I'd just like to point out that while the MPAA would prefer to not let us own any content, ever, it's ok with them to own the likeness of a human being to use for whatever ends they see fit, for ever and ever, amen. For all we know, the Duke couldn't stand the taste of Coors.
I wouldn't have a problem with them 'touching up' existing commercials and reissuing them, but the idea of owning the likeness of a human being is more than a little disturing.
On the other hand, at least there's a legal history of actors winning lawsuits against studios that misuse their image -- check out Crispin Glover's lawsuit vs. the producers of Back to the Future 2.
THIS ELECTION IS FRAUDULENT. THE BUSH FAMILY AND REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO STEAL AN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON BEHALF OF
OIL,
*cough* Occidental *cough* U'wa *cough*
TOBACCO,
Gore: "Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it. "
Look, I can't speak for every Nader supporter, and I'm not going to try to. I will say that if Nader had not run, I would most certainly NOT have voted for Gore, and, like some other Nader supporters, might have wound up voting for Bush.
Fact: For every 2 Gore votes 'stolen' by Nader, one was 'stolen' from Bush. So let's re-align your numbers, and grant your wishes by pretending that Nader doesn't exist:
Bush = 2,835,930 + 31,440 = 2,867,370
Gore = 2,780,481 + 62,880 = 2,843,361
Result: Bush still wins. So, pipe down, dry your eyes, and stop complaining. The fact that Gore lost the election is Gore's fault, not Nader's.
At least my vote meant something -- And no, I'm not sorry. Try again in 4 years.
As a kid I was intelligent or mature enough to know that the drug education I had was propaganda and it was made simple to make it easy for us to make a socially correct decision.
<paranoid rant mode>
Well, then you only caught the half of it. The 'War on Drugs' is the greatest smoke-screen ever created by the hand of man. First, it's a doomed cause that buckets of money can vanish into and never return. That's certainly easier than explaining away $4000 toilet seats and $2000 hammers. Secondly, it gives the masses something to rally against and bitch about, keeping their minds off real issues. For example, I live in Madison, WI. Yearly (since the 70's? 60's maybe?), there's a block party held on the quasi-famous Mifflin street. At one point in time, it was a foci for like-minded political activists. Good things came out of it.
Now, it's just pathetic. 50 stoners marching in a parade, down a street now mostly inhabited by jock and prep types, toting a banner reading 'MEDICAL MARIJUANA', followed by a guy with a megaphone spouting bad rhetoric. (none of which, btw, had anything to do with medicinal marijuana). The cops were laughing at them.
Anyway, like I was saying, the War On Drugs makes for a most glorious Straw Man. There's enough uptight conservatives and simple-minded liberals that really believe that the (il)legalization of drugs makes a goddamned difference. Furthermore, if and when they finally decide to legalize pot, they'll eliminate one of the benefits of the ceasation of a black market by simply taxing it up to it's black market price level. Hello, revenue. Also, by taxing it up to a comparable price level, they can continue to keep the War On Drugs going - or did you really think that they were going to let you grow pot in your backyard and sell it at the Farmer's Market? Claims of 'dangerous hybrids circulating in the black market' will be enough to roll over the protests of the newly legalized pot smokers (who will probably be too stoned to put some sort of plan together, anyway)
At this point, I've said too much. They've got bugging devices in my teeth.
I think you're completely missing the point of VB... yeah, we geeks don't mind (actually, i rather enjoy) an 'interesting' interface, but unless you want to spend a couple hours a day taking calls from your users, you want the interface to look as familiar and non-threatening to them as possible. enter VB. with VB, I can make a UI that my users are comfortable with, and I don't have to spend a healthy chunk of my development cycle doing so. I just drag a combo box, a couple of text boxes, and maybe a telnet object onto a form. bam. done. that leaves me more time to do the coding.
i've spent my time in UI hell- COBOL screenfaces. bleargh! so it's nice to have something quick and easy that my users won't be afraid of.
That's a load of crap, man. Most cheaters do NOT innovate, they just abuse a bug until it's patched. One thing I dig about the MUD scene is that wizards/immortals have the ability to assign punishments for someone who cheats or exploits a bug... if it's done in a malicious way. For example, I have a friend that climbed into a boat, and had his extremely strong friend sell the boat to a store. The way the MUD was set up, all the goods of the store will stored in a 'room' (more like location, actually). He loaded everything into the boat, got back in, and then signalled his friend to buy the boat back. now that's a hack. running an inventory duplicator is not.
IIRC, you held down shift to access the 'red' function of the keys, and shift+enter (function) for the keywords on the tops of the keys. i have completely forgotten how to get to the 'sub functions' on the bottoms of the keys or the goofy 'graphics' characters.
I do, however, fondly recall waiting 15 minutes for frogger to load up off a cassette tape.:)
A small girl fell sick in 1692. Her "fitts" -- convulsions, contortions, and outbursts of gibberish -- baffled everyone. Other girls soon manifested the same symptoms. Their doctor could suggest but one cause. Witchcraft.
