The conveyor belt scene.... has anyone else seen GalaxyQuest? They viciously mock the sci-fi cliche where people have to jump through machines that are "chomping" down onto them. "This episode was badly written!"
Uh, because he had a name that means "father", he was "obviously" Luke Skywalker's father? Why not Han Solo's father? He was also the father of Leia, and the creator of C3PO. Was that also "obvious"?
I'm more inclined to think names like Vader and Sidious are just meant to sound evil based on the English words with similar sounds.
As soon as he said "Maker, it's you", I remember thinking it didn't make sense, but I dismissed it on the grounds that maybe he meant it as in, "Oh my God, it's you!" A stretch, I know....
Elaborate ratings systems and restrictive codes eventually suffocated the comics' angry, biting spirit and made them as bland as network TV -- a cultural loss and free-speech outrage heading soon to a computer near you -- but not before Marvel and other comic creators cranked out some classic yarns, from Spider-Man and Batman to the X-Men and other superheroic tales.
Let's see, the Comics Code Authority came into being in 1954, according to Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code. Spiderman debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962. The X-Men debuted in 1963.
What I THINK Jon was trying to talk about was the demise of EC comics. In the late 40's and early 50's, they published a line of gruesome comics, most famous of which today is Tales from the Crypt. In the anticommunist paranoia of the 1950's, EC ended up shutting down under extreme pressure. There's a lot more to the story than that, and it's a very good story, but it ain't Marvel's story. Spidey was approved by the Comics Code Authority from day 1.
A typically American story, it's less pretentious and hyped than Star Wars and more accessible to kids and die-hard comic book buffs, who remember the great, golden age of Marvel Comics.
Excuse me, did JonKatz just call someone ELSE's work "pretentious and hyped"?! Has the whole world gone mad?
The great golden age of comics? Now you're milking a grumpy old man act? How many comic book companies' work could you buy in an average comic book store in that "golden age"? Marvel and DC and....? For a guy who writes page after page after page about how the ease of publishing online constitutes some kind of revolution, you're brushing off web comics pretty easily.
I'm one of them, I was there.
You were reading comics in 1962? Giving you the benefit of every doubt, that says you were born in 1957, and you're 45 now. So either you're lying through your teeth about this, or all your supposed identifications with youth culture are pretty suspect....
You should check out this 2600 story. They interview the guy, and he answers that question. There's also a link to this article at the very top of this discussion. I think this discussion might have been intended for people who had read the article, but I'm not sure.
Does my supposed contract with the networks allow me to go to the bathroom during commercials?
RTFA. They asked him that question, and he answered it:
I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial.
Add me to the list of users who think we need a (-1, Didn't Read Article) moderation option.
Yeah, I did. I was just saying one shouldn't underestimate the prevalence of streaming MP3, and shouldn't avoid using it on one's site for fear users won't be able to hear it. I guess RealAudio is just the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of streaming content....
Sorry if it sounded inflammatory. The moderators gave me my whipping.:)
MP3 or OGG COULD be used to do the same thing? Um, have you ever been to mp3.com? They have all kinds of streaming MP3. It plays in Winamp, and I assume it should work in XMMS or whatever Linux distributions are using now. I'd venture that as many people have Winamp as have RealPlayer, especially as RealPlayer gets crappier and crappier.
But he's getting better internet connections than I am, and I'm in the middle of Mountain View, home of Netscape, Google and the rest of high-tech culture.
I don't know that area, but if it's an urban area, the difference between where you live and where he lives is probably that providers in his area don't deal with nearly as much of the bureaucratic bulljive that attends city governments.
At least, with socialism, the State takes care of the charities and everyone gets his share, fashionable or not.
Au contraire. Assuming we're talking about democratic socialism, the only people who get shares are those that 51% of voters think should get shares. I'd say "fashionable" could be defined as "supported by a majority of people".
Ignore that if you were talking about a more oligarchical form of socialism, where wealth is distributed equitably by a body that isn't swayed by popular opinion (Marxism-Leninism, etc.)
I don't know if that's EXACTLY how it works. Looking at my box of Tazo Chai (mmmmmmm.....) they have a corporate address in Portland Oregon. Starbucks is listed on their "Contact Us" page as being in Seattle, Washington. Granted, they're kinda close, but I'm pretty sure the relationship is more of a partnership - Starbucks gets to sell great tea, Tazo gets probably the best hot beverage distributor out there.
