Given that video games have their own soundtracks with "real" instruments now, this seems like a natural evolution. There are plenty of movies, for example, that have unremarkable soundtracks that would never get considered for an award. On the other hand, I think quite a few people would agree that the soundtrack for Halo 3: ODST is probably one of the best soundtracks for a game or movie recently in that it totally sets the mood for the environment and is just as important as the imagery.
For individuals, I think a number would be a cleaner approach. The overhead of DNS shouldn't be wasted on something like this when you can already associate phone numbers with contact lists on your cell phone or PDA. When I call someone, I just go to their name in my address book; I barely know the cell phone numbers of anyone in my family.
I know you're joking, but you can stream 1080p movies into XBox 360 with Zune Marketplace. I'm not big on having physical copies of movies (with a tiny handful of exceptions), so 1080p streaming to my 360 pretty much negates any need for me to get a blu-ray player.
As long as leaks and product releases are timed with trading blackout periods (usually tied with quarterly earnings reports), there shouldn't be a problem since an insider wouldn't be allowed to buy or sell stock in the first place.
Which is funny, because I did the same thing and found your comment. Hey! Maybe they should use a picture of a friendly bear that loves children for the image on the panic button. Because the only friendly dolphins I've ever read about on the internet will try to rub up against you.
Add a layer to crop in GIMP? I use GIMP a lot and all I do is select an area and crop it. It sounds like you're talking about masking, which is overkill for cropping something.
It makes for awkward stares when someone see the "Beginning GIMP" book on my coffee table and thinks it somehow involves rubber suits and a bucket of soapy frogs.
Diggnation on Revision3 does commercials right. Kevin and Alex do the commercial spots themselves and the show doesn't skip a beat. The fact that the show hosts do the commercial spots adds sincerity and reminds the viewers that the show, the sponsors and the viewers are part of the same ecosystem. Revision3 is internet-only on-demand, so you can only get the show in a DVR-like format.
In the case of Google's message boards, the users are not the customers. The advertisers are the customers and our eyeballs are the product. It just so happens in this arrangement that I want to get useful information from the message boards and it works out to be a beneficial relationship with the advertisers. The less useful the message boards become to the users, the less ad revenue Google generates from maintaining the boards.
In the case of email, I pay for the receipt and storage of email. No different than a junk fax although the results are less tangible. My company also pays a pretty penny for a spam filter service because our time is better spent working on projects than manually filtering through spam trying to find email. Spam already negatively impacts us in that way.
1. Spam is theft of service. 2. Spam is theft of service. 3. The spam in Google Groups absolutely ruins many groups because the boards are inundated with spam to the point that a real message is like a needle in a haystack. The stock discussion boards have gone to hell in the last few months.
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As soon as this happens and the Northeast Corridor into NYC gets held up, our economy is screwed.
Given that video games have their own soundtracks with "real" instruments now, this seems like a natural evolution. There are plenty of movies, for example, that have unremarkable soundtracks that would never get considered for an award. On the other hand, I think quite a few people would agree that the soundtrack for Halo 3: ODST is probably one of the best soundtracks for a game or movie recently in that it totally sets the mood for the environment and is just as important as the imagery.
For individuals, I think a number would be a cleaner approach. The overhead of DNS shouldn't be wasted on something like this when you can already associate phone numbers with contact lists on your cell phone or PDA. When I call someone, I just go to their name in my address book; I barely know the cell phone numbers of anyone in my family.
I know you're joking, but you can stream 1080p movies into XBox 360 with Zune Marketplace. I'm not big on having physical copies of movies (with a tiny handful of exceptions), so 1080p streaming to my 360 pretty much negates any need for me to get a blu-ray player.
This is *not* about gated communities; rather, it has to do with allocating the radio spectrum.
As long as leaks and product releases are timed with trading blackout periods (usually tied with quarterly earnings reports), there shouldn't be a problem since an insider wouldn't be allowed to buy or sell stock in the first place.
In some parts of the US still, it can also mean getting your head bashed in with a brick and your family being left without a dad and husband.
Yeah, seriously, what did the Romans ever do for us?
Leo LaPorte is laughing his ass off and noting that Karma is a bitch.
feh, Everyone knows that the "real" /.'ers are the ones with 5 digits or less.
Which is funny, because I did the same thing and found your comment.
Hey! Maybe they should use a picture of a friendly bear that loves children for the image on the panic button. Because the only friendly dolphins I've ever read about on the internet will try to rub up against you.
Add a layer to crop in GIMP? I use GIMP a lot and all I do is select an area and crop it. It sounds like you're talking about masking, which is overkill for cropping something.
It makes for awkward stares when someone see the "Beginning GIMP" book on my coffee table and thinks it somehow involves rubber suits and a bucket of soapy frogs.
You're not thinking like the IRS. Their line of thinking would be as follows: "Hurm...they are paying use tax. Must be trying to hide something else."
I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing ether...
Juan Williams of NPR would positively bitch-slap you if you accused him of being left-wing.
I do believe Ringo *was* in fact a party to the lawsuit against Apple years ago.
You must be new here!
They already had to worry about geopolitical violence ripping the continent apart!
It took Public Enemy about a month to get to the $60,000 mark on SellaBand. I think it would take a little longer to raise $60 million :-)
Diggnation on Revision3 does commercials right. Kevin and Alex do the commercial spots themselves and the show doesn't skip a beat. The fact that the show hosts do the commercial spots adds sincerity and reminds the viewers that the show, the sponsors and the viewers are part of the same ecosystem. Revision3 is internet-only on-demand, so you can only get the show in a DVR-like format.
The 360 out-of-the-box with system updates already does quite a bit. I think I use mine for games maybe 15% of the time at most anymore.
Get with the times, man...Juno is the ISP of the future!!!
In the case of Google's message boards, the users are not the customers. The advertisers are the customers and our eyeballs are the product. It just so happens in this arrangement that I want to get useful information from the message boards and it works out to be a beneficial relationship with the advertisers. The less useful the message boards become to the users, the less ad revenue Google generates from maintaining the boards.
In the case of email, I pay for the receipt and storage of email. No different than a junk fax although the results are less tangible. My company also pays a pretty penny for a spam filter service because our time is better spent working on projects than manually filtering through spam trying to find email. Spam already negatively impacts us in that way.
1. Spam is theft of service.
2. Spam is theft of service.
3. The spam in Google Groups absolutely ruins many groups because the boards are inundated with spam to the point that a real message is like a needle in a haystack. The stock discussion boards have gone to hell in the last few months.