(Last time I checked, Office also had great support for.rtf.)
Unfortunately recent versions of Office use a version of.RTF so tweaked that it is totally unparsable by older non-MS programs.
It also seems to cut both ways. An RTF file created in AppleWorks is unreadable in Office 97/98/2000/XP/X. Same with RTF files from WordPerfect.
Star Office 6/ OpenOffice 1 format is a great choice for a portable format. XML+Zip compression. If MS adopts it, however, they will embrace, then extend it to the breaking point. Just like they did with RTF.
Nova Development puts out their stock CDs in either Mac or PC format. For vector art, they use.EPS. For raster art, they use.TIFF. For photos, they use high quality JPGs. The only difference is in the format of the CDs. Want ISO9660 with Joliet extensions? Go wih the PC disks. Want HFS? Go with the Mac disks. AFAIK there are utilities for xNIX systems to read either. They have started putting out DVD editions of their stuff...not sure what format they use on those. UDF? [shrug]
They do package their art with utilities for either Mac or PC but most people are just buying the CD sets for the art, not for the bundled software.
http://www.novadevelopment.com/ (Caution: they won't let Konqui through but will let Mozilla in)
No. The XBox is a PC designed to work like a console.
Basically it's a PC with these specs: 733MHz Celeron 64MB PC100 RAM GeForce 2.5...halfway between GeForce 2MX and 3. 8GB HD. cheap 10/100 base T NIC non-standard USB (based on 1.1 spec) connections for controllers.
However, for all the efforts to try to hax0r the XBox...and I wish them all well...they are going to have to find a way to make a keyboard work with it. With the tweaked non-standard USB it's not gonna be easy.
This is the truth. Sony sucks. Sony, because of its purchase of Columbia Pictures, is also an MPAA signatory. Think about this when you "ooh!" and "ahh" at the latest Sony toy. Buy a Clie and make Hillary Rosen and Don Jack Valenti happy. "But it's so shiny and cute!" you say? Enjoy your shiny, cute DRM locked-down PC once the Senator From Disney passes the Son of DMCA. I know I'm a broken record on this, but it seems like nobody fsckn gets the point.
I can't live without mine. m100, bought remanufactured at (gah!) Fry's. For $50. Beat that!
Suggestion to all who are experiencing "insensitive" areas on the screen: run the digitizer calibrator every so often. Sometimes the digitizer drifts off of alignment and you need to set it right.
Annoyance: the flip top broke off very early in the game. Hoping to replace it but since I have the thing in a Targus case it's merely an annoyance, not a problem.
I use the onscreen keyboard almost exclusively to input data. I've gotten pretty fast at hunt-and-tap. I might get a plug-in keyboard from eBay someday but hunt-and-tap works for me. The "v" in the Graffiti alphabet always threw me, so screw that.
Overall the PalmOS feels like I'm back in front of a MacSE. Same black-and-white graphics, similar feel in the apps.
I'm looking forward eventually to something better...maybe a Handspring is in my future. Until then, my m100 and I are inseparable. Look for the Mahjongg freeware game on www.palm.com...it is maddeningly addictive.
Now the the Sims are going to be showing up on the PS2 with a PS2 specific version, why bother with the Mandrake deal?
Maybe some people don't want to pay money to Sony to buy a PS2. Maybe some people want to keep their money away from a rapacious company that belongs to both the RIAA and the MPAA.
And yes, I fully realize I'm going to be modded down for saying something bad about Sony. BFD. It's really quick and easy to bounce back to the cap from 48 or 49, and I honestly don't give a flying fsck anymore.
1.)Get Open Office or pay for Star Office 6. 2.)Open those.DOCs and.XLSes in OO/SO. 3.)Save copies in native OO/SO format, which is based on XML. Archive the old MS format files on CD-Rs. 4.)Keep one lone copy of Windoze and Office for opening.DOCs and.XLSes people outside the company send you.
Ever heard of MacQuariums? Little Blue the budgie and its Classic cage? The Lego Mac? This has been going on for years. The Classic Mac has always been an inspiration to modders...there's something just so kawaii about it that decoration of it is second nature. All I can say to the 1337 PC c@s3 h4x0rz is "what took you so long?"
W00t! Thanks for the link, man. Both the Landmark and Laemmle chains are still indie. This means that there are literally DOZENS of indie theatres in Los Angeles to patronize.
