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Re:Linux?It isn't just
I used to run a frequently updated humor website, and most of my traffic were people I knew from the Badassmofo.com forums and people they knew (this was a few years back, before "blogs" as such). This whole deal is really a word-of-mouth phenomenon based on people who trust the opinion of friends, a popular website, etc.
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political blogs and E/NMost of the popular blogs deal with politics and current events, and are created by lawyers or professional writers, not techies. The Silicon Valley connection seems to relate more to blogs that descend from the E/N webpages that were popular a few years back.
E/N stood for Everything and Nothing, a "timewaster" page about silly news articles, bizarre Flash movies from Japan, and other amusing stuff the author finds on the web, plus commentary and rants that put them in context. badassmofo.com is a good example, as he's a tech worker who has time to kill scrounging the 'Net. His page used to be considered E/N a few years back, but now would be thought of as a blog.
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Kill The Scientists
Lemme tell you about things that I don't trust our scientists with: the orbit of the planet. Still, do you think this is going to be the next movie craze, like the whole asteroid cataclysm thing? I can just see it now, Bruce Willis, suiting up to save the world yet again. Sharkey
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Re:They don't know half of it
Heh, I hope that was a troll.
If not, YAAIdiot, and should sign up for the Malthion X project
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Great
Now thousands of PERL users can program Flash to generate completely useless splash pages.
Dammit. Sharkey
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You call that a collection?
I don't even see "A Boy & His Blob" in there. I am thoroughly unimpressed. And where's the photo? I need to see product before purchase, hot dammit! *seethes with jealousy*Sharkey
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Great
Another reason to stay off the road....SUV DRIVER: "Oh MAN! Carribean Queen by Billy Ocean! I love this song, I gotta get it! Let's see... B-I-L-L... Oops, cut that guy off, sorry... Y.. O-C-E *SCREEEEEECH* SHIIIIIIT! *BOOM*Sharkey
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Ugh
The news comes at a particularly bad time for Transmeta, whose initial public offering is scheduled to start trading around 9 a.m. PST Tuesday.
Now that's a shite way to start it off. Whoever said "There's no such thing as bad press" never worked in the stock market. Sharkey
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Lesser of two stupids
I guess we could make the observation that Gore now wants to filter and regulate his own invention, but that'd be a bit redundant, don't you think?Personally, rather than vote for those morons, I'm going to vote for my Darth Vader Lego Keychain. He's done a bang-up job guarding my keys, and I doubt we'll notice much difference voting a hunk of plastic into office rather than a block of wood or a coke whore. Sharkey
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ARRRGH
Stupid user-restricted stories. Warn us about that crap before we go there. Sharkey
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*Sigh*
Like we need Roundhead doing anything in collaboration with Microsoft. I'll go get my shovel, one of you guys hold him down. Sharkey
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Holy Shinola
Wow, I would have liked it better if Scott left it as a mystery, but hey, whatever floats your boat. It's cool to know now, I guess. Sharkey
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MMmm... Emulation...
That's what I've been waitin' for. Now if they'd only get some classic NES, or Sega MS emulators, I'd buy a Palm in a heartbeat. But in the meantime, I'd rather just carry a Game Boy. Sharkey
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I dunno....
Whenever I get a fleck of something in there, I get some vicious eyestrain. It hurts to even think about sticking electronics in there. Although, you know we'll all need them someday. I had better than 20/20 my whole life, right up until I found my love of computers. Now I'm lucky if I can find the can in broad daylight. Sharkey
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I worked with that guy
I actually had to work with that guy at one point. At my last job we started using Pixelon's services for streaming movie trailers over the internet. Our first webmaster chose them because they broadcasted the Anaheim Ducks games. Their software was alright, but it was still only for broadband use. Anyway, I was wierded out by that guy's name, because I worked with a guy named Michael Fenne. And I remember him saying something about how his name was unique, and nobody else's in the world was spelled that way. Then we stopped using their services all of the sudden, and I wondered what the Hell was going on. So I ask my coworker Mike Fenne what happened, and he says that the feds think that he's the one that ran Pixelon. He didn't even know about the company, so obviously he was a little confused. Guess the FBI was confused too, because the names, and places of business were a little too similar to be coincidental. I guess it's a good thing that they found the impostor. He was a whack job anyway, and the company was like a rabid dog. They used to call all the time after the scandal first broke because they still needed clients. A very strange situation indeed. Sharkey
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This made me think of something...
