You'd think he and those around him have gotten pretty used to the way he 'speaks' by now. It'd be weird and distracting to change
now.
I try to imagine Stephen Hawkings giving a lengthy dissertation on the grand unification theory with the voice of James Earl Jones, but I can't quite do it...
Really who spends that much money on a chair? For $700 you
could get a Tyan Dual Athlon mother board and two 1.4Ghtz AMD Athon T-Bird
You could. But the chair will have a longer useful life than the dual Athlons. In fact, one really good chair might last several computer lifespans before it needs replacing, so I consider an Aeron to be a bargain by comparison.
"On this week's challenge, you'll have just ten hours to build a working fission reactor. Then, tomorrow morning, whoever can generate the most watts of electricity in one hour will move on to the semifinals."
(Anyone else excited about the new season airing in the US on September 12?)
Maybe that's why Adobe wants the charges dropped. It's likely they wanted the decrypting software removed from the market, but didn't want to see him arrested for it. At least that's how I see it.
It is still possible that Pioneer may be the US rights holder for Tenchi.
That's almost certain. Here's a link straight from the Pioneer website touting the new OVAs from AIC. The situation in Japan might be quite different, of course, but I don't think that'll affect the region 1 folks at all.
You were right the first time. AIC is coming out with two things: the Galaxy Police series and a new OVA. So, it's either a third *series* or a third *OVA*, but not a third *season*. Season would imply an ongoing series, which isn't happening to my knowledge.
I'm sure the/. editors are just as tired as you are.
The OVAs have the benefit of better animation (due to budgetary reasons, no doubt) and spend a great deal of time building up the characters. The only downside is that the dramatic elements suffer from a lack of screen time - they tend to appear midway through each relatively short series.
Universe gets a nice 26 episodes to work with and the result is a more satisfying overall storyline. However, there's a lot fewer risque elements, a lot more stand-alone episodes (with some filler episodes, particularly in the second half of the show) and the big cast isn't always used to its fullest potential.
That said, I like both for different reasons. But after the catastrophic end to the Universe continuity (with the woefully unpopular "Tenchi Forever" movie), I'm looking forward to a more enjoyable end to the OVAs.
Part of the cited cost in the $150+ millions is their new movie house and computer farm.
Last I read, $50 million of the $150 million budget went to facilities construction. However, the movie is unlikely to make back either the fixed cost of the facility *or* the cost of film production. Given that the film was released in a very favorable time of year and with plenty of advance hype, it seems unlikely that Sony will finance any additional Final Fantasy pictures after seeing its box-office performance since the chance of re-couping the costs seems slim.
The reasons for Final Fantasy's poor performance are also subject for debate, but that's material for another thread.
"The Spirits Within" cost a bundle (in the $150 million range), but just isn't making much money (debuting in 4th in the US). And with the latest Jurassic Park gobbling up its audience, I don't think it'll have legs at the box office.
Whether or not the film is good is a topic for another thread.
Maybe Hughes should move their legal base of operations *to the satellite*.
It's so very Douglas Adams-esque.
"And so, in early 21st century, the primative earthlings decided to leave their little ball of mud and venture into outer space - mostly for tax reasons."
My God, what has Slashdot become? Post a direct link to a Microsoft you're not supposed to download and it gets
moderated UP?
I know you all don't mind software and music pirating, but posting direct links is crossing the line.
I don't give a rat's ass about Windows XP, but the fact that the link works is interesting - and displays a lack of any true authentication for downloading the ISO itself. There's likely some serial #s or keys or some other shit involved in actually installing Windows XP, so I doubt stealing it will be quite as easy as just downloading the image.
And for those who are just interested, like me, use wget's "--spider" option to test out the link without actually downloading a single byte of it.
I mean, if I wanted to be really secure, I'd come up with a whole bunch of hyper-obscure passwords, memorize them for weeks on end and use those - secure in the knowledge that nobody can read my mind.
Of course, that would be silly.
I have used my PDA for password storage, but it proved somewhat tedious to go back and forth between computer and PDA to input them (whereas FPM can copy straight to X11's cut buffer with the hit of a button). It's not impossible for someone to break into my box, steal FPM's password file and somehow steal the password to decrypt it, but I consider that a possibility remote enough to fall within my level of tolerance.
I figure so long as the value of the passwords are less than the effort it would take someone to steal them, I'm protected from the most likely attacks.
If you're going to use a password manager, why not just make all of your passwords the same anyway?
All it takes is someone knowing the manager's password to get them all easily enough anyhow.
If someone other than me has access to the password manager data in my home directory and knows the password to the manager, having my Slashdot password available to them is the least of my concerns...
With a password manager, I wind up with lots of passwords like "pXSvs2gQ", "3zRrtjBc" and "UA4urfVx" (to make up some examples). Sure, I have to remember one cryptic password to get into the manager, but then I can forget the rest (which, by my personal count, is 41 different user/password combos to remember - which I don't have time for).
I recommend a decent password manager for everybody, since there's just too damn many sites that require them.
...since everything else Red Hat does is. That way, the people on all the other Unices can test it out and submit patches to ensure portability across platforms.
It'd be nice if Red Hat would come up with a better name, tho.
...and how is it the rental company's responsibility to enforce it? If I drive 45 on a 35mph street, is the GPS system going to have data on every street in the city? Unlikely. And if I'm speeding, it should be the police's job to enforce the limit by issuing tickets accordingly, not the rental company's.
If it's just a matter of people driving the cars too fast, then the rental company should install speed throttlers to ensure the car won't go over a certain top speed.
From a literary standpoint, it's undesirable to make every character packed with depth - the reader simply doesn't care what (or what isn't) going through Butterbur's head, for example. Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippen are the main characters and so they receive the most nuances (Frodo and Sam, in particlar). But to fault LOTR for spending less time on those characters we care less about is absurd.
