I thought the film was an excellent representation (and parody) of the ideas and content (content, what content?) of the book. The brand of future society promoted by characters in the book always struck me as a bit cock-eyed, and it looked deliciously fascist when projected through Verhoeven's sensibilities onto the screen.
The release of DVD devices was delayed for several years while all the providers of media content debated how best to hamstring DVD players with encryption and region control. I expect that, if FMD is marketed for media playback, we may be in for another long and frustrating delay.
Even if FMD devices show up in stores in a year, I wouldn't expect many movies to be released in FMD format for quite a while. It would not be a mistake at all to just buy a DVD player now (or wait a month and buy a Playstation II -- they do DVD, right?). DVD is just taking off, you'll have to wait years for the next big consumer media format.
Actually, I remember hearing an anthropology prof state something along the lines of it being unknown whether a chimp and human could successfully mate, but perhaps possible because we're so closely related. I don't think anyone's tried though. I'd like to hear of any evidence one way or another.
Why use a commercially made robot? This looks like a job for Lego Mindstorms and an array of Commodore 64 tape drives. You can do it, we have faith in you. -Z
You might want to do a web search for 'Top Gun ssh'. It's a secure-shell app for the Pilot that works very well. I've used it to make a secure connection to a remote host and then run emacs. Very nice vt100 emulation.
Since the folk who created the contest could choose to encrypt any phrase they desired, I don't see why they'd start with something that hackneyed. I'm guessing that the secret message is something along the lines of:
"Congratulations, you've discovered the code. You are a superior human being. Now get back to work!"
Now if I could just figure out which string of numbers corresponds to the word "superior"...
> Window Maker, which allows resizing from only > two corners (the bottom ones). This is a popular > feature.
Actually, WindowMaker allows resizing from any part of a window. Just hold down 'alt' and drag with the right mouse button. The window will resize from the nearest corner. An insanely great feature.
I don't see why this would be more welcome as a written letter than as an email message. That sort of thing would be typed anyways, the only difference between it and an email message would be the letterhead and the fact that you could hold it.
The message has plenty of impact right there on the page in a supposedly impersonal electronic medium. Why would a a grief-stricken parent care whether they were informed via typewritten letter or email.
Heck, a while back, the message would've probably been sent via another form of email -- in a telegram.
mpg files are nice in that there are freely available players for Unix/linux which play I, P, and B frames for a smoother show, like mtvp. mpg files can also be streamed to a linux box with no extra fuss -- I don't think there is a streaming quicktime player for Linux.
Currently, to watch a quicktime animation on Linux, one first has to download the entire file. Then it can be viewed with xanim only if it happens to be compressed with a codec that's available for xanim. And even then, it never looks as smooth as an mtvp's mpg playback -- maybe xanim cuts frames both from mpgs and from quicktime or xanim's supported codecs are showing their age?
I wish companies would start making their codecs more freely available. How would it hurt Sorenson's market share if folk were able to expand, on their own, the number of platforms on which certain quicktime files could be viewed?
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Heh. I'm on a 192kbps DSL line. I just think it's dumb when sites are not optimized. That page could've been an order of magnitude smaller and still contained the same information in a pleasing format.
Geez, what HTML doofuses those AMD folk must be...
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They've used single, huge jpg images for each benchmark page, where a much more bandwidth friendly 5-color indexed gif would have worked better (we're talking solid colored areas and line art here).
And let's not even get into how annoying it is to download a whole page of text that is presented as a graphic. They really should've typed the stuff in.
I guess that's why AMD doesn't get paid for web design.
That sounds like a fun idea. I hope the fact that it's now archived on Slashdot, a public forum, as a date-stamped posting will ensure that we can all make our pyramidal antennas without worrying about someone coming along and patenting the idea.
If so, one could easily use a laser printer to print a fractal of their choice onto that blue press n' peel material, iron it onto a copper board, etch away, and have a highly detailed fractal antenna for cheap.
So now that the specs are out, I'm hoping to see drivers for other free software platforms in the near future.
The question on my mind is whether or not the linux gl driver for the TNT will be at all usable with NetBSD, or whether I'll have to wait for the next XFree86 to get a native NetBSD binary of the drivers.
Maybe I'll wait on purchasing that new graphics card.
What's so bad about DIVX. Once someone figures out how to hack it, DIVX will just be a cheap way for people to add to their DVD collections.
Shouldn't we all be hoping that DIVX takes off like wildfire, and that every film is released in that format, so that we can all benefit from the upcoming hack?
Or is someone actually going to use the work 'unhackable'?
