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Question about ICANN's place in the world
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ICANN Budget Questioned
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· Score: 5, Insightful
From the article: "ICANN is relying on the fact that Europe's Internet registries (although CENTR, despite its name, represents far more than just European interests) will want to have ICANN in charge more than they will want an international body controlled by governments (the ITU)"
I'm not getting something. Why would a (I presume) for-profit corporation like ICANN be preferable to a system controlled by governments? Honest question, I'm really curious. What does ICANN offer that this ITU doesn't?
Get a computer without a fan. I've had my Apple G4 Cube for a few years now, only now really showing its age and completely silent. Well, except for hard disk access. Of course you can't get them anymore, and Apple's new G5s have 4 or 5 fans in them... So don't think this is just some sort of fanboy rant, I honestly think that good design can get around the need for fans.
Cool mod, not sure how he would explain computer plastic rusting, but whatever. I'd be interested to see what a Counterstrike case mod would look like. Oh wait, it would just be an eight year old machine that everybody uses anyway even though there are better machines readily available.
Who knows, maybe some games will be programmed to taste differently, like if you're playing Final Fantasy Tactics advance and one of your characters gets healed, a small dose of liquid or chemicals is released so it tastes like strawberries or chocolate. If one of your characters dies, citric acid would be sprayed in your eyes.
Like most are thinking, it's win-win. (Hey at least it wasn't a sex joke...)
It may be a problem for commercial games, but look at the innovations modders come up with when they add their own touches to commercial game engines. Even really old games like Marathon are still getting some amazing mods made, the most prominant being AlephOne...
Yes, today's pictures can be photoshopped, but retouching war pictures or contriving them in general is hardly new. The famous Iwo Jima photo was not the actual flag raising right after the battle, but a re-enactment for the camera (God I hope I'm right about that, actually)
And when war photography first came to the fore, during the US Civil War, photography was treated like paintings, and photos were taken after the battles with soldiers set up in posed, contrived positions because of the long exposure time.
Just something to think about. The camera can be remarkable for conveying accurate truths, or for conveying convincing lies.
Okay, privacy concerns aside, the worst part that no one seems to mention is that the gov't is going to charge people for these cards directly, it's not gonna be paid by taxes. Now, charging for a passport is okay by me because that's optional, you don't need to have a passport if you're staying put, but under this system, everyone MUST have these expensive ID cards, giving people no choice but to pay.
Considering they were free when the Brits last did this in WWII, when the nation was more strapped for cash, this is, in my view, unacceptable.
Exactly. Even though Apple may be accused of high prices, when it comes to software and things like iTunes and its music store, Apple seem to have pleasing consumers as a top priority, the whole Fairplay system is only as cool as it is because Apple wrestled with the Music Indistry on our behalf. Okay I know they are far from altruistic, they are there to make a profit, but they do this by not pissing customers off.
Cut to Real. Ouch, just finiding their free player on their site is a pain in the ass, not to mention all the spyware, the bloated nature of their products... their number one seems to be their advertisers, then their bottom line, then the consumer. My opinion of Apple would go down if they associated themselves with these fools.
Good point but a simple Graphics tablet would more or less solve this problem, and they are getting increasingly cheaper. Wacom Graphire tablets for instance are very user friendly and inexpensive. The onle niggle is getting used to looking at a screen while drawing, but they have really expensive LCD screen tablets for that.
So I could imagine this searching tool will be immediately accessible and handy to any graphic designers and photoshop junkies who already own graphics tablets, and it may just encourage people to get some.
Yeah, I'd imagine it will help alleviate the burden of those who can's be bothered to look up all those complicated Greek works like Necrophilia to find their favorite sexual images. Actually, just he pictures people will draw when looking for porn should be amusing on their own.
The various rendering of the goatse man alone will be worth the cost of developing such a system.
I hope I'm not the only one, but looking at those pictures made me remember how beautiful Saturn is... it has a sense of unreality about it, it just looks so perfect. The atmosphere's bands all seem to be perfect rings around its surface, one part of me asks "why," the other part thinks "who cares, it looks pretty."
I know this could prolly be considered off topic, but I was just struck by the pictures of the planet and I wonder how, when so many dazzling images of space exist, can anyone act so ambivalent about space programs? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Oh and was I the only one who pictures a bizzare version of The Perfect Storm when reading about those waves, a more boring movie with less waves and it takes longer to climb each one. I think Hollywood should begin pre-production in May.
You are in a room with two exits, the south exit behind you, and the north exit in front of you, which looks dark. There are two corpses of Player 4 "QuAkEkIlLa" and Player 3 "your mom" on the floor.
