How this got modded to a 5 is a mystery to me. Modern music naturally comes in song form, not album. Am I to understand that you deliberately ignore songs that you like unless they're accompanied by 10-15 others that are of equal quality? Good luck with that. Some of my favorite songs come from one hit wonders, and I think they deserve some remuneration for their contribution to my happiness.
I hate to break this to you all but I have patented the idea for "transmitting data over an electronic medium". Apparently an overzealous patent clerk awarded it to me when I filed my tax return last year, I'm not sure. Either way, I'm going to Disneyland!
Black rappers and white computer programmers converge to destroy American culture. The monsters that are being raised on a diet of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. can now play games like Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto (or BMX XXX -worst idea for a game ever? I digress...) while they listen. I'm not for censorship by the government, but I am for good judgement by the media companies that produce this trash. There don't seem to be any brakes on this frieght train of bad taste.
Any experiment requiring a blast shield get's my vote.
"You might be able to do a safer variant by dipping apples or bananas or what-have-you, though, with a blast shield between the crucible and the audience, though (and a leather apron and gauntlets and visor, unless you *like* liquid metal scars)."
I don't understand why it was necessary to be inconspicuous in your placing of the device. Were there Iraqi agents lurking about? I've heard you can use playstations as missile targetting computers, so perhaps your mp3 player could be fitted to a "laser" enabling you to control it with sound of your voice. Diabolical...
Police organizations also regularly hire psychics and check out their "revelations" on cases that go cold. I'm also kind of dubious about psychological profiling, but what do I know.
Clearly a company with hundreds of thousands of employees relying on it for paychecks IS more important that one person. And I say this keeping in mind what we're talking about, which are internet domain names, not mass executions or whatever it is you have on your mind.
"If *you* had a family domain, and some company offered you what you consider a pittance for it, how would you feel? Would you consider yourself an informed "hardball" player? Would you "cackle with glee" at your great luck in having a valuable name?"
Define pittance? I really doubt given the facts of this case he was offered a pittance. I would guess he was offered hundreds of thousands, but is hanging on for millions -maybe he has a good lawyer in the family. To answer your questions; Yes I would cackle with glee if my last name was, say, "Intel" and I managed to establish a legal claim to that address. I might even play hardball if I felt willing to endure the scorn of rational people on internet message boards. But don't kid yourself, this is going to end with Mr. Nissan accepting an "undisclosed amount" and moving to the Bahamas.
As I mentioned in another email: The overwhelmingly majority of people typing nissan.com into their browser are looking for Nissan Motors, not some dinky little computer store in nowheresville.
Good point. It reminds me of stories you hear about elderly couples who own homes in the path of superhighway construction. Suppose they don't want to sell, should everyone have to drive an extra mile around them, or should the couple accept that progress happens? That's not even a good analogy, because in this case the guy bought the house knowing the highway would have to come through it. Bully for him, pay the man. Oh, and yeah that "15 million" comment is a laugh, if he were serious about not wanting to sell he would have gone Dr. Evil on them. "ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS."
Does anyone honestly beleive that this guy wasn't trying to take advantage of Nissan's trademark? That he didn't cackle with glee when he registered the address? If you aren't going to use English as the standard for judging common words then you need to use common sense. For all I know "Kodak" is the most common surname in Mongolia. The fact that this has gone to court tells me that Mr. Nissan played hardball when they were negotiating a payoff; I'm guessing he demanded seven (maybe eight?) figures like most cybersquatters instead of just taking a fair settlement for his lucky last name.
There is a hierarchy of communications media, each one with it's role, and the idea of merging them all into some super number is a bad idea. It reminds me of the car Homer Simpson designed with all the bells and whistles; on paper it looked good but when he put it all together it BANKRUPTED HIS BROTHER. OK maybe that wasn't the best analogy but you get the picture.
"Unfortunately if the extreme-left of this country had it's way everything would be setup to be usable/accessible/workable by the lowest common denomenator of society.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have something like the ADA, because it's VERY important..."
Guess what, if not for the "extreme left" the ADA wouldn't exist. Political organizations lobby for the extreme because they know their opponents are arguing the other side just as vehemently. It's why the NRA won't support an assualt rifle ban; they don't want to lose ground. The same principle is in effect when ATM's get Braille.
There were thousands of companies that didn't want the ADA to go through because it cost them money. Their champions were the right wing republicans. You bemoan the left wing for getting this legislation passed and then go on to praise the principle of it, I guess implying that Trent Lott or Dick Armey would have proposed a more logical version. Yeah right.
Has anyone at Microsoft ever played an online game? Even in moderated environments, the ratio of annoying/vulgar people to non-annoying/vulgar is about equal, and in games without moderation some of the conversation would make a Def Jam comedian blush. I don't know if they have technology that will allow them to spot and filter certain offensive words or phrases over voice (maybe they should buy the KGB), but this has public relations disaster written all over it.
I think after this, being married to a Penthouse Pet, and his buying of that McGwire homerun ball for a few million dollars more than it was worth Todd McFarlane has officially qualified for an E! True Hollywood story.
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney..."
