Even my girlfriend uses it as a desktop now, and had only 1 day to "convert" to the usage, and she's not that computer savvy.
That has to be the most brilliant use of vender lock in to date!
I'm going to go start a migration plan for my girlfriend to switch to Linux. Then when she gets tired of my geeky arse she'll have to think twice about dumping me!
Even David Chase said in an interview that the key to how it ends is in that first episode (Soprano Home Movies), and to make sure people would remember this he put Tony flashing back to that moment at the end of "#85 The Blue Comet."
and
...coupled with the symbolism and David Chase's comments make me feel that he took one to the head.
Do you have a link or reference to the article/interview where he states that? If you do that just about cinches the intent of the ending.
Should a way be found to make domain squatters pay the true cost of their collections?
Yes. Here's a suggestion I've read in the past. Charge $100/year for a domain. It's not outrageous if you own a few domains. But if you own 1.2 million, staying in business becomes a lot less profitable if you're a squatter.
All you have to do is hold out for a couple of years with clownpenis.fart until these squatters run out of capital. Then you can buy obscure-website-4-me.com.
Either that or it'll be a lot more expensive to buy a domain. I'm not an economist so I don't know what will happen. But I suspect the burn rate would surpass the revenues.
It's the best coffee maker you will ever own. Bar none. You basically make espresso and add water, often called an Americano.
Incidentally, if you insist on using a drip maker, leave 15%-20% of the water in the pot. A friend who works for Starbuck's gave me that tip. It'll help the coffee remain smooth. The longer water is in contact with the grounds the more bitterness is pulled out.
But get yourself an Aero Press and you'll turn your nose up at Starbuck's.
And I thought I was the only one pissed off by that. One need look no further than Disney's permanent copyright for evidence of lobbying buying votes.
Disney sucks. It'll be nice when my kids are older so I don't have to consume any more of their crap.
As a pre-emptive defense, judge my unwillingness to say no to my kids Disney habit only if you have kids yourself. If you do have kids and do say no to Disney, I bow to your superior parenting skills.
Most people try and keep their passwords and usernames to a small number so use the same password and username for several different sites... so a nasty trick could be to try using the password for flixter against the same username for a different account say google mail or myspace...
That's why I have two levels of passwords. I have my regular password and my uber secure password. I know that's still not super secure, but to me it strikes the appropriate balance of security and convenience.
After coding for several large organizations and seeing most of them storing passwords in the clear rather than hashing them, I thought it was the prudent thing to do.
As the younger generations start to take back this world it will become a better place to live because of...
Yeah, because the WWII generation certainly didn't step up help the world, and those hippie civil rights activists (in the US) didn't do nothin' fer nobody.
In case you didn't know, every younger generation has all the answers to fix all the problems of the world. Generation Noobs, your generation, is apparently going to fix the problems with torrents, blogs, and 2 minute videos.
Personally, as a Gen-X-er, I'm happy with being disenfranchised and disillusioned.
People have been saying our way of life is not sustainable for hundreds of years. Basically since the industrial revolution.
While I'm not saying you're wrong (I'm ambivalent on the subject) I am saying you're yet another in a long line of doomsayers. And I think that's important to note....
One thing humans have been incredibly successful at is finding solutions to our problems. Fire, farming, the wheel, building/architecture, metallurgy, medicine, electronics, atomic energy... It's an impressive resume.
To write us off completely? Well, you're either a prophet or a crack-pot.
AI? We have the computers that could run the code (maybe). We don't know how to write the code. We probably won't know how next decade, either, or the decade after that.
Finally! Someone said it. I'm no expert in AI, but I emphasized in it for my MS-CS. And from what I saw, 40 years of effort (at that time) amounted to various search techniques.
Computers are great at Chess. Chess has a small search space (compared to, say, Go, which computers suck at). Computers aren't any better at Backgammon because chance is involved.
How do you program instinct? Feel? Creativity? I don't think it's that we can't, I think it's that we have no idea how to. That's why I think the 'singularity' monster robot humanity killer is such a joke. At least on the timescale people are talking about.
But what do I know. Some well known smart guy said the world is going to end by 2050 because of killer robots, so it must be true!