>Move North
It is completely dark. You have been eaten by a Grue.
Yeah, exactly. I often wonder if at any point in the existance of society these big corporations will ever see these actions and rather than seeing it as a simple crime, see it as a message from the consumers that they don't like things and won't tolerate it. If companies interpreted it like this and changed their practices to suit consumers, perhaps they'll increase profits, making a win/win scenario.
I'm sure this is not a new idea, and if I'm oversimplifying, please correct me, but it seems to me that the balance between "The customer is always right" and "Caveat Emptor" has really shifted these days to consumers being treated as enemies...
There's another mod chip use that I think people are overlooking, and I feel it is legit, even though some may disagree. That use is getting around region encoding. Like DVDs, modern game consoles, no longer encumbered by mechanical issues like TV standard differences use a system of region codes. This is done so that they can enforce different release dates in places like Europe (It took Final Fantasy X seven months to go from the US to Europe, and they didn't even optimize it for PAL or change any of the spellings of words.) Also, they want to enforce prices, the average new game in the us is $50 as far as I understand, in the EU it's the equivalent of $65, sometimes higher.
Okay, game companies may think it's doing something wrong, but it's just circumventing a system that shouldn't be there at all. By buying the same product on a different continent, you're giving the same giant multinational money, you just don't need to tolerate being treated as a second class market. With mod chips you can do this. Okay, ending my rant:)
I wonder how their selection process for the muzak is, I'm not sure if anyone besides a hardcore Something Awful.com fan would love to hear some "Semi Automatic Turban" musical stylings on their next elevator journey.
But seriously, if they got almost ALL of the MP3.com tracks, that's a lot of sift through and determine if it's elevator-worthy. I doubt it will all suit the occasion (or non-occasion)
I doubt it would include VAT, as the price quoted was an "Apple announcement." They don't usually bother with VAT calculations till it hits stores. Not to mention, if they're quoting an Apple announcement, the price was probably originally quoted in US$ and was then converted by them into Sterling Pounds, and a dollar price would not include any sales tax.
No, they're only elligable for Best Animated FIlm oscar. Dreamworks's Shrek was the first film to win this, showing that CGI animated films can win Oscars, just not traditional VFX ones, as it is arguably harder to make VFX convincing in live action. In an animated film there is already suspension of disbelief, we know none of the images are real. With live action, they are trying to convince us the images are real. Therin lies the challenge, not how much money you can spend on fancy CGI, but how much an audiance believes what they are seeing.
I was wondering when Bebop would get into this.
"Ed spammed him!!!"
"Hey Spike! The next spammer is worth five hundred thousant woolongs!"
Et cetera. Buying DVD sets will always pay off someday for in-jokes among small cliques!
And they used that same "average" excuse. This was in Ireland about 3 or so years ago, before any sort of braodband was available, and dial up connections were charged by the minute because that's how they charge local calls here. I had signed up for an Esat ISP that promised a flat rate on off-peak times and weekends with no by the minute fees during those times. So then I started playing some online games, spent quite a bit of time online, et cetera.
A couple months later they sent me a letter saying I was disconnected because I was one of their top 3% or something, even though I wasn't on excessively. Then it was back to enormous monthly fees till DSL came a few months ago. So I'm just saying European ISPs have been doing this for a few years now, maybe that's where the US ISPs are getting it from...
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Recycling TV Ads
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...Except that a lot of the wittiest ads here wouldn't go down well with the squeamish, thing is, here in Ireland (Same goes for the UK) 90% of the ads are just as dire as American ads. It's only the few gems that ever save advertising's reputation. Same situation as America. I wouldn't mind seeing the American gems shown here, and Euro excellence shown there, but let's not pretend that Irish / British advertising doesn't suck in general.:)
I'm just imagining how popular a particular Dutch ad I once saw would be... It showed a nice family piling into their little Saab, Mom, Dad, two kids, they start the car and the radio turns on. The song that plays is the "Outhere Brothers"' "I Wanna F*ck you in the Ass." The song plays a few seconds, then the family smiles and starts to bob their heads to the beat, and they drive away enjoying the music, when the words "Want to learn English?" appear.
Of course that wouldn't work in most places, it was even banned I think, but that's the funniest ad I've seen in a while. Find it on Kazaa:D
Slashdot Mirror
Nuts. I was looking forward to MicroSap. Yes yes yes, minus one, redundant, but much like Everest, One has to because it was there.
"If you are gov't employee, it is your responsibility to use email for official business only."
Well for some government employees, penis enlarging Vigralisis pills ARE official business.
