Frankly, I have always thought that H2G2 would be best done as an animated movie. My choice to do the honors: Pixar, with John Lasseter as director. This would mean that Pixar would be forced to do a movie with a fair amount of humans in it, but considering how well they did humans in Toy Story II and Monsters Inc. they are up for the task.
Back when Disney had the movie rights, this would have actually had realistic chances of success. Now that Disney and The Ego Who Ate The World, aka Steve Jobs, are feuding and Disney apparently lost the rights, this is highly unlikely.
H2G2: International Guidebook Of Mystery? It doesn't look good folks...[sigh]
$60 at Sears. It's not the hax0rable version but it plays DVDs. MP3 CD-Rs and JPG CD-Rs too. Kinda pissed it doesn't play VCD (Apex had a tussle with Philips and Philips pulled their CD-I/VCD license) but oh well, more for my PCs with DVD drives to have fun with.
At this rate, we will see DVD players in crackerjack boxes by 2005.
I got my MSN Messenger account when I was working at a tech school. MSN Messenger was a handy way of knowing when someone was in, out, teaching or at lunch. It's all in how you use it.
Before that, when I was working at a bandwidth provider that went spectacularly out of business, we used a MUSH in a similar fashion. Being that many people worked off-site, the MUSH was extremely effective.
Maybe they (we;-) ) are, but I don't recall any hardware stuff when I did my MCSE.
Hoo hoo hooo...MCSE over here.;-)
There is absolutely zero-zip-nada hardware stuff in the MCSE. Now that the MCSA takes a combo of A+ and either Network+ or Server+ as a single elective, there is hope that maybe there will be at least a modicum of hardware awareness in future MCSA/MCSEs.
Before I went for my MCSE, I spent a lot of time playing with computer hardware, building my own machines, etc. Even now, people contact me more for hardware issues than software issues. I like to think I sort of have a touch with it. I haven't killed a machine yet doing something stupid, thank Goddess.
It is realistic for a large corporation to have a group of sysadmins who don't touch hardware issues and a group of hardware geeks who don't touch software issues. But get down to the medium to small business, and such specialization is suicide.
...Prince has a hell of a lot of strong stuff to say about the state of music. And unlike Janis Ian and Courtney Love he's been busy saying lots about it for years.
Click on some of the links beside the article cited in this Slashback. There's some good stuff. Prince knows more than most just how screwed the record industry is. Not just from his own experience, but black musicians have been getting it up the rectum without vaseline for almost a century now from the recording industry.
His closing remarks are most cogent. I will reprint them translated from his odd way of writing.
How long, however, before a critical mass of established artists realize that it is in their best interests, both artistically and commercially, to leave the system for good? How long before a critical mass of young aspiring artists become aware of the enslaving aspects of the system and are careful not to get involved in it without a maximum of precautions? And how long before a critical mass of art lovers get together to provide these artists with a real, valuable, legitimate, truthfully enthusiastic alternative audience that completes the process of rendering the existing system artistically irrelevant?
I never thought I would say this, but I am damn proud today that Verizon is my local telephone company and the last-mile provider for my DSL.
Suddenly it doesn't feel like I'm David with a pea-shooter facing down Goliath with a BFG9000. Good to see that we geeks have some big swingin' corporate friends. Thanks, Verizon.
Diet Mt. Dew wont make you fat and ir(sic) has lots of pep.
However, it's iffy to find places. My local supermarket only has diet Mountain Dew sporadically. However, at a 7-11 I found not only diet Mountain Dew but diet Code Red Mountain Dew too! The diet drink that gets r00t! W00t! It tastes a lot like Cherry 7Up but unlike Cherry 7Up it's got the leet caffeine content.
That said, my favorite beverage of choice for wakeup still is Arizona diet iced Green Tea. Tasty and healthy too! I don't know how good it will be for pulling all-nighters, but it's good to wake up with in the morning.
Sure there are $60 DVD decks, but mostly online and hard to find.
What a coincidence! I bought an Apex 1200 DVD player at SEARS on Saturday for $60. That's SEARS, folks. Can't get more mainstream than that.
