I have a friend who was born in Iran. He has lived in the US (Chicago specifically) most of his life. We currently live in Los Angeles, but he is taking a vacation back to Chicago to visit his friends.
This guy has been spending so much time making sure nothing goes wrong, that he doesn't get arrested, etc. He is even shipping his stuff via FedEx to Chicago just so he has less to worry about at the Airport.
My friend is one of the chillest people I know. How much do you wanna bet he'll still get searched?
...but Blizzard are hurting the industry, by abusing the DMCA to shut down open-source competitors for the "crime" of being compatible with their software.
This is a question I've had for some time. Can anyone provide an answer? (Perhaps with some links for reference?)
I know that Blizzard is now owned by Vivendi. Vivendi is a pretty evil company. Blizzard I feel is not so evil. (This opinion my be influenced by the many hours of entertainment Blizzard has provided me.)
Is Blizzard or Vivendi the source of evil??? I've been wondering for a while...
I must admit, that I twice ripped off stores like this when I was a child. Like the post above, I have returned an old video card in the place of a new one.
I also used to rent Super Nintendo games like Lufia or Secret of Mana. I would then go home and find that unlicensed "Super-Bible-Quiz" game my mother found at who-knows-where. A small screwdriver would open the cartridge cases, and after a quick movement of the hands, my "Super-Bible-Quiz" really played a spiffy-nifty game instead. And the next poor chap to rent Secret of Mana got quizzed on his Biblical knowledge instead (though only the kid-friendly parts).
The Xbox 360 is set to be launched for $299.99. Additionally, games are set to be $59.99 each. Ouch.
This is standard. The PS2 was this price when it was released. PS2 games were about the same amount as well. Prices have gone down over a few years, yet I don't expect new generations of consoles to be cheaper than the PS2 was at launch.
As an aside, I remember because I camped out in front of a Walmart with a few friends at the PS2 launch. We brought a couch, TV, DVD Player, and the first PlayStation. We then unplugged a soda machine and hooked everything up and sat back and played video games all night. It was pretty cool bringing some fun to the fellow gamers around us while we waited 11 hours to purchase a PS2.
In the end though, I think they were pissed because my friends and I grabbed 3 of the 5 available PlayStations.
When I was younger, my mother used to harp on me about being on the computer, playing video games all the time, etc... My best friend (his name was Trinidad) was the oldest son in a hispanic, low-income family with 5 children. He also liked to play video games.
My mother used to harp on Trini's mother saying that Trini plays too many video games, they're too violent, or it's not good for him. Trini's mother didn't care. Trini's mom always said it's better that he stays home with the family (even if it is playing video games) than being out on the streets, with little money and lots of time, doing who knows what...
She understood that a bored teen with nothing to do will usually find something hoodlum-ish to do. BTW, while Trini played violent video games all day (and still does), he's probably the nicest, most courteous person I know.
I concur. Instead of saying, "Of course this organization is saying negative things about Linux!" we should really see what their complaints are and try to disprove them. EDS is letting us know what to work on, people! We should aim to get Linux to the point, where people can't even try to complain about it.
Linux should be KNOWN for its security. (It already is compared to windows, but we should go for BSD levels of security.) Linux should be KNOWN for how awesomely it scales. We should make Linux's reputation so great, that people will either not think anything about forks, or start to appreciate the process.
This is what we should strive for:
Corporate Shill: Linux doesn't scale well.
Rest of the Industry: HA! Linux scales way better and way easier than anything else!
Being "Good Enough" is not enough when you're not number 1. You MUST be so much better than number 1, that people will ask why in their right mind are they using number 1 in the first place?
You b/w film purists. If all you can see is a threat to your bizarre, luddite idea of what film should be, you need to get your heads checked, or at least you need to listen to your inner geek.
I see NOTHING in the original post that mentions black & white films. It might be implied, but even then I don't see any mention about how black & white is better than color, or how colorizing an old film is bastardizing that work. Some people like to see films in their original form. ("Han Solo shot first" anyone?) Others might rather see it in color. Personally, I can't really imagine Dr. Strangelove in color. It doesn't mean I like to see all films in black & white, and it doesn't mean I will get upset at someone for wanting to colorize it.
Parent post is just an attack upon others and brings nothing to this discussion. "...you need to get your heads checked." Please.
How would you explain this to your cell phone provider?
Me: I just got a face transplant, and my phone won't let me make any phone calls because it doesn't recognize my face
Verizon Store Guy: ???
