When California had the rolling blackouts a few years back though I don't recall what city it was I read some articles about how one city didn't suffer any because they produced alternative power themself. Then when the Northeast had that big blackout a few articles were about how some didn't suffer again because these people generated power as well.
Yeah, my mom was pretty much unaffected. Even in winter, power outages aren't a problem for her. We still have our deep-cycle batteries hooked up, and as long as you check the fluid levels about once a month they last a long time, so even in winter there's enough juice to at least watch a couple of movies (I haven't lived there for several years now, so I'm not sure how newer appliances affect things), and if you go to bed early they'll last days.
That's why many people go off the grid, they build their home where no electricity is available and to have the cabling put in costs too much.
That was our situation. We didn't even have a phone til I was 7, and even then we had to run about a mile of our own line.
I was in college when we finally hooked up to the grid. A neighbor wanted to turn his land into a home for alzheimers patients, and I guess being on-grid is a requirement for that sort of thing. He got a bunch of us to go together on it to spread out the cost. It wasc about $12k each IIRC, but it's hard to say no to someone who's been a good neighbor for 25 years, and it was about what we'd figured to upgrade to a 24v system with a few more panels, a true sine wave inverter, and a microhydro in our seasonal creek for winter generation.
I should mention that the design and position of the house make a big difference. In my case, almost all our windows were on the south side of the house, to maximise the amount of heat and light we could collect during the winter, with a bunch of deciduous trees to provide shade in the summer (wild cherries, if you care). We didn't have the money for high quality windows, so it could have been a lot better, but it wasn't bad.
Well, the only reason I didn't see any of them was I didn't know they were even in theaters[1]. I didn't even know there was a Ghost in the Shell 2 until my brother got it for me for christmas.
Advertising makes a big difference. People aren't going to go see a movie they don't even know exists.
[1] I've seen 2 anime movies in a theater: Spirited Away and Wings of Honneamise. Both were in a small independent theater in my small, rural home town. Now that I live in LA I hear jack about shit, even though anime is now more popular than ever.
Agreed. I just started using it, and it's great. The one thing I wish it had is a split-screen capability, such as in Kate. I like having my.h and.cpp side by side.
I'm sure a lot of people apply to Harvard, and they need to weed out applicants that they don't think are acceptable.
I agree with your assessment, but I don't have any problem with them doing this. So what if a lot more would have done it if they'd had the opportunity? I'll bet most of them will hear about this and maybe some of them will think twice next time they encounter a similar situation. This punishment isn't just about teaching the punished a lesson. The whole point of letting what's happening be known is to make an example of them.
It's like when you're just going with the flow of traffic, and that flow happens to be exceding the speed limit. Everyone's breaking the law, if you happen to be the one the cop singles out for a ticket, too bad for you. But, take a look around and you'll see that everyone is suddenly going the speed limit now.
There are definate advantages to both, but in most cases there's no reason you can't have it both ways. I would certainly build or modify as if I were off-grid, but the need for constant power management I can do without. Plus, with a phase-matching inverter you can actually be part of the over-all solution to our energy problems, and in a small way make the world better for everyone.
Really, the only reason to go completely off-grid is if you live far enough out that you can't justify the expense of a hook-up. If that's not your situation, I don't recommend it.
Really, though, the difference is a matter of scale. Someone who cracks your machine gets access to your accounts. Someone who cracks an ATM gets access to hundreds, even thousands of people's accounts. That makes it a much more tempting target, and one that is likely to attract more skilled and/or dedicated crackers.
Equivalent vulnerability, but one carries a much higher risk.
They own enough to release ancestral Unix code without getting smacked down. Whatever rights they have they bought from the real SCO, which suggests they could be bought by someone else.
Remember one thing...after SCO, another will be minted.
Yes, I'm sure it will be similarly successful. Of course, depending on what happens to the ancestral Unix code when SCO dies, there may not actually be anything to sue over.
