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Amen!
This episode made me laugh, and it made me cry... I knew that the bungled geek-talk would piss off all/.ers but at the same time figured seeing Scully mow down the baddies might make up for it...
...especially at the end when her head was pasted on the hot girlie body.;-)
But seriously, I agree with the lot of you that they could possibly have handled this issue better. Like maybe doing better research. Anybody think this show hurt/helped the FPS image? (Or are the only people who watch the X-Files already gamers anyway?)
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(There is an Open Source MP4 encoder/decoder for Linux, now. The sooner people start taking that seriously, the better.)
As much as/.ers hate to hear it, Linux is still a small piece of the pie. All the frat kids that go to mp3.com are on Windows. (Oh and mp4.com points to mp3.com.)
I tend to agree with Mr. Hemos here that by the time this battle is over, the war will have been fought and won around them. Mp3 is here, it's popular and it works for me. The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If musicians stopped feeling like they need to be on MTV, and started committing to a DIY set-up, then the big labels really would be in trouble.
I can't speak for Brittany Spears, but I don't WANT to be on MTV. Have you looked at it lately? Where the hell is Downtown Julie Brown?! I have a site up at mp3.com, and am fully aware that people may download my music and do whatever they want with it. That excites me, though - it means they liked it. For 3 minutes they listened to me instead of Ricky Martin. I am of the opinion that the mp3 'revolution' is helping musicians to network and connect, share ideas and recording tips, etc. Most of the musicians I know aren't out to become mega-billionaires. They just want to be able to make a living off their music. (Some of us don't even have that much ambition - I have a pretty sweet day job, and do music on the weekends.) That's not to say that if, oh, Grand Royal dug my sound and wanted to sign me up for a 3 album deal I wouldn't think long and hard about it.
Ultimately I don't see this as being an issue of how musicians are wanting to get airplay and TV time. It's about artists signing away their rights to big recording companies, who in turn market them, squeeze their popularity dry and then move on to the next big cash cow.
And let's not forget the unwashed millions who buy the drek they play on FM top 40, people whose favorite song changes every week, who are supporting the MTV culture instead of searching out unique and unsigned artists.
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Born under the wobbling 'moon' Cruithne, you resonate with the sign of the Waffle. Your life is one of inconsistency, you bounce from job to job, relationship to relationship, never quite making that final connection. (On the other hand, you avoid conflict at all cost.) People see you as something of an enigma, following a different path than your peers. Since the conditions at the time of your birth will not come around again for another 700 years or so, you will never find contentment in this life. Hope that you are born again under a planet with a shorter orbit.
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Then again, anybody lazy enough to use this surrogate confessional probably deserves to be shown up for the dork they are. The whole premise of this site makes me laugh.
What do you guys think about religion and the internet? Can the two mix? (I mean in a worship/practice way, not merely as a means of transmitting basic information.)
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Though I am usually the only woman there, I enjoy a good LAN party. (Current games we're playing include Q3, Starcraft, and Darkstone.) I used to dig the old school RPGs like DragonWarriorI-IV for Nintendo, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, etc. But once I learned how to frag with attitude I was hooked. I challenge you all to a good Quaking!!!!:-)
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Well, maybe I am a bit naive about the depth and permanence of corruption, but doesn't anyone think that lobbyists and special interest groups can be rooted out? Bribes and favors aside, John Q. Voters still outnumber Rich Ass Charities. If we vote in government pay cuts and flat rate tax laws, they have to enact them. We hold the power, my point was that we've just lost sight of it. Somebody back me up here!:-)
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I heard this story on NPR yesterday (while stuck in snow and traffic - erg!) and they only briefly touched on the issue of voter apathy. 'Oh the internet will get all the 20-somethings to vote' was about the extent of it. While I will say that I don't vote as often as I could/should due to schedules/weather/PMS/etc., I believe that for the majority of my peers voter apathy rests with political distrust and disinterest. The public schools may require that you learn about the system but it's done in a very inefficient manner (I think I got a 'B' in 12th grade Government class, but ask me how a bill becomes law - ???). What's needed is for the youth of this country to be shown, not told, how the government works. They have to believe that corruption is beatable. Right now, even I have a hard time believing that. Technology shmecnology, online voting will happen. It's not a matter of when or even how. It's still an issue of voter apathy.
