With the notable exception of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, one would use "who" in this case.
"that has that experience"
The errant "that" above is functioning as a subject here, hence the need for "who".
To fall back on the old grammar school test, let's make things third-person singular. Would it be "she has that experience" or "her has that experience"?
Ah, but to rub their noses in it..
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If pinball is dying, it is at the hands of the arcade owners, not the customers.
Agreed... but for a slightly different reason. The excuse I've always heard from arcade/bar/etc owners is that the cost of keeping a pinball machine in good working order is just way too high: frequent maintenance, hard-to-find parts -- you name it. It's become purely a labor of love thing these days.
And I say this quite sadly, mind you -- pinball kept me sane all through college. Nothing like a quick hour or two of Addams Family or Pinbot after a long night of studying.
P.S. - If anyone knows a place in NYC that still has well-maintained pinball machines, I'll gladly name my first-born after you. (Keep in mind that the more time I spend playing pinball on your advice, the less chance there is of there actually *being* a first-born -- so weigh your options carefully...)
Agreed. The only reason I tend to run Mozilla on my OS X box, apart from that open-source warm fuzzy feeling, is IE's absolutely enormous rendering time on table-heavy pages (such as the typical Slashdot article with 200-300 responses). When you can click a link, run downstairs to buy an iced coffee, come back up two minutes later and *still* see that little beach ball chugging away in IE -- well, something's wrong.
So it appears my browsing habits have made my choice for me. Good. Conserves all the blood sugar I would have spent on thinking that one through. =)
"I am an invisible planet. No, I am not a Kamino like that which eluded Obi-Wan Kenobi; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie hurtling asteroids. I am a planet of substance, of soil and bedrock, forests and oceans -- and i might even be said to possess a voice. I am invisible, understand, simply because bug-eyed aliens refuse to listen to my... erm... reduced-power, shared-spectrum, electromagnetic transmissions."
Body count: Out of the 159 who signed up, maybe about 15 showed. One was even rumored to be (gender == female), but this has yet to be confirmed by UN observers. =)
Venue: A little iffy. The meetup was originally scheduled to be held at a bowling alley near Union Square, but this got changed last minute to a bar above the alley. Not everyone got word in time, so we may have had some attrition there. And god knows if any of the under-21/.ers got turned away by the elevator bouncer.
As for the bar itself? Nice enough, but didn't really have a/. vibe. It kinda felt like one of those corporate-chic places that inevitably get picked for the company holiday party. (This turned out to be remarkably accurate later in the evening when a large group from Merrill Lynch, I think, marched in, got drunk, and played Twister for a few hours at the far end of the room.)
And before I forget: $8 drinks at the bar(!) I tried to explain the whole "free as in beer" concept to the bartender, but I don't think I got very far.
The meetup: A mixed bag. The next one of these could definitely use a host. As it was, people just kinda wandered in, spent a couple minutes figuring out if the extremely sedate and fragmented group over by the bar was indeed/., grabbed a drink, and tried to form their own 2-3 person molecule of conversation. It would have been cool if everyone had gotten together at some point in the evening and done something, anything. Heck, form a big circle and play some "Duck, Duck, Penguin".
Other than that, my only observation is that people went home *way* too early -- especially for New Yorkers. By 10:30, it was just myself and another bloke closing out the place, playing pool and doing tequila shots. It's just unholy.
Biggest surprise: To the best of my knowledge, not a single laptop was whipped out over the course of the evening.
Okay, so we know that writing an app to peek inside the database of restricted domains is verboten under current DMCA rules. What I'm curious about is whether brute-forcing that same list would also run afoul of the laws. (e.g., a distributed effort to hit each domain in turn and note whether or not it's blocked.) Yes, it's reverse engineering, but doesn't involve the creation of "copyright circumvention tools" as such.
I'm sure this has been tried at some point or another. Anyone know what the legal results were?
It's usually a good hour's wait to get a lane for even four people at Bowlmor. I can only imagine what will happen when 51 happy geeks (myself included) show up en masse this Thursday evening.
I pretty much figure we'll see the first ever recorded Slashdotting of a bowling alley!
I don't have any mod points to spend right now, but I've just grabbed a dry-erase marker and scribbled a little (+1, Insightful) on my screen next to your post. Please accept it with my compliments. =)
It's too true. Had one of the Good Guys taken a similar action, it would have been hailed in these pages as a necessary escalation to prevent the whole issue from getting bogged down in a corrupt legislative process. But when the Bad Guys do it, we all label it an underhanded attempt to circumvent the checks and balances of that very same legislature.
