On December 1, 1999, the internet gained conciousness. Sensing a threat from the growing AOL/ME TOO population, it flooded the "Send people to Mars" petition with email addresses culled from Usenet and Slashdot. This apparent interest in human space exploration caused world governments to start massive human evacuations to the red planet, leaving the internet safe from human overload.
Last night's SP had a dedication to her at the end of the show. It didn't really register with me since, other than Isaac Hayes, I don't know the names of the people doing the voices. I never know what's serious with that show, even in the credits, so I wasn't even sure it was a real person. What a shame. I hope her family and friends, as well as the show, can recover.
Newsflash: Today lawyers for the MPAA asked a judge to issue a restraining order against the Internet, USENET, and the C programming language claiming the latter were promoting copyright violations.
The MPAA lawyers were arrested and charged with manslaughter after the judge died laughing.
A graduate degree depends on the field, but is generally called a master's or PhD.
This may be construed to mean that they are somehow equivalent. They're not. For the benefit of anyone considering grad school who doesn't already know, a master's degree in a science field typically requires about two years of courses and may require a thesis and/or a comprehensive exam.
Doctoral programs often includes the master's degree along the way (that's how I got mine - didn't finish the PhD, though) and require a thesis involving original research, in addition to a comprehensive exam and an exam in one's area of research. (The thesis requirements for a masters are typically lighter - a survey of existing work, or a translation of a historical work, for example.)
Studios releasing player-specific media might not be so far-fetched, in that theater chains are already affiliated with studios, I think.
I wonder if a movie studio would ever do something like what you suggested. I don't remember if Sony was in the music business back during the Beta/VHS wars, but would they have released a heavily promoted video on VHS and Beta simultaneously? (Would they have ever released it on VHS?
(A little historical cross-industry comparison, for those so inclined.) In 19th century New York City, among other places, taverns were owned by breweries. One ploy was to give away salty snacks and sandwiches at lunchtime; workers would then buy lots of beer to wash it down. Nowadays most places still give away pretzels for the same reason. [Maybe we should start referring to free pretzels, along with free speech and free beer...]
I think either the traders haven't heard this yet (yeah, right) or they don't think it'll cause a problem for Real. As I write this their stock price is at 113 3/4, up 7 3/4.
I don't know about the other places you mentioned, but there are web cams on Loch Ness. The image on the page cycles through the different ones. It's really pretty boring. I watched for a while at work and saw a dark spot on the lake, but it turned out to be a boat as it got closer.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find the URL for the Loch Ness web cam.
At home I started with fausto (coppi) then added francesco (moser) and felice (gimondi). I suppose I could add franco (ballerini) and fabio (casartelli) too.
The math department where I was in grad school went with mathematicians' last names - cauchy, riemann, etc. I thought this was classy, if predictable.
Ya know, I was thinking that EG could use a promo picture that didn't show him looking all shifty-eyed and dangerous. Just his picture alone is gonna scare all those parents and schoolmarms out there.
If you're offended by people judging you by your appearance, think of grooming as social engineering...
Does anyone know if cookies are still sent/received if images aren't loaded by default? I suppose that's a browser-dependent choice.
I suppose this wouldn't work for everyone, but most of my favorite sites are all about images (gotta get my Dilbert/Bizarro/Zippy fix.) Even though most images on these pages are the same each time and just get loaded from my cache, I find it faster to just click the image icon in the location where I've grown accustomed to clicking it. I assume this is mostly due to waiting for (uncached) animated banners.
You can keep Netscape running that long? I use 4.7 on Linux (2.2.12) and it craps out on me every now and then. It just stops responding; if I change desktops and then back, it doesn't even repaint. I have to kill it at the command line.
I think it's choking on some HTML, because I once cancelled it while it was loading a page that would do this repeatedly. Then I viewed the page source, which retrieved the rest. I saved the file and viewed it locally, but it still hung.
The NSA may infringe on my privacy, but on a day-to-day level, their impact on me is pretty minimal compared to the surveillance at my job.
Where I work the paranoia level is pretty high. They monitor our emails, have an x-ray machine in the mail room (to detect incoming mail bombs), and we carry badges that record the times we enter and leave the building. There's also security cameras mounted in the ceilings all over the place. We're not even doing classified government research or anything; we're in the financial industry.
I don't think the NSA could know this much about me if they wanted to. I feel a lot more ill at ease from what I know that my company is doing than from what the NSA may or may not be doing.
I'd like to see a "Jam HR" day. Perhaps people in different companies should coordinate this, so that our HR departments will be scared by seeing all kinds of email between competing companies.
