I worked at our college radio station. I think the idea was if someone had heard of it, we couldn't play it.
Okay...yeah...so that does mean that new unknowns get played, but the majority of those were complete crap.
It was really no different than commercial radio...instead of having Britney Spears and 500 clones, you had all the REM and Cure clones - just because they were trying to be a clone of an alternative band didn't make them great.
I'll admit I did find one or two bands I really liked, like Sisters of Mercy, but just because it's new or unheard of doesn't make it good - most of it is still cookie cutter crap, or just too off the wall crap.
That is the main problem I had with The Silmarillion - the names. It seemed that every character had about 20 names - elvish and then all the various branches of elvish, man's name, the name they use when staying in exclusive hotels in Belirand, etc...
That and a lot of the names were similar - Fin this Fin that...after a while the mind just reads it as "that elf":)
I remember instead of paying attention, I would doodle and sometimes show it to my friend - equally bored, and drawing as well.
Perhaps paper and pencil should be banned as disruptive instruments as well.
C'mon...this is college. If someone doesn't wanna pay attention, so be it. If they are disruptive, kick them out of the class - I have yet to see an institution that would side with the student instead of the faculty on something like that.
And what if that wifi AP serves more than one class or area?
I have about 5 memories from when I was 3 years old:
"painting" the side of our old house with water, thus changing the wood from dry to a darker wet color.
riding my pedal tractor in our new house, still being built (and getting in trouble for it. I was so proud to have gotten it up the 2 foot step, not knowing right inside the next doorway was a stairwell with no railing and an 8' drop onto cement)
running from my house to a couple houses down, tripping on a driveway and scraping myself up.
riding my big wheel down the steep driveway across the street.
Someone doing the stipling on the ceiling of the new house pointing the brush at me as if he was gonna get me instead. Still think of this when I see those type of ceilings!
I also have a VERY vague memory of watching the Wizard of Oz at that old house and not liking the witch...for some reason I think I also had an earache, though that could be two memories combined. I also remember us having lots of cats (parents feeding the strays) and one being run over (I remember thinking the cat would have been stuck to the tire like on cartoons), but those are just vague recollections, not as vivid as the prior ones.
I know I was three because we moved into the new house right as I turned 4, so all the memories of the old house were when I was 3ish.
I'm on bellsouth, and as far as I know, we've never gotten an out-of-state call listed as "Out of Area".
We won't answer it if it says Out of Area, and no one has ever left a message when the machine picks up - well, not true - some moron telemarketters actually leave messages - but no legit calls.
However, the Ga No call list has pretty much cut those down to nil
Free speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't mean you can force me to listen to it.
If you wanna stand on the street corner and talk about x,y or z, that's fine. But you can't do a thing if I decide to put my fingers in my ears and not listen.
In this case, the government is helping people do that if they want, probably because of the FCC and FTC tie-ins.
Senior year of college I was sitting on a dock on the Hudson when some freshmen came down, stripped down to their undies, jumped in, then got right out, got dressed and left.
Back when Ultima Underworld came out I bought it at EB based on the specs on the box, which my machine just met.
Ran like crap though so I went to return it.
Despite the sign by the register stating their return policy being as you said above, the manager said no. I said it ran like crap on my machine, she asked why I didn't look at the specs first. I told her I did and it me those, but still ran like crap. She then said the disk could have a virus on it, so I pointed out the 5.25"'s were write protected - no way for that to happen.
About this time my friends who were waiting on me came in and started loudly asking why I was having trouble with such a simple return policy.
The manager finally told the clerk to do it and stormed into the back of the store.
Another part said the jury thought that the DMCA was hard to understand, especially for Russians.
In other words, if it had been an American company then they would have been guilty, but because the poor Russians are just trying to be capitialist and can't speak english as well, then they must not be smart enough to understand this document so we'll be nice to them.
So, my 2.4Ghz wifi AP and my 2.4Ghz baby monitor and phone and microwave all interfer with each other.
Now, while they all need to accept any harmful interference, they should not generate any harmful equipment...so data should not cause popping on the baby monitor, neither should warming water in the microwave.
My in-laws went to buy a DVD player. They were gonna get one of the combo DVD/VHS players, but the best buy dweeb started going on about how in 2006, VCR's won't work anymore.
He probably talked them into buying something cheaper since it wasn't a combo (hopefully they didn't buy the super-whiz-bang one).
They asked me about it when they called this weekend - I felt bad for them...they are definatly 12:00 flashers. For years they thought their VCR was broke and couldn't record. My wife (engaged then) used to call me from their house asking how to set the time.
It'll be interesting to see what smartcard solutions come out for this major portion of the populace.
I'm surprised they're not - seeing how.tv is making money off of it and ICANN isn't...figured they'd be pissed about that.
