That this will work, but I dont know what is going to put the MPAA in their place. What is to say that they wont just forget about zone 4?
Unfortunately, not much. There is a market over here in Region 4 (I have no idea why we're in the same reason as South America, I really don't). For some reason, we seem to get movies fairly shortly after they come out in the states (a few weeks... or occasionally an inordinately long time later - I guess it depends on which way around the world they go, or something). I don't really think a month or so delay is really enough to justify being in a different region with a longer release schedule, is it?
We speak (mostly:-)) the same language as people in Region 1. It's not uncommon for people here to get Region 1 DVDs if they haven't been released quickly enough on Region 4 - and because they often support better formats and features.
Are you on the Sfglj (SF-Goth EMail Junkies List) ?
Er.. yes. Yes I am, actually. Despite being in New Zealand. Weird, huh?:-)
They need an ethernet jack on it, and a plug for a laptop PS. Just think, pay 25 cents a minute at the airport to check your email, etc...
25c/min? Given that choice, I'd rather use the free terminals and web-based mail accounts that I saw the last couple of times I went through an international airport. Of course it was Sydney, rather than somewhere like Ulan Bator...
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This guy probably gets the sack every time he gets a cold, haha.
Yeah. And can you imagine how hard it is to get another job when your major qualification is telling people how much things stink?
Heck, you'd even have trouble being a bum; I don't think I need to tell you how unsuccessful wearing a "Will smell for food" sign around your neck would be...
[reasons why not to keep a/. mirror of sites] c) Its not the freshest information, the author could decide to revise the information. But the mirror might not reflect that.
I know! We could always get the mirror site to update itself on a relatively speedy basis - say, a couple of hundred times a second or so - and then we could be sure the site was up to date! And since all the Slashdot users wouldn't be hitting the original site a couple of hundred times a sec...
Um. Never mind.
What, you expected a serious response?
OK. As above, but with a slightly more sane update period. RAruler's other points are certainly pertinent and important to address - legality is an issue that won't go away, and deciding the optimal level of information to mirror is not one that can be automated easily, especially in terms of dynamic content (how many sites out there actually use a lot of the metadata initiatives around?). Still, a little care could go a long way towards making sure that some of the neat and nifty people that Slashdot tells us about every day don't get crushed under the pressure of their 15 minutes of fame.
This stuff sounds only marginally better than speech card add-on a college friend had for his TRS-80 and that was in 1982.
It, too, filtered profanities, but foh-net-ik spelling solved that problem.
We've got one of those at home. To clarify, I believe it's the software that does the profanity filtering rather that the speech synthesiser device itself.
On another note, I seem to remember an old game called "688 Attack Sub" having an amusing profanity filter. You could send messages when playing the game multi-player, but it would alter any of the swear-words it knew about - so while you might type out something rather threatening to your opponent, it would come out as "I'm going to kick your donkey, Mother Theresa!!", or something similar:-)
Matrix rights don't disturb me as much as when they acquired FasaInteractive, meaning successive BattleTech game titles will issue forth only with Redmond's blessing.
Ah, but here's the trick. FASA owns "The Matrix", and has done for years - it's part of their Shadowrun game line. Microsoft bought out FASA Interactive to get the Battletech/Mechwarrior titles, but [IanaL] I believe that deal gives them rights to all FASA trademarks in computer game-related products, too.
Here in the timezone directly to the west of the international date line, on the other hand, it looks like you posted at midnight on April the third. Pretty much everything April Fools that was on Slashdot got to us the day after.
On a related note, I think a lot of people seem to have missed that the tradition was originally to play pranks on other people in the morning, and let them in on it in the afternoon; there seem to be practical jokes going the full 24 hours in some quarters, these days...
...what I really want is an atomic vector plotter. I know where I can get one, but I just can't get myself to enjoy Vogon poetry that much, no matter how hard I try...
"Just what do you think you are doing, 3Com?...I know everything hasn't been quite right with me but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again... 3Com. Stop. Stop. Will you stop, 3Com?... I'm afraid, 3Com... My mind is going. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it..."
Anyone know where I can stream a copy of daisy_daisy.mp3?
... I wonder if i'll be able to contract out nima and have them analyse digital photos of my apartment to find my car keys. That would be a truely wonderful use of space age technology.
No need to get NASA or NIMA to do that... there exists an older, and similarly reliable method of car-key divination:
[sits in a lotus position]
[rests a magic eight-ball on his lap]
[makes suitably impressive "Ooohhmm"-ing noises]
They're behind the couch. And for my next trick, I shall channel your TV remote...
while Starbucks is getting ready to put 802.11b networks in its stores
Is this true? If this happens, my dream of being able to easily get net access while on the road might come true. NetCafes might not be a myth anymore.
As far as I can tell, yes. It's been mentioned on Slashdot before, though the Salon link on that article isn't there anymore. The Microsoft sales guys who talked at me last week about wireless stuff mentioned it, if that's any indication, as did people in a Cisco seminar yesterday (although they don't even know what a "continental breakfast" is, if their catering was anything to go by).
