That's odd. The show does a really good job of showing the levels of power in these kinds of organizations and a hit on a boss isnt something that is done lightly. Of all the characters, I would assume Tony is one of the safest because of his influence and position. The occasional mob war happens, but its usually the lower-level guys who get killed, not the bosses.
No, what happened is that all the fanboys and fangirls wanted it to end with a big grisly bloody killing spree and Chase didnt let it happen. The suggestion here is that their lives go on but you dont get to watch them anymore. Plus not killing off the main Sopranos family opens the show up to movies.
The oranges, etc are red herrings. The show is full of red herrings. Not to mention that the show isnt from the POV of Tony, so going black doesnt mean the "camera" died.
>The HISTORY of it is a little academic, at this point (both literally and figuratively).
Duh, thats why they also linked to a poorly drawn comic! You know to flesh it out. Although, to be fair they should have also linked to an interpretive dance video explaining some of the more complex IP issues.
>So why would a parent buy an Xbox 360 to play games with their kids when the Wii exists?
Because life is full of compromises. Say you have a teen and a younger kid. Or a boy and a girl. Then parents need to know what system is the most diverse instead of locking in on whatever specialty marketing has decided.
Or they dont want to pay 250 for a wii right after they bought their kid a perfectly good DS last year for 150. In this market the Wii isnt competing with MS and Sony, but with the DS.
Or they think its gimmicky and silly.
Or they cant find the systems in stock except in 500 dollar "bundles."
Who knows, but there are lots of reasons why and suddenly crowing the Wii kind of the living room is being a little hasty.
I dont know who promised what to whom (MS,OEMs, idiots at memory companies) but there seemed to be an assumption early on that Vista needs 2gigs of RAM and that people will buy machines with 2 or 3 gigs of RAM. Maybe even standardize on 4gigs on mid level PCs. Err no. Contrary to all the 'vista is eating my ram' reports, it turns out it doesnt use much more than XP and surprise surprise consumers dont want to pay an extra 70-120 dollars for that 1gig of OEM RAM (with markup of course).
s/mime is great and simple. This is what geeks should be pushing onto their friends not gpg. Most mail clients support it. The worst of it is that you need to make a cert. That requires some hand holding, but it sure beats endless hand-holding with gpg or old pgp installs.
Or if you really want to reduce CO2, build more nuclear plants and switch to electric cars. Solar is great for places without infrastructure. For everything else there's nuclear.
Naww, earth is just every-day modern day earth. They'll find it. When they realize we spend most of our time on slashdot and obsessing about tv shows both the cylons and the humans will turn away in disgust.
Recruiters are clients of the companies they are trying to hire for. Ask them about the job, then get the company its for. Call that company's HR department and complain and tell them the recruiters they use are harassers. Ideally, if you expose these bottom feeders as being bottom feeders most rational people would drop them. What kind of candidates are they trying to get by using this method? Probably not very good ones.
These recruiters are incredible. I used a few a few years back and I STILL get a phone call 3 or 4x a month from a breathless desperate guy who really needs to fill soem shit 2-week temp contract. I also submitted a resume or two fairly recently only to find they went through a recruiter who told me that job doesnt exist anymore and offered me to interview for some temp job. Bait and switch?
The industry really needs to take a good look at recruiters in general. I cant see them being more efficient than in-house hiring.
>The people behind Fark are more insightful than most
Obviously, you've never read the fark forums.
I dont see how fark suddenly has this reputation for being media savvy. They were the biggest supporters of the Iraq war, linking to all these right wing op-ed pieces supporting and casting a blind eye to any naysayers (if not outright calling them cowards). While the rest of us were hearing the dissent and how painfully obvious there werent going to be any WMs foundD in Iraq from NPR, the farkers were going crazy over MSNBC and Foxnews and LGF and Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, when i think of media-savvy, I dont think fark.
Yeah, but Drew's appeal is that he's right-wing and "cyber" (whatever that means). Old dusty media and not so easy reading arent going to appeal to the crowd that wants a 200+ pages on "out of context celebrity moments," "boobies," and "squirrel nuts." Especially chomsky. There's no shortage of "liberal media" comments at fark. Those people wouldnt touch chomsky with a 100 foot pole.
I wouldnt mind reading about how much money he makes from posting all those rightwingnews and newsmax articles and how he feels about paid links. Or how site was probably the biggest supporter of the iraq conflict. Unlike slashdot or digg, it seems to be very agenda driven in regards to republican support from the top.
