Welcome to the reality of computer components - there's no value in trying to save old tech.
I've seen this argument put forward for buying macs (and it's pretty much won me over). PCs no longer have an upgrade path... New MB, new chip, new power supply, new RAM to match the bus speed, new SATA disks with the new MB... My oldest components are my kb and monitor (~9 years old, It's been worth the mad coin i spent on it at the time!). I don't think the kb will ever die but the monitor is getting ready to retire (and has been for three years now...)
Do you realize how many people will miss "Beware of the Leopard?" Almost all the dialogue in that skit is gone, so it's not even a joke anymore.
Why pick on that one (missing) joke? Like DNA had said heaps of times before, the movie isn't the book, and the book isn't the radio play! They're different because they're different mediums. So many of you have canned this film and it's not even released yet... How are you supposed to enjoy it if you go in with that attitude? What about all the jokes from the radio play that were not in the book? Do you complain about them?
Thanks for the nice write-up:-) You've restored my confidence a bit in the film... I've watched the trailers and they seem okay, though of course there are some changes.
The advertisers aren't going to pay for this loss of control.
But that's the thing, they're losing control now. They've either going to have to embras it or go like the music industry and go s/customer/criminal/g
I guess what this will turn into is making TV stations more global than they are now, which makes the ads global as well. Kinda like super bowl ads but much bigger.. e.g. have your ad seen by everyone who watched the last episode of sienfield.
Local content could still be used over the air like they do now (regional stations just insert thier own ads) and you would always have some programs with local content like news and language specific shows (French shows watched by people mostly in france)
Mayby there would be a way to inject local ads on the fly depending on where the dl is coming from (by IP?) or even just the user clicking a "do you want the xyz state version?"
That would help advertisers because they would know how many ppl dl'd that version. The other good thing is that if i lend/give a copy to a (local) friend they'd likely see the same ads, and repeated versions mean my ad is seen more than once, rather than it disapearing into the ether like the do now.
Yeah, Hack is really good, pity that I miss it most days, I generally don't get into my car until Rossie comes on at 6. Time to get an ipod I guess;-) (I just have to get the puchase order past the minister for finance;-)
wtf? I didn't say that at all, maybe you should read what I've written again.
But if you want to know, yes, I do sometimes have trouble telling the difference between the britneys and jessica simpsons.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the other really cool thing about triple j, as it's non-comercial you only hear ads for triple j itself and events that they are involved with (big day out etc), That's another thing I notice a lot when listening to comercial radio, there are so many ads. I guess I've been spoiled.
Check out triple j, they're a government funded (abc australia), youth oriented, alternative radio station available to 95% of the australian population which you can also stream over the net.
They've "unearthed" a lot of famous aussie bands, including silver chair and missy higgins they started this long before the idol and pop-star programs on tv; and they've also launched the careers of some well-known aussie comedians.
The other good thing is that you'll never hear any britney, madona, justin timberlake or anything like that on there. By the time a song makes it to the offical top 40 pop chart it's off the play list. I'll often hear a song on comercial radio and think "oh, i haven't heard this one for a while" and then the dj will come on and say "that's the new song from random-joe-artist".
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Bruce, I read technocrat through the RSS feeds, just a few quick comments.
Firstly I think the theme is pretty bad, but I can live with that.
Secondly the FAQ needs updating, it just points to the slashcode faq. Maybe even just a little "Hi, this is technocrat and is run by x and y." Mayby something to build a community?
Umm, thirdly.. dammit, I had a third point but forgot it. I think I was mainly just looking for a "about" page mentioned above. It doesn't quite have a finished feel to it and you might get more people joining (I just created an account and my uid is only 1500 or so, which isn't too bad, but given that you are connected with it I thought the traffic would have been higher.)
Hardest thing I found when using firefox on gnu/linux (Ubuntu for those playing at home) was getting Java to work. And this was just because I didn't know where to install it and changing bash_profile etc. It took about 2 minutes to find this out and get it working.
I was initially disapointed as I had become lazy running the fox under win32 and the "click here to install this plugin" goodness.
