It's even more warped when you consider that Sony is a mainstay of BOTH organizations. Though notably I don't see their name attached to this new development.
Yes, I was getting about 20 or 30 of these a day until I updated my filters in Thunderbird (since seemingly the junk mail settings in TB had some sort of learning disability with this one.)
I think stock related spam is now the singularly most annoying thing out there.
Yep, I agree wholeheartedly. When it comes to shopping technology hasn't sped things up, it's slowed it down. Credit cards and debit cards, while more convenient for the individual and shop, are less convenient for the individual behind since they are much slower than cash.
That said...perhaps it would be good for old people to get the tech and everyone else to use cash. This being because there's nothing an old person likes to do more at a checkout than have a really good long rummage for the exact change.
I've never understood the frequent "but the film makers changed the story wah wah wah" complaint - for any movie, not just LoTR.
Film is Film, TV is TV, Books are Books, Opera is Opera, etc etc... it is near impossible to adapt a book or a play to the big screen without changing elements - for a whole variety of reasons. For example, the drama of a play is delivered by actors who are so far away from their audience that subtle gestures HAVE to be replaced by dialogue, for a movie you can lose all that dialogue and replace it with close-ups and reaction shots. Books can allow characters to have narration or internal monologues which invariably looks cheesy on the big screen. The rhythm, cadence and pacing of a book is usually radically different from the needs of a movie.
They are NOT the same. They will NEVER be the same. Whether they are better or worse is subjective. They give out oscars for screen adaptations for a reason. It is damn hard.
Feel free to compare apples to apples - i.e. it is perfectly valid to compare a remake with the original film, but comparing film to book is not necessarily valid.
The important thing to realize is that they are NOT mutually destructive. You actually can enjoy the book and also enjoy the movie. Or only one of them if you dislike the other. You lose nothing.
And...a bad film version will not mean that there can never be another film version.
And eventually they will develop a pill to counteract the effects of the pill you've already been taking too, to complete the circle and sell to you twice.
It's like shampoo - convince people they need conditioner as well as shampoo, then mock them for taking two bottles into the shower. Ah, marketers... where would we be without them... living in blissful idyll probably.
Excellent! A whole museum dedicated to Truthiness. I hope it's Wikiality page reflects just how truthy it really is.
For far too long now, museums have bored children with dry facts. It's about time we got them excited with far more exciting things that really sound true.
After all there's no way we want children to want to grow to be scientists - they're like terrorists...
Yes, that's true. If memory serves, Coatbridge was one of the first places in the UK to have cameras installed, many because most nights of the week there was so much drunken violence.
Yes, but they haven't gone full circle like the Washing Powder people yet. By adding lots of whiteners they created the new and improved varieties of Washing Powder. These washed whiter than Brand X. However, if you take your now redundant whiteners free Brand X and remarket it as Washing Powder for colors... then you go full circle and sell twice. Which is exactly what the Proctor and Gamble's did.
So why not with software? Microsoft Bob... you know, for kids!
Or Better - MS Superfast Word-Lite - essentially Word 2 in new chrome. Now that I might even buy...
I wholeheartedly agree. Yahoo pointed me in the direction of it's new 360 service recently, which looks like a desperate attempt to corner some of the MySpace market.
I think adding new services isn't going to help them. They need to focus more on existing ones like mail, search and flickr, and likely also it'd be a good idea to drop some of their services, such as Groups.
360 looks like it will go the way of Yahoo Groups - once a useful community tool as eGroups, now as worthless a spamfest as Usenet. To be honest I've never entirely figured out how Yahoo survived the Dotcom bust, I guess they had some search and mail momentum that held up as Google was still young at the time.
As a Brit who lives in Germany, I can't agree with you I'm afraid. I cycle and drive here in Berlin and find it to be considerably more dangerous than in the UK.
I think the main issues being that Germans, even little old ladies, never ever drive at the speed limit unless they know there is a camera around. The other far more terrifying thing is that drinking and driving is a normal every day occurrence. Germans think nothing of drinking a few (strong) beers and taking to the road (I've seen them drinking beer first thing in the morning in their car on their way to work).
