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Vendetta: A Christmas Story
Mundane Barbie writes "This is the funniest and the coolest online independent movies that I've seen since the original South Park. It's definitely a geek classic, just in time for the holidays. It's got Santa, and it's got guns.
I've seen it posted at Newgrounds and also at their official site.
Happy holidays!
" Woh. This is /not/ for the easily offended - but if you thought the South Park movie was amusing, than you'll probably appreciate this.
Hemos does not use linux.
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"We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."
Bitchslapped? Give Rob a bitchslap from bitchslapped.com.
MMmm, gummy bears
Amen, brother!
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
It was mad. I liked it. I couldn't stop laughing at the backgrounds (I lived in Boston for a while in 93-95). Memories!
Keep it running...
(Apologies for posting this way - no email to post direct to Localman).
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...
Xanim, maybe? Check out the Xanim home page.
Actually, on occasion Slashdot is real sluggish. Not down, but painfully slow.
hey that's kind of wierd. everyone i know who reads slashdot runs windows. perhaps we live in parallel worlds.
-destroid "can't waste the day when the night brings a hearse"
None of the sites with the MOV file don't work =(.
:)
Any more available? Thanks.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Movie previews are done in quicktime/sorensen because it is flat-out the absolute best, highest quality-high-compression video format available. If sorensen made their codec available for other formats (like avi) people wouldn't stick to quicktime as much. I believe apple and sorensen have a very exclusive deal at the moment, though.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
This is a direct quote (entire post) from our friend, let's listen in...
/. link? \
Hey everybody visit this page and lets see if we can crash this site. Hit it. My friend doesn't believe in the "slashdot affect". haha
Ok, so this is your
Man, first you were hard up to either A) prove your friend wrong and you right that the slashdot effect exists or B) drum up hits for a crappy little company.
Now, since your little scheme didn't work, you are dedicating you time on slashdot to belittle everyone and claim this site sucks since it didn't generate hits to a dumb site posted in a comment???!!!
Sounds like everything is working the way it should. Except you.
Finkployd
Open Source does not mean zero cost. They could write an open license which would allow not-for-profit companies/individuals to use their code in zero cost products, but which would require monetary compensation (licensing) from for-profit companies which use their source.
Hey, "pal," why don't you back up on the "gravy train?" See these comments:
One
Two
Three
Four
And, especially this one:
Five
They all side with me. And I didn't write them.
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Down goes my Karma but I don't care.. I want to see how long this stupid thread will go...
MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN SITE. /. through reforms. If your car ran out of gas, would you give up and build a new one?
Do you abandon everything that doesn't work properly? I'm trying to fix
you trolls
I'm not a troll.
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Ok, the AC posts you have no way to verify that you didn't write. (I missed them, I read at 1 or above, checking these posts just confirms why)
I was (and so was the other guy you were hissing at) referring to the Alladvantage part of your posts. I don't see anyone supporting you there and I thought you were claiming all these posts saying Amen for that.
As for your first post, I already dealt with that.
You really expect me to be impressed that a bunch of AC's supported someone bitching about slashdot?
Finkployd
I'm sorry, but /. has been reading like the obituary pages for the past few days. Hemos was raving about this movie, so I downloaded it, and it BLEW! It was childish, anti-gun propaganda!
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Is somebody trying to prime the pump for Yet Another Internet Indy Phenom?
I don't know if I've ever seen anyone so desperate for site traffic. Give up this pathetic reverse psychology guerilla advertising campaign, and buy a slot on adfu.
You're not fooling anyone.
P.S.: How much did you pay for the slashdot service? How much did you pay to download the movie? How much have you payed to Apple to develop software lately?
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Obviously his opinion of it differed. So what? In the future don't download the next movie he reccomends.
You don't pay Hemos, and you don't pay for slashdot. That makes it a good deal, even if it were complete crap.
It's hard to take an advertisment seriously. That alladvantage stuff doesn't increase credibility, you know.
