MPAA: "Submit to our restrictions or we won't let you watch our stuff!"
Me: "Whatever. I'll read a book, or play a game, or visit Slashdot, or, god forbid, even go outside and meet people. Maybe I'll even spend time making my own creative content. Whaddya think about that?"
MPAA: "But... but then how will we make any money from you? Commie! TERRORIST!"
The US used to be (generally) respected and aspired to by people in other countries. Now, it's more often mocked and feared (in a disbelieving, "these people are fucking batshit crazy!" way), often at the same time. I don't see that as an improvement.
And the saying goes that what happens in the US now will happen in Britain five years later. Boy, 2010 is going to fucking suck.
I always make a point of saving new items I create or download into a folder that describes the specific nature of what I'm saving, in a folder that describes the general type of file I'm saving.
For example, Freelance Work -> [name of client], or Pr0n -> Ashley Renee. (Purely for example purposes.)
But now I could just dump every single file in the Documents folder and use a super-search engine to find them!
...only I don't want to. Does that make me a Luddite?
I'm just picturing the scene, 10 (15?) years from now - a couple of hundred UFO nuts in their flying cars with tape over the licence plates decide to cruise en masse at low altitude over Groom Lake in Nevada, AKA Area 51. Does the Air Force shoot them all down? How do they handle a mass incursion in three dimensions?
Of course, the US will never allow anything like this to be available to the public with no restrictions. Just think of the potential for TERROR!
Seriously, though, it's weird because 2025AD used to seem like THE FUTURE!!! Whereas it's actually now only 20 years away, which isn't really all that long. Computer tech aside, was 1985 all that different from today?
[Activates DeLorean, goes back to 1985]
Me: Hi! I'm you, from THE FUTURE!!! 2005, to be exact!
1985 Me: Wow, the 21st Century! So, did we get our flying cars?
Me: Um, no.
1985 Me: Jetpacks? Bionic implants? AIs? Robot servants? Semiballistic airliners allowing us to reach anywhere in the world in two hours? Space holidays? No more poverty or hunger? A cure for cancer? World peace? No more self-serving shitwicks in high political office?
Me: Sorry, no, none of that. But on the plus side, our videogames kick ass, there'll be a new Star Trek TV series and there's this thing called 'the internet'.
1985 Me: What, like William Gibson's cyberspace?
Me: Again, no, not really.
1985 Me: Wow. The future sounds really shitty. At least tell me I get rich in the next 20 years.
Me:...
1985 Me: Laid on a regular basis?
Me:...
1985 Me: Okay, find me a bottle of whiskey and some pills. I'm going to create a time paradox.
If it were a negotiating tactic, it went wrong - both Ecclestone *and* the BBC (not Netcraft, though) have confirmed that he's not coming back for a second series.
It's probably a version of the Rumble Pak they used in the N64 starting with Star Fox 64. If anyone remembers correctly, the N64 Rumble Pak was video gaming's first force feedback device.
I used to be a game journalist, and when the Rumble Pak first came out, a lot of gamers wondered why Nintendo didn't make a controller with vibration functions built in - especially after the PS1 DualShock appeared. The word from Nintendo back then was that someone had a patent on FF in a controller - but an extra device that plugged into a controller wasn't covered by the patent.
What that means for Nintendo now with the GC controller and this case, I don't know.
All Star Trek series start off on the bad side and improve as they go along
'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
'The Naked Time'
'The Enemy Within'
'Dagger Of The Mind'
'The Corbomite Maneuver'
'The Menagerie', Parts I & II
'Balance Of Terror'
'Shore Leave'
'The Galileo Seven'
'Arena'
'Space Seed'
'The Devil In The Dark'
'Errand Of Mercy'
'The City On The Edge Of Forever'
Wow, and I thought that thing Ed Harris and co used in The Rock to knock out the Marines at the weapons dept had come from the crazed mind of Michael Bay. Learn something every day...
Slashdot Mirror
MPAA: "Submit to our restrictions or we won't let you watch our stuff!"
Me: "Whatever. I'll read a book, or play a game, or visit Slashdot, or, god forbid, even go outside and meet people. Maybe I'll even spend time making my own creative content. Whaddya think about that?"
