If you trust the book "Just For Fun" he actually says nasty things about PowerPC architecture as well. He must have gone through a big conversion on PPC.
Ummm...you mentioned the mini...that sure sounds like a piece of quality hardware that's competitive price-wise with comparable PCs.
If you give it enough RAM (hint: 256MB isn't enough either for MacOS X or Windows XP)the mini is a mighty little machine. Yeah, Dell can lowball Apple, but Apple is using best-of-breed parts and Dell is notorious for using crap.
And when you get right down to it, every Mac mini comes with MacOS X installed. When you get a Dell, you get Windows XP neutered Home Edition. With lots of pointless eye candy and all the spyware and viruses you can eat.:P
You can always nuke the install and load Linux on a Dell but there's no guarantee all your hardware will work with it, and furthermore if you get in trouble Dell Support in Karachi or Bangalore or wherever it's at now will insist you use the Rescue Disks to reinstall Windows before they'll talk to you.
Now doesn't that Mac mini sound like a bargain at twice the price, Martian?
ASP was a total rip-off of PHP2. How far has PHP evolved since v.2? As with most MS "embrace and extend" projects, Active Server Pages haven't really evolved much,.NET connectivity or no.NET connectivity.
Funny, I run Debian and I have *never* had a crash since I switched to that distro from Red Hat, Mandrake and Lycoris.
Debian is getting close to a pain-free install if you use the new "Sarge" installer. You don't need Xandros' "friendly" installer anymore to get full Debian apt-get goodness.
Oh yeah: easy way to get out from under Xandros... Step 1.) add regular Debian repositories to your apt-get config file. Step 2.) apt-get update Step 3.) apt-get dist-upgrade
This is the one movie Lucas should have done. The necessary expository material in Ep I and Ep II could have been told in flashback.
Then again this is all without the dialogue and other ancillary stuff. For instance, there is nothing in here that says whether or not we will be seeing Jar-Jar a third time.
However, as photo-Manga, it works. I don't think it will get me anywhere near the theatre. But they don't need my bucks anyway.:P
I'm a Native Angeleno and I truly want to see this actually happen. I pay taxes here, and I don't want my tax dollars going to support Yet Another Microsoft Site License. Using proprietary software is throwing money down the drain that could be better used elsewhere.
However, I would much rather see the money saved get plowed back into education, not the LAPD.
I wonder if any of the LUGs out here are involved with the lobbying effort?
The ST animated series was only good thanks to all the good writers working on it...real SF writers, not failed sitcom writers. As far as the animation went, it was strictly "illustrated radio" done by the cheapest fsckn animation studio in Hollywood: FILMATION. (Filmation was in Reseda, actually -- if you saw "Boogie Nights" you saw a lot of views of the Reseda area.)
Yes indeed. Bury the horse skeleton, already. No meat, no skin, nothing left but bones.
Hopefully Berman and Braga will also get the boot after this travesty. Let J. Michael S. (I never spell his name right!) or Kevin Smith take a crack at some future ST-universe show...preferably after letting the franchise rest for a while.
Heh...wouldn't it be awesome if the next ST-universe ship captain was portrayed by Wil Wheaton....heh heh heh...
The reason why the CowBe dub is so good is because it is written well. The person who wrote the ADR script did their homework, the dialogue has the feel of a good Film Noir from the '40s.
If it weren't for the boneheaded move of hiring Billy-Bob Thornton to do the voice of the Shinto priest, the dub of "Princess Mononoke" would have been perfect. Again, it's the result of a good writer doing the ADR script. Neil Gaiman in this case. An interesting exercise is to watch the dub version of "Mononoke" while reading Miyazaki's literally translated words. Gaiman spins a good epic tale, Miyazaki's words are like poetry.
Another dub I have a soft spot in my heart for is the first Streamline dub of "My Neighbor Totoro." Jerry Beck directed the ADR session. Some of the folks who later went on to become part of the voice cast for "Ren & Stimpy," including Cheryl Chase whose greatest fame is for the character Angelica from "Rugrats." I personally can't wait to see the subbed version of "Totoro" for the first time...I'd like to see how close the Streamline dub was to the original. (I suspect not even close.)
As far as the fansub issues go, I bought the whole legitimate R1 Geneon set of "Haibane Renmei" on the strength of the fansubs. It's a masterpiece, and I could tell it was even through the occasionally awkward sub job. However, the fansubbers did get some things right that Geneon's translators didn't quite convey. "Black Seal," for some reason, sounds better to my ears than "Sin-bound" for the condition that poor Reki and Rakka shared. However, "Passover" and "Year-Passing Festival" have different connotations for someone raised Jewish. This was an example where the fansubbers' choices of translation went horribly wrong.
