"With a lot of cutting and pasting, the engineers create 11 customized hourlong countdown shows for cities like New York, Philadelphia and Detroit, and two national pop and rhythm-and-blues countdowns for other markets. The customization means Mr. Daly can seem to be telling listeners in a particular city their most-requested songs for that day -- without ever seeing the city's top-10 list. Clear Channel has been widely criticized for its use of so-called voice-tracking technology, which enables prerecorded D. J.'s to sound to listeners in a distant city as if they were both local and live."
So... what's the BFD as long as he doesn't soound like a Speak N Spell?
"I got no indication that the poster was trying to make a joke."
The indication was everybody and their mother thinking they're the first to say "because it sucked!".
" I think Paramount, Berman and Braga would do well to listen to the fans..."
That, by itself, is a fair comment, but the second part of that sentence isn't so insightful...
"... for a change instead of ramming standard sci-fi with the Trek label slapped on down our throats"
I'm sorry, but who's ramming anything down anybody's throat? They're producing a TV series and a string of movies. At what point do you have to sit down and watch? They're feeding an audience, not expanding a monopoly. Please, gain some perspective here.
Obviously there's a segment that's still watching Enterprise, and it's quite lucrative for Paramount. If it's not providing the audience they want, they'll fix it. Don't believe me? Ask any Deep Space Nine fan.
"Sure it does - it stunk so badly, people on the east coast were diving out of theatres and calling ahead to pre-warn people in line out west."
Ha! Yeah, that's much more rational than my suggestion heh. You should have left your comment at that, it was funny!
"Nice theory, but then you'd expect it to pick up over time as people get round to viewing it. Which they patently haven't done."
That doesn't mean the movie was bad, it means that the other movies out (like Harry Potter and LoTR) got higher priority.
You have to remember that lots of people out there have kids. Nemesis is not exactly an enticing movie for kids. It's going to fall off the priority list if they have to hire a babysitter to go see it.
Maybe they should have introduced a CG character to act as comedy relief for the kids? (it's a joke, don't stab me.)
"not having done any actual tests, i would say HTML is probably more efficient than a Word file. However, it ain't gonna beat a plain text file..."
When I wrote that, I was thinking about formatting etc. Unfortuantely, I did a poor job of implying that. HTML is pretty much to the point and has very little overhead compared to a.DOC file.
I would defend word, though, because it was really meant for making print documents, as opposed to blitting stuff on the screen from the internet. It handles that job just fine.
Frankly,.DOC bloat has never been on my pissing list. I suspect the only reason this article got published is that they were able to take a poke at MS. Pity they exposed their own ignorance in the process. Never mind that Notepad is one of the most used apps in existence, let's pick on Word because it's Micro$oft!
"Well, if I had written the movie, I woulda made the good guy shoot the bad guy, thus saving us all from lots of that talking stuff that keeps happening in these movies!"
"It failed because it sucked - plain and simple. It felt like an extended episode rather than a "film" (e.g., compare it with something like LoTR)."
That doesn't explain a bad opening weekend. It 'sucking' (geez, is that the most sophisticated opinion of the movie you could muster?) would explain a sharp falloff after opening weekend.
The truth of the matter is that it didn't have a lot of people rushing to theaters to go see it. It kind of fell off the radar with all the other movies out.
Personally, I can't help but think people wanted to avoid crowds. You know those LoTR fans, casting spells and rolling dice and shit.
Though I'm sure the.DOC format is bloated, what you're really seeing is overhead. If you double the amount of text in the a word doc, you don't get a 40K file.
I did an experiment where I created a document with the letter 'A' in it. 19K. I then typed a page of garbage in it. The resulting filesize was 29K. I took the garbage and copy/pasted it into Notepad and saved it to a.txt file. It was 7K. Seeing as how it had no formatting in it, I'd say that was an interesting 'bloat' experiment.
I'm not sure what's in that initial 20k, but it's probably some info describing how the file was made. Is it necessary? No. If you want efficiency, use HTML.
"...is no doubt completely justified by its ability to host a virus capable of bring the Internet to its knees."
