There is a definite "interesting" effect to the whole thing, particularly if you get a version with the ads, for the Ladies Garment Workers Union, and GM and Whirlpool all basically guilting people into buying American, and a TV spot for Animal House.
It's also fun to see what Bruce Villanch (that guy who took over CHarles Nelson Reilly's spot in Hollywood Squares) and Pat Proft (that guy who wrote the Police Academy and Scary Movie movies) were doing in 1978 (writing Star Wars variety shows, apparently), and to see some of the choreography of David Winters (later to direct that MST3K favorite, Space Mutiny).
"Intertitles" or "title cards"... "subtitles" are translations of spoken dialogue only. As it is, Metropolis is pretty thin on cards of any language. If you want an unbearable experience, try watching Merropolis with the Giorgio Moroder rock opera score.
Metropolis was a silent film, there are no "subtitles".
So, at what point did you realize this show wasn't so bad?
When Art Carney clearly flubs a line ("I have yer uh... Whatsit... Uh... Thingamabob... Mind evaporator! Yes that!") and it becomes obvious from his entire performance that he was refusing to do retakes.
When Diahnne Carrol plays a wookiee mermaid pornstar?
When Carrie Fisher is clearly on blow, judging from her tripping over her scenery and her eye dialation?
When Harvey Korman plays a 4-armed Julia Child bit that is clearly half a page on the script for 10 MINUTES!
When Bea Arthus sings, and then forgets the last verse of her song and lalalas it?
When Harvey Korman plays a robot who needs a oilcan reading stereo instructions. Again for 10 minutes.
Carrie, still rather high, sings a Christmas song arranged to the Star Wars theme, and doesn't hit any of her high notes.
I dunno boss, I hosted a screening party for this last week and while the best we could say about it was that it was educational about 70s variety shows, and actually is pretty heavy for little kids, it really doesn't pass muster as "entertainment."
ePub, but I own a Kindle and haven't really noticed any lockin either. I'm a Sony employee and can get a great rate on a Sony reader, and I still bought the Kindle because the store + always-on internet service is just that much better.
If you know someone that is using IEEE floats or doubles to represent dollars internally, reach out to them and get them help, and let them know that just counting the pennies and occasionally inserting a decimal for the humans is much, much safer!;)
I dunno, someone getting killed in a war, for an actual reason, is sorta different. I'm not saying he isn't responsible, but if you call him a monster you're just trying to gloss over the humanity of the situation.
So you're little Roman Polanski, the Nazi's invade your country and at the tender age of 10 you're forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto. Your family is shipped off to Auschwitz but you manage to escape and live in the Polish countryside, where the odd bored Wermacht corporal takes pot shots at you, and when they miss they laugh at themselves in their drunkenness. The war ends, your father survived and you go to film school, make a few excellent movies, and move to Hollywood and make The Fearless Vampire Killers and you fall in love and marry the most beautful redhead in Los Angeles. You go to London to shoot a movie, and while you're there she and your best friend and his girlfriend are murdered at your house. No one knows at first how it happened, but the papers are happy to report that your wife and friends all committed suicide in some sort of hedonistic orgy. So you get to come home and tell the LA Times, that no, your wife was not a satan worshipper who was killed as part of a sex ritual.
Years later, he's caught for the statutory rape, he makes a plea bargain and confessess to the crime under its conditions. Despite the bargain being in place, the judge renegs and makes it clear he's going to send him to prison anyways. The judge just wants to make an example of this Hollywood type, and a foreigner to boot.
Still had sex with a little girl, doesn't take that away. But if he is a monster, I can only hope that in such a situation I would maintain such a monsterous composure. Again, I cannot see how anyone gets more excited about this than the ridiculous injustice of not extraditing Warren Anderson. It's just more evidence that our people and justice system are obsessed with celebrity and sex crimes, when plain murders walk among us and are tolerated.
When your wife, pregnant with your child, is murdered by the Manson Family, it can have a certiain disfiguring effect on your personality.
