It also fits perfectly in the mouth of a 3 year old. Then, it's peanut shapes keeps it stuck there as she runs around the room making screamy-gurgley noises with most of a Tivo remote sticking out of her face.
It took a while to clean all the gooey slobber off it too.
"Hi this is John. I am screening my calls. Please leave a voicemail and I will call you back." "Hi John, this is Pete. You just tried to call me, and left me voicemail about my attempted call a few minutes ago. Please call me back."
From TFA: "music companies need to get used to the idea of selling more music to more people more often, but for less money" "The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan"
They don't ALL have to use the idea. If just ONE label did this, they could prove the method works by making more profit than the other labels. They could dynamically price music in real time based on demand so the most recent manufactured boy-band brainwash hit of the day would be more expensive than that old Andreas Vollenweider electronic harp piece you've been looking for. They could try different pricing algorithms to find the ones that maximize profits across their entire collection.
Or they would wither away and die. But I don't think so.
From TFA: "In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers"
I don't care about downloaded music. I don't bother with it. I shouldn't have to pay a sales tax to the RIAA for product I am not using. My company has hundreds of computers and CERTAINLY shouldn't have to pay the F*ing music industry for their workstations!
Can you imagine telling Citibank, Exxon, Chase, IBM, etc. they have to pay the RIAA a tax for every desk?!
This is the stupidest idea since... well since paying a tax on every blank CD sold.
Some professional, yet relatively new and unknown, production company should produce a show and offer it only through direct sales and/or subscription via the Internet or DVDs. I'm sure there's some venture money somewhere ready pay for this.
For the first try, make the show genre, sci-fi, hire some great writers and don't worry that much about expensive effects.
If it makes money, they could keep expanding to new shows. Before you know it, we'll all be getting 50% of our video entertainment directly without the networks.
Or it will flop and we'll all go back to watching the Love Boat or whatever crap they are telling us to like.
> Did they get rid of that annoying audio file? It turns what's otherwise a class act live cd into something that reminds everyone of trekkies living in their parent's basement.
I really like the audio 'initiating startup sequence.' It's cool, the audio version of blinkenlights. (shuts basement door so audio doesn't disturb mom)
Batteries? Great. I already HAVE a battery for my server. It weighs 50 lbs and is as big as a shoe box. It's called a UPS and lasts less than 30 minutes.
I don't think that's the answer to everything electrical in my entire house.
The battery for the Fridge will be bigger than the fridge:-)
> Their website suggests they scan networks looking for unauthorised files. If they really have a system that can automatically find and recognise child pornography, I do wonder where they got their training data. So far as I know, only police are allowed to keep large collections of child porn (for "reference" and entrapment purposes only, of course, though they do say the best place for the hunted to hide is amongst the hunnters)
There are several sources of databases of md5 hases of known child pornography.
> No SETI project will ever find life on the basis of radiotransmissions anymore
How funny would it be if SETI finally detected an intelligent signal, our best and brightest minds spend a decade decoding it, only to be SUED in Galactic Court for breaking the encryption!
> we even have quantum crypto links with affiliates
*cough* *bullshit* *cough*
"Quantum crypto links" are not out of the lab yet. I challenge you to name a commercial product with quantum crypto. Unless your company IS a quantum research lab (which the rest of your description argues against) I doubt your statement is true.
Phwew. I was about to go BALLISTIC on your post... but then thank goodness I saw the '/sarcasm' at the end. I mean, I was stoked up to spew some hellfire on you for your outrageous statements. They seemed... almost... too extreme to believe. Now that I see you clearly labelled it as 'sarcasm' I took a step back, and I'm cooling off. Shaking my arms, letting the anger go.
What's REALLY REALLY funny about this is I purposely picked the most absurb example I could think of, with the SMALLEST, LIGHTEST, MOST PORTABLE musical instrument in existance and compared it to hauling a TON of unnecessary high-tech equipment.
I have a friend with a similar problem. He is going to Namibia for a year trek into the deep jungle. He will have a lot of down time. He is an avid musician, primarily playing the Harmonica. He currently creates music using GarageBand on his Mac, sticky solely to his sampled harmonica sounds. He is wondering how to bring his Macintosh, multiple CinemaDisplay LCD screens, and surround-sounds speaker setup into the jungle since he has to carry everything in his backpack and there will be no electricity. He can't bear the thought of not making or hearing any Harmonica music for an entire year. I was thinking I could ship him a PDA and he could write down the sheet music, ship it to me, then I would enter it into GarageBand for him, create a Harmonica song, cut it to MP3, download it to his PDA, and ship it back to him. But this would be difficult and expensive.
Can anyone think of anything else that might work?
Explain her part in detail in a letter you send beforehand.
At a mutually agreed upon time have a powerful laser flash against a satellite that will be passing overhead (for her) during the early evening. The flashes will encode the text in morse-code going slowly enough for her to read.
