I've long held that Demolition Man has been eerily prophetic.
Whenever I get around to writing my political treatise("Elect Ronald McDonald Dictator for Life"), I plan to devote an entire chapter to Demolition Man.
My mother got her start writing health books with a certain company. The book did quite well and got reprinted several times. That was several years ago and she still occassionally gets a nice royalties check from sales.
Where she got completely screwed was overseas rights. The company sold the rights to various company around the world... and the only thing my mom got was courtesy copies of the books. (It's kind of neat having the same book in about 10 languages though.)
She and her co-author took them to court but by that point the company had gone belly up and had little to give. She ended up with a cash settlement instead of all the back royalties she was owed.
It'd be interesting to see what the computer program inside are like now. Would they have multiple personalities because of all the people involved? Would open source programs be transparent?
Is the MCP still around, only he's calling himself Windows?
Salon.com had a brilliant series of articles on the modern day payola system. They mostly focused on Clear Channel which is buying up these promoter companies(so you pay a middleman which is owned by the station) and penalizing artists(by not airing their songs) who don't use their promoters.
The articles aren't on Premium so y'all should be able to read them just fine.
Given how trivial getting killed in DBZ is, the next dimension isn't that far off of a description. How many characters have been "killed" and then brought back to life? They may as well be getting sent to the penalty box.
Didn't Goku have a string of episodes in the afterlife "training" while they waited to resurrect him?
I got sosick of all the flash ads and useless entrance page animations that I uninstalled the damn thing from my machine, no small feat I assure you. I ran the uninstaller(d/l'd from flash's website, not actually included) repeatedly to no avail. Finally, I resorted to just deleting the flash files themselves and removing any registry entries manually.
Made my browsing experience much better overall. Any site that requires you to have flash usually isn't worth visiting.
Computer Games Online was a better site before they switched to their new design. It used frames but in a good way. The new site *looks* better but I find it harder to find stuff and keep track of what's new.
However, I doubt the average user can afford to pay, say, $6 per month [salon.com] to each site they use.
It's cheaper if you go for the longer subscriptions. It's $30 for a year($2.50/mo). I paid $50 for two years($2.08/mo) though I'm not sure if they offer that anymore.
$50 is what I'd spend on a video game or going out to bars during the weekend. I think it's worth it.
1. Write first, fax second, call third. But because of the Anthrax, faxing is quicker and usually just as good as sending a letter.
2. Only contact *your* Congresscritters. If you're not in their state and/or district, they don't give a sh*t. Congressional offices have a hard enough time answering their constituent's mail than to answer everyone else's. You'll just be wasting their time and your's.
3. Be specific and include other issues. Refuse to let your letter be pidgeonholed into a specific category for a form letter. That increases the chances your letter will get read and answered by an actual legislative aide who is most likely the person in that office that's dealing with the legislation in question.
4. Sending form letters guarantees you'll get a form letter response.
But in September, a Disney lobbyist defended Hollings' draft SSSCA as "an exceedingly moderate and reasonable approach."
Yikes... if they think SSSCA is merely "moderate", I'd hate to imagine what they *really* want.
Also this week, the Recording Industry Association of America published data saying that music sales were down 10 percent last year and online piracy and CD burning were a "large factor contributing to the decrease."
Let's see, CD sales were rising when Napster was in its hey-day so obviously the dismantling of it is a "large factor contributing to the decrease."
The DMCA sparked controversy after the eight largest movie studios successfully used it to stop 2600 magazine from distributing the DeCSS DVD-descrambling program.
As I recall, 2600 only linked to sites with DeCSS; it didn't distribute it.
The entire article reads like a blowjob for the RIAA and MPAA.
>>Not many of us need to address more than 4 GB of memory.
Three years ago, I thought I was partially insane for getting a laptop with 128 MB of RAM. Turns out my insanity was a good thing.
Today, I'm thinking I'm partially insane for getting a machine with 1 GB of RAM. I'll undoubtedly be congratulating myself for my foresight in a couple years when Windows ZZ requires that much to operate.
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Otherwise, you will likely not get a response. Heck, it's likely the letter will go in the recycling bin if it doesn't have a return address.
I've long held that Demolition Man has been eerily prophetic.
Whenever I get around to writing my political treatise("Elect Ronald McDonald Dictator for Life"), I plan to devote an entire chapter to Demolition Man.
Everyone would have to buy new versions of all their office software! Isn't that handy for MS?
I'll pass. I may be running (pre-installed) XP on my Dell but I'm still using Office 97. Why?
BECAUSE IT WORKS JUST FINE.
I don't need to "upgrade" to something even more bloated and bug ridden.
The lawsuit was filed in California court.
My mother got her start writing health books with a certain company. The book did quite well and got reprinted several times. That was several years ago and she still occassionally gets a nice royalties check from sales.
Where she got completely screwed was overseas rights. The company sold the rights to various company around the world... and the only thing my mom got was courtesy copies of the books. (It's kind of neat having the same book in about 10 languages though.)
She and her co-author took them to court but by that point the company had gone belly up and had little to give. She ended up with a cash settlement instead of all the back royalties she was owed.
