Hmm... 'Escape From Texas'. I think that no matter what toxic shit you injected Snake Plissken with to rescue the President *this* time, he'd still tell you to fuck off!
In accordance with the Apple philosophy that Mac hardware and software 'just works', Steve Jobs has announced that iWorks' equivalent of Clippy will actually be relevant, helpful and useful.
Artificial muscles? Bionic eyes? If the name 'Genom Corp' or 'Brian J Mason' is attached to any of the patents, then by 2032 (or 2040, if you prefer) we might have more to worry about than athletes cheating at the Olympics!
even if they did consider mozilla a threat, why should they care? even the mozilla users will still need to buy windows.
Unless they think, "Hey, Firefox is really good, much better than that browser from Microsoft, and it's from those Open Source people. Hmm, I hear that Linux thing is from these Open Source people too. If it's as good as Firefox, it's worth a look - and it's free!" Switch to Linux = loss to Microsoft of several hundred, maybe even thousand, dollars in software sales per switcher.
Imagine a terrorist organization that detonates a bomb in the fissure. It is the stuff movies are made about. (Indecentlally if you are a movie maker you can buy that idea off me)
Jeez, how retro. Everybody know that these days, to make something go faster you have to give it a rad paint-job, wicked rims and a set of neons underneath!
Come on! We're 20 posts in, and nobody's made the "Don't trust the Guardian! It was the newspaper that advocated the assassination of George W Bush!" claim!
What's Slashdot coming to when you can't rely on the Republicans to attack the Guardian 30 seconds after a story involving it goes up?
Exactly what 'terrst' action is likely to 1: require GPS to succeed, and 2: be detected before it reaches its target in time for the GPS to be deactivated?
Suicide bomber: "Shit, the GPS has shut down! There's no way we'll be able to find the target for our truck full of explosives now!"
As the US (and other nations) get more high-tech in the 'War on Terror', so the terrorists will become lower-tech as they pursue a tactic of asymmetric warfare. Which weapon in the Pentagon's arsenal could have stopped a bunch of guys armed with boxcutters?
The US is becoming so technology-dependent that it seems to be losing grasp of the fact that you don't need billions of dollars of hardware to kill people in large numbers. A gallon of pesticide in the right water tank could do the job just as well. No GPS required.
What the fuck does Australia sell so much of to the US that it's willing to cave in to everything Uncle Sam demands in order to keep the business going? Castlemaine XXXX? Paul Hogan movies? Novelty hats with corks? I can't believe that US-Australian trade is anything but utterly in America's favour, so why is Howard so keen to keep it that way?
Not that I can talk - as a whingeing Pom, I live in a country where the supposedly left-wing Prime Minister is actually presenting himself in a goatse manner to a Republican President even more than Margaret Thatcher did to Ronald Reagan! Tony Blair, you're a fucking disgrace to your party *and* your country.
Seriously - what *are* the kickbacks that our so-called 'leaders' in the UK and Australia are getting from Bush? A guaranteed place in the Mothership when the Rapture happens? A golden barcode when the New World Order is implemented? Whatever it is, it sure as fuck isn't benefiting the majority of the citizens!
This is really desperation on the part of the hardware companies, backed up by sheer greed from the studios, because they've been *too* successful with DVD. Almost everyone who wants a player has one already, and those few who haven't got one yet can pick one up for 30 quid at the local supermarket. Region-free, at that.
So the hardware companies want a new format in order to expand their market rather than simply support the 'my old player's died, time to get a new one' tail, and the studios want to sell us films we already own all over again - only this time with 'unbreakable' DRM and 'uncrackable' region coding, backed up by newly-purchased laws so they can retain more control!
You know what? Fuck 'em. I can't imagine that I'll ever be in a position to have a dedicated home cinema room with a 130" widescreen projection TV, so it's highly unlikely that I'll ever notice (or care about) the difference in picture quality between a regular DVD and the new super-duper Blu-Ray-So-La-Tee-DVDoh format. I just don't have the room for a massive TV, nor, any more, the desire to shovel a large percentage of my disposable income into the pockets of the fucksticks at the Hollywood studios. I've seen maybe twelve movies at the cinema this year, and of those, I'd consider actually buying the DVD of two of them at most.
