thepiratebay.org has something of a classic. Search, find, click, go to the download page, but wait, don't click on the big green "Download" button, that's for a toolbar or something which no doubt they get paid a little something for every time someone clicks. What you want is the smaller "DOWNLOAD THIS TORRENT" link underneath the inviting big green "Download" button.
No big deal since I like TPB, and what does one expect of pirates? "Yarrr, suckered ye good Jimmy me lad, now give us rum."
Was a time when it was NASA providing the tech to the film director, like when they traded a high tech lens capable of shooting in very low light to Stanley Kubrick in exchange for him helping fake the moon landing.
Reminds me of the story of the proud mother watching her son march with his regiment who said "All those other soldiers are marching out of step, but not my Johnny!"
Annoying flash ads, banner ads, and javascript-fueled nightmare ads are not selling anything. Anyone notice those are all things Google does not use?
Google does serve up banner ads, sometimes with animation, though I don't recall ever seeing anything truly obnoxious like punch the monkey. It has been awhile since I looked at it, but I believe there was a text only ads configuration option for site owners displaying their ads, however I don't think that's the default.
They don't make 'em like that anymore. If you want good non-electric tools you're better off looking for old ones on ebay than the hardware store which is likely to be filled with cheap crap from China. I'm not sure a cheap Chinese snow shovel would be art even if you signed it and hung it on the wall. Maybe. But it wouldn't be good art.
Art is what I say is art (or for Ebert what he says is art, or for you what you say is art).
The only exception might be art in galleries, each piece indicated by a label. By virtue of it being in a gallery, it is art, even if I don't think it's very artistic. The label is important so that patrons won't mistake the fire extinguisher for sculpture, found art, or whatever other wonky thing I wouldn't accept as art were it not in a gallery accompanied by a label.
If I were a very lazy artist, I would stick labels with my name on by the fire extinguishers and light switches and whatever else didn't have a label in the major art gallery here in town, then say I was exhibited there. It would look good on my resume.
This is a bit of an odd submission from NewYorkCountryLawyer. Is the microbial mat a client? What sort of music is it accused of filesharing? That might give us some insight into its nature.
It would be really cool if it was the Leviathan. I'd like to see it go after the RIAA labels, towering over terrified Sony execs as they ran for their lives.
Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else
I'm thinking mAIsE wasn't criticizing businesses for wanting to be profitable, but rather for an exclusive focus on money making. The tip off is the block quotes. It's a major concern with regard to any corporation that has a monopoly in their area, or even just a near monopoly, since when it's only about the money, the only thing that keeps them motivated to improve is competition -- witness the stagnation of Internet Explorer when Microsoft had won the browser wars for the period pre firefox.
It's the sort of thing which makes people nervous about Oracle owning MySQL, especially if its going to start asking what's the point with regard to next quarters profits, or are we harboring a scorpion that's a threat to our main product? Personally I hope they see MySQL as an opportunity to make money in a different niche from their main product and not as a scorpion, but you can understand people's concerns.
If I was a girl browsing slashdot and thinking about creating an account, you would've just changed my mind for me.
And if I was a female coming across this comment by a guy with presumption to speak on behalf of all women (or "girls"), I would be pretty turned off as well.
Yes, please. A Canadian version. We didn't have a tea party, but we did have a bit of a rebellion in 1837. The 1837 Party maybe?
Is the Tea Party really a party down there? I thought it was some sort of grass roots Republican movement. BBC is reporting today that Sarah Palin addressed a bunch of them in Boston recently.
What we need is a party to split the right. I would be happier to see a pro-intellectual property, family values, pry gun from cold dead hands, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights party announce, something that could siphon votes away from the Conservatives.
Hey, Preston, how's about giving that Reform thing another whirl?
There's a tech angle to this, and that's that the person giving permission to engage has no real time access to the camera. There is a system in place which should prevent this sort of thing, but it depends on honest reporting by the people who will do the shooting, since the one granting permission is blind to the actual situation. If there were a way for the decision maker, removed from the heat of the battle and possessed of a cooler head, to see the vid real time he could say "I don't see any AK47's. Simmer down boys and move on."
Their level of hatred and eagerness to kill was conspicuous, and their laughter at the desecration of a body being run over by a vehicle chilling.
You can see that there is a command and control structure in place no doubt designed to prevent this sort of thing where they have to request permission to engage, but when they lie saying that they've encountered hostiles with AK47s and RPGs, then of course they get permission and that check is totally bypassed, allowing them the slaughter they're so obviously craving. The structure is professional, but it is totally subverted by the butchers on the trigger.
But the commitment to professionalism of the higher ups also comes into question when they cover this up rather than bringing these bastards up on charges. In so doing they subvert the very structures they've set in place. In a situation like that, truth is sacred not for any philosophical reasons, but because it is essential to operations, the system depends on it so completely.
And yet, we nerds keep buying the "latest greatest" technology and enabling them.
Really? Is it us nerds? I've been thinking of Blue Ray as a home entertainment thing for people with hd televisions. If I end up with something like that for a computer it will be because I need a dvd reader/writer and they don't exist anymore to buy. In short I don't have it because I don't need it, don't want it, and haven't been compelled in any way to get it.
