Do you get tired of being treated like something other than an actor? You're not a scientist or a leader or a futurist anymore than, say, Tim Allen, another actor. Don't you wish people would just admire you for what you are trying to do - be a good actor - and not transfer the magnitute in their mind that Star Trek is real and that you are Star Trek?
Not very long ago he was down on PDA's using very decisize language. From Fortune Magazine's January 21, 2002:
While switches and storage make sense to the CEO, other hardware markets don't fit the plan. PDAs, for instance, are a nonstarter. (Interestingly, Dell and Steve Jobs see eye to eye on this one.) According to one Dell employee, Michael goes around dissing PDAs with a simple query: "Question: What is the biggest button on a PDA? Answer: The button that syncs it to your PC." Simply put, they aren't big enough or profitable enough for Dell. To wit: Palm just reported second-quarter revenues of $ 290 million, down from $ 522 million the previous year. As for the bottom line: It lost $ 36 million.
To me, this says that when Mike D is too eager to make strong, forceful statements that may not stick.
Seems they are the first to offer this. That's great. I wish Cox Cable did. Of course, if everyone did this, I don't think many of the channels that are out there would survive. And on the other hand, many of the channels that are popular now only became so due to the "flipping through" factor.
My channel lineup? All three C-spans, FoxNews, CNN and Headline news (as a backup), Comedy Central, UPN (Star Trek), and Fox (Simpsons, Bernie Mac), and TNN (More Star Trek). Maybe History Channel too, and the military channel if available.
The FBI is working to protect us and many folks for some reason are turning them into the enemy. Doesn't the fact that these are government-run libraries give the actual government the ability to use them as a potential resource to prevent terrorist activities? Can you please cite what part of the constitution this violates
This absolute, knee-jerk libertine fascist reaction against any kind of reasonable investigations is what can eventually result in all freedoms being lost. The people the FBI is fighting are the people who would turn the US in to Egypt or Saudi Arabia where, except for the very rich, have the kind of rights we have here.
No clue, but Deadpool really wasn't Deadpool either (his claim to being Wade Wilson turned out false - he actually killed Wade - the person he thought he was.)
I still have issue 2 and 3 sitting on my desk unread. I'd really like an answer as to why Marvel decided to destroy my favorite comic book in the first place.
Free And NO ADVERTISING! Except it's not really news and AOL is a little late to the party.
It's called Trillian. Though it's not open source (sorry purists), it does all of these things and integrates all of the functions of each of these messaging programs.
It's compact, lightweight, and skinable. You can download it, all free, at Curelean Studios. If you like the program, make a paypal contribution and register it. Well worth it.
I too am/was a big fan of the "Merc with a Mouth." I am not really sure what's up with him though. They killed him and then changed my subscription to "Agent X." It seems the lead character may be the same guy, but does anyone know why the change was made?
Poster seems to confuse "censorship" and lack an inabilility to see a difference between making an effort to prevent a public library from becoming a porn theatre (which the Supreme Court doesn't consider free speech) and helping China have access to uncensored news sources about what's going on in the world.
So is the government attempting to limit access to porn in government run-libraries, and protect children using the library from the molestors it attracts (see story below) really no different from helping Chinese dissidents find out what's really going on in the world?
INTERNET ACCESS DRAWS PORN ADDICTS TO LIBRARIES
It was a mother's nightmare: A Colorado woman and her 7-year-old daughter visited a public library in suburban Denver. The mother briefly left her daughter in the children's room, but when she returned, she found her daughter sitting in front of a computer, an image depicting male frontal nudity on the screen and a strange man sitting beside her. The girl later told her mother that the man had exposed himself.
This incident is recorded, along with some 500 other disturbing accounts, in a new exposé of online pornography in public libraries. The report's author, David Burt, said his goal is "to expose the myth that abuse of pornography in America's public libraries is a 'practically nonexistent' problem." Burt, himself a librarian, released his study in March during a press conference for a new bill that would require libraries to protect children from accessing Internet pornography on public-use computers.
