Our university implemented Greylisting. It works so good, I only get spam coming from legitimate mailers. And I'm once again enjoying the 1 to 2 I get per *week*.
As someone in the midst of building a semi-autonomous model yacht, this screams to be used for telemetry feedback.
As someone who has read that sentence six times and still has no idea what it is you're exactly trying to do, I wish you the best of luck with the Windows CE installation.
Right now, one can fit approximately two "close-enough" DVD quality DVDs on one DVD using software like AutoGordianKnot to go to XviD and TMPGenc and other assorted programs to go back to DVD. I should know, I've got DVDs with up to 3 full movies on them, all with a nice little menu I made so I can select what I want to see.
CAM quality videos make up the ones with 3 movies on them, which explains why I have a DVD with National Treasure, Saw, and The Incredibles in the menu selection.
With this new format, someone is basically saying I can have upwards of 40 cam quality movies on one Bluray or HD-DVD. Or, maybe 16-18 DVD quality movies.
That's just overkill. I don't see enough of a reason for this from my standpoint. I suppose if I actually paid for DVDs there *might* be a reason, but generally speaking, I know this is going to be overpriced from the start.
Although, this *may* justify having a lower price on seasonal DVDs of shows like Roswell, Buffy, Enterprise, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc. If I could get an entire season on one DVD, it might just be worth it.
... can you please explain to me when Palm is going to get Microsoft to fix the horrible synching issues with Outlook? It takes simply forever to do, and didn't start happening till the Outlook XP "security update".
I know it was due to that patch and the "Allow access for 2 minutes" problem, but this is just downright ridiculous waiting for 2 minutes or more for the thing to either barely work or timeout.
It would seem to me that switching to Linux isn't going to solve the problems of those of us that buy Palms for use with MS software.
I never really understood why cybersquatting was illegal. I mean, yeah, it was needed for some of those "poor brick-and-mortar" companies in the 90s, but I mean, c'mon. The Internet has been at least heard of by nearly everyone in the US for the last ten years. Definitely the last five. If a company hasn't registered their domain by now, they should look at changing their name to find a domain that fits them.
Apple's a big boy. They can buy the domain at a price. I would imagine it must be worth at least $50,000 since they are bring this to suit. It's going to cost them at least that much from here on out to settle this, no matter how reasonable the other party is at this point.
If the guy is asking for a ludicrous amount of money for the domain, all Apple has to do is tell people what he is charging and they won't look like some coersive force, trying to take away a domain simply by labeling someone a 'squatter'.
Among the source on his webpage: META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97" META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot"
All around, a very bright guy. He was even able to make a VB prototype of his vote rigging software. Wow. Thrilling. Even when he's not out pimping his book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle- ur l/index=books&field-author=Clint%20Curtis/102-6695 610-6817747
The biggest problem with his story is it starts in "late September or October of 2000". This would have been far too late to have been actually implemented in Florida.
Don't get me wrong, the election could have been rigged, but seeing this "story" on Slashdot is embarrassing!
I write out my checks in cursive. The other day I was admiring how pretty my cursive looked and how well it had developed from when I was in second grade and told to "TRY HARDER WEAKLING OR YOU WILL NEVER GET A JOB!". Then I realized just how ghey it was that I was enjoying the sight of it and hurridly gave it to the cashier... who was a guy... who (ick) winked at me.
One of the biggest problems with the closed source model is that you have to be a big player in order to maintain the format(s) for your external files being used. For example, the.WPD format lost out to.RTF and so has.DOC to a certain extent.
An open source gaming engine will eventually surpass a closed source one, however the issue right now is that there is so much more money to be had developing one closed source. But even that cannot delay the inevitable.
Some exceptions do occur. Adobe's PDF format is one that has simply been reverse-engineered instead of replaced.
I realize that my comments focus mainly on external "save files" and that not doesn't apply directly to the argument, but IMHO the shift in external formats being closed to more open is a good indicator of what the "end game" will look like in the future.
Microsoft can push the closed source model all they want, but the reality is that they essentially killed it by buying out all the other closed-source solutions in the marketplace. Now all that remains is for them to eventually succumb.
