launching straight into the commercials right after the title sequence
Like so many innovations in advertisting and broadcasting:-) that one comes from our friends over in the US. Like the technique of shrinking the end credits down to a thumbnail while they show/blather on about something else over the theme music.
I bet you can't wait until they do they other trick I noticed in the US - launching into commercials before the end credits. Now that's annoying.
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Which to me is slightly ironic, because when younger I watched the Mash TV series - it was shown n the UK on BBC2 over a number of years. It was funny but also thought provoking, moving and bleak.
Yet when it was later reshown (by Sky I think), I was amazed to find that Mash came with a laughter track. (and it was canned laughter, not studio laughter). It utterly changed the whole tone of the show, and I basically couldn't watch it.
I'd be curious to know if this laughter track was used as a matter of course in the US, or whether the original US broadcasts were shown without laughter track, as God intended.
Funny - I have yet another definition of an explosion that I learned years ago, which is the rapid increase in the volume of matter - usually caused by the production of gas from a solid or liquid - that's what causes the concussion/shockwave. I've never believed it requires either containment, or a build-up of pressure, or any of those things - if the transformation of solid/liquid into gas happens fast enough, you get an explosion. Those other things just help when it comes to the practical construction of explosives.
But then, my physics is pretty shaky, as you can probably tell, and I'm not sure the above definition would apply to the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
But I like how everyone disagrees on what an explosion is:-)
RMS==DRM. The layers of irony here are astounding. Stallman is going to be p/o'ed
It's an outrage. On the one hand, DRM could be argued as good for everyone in what it's trying to achieve, but the real-life implementation is an annoying thing that keeps popping up and telling you that you can't do things, and castigating you for allegedly suspect intentions and/or morals, and tries to stop you using your property in a way that you'd reasonably want to, all because of rights issues.
"Every now and then, as a book reviewer, you just have to take a chance. The way it works is that editors ply their wares to you, sending you lists of available books on a regular basis and tempting titles catch your eye. The problem is that until you've committed to review the book, received it and read it, you don't know whether you've found a good one or have just been a victim of drive-by marketing. This was such a book.
So, what he's saying is, you have to read the book to find out what sort of review to write, instead of just believing that every book you get is brilliant and regurgitating the associated press release?
Life certainly is tough as a book reviewer. I bet sometimes they even put favourable quotes on the back of the book to throw you. But they're no use with our wily correspondent!
Isn't that a bit unfair considering that the feature in question first appeared in IE? They're just making it simpler to access. I'm not sure you can accuse them of 'embracing' something they came up with in the first place. It's a bit like saying that with Vista they're going to 'embrace and extend' the NTFS file system format.
As I understand it, anyway. I've probably got something wrong though.
Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes, from an extremely obscure UK radio comedy programme - the characters had all been getting mysterious notes, from people like Mr N.O. Body, and Mr E. Nigma, and the final character said he just got a note from his milkman. He checked the note:
"Wait a minute, it's signed Mr Noone! You know what this means!" "Yes!" "It's from Peter Noone!" "No, you idiot! Don't you see? He's Mr No-One!" "Oh, now, he is, yeah, but he was big in the 60s."
Agreed - I once watched the Zone Alarm alerts on my Dad's PC when he was on dial-up (he switched to Broadband about 2 years ago). His PC would get port-scanned or attacked in some way about once every 30 seconds (at least).
I'd assumed (but not relied on) dial-up access being less of a risk, but when I actually measured it, being attacked every 30 seconds didn't seem that safe or 'secure by obscurity' to me.
Interestingly, I used a modem router on his connection for a while (for sharing the connection, and as an extra security layer) - it was set to hang up after 5 minutes of inactivity. The thing would never hang up - it always had some (hostile) traffic coming in on the wire before the 5 minute limit even got near expiring.
Bad news - you forgot Rule #1 of internet discourse - don't smugly point out someone else's spelling error while at the same time making a spelling error of your own.
You were even crass enough to make an error in your correction of the same word. You then rail at everyone who points this out as if it weren't important - which will make them wonder why you brought it up in the first place. You then have the temerity to attempt to blame Google for your error. Ever heard of a dictionary? They even have them online now, too.
I mean, I'm really not trying to be rude, but sheesh, what a dick.
After all, the medium is, as they say, the message.
Apparently you haven't read any of the numerous other slashdot articles that are following the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD debate. Considering that the first generation stand-alone players for BOTH formats will be over $1000, a $600 (or even$700) PS3 will be a real bargain for anybody who is looking to buy into one of the new formats.