Not that he isn't guilty or anything, but someone recently made the observation that no one ever calls Warren Anderson a "disgusting pig," even though he's culpable in the death of 20,000 people, fled the nation of his arrest after being indicited, and uses vagaries of extradition laws to avoid punishment.
What I don't understand is why Fusion Garage owns any of the intellectual property whatsoever... From the TFA it's not even clear that Arrington properly retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark, it's all intermingled and joint. He says in TFA it's like "Foxconn calling Apple and telling them they are stealing the iPhone," but it isn't like that at all. Foxconn is a bloody vendor, not a partner.
You'd think the least he would have done is had non-compete language in the recision provisions of their joint venture, since this sort of outcome seems like it would be pretty easy to predict, doing equity deals with strangers, with no history or track record, informally sharing office space and all manner of IP back and forth.
Basically what Fusion Garage did is they hired Arrington as a consultant and marketer (as they say, an "evangelist") and now they're telling him to take a hike, and this ostensibly-smart "insider" finds himself without recourse.
For independent contractors or freelancers, a more comparable model might be the Freelancer's Union or an entertainment guild/mutual aid association like yours truly's union.
Both use collective bargaining to obtain health benefits and provide common resume writing/promotion/education/development services; the latter is a proper union has wage/working condition bargaining power by having a master agreement with all employers in a jurisdiction.
A union of freelancers is workable, and is the SOP in the film/television industry, when union benefits are made "portable" from job to job. In this case then the union's main job is to provide continuity of benefits, so I don't end up having six 401k's all over Los Angeles and paying COBRA one month out of every five.
And are very noisy. Imagine having the a Dustbuster's vacuum pump behind your dashboard, attached to a hundred yards of very thin hose.
I recall Tim Hunkin once building something like this with a rubber membrane covering a pattern of holes, and when you turned the vacuum on the membrane over the holes would depress making little ghost paw-prints in the rubber. It was noisy as hell.
There aren't $20 cell phones, that's the subsidized price. If you were a phone company, or someone in a position to collect a monthly fee for running these netbooks, you certainly could dump them for $20 on a shelf at Wal-Mart, provided they come with a 2 year contract for whatever you're selling... I think the GP is right in that AdSense could never produce the revenue, and it would drive people crazy anyways.
If you're Google or VNZ, you could bundle internet connectivity. If you're Microsoft or Google, your could bundle connectivity+OS updates+cloud apps. If you're Apple, you wouldn't sell it as a laptop, you'd sell it like an AppleTV, except very cheap with a 2-year "all you can download" media plan.
I know, I myself have written several tools in Ruby CLI and RubyCocoa for work and other things, but Rails is really how I, and a lot of people over the last few years have received their entre to the language.
Rails it the reason there are now 6-odd OSS projects trying to speed up Ruby interpretation. For a long time Rails just couldn't compete on raw metrics with Python and PHP, but Rails was simply so much better from a developer workload standpoint, and its evangelist so much more organized, that now Ruby's major handicap is within a year or two of resolution.
Applications, not operating system. The whole point of Chrome OS is that it makes web applications first-class citizens, and it really doesn't ship with much of a client environment, aside from what a web browser can provide. If you use Chrome OS, the center of gravity for authoring documents is on the cloud, not on the local box.
You can get around this, but you can do that today with Ubuntu. Chrome OS's novel merit is cloud lockin, anything else it gives you, you can already get somewhere else.
Pervasively object-oriented, with anonymous classes, metaclasses and proper private methods. However, if your keyboard doesn't have a period, you could be convinced it pervasively functional, since it has 1st-class blocks, closures and continuations.
A very loose syntax, with no syntactic whitespace.
A lot of mindshare and goodwill, centering on the Ruby on Rails framework.
Negatives:
Interpreter has been too damn slow for too long, but as you see here they're working on it.
it has a big learning curve for Python people. It's very different.
I guess when I said "speakers" I meant "analogue audio port." Some cheaper mobos use the data ground, instead of a dedicated signal ground, for the shield audio ground. Bad idea. If the shield ground on the audio out is accessible, try putting a small capacitor (like picofarads) serially between the audio port and the ground rail to kill any DC that might be on the data ground.