Here's the real problem with AIDS in Africa: culture. Using a condom is for prostitutes, not wives and girlfriends in that culture. To suggest to someone that they use a condomn is like giving a man in the US a blowup doll or a woman a vibrator and saying, this will save you from herpes. While it can save you from the disease, it's not something that people take seriously.
Also, trust is of different nature. If a woman asks a man to use a condom, it's akin to not trusting him. Same goes the other way around. No man in Africa would say, I do not trust you, I'm going to use a condom. It's just a different culture, and it's very hard to get that to change.
It's why you see videos and hear reports of African men throwing away condoms. It's sad, but it's a very real problem. Throwing money at getting condoms into the country only goes so far.
One of the few problems with the game is there is no real incentive right now to engage in PvP. Several open beta testers suggested a PvP with risk/reward where anyone could kill anyone else. It's hard to explain *why* this is a good idea for a server, because you get several people complaining it'd be too hard for newbies to get started.
But such an idea works. Darktide for Asheron's Call was a server set up much the same way. So was the original UO. The entire roleplaying aspect is about watching your back, making friends that will protect you to the death, and working for yourself. I hope Blizzard seriously considers a server of this nature in the future.
The simple response to people that say the server will draw players who sit back and feast on newbies is that, "You're right, they will, and if that scares you, then this server is NOT for you." There are at least a thousand players out of 200+ thousand that WOULD support such a server though, and they would like to see it. The discussions on the PvP forums for such a server seemed to justify at least one if not one per time zone.
Also, about death specifically. Death in the game is not as light as the poster seems to indicate. You do not lose experience, but if you cannot get back to your corpse, your armor and weapons are degraded. They are also degraded considerably upon death, so don't die continously, or you'll regret it.
It'd just be great if on death on one of these new PvP servers people could loot a corpse and get 5% of the coin and one of the most expensive "equipped" pieces. It'd give more of an incentive to PvP, and coupled with a "kill anywhere" rule, would be a GREAT server for those of us that want it.
As such, I do not intend to purchase the game right now. I realized after Asheron's Call Darktide that there is no RPG with the level of roleplay as a player-driven storyline, and you can only truly accomplish that by giving the power of life or death to the players themselves.
Spam typically COMES from Korea. It would make sense then, that Koreans generally do not use email (which, in most Korean's minds is for SPAM only) as a communication means.
... Duke Nukem Forever has announced that they "would like to rescind the comment about DNF being released before EQ2."
Food for thought: "Duke Nukem Forever is a 1999 game and we think that timeframe matches very well with what we have planned for the game." - George Broussard, 1998
"Trust us, Duke Nukem Forever will rock when it comes out next year." -Joe Siegler, 1999
"When it's done in 2001." -2000 Christmas card
"DNF will come out before Unreal 2." -George Broussard, 2001
"If DNF is not out in 2001, something's very wrong." -George Broussard, 2001
"DNF will come out before Doom 3." -George Broussard, 2002
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled approximately 2.5 billion miles since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever.
The rovers Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars within the timeframe of Duke Nukem Forever's development.
The majority of the children who were entering high school the school year following Duke Nukem Forever's announcement are now eligible to drink.
And last but not least: "We're confident that DNF will be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, game of 1998. And this confidence is not misplaced." -Scott Miller, 1997
Indeed, I would have to agree. When DNF finally does come out I'm sure it will blow the games of 1998 away. Or, at least, I sure as hell hope it does.
(Sources were from all over the net, mostly the DNF forums)
I'm going to state this up front. I'm kind of an asshole when it comes to things like this. But please, hear me out and I think you might find we have more in common than you believe.
The biggest problem with videos of movies that come out on theater is that they are in Cam quality on IRC. I download these religiously. I don't think I have a god-given right to them, but I download them like no tomorrow. If caught, oh well, it was fun while it lasted and the MPAA can enjoy suing me. They can "make an example" out of me. If someone can get away with using lawsuits to ask for outrageous amounts of money in damages, then I don't particularly see a future for myself, anyway. All I see right now is dodging one litigous situation after another.
