I'm excited about going and seeing this movie. Why? Because I'm sick of all the bullshit mindless movies that center around how many pretty explosions you can fit into a certain timespan. There is a time and place for mindless entertainment, but don't you like to think every once in a while?
Exactly. All my friends talk about how great their new >1GHz computers are and I just shrug. My year old 700 works perfectly fine in Linux. I can play Quake3 at very close to the framerate I enjoy in Windows and every other time-wasting desktop thing runs perfect, if not better than in Windows. Why would I put up M$'s bloat if I can do better in Linux? My typical desktop session consists of a lot of Netscape windows, XMMS, Gabber, Gnapster, and some various other applications in X4 plus I run Apache, MySQL, and SSH in the background and my CPU monitor is telling me it's 97% idle.
The truth is that if you're not a hardcore gamer you don't need the latest-greatest-nifty processor simply because it's overkill Most users are content to have a web browser open and some MP3s playing, and you can do that with a computer that's much "worse" than the newer computers.
So does this mean I can hook one of these things up to my network and export it's X display? It would kick ass to be able to use the power of my main box on a little handheld.
How long do you think it'll take before some guy puts it on his network and writes a perl script to control it and have it on a user-defined schedule? One less thing to worry about and of course, the Geek Factor (tm).
Exactly! Don't give your money to the RIAA but don't abandon the bands either! There's a few things I can think of off the top of my head that I do to support the bands without sticking cash in the RIAA's pocket:
Listen to bands on indie labels and circumvent the RIAA entirely.
Go to concerts when a band you like comes to town.
Buy merchandise at shows if you go, or buy it directly from the artist through their web site if you can.
Bring stuff for the band when you go to concerts. I know that my fave band Anti-flag has a list of stuff they like for people to bring them when they're on the road. Even though I couldn't make the concert Thursday when they came through (bummer!) I dropped off a bag of stuff for them.
The more I see of the RIAA and how they're trying to control the music industry the more thankful I am that I'm somewhat removed from all of this. Thank God the punk bands I listen to are all on indie labels and don't have any part of this. Otherwise I'd have to make the choice of boycotting the RIAA and supporting the somewhat unknown/underground bands that I listen to, who, unlike Ms. Spears or the Backstreet Boys really do need every cent they can get from record sales.
All these people bitching about how Napster and MP3s are stealing from the artists need to step outside the pop world. I don't know how it is in other places, but down here in Louisiana we have almost no punk scene, no punk bands on the radio, and only a few decent local punk bands (if you're into punk checkout the New Orleans band The Picts). The only way I hear about bands is by word-of-mouth ("Hey man, have you heard the new Swingin Utters CD?"). The only way I can actually hear the bands is to get on Napster and download of their stuff. If I like it, I buy it to support the band. If I don't, the MP3 collects dust on my hard drive. For independent bands, Napster is a light at the end of the tunnel I can't even begin to count how many indie bands have benefited from my cash because I heard them on Napster. Why can't the RIAA see it the same way?
do you need a T1 or even a fraction of one coming into a college dorm?
Of course, why do you think Napster is so popular? Your granny downloading Britney Spears songs? It's all part of a vast RIAA conspiracy to gain billions in "lost revenue" from Napster.
I'll offer my $.02 since I've had experience with this kind of business...
There used to be a local place kind of what you described. It was called Battlestations. They had about 25 gaming optimized computers hooked up to a 100Mb/s network. This place was in the back room of some local company with the cryptic name "CPL". For some reason or another, CPL had set up this little room to generate cash on the weekends when the building was empty. There was no sign, no advertising, no nothing it was all word of mouth. CPL was hidden somewhere in the maze of office buildings called The Industriplex (or as my friend describes it, "the place where people with boring jobs spend their time"). If you didn't know exactly where to go and what you were looking for it, you weren't going to accidentally stumble upon this place.
Despite this not really being a business and CPL doing absolutely nothing to promote it, the place was *packed* every day it was open. Every high school kid who played games at home was more than happy to shell out $5 an hour to hang out with their friends instead of "i k1Ll3D k3NnY" at home playing the same games over the net, and when you're on a LAN with super high bandwidth who cares about ping? Fragged because of lag? I don't think so. Fragging your buddies and hearing them scream obscenities across the room is the most fun I've ever had playing any sort of game on the computer.
I remember driving over with my friends at about 7 one rainy Friday night to find that there were barely enough open computers for us. 2 hours or so later the room in general decided to order some pizza and we all chipped in to pay for it, you could buy Cokes from the high school guy who kept things running (read: takes money every hour and runs servers for various games on the server box in the corner). Some nights we wouldn't leave until after midnight, not because they were closing but because we had run out of money to pay for another hour. Most of the guys who hung out there on the weekends were regulars and the guys who worked there were awesome and so good at Starcraft it was scary (Ben Monkey owns me;).
