In a brilliant advertising coup, Starbucks has funded the replacement of The One Ring with a more appropriate object of obsession...the Mochochocofrappalatteeextracaffinated Cooler!
I always thought Moby was trance-techno dance zombie music, but after lots of people recommended "Play" to me I downloaded some songs from Napster (RIP). I thought "Wow, this stuff is pretty good!"...so I bought the album. I find it interesting now that Moby is slagging P2P since I downloaded his latest album from newsgroups this time and, well, i didn't even keep the mp3s...
"Ultimately it was MS's responsibility to verify they did not shit in their own bed, but how many of us look at every line of code in a distibuted or outsourced project."
Although I agree that 100% quality control is probably an unrealistic target, if a company the size of Microsoft wielding the resources that it does cannot provide end-to-end QA, then who possibly can? If microsoft cannot provide confidence in its base products and OS, how can legions of loyal developers ensure the quality of the solutions they deliver and deploy ontop?
Uh oh! Didn't you learn anything from the Replay/TIVO lawsuits? Not viewing the advertisements is ILLEGAL and possibly a TERRORIST act. I am so sad to see Slashdot harbouring so many criminals these days...
Yes, this is true. But I've found in the internet world, with so many companies behaving in unscrupulous ways, that it takes more than just operating knowledge on how to run your computer. Sure, download the latest patches, maybe run a virusscanner, maybe run a firewall a la ZoneAlarm. But wait, now you need Ad-Aware to eliminate all the spyware, and whoops, just because you downloaded software from CNET.com, a reputable website, it doesn't mean that you're not going to be infected with tons of spyware. And yes, that P2P client you installed will grab everything it can by default on your computer to enhance the value of the closed network its on. And oh, did you know that CD you bought doesn't work on your computer? Sorry, but unless you're a regular slashdotter, you can't possibly know of ALL of the nuances of living life on the internet.
The Caddyshack Release. With this new brilliant marketing scheme, all subsequent IE patches will then be named after stars in the series, e.g. the Chase release, the Ackroyd release, the Dangerfield release
True. Apparently Sony locked in the largest screens by opening Spiderman two weeks earlier than Star Wars. Lucasfilm claims they don't want to show Ep2 on inferior screens, hence less coverage. I personally believe that they knew that this movie would have a luke-warm (no pun intended) reception after the first weekend. I saw it on one of only two digital projection screens in Toronto on the Saturday afternoon and there were seats still available. Anecdotal evidence, yes, but I would see Spiderman again whereas I will not see Ep2 again...ever...ugh. "Your skin is so smooth...unlike sand" ---AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I don't watch TV anymore (except for Stanley Cup playoffs). TV news is a joke. I find that the best TV series are now being offered on complete DVD boxed sets. A complete uninterrupted season of The Oz, The Sopranos, The Simpsons...in better resolution, with extra features, that I can watch on my own time. I haven't done the cost-benefit analysis yet, but I think it roughly compares with the price of an extended cable package if you buy a set per month. I'm just waiting for Homicide:Life on the Street to be released!
PS My hopes in the future are that TV series can be bought directly by the viewer and sidestep the whole network/advertising regime.
It's a Mexican standoff. Unfortunately if Sony decides it's not going to involve itself in payola scams, but Virgin continues to do so, the radio stations (e.g. ClearChannel conglomerate) will just play Virgin recordings. And because Virgin no longer has to compete with Sony bids, it's to their advantage to stay in the game since they're paying LESS for MORE airplay. Of course, all the record companies can try to collude, but then you'd have the radio stations yelling "unfair extension of monopoly". Personally I enjoy sitting back and watching these monopolies beat eachother to death while I use my newsgroups/gnutella/IRC...
Does anyone know where that Brazil theme song comes from? Who sang it? It've been looking for it for some time.
I also like the Brazil-like moment in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis wakes in the chair, thinks he's on a beach, and then realises he's looking at a postcard.
"Love Conquers All" version sucks, BTW.