I think it goes to show that in creating these new TLD's, ICANN has zero clue about what they should be aiming for..biz???.television or.movie would have probably made more $$$ and more sense.
Hell...I feel sorry for the poor high school student who knocks his girlfriend up while losing his virginity - I think we're approaching infinte babies.:)
I'm assuming the stands in Mexico are selling the CD's for cheaper than a retail store (or their inkjet art is just killer)
Says to me that the recording industry has their prices set too high and if someone would buy a CD if it were cheaper, even on the black market, that pricing it cheaper in the stores should net even more profit...ie, they cost too damn much and people know it.
Anyone calls up or e-mails me saying they need my address so they can send me a gift will get a dial-tone or delete real fast.
Do they really think this'll fly? Okay...while it may be cool to say "here...send this to bob at (912)-575-3900 and let them take care of the rest...really, if you don't know someones address, are you really that close to bother sending them a gift?
Or require each house to have a 3 year old - commercials seem to work wonders on my daughter.
Now...if they just had rich 3 year olds they'd be set.
Though, I can see where the money from the ads goes to the networks and the money for my cable goes to them bringing me a better signal of those stations that rabbit ears could get...but I hate when I watch something like WGN (chicago) and the cable company slips in local ads. It's like watching TV when out of town - you get to see some local flavor.
We are not so concerned with the RIAA and MPAA as we are with reality. We have limited pipes to the net, and when legitimate (ie. work and academic related) traffic can not get through becuase 500 students are downloading MP3's and MPG's, where do you suggest we cut? X11 traffic (0.001%), ssh traffic (1%), http (20%), p2p (70%), misc (9%)?
It'd be nice not to have limitations. As is, netpd and the annoying letters from the MPAA are just jokes, but the upstream pipe we have is a reality that needs to be managed.
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I worked at our college radio station. I think the idea was if someone had heard of it, we couldn't play it.
Okay...yeah...so that does mean that new unknowns get played, but the majority of those were complete crap.
It was really no different than commercial radio...instead of having Britney Spears and 500 clones, you had all the REM and Cure clones - just because they were trying to be a clone of an alternative band didn't make them great.
I'll admit I did find one or two bands I really liked, like Sisters of Mercy, but just because it's new or unheard of doesn't make it good - most of it is still cookie cutter crap, or just too off the wall crap.
Of course, according to taste, YMMV.
That is the main problem I had with The Silmarillion - the names. It seemed that every character had about 20 names - elvish and then all the various branches of elvish, man's name, the name they use when staying in exclusive hotels in Belirand, etc...
:)
That and a lot of the names were similar - Fin this Fin that...after a while the mind just reads it as "that elf"
I agree about Gimili - and they left out one of the funniest lines straight from the book - "I can not run all the way to Isengard".
:)
I'm getting sick of Jackson's method of hammering into the viewers head that a) elves are leaving and b) man can't handle the ring.
I got that about 40 minutes into the first movie...don't need to be reminded every 30 minutes.
Still...light years better than everything else
I remember college and some boring classes.
I remember instead of paying attention, I would doodle and sometimes show it to my friend - equally bored, and drawing as well.
Perhaps paper and pencil should be banned as disruptive instruments as well.
C'mon...this is college. If someone doesn't wanna pay attention, so be it. If they are disruptive, kick them out of the class - I have yet to see an institution that would side with the student instead of the faculty on something like that.
And what if that wifi AP serves more than one class or area?
I have about 5 memories from when I was 3 years old:
"painting" the side of our old house with water, thus changing the wood from dry to a darker wet color.
riding my pedal tractor in our new house, still being built (and getting in trouble for it. I was so proud to have gotten it up the 2 foot step, not knowing right inside the next doorway was a stairwell with no railing and an 8' drop onto cement)
running from my house to a couple houses down, tripping on a driveway and scraping myself up.
riding my big wheel down the steep driveway across the street.
Someone doing the stipling on the ceiling of the new house pointing the brush at me as if he was gonna get me instead. Still think of this when I see those type of ceilings!
I also have a VERY vague memory of watching the Wizard of Oz at that old house and not liking the witch...for some reason I think I also had an earache, though that could be two memories combined. I also remember us having lots of cats (parents feeding the strays) and one being run over (I remember thinking the cat would have been stuck to the tire like on cartoons), but those are just vague recollections, not as vivid as the prior ones.
I know I was three because we moved into the new house right as I turned 4, so all the memories of the old house were when I was 3ish.
I'm on bellsouth, and as far as I know, we've never gotten an out-of-state call listed as "Out of Area".
We won't answer it if it says Out of Area, and no one has ever left a message when the machine picks up - well, not true - some moron telemarketters actually leave messages - but no legit calls.
However, the Ga No call list has pretty much cut those down to nil
Free speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't mean you can force me to listen to it.
