Let me preface this by saying I work at G4, in the Web Development department. (And I'm a regular Slashdotter)
Here are some responses to some of the posts here:
I would probably nominate Portal as the worst show on TV, on any channel in existence. Anyone have a worse one?
I'd say Portal is an aquired taste - some people are fanatical fanboys of it, and some don't get it. There is a lot of good humor in it, it makes fun of itself and of the MMORPG game genre. If nothing else, it's unique and creative and there is nothing like it out there. Isn't that what people ask for when they say how bad modern TV is?
Excuse my ignorance, but does G4 play trailers? If not, they should, and they should do it "en masse". Rather than downloading these big motha trailers off the net, I'd much rather see em on my television, at television quality. Trailer after trailer... that's what they should air.
One of our shows, Cinematech is only trailers and game footage. Since this show doesn't have hosts, it's all about the editing of the footage - and the editor that works on this show is really talented.
There just isn't enough programming on the channel though to keep me interested. You can only watch the same Pringles commercial(are they their only sponsor?) over and over and over again
You must have watched the channel when we just launched. We had a very limited inventory of episodes to air from, and only a few sponsors have signed up. Things have changed significantly since then.
Besides, the information provided on the shows is borderline useless. If I wanted to know how to beat a certain game, I would think that it is just easier to look it up on the internet instead of waiting until 7:30 to see it on the tv.
Some of the shows are targetted more at the casual gamer, or even the wanna-be casual gamer. Being online over-exposes you to the hard-core gamer, but joe six-pack sitting at home playing Madden 2004 on his PS2 never heard of Slashdot or the Gamespys and the IGNs for that matter. And the proof for that is that our show CHEAT is one of the most popular shows, even though you can easily get cheats online.
I love radio. AM/FM/Talk/Music/News/Traffic etc.
I actually managed to get streaming audio in my car...I almost cried.
My Sprint Treo 300 with the PDANet software on the phone, connected to my Laptop with the same software allows me to dial up to the internet directly through the sprint network. I got speeds of 160kb/s which is more than enough to stream any online radio station. I connected it to my car stereo through the cassette adaptor, and I was listening to Shoutcast stations on the drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Ok, yes I am a true geek, but that's besides the point. Mobile streaming radio is possible!
(That, and I'm of course also an XM radio subscriber)
Computers are a different story. Have a CAPTCHA randomly spit out 10 words to the screen and have the user pick the 3 that are associated with one another, say for example HOUSE, LOG, FRONT, CAT, BROWN, DOG, CART, RUNNING, HOUR, MOUSE.
Actually "Google Sets" does a good job of creating those "Human only" associations you speak of.
this set brings up "dog" (among others) when given "mouse" and "cat".
or if you don't like the $500 or so price tag thats going to tied to the Treo 600 (it's coming out first week in october), then check out the Treo 300, which now can be had for $100 in places. It's a Palm OS/phone. I've been using it for the last year and I love it. Of course I'm going to upgrade to the 600 as soon as it comes out:)
I'm an SBC DSL subscriber. Tonight I got a letter from a laywer suing SBC for class action lawsuit, claiming the service wasn't all it was claimed to be, and demanding one month free service or $20 for each participant. At first I thought "oh cool" and started filling out the form to be part of the lawsuit. After filling it out completely, and even addressing the letter, I realized I really was pretty satisfied with their service, and that this seems a little bit of a frivolous lawsuit. I tore up the letter and threw it out thinking "i'm not going to support a stupid lawsuit like this that will end up raising DSL prices for consumers".
After reading this story - I'm glad I did. Go SBC!
On top of that they were genetically engineering the poor mice to have low energy levels and small genitals, forever making them the fat and unattractive ones (the mice).
Now all we need to do is the genetic opposite, package it in a pill, and sell it during late night infomercials.
"The Penigizer will not only make your manhood larger, it will energize you! And if you call within the next 10 minutes we'll include the handy-stich portable sewing machine!"
