These days I'm more worried about the possibility of Time Warner/America OnLine buying out the rest of Amazon.com than MS pulling PR moves. I believe TW'AOLzon is referenced somewhere as a Great Old One.
But all this shareholder crap is just a smoke screen for the coming.NET takeover. Don't let down your guard!! My CS buddies and I were at UIUC (sponsored by M$ this year) and we *still* aren't sure what.NET is. I half-jokingly believe that MS doesn't actually *have*.NET specs created yet. They fed the parameters for what.NET was supposed to be into XML and gave it a database of all current programming languages. It's parsing their "strategy" right now. After giving it a cup of really strong hot tea, of course;)
That's not Cartoon Network. Johnny Neutron is on Nickelodeon, as far as I know. Now Johnny BRAVO is on CN, and is VERY annoying, but he doesn't start replicating all over the screen or anything...
I approve most of the decisions CN has made recently , since most of them involve anime and shows for the over-20-somethings:)
I'm sorry, but I can't argue against the watermarks. For one thing, in the US it's an easy way to mark the exact moment that all this jingoistic fever wears off: just watch for the network logos to stop being star-spangled;)
What's wrong is that they need to be used more effectively. Cartoon Network is pretty good example for this...their logo appears and disappears, so it's not a constant presence but you NOTICE it when it's there (which is the point).
What's more, for the Adult Swim block the logo becomes "ADULT SWIM". When Adult Swim started there was an ad at the beginning saying "all kids under 18, outta the pool!" Apparently the lazy parents are complaining about risque TV again, because now there's a warning before *every single show*. I think the Adult Swim watermark is plenty warning for concerned citizens, and that the ******** soccer moms should shut their collective trap and use the tools that CN gives them.
...that this guy has fallen into the same trap that most of the media has recently. They believe that the standard model of CD, hard-copy distribution is the ONLY model, and the model that artists want. He seems to take it as given that CDs are the divinely-ordained format for music, that the evolution of players has come to an end.
I hope he goes bankrupt, but not necessarily because he's trying to protect music. It's because he's protecting CDs.
I, of course, used a few p2p music sharers in my day, but you know what? I've filled out everything I want on my playlist, and aside from must-have stuff like the new Cake album, it doesn't change much anymore. On top of that, I bought more CDs after getting Napster than before...it's not a matter of already having the album for me, it's a matter of finding an ENTIRE ALBUM OF GOOD SONGS. If the record labels didn't rush out half-finished crap and charge almost $20 for it, I'd buy lots more CDs...
I wasn't arguing with the speed. They can go a light year in 3 days if they want...the problem is with the proximity of Kronos. One light year seems mighty close to the "vast" Klingon empire, and even closer to its homeworld. Wouldn't you expect it to extend more than a light year in every direction??
The comment in all the ads was "Neptune and back in 6 minutes"...referring supposedly to Warp 4.5.
Neptune and back (from Earth) is 8 709 400 000 km.
They then talk about bringing the Klingon back to Kronos...4 days there, 4 days back. 4 days, again assuming Warp 4.5, works out to 5760 minutes.
Kronos, one-way: 8 361 024 000 000 km.
1 light year is 9 460 800 000 000 km.
Since we're less than a light year from the Klingon homeworld, doncha think we would have noticed the vast Klingon empire rolling over our Solar System???
Bridge Builder. No idea if the shareware version is out there for download (there were (tm) problems with the name), but it's a simple problem solving game that teaches physics at the same time.
And I dare all y'all that still have the game to make 15 one-use bridges like me and my buds did:) First train makes it across with all cars intact, but it breaks struts that would keep a second train from crossing...
I hope they have some sort of forcible input device to override his overrides...once he gets to the mental state of 15 he's going to start ignoring mommy's keyboard.
...if we work around their patent, we'd be jailed for making a "circumvention device" under the DMCA! We're constructing a means to use their intellectual property (ASPs) by circumventing their IP protections (the patent).
McAfee has us by the balls here...
I bet there's Pseudonews in this somewhere, gimme a moment;)
Not the Odds song. Would somebody who's cool and bandwidth-laden like to take a few extensive Google searches and submit them to the opt-out link? ------------------------
This thing has only marginal improvement over the old System 8 MacSpeak I remember playing with in high school. It pauses too long at commas and has trouble with contractions and plurals...as evidenced by the industry-wide standard of "The Oscar Meyer Wiener" song. True, this ATT thing doesn't need funky spelling to say it properly ("Meier weener" being the MacSpeak solution), but the demo doesn't attempt to sing or say it in rhythm. MacSpeak actually hit some of the notes and beats! ------------------------
I agree with Hemos, CN has the BEST self-advertising around. Who could forget the classic Superfriends at the Cinema?
