the speed at which this emulator came into the public eye is astonishing
"incredible" would be a better word in this case, as it has no credibility whatsoever. Careless posting by Taco.
This could have been serious, had the hoaxer desired to do real harm to people's systems. In fact, we still don't know that he doesn't, there could be a "time bomb" in there.
If Microsoft is smart, they'll ignore this. Why? Well, they're losing around $150 USD per console, and they make the money from the games.
It's been so long since that figure was first published (and even then, it was an estimate by analysts), that at this point in time it's pretty meaningless. Component and labor costs involved in making Xboxen have shifted mightily in the last 6 months, I am sure.
I don't know about that, it seems to me that data in a search engine becomes only more powerful. Each document is still available to be read in toto, to a larger potential readership (anyone with access). And patterns undiscernible to any single reader (like the same names appearing in 50 out of a million documents) can be found and assembled from their diverse sources.
An even greater advantage to users would be a search engine that "knows" your subtle preferences; i.e., if you're with H&R Block, you want TCP to mean "Taxpayer Compliance Program." Also might be a great medium for targeted advertising, without spreading your private info all over hell and back.
Northern Light is a good search engine, but they don't know how to design for the masses. There are too many choices on the home page, Joe Average would never know where's the best place to search, and searching a couple of times in the wrong place would send him packing to one of the many other choices with just one serach box. And the design is cold/institutional, as if you were visiting a bank.
All this is fine if they want to appeal to an elite niche market, but there's no way to survive on that.
I don't mean to be Google's official defender/apologist, but searching Google for The Hobyahs results in 323 hits. It displays 171, with an option to also show the rest which are filtered out as duplicates. Must've been a server problem when you tried. (Itself not a good sign, but I've never seen a failure like that myself.)
You will be taken to my "free speech links" page. Any other random phrase cut and pasted from that page will work as well, though some are not as unique.
I don't feel the Lucas backlash. I liked the first Star Wars (ep 3, as it's now known) well enough at first. The second time I saw it was at a sci-fi convention with fans vociferously "showing their love" during the film, mostly just blurting out each line of dialog ahead of the players on screen. I've hated all things starwarsian ever since.
Perhaps some of the folk now posting about the "betrayal" were a part of that crowd, or one very much like it. To me it seems just the other side of the same coin, God becoming Lucifer.
Y'know, I don't deserve a +3 for such a simple statement, and I expect someone will downmod the above statement soon. But I understand why it's so generously modded right now. Ben E. had the good graces to share his thoughts on the series with us here in/., and it was clear that this show was "his baby." If he's reading this, it can't be pleasant to see all these "fans of the cartoon" piling on to spit, piss and defecate on the grave of this infant. Especially considering that it was much closer in spirit to his original comic book creation. I hope he can stand reading long enough to read the intelligent posts by some of the show's fans, which become more numerous after you get past all the 'early posters.'
And in America (but spreading) majority==most money. Still, the good old days when majority==most armaments can be found here and there...
"We live in a democarcy"
"We are ruled by corporations"
therefore
"Rule by corporate interests is democracy."
Irrefutable logic.
I hate to bust your bubble, but rule by a moneyed minority is, by definition, not democracy. I'm with you in deploring the corruption of the democratic process that has lead to increasing corporate plutocracy, but blaming democracy for it is not the way to go.
I'll defer to your superior knowledge of boy-bands, but "extra" footage is customarily not considered until editing. Lucasfilm didn't leak this story, so their only pronouncement on the issue does make sense.
The Simpsons was opposite ratings powerhouse Bill Cosby for its first 4 seasons, and came in second consistently, occasionally squeaking to first. For Fox, this was a huge success.
Of course, a "me too!" post deserves a down-mod. But I also am karma-capped...
I think/. should at least try eliminating down-mod, keep up-mods and add a point or two to the scale. Increase the number of moderators, so the really slimey posts will be spotted quickly.
As it stands, there's too much mod power in the hands of too few people; it should not be possible for one guy to make one other guy disappear! Sure somebody else may up-mod, but how many readers later?
I wouldn't want to see moderation completely go, as a low signal-to-noise ratio also acts as "censorship" to the site as a whole, by making/. entirely unreadable.
That's because, when a network wants to kill a show for any of a number of reasons*, they place it in a bad slot, and it works. As you point out, it happens with considerable frequency. In this case, it's a Thursday at 9, and the competition is observably tough; CBS's Survivor and the remnants of the NBC Thursday night sitcom habit pounded into viewers by years of Seinfeld.
* For example, series fostered by an outgoing regime, series that don't deliver a pre-conceived demographic, series that are produced out-of-house and the network has in-house capacity.