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Second, will Linus' attempt to defend his trademark ultimately prove futile as more and more sites/companies/people start using the word Linux
Yes, I believe so. Unless you send a surfing force of thousands out onto the net every day there's no way you can really keep your name safe. I do agree with you that it's great that Linus is taking the time to de-mystify the monster, but I really don't see a way to solve the problem (especially with the current growth of the web).
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after reading the 4 page doc on it, you'll find that its quite efficent
Would your grandmother read 4 pages just to figure out how to send Aunt Martha an email? Hell no. EASE of use, INTUITIVENESS, not efficiency. Efficiency is important but unfortunately it is a distant second for most folks.
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I used to work for an ISP who loved Linux, tried to give it to everybody who came in the door. Everybody knows Windoze, and won't switch. I now work in a less geeky place where I am forced to use outlook for email. --cringe-- Linux is getting there, but will they be fast enough? The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
It is my feeling, being a rocker, that the thrill of performing for a live audience will continue to be a factor in making music. I'm all for the musicians taking control of their own sales and marketing, middle men be damned! I freely post my music at mp3.com, get very excited that folks in France seem to like it a lot (at least they email more than other folks) and I can feel the seething hate for record companies growing from all sides. MTV sucks, it has sucked since Remote Control.:-) It's a watering hole for drunk frat kids who consume mass quantities of Top 40 garbage. Fret not over the death of Rock. Music, like knowledge, wants to be free!:-) http://luxuriousfur.homepage.com
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Ever since reading "The Stand" and "The Andromeda Strain" I've been fascinated (and scared sh1tless) by this topic. I'm not sure if there's really any ideal level of preparedness we as a society could reach for something like this. It's kinda like trying to be ready for a giant asteroid or comet to land in your backyard. There's nowhere to hide from an unseen bioenemy...
*shivers*
Makes more sense now. When it first came on the WB I thought, "oh, look at that, a Pokemon copycat show" but now that I've watched it a few times I see it could be more. Thanks for clueing me in!
Because pretty soon, Japanese animation studios will have to consider the almighty American Market when making new shows, and will start censoring themselves to ensure that there is no problem in exporting the shows to the States.
Yikes! I wonder about that myself... "Card Captors" on Saturday mornings here, is that a watered-down version of something that's really cool in original Japanese, or is it the first in a line of 'let's make some crap anime to sell to Americans' shows?
FWIW, my first exposure to anime was "Wicked City", I kinda jumped in with both feet - GITS, Perfect Blue... Card Captors is like cheap-o sugar substitute after that.:-) I will have to look for the unedited Escaflowne, though, as a previous poster mentioned.
I just got my copy of The Elegant Universe. So, for the experiment: We both curl up under a blanket with said book. Begin reading at page 1. Turn page. Repeat as necessary until a) we get warm or b)we throw the book to the side and get HOT.
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Your eyes say yes but your mouth says no...
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Behold the Lizardman
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I look forward to a world where people are able to have Klingon heads and prosthetic tails if they want to, and no one thinks them 'unhireable' for it. By lamenting the way this guy spends his government loan stipend and circus checks you are simply keeping alive the old curmugeonly view of societal norms. I believe that if people were more free to express themselves as they saw fit without fear of humiliation, exclusion and retribution, then we would see less crime, less suicide, less violence against those who represent the 'norm'. I am thinking of Columbine - I heard the recordings those boys made, joking on their upright Christian classmates... It made me shake my head. If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us - but here's where the problem is. Who decides what's right? We can't fix ANYTHING until we become more tolerant of each other's differences. That means that the pious right-wing NRA guy has to respect the Latino transvestite VooDoo Priestess and vice versa. What's right for me may not be right for you, but neither of us has the right to make that call for the other. Not trying to flame, honest. I think you are more or less on the side of freaks, but just wanted to point out it's not as simple as finding about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity. Why should anyone have to compromise their vision?
