Jim Mallon of Best Brains (the producer of the show from day 1) owns the trademark. Some schism between the camps of Rifftrax (Mike/Kevin/Bill) and Cinematic Titanic (Joel/Trace et al.) has yet to be explained, but it likely precludes any further collective work between the bunch of funny folks.
As a bit of background, I'm a 100% telecommuter from my home on the East coast, with the vast majority of my company based in Silicon Valley. I don't get as much in the way of facetime with the team - in ~6 years working this way, I've met my boss (and the rest of the company) less than 5 times. We're friendly for sure, but the distance does occasionally make for strained work relationships.
A year or so back, during a weekly internal conf call, I heard several of the higher-ups talking about their WoW PvP experiences. I had no idea they were gamers, and they apparently didn't know I was either. I decided to share that, and found they were entirely cool with my gameplay, even enthused. At the time, I was a regular in a casual raiding guild (semi-weekly raids, months behind uberguilds), so I was able to share some tips with the gang about stat builds, leveling strategies etc. I even went so far as to critique the gear of my boss's boss's level 70 pally, giving him tips on what to pick up to prep for tanking for their guild.
Since then, we've all stopped WoW'ing regularly, but the experience and sharing was really worthwhile. It certainly wouldn't be appreciated at every company, but use your judgment, and perhaps discussing, even playing, with your coworkers is worth the risk.
Yes, even better than Manos. Manos is more horrible to behold, but Prince of Space is funny from start to finish, and hits every key sci-fi demo - B&W, bad SFX, awkward costuming, dubbed from Japanese to some weird form of Brooklyn tough guy accent ("I like it VERY MUCH!"), great callbacks (Krankor's laugh, "your weapons are useless against me", bumbling scientists). It was a cinematic goldmine, ably plundered by Mike and the Bots.
I'm generally wary of monopoly behaviors, but so far, I see nothing monopolistic here. Now, if Google/Yahoo require advertisers who want to run ads on their sites and ad networks to only run on them and nobody else, that's a monopoly practice. It would be equally monpolistic if Google/Yahoo said to a site that wanted to join their ad network "Sure, but you have to sign this agreement that says only Google/Yahoo-networked ads can run on my site". I don't see any such direct allegations though. What am I missing?
You can browse/., but not Wikipedia? "OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a language for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs. It was created by Apple in cooperation with others, and is based on C99."
"Usenet was where people once went to talk â" in days before the profit-centric Internet we have today."
Internet company profits have zero to do with the decline of USENET as a discussion forum. In its heyday, it was the only Internet-wide forum. It's been supplanted by web forums of every conceivable niche. Web 2.0 beat it out, plain and simple.
Both MA senators are decidedly more liberal than Obama, so this is unsurprising to anyone that's been paying attention. Also, the "abstain" would've certainly been another Nay, but Ted Kennedy is enduring heavy treatments for cancer, so he's not currently in the Senate.
Damn straight. I was never a big PC gamer growing up, but I did play Zork on an original Macintosh. Upon my first exposure to a MUD in early days at college, I was hooked (and yes, I flunked out, though I wouldn't blame the MUD itself).
...since there was no actual trial for the defendants in the initial case, but how is this remotely legal? IANAL, but if someone here actually is, how is it legal, procedurally, that a plaintiff is permitted to drop a claim and then immediately file an identical new one? This seems like blatant judge shopping, as it seemed possible that Judge Robinson would dismiss the charges with prejudice (so they could not be refiled), leaving precedent for dismissal of "making available" cases.
Exactly. I'd be much more interested in looking at the stats by assigned IP blocks. That way, network admins could blacklist those ranges at their edge, adding exceptions as needed. It's a tough game to play, but it would also give admins an idea as to what ISPs are leaving obvious botnets intact and which ones aren't.
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He's a self-described liberal that cheered on our Iraq warmongering, providing the Bush administration with the kind of media cover they need. His social commentary is equally misguided, and as such, he's a pundit without a real audience. He's been unapologetic on his cheerleading, wishing upon a star for a 3rd party (built on the "centrism" and "bipartisanship" of Joe Lieberman and John McCain). In short, an idiot.
A: Why would a CPU spike cause a browser to crash?
