When a small group of men are taking up a large majority of the women, this leaves a large group of angry young males who aren't getting any pussy. Potentially this discontent can lead to uprisings and civil unrest.
...looks like the Android train has left the station, with only Sprint aboard. So much for T-Mobile offering Android and Google stuff. This also means I'm going to have to ditch my GSM phone too. Dammit Sprint!!
How can it do YouTube without Flash? Unless YouTube is serving up videos in a different format, specifically for iPhones and maybe the Apple TV, that sounds impossible. Please explain. Kthxbai.
...finally someone gets it. Yeah, there have been disasters like the ATI GPU in iBook G3 debacle, and the explodey battery debacle, but Dell has hardware disasters too and so does everyone else. Macs usually are built with the best parts that Apple can get their hands on. Everyone else cheaps out and you are left with leaky capacitors after a couple of years use or other crap like that. The only other company who has been really good on quality parts was IBM when they still designed and made ThinkPads and enterprise desktops. (not Aptiva or the i-series ThinkPads, you can blame Acer for that) Lenovo has taken the brand and dragged it down to the same crappy level as everyone else (Used a Lenovo ThinkPad lately? PU!) but mas o menos Apple has kept the brand up. I've had a very happy MacBook since 2006...finest computer I've ever owned.
Wait, that might have very well been MS' ulterior motive. Acquire a whole shipload of BSD "developers, developers, developers, developers" that could help them get out of the corner they have painted themselves into with the current state of Windows. Windows 7 might be basically Mac OS X Redmond style...a Microsoft GUI on top of BSD internals they can fork proprietary. That is the best explanation of any I have heard for why Yahoo was a MS target. Without Yahoo developers they can raid, this might be a more difficult task.
That's a departure from the original rah-rah "Go USA" Cold War-era comic. It's a good departure though. Not very realistic, but cool, and in keeping with the whole Marvel philosophy of the hero with psychological conflicts versus the Silver Age DC outlook with its semi-omnipotent heroes and villains who are either all-good or all-evil. Tony Stark has gone through an interesting evolution in the books as well. I have only rarely gone to the movies in recent years, preferring to watch movies via DVD, but I might be interested in seeing this one on the big screen.
Hmm...troll attacks can be scary. But at least Bilbo Baggins didn't encounter crapflooders, as far as I know. So I think this may wind up a movie you can bring the kids to see.
Much as I like Kanno Yoko's scores, and hope that eventually she gets to do movie music in the US, GITS and GITS2: Innocence were scored by Kawai Kenji, who did brilliant and highly unusual scores for the two movies. I think Kanno Yoko may have scored the two SAC series.
Oh yeah...casting horror thoughts: Batou: Arnold Schwarzenegger (he'll be out of a job in 2010) Maj. Kusanagi: Lucy Liu Togusa: Keanu Reeves
And if Spielberg is directing, be prepared for basset hound cute overload. He will take the basset hound appearances and make them even more obvious and more obnoxious.
However, amazingly enough my Congresscritter, Howard "Berman the Ermine" Berman (D-MAFIAA) was an aye vote. He was also a co-sponsor. He takes some ridiculous stances for his Big Media patrons, but when I'm ready to tell him to go Cheney himself, he does something like this.
Tony Stark is also the most openly fascistic of all the Marvel Silver Age characters. He was also somewhat ambiguous as to his alignment. It can be said that he was the first "anti-hero" superhero, before The Punisher, who actually was debuted as a villain. He became an out-and-out villain in the "Civil War" arc.
So it's not out of criticism of Open Source that Tony Stark, military-industrial complex tycoon and neocon, is battling an Open Source villain. This is a story arc pitting, in the Pro Wrestling sense, two "heels" against each other. One is lumbering and dinosaur-like, the other is agile and mammalian. This should be interesting.
I think what eventually will happen is that MS will build its next "Windows" on a BSD foundation. They've cribbed from BSD in the past (many command-line utilities like FTP in Windows are recompiled BSD code, which include the UC advertisement!) and the BSD license will allow a closed fork. This is also why Mac OS X liberally takes from the FreeBSD code base, although Apple has slowly been "getting it" regarding F/OSS, witness the improvements from Apple which have trickled back to Konqueror code.
