Actually, I was thinking, "Cool! Diamond Age!"
Of course in Diamond Age, the paper had computing power too complete with voice recognitioin and the ability to fold itself.
You won't really need 14 speakers for it. I'm sure Bose will be quick off the mark with a system that emulates 14 speakers using two tiny boxes and a subwoofer. And it will sound just as crappy as everything else they make.
Yeah.
I'm sure that it's a conspiracy to get people to waste mod points. It couldn't possibly be that people just wanted to post things that struck them as funny. Nobody ever tries to be funny on/.
But the way you say it, you seem to think that what you're doing is hunky dory? How are the creators/actors of the shows you're watching getting paid for creating this work you so fervently watch?
Um... They get paid (indirectly) by the advertisers who purchase commercial time on their shows. At least that's how they're paid for the broadcasts we're talking about recording and sharing. I've never heard that advertisers are paying less because people skip commercials with their VCRs or mute the commercials or go get a snack when watching live TV.
DVD rips are another matter. In that case, sharing does cut into the profits and therefore the residuals that are paid to creators and actors. That's why I only really download recorded broadcasts. If I like a show enough to want a quality copy to keep, I buy the DVDs.
I work for a school district too, and it's not just the students. The people who work in the offices are worse. In a student computer lab, one or two out of 30 will have a significant infection. In the offices, about half of them will be nearly useless from spyware and adware. I sat down at an elementary school office administrator's computer the other day, and IE had about five search bars. The address bar was shoved all the way over to the side so you couldn't use it. What kills me is they always say, "But I have to put smiley faces in the daily e-mails I send to all the teachers."
The feature I'd most like to see?
Availability of the real Sun JRE through Microsoft Windows Update.
OK. So it's not realistic, but it would make me happy.
Part of the charm of Glenn Gould's recordings stems from the fact that you can hear him humming along with the music if you listen carefully. I guess he drove recording techs nuts.
In about '89, when I was in college, some friends of mine had company over to demonstrate the prototype voice controlled cable box they had. They explained that it wasn't very sensitive, so you had to speak up, and sure enough, as they shouted, "13! 27! ESPN! MTV!" the box switched to the appropriate channel. The visitors were duly impressed and wanted to know how they could get one of the prototypes from the cable company. My friends told them that they may already have one, and they should try giving their box at home voice commands. I don't think they ever found out that my roommate and I were standing outside with our cable box remote pointed through a gap in the curtains, "interpreting" the voice commands.
If I code to standards why can't microsoft make their products support standards?
I try not to just jump on the anti-MS bandwagon, but in this case, I really believe MS doesn't support standards so that they can make people put "best viewed with IE" on their web pages. They don't want any standards in the internet that they can't charge people to use.
That reminds me of a girl in my high school. She was a cheerleader, very popular, and actually very nice. When we had to do debates in English class, her topic was legalization of prostitution, and she was on the "con" side. For an example of what can go wrong with legalized prostitution, she used Thailand as her example. Unfortunately, she called it "Thigh land" through the whole debate. I don't think she ever figured out why everyone was laughing.
There is some useful information available via podcast too. For example, Air America Radio makes The Al Franken Show and The Majority Report available via podcast in case you can't catch them at their regular broadcast times. Unfortunately, they overcompress the shows a bit.
When you have several of the worlds extremely wealthy throwing money at something this big... you know that A. there's a SHITLOAD of money to be made...
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And yes she's old now, but that movie was out, what, 10 years ago.
15 years.
Actually, I was thinking, "Cool! Diamond Age!"
Of course in Diamond Age, the paper had computing power too complete with voice recognitioin and the ability to fold itself.
You won't really need 14 speakers for it. I'm sure Bose will be quick off the mark with a system that emulates 14 speakers using two tiny boxes and a subwoofer. And it will sound just as crappy as everything else they make.
An example of this is in episode 3 when they talk about the short range TIE fighter.
I assume you mean Episode 4.
Good points, otherwise.
Yeah. /.
I'm sure that it's a conspiracy to get people to waste mod points. It couldn't possibly be that people just wanted to post things that struck them as funny. Nobody ever tries to be funny on
But the way you say it, you seem to think that what you're doing is hunky dory? How are the creators/actors of the shows you're watching getting paid for creating this work you so fervently watch?
Um... They get paid (indirectly) by the advertisers who purchase commercial time on their shows. At least that's how they're paid for the broadcasts we're talking about recording and sharing. I've never heard that advertisers are paying less because people skip commercials with their VCRs or mute the commercials or go get a snack when watching live TV.
DVD rips are another matter. In that case, sharing does cut into the profits and therefore the residuals that are paid to creators and actors. That's why I only really download recorded broadcasts. If I like a show enough to want a quality copy to keep, I buy the DVDs.
I work for a school district too, and it's not just the students. The people who work in the offices are worse. In a student computer lab, one or two out of 30 will have a significant infection. In the offices, about half of them will be nearly useless from spyware and adware. I sat down at an elementary school office administrator's computer the other day, and IE had about five search bars. The address bar was shoved all the way over to the side so you couldn't use it. What kills me is they always say, "But I have to put smiley faces in the daily e-mails I send to all the teachers."
No Ponds and Fleischman jokes?
The feature I'd most like to see? Availability of the real Sun JRE through Microsoft Windows Update. OK. So it's not realistic, but it would make me happy.
Part of the charm of Glenn Gould's recordings stems from the fact that you can hear him humming along with the music if you listen carefully. I guess he drove recording techs nuts.
WTF kind of English is this?
It's a step above "WTF."
When I see an article like this, my first thought is that either someone still thinks it's April Fools' day or the editors at Nature took Scientific American's latest editorial to heart when they published it.
In about '89, when I was in college, some friends of mine had company over to demonstrate the prototype voice controlled cable box they had. They explained that it wasn't very sensitive, so you had to speak up, and sure enough, as they shouted, "13! 27! ESPN! MTV!" the box switched to the appropriate channel. The visitors were duly impressed and wanted to know how they could get one of the prototypes from the cable company. My friends told them that they may already have one, and they should try giving their box at home voice commands. I don't think they ever found out that my roommate and I were standing outside with our cable box remote pointed through a gap in the curtains, "interpreting" the voice commands.
Given the April Fools' backlash that's begun to develop, I was starting to worry that they'd put up the story that I submitted about Google Gulp.
If I code to standards why can't microsoft make their products support standards? I try not to just jump on the anti-MS bandwagon, but in this case, I really believe MS doesn't support standards so that they can make people put "best viewed with IE" on their web pages. They don't want any standards in the internet that they can't charge people to use.
We can debate whether Fosset deserves praise, but I think it's pretty clear that it's a huge accomplishment for Burt Rutan.
Call me back when they can control the hamsters via MIDI.
That reminds me of a girl in my high school. She was a cheerleader, very popular, and actually very nice. When we had to do debates in English class, her topic was legalization of prostitution, and she was on the "con" side. For an example of what can go wrong with legalized prostitution, she used Thailand as her example. Unfortunately, she called it "Thigh land" through the whole debate. I don't think she ever figured out why everyone was laughing.
There is some useful information available via podcast too. For example, Air America Radio makes The Al Franken Show and The Majority Report available via podcast in case you can't catch them at their regular broadcast times. Unfortunately, they overcompress the shows a bit.