While this wasn't available when the story was posted, it seems that they now offer downloadable ASF files, instead of just the Quicktime. So it'll work even for people without Crossover, now! See my other post here . . .
They weren't available when the story was released, but atomfilms is now distributing the Soccamatic short (and the trailer) in ASF format, so in case anyone's not gotten aroud to buying Crossover yet, you can still easily watch them. In better resolutions, too. The download page is here, and if you want some direct links, here you go:
Note that the files are zipped . . . Also it looks like if you buy all of them (for $10) online, you get the downloadable versions as well, so you're not stuck with streaming. Happiness!
I don't think we're talking about the same DVD here, though. The one I'm talking about is described here, and won't be shipped until late November, or so the site says. I know that the previous Wallace and Gromitses have been available, I own them in fact.:)
Drat. I was poking around on the Aardman site, and they've got a section where you can preorder the VHS or DVD version of the shorts, which includes Creature Comforts (which is phenomenal, btw) and a bunch of other things, but it's not available in the US or Japan. Curses! Will they ship to Canada, I wonder?
I suppose that means that there's no NTSC version of the tape. I guess I'll have to settle for having 'em online, then. Ah, well.
pez@charm bin $ wlookup vetting
1 definition found
*** Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) ***
Curvet \Cur"vet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Curveted} or {-vetted};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Curveting} or {-vetting}.] [Cf. It.
corvettare. See {Curvet}, n.]
1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. ``Oft and high he did
curvet.'' --Drayton.
. . . think it's totally fucking awesome that a Klerck post is sitting at +5? I mean, I know I'm easily amused and all, but damn, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day.:)
I'm pretty sure the point was, "Precisely NOBODY is losing money because of camcorder recordings of movies." Do you know anyone who downloaded a camcorder-copy of a movie and then didn't go see it in theaters because of it? Maybe if it was a direct copy, but via a camcorder? Have you ever seen a camcorder DivX of a movie?
Sure, whatever, they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions?) to prevent people from ripping off a movie using a camcorder. That's great, cool, but who cares? Who is seriously so thrilled with their camcorder DivX that they abandon their plans to see the movie in theaters?
Of course, now they will be able to say that they have some monetary losses due to camcorder-movie thefts. Just take the budget for this project, copy, and then paste.
According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theaters.
I think I figured out their math:
Money lost due to people not seeing the movie because they have a cheap-ass camcorder copy of it on their computer that they spent days downloading: $7.50
Money lost due to piracy in other forms (direct copy, etc): $2,999,999,992.50
I'm so glad people are spending money on this research.
Projekt Records' frontman Sam Rosenthal has been quite supportive of P2P music trading, saying that it's an excellent way for the "smaller" labels like his to get more of a widespread audience. You can find a lot of Projekt bands on mp3.com, etc, too. If you sign up for the weekly email list thing, he'll rant about it occasionally. He was quite pissed off when Napster got shut down.
When I was checking out all the various versions of VNC, I took a look at TridiaVNC. They don't seem to have any source tarballs or anything like that, but they do give you access to their CVS repository, which seems to be the only way to compile from source. Still, they do let you in, so there's no problems with GPL violations . . .
Think they'll still be listening to the latest release of "L33t D3ath P1zza" in 300 years?
Hey, don't start ragging on L33t D3ath P1zza, now. They r0x0r. h4rdk0r3. Their latest album, "ph33r th3 t0pp1ngz" is nothing short of genius. Frankly, I'd be surprised if they're not required listening 300 years from now, in universities all over the solar system, as an example of the Golden Age of Music.
lol. No, I'm afraid that my User# doesn't quite compare. It's certainly a nice one, but I'm not terribly fond of the four-eight combination. It could use some more odd numbers.:P
God forbid some option might have both good effects and bad effects. And since when have you had to tweak two dozen BIOS settings to get your "machine working reliably?" What kind of machines are you buying that just don't work until you've done that?
Too bad it wouldn't work for Q3, though . . . ttyquake and ttyquake2 worked because of the availablility of aavga, which was a library which provided the svgalib api but used aalib to do all the work. Quake3 doesn't have SVGA capabilities, so you'd have to do a hell of a lot more work to get it working in textmode . . .
