I'd hardly say that's failing. That was really well done. I loaded it up, expecting it to be stupid and hating it. Not only did I learn something (recalling the huge uninformed slashdot debate earlier in the week when the story first broke), but it was very amusing. Just enough tongue-in-cheek not to be condescending, but silly enough to be followed by total gits.
I'm not quite old enough for the Schoolhouse Rock stuff, but I've seen a few snips here and there (I'm not quite yet 30).
All technical information should be conveyed this way! Seriously, can you imagine how well this would work to teach difficult concepts to people who are otherwise not entirely technical? Or, for that matter, for some of us industry insiders, too. No more thumbing through convoluted RFCs. Just load me up a flash animation with a funky beat!
*snicker*
I need my bits perpendicular so I can store more naked horizontals.
Now take any good recording. How could you not still want to listen to it twenty years from now?
Well, you could but, you'd have to pay another $40 (on top of the original $20) for the two replacements as formats became obsolete twice in those two or so decades or the media (such as CDs) failed or degraded from age.
Of course, the same can be said of movies. And, these days, books. The last good science fiction book I bought was $35. I read it in two days. Talk about expensive!
Entertainment is expensive, period. It's hard to justify the costs, but we pay them nonetheless. I guess that's a good thing, because it means that the other necessities in our lives are taken care of. I've cut out the purchase of music and movies, but I still buy games and books.
Well, I don't like Star Trek, either. But if I had to pick a Star Trek to like, it would have been the Next Generation. Best character development, best characters, best stories. In fact, I would actually say I liked TNG, without qualifying it. But Star Trek in general just doesn't do it for me. Neither does BattleStar Galactica.
It isn't that I'm a sci-fi snob (I'm not). I just haven't found that stuff to be my cup of tea. Likewise, I'm a huge Dr. Who fan. So... I can't afford to be a snob, reputationally.;)
Most meat-space stores sell non-discounted CDs at between $15.99 and $18.99. More for double-dics sets. The last CD I bought that wasn't directly from a band or a very small label was $18.99 and that was in 1999.
As someone who couldn't care less about Star Wars, I have to say I am really loving Lucas. The more he and others bastardize Star Wars (darth potato happy meal figure!) the more pissed off and upset Star Wars gits become. It's great entertainment.
I hope Lucas continues to screw with various Star Wars bits far into the future. Maybe redo all six episodes with some new technology and add/remove things. Maybe replace all the light sabers with walkie-talkies, ala Spielberg's ET. And if he does the next three movies, it'll give us another decade of pure enjoyment watching all these guys growing into their 50s, still bemoaning the more raping of their "childhood" by Lucas.
Minorities also spend far more money on video ame purchases than caucasians. I was surprised by that.
Then again, this is as surprising as "women spend more money on shoes". Except that videogames are actually useful and we play them more than one night.
As someone who has never seen a God Father movie, all I can say is I suppose it sucks for him, but it's not really up to him. If God Father belongs to Paramount, they can do whatever they like.
Back in college, a local supermarket cashier, when handed a Susan B., asked "What is this, Mexican?" Which was especially surprising since not only had they been around for years but the supermarket adjoined a commuter rail station that had ticket machines that gave them as change; you'd think she would get them all the time.
Um. Not to mention the fact that American coinage says "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" on it.
I would call using this softare "cheating" on the professor's part.
And I'd be quite upset if I was paying $35k/yr for an education where the professors couldn't be bothered to grade my work themselves. Just because I need your accredited institution on my resume bad enough to pay the college tuition doesn't mean you have me by the shorthairs and shouldn't provide me with your full skill, experience, knowledge and attention.
Have they replaced the Creative Writing courses with a copy of the early 1990s Word Perfect grammar checker, too?
DDR requires activity. Movement. Exercise. It's well established that activity and exercise helps you be fit and lose weight. They may as well be doing a study to find out of push-ups help you keep fit or if people who play a lot of basketball tend to be in better shape and lose weight.
I saw an article the other day where a chubby kid (I think he was 140lb or more at the age of 12) said that "I can play basketball better now that I've lost 10 pounds with this thing". Um... I don't follow. If you're playing basketball, aren't you already active?
This isn't real. They just filed it, knowing it would stupidly be accepted, as a publicity stunt. Is it a coincidence that The Matrix Online just came out last week?
