Oh well played sir! It really is painful to watch this all unfolding - the media giants just don't get what's happening and are fighting it in such a way as to alienate those they need/hope to hang on to. When I could safely download MP3s without fear of hassle by the RIAA, I ended up tripling my CD purchasing as I got to sample loads of music I'd never have done before. I'd read a review and think something sounded good but didn't fancy dropping $15 or whatever on a chance. When I could download it, listen and then decide, I spent my cash far more happily.
The same thing happens with TV shows - I buy far more DVDs after downloading a few episodes of something. Got 2 box sets in the mail as I type.
It's "vinyl" so all those idiots who spell it vynil, vynyl and every other variation, stop it! Also, learn to use the word vinyls correctly. In most cases, the word you want is vinyl.
Wrong: I have lots of vinyls in my music collection. I like listening to vinyls
Right: I have lots of vinyl in my music collection. I like listening to vinyl.
Unless I've missed some whole new sub-branch, semantic web to me means marking it up properly to give meaning to the various page elements via correct tags and microformats. This is just an overgrown agregator.
The head of Valve stood up recently at a developers conference and said in front of everyone that the PS3 was a waste of everyone's time. it's not popular amongst game developers. It's a bitch to program and Sony are incredibly unhelpful compared to MS. Ask them both a tech query, MS get back to you same day, often with a code snippet. Sony wait 2 weeks and tell you to read the docs.
I think the UK magazine culture is somewhat different to the US. In the UK we just laugh at freebies and do a damning review if that's what it deserves. In the US, people are far more likely to turn an advert in to advertorials - often the reviews are supplied by the manufactures. They can't get away with that in the UK though.
FWIW, I get to keep nearly all software and probably 70% of hardware but it's never influenced me - indeed, several items have got slammed when I reviewed them but they still supply me with new kit. If they did otherwise, they know it will soon get reported. I've seen quite a few magazines print articles when a manufacturer has taken umbrage and thrown their rattle out the pram.
>Well... your wonderful cousin you wouldn't like to upset who just happens to have a
stockpile of nuclear-tipped ICBMs, anyhow.
There, fixed it for you.
>"He's really intense about this stuff," the source said,
This is the same one that gave away his last album in the UK as a freebie inside a Sunday paper? Hmm.. What curious values he must have although I guess it may just be that they are artistic rather than financial which is fair enough.
NTNOCN gets semi-regular repeats on the Paramount channel of all places I believe plus there's a best of DVD. It's good stuff - lots of well known UK comedians cut there teeth on it.
FX: Looks down at latest missive from da management
"Confidently lead the market with differentiated outsourcing services leveraging our key differentiators"
"Market leading unique services"
Just saved them a million or two there.
Like 99.9% of science, it is indeed a theory not a fact but as with the rest, it fits the evidence better than anything else we can come up with right now. It may well be utter tripe but right now we just don't know. You're quite right though that it is often put forward as fact when it most certainly isn't.
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That was my first thought along with 'that won't last long, half an hour at best'
Oh well played sir! It really is painful to watch this all unfolding - the media giants just don't get what's happening and are fighting it in such a way as to alienate those they need/hope to hang on to. When I could safely download MP3s without fear of hassle by the RIAA, I ended up tripling my CD purchasing as I got to sample loads of music I'd never have done before. I'd read a review and think something sounded good but didn't fancy dropping $15 or whatever on a chance. When I could download it, listen and then decide, I spent my cash far more happily.
The same thing happens with TV shows - I buy far more DVDs after downloading a few episodes of something. Got 2 box sets in the mail as I type.
It's "vinyl" so all those idiots who spell it vynil, vynyl and every other variation, stop it! Also, learn to use the word vinyls correctly. In most cases, the word you want is vinyl.
Wrong: I have lots of vinyls in my music collection. I like listening to vinyls
Right: I have lots of vinyl in my music collection. I like listening to vinyl.
Unless I've missed some whole new sub-branch, semantic web to me means marking it up properly to give meaning to the various page elements via correct tags and microformats. This is just an overgrown agregator.
The head of Valve stood up recently at a developers conference and said in front of everyone that the PS3 was a waste of everyone's time. it's not popular amongst game developers. It's a bitch to program and Sony are incredibly unhelpful compared to MS. Ask them both a tech query, MS get back to you same day, often with a code snippet. Sony wait 2 weeks and tell you to read the docs.
I think the UK magazine culture is somewhat different to the US. In the UK we just laugh at freebies and do a damning review if that's what it deserves. In the US, people are far more likely to turn an advert in to advertorials - often the reviews are supplied by the manufactures. They can't get away with that in the UK though.
FWIW, I get to keep nearly all software and probably 70% of hardware but it's never influenced me - indeed, several items have got slammed when I reviewed them but they still supply me with new kit. If they did otherwise, they know it will soon get reported. I've seen quite a few magazines print articles when a manufacturer has taken umbrage and thrown their rattle out the pram.
Hi there! This is Eddie your car computer and I just know I'm going to get a kick out of anything you want to do today. Share and enjoy!
Plus at least one episode of ST TOS I can think of.
>'Hey, you look somehow angry. Why? Please calm down'
It was shortly afterwards the robot was punched into pieces and thrown out the window.
Ah, nice one, you got me for a minute there. :-)
(FX:Sits back and waits for hoards that don't)
>Well ... your wonderful cousin you wouldn't like to upset who just happens to have a
stockpile of nuclear-tipped ICBMs, anyhow.
There, fixed it for you.
>SO WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU
Because he thought he'd get away with it?
Troll? I thought they were pretty funny. Ignore them if you must but troll? Some mod has something stuck up their butt methinks.
>"He's really intense about this stuff," the source said,
This is the same one that gave away his last album in the UK as a freebie inside a Sunday paper? Hmm.. What curious values he must have although I guess it may just be that they are artistic rather than financial which is fair enough.
Damn, rumbled, better get back to my car then and go down the park.
NTNOCN gets semi-regular repeats on the Paramount channel of all places I believe plus there's a best of DVD. It's good stuff - lots of well known UK comedians cut there teeth on it.
Wrote his own website and flies aerobatic stunts at airshows - does that count?
Blackadder was good but I prefer his Not The Nine O'Clock News stuff. His sketch with 'Gerald the Gorilla' was insane.
>the intent was a +5 insightful. /. people think insightful = 'agrees with me'
That's becuase on
Sorry old bean but the comet will be hidden by the smog dontcha know.
The old /. joke expressed as 4 lines that end with 'Profit' is not really applicable.
We'll need an ongoing methodology modification scenario to help you solutionize that goal.
FX: Looks down at latest missive from da management
"Confidently lead the market with differentiated outsourcing services leveraging our key differentiators"
"Market leading unique services"
Just saved them a million or two there.
Like 99.9% of science, it is indeed a theory not a fact but as with the rest, it fits the evidence better than anything else we can come up with right now. It may well be utter tripe but right now we just don't know. You're quite right though that it is often put forward as fact when it most certainly isn't.
>Adobe has announced their intention to *move*
Fixed it again. Next person that says transition gets a poke in the eye.