Fearless prediction: Windows 7 will be basically a BSD core running a WINE-like API layer to run legacy WinNT code. They have to throw everything out and start over again because the WinNT codebase is corrupt spaghetti.
Look what happened after Windows Not-For-ME. That was the last iteration of "DOS living in Windows" and it showed. Crashy crashy. They moved to WinNT for the next consumer version of Windows, XP. Windows 2000 will remain the high-water mark of the WinNT line as far as I'm concerned, but it didn't have the same consumer friendliness as XP. So it is small wonder people are trying to limp along with XP and avoiding Vista and its DRM cycle-sinks.
...is the system Disney helped develop with Texas Instruments, and is absolutely amazing. High refresh rate digital projection, polarized glasses, the only 3D movie system that never gave me a headache. I saw Chicken Little in it...lousy movie, awesome 3D effects.
...I have to defend Sony Pictures Animation for Surf's Up. Fun story, great salute to surf culture, some of the most awesome effects animation in quite some time. With penguins that can ACT, not penguins rendered unable to convincingly act by their photo-realistic character design, as in Happy Feet.
I didn't care for Open Season but I was pleasantly surprised by Surf's Up. It's worth a rental, even for grownups. Especially grownups who like surfing. Or The Big Lebowski.
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Watch the video. All he needs to do is temporarily affix the "slow moving vehicle" triangle to the back of the mini-Panzer and he is good to go. Basically what he built is a tractor with rubber tracks and an air cannon.
1.) Semitic-looking Fremen speaking perfect Arabic with English subtitles. Remember, the Sayyadinas reconstructed the "Language of the Book" by imbibing the Water of Life and consulting with Ancestral Memory.
2.) Weirding Way of Battle = Sufi Mysticism and Kung Fu. Not stupid sonic guns that can be sold in toy stores.
3.) Vladimir Harkonnen as the evil bastard he truly was, without the flying crap. Those suspensors were attached to him so that he could move around under his flab.
4.) DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG. Boo. Yah. It would make this Dune a very adult and very brutal movie, but dammit, the books were written for adults, not for the moms little kids who wanted another Star Wars to take their kids to. See A History Of Violence or Eastern Promises to see what Cronenberg is capable of now.
5.) Guild Steersmen who look like mutant humans, not sandworms.
6.) Ornithopters with elegant, sweeping wings that flap and glide like birds of prey.
Furthermore, if you are unlucky enough to be homeless, once you are stabilized they will put you on a taxi toSkid Row. Oh yeah, the USA has the best dang health care in the world, dang it! Right? RIGHT???
iTunes was originally written by Mac software house Casady and Greene, as SoundJam MP. So yeah, Apple tends to do the same thing...buy a program and embrace and extend it.
They also tend to lure key developers away from projects to work for them. The guy who wrote ACID and Vegas for Sonic Foundry, (Now Sony Software) Chris Moulios, is now at Apple. He wrote first Soundtrack, then the cut-down Garage Band, for Apple. He is currently making Logic Audio and Final Cut over in his own image.
Unfortunately Sony would not allow the same algorithm that makes ACID able to seamlessly beatmap and pitch map loops to go to Apple. The one in Soundtrack and Garage Band is slightly different and somewhat inferior to the original ACID algorithm. So you have to tweak things more in Garage Band than ACID.:P
The trick to that is to own the CD. Used CDs work just as well as new ones, and mean that the RIAA get exactly jack and shit from your pocket. Then rip, mix, download to your iPod...bliss.
I also have The Beatles in MY iTunes as well. Same deal.
The only thing I get from the iTunes store is podcasts. For free. Bwahahaha. If there is a song I am itching to get, and I can't find the CD at Second Spin or Amoeba Records in Hollywood, then maybe I'll break down and buy it from the iTunes store. So far there's been no song compelling enough to do that with.
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When a small group of men are taking up a large majority of the women, this leaves a large group of angry young males who aren't getting any pussy. Potentially this discontent can lead to uprisings and civil unrest.
Or it can lead to boys as young as 13 being put out of the community, which is tantamount to being damned to Hell for eternity according to FLDS teachings.
...looks like the Android train has left the station, with only Sprint aboard. So much for T-Mobile offering Android and Google stuff. This also means I'm going to have to ditch my GSM phone too. Dammit Sprint!!