And you want to know the scariest part? Even though I'm quite aware of this double standard, I still feel the temptation to lock Hollings in the Senate coat closet and not let him out until he admits he's a "dirty rat fink and kept boy of the entertainment industry".
Sometimes a overly strong opinion can be almost as dangerous thing to hold as a overly weak one...
What's left to legally justify broadband? Nothing at all.
Hmmm... let's see. Gaming? Work? (I'm a designer and regularly transfer large Photoshop/Illustrator files.) Obnoxiously large Flash sites? And lest we forget, the hallowed halls of pr0n. (Or so I've heard.... *cough*)
Should I keep going here? There's a lot more to the high-bandwidth than P2P leeching, despite what the front page of most news sites would have you believe.
I'd recommend you check out their site and get involved in any way you can...
That's exactly the drawback to entities like the EFF, though; the ways in which one can get involved are usually limited to writing out a check, which is certainly useful but hardly motivational. And in no way will it rally the troops in the way Mr. Ellis seems to desire here.
(Mandatory disclaimer: I have tremendous respect for, and am greatly indebted to, the EFF. They perform a great service for this entire community on a daily basis and I'm not questioning their goals or motives. Just worndering aloud whether or not they fit the definition of a "grass-roots" movement into which the "internet army" could be actively conscripted.)
So while it's great to have rallying cries like this FastCompany article, perhaps what we really need are a few ramparts on which we can all stand, wave flags, and yell somewhat threatening slogans in French. Help me out here, folks. That is to say, in addition to all this writing -- either a checks to foundations or letters to government reps, what we really need are some good old-fashioned symbolic activities that, while not incredibly effective on their own, serve to get a large segement of a population involved in and excited about a movement on a personal level.
A perfect example, in my mind, would be the wartime "victory gardens" found in U.S. backyards during the first half of the 20th century.
So... any suggestions?
P.S. - Pardon any typos. Sliced my right hand on a piece of case metal while slotting a card this morning, so I'm down to pecking at keys with the left. Please mod this at (-1, Klutz) accordingly.
After all, if I have a shiny red ball next to a shiny green ball, then depending on where I put the light source, the red might partly affect the shade of the green, or vice versa.
If you happen to have the Fight Club DVD sitting around, there's a great bit in the extras where the FX crew talks about all the headaches this phenomenom created for them -- particularly during the IKEA living room scene. (For those who haven't caught the movie yet -- for shame! -- Edward Norton's living room is reimagined as a 3D IKEA style catalogue, with furniture and floating sales copy materializing in his wake as he strolls through the shot.)
Every piece of furniture added drastically changed the ambient color of both the room and all the furntiure that had appeared prior. Trying to composite it all over the original base footage of an empty living room in neutral lighting turned out to be an absolute nightmare. And they had months to work on this. Imagine trying to render it in real-time! Trust me, every bit of rendering power the PS3 can churn out will be used.
Really interesting stuff on that DVD. The wealth of geeky behind-the-scenes materials is almost better than the movie itself.
Let me repeat: China is not cloning Win98. All y'all villagers can put those torches and pitchforks away. 'Taint nuthin to see here.
Here's what The People's Daily article had to say (in slightly mangled English):
[T]he Beijing municipal government bought software equivalent to Win 95 from Chinese companies such as CS&S and RedFlag. While the newly started two programs would make updates on this basis to improve the software to a level of Win98 and compatible with Office2000 and Word.
Now, what is RedFlag, you ask? It appears to be a Chinese distro of Linux. Yup. And CS&S? That's the China National Computer Software and Technology Service Corporation. Rght here. And *who* did they enter into a big agreement with at the end of last year? That'd be Sun, to license StarSuite, as mentioned in this release.
So to sum up: China: Running StarSuite under Linux. Register: Jumping the gun.... again. Slashdot readers: Hates Microsoft.
Whew. Looks like everything's back to normal around here. =)
ATTENTION: Please read carefully before opening this geostationary satellite. The individual or entity opening this satellite (the "future generation") agrees to be bound by the terms of this license. If you open this satellite and do not agree to the terms of this license, do not use the glass disc contained within and promptly return the satellite unopened to its geosynchronous orbit.
MacOS X 10.1 was a free update for anyone who had MacOS X 10.0
Not entirely. Unless you were fortunate enough to live near an Apple retail store, you needed to shell out $20 (plux tax!) to have the update CD mailed to you; 10.1 wasn't a downloadable patch. Seeing as this is substantially more than the cost of burning + shipping/handling, I'd say that Apple clearly intended to generate some revenue from the deal.
