I have submitted information to IMDB.com, but it will take a few days before they accept it, if at all. The information I got from http://orange.blender.org/theteam, BTW. (In other words, the original site is still there, just hidden.)
FWIW, the voices in Elephants Dream were done by professional Dutch actors Tycho Gernant and Cas Jansen. I do not know why they volunteered their time; presumably because they thought it was a fun experiment, -- and who knows, maybe in twenty years time they will be seen as pioneers.
There are/were directors who are/were notable for the fact that actors featured the very last in the list of priorities, such as Lucas and Hitchcock. If it were up to these directors, the sooner they could replace all actors by CGI, probably the better. But these directors probably think that telling a story is done by the screen writer/director, not by actors. For them, collaboration is part of a production process, not part of telling a story.
"Someone tell me I didn't go see his latest movie yesterday. Waking up this morning with the memory that I saw MIIII was like waking up naked next to my sister..."
"Spam is not going to stop, so the best thing that could happen is they start to target people better."
It's a nice thought, but basically flawed. Spammers will not want to run the risk that a flaw in their data mining techniques lets them overlook potential victims, so they will still be sending the same sized spam runs. However, they will now make more money of it, which allows them to organize even greater spam runs.
Don't forget that we're talking about criminals here. They don't want more puppies and rainbows for you, they want more cocaine for themselves.
Ah, I forgot. It apparently is not uncommon that a Scientology run test reveals that you are in desperate need of counseling. Luckily the nice Scientologists know just the organisation that can help you get rid of your money... er... scratch that; can help you, period.
One of the peddlers of these tests is the Church of Scientology; the fact that they still manage to sell these is testament to the eagerness with which some employers wish to get a tactical advantage over their future employees.
Of course, personality tests are psychological hogwash. They don't teach anyone anything.
Having said that, you will probably have to ask yourself how desperate you want the job. But just the fact that they are asking you to take such a test is writing on the wall. That question alone says more about the personality of your potential employer than any test will reveal about yours.
What is this medical condition called "eye strain"? I have only heard of it in old wives tales. What scientific research can you point me to that proves that there is such a thing as eye strain?
"LibraryThing uses Amazon and libraries that provide open access to their collections with the Z39.50 protocol. The protocol is used by a variety of desktop programs, notably bibliographic software like EndNote. LibraryThing appears to be the first mainstream web use."
AFAIK, making copies for private use is perfectly legal in Germany. So how come it is suddenly illegal? What happened that an accepted and encouraged activity became morally reprehensible overnight? Will Germans still have to pay fees on the media that takes their illegal downloads? And if they do, does that mean that the German government encourages crime? And if so, is there something the law-abiding tax payers of Germany can do to round up these criminal politicians and send them to jail?
"Anyone purposely running Photoshop on a laptop needs their head examined."
The freelancers that come to work at our ad agency typically do not lug their Powermacs around on a cart. A laptop is slightly more convenient for them. And since we pay them more in a day than someone of your intelligence takes home in a week, we do not expect them to require half an hour to set up their computer.
"the french invented the first global consumer network (15 millions terminals) called the Minitel years before Internet"
Which was only available in France, which hardly makes it global. Plus it was launched 10 years after the internet, which is not the same as "years before".
Mission critical is cool, but if you cannot get it, are you going to leave out the OS altogether?
Also, these things are signed off by politicians, to whom mission critical means nothing, and preferred vendor everything. It wouldn't be the first time, you know.
""The simple root of the problem on Yorktown was that politics were played in the assigning of the contract -- there was not a discussion of engineers, it was just a very small group of people pitching for it," said an engineer close to the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity."
"Also keep in mind that he is making, to quote, "well into six figures" on ebooks. While nobody else is making anything worth mentioning."
In an interview with Weekly Planet, Ellora's Cave is said to be selling 8000 books per week. I don't know how much of these are ebooks, and I don't know how much of the cover price goes to EC's profits.
Another article says: "In 2003, the company grossed over $1.2 million and paid over $500,000 in royalties." But again, I don't know how many of these are ebooks and how many pbooks.
Project Gutenberg has 2,000,000 downloads per month, but at $0 per download, so the profit is always $0.:-)
Also: "Publishers reported 484,933 eBook units sold and $3,182,499 in revenues for the second quarter of 2005. 14 publishers contributed to the Q2 2005 report including Elib AB; Ellora's Cave Publishing; Fictionwise, Inc.; Hard Shell Word Factory; HarperCollins; Houghton Mifflin Company; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; McGraw-Hill Professional; Pearson Education; Random House; RosettaBooks LLC; Stonehouse Press; Time Warner Book Group and Zondervan."