If you wanna stand on the street corner and talk about x,y or z, that's fine. But you can't do a thing if I decide to put my fingers in my ears and not listen.
In this case, the government is helping people do that if they want, probably because of the FCC and FTC tie-ins.
That's okay...the way the Simarillion is written, Tolkien had about 500 names for everything so the mispelling is probably correct :)
I'm sure it varies from store to store, but because of one bad experience at one of their stores (10+ years ago even) I will not shop there again.
Senior year of college I was sitting on a dock on the Hudson when some freshmen came down, stripped down to their undies, jumped in, then got right out, got dressed and left.
West side of Manhattan is a bit nicer than the east - things might get noticed more over there.
I'm not a lawyer, and I understood the agreement. I'll summarize "bend over...we own you" :)
Seriously, the majority of cc companies seem to have 90 days from the fradulent charge as the time period. your mileage may vary.
Back when Ultima Underworld came out I bought it at EB based on the specs on the box, which my machine just met.
Ran like crap though so I went to return it.
Despite the sign by the register stating their return policy being as you said above, the manager said no. I said it ran like crap on my machine, she asked why I didn't look at the specs first. I told her I did and it me those, but still ran like crap. She then said the disk could have a virus on it, so I pointed out the 5.25"'s were write protected - no way for that to happen.
About this time my friends who were waiting on me came in and started loudly asking why I was having trouble with such a simple return policy.
The manager finally told the clerk to do it and stormed into the back of the store.
Never shop there again!
Funny...I was always taught that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Time for everyone to start working on fake russian accents...da?
Another part said the jury thought that the DMCA was hard to understand, especially for Russians.
In other words, if it had been an American company then they would have been guilty, but because the poor Russians are just trying to be capitialist and can't speak english as well, then they must not be smart enough to understand this document so we'll be nice to them.
Scary reasoning.
So, my 2.4Ghz wifi AP and my 2.4Ghz baby monitor and phone and microwave all interfer with each other.
Now, while they all need to accept any harmful interference, they should not generate any harmful equipment...so data should not cause popping on the baby monitor, neither should warming water in the microwave.
Oh dear...my house is full of violations
My in-laws went to buy a DVD player. They were gonna get one of the combo DVD/VHS players, but the best buy dweeb started going on about how in 2006, VCR's won't work anymore.
He probably talked them into buying something cheaper since it wasn't a combo (hopefully they didn't buy the super-whiz-bang one).
They asked me about it when they called this weekend - I felt bad for them...they are definatly 12:00 flashers. For years they thought their VCR was broke and couldn't record. My wife (engaged then) used to call me from their house asking how to set the time.
It'll be interesting to see what smartcard solutions come out for this major portion of the populace.
I'm surprised they're not - seeing how .tv is making money off of it and ICANN isn't...figured they'd be pissed about that.
.biz??? .television or .movie would have probably made more $$$ and more sense.
I think it goes to show that in creating these new TLD's, ICANN has zero clue about what they should be aiming for.
Hell...I feel sorry for the poor high school student who knocks his girlfriend up while losing his virginity - I think we're approaching infinte babies. :)
I'm assuming the stands in Mexico are selling the CD's for cheaper than a retail store (or their inkjet art is just killer)
Says to me that the recording industry has their prices set too high and if someone would buy a CD if it were cheaper, even on the black market, that pricing it cheaper in the stores should net even more profit...ie, they cost too damn much and people know it.
I wouldn't call it turning tables as much as sitting at a completly different table only half catching the conversation.
Anyone calls up or e-mails me saying they need my address so they can send me a gift will get a dial-tone or delete real fast.
Do they really think this'll fly? Okay...while it may be cool to say "here...send this to bob at (912)-575-3900 and let them take care of the rest...really, if you don't know someones address, are you really that close to bother sending them a gift?
Seems silly.
Or require each house to have a 3 year old - commercials seem to work wonders on my daughter.
Now...if they just had rich 3 year olds they'd be set.
Though, I can see where the money from the ads goes to the networks and the money for my cable goes to them bringing me a better signal of those stations that rabbit ears could get...but I hate when I watch something like WGN (chicago) and the cable company slips in local ads. It's like watching TV when out of town - you get to see some local flavor.
Time to go to Sam's Club for the bulk size cans.
We are not so concerned with the RIAA and MPAA as we are with reality. We have limited pipes to the net, and when legitimate (ie. work and academic related) traffic can not get through becuase 500 students are downloading MP3's and MPG's, where do you suggest we cut? X11 traffic (0.001%), ssh traffic (1%), http (20%), p2p (70%), misc (9%)?
It'd be nice not to have limitations. As is, netpd and the annoying letters from the MPAA are just jokes, but the upstream pipe we have is a reality that needs to be managed.