It's not surprising that the buzz would go away with USB headphones, because the DAC in the USB adaptor is electronically isolated from the USB shield. I wouldn't be surprised if the audio shield to your headphones was left floating on the USB side.
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There is a definite "interesting" effect to the whole thing, particularly if you get a version with the ads, for the Ladies Garment Workers Union, and GM and Whirlpool all basically guilting people into buying American, and a TV spot for Animal House.
It's also fun to see what Bruce Villanch (that guy who took over CHarles Nelson Reilly's spot in Hollywood Squares) and Pat Proft (that guy who wrote the Police Academy and Scary Movie movies) were doing in 1978 (writing Star Wars variety shows, apparently), and to see some of the choreography of David Winters (later to direct that MST3K favorite, Space Mutiny).
"Intertitles" or "title cards"... "subtitles" are translations of spoken dialogue only. As it is, Metropolis is pretty thin on cards of any language. If you want an unbearable experience, try watching Merropolis with the Giorgio Moroder rock opera score.
Metropolis was a silent film, there are no "subtitles".
So, at what point did you realize this show wasn't so bad?
I dunno boss, I hosted a screening party for this last week and while the best we could say about it was that it was educational about 70s variety shows, and actually is pretty heavy for little kids, it really doesn't pass muster as "entertainment."
ePub, but I own a Kindle and haven't really noticed any lockin either. I'm a Sony employee and can get a great rate on a Sony reader, and I still bought the Kindle because the store + always-on internet service is just that much better.
If you know someone that is using IEEE floats or doubles to represent dollars internally, reach out to them and get them help, and let them know that just counting the pennies and occasionally inserting a decimal for the humans is much, much safer! ;)
It's sort of pathetic what passes for a lesbian love scene post title these days. What ever happened to Natalie, petrified, hot grits etc... ?
I dunno, someone getting killed in a war, for an actual reason, is sorta different. I'm not saying he isn't responsible, but if you call him a monster you're just trying to gloss over the humanity of the situation.
So you're little Roman Polanski, the Nazi's invade your country and at the tender age of 10 you're forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto. Your family is shipped off to Auschwitz but you manage to escape and live in the Polish countryside, where the odd bored Wermacht corporal takes pot shots at you, and when they miss they laugh at themselves in their drunkenness. The war ends, your father survived and you go to film school, make a few excellent movies, and move to Hollywood and make The Fearless Vampire Killers and you fall in love and marry the most beautful redhead in Los Angeles. You go to London to shoot a movie, and while you're there she and your best friend and his girlfriend are murdered at your house. No one knows at first how it happened, but the papers are happy to report that your wife and friends all committed suicide in some sort of hedonistic orgy. So you get to come home and tell the LA Times, that no, your wife was not a satan worshipper who was killed as part of a sex ritual.
Years later, he's caught for the statutory rape, he makes a plea bargain and confessess to the crime under its conditions. Despite the bargain being in place, the judge renegs and makes it clear he's going to send him to prison anyways. The judge just wants to make an example of this Hollywood type, and a foreigner to boot.
Still had sex with a little girl, doesn't take that away. But if he is a monster, I can only hope that in such a situation I would maintain such a monsterous composure. Again, I cannot see how anyone gets more excited about this than the ridiculous injustice of not extraditing Warren Anderson. It's just more evidence that our people and justice system are obsessed with celebrity and sex crimes, when plain murders walk among us and are tolerated.
When your wife, pregnant with your child, is murdered by the Manson Family, it can have a certiain disfiguring effect on your personality. Not that he isn't guilty or anything, but someone recently made the observation that no one ever calls Warren Anderson a "disgusting pig," even though he's culpable in the death of 20,000 people, fled the nation of his arrest after being indicited, and uses vagaries of extradition laws to avoid punishment.
[citation needed]
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What Fake Steve said
At least I didn't make the typical slashdot typo and call it "CORBA"...
What I don't understand is why Fusion Garage owns any of the intellectual property whatsoever... From the TFA it's not even clear that Arrington properly retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark, it's all intermingled and joint. He says in TFA it's like "Foxconn calling Apple and telling them they are stealing the iPhone," but it isn't like that at all. Foxconn is a bloody vendor, not a partner.
