Firefox has a really, really cool extension mechanism. The simple JavaScript and XUL API (compared to, say, writing C plugins) makes writing extensions really easy. Once you figure out how to use XPCOM, you have a lot of power available.
I've gone looking (briefly) for ways to extend Opera and have found nothing. This is my personal reason for not using Opera. I like my extensions, even if some of them are of extremely limited use.
The very end of the file is the torrent. Just cut everything before the string "d8:announce" and, presto, you'll have the torrent. Exactly how you do that is up to you.:)
Or you can just use the torrents I extracted from the EXEs:
It then defaults to 2 downloads a second, incrementing the timer by that rate every second. When it grabs the feed again a minute later, it then uses the "real" rate of downloads from the first grab to the second grab and starts incrementing by that amount.
It then continues to do that for as long as the page is up.
It is possible to force IE5+ to recognize the full alpha channel, but only with the use of a Direct3D filter command.
It's better (well, worse, actually) than that. You can add a Direct3D filter command to display a transparent PNG on top of an image.
So, for example, an image with transparency in Firefox, Opera, and Safari is simply:
<img src="myTransparentImage.png">
To make IE work, you cannot simply add an attribute or anything simply like that. Because if you do, your transparent image will display behind the Direct3D filter applied over the image, without transparency. So instead you must use:
(Not sure if the above really works due to spaces added to make it format better, but you get the idea.)
Again, this means you can can't simply add the IE-specific "code" to make the image transparency work. Instead you must jump through hoops to get it to display as properly, since you can either make it work in IE (by displaying a completely transparent image with the PNG image draw over that) or work in other browsers. Ultimately, this means either using IE's conditional comments or a JavaScript based solution so that you give the right code to the right browser.
Usually with special code to catch when it's really Opera and not Opera pretending to be IE so you don't screw that up too...
Note that you must provide the width and height of the transparent image you want to display in Internet Explorer, otherwise IE will scale it to whatever size the transparent image you use underneath. Plus, strictly speaking, the above <img> tags aren't HTML compliant, because I left out the ALT attributes.
Then it's working the way it's supposed to be. That's part of it being open. Someone didn't say that your contribution was worthless, they just flagged it in need of editting so that one of the many people who do know how to wikify stuff can come by and do it.
It can be unnerving at first when someone does something to an article you wrote. It seems like a personal offense, like an indication that what you did was worthless. But it's just part of the Wiki process. Think of it as editorial marks.
So go ahead - contribute! If you know you can't handle the Wiki code, just mark it for cleanup yourself and let one of the many Wiki editors clean it up for you. (Assuming, of course, that your contribution is actual valuable.:))
Some contributions will need to be editted, and generally, people will actually edit them and correct grammar and spelling mistakes as well as formatting mistakes. So don't worry about having your contribution marked in need of cleaning. It's just part of the Wiki process.
Most of Google Maps appears to be a large public domain image of the Earth's surface that I'm pretty sure is actually false-color (unless you can really see ocean trenches from space).
A lot of satelite imagery is simply not available right now - most of the available high-res stuff is only available in North America, and even then some areas aren't available all the way zoomed in.
Hopefully they'll add more of this data in eventually. Along with map data for more than just the US and Canada while they're at it. Although it is funny to think of all of those roads to nowhere on the southern border of the US.
Of course it is, but like all things in Linux, it requires a bit of effort to get working.
Just add "0 0 * * */sbin/poweroff" to your Crontab, and then you'll get your daily downtime, right on schedule too! More dedicated users may want to write a custom script to directly tell the UPS to poweroff, thereby allowing for the expected corrupted hard drives and fscks.
Personally, I think Slashdot should do a total of two April 1st stories. One should be a Slashdot prank, and be done at or around 6AM GMT. Something like "removing the ability to post anonymously" or "due to an FBI subpeona, we will be retroactively displaying the actual poster of all AC posts starting April 15th" - something that's mildly plausible but clearly not really happening.