There are some practical details to work out, but this will work.
Or, of course, you could just send her a 10 cent paperback book from a used bookstore, but if that were practical you would have already thought of it and not asked Slashdot.
God was lonely. It created little limited copies of itself to keep it company. They were boring, since they couldn't do anything unexpected. So it tried a new experiment. It split off a little bit of it's essense and gave them complete free reign, no longer connected to itself. It then set up a universe with rules destined (with perfect omniscence) to evolve those essenses into it's equals (at least in mind if not in power). Now it's waiting for us to make ourselves Gods to keep it company.
I know this is the TRUTH, because a brick hit me on the head and gave me this vision. And part of the vision was telling me that this vision is the ultimate truth, therefore it is. You can't argue with that.
> China already imports "junk" other countries are trying to get rid off...This can't help them in anyway, especially with a dictatorial govt in place.
Yes it does help them. If China has a surplus of energy it can eliminate one of the largest national expenses (OIL) of a growing nearly-first-world nation, and sell the excess to other nations generating enough money that it won't HAVE TO import other people's trash anymore.
You think China's planners decided one day their nation would specialize in scavanging scraps from other nations trash?
> SCI-FI network. One that would provide quality shows with no BS
Quality shows on the SCI-FI network? Like the 'day the giant iguanas attacked' and 'monster bats of the amazon' and 'repto' and 'ratso' and 'bugso' and 'deadly bugs' and 'killer newts' and 'chupacabra vs. love boat'... I could go on and on...
BattleStar Galactica is awesome, but the rest of the network is trash.
I think it was Jon Stewart that said 'Bush wants to put a stop to homosexuals ruining the sanctity of Marriage. Heterosexuals are doing a fine job on their own.'
I mean, hasn't Brittney Spears gotten married three times, just this year?
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> it fits perfectly in your hand
It also fits perfectly in the mouth of a 3 year old. Then, it's peanut shapes keeps it stuck there as she runs around the room making screamy-gurgley noises with most of a Tivo remote sticking out of her face.
It took a while to clean all the gooey slobber off it too.
"Hi this is John. I am screening my calls. Please leave a voicemail and I will call you back."
"Hi John, this is Pete. You just tried to call me, and left me voicemail about my attempted call a few minutes ago. Please call me back."
> the glass was almost empty
I'd say it was a little full.
> if I applied the same force in crumpling a book as it'd take for my PDA to flex at all it'd rip the book in half
What B.S., I challenge you to tear a book in half, Superman.
From TFA: "music companies need to get used to the idea of selling more music to more people more often, but for less money"
"The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan"
They don't ALL have to use the idea. If just ONE label did this, they could prove the method works by making more profit than the other labels.
They could dynamically price music in real time based on demand so the most recent manufactured boy-band brainwash hit of the day would be more expensive than that old Andreas Vollenweider electronic harp piece you've been looking for.
They could try different pricing algorithms to find the ones that maximize profits across their entire collection.
Or they would wither away and die. But I don't think so.
From TFA: "In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers"
I don't care about downloaded music. I don't bother with it. I shouldn't have to pay a sales tax to the RIAA for product I am not using. My company has hundreds of computers and CERTAINLY shouldn't have to pay the F*ing music industry for their workstations!
Can you imagine telling Citibank, Exxon, Chase, IBM, etc. they have to pay the RIAA a tax for every desk?!
This is the stupidest idea since... well since paying a tax on every blank CD sold.
Now THAT'S an interesting idea.
Some professional, yet relatively new and unknown, production company should produce a show and offer it only through direct sales and/or subscription via the Internet or DVDs.
I'm sure there's some venture money somewhere ready pay for this.
For the first try, make the show genre, sci-fi, hire some great writers and don't worry that much about expensive effects.
If it makes money, they could keep expanding to new shows. Before you know it, we'll all be getting 50% of our video entertainment directly without the networks.
Or it will flop and we'll all go back to watching the Love Boat or whatever crap they are telling us to like.
> Did they get rid of that annoying audio file? It turns what's otherwise a class act live cd into something that reminds everyone of trekkies living in their parent's basement.
I really like the audio 'initiating startup sequence.' It's cool, the audio version of blinkenlights.
(shuts basement door so audio doesn't disturb mom)
Batteries? Great.
:-)
I already HAVE a battery for my server. It weighs 50 lbs and is as big as a shoe box. It's called a UPS and lasts less than 30 minutes.
I don't think that's the answer to everything electrical in my entire house.
The battery for the Fridge will be bigger than the fridge
Forget replacing wall warts with one very large wall wart.
Where is my wireless power?!
We wont be truly untethered until we have wireless power.
(Not entirely kidding. Is there any safe way to deliver wireless power? Or am I just asking to turn my house into a very large Microwave Oven?)
The tighter you grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers!
