I'm interested to hear how it works. I hope it looks as good as iChat to iChat, because that's friggin awesome encoding and smoothness. Hope AIM recognized that and integrated the goodness:-)
I don't agree at all with outsourcing IT to India. But can anyone cite examples that show beyond a shadow of a doubt that quality is lost? At indian callcenters, can they not speak english well and frustrate customers? Is their coding sloppy?
If so, I do think this is just a "fad" that will die out once people start complaining on a huge level.
I just hope it doesn't turn around like the car industry did, now american cars are (arguably) worse than chaper foreign cars, unlike 2 decades ago.
I dunno where I got the idea of the set being in LA, that's not said anywhere in the article and I've never heard it before (Ah, my mind is sludge this early in the morniing)...
Taking clues from the interview and making a few logical jumps leaves me with one conclusion:
Ellen Feiss lives in (or very near) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Why this conclusion? Well, in the article it's clear she was on the set of the Switchers campaign because she is friends with Hamilton Morris, son of the director Errol Morris. Errol Morris and his family (including his son) live in Cambridge.
As far as the set being in LA... it's possible the location was changed in the article to protect the innocent, but it's also possible that Apple flew Errol, Hamilton, and Ellen to the set.
Another clue is that the article was done by Brown University, which is in Providence... very close to Cambridge so it's likely the person that knew Ellen at the college was from Massachusetts.
So unless anyone can contradict me (in a non-flaming manner thanks), I'll stick with my assesment that Ellen Feiss is in Cambridge!
That makes TWO, count 'em TWO hot geek icons living there, since Natalie Portman has an apartment there for here studies at Harvard (She's a senior this year, right? I hope she decides t stay)
From Taco's journal, dated today: "It was a fun time, and we're both pleased as could be over how things turned out. Well, except for the fact that the Slashdot Server seems to be having some sort of hiccup over the thousand+ comments in that story. Nothing like a wedding proposal and comment avalanche to reveal a performance bug! "
Only/. master and ubergeek Taco would add that last sentence, and even be WORRYING about slashdot at a time like this;)
I wonder if Taco got to see it. I went to the Revere Showcase Cinemas in Revere, Mass, and they DIDN'T PLAY IT!!
I was quite angry, because as well as going to see Monsters Inc, I was looking forward to the 45 seconds of joy at the beginning of the film. I talked to the most horrible and bitchy manager at the end of the show, who gave me a spiel about how it "didn't arrive yet"... which is BS, because (correct me if I'm wrong) the trailer was attached to the Monsters Inc prints, and theaters were instructed that if they cut it out they would be heavilly fined and possibly not allowed to show Episode II.
Can anyone add to this with similar experiences, or ways to report this theater, or if I am totally wrong and just bitter, and there was some horrible mishap that actually removed the teaser from the print?
Thanks,
Luke (Yeah, that's my real name... any jokes that I haven't heard in my lifetime are welcome)
More specifically it's in Cambridge, right near Technology Square. It seems to be in some boiler-making company's building, very odd.
Panasonic was there with Nintendo, and provided about 15 HDTVs. They looked amazing, and the following games were there:
Madden 2002
Luigi's Mansion
Star Wars game (The name escapes me at the moment)
Monkeyball
Super Smash Bros Melee
WaveRacer
NBA game (dunno the name of this either)
Pikmin
There were also 2 small booths with larger HDTVs and surround sound, to enhance the experience. The two games on display in those were Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion.
I would have taken pictures, but my camera was confiscated at the door:)
My favorite game is a tie - Super Smash Bros Melee and Pikmin both rocked my world. The graphics on all the games were amazing - Madden 2002 looked like an actual TV broadcast of an NFL game (But there were 2 guys hogging it the entire time, playing a full game. The bastards.:P)
Loud music, even a coulple "Booth Babes", and loads of free junk (Nintendo Power, foam cubes, tattoos, contests to enter...)
It was pretty cool, but I wish they had had SSX there, or some more killer multiplayer games. I urge anyone that can to check it out, it's at 275 Third Street, in Cambridge. That's right near the Kendall Square stop on the T, and sandwiched in between MIT and Harvard (as is everything in that city:P)
Any questions, just reply, I'll be keeping an eye out!
I own suckssucks.com. I thought it was going to be a cash-cow once Dan Parisi bought it for me for $250,000 like microsoftsucks.com, but I guess not. Makes me cry:(
take him to disney world, and knock some sense into his over-bearing vicariously living parents. Oh, buy him lots of candy and play baseball with him too:)
Come on guys, what's with all the grammar and spelling mistakes lately? It's kind of annoying, it doesn't really portray slashdot as a professional news site, which it is, whether you like it or not. I specifically remember Andover saying "We love the site, except the occasional spelling and grammar mistakes" when they bought you guys. I may be a nit-picker, but I do feel it's important:)
Adobe would have practically no grounds to walk on if MacNN hadn't (in its usual fashion) plagiarized. It's not just that Photoshop 6 is pre-release... MacNN stole text from the internal docs line for line without crediting it. Big ol' blocks of text, too, paragraphs at a time, they were really moronic.