Would we need an entire spaceship to get all the damned unused AOL CDs off the planet? I mean, you can only use so many of them as coasters before they end up in the garbage. If everyone in America got 15-20 of those like I have, it'd take a couple of rocketships to get the billions and billions of wasted space off the ground. Still, they make effective weapons if you just sharpen the edges a little bit. Sharkey
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GRRR....
Also, I miss the XInput Airbrush, a new tool we had to take out lately since it wasn't finished. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Sons of bitches.Sharkey
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SWEET
I can't wait to play some Zork on my cell phone. Man, I can sit at work and play Zork all day long and it will appear that I'm working. God bless technology!Sharkey
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Well...
I can't wait for the day that e-commerce gets taxed here in the US. Can you imagine the amount of audits that will occur because of all the online stores run by teenagers with no real business experience? It'll be like a sea of headaches across the Internet. Sharkey
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Info on digital projection techniques
First off, the first actual live presentation (non trade show, non test environment) of a digital projection in a theatre was on June 18, 1999, Star Wars Episode 1. When I saw that show, (which wasnt that great, too pixelized at times) we spoke with the DLP projection guy to see how much info we could squeeze out of him. He said that the movie itself was around 500 Gigs, and was stretched across 15 or so hard drives. He went on about it's true XGA resolution, millions of mirrors, and whatnot. If you're really interested you can find all of the white papers here:
http://www.ti.com/dlp/ resources/whitepapers/tech/index.shtml
and all of the press releases here:
http://www.ti.com/dlp/ Sharkey
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Depends on what you're looking for, but...OK, here's a good list to go by to start you off... Classic Anime by Hayao Miyazaki Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
One of his first works, an amazing film, and an even better manga series. The story follows a young girl in a post-apocalyptic future, where jungles of toxic plant life has taken over. She attempt to understand and live among the forest, rather than see it destroyed by other humans. Highly reccommended. Laputa, Castle In the Sky
Again, amazing art and a fantastic story. It follows a young girl named Sheeta who holds a mystical stone that will unlock the treasures of the Laputa. This stone makes her the target of government agencies and sky pirates. Topped off with some of the greatest music in an anime that I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Princess Mononoke
Probably the most popular Miyazaki film, very easy to find here in the US, and it was in theatres (art houses) for a short while. It's sort of based on Japanese folklore, a story about man and his fight with the surrounding environment. Some of his best work to date. Here's a good review if you're interested.
Fun/Action Guyver
This is just a fun anime series to watch. No real significance in the plot, but its got some good animation and a lot of good action. A boy named Sho Fukamachi finds a Bio-Booster armor, which transforms him into an alien fighting machine. The armor belonged to an evil corporation, controlled by alien/human hybrids who want to conquer the Earth. Gundam
This one should go without saying. One of the biggest anime series' ever in Japan, plus with Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network, its easily accessible. Macross Plus
If you don't remember Robotech from your childhood, then your childhood must have sucked. Awesome stuff, not much of a fan of the movies, though.
Other Reccommended Wings of Honneamise
Amazing animation, and a great story. Sort of an alternate world story, a young boy named Shirotsu wants to become a pilot, but ends up having to join the Space Force. (sort of like joining the foreign legion, last resort kinda thing) He ends up, through a series of events, attempting to become the first man to go into space. Just avoid the crappy dubbed version if possible. The Mysterious Cities of Gold
I cant say enough good things about one of my favorite series of all time. It follows a boy named Esteban in the early 1500s, who seems to have the power to bring out the sun. He was orphaned at sea, and has lived in Spain his whole life. Through a series of events, he sets off for the New World (America) to locate El Dorado, the cities of Gold. An amazing series, somewhere around 45 episodes. Also, the greatest anime soundtrack (IMHO) ever. If you didnt catch it on Nickelodeon as a kid, you missed out. I (thankfully) have all of the episodes on tape, so I'll be able to keep it forever. If you can get copies, then you're extremely lucky, since they don't make them and never have.Thats all I can really think of right now. Those are some of the more interesting anime's I've seen. Hope it helps
Sharkey
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Hrmm...