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I've never reported anything of the sort, and I don't intend to. I did 99% of my xmas shopping online this year, you think I'm gonna tally up the totals and write checks to the gov't? They eat my paycheck enough as it is!
This is a slippery issue...I'm very interested but not too worried. It will be a while before there is any real progress made towards a global solution for this mess. And it WILL have to be a global solution.
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But that's not the whole picture!
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You guys are only reading the horoscope as relates to your sun sign (meaning, the sign the sun was in at the time of your birth - for those of you on the fringes, you can have your chart done to figure it out once and for all). The other planets and the moon, and the signs they were in, as well as the houses, the aspects, ad infinitum, all contribute to your personal horoscope.
Astrology isn't about predicting events, it's about going with the flow of energy, living in tune with the motions of the heavens, and seeking out the patterns in your life. Sounds like New Age hippie talk to most of you, I imagine, but like any religion or form of divination, you have to have a little blind faith. A real astrologer works mathematical equations and ponders the mysteries of life...those psychic hotlines give astrology a bad rap.
Well, with the ratio of 'manned' to co-ed flights, I would venture to say they'd been there already.;-)
Maybe that's why NASA hasn't said much - not only are the astronauts having sex, they're having Grecian male orgies! The shuttle smells of musk and boodie funk! Woo!
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Amen!
/.ers but at the same time figured seeing Scully mow down the baddies might make up for it...
...especially at the end when her head was pasted on the hot girlie body. ;-)
This episode made me laugh, and it made me cry... I knew that the bungled geek-talk would piss off all
But seriously, I agree with the lot of you that they could possibly have handled this issue better. Like maybe doing better research. Anybody think this show hurt/helped the FPS image? (Or are the only people who watch the X-Files already gamers anyway?)
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concerns of those who don't cotton to the idea of their tax money being used to fund someone's porn habit at the local library
Taxes pay for a lot of things we should be outraged about. This argument sounds desperate to me.
Good to see people voting, though! (Who says Gen Xers are all cynical and jaded? Oh, that was me...)
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...I guess you're right.
If the majority of the people want to burn Jews and steal land from the Indians, what's the problem?
You are obviously not thinking...just like the good wholesome folks in the sweet town of Holland!
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(There is an Open Source MP4 encoder/decoder for Linux, now. The sooner people start taking that seriously, the better.)
/.ers hate to hear it, Linux is still a small piece of the pie. All the frat kids that go to mp3.com are on Windows. (Oh and mp4.com points to mp3.com.)
As much as
I tend to agree with Mr. Hemos here that by the time this battle is over, the war will have been fought and won around them. Mp3 is here, it's popular and it works for me.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
If musicians stopped feeling like they need to be on MTV, and started committing to a DIY set-up, then the big labels really would be in trouble.
I can't speak for Brittany Spears, but I don't WANT to be on MTV. Have you looked at it lately? Where the hell is Downtown Julie Brown?!
I have a site up at mp3.com, and am fully aware that people may download my music and do whatever they want with it. That excites me, though - it means they liked it. For 3 minutes they listened to me instead of Ricky Martin. I am of the opinion that the mp3 'revolution' is helping musicians to network and connect, share ideas and recording tips, etc. Most of the musicians I know aren't out to become mega-billionaires. They just want to be able to make a living off their music. (Some of us don't even have that much ambition - I have a pretty sweet day job, and do music on the weekends.) That's not to say that if, oh, Grand Royal dug my sound and wanted to sign me up for a 3 album deal I wouldn't think long and hard about it.
Ultimately I don't see this as being an issue of how musicians are wanting to get airplay and TV time. It's about artists signing away their rights to big recording companies, who in turn market them, squeeze their popularity dry and then move on to the next big cash cow.
