If I had mod points... I don't like IE8 all that much, but I don't see how this post was a troll. On the edge of off-topic, arguably, but not a troll. Sheesh...
Apropos of diddly-squat: My brain is almost always in Spoonerism Mode so I first read the judge's name as Tuna Davis and thought, "Somebody's parents HATED that poor kid!"
From the SciAm article's photo caption: "In this artist's conception, Semen Semenov, who witnessed the blast at a distant trading post, starts to feel the heat."
That's... a really, really unfortunate name, dude.
(I love that they managed to work "heat" and "conception" into a sentence about a guy named Semen.)
(I'm not picking on your typo, honest. I just found it absolutely hilarious and wanted to share my amusement with the world. And by "world" I mean "Slashdot community," of course.)
I remember horrifying the chief engineer at my last job by running that on the proxy/firewall box. My demonstration might have been more effective had I shown it to the General Manager, but then again I might've gotten myself thrown out the door that much sooner...
"The humor for which the Missing Manual books are known, begins early, in introduction, though in this case probably not intentionally..." [...] "This pushes the text, which slightly more than 4.5 inches wide, further in, toward the book's binding, and thus more difficult to read."
Speaking of "more difficult to read," while I'm as big a fan of using commas as the next talentless hack, maybe this review could've done without roughly half of the little buggers that are sprinkled throughout.
"Anime heroin," indeed. I may have a heroine addiction, but anime's not exactly a drug.
Mind you, my DVD shelf is testament to my occasional desire for a "Miyazaki fix." (And a "girls with guns fix." And a "post-apocalyptic adventure fix." And... well, you get the idea.)
First came myHTPC, a clunky but serviceable bit of software which allowed me to run music playlists and (more importantly) watch anime fansubs on my (moderately) large television and (again, more importantly) listen to them on my nice audio system in the living room, all controlled by something like ATI's Remote Wonder.
Then came Meedio, which we had to pay for (and I did, gladly) but reduced the clunk-factor by (let's pick an arbitrary fraction) 2/3 and did a much better job of playing nice with the remote control hardware available to me at the time, namely the aforementioned Remote Wonder as well as Creative's LiveDrive IR remote.
Over the weekend, on a whim, I selected "Check for updates" and, hello? "A new update is available. Visit www.meedio.com to download." Righto! And yet... no. Yes, there's a 1.41 release. No, you can't have it (from regular channels, anyway; thank the gods for Google, natch). Now it's Yahoo! Go, a slick, useless lump based on a fair portion of Meedio's code but without any of the configuration capability (short of hand-editing the XML, which... um, no?) and, by the way, no apparent support for reading tags in music files. But hey, it's free!
I won't say "I want my thirty-five bucks back," 'cause I don't, and I'm generally pleased with my Meedio experience. I am, however, deeply chagrined that things have taken a turn for the blah.
Oh, by the way: If your current Meedio version reads Ogg Vorbis tags correctly, DON'T hunt down the 1.41 upgrade. Updating broke Vorbis tag reading on my system...
The first computer I owned all by my little lonesome was an old Commodore PET 2001. This was back when I was about twelve years old, outside of a small town in Washington, early '80s. The PET was a big ugly lump of metal with chiclet keys and a built-in cassette tape drive. Woo hoo, big time computing, baby! I still have some of those tapes, though I suspect none of them are any good (not that I have a PET around to test them on). To this day, almost all of the programming "from scratch" I've done in my life was on that machine.
No, I don't remember what happened to it. Ah well.
I went mainly because my girlfriend wanted to see it. "What? Charlize Theron with dark hair running around blowing shit up? We MUST see this movie!" (Could I love her more? Heh.) I'd seen a few bits and pieces back in the old LTV run, just enough to know that what plot there might be would be fairly thin.
Color me pleasantly surprised. It's not a GREAT movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it held my interest, usually managed a respectable level of internal consistency, and very few of the set pieces or talky bits or wide shots set off my Cringe-O-Meter. The movie telegraphed a couple of the "twists" well in advance, but in a less-hamhanded fashion than one might expect. And for whatever major faults it may have, it looked good through and through... and I'm not just talking about Miz Theron (who makes a far better brunette than blond, it must be said). For instance, the sets don't carry that "we borrowed a university campus for a weekend" feel that we get in so many other B-grade "futuristic" genre flicks.