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You can't use it on your Win machines? Huh? That must be caused by hardware constraints, then, because QuickTime is available for both Macs and Win32. Heck, work was the only place I got the new Star Wars trailer, and we run NT 4.
Official QuickTime Page
( http://www.apple.com/quicktime )
-Smitty
± 29 dB
Oooohh.... I have angered finkployd! I hope he doesn't give me a stupid nickname! He's good at thinking of those!
Super Frosty, you have no room to talk.
The original comment was about bad moderating.
Yes it was, preceptive of you. However I was not replying to the origional comment, I was replying to a reply of the comment further down in the thread.
Finkployd
I disagree. I learned a lot from this thread. Some very good arguments have been presented. To many of you who have been here at slashdot or involved in free software for a long time these arguments may seem old and boring. But to a newcomer like me these arguments really made me think about the benefits of open source software and standards vs. the company's motivations.
On one hand I can understand a competitive company's tendency to guard their secret codec, in this case Sorenson. They spent money, time, and resources developing it, of course they aren't going to give it away to the community.
On the open source side of the debate, I am only beginning to understand the arguments. But I think one key point others may have missed is that we are users. We are customers. It is not for us to understand and sympathize with the companies. It's perfectly legitimate for people to set an idealistic standard which benefits the community as a whole. It's perfectly legitimate to bitch and moan and write letters when companies don't perform up to this standard. If enough people make noise then maybe someday they can influence and shape the development of all these new found technologies. Oops, too late, it's already happening.
Do you abandon everything that doesn't work properly? I'm trying to fix /. through reforms. If your car ran out of gas, would you give up and build a new one?
/. is broken or not. Some are happy with it the way it is, some think it sucks. I fall in the middle.
Well, there are varing opinions on whether
What do you propose to do to please everyone?
If Rob let you run it, and you made it so you liked it, but 200 people thought it sucked and said so every story, would that be a fix?
Finkployd
> or write your own codec, or converter, or something, anything
Is that possible? Is the specification open? Is the algorithm patent-free? There's no excuse for closed formats and protocols, there's certainly no reason to support Apple (or Sorenson) just to be able to use its proprietary format. You do that, you're not paying them for their work, you're paying them for compatibility that they went out of their way to take away from you in the first place. They're essentially removing your rights and then selling them back to you. Some places, they call that extortion.
Of course if you're going to bitch, it makes no sense to do it at apple, or Sorenson. These are companies that make all their money from doing exactly what they're doing with this codec. The problem is that people *use* these proprietary formats to share information. Though I'm sure no exclusion was intended. A note explaining your position to the author and asking for an alternative, open format in addition or instead would not be unwarranted.
I've reviewed the comments and they sound like this: "how do you play this on linux?" "where's the linux version?" "not everyone has linux." "everybody has linux." "why post this link if we can't even play it on linux." very humorous to a linux-less newbie.
Movies like this make you realize the only reason Sorenson vision became standard is because the first Sorenson movie was a copy of a first rate Star Wars master. If Vendetta was used instead, Sorenson vision would never have gotten off the ground. By the way, if anyone's got a server:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280613895 Dec 19 01:48 vendetta_flattened.mov
As I posted originally, it's hard to ignore shit when there's 5-10 shit posts every day!
Is there anything you DO like about this site? If not.....why exactally are you here?
Finkployd
I don't know of any Quicktime player for Linux. Does anyone out there know of one and have a link?
This movie was made before South Park, you moron. What have you done recently?
I post as an AC all the time so that I won't get moderated down. I am right now. These could be actual users who don't want to get moderated down by your friends with moderator points in this discussion.
Ok, (1) rarely do moderators venture this far into a discussion and (2) why do you care? Is karma that importent to you?
Since the main site is probably about to explode, I thought I'd point out some mirrors of at least the pages, if not the movies.
Main site
news.html
videos.html
about.html
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
MRJ ain't a Microsoft product. Sorry, try again.
