I'm sorry, does anyone actually use metric time? Okay, maybe some scientists, or programming students for a project assigned by a mildly vicious professor, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned.....
I mean, does this sound right? "At work promptly at 3.75, and out the door and on the way home at 7.0833." (which corresponds to a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work day)
The preceding was brought to you by low blood sugar and lack of caffiene.
Oh, they could roll it out as part of a "required" patch that fixes other security holes, it could be part of the next version of Outlook, and as part of MSN... there are ways.
What concerns me is how this would affect people who use Eudora, or yahoo-mail, or any of the host of other systems that don't require the Lords of Redmond holding their hands to send e-mail.
It seems that it would be a stop-gap measure for anyone using MS products or services to spam, but unless it was adopted by every major (and many minor) e-mail services, it would have very little actual effect.
He was killed by the Israeli Shin Bet in 1996 following a massive manhunt. They were able to compromise one of Ayyash's fellow Hamas members, who gave him a cell phone full of explosives. When they confirmed Ayyash was using it, the Shin Bet detonated it, killing him instantly.
Now, supposedly, the cell phone worked as well, and the last call he got on it was from the head of the Shin Bet, who told him "Goodbye."
No, you're not. Was it William's best movie? Nah... was it even remotely Oscar-caliber in any way? No, but I think the/. opinion on the Oscar committee greatly resembles a bucket of feces.
Was it a fun movie? Yes. And Dustin Hoffman as Hook was an even more brilliant piece of casting then Robin Williams as a middle-aged Peter Pan.
You do realize, that in the comic books, the Hulk can and does leap a couple of miles at a time fairly regularly, don't you?
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me remind you. Before the CGI, before Bill Bixby, there was a comic book. The Incredible Hulk ran for years before the TV series even came out. And, quite frankly, the TV series (and related made-for-TV movies) had their own faults. In the comics, the Hulk pretty much shrugs off bullets, tank rounds, etc. In the last movie, he dies after falling a hundred feet or so. A poor end to a comic book character who can leap two miles up in the air and land safely.
That being said, the movie sucked, and the screenwriters for it (John Turman, Michael France, and James Schamus) should be taken out back and beaten with a large stick.
So I have to wonder how much things like MMORPGs take up? I mean, if someone is playing EQ or DAOC or SWG for hours at a stretch, every day, is their ISP going to holler at them? Or is it relatively small change, compared to some other type of loser downloading movies in his parent's basement?
Harry Osbourne (the son) was one of the Green Goblins at a couple different points in the comics. For one of his runs in the green suit, he was pretty damn insane, and for another, he was fairly sane, working on the same side as Spider-Man, and knew that Spidey was Peter Parker. Of course, Marvel trashed that when they had him go insane again, attempt to kill his own wife, and then die of a brain fever. (Which is, of course, what lead into the return of the original Green Goblin, back from the dead... although they retconned it in the comics so that he didn't really die those many years ago.)
Now, if you want confusing, try and understand the number of people who claimed to be the Hobgoblin...
It appears that Miramax is on crack, and is assigning itself far too much power. If someone sells me a used copy, and they're from another country, Miramax can do nothing. If a foreign website is offering videos for sale, and I choose to buy some, Miramax can do nothing. (Okay, sure, they can try to close the website, but let's face it... they do not and should not have absolute control over every video/DVD that bears their coporate logo.)
I guess my complaint would be that Microsoft seems to pull out all the stops when it comes to getting Universities and businesses to run their products, but act like petulant children when any government agency or business even considers using something else. I mean, if their products were really worth x-hundred dollars per license, then they wouldn't have to deep discount to keep people from switching to Linux every time some business or government considers it.
Frankly, if Microsoft would actually do what they are constantly claiming, like making their OS more secure, then I would have less of a problem. If they didn't force businesses to upgrade on a constant schedule, then I'd have less of a problem. There is a fine line between running a profitable business and running, what is in effect, an extortion scheme. "Upgrade now, or Big Louie will come around and remove all your service contracts."
That's the case at a lot of universities... want to know why? They want to hook you while you're young. They want you to get used to using Windows, so you won't want to break away from it and try something else.
