The key to the article is the last section, which talks about remedying the bad software situation, describing massive class-action lawsuits as "a bad idea whose time has come." MS knows that it could live through a class-action suit of this type. Would your favorite open-source project survive being sued back into the stone age? I think this article is an attempt to get public opinion stirred up to the point that UCITA laws - which include things like mandated warranties on software products -seem like a reasonable solution, and thus make life more difficult for MS's competition.
I think you have hit the nail on the head with your last statement. This whole series of films was supposed to show how Anakin becomes Vader - but Lucas blew it. It looks like the transformation actually happened at some indeterminate point between Menace and Clones, because the Anakin we see in AOTC is already, for all intents and purposes, Vader without the mask.
Not that I disliked the movie, though - the last hour pretty much saves it for me.
Well, if that's too boring for you, try your local PlanHouse Gallery, if there's one in your area. Here in Jackson, MS, they have PC's set up throughout the store running Mozilla on Mandrake (8.1 I think), pointing to planhouse.com for customers looking for specific information about houseplans, etc. Worth looking into, and maybe a little sexier than cash registers.
What's wrong with Jackie Chan? He's like, 50 years old or something. Not a convincing high-schooler in my opinion. I love Jackie Chan, but he's soooo not right for Spider-Man.
So OK, if you want to make the RIAA look stupid(er), go pick up Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD. This is the one that the band actually relesed for free on the Net when their old label dropped them six months ago. Now they've been picked back up and the album is getting raves. Wilco's a good band, and if you don't like their music, just go buy it out of spite!
Wireless bandwidth leeching. ISP's are resentful of the potential for people to rebroadcast their bandwidth over the air for free, and are taking steps to end it before it gets started.
Nah, the worst game for this kind of thing was the original X-Com: UFO Defense. I'm not talking about the standard stuff, like ducking for cover every time I walked out to my car, or instinctively evaluating every room I walked into for the tactical possibilities. One time, after playing for about 8 hours, I saved my game and went outside for a food run. I saw a couple of guys across the street - and I promise you a little red box with a "2" apeared in the lower right corner of my peripheral vision. You old-school X-Com players will know what I'm talking about.
You could definitely do that - I've thought about doing that with mine, but you'd have to be pretty careful. The pewter's not extremely thick, but you wouldn't have a lot of room to work with without messing up the "face". It would probably be best to go in through the top of the skull, but it would still be tight.
A friend of mine who is currently stationed at Yokota AFB in Japan sent me some of the picks and a Darth Vader volume knob a couple of months back. The picks are pretty nice, especially some of the metallic ones. They come in a little foil packet with a trading card, so they're definitely more aimed at collectors than guitarists.
The Vader knob is nicely done as well, made of fairly heavy metal (pewter, I guess). The only problem is, it looks absolutely ridiculous when actually mounted on a guitar. I do concur with the general perception here that the paint jobs on the Star Wars guitars rank right up there with the worst atrocities ever committed against a defenseless musical instrument. At least they didn't do a Jar Jar. Yippee!
It's a golden opportunity for American scientists. Instead of wrestling with complicated moral dilemmas, we can now sit back and watch and see if God smites the Chinese. If He does, we can just say, "See? We told ya cloning was evil." If there is no smiting, then we can assume it's safe to jump on the bandwagon. Thanks, Communist China!
... because I can't find anything in the usage agreement about students giving up the rights to their papers. OK, IANAL, but if it's in there, can somebody please point it out to me?
TV sucks anyway, cable moreso. After years of dealing with continually-escalating cable bills, I finally had ours yanked. Rabbit ears, baby! I get better news on the Net than cable offers anyway; I still get the local news that's hard to find on the Net; and I still watch a little (very little) network stuff. Yeah, I miss some of the cable-only programming, but I'd rather have the extra $45/month, which is what Time Warner's standard package costs in my area.
