The Apple campaign is funny, smart, and rooted in truth. The Microsoft campaign is insulting (read through it: the bullet points decided upon by the P.R. firm committee practically recite themselves in order), bland (the "freelance writer" exhibits no dimension of character. Even the photograph is devoid of shadows or wrinkles), and rooted in fiction.
Apple, at least, is trying intellectually to woo the dollars out of my pocket. Microsoft's just trying to con them out.
Yes, when I was negotiating a cash transaction with a prostitute.
What you mean to say, of course,
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is that you treasure your little four-dig. "Why... in my day..."
It's this weird unspoken thing that low-digit users here are like elders. Their posts carry that little extra weight, like the withered old geek has just stood up at the town meeting, or something equally rediculous.
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be in a bar, trying out my new/. come on lines. Course my karma's excellent, baby. I ain't no troll. Now come here for a sec, you've gotta click here to log in.
This comment is a duplicate of another one in this thread. Why don't you posters read the other posts before hitting "submit"?... While you're answering that question, I'll go get a soft drink. Ahh -- diet doctor pepper. Who would have thought they could improve on the original? But they did!
an important step forward for human civilization!
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*sound of children starving to death.*
At the risk of being sent down to the -1 kiddies' table by the moderators, I'd like to express in this forum the faint buzzing sound in my aural periphery when I hear about technological breakthroughs that allow me to rlogin from my iPod in Nepal to a laundry dryer in Brooklyn. The buzzing sound is my political mind trying to be heard. It's saying: "..hey, lunkhead. The reason you sleep better at night having spent the day compiling open source code on a linux box is because it makes me happy, too -- your political mind. You know that free software, stealing Microsoft's market share, etc. are positive actions politically....but I can't deny that most of these technological advances are advancing by leaps and bounds while basic human needs are being neglected. I'm not saying you shouldn't throw that 10/100 NIC into your toaster, I'm just saying: hold off on the champagne a bit. Keep things in perspective. Try to remember that there's a world that needs technology to improve its quality of life -- a world outside of your laundromat."
This one really bugs me. I've been dealing with these bastards' emails for what feels like forever. Every time I go to pine and hit that favorite key combo, M-S-R-F-A, I get more incensed. These companies prey on my friends' insecurities, then usurp *my* time and resources, all so they can build an addition to their garish Malibu beach houses.
I want revenge. I want to make them pay. I want to find a hole in their system that allows me to exploit *their* resources. Why not write a bot that logs on to their website and enters believable, false email addresses, making their spam lists worthless and chewing up their processor time? There must be a legal way to exact at least an ounce of flesh from these manipulative, bottom-feeding insults to civilized human beings, and I want to hear suggestions.
The Academy now has an Oscar for "Animated Feature Film," presumably in acknowledgement of Pixar and Dreamworks' growing presence in box office tallies. My question: do you feel this further integrates animated features with live action films, or does it effectively segregate them? To put it another way -- has the Academy invited animation to sit at the adult's table, or merely put the kid's table in the same dining room?
We have sentimental attachments to Star Wars because it's myth lite: the orphaned hero, the vision quest, etc., etc. Many of us have seen or read the Joseph Campbell take on the Star Wars trilogy, and I won't bother rehashing it here.
The advertising and tie-ins prolong the life of our sentimentality, way, way beyond what its natural lifespan probably would have been. But make no mistake: Star Wars succeeded because it was a greco-roman myth masquerading as a western masquerading as sci-fi.
Not to mention Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were f***ing hot in that movie.
I would compare that to my newspaper not being delivered! It's great that I'm paying for no ads, but I would be dismayed to also be paying for no content.
What kind of customer support will slashdot offer? What happens when there's a DOS attack or a slashbug and I can't access the site when I need it? With traditional publications, I have someone's ear to chew when the periodical isn't delivered as promised. What kind of assurances can slashdot give me that I'll get something for my money?
Their designs are viewable by the vast majority of their intended audience. Their designs are engaging, unique, and enhance their clients' content. All websites should follow those guidelines.
Slashdot does have a front page.
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Slashdot has sections, like apple.slashdot and bsd.slashdot, much like a newspaper has Sports and Fine Arts sections. I consider http://slashdot.org to be the "front page." I thought that was obvious, sorry.
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Wait, a front page story on slashdot is a front page story on Wired that's entirely hearsay. A computer consultant says he saw a crime, CompUSA didn't believe him, and that's news?