Was anybody else able to make sense by that comment? heh.
"Seems like it would be a lot easier just to use a popup stopper instead. This is what I did with IE until I installed mozilla."
One neat thing you can do with IE is call it as an ActiveX control in Visual Basic. I'm by no means a programmer, but I was able to download the HTML into a text buffer, edit the buffer, and then display it in the IE/ActiveX Window. The idea was (eventually) to write a parser that had a few rules about omitting certain lines of HTML. Something along the lines of "remove any line that refers to opening windows on page load or on aexit."
So why didn't I complete it? I didn't know how! Heh. Seriously, I'm not much of a programmer, and I didn't have the drive to write the parser necessary to do that. The main problem is that I would have had to have re-written a lot of IE's interface. I probably had a month or so (at my ameteurish pace) to go before I could get that in workable shape. And then what?
I do hope somebody comes along and implements a feature simmilar to what I described in a browser. (Preferably Opera.) I'd rather filter out HTML than wait for new features to pop up every time somebody discovers a new way to be annoying.
"...this is the code which is invariably used even today."
Morse code was recently used by the United States on July 4, 1997 to mobilize the largest international airbattle of recorded history. Apple deserves some of the credit too, though.
"Someone work in a Microsoft slam, too. I need my fix."
In other related news, MS sued Renfrew's descendents over patents relating to the point and click interface that they invented.
Hmm... let's see, I involved Microsoft and a rather obvious abuse of patents, that should get me a +1 Funny, right? Damn, I wish I could think of a way to work AMD's overheating into it too, that would have been a slam dunk +1.
The DMCRA is just a little too close to DMCA. I mean seriously, the r key is right above the a key. It looks like a typo!
What it needs is another couple of letters on the end. How about c and k? C could stand for 'concerning' and the k could stand for... well shit, I'm not that intelligent so I'll get to the point. I just want the acronym to be 'DMCRACK'.
"Yeah, I know, absolutely *nothing* can beat a blue "e" in intuitivity. I mean everybody just knows that "e" means "Web Browser", it's just the logical thing. Or a stylish "W" is a Word processor, what else can it"
So, by your argument, a VW icon wouldn't mean car? I'd go into detail, but first I need to know if you understand the concept of what a logo is.
"A boost in NASA funding? I predict, if anything, the opposite."
Bush is pushing for another $500 mill to go towards Nasa.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/bush.b ud get.nasa.reut/index.html
Does that mean it'll happen? I wouldn't be figuring out ways to spend it yet with all the other budgetary concerns. But at least you understand a little bit why I said that.
"The worst spacial incident in recorded history occurred less than one day ago and you people are talking about power companies offering cable service?!?! My GOD, people, GET SOME BLOODY PRIORITIES!"
The people that died in the pursuit of science would be honored if we continued on our pursuit of science.
I had a conversation a couple of days ago with a coworker about how to improve data density on CD's. One of the ideas I suggested was that instead of packing more bits onto the CD, why not colorize them? A red bit would mean one bit of data, yellow would mean another, and so on. That's just an example. It just seems like they could be putting more data on a disc by changing the way the bit is detected.
It strikes me that there MIGHT be a way to do this in the magnetic world, but I really am not well informed on this topic. Who knows, maybe it's already being done. Enlightening information would be appreciated.
I guess the real point of my post is that adding more density to the drives isn't the only way to increase storage.
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"Mmmm... C-C-C-Catch the Wave, Coke."
Don't say the P-Word!
"With a lot of cutting and pasting, the engineers create 11 customized hourlong countdown shows for cities like New York, Philadelphia and Detroit, and two national pop and rhythm-and-blues countdowns for other markets. The customization means Mr. Daly can seem to be telling listeners in a particular city their most-requested songs for that day -- without ever seeing the city's top-10 list.
Clear Channel has been widely criticized for its use of so-called voice-tracking technology, which enables prerecorded D. J.'s to sound to listeners in a distant city as if they were both local and live."
So... what's the BFD as long as he doesn't soound like a Speak N Spell?
