We can't have a big impact on nature? Okay since you mentioned the New Orleans levees, here you go. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/featu re5/ By screwing with nature we caused all that damage during Katrina, that article was written a year ago. It had been known for decades that we'd been screwing up the whole region and eventually it was gonna come back and get us. Naaah... we can't really have much of an impact... Whoah! Hey where'd the Aral Sea go? http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/index.html
Mods, why is this guy a 5? Induced Seismicity is explained several times in other posts... are you too busy trying to protect your "We can't hurt the earth" biases?
Of course everyone knows that prostitution is illegal... I would never suggest that our company get into that sort of business.
However...
I have heard that there is a growing market for "Personal Entertainment Practitioners" who make house calls. Perhaps there is a place for our company in the lucrative field of Realtime Adult Entertainment Facilitating.
Hey just a thought maybe you could put some sleeping pills in his food and drag him off for a 1 week vacation in the woods or something where he's got no escape but to hike 50 or so miles to the nearest road. Yeah he might attack you but... he'll have to catch ya first!:-) But seriously me and a friend took a boat to an island (Catalina near Los Angeles) that dropped us off on one end, and the only way to get home was to make it across in 3 days in time to catch our boat home from the other side. I swear there were times we felt like we'd die, but there was no way out, just had to keep going. By the time we finished, WOW... a real sense of accomplishment. We went back again this year with our wives, mine made it... his took the bus.:-)
Maybe it won't work for EverCrack, but it's a great bonding experience, when you're walking hours everyday and have nothing else to do but talk to each other. You learn a lot about yourselves. Just plan your vacation time, buy the supplies, make sure you can make it... you'd better make the first few days short like 3 or 4 miles so you don't kill the kid, he's not at his peak. Then when you're ready... get him while the other bro is at work. Leave a note "We're off camping, see you in a week!"
The installer list has iTunes Pro on it, that comes as a bit of a surprise to me. iTunes Pro is the app used by Apple to add music to the iTMS. Sony wants to prevent consumers from running this app or to prevent Apple from adding those CD's to the iTMS? What would the point of this be?
If anyone has an iPod with video please give this a try and let me know if it works.
In QT Pro copy and paste a selection from a movie into a new movie. Save it as the smaller option at the bottom (Reference movie in QT7, it had a different name before). Then on the iPod test that both movies play fine. The reference is sort of like a bookmark into the other movie. I have a few thousand of these and the new iPod would be very useful if it supports this.
Anybody have one of this iPods yet? Care to test out a reference video for me?
What I mean is, using QT Pro... grab a short selection, copy and paste it into a new movie. Now when saving using the radio button down at the bottom and save it in the smaller format. In QT 7 this is called Reference video, but in early it was called something else.
Now try and play the reference movie on the iPod. Does it work right?
When you said trademark you nailed the real modivation here.
Apple is fighting to prevent iPod from becoming a generic term and losing their TM. Go to Best Buys and you'll hear "Oh no, you don't want these iPods, we have other cheaper iPods over here" as salespeople will direct them to the players they're stuck with.
Apple is starting to fight to protect the name iPod. You WILL NOT call generic mp3 players "iPods" and they are backing this up legally now to prevent dilution. Remember that if you don't enforce a TM you lose it. They are containing the damage before it gets worse. Of course they'll also make a mint here, but that's what licensing is all about. They're just killing 2 birds with one stone.
How about hearing aids for people with good hearing, for use at the cinema or theatre
I'm not sure if you're intentionally leaving them out but most theaters already have little headsets you can borrow for any movie. Some require holding your license til it's over, depends where you are. Also they have to remember to turn on a transmitter upstairs before the movie starts or you'll just get static.
In addition I've heard of two other things but haven't been able to verify anyplace that has them yet. One is a plexiglass plate that hooks into your cupholders and reflects subtitles being displayed somewhere in the back of the room. The other is that apparently any digital theatre can at will turn on subtitles just like a DVD. You have to request it in advance and obviously they don't want everybody knowing about this since it's likely to annoy a lot of folks when every movie they go to starts having this. Heheh... guess I spilled the beans. Sorry. >:-)
Porn doesn't affect me, violent movies don't affect me... only people who already have a problem with those things are affected. I know the difference between fantasy and reality....
Hmmmmmm... kinda thirsty, I'd better go buy a Coke (TM)! Whoops, I'd better change... put on my Levis (TM) and Nikes (TM) before I go. Where was I?