"Now if I can just find one I can take one for a test-drive..."
Apparently they won't be out before May. The FAQ has some kind of vague story about how when the time comes you need to contact the manufacturer to find out about local resellers.
"So what would get me to switch completely?... form-factor of a small clipboard... high-resolution display... at least 18 hours on one charge... plaintext, postscript, HTML (including MHT or MAF or some comparable all-in-one-file HTML container, including full gif/jpg/png/bmp support)... It must also not complain about merely storing any other type of file... must accept a non-proprietary low-cost DRMless media type such as standard CF or SD... reasonable quantity of nonvolatile on-board storage... load-and-render time... 3 seconds worst-case... act as a sort of general purpose PDA - Nothing fancy... at least one "open" programming interface... up to around $500up to around $500"
(194mm(L)*133.6mm(W)*13.4mm(H), ePaper 600×800 4 level grayscale, power for turning not less than 8000 pages, PDF Viewer, WOLF Viewer(WOLF File Format:convert from txt,htm,DOC,PDF,Excel,PPT,Images,mp3 ets),HTML Viewer,TXT Viewer, 64MB Nand Flash, SD/MMC card, faster page turning than the Librié (a first generation eInk device), Linux based and SDK available, price est. at 350US$)
There are two websites about ebooks and the portable devices to read them on, and I am mentioning them here because they delve much deeper than Slashdot generally does: Mobile Read and Teleread.
Slashdot Mirror
"311 Megabytes. This is going to be a Slashdotting to end all Slashdottings."
10 minutes using BitTorrent, and it didn't even break out a sweat.
Your moderators however proved once again that those with Asperger's share the same sense of lack of humour. Really spooky, that.
I have submitted information to IMDB.com, but it will take a few days before they accept it, if at all. The information I got from http://orange.blender.org/theteam, BTW. (In other words, the original site is still there, just hidden.)
FWIW, the voices in Elephants Dream were done by professional Dutch actors Tycho Gernant and Cas Jansen. I do not know why they volunteered their time; presumably because they thought it was a fun experiment, -- and who knows, maybe in twenty years time they will be seen as pioneers.
There are/were directors who are/were notable for the fact that actors featured the very last in the list of priorities, such as Lucas and Hitchcock. If it were up to these directors, the sooner they could replace all actors by CGI, probably the better. But these directors probably think that telling a story is done by the screen writer/director, not by actors. For them, collaboration is part of a production process, not part of telling a story.
(Perhaps it is interesting that Lucas predicts that in twenty years time the average price of a Hollywood movie will have dropped to US$ 15M. No idea why he thinks that, though, but top actors easily get a per-movie wage that is higher than that amount.)
"Someone tell me I didn't go see his latest movie yesterday. Waking up this morning with the memory that I saw MIIII was like waking up naked next to my sister..."
So, you really recommend this movie, eh?
Yeah. Somehow that wasn't as funny though.
"Spam is not going to stop, so the best thing that could happen is they start to target people better."
It's a nice thought, but basically flawed. Spammers will not want to run the risk that a flaw in their data mining techniques lets them overlook potential victims, so they will still be sending the same sized spam runs. However, they will now make more money of it, which allows them to organize even greater spam runs.
Don't forget that we're talking about criminals here. They don't want more puppies and rainbows for you, they want more cocaine for themselves.
"EULA - end user license agreement
notice the key word?"
Indeed. Nobody has to agree to a license. If you don't, you cannot distribute the work, but otherwise you are fine.
However, if the author wants to force you to be bound by usage restrictions, he will let you agree to a contract: the EULA.
A license is not a contract. If it were, it'd be called a contract, not a license.
The OP wasn't asking for a license, s/he was asking for a EULA.
"The GPL of course."
The GPL is not a EULA.
"Best EULA in existence can be found by clicking here."
There are no EULAs to be found on the page you link to.
[ac drooled on his keyboard]
Hey Bill, is that you?! How's Windows Vista coming along? I thought it was going to be release this year?
Ah, I forgot. It apparently is not uncommon that a Scientology run test reveals that you are in desperate need of counseling. Luckily the nice Scientologists know just the organisation that can help you get rid of your money ... er ... scratch that; can help you, period.
One of the peddlers of these tests is the Church of Scientology; the fact that they still manage to sell these is testament to the eagerness with which some employers wish to get a tactical advantage over their future employees.
Of course, personality tests are psychological hogwash. They don't teach anyone anything.
Having said that, you will probably have to ask yourself how desperate you want the job. But just the fact that they are asking you to take such a test is writing on the wall. That question alone says more about the personality of your potential employer than any test will reveal about yours.