The percentage of young voters turning out was no greater than the previous election. The fact of the matter is that they didn't energize the masses. Especially the young masses.
In fact, I was surprised at how many very liberal, very open-minded, very not conservative young people (my age and younger) were telling me they were voting for Bush. Granted, it was mostly over the whole terrorism thing - but I was just shocked.
I didn't vote for either of 'em, but they clearly weren't winning converts. People either hated or loved bush. Minds were already made up. There wasn't any persuading going on. And the results bear that out, unfortunately.
Anyway, there's no point trying to merge TV and the internet. That's ridiculous. Rather than dumping a hundred million bucks into the TV network, they should have focused on a quality internet based campaign/system. Then you're not dealing with fighting to get the youth off the computer and back to the television - you're catching them on the medium they're already on. There's enough broadband around that they could do the whole video/blogging/programming/radio/television thing all online through a well-designed hub of a website.
Dude, I've been listening to talk radio since I was 8 years old. I have two solid decades of talk radio under my belt. I know good talk radio from bad. I have listened to "Air America" plenty and it is the most droll, uninteresting, unprofessional, ill-prepared drek ever. It's a decent idea, but poorly excecuted. You can't just take the cast of SNL and make a syndicated political talk station out of it.
And 53 stations is nothing if they're 53 stations with poor ratings.
I don't know a soul who regularly listens to their programming. It's downright painful at times. Even my hardcore liberal friends can't stand it. They'd rather listen to a professional right-winger who knows what being a radio personality is than some chunky comedienne whining about how unfair the world is like your typical hollywood looney.
I'd give my left nut for a station that aired an opposing side to the right-wing drek that's on the air (I don't agree with either side, but it would be nice to switch to for a bit of flavor now and then), with a reputable person instead of some smarmy LA git. Dump Al Franken and Janine and give me, say, James Carville. Come on.
I'm really tired of everyone thinking that just because they're famous, they can swing radio. They CAN'T. Radio is DIFFICULT. You have to be INTERESTING and CLEVER and ARTICULATE. People like O'Reilly and the above mentioned names don't belong within a mile of a radio broadcasting booth.
Anyway, the same network that is responsible for all of the whacko rightwingers is responsible for the leftwing "Air America". Yep. You got it. Clear Channel. Oooh. That's really showing them!
And just because it has okay numbers (nothing to crowe about in most of the country, including the very progressive west coast state I live in), doesn't mean it's good radio. If you're a hardcore lefty, what are you going to listen to? It's not that there's much else out there. You have your choice between many very talented conservatives who you may disagree with most or all of the time, or very unpolished highschool/junior college quality liberal broadcasters that you can enjoin for a round of daily navel-gazing.
That it can manage to eek a three-share at times just means people are desperate for a different voice. And since this is the only voice out there doing that, it's their only option. Stick a competing network up out there that shares the same views, but with more professional and qualified personalities and you will quickly see Air America circle the drain.
I have nothing in particular against liberals and democrats (certainly no more so than I have against the republicans and conservatives), but this whole thing is going to flop over like a shit-filled balloon within two years, just like Air America. This is NOT going to be some revolutionary thing.
Christ, they couldn't even get enough young people out to vote for the heinous George Bush last year. How are they going to yank them off the internet and onto some crappy dull cable station about current events, where Al Gore is deciding what bling is fly?
Bitching about having to contribute your improvements back to the public that provided you with the GPL'd code in the first place is kind of like bitching about having to pay taxes on your company's profits.
Right. So, as you've pointed out, only the characters who are of any importance to the storyline are famous hollywood names. Glad we got that clear. The extras and minor characters are still unknowns. Check.
Natalie Portman, Samuel Jackson, Ewan McGreggor... these aren't A-list people?! Since when? How much more big-name can you get short of Bruce Willis, Jack Nicholson and Julia Roberts?!
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So, how much faster can they spin the drives now with this improvement?
Slower, actually. If you spin too fast (or bump the drive), the bits will fall over. And not just a few bits. You've seen dominoes, right?
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Knowing slashdot as I do, this has to be clarified).
I'd hardly say that's failing. That was really well done. I loaded it up, expecting it to be stupid and hating it. Not only did I learn something (recalling the huge uninformed slashdot debate earlier in the week when the story first broke), but it was very amusing. Just enough tongue-in-cheek not to be condescending, but silly enough to be followed by total gits.
