By that token, I could blame people getting married for causing friendships to decline.
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Just noticed a trailer for Al Gore's new epic at YouTube which was produced and voiced by the Futurama crew. Enjoy - unless it's been posted already - in which case enjoy again:
I'd have to say mostly - you can't compare Futurama to the Simpsons.
The second of the two jumped the shark a while ago - although it came back from the groaner pile a bit it never compared to Futurama which was just getting a decent groove when Fox pre-empted it into oblivion.
After Futurama came out - the Simpsons seemed just wholesale tame by comparrison and even in some of the comentator tracks on the DVDs you could see where Matt G.'s passion was going (or at least more of it). It's not just the geek factor - it's the ubber geek factor that made it great among other things. Plus not having to be tied down to earth led to a much broader swath of possiblities - continuity be damned. Or at least horribly twisted if one recalls brain-burners like the Farnsworth parallel universe boxes. That was a particularly fun episode.
I don't really know where I'm going with this so I'll just stop now.
"Another recent joke involves chairs being thrown, in a reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who reportedly threw a chair upon hearing that Google had hired one of the chief Microsoft developers. It usually refers to an IT-related upset and ends something like 'I hope no one got hurt by flying chairs'."
Actually, I was more concerned by the idiotic advice:
"Fire extinguishers leave a mess on your suit and belongings; pack your stuff (if you can) and leave, leave, leave!"
I'm sure if you cause an explosion in most public places - regardless of the country - and leave leave leave, the police will be inclined to locate you and make you stay stay stay - perhaps for a very long long long time.
Also amusing to compare to the old Apple FUD where the only flaming laptop incident was never in the hands of the consumer but an employee of Apple. Now - we have Wintels exploding in the hands of the customers. That's real progress people! Good job!
re:"if you do keep your distance, some idiot will drive into the gap"
That one really pisses me off. I drive the Bay Bridge into San Francisco almost every day from Emeryville, and in many locations the bridge's rise prevents seeing the back-ups that can occur at the drop of a hat. The solution is to increase the stop distance of course - but man - everytime you do some moron takes the spot. I suspect this one factor causes more wholesale slowdowns as people reduce speed over and over until the 20 mph creep occurs. No accident - just everyone slowing down at once.
For the record it was the NYT article that I saw. It was from over a year ago so it didn't pop-up immediately. I think the SF Chronicle and other papers carried similar articles via the Associated press, but there's no shortage of print on the subject, just google the damn thing - I have a sinus infection and am kind of pissy moodwise.
Well, yes it's all playing games - oddly I thought I'd seen mythbusters show the other way where polarization worked occasionally, and high reflective paint (the kind used on highway signs) scattered the flash - but it's all bla bla until I do some google searching, and even then - hey "everything on the net is true".
But yes, in CA there's been long-running court battles to overturn the cameras enforcement. The better argument goes something like this - (state) constitutionally, a mandated group of people have to be in charge of law enforcement (IE: you vote for sherrif, judges etc). The company that sells and services the cameras were not beholden to the voters and as such cannot take the role of law enforcement directly - as they now do.
This has been argued since 2000 and 6 years later, not much has changed. This is also why I don't vote anymore. The system is now so fouled up I want no part of it, or blame akin to being a member of the Nazi Party (ha! and fuck "Godwin's Law" - with the current GOP it's an apt metaphor from 9-11's reichstag fire, to consulting with Russia on our pre-invasion asset handling - it's so sadly apt).
Hence, he largest changes in this country now come out of the courts. Fiddling about with executive branch popularity contests pale in to the power of the DOJ, local and the Supreme Courts.*
Unless you think people like Ralph Nader will ever have a chance - and I voted for him - twice!
*With the possible exception of the current Vice - President - but that's a different story altogether.
Traffic light cameras in the United States have been playing games with people who have been modifying their plates with additional paints and plastic covers that either impose polarizing refraction or light scattering techniques. The latter is my pick as adding paint that is of a higher reflectivity is nearly impossible to spot with the naked eye (like those of the police) but does quite the scattershot job on them at intersections.
Note - since the rise of cameras at intersections accidents have nearly doubled in some cases as people slam on the brakes in time for the person behind them to collide with them. But remember - it's safety - not revenue.
Brought to you by your local police and proection agency: To Serve - and Collect.
I never did see either in the summary or even at his site a quick link to the experiment's results - here it is - although he seems to be slashdotting as we speak...
