Great idea, I just picked up Baghdad2018. I'm going to be rich when hell freezes over and they get the Winter Olympics.
I just picked up FrozenHell2018.com for the exact same reason. I can't wait to see the 200m Flying Pig races! That is, if I can find time between all the cheerleaders who'll be contractually obligated to sleep with me.
So if McDonalds named a product the McHammer, they get to forcibly take MCHammer.com on the basis of they own mc*?
Nope. MC Hammer's lawyers would be on the case right away. They'd tell McDonalds that he is the rightful owner of the domain, and that they CAN'T TOUCH THIS!
If I were in charge of Obama's campaign, I'd latch onto this one as a huge PR campaign. It's nearly a given that Texas is going to go to McCain. Putting up a fight there seems to be a futile effort. So why not instead bring this to the attention of the public, and use it? Go public and admit that Bob Barr is right. That according the the law, both candidates missed the deadline. And since the country is built on laws, and it is the responsibility of the PoTUS to follow the law and not the other way away, he is voluntarily bowing out of Texas-- and do it in such a way that it throws down a public challenge to McCain. Will he, too, do what is right, or will he throw a fit and break the law whenever it doesn't suit his personal interests?
Win-win for Obama. Either McCain continues with Texas (winning it like he would anyways) and demonstrates to the public that he doesn't respect the law of the people-- or McCain drops out, and that's one less victory for the Republicans.
I've always wondered-- what's the point of aiming for the 3D "social" browser anymore? It was tried, tested and failed in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember trying out several in-browser (read: Flash or Java) 3D avatar-based chat sites. They were all universally crappy, but that seems to be a limitation of the technology. Or rather, it seems to be a limitation of attempting to use the incorrect technology when perfectly good ones already exist.
There exists, right now, several extremely successful 3D social environments that create virtual worlds for people to meet and greet in. Take WoW, for example. The interface is (compared to a kludgy browser interface) extremely easy to use. The chat features are fairly extensive. The world is massive, somewhat customizable, and very scenic. Oh, and there's a game to go with it, too. On the other side of the same coin, SecondLife has a large "social chat" following. The graphics aren't exactly WoW-level, but they meet or exceed any expectations one would have had of a browser-3D world. It is also far more customizable that WoW.
I'm certain anyone here on/. can (and most likely will) point out other 3D games / social experiments that also foot the bill
I think that what these interfaces have over the browser is that they are natural 3D. Their interfaces always were and always will be designed around 3D technology-- while a brower's main design is displaying marked-up data in a two dimensional, fairly linear (and asynchronous) manner. You can argue that you can easily put a 3D widget in there to interpret that markup language, and display it in a plug-in... but all what you've done is wrapped the problem in several layers when it didn't need to be. The plug-in can function much better outside the browser than in, and you don't have to wrap the client-server communications inside HTML or XML or whatever else you chose to send through the browser.
If you like that, then you'll just dig the fact that I couldn't tell if you were replying to his message or his sig:
Yeah, I agree. Atleast, I enjoyed the second one. Not as an ad though.. more as an interesting short. I can't really fathom how the intention could be anything more than that given the way they were made/scripted.
I'm going to build motorized, retractable cover for my front license plate if this system is implimented. Fuck that.
Jeeze, if you're going to buck the system, why not go all the way and fuck up the system? Don't just hide your plate. Make it work for you.
Take a ride past your local police parking lot, and jot down two or three license plate numbers. Then use a good quality laser printer and make yourself some copies of those "plates". With luck they'll never notice they're effectively tracking themselves
Or heck, just copy ANY plate(s). Randomly switch them around. The system will think cars are vanishing and reappearing all over the place. Or maybe you'll get even luckier, and it will snap a shot of two of the same plates at the same time, and cause a referential integrity error in the system, crashing it.
The minute the implement random manual spot checks by humans to ensure the integrity of the data, slap a Goatse on your plate. You should burn out the employees pretty quickly with that one.