(Actually, they already did the first one. It wasn't that funny because it was buried among a deluge of other April 1st stories.)
The second story should be done some time later in the day, and should be a wrap-up of the various funny April Fools jokes done on other sites. Simply collecting and reporting on every single April Fools joke out there is, as the parent post says, simply a barrage of pointlessness.
Yes, we know, it's April 1st. It's deadly obvious. A good April 1st joke requires someone to look at the calendar and say "oh, it's April 1st!" So far, that hasn't really applied.
Why not just weight down cross-domain 302s? I can't think of any time when a cross-domain 302 would ever really be valid. In fact, most of the time when I see a cross-domain 302, it's from a "click-through" tracker script that wants to count how many people click through to a given site. (Like, say, the video games the Slashdot editors are playing in the right column...)
It seems that this entire problem could be solved simply by either disallowing cross-domain 302s or heavily weighting them down. Maybe even do something a little "smarter" and disallowing domains outside the/24 IP block.
I'm sure, somewhere, there's a valid use of a cross-domain 302, but for the most part, I can't really think of any. And the ones I can (temporary mirror on another site) should be compensated by the fact that the link is supposed to be temporary. If you control both sites, you can just bounce people with a 301 once the temporary mirror is no longer needed.
Yeah, I know. The only reason I got World of Warcraft when it was released was because they released a downloadable open beta that allowed me to try the game out for free. If I hadn't played it then, I probably never would have gotten it. Likewise my brother has a friend who's going to get it after playing the game on my brother's account for a while.
Unfortunately they aren't doing something similar at release. (Although they do have the "trial passes" that Collector's Edition owners can give out.) It really would be nice to see free trials for MMORPGs. (I think a couple of smaller ones offer downloadable trials, but I can't remember any details and don't really want to go searching.:)).
I'm not willing to shell out $50 for a game that I can then only play a month without shelling out more cash. Since I got the free trial with WoW via the open beta, I was willing to pay for it at launch.
That won't work, because "cmd" runs the new process and then waits for it to complete. So you'll wind up with new CMDs every time you type "EXIT" but that's about it.
You want something like:
CMD/K KILL.BAT KILL.BAT
Which, on Windows XP at least, also didn't work. I've got it running in the background right now, so if you see this comment, it failed to bring my system down.
Yeah, we don't need that auto-shutoff valve for gas pumps! I mean, I can figure out about how much gas the tank can take from the fuel guage! I should know the limits of my tank and not exceed them!
Why add seatbelts to a car when people can just not drive into things? Why add any safety feature? The operator should be trained in its use and know the limits and make sure they don't exceed them.
The point isn't that a user can crash their own system, it's that a mistake can cause the system to crash, and it could have been prevented. There's no real reason a system should be vulnerable to a forkbomb, even if it is only used by one person.
I'm a programmer so I write code, and every once and a while it'll do something wrong and break in a way that I didn't anticipate. If the operating system can prevent that from crashing the system, that's great! It should do that. I mean, after all, what's the point of protecting a program's memory? It should know the limit and not exceed it. Everyone always checks for NULL results from malloc, right?
If you can find a legitimate reason why you need thousands of small processes, raise the limit. It's not like it's really harming you and it can potentially protect against little accidents.
Accidents happen. Some bug in some program might accidently cause a forkbomb under just the wrong circumstances. You might write a program that accidently forkbombs. Protecting the user from resource exaustion isn't a bad thing. Not protecting the user, when there's really no good reason not to, is a bad thing. A sensible default should be set, and users should be allowed to override the default if they need to. Chances are that more accidents will occur that hit the default than valid reasons to exceed it do.
I just tried that in Windows XP, and it would appear that Windows has some form of limit, as it didn't take long before bash started spitting out "resource not available" errors and wasn't able to fork more children.
Cygwin, before anyone asks.
Although the system was basically unusable until I forcibly killed the root Cygwin process (they're tied to the window in Windows, so I just had to hit that nice X). But it seems to have recovered, without a reboot.