There hasn't been a successful suit against Linux yet, and I don't see one in the future. There's a good reason the GPL hasn't been tested in court: it's so strong that nobody has the balls to go up against it.
Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth.
Maybe Ballmer needs to remember how Microsoft got in it's position in the first place.
I'm quite familiar with the facts, thanks. I spent the last few years as a repair tech for Thomson Grass Valley. (In case you're not familiar with the name, Grass Valley is one of the oldest and most respected manufacturers of video production equipment in the world. FYI, Thomson also owns RCA and Technicolor.)
As for I v. P, every HD tube I've seen has been capable of 1080p. DLPs are, at this point, a step backwards.
The problem is, that's all history. I happen to know a few cops in south LA, and guess what? Nobody's kicking this dog every time it makes noise. The only thing holding them back today is themselves, and it's been that way a couple decades now.
The real question, though, is do you honestly believe that your life would be better without those cops?
I'm an old punk who was raised by hippies. I think we probably agree on a lot of things, at least on a base level.
I also think I've spent a lot more time thinking through the repurcussions of tearing down the system we currently have. You're welcome to suggest alternatives, but before you do so you should seriously consider the reasons why Communism as Marx envisioned it doesn't exist.
Yeah, but in 4 hours it wears off.
Sorry, but my own experience and observations disagree. You might not be stoned after 4 hours, but it takes a lot longer than that to regain the same clarity you'd have enjoyed if you'd never smoked at all. Days, even months depending on what you've been doing.
I've had a few times where I was still stoned well into the next day, and I've _never_ had a time where my brain didn't feel sluggish at least through the next day. Maybe you don't notice it because it's been your normal state for so long?
Yeah, I know plenty of smart people that smoke pot, too. Most of them are very smart in their area of specialty, and typical dumb stoners otherwise. They may be more articulate, but that's like slapping a fresh coat of paint on a decaying building.
I don't see what's narrow and shallow about respecting living breathing people more than an arbitrary social construct.
What's narrow and shallow is the idea that the law (in the US, anyway) has no respect for you. It tells me that you have no real experience with the law, and know little more of it than what you've been told by coffee-house anarchists.
Anyway, it all boils down to this: our system provides a mechanism for change. If you don't care enough to do what it takes to affect the change you want, then it will certainly seem to be as Thoreau said (yes, I just called Thoreau a slacker). That means becoming part of the system, and that should be obvious to anyone who puts any serious thought into it. No system can be changed from the outside, only destroyed.
I grew up in a 12vdc house, and I recommend 24vdc. Same efficiency advantages, but provides a little more power for important things like having adequate light to read by.
Anyway, living in a DC house is like running Linux, in that it takes a bit more shopping effort to get devices that will work for you. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone who wasn't going to take the extra step (and expense) of generating at least some of their own power. A phase matching inverter, some deep cycle batteries, and the power generation technology of your choice (solar's most popular, but wind and microhydro might also be interesting tech to check out, depending on your situation) and in the long run you can see some significant savings, while not only enjoying all the advantages of being on-grid, but also effectively having a whole-house UPS.
You clearly know precisely jack shit about real criminals. Try taking a cruise through Compton on a saturday night sometime, then come talk to me about "real criminals".
You've contradicted yourself. The problem isn't the law, but that the people holding the opposing viewpoint have greater access to mass media. You said it yourself.
And, sorry to be the one to tell you, but for the most part protests are a waste of time, if your purpose is to bring about change (they're good for raising awareness, but that isn't the same thing, and the progression is not linear). Look at the Civil Rights movement: they didn't change anything through protests, they changed things through civil disobedience and the resulting judicial decisions.
They have people believing that marijuana is poison.
Well, look at the people advocating legalization. Sorry, but smoking pot makes you stupid. That's just a cold, hard fact of life. Now, I support legalization, but I don't care enough to do anything about it, since frankly it doesn't effect me much either way. However, for the most part the people who do care enough are the people who're using it, and that's the problem. Maybe if they stopped getting stoned long enough to actually engage in some coherent thought on the problem they'd be more effective (more likely, though, they'd realize it really isn't that important).