And let's not forget the unwashed millions who buy the drek they play on FM top 40, people whose favorite song changes every week, who are supporting the MTV culture instead of searching out unique and unsigned artists.
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This almost makes me proud to still be driving my '91 Tempo...
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I see they have a "Proud to be banned by Clemson" graphic on there. :-)
However, I need one of these that will let me call my sys admin friend in Switzerland...anybody?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Born under the wobbling 'moon' Cruithne, you resonate with the sign of the Waffle. Your life is one of inconsistency, you bounce from job to job, relationship to relationship, never quite making that final connection. (On the other hand, you avoid conflict at all cost.) People see you as something of an enigma, following a different path than your peers. Since the conditions at the time of your birth will not come around again for another 700 years or so, you will never find contentment in this life. Hope that you are born again under a planet with a shorter orbit.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Then again, anybody lazy enough to use this surrogate confessional probably deserves to be shown up for the dork they are. The whole premise of this site makes me laugh.
What do you guys think about religion and the internet? Can the two mix? (I mean in a worship/practice way, not merely as a means of transmitting basic information.)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Though I am usually the only woman there, I enjoy a good LAN party. (Current games we're playing include Q3, Starcraft, and Darkstone.) I used to dig the old school RPGs like DragonWarriorI-IV for Nintendo, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, etc. But once I learned how to frag with attitude I was hooked. I challenge you all to a good Quaking!!!! :-)
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...only I'm a SHE, not a HE. :-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Well, maybe I am a bit naive about the depth and permanence of corruption, but doesn't anyone think that lobbyists and special interest groups can be rooted out? Bribes and favors aside, John Q. Voters still outnumber Rich Ass Charities. If we vote in government pay cuts and flat rate tax laws, they have to enact them. We hold the power, my point was that we've just lost sight of it. :-)
Somebody back me up here!
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I heard this story on NPR yesterday (while stuck in snow and traffic - erg!) and they only briefly touched on the issue of voter apathy. 'Oh the internet will get all the 20-somethings to vote' was about the extent of it. While I will say that I don't vote as often as I could/should due to schedules/weather/PMS/etc., I believe that for the majority of my peers voter apathy rests with political distrust and disinterest. The public schools may require that you learn about the system but it's done in a very inefficient manner (I think I got a 'B' in 12th grade Government class, but ask me how a bill becomes law - ???).
What's needed is for the youth of this country to be shown, not told, how the government works. They have to believe that corruption is beatable. Right now, even I have a hard time believing that.
Technology shmecnology, online voting will happen. It's not a matter of when or even how. It's still an issue of voter apathy.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Second, will Linus' attempt to defend his trademark ultimately prove futile as more and more sites/companies/people start using the word Linux
Yes, I believe so. Unless you send a surfing force of thousands out onto the net every day there's no way you can really keep your name safe. I do agree with you that it's great that Linus is taking the time to de-mystify the monster, but I really don't see a way to solve the problem (especially with the current growth of the web).
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after reading the 4 page doc on it, you'll find that its quite efficent
Would your grandmother read 4 pages just to figure out how to send Aunt Martha an email? Hell no.
EASE of use, INTUITIVENESS, not efficiency. Efficiency is important but unfortunately it is a distant second for most folks.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I used to work for an ISP who loved Linux, tried to give it to everybody who came in the door. Everybody knows Windoze, and won't switch. I now work in a less geeky place where I am forced to use outlook for email. --cringe-- Linux is getting there, but will they be fast enough?
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It is my feeling, being a rocker, that the thrill of performing for a live audience will continue to be a factor in making music. I'm all for the musicians taking control of their own sales and marketing, middle men be damned! :-) It's a watering hole for drunk frat kids who consume mass quantities of Top 40 garbage. :-)
I freely post my music at mp3.com, get very excited that folks in France seem to like it a lot (at least they email more than other folks) and I can feel the seething hate for record companies growing from all sides. MTV sucks, it has sucked since Remote Control.
