Some guy named Christopher found a little post card that shows there is prior art for Skype and other webcam software (yeah, I know Skype was the late-comer – but who gets a CU-SeeMe reference today?).
Check it, it’s kinda creepy. Even shows how French people invented the Interwebs.
From a French postcard c. 1910. Notice the caption which translates as “In the year 2000.” Not too far off, except for the costumes.
Ahh, Slashdot – where you better watch what you are saying because someone that knows something might respond. Like the time I accidentially told Will Wheaton to ‘fuck off’…
Khyber: S3 Virge, not regular Virge. There was a difference. S3 Virge used MeTaL. Regular Virge/VX/DX/Trio3D did not use metal. S3Virge cards did.
UncleFluffy: Sorry, I think your memory is somewhat faulty there. MeTaL was definitely Savage series only, I know because I helped write it.
I bet it’s a bong in a dorm room somewhere. An awesome bong that looks like President Garfield.
Someone has beheaded a statue of President James Garfield that was installed last week at an Ohio college.
Hiram College spokesman Shawn Brown says the vandalism was discovered Friday morning, just a day after the sandstone statue was dedicated on the campus in Hiram, 30 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Brown says the college is hoping the head will be recovered so the 95-year-old statue can be restored, but police have no leads in their investigation.
The reasoning seems to be that Wintergrasp is too lag ridden now, but I don’t see that. My old machine couldn’t keep up, but that issue was on my end not theirs. A commenter on Wowinsider coined the phrase to describe the effects of this: Wintergraveyard. I think this is a horrible move, it’s going to make the battle so one sided that it won’t be fun to play anymore. The other problem is that you’ll see people begging you to go with them into Wintergrasp when they need the dailies done. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Wintergrasp and will still give it a shot each day; but the incentive is gone for the more casual players who show up even outfitted in PVE gear.
Blizzard, why are you messing with my Wintergrasp?
In an effort to better balance the amount of players that are in Wintergrasp at any given time, we are changing the daily quests in Wintergrasp to a weekly format. This will result in an increase in the honor reward given by these quests as well as additional Stone Keeper’s Shards. These quests will reset every Tuesday morning at 3:00 AM.
There are two known issues that may occur once these changes are pushed to live realms:
The quest mark will now show as gold, even though the quests are repeatable.
After the quests reset, players near the NPC quest givers may need to move out of line of sight in order for the quests to properly appear.
Someone needs to launch an in-depth investigation into the practices of Fruit of the Loom. I’m the type of guy who finds something that works and sticks with it. One of my longest mainstays have been Reebok Classics, I’ve been buying them over and over for ten years. Up until now another was Fruit of the Loom tagless white T-shirts, I like to wear them under my button down shirts, especially after I stopped wearing ties (I have some high chest hair I need to hide).
Honestly, I didn’t buy any new ones for a long time. I kept wearing the same old ones even though they lost their white-ness. But eventually I noticed that the necks had become stretched out and I decided to pick up a few packs. And another admission that I don’t want to make publicly, but some I wore without washing them. Today is one of those days. I thought I got them all but I grabbed one and put it on.
All day I’ve been pulling the back collar part up because it’s been falling, and bugging the crap out of me. Then upon closer inspection I find that the collar is wider than the ones I recently threw out. What gives? It hasn’t even gone through the wash yet, how can this be? How did the others last so long and these new ones stretch when you open the bag?
Congress, Ralph Nader, someone, please help. And don’t get me wrong, I checked them before I paid for them – they weren’t streched before I bought them.
Fruit of the Loom – I want an apology. A personal one.
What do you do with an old dog who can’t stand up anymore? You do the “humane” thing and put them, to sleep. People will tell you it’s the right thing to do, that you are doing right by that animal by killing it. You are being merciful. You do the right thing.
What about your dying relative? I’d be willing to bet that 70% of people feel that it’s also “humane” to kill them too; although the level of their suffering differs between each person. This movement has gained momentum, it seems to me in the past years, but I think it’s our pets fault.
We’ve “put down” animals for so many years. When a horse is hurt, a pet ages or we come upon a hurt animal we feel the right thing is to take their life. I think this has put us in the position to make the leap to take the life of a breathing person.