So the fact that you think that the Sony rootkit manages to bypass Windows admin/driver privileges is what you use as proof that the admin privileges scheme doesn't work?
There's a flaw in that logic somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it...
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You're right - Graham Linehan should go back to his more successful and hyper-realistic sitcoms like Father Ted, Black Books, Hippies and Big Train.
Like so many innovations in advertisting and broadcasting :-) that one comes from our friends over in the US. Like the technique of shrinking the end credits down to a thumbnail while they show/blather on about something else over the theme music.
I bet you can't wait until they do they other trick I noticed in the US - launching into commercials before the end credits. Now that's annoying.
Yet when it was later reshown (by Sky I think), I was amazed to find that Mash came with a laughter track. (and it was canned laughter, not studio laughter). It utterly changed the whole tone of the show, and I basically couldn't watch it.
I'd be curious to know if this laughter track was used as a matter of course in the US, or whether the original US broadcasts were shown without laughter track, as God intended.
Only if the British and Spanish get to keep America.
Certainly, I find the 'it was our 9/11' comments to be slightly more disturbing.
Because, at the very least, wasn't 9/11 their 9/11? Or did they not feel enough 'ownership' of that tragedy?
I wonder which bit of the copy he wrote - was it the 'Think' or the 'Different'?
But then, my physics is pretty shaky, as you can probably tell, and I'm not sure the above definition would apply to the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
But I like how everyone disagrees on what an explosion is :-)
Try harder.
Or failing that, just heave a rock out of the window. You'll hit three of them. No imagining required.
It's an outrage. On the one hand, DRM could be argued as good for everyone in what it's trying to achieve, but the real-life implementation is an annoying thing that keeps popping up and telling you that you can't do things, and castigating you for allegedly suspect intentions and/or morals, and tries to stop you using your property in a way that you'd reasonably want to, all because of rights issues.
Whereas RMS...oh, wait...hm.
So, what he's saying is, you have to read the book to find out what sort of review to write, instead of just believing that every book you get is brilliant and regurgitating the associated press release?
Life certainly is tough as a book reviewer. I bet sometimes they even put favourable quotes on the back of the book to throw you. But they're no use with our wily correspondent!
Prepare to eat your words! :-)
Isn't that a bit unfair considering that the feature in question first appeared in IE? They're just making it simpler to access. I'm not sure you can accuse them of 'embracing' something they came up with in the first place. It's a bit like saying that with Vista they're going to 'embrace and extend' the NTFS file system format.
As I understand it, anyway. I've probably got something wrong though.
Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes, from an extremely obscure UK radio comedy programme - the characters had all been getting mysterious notes, from people like Mr N.O. Body, and Mr E. Nigma, and the final character said he just got a note from his milkman. He checked the note:
"Wait a minute, it's signed Mr Noone! You know what this means!"
"Yes!"
"It's from Peter Noone!"
"No, you idiot! Don't you see? He's Mr No-One!"
"Oh, now, he is, yeah, but he was big in the 60s."
I'll get me coat.
Also, we're putting cover sheets on our TPS reports now. Did you not see the memo? I'm going to go ahead and get you another copy of that memo.
Oh, my aching sides.
I'd assumed (but not relied on) dial-up access being less of a risk, but when I actually measured it, being attacked every 30 seconds didn't seem that safe or 'secure by obscurity' to me.
Interestingly, I used a modem router on his connection for a while (for sharing the connection, and as an extra security layer) - it was set to hang up after 5 minutes of inactivity. The thing would never hang up - it always had some (hostile) traffic coming in on the wire before the 5 minute limit even got near expiring.
Bad news - you forgot Rule #1 of internet discourse - don't smugly point out someone else's spelling error while at the same time making a spelling error of your own.
You were even crass enough to make an error in your correction of the same word. You then rail at everyone who points this out as if it weren't important - which will make them wonder why you brought it up in the first place. You then have the temerity to attempt to blame Google for your error. Ever heard of a dictionary? They even have them online now, too.
I mean, I'm really not trying to be rude, but sheesh, what a dick.
After all, the medium is, as they say, the message.
And they say spelling is irrelevant :-)
Oh, please. Pre-1.0 is so last millennium. Beta is the new hotness now.
It's Web 2.0 baby - get on the bus!
Damn, where's the (-1, Clueless) mod when you need it?
Good post, Taco. Digg!
While you're down there, pass me up Sony's reputation, will you? :-)
Whereas, apparently, you are of course bang up to date?
There's a flaw in that logic somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it...
Or they can log in and turn off Apple stories in the preferences...tricky stuff.