B: Why did this never ever ever happen in FF2?
Disclaimer: I'm downloading firefox3 for the first time right now so dont know if it will happen to me in FF3 so if it happened to you in FF2 as well disregard B. Answer A) Technically, the browser does not crash. When the behavior occurs, firefox.exe uses ~100% of CPU and an assload of RAM until I kill the process. I can occasionally (rarely) get enough shell resources to close the specific Flash-bound tab that's eating all the CPU, but more often than not, it's easier to kill the process and start over.
Answer B) It does happen in FF2:) I happen to have FF 2.0.0.14 on a separate system, and run into the exact same problem. I haven't installed Flashblock there because I don't use that particular system often, but when I do, the Flash bug can crop up and hang it too.
The issue I've seen with Flash isn't a crash, but that if one lingers on a page with a lot of Flash content (say, Youtube) and leaves the page up while browsing in other tabs, CPU eventually spikes to 99% usage, requiring the browser to be shut down.
Unfortunately, this isn't a Firefox problem, but a problem with the Flash plugin. The workaround I found (thanks to other Slashdot users) was to install the addon Flashblock. Now, instead of having the Flash content sitting and waiting, it's replaced by a little clickable object to load it. Since installing it, I have not experienced the CPU spike behavior, when it used to be a daily issue. Hope this helps folks.
Big thumbs up for Zimbra. It's not perfect, but no platform designed to handle the imperfect Exchange server could be. However, I've been an end-user of the product for several months now, and we've seen zero issues with the server compared to several with a "real" Exchange server.
Notes is dead as dead. Microsoft has won the email collaboration space, but Zimbra has cleverly outdone MS at their own game. Give it a look if you're building out an Exchange environment. I expect you'll be pleased with the results.
I'm fairly certain it's a problem with Flash and not Firefox. I have done a pretty crude test for this: I browsed to a lot of flash video sites (pr0n and youtube and etc.) with flashblock disabled. I let the videos play and Firefox open for about two hours. My CPU was on its knees.
I repeated the same thing with flashblock enabled, left it running for several hours and never got the CPU spike.
This was Firefox 3b4, with about 15 tabs open, each one had at least one flash player in it. I'll keep an eye out for this, thanks. Wish I could mod this parent up:/
As the other commenter noted, the CPU spikes to 98-99% and stays there until the browser is shut down (I don't typically have to kill the process - clicking the close button tends to work fine). As I mentioned originally, I've seen this in both b3 and b4, including once today (about an hour before I read that b5 was released). I'm now running b5, and will update if the problem recurs.
I haven't been able to find a bug on Moz Bugzilla on the behavior, but both previous betas would occasionally spike in CPU usage after a few hours' of usage, seemingly at random. Restarting the browser clears the problem. It doesn't seem to be a site-specific problem, as rebrowsing the same pages doesn't immediately trigger the spike. Anyone else seeing this? Otherwise, I've been very happy with the FF3's rendering and feature set.
Yeah, it's less man-in-the-middle than man-on-the-same-subnet, so it's a particularly easy attack. The tool is quite slick about automating it though, so some definite kudos are deserved. Besides, slapping them repeatedly might reveal your intentions, while ARP cache poisoning is a little more subtle.
However, he shouldn't be contacting MySpace with "fix your website's security" - he should be contacting the router vendor(s) whose gear is so easily poisoned.
She also doesn't have a history of recurrent skin cancer, an enlarged prostate (treated in 2001) or bear the physical scars of his time as a POW. The latter, I discount heavily, but the former is entitely meaningful.
One thing I've heard floated (by McCain himself) is that he may only seek one term in office. Of course, this is the same guy who said he was opting in to the federal election campaign funding plan, took out a loan on the funds to be received, won a couple of states, then backed out, saying he didn't need the money anymore. This opt out ignores the fact that (legally) he can't opt back out after opting in, and that his claim of not receiving money =/= did not receive benefits. Using the promise of to-be-received federal funds as collateral for a loan is an indirect benefit. Gaining free access to the ballot in some states like Ohio (instead of having to spend funds on signature drives) was a direct benefit.
In short, McCain is as self-serving and sneaky as most politicians. He's not a maverick. He's status quo. If you like the GWB administration, you'll love his administration.