I’m not even trying to make the argument that we aren’t doing The Right Thing (TM). I just see where we are moving. I agree with the science of evolution and the idea of things like animal husbandry (genetical selection of animal stock for our benefit). The problem is things like the selection of your childs sex or eye color.
We’ve seen animals as objects for so long that it has changed our view of people. Maybe it is psychological, maybe we don’t identify with an unborn child or someone so sick they can’t talk. Maybe they become to us an animal. I once made tremendous fun of Terri Schiavo, and I don’t regret it. What I somewhat regret is how I began to see her as something and not someone. I never really formed a real opinion on if she should be, killed perhaps, but I never identified.
Yes you could say “how can you identify with someone that has no brain function?” How could you want a loved one to suffer? I just fear the people who view this as such a casual matter. People, I fear, have become even more casual to the mystery and beauty of life. We’ve learned the sex of our children long enough to think it’s a good idea to decide that for your liking.
The begining and end of life is not something that should be played with plain and simple. It is just one justification after another. This is the proverbial slippery slope. It can take us places that we don’t want to think we are capable of. We can’t imagine, even though we’ve been there before, what people can do with justification.
It seems our morality swings in our history here on Earth. We seem to build up our empathy and we lose it. We now though are becoming even more selfish than usual. Most people first cite themself as the reason they shouldn’t have, sorry, couldn’t have a disabled child.
This is all one arguement I feel. All of it is born out of not identifying with the subject of the conversation at hand. A pet, an aging loved one or an unborn child. They don’t speak, they don’t talk to us and we lose sight of them. Most people don’t agree, and I feel as if I am putting myself in camp of people I don’t care much for, but there is nothing wrong with not going with popular morality.
Again I’m not making the “inhumane” argument here. I just want to study the idea of how people make either one. I fear either extreme. But this one, the laziness of which people look at life, is even more scary. I could make all types of arguments for both sides and call out the opposite, but we all need to look a little deeper at what we are deciding.
In these economic times this line of thinking becomes even more troublesome. I just hope again the moderates come out on top.
“If you can stand it and develop a taste for it Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches for lunch are a good idea to help save a few dollars. You could go out to the fancy place, pick up something from the sheik deli, or eat out of vending machines – but all that costs money.
Pack three peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or two large!) and you are in for a treat. You can eat them throughout the day if you’d like – each treat is will hold you over for sometime. How does it work? Sugar and protein. A lot of people like one or the other when they snack, but you really need both for that afternoon boost.
When you eat a PB & J you get protein (n’ stuff) from the nuts to make your body feel full and sugar from jelly to get your brain kickstarted. Peanut butter and jelly are cheap too – usually under a dollar, with bread not to far behind. Pack a few tomorrow and see how it feels to save.”
Posted in Kinda Lame, Rant on October 14th, 2008 by admin
The iTunes Music Store (or iTMS) is already the gold standard of music sales. Why shouldn’t they try to become the worlds clearinghouse of music? They have the user and active buyer base to just swallow the competition in utter control of the market. (And why aren’t they buying the rights to music yet? Or are they?)
They should partner up with Myspace to sell their music downloads. iTunes or Myspace would never let this happen, but they (Apple) could push it in a real slick way. They could just ask Myspace to forward their downloads through iTMS. By forward, I mean that Apple would be a clearinghouse of sorts for Myspace music downloads. They would hold a digital copy of the catalog and only allow downloads through some sort of encrypted API that allows users to purchase the music on Myspace’s mobile application, and have it downloaded and integrated into iTunes.
The question is who stands to lose money? iTMS could suffer because they have made it easier for a competitor to enter the market (on their device no doubt!). Myspace could be suckered into paying too much. I propose just one cent of the purchase should go to Apple. They would be able to make a profit on a few million songs I’d think. The electronic music download market is primed (current economic times excluded, of course) and it could produce more opportunities like this. It could allow any competitor to plug into Apple’s user-base. Apple must do something to compete too. Google Android is just around the corner – it could do this for free (as in speech).
The songs would integrate into the iPod/iPhone and iTunes and create a harmonious experience for the end users and Apple can tax every download that goes through their device. Why not try it? Then get the competitors to do it too and then you have money coming in from every angle. And most companies, I would think, would love to tap into the iPhone user’s wallets.
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