So Nielson won't care. They will continue to collect their data from the diaries and drop or adjust the boxes as necessary to provide, what they say, are accurate statistics of television viewing.
Jeeezus H Christ, he got wood when he kissed his fuckin' SISTER!
Mr. Rogers voice: Can you say incest?
And don't complain to me that you couldn't see the wood. Just look at that expression on his face: that was one satisfied, horny, incestuous FREAK!
Anyway, don't we already have the XXX version of Star Wars? It's called Flesh Gordon. A damned funny and entertaining film that was released before Star Wars. (Does that make it a prequel?)
Actually, it does.
You see, Steve Jobs is dressing for his audience: creative people. You know, artists, visual designers, people in Hollyweird. All those phreaks who consider themselves to be outside of the rat-race.
No one is talking about the BUGS!
From the article:
And when the newest PC hardware hits, game developers can start taking advantage of it immediately.
That's usually too fast. When I buy a console game it works. It's been tested.
Buy a PC game and fear the BUG. In the back of your mind you are going to be wondering how far you can go before the BUG bites you on your @$$. And then you wait for the patch.:(
Layer upon layer of encryption sounds so much...
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...like the uneducated people on the encryption newsgroups who don't understand that you cannot secure something by piling weak encryption upon other weak encryption until you've built a MOUNTAIN no one can climb.
Computers are getting faster -- I have a...to hell with what I have...MY WIFE has a 1.4GHz box I built for her two years ago. I can now build her a 64 bit box with dual cores today.
This will not remain safe for one very good reason: It is more fun to show these people how STOOPID they are by breaking their multi-level encryption than it is to sit and watch the latest crap spewing out of televisions.
Entertainment, though not the kind the cable and satellite companies envisioned, has taken a GREAT step forward.:)
I have a free (as in beer) e-mail account with Yahoo. They bear the financial impact of spam, not me. If this let's them defer some of that cost, what do I care?
They will probably care later as I quickly learn that their seal of approval is another level of spam and start automatically deleting it. But until then I wish them well. After all the e-mail service is costing me nothing.
I do not steal from Steven King when I buy a used copy of one of his books. I do not steal from James Brown when I buy a used CD. No publisher or author has the right to tell me what I can or cannot do with a product I have paid them for.
...but half the population of the United States supports him.
I really don't care what he thinks or says, he has only three more years to FSCK things up. What scares me is that approximately half the voting public agrees with him and could get someone just like him, or worse, in office.
I don't see anything slowing the Religious Right. I thought they were a temporary fad back in the 1980s, but they are still here and growing more powerful. Just think about Intelligent Design and how far it got before it was slapped down.
you exchange something of value for something else of value.
Most people think of a piece of paper when they think of a contract. This is wrong thinking. The piece of paper in nothing more than a record of the contract.
As an example, Joe Six-pack buys a Sony CD from Rip-Off records. When Joe hands the clerk his money, something of value, and walks out of the store with his CD, something of value, then there is a contract between Joe and Rip-Off records that is guided by the commerce laws.
Now let's take a look at Sony/MicroShit/**AA. When Joe gets home he puts his CD in a machine that he has purchased, in another contract, to play the music on the CD. Lo and behold, an EULA pops up! "WTF is this?" Joe righteously asks. "I have a contract with Rip-Off records, not Sony. Sony entered into a contract with Rip-Off records. Sony received money for this disk and it's contents from Rip-Off records. How can they impose a contract on me?"
Good question, Joe! Maybe it's the fault of the bribed government officials and inept judges. However this has happened you are screwed
I agree with you. Edward James Olmos is fantastic as Adama, it's just that I grew up watching Bonanza and everytime I saw Lorne Greene it was impossible for me to see him as anything other than Pa Cartwright. In that light it was impossible for me to think of the Battlestar Galactica as anything other than a cattlecar. In fact, to this day I continue to think of it that way despite the fact that I do enjoy the new show.
Firefly was so good my wife would watch it with me; an absolute first!
It had it's problems, just as any other show, but it was different and interesting.
Yes, there are plenty of other things to do. But then I don't watch much television. In fact I watch nothing with any regularity these days. My viewing is really limited to my DVD collection for the last year with the exception of Cattlecar Galactica. (My apologies to any Uber fans of Battlestar Gallactica. It's just that I keep seeing Lorne Greene, and if you know who he was you know why I have that alternate name in my head.:)
By the way, I never saw Buffy or Angel: I'm not a Joss Whedon fanboy. I like Firefly.
A service business can expect to reap the benefits of a large retail neighbor such as Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart does not service or repair goods.