They bundle IE because MS threatned to kill MacOffice if they didn't, a move that would've killed Apple. So Jobs is more pragmatism than principle, if he wasn't Apple would be gone by now.
I for one don't care, I use iCab and Communicator, and will probably move to Mozilla soon.
I have no trouble downloading the.mov files because they are just binaries, but is there a program for linux that can play .mov files?
This is why proprietary codecs are bad - Apple has tried to corner the market on video and as a result the authors (probably blissfully unaware of this) cannot have the widest possible viewing audience. So, in a nutshell: due to market demand the codec will eventually be reverse-engineered and made available for linux, but in the meantime a good number of people are being denied access to media encoded on it simply because Apple wants to try to get a strangle-hold on the video market. Apple will fail because as the market grows, so too will the demand for an alternative to Apple's monopoly. Basic econ, my good man. But in the meantime, we are still stuck with not being able to view it... and I don't know about you.. but I'm an impatient guy!
>Obviously his opinion of it differed
/., and my check is coming soon!
I don't hear anybody else raving about this movie. People are saying that: It sucked, It won't work, or just bickering like we are.
>you don't pay for slashdot.
Sure, I do! I look at the ads. I click on the interesting ones. I post and (often) add valuable content. I'm doing my part.
>That alladvantage stuff doesn't increase >credibility, you know.
Why not? It's a great way to pay for your internet connection! You should try it! Go to alladvantage.com, and tell them that member # EQA-881 referred you! I've already gotten several referrals from
As you would say, you don't HAVE to read my signature. You're just looking at it and complaining! Besides, it's my comment, and you aren't paying for it. Anyway, you can always choose to strip sigs in your preferences, like I do.
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Fair enough, but I'm still surprised Hemos forgot to mention you can't view it under linux, given the known Slashdot demographic...
Of course it is possible for sites to go down due to too many accesses. But calling it the Slashdot effect is just plain stupid. If link in a "story" on Slashdot generates that much traffic - how come Slashdot itself manages to stay online? (Well, come to think of it /. is down all the fucking time.)
W S B PeekmonWSB
There was no response. The serve could be down or it's not responding....
Hey all.
I'm (one of) the idiot(s) responsible for Vendetta.
I'm currently visiting family, and my server is on the other side of the country. It is dead. There is another copy of the entire film at my machine at work - we'll see how long that one survives.
I am truly sorry about the sorenson thing - I had no idea anyone would watch it at all, let alone the entire slashdot community.
If anyone can convert it to another format, they are welcome to do so.
Peace, Happy holidays, and thanks.
If anything deserves to be moderated up in this godforsaken thread, it's this post--I've been looking for a functional mirror on and off all day. Not that I expect this movie'll be all that good, but I keep getting timed out from the mirror at Newgrounds and at this point I just want to see what I've been wasting all this time on. But, since I don't have any moderator points, I guess the least I can do is give it my +1 bonus.
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Alternate vendetta link - same codec (Score:1)
by localman on 01:03 AM December 19th, 1999 CST (#231)
(User Info) http://www.binadopta.com/
Hey all.
I'm (one of) the idiot(s) responsible for Vendetta.
I'm currently visiting family, and my server is on the other side of the country. It is dead. There is another copy of the entire film at my machine at work - we'll see how long that one survives.
I am truly sorry about the sorenson thing - I had no idea anyone would watch it at all, let alone the entire slashdot community.
If anyone can convert it to another format, they are welcome to do so.
Peace, Happy holidays, and thanks.
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if it takes that long, why don't you just install windows and quicktime?
Yeah, that's like what Marx talked about, right?
You are really full of it. Sorenson wants to make money, and so does Apple. They have both invested R&D dollars into the codec, and they don't have to make it available for Linux if they don't want to.
It's not a monopoly, there are plenty of other codecs out there, Sorenson is just one of(if not the) best. If you don't like that, write your own.
Apple has supported mklinux in the past, they are not anti-Linux. But if they don't think it makes business sense to spend a lot of money porting the Quicktime player to Linux, then the burden rests on Linux users.
