I love French wine, like I the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'encule de ta mere. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it.
Here's one for you: Would a smart person trust a corporation whose raison d'etre is profit, and whose profits depend on a steady stream of new viruses making it into the public domain? How exactly do you know that Symantec doesn't have a department, or secret links to one, that does what is necessary to ensure continued profit?
Not at all. There's no reason they can't ask a friend to download it for them and burn it onto a CD, along with AdAware, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
Let's face it: most of the folks who this will happen to will have no idea that AVG is out there, so it's up to people like us/. geeks to help educate them.
Perhaps we should start replacing the AOL CDs at supermarket checkout stands with homebrew CDs cotaining better internet applications?
I've already got FOTR and TTT in theatrical and extended versions, and I'll double-dip for ROTK, too. I've a confirmed skeptic, but I just can't help but do this with A) How great the films are, B) How much of a risk New Line originally took to bankroll them (even if it's hard to see now), and C) They said, from the beginning, that there would be two versions of each film. I won't even comment about Lucas...
That's it, though. The only way I would buy them again is once they're out on HD-DVD, whatever that format may be.
I'm reminded of a satelite photo from the mid '80s the showed a radar picture of the Nile Delta. Why would you publicly show a picture that told everyone that you could see 30 metres underground durring the Cold War?
Assuming that this isn't sarcastic, wasn't the purpose to tell the Soviets that the U.S. could find the Soviet's missle silos? This was getting into the time that the PK of US missles were theoretically accurate enough that they could hit individual silos in a first strike.
Actually, I think they'll start releasing the "Full Saga" in its 8 different incarnations, then the "Original" Original Trilogy, then the "Full Saga with Original Trilogy" set, then the "Full Saga with All New Footage from Episodes I-III That You Bitches Can't Live Wihthout," and then...
I stopped watching or caring about the academy awards when Gladiator (the hyped big-budget movie of 2000) beat Crouching Tiger and Chocolat for best picture.
I know the feeling. I stopped watching when "Sheakspeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan." Frickin' Miramax and Weinstein...
The rumours of the A-10 being dead are kinda like the Mac...or BSD. But Chuck Horner, the US Air Commander in the (First) Gulf War, said it best:
Just how well did the A-10 do? Before the war, when informed that his son had decided to fly the Warthog, three-star General Chuck Horner reportedly said "Oh, I don't think I have a son anymore; I think he died from brain damage." During the Gulf War, as part of a routine briefing, General Horner said "I take back all the bad things I have ever said about the A-10. I love them! They're saving our asses!"
I actually worked with Iridian back when they were called "Iriscan" a few years ago. The technology was pretty cool; unlike fingerprint or voiceprints, which can only verify someone's identity after they tell you (via a username, prox card, etc) who they are, an iris scan can actually identify a user based off of their iris pattern.
A typical fingerprint has about 10 points that can be uniquely identified, and on a thumbprint scanner you're lucky to get 5 or 6 of them reliably. The iris has roughly 26 unique points that can be picked up every time. Back when I was working with Iridian's stuff they used a low light video camera to basically take a picture of your eye...no funky lasers or anything like that. Additionally, and perhaps morbidly so, they had built technology to help identify if the eye was live or not, so not only could you not just hold up a picture of an eye, but you couldn't take someone else's eye (a la Demolition Man, I believe) and hold it up to the scanner.
Additionally, the iris pattern (and thumbprint or voiceprint in other applications) is never held as an actual pattern; it's just a hash based off of what comes off the scanner, so privacy was not much of a concern.
I think the point is not just for TVs, but for projectors. As projector and screen prices keep coming down, people are looking for ways to make the image look even better.
You can get a good Infocus X1 projector and a decent Stewart screen for right around $2,000 USD. This is around the same price as most large rear-projection HDTVs, and much much less than any plasma, LCD, or LCOS TV.
Plus, if you're willing to support the evil empire, you can get discs like Terminator 2. It has a version of the film in Windows Media format that's actually in high def.
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And it makes a "VROOOOOM" noise when it starts to print!!!
+1, Dork. But I like your style...
Which starts out attacking one side, but then decides to start DOS'ing the other side.
I love French wine, like I the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'encule de ta mere. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it.
Here's one for you: Would a smart person trust a corporation whose raison d'etre is profit, and whose profits depend on a steady stream of new viruses making it into the public domain? How exactly do you know that Symantec doesn't have a department, or secret links to one, that does what is necessary to ensure continued profit?
Does that tinfoil hat mess up your hair?
Not at all. There's no reason they can't ask a friend to download it for them and burn it onto a CD, along with AdAware, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
/. geeks to help educate them.
Perhaps we should start replacing the AOL CDs at supermarket checkout stands with homebrew CDs cotaining better internet applications?
