["The people that download music/movies will always be about 10 steps ahead of them.]Quick summary of what you said"Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man"
Does this mean that the sordid tale will end when Rupert Murdoch's "Fox" company eats up Kazaa?
Adding "vert" to the end of "ad" has a use: it can distinguish it from being confused with the addition word "add". This makes more sense than doing something like adding a "u" to "favor", which serves no purpose at all.
" I've never seen it but I have been told about one called the "Hitler Killer" which was started when a hen laid an egg "
See title. Rube Godwin's Law was named after the fact that in any fierce Internet argument (first Usenet, now elsewhere), whenever someone discusses ungainly contraptions, someone will always ask "but can you kill Hitler with it?"
The mirrordot link was bad. The.avi is an avi, not an image. I have a little interest in it, but that interest lies between the urge to complain about a big web design mistake, and the urge to actually bother with the hassle of a movie file just to see what something looks like.
Even the web sites promoting the worst movies don't make the mistake of forgetting to put quick, nice still images of the project on their sites.
The slashdotting was all part of the plan. This story is not about a contraption. Rather, this story is just part of a contraption:
1. Slashdotter creates site that requires each person to do a 12 meg download to find out what is on it, and submits it to Slashdot.
2. Timothy looks at it, decides it is cool. In the process of looking at it for review, he slashdots the site.
3. "Contraption" story is added to Slashdot. Thousands hit it within seconds, further banging away at some fragile server in the UK.
4. UK server-farms transformers start to smoke. One explodes.
5. Power spike would seem rather small, but it does make its away through an Atlantic cable where it hits an electric relay system near Cleveland, Ohio.
6. Cleveland's vintage "Enron meets East German War Surplus" relay blows out. Cleveland once again has a big blackout. Free TV's for all: loot early and loot often!
7. Ensuing crises causes calls for demands for the resignation of United States energy secretary.
8. Energy sec is good friend of President, so he can't fire him. But he has to do something, so he sacks the Surgeon General.
9. Without a surgeon general, health standards go down, including dental standards.
10. I get a nasty tooth-ache.
Mod parent up. The description did make it sound like a Rube Goldberg (I guess no one has heard of him anymore, so they think Honda invented it). At least the Rube Goldberg site designers were smart enough to put a jpg of the thing on the main page.
That it, describe something that sounds interesting. On the web site, make big the mistake of forgetting to add a nice little PNG or JPG of it so we can see what the big fuss is about. Instead, ask EVERYONE to download between 5 and 12 megs of movie file just to see what it looks like. Oh yes, and host it on a low bandwidth server. If that is not slashdotting-bait, I don't know what is!
Do you mean that "The Hobbit movie real soon! " stories are to Slashdot the way "The new age of the airship is upon us!" articles are to "Popular Science" magazine?
I'm still waiting for those personal helicopters to land in my driveway.
" mean, will there be a King Kong remake every 30-40 years? Is this a trend? Will this CGI King Kong fight the CGI Godzilla?"
40 years from now, we will have moved beyond flimsy CGI similucra. By 2045, genetic engineeering will have advanced to the point where you will have an actor fully mutated into a full-sized King Kong fighting an actor fully mutated into Godzilla. Generic modification of actors is the next frontier of Hollywood SFX technology.
Geez. I've already gotten use to the spider-goat pointing device used for navigating the Web and butting into blogs. Now I have to get used to this new horse-mouse!
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Does this mean that the sordid tale will end when Rupert Murdoch's "Fox" company eats up Kazaa?
No need to get all draconian about this. Just pay the farmers NOT to produce gold.
Adding "vert" to the end of "ad" has a use: it can distinguish it from being confused with the addition word "add". This makes more sense than doing something like adding a "u" to "favor", which serves no purpose at all.
Ah, but I do. Here's my picture.. I'm the one in the middle.
Sounds like a false representation, for sure. However, this does not cross the causality barrier to be anything like "therefore, this is theft".
I can claim to be the King of France (or even Britani Spirit!), but does that make me a thief? No.
Then what of all the individuals who copyright books and their own web sites?
See title. Rube Godwin's Law was named after the fact that in any fierce Internet argument (first Usenet, now elsewhere), whenever someone discusses ungainly contraptions, someone will always ask "but can you kill Hitler with it?"
"Blimey! If they are not falling out, don't bother me with it! Shove off, wot?"
Even the web sites promoting the worst movies don't make the mistake of forgetting to put quick, nice still images of the project on their sites.
Is this term called "adnaus" then?
"The British can actually say words which comprise more than one syllable"
It's just the one-syllable words they have problem with!
1. Slashdotter creates site that requires each person to do a 12 meg download to find out what is on it, and submits it to Slashdot.
2. Timothy looks at it, decides it is cool. In the process of looking at it for review, he slashdots the site.
3. "Contraption" story is added to Slashdot. Thousands hit it within seconds, further banging away at some fragile server in the UK.
4. UK server-farms transformers start to smoke. One explodes.
5. Power spike would seem rather small, but it does make its away through an Atlantic cable where it hits an electric relay system near Cleveland, Ohio.
6. Cleveland's vintage "Enron meets East German War Surplus" relay blows out. Cleveland once again has a big blackout. Free TV's for all: loot early and loot often!
7. Ensuing crises causes calls for demands for the resignation of United States energy secretary.
8. Energy sec is good friend of President, so he can't fire him. But he has to do something, so he sacks the Surgeon General.
9. Without a surgeon general, health standards go down, including dental standards.
10. I get a nasty tooth-ache.
Thanks a lot, lhdentra!
The "advert" word, common in the UK, should have given it away. It is just "ad" with an extra syllable added.
Mod parent up. The description did make it sound like a Rube Goldberg (I guess no one has heard of him anymore, so they think Honda invented it). At least the Rube Goldberg site designers were smart enough to put a jpg of the thing on the main page.
That it, describe something that sounds interesting. On the web site, make big the mistake of forgetting to add a nice little PNG or JPG of it so we can see what the big fuss is about. Instead, ask EVERYONE to download between 5 and 12 megs of movie file just to see what it looks like. Oh yes, and host it on a low bandwidth server. If that is not slashdotting-bait, I don't know what is!
Does anyone have a picture of this thing?
Do you mean that "The Hobbit movie real soon! " stories are to Slashdot the way "The new age of the airship is upon us!" articles are to "Popular Science" magazine? I'm still waiting for those personal helicopters to land in my driveway.
Not me. I was so bad at Donkey Kong that those two hours would have cost me at least $15 in quarters.
40 years from now, we will have moved beyond flimsy CGI similucra. By 2045, genetic engineeering will have advanced to the point where you will have an actor fully mutated into a full-sized King Kong fighting an actor fully mutated into Godzilla. Generic modification of actors is the next frontier of Hollywood SFX technology.
Just make sure to let me know about it when Halle Berry is going to the premiere.
Panama is part of North America, not South America. See the continent maps.
I think they might make good doorstops. However, nothing beats the "Timex Sinclair 1000" ZX-81, with that nice wedge shape, perfect for a doorstop.
That does it. I'm going to sign up at www.freemoneyalot.com If it works like www.spamalot.com does, I'll be on the gravy train!
I boycott America myself. I refuse to buy Chrysler cars or watch movies from Columbia Studios.
You are forgetting a big part of it. This was done with the permission and cooperation with the actual elected president of Panama.
Geez. I've already gotten use to the spider-goat pointing device used for navigating the Web and butting into blogs. Now I have to get used to this new horse-mouse!