Me: Yeah, I got a, lets see, Cow...boy...Neal...face(?) at a discount. It was pretty much free! Actually, now that I think about it, why would they pay for the operation as well...?
I also wonder, does the "Can you hear me now?" guy automatically get authorized to make calls on all Verizon phones?
Do you guys in NY and LA have the same cognitive dissonance when watching your towns subbing for other parts of the world?
Okay, I live in Valencia, California. North part of Los Angeles County, and the nice area means a lot of filming goes on here. (Girl Next Door, Pleasantville, a lot of Power Rangers stuff, many shots of streets of modern suberbia are taken here. Also, the Microsoft Call Center I work at is here too...)
Anyway, when that Vin Diesel movie, "A Man Apart", was released, I was watching it at the local movie theater at the local mall in Valencia, California. Apparently, Vin Deisel converted from Drug Dealer to Law Enforcement, and is meeting with an upscale drug dealer at his nice suburbian house.
As Vin Deisel drives up to the house, the subtitles say: Valencia, California, USA
Everyone in the theater starts to break out in laughter.
So it's really only good if you want to look for bugs in PIX that you can exploit, and since this is being sold by a group of hackers, you can bet that they've already looked for everything possibly exploitable.
Hell, I would expect them to add some backdoors to the code!
As for the NIC, you can try getting one of those USB-2-Ethernet dongles and get it on a decent internet connection that way. It'd be a nice box to SSH into whenever I'm bored and not at home.
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I have a friend who was born in Iran. He has lived in the US (Chicago specifically) most of his life. We currently live in Los Angeles, but he is taking a vacation back to Chicago to visit his friends.
This guy has been spending so much time making sure nothing goes wrong, that he doesn't get arrested, etc. He is even shipping his stuff via FedEx to Chicago just so he has less to worry about at the Airport.
My friend is one of the chillest people I know. How much do you wanna bet he'll still get searched?
Sidekick: (under his breath) "Ass..."
Chair: *Hits Sidekick in the head.*
Okay, I'm just looking for help here, so hopefully I don't get flamed. I run both WinXP and SuSE at home, so I'm not a Microsoft fanboy.
This is the question I'm looking to answer:
Can I use Bart PE to carry around a LiveDVD that contains both WinXP and Visual Studio .NET? If not, is there any other way I can do this?
This is a question I've had for some time. Can anyone provide an answer? (Perhaps with some links for reference?)
I know that Blizzard is now owned by Vivendi. Vivendi is a pretty evil company. Blizzard I feel is not so evil. (This opinion my be influenced by the many hours of entertainment Blizzard has provided me.)
Is Blizzard or Vivendi the source of evil??? I've been wondering for a while...
Oh, I get it. So the next FireFox release is "5". Then comes "5.1" which will really be FireFox 1!
Or is that FireFox 51? 44 versions better than IE!
Shit! I'm confused again...
I must admit, that I twice ripped off stores like this when I was a child. Like the post above, I have returned an old video card in the place of a new one.
I also used to rent Super Nintendo games like Lufia or Secret of Mana. I would then go home and find that unlicensed "Super-Bible-Quiz" game my mother found at who-knows-where. A small screwdriver would open the cartridge cases, and after a quick movement of the hands, my "Super-Bible-Quiz" really played a spiffy-nifty game instead. And the next poor chap to rent Secret of Mana got quizzed on his Biblical knowledge instead (though only the kid-friendly parts).
S Korea unveils first dog clone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4742453. stm
Let's make cloned puppy pie!!!
I'm part Korean, and my girlfriend sent the above email to me this morning. I swear!!!
This is standard. The PS2 was this price when it was released. PS2 games were about the same amount as well. Prices have gone down over a few years, yet I don't expect new generations of consoles to be cheaper than the PS2 was at launch.
As an aside, I remember because I camped out in front of a Walmart with a few friends at the PS2 launch. We brought a couch, TV, DVD Player, and the first PlayStation. We then unplugged a soda machine and hooked everything up and sat back and played video games all night. It was pretty cool bringing some fun to the fellow gamers around us while we waited 11 hours to purchase a PS2.
In the end though, I think they were pissed because my friends and I grabbed 3 of the 5 available PlayStations.
Oh yeah, go Nintendo! =p
When I was younger, my mother used to harp on me about being on the computer, playing video games all the time, etc... My best friend (his name was Trinidad) was the oldest son in a hispanic, low-income family with 5 children. He also liked to play video games.
