Are you joking? Underappreciated in Slashdot? Half the posts for this article are Futurama quotes.
Anyhow, the real problem with Futurama is that after an incredible start it has undergone the "Simpon's effect" so quickly - recent episodes have been diabolically bad (how's about that second Santa robot one? Yikes! Made me want to cry instead of laugh) Looks like they have run clean out of ideas, so maybe best that it is put to pasture while they still have some dignity.
Hitchcock had a detailed model of the New York skyline (with lights) constructed for his movie Rope which was entirely studio based, and shot in 'real-time'. The lights came on along with a fake sunset. His cameo (he did one in most of his films) took the form of a Neon sign in the shape of his face!!
I remember reading a comment from some Colombian drug producer, replying to US demands to stop cocaine production to the effect that "we'll stop making it when you stop buying it".
Sure, you take a short term hit, but the idea is to drive your competitor out of business - after all, they can't afford to pump out all those channels if no one is paying for them.
1) If there are 1000s of these checks, they will become commonplace, leading guards to take the (correct) assumption that the person they are searching is almost certainly NOT a terrorist 2) Previously unknown terrorists will not show on this system. Guards will be more complacent about searching people who have not been flagged as they are even less likely to be a terrorist than someone who has been flagged
The human element in the system is as much a disadvantage as an advantage. Sure, the first ten or so times the alarm goes off, the poor guy is going to get a hell of a going over, but after a thousand of these false alarms the security person is just going to think "ho hum, what's the point?".
Hey, IBrowse is much faster running on UAE than Netscape running natively. And if you have a decent Amiga (040+) it runs faster on an Amiga than Netscape on a high spec PC. Says more about Netscape than IBrowse, I fear.
This seems like a natural evolution of what can be done with audio. Have a listen to this crude but effective splice up of George W. done by Chris Morris. It sacrifices any attempt at authenticity in favour of humour, but shows the idea well - getting someone to appear to be saying the total opposite of what they meant to say. With video added imagine how much more effective this could be.
You know he is a true geek with this classic sentence:
"the frontlight does not degrade the LCD's image quality when you compare it against a GBA in all but the most efficient lighting arrangements (i.e. a well-positioned lamp or a window with sunlight pouring in)"
So in this quest for light, he doesn't even consider the possibility of actually going outside?;-)
Nonsense - Mr. Cranky just uses something vaguely connected to the film he's 'reviewing' as a launching point for one of his comedy schticks. As least Filthy actually reviews the films.
> This means that when I get this vibrating
> sensation in my pocket, it either startles the
> hell out of me, or puzzles me.
Or strangely excites you...
On a related note, my sister got a mobile phone and so passed on to me her now defunct pager. I stuck it in my chest jacket pocket and more or less forgot about it. Never even bothered to give the number out. Then one day I was sitting in a bar and I kept getting these terrifying fibrillating motions around my heart. I thought I had finally overdone the old sauce and was about to croak it until I eventually twigged that it was the pager on vibrate mode - she had set it up to receive lottery results...
> The irony is that I now know how the musicians feel about Napster.
Not really, though - after all, if the site had been offering your thesis for free download, I bet you'd have been quite pleased. It's the thought that someone else is making money off it is the annoying thing.
Sure people have a tendency to "yak on", but that's more likely to happen in a spoken conversation. You're point about being scared to talk to each other is a valid one though.
On the other hand, the potential for misinterpretation is greatly increased. I mean, it's bad enough on the Internet, but with the limited length of SMS, what seemed clear to you could be at best incomprehensible and at worst offensive.
yeah, yeah - and then at the other end... an interface to change the text back into voice again! Perhaps you could even sample the person's voice with your phone so that it could even sound like them!
Truly, who could have forseen such innovative uses for the humble phone?
I'm sure pipe bombs are pretty hard to make, and you aren't going to mug someone armed with a pipe bomb - well, not unless you're really stupid;)
Hence the threat of rage killings is reduced. It's not just grab your gun and run out and pop a few people - it's sit down with your knife and pipe and explosives and painstakingly put together your cruddy little wannabe grenade, then you run out and throw it somewhere and it probably won't even explode, or maybe it will even go off in your hand. A whole different ball game than a gun.
(Just as a side note, I remember reading somewhere about someone holding up a shop with a tortoise, claiming it would bite the shopkeeper if he resisted - he paid up!!!)
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I got a car and lost my virginity 4 weeks apart half way through my Junior year of high school.
Was this cause and effect?
Anyhow, the real problem with Futurama is that after an incredible start it has undergone the "Simpon's effect" so quickly - recent episodes have been diabolically bad (how's about that second Santa robot one? Yikes! Made me want to cry instead of laugh) Looks like they have run clean out of ideas, so maybe best that it is put to pasture while they still have some dignity.
Moby put it on and did some unforgettable stuff, the details of which escape me
Riiiiight.... so you've forgotten it, then?
