. . . you could set up your laptop to encode the movie you're watching in DivX in realtime and STREAM it to people sitting in the next theatre over who were unfortunate enough to have bought tickets to see Queen of the Damned.
Neat!
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Ugh, I don't think so. That movie was awful on just about every level. Okay, maybe fifteen years ago it would have been worth it for Angelina Jolie, but why subject yourself to two hours of hellish agony when you can just go home and download Angelina Jolie pictures off the internet?:P
I've been using Mozilla since M18, and I've never had any problems viewing page source . . . Back then it wasn't colorized, but it worked. So what's broken?
Seems a bit rude to be insulting Piro when all he did was post a rant on his website. He wasn't even the one to submit the story to this venerable publication . . . Ah, well.
There are some episodes that rely on the "gross-out" kind of stuff you're talking about, but that's really not representative of the show as a whole. Try out some more episodes if you feel like giving it another chance; most of them are just brilliant. (I'd recommend Parent-Teacher Conference, A Room With a Moose, Bad Bad Rubber Piggy, and Game Slave 2.)
No, no, no . . . Don't avoid Fillerbunny. Fillerbunny is good for you. Fillerbunny is great. The Bad Art Collection's kind of a problem, yeah, but don't knock Fillerbunny. ("You can pretty much stop reading now." - CLASSIC!)
While I have no real knowledge to back this up, I'm going to wager that you're wrong about this. I know enough about the quantuum world in very (I repeat: very) layman's terms to know that it's a really freaking messed up world down there.
The article seems to be indicating that they're relying on the fact that once you start observing systems you inherently change them (Heisenberg (sp?) basically), which gets extraordinarily important on the quantuum level (though not as much on the Newtonian level we're typically mired in). Read about it. I can totally believe they can create an uncrackable crypto system using quantuum principles . . .
Bah, why go through all that waste? Just take the CD out of its case, stomp on it a few times (preferably on coarse cement), put it back in the case, and "return to sender." Seems to have worked for me, and this way I'm not wasting money sending a CD to someone else. Plus it's really satisfying.:)
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heh.
But on a serious note, what's wrong with 2.4.14 besides having to patch loop.c by hand? Kernel Newsflash doesn't have anything to say about it, and I haven't had problems with it myself (haven't had time to get up to 2.4.16 yet) . . .
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A bunch of us were talking once about how keen it'd be to actually have Linux RUNNING your car. As in, replace whatever's in the "little black box" with Linux.
So you'd actually have/dev/engine,/dev/wheel[0123] . . . Some stuff under/proc to report stats and the like. You'd have things like "steerd" running in the background to handle steering. Get a remote interet connection up and you could even SSH into your car to diagnose engine problems! Think of the possibilities!
You could even use the standard Linux sound structure to deal with your car's audio system./dev/audio and the like. Have mpg123 for mp3s, some cd player to deal with CDs. Heck, since we're doing mp3s now, you could actually serve mp3s up to OTHER cars running Linux! We could probably hack up Gnutella to do some keen P2P stuff. ("Damn, I forgot my NIN CD at home. But wait! That Honda over there is sharing them! Great!")
Of course, then you've gotta worry about people h4x0ring into your car. That'd bite. We'd have to make sure there's some pretty thorough iptables rules going on . . . And what happens if your kernel panics? Doh! Probably not the best situation to be running a "testing" kernel on. I can see the website now: "Well, the bug that was causing engine meltdowns was fixed in 2.5.13-pre5, so I suggest everyone upgrade . .."
Gives a whole new meaning to the whole "no warranty implied" thing, eh? Would you want the preemptible kernel patches on that thing?
IOW there is no reason not to upgrade from W95 to W98.
Except for the fact that win98 sucks ass? Everyone I know who has a win95 box has about zero problems with it. Every single win98 installation I've ever seen has really, really serious issues in some way or another. There's no way in hell I'm ever installing win98 on my box.
I'd install win2k, which seems okay, but then a lot of my OLD games just don't work anymore, and my sound card manufacturer decided they won't be making a win2k driver for it. I'd do NT, but it just doesn't play games.
So it looks like I'm stuck with an obsolete system for games . . .
How could you miss it? You know, the Spice Melange that keeps us alive and healthy well beyond when we should have died? Prescience? Any of this ringing a bell?
... and know that it's a wholly inadequate way of "protecting" credit card numbers!
