Thought so... although I thought that other mostly-blue soda sponsored a concert or two last year also. Don't usually pay attention to n'sync, bsb, britney spears and other micky-mouse-fronted 'bands'. Kinda surprised she would get involved in one of those deals, tell the truth.
Boy, I woulda loved to be a fly on the wall at the international headquarters for producing sugar-water and bad advertising when the news of the topless performance came in!
>From her recent appearances it would seem that she's been left with nothing but undergarments
Yeah, read the blurb she has about playing topless at a soda-distributor-funded concert (and then ordering a six-pack of the rival's pop while on-stage... now, was it the 'taste of a new generation' or '___ and a smile'?)
Man that was awesome, I've never seen so much guts, integrity and brutal honesty all at the same time. Man that blows me away!
Sh*t, does she come off articulate. She has figured out that she doesn't really have anything to lose since her record label has basically pimped her art and left he with nothing but 'nice pants'. At last, not only does a major artist 'get it', she also has the balls to voice it, and with an amazing amout of credibility.
I hope she gets listened to, and that she is successful in starting a new movement in the production and distribution of audio art. More power to her!
Yeah, that sounds about right. Download a frickin' 20+ Mb of 'innovative' browser software and there is a bunch of images of the development team. Just goes to show how bloated that sack of ____ is, that you can hide a bunch of superfluous graphics in it and no one notices.
I like easter eggs, when they are funny or interesting. Putting pictures of the project team into the program somewhere does not qualify, IMO. Putting in a flight sim, now that I can *almost* forgive!
There's at least one in Quake2 that I remember, you drop through some acid-slime stuff and swim through a crack in the wall hidden in the shadow, when you emerge there is a bunch of cool stuff to see, including a picture of romero and his ferrarri (or whatever).
Of course the other one that everyone always sees is the 'hall of id' at the end of the game where you see rotating pictures of the staff and go down a tunnel to see the 'tank' dude making out with a couple of 'iron-maiden' demon/cyber/hellbitch things. Ugh!
This is facinating. Moderators are being fooled by these signal 11 impostors into moderating up posts that, had they been from the real signal 11, would be just as lame and off-topic -- but would be moderated up just the same because of signal 11. When they realize the post is by one of the signal 11 copycats, they moderate it down.
Hmm... wouldn't have thought moderation points should be awarded or subtracted based on who the poster is?
Not really. There are tens of millions of wireless subscubers in America, how many are going to be in the air 'sucking up bandwidth'?
Cell phones only tune to one control channel at a time. When you are leaving the coverage of one cell, the network tells your phone which channel to switch to to get the next radio.
Don't think it would cause the collapse of the cell phone network, mmm k?
You know, I wondered about that too, as well as how useful this type of communication could be in wartime. Then, after reading some more comments, I had a different take.
So they have to be within range of a buoy to send and receive. Tells me that they probably aren't going to be using this out on the open ocean. And another poster pointed out they already have their own ulra-low-freq communications system, why would they need to supplement this with a 2400 bps data comm?
Lonely sailors. These poor guys are submerged for months with no contact with the outside world right? No letters from home, nothing. So maybe the use for this is to send and receive short messages from home. Perhaps once or twice during a deployment, the sub comes within the 4 miles or so of one of several 'e-mail buoys' and uploads/downloads email? Doesn't sound like much, but when you are locked in a can underwater for four months, getting a letter from home probably is a very big deal. Guy I worked for who was in the nuclear navy said the biggest danger they had on patrols was not from being in harms way, but from sailors going apeshit because of the psychological pressure.
>Question is, why so long? Thinkpads have been running Linux for a long time, after all.
Wonder what modems they're gonna put in these?
Yes, the thinkpads run Linux -- I got myself a low-cost i-series 1440 at a surplus auction with the intent of installing linux. It came with 32 Mb and a 4gig drive and I figured that although the 366 celery would be kinda underpowered to run windows with only 32Mb, it would probably run Linux just file. It does.
Only real drawback is the Lucent Win-modem. Not really an issue for me since I have cable at home and I got an ethernet pcmcia card to plug into my LAN at home, and I plug into the LAN at work and I haven't really ever needed the modem for anything. But I'm probably the excepion.
My guess is that equiping thinkpad with a modem that will work under Linux might have been the holdup. Anyone know?
hmmm... the way I remember it - the first time I remember hearing the name Robin Miller was when that Jack Bryar BS article was posted over on AndoverNews and we had all that fun. I think RobLimo may have had a Slashdot login, and I recall seeing him post in the comments, but I don't remember him posting stories until after Taco announced the Andover deal. I'm pretty sure he was EiC over at AndoverNews before ever coming to Slashdot...