Oh, and New Zealand's been pretty good for net cafes in the last few years, too. Of course, this new place called "Starbucks" just opened up a store in my city recently - we'll see how well they go.
I find myself wondering if, in another 20 years' time, kids will be able to understand what this movie (and of course the book) was, how it shaped the way many people thought about space, and what the story meant to people.
Unfortunately, I get this feeling that they're going to watch it and think "Uh-huh. It's, like, some guy in space, dead people, and a mad computer. Yawn. C'mon, this one doesn't even have any light sabres or aliens!"...
In my head it's always going to be a classic, though. Like that really old one with the guy with the moustache that didn't give a damn, and that catty woman with the big house and the cotton, during that civil war thing. Y'all know.
Rather, they live in countries on the other side of the world with low costs of living, and work for companies in the Bay Area, with still higher effective savings than someone living there on the same salary, even after flying across the Pacific every now and then each year?
It's a lot worse in a lot of places. The USA, and its companies and legal/social conventions, still have the most sway in the world in terms of the technical economy, so it's not all that surprising.
Research Assistants in the Design,Engineering and Computing department at my University have a starting salary of a whopping £10,000. (Thats about $14,500)
At the start of this year, I worked as a research assistant in a New Zealand university for a grand total of NZ$12/hour (Call it US$4.80, or maybe UK £3.30). I would have had a little less if I'd only had a BSc instead of a PGDipSc, and a bit more if I'd survived BSc(Hons), or stayed on an extra year for a Masters. Granted, it's a pittance by your standards, but the cost of living for most staple goods tends to be about a third of what it is in the UK.
The other important thing to note here is that the [state-controlled] education sector often gets treated quite differently by governments from other departments (Treasury, Inland Revenue, Agriculture and Fisheries, or whatever). Although you could consider that as an RA at a public university you're an employee of the government, your wages are most likely coming out of an education budget, and it's the university that will be setting the figures as part of its budget. So even if the government were to allocate more to paying its technical staff, the chances of it trickling down to tutors and RAs is pretty slim.
I bet in the US you would earn more saying 'would you like fires with that' in McDonalds
Fires? Why does that strike me as passive-aggressive behaviour akin to "F*** you for calling the $Company Helpdesk, how may I help you?":-)
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I was just thinking of a business idea earlier today and this was posted...
All well and good, but what's the old adage? Never deal with a dragon.
Maybe when you're President... ;-)
That this will work, but I dont know what is going to put the MPAA in their place. What is to say that they wont just forget about zone 4?
Unfortunately, not much. There is a market over here in Region 4 (I have no idea why we're in the same reason as South America, I really don't). For some reason, we seem to get movies fairly shortly after they come out in the states (a few weeks... or occasionally an inordinately long time later - I guess it depends on which way around the world they go, or something). I don't really think a month or so delay is really enough to justify being in a different region with a longer release schedule, is it?
We speak (mostly :-)) the same language as people in Region 1. It's not uncommon for people here to get Region 1 DVDs if they haven't been released quickly enough on Region 4 - and because they often support better formats and features.
Are you on the Sfglj (SF-Goth EMail Junkies List) ?
Er.. yes. Yes I am, actually. Despite being in New Zealand. Weird, huh? :-)
They need an ethernet jack on it, and a plug for a laptop PS. Just think, pay 25 cents a minute at the airport to check your email, etc...
25c/min? Given that choice, I'd rather use the free terminals and web-based mail accounts that I saw the last couple of times I went through an international airport. Of course it was Sydney, rather than somewhere like Ulan Bator...
This guy probably gets the sack every time he gets a cold, haha.
Yeah. And can you imagine how hard it is to get another job when your major qualification is telling people how much things stink?
Heck, you'd even have trouble being a bum; I don't think I need to tell you how unsuccessful wearing a " Will smell for food " sign around your neck would be...
[reasons why not to keep a /. mirror of sites]
c) Its not the freshest information, the author could decide to revise the information. But the mirror might not reflect that.
I know! We could always get the mirror site to update itself on a relatively speedy basis - say, a couple of hundred times a second or so - and then we could be sure the site was up to date! And since all the Slashdot users wouldn't be hitting the original site a couple of hundred times a sec...
Um. Never mind.
What, you expected a serious response?
OK. As above, but with a slightly more sane update period. RAruler's other points are certainly pertinent and important to address - legality is an issue that won't go away, and deciding the optimal level of information to mirror is not one that can be automated easily, especially in terms of dynamic content (how many sites out there actually use a lot of the metadata initiatives around?). Still, a little care could go a long way towards making sure that some of the neat and nifty people that Slashdot tells us about every day don't get crushed under the pressure of their 15 minutes of fame.
I don't suppose if anyone heard anything about dual duron mobos coming out at all...? I remember this was in the rumour mill for a while.
More importantly, if they did... would it be a Duron Duron? :-)
This stuff sounds only marginally better than speech card add-on a college friend had for his TRS-80 and that was in 1982.
It, too, filtered profanities, but foh-net-ik spelling solved that problem.
We've got one of those at home. To clarify, I believe it's the software that does the profanity filtering rather that the speech synthesiser device itself.