Fret not over the death of Rock. Music, like knowledge, wants to be free!
http://luxuriousfur.homepage.com
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Ever since reading "The Stand" and "The Andromeda Strain" I've been fascinated (and scared sh1tless) by this topic. I'm not sure if there's really any ideal level of preparedness we as a society could reach for something like this. It's kinda like trying to be ready for a giant asteroid or comet to land in your backyard. There's nowhere to hide from an unseen bioenemy...
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*shivers*
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Makes more sense now. When it first came on the WB I thought, "oh, look at that, a Pokemon copycat show" but now that I've watched it a few times I see it could be more. Thanks for clueing me in!
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"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Because pretty soon, Japanese animation studios will have to consider the almighty American Market when making new shows, and will start censoring themselves to ensure that there is no problem in exporting the shows to the States.
:-) I will have to look for the unedited Escaflowne, though, as a previous poster mentioned.
/."
Yikes! I wonder about that myself... "Card Captors" on Saturday mornings here, is that a watered-down version of something that's really cool in original Japanese, or is it the first in a line of 'let's make some crap anime to sell to Americans' shows?
FWIW, my first exposure to anime was "Wicked City", I kinda jumped in with both feet - GITS, Perfect Blue... Card Captors is like cheap-o sugar substitute after that.
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I just got my copy of The Elegant Universe. So, for the experiment:
We both curl up under a blanket with said book.
Begin reading at page 1.
Turn page.
Repeat as necessary until a) we get warm or b)we throw the book to the side and get HOT.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I look forward to a world where people are able to have Klingon heads and prosthetic tails if they want to, and no one thinks them 'unhireable' for it.
By lamenting the way this guy spends his government loan stipend and circus checks you are simply keeping alive the old curmugeonly view of societal norms. I believe that if people were more free to express themselves as they saw fit without fear of humiliation, exclusion and retribution, then we would see less crime, less suicide, less violence against those who represent the 'norm'. I am thinking of Columbine - I heard the recordings those boys made, joking on their upright Christian classmates... It made me shake my head. If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us - but here's where the problem is. Who decides what's right? We can't fix ANYTHING until we become more tolerant of each other's differences. That means that the pious right-wing NRA guy has to respect the Latino transvestite VooDoo Priestess and vice versa. What's right for me may not be right for you, but neither of us has the right to make that call for the other.
Not trying to flame, honest. I think you are more or less on the side of freaks, but just wanted to point out it's not as simple as finding about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity. Why should anyone have to compromise their vision?
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I've never reported anything of the sort, and I don't intend to. I did 99% of my xmas shopping online this year, you think I'm gonna tally up the totals and write checks to the gov't? They eat my paycheck enough as it is!
This is a slippery issue...I'm very interested but not too worried. It will be a while before there is any real progress made towards a global solution for this mess. And it WILL have to be a global solution.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
You guys are only reading the horoscope as relates to your sun sign (meaning, the sign the sun was in at the time of your birth - for those of you on the fringes, you can have your chart done to figure it out once and for all). The other planets and the moon, and the signs they were in, as well as the houses, the aspects, ad infinitum, all contribute to your personal horoscope.
Astrology isn't about predicting events, it's about going with the flow of energy, living in tune with the motions of the heavens, and seeking out the patterns in your life. Sounds like New Age hippie talk to most of you, I imagine, but like any religion or form of divination, you have to have a little blind faith. A real astrologer works mathematical equations and ponders the mysteries of life...those psychic hotlines give astrology a bad rap.
Here are some other useful links, ranging from the informative to the silly.
Real Astrology
Astrology Zone
JavaScopes
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Well, with the ratio of 'manned' to co-ed flights, I would venture to say they'd been there already. ;-)
Maybe that's why NASA hasn't said much - not only are the astronauts having sex, they're having Grecian male orgies! The shuttle smells of musk and boodie funk! Woo!
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