It's also why Lexis-Nexus does so well. Lexis-Nexus is basically a case law database. It's almost always available for free by law students in the computer labs they have. Once they graduate and get out in the 'real world', they are used to the ease and familiarity of it that they keep using it, at whatever the going rate is (It's measured in dollars per minute).
Fine then... let's insure that all cell phones, from now on, will automatically go into "vibrate" mode instead of ring tone when in certain areas, like movie theaters, classrooms, etc.
Call it "courtesy technology" instead of a jamming field.
God, tell me about it. It's enough to make me miss the old cell phones, which, oddly enough, were big enough so that they could reach from ear to mouth, without the user having to practically scream into the receiver.
Nothing looks stupider then some college jackass with a cell phone the size of a zippo lighter alternating between holding it at his ear and at his mouth.
I think it's a problem with almost any sci-fi or fantasy series that goes over a certain number of books. It becomes statistically unlikely that any one person, for example, Luke Skywalker, would be the one to destroy the first Death Star, become a Jedi, be a witness to his father killing the Emperor, found a new order of Jedi Knights, etc. Or, for another example, look at all the stuff that Richard Rahl does in the Sword of Truth books.
I mean, sure, they're the heroes. That's why they live. But after the 4th or 5th book in which the hero amazingly beats 1 in 1,000,000 odds, it gets kind of stale. (At least Pratchett makes fun of such odds, as well as many other things.)
You know, if you RTFA, you'd see, in the second paragraph, the following:
In January 2003, a three-judge panel in Oslo rejected charges brought by the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) against Johansen for accessing his DVD movies using an independently created DVD player. OKOKRIM appealed the loss and Johansen's retrial is scheduled to begin on December 2, 2003 in Oslo and end December 11, 2003. Since Johansen's case is one of first impression, it is not unusual for the case to be retried on an appeal in Norway.
Yes, because children will always blur the lines between reality and fantasy when they play video games for hours on end. Why, I know from personal experience that my hours upon hours of playing Galaga has made fighting the Martians that much easier....
Oh wait....
Let's face it. If Knothead Jr. is that likely to mistake the cartoony animation of GTA for reality, then odds are that he was already messed up, and the gameplay wasn't adding much, if anything to his lack of a firm grip on reality. Parents and legislators need to grow the fuck up themselves and realize that once they stop using movies and games as parents, and start actually being parents themselves, maybe, just maybe, their kids won't be so fucked up.
Blaming the games for "giving the kids the wrong message" is a cop-out. Parents should be the ones giving their kids the message. If they do their job right, the games won't mean jack...
Don't forget they just have to fund "Scare Tactics". What the screaming f*ck that has to do with Sci-Fi, I don't know... it's not even that scary... it's more like "Oh shit, we screwed up, and now we're worrying about when the cops will show up."
Frankly, I'd like to start the executions with their program director and work my way up...
rinse, repeat until the official "John Carpenter Approved Zombie Killing Hero" arrives and saves democracy in a hail of bullets and a couple witty one-liners.
I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Gamespy just went even lower. If it wasn't for them hosting old Nodwick strips, they'd have no redeeming values at all.
I mean, let's face it, anyone who wants to exploit Gamespy's servers probably already knows how to do so, this guy's bug reports notwithstanding...
Tell me about it. I had, until a week ago, a Radeon 9000 that was doing pretty good, but every time I got the new patch for some games, I would notice a creeping graphics glitch, or a minor amount of video lag... got the 9600, and life is good again. Personally, I'm not sure what the point of paying the additional $200 for the 9800 XT would be, but then, I only play a limited number of games, and among them, I don't think the old Nintendo ROMs care what I use...:)
They are? Wouldn't that require the government to actually be informed on the matter? The same government that most/.ers are convinced knows something between jack and shit about what the real effects of the DMCA are?
Come on... this is why there are congressional aides... "Sir, your re-election campaign received a sack of unmarked bills, some drugs and a couple hookers so you'd vote against this. And remember, tomorrow's vote is in favour of the corp that gave you that other sack of cash, so you need to vote yes on that one."
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I'm sorry, does anyone actually use metric time? Okay, maybe some scientists, or programming students for a project assigned by a mildly vicious professor, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned.....
I mean, does this sound right? "At work promptly at 3.75, and out the door and on the way home at 7.0833." (which corresponds to a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work day)
The preceding was brought to you by low blood sugar and lack of caffiene.
