Do a search on 'homosexuality' on the main page of Amazon now. If that's a genuine search result, Amazon has issues above and beyond just delisting books.
Right now I can say why I'm looking forward to a 360 (right in time for the Christmas price drop) and eventually a Wii. Both MS and Nintendo seem to have a point, or a reason for doing what they're doing, whereas the PS3 seems very much like a case of 'I'll have what they're having'.
The Wii is clearly trying to try something completely new in terms of controllers. I mean, the thing is weird. New gameplay, new options, new styles. All good.
The 360 seems predicated on networking. Live is the best thing MS has going for that thing. They're getting a new influx of tiny designers coming up with weird and different things, possibly entering the market under the threshold of price. I blanch at coughing up $50 for a game, but hey, $5 isn't too bad. It's a heck of a lot easier to rationalize, that's for sure.
Sony doesn't seem to have a reason, other than Blue Ray, and that's not compelling to me. I admit I may not be their target audience, so hey. The controller seems like a pale imitation of the Wii and their networking setup isn't Live, not yet and perhaps not ever.
I know if I get a Wii, I'll have new game play. I know if I get a 360 I'll get new networking options on my console. I know if I get a 360, I'll have to buy a whole bunch of movies over again. Eh.
No Rio players at all (either Nitrus, Karma or any other). One Creative. Whole bunch of really odd choices (Sony MD player?). Given what they reviewed, I guess the iPod would come out on top.
Under Date and Time Properties there is an "Internet time" tab. The options are time.windows.com and time.nist.gov. The previous poster just put MSN instead of Windows. FWIW, the Windows option didn't work when I first brought XP up, but the nist.gov address did work fine.
"There are legitimate purposes for injectable morphine, but that doesn't mean that anyone who sets up shop to sell it should be allowed to. "
This is actually not a valid comparison. Assuming that copyright infringing music = morphine, your correct analogy would be Napster = needle. Which breaks, as it should, because the point of Napster is that it could be used for something else, as a needle can be used for insulin or saline or any other of a myriad of uses. Which ties right back to Sony. If there is a non infringing use, it's okay.
I think one of the great things about Napster is that it has spawned a new (or at least underexploited) way of thinking about networking and a whole new set of tools that deemphasize centralization. The cat's out of the bag. Gnutella, which should be far and away more resistant to lawsuits since it lacks a central authority/server/choke point, is, I think, going to end up being an absolute nightmare for authorities trying to keep track of who's giving what to whom and when and how (gotta track those taxes!) since it can be easily set up and taken down without anyone being the wiser. Works for me.
To a certain degree he has a point (barely) but, like other rants I've seen about User Friendly being all about Open Source jokes, they either haven't read most of it or hasn't recalled anything except [pet peeve of the day]. Any comic that can get away with the punchline "Men are from Mac, women are from VMS" gets my vote.
Claiming UF doesn't poke fun at itself is a bit disingenuous. Stef's Y2K question, from Evil Geniuses for Dummies, is a beautiful example.
Basically, IMHO, it comes down to the person having a pet peeve, finding stuff to support it, and missing, oh, say, 50% of the other stuff. No real shock there.
One thing I've seen in most of the responses come from the point of view of the user. This story, or rather what I got out of it, wasn't about the users, but the organization as a whole. Sure, Palms are cool, fun and useful (I assume, I don't have one) but this was more about how people abuse the system, and then expect the IT department to make up for it. Imagine if you, as a network admin, had to support this whiz piece of hardware that you hadn't trained for, didn't expect to be supporting and had all this new software that integrated (oddly) with existing software? Not fun. Point of the piece isn't that it can't be useful, but that it eats more time supporting it with clueless middle management types than it gives them back. And those clueless PHB types are the loudest whiners and are the most annoying if they don't get what they want. And if they can't figure it out, they bother other employees for help. Since some of those people could concievably be doing work, any time they take to tutor the Palm user is lost money. This fact also drags down productivity as a whole, with less skilled users using more skilled users to compensate.