You might also want to take into consideration the antagonism between Apple and Linux. Where does it come from? Linux users. A lot of Linux users are very anti-Apple for one reason or another, and criticize everything Apple does (including when they open-source their software!)
I also think you should expand a little on that part about it being a "critical failing of their long-term business plan to keep it closed source." That is a hell of a thing to say without backing it up.
BTW, check out www.s-vision.com
Even so, I sent my (politely worded) wishes to both Sorenson and Apple. We'll see what I get back from them.
Now, this isn't necessarily the best piece of video to watch, but my wife has dug up some QT4 videos that she would like to view. God help me, I almost bought an iMac today because I'm so sick of this.
Anyway, direct your politely worded e-mails to support@s-vision.com and wish@hype.quicktime.apple.com. My message:
Please consider allowing the xanim free video playing software by Mark
Podlipec to support the Sorenson video codec. There are an increasing
number of videos, trailers, and other media that I would like to be able
to play, but there is no way to do that on Linux at present.
Please, if this is a licensing issue, contact Sorenson video and work something
out.
Thank you very much,
Chris Jones
cjones@one.net
Perhaps you were getting such good performance because the link was only posted 10 minutes before you tried? I tried to go to it like an hour and a half after it was posted and all I get is "server down server down." You were probably there before the rush came and the real /. effect kicked in.
Oh, so because I'm in the minority means that I'm wrong? Tyranny of the majority?
And yeah, "all" the four letter words. Let's see.....I count 2 of them. I'm sorry if it offends you so deeply, but since you have no problem with ad hominem attacks on me, I don't see what your real problem is.
The point is that Apple and Sorenson are two free companies, and if, by choice, they entered into such an agreement, I guess that's just too bad for you. Apple does not have monopoly power over the multimedia scene now, and certainly didn't back when they first licensed the codec.
And do you really think that Sorenson would open up the codec for the good of Linux users when they make tons of money selling the encoder? Yeah, that would be a real smart business move.
BTW, I have no idea how you can call my statement a lie. Are you claiming that Apple owns Sorenson?
There are more Slashdot readers who also use Macs or Windows than there are readers who only use Open Source OSes. In other words, you're in the minority, so give up trying to censor the news or discriminating against the majority who are able to view the movie.
Not that it's any good -- I haven't seen it yet -- but we could do without your ranting.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
http://lecb68.linkexchange.com:8002/vendetta.mov
All credit goes to localman, I'm just not sure anyone will see his post down there, but please moderate it up.
Check out comment #233. It seems like you are allowed to do it.
I can throw myself at the ground, and miss.
those sites are dead and i'd like to see the film
Yea, karma is a real distinction of those who pander and those who don't. Personally I would trust someone with a negative karam (could possibly think for themself) rather than someone with + karam (definitely has no independant though capabiity left).
I find it sad how disingenuous and clue-free Apple continues to be. They lobby heavily to get QuickTime accepted as an Internet standard, then refuse to allow non-Mac/Win folks access. This is consistent with their recent history. Bundled browser: Microsoft. Bundled Java: Microsoft.
One would almost think Microsoft had given them a large quantity of money... Naww! ;-)
First, a stop sign at an intersection that also has lights? Please. The poor aim when running after him (not 3 whole metres, and they still can't hit him with a damned pistol). Not to mention the general weirdness.
:-)
Plot? What plot? It just seemed to be a bunch of running/shooting.