So, did you do this while religiously following the hint books so you got all the heart containers and a full stock of bottles filled with grandma's soup? Because for me, who didn't look at the book until after beating it the first time*, that final swordfight with Gannondorf really smacked me around, much more than any of the end fights in OoT.
I made it through WW without dieing once either, and only had to look one thing up online: how to get onto the ghost ship. See, they dropped enough hints about where the ship was (you can figure out from the moon phase and the fish that fills in your chart) that I was following it around for hours and trying everything I could think of to get on it. Well, in order to get on it, you have to have the map, that points out exactly where it is. Once you have the map and go directly where the ship is you just suddenly wind up on the boat, without doing anything. Some puzzle.
Anyway, I remember that the final battle wasn't a complete breeze, but I completed it the first time without consulting any hint guides.
And finding the heart containers (actually, pieces of heart) was pretty easy - as the treasure maps pointed out exactly where they were. All you had to do was go there and dredge them up. (Like the stupid Kinstones in the Minish Cap.)
Anyway, on the puzzle front:
Shoot the statue in the eye with an arrow.
Shoot the eye thingy.
Push <random heavy thing> onto a switch.
Push <random heavy thing> out of the way.
Bomb overly-obvious cracked thing.
Burn overly-obvious flamable thing.
Light all the torches in the room.
Kill all enemies in the room.
Bounce lightbeams off mirrors to trigger things.
Most of the puzzles wound up being variants on those. For example, one of the puzzles involved having one of those blobby things turn to stone so it became the <random heavy thing> you used to trigger the switch.
Now I'm not going to say Wind Waker did nothing new - it added quite a few new elements (the dungeon you had to do that one in was my favorite, since you had to use the bird girl in interesting ways, making for new puzzles) but the game was never really that hard.
And for the record, my entire family made it through the original Zelda, both quests. The only dungeon we ever needed to call Nintendo for help on was the 7th dungeon in the first quest, which involved blowing the whistle on a certain screen to reveal the dungeon. Everything else we were able to figure out on our own.
The Adobe version doesn't work in Mozilla 1.0+ and Firefox. It'll crash if you try and use it. The Mozilla developers blame Adobe. Adobe blames Mozilla. So nothing's been done on that. (Also, if you're using Mozilla/Firefox and turned HTTP pipelining on, it appears that Adobe's site really screws up. You'll need to set network.http.pipelining to false.)
SVG seems to have kind of died out, which is too bad, because it's a fairly nice technology. Unfortunately, the latest version on the Adobe site is 3.02 which was released November 2004, and the beta dates back to July 2003. 3.02 is a security update to the 3.0 SVGViewer which was released way back in November, 2001!
It's really annoying because four years ago in 2001, we decided to use SVG on a website because it looked to be a nice cross-platform solution that worked in all major browsers. Since then, it's effectively become IE-only, as the Adobe plugin has stopped working with Mozilla, and is underfeatures (specifically, doesn't support scripting) on most other platforms.
Hopefully it'll still come back, but right now, it really feels like SVG is dead in the water. And I'm speaking as a web developer who's used it for the past four years or so. It's just - not there yet.
Supposedly. By my reading of Asa's blog, if you use the en-US version (most of Slashdot), then you should be able to get an update. Specifically, check out the entries localized 1.0.1 updates and another try at update.
However, I use the en-US version, and my Firefox refuses to auto-update. So it doesn't appear to be working for everyone. (I'm behind a firewall, if that matters.)
I agree completely. His stuff is funny on ATHF and Sealab because it's terrible.
The entire point in those shows is that the music is supposed to suck. And it succeeds admirably at that.
Then again, I really can't stand ATHF and Sealab 2021 is very hit-or-miss, usually on the "miss" side. So I'm probably outside his "target audience", whatever that is.
Still, this could be a pretty funny interview if they only went with the +5 stuff.
