My cousin used to work for Sony in Culver City. He said when Sony made trailers, those bits they used were put there to be misleading on purpose. To make it look like a different film.
Hell, if you want to see what a trailer can do to a film check this out.:D
The Linux versions of the ASUS eee are still stuck on Firefox 2. It's a pain to upgrade to FF 3 as you have to put in a newer GTK 2+ and all. Silly Asus.
I used to play WoW and was quite addicted to it. I think all these expansions are just to make the players trudge further on their treadmills because all that grinding and raiding they just did the past 20 months is obsolete now. I stopped playing the game the day Burning Crusade came out. It just stopped being fun. You'd get into PVP and there'd be these coordinated groups from other servers who get in with their twinkest gear and they'd just mow you down. It stopped being fun.
There is a simple explanation of all this. BT is one of the most inept companies in the UK. I used to work for a DSL provider in the UK and had to deal with BT Wholesale all the time, who, in turn had to deal with BT OpenReach. It's a complete and utter mess thanks to the UK Gov't privatising and stifling actual competition.
Add to that, I've seen cases where a new customer signs up for ADSL. If that customer isn't a BT Broadband customer, BT OpenReach will "mysteriously" switch their copper to the cross-wired/noisy pair and miraculously, the BT Broadband customer will have the quietest lines!
Having worked for an ISP, I can tell you. The problem isn't prioritizing traffic. It's capacity and scaling.
If you are a small ISP with a OC-3 and you have 1000 lines, that means if all lines are active, each one would only have an average speed of 6Kbps.
That's not very good. The problem is, in the UK, an OC-3 from BT costs £20,000+.
People buy broadband for cheap (£8-£15/month), and expect spectacular results. It just can't happen.
All networks seem to be oriented towards the idea that 90% of the DSL lines will be idle most of the time. With the advent of BBC's iPlayer and more streaming video, this network model falls flat on its face.
You forgot Arbor Low. Located in Derbyshire, it pre-dates Stonehenge by at least a 1000 years or more. I've visited the site, and even though the stones are no longer standing, it is a pretty impressive place.
Anyone know an easy way to convert from Reiser? I set up a Reiser partition a while back. It's quite large. I think I'd need to do it peacemeal, like, size reiser partition down, create ext3.. move files.. size it down again, increase size for ext3, etc.. until the reiserfs has no space on it?
I don't have the space to unload all the reiser files someplace else.
Any ideas? Does gparted resize reiserfs without destroying the fs?
I really enjoyed it. There's not a whole lot of material out there about the First Age aside from the Silmarillion. Though it does overwhelm the reader with proper names and places, I found myself flipping back to the map to remember where places were.
A few years ago I bought a 1 gigabyte BioStik and it works really well. It can read 2 fingerprints. The only down side is, you need to actually issue the linux 'eject' command (or in windows remove safely option) or else the filesystem basically gets corrupted. Other than that, it's a great stick and quite secure.
It has anti-tampering on it, so if someone tries to open it up, it immediately wipes the disk clean.
I have a group of friends who were on Myspace, who have recently jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. I gave Facebook a try, but it really irked me so I deleted it. So, a little over 6 weeks ago, one of my friends asked me why I deleted my Facebook AND Livejournal account, and I said I was so over the whole social networking "phenomenon". This friend became quite a bit ornery over that fact, so this leads me to a theory. I think people like being on several different social networking sites. It's extra places to check email, events, etc. The lashing out was like that of someone wondering why someone else couldn't get "their fix". People are actually ADDICTED to these sites. The sites aren't even that great! (Most are extremely poorly written, like Myspace)
Oh if only there was a way to kill the music playing function on cell phones. I can't tell you how many times I've sat on a train and there's some idiot playing really crappy music out of the tiny speaker on his cell phone and I wanted to murder him.
I don't mind people talking on cell phones, but playing music on them and annoying the hell out of everyone else needs to be stopped, IMO.
About 4-5 years ago, the BBC did a trial of streaming their programs with Vorbis. One of the guys who worked at the Beeb was into Open Source and managed to convince management to use Ogg Vorbis. However, there was some issue with rights management and they had to stop doing it. To this day I don't know why. It sounded so much better than the realplayer.
Actually OpenBSD's ath(4) driver (Atheros chipset) is a bit lacking. It only does 802.11b on my D-Link DWL-G650. FreeBSD and NetBSD both support 802.11g on it. (I have no idea about the turbo, or double-G support.)
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My cousin used to work for Sony in Culver City. He said when Sony made trailers, those bits they used were put there to be misleading on purpose. To make it look like a different film.
Hell, if you want to see what a trailer can do to a film check this out. :D
Can that anti-matter pop a whole house of popcorn?
I bet it can't!
"All right Jesus, let me have it!"
The Linux versions of the ASUS eee are still stuck on Firefox 2. It's a pain to upgrade to FF 3 as you have to put in a newer GTK 2+ and all. Silly Asus.
I used to play WoW and was quite addicted to it. I think all these expansions are just to make the players trudge further on their treadmills because all that grinding and raiding they just did the past 20 months is obsolete now. I stopped playing the game the day Burning Crusade came out. It just stopped being fun. You'd get into PVP and there'd be these coordinated groups from other servers who get in with their twinkest gear and they'd just mow you down. It stopped being fun.