Now, I'm no expert in statistical analysis, and the fine folk here on/. who have criticized this study on theoretical grounds may have a point, but I do know how to read a graph, and the one included in the fine article is pretty clear and simple. The trouble starts with the 50 year old group and gets progressively worse through to the 70 to 80 year olds who clearly must really suck at driving. BUT for the 80+ group the drop off is dramatic, with them dying less often than even than the teenagers. So the message to older drivers is that if you can just hold on until you're an octogenarian, you'll be driving safely well into your hundreds. Clearly that's when all those years of experience really pay off.
When I was a lad long, long ago we had no internet and only two tv channels. Usually there wasn't anything on worth watching. I read a lot of books.
Most cities have these buildings full of books and even media, which they seem perfectly happy to loan out for free. I'm not entirely sure what their business model is, but they've been doing this for as long as I can remember, so it appears viable, strange though that may seem. It might be time to rediscover them.
Southern europe has already gone nuts on it. People seen with fake purses etc get stopped on the street and fined 5000 euros on the spot on a regular basis already.
Soon the only safe way to be is naked on a deserted island somewhere. But get used to being exposed to the elements, because I'm sure someone somewhere has patented the grass hut.
I've always thought it would be cool to work in Europe for awhile, but I wasn't aware that we were members of EU. When did that happen? Is it because we've got the queen on our money?
So beware, if you dare to collaborate with the enemy.
I know you're being humorous, but it does feel that way which is kind of sad. I think most of us would be happy to pay a reasonable price for a non-DRMed copy of a movie we wanted to see. That is to say, I think most of us are willing to be customers. In fact, I bought a DVD the other day. It had two movies on it for ten bucks. And because I watch DVDs using an open source OS, I don't get the complaints about being forced to watch previews and FBI warnings. Do DVD players or whatever you watch on really enforce that?
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thepiratebay.org has something of a classic. Search, find, click, go to the download page, but wait, don't click on the big green "Download" button, that's for a toolbar or something which no doubt they get paid a little something for every time someone clicks. What you want is the smaller "DOWNLOAD THIS TORRENT" link underneath the inviting big green "Download" button.
No big deal since I like TPB, and what does one expect of pirates? "Yarrr, suckered ye good Jimmy me lad, now give us rum."
Was a time when it was NASA providing the tech to the film director, like when they traded a high tech lens capable of shooting in very low light to Stanley Kubrick in exchange for him helping fake the moon landing.
Dark Side of the Moon
Reminds me of the story of the proud mother watching her son march with his regiment who said "All those other soldiers are marching out of step, but not my Johnny!"
As a Canadian, I've got to say, this Republican vs Democrat stuff is really really getting out of hand. Are you people children or adults, FFS.
Can this Onion Ring get more fans than Stephen Harper?
Stephen Harper is a doo-doo head.
The pope is either an idiot, or a budding tyrant...
He's no idiot, and as for tyrant, well, he's hardly "budding". He was head of the Inquisition for over two decades, from 1981 to 2005.
Annoying flash ads, banner ads, and javascript-fueled nightmare ads are not selling anything. Anyone notice those are all things Google does not use?
Google does serve up banner ads, sometimes with animation, though I don't recall ever seeing anything truly obnoxious like punch the monkey. It has been awhile since I looked at it, but I believe there was a text only ads configuration option for site owners displaying their ads, however I don't think that's the default.
They don't make 'em like that anymore. If you want good non-electric tools you're better off looking for old ones on ebay than the hardware store which is likely to be filled with cheap crap from China. I'm not sure a cheap Chinese snow shovel would be art even if you signed it and hung it on the wall. Maybe. But it wouldn't be good art.
Marcel Duchamp, is that you?
Ssssh, busy with my sharpy signing the gallery urinals. There! Another masterpiece by the immortal R. Mutt!
Art is what I say is art (or for Ebert what he says is art, or for you what you say is art).
The only exception might be art in galleries, each piece indicated by a label. By virtue of it being in a gallery, it is art, even if I don't think it's very artistic. The label is important so that patrons won't mistake the fire extinguisher for sculpture, found art, or whatever other wonky thing I wouldn't accept as art were it not in a gallery accompanied by a label.
If I were a very lazy artist, I would stick labels with my name on by the fire extinguishers and light switches and whatever else didn't have a label in the major art gallery here in town, then say I was exhibited there. It would look good on my resume.
This is a bit of an odd submission from NewYorkCountryLawyer. Is the microbial mat a client? What sort of music is it accused of filesharing? That might give us some insight into its nature.
It would be really cool if it was the Leviathan. I'd like to see it go after the RIAA labels, towering over terrified Sony execs as they ran for their lives.
Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else
I'm thinking mAIsE wasn't criticizing businesses for wanting to be profitable, but rather for an exclusive focus on money making. The tip off is the block quotes. It's a major concern with regard to any corporation that has a monopoly in their area, or even just a near monopoly, since when it's only about the money, the only thing that keeps them motivated to improve is competition -- witness the stagnation of Internet Explorer when Microsoft had won the browser wars for the period pre firefox.
