Surely I'm not the only one who sees "GPF" and thinks "General Protection Fault"?!
First it was OS2 (OS2? does the "2" stand for 2nd rate? Is it your 2nd attempt? Is it just a big piece of "#2"?) and now it's this. Don't get me wrong, I think their products are great, but I really think they'd have a hard time marketing air on the Moon! (Slightly more) seriously, IBM could stand to hire the same marketing folks the beer companies hire...Especially since their markets overlap so much.
The last time I actually went to the movies I wondered if I might not be better off just producing my own...
Say what you want, Mr. Lucas, but when I only have to wait six weeks (or less, very frequently) to catch it on PPV or DVD, the only reason I can think of to spend 2X to 3X to sit (in gum) with my feet glued to the floor behind some guy with a big head (talking on his cell phone) while some kid kicks the back of my seat for 2 hours is for the leathery hotdogs, watered-down Cokes, and too-salty popcorn.
Of course, Junior's just been biding his time waiting in fevered anticipation of his daddy's demise...the sins of the son'll probably far outpace the sins of his father...
Yeah, I saw that article and I remember the deal: the person who submitted the video file to Google specified that the video not be viewable in the United States (apparently Google put that feature in because not all countries honor the copyrights of other countries, so based on an item's source the item can be tagged as "not for consumption in Outer Whereveria") -- not an issue of "censorship" (which is, technically, only something a government can engage in) on Google's part at all, but merely a case of the originator("owner"?) of the item not wanting it seen in the U.S.
Er, position that is. One week, they say "Oh, don't worry about us being in China; NO filter can eliminate every thing a government doesn't want people to see!" and the next week they find themselves having to admit that what's true "over there" is true "over here": NO filter can eliminate every thing a government doesn't want (their young) people to see.
Maybe their motto should have been something more like "Don't be careless."
Now, don't get me wrong: I don't think little Johnny (or Joanie) ought to be "lookin' at them nekkid people on the internet" (for a number of reasons we won't go into right here) -- I just don't think the government should think itself in the business of making sure he (or she) doesn't. That goes for China AND the good ol' U.S. of A. ANY time a government puts itself (or is put by its people) in the position of "parenting" that nation's youth, that government is in the WRONG place in the "grand scheme of things" and needs to be put (back) in its proper place.
I mean, doesn't the UK have an RIAA? *gasp* Their law enforcement agencies are actually looking for apparent crimes being committed rather than sitting on their hands waiting for some whining complain...er, uh, potential plaintifs to come in and file a complaint? What do their poor lawyers do? How do they make ends meet?
Really, though, that statement does sound like it came out of one of their sitcoms...
DHS -vs- Sony?!?! I mean, it's kinda like that movie where Freddie Kruger and Jason Voorhees fight each other; which one should we root for?
Disclaimer The comments above should in no way be considered a comparison between the characters in that movie and the parties mentioned in the article. Any similarities are purely coincidental and the reference was made solely to illustrate the relative difficulty of determining a "favorite" in the contest.
In other words: Freddie and Jason, please don't be offended!
I mean, this is kind of like complaining that the United States Postal Service knows who you are (and, GASP! where you live!!!) as well as those same bits of trivia about your penpals because of your hard copy mail. Most of us with the sunshine in our eyes and the fresh air in our noses have pretty much assumed that all along anyway (because, come on, why else would it take two or three days to get a letter from "here" to "there" except that someone's spending the time to cross-reference all the "from's" with the "to's"?!?!?!)
"Uh oh: There's a barcode at the bottom of this piece of junk mail! Oh, great, now GWB knows that The Scooter Store has me on their mailing list!!"
Almost certainly the "string" in question here is less of the type used to, say, keep one's shoes laced-up than it is of the "cheese" variety; so-called "String Cheese" is commonly found in both grocery and convenience stores and can easily be split into MANY more "dimensions" than just eleven (my almost-twin three-year-olds regularly split it into dozens...and then split those strings into dozens more... of course then they make an unbelievable mess that causes my wife to terminate the experiment prematurely...)
Yeah, as soon as I hit I had the thought that there were probably plenty of people who'd prefer their photo subjects to have glowing red (or green, etc.) eyes... though the only ones that come to mind immediately are the Weekly World News.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, NASA, I really am a fan but I just couldn't resist.
Yeah, it's not like 24 terabytes is a significant amount of storage... Let's just all say "about a thousand terabytes" and leave it at that.
Surely I'm not the only one who sees "GPF" and thinks "General Protection Fault"?!