Indeed, not counting the Texas caucus results (which are likely to favor Obama), Clinton's likely to come out of last night's victories net'ing less than 10 delegates, and possibly even losing ground if the caucus goes particularly well (60-40 or better) for Obama.
I'm not a registered Democrat, though I do vote for their candidates more often than not. The inconsistencies of the state party mechanisms, plus the proportional voting, does seem highly illogical. In the general, it's winner-take-all, and there's no superdelegates (unless you count the Supreme Court - 2000 election says hi). I hope the party recognizes this flaw in the system, which only stands to keep them stigmatized as the party of political procedure and not of coherent action.
That all said, if John McCain makes it through to Election Day without a single health scare, I would be very surprised. He's 72, and has a relatively poor health history. I certainly wouldn't wish ill health on him, but I do think there's a strong likelihood of at least one incident on the road.
While I was never a pad-and-paper RPGer, I learned the basics of IP networking, Unix sysadmin'ing and C programming from playing and administering an lpMUD many years ago. I met my wife through that same MUD, so much like the parent here, there's very little professionally and personally in the past 15 years that can't be traced back to that game. Its sword-and-sorcery constructs all derived from D&D, so indeed, Gygax's influence means a lot.
Retailers do not build major roads to facilitate reaching their stores.
True, but the bigger ones certainly have a hand in what gets build where and with what money. Wal-Mart frequently gets involved in legislation and appropriations to get government to pay for roads to/from their shipping centers and retail outlets. For example, the 2005 federal highway bill - "The federal highway bill contains $37 million for widening and extending the road in Bentonville, Arkansas that is the main access point to the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc." The key is that they don't build the roads themselves. They simply lobby their reps in Congress (and the state legislatures and local boards/councils) to get funds to build and widen highways that are important to their retail and shipping businesses.
A similar story played out in my neck of the woods, when Wal-Mart offered to put forward some funds upfront to get a state/local project going to widen a portion of NH state Rt. 28. This would've improved access to their existing store in Salem, NH, as well as a planned SuperCenter in Derry. Eventually, the plans were put aside after Wal-Mart walked away from the new building plan, but millions in tax dollars and tax incentives to Wal-Mart were on the line due to this highway building project.
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Jim Mallon of Best Brains (the producer of the show from day 1) owns the trademark. Some schism between the camps of Rifftrax (Mike/Kevin/Bill) and Cinematic Titanic (Joel/Trace et al.) has yet to be explained, but it likely precludes any further collective work between the bunch of funny folks.
As a bit of background, I'm a 100% telecommuter from my home on the East coast, with the vast majority of my company based in Silicon Valley. I don't get as much in the way of facetime with the team - in ~6 years working this way, I've met my boss (and the rest of the company) less than 5 times. We're friendly for sure, but the distance does occasionally make for strained work relationships.
A year or so back, during a weekly internal conf call, I heard several of the higher-ups talking about their WoW PvP experiences. I had no idea they were gamers, and they apparently didn't know I was either. I decided to share that, and found they were entirely cool with my gameplay, even enthused. At the time, I was a regular in a casual raiding guild (semi-weekly raids, months behind uberguilds), so I was able to share some tips with the gang about stat builds, leveling strategies etc. I even went so far as to critique the gear of my boss's boss's level 70 pally, giving him tips on what to pick up to prep for tanking for their guild.
Since then, we've all stopped WoW'ing regularly, but the experience and sharing was really worthwhile. It certainly wouldn't be appreciated at every company, but use your judgment, and perhaps discussing, even playing, with your coworkers is worth the risk.
Yes, even better than Manos. Manos is more horrible to behold, but Prince of Space is funny from start to finish, and hits every key sci-fi demo - B&W, bad SFX, awkward costuming, dubbed from Japanese to some weird form of Brooklyn tough guy accent ("I like it VERY MUCH!"), great callbacks (Krankor's laugh, "your weapons are useless against me", bumbling scientists). It was a cinematic goldmine, ably plundered by Mike and the Bots.