So let HD-DVD and Blu-Ray fight it out until one dies. Hell, there still isn't even a winner in the DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW recordable 'war', and that's been ongoing for two years now. Maybe this should give the corps a clue - nobody *wants* new formats right now, because they're perfectly happy with what they've got. In the meantime, while the hardcos fight and the studios try to work out new and exciting ways to take people's money and limit their rights, I'll just sit back and watch my favourite movies of all time (a list which gets addended very infrequently) on my 'outdated' DVD player...
Something that bugs me far more than it should is the tendency for major news outlets to use 'Nasa' rather than 'NASA'.
On the other hand, technically it should be 'RADAR' and 'LASER' rather than 'radar' and 'laser', but I'm not complaining about those. When does an acronym become a word in its own right, and who decides?
The content provider is providing free content with a catch: you will view some ads. By removing the ads, you aren't holding up your end of this implicit contract. Don't like ads? Don't view the content.
Horseshit. By the same logic, whenever you watch commercial TV, you *must* watch the adverts - no switching channels, no getting a drink, no going to the bathroom. Wouldn't want to break the 'implicit contract', would you?
There *is* no 'implicit contract' between myself and a website. If I choose to use Mozilla to block ads (and as for Flash, I don't even have it installed) that's up to me, and there's not a thing they can do to stop me. If they make the ads more intrusive and unskippable, I'll just stop visiting.
Standard banner ads at the top of the page I have no problem with. Unless I decide to click on them (which, in all honesty, I've only ever done by accident) I can scroll past them, and I'm still counted as having 'seen' them. Anything that wants to hijack my browser, fill half the screen, blare out sound effects or music, or take up my time and bandwidth by loading some unwanted movie or animation, on the other hand - blocked!
There's a pelican crossing on my street that has sensors of some kind mounted on top (radar, IR, whatever - I'm not sure) that from observation I've worked out watch the road and only change the lights to red when a pedestrian pushes the button either when A: there are no cars approaching in either direction, or B: a maximum of about 30 seconds after the button was pressed if traffic is constant.
Since I'm a lot more likely to be crossing the road on foot than driving along it, it's amazing just how long that 30 seconds seems when you're waiting for the fucking thing to change!
It doesn't appear sensitive enough to spot cyclists, but since cyclists invariably ignore the lights and just cruise right on through even if people are crossing, that seems to be moot...
All right! Landmates coming soon from your friendly local Toyota dealer! Sign me up for a Guges-D, I'm sure the government will have no problems with that...
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Hmm... 'Escape From Texas'. I think that no matter what toxic shit you injected Snake Plissken with to rescue the President *this* time, he'd still tell you to fuck off!
Great! I'll be able to go and pick up my next TV in my flying car!
Question is, what percentage of it is A: pork-barrel, or B: wasted?
In accordance with the Apple philosophy that Mac hardware and software 'just works', Steve Jobs has announced that iWorks' equivalent of Clippy will actually be relevant, helpful and useful.
Artificial muscles? Bionic eyes? If the name 'Genom Corp' or 'Brian J Mason' is attached to any of the patents, then by 2032 (or 2040, if you prefer) we might have more to worry about than athletes cheating at the Olympics!
Unless there's a 50-foot robot made of antihystamines following right behind it...
Will he be there? And if so, will we see him achieve orgasm after he kills a dog?
Unless they think, "Hey, Firefox is really good, much better than that browser from Microsoft, and it's from those Open Source people. Hmm, I hear that Linux thing is from these Open Source people too. If it's as good as Firefox, it's worth a look - and it's free!" Switch to Linux = loss to Microsoft of several hundred, maybe even thousand, dollars in software sales per switcher.
(Or they could be running OS X!)
Too late. Scimitar SL-2
Hooray! Time to throw some coal into my old Wobblebug and head out onto the open road, secure in the knowledge that I'm fashionable again!
Jeez, how retro. Everybody know that these days, to make something go faster you have to give it a rad paint-job, wicked rims and a set of neons underneath!
...just crank up the RPMs to maximum and send them flying out of the window!
What's Slashdot coming to when you can't rely on the Republicans to attack the Guardian 30 seconds after a story involving it goes up?
If it's bukkake, they certainly do something in your face!
Maybe 'Bukkake Blunders 2000' is when they miss...
(Firefox )
Do you have to think in Russian to use the browser, by the way?
Exactly what 'terrst' action is likely to 1: require GPS to succeed, and 2: be detected before it reaches its target in time for the GPS to be deactivated?
