I've been taking some online classes through http://coursera.org/, when I log in from work where I'm only allowed to use IE on Win7 I get a big banner telling me to upgrade to a modern browser.
I can stil view the site, access the video lectures, take multiple choice quizzes, and most everything else but for some reason it won't allow me to submit essay type quizzes.

I remember when Mandrake use to show pictures of bulldozers and other heavy equipment while the packages were installed.

So it's OK if I shoot my friend in the face?

Now the name of the governor in Blazing Saddles makes sense to me.

That's what he meant by adding a 60 Hz hum.

Have you ever served in a branch of the US armed forces? Granted its been more than 20 since I was in the Corps, but we were always trained to know each others jobs, and having junior Marines take leadership roles.

Once had a guy at work do an entire engine system schematic for the E-2C in Paint because the project manager was too cheap to buy an Autocad seat. It was very impressive, but took four times as long to complete, and was a bitch to edit.

My son and I still use G4 Luxo lamp type iMacs as DAW machines, and experience less latency than the P4 based PC my band uses which has speciality audio gear installed in it.

I prefer AC/DC covered by a bluegrass band. http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6852994/a/Back+in+Bluegrass%3A+The+Bluegrass+Tribute+AC%2FDC.htm

When the recording industry was first getting started it was sheet music publishers that got all up in arms over the new "disruptive" technology that was eating into their sales. However they seemed to have adaptive fairly well over the last hundred years or so.

The recording industry will survive. Just not at the levels they once did. Lather, rinse, repeat for the next major shift.

Art as an act of self expression is a very modern viewpoint, not older than 100 years or so.

Seriously? So you don't think people didn't whittled sticks into the shape of animals,wrote songs, stories, and poems about things that happen in their lives, or draw pictures of their surroundings when it was too dark, or wet to work the feilds until sometime after the civil war?

It's called folk art, and has been around for a long time. There are people in all walks of life who do not have a patron paying them to prepare works that the patron wants who paint, draw, write, and sculpt for no other reason that to amuse and occupy themselves when all of the other things they have to do are done.

Maybe the thing that should be pulled from an arse is your head.

It was a joke, which either you didn't get it, or your the troll.

The correct clever human response to such thing is to punch the setter in the face; they have broken the formal compact of crossword setting by using a non-word/non-phrase as an answer.

Exactly. I like doing crosswords, but it hate it when they do stupid shit like that. I really hate it when the answer is two words and there's no indication of it.

While not a car analogy, trains are still transportation so it counts. And it was good too.

I call horseshit on this one.

There is no way that simply removing the credits, and anything that identifies who the original producer of a movie was, is enough of a change to classify it as a derivative work. It's not the titles and the cover that are "the work." It's the movie itself.

Therefore the whole thing would just about have to be re-edited to show your friends vision of what could be made using the same bits of footage for it to be derivative of the original. Otherwise it's just the original without giving credit.