Whatever you do, be creative. The more you can clog the system with crap, the lower their cost:profit^H^H^H public safety ratio goes down. Make it hit a critical point, and the system will be abandoned.
Nothing could ameliorate the ineptitude of Principal Skinner
Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, n'gee, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into...the third dimension.
Or does this mean that I can send AT&T a "customer ToS" and say that I now get unlimited everything on my plan, and if they don't approve they can just walk away from the existing contract?
No, they wiggle into the original TOS that they can modify the TOS at any time in the future, usually with some BS "30 day notice" clause, that they might even honor!
One exception is polka music, a group representing American polka music negotiated a broad agreement with SoundExchange that polka stations don't have to pay any revenues.
Hrm, I wonder what percentage of your playlist has to be polka to be considered a polka station? 23 hours of Hendrix Guitar Solos (extended edition), then 1 hour of Polka at 3am?
Or just declare yourself a polka station, and get yourself a list of Soundexchange IP addresses. If any of them connect to your station, it fires up Channel 2 (aka: the Let's Polka Loop!).
If pirating it and donating directly to the artist was an option I'd do it, but that's never the case for RIAA-signed artists.
??? Seriously? Just look up the artists address (which you should be able to do with 99% of them) and send them a $10 bill in the mail with a note that says "Wanted you to get this directly. Thanks for the music." Or go the t-shirt-at-the-concert route if you can't contact them directly (or, go to a concert and buy a CD right from them after the show). There's lots of ways outside of the Paypal button.
The controversy is that the OLPC program started off
Nah, man. That isn't the "controversy" at all. It's all about this massive secret the reporter uncovered from the seedy underbelly of The Internet, and chose to enlighten us with:
This puts the nation at the heart of a software controversy that has been raging for years between those who advocate making software and its source code free, such as Linux OS developers, and those who charge for software and keep the development recipes secret, such as Microsoft."
See? See? A raging controversy! And it must be that no one's ever heard of it, because the author felt it necessary to describe it in detail-- so much so that half the summary is just this revelation alone! Whoa!
Maybe that's why republicans think you can cut taxes and increase spending and everything will work out okay.
Of course it will be fine-- because the next Democrat guy in office will have to raise taxes and cut spending, which will get him two things: a balanced budget and voted out. Then the republican can step back in and say "see, our system works just fine."
Boy, that's just what I want to do when I'm on the run... take the time to flip the phone over, take out a stylus, and sloooooooowly scrawl a note using archaic gesture that might or might not be legible later.
What I'd rather have is voice recognition in the phone that will annotate the photos for me. *snap* "Goose Rock Beach at sunset." *snap* "That tea shop on Front that I want to check out later." etc.
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I just picked up FrozenHell2018.com for the exact same reason. I can't wait to see the 200m Flying Pig races! That is, if I can find time between all the cheerleaders who'll be contractually obligated to sleep with me.
Nope. MC Hammer's lawyers would be on the case right away. They'd tell McDonalds that he is the rightful owner of the domain, and that they CAN'T TOUCH THIS!
Win-win for Obama. Either McCain continues with Texas (winning it like he would anyways) and demonstrates to the public that he doesn't respect the law of the people-- or McCain drops out, and that's one less victory for the Republicans.
Mr. Shumway tried to cook a cat in it.
I've always wondered-- what's the point of aiming for the 3D "social" browser anymore? It was tried, tested and failed in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember trying out several in-browser (read: Flash or Java) 3D avatar-based chat sites. They were all universally crappy, but that seems to be a limitation of the technology. Or rather, it seems to be a limitation of attempting to use the incorrect technology when perfectly good ones already exist.