You'd think that in LA there would be a nice, big film festival to go to each year. Hey, this is where the Industry is, right? Wrong. We haven't had a big festival since Filmex folded its tent. Thanks a whole freakin' lot. I bet the MPAA has something to do with this...sort of like how the Illuminati have something to do with just about everything in Robert Anton Wilson's immortal trilogy.
Thank you, Alex Cox. We'll be forever in your debt for "Repo Man" but that's another story altogether. It's a shame this appeared in the Guardian rather than in the LA Times or some other place where it will do some good.
I know I have made a big deal about "Dogtown And ZBoyz" and Sony Classics' being the distributor, but damn, man...could it have only seen the light of day if one of the distributors owned by MPAA signatories had released it? I mean, probably "Revolution OS" didn't have that kind of backing, but it didn't go into fairly wide release like "Dogtown" did.
If the movie theatres are 0wned by the MPAA, then where do the truly independent filmmakers go to show their work? I am hoping that somehow or another technology will come to the rescue as it has several times in the past. The RIAA had DAT neutered and the DAT portastudio killed because it feared indie musicians with the ability to create really good sounding independent recordings. Guess what? Thanks to cheap, huge hard drives and computer technology getting cheaper and cheaper, you can go to Sam Ash and get a portastudio with a HD capable of storing hours of 16-track audio for $500 or so.
OK, so digital filmmaking on a massive, Episode 2 kind of scale is out of reach of indie filmmakers. You can still get Digital Video cameras for a grand, a Mac "Quicksilver" minitower for 2 grand and Final Cut Pro for another large bill and have the ability to make a movie, then send it to DVD-R for distribution. I still am talking Large Bucks but it's certainly not as expensive as it used to be to make movies on film. And if you opt instead for a big-ass Athlon MP system with a firewire card and a Pioneer Superdrive, Windows 2K and Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 3, you can bring the price of the computer down a fair amount and shave a few bills off the price of software. If it is not practical now to do this, it will become practical in a few years. Right now CD-RW drives and DVD-ROM drives are selling for only $10 or $20 more for the increasingly hard to find CD-ROM only units. I can see a day coming in four or five years where CD-RW and DVD-ROM will be universally replaced with DVD-R/RW (or DVD+R/RW depending on which standard wins) and you only save a pittance by going with DVD-ROM and/or CD-RW.
Of course, if the Senator From Disney, Don Valenti's Made Man himself, Sen. Hollings can get one of his horrible bills passed, this all might be moot. If all computers have to have an RIAA/MPAA-approved DRM OS running and hardware copy neutering, you won't be able to do much with that newly cheap DVD recordable drive. I kinda hope that technology will figure a way to get around it, just like the Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it; and instead of DAT Tascam and Fostex used hard drives to create a digital multitrack recording device. But when computer technology itself is chained...I shudder to think of the consequences.
And actually Alex has a point...watching a movie in a theatre is way different than watching a movie on a computer monitor, on your TV, or on cable. If the MPAA has that all locked up, we are that much poorer culturally. So even if we win technologically, we lose an unique experience to the multinationals and their slaves in public office.
Millione di grazie, Don Valenti. Pardon me if I don't kiss your fsckn ring.
I'm in progress on a new project...I want to build a small, compact computer to bring places. Not just to LAN parties, but also to LUG meetings and at teaching engagements. So here's what I've done so far case-wise:
Case itself: A-Top 777. It's not exactly what I was looking for, but turned out to be decent for what I intend to do. This case would be great as a set-top box case..it's that ugly beige but that's nothing a spray can can't fix.
Power Supply: PC Power And Cooling SFX-S form-factor power supply. Get rid of the PS in this box...it looks like something that eMachines would throw into their POS boxen. There is an econo 145W version which is what I got...this is a PIII-based system, not an Athlon or P4. They also make a very decent AMD and P4 approved 180W PS that can handle the ABit NV7M nForce-based mATX motherboard without breaking a sweat.
Anyway, the combo of the A-Top 777 case and the PCPC power supply should be a fine one for my purposes. Will document the entire build at Low End PC.
To appreciate what the Z-Boys were doing, it's helpful to realize that they were trying to make tricks that had never before been landed. From simply kick-turning at the top of a pool, to Tony Alva's very first f/s air, this stuff was all new, and no one had ever done any of it before.