These facts and other aspects of the German psyche mean that they often ignore or don't see traffic signs. They will often try and cut in front of pedestrians and cyclists if they feel they can get away with it.
It is deadly. Purely and simply. If I cycle anywhere for more than 20 mins or so on a road I have at least one near death experience. I think this traffic experiment is extremely foolish based on the behaviour I've seen here.
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There is absolutely no way that anyone or any organization could make a valid or truthful claim to being the greenest company on Earth with current resources.
The kind of research, testing and access to confidential company information necessary to do even a cursory Environmental Impact Assessment on one company, never mind hundreds or thousands of companies would be prohibitive to say the least.
Organizations like Greenpeace etc come out with nonsensical claims like this all the time. It's propaganda - pure and simple.
That's a very good question. I suspect many contributors and editors will be Government agents.
There lies the true danger and the power of wikipedia, and the reason why no-one must ever take wikipedia seriously. I think this can't be stressed enough - never ever trust wikipedia, nothing on wikipedia is necessarily true. That should be recited like a mantra. Wikipedia is fine as long as everyone always remembers that and doesn't try to elevate it to anything even approaching truth.
I must say though that I think the last thing the Chinese need is yet another dubious source of information. They need objective reality not wikiality.
I, for one, don't personally see this as progress towards human rights and democracy. I think there's a very real danger this will be exploited and cause more problems than it will solve. Honestly, the Chinese (and all and every other Government for that matter) would be foolish not to exploit the apparent truthiness of wikiality.
Would you trust a MySpace fact? Why do you trust a wikipedia one? There's little difference other than perception. They may be written by the same person.
Of course the whole 99% isn't useless. However a significant percentage does indeed seem to be.
For example if I use English words to search for something in Google.de....
(At this point I would like to point out to any web designers who code to redirect users to country specific sites and languages based on their IP address, that if I ever find you I will hurt you, that's a promise. I live in Germany and travel a lot in the EU, but I speak English, I'm damned if I can ever get the page I'm looking for after a cookie clear. Seriously, do you think I'm too stupid to know the difference between.com and.de; that's why I typed one not the other, why on earth should you redirect me?)
...anyway, using almost any English words in Google.de pulls up almost nothing but link farms, SEO pages and click fraud sites, etc. It makes me seriously wonder about the true value of my Adwords account - I really don't think enough is being done about this issue. (And to anyone from Google who's reading, please encourage your German colleagues to do some work, SEO is rampant here.)
Or perhaps we're just long overdue for the next generation of search engine. Google is better than that which came before it, but it still has a long way to go. I want to find my porn without click fraud crap.
It's more than that, but the other countries they seem to have ignored. And curiously for a French organisation they have omitted France, whom along with Germany, heavily censors anything Nazi. (Thus driving the large and ever growing larger numbers of Nazi Germans more underground, and obscuring their danger).
People's habits changed?.... I think not. Five years ago the answer would have been porn. Today it is porn, and in five years time it will be porn. In five hundred years in whatever replaces the internet the answer will also be porn. In five thousand years... anyway, you get the point...
I have only anecdotal evidence to support this but...,
As a Brit living in Germany, I have to say that Germany feels far far more oppressive than the UK. While I may be on camera and my shopping may be monitored in the UK, I am free to live wherever I wish without state interference.
I cannot do that in Germany. Everytime I move house here I have to sit for hours in a miserable state office to inform them of where I now live. I am fined if I do not do so quick enough. I cannot leave the house in Germany without carrying my passport. I am stopped regularly in my car on on my bicycle and checked to see if lights etc are working correctly. Germany also has it's "pre-crime" law where the police can detain you for 24 hours when they think you might be about to commit a crime - this was frequently used during this year's World Cup.
All of this behaviour would, rightly, be completely unacceptable in the UK. So, while I certainly do have concerns about the cameras and the erosion of Privacy in the UK, I do feel that that society is not yet nearly as fascist as that of Germany.
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It's even more warped when you consider that Sony is a mainstay of BOTH organizations. Though notably I don't see their name attached to this new development.
Yes, I was getting about 20 or 30 of these a day until I updated my filters in Thunderbird (since seemingly the junk mail settings in TB had some sort of learning disability with this one.)
