Am I the only person who thinks the 1984 apple commercial's current status in history is nothing but revisionist bs? It wasn't talked about and was completely forgotten until the mid 90s. I don't find it artistic enough to merit the reverence that seems to surround it. It's like one guy wrote an article about it in the 90s and everyone bought into it like all the great things people had to say about Ronald Regan.
Somehow, I think a Commodore commercial would be everyone's honest favorite, after all, it is the best selling personal computer of all time with an massive active scene even today. The guy clearly hasn't a clue.
Typical response from someone who really has never listened to the Howard Stern show. If it was only farts, lesbians, and freaks we'd would have abandoned it long ago. It's social confrontation.
XM is currently spending tons of money on advertising and Sirius is still over taking them in subs per month. Sirius has better content over all than XM, and you can parental control your Sirius if you wish.
For a heartbeat XM had Dr Demento. Too bad they didnt make this known, as most of us geeks would have swarmed on it.
hd radio = fcc content controlled radio. You arent gonna get to feel the bass of anything from NWA, heh, or many of your favorite classic rock songs for that matter. We listen to mp3s and streams, we're comfortable with less then HD in our cars.
I noticed a little bit of tinniness myself, but I was able o resolve the issue with my stereo settings.
The signal drops once in a while, but I have been experiencing those same kinda drops with am/fm my entire life. It's something that people with reasonable expectations have long come to terms with.
I dislike the term terrestrial radio also. It should have been labeled FCC content control radio.
Over the years anytime stern mentions a website for the first time gets hammered with traffic. Think rotten.com back in the 90s. It's clear that geeks listen to stern.
Slashdotters appear to be concerned with tech and social/political issues.
get a clue, poop jokes are funny. the show is, and always has been, a mix of pop culture, politics/social issues, approached from a high and low brow angle.
Weird, his old ratings books always said he was top with ppl who make over 50k and had a college education. and now it looks like his current listeners are those whom not afraid of new tech or paying to listen to him.
Lowest common denominator? Please. Who doesnt love rotten, consumptionjunction, boing, etc?
Where else will you hear someone doing battle with the crazy godhatesfags group? Or hear someone making the klan look foolish? Howards social political idealogies are hardly what we could consider lowest common denominator.
Oh, and Poop jokes never stop being funny.
actually, that isnt true. he was removed from the air by the canadian government. they regulate 'hate speech' in canada. I believe he called the french canadians a group of peckerheads or something like that. the ratings books clearly stated stern had listeners.
before Sirius announced they would be allowing stern on it's canadian service, and it looks like it was never going to, i had several canadians i know ask me to register Sirius radios for them so that they could listen to Stern.
the fight for freedom of speech is the fight for freedom of speech... saying fuck, shit, and cunt is just as important as being able to remark on your government. It really is an all inclusive fight.
The $12.95+tax price tag includes service for one Satellite radio and the ability to stream various Sirius content, Non FCC controlled content. Sirius is an indispensable service for any of us who spend a lot of time in our cars and don't want the hassle of cds/mp3s and cant stand FCC sanitized radio with zero content.
Remember the list of classic rock songs that can no longer be played because of the FCC crack down? How about most of the music in mp3 collection? It's well worth the price of a CD to hear uncensored content.
Outside of Sal and Richard's homofest, The Stern show continues to get funnier everyday. Could use a little less of the Sybian too. Search any of the torrent sites and you will see just how popular the show is. (btw: Stern is no longer on terrestrial/fcc content controlled radio.) Sirius over all has a lot to offer XM. 2 NPR stations alone would be enough to go with Sirius over XM. I'm a big fan of firstwave, backspin, chill, and classic vinyl.
Opie and Anthony now do a censored, FCC friendly show since they went back to FCC content controlled radio. XM charged/charges extra to listen subscribe to o/a, and they unable to get more than 500,000 listeners. They produce completely forgettable and unlistenable material. Notice that there are zero torrents for this crappy show no one cares about.
The purpose of language is to communicate ideas. An effective language is one which its rules are easily learned. It should be well structured with no exceptions. Anyone, knowing these rules, should be able to pronounce any word encountered correctly by following these simple rules. 'Keep it simple, stupid.' The easier it is to learn a language the faster it will be adopted; which leads to faster disseminate knowledge; which leads to the ascension of society as a whole.