Yeah, you actually get to see footage of Alva's first aerial in this one. In fsckn credible.
Good to hear that Jay Adams is out of stir...he looked absolutely awful in the movie. It seemed as if maybe he was in a fight the day before he was interviewed because he had scabs on his forehead. He also sounded kind of screwed up...maybe it's the burnout thing or maybe it was taking a couple too many shots to the head...again, I have no idea if I'm right or not.
Alva seems to be the truest to the game...his skate company is still in business 20 years on, and the guy skates every day. He was the most visible of the Z-Boys, the one with the biggest mouth, the Muhammad Ali of skateboarding. He could talk smack and be arrogant all he wanted to be, because the mofo could and probably can still back it up 1000%.
One last comment: yeah, the Dogtown boyz dissed the Valley every chance they got in those days, but guess where the fsck they trolled for pools to skate in? That's right, the Valley. Say what you will about Val surfers and skaters, but we never spray-painted "Locals only! Westsiders stay out!" on walls in our part of LA. I take a fair amount of satisfaction in that fact.
Actually the soundtrack was fairly accurate for its period. Lots of Zep, Ted Nugent and other "hard rock" from the mid-70s. Remember, the Z-boyz were active from about 1974 to 1977. A little before punk hit the West Coast hard.
However, I missed the punk rock, because the skatepunk culture that formed in the Z-Boyz' wake had as its soundtrack stuff like Black Flag and The Minutemen and Suicidal Tendencies and The Germs....mostly the SST bands that thrived just south of Dogtown in the Pedro/Wilmas/Torrance/South Bay area.
I have nothing but contempt for Greg Ginn, but the producers of Dogtown could have done worse than to contact him and get sync licenses for some of the classic Flag stuff at least.
My big pet peeve about this movie: the stealth involvement of Sony Classics in this release. I went to see this movie because I thought, "great, this is an indie, the MPAA isn't getting their cut". However, the first fsckn thing you see when the lights go down is a slide that says "Sony Classics Pictures". I felt like such a tool. Not only was Don Valenti's hand in my pocket, so was the Evil Sony Empire.
Folks, I would recommend this movie but again, you will be putting money in the MPAA's hand if you go. If your conscience allows you to, then yeah, go ahead and check it out. There's some amazing footage in this movie....the P.O.P. footage is worth the price of admission alone.
The discrimination factor comes from the high end of the age spectrum mentioned, not the low end.
I think this probably has something to do with 34 being the high-end of where people can be recruited for the Army, but don't quote me on that. Then again, Grace Hopper was in her 50s when she entered the US Navy.
This is pissing me off though...I'm over 34 and I'd love to have a copy. Am I going to have to bribe a younger cousin to download this for me? [sigh]
Well apparently I was 100% wrong on several points in this post.
Perhaps the XBox might be on its way to iOpener-dom thanks to these chips. The macrovision fix and DVD region code fixes especially make this worth the price of admission.
If this works, I might just eat some more words of mine...that I won't buy an XBox but instead look to places like half.com to get a used PS2.
Hopefully work will also continue on indie servers for XBox multiplayer play in spite of MS starting their own network. The XBox was *made* to be a LAN Party box. Microsoft just didn't know it when they were designing it.
So? Mac OS X is way more stable than either MacOS 9 or Windows 9x. Just like 2K and XP eat 9x's lunch. Real preemptive multitasking beats fakey preemptive multitasking (9x) and cooperative multitasking (classic MacOS) anyday.
Linux beats all for stability though...it is a joy to see one instance of Konqui sig-11 but the others, as well as the rest of the OS, remain standing. If IE takes a dump, it STILL takes 2K down. Dunno about how it is on OS X.
I have a friend who was in on the final testing of the XBox. He was able to look at its guts and basically told me that the box is "un-crackable."
Point one: the BIOS is distributed over several chips, not contained in one EEPROM. Point two: the operating system itself is encrypted with strong crypto. It uses a species of crypto related to the EFS encryption infrastructure first released in Windows 2000. Since the OS is in ROM and thoroughly encrypted kiss the thought of booting the XBox with Linux goodbye. Point three: their DVD-ROM has a reversable motor. XBox game DVDs spin BACKWARDS, and the content starts at the second layer. Point four: Even the peripherals are non-standard. The XBox implementation of USB means that plain-jane USB periphs WILL NOT WORK with the XBox. There will be a keyboard and mouse for the XBox when hell freezes over.
