Could we please get video and flash links in stories tagged "(video)" or "(flash)" like is done for PDF links? Especially things that will generate audio which might be disruptive in a work environment and when it isn't necessarily apparent in the URL.
And did the Times really make such an awful grammatical mistake?
If they did, they have since corrected it in the linked story. The title here may have been an accurate quote from the linked story's headline before making it to the front page. If true, I recommend Slashdot not fix it to "fewer" but rather adding "[sic]" to the headline here.
This opens up some possibilities for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drugging all troops before combat will be much less expensive than paying for PTSD treatment.
"But even as far back as that [20th Century Marine Captain] costume, we had begun to make rapid progress."
"Oh? Shall we review your `rapid progress'?"
[Q changes to the uniform of a military officer from the mid-21st Century wars and speaks with a drugged voice.]
"Rapid progress to where humans learned to control their military with drugs."
Well, this situation sounds ripe for lampooning in a new one of Apple's "Mac & PC" ads:
Mac and PC in twin beds, an alarm goes off. Mac wakes up but PC was sitting up in bed twitching nervously.
"Good morning--"
"AH!"
"I'm a... Mac."
"And I'm a p-p-PC."
"Hey, PC, haven't you been sleeping?"
"No! No, I, uh, I-I can't sleep."
"Really, do you need something?"
"No, it's not that. I-I mustn't go to sleep because I'm afraid I won't wake up. There have been reports, you know, that since the release of Vista, PCs have had problems with not waking up from sleep."
"Gee, that's too bad. Me, I have no problems waking up from sleep. I mean, within two seconds, I'm up and fully alert. That isn't true for you?"
Hell, what good did it do anyway? Ma Bell is back and bigger than ever, and if you think an antitrust claim will stick against the reborn Bells, you're sorely mistaken.
Of course it won't, because the now-even-bigger Ma Bell now has competitors that wouldn't have had a chance to come into existence if it hadn't been for the breakup.
While I applaud the advocacy, the bad new is "intellectual development" is not what the telcos and media conglomerates have in mind.
Exactly. It's profit maximization they're after.
If they think they can make Google pay to serve their customers, they'll have a customer revolt over not being able to access Google. Google's packets are more valuable than those originating at a leaf-node ISP. Leaf-node ISPs will find themselves paying Google's ISP, not Google paying them, to get their users access to Google. They'll create a money flux across the network that won't change the status quo of their profits. It'll just be alternating currency between ISPs rather than direct currency profiting them: A¢, not D¢.
(I'd have actual cent signs there if this forum would allow the Unicode character CENT SIGN (U+00A2) as a numerical entity (), named entity (), or literal character (), yet none of those come through in my Previews.)
What about all those ads about how piracy is wrong and "you wouldn't steal a car"?
You could just jump out of your seat, yell, "The hell I wouldn't!" and run out the exit as if you're going out to the parking lot to steal everyone else's cars.
Bonus: go with a friend who will stay behind and laugh loudly for awhile, then exclaim, "Wait, my car is out there!" and run out after you.
For the win, park a truck just outside the exit with big speakers and start playing the sound effects of cars starting up and rapidly driving off, maybe with some window breaking and various car alarm sounds that fade out into the distance, and see how many more people rush out.
For the David Copperfields, you have about 90 minutes to rig up an illusion of an empty parking lot before everyone leaves the theater.
I think if Grand Theft Auto or other modern day games used advertisement, the games would be more immersive....
Why would there be an advertisement for a car company that didn't exist in game?
Me, I draw the line at advertisements for real-world products in a thoroughly fictional game location. Especially when the game is a dark parody of reality, so should any in-game ads be dark parodies of real products. And the settings in the Grand Theft Auto franchise (except London, Manchester, and Salford), while based on real locations, are fictional. Also, the models of cars in GTA are based on real cars but given fictional names. (This was referenced in an episode of NCIS where a witness identifies a car by its in-game name, which was the word for "car" in another language, and DiNozzo quips, "So the description of your car is `car'," until McGee notes the GTA connection.)
I twinge a little each time the new Battlestar Galactica uses a colloquial Earth expression too, though I have gotten over them not calling dogs "daggets".
Besides, ads for real products in unrealistic violent games will only help Jack Thompson in his "gamers can't separate fantasy from reality" arguments next time some kid runs someone else's car off the road after seeing a real Axe Body Spray billboard.