Well, yeah. I think the quote was more meant to imply that even something so mindlessly simple as basic HTTP auth was okay, thus illustrating the astounding triviality of keeping your sensitive data off of search engines.:)
I contacted the author, Paul Festa (paulf@cnet.com), the generic "letters" section of CNet (letters@news.com), and a Google address that seemed like they might be interested (press@google.com) about this.
Not sure if those are all the completely correct addresses to use, but in the face of some blatant FUD, they'll probably do okay . . .
What are you talking about? Of course there's an easy solution in sight. Don't put your credit card number on the web! Don't give your credit card number to a website that does! Come on, how hard IS that? If it's sensitive information, it doesn't belong on a publicly-available website.
Urk. Why is criticism (sp?) of American policies "Anti-American?" Every citizen has the right to disagree with the actions his/her government is taking. It's what makes the country strong! Now is not the time to rally behind a government body and proclaim absolute servitude to whatever actions it takes; now is the time to dissent as much as possible. When I say, "the United States' bombing campaign against terrorism is both insane and unproductive," I'm not saying that America itself is some evil empire. I'm just saying that the current administration has its head up its ass.
I'm not petulatly threatening to leave the country in a huff because "it's all gone downhill," I'm just saying that I disagree. And it's this dissent, not some fake "unity" crap, that keeps the country together. Ideas gone unchallenged stagnate and degrade; we need the dissenting opinions to keep on growing as a nation!
So just because some of us are highly critical of the way our government's handled the situation doesn't mean that we've given up on the country as a whole . . .
I suppose I probably should have been more specific when wording my response. I was actually commenting on this quote:
Not to open a can of worm here, but neither does doing nothing. I'd rather go after the guy who did it than not.
So I was more referring to the interation between the original post and that reply: "See? Bombing Afghanistan doesn't solve anything" "What, so we should do NOTHING?"
Argh. It's not an either-or situation. There are solutions in-between bombing and doing nothing. Of course doing nothing isn't going to work, but neither is bombing the hell out of Afghanistan.
That's the one thing I really dislike about this whole thing. Anyone who says something even vaguely against the war effort is accused of advocating pacifism and letting terrorists walk all over us. There are other ways, people!
the bug is apparently caused by the lack of quote marks in the install script.
No, no, no. The bug is caused by having spaces in your directory names. I mean, come on. They're ridiculous. "This is My Hard Drive" is not a good name for your hard drive!:P
Vitality ratings on Freshmeat are a joke. Unless you release a new version every day, you don't have a prayer of making over the 2% mark. (I'm exaggerating, but still.)
Linux itself has 21%. This for an OS that has a new version every three weeks or so (not counting the Alan Cox "Hi I'm a Juggernaut and Can Compose Kernel Diffs In My Head" releases). It says that vitality is "based on age of project, number of announcements and date of last announcement." So if I don't announce every CVS checkin my project isn't healthy?
Bah. Freshmeat's vitality system has GOT to be revamped. I'm not saying it's not a potentially good measure of a project, but I think it's way off.
Aside from that, though, yeah. If more people decided to work WITH existing projects to make them BETTER instead of setting off to build "the best darn CD player there is for X11," we might have less projects, but the overall quality of each would be better.
NO! Why does everyone think that transparency is the coolest thing ever? I admit it look vaguely cool in screenshots occasionally (although the one linked from the article look horrible to me), I've always found it to be a functional nightmare when I'm actually using it. I put that window on top of the other one for a REASON!
I mean, really. The screenshot linked to is just awful! Which window's on top? Can I click on "Expand All?" Boo!
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Ugh, I don't think so. That movie was awful on just about every level. Okay, maybe fifteen years ago it would have been worth it for Angelina Jolie, but why subject yourself to two hours of hellish agony when you can just go home and download Angelina Jolie pictures off the internet? :P
Hm, interesting. I suppose I've just been lucky then. Ah, well. I still love you, Mozilla!
I've been using Mozilla since M18, and I've never had any problems viewing page source . . . Back then it wasn't colorized, but it worked. So what's broken?
Seems a bit rude to be insulting Piro when all he did was post a rant on his website. He wasn't even the one to submit the story to this venerable publication . . . Ah, well.
There are some episodes that rely on the "gross-out" kind of stuff you're talking about, but that's really not representative of the show as a whole. Try out some more episodes if you feel like giving it another chance; most of them are just brilliant. (I'd recommend Parent-Teacher Conference, A Room With a Moose, Bad Bad Rubber Piggy, and Game Slave 2.)