Microsoft made DAMN SURE the XBox would not end up like the IOpener.
The better chance to get PCs to the 3rd World is the VIA Eden Platform. There are already products using the Eden Platform out, and more are on the way. VIA might not attract the power users (The nForce+Athlon is more appropriate for them) but they will 0wn China with this platform.
And no, not every poor fsck can afford a TV. Some can't even afford a bowl of rice. In places like this, technology is the least of the populace's worries.
If you really want the evil bastards at the RIAA and MPAA to sit up and take notice, STOP BUYING THEIR STUFF!!!!
Yeah, I know I saw a Sony-distributed movie recently, but I intend to be more vigilant in the future.
If you really need your corporate media, buy it USED.Half.Com is a good place to start. So is Second Spin and Powell's.
Stop buying new DVDs and CDs. Stop going to movies. Maybe even get rid of your cable service, because the cable companies pay their tribute to the MPAA and the RIAA too. Take the money you would have used on new DVDs, new CDs, movie tickets and cable bills and donate it to the EFF.
...and I don't intend this as a sick joke about the fate of the Hindenburg.
I don't know why anyone hasn't considered covering the outer skin of one of these "new technology" Zeppelins in photovoltaic cells. Think about it. The engines don't need to put out much torque...they are used for steering, not lift. They could be high-efficiency electric or hybrid engines.
On sunny days, the ship could fly completely on solar-generated electricity, and on less-than-sunny days it could be charged from the ground, or surplus energy generated during earlier flights on sunny days. Fuel cells could be a third source of energy if the other two fail.
Maybe it's not 100% free energy...TANSTAAFL is still a fundamental law of nature...but it's a possibility that should be examined. At the very least it would be a "neat hack."
(Why, oh why didn't they use a different phrase to describe the newness of their aircraft...my association with NT is with the Blue Screen Of Death and crashing. Zeppelin XP? ZeppeLinux?)
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If you're ever in Germany, you can actually find out first hand what the Zeppelin NT project is doing...with a tourist flight.
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Unfortunately recent versions of Office use a version of .RTF so tweaked that it is totally unparsable by older non-MS programs.
It also seems to cut both ways. An RTF file created in AppleWorks is unreadable in Office 97/98/2000/XP/X. Same with RTF files from WordPerfect.
Star Office 6/ OpenOffice 1 format is a great choice for a portable format. XML+Zip compression. If MS adopts it, however, they will embrace, then extend it to the breaking point. Just like they did with RTF.
Nova Development puts out their stock CDs in either Mac or PC format. For vector art, they use .EPS. For raster art, they use .TIFF. For photos, they use high quality JPGs. The only difference is in the format of the CDs. Want ISO9660 with Joliet extensions? Go wih the PC disks. Want HFS? Go with the Mac disks. AFAIK there are utilities for xNIX systems to read either. They have started putting out DVD editions of their stuff...not sure what format they use on those. UDF? [shrug]
They do package their art with utilities for either Mac or PC but most people are just buying the CD sets for the art, not for the bundled software.
http://www.novadevelopment.com/
(Caution: they won't let Konqui through but will let Mozilla in)
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/news-archive-1 7-3-2002.php
Interact is putting this out. News bite is buried almost at the bottom of the page.
No. The XBox is a PC designed to work like a console.
Basically it's a PC with these specs:
733MHz Celeron
64MB PC100 RAM
GeForce 2.5...halfway between GeForce 2MX and 3.
8GB HD.
cheap 10/100 base T NIC
non-standard USB (based on 1.1 spec) connections for controllers.
However, for all the efforts to try to hax0r the XBox...and I wish them all well...they are going to have to find a way to make a keyboard work with it. With the tweaked non-standard USB it's not gonna be easy.
That's a firmware problem. Since the Palm OS on the m100 and m105 is in ROM, not EEPROM, the thing is basically fux0red and needs to be sent back.
The first m100 I got did that. The second one was the keeper.
This is the truth. Sony sucks. Sony, because of its purchase of Columbia Pictures, is also an MPAA signatory. Think about this when you "ooh!" and "ahh" at the latest Sony toy. Buy a Clie and make Hillary Rosen and Don Jack Valenti happy. "But it's so shiny and cute!" you say? Enjoy your shiny, cute DRM locked-down PC once the Senator From Disney passes the Son of DMCA. I know I'm a broken record on this, but it seems like nobody fsckn gets the point.
