> AOL said digital media on the service can play directly from a Web browser without the need to download a standalone software application, as with Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iTunes service. It is also compatible with Microsoft Corp.'s PlayforSure compatible portable devices.
Translation: If you're using Windows, you have an MS DRM-compliant player (Windows Media Player) installed. You therefore don't need iTunes. It gives you DRM-cripped windows media files, and it requires that you run IE, with ActiveX and Javascript turned on.
Tearing down the wall around the garden? Hardly. Just changing the name spraypainted on the Gates.
> Hewlett-Packard has deployed a large team consisting of many scientists and many more lawyers looking for possible ink patent infringement. With more than 4,000 patents on their ink formulations and cartridge design and a market share of more than 50 percent in the US HP depends heavily on the sale of ink to make profit after sometimes selling their printers at a loss in order to lock in the ink resale.
I met a traveller from a silicon land
Who said:
Two life-sized cutouts of cardboard
Stand near Palo Alto. Near it, at 367 Addison Avenue,
Half sunk, a shatter'd garage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on a pedestal in Cupertino these words appear: "My name is Carly Fiorina, queen of queens:
Look on my works, Bill and David, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, outsourced and bare,
The stock options stretch far out of the money.
> Um, were you expecting a 5.8 megabyte PDF containing a strategy guide or something? It doesn't take that many words to get this point across.
My point was that whoever submitted this to Slashdot linked to a 5.8 megabyte PDF in order to talk about an article that was 3847 bytes long... A 1663-to-1 bloat factor has gotta be near the top of the charts for bandwidth wastage, even by our standards.
About the only thing more wasteful would have been linking to a 60-minute HDTV broadcast, in order to talk about the 30 seconds of talking-head "editorial video" starting at 22:17 and ending at 22:47. Seriously not cool.
2 old 2 play? No, just 2 big 2 bother with. Because the "article" we're supposed to be talking about is a one-page editorial column of approximately 5 kilobytes of text.
Seriously, poster: What the figgety-fucking-fuck were you thinking, and what do you have against archive.org?
> See, this spam worked because about 200 of the people received it did die in 7 days. Its always that small percentage of people responding to the spam that keeps the spammers going. Damn those people.
And that should be his punishment. He should be forced to use his product. In other words, the judge should have ordered him to die... and the method used should require seven days to complete.
And just so we're clear here, by "should require seven days to complete", I'm thinking "acetominophen overdose and ensuing liver failure", as opposed to "shotgun pointed at his head, electromagnet keeping a spring-loaded trigger from closing, powered by a battery designed to last about a week."
Re:Compare this to a Pure Digital camera
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Diebold Flops in Alaska
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Funny you should mention Pure Digital.
When you're in the business of building $30 one-time-use camcorders, and you mistakenly leave your FTP site open with your client-side software on it, and some hacker figures out the cipher and the key length, and some other hacker takes that information and performs a clean-room reverse-engineering and writes a little distributed application that results in a third group of enterprising hackers brute-forcing the key within two days, and when you're gracious enough to post a polite request instead of a cease-and-desist, and the people who cracked your hardware are ethical enough to take down the offending code to help keep you in business... things work out pretty nicely. Even if there are a few mirrors of the missing piece of the puzzle floating around on the 'net.
When you're in the business of deciding whether the R-sociopaths or the D-sociopaths gets to govern a trillion-dollar economy, and the source code to the machines that control access to all that money, all that power, and all those guns happens to leak.... probably not so good.
> But they could probably top 350 MPH if they'd ditch the CB antenna and Yosemite Sam "Back Off" mudflaps.
Me an' Tim was haulin' chickens
O'er a lakebed outa Wiggins
And we had spent all night on the uphill side,
Of thirty seven hundred square miles of hell called Bonneville Flats,
(Which was up on the great divide...)
And we was sittin' there readin' Slashdot,
And moderatin' like Crow T. Trollbot,
And I says "Tim, let's send an Internet down the tubes,
And then send them chickens on down t'other side"
(Yeah, lets give them hens a ride.)
Chorus:
Bonneville flats, way up on the great divide,
Truckin' on down, the other side.
Leverton put down his bottle,
With Andy's foot down on the throttle,
Ate a couple o' smores, then 1500 horse,
from a two-thousand-ought-six Dieselmax screamed to life.
