I agree that say Borat has more realism than the Hurt Locker, yes.
Borat however was an established form of comedy, admittedly established largely by the Ali-G show, but nevertheless established.
By comparison, the Hurt Locker was an action movie looking for a new compromise with realism. And the critics adored the attempt even through all the hollywood cliches.
If you combine the intrinsic value in attempting something new with "rally round the troops", then you'll see the academy giving undeserved awards.
I'm confident the Hurt Locker's failed exploration will not significantly alter our action movies.
I'm pretty sure most people saying the movie sucked are simply action movie buffs who felt the movie was slow and boring, and just forgot about it. You've also got people who've avoided criticizing the film for social reasons, like patriotism or the awards, but who'll now honestly say they disliked the film. In fact, I'm suspicious the films support largely comes from cognitive dissonance around patriotism and the awards in the first place.
I watched the beginning of the film, but I got bored fairly early and quit. And yes I've never told anyone that before, well I felt the movie was lame before. I mostly just never cared enough, but yeah I was reluctant to contradict the academy when I'd not even seen the film. I've only rarely admitted that I've never finished Foucault's Pendulum either.
That said, these producers are trying to ruin people's lives for watching their movie. So yes erasing the film from our cultural consciousness sounds like an appropriate response. In fact, one easy move would be helping thin down the wikipedia article.
As usual, slashdot missed the other informative story about how the Tetris Company never paid the real inventor anything.
Yes, you should just contest the takedown with Google, they'll probably reinstate if you explain the situation clearly. And if "tetris" does not appear in you description, the Tetris company might never find you again.
iPhones are not designed for business users, hello, virtual keyboard. So I doubt we'll see many iPhone users with data so confidential they need encryption.
Isn't the whole point of Wall St. today that they effectively print their own money? I'm sure they'd loving having transfinitely valued expense accounts for hookers and blow.:)
There are like three separate companies that sell Symbian apps (Nokia) for end-to-end encrypted called over the GSM network, well they're all made for Symbian because Nokia has all the business users outside the U.S. These encryption solutions are quite expensive however, closed source, and don't look that interoperable, so good luck picking the one that isn't owned by the NSA, Chinese Intelligence, etc.
Skype already provides authorities with "lawful intercept" capabilities, which means they provide your business competitors with intercept capabilities too.
Zfone/ZRTP otoh are open standards that don't depend upon specific companies or closed source implementations. Zfone even offers voice verification to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, which avoids the whole key sharing problem, i.e. Zfone "just works".
There are several encryption programs for Nokia's Symbian phones that work over GSM, but they don't look terribly compatible even amongst one another, which has presumably stymied adoption.
These two Android apps are compatible with Zfone, which is SIP not GSM. So they should work with the commercial Zfone clients for Windows Mobile and Symbian, which covers the vast majority of smartphones outside the U.S.
I've found no Zfone port for the iPhone or BlackBerry but they're bit players outside the U.S. Maemo support has sadly not yet happened, but presumably once the MeeGo platform stabilizes.
Imagine if they faced a $6B judgement, just awesome! I'd suggest you guys just decorporate those Canadian record companies, and reincorporate them under the sole ownership of the plaintiffs who they've been stealing from.
Intellectual property theoretically exists not merely to encourage science, technology, and the arts, but patents also require that you explain your process, thus helping others advance their own research and development.
Copyright should obviously carry the same mandate when applied to technology like software. In other words, all software copyrights should become unenforceable unless the source code is also published in compilable form, that'd include the software driving your mobile phone, microwave, etc.
You don't care about all those specialized scientific applications that only exist on one platform. In fact, all the scientific applications that students use like mathematica are available across all three platforms. You care about two things :
(1) What students learn from the platform itself
Mac OS X is the undisputed king of being user friendly, while offering enormous room for growth, but Ubuntu is extremely good assuming you cannot afford Mac OS X. By comparison, Windows teaches "there's a certification teaching you to find the button for that", which is awful pedagogically.
In general, Mac OS X and Linux users will have little difficulty adapting to Windows, but Windows users will face more trouble switching to Linux. Linux will also minimize admin headaches like viruses, games, etc.
(2) Programming language availability
Linux offers numerous free programming languages that simply aren't that well integrated with Mac OS X and Windows. In particular, python and ruby are almost surely the best widely adopted languages for teaching programming. PHP and Visual Basic are moronic by comparison, but PHP is more widely used than VB.
I'd say the Java security infrastructure sounds like the most legitimate reason, well Maemo can't even keep applications off / in/opt.:( I don't buy the programmer supply issue however.
I'd imagine that developing from the ground up forces real development, while Nokia has clearly expected unrealistic help from the Maemo community, but they would not have taken that approach.
Ideally, we'll eventually get a solid MeeGo phone that runs all the open source software, while also providing an Android JIT, API, etc. for small applications.
