I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that my cable modem (Comcast) loses it's connection a couple of times each evening, but comes back with a stable connection within about five minutes. Could this be an indication that Comcast might be having address space issues, and needs to institute rolling IP address blackouts in order to compensate? Just speculation.
Agreed. Lefties can't seem to be able to disagree with someone politically without it growing into a general hatred of everything about the person. Although I am a a moderate/libertarian Republican and I disagree with Bruce Springsteen's opposition to the war in Iraq and his support for John Kerry in the last election, it doesn't stop me from being a fan and continuing to enjoy his music.
Lets say 1 page of standard newsprint is about 2 square feet. 30 * 2/9 = about 6.7 pounds for one page. Any newspaper using that material would have to be re-usable in order for it to be cost-effective.
The author is upset at how crowded E3 is, and wants to keep out people from illegitimate game media outlets (read: game websites other than the big gaming networks his own little website), while simultaneously granting better access to closed-door sessions and insider information to little websites like his own so they can compete with the big gaming networks.
Essentially the article is a bunch of self-important whining about how the big companies at E3 should let his little website into the big boys club, while keeping all the other little guys out.
This is just the latest example of politicians pndering to special interests by passing laws that they know will not stand up in the courts. How can it be up to a jury to decide if a gave is violent? The penalties should be based on selling "Mature" or Adults-only" rated titles to minors. The retailers have to have some clear way of identifying titles that are illegal to sell to minors. Leaving the determination up to juries is ridiculous.
You are so, so, so, so, so, wrong it is pathetic. If the US disappeared tomorrow, China would invade Taiwan, and North Korea would invade South Korea. Those communist regimes would then set their sights on Japan. Iran would attempt to take over Iraq, probably sparking a war with Saudi Arabia. Whoever was victorious would control the oil supply of the planet, and it would either be run by a bunch of sinsane radical Wahabbi Sunnis, or a bunch of insane radical Shiites. That wouldn't sit too well with China, Russia, India, or the EU.
In short there would be World War 3 within a year if the US disappeared tomorrow.
Let's be accurate about that. The EU, with it's hodgepodge of restrictive, leftist politically-correct speech codes, is trying assert control over the internet. If the EU is going to control speech on the internet, why don't we go one better give China control over the internet? I for one feel more comfortable with the US in charge.
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You must live in an area with an extremely flat landscape where the HD over-the-air signals do not encounter a lot of obstruction such as hills, valleys, tall buildings, etc.
I have heard that HD reception can be quite buggy if the landscape contains these kind of obtructions, since digital reception is basically all-or-nothing, unlike analog, where you can usually get a signal, even if it contains some static/ghosting due to the obstructions.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (OK so I hate Michael Moore, sue me)
Gigli
Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Van Helsing
Mean Chicks
Anacondas
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Butterfly Effect
Surviving Christmas
Johnson Family Vacation
Around the World in 80 Days
Dumb and Dumberer
Alexander
Resident Evil Apocalypse
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Bridget Jones 2
The Cat in the Hat
King Arthur
Daredevil
Elektra
Stealth
I could go on.
There are way too many talentless hacks trying to fill leading roles in big budget movies (Jennifer Lopez, Hugh Jackman, Ashton Kutcher, etc.), and way too many big budget movies being directed by talentless hacks. Way too many crappy movie adaptations of comic books and video games. Producers in Hollywood are not doing their job. They blow all their money on a big name actor, a big name director, or a big name license, and then come up with crap for a script, blow some more money on marketing/advertising hype, and then expect people to show up in the theater like sheep.
Excessive amounts of commercials. I enjoy seeing previews of upcoming movies, but the TV-style commercials for other products annoy the crap out of me.
Ticket price is too high, especially given all the commercials.
People who talk through the movie.
Concession prices are too high.
Too many frickin annoying teenagers.
However, I have to say that if I didn't have all of the other options that are available to me (pay-per-view, free on-demand movies that come with my HBO subscription, DVD purchase or rental, video games, PC games, etc.) I would probably go to the movies more frequently.
Movie theaters may just be finally starting to become obsolete like drive-ins became obsolete when VCR rentals became popular. The cost/benefit ratio in favor of staying home and watching a DVD or watching a cable on-demand movie are starting to become too great for many people (especially families) to justify the expense and hassle of going to the movies.
This seems like a bunch of crap. Any picture rotated 90 degrees is going to be more difficult to pick out, since it takes longer to recognize.
The bloody hand image does stick out compared to the other images. However, isn't it the only image in the sequence with bright red color in it? It could just be the color contrast that makes it stick out more.
What if your London brew-pub won a "best beer" gold medal from an organization other than the Olympics? Are you not allowed to advertise that fact? Completely stupid.
I do the same, however, you should know that there are some adserving companies out there that have devised ways to incorporate cross-site tracking into the first-party cookies of the sites that their ads are served on. If a website has signed up for this type of ad service, its first-party cookies may be tracking you just like thrird party cookies can.
I am probably going to move to a system of blocking all cookies by default, and then anly allowing them on an as-needed basis for trusted stites.
