I've yet to find a movie critic with whom I agree with often enough to actually avoid a movie based on their review.
That brings up an interesting off-topic question. iRATE lets you rate music and, after some trial and error, you get music that the software's predicted you would like based on your ratings and ratings of people who like what you like. (Pretty close after a few iterations) Is there any similar rating system for movies? Unlike iRATE, which is limited to seemingly infinite amounts of free techno and limited amounts of high-quality music, it should be fairly easy for someone to program the same comparisons software using a movie database. Then, following the same train of thought, correlate your preferences to a critic (or the general population, for post opening night reviews) and get a decent estimation of what you'd like or loathe.
Google, a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box.
Not a word about 1 followed by 100 zeros. And do you know how hard that information is to find when you use Google to search for google? More blatant self-advertising!
Exact transcript from Fox news at cut-in to an Italian news conference at 1:23PM (thank you, TiVo):
Unknown female voice: "Why can no one hear me? I'm screaming into the mic. Hello?" Female translator: "The windows from which the Pope faces to address the crowds. OK, immeadiately we give the lines-" Unknown female voice: "Hello, the Pope is dead. The Pope is dead. Someone-" Female translator: "The news that is arriving." Unknown female voice: "The Pope is dead." Shepard Smith (Fox News host): "Well, it is certainly unfortunate that is the way that happened."
Unfair, because everybody who ever wrote a PC worm can't win the $25,000, because the Windows box will be infected with it within 6 hours. They can win the $25,000. They just can't win the $25 rebate as well. It's a contest; if they don't claim to have infected the Windows box, they are still eligible for the Mac prize.
As far as I'm aware there is no conclusive evidence that shows Macs are inherently more secure and would not suffer the virus problem that Windows does if it had Windows' market share.
Nor will the results of this prove that or, well, anything. If they really wanted to test the hypothesis "Macs are more or equally vulnerable in the native state, but in the absence of a motivating factor, no one would attempt to attack one", then they would have to do the following:
1) Purchase 1 Macintosh and 1 Windows box (add 1 Linux for flavor, if desired) 2) Offer a $25 rebate for some company product to the first person who cracks the Windows box. 3) Offer $25,000 to the first person who cracks the Macintosh. 4) Make both contests mutually exclusive (you can only win one).
Now, there is a huge incentive to try to break the Macintosh, very little to any to break the Windows and a valid comparison between the two. All the contest as currently designed shows is "Macs could be vulnerable to a particular virus in the native state", which as hypotheses go, is... one. But not a very novel one.
Why should we care if they read/write right to left or in columns? In the worst case, an image becomes mirrored in two directions (making a b into a p). But, in every code they decipher, it will look like that, making it a valid symbol and just as arbitrary as the one we use.
Basically, you scan the source of the page after login for your ID number and the security hash. Then you append that to your URL. The process is a whole seven steps and in the realm of nefarious hacks it's... neither.
N attempts to turn TV into a general purpose information appliance, N failures.
This isn't (necessarily) an attempt to merge two divergent appliances, but rather an attempt to expand the current market of internet-integraged (think TiVo Guide) television.
You could integrate various other apps related to television shows. Give Idol contestants the thumbs up/thumbs down and see instant feedback. Take polls and see results accumulate instantly. Not to mention marketing possibilities...
Most people who currently have PCs and are looking to *switch* to Macintosh already have monitors. This is a cheaper Mac they can use with their current accessories (keyboard, mouse, monitor).
Well, the sentiment is right, but the answer is much more simple: both sides are allowed to spend the same amount of money. That prevents large corporations from bullying little guys while allowing them to still beat the heck out of each other in court.
Ben Affleck, star of such films as Gigli, recently sued AFLAC insurance, claiming that their ads implied that he was a duck.
The AFLAC duck then sued for defamation, claiming that being associated with Affleck diminished any chances of being taken seriously as an actor. He was awarded $10 million.
1. Pictures are featured through Google News service. These pictures are immediately archived and searchable in Google Images. 2. Story becomes old, is removed and the Google Image entry is cleared since the Google News entry is now invalid. 3. Google Image-bot slowly trolls the net for images, and will refind and archive the image.
I should have seen this coming. The home-town team was up late against the Evil Empire. The commentators were ready to declare us the victor, and then... NO! We some how managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don't think that the Curse of the Bambino extends into politics, I think it ended this year so we wouldn't see the inevitable outcome. What's the fun in beating us if we don't have our hopes crushed?
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I've yet to find a movie critic with whom I agree with often enough to actually avoid a movie based on their review.
That brings up an interesting off-topic question. iRATE lets you rate music and, after some trial and error, you get music that the software's predicted you would like based on your ratings and ratings of people who like what you like. (Pretty close after a few iterations) Is there any similar rating system for movies? Unlike iRATE, which is limited to seemingly infinite amounts of free techno and limited amounts of high-quality music, it should be fairly easy for someone to program the same comparisons software using a movie database. Then, following the same train of thought, correlate your preferences to a critic (or the general population, for post opening night reviews) and get a decent estimation of what you'd like or loathe.
Just a thought.
A trilogy: a set of 3±2 literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme.
Yeah, but they're exploiting their system AGAIN!
"What is a google?"