Anyway, I steal because I just can't justify spending 7 dollars per ticket plus five dollars popcorn and pop for myself and a date. And yet, I'm suppose to court all these lovely young ladies that are gold diggers too. (Told you I was an asshole, stay with me, here)
I went to see Return of the King, and I think that will be the last one. Forget the crappy quality of the Cam versions, I enjoy the other little things, like:
1) Popcorn and pop cost whatever I spend on them at the grocery store. Usually about 50 cents a can and package. 2) I have as much room as I want, either on the couch or leaning back in a computer chair. I can even change my clothes while watching the movie. 3) I can pause the movie when I have to take a crap. Or to go jerk off. 4) I can answer my cell phone and say, "What's up?" without being booed and hissed to the foyer. Same goes with farting, people won't get offended and tell those pimply-faced teens to ask me to leave.
No, I don't answer my cell phone during movies (I have it on vibrate, I'm not a total asshole) but it sure is nice to hit pause and then answer it right there. Can you imagine if they gave people remotes so they could pause the movie while they used the crapper, got a drink of water, made out, or breast-fed the baby? Return of the King would have been 3 days long, not 3 hours.
For what it is worth, it's not the MPAA that is the problem, it's the damned theaters. They have to start introducing some things that I can't purchase for my home and use that to try to get me to go there.
Here's some ideas: 1) Private rooms or twenty-person rooms with a large screen TV instead of a projector. 2) A table I can put food, Goobers, or a UMP on. 3) Theater massages - This can include vibrating chairs 4) Headphones. These serve two purposes: first, I don't have to hear the little brats screaming/whining/crying; and second, the abducter that is stealing the screaming/whining/crying brat will actually get away before the mom notices her kid is gone, so the kid will grow up in a god-fearing Mormon/Candian home, far away from me. 5) Naked chicks. The theater girls aren't always that ugly and fat, why not pay the good ones more to give us a brief synopsis on the movie while in the nude? 6) Hell, maybe if they even started providing gas for my big olde SUV I'd start going.
I don't disagree that Apple has improved on the ideas/features and reduced bloat. But I also wouldn't say that Microsoft didn't improve on and decreased bloat when it came to IE. Netscape was bulky and horrendous, load times were horrible, and they wanted to go their own direction with it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Apple notices features/reasons why people are using these third party utilities and thus adopts them. I see it as a "good thing" (tm) and not bad at all, but I just happened to mention the double-standard when it came to/. editors talking about Apple like an angel, and MS like a demon.
Konfabulator was not first. Apple had desktop widgets quite some time ago. Not to mention Stardock, Karamba and lots of others.
I would argue that Konfabulator was the first one to do it *right*. They created a basis by which web developers could be widget developers. "Desktop Accessories" is hardly comparable from development and design aspects.
SoundJam was purchased to become iTunes.
And rightly so. So where are the hellions that cursed MS for buying up vendors in the mid-to-late nineties?
LiteSwitch was implementing a feature that used to exist in System 9 and disappeared in OS X.
I agree with your conclusion on this as well. This was one app or feature created by a third party that should never have had to be. I remember when Apple came to the local campus and was talking about OS X, the one question I asked was where Command-Tab was. They simply replied, "oh... hmm.. guess we forgot about that."
I'm glad they threw it back in, but I'm astonished that some of the same whines we got about MS are lacking now that Apple has been tuning their OS. Do people just accept this as the norm now?
Also, I take offense to your "people that pipe up with no clue" commment. I follow this, and while I don't consider myself an expert on OS X development, I *do* think there is a double-standard amongst the/. populace.
The fingerprint/retina scan/brainwave pattern says the person is you, therefore s/he is. Even worse, once your identity has been suborned in this fashion, you can't get it back, since you can't change it.
Actually, this is really getting into the realm of science fiction, but you could use a modified deck. If you think of your brain as an organic CPU that has emissions that let people pick up on how it resonates, you could enclose it inside device/skull that doesn't let this emissions out, or changes them based on a control.
It sounds ridiculous, but the patent for such a device goes as far back as 1999, and was a reissue of a 1991 patent. It was based highly on sources from the 1970s. So this isn't as far-fetched as one might believe.
Apply actually has a long history of destroying those developers that would help promote their OS. Here's a few examples: (3rd part app listed first, Apple newly introduce "feature" second)
Watson/Sherlock Konfabulator/Dashboard SoundJa m/iTunes (the one time they hired someone) LiteSwitch X/Command-Tab
It would stand to reason that Apple is killing off their own developers by usurping the projects they undertake, why? Because they've actually been here before. Remember when the Mac was stagnant at system 6-7.5? Not much really changed. Then 8.0 came out and Apple got into a better habit of releasing real changes on a regular basis.
