Well, dammit, now I'm thinking. I was just trying to be funny before (time will tell if i succeeded).
As the TV becomes the computer becomes the home theatre becomes the DVD player becomes... this kind of data integration will be a killer app. Want to know what other shows a cast member has been in? Move the cursor over the person on the screen and mash the Info button. Since everything is integrated, a little bit of pattern recognition goes into effect, a request to some webservice is generated, and you get a popup with a list of that actor's other roles. Heck, you wouldn't even need pattern recognition. The digital video stream could include "what actor is where on screen at what time" info, kinda like a big dynamic <map>.
Now if Microsoft would hurry up and get all this done we'd truly be in multi-media heaven (aaahahaha, i kill me;-)
Seconded -- IMDB is a must, especially when you're, say, watching Independence Day and wonder, "Hey, isn't that Lieutenant Getraer from CHiPs?"
IMDB wouldn't really help, because at that point I'd be paralyzed with the shame of my intimate knowledge of CHiPs and thus unable to get to the computer.
I think my mind did work faster when I was in my early 20s (i'm late 30s at this point). But it had to. 99% of what came out of it was wrong. So what if my mind doesn't seem to work as fast now? I still get things done quicker, because all those WRONG answers don't even enter into the picture.
Its all about efficiency for me. Getting more work done with less effort. Hey, even though technically I missed GenX (born in 64), I think that qualifies me as a slacker;-)
hu.la - every link circles right back to the home page shino.la - sister domain to sh.it ebo.la - as if Outlook doesn't provide virii enough lo.la - La la la la lo la cocaco.la - surely this is taken mazo.la - yeah, but we call it maize ayatol.la - the FBI/CIA/DepHS will be all over you lego.la/s - okay, this is stretching a bit for a LoTR reference eno.la - for WWII buffs
This is way offtopic, but the history of this movie fascinates me. "It's a Wonderful Life" was released in '46, received mixed reviews, nominated for some awards, but sank into obscurity. It fell out of copyright and into the public domain in 1974. And because of THAT, TV stations, starting mainly with PBS, picked it up for FREE and started broadcasting it at Christmas. It became one of the most loved, most aired Christmas movies ever. All because it went into the public domain.
Well, until 1993, when some copyright sleight-of-hand pulled it out of PD.
Nah, IBM would sue SCO for illegally revoking their Unix license. After all, SCO currently just alledges that IBM has crossbred Unix and Linux. They haven't proven it yet. Unless the court case happened and I missed it, which I doubt. I'd imagine the contract can't be revoked just on allegations of wrongdoing. Whether or not Linux is tainted doesn't matter. SCO can't say "we think you're bad, we're not going to prove it, but all your codebase are once again belong to us".
Or maybe I'm just blowing wind... contract law for me is usually a handshake and a "cool, I'll have it to you by Friday".
Yes, Wallyworld can sell whatever they want, measured against whatever corporate standards of decency they so choose.
But it still saddens me. Here's why, and I've seen this happen over and over and over. Walmart moves in to a community. All the smaller book/record/video/newsstand stores go out of business; they just can't compete. Then all that is left for that community at that point, in an EASILY ACCESSIBLE FORM, is Walmart's definition of "decent".
Yes, I can "shop somewhere else", but what if there IS nowhere else?
Is it legal? I believe it is. Competition == good. It's the American Way (tm). We should all be so lucky.
It is good for the community? I believe it is not.
Also sad is Wallyworld's penchant for pressuring publishers and distributors to modify their books/records/videos/etc before they will stock them. That to me falls solidly in a gray area of legality. Sure, the distributors can go elsewhere if they don't want to edit... but where the hell else can they go?
Sure I can write a better browser... but when all that exists is Windows+IE where the hell can I run it?
From the unicom.com article: Updates: This article was posted to Slashdot. That explains the large number and... uhhh... variable quality of the comments that follow.
Nobody cares about these people, because they can't afford to donate to political campaigns.
Same issue also applies to people (ie, me) who don't want to pay for cable/satellite. Anybody else think that selling off the public TV spectrum would be a sneaky way for the govt. to create a nice big new revenue stream for the big media providers? Maybe i'm just having a glass-is-half-empty day today....
I am the American government. I am the Democratic party and the Republican party. I am the CEO of AOL. I am the Nation of Islam. I am an Indian worker at a cheap plant in Bangladesh.
BAWLS Guarana, www.bawls.com, is a high caffeine soft drink made from the guarana berry from the Amazonian Rainforest. The caffeine derived from guarana is twice as powerful as the caffeine derived from coffee.
I thought caffeine was caffeine was caffeine was a single molecule. How can a molecule from one source be "twice as powerful" as the same molecule from another source?