It's a fun little command, I bet they'll make ample use of it and either ban any IP that's not in Canada, or restrict it to just Canadian registered IPs. That's kinda tricky, though. Knowing iCraveTV from the past, though, they'll just put in a half-assed security effort, as they believe everyone should be allowed to access it, like before, only having to input a canadian area code. It was funny looking on all these websites that mentioned the site, they all said "To access this site, you must live in Canada and input a Canadian area code... such as 612, 451...", It was great;)
...but what makes you think schoolkids would want to play on old old computers? Personally I avoid the old computer lab in my school with Apple IIs, and head straight for the 300 Mhz G3 lab. I mean, most kids have fast computers at home now, anyway, in our techno-centric country. Why would they want to use old, slow machines? And don't give me this guff about 486s in Beowulf clusters, a school that couldn't pay for new computers couldn't pay the electricity bill for a large 486 cluster!:)
I work for the Asian Broadcasting Union, a coalition of many asian news broadcasters. One included is CCTV, which is the major Chinese broadcaster in China (it also operates under the government). All of a sudden, last week, the Chinese government banned the religious sect of Falun Gong, without much of a reason at all. Ever since then, this whole week, I have seen transmissions of propaganda items depicting ex-Falun Gong members 'giving up their beliefs for the good of China'. This just shows that when the government of China wants something gone, they do their best to have it _Gone_. Also, I doubt this has anything to do with overzealous free-tibet script kiddies, because it's not big news, and from the script kiddies I know, they can't even spell Falun Gong;)
Slashdot Mirror
For those who are curious:
(Quicktime)
The Day After Tomorrow (Trailer)
I think they mean, kazaa exec's parent's basements. :-)
I'm interested to hear how it works. I hope it looks as good as iChat to iChat, because that's friggin awesome encoding and smoothness. Hope AIM recognized that and integrated the goodness :-)
So yeah, post experiences going iChat to PC AIM.
I don't agree at all with outsourcing IT to India. But can anyone cite examples that show beyond a shadow of a doubt that quality is lost? At indian callcenters, can they not speak english well and frustrate customers? Is their coding sloppy?
If so, I do think this is just a "fad" that will die out once people start complaining on a huge level.
I just hope it doesn't turn around like the car industry did, now american cars are (arguably) worse than chaper foreign cars, unlike 2 decades ago.
Oh man, those are still in fashion! Just look, you can be a full-fledged MUSICIAN with these things!
symphony for dot matrix printers
haha so wait, this is like the organic version of bittorrent?
send 10000 of these things to take a tiny piece of something and then they can rebuild it! mwahaha!
bring one.... one cow! go swarmbots!
maybe my ideas should be more gregarious, but eh. I'm selfish.
Hey, that icon slashdot uses for WiFi stories certainly looks familiar...
I dunno where I got the idea of the set being in LA, that's not said anywhere in the article and I've never heard it before (Ah, my mind is sludge this early in the morniing)...
:)
So yeah! In or around Cambridge!
Taking clues from the interview and making a few logical jumps leaves me with one conclusion:
;)
Ellen Feiss lives in (or very near) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Why this conclusion? Well, in the article it's clear she was on the set of the Switchers campaign because she is friends with Hamilton Morris, son of the director Errol Morris. Errol Morris and his family (including his son) live in Cambridge.
As far as the set being in LA... it's possible the location was changed in the article to protect the innocent, but it's also possible that Apple flew Errol, Hamilton, and Ellen to the set.
Another clue is that the article was done by Brown University, which is in Providence... very close to Cambridge so it's likely the person that knew Ellen at the college was from Massachusetts.
So unless anyone can contradict me (in a non-flaming manner thanks), I'll stick with my assesment that Ellen Feiss is in Cambridge!
That makes TWO, count 'em TWO hot geek icons living there, since Natalie Portman has an apartment there for here studies at Harvard (She's a senior this year, right? I hope she decides t stay)
Score 2 for the 'bridge! Go Mass!
-Pzy
...Propose on the internet... virtual diamonds are oh-so cheap!
From Taco's journal, dated today: "It was a fun time, and we're both pleased as could be over how things turned out. Well, except for the fact that the Slashdot Server seems to be having some sort of hiccup over the thousand+ comments in that story. Nothing like a wedding proposal and comment avalanche to reveal a performance bug! "
/. master and ubergeek Taco would add that last sentence, and even be WORRYING about slashdot at a time like this ;)
Only
I wonder if Taco got to see it. I went to the Revere Showcase Cinemas in Revere, Mass, and they DIDN'T PLAY IT!!
