IE for my daily site roundup and Mozilla for browsing (pop-up protection is great).
I did this too until I tried Mozilla's tabbed browsing and group bookmarks. Now a click on a single bookmark and all my daily sites load into tabs at once. The other thing I like is middle-button click to open link in new window (or tab). About the only thing I use IE for now is local html files.
It's not in quite the same class but John Carmack's space exploration plans are pretty good (and a hell of a lot more realistic). Keep up to date here.
Circuit City wants to make money selling not only electronics, but also pre-recorded entertainment. They don't want you to be able to record a pay-per-view showing of a movie because that could cost them a sale.
Nice theory. But how do make it fit the facts, i.e. that CC are phasing out the pre-recorded VHS sales, but continuing to sell both the recorders and the blank tapes?
What's actually going on here is that CC wants to sell you a VCR and a DVD player. If you can't use a VCR to do both jobs than you're more likely to buy a DVD.
There's plenty of good areas to shop in Sydney though. And they did seem to be talking about Martin Place and north so it might not be that disruptive. It'll irritate the tourists more than anything.
But shutting down a whole city? A pretty major one at that!
They're not shutting down the whole of greater Sydney. They're shutting down a few blocks in the CBD. The population of Sydney City (mostly the CBD) is less than 150,000.
Actually he specifically said that the Radeon 8500 had several features that are superior to the GF4, but that driver implementation were keeping them from their potential.
Did you read the bit where he says:
"I still think that overall, the GeForce 4 Ti is the best card you can buy. It has high speed and excellent driver quality."
He said the Radeon 8500 should be faster but isn't, and "the driver quality is still quite a ways from Nvidia's, so I would be a little hesitant to use it as a primary research platform."
That's hardly the glowing endorsement of the Radeon that the story poster made it out to be.
I thought about mentioning the Bond movies but by series I really meant sequels that are more closely tied than the Bond movies. You'll notice I didn't mention the Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage either. The Bond movies are separate, distinct movies which are set in the same universe and have the same characters. And they're very variable quality-wise. There wouldn't be many more than 5 that I'd consider to be better than AOTC. I own 4 or 5 on DVD. I'm also looking forward to Die Another Day (pity about the title).
... defines an operating system as the (as in singular) program which serves as a layer between the hardware and the application author, and presents a consistent system call API to these applications.
I think that's an extremely simplistic view of what an operating system is. In reality there are a bunch of layers between the hardware and the application. Few applications call the Linux kernel APIs directly.
If we ever get to Spiderman II, III, IV and V, I think we'll see a similar trend...
Probably a much worse trend. I expect Spiderman V would be more comparable quality-wise to Rocky V then AOTC. Infact I struggle to think of any series where the 5th movie has been as good as AOTC.
Now Kartoo admits they are a "meta search engine", so the real question here is: is this map thing actually useful? And is it worth the 12 seconds it took to make that map? In my small amount of experimentation, I would say its nifty, but not terribly useful, and its slower than molasses.
It seems that Kartoo merely links sites which have the same word appearing in the summary for the set of 10 results showing. So I'd have to say that it looks cool but is in fact completely useless. Now if it fetched the actual pages and analyzed the common terms it'd be useful, although very slow.
Google could do it reasonably quickly with the cached copies of the pages.
My problem with this is that they have encouraged this sort of behaviour in the past. All the broadband vendors have promoted broadband as necessary for experiencing the "multimedia web" (or whatever the current buzzword is). Now they're saying they didn't expect people to actually use it.
Vivendi is teaming up with Maverick Records, MP3.com, RollingStone.com, GetMusic.com and MP4.com
First thing I thought was why is it that Vivendi, one of the largest companies on the planet, need to team up with a bunch of dotcoms to get this done? Surely a company like Vivendi with revenue in excess of $36 billion annually can manage this sort of thing themselves? Well it turns out that except for Maverick all those companies are owned by Vivendi. So I guess the next thing is why is a label with access to the likes of Alanis and Prodigy trying to sell this unknown artist's song? It's obviously just a publicity stunt.
for the first time, more blank CDs (1.1 billion) were sold last year than prerecorded CDs (968 million).
How can you draw any conclusions from comparing a product that costs $0.50 per unit to a product that costs $18 per unit? The above sentence shows that people are spending $550 million on blanck CDs and $17.4 BILLION on prerecorded CDs. This is a factor of 32 in favour of prerecorded CDs!
Not only that but they conviently ignored all the other markets that use CDs. I can't believe they're trying to make out that all those CDRs where used for music. What about prerecorded software? I'd bet that more than 132M prerecorded CDROMs where produced. Hell, AOL probably gave away more than that themselves! Seriously though, anyone know how large the software market is?
Yes, there are many who enter garbage in all the fields. And yes, there are those who use the obvious throw-away email addresses. But we assume them to be not very serious prospective customers. Conversely, there are those who enter very accurate information, and we assume them to be much better sales prospects.
I don't know you. I don't trust you. The fact that I will not give you my contact details has no bearing on the likelihood that I will buy your software. The fact that you expect me to give you that information does.
In the end, I acquiesced, reasoning that they are getting something for free, so they should be willing to give up something.
That attitude is why you will never sell me your software. I'm not getting something for free - I'm giving you the opportunity to sell me your software. Why should I give you valuable information up front as well? You seem to have forgotten who is serving who here.