I have my complaints about this...it's the unhackable version that's VCD crippled, so it's not entirely roses and candy. It can play DVDs without having to boot a computer, which is basically why I got the thing. Just pop the disk in and off you go. It played my "Princess Mononoke" DVD which is perhaps the most elaborate DVD I have. It makes ATI Cinemaster choke, so I use it as a test of what I can or cannot do with a given DVD player/software.
BTW folks...advance word on the Daria "Is It College Yet?" DVD is that it, like the "Is It Fall Yet?" DVD, is DEFACTO REGION FREE. The box is marked Region 1, but the disk will play in any region so long as your TV will understand NTSC signals. From what I understand from my European friends this is not a problem.
Actually it's an HP laser fax. And yeah, when a HP Laserwriter runs out of paper, you get the now infamous "PC Load Letter" message. "Office Space" is a classic, man. One of the few DVDs I own.
Actually Linux has a problem that the BSDs don't. Most of the major Linux distros have gotten almost as bloated as MS, and the bloat is compounded by the fact that these same major Linux distros give you a handful of apps to do the same thing where one "best of breed" app could have been chosen.
One of the reasons I am so pro-Lycoris is that the distro takes that very stance. Why confuse the beginning Linux user with a myriad of apps, most of which are redundant, when you can provide the best email program, the best browser, the best Tetris clone game, etc. etc.? While I can question some of their choices, I can see where this approach is best for their target audience. And hey, the more expert users can ADD to the installed apps! What a concept!
Because it is a KDE-centric distro, Lycoris' ability to function on computers degrades with less powerful processors. The suggested minimum processor speed/type is a 300MHz Pentium II. I suspect that with a lot of the eyecandy turned off it should be fine on a 233MHz Pentium MMX or better.
This does nothing for older machines, though. What is needed is a lightweight graphical distro that can make low end Pentia and 486en useful. The recent issue of Linux Journal has an interesting article by Marcel Gagne suggesting the kind of apps that would work in such a lightweight distro.
I don't know the first thing about putting together a distribution, but I am looking to learn. I have been riding this particular hobbyhorse for years now but nobody's done anything about it. People are either compiling ultra-tight distros for bootdisks and whatnot or making monster distros for bleeding edge computers. No middle ground. It is this middle ground that can make the kind of machines hitting these landfills in China usable again.
There are kids in Pacoima and the South Bronx and the Southside of Chicago and Oaktown who could use these computers. The companies upgrading their boxen are throwing perfectly useful machines out or sending them to fly-by-night "Recyclers" who instead ship them to the 3rd world. When companies donate instead of recycling, MS gets on their case about licensing. The refurbishers get static from MS about licensing. The underpriveleged kids who need computers at home go without.
A good, lightweight Linux distro could change all this. It's time to create one.
Taiyo Yuden, baby. The real stuff is available at Americal.Com or you can get TYs badged as Fuji just about everywhere. Great stuff. Won't last as long as Mitsumi Gold but is close.
I suspect that companies like VIA will be more than happy to continue to ship non-DRM hardware to a world that probably would prefer their computers without Microsoft DRM in them. The Chi-Coms in particular are not too thrilled by MS software restrictions, and will probably not cotton to MS hardware restrictions either. If Pd becomes reality, expect a competing "Raise The Sail" platform without DRM and probably with a VIA CIII as a CPU.
If you want a preview, google for VIA EPIA. It won't be a barn-burner speed wise and it probably won't play games well, but it will be quiet and will be more than enough to run Open Office.
Wrong! DeCSS was created to allow DVDs to play under Linux. However, under the DMCA, this is now a crime. Thank you very much Don Valenti. You are preventing me from enjoying DVDs I paid fair and square for.
The big difference between NVidia and ATI is that ATI releases lots of information about their chips, while NVidia releases binary-only drivers for their cards in Linux and keeps mum about details on their chipsets. What's better, a binary driver that will break with the next version of XFree, or truly free drivers that can be updated as XFree evolves? I'd say ATI is the more supportive of Linux of the two companies.
I find this to be SOOOOOO funny! A US agency is technically in violation of the DMCA because they want to make sure that astronauts who bring DVDs aboard the space station can play them.
