My biggest gripe with the eyes is that the UV-reactive contacts or whatever they used aren't always straight; they look
crooked in some scenes. In the scene with Liet Kynes inside the ornithopter while the worm attacked the crawler, did
anyone notice that one eye was glowing, one wasn't? This was distracting. I thought for a moment that maybe it was
intentional, because they were trying to illustrate that he was half-Fremen ("Liet serves two masters").
In my never ending quest to be a total pain in the ass I would like to point out that when the causal "glowing eye" is cast in sunlight, it will have a tough time being seen. Why then are people complaining about not seeing "the glow" at all times. I think the fact that the intensity of the glow was made dependent upon the ambient lighting made the effect less of an effect and more believable.
Don't ya know dat glow in da' dark eyes don't glow durin' da' day.
That's not my point... my point is that the medium is to a great extent -dead-. There's nothing -new-. They (and many others) continue to produce the same game... It's like receiving a magazine all year with the same content in every issue, with different ads, a new cover and maybe different paper... as I originally said: Who cares? Who really cares if another Doom is produced?
RTGs, I had to laugh the first time I heard about these things in a spacecraft design course. 5% efficient.... Last I read, the conventional thinking was that they could be engineered up to 10% efficiency.... looks like they need more work. Gotta admit that they are dahm reliable though... both voyagers and galileo are still running on these things (they are still running aren't they) . Many other missions rel(y, ied) on them as well.
By the way... I think you know what happens if the rocket carrying these babies up accidentally doesn't allow the craft to reach orbit. Raining plutonium down on the earth... man does that ruin a weekend barbecue.
I have to argue that copying a CD falls more squarely under fair use than does copying a movie from television. In the former case, you have paid The Evil Bastards (TM) for a copy of the CD. In the latter, you are copying a 'free broadcast'.
Are you telling me I can't record the X-Files anymore! Shit! The commercials are still in there.
Besides since when was cable free. Just today I "downgraded" to digital basic. There's nothing "basic" about $50.00 a month. It's usually not worth copying a movie coming from the lightning rod on top of your house. (If were talking about broadcasts):) Now if I sold that copy I think were in a gray area, did I sell the tape or did I sell the X-Files?
Anyone who's seem the userfriendly comic strip lately knows why pay-per-use is a stupid idea. I believe that musicians ought to get paid for doing actual work... sorry soundwaves are free in my mind...
... how would you build an operating system knowing what you know now? I'm not talking kernel design, I'm talking overall system design. OS essentials, utilities, graphics system, applications, etc... Don't be specific to a certain popular kernel.. How would YOU do it? Could you describe the technical aspects -and- the management aspects?
If that's the case then hardness isn't really the issue, stiffness is. Stiffness is a close relative of hardness... diamond is a heck of a lot stiffer than steel.
One way to engineer it would be to use the hard (stiff) substrate that you speak of, and combine it with a damped enclosure.
The difficult part may be in determining what the response of the system would be. The read mechanism would have a different elasticity than the storage medium... what you would have to do is couple them stiffly (vague enough for you?), and add an external shock damping mechanism... two lines of defense.
Now, my understanding is that even if these bootlegs were, somehow, legitimate and legal, I would have been required to remove/ban the auction until it could be proven that the item was acceptable to sell. Simply by someone claiming a wrong done, I would be required to behave and proceed with the assumption that, until proven otherwise, a wrong had been done. Is this correct? To what extent does this reach?
Wouldn't that be treating the auctioneer as guilty until proven innocent?
Face it, the music industry is sitting on a cash cow. Make a CD for $1 sell it for $16 (okay, so middlemen get a cut). These guys make BILLIONS per year. Even if it costs them $10, $20,...$100 million to unleash a pack of lawyers on internet upstarts like Napster, they've won the battle merely by DELAYING the full onset of online music.
I'm glad you raise the issue of profit margin. Do slashdot readers realize that profit margins in any other industry (that is... outside of the entertainment industry and the computing industry) is around 5 to 10%, and sometimes lower... This is one of the many reasons that I could care less if the RIAA, the MPAA or Metallica gets screwed...
Who are the people that use OS software, go to sites like Scoop's and pull this kind of shit? Frankly I wouldn't put up with shit like that and I believe that Scoop deserves an apology...
I'm guessing its the kind of people that post as Anon Cow's here... but...that's just my opinion (I admit that's a generalization).
If you ain't got the balls to put your name on a post you shouldn't be in a public forum like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else catch the original title of this post:
...oops... betcha I just got filtered!
"Debian Woody is Frozen"
That just sounds dirty...
-- Phenym
... do you mean to tell me that it actually costs MONEY to run the net? So much for 'FREE' speech.
-- Phenym
My biggest gripe with the eyes is that the UV-reactive contacts or whatever they used aren't always straight; they look crooked in some scenes. In the scene with Liet Kynes inside the ornithopter while the worm attacked the crawler, did anyone notice that one eye was glowing, one wasn't? This was distracting. I thought for a moment that maybe it was intentional, because they were trying to illustrate that he was half-Fremen ("Liet serves two masters").