But being tuned in to peoples' concerns about spam, I thought it was absolutely essential that we be very honest about how their email address would be used.
Since I don't know or trust you why would anything you say re how you'll use my personal information have any weight with me? Especially when I can avoid the whole problem by not giving you that info in the first place?
My understanding (and this is all rumor - I have no supporting evidence) is that MGM and New Line restarted talks over "Goldmember" after New Line got MPAA approval for four other titles:
"Live and Let Shag",
"You Only Shag Thrice",
"License to Shag", and my personal favourite:
"Never Say Member Again".
It's also possible that the success of Fellowship of the Ring has made MGM much more receptive to the proposed trailer swap deal.
Actually MS does have a large service segment. According to their 2001 annual report 22,500 of the 47,600 employees work in sales, marketing, and support. And if anyone can figure out how to make money on services it would be MS.
I'm telling you, based on actually having seen it, that this is not a standard format movie trailer. You can issue whatever denials you need to feel comfortable.
I've just come back from FotR, having seen the new stuff (I live in NZ where it's now 5pm Friday). It looks good and the summary on aint-it-cool.com is accurate.
The whole preview vs trailer thing is not about when the footage is being shown, it's about the type of thing being shown. It's about four minutes long and is really just a collection of images from the The Two Towers. It doesn't have the cohesiveness that normal movie trailers have, and it's a fair bit longer. I expect there will be a "real" trailer appear in about 3 months time.
It's funny that Hard Boiled was mentioned in the review - that was the most violent film I'd ever seen when I came across it. Might still be, it was banned in Sweden and Finland.
The obvious example is Godfather Part II winning Best Picture. Part of the problem for FOTR may be that if the others don't stand up then they will drag FOTR down so people may have decided on a wait and see approach.
Jackson has already said that the scouring of the shire is not going to happen in the movies so you're right. The glimpse in the mirror was "a tribute to it" according to Jackson. It will be interesting to see how they end it.
The extra footage for the DVD release is (again according to Jackson) mostly extra character development - small scenes that add to feel of the characters. E.g. more on Aragorn, development of the Elf/Dwarf rivalry, that sort of thing. Also more in Lothlorien, including the complete gift-giving scene.
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It's not in quite the same class but John Carmack's space exploration plans are pretty good (and a hell of a lot more realistic). Keep up to date here.
What's actually going on here is that CC wants to sell you a VCR and a DVD player. If you can't use a VCR to do both jobs than you're more likely to buy a DVD.
There's plenty of good areas to shop in Sydney though. And they did seem to be talking about Martin Place and north so it might not be that disruptive. It'll irritate the tourists more than anything.
"I still think that overall, the GeForce 4 Ti is the best card you can buy. It has high speed and excellent driver quality."
He said the Radeon 8500 should be faster but isn't, and "the driver quality is still quite a ways from Nvidia's, so I would be a little hesitant to use it as a primary research platform."
That's hardly the glowing endorsement of the Radeon that the story poster made it out to be.
I thought about mentioning the Bond movies but by series I really meant sequels that are more closely tied than the Bond movies. You'll notice I didn't mention the Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage either. The Bond movies are separate, distinct movies which are set in the same universe and have the same characters. And they're very variable quality-wise. There wouldn't be many more than 5 that I'd consider to be better than AOTC. I own 4 or 5 on DVD. I'm also looking forward to Die Another Day (pity about the title).
My problem with this is that they have encouraged this sort of behaviour in the past. All the broadband vendors have promoted broadband as necessary for experiencing the "multimedia web" (or whatever the current buzzword is). Now they're saying they didn't expect people to actually use it.
- "Live and Let Shag",
- "You Only Shag Thrice",
- "License to Shag", and my personal favourite:
- "Never Say Member Again".
It's also possible that the success of Fellowship of the Ring has made MGM much more receptive to the proposed trailer swap deal.Amy Hughes doesn't seem too upset about it: a message from her regarding the slashdotting. Now she's looking for a new host though. Anyone here able to help her out?
When I need to ping a reliable site I ping Google. I've never experienced downtime with them. k5 OTOH...
Actually MS does have a large service segment. According to their 2001 annual report 22,500 of the 47,600 employees work in sales, marketing, and support. And if anyone can figure out how to make money on services it would be MS.
I'm telling you, based on actually having seen it, that this is not a standard format movie trailer. You can issue whatever denials you need to feel comfortable.
The whole preview vs trailer thing is not about when the footage is being shown, it's about the type of thing being shown. It's about four minutes long and is really just a collection of images from the The Two Towers. It doesn't have the cohesiveness that normal movie trailers have, and it's a fair bit longer. I expect there will be a "real" trailer appear in about 3 months time.
It's funny that Hard Boiled was mentioned in the review - that was the most violent film I'd ever seen when I came across it. Might still be, it was banned in Sweden and Finland.
The obvious example is Godfather Part II winning Best Picture. Part of the problem for FOTR may be that if the others don't stand up then they will drag FOTR down so people may have decided on a wait and see approach.
The extra footage for the DVD release is (again according to Jackson) mostly extra character development - small scenes that add to feel of the characters. E.g. more on Aragorn, development of the Elf/Dwarf rivalry, that sort of thing. Also more in Lothlorien, including the complete gift-giving scene.