At least the whole Santa from trunk to garbage bin foul up + tossing stuff into cups was a nice tip of the hat to Short Circuit
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However I'm thinking that maybe RedHat and VA Linux should team up to acquire Apple, taking one of the last great flag bearers of closed "standards" on the net out of the picture. I'm sure that between them the companies could scrounge up enough cash to purchase Apple. And it wouldn't be a bad move really -- We would all be using the Apple platform today had Apple decided to open up their standards and allow cloning. Even after the brutal beating they've taken over the past decade, they still don't get it. Take 'em over, kick the current management out on its ear, open up all the standards, welcome the cloners back with open arms, and sell support, and you'd be looking at a huge profit potential there. How much could Apple be worth these days? I wouldn't think it'd be a whole lot...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
He's some goober who posted a link to this companie's (he has claimed to be both CEO and worker at times) web site. He even once asked people to click on it to prove to his friend that the /. effect was real. :) /. effect is a figment of our imaginations. He also claimes all the sites that are supposedly "slashdotted" are in on the this big plot to make this page seem larger than it is.
Of course, so one clicked on it, so we became increasingly angry with us
Now he is on a mission, armed with the weak response his "spam" on these forums has generated, to convince all of us that the
He is quite fun to watch, not as origional as the hot grits boy or opensourceman, but filled with much more inner anger and possibly corn starch.
Finkployd
Let's just let this thread die -- PLEASE. You're in serious danger of being subjected to the death penalty provisioned in your signature :) .
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This clip is way too reminiscent of a certain Beastie Boys video. And I must disagree with the statement that this is better than the original South Park. Not a chance. While Vendetta was mildly entertaining, it looks like the creators spent way too much time effort on a joke that wasn't terribly funny to start with. I must state, however, that Vendetta was better than the Blair Witch Project, so by extrapolation this little clip should get its creators well on the road to fame and fortune. Kinda sucks, don't it?
Windows is going the way of phlogiston...
Any parent that lets their kids use the computer without monitoring them is a moron. My cousin seems to have no problem monitoring what his two sons do when they are at home, just requires a little discipline (something missing from most parents today). If some kids saw this, then the parents are to blame. Bad parenting is the reason a few kids have killed each other as of late. That, and this video was really lame. Nothing explained, just shooting a bunch of people again and again. Looks more like these guys had the opportunity to use some video equipment and decided to make a really dumb movie that they thought would be pretty cool. It is neither funny nor cool and I doubt it will be a geek classic. And it pales in comparison to the original South Park (which at least had a partial story to it). And the end scene looks like it was either inspired by or stolen from South Park.
http://owl.vet.purdue.edu/papa/vendetta .mov
Sorensen opens its codecs: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia, Open Source coders, etc., create new products utilizing the codecs. Cost incurred creating and maintaining the codecs by Sorenson: substantial. Money made by Sorensen: $0.00. (That's a successful business model??)
Sorensen keeps its codecs closed: Apple pays Sorensen licensing fees to use the codecs in their product. Cost incurred creating and maintaining the codecs by Sorensen: substantial. Money made by Sorensen: millions of dollars.
Signal_11 claims that Sorensen is doomed because someone will eventually get mad and reverse engineer the codecs. Let's leave aside the fact that this has been said for some time now, and still has never been done. Even if it happens, Sorensen will still have made millions of dollars that they would never have seen if they just gave away the code right off the bat. That's a lot of money that can be spent improving the product, or developing other ones.
Signal_11 presents it as some proven fact that this is a doomed business plan, but the real fact is that the Open Source business model still has never been proven as a substantial money-maker.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
By my watch it took about 20 minutes for crazyeddy.com to be overun by the /. effect.
/. needs is a better way of doing this. Especially if your linking a 37 MB video. Granted CmdrTaco, Hemos, et. al. don't exactly have all the time in the world, but I think that for movie files like this, /. should at least set up a mirror for the file. It would save us, and the webmasters of the other site a great deal of pain. We could watch and laugh our heads off, the webmasters wouldn't crap in their pants when they find out they were /.'ed.
What
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The sun beams down on a brand new day, No more welfare tax to pay, Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light...
I normally /. at 2 or better..
/. will be oversaturated by completely worthless posts.
i just looked at the useless shit posted at 1 to -1... and i do wonder when
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
it's tough to operate even a modern browser
with one's head firmly lodged up one's a$$.
