evaluation. The system was to simplify and streamline an existing paper based process (which was pretty time consuming and inconvenient for all involved). This evaluation was to:
I made a damn good product if I may say so myself, and my colleagues were impressed as well. Due to political reasons, we never rolled it out, but I created it nonetheless (ironically enough using Active Server Pages and Perl!).
It seems to me that I have prior art on this patent. All of my files are (obviously) dated, and they were created before the patent filing date. Obviously, the dates on the files could have been faked, but there must be some way to use this to invalidate this ridiculous patent.
I think the series turned out pretty well, although the ending was weak. Actually, I sort of liked the ending, but my wife asked, "What just happened?" There really was no closure. Of course, they wanted to leave it open for a sequel...
I bought a Dell *HOME* computer in April and it came loaded with *gasp* RedHat 6.0, Enlightenment, Windowmaker, Gnome, and KDE. Sounds like a non-story to me.
No DTS? Count me out.
Besides, how many Linux users do you know that wear anything other than casual to work? Or carry a briefcase, for that matter!!!
Donate a few bucks to cure cancer or AIDS, save the rainforests, or help some kids in the ghetto. That would really help the world.
Did you ever notice that you never hear of a "Save the Deserts" charity?
Technologists tend to overlook the ethical and moral implications of their work. It's hard enough for the human race to comprehend ethics and morality, let alone a computer that would have to be programmed with said traits.
Another interesting note is that Maine and Nebraska specifically allow for proportional casting of electoral ballots. Theoretically, the election results could change between now and January 6, when the electoral votes are actually counted.
See http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/faq.html for more details.
Do you guys even proofread? I learned the difference between those two words in the FIRST GRADE.
The IDSA announces they are putting the kibosh on a particular gamez site. Slashdot links to gamez site. Gamez site goes down in a blaze of glory as thousands of geeks try to download "Strip Poker '87" at the same time. IDSA wins.