OK, first off - um, we have
a question from YankeeInExile: Who the fuck are you, and why do I care? OK, uh, next question, by anonymous. Um... Do you know a site like ours that doesn't report on "high pitched rappers?" Er...
According to the Dear Friends website this concert is going to go on "tour" in America.
So far it's hit Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois. Apparently is scheduled to be shown at San Francisco, California on March 7th.
And... that's it. No more dates are listed.
So - uh, is this tour ever going to actually tour? Or is it really hitting two locations (since this Chicago concert marked the "beginning" of the tour, after the success of the Los Angeles one)? I've gone searching, and so far those two concerts (Chicago and San Fransisco) are the only two I could find.
I'd love to go if they ever hit the northeast, but so far, it doesn't sound like they're going to. In fact, it sounds like this is a two-stop tour, and then that's it. There's really no information on what's coming up.
Plan B (Plan C?) isn't to ask Congress to legislate the Broadcast Flag. It's to ask Congress to expand the domain of the FCC to include protecting copyrights over broadcast media.
The FCC currently overstepped its bounds. The backup plan is to extend those bounds, so that the FCC can regulate the broadcast flag, nice and legally. Congress won't have done anything, themselves, to make the broadcast flag legal, they'll just have "strengthened the FCC in the face of increasing piracy."
Netflix is very good for trying out very obscure titles that you can't find at Circuit City or most places. For example, I wanted to see if Final Fantasy Unlimited was any good, so I rented it over Netflix and discovered that it sucked. (No, not the CGI movie, it's an anime based on some acid trip or something someone had after playing an FF game, I guess.)
I mostly use Netflix for renting movies that are simply hard to find or would cost a lot to actually buy.
Slashdot Mirror
Alterac Valley has only one level bracket, 51-60. Warsong Gultch has multiple brackets.
Why do I use Firefox over Opera? Extensions.
Firefox has a really, really cool extension mechanism. The simple JavaScript and XUL API (compared to, say, writing C plugins) makes writing extensions really easy. Once you figure out how to use XPCOM, you have a lot of power available.
I've gone looking (briefly) for ways to extend Opera and have found nothing. This is my personal reason for not using Opera. I like my extensions, even if some of them are of extremely limited use.
The very end of the file is the torrent. Just cut everything before the string "d8:announce" and, presto, you'll have the torrent. Exactly how you do that is up to you. :)
Or you can just use the torrents I extracted from the EXEs:
Plus, for your viewing pleasure, the World of Warcraft trailers:
The actual files are all Divx AVIs, so you'll need to be able to play those, too.
Eric Bardes (Yes, the one from TFA)
5 digit user ID, huh? We can also blame this on Slashdot, right? :)
If you look at the source, you'll see that it is actually pulling a real number from an RSS feed.
It then defaults to 2 downloads a second, incrementing the timer by that rate every second. When it grabs the feed again a minute later, it then uses the "real" rate of downloads from the first grab to the second grab and starts incrementing by that amount.
It then continues to do that for as long as the page is up.
So the number is real-ish.
It is possible to force IE5+ to recognize the full alpha channel, but only with the use of a Direct3D filter command.
It's better (well, worse, actually) than that. You can add a Direct3D filter command to display a transparent PNG on top of an image.
So, for example, an image with transparency in Firefox, Opera, and Safari is simply:
<img src="myTransparentImage.png">
To make IE work, you cannot simply add an attribute or anything simply like that. Because if you do, your transparent image will display behind the Direct3D filter applied over the image, without transparency. So instead you must use:
<img src="infamousTransparentGif.gif" style="width: 32px; height: 32px; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='myTransparentImage.png');">
(Not sure if the above really works due to spaces added to make it format better, but you get the idea.)
Again, this means you can can't simply add the IE-specific "code" to make the image transparency work. Instead you must jump through hoops to get it to display as properly, since you can either make it work in IE (by displaying a completely transparent image with the PNG image draw over that) or work in other browsers. Ultimately, this means either using IE's conditional comments or a JavaScript based solution so that you give the right code to the right browser.