I think stock related spam is now the singularly most annoying thing out there.
So here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you want me to walk across your room...
Doesn't the Zune come in Beige?
Microsoft may have missed the memo.
Yes, but which English? The colonial one you folks across the Atlantic use? The real English I think you'll find may already owned by Her Majesty :-P
I wonder if she can sue all Americans. Now, wouldn't that be fun!
Yep, I agree wholeheartedly. When it comes to shopping technology hasn't sped things up, it's slowed it down. Credit cards and debit cards, while more convenient for the individual and shop, are less convenient for the individual behind since they are much slower than cash.
That said...perhaps it would be good for old people to get the tech and everyone else to use cash. This being because there's nothing an old person likes to do more at a checkout than have a really good long rummage for the exact change.
Movie accounting is an esoteric art. All movies lose money. Which is why you should never accept net points in you contract.
Of course few movies actually lose money....
I've never understood the frequent "but the film makers changed the story wah wah wah" complaint - for any movie, not just LoTR.
Film is Film, TV is TV, Books are Books, Opera is Opera, etc etc... it is near impossible to adapt a book or a play to the big screen without changing elements - for a whole variety of reasons. For example, the drama of a play is delivered by actors who are so far away from their audience that subtle gestures HAVE to be replaced by dialogue, for a movie you can lose all that dialogue and replace it with close-ups and reaction shots. Books can allow characters to have narration or internal monologues which invariably looks cheesy on the big screen. The rhythm, cadence and pacing of a book is usually radically different from the needs of a movie.
They are NOT the same. They will NEVER be the same. Whether they are better or worse is subjective. They give out oscars for screen adaptations for a reason. It is damn hard.
Feel free to compare apples to apples - i.e. it is perfectly valid to compare a remake with the original film, but comparing film to book is not necessarily valid. The important thing to realize is that they are NOT mutually destructive. You actually can enjoy the book and also enjoy the movie. Or only one of them if you dislike the other. You lose nothing.
And...a bad film version will not mean that there can never be another film version.
how about Really F***ing Irritating?
And eventually they will develop a pill to counteract the effects of the pill you've already been taking too, to complete the circle and sell to you twice.
It's like shampoo - convince people they need conditioner as well as shampoo, then mock them for taking two bottles into the shower. Ah, marketers... where would we be without them... living in blissful idyll probably.
Excellent! A whole museum dedicated to Truthiness. I hope it's Wikiality page reflects just how truthy it really is.
For far too long now, museums have bored children with dry facts. It's about time we got them excited with far more exciting things that really sound true.
After all there's no way we want children to want to grow to be scientists - they're like terrorists...
Yes, that's true. If memory serves, Coatbridge was one of the first places in the UK to have cameras installed, many because most nights of the week there was so much drunken violence.
Just ask the Intellectual Property Lawyers from Magrathea... I bet they have a clear definition.
A scientific definition may be hard to come by, however when the time comes a legal one sure won't be.
So why not with software? Microsoft Bob... you know, for kids!
Or Better - MS Superfast Word-Lite - essentially Word 2 in new chrome. Now that I might even buy...
I wholeheartedly agree. Yahoo pointed me in the direction of it's new 360 service recently, which looks like a desperate attempt to corner some of the MySpace market.
I think adding new services isn't going to help them. They need to focus more on existing ones like mail, search and flickr, and likely also it'd be a good idea to drop some of their services, such as Groups.
360 looks like it will go the way of Yahoo Groups - once a useful community tool as eGroups, now as worthless a spamfest as Usenet. To be honest I've never entirely figured out how Yahoo survived the Dotcom bust, I guess they had some search and mail momentum that held up as Google was still young at the time.
I for one, welcome our new extremely dizzy overlords.
As a Brit who lives in Germany, I can't agree with you I'm afraid. I cycle and drive here in Berlin and find it to be considerably more dangerous than in the UK.
I think the main issues being that Germans, even little old ladies, never ever drive at the speed limit unless they know there is a camera around. The other far more terrifying thing is that drinking and driving is a normal every day occurrence. Germans think nothing of drinking a few (strong) beers and taking to the road (I've seen them drinking beer first thing in the morning in their car on their way to work).
