1. attach lots (and lots) of these together 2. send them all a small portion of a film (the picture not different parts of the film!) 3. then stick them all together, ensure they play in sync (somehow).
Hey presto! Huge hi-res LCD display...for free (I mean, all the left over magazines will be useful...maybe make a paper mache housing for your new 'TV')
To make matters worse, it seems that 'the older generation' are being convinced into purcahsing lesss secure operating systems. Case in point: I built my mother in law a debian based desktop machine (she only wanted to use facebook). Yet, somehow she was convinced to purchase a laptop (she only uses the machine at a desk) with Windows Vista. She now has 'a virus' and has had to pay PC World money to fix it.
Idiot. And to think my son shares genes with her...don't tell my missus I said that.
"Oh, geez, not the ridiculous "free advertising" argument again. Let's throw out the other Slashdot cliches too, like "obsolete business model," "cultural revolution," and "MAFIAA.""
Just because they are often repeated cliches, does not neccesarily mean they are untrue.
Or by, erm, I dunno, wearing a pair of dark glasses? And if the system can recognise shades then simply wear a pair of crazy Dame Edna Everage style dark-glasses!
I think a lot of people are just slaves to consumerism. Here's my story:
My wifes mother wanted access to this 'Facebook' that everybody's talking about. However, she didn't have a phone line and didn't want to be tied to ANY contract or anything of course she didn't want to have to payout loads of cash either. So, I put together a PC for her from bits I had lying around, a very decent Pc as it happened: P4 1.8Gighz, 1Gig ram, Nvidia Gforce4 graphics. I installed Ubuntu with the netbook remix interface (she had never used a PC of ANY kind before but had used a mobile phone). I also bought her a 3 Mobile broadband Pay As You Go dongle. Set it all up, away she went.
A week goes by, she checks facebook, find recipes on google etc. Great, I think, a job well done and another linux user (who doesn't even know it). Great, until she announces that she's buying a laptop because "the computer is too bulky" (meaning the CRT and base unit is too big - even though she has a huge room and even bought a new desk to accomodate the PC!).
So, there you go, even though I had provided her with a perfectly working PC the lure of consumerism was too much and the 'need' to spend some money will create another Windows user!
Well, I'm not doing windows technical support so she can forget that...
I'm sure this still isn't fast enough to capture light filling a room but I'd always dreamt of having such a video camera. Imagine, a recording a someone flicking a light switch and watching in slow-motion as the light bounces around the room filling each area. Aah, I can dream.
Fascinating stuff James, to a clinical psychologist maybe!
Yes, move your 'crazy' pages - there must be loads of free hosting out there. In fact, that's quite apt - the internet NEEDS sites like yours!
I'm fascinated anyway - did you ever build your AI?
I didn't say I thought the BBC content was rubbish. I agree there are some decent programmes on the BBC* (the Louis Theroux(sp?) shows come to mind). I would just like to have the option to payor not to pay. If I didn't live with someone who can't live without TV I wouldn't own one at all but I would sure as hell own a PC!
*Saying that though, the ratio of good to rubbish seems about 1:100...plus I'd take channel four news over BBC if I had to.
The BBC has wanted to add 'a PC' onto the list of things that require payment of the license Tax for a long time now. This move has helped them along their way to reaching that goal. They could avoid this by forcing the user to enter the license details upon download of the player or similar. I somehow doubt they will do this though and again choose to force more people into paying.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I heard it on the radio the other day. It seems very odd that we are suddenly hearing about a lot of these 'accidents'. I do wonder what the brilliant solution to the problem is...
Starglider (from Rainbird) for Amiga & ST did this too. It really amazed me at the time especially because one side of the disk contained a sampled song that played at startup, so the exactly the same data was being played on both the rubbishy ST Yamaha sound chip and the awesome Amiga chip...Paula was it? I can't remember.
Hang on a minute. Surely you're still sending the same amount of data anyway? 3 sets of (essentially) b%w images == 1 sets of RGB images.
This is godamn bullshit, I demand my money back!
Yes, I did understand eventually but only after some research on the matter.
If I were M$ (yes, I know everyone hate$ that all of a sudden but it's descriptive) - I would have chosen something along the lines of 'Microsoft Office Open XML', in order to let all know where it originated. No, I do think it was designed to confuse.
re: Obligation: No, of course not - unless it suits them and allows them to plaster Microsoft everywhere at any available opportunity.
Btw, I understand that M$ (don't care about $ usage) is Just A Business but I happen to believe that corporations are inherently evil. Full Stop (or period if you're American). That's a fact - they don't do anything for the good of mankind, why would they, there's no money in it!