I was under the impression that Fantasia 2000 was IMAX-only, your post made it sound otherwise. Was I mistaken? On a related note, I do agree that it was awful, though not for quite the same reasons you've stated. It was just a genuinely horrible film. But I should stop now before I get further off-topic.:)
The article was about minimizing the size of the executable file itself on disk
Correct. And whenever you run a shell script, the executable you're running is actually the interpreter. You could take that 45-byte executable from the link and run it (theoretically) on any Linux kernel that supports ELF. The "exit 42" script will only work on systems which have a shell which contains instructions capable of parsing the string "exit 42." Shell scripts aren't executables, and I feel that as such they should have certain handicaps placed on them when involving themselves in ridiculous contests such as these.:) It's really a matter of apples and oranges.
The kicker, as we pedantically load the programs:
$/lib/ld-linux.so.2./a.out.bin; echo $?
42
$/lib/ld-linux.so.2./a.out.sh; echo $? ./a.out.sh: error while loading shared libraries:./a.out.sh: file too short
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While this wasn't available when the story was posted, it seems that they now offer downloadable ASF files, instead of just the Quicktime. So it'll work even for people without Crossover, now! See my other post here . . .
- The Trailer @ 700kbps
- Soccamatic @ 700kbps
Note that the files are zipped . . . Also it looks like if you buy all of them (for $10) online, you get the downloadable versions as well, so you're not stuck with streaming. Happiness!I don't think we're talking about the same DVD here, though. The one I'm talking about is described here, and won't be shipped until late November, or so the site says. I know that the previous Wallace and Gromitses have been available, I own them in fact. :)
I suppose that means that there's no NTSC version of the tape. I guess I'll have to settle for having 'em online, then. Ah, well.
Well, though I don't have a real dictionary on hand at the moment, going over to dictionary.com does give me a little better information, a la:
I assume it's being used in case #2 here. :) I suppose that clears that up, then.
. . . think it's totally fucking awesome that a Klerck post is sitting at +5? I mean, I know I'm easily amused and all, but damn, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day. :)
Sure, whatever, they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions?) to prevent people from ripping off a movie using a camcorder. That's great, cool, but who cares? Who is seriously so thrilled with their camcorder DivX that they abandon their plans to see the movie in theaters?
Of course, now they will be able to say that they have some monetary losses due to camcorder-movie thefts. Just take the budget for this project, copy, and then paste.
- Money lost due to people not seeing the movie because they have a cheap-ass camcorder copy of it on their computer that they spent days downloading: $7.50
- Money lost due to piracy in other forms (direct copy, etc): $2,999,999,992.50
I'm so glad people are spending money on this research.Ah, they do archive the list, though only since last year sometime. Here's an example, in case you didn't believe me. :)
Projekt Records' frontman Sam Rosenthal has been quite supportive of P2P music trading, saying that it's an excellent way for the "smaller" labels like his to get more of a widespread audience. You can find a lot of Projekt bands on mp3.com, etc, too. If you sign up for the weekly email list thing, he'll rant about it occasionally. He was quite pissed off when Napster got shut down.
When I was checking out all the various versions of VNC, I took a look at TridiaVNC. They don't seem to have any source tarballs or anything like that, but they do give you access to their CVS repository, which seems to be the only way to compile from source. Still, they do let you in, so there's no problems with GPL violations . . .
Damn. Two screens down and somebody else already posted that link. Ah, well. Not in this thread, though!
obligatory Onion link.
You do, however, have a wonderful User #. :)
What promises? I'd love to see where Pepsi *promised* to give away a Harrier jet.
It's pretty amusing. For the Linux demo, anyway; haven't tried the Windoze version.
God forbid some option might have both good effects and bad effects. And since when have you had to tweak two dozen BIOS settings to get your "machine working reliably?" What kind of machines are you buying that just don't work until you've done that?
Too bad it wouldn't work for Q3, though . . . ttyquake and ttyquake2 worked because of the availablility of aavga, which was a library which provided the svgalib api but used aalib to do all the work. Quake3 doesn't have SVGA capabilities, so you'd have to do a hell of a lot more work to get it working in textmode . . .
MAXOMENOS' company went down because they had a beanbag chair?
I was under the impression that Fantasia 2000 was IMAX-only, your post made it sound otherwise. Was I mistaken? On a related note, I do agree that it was awful, though not for quite the same reasons you've stated. It was just a genuinely horrible film. But I should stop now before I get further off-topic. :)