As a longtime fan of the show, I should have never read the article after I saw the headline.. (my own fault there, but hey, I couldn't stop myself) I was always intrigued by the mystery and enjoyed the fact that they hid his identity. It matters less to fans of this show than they think? It matters a lot to me, now I won't think of him (the current one) as the Stig, and a mystery figure, but some no name driver I've never heard of.
Who plays him does not matter, but the fact that it has been revealed who he is DOES matter. Bit of a difference there. Like I said above, I enjoyed the idea of not knowing who he was and always guessing who he might be. Now, that's ruined.
I would hope that there is more than one Stig and that the mystery continues. I love it.
I think BMI's bitch is about the $25 per location charge from DMX being 1/3 of the $77 per location BMI is charging. Of course, this is what the VENUES are charged, not what the ARTISTS are paid.
This is where the disconnect is for BMI. Mike is correct in asserting that if the artists really were getting paid less from DMX, they wouldn't be cutting deals with DMX in the first place. They are just able to cut a better deal for the venues AND the artists, and BMI's panties are in a bunch over it.
It's actually on its way/here already http://trysafetyfirst.com. Its a unit in the car that prevents a specific device from texting/calling while driving. It also has a passthrough for 911 for emergencies, so if you need all the corners of your life to have bumpers on them, there you go.
Wait, what did people do before cellphones? My memory isn't what it used to be and I can't quite remember..
I would still have to know the location to "drive past" on street view.
I ask because it takes as much information on the computer as it does on the street.
For example: There's a building downtown that is an all glass enclosed patio/courtyard type thing. In order to see it in person, you WOULD have to DRIVE there, but without knowing what street its on, you wouldn't find it if you started on the wrong side of downtown. Sure, you could drive up and down every street. You could find it that way.
If I go to Google street view, and want to find this building, based on the sole description above (and the downtown I am referring to) you would probably not find it, unless of course, you used street view to go up and down every street in downtown, OR you KNEW the address.
There's a disconnect between saying "its a click away" and it actually being that. If you already know the address, its no different than going there. I could stand in front of it and take all the pictures I want. I would have them, personally, but they would only be a click away because I knew they were there.
If Joe Schmoe doesn't want his house on Street View, what does it matter? If no one knows he lives there or what his address is, either A) they can't connect the picture of his house to him or B) they can't find his house.
If they know both, with Street View, they can get a picture of his house. And maybe what his lawn looks like, how often he waters his plants, etc.
If they know both, and they drive there, they can WATER his plants, MOW his lawn, or even, look into the windows at the backside of the house, or bring a ladder and see into the second story windows. Not gonna do any of that from the Street View photos.
So, you want privacy, in public? Hmmm. Those two things are at odds with each other.
Come on little Michee, what difference does it make what phone anyone uses?
And what makes you so sure he's stuck in the 90's? You ride motorcycles, isn't the technology in those even more outdated? (while parking on the sidewalk, I don't trust you since you don't give pedestrians anywhere to walk!)
I haven't had a G1 next to my ADP1 in a long time, and maybe the keyboards are painted/colored differently, but after taking a quick look at my keyboard after I was just texting with it on and off for the past hour and a half, I don't notice smudges on the keys themselves, but I do see fingerprints in the body of the keyboard around the keys.
The ADP1 isn't true black, its a deep dark gunmetal color. Not sure if that is whats making me not see them.
Also, I've had this phone almost a year now, and from my perspective it doesn't look like any of the keys have been used more than others (Notwithstanding what I said above about only entering passwords once on this phone)
My ADP1 (T-mobile G1) has a physical keyboard. I tend to stick to devices that have one, and this may be an even better reason to do so. I never use the touchscreen keyboard except for one handed SMS entry.
As for the 3x3 grid for unlocking the phone, I always used a pattern that crossed over itself. I doubt anyone would be able to get it on the first try, even following the smudges. I don't use anything to lock the phone anymore, as it was too much of a hassle to re-swipe the code every minute after the screen went off when I was using it to send txts frequently.
My next phone shall have a physical keyboard, but I don't really think its necessary for the reasons presented here. After all, I only enter passwords once on the phone in any web apps or sites and the phone remembers them. So for me, its pretty much a non-issue. And I don't visit my bank website from my phone.