That grim diagnosis launched a Puritan inquisition that took 25 lives, filled prisons with innocent people, and frayed the soul of a Massachusetts community called Salem.
In addition, the future mobility of computer systems will allow them to be used with ease in the outdoors. Imagine a system resembling the popular anime 'Pokemon' with the 'Pokedex' being able to be used on actual creatures in the outdoors. That would be wonderful.
I have one of those, it's in my head... every year, from age 6-12 or so, at the top of my birthday and xmas lists (other than legos, of course), were Safari Cards... I must have committed 200 or 300 of the damn things to memory... and yet, i still have trouble remembering my own phone number... but can still remember the gestation period of an ermine.
Yeah, all soldiers are mindless drones... and all officers are stubborn egomaniacs. methinks you stereotype a bit too much.
Officers will listen to enlisted men who know what they're doing... especially in the CS field, where the officers usually have business/management degrees and the enlisted guys are the ones who do the coding, tech support, remote hardware installation, etc. It's not Dilbert in uniforms.
I have to disagree, man... I was a coder in the USAF... and granted, *I* didn't do any uber-geeky kernel hacking or anything (mostly grinding COBOL), I knew a guy who could read a Honeywell mainframe core dump like it was a menu at Denny's. Hackers exist in all walks of life.
The military bullshit was a little much to put up with at times, but it was worth it to work along side guys who have been coding for longer than I've been alive.
Aw jeez... Sega has *not* bowed out of the hardware market... What you're thinking of is a badly translated quote taken out of context as: "The future of Sega doesn't lie in hardware." The rest of the quote states that it lies in internet technology - meaning they realize that hardware alone is not sufficient to keep them in the game.
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I'd just like to point out that while the MPAA would prefer to not let us own any content, ever, it's ok with them to own the likeness of a human being to use for whatever ends they see fit, for ever and ever, amen. For all we know, the Duke couldn't stand the taste of Coors. I wouldn't have a problem with them 'touching up' existing commercials and reissuing them, but the idea of owning the likeness of a human being is more than a little disturing. On the other hand, at least there's a legal history of actors winning lawsuits against studios that misuse their image -- check out Crispin Glover's lawsuit vs. the producers of Back to the Future 2.
Read a *lot* of books in the coming weeks and your eyes will develop a natural bifocal. i'm not kidding. ask your doctor.
yeah, i heard that, too. something along the lines of "i hope everyone got a good fucking night's sleep".
OIL,
*cough* Occidental *cough* U'wa *cough*
TOBACCO,
Gore: "Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it. "
blah blah blah blather blather blah
Fact: For every 2 Gore votes 'stolen' by Nader, one was 'stolen' from Bush. So let's re-align your numbers, and grant your wishes by pretending that Nader doesn't exist:
Bush = 2,835,930 + 31,440 = 2,867,370
Gore = 2,780,481 + 62,880 = 2,843,361
Result: Bush still wins. So, pipe down, dry your eyes, and stop complaining. The fact that Gore lost the election is Gore's fault, not Nader's.
At least my vote meant something -- And no, I'm not sorry. Try again in 4 years.
Hrmmmm.... you mean when all the 'well-regulated militias' turned tail and ran, leaving only the Regular Army? Yeah, I remember that.
Mr. X> Now I'm a little bit unclear here. If I recall correctly, corporations' purpose is to provide profit for their shareholders.
To paraphrase Michael Moore: Then why not just sell crack?
<paranoid rant mode>
Well, then you only caught the half of it. The 'War on Drugs' is the greatest smoke-screen ever created by the hand of man. First, it's a doomed cause that buckets of money can vanish into and never return. That's certainly easier than explaining away $4000 toilet seats and $2000 hammers. Secondly, it gives the masses something to rally against and bitch about, keeping their minds off real issues. For example, I live in Madison, WI. Yearly (since the 70's? 60's maybe?), there's a block party held on the quasi-famous Mifflin street. At one point in time, it was a foci for like-minded political activists. Good things came out of it.
Now, it's just pathetic. 50 stoners marching in a parade, down a street now mostly inhabited by jock and prep types, toting a banner reading 'MEDICAL MARIJUANA', followed by a guy with a megaphone spouting bad rhetoric. (none of which, btw, had anything to do with medicinal marijuana). The cops were laughing at them.
Anyway, like I was saying, the War On Drugs makes for a most glorious Straw Man. There's enough uptight conservatives and simple-minded liberals that really believe that the (il)legalization of drugs makes a goddamned difference. Furthermore, if and when they finally decide to legalize pot, they'll eliminate one of the benefits of the ceasation of a black market by simply taxing it up to it's black market price level. Hello, revenue. Also, by taxing it up to a comparable price level, they can continue to keep the War On Drugs going - or did you really think that they were going to let you grow pot in your backyard and sell it at the Farmer's Market? Claims of 'dangerous hybrids circulating in the black market' will be enough to roll over the protests of the newly legalized pot smokers (who will probably be too stoned to put some sort of plan together, anyway)
At this point, I've said too much. They've got bugging devices in my teeth.