You also get the added benefit of the fact that Wal-Mart sells garbage. Have you noticed the rapid decline in the quality of goods? I have. I wanted to buy my niece a stereo system last year. I went to Wal-Mart and inspected what they have. The systems were inexpensive but also incredibly inferior in quality to what I had when I was her age.
Go to any Wal-Mart electronics section: put your finger on any knob on any stereo, and wiggle your finger. The knob wiggles too, doesn't it? That's because the garbage in Wal-Mart has had so much cost removed from it that they have also removed the quality! The crap they sell will fall apart from normal use in a few short months
Back before the rapid infection of Wal-Mart I could find a small electronics store in any city I was in. Those stores sold stereo equipment at a higher price than Wal-Mart, but it lasted for years!. And now they are gone.
Well, you argue, so what? Target and Best Buy have replaced those smaller stores.
I would have to agree with you. But we have still lost those smaller stores, and the stereo equipment in Best Buy and Circuit City is just as cheap and inferior as the crap in Wal-Mart.
End result: we the consumer lose.
As for Video rentals: I don't know where you live, but I have seen a steady decline in the number of independant video rental stores since the early 1990s. The smaller stores that survive are all part of smaller chains than Blockbuster, but they are still chains. In fact, the only independant in my city just closed a few weeks ago, leaving us with only Blockbuster.
I highly recommend you try to locate a copy of National Geographics Africa issue. It is very enlightening in that it avoids the Tarzan stereotype propogated by the sensationalist media in the U. S. and describes what Africa is really like.
Yes, Africa has problems and there is a need for clean water and food. But Africa is not as bad off as you might imagine from what you see on the nightly (so called) news.
If you can't find a copy of NGs Africa issue I highly recommend you try to locate a copy of the latest New African. It is a British magazine and hard to locate in the U. S. but well worth the effort if you do find it. I get mine from DeLauer's bookstore in Oakland, CA. I have also seen it at Barnes & Noble.
Again, I agree that Africa has problems, but they are not as bad as we are led to believe. Also, this laptop will create opportunities that you and I cannot see from our distant perspective.
then try this on for size.
The RIAA takes you to court, pays outrageous legal fees (which they can afford), files for extensions, appeals and whatever until you run out of money and can no longer defend yourself.
Then you lose.
Now you have your legal fees, plus theirs!
Do you still think making the loser pay all legal fees is a good idea?
Your argument doesn't work against those wanting the excemption. Your argument actually applies to employees of the Sony corporation who knew that they were installing a rootkit on computers and what damage it could do. This is closer to the Nuremburg Trials situation wherein Nazi officers claimed that they were only following orders.
At Nuremburg the court held that if you know something is wrong/evil you are obligated to not do it no matter what your superior officers tell you to do.
Sorry, I didn't realise what you were trying to say. You're right, it IS the next step. Aren't they already trying to block Tivo from skipping commercials?
The future is here and it doesn't look anything at all like what I was promised.
Actually maybe this is what was promised. I'm starting to remember things like the book "1984" and a whole host of movies made in the 1970s like "Soylent Green", and "Rollerball".:)
I don't mean to be rude but you are missing his point. We used to get television over the air. It had commercials. We all understood that commercials paid for the programming.
Then cable arrived.
The promise of cable was that if we PAID for programming, then we would NOT have commercials. Guess what, now we have far more commercials than we used to have, plus we are STILL PAYING for television! That's why I don't watch AMC or Bravo anymore. My viewing has switched to IFC (The Independant Film Channel) and TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
On top of that you now suggest that we PAY again for a Tivo AND it's mandatory subscription?
You're adding insult to injury with your suggestion.
The USB sticks are a really good idea. I was actually thinking about a big old external CD drive. But why do that when the school might be in some harsh, unforgiving environment?
Good points, but I don't think they need internet access. What they truly need is a simple network among themselves and a familiarity with the device. After they have acquired that they can then find a phone line and modem to connect to the rest of the world.
As for your comments about electricity; see the hand crank. A school need not be the brick house you and I are familiar with. It can be a simple dedicated open space. The computer can replace the need for dead-tree edition books. Give the teacher access to a few CDs with the books the children need and they can pull that data into their own computers over their own intranet.
Decent homes, clean water, food can be aided with a greater chance to expand their minds which is what this computer will HELP (not entirely accomplish on it's own) to do.
...thing is and search for that along with scanner in google. You may find that that function is only available on an older machine. Then be prepared to buy it over the internet. Usually I HATE buying heavy items over the internet because the freight kills you. Try tigerdirect.com if you live in California. They don't charge tax and what you save there may pay for the freight. Good luck.
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So Nielson won't care. They will continue to collect their data from the diaries and drop or adjust the boxes as necessary to provide, what they say, are accurate statistics of television viewing.
Wishing I had mod points today.
