I don't I still have the un-opened box that my Dad gave me for Christmas one year. I figure it will be worth a bit of money on Ebay when I'm ready to part with it
I love the clipart they chose to represent my computer being "vulnerable." A freaking biohazard sign. Who needs to overclock when apparently P2P might make my CPU go nuclear.
(I also love how most of the viruses listed are e-mail worms that have never been an issue on P2P netowrks)
It makes me wonder what other things we could patent. Maybe a system of purchasing goods over an integrated network by depressing a button on a point and click input device.
AOL gets 0 because they own a member of the RIAA. Verizon gets 150 (the most so far, despite being like the 8th or 9th largest ISP) because they stood up against the RIAA in court. I think Verizon has grounds for a suit if that trend continues.
What should be really interesting will be if our dorm hookup (which already recognizes everybody in the building as being on the same LAN) works with the Gamecube LAN setup. It didn't work with X-Box as we had hoped, but with a little bit of X-Box piping help, we had some great inter-room/floor fights in Halo. The thought of doing the same with Mario Kart fills me with oh so much glee.
"Defenders of the recent FCC ruling said that critics were exaggerating its impact and that networks had to get bigger to continue providing free broadcast television"
You know, I had almost forgotten that you could get TV without cable or satellite. Silly luddites and their airwave TV.
Being an early adopter of DVDs, I always have to act a bit shocked when I hear people don't have one when I'm on my 3rd player. So I fully suggest you go out and get one seeing as VHS is all but dead (hizzah!).
As per your comment on poor video compression, more often than not, poor video compression is the fault of the studios. I've seem a lot of crappy transfers (Highlander, Evil Dead, etc) and a lot of beautiful transfers (Anything Pixar has done, LOTR, Panic Room, etc). The fact is a lot of studios are willing to cram a crappy video transfer on a disc, edge "enhance" the hell out of it, and cram in some extras with th space they've saved. But the good studios (Dreamworks, Universal sometimes) have learned that it's better to put good video and audio on one disc and put the exras on a second, resulting in much improved video transfers.
So don't let a few bad transfers spoil the DVD experience, the bad transfers are usually equally as bad on VHS, so it's not like you're losing much. I'd say invest in a good solid medium range DVD player now (you can get solid progressive scan units for about $150), and then when the new laser models come out, wait through the price wars and tech sniggles and get one of them when the technology has been tightened up and the prices have gone down.
Patch Early. Patch Often. Break As Many Other Applications In The Process.
Thank you Microsoft, you're neverending stream of crappy patches has made my machine a $1000 paperweight incapable of launching any non-MS app without crashing.
I agree fully about the night time gel. It's easy to apply and it coats your teeth for the entire night (although the effects lose potency after an hour or so, still, no harm). The key with all treatments is contact time. I used the night time gel from Crest for 2 and a half weeks and my teeth were sparkling white. It also helped reguvinate my somewhat haphazard brushing schedule. (I admit it. I don't brush everyday. I'm lazy.)
The program just got bad press is all, as many alarmists who shrieked loudly about "civil liberties" shouted down the program's supporters
Yeah, how dare we want our things like privacy. Next thing you know we'll want to be able to say or write something without big brother flagging us as a terrorist. Where will the insanity stop!!!??
I agree, despite AOL's public persona being just about on M$ level, they have brought a lot of technology to the masses. Sometimes the results are poor and have no impact (AOL music streaming, You've Got Pictures, etc), but many times there are positive side effects to AOL's adoption of a technology.
Think about it. We, the technologically advanced, had ICQ. AOL took the idea and tweaked it to their use. What was once a very tech heavy system now has a "lite" alternative. Many people who could never function with ICQ do quite well with AIM (or MSM or Y!).
AOL was also one of the first ISPs to give users personal webspace. Now this is common and expected practices. And let's face it, personal webpages were very much the first iteration of Blogging.