It's the sort of thing which makes people nervous about Oracle owning MySQL, especially if its going to start asking what's the point with regard to next quarters profits, or are we harboring a scorpion that's a threat to our main product? Personally I hope they see MySQL as an opportunity to make money in a different niche from their main product and not as a scorpion, but you can understand people's concerns.
If I was a girl browsing slashdot and thinking about creating an account, you would've just changed my mind for me.
And if I was a female coming across this comment by a guy with presumption to speak on behalf of all women (or "girls"), I would be pretty turned off as well.
Oops!
...who read Oprah instead of Oracle?!
You and the four other female readers of slashdot.
Deities please bless and send us more lady geeks.
The Tea Party?
Yes, please. A Canadian version. We didn't have a tea party, but we did have a bit of a rebellion in 1837. The 1837 Party maybe?
Is the Tea Party really a party down there? I thought it was some sort of grass roots Republican movement. BBC is reporting today that Sarah Palin addressed a bunch of them in Boston recently.
What we need is a party to split the right. I would be happier to see a pro-intellectual property, family values, pry gun from cold dead hands, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights party announce, something that could siphon votes away from the Conservatives.
Hey, Preston, how's about giving that Reform thing another whirl?
There's a tech angle to this, and that's that the person giving permission to engage has no real time access to the camera. There is a system in place which should prevent this sort of thing, but it depends on honest reporting by the people who will do the shooting, since the one granting permission is blind to the actual situation. If there were a way for the decision maker, removed from the heat of the battle and possessed of a cooler head, to see the vid real time he could say "I don't see any AK47's. Simmer down boys and move on."
Their level of hatred and eagerness to kill was conspicuous, and their laughter at the desecration of a body being run over by a vehicle chilling.
You can see that there is a command and control structure in place no doubt designed to prevent this sort of thing where they have to request permission to engage, but when they lie saying that they've encountered hostiles with AK47s and RPGs, then of course they get permission and that check is totally bypassed, allowing them the slaughter they're so obviously craving. The structure is professional, but it is totally subverted by the butchers on the trigger.
But the commitment to professionalism of the higher ups also comes into question when they cover this up rather than bringing these bastards up on charges. In so doing they subvert the very structures they've set in place. In a situation like that, truth is sacred not for any philosophical reasons, but because it is essential to operations, the system depends on it so completely.
And yet, we nerds keep buying the "latest greatest" technology and enabling them.
Really? Is it us nerds? I've been thinking of Blue Ray as a home entertainment thing for people with hd televisions. If I end up with something like that for a computer it will be because I need a dvd reader/writer and they don't exist anymore to buy. In short I don't have it because I don't need it, don't want it, and haven't been compelled in any way to get it.
Now, I'm no expert in statistical analysis, and the fine folk here on /. who have criticized this study on theoretical grounds may have a point, but I do know how to read a graph, and the one included in the fine article is pretty clear and simple. The trouble starts with the 50 year old group and gets progressively worse through to the 70 to 80 year olds who clearly must really suck at driving. BUT for the 80+ group the drop off is dramatic, with them dying less often than even than the teenagers. So the message to older drivers is that if you can just hold on until you're an octogenarian, you'll be driving safely well into your hundreds. Clearly that's when all those years of experience really pay off.
When I was a lad long, long ago we had no internet and only two tv channels. Usually there wasn't anything on worth watching. I read a lot of books.
Most cities have these buildings full of books and even media, which they seem perfectly happy to loan out for free. I'm not entirely sure what their business model is, but they've been doing this for as long as I can remember, so it appears viable, strange though that may seem. It might be time to rediscover them.
Southern europe has already gone nuts on it. People seen with fake purses etc get stopped on the street and fined 5000 euros on the spot on a regular basis already.
Soon the only safe way to be is naked on a deserted island somewhere. But get used to being exposed to the elements, because I'm sure someone somewhere has patented the grass hut.
I've always thought it would be cool to work in Europe for awhile, but I wasn't aware that we were members of EU. When did that happen? Is it because we've got the queen on our money?
So beware, if you dare to collaborate with the enemy.
I know you're being humorous, but it does feel that way which is kind of sad. I think most of us would be happy to pay a reasonable price for a non-DRMed copy of a movie we wanted to see. That is to say, I think most of us are willing to be customers. In fact, I bought a DVD the other day. It had two movies on it for ten bucks. And because I watch DVDs using an open source OS, I don't get the complaints about being forced to watch previews and FBI warnings. Do DVD players or whatever you watch on really enforce that?
visits from a girlfriend won't be allowed during the project I take it, then, that all the volunteers are gay?
Some maybe. The others will be receiving visits from wealthy senators' wives and nobility who bribe the keeper in order to get it on with a gladiator.
Twice as many milliseconds is not two orders of magnitude. Two orders of magnitude is 20x as many milliseconds.
Your comment doesn't sound nearly as brilliant anymore does it?
Poor Phroggy must be burning with shame. We could be talking hundreds of milliseconds, HUNDREDS!