Yeah! Imagine the fun when you had someone over... and asking them to open the curtains and look out! They'd crap themselves! ;-)
Hitchcock had a detailed model of the New York skyline (with lights) constructed for his movie Rope which was entirely studio based, and shot in 'real-time'. The lights came on along with a fake sunset.
His cameo (he did one in most of his films) took the form of a Neon sign in the shape of his face!!
I remember reading a comment from some Colombian drug producer, replying to US demands to stop cocaine production to the effect that "we'll stop making it when you stop buying it".
Sure, you take a short term hit, but the idea is to drive your competitor out of business - after all, they can't afford to pump out all those channels if no one is paying for them.
Okay, but I see two problems with this approach:
1) If there are 1000s of these checks, they will become commonplace, leading guards to take the (correct) assumption that the person they are searching is almost certainly NOT a terrorist
2) Previously unknown terrorists will not show on this system. Guards will be more complacent about searching people who have not been flagged as they are even less likely to be a terrorist than someone who has been flagged
The human element in the system is as much a disadvantage as an advantage. Sure, the first ten or so times the alarm goes off, the poor guy is going to get a hell of a going over, but after a thousand of these false alarms the security person is just going to think "ho hum, what's the point?".
Hey, IBrowse is much faster running on UAE than Netscape running natively. And if you have a decent Amiga (040+) it runs faster on an Amiga than Netscape on a high spec PC. Says more about Netscape than IBrowse, I fear.
This seems like a natural evolution of what can be done with audio.
Have a listen to this crude but effective splice up of George W. done by Chris Morris.
It sacrifices any attempt at authenticity in favour of humour, but shows the idea well - getting someone to appear to be saying the total opposite of what they meant to say. With video added imagine how much more effective this could be.
Well, that was smart.
I mean, that the DMCA was necessary, of course.
Not really - it was the likes of Napster that created the environment that convinced big business that Napster was necessary.
Clever.
"the frontlight does not degrade the LCD's image quality when you compare it against a GBA in all but the most efficient lighting arrangements (i.e. a well-positioned lamp or a window with sunlight pouring in)"
So in this quest for light, he doesn't even consider the possibility of actually going outside? ;-)
Nonsense - Mr. Cranky just uses something vaguely connected to the film he's 'reviewing' as a launching point for one of his comedy schticks. As least Filthy actually reviews the films.
> This means that when I get this vibrating
> sensation in my pocket, it either startles the
> hell out of me, or puzzles me.
Or strangely excites you...
On a related note, my sister got a mobile phone and so passed on to me her now defunct pager. I stuck it in my chest jacket pocket and more or less forgot about it. Never even bothered to give the number out. Then one day I was sitting in a bar and I kept getting these terrifying fibrillating motions around my heart. I thought I had finally overdone the old sauce and was about to croak it until I eventually twigged that it was the pager on vibrate mode - she had set it up to receive lottery results...
Nice to see you replying in the forums Jon... but perhaps you'd best browse at +1... ;-)
The other way around surely, e.g. "hallowed be thy name"...
> The irony is that I now know how the musicians feel about Napster.
Not really, though - after all, if the site had been offering your thesis for free download, I bet you'd have been quite pleased. It's the thought that someone else is making money off it is the annoying thing.
Yeah, yeah? Well, I don't see no ant flags on the moon, do you?!
;)
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Yes. CU there.
Sure people have a tendency to "yak on", but that's more likely to happen in a spoken conversation. You're point about being scared to talk to each other is a valid one though.
On the other hand, the potential for misinterpretation is greatly increased. I mean, it's bad enough on the Internet, but with the limited length of SMS, what seemed clear to you could be at best incomprehensible and at worst offensive.
yeah, yeah - and then at the other end... an interface to change the text back into voice again! Perhaps you could even sample the person's voice with your phone so that it could even sound like them!
Truly, who could have forseen such innovative uses for the humble phone?
Napster : Metallica say you are trading in stolen property. We're closing your account
You : You bastards! That's libel*! I only trade in free mp3s from my own group Spametallicarr! I'm going to sue!
(* or is it slander? I forget)
It's tuition-free? Free of tuition? Well, that doesn't sound very helpful! ;)
I'm sure pipe bombs are pretty hard to make, and you aren't going to mug someone armed with a pipe bomb - well, not unless you're really stupid ;)
Hence the threat of rage killings is reduced. It's not just grab your gun and run out and pop a few people - it's sit down with your knife and pipe and explosives and painstakingly put together your cruddy little wannabe grenade, then you run out and throw it somewhere and it probably won't even explode, or maybe it will even go off in your hand. A whole different ball game than a gun.
(Just as a side note, I remember reading somewhere about someone holding up a shop with a tortoise, claiming it would bite the shopkeeper if he resisted - he paid up!!!)