It's amazingly disappointing to see governments, previously mandated towards protecting the people, instead going out of their way towards protecting potential profits of major corporations.
The losses screamed about under the dark moniker of piracy are merely missed opportunities for revenue. Are profits down? Yes, but they're still profits, not losses. And just because they're down, Hollywood studios and recording companies think they can enlist the powers-that-be to get them back up.
% gnutv --verbose --chan 13 --out alias.ts
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, run gnutv --warranty
Capturing channel 13...
Writing MPEG transport stream to alias.ts...
Broadcast flag detected and ignored...
Recording...
I've got nothing against micropayments, but this guy is just sometimes too smart for his own pocketbook. I mean, doesn't he already have a solid gold house?
Any real geek knows that if it's not rackmounted, it's just a temporary solution.
Therefore, I think I'll wait until someone comes out with a 3U rackmount video "card" with its own dual hot-swap power supply and quadruple redundant cooling fans, linked to the AGP bus with a kind of fibre channel setup.
When I worked in the video industry, we developed RAID-based servers for HDTV. Being a small company, we had to rent HDTV monitors for trade shows like NAB.
But that didn't stop us from watching HDTV content on computer monitors. I remember this one test video we had featuring sunbathing beauties in Sweden... but that's another story.
Say, a lot of HDTVs have VGA inputs these days... hmmmm.
Wait. It couldn't have been that hard to wedge in a spell system complete with reagents, scrolls, and various arcana. There have been other real-time strategy games with magic in them.
There's no meaning in a domain name that ends in.name except to say the name exists. Big deal. It's the DNS equivalent of a passive verb.
kelly.com - a private company; probably KellyGirl or Kelly Services or whatever they're called now. kelly.org - a nonprofift; probably the Kelly Family Fund for the Arts or somesuch. kelly.name - who cares?
Yes, it's about time we start seeing modern operating systems on older and older equipment. Linux on an Atari 2600, complete with its simulated wood grain front, would be ideal. There's nothing quite like simulated wood grain that says, "Modern."
Motif/CDE's design philosophy could be boiled down to one phrase: "Make everything look 3D except the menubar!"
Remember when checkbuttons and radiobuttons could only be differentiated by innie/outtie appearance? (Now let's see... if it's "in" it must be on, unless the light source is the lower right corner of the screen... then... ummm... wait.)
I always thought XView was clever and a lot more user-friendly: you'd be paging through a huge document by clicking in the scrollbar. And when the thumb got too close, it'd warp the pointer for you so you didn't have to pay attention to the interface elements, just the content. Smart.
The author of one of the 2600's greatest titles, Adventure (featuring the world's first easter egg) deserves to come out of his "retirement" for this announcement.
Be sure to read his presentation (sorry, PowerPoint file) to truly appreciate just how awfully limiting the platform was.
The sprite changing technique didn't really pay off, though. If I recall correctly, when there was a lot of action on the screen, the blinking of each object was painfully obvious.
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It's amazingly disappointing to see governments, previously mandated towards protecting the people, instead going out of their way towards protecting potential profits of major corporations.
The losses screamed about under the dark moniker of piracy are merely missed opportunities for revenue. Are profits down? Yes, but they're still profits, not losses. And just because they're down, Hollywood studios and recording companies think they can enlist the powers-that-be to get them back up.
And sadly, they're right.
I hope so. An ideal implementation:
% gnutv --verbose --chan 13 --out alias.ts
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, run gnutv --warranty
Capturing channel 13...
Writing MPEG transport stream to alias.ts...
Broadcast flag detected and ignored...
Recording...
Custom-built ships to ferry parts. Custom fleet of trucks. Roads widened for the trucks (custom set of roads).
Hate to say it, but sounds like a bunch of dot-com flunkies are on this project.
1) Advertise hard drive slagging service
2) Keep actual slagging procedure secret
3) ???
4) Profit!
Oh wait; I guess step 2 won't work now.
Scientist: I've done it. I've DONE IT! Two parts gin ... one part vermouth ... and an olive. They MIX! Mwuahahaha!
Grad student: Uh, that's just a martini, and not a very dry one.