You probably can't get totally unlimited domestic service, but you can definitely get unlimited nights and weekends. Any calling I do during weekday daylight hours usually consists of, "Yo, I'm stuck in traffic, hopefully I'll be there by 8, love you, bye."
That's not to say you don't have needs that exceed that, but for a lot of people, free nights and weekends pretty much gives them all the calling they could possibly need. Back in the dark ages of 1998, most price-conscious people made their long distance calls during those hours anyway.
Skip the [sic] stuff for typos. It's used for showing that someone is lacking basic writing skills, not that they made a typo. I've been paid for articles published in national magazines, so get off of your high horse.
Actually, [sic] is used to show that a quoted error is the fault not of the writer citing it, but of its original writer. I wasn't going to use the word "unaldulterated" in a post without some kind of explanation.
I know I sound like a broken record with this, but there isn't a market solution (i.e., boycott) for this.... There has to be a political solution.
Well, even the most diehard libertarian would agree with you there. The problem isn't anything the RIAA is doing per se, it's what the government is doing on their behalf. There has to be a political solution because it's a political problem.
for instance if you get DirectTV and an NHL package, you can't get most of the Philadelphia Flyers games, because they are broadcast on ComcastSportNet (Comcast owns the Flyers), and Comcast doesn't release the signal to the satelitte TV providers...i think the same thing hold true for the Mets, Yankees and the other MSG teams up in New York...
Actually, the Phillies and San Diego Padres are the only two teams not shown on DirecTV Extra Innings. (Other than the Montreal Expos, who don't have a TV contract at all.) It's pretty crappy, what with the Phillies now moving off their 100,000 watt radio station to a local one. Sure, you can usually see their games thanks to their opponents' feeds, but how many fans tune in to hear the hometown announcers?
MLB.com audio is the way to go, IMHO. $15 (or $10 if you subscribed last year) gets you all 2400+ games, with every broadcast feed in every language, and unlimited access to the season's archived games.
No way man, Fox 5 New York is the worst. (Although being Fox, maybe it should be disqualified.) The best one ever was "you won't BELIEVE what we found New York strippers doing!"
I was talking to my friend the other day about how news lead-ins are probably becoming obsolete thanks to the Internet. I used to see things like "a MAJOR crisis approaches the city" and be stuck to my chair to find out what was happening, but now all I do is hit up news.yahoo.com - if AP and Reuters don't think it's important, chances are I have nothing to gain from seeing it on Fox 5.
I took the comment as sarcasm. As in net users' being happy because the Nanny State is taking care of it for us, and taxing the Big Evil Corporations (TM) to do so. But maybe the submitter was serious. In which case, that's a shame.
As long as government offices take your money to buy Microsoft software, as long as government schools take your money to teach children to use Microsoft software and nothing else, and as long as government jobs that take your money require submitting a resume in Word DOC format, government will be helping Microsoft's "monopoly" as much as it hinders it. It makes me really suspicious that all "antitrust" actions are just attempts to increase the power of government.
The other thing is, if a cell phone or a pager is being jammed, the device should tell the user ("Out Of Range" or "No Service" message) and you can make a CHOICE to either stay at that establishment (and face the possible consequences)....
Amen and hallelujah. Let the market sort it out. Those who want jamming will get it, and those who don't won't.
After all, was cellular reception EVER guaranteed at ANY indoor establishment? If I own a restaurant and I decide to put extra seating in a basement level, cell service is going to suck down there. Is that "jamming"? Most of the dorms at my university get horrible radio, TV, and cellular reception, but there's no "jamming". If you're a doctor on call, you need to be careful about what buildings you frequent, jamming or no jamming.
Slashdot Mirror
The conveyor belt scene.... has anyone else seen GalaxyQuest? They viciously mock the sci-fi cliche where people have to jump through machines that are "chomping" down onto them. "This episode was badly written!"
Uh, because he had a name that means "father", he was "obviously" Luke Skywalker's father? Why not Han Solo's father? He was also the father of Leia, and the creator of C3PO. Was that also "obvious"?
I'm more inclined to think names like Vader and Sidious are just meant to sound evil based on the English words with similar sounds.
As soon as he said "Maker, it's you", I remember thinking it didn't make sense, but I dismissed it on the grounds that maybe he meant it as in, "Oh my God, it's you!" A stretch, I know....