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Lycoris does that.
But...but...but...they had me move the planet 4 times already, and they took my stapler...and...and....well, I guess I'm going to have to burn the planet down...
Frankly, I have always thought that H2G2 would be best done as an animated movie. My choice to do the honors: Pixar, with John Lasseter as director. This would mean that Pixar would be forced to do a movie with a fair amount of humans in it, but considering how well they did humans in Toy Story II and Monsters Inc. they are up for the task.
Back when Disney had the movie rights, this would have actually had realistic chances of success. Now that Disney and The Ego Who Ate The World, aka Steve Jobs, are feuding and Disney apparently lost the rights, this is highly unlikely.
H2G2: International Guidebook Of Mystery? It doesn't look good folks...[sigh]
$60 at Sears. It's not the hax0rable version but it plays DVDs. MP3 CD-Rs and JPG CD-Rs too. Kinda pissed it doesn't play VCD (Apex had a tussle with Philips and Philips pulled their CD-I/VCD license) but oh well, more for my PCs with DVD drives to have fun with.
At this rate, we will see DVD players in crackerjack boxes by 2005.
On FOX...naturally!
I got my MSN Messenger account when I was working at a tech school. MSN Messenger was a handy way of knowing when someone was in, out, teaching or at lunch. It's all in how you use it.
Before that, when I was working at a bandwidth provider that went spectacularly out of business, we used a MUSH in a similar fashion. Being that many people worked off-site, the MUSH was extremely effective.
The non-Pro version of Trillian is and continues to stay free. I am right now on four IRC channels and (gulp) MSN Messenger through Trillian.
I will pay for Trillian if and when there is a Trillian for Linux.
Thank Goddess TechTV is privately held, or it would have been gone by now.
Hoo hoo hooo...MCSE over here. ;-)
There is absolutely zero-zip-nada hardware stuff in the MCSE. Now that the MCSA takes a combo of A+ and either Network+ or Server+ as a single elective, there is hope that maybe there will be at least a modicum of hardware awareness in future MCSA/MCSEs.
Before I went for my MCSE, I spent a lot of time playing with computer hardware, building my own machines, etc. Even now, people contact me more for hardware issues than software issues. I like to think I sort of have a touch with it. I haven't killed a machine yet doing something stupid, thank Goddess.
It is realistic for a large corporation to have a group of sysadmins who don't touch hardware issues and a group of hardware geeks who don't touch software issues. But get down to the medium to small business, and such specialization is suicide.
People want what is fresh, not some old 78 rpm of a hillbilly bluegrass and jug band.
There are lots of people who saw the movie and are actually very interested in that very stuff.
Click on some of the links beside the article cited in this Slashback. There's some good stuff. Prince knows more than most just how screwed the record industry is. Not just from his own experience, but black musicians have been getting it up the rectum without vaseline for almost a century now from the recording industry.
His closing remarks are most cogent. I will reprint them translated from his odd way of writing.
More power 2 U, Prince. U rock.
New Republic is an old school Liberal mag.
It's the self-same version. And there is no "no commercial use" clause in the EULA.
I never thought I would say this, but I am damn proud today that Verizon is my local telephone company and the last-mile provider for my DSL.
Suddenly it doesn't feel like I'm David with a pea-shooter facing down Goliath with a BFG9000. Good to see that we geeks have some big swingin' corporate friends. Thanks, Verizon.
...has got Caffeine. For some reason, Barq's diet Root Beer doesn't. Go figure.
However, it's iffy to find places. My local supermarket only has diet Mountain Dew sporadically. However, at a 7-11 I found not only diet Mountain Dew but diet Code Red Mountain Dew too! The diet drink that gets r00t! W00t! It tastes a lot like Cherry 7Up but unlike Cherry 7Up it's got the leet caffeine content.
That said, my favorite beverage of choice for wakeup still is Arizona diet iced Green Tea. Tasty and healthy too! I don't know how good it will be for pulling all-nighters, but it's good to wake up with in the morning.
What a coincidence! I bought an Apex 1200 DVD player at SEARS on Saturday for $60. That's SEARS, folks. Can't get more mainstream than that.
