This reminds me of an episode of News Radio where Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman) said that all politicans should be dragged out from their cars and beaten on the Live Radio.
And then reports came in of a Politican who was dragged from his car and beaten.
Better be careful what you say. Or we could next hear reports on/. that many Spammers have been shot... oh, and their companies too:)
If you can remember, Big Brother (the US version) was literly filled with ads around the screen. That was the first major programming station which had that type of advertising.
Though, they way waaaayy over antisipated. So much advertising for such a crappy, no-viewers show.
So, when can I get my Mozilla TV with anti-popup feature?
About two years ago, it used to say something like "Why would you ask that? Don't you have anything better to do? Why does my sexual prefrence matter?"
Though, the tone of the response sounded "anti-homosexual" (I can't remember what it said, exactly)so I suppose they edited it. Maybe they got complaints? Who knows.
The problem with ALICE is that she doesn't talk to you. She only responds to you. For example, if you let the conversation idle she doesn't say "Are you there?" or try to continue the conversation.
Maybe I'm simply not "geek enough", but this "Digital Camera" add-on just doesn't seem practial to me. Yes, it would be nice to have a camera in my pocket. But don't the people your sending to have to have this type of phone to read it? Or even to recieve it? And plus, I like having my cameras, phones, PDA's, and what not seperate. Stop trying to combine them, and concentrate on what's important - the damn phone!
What are wrong with these cell phone manufactuers? I've e-mailed, snailmailed for all these feature requests to Nokia to no avail.
So, here, if any cell-phone manufactuers are listening, are my upmost feature requests for phones:
Sync with my PC: Okay, those Nokia OS menu's aren't that bad. But, it would be really really nice if I could sync it with my PC and edit my address book, prefrences, settings, voice mail options etc.
Instead of clicking those little buttons with your hand while staring into a small little screen, how about dragging and dropping icons for your phone, or downloading voice tones and uploading them to your phone?
A better alert system: Maybe I haven't looked hard enough on my nokia phone, but I can't find away to have personal alerts. I'm really bad with times, and I don't wear a watch. Actually, I hate watches. And there are many people who use the phone instead of watches. I've been going to community college, and I can easily loose track of the time. I wanted my phone to vibrate 5 or 10 minutes before my class started so I can depart from socializing with friends to my classroom.
Think of how cool I will look! "How does he know he has to be in class all the time?!"
Website Control: Well, this might not be for the cell-phone makers, but the service providers (Cellular, ATT etc.). It would be nice if I could check my voice mail online, or check my SMS messages (or send them!), or sign up for additional services?
Voice mail Messages ->.wav can't be that difficult.
Well, I probably have more. But there you go. That's three easy things they could work on instead of a "Digital Camera". God, what a collossal waste of time!
Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier...
I just saw his latest creation (that's been released), Minority Report. Great movie, in all aspects.
However, there was one thing that bothered me in the movie. When John (Tom Cruise) walks around town, advertisments are everywhere. And they are personalized. "You deserve a cruise John Anderson!" "John Anderson! Get a free account at Washington Mutual!". And this isn't just in his living room, it's in PUBLIC! Meaning everyone knows who you are! I mean, what if your a celebrity and it says "Get half off on Jello Tom Cruise!" then everyone will go "TOM CRUISE?! WHERE?!".
Something else, when he walks into GAP it says "Enjoy those low-cut jeans Mr. Yakamoto?". What if you don't want people to know what kind of clothes you buy? I mean, what if you went into a video rental store and it said "Enjoy Naughty Nurses 2000 Mr. Anderson?".
How I see, if you ask "What about my privacy?!" in 15 years people will laugh at you. Is that bad? Not really. It isn't good either. It's just the future.
I really don't think were ready for that, computers aren't really fast enough. When you have fingers moving around, the interface must be moving REALLY fast. I mean, you can't wait for windows to open or applications to load... it would be really frustrating.
Further, I think that music should be sold online, for extremely low prices.
Here is my idea:
MP3 players, such as the Apple iPod, will evolve. They should include wireless Internet connection Within the iPod, for example, you could search or browse using a list (similar to it's current UI) for a song. You hit "Buy" and it downloads onto your iPod in seconds. You have the song stored on your iPod. If you delete it, or it gets misplaced, you could buy it again. It would be so cheap that you wouldn't think twice about it. (The price would be around 60 cents USD.) The cost of production (bandwidth, server costs) would be very minimal. I bet alot of people would be downloading alot of MP3's daily. Perhaps people would spend around $10 a month on it. Perhaps pay a monthly fee of $19.99 and download at an endless unlimited amount. If you don't see profits in that, your blind. Bandwidth prices are going down, and so are computers/servers.