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They should just change 'bitch' to bich, 'cause bich is latin for 'generosity', and they should not say 'fuck' anymore. That'd suffice.
I thought the film was an excellent representation (and parody) of the ideas and content (content, what content?) of the book. The brand of future society promoted by characters in the book always struck me as a bit cock-eyed, and it looked deliciously fascist when projected through Verhoeven's sensibilities onto the screen.
Great, cartoonish satire.
The release of DVD devices was delayed for several years while all the providers of media content debated how best to hamstring DVD players with encryption and region control. I expect that, if FMD is marketed for media playback, we may be in for another long and frustrating delay.
Even if FMD devices show up in stores in a year, I wouldn't expect many movies to be released in FMD format for quite a while. It would not be a mistake at all to just buy a DVD player now (or wait a month and buy a Playstation II -- they do DVD, right?). DVD is just taking off, you'll have to wait years for the next big consumer media format.
Actually, I remember hearing an anthropology prof state something along the lines of it being unknown whether a chimp and human could successfully mate, but perhaps possible because we're so closely related. I don't think anyone's tried though. I'd like to hear of any evidence one way or another.
Why use a commercially made robot? This looks like a job for Lego Mindstorms and an array of Commodore 64 tape drives. You can do it, we have faith in you. -Z
You might want to do a web search for 'Top Gun ssh'. It's a secure-shell app for the Pilot that works very well. I've used it to make a secure connection to a remote host and then run emacs. Very nice vt100 emulation.
Now if I could just figure out which string of numbers corresponds to the word "superior"...
These folk could use one:5 2722
http://amazon.imdb.com/Title/ASIN=630402925X?00
> Window Maker, which allows resizing from only
> two corners (the bottom ones). This is a popular > feature.
Actually, WindowMaker allows resizing from any part of a window. Just hold down 'alt' and drag with the right mouse button. The window will resize from the nearest corner. An insanely great feature.
I don't see why this would be more welcome as a written letter than as an email message. That sort of thing would be typed anyways, the only difference between it and an email message would be the letterhead and the fact that you could hold it.
The message has plenty of impact right there on the page in a supposedly impersonal electronic medium. Why would a a grief-stricken parent care whether they were informed via typewritten letter
or email.
Heck, a while back, the message would've probably been sent via another form of email -- in a telegram.
-Z
Currently, to watch a quicktime animation on Linux, one first has to download the entire file. Then it can be viewed with xanim only if it happens to be compressed with a codec that's available for xanim. And even then, it never looks as smooth as an mtvp's mpg playback -- maybe xanim cuts frames both from mpgs and from quicktime or xanim's supported codecs are showing their age?
I wish companies would start making their codecs more freely available. How would it hurt Sorenson's market share if folk were able to expand, on their own, the number of platforms on which certain quicktime files could be viewed?
Heh. I'm on a 192kbps DSL line. I just think it's dumb when sites are not optimized. That page could've been an order of magnitude smaller and still contained the same information in a pleasing format.
They've used single, huge jpg images for each benchmark page, where a much more bandwidth friendly 5-color indexed gif would have worked better (we're talking solid colored areas and line art here).
And let's not even get into how annoying it is to download a whole page of text that is presented as a graphic. They really should've typed the stuff in.
I guess that's why AMD doesn't get paid for web design.
That sounds like a fun idea. I hope the fact that it's now archived on Slashdot, a public forum, as a date-stamped posting will ensure that we can all make our pyramidal antennas without worrying about someone coming along and patenting the idea.
Too many fun things are patented.
If so, one could easily use a laser printer to print a fractal of their choice onto that blue press n' peel material, iron it onto a copper board, etch away, and have a highly detailed fractal antenna for cheap.
Might be something worth trying.
Where are they selling for $199? The lowest price I've seen is in the $300s.
Please post more info.
So now that the specs are out, I'm hoping to see drivers for other free software platforms in the near future.
The question on my mind is whether or not the linux gl driver for the TNT will be at all usable with NetBSD, or whether I'll have to wait for the next XFree86 to get a native NetBSD binary of the drivers.
Maybe I'll wait on purchasing that new graphics card.
It'd be awfully nice if they were to release specs or a Linux driver for their DVD drive. I'd like to be able to set up a Linux based DVD player.
What's so bad about DIVX. Once someone figures out how to hack it, DIVX will just be a cheap way for people to add to their DVD collections.
Shouldn't we all be hoping that DIVX takes off like wildfire, and that every film is released in that format, so that we can all benefit from the upcoming hack?
Or is someone actually going to use the work 'unhackable'?