I know quite a few people who all of a sudden know a lot more about the GPL than they ever did, thanks to SCO. One of them even installed Linux for the first time, and realized what a great thing open source is.
Unfortunately, your troll appears to be proven wrong by reality at this moment
Absolutely!
I'm getting 120 KB/s down with BT right now. (and it's uploading at 10kb/s) on my SBC DSL. It'll take about 3 minutes by the time its done. The official link aborted about 1MB three times.
Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues;
First I wanna say, seriously: DAMN.
Then I'd like to add: They opened a sea-world about an hour away recently. If it follows in sea-lands footsteps...it's going to be quite the party over there!
For those of us who have actually had sex with a female biped (sorry, mares dont count), can you tell us "Ogg Vorbis" is what, exactly?
I believe part of the Ogg Vorbis specification prevents people who had actually had sex with female bipeds from being able to hear it - but I'm not sure - I'm going to go back to my parents basement and reread the RFC.
...whether Microsoft had violated portions of the settlement prohibiting pacts requiring exclusive support of Microsoft software
They're also in violation of their restraining order against me, they're not supposed to come within 100 yards the judge said. But they're righ here, on my computer. GET AWAY! GET AWAY!
Great- you just made me notice that my Windows XP menus has shadows. I don't know how long its been there, but now it's disturbing me and I want the shadow OFF!!! Thanks a lot slashdot.
competing project
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I've actually started a competing project to this, three months ago! They beat me to the punch though. Check out my version of X11 in ASCII:
For example, an employee could smuggle out data from a network possibly under the radar of most IDSes and the eyes of net admins
that would be security through obscurity - which we all know can not be relied on. Now if those messages were also encrypted with 512bit keys, then it would be something, but then you might as well include the message in the actual data part of the packet.
reminds me of my mom - I told her that Chillean Sea Bass is an endangered species and that restaurants that do serve it are breaking the law. Since then it's the only thing she orders whenever it's available...
I have shot Lorna. This is not a joke.
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from the article:
Her words were, "I have shot Lorna. This is not a joke." A perfect demonstration of my point (I don't get many of those) - the first thing you think when you read a text is that it is a joke.
what "texting" really needs is a global slashdot-style qualifier, such as
"The hotel was very, very upscale. The running water was a nice touch! - Dr, Collins Mdadiwe
is the comma after "Dr"
an actual authentic touch on the part of the guy that made this web page who found out after some research that they indeed use a comma in this manner in Nigeria
a typo on his part
part of the joke on the typos prevalent in these kinds of e-mails
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Here are some responses to some of the posts here:
I would probably nominate Portal as the worst show on TV, on any channel in existence. Anyone have a worse one?
I'd say Portal is an aquired taste - some people are fanatical fanboys of it, and some don't get it. There is a lot of good humor in it, it makes fun of itself and of the MMORPG game genre. If nothing else, it's unique and creative and there is nothing like it out there. Isn't that what people ask for when they say how bad modern TV is?
Excuse my ignorance, but does G4 play trailers? If not, they should, and they should do it "en masse". Rather than downloading these big motha trailers off the net, I'd much rather see em on my television, at television quality. Trailer after trailer... that's what they should air.
One of our shows, Cinematech is only trailers and game footage. Since this show doesn't have hosts, it's all about the editing of the footage - and the editor that works on this show is really talented.
There just isn't enough programming on the channel though to keep me interested. You can only watch the same Pringles commercial(are they their only sponsor?) over and over and over again
You must have watched the channel when we just launched. We had a very limited inventory of episodes to air from, and only a few sponsors have signed up. Things have changed significantly since then.
Besides, the information provided on the shows is borderline useless. If I wanted to know how to beat a certain game, I would think that it is just easier to look it up on the internet instead of waiting until 7:30 to see it on the tv.
Some of the shows are targetted more at the casual gamer, or even the wanna-be casual gamer. Being online over-exposes you to the hard-core gamer, but joe six-pack sitting at home playing Madden 2004 on his PS2 never heard of Slashdot or the Gamespys and the IGNs for that matter. And the proof for that is that our show CHEAT is one of the most popular shows, even though you can easily get cheats online.