Paraphrasing, mind you:
"[Snacks] for each of us will take more than a dollar! It will take all our dollars! That means snacks and change for each one of us, and that takes time we haven't got! This looks like a job for...a twenty!!"
CN has the licensing and the chutzpah to mesh cartoons from all ages, for the benefit and humor of all. God(s) bless the Cartoon Network! ------------------------
I remember a text adventure that was on my eighth grade's computer. Dunno if it even had a title, but you were on a jungle island and needed to recover about ten treasures and light a signal fire to leave the island. All I remember now is that here was a jaguar that could only be killed with a spear (axes don't count as weapons, I guess) and a parrot that gave a button-pushing puzzle clue. The best part was that after I had everything figured out, I'd race myself to see how fast I could do it:) I think I finally got the entire thing down to eight minutes...I didn't even look at the monitor to see where I was or what had happened, I just opened my blazing fury of hunt-and-peck on the keyboard and prayed for no typos. Has anyone out there memorized Zork end-to-end? ------------------------
For those of us who emphasize gameplay over tech, I recommend Hamumu Software. And if you don't like gameplay over tech, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE NOGGIN! ------------------------
Heh, as a poor techie trapped at NDSU in Fargo, I can say that you better bring not only mix CD's, but some artificial scenery and airscrubbers for your AC...ND's flat, brown, and smells like poo. Didn't the Fargo city planners understand that putting the city dump UPWIND OF EVERYTHING was a bad idea??? ------------------------
...now. See, yesterday I was trying to find the Microsoft Java API online to figure out WHY IN GOD(S)'S NAME I CAN'T USE SETCURSOR() IN IE. They had moved the page I had bookmarked. After wrestling with the MSDN Library "Help" for a while, I finally had to do a raw search for it. They're not even calling it a Java API anymore, it's all listed under Visual J++...probably so they can bury it all at once. I hate hate HATE their pathetic half-assed implementation...like moving the Point class up the inheritence heirarchy! What's up with that? Forcing everyone who uses standard Java to write their own personal Point class...,/rant> ------------------------
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At the council I really REALLY wanted Elrond to say:
"Tell me, Mr. Boromir...what good is a Ring of Power...if you are unable to *wear* it?"
And then Boromir's fingers would fuse together. Rock on.
These days I'm more worried about the possibility of Time Warner/America OnLine buying out the rest of Amazon.com than MS pulling PR moves. I believe TW'AOLzon is referenced somewhere as a Great Old One.
.NET takeover. Don't let down your guard!! My CS buddies and I were at UIUC (sponsored by M$ this year) and we *still* aren't sure what .NET is. I half-jokingly believe that MS doesn't actually *have* .NET specs created yet. They fed the parameters for what .NET was supposed to be into XML and gave it a database of all current programming languages. It's parsing their "strategy" right now. After giving it a cup of really strong hot tea, of course ;)
But all this shareholder crap is just a smoke screen for the coming
That's not Cartoon Network. Johnny Neutron is on Nickelodeon, as far as I know. Now Johnny BRAVO is on CN, and is VERY annoying, but he doesn't start replicating all over the screen or anything...
:)
I approve most of the decisions CN has made recently , since most of them involve anime and shows for the over-20-somethings
I seriously doubt anyone "enjoyed" Crusade. If taping B5 is all we needed to do to keep Crusade from airing, I would have done it twice!!
I'm sorry, but I can't argue against the watermarks. For one thing, in the US it's an easy way to mark the exact moment that all this jingoistic fever wears off: just watch for the network logos to stop being star-spangled ;)
What's wrong is that they need to be used more effectively. Cartoon Network is pretty good example for this...their logo appears and disappears, so it's not a constant presence but you NOTICE it when it's there (which is the point).
What's more, for the Adult Swim block the logo becomes "ADULT SWIM". When Adult Swim started there was an ad at the beginning saying "all kids under 18, outta the pool!" Apparently the lazy parents are complaining about risque TV again, because now there's a warning before *every single show*. I think the Adult Swim watermark is plenty warning for concerned citizens, and that the ******** soccer moms should shut their collective trap and use the tools that CN gives them.
...that this guy has fallen into the same trap that most of the media has recently. They believe that the standard model of CD, hard-copy distribution is the ONLY model, and the model that artists want. He seems to take it as given that CDs are the divinely-ordained format for music, that the evolution of players has come to an end.
I hope he goes bankrupt, but not necessarily because he's trying to protect music. It's because he's protecting CDs.
I, of course, used a few p2p music sharers in my day, but you know what? I've filled out everything I want on my playlist, and aside from must-have stuff like the new Cake album, it doesn't change much anymore. On top of that, I bought more CDs after getting Napster than before...it's not a matter of already having the album for me, it's a matter of finding an ENTIRE ALBUM OF GOOD SONGS. If the record labels didn't rush out half-finished crap and charge almost $20 for it, I'd buy lots more CDs...
