Disney isn't going down because there are more animated features, they're going down because they've run out of fairy tales to butcher. The fairy tales they started on had a timeless value even their "adaptations" couldn't completely destroy. Now, their characters are poor attempts at "copy-and-paste" character development, and I think Pixar's animation has been the only thing keeping them from slipping too far.
If you can't tell, I hate Disney. Hopefully Pixar will work with people who have new stories to tell.
My uncle bought me "The more than complete Hitchiker's Guide", which contained all four books and that fifth one no one really likes to talk about. The books are easily the funniest thing I've ever read.
The Infocom game, IMO, is just about the most frustrating thing known to mankind, even for someone who's read the books many times.
I take the summary (about to leave work, can't RTFA) to mean that "Toshiba and a Japanese software company" haven't started the project, much less come up with a working prototype. Since getting stores to buy and use (and therefore test) this sort of thing would take a couple years, I'll believe this isn't vaporware when it's in the first store.
I believe what the grandparent was saying is that when you sign up for porn, the bot starts the email account sign up process. There's a short delay (for you) while the bot grabs the glyph and sends it to be displayed on your page. You enter it, then the bot immediately attempts to complete the email account sign up process. If the word is correct, you're given a success page, and if not the bot gives you another glyph to decipher.
This process won't add much at all to the time it takes to sign up for an email account, so reducing the expiration time won't solve the problem. It only helps if the bot has already started the email account sign up (a long time) before you start the porn sign up process.
You make a good point, but you detract from your own credibility when you resort to phrases like "the raping of our nation." A strong emotional appeal is the sign of a weak position.
On a related note, isn't the reason there are so many unemployed programmers because people with no business sense started companies that, predictably, died horrible deaths?
Time for the obvious (and actually on topic) underwear gnomes post:
0. Lose job in dot com bust. 1. Found small startup in a flagrant defiance of recent history. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
It's worth noting you can do everything he mentioned to a man as well, but given that he's speaking at a women's conference, why would he bring that up?
Optical scanning of quickly moving barcodes is hard. Also, I'm honestly less worried about the government implementing and requiring RFIDs (though still worried) than I am about corporations implementing them for their own purposes, and then "developing relationships" with the government under the pretense of helping to enforce the law.
It also wouldn't be states/localities collecting the information, since they almost never have the budget for that large an undertaking.
it would be much easier to simply track you with a license plate
How? It would require a human observer, or at least a camera with humans looking at the recordings/photos, as opposed to automatic entries in a database when your tires pass an intersection. It's actually much much more difficult with a license plate, which brings me to your next point:
The truth is, you can already be tracked, it's just that most of us are so boring it isn't worth the effort.
That is true, but the question is whether RFIDs (or something similar) will lower the amount of effort required to track individuals enough that it *is* worth it.
While more would be a good thing, all the vehicles are real. The names have been changed to protect against lawsuits, but there is almost always a discernible connection between the two.
(landstalker = landrover, stallion = mustang)
A system for vehicle generation that doesn't suck ass (get in a truck, drive around, pretty soon 90% of the cars out are trucks).
This is intentional, and I like it. Whenever I need a specific car, and I can make it more likely to appear by driving a similar car. Not realistic, but convenient.
This is absolutely true, and it underscores a major problem with the media: that media rely on PR people to tell them when there's something to be covered. How does hundreds of thousands of dollars collected from readers of an web site being donated to a children's hospital becomes a thousand dollars from a Catholic church? The answer is a complete lack of investigation and integrity, and a total reliance on being told what to report by PR.
True, but I think the point is that a troll (OP has a sig linking to nero-online, home of horrible imagery) is being modded up in place of something that might actually contribute to a discussion. It's not so much "Hey, I wanted those points for ME!" as "Hey, this person is decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the discussion, and uses karma gaining tactics like this one to do so even more effectively, so stop helping them."
Sorry, but if someone takes down a critical part of an Amber Alert type system to update software without any sort of redundancy to keep the system going, the fault is with them, bot the software or OS. I dislike Microsoft software in general as much as the next/.er, but in what situation would this happen?
It's hard to fake photographs that look as real as the photographs on thesmokinggun. The prosecution could probably convince the jury this woman didn't have the ability to do it. Not only that, but someone had to take those photographs, and that person would have to perjure themself along with the other people in those photographs.
In short, she should pay the damn fine and realize what she did was dumb. I don't really have a problem with what she did, but there's no doubt it was illegal and she doesn't have much of a case.
Yeah! Come on slashdot! I know I'm talking to 750,000 unique visitors to this site, each their own unique combination of cultural, social, and genetic influences shaped by widely differing personal history, but can't you collectively reach a decision?!
It's so damn hypocritical when one/.er says something, and another comes along and contradicts it when placed in a slightly different context. I mean, look at the Borg. THEY never have a difference of opinion! Why can't you be more like the Borg?
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Hey, if you cloned someone 750,000 times, I bet you couldn't get every clone to agree with any one opinion, let alone 750,000 individuals.
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Disney isn't going down because there are more animated features, they're going down because they've run out of fairy tales to butcher. The fairy tales they started on had a timeless value even their "adaptations" couldn't completely destroy. Now, their characters are poor attempts at "copy-and-paste" character development, and I think Pixar's animation has been the only thing keeping them from slipping too far.
If you can't tell, I hate Disney. Hopefully Pixar will work with people who have new stories to tell.
The fifth book is "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" IIRC.
My uncle bought me "The more than complete Hitchiker's Guide", which contained all four books and that fifth one no one really likes to talk about. The books are easily the funniest thing I've ever read.
The Infocom game, IMO, is just about the most frustrating thing known to mankind, even for someone who's read the books many times.
I take the summary (about to leave work, can't RTFA) to mean that "Toshiba and a Japanese software company" haven't started the project, much less come up with a working prototype. Since getting stores to buy and use (and therefore test) this sort of thing would take a couple years, I'll believe this isn't vaporware when it's in the first store.
Maybe they're working on my flying car, too.
Because they're not a monopoly, and therefore not subject to anti-trust law.
If there was ever an attempted haiku that could make the baby jesus cry....
I believe what the grandparent was saying is that when you sign up for porn, the bot starts the email account sign up process. There's a short delay (for you) while the bot grabs the glyph and sends it to be displayed on your page. You enter it, then the bot immediately attempts to complete the email account sign up process. If the word is correct, you're given a success page, and if not the bot gives you another glyph to decipher.
This process won't add much at all to the time it takes to sign up for an email account, so reducing the expiration time won't solve the problem. It only helps if the bot has already started the email account sign up (a long time) before you start the porn sign up process.
It's quite clever.
You make a good point, but you detract from your own credibility when you resort to phrases like "the raping of our nation." A strong emotional appeal is the sign of a weak position.
On a related note, isn't the reason there are so many unemployed programmers because people with no business sense started companies that, predictably, died horrible deaths?
Time for the obvious (and actually on topic) underwear gnomes post:
0. Lose job in dot com bust.
1. Found small startup in a flagrant defiance of recent history.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Check your email...I sent it to you (a couple... hundred... times).
---Note to John Ashcroft: the above was a joke.
It's worth noting you can do everything he mentioned to a man as well, but given that he's speaking at a women's conference, why would he bring that up?
Surely condoms are less annoying than kids.
Especially considering the finite elasticity of...well...you get the picture.
Optical scanning of quickly moving barcodes is hard. Also, I'm honestly less worried about the government implementing and requiring RFIDs (though still worried) than I am about corporations implementing them for their own purposes, and then "developing relationships" with the government under the pretense of helping to enforce the law.
It also wouldn't be states/localities collecting the information, since they almost never have the budget for that large an undertaking.
(landstalker = landrover, stallion = mustang)
This is intentional, and I like it. Whenever I need a specific car, and I can make it more likely to appear by driving a similar car. Not realistic, but convenient.
Everything else you said is good.
Given the apparent quality of the school's knowledge in this area, she'd probably be better off taking some other school's class.
This is absolutely true, and it underscores a major problem with the media: that media rely on PR people to tell them when there's something to be covered. How does hundreds of thousands of dollars collected from readers of an web site being donated to a children's hospital becomes a thousand dollars from a Catholic church? The answer is a complete lack of investigation and integrity, and a total reliance on being told what to report by PR.
True, but I think the point is that a troll (OP has a sig linking to nero-online, home of horrible imagery) is being modded up in place of something that might actually contribute to a discussion. It's not so much "Hey, I wanted those points for ME!" as "Hey, this person is decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the discussion, and uses karma gaining tactics like this one to do so even more effectively, so stop helping them."
That's not whiny.
Sorry, but if someone takes down a critical part of an Amber Alert type system to update software without any sort of redundancy to keep the system going, the fault is with them, bot the software or OS. I dislike Microsoft software in general as much as the next /.er, but in what situation would this happen?
It's hard to fake photographs that look as real as the photographs on thesmokinggun. The prosecution could probably convince the jury this woman didn't have the ability to do it. Not only that, but someone had to take those photographs, and that person would have to perjure themself along with the other people in those photographs.
In short, she should pay the damn fine and realize what she did was dumb. I don't really have a problem with what she did, but there's no doubt it was illegal and she doesn't have much of a case.
You realize most people selling alcohol during prohibition were either unstable morons or people you wouldn't want to know you existed as well?
Someone can die from a heart attack, but "Ate two Big Macs a day" isn't put on the death certificate even if it was the cause.
Anyway, there is a substantial amount of medical evidence (example) inhaling brown air ain't good for you, if common sense doesn't tell you first.
If only because people will be curious as to what a G Spot is.
It's so damn hypocritical when one
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Hey, if you cloned someone 750,000 times, I bet you couldn't get every clone to agree with any one opinion, let alone 750,000 individuals.
Way to plagiarize this post.