The English language is a mass of contradicting rules with a poor foundation. I before E, except after C, except in science? Inconstistent characters in a syllable? It is contains unnecessary letters (usage is arbitrary), lacks letters for common phonetic sounds. It is a complex language that impedes communication. You should not need to study a language for 12 years + college only to encounter an arcane word which an even more arcane rule has been applied to. This complexity impedes progress. It also assaults a mind that demands logical, consistent, structure. Children are taught rote memorization of words because phonetic reading cannot work in such an illogical system. It is so complex that text to speech programmers have struggled to get where they are today.
A phonetic language with fixed character lengths per syllable is simple. It promotes easy readying and easy writing. It removes the barrier completely and allows one to get on with the communicating.
Official movements to retrofit the language will make little headway. Academic/emotional/commercial/inertia resistance. But slowly the language will evolve. We will toss away the unnecessary elements and stream line it. The text message generation will be more forgiving with infractions against proper English. It would be nice to see the kings English fall into obscurity and be replaced with something better suited for the purposes.
Reading the comments of slashdotters makes me want to smoke crack. Please spend a few moments researching to invalidate your opinions before sharing, ok? Thanks.
The use of copy written images and trademarks in parody is protected speech. But the presidential seal (and other government seals) do not fall into this category.
But, the onion is clearly within the law, as no one could confuse it's use of the seal as being an endorsement from the government.
Section 18 U.S.C. 713: Â 713. Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress Release date: 2005-08-03 (a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Bush tried to use similar illegal methods to stifle the speech of www.gwbush.com before he was elected as president.
I've noticed even the most savvy ppl i know dont follow practices that allow for sane and easy backups and restores.
Ghost is your friend. It's like restoring your saved game. You can go and kill everyone in town, open that chest, or infect/pollute/abuse/experiment with your system, and just restore your save game.
For a Winbox I suggest:
1st Drive, C, partitioned as 5 gig partition, holds: windows, small programs
1nd Drive, D, partitioned with remainder of the drive, holds: large programs, desktop and my documents directories.
All other drives to hold Data (audio, video, documents, software installers, ghost backups.)
When putting the system together, install windows, create a ghost of C. Install drivers, create a ghost of C. Install small core programs like winRAR, tweek, continuum/subspace, Nero, etc that will live on C, create a ghost of C. Tweek and customize. Move swap file to another physical drive, move commonly used folders to a drive that wont be over written, setup email and IM clients, etc. Create ghost of C. Install large essential programs like office, photoshop, etc and small programs with dynamic config files such as SSH, FTP, etc that will live on D. Create ghost of C. Install games that you will be playing for the next 2 years or more. Create ghost of C. Install games you are currently playing. Create ghost of C.
I've been following this since ghost 3.x, and have never found a need to create an image of my D drive. Abuse your system, if it starts acting up, restore it to a previous save point. Some of your programs may save config information on C. Incorporate those into a ghost image. There are some other considerations... but you get the point...
ever find a random 78 that you'd just love to play? oh, wait, you cant, your grandmother decided that 78's were too old fashion and tossed out her player. Good luck finding another one:)
many bios updates require a floppy. period.
might be a good idea to keep a floppy drive around your house. maybe even put it in that box of stuff you dont have the heart to toss out. never know when you might run across an old floppy with interesting stuff on it. old war dialing results. bbs logs or e-mails. text files. grandma's love letters...
this thread is lame. bunch of one sided holier than thou theological zealots spewing their extremist stance. Christians, Muslims, OS zealots, same thing. Not even a different guise. I suppose it is too much to ask that a bus hit each of you.
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http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm - check out I Adore My 64 - Version 1 - Radio!!! That will get stuck in your head.
I hear a remix of this pretty often on http://slayradio.com/
Not really. Who wanted the computers? Kids. Who was buy the computers? Parents. That marketing made the c64 the best selling computer of all time.
Am I the only person who thinks the 1984 apple commercial's current status in history is nothing but revisionist bs? It wasn't talked about and was completely forgotten until the mid 90s. I don't find it artistic enough to merit the reverence that seems to surround it. It's like one guy wrote an article about it in the 90s and everyone bought into it like all the great things people had to say about Ronald Regan.