I'm not quite old enough for the Schoolhouse Rock stuff, but I've seen a few snips here and there (I'm not quite yet 30).
I propose that once these drives become standard, we start saying "oh shit - my bits fell over!" when our drives crash or data becomes corrupt.
You heard it here, first (I think)>
All technical information should be conveyed this way! Seriously, can you imagine how well this would work to teach difficult concepts to people who are otherwise not entirely technical? Or, for that matter, for some of us industry insiders, too. No more thumbing through convoluted RFCs. Just load me up a flash animation with a funky beat!
*snicker*
I need my bits perpendicular so I can store more naked horizontals.
Now take any good recording. How could you not still want to listen to it twenty years from now?
Well, you could but, you'd have to pay another $40 (on top of the original $20) for the two replacements as formats became obsolete twice in those two or so decades or the media (such as CDs) failed or degraded from age.
Of course, the same can be said of movies. And, these days, books. The last good science fiction book I bought was $35. I read it in two days. Talk about expensive!
Entertainment is expensive, period. It's hard to justify the costs, but we pay them nonetheless. I guess that's a good thing, because it means that the other necessities in our lives are taken care of. I've cut out the purchase of music and movies, but I still buy games and books.
Well, I don't like Star Trek, either. But if I had to pick a Star Trek to like, it would have been the Next Generation. Best character development, best characters, best stories. In fact, I would actually say I liked TNG, without qualifying it. But Star Trek in general just doesn't do it for me. Neither does BattleStar Galactica.
;)
It isn't that I'm a sci-fi snob (I'm not). I just haven't found that stuff to be my cup of tea. Likewise, I'm a huge Dr. Who fan. So... I can't afford to be a snob, reputationally.
Most meat-space stores sell non-discounted CDs at between $15.99 and $18.99. More for double-dics sets. The last CD I bought that wasn't directly from a band or a very small label was $18.99 and that was in 1999.
Duh. For every game I buy I'd have to buy 4 albums to spend an equal amount of money on music.
Where are all of these $75.96 games you're buying?! Unless you're talking about collector's editions.
As someone who couldn't care less about Star Wars, I have to say I am really loving Lucas. The more he and others bastardize Star Wars (darth potato happy meal figure!) the more pissed off and upset Star Wars gits become. It's great entertainment.
I hope Lucas continues to screw with various Star Wars bits far into the future. Maybe redo all six episodes with some new technology and add/remove things. Maybe replace all the light sabers with walkie-talkies, ala Spielberg's ET. And if he does the next three movies, it'll give us another decade of pure enjoyment watching all these guys growing into their 50s, still bemoaning the more raping of their "childhood" by Lucas.
Pure gold. Pure frigging gold!
Minorities also spend far more money on video ame purchases than caucasians. I was surprised by that.
Then again, this is as surprising as "women spend more money on shoes". Except that videogames are actually useful and we play them more than one night.
As someone who has never seen a God Father movie, all I can say is I suppose it sucks for him, but it's not really up to him. If God Father belongs to Paramount, they can do whatever they like.
Back in college, a local supermarket cashier, when handed a Susan B., asked "What is this, Mexican?" Which was especially surprising since not only had they been around for years but the supermarket adjoined a commuter rail station that had ticket machines that gave them as change; you'd think she would get them all the time.
Um. Not to mention the fact that American coinage says "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" on it.
When you purchase a laptop, the Windows installation media states specifically "not for resale". Period.
I would call using this softare "cheating" on the professor's part.
And I'd be quite upset if I was paying $35k/yr for an education where the professors couldn't be bothered to grade my work themselves. Just because I need your accredited institution on my resume bad enough to pay the college tuition doesn't mean you have me by the shorthairs and shouldn't provide me with your full skill, experience, knowledge and attention.
Have they replaced the Creative Writing courses with a copy of the early 1990s Word Perfect grammar checker, too?
DDR requires activity. Movement. Exercise. It's well established that activity and exercise helps you be fit and lose weight. They may as well be doing a study to find out of push-ups help you keep fit or if people who play a lot of basketball tend to be in better shape and lose weight.
I saw an article the other day where a chubby kid (I think he was 140lb or more at the age of 12) said that "I can play basketball better now that I've lost 10 pounds with this thing". Um... I don't follow. If you're playing basketball, aren't you already active?