Or maybe I've just had too much coffee, and now I'm all paranoid.
"My husband thinks it's the most moronic sport ever," said Nola Cutts, co-chairwoman of the state Geocaching Association, who goes geocaching with her children twice a week. "But he's into fly fishing, so I guess we all have our own moronic sports."
Why not combine the two and double the moronic value? Next up: GeoFlyFishing. "There's a lunker at N34.56.789 W117.45.678, first one to catch it wins. Wait, its moving - W117.45.679 - W117.45.680 - W117.45.681 -..."
Doesn't this make linmagau.org guilty of distribution of Gramophile, a DMCA-violating tool? After all, clicks and pops and scratches sound like copy protection to _me_....
Unfortunately, the other 90% of the country still do listen to radio and watch TV. They may not be able to afford to have cable, or to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, or to pay an ISP. They can't afford the choices of information sources that I can. These are the people who will be hurt by media consolidation. I suspect the average/.'er is more educated, more motivated, and has better access to other sources of information than that 90%.
What really bakes my noodle: that 90% votes, and their vote counts just as much as mine does. What happens at election time, when that 90% goes to the polls to cast their votes based on information they've gotten handed to them by the biggest of the big media giants?
For my edification, who was the Guthrie after which the cards were named? When I first saw the article I thought "Why the hell would Woody be involved in something like that?"
With millions of players and competitions being held worldwide, in 1993, Frenchman Laurent Garnier decided to create an independent world-governing association, now known as the Federation of International Sports Table Football (FISTF).
The Once and Future King, by T. H. White. It is a telling of the Arthurian legend, but it is done with such style and grace that it had me in tears by the end.
A band I was in ( Drunken Monkey ) recorded one of the songs for this game way back when - the funky theme song for Stiletto. Its kinda cool to see the game still going....
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Well, dammit, now I'm thinking. I was just trying to be funny before (time will tell if i succeeded).
... this kind of data integration will be a killer app. Want to know what other shows a cast member has been in? Move the cursor over the person on the screen and mash the Info button. Since everything is integrated, a little bit of pattern recognition goes into effect, a request to some webservice is generated, and you get a popup with a list of that actor's other roles. Heck, you wouldn't even need pattern recognition. The digital video stream could include "what actor is where on screen at what time" info, kinda like a big dynamic <map>.
;-)
As the TV becomes the computer becomes the home theatre becomes the DVD player becomes
Now if Microsoft would hurry up and get all this done we'd truly be in multi-media heaven (aaahahaha, i kill me
Seconded -- IMDB is a must, especially when you're, say, watching Independence Day and wonder, "Hey, isn't that Lieutenant Getraer from CHiPs?"
IMDB wouldn't really help, because at that point I'd be paralyzed with the shame of my intimate knowledge of CHiPs and thus unable to get to the computer.
younger minds generally work faster
;-)
I think my mind did work faster when I was in my early 20s (i'm late 30s at this point). But it had to. 99% of what came out of it was wrong. So what if my mind doesn't seem to work as fast now? I still get things done quicker, because all those WRONG answers don't even enter into the picture.
Its all about efficiency for me. Getting more work done with less effort. Hey, even though technically I missed GenX (born in 64), I think that qualifies me as a slacker
Sounds like the promo trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.
some others ...
hu.la - every link circles right back to the home page
shino.la - sister domain to sh.it
ebo.la - as if Outlook doesn't provide virii enough
lo.la - La la la la lo la
cocaco.la - surely this is taken
mazo.la - yeah, but we call it maize
ayatol.la - the FBI/CIA/DepHS will be all over you
lego.la/s - okay, this is stretching a bit for a LoTR reference
eno.la - for WWII buffs
This is way offtopic, but the history of this movie fascinates me. "It's a Wonderful Life" was released in '46, received mixed reviews, nominated for some awards, but sank into obscurity. It fell out of copyright and into the public domain in 1974. And because of THAT, TV stations, starting mainly with PBS, picked it up for FREE and started broadcasting it at Christmas. It became one of the most loved, most aired Christmas movies ever. All because it went into the public domain.
r eviews.colossus.net/movies/i/its_won derful.htmlo vies/wonderfu l_life.html
U TF -8&q=%22It%27s+a+wonderful+life%22+public+domain&b tnG=Google+Search
Well, until 1993, when some copyright sleight-of-hand pulled it out of PD.
RIAA? MPAA? DMCA? hello? is this thing on?
references:
http://slate.msn.com/id/1004242/
http://movie-
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
Nah, IBM would sue SCO for illegally revoking their Unix license. After all, SCO currently just alledges that IBM has crossbred Unix and Linux. They haven't proven it yet. Unless the court case happened and I missed it, which I doubt. I'd imagine the contract can't be revoked just on allegations of wrongdoing. Whether or not Linux is tainted doesn't matter. SCO can't say "we think you're bad, we're not going to prove it, but all your codebase are once again belong to us".