We Americans had a guy like Irwin. His name was Timothy Treadwell. He, too, was killed while filming himself (he was hanging out with Grizzly Bears). He got his girlfriend killed, too.
He was quasi-famous. Not like Irwin, though. Treadwell shot some amazing footage, but nothing worth his life, IMHO. Irwin's footage wasn't worth his life either.
Way late on the answer here, but yes, I did know that. And yes, I was being insensitive.
The point was why the hell did that guy have, in my opinion, a death wish, while taking a wife and fathering a child? There's plenty of footage to be had of Sting Rays, Crocs, Vipers, and from reasonable distances. There's no reason to go crawling into a den of rattlers, other than for his own morbid reasons, despite his proclaimed reasons.
Besides, who was more insensitive, me making a bad joke or him flirting with death (and managing to land a date), while leaving a widow and child behind? I'm sure his kid will be very proud of his Daddy this Christmas. Irwin is the insensitive clod. I'm just bad with humor.
Why would I get searched everytime, yet my travel bud never get searched?
Because you're clearly a terrorist. Crazy Aussie!
Oh, and what's up with that crocodile dude? Come on, as an Australian you have to answer for his behavior.
;-) Seriously, though, the whole thing is a waste of time. My boy (just past two at the time) was patted down earlier this year. It was humorous and completely asinine at the same time.
I think we'd all be better off if every seat-back contained a 6" switchblade. Then when 5 jihadists stand up to hijack, 100 pissed off westerners will stand up to get their chance at these yahoos.
Actually, it'll probably be a long while before we see another hijacking. We'll probably see bombings from now on...
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That has to be the most brilliant use of vender lock in to date!
I'm going to go start a migration plan for my girlfriend to switch to Linux. Then when she gets tired of my geeky arse she'll have to think twice about dumping me!
Perhaps they didn't cross interstellar space, and perhaps they're not an alien species.
(I don't believe any of it is real, I'm just saying there are other possibilities...)
Do you have a link or reference to the article/interview where he states that? If you do that just about cinches the intent of the ending.
Otherwise we're still speculating...
Dude. I read that, and then immediately started trying to analyze how I read. Do you have any idea how much that screws you up?
That kind of introspective analysis could lead to a complete failure of my literary skills.
I guess I'll go cruise digg.com/videos now...
Yes. Here's a suggestion I've read in the past. Charge $100/year for a domain. It's not outrageous if you own a few domains. But if you own 1.2 million, staying in business becomes a lot less profitable if you're a squatter.
All you have to do is hold out for a couple of years with clownpenis.fart until these squatters run out of capital. Then you can buy obscure-website-4-me.com.
Either that or it'll be a lot more expensive to buy a domain. I'm not an economist so I don't know what will happen. But I suspect the burn rate would surpass the revenues.
It's an idea, anyway...
Someone with mod points mod up the Aero Press.
It's the best coffee maker you will ever own. Bar none. You basically make espresso and add water, often called an Americano.
Incidentally, if you insist on using a drip maker, leave 15%-20% of the water in the pot. A friend who works for Starbuck's gave me that tip. It'll help the coffee remain smooth. The longer water is in contact with the grounds the more bitterness is pulled out.
But get yourself an Aero Press and you'll turn your nose up at Starbuck's.
And I thought I was the only one pissed off by that. One need look no further than Disney's permanent copyright for evidence of lobbying buying votes.
Disney sucks. It'll be nice when my kids are older so I don't have to consume any more of their crap.
As a pre-emptive defense, judge my unwillingness to say no to my kids Disney habit only if you have kids yourself. If you do have kids and do say no to Disney, I bow to your superior parenting skills.
That's why I have two levels of passwords. I have my regular password and my uber secure password. I know that's still not super secure, but to me it strikes the appropriate balance of security and convenience.
After coding for several large organizations and seeing most of them storing passwords in the clear rather than hashing them, I thought it was the prudent thing to do.
Hilarious. I totally thought 'fenomenon' was some word I'd never seen. I was mentally pronouncing it 'FEHnoh-MEHN-on'.
After a quick re-read, I realized that you meant 'phenomenon'.
While almost the exact same spelling, that 'f' really threw me for a loop.
