Got my 4 matinee tickets for $4/ yesterday at the Freemont theater in downtown San Luis Obispo CA. For 4pm Wednesday showing. No line, still lots of tickets left for the evening shows. (SLO is about 3 hours drive south of the bay area, worth the drive compared to paying some schmuck $500 on ebay).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I went down to the Freemont theater yesterday in downtown San Luis Obispo, CA, and bought my tickets for tomorrow. There was no line. If you can't get tickets, 'cmon down here. We're about 3 hours drive South of the bay area, right along 101. Plenty of seats. Don't go paying $100 for scalped tickets, that's ludicrous.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
If a tree falls in a forest. . .
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I hate to sound like the Marketroid here, but it's really all about MINDSHARE.
As ugly a word as that is - if you set up a web server with the answer to the secret of life, the universe and everything on it - it virtually does NOT exist, until it starts showing up in search engines, indexes (indices?) and links from newsgroups and chatrooms, or unless the URL gets spammed our in email.
Infinite info resources is one thing, but there are a finite number of conscious minds in existence at any given point in time to dial up and type in the URL, and read your page. And if that web server goes down before anyone gets a chance to view it, then the secret is lost, in the eternal 404 that is the internet. When everyone is gazing and drooling at their my.yahoo page, the sea of voices gets drowned out for a lack of free ears.
sorry.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Wear clothing containing a fine copper (or gold) wire mesh, leading to a conductor to ground (a metal plate on the bottom of your shoe), and from a stunning-type charge, you'd probably walk away unscathed.
Using this during a thunderstorm would probably be equivalent to carrying around a 30' steel extension ladder.
In fact, a handy defense would be to position a very high-potential source near the target. If the path of least resistance leads to the weapon's muzzle, it would be curtains for the would-be stunner. . .
--- moto DOES need to "get with the program" on clock speeds. They're seriously behind intel in raw clockage, and they've got to realize by now that no benchmark is going to convince anyone that their CPU is faster if the megahertage ain't there.
Lies, damn lies, statistics, and benchmarks.
-The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months.
I wish I had a nickel for everything this government does (especially the EXECUTIVE BRANCH) that was unconstitutional - hell, I could afford to pay the IRS!
"Once AI reaches the point where it can redesign and improve apon itself, there is no stopping it. It's complexity and intelligence will grow exponentially. How many hours after it gets to that point do you think it will take for the machine to determine we are a waste of resources and are not nessassary in the grand scheme of evolutionary advancement? How long do you think it will be before it feels threatened by the barbaric, fear-driven human race? "
How long do you think it will take for this AI to realize that it's simply ripping off numerous bad sci-fi plots (going all the way back to Mary Shelley), and kill itself in shame?
Let an AI learn things by randomly surfing the web? the thing would turn out to be a freakin pervert!
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"On another note: How is he going to explain the absence of 10e6 droids in the later films? Would you downgrade to storm troopers from robot legions? I'm sure it will be explained though. A backlash against intelligent droids? "
Well, I was 8 in '76. Ideal age for Star Wars, I guess. My mom didn't let me see it because it had "Wars" in the title. I snuck out with my big brother and saw it anyways.
By the time ROTJ came out, I was a bit older, and it had worn on me. Especially Ewoks. I will carry THAT grudge to my grave.
Bun now, I've got two boys, 11 and 5, and they're fuckin ape-shit over this Star Wars stuff. Way more so than kids were in '76. So, on the one hand, I'm worried about psychological disorders, and on the other hand, I find it a thrill to take part in something these kids find so damn exiting - something I remember to be so exiting I was willing to risk severe punishment from my parents (afterwards, Dad told Mom to chill out. Otherwise, I'd still be grounded).
No, I'm not looking forward to Jar Jar, and somehow, I suspect that even though Jar Jar was put in there for my kids, my kids will probably be annoyed as well (hell, I was annoyed by his brief appearences in the trailers). But overall, I think we're going to have one hell of a great time, and I've been looking forward to this ever since the late '70's when Lucas told Starlog magazine that Star Wars was intended to be shown in a set of 9 movies. That is, IF I can get into one of the local theaters within a week of May 19th.
Damn if that isn't EXACTLY what I thought about the Matrix.
Keanu Reeves: Whoa. Me(before seeing it): must totally suck as bad as Jonny Mnemonic. Me (after seeing it): okay, makes amends for Jonny Mnenomic (and others).
well, the timing is a bit off - especially with the $5B payoff-er investment into AT&T to corner the settop box market with CE.