What I THINK Jon was trying to talk about was the demise of EC comics. In the late 40's and early 50's, they published a line of gruesome comics, most famous of which today is Tales from the Crypt. In the anticommunist paranoia of the 1950's, EC ended up shutting down under extreme pressure. There's a lot more to the story than that, and it's a very good story, but it ain't Marvel's story. Spidey was approved by the Comics Code Authority from day 1.
Excuse me, did JonKatz just call someone ELSE's work "pretentious and hyped"?! Has the whole world gone mad?
The great golden age of comics? Now you're milking a grumpy old man act? How many comic book companies' work could you buy in an average comic book store in that "golden age"? Marvel and DC and....? For a guy who writes page after page after page about how the ease of publishing online constitutes some kind of revolution, you're brushing off web comics pretty easily.
You were reading comics in 1962? Giving you the benefit of every doubt, that says you were born in 1957, and you're 45 now. So either you're lying through your teeth about this, or all your supposed identifications with youth culture are pretty suspect....
You should check out this 2600 story. They interview the guy, and he answers that question. There's also a link to this article at the very top of this discussion. I think this discussion might have been intended for people who had read the article, but I'm not sure.
This one?
Yeah, I did. I was just saying one shouldn't underestimate the prevalence of streaming MP3, and shouldn't avoid using it on one's site for fear users won't be able to hear it. I guess RealAudio is just the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of streaming content....
:)
Sorry if it sounded inflammatory. The moderators gave me my whipping.
MP3 or OGG COULD be used to do the same thing? Um, have you ever been to mp3.com? They have all kinds of streaming MP3. It plays in Winamp, and I assume it should work in XMMS or whatever Linux distributions are using now. I'd venture that as many people have Winamp as have RealPlayer, especially as RealPlayer gets crappier and crappier.
OK, I'll feed this troll some more: how do we "fix the problem"?
Ignore that if you were talking about a more oligarchical form of socialism, where wealth is distributed equitably by a body that isn't swayed by popular opinion (Marxism-Leninism, etc.)
I don't know if that's EXACTLY how it works. Looking at my box of Tazo Chai (mmmmmmm.....) they have a corporate address in Portland Oregon. Starbucks is listed on their "Contact Us" page as being in Seattle, Washington. Granted, they're kinda close, but I'm pretty sure the relationship is more of a partnership - Starbucks gets to sell great tea, Tazo gets probably the best hot beverage distributor out there.
You probably can't get totally unlimited domestic service, but you can definitely get unlimited nights and weekends. Any calling I do during weekday daylight hours usually consists of, "Yo, I'm stuck in traffic, hopefully I'll be there by 8, love you, bye."
That's not to say you don't have needs that exceed that, but for a lot of people, free nights and weekends pretty much gives them all the calling they could possibly need. Back in the dark ages of 1998, most price-conscious people made their long distance calls during those hours anyway.
Anything is possible, considering Commodore 64 Basic is the new AmigaOS.
Do we know each other? Or rather, did you know that my father is a professor of English at Rutgers University? Or is it a total coincidence?
MLB.com audio is the way to go, IMHO. $15 (or $10 if you subscribed last year) gets you all 2400+ games, with every broadcast feed in every language, and unlimited access to the season's archived games.
No way man, Fox 5 New York is the worst. (Although being Fox, maybe it should be disqualified.) The best one ever was "you won't BELIEVE what we found New York strippers doing!"
I was talking to my friend the other day about how news lead-ins are probably becoming obsolete thanks to the Internet. I used to see things like "a MAJOR crisis approaches the city" and be stuck to my chair to find out what was happening, but now all I do is hit up news.yahoo.com - if AP and Reuters don't think it's important, chances are I have nothing to gain from seeing it on Fox 5.
I took the comment as sarcasm. As in net users' being happy because the Nanny State is taking care of it for us, and taxing the Big Evil Corporations (TM) to do so. But maybe the submitter was serious. In which case, that's a shame.
As long as government offices take your money to buy Microsoft software, as long as government schools take your money to teach children to use Microsoft software and nothing else, and as long as government jobs that take your money require submitting a resume in Word DOC format, government will be helping Microsoft's "monopoly" as much as it hinders it. It makes me really suspicious that all "antitrust" actions are just attempts to increase the power of government.
After all, was cellular reception EVER guaranteed at ANY indoor establishment? If I own a restaurant and I decide to put extra seating in a basement level, cell service is going to suck down there. Is that "jamming"? Most of the dorms at my university get horrible radio, TV, and cellular reception, but there's no "jamming". If you're a doctor on call, you need to be careful about what buildings you frequent, jamming or no jamming.