I understand people have to make money in order to survive - hell, I'm invlolved in the (legitmate) drugs industry - they don't care about 'curing' people - they care about cash, naturally.
What I do find confusing is some of the naming conventions used by Microsoft. Office Open XML, for example, might give someone the impression that it is in some way connected with Open Office.
Why? Most people have never even heard of Open Office or know what it is. And the words are in different order. And it is a completely factually accurate description of the thing.
It is about 'Office'.
It is 'open' (in the common sense of the word).
It is 'XML'.
And its NOT called 'Open Office XML'. It's called 'Office Open XML'.
I'm sorry ro inform you but us lower mortals certainly do make links with Office Open XML and Open Office. When I first read about OOXML I couldn't understand why people were complaining - it's Open Office aint it, why are/.ers complaining!? I think I actually read it as Open Office XML...
I program for a living as well so _should_ be able notice subtle things like that. A non technical person who has heard of Open Office will almost certainly see the incorrect link.
I am totally with you on this. My MythTV box in my lounge _IS_ the Ultimate Gaming Machine. I have SNES, Megadrive, Spectrum, MAME and Playsation games all running beautifully on it with a genuine Playstation pad hooked up. It's seriously a joyous experience. Linux excels in being able to create the ultimate media center. I had been trying to do this for several years on Windows (98 then tried XP) but it never came up to scratch. Aside from the fact I couldn't find a single interface to access everything (Myth fills this gap excellently) I would often get slow-downs jerky display and generally a non-perfect experience.
One thing I don't have setup yet is wine - I would like to add ViceCity and GTA3 to my setup. My PC isn't too powerfull though (1.8Ghz with only a 64Meg Nvidia card - no fan on the GPU, as I have a completely silent machine - very nice)
You're absolutely right - I should've set up ssh access. More fool me. It's such a shame because he was using it just fine until this moment.
I have a couple of other success stories though so it's not all bad news.
I shall check out FreeNX, though I have used X11VNC for this purpose in the past.
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How about this:
1. attach lots (and lots) of these together
2. send them all a small portion of a film (the picture not different parts of the film!)
3. then stick them all together, ensure they play in sync (somehow).
Hey presto! Huge hi-res LCD display...for free (I mean, all the left over magazines will be useful...maybe make a paper mache housing for your new 'TV')
Scary. You've just described myself to a 'T', especially with the completely unfounded superiority complex...
To make matters worse, it seems that 'the older generation' are being convinced into purcahsing lesss secure operating systems. Case in point: I built my mother in law a debian based desktop machine (she only wanted to use facebook). Yet, somehow she was convinced to purchase a laptop (she only uses the machine at a desk) with Windows Vista. She now has 'a virus' and has had to pay PC World money to fix it.
Idiot. And to think my son shares genes with her...don't tell my missus I said that.
That is quite possibly the most brilliant idea I've ever read on one of these, far too frequent discussions, on piracy/TPB. Well done!
"Oh, geez, not the ridiculous "free advertising" argument again. Let's throw out the other Slashdot cliches too, like "obsolete business model," "cultural revolution," and "MAFIAA.""
Just because they are often repeated cliches, does not neccesarily mean they are untrue.
Or by, erm, I dunno, wearing a pair of dark glasses? And if the system can recognise shades then simply wear a pair of crazy Dame Edna Everage style dark-glasses!
I wonder what sort of penetration the P Nes might get?
I think a lot of people are just slaves to consumerism. Here's my story:
My wifes mother wanted access to this 'Facebook' that everybody's talking about. However, she didn't have a phone line and didn't want to be tied to ANY contract or anything of course she didn't want to have to payout loads of cash either. So, I put together a PC for her from bits I had lying around, a very decent Pc as it happened: P4 1.8Gighz, 1Gig ram, Nvidia Gforce4 graphics. I installed Ubuntu with the netbook remix interface (she had never used a PC of ANY kind before but had used a mobile phone). I also bought her a 3 Mobile broadband Pay As You Go dongle. Set it all up, away she went.
A week goes by, she checks facebook, find recipes on google etc. Great, I think, a job well done and another linux user (who doesn't even know it). Great, until she announces that she's buying a laptop because "the computer is too bulky" (meaning the CRT and base unit is too big - even though she has a huge room and even bought a new desk to accomodate the PC!).
So, there you go, even though I had provided her with a perfectly working PC the lure of consumerism was too much and the 'need' to spend some money will create another Windows user!
Well, I'm not doing windows technical support so she can forget that...