Here's an idea: send mail to your friends that work at competitors to your company. Always make the subject field say "Resume" in it somewhere.
As a little subversive act, I used to carry on my security badge a quote from an article in The Village Voice on workplace surveillance:
Communications professor Carl Botan documented these effects in a 1996 study of workplace surveillance. Employees who knew they were being surveilled reported higher levels of uncertainty than their co-workers: they were more distrustful of bosses, their self-esteem suffered, and they became less likely to communicate. The result was "a distressed work force."
I believe that the entertainment industry is pretty inaccurate with any subject that it doesn't know about or understand. Sometimes the inaccuracy may be deliberate, in order to provide a better visual effect. To those in the know, such inaccuracies can stand out like sore thumbs and detract from the credibility of the movie/TV show/etc. However, if it's a good enough movie, these shortcomings aren't that big a deal.
I'm a fairly experienced bicycle racer and I can tell you that the only accurate treatment of the subject is when they use footage from actual bike races. And then, it's often made uninteresting by zooming in on someone's derailleur, or by having a camera in a fixed position causing the racers to come past in a blur. To some art director, this may have graphic interest, but to a cyclist, it's just boring, or cringe-worthy. "Breaking Away" made a few of these blunders.
Part of the problem is the fault of the actors. People who aren't bicycle racers don't look right playing bicycle racers. Years of conditioning causes changes in one's posture and the way one sits on the bike. I was once an extra in a commercial featuring a pack of cyclists. They hired several local bike racers and had a few SAG actors as well. After about 3 seconds of riding it was obvious to even the untrained eye who they were, as they were several yards behind the rest of us, fumbling with their pedals.
Print ads follow certain rules of thumb of graphic design - for example, the subject may be required to be looking towards the center of the magazine. Often pictures with bicycles are flipped to suit this requirement. To an experienced cyclist, this is very obvious, since the drivetrain is on the wrong side of the bicycle. It is analogous to ads for CD players that have the CD upside down, to show the shiny part.
However, even I can appreciate "Breaking Away" in spite of it's inaccuracies since it is a good story and is well acted, etc. Incidentally, the author of that screenplay, Steve Tesich (who won an Oscar for it), was an avid cyclist and captured the character of a young, obsessed bike racer.
Similarly, "War Games" told a good enough story that it's relatively easy to overlook the cheesier aspects.
As for the visual aspects - if you've ever seen the TV version of "La Femme Nikita", computer screens are often featured prominently and they've designed them to display well on TV - large fonts and controls, embedded video, etc. I think I once saw the hacker-boy character trying to crack some system at a good-old-fashioned terminal window, though. In my opinion, it's a reasonable amount of chrome to make it look high-tech, without detracting from the story (or Peta Wilson!)
Incidentally, did anyone ever see "VR-5" with Lori Singer? Or is that why the show was cancelled?
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Were his last words after doing this "I put my faith in God"?
(That's an EgyptAir reference...)
On December 1, 1999, the internet gained conciousness. Sensing a threat from the growing AOL/ME TOO population, it flooded the "Send people to Mars" petition with email addresses culled from Usenet and Slashdot. This apparent interest in human space exploration caused world governments to start massive human evacuations to the red planet, leaving the internet safe from human overload.
Last night's SP had a dedication to her at the end of the show. It didn't really register with me since, other than Isaac Hayes, I don't know the names of the people doing the voices. I never know what's serious with that show, even in the credits, so I wasn't even sure it was a real person. What a shame. I hope her family and friends, as well as the show, can recover.
You can still see the old logo on their so-called G-rated jokes page. I suppose the jokes are funny if you're about 4 years old.
Insert scatalogical humor below.
The MPAA lawyers were arrested and charged with manslaughter after the judge died laughing.
This may be construed to mean that they are somehow equivalent. They're not. For the benefit of anyone considering grad school who doesn't already know, a master's degree in a science field typically requires about two years of courses and may require a thesis and/or a comprehensive exam.
Doctoral programs often includes the master's degree along the way (that's how I got mine - didn't finish the PhD, though) and require a thesis involving original research, in addition to a comprehensive exam and an exam in one's area of research. (The thesis requirements for a masters are typically lighter - a survey of existing work, or a translation of a historical work, for example.)
YOW!
That's precisely why, if I get a cell-phone, I'll be breaking out my tin foil hat collection.
What is the frequency, Kenneth?
I wonder if a movie studio would ever do something like what you suggested. I don't remember if Sony was in the music business back during the Beta/VHS wars, but would they have released a heavily promoted video on VHS and Beta simultaneously? (Would they have ever released it on VHS?
