While that image is in your head, go sit in a freezer. That'll make your impression more accurate.
I grew up there, spent 18 years of my life there, and was ecstatic to leave.
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It would actually work for the Tick (now there's a thought), where the ridiculously saturated super-hero population were relegated to a single block to watch over.
The only way for this to work well is for new players to either have some base super-powers to start or be normal humans who get the urge to put on a domino mask and spandex tights. Let them fight the small crimes to gain experience (forget the machinations of Dr. Doom and find a child that was abducted a few hours ago), eventually moving up the chain. Marvel's established super-heroes should only be NPCs in this system...or trusted players hired by Marvel.
When Pearl Harbor was running its little banner ads for the DVD version, I came across one that had Harbor misspelled. Pretty funny. Wish I still had it.
Part of me wonders if we shouldn't give this guy and others a heiroglyphic language and be done with it.
I can see the logic...most musical notation is pictoral/symbolic (except lyrics), since A-B-C-sharp-hold it for 30 seconds- wouldn't convey the relative relation of the notes as well.
But for computer programming, I still think text will come out on top.
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The need to actually get up, walk to the machine, and put clothes in the washer, as well as take them out and put them in the dryer.
A laundromat near me has gone the route of laundry cards that you can fill up with money...it eliminates the need to use quarters, as you can choose to put $10s or $20s on.
As far as dispensing soap from the internet, I don't really get this...I'm going to go to the laundromat, put my clothes in, go back to my room, start up my computer, then indicate I want soap? What if I want a different brand of soap?
Scott Adams in the Dilbert Future actually hit the nail on the head on this topic.
Suppose you spam 1,000,000 e-mail addresses, and 1/2% are stupid enough to fall for it. That's 5,000 responses, from people willing to fork over money for your bogus or not-bogus product.
Given the cost of spam, it's no surprise it's so prevalent.
That's very likely, given that the study was funded by Clorox. Maybe it's just the paranoia instilled by reading "Trust Us, We're Experts", but I've become REALLY skeptical of reports like this.
Note that the study broke down subjects by "uses disinfectants" and "does not use disinfectants". Guess why?
AP, at least on Yahoo, still does this. I went searching Will Poole on dailynews.yahoo.com, and found numerous articles, often dated within hours of each other. Yet each article is a seprate entity, and usually ending with a number (e.g., 120, 121, 122) to indicate the sequence of reporting.)
The opening weekened phenomenon was a big issue last year, with almost every summer release premiering to big numbers and disappearing quickly.
One of the things to check for, in terms of "is it a good movie or not", is the drop off...the percentage difference between week 1 and week 2. 30-40% dropoff is about average, while a 50-60% is pretty nasty. A 10-20% dropoff is pretty good, while an uptick is usually on seen with Oscar-nominated movies.
Sunday has always been when weekend gross estimates are released. IMDB's lead article on Monday will be just the estimates, with the real grosses the lead news story for Tuesday.
Estimates are usually pretty accurate, but a couple of weeks ago, the estimates showed Life, Or Something Like It beating Jason X, while the real grosses had it the other way around.
Seriously though, although it's pretty easy to fall into the slippery slope (you can do that with rats? cats? dogs? the farmer's wife?), this is actually one of the pivotal plot points of Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the last three years (Spike has a chip implanted in his head that can force him not to do certain things.) Suddenly, it doesn't seem so far away.
The issue here isn't whether or not Dallas Morning News can prevent deeplinking through a variety of solutions, but whether they should be preventing deeplinking at all, and whether they can force another website not to link.
This issue has come up before, but the only situations which appear to have been supported as copyright violations by the courts have been cases where content is deeplinked, but buried in a framesite to make it appear that the linking site owns the content being linked to (similar to about.com).
I checked some of the links refered to, and BarkingDog a) clearly identifies the source of mateiral and b) has set the links to appear by themselves, without any appearance of ownership on the part of BarkingDog.
This will hopefully get thrown out of court nice and quickly.
Scenario: Thief picks up car, likes car. Picks up hitchhiker. Gets out at 7-11. Says wait here. Police bust car and Hitchhiker. Thief sees bust, coolly walks away from 7-11 slurping Bruisin Berry Big Gulp.