I guess, boiled down, all I'm trying to say is that I'll have no respect for the law until it has some respect for me. Currently it has none.
That indicates a mindset so narrow and shallow, that I can't even begin to pick it apart in an intelligent fashion. It's just stupid!
Pull your head out of your ass and take a look around. The law does you far more good than harm.
Bullshit. As a photographer I know thats a bunch of bull. What kind of engineer stated this? Engineer of peanut butter?
Try: members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers who are currently in the employ of Eastman/Kodak and Technicolor, who collaborated in the development of the machine that's doing the scanning. I'm pretty sure they know more about it than you.
1280x720 is not 1920x1080. And since we're talking projection TVs, the size limitations of tubes are largely irrelevant anyway. I'll take the higher resolution of the tube, thank you.
No, though it's probably similar. The 4k line scanner is too new. They would almost certainly have used the 2k line[1] version of the same machine, though I doubt the scanning resolution was the only improvement.
Scans at 2k lines of resolution have to be "degrained" (probably depends on the quality of the film). I can't tell you exactly how they do it, but I'd bet it's something similar to anti-aliasing, which I guess is similar enough to defocusing. All I can say for sure is it's done in software.
Here is the public site for the datacine they're using. Maybe you can glean more information from the online documentation.
OT, but one interesting thing about the Spirit is that it uses Linux for the UI. I don't know any specifics, other than the update format is.tgz.
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When California had the rolling blackouts a few years back though I don't recall what city it was I read some articles about how one city didn't suffer any because they produced alternative power themself. Then when the Northeast had that big blackout a few articles were about how some didn't suffer again because these people generated power as well.
Yeah, my mom was pretty much unaffected. Even in winter, power outages aren't a problem for her. We still have our deep-cycle batteries hooked up, and as long as you check the fluid levels about once a month they last a long time, so even in winter there's enough juice to at least watch a couple of movies (I haven't lived there for several years now, so I'm not sure how newer appliances affect things), and if you go to bed early they'll last days.
That's why many people go off the grid, they build their home where no electricity is available and to have the cabling put in costs too much.
That was our situation. We didn't even have a phone til I was 7, and even then we had to run about a mile of our own line.
I was in college when we finally hooked up to the grid. A neighbor wanted to turn his land into a home for alzheimers patients, and I guess being on-grid is a requirement for that sort of thing. He got a bunch of us to go together on it to spread out the cost. It wasc about $12k each IIRC, but it's hard to say no to someone who's been a good neighbor for 25 years, and it was about what we'd figured to upgrade to a 24v system with a few more panels, a true sine wave inverter, and a microhydro in our seasonal creek for winter generation.
I should mention that the design and position of the house make a big difference. In my case, almost all our windows were on the south side of the house, to maximise the amount of heat and light we could collect during the winter, with a bunch of deciduous trees to provide shade in the summer (wild cherries, if you care). We didn't have the money for high quality windows, so it could have been a lot better, but it wasn't bad.
Well, the only reason I didn't see any of them was I didn't know they were even in theaters[1]. I didn't even know there was a Ghost in the Shell 2 until my brother got it for me for christmas.
Advertising makes a big difference. People aren't going to go see a movie they don't even know exists.
[1] I've seen 2 anime movies in a theater: Spirited Away and Wings of Honneamise. Both were in a small independent theater in my small, rural home town. Now that I live in LA I hear jack about shit, even though anime is now more popular than ever.
Agreed. I just started using it, and it's great. The one thing I wish it had is a split-screen capability, such as in Kate. I like having my .h and .cpp side by side.
I'm sure a lot of people apply to Harvard, and they need to weed out applicants that they don't think are acceptable.
I agree with your assessment, but I don't have any problem with them doing this. So what if a lot more would have done it if they'd had the opportunity? I'll bet most of them will hear about this and maybe some of them will think twice next time they encounter a similar situation. This punishment isn't just about teaching the punished a lesson. The whole point of letting what's happening be known is to make an example of them.