MPAA: "But... but then how will we make any money from you? Commie! TERRORIST!"
Face Off was the movie in which Travolta and Cage switch ID's
Face/Off had magnetic boots too, in the Erewhon Prison part of the movie.
And what happened to the magnetic boots? Can't run a future prison without magnetic boots!
One of the remaining 4% was Chloe O'Brian from '24'. And now that she knows how to use a machine gun, nobody dare fire her!
Bill Gates: "Internet Explorer has fallen below 90% of the browser market! We still have total dominance! OSS is a dismal failure! Buy Windows XP!"
And some obscure audio file format. What's it called? Oh, yeah. MP3.
As used by Nathan Barley
And the saying goes that what happens in the US now will happen in Britain five years later. Boy, 2010 is going to fucking suck.
Can't wait for the next update! Hope it fixes all those contradictio... er, bugs.
For example, Freelance Work -> [name of client], or Pr0n -> Ashley Renee. (Purely for example purposes.)
But now I could just dump every single file in the Documents folder and use a super-search engine to find them!
Of course, the US will never allow anything like this to be available to the public with no restrictions. Just think of the potential for TERROR!
...the sudden stop does!
Seriously, though, it's weird because 2025AD used to seem like THE FUTURE!!! Whereas it's actually now only 20 years away, which isn't really all that long. Computer tech aside, was 1985 all that different from today?
[Activates DeLorean, goes back to 1985] ... ...
Me: Hi! I'm you, from THE FUTURE!!! 2005, to be exact!
1985 Me: Wow, the 21st Century! So, did we get our flying cars?
Me: Um, no.
1985 Me: Jetpacks? Bionic implants? AIs? Robot servants? Semiballistic airliners allowing us to reach anywhere in the world in two hours? Space holidays? No more poverty or hunger? A cure for cancer? World peace? No more self-serving shitwicks in high political office?
Me: Sorry, no, none of that. But on the plus side, our videogames kick ass, there'll be a new Star Trek TV series and there's this thing called 'the internet'.
1985 Me: What, like William Gibson's cyberspace?
Me: Again, no, not really.
1985 Me: Wow. The future sounds really shitty. At least tell me I get rich in the next 20 years.
Me:
1985 Me: Laid on a regular basis?
Me:
1985 Me: Okay, find me a bottle of whiskey and some pills. I'm going to create a time paradox.
You mean Old B.O.B died for nothing? Damn you, Maximillian!
...when OS X 10.4.1 goes gold!
This time, when someone says "Microsoft's products gave me a virus", they really mean it!
If it were a negotiating tactic, it went wrong - both Ecclestone *and* the BBC (not Netcraft, though) have confirmed that he's not coming back for a second series.
Unfortunately, what ad executives consider 'funny' or 'cool' isn't always the same as the rest of us.
I used to be a game journalist, and when the Rumble Pak first came out, a lot of gamers wondered why Nintendo didn't make a controller with vibration functions built in - especially after the PS1 DualShock appeared. The word from Nintendo back then was that someone had a patent on FF in a controller - but an extra device that plugged into a controller wasn't covered by the patent.
What that means for Nintendo now with the GC controller and this case, I don't know.
'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
'The Naked Time'
'The Enemy Within'
'Dagger Of The Mind'
'The Corbomite Maneuver'
'The Menagerie', Parts I & II
'Balance Of Terror'
'Shore Leave'
'The Galileo Seven'
'Arena'
'Space Seed'
'The Devil In The Dark'
'Errand Of Mercy'
'The City On The Edge Of Forever'
I beg to differ.
Wow, and I thought that thing Ed Harris and co used in The Rock to knock out the Marines at the weapons dept had come from the crazed mind of Michael Bay. Learn something every day...
Mac OS 8.6-9.2: These releases are slightly better in terms of software support -- there still aren't any good browsers
Hey! Moz 1.2.1's doing me just fine here! :p
Any 2000AD reader would recognise that as an ancestor of foul-mouthed sanitation droid Ro-Jaws! Hammerstein surely can't be far off...
Now, an Apple mouse with a scroll wheel, on the other hand...