Scientist: Blast! Well, bottom's up. We'll just change gin to "oil" and vermouth to "water" and publish anyway.
Whoa ... and I thought I suffered from spec envy before!
That "goto" in line 3 prevents lines 4 and 5 from working:
4) ???
5) Profit!
(Not that Micro$oft needs anymore of that.)
Read the article. I see Wired is still bandying about vocabulary with abandon.
So, anyone outside of Wired's offices know what a Stirling engine is?
Hopefully I can use my old PC box as a server with this
And if that doesn't work, you might want to take a look at FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, amongst others. I understand they're fairly popular.
I've got nothing against micropayments, but this guy is just sometimes too smart for his own pocketbook. I mean, doesn't he already have a solid gold house?
Any real geek knows that if it's not rackmounted, it's just a temporary solution.
Therefore, I think I'll wait until someone comes out with a 3U rackmount video "card" with its own dual hot-swap power supply and quadruple redundant cooling fans, linked to the AGP bus with a kind of fibre channel setup.
Let the LAN parties come to me, dammit!
Calling the card "OCSystem Enhanced Radeon 9700 Pro Level III SE" is certainly bucking the trend in video card naming.
Consider various past offerings: ATI Rage, Rage Fury, TNT, TNT2, Annihilator, 3D Blaster Annihilator, S3 Savage, etc.
We're kind of lucky the OER9700PL3SE wasn't called something like the Violator 3D Ultra Face Blaster Nuke Domination Rip-You-A-New-One 9700.
When I worked in the video industry, we developed RAID-based servers for HDTV. Being a small company, we had to rent HDTV monitors for trade shows like NAB.
... but that's another story.
... hmmmm.
But that didn't stop us from watching HDTV content on computer monitors. I remember this one test video we had featuring sunbathing beauties in Sweden
Say, a lot of HDTVs have VGA inputs these days
You forgot:
9) ???
10) Profit!
Should you decide to pay the consultant, look me up and I'll draw up one of my standard contracts.
"It never really had the magic."
Wait. It couldn't have been that hard to wedge in a spell system complete with reagents, scrolls, and various arcana. There have been other real-time strategy games with magic in them.
Again ... who cares? (Except perhaps Kelly?)
There's no meaning in a domain name that ends in .name except to say the name exists. Big deal. It's the DNS equivalent of a passive verb.
kelly.com - a private company; probably KellyGirl or Kelly Services or whatever they're called now.
kelly.org - a nonprofift; probably the Kelly Family Fund for the Arts or somesuch.
kelly.name - who cares?
Yes, it's about time we start seeing modern operating systems on older and older equipment. Linux on an Atari 2600, complete with its simulated wood grain front, would be ideal. There's nothing quite like simulated wood grain that says, "Modern."
...you'll have to be careful where you walk and when you leave your phone on.
I just know a whole cadre of people out there will mine the world with mid-air goatse.cx pictures.
Heck yeah!
My firewall/NAT box is an old Pentium 75 running an old release of FreeBSD. All it does is move bits. And it moves them just fine, with CPU to spare.
Motif/CDE's design philosophy could be boiled down to one phrase: "Make everything look 3D except the menubar!"
... if it's "in" it must be on, unless the light source is the lower right corner of the screen ... then ... ummm ... wait.)
Remember when checkbuttons and radiobuttons could only be differentiated by innie/outtie appearance? (Now let's see
I always thought XView was clever and a lot more user-friendly: you'd be paging through a huge document by clicking in the scrollbar. And when the thumb got too close, it'd warp the pointer for you so you didn't have to pay attention to the interface elements, just the content. Smart.
Oh well, at least GNOME's quite a bit prettier.
Finally ... the only safe way to view the goatse.cx picture.
The author of one of the 2600's greatest titles, Adventure (featuring the world's first easter egg) deserves to come out of his "retirement" for this announcement.
Be sure to read his presentation (sorry, PowerPoint file) to truly appreciate just how awfully limiting the platform was.
The sprite changing technique didn't really pay off, though. If I recall correctly, when there was a lot of action on the screen, the blinking of each object was painfully obvious.