Dear Joel... I'd imagine that the show was a lot of fun at times, especially in the gag-writing. But as the laws of averages goes, not every movie that comes down the pike is as ripe for jokes as others. They can't all be gems, which became more obvious after you left the show (I mean it seems there were more "blah" movies to work with, not a statement about the MST3k actors). Some you can just look at and come up with a hundred things to say, others are just kind of "meh" and you have to work harder to come up with something others would find funny to say about. What tricks did you employ to get through the mediocre films, beside musical numbers at intermissions or talking about something unrelated to what was happening onscreen at the time? Bigger question, what films did you have the hardest time riffing on because of so-so content?
Let's say you played a game for 12 hours a day, 3 days solid, and someone asked you where you were in the game. Wouldn't you feel gimpy if you said "I'm in front of the castle" because there was no metric for success? It'd be more like... real life that way.
The EV1 was only a failure in GM's eyes, no one else's. 120 miles on a charge isn't a bad thing and better batteries are available now than were 10 years ago. Last I looked, the Tesla came in at under $100k, which is still not quite the price point most people can handle. (It could be worse, of course, this could be a Venturi Fetish, at $660k. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/10/venturi_fetish.php )
I want my electric car and I want it noooooow, is that too much to ask?
The ZENN is a neighborhood vehicle, which can't go more than 25mph. The price of $12k is nice but it's an in-town thing, which is great for some but those with a commute on the highway (like me) are still going to need something else.
...but unless IE7 can be installed on Windows 2000, this new freedom means nothing to many users (especially in business) who didn't get suckered into an XP upgrade. Making the WMP10 update unavailable to Win2K users is one thing, but keeping a more secure native browser away from them is another.
Of course, there are better browsers for free... but tell some IT depts this.;-)
See, that's what I was hoping to see in the article. It went on about the software and the guy's computer's configuration, but didn't go head-to-head on content.
I did a comparison last night by this method: I looked up Depeche Mode. Everything listed was from tribute disks (and one audio book about the group). I am aware that labels have to get onboard to offer artists. That may come. But the article didn't say anything about that valuable detail, whether you can find what you want.
I can feel safer now that we have so many new surveilance devices keeping an eye on the general population.
Oh, where's Osama bin Laden right now, you see him with that stuff? No? Hmm, I think this is turning out to be like the Hubbel telescope -- it's great stuff and cost bundles, but the lens is pointed in the WRONG F@#%(&*# DIRECTION!!
Just when you thought Java and Flash banner ads, streaming audio/video imbedded, and other cruft out the arse made so many pages out there look overbusy and poorly arranged... enter mashups! Woohoo, look out MySpace, you're gonna get even more garbage-filled pages!
I had to look the word up. I was pretty sure this wasn't about combining two different artists' songs into one funky unit.
Since when the fook is a hinge anything but a hardware issue, not requiring powering the machine up (other than near the end to confirm all jacks got plugged before turning all screws)?
There was one time a Radio Shack district manager gave me the "Oh, we don't support Apples" song and dance when the item I came in to purchase was a DB9-to-DB25 serial cable off the shelf for my external modem.
And then there was the time I actually had to say to a salesperson, "Okay, let's forget I mentioned what kind of machine this is for, shall we... Now: how much does an external 56k modem cost at your store?"
Bush is just sad that he didn't try this first (on Americans as a test group, before tacking RFID's on actual or suspected bad guys) but since it's an American company doing this, which the government gets a cut of the profit on, he can't complain too much.
China? Nah, we need this in Afghanistan, where the actual people we're supposedly at war with are hiding.
Expect to see a new brand of identity theft in China. Brings to mind a scene from a movie (starring Bruce Willis) where someone's thumb got cut off so someone else could use its print to get access to sensitive areas.
The RIAA is gonna blame piracy, no matter what the cause of declining use or purchase of compact disk media is.
Considering that the other physical forms of music distribution (records and tapes) have become obsolete due to the pushing of the CD medium, there seems to be a cliff ahead of us (and by "us" I mean the sales portion of the music industry) if CDs are indeed passe.
Funny the video should not include Mickey Mouse (Steamboat Willie has exceeded its period) and Winnie The Pooh (a long legal fight over ownership has raged). Loved it nonetheless.
