Similarly, CmdrTaco considers editors to be blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot. He considers them to be blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot.
The article left out the detail that the reason these passwords won't do you any good is that you only get 3 tries to enter them before your locked out. Goop lick.
What I want to know is who's responsible for all the subliminal messages in gay porn? Christian conservatives have noted that there are very few gay people in the world, and yet gay porn is one of the hottest selling categories of porn. Obviously subliminal photos of hot women are getting flashed on the screen in an attempt to sell this stuff to all the straight men in the world. Such as myself, for example. I get a raging boner every time I see two men going at it on screen, even more so when it's 4 or 5 of them, and I keep buying the stuff, and that just doesn't make any sense. Class action anyone? We can meet at my place to "discuss" the details.
At home the game system is for my kids, 4 and 5. I have little to no time to play a console system, other than playing with them a little bit. I got them a used GameCube (w/box) with one official wired controller and official memory card for $54. I've gotten them a used (complete) copy of Super Mario Sunshine for $12, a used (complete) copy of MX Superfly for $8 and a new copy of Donkey Konga w/bongos for $20. I purchased one extra official wired controller for $20 and then another from amazon for $18, both new. I also got a pair of extension cables for $6. I just ordered a copy of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat w/bongos and a free 2nd set of bongos from gamestop for $21 shipped. Those are all new. I actually intend to sell Jungle Beat w/bongos on ebay and believe I'll net about $21 for it, effectively getting me the extra set of bongos for free. Total price for the GC w/3 nintendo-brand controllers (one used, two new), memory card, Super Mario Sunshine (used, complete), MX Superfly (used, complete) and Donkey Konga w/ 2 sets of bongos (all new) was around $140. More than $100 less than a Wii system alone (albeit with Wii sports). Or, if multiplayer Donkey Konga is all it's cracked up to be, I could keep Donkey Kong Jungle beat w/bongos and have a 3rd bongo controller (as well as DKJB) for an extra $21. The used games were purchased on ebay. I tested them and they work fine. Every price noted includes shipping.
For myself I'm getting a (new) DS Lite which I'll be able to play on the train every day. Unlike the Wii, no accessories are necessary, so the $117 I paid for it (shipped) from buy.com is all I have to pay for it other than games. Lots of great games are available for it for little money, including a thriving used market. Indeed, even new games are only $30 to $35, compared to $50 for Wii/360/PS3. Before long new titles drop to $20. I picked up used/complete copies of Meteos and Madden '05 for about $19 total (including shipping). I'm also getting Gunpei DS (new) for $20. So all told it sets us back about $156 for the DS Lite (new) and 3 good games (2 used/complete, one new.)
Total for both the complete GameCube setup and the complete DS setup was about $296. That's less than the price of core-version Xbox 360 alone and less than a Wii with one extra set of controllers (pretty much a necessity.) The Wii is no doubt a ton of fun and better than the GameCube, and unlike the 360 and PS3 seems to offer new/fun gameplay, but I'd rather have a nice system for my kids and a nice portable system for myself that I can actually use, not to mention lots of games to play on both of them. Some day I will get a Wii, in part because it will be able to play the GameCube games we'll have, but there's no hurry. At the earliest it will be next Christmas, when the price will have dropped, there will be a used games market, and new games will better utilize the system.
All Walmart has to do is go with the model they've proven viable time and time again: switch to sweatshop and/or child-labor-produced DVDs, reduce staff salary's and benefits and eliminate needless training.
WARNING: If a stranger asks you to plug their USB WiFi adapter into your MacBook, tell them, "no", and immediately contact the authorities, especially if they are saying, "Mac? Fuck! Fuck Mac! Mac Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
"I have a Mac and it's great. Unfortunately the majority of Mac users are an embarrassment. I sometimes cringe when I read the comments on Mac blogs - the Mac users make Linux fans look humble and Windows users look intelligent."
Do "Mac bloggers" make up "the majority of Mac users"? Assuming that your assertion about "Mac bloggers" is true (I don't know), can such a specific and small subset of a much larger group really be representative of the group as a whole? What's more embarrassing - a blogger or bloggers who writes something stupid, or a person who equates Mac bloggers with Mac users? Both?