I wasn't arguing with the speed. They can go a light year in 3 days if they want...the problem is with the proximity of Kronos. One light year seems mighty close to the "vast" Klingon empire, and even closer to its homeworld. Wouldn't you expect it to extend more than a light year in every direction??
The comment in all the ads was "Neptune and back in 6 minutes"...referring supposedly to Warp 4.5.
Neptune and back (from Earth) is 8 709 400 000 km.
They then talk about bringing the Klingon back to Kronos...4 days there, 4 days back. 4 days, again assuming Warp 4.5, works out to 5760 minutes.
Kronos, one-way: 8 361 024 000 000 km.
1 light year is 9 460 800 000 000 km.
Since we're less than a light year from the Klingon homeworld, doncha think we would have noticed the vast Klingon empire rolling over our Solar System???
I'm going to handle cash right up until the laundromat's washing machines accept my credit card. Cash's only value is in being changed into quarters.
Hell, the ColecoVision version has that scene!
Bridge Builder. No idea if the shareware version is out there for download (there were (tm) problems with the name), but it's a simple problem solving game that teaches physics at the same time.
:) First train makes it across with all cars intact, but it breaks struts that would keep a second train from crossing...
And I dare all y'all that still have the game to make 15 one-use bridges like me and my buds did
I'd like to thank all those people making PaRappa references...now I can't get Navi's rapping outta my head:
Navi: Swing, roll, LinkLinkLink!
Link: *swing*, *roll*, *jump*
Navi: Nonono...swing, roll, Link Over-over here!
Link: *swing*, *roll*, *block*
Navi: You're adventurin' bad! LinkLink *tinkle* swing roll over here *tinkle*!
The horror...the horror...
I hope they have some sort of forcible input device to override his overrides...once he gets to the mental state of 15 he's going to start ignoring mommy's keyboard.
The DMCA is far from dead. In fact, it appears to be working overtime. We're all doomed!
McAfee has us by the balls here...
I bet there's Pseudonews in this somewhere, gimme a moment ;)
Where are our insiders and leaks in the Macrovision labs?
Not the Odds song. Would somebody who's cool and bandwidth-laden like to take a few extensive Google searches and submit them to the opt-out link?
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This thing has only marginal improvement over the old System 8 MacSpeak I remember playing with in high school. It pauses too long at commas and has trouble with contractions and plurals...as evidenced by the industry-wide standard of "The Oscar Meyer Wiener" song. True, this ATT thing doesn't need funky spelling to say it properly ("Meier weener" being the MacSpeak solution), but the demo doesn't attempt to sing or say it in rhythm. MacSpeak actually hit some of the notes and beats!
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...it still stumbles over the relatively simple "Gonna bust a cap in this bizatch's shizass."
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Paraphrasing, mind you:
"[Snacks] for each of us will take more than a dollar! It will take all our dollars! That means snacks and change for each one of us, and that takes time we haven't got! This looks like a job for...a twenty!!"
CN has the licensing and the chutzpah to mesh cartoons from all ages, for the benefit and humor of all. God(s) bless the Cartoon Network!
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I remember a text adventure that was on my eighth grade's computer. Dunno if it even had a title, but you were on a jungle island and needed to recover about ten treasures and light a signal fire to leave the island. All I remember now is that here was a jaguar that could only be killed with a spear (axes don't count as weapons, I guess) and a parrot that gave a button-pushing puzzle clue. The best part was that after I had everything figured out, I'd race myself to see how fast I could do it :) I think I finally got the entire thing down to eight minutes...I didn't even look at the monitor to see where I was or what had happened, I just opened my blazing fury of hunt-and-peck on the keyboard and prayed for no typos. Has anyone out there memorized Zork end-to-end?
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For those of us who emphasize gameplay over tech, I recommend Hamumu Software. And if you don't like gameplay over tech, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE NOGGIN!
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Heh, as a poor techie trapped at NDSU in Fargo, I can say that you better bring not only mix CD's, but some artificial scenery and airscrubbers for your AC...ND's flat, brown, and smells like poo. Didn't the Fargo city planners understand that putting the city dump UPWIND OF EVERYTHING was a bad idea???
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Why don't record lablels just ROT13 all the lyrics? Can't really hurt today's pop songs...
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...now. See, yesterday I was trying to find the Microsoft Java API online to figure out WHY IN GOD(S)'S NAME I CAN'T USE SETCURSOR() IN IE. They had moved the page I had bookmarked. After wrestling with the MSDN Library "Help" for a while, I finally had to do a raw search for it. They're not even calling it a Java API anymore, it's all listed under Visual J++...probably so they can bury it all at once. I hate hate HATE their pathetic half-assed implementation...like moving the Point class up the inheritence heirarchy! What's up with that? Forcing everyone who uses standard Java to write their own personal Point class...,/rant>
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