(We woke up the chickens.)
We roared up off'n that shoulder,
Sprayin' pine cones rocks 'n boulders,
And put four hundred head of them Rhode Island Reds
And a couple of burnt out roosters on the line.
(Look out below. 'cause here we go...)
...and I really don't have to change another word of
Wolf Creek Pass, by C.W. McCall, from that point onwards, because the ride was just about as hairy.
'Cept for that feed store in downtown Pagosa Springs. Place was still a mess from when that truck done run through it.
LilJen1992 says:
__OMG LIEK TEHER IS SUM RILLY CREPY CHAP TAH WANTS ME TO... UGHGHGHGH!!!!11 Constable Nigel says:
__4 ril? LilJen1992 says:
__Yeh he is so grss!!!1 Constable Nigel says:
__kk jess gimme his s/n
LilJen1992 says:
__kk its 111-111-111 plz kick hiz ass 4 me.
Constable Nigel says:
__aight i put on my uniform and bobby hat.
LilJen1992 says:
__What the f*ck, again?
Constable Nigel says:
__damn I still gotta write down your names or something.
> You had me believing it could work like RHPS up until "SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like..." All the examples you gave reminded me more of would-be funny guys in high school that are more annoying than anything and less of some kind of "cult following" like RHPS has.
The first line was from RHPS, and worked just fine with SoaP, too. RHPS fans have had years to swap jokes and work out which callouts work best. SoaP has had only the first weekend, and 99% of the people in the theater were (by definition, unless someone had purchased tickets for two showings and seen them one after the other) SoaP virgins.
SoaP may (probably will) flame out within a week. But this is precisely how RHPS got its start.
> In addition, I think that this movie will probably see a LOT more profits on DVD than in the theater. For example, I'd love to take my wife to see it, but it just isn't an important enough movie to us to bring in the babysitter to watch the kids. We'd much rather wait until it hits DVD, then watch it in the comfort of our own home. It will be just as much fun there, and quite a bit more comfortable.
You're missing the point. Snakes is best viewed in a theater. Preferably a theater full of drunk and rowdy wise-asses who are gleefully MST3King every line they can.
Farkers who saw Snakes on a Plane at one of the opening night parties or at other midnight showings over the first weekend got a treat. The real test will be whether the theaters are as rowdy at any late-night showings this weekend. If the movie can draw a cult following for a second weekend, audience participation might snowball and take off.
Like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, seeing "Snakes on a DVD" in the privacy and comfort of your home misses the whole point of the experience, which was audience partici-SAY IT!-pation. Like RHPS, SoaP is a "meh" movie when viewed in the privacy of one's own home. Also like RHPS, SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like "Red Bull gives your product placement wings!", counting down the last few seconds to snakularity, "First one to scream gets it in the tits!", throwing snakes around the theater at the appropriate moments, yelling "snakes on a cart!" when the beverage cart shows up, appending "Bitch!" to some of Sam's lines, and so on.
In an ideal universe, the last 90 days of Maureen Govern's search records would be published in a form suitable for addition to the database.
Re:Chuck E Cheez - our robot elvis man-dog overlor
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iPods at War
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· Score: 1
> Did you ever go to any of the last of the "old style" Chuck E Cheez's before they closed down? You know, the ones where you'd walk down a hall and look off to the side and there would be a huge auditorium, empty of humans, and on a stage was a band made of giant Elvis man-dog robots that shook and gyrated, with their crude mechanics making so much noise that the songs in the speakers couldn't even be heard? If this scene (and it was real) isn't as close as you can come to the future war with the robots, then nothing is.
> Sure you can drive a Beetle over it, but so you know the bandwidth of a Beetle full of thumbdrives on the highway?
Not bad. But it's nothing compared to what you get if you start by feeding a bunch of thumbdrives to a bunch of in order to get 'em past the security checkpoint, and fill a 777 with 'em. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a muthafuckin' 777 full of muchta*BLAM BLAM BLAM*
(That's IT! I have HAD IT with these MUTHAFUCKIN' memes on this MUTHAFUCKIN' website!
Before politicians whined about GTA, they whined about the fatalities in Mortal Kombat.