Sounds like the judge needs to say, "I need to recuse myself from this proceding and transfer this case to another judge who is familiar with the subject at hand." Those who do not know about the Internet can't exactly rule on what could be legal or not there. Plenty of judges who do know how to surf teh Intarweb are out there.
There's one big problem here: The reason why phishing banks works is because people don't look at the address line of their browser. Having a joesbank.bank address means nothing if people are currently entering their information for joesbank.com on a page with address like//user-login.secure.scam-duh.ru/ripUoff/jajaja/www .joesbank.com/form.php... Never say something is foolproof because fools are an ingenious lot..bank is a nice idea but only in the same way.xxx is a good idea -- makes it easier to find what you're looking for, but protects no one.
Hell, the other day I saw a 419 email scam that targets people who have been victims of 419 scams -- the hook is that the UN will pay back past scam victims $100,000... and I wonder how many people bit a second time.
My best friend was a cybercafe manager at LSA Anaconda during his stay. Way I hear it, they could use the pipe. The nickname his associates had for the drop they had to their quarters was "Ghetto Telecom"... the photos of how they got stuff rigged are hilarious from an IT perspective.
Winning hearts and minds of the Iraqi people through the universal medium, Asian porn.
Have to agree, if the Geek Squad going from respectful to an industry joke, and BestBuy itself being known for its cluelessness to customers, this does not bode well for Speakeasy.
Having worked for Speakeasy for three days, must say (and this is just my opinion, based on watching a training class of 10 get whittled down to 0 in five days when they needed two dozen new agents due to overgrowth) that this shouldn't surprise me... the further from the production floor one gets there, the less 'with it' things get.
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Dear Joel... I'd imagine that the show was a lot of fun at times, especially in the gag-writing. But as the laws of averages goes, not every movie that comes down the pike is as ripe for jokes as others. They can't all be gems, which became more obvious after you left the show (I mean it seems there were more "blah" movies to work with, not a statement about the MST3k actors). Some you can just look at and come up with a hundred things to say, others are just kind of "meh" and you have to work harder to come up with something others would find funny to say about. What tricks did you employ to get through the mediocre films, beside musical numbers at intermissions or talking about something unrelated to what was happening onscreen at the time? Bigger question, what films did you have the hardest time riffing on because of so-so content?
Let's say you played a game for 12 hours a day, 3 days solid, and someone asked you where you were in the game. Wouldn't you feel gimpy if you said "I'm in front of the castle" because there was no metric for success? It'd be more like... real life that way.
The EV1 was only a failure in GM's eyes, no one else's. 120 miles on a charge isn't a bad thing and better batteries are available now than were 10 years ago. Last I looked, the Tesla came in at under $100k, which is still not quite the price point most people can handle. (It could be worse, of course, this could be a Venturi Fetish, at $660k. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/10/venturi_fetish.php )
I want my electric car and I want it noooooow, is that too much to ask?
The ZENN is a neighborhood vehicle, which can't go more than 25mph. The price of $12k is nice but it's an in-town thing, which is great for some but those with a commute on the highway (like me) are still going to need something else.
Okay, so if the building was running DC, what did the electronics and appliances inside plug into?
Took this long to realize you cannot sue your customers and still keep them as customers?
Next press release: "Falling CD sales not due to piracy, it turns out, but due to record companies alienating customers."
...were as hard as quitting your account with AOL.
Employees would get another three months of employment rather than terminated immediately.
...but unless IE7 can be installed on Windows 2000, this new freedom means nothing to many users (especially in business) who didn't get suckered into an XP upgrade. Making the WMP10 update unavailable to Win2K users is one thing, but keeping a more secure native browser away from them is another.
;-)
Of course, there are better browsers for free... but tell some IT depts this.
See, that's what I was hoping to see in the article. It went on about the software and the guy's computer's configuration, but didn't go head-to-head on content.
I did a comparison last night by this method: I looked up Depeche Mode. Everything listed was from tribute disks (and one audio book about the group). I am aware that labels have to get onboard to offer artists. That may come. But the article didn't say anything about that valuable detail, whether you can find what you want.
I can feel safer now that we have so many new surveilance devices keeping an eye on the general population.
Oh, where's Osama bin Laden right now, you see him with that stuff? No? Hmm, I think this is turning out to be like the Hubbel telescope -- it's great stuff and cost bundles, but the lens is pointed in the WRONG F@#%(&*# DIRECTION!!
