Looking at this photo of the new phone, it seems like they took the basic form straight out of The Matrix... the back of the phone looks like it pops down for off-hook mode.
I would presume that the softwarewould just remove the questionable scene altogether.
This is actually a good thing for parents who want to rent videos for the whole family to watch. It's incredibly embarrassing for a parent when there are graphic depictions of sexuality in what would otherwise be a very entertaining film. Take Jerry McGuire... you rent it for the family and the scene pops up where Kelly Preston is bouncing on Tom Cruise's lap and screaming, "Don't you ever stop fucking me!" Even though you never see her full body, the scene is way too intense for kids.
Yeah, I know where the fast forward button is on my VCR, but the movie isn't entertaining for me if I have to sit on the edge of my seat with remote in hand, waiting for questionable material.
Compounding the problem is the "Director's Cut" that comes out on the DVD's. There are probably a lot of examples where a movie that had a mild amount of adult content turned it up to 11 on the Director's Cut DVD.
I applaud any technology that aids me as a parent.
And how many people remember Bungie promising over and over that Halo would not become a console game? Or, later, that it would be released for the XBox and (PC or Mac) simultaneously?
That was before they were assimilated. Welcome to The Collective, resistance is futile.
Pixar used to be part of Lucasarts, but Lucas didn't want to go the whole CG'd route so they broke off, but they're still good friends with Lucas. So Lucas basically called them up and asked them to put his little teaser at the beginning of the prints for Monsters Inc.
I would assume that it also had to do with the relationship Steve Jobs is building between Lucasfilm and Apple. This is the second time that Apple has featured a Star Wars trailer on their QuickTime site.
You can breathe easy... HP calculators aren't going away, just their development team. Production of the existing line is apparently going to carry on for some time.
Actually, HP has quite a good reputation as a financial calculator, too. I use one for my Finance class, the HP 10BII (which, incidentally, costs the same price as the competition from TI).
One of the things I like about the HP is that they use quality keys. They're very stiff and provide great tactile feedback. Not like those little rubber thingys that you wonder if you pushed it in right.
OTOH, I used a friend's HP12c the other day, and was a little surprised at how slow it ran. I was doing an IRR computation, which cannot be solved directly but requires the calc to "plug and chug" a bunch of numbers until it finds the right one. My 10BII solved it in a couple of seconds; the 12c took significantly longer. That may not sound like a big deal, until you consider that the 12c costs more than twice as much, and is one of the best on the market. It tells me that the 12c internals hadn't been refreshed in a long time. (Makes me wonder if closing the calc division hasn't been a long time coming.)
My guess is that the market is too saturated with competitors and the margins are too thin for a "premium quality" calculator to be mass produced at competitive prices.
What a shame. It's like the same situation with keyboards; so many crap keyboards flooded the market in the past decade that its near-impossible to find a decent quality keyboard anymore.
Aint It Cool News has had some intersting Episode II news lately... the first is a synopsis of the trailer that seems to have been verified by TheForce.net. It can be found here:
Actually, that's probably for the best. It means that there's now strong incentive in the developer community to hack this card and write an open source driver, sans encryption. If they had simply provided a linux driver, there would be little to no incentive.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port...
Raise your hand if you have both...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device...
If full support includes mng, perhaps you're correct. If you mean full support for alpha transparency and gamma, then you need to find a better browser.
No animation? Spotty transparency support? That's my point exactly; How does this equal a valid replacement for GIF?
When IE for Windows and Netscape Communicator have 100% PNG and MNG support, then maybe web developers will switch over. But no serious designer is going to take unneeded risks with the design of their pages.
Business 2.0 had an interesting article earlier this year about the possibility of using the relatively cheaper DSL service to replace T1 voice lines for small and medium businesses.
The PNG standard has been out for, what, 4 years now? And I don't think there's a single browser on the market that fully implements PNG. PNG would have been great if it had been supported two or three years ago, but I don't see it happening for a looooong time now. A billion+ web pages aren't going to switch overnight...
or be captured by the Allies, one of the two. If we fail to achieve this goal, then we will not have sent a message; we will only make him a more powerful foe because extremists will see him as being strong enough to survive the onsluaght of the American military in full war mode.
We made this mistake with Hussein, and we know it. We thought that these Middle Eastern terrorists and despots would fight a war by the established rules. We now know just how wrong we were.
This is going to be a long, drawn-out, down-and-dirty fight, and I will be greatly surprised if we don't finally kill Hussein, too, before it is all over.
BTW, did you see the video of bin Laden today? He was spewing forth his anti-America rhetoic again, but there wasn't any passion in his voice, no fire in his eyes, no smile on his face. After all, he wanted to start a war with America, right? Now that he's got one, he looks like a man who knows he is going to die, and die soon. Defiant, but despairing. Not that I support the guy, but strategicly, he should have stuck to just blowing up the occasional embassy or military barracks; he would have enjoyed a long life of terror doing smaller stuff like that, and we never would have gone into Afghanistan after him. Blowing up the WTC towers was just plain stupid, there's just no fricken way America would let him live after that; we've got a $50 billion dollar war chest we're going to smite him with now. He's also done us the favor of uniting the entire civilized world behind us through this obscenely wicked act. bin Laden is obviously not the brightest bulb on the tree....
