TMBG has been my favorite band for a long time, and I liked them even before I knew who they were thanks to Paticle Man and Istanbul both being on Tiny Toon Adventures.
It's really great, however, knowing that they have set up their own website where you can buy mp3s of their albums at reasonable prices (99 cents a track or $10 an album last I checked). If you buy the album, you even get all the artwork in pdf form!
Music unencumbered with DRM is always great, only kind I'll buy. That it's run by the artists and (presumably, never actually checked into it) they get all the profits is just gravy.
I'm going to give the summary the benefit of the doubt and assume the question was intended as why they don't include both OO.org and StarOffice.
The answer, of course, is that people don't want choices. Be happy that Joe Schmoe might even consider installing some weird program that's not made by Microsoft, don't expect him to decide whether he wants OpenOffice.org ("What is that, some website?") or StarOffice.
Google chose what they thought would be most useful to most technically-disinclined people.
Actually, they need to put in an <ad> tag. Amusing, but actually scary when you think about it... The only way such a tag would actually be implemented by people with advertising is if there were DRM-like restrictions on browsers forcing ads to be shown. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get IE to implement such restrictions, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to force Firefox to implement them too.
So i say nay to <ad>.
Actually, my first semester of college I got stuck in a hybrid English course, which was half in-class and half online.
One of the things the professor tried to teach was how to effectively search, which I think is a fairly important skill.
Of course, that's about the only thing that I felt that class did well at... I dropped out of it after a couple weeks because I hated the professor and the curriculum and the fact that we were supposed to use some book he wrote about using the internet and it was obvious he knew only slightly more than average (which is to say, not very much at all) about it.
But I digress. I'll never understand why people have so much trouble using search engines and constructing an effective search statement, but I think it's quite possibly the single most important skill a person can learn. I think that it should be a part of high school curriculum, never mind college.
Seriously, I think merely being outed is probably the best that this guy could have hoped for. Woulda rocked if they'd fucked around with him instead.
"Whoa, never seen you before. Ah, what the hell, you look trustworthy. But before I tell you the details of my pub with 4 TB of CP I need you to do something for me... First, I need to know what size hat you wear and if you have any food allergies."
Unrelated, and really just for my own edification/laziness...
Where does PNG fit into the paraidgm? I mean, I know it's got more advanced alpha transparency than gif, and I think that it's based on plain ol' bitmaps as opposed to compression, so it seems like a strict successor to GIF...
However, gif still has some legs up on it, namely ubiquity and the fact that animated PNGs support doesn't seem to be remotely common.
So is this basically correct? Anything I'm missing?
Just saw this posted on Fark. Sound Exchange, who I'm assuming are the people set to collect all the royalties, vowed in front of Congress not to enforce this against internet radio until new rates are worked out.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who made that observation. I actually talked about this with my boss not too long ago (about a month or so ago, I think).
The way I see it, I think that we're going to see a convergence of web-based and traditional applications... Specifically, I think that in N years (where N is some number I don't want to hazard a guess on, but not too far off...), everyone will have a personal server at home and a complement of terminals which access it. Their TV will access it, their phone, their tablet, etc, all through the internet, and it will run programs for them.
It's even doable now... Hell, if I understand it correctly that's basically what X windows is. Imagine X, only ubiquitous.
The nice thing about that is that you still have possession of the central repository of all your stuff. That's the main thing which worries me about web-based apps, not being in control of your information.
If he can lift it, then he didn't make a rock so big that he can't lift it. Therefore, he lacks the power to create a rock so large that he can't lift it.
If he can't lift it, then he lacks the power to lift a particular rock.
Either way, he is not omnipotent (omni meaning all, potent meaning powerful, literally meaning all powerful).
It's as much a paradox as "This statement is false."
No, just pointing out that bigalexe is either unable to read or doesn't mind ignoring details to get his point across. The original person you replied to specifically said nation. c_forg, in his (obviously facetious) post which bigalexe replied to, said, "Worst of all is the military, I mean we haven't been attacked by a nation since the 1940's!"
Yeah, that was pretty annoying... In the last 5 episodes, I think there's 1, maybe 2, which actually advance the plot in a meaningful way (I'm specifically thinking of Adria ascending and the death of the Ori... The Asgard comitting suicide and giving their legacy to SG-1 is cool for the overall metaplot, but doesn't really do much for the current situation except that Earth now has one ship which is capable of standing up against an Ori ship). I mean, I know they're setting up for the movie, but it just seems kind of disingenuous to treat the last few precious episodes of the entire series as "just another show."
SkyOne aired the second part of season 10 of Stargate SG-1 several months before Sci-Fi did. In fact, they showed the last episode a few weeks ago. They're all available online.
Not that I'm advocating piracy (hell, I own the first 9 seasons on DVD and will get the 10th whenever it comes out), but it's Sci-Fi's fault for dragging their ass and waiting so long to show it. In a globalized world, you don't get to screw people over just so you can get an extra half of a rating point.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover where to get them.
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What are you talking about? Says so right here on my copy of They Must Be Gaints CD, Dail-a-song: Track 12, Paticle Man.
TMBG has been my favorite band for a long time, and I liked them even before I knew who they were thanks to Paticle Man and Istanbul both being on Tiny Toon Adventures.
It's really great, however, knowing that they have set up their own website where you can buy mp3s of their albums at reasonable prices (99 cents a track or $10 an album last I checked). If you buy the album, you even get all the artwork in pdf form!