I very much doubt AOL will fsck up the blogging community too much. AOL customers who would use such a feature seem to make up a sizeable portion of the LiveJournal community already. But I suspect this will push the genre a little further into mainstream society. This, I believe, will be of benefit to many of the quality blogs out there today. An AOL blog will provide little technical competition (I'll reserve judgement on content because Blogging at it's core is based on the notion that insight comes from unexpected sources).
So I understand why this irritates many people. I liked my PDA a lot more before everyone had one. My DVD player was cooler when none of my friends had one. But technology moves on and so must we.
Yeah, I was in Borders the other day, wasting time in the programming section when I ran into this book and decided to read a few chapters. It's some of the most inane tripe you could ever write. I've seen more informative articles about working in the games industries written in forum posts. There was like 30 pages on level design that could have been summed up in 2 pages without the bullshit and bad diagrams.
MPAA Goon #1: "Those wacky kids on the interweb are undercutting our business again!"
MPAA Goon #2: "Are they finding a new way to pirate our movies?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Worse, they're expressing unauthorized levels of creativity and trying alternatives to film."
MPAA Goon #2: "Those heartless bastards. Don't they know this could result in 20... maybe even 30 dollars in lost profits?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Better get the lawyers."
As a holder of a small number of stocks in companies researching and devloping RFID tech, this is good news since I can now pick up more stock (cheap) as day traders will dump their stock since they won't see an immediate return. Walmart isn't giving up with it after all, they're just incorporating it into their backrooms. And when that leads to better and cheaper implementation, other companies will jump on board. Buy stock now. Enjoy your new BMW in 8 years.
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So how much laughter do you think is running around the hallways over at Apple right now?
There's a certain irony in posting an mp3 from a movie in a thread about Rosen going bye bye.
I don't I still have the un-opened box that my Dad gave me for Christmas one year. I figure it will be worth a bit of money on Ebay when I'm ready to part with it
The front page is still functioning, but the applet is down for the count.
...just like that coincidence when Nvidia tweaked its drivers and got a better 3dmark score... wait a sec.
I love the clipart they chose to represent my computer being "vulnerable." A freaking biohazard sign. Who needs to overclock when apparently P2P might make my CPU go nuclear.
(I also love how most of the viruses listed are e-mail worms that have never been an issue on P2P netowrks)
While your plan has many logical flaws, the thought of an Open-Source Hostile Takeover brings a smile to my face.
Although... funny story... I didn't get my name from the movie. It's stil good though, and I gotta stick up for my name.
/me patiently awaits the DDR playing robot.
It makes me wonder what other things we could patent. Maybe a system of purchasing goods over an integrated network by depressing a button on a point and click input device.
/me prepares for many lawsuits
AOL gets 0 because they own a member of the RIAA. Verizon gets 150 (the most so far, despite being like the 8th or 9th largest ISP) because they stood up against the RIAA in court. I think Verizon has grounds for a suit if that trend continues.
Just two of the infinately bad thoughts that ran through my head when I read that article
SCO might be evil, but so is microsoft and that hasn't stopped corporations from buying windows.
What should be really interesting will be if our dorm hookup (which already recognizes everybody in the building as being on the same LAN) works with the Gamecube LAN setup. It didn't work with X-Box as we had hoped, but with a little bit of X-Box piping help, we had some great inter-room/floor fights in Halo. The thought of doing the same with Mario Kart fills me with oh so much glee.
"Defenders of the recent FCC ruling said that critics were exaggerating its impact and that networks had to get bigger to continue providing free broadcast television"
You know, I had almost forgotten that you could get TV without cable or satellite. Silly luddites and their airwave TV.
Being an early adopter of DVDs, I always have to act a bit shocked when I hear people don't have one when I'm on my 3rd player. So I fully suggest you go out and get one seeing as VHS is all but dead (hizzah!).