I can't live without mine. m100, bought remanufactured at (gah!) Fry's. For $50. Beat that!
Suggestion to all who are experiencing "insensitive" areas on the screen: run the digitizer calibrator every so often. Sometimes the digitizer drifts off of alignment and you need to set it right.
Annoyance: the flip top broke off very early in the game. Hoping to replace it but since I have the thing in a Targus case it's merely an annoyance, not a problem.
I use the onscreen keyboard almost exclusively to input data. I've gotten pretty fast at hunt-and-tap. I might get a plug-in keyboard from eBay someday but hunt-and-tap works for me. The "v" in the Graffiti alphabet always threw me, so screw that.
Overall the PalmOS feels like I'm back in front of a MacSE. Same black-and-white graphics, similar feel in the apps.
I'm looking forward eventually to something better...maybe a Handspring is in my future. Until then, my m100 and I are inseparable. Look for the Mahjongg freeware game on www.palm.com...it is maddeningly addictive.
Maybe some people don't want to pay money to Sony to buy a PS2. Maybe some people want to keep their money away from a rapacious company that belongs to both the RIAA and the MPAA.
And yes, I fully realize I'm going to be modded down for saying something bad about Sony. BFD. It's really quick and easy to bounce back to the cap from 48 or 49, and I honestly don't give a flying fsck anymore.
Here's another fun way to use Linux to eliminate yet another proprietary solution, kids!
You wind up with a proper .PDF, openable in Acrobat Reader, that is made without tithing to Adobe! W00t! Linux wins again.
No, the answer is simpler than that.
.DOCs and .XLSes in OO/SO. .DOCs and .XLSes people outside the company send you.
1.)Get Open Office or pay for Star Office 6.
2.)Open those
3.)Save copies in native OO/SO format, which is based on XML. Archive the old MS format files on CD-Rs.
4.)Keep one lone copy of Windoze and Office for opening
Problem solved. A win for Linux.
You want evidence?
http://www.applefritter.com
There's your evidence.
Ever heard of MacQuariums? Little Blue the budgie and its Classic cage? The Lego Mac? This has been going on for years. The Classic Mac has always been an inspiration to modders...there's something just so kawaii about it that decoration of it is second nature. All I can say to the 1337 PC c@s3 h4x0rz is "what took you so long?"
W00t! Thanks for the link, man. Both the Landmark and Laemmle chains are still indie. This means that there are literally DOZENS of indie theatres in Los Angeles to patronize.
You'd think that in LA there would be a nice, big film festival to go to each year. Hey, this is where the Industry is, right? Wrong. We haven't had a big festival since Filmex folded its tent. Thanks a whole freakin' lot. I bet the MPAA has something to do with this...sort of like how the Illuminati have something to do with just about everything in Robert Anton Wilson's immortal trilogy.
Thanks!
Thank you, Alex Cox. We'll be forever in your debt for "Repo Man" but that's another story altogether. It's a shame this appeared in the Guardian rather than in the LA Times or some other place where it will do some good.
I know I have made a big deal about "Dogtown And ZBoyz" and Sony Classics' being the distributor, but damn, man...could it have only seen the light of day if one of the distributors owned by MPAA signatories had released it? I mean, probably "Revolution OS" didn't have that kind of backing, but it didn't go into fairly wide release like "Dogtown" did.
If the movie theatres are 0wned by the MPAA, then where do the truly independent filmmakers go to show their work? I am hoping that somehow or another technology will come to the rescue as it has several times in the past. The RIAA had DAT neutered and the DAT portastudio killed because it feared indie musicians with the ability to create really good sounding independent recordings. Guess what? Thanks to cheap, huge hard drives and computer technology getting cheaper and cheaper, you can go to Sam Ash and get a portastudio with a HD capable of storing hours of 16-track audio for $500 or so.