But let me ask you this: If it saves even :)
one elf's life to raid citizens' homes, cause
their wives to have miscarraiges, stomp their
kittens to death, burn their children alive,
piss on the Constitution, suspend the writ of
habeas corpus, empower the FEMA, invade our
privacy, beat us, humiliate us, and shoot our
wives through a closed door while they hold our
children, isn't it worth it?
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
Premiere won't use multiple processors in any real sense. You can have it use 100% of one processor and set the OS to use the other, but that's as good as it gets.
Some plug-ins and extended versions will make use of the "other" processor than the one the main app is using, which can help a lot depending on what plug-ins/filters you're using, but just re-encoding from one format to another won't get any boost.
Does anyone know if Media Cleaner Pro uses multiple processors? I don't think so, but if it did that would make it immensely useful for this sort of thing...
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
This isn't really a "bitch at Apple" issue. Apple doesn't own the Sorenson codec. They simply license it from Sorenson to include in their QuickTime player. Other companies can do the same. Sure, Apple could port quicktime to linux and make you all happy, but a far easier proposal would be that some company that makes an existing player could license the codec.
I thought the movie had some funny scenes, but overall wasn't all that great. The sound quality was horrible, but the video editing was really good. Sure there were a few screwups in scenery, but what can you expect from a movie with no budget (I hope!)?
;-)
Anyways... I've put the movie on one of my machines at work. Don't kill it, please!
Hey, I think the movie's lame, but I remember seeing it way the hell BEFORE South Park was put up on the web. I can't believe this thing is still up on the web and that it's getting this much feedback! Well, good for the people who made it, I guess...
I read slashdot at:
:)
threshold=1&commentsort=3&mode=thread
and I find it quite enjoyable that as a thread deepens, the points moderated to the sub-comments in the thread are lower, and the column width of the article on my 1024x768 10-pt size fonts is pretty much 10% of the screen. I can just scroll right past this entire thread without even worrying about missing a single message.
Cool. And I lurk, so I can watch all the responses to this and laugh, and do nothing.
So, the video won't play on linux, that doesn't mean this article is worthless. Not everyone uses linux, and not all 'news for nerds' is linux related. The article was NOT posted as flamebait or a joke...it was posted because Hemos thought the video was funny. Not everything revolves around linux. Your lives may, but most peoples' don't!
Normally I'd post a song here but...
well, interesting collection of free porn movies there. but NO Vendetta. FUCKING BASTARD! I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR PATHETIC PORN MOVIES.
and i don't like being lied to.
n.
PLEASE someone around here's got to know of/have a mirror, eh?
We don't believe you all when you say it sucked. We have to see for ourselves ^_^
miyax
(spoiler!) hmm..the residential car chase looked like it would have garnered a few calls to 911, the train stunt a /response/ from 911, and the wreck at least 30 grand in lost property value. Either these filmmakers got permits or they likely went to jail. That, and the cost of the wrecked vehicles couldn't have been cheap. I'm very curious: did they get permits/permissions to do these things? If so, how much does something like this cost? If the filmmakers are (still) reading, care to clue us in on the logistics?
Well, for my entertainment dollar, there are far better ways to bring down a server... One of which would be to gripe to USWest with regards to a particular site (yours) that receives bandwidth from them. Now, I know we're all easy-going guys here, but ina more hostile forum, you might find people that would call USWest's handy customer service hotline for your state at (800)-549-5629 and report your spamming Slashdot. These same hard-to-get-along with people might also tend to email abuse@uswest.net or spam@uswest.net and provide the technicians with links to your spam here and here. But, you won't find people like that on Slashdot, right? But, really, if it's a server takedown you want, I'm sure some enterprising young cracker could do it. Or I could just ping-flood you from my OC-192 at work. Either way, you'd have something to do besides make a complete ass of yourself in a public forum. Another thing, I must say that your business acumen, spelling, and general manner speak awfully loudly for your company. Not well, but loudly. Personally, if I were going to stick that much of my foot and lower leg into my mouth, I'd at least do it anonymously.