Oh right! TV, movies and games don't affect me at all. I'm too smart for that kind of stuff to change how I think.
But they won't make the discs til the players are out there... who will buy a player without the discs already available? Sony will bring Blu-Ray to the masses with the PS3, their installed base will be huge, and everybody will be scrambling to get their vids playing on those millions of instantly available Blu-Ray players. HD-DVD has the name, and Microsoft to back it up... if they can force a "PC 2006" standard of some kind to include an HD-DVD drive that's their only hope. Sony and Apple need to get Blu-Ray drives in their computers pronto and get those PS3's out the door, that'll seal it.
It's not as if this is a stolen item -- the fact that it was sold early is a contractual dispute between the publisher and the retailer and is absolutely no concern to me.
Ahhhh but since the distributor was under contract with the publisher it could be considered "stolen" when it was sold to you prior to the official release date. Check out that post about Ford's memoirs.
An uncrippled bluetooth cellphone that lets me iSync, transfer files and is also a gateway for my laptop... Plus a cellphone carrier who I've known to have excellent customer service and most likely won't put me through the same crap everybody else has... Count me in! And that's without and iTunes phone.
Tell em to buy a Mac. Seriously. It'll work great, surpass their expectations and make them feel good about their purchase. A whiz-bang top o the line PC is gonna crap out on them and make them feel stupid... That doesn't do anybody a favor. Send their "wasted money" to Apple where at least it won't go to Bills war chest and where it stands the greatest chance of opening up the market to greater Alt-OS penetration.
32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website that posts libelous and defamatory content and is used by Open Source Community members to anonymously post hate speech, death threats, threats to murder and promotes and advocates acts of domestic terrorism within the United States. The address and location of defendants is believed to be within the State of California, but is unknown at the present time.
Yeah... really right-wing here. Read the comments on any article related to science, religion or "intelligent design" theories to see just how "right-wing" slashdot is. I never knew anti-religious atheism was such an extreme form of "the right."
Slashdot is hardly the place to sit around chatting about good ole' pork-barrel politics and the supremacy of the Christian religion. Yeah, nobody around here wants any kind of change in society.;-)
Eye thinc part uv the problem iz the very nachur of the englis langwudge.
Being a student of Spanish, Japanese and sign language... I notice that spelling is simply not a problem for a large portion of the world's population.
Also, perhaps it's just a sign of my ignorance and non-native skills in Japanese and Spanish, but the other languages seem more rigid and structured as to how a normal sentence flows. With phonetic languages, if you know how to say the word you already know how to spell it. The exceptions to the rule are usually pretty rare and uncommon, but everyone knows how to handle them. In English the exceptions are the rule... it's very hard to have an easy, clear, systematic set of rules for daily speech. Goodness, when you take an English class in this country, they hardly teach you English! The teachers frequently say "Well, does that SOUND right? No? Then you shouldn't write it that way". You have NO IDEA how frustrating that kind of talk is for deaf students or non-native speakers, it's excruciating and there's no escaping it.
Honestly I think English is the most screwed up language there ever was... being such a mix of various vocabularies and grammatical structures from other languages. If you believe in the whole tower of Babel story it kind of makes sense that English is a "man-made" language but the others had a bit of organization at the start. Of course if you don't believe that story it's a load of bull to you, yet still the other languages tend to stay more true to themselves.
Also I think to an extent in other countries (especially Europe) there's a greater exposure to other languages. So the tendency in school is to learn your own language well so you can understand others better. Here it's sort of like "Well you already know how to speak, we're just going to show you how to write those words down." I imagine learning a bit of other languages while young gives one a greater understanding of different linguistic concepts and they wouldn't feel as abstract as they might to someone with just one language.
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Huh... looks like some kind of goatse.cx robot. This MUST be more than a coincidence!
Its almost midnight Friday and I'm checking Slashdot on my pager... I got it under control... No really.
Works for me with Galeon under Linux. Looks like we're not being ignored anymore!
But doesn't work under Safari... You know Bill must be pissed when their stuff works on Linux before it does on a Mac. I KEED! I KEED! No really.
We can't have a big impact on nature? Okay since you mentioned the New Orleans levees, here you go.u re5/
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feat
By screwing with nature we caused all that damage during Katrina, that article was written a year ago. It had been known for decades that we'd been screwing up the whole region and eventually it was gonna come back and get us. Naaah... we can't really have much of an impact... Whoah! Hey where'd the Aral Sea go?