Why hasn't the product placement concept come to music yet? Since people are downloading music for free from all kinds of sources and there is no stop to it, why not put the advertising in the music? I can't imagine that Brittany Spears would complain about having to incorporate "Coke" or "Victoria's Secret" into a song. Here is an example product placement in a popular song:
I am going to the corner, gonna buy some iPod bling. Would you pardon me if it's a black 60 gigabyte t'ing Good golly, miss Molly, sure like to ball. When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.
I tried Rockbox on my 60 GB video iPod and soon enough removed it. I'm all for open source iPod software, but rockbox, at least on a video iPod, is no where near ready for prime time. I'm not even going to get into just how amazingly awful the UI and overall design is (so bad it makes you yearn for proprietary software), I'm just going to talk about playing music. Almost every song I played played back with periodic hiccups throughout. Perhaps it's gapless between tracks, but in the middle of them it likes to put in a whole bunch of its own gaps! It's completely unusable as a result. I was playing standard VBR MP3 files. No, I didn't have some fancy skin installed (yes, I read the FAQ). I had the stock skin. If it works on the nano that's cool, but it sure didn't work well on my video iPod. There's hope for the future, but for right now? Rockbox sure isn't an improvement.
I have to confess to being unclear in my original post, so I suppose I deserve it. What I should have said was that the form of parody that Weird Al does involves more or less reproducing the original song or type of music being parodied, and in this case the original music, and thus the parody version as well, is unbearable to listen to (for me). See my "ice pick" comment. This contrasts with, for example, his parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", etc. I don't particularly like "Beat It", and it is certainly worthy of parody, but it isn't so bad that I can't listen to it. As such, Weird Al's parody version works for me. I can enjoy listening to it and laugh with it. I can also listen to Jackson's version and basically enjoy it, even if I wouldn't play it myself and wouldn't need to hear it again. "Beat It" is mainstream pop, but it isn't truly awful, unlike what Al is parodying in "Don't download this song".
Actually I did get it. Getting it doesn't prevent the music from being unbearable. Imagine if a "parody" were to be made of "jamming an icepick into your eye". No matter how funny the parody is, it still isn't going to be any fun to have an icepick jammed into your eye.
It's time for ebay to end the ludicrous two-way rating of ebay members. Only sellers should receive feedback ratings, not buyers. That buyers can receive bad feedback is why so many sellers have ludicrously good feedback ratings - fear of reprisal. Even when a buyer has a bad experience, they'll often either not provide feedback, or give good feedback anyway, for fear that they'll otherwise receive "payback" from the seller. If a person only buys, this is of little consequence, but most buyers are also sellers and feedback ratings affect this type of user far more than it affects big time ebay sellers because 1 bad feedback rating in 5000 is of no consequence whatsoever, while 1 bad feedback rating in 10 does have a substantial impact. What good does rating a buyer do? A seller isn't going to ship something to someone who doesn't pay up first unless they are a complete fool. Rating of buyers is a ruse.
In this paper we show how to divide data D into n pieces in such a way that D is easily reconstructable from any k pieces, but even complete knowledge of k - 1 pieces reveals absolutely no information about D
I use this approach in my sex life, however, rather than obscuring information about D, even knowing one "piece" p reveals way more information than I'd like to have out there. Hell, ever since k-1 got a page on myspace, every potential n+1 knows about me before we even get started.
You've misread this. It's not that they are recalling business server 2003 from the market, rather, they are recalling the good old days of Business Server 2003 and other products they use to finish. Those were the days, weren't they? Back when Microsoft didn't care about security and thus were able to complete products and put them on the market, even if they usually resulted in security breaches, data loss, privacy invasion, etc, for anyone who installed them. Now that they are security focused they are unable to finish and release anything at all. They can't help but look back with misty eyes at what was a simpler time for Microsoft.
The documents detailing the method were found to be already available on the P2P networks, though instead of having a trail of previous owners attached, it included a "revealing" photo of Sir Howard Stringer sporting the caption, "Patent this!"
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You aren't seriously putting remote controls up as an example of why buttons are good are you?
Similarly, CmdrTaco considers editors to be blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot. He considers them to be blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot.
The article left out the detail that the reason these passwords won't do you any good is that you only get 3 tries to enter them before your locked out. Goop lick.
Hunt the Wumpus 3D. Now that's where it's at, baby.