Dead on Me-Too, for that. Shut the fack up, bitcher's and "this story//. sucks" crap.
*blows off steam*
+&x
I saw this @ a friends house a year and a half ago. The most outragous movie I'd seen in a while. I haven't seen the site yet, but I hope he has included some of the history in it's creation.
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Ok, what sound codecs can xanim handle? I know it handles cinepak for video, but i need to know about compatible audio codecs or else it's gonna be pretty big. I'll see about doing an MPEG version too. Hold on...
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guestbook.html
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
This has got to be the wierdest thing I've ever seen - a site that can pump out 5 continuous streams of 50k/s while being slashdotted and have an average latency of 100ms ! Whoah.
Of course.. it's unix.... Apache/1.3.0 to be exact. I want to know how that guy setup his box...
Have you guys thought of giving sites like this one, with a large downloaded file as the main focus, a one-day warning chance to let them distribute the file to a couple of mirror sites?
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good point. maybe i should read the fucking post before ignorantly replying. sorry.
Bah! Sorenson!
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$ xanim +f 1_opening.mov
XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
Audio Codec: QDesign Music Codec (QDMC) not yet supported.
Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet supported.
Usage:
XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim
-h lists some common options, but may be out of date.
See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help.
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Mine is my BBS name from 9 years ago. I was 12 then.
Before I spend a week downloading the 37 meg .mov file, has anybody been able to play it with xanim?
Thanks!
Maybe your site just isn't interesting enough for ppl to bother checking it out. Remember geeks think before they do.
wait- i've changed my mind. i agree with you. im trying to make a dime with alladvantage, and those assholes were all over me!
you guys don't like nate p. wilkerson? then, FUCK YOU!
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Is it just that people can't tell the difference between political discourse and flaming? Is it just that criticism of any sort must be supressed? Surely we can't tolerate either. Someone, please have mercy upon this plebeian and undo this wretched moderation.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Does anyone know how to get Premiere to use both CPU's? Converting Sorenson video to JPEG takes hours on a dual 550 but it's only using 1 CPU.
First of all, Apple doesn't even own Sorenson, so stop bashing them without reason.
This is a very misleading statement, if not a bald lie. The reason Sorenson won't open up the codec is because Apple won't let them, it's written into their agreement. Apple are indeed attempting to corner the market in Internet video, which is directly against what most Slashdot readers stand for: open standards. you might not agree but I'm 100% certain you are in the minority at least amongst Slashdot readers.
Anyway, what's with the bad attitude? I mean, all the four-letter words - can't you disagree without being rude and offensive? I think it's fairly obvious to everybody that it's you that needs to grow up.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
No, I do. I just happen to have my girlfriend's computer availible.
Yeah, I'm that guy.
What's with you and crack?
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
First of all, Apple doesn't even own Sorenson, so stop bashing them without reason. Apple designed Quicktime so it can play Sorenson, they don't owe you shit.
If you want to write your own codec, or license the Sorenson one and write your own multimedia player, then do it. Until you do, stop bitching at Apple.
The Sorenson codec kicks ass, the quality of the video is very high and the size of the files are very small. If you can make one that is as good as that, then I'm sure people will use it. If you can't, and if no one donating their time to open-source can, then who gives a fuck what you think?
What you are doing would be like picking on Adobe just because Photoshop is better than Gimp and they have the balls to charge for it. Grow up.
What makes you think garbage men or construction workers are so stupid, anyway? Not having a college degree doesn't make you stupid any more than having one makes you smart. I'd like to see you operate one of those bigass trucks or a wrecking ball without killing someone.
paranoid.android
I have the resources to recompress it into an xanim-compatible version within the next couple hours, but I'm wondering if I'll get into a legal tangle over it? Should I, shouldn't I?
a) "vendetta" may be a great flick. b) we cannot find out. c) why was this posted??
Absolutely right! I tried to make a post about the boring articles that /. posts, and you guys can't give a counter arguement, so you attack my sig. I have every right to have that in my sig, and it's not spam!! You could sign up and make $!!!