It's actually fairly amusing. The edits make it very familiar to 99 percent of the threads around here. Almost makes you wonder what a decent video project involving slashdot exclusively would look like.
20 bucks in shareware for anyone who can program me an etch-a-sketch plug in for photoshop that allows me to wipe a frustrating layout off the screen by me violently shaking the laptop. It would be far more cheaper than therapy.
(of course one could surmise that anyone who wants this in leu of therapy might have issues - but I'd call those people just plain nuts)
For every game that nets 10,000,000.00 sales revenue and includes "Hot Coffee": Fine - one time fee - 10,000.00 dollars. For every game that nets 100,000,000 sales revenue and includes "Hot Coffee": Fine - one time fee - 100,000.00 dollars.
And for good measure,
For every game that even includes the words "Hot Coffee" - 5,000.00. Any game that has the word "Hot" in the same scene as the word "Coffee" - 5000.00
In all seriousness (?) - I think a frame grab from the monkey dance video would be a pretty good icon actually. How do we submit such chochkies (sic? I have no idea) to slashdot anyway?
That renders GTA4 in the best possible fidelity with the least possible load-times and disk swaps.
Unless they release it for the Wii with nunchuck controller support for the baseball bat. Then all bets are off. But I'm not holding my breath - because - well, I like oxygen...
Slashdot Mirror
By that token, I could blame people getting married for causing friendships to decline.
Just noticed a trailer for Al Gore's new epic at YouTube which was produced and voiced by the Futurama crew. Enjoy - unless it's been posted already - in which case enjoy again:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24
I'd have to say mostly - you can't compare Futurama to the Simpsons.
The second of the two jumped the shark a while ago - although it came back from the groaner pile a bit it never compared to Futurama which was just getting a decent groove when Fox pre-empted it into oblivion.
After Futurama came out - the Simpsons seemed just wholesale tame by comparrison and even in some of the comentator tracks on the DVDs you could see where Matt G.'s passion was going (or at least more of it). It's not just the geek factor - it's the ubber geek factor that made it great among other things. Plus not having to be tied down to earth led to a much broader swath of possiblities - continuity be damned. Or at least horribly twisted if one recalls brain-burners like the Farnsworth parallel universe boxes. That was a particularly fun episode.
I don't really know where I'm going with this so I'll just stop now.
Do you have any of his pillow-talk quotes?
That guy was quite the swinger if the circumstances of his own death are recalled. Those are great too.
You also should check out his quote about pennies - hillarious stuff in modern context.
explaination from wikipedia:
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"Another recent joke involves chairs being thrown, in a reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who reportedly threw a chair upon hearing that Google had hired one of the chief Microsoft developers. It usually refers to an IT-related upset and ends something like 'I hope no one got hurt by flying chairs'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_jokes_on_S
I'll bite - at this rate of departure soon Ballmer won't have anyone to clobber with a chair.
Actually, I was more concerned by the idiotic advice:
"Fire extinguishers leave a mess on your suit and belongings; pack your stuff (if you can) and leave, leave, leave!"
I'm sure if you cause an explosion in most public places - regardless of the country - and leave leave leave, the police will be inclined to locate you and make you stay stay stay - perhaps for a very long long long time.
Also amusing to compare to the old Apple FUD where the only flaming laptop incident was never in the hands of the consumer but an employee of Apple. Now - we have Wintels exploding in the hands of the customers. That's real progress people! Good job!
re:"if you do keep your distance, some idiot will drive into the gap"
That one really pisses me off. I drive the Bay Bridge into San Francisco almost every day from Emeryville, and in many locations the bridge's rise prevents seeing the back-ups that can occur at the drop of a hat. The solution is to increase the stop distance of course - but man - everytime you do some moron takes the spot. I suspect this one factor causes more wholesale slowdowns as people reduce speed over and over until the 20 mph creep occurs. No accident - just everyone slowing down at once.
For the record it was the NYT article that I saw. It was from over a year ago so it didn't pop-up immediately. I think the SF Chronicle and other papers carried similar articles via the Associated press, but there's no shortage of print on the subject, just google the damn thing - I have a sinus infection and am kind of pissy moodwise.
Phawk - phthew.
Well, yes it's all playing games - oddly I thought I'd seen mythbusters show the other way where polarization worked occasionally, and
high reflective paint (the kind used on highway signs) scattered the flash - but it's all bla bla until I do some google searching, and even
then - hey "everything on the net is true".