That's true and there's nothing wrong with it. People have different motivations for doing altruistic things. Some believe in karma or good works coming back to you tenfold. That's like investing money in a -great- bank. Some people believe in eternal reward. That's an amazing bank! Others say its the civilized way to be, fine, but if they do something its because they fear being uncivilized. Others just do it for the taxes. And I'm sure a bazillion other reasons (many of which are not greedy), but basic greed guides us more than we care to admit.
Heaven forbid after another virus/spyware clean up, geeks begin migrating their parents and friends to user accounts instead of letting them run as admin the whole time. I'd rather waste 30 minutes doing this and explaining how runas works then visiting again in a couple months.
>The beauty behind this idea is that no special infrastructure would be needed. Starch could be distributed by your local grocery store.
Yeah, someone isnt thinking energy alternatives through again. 1,000 people a day probably visit my grocery store. How are they going to pull 13 gallons of starch each? Where will by store put 13,000 gallons a day. In the cereal aisle?
You will need a gas station like place to move this much product.
Secondly, where is this stuff coming from? etc etc etc
Why would i want this? This push to videofy the web isn't such a great idea. One of the nice parts of google news (or yahoo news or whomever) is that I can get various stories in a decent format and read the day's news in a few minutes. In video a few minutes is barely the intro. And the sensationism that usually goes with televised news. and the 3 minute weather report. I dont need a 3-minute weather report. I just put my zipcode into weather.com. Not to mention, like a lot of people, I cant even watch streaming video at work.
Seems like just a giant waste of bandwidth. I hope the web doesnt degenerate into just an expensive way to watch TV.
I cant imagine how a 1/3rd size "guitar" with no strings and no frets can help anyone. Thats like saying a super-soaker helps soldiers shoot more accurately. Two very different beasts here. The basis of learning guitar (in the beginning) has a lot more to do with holding down chord "shapes" well, listening for muted strings, and changing between chords with your left hand. GH does none of this, nor should it.
Real guitar students should spend that 90 dollars on a decent teacher who can help them with the fundamentals, which are difficult to get from just a book or website. Sounds like your friend could really benefit from a weekly session with a teacher.
>Web servers are intended for the dissemination of information to third parties.
No. Its a service running on a cmputer. What its intended for makes no real difference. You cant hack my intranet and say "Well, its a webserver."
Considering the coffee shop did not complain and the police didnt even know if a crim was commited, it seems to me that consent is not a big deal and would be pretty safe to assume a big sign that says 'free wifi' is kinda a form of consent.
I did that too! They actually pay you to host it. Weird. But I'm more surprised over the fact that there are suddenly a lot of people interested in my topic and are coming up with the same conclusions.
Naww, they have a case. In fact a couple enterprising lawyers could make a few billion dollars just by visiting the macbook page alone. I mean look at these ridiculous claims:
1. "New Lovable SPeed." I only love chocolate and backrubs, how dare the tell me I may love the speed of this new laptop. Lawsuit!
2. "MacBook supports up to 2GB of memory and plenty of storage." What?!?! Surely they mean 2048 megabytes of ram. How dare they not be specific. And who says what "plenty" really means. Lawsuit!
3. "If there's a wireless hot spot nearby, you can get online." Not true. There are many wireless networks I cant get on. Damn encryption. lawsuit!!
etc etc. Unfortunately, there is precendent with defining colors as being per pixel, but that doesnt mean its right. False advertising should take context, audience, and motive into account, but it wont and these guys are probably going to be millionares in a few months.
RIght now it looks like blu-ray is a bit more popular with the "ive got more money than god" crowd. We're not seeing cheap blue-ray players yet. HD players are cheaper, almost half the price, but still too expensive for everyday people. The first player to sell for 150 or so will probably win. I wouldnt count HD-DVD out yet. Not to mention there's a lot of love lost with Sony in various industries. This may hurt them in the long run.
Things look at lot like the xbox360 vs ps3 war going on right now. One side had a cheaper player while the other has a more expensive but more powerful device. If walmart ends up selling these things cheaply along with HDTVs then no one will care about the technical differences in the format and just go with whats more affordable. The same way people bought VHS instead of Beta.
If this happened today Lincoln would have been prescribed prozac at 15, lightened up, and become a full-time circus clown. Mary Todd, would just be called Todd after the gender-reassignment and Booth would have made it in Hollywood and become another eccentric scientologist and could take his aggression out of people who leave the church. Happy Endings for all!
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First entry:
mood: sad music: something depressing
Subject: haterz
peeps say i cost too much, like wtf i only cost like 100 more than xbox (boo!) and I come with a
bluray playuer!!!@!#! suckit haterz!! ('-'*)
--sony
wondering if he's going to get shot at any time.