Actually, this is a little misleading. While I have no doubt that a large number of people watch the game for the ads, the survey is skewered towards TiVO owners, not the Super Bowl watching population at large. While nowhere near the same of importance, it's the same factor that lead to the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline (the headline was predicted based on a phone survey, one of the first of it's kind. Since few had telephones, except for the rich, the survey skewered towards their tastes, which was for Dewey.)
Actually, porn was hit really hard about 10 years back with Warner Brothers suing Legend Video over a Cal Jammer/Madison movie called Splatman. Up to that point, Legend had put out rather well-done (for porn standards) parodies of Cheers, The Flintstones, and Married With Children. (Kelly's counterpart: "I had an organism!") But with Splatman, they made the mistake of using actual audio from Batman the movie, and Warner Brothers came down hard (porn double entendre not intended). Since then, porn take-offs have been very few and far between, although there starting to make a comeback (again, double entendre not intended).
I was pretty anti-XML for a long time, primarily because of two misconceptions that were pretty easy to make with all of the hype and fluff:
* XML is a replacement for HTML.
* Users will have to write tags themselves.
The latter concerned me more actually...having seen how users use any database system, not even the best error-checking can keep some users from corrupting data ("I thought city was supposed to go in Address2 and City"). Having a format that defines data-structure relies on the users putting the right data in the right spots. But with more carefully constructed applications, it seems this is becoming less of a problem thankfully, and the concern I have moves from XML-related to one of user-related.
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While that image is in your head, go sit in a freezer. That'll make your impression more accurate.
I grew up there, spent 18 years of my life there, and was ecstatic to leave.
It would actually work for the Tick (now there's a thought), where the ridiculously saturated super-hero population were relegated to a single block to watch over.
The only way for this to work well is for new players to either have some base super-powers to start or be normal humans who get the urge to put on a domino mask and spandex tights. Let them fight the small crimes to gain experience (forget the machinations of Dr. Doom and find a child that was abducted a few hours ago), eventually moving up the chain. Marvel's established super-heroes should only be NPCs in this system...or trusted players hired by Marvel.
What, you mean like days of you're? :)
When Pearl Harbor was running its little banner ads for the DVD version, I came across one that had Harbor misspelled. Pretty funny. Wish I still had it.
Actually, shouldn't it be Premiere? (It's the premier episode, but a season premiere.)
Part of me wonders if we shouldn't give this guy and others a heiroglyphic language and be done with it.
I can see the logic...most musical notation is pictoral/symbolic (except lyrics), since A-B-C-sharp-hold it for 30 seconds- wouldn't convey the relative relation of the notes as well.
But for computer programming, I still think text will come out on top.
The need to actually get up, walk to the machine, and put clothes in the washer, as well as take them out and put them in the dryer.
A laundromat near me has gone the route of laundry cards that you can fill up with money...it eliminates the need to use quarters, as you can choose to put $10s or $20s on.
As far as dispensing soap from the internet, I don't really get this...I'm going to go to the laundromat, put my clothes in, go back to my room, start up my computer, then indicate I want soap? What if I want a different brand of soap?
Bah, progress.
Nope...
My favorite was a colleague who wrote Javascript to write out the Javascript (e.g., document.write("var somevariable = 6"))
Yes. They do.
Scott Adams in the Dilbert Future actually hit the nail on the head on this topic.
Suppose you spam 1,000,000 e-mail addresses, and 1/2% are stupid enough to fall for it. That's 5,000 responses, from people willing to fork over money for your bogus or not-bogus product.
Given the cost of spam, it's no surprise it's so prevalent.
That's what amazed me, is that the headline of the article and opening paragraph ran counter to much of the rest of the article.
It's like going to the fridge and reporting back that Special K must be dead since, hey, no special K in the fridge.
That's very likely, given that the study was funded by Clorox. Maybe it's just the paranoia instilled by reading "Trust Us, We're Experts", but I've become REALLY skeptical of reports like this.
Note that the study broke down subjects by "uses disinfectants" and "does not use disinfectants". Guess why?