I'm generally wary of monopoly behaviors, but so far, I see nothing monopolistic here. Now, if Google/Yahoo require advertisers who want to run ads on their sites and ad networks to only run on them and nobody else, that's a monopoly practice. It would be equally monpolistic if Google/Yahoo said to a site that wanted to join their ad network "Sure, but you have to sign this agreement that says only Google/Yahoo-networked ads can run on my site". I don't see any such direct allegations though. What am I missing?
You can browse /., but not Wikipedia? "OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a language for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs. It was created by Apple in cooperation with others, and is based on C99."
"Usenet was where people once went to talk â" in days before the profit-centric Internet we have today."
Internet company profits have zero to do with the decline of USENET as a discussion forum. In its heyday, it was the only Internet-wide forum. It's been supplanted by web forums of every conceivable niche. Web 2.0 beat it out, plain and simple.
Both MA senators are decidedly more liberal than Obama, so this is unsurprising to anyone that's been paying attention. Also, the "abstain" would've certainly been another Nay, but Ted Kennedy is enduring heavy treatments for cancer, so he's not currently in the Senate.
Damn straight. I was never a big PC gamer growing up, but I did play Zork on an original Macintosh. Upon my first exposure to a MUD in early days at college, I was hooked (and yes, I flunked out, though I wouldn't blame the MUD itself).
Yep, same thing in FF3. I am glad though that they believe the overtly violent content should not be shown to 7 year olds. /sarcasm
Bravo. Really, bravo. That was just terrific.
...since there was no actual trial for the defendants in the initial case, but how is this remotely legal? IANAL, but if someone here actually is, how is it legal, procedurally, that a plaintiff is permitted to drop a claim and then immediately file an identical new one? This seems like blatant judge shopping, as it seemed possible that Judge Robinson would dismiss the charges with prejudice (so they could not be refiled), leaving precedent for dismissal of "making available" cases.
Exactly. I'd be much more interested in looking at the stats by assigned IP blocks. That way, network admins could blacklist those ranges at their edge, adding exceptions as needed. It's a tough game to play, but it would also give admins an idea as to what ISPs are leaving obvious botnets intact and which ones aren't.
He's a self-described liberal that cheered on our Iraq warmongering, providing the Bush administration with the kind of media cover they need. His social commentary is equally misguided, and as such, he's a pundit without a real audience. He's been unapologetic on his cheerleading, wishing upon a star for a 3rd party (built on the "centrism" and "bipartisanship" of Joe Lieberman and John McCain). In short, an idiot.
B: Why did this never ever ever happen in FF2?
Disclaimer: I'm downloading firefox3 for the first time right now so dont know if it will happen to me in FF3 so if it happened to you in FF2 as well disregard B. Answer A) Technically, the browser does not crash. When the behavior occurs, firefox.exe uses ~100% of CPU and an assload of RAM until I kill the process. I can occasionally (rarely) get enough shell resources to close the specific Flash-bound tab that's eating all the CPU, but more often than not, it's easier to kill the process and start over.
Answer B) It does happen in FF2
The issue I've seen with Flash isn't a crash, but that if one lingers on a page with a lot of Flash content (say, Youtube) and leaves the page up while browsing in other tabs, CPU eventually spikes to 99% usage, requiring the browser to be shut down.
Unfortunately, this isn't a Firefox problem, but a problem with the Flash plugin. The workaround I found (thanks to other Slashdot users) was to install the addon Flashblock. Now, instead of having the Flash content sitting and waiting, it's replaced by a little clickable object to load it. Since installing it, I have not experienced the CPU spike behavior, when it used to be a daily issue. Hope this helps folks.
Big thumbs up for Zimbra. It's not perfect, but no platform designed to handle the imperfect Exchange server could be. However, I've been an end-user of the product for several months now, and we've seen zero issues with the server compared to several with a "real" Exchange server.
Notes is dead as dead. Microsoft has won the email collaboration space, but Zimbra has cleverly outdone MS at their own game. Give it a look if you're building out an Exchange environment. I expect you'll be pleased with the results.
I repeated the same thing with flashblock enabled, left it running for several hours and never got the CPU spike.