In order to prevent a repeat of 9/11, we are going to impliment a system, which makes it possible for a terrorist group to remotely hijack a plane, with the on board pilot being completely unable to resume control of the plane?
At least you can rest safe in the knowledge that, even if the pilot cannot regain control of the plane, he can at least sabotage the plane so it cannot be remotely controlled either.
That is, you can rest safe if you're not on the plane, or under its flight path. Otherwise your rest will be suddenly peaceful.
(Hopefully, in the face of a false positive, the remote control can reauthorize on-board control in case a pilot is in too much of a hurry to go to the head.)
So, what you're saying is that this public data shouldn't be copied? It's not like they're taking all of the data and destroying the originals.
There's destroying and then there's locking away. There are people pushing for laws that say one person's copy of a public domain work is copyrighted by that person for the typical term and that no one else may make a copy from that copy without permission. It's specifically about granting broadcasters copyright over their rebroadcast of a public domain work, but it is laying the foundation for perpetually renewable copyright on demand. Whosoever can preserve the originals long enough gets renewable copyright for eternity.
The annoying part for me today is that flash memory is in powers of two (64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, etc.), be it for cameras or in USB thumbdrives, yet the units are metric, not binary (stating 1 MB == 1 million bytes on the packaging).
When I see a power of 2 next to the units, I expect the units to be in a power of 2 too.
Except he got the wrong ship. The line was about a ship similar to another they'd looked at that crashed into the third moon of Jaglan Beta. The Hotblack Desiato (or Hagunemnon ship in the radio show) didn't look like a fish at all. It was so black you could hardly make out its shape.
(Yeah, and a few minutes ago I misspelled "Hagunemnon". Though, frankly, I'm not sure what the right spelling is; I don't have the radio scripts.)
As a Firehose user, I must say that it gets difficult to keep track of which dupe stories made it to the front page and which are just dupe submissions that have not yet made it to the front page. Despite the distinctive color, the mass of submissions become a blur.
they would get even more for their bribe money to whoever received it that immediately pulled the DOJ dogs off of Microsoft after they had been convicted of abusing their monopoly position.
I imagine the proceedings went something like this:
"Due to the severe and heinous nature of your crime, you, Microsoft of Redmond, Washington, are--"
"Recognized for selfless love and devotion to His Shadow."
"Of 26 Counts of Monopolistic--, -s of Monopolistic--, -s of Monopolistic--"
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Could we please get video and flash links in stories tagged "(video)" or "(flash)" like is done for PDF links? Especially things that will generate audio which might be disruptive in a work environment and when it isn't necessarily apparent in the URL.
And did the Times really make such an awful grammatical mistake?
If they did, they have since corrected it in the linked story. The title here may have been an accurate quote from the linked story's headline before making it to the front page. If true, I recommend Slashdot not fix it to "fewer" but rather adding "[sic]" to the headline here.
This opens up some possibilities for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drugging all troops before combat will be much less expensive than paying for PTSD treatment.
"But even as far back as that [20th Century Marine Captain] costume, we had begun to make rapid progress."
"Oh? Shall we review your `rapid progress'?"
[Q changes to the uniform of a military officer from the mid-21st Century wars and speaks with a drugged voice.]
"Rapid progress to where humans learned to control their military with drugs."
Well, this situation sounds ripe for lampooning in a new one of Apple's "Mac & PC" ads:
Mac and PC in twin beds, an alarm goes off. Mac wakes up but PC was sitting up in bed twitching nervously.
"Good morning--"
"AH!"
"I'm a... Mac."
"And I'm a p-p-PC."
"Hey, PC, haven't you been sleeping?"
"No! No, I, uh, I-I can't sleep."
"Really, do you need something?"
"No, it's not that. I-I mustn't go to sleep because I'm afraid I won't wake up. There have been reports, you know, that since the release of Vista, PCs have had problems with not waking up from sleep."
"Gee, that's too bad. Me, I have no problems waking up from sleep. I mean, within two seconds, I'm up and fully alert. That isn't true for you?"
"..."
"Uh, PC? PC, hello? Hey, PC, wake up!"
"..."
"Oh my."
Hell, what good did it do anyway? Ma Bell is back and bigger than ever, and if you think an antitrust claim will stick against the reborn Bells, you're sorely mistaken.
Of course it won't, because the now-even-bigger Ma Bell now has competitors that wouldn't have had a chance to come into existence if it hadn't been for the breakup.