Uh, yeah. Or avoid it. It's all the same to me. :P
Yeah, listen to what I say! I'm so good I can't even spell the subject matter correctly!
Gah.
The article seems to be indicating that they're relying on the fact that once you start observing systems you inherently change them (Heisenberg (sp?) basically), which gets extraordinarily important on the quantuum level (though not as much on the Newtonian level we're typically mired in). Read about it. I can totally believe they can create an uncrackable crypto system using quantuum principles . . .
Of course, now that I've posted this, even if I *get* some mod points in the near future, I won't be able to use 'em. Heh.
Bah, why go through all that waste? Just take the CD out of its case, stomp on it a few times (preferably on coarse cement), put it back in the case, and "return to sender." Seems to have worked for me, and this way I'm not wasting money sending a CD to someone else. Plus it's really satisfying. :)
But on a serious note, what's wrong with 2.4.14 besides having to patch loop.c by hand? Kernel Newsflash doesn't have anything to say about it, and I haven't had problems with it myself (haven't had time to get up to 2.4.16 yet) . . .
So you'd actually have /dev/engine, /dev/wheel[0123] . . . Some stuff under /proc to report stats and the like. You'd have things like "steerd" running in the background to handle steering. Get a remote interet connection up and you could even SSH into your car to diagnose engine problems! Think of the possibilities!
You could even use the standard Linux sound structure to deal with your car's audio system. /dev/audio and the like. Have mpg123 for mp3s, some cd player to deal with CDs. Heck, since we're doing mp3s now, you could actually serve mp3s up to OTHER cars running Linux! We could probably hack up Gnutella to do some keen P2P stuff. ("Damn, I forgot my NIN CD at home. But wait! That Honda over there is sharing them! Great!")
Of course, then you've gotta worry about people h4x0ring into your car. That'd bite. We'd have to make sure there's some pretty thorough iptables rules going on . . . And what happens if your kernel panics? Doh! Probably not the best situation to be running a "testing" kernel on. I can see the website now: "Well, the bug that was causing engine meltdowns was fixed in 2.5.13-pre5, so I suggest everyone upgrade . . ."
Gives a whole new meaning to the whole "no warranty implied" thing, eh? Would you want the preemptible kernel patches on that thing?
So what do most cars actually run on, anyway?
I'd install win2k, which seems okay, but then a lot of my OLD games just don't work anymore, and my sound card manufacturer decided they won't be making a win2k driver for it. I'd do NT, but it just doesn't play games.
So it looks like I'm stuck with an obsolete system for games . . .
Oh, right, that didn't actually happen, did it?
Not sure if those are all the completely correct addresses to use, but in the face of some blatant FUD, they'll probably do okay . . .
What are you talking about? Of course there's an easy solution in sight. Don't put your credit card number on the web! Don't give your credit card number to a website that does! Come on, how hard IS that? If it's sensitive information, it doesn't belong on a publicly-available website.
I'm not petulatly threatening to leave the country in a huff because "it's all gone downhill," I'm just saying that I disagree. And it's this dissent, not some fake "unity" crap, that keeps the country together. Ideas gone unchallenged stagnate and degrade; we need the dissenting opinions to keep on growing as a nation!
So just because some of us are highly critical of the way our government's handled the situation doesn't mean that we've given up on the country as a whole . . .
Actually, the only place I've actually seen that report was on the Telegraph. Could you find that information anywhere else, too?
That's the one thing I really dislike about this whole thing. Anyone who says something even vaguely against the war effort is accused of advocating pacifism and letting terrorists walk all over us. There are other ways, people!
Linux itself has 21%. This for an OS that has a new version every three weeks or so (not counting the Alan Cox "Hi I'm a Juggernaut and Can Compose Kernel Diffs In My Head" releases). It says that vitality is "based on age of project, number of announcements and date of last announcement." So if I don't announce every CVS checkin my project isn't healthy?
Bah. Freshmeat's vitality system has GOT to be revamped. I'm not saying it's not a potentially good measure of a project, but I think it's way off.
Aside from that, though, yeah. If more people decided to work WITH existing projects to make them BETTER instead of setting off to build "the best darn CD player there is for X11," we might have less projects, but the overall quality of each would be better.
I mean, really. The screenshot linked to is just awful! Which window's on top? Can I click on "Expand All?" Boo!
But the software itself looks keen . . .