Nate is da man because he refuses to be silenced!! Go nate!
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Just because some people are bored enough to follow your spam-style links (the one in this message's parent included) doesn't mean you're getting the full on thing. I can't believe you even got 300 hits from it. (hits='seperate GET requests' in your mind, correct?)
Anyway, for a study done on the Slashdot Effect, previously linked to by Slashdot though done by an independent source, check out
The Slashdot Effect - An Analysis of Three Internet Publications, by Stephen Adler.
In addition to this, read his addendum, demonstrating what happenned after the original paper was mentioned here. Also bear in mind the fact that this was some time ago and that this site's userbase is growing all the time.
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If a tree falls on an anonymous coward yelling 'first post' in the forest, does anybody hear?
Okay, so Sorenson isn't supported by Linux yet...boo-hoo...and Sorenson is a CSS project, so it must be bad, right? Give it up...when you all bought into Linux, you took the bad as well as the good...open-source software and a community of support is great, but you also bought into not always having the latest toys from every company in the industry, simply because not every vendor is interested and/or can support twelve different OSes. Want Sorenson? Start a campaign to let apple know that there's a market for it on Linux...or write your own codec, or converter, or something, anything...but don't do the /. bitch-and-moan because not every technology his handed to you on a silver frickin' platter...this is the price you pay for your OS...Windows users pay in stability and price, Mac pays for their OS in the fact that they deal with one company for all their hardware...every OS has its drawbacks, Linux included. Don't like it? Then change it, but don't complain here.
In the meantime, go to your local library or university and use one of their Windows or Mac machines to view the video.
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
If you haven't seen it, I'll summarize it for you: lots of people shoot lots of other people. And some of them are dressed like elves.
It's tripe like this that reinforces gun-control freaks in Congress, though. You just know that they're sitting in front of their computers, alternating between wanking off and bemoaning "If only we could get rid of all the guns in this society, Mrs Claus would've had a chance!" Please, people, don't feed the polito-trolls. The exact same point could've been made with the exact same amount of artistic value if the characters had run around throwing pies at each other. Note: that doesn't say much for the artistic value of this movie.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
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Only people who are reading THIS thread can see it. And, do you see all the people saying "Amen" to me? Those are my supporters!
Back up the gravy train, pal. There is one "Amen" in this thread and it was in respose to me.
Finkployd
the site is still hammered.. does know of a mirror site?
Do it! Please! Email the authors and be like "hello, there are many unix users out there who would love to view your video. However, they are unable to because of the codec used. I am willing to convert it to a unix-friendly codec for you, so that you can spread its x-mas joy to more people... how about it?" or something along those lines.
You could say that about any show... and anyway, they always care when Kenny dies... they always go "Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards!"
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
This is probably the link you want (rather than a link to another web page):
http://www.newgrounds.com/vendetta/ vendetta.zip
(I'm getting a whopping 3.7k/s from my box with switched 100mbit to an OC-3.. actually, now it's 2.8k/s.. only 5 hrs to go!)
i remember seeing QT2MPG at some site, I don't know if it does QT3 or 4 (making it worthless for this movie), but I say we petition the makers of vendetta for a mpeg version of the movie. QT3/4 for Windows 95/98 is evil, and I refuse to download it. I'm sure it's not as evil for macintosh users, but that's besides the point. mpeg is a standard everyone should use. posted with mozilla build 1999121612
I say we are all winners. It's good for our self esteem
Now lets all have some gummy bears and forget this ever happend
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You guys don't get it... He's done this before. It's either someone else's site that he *wants* to see brought down, or he's getting money for the advertisements on that page. Don't encourage him.
Hmm. just a thought. It says npsis.net but points to npsis.com. So he needs to learn consistency. At least the bombcar.com server is consistently down until NETWORKSOLUTIONS gets off there fat ass and updates their root servers.
http://www.bombcar.com It's where it is at.
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