It's like when you're just going with the flow of traffic, and that flow happens to be exceding the speed limit. Everyone's breaking the law, if you happen to be the one the cop singles out for a ticket, too bad for you. But, take a look around and you'll see that everyone is suddenly going the speed limit now.
Sadly, no. Well, not me anyway. I put that in when I first opened the account, and I've never felt a need to change it.
I'd pitch in a couple of bits for my fave browser!
Well, why don't you then? Or did you not notice that "Donate" button on your first link?
There are definate advantages to both, but in most cases there's no reason you can't have it both ways. I would certainly build or modify as if I were off-grid, but the need for constant power management I can do without. Plus, with a phase-matching inverter you can actually be part of the over-all solution to our energy problems, and in a small way make the world better for everyone.
Really, the only reason to go completely off-grid is if you live far enough out that you can't justify the expense of a hook-up. If that's not your situation, I don't recommend it.
What? RTFA?!
Where the hell do you think you are?!?!
/My other computer is your Windows machine/
You seem to have answered your own question!
Really, though, the difference is a matter of scale. Someone who cracks your machine gets access to your accounts. Someone who cracks an ATM gets access to hundreds, even thousands of people's accounts. That makes it a much more tempting target, and one that is likely to attract more skilled and/or dedicated crackers.
Equivalent vulnerability, but one carries a much higher risk.
They own enough to release ancestral Unix code without getting smacked down. Whatever rights they have they bought from the real SCO, which suggests they could be bought by someone else.
The more important question is: What bonehead thought it would be a good idea to hook ATMs up to the internet?
I don't care what OS you're using, that's just stupid.
The real question is: what happens to the Unix source when they die. In the long run, I think that's really the only question that matters.
Remember one thing...after SCO, another will be minted.
Yes, I'm sure it will be similarly successful. Of course, depending on what happens to the ancestral Unix code when SCO dies, there may not actually be anything to sue over.
There hasn't been a successful suit against Linux yet, and I don't see one in the future. There's a good reason the GPL hasn't been tested in court: it's so strong that nobody has the balls to go up against it.
Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth.
Maybe Ballmer needs to remember how Microsoft got in it's position in the first place.
You might try the local community college. If they've got a Mass Comm department, they've got a telecine.
I'm quite familiar with the facts, thanks. I spent the last few years as a repair tech for Thomson Grass Valley. (In case you're not familiar with the name, Grass Valley is one of the oldest and most respected manufacturers of video production equipment in the world. FYI, Thomson also owns RCA and Technicolor.)
As for I v. P, every HD tube I've seen has been capable of 1080p. DLPs are, at this point, a step backwards.
The problem is, that's all history. I happen to know a few cops in south LA, and guess what? Nobody's kicking this dog every time it makes noise. The only thing holding them back today is themselves, and it's been that way a couple decades now.
The real question, though, is do you honestly believe that your life would be better without those cops?
Hey, we agree on something!
I'm an old punk who was raised by hippies. I think we probably agree on a lot of things, at least on a base level.
I also think I've spent a lot more time thinking through the repurcussions of tearing down the system we currently have. You're welcome to suggest alternatives, but before you do so you should seriously consider the reasons why Communism as Marx envisioned it doesn't exist.
Yeah, but in 4 hours it wears off.
Sorry, but my own experience and observations disagree. You might not be stoned after 4 hours, but it takes a lot longer than that to regain the same clarity you'd have enjoyed if you'd never smoked at all. Days, even months depending on what you've been doing.
I've had a few times where I was still stoned well into the next day, and I've _never_ had a time where my brain didn't feel sluggish at least through the next day. Maybe you don't notice it because it's been your normal state for so long?
Yeah, I know plenty of smart people that smoke pot, too. Most of them are very smart in their area of specialty, and typical dumb stoners otherwise. They may be more articulate, but that's like slapping a fresh coat of paint on a decaying building.
I don't see what's narrow and shallow about respecting living breathing people more than an arbitrary social construct.