I think though, there's a bit of a double-standard amongst what geeks perceive what MS and Apple are doing. MS buys out open source or 3rd party developers, and/. cries foul. Apple essentially just steals the whole idea and integrates it into their OS package, and no one cries foul.
Granted, I do understand there's more than just that in play, but it really kind of irks me when I see the editors gleefully talking about the latest Apple feature or product. It's like rooting for the underdog in the face of cats; you're still rooting for something other than what your target audience is concerned about.
Ahh.. I see where you got the site from. I *still* have it in my profile as a website I maintain. I'll remedy that. Sorry for the confusion.
I still had it in my signature up until about a year or so ago, just to continue to promot the guy's that took it over after me. But the more I think about it, I should probably quit doing so.:)
Thanks for bringing this up, otherwise I wouldn't have found it.
Actually, I no longer own the sheepdot.org domain, nor have I owned it for well over three years now. Going on four. It's switched hands twice since I originally registered it in something like 1999 and kept it for two years. You can refer to the "Wayback Machine" to verify this.
Back when I ran it, it had actual CONTENT. The guy that got it after me put pictures of himself, his roommate/friend and his dog on it. It hasn't had anything for a long long time now.
When people I know ask why I waste my vote, I tell them because when I used to waste it before, there weren't as many people wasting it with me. Now I'm part of a community of wasted voters, so the more I "waste" it, the "cooler" I am with the other "wasters" I hang out with.
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I was going to mod you down, but the legality of posting a link is still in question. You can't say "plain illegal" without the disclaimer: IANAL.
I'll just leave it at that.
Not to be a wiseass, but no one really cares about the NFL games anyway. It's all about the college football with me and my roommates.
Our university implemented Greylisting. It works so good, I only get spam coming from legitimate mailers. And I'm once again enjoying the 1 to 2 I get per *week*.
As someone in the midst of building a semi-autonomous model yacht, this screams to be used for telemetry feedback.
As someone who has read that sentence six times and still has no idea what it is you're exactly trying to do, I wish you the best of luck with the Windows CE installation.
Right now, one can fit approximately two "close-enough" DVD quality DVDs on one DVD using software like AutoGordianKnot to go to XviD and TMPGenc and other assorted programs to go back to DVD. I should know, I've got DVDs with up to 3 full movies on them, all with a nice little menu I made so I can select what I want to see.
CAM quality videos make up the ones with 3 movies on them, which explains why I have a DVD with National Treasure, Saw, and The Incredibles in the menu selection.
With this new format, someone is basically saying I can have upwards of 40 cam quality movies on one Bluray or HD-DVD. Or, maybe 16-18 DVD quality movies.
That's just overkill. I don't see enough of a reason for this from my standpoint. I suppose if I actually paid for DVDs there *might* be a reason, but generally speaking, I know this is going to be overpriced from the start.
Although, this *may* justify having a lower price on seasonal DVDs of shows like Roswell, Buffy, Enterprise, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc. If I could get an entire season on one DVD, it might just be worth it.
... can you please explain to me when Palm is going to get Microsoft to fix the horrible synching issues with Outlook? It takes simply forever to do, and didn't start happening till the Outlook XP "security update".
I know it was due to that patch and the "Allow access for 2 minutes" problem, but this is just downright ridiculous waiting for 2 minutes or more for the thing to either barely work or timeout.
It would seem to me that switching to Linux isn't going to solve the problems of those of us that buy Palms for use with MS software.
Yeah, or a company naming themselves after a fruit rumored to ward off dentists.
I never really understood why cybersquatting was illegal. I mean, yeah, it was needed for some of those "poor brick-and-mortar" companies in the 90s, but I mean, c'mon. The Internet has been at least heard of by nearly everyone in the US for the last ten years. Definitely the last five. If a company hasn't registered their domain by now, they should look at changing their name to find a domain that fits them.
Apple's a big boy. They can buy the domain at a price. I would imagine it must be worth at least $50,000 since they are bring this to suit. It's going to cost them at least that much from here on out to settle this, no matter how reasonable the other party is at this point.