I was quite angry, because as well as going to see Monsters Inc, I was looking forward to the 45 seconds of joy at the beginning of the film. I talked to the most horrible and bitchy manager at the end of the show, who gave me a spiel about how it "didn't arrive yet"... which is BS, because (correct me if I'm wrong) the trailer was attached to the Monsters Inc prints, and theaters were instructed that if they cut it out they would be heavilly fined and possibly not allowed to show Episode II.
Can anyone add to this with similar experiences, or ways to report this theater, or if I am totally wrong and just bitter, and there was some horrible mishap that actually removed the teaser from the print?
Thanks,
Luke (Yeah, that's my real name... any jokes that I haven't heard in my lifetime are welcome)
More specifically it's in Cambridge, right near Technology Square. It seems to be in some boiler-making company's building, very odd.
:)
:P)
:P)
Panasonic was there with Nintendo, and provided about 15 HDTVs. They looked amazing, and the following games were there:
Madden 2002
Luigi's Mansion
Star Wars game (The name escapes me at the moment)
Monkeyball
Super Smash Bros Melee
WaveRacer
NBA game (dunno the name of this either)
Pikmin
There were also 2 small booths with larger HDTVs and surround sound, to enhance the experience. The two games on display in those were Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion.
I would have taken pictures, but my camera was confiscated at the door
My favorite game is a tie - Super Smash Bros Melee and Pikmin both rocked my world. The graphics on all the games were amazing - Madden 2002 looked like an actual TV broadcast of an NFL game (But there were 2 guys hogging it the entire time, playing a full game. The bastards.
Loud music, even a coulple "Booth Babes", and loads of free junk (Nintendo Power, foam cubes, tattoos, contests to enter...)
It was pretty cool, but I wish they had had SSX there, or some more killer multiplayer games. I urge anyone that can to check it out, it's at 275 Third Street, in Cambridge. That's right near the Kendall Square stop on the T, and sandwiched in between MIT and Harvard (as is everything in that city
Any questions, just reply, I'll be keeping an eye out!
-Luke
I own suckssucks.com. I thought it was going to be a cash-cow once Dan Parisi bought it for me for $250,000 like microsoftsucks.com, but I guess not. Makes me cry :(
:D
SucksSucks for sale! $8 OBO!
"Both X and my DVD drive both thank the kernel hackers."
:)
I guess he really loves those kernel hackers...
--
Boy I wish phones were based on G3 technology. The actual chip/technology is called 3G. :)
take him to disney world, and knock some sense into his over-bearing vicariously living parents. Oh, buy him lots of candy and play baseball with him too :)
-Pzy
Connectix makes Virtual Game Station, and Bleem is made by, well, Bleem! Check your facts, guys :)
isn't that "constitutional"? I like that word though, there goes the internet community making up words again, lol.
Come on guys, what's with all the grammar and spelling mistakes lately? It's kind of annoying, it doesn't really portray slashdot as a professional news site, which it is, whether you like it or not. I specifically remember Andover saying "We love the site, except the occasional spelling and grammar mistakes" when they bought you guys. I may be a nit-picker, but I do feel it's important :)
Adobe would have practically no grounds to walk on if MacNN hadn't (in its usual fashion) plagiarized. It's not just that Photoshop 6 is pre-release... MacNN stole text from the internal docs line for line without crediting it. Big ol' blocks of text, too, paragraphs at a time, they were really moronic.
It's a fun little command, I bet they'll make ample use of it and either ban any IP that's not in Canada, or restrict it to just Canadian registered IPs. That's kinda tricky, though. Knowing iCraveTV from the past, though, they'll just put in a half-assed security effort, as they believe everyone should be allowed to access it, like before, only having to input a canadian area code. It was funny looking on all these websites that mentioned the site, they all said "To access this site, you must live in Canada and input a Canadian area code... such as 612, 451...", It was great ;)
...but what makes you think schoolkids would want to play on old old computers? Personally I avoid the old computer lab in my school with Apple IIs, and head straight for the 300 Mhz G3 lab. I mean, most kids have fast computers at home now, anyway, in our techno-centric country. Why would they want to use old, slow machines? And don't give me this guff about 486s in Beowulf clusters, a school that couldn't pay for new computers couldn't pay the electricity bill for a large 486 cluster! :)
-Pzykotic
I work for the Asian Broadcasting Union, a coalition of many asian news broadcasters. One included is CCTV, which is the major Chinese broadcaster in China (it also operates under the government). All of a sudden, last week, the Chinese government banned the religious sect of Falun Gong, without much of a reason at all. Ever since then, this whole week, I have seen transmissions of propaganda items depicting ex-Falun Gong members 'giving up their beliefs for the good of China'. This just shows that when the government of China wants something gone, they do their best to have it _Gone_. Also, I doubt this has anything to do with overzealous free-tibet script kiddies, because it's not big news, and from the script kiddies I know, they can't even spell Falun Gong ;)
That is all.