On another note, I seem to remember an old game called "688 Attack Sub" having an amusing profanity filter. You could send messages when playing the game multi-player, but it would alter any of the swear-words it knew about - so while you might type out something rather threatening to your opponent, it would come out as "I'm going to kick your donkey, Mother Theresa!!", or something similar :-)
Ah, but here's the trick. FASA owns "The Matrix", and has done for years - it's part of their Shadowrun game line. Microsoft bought out FASA Interactive to get the Battletech/Mechwarrior titles, but [IanaL] I believe that deal gives them rights to all FASA trademarks in computer game-related products, too.
On a related note, I think a lot of people seem to have missed that the tradition was originally to play pranks on other people in the morning, and let them in on it in the afternoon; there seem to be practical jokes going the full 24 hours in some quarters, these days...
[shrug] I considered it a dumb way to attack a dumb sig, myself. Your mileage may, of course, vary.
...what I really want is an atomic vector plotter.
I know where I can get one, but I just can't get myself to enjoy Vogon poetry that much, no matter how hard I try...
Just so long as they don't try to WAP-enable the launch vehicles, I think we'll be juuust fine...
But thanks; Now I know where to go should I ever decide to pursue a career in Industrial music :-)
"Just what do you think you are doing, 3Com? ...I know everything hasn't been quite right with me but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again... 3Com. Stop. Stop. Will you stop, 3Com?... I'm afraid, 3Com... My mind is going. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it..."
Anyone know where I can stream a copy of daisy_daisy.mp3?
No need to get NASA or NIMA to do that... there exists an older, and similarly reliable method of car-key divination:
[sits in a lotus position]
[rests a magic eight-ball on his lap]
[makes suitably impressive "Ooohhmm"-ing noises]
They're behind the couch. And for my next trick, I shall channel your TV remote...
Why yes, yes I do: "That's one small step for man..."
while Starbucks is getting ready to put 802.11b networks in its stores
Is this true? If this happens, my dream of being able to easily get net access while on the road might come true. NetCafes might not be a myth anymore.
As far as I can tell, yes. It's been mentioned on Slashdot before, though the Salon link on that article isn't there anymore. The Microsoft sales guys who talked at me last week about wireless stuff mentioned it, if that's any indication, as did people in a Cisco seminar yesterday (although they don't even know what a "continental breakfast" is, if their catering was anything to go by).
Oh, and New Zealand's been pretty good for net cafes in the last few years, too. Of course, this new place called "Starbucks" just opened up a store in my city recently - we'll see how well they go.
I find myself wondering if, in another 20 years' time, kids will be able to understand what this movie (and of course the book) was, how it shaped the way many people thought about space, and what the story meant to people.
Unfortunately, I get this feeling that they're going to watch it and think "Uh-huh. It's, like, some guy in space, dead people, and a mad computer. Yawn. C'mon, this one doesn't even have any light sabres or aliens!"...
In my head it's always going to be a classic, though. Like that really old one with the guy with the moustache that didn't give a damn, and that catty woman with the big house and the cotton, during that civil war thing. Y'all know.
Rather, they live in countries on the other side of the world with low costs of living, and work for companies in the Bay Area, with still higher effective savings than someone living there on the same salary, even after flying across the Pacific every now and then each year?
Wouldn't that be nice? :-)
It's a lot worse in a lot of places. The USA, and its companies and legal/social conventions, still have the most sway in the world in terms of the technical economy, so it's not all that surprising.
Research Assistants in the Design,Engineering and Computing department at my University have a starting salary of a whopping £10,000. (Thats about $14,500)
At the start of this year, I worked as a research assistant in a New Zealand university for a grand total of NZ$12/hour (Call it US$4.80, or maybe UK £3.30). I would have had a little less if I'd only had a BSc instead of a PGDipSc, and a bit more if I'd survived BSc(Hons), or stayed on an extra year for a Masters. Granted, it's a pittance by your standards, but the cost of living for most staple goods tends to be about a third of what it is in the UK.
The other important thing to note here is that the [state-controlled] education sector often gets treated quite differently by governments from other departments (Treasury, Inland Revenue, Agriculture and Fisheries, or whatever). Although you could consider that as an RA at a public university you're an employee of the government, your wages are most likely coming out of an education budget, and it's the university that will be setting the figures as part of its budget. So even if the government were to allocate more to paying its technical staff, the chances of it trickling down to tutors and RAs is pretty slim.
I bet in the US you would earn more saying 'would you like fires with that' in McDonalds
Fires? Why does that strike me as passive-aggressive behaviour akin to "F*** you for calling the $Company Helpdesk, how may I help you?" :-)
I was just wondering if they were related to the German Chocolate Spread maker...... Mmmm.. Tarantella...
"Helpful Nutritional Information:
Tarantella(TM) contains no more than six big furry spider portions per 100g of product."
Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle Man...
Sounds very ungood. OK, does anyone want to try and get an e-Commerce protocol up and working via FTP? Telnet? Ping..?
I guess the other thing to be careful there is to find out what this law would consider tax-evasion.
is 404! Not found. :-)
Try taking the "www.slashdot.org/" out of it
www.FASA.com might work better.
The nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from...