Rep. Robert Franks, R-N.J., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., are co-sponsors of the Children's Internet Protection Act (H.R. 368). The bill specifically requires public schools and libraries that receive federal subsidies for Internet access to use either a "clean" Internet Service Provider or install and maintain effective software filtering.
The American Library Association (ALA) stands firmly against the bill and has argued that the issue of viewing porn in public libraries has been exaggerated. According to ALA President Ann Symons, "The whole issue of protecting children has been blown way out of proportion by the media and those who seek to promote their own agendas."
Burt's exposé, however, documents 503 incidents of patrons accessing porn in public libraries. (His 94-page report is available at http://www.filteringfacts.org/da-main.htm.) Nearly half the incidents cited involve children and 20 involve child pornography. Among the worst examples are adults deliberately exposing children to pornography, one incident of molestation, and several attempted molestations.
Burt said the library-filtering bill is a better response to the problem than the ALA's suggestion that libraries simply cover up the problem by installing "privacy screens" on Internet computers--devices that critics say will turn public computers into private peep shows.
Working in a Windows world and being a developer myself, I'm convinced that one of the biggest reasons for instability and issues holding back OS advancement (maybe for may as well as Win) is having to deal with legacy devices, software, and data formats.
Ideally, OS and even software developers would look at the latest technology out there and design for that, and then work out legacy issues; the currently seem to do it the other way around.
Development of device like these may help change that because it demonstrates the possibility for developers to look forward first and perhaps outsource the looking back.
Ultimately Congress or agencies directly responsible to ICANN gave the organization the power they have under the premise that they would have an open ear to the public: IE - election of board members by the public (@Large members of ICANN). From the description of @Large members
ICANN's At Large Membership is a new way to participate in the ICANN process. The At Large Members will help select Directors to the ICANN Board. The At Large election process will give individual members of Internet communities worldwide a voice in the selection of policymakers to oversee the critical Internet resources entrusted to ICANN's technical coordination process. The selected At Large Directors will help the ICANN Board be representative of (and accountable to) the vast diversity of the worldwide Internet.
How was ICANN permitted to make this change to the charter that was granted to them by the government? It's this kind of crap that, if you raise your voice enough, can be changed by your representatives in Washington and by regulatory agencies who are open to public comment during policy making. It's also fertile ground for a lawsuit (albiet a money-losing one).
I wonder if the reason that Apple is willing to make it's core OS open source is because, as long as software developed with it is running on a Mac (that's the idea), and they are the only folks selling Macs, the more the merrier.
Apple started doing this in 1999 at great expense and effort. In this time, has it paid off? I really don't know, so please enlighten me if it has or hasn't.
Not very long ago he was down on PDA's using very decisize language. From Fortune Magazine's January 21, 2002:
While switches and storage make sense to the CEO, other hardware markets don't fit the plan. PDAs, for instance, are a nonstarter. (Interestingly, Dell and Steve Jobs see eye to eye on this one.) According to one Dell employee, Michael goes around dissing PDAs
with a simple query: "Question: What is the biggest button on a PDA? Answer: The button that syncs it to your PC." Simply put, they aren't big enough or profitable enough for Dell. To wit: Palm just reported second-quarter revenues of $ 290 million, down from $ 522 million the previous year. As for the bottom line: It
lost $ 36 million.
To me, this says that when Mike D is too eager to make strong, forceful statements that may not stick.
I don't really think that a consumer poll of what people want to do at no cost is relevant. I am sure if you asked the public if they think there should be no ATM fees, if they should be able to carry their cell phone numbers across different carriers, and if they should be able to download/pirate mucis off the internet without restrictions, most would also assent.
Polls are not news; information that moves polls is. There was a day when journalists shunned polls, now they are the basis for a story.
Hi, I have never watched this show but am curious how it compares to the Star Trek and Babylon 5 series in that does it have a story arc and continuity between each episode? I think the show started on the Showtime network, didn't it? How did it become syndicated? Thanks.
1) Sue Ebay (who own Paypal)
2) Boycott Ebay.
3) Write Ebay's board of directors (it's a public company)
4) Find out where that money was transfered and bring a lawsuit.