See it during a matinee, or rent it and watch it on a decent entertainment system. It's worth that, at least.
Nelson & Terry are on KRSK-FM, an Entercom radio station rather than ClearChannel. Not that this makes them or the station any more or less evil, mind you. (ObDisclaimer: I'm an Entercom employee. Like that's really relevant.) The point of that particular morning show, however, is to fill a sort of nostalgic void where the "Z Morning Zoo" used to be in Portland's collective consciousness. Hence the cackling and potty humor. I used to listen to KINK-FM's morning show a few years back, but some changes in airstaff and producers over there degraded the quality of an otherwise-pleasant listening experience. Now I don't listen to the radio at all... other than when I can't avoid it on account of where I work, that is. (And yes, KINK is an Infinity station. My conscience is clear, thank you.)
Entercom on the whole, however, continues to operate under an internal mandate of finding ways to maximize ad revenue without adding more minutes of commercial time. Going to shorter spot lengths such as 10, 15 and 30 seconds instead of the usual 60 is one solution being actively pursued.
Make of this what you will, of course. It's arguable that all of these measures such as political wrangling, Internet streaming (which we've all tried before, and look what little that got us!) and creative ways to fill spot breaks are only staving off the inevitable demise of the medium as we know it. If we're lucky, it'll simply... metamorphose. I'll enjoy the ride along the way, if nothing else.
I moved over to the BOINC client ages ago on all of my SETI-processing machines, and helped my friends do the same. Okay, so I suppose the "no more work for the old client" part may be news, but the main reason I did the migration at the time was that the old client wasn't pulling down work units...
Hear, hear! I'm not sure I agree on the Heavy Metal thing (animation experiment more than sci-fi movie, really) but Silent Running is a classic. Sure, it's terribly unsubtle in its basic premise and much of the execution, but still.
It's looking more like a Top List Of Vaguely Space-related Blockbusters, currently. Whee, gotta love the popularity contests...
...except that the 442 doesn't play Ogg Vorbis files.
I have a Neuros I. I loved it while the battery lasted, but now I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to get next. The Neuros II is disco'd, and the 442 doesn't play most of my music collection. I've seen the XiphWiki list; it's got a lot of brand names I've never heard of and can't trust not to vanish within a year. Even the much-vaunted Rio Karma is gone. So... I dunno.
The release of this movie only furthers my theory that there are no original ideas left in the entertainment industry.
Submitted as additional proof (like more is needed? perhaps not.): The Island, which is apparently a remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror, which is itself a movie bad enough to have been riffed by the MST3K crew.
What's next? Tim Burton's "Manos: Hands of Fate"? (Note to Johnny Depp: Don't do it!)
Just in case nobody else mentions it, there's also Meedio. It's what sprang from the minds behind the old (and still mostly usable) myHTPC.
No, it's not opensource-yadda-yadda. Yes, I paid for my license. Yes, I'm loving the hell out of it for a general-purpose video-and-music playback machine for my living room. No, I'm not using it as a PVR, so I can't speak to that aspect of it. So... YMMV and all that. I just wanted to offer up another option.
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If I had mod points... I don't like IE8 all that much, but I don't see how this post was a troll. On the edge of off-topic, arguably, but not a troll. Sheesh...
So, you can have a second build for your character now? Way to catch up with City of Heroes, Blizzard!
Apropos of diddly-squat: My brain is almost always in Spoonerism Mode so I first read the judge's name as Tuna Davis and thought, "Somebody's parents HATED that poor kid!"
I thought we'd gotten away from the days of "e"-everything. But we're making a "Security Test E-vironment," eh?
Go figure.
the first cross-platform [desktop] gadgets framework
So, this Konfabulator thing I've been running for years isn't cross-platform after all? Thanks for clearing that up, Slashdot!
From the SciAm article's photo caption: "In this artist's conception, Semen Semenov, who witnessed the blast at a distant