Wasn't there another story recently about a patent attorney/inventor suing an established company? What are the odds, patent attorneys who also turn out to be brilliant inventors. Luckily their PATENT LAW background is always there to help when a dastardly company attempts to steal the fruits of their genius.
This guy gets modded to a 5 just because he flames the west (read: USA)? The fact is that "western" economies are far more conducive to creating new products than China. It has nothing to do with race; every race in the world is heavily represented in the United States. Ditch communism and *then* take righteous offense over slights like this.
While Votester is certainly an interesting idea,(the name especially, inspires confidence) I propose utilizing 900 number technology to choose our political leaders, a la Big Brother or Total Request Live. The elections would more than pay for themselves through the small fee charged for every call, with any surplus given to the winner on a live television show. Frankly I can't see any negatives to the plan.
I clicked the video message link and was despondent when I couldn't read the page. Luckily I remembered babelfish...
"T-mobile brings mobile communication in motion. The Segeltoern on weekend, the travel in the Cabrio, the first steps of the child. Mad moments, on which you would like to leave spontaneously their friends and acquaintance sharings."
I'm sure in it's native German this is high quality commercial-speak, but mad moments made for acquaintance sharings doesn't really work for me =(
I have helped dozens of itinerant Nigerian millionaires move their cash, nicest people you'll ever want to meet. Ms. Abachi is a real peach, I've probably assisted her 10 times now. She's always forgetting she can't take her money back into Nigeria after we've gone through all that trouble getting it out! Anyway, I'm now a millionaire many times over, and am thinking of teaching others this remarkable system. Any one know a good way of marketing it?
I think games that are games first and educational second would do a better job at teaching. For instance, what if in order to level a cleric in Everquest you had to pass a real medical test (anatomy, biology, whatever). The Sims would also be well suited for this. Maybe harness some of all that wasted energy and put it into something useful.
"To feed the 31.1 million Americans living in poverty a $6 tofu turkey sandwich with organic sprouts, tomatoes, non-dairy Swiss cheese on whole-wheat bread, the limo liberal spends $186.6 million. "
Is Forbes affiliated with Foxnews? Anyway, he forgot to include Compassionate Conservative, who would spend a few hundred million establishing a monarchy in the USA and then using it's military to settle old scores.
Maybe "Morpheus" was extra sensitive to the phones after filming two more Matrix movies. I'd imagine the whole "Tank we need you to beam us out of here again!" would get a little old.
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How this got modded to a 5 is a mystery to me. Modern music naturally comes in song form, not album. Am I to understand that you deliberately ignore songs that you like unless they're accompanied by 10-15 others that are of equal quality? Good luck with that. Some of my favorite songs come from one hit wonders, and I think they deserve some remuneration for their contribution to my happiness.
I hate to break this to you all but I have patented the idea for "transmitting data over an electronic medium". Apparently an overzealous patent clerk awarded it to me when I filed my tax return last year, I'm not sure. Either way, I'm going to Disneyland!
Just think of all the high-res detail you could squint at on the two inch screen. The greatest advancement since HDTV Watchmans.
Black rappers and white computer programmers converge to destroy American culture. The monsters that are being raised on a diet of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. can now play games like Hitman 2 and Grand Theft Auto (or BMX XXX -worst idea for a game ever? I digress...) while they listen. I'm not for censorship by the government, but I am for good judgement by the media companies that produce this trash. There don't seem to be any brakes on this frieght train of bad taste.
Any experiment requiring a blast shield get's my vote. "You might be able to do a safer variant by dipping apples or bananas or what-have-you, though, with a blast shield between the crucible and the audience, though (and a leather apron and gauntlets and visor, unless you *like* liquid metal scars)."
I don't understand why it was necessary to be inconspicuous in your placing of the device. Were there Iraqi agents lurking about? I've heard you can use playstations as missile targetting computers, so perhaps your mp3 player could be fitted to a "laser" enabling you to control it with sound of your voice. Diabolical...
Police organizations also regularly hire psychics and check out their "revelations" on cases that go cold. I'm also kind of dubious about psychological profiling, but what do I know.
I recommend writing your 3d animation program before trying to patent this encryption scheme...
Clearly a company with hundreds of thousands of employees relying on it for paychecks IS more important that one person. And I say this keeping in mind what we're talking about, which are internet domain names, not mass executions or whatever it is you have on your mind. "If *you* had a family domain, and some company offered you what you consider a pittance for it, how would you feel? Would you consider yourself an informed "hardball" player? Would you "cackle with glee" at your great luck in having a valuable name?" Define pittance? I really doubt given the facts of this case he was offered a pittance. I would guess he was offered hundreds of thousands, but is hanging on for millions -maybe he has a good lawyer in the family. To answer your questions; Yes I would cackle with glee if my last name was, say, "Intel" and I managed to establish a legal claim to that address. I might even play hardball if I felt willing to endure the scorn of rational people on internet message boards. But don't kid yourself, this is going to end with Mr. Nissan accepting an "undisclosed amount" and moving to the Bahamas.