These facts and other aspects of the German psyche mean that they often ignore or don't see traffic signs. They will often try and cut in front of pedestrians and cyclists if they feel they can get away with it.
It is deadly. Purely and simply. If I cycle anywhere for more than 20 mins or so on a road I have at least one near death experience. I think this traffic experiment is extremely foolish based on the behaviour I've seen here.
This article is padding to attract readers for advertising.
There is absolutely no way that anyone or any organization could make a valid or truthful claim to being the greenest company on Earth with current resources.
The kind of research, testing and access to confidential company information necessary to do even a cursory Environmental Impact Assessment on one company, never mind hundreds or thousands of companies would be prohibitive to say the least.
Organizations like Greenpeace etc come out with nonsensical claims like this all the time. It's propaganda - pure and simple.
That's a very good question. I suspect many contributors and editors will be Government agents.
There lies the true danger and the power of wikipedia, and the reason why no-one must ever take wikipedia seriously. I think this can't be stressed enough - never ever trust wikipedia, nothing on wikipedia is necessarily true. That should be recited like a mantra. Wikipedia is fine as long as everyone always remembers that and doesn't try to elevate it to anything even approaching truth.
I must say though that I think the last thing the Chinese need is yet another dubious source of information. They need objective reality not wikiality.
I, for one, don't personally see this as progress towards human rights and democracy. I think there's a very real danger this will be exploited and cause more problems than it will solve. Honestly, the Chinese (and all and every other Government for that matter) would be foolish not to exploit the apparent truthiness of wikiality.
Would you trust a MySpace fact? Why do you trust a wikipedia one? There's little difference other than perception. They may be written by the same person.
Of course the whole 99% isn't useless. However a significant percentage does indeed seem to be.
.com and .de; that's why I typed one not the other, why on earth should you redirect me?)
...anyway, using almost any English words in Google.de pulls up almost nothing but link farms, SEO pages and click fraud sites, etc. It makes me seriously wonder about the true value of my Adwords account - I really don't think enough is being done about this issue. (And to anyone from Google who's reading, please encourage your German colleagues to do some work, SEO is rampant here.)
For example if I use English words to search for something in Google.de....
(At this point I would like to point out to any web designers who code to redirect users to country specific sites and languages based on their IP address, that if I ever find you I will hurt you, that's a promise. I live in Germany and travel a lot in the EU, but I speak English, I'm damned if I can ever get the page I'm looking for after a cookie clear. Seriously, do you think I'm too stupid to know the difference between
Or perhaps we're just long overdue for the next generation of search engine. Google is better than that which came before it, but it still has a long way to go. I want to find my porn without click fraud crap.
It's more than that, but the other countries they seem to have ignored. And curiously for a French organisation they have omitted France, whom along with Germany, heavily censors anything Nazi. (Thus driving the large and ever growing larger numbers of Nazi Germans more underground, and obscuring their danger).
People's habits changed? .... I think not. Five years ago the answer would have been porn. Today it is porn, and in five years time it will be porn. In five hundred years in whatever replaces the internet the answer will also be porn. In five thousand years... anyway, you get the point...
and also indirectly sex too. For example - promote your band on Myspace - get laid... promote your video on YouTube thus look interesting - get laid.
I have only anecdotal evidence to support this but...,
As a Brit living in Germany, I have to say that Germany feels far far more oppressive than the UK. While I may be on camera and my shopping may be monitored in the UK, I am free to live wherever I wish without state interference.
I cannot do that in Germany. Everytime I move house here I have to sit for hours in a miserable state office to inform them of where I now live. I am fined if I do not do so quick enough. I cannot leave the house in Germany without carrying my passport. I am stopped regularly in my car on on my bicycle and checked to see if lights etc are working correctly. Germany also has it's "pre-crime" law where the police can detain you for 24 hours when they think you might be about to commit a crime - this was frequently used during this year's World Cup.
All of this behaviour would, rightly, be completely unacceptable in the UK. So, while I certainly do have concerns about the cameras and the erosion of Privacy in the UK, I do feel that that society is not yet nearly as fascist as that of Germany.
also, this just in... Astronomers are indicating that Earth's satellite will be an interesting shade of sapphire on November 30th.