Kierthos
Yes, exactly. The Shin Bet are so damn good that they can look forward in time six years and get an idea from a TV show.
And to think I used to just limit my ridicule to people who didn't read the articles.
Kierthos
Oh, they could roll it out as part of a "required" patch that fixes other security holes, it could be part of the next version of Outlook, and as part of MSN... there are ways.
What concerns me is how this would affect people who use Eudora, or yahoo-mail, or any of the host of other systems that don't require the Lords of Redmond holding their hands to send e-mail.
It seems that it would be a stop-gap measure for anyone using MS products or services to spam, but unless it was adopted by every major (and many minor) e-mail services, it would have very little actual effect.
Kierthos
From Wikipedia:
He was killed by the Israeli Shin Bet in 1996 following a massive manhunt. They were able to compromise one of Ayyash's fellow Hamas members, who gave him a cell phone full of explosives. When they confirmed Ayyash was using it, the Shin Bet detonated it, killing him instantly.
Now, supposedly, the cell phone worked as well, and the last call he got on it was from the head of the Shin Bet, who told him "Goodbye."
Kierthos
No, you're not. Was it William's best movie? Nah... was it even remotely Oscar-caliber in any way? No, but I think the /. opinion on the Oscar committee greatly resembles a bucket of feces.
Was it a fun movie? Yes. And Dustin Hoffman as Hook was an even more brilliant piece of casting then Robin Williams as a middle-aged Peter Pan.
Kierthos
You do realize, that in the comic books, the Hulk can and does leap a couple of miles at a time fairly regularly, don't you?
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me remind you. Before the CGI, before Bill Bixby, there was a comic book. The Incredible Hulk ran for years before the TV series even came out. And, quite frankly, the TV series (and related made-for-TV movies) had their own faults. In the comics, the Hulk pretty much shrugs off bullets, tank rounds, etc. In the last movie, he dies after falling a hundred feet or so. A poor end to a comic book character who can leap two miles up in the air and land safely.
That being said, the movie sucked, and the screenwriters for it (John Turman, Michael France, and James Schamus) should be taken out back and beaten with a large stick.
Kierthos
So I have to wonder how much things like MMORPGs take up? I mean, if someone is playing EQ or DAOC or SWG for hours at a stretch, every day, is their ISP going to holler at them? Or is it relatively small change, compared to some other type of loser downloading movies in his parent's basement?
Kierthos
Harry Osbourne (the son) was one of the Green Goblins at a couple different points in the comics. For one of his runs in the green suit, he was pretty damn insane, and for another, he was fairly sane, working on the same side as Spider-Man, and knew that Spidey was Peter Parker. Of course, Marvel trashed that when they had him go insane again, attempt to kill his own wife, and then die of a brain fever. (Which is, of course, what lead into the return of the original Green Goblin, back from the dead... although they retconned it in the comics so that he didn't really die those many years ago.)
Now, if you want confusing, try and understand the number of people who claimed to be the Hobgoblin...
Kierthos
It appears that Miramax is on crack, and is assigning itself far too much power. If someone sells me a used copy, and they're from another country, Miramax can do nothing. If a foreign website is offering videos for sale, and I choose to buy some, Miramax can do nothing. (Okay, sure, they can try to close the website, but let's face it... they do not and should not have absolute control over every video/DVD that bears their coporate logo.)
Kierthos
I guess my complaint would be that Microsoft seems to pull out all the stops when it comes to getting Universities and businesses to run their products, but act like petulant children when any government agency or business even considers using something else. I mean, if their products were really worth x-hundred dollars per license, then they wouldn't have to deep discount to keep people from switching to Linux every time some business or government considers it.
Frankly, if Microsoft would actually do what they are constantly claiming, like making their OS more secure, then I would have less of a problem. If they didn't force businesses to upgrade on a constant schedule, then I'd have less of a problem. There is a fine line between running a profitable business and running, what is in effect, an extortion scheme. "Upgrade now, or Big Louie will come around and remove all your service contracts."
Kierthos
That's the case at a lot of universities... want to know why? They want to hook you while you're young. They want you to get used to using Windows, so you won't want to break away from it and try something else.