ICANN's goal is to enlist members of the Internet community in its consensus-based processes and supporting organizations, committees and working groups, including the At Large Membership. That way, we can gather you all together before we influence all your decisions for you
Sharkey
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Watch out, old bastards!
Well, I'm a webmaster, and have been since before I was twenty. Been doing it for awhile now, and I havent really seen any web programmers over 30. Although, at my current job, there's nothing but database programmers who are over 40. I havent seen one younger than 40 yet. But all the techs, web programmers, and newer technologies go to the younger guys. I guess it could be that we grew up doing nothing but sitting in front of a computer screen, but I've learned almost everything I know either from self teachings or by an older coder showing me the ways. I ain't one fer' that fancy book learnin'. Hopefully the ages will naturally balance themselves out over the next decade, or I'll be out of a job soon
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Doom speaks on Lars Ulrich...
Doom heard Lars Ulrich of the repugnant band, "Metallica" speak last week on the Napster issue. It was clear to Doom that this insolent rock star was completely ignorant of the situation at hand, with no prior knowledge to the workings of the program. If you desire to listen to this interview, along with questions and answers from the insipid audience, you should point your browser to KROQ.com. Doom has spoken....Sharkey
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Sweet Christmas!
Leave it to the art community to ruin a geek movie. Bastards. Although I would like to hear that "Whoa" song poking fun at Keanu. Anybody got an mp3 bootleg? Wha, wait. WHO'S THERE?!? OH GOD, JAMES HETFIELD AND LARS ULRICH! PUT ME DOWN YOU PANSIES! PUT ME *thud* Sharkey
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Metallica ain't winning any new friendsAs if people needed any more reasons to hate Metallica.
(For added effect, it handed the names over on 60,000 pages of paper instead of simply using a few floppy disks.)
I saw a news report on that this morning, and how the guys from Napster took one look at the stack of paper, and said, "Uh... give these to us on a disk, and maybe this process wont take two years, dumbass." If you ever see Lars in an interview about it, he's a total idiot. He has no idea what he's talking about, he's basically quoting what the lawyers told him. I'd imagine that they were just following their record label's lead with the whole thing, it got blown out of proportion, and now they can't just back out. I say good, maybe now they'll stop tarnishing their former glory with the repeated piles of crap that they produce today. Sharkey
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Network Solutions blows
Man, I had my domain stolen under NetSol, and the bastards took two weeks to give it back. All some idiot had to do to take it was send out an email. To get it back I had to give my drivers license, 20 faxes, numerous phone calls, e-mails, and lost hair. Bastards deserve that one star.Sharkey
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Don't be so gullibleDid anyone else hear the call? I live in OC and heard it, and the guys at KROQ are grand pranksters. I wouldnt trust any of that info, seeing as how they have fake celebs calling in all the damn time.
Sharkey
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Ooh yeah...
"You've got your fiber layer, and you're going to carry some number of wavelengths on each fiber -- the term that is used is lambda for wavelength, so lambda means color, really. One fiber can carry a number of colors -- there could be as many as a hundred, maybe even more. Each color might be transporting as much as a terabit of capacity"I'm sorry, but did that give anyone else an erection, or is it just me?Sharkey
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Make sure that processor is blazin' fast
And an assload of RAM doesnt hurt either. Ive done editing on a Mac with a 500MHz processor and 256 Megs of RAM and had it run pretty smooth, and I've edited on a 233 Pentium with 64 Megs of RAM and have it eat shit on anything over a Gig spacewise. Premiere is a pretty damn good program, if you're into Adobe products you should be in love with the software. Some interface issues, but overall the best I've worked with. For compatibility issues alone, Id go with Windows/Premeire. Sorry, I love love Linux as much as the next guy, but not for digital video editing. Sharkey
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Stocks
Wow, I feel bad for anyone who had money in MS stock today. Look at the stock price drop in the article. And that was before the ruling. Better pull your $ outta MS, possibly all related tech stocks. This'll be a fun day on Wall Street. Oh, check out this article for more on the stock fall. http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,35364,00.html Sharkey
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I really hope
...that they don't plan on keeping that color style. Who'd want to carry around some lame purple palm pilot? It'll be nice to view color on the go, but can anyone find out what the cost will be on this sucka? Damn Japanese text, I can't read a thing. Sharkey
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Damn French
...Always limiting personal freedoms and blaming everyone but the responsible parties. Hey, since the US owns the Internet 'n all, http://slashdot.org
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This is the start of something...