My guess is till version 3 of X-Box. I suspect Microsoft was anticipating taking a bath on the first release, positioning it as their enterance into the "home entertainment hub". If their stragey is not working by the 3rd release (where they've streamlined engineering/manufacturing/advertising) then they may exit. They pursued a similar strategy with their peripherals market (success) and broadband/satellites (failure).
It was in part of the regular run Uncanny X-Men series back in the Chris Claremnont days. It was re-run in a TPB called "Nights of Future Past"...basically in the future the Sentinels rule the US and kill off the X-Men and all other superbeings one by one. A last stand fails, so Jean Grey's daughter -- The Phoenix a la Excalibur -- time travels back to warn the X-Men and change the past IIRC. Yes, I'm a geek.
Didn't I see some story (or was it a post?) discussing this last week? I know that people aren't supposed to post this week due to the "Blackout", but does that mean that SDot has to resort to recycling stories?;)
Uh oh, not another IAMAEBSOOTV ("i am not an economist but saw one on tv"). Adam Smith had revolutionary ideas..for a couple of hundred years ago. If Smith nailed everything down so perfectly the first time, why bother having a field of economics now? I mean, everything can be simplified to pure laissez faire market capitalism, right??? Wrong. Unfrotunately there are lots of trends in open markets that defy explanation, or that require much more complex models to explain; things like anti-trust law exist for a good reason, as do keynsian economics, game theory, etc etc. For example, game theory indicates that competition is good, but a clear cut winner is not good.
"MS has perhaps the best research team (at least nowadays) when it comes to HCI stuff. Think about it -- who invented that top-notch joystick? Natural shape keyboards? Wheeled mouse? MS on all three."
Joystick - Thrustmaster. Copied by MS.
Wheel mouse - Logitech. Copied by MS.
Natural keyboard - Not sure, but I had previously seen ergonomic models by IBM and Logitech long before MS got into the peripheral scene.
I suggest MS is being cited for its GUI UI design and consistency across product lines more than anything else.
- Everything configurable via the command line for power users
- Non-integrated browser
- Non-integrated media player
- Drivers for USB 2.0, Bluetooth, and Firewire
- 100% documented APIs
- No WPA
I would also like the ability to fly, bend metal objects with my mind, and understand women.
The day that people willfully allow themselves to confuse a living, breathing, naturally occuring organism with a series of subroutines and man-made polymers, we have truly destroyed the human race. I think the movie AI had it right...why have children when robots were more convenient? More human than human, more real than reality...
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Actually, most of Kurosawa's works have been translated into inferior Western films. Mind you, he did borrow from Shakespear's plays King Lear (Ran), and Macbeth (Throne of Blood). Seven Samuri = The Magnificent Seven, The Hidden Fortress = Star Wars, Yojimbo = Fistful of Dollars, Sanjuro = For a Few Dollars More. At least Scorcese had the decency to show up in Dreams just before Kurosawa's death!
Is it just me, or did file browsing become incredibly less stable (esp in the 9X kernel) once they intergrated the browser into system function? I regularly lose both by folder views AND my browser should there be an error in one or the other regularly. Here is a good example of where integration clearly does NOT benefit the end user, helps extend a Microsoft monopoly from the desktop into the browser space, and generally overall makes no logical sense from a desktop point of view.
I think that is a very unfair and disparaging comment about lawyers. Consider yourself served!
(this e-mail is completely and utterly NOT related in any way to Petswarehouse.com)
Digital is not always better. Digital cameras and digitial video certinaly offer alot in cost savings and convenience, but there are certain effects that are still far superior using analog inputs. Consider black & white movies -- films like It's A Wonderful Life have a fabulous luminescance to them that can't be reproduced today...even analog stock manufacturing techniques have changed so much. And NO, it's not practical to assume that you can just build a filter in photoshop/premiere...
Slashdot Mirror
..for Starbucks.
"Collapse into Cool!"
(My precious! Me wants it!)