Hasbro should pay this guy and host his site on thier servers, It would then be "offically" endorsed and they could serve up thier ads on it. I don't know why they'd want to shut this down, it only spreads scrabble and people playing online would have bought the game anyway; This would encourage people to get out the real life game more and play with friends.
or LotR:TTT and LotR:RotK.
Someone else posted that the environment felt "funny" in the SW films. I think LotR was a film that had the environment pretty spot on, and the trick was using it to fill in the real props and stages. I think Jackson did the right thing using miniatures, because it helped the CGI people get the "feel" right. It let them see the light and shadows falling across a real object.
I say we all rise up and quell any further stupid shit that spews forth...
We've already schedule the revolution, but it's being delayed as there are too many choices for "the first against the wall when the revolutin comes", and it's causing delays and getting bogged down in the committee. Thanks for your suggestion though:)
What I want to note, however, is that for me, research suicide options was also therapeutic
I can understand that. Someone gave me some advice once about talking to people who might be on the verge of killing themselves: Don't advoid talking about it. If they are in that state of mind they are thinking about it through a great majority of thier day. And talking about it can help, the old "cry for help" thing... we'll how about listening before it gets that bad?
Anyway, I think it's impractical to try to censor the info, Just cause it's not in.au doesn't mean it won't be somewhere else. If you go out looking for it you will find it. Silly conservative government.
Well, it looks like we're on the slope to banning all sorts of things; first kiddie porn (i'm not advocating it), then offensive sites, then suicide sites, then bomb making sites, next will be the modding sites? I'm surprised we don't have big anti-abortion groups like in the US.
I don't know about this, won't a user on the outer with a high throughput kill the links for others along the chain? It might be great for low bandwidth apps like telnet though.
Too bad it won't run decently on anything less than a Pentium III with 256MB of RAM.
dude, wtf are you talking about? I run it on a pII-333 with 128mb ram and it's useable. My old man runs it on a vanilla pentium (233) with 64 mb ram.. it's a bit slow, but usable. (adblock is the only extension installed)
Not good enough for my work.. at home yes, i use it, but work i need the calender functions. We use it a lot to book meetings with each other. Thunderbird doesn't have this. I tried Sunbird but it crashes too much to be productive... maybe when it matures a bit more.
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I've seen this argument put forward for buying macs (and it's pretty much won me over). PCs no longer have an upgrade path... New MB, new chip, new power supply, new RAM to match the bus speed, new SATA disks with the new MB... My oldest components are my kb and monitor (~9 years old, It's been worth the mad coin i spent on it at the time!). I don't think the kb will ever die but the monitor is getting ready to retire (and has been for three years now...)
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Why pick on that one (missing) joke? Like DNA had said heaps of times before, the movie isn't the book, and the book isn't the radio play! They're different because they're different mediums. So many of you have canned this film and it's not even released yet... How are you supposed to enjoy it if you go in with that attitude? What about all the jokes from the radio play that were not in the book? Do you complain about them?
Thanks for the nice write-up :-) You've restored my confidence a bit in the film... I've watched the trailers and they seem okay, though of course there are some changes.
n/t == no text :) Poster was to either too lazy/rude to type something or felt it was covered by the subject
But that's the thing, they're losing control now. They've either going to have to embras it or go like the music industry and go s/customer/criminal/g
I guess what this will turn into is making TV stations more global than they are now, which makes the ads global as well. Kinda like super bowl ads but much bigger.. e.g. have your ad seen by everyone who watched the last episode of sienfield.
Local content could still be used over the air like they do now (regional stations just insert thier own ads) and you would always have some programs with local content like news and language specific shows (French shows watched by people mostly in france)
Mayby there would be a way to inject local ads on the fly depending on where the dl is coming from (by IP?) or even just the user clicking a "do you want the xyz state version?"
That would help advertisers because they would know how many ppl dl'd that version. The other good thing is that if i lend/give a copy to a (local) friend they'd likely see the same ads, and repeated versions mean my ad is seen more than once, rather than it disapearing into the ether like the do now.
hmm, need sleep. Hope that made sense.