5) Yeah, Paypal is beginning to look like a bank. And if it starts to reach a critical mass, don't worry about YOU having to contact your congressman, odds are your bank will, and they will make something happen.
TomPaine.com has a history of saying stupid stuff, and this is another example. Look at what they are really saying:
But beyond political and press circles are another equally important development: new technologies being developed and embraced that can, in practice, transform today's open Internet into a new industry-regulated system that will prevent or discourage people from using the net for file-sharing, internet radio and video, and peer-to-peer communications.
So internet providers, who set their no-state limit pricing structure on an estimate of how much bandwidth each user would be using, have discovered people like my roomate who download over 10 gigs a day on a 1.5/126 up connection and want to make an adjustment to compensate for this.
Consider that if everyone used the net like my roomate did, the rate that we pay would be much higher, and that if everyone on the used the net that like I did, the rate would be about where it is (some Net radio, a lot of games and a lot of Xboxing, etc.)
Recall back in the day when internet connections billed by the hour? Competition took care of that. And if consumers are smart and shop around (most places have the options between a cable provider and several DSL providers), they may be able to maintain being bandwidth hogs. Or folks may just wind up paying for what they use, sort of like the city charges for water. What's wrong with that?
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I think it could all be in your wrist and, for me, I believe it would have greater precision. Not for everyone but would like to try it.
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Has anyone tried using this device in Quake-type games with any sucess? Something more precise than the current mouse would make the game a much more fun endavor for those of us struggling with a standard mouse.
Not just bad for gamers...
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They are also inferior for DVD viewing compared to CRTs.
It's too bad that so many people see these as a "replacement" for CRTs rather than an alternative (maybe better for work environments or cramped environments).
I have known authors of niche type books and have learned from them that they make exceptionally small amounts of money on the sale of these books. Specifically, I am talking about the PhD candidate who turns his thesis over to a publisher. Here's an example of this: The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994. This was a book written by my professor.
Getting back to my point, though, I believe that he would probably make more money today posting that entire book on the web for free and putting up a paypal tip jar than he would by going through a publisher or attempting subsidy publishing.
There are a lot of content sites out there using this method and, when you cut out the agent, the publisher, the printer, the retailer, and all the other middlemen, direct sales based on paypal type donations might be the way to go (please spare me on the evils of paypal, you know I mean the concept of micropayments.)
You are right, I went back and checked and it turns out I did violate the copywrite. I thought about it before posting and recall that in limited circumstances that I could post articles, but after going back and checking, it appears I cannot. See here:
(ii) You may occasionally use our "E-mail This" service to e-mail an article from WSJ.com to a few individuals, without charge. You are not permitted to use this service for the purpose of regularly providing other users with access to content from WSJ.com.
In any case, I admit I didn't recall the rules correctly and don't want to give the impression that I don't respect copyright laws. I own every CD I ever ripped, every DVD I ever watched, every software title I have ever played. Being a developer myself, I can appreciate copywright.
I've decided to notify WSJ of what I did ("posted an article on an internet discussion board") and we can see what comes of it.
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Do you get tired of being treated like something other than an actor? You're not a scientist or a leader or a futurist anymore than, say, Tim Allen, another actor. Don't you wish people would just admire you for what you are trying to do - be a good actor - and not transfer the magnitute in their mind that Star Trek is real and that you are Star Trek?
While switches and storage make sense to the CEO, other hardware markets don't fit the plan. PDAs, for instance, are a nonstarter. (Interestingly, Dell and Steve Jobs see eye to eye on this one.) According to one Dell employee, Michael goes around dissing PDAs with a simple query: "Question: What is the biggest button on a PDA? Answer: The button that syncs it to your PC." Simply put, they aren't big enough or profitable enough for Dell. To wit: Palm just reported second-quarter revenues of $ 290 million, down from $ 522 million the previous year. As for the bottom line: It lost $ 36 million.
To me, this says that when Mike D is too eager to make strong, forceful statements that may not stick.
"The Net is a fad. The Web is fad, an interesting fad." -- David Gelernter, 1997.
My channel lineup? All three C-spans, FoxNews, CNN and Headline news (as a backup), Comedy Central, UPN (Star Trek), and Fox (Simpsons, Bernie Mac), and TNN (More Star Trek). Maybe History Channel too, and the military channel if available.