AP, at least on Yahoo, still does this. I went searching Will Poole on dailynews.yahoo.com, and found numerous articles, often dated within hours of each other. Yet each article is a seprate entity, and usually ending with a number (e.g., 120, 121, 122) to indicate the sequence of reporting.)
and you're on your way to a robotic dog that responds to your emotional mood and act accordingly...
cool...
unless of course you fear your robotic Aibo Doberman pinscher, and it chews out your neck.
Does this mean the Supreme Court will have to rule on whether or not sexually programmed Aibos violate rules on bestiality?
The opening weekened phenomenon was a big issue last year, with almost every summer release premiering to big numbers and disappearing quickly.
One of the things to check for, in terms of "is it a good movie or not", is the drop off...the percentage difference between week 1 and week 2. 30-40% dropoff is about average, while a 50-60% is pretty nasty. A 10-20% dropoff is pretty good, while an uptick is usually on seen with Oscar-nominated movies.
Sunday has always been when weekend gross estimates are released. IMDB's lead article on Monday will be just the estimates, with the real grosses the lead news story for Tuesday. Estimates are usually pretty accurate, but a couple of weeks ago, the estimates showed Life, Or Something Like It beating Jason X, while the real grosses had it the other way around.
Now we can put Stuart Little to good use.
Seriously though, although it's pretty easy to fall into the slippery slope (you can do that with rats? cats? dogs? the farmer's wife?), this is actually one of the pivotal plot points of Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the last three years (Spike has a chip implanted in his head that can force him not to do certain things.) Suddenly, it doesn't seem so far away.
The issue here isn't whether or not Dallas Morning News can prevent deeplinking through a variety of solutions, but whether they should be preventing deeplinking at all, and whether they can force another website not to link.
This issue has come up before, but the only situations which appear to have been supported as copyright violations by the courts have been cases where content is deeplinked, but buried in a framesite to make it appear that the linking site owns the content being linked to (similar to about.com).
I checked some of the links refered to, and BarkingDog a) clearly identifies the source of mateiral and b) has set the links to appear by themselves, without any appearance of ownership on the part of BarkingDog.
This will hopefully get thrown out of court nice and quickly.
Well, it's a low probability, but not 0.
Scenario: Thief picks up car, likes car. Picks up hitchhiker. Gets out at 7-11. Says wait here. Police bust car and Hitchhiker. Thief sees bust, coolly walks away from 7-11 slurping Bruisin Berry Big Gulp.
Obvious solution: Ban Bruisin Berry Big Gulps
Actually, this is a little misleading. While I have no doubt that a large number of people watch the game for the ads, the survey is skewered towards TiVO owners, not the Super Bowl watching population at large. While nowhere near the same of importance, it's the same factor that lead to the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline (the headline was predicted based on a phone survey, one of the first of it's kind. Since few had telephones, except for the rich, the survey skewered towards their tastes, which was for Dewey.)
Actually, porn was hit really hard about 10 years back with Warner Brothers suing Legend Video over a Cal Jammer/Madison movie called Splatman. Up to that point, Legend had put out rather well-done (for porn standards) parodies of Cheers, The Flintstones, and Married With Children. (Kelly's counterpart: "I had an organism!") But with Splatman, they made the mistake of using actual audio from Batman the movie, and Warner Brothers came down hard (porn double entendre not intended). Since then, porn take-offs have been very few and far between, although there starting to make a comeback (again, double entendre not intended).
"So what you are in for?"
"Denial of Service on EBay. You?"
"I put my sister in the hospital because she was hogging the computer."
"Eeep."
I was pretty anti-XML for a long time, primarily because of two misconceptions that were pretty easy to make with all of the hype and fluff:
* XML is a replacement for HTML.
* Users will have to write tags themselves.
The latter concerned me more actually...having seen how users use any database system, not even the best error-checking can keep some users from corrupting data ("I thought city was supposed to go in Address2 and City"). Having a format that defines data-structure relies on the users putting the right data in the right spots. But with more carefully constructed applications, it seems this is becoming less of a problem thankfully, and the concern I have moves from XML-related to one of user-related.
As opposed to the obvious joke...
<NUTSHELL VERSION="1">XML</NUTSHELL>