"I got no indication that the poster was trying to make a joke."
The indication was everybody and their mother thinking they're the first to say "because it sucked!".
" I think Paramount, Berman and Braga would do well to listen to the fans..."
That, by itself, is a fair comment, but the second part of that sentence isn't so insightful...
"... for a change instead of ramming standard sci-fi with the Trek label slapped on down our throats"
I'm sorry, but who's ramming anything down anybody's throat? They're producing a TV series and a string of movies. At what point do you have to sit down and watch? They're feeding an audience, not expanding a monopoly. Please, gain some perspective here.
Obviously there's a segment that's still watching Enterprise, and it's quite lucrative for Paramount. If it's not providing the audience they want, they'll fix it. Don't believe me? Ask any Deep Space Nine fan.
"Sure it does - it stunk so badly, people on the east coast were diving out of theatres and calling ahead to pre-warn people in line out west."
Ha! Yeah, that's much more rational than my suggestion heh. You should have left your comment at that, it was funny!
"Nice theory, but then you'd expect it to pick up over time as people get round to viewing it. Which they patently haven't done."
That doesn't mean the movie was bad, it means that the other movies out (like Harry Potter and LoTR) got higher priority.
You have to remember that lots of people out there have kids. Nemesis is not exactly an enticing movie for kids. It's going to fall off the priority list if they have to hire a babysitter to go see it.
Maybe they should have introduced a CG character to act as comedy relief for the kids? (it's a joke, don't stab me.)
"not having done any actual tests, i would say HTML is probably more efficient than a Word file. However, it ain't gonna beat a plain text file..."
.DOC file.
.DOC bloat has never been on my pissing list. I suspect the only reason this article got published is that they were able to take a poke at MS. Pity they exposed their own ignorance in the process. Never mind that Notepad is one of the most used apps in existence, let's pick on Word because it's Micro$oft!
When I wrote that, I was thinking about formatting etc. Unfortuantely, I did a poor job of implying that. HTML is pretty much to the point and has very little overhead compared to a
I would defend word, though, because it was really meant for making print documents, as opposed to blitting stuff on the screen from the internet. It handles that job just fine.
Frankly,
... everybody thinks they're a movie director.
"Well, if I had written the movie, I woulda made the good guy shoot the bad guy, thus saving us all from lots of that talking stuff that keeps happening in these movies!"
"It failed because it sucked - plain and simple. It felt like an extended episode rather than a "film" (e.g., compare it with something like LoTR)."
That doesn't explain a bad opening weekend. It 'sucking' (geez, is that the most sophisticated opinion of the movie you could muster?) would explain a sharp falloff after opening weekend.
The truth of the matter is that it didn't have a lot of people rushing to theaters to go see it. It kind of fell off the radar with all the other movies out.
Personally, I can't help but think people wanted to avoid crowds. You know those LoTR fans, casting spells and rolling dice and shit.
Ask Slashdot why Nemesis failed. You just know you'll get a ton of insightful and intelligent answers out of a question like that.
'*Choke*. You're under 25, right? "
;)
Glad I am. Judging from your response and your moderation, I'm about to be seriously embarrased.
Enlighten me?
"The bloat for a Word document..."
.DOC format is bloated, what you're really seeing is overhead. If you double the amount of text in the a word doc, you don't get a 40K file.
.txt file. It was 7K. Seeing as how it had no formatting in it, I'd say that was an interesting 'bloat' experiment.
Though I'm sure the
I did an experiment where I created a document with the letter 'A' in it. 19K. I then typed a page of garbage in it. The resulting filesize was
29K. I took the garbage and copy/pasted it into Notepad and saved it to a
I'm not sure what's in that initial 20k, but it's probably some info describing how the file was made. Is it necessary? No. If you want efficiency, use HTML.
"...is no doubt completely justified by its ability to host a virus capable of bring the Internet to its knees."
Was anybody else able to make sense by that comment? heh.
... I think the author of Foxtrot reads Slashdot.
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Check out today's (02-04-03) cartoon.
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2003/ft030204
Alright!! Linux is running on an iPod! This means we can... uh...