Is that hard to do? Not really. The reason they probably aren't doing something like that yet is because of the RIAA. Who the hell wants to jump in that shark invested waters?
Man, maybe I shouldn't be telling you this. I could of nabbed a job at Apple =)
Who needs to learn formulas by heart anyways? In a few years you can just use your wireless device to find the forumla. Is that bad? No. We won't need to figure out how to setup equations, instead figure out how to use the the device to find the answer. It's called evolution. Hey, probably in 15 years we'll just ask our AI's to do it for us.
Just because we drive cars or ride BART to school instead of walking 10 miles doesn't make it wrong.
Angelina Jolie (Toom Raider) nominated for Best Actress? Fast and the Furious as the "Big Winner"? A Knight's Tale should not be nominated for anything! "Better a silly girl with a flower, than a silly boy with a stick!" WHAT?!
Good thing the opinions of my teen peers aren't the only ones.
In my opinion, Mozilla is not ready for distribution. Not for desktop users, or AOL converts, anyway. There are so many important usability issues with Mozilla that it will just confuse the end users, causing them to call up Technical Support for AOL asking them how to switch back to IE. Which, isn't good. Mozilla needs to make a good impression on it's new users, which I'm pretty sure won't work with the 1.0 release. Maybe 2.0.
The main features that you can use to make IE users drool are the Anti-Pop up feature, and the tabbed interface feature. Sucks that the Anti-Pop up feature is hidden within the horriable UI of the Mozilla Prefrences (which, in my opinion, needs a complete revamp - Jakob Nielsen style).
Everyone keeps glorifying the fact that it will be used on all AOL users soon. But, I don't understand this. I haven't really used AOL for a long time, maybe it's changed... but, before you couldn't tell what browser you were using. It's just built into the system, right? How will they even know if they're using IE, Opera, Netscape or Mozilla? Does it matter to them? And if it has changed, and if the usability problems are so bad... they will probably do what I did, and minimize the AOL portal and power up IE.
If I were AOL, I'd ask Mozilla to take the Usability issues into consideration before replacing IE. Or perhaps construct some wizard to change from the IE version to Mozilla.
You didn't mention the bulked up advertising for Spiderman. The fast food toys, the commercials, the junk food promotions...
Lucas said he wasen't spending so much on advertising, which as you can see is what happened. There aren't *nearly* as much commercials for it as there was for Episode I.
Exactly!
I was going to post this, but you beat me too it.
That entire thing with Spiderman and the US Flag was pretty cheap if you ask me. I, and everyone I asked, believes it was a way to market the movie to America... making money off 9/11. We've seen the CBS specials, and the CNN Dedications. I thought we didn't want to "hear about" 9/11 anymore? Wanted to forget? Not to see images of the WTC? And they took out the images of the WTC (from the trailer - which I thought were pretty cool) yet the refrence it in the movie? I mean, what do you think we visualize when we think of 9/11 patriotism, Uncle Sam riding on a pony?
WRONG.
Ebert said that the trailers look better than the the theatre, he didn't say anything about the pirated copies. And if he did, he probably doesn't know anything about it or was just spitting out regergitated stuff from articles.
Exactly. I came here to post something similar, guess you beat me to it:P
I found this post on Google Groups. And it goes on saying that your base royality for a CD is 12%. So, for a $16.98 CD (sold in US), they get $2.04. However, after reductions such as "container," "free goods," and a "CD adjustment," you'll be left with a mere 97 per CD.
Unless artists start they're own label, they lose. There was something like this on Dateline (NBC) once - I think it analyzed the Dixie Chicks. They said that they earn pennies from CD's, but what they earn money from is Concerts.
So if you want to support your favorite artist, go to a Concert. I really believe that most artists don't mind their fans downloading their songs off the Internet. I think most of them want their music to be heard and remembered more than earning billions off of it. (well, not all:P)
Go ahead and use MusicNet or just download off Gnutella. Maybe after they start paying the artists more, or lower the prices for the consumer... they'll learn. There is a huge flaw in the music market. (It would be nice to download a single song, instead of an entire album for it - or maybe adding something special for online purchases? Like the ability to keep all your songs you bought to be able to download from an online site - so you can load them in your iPod wherever you are just from going to the site? Searching, Buying, and Downloading off your MP3 player? I'd pay for that!) It's not our job to figure out a way how to repair it. Keep hitting the music companies by downloading off Gnutella, maybe they'll find a solution faster.