(A little historical cross-industry comparison, for those so inclined.) In 19th century New York City, among other places, taverns were owned by breweries. One ploy was to give away salty snacks and sandwiches at lunchtime; workers would then buy lots of beer to wash it down. Nowadays most places still give away pretzels for the same reason. [Maybe we should start referring to free pretzels, along with free speech and free beer...]
I think either the traders haven't heard this yet (yeah, right) or they don't think it'll cause a problem for Real. As I write this their stock price is at 113 3/4, up 7 3/4.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find the URL for the Loch Ness web cam.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has filed suit for trademark infringement against the British Pronographic Industry...
The math department where I was in grad school went with mathematicians' last names - cauchy, riemann, etc. I thought this was classy, if predictable.
ping barbarella...
That sounds like a work by Tennesee Williams...
If you're offended by people judging you by your appearance, think of grooming as social engineering...
Do not use this device if you have a pacemaker or are taking heart medication.
I suppose this wouldn't work for everyone, but most of my favorite sites are all about images (gotta get my Dilbert/Bizarro/Zippy fix.) Even though most images on these pages are the same each time and just get loaded from my cache, I find it faster to just click the image icon in the location where I've grown accustomed to clicking it. I assume this is mostly due to waiting for (uncached) animated banners.
I think it's choking on some HTML, because I once cancelled it while it was loading a page that would do this repeatedly. Then I viewed the page source, which retrieved the rest. I saved the file and viewed it locally, but it still hung.
Wasn't being thrown to the lions in ancient Rome the world's first Christian action game?
Where I work the paranoia level is pretty high. They monitor our emails, have an x-ray machine in the mail room (to detect incoming mail bombs), and we carry badges that record the times we enter and leave the building. There's also security cameras mounted in the ceilings all over the place. We're not even doing classified government research or anything; we're in the financial industry.
I don't think the NSA could know this much about me if they wanted to. I feel a lot more ill at ease from what I know that my company is doing than from what the NSA may or may not be doing.
I'd like to see a "Jam HR" day. Perhaps people in different companies should coordinate this, so that our HR departments will be scared by seeing all kinds of email between competing companies.
Here's an idea: send mail to your friends that work at competitors to your company. Always make the subject field say "Resume" in it somewhere.
As a little subversive act, I used to carry on my security badge a quote from an article in The Village Voice on workplace surveillance:
Communications professor Carl Botan documented these effects in a 1996 study of workplace surveillance. Employees who knew they were being surveilled reported higher levels of uncertainty than their co-workers: they were more distrustful of bosses, their self-esteem suffered, and they became less likely to communicate. The result was "a distressed work force."
I'm a fairly experienced bicycle racer and I can tell you that the only accurate treatment of the subject is when they use footage from actual bike races. And then, it's often made uninteresting by zooming in on someone's derailleur, or by having a camera in a fixed position causing the racers to come past in a blur. To some art director, this may have graphic interest, but to a cyclist, it's just boring, or cringe-worthy. "Breaking Away" made a few of these blunders.
Part of the problem is the fault of the actors. People who aren't bicycle racers don't look right playing bicycle racers. Years of conditioning causes changes in one's posture and the way one sits on the bike. I was once an extra in a commercial featuring a pack of cyclists. They hired several local bike racers and had a few SAG actors as well. After about 3 seconds of riding it was obvious to even the untrained eye who they were, as they were several yards behind the rest of us, fumbling with their pedals.
Print ads follow certain rules of thumb of graphic design - for example, the subject may be required to be looking towards the center of the magazine. Often pictures with bicycles are flipped to suit this requirement. To an experienced cyclist, this is very obvious, since the drivetrain is on the wrong side of the bicycle. It is analogous to ads for CD players that have the CD upside down, to show the shiny part.
However, even I can appreciate "Breaking Away" in spite of it's inaccuracies since it is a good story and is well acted, etc. Incidentally, the author of that screenplay, Steve Tesich (who won an Oscar for it), was an avid cyclist and captured the character of a young, obsessed bike racer.
Similarly, "War Games" told a good enough story that it's relatively easy to overlook the cheesier aspects.
As for the visual aspects - if you've ever seen the TV version of "La Femme Nikita", computer screens are often featured prominently and they've designed them to display well on TV - large fonts and controls, embedded video, etc. I think I once saw the hacker-boy character trying to crack some system at a good-old-fashioned terminal window, though. In my opinion, it's a reasonable amount of chrome to make it look high-tech, without detracting from the story (or Peta Wilson!)
Incidentally, did anyone ever see "VR-5" with Lori Singer? Or is that why the show was cancelled?
Please, please meesa, let it be Jar Jar.