Usually with special code to catch when it's really Opera and not Opera pretending to be IE so you don't screw that up too...
Note that you must provide the width and height of the transparent image you want to display in Internet Explorer, otherwise IE will scale it to whatever size the transparent image you use underneath. Plus, strictly speaking, the above <img> tags aren't HTML compliant, because I left out the ALT attributes.
Then it's working the way it's supposed to be. That's part of it being open. Someone didn't say that your contribution was worthless, they just flagged it in need of editting so that one of the many people who do know how to wikify stuff can come by and do it.
It can be unnerving at first when someone does something to an article you wrote. It seems like a personal offense, like an indication that what you did was worthless. But it's just part of the Wiki process. Think of it as editorial marks.
So go ahead - contribute! If you know you can't handle the Wiki code, just mark it for cleanup yourself and let one of the many Wiki editors clean it up for you. (Assuming, of course, that your contribution is actual valuable. :))
Some contributions will need to be editted, and generally, people will actually edit them and correct grammar and spelling mistakes as well as formatting mistakes. So don't worry about having your contribution marked in need of cleaning. It's just part of the Wiki process.
Most of Google Maps appears to be a large public domain image of the Earth's surface that I'm pretty sure is actually false-color (unless you can really see ocean trenches from space).
Take a look at Alaska - the western side is missing the "(C) 2005 Google" water mark, while the eastern side has it. Scroll over a little to where the actual change-over occurs, and you'll notice that the imagery has a much higher resolution on the eastern side.
A lot of satelite imagery is simply not available right now - most of the available high-res stuff is only available in North America, and even then some areas aren't available all the way zoomed in.
Hopefully they'll add more of this data in eventually. Along with map data for more than just the US and Canada while they're at it. Although it is funny to think of all of those roads to nowhere on the southern border of the US.
Of course it is, but like all things in Linux, it requires a bit of effort to get working.
Just add "0 0 * * * /sbin/poweroff" to your Crontab, and then you'll get your daily downtime, right on schedule too! More dedicated users may want to write a custom script to directly tell the UPS to poweroff, thereby allowing for the expected corrupted hard drives and fscks.
Personally, I think Slashdot should do a total of two April 1st stories. One should be a Slashdot prank, and be done at or around 6AM GMT. Something like "removing the ability to post anonymously" or "due to an FBI subpeona, we will be retroactively displaying the actual poster of all AC posts starting April 15th" - something that's mildly plausible but clearly not really happening.
(Actually, they already did the first one. It wasn't that funny because it was buried among a deluge of other April 1st stories.)
The second story should be done some time later in the day, and should be a wrap-up of the various funny April Fools jokes done on other sites. Simply collecting and reporting on every single April Fools joke out there is, as the parent post says, simply a barrage of pointlessness.
Yes, we know, it's April 1st. It's deadly obvious. A good April 1st joke requires someone to look at the calendar and say "oh, it's April 1st!" So far, that hasn't really applied.
Why not just weight down cross-domain 302s? I can't think of any time when a cross-domain 302 would ever really be valid. In fact, most of the time when I see a cross-domain 302, it's from a "click-through" tracker script that wants to count how many people click through to a given site. (Like, say, the video games the Slashdot editors are playing in the right column...)
It seems that this entire problem could be solved simply by either disallowing cross-domain 302s or heavily weighting them down. Maybe even do something a little "smarter" and disallowing domains outside the /24 IP block.
I'm sure, somewhere, there's a valid use of a cross-domain 302, but for the most part, I can't really think of any. And the ones I can (temporary mirror on another site) should be compensated by the fact that the link is supposed to be temporary. If you control both sites, you can just bounce people with a 301 once the temporary mirror is no longer needed.
Yeah, I know. The only reason I got World of Warcraft when it was released was because they released a downloadable open beta that allowed me to try the game out for free. If I hadn't played it then, I probably never would have gotten it. Likewise my brother has a friend who's going to get it after playing the game on my brother's account for a while.