What's narrow and shallow is the idea that the law (in the US, anyway) has no respect for you. It tells me that you have no real experience with the law, and know little more of it than what you've been told by coffee-house anarchists.
Anyway, it all boils down to this: our system provides a mechanism for change. If you don't care enough to do what it takes to affect the change you want, then it will certainly seem to be as Thoreau said (yes, I just called Thoreau a slacker). That means becoming part of the system, and that should be obvious to anyone who puts any serious thought into it. No system can be changed from the outside, only destroyed.
I grew up in a 12vdc house, and I recommend 24vdc. Same efficiency advantages, but provides a little more power for important things like having adequate light to read by.
Anyway, living in a DC house is like running Linux, in that it takes a bit more shopping effort to get devices that will work for you. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone who wasn't going to take the extra step (and expense) of generating at least some of their own power. A phase matching inverter, some deep cycle batteries, and the power generation technology of your choice (solar's most popular, but wind and microhydro might also be interesting tech to check out, depending on your situation) and in the long run you can see some significant savings, while not only enjoying all the advantages of being on-grid, but also effectively having a whole-house UPS.
those who enforce the law are the real criminals.
You clearly know precisely jack shit about real criminals. Try taking a cruise through Compton on a saturday night sometime, then come talk to me about "real criminals".
You've contradicted yourself. The problem isn't the law, but that the people holding the opposing viewpoint have greater access to mass media. You said it yourself.
And, sorry to be the one to tell you, but for the most part protests are a waste of time, if your purpose is to bring about change (they're good for raising awareness, but that isn't the same thing, and the progression is not linear). Look at the Civil Rights movement: they didn't change anything through protests, they changed things through civil disobedience and the resulting judicial decisions.
They have people believing that marijuana is poison.
Well, look at the people advocating legalization. Sorry, but smoking pot makes you stupid. That's just a cold, hard fact of life. Now, I support legalization, but I don't care enough to do anything about it, since frankly it doesn't effect me much either way. However, for the most part the people who do care enough are the people who're using it, and that's the problem. Maybe if they stopped getting stoned long enough to actually engage in some coherent thought on the problem they'd be more effective (more likely, though, they'd realize it really isn't that important).
I guess, boiled down, all I'm trying to say is that I'll have no respect for the law until it has some respect for me. Currently it has none.
That indicates a mindset so narrow and shallow, that I can't even begin to pick it apart in an intelligent fashion. It's just stupid!
Pull your head out of your ass and take a look around. The law does you far more good than harm.
Bullshit. As a photographer I know thats a bunch of bull. What kind of engineer stated this? Engineer of peanut butter?
Try: members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers who are currently in the employ of Eastman/Kodak and Technicolor, who collaborated in the development of the machine that's doing the scanning. I'm pretty sure they know more about it than you.
1280x720 is not 1920x1080. And since we're talking projection TVs, the size limitations of tubes are largely irrelevant anyway. I'll take the higher resolution of the tube, thank you.
i'm not sure if current technology would allow, but shouldn't they be scanning at 8000p, double the available information?
Current technology doesn't allow, even the 4k line film scanners are very new (only 11 in the world, and WB has 2 of them).
However, the older 2k scanners have to digitally "degrain" the resulting image, so I don't think we're losing much, if anything.
No, though it's probably similar. The 4k line scanner is too new. They would almost certainly have used the 2k line[1] version of the same machine, though I doubt the scanning resolution was the only improvement.
[1] or 1k, depending on the timeframe
Scans at 2k lines of resolution have to be "degrained" (probably depends on the quality of the film). I can't tell you exactly how they do it, but I'd bet it's something similar to anti-aliasing, which I guess is similar enough to defocusing. All I can say for sure is it's done in software.
.tgz.
Here is the public site for the datacine they're using. Maybe you can glean more information from the online documentation.
OT, but one interesting thing about the Spirit is that it uses Linux for the UI. I don't know any specifics, other than the update format is