Yeah, Hack is really good, pity that I miss it most days, I generally don't get into my car until Rossie comes on at 6. Time to get an ipod I guess ;-) (I just have to get the puchase order past the minister for finance ;-)
But if you want to know, yes, I do sometimes have trouble telling the difference between the britneys and jessica simpsons.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the other really cool thing about triple j, as it's non-comercial you only hear ads for triple j itself and events that they are involved with (big day out etc), That's another thing I notice a lot when listening to comercial radio, there are so many ads. I guess I've been spoiled.
hmm, stuffed up the link, try this one.
They've "unearthed" a lot of famous aussie bands, including silver chair and missy higgins they started this long before the idol and pop-star programs on tv; and they've also launched the careers of some well-known aussie comedians.
The other good thing is that you'll never hear any britney, madona, justin timberlake or anything like that on there. By the time a song makes it to the offical top 40 pop chart it's off the play list. I'll often hear a song on comercial radio and think "oh, i haven't heard this one for a while" and then the dj will come on and say "that's the new song from random-joe-artist".
Bruce, I read technocrat through the RSS feeds, just a few quick comments.
- Firstly I think the theme is pretty bad, but I can live with that.
- Secondly the FAQ needs updating, it just points to the slashcode faq. Maybe even just a little "Hi, this is technocrat and is run by x and y." Mayby something to build a community?
- Umm, thirdly
.. dammit, I had a third point but forgot it. I think I was mainly just looking for a "about" page mentioned above. It doesn't quite have a finished feel to it and you might get more people joining (I just created an account and my uid is only 1500 or so, which isn't too bad, but given that you are connected with it I thought the traffic would have been higher.)
Anyway, sorry for this rambling off-topic post.I was initially disapointed as I had become lazy running the fox under win32 and the "click here to install this plugin" goodness.
Hasbro should pay this guy and host his site on thier servers, It would then be "offically" endorsed and they could serve up thier ads on it. I don't know why they'd want to shut this down, it only spreads scrabble and people playing online would have bought the game anyway; This would encourage people to get out the real life game more and play with friends.
or LotR:TTT and LotR:RotK. Someone else posted that the environment felt "funny" in the SW films. I think LotR was a film that had the environment pretty spot on, and the trick was using it to fill in the real props and stages. I think Jackson did the right thing using miniatures, because it helped the CGI people get the "feel" right. It let them see the light and shadows falling across a real object.
We've already schedule the revolution, but it's being delayed as there are too many choices for "the first against the wall when the revolutin comes", and it's causing delays and getting bogged down in the committee. Thanks for your suggestion though :)
You forgot to add:
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I can understand that. Someone gave me some advice once about talking to people who might be on the verge of killing themselves: Don't advoid talking about it. If they are in that state of mind they are thinking about it through a great majority of thier day. And talking about it can help, the old "cry for help" thing... we'll how about listening before it gets that bad?
Anyway, I think it's impractical to try to censor the info, Just cause it's not in .au doesn't mean it won't be somewhere else. If you go out looking for it you will find it. Silly conservative government.
Well, it looks like we're on the slope to banning all sorts of things; first kiddie porn (i'm not advocating it), then offensive sites, then suicide sites, then bomb making sites, next will be the modding sites? I'm surprised we don't have big anti-abortion groups like in the US.
I don't know about this, won't a user on the outer with a high throughput kill the links for others along the chain? It might be great for low bandwidth apps like telnet though.
Yeah, I stopped reading at that point. If you can't get the history right, how are you supposed to predict where it is going?
dude, wtf are you talking about? I run it on a pII-333 with 128mb ram and it's useable. My old man runs it on a vanilla pentium (233) with 64 mb ram.. it's a bit slow, but usable. (adblock is the only extension installed)
I wish my microbee survived this long... it barely managed 10 years.
See my post that stared this thread.
Not good enough for my work.. at home yes, i use it, but work i need the calender functions. We use it a lot to book meetings with each other. Thunderbird doesn't have this. I tried Sunbird but it crashes too much to be productive... maybe when it matures a bit more.