If the guy is asking for a ludicrous amount of money for the domain, all Apple has to do is tell people what he is charging and they won't look like some coersive force, trying to take away a domain simply by labeling someone a 'squatter'.
Clinton Curtis. Ahh.. yes.
n dex.php?id =996#c002008
- ur l/index=books&field-author=Clint%20Curtis/102-6695 610-6817747
Proof:
http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/i
Among the source on his webpage:
META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97"
META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot"
All around, a very bright guy. He was even able to make a VB prototype of his vote rigging software. Wow. Thrilling. Even when he's not out pimping his book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle
The biggest problem with his story is it starts in "late September or October of 2000". This would have been far too late to have been actually implemented in Florida.
Don't get me wrong, the election could have been rigged, but seeing this "story" on Slashdot is embarrassing!
You cannot cooperate with authorities, they are powerless to stop evil! You *MUST* take action in your own hands!
Quick Ensign Tony! To the horribly configured and oddly bulky screen saver DDoS cannons!
I write out my checks in cursive. The other day I was admiring how pretty my cursive looked and how well it had developed from when I was in second grade and told to "TRY HARDER WEAKLING OR YOU WILL NEVER GET A JOB!". Then I realized just how ghey it was that I was enjoying the sight of it and hurridly gave it to the cashier... who was a guy... who (ick) winked at me.
... and second-graders.
such as the 140,000 [handwritten] pages that make up George Washington's personal papers in the Library of Congress.
In related news, the family of Tobias Lear, George Washington's personal secretary, who took his own life (arguably due to the horrible pain in his wrists), has filed suit.
One of the biggest problems with the closed source model is that you have to be a big player in order to maintain the format(s) for your external files being used. For example, the .WPD format lost out to .RTF and so has .DOC to a certain extent.
An open source gaming engine will eventually surpass a closed source one, however the issue right now is that there is so much more money to be had developing one closed source. But even that cannot delay the inevitable.
Some exceptions do occur. Adobe's PDF format is one that has simply been reverse-engineered instead of replaced.
I realize that my comments focus mainly on external "save files" and that not doesn't apply directly to the argument, but IMHO the shift in external formats being closed to more open is a good indicator of what the "end game" will look like in the future.
Microsoft can push the closed source model all they want, but the reality is that they essentially killed it by buying out all the other closed-source solutions in the marketplace. Now all that remains is for them to eventually succumb.
Actually, it's been told to death.
Here's the real problem with AIDS in Africa: culture. Using a condom is for prostitutes, not wives and girlfriends in that culture. To suggest to someone that they use a condomn is like giving a man in the US a blowup doll or a woman a vibrator and saying, this will save you from herpes. While it can save you from the disease, it's not something that people take seriously.
Also, trust is of different nature. If a woman asks a man to use a condom, it's akin to not trusting him. Same goes the other way around. No man in Africa would say, I do not trust you, I'm going to use a condom. It's just a different culture, and it's very hard to get that to change.
It's why you see videos and hear reports of African men throwing away condoms. It's sad, but it's a very real problem. Throwing money at getting condoms into the country only goes so far.
One of the few problems with the game is there is no real incentive right now to engage in PvP. Several open beta testers suggested a PvP with risk/reward where anyone could kill anyone else. It's hard to explain *why* this is a good idea for a server, because you get several people complaining it'd be too hard for newbies to get started.
But such an idea works. Darktide for Asheron's Call was a server set up much the same way. So was the original UO. The entire roleplaying aspect is about watching your back, making friends that will protect you to the death, and working for yourself. I hope Blizzard seriously considers a server of this nature in the future.
The simple response to people that say the server will draw players who sit back and feast on newbies is that, "You're right, they will, and if that scares you, then this server is NOT for you." There are at least a thousand players out of 200+ thousand that WOULD support such a server though, and they would like to see it. The discussions on the PvP forums for such a server seemed to justify at least one if not one per time zone.
Also, about death specifically. Death in the game is not as light as the poster seems to indicate. You do not lose experience, but if you cannot get back to your corpse, your armor and weapons are degraded. They are also degraded considerably upon death, so don't die continously, or you'll regret it.
It'd just be great if on death on one of these new PvP servers people could loot a corpse and get 5% of the coin and one of the most expensive "equipped" pieces. It'd give more of an incentive to PvP, and coupled with a "kill anywhere" rule, would be a GREAT server for those of us that want it.