Before that, they whined about Exidy's Death Race (1975), and Chiller.
And at home, in 1982, there was Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600 console.
And from its very invention up until the 70s, people had to go to court to prove that pinball was a game of skill, not a game of chance, and that pinball machines were therefore not illegal gambling machines.
For everything fun, there's gonna be some idiot with a (D) or an (R) beside his or her name telling you not to do it. Fuck 'em all.
Knew I shouldn't have read the Nam-Shub of Enki out loud. Bloody buffer ovrflows. At least I got this nifty Sumerian-to-English plug-in from L. Bob Rife.
> Nixon resigned under the shadow of impeachment for illegally wiretapping a hotel. One single place. This administration basically wrietapped the entire country.
"Everyone screams that they want a government that listens to its people. We did that, and then y'all turn around and ask the us to stop listening. What gives? Make up your minds, or maybe it's time for us to just dissolve the people and elected a new one!" - Your Government
Slashdot Mirror
Translation: If you're using Windows, you have an MS DRM-compliant player (Windows Media Player) installed. You therefore don't need iTunes. It gives you DRM-cripped windows media files, and it requires that you run IE, with ActiveX and Javascript turned on.
Tearing down the wall around the garden? Hardly. Just changing the name spraypainted on the Gates.
The moon is a harsh mistress.
Corollary: A mass driver respects no safeword.
I met a traveller from a silicon land
Who said: Two life-sized cutouts of cardboard
Stand near Palo Alto. Near it, at 367 Addison Avenue,
Half sunk, a shatter'd garage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on a pedestal in Cupertino these words appear:
"My name is Carly Fiorina, queen of queens:
Look on my works, Bill and David, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, outsourced and bare,
The stock options stretch far out of the money.
My point was that whoever submitted this to Slashdot linked to a 5.8 megabyte PDF in order to talk about an article that was 3847 bytes long... A 1663-to-1 bloat factor has gotta be near the top of the charts for bandwidth wastage, even by our standards.
About the only thing more wasteful would have been linking to a 60-minute HDTV broadcast, in order to talk about the 30 seconds of talking-head "editorial video" starting at 22:17 and ending at 22:47. Seriously not cool.
I'm a doctor, not an editor! Not kill I.
It's an article, CmdrTaco, but not as we know it. Ahead mod factor five.
Slashdotted in zero.
2 old 2 play? No, just 2 big 2 bother with. Because the "article" we're supposed to be talking about is a one-page editorial column of approximately 5 kilobytes of text.
Seriously, poster: What the figgety-fucking-fuck were you thinking, and what do you have against archive.org?
Pluto downgraded. President still fucking Goofy.
> They sue me
> We're all part of a
> Lawyer-enriching Copyright industry that contributes little to the public good.
To the Lyons partners,
Dewey Cheatem, Howe,
Up yours, Barney.
Pay Stu now.
Clearly what's needed is more violence in Pac-Man.
The font in which "503 - Connection failed" is rendered happens to be vectorized. Does that count?
And that should be his punishment. He should be forced to use his product. In other words, the judge should have ordered him to die... and the method used should require seven days to complete.
And just so we're clear here, by "should require seven days to complete", I'm thinking "acetominophen overdose and ensuing liver failure", as opposed to "shotgun pointed at his head, electromagnet keeping a spring-loaded trigger from closing, powered by a battery designed to last about a week."
When you're in the business of building $30 one-time-use camcorders, and you mistakenly leave your FTP site open with your client-side software on it, and some hacker figures out the cipher and the key length, and some other hacker takes that information and performs a clean-room reverse-engineering and writes a little distributed application that results in a third group of enterprising hackers brute-forcing the key within two days, and when you're gracious enough to post a polite request instead of a cease-and-desist, and the people who cracked your hardware are ethical enough to take down the offending code to help keep you in business... things work out pretty nicely. Even if there are a few mirrors of the missing piece of the puzzle floating around on the 'net.
When you're in the business of deciding whether the R-sociopaths or the D-sociopaths gets to govern a trillion-dollar economy, and the source code to the machines that control access to all that money, all that power, and all those guns happens to leak.... probably not so good.
Me an' Tim was haulin' chickens
O'er a lakebed outa Wiggins
And we had spent all night on the uphill side,
Of thirty seven hundred square miles of hell called Bonneville Flats,
(Which was up on the great divide...)