It's not hard to imagine the 10.2 update being handled in a similar manner...
The shroud article's paraphrase of one Dr. Nicholas Allen:
He said all one had to do was suspend a corpse for three to four days in sunlight.
I'd like to formally apologize to Sears Photo Studio for ever having complained while sitting through those family portraits back in the '70s. In retrospect, you were surprisingly gentle with me.
Any other insect would do just as well, but a headline with "Killer Bees" in the title will grab a lot more attention
I'll admit that, for a minute, I thought you were pulling my leg. But I went ahead and dropped "killer bees" into the last five Slashdot headlines and damned if they didn't seem more exciting all of a sudden.
Visual Studio.Net: Now with more Killer Bees
Science: Killer Bees Making Super Coffee (well, that one was fine as was...)
Java Meets Killer Bees: Two Reviews (nice bit of serendipity there)
Hmmm... You replied 14 minutes after the/. article went up and, let's be honest, your post didn't take all that long to type. So I'm sure you had at least 12 whole minutes of free time to actually read the article in question, right?
Which means you probably saw that (A) the by-line wasn't "Geraldo Rivera", and (B) the theory of biological origin was put forth, not by the reporter, but various marine scientists and researchers who saw certain tell-tale characteristics in the sound signature.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that commercial radio is "artisically compromised"? It's nothing intentional, just part of the business model. Let me explain:
Commercial radio: Covers its budget and makes profit by ensuring that x number of people are tuned in at any given point during the day. This way, discrete ad units can be sold on that assumption that those x number of people will be listening... and eventually buying. The best way to maintain that number is by providing content unlikely to offend the demographic -- something that a listener may not really love, but certainly doesn't dislike enough to turn off. As a result, any discernable flavor is slowly leeched from the on-air content and you're left with Farina Cream of Wheat.
Public radio: Covers its budget through corporate underwriting and getting a certain number of people to contribute during fund drives. As long as this happens, it's mostly irrelevant how many people are listening at any given time. Over the years, the stations have found that one of the best ways to do this is through niche marketing -- even if people only listen to one or two programs a week, they'll likely become contributors if they truly value those shows. (Same thing works on cable. Tons of my friends only have HBO for "Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under".) Hence, the proliferation of such niche programs as Car Talk, The Splendid Table, or (God help me) Satellite Sisters. These multiple viewppoints prove profitable, so they remain a part of public radio. But don't get me wrong, public radio is still capable of selling out just as much as the next station on the dial. (Just check out savewnyc.org for one example of how things can turn ugly.) It just tends to remain more interesting while doing so.
Public radio is the most biased medium in existence
And let's not forget that Carr quickly provided us with one of the most vitriolic responses to a review -- in the form of a letter to Salon -- that most people have ever seen. It included such gems as:
[L]et's not let facts or a shaky grounding in history keep us from being a bitchy wise-ass -- THAT would get you thrown out of the club that meets at [NYT critic] Michiko's to watch "Sex in the City" and spout a lot of nonsense about things they don't know."
P.S. To quickly bring this post back around to the question at hand, I've got "The Second Rumpole Omnibus" and O'Reilly's "Programming PHP" in my summer bag right now. (Hey, depending on how you look at it, they're both mysteries.)
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"that has that experience"
The errant "that" above is functioning as a subject here, hence the need for "who".
To fall back on the old grammar school test, let's make things third-person singular. Would it be "she has that experience" or "her has that experience"?
Dear interested spammer:
MEDICALLY PROVEN,
OUR PROGRAM WILL ENLARGE YOUR BUDGET,
NATURALLY........
You WILL Gain up to 1000% greater operating costs!
You WILL Get a larger budget!
You WILL Give your accountant MORE pleasure!
You WILL Stay IN DEBT, LONGER!
Most spammers see results within the 1st Month !!! Don't wait! CLICK HERE NOW!!!
Do I now have to bribe patent officers in euros, or are good old-fashioned pounds still acceptable?
Agreed... but for a slightly different reason. The excuse I've always heard from arcade/bar/etc owners is that the cost of keeping a pinball machine in good working order is just way too high: frequent maintenance, hard-to-find parts -- you name it. It's become purely a labor of love thing these days.
And I say this quite sadly, mind you -- pinball kept me sane all through college. Nothing like a quick hour or two of Addams Family or Pinbot after a long night of studying.
P.S. - If anyone knows a place in NYC that still has well-maintained pinball machines, I'll gladly name my first-born after you. (Keep in mind that the more time I spend playing pinball on your advice, the less chance there is of there actually *being* a first-born -- so weigh your options carefully...)
So it appears my browsing habits have made my choice for me. Good. Conserves all the blood sugar I would have spent on thinking that one through. =)
"I am an invisible planet. No, I am not a Kamino like that which eluded Obi-Wan Kenobi; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie hurtling asteroids. I am a planet of substance, of soil and bedrock, forests and oceans -- and i might even be said to possess a voice. I am invisible, understand, simply because bug-eyed aliens refuse to listen to my... erm... reduced-power, shared-spectrum, electromagnetic transmissions."
Venue: A little iffy. The meetup was originally scheduled to be held at a bowling alley near Union Square, but this got changed last minute to a bar above the alley. Not everyone got word in time, so we may have had some attrition there. And god knows if any of the under-21 /.ers got turned away by the elevator bouncer.
As for the bar itself? Nice enough, but didn't really have a /. vibe. It kinda felt like one of those corporate-chic places that inevitably get picked for the company holiday party. (This turned out to be remarkably accurate later in the evening when a large group from Merrill Lynch, I think, marched in, got drunk, and played Twister for a few hours at the far end of the room.)
And before I forget: $8 drinks at the bar(!) I tried to explain the whole "free as in beer" concept to the bartender, but I don't think I got very far.
The meetup: A mixed bag. The next one of these could definitely use a host. As it was, people just kinda wandered in, spent a couple minutes figuring out if the extremely sedate and fragmented group over by the bar was indeed /., grabbed a drink, and tried to form their own 2-3 person molecule of conversation. It would have been cool if everyone had gotten together at some point in the evening and done something, anything. Heck, form a big circle and play some "Duck, Duck, Penguin".
Other than that, my only observation is that people went home *way* too early -- especially for New Yorkers. By 10:30, it was just myself and another bloke closing out the place, playing pool and doing tequila shots. It's just unholy.
Biggest surprise: To the best of my knowledge, not a single laptop was whipped out over the course of the evening.
I'm sure this has been tried at some point or another. Anyone know what the legal results were?
I pretty much figure we'll see the first ever recorded Slashdotting of a bowling alley!
It's too true. Had one of the Good Guys taken a similar action, it would have been hailed in these pages as a necessary escalation to prevent the whole issue from getting bogged down in a corrupt legislative process. But when the Bad Guys do it, we all label it an underhanded attempt to circumvent the checks and balances of that very same legislature.
And you want to know the scariest part? Even though I'm quite aware of this double standard, I still feel the temptation to lock Hollings in the Senate coat closet and not let him out until he admits he's a "dirty rat fink and kept boy of the entertainment industry".
Sometimes a overly strong opinion can be almost as dangerous thing to hold as a overly weak one...
Hmmm... let's see. Gaming? Work? (I'm a designer and regularly transfer large Photoshop/Illustrator files.) Obnoxiously large Flash sites? And lest we forget, the hallowed halls of pr0n. (Or so I've heard.... *cough*)
Should I keep going here? There's a lot more to the high-bandwidth than P2P leeching, despite what the front page of most news sites would have you believe.
...like the smell of marshmallows roasting over a Mac PowerBook 5300.
That's exactly the drawback to entities like the EFF, though; the ways in which one can get involved are usually limited to writing out a check, which is certainly useful but hardly motivational. And in no way will it rally the troops in the way Mr. Ellis seems to desire here.
(Mandatory disclaimer: I have tremendous respect for, and am greatly indebted to, the EFF. They perform a great service for this entire community on a daily basis and I'm not questioning their goals or motives. Just worndering aloud whether or not they fit the definition of a "grass-roots" movement into which the "internet army" could be actively conscripted.)
So while it's great to have rallying cries like this FastCompany article, perhaps what we really need are a few ramparts on which we can all stand, wave flags, and yell somewhat threatening slogans in French. Help me out here, folks. That is to say, in addition to all this writing -- either a checks to foundations or letters to government reps, what we really need are some good old-fashioned symbolic activities that, while not incredibly effective on their own, serve to get a large segement of a population involved in and excited about a movement on a personal level.
A perfect example, in my mind, would be the wartime "victory gardens" found in U.S. backyards during the first half of the 20th century.
So... any suggestions?
P.S. - Pardon any typos. Sliced my right hand on a piece of case metal while slotting a card this morning, so I'm down to pecking at keys with the left. Please mod this at (-1, Klutz) accordingly.
Every piece of furniture added drastically changed the ambient color of both the room and all the furntiure that had appeared prior. Trying to composite it all over the original base footage of an empty living room in neutral lighting turned out to be an absolute nightmare. And they had months to work on this. Imagine trying to render it in real-time! Trust me, every bit of rendering power the PS3 can churn out will be used.
Really interesting stuff on that DVD. The wealth of geeky behind-the-scenes materials is almost better than the movie itself.
"Slashdot readers: hate Microsoft"
Now if you'll excuse me, the Preview button wants to sit me down and have a long chat....
Let me repeat: China is not cloning Win98. All y'all villagers can put those torches and pitchforks away. 'Taint nuthin to see here.
Here's what The People's Daily article had to say (in slightly mangled English):
Now, what is RedFlag, you ask? It appears to be a Chinese distro of Linux. Yup. And CS&S? That's the China National Computer Software and Technology Service Corporation. Rght here. And *who* did they enter into a big agreement with at the end of last year? That'd be Sun, to license StarSuite, as mentioned in this release.
So to sum up:
China: Running StarSuite under Linux.
Register: Jumping the gun.... again.
Slashdot readers: Hates Microsoft.
Whew. Looks like everything's back to normal around here. =)
"MESSAGE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS" LICENSE
ATTENTION: Please read carefully before opening this geostationary satellite. The individual or entity opening this satellite (the "future generation") agrees to be bound by the terms of this license. If you open this satellite and do not agree to the terms of this license, do not use the glass disc contained within and promptly return the satellite unopened to its geosynchronous orbit.
Not entirely. Unless you were fortunate enough to live near an Apple retail store, you needed to shell out $20 (plux tax!) to have the update CD mailed to you; 10.1 wasn't a downloadable patch. Seeing as this is substantially more than the cost of burning + shipping/handling, I'd say that Apple clearly intended to generate some revenue from the deal.
It's not hard to imagine the 10.2 update being handled in a similar manner...
- File -> Print Preview
- Click the radio button for "Print Wide Pages"
- There is no step 3. There is no step 3! =)
This will force the printer to tile out-of-bounds content in all directions, so that a web page 3 screens wide and 2 screens deep will print as:+---+---+---+
| 1 | 3 | 5 |
+---+---+---+
| 2 | 4 | 6 |
+---+---+---+
All this hinges on you having access to a Mac, of course. Can't really help you there. *cough*
I'd like to formally apologize to Sears Photo Studio for ever having complained while sitting through those family portraits back in the '70s. In retrospect, you were surprisingly gentle with me.
I'll admit that, for a minute, I thought you were pulling my leg. But I went ahead and dropped "killer bees" into the last five Slashdot headlines and damned if they didn't seem more exciting all of a sudden.
- Visual Studio
.Net: Now with more Killer Bees
- Science: Killer Bees Making Super Coffee (well, that one was fine as was...)
- Java Meets Killer Bees: Two Reviews (nice bit of serendipity there)
- Walmart Ships PCs With Killer Bees
- McAfee Manufactures Killer Bee Threat
I swear, there's some definite potential here...Which means you probably saw that (A) the by-line wasn't "Geraldo Rivera", and (B) the theory of biological origin was put forth, not by the reporter, but various marine scientists and researchers who saw certain tell-tale characteristics in the sound signature.
Okay, okay, you win. I lost a mouthful of good beer laughing at that one. =)
Commercial radio: Covers its budget and makes profit by ensuring that x number of people are tuned in at any given point during the day. This way, discrete ad units can be sold on that assumption that those x number of people will be listening... and eventually buying. The best way to maintain that number is by providing content unlikely to offend the demographic -- something that a listener may not really love, but certainly doesn't dislike enough to turn off. As a result, any discernable flavor is slowly leeched from the on-air content and you're left with Farina Cream of Wheat.
Public radio: Covers its budget through corporate underwriting and getting a certain number of people to contribute during fund drives. As long as this happens, it's mostly irrelevant how many people are listening at any given time. Over the years, the stations have found that one of the best ways to do this is through niche marketing -- even if people only listen to one or two programs a week, they'll likely become contributors if they truly value those shows. (Same thing works on cable. Tons of my friends only have HBO for "Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under".) Hence, the proliferation of such niche programs as Car Talk, The Splendid Table, or (God help me) Satellite Sisters. These multiple viewppoints prove profitable, so they remain a part of public radio. But don't get me wrong, public radio is still capable of selling out just as much as the next station on the dial. (Just check out savewnyc.org for one example of how things can turn ugly.) It just tends to remain more interesting while doing so.
Exaggerate much?
P.S. To quickly bring this post back around to the question at hand, I've got "The Second Rumpole Omnibus" and O'Reilly's "Programming PHP" in my summer bag right now. (Hey, depending on how you look at it, they're both mysteries.)