In other words, how do you draw people out of their homes? Simple: offer a hangout spot. It's really that simple. Even though I've got a brand new computer at home with a bigger monitor and a cable modem I'd still go down to Battlestations with my friends so I could kick their sorry asses all over the place. Unfortunately, Battlestations is now closed for some unknown reason (maybe CPL needed that back room?;) but me and my friends still get nostalgic over good times we used to have just hanging out and kicking each others ass. So go forth and make one of these great places and open one in my area =).
Never heard that one either and I live in the southern US. Don't let any of the Linux companies here that 'dingleberry' is a new buzzword or we'll be seeing this next:
New XML based dynamic content provider streams live open source dingleberry source code to broadband users at movie quality.
Hey, linux is doing decently in the server market. If we want to take over the desktop market we're going to need a *LOT* of buses full of stoned penguins.
I noticed the same thing. I was so completely distracted by the NetZERO thing that by the time I figured out why the fuck NetZERO was in Hannibal the scene was over. Did you see the blatant Verizon ad? Hannibal was looking through his mail and stopped for a full 4 seconds on a bill that had "Verizon Wireless" printed on it in big letters. I am also sick of seeing commercials before the movie. I had to sit through anti-acid, Coke, and a Ford commercial before the movie. This being after I had paid $7 for a ticker and $3.50 for a drink.
The ending of the book I had a hard time buying, but I still enjoyed it immensely. The ending is changed in the movie for that reason and it's a lot more believable;).
I went and saw the movie yesterday and the theater was packed with little kids! Me and my friends were laughing our heads off before the show started because there was a woman with her 4 year old child (!) in front of us. Needless to say, that was one scared ass toddler by the end of the movie.
CS Lewis had something to say about people discrediting things just because they were in old books. I believe it was in The Scarlet Letters, a book about a man trying to live a moral life, from the perspective of fallen angels who try to tempt him. One of the tactics used by the demons is to convince the people that old books are old fashioned and don't apply to today's modern society, when we can obviously learn from the past. Regardless of your religious convictions (or lack of) why not learn from the wisdom of someone who was obviously a great moral teacher?
That's exactly right. Me and a friend were discussing this yesterday. People want whatever is hard to get. Earlier in history it was "in" to be fat because food was hard to obtain, now it is the complete opposite. Just like all the kids at my highschool will pay $45 for a shirt with the faded words "Abercrombrie" on it. It's not that the shirt is better than the $10 punk shirts I wear, but because the Abercrombrie one is harder to obtain. People don't want something that just anyone can get. Once something is easy to get, like scooters, anime, or Linux, no one wants it because it's become mundane.
Remember if you go with Windows Media you'll block all the Linux users (not sure about Mac) out! The only alternative I can see, that everyone's already pointed out, is Quicktime, but again it'll
lose all us Linux users. This is one of the lacking things I miss about Windows. Oh well.
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I'm excited about going and seeing this movie. Why? Because I'm sick of all the bullshit mindless movies that center around how many pretty explosions you can fit into a certain timespan. There is a time and place for mindless entertainment, but don't you like to think every once in a while?
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Can I have a FTP account!??!?? Please!? What do you want? Money? Food? My soul?
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Exactly. All my friends talk about how great their new >1GHz computers are and I just shrug. My year old 700 works perfectly fine in Linux. I can play Quake3 at very close to the framerate I enjoy in Windows and every other time-wasting desktop thing runs perfect, if not better than in Windows. Why would I put up M$'s bloat if I can do better in Linux? My typical desktop session consists of a lot of Netscape windows, XMMS, Gabber, Gnapster, and some various other applications in X4 plus I run Apache, MySQL, and SSH in the background and my CPU monitor is telling me it's 97% idle.
The truth is that if you're not a hardcore gamer you don't need the latest-greatest-nifty processor simply because it's overkill Most users are content to have a web browser open and some MP3s playing, and you can do that with a computer that's much "worse" than the newer computers.
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So does this mean I can hook one of these things up to my network and export it's X display? It would kick ass to be able to use the power of my main box on a little handheld.
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How long do you think it'll take before some guy puts it on his network and writes a perl script to control it and have it on a user-defined schedule? One less thing to worry about and of course, the Geek Factor (tm).
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Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought of how much weed they would be smoking... ;)
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The more I see of the RIAA and how they're trying to control the music industry the more thankful I am that I'm somewhat removed from all of this. Thank God the punk bands I listen to are all on indie labels and don't have any part of this. Otherwise I'd have to make the choice of boycotting the RIAA and supporting the somewhat unknown/underground bands that I listen to, who, unlike Ms. Spears or the Backstreet Boys really do need every cent they can get from record sales.
All these people bitching about how Napster and MP3s are stealing from the artists need to step outside the pop world. I don't know how it is in other places, but down here in Louisiana we have almost no punk scene, no punk bands on the radio, and only a few decent local punk bands (if you're into punk checkout the New Orleans band The Picts). The only way I hear about bands is by word-of-mouth ("Hey man, have you heard the new Swingin Utters CD?"). The only way I can actually hear the bands is to get on Napster and download of their stuff. If I like it, I buy it to support the band. If I don't, the MP3 collects dust on my hard drive. For independent bands, Napster is a light at the end of the tunnel I can't even begin to count how many indie bands have benefited from my cash because I heard them on Napster. Why can't the RIAA see it the same way?