OK, so digital filmmaking on a massive, Episode 2 kind of scale is out of reach of indie filmmakers. You can still get Digital Video cameras for a grand, a Mac "Quicksilver" minitower for 2 grand and Final Cut Pro for another large bill and have the ability to make a movie, then send it to DVD-R for distribution. I still am talking Large Bucks but it's certainly not as expensive as it used to be to make movies on film. And if you opt instead for a big-ass Athlon MP system with a firewire card and a Pioneer Superdrive, Windows 2K and Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 3, you can bring the price of the computer down a fair amount and shave a few bills off the price of software. If it is not practical now to do this, it will become practical in a few years. Right now CD-RW drives and DVD-ROM drives are selling for only $10 or $20 more for the increasingly hard to find CD-ROM only units. I can see a day coming in four or five years where CD-RW and DVD-ROM will be universally replaced with DVD-R/RW (or DVD+R/RW depending on which standard wins) and you only save a pittance by going with DVD-ROM and/or CD-RW.
Of course, if the Senator From Disney, Don Valenti's Made Man himself, Sen. Hollings can get one of his horrible bills passed, this all might be moot. If all computers have to have an RIAA/MPAA-approved DRM OS running and hardware copy neutering, you won't be able to do much with that newly cheap DVD recordable drive. I kinda hope that technology will figure a way to get around it, just like the Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it; and instead of DAT Tascam and Fostex used hard drives to create a digital multitrack recording device. But when computer technology itself is chained...I shudder to think of the consequences.
And actually Alex has a point...watching a movie in a theatre is way different than watching a movie on a computer monitor, on your TV, or on cable. If the MPAA has that all locked up, we are that much poorer culturally. So even if we win technologically, we lose an unique experience to the multinationals and their slaves in public office.
Millione di grazie, Don Valenti. Pardon me if I don't kiss your fsckn ring.
Case itself: A-Top 777. It's not exactly what I was looking for, but turned out to be decent for what I intend to do. This case would be great as a set-top box case..it's that ugly beige but that's nothing a spray can can't fix.
Power Supply: PC Power And Cooling SFX-S form-factor power supply. Get rid of the PS in this box...it looks like something that eMachines would throw into their POS boxen. There is an econo 145W version which is what I got...this is a PIII-based system, not an Athlon or P4. They also make a very decent AMD and P4 approved 180W PS that can handle the ABit NV7M nForce-based mATX motherboard without breaking a sweat.
Anyway, the combo of the A-Top 777 case and the PCPC power supply should be a fine one for my purposes. Will document the entire build at Low End PC.
Yeah, you actually get to see footage of Alva's first aerial in this one. In fsckn credible.
Good to hear that Jay Adams is out of stir...he looked absolutely awful in the movie. It seemed as if maybe he was in a fight the day before he was interviewed because he had scabs on his forehead. He also sounded kind of screwed up...maybe it's the burnout thing or maybe it was taking a couple too many shots to the head...again, I have no idea if I'm right or not.
Alva seems to be the truest to the game...his skate company is still in business 20 years on, and the guy skates every day. He was the most visible of the Z-Boys, the one with the biggest mouth, the Muhammad Ali of skateboarding. He could talk smack and be arrogant all he wanted to be, because the mofo could and probably can still back it up 1000%.
One last comment: yeah, the Dogtown boyz dissed the Valley every chance they got in those days, but guess where the fsck they trolled for pools to skate in? That's right, the Valley. Say what you will about Val surfers and skaters, but we never spray-painted "Locals only! Westsiders stay out!" on walls in our part of LA. I take a fair amount of satisfaction in that fact.
Actually the soundtrack was fairly accurate for its period. Lots of Zep, Ted Nugent and other "hard rock" from the mid-70s. Remember, the Z-boyz were active from about 1974 to 1977. A little before punk hit the West Coast hard.
However, I missed the punk rock, because the skatepunk culture that formed in the Z-Boyz' wake had as its soundtrack stuff like Black Flag and The Minutemen and Suicidal Tendencies and The Germs....mostly the SST bands that thrived just south of Dogtown in the Pedro/Wilmas/Torrance/South Bay area.
I have nothing but contempt for Greg Ginn, but the producers of Dogtown could have done worse than to contact him and get sync licenses for some of the classic Flag stuff at least.
My big pet peeve about this movie: the stealth involvement of Sony Classics in this release. I went to see this movie because I thought, "great, this is an indie, the MPAA isn't getting their cut". However, the first fsckn thing you see when the lights go down is a slide that says "Sony Classics Pictures". I felt like such a tool. Not only was Don Valenti's hand in my pocket, so was the Evil Sony Empire.