This was Firefox 3b4, with about 15 tabs open, each one had at least one flash player in it. I'll keep an eye out for this, thanks. Wish I could mod this parent up
As the other commenter noted, the CPU spikes to 98-99% and stays there until the browser is shut down (I don't typically have to kill the process - clicking the close button tends to work fine). As I mentioned originally, I've seen this in both b3 and b4, including once today (about an hour before I read that b5 was released). I'm now running b5, and will update if the problem recurs.
I haven't been able to find a bug on Moz Bugzilla on the behavior, but both previous betas would occasionally spike in CPU usage after a few hours' of usage, seemingly at random. Restarting the browser clears the problem. It doesn't seem to be a site-specific problem, as rebrowsing the same pages doesn't immediately trigger the spike. Anyone else seeing this? Otherwise, I've been very happy with the FF3's rendering and feature set.
Yeah, it's less man-in-the-middle than man-on-the-same-subnet, so it's a particularly easy attack. The tool is quite slick about automating it though, so some definite kudos are deserved. Besides, slapping them repeatedly might reveal your intentions, while ARP cache poisoning is a little more subtle.
However, he shouldn't be contacting MySpace with "fix your website's security" - he should be contacting the router vendor(s) whose gear is so easily poisoned.
You know what will happen.
She also doesn't have a history of recurrent skin cancer, an enlarged prostate (treated in 2001) or bear the physical scars of his time as a POW. The latter, I discount heavily, but the former is entitely meaningful.
One thing I've heard floated (by McCain himself) is that he may only seek one term in office. Of course, this is the same guy who said he was opting in to the federal election campaign funding plan, took out a loan on the funds to be received, won a couple of states, then backed out, saying he didn't need the money anymore. This opt out ignores the fact that (legally) he can't opt back out after opting in, and that his claim of not receiving money =/= did not receive benefits. Using the promise of to-be-received federal funds as collateral for a loan is an indirect benefit. Gaining free access to the ballot in some states like Ohio (instead of having to spend funds on signature drives) was a direct benefit.
In short, McCain is as self-serving and sneaky as most politicians. He's not a maverick. He's status quo. If you like the GWB administration, you'll love his administration.
Indeed, not counting the Texas caucus results (which are likely to favor Obama), Clinton's likely to come out of last night's victories net'ing less than 10 delegates, and possibly even losing ground if the caucus goes particularly well (60-40 or better) for Obama.
I'm not a registered Democrat, though I do vote for their candidates more often than not. The inconsistencies of the state party mechanisms, plus the proportional voting, does seem highly illogical. In the general, it's winner-take-all, and there's no superdelegates (unless you count the Supreme Court - 2000 election says hi). I hope the party recognizes this flaw in the system, which only stands to keep them stigmatized as the party of political procedure and not of coherent action.
That all said, if John McCain makes it through to Election Day without a single health scare, I would be very surprised. He's 72, and has a relatively poor health history. I certainly wouldn't wish ill health on him, but I do think there's a strong likelihood of at least one incident on the road.
While I was never a pad-and-paper RPGer, I learned the basics of IP networking, Unix sysadmin'ing and C programming from playing and administering an lpMUD many years ago. I met my wife through that same MUD, so much like the parent here, there's very little professionally and personally in the past 15 years that can't be traced back to that game. Its sword-and-sorcery constructs all derived from D&D, so indeed, Gygax's influence means a lot.
Retailers do not build major roads to facilitate reaching their stores.
True, but the bigger ones certainly have a hand in what gets build where and with what money. Wal-Mart frequently gets involved in legislation and appropriations to get government to pay for roads to/from their shipping centers and retail outlets. For example, the 2005 federal highway bill - "The federal highway bill contains $37 million for widening and extending the road in Bentonville, Arkansas that is the main access point to the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc." The key is that they don't build the roads themselves. They simply lobby their reps in Congress (and the state legislatures and local boards/councils) to get funds to build and widen highways that are important to their retail and shipping businesses.
A similar story played out in my neck of the woods, when Wal-Mart offered to put forward some funds upfront to get a state/local project going to widen a portion of NH state Rt. 28. This would've improved access to their existing store in Salem, NH, as well as a planned SuperCenter in Derry. Eventually, the plans were put aside after Wal-Mart walked away from the new building plan, but millions in tax dollars and tax incentives to Wal-Mart were on the line due to this highway building project.