I use Debian and I suspect that the closest this will get to the "official distribution" is a.DEB package in Contrib. HelixPlayer, without the RealPlayer binary blobs, is already in the Debian main repositories.
I had to go to Real's website, download their.bin installer and run it as root to get my hands on something that would work on airamericaradio.com. However, once I did, I was pleasantly surprised. It uses a butt-ugly widget set, but then again so does XMMS. It's quite stable and a "good neighbor" to other processes...it's not resource hungry.
There seem to be no other processes that it spawns other than related to the actual playing of audio and/or video. Any attempt to hide spyware in a Linux app would be quite transparent.
Although I would prefer Real to have put all this functionality in HelixPlayer, I'm glad that RP for Linux v10 exists. I can listen to AirAmerica without firing up the Windows machine and RealAlternative. I'm a happy camper.
Exterminate all rational thought. Just perfect for filing your reports from Interzone.
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That wouldn't get him a Doctorate at Hamburger U.:P
Really, this article makes me mad. Big time.
I have met too many cool people through IRC who have become real life buddies to see IRC as what this dumbass says it is. I know for a fact IRC has saved one life that I know of...one of my chat buddies sent a suicide note via email and between the rest of the regulars in the channel I was a regular on we were able to get paramedics from her town there at her doorstep in time to save her.
Note well: I abandoned EFNet, Undernet and DALnet a long time ago, when they became almost unusable. There are little networks around now where the *real* IRC lives. You probably don't know them, and that's OK...they'd rather be left alone, far from the crapflooders and the warez kiddies and the skript kiddies and the rest of the miscellaneous lamers who make the big nets a living hell. They'd rather be hanging out in cyberspace together in their little cybernetic communities.
I suppose of the big nets freenode.net is still quite friendly. I suggest if you are associated with a LUG get your feet wet in your LUG's chat channel.
IRC used to be fun. It still is when it's among friends. I suppose it's the tragedy of the commons. Let too many people loose in one place and the worst comes out.
Yes, the T series was designed in Asia...at IBM Japan. Just like the majority of the entire ThinkPad line, beginning with the 486-based 401 "Butterfly Keyboard" model. And yes, I am aware of the fact that the assembly has been done in China for years. Before then, ThinkPads were assembled at a Maquiladora in Mexico. However, a lot of the parts are made by IBM in Japan even now.
What about his heirs? Steve Ditko is the true creator of Spiderman. Kirby's heirs will be due big time for The Fantastic Four, however. Stan Lee has some settling up he needs to do with the families of the real creators he screwed during the '60s.
The problem with most laptops is the dodgy quality of the manufacture.
This is why ThinkPads have been such good Linux laptops in the past, and why I am worried about the purchase of IBM's Personal Systems Division by Lenovo. The 600 series is solid as a rock, so is the current R series, T series and X series. The "i" series sucked...they were actually designed and built by Acer and badged by IBM.
Yes, now that IBM PSD has been bought by Lenovo, perhaps all we have left as far as reliable laptop kit is Apple. However, why run Linux on an Apple when you have a solid *BSD-based OS in MacOS X? I'm going to get a Mac mini around June of this year, and I'll be running it on X exclusively. I'd rather have a more KDE-like interface, but I can get used to Quartz. And all you need to make the command line more familiar is to install BASH. (The shell you get with MacOS X is more like the C-shell)
Once the IBM designed/built ThinkPads are gone, Apple will be the only game in town. Ultimately Intel's moves to support Centrino on Linux are too little, too late. Too bad.
Actually it depends on which Netgear WG511 you get. If the card says "Made In Taiwan" you're cool. If the card says "Made In China" the only thing that will work with it is the ndiswrapper and the drivers you get with the card.
Funny thing, I found that out only *after* I bought a WG511 on eBay. Too late to ask about the origin of the card, dammit.:P
I hope the damn show gets cancelled. Star Trek hasn't been good since TNG, and even that had its faults.
Let it die. Let the whole damn franchise die. It's like watching Muhammad Ali box towards the end of his career, or "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan in the WWE, shambling around like Frankenstein's Monster. Or the Lakers last year with their fucked-up "dream team" of poncy primadonnas. The whole franchise has taken a few too many hits, too many shots of "the juice." Retirement is long overdue.
And dude...HIT THE SHOWERS!!! Dear sweet Goddess, Billy-boy looks like he was on one of his legendary "haven't showered in weeks and I feel fine" jags. RMS has NOTHING on Gates before he got married. Both he and Paul Allen were legendary for their lack of hygiene.
Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL!:P
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Apparently the Mace Windu lightsaber has the letters "BMF" engraved somewhere on it. At least that's what I've heard, anyway...
If you trust the book "Just For Fun" he actually says nasty things about PowerPC architecture as well. He must have gone through a big conversion on PPC.