While I applaud the advocacy, the bad new is "intellectual development" is not what the telcos and media conglomerates have in mind.
Exactly. It's profit maximization they're after.
If they think they can make Google pay to serve their customers, they'll have a customer revolt over not being able to access Google. Google's packets are more valuable than those originating at a leaf-node ISP. Leaf-node ISPs will find themselves paying Google's ISP, not Google paying them, to get their users access to Google. They'll create a money flux across the network that won't change the status quo of their profits. It'll just be alternating currency between ISPs rather than direct currency profiting them: A¢, not D¢.
(I'd have actual cent signs there if this forum would allow the Unicode character CENT SIGN (U+00A2) as a numerical entity (), named entity (), or literal character (), yet none of those come through in my Previews.)
What about all those ads about how piracy is wrong and "you wouldn't steal a car"?
You could just jump out of your seat, yell, "The hell I wouldn't!" and run out the exit as if you're going out to the parking lot to steal everyone else's cars.
Bonus: go with a friend who will stay behind and laugh loudly for awhile, then exclaim, "Wait, my car is out there!" and run out after you.
For the win, park a truck just outside the exit with big speakers and start playing the sound effects of cars starting up and rapidly driving off, maybe with some window breaking and various car alarm sounds that fade out into the distance, and see how many more people rush out.
For the David Copperfields, you have about 90 minutes to rig up an illusion of an empty parking lot before everyone leaves the theater.
I twinge a little each time the new Battlestar Galactica uses a colloquial Earth expression too, though I have gotten over them not calling dogs "daggets".
Besides, ads for real products in unrealistic violent games will only help Jack Thompson in his "gamers can't separate fantasy from reality" arguments next time some kid runs someone else's car off the road after seeing a real Axe Body Spray billboard.
That is, you can rest safe if you're not on the plane, or under its flight path. Otherwise your rest will be suddenly peaceful.
(Hopefully, in the face of a false positive, the remote control can reauthorize on-board control in case a pilot is in too much of a hurry to go to the head.)
No remote access allowed unless the pilot flips a switch in the plane.
Or someone knocks on the door... hard.
The latency sucks, though.
They're working on that part of the problem by subjecting two trucks of hard drives to quantum entanglement.
So, what you're saying is that this public data shouldn't be copied? It's not like they're taking all of the data and destroying the originals.
There's destroying and then there's locking away. There are people pushing for laws that say one person's copy of a public domain work is copyrighted by that person for the typical term and that no one else may make a copy from that copy without permission. It's specifically about granting broadcasters copyright over their rebroadcast of a public domain work, but it is laying the foundation for perpetually renewable copyright on demand. Whosoever can preserve the originals long enough gets renewable copyright for eternity.
The annoying part for me today is that flash memory is in powers of two (64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, etc.), be it for cameras or in USB thumbdrives, yet the units are metric, not binary (stating 1 MB == 1 million bytes on the packaging).
When I see a power of 2 next to the units, I expect the units to be in a power of 2 too.
I'm just happy they're not swapping tuberculosis.
There's a simple answer, Fosters isn't beer. We just export that swill, no one here actually drinks it.
Wow, you sure got a lot of responses just for successfully spotting the joke. Well, half the joke anyway. And the karma to boot!
Actually it does have an Australian to English converter. I'm not too sure what good that would do a Yank though.
I think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.
And in the English to Australian converter, I keep putting in coffee but I still don't get back beer.
Not my case, and as I started, "Not a justification". It's just another data point.
Except he got the wrong ship. The line was about a ship similar to another they'd looked at that crashed into the third moon of Jaglan Beta. The Hotblack Desiato (or Hagunemnon ship in the radio show) didn't look like a fish at all. It was so black you could hardly make out its shape.
(Yeah, and a few minutes ago I misspelled "Hagunemnon". Though, frankly, I'm not sure what the right spelling is; I don't have the radio scripts.)
As a Firehose user, I must say that it gets difficult to keep track of which dupe stories made it to the front page and which are just dupe submissions that have not yet made it to the front page. Despite the distinctive color, the mass of submissions become a blur.
I think you got the wrong ship. I believe that one had an infra-pink lizard emblem on the neutrino housing.
I guess we know what material Hotblack Desiato used to make his stunt ship...
Or the Hagunenons' horribly beweaponed chamelioid death flotilla.
Or Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1 (TMA-1 a.k.a. The Monolith).
Not a justification, just a note that X-Play gave it a 5 out of 5.