Let's face it: most of the folks who this will happen to will have no idea that AVG is out there, so it's up to people like us
I've already got FOTR and TTT in theatrical and extended versions, and I'll double-dip for ROTK, too. I've a confirmed skeptic, but I just can't help but do this with A) How great the films are, B) How much of a risk New Line originally took to bankroll them (even if it's hard to see now), and C) They said, from the beginning, that there would be two versions of each film. I won't even comment about Lucas...
That's it, though. The only way I would buy them again is once they're out on HD-DVD, whatever that format may be.
"Horrific depravity and horrible violence is OK, as long as people don't say naughty words..."
I'm reminded of a satelite photo from the mid '80s the showed a radar picture of the Nile Delta. Why would you publicly show a picture that told everyone that you could see 30 metres underground durring the Cold War?
Assuming that this isn't sarcastic, wasn't the purpose to tell the Soviets that the U.S. could find the Soviet's missle silos? This was getting into the time that the PK of US missles were theoretically accurate enough that they could hit individual silos in a first strike.
Ah, the joys of MAD.
English? Isn't that a strange dialect of American?
...unable to accept votes because when the voting machines were turned on they showed a Windows ME startup screen and nothing else.
Please, please, please tell me you mis-typed XP here. The thought of voting machines running ME is disturbing...moreso than running XP!
Powerbook.
Actually, I think they'll start releasing the "Full Saga" in its 8 different incarnations, then the "Original" Original Trilogy, then the "Full Saga with Original Trilogy" set, then the "Full Saga with All New Footage from Episodes I-III That You Bitches Can't Live Wihthout," and then...
My forehead's gone numb.
I stopped watching or caring about the academy awards when Gladiator (the hyped big-budget movie of 2000) beat Crouching Tiger and Chocolat for best picture.
I know the feeling. I stopped watching when "Sheakspeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan." Frickin' Miramax and Weinstein...
Yeah, especially that whole "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" thing. Awful...
it isn't a case of "one spam for every x legitimate emails"
You're right...it's a case of "one legitimate email for every x spam emails.
The rumours of the A-10 being dead are kinda like the Mac...or BSD. But Chuck Horner, the US Air Commander in the (First) Gulf War, said it best:
Just how well did the A-10 do? Before the war, when informed that his son had decided to fly the Warthog, three-star General Chuck Horner reportedly said "Oh, I don't think I have a son anymore; I think he died from brain damage." During the Gulf War, as part of a routine briefing, General Horner said "I take back all the bad things I have ever said about the A-10. I love them! They're saving our asses!"
I actually worked with Iridian back when they were called "Iriscan" a few years ago. The technology was pretty cool; unlike fingerprint or voiceprints, which can only verify someone's identity after they tell you (via a username, prox card, etc) who they are, an iris scan can actually identify a user based off of their iris pattern.
A typical fingerprint has about 10 points that can be uniquely identified, and on a thumbprint scanner you're lucky to get 5 or 6 of them reliably. The iris has roughly 26 unique points that can be picked up every time. Back when I was working with Iridian's stuff they used a low light video camera to basically take a picture of your eye...no funky lasers or anything like that. Additionally, and perhaps morbidly so, they had built technology to help identify if the eye was live or not, so not only could you not just hold up a picture of an eye, but you couldn't take someone else's eye (a la Demolition Man, I believe) and hold it up to the scanner.
Additionally, the iris pattern (and thumbprint or voiceprint in other applications) is never held as an actual pattern; it's just a hash based off of what comes off the scanner, so privacy was not much of a concern.
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.
Hmmm...in the last 20 years, Spielberg has come out with:
Catch Me If You Can
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Empire of the Sun
The Color Purple
Maybe you wouldn't call all of them great, but most of them are at least good.
Lucas, on the other hand....
...maybe we can put an RFID tag on Spielberg and make sure he never goes near another movie camera again?
Ummm, I think you misspelled "Lucas"...
L: ...'cause chicks dig a guy with money.
P: Not all chicks.
L: Well, the kind of chicks that would double up on a dude like me.
P: Good point.
Which Mac OS was this on? Both Jaguar and Panther play nice with Windoze networks, IMHO.
I think the point is not just for TVs, but for projectors. As projector and screen prices keep coming down, people are looking for ways to make the image look even better.
You can get a good Infocus X1 projector and a decent Stewart screen for right around $2,000 USD. This is around the same price as most large rear-projection HDTVs, and much much less than any plasma, LCD, or LCOS TV.
Plus, if you're willing to support the evil empire, you can get discs like Terminator 2. It has a version of the film in Windows Media format that's actually in high def.
Booo. Those are the lyrics when Mike was the host. The real version is:
If you're wondering how Joel eats and breathes, and other science facts...
I know, I know, off topic. Mod away...