Suicide bomber: "Shit, the GPS has shut down! There's no way we'll be able to find the target for our truck full of explosives now!"
As the US (and other nations) get more high-tech in the 'War on Terror', so the terrorists will become lower-tech as they pursue a tactic of asymmetric warfare. Which weapon in the Pentagon's arsenal could have stopped a bunch of guys armed with boxcutters?
The US is becoming so technology-dependent that it seems to be losing grasp of the fact that you don't need billions of dollars of hardware to kill people in large numbers. A gallon of pesticide in the right water tank could do the job just as well. No GPS required.
No doubt the Pentagon is already offering a contract for 150 or so new anti-satellite missiles...
Not that I can talk - as a whingeing Pom, I live in a country where the supposedly left-wing Prime Minister is actually presenting himself in a goatse manner to a Republican President even more than Margaret Thatcher did to Ronald Reagan! Tony Blair, you're a fucking disgrace to your party *and* your country.
Seriously - what *are* the kickbacks that our so-called 'leaders' in the UK and Australia are getting from Bush? A guaranteed place in the Mothership when the Rapture happens? A golden barcode when the New World Order is implemented? Whatever it is, it sure as fuck isn't benefiting the majority of the citizens!
This is really desperation on the part of the hardware companies, backed up by sheer greed from the studios, because they've been *too* successful with DVD. Almost everyone who wants a player has one already, and those few who haven't got one yet can pick one up for 30 quid at the local supermarket. Region-free, at that.
So the hardware companies want a new format in order to expand their market rather than simply support the 'my old player's died, time to get a new one' tail, and the studios want to sell us films we already own all over again - only this time with 'unbreakable' DRM and 'uncrackable' region coding, backed up by newly-purchased laws so they can retain more control!
You know what? Fuck 'em. I can't imagine that I'll ever be in a position to have a dedicated home cinema room with a 130" widescreen projection TV, so it's highly unlikely that I'll ever notice (or care about) the difference in picture quality between a regular DVD and the new super-duper Blu-Ray-So-La-Tee-DVDoh format. I just don't have the room for a massive TV, nor, any more, the desire to shovel a large percentage of my disposable income into the pockets of the fucksticks at the Hollywood studios. I've seen maybe twelve movies at the cinema this year, and of those, I'd consider actually buying the DVD of two of them at most.
So let HD-DVD and Blu-Ray fight it out until one dies. Hell, there still isn't even a winner in the DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW recordable 'war', and that's been ongoing for two years now. Maybe this should give the corps a clue - nobody *wants* new formats right now, because they're perfectly happy with what they've got. In the meantime, while the hardcos fight and the studios try to work out new and exciting ways to take people's money and limit their rights, I'll just sit back and watch my favourite movies of all time (a list which gets addended very infrequently) on my 'outdated' DVD player...
I'm waiting for Apple's version so I can think different.
On the other hand, technically it should be 'RADAR' and 'LASER' rather than 'radar' and 'laser', but I'm not complaining about those. When does an acronym become a word in its own right, and who decides?
Horseshit. By the same logic, whenever you watch commercial TV, you *must* watch the adverts - no switching channels, no getting a drink, no going to the bathroom. Wouldn't want to break the 'implicit contract', would you?
There *is* no 'implicit contract' between myself and a website. If I choose to use Mozilla to block ads (and as for Flash, I don't even have it installed) that's up to me, and there's not a thing they can do to stop me. If they make the ads more intrusive and unskippable, I'll just stop visiting.
Standard banner ads at the top of the page I have no problem with. Unless I decide to click on them (which, in all honesty, I've only ever done by accident) I can scroll past them, and I'm still counted as having 'seen' them. Anything that wants to hijack my browser, fill half the screen, blare out sound effects or music, or take up my time and bandwidth by loading some unwanted movie or animation, on the other hand - blocked!
Since I'm a lot more likely to be crossing the road on foot than driving along it, it's amazing just how long that 30 seconds seems when you're waiting for the fucking thing to change!
It doesn't appear sensitive enough to spot cyclists, but since cyclists invariably ignore the lights and just cruise right on through even if people are crossing, that seems to be moot...
All right! Landmates coming soon from your friendly local Toyota dealer! Sign me up for a Guges-D, I'm sure the government will have no problems with that...
Or maybe Tom Hanks as The Conductor in a motion-captured CGI version of 'Suicide Express'...