As per your comment on poor video compression, more often than not, poor video compression is the fault of the studios. I've seem a lot of crappy transfers (Highlander, Evil Dead, etc) and a lot of beautiful transfers (Anything Pixar has done, LOTR, Panic Room, etc). The fact is a lot of studios are willing to cram a crappy video transfer on a disc, edge "enhance" the hell out of it, and cram in some extras with th space they've saved. But the good studios (Dreamworks, Universal sometimes) have learned that it's better to put good video and audio on one disc and put the exras on a second, resulting in much improved video transfers.
So don't let a few bad transfers spoil the DVD experience, the bad transfers are usually equally as bad on VHS, so it's not like you're losing much. I'd say invest in a good solid medium range DVD player now (you can get solid progressive scan units for about $150), and then when the new laser models come out, wait through the price wars and tech sniggles and get one of them when the technology has been tightened up and the prices have gone down.
Patch Early. Patch Often. Break As Many Other Applications In The Process.
Thank you Microsoft, you're neverending stream of crappy patches has made my machine a $1000 paperweight incapable of launching any non-MS app without crashing.
I agree fully about the night time gel. It's easy to apply and it coats your teeth for the entire night (although the effects lose potency after an hour or so, still, no harm). The key with all treatments is contact time. I used the night time gel from Crest for 2 and a half weeks and my teeth were sparkling white. It also helped reguvinate my somewhat haphazard brushing schedule. (I admit it. I don't brush everyday. I'm lazy.)
The program just got bad press is all, as many alarmists who shrieked loudly about "civil liberties" shouted down the program's supporters
Yeah, how dare we want our things like privacy. Next thing you know we'll want to be able to say or write something without big brother flagging us as a terrorist. Where will the insanity stop!!!??
I agree, despite AOL's public persona being just about on M$ level, they have brought a lot of technology to the masses. Sometimes the results are poor and have no impact (AOL music streaming, You've Got Pictures, etc), but many times there are positive side effects to AOL's adoption of a technology.
Think about it. We, the technologically advanced, had ICQ. AOL took the idea and tweaked it to their use. What was once a very tech heavy system now has a "lite" alternative. Many people who could never function with ICQ do quite well with AIM (or MSM or Y!).
AOL was also one of the first ISPs to give users personal webspace. Now this is common and expected practices. And let's face it, personal webpages were very much the first iteration of Blogging.
I very much doubt AOL will fsck up the blogging community too much. AOL customers who would use such a feature seem to make up a sizeable portion of the LiveJournal community already. But I suspect this will push the genre a little further into mainstream society. This, I believe, will be of benefit to many of the quality blogs out there today. An AOL blog will provide little technical competition (I'll reserve judgement on content because Blogging at it's core is based on the notion that insight comes from unexpected sources).
So I understand why this irritates many people. I liked my PDA a lot more before everyone had one. My DVD player was cooler when none of my friends had one. But technology moves on and so must we.
Yeah, I was in Borders the other day, wasting time in the programming section when I ran into this book and decided to read a few chapters. It's some of the most inane tripe you could ever write. I've seen more informative articles about working in the games industries written in forum posts. There was like 30 pages on level design that could have been summed up in 2 pages without the bullshit and bad diagrams.
Kids today with their robberies and such. Must of been too much of that Grand Theft Train or Railroad Tycoon.
MPAA Goon #1: "Those wacky kids on the interweb are undercutting our business again!"
MPAA Goon #2: "Are they finding a new way to pirate our movies?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Worse, they're expressing unauthorized levels of creativity and trying alternatives to film."
MPAA Goon #2: "Those heartless bastards. Don't they know this could result in 20... maybe even 30 dollars in lost profits?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Better get the lawyers."
As a holder of a small number of stocks in companies researching and devloping RFID tech, this is good news since I can now pick up more stock (cheap) as day traders will dump their stock since they won't see an immediate return. Walmart isn't giving up with it after all, they're just incorporating it into their backrooms. And when that leads to better and cheaper implementation, other companies will jump on board. Buy stock now. Enjoy your new BMW in 8 years.
Now THAT was funny. Good show, chap.