Just when you thought Java and Flash banner ads, streaming audio/video imbedded, and other cruft out the arse made so many pages out there look overbusy and poorly arranged... enter mashups! Woohoo, look out MySpace, you're gonna get even more garbage-filled pages!
I had to look the word up. I was pretty sure this wasn't about combining two different artists' songs into one funky unit.
Since when the fook is a hinge anything but a hardware issue, not requiring powering the machine up (other than near the end to confirm all jacks got plugged before turning all screws)?
There was one time a Radio Shack district manager gave me the "Oh, we don't support Apples" song and dance when the item I came in to purchase was a DB9-to-DB25 serial cable off the shelf for my external modem.
And then there was the time I actually had to say to a salesperson, "Okay, let's forget I mentioned what kind of machine this is for, shall we... Now: how much does an external 56k modem cost at your store?"
Finally, a way to reduce the space between surgically augmented breasts and lengthen wangs on Flickr!
Bush is just sad that he didn't try this first (on Americans as a test group, before tacking RFID's on actual or suspected bad guys) but since it's an American company doing this, which the government gets a cut of the profit on, he can't complain too much.
China? Nah, we need this in Afghanistan, where the actual people we're supposedly at war with are hiding.
Expect to see a new brand of identity theft in China. Brings to mind a scene from a movie (starring Bruce Willis) where someone's thumb got cut off so someone else could use its print to get access to sensitive areas.
...who will commute Bush's sentence when he finally gets rung up?
As if any President has ever has been accountable for his actions. Even Nixon got off light, but he wasn't evil... just corrupt.
The RIAA is gonna blame piracy, no matter what the cause of declining use or purchase of compact disk media is.
Considering that the other physical forms of music distribution (records and tapes) have become obsolete due to the pushing of the CD medium, there seems to be a cliff ahead of us (and by "us" I mean the sales portion of the music industry) if CDs are indeed passe.
Shifting paradigms are fun.
What I was gonna say -- Research In Motion is a Canadian company, so wouldn't Canada have those national secrets before America swiped them?
:)
They speak French in Canada, no further code cracking necessary.
former Blackberry support tech mode: If they can keep their Blackberries functional long enough to share some secrets, they mean.
Funny the video should not include Mickey Mouse (Steamboat Willie has exceeded its period) and Winnie The Pooh (a long legal fight over ownership has raged). Loved it nonetheless.
"Copy..." - Buzz Lightyear
> one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television
Would that be without the use of DRM? Hmm, doesn't sound characteristic...
Sounds like the judge needs to say, "I need to recuse myself from this proceding and transfer this case to another judge who is familiar with the subject at hand." Those who do not know about the Internet can't exactly rule on what could be legal or not there. Plenty of judges who do know how to surf teh Intarweb are out there.
There's one big problem here: The reason why phishing banks works is because people don't look at the address line of their browser. Having a joesbank.bank address means nothing if people are currently entering their information for joesbank.com on a page with address like //user-login.secure.scam-duh.ru/ripUoff/jajaja/www .joesbank.com/form.php ... Never say something is foolproof because fools are an ingenious lot. .bank is a nice idea but only in the same way .xxx is a good idea -- makes it easier to find what you're looking for, but protects no one.
... and I wonder how many people bit a second time.
Hell, the other day I saw a 419 email scam that targets people who have been victims of 419 scams -- the hook is that the UN will pay back past scam victims $100,000
When did I become a programmer for Microsoft?
It's my fault for finding the errors, okay.
My best friend was a cybercafe manager at LSA Anaconda during his stay. Way I hear it, they could use the pipe. The nickname his associates had for the drop they had to their quarters was "Ghetto Telecom"... the photos of how they got stuff rigged are hilarious from an IT perspective.
Winning hearts and minds of the Iraqi people through the universal medium, Asian porn.
...while working with the Chinese guvmint?
Have to agree, if the Geek Squad going from respectful to an industry joke, and BestBuy itself being known for its cluelessness to customers, this does not bode well for Speakeasy.
Having worked for Speakeasy for three days, must say (and this is just my opinion, based on watching a training class of 10 get whittled down to 0 in five days when they needed two dozen new agents due to overgrowth) that this shouldn't surprise me... the further from the production floor one gets there, the less 'with it' things get.