This was a fairly informative article, and it brought up a good point. How are they going to regulate information and services which are illegal in some areas and legal in others? There are quite a few ways that this whole thing could go, this isnt the first time that a new medium has had trouble on a global scale. I think that the most likely course of action to be taken, is that individual nations will have to work together when governing Internet relations. Joel is right, I can't see a single orginization on Earth that could effectively govern the Internet. But it could (possibly) work if the Internet-capable nations of the world worked together, instead of for themselves, as the author pointed out. Sharkey
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Paying Bills has worked for me so farI've been paying bills online through my bank for awhile now, so has my roommate, we havent experienced any problems. The only problem I could forsee is data loss and then the resulting final notices and repossesions. Oh the HORROR! Ah, its a pretty good system thus far, and their privacy statement makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesnt it?
The privacy and security of your personal information is the foremost consideration of the Paytrust service. Paytrust will never sell any of your personal information -- contact, financial, bill history -- to any other company, period. Unlike many billers who routinely sell their customers to direct marketing organizations, Paytrust keeps all subscriber lists confidential. And, unlike many other web sites, Paytrust does not depend on advertising for revenue. Paytrust is completely committed to safeguarding your personal information and protecting your privacy.
MMMM... now I feel all warm and secure.Sharkey
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GTK+ in 21 Days
The article mentions the book GTK+ in 21 Days. Don't bother, that book isn't very good. (like most of those 21 Days books). You want a good book on GTK+ snag a copy of GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington. Much better. Sharkey
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SWEET.
But you can't roll a virtual LEGO car down the stairs. Still, if youdve told me that kids would be using a CAD program to play with LEGOs a decade ago, I would have called you nuts. Still sounds plenty nuts (kids need something tangeable to play with), but it looks kinda fun for adults. Itd make planning a fully LEGO PC case a lot easier. Sharkey
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Re:SPAM... MMMmmm....
Ah, I agree that it should be regulated, just like US Mail is regulated against illicit advertisements, but you're never getting rid of spam. There's always a way around these things, and big companies will always find them. Sharkey
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SPAM... MMMmmm....
You know, people are seriously over-critical of Spam. Its never going to be eliminated, and only those who aren't super-protective of their e-mail will get it. But that's the same with junk mail, isnt it? I mean, that's what P.O. Boxes are for, right? Anonymity and filtering? Same deal with Spam. I have public e-mail accounts for the inevitable Spam to go through, and more private e-mail accounts for only the messages that I want. Its not so hard kids, just don't go giving out that precious e-mail address and you'll be fine. Sharkey
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Uhm....thanks?
I dont know if accepting any sort of "gift" such as this from the government is such a good idea. These are the people backing Janet Reno in her quest to drop laws in place to protect Internet publicists. The same people who'd sell out to any big corporation who wanted the bandwidth to themselves. -Sharkey
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Re:Yahoo!I know this is a troll, but I'll reply anyway.
Here. There are several others in the same directory.
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Holy Crap, we're all gonna get sued
Man, dont a few thousand websites do that sort of thing? How the Hell can Amazon think of patenting such a broad idea? I remember when Amazon first came about, I was happy because now I could buy books online, and this would usher in more online stores for everyone's convenience. Then big businesses took over the web and are trying to ruin it for everyone. I work for a company as a webmaster, and I constantly get proposals from companies who want to provide a particular service, as long as they get exclusive access to distribute our data. But what these chumps dont understand is that you can't put a hamper on information over the Internet. It's like trying to plug a showerhead with chewing gum. It ain't gonna stick, kids. Same deal with Amazon. Putting retarded patents on broadly generalized ideas is just going to piss everyone else off. Damn lawyers have to screw up everything. Sharkey
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I WANTS!
Damn, that kicks some serious ass. Now I can be a complete geek on the go. Sharkey
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Linux Office Port
Great, now Microsoft can ruin Linux for me as well. Just when I'd gotten used to not crashing my machine every hour. Bastards. Sharkey
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Sure, why the Hell not?
And while you're at it, find other ways to make all my time dissappear. Maybe some
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