As a web site owner, I love this. You get it for free so accept the ad.
But will their readership tolerate it? Probably not, as most people are already feeling harassed by popups. I predict this will only hasten their demise.
Record stores will just change their return policy, long before it ever gets to the point where its a blip on the radar screen of the corporate suits at Universal.
The employee's hard work paid for them, sure. But did the employee negotiate for ownership of the company when he/she came on board?
Is it really worth risking prosecution over a few thousand dollars' worth of equipment? You have to ask yourself, Are you prepared to explain in a job interview why you were caught looting your former employer? Chances are, it would never come up. But it might, particularly if you are going for a job that requires background checks.
Does that entitle you to steal property that rightfully belongs to a creditor? No.
I'm not unsympathetic to the problem, but according to the law, the secured creditors get everything. If there's anything left over, then the unsecured creditors. Employees and stockholders fall into the latter category.
What about that guy in the article who stole over $400,000 worth of merchandise? Let's just assume that that company was able to pay off its secured creditors; then what he stole was coming out of the pockets of fellow employees who are also awaiting compensation.
is that oftentimes the company doesn't own those assets, as the article pointed out. Furniture is leased. Computer equipment might also be leased. The company can't very well sell items it doesn't own.
Secondly, for those items that the company does own, they actually belong to the creditors. That's whose money paid for those Aeron chairs and the Compaq servers and the Dell laptops. The employee did not pay for any of those things, and is not entitled to them.
Steal from companies does not hurt your bosses so much as it hurts the companies that trusted in your bosses enough to invest.
that I read on/. how people were offended about company policies where employees who are laid off were immediately escorted by security to the door, and someone else threw all of the employee's belongings into a box for them.
You can't have it both ways as a society. If you want to engage in theft in retaliation for being laid off, then expect such draconian termination policies (or worse) to become the norm.
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Now if only it had a sweet web server and some sweet bandwidth....
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Looking at this photo of the new phone, it seems like they took the basic form straight out of The Matrix... the back of the phone looks like it pops down for off-hook mode.
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I would presume that the softwarewould just remove the questionable scene altogether.
This is actually a good thing for parents who want to rent videos for the whole family to watch. It's incredibly embarrassing for a parent when there are graphic depictions of sexuality in what would otherwise be a very entertaining film. Take Jerry McGuire... you rent it for the family and the scene pops up where Kelly Preston is bouncing on Tom Cruise's lap and screaming, "Don't you ever stop fucking me!" Even though you never see her full body, the scene is way too intense for kids.
Yeah, I know where the fast forward button is on my VCR, but the movie isn't entertaining for me if I have to sit on the edge of my seat with remote in hand, waiting for questionable material.
Compounding the problem is the "Director's Cut" that comes out on the DVD's. There are probably a lot of examples where a movie that had a mild amount of adult content turned it up to 11 on the Director's Cut DVD.
I applaud any technology that aids me as a parent.
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And how many people remember Bungie promising over and over that Halo would not become a console game? Or, later, that it would be released for the XBox and (PC or Mac) simultaneously?
That was before they were assimilated. Welcome to The Collective, resistance is futile.
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Sorry to disappoint you, but Apple hosts trailers for just about every new movie that's released these days.
Duh.
But does Apple get the EXCLUSIVE ONLINE DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS for every major release? That generally has to be negotiated.
I don't know if they have it for the AOTC trailer (I haven't seen it anywhere else, though), but I know that they did have it for TPM.
Pixar used to be part of Lucasarts, but Lucas didn't want to go the whole CG'd route so they broke off, but they're still good friends with Lucas. So Lucas basically called them up and asked them to put his little teaser at the beginning of the prints for Monsters Inc.
I would assume that it also had to do with the relationship Steve Jobs is building between Lucasfilm and Apple. This is the second time that Apple has featured a Star Wars trailer on their QuickTime site.
You can breathe easy... HP calculators aren't going away, just their development team. Production of the existing line is apparently going to carry on for some time.
Actually, HP has quite a good reputation as a financial calculator, too. I use one for my Finance class, the HP 10BII (which, incidentally, costs the same price as the competition from TI).
One of the things I like about the HP is that they use quality keys. They're very stiff and provide great tactile feedback. Not like those little rubber thingys that you wonder if you pushed it in right.
OTOH, I used a friend's HP12c the other day, and was a little surprised at how slow it ran. I was doing an IRR computation, which cannot be solved directly but requires the calc to "plug and chug" a bunch of numbers until it finds the right one. My 10BII solved it in a couple of seconds; the 12c took significantly longer. That may not sound like a big deal, until you consider that the 12c costs more than twice as much, and is one of the best on the market. It tells me that the 12c internals hadn't been refreshed in a long time. (Makes me wonder if closing the calc division hasn't been a long time coming.)