Ummm...you mentioned the mini...that sure sounds like a piece of quality hardware that's competitive price-wise with comparable PCs.
If you give it enough RAM (hint: 256MB isn't enough either for MacOS X or Windows XP)the mini is a mighty little machine. Yeah, Dell can lowball Apple, but Apple is using best-of-breed parts and Dell is notorious for using crap.
And when you get right down to it, every Mac mini comes with MacOS X installed. When you get a Dell, you get Windows XP neutered Home Edition. With lots of pointless eye candy and all the spyware and viruses you can eat. :P
You can always nuke the install and load Linux on a Dell but there's no guarantee all your hardware will work with it, and furthermore if you get in trouble Dell Support in Karachi or Bangalore or wherever it's at now will insist you use the Rescue Disks to reinstall Windows before they'll talk to you.
Now doesn't that Mac mini sound like a bargain at twice the price, Martian?
Yeah, ironic that it's safer to run a Sid install than a Sarge install...
ASP was a total rip-off of PHP2. How far has PHP evolved since v.2? As with most MS "embrace and extend" projects, Active Server Pages haven't really evolved much, .NET connectivity or no .NET connectivity.
Funny, I run Debian and I have *never* had a crash since I switched to that distro from Red Hat, Mandrake and Lycoris.
:-)
Debian is getting close to a pain-free install if you use the new "Sarge" installer. You don't need Xandros' "friendly" installer anymore to get full Debian apt-get goodness.
Oh yeah: easy way to get out from under Xandros...
Step 1.) add regular Debian repositories to your apt-get config file.
Step 2.) apt-get update
Step 3.) apt-get dist-upgrade
SuSE is nice but it doesn't have apt-get!
My thoughts:
:P
This is the one movie Lucas should have done. The necessary expository material in Ep I and Ep II could have been told in flashback.
Then again this is all without the dialogue and other ancillary stuff. For instance, there is nothing in here that says whether or not we will be seeing Jar-Jar a third time.
However, as photo-Manga, it works. I don't think it will get me anywhere near the theatre. But they don't need my bucks anyway.
This is the same way thousands of dot-coms went out. Stick a fork in 'em, they're done. SCOXE indeed.
I'm a Native Angeleno and I truly want to see this actually happen. I pay taxes here, and I don't want my tax dollars going to support Yet Another Microsoft Site License. Using proprietary software is throwing money down the drain that could be better used elsewhere.
However, I would much rather see the money saved get plowed back into education, not the LAPD.
I wonder if any of the LUGs out here are involved with the lobbying effort?
No, her famous comment is "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining."
Ask Eiri Masami that question.
The ST animated series was only good thanks to all the good writers working on it...real SF writers, not failed sitcom writers. As far as the animation went, it was strictly "illustrated radio" done by the cheapest fsckn animation studio in Hollywood: FILMATION. (Filmation was in Reseda, actually -- if you saw "Boogie Nights" you saw a lot of views of the Reseda area.)
Yes indeed. Bury the horse skeleton, already. No meat, no skin, nothing left but bones.
Hopefully Berman and Braga will also get the boot after this travesty. Let J. Michael S. (I never spell his name right!) or Kevin Smith take a crack at some future ST-universe show...preferably after letting the franchise rest for a while.
Heh...wouldn't it be awesome if the next ST-universe ship captain was portrayed by Wil Wheaton....heh heh heh...
The reason why the CowBe dub is so good is because it is written well. The person who wrote the ADR script did their homework, the dialogue has the feel of a good Film Noir from the '40s.
If it weren't for the boneheaded move of hiring Billy-Bob Thornton to do the voice of the Shinto priest, the dub of "Princess Mononoke" would have been perfect. Again, it's the result of a good writer doing the ADR script. Neil Gaiman in this case. An interesting exercise is to watch the dub version of "Mononoke" while reading Miyazaki's literally translated words. Gaiman spins a good epic tale, Miyazaki's words are like poetry.
Another dub I have a soft spot in my heart for is the first Streamline dub of "My Neighbor Totoro." Jerry Beck directed the ADR session. Some of the folks who later went on to become part of the voice cast for "Ren & Stimpy," including Cheryl Chase whose greatest fame is for the character Angelica from "Rugrats." I personally can't wait to see the subbed version of "Totoro" for the first time...I'd like to see how close the Streamline dub was to the original. (I suspect not even close.)
As far as the fansub issues go, I bought the whole legitimate R1 Geneon set of "Haibane Renmei" on the strength of the fansubs. It's a masterpiece, and I could tell it was even through the occasionally awkward sub job. However, the fansubbers did get some things right that Geneon's translators didn't quite convey. "Black Seal," for some reason, sounds better to my ears than "Sin-bound" for the condition that poor Reki and Rakka shared. However, "Passover" and "Year-Passing Festival" have different connotations for someone raised Jewish. This was an example where the fansubbers' choices of translation went horribly wrong.