IMO, it had a different "silly magic." I loved Warburton's Tick, though it was as different from the animated version as Tom Welling's "Superboy" is different from Kirk Allyn's "Superman." His deadpan simplicity remins me of Dave Einstein ("Super Dave") before he got old and lost a bit of his skills.
I lost all hope for the series' continuance just a few minutes ago when I checked the TV sched and found an all-night marathon of the crappiest cartoon on earth, "The Family Man."
This does not make the world a better place. YMMV.
N'Sync are non-persons; I don't care what they think, but I can savor the irony. If including them was a favor to anyone, it was a favor to Bertelsmann, which owns the RCA label on which they appear. If it had been a favor to Bertelsmann, it would be a favor somehow paid, and that would indeed be "whoring." Of which I have no claim to be completely innocent, having taken some Jolt Cola money myself.
However, in light of what Lucasfilms has had to say about this -- that the boyband were extras, and that their footage will be used or not according to how it fits in editing -- I would overrule my own objections in this matter. It doesn't look like a favor to anyone (though we will never know for sure). The whole thing is pretty much a "non-event."
Weird...when I submitted this, it came back with an ad for Jolt Cola! Jolt was a major underwriter of a film I co-wrote -- Basket Case 3: The Progeny! You can see Jolt all over that film!
First time I've seen a "consumer product" advertise here. Fine, fine product, though I personally find it undrinkable.
For once Hollywood (or Lucas at least) actually listened!
Two wrongs don't make a right. The subtle reason why N'Sync being in the film is wrong is that it is product placement, like having the wookie sip a Pepsi. Removing them due to fan protest is the wrong reason. If Lucas was the 'artist' we'd like to think our best filmmakers are, fan opinion would not be a reason to change an artistic decision. Consider: N'Sync now has sufficient cause to consider George Lucas a whore. (I say this at known risk of being downmodded, but please think about it before calling this flamebait.) That's irony!
Not a problem. I seldom get upmodded as funny when I expect to be, even when I know I've used an amusing turn of phrase, as my humor is usually delivered in a deadpan manner. "Pompous Git" (and the rest of my epithets) were as much a part of my sense of humor as my upset; while I am sure my upbraiding took you aback, I imagine a few others were amused. Nothing really against you. Jon Katz, on the other hand....
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That site's screenshots are even more fake-looking. You won't be happy until we wipe out our drives, will you?
the speed at which this emulator came into the public eye is astonishing
"incredible" would be a better word in this case, as it has no credibility whatsoever. Careless posting by Taco.
This could have been serious, had the hoaxer desired to do real harm to people's systems. In fact, we still don't know that he doesn't, there could be a "time bomb" in there.
It's been so long since that figure was first published (and even then, it was an estimate by analysts), that at this point in time it's pretty meaningless. Component and labor costs involved in making Xboxen have shifted mightily in the last 6 months, I am sure.
If only it were so. I'd rather
Besides, who would pay to direct traffic to such a silly trollsite?
I don't know about that, it seems to me that data in a search engine becomes only more powerful. Each document is still available to be read in toto, to a larger potential readership (anyone with access). And patterns undiscernible to any single reader (like the same names appearing in 50 out of a million documents) can be found and assembled from their diverse sources.
An even greater advantage to users would be a search engine that "knows" your subtle preferences; i.e., if you're with H&R Block, you want TCP to mean "Taxpayer Compliance Program." Also might be a great medium for targeted advertising, without spreading your private info all over hell and back.
Northern Light is a good search engine, but they don't know how to design for the masses. There are too many choices on the home page, Joe Average would never know where's the best place to search, and searching a couple of times in the wrong place would send him packing to one of the many other choices with just one serach box. And the design is cold/institutional, as if you were visiting a bank.
All this is fine if they want to appeal to an elite niche market, but there's no way to survive on that.
I don't mean to be Google's official defender/apologist, but searching Google for The Hobyahs results in 323 hits. It displays 171, with an option to also show the rest which are filtered out as duplicates. Must've been a server problem when you tried. (Itself not a good sign, but I've never seen a failure like that myself.)
Paste the following into Google:
"communiques would bring aid and succor"
You will be taken to my "free speech links" page. Any other random phrase cut and pasted from that page will work as well, though some are not as unique.
I don't feel the Lucas backlash. I liked the first Star Wars (ep 3, as it's now known) well enough at first. The second time I saw it was at a sci-fi convention with fans vociferously "showing their love" during the film, mostly just blurting out each line of dialog ahead of the players on screen. I've hated all things starwarsian ever since.
Perhaps some of the folk now posting about the "betrayal" were a part of that crowd, or one very much like it. To me it seems just the other side of the same coin, God becoming Lucifer.
You have every right to post. Hopefully, something more insightful than "Where's the villains? This isn't like the cartoon."
I may feel badly about your post, and I may post about that feeling -- it doesn't mean I don't want you to post.
