To be sure, Reiss didn't have any specifics to offer, promising only that The Simpsons movie would bigger, longer and uncut. Any resemblance to 1999's South Park movie is purely intentional.
I can't wait to hear the Simpson's version of "Uncle F**KA", Bart's rendition of "Milhouse's Mom's A B**ch", and Smithers crooning "I'm Super".
For instance, you can buy Snow White and watch it on your PDA, but only until it goes "back in the vault," after which you'll have to wait 5 years to buy it again.
In this day where even soccer moms and Nascar dads can figure out how to buy and sell on eBay, Disney's "back in the vault" is probably not effective.
And now, for a small question from me... What is the point of a science fiction channel without science fiction?
The point is to make more room in the schedule for talking to dead people, of course:
Crossing Over with John Edward has been officially renewed for a second season! Watch for another great year of John reaching out and making connections.
This is why, if you watch MTV's Jackass, they specifically say at the end of each show "If you send us tapes of yourselves being jackasses, we won't open them. They will be thrown away." It's not that they don't think you could be funny; rather the contrary. They're afraid that if they see your stuff, and then end up publishing something similar by coincidence, they could be sued by you. Because there was no contract.
Bad example.
The reason that Jackass puts that message on the screen is because they don't want to be sued when some idiot gets himself injured while taping some insane stunt. Hopefully if some kid knows that his tape will be thrown away, he won't even try taping a crazy stunt, and Jackass can remain on the air.
A better example for the point you're trying to make:
I send a lame-ass torch song to Celine Dion, but it gets returned because if she even receives it, that opens her up to a lawsuit the next time she releases her own lame-ass song.
Also, I have heard that the next version will include MP3-streaming, so you can play music from your PC. I don't know if this will be a software update, or perhaps require one of the new boxes, but I guess I'll wait until later this year.
This demonstrates perfectly how the job of the police has gone from "protecting the law-abiding" to "hunting down criminals."
Their motto might be "to protect and serve", but the police have no obligation to protect individuals. The following web site shows that the courts agree:
Public Safety: Fact or Fiction?
He had struggled in the computer science class, required of all Georgia Tech freshmen, but had made progress.
A computer science student having trouble just passing the intro to CS course that everyone in the school had to take is probably not going to last long at Georgia Tech.
IMO, the real issue in this debate is with the referral fees that Amazon pays for its associates program. In the associates program, when you link to products on amazon.com, they pay you a small cut of each purchase. For books, they pay 15% if the user buys the item from a direct link, or 5% if the user browses around the store and buys other items.
People work pretty hard to drive traffic to Amazon, and Amazon benefits greatly. For example, on my website in March, there were fifteen thousand clicks over to Amazon, 223 items were purchased, and I earned about $200.
Amazon had this nice working agreement with their many associates, and then they started dicking around with their pages. First they changed the way the pages were displayed, making it less likely to get a "direct" sale to earn that 15% commission.
But the real kicker came when they added the used books, because Amazon does not pay referral fees on used item sales. So those associates who put a lot of work into linking to Amazon are getting nothing in return.
It doesn't bother me too much, because I mainly link to give my readers some additional info - the money is just an added bonus (but it does pay for the web fees); however, other people who build a business off of these fees are pissed at Amazon.
In conclusion, I think the author's guild is off base in its reasons for telling members to delink Amazon, but if their members are getting revenue from the Amazon associates program, they might do well by linking to another store.
And the most fascinating feature of the SnowCrash world was the anarcho-capitalistic society. The agencies were private competing entities, and the federal government (what remained of it) was an archaic institute portrayed mainly as a joke.
So the information displayed in your enhanced reality display could come from a number of sources - hopefully the most popular would be an opensource project.
A well-realized use of this technology was presented in the book "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. Of course the technology was such that people didn't have to wear external hardware to take advantage of it.
One of the more interesting uses was allowing someone else to temporarily take control of your display - no more damn powerpoint slides at meetings!
And imagine the military uses - targeting computers built into your field of vision, zoom in with enhanced vision, etc.
For one thing, Kevlar is not effective against rifles:
today's modern generation of concealable body armor can provide protection in a variety of levels designed to defeat most common low- and medium-energy handgun rounds. Body armor designed to defeat rifle fire is of either semirigid or rigid construction, typically incorporating hard materials such as ceramics and metals. Because of its weight and bulkiness, it is impractical for routine use by uniformed patrol officers and is reserved for use in tactical situations where it is worn externally for short periods of time when confronted with higher level threats. (
reference)
I was watching AMC last night when they were showing several James Bond type movies. They started with Casino Royale which was pretty silly, and continued with The Ambushers, a Dean Martin "Matt Helm" movie that was terribly unfunny and sexist.