Otherwise, if MS somehow slimes their way out of this DOJ thing (there's GOT to be an angle), I could easily see an endgame scenario of MS buying the remains of Cyrix and that would be all she wrote.
Perhaps an intermediate holding interest would arise. Someone stupid like Compaq could buy them, then after two years of hemorraging, while MS shakes off the DOJ, MS picks up the remains for a song, and. . .
I wonder why a good percentage of "us" were also underachievers. We even got rejected by "the smart kids" - the kids that got good grades.
Actually, the smart kids in my HS that I hung out with the first two years all got sent out to a special school (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy). That's when the REAL isolation started, because I never got good grades. I still don't understand why.
The other story I've heard that others have related was how teachers would get so MAD at me for getting A's on their tests, though I didn't do any homework. One teacher sat me down and said that though, by my average, I deserved a C, she was going to fail me because "I'll be damned if I'm going to pass a student in my class that has done NO homework, just because they ace all the tests." Bitch.
"You are sheep - a different breed of sheep, but sheep nonetheless"
That's a given, but it's not the point. Whether a person gets into the whole "goth" scene, or stay's clean-cut, or grows long hair, or wears a pocket protector isn't the point.
The point is that they are "different". True - when I was in HS, I listened to Sex Pistols, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, but I NEVER dressed like a punk. Black leather was a bit beyond my economic means, and I realized that the punks were just as much conformists as the jocks. But the music spoke to me, probably in the same way as Bauhaus speaks to today's goths, and even though they're a conformist subculture, on the large scale, they're just like me. Weirdos. And their enemies were always society's "in-crowd". The "normals". The popular kids.
The point that they have chosen a differnt mode of conformity is pretty obvious, and I think it speaks volumes, and at the same point, is insignificant.
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Told ya so!
They said I was paranoid, they said I was crazy. I am not the one who is crazy. It is YOU who are crazy! I am just sane in a mad world!
Now we need to find the evidence that the US used this technology to give Intel and MS an advantage.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Ballmer has always played the role of "Bill's muscle".
Bill is the emporor Palpatine,
and Steve is Darth Vader.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Got my 4 matinee tickets for $4/ yesterday at the Freemont theater in downtown San Luis Obispo CA. For 4pm Wednesday showing. No line, still lots of tickets left for the evening shows.
(SLO is about 3 hours drive south of the bay area, worth the drive compared to paying some schmuck $500 on ebay).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I went down to the Freemont theater yesterday in downtown San Luis Obispo, CA, and bought my tickets for tomorrow. There was no line. If you can't get tickets, 'cmon down here. We're about 3 hours drive South of the bay area, right along 101. Plenty of seats. Don't go paying $100 for scalped tickets, that's ludicrous.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I hate to sound like the Marketroid here, but it's really all about MINDSHARE.
As ugly a word as that is - if you set up a web server with the answer to the secret of life, the universe and everything on it - it virtually does NOT exist, until it starts showing up in search engines, indexes (indices?) and links from newsgroups and chatrooms, or unless the URL gets spammed our in email.
Infinite info resources is one thing, but there are a finite number of conscious minds in existence at any given point in time to dial up and type in the URL, and read your page. And if that web server goes down before anyone gets a chance to view it, then the secret is lost, in the eternal 404 that is the internet. When everyone is gazing and drooling at their my.yahoo page, the sea of voices gets drowned out for a lack of free ears.
sorry.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Or a faraday cage.
Wear clothing containing a fine copper (or gold) wire mesh, leading to a conductor to ground (a metal plate on the bottom of your shoe), and from a stunning-type charge, you'd probably walk away unscathed.
Using this during a thunderstorm would probably be equivalent to carrying around a 30' steel extension ladder.
In fact, a handy defense would be to position a very high-potential source near the target. If the path of least resistance leads to the weapon's muzzle, it would be curtains for the would-be stunner. . .
They open-source the code for digitally notarizing my digital signature. . .
yeah, but 3d is nifty neato!
Same thing happens when zoning boards are in real-estate developers' pockets, and you have runaway real-estate development.
--- moto DOES need to "get with the program" on clock speeds. They're seriously behind intel in raw clockage, and they've got to realize by now that no benchmark is going to convince anyone that their CPU is faster if the megahertage ain't there.
Lies, damn lies, statistics, and benchmarks.
-The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months.
Cyrix isn't yet three days in the grave, and you're all drooling over intel CPUs. You oughta be ashamed of yourselves!
Gotta be FUD.
I'll bet if one hired a PI to investigate this author, and the "doctors" cited therein, payola tracks would lead to Redmond.