I use Debian and I suspect that the closest this will get to the "official distribution" is a .DEB package in Contrib. HelixPlayer, without the RealPlayer binary blobs, is already in the Debian main repositories.
.bin installer and run it as root to get my hands on something that would work on airamericaradio.com. However, once I did, I was pleasantly surprised. It uses a butt-ugly widget set, but then again so does XMMS. It's quite stable and a "good neighbor" to other processes...it's not resource hungry.
I had to go to Real's website, download their
There seem to be no other processes that it spawns other than related to the actual playing of audio and/or video. Any attempt to hide spyware in a Linux app would be quite transparent.
Although I would prefer Real to have put all this functionality in HelixPlayer, I'm glad that RP for Linux v10 exists. I can listen to AirAmerica without firing up the Windows machine and RealAlternative. I'm a happy camper.
Exterminate all rational thought. Just perfect for filing your reports from Interzone.
That wouldn't get him a Doctorate at Hamburger U. :P
Really, this article makes me mad. Big time.
I have met too many cool people through IRC who have become real life buddies to see IRC as what this dumbass says it is. I know for a fact IRC has saved one life that I know of...one of my chat buddies sent a suicide note via email and between the rest of the regulars in the channel I was a regular on we were able to get paramedics from her town there at her doorstep in time to save her.
Note well: I abandoned EFNet, Undernet and DALnet a long time ago, when they became almost unusable. There are little networks around now where the *real* IRC lives. You probably don't know them, and that's OK...they'd rather be left alone, far from the crapflooders and the warez kiddies and the skript kiddies and the rest of the miscellaneous lamers who make the big nets a living hell. They'd rather be hanging out in cyberspace together in their little cybernetic communities.
I suppose of the big nets freenode.net is still quite friendly. I suggest if you are associated with a LUG get your feet wet in your LUG's chat channel.
IRC used to be fun. It still is when it's among friends. I suppose it's the tragedy of the commons. Let too many people loose in one place and the worst comes out.
Yes, the T series was designed in Asia...at IBM Japan. Just like the majority of the entire ThinkPad line, beginning with the 486-based 401 "Butterfly Keyboard" model. And yes, I am aware of the fact that the assembly has been done in China for years. Before then, ThinkPads were assembled at a Maquiladora in Mexico. However, a lot of the parts are made by IBM in Japan even now.
...when you buy crappy kit. Next time do it right.
For the real story:
http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko.html
The problem with most laptops is the dodgy quality of the manufacture.
This is why ThinkPads have been such good Linux laptops in the past, and why I am worried about the purchase of IBM's Personal Systems Division by Lenovo. The 600 series is solid as a rock, so is the current R series, T series and X series. The "i" series sucked...they were actually designed and built by Acer and badged by IBM.
Yes, now that IBM PSD has been bought by Lenovo, perhaps all we have left as far as reliable laptop kit is Apple. However, why run Linux on an Apple when you have a solid *BSD-based OS in MacOS X? I'm going to get a Mac mini around June of this year, and I'll be running it on X exclusively. I'd rather have a more KDE-like interface, but I can get used to Quartz. And all you need to make the command line more familiar is to install BASH. (The shell you get with MacOS X is more like the C-shell)
Once the IBM designed/built ThinkPads are gone, Apple will be the only game in town. Ultimately Intel's moves to support Centrino on Linux are too little, too late. Too bad.
Actually it depends on which Netgear WG511 you get. If the card says "Made In Taiwan" you're cool. If the card says "Made In China" the only thing that will work with it is the ndiswrapper and the drivers you get with the card.
:P
Funny thing, I found that out only *after* I bought a WG511 on eBay. Too late to ask about the origin of the card, dammit.
FUCK BERMAN.
I mean it.
I hope the damn show gets cancelled. Star Trek hasn't been good since TNG, and even that had its faults.
Let it die. Let the whole damn franchise die. It's like watching Muhammad Ali box towards the end of his career, or "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan in the WWE, shambling around like Frankenstein's Monster. Or the Lakers last year with their fucked-up "dream team" of poncy primadonnas. The whole franchise has taken a few too many hits, too many shots of "the juice." Retirement is long overdue.
Ooh, sexay sexay! (Not.)
And dude...HIT THE SHOWERS!!! Dear sweet Goddess, Billy-boy looks like he was on one of his legendary "haven't showered in weeks and I feel fine" jags. RMS has NOTHING on Gates before he got married. Both he and Paul Allen were legendary for their lack of hygiene.
:P
Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL!