Apple's just trying to find a balancing point between the open source philosophy and financial viability. I love the open source idea, and I'm guessing Apple does too, but you have to make some fucking money to support yourself, end of fucking story. I've never seen any other line of work ever that gave away so many man-hours of ingenuity and labor for nothing to the whole world. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I will willingly burn karma to emphasize that people working on open source projects deserve compensation. The groups organized to work on the projects deserve compensation. Perhaps some open source groups will get this in the future and willingly hire translators to work with third-world countries so they can set up an open source or *nix based infrastructure for the entire government (education, military, police, revenue, legislation) in return for some tax funding or whatever.
I chose the word to illustrate the secretive techniques often developed by bad cops to keep a suspect in the dark about his or her rights in any given situation. As another poster replied above, some cops will dream up the most elaborate schemes to get someone to agree to trumped-up or completely false charges; the previous poster was lucky that the cop wasn't as corrupt as he could have been, as I've known of similar situations where the officer said he would charge a friend of mine with resisting arrest or verbally assaulting an officer if he didn't agree to whatever bullshit ticket the cop was trying to pass off on him. The point is that many people aren't as aware of their rights in any given situation, are afraid of authority figures and, worst of all, trust that the officer won't try to completely hide the current laws and rights of the situation from them. These aren't specious or spurious practices that the police will engage in, but practiced techniques of psychological intimidation and ways of speaking to hide the truth but not enough to get in trouble for it.
Every single cop on the street knows exactly what the law is for such common things as traffic stops or public photography or recording video, and if they were in front of their superiors, the press, a judge, or any public defendant, they would never say the kind of things that they try and sneak in when they are alone with a suspect. I possibly could have worded it "cops surreptitiously bring up false charges", but either way works for me.
I mean it in every sense of the word when I say they are being sneaky and secretive in speaking the way they do in how the law actually applies and what rights a person has. I can think of few underhanded and dirty things more harmful than trying to cheat someone out of their rights and into more jailtime or bigger fines just to impress the higher-ups or reach your quota of arrests for the month.
Cops bring up surreptitious charges and laws fairly often, or will try to convince you in a similar manner that you don't have any rights. I have friends that are cops, good cops, that have told me this.
Also, as I have many, many friends that are amateur and professional photographers, they were stunned when they heard this; some have been in similar situations with police and/or security. Luckily, there's this nifty little document I found from an attorney explaining the rights of photographers.
I've been waiting for the symptoms of AOL's impending doom for years upon years. All I can say is: Good fucking riddance, you CD-spamming, English-torturing hellspawn of a company. You took my precious CServe forums from me, and now you will perish. I do, in fact, believe I've been saving some champagne for when AOL finally dies. I'll go dust it off in anticipation.
Beyond the lines drawn for the public by the political parties, there are very few politicians that actually care about those ideals. Woe be it unto the citizen believer of his party that most of his elected officials are there to enact legislation on behalf of his beliefs; the vast majority will vote along party lines for the litmus-test issues (homosexual rights as people, abortion, etc.) as these issues do not affect the majority of elected officials. The majority of elected officials are very, very wealthy and therefore most laws do not affect them. Only flagrant disregard of the law will land a politician in jail, and in that respect, it's almost like crime: only the arrogant or idiotic find themselves in trouble, most of the time.
Every non-partisan issue, mostly those concerning government contracts, business/industry legislation, and the budget rarely fall on party lines. The lines they do fall on are unseen and concern large sums of money and lobbying groups. Let me put it into the simplest terms: Washington is the evolutionary product of a pool of sharks that use camouflage and obfuscation as chief predatory tactics. Most everyone aside from those with political science majors and those who are very good with them will not have the slightest fucking clue as to 90% of what transpires on the grounds of the capitol. There is simply too much going on too often that is far too subtle for any investigative journalist to know what the fuck.
Diebold machines are kept with those flaws, I suspect, so that both parties can weed out anyone seen as too keenly idealistic, anyone that might upset the corruption so deeply in place that keeps so many people so wealthy, so happy. On the other hand, one party might've been a bit to bold when they sensed they were losing power, and possibly overstepped the unspoken agreement of how far that fraud would go when during a certain election(s) for the highest office. Of course, the other party is left rather speechless and with no end to turn to, as it would mean a political suicide for all involved.
There are very few times when one is able to see a telecommunications corporation operating in all its vicious glory without any restraint, and this is the very prime example. When legislation and untold millions of dollars are on the line, there is nothing held sacred for those fucks. Outright and flagrantly bullshit lies and slander become a standard of the company's propaganda milieu.
It's almost like watching one of those slumbering elephants rampage through a peaceful, prosperous village to keep them from farming on its favorite grazing spot. With any luck, someone's got a high-powered rifle to take it down.
Now I see some are afraid of forged "photos".... Actually, the larger problem with this technology is not that you could possibly manufacture photographic evidence to damage someone else's ambitions, goals, or whatnot; it's that in creating that possibility, hard photo/video evidence loses its credibility in court, and will only continue to do so with time.
I guarantee that when this becomes mainstream (just as most CG geeks knew would happen years ago), that implicating a person of influence/wealth will become nearly impossible, as any time any damaging photo/video evidence pops up (oh, say, like photos of torture at the hands of the US government at Guantanamo or a worse and nameless fascimile) the powerful will declare that it's been manufactured by the opposing side.
How exactly are they going to keep up with all of the new viruses/trojans/etc released for Vista? I know it's supposed to be "so goddamn secure", but nothing's foolproof, let alone a silly little MS product.
I dread to think how bad the current state of spyware/adware and malicious code would be if MS made themselves the end-all for anti-virus protection in XP. What a monumental fuckup Vista will be.
Can't muster the self-discipline to keep yourself in shape and poison-free in a society filled with healthy alternatives, free information about the risks you take, and a gym around every corner? Get your genes outta the pool, bub.:)
However, it should be noted that the evolution of the mind and the evolution of the body are at odds right now, much more so when you factor in both of the world wars which were just so luckily placed at the crux of vast technological revolutions. Just as brains were becoming as important to have as muscle in terms of succeeding in society, everyone with the traits of courage and physical prowess heads off to the slaughter. One should not understimate the impact of a massive war on the evolution of the species: Each of the millions upon millions of army-duty worthy men that died in those wars would've otherwise possibly taken up one of the female population and continued his bloodline. Instead, someone else, someone quite possibly smarter but not as physically endowed (those that piloted instead of fought on the ground, or worked as doctors, cryptographers, etc), took his spot. I'll always wonder how much this changed the direction of civilization... Without such an evolutionary boost to intellectual traits, would we have arrived at such a tolerant society so quickly? I say tolerant because in a remarkably short span of time, racial prejudice has been outlawed and homosexuality has been brought into the main light of society as an acceptable way of life. If I'd lived 50 or 70 years ago, I'd never have been able to predict society would move forward so quickly.
Is some function on my phone that tells me whether or not I remember to lock-up the house when I'm halfway to wherever... I can't say I give a damn about controlling my washing machine from the toilet in the train station, but I hate worrying all day about if my door is secured.
On the subject of string theory and the possibility of other universes/dimensions with differing laws of nature, I've often wondered about whether constants change with time or the growth of a universe; if the spatial complexities or aging or changes in dimensions we don't percieve directly affect constants and laws... while we can percieve light that originated billions of years ago, that light may be subject to different laws as it reaches us now. We'd have no real way to test it, either, as our measurements of the universe are far too nacent.
I don't know what you were trying to say about airlines, you'd have to clarify... but... Let me be very clear: Not believing in a minimum wage is not a valid viewpoint. Capitalism serves only to better the lives of the people, and is only in place now because we do not have a better system. Creating wage-slavery is not a valid viewpoint, it never was, it never will be. To believe that means that you are shit.
De-regulation is a good thing for consumers how? Yes, let's stop regulation of trusts and unsafe labor conditions and minimum wage and so forth. What kind of ivy-league masterbatory economics course did you step out of?
Less regulation does not, for the last accursed fucking time, give people more choices. I could be wrong, of course, about the... self-congratulatory ideas about economics and business. I could be totally wrong, and hell, when the telcom boys charge popular sites with little revenue and mass appeal a fuckton of money just because they are popular websites (like, oh, this one called slashdot ), so we are forced to see content driven by shitloads of ads and corporate sponsorships that get rid of any controversial, meaningful content, in the end, us consumers will REALLY benefit, we'll be in a better place and much happier for it... somehow....
Brazil is much more racist, and openly so, than the US... Why do you think Caetano Veloso was blacklisted from so many rich venues? Because he looks funny? No, because he played with black musicians and advocates racial equality. I love the white American attitude among the uneducated "faux liberals" (while real liberals, like me, know what the fuck is going on, or at least, a pinch or two more) that ONLY WHITE AMERICANS CAN BE RACIST HURRR. Just because someone has brown skin or darker skin doesn't mean they won't be racist towards people with darker or different skin. Hell, in black societies across America, there's been the attitude that lighter skin is better than dark skin. I remember growing up and hearing my friend's parents tell them to "stay out of the sun or you'll turn tar black". There's a huge sensitive spot of rich or famous black men picking light skinned black women as their wives, or having light skin themselves and looking down on black folk with dark skin.
Racism is far from over, that's very true: it's spread to every society that wants to emulate American ways and the culture of the West.
"Does Microsoft Campus give good value for money?"
This isn't the 1920's, you don't have to cut your words down to a certain number to fit into a headline or caption, so cut it the fuck out. You're being paid to write an article, not butcher the language.... but as they failed in that first respect, I suppose they figured "Eh, what the hell?" and decided to kill two journalistic standards with one stone. Idiots..
One of the greatest problems with modern society (at least, here in the States) is that we do not hold our politicians or press to the slightest rule of truth. A politician could lie through his teeth and claim that everything colored green and striped caused people to become terrorists, and couldn't be prosecuted. A politician could claim that eating foreign food contributed to the detriment of society. What's wrong with this, with expressing their opinions? They run public offices, god dammit, and should be held to a higher stander; if anything, to the simplest standard where demonstrably false bullshit is illegal to come out of their fucking mouths when speaking on the record and in public, poisoning our society.
I'm not trying to regulate freedom of speech, so before every devil's advocate up and hops on to comment, that's not what I'm saying. I am saying that people who hold public office should be held to the same standards we hold people to when they are on the witness stand in court: DO NOT FUCKING LIE . That is all.
I thought the same thing at first, that this was a soft sentence for the man in question... however, being barred from any federal grant ever is no laughing matter.
That, and this kind of disgrace will more or less ruin his career. It doesn't matter whether he spends his life inside a jail cell or on the streets; everything he's ever worked for is gone, permanently. His life's work is now less than shit because he got too greedy... that's a hard pill to swallow. I mean, seriously, what's he going to do now? Teach physics and biology at some tiny shit high school in the stix? Pump gas? Manage a McDonalds? This is a good lesson for the more unscrupulous in the scientific community: engage in lying and scumbaggery, and lose everything you've held dear, ever.
Not really; I'm asking for more in line of an RPG that was remarkably different in plot, execution, content, maturity, art direction, and gameplay. The reason they call it Final Fantasy XII is because they've already made eleven others of the same kind.
While I haven't, of course, had a chance to play it, the art direction does lean toward that of VS, but I'm unsure about the everything else. The characters seem to have the same structure as the last few in the FF series; and while those characters have been good, they are nothing compared to the depth offered in VS (I'd go into more detail as to why, but obviously, that would ruin the plot for any casual reader... something I hate doing on posts as that's the same way a few plots have been ruined for me). Let me be clear though, I'm not insulting the FF series; it is by far one of the best creations in the gaming industry and has had tremendous influence on me... but because of my love for it, I'm fairly critical when I see bomb-ombs and chocobos for the twelfth fucking time.
I don't know about the average man or slashdotter, but one of my favorite things in this world are commentaries on DVDs for good movies.... particularly for Kurosawa movies.
One wierd thing I've noticed on commentaries for movies that were released before the invention of DVDs is that they, too, were recorded years before the DVD came onto market... I've heard several introductions for commentaries mark that they were created in '92 or so. I've always wondered why film studios would go to the trouble of booking notable figures in the film industry as well as prominent actors for commentaries before they knew what the hell kind of format would support them. Just a thought.
Still waiting for those guys over at Square to stop dicking around and get the Vagrant Story team back together and make the bloody sequel. Enough of this rinse and repeat crap.
The fold@home project is a thousand times more useful to society. Don't look for little green men until the native men, women, and children of this planet are leading healthy, decent lives.
I swear, if shops actually start putting up posters like that, it will make me flip the blithering fuck out (particularly, if retail chains try to prevent theft by sticking them in the bathroom). It's just far, far too Orwellian.... This is one of those studies that needs to be kept hush-hush.
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I was wondering if more security holes like this will show up and given an easier window for n'er-do-wells into OSX security.
Just a thought.
Apple's just trying to find a balancing point between the open source philosophy and financial viability. I love the open source idea, and I'm guessing Apple does too, but you have to make some fucking money to support yourself, end of fucking story. I've never seen any other line of work ever that gave away so many man-hours of ingenuity and labor for nothing to the whole world. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I will willingly burn karma to emphasize that people working on open source projects deserve compensation. The groups organized to work on the projects deserve compensation. Perhaps some open source groups will get this in the future and willingly hire translators to work with third-world countries so they can set up an open source or *nix based infrastructure for the entire government (education, military, police, revenue, legislation) in return for some tax funding or whatever.
Just my couple of my petty cents.
I chose the word to illustrate the secretive techniques often developed by bad cops to keep a suspect in the dark about his or her rights in any given situation. As another poster replied above, some cops will dream up the most elaborate schemes to get someone to agree to trumped-up or completely false charges; the previous poster was lucky that the cop wasn't as corrupt as he could have been, as I've known of similar situations where the officer said he would charge a friend of mine with resisting arrest or verbally assaulting an officer if he didn't agree to whatever bullshit ticket the cop was trying to pass off on him. The point is that many people aren't as aware of their rights in any given situation, are afraid of authority figures and, worst of all, trust that the officer won't try to completely hide the current laws and rights of the situation from them. These aren't specious or spurious practices that the police will engage in, but practiced techniques of psychological intimidation and ways of speaking to hide the truth but not enough to get in trouble for it.
Every single cop on the street knows exactly what the law is for such common things as traffic stops or public photography or recording video, and if they were in front of their superiors, the press, a judge, or any public defendant, they would never say the kind of things that they try and sneak in when they are alone with a suspect. I possibly could have worded it "cops surreptitiously bring up false charges", but either way works for me.
I mean it in every sense of the word when I say they are being sneaky and secretive in speaking the way they do in how the law actually applies and what rights a person has. I can think of few underhanded and dirty things more harmful than trying to cheat someone out of their rights and into more jailtime or bigger fines just to impress the higher-ups or reach your quota of arrests for the month.
Cops bring up surreptitious charges and laws fairly often, or will try to convince you in a similar manner that you don't have any rights. I have friends that are cops, good cops, that have told me this.
Also, as I have many, many friends that are amateur and professional photographers, they were stunned when they heard this; some have been in similar situations with police and/or security. Luckily, there's this nifty little document I found from an attorney explaining the rights of photographers.
I've been waiting for the symptoms of AOL's impending doom for years upon years. All I can say is: Good fucking riddance, you CD-spamming, English-torturing hellspawn of a company. You took my precious CServe forums from me, and now you will perish. I do, in fact, believe I've been saving some champagne for when AOL finally dies. I'll go dust it off in anticipation.
Beyond the lines drawn for the public by the political parties, there are very few politicians that actually care about those ideals. Woe be it unto the citizen believer of his party that most of his elected officials are there to enact legislation on behalf of his beliefs; the vast majority will vote along party lines for the litmus-test issues (homosexual rights as people, abortion, etc.) as these issues do not affect the majority of elected officials. The majority of elected officials are very, very wealthy and therefore most laws do not affect them. Only flagrant disregard of the law will land a politician in jail, and in that respect, it's almost like crime: only the arrogant or idiotic find themselves in trouble, most of the time.
Every non-partisan issue, mostly those concerning government contracts, business/industry legislation, and the budget rarely fall on party lines. The lines they do fall on are unseen and concern large sums of money and lobbying groups.
Let me put it into the simplest terms: Washington is the evolutionary product of a pool of sharks that use camouflage and obfuscation as chief predatory tactics. Most everyone aside from those with political science majors and those who are very good with them will not have the slightest fucking clue as to 90% of what transpires on the grounds of the capitol. There is simply too much going on too often that is far too subtle for any investigative journalist to know what the fuck.
Diebold machines are kept with those flaws, I suspect, so that both parties can weed out anyone seen as too keenly idealistic, anyone that might upset the corruption so deeply in place that keeps so many people so wealthy, so happy.
On the other hand, one party might've been a bit to bold when they sensed they were losing power, and possibly overstepped the unspoken agreement of how far that fraud would go when during a certain election(s) for the highest office. Of course, the other party is left rather speechless and with no end to turn to, as it would mean a political suicide for all involved.
Just some creative articulation... of course.
There are very few times when one is able to see a telecommunications corporation operating in all its vicious glory without any restraint, and this is the very prime example. When legislation and untold millions of dollars are on the line, there is nothing held sacred for those fucks. Outright and flagrantly bullshit lies and slander become a standard of the company's propaganda milieu.
It's almost like watching one of those slumbering elephants rampage through a peaceful, prosperous village to keep them from farming on its favorite grazing spot. With any luck, someone's got a high-powered rifle to take it down.
Now I see some are afraid of forged "photos".... Actually, the larger problem with this technology is not that you could possibly manufacture photographic evidence to damage someone else's ambitions, goals, or whatnot; it's that in creating that possibility, hard photo/video evidence loses its credibility in court, and will only continue to do so with time.
I guarantee that when this becomes mainstream (just as most CG geeks knew would happen years ago), that implicating a person of influence/wealth will become nearly impossible, as any time any damaging photo/video evidence pops up (oh, say, like photos of torture at the hands of the US government at Guantanamo or a worse and nameless fascimile) the powerful will declare that it's been manufactured by the opposing side.
How exactly are they going to keep up with all of the new viruses/trojans/etc released for Vista? I know it's supposed to be "so goddamn secure", but nothing's foolproof, let alone a silly little MS product.
I dread to think how bad the current state of spyware/adware and malicious code would be if MS made themselves the end-all for anti-virus protection in XP. What a monumental fuckup Vista will be.
Can't muster the self-discipline to keep yourself in shape and poison-free in a society filled with healthy alternatives, free information about the risks you take, and a gym around every corner? Get your genes outta the pool, bub. :)
However, it should be noted that the evolution of the mind and the evolution of the body are at odds right now, much more so when you factor in both of the world wars which were just so luckily placed at the crux of vast technological revolutions. Just as brains were becoming as important to have as muscle in terms of succeeding in society, everyone with the traits of courage and physical prowess heads off to the slaughter. One should not understimate the impact of a massive war on the evolution of the species: Each of the millions upon millions of army-duty worthy men that died in those wars would've otherwise possibly taken up one of the female population and continued his bloodline. Instead, someone else, someone quite possibly smarter but not as physically endowed (those that piloted instead of fought on the ground, or worked as doctors, cryptographers, etc), took his spot. I'll always wonder how much this changed the direction of civilization... Without such an evolutionary boost to intellectual traits, would we have arrived at such a tolerant society so quickly? I say tolerant because in a remarkably short span of time, racial prejudice has been outlawed and homosexuality has been brought into the main light of society as an acceptable way of life. If I'd lived 50 or 70 years ago, I'd never have been able to predict society would move forward so quickly.
Those that pursue a career in the English language provide far more societal worth than the schlubs at the local rag.
Is some function on my phone that tells me whether or not I remember to lock-up the house when I'm halfway to wherever... I can't say I give a damn about controlling my washing machine from the toilet in the train station, but I hate worrying all day about if my door is secured.
On the subject of string theory and the possibility of other universes/dimensions with differing laws of nature, I've often wondered about whether constants change with time or the growth of a universe; if the spatial complexities or aging or changes in dimensions we don't percieve directly affect constants and laws... while we can percieve light that originated billions of years ago, that light may be subject to different laws as it reaches us now. We'd have no real way to test it, either, as our measurements of the universe are far too nacent.
Just a thought, could be totally off-track.
I don't know what you were trying to say about airlines, you'd have to clarify... but... Let me be very clear: Not believing in a minimum wage is not a valid viewpoint. Capitalism serves only to better the lives of the people, and is only in place now because we do not have a better system. Creating wage-slavery is not a valid viewpoint, it never was, it never will be. To believe that means that you are shit.
De-regulation is a good thing for consumers how? Yes, let's stop regulation of trusts and unsafe labor conditions and minimum wage and so forth. What kind of ivy-league masterbatory economics course did you step out of?
Less regulation does not, for the last accursed fucking time, give people more choices. I could be wrong, of course, about the... self-congratulatory ideas about economics and business. I could be totally wrong, and hell, when the telcom boys charge popular sites with little revenue and mass appeal a fuckton of money just because they are popular websites (like, oh, this one called slashdot ), so we are forced to see content driven by shitloads of ads and corporate sponsorships that get rid of any controversial, meaningful content, in the end, us consumers will REALLY benefit, we'll be in a better place and much happier for it... somehow....