Unfortunately they aren't doing something similar at release. (Although they do have the "trial passes" that Collector's Edition owners can give out.) It really would be nice to see free trials for MMORPGs. (I think a couple of smaller ones offer downloadable trials, but I can't remember any details and don't really want to go searching. :)).
I'm not willing to shell out $50 for a game that I can then only play a month without shelling out more cash. Since I got the free trial with WoW via the open beta, I was willing to pay for it at launch.
Yep. Or buy shirts and stuff.
On that note, how do you jump to a specific page?
There are some features that are apparently only possible by editting the URL. The user interface could use some work.
I'm getting the strong impression that Google does not want you actually reading entire works through this service.
That won't work, because "cmd" runs the new process and then waits for it to complete. So you'll wind up with new CMDs every time you type "EXIT" but that's about it.
You want something like:
CMD /K KILL.BAT
KILL.BAT
Which, on Windows XP at least, also didn't work. I've got it running in the background right now, so if you see this comment, it failed to bring my system down.
Yeah, we don't need that auto-shutoff valve for gas pumps! I mean, I can figure out about how much gas the tank can take from the fuel guage! I should know the limits of my tank and not exceed them!
Why add seatbelts to a car when people can just not drive into things? Why add any safety feature? The operator should be trained in its use and know the limits and make sure they don't exceed them.
The point isn't that a user can crash their own system, it's that a mistake can cause the system to crash, and it could have been prevented. There's no real reason a system should be vulnerable to a forkbomb, even if it is only used by one person.
I'm a programmer so I write code, and every once and a while it'll do something wrong and break in a way that I didn't anticipate. If the operating system can prevent that from crashing the system, that's great! It should do that. I mean, after all, what's the point of protecting a program's memory? It should know the limit and not exceed it. Everyone always checks for NULL results from malloc, right?
If you can find a legitimate reason why you need thousands of small processes, raise the limit. It's not like it's really harming you and it can potentially protect against little accidents.
Accidents happen. Some bug in some program might accidently cause a forkbomb under just the wrong circumstances. You might write a program that accidently forkbombs. Protecting the user from resource exaustion isn't a bad thing. Not protecting the user, when there's really no good reason not to, is a bad thing. A sensible default should be set, and users should be allowed to override the default if they need to. Chances are that more accidents will occur that hit the default than valid reasons to exceed it do.
I just tried that in Windows XP, and it would appear that Windows has some form of limit, as it didn't take long before bash started spitting out "resource not available" errors and wasn't able to fork more children.
Cygwin, before anyone asks.
Although the system was basically unusable until I forcibly killed the root Cygwin process (they're tied to the window in Windows, so I just had to hit that nice X). But it seems to have recovered, without a reboot.
Worked fine for me, what problem did you have with it?
So, did you do this while religiously following the hint books so you got all the heart containers and a full stock of bottles filled with grandma's soup? Because for me, who didn't look at the book until after beating it the first time*, that final swordfight with Gannondorf really smacked me around, much more than any of the end fights in OoT.
I made it through WW without dieing once either, and only had to look one thing up online: how to get onto the ghost ship. See, they dropped enough hints about where the ship was (you can figure out from the moon phase and the fish that fills in your chart) that I was following it around for hours and trying everything I could think of to get on it. Well, in order to get on it, you have to have the map, that points out exactly where it is. Once you have the map and go directly where the ship is you just suddenly wind up on the boat, without doing anything. Some puzzle.
Anyway, I remember that the final battle wasn't a complete breeze, but I completed it the first time without consulting any hint guides.
And finding the heart containers (actually, pieces of heart) was pretty easy - as the treasure maps pointed out exactly where they were. All you had to do was go there and dredge them up. (Like the stupid Kinstones in the Minish Cap.)
Anyway, on the puzzle front:
Most of the puzzles wound up being variants on those. For example, one of the puzzles involved having one of those blobby things turn to stone so it became the <random heavy thing> you used to trigger the switch.
