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Quickie Sunday
Mike Healy writes "Since Steve Blood, our event chairman, is out of the country - he is actually checking out a solar eclipse in Austria - i've taken it upon myself to give you all an update on the Bazaar. I'd wait for steve to get back, all bleary eyed, by i must squelch the rumors being promulgated by certain sales guys for other events, that we folded. This couldn't be further from the truth. Fact of the matter is we are scheduled, locked and loaded and PUMPED for December 14-16 at the javits NYC.
The Bazaar will be the first large scale conference on opensource software to hit the east coast and will stress program, program and program. Our Theory is that if you build it, they will .com
Not only does EarthWeb, by nature of being an IT content HUB have access to the freshest most imperative material, but we have also brought in an indstry expert, lydia Bennett of Dialogos fame, to aggregate and work closely with conference chairs and advisory board to make sure all tracks and tutorials are epic.
Check out the website for more on the program. The exhibit floor will be refreshingly unlike any you have seen in this space being made up of customed designed, turn key demo stations. This not only makes it a breeze for vendors , but also adds integity to the exhibit floor. No huge booths with revolving marquis, No loud PA systems. No freak shows. This is the wrong event to come to if you want to see Trumps daughter in a g string handing out T shirts... This is the right event if you want to meet some of the biggest brains out there and get no nonsense answers regarding opensource free software... Anyway, thats it for now.. More from Steve when he gets back"
A Flash movieyou have to see. Way too funny.
Quickies that Rob and Co. are too limp to print.
The Amateur Section was quite easily the best... Incredibly funny.
I really thought that CPU Gurus might be an interesting read, since I am a "software guy" but have some interest in hardware.
Unfortunately, it is painfully obvious that english is not their native language. It is so bad I couldn't stand to spend more than 5 minutes struggling to decipher it.
Hope they get someone who knows english someday, then it might actually be an interesting site.
-Tom
The two sure things in life are death (the slashdot effect) and taxes...
So, does anyone out there have some mirrors for the Jedi Academy videos?
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no - for some reason all my posts start with a score of '2'. Must be because of my posting history (very few, if any are marked down - quite a few are marked up).
I know that was no pearl of wisdom, but I can't control what my initial score is (usually keeps me from posting this kind of drivel, it was Sunday, tho)
It wasn't moderated up. Once you get moderated up enough, your posts start at 2 autmatically. On the other hand, if you get moderated down enough, your posts start a 0, then I think -1 (I can't think of anyone besides DAVEO who got moderated down enough to get a 0). You can tell this post wasn't moderated because there's no adjective after the score.
For instance, my post will have a score of 2, without moderation. Sometimes I log out and post as an AC because I don't think what I have to say is worth +2. I sort of wish we were given the option of posting with a lower score.
Or maybe you're talking about something else, but as of now nothing in this thread has been moderated.
Thanks for that link, man. Made my day, as did adbusters. Good to know there are non-sleeping humans out there.
support gun control: take guns from cops
I understand you can't have a person's face 3 feet away in focus and keep the background clear at the same time, but it doesn't keep such an event from really hurting my eyes. If it can't be done, perhaps moviemakers should stay away from such scenes, then.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
www.aceshardware.com
good site, technically oriented. Articles on x86, Sparc, and Alpha. Also had a series of articles on "Secrets of High Performance Processors" where they discussed pipelines, register renaming, EPIC, superscaler, and all those other fun processor buzzwords.
Hey, those are better than mine! But I was a freshman who didn't really know photoshop all that well when I did those 2 years ago, so there ya go.
:D
I'm wayyy more talented now, of course.
(and for way more cultural mayhem, check out http://www.rtmark.com , http://www.superbad.com , or http://www.unamerican.com)
And now it's back (again), and this time it brought back the other two stories along with about four others that weren't there before (on the page that I get to see). And somewhere during the process my user preferences got reset, but not by me.
Is the camera about to pan over to Rod Serling?
posted at 10:12 pm EDT
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
goto www.hellspark.com. the car there is *MUCH* better, and no ads!!! it even uses linux!
Why should we take you seriously? If you want to report serious problems on Slashdot, get a login! (j/k)
Isn't that his annoying voice on those annoying Hardee's "Star" commercials? Geez, it's been *years* since they had a decent ad campaign.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
OFFTOPIC for sure...
Yep, something is screwey. All my slashbox prefs were reset to default. Stories are popping up then dissapearing. I guess they are still recovering from the problem (whatever that was) on Friday.