IIRC, Oliver Adams produced the original Mortal Kombat single and album (not the soundtrack, though the soundtrack does have the single). Adams also produces Lords Of Acid and Pragha Khan from what I recall. Course, I like Mortal Kombat...
If something is to be done, let it be done well. We've seen this before. Khaddafi was one of the first that I can recall (then again I'm a young pup). We bombed. He shut up (some) but hey, he's still there. Reagan isn't. Saddam? Still there, because we're not willing, as a country, to accept the basic fact of any war. People die. There is no bloodless victory in war, that I can see. There can be bloodless battles, but never a true victory. Desert (Foo) had very low casualties, but they didn't suceed either, truly. We've bombed Serbia before, it's done drek. All it does is teaches those bombed where the limits are. Milosovic did a marvelous job tapdancing around NATO demands while building up. He got enough troops, and wham, over the border and thanks for playing. The Serbs obviously think that sacrificing men to the war is worth it. We don't. At this point, no technology in the world can help, if the will to victory isn't there. And is isn't, and it's not likely to be. Every time we send troops in, the opponent just has to look to Somalia or Beiruit to see examples of how to kick the Yankee Imperialist Dogs out with minimal effort.
I'm not so sure the internet can't be a decent source of traditional news. Reuters, via Yahoo, is pretty worthwhile, as is the AP site. Both of my local papers have web sites, which are quite close to the dead tree version. I can read them at will, for free, and catch up several times a day. Also, with the proliferation of sites that would be for a much more limited audience (can we say Tom's Hardware or Blue's?) you can have what would be, in the real world, difficult to find and possibly expensive to get. Since hobbyists are far more dedicated, and focused, and don't have problems that bedevil real media types, they can do more, more often and with a better chance of success. Course, we still have crappy sites, but, on the other hand, I've wasted nothing more than time sitting on my behind while doing about six other things anyway. Vive la Net!
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Do a search on 'homosexuality' on the main page of Amazon now. If that's a genuine search result, Amazon has issues above and beyond just delisting books.
Right now I can say why I'm looking forward to a 360 (right in time for the Christmas price drop) and eventually a Wii. Both MS and Nintendo seem to have a point, or a reason for doing what they're doing, whereas the PS3 seems very much like a case of 'I'll have what they're having'.
The Wii is clearly trying to try something completely new in terms of controllers. I mean, the thing is weird. New gameplay, new options, new styles. All good.
The 360 seems predicated on networking. Live is the best thing MS has going for that thing. They're getting a new influx of tiny designers coming up with weird and different things, possibly entering the market under the threshold of price. I blanch at coughing up $50 for a game, but hey, $5 isn't too bad. It's a heck of a lot easier to rationalize, that's for sure.
Sony doesn't seem to have a reason, other than Blue Ray, and that's not compelling to me. I admit I may not be their target audience, so hey. The controller seems like a pale imitation of the Wii and their networking setup isn't Live, not yet and perhaps not ever.
I know if I get a Wii, I'll have new game play. I know if I get a 360 I'll get new networking options on my console. I know if I get a 360, I'll have to buy a whole bunch of movies over again. Eh.
I don't remember any special effects in 'Bound'.
Oh, you mean 'The Matrix'.... Right, never mind.
Actually Penthouse is the satyrical publication. Private Eye is just satirical.
The typo was just too amusing to pass up.
No Rio players at all (either Nitrus, Karma or any other). One Creative. Whole bunch of really odd choices (Sony MD player?). Given what they reviewed, I guess the iPod would come out on top.
Yeah, you know, like selling water, that'll never fly. Who'd pay for something you can get out of a tap? Oh, wait a second...
Under Date and Time Properties there is an "Internet time" tab. The options are time.windows.com and time.nist.gov. The previous poster just put MSN instead of Windows. FWIW, the Windows option didn't work when I first brought XP up, but the nist.gov address did work fine.
"There are legitimate purposes for injectable morphine, but that doesn't mean that anyone who sets up shop to sell it should be allowed to. "
This is actually not a valid comparison. Assuming that copyright infringing music = morphine, your correct analogy would be Napster = needle. Which breaks, as it should, because the point of Napster is that it could be used for something else, as a needle can be used for insulin or saline or any other of a myriad of uses. Which ties right back to Sony. If there is a non infringing use, it's okay.