Jeeezus H Christ, he got wood when he kissed his fuckin' SISTER!
Mr. Rogers voice: Can you say incest?
And don't complain to me that you couldn't see the wood. Just look at that expression on his face: that was one satisfied, horny, incestuous FREAK!
Anyway, don't we already have the XXX version of Star Wars? It's called Flesh Gordon. A damned funny and entertaining film that was released before Star Wars. (Does that make it a prequel?)
Actually, it does.
You see, Steve Jobs is dressing for his audience: creative people. You know, artists, visual designers, people in Hollyweird. All those phreaks who consider themselves to be outside of the rat-race.
No one is talking about the BUGS! :(
From the article:
And when the newest PC hardware hits, game developers can start taking advantage of it immediately.
That's usually too fast. When I buy a console game it works. It's been tested.
Buy a PC game and fear the BUG. In the back of your mind you are going to be wondering how far you can go before the BUG bites you on your @$$. And then you wait for the patch.
...like the uneducated people on the encryption newsgroups who don't understand that you cannot secure something by piling weak encryption upon other weak encryption until you've built a MOUNTAIN no one can climb. ...to hell with what I have...MY WIFE has a 1.4GHz box I built for her two years ago. I can now build her a 64 bit box with dual cores today. :)
Computers are getting faster -- I have a
This will not remain safe for one very good reason: It is more fun to show these people how STOOPID they are by breaking their multi-level encryption than it is to sit and watch the latest crap spewing out of televisions.
Entertainment, though not the kind the cable and satellite companies envisioned, has taken a GREAT step forward.
I have a free (as in beer) e-mail account with Yahoo. They bear the financial impact of spam, not me. If this let's them defer some of that cost, what do I care?
They will probably care later as I quickly learn that their seal of approval is another level of spam and start automatically deleting it. But until then I wish them well. After all the e-mail service is costing me nothing.
I do not steal from Steven King when I buy a used copy of one of his books.
I do not steal from James Brown when I buy a used CD.
No publisher or author has the right to tell me what I can or cannot do with a product I have paid them for.
...but half the population of the United States supports him.
I really don't care what he thinks or says, he has only three more years to FSCK things up. What scares me is that approximately half the voting public agrees with him and could get someone just like him, or worse, in office.
I don't see anything slowing the Religious Right. I thought they were a temporary fad back in the 1980s, but they are still here and growing more powerful. Just think about Intelligent Design and how far it got before it was slapped down.
you exchange something of value for something else of value.
Most people think of a piece of paper when they think of a contract. This is wrong thinking. The piece of paper in nothing more than a record of the contract.
As an example, Joe Six-pack buys a Sony CD from Rip-Off records. When Joe hands the clerk his money, something of value, and walks out of the store with his CD, something of value, then there is a contract between Joe and Rip-Off records that is guided by the commerce laws.
Now let's take a look at Sony/MicroShit/**AA. When Joe gets home he puts his CD in a machine that he has purchased, in another contract, to play the music on the CD. Lo and behold, an EULA pops up! "WTF is this?" Joe righteously asks. "I have a contract with Rip-Off records, not Sony. Sony entered into a contract with Rip-Off records. Sony received money for this disk and it's contents from Rip-Off records. How can they impose a contract on me?"
Good question, Joe! Maybe it's the fault of the bribed government officials and inept judges. However this has happened you are screwed
I agree with you. Edward James Olmos is fantastic as Adama, it's just that I grew up watching Bonanza and everytime I saw Lorne Greene it was impossible for me to see him as anything other than Pa Cartwright. In that light it was impossible for me to think of the Battlestar Galactica as anything other than a cattlecar. In fact, to this day I continue to think of it that way despite the fact that I do enjoy the new show.
Firefly was so good my wife would watch it with me; an absolute first! :)
It had it's problems, just as any other show, but it was different and interesting.
Yes, there are plenty of other things to do. But then I don't watch much television. In fact I watch nothing with any regularity these days. My viewing is really limited to my DVD collection for the last year with the exception of Cattlecar Galactica. (My apologies to any Uber fans of Battlestar Gallactica. It's just that I keep seeing Lorne Greene, and if you know who he was you know why I have that alternate name in my head.
By the way, I never saw Buffy or Angel: I'm not a Joss Whedon fanboy. I like Firefly.
...I already have the "Firefly" DVD and I will be buying the "Serenity" DVD today after work.
Hmmmm. You don't think they timed this, do you?
A service business can expect to reap the benefits of a large retail neighbor such as Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart does not service or repair goods.
You also get the added benefit of the fact that Wal-Mart sells garbage. Have you noticed the rapid decline in the quality of goods? I have. I wanted to buy my niece a stereo system last year. I went to Wal-Mart and inspected what they have. The systems were inexpensive but also incredibly inferior in quality to what I had when I was her age.