But yes, in CA there's been long-running court battles to overturn the cameras enforcement. The better argument goes something like
this - (state) constitutionally, a mandated group of people have to be in charge of law enforcement (IE: you vote for sherrif, judges etc).
The company that sells and services the cameras were not beholden to the voters and as such cannot take the role of law enforcement
directly - as they now do.
This has been argued since 2000 and 6 years later, not much has changed. This is also why I don't vote anymore.
The system is now so fouled up I want no part of it, or blame akin to being a member of the Nazi Party (ha! and fuck "Godwin's Law" -
with the current GOP it's an apt metaphor from 9-11's reichstag fire, to consulting with Russia on our pre-invasion asset handling - it's so sadly apt).
Hence, he largest changes in this country now come out of the courts. Fiddling about with executive branch popularity contests pale
in to the power of the DOJ, local and the Supreme Courts.*
Unless you think people like Ralph Nader will ever have a chance - and I voted for him - twice!
*With the possible exception of the current Vice - President - but that's a different story altogether.
Traffic light cameras in the United States have been playing games with people who have been modifying their plates with additional paints and plastic covers that either impose polarizing refraction or light scattering techniques. The latter is my pick as adding paint that is of a higher reflectivity is nearly impossible to spot with the naked eye (like those of the police) but does quite the scattershot job on them at intersections.
Note - since the rise of cameras at intersections accidents have nearly doubled in some cases as people slam on the brakes in time for the person behind them to collide with them. But remember - it's safety - not revenue.
Brought to you by your local police and proection agency: To Serve - and Collect.
I never did see either in the summary or even at his site a quick link to the experiment's results - here it is - although he seems to be slashdotting as we speak...
6 0906.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/0
It's actually fairly amusing. The edits make it very familiar to 99 percent of the threads around here. Almost makes you wonder what a decent video project involving slashdot exclusively would look like.
re:" It grew at an astonishing rate of 9.3% last quarter."
So did a lot of people's waistlines in the United States - but that didn't stop productivity on the whole - perhaps at the treadmill...
I think Apple's just grabbing straws at excuses.
re:"But then we're speculating on rumors anyway..."
Slashdot BLASHPHEMER!
Of COURSE we are - what the hell else are we supposed to do - WORK?
20 bucks in shareware for anyone who can program me an etch-a-sketch plug in for photoshop that allows me to wipe a frustrating layout off the screen by me violently shaking the laptop. It would be far more cheaper than therapy.
(of course one could surmise that anyone who wants this in leu of therapy might have issues - but I'd call those people just plain nuts)
Well the obvious solution is to start hunting and eating the police for food.
At least it would make things interesting. Certainly from an enforcement aspect.
You also have to consider the cost of bandwidth downloading these monsters.
A 10 year old clunker is going to cost the same in bandwidth as a first-tier release.
The simplicity of average cost goes beyond marketing I suspect.
I reach out to women all the time.
It's them letting me touch them that's the hard part.
If they do as well as Iraq and their mission in finding Osama Bin Ladden - then Hollywood has nothing to worry about.
Mission accomplished!
Here's my try - large and small - need to tweak the small version's readability (perhaps a different chair) - but it's a start:
http://siliconpop.com/chair.jpg
http://siliconpop.com/chair.gif
For every game that nets 10,000,000.00 sales revenue and includes "Hot Coffee": Fine - one time fee - 10,000.00 dollars.
For every game that nets 100,000,000 sales revenue and includes "Hot Coffee": Fine - one time fee - 100,000.00 dollars.
And for good measure,
For every game that even includes the words "Hot Coffee" - 5,000.00. Any game that has the word "Hot" in the same scene as the word "Coffee" - 5000.00
re:"Just a picture of a chair. It'd be beatifully subtle, but sufficiently childish."
Agreed - Aeron?
In all seriousness (?) - I think a frame grab from the monkey dance video would be a pretty good icon actually.
How do we submit such chochkies (sic? I have no idea) to slashdot anyway?
You could go with Mac OS, it sucks according to some - but I'd like to counter that it merely sucks less.
(Disclaimer: Actually since I was a NeXT user in a former life, I'd actually gush all over OSX - but I don't want to be a bore)
That renders GTA4 in the best possible fidelity with the least possible load-times and disk swaps.
Unless they release it for the Wii with nunchuck controller support for the baseball bat. Then all bets are off.
But I'm not holding my breath - because - well, I like oxygen...
Chainsaws and 1080p. Mmmmmmmalllllarghhhhdrool.