Raiding used to bore me to tears, too.
http://wowdetox.com - best site ever made
There is a simple explanation of all this. BT is one of the most inept companies in the UK. I used to work for a DSL provider in the UK and had to deal with BT Wholesale all the time, who, in turn had to deal with BT OpenReach. It's a complete and utter mess thanks to the UK Gov't privatising and stifling actual competition.
Add to that, I've seen cases where a new customer signs up for ADSL. If that customer isn't a BT Broadband customer, BT OpenReach will "mysteriously" switch their copper to the cross-wired/noisy pair and miraculously, the BT Broadband customer will have the quietest lines!
It's a complete mess.
Having worked for an ISP, I can tell you. The problem isn't prioritizing traffic. It's capacity and scaling.
If you are a small ISP with a OC-3 and you have 1000 lines, that means if all lines are active, each one would only have an average speed of 6Kbps.
That's not very good. The problem is, in the UK, an OC-3 from BT costs £20,000+.
People buy broadband for cheap (£8-£15/month), and expect spectacular results. It just can't happen.
All networks seem to be oriented towards the idea that 90% of the DSL lines will be idle most of the time. With the advent of BBC's iPlayer and more streaming video, this network model falls flat on its face.
You forgot Arbor Low. Located in Derbyshire, it pre-dates Stonehenge by at least a 1000 years or more. I've visited the site, and even though the stones are no longer standing, it is a pretty impressive place.
Anyone know an easy way to convert from Reiser? I set up a Reiser partition a while back. It's quite large. I think I'd need to do it peacemeal, like, size reiser partition down, create ext3.. move files.. size it down again, increase size for ext3, etc.. until the reiserfs has no space on it?
I don't have the space to unload all the reiser files someplace else.
Any ideas? Does gparted resize reiserfs without destroying the fs?
I'm a vegan too, and I think PETA are just plain bonkers. I'd rather give my money to the Vegan Society than kooks like PETA.
I do it for health reasons too, and environmental reasons. I don't care what other people eat as long as I have a choice.
Nice flamebait post. Hardly worthy of a reply anyway.
:)
Yes, I am vegan. Yes, I think PETA are ridiculous.
No, I actually don't drive.
Don't you feel much better now?
So does veganism (100s of medical studies)
I really enjoyed it. There's not a whole lot of material out there about the First Age aside from the Silmarillion. Though it does overwhelm the reader with proper names and places, I found myself flipping back to the map to remember where places were.
But all in all, I enjoyed it.
A few years ago I bought a 1 gigabyte BioStik and it works really well. It can read 2 fingerprints. The only down side is, you need to actually issue the linux 'eject' command (or in windows remove safely option) or else the filesystem basically gets corrupted. Other than that, it's a great stick and quite secure. It has anti-tampering on it, so if someone tries to open it up, it immediately wipes the disk clean.
I have a group of friends who were on Myspace, who have recently jumped on the Facebook bandwagon.
I gave Facebook a try, but it really irked me so I deleted it. So, a little over 6 weeks ago, one of my
friends asked me why I deleted my Facebook AND Livejournal account, and I said I was so over the whole
social networking "phenomenon". This friend became quite a bit ornery over that fact, so this leads me to
a theory. I think people like being on several different social networking sites. It's extra places to check
email, events, etc. The lashing out was like that of someone wondering why someone else couldn't get "their fix".
People are actually ADDICTED to these sites. The sites aren't even that great! (Most are extremely poorly written,
like Myspace)
What ever happened to email or mobile phone text?
My friends called the "fisher-price" interface of Windows XP: Candyland Crackhouse :D
It is truly a great film. :)
They could have used the laser for a better purpose. Like popping an entire house's worth of popcorn.
Didn't IBM do the exact same thing with OS/2? :D
Facebook doesn't delete profiles. They only 'deactivate' them. Which is creepy enough for me to ever want to go back to Facebook-land again.
An interesting study here done by Privacy International:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961
Google were rated "Hostile to Privacy". Read their interim rankings PDF.
Very addictive game:
http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/ (Boomshine)
Oh if only there was a way to kill the music playing function on cell phones.
I can't tell you how many times I've sat on a train and there's some idiot
playing really crappy music out of the tiny speaker on his cell phone and
I wanted to murder him.
I don't mind people talking on cell phones, but playing music on them and annoying
the hell out of everyone else needs to be stopped, IMO.
About 4-5 years ago, the BBC did a trial of streaming their programs with Vorbis. One of the guys who worked at the Beeb was into Open Source and managed to convince management to use Ogg Vorbis. However, there was some issue with rights management and they had to stop doing it. To this day I don't know why. It sounded so much better than the realplayer.
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/
Actually OpenBSD's ath(4) driver (Atheros chipset) is a bit lacking. It only does 802.11b on my D-Link DWL-G650. FreeBSD and NetBSD both support 802.11g on it. (I have no idea about the turbo, or double-G support.)
I wish it supported my D-Link DWL-G650. For some reason it's stuck in 802.11b mode and won't use 802.11g! Damned Atheros!