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do you need a T1 or even a fraction of one coming into a college dorm?
Of course, why do you think Napster is so popular? Your granny downloading Britney Spears songs? It's all part of a vast RIAA conspiracy to gain billions in "lost revenue" from Napster.
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At least not until he gets into the nauseatingly boring curriculum of high school.
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I'll offer my $.02 since I've had experience with this kind of business...
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;) but me and my friends still get nostalgic over good times we used to have just hanging out and kicking each others ass. So go forth and make one of these great places and open one in my area =).
There used to be a local place kind of what you described. It was called Battlestations. They had about 25 gaming optimized computers hooked up to a 100Mb/s network. This place was in the back room of some local company with the cryptic name "CPL". For some reason or another, CPL had set up this little room to generate cash on the weekends when the building was empty. There was no sign, no advertising, no nothing it was all word of mouth. CPL was hidden somewhere in the maze of office buildings called The Industriplex (or as my friend describes it, "the place where people with boring jobs spend their time"). If you didn't know exactly where to go and what you were looking for it, you weren't going to accidentally stumble upon this place.
Despite this not really being a business and CPL doing absolutely nothing to promote it, the place was *packed* every day it was open. Every high school kid who played games at home was more than happy to shell out $5 an hour to hang out with their friends instead of "i k1Ll3D k3NnY" at home playing the same games over the net, and when you're on a LAN with super high bandwidth who cares about ping? Fragged because of lag? I don't think so. Fragging your buddies and hearing them scream obscenities across the room is the most fun I've ever had playing any sort of game on the computer.
I remember driving over with my friends at about 7 one rainy Friday night to find that there were barely enough open computers for us. 2 hours or so later the room in general decided to order some pizza and we all chipped in to pay for it, you could buy Cokes from the high school guy who kept things running (read: takes money every hour and runs servers for various games on the server box in the corner). Some nights we wouldn't leave until after midnight, not because they were closing but because we had run out of money to pay for another hour. Most of the guys who hung out there on the weekends were regulars and the guys who worked there were awesome and so good at Starcraft it was scary (Ben Monkey owns me
In other words, how do you draw people out of their homes? Simple: offer a hangout spot. It's really that simple. Even though I've got a brand new computer at home with a bigger monitor and a cable modem I'd still go down to Battlestations with my friends so I could kick their sorry asses all over the place. Unfortunately, Battlestations is now closed for some unknown reason (maybe CPL needed that back room?
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Hey, linux is doing decently in the server market. If we want to take over the desktop market we're going to need a *LOT* of buses full of stoned penguins.
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Mine too!
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What if you miss /tmp and hit /vmlinuz?
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I noticed the same thing. I was so completely distracted by the NetZERO thing that by the time I figured out why the fuck NetZERO was in Hannibal the scene was over. Did you see the blatant Verizon ad? Hannibal was looking through his mail and stopped for a full 4 seconds on a bill that had "Verizon Wireless" printed on it in big letters. I am also sick of seeing commercials before the movie. I had to sit through anti-acid, Coke, and a Ford commercial before the movie. This being after I had paid $7 for a ticker and $3.50 for a drink.
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The ending of the book I had a hard time buying, but I still enjoyed it immensely. The ending is changed in the movie for that reason and it's a lot more believable ;).
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I went and saw the movie yesterday and the theater was packed with little kids! Me and my friends were laughing our heads off before the show started because there was a woman with her 4 year old child (!) in front of us. Needless to say, that was one scared ass toddler by the end of the movie.
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Doh! My bad, long day at school...
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CS Lewis had something to say about people discrediting things just because they were in old books. I believe it was in The Scarlet Letters, a book about a man trying to live a moral life, from the perspective of fallen angels who try to tempt him. One of the tactics used by the demons is to convince the people that old books are old fashioned and don't apply to today's modern society, when we can obviously learn from the past. Regardless of your religious convictions (or lack of) why not learn from the wisdom of someone who was obviously a great moral teacher?
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Can imagine how much time you could waste with an xmame port to a TI calculator?
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Who knew that the moving picture box could cause such controversy?
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That's exactly right. Me and a friend were discussing this yesterday. People want whatever is hard to get. Earlier in history it was "in" to be fat because food was hard to obtain, now it is the complete opposite. Just like all the kids at my highschool will pay $45 for a shirt with the faded words "Abercrombrie" on it. It's not that the shirt is better than the $10 punk shirts I wear, but because the Abercrombrie one is harder to obtain. People don't want something that just anyone can get. Once something is easy to get, like scooters, anime, or Linux, no one wants it because it's become mundane.
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Remember if you go with Windows Media you'll block all the Linux users (not sure about Mac) out! The only alternative I can see, that everyone's already pointed out, is Quicktime, but again it'll lose all us Linux users. This is one of the lacking things I miss about Windows. Oh well.
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d00d, does this mean I can use my 31337 m5tr1x KDE theme and watch the Matrix at the SAME TIME!?
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