I'm 17, graduating from High School in less than 25 days, so I've seen what the public school system is like. I went to public elementary (k-5) and middle school (6-8). I then got accepted to a private school, De La Salle (#1 HS Football team in US ~ blah). After going there for three years, I left and went to a public highschool (which I am in now).
In the private school, teachers were a little bit better. They cared more about teaching. But, however, they didn't earn more than public schools. They, actually, earn less. (Less benifits?) I don't really understand why they earned less, I mean - the tuition is something like $800 a month or more. Tech classes there were extremeley limited - they had keyboarding and PASCAL Programming (Yes, PASCAL).
When I moved to public high school, it wasen't very different. The only difference I saw was that some teachers were good, while others were bad. For example, my CISCO teacher doesn't even have a CISCO degree. Nor has she ever worked anywhere. (She's never networked anything.. wait, I think she did network some of her computers at home). I take A+ Certification after school, and my teacher for that is a Math teacher. All we do all day is read some online ciriculum about A+ (which teaches us to "Install Windows 98"), while he plays games at CoffeeHouseArcade.com.
So, yes, I agree with what your saying. Public school is a joke. Parents hate it when we have early days or holidays. They want us in school, so they don't have to worry about us. It's just a daycare center the government pays for. They keep us locked up in school (literly). I wish it would be more like community college (which I go to for tech classes), where you can walk out if you already know something or not get docked when your absant.
The private school I went to was a Catholic school. But it wasen't strickly that, however. You have to attend a Religion course for each year, (everyday) but you can be Jewish, Hindu.. whatever. Just you have to learn and pass tests on Catholic/Christian ciriculum.
Oh, and your comment about exit exams. I know for a fact that our California State Exit Exam is totally outdated. (from 1998?) It is extremeley easy. And plus, 80% of the students who take it already have the anwers for them in 8pt font on an index card in their hand.
Well Adobe, for 2.8m, you've impeded the progress of software development, created enemies, and left your customers with a bad taste in their mouths. And you know what? I bet a lot of people will feel a lot less bad about pirating your software after this. I hope it was worth it.
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This reminds me of an episode of News Radio where Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman) said that all politicans should be dragged out from their cars and beaten on the Live Radio. And then reports came in of a Politican who was dragged from his car and beaten. Better be careful what you say. Or we could next hear reports on /. that many Spammers have been shot... oh, and their companies too :)
This may sound like the Simpsons (actually, it is from it), but I've learned more from TV than I have learned from my parents.
If you can remember, Big Brother (the US version) was literly filled with ads around the screen. That was the first major programming station which had that type of advertising.
Though, they way waaaayy over antisipated. So much advertising for such a crappy, no-viewers show.
So, when can I get my Mozilla TV with anti-popup feature?
About two years ago, it used to say something like "Why would you ask that? Don't you have anything better to do? Why does my sexual prefrence matter?"
Though, the tone of the response sounded "anti-homosexual" (I can't remember what it said, exactly)so I suppose they edited it. Maybe they got complaints? Who knows.
Instead, use PHP. It's alot easier, and more web-based. It's also faster, and more wide-accepted now.
There are two awesome books on the subject, I happen to own both (ordered via Amazon a week ago!). They are as follows:
- XML and PHP by Vikram Vaswani
- Professional PHP4 XML
Both are pretty good. I like PHP and XML better. It seemed like Wrox just wanted to have a book on the subject to keep up with O'R.Oh boy, I can't wait until the definition for the "Slashdotted" gets Slashdotted. What a conundrum that will be.
Exactly.
The problem with ALICE is that she doesn't talk to you. She only responds to you. For example, if you let the conversation idle she doesn't say "Are you there?" or try to continue the conversation.
What are wrong with these cell phone manufactuers? I've e-mailed, snailmailed for all these feature requests to Nokia to no avail.
So, here, if any cell-phone manufactuers are listening, are my upmost feature requests for phones:
- Sync with my PC: Okay, those Nokia OS menu's aren't that bad. But, it would be really really nice if I could sync it with my PC and edit my address book, prefrences, settings, voice mail options etc.
- A better alert system: Maybe I haven't looked hard enough on my nokia phone, but I can't find away to have personal alerts. I'm really bad with times, and I don't wear a watch. Actually, I hate watches. And there are many people who use the phone instead of watches. I've been going to community college, and I can easily loose track of the time. I wanted my phone to vibrate 5 or 10 minutes before my class started so I can depart from socializing with friends to my classroom.