That's odd. The show does a really good job of showing the levels of power in these kinds of organizations and a hit on a boss isnt something that is done lightly. Of all the characters, I would assume Tony is one of the safest because of his influence and position. The occasional mob war happens, but its usually the lower-level guys who get killed, not the bosses.
No, what happened is that all the fanboys and fangirls wanted it to end with a big grisly bloody killing spree and Chase didnt let it happen. The suggestion here is that their lives go on but you dont get to watch them anymore. Plus not killing off the main Sopranos family opens the show up to movies.
The oranges, etc are red herrings. The show is full of red herrings. Not to mention that the show isnt from the POV of Tony, so going black doesnt mean the "camera" died.
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>The HISTORY of it is a little academic, at this point (both literally and figuratively).
Duh, thats why they also linked to a poorly drawn comic! You know to flesh it out. Although, to be fair they should have also linked to an interpretive dance video explaining some of the more complex IP issues.
>So why would a parent buy an Xbox 360 to play games with their kids when the Wii exists?
Because life is full of compromises. Say you have a teen and a younger kid. Or a boy and a girl. Then parents need to know what system is the most diverse instead of locking in on whatever specialty marketing has decided.
Or they dont want to pay 250 for a wii right after they bought their kid a perfectly good DS last year for 150. In this market the Wii isnt competing with MS and Sony, but with the DS.
Or they think its gimmicky and silly.
Or they cant find the systems in stock except in 500 dollar "bundles."
Who knows, but there are lots of reasons why and suddenly crowing the Wii kind of the living room is being a little hasty.
I dont know who promised what to whom (MS,OEMs, idiots at memory companies) but there seemed to be an assumption early on that Vista needs 2gigs of RAM and that people will buy machines with 2 or 3 gigs of RAM. Maybe even standardize on 4gigs on mid level PCs. Err no. Contrary to all the 'vista is eating my ram' reports, it turns out it doesnt use much more than XP and surprise surprise consumers dont want to pay an extra 70-120 dollars for that 1gig of OEM RAM (with markup of course).
This is just stupid simple minded greed.
s/mime is great and simple. This is what geeks should be pushing onto their friends not gpg. Most mail clients support it. The worst of it is that you need to make a cert. That requires some hand holding, but it sure beats endless hand-holding with gpg or old pgp installs.
Or if you really want to reduce CO2, build more nuclear plants and switch to electric cars. Solar is great for places without infrastructure. For everything else there's nuclear.
Naww, earth is just every-day modern day earth. They'll find it. When they realize we spend most of our time on slashdot and obsessing about tv shows both the cylons and the humans will turn away in disgust.
Recruiters are clients of the companies they are trying to hire for. Ask them about the job, then get the company its for. Call that company's HR department and complain and tell them the recruiters they use are harassers. Ideally, if you expose these bottom feeders as being bottom feeders most rational people would drop them. What kind of candidates are they trying to get by using this method? Probably not very good ones.
These recruiters are incredible. I used a few a few years back and I STILL get a phone call 3 or 4x a month from a breathless desperate guy who really needs to fill soem shit 2-week temp contract. I also submitted a resume or two fairly recently only to find they went through a recruiter who told me that job doesnt exist anymore and offered me to interview for some temp job. Bait and switch?
The industry really needs to take a good look at recruiters in general. I cant see them being more efficient than in-house hiring.
>The people behind Fark are more insightful than most
Obviously, you've never read the fark forums.
I dont see how fark suddenly has this reputation for being media savvy. They were the biggest supporters of the Iraq war, linking to all these right wing op-ed pieces supporting and casting a blind eye to any naysayers (if not outright calling them cowards). While the rest of us were hearing the dissent and how painfully obvious there werent going to be any WMs foundD in Iraq from NPR, the farkers were going crazy over MSNBC and Foxnews and LGF and Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, when i think of media-savvy, I dont think fark.
Yeah, but Drew's appeal is that he's right-wing and "cyber" (whatever that means). Old dusty media and not so easy reading arent going to appeal to the crowd that wants a 200+ pages on "out of context celebrity moments," "boobies," and "squirrel nuts." Especially chomsky. There's no shortage of "liberal media" comments at fark. Those people wouldnt touch chomsky with a 100 foot pole.
I wouldnt mind reading about how much money he makes from posting all those rightwingnews and newsmax articles and how he feels about paid links. Or how site was probably the biggest supporter of the iraq conflict. Unlike slashdot or digg, it seems to be very agenda driven in regards to republican support from the top.
>Ergo, everyone is 100% selfish.