It's more than just a pricing mistake. It's that, for example, if you say into the iPhone:
"Hello, my name is Steve Jobs"
it will come out on the other end as:
"Holler! My norm is stove robs!"
What I want to know is who's responsible for all the subliminal messages in gay porn? Christian conservatives have noted that there are very few gay people in the world, and yet gay porn is one of the hottest selling categories of porn. Obviously subliminal photos of hot women are getting flashed on the screen in an attempt to sell this stuff to all the straight men in the world. Such as myself, for example. I get a raging boner every time I see two men going at it on screen, even more so when it's 4 or 5 of them, and I keep buying the stuff, and that just doesn't make any sense. Class action anyone? We can meet at my place to "discuss" the details.
At home the game system is for my kids, 4 and 5. I have little to no time to play a console system, other than playing with them a little bit. I got them a used GameCube (w/box) with one official wired controller and official memory card for $54. I've gotten them a used (complete) copy of Super Mario Sunshine for $12, a used (complete) copy of MX Superfly for $8 and a new copy of Donkey Konga w/bongos for $20. I purchased one extra official wired controller for $20 and then another from amazon for $18, both new. I also got a pair of extension cables for $6. I just ordered a copy of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat w/bongos and a free 2nd set of bongos from gamestop for $21 shipped. Those are all new. I actually intend to sell Jungle Beat w/bongos on ebay and believe I'll net about $21 for it, effectively getting me the extra set of bongos for free. Total price for the GC w/3 nintendo-brand controllers (one used, two new), memory card, Super Mario Sunshine (used, complete), MX Superfly (used, complete) and Donkey Konga w/ 2 sets of bongos (all new) was around $140. More than $100 less than a Wii system alone (albeit with Wii sports). Or, if multiplayer Donkey Konga is all it's cracked up to be, I could keep Donkey Kong Jungle beat w/bongos and have a 3rd bongo controller (as well as DKJB) for an extra $21. The used games were purchased on ebay. I tested them and they work fine. Every price noted includes shipping.
For myself I'm getting a (new) DS Lite which I'll be able to play on the train every day. Unlike the Wii, no accessories are necessary, so the $117 I paid for it (shipped) from buy.com is all I have to pay for it other than games. Lots of great games are available for it for little money, including a thriving used market. Indeed, even new games are only $30 to $35, compared to $50 for Wii/360/PS3. Before long new titles drop to $20. I picked up used/complete copies of Meteos and Madden '05 for about $19 total (including shipping). I'm also getting Gunpei DS (new) for $20. So all told it sets us back about $156 for the DS Lite (new) and 3 good games (2 used/complete, one new.)
Total for both the complete GameCube setup and the complete DS setup was about $296. That's less than the price of core-version Xbox 360 alone and less than a Wii with one extra set of controllers (pretty much a necessity.) The Wii is no doubt a ton of fun and better than the GameCube, and unlike the 360 and PS3 seems to offer new/fun gameplay, but I'd rather have a nice system for my kids and a nice portable system for myself that I can actually use, not to mention lots of games to play on both of them. Some day I will get a Wii, in part because it will be able to play the GameCube games we'll have, but there's no hurry. At the earliest it will be next Christmas, when the price will have dropped, there will be a used games market, and new games will better utilize the system.
Wait until you read about the development of the "About" menu item!
was their research into erectile dysfunction therapy and Atari 2600 games. Adventure worked pretty well, but Freeway was problematic.
All Walmart has to do is go with the model they've proven viable time and time again: switch to sweatshop and/or child-labor-produced DVDs, reduce staff salary's and benefits and eliminate needless training.
WARNING: If a stranger asks you to plug their USB WiFi adapter into your MacBook, tell them, "no", and immediately contact the authorities, especially if they are saying, "Mac? Fuck! Fuck Mac! Mac Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
He ought to have his cerebellum checked out too.
"I have a Mac and it's great. Unfortunately the majority of Mac users are an embarrassment. I sometimes cringe when I read the comments on Mac blogs - the Mac users make Linux fans look humble and Windows users look intelligent."
Do "Mac bloggers" make up "the majority of Mac users"? Assuming that your assertion about "Mac bloggers" is true (I don't know), can such a specific and small subset of a much larger group really be representative of the group as a whole? What's more embarrassing - a blogger or bloggers who writes something stupid, or a person who equates Mac bloggers with Mac users? Both?