Award-winning London-based designers of Requiemforadream.com and Donniedarko.com. Some of the most obfuscated, beautiful (flash) website design on the internet. A lesson about how to draw people in and let them forage for content in a way that piques their interest, generates buzz, and makes viewers crave more, more, more.
This is no different than the cracks for popular video games like Quake or Wolfenstein. The false serial will pass the local algorithm check, but try to register it online, and it fails a simple database lookup of serials actually issued. And the chances of generating a serial that's actually been issued by MS are beyond remote.
The only application I can see is creating a large list of valid serials and trying to bombard the authentication server with requests. But that seems both unweildy and rediculous.
It's Cnet's domain, along with news.com, computers.com, etc.
I remember when I worked for ZDNet in '96 we used to make fun of CNet, our main competitor at the time, for purchasing such general domain names. "What, do they think they own everything?"
Undoubtedly the best of those IBM ads is the one that in plain Engish answers for a wide audience one of the biggest questions surrounding Linux: one of the execs is watching footage of the "Linux" player, while a second exec is explaining that he plays nearly for free. The first exec asks why on Earth he'd do that, and the second responds, staring at the screen: "Loves the game."
It will be interesting to see if the nascent GeForce4 chip will perform well in the benchmarks. From the specs of the card, it looks like it's following in GF2 and 3's footsteps: a phoenomenal game-rendering architecture that does poorly with CAD/professional CG, but still better than any other gaming card on the market...
If you mean the Geforce 2 MX series of cards (GeForce 4? Did I miss a press release?), it will give you killer Maya framerates on Mac or PC -- until you start manipulating a project with a realworld poly count. Gaming-oriented cards like the Geforce MX series are optimized for lower poly counts and larger amounts of texture data. For anything > 1 million Polys, you're going to start to choke unless you use a GL card like the Wildcat, FireGL, or (if you want a middle of the road card that can play games well at the price of a little high-poly performance) the Gloria series. Of course, those cards will cost $6-700 more than your gaming card, but that's because they're made to do real work....
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The Apple campaign is funny, smart, and rooted in truth. The Microsoft campaign is insulting (read through it: the bullet points decided upon by the P.R. firm committee practically recite themselves in order), bland (the "freelance writer" exhibits no dimension of character. Even the photograph is devoid of shadows or wrinkles), and rooted in fiction.
Apple, at least, is trying intellectually to woo the dollars out of my pocket. Microsoft's just trying to con them out.
"Your husband is somewhat dead."
"Sir -- I got your daughter somewhat pregnant."
I think you should reconsider your definition of "stable" somewhat.
Yes, when I was negotiating a cash transaction with a prostitute.
is that you treasure your little four-dig. "Why... in my day..."
/. come on lines. Course my karma's excellent, baby. I ain't no troll. Now come here for a sec, you've gotta click here to log in.
It's this weird unspoken thing that low-digit users here are like elders. Their posts carry that little extra weight, like the withered old geek has just stood up at the town meeting, or something equally rediculous.
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be in a bar, trying out my new
This comment is a duplicate of another one in this thread. Why don't you posters read the other posts before hitting "submit"? ... While you're answering that question, I'll go get a soft drink. Ahh -- diet doctor pepper. Who would have thought they could improve on the original? But they did!
*sound of children starving to death.*
...but I can't deny that most of these technological advances are advancing by leaps and bounds while basic human needs are being neglected. I'm not saying you shouldn't throw that 10/100 NIC into your toaster, I'm just saying: hold off on the champagne a bit. Keep things in perspective. Try to remember that there's a world that needs technology to improve its quality of life -- a world outside of your laundromat."
At the risk of being sent down to the -1 kiddies' table by the moderators, I'd like to express in this forum the faint buzzing sound in my aural periphery when I hear about technological breakthroughs that allow me to rlogin from my iPod in Nepal to a laundry dryer in Brooklyn. The buzzing sound is my political mind trying to be heard. It's saying: "..hey, lunkhead. The reason you sleep better at night having spent the day compiling open source code on a linux box is because it makes me happy, too -- your political mind. You know that free software, stealing Microsoft's market share, etc. are positive actions politically.
"...bzzt."
This one really bugs me. I've been dealing with these bastards' emails for what feels like forever. Every time I go to pine and hit that favorite key combo, M-S-R-F-A, I get more incensed. These companies prey on my friends' insecurities, then usurp *my* time and resources, all so they can build an addition to their garish Malibu beach houses.