In a brilliant advertising coup, Starbucks has funded the replacement of The One Ring with a more appropriate object of obsession...the Mochochocofrappalatteeextracaffinated Cooler!
I always thought Moby was trance-techno dance zombie music, but after lots of people recommended "Play" to me I downloaded some songs from Napster (RIP). I thought "Wow, this stuff is pretty good!"...so I bought the album. I find it interesting now that Moby is slagging P2P since I downloaded his latest album from newsgroups this time and, well, i didn't even keep the mp3s...
"Ultimately it was MS's responsibility to verify they did not shit in their own bed, but how many of us look at every line of code in a distibuted or outsourced project."
Although I agree that 100% quality control is probably an unrealistic target, if a company the size of Microsoft wielding the resources that it does cannot provide end-to-end QA, then who possibly can? If microsoft cannot provide confidence in its base products and OS, how can legions of loyal developers ensure the quality of the solutions they deliver and deploy ontop?
All your Syndey are belong to us!
Uh oh! Didn't you learn anything from the Replay/TIVO lawsuits? Not viewing the advertisements is ILLEGAL and possibly a TERRORIST act. I am so sad to see Slashdot harbouring so many criminals these days...
Yes, this is true. But I've found in the internet world, with so many companies behaving in unscrupulous ways, that it takes more than just operating knowledge on how to run your computer. Sure, download the latest patches, maybe run a virusscanner, maybe run a firewall a la ZoneAlarm. But wait, now you need Ad-Aware to eliminate all the spyware, and whoops, just because you downloaded software from CNET.com, a reputable website, it doesn't mean that you're not going to be infected with tons of spyware. And yes, that P2P client you installed will grab everything it can by default on your computer to enhance the value of the closed network its on. And oh, did you know that CD you bought doesn't work on your computer? Sorry, but unless you're a regular slashdotter, you can't possibly know of ALL of the nuances of living life on the internet.
The Caddyshack Release. With this new brilliant marketing scheme, all subsequent IE patches will then be named after stars in the series, e.g. the Chase release, the Ackroyd release, the Dangerfield release
...a gold Mastercard. $10k limit.
True. Apparently Sony locked in the largest screens by opening Spiderman two weeks earlier than Star Wars. Lucasfilm claims they don't want to show Ep2 on inferior screens, hence less coverage. I personally believe that they knew that this movie would have a luke-warm (no pun intended) reception after the first weekend. I saw it on one of only two digital projection screens in Toronto on the Saturday afternoon and there were seats still available. Anecdotal evidence, yes, but I would see Spiderman again whereas I will not see Ep2 again...ever...ugh. "Your skin is so smooth...unlike sand" ---AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I don't watch TV anymore (except for Stanley Cup playoffs). TV news is a joke. I find that the best TV series are now being offered on complete DVD boxed sets. A complete uninterrupted season of The Oz, The Sopranos, The Simpsons...in better resolution, with extra features, that I can watch on my own time. I haven't done the cost-benefit analysis yet, but I think it roughly compares with the price of an extended cable package if you buy a set per month. I'm just waiting for Homicide:Life on the Street to be released! PS My hopes in the future are that TV series can be bought directly by the viewer and sidestep the whole network/advertising regime.
It's a Mexican standoff. Unfortunately if Sony decides it's not going to involve itself in payola scams, but Virgin continues to do so, the radio stations (e.g. ClearChannel conglomerate) will just play Virgin recordings. And because Virgin no longer has to compete with Sony bids, it's to their advantage to stay in the game since they're paying LESS for MORE airplay. Of course, all the record companies can try to collude, but then you'd have the radio stations yelling "unfair extension of monopoly". Personally I enjoy sitting back and watching these monopolies beat eachother to death while I use my newsgroups/gnutella/IRC...
...a beowulf cluster of those! ;)
Does anyone know where that Brazil theme song comes from? Who sang it? It've been looking for it for some time. I also like the Brazil-like moment in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis wakes in the chair, thinks he's on a beach, and then realises he's looking at a postcard. "Love Conquers All" version sucks, BTW.