My guess is that the market is too saturated with competitors and the margins are too thin for a "premium quality" calculator to be mass produced at competitive prices.
What a shame. It's like the same situation with keyboards; so many crap keyboards flooded the market in the past decade that its near-impossible to find a decent quality keyboard anymore.
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=10579
The second is even more tantilizing... it's a full review of the movie, allegedly based on the second editied version. That can be found here:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=10528
Enjoy.
Actually, that's probably for the best. It means that there's now strong incentive in the developer community to hack this card and write an open source driver, sans encryption. If they had simply provided a linux driver, there would be little to no incentive.
Yeah, but what happens when you upgrade or replace your tuner card?
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
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Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port
Raise your hand if you have both
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device
me: [raises four hands...]
I walked into CompUSA with my OS X box, showed it to the clerk, he handed me an OS X 10.1 upgrade, I walked out with it, and no money changed hands.
Of course, that was 100 years before Muldair joined Enterprise-D.
No animation? Spotty transparency support? That's my point exactly; How does this equal a valid replacement for GIF?
When IE for Windows and Netscape Communicator have 100% PNG and MNG support, then maybe web developers will switch over. But no serious designer is going to take unneeded risks with the design of their pages.
Business 2.0 had an interesting article earlier this year about the possibility of using the relatively cheaper DSL service to replace T1 voice lines for small and medium businesses.
The PNG standard has been out for, what, 4 years now? And I don't think there's a single browser on the market that fully implements PNG. PNG would have been great if it had been supported two or three years ago, but I don't see it happening for a looooong time now. A billion+ web pages aren't going to switch overnight...
"Lill-Oman, Lill-Oman! Nobody ever gets that right!"
or be captured by the Allies, one of the two. If we fail to achieve this goal, then we will not have sent a message; we will only make him a more powerful foe because extremists will see him as being strong enough to survive the onsluaght of the American military in full war mode.
We made this mistake with Hussein, and we know it. We thought that these Middle Eastern terrorists and despots would fight a war by the established rules. We now know just how wrong we were.
This is going to be a long, drawn-out, down-and-dirty fight, and I will be greatly surprised if we don't finally kill Hussein, too, before it is all over.
BTW, did you see the video of bin Laden today? He was spewing forth his anti-America rhetoic again, but there wasn't any passion in his voice, no fire in his eyes, no smile on his face. After all, he wanted to start a war with America, right? Now that he's got one, he looks like a man who knows he is going to die, and die soon. Defiant, but despairing. Not that I support the guy, but strategicly, he should have stuck to just blowing up the occasional embassy or military barracks; he would have enjoyed a long life of terror doing smaller stuff like that, and we never would have gone into Afghanistan after him. Blowing up the WTC towers was just plain stupid, there's just no fricken way America would let him live after that; we've got a $50 billion dollar war chest we're going to smite him with now. He's also done us the favor of uniting the entire civilized world behind us through this obscenely wicked act. bin Laden is obviously not the brightest bulb on the tree....
As a web site owner, I love this. You get it for free so accept the ad.
But will their readership tolerate it? Probably not, as most people are already feeling harassed by popups. I predict this will only hasten their demise.
Harassing customers != good business practice
Record stores will just change their return policy, long before it ever gets to the point where its a blip on the radar screen of the corporate suits at Universal.
The employee's hard work paid for them, sure. But did the employee negotiate for ownership of the company when he/she came on board?
Is it really worth risking prosecution over a few thousand dollars' worth of equipment? You have to ask yourself, Are you prepared to explain in a job interview why you were caught looting your former employer? Chances are, it would never come up. But it might, particularly if you are going for a job that requires background checks.
Do you deserve to be? Yes.
Does that entitle you to steal property that rightfully belongs to a creditor? No.
I'm not unsympathetic to the problem, but according to the law, the secured creditors get everything. If there's anything left over, then the unsecured creditors. Employees and stockholders fall into the latter category.
What about that guy in the article who stole over $400,000 worth of merchandise? Let's just assume that that company was able to pay off its secured creditors; then what he stole was coming out of the pockets of fellow employees who are also awaiting compensation.
is that oftentimes the company doesn't own those assets, as the article pointed out. Furniture is leased. Computer equipment might also be leased. The company can't very well sell items it doesn't own.
Secondly, for those items that the company does own, they actually belong to the creditors. That's whose money paid for those Aeron chairs and the Compaq servers and the Dell laptops. The employee did not pay for any of those things, and is not entitled to them.
Steal from companies does not hurt your bosses so much as it hurts the companies that trusted in your bosses enough to invest.
that I read on /. how people were offended about company policies where employees who are laid off were immediately escorted by security to the door, and someone else threw all of the employee's belongings into a box for them.
You can't have it both ways as a society. If you want to engage in theft in retaliation for being laid off, then expect such draconian termination policies (or worse) to become the norm.