I doubt you could do a whole lot to stop them, short of having Bruce Willis on speed dial.
Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker!
No, the Sonic Youth guitars in question had physical modifications done to them. It wasn't just weird tunings. This was a major setback for the band.
How can it do YouTube without Flash? Unless YouTube is serving up videos in a different format, specifically for iPhones and maybe the Apple TV, that sounds impossible. Please explain. Kthxbai.
...finally someone gets it. Yeah, there have been disasters like the ATI GPU in iBook G3 debacle, and the explodey battery debacle, but Dell has hardware disasters too and so does everyone else. Macs usually are built with the best parts that Apple can get their hands on. Everyone else cheaps out and you are left with leaky capacitors after a couple of years use or other crap like that. The only other company who has been really good on quality parts was IBM when they still designed and made ThinkPads and enterprise desktops. (not Aptiva or the i-series ThinkPads, you can blame Acer for that) Lenovo has taken the brand and dragged it down to the same crappy level as everyone else (Used a Lenovo ThinkPad lately? PU!) but mas o menos Apple has kept the brand up. I've had a very happy MacBook since 2006...finest computer I've ever owned.
Wait, that might have very well been MS' ulterior motive. Acquire a whole shipload of BSD "developers, developers, developers, developers" that could help them get out of the corner they have painted themselves into with the current state of Windows. Windows 7 might be basically Mac OS X Redmond style...a Microsoft GUI on top of BSD internals they can fork proprietary. That is the best explanation of any I have heard for why Yahoo was a MS target. Without Yahoo developers they can raid, this might be a more difficult task.
Resistance is futile. EPIC awaits. Today Yahoo, tomorrow Amazon.
Newsflash: MS has given up on their attempt to take over Yahoo. It seems like crow is the new dish of the day in Redmond.
...sooner than you think. 2015 is way off. 2009? Maybe...
That's a departure from the original rah-rah "Go USA" Cold War-era comic. It's a good departure though. Not very realistic, but cool, and in keeping with the whole Marvel philosophy of the hero with psychological conflicts versus the Silver Age DC outlook with its semi-omnipotent heroes and villains who are either all-good or all-evil. Tony Stark has gone through an interesting evolution in the books as well. I have only rarely gone to the movies in recent years, preferring to watch movies via DVD, but I might be interested in seeing this one on the big screen.
Six words: Get away from her you bitch!
Hmm...troll attacks can be scary. But at least Bilbo Baggins didn't encounter crapflooders, as far as I know. So I think this may wind up a movie you can bring the kids to see.
Much as I like Kanno Yoko's scores, and hope that eventually she gets to do movie music in the US, GITS and GITS2: Innocence were scored by Kawai Kenji, who did brilliant and highly unusual scores for the two movies. I think Kanno Yoko may have scored the two SAC series.
Oh yeah...casting horror thoughts:
Batou: Arnold Schwarzenegger (he'll be out of a job in 2010)
Maj. Kusanagi: Lucy Liu
Togusa: Keanu Reeves
And if Spielberg is directing, be prepared for basset hound cute overload. He will take the basset hound appearances and make them even more obvious and more obnoxious.
However, amazingly enough my Congresscritter, Howard "Berman the Ermine" Berman (D-MAFIAA) was an aye vote. He was also a co-sponsor. He takes some ridiculous stances for his Big Media patrons, but when I'm ready to tell him to go Cheney himself, he does something like this.
Tony Stark is also the most openly fascistic of all the Marvel Silver Age characters. He was also somewhat ambiguous as to his alignment. It can be said that he was the first "anti-hero" superhero, before The Punisher, who actually was debuted as a villain. He became an out-and-out villain in the "Civil War" arc.
So it's not out of criticism of Open Source that Tony Stark, military-industrial complex tycoon and neocon, is battling an Open Source villain. This is a story arc pitting, in the Pro Wrestling sense, two "heels" against each other. One is lumbering and dinosaur-like, the other is agile and mammalian. This should be interesting.
I think what eventually will happen is that MS will build its next "Windows" on a BSD foundation. They've cribbed from BSD in the past (many command-line utilities like FTP in Windows are recompiled BSD code, which include the UC advertisement!) and the BSD license will allow a closed fork. This is also why Mac OS X liberally takes from the FreeBSD code base, although Apple has slowly been "getting it" regarding F/OSS, witness the improvements from Apple which have trickled back to Konqueror code.