There exists, right now, several extremely successful 3D social environments that create virtual worlds for people to meet and greet in. Take WoW, for example. The interface is (compared to a kludgy browser interface) extremely easy to use. The chat features are fairly extensive. The world is massive, somewhat customizable, and very scenic. Oh, and there's a game to go with it, too. On the other side of the same coin, SecondLife has a large "social chat" following. The graphics aren't exactly WoW-level, but they meet or exceed any expectations one would have had of a browser-3D world. It is also far more customizable that WoW.
I'm certain anyone here on /. can (and most likely will) point out other 3D games / social experiments that also foot the bill
I think that what these interfaces have over the browser is that they are natural 3D. Their interfaces always were and always will be designed around 3D technology-- while a brower's main design is displaying marked-up data in a two dimensional, fairly linear (and asynchronous) manner. You can argue that you can easily put a 3D widget in there to interpret that markup language, and display it in a plug-in... but all what you've done is wrapped the problem in several layers when it didn't need to be. The plug-in can function much better outside the browser than in, and you don't have to wrap the client-server communications inside HTML or XML or whatever else you chose to send through the browser.
And this next, new, improved ad will deliver a BETTER and RICHER experience than any Microsoft ad to date.
Bush studied electronics and robots? Crap, it's going to be RoboNixon all over again.
If you like that, then you'll just dig the fact that I couldn't tell if you were replying to his message or his sig:
No means No, Clippy!
I'll start an list article for "Every trivial matter you can think of".
It depends if it's before or after Labor Day...
Jeeze, if you're going to buck the system, why not go all the way and fuck up the system? Don't just hide your plate. Make it work for you.
Take a ride past your local police parking lot, and jot down two or three license plate numbers. Then use a good quality laser printer and make yourself some copies of those "plates". With luck they'll never notice they're effectively tracking themselves
Or heck, just copy ANY plate(s). Randomly switch them around. The system will think cars are vanishing and reappearing all over the place. Or maybe you'll get even luckier, and it will snap a shot of two of the same plates at the same time, and cause a referential integrity error in the system, crashing it.
The minute the implement random manual spot checks by humans to ensure the integrity of the data, slap a Goatse on your plate. You should burn out the employees pretty quickly with that one.
Whatever you do, be creative. The more you can clog the system with crap, the lower their cost:profit^H^H^H public safety ratio goes down. Make it hit a critical point, and the system will be abandoned.
Please select one of the following:
No it isn't.
And thus the game of Calvinball began...
Hrm, I wonder what percentage of your playlist has to be polka to be considered a polka station? 23 hours of Hendrix Guitar Solos (extended edition), then 1 hour of Polka at 3am?
Or just declare yourself a polka station, and get yourself a list of Soundexchange IP addresses. If any of them connect to your station, it fires up Channel 2 (aka: the Let's Polka Loop!).
??? Seriously? Just look up the artists address (which you should be able to do with 99% of them) and send them a $10 bill in the mail with a note that says "Wanted you to get this directly. Thanks for the music." Or go the t-shirt-at-the-concert route if you can't contact them directly (or, go to a concert and buy a CD right from them after the show). There's lots of ways outside of the Paypal button.
Nah, man. That isn't the "controversy" at all. It's all about this massive secret the reporter uncovered from the seedy underbelly of The Internet, and chose to enlighten us with:
Of course it will be fine-- because the next Democrat guy in office will have to raise taxes and cut spending, which will get him two things: a balanced budget and voted out. Then the republican can step back in and say "see, our system works just fine."
Why use an IDE when butterflies will do it for you?
... and a moisturizer strip for a cool, refreshing finish.
What I'd rather have is voice recognition in the phone that will annotate the photos for me. *snap* "Goose Rock Beach at sunset." *snap* "That tea shop on Front that I want to check out later." etc.
Oops, I stand corrected. But this just makes things even worse, since they don't even have that extra degree of separation from Bonfire.
It's the Universe's backup of itself. It would store it offsite, but it's kinda hard when everywhere is here.
Let me know when a DX10-only game comes out that doesn't have a hack to make it work with DX9