From the article: "ICANN is relying on the fact that Europe's Internet registries (although CENTR, despite its name, represents far more than just European interests) will want to have ICANN in charge more than they will want an international body controlled by governments (the ITU)"
I'm not getting something. Why would a (I presume) for-profit corporation like ICANN be preferable to a system controlled by governments? Honest question, I'm really curious. What does ICANN offer that this ITU doesn't?
Get a computer without a fan. I've had my Apple G4 Cube for a few years now, only now really showing its age and completely silent. Well, except for hard disk access. Of course you can't get them anymore, and Apple's new G5s have 4 or 5 fans in them... So don't think this is just some sort of fanboy rant, I honestly think that good design can get around the need for fans.
Cool mod, not sure how he would explain computer plastic rusting, but whatever. I'd be interested to see what a Counterstrike case mod would look like. Oh wait, it would just be an eight year old machine that everybody uses anyway even though there are better machines readily available.
Ohhh, feel the burning cynicism!!
Who knows, maybe some games will be programmed to taste differently, like if you're playing Final Fantasy Tactics advance and one of your characters gets healed, a small dose of liquid or chemicals is released so it tastes like strawberries or chocolate. If one of your characters dies, citric acid would be sprayed in your eyes.
Like most are thinking, it's win-win. (Hey at least it wasn't a sex joke...)
It may be a problem for commercial games, but look at the innovations modders come up with when they add their own touches to commercial game engines. Even really old games like Marathon are still getting some amazing mods made, the most prominant being AlephOne...
Yes, today's pictures can be photoshopped, but retouching war pictures or contriving them in general is hardly new. The famous Iwo Jima photo was not the actual flag raising right after the battle, but a re-enactment for the camera (God I hope I'm right about that, actually)
And when war photography first came to the fore, during the US Civil War, photography was treated like paintings, and photos were taken after the battles with soldiers set up in posed, contrived positions because of the long exposure time.
Just something to think about. The camera can be remarkable for conveying accurate truths, or for conveying convincing lies.
Oh great, it's called "Lolita."
Good luck finding any info on a chandelier after Googling THAT word...
Okay, privacy concerns aside, the worst part that no one seems to mention is that the gov't is going to charge people for these cards directly, it's not gonna be paid by taxes. Now, charging for a passport is okay by me because that's optional, you don't need to have a passport if you're staying put, but under this system, everyone MUST have these expensive ID cards, giving people no choice but to pay.
Considering they were free when the Brits last did this in WWII, when the nation was more strapped for cash, this is, in my view, unacceptable.
I like one of Webcrawler's featured searches today: Camel Spiders.
Those things may have urban legends surrounding them or whatever, but they are GODDAMN SCARY!!!
Exactly. Even though Apple may be accused of high prices, when it comes to software and things like iTunes and its music store, Apple seem to have pleasing consumers as a top priority, the whole Fairplay system is only as cool as it is because Apple wrestled with the Music Indistry on our behalf. Okay I know they are far from altruistic, they are there to make a profit, but they do this by not pissing customers off.
Cut to Real. Ouch, just finiding their free player on their site is a pain in the ass, not to mention all the spyware, the bloated nature of their products... their number one seems to be their advertisers, then their bottom line, then the consumer. My opinion of Apple would go down if they associated themselves with these fools.
Good point but a simple Graphics tablet would more or less solve this problem, and they are getting increasingly cheaper. Wacom Graphire tablets for instance are very user friendly and inexpensive. The onle niggle is getting used to looking at a screen while drawing, but they have really expensive LCD screen tablets for that.
So I could imagine this searching tool will be immediately accessible and handy to any graphic designers and photoshop junkies who already own graphics tablets, and it may just encourage people to get some.
Yeah, I'd imagine it will help alleviate the burden of those who can's be bothered to look up all those complicated Greek works like Necrophilia to find their favorite sexual images. Actually, just he pictures people will draw when looking for porn should be amusing on their own.
The various rendering of the goatse man alone will be worth the cost of developing such a system.
I hope I'm not the only one, but looking at those pictures made me remember how beautiful Saturn is... it has a sense of unreality about it, it just looks so perfect. The atmosphere's bands all seem to be perfect rings around its surface, one part of me asks "why," the other part thinks "who cares, it looks pretty."
I know this could prolly be considered off topic, but I was just struck by the pictures of the planet and I wonder how, when so many dazzling images of space exist, can anyone act so ambivalent about space programs? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Oh and was I the only one who pictures a bizzare version of The Perfect Storm when reading about those waves, a more boring movie with less waves and it takes longer to climb each one. I think Hollywood should begin pre-production in May.