As I mentioned in another email: The overwhelmingly majority of people typing nissan.com into their browser are looking for Nissan Motors, not some dinky little computer store in nowheresville. Good point. It reminds me of stories you hear about elderly couples who own homes in the path of superhighway construction. Suppose they don't want to sell, should everyone have to drive an extra mile around them, or should the couple accept that progress happens? That's not even a good analogy, because in this case the guy bought the house knowing the highway would have to come through it. Bully for him, pay the man. Oh, and yeah that "15 million" comment is a laugh, if he were serious about not wanting to sell he would have gone Dr. Evil on them. "ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS."
Does anyone honestly beleive that this guy wasn't trying to take advantage of Nissan's trademark? That he didn't cackle with glee when he registered the address? If you aren't going to use English as the standard for judging common words then you need to use common sense. For all I know "Kodak" is the most common surname in Mongolia. The fact that this has gone to court tells me that Mr. Nissan played hardball when they were negotiating a payoff; I'm guessing he demanded seven (maybe eight?) figures like most cybersquatters instead of just taking a fair settlement for his lucky last name.
There is a hierarchy of communications media, each one with it's role, and the idea of merging them all into some super number is a bad idea. It reminds me of the car Homer Simpson designed with all the bells and whistles; on paper it looked good but when he put it all together it BANKRUPTED HIS BROTHER. OK maybe that wasn't the best analogy but you get the picture.
"Unfortunately if the extreme-left of this country had it's way everything would be setup to be usable/accessible/workable by the lowest common denomenator of society. I'm not saying we shouldn't have something like the ADA, because it's VERY important..." Guess what, if not for the "extreme left" the ADA wouldn't exist. Political organizations lobby for the extreme because they know their opponents are arguing the other side just as vehemently. It's why the NRA won't support an assualt rifle ban; they don't want to lose ground. The same principle is in effect when ATM's get Braille. There were thousands of companies that didn't want the ADA to go through because it cost them money. Their champions were the right wing republicans. You bemoan the left wing for getting this legislation passed and then go on to praise the principle of it, I guess implying that Trent Lott or Dick Armey would have proposed a more logical version. Yeah right.
Has anyone at Microsoft ever played an online game? Even in moderated environments, the ratio of annoying/vulgar people to non-annoying/vulgar is about equal, and in games without moderation some of the conversation would make a Def Jam comedian blush. I don't know if they have technology that will allow them to spot and filter certain offensive words or phrases over voice (maybe they should buy the KGB), but this has public relations disaster written all over it.
I think after this, being married to a Penthouse Pet, and his buying of that McGwire homerun ball for a few million dollars more than it was worth Todd McFarlane has officially qualified for an E! True Hollywood story.
"MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney..." Wasn't there another story recently about a patent attorney/inventor suing an established company? What are the odds, patent attorneys who also turn out to be brilliant inventors. Luckily their PATENT LAW background is always there to help when a dastardly company attempts to steal the fruits of their genius.
This guy gets modded to a 5 just because he flames the west (read: USA)? The fact is that "western" economies are far more conducive to creating new products than China. It has nothing to do with race; every race in the world is heavily represented in the United States. Ditch communism and *then* take righteous offense over slights like this.
While Votester is certainly an interesting idea,(the name especially, inspires confidence) I propose utilizing 900 number technology to choose our political leaders, a la Big Brother or Total Request Live. The elections would more than pay for themselves through the small fee charged for every call, with any surplus given to the winner on a live television show. Frankly I can't see any negatives to the plan.
I clicked the video message link and was despondent when I couldn't read the page. Luckily I remembered babelfish... "T-mobile brings mobile communication in motion. The Segeltoern on weekend, the travel in the Cabrio, the first steps of the child. Mad moments, on which you would like to leave spontaneously their friends and acquaintance sharings." I'm sure in it's native German this is high quality commercial-speak, but mad moments made for acquaintance sharings doesn't really work for me =(
I'd buy it if it came with a Hummer kit...
I would like to nominate CowboyNeal for a Beowulf cluster of McArthur grants for his work in journalizing Linux and the GPL. PS - Down with Microsoft!
I have helped dozens of itinerant Nigerian millionaires move their cash, nicest people you'll ever want to meet. Ms. Abachi is a real peach, I've probably assisted her 10 times now. She's always forgetting she can't take her money back into Nigeria after we've gone through all that trouble getting it out! Anyway, I'm now a millionaire many times over, and am thinking of teaching others this remarkable system. Any one know a good way of marketing it?
I think games that are games first and educational second would do a better job at teaching. For instance, what if in order to level a cleric in Everquest you had to pass a real medical test (anatomy, biology, whatever). The Sims would also be well suited for this. Maybe harness some of all that wasted energy and put it into something useful.
"To feed the 31.1 million Americans living in poverty a $6 tofu turkey sandwich with organic sprouts, tomatoes, non-dairy Swiss cheese on whole-wheat bread, the limo liberal spends $186.6 million. " Is Forbes affiliated with Foxnews? Anyway, he forgot to include Compassionate Conservative, who would spend a few hundred million establishing a monarchy in the USA and then using it's military to settle old scores.
Maybe "Morpheus" was extra sensitive to the phones after filming two more Matrix movies. I'd imagine the whole "Tank we need you to beam us out of here again!" would get a little old.