I think one of the great things about Napster is that it has spawned a new (or at least underexploited) way of thinking about networking and a whole new set of tools that deemphasize centralization. The cat's out of the bag. Gnutella, which should be far and away more resistant to lawsuits since it lacks a central authority/server/choke point, is, I think, going to end up being an absolute nightmare for authorities trying to keep track of who's giving what to whom and when and how (gotta track those taxes!) since it can be easily set up and taken down without anyone being the wiser. Works for me.
To a certain degree he has a point (barely) but, like other rants I've seen about User Friendly being all about Open Source jokes, they either haven't read most of it or hasn't recalled anything except [pet peeve of the day]. Any comic that can get away with the punchline "Men are from Mac, women are from VMS" gets my vote.
Claiming UF doesn't poke fun at itself is a bit disingenuous. Stef's Y2K question, from Evil Geniuses for Dummies, is a beautiful example.
Basically, IMHO, it comes down to the person having a pet peeve, finding stuff to support it, and missing, oh, say, 50% of the other stuff. No real shock there.
One thing I've seen in most of the responses come from the point of view of the user. This story, or rather what I got out of it, wasn't about the users, but the organization as a whole. Sure, Palms are cool, fun and useful (I assume, I don't have one) but this was more about how people abuse the system, and then expect the IT department to make up for it. Imagine if you, as a network admin, had to support this whiz piece of hardware that you hadn't trained for, didn't expect to be supporting and had all this new software that integrated (oddly) with existing software? Not fun. Point of the piece isn't that it can't be useful, but that it eats more time supporting it with clueless middle management types than it gives them back. And those clueless PHB types are the loudest whiners and are the most annoying if they don't get what they want. And if they can't figure it out, they bother other employees for help. Since some of those people could concievably be doing work, any time they take to tutor the Palm user is lost money. This fact also drags down productivity as a whole, with less skilled users using more skilled users to compensate.
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IIRC, Oliver Adams produced the original Mortal Kombat single and album (not the soundtrack, though the soundtrack does have the single). Adams also produces Lords Of Acid and Pragha Khan from what I recall. Course, I like Mortal Kombat...If something is to be done, let it be done well. We've seen this before. Khaddafi was one of the first that I can recall (then again I'm a young pup). We bombed. He shut up (some) but hey, he's still there. Reagan isn't. Saddam? Still there, because we're not willing, as a country, to accept the basic fact of any war. People die. There is no bloodless victory in war, that I can see. There can be bloodless battles, but never a true victory. Desert (Foo) had very low casualties, but they didn't suceed either, truly. We've bombed Serbia before, it's done drek. All it does is teaches those bombed where the limits are. Milosovic did a marvelous job tapdancing around NATO demands while building up. He got enough troops, and wham, over the border and thanks for playing. The Serbs obviously think that sacrificing men to the war is worth it. We don't. At this point, no technology in the world can help, if the will to victory isn't there. And is isn't, and it's not likely to be. Every time we send troops in, the opponent just has to look to Somalia or Beiruit to see examples of how to kick the Yankee Imperialist Dogs out with minimal effort.
I'm not so sure the internet can't be a decent source of traditional news. Reuters, via Yahoo, is pretty worthwhile, as is the AP site. Both of my local papers have web sites, which are quite close to the dead tree version. I can read them at will, for free, and catch up several times a day. Also, with the proliferation of sites that would be for a much more limited audience (can we say Tom's Hardware or Blue's?) you can have what would be, in the real world, difficult to find and possibly expensive to get. Since hobbyists are far more dedicated, and focused, and don't have problems that bedevil real media types, they can do more, more often and with a better chance of success. Course, we still have crappy sites, but, on the other hand, I've wasted nothing more than time sitting on my behind while doing about six other things anyway. Vive la Net!
I know! It's the ghosts of all those servers that have melted down over the months come back to wreak their revenge! It makes perfect sense.
Anyway, I still love ya'll. I can accept some rocky roads in this affair.