In my never ending quest to be a total pain in the ass I would like to point out that when the causal "glowing eye" is cast in sunlight, it will have a tough time being seen. Why then are people complaining about not seeing "the glow" at all times. I think the fact that the intensity of the glow was made dependent upon the ambient lighting made the effect less of an effect and more believable.
Don't ya know dat glow in da' dark eyes don't glow durin' da' day.
-- Phenym
That's not my point... my point is that the medium is to a great extent -dead-. There's nothing -new-. They (and many others) continue to produce the same game... It's like receiving a magazine all year with the same content in every issue, with different ads, a new cover and maybe different paper... as I originally said: Who cares? Who really cares if another Doom is produced?
-- Phenym (Logged in this time)
I know... I was just attemping to be funny :)
-- Phenym
RTGs, I had to laugh the first time I heard about these things in a spacecraft design course. 5% efficient.... Last I read, the conventional thinking was that they could be engineered up to 10% efficiency.... looks like they need more work. Gotta admit that they are dahm reliable though... both voyagers and galileo are still running on these things (they are still running aren't they) . Many other missions rel(y, ied) on them as well.
By the way... I think you know what happens if the rocket carrying these babies up accidentally doesn't allow the craft to reach orbit. Raining plutonium down on the earth... man does that ruin a weekend barbecue.
-- Phenym
Mannnnnnnnn... took you guys long enough... See, Babelfish -can- be fun :)
-- Phenym
I have to argue that copying a CD falls more squarely under fair use than does copying a movie from television. In the former case, you have paid The Evil Bastards (TM) for a copy of the CD. In the latter, you are copying a 'free broadcast'.
:) Now if I sold that copy I think were in a gray area, did I sell the tape or did I sell the X-Files?
Are you telling me I can't record the X-Files anymore! Shit! The commercials are still in there.
Besides since when was cable free. Just today I "downgraded" to digital basic. There's nothing "basic" about $50.00 a month. It's usually not worth copying a movie coming from the lightning rod on top of your house. (If were talking about broadcasts)
-- Phenym
Not quite... :)
-- Phenym
Valid clarification.
-- Phenym
Anyone who's seem the userfriendly comic strip lately knows why pay-per-use is a stupid idea. I believe that musicians ought to get paid for doing actual work... sorry soundwaves are free in my mind...
-- Phenym
... how would you build an operating system knowing what you know now? I'm not talking kernel design, I'm talking overall system design. OS essentials, utilities, graphics system, applications, etc... Don't be specific to a certain popular kernel.. How would YOU do it? Could you describe the technical aspects -and- the management aspects?
-- Phenym
If that's the case then hardness isn't really the issue, stiffness is. Stiffness is a close relative of hardness... diamond is a heck of a lot stiffer than steel.
One way to engineer it would be to use the hard (stiff) substrate that you speak of, and combine it with a damped enclosure.
The difficult part may be in determining what the response of the system would be. The read mechanism would have a different elasticity than the storage medium... what you would have to do is couple them stiffly (vague enough for you?), and add an external shock damping mechanism... two lines of defense.
-- Phenym
Now, my understanding is that even if these bootlegs were, somehow, legitimate and legal, I would have been required to remove/ban the auction until it could be proven that the item was acceptable to sell. Simply by someone claiming a wrong done, I would be required to behave and proceed with the assumption that, until proven otherwise, a wrong had been done. Is this correct? To what extent does this reach?
Wouldn't that be treating the auctioneer as guilty until proven innocent?
-- Phenym
Hmmm... Maybe Microsoft should --innovate-- some security features into Outlook.
-- Phenym
Face it, the music industry is sitting on a cash cow. Make a CD for $1 sell it for $16 (okay, so middlemen get a cut). These guys make BILLIONS per year. Even if it costs them $10, $20,...$100 million to unleash a pack of lawyers on internet upstarts like Napster, they've won the battle merely by DELAYING the full onset of online music.
I'm glad you raise the issue of profit margin. Do slashdot readers realize that profit margins in any other industry (that is... outside of the entertainment industry and the computing industry) is around 5 to 10%, and sometimes lower... This is one of the many reasons that I could care less if the RIAA, the MPAA or Metallica gets screwed...
-- Phenym
How about Leon... that way everyone thinks that it is a Linux distribution for particle physicists.
-- Phenym
P.S. I had the privilege of being taught Gen. Phys. I by none other than Leon Lederman himself.. He's a cool guy, and pretty spry for a 70? y.o.
Who are the people that use OS software, go to sites like Scoop's and pull this kind of shit? Frankly I wouldn't put up with shit like that and I believe that Scoop deserves an apology...
...that's just my opinion (I admit that's a generalization).
I'm guessing its the kind of people that post as Anon Cow's here... but
If you ain't got the balls to put your name on a post you shouldn't be in a public forum like this.
It's ok to criticize... but fuck the flamers!
Phenym