What is this medical condition called "eye strain"? I have only heard of it in old wives tales. What scientific research can you point me to that proves that there is such a thing as eye strain?
http://www.oclcpica.org/
http://books.google.com/
http://www.librarything.com/
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/
Were you looking for something specific?
From LT's FAQ:
"LibraryThing uses Amazon and libraries that provide open access to their collections with the Z39.50 protocol. The protocol is used by a variety of desktop programs, notably bibliographic software like EndNote. LibraryThing appears to be the first mainstream web use."
AFAIK, making copies for private use is perfectly legal in Germany. So how come it is suddenly illegal? What happened that an accepted and encouraged activity became morally reprehensible overnight? Will Germans still have to pay fees on the media that takes their illegal downloads? And if they do, does that mean that the German government encourages crime? And if so, is there something the law-abiding tax payers of Germany can do to round up these criminal politicians and send them to jail?
I think I will take that aspirin now.
"Anyone purposely running Photoshop on a laptop needs their head examined."
The freelancers that come to work at our ad agency typically do not lug their Powermacs around on a cart. A laptop is slightly more convenient for them. And since we pay them more in a day than someone of your intelligence takes home in a week, we do not expect them to require half an hour to set up their computer.
"My butt knows what?"
That's between you and the crew of the USS Nimitz.
(But I bet it knows more than your brain.)
"the french invented the first global consumer network (15 millions terminals) called the Minitel years before Internet"
Which was only available in France, which hardly makes it global. Plus it was launched 10 years after the internet, which is not the same as "years before".
"What's a USian? I can't seem to find the definiton in a dictionary. Have you tried, "American?""
You have no idea what a word means, yet you have a pseudonym ready?
Mission critical is cool, but if you cannot get it, are you going to leave out the OS altogether?
Also, these things are signed off by politicians, to whom mission critical means nothing, and preferred vendor everything. It wouldn't be the first time, you know.
""The simple root of the problem on Yorktown was that politics were played in the assigning of the contract -- there was not a discussion of engineers, it was just a very small group of people pitching for it," said an engineer close to the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity."
"Also keep in mind that he is making, to quote, "well into six figures" on ebooks. While nobody else is making anything worth mentioning."
:-)
In an interview with Weekly Planet, Ellora's Cave is said to be selling 8000 books per week. I don't know how much of these are ebooks, and I don't know how much of the cover price goes to EC's profits.
Another article says: "In 2003, the company grossed over $1.2 million and paid over $500,000 in royalties." But again, I don't know how many of these are ebooks and how many pbooks.
Project Gutenberg has 2,000,000 downloads per month, but at $0 per download, so the profit is always $0.
Also: "Publishers reported 484,933 eBook units sold and $3,182,499 in revenues for the second quarter of 2005. 14 publishers contributed to the Q2 2005 report including Elib AB; Ellora's Cave Publishing; Fictionwise, Inc.; Hard Shell Word Factory; HarperCollins; Houghton Mifflin Company; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; McGraw-Hill Professional; Pearson Education; Random House; RosettaBooks LLC; Stonehouse Press; Time Warner Book Group and Zondervan."
"Now if I can just find one I can take one for a test-drive..."
Apparently they won't be out before May. The FAQ has some kind of vague story about how when the time comes you need to contact the manufacturer to find out about local resellers.
"So what would get me to switch completely? ... form-factor of a small clipboard ... high-resolution display ... at least 18 hours on one charge ... plaintext, postscript, HTML (including MHT or MAF or some comparable all-in-one-file HTML container, including full gif/jpg/png/bmp support) ... It must also not complain about merely storing any other type of file ... must accept a non-proprietary low-cost DRMless media type such as standard CF or SD ... reasonable quantity of nonvolatile on-board storage ... load-and-render time ... 3 seconds worst-case ... act as a sort of general purpose PDA - Nothing fancy ... at least one "open" programming interface ... up to around $500up to around $500"
,PDF,Excel,PPT,Images,mp3 ets),HTML Viewer,TXT Viewer, 64MB Nand Flash, SD/MMC card, faster page turning than the Librié (a first generation eInk device), Linux based and SDK available, price est. at 350US$)
Something like the Jinke Hanlin V2 perhaps?
(194mm(L)*133.6mm(W)*13.4mm(H), ePaper 600×800 4 level grayscale, power for turning not less than 8000 pages, PDF Viewer, WOLF Viewer(WOLF File Format:convert from txt,htm,DOC
There are two websites about ebooks and the portable devices to read them on, and I am mentioning them here because they delve much deeper than Slashdot generally does: Mobile Read and Teleread.
Disclaimer: I am a Teleread contributor.