The funny thing is, I had intended to go DSS eventually, but the longer I go without all the extra channels the less I miss them. Now I have more time for constructive activity and self-improvement, such as reading Slashdot and playing Diablo. Is it really worth the effort to hack up a PC to emulate a cable box to get scrambled channels that for the most part suck anyway? But yeah, it does have a high cool factor; that in itself is justification enough I suppose.
According to the article, the recorded video is in fact encrypted - only the specific card that did the recording will be able to play back that particular stream.
Really, I don't see the problem here. People (at least nobody I know) are not paralyzed by fear or OD'ing on raw information. And even if there was a problem, what would Mr. Katz like to see done about all this? Nothing that I could see from his article. It's like complaining about the weather, this is the way the media is today. Would we rather have one or two official news sources to hold our hands and say everything is going to be OK? I don't see the explosion of non-traditional media (nope, I'm not calling it Hypermedia) as a "hazard."
And correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an Apple guy, but wasn't Hypermedia an old Mac tech from back in the day? Just curious, the name rang a bell with me somehow.
From Gilgamesh to Robin Hood to Dartagnan to Michael Knight...
Hmmm... Michael Knight, eh? One of these things is not like the others. How about this:
From Smokey to the Duke Boys to Michael Knight to Viper, western literature is about kick-butt cars, preferably ones that can (a) talk or (b) morph, or at least jump over stuff or go up on two wheels. It always has been, and the best of it still continues to be.
There are photos up at http://webcamnow.com/wtc/ of people trying to get out of the WTC while firemen go in. People lined up in stairwells, the building shaking - very scary stuff.
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Nah, it'd be "Sam's Choice Linux."
The key to the article is the last section, which talks about remedying the bad software situation, describing massive class-action lawsuits as "a bad idea whose time has come." MS knows that it could live through a class-action suit of this type. Would your favorite open-source project survive being sued back into the stone age? I think this article is an attempt to get public opinion stirred up to the point that UCITA laws - which include things like mandated warranties on software products -seem like a reasonable solution, and thus make life more difficult for MS's competition.
They dumbed ciriculum? That's un-possible!
I think you have hit the nail on the head with your last statement. This whole series of films was supposed to show how Anakin becomes Vader - but Lucas blew it. It looks like the transformation actually happened at some indeterminate point between Menace and Clones, because the Anakin we see in AOTC is already, for all intents and purposes, Vader without the mask.
Not that I disliked the movie, though - the last hour pretty much saves it for me.
Well, if that's too boring for you, try your local PlanHouse Gallery, if there's one in your area. Here in Jackson, MS, they have PC's set up throughout the store running Mozilla on Mandrake (8.1 I think), pointing to planhouse.com for customers looking for specific information about houseplans, etc. Worth looking into, and maybe a little sexier than cash registers.
Read the Salon article. And remember who is sponsoring this bill. There may be more to this than meets the eye.
And yes, I am a Mississippian, and a conservative, and no, I don't really like Trent Lott.
What's wrong with Jackie Chan? He's like, 50 years old or something. Not a convincing high-schooler in my opinion. I love Jackie Chan, but he's soooo not right for Spider-Man.
The idea of wearable LCD fabric sounds really extremely cool at first - but how would you do laundry? Dry-clean only, I guess?
So OK, if you want to make the RIAA look stupid(er), go pick up Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD. This is the one that the band actually relesed for free on the Net when their old label dropped them six months ago. Now they've been picked back up and the album is getting raves. Wilco's a good band, and if you don't like their music, just go buy it out of spite!
But will it probe Uranus?
Wireless bandwidth leeching. ISP's are resentful of the potential for people to rebroadcast their bandwidth over the air for free, and are taking steps to end it before it gets started.