This absolute, knee-jerk libertine fascist reaction against any kind of reasonable investigations is what can eventually result in all freedoms being lost. The people the FBI is fighting are the people who would turn the US in to Egypt or Saudi Arabia where, except for the very rich, have the kind of rights we have here.
Nice work. Drudge Report.
I still have issue 2 and 3 sitting on my desk unread. I'd really like an answer as to why Marvel decided to destroy my favorite comic book in the first place.
That's a joke, right? You forgot the emoticon at the end. Muppets in Space may be entertaining (I liked it) but it's definitly not Sci-fi.
It's called Trillian. Though it's not open source (sorry purists), it does all of these things and integrates all of the functions of each of these messaging programs.
It's compact, lightweight, and skinable. You can download it, all free, at Curelean Studios. If you like the program, make a paypal contribution and register it. Well worth it.
Siezure lawsuits.
I too am/was a big fan of the "Merc with a Mouth." I am not really sure what's up with him though. They killed him and then changed my subscription to "Agent X." It seems the lead character may be the same guy, but does anyone know why the change was made?
So is the government attempting to limit access to porn in government run-libraries, and protect children using the library from the molestors it attracts (see story below) really no different from helping Chinese dissidents find out what's really going on in the world?
INTERNET ACCESS DRAWS PORN ADDICTS TO LIBRARIES
It was a mother's nightmare: A Colorado woman and her 7-year-old daughter visited a public library in suburban Denver. The mother briefly left her daughter in the children's room, but when she returned, she found her daughter sitting in front of a computer, an image depicting male frontal nudity on the screen and a strange man sitting beside her. The girl later told her mother that the man had exposed himself.
This incident is recorded, along with some 500 other disturbing accounts, in a new exposé of online pornography in public libraries. The report's author, David Burt, said his goal is "to expose the myth that abuse of pornography in America's public libraries is a 'practically nonexistent' problem." Burt, himself a librarian, released his study in March during a press conference for a new bill that would require libraries to protect children from accessing Internet pornography on public-use computers.
Rep. Robert Franks, R-N.J., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., are co-sponsors of the Children's Internet Protection Act (H.R. 368). The bill specifically requires public schools and libraries that receive federal subsidies for Internet access to use either a "clean" Internet Service Provider or install and maintain effective software filtering.
The American Library Association (ALA) stands firmly against the bill and has argued that the issue of viewing porn in public libraries has been exaggerated. According to ALA President Ann Symons, "The whole issue of protecting children has been blown way out of proportion by the media and those who seek to promote their own agendas."
Burt's exposé, however, documents 503 incidents of patrons accessing porn in public libraries. (His 94-page report is available at http://www.filteringfacts.org/da-main.htm.) Nearly half the incidents cited involve children and 20 involve child pornography. Among the worst examples are adults deliberately exposing children to pornography, one incident of molestation, and several attempted molestations.
Burt said the library-filtering bill is a better response to the problem than the ALA's suggestion that libraries simply cover up the problem by installing "privacy screens" on Internet computers--devices that critics say will turn public computers into private peep shows.
--Steve Watters
Ideally, OS and even software developers would look at the latest technology out there and design for that, and then work out legacy issues; the currently seem to do it the other way around.
Development of device like these may help change that because it demonstrates the possibility for developers to look forward first and perhaps outsource the looking back.
ICANN's At Large Membership is a new way to participate in the ICANN process. The At Large Members will help select Directors to the ICANN Board. The At Large election process will give individual members of Internet communities worldwide a voice in the selection of policymakers to oversee the critical Internet resources entrusted to ICANN's technical coordination process. The selected At Large Directors will help the ICANN Board be representative of (and accountable to) the vast diversity of the worldwide Internet.
How was ICANN permitted to make this change to the charter that was granted to them by the government? It's this kind of crap that, if you raise your voice enough, can be changed by your representatives in Washington and by regulatory agencies who are open to public comment during policy making. It's also fertile ground for a lawsuit (albiet a money-losing one).