As such, I do not intend to purchase the game right now. I realized after Asheron's Call Darktide that there is no RPG with the level of roleplay as a player-driven storyline, and you can only truly accomplish that by giving the power of life or death to the players themselves.
Think about it for a minute.
Spam typically COMES from Korea. It would make sense then, that Koreans generally do not use email (which, in most Korean's minds is for SPAM only) as a communication means.
... Duke Nukem Forever has announced that they "would like to rescind the comment about DNF being released before EQ2."
Food for thought:
"Duke Nukem Forever is a 1999 game and we think that timeframe matches very well with what we have planned for the game." - George Broussard, 1998
"Trust us, Duke Nukem Forever will rock when it comes out next year." -Joe Siegler, 1999
"When it's done in 2001." -2000 Christmas card
"DNF will come out before Unreal 2." -George Broussard, 2001
"If DNF is not out in 2001, something's very wrong." -George Broussard, 2001
"DNF will come out before Doom 3." -George Broussard, 2002
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled approximately 2.5 billion miles since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever.
The rovers Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars within the timeframe of Duke Nukem Forever's development.
The majority of the children who were entering high school the school year following Duke Nukem Forever's announcement are now eligible to drink.
And last but not least:
"We're confident that DNF will be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, game of 1998. And this confidence is not misplaced." -Scott Miller, 1997
Indeed, I would have to agree. When DNF finally does come out I'm sure it will blow the games of 1998 away. Or, at least, I sure as hell hope it does.
(Sources were from all over the net, mostly the DNF forums)
I'm going to state this up front. I'm kind of an asshole when it comes to things like this. But please, hear me out and I think you might find we have more in common than you believe.
The biggest problem with videos of movies that come out on theater is that they are in Cam quality on IRC. I download these religiously. I don't think I have a god-given right to them, but I download them like no tomorrow. If caught, oh well, it was fun while it lasted and the MPAA can enjoy suing me. They can "make an example" out of me. If someone can get away with using lawsuits to ask for outrageous amounts of money in damages, then I don't particularly see a future for myself, anyway. All I see right now is dodging one litigous situation after another.
Anyway, I steal because I just can't justify spending 7 dollars per ticket plus five dollars popcorn and pop for myself and a date. And yet, I'm suppose to court all these lovely young ladies that are gold diggers too. (Told you I was an asshole, stay with me, here)
I went to see Return of the King, and I think that will be the last one. Forget the crappy quality of the Cam versions, I enjoy the other little things, like:
1) Popcorn and pop cost whatever I spend on them at the grocery store. Usually about 50 cents a can and package.
2) I have as much room as I want, either on the couch or leaning back in a computer chair. I can even change my clothes while watching the movie.
3) I can pause the movie when I have to take a crap. Or to go jerk off.
4) I can answer my cell phone and say, "What's up?" without being booed and hissed to the foyer. Same goes with farting, people won't get offended and tell those pimply-faced teens to ask me to leave.
No, I don't answer my cell phone during movies (I have it on vibrate, I'm not a total asshole) but it sure is nice to hit pause and then answer it right there. Can you imagine if they gave people remotes so they could pause the movie while they used the crapper, got a drink of water, made out, or breast-fed the baby? Return of the King would have been 3 days long, not 3 hours.
For what it is worth, it's not the MPAA that is the problem, it's the damned theaters. They have to start introducing some things that I can't purchase for my home and use that to try to get me to go there.
Here's some ideas:
1) Private rooms or twenty-person rooms with a large screen TV instead of a projector.
2) A table I can put food, Goobers, or a UMP on.
3) Theater massages - This can include vibrating chairs
4) Headphones. These serve two purposes: first, I don't have to hear the little brats screaming/whining/crying; and second, the abducter that is stealing the screaming/whining/crying brat will actually get away before the mom notices her kid is gone, so the kid will grow up in a god-fearing Mormon/Candian home, far away from me.
5) Naked chicks. The theater girls aren't always that ugly and fat, why not pay the good ones more to give us a brief synopsis on the movie while in the nude?
6) Hell, maybe if they even started providing gas for my big olde SUV I'd start going.