Where I live, across the street, is a little Tex Mex joint that USED TO BE called Taco John's. That was until this chain made him change the name. So sad. Now its just called John's Tex Mex Eatery. I liked the name Taco Johns better (and most people who know still call it Taco Johns). There aren't any Taco Johns in this state, either.
Re: "Most people are both creators and consumers at the same time" WRONG !!
Dude! Darryl! Where's your brothers Larry and Darryl?
See what I did there? I created a joke. About you. I am also a consumer. HA!
Also, are you saying people who create, don't also consume? Wait, how do they eat? Do they not buy furniture? Have they never been to a movie/play/recital they didn't participate in? I could probably come up with 800 other examples, but I hope your pea sized brain gets the idea.
Holy cats!!! How the F&*^ do creators NOT consume?
Oh wait, its consumers who don't create?
Holy sh&*, you're confusing me dude!
I created this. This post, right here. Guess what? I just ate lunch, as a consumer! Oh, thats not art. Oh well, I bought a kick ass graffiti piece from the artist himself. (i'll dig up pictures if you want to see it, but you probably wouldn't think it was art, sinze your brain is only the size of a pea) I consumed that art by putting it on my wall. How did I do that? If I am a creator, I am not a consumer! HELP! DARRYL! HELP!!!!!!
No, the comment is going to be ICO isn't, which is why they didn't find anything significant, because they truly didn't know what to look for.
But I welcome the news, I find it inconceivable that there could be enough information contained therein on any one person. If you ask me, they obviously saw that and concluded Google isn't and won't do anything with what was collected. (not that they were even going to in the first place >
A few months ago, linked from this site or something like it, I started reading a PDF of a free book that explains the very story you are talking about (steam engines and patents, etc). This is the story I tell which gives a good primer on the needs for patent reform.
If he did he might "hold it wrong". He would have to send himself a berating email to "hold it differently", and after 23 days, hold a press conference and try to take down all the other phone manufacturers at the same time as he does himself. (Apples forums would have to be scrubbed of all mentions of this happening, etc etc etc)
I knew this when TW tried to "educate" us last year
When Time Warner planned to roll out the usage caps, I could see exactly what this was about. I personally dropped my cable television service because I only used it for Speed Channel and Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters. When I realized the extra $60 or $70 a month wasn't worth it, and it came time to shed some bills, cable TV was the first to go. I started watching even MORE shows on my internet connection: Lost, (which ABC gratefully showed all of the first three seasons before season 4 was aired), Fringe, and others on Hulu. I got a netflix sub last year. When TW unveiled the caps idea, I knew that what I was doing was what they wanted to capitalize on. I left cable TV and they wanted the revenue back, and the only way they would get it is if they capped my bandwidth and I exceeded it. With Skype video calling and all the rest, I would chew through their cap in about 2 weeks. That would NOT add value to my service. that would REMOVE value and COST ME MORE. Thank fucking god they backed off.
You know, I already paid for my service. It's the $45 a month I pay my bill to TW. If I remember correctly, TW was adding more customers each year on internet, Revenues were up and so were profits. I thought we were straining the system so bad they were losing money? Guess they thought people wouldn't go looking into their financials. And grandma can't afford cable? Big wh00pdeed00. She can get $10 dial up or $20 lower tier DSL. Oh wait, those aren't TW services, are they? Pity.
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Who plays him does not matter, but the fact that it has been revealed who he is DOES matter. Bit of a difference there. Like I said above, I enjoyed the idea of not knowing who he was and always guessing who he might be. Now, that's ruined.
I would hope that there is more than one Stig and that the mystery continues. I love it.
On the post: BMI Appeals Ruling That Lets Venues Route Around BMI, Claiming It Somehow Harms Musicians
This is where the disconnect is for BMI. Mike is correct in asserting that if the artists really were getting paid less from DMX, they wouldn't be cutting deals with DMX in the first place. They are just able to cut a better deal for the venues AND the artists, and BMI's panties are in a bunch over it.
Too. Fucking. Bad.
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Wait, what did people do before cellphones? My memory isn't what it used to be and I can't quite remember..
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I would still have to know the location to "drive past" on street view.
I ask because it takes as much information on the computer as it does on the street.
For example: There's a building downtown that is an all glass enclosed patio/courtyard type thing. In order to see it in person, you WOULD have to DRIVE there, but without knowing what street its on, you wouldn't find it if you started on the wrong side of downtown. Sure, you could drive up and down every street. You could find it that way.