Apple started doing this in 1999 at great expense and effort. In this time, has it paid off? I really don't know, so please enlighten me if it has or hasn't.
While switches and storage make sense to the CEO, other hardware markets don't fit the plan. PDAs, for instance, are a nonstarter. (Interestingly, Dell and Steve Jobs see eye to eye on this one.) According to one Dell employee, Michael goes around dissing PDAs with a simple query: "Question: What is the biggest button on a PDA? Answer: The button that syncs it to your PC." Simply put, they aren't big enough or profitable enough for Dell. To wit: Palm just reported second-quarter revenues of $ 290 million, down from $ 522 million the previous year. As for the bottom line: It lost $ 36 million.
To me, this says that when Mike D is too eager to make strong, forceful statements that may not stick.
Polls are not news; information that moves polls is. There was a day when journalists shunned polls, now they are the basis for a story.
Hi,
I have never watched this show but am curious how it compares to the Star Trek and Babylon 5 series in that does it have a story arc and continuity between each episode? I think the show started on the Showtime network, didn't it? How did it become syndicated?
Thanks.
1) Sue Ebay (who own Paypal)
2) Boycott Ebay.
3) Write Ebay's board of directors (it's a public company)
4) Find out where that money was transfered and bring a lawsuit.
5) Yeah, Paypal is beginning to look like a bank. And if it starts to reach a critical mass, don't worry about YOU having to contact your congressman, odds are your bank will, and they will make something happen.
But beyond political and press circles are another equally important development: new technologies being developed and embraced that can, in practice, transform today's open Internet into a new industry-regulated system that will prevent or discourage people from using the net for file-sharing, internet radio and video, and peer-to-peer communications.
So internet providers, who set their no-state limit pricing structure on an estimate of how much bandwidth each user would be using, have discovered people like my roomate who download over 10 gigs a day on a 1.5/126 up connection and want to make an adjustment to compensate for this.
Consider that if everyone used the net like my roomate did, the rate that we pay would be much higher, and that if everyone on the used the net that like I did, the rate would be about where it is (some Net radio, a lot of games and a lot of Xboxing, etc.)
Recall back in the day when internet connections billed by the hour? Competition took care of that. And if consumers are smart and shop around (most places have the options between a cable provider and several DSL providers), they may be able to maintain being bandwidth hogs. Or folks may just wind up paying for what they use, sort of like the city charges for water. What's wrong with that?
I think it could all be in your wrist and, for me, I believe it would have greater precision. Not for everyone but would like to try it.
Has anyone tried using this device in Quake-type games with any sucess? Something more precise than the current mouse would make the game a much more fun endavor for those of us struggling with a standard mouse.
It's too bad that so many people see these as a "replacement" for CRTs rather than an alternative (maybe better for work environments or cramped environments).
I have known authors of niche type books and have learned from them that they make exceptionally small amounts of money on the sale of these books. Specifically, I am talking about the PhD candidate who turns his thesis over to a publisher. Here's an example of this: The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994. This was a book written by my professor.
Getting back to my point, though, I believe that he would probably make more money today posting that entire book on the web for free and putting up a paypal tip jar than he would by going through a publisher or attempting subsidy publishing.
There are a lot of content sites out there using this method and, when you cut out the agent, the publisher, the printer, the retailer, and all the other middlemen, direct sales based on paypal type donations might be the way to go (please spare me on the evils of paypal, you know I mean the concept of micropayments.)
You are right, I went back and checked and it turns out I did violate the copywrite. I thought about it before posting and recall that in limited circumstances that I could post articles, but after going back and checking, it appears I cannot. See here:
(ii) You may occasionally use our "E-mail This" service to e-mail an article from WSJ.com to a few individuals, without charge. You are not permitted to use this service for the purpose of regularly providing other users with access to content from WSJ.com.
In any case, I admit I didn't recall the rules correctly and don't want to give the impression that I don't respect copyright laws. I own every CD I ever ripped, every DVD I ever watched, every software title I have ever played. Being a developer myself, I can appreciate copywright.
I've decided to notify WSJ of what I did ("posted an article on an internet discussion board") and we can see what comes of it.