And we was sittin' there readin' Slashdot,
And moderatin' like Crow T. Trollbot,
And I says "Tim, let's send an Internet down the tubes,
And then send them chickens on down t'other side"
(Yeah, lets give them hens a ride.)
Chorus:
Bonneville flats, way up on the great divide,
Truckin' on down, the other side.
Leverton put down his bottle,
With Andy's foot down on the throttle,
Ate a couple o' smores, then 1500 horse,
from a two-thousand-ought-six Dieselmax screamed to life.
(We woke up the chickens.)
We roared up off'n that shoulder,
Sprayin' pine cones rocks 'n boulders,
And put four hundred head of them Rhode Island Reds
And a couple of burnt out roosters on the line.
(Look out below. 'cause here we go...)
'Cept for that feed store in downtown Pagosa Springs. Place was still a mess from when that truck done run through it.
LilJen1992 says:
__kk its 111-111-111 plz kick hiz ass 4 me.
Constable Nigel says:
__aight i put on my uniform and bobby hat.
LilJen1992 says:
__What the f*ck, again?
Constable Nigel says:
__damn I still gotta write down your names or something.
Well, that is the problem, isn't it? (Can't you sickos stop thinking of the children for a bit? :)
The first line was from RHPS, and worked just fine with SoaP, too. RHPS fans have had years to swap jokes and work out which callouts work best. SoaP has had only the first weekend, and 99% of the people in the theater were (by definition, unless someone had purchased tickets for two showings and seen them one after the other) SoaP virgins.
SoaP may (probably will) flame out within a week. But this is precisely how RHPS got its start.
"Oh great. Lawyers on crack."
You're missing the point. Snakes is best viewed in a theater. Preferably a theater full of drunk and rowdy wise-asses who are gleefully MST3King every line they can.
Farkers who saw Snakes on a Plane at one of the opening night parties or at other midnight showings over the first weekend got a treat. The real test will be whether the theaters are as rowdy at any late-night showings this weekend. If the movie can draw a cult following for a second weekend, audience participation might snowball and take off.
Like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, seeing "Snakes on a DVD" in the privacy and comfort of your home misses the whole point of the experience, which was audience partici-SAY IT!-pation. Like RHPS, SoaP is a "meh" movie when viewed in the privacy of one's own home. Also like RHPS, SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like "Red Bull gives your product placement wings!", counting down the last few seconds to snakularity, "First one to scream gets it in the tits!", throwing snakes around the theater at the appropriate moments, yelling "snakes on a cart!" when the beverage cart shows up, appending "Bitch!" to some of Sam's lines, and so on.
In an ideal universe, the last 90 days of Maureen Govern's search records would be published in a form suitable for addition to the database.
Pah! I'll see your animatronic mice and raise you Survival Research Laboratories!
Not bad. But it's nothing compared to what you get if you start by feeding a bunch of thumbdrives to a bunch of in order to get 'em past the security checkpoint, and fill a 777 with 'em. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a muthafuckin' 777 full of muchta*BLAM BLAM BLAM*
(That's IT! I have HAD IT with these MUTHAFUCKIN' memes on this MUTHAFUCKIN' website!
Before that, they whined about Exidy's Death Race (1975), and Chiller.
And at home, in 1982, there was Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600 console.
And from its very invention up until the 70s, people had to go to court to prove that pinball was a game of skill, not a game of chance, and that pinball machines were therefore not illegal gambling machines.
For everything fun, there's gonna be some idiot with a (D) or an (R) beside his or her name telling you not to do it. Fuck 'em all.
SINUSOIDAL FUNCTIONS on a CARTESIAN PLANE?
(No, wait, that was ROBERT Mc ELWAINE! :)
>
> KERNAL PANIC!!!
Knew I shouldn't have read the Nam-Shub of Enki out loud. Bloody buffer ovrflows. At least I got this nifty Sumerian-to-English plug-in from L. Bob Rife.
"Everyone screams that they want a government that listens to its people. We did that, and then y'all turn around and ask the us to stop listening. What gives? Make up your minds, or maybe it's time for us to just dissolve the people and elected a new one!"
- Your Government