Nah, the worst game for this kind of thing was the original X-Com: UFO Defense. I'm not talking about the standard stuff, like ducking for cover every time I walked out to my car, or instinctively evaluating every room I walked into for the tactical possibilities. One time, after playing for about 8 hours, I saved my game and went outside for a food run. I saw a couple of guys across the street - and I promise you a little red box with a "2" apeared in the lower right corner of my peripheral vision. You old-school X-Com players will know what I'm talking about.
That's "He was a showgirl..."
On behalf of the southern states of our reconstructed union, I declare that the above post is absolutely 100% on target.
You could definitely do that - I've thought about doing that with mine, but you'd have to be pretty careful. The pewter's not extremely thick, but you wouldn't have a lot of room to work with without messing up the "face". It would probably be best to go in through the top of the skull, but it would still be tight.
A friend of mine who is currently stationed at Yokota AFB in Japan sent me some of the picks and a Darth Vader volume knob a couple of months back. The picks are pretty nice, especially some of the metallic ones. They come in a little foil packet with a trading card, so they're definitely more aimed at collectors than guitarists.
The Vader knob is nicely done as well, made of fairly heavy metal (pewter, I guess). The only problem is, it looks absolutely ridiculous when actually mounted on a guitar. I do concur with the general perception here that the paint jobs on the Star Wars guitars rank right up there with the worst atrocities ever committed against a defenseless musical instrument. At least they didn't do a Jar Jar. Yippee!
It's a golden opportunity for American scientists. Instead of wrestling with complicated moral dilemmas, we can now sit back and watch and see if God smites the Chinese. If He does, we can just say, "See? We told ya cloning was evil." If there is no smiting, then we can assume it's safe to jump on the bandwagon. Thanks, Communist China!
Get used to it, and vote Democratic in 2004.
... how about Fritz "SSSCA" Hollings for starters?
Yeah, Democratic, let's see here
... because I can't find anything in the usage agreement about students giving up the rights to their papers. OK, IANAL, but if it's in there, can somebody please point it out to me?
TV sucks anyway, cable moreso. After years of dealing with continually-escalating cable bills, I finally had ours yanked. Rabbit ears, baby! I get better news on the Net than cable offers anyway; I still get the local news that's hard to find on the Net; and I still watch a little (very little) network stuff. Yeah, I miss some of the cable-only programming, but I'd rather have the extra $45/month, which is what Time Warner's standard package costs in my area.
The funny thing is, I had intended to go DSS eventually, but the longer I go without all the extra channels the less I miss them. Now I have more time for constructive activity and self-improvement, such as reading Slashdot and playing Diablo. Is it really worth the effort to hack up a PC to emulate a cable box to get scrambled channels that for the most part suck anyway? But yeah, it does have a high cool factor; that in itself is justification enough I suppose.
According to the article, the recorded video is in fact encrypted - only the specific card that did the recording will be able to play back that particular stream.
Really, I don't see the problem here. People (at least nobody I know) are not paralyzed by fear or OD'ing on raw information. And even if there was a problem, what would Mr. Katz like to see done about all this? Nothing that I could see from his article. It's like complaining about the weather, this is the way the media is today. Would we rather have one or two official news sources to hold our hands and say everything is going to be OK? I don't see the explosion of non-traditional media (nope, I'm not calling it Hypermedia) as a "hazard."
And correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an Apple guy, but wasn't Hypermedia an old Mac tech from back in the day? Just curious, the name rang a bell with me somehow.
From Gilgamesh to Robin Hood to Dartagnan to Michael Knight ...
... Michael Knight, eh? One of these things is not like the others. How about this:
Hmmm
From Smokey to the Duke Boys to Michael Knight to Viper, western literature is about kick-butt cars, preferably ones that can (a) talk or (b) morph, or at least jump over stuff or go up on two wheels. It always has been, and the best of it still continues to be.
Ahhh, it rings so true.
There are photos up at http://webcamnow.com/wtc/ of people trying to get out of the WTC while firemen go in. People lined up in stairwells, the building shaking - very scary stuff.
If any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate them.