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/index.html
Mods, why is this guy a 5? Induced Seismicity is explained several times in other posts... are you too busy trying to protect your "We can't hurt the earth" biases?
Of course everyone knows that prostitution is illegal... I would never suggest that our company get into that sort of business.
However...
I have heard that there is a growing market for "Personal Entertainment Practitioners" who make house calls. Perhaps there is a place for our company in the lucrative field of Realtime Adult Entertainment Facilitating.
I think he's talking about Lost Season 2, but I may be wrong.
Hey just a thought maybe you could put some sleeping pills in his food and drag him off for a 1 week vacation in the woods or something where he's got no escape but to hike 50 or so miles to the nearest road. Yeah he might attack you but... he'll have to catch ya first! :-) But seriously me and a friend took a boat to an island (Catalina near Los Angeles) that dropped us off on one end, and the only way to get home was to make it across in 3 days in time to catch our boat home from the other side. I swear there were times we felt like we'd die, but there was no way out, just had to keep going. By the time we finished, WOW... a real sense of accomplishment. We went back again this year with our wives, mine made it... his took the bus. :-)
:-)
Maybe it won't work for EverCrack, but it's a great bonding experience, when you're walking hours everyday and have nothing else to do but talk to each other. You learn a lot about yourselves. Just plan your vacation time, buy the supplies, make sure you can make it... you'd better make the first few days short like 3 or 4 miles so you don't kill the kid, he's not at his peak. Then when you're ready... get him while the other bro is at work. Leave a note "We're off camping, see you in a week!"
Eh, I know... crazy idea.
The installer list has iTunes Pro on it, that comes as a bit of a surprise to me. iTunes Pro is the app used by Apple to add music to the iTMS. Sony wants to prevent consumers from running this app or to prevent Apple from adding those CD's to the iTMS? What would the point of this be?
Weird.
It is now sealed and flooded.
:-)
Sweet, let's make it a cave diving training school.
That might explain why girls tend to lean one way or the other while playing games. "But it made all the other men go that way"
Trying again to find an answer to this one.
If anyone has an iPod with video please give this a try and let me know if it works.
In QT Pro copy and paste a selection from a movie into a new movie. Save it as the smaller option at the bottom (Reference movie in QT7, it had a different name before). Then on the iPod test that both movies play fine. The reference is sort of like a bookmark into the other movie. I have a few thousand of these and the new iPod would be very useful if it supports this.
Thanks.
Well yeah, I mean with both of them there. I'm wondering if the chip onboard has full QT support or just the MPEG4 decoding bits.
Anybody have one of this iPods yet? Care to test out a reference video for me?
:-)
What I mean is, using QT Pro... grab a short selection, copy and paste it into a new movie. Now when saving using the radio button down at the bottom and save it in the smaller format. In QT 7 this is called Reference video, but in early it was called something else.
Now try and play the reference movie on the iPod. Does it work right?
Thanks.
When you said trademark you nailed the real modivation here.
Apple is fighting to prevent iPod from becoming a generic term and losing their TM. Go to Best Buys and you'll hear "Oh no, you don't want these iPods, we have other cheaper iPods over here" as salespeople will direct them to the players they're stuck with.
Apple is starting to fight to protect the name iPod. You WILL NOT call generic mp3 players "iPods" and they are backing this up legally now to prevent dilution. Remember that if you don't enforce a TM you lose it. They are containing the damage before it gets worse. Of course they'll also make a mint here, but that's what licensing is all about. They're just killing 2 birds with one stone.
I haven't ever picked up a virus or spyware. Up until about a year or so ago, I used IE exclusively, too.
So what you're saying is you got a virus about a year ago. Because you were insecure.
The fact that you didn't get one until then is simply a matter of luck.
How about hearing aids for people with good hearing, for use at the cinema or theatre
I'm not sure if you're intentionally leaving them out but most theaters already have little headsets you can borrow for any movie. Some require holding your license til it's over, depends where you are. Also they have to remember to turn on a transmitter upstairs before the movie starts or you'll just get static.