Google, a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box.
Not a word about 1 followed by 100 zeros. And do you know how hard that information is to find when you use Google to search for google? More blatant self-advertising!
It's a co-production with Production I.G. and Bandai Entertainment and will be the Cartoon Network's first original 'Toonami' series.
Um, no.
I don't know why they put the real ones in with the joke ones.
FoxNews stole your idea without credit.
Exact transcript from Fox news at cut-in to an Italian news conference at 1:23PM (thank you, TiVo):
Unknown female voice: "Why can no one hear me? I'm screaming into the mic. Hello?"
Female translator: "The windows from which the Pope faces to address the crowds. OK, immeadiately we give the lines-"
Unknown female voice: "Hello, the Pope is dead. The Pope is dead. Someone-"
Female translator: "The news that is arriving."
Unknown female voice: "The Pope is dead."
Shepard Smith (Fox News host): "Well, it is certainly unfortunate that is the way that happened."
Ah, Fox. Better to be first than right.
The advertisers payed of the spot, so they should get something.
You're absolutely right. From now on, all TiVos and cable boxes will be further locked so that during commercial breaks you can't change the channel.
Unfair, because everybody who ever wrote a PC worm can't win the $25,000, because the Windows box will be infected with it within 6 hours.
They can win the $25,000. They just can't win the $25 rebate as well. It's a contest; if they don't claim to have infected the Windows box, they are still eligible for the Mac prize.
As far as I'm aware there is no conclusive evidence that shows Macs are inherently more secure and would not suffer the virus problem that Windows does if it had Windows' market share.
Nor will the results of this prove that or, well, anything. If they really wanted to test the hypothesis "Macs are more or equally vulnerable in the native state, but in the absence of a motivating factor, no one would attempt to attack one", then they would have to do the following:
1) Purchase 1 Macintosh and 1 Windows box (add 1 Linux for flavor, if desired)
2) Offer a $25 rebate for some company product to the first person who cracks the Windows box.
3) Offer $25,000 to the first person who cracks the Macintosh.
4) Make both contests mutually exclusive (you can only win one).
Now, there is a huge incentive to try to break the Macintosh, very little to any to break the Windows and a valid comparison between the two. All the contest as currently designed shows is "Macs could be vulnerable to a particular virus in the native state", which as hypotheses go, is... one. But not a very novel one.
Why should we care if they read/write right to left or in columns? In the worst case, an image becomes mirrored in two directions (making a b into a p). But, in every code they decipher, it will look like that, making it a valid symbol and just as arbitrary as the one we use.
Actually, I think he's bitter that in the history of P2P, no one has ever pirated his music.
O'Reilly has an article (appropriately titled "Not linking is not security") which includes a link to the detailed instructions for this "hack".
Basically, you scan the source of the page after login for your ID number and the security hash. Then you append that to your URL. The process is a whole seven steps and in the realm of nefarious hacks it's... neither.
N attempts to turn TV into a general purpose information appliance, N failures.
This isn't (necessarily) an attempt to merge two divergent appliances, but rather an attempt to expand the current market of internet-integraged (think TiVo Guide) television.
You could integrate various other apps related to television shows. Give Idol contestants the thumbs up/thumbs down and see instant feedback. Take polls and see results accumulate instantly. Not to mention marketing possibilities...
Most people who currently have PCs and are looking to *switch* to Macintosh already have monitors. This is a cheaper Mac they can use with their current accessories (keyboard, mouse, monitor).
The essence of the complaint is that once you have bought music from iTMS, you can't play it back on normal MP3 players, only on an iPod.
Not to be too retentive, but you shouldn't be able to play iTMS files on a normal MP3 player. They're AAC files.
If you can defend yourself successfully, nothing.
Well, the sentiment is right, but the answer is much more simple: both sides are allowed to spend the same amount of money. That prevents large corporations from bullying little guys while allowing them to still beat the heck out of each other in court.
Huh...
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Ben Affleck, star of such films as Gigli, recently sued AFLAC insurance, claiming that their ads implied that he was a duck.
The AFLAC duck then sued for defamation, claiming that being associated with Affleck diminished any chances of being taken seriously as an actor. He was awarded $10 million.
Billed for every click...
I believe that's why he referred to this as his "most expensive joke ever."
And, they're now all back.
Safari 1.0.3 on 10.2.8 shows the correct site, but I was able to get the hijacked site to show up by closing the browser windows.
Voting at 17?
OK, simple explanation.
1. Pictures are featured through Google News service. These pictures are immediately archived and searchable in Google Images.
2. Story becomes old, is removed and the Google Image entry is cleared since the Google News entry is now invalid.
3. Google Image-bot slowly trolls the net for images, and will refind and archive the image.
We're just between Step 2 and 3 right now.
A Bill Clinton in his prime would've eaten Bush for lunch.
There are so many obvoius jokes that could be made on that statement, it's barely worth the post pointing out how many there are.
I should have seen this coming. The home-town team was up late against the Evil Empire. The commentators were ready to declare us the victor, and then... NO! We some how managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don't think that the Curse of the Bambino extends into politics, I think it ended this year so we wouldn't see the inevitable outcome. What's the fun in beating us if we don't have our hopes crushed?