>look
You are in a room with two exits, the south exit behind you, and the north exit in front of you, which looks dark. There are two corpses of Player 4 "QuAkEkIlLa" and Player 3 "your mom" on the floor.
>Move North
It is completely dark. You have been eaten by a Grue.
Yeah, exactly. I often wonder if at any point in the existance of society these big corporations will ever see these actions and rather than seeing it as a simple crime, see it as a message from the consumers that they don't like things and won't tolerate it. If companies interpreted it like this and changed their practices to suit consumers, perhaps they'll increase profits, making a win/win scenario.
I'm sure this is not a new idea, and if I'm oversimplifying, please correct me, but it seems to me that the balance between "The customer is always right" and "Caveat Emptor" has really shifted these days to consumers being treated as enemies...
There's another mod chip use that I think people are overlooking, and I feel it is legit, even though some may disagree. That use is getting around region encoding. Like DVDs, modern game consoles, no longer encumbered by mechanical issues like TV standard differences use a system of region codes. This is done so that they can enforce different release dates in places like Europe (It took Final Fantasy X seven months to go from the US to Europe, and they didn't even optimize it for PAL or change any of the spellings of words.) Also, they want to enforce prices, the average new game in the us is $50 as far as I understand, in the EU it's the equivalent of $65, sometimes higher.
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Okay, game companies may think it's doing something wrong, but it's just circumventing a system that shouldn't be there at all. By buying the same product on a different continent, you're giving the same giant multinational money, you just don't need to tolerate being treated as a second class market. With mod chips you can do this. Okay, ending my rant
I wonder how their selection process for the muzak is, I'm not sure if anyone besides a hardcore Something Awful.com fan would love to hear some "Semi Automatic Turban" musical stylings on their next elevator journey.
But seriously, if they got almost ALL of the MP3.com tracks, that's a lot of sift through and determine if it's elevator-worthy. I doubt it will all suit the occasion (or non-occasion)
Look like that lake of yours is gonna feel the Slashdot effect.
Of course, it's a big enough server (surfer?) so it should be able to handle it.
I doubt it would include VAT, as the price quoted was an "Apple announcement." They don't usually bother with VAT calculations till it hits stores. Not to mention, if they're quoting an Apple announcement, the price was probably originally quoted in US$ and was then converted by them into Sterling Pounds, and a dollar price would not include any sales tax.
No, they're only elligable for Best Animated FIlm oscar. Dreamworks's Shrek was the first film to win this, showing that CGI animated films can win Oscars, just not traditional VFX ones, as it is arguably harder to make VFX convincing in live action. In an animated film there is already suspension of disbelief, we know none of the images are real. With live action, they are trying to convince us the images are real. Therin lies the challenge, not how much money you can spend on fancy CGI, but how much an audiance believes what they are seeing.
I was wondering when Bebop would get into this. "Ed spammed him!!!" "Hey Spike! The next spammer is worth five hundred thousant woolongs!" Et cetera. Buying DVD sets will always pay off someday for in-jokes among small cliques!
And they used that same "average" excuse. This was in Ireland about 3 or so years ago, before any sort of braodband was available, and dial up connections were charged by the minute because that's how they charge local calls here. I had signed up for an Esat ISP that promised a flat rate on off-peak times and weekends with no by the minute fees during those times. So then I started playing some online games, spent quite a bit of time online, et cetera. A couple months later they sent me a letter saying I was disconnected because I was one of their top 3% or something, even though I wasn't on excessively. Then it was back to enormous monthly fees till DSL came a few months ago. So I'm just saying European ISPs have been doing this for a few years now, maybe that's where the US ISPs are getting it from...
...Except that a lot of the wittiest ads here wouldn't go down well with the squeamish, thing is, here in Ireland (Same goes for the UK) 90% of the ads are just as dire as American ads. It's only the few gems that ever save advertising's reputation. Same situation as America. I wouldn't mind seeing the American gems shown here, and Euro excellence shown there, but let's not pretend that Irish / British advertising doesn't suck in general. :)
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I'm just imagining how popular a particular Dutch ad I once saw would be... It showed a nice family piling into their little Saab, Mom, Dad, two kids, they start the car and the radio turns on. The song that plays is the "Outhere Brothers"' "I Wanna F*ck you in the Ass." The song plays a few seconds, then the family smiles and starts to bob their heads to the beat, and they drive away enjoying the music, when the words "Want to learn English?" appear.
Of course that wouldn't work in most places, it was even banned I think, but that's the funniest ad I've seen in a while. Find it on Kazaa