Folks, I would recommend this movie but again, you will be putting money in the MPAA's hand if you go. If your conscience allows you to, then yeah, go ahead and check it out. There's some amazing footage in this movie....the P.O.P. footage is worth the price of admission alone.
The discrimination factor comes from the high end of the age spectrum mentioned, not the low end.
I think this probably has something to do with 34 being the high-end of where people can be recruited for the Army, but don't quote me on that. Then again, Grace Hopper was in her 50s when she entered the US Navy.
This is pissing me off though...I'm over 34 and I'd love to have a copy. Am I going to have to bribe a younger cousin to download this for me? [sigh]
The BIOS is apparently distributed over several chips on the mobo.
Perhaps the XBox might be on its way to iOpener-dom thanks to these chips. The macrovision fix and DVD region code fixes especially make this worth the price of admission.
If this works, I might just eat some more words of mine...that I won't buy an XBox but instead look to places like half.com to get a used PS2.
Hopefully work will also continue on indie servers for XBox multiplayer play in spite of MS starting their own network. The XBox was *made* to be a LAN Party box. Microsoft just didn't know it when they were designing it.
So? Mac OS X is way more stable than either MacOS 9 or Windows 9x. Just like 2K and XP eat 9x's lunch. Real preemptive multitasking beats fakey preemptive multitasking (9x) and cooperative multitasking (classic MacOS) anyday.
Linux beats all for stability though...it is a joy to see one instance of Konqui sig-11 but the others, as well as the rest of the OS, remain standing. If IE takes a dump, it STILL takes 2K down. Dunno about how it is on OS X.
OK, so when will ATI put out a Linux driver for its DVD hardware decompression? Binary would be fine.
Point one: the BIOS is distributed over several chips, not contained in one EEPROM.
Point two: the operating system itself is encrypted with strong crypto. It uses a species of crypto related to the EFS encryption infrastructure first released in Windows 2000. Since the OS is in ROM and thoroughly encrypted kiss the thought of booting the XBox with Linux goodbye.
Point three: their DVD-ROM has a reversable motor. XBox game DVDs spin BACKWARDS, and the content starts at the second layer.
Point four: Even the peripherals are non-standard. The XBox implementation of USB means that plain-jane USB periphs WILL NOT WORK with the XBox. There will be a keyboard and mouse for the XBox when hell freezes over.
Microsoft made DAMN SURE the XBox would not end up like the IOpener.
The better chance to get PCs to the 3rd World is the VIA Eden Platform. There are already products using the Eden Platform out, and more are on the way. VIA might not attract the power users (The nForce+Athlon is more appropriate for them) but they will 0wn China with this platform.
And no, not every poor fsck can afford a TV. Some can't even afford a bowl of rice. In places like this, technology is the least of the populace's worries.
Yeah, I know I saw a Sony-distributed movie recently, but I intend to be more vigilant in the future.
If you really need your corporate media, buy it USED. Half.Com is a good place to start. So is Second Spin and Powell's.
Stop buying new DVDs and CDs. Stop going to movies. Maybe even get rid of your cable service, because the cable companies pay their tribute to the MPAA and the RIAA too. Take the money you would have used on new DVDs, new CDs, movie tickets and cable bills and donate it to the EFF.
And for crissake FAX YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER! And like Zappa always reminded us, Don't forget to vote.
...and I don't intend this as a sick joke about the fate of the Hindenburg.
I don't know why anyone hasn't considered covering the outer skin of one of these "new technology" Zeppelins in photovoltaic cells. Think about it. The engines don't need to put out much torque...they are used for steering, not lift. They could be high-efficiency electric or hybrid engines.
On sunny days, the ship could fly completely on solar-generated electricity, and on less-than-sunny days it could be charged from the ground, or surplus energy generated during earlier flights on sunny days. Fuel cells could be a third source of energy if the other two fail.
Maybe it's not 100% free energy...TANSTAAFL is still a fundamental law of nature...but it's a possibility that should be examined. At the very least it would be a "neat hack."
(Why, oh why didn't they use a different phrase to describe the newness of their aircraft...my association with NT is with the Blue Screen Of Death and crashing. Zeppelin XP? ZeppeLinux?)
Deutche Zeppelin Reederei: home
They fly out of Friedrichshafen. If I win the lottery or something it's one of the first things I want to do. Airships are very, very cool.