How about we just get rid of daylight savings entirely. It's even more idiotic than the idea of timezones. This isn't 1860.
In America, everything should be regulated. What are you - some sort of godlesss pink commie?
This isn't real. They just filed it, knowing it would stupidly be accepted, as a publicity stunt. Is it a coincidence that The Matrix Online just came out last week?
Duh.
The percentage of young voters turning out was no greater than the previous election. The fact of the matter is that they didn't energize the masses. Especially the young masses.
In fact, I was surprised at how many very liberal, very open-minded, very not conservative young people (my age and younger) were telling me they were voting for Bush. Granted, it was mostly over the whole terrorism thing - but I was just shocked.
I didn't vote for either of 'em, but they clearly weren't winning converts. People either hated or loved bush. Minds were already made up. There wasn't any persuading going on. And the results bear that out, unfortunately.
Anyway, there's no point trying to merge TV and the internet. That's ridiculous. Rather than dumping a hundred million bucks into the TV network, they should have focused on a quality internet based campaign/system. Then you're not dealing with fighting to get the youth off the computer and back to the television - you're catching them on the medium they're already on. There's enough broadband around that they could do the whole video/blogging/programming/radio/television thing all online through a well-designed hub of a website.
The TV angle just makes it kind of schlockey.
"Don't get it"??
Dude, I've been listening to talk radio since I was 8 years old. I have two solid decades of talk radio under my belt. I know good talk radio from bad. I have listened to "Air America" plenty and it is the most droll, uninteresting, unprofessional, ill-prepared drek ever. It's a decent idea, but poorly excecuted. You can't just take the cast of SNL and make a syndicated political talk station out of it.
And 53 stations is nothing if they're 53 stations with poor ratings.
I don't know a soul who regularly listens to their programming. It's downright painful at times. Even my hardcore liberal friends can't stand it. They'd rather listen to a professional right-winger who knows what being a radio personality is than some chunky comedienne whining about how unfair the world is like your typical hollywood looney.
I'd give my left nut for a station that aired an opposing side to the right-wing drek that's on the air (I don't agree with either side, but it would be nice to switch to for a bit of flavor now and then), with a reputable person instead of some smarmy LA git. Dump Al Franken and Janine and give me, say, James Carville. Come on.
I'm really tired of everyone thinking that just because they're famous, they can swing radio. They CAN'T. Radio is DIFFICULT. You have to be INTERESTING and CLEVER and ARTICULATE. People like O'Reilly and the above mentioned names don't belong within a mile of a radio broadcasting booth.
Anyway, the same network that is responsible for all of the whacko rightwingers is responsible for the leftwing "Air America". Yep. You got it. Clear Channel. Oooh. That's really showing them!
And just because it has okay numbers (nothing to crowe about in most of the country, including the very progressive west coast state I live in), doesn't mean it's good radio. If you're a hardcore lefty, what are you going to listen to? It's not that there's much else out there. You have your choice between many very talented conservatives who you may disagree with most or all of the time, or very unpolished highschool/junior college quality liberal broadcasters that you can enjoin for a round of daily navel-gazing.
That it can manage to eek a three-share at times just means people are desperate for a different voice. And since this is the only voice out there doing that, it's their only option. Stick a competing network up out there that shares the same views, but with more professional and qualified personalities and you will quickly see Air America circle the drain.
I have nothing in particular against liberals and democrats (certainly no more so than I have against the republicans and conservatives), but this whole thing is going to flop over like a shit-filled balloon within two years, just like Air America. This is NOT going to be some revolutionary thing.
Christ, they couldn't even get enough young people out to vote for the heinous George Bush last year. How are they going to yank them off the internet and onto some crappy dull cable station about current events, where Al Gore is deciding what bling is fly?
Bitching about having to contribute your improvements back to the public that provided you with the GPL'd code in the first place is kind of like bitching about having to pay taxes on your company's profits.
Right. So, as you've pointed out, only the characters who are of any importance to the storyline are famous hollywood names. Glad we got that clear. The extras and minor characters are still unknowns. Check.
Natalie Portman, Samuel Jackson, Ewan McGreggor... these aren't A-list people?! Since when? How much more big-name can you get short of Bruce Willis, Jack Nicholson and Julia Roberts?!
How is the above a troll, fanboys?