I would delete more of my cookies more regularly, but sites that store login info in the cookie (like Slashdot) make it difficult to just delete all cookies at once.
I have third-party cookies blocked by default in Firefox, and I usually go through my cookies once every few months to add the ones that I don't recognize to my "always block" cookies list. Generally, if I don't recognize the site name (especially if it is something like "www.intrusivemarketinganalprobe.com") it gets put in the "always block" list. Also, when I run Ad-Aware, I let it quarantine any cookies it marks as potential marketing/ad/spy tracker-cookies.
No, Kyoto is a pact that allows developing countries the freedom to pollute and generate all the greenhouse gases they want, while forcing developed nations to implement draconian emissions limits which will drive up the cost of production in developed countries, sending even more jobs overseas.
The big increases in greenhouse gas emission over then coming decades are going to come places like China and India, not from the US. Kyoto does nothing to stop those increases.
A lot of free news web sites will be axed, but the ones that remain will have higher traffic and will be able to turn a profit off of advertising, so they will still be free.
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I agree developers are spending a lot more money developing their games -- perhaps they should be better about controlling their costs and budgets. If the developer blows their budget and then wants to try and charge some crazy high price for the game to make up the cost difference, unless it is a 10 out of 10 game, they are in for a rude awakening. You cannot raise the selling price indefinitely. At some point your sales will drop because your customers decide that your product is not worth the money, and you will end up with less total dollars in sales. With games, this price resistance is likely to manifest itself in more game rentals as opposed to purchases, more people willing to wait 3-6 months for a price reduction, and lower overall unit sales (both of the console and the games themselves). It will also provide greater incentive for piracy.
Just look at the movie theaters. Ticket sales are nose-diving, because people can't see the point in spending $10 a ticket (or $40 for the whole family) for the average (i.e. mediocre) Hollywood movie when they can just buy a DVD for $10-$15.
It's called evolution. While some flesh-and-blood human beings may still be kept in protected environments (i.e. zoos) for their historical curiousity, our intelligent robot descendants will be the the one who get to do most of the cool and fun space exploration. Someday, it will be much easier to build a custom-designed intelligent robot that is capable of functioning in the particular temperature, radiation, gravity, and atmospheric conditions for any given mission. In fact, except for the "intelligence" part, that day has already been here for 30 years or more.
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Games need to be cheaper, not more expensive. I routinely buy 4 or 5 DVDs when they are on sale for $10-12 at Best Buy. DVDs are cheap enough to buy as an impulse purchase. Even at $50 per game in the current generation, I carefully read reviews and do not risk my money on games that I'm not sure about. Expensive game prices drive down unit sales, stifle developer creativity, and promote the blockbuster-driven industry model. They also promote piracy.
Game publishers need to cut prices and make it up in volume.
isn't this type of thing just going to lead to your lazy boss spending his entire day at the beach, and using a remote-controlled ASIMO-type robot to look over your shoulder in the office?
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I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that my cable modem (Comcast) loses it's connection a couple of times each evening, but comes back with a stable connection within about five minutes. Could this be an indication that Comcast might be having address space issues, and needs to institute rolling IP address blackouts in order to compensate? Just speculation.
Agreed. Lefties can't seem to be able to disagree with someone politically without it growing into a general hatred of everything about the person. Although I am a a moderate/libertarian Republican and I disagree with Bruce Springsteen's opposition to the war in Iraq and his support for John Kerry in the last election, it doesn't stop me from being a fan and continuing to enjoy his music.
So does this mean I can sneak a spycam into the live sex shows and broadcast it out over WiFi?
Lets say 1 page of standard newsprint is about 2 square feet. 30 * 2/9 = about 6.7 pounds for one page. Any newspaper using that material would have to be re-usable in order for it to be cost-effective.
The author is upset at how crowded E3 is, and wants to keep out people from illegitimate game media outlets (read: game websites other than the big gaming networks his own little website), while simultaneously granting better access to closed-door sessions and insider information to little websites like his own so they can compete with the big gaming networks.
Essentially the article is a bunch of self-important whining about how the big companies at E3 should let his little website into the big boys club, while keeping all the other little guys out.
This is just the latest example of politicians pndering to special interests by passing laws that they know will not stand up in the courts. How can it be up to a jury to decide if a gave is violent? The penalties should be based on selling "Mature" or Adults-only" rated titles to minors. The retailers have to have some clear way of identifying titles that are illegal to sell to minors. Leaving the determination up to juries is ridiculous.
You are so, so, so, so, so, wrong it is pathetic. If the US disappeared tomorrow, China would invade Taiwan, and North Korea would invade South Korea. Those communist regimes would then set their sights on Japan. Iran would attempt to take over Iraq, probably sparking a war with Saudi Arabia. Whoever was victorious would control the oil supply of the planet, and it would either be run by a bunch of sinsane radical Wahabbi Sunnis, or a bunch of insane radical Shiites. That wouldn't sit too well with China, Russia, India, or the EU. In short there would be World War 3 within a year if the US disappeared tomorrow.