Someone mod the parent up.
I think XUL is a big gold mine waiting to be discovered.
That's right, Canada! You'd best conform! Don't make us come up there! We don't want to have to stop buying our meds from you!
And you too, Bermuda! Our corporations /will/ stop opening shell offices as tax shelters out there if you don't stay in line!
;-)
Why are all the self proclaimed Google employees posting as Cowards?
Hmm.
I just emailed myself your post. Very nice.
I'd give you a thumbs up but this is an old school forum.
Yeah, because the WWII generation certainly didn't step up help the world, and those hippie civil rights activists (in the US) didn't do nothin' fer nobody.
In case you didn't know, every younger generation has all the answers to fix all the problems of the world. Generation Noobs, your generation, is apparently going to fix the problems with torrents, blogs, and 2 minute videos.
Personally, as a Gen-X-er, I'm happy with being disenfranchised and disillusioned.
Well, of course not! Most would have blown off buying the droids and gone to town to get those power converters.
And probably picked up the latest copy of "Jabba's Girls Gone Wild" and had a good wank that night.
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Yes, but if you factor in our math skills, as the OP has done, I think that number does approach 75%.
Holy cow! How is the grandparent marked insightful!
I should start a business selling shrinkwrapped boxes labeled "Web 2.0" with install discs for IE 6 and Firefox 1.x. I'll make millions!
People have been saying our way of life is not sustainable for hundreds of years. Basically since the industrial revolution.
While I'm not saying you're wrong (I'm ambivalent on the subject) I am saying you're yet another in a long line of doomsayers. And I think that's important to note....
One thing humans have been incredibly successful at is finding solutions to our problems. Fire, farming, the wheel, building/architecture, metallurgy, medicine, electronics, atomic energy... It's an impressive resume.
To write us off completely? Well, you're either a prophet or a crack-pot.
Finally! Someone said it. I'm no expert in AI, but I emphasized in it for my MS-CS. And from what I saw, 40 years of effort (at that time) amounted to various search techniques.
Computers are great at Chess. Chess has a small search space (compared to, say, Go, which computers suck at). Computers aren't any better at Backgammon because chance is involved.
How do you program instinct? Feel? Creativity? I don't think it's that we can't, I think it's that we have no idea how to. That's why I think the 'singularity' monster robot humanity killer is such a joke. At least on the timescale people are talking about.
But what do I know. Some well known smart guy said the world is going to end by 2050 because of killer robots, so it must be true!
You have 6 posts this month. You stopped participating?
Not that I disagree with your assessment of how things work around slashdot.
I primarily use http://www.alterslash.org/. I figure I don't want to give them the ad page views.
We Americans had a guy like Irwin. His name was Timothy Treadwell. He, too, was killed while filming himself (he was hanging out with Grizzly Bears). He got his girlfriend killed, too.
He was quasi-famous. Not like Irwin, though. Treadwell shot some amazing footage, but nothing worth his life, IMHO. Irwin's footage wasn't worth his life either.
Way late on the answer here, but yes, I did know that. And yes, I was being insensitive.
The point was why the hell did that guy have, in my opinion, a death wish, while taking a wife and fathering a child? There's plenty of footage to be had of Sting Rays, Crocs, Vipers, and from reasonable distances. There's no reason to go crawling into a den of rattlers, other than for his own morbid reasons, despite his proclaimed reasons.
Besides, who was more insensitive, me making a bad joke or him flirting with death (and managing to land a date), while leaving a widow and child behind? I'm sure his kid will be very proud of his Daddy this Christmas. Irwin is the insensitive clod. I'm just bad with humor.
I wonder if I can convince my wife that my 3 year old son needs this $250 toy to stay ahead of the curve... :-D
Because you're clearly a terrorist. Crazy Aussie!
Oh, and what's up with that crocodile dude? Come on, as an Australian you have to answer for his behavior.
I think we'd all be better off if every seat-back contained a 6" switchblade. Then when 5 jihadists stand up to hijack, 100 pissed off westerners will stand up to get their chance at these yahoos.
Actually, it'll probably be a long while before we see another hijacking. We'll probably see bombings from now on...