Brazil is much more racist, and openly so, than the US... Why do you think Caetano Veloso was blacklisted from so many rich venues? Because he looks funny? No, because he played with black musicians and advocates racial equality. I love the white American attitude among the uneducated "faux liberals" (while real liberals, like me, know what the fuck is going on, or at least, a pinch or two more) that ONLY WHITE AMERICANS CAN BE RACIST HURRR. Just because someone has brown skin or darker skin doesn't mean they won't be racist towards people with darker or different skin. Hell, in black societies across America, there's been the attitude that lighter skin is better than dark skin. I remember growing up and hearing my friend's parents tell them to "stay out of the sun or you'll turn tar black". There's a huge sensitive spot of rich or famous black men picking light skinned black women as their wives, or having light skin themselves and looking down on black folk with dark skin.
Racism is far from over, that's very true: it's spread to every society that wants to emulate American ways and the culture of the West.
"Does Microsoft Campus give good value for money?"
This isn't the 1920's, you don't have to cut your words down to a certain number to fit into a headline or caption, so cut it the fuck out. You're being paid to write an article, not butcher the language.... but as they failed in that first respect, I suppose they figured "Eh, what the hell?" and decided to kill two journalistic standards with one stone. Idiots..
One of the greatest problems with modern society (at least, here in the States) is that we do not hold our politicians or press to the slightest rule of truth. A politician could lie through his teeth and claim that everything colored green and striped caused people to become terrorists, and couldn't be prosecuted. A politician could claim that eating foreign food contributed to the detriment of society. What's wrong with this, with expressing their opinions? They run public offices, god dammit, and should be held to a higher stander; if anything, to the simplest standard where demonstrably false bullshit is illegal to come out of their fucking mouths when speaking on the record and in public, poisoning our society.
I'm not trying to regulate freedom of speech, so before every devil's advocate up and hops on to comment, that's not what I'm saying. I am saying that people who hold public office should be held to the same standards we hold people to when they are on the witness stand in court: DO NOT FUCKING LIE . That is all.
I thought the same thing at first, that this was a soft sentence for the man in question... however, being barred from any federal grant ever is no laughing matter.
That, and this kind of disgrace will more or less ruin his career. It doesn't matter whether he spends his life inside a jail cell or on the streets; everything he's ever worked for is gone, permanently. His life's work is now less than shit because he got too greedy... that's a hard pill to swallow. I mean, seriously, what's he going to do now? Teach physics and biology at some tiny shit high school in the stix? Pump gas? Manage a McDonalds? This is a good lesson for the more unscrupulous in the scientific community: engage in lying and scumbaggery, and lose everything you've held dear, ever.
Not really; I'm asking for more in line of an RPG that was remarkably different in plot, execution, content, maturity, art direction, and gameplay. The reason they call it Final Fantasy XII is because they've already made eleven others of the same kind.
While I haven't, of course, had a chance to play it, the art direction does lean toward that of VS, but I'm unsure about the everything else. The characters seem to have the same structure as the last few in the FF series; and while those characters have been good, they are nothing compared to the depth offered in VS (I'd go into more detail as to why, but obviously, that would ruin the plot for any casual reader... something I hate doing on posts as that's the same way a few plots have been ruined for me). Let me be clear though, I'm not insulting the FF series; it is by far one of the best creations in the gaming industry and has had tremendous influence on me... but because of my love for it, I'm fairly critical when I see bomb-ombs and chocobos for the twelfth fucking time.
I don't know about the average man or slashdotter, but one of my favorite things in this world are commentaries on DVDs for good movies.... particularly for Kurosawa movies.
One wierd thing I've noticed on commentaries for movies that were released before the invention of DVDs is that they, too, were recorded years before the DVD came onto market... I've heard several introductions for commentaries mark that they were created in '92 or so. I've always wondered why film studios would go to the trouble of booking notable figures in the film industry as well as prominent actors for commentaries before they knew what the hell kind of format would support them. Just a thought.
Still waiting for those guys over at Square to stop dicking around and get the Vagrant Story team back together and make the bloody sequel. Enough of this rinse and repeat crap.
The fold@home project is a thousand times more useful to society. Don't look for little green men until the native men, women, and children of this planet are leading healthy, decent lives.
I swear, if shops actually start putting up posters like that, it will make me flip the blithering fuck out (particularly, if retail chains try to prevent theft by sticking them in the bathroom). It's just far, far too Orwellian.... This is one of those studies that needs to be kept hush-hush.