Personally, the Netflix recommendation system usually returns things I like, and the little sidebar telling you why it recommendeded that particular flick based on your ratings of other movies is helpful. I know when I rate things like TVONDVD highly simply because I like the show, I get bombarded with recommendations for crap TV on DVD, but that's something I can live with. For me the system works fairly well.
Certainly better than Amazon's recommendations I find. There are too many things that Amazon sells for them to make a decent go of recommending things to you.
An example: Just because I buy a Gamecube game, it doesn't mean I emphatically must have the Resident Evil Gamecube controller!!! Jeez.
One big evil hand not knowing what the other big evil hand is doing. Maybe they won't be able to coordinate their efforts to collectively fuck the whole world now.
personilization software??? Their PR guys will just come out with another piece of genius like "why open source ISN'T safe" and people will believe 'em.
I like the idea of the big frontrunner Intel actually taking notice of what the little guy is doing and trying to oh-so-unelegantly copy it. All that will do is create more awareness of the original product. Free advertising for Apple (like they really need more, but still). I didn't know that Intel was looking out for the little guy so much.
Adult Swim is the best block of tv programming out there. One commercial break every 15 minutes, and those anemic commercial breaks are sandwiched between the 'bumps'. (white text, black card, funny stuff)
I just wish the anime block was a bit more worthwile. Aside from Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, it's mostly crap. I think that once people realize that the carton medium isn't just for terrible kids shows that do nothing but sell worthless merchandise, we could see real stories in another medium, which is all to the good. Take the anime Lain for example, it's a complete story in 13 episodes. Half a season. No toys, at least not in the states.
No TV exec in their right mind in the US would dream of putting a show on that had a predetermined amount of episodes, unless it's a miniseries 'event', then they can sell ad space on for stupid amounts of money. Nevermind the fact that it's a 'cartoon' that's more philosophical and engaging than anything on Must See TV on any given night of the week; it's too much not like Friends to risk making things like that here for TV. Adult Swim is the last bastion of hope for decent TV, and it's a bunch of cartoons that come on late at night, on a cable station. At least it's not as niche as a lot of people would like it to be. That means we get new Family Guy.
I think they'd be most properly referred to as "arch-conservatives", the so called "religious right" as this debate centers around their blind adherence to the 'sanctity of life' issue.
As George Carlin put it, "Look who's calling life sacred....LIVING PEOPLE!! Of course they're going to call life sacred!
The Government doesn't know how to solve problems, all they know how to do is create legislation using their limited understanding of the problem. "Spam is bad, therefore we should make it illegal!" Nice job, congress, CAN-SPAM has been around for how long now? anyone notice a difference? Gmail does more to can my spam than any government ass could do anyday.
Wouldn't it be funny if there was a SPAM lobby that was paying fat sacks of cash money to sentaors and congressmen to "inform" them as to the benefits of SPAM? 'if we don't spam peoeple, we will be a country of small penis-ed, non-working-at-home, erectile dysfunctioned, people WITHOUT FREE IPODS!'
I had a slight affair with overclocking for a time. I got burned.(can't believe i actually said that)
Seriously, I ran some benchmarks(3dmark) on my system (Athlon 64 3000) overclocked and with default settings. The arbitrary numerical value of how badass my computer is, given by said benchmark program, was hardly worth the bother. There are people who must live on the bleeding edge, and some people like "living dangerously." I like that I can get my processor to run like a 3200 for 0 dollars, but i'm not a hardcore overclocker by any means.
Now, once the Powers That Be start optimizing games for 64 bit processors, then I'll squeal like a little girl.
what they need to do is try to use those cpu years to simulate the math done on a waiter's check pad in an italian bistro....
Bistromath!
there's gotta be enough room here for another hitchhiker's guide reference
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Personally, the Netflix recommendation system usually returns things I like, and the little sidebar telling you why it recommendeded that particular flick based on your ratings of other movies is helpful. I know when I rate things like TVONDVD highly simply because I like the show, I get bombarded with recommendations for crap TV on DVD, but that's something I can live with. For me the system works fairly well.
Certainly better than Amazon's recommendations I find. There are too many things that Amazon sells for them to make a decent go of recommending things to you.
An example: Just because I buy a Gamecube game, it doesn't mean I emphatically must have the Resident Evil Gamecube controller!!! Jeez.
One big evil hand not knowing what the other big evil hand is doing. Maybe they won't be able to coordinate their efforts to collectively fuck the whole world now.
personilization software??? Their PR guys will just come out with another piece of genius like "why open source ISN'T safe" and people will believe 'em.I like the idea of the big frontrunner Intel actually taking notice of what the little guy is doing and trying to oh-so-unelegantly copy it. All that will do is create more awareness of the original product. Free advertising for Apple (like they really need more, but still). I didn't know that Intel was looking out for the little guy so much.
Adult Swim is the best block of tv programming out there. One commercial break every 15 minutes, and those anemic commercial breaks are sandwiched between the 'bumps'. (white text, black card, funny stuff)
I just wish the anime block was a bit more worthwile. Aside from Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, it's mostly crap. I think that once people realize that the carton medium isn't just for terrible kids shows that do nothing but sell worthless merchandise, we could see real stories in another medium, which is all to the good. Take the anime Lain for example, it's a complete story in 13 episodes. Half a season. No toys, at least not in the states.
No TV exec in their right mind in the US would dream of putting a show on that had a predetermined amount of episodes, unless it's a miniseries 'event', then they can sell ad space on for stupid amounts of money. Nevermind the fact that it's a 'cartoon' that's more philosophical and engaging than anything on Must See TV on any given night of the week; it's too much not like Friends to risk making things like that here for TV. Adult Swim is the last bastion of hope for decent TV, and it's a bunch of cartoons that come on late at night, on a cable station. At least it's not as niche as a lot of people would like it to be. That means we get new Family Guy.
I think they'd be most properly referred to as "arch-conservatives", the so called "religious right" as this debate centers around their blind adherence to the 'sanctity of life' issue.
As George Carlin put it, "Look who's calling life sacred....LIVING PEOPLE!! Of course they're going to call life sacred!
The Government doesn't know how to solve problems, all they know how to do is create legislation using their limited understanding of the problem. "Spam is bad, therefore we should make it illegal!" Nice job, congress, CAN-SPAM has been around for how long now? anyone notice a difference? Gmail does more to can my spam than any government ass could do anyday.
Wouldn't it be funny if there was a SPAM lobby that was paying fat sacks of cash money to sentaors and congressmen to "inform" them as to the benefits of SPAM? 'if we don't spam peoeple, we will be a country of small penis-ed, non-working-at-home, erectile dysfunctioned, people WITHOUT FREE IPODS!'
I had a slight affair with overclocking for a time. I got burned.(can't believe i actually said that) Seriously, I ran some benchmarks(3dmark) on my system (Athlon 64 3000) overclocked and with default settings. The arbitrary numerical value of how badass my computer is, given by said benchmark program, was hardly worth the bother. There are people who must live on the bleeding edge, and some people like "living dangerously." I like that I can get my processor to run like a 3200 for 0 dollars, but i'm not a hardcore overclocker by any means. Now, once the Powers That Be start optimizing games for 64 bit processors, then I'll squeal like a little girl.
what they need to do is try to use those cpu years to simulate the math done on a waiter's check pad in an italian bistro.... Bistromath! there's gotta be enough room here for another hitchhiker's guide reference