You'd think the least he would have done is had non-compete language in the recision provisions of their joint venture, since this sort of outcome seems like it would be pretty easy to predict, doing equity deals with strangers, with no history or track record, informally sharing office space and all manner of IP back and forth.
Basically what Fusion Garage did is they hired Arrington as a consultant and marketer (as they say, an "evangelist") and now they're telling him to take a hike, and this ostensibly-smart "insider" finds himself without recourse.
For independent contractors or freelancers, a more comparable model might be the Freelancer's Union or an entertainment guild/mutual aid association like yours truly's union.
Both use collective bargaining to obtain health benefits and provide common resume writing/promotion/education/development services; the latter is a proper union has wage/working condition bargaining power by having a master agreement with all employers in a jurisdiction.
A union of freelancers is workable, and is the SOP in the film/television industry, when union benefits are made "portable" from job to job. In this case then the union's main job is to provide continuity of benefits, so I don't end up having six 401k's all over Los Angeles and paying COBRA one month out of every five.
I'm a union type and have complex values, you insensitive clod!
And are very noisy. Imagine having the a Dustbuster's vacuum pump behind your dashboard, attached to a hundred yards of very thin hose.
I recall Tim Hunkin once building something like this with a rubber membrane covering a pattern of holes, and when you turned the vacuum on the membrane over the holes would depress making little ghost paw-prints in the rubber. It was noisy as hell.
There aren't $20 cell phones, that's the subsidized price. If you were a phone company, or someone in a position to collect a monthly fee for running these netbooks, you certainly could dump them for $20 on a shelf at Wal-Mart, provided they come with a 2 year contract for whatever you're selling... I think the GP is right in that AdSense could never produce the revenue, and it would drive people crazy anyways.
If you're Google or VNZ, you could bundle internet connectivity. If you're Microsoft or Google, your could bundle connectivity+OS updates+cloud apps. If you're Apple, you wouldn't sell it as a laptop, you'd sell it like an AppleTV, except very cheap with a 2-year "all you can download" media plan.
I know, I myself have written several tools in Ruby CLI and RubyCocoa for work and other things, but Rails is really how I, and a lot of people over the last few years have received their entre to the language.
Rails it the reason there are now 6-odd OSS projects trying to speed up Ruby interpretation. For a long time Rails just couldn't compete on raw metrics with Python and PHP, but Rails was simply so much better from a developer workload standpoint, and its evangelist so much more organized, that now Ruby's major handicap is within a year or two of resolution.
Applications, not operating system. The whole point of Chrome OS is that it makes web applications first-class citizens, and it really doesn't ship with much of a client environment, aside from what a web browser can provide. If you use Chrome OS, the center of gravity for authoring documents is on the cloud, not on the local box.
You can get around this, but you can do that today with Ubuntu. Chrome OS's novel merit is cloud lockin, anything else it gives you, you can already get somewhere else.
Okey... 'nuff said. If there is anything that could on the long run kill proprietary, monoplies, vendor lockin, etc, etc. then it is Chromium.
How on Earth would having all your applications running remote on Google Gears kill your "lockin"? If anything it makes it worse.
To quote the great Kottke:
...I've been sitting here copying a file to a floppy disk on my Mac design work station, the file is 5 megs and I've been waiting 20 minutes!!...
Negatives:
You know what, that's a terrible idea. Put BIG caps on the signal leads first, then try just floating the ground. Don't cap the ground.
I guess when I said "speakers" I meant "analogue audio port." Some cheaper mobos use the data ground, instead of a dedicated signal ground, for the shield audio ground. Bad idea. If the shield ground on the audio out is accessible, try putting a small capacitor (like picofarads) serially between the audio port and the ground rail to kill any DC that might be on the data ground.
It's not surprising that the buzz would go away with USB headphones, because the DAC in the USB adaptor is electronically isolated from the USB shield. I wouldn't be surprised if the audio shield to your headphones was left floating on the USB side.
It's probably some sort of grounding problem in your speakers...