Go to any Wal-Mart electronics section: put your finger on any knob on any stereo, and wiggle your finger. The knob wiggles too, doesn't it? That's because the garbage in Wal-Mart has had so much cost removed from it that they have also removed the quality! The crap they sell will fall apart from normal use in a few short months
Back before the rapid infection of Wal-Mart I could find a small electronics store in any city I was in. Those stores sold stereo equipment at a higher price than Wal-Mart, but it lasted for years!. And now they are gone.
Well, you argue, so what? Target and Best Buy have replaced those smaller stores.
I would have to agree with you. But we have still lost those smaller stores, and the stereo equipment in Best Buy and Circuit City is just as cheap and inferior as the crap in Wal-Mart.
End result: we the consumer lose.
As for Video rentals: I don't know where you live, but I have seen a steady decline in the number of independant video rental stores since the early 1990s. The smaller stores that survive are all part of smaller chains than Blockbuster, but they are still chains. In fact, the only independant in my city just closed a few weeks ago, leaving us with only Blockbuster.
I highly recommend you try to locate a copy of National Geographics Africa issue. It is very enlightening in that it avoids the Tarzan stereotype propogated by the sensationalist media in the U. S. and describes what Africa is really like.
Yes, Africa has problems and there is a need for clean water and food. But Africa is not as bad off as you might imagine from what you see on the nightly (so called) news.
If you can't find a copy of NGs Africa issue I highly recommend you try to locate a copy of the latest New African. It is a British magazine and hard to locate in the U. S. but well worth the effort if you do find it. I get mine from DeLauer's bookstore in Oakland, CA. I have also seen it at Barnes & Noble.
Again, I agree that Africa has problems, but they are not as bad as we are led to believe. Also, this laptop will create opportunities that you and I cannot see from our distant perspective.
then try this on for size.
The RIAA takes you to court, pays outrageous legal fees (which they can afford), files for extensions, appeals and whatever until you run out of money and can no longer defend yourself.
Then you lose.
Now you have your legal fees, plus theirs!
Do you still think making the loser pay all legal fees is a good idea?
He's probably doing other things as well, but that's one thing I know he's currently writing.
Your argument doesn't work against those wanting the excemption. Your argument actually applies to employees of the Sony corporation who knew that they were installing a rootkit on computers and what damage it could do. This is closer to the Nuremburg Trials situation wherein Nazi officers claimed that they were only following orders.
At Nuremburg the court held that if you know something is wrong/evil you are obligated to not do it no matter what your superior officers tell you to do.
Sorry, I didn't realise what you were trying to say. You're right, it IS the next step. Aren't they already trying to block Tivo from skipping commercials? :)
The future is here and it doesn't look anything at all like what I was promised.
Actually maybe this is what was promised. I'm starting to remember things like the book "1984" and a whole host of movies made in the 1970s like "Soylent Green", and "Rollerball".
I don't mean to be rude but you are missing his point. We used to get television over the air. It had commercials. We all understood that commercials paid for the programming.
Then cable arrived.
The promise of cable was that if we PAID for programming, then we would NOT have commercials. Guess what, now we have far more commercials than we used to have, plus we are STILL PAYING for television! That's why I don't watch AMC or Bravo anymore. My viewing has switched to IFC (The Independant Film Channel) and TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
On top of that you now suggest that we PAY again for a Tivo AND it's mandatory subscription?
You're adding insult to injury with your suggestion.
The USB sticks are a really good idea. I was actually thinking about a big old external CD drive. But why do that when the school might be in some harsh, unforgiving environment?
Good points, but I don't think they need internet access. What they truly need is a simple network among themselves and a familiarity with the device. After they have acquired that they can then find a phone line and modem to connect to the rest of the world.
As for your comments about electricity; see the hand crank. A school need not be the brick house you and I are familiar with. It can be a simple dedicated open space. The computer can replace the need for dead-tree edition books. Give the teacher access to a few CDs with the books the children need and they can pull that data into their own computers over their own intranet.
Decent homes, clean water, food can be aided with a greater chance to expand their minds which is what this computer will HELP (not entirely accomplish on it's own) to do.
What does NSFW mean? :)
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HOLY SHIT! Not Safe For Work!
Good thing it's lunch time and nobody's here.
...thing is and search for that along with scanner in google. You may find that that function is only available on an older machine.
Then be prepared to buy it over the internet. Usually I HATE buying heavy items over the internet because the freight kills you. Try tigerdirect.com if you live in California. They don't charge tax and what you save there may pay for the freight.
Good luck.
Where are my mod points when I NEED them? The above post is dead on.