Fearless prediction: Windows 7 will be basically a BSD core running a WINE-like API layer to run legacy WinNT code. They have to throw everything out and start over again because the WinNT codebase is corrupt spaghetti.
Look what happened after Windows Not-For-ME. That was the last iteration of "DOS living in Windows" and it showed. Crashy crashy. They moved to WinNT for the next consumer version of Windows, XP. Windows 2000 will remain the high-water mark of the WinNT line as far as I'm concerned, but it didn't have the same consumer friendliness as XP. So it is small wonder people are trying to limp along with XP and avoiding Vista and its DRM cycle-sinks.
...is the system Disney helped develop with Texas Instruments, and is absolutely amazing. High refresh rate digital projection, polarized glasses, the only 3D movie system that never gave me a headache. I saw Chicken Little in it...lousy movie, awesome 3D effects.
...I have to defend Sony Pictures Animation for Surf's Up. Fun story, great salute to surf culture, some of the most awesome effects animation in quite some time. With penguins that can ACT, not penguins rendered unable to convincingly act by their photo-realistic character design, as in Happy Feet.
I didn't care for Open Season but I was pleasantly surprised by Surf's Up. It's worth a rental, even for grownups. Especially grownups who like surfing. Or The Big Lebowski.
Watch the video. All he needs to do is temporarily affix the "slow moving vehicle" triangle to the back of the mini-Panzer and he is good to go. Basically what he built is a tractor with rubber tracks and an air cannon.
The ultimate in fahrvergnuegen. Outstanding.
My requests for a new Dune movie...
1.) Semitic-looking Fremen speaking perfect Arabic with English subtitles. Remember, the Sayyadinas reconstructed the "Language of the Book" by imbibing the Water of Life and consulting with Ancestral Memory.
2.) Weirding Way of Battle = Sufi Mysticism and Kung Fu. Not stupid sonic guns that can be sold in toy stores.
3.) Vladimir Harkonnen as the evil bastard he truly was, without the flying crap. Those suspensors were attached to him so that he could move around under his flab.
4.) DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG. Boo. Yah. It would make this Dune a very adult and very brutal movie, but dammit, the books were written for adults, not for the moms little kids who wanted another Star Wars to take their kids to. See A History Of Violence or Eastern Promises to see what Cronenberg is capable of now.
5.) Guild Steersmen who look like mutant humans, not sandworms.
6.) Ornithopters with elegant, sweeping wings that flap and glide like birds of prey.
7.) Viggo Mortensen as Duke Leto. Awesome.
Furthermore, if you are unlucky enough to be homeless, once you are stabilized they will put you on a taxi to Skid Row. Oh yeah, the USA has the best dang health care in the world, dang it! Right? RIGHT???
iTunes was originally written by Mac software house Casady and Greene, as SoundJam MP. So yeah, Apple tends to do the same thing...buy a program and embrace and extend it.
:P
They also tend to lure key developers away from projects to work for them. The guy who wrote ACID and Vegas for Sonic Foundry, (Now Sony Software) Chris Moulios, is now at Apple. He wrote first Soundtrack, then the cut-down Garage Band, for Apple. He is currently making Logic Audio and Final Cut over in his own image.
Unfortunately Sony would not allow the same algorithm that makes ACID able to seamlessly beatmap and pitch map loops to go to Apple. The one in Soundtrack and Garage Band is slightly different and somewhat inferior to the original ACID algorithm. So you have to tweak things more in Garage Band than ACID.
Heh. I have Zappa in MY iTunes.
The trick to that is to own the CD. Used CDs work just as well as new ones, and mean that the RIAA get exactly jack and shit from your pocket. Then rip, mix, download to your iPod...bliss.
I also have The Beatles in MY iTunes as well. Same deal.
The only thing I get from the iTunes store is podcasts. For free. Bwahahaha. If there is a song I am itching to get, and I can't find the CD at Second Spin or Amoeba Records in Hollywood, then maybe I'll break down and buy it from the iTunes store. So far there's been no song compelling enough to do that with.
Doesn't this robot look like HELPeR, the robot from The Venture Brothers? :-)