The Ambushers contained a scene where workers were moving beer barrels with powered exoskeletons. This film was made in 1967, and those things looked almost like the loaders in Aliens. Okay, not quite but you could see the beginning of an idea.
Dino's estate should sue James "I'm king of the world" Cameron.
This is such a pain in the ass that I finally purchased an RF modulator (best pronounced in the voice of Marvin the martian: "RF modula-TOR") to lug along with my digital camera / camcorder / Playstation2, for when I visit the family on vacation. $30 from RadioShack lets me pass through A/V signals to a coax TV, without having to rely on a Macrovision-crippled VCR.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, Sharpies are solvent-based. Look for water-based inks.
The point is to make more room in the schedule for talking to dead people, of course:
- Put monitor in trunk of car.
- Drive somewhere unobtrusive with your co-workers Samir Nayeenanajar and Michael Bolton.
- Crank up some gangsta-rap.
- Kick, stomp, and hit the monitor with a baseball bat.
- Repeat last step.
If that doesn't work, you could always set the building on fire.Don't put down my hardware just because I chose Mr. Hankey as my avatar.
To start the car, insert your buggy-whip ($29.99 at Wall-Mart) into the buggy-whip verification slot, then turn the key.
Bad example.
The reason that Jackass puts that message on the screen is because they don't want to be sued when some idiot gets himself injured while taping some insane stunt. Hopefully if some kid knows that his tape will be thrown away, he won't even try taping a crazy stunt, and Jackass can remain on the air.
A better example for the point you're trying to make:
I send a lame-ass torch song to Celine Dion, but it gets returned because if she even receives it, that opens her up to a lawsuit the next time she releases her own lame-ass song.
Also, I have heard that the next version will include MP3-streaming, so you can play music from your PC. I don't know if this will be a software update, or perhaps require one of the new boxes, but I guess I'll wait until later this year.
Their motto might be "to protect and serve", but the police have no obligation to protect individuals. The following web site shows that the courts agree: Public Safety: Fact or Fiction?
And of the $28 million that Logicon scammed, how much of that went to a kickback for the people who signed the contract?
A computer science student having trouble just passing the intro to CS course that everyone in the school had to take is probably not going to last long at Georgia Tech.
People work pretty hard to drive traffic to Amazon, and Amazon benefits greatly. For example, on my website in March, there were fifteen thousand clicks over to Amazon, 223 items were purchased, and I earned about $200.
Amazon had this nice working agreement with their many associates, and then they started dicking around with their pages. First they changed the way the pages were displayed, making it less likely to get a "direct" sale to earn that 15% commission.
But the real kicker came when they added the used books, because Amazon does not pay referral fees on used item sales. So those associates who put a lot of work into linking to Amazon are getting nothing in return.
It doesn't bother me too much, because I mainly link to give my readers some additional info - the money is just an added bonus (but it does pay for the web fees); however, other people who build a business off of these fees are pissed at Amazon.
In conclusion, I think the author's guild is off base in its reasons for telling members to delink Amazon, but if their members are getting revenue from the Amazon associates program, they might do well by linking to another store.
Yet more proof that we are living inside a massive computer.
So the information displayed in your enhanced reality display could come from a number of sources - hopefully the most popular would be an opensource project.
One of the more interesting uses was allowing someone else to temporarily take control of your display - no more damn powerpoint slides at meetings!
And imagine the military uses - targeting computers built into your field of vision, zoom in with enhanced vision, etc.
For one thing, Kevlar is not effective against rifles:
The Ambushers contained a scene where workers were moving beer barrels with powered exoskeletons. This film was made in 1967, and those things looked almost like the loaders in Aliens. Okay, not quite but you could see the beginning of an idea.
Dino's estate should sue James "I'm king of the world" Cameron.
This is such a pain in the ass that I finally purchased an RF modulator (best pronounced in the voice of Marvin the martian: "RF modula-TOR") to lug along with my digital camera / camcorder / Playstation2, for when I visit the family on vacation. $30 from RadioShack lets me pass through A/V signals to a coax TV, without having to rely on a Macrovision-crippled VCR.
Cosmos telvision series, 7-dvd box set ($170)
Infinity DVD ($22), movie bio of Richard Feynman's early life
More info about the new HP security product:
http://www.hp.com/security/products/linux/