I have my complaints about this...it's the unhackable version that's VCD crippled, so it's not entirely roses and candy. It can play DVDs without having to boot a computer, which is basically why I got the thing. Just pop the disk in and off you go. It played my "Princess Mononoke" DVD which is perhaps the most elaborate DVD I have. It makes ATI Cinemaster choke, so I use it as a test of what I can or cannot do with a given DVD player/software.
BTW folks...advance word on the Daria "Is It College Yet?" DVD is that it, like the "Is It Fall Yet?" DVD, is DEFACTO REGION FREE. The box is marked Region 1, but the disk will play in any region so long as your TV will understand NTSC signals. From what I understand from my European friends this is not a problem.
Actually it's an HP laser fax. And yeah, when a HP Laserwriter runs out of paper, you get the now infamous "PC Load Letter" message. "Office Space" is a classic, man. One of the few DVDs I own.
One of the reasons I am so pro-Lycoris is that the distro takes that very stance. Why confuse the beginning Linux user with a myriad of apps, most of which are redundant, when you can provide the best email program, the best browser, the best Tetris clone game, etc. etc.? While I can question some of their choices, I can see where this approach is best for their target audience. And hey, the more expert users can ADD to the installed apps! What a concept!
Because it is a KDE-centric distro, Lycoris' ability to function on computers degrades with less powerful processors. The suggested minimum processor speed/type is a 300MHz Pentium II. I suspect that with a lot of the eyecandy turned off it should be fine on a 233MHz Pentium MMX or better.
This does nothing for older machines, though. What is needed is a lightweight graphical distro that can make low end Pentia and 486en useful. The recent issue of Linux Journal has an interesting article by Marcel Gagne suggesting the kind of apps that would work in such a lightweight distro.
I don't know the first thing about putting together a distribution, but I am looking to learn. I have been riding this particular hobbyhorse for years now but nobody's done anything about it. People are either compiling ultra-tight distros for bootdisks and whatnot or making monster distros for bleeding edge computers. No middle ground. It is this middle ground that can make the kind of machines hitting these landfills in China usable again.
There are kids in Pacoima and the South Bronx and the Southside of Chicago and Oaktown who could use these computers. The companies upgrading their boxen are throwing perfectly useful machines out or sending them to fly-by-night "Recyclers" who instead ship them to the 3rd world. When companies donate instead of recycling, MS gets on their case about licensing. The refurbishers get static from MS about licensing. The underpriveleged kids who need computers at home go without.
A good, lightweight Linux distro could change all this. It's time to create one.
Taiyo Yuden, baby. The real stuff is available at Americal.Com or you can get TYs badged as Fuji just about everywhere. Great stuff. Won't last as long as Mitsumi Gold but is close.
I suspect that companies like VIA will be more than happy to continue to ship non-DRM hardware to a world that probably would prefer their computers without Microsoft DRM in them. The Chi-Coms in particular are not too thrilled by MS software restrictions, and will probably not cotton to MS hardware restrictions either. If Pd becomes reality, expect a competing "Raise The Sail" platform without DRM and probably with a VIA CIII as a CPU.
If you want a preview, google for VIA EPIA. It won't be a barn-burner speed wise and it probably won't play games well, but it will be quiet and will be more than enough to run Open Office.
Ken Lay is a crook, pure and simple.
Wrong! DeCSS was created to allow DVDs to play under Linux. However, under the DMCA, this is now a crime. Thank you very much Don Valenti. You are preventing me from enjoying DVDs I paid fair and square for.
The big difference between NVidia and ATI is that ATI releases lots of information about their chips, while NVidia releases binary-only drivers for their cards in Linux and keeps mum about details on their chipsets. What's better, a binary driver that will break with the next version of XFree, or truly free drivers that can be updated as XFree evolves? I'd say ATI is the more supportive of Linux of the two companies.
I find this to be SOOOOOO funny! A US agency is technically in violation of the DMCA because they want to make sure that astronauts who bring DVDs aboard the space station can play them.
Region encoding and CSS encryption is ABSURD.