I love radio. AM/FM/Talk/Music/News/Traffic etc. I actually managed to get streaming audio in my car...I almost cried. My Sprint Treo 300 with the PDANet software on the phone, connected to my Laptop with the same software allows me to dial up to the internet directly through the sprint network. I got speeds of 160kb/s which is more than enough to stream any online radio station. I connected it to my car stereo through the cassette adaptor, and I was listening to Shoutcast stations on the drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Ok, yes I am a true geek, but that's besides the point. Mobile streaming radio is possible! (That, and I'm of course also an XM radio subscriber)
Actually "Google Sets" does a good job of creating those "Human only" associations you speak of.
this set brings up "dog" (among others) when given "mouse" and "cat".
or if you don't like the $500 or so price tag thats going to tied to the Treo 600 (it's coming out first week in october), then check out the Treo 300, which now can be had for $100 in places. It's a Palm OS/phone. I've been using it for the last year and I love it. Of course I'm going to upgrade to the 600 as soon as it comes out :)
If you're interested, you can read about the lawsuite here and here.
I'm an SBC DSL subscriber. Tonight I got a letter from a laywer suing SBC for class action lawsuit, claiming the service wasn't all it was claimed to be, and demanding one month free service or $20 for each participant. At first I thought "oh cool" and started filling out the form to be part of the lawsuit. After filling it out completely, and even addressing the letter, I realized I really was pretty satisfied with their service, and that this seems a little bit of a frivolous lawsuit. I tore up the letter and threw it out thinking "i'm not going to support a stupid lawsuit like this that will end up raising DSL prices for consumers".
After reading this story - I'm glad I did. Go SBC!
Now all we need to do is the genetic opposite, package it in a pill, and sell it during late night infomercials.
"The Penigizer will not only make your manhood larger, it will energize you! And if you call within the next 10 minutes we'll include the handy-stich portable sewing machine!"
The second review is dry, pretty much contentless, and really not very helpfull at all.
for some reason, any story on slashdot about goats will have an air of suspicion for me.
Absolutely!
I'm getting 120 KB/s down with BT right now. (and it's uploading at 10kb/s) on my SBC DSL. It'll take about 3 minutes by the time its done. The official link aborted about 1MB three times.
I think you missed the point - it's not just a costume - it's the actual props used in the movies/TV shows.
and thereafter all packets from said IP's are market with the Evil Bit.
First I wanna say, seriously: DAMN.
Then I'd like to add: They opened a sea-world about an hour away recently. If it follows in sea-lands footsteps...it's going to be quite the party over there!
I believe part of the Ogg Vorbis specification prevents people who had actually had sex with female bipeds from being able to hear it - but I'm not sure - I'm going to go back to my parents basement and reread the RFC.
They're also in violation of their restraining order against me, they're not supposed to come within 100 yards the judge said. But they're righ here, on my computer. GET AWAY! GET AWAY!
Rated R for extreme acts of unadulterated shoplifting.
Banned in Egypt due to graphic depiction of bayoneting.
Great- you just made me notice that my Windows XP menus has shadows. I don't know how long its been there, but now it's disturbing me and I want the shadow OFF!!! Thanks a lot slashdot.
that would be security through obscurity - which we all know can not be relied on. Now if those messages were also encrypted with 512bit keys, then it would be something, but then you might as well include the message in the actual data part of the packet.
reminds me of my mom - I told her that Chillean Sea Bass is an endangered species and that restaurants that do serve it are breaking the law. Since then it's the only thing she orders whenever it's available...
what "texting" really needs is a global slashdot-style qualifier, such as
+5, Serious
"I have shot Lorna."
Maybe with this overhaul they'll come out with better microtine patches and I'll be able to look my friends and family in the eyes, once again.
"The hotel was very, very upscale. The running water was a nice touch! - Dr, Collins Mdadiwe
is the comma after "Dr"