</paranoid rant mode>
Cop: Evening, Doctor Brown, what's with the wire?
Doc: Oh, just a little weather experiment.
Cop: What you got under here?
Doc: Oh no, don't touch that. That's some new specialized weather sensing equipment.
Cop: You got a permit for that?
Doc: Of course I do. Just a second, let's see if I could find it.
And for windows users:
AudioMulch
Which is essentially the same thing as MAX, although it is still in limited beta.
um, i don't think you've got your melon completely wrapped around the 'light bulb' thing- it isn't a 60 watt Sylvania, for chrissakes...
I think you're completely missing the point of VB... yeah, we geeks don't mind (actually, i rather enjoy) an 'interesting' interface, but unless you want to spend a couple hours a day taking calls from your users, you want the interface to look as familiar and non-threatening to them as possible. enter VB. with VB, I can make a UI that my users are comfortable with, and I don't have to spend a healthy chunk of my development cycle doing so. I just drag a combo box, a couple of text boxes, and maybe a telnet object onto a form. bam. done. that leaves me more time to do the coding.
i've spent my time in UI hell- COBOL screenfaces. bleargh! so it's nice to have something quick and easy that my users won't be afraid of.
How about the coke commercials with subliminal 'consume' and 'submit' messages? those were great.
That's a load of crap, man. Most cheaters do NOT innovate, they just abuse a bug until it's patched. One thing I dig about the MUD scene is that wizards/immortals have the ability to assign punishments for someone who cheats or exploits a bug... if it's done in a malicious way. For example, I have a friend that climbed into a boat, and had his extremely strong friend sell the boat to a store. The way the MUD was set up, all the goods of the store will stored in a 'room' (more like location, actually). He loaded everything into the boat, got back in, and then signalled his friend to buy the boat back. now that's a hack. running an inventory duplicator is not.
Worms: Armageddon and Sega Rally Championship also use WinCE... and yea, they sometimes refuse to load.
Hey, us 'Mericans had 'em, too- under the Timex Sinclair 1000 banner.
:)
here's one for sale on ebay, with a great pic of the keyboard...
IIRC, you held down shift to access the 'red' function of the keys, and shift+enter (function) for the keywords on the tops of the keys. i have completely forgotten how to get to the 'sub functions' on the bottoms of the keys or the goofy 'graphics' characters.
I do, however, fondly recall waiting 15 minutes for frogger to load up off a cassette tape.
A small girl fell sick in 1692. Her "fitts" -- convulsions, contortions, and outbursts of gibberish -- baffled everyone. Other girls soon manifested the same symptoms. Their doctor could suggest but one cause. Witchcraft.
That grim diagnosis launched a Puritan inquisition that took 25 lives, filled prisons with innocent people, and frayed the soul of a Massachusetts community called Salem.
300 years later, not much has changed.
>Imagine cochlear implants, keyed just so that they cut out briefly when they decode a 'naughty' word.
:)
I'm having more fun imagining people having a converstion with a seven-second delay.
Ooh, even better: a visual delay while driving.
They still get the cash - even 'dollar' theatres have to pay to rent the films from the studio.
Well, most stations here use both a 'name' and a callsign... i.e. 94.1, WJJO - Madison's Solid Rock.
also, radio staions west of the Mississippi's call signs all start with 'K', those east of it, with 'W'.
In addition, the future mobility of computer systems will allow them to be used with ease in the outdoors. Imagine a system resembling the popular anime 'Pokemon' with the 'Pokedex' being able to be used on actual creatures in the outdoors. That would be wonderful.
:)
I have one of those, it's in my head... every year, from age 6-12 or so, at the top of my birthday and xmas lists (other than legos, of course), were Safari Cards... I must have committed 200 or 300 of the damn things to memory... and yet, i still have trouble remembering my own phone number... but can still remember the gestation period of an ermine.
goddamn WORM-wetware...
Yeah, all soldiers are mindless drones... and all officers are stubborn egomaniacs. methinks you stereotype a bit too much.
Officers will listen to enlisted men who know what they're doing... especially in the CS field, where the officers usually have business/management degrees and the enlisted guys are the ones who do the coding, tech support, remote hardware installation, etc. It's not Dilbert in uniforms.
I have to disagree, man... I was a coder in the USAF... and granted, *I* didn't do any uber-geeky kernel hacking or anything (mostly grinding COBOL), I knew a guy who could read a Honeywell mainframe core dump like it was a menu at Denny's. Hackers exist in all walks of life.
The military bullshit was a little much to put up with at times, but it was worth it to work along side guys who have been coding for longer than I've been alive.
Aw jeez... Sega has *not* bowed out of the hardware market... What you're thinking of is a badly translated quote taken out of context as: "The future of Sega doesn't lie in hardware." The rest of the quote states that it lies in internet technology - meaning they realize that hardware alone is not sufficient to keep them in the game.
Null data is a totally different thing than no data... We can start worrying when we *don't* see messages like "Everything's cool here in Fooland."