Does this mean you could actually burn Goatse onto someones retina? What a horrible thought: the last image you ever get to see being Goatse
I'm sure this still isn't fast enough to capture light filling a room but I'd always dreamt of having such a video camera. Imagine, a recording a someone flicking a light switch and watching in slow-motion as the light bounces around the room filling each area. Aah, I can dream.
http://www.geocities.com/james_sager2/
and
http://www.geocities.com/james_sager_PA/
this one dissapeared:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sager/
but it's still on archive.org
Fascinating stuff James, to a clinical psychologist maybe!
Yes, move your 'crazy' pages - there must be loads of free hosting out there. In fact, that's quite apt - the internet NEEDS sites like yours! I'm fascinated anyway - did you ever build your AI?
I didn't say I thought the BBC content was rubbish. I agree there are some decent programmes on the BBC* (the Louis Theroux(sp?) shows come to mind). I would just like to have the option to payor not to pay. If I didn't live with someone who can't live without TV I wouldn't own one at all but I would sure as hell own a PC! *Saying that though, the ratio of good to rubbish seems about 1:100...plus I'd take channel four news over BBC if I had to.
The BBC has wanted to add 'a PC' onto the list of things that require payment of the license Tax for a long time now. This move has helped them along their way to reaching that goal. They could avoid this by forcing the user to enter the license details upon download of the player or similar. I somehow doubt they will do this though and again choose to force more people into paying.
You should become a motivational speaker.
Damn, you beat me to it!!!
This is exactly what I was thinking when I heard it on the radio the other day. It seems very odd that we are suddenly hearing about a lot of these 'accidents'. I do wonder what the brilliant solution to the problem is...
69 dude!
Starglider (from Rainbird) for Amiga & ST did this too. It really amazed me at the time especially because one side of the disk contained a sampled song that played at startup, so the exactly the same data was being played on both the rubbishy ST Yamaha sound chip and the awesome Amiga chip...Paula was it? I can't remember.
"Think about how horrible it would be if you could take classic films (like Star Wars), and add tons of CG effects, and resell them"
...yeaah but you wouldn't have to watch it would you? Some 'home-made' version may actually add something.
Hang on a minute. Surely you're still sending the same amount of data anyway? 3 sets of (essentially) b%w images == 1 sets of RGB images. This is godamn bullshit, I demand my money back!
Yes, I did understand eventually but only after some research on the matter.
If I were M$ (yes, I know everyone hate$ that all of a sudden but it's descriptive) - I would have chosen something along the lines of 'Microsoft Office Open XML', in order to let all know where it originated. No, I do think it was designed to confuse.
re: Obligation: No, of course not - unless it suits them and allows them to plaster Microsoft everywhere at any available opportunity.
Btw, I understand that M$ (don't care about $ usage) is Just A Business but I happen to believe that corporations are inherently evil. Full Stop (or period if you're American). That's a fact - they don't do anything for the good of mankind, why would they, there's no money in it!
I understand people have to make money in order to survive - hell, I'm invlolved in the (legitmate) drugs industry - they don't care about 'curing' people - they care about cash, naturally.
Sorry to go on, I'll stop now.
I'm sorry ro inform you but us lower mortals certainly do make links with Office Open XML and Open Office. When I first read about OOXML I couldn't understand why people were complaining - it's Open Office aint it, why are /.ers complaining!? I think I actually read it as Open Office XML...
I program for a living as well so _should_ be able notice subtle things like that. A non technical person who has heard of Open Office will almost certainly see the incorrect link.
It's their not they're. Sorry, it just made me twitch while reading it for some reason.
I am totally with you on this. My MythTV box in my lounge _IS_ the Ultimate Gaming Machine. I have SNES, Megadrive, Spectrum, MAME and Playsation games all running beautifully on it with a genuine Playstation pad hooked up. It's seriously a joyous experience. Linux excels in being able to create the ultimate media center. I had been trying to do this for several years on Windows (98 then tried XP) but it never came up to scratch. Aside from the fact I couldn't find a single interface to access everything (Myth fills this gap excellently) I would often get slow-downs jerky display and generally a non-perfect experience.
One thing I don't have setup yet is wine - I would like to add ViceCity and GTA3 to my setup. My PC isn't too powerfull though (1.8Ghz with only a 64Meg Nvidia card - no fan on the GPU, as I have a completely silent machine - very nice)
You're absolutely right - I should've set up ssh access. More fool me. It's such a shame because he was using it just fine until this moment.
I have a couple of other success stories though so it's not all bad news.
I shall check out FreeNX, though I have used X11VNC for this purpose in the past.