> Their website suggests they scan networks looking for unauthorised files. If they really have a system that can automatically find and recognise child pornography, I do wonder where they got their training data. So far as I know, only police are allowed to keep large collections of child porn (for "reference" and entrapment purposes only, of course, though they do say the best place for the hunted to hide is amongst the hunnters)
There are several sources of databases of md5 hases of known child pornography.
> it sounds much better coming from the horse's mouth
Is this the horse's mouth you are talking about?
> No SETI project will ever find life on the basis of radiotransmissions anymore
How funny would it be if SETI finally detected an intelligent signal, our best and brightest minds spend a decade decoding it, only to be SUED in Galactic Court for breaking the encryption!
> we even have quantum crypto links with affiliates
*cough* *bullshit* *cough*
"Quantum crypto links" are not out of the lab yet. I challenge you to name a commercial product with quantum crypto. Unless your company IS a quantum research lab (which the rest of your description argues against) I doubt your statement is true.
Phwew. I was about to go BALLISTIC on your post... but then thank goodness I saw the '/sarcasm' at the end. I mean, I was stoked up to spew some hellfire on you for your outrageous statements. They seemed... almost... too extreme to believe. Now that I see you clearly labelled it as 'sarcasm' I took a step back, and I'm cooling off. Shaking my arms, letting the anger go.
Good thing you clearly labelled it as sarcasm.
'cause otherwise I wouldn't have known.
Really good sarcasm, too.
Got me, there.
Phwew.
Hello? Didn't you get the memo?
MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux
Now stop trying to spread FUD.
What's REALLY REALLY funny about this is I purposely picked the most absurb example I could think of, with the SMALLEST, LIGHTEST, MOST PORTABLE musical instrument in existance and compared it to hauling a TON of unnecessary high-tech equipment.
And still I'm getting serious replies.
I have a friend with a similar problem.
He is going to Namibia for a year trek into the deep jungle. He will have a lot of down time. He is an avid musician, primarily playing the Harmonica. He currently creates music using GarageBand on his Mac, sticky solely to his sampled harmonica sounds. He is wondering how to bring his Macintosh, multiple CinemaDisplay LCD screens, and surround-sounds speaker setup into the jungle since he has to carry everything in his backpack and there will be no electricity.
He can't bear the thought of not making or hearing any Harmonica music for an entire year. I was thinking I could ship him a PDA and he could write down the sheet music, ship it to me, then I would enter it into GarageBand for him, create a Harmonica song, cut it to MP3, download it to his PDA, and ship it back to him. But this would be difficult and expensive.
Can anyone think of anything else that might work?
Explain her part in detail in a letter you send beforehand.
At a mutually agreed upon time have a powerful laser flash against a satellite that will be passing overhead (for her) during the early evening. The flashes will encode the text in morse-code going slowly enough for her to read.
There are some practical details to work out, but this will work.
Or, of course, you could just send her a 10 cent paperback book from a used bookstore, but if that were practical you would have already thought of it and not asked Slashdot.
Those scenarios are all wrong. Here's the TRUTH:
God was lonely.
It created little limited copies of itself to keep it company. They were boring, since they couldn't do anything unexpected.
So it tried a new experiment. It split off a little bit of it's essense and gave them complete free reign, no longer connected to itself.
It then set up a universe with rules destined (with perfect omniscence) to evolve those essenses into it's equals (at least in mind if not in power). Now it's waiting for us to make ourselves Gods to keep it company.
I know this is the TRUTH, because a brick hit me on the head and gave me this vision. And part of the vision was telling me that this vision is the ultimate truth, therefore it is. You can't argue with that.
> China already imports "junk" other countries are trying to get rid off...This can't help them in anyway, especially with a dictatorial govt in place.
Yes it does help them. If China has a surplus of energy it can eliminate one of the largest national expenses (OIL) of a growing nearly-first-world nation, and sell the excess to other nations generating enough money that it won't HAVE TO import other people's trash anymore.
You think China's planners decided one day their nation would specialize in scavanging scraps from other nations trash?
> SCI-FI network. One that would provide quality shows with no BS
Quality shows on the SCI-FI network? Like the 'day the giant iguanas attacked' and 'monster bats of the amazon' and 'repto' and 'ratso' and 'bugso' and 'deadly bugs' and 'killer newts' and 'chupacabra vs. love boat'... I could go on and on...
BattleStar Galactica is awesome, but the rest of the network is trash.
> You'll be wanting the "Remove Menu Toolbar" script.
/
> No View menu, no view source!
> Ha! Indefeatable security!
telnet 80
GET
Defeated.
Trust me, wearing that ring, you will NEVER detect a woman ready to have sex with you.
I think it was Jon Stewart that said 'Bush wants to put a stop to homosexuals ruining the sanctity of Marriage. Heterosexuals are doing a fine job on their own.'
I mean, hasn't Brittney Spears gotten married three times, just this year?