I believe it was on EverythingIsARemix.info where I read the statistic that 76% of the top grossing movies in the last decade are sequels, remakes, based on television, or based on comic books. The remaining 24% isn't all original either, obviously.
I used to contribute a fair amount to Wikipedia to get my brain going in the morning. I quit doing so a couple years ago, because the whole infighting and "notability" crap was ridiculous. Every single character from a book, movie, cartoon, video game, anime (pokemon, etc) gets a many-paged detailed entry while real people quickly get the brush because someone gets a thorn in their ass over something. And those "somethings" are hard to pin down. Some entries surprisingly don't exist, while others (someone with a podcast you've never heard of or who is supposedly some self-described social media expert, etc) gets an entry. That idiot from "Hot For Words" even has a wikipedia entry.
I won't be surprised if a lot of things get deleted in the next few years, because a bunch of people who are twelve years old today will, in the future, say "I've never heard of this Commodore thing, it must be totally made up. Or at least not notable enough, or I'd have heard of it! DELETED!"
Of course, I don't know how you'd solve the problem, either. It's not a solution to just say absolutely everything can be a wikipedia article. Every self-promoting jackhole is going to create their own entry, then and the quality of each article itself will drop. On the other hand, how much attention can really be given to the countless deletions that are proposed? Especially since, while some deletions occur with no discussion and immediately, others drag on indefinitely and are knock-down drag-out events. It's not a solution, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to raise the bar for deletions, at least. It should be a lot harder to delete something that isn't obvious spam or vandalism than it is to create it.
There's also DeletionPedia, though I can't really tell what the current status of the site is.
Are you telling me that the government manufactures or manipulates events to frighten people into providing funding and release their liberties? Why, I've never heard of such a thing!
What made Google so great is that they were the little guy doing something incredibly impressive and useful. It's compelling to see a really well done product coming out from a couple of college kids and overthrowing the standard. It's not quite the same when one the most dominant tech giant on the planet spits out a search engine after about twenty five or thirty years.
It won't be Bing that rises up and gives them solid competition and compels people to switch over. It will be a couple of other kids in their garage. Or a couple college kids. When they do, it won't be just essentially copying Google plus throwing a picture on the background of the search page, either. It'll be something revolutionary.
The last time Microsoft "collaborated" with the open source community, they pilfered the TCP/IP stack and denied that they were using the open source community's code.
Everyone knows that the government has developed several variations on Tesla's earthquake machines (HAARP, etc) and has been using them all over the world (Haiti, anyone?) to cause "natural" disasters. Sheesh!
I am confounded on a regular basis by how desperate people are, in general. Guys who cling on to the first thing that fucks them, even in highschool (and of course, realize twenty years later that they wasted their youth). Girls who can't stand belong alone for five seconds and go from one stupid/bad/pathetic/abusive relationship to another. Nobody seems to be able to just hold the fuck up and be with themselves for awhile. It's like the idea of not having someone to cling to or fight with or have drama with is foreign to them all. All this pathetic desperation across the board results in a lot of stupid people doing stupid shit. Period.
Marriage is different. You're renting pussy. Of course, after the divorce, you're stuck paying for that pussy for the rest of your life even though you don't get to enjoy it anymore. But yeah, for $200k, he should have been able to attract a choice of decent chicks that he could have settled down with. Why you'd waste your time on some fantasy half a world away is bizarre.
No, you have to be a HUGE sucker to fall for this.
I mean, I don't know about you, but if I spend my whole nice listening to someone's life story and buying them dinner and yadda yadda yadda, I'd be pissed if there wasn't at least a little action at the end of the night. If I spent $199,960.00 more on top of that and found out that all I got was scammed . . . holy shit...
What's baffling is how you have $200k to spend, but no girlfriend -- if you really *want* one. Even moderate wealth will score you your choice of 8/10 to 10/10 girls eager to find a man with more money than looks or fame. This guy didn't need to be some desperate internet patsy to do that.
I don't get the "online girlfriend" part. In other words, "an online acquaintance".
Anyway, "online" has little to do with it. I knew a girl who had a couple relationships which were entirely founded around her bilking somewhat older guys out of money and eventually breaking up and disappearing. The simple answer is not suspect everyone and don't fall for every fucking snatch that crosses your path and you'll have a lot more time, money, and sanity to enjoy your life with. (Not that I don't still feel some sympathy for guys like that, since they're ultimately the victim, regardless).