Somehow, I think a Commodore commercial would be everyone's honest favorite, after all, it is the best selling personal computer of all time with an massive active scene even today. The guy clearly hasn't a clue.
heh. i have to conceed.
Typical response from someone who really has never listened to the Howard Stern show. If it was only farts, lesbians, and freaks we'd would have abandoned it long ago. It's social confrontation.
XM is currently spending tons of money on advertising and Sirius is still over taking them in subs per month. Sirius has better content over all than XM, and you can parental control your Sirius if you wish.
For a heartbeat XM had Dr Demento. Too bad they didnt make this known, as most of us geeks would have swarmed on it.
Xact Sirius Radio: $35.00
Service Per Month: $12.95+tax
Listening to radio void of FCC content regulations: Priceless.
hd radio = fcc content controlled radio. You arent gonna get to feel the bass of anything from NWA, heh, or many of your favorite classic rock songs for that matter. We listen to mp3s and streams, we're comfortable with less then HD in our cars. I noticed a little bit of tinniness myself, but I was able o resolve the issue with my stereo settings. The signal drops once in a while, but I have been experiencing those same kinda drops with am/fm my entire life. It's something that people with reasonable expectations have long come to terms with. I dislike the term terrestrial radio also. It should have been labeled FCC content control radio.
live...
heh. revisionist history. The wiki states differently. Please cite the ratings sources.
Since Howard Stern giving away 2 days of streaming for free interests many /. readers.
ok, these numbers have changed recently:n y&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 (o/p 43) u bmit.x=0&submit.y=0 (howard 932)
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=opie+and+antho
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=howard+stern&s
500,000 was the number posted on the o/p newgroup afew months back.
the reality is still they are nobody.
Over the years anytime stern mentions a website for the first time gets hammered with traffic. Think rotten.com back in the 90s. It's clear that geeks listen to stern. Slashdotters appear to be concerned with tech and social/political issues.
sure you did. this looks like a post by an o/a fan :) You switched to XM for what? That great o/p content?
get a clue, poop jokes are funny. the show is, and always has been, a mix of pop culture, politics/social issues, approached from a high and low brow angle.
Weird, his old ratings books always said he was top with ppl who make over 50k and had a college education. and now it looks like his current listeners are those whom not afraid of new tech or paying to listen to him. Lowest common denominator? Please. Who doesnt love rotten, consumptionjunction, boing, etc? Where else will you hear someone doing battle with the crazy godhatesfags group? Or hear someone making the klan look foolish? Howards social political idealogies are hardly what we could consider lowest common denominator. Oh, and Poop jokes never stop being funny.
actually, that isnt true. he was removed from the air by the canadian government. they regulate 'hate speech' in canada. I believe he called the french canadians a group of peckerheads or something like that. the ratings books clearly stated stern had listeners. before Sirius announced they would be allowing stern on it's canadian service, and it looks like it was never going to, i had several canadians i know ask me to register Sirius radios for them so that they could listen to Stern.
the music stations are all commercial free.
the fight for freedom of speech is the fight for freedom of speech... saying fuck, shit, and cunt is just as important as being able to remark on your government. It really is an all inclusive fight.
The $12.95+tax price tag includes service for one Satellite radio and the ability to stream various Sirius content, Non FCC controlled content. Sirius is an indispensable service for any of us who spend a lot of time in our cars and don't want the hassle of cds/mp3s and cant stand FCC sanitized radio with zero content. Remember the list of classic rock songs that can no longer be played because of the FCC crack down? How about most of the music in mp3 collection? It's well worth the price of a CD to hear uncensored content. Outside of Sal and Richard's homofest, The Stern show continues to get funnier everyday. Could use a little less of the Sybian too. Search any of the torrent sites and you will see just how popular the show is. (btw: Stern is no longer on terrestrial/fcc content controlled radio.) Sirius over all has a lot to offer XM. 2 NPR stations alone would be enough to go with Sirius over XM. I'm a big fan of firstwave, backspin, chill, and classic vinyl. Opie and Anthony now do a censored, FCC friendly show since they went back to FCC content controlled radio. XM charged/charges extra to listen subscribe to o/a, and they unable to get more than 500,000 listeners. They produce completely forgettable and unlistenable material. Notice that there are zero torrents for this crappy show no one cares about.