Verizon fanboys should stop trotting out this dead horse. AT&T and T-mobile are the only major mobile phone carriers in the U.S. that support GSM. Almost all non-GSM phones become useless bricks outside the U.S., kinda pointless if you travel.
I hear talk about how T-mobile's coverage is even weaker than AT&T's, but honestly it's fine for places you'd ever make a phone call, like any town that has an airport. AT&T and T-mobile's higher end phones all inherently offer world wide coverage, plus you can always just drop a local sim into your GSM phone.
I'm sure some people are inexperienced enough with the wilderness that enough extra coverage might save their life while hiking, but I personally know how one uses an old fashioned map and compass, and I like being offline when hiking.. and I kinda doubt Verizon's coverage is *that* great.;) In fact, I've only ever used my mobile phone's data plan while hiking in Europe.
You can correct this by adding random garbage or text to the end of your post, somehow that lets you click above it. I've deleted that random garbage for years after I was done with it, but now I've decided that I'll start leaving it in.
Android phones are not as open as Maemo/MeeGo phones. Andoird could have been way cooler if Google have picked up Maemo instead of starting from scratch using Java. That said, I don't mind that all the mobile games targeted for Android should eventually run on Maemo.
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Just point out nicely that the detention is stupid. Tell them your child may not be given detention for this reason. If they don't comply, sue them for $15 to $100 per day in small claims court. You'll probably lose since they'll send a real lawyer, but that'll cost them more than paying you off.
I'm often unable to position the cursor using the mouse, use the contextual spell checker, or select text. I've a fairly vanilla safari configuration on Mac OS X, pop-ups are disabled, no crazy css that I remember. I now use ClickToflash but the issue predates that.
Facebook is simply a dating site that connects people with romantic prospects they already know. If you ain't look'n for new tail, you've really got no business using facebook.
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All Nokia's high end mobile phones like the N900, N97, etc. also have video out, while also supporting a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and they are all way smaller than an iPad.
I'm unsure why you'd allocate the luggage or pocket space to an iPad during a business trip, exactly the same space would transport a Mac Book Air.
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I agree that say Borat has more realism than the Hurt Locker, yes.
Borat however was an established form of comedy, admittedly established largely by the Ali-G show, but nevertheless established.
By comparison, the Hurt Locker was an action movie looking for a new compromise with realism. And the critics adored the attempt even through all the hollywood cliches.
If you combine the intrinsic value in attempting something new with "rally round the troops", then you'll see the academy giving undeserved awards.
I'm confident the Hurt Locker's failed exploration will not significantly alter our action movies.
I'm pretty sure most people saying the movie sucked are simply action movie buffs who felt the movie was slow and boring, and just forgot about it. You've also got people who've avoided criticizing the film for social reasons, like patriotism or the awards, but who'll now honestly say they disliked the film. In fact, I'm suspicious the films support largely comes from cognitive dissonance around patriotism and the awards in the first place.
I watched the beginning of the film, but I got bored fairly early and quit. And yes I've never told anyone that before, well I felt the movie was lame before. I mostly just never cared enough, but yeah I was reluctant to contradict the academy when I'd not even seen the film. I've only rarely admitted that I've never finished Foucault's Pendulum either.
That said, these producers are trying to ruin people's lives for watching their movie. So yes erasing the film from our cultural consciousness sounds like an appropriate response. In fact, one easy move would be helping thin down the wikipedia article.
I've seen another tetris clone they should sue, but obviously if they see it, they'll want to incorporate the algorithm into the official tetris.
As usual, slashdot missed the other informative story about how the Tetris Company never paid the real inventor anything.
Yes, you should just contest the takedown with Google, they'll probably reinstate if you explain the situation clearly. And if "tetris" does not appear in you description, the Tetris company might never find you again.
iPhones are not designed for business users, hello, virtual keyboard. So I doubt we'll see many iPhone users with data so confidential they need encryption.
Apple has already pulled it! ;)
If you want to help, write for wikinews. :)
Isn't the whole point of Wall St. today that they effectively print their own money? I'm sure they'd loving having transfinitely valued expense accounts for hookers and blow. :)
There are like three separate companies that sell Symbian apps (Nokia) for end-to-end encrypted called over the GSM network, well they're all made for Symbian because Nokia has all the business users outside the U.S. These encryption solutions are quite expensive however, closed source, and don't look that interoperable, so good luck picking the one that isn't owned by the NSA, Chinese Intelligence, etc.
Skype already provides authorities with "lawful intercept" capabilities, which means they provide your business competitors with intercept capabilities too.
Zfone/ZRTP otoh are open standards that don't depend upon specific companies or closed source implementations. Zfone even offers voice verification to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, which avoids the whole key sharing problem, i.e. Zfone "just works".