My guess is till version 3 of X-Box. I suspect Microsoft was anticipating taking a bath on the first release, positioning it as their enterance into the "home entertainment hub". If their stragey is not working by the 3rd release (where they've streamlined engineering/manufacturing/advertising) then they may exit. They pursued a similar strategy with their peripherals market (success) and broadband/satellites (failure).
It was in part of the regular run Uncanny X-Men series back in the Chris Claremnont days. It was re-run in a TPB called "Nights of Future Past"...basically in the future the Sentinels rule the US and kill off the X-Men and all other superbeings one by one. A last stand fails, so Jean Grey's daughter -- The Phoenix a la Excalibur -- time travels back to warn the X-Men and change the past IIRC. Yes, I'm a geek.
Didn't I see some story (or was it a post?) discussing this last week? I know that people aren't supposed to post this week due to the "Blackout", but does that mean that SDot has to resort to recycling stories? ;)
Uh oh, not another IAMAEBSOOTV ("i am not an economist but saw one on tv"). Adam Smith had revolutionary ideas..for a couple of hundred years ago. If Smith nailed everything down so perfectly the first time, why bother having a field of economics now? I mean, everything can be simplified to pure laissez faire market capitalism, right??? Wrong. Unfrotunately there are lots of trends in open markets that defy explanation, or that require much more complex models to explain; things like anti-trust law exist for a good reason, as do keynsian economics, game theory, etc etc. For example, game theory indicates that competition is good, but a clear cut winner is not good.
"MS has perhaps the best research team (at least nowadays) when it comes to HCI stuff. Think about it -- who invented that top-notch joystick? Natural shape keyboards? Wheeled mouse? MS on all three."
Joystick - Thrustmaster. Copied by MS.
Wheel mouse - Logitech. Copied by MS.
Natural keyboard - Not sure, but I had previously seen ergonomic models by IBM and Logitech long before MS got into the peripheral scene.
I suggest MS is being cited for its GUI UI design and consistency across product lines more than anything else.
OMG! That's horrible! You must work in the Foreign Policy department at the white house...
:)
- Everything configurable via the command line for power users
- Non-integrated browser
- Non-integrated media player
- Drivers for USB 2.0, Bluetooth, and Firewire
- 100% documented APIs
- No WPA
I would also like the ability to fly, bend metal objects with my mind, and understand women.
The day that people willfully allow themselves to confuse a living, breathing, naturally occuring organism with a series of subroutines and man-made polymers, we have truly destroyed the human race. I think the movie AI had it right...why have children when robots were more convenient? More human than human, more real than reality...
Actually, most of Kurosawa's works have been translated into inferior Western films. Mind you, he did borrow from Shakespear's plays King Lear (Ran), and Macbeth (Throne of Blood). Seven Samuri = The Magnificent Seven, The Hidden Fortress = Star Wars, Yojimbo = Fistful of Dollars, Sanjuro = For a Few Dollars More. At least Scorcese had the decency to show up in Dreams just before Kurosawa's death!
Is it just me, or did file browsing become incredibly less stable (esp in the 9X kernel) once they intergrated the browser into system function? I regularly lose both by folder views AND my browser should there be an error in one or the other regularly. Here is a good example of where integration clearly does NOT benefit the end user, helps extend a Microsoft monopoly from the desktop into the browser space, and generally overall makes no logical sense from a desktop point of view.
I think that is a very unfair and disparaging comment about lawyers. Consider yourself served! (this e-mail is completely and utterly NOT related in any way to Petswarehouse.com)
Digital is not always better. Digital cameras and digitial video certinaly offer alot in cost savings and convenience, but there are certain effects that are still far superior using analog inputs. Consider black & white movies -- films like It's A Wonderful Life have a fabulous luminescance to them that can't be reproduced today...even analog stock manufacturing techniques have changed so much. And NO, it's not practical to assume that you can just build a filter in photoshop/premiere...