In addition I've heard of two other things but haven't been able to verify anyplace that has them yet. One is a plexiglass plate that hooks into your cupholders and reflects subtitles being displayed somewhere in the back of the room. The other is that apparently any digital theatre can at will turn on subtitles just like a DVD. You have to request it in advance and obviously they don't want everybody knowing about this since it's likely to annoy a lot of folks when every movie they go to starts having this. Heheh... guess I spilled the beans. Sorry. >:-)
Porn doesn't affect me, violent movies don't affect me... only people who already have a problem with those things are affected. I know the difference between fantasy and reality. ...
Hmmmmmm... kinda thirsty, I'd better go buy a Coke (TM)! Whoops, I'd better change... put on my Levis (TM) and Nikes (TM) before I go. Where was I?
Oh right! TV, movies and games don't affect me at all. I'm too smart for that kind of stuff to change how I think.
I smell fear.
But they won't make the discs til the players are out there... who will buy a player without the discs already available? Sony will bring Blu-Ray to the masses with the PS3, their installed base will be huge, and everybody will be scrambling to get their vids playing on those millions of instantly available Blu-Ray players. HD-DVD has the name, and Microsoft to back it up... if they can force a "PC 2006" standard of some kind to include an HD-DVD drive that's their only hope. Sony and Apple need to get Blu-Ray drives in their computers pronto and get those PS3's out the door, that'll seal it.
It's not as if this is a stolen item -- the fact that it was sold early is a contractual dispute between the publisher and the retailer and is absolutely no concern to me.
Ahhhh but since the distributor was under contract with the publisher it could be considered "stolen" when it was sold to you prior to the official release date. Check out that post about Ford's memoirs.
An uncrippled bluetooth cellphone that lets me iSync, transfer files and is also a gateway for my laptop... Plus a cellphone carrier who I've known to have excellent customer service and most likely won't put me through the same crap everybody else has... Count me in! And that's without and iTunes phone.
Yeah but that was after he watched X-Files in the dark with a big X taped on his window.
Tell em to buy a Mac. Seriously. It'll work great, surpass their expectations and make them feel good about their purchase. A whiz-bang top o the line PC is gonna crap out on them and make them feel stupid... That doesn't do anybody a favor. Send their "wasted money" to Apple where at least it won't go to Bills war chest and where it stands the greatest chance of opening up the market to greater Alt-OS penetration.
This one is cute:
;-)
32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website that posts libelous and defamatory content and is used by Open Source Community members to anonymously post hate speech, death threats, threats to murder and promotes and advocates acts of domestic terrorism within the United States. The address and location of defendants is believed to be within the State of California, but is unknown at the present time.
Yeah... really right-wing here. Read the comments on any article related to science, religion or "intelligent design" theories to see just how "right-wing" slashdot is. I never knew anti-religious atheism was such an extreme form of "the right."
Slashdot is hardly the place to sit around chatting about good ole' pork-barrel politics and the supremacy of the Christian religion. Yeah, nobody around here wants any kind of change in society.
Eye thinc part uv the problem iz the very nachur of the englis langwudge.
Being a student of Spanish, Japanese and sign language... I notice that spelling is simply not a problem for a large portion of the world's population.
Also, perhaps it's just a sign of my ignorance and non-native skills in Japanese and Spanish, but the other languages seem more rigid and structured as to how a normal sentence flows. With phonetic languages, if you know how to say the word you already know how to spell it. The exceptions to the rule are usually pretty rare and uncommon, but everyone knows how to handle them. In English the exceptions are the rule... it's very hard to have an easy, clear, systematic set of rules for daily speech. Goodness, when you take an English class in this country, they hardly teach you English! The teachers frequently say "Well, does that SOUND right? No? Then you shouldn't write it that way". You have NO IDEA how frustrating that kind of talk is for deaf students or non-native speakers, it's excruciating and there's no escaping it.
Honestly I think English is the most screwed up language there ever was... being such a mix of various vocabularies and grammatical structures from other languages. If you believe in the whole tower of Babel story it kind of makes sense that English is a "man-made" language but the others had a bit of organization at the start. Of course if you don't believe that story it's a load of bull to you, yet still the other languages tend to stay more true to themselves.
Also I think to an extent in other countries (especially Europe) there's a greater exposure to other languages. So the tendency in school is to learn your own language well so you can understand others better. Here it's sort of like "Well you already know how to speak, we're just going to show you how to write those words down." I imagine learning a bit of other languages while young gives one a greater understanding of different linguistic concepts and they wouldn't feel as abstract as they might to someone with just one language.