There are several encryption programs for Nokia's Symbian phones that work over GSM, but they don't look terribly compatible even amongst one another, which has presumably stymied adoption.
These two Android apps are compatible with Zfone, which is SIP not GSM. So they should work with the commercial Zfone clients for Windows Mobile and Symbian, which covers the vast majority of smartphones outside the U.S.
I've found no Zfone port for the iPhone or BlackBerry but they're bit players outside the U.S. Maemo support has sadly not yet happened, but presumably once the MeeGo platform stabilizes.
Imagine if they faced a $6B judgement, just awesome! I'd suggest you guys just decorporate those Canadian record companies, and reincorporate them under the sole ownership of the plaintiffs who they've been stealing from.
Intellectual property theoretically exists not merely to encourage science, technology, and the arts, but patents also require that you explain your process, thus helping others advance their own research and development.
Copyright should obviously carry the same mandate when applied to technology like software. In other words, all software copyrights should become unenforceable unless the source code is also published in compilable form, that'd include the software driving your mobile phone, microwave, etc.
You don't care about all those specialized scientific applications that only exist on one platform. In fact, all the scientific applications that students use like mathematica are available across all three platforms. You care about two things :
(1) What students learn from the platform itself
Mac OS X is the undisputed king of being user friendly, while offering enormous room for growth, but Ubuntu is extremely good assuming you cannot afford Mac OS X. By comparison, Windows teaches "there's a certification teaching you to find the button for that", which is awful pedagogically.
In general, Mac OS X and Linux users will have little difficulty adapting to Windows, but Windows users will face more trouble switching to Linux. Linux will also minimize admin headaches like viruses, games, etc.
(2) Programming language availability
Linux offers numerous free programming languages that simply aren't that well integrated with Mac OS X and Windows. In particular, python and ruby are almost surely the best widely adopted languages for teaching programming. PHP and Visual Basic are moronic by comparison, but PHP is more widely used than VB.
I'd say the Java security infrastructure sounds like the most legitimate reason, well Maemo can't even keep applications off / in /opt. :( I don't buy the programmer supply issue however.
I'd imagine that developing from the ground up forces real development, while Nokia has clearly expected unrealistic help from the Maemo community, but they would not have taken that approach.
Ideally, we'll eventually get a solid MeeGo phone that runs all the open source software, while also providing an Android JIT, API, etc. for small applications.
I'd say most people interpret the GPL's distribution requirements as only applying once the project has been distributed externally.
Ahh, thanks!
Verizon fanboys should stop trotting out this dead horse. AT&T and T-mobile are the only major mobile phone carriers in the U.S. that support GSM. Almost all non-GSM phones become useless bricks outside the U.S., kinda pointless if you travel.
I hear talk about how T-mobile's coverage is even weaker than AT&T's, but honestly it's fine for places you'd ever make a phone call, like any town that has an airport. AT&T and T-mobile's higher end phones all inherently offer world wide coverage, plus you can always just drop a local sim into your GSM phone.
I'm sure some people are inexperienced enough with the wilderness that enough extra coverage might save their life while hiking, but I personally know how one uses an old fashioned map and compass, and I like being offline when hiking.. and I kinda doubt Verizon's coverage is *that* great. ;) In fact, I've only ever used my mobile phone's data plan while hiking in Europe.
You can correct this by adding random garbage or text to the end of your post, somehow that lets you click above it. I've deleted that random garbage for years after I was done with it, but now I've decided that I'll start leaving it in.
Android phones are not as open as Maemo/MeeGo phones. Andoird could have been way cooler if Google have picked up Maemo instead of starting from scratch using Java. That said, I don't mind that all the mobile games targeted for Android should eventually run on Maemo.
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Just point out nicely that the detention is stupid. Tell them your child may not be given detention for this reason. If they don't comply, sue them for $15 to $100 per day in small claims court. You'll probably lose since they'll send a real lawyer, but that'll cost them more than paying you off.
We're very far away from all nations that pose any significant threat. And our nuclear deterrent doesn't cost all that much.
I've seen far better links and discussion elsewhere already, slashdot should wait for an article that covers her views on imaginary property.
I'm often unable to position the cursor using the mouse, use the contextual spell checker, or select text. I've a fairly vanilla safari configuration on Mac OS X, pop-ups are disabled, no crazy css that I remember. I now use ClickToflash but the issue predates that.
Facebook is simply a dating site that connects people with romantic prospects they already know. If you ain't look'n for new tail, you've really got no business using facebook.
(writing random text towards the end of this post is necessary for slashdot's edit window to work in Safari)
All Nokia's high end mobile phones like the N900, N97, etc. also have video out, while also supporting a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and they are all way smaller than an iPad.
I'm unsure why you'd allocate the luggage or pocket space to an iPad during a business trip, exactly the same space would transport a Mac Book Air.