... contract law for me is usually a handshake and a "cool, I'll have it to you by Friday".
Or maybe I'm just blowing wind
From the 3rd question in the article:
B) Lenny G. Arbage from Billerica, Mass. asks:
I'm still laughing. Lenny, if that IS your real name, you must get a big kick out of signing things.
Yes, Wallyworld can sell whatever they want, measured against whatever corporate standards of decency they so choose.
... but where the hell else can they go?
... but when all that exists is Windows+IE where the hell can I run it?
But it still saddens me. Here's why, and I've seen this happen over and over and over. Walmart moves in to a community. All the smaller book/record/video/newsstand stores go out of business; they just can't compete. Then all that is left for that community at that point, in an EASILY ACCESSIBLE FORM, is Walmart's definition of "decent".
Yes, I can "shop somewhere else", but what if there IS nowhere else?
Is it legal? I believe it is. Competition == good. It's the American Way (tm). We should all be so lucky.
It is good for the community? I believe it is not.
Also sad is Wallyworld's penchant for pressuring publishers and distributors to modify their books/records/videos/etc before they will stock them. That to me falls solidly in a gray area of legality. Sure, the distributors can go elsewhere if they don't want to edit
Sure I can write a better browser
From the unicom.com article: Updates: This article was posted to Slashdot. That explains the large number and ... uhhh ... variable quality of the comments that follow.
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Welcome to
Any apartments for rent there?
Nobody cares about these people, because they can't afford to donate to political campaigns.
Same issue also applies to people (ie, me) who don't want to pay for cable/satellite. Anybody else think that selling off the public TV spectrum would be a sneaky way for the govt. to create a nice big new revenue stream for the big media providers? Maybe i'm just having a glass-is-half-empty day today....
Hell will never freeze over: http://www.jyi.org/resources/humor/hell.html
I am the American government. I am the Democratic party and the Republican party. I am the CEO of AOL. I am the Nation of Islam. I am an Indian worker at a cheap plant in Bangladesh.
I am Stephens sense of moral outrage.
BAWLS Guarana, www.bawls.com, is a high caffeine soft drink made from the guarana berry from the Amazonian Rainforest. The caffeine derived from guarana is twice as powerful as the caffeine derived from coffee.
I thought caffeine was caffeine was caffeine was a single molecule. How can a molecule from one source be "twice as powerful" as the same molecule from another source?
Or maybe I've just had too much coffee, and now I'm all paranoid.
(from the article)
..."
"My husband thinks it's the most moronic sport ever," said Nola Cutts, co-chairwoman of the state Geocaching Association, who goes geocaching with her children twice a week. "But he's into fly fishing, so I guess we all have our own moronic sports."
Why not combine the two and double the moronic value? Next up: GeoFlyFishing. "There's a lunker at N34.56.789 W117.45.678, first one to catch it wins. Wait, its moving - W117.45.679 - W117.45.680 - W117.45.681 -
To Miss Vermont: Blow me.
Careful what you wish for. She probably will blow you.
Oh, I think that wish was VERY carefully phrased....
report the VChip as disabled, yet it continues to block all programming: golf, kids shows, everything.
As it should.
Doesn't this make linmagau.org guilty of distribution of Gramophile, a DMCA-violating tool? After all, clicks and pops and scratches sound like copy protection to _me_ ....
Unfortunately, the other 90% of the country still do listen to radio and watch TV. They may not be able to afford to have cable, or to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, or to pay an ISP. They can't afford the choices of information sources that I can. These are the people who will be hurt by media consolidation. I suspect the average /.'er is more educated, more motivated, and has better access to other sources of information than that 90%.
What really bakes my noodle: that 90% votes, and their vote counts just as much as mine does. What happens at election time, when that 90% goes to the polls to cast their votes based on information they've gotten handed to them by the biggest of the big media giants?
For my edification, who was the Guthrie after which the cards were named? When I first saw the article I thought "Why the hell would Woody be involved in something like that?"
from current world table football champions:
With millions of players and competitions being held worldwide, in 1993, Frenchman Laurent Garnier decided to create an independent world-governing association, now known as the Federation of International Sports Table Football (FISTF).
The Once and Future King, by T. H. White. It is a telling of the Arthurian legend, but it is done with such style and grace that it had me in tears by the end.
A band I was in ( Drunken Monkey ) recorded one of the songs for this game way back when - the funky theme song for Stiletto. Its kinda cool to see the game still going....
It gets Fox News?
and C-SPAN.