Why hasn't the product placement concept come to music yet? Since people are downloading music for free from all kinds of sources and there is no stop to it, why not put the advertising in the music? I can't imagine that Brittany Spears would complain about having to incorporate "Coke" or "Victoria's Secret" into a song. Here is an example product placement in a popular song:
I am going to the corner, gonna buy some iPod bling.
Would you pardon me if it's a black 60 gigabyte t'ing
Good golly, miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.
They should be applying CGI affects to Leonard Nimoy's hair.
The analogy I prefer is that the pro-DRM argument is a lot like the anti-gun-control argument. They're both wrong.
I tried Rockbox on my 60 GB video iPod and soon enough removed it. I'm all for open source iPod software, but rockbox, at least on a video iPod, is no where near ready for prime time. I'm not even going to get into just how amazingly awful the UI and overall design is (so bad it makes you yearn for proprietary software), I'm just going to talk about playing music. Almost every song I played played back with periodic hiccups throughout. Perhaps it's gapless between tracks, but in the middle of them it likes to put in a whole bunch of its own gaps! It's completely unusable as a result. I was playing standard VBR MP3 files. No, I didn't have some fancy skin installed (yes, I read the FAQ). I had the stock skin. If it works on the nano that's cool, but it sure didn't work well on my video iPod. There's hope for the future, but for right now? Rockbox sure isn't an improvement.
I have to confess to being unclear in my original post, so I suppose I deserve it. What I should have said was that the form of parody that Weird Al does involves more or less reproducing the original song or type of music being parodied, and in this case the original music, and thus the parody version as well, is unbearable to listen to (for me). See my "ice pick" comment. This contrasts with, for example, his parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", etc. I don't particularly like "Beat It", and it is certainly worthy of parody, but it isn't so bad that I can't listen to it. As such, Weird Al's parody version works for me. I can enjoy listening to it and laugh with it. I can also listen to Jackson's version and basically enjoy it, even if I wouldn't play it myself and wouldn't need to hear it again. "Beat It" is mainstream pop, but it isn't truly awful, unlike what Al is parodying in "Don't download this song".
Actually I did get it. Getting it doesn't prevent the music from being unbearable. Imagine if a "parody" were to be made of "jamming an icepick into your eye". No matter how funny the parody is, it still isn't going to be any fun to have an icepick jammed into your eye.
I'm sure this song is funny, but the music is absolutely unbearable. I suppose that's the point, but I still couldn't listen to it.
It's time for ebay to end the ludicrous two-way rating of ebay members. Only sellers should receive feedback ratings, not buyers. That buyers can receive bad feedback is why so many sellers have ludicrously good feedback ratings - fear of reprisal. Even when a buyer has a bad experience, they'll often either not provide feedback, or give good feedback anyway, for fear that they'll otherwise receive "payback" from the seller. If a person only buys, this is of little consequence, but most buyers are also sellers and feedback ratings affect this type of user far more than it affects big time ebay sellers because 1 bad feedback rating in 5000 is of no consequence whatsoever, while 1 bad feedback rating in 10 does have a substantial impact. What good does rating a buyer do? A seller isn't going to ship something to someone who doesn't pay up first unless they are a complete fool. Rating of buyers is a ruse.
In this paper we show how to divide data D into n pieces in such a way that D is easily reconstructable
from any k pieces, but even complete knowledge of k - 1 pieces reveals absolutely no information about D
I use this approach in my sex life, however, rather than obscuring information about D, even knowing one "piece" p reveals way more information than I'd like to have out there. Hell, ever since k-1 got a page on myspace, every potential n+1 knows about me before we even get started.
You've misread this. It's not that they are recalling business server 2003 from the market, rather, they are recalling the good old days of Business Server 2003 and other products they use to finish. Those were the days, weren't they? Back when Microsoft didn't care about security and thus were able to complete products and put them on the market, even if they usually resulted in security breaches, data loss, privacy invasion, etc, for anyone who installed them. Now that they are security focused they are unable to finish and release anything at all. They can't help but look back with misty eyes at what was a simpler time for Microsoft.
The documents detailing the method were found to be already available on the P2P networks, though instead of having a trail of previous owners attached, it included a "revealing" photo of Sir Howard Stringer sporting the caption, "Patent this!"