"It's not checking the file system...."
Hrmm. I guess my joke wasn't delivered to well.
The guy said "404 fscking bytes!" I was making fun of his self-censorship there.
Oh well. Hawkeye Pierce I am not.
"404 fscking bytes! No wonder it clogged the Internet!"
I'm new to Linux, but how does checking the file system clog the internet?
"Seems like it would be a lot easier just to use a popup stopper instead. This is what I did with IE until I installed mozilla."
One neat thing you can do with IE is call it as an ActiveX control in Visual Basic. I'm by no means a programmer, but I was able to download the HTML into a text buffer, edit the buffer, and then display it in the IE/ActiveX Window. The idea was (eventually) to write a parser that had a few rules about omitting certain lines of HTML. Something along the lines of "remove any line that refers to opening windows on page load or on aexit."
So why didn't I complete it? I didn't know how! Heh. Seriously, I'm not much of a programmer, and I didn't have the drive to write the parser necessary to do that. The main problem is that I would have had to have re-written a lot of IE's interface. I probably had a month or so (at my ameteurish pace) to go before I could get that in workable shape. And then what?
I do hope somebody comes along and implements a feature simmilar to what I described in a browser. (Preferably Opera.) I'd rather filter out HTML than wait for new features to pop up every time somebody discovers a new way to be annoying.
" ...this is the code which is invariably used even today."
Morse code was recently used by the United States on July 4, 1997 to mobilize the largest international airbattle of recorded history. Apple deserves some of the credit too, though.
"Someone work in a Microsoft slam, too. I need my fix."
In other related news, MS sued Renfrew's descendents over patents relating to the point and click interface that they invented.
Hmm... let's see, I involved Microsoft and a rather obvious abuse of patents, that should get me a +1 Funny, right? Damn, I wish I could think of a way to work AMD's overheating into it too, that would have been a slam dunk +1.
"You mean giving more money to Apple? ;)"
Man, I had this vision of a white XBOX controller with only one action button. *shudders*
The DMCRA is just a little too close to DMCA. I mean seriously, the r key is right above the a key. It looks like a typo!
What it needs is another couple of letters on the end. How about c and k? C could stand for 'concerning' and the k could stand for... well shit, I'm not that intelligent so I'll get to the point. I just want the acronym to be 'DMCRACK'.
"Yeah, I know, absolutely *nothing* can beat a blue "e" in intuitivity. I mean everybody just knows that "e" means "Web Browser", it's just the logical thing. Or a stylish "W" is a Word processor, what else can it"
So, by your argument, a VW icon wouldn't mean car? I'd go into detail, but first I need to know if you understand the concept of what a logo is.
"gdkpixbuf
That looks like someone headbutted the keyboard..."
He had his cat name it.
"The "free advertising" argument is ridiculous, absolutely doesn't hold water, and is something I'm getting tired of hearing."
So... tell me how radio works again?
"A boost in NASA funding? I predict, if anything, the opposite."
b ud get.nasa.reut/index.html
Bush is pushing for another $500 mill to go towards Nasa.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/bush.
Does that mean it'll happen? I wouldn't be figuring out ways to spend it yet with all the other budgetary concerns. But at least you understand a little bit why I said that.
"The worst spacial incident in recorded history occurred less than one day ago and you people are talking about power companies offering cable service?!?! My GOD, people, GET SOME BLOODY PRIORITIES!"
The people that died in the pursuit of science would be honored if we continued on our pursuit of science.
I had a conversation a couple of days ago with a coworker about how to improve data density on CD's. One of the ideas I suggested was that instead of packing more bits onto the CD, why not colorize them? A red bit would mean one bit of data, yellow would mean another, and so on. That's just an example. It just seems like they could be putting more data on a disc by changing the way the bit is detected.
It strikes me that there MIGHT be a way to do this in the magnetic world, but I really am not well informed on this topic. Who knows, maybe it's already being done. Enlightening information would be appreciated.
I guess the real point of my post is that adding more density to the drives isn't the only way to increase storage.