Y'know, I don't deserve a +3 for such a simple statement, and I expect someone will downmod the above statement soon. But I understand why it's so generously modded right now. Ben E. had the good graces to share his thoughts on the series with us here in /., and it was clear that this show was "his baby." If he's reading this, it can't be pleasant to see all these "fans of the cartoon" piling on to spit, piss and defecate on the grave of this infant. Especially considering that it was much closer in spirit to his original comic book creation. I hope he can stand reading long enough to read the intelligent posts by some of the show's fans, which become more numerous after you get past all the 'early posters.'
Many episodes of Gilligan were shot by Jack Arnold, director of "Creature From The Black Lagoon," "This Island Earth," and "Incredible Shrinking Man."
Ah, whatever happened to sing-along theme songs...
Many anime series have very singable themes, if you can sing in Japanese. I occasionally extemporize in English to them.
"We live in a democarcy"
"We are ruled by corporations"
therefore
"Rule by corporate interests is democracy."
Irrefutable logic.
I hate to bust your bubble, but rule by a moneyed minority is, by definition, not democracy. I'm with you in deploring the corruption of the democratic process that has lead to increasing corporate plutocracy, but blaming democracy for it is not the way to go.
I'll defer to your superior knowledge of boy-bands, but "extra" footage is customarily not considered until editing. Lucasfilm didn't leak this story, so their only pronouncement on the issue does make sense.
The Simpsons was opposite ratings powerhouse Bill Cosby for its first 4 seasons, and came in second consistently, occasionally squeaking to first. For Fox, this was a huge success.
Of course, a "me too!" post deserves a down-mod. But I also am karma-capped...
I think /. should at least try eliminating down-mod, keep up-mods and add a point or two to the scale. Increase the number of moderators, so the really slimey posts will be spotted quickly.
As it stands, there's too much mod power in the hands of too few people; it should not be possible for one guy to make one other guy disappear! Sure somebody else may up-mod, but how many readers later?
I wouldn't want to see moderation completely go, as a low signal-to-noise ratio also acts as "censorship" to the site as a whole, by making /. entirely unreadable.
That's because, when a network wants to kill a show for any of a number of reasons*, they place it in a bad slot, and it works. As you point out, it happens with considerable frequency. In this case, it's a Thursday at 9, and the competition is observably tough; CBS's Survivor and the remnants of the NBC Thursday night sitcom habit pounded into viewers by years of Seinfeld.
* For example, series fostered by an outgoing regime, series that don't deliver a pre-conceived demographic, series that are produced out-of-house and the network has in-house capacity.
IMO, it had a different "silly magic." I loved Warburton's Tick, though it was as different from the animated version as Tom Welling's "Superboy" is different from Kirk Allyn's "Superman." His deadpan simplicity remins me of Dave Einstein ("Super Dave") before he got old and lost a bit of his skills.
I lost all hope for the series' continuance just a few minutes ago when I checked the TV sched and found an all-night marathon of the crappiest cartoon on earth, "The Family Man."
This does not make the world a better place. YMMV.
N'Sync are non-persons; I don't care what they think, but I can savor the irony. If including them was a favor to anyone, it was a favor to Bertelsmann, which owns the RCA label on which they appear. If it had been a favor to Bertelsmann, it would be a favor somehow paid, and that would indeed be "whoring." Of which I have no claim to be completely innocent, having taken some Jolt Cola money myself.
However, in light of what Lucasfilms has had to say about this -- that the boyband were extras, and that their footage will be used or not according to how it fits in editing -- I would overrule my own objections in this matter. It doesn't look like a favor to anyone (though we will never know for sure). The whole thing is pretty much a "non-event."
First time I've seen a "consumer product" advertise here. Fine, fine product, though I personally find it undrinkable.
For once Hollywood (or Lucas at least) actually listened!
Two wrongs don't make a right. The subtle reason why N'Sync being in the film is wrong is that it is product placement, like having the wookie sip a Pepsi. Removing them due to fan protest is the wrong reason. If Lucas was the 'artist' we'd like to think our best filmmakers are, fan opinion would not be a reason to change an artistic decision. Consider: N'Sync now has sufficient cause to consider George Lucas a whore. (I say this at known risk of being downmodded, but please think about it before calling this flamebait.) That's irony!
Not a problem. I seldom get upmodded as funny when I expect to be, even when I know I've used an amusing turn of phrase, as my humor is usually delivered in a deadpan manner. "Pompous Git" (and the rest of my epithets) were as much a part of my sense of humor as my upset; while I am sure my upbraiding took you aback, I imagine a few others were amused. Nothing really against you. Jon Katz, on the other hand....
I really don't worry about my passport photo, you have to squint at it for it to look like me.