heh. 5.1 million subs... o/p are no bodies :)
The purpose of language is to communicate ideas. An effective language is one which its rules are easily learned. It should be well structured with no exceptions. Anyone, knowing these rules, should be able to pronounce any word encountered correctly by following these simple rules. 'Keep it simple, stupid.' The easier it is to learn a language the faster it will be adopted; which leads to faster disseminate knowledge; which leads to the ascension of society as a whole. The English language is a mass of contradicting rules with a poor foundation. I before E, except after C, except in science? Inconstistent characters in a syllable? It is contains unnecessary letters (usage is arbitrary), lacks letters for common phonetic sounds. It is a complex language that impedes communication. You should not need to study a language for 12 years + college only to encounter an arcane word which an even more arcane rule has been applied to. This complexity impedes progress. It also assaults a mind that demands logical, consistent, structure. Children are taught rote memorization of words because phonetic reading cannot work in such an illogical system. It is so complex that text to speech programmers have struggled to get where they are today. A phonetic language with fixed character lengths per syllable is simple. It promotes easy readying and easy writing. It removes the barrier completely and allows one to get on with the communicating. Official movements to retrofit the language will make little headway. Academic/emotional/commercial/inertia resistance. But slowly the language will evolve. We will toss away the unnecessary elements and stream line it. The text message generation will be more forgiving with infractions against proper English. It would be nice to see the kings English fall into obscurity and be replaced with something better suited for the purposes.
Reading the comments of slashdotters makes me want to smoke crack. Please spend a few moments researching to invalidate your opinions before sharing, ok? Thanks.
The use of copy written images and trademarks in parody is protected speech. But the presidential seal (and other government seals) do not fall into this category.
But, the onion is clearly within the law, as no one could confuse it's use of the seal as being an endorsement from the government.
Section 18 U.S.C. 713:
 713. Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress
Release date: 2005-08-03
(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Bush tried to use similar illegal methods to stifle the speech of www.gwbush.com before he was elected as president.
I've noticed even the most savvy ppl i know dont follow practices that allow for sane and easy backups and restores. Ghost is your friend. It's like restoring your saved game. You can go and kill everyone in town, open that chest, or infect/pollute/abuse/experiment with your system, and just restore your save game. For a Winbox I suggest: 1st Drive, C, partitioned as 5 gig partition, holds: windows, small programs 1nd Drive, D, partitioned with remainder of the drive, holds: large programs, desktop and my documents directories. All other drives to hold Data (audio, video, documents, software installers, ghost backups.) When putting the system together, install windows, create a ghost of C. Install drivers, create a ghost of C. Install small core programs like winRAR, tweek, continuum/subspace, Nero, etc that will live on C, create a ghost of C. Tweek and customize. Move swap file to another physical drive, move commonly used folders to a drive that wont be over written, setup email and IM clients, etc. Create ghost of C. Install large essential programs like office, photoshop, etc and small programs with dynamic config files such as SSH, FTP, etc that will live on D. Create ghost of C. Install games that you will be playing for the next 2 years or more. Create ghost of C. Install games you are currently playing. Create ghost of C. I've been following this since ghost 3.x, and have never found a need to create an image of my D drive. Abuse your system, if it starts acting up, restore it to a previous save point. Some of your programs may save config information on C. Incorporate those into a ghost image. There are some other considerations... but you get the point...
ever find a random 78 that you'd just love to play? oh, wait, you cant, your grandmother decided that 78's were too old fashion and tossed out her player. Good luck finding another one :)
many bios updates require a floppy. period.
might be a good idea to keep a floppy drive around your house. maybe even put it in that box of stuff you dont have the heart to toss out. never know when you might run across an old floppy with interesting stuff on it. old war dialing results. bbs logs or e-mails. text files. grandma's love letters...
this thread is lame. bunch of one sided holier than thou theological zealots spewing their extremist stance. Christians, Muslims, OS zealots, same thing. Not even a different guise. I suppose it is too much to ask that a bus hit each of you.