First it was OS2 (OS 2 ? does the "2" stand for 2nd rate? Is it your 2nd attempt? Is it just a big piece of "#2"?) and now it's this. Don't get me wrong, I think their products are great, but I really think they'd have a hard time marketing air on the Moon!
(Slightly more) seriously, IBM could stand to hire the same marketing folks the beer companies hire...Especially since their markets overlap so much.
Just in case.
The last time I actually went to the movies I wondered if I might not be better off just producing my own...
Say what you want, Mr. Lucas, but when I only have to wait six weeks (or less, very frequently) to catch it on PPV or DVD, the only reason I can think of to spend 2X to 3X to sit (in gum) with my feet glued to the floor behind some guy with a big head (talking on his cell phone) while some kid kicks the back of my seat for 2 hours is for the leathery hotdogs, watered-down Cokes, and too-salty popcorn.
Of course, Junior's just been biding his time waiting in fevered anticipation of his daddy's demise...the sins of the son'll probably far outpace the sins of his father...
At least that's what MY inbox looks like...
I mean, you didn't even bother to post a link to your blog!
Yeah, I saw that article and I remember the deal: the person who submitted the video file to Google specified that the video not be viewable in the United States (apparently Google put that feature in because not all countries honor the copyrights of other countries, so based on an item's source the item can be tagged as "not for consumption in Outer Whereveria") -- not an issue of "censorship" (which is, technically, only something a government can engage in) on Google's part at all, but merely a case of the originator("owner"?) of the item not wanting it seen in the U.S.
Er, position that is. One week, they say "Oh, don't worry about us being in China; NO filter can eliminate every thing a government doesn't want people to see!" and the next week they find themselves having to admit that what's true "over there" is true "over here": NO filter can eliminate every thing a government doesn't want (their young) people to see.
Maybe their motto should have been something more like "Don't be careless."
Now, don't get me wrong: I don't think little Johnny (or Joanie) ought to be "lookin' at them nekkid people on the internet" (for a number of reasons we won't go into right here) -- I just don't think the government should think itself in the business of making sure he (or she) doesn't. That goes for China AND the good ol' U.S. of A. ANY time a government puts itself (or is put by its people) in the position of "parenting" that nation's youth, that government is in the WRONG place in the "grand scheme of things" and needs to be put (back) in its proper place.
Just one guy's sometimes humble opinion (JOGSHO).
I mean, doesn't the UK have an RIAA? *gasp* Their law enforcement agencies are actually looking for apparent crimes being committed rather than sitting on their hands waiting for some whining complain...er, uh, potential plaintifs to come in and file a complaint? What do their poor lawyers do? How do they make ends meet?
Really, though, that statement does sound like it came out of one of their sitcoms...
Maybe I'm just a paranoid cynic, but I wonder if a movie studio executive doesn't have a truckload of those players parked somewhere...
From all indications, the vast majority of people have never read 20 books (not counting comic books, of course.)
Hey, maybe they've determined that bald-spots are as unique as fingerprints... The "Asian" genome contains genes for MPB as well, you know.
I'd say that instead of
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it should be
2. ZZZ
DHS -vs- Sony?!?! I mean, it's kinda like that movie where Freddie Kruger and Jason Voorhees fight each other; which one should we root for?
Disclaimer The comments above should in no way be considered a comparison between the characters in that movie and the parties mentioned in the article. Any similarities are purely coincidental and the reference was made solely to illustrate the relative difficulty of determining a "favorite" in the contest.
In other words: Freddie and Jason, please don't be offended!
I think the technical term for that is "money machine"
a.k.a. "magic money machine"
{Nothing typed here would be as humorous as just the notion of someone turning Cleese loose to ridicule these clowns!}
Hey, making inflamatory statements without having any idea what we're talking about is all some of us have!!
Almost certainly the "string" in question here is less of the type used to, say, keep one's shoes laced-up than it is of the "cheese" variety; so-called "String Cheese" is commonly found in both grocery and convenience stores and can easily be split into MANY more "dimensions" than just eleven (my almost-twin three-year-olds regularly split it into dozens...and then split those strings into dozens more... of course then they make an unbelievable mess that causes my wife to terminate the experiment prematurely...)
Who says physics can't be fun (and delicious!)?
That's pretty cool, thanks for the link!
Yeah, as soon as I hit I had the thought that there were probably plenty of people who'd prefer their photo subjects to have glowing red (or green, etc.) eyes... though the only ones that come to mind immediately are the Weekly World News.
Nobody wants to put up a picture of a hundred billion proton collisions with glowing red eyes with their screen saver.
He probably spends more than that in a day on hotdogs and beer!
I say someone should put these guys in touch with the physics students who built the drivable couch
rocket-powered drivable couch, anyone?!?!