I may be off, but the first edition of TRON was released several years ago, long before 16x9 TVs were even available.
It'd be interesting to see what the computer program inside are like now. Would they have multiple personalities because of all the people involved? Would open source programs be transparent?
Is the MCP still around, only he's calling himself Windows?
>>The downsides to it are that, left unchecked, the suction cups will pull off the wall and the whole business crashes to the floor.
The suction cups fail and the next thing you know you're filing for Chapter 11?
Jesus Christ... You'd think that'd show up in user testing.
Salon.com had a brilliant series of articles on the modern day payola system. They mostly focused on Clear Channel which is buying up these promoter companies(so you pay a middleman which is owned by the station) and penalizing artists(by not airing their songs) who don't use their promoters.
The articles aren't on Premium so y'all should be able to read them just fine.
Given how trivial getting killed in DBZ is, the next dimension isn't that far off of a description. How many characters have been "killed" and then brought back to life? They may as well be getting sent to the penalty box.
Didn't Goku have a string of episodes in the afterlife "training" while they waited to resurrect him?
The piracy rate dropped 25%.
53% * 75% = 39.75%
>>This is a very small sampling of students, and from only one school.
It actually worse. The survey of 148 *undergraduates* was across FOUR different schools. The second survey was 700 *students* from TWO schools.
So basically, they're trying to compare the first survey with one that covered four and a half times more students over half as many schools.
Even political polling firms don't use methodology that bad.
The government is also supposed to be releasing files from the Reagan administration too but the Bush White House won't have any of that.
I guess *that's* why AT&T Wireless laid off its entire Fixed Wireless division.
The only thing that's missing is another Boondocks cartoon parodying the RIAA's paranoia and campaign to paint all people with the worst color brush.
Curse you, record labels! Curse you straight to Hades!
I got sosick of all the flash ads and useless entrance page animations that I uninstalled the damn thing from my machine, no small feat I assure you. I ran the uninstaller(d/l'd from flash's website, not actually included) repeatedly to no avail. Finally, I resorted to just deleting the flash files themselves and removing any registry entries manually.
Made my browsing experience much better overall. Any site that requires you to have flash usually isn't worth visiting.
Hell, my Inspiron 7k is able to watch a movie on a single charge and I got that 3 years ago!
Does his wife know? And isn't polygamy illegal anyways?
It's fitting that TV's most intelligent drama follows one of its shlockiest programs -- Survivor.
Just because the Survivor producers rejected your application is no reason to take pot shots at it.
And if you find the show so schlocky and unbearable, why do you watch it every week?
Except when they're not.
Computer Games Online was a better site before they switched to their new design. It used frames but in a good way. The new site *looks* better but I find it harder to find stuff and keep track of what's new.
However, I doubt the average user can afford to pay, say, $6 per month [salon.com] to each site they use.
It's cheaper if you go for the longer subscriptions. It's $30 for a year($2.50/mo). I paid $50 for two years($2.08/mo) though I'm not sure if they offer that anymore.
$50 is what I'd spend on a video game or going out to bars during the weekend. I think it's worth it.
be directed by George Lucas. Cmdr Taco can be cast as Tar Tar Ballz, the luvable alien sidekick.
1. Write first, fax second, call third. But because of the Anthrax, faxing is quicker and usually just as good as sending a letter.
2. Only contact *your* Congresscritters. If you're not in their state and/or district, they don't give a sh*t. Congressional offices have a hard enough time answering their constituent's mail than to answer everyone else's. You'll just be wasting their time and your's.
3. Be specific and include other issues. Refuse to let your letter be pidgeonholed into a specific category for a form letter. That increases the chances your letter will get read and answered by an actual legislative aide who is most likely the person in that office that's dealing with the legislation in question.
4. Sending form letters guarantees you'll get a form letter response.
Being forced to implement copy-protection in their hardware would NOT be compatible with their business interests.
I think it's less
"We don't think government-mandated technology solutions are in the best interests of consumers or anyone else,"
and more
"We think Intel-mandated technology solutions are in the best interests of Intel and anyone else."
But in September, a Disney lobbyist defended Hollings' draft SSSCA as "an exceedingly moderate and reasonable approach."
Yikes... if they think SSSCA is merely "moderate", I'd hate to imagine what they *really* want.
Also this week, the Recording Industry Association of America published data saying that music sales were down 10 percent last year and online piracy and CD burning were a "large factor contributing to the decrease."
Let's see, CD sales were rising when Napster was in its hey-day so obviously the dismantling of it is a "large factor contributing to the decrease."
The DMCA sparked controversy after the eight largest movie studios successfully used it to stop 2600 magazine from distributing the DeCSS DVD-descrambling program.
As I recall, 2600 only linked to sites with DeCSS; it didn't distribute it.
The entire article reads like a blowjob for the RIAA and MPAA.
>>Not many of us need to address more than 4 GB of memory.
Three years ago, I thought I was partially insane for getting a laptop with 128 MB of RAM. Turns out my insanity was a good thing.
Today, I'm thinking I'm partially insane for getting a machine with 1 GB of RAM. I'll undoubtedly be congratulating myself for my foresight in a couple years when Windows ZZ requires that much to operate.