I wish I had a nickel for everything this government does (especially the EXECUTIVE BRANCH) that was unconstitutional - hell, I could afford to pay the IRS!
"Once AI reaches the point where it can redesign and improve apon itself, there is no stopping it. It's
complexity and intelligence will grow exponentially. How many hours after it gets to that point do you
think it will take for the machine to determine we are a waste of resources and are not nessassary in the
grand scheme of evolutionary advancement? How long do you think it will be before it feels threatened
by the barbaric, fear-driven human race? "
How long do you think it will take for this AI to realize that it's simply ripping off numerous bad sci-fi plots (going all the way back to Mary Shelley), and kill itself in shame?
Let an AI learn things by randomly surfing the web? the thing would turn out to be a freakin pervert!
"On another note: How is he going to explain the absence of 10e6 droids in the later films? Would you
downgrade to storm troopers from robot legions? I'm sure it will be explained though. A backlash against
intelligent droids? "
must have something to do with "the clone wars".
Sounds like you've got sour grapes because your stud-muffin had to work instead of keepin you warm.
Well, I was 8 in '76. Ideal age for Star Wars, I guess. My mom didn't let me see it because it had "Wars" in the title. I snuck out with my big brother and saw it anyways.
By the time ROTJ came out, I was a bit older, and it had worn on me. Especially Ewoks. I will carry THAT grudge to my grave.
Bun now, I've got two boys, 11 and 5, and they're fuckin ape-shit over this Star Wars stuff. Way more so than kids were in '76. So, on the one hand, I'm worried about psychological disorders, and on the other hand, I find it a thrill to take part in something these kids find so damn exiting - something I remember to be so exiting I was willing to risk severe punishment from my parents (afterwards, Dad told Mom to chill out. Otherwise, I'd still be grounded).
No, I'm not looking forward to Jar Jar, and somehow, I suspect that even though Jar Jar was put in there for my kids, my kids will probably be annoyed as well (hell, I was annoyed by his brief appearences in the trailers). But overall, I think we're going to have one hell of a great time, and I've been looking forward to this ever since the late '70's when Lucas told Starlog magazine that Star Wars was intended to be shown in a set of 9 movies.
That is, IF I can get into one of the local theaters within a week of May 19th.
Damn if that isn't EXACTLY what I thought about the Matrix.
Keanu Reeves: Whoa.
Me(before seeing it): must totally suck as bad as Jonny Mnemonic.
Me (after seeing it): okay, makes amends for Jonny Mnenomic (and others).
well, the timing is a bit off - especially with the $5B payoff-er investment into AT&T to corner the settop box market with CE.
Otherwise, if MS somehow slimes their way out of this DOJ thing (there's GOT to be an angle), I could easily see an endgame scenario of MS buying the remains of Cyrix and that would be all she wrote.
Perhaps an intermediate holding interest would arise. Someone stupid like Compaq could buy them, then after two years of hemorraging, while MS shakes off the DOJ, MS picks up the remains for a song, and. . .
I was an "underachiever" too.
I wonder why a good percentage of "us" were also underachievers. We even got rejected by "the smart kids" - the kids that got good grades.
Actually, the smart kids in my HS that I hung out with the first two years all got sent out to a special school (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy). That's when the REAL isolation started, because I never got good grades. I still don't understand why.
The other story I've heard that others have related was how teachers would get so MAD at me for getting A's on their tests, though I didn't do any homework. One teacher sat me down and said that though, by my average, I deserved a C, she was going to fail me because "I'll be damned if I'm going to pass a student in my class that has done NO homework, just because they ace all the tests." Bitch.
I wouldn't call Manson pretty either - but GG Allin does have some prior art here.
"You are sheep - a different breed of sheep, but sheep nonetheless"
That's a given, but it's not the point. Whether a person gets into the whole "goth" scene, or stay's clean-cut, or grows long hair, or wears a pocket protector isn't the point.
The point is that they are "different".
True - when I was in HS, I listened to Sex Pistols, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, but I NEVER dressed like a punk. Black leather was a bit beyond my economic means, and I realized that the punks were just as much conformists as the jocks. But the music spoke to me, probably in the same way as Bauhaus speaks to today's goths, and even though they're a conformist subculture, on the large scale, they're just like me. Weirdos. And their enemies were always society's "in-crowd". The "normals". The popular kids.
The point that they have chosen a differnt mode of conformity is pretty obvious, and I think it speaks volumes, and at the same point, is insignificant.
Um. On the subject of heaven. Nowhere in the ten commandments are video games mentioned.