If I go to Google street view, and want to find this building, based on the sole description above (and the downtown I am referring to) you would probably not find it, unless of course, you used street view to go up and down every street in downtown, OR you KNEW the address.
There's a disconnect between saying "its a click away" and it actually being that. If you already know the address, its no different than going there. I could stand in front of it and take all the pictures I want. I would have them, personally, but they would only be a click away because I knew they were there.
If Joe Schmoe doesn't want his house on Street View, what does it matter? If no one knows he lives there or what his address is, either A) they can't connect the picture of his house to him or B) they can't find his house.
If they know both, with Street View, they can get a picture of his house. And maybe what his lawn looks like, how often he waters his plants, etc.
If they know both, and they drive there, they can WATER his plants, MOW his lawn, or even, look into the windows at the backside of the house, or bring a ladder and see into the second story windows. Not gonna do any of that from the Street View photos.
So, you want privacy, in public? Hmmm. Those two things are at odds with each other.
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And what makes you so sure he's stuck in the 90's? You ride motorcycles, isn't the technology in those even more outdated? (while parking on the sidewalk, I don't trust you since you don't give pedestrians anywhere to walk!)
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Re: Find what is correct, its easier.. less of them..
The RIAA isn't getting a cut in this diagram!!!
It shoulda hit me like a freight train when I first saw it.
Then I realized this wasn't a diagram made by a US based business.
Shit, back to the uh... drawing board?
Darryl (or Larry, or the other Darryl) would you please point out the errors to us plebes?
kthxbi
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The ADP1 isn't true black, its a deep dark gunmetal color. Not sure if that is whats making me not see them.
Also, I've had this phone almost a year now, and from my perspective it doesn't look like any of the keys have been used more than others (Notwithstanding what I said above about only entering passwords once on this phone)
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Touchscreen.. but physical keyboard
As for the 3x3 grid for unlocking the phone, I always used a pattern that crossed over itself. I doubt anyone would be able to get it on the first try, even following the smudges. I don't use anything to lock the phone anymore, as it was too much of a hassle to re-swipe the code every minute after the screen went off when I was using it to send txts frequently.
My next phone shall have a physical keyboard, but I don't really think its necessary for the reasons presented here. After all, I only enter passwords once on the phone in any web apps or sites and the phone remembers them. So for me, its pretty much a non-issue. And I don't visit my bank website from my phone.
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Re: "Most people are both creators and consumers at the same time" WRONG !!
See what I did there? I created a joke. About you. I am also a consumer. HA!
Also, are you saying people who create, don't also consume? Wait, how do they eat? Do they not buy furniture? Have they never been to a movie/play/recital they didn't participate in? I could probably come up with 800 other examples, but I hope your pea sized brain gets the idea.
Holy cats!!! How the F&*^ do creators NOT consume?
Oh wait, its consumers who don't create?
Holy sh&*, you're confusing me dude!
I created this. This post, right here. Guess what? I just ate lunch, as a consumer! Oh, thats not art. Oh well, I bought a kick ass graffiti piece from the artist himself. (i'll dig up pictures if you want to see it, but you probably wouldn't think it was art, sinze your brain is only the size of a pea) I consumed that art by putting it on my wall. How did I do that? If I am a creator, I am not a consumer! HELP! DARRYL! HELP!!!!!!
PS: I consumed tons of reruns of Newhart.
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But I welcome the news, I find it inconceivable that there could be enough information contained therein on any one person. If you ask me, they obviously saw that and concluded Google isn't and won't do anything with what was collected. (not that they were even going to in the first place >
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If I can do it, and it works, you mean I have to go back and ask for permission? Dang, that just took all the fun out of it.
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Oh wait, that sorta already happened!
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I knew this when TW tried to "educate" us last year
You know, I already paid for my service. It's the $45 a month I pay my bill to TW. If I remember correctly, TW was adding more customers each year on internet, Revenues were up and so were profits. I thought we were straining the system so bad they were losing money? Guess they thought people wouldn't go looking into their financials. And grandma can't afford cable? Big wh00pdeed00. She can get $10 dial up or $20 lower tier DSL. Oh wait, those aren't TW services, are they? Pity.
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