I thought it was just me and my slow machine
(I don't have the PIII linux up and online yet,
still using this 486 win95...) glad to hear it's
just because the site sucks.
when I tried to browse screenshots in the kde
section, I couldn't find anything. only way
I got to see a screenshot was by clicking on
the top 5 links on the righthand column.
CPU Gurus? The site is under construction! Who cares (yet)? Do the Slashdot editors choose items by volume of submissions? Is there a script somewhere that collates incoming submissions and ranks them by frequency?
Geez
How about some context? How about some follow-up? Okay, the stick figures were kind of funny, but Clarke's observation that "90% of everything is crap" seems to be bourne out by Slashdot only just a little less than by NBC.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
"Anyone have an AdultCheck ID for the hardcore section?"
Right about now I'd say that "nudestickfigures.com" has way more than several.
Interesting approach--"get into our site foo.com for free, just enter your username and password for bar.com"
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I'm sorry, but I wasn't impressed by those boxes. For real quality and even funnier spoofs, check out www.abrupt.org. Culture-jamming, cereal boxes, manifestos, and more.
Thank you for a flamefree explanation.
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Time for some college students to get that trailer mirrored on internet 2. Remind me never to move to Austria.
Why the hell is that offtopic. It directly relates to the nude stick figures quickie which btw. , I think is hilarious...
There were aparently two differnt versions, one where maul gets stabbed,and the other version that has him cut in half, there was a discuttion on theforce.net when the film first opened.
"sometimes I wish I was blind I thought I saw a whole lot more than this"
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get an AdultCheck ID.
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Not really what this guy says. A stoopid trick to get visitors from /. I HATE that.
Interesting.. Just what we need is another "funny" out there.. being passed on from one email to another. Clogging our inbox.. I guess it would be better if it was actually funny. Perhaps the submitter would next time reconsider and spare us from more agony...
There is more to the CPU landscape than just the intel stuff. x86 is actually not a very compelling architecture, it just has a lot of weight thrown behind it.
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It's the "Depth of Field" in photographer speaking. If you have a person and his face in focus 3 feet away, then it's impossible to have the background (infinity) in focus. (Well, maybe Art Wolf's CGI stuff) This is due to the optical limitation and the nature of human eye. Those who complaint pobrably never pickup a real camera and wouldn't in the time of their lifes understand why Leica lens have great bokeh.
That would be relevant if we were talking about real people in front of a real background, but in this case the background came out of a computer, not nature, and could have been given any focus they wanted to. If they were trying to simulate the way backgrounds get blurry when foreground objects are focused on, they did a very poor (and annoying) job.
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Mmmm... jizz dribbling down my chin... I love it.
But was it really Darth Maul or some sort of technomage optical illusion to allow him to pull a Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls type disappearance? Seems to me that Darth Maul has entirely too much merchandising potential to have been done away with so early in the trilogy. Face it, Jar Jar is going to need 3 movies worth of momentum to move as much product as DM already has.
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He was very much in two pieces both times I saw it (first time being 12:01). It seems very clear to me that this was intentionally done to make it clear he is NOT going to come back, he's very much dead.
Hi Everyone, I am the great Jelloboy. I am the one that created http://www.nudestickfigures.com and http://www.jelloboy.com . I find it very interesting that people have taken to the ALL NUDE TEEN STICK FIGURES site so much. I added the Adult Check as more of a joke than anything, and know I see people are attempting to get passwords to access the site. Haha. That is pretty funny, anyways everyone have a good time. If you would like to email me, do so at president@jelloboy.com Thank You
So how about a flashback to show us where Darth Maul came from? And is there any rule that says episodes 7, 8, and 9 couldn't be made concurrently with 2 and 3? It's not like it would spoil any surprise since we started reading the book in the middle. Besides, if we have to wait another 20 some years, I don't think taking my nephew to see them will be quite as big a kick.
Off-topic - sort of - Why, in TPM, did all those computer generated backgrounds have to be so eyestrainingly out of focus whenever there were characters in the foreground?
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The darker scenes in the trilogy, especially ESB, were better executed than the treacly ewoks/Jar Jar/3PO. More believable, more involving, more interesting to watch. As Empire was the least commercially sucessful while being the richest cinematically, Episode III will probably fare similarly.
My theories:
*Anakin already sees Amidala as a mother figure, since at their ages (9 and 14), there is a significant difference in their respective levels development and the roles they play. As they get older, say 16 and 21, different roles are adopted, causing confusion.