"The merger *will* be completed on schedule, my Master." "You have done well, Lord Taco... and now I sense you wish to continue your search for young Hemos." "Yes, my Master..."
Reminds me of the website I saw the other day where it tells exactly when tvshows started to suck:
leave it to beaver - beave goes through puberty happy days - pinky tuscadero (fonzie jumps the shark tank) bewitched - dick york is replaced dream of jeanie - Maj. Nelson and Jeanie get married M*A*S*H - Hotlips starts being likeable or when they stopped using the laughtrack 3's company - (you mean it didn't always suck!?) when the ropers get their own show and are replaced by Don Knotts, or when Suzanne Sommers leaves the show... take your pick
Thanks for the compliment. Another week or so and I'll probably take the link out of my.sig and put it on my user page or something so it doesn't look like I'm crying over spilt milk forever. Thanks, though.
Internet vigilante?! Maybe, I don't know. You might wonder if cracking anothers computer to get someone's data and then posting it on the net doesn't make you any better than the spammers at some level.
I think this person had a moral imperative to expose these scumbags. Turned them over to AOL as soon as there was enough info -- same thing I would do. Not sure if I'd be worried about what was admissable in court. Just tipping off AOL is good enough for me. AOL, if they decided to make a court case, would undoubtedly legally obtain whatever information they needed. (or does an anonymous tip by someone who obtained info illegaly automatically throw the whole thing out?)
And hacking into her laptop and downloading all of her stupid pictures (including the one of freckles on her, umm... you know) and posting them on the net is classic!
So yeah, there is a conflict here. "Two wrongs don't make a right" and all that. I don't know if I'd post all this if what was done was illegal. These spammers are scum, no doubt. But does that justify cracking into their computers? Could this person have just gone to the FBI or something after they got the IP of that first filtered e-mail? Sure, that would not have been nearly as satisfying as publicly exposing and humiliating them, but then, I dunno, seems like the ends don't justify the means (ok, enough cliche` -- I'm done now)
Yeah, could be fiction, but it is damn interesting. Anyone try calling those numbers or checking NSI records to verify any of this? ( I would byt I'm at work and I don't think my boss would find calls to Tennesee very funny.
And those pictures -- gee haw, if this is a hoax, it sure is an elaborate one. Didn't really see anything yet that made me go 'no way!' yet, though.
>What, voices? Some cheesy plot about a dinosaur saving lemmings?
I was dissapointed by this as well (seen the movie, but no spoilers here). If you don't have young kids, don't bother to go see this. The graphics are cool but the 'cheesy plot' was a let-down. My kids liked it, though. It wasn't bad at the level of a kid's movie, just a let-down from the expectations I had from seeing the initial trailer.
The trailer you mention was actually on a movie I bought also, and my jaw dropped as well (the one where the egg keeps dodging being eaten, stepped on, etc). When I saw a TV promo with the talking limurs and then the Disney channel behind-the-scenes thingy I was *very* dissapointed.
>To add to that, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with movies that use Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" to build a dramatic trailer.
This is the kind of thing that drives my wife nuts. One a couple of occasions, she has seen a trailer with music that she likes (she is a figure skater and always looking for music to use) and rushed out to buy the CD only to find that the soundtrack does not contain the cut she heard and there is no way to find out what the piece actually is.
My theory: They use familiar music to draw you in. They have an original score, but since no one has ever heard it, putting it in trailers is not as desirable as using something that people will recognize, remember and maybe even form a positive impression of the film. I know that the Titan AE trailer with the Creed song has worked on me. Everytime I hear that song, I think of the clips of the movie I've seen. The soundtrack from Stargate sets a mood and a specific expectation for me that Titan will have some of the same 'feeling'.
I would love to find a site that has references to movies' soundtracks and the music that was used with the various trailers. If I had more time, I might start something like this if it didn't exist.
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Thought so... although I thought that other mostly-blue soda sponsored a concert or two last year also. Don't usually pay attention to n'sync, bsb, britney spears and other micky-mouse-fronted 'bands'. Kinda surprised she would get involved in one of those deals, tell the truth.
Boy, I woulda loved to be a fly on the wall at the international headquarters for producing sugar-water and bad advertising when the news of the topless performance came in!
>From her recent appearances it would seem that she's been left with nothing but undergarments
Yeah, read the blurb she has about playing topless at a soda-distributor-funded concert (and then ordering a six-pack of the rival's pop while on-stage... now, was it the 'taste of a new generation' or '___ and a smile'?)
Man that was awesome, I've never seen so much guts, integrity and brutal honesty all at the same time. Man that blows me away!
Sh*t, does she come off articulate. She has figured out that she doesn't really have anything to lose since her record label has basically pimped her art and left he with nothing but 'nice pants'. At last, not only does a major artist 'get it', she also has the balls to voice it, and with an amazing amout of credibility.
I hope she gets listened to, and that she is successful in starting a new movement in the production and distribution of audio art. More power to her!
Dude, you are awesome!
Yeah, that sounds about right. Download a frickin' 20+ Mb of 'innovative' browser software and there is a bunch of images of the development team. Just goes to show how bloated that sack of ____ is, that you can hide a bunch of superfluous graphics in it and no one notices.
I like easter eggs, when they are funny or interesting. Putting pictures of the project team into the program somewhere does not qualify, IMO. Putting in a flight sim, now that I can *almost* forgive!
There's at least one in Quake2 that I remember, you drop through some acid-slime stuff and swim through a crack in the wall hidden in the shadow, when you emerge there is a bunch of cool stuff to see, including a picture of romero and his ferrarri (or whatever).
Of course the other one that everyone always sees is the 'hall of id' at the end of the game where you see rotating pictures of the staff and go down a tunnel to see the 'tank' dude making out with a couple of 'iron-maiden' demon/cyber/hellbitch things. Ugh!
This is facinating. Moderators are being fooled by these signal 11 impostors into moderating up posts that, had they been from the real signal 11, would be just as lame and off-topic -- but would be moderated up just the same because of signal 11. When they realize the post is by one of the signal 11 copycats, they moderate it down.
Hmm... wouldn't have thought moderation points should be awarded or subtracted based on who the poster is?
Not really. There are tens of millions of wireless subscubers in America, how many are going to be in the air 'sucking up bandwidth'?
Cell phones only tune to one control channel at a time. When you are leaving the coverage of one cell, the network tells your phone which channel to switch to to get the next radio.
Don't think it would cause the collapse of the cell phone network, mmm k?
You know, I wondered about that too, as well as how useful this type of communication could be in wartime. Then, after reading some more comments, I had a different take.
So they have to be within range of a buoy to send and receive. Tells me that they probably aren't going to be using this out on the open ocean. And another poster pointed out they already have their own ulra-low-freq communications system, why would they need to supplement this with a 2400 bps data comm?
Lonely sailors. These poor guys are submerged for months with no contact with the outside world right? No letters from home, nothing. So maybe the use for this is to send and receive short messages from home. Perhaps once or twice during a deployment, the sub comes within the 4 miles or so of one of several 'e-mail buoys' and uploads/downloads email? Doesn't sound like much, but when you are locked in a can underwater for four months, getting a letter from home probably is a very big deal. Guy I worked for who was in the nuclear navy said the biggest danger they had on patrols was not from being in harms way, but from sailors going apeshit because of the psychological pressure.
I don't know
>Question is, why so long? Thinkpads have been running Linux for a long time, after all.
Wonder what modems they're gonna put in these?
Yes, the thinkpads run Linux -- I got myself a low-cost i-series 1440 at a surplus auction with the intent of installing linux. It came with 32 Mb and a 4gig drive and I figured that although the 366 celery would be kinda underpowered to run windows with only 32Mb, it would probably run Linux just file. It does.
Only real drawback is the Lucent Win-modem. Not really an issue for me since I have cable at home and I got an ethernet pcmcia card to plug into my LAN at home, and I plug into the LAN at work and I haven't really ever needed the modem for anything. But I'm probably the excepion.
My guess is that equiping thinkpad with a modem that will work under Linux might have been the holdup. Anyone know?
There's a forum on bitchslapping? If you happen to see this reply (guess it's about 3 days old) could you please reply with the sid?
>then the same rules do not apply to you as they do for everyone else.
That certainly appears to be the case, doesn't it? Never heard of anyone being bitchslapped for moderating down posts by any other one poster, eh?
OMG that's a cool page! Gonna hafta give it a try...
>... United States law as if it were the rules of a game, devoid of moral responsibility, free to be stretched or broken at will ...
:-)
Kind of sums up the way the US Legal system seems to work nowadays
Thought I already saw that the ruling already has a provision to hold off any implementation of the breakup until appeals are done?
hmmm... the way I remember it - the first time I remember hearing the name Robin Miller was when that Jack Bryar BS article was posted over on AndoverNews and we had all that fun. I think RobLimo may have had a Slashdot login, and I recall seeing him post in the comments, but I don't remember him posting stories until after Taco announced the Andover deal. I'm pretty sure he was EiC over at AndoverNews before ever coming to Slashdot...
"The merger *will* be completed on schedule, my Master."
"You have done well, Lord Taco... and now I sense you wish to continue your search for young Hemos."
"Yes, my Master..."
leave it to beaver - beave goes through puberty
happy days - pinky tuscadero (fonzie jumps the shark tank)
bewitched - dick york is replaced
dream of jeanie - Maj. Nelson and Jeanie get married
M*A*S*H - Hotlips starts being likeable or when they stopped using the laughtrack
3's company - (you mean it didn't always suck!?) when the ropers get their own show and are replaced by Don Knotts, or when Suzanne Sommers leaves the show... take your pick
jumptheshark.com
Thanks for the compliment. Another week or so and I'll probably take the link out of my .sig and put it on my user page or something so it doesn't look like I'm crying over spilt milk forever. Thanks, though.
Internet vigilante?! Maybe, I don't know. You might wonder if cracking anothers computer to get someone's data and then posting it on the net doesn't make you any better than the spammers at some level.
I think this person had a moral imperative to expose these scumbags. Turned them over to AOL as soon as there was enough info -- same thing I would do. Not sure if I'd be worried about what was admissable in court. Just tipping off AOL is good enough for me. AOL, if they decided to make a court case, would undoubtedly legally obtain whatever information they needed. (or does an anonymous tip by someone who obtained info illegaly automatically throw the whole thing out?)
And hacking into her laptop and downloading all of her stupid pictures (including the one of freckles on her, umm... you know) and posting them on the net is classic!
So yeah, there is a conflict here. "Two wrongs don't make a right" and all that. I don't know if I'd post all this if what was done was illegal. These spammers are scum, no doubt. But does that justify cracking into their computers? Could this person have just gone to the FBI or something after they got the IP of that first filtered e-mail? Sure, that would not have been nearly as satisfying as publicly exposing and humiliating them, but then, I dunno, seems like the ends don't justify the means (ok, enough cliche` -- I'm done now)
Yeah, could be fiction, but it is damn interesting. Anyone try calling those numbers or checking NSI records to verify any of this? ( I would byt I'm at work and I don't think my boss would find calls to Tennesee very funny.
And those pictures -- gee haw, if this is a hoax, it sure is an elaborate one. Didn't really see anything yet that made me go 'no way!' yet, though.
>an absolutely colossal mountain of personal integrity
Well shit! That's about the best thing anyone has ever said about me (assuming he wasn't being sarcastic).
>Unlike Podgorney, I defeated the blancmange 6-1 6-3 6-0
obscure Python reference?
>What, voices? Some cheesy plot about a dinosaur saving lemmings?
I was dissapointed by this as well (seen the movie, but no spoilers here). If you don't have young kids, don't bother to go see this. The graphics are cool but the 'cheesy plot' was a let-down. My kids liked it, though. It wasn't bad at the level of a kid's movie, just a let-down from the expectations I had from seeing the initial trailer.
The trailer you mention was actually on a movie I bought also, and my jaw dropped as well (the one where the egg keeps dodging being eaten, stepped on, etc). When I saw a TV promo with the talking limurs and then the Disney channel behind-the-scenes thingy I was *very* dissapointed.
>To add to that, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with movies that use Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" to build a dramatic trailer.
This is the kind of thing that drives my wife nuts. One a couple of occasions, she has seen a trailer with music that she likes (she is a figure skater and always looking for music to use) and rushed out to buy the CD only to find that the soundtrack does not contain the cut she heard and there is no way to find out what the piece actually is.
My theory: They use familiar music to draw you in. They have an original score, but since no one has ever heard it, putting it in trailers is not as desirable as using something that people will recognize, remember and maybe even form a positive impression of the film. I know that the Titan AE trailer with the Creed song has worked on me. Everytime I hear that song, I think of the clips of the movie I've seen. The soundtrack from Stargate sets a mood and a specific expectation for me that Titan will have some of the same 'feeling'.
I would love to find a site that has references to movies' soundtracks and the music that was used with the various trailers. If I had more time, I might start something like this if it didn't exist.