- Website Control: Well, this might not be for the cell-phone makers, but the service providers (Cellular, ATT etc.). It would be nice if I could check my voice mail online, or check my SMS messages (or send them!), or sign up for additional services?
.wav can't be that difficult.
Well, I probably have more. But there you go. That's three easy things they could work on instead of a "Digital Camera". God, what a collossal waste of time!Instead of clicking those little buttons with your hand while staring into a small little screen, how about dragging and dropping icons for your phone, or downloading voice tones and uploading them to your phone?
Think of how cool I will look! "How does he know he has to be in class all the time?!"
Voice mail Messages ->
I just saw his latest creation (that's been released), Minority Report. Great movie, in all aspects.
However, there was one thing that bothered me in the movie. When John (Tom Cruise) walks around town, advertisments are everywhere. And they are personalized. "You deserve a cruise John Anderson!" "John Anderson! Get a free account at Washington Mutual!". And this isn't just in his living room, it's in PUBLIC! Meaning everyone knows who you are! I mean, what if your a celebrity and it says "Get half off on Jello Tom Cruise!" then everyone will go "TOM CRUISE?! WHERE?!".
Something else, when he walks into GAP it says "Enjoy those low-cut jeans Mr. Yakamoto?". What if you don't want people to know what kind of clothes you buy? I mean, what if you went into a video rental store and it said "Enjoy Naughty Nurses 2000 Mr. Anderson?".
How I see, if you ask "What about my privacy?!" in 15 years people will laugh at you. Is that bad? Not really. It isn't good either. It's just the future.
Sounds alot like in minority report.
I really don't think were ready for that, computers aren't really fast enough. When you have fingers moving around, the interface must be moving REALLY fast. I mean, you can't wait for windows to open or applications to load... it would be really frustrating.
Crap! Your right!
Your mom, or friend or somebody might look over your shoulder and cancel your mailing subscription for slashdot meetups!
Somebody alarm the IT Department!
Here is my idea:
MP3 players, such as the Apple iPod, will evolve. They should include wireless Internet connection Within the iPod, for example, you could search or browse using a list (similar to it's current UI) for a song. You hit "Buy" and it downloads onto your iPod in seconds. You have the song stored on your iPod. If you delete it, or it gets misplaced, you could buy it again. It would be so cheap that you wouldn't think twice about it. (The price would be around 60 cents USD.) The cost of production (bandwidth, server costs) would be very minimal. I bet alot of people would be downloading alot of MP3's daily. Perhaps people would spend around $10 a month on it. Perhaps pay a monthly fee of $19.99 and download at an endless unlimited amount. If you don't see profits in that, your blind. Bandwidth prices are going down, and so are computers/servers.
Is that hard to do? Not really. The reason they probably aren't doing something like that yet is because of the RIAA. Who the hell wants to jump in that shark invested waters?
Man, maybe I shouldn't be telling you this. I could of nabbed a job at Apple =)
They are deported from our planet.
That's very true.
Who needs to learn formulas by heart anyways? In a few years you can just use your wireless device to find the forumla. Is that bad? No. We won't need to figure out how to setup equations, instead figure out how to use the the device to find the answer. It's called evolution. Hey, probably in 15 years we'll just ask our AI's to do it for us.
Just because we drive cars or ride BART to school instead of walking 10 miles doesn't make it wrong.
Angelina Jolie (Toom Raider) nominated for Best Actress? Fast and the Furious as the "Big Winner"? A Knight's Tale should not be nominated for anything! "Better a silly girl with a flower, than a silly boy with a stick!" WHAT?!
Good thing the opinions of my teen peers aren't the only ones.
In my opinion, Mozilla is not ready for distribution. Not for desktop users, or AOL converts, anyway. There are so many important usability issues with Mozilla that it will just confuse the end users, causing them to call up Technical Support for AOL asking them how to switch back to IE. Which, isn't good. Mozilla needs to make a good impression on it's new users, which I'm pretty sure won't work with the 1.0 release. Maybe 2.0.
The main features that you can use to make IE users drool are the Anti-Pop up feature, and the tabbed interface feature. Sucks that the Anti-Pop up feature is hidden within the horriable UI of the Mozilla Prefrences (which, in my opinion, needs a complete revamp - Jakob Nielsen style).
Everyone keeps glorifying the fact that it will be used on all AOL users soon. But, I don't understand this. I haven't really used AOL for a long time, maybe it's changed... but, before you couldn't tell what browser you were using. It's just built into the system, right? How will they even know if they're using IE, Opera, Netscape or Mozilla? Does it matter to them? And if it has changed, and if the usability problems are so bad... they will probably do what I did, and minimize the AOL portal and power up IE.
