Re:This year's once-in-a-lifetime event
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Meet The Leonids
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Hey Soren!
I saw about 20 at Alamo Square in SF this year. Tons of light pollution, including full moon, but several were pretty impressive despite the visual noise. I think it was two years ago that I got my best Leonid show.
Im my mind there is nothing like a really good cup of hot, strong, rich coffee. Makes mornings worthwhile (and other times when work needs to get done).
Try Kona Mountain Coffee, estate grown. Expensive but worth it. And take the tour if you're on the Big Island!
Look no further than the failure of DIVX; and the impending failures of Musicnet/Pressplay/Movielink; and the fact that (yes, patent-encumbered, but freely copyable) MP3 remains the standard for audio on the PC despite years of effort by the music industry to block it and (tens? hundreds?) of millions of dollars spent promoting first Liquid and a2b, then SDMI, and then Windows Media as alternatives; and the prevalence of region-free DVD equipment in every region but 1; and the consumer backlash against a very small number of copy-protected CDs to see that you're dead wrong. People do vote with their dollars, every day.
I went to Comdex in 1994, 1996, and 1997 - and by the end it was so damn crowded and expensive you couldn't get anything done. Real buyers didn't go to the booths, and the hotels in those days were still jacked way up - so I said "screw it" and haven't been back.
Comdex was fun for the chance to see colleagues from the industry you wouldn't normally run into. And the parties used to be pretty good, if you can stomach Heineken and generic egg rolls. But it wasn't worth it - so it's no surprise at all to me that it's failing now.
I said it last year and I'll say it again:
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The Last Comdex?
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Intertrust has been very adamant about wanting to preserve fair-use rights along with all the other rights that apply to a piece of media. Their story-- and the technology supports this-- is that digital rights management protects both parties: the consumer, as well as the producer.
They're wrong, of course. But it's a nice sentiment.
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I saw about 20 at Alamo Square in SF this year. Tons of light pollution, including full moon, but several were pretty impressive despite the visual noise. I think it was two years ago that I got my best Leonid show.
Judging from my dreams, pretty damn effective!
(I think you mean "deprivation.")
Try Kona Mountain Coffee, estate grown. Expensive but worth it. And take the tour if you're on the Big Island!
sucked. If I want to watch a DVD on a big LCD projector I can do that in the office, thanks.
I'll take rivalry, thanks.
So should we wardrive (warcart) in the local safeway?
would you rather be hit by a rifle bullet, or a shotgun blast?
for exactly that reason. If I wanted to watch 2 hours of ads I'd turn on QVC. Ever since "Tomorrow Never Dies" James Bond has meant product placement.
that certain game players need to get out more?
Look no further than the failure of DIVX; and the impending failures of Musicnet/Pressplay/Movielink; and the fact that (yes, patent-encumbered, but freely copyable) MP3 remains the standard for audio on the PC despite years of effort by the music industry to block it and (tens? hundreds?) of millions of dollars spent promoting first Liquid and a2b, then SDMI, and then Windows Media as alternatives; and the prevalence of region-free DVD equipment in every region but 1; and the consumer backlash against a very small number of copy-protected CDs to see that you're dead wrong. People do vote with their dollars, every day.
Truly an American icon.
It's six billion; and my economic opinions may not matter, but I bet others feel the same way about what they want to buy.
Here's a large pic.
Again: FUCK 'EM. Let them go bankrupt without my help.
but he kept chewing up and spitting out the CDs. Didn't work very well.
That's stupid, as I use Verio and hope to continue to send email.
Now if it were a Mac OS X cluster, that would be front page news.
Comdex was fun for the chance to see colleagues from the industry you wouldn't normally run into. And the parties used to be pretty good, if you can stomach Heineken and generic egg rolls. But it wasn't worth it - so it's no surprise at all to me that it's failing now.
Comdex is dying
They're wrong, of course. But it's a nice sentiment.
though many people seem to ignore this simple fact. This guy did the right thing, which was to tell the wannabe-Wyman to shove it up his ass.
I dunno. Can anyone suggest a slashdot story submission engine that produces other than gibberish?
Spammers don't use relays these days, they use spam tools that directly SMTP the receiving mail server. So the receiver still needs to filter.
LV taxis have had their day. I say fuck 'em. This monorail is much needed.
Thanks. The spyware is called RedSheriff. It's a Java applet and its the first spyware that I've identified as running as Java.
Step one: Unclick "Java" in Preferences
Step two: There is no step two! There is no step two!