Exactly what I was thinking. Also, you only look "invisible" from a specific viewpoint -- and then what's the difference between this and real Chroma Keying, other than that it doesn't work as well?
I submit that this is lame, and hereby call SHENANIGANS!
clone (Score:1, Redundant) by FS1 (636716) on 05:01 PM -- Friday June 11 2004 (#9403544) dupe
I wish I could pick which moderations to metamoderate -- and that I could metamoderate anything I wanted to "Funny". 'Cause that is funny. Clone -- Redundant -- Dupe. Perfect.
Why don't the labels simply buy (or create) radio stations for themselves? Then they could skip the ad-placement phase and cut right to the playing of stuff they want to push.
Come to think of it, why not buy (or create) record stores too?
How about venues for concerts?
Are there some sort of laws against record labels owning radio stations/record stores/performance venues?
I mean, c'mon, if you're going to tell people what to like and then charge them to get it, do it right.
I added a second phone to my plan for my wife when we got married. This cause Cingular to silently erase all my vaunted "they're yours -- keep 'em" Rollover Minutes, of which I'd accumulated about 1,800. I started getting big overage charges on my bills. Each month, I'd call them up to straighten things out, and each month they'd be screwed up still. This went on for about six or seve months, till I finally got someone who seemed to know which end is up.
After all was said and done, I was told the initial erasure happened because I altered my plan on some day other than the first billing day of the month.
While the result is superficially satisfying from the point of view of an American ("America is a land where the right to free speech is well-understood and -respected by the public at large, and dem furriners don't know nuthin' 'bout it"), you're dead-on accurate about the sample size issue. Perhaps there should be an ongoing system of this kind of check, done at random across the world's ISPs, and the results publicly displayed at a centralized web site where people could check on how on-the-ball any particular ISP is (or was, at last checkup).
It would all come crashing down, of course, when someone accused the site of hosting copyrighted material and its hosting company pulled the plug without checking.
SAP's UI is a seizure-inducing nightmare. Pretty, but completely inconsistent. Not to mention completely lacking in a text-based query facility where one is clearly called for. Type in a 100-line query you easily generated in VIm? Hell no! You're clicking through 5 dialogs times 100 "key figures", Sparky!
They have a page with giant videos (like > 270MB). If you want to Slashdot them, poke around for yourself -- I'm not going to link to them, since I don't want to see their servers start involuntarily giving off smoke signals.
Yahoo! Mail recently (within the last couple months) made the Bulk and Trash folders exempt from the storage quota -- now I no longer have to worry about getting filled up if I don't check it for a few days (as on a vacation).
Correct. And nothing is more grating to the ears of a non-LA-area-er than to constantly hear "take the 405 to the 5 to the...". Well, except maybe the way LAers? inflect each noun phrase? to sound like a question?
Only time we use "the" for highways up here (bay area) is when using (what I call) the quaint names: The Nimitz Freeway, The East Shore Freeway, The MacArthur Freeway, The Bay Shore Freeway.
Say I have an infinite number of socks. All are white, except 3, which are grey. I have a positive percentage of grey socks, but that doesn't mean anything since that percentage is infinitessimal.
Oooo, so close. You have a zero percentage of grey socks. Zero is not positive.
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I'll just wait till they roll out iTunes Turkey, where you'll get songs for 0.99 Turkish Lire.
6. Write detailed, helpful, polite message asking for help
7. Get back cut-n-pasted response based on first keyword match in your text
8. Make mental note never to bother asking Yahoo! for help again
I love Yahoo!, but they gotta shape up in this department.
Exactly what I was thinking. Also, you only look "invisible" from a specific viewpoint -- and then what's the difference between this and real Chroma Keying, other than that it doesn't work as well?
I submit that this is lame, and hereby call SHENANIGANS!
I was momentarily stunned (Shocked? Har har) when I thought I saw "Visalia Lightning Explorer", being that I'm originally from there and all.
Because the first thing I though upon reading the summary was:
"Shoulda said 'Ugly-ass Media Player Born'."
Before, of course, Reading TFA.
The Smoking Gun has 30 days to come up with something...and they always deliver.
Oh. Oh oh oh. The Sco Group...never mind!
Why don't the labels simply buy (or create) radio stations for themselves? Then they could skip the ad-placement phase and cut right to the playing of stuff they want to push.
Come to think of it, why not buy (or create) record stores too?
How about venues for concerts?
Are there some sort of laws against record labels owning radio stations/record stores/performance venues?
I mean, c'mon, if you're going to tell people what to like and then charge them to get it, do it right.
I wish Slashdot allowed the tag. Then I could post the famous "This Story Is Useless Without Pictures" image.
Then again, if they allowed it, someone would probably have posted a picture of the thing already.
...so here's my contribution to it.
I added a second phone to my plan for my wife when we got married. This cause Cingular to silently erase all my vaunted "they're yours -- keep 'em" Rollover Minutes, of which I'd accumulated about 1,800. I started getting big overage charges on my bills. Each month, I'd call them up to straighten things out, and each month they'd be screwed up still. This went on for about six or seve months, till I finally got someone who seemed to know which end is up.
After all was said and done, I was told the initial erasure happened because I altered my plan on some day other than the first billing day of the month.
Nice system, Cingular. Dorks.
Smart-blur filter.
...company to make all the others look like dog crap.
Just one ISP decides to upgrade their bandwidth ahead of customer demand instead of imposing bandwidth caps, and users will beat a path to their door.
While the result is superficially satisfying from the point of view of an American ("America is a land where the right to free speech is well-understood and -respected by the public at large, and dem furriners don't know nuthin' 'bout it"), you're dead-on accurate about the sample size issue. Perhaps there should be an ongoing system of this kind of check, done at random across the world's ISPs, and the results publicly displayed at a centralized web site where people could check on how on-the-ball any particular ISP is (or was, at last checkup).
It would all come crashing down, of course, when someone accused the site of hosting copyrighted material and its hosting company pulled the plug without checking.
Boot into Knoppix, run shred.
SAP's UI is a seizure-inducing nightmare. Pretty, but completely inconsistent. Not to mention completely lacking in a text-based query facility where one is clearly called for. Type in a 100-line query you easily generated in VIm? Hell no! You're clicking through 5 dialogs times 100 "key figures", Sparky!
They have a page with giant videos (like > 270MB). If you want to Slashdot them, poke around for yourself -- I'm not going to link to them, since I don't want to see their servers start involuntarily giving off smoke signals.
A Phone as Your Next Computer? Never.
How about a Slashdot-style modding system on patents? Could we prevent gaming the system?
Correct. And nothing is more grating to the ears of a non-LA-area-er than to constantly hear "take the 405 to the 5 to the...". Well, except maybe the way LAers? inflect each noun phrase? to sound like a question?
Only time we use "the" for highways up here (bay area) is when using (what I call) the quaint names: The Nimitz Freeway, The East Shore Freeway, The MacArthur Freeway, The Bay Shore Freeway.
Ding ding ding! We have a winnah!
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