Now I'm not going to say Wind Waker did nothing new - it added quite a few new elements (the dungeon you had to do that one in was my favorite, since you had to use the bird girl in interesting ways, making for new puzzles) but the game was never really that hard.
And for the record, my entire family made it through the original Zelda, both quests. The only dungeon we ever needed to call Nintendo for help on was the 7th dungeon in the first quest, which involved blowing the whistle on a certain screen to reveal the dungeon. Everything else we were able to figure out on our own.
The Adobe version doesn't work in Mozilla 1.0+ and Firefox. It'll crash if you try and use it. The Mozilla developers blame Adobe. Adobe blames Mozilla. So nothing's been done on that. (Also, if you're using Mozilla/Firefox and turned HTTP pipelining on, it appears that Adobe's site really screws up. You'll need to set network.http.pipelining to false.)
There's an SVGViewer 6.0 beta that supposedly works with Mozilla.
SVG seems to have kind of died out, which is too bad, because it's a fairly nice technology. Unfortunately, the latest version on the Adobe site is 3.02 which was released November 2004, and the beta dates back to July 2003. 3.02 is a security update to the 3.0 SVGViewer which was released way back in November, 2001!
It's really annoying because four years ago in 2001, we decided to use SVG on a website because it looked to be a nice cross-platform solution that worked in all major browsers. Since then, it's effectively become IE-only, as the Adobe plugin has stopped working with Mozilla, and is underfeatures (specifically, doesn't support scripting) on most other platforms.
Hopefully it'll still come back, but right now, it really feels like SVG is dead in the water. And I'm speaking as a web developer who's used it for the past four years or so. It's just - not there yet.
Supposedly. By my reading of Asa's blog, if you use the en-US version (most of Slashdot), then you should be able to get an update. Specifically, check out the entries localized 1.0.1 updates and another try at update.
However, I use the en-US version, and my Firefox refuses to auto-update. So it doesn't appear to be working for everyone. (I'm behind a firewall, if that matters.)
I agree completely. His stuff is funny on ATHF and Sealab because it's terrible.
The entire point in those shows is that the music is supposed to suck. And it succeeds admirably at that.
Then again, I really can't stand ATHF and Sealab 2021 is very hit-or-miss, usually on the "miss" side. So I'm probably outside his "target audience", whatever that is.
Still, this could be a pretty funny interview if they only went with the +5 stuff.
Could be amusing.
According to the Dear Friends website this concert is going to go on "tour" in America.
So far it's hit Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois. Apparently is scheduled to be shown at San Francisco, California on March 7th.
And... that's it. No more dates are listed.
So - uh, is this tour ever going to actually tour? Or is it really hitting two locations (since this Chicago concert marked the "beginning" of the tour, after the success of the Los Angeles one)? I've gone searching, and so far those two concerts (Chicago and San Fransisco) are the only two I could find.
I'd love to go if they ever hit the northeast, but so far, it doesn't sound like they're going to. In fact, it sounds like this is a two-stop tour, and then that's it. There's really no information on what's coming up.
Plan B (Plan C?) isn't to ask Congress to legislate the Broadcast Flag. It's to ask Congress to expand the domain of the FCC to include protecting copyrights over broadcast media.
The FCC currently overstepped its bounds. The backup plan is to extend those bounds, so that the FCC can regulate the broadcast flag, nice and legally. Congress won't have done anything, themselves, to make the broadcast flag legal, they'll just have "strengthened the FCC in the face of increasing piracy."
Netflix is very good for trying out very obscure titles that you can't find at Circuit City or most places. For example, I wanted to see if Final Fantasy Unlimited was any good, so I rented it over Netflix and discovered that it sucked. (No, not the CGI movie, it's an anime based on some acid trip or something someone had after playing an FF game, I guess.)
I mostly use Netflix for renting movies that are simply hard to find or would cost a lot to actually buy.