*His mother will probably die in the process of trying to free the slaves on Tatooine. Simple application of Murphy's law.
*Obiwan, resentful of Anakin for the attention given to him by Gui-Gon, yet burdened by wishing his late master's legacy to continue, will be an impatient, frustrated teacher.
Anakin will be putty in the Emporer's hands, and it'll be interesting to watch.
BTW, first post.
-- Liquor up front, poker in the rear.
Anyone have an AdultCheck ID for the hardcore section?
Has anyone seen the new look themes.org... 1) Doesn't render properly in Netscape 4.x... 2) Non-intuitive interface is uneccessarily fiddly to use... BUT EVEN WORSE... Anyone seen the new wm.themes.org section... OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE THEY DONE... 1) The browsing interface is RIDICULOUSLY complicated, you have to go through a ridiculous slow cgi script just to browse categories... 2) All but 18 or so themes have mysteriously vanished and can no longer be obviously got at... I hope this is just a temporary glitch in things, they always seem to be fscking about with theses sites though, which were perfectly good anyway IMHO. Oh well I've probably got much better things to do anyway. Come to think of it I should have much better things to do than write this post too :-) have a good sunday people --Liam
yes, it has - though a wuick grep of the cache found it again. Hopefully it was just a mistake?
This story seems to have vanished off the main page. I reloaded the main page and it was no longer there. I had cleared my disk and memory cache just before so I'm not loading an older local version. Apparently this time it's not to keep the SEC happy, but because it was/will be posted at 7:30 p.m. EDT, which isn't for another 10 hours.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Not to sound jealous (having been a moderator, I know better than put any stock in their opinions), but how does this rate being moderated up?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
All they seem to want to talk about is IA32 and
IA64. Some gurus.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Somebody's been watching too many budwiser commercials. Norm MacDonald's popularity is yet another red flag signalling the comming apocalypse :)
I also found the backgrounds to be paticularly blurry especially when the camera was moving. Do they think they can lay off the rendering a bit just 'cause the camera is moving around?
:-)
Also, does anyone ever notice sound not quite being exactly with mouth movements? Is this some sort of effect of hearing more "background" than "forground" sound if you sit way back in a movie theater?
anyway..
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
Anyone else notice on Netscape that the RC camera image does not stay on screen when the site is slow?
see above
Hrm... I saw this stated once on SlashDot, then mentioned in this quickie link... Both claimed Darth Maul was cut in half. I've only seen the movie once, but all I remember was seeing him stabbed, followed by a fall off-screen. I remember him specifically NOT being cut in half. So who's right?
there is also a imac parody site called Ibrator hehe. You should read his comments on the y2k crisis.
Someone help! You can't make a new account on Slashdot. What's going on?
My hacking really started when I was at MIT,
there we had this zanny line printer with really cool code,
that we'd hacked up.
A few years later they gave us a lazer,
it printed really fast but the paper kept gettin' jamed,
to fix that was the plan.
But, the software was proprietary,
they didn't supply the source,
the software was proprietary,
and we felt totally screwed.
No-one had the source except for this one guy,
he was old, and had written half of the crappy code,
and man it showed. The guys from MIT went knockin' next mornin',
for the source we asked, he said "no way, I signed an NDA".
The software was proprietary,
they didn't supply the source,
the software was proprietary,
and man that old dude blowed.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Whoah. Reality check: "JAR JAR MUST DIE!" must be written atleast 50 times on any public posting about Star Wars.
It's inscribed on the inside of Rob Malda's magic ring (you know - one ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them..) that he uses to wield control over the 11 major news organizations....
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I do have quibbles: when I saw the left-hand column had a "new user" link, I thought it would be an introduction to the site, with a site map (something which I think they could do with) and instead it takes you to an account-making process; and in some sections the foreground and background colours are too similar for my (crap) monitor to show them clearly. But themes.org has changed more than once. I'm sure it'll do it again. I think that you're confusing familiarity with the old layout with the assumption that the old layout was intuitive and obvious. I don't think it was particularly intuitive, obvious or fast. We were just used to it.
Slashdot's another example. Where are 'slashboxes', which are referred to all the time, actually explained in a very obvious place, and explained in a manner that makes sense to users of all browsers? That lack of explanation has existed for a year or more, but we're all too used to it to notice. I think themes.org is the same. If you're used to it, then changes will be disconcerting. Shrug. Just my two cents.