My mother used to harp on Trini's mother saying that Trini plays too many video games, they're too violent, or it's not good for him. Trini's mother didn't care. Trini's mom always said it's better that he stays home with the family (even if it is playing video games) than being out on the streets, with little money and lots of time, doing who knows what...
She understood that a bored teen with nothing to do will usually find something hoodlum-ish to do. BTW, while Trini played violent video games all day (and still does), he's probably the nicest, most courteous person I know.
Yes. For the good of the Internet, everyone in America should nix DSL and cable and go back to POTS.
I saw this on news.google.com and just submitted a story to /. about it! But by the time I submitted it, the story was already on the front page!
Ah well, this just means you'll see this story again in a short while. Blame me! Blame me for the dupe!!! It's not Taco I swear!
Government To Fix Identity Theft?
Ha! Ha ha!
...
Oh! Ummm, if you're looking for the answer, it's no.
Prophet?
Ah, that's better. My dosage of Google news. Now I can start my day!
A streaming version of the video can be found here: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/superbowl05/landing. asp
This streaming video was going quite a bit faster than the Network Mirror link. (1 hour download compared to a couple of minutes.)
Check out this nugget from the article
United Virtualities's PIE helps combat this consumer behavior by leveraging a feature in Flash MX called local shared objects.
"combat this customer behavior"? Is this how companies are viewing the general public?
With $2 billion in his pocket, maybe he can afford now to pay his OWN butler.
AskJeeves'Butler.com?
AskJeeves'Secretary.com?
Schedule AnAppointmentWithJeeves.com?
HaveYourSecretaryCallJeeves'SecretaryAndThey'llD oLunch.com?
I concur. Instead of saying, "Of course this organization is saying negative things about Linux!" we should really see what their complaints are and try to disprove them. EDS is letting us know what to work on, people! We should aim to get Linux to the point, where people can't even try to complain about it.
Linux should be KNOWN for its security. (It already is compared to windows, but we should go for BSD levels of security.) Linux should be KNOWN for how awesomely it scales. We should make Linux's reputation so great, that people will either not think anything about forks, or start to appreciate the process.
This is what we should strive for:
Corporate Shill: Linux doesn't scale well.
Rest of the Industry: HA! Linux scales way better and way easier than anything else!
Being "Good Enough" is not enough when you're not number 1. You MUST be so much better than number 1, that people will ask why in their right mind are they using number 1 in the first place?
Why is this marked +5 Insightful?
I see NOTHING in the original post that mentions black & white films. It might be implied, but even then I don't see any mention about how black & white is better than color, or how colorizing an old film is bastardizing that work. Some people like to see films in their original form. ("Han Solo shot first" anyone?) Others might rather see it in color. Personally, I can't really imagine Dr. Strangelove in color. It doesn't mean I like to see all films in black & white, and it doesn't mean I will get upset at someone for wanting to colorize it.
Parent post is just an attack upon others and brings nothing to this discussion. "...you need to get your heads checked." Please.
Parent should be modded down as flamebait.
Closer to reality than you might think.
How would you explain this to your cell phone provider?
I also wonder, does the "Can you hear me now?" guy automatically get authorized to make calls on all Verizon phones?
Okay, I live in Valencia, California. North part of Los Angeles County, and the nice area means a lot of filming goes on here. (Girl Next Door, Pleasantville, a lot of Power Rangers stuff, many shots of streets of modern suberbia are taken here. Also, the Microsoft Call Center I work at is here too...)
Anyway, when that Vin Diesel movie, "A Man Apart", was released, I was watching it at the local movie theater at the local mall in Valencia, California. Apparently, Vin Deisel converted from Drug Dealer to Law Enforcement, and is meeting with an upscale drug dealer at his nice suburbian house.
As Vin Deisel drives up to the house, the subtitles say: Valencia, California, USA
Everyone in the theater starts to break out in laughter.
So it's really only good if you want to look for bugs in PIX that you can exploit, and since this is being sold by a group of hackers, you can bet that they've already looked for everything possibly exploitable.
Hell, I would expect them to add some backdoors to the code!
As for the NIC, you can try getting one of those USB-2-Ethernet dongles and get it on a decent internet connection that way. It'd be a nice box to SSH into whenever I'm bored and not at home.
What's this internet thingie people keep talking about? I HATE it when articles mention products or code names and doesn't explain them!
Don't you dare tell me to RTFA, it should be explained in the article itself!!!
Google Desktop requires admin rights. Makes sense, but it means that I can't check it out at the moment on my work computer.
Hopefully they'll have plans to do something similar for linux, GAIM, etc so I can try it out on my home computer.