That's true and there's nothing wrong with it. People have different motivations for doing altruistic things. Some believe in karma or good works coming back to you tenfold. That's like investing money in a -great- bank. Some people believe in eternal reward. That's an amazing bank! Others say its the civilized way to be, fine, but if they do something its because they fear being uncivilized. Others just do it for the taxes. And I'm sure a bazillion other reasons (many of which are not greedy), but basic greed guides us more than we care to admit.
Heaven forbid after another virus/spyware clean up, geeks begin migrating their parents and friends to user accounts instead of letting them run as admin the whole time. I'd rather waste 30 minutes doing this and explaining how runas works then visiting again in a couple months.
So? Who do you think will click on ads for cell phone range extender stickers, nascar, and creationist museums?
>The beauty behind this idea is that no special infrastructure would be needed. Starch could be distributed by your local grocery store.
Yeah, someone isnt thinking energy alternatives through again. 1,000 people a day probably visit my grocery store. How are they going to pull 13 gallons of starch each? Where will by store put 13,000 gallons a day. In the cereal aisle?
You will need a gas station like place to move this much product.
Secondly, where is this stuff coming from? etc etc etc
Why would i want this? This push to videofy the web isn't such a great idea. One of the nice parts of google news (or yahoo news or whomever) is that I can get various stories in a decent format and read the day's news in a few minutes. In video a few minutes is barely the intro. And the sensationism that usually goes with televised news. and the 3 minute weather report. I dont need a 3-minute weather report. I just put my zipcode into weather.com. Not to mention, like a lot of people, I cant even watch streaming video at work.
Seems like just a giant waste of bandwidth. I hope the web doesnt degenerate into just an expensive way to watch TV.
I would think two reasons:
1. The new hardware may not have mature and stable linux drivers yet.
2. The linux push is starting with low-end cheap equipment (ignoring the xps for a moment). 599 for a laptop with linux is a pretty smart move.
I cant imagine how a 1/3rd size "guitar" with no strings and no frets can help anyone. Thats like saying a super-soaker helps soldiers shoot more accurately. Two very different beasts here. The basis of learning guitar (in the beginning) has a lot more to do with holding down chord "shapes" well, listening for muted strings, and changing between chords with your left hand. GH does none of this, nor should it.
Real guitar students should spend that 90 dollars on a decent teacher who can help them with the fundamentals, which are difficult to get from just a book or website. Sounds like your friend could really benefit from a weekly session with a teacher.
>Web servers are intended for the dissemination of information to third parties.
No. Its a service running on a cmputer. What its intended for makes no real difference. You cant hack my intranet and say "Well, its a webserver."
Considering the coffee shop did not complain and the police didnt even know if a crim was commited, it seems to me that consent is not a big deal and would be pretty safe to assume a big sign that says 'free wifi' is kinda a form of consent.
He uploaded it to a essay writing service...
I did that too! They actually pay you to host it. Weird. But I'm more surprised over the fact that there are suddenly a lot of people interested in my topic and are coming up with the same conclusions.
Naww, they have a case. In fact a couple enterprising lawyers could make a few billion dollars just by visiting the macbook page alone. I mean look at these ridiculous claims:
1. "New Lovable SPeed." I only love chocolate and backrubs, how dare the tell me I may love the speed of this new laptop. Lawsuit!
2. "MacBook supports up to 2GB of memory and plenty of storage." What?!?! Surely they mean 2048 megabytes of ram. How dare they not be specific. And who says what "plenty" really means. Lawsuit!
3. "If there's a wireless hot spot nearby, you can get online." Not true. There are many wireless networks I cant get on. Damn encryption. lawsuit!!
etc etc. Unfortunately, there is precendent with defining colors as being per pixel, but that doesnt mean its right. False advertising should take context, audience, and motive into account, but it wont and these guys are probably going to be millionares in a few months.
RIght now it looks like blu-ray is a bit more popular with the "ive got more money than god" crowd. We're not seeing cheap blue-ray players yet. HD players are cheaper, almost half the price, but still too expensive for everyday people. The first player to sell for 150 or so will probably win. I wouldnt count HD-DVD out yet. Not to mention there's a lot of love lost with Sony in various industries. This may hurt them in the long run.
Things look at lot like the xbox360 vs ps3 war going on right now. One side had a cheaper player while the other has a more expensive but more powerful device. If walmart ends up selling these things cheaply along with HDTVs then no one will care about the technical differences in the format and just go with whats more affordable. The same way people bought VHS instead of Beta.
If this happened today Lincoln would have been prescribed prozac at 15, lightened up, and become a full-time circus clown. Mary Todd, would just be called Todd after the gender-reassignment and Booth would have made it in Hollywood and become another eccentric scientologist and could take his aggression out of people who leave the church. Happy Endings for all!