If I were AOL, I'd ask Mozilla to take the Usability issues into consideration before replacing IE. Or perhaps construct some wizard to change from the IE version to Mozilla.
Just the books?
Um, except Vader says "Ahhh... you have a Twin Sister!" in ROTJ
You didn't mention the bulked up advertising for Spiderman. The fast food toys, the commercials, the junk food promotions...
Lucas said he wasen't spending so much on advertising, which as you can see is what happened. There aren't *nearly* as much commercials for it as there was for Episode I.
Exactly! I was going to post this, but you beat me too it. That entire thing with Spiderman and the US Flag was pretty cheap if you ask me. I, and everyone I asked, believes it was a way to market the movie to America... making money off 9/11. We've seen the CBS specials, and the CNN Dedications. I thought we didn't want to "hear about" 9/11 anymore? Wanted to forget? Not to see images of the WTC? And they took out the images of the WTC (from the trailer - which I thought were pretty cool) yet the refrence it in the movie? I mean, what do you think we visualize when we think of 9/11 patriotism, Uncle Sam riding on a pony?
But if your using that 30 second skip, how would you ever see them? Or know that they are there?
WRONG. Ebert said that the trailers look better than the the theatre, he didn't say anything about the pirated copies. And if he did, he probably doesn't know anything about it or was just spitting out regergitated stuff from articles.
Exactly. I came here to post something similar, guess you beat me to it :P
:P)
I found this post on Google Groups. And it goes on saying that your base royality for a CD is 12%. So, for a $16.98 CD (sold in US), they get $2.04. However, after reductions such as "container,"
"free goods," and a "CD adjustment," you'll be left with a mere 97 per CD.
Unless artists start they're own label, they lose. There was something like this on Dateline (NBC) once - I think it analyzed the Dixie Chicks. They said that they earn pennies from CD's, but what they earn money from is Concerts.
So if you want to support your favorite artist, go to a Concert. I really believe that most artists don't mind their fans downloading their songs off the Internet. I think most of them want their music to be heard and remembered more than earning billions off of it. (well, not all
Go ahead and use MusicNet or just download off Gnutella. Maybe after they start paying the artists more, or lower the prices for the consumer... they'll learn. There is a huge flaw in the music market. (It would be nice to download a single song, instead of an entire album for it - or maybe adding something special for online purchases? Like the ability to keep all your songs you bought to be able to download from an online site - so you can load them in your iPod wherever you are just from going to the site? Searching, Buying, and Downloading off your MP3 player? I'd pay for that!) It's not our job to figure out a way how to repair it. Keep hitting the music companies by downloading off Gnutella, maybe they'll find a solution faster.
I totally agree with what your saying.
I'm 17, graduating from High School in less than 25 days, so I've seen what the public school system is like. I went to public elementary (k-5) and middle school (6-8). I then got accepted to a private school, De La Salle (#1 HS Football team in US ~ blah). After going there for three years, I left and went to a public highschool (which I am in now).
In the private school, teachers were a little bit better. They cared more about teaching. But, however, they didn't earn more than public schools. They, actually, earn less. (Less benifits?) I don't really understand why they earned less, I mean - the tuition is something like $800 a month or more. Tech classes there were extremeley limited - they had keyboarding and PASCAL Programming (Yes, PASCAL).
When I moved to public high school, it wasen't very different. The only difference I saw was that some teachers were good, while others were bad. For example, my CISCO teacher doesn't even have a CISCO degree. Nor has she ever worked anywhere. (She's never networked anything.. wait, I think she did network some of her computers at home). I take A+ Certification after school, and my teacher for that is a Math teacher. All we do all day is read some online ciriculum about A+ (which teaches us to "Install Windows 98"), while he plays games at CoffeeHouseArcade.com.
So, yes, I agree with what your saying. Public school is a joke. Parents hate it when we have early days or holidays. They want us in school, so they don't have to worry about us. It's just a daycare center the government pays for. They keep us locked up in school (literly). I wish it would be more like community college (which I go to for tech classes), where you can walk out if you already know something or not get docked when your absant.
The private school I went to was a Catholic school. But it wasen't strickly that, however. You have to attend a Religion course for each year, (everyday) but you can be Jewish, Hindu.. whatever. Just you have to learn and pass tests on Catholic/Christian ciriculum.
Oh, and your comment about exit exams. I know for a fact that our California State Exit Exam is totally outdated. (from 1998?) It is extremeley easy. And plus, 80% of the students who take it already have the anwers for them in 8pt font on an index card in their hand.