Let's be accurate about that. The EU, with it's hodgepodge of restrictive, leftist politically-correct speech codes, is trying assert control over the internet. If the EU is going to control speech on the internet, why don't we go one better give China control over the internet? I for one feel more comfortable with the US in charge.
You must live in an area with an extremely flat landscape where the HD over-the-air signals do not encounter a lot of obstruction such as hills, valleys, tall buildings, etc. I have heard that HD reception can be quite buggy if the landscape contains these kind of obtructions, since digital reception is basically all-or-nothing, unlike analog, where you can usually get a signal, even if it contains some static/ghosting due to the obstructions.
- Garfield: The Movie
- Catwoman
- The Hulk
- The Fantastic Four
- Scooby Doo
- Matrix Revolutions
- Troy
- White Chicks
- Alien vs. Predator
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (OK so I hate Michael Moore, sue me)
- Gigli
- Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
- Van Helsing
- Mean Chicks
- Anacondas
- Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
- Butterfly Effect
- Surviving Christmas
- Johnson Family Vacation
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Dumb and Dumberer
- Alexander
- Resident Evil Apocalypse
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
- Bridget Jones 2
- The Cat in the Hat
- King Arthur
- Daredevil
- Elektra
- Stealth
I could go on.There are way too many talentless hacks trying to fill leading roles in big budget movies (Jennifer Lopez, Hugh Jackman, Ashton Kutcher, etc.), and way too many big budget movies being directed by talentless hacks. Way too many crappy movie adaptations of comic books and video games. Producers in Hollywood are not doing their job. They blow all their money on a big name actor, a big name director, or a big name license, and then come up with crap for a script, blow some more money on marketing/advertising hype, and then expect people to show up in the theater like sheep.
- Excessive amounts of commercials. I enjoy seeing previews of upcoming movies, but the TV-style commercials for other products annoy the crap out of me.
- Ticket price is too high, especially given all the commercials.
- People who talk through the movie.
- Concession prices are too high.
- Too many frickin annoying teenagers.
However, I have to say that if I didn't have all of the other options that are available to me (pay-per-view, free on-demand movies that come with my HBO subscription, DVD purchase or rental, video games, PC games, etc.) I would probably go to the movies more frequently.Movie theaters may just be finally starting to become obsolete like drive-ins became obsolete when VCR rentals became popular. The cost/benefit ratio in favor of staying home and watching a DVD or watching a cable on-demand movie are starting to become too great for many people (especially families) to justify the expense and hassle of going to the movies.
And thus prompting people to search for ripped/pirated HD content that is free of HDCP. Brilliant!
The bloody hand image does stick out compared to the other images. However, isn't it the only image in the sequence with bright red color in it? It could just be the color contrast that makes it stick out more.
What if your London brew-pub won a "best beer" gold medal from an organization other than the Olympics? Are you not allowed to advertise that fact? Completely stupid.
I just don't want to have to mess around with stupid memory cards. All games on the 360 should be required to support saving games on the HD.
Where do you think those chicken pucks come from?
I am probably going to move to a system of blocking all cookies by default, and then anly allowing them on an as-needed basis for trusted stites.
I have third-party cookies blocked by default in Firefox, and I usually go through my cookies once every few months to add the ones that I don't recognize to my "always block" cookies list. Generally, if I don't recognize the site name (especially if it is something like "www.intrusivemarketinganalprobe.com") it gets put in the "always block" list. Also, when I run Ad-Aware, I let it quarantine any cookies it marks as potential marketing/ad/spy tracker-cookies.
No, Kyoto is a pact that allows developing countries the freedom to pollute and generate all the greenhouse gases they want, while forcing developed nations to implement draconian emissions limits which will drive up the cost of production in developed countries, sending even more jobs overseas. The big increases in greenhouse gas emission over then coming decades are going to come places like China and India, not from the US. Kyoto does nothing to stop those increases.
A lot of free news web sites will be axed, but the ones that remain will have higher traffic and will be able to turn a profit off of advertising, so they will still be free.
Just look at the movie theaters. Ticket sales are nose-diving, because people can't see the point in spending $10 a ticket (or $40 for the whole family) for the average (i.e. mediocre) Hollywood movie when they can just buy a DVD for $10-$15.
It's called evolution. While some flesh-and-blood human beings may still be kept in protected environments (i.e. zoos) for their historical curiousity, our intelligent robot descendants will be the the one who get to do most of the cool and fun space exploration. Someday, it will be much easier to build a custom-designed intelligent robot that is capable of functioning in the particular temperature, radiation, gravity, and atmospheric conditions for any given mission. In fact, except for the "intelligence" part, that day has already been here for 30 years or more.
Game publishers need to cut prices and make it up in volume.
isn't this type of thing just going to lead to your lazy boss spending his entire day at the beach, and using a remote-controlled ASIMO-type robot to look over your shoulder in the office?
1. A sex toy 2. Something to hang in your toilet tank 3. An implantable medical device 4...