It's also why Lexis-Nexus does so well. Lexis-Nexus is basically a case law database. It's almost always available for free by law students in the computer labs they have. Once they graduate and get out in the 'real world', they are used to the ease and familiarity of it that they keep using it, at whatever the going rate is (It's measured in dollars per minute).
It's OS and software crack.
Kierthos
That's what tasers are for.
Kierthos
Fine then... let's insure that all cell phones, from now on, will automatically go into "vibrate" mode instead of ring tone when in certain areas, like movie theaters, classrooms, etc.
Call it "courtesy technology" instead of a jamming field.
Kierthos
God, tell me about it. It's enough to make me miss the old cell phones, which, oddly enough, were big enough so that they could reach from ear to mouth, without the user having to practically scream into the receiver.
Nothing looks stupider then some college jackass with a cell phone the size of a zippo lighter alternating between holding it at his ear and at his mouth.
Kierthos
I think it's a problem with almost any sci-fi or fantasy series that goes over a certain number of books. It becomes statistically unlikely that any one person, for example, Luke Skywalker, would be the one to destroy the first Death Star, become a Jedi, be a witness to his father killing the Emperor, found a new order of Jedi Knights, etc. Or, for another example, look at all the stuff that Richard Rahl does in the Sword of Truth books.
I mean, sure, they're the heroes. That's why they live. But after the 4th or 5th book in which the hero amazingly beats 1 in 1,000,000 odds, it gets kind of stale. (At least Pratchett makes fun of such odds, as well as many other things.)
Kierthos
Kierthos
No, no, it signifies all the extra free time you'll have from not having to deal with the "secure" Windows servers....
Kierthos
Yes, because children will always blur the lines between reality and fantasy when they play video games for hours on end. Why, I know from personal experience that my hours upon hours of playing Galaga has made fighting the Martians that much easier....
Oh wait....
Let's face it. If Knothead Jr. is that likely to mistake the cartoony animation of GTA for reality, then odds are that he was already messed up, and the gameplay wasn't adding much, if anything to his lack of a firm grip on reality. Parents and legislators need to grow the fuck up themselves and realize that once they stop using movies and games as parents, and start actually being parents themselves, maybe, just maybe, their kids won't be so fucked up.
Blaming the games for "giving the kids the wrong message" is a cop-out. Parents should be the ones giving their kids the message. If they do their job right, the games won't mean jack...
Kierthos
Don't forget they just have to fund "Scare Tactics". What the screaming f*ck that has to do with Sci-Fi, I don't know... it's not even that scary... it's more like "Oh shit, we screwed up, and now we're worrying about when the cops will show up."
Frankly, I'd like to start the executions with their program director and work my way up...
Kierthos
Yup, they want voting zombies...
ehhhhhh.... must not question politicians....
ehhhhhh.... must vote on shitty machine.....
ehhhhhh.... must not care how vote is tallied....
rinse, repeat until the official "John Carpenter Approved Zombie Killing Hero" arrives and saves democracy in a hail of bullets and a couple witty one-liners.
Kierthos
Nice server you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it...
#include horse_head.h
Kierthos
I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Gamespy just went even lower. If it wasn't for them hosting old Nodwick strips, they'd have no redeeming values at all.
I mean, let's face it, anyone who wants to exploit Gamespy's servers probably already knows how to do so, this guy's bug reports notwithstanding...
Kierthos
Tell me about it. I had, until a week ago, a Radeon 9000 that was doing pretty good, but every time I got the new patch for some games, I would notice a creeping graphics glitch, or a minor amount of video lag... got the 9600, and life is good again. Personally, I'm not sure what the point of paying the additional $200 for the 9800 XT would be, but then, I only play a limited number of games, and among them, I don't think the old Nintendo ROMs care what I use... :)
Kierthos
It would almost be worth it, though, to be there when all of the business district screams as one when their PDA's get virii'd....
Or maybe I'm just vicious...
Kierthos
They are? Wouldn't that require the government to actually be informed on the matter? The same government that most /.ers are convinced knows something between jack and shit about what the real effects of the DMCA are?
Come on... this is why there are congressional aides... "Sir, your re-election campaign received a sack of unmarked bills, some drugs and a couple hookers so you'd vote against this. And remember, tomorrow's vote is in favour of the corp that gave you that other sack of cash, so you need to vote yes on that one."
Kierthos
(Go ahead, mod me -1 Pessimistic)