I don't disagree that Apple has improved on the ideas/features and reduced bloat. But I also wouldn't say that Microsoft didn't improve on and decreased bloat when it came to IE. Netscape was bulky and horrendous, load times were horrible, and they wanted to go their own direction with it.
/. editors talking about Apple like an angel, and MS like a demon.
/. populace.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Apple notices features/reasons why people are using these third party utilities and thus adopts them. I see it as a "good thing" (tm) and not bad at all, but I just happened to mention the double-standard when it came to
Konfabulator was not first. Apple had desktop widgets quite some time ago. Not to mention Stardock, Karamba and lots of others.
I would argue that Konfabulator was the first one to do it *right*. They created a basis by which web developers could be widget developers. "Desktop Accessories" is hardly comparable from development and design aspects.
SoundJam was purchased to become iTunes.
And rightly so. So where are the hellions that cursed MS for buying up vendors in the mid-to-late nineties?
LiteSwitch was implementing a feature that used to exist in System 9 and disappeared in OS X.
I agree with your conclusion on this as well. This was one app or feature created by a third party that should never have had to be. I remember when Apple came to the local campus and was talking about OS X, the one question I asked was where Command-Tab was. They simply replied, "oh... hmm.. guess we forgot about that."
I'm glad they threw it back in, but I'm astonished that some of the same whines we got about MS are lacking now that Apple has been tuning their OS. Do people just accept this as the norm now?
Also, I take offense to your "people that pipe up with no clue" commment. I follow this, and while I don't consider myself an expert on OS X development, I *do* think there is a double-standard amongst the
The fingerprint/retina scan/brainwave pattern says the person is you, therefore s/he is. Even worse, once your identity has been suborned in this fashion, you can't get it back, since you can't change it.
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Actually, this is really getting into the realm of science fiction, but you could use a modified deck. If you think of your brain as an organic CPU that has emissions that let people pick up on how it resonates, you could enclose it inside device/skull that doesn't let this emissions out, or changes them based on a control.
It sounds ridiculous, but the patent for such a device goes as far back as 1999, and was a reissue of a 1991 patent. It was based highly on sources from the 1970s. So this isn't as far-fetched as one might believe.
Source:
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/p/bra
In fact, most of the patents in here are science fiction:
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/p/
The actual website looks along the lines of a new-age "tin-hat" website, but some of the technology described is interesting.
Apply actually has a long history of destroying those developers that would help promote their OS. Here's a few examples: (3rd part app listed first, Apple newly introduce "feature" second)
a m/iTunes (the one time they hired someone)
/. cries foul. Apple essentially just steals the whole idea and integrates it into their OS package, and no one cries foul.
Watson/Sherlock
Konfabulator/Dashboard
SoundJ
LiteSwitch X/Command-Tab
It would stand to reason that Apple is killing off their own developers by usurping the projects they undertake, why? Because they've actually been here before. Remember when the Mac was stagnant at system 6-7.5? Not much really changed. Then 8.0 came out and Apple got into a better habit of releasing real changes on a regular basis.
I think though, there's a bit of a double-standard amongst what geeks perceive what MS and Apple are doing. MS buys out open source or 3rd party developers, and
Granted, I do understand there's more than just that in play, but it really kind of irks me when I see the editors gleefully talking about the latest Apple feature or product. It's like rooting for the underdog in the face of cats; you're still rooting for something other than what your target audience is concerned about.
Ahh.. I see where you got the site from. I *still* have it in my profile as a website I maintain. I'll remedy that. Sorry for the confusion.
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I still had it in my signature up until about a year or so ago, just to continue to promot the guy's that took it over after me. But the more I think about it, I should probably quit doing so.
Thanks for bringing this up, otherwise I wouldn't have found it.
Actually, I no longer own the sheepdot.org domain, nor have I owned it for well over three years now. Going on four. It's switched hands twice since I originally registered it in something like 1999 and kept it for two years. You can refer to the "Wayback Machine" to verify this.
Back when I ran it, it had actual CONTENT. The guy that got it after me put pictures of himself, his roommate/friend and his dog on it. It hasn't had anything for a long long time now.
I did too.
When people I know ask why I waste my vote, I tell them because when I used to waste it before, there weren't as many people wasting it with me. Now I'm part of a community of wasted voters, so the more I "waste" it, the "cooler" I am with the other "wasters" I hang out with.