Naturally, this guy's critique is crap. And if LOTR were adjusted to make this guy happy, it would be crap as well. Fortunately, that won't be a problem.
It's the other way around. The editors wanted "dwarves", in particular, to be edited to "dwarfs" and so forth. Tolkien refused and was steadfast on the point until the editors relented. I think that is mentioned in either the LOTR forward or in the appendices (in the language section). And if you read much of his proto-Silmarillion (and pre-Hobbit) works, it's "elves" (along with "Eldar" and "gnomes") throughout.
But, yes, his elves were always meant to be tall and mighty characters. The notion of Legolas portrayed as a short feminine guy in green tights really pissed him off.
Although both guys often make for good soundbites, I don't expect those two quotes to be making the top ten lists of their fans anytime
soon.:)
Since Linus and Larry have plenty of copyrighted stuff, it's only natural that they want to see it given all due protection. Hard to fault them for that, really.
I think the average Slashdot reader isn't averse to paying money for music. I certainly have no problem with it. If I could plunk down a reasonable amount of money to get some rare discs I've been looking for, I'd do it in a second rather than rely on lossy mp3s.
What *does* tend to piss off the Slashdot folk is the RIAA's heavy-handed attempts to try and shove excessive control down our collective throats with the use of SDMI, control schemes and other unpleasantries that try to get in the way of enjoying the music we can simply pay for right now.
Slashdot Mirror
At times like these, personal politics can go straight to hell where they belong.
I suppose it would be pretty distracting.
You could. But the chair will have a longer useful life than the dual Athlons. In fact, one really good chair might last several computer lifespans before it needs replacing, so I consider an Aeron to be a bargain by comparison.
(Anyone else excited about the new season airing in the US on September 12?)
Maybe that's why Adobe wants the charges dropped. It's likely they wanted the decrypting software removed from the market, but didn't want to see him arrested for it. At least that's how I see it.
Last I checked, Adobe wanted Sklyarov freed. What good is punishing *them* going to do?
That's almost certain. Here's a link straight from the Pioneer website touting the new OVAs from AIC. The situation in Japan might be quite different, of course, but I don't think that'll affect the region 1 folks at all.
I'm sure the /. editors are just as tired as you are.
Universe gets a nice 26 episodes to work with and the result is a more satisfying overall storyline. However, there's a lot fewer risque elements, a lot more stand-alone episodes (with some filler episodes, particularly in the second half of the show) and the big cast isn't always used to its fullest potential.
That said, I like both for different reasons. But after the catastrophic end to the Universe continuity (with the woefully unpopular "Tenchi Forever" movie), I'm looking forward to a more enjoyable end to the OVAs.
Last I read, $50 million of the $150 million budget went to facilities construction. However, the movie is unlikely to make back either the fixed cost of the facility *or* the cost of film production. Given that the film was released in a very favorable time of year and with plenty of advance hype, it seems unlikely that Sony will finance any additional Final Fantasy pictures after seeing its box-office performance since the chance of re-couping the costs seems slim.
The reasons for Final Fantasy's poor performance are also subject for debate, but that's material for another thread.
Whether or not the film is good is a topic for another thread.
It's so very Douglas Adams-esque.
"And so, in early 21st century, the primative earthlings decided to leave their little ball of mud and venture into outer space - mostly for tax reasons."
I don't give a rat's ass about Windows XP, but the fact that the link works is interesting - and displays a lack of any true authentication for downloading the ISO itself. There's likely some serial #s or keys or some other shit involved in actually installing Windows XP, so I doubt stealing it will be quite as easy as just downloading the image.
And for those who are just interested, like me, use wget's "--spider" option to test out the link without actually downloading a single byte of it.
Of course, that would be silly.
I have used my PDA for password storage, but it proved somewhat tedious to go back and forth between computer and PDA to input them (whereas FPM can copy straight to X11's cut buffer with the hit of a button). It's not impossible for someone to break into my box, steal FPM's password file and somehow steal the password to decrypt it, but I consider that a possibility remote enough to fall within my level of tolerance.
I figure so long as the value of the passwords are less than the effort it would take someone to steal them, I'm protected from the most likely attacks.
If someone other than me has access to the password manager data in my home directory and knows the password to the manager, having my Slashdot password available to them is the least of my concerns...
I recommend a decent password manager for everybody, since there's just too damn many sites that require them.
We'll just have to wait for an article giving a blow-by-blow account of the Slashdot outage article's outage.
It'd be nice if Red Hat would come up with a better name, tho.
If it's just a matter of people driving the cars too fast, then the rental company should install speed throttlers to ensure the car won't go over a certain top speed.
I dunno. It all seems quite stupid to me.
But at least it'll look good in the ads...
Naturally, this guy's critique is crap. And if LOTR were adjusted to make this guy happy, it would be crap as well. Fortunately, that won't be a problem.
But, yes, his elves were always meant to be tall and mighty characters. The notion of Legolas portrayed as a short feminine guy in green tights really pissed him off.
Since Linus and Larry have plenty of copyrighted stuff, it's only natural that they want to see it given all due protection. Hard to fault them for that, really.
I think the average Slashdot reader isn't averse to paying money for music. I certainly have no problem with it. If I could plunk down a reasonable amount of money to get some rare discs I've been looking for, I'd do it in a second rather than rely on lossy mp3s.
What *does* tend to piss off the Slashdot folk is the RIAA's heavy-handed attempts to try and shove excessive control down our collective throats with the use of SDMI, control schemes and other unpleasantries that try to get in the way of enjoying the music we can simply pay for right now.
Yeah. We all know teenagers have never been elitist until Linux came along...
Mea culpa. /. is nothing if not precise. But I figure my main point has been made :)