I want revenge. I want to make them pay. I want to find a hole in their system that allows me to exploit *their* resources. Why not write a bot that logs on to their website and enters believable, false email addresses, making their spam lists worthless and chewing up their processor time? There must be a legal way to exact at least an ounce of flesh from these manipulative, bottom-feeding insults to civilized human beings, and I want to hear suggestions.
The Academy now has an Oscar for "Animated Feature Film," presumably in acknowledgement of Pixar and Dreamworks' growing presence in box office tallies. My question: do you feel this further integrates animated features with live action films, or does it effectively segregate them? To put it another way -- has the Academy invited animation to sit at the adult's table, or merely put the kid's table in the same dining room?
We have sentimental attachments to Star Wars because it's myth lite: the orphaned hero, the vision quest, etc., etc. Many of us have seen or read the Joseph Campbell take on the Star Wars trilogy, and I won't bother rehashing it here.
The advertising and tie-ins prolong the life of our sentimentality, way, way beyond what its natural lifespan probably would have been. But make no mistake: Star Wars succeeded because it was a greco-roman myth masquerading as a western masquerading as sci-fi.
Not to mention Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were f***ing hot in that movie.
> All of this is meaningless, since within a years time California won't have any electricity!
They'll have plenty of electricity, but it won't be safe to use under all that water.
They haven't won since 1998.
I would compare that to my newspaper not being delivered! It's great that I'm paying for no ads, but I would be dismayed to also be paying for no content.
What kind of customer support will slashdot offer? What happens when there's a DOS attack or a slashbug and I can't access the site when I need it? With traditional publications, I have someone's ear to chew when the periodical isn't delivered as promised. What kind of assurances can slashdot give me that I'll get something for my money?
Their designs are viewable by the vast majority of their intended audience. Their designs are engaging, unique, and enhance their clients' content. All websites should follow those guidelines.
Slashdot has sections, like apple.slashdot and bsd.slashdot, much like a newspaper has Sports and Fine Arts sections. I consider http://slashdot.org to be the "front page." I thought that was obvious, sorry.
Wait, a front page story on slashdot is a front page story on Wired that's entirely hearsay. A computer consultant says he saw a crime, CompUSA didn't believe him, and that's news?
Award-winning London-based designers of Requiemforadream.com and Donniedarko.com. Some of the most obfuscated, beautiful (flash) website design on the internet. A lesson about how to draw people in and let them forage for content in a way that piques their interest, generates buzz, and makes viewers crave more, more, more.
This is no different than the cracks for popular video games like Quake or Wolfenstein. The false serial will pass the local algorithm check, but try to register it online, and it fails a simple database lookup of serials actually issued. And the chances of generating a serial that's actually been issued by MS are beyond remote.
The only application I can see is creating a large list of valid serials and trying to bombard the authentication server with requests. But that seems both unweildy and rediculous.
I don't know where the project's homepage has disappeared to, but here's amorMD2's home on Freshmeat.
It's Cnet's domain, along with news.com, computers.com, etc.
I remember when I worked for ZDNet in '96 we used to make fun of CNet, our main competitor at the time, for purchasing such general domain names. "What, do they think they own everything?"
A few years later, they bought ZDNet.
by betting the world a million dollars.
Undoubtedly the best of those IBM ads is the one that in plain Engish answers for a wide audience one of the biggest questions surrounding Linux: one of the execs is watching footage of the "Linux" player, while a second exec is explaining that he plays nearly for free. The first exec asks why on Earth he'd do that, and the second responds, staring at the screen: "Loves the game."
Great spot.
Do the same thing with pong, then I'll be impressed.
It will be interesting to see if the nascent GeForce4 chip will perform well in the benchmarks. From the specs of the card, it looks like it's following in GF2 and 3's footsteps: a phoenomenal game-rendering architecture that does poorly with CAD/professional CG, but still better than any other gaming card on the market...
If you mean the Geforce 2 MX series of cards (GeForce 4? Did I miss a press release?), it will give you killer Maya framerates on Mac or PC -- until you start manipulating a project with a realworld poly count. Gaming-oriented cards like the Geforce MX series are optimized for lower poly counts and larger amounts of texture data. For anything > 1 million Polys, you're going to start to choke unless you use a GL card like the Wildcat, FireGL, or (if you want a middle of the road card that can play games well at the price of a little high-poly performance) the Gloria series. Of course, those cards will cost $6-700 more than your gaming card, but that's because they're made to do real work....