Music unencumbered with DRM is always great, only kind I'll buy. That it's run by the artists and (presumably, never actually checked into it) they get all the profits is just gravy.
TMBG truly is the future of music.
Be on the lookout this summer for a trilogy of fantastic new Uwe Boll movies including:
Custer's Revenge
ET: The Video Game: The Movie
Street Fighter: The Movie: The Video Game: The Movie
I'm going to give the summary the benefit of the doubt and assume the question was intended as why they don't include both OO.org and StarOffice.
The answer, of course, is that people don't want choices. Be happy that Joe Schmoe might even consider installing some weird program that's not made by Microsoft, don't expect him to decide whether he wants OpenOffice.org ("What is that, some website?") or StarOffice.
Google chose what they thought would be most useful to most technically-disinclined people.
Actually, my first semester of college I got stuck in a hybrid English course, which was half in-class and half online.
One of the things the professor tried to teach was how to effectively search, which I think is a fairly important skill.
Of course, that's about the only thing that I felt that class did well at... I dropped out of it after a couple weeks because I hated the professor and the curriculum and the fact that we were supposed to use some book he wrote about using the internet and it was obvious he knew only slightly more than average (which is to say, not very much at all) about it.
But I digress. I'll never understand why people have so much trouble using search engines and constructing an effective search statement, but I think it's quite possibly the single most important skill a person can learn. I think that it should be a part of high school curriculum, never mind college.
Hey, my Fark account number's only 3 digits, so you average those out and my average account number length is 4.5 digits. :p
Read the story? You must be new here.
Seriously, I think merely being outed is probably the best that this guy could have hoped for. Woulda rocked if they'd fucked around with him instead.
"Whoa, never seen you before. Ah, what the hell, you look trustworthy. But before I tell you the details of my pub with 4 TB of CP I need you to do something for me... First, I need to know what size hat you wear and if you have any food allergies."
Unrelated, and really just for my own edification/laziness...
Where does PNG fit into the paraidgm? I mean, I know it's got more advanced alpha transparency than gif, and I think that it's based on plain ol' bitmaps as opposed to compression, so it seems like a strict successor to GIF...
However, gif still has some legs up on it, namely ubiquity and the fact that animated PNGs support doesn't seem to be remotely common.
So is this basically correct? Anything I'm missing?
PS3's what?
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Mutant League Football is the only sports game I've ever liked. Great game. I loved playing the aliens that rolled up into balls when they ran.
Wasn't quite as fond of Mutant League Hockey, though.
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See, that's your problem. You obviously RTFA. If you want the scoop, you gotta get the gist from the headline and post anyways, facts be damned!
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/breaking-news- o.html
Just saw this posted on Fark. Sound Exchange, who I'm assuming are the people set to collect all the royalties, vowed in front of Congress not to enforce this against internet radio until new rates are worked out.
IIRC, the floaty sphere that Luke was practicing with on the millenium falcon.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who made that observation. I actually talked about this with my boss not too long ago (about a month or so ago, I think).
The way I see it, I think that we're going to see a convergence of web-based and traditional applications... Specifically, I think that in N years (where N is some number I don't want to hazard a guess on, but not too far off...), everyone will have a personal server at home and a complement of terminals which access it. Their TV will access it, their phone, their tablet, etc, all through the internet, and it will run programs for them.
It's even doable now... Hell, if I understand it correctly that's basically what X windows is. Imagine X, only ubiquitous.
The nice thing about that is that you still have possession of the central repository of all your stuff. That's the main thing which worries me about web-based apps, not being in control of your information.
If he can lift it, then he didn't make a rock so big that he can't lift it. Therefore, he lacks the power to create a rock so large that he can't lift it.
If he can't lift it, then he lacks the power to lift a particular rock.
Either way, he is not omnipotent (omni meaning all, potent meaning powerful, literally meaning all powerful).
It's as much a paradox as "This statement is false."
No, just pointing out that bigalexe is either unable to read or doesn't mind ignoring details to get his point across. The original person you replied to specifically said nation. c_forg, in his (obviously facetious) post which bigalexe replied to, said, "Worst of all is the military, I mean we haven't been attacked by a nation since the 1940's!"
Just curious, which nation attacked us in 2001?
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Not true, you can still buy your way into the beta. You even get a cool game to tide you over called Crackdown.
*spoiler warning*
Yeah, that was pretty annoying... In the last 5 episodes, I think there's 1, maybe 2, which actually advance the plot in a meaningful way (I'm specifically thinking of Adria ascending and the death of the Ori... The Asgard comitting suicide and giving their legacy to SG-1 is cool for the overall metaplot, but doesn't really do much for the current situation except that Earth now has one ship which is capable of standing up against an Ori ship). I mean, I know they're setting up for the movie, but it just seems kind of disingenuous to treat the last few precious episodes of the entire series as "just another show."
SkyOne aired the second part of season 10 of Stargate SG-1 several months before Sci-Fi did. In fact, they showed the last episode a few weeks ago. They're all available online.
Not that I'm advocating piracy (hell, I own the first 9 seasons on DVD and will get the 10th whenever it comes out), but it's Sci-Fi's fault for dragging their ass and waiting so long to show it. In a globalized world, you don't get to screw people over just so you can get an extra half of a rating point.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover where to get them.