So they can't release certain functions unless they call the browser FireFox 14 or 82 or 198? Does it really matter what "version" it is, as long as you've given the functionality you're adding or the tweaks you're making considerable thought and testing? This sounds an awful lot like "they're on version 13, so we have to catch up in version numbers so people won't think we're a much older out of date product!".
As it stands, we've been getting a new major point version every 12-24 months. What's wrong with that?
I've seen no reason to go with Chrome, but it sounds like Firefox might be trying to find ways to convince me that there's nothing special to stick around for.
That actually seems like a lot more work than just having a POP/IMAP client setup that automatically downloads all of your email in real time. If anything ever happens to your mail, just drag your email out of/local over onto the server.
I'm just glad they acknowledged it. I noticed, last week that my browser was using 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. I couldn't figure it out. So I watched the process for a bit and saw that it was consuming about three megabytes more per minute, even while it was not being used. I went away for lunch and a few errands and came back to find it hitting 2gb.
I find it amusing that it's considered a crime, anywhere. There are women who will break a condom (or retrieve a used one) to trap a man into impregnating her, while he believes he's using protection. I've come across more than one woman in real life who has admitted this or has herself known women who did that. And you know what happens? The man is saddled with a life of obligation and grief, while the woman is . . . well, nothing happens to her.
SyFy got rid of all the science fiction shows they produced or aired. Even the extremely popular ones that beat out most everything else on Cable. Most of their shows still have some vague science fiction flavor in a tiny way, but they're all "relationship" shows that appeal to women. The boy and girl relationships on Warehouse 13 are the primary concern over the hunt-of-the-week of each episode. Same with the boy and girl relationship focus of Eureka. And just about every show I've seen on SyFi since Farscape. Though it's not their doing, even the new Doctor Who of the last five years has succumbed to it.
They said PIRACY. A kid downloading a movie or a song isn't committing piracy. If he's burning it to DVD and slapping a nice cover on it and selling it over eBay or some website for $5/ea to make a profit from it, he's committing piracy.
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I believe it was on EverythingIsARemix.info where I read the statistic that 76% of the top grossing movies in the last decade are sequels, remakes, based on television, or based on comic books. The remaining 24% isn't all original either, obviously.
I used to contribute a fair amount to Wikipedia to get my brain going in the morning. I quit doing so a couple years ago, because the whole infighting and "notability" crap was ridiculous. Every single character from a book, movie, cartoon, video game, anime (pokemon, etc) gets a many-paged detailed entry while real people quickly get the brush because someone gets a thorn in their ass over something. And those "somethings" are hard to pin down. Some entries surprisingly don't exist, while others (someone with a podcast you've never heard of or who is supposedly some self-described social media expert, etc) gets an entry. That idiot from "Hot For Words" even has a wikipedia entry.
I won't be surprised if a lot of things get deleted in the next few years, because a bunch of people who are twelve years old today will, in the future, say "I've never heard of this Commodore thing, it must be totally made up. Or at least not notable enough, or I'd have heard of it! DELETED!"
Of course, I don't know how you'd solve the problem, either. It's not a solution to just say absolutely everything can be a wikipedia article. Every self-promoting jackhole is going to create their own entry, then and the quality of each article itself will drop. On the other hand, how much attention can really be given to the countless deletions that are proposed? Especially since, while some deletions occur with no discussion and immediately, others drag on indefinitely and are knock-down drag-out events. It's not a solution, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to raise the bar for deletions, at least. It should be a lot harder to delete something that isn't obvious spam or vandalism than it is to create it.
There's also DeletionPedia, though I can't really tell what the current status of the site is.
Are you telling me that the government manufactures or manipulates events to frighten people into providing funding and release their liberties? Why, I've never heard of such a thing!
No, no, no. Just label them as thieves and ask the government for more welfare.
What made Google so great is that they were the little guy doing something incredibly impressive and useful. It's compelling to see a really well done product coming out from a couple of college kids and overthrowing the standard. It's not quite the same when one the most dominant tech giant on the planet spits out a search engine after about twenty five or thirty years.
It won't be Bing that rises up and gives them solid competition and compels people to switch over. It will be a couple of other kids in their garage. Or a couple college kids. When they do, it won't be just essentially copying Google plus throwing a picture on the background of the search page, either. It'll be something revolutionary.
The last time Microsoft "collaborated" with the open source community, they pilfered the TCP/IP stack and denied that they were using the open source community's code.
Everyone knows that the government has developed several variations on Tesla's earthquake machines (HAARP, etc) and has been using them all over the world (Haiti, anyone?) to cause "natural" disasters. Sheesh!
I am confounded on a regular basis by how desperate people are, in general. Guys who cling on to the first thing that fucks them, even in highschool (and of course, realize twenty years later that they wasted their youth). Girls who can't stand belong alone for five seconds and go from one stupid/bad/pathetic/abusive relationship to another. Nobody seems to be able to just hold the fuck up and be with themselves for awhile. It's like the idea of not having someone to cling to or fight with or have drama with is foreign to them all. All this pathetic desperation across the board results in a lot of stupid people doing stupid shit. Period.
Marriage is different. You're renting pussy. Of course, after the divorce, you're stuck paying for that pussy for the rest of your life even though you don't get to enjoy it anymore. But yeah, for $200k, he should have been able to attract a choice of decent chicks that he could have settled down with. Why you'd waste your time on some fantasy half a world away is bizarre.
No, you have to be a HUGE sucker to fall for this.
I mean, I don't know about you, but if I spend my whole nice listening to someone's life story and buying them dinner and yadda yadda yadda, I'd be pissed if there wasn't at least a little action at the end of the night. If I spent $199,960.00 more on top of that and found out that all I got was scammed . . . holy shit...
To be fair, if you weeded out everyone that wants you for your money, you'd have to turn gay.
What's baffling is how you have $200k to spend, but no girlfriend -- if you really *want* one. Even moderate wealth will score you your choice of 8/10 to 10/10 girls eager to find a man with more money than looks or fame. This guy didn't need to be some desperate internet patsy to do that.
A new girlfriend would be way cheaper.
I don't get the "online girlfriend" part. In other words, "an online acquaintance".
Anyway, "online" has little to do with it. I knew a girl who had a couple relationships which were entirely founded around her bilking somewhat older guys out of money and eventually breaking up and disappearing. The simple answer is not suspect everyone and don't fall for every fucking snatch that crosses your path and you'll have a lot more time, money, and sanity to enjoy your life with. (Not that I don't still feel some sympathy for guys like that, since they're ultimately the victim, regardless).
So they can't release certain functions unless they call the browser FireFox 14 or 82 or 198? Does it really matter what "version" it is, as long as you've given the functionality you're adding or the tweaks you're making considerable thought and testing? This sounds an awful lot like "they're on version 13, so we have to catch up in version numbers so people won't think we're a much older out of date product!".
As it stands, we've been getting a new major point version every 12-24 months. What's wrong with that?
I've seen no reason to go with Chrome, but it sounds like Firefox might be trying to find ways to convince me that there's nothing special to stick around for.
Notorious cloud-hater, John C Dvorak, is waking up with a smug grin on his face, this morning.
That actually seems like a lot more work than just having a POP/IMAP client setup that automatically downloads all of your email in real time. If anything ever happens to your mail, just drag your email out of /local over onto the server.
I'm just glad they acknowledged it. I noticed, last week that my browser was using 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. I couldn't figure it out. So I watched the process for a bit and saw that it was consuming about three megabytes more per minute, even while it was not being used. I went away for lunch and a few errands and came back to find it hitting 2gb.
Yeah, like that whole Panorama awesomeness they stole from Chrome. Oh, wait.
I sort of smoosh taking off and getting back as part of a successful launch. Perhaps that's not specifically correct, but you get my meaning.
So, like the Columbia.
I find it amusing that it's considered a crime, anywhere. There are women who will break a condom (or retrieve a used one) to trap a man into impregnating her, while he believes he's using protection. I've come across more than one woman in real life who has admitted this or has herself known women who did that. And you know what happens? The man is saddled with a life of obligation and grief, while the woman is . . . well, nothing happens to her.
Primarily, it means no more digg and reddit.
SyFy got rid of all the science fiction shows they produced or aired. Even the extremely popular ones that beat out most everything else on Cable. Most of their shows still have some vague science fiction flavor in a tiny way, but they're all "relationship" shows that appeal to women. The boy and girl relationships on Warehouse 13 are the primary concern over the hunt-of-the-week of each episode. Same with the boy and girl relationship focus of Eureka. And just about every show I've seen on SyFi since Farscape. Though it's not their doing, even the new Doctor Who of the last five years has succumbed to it.
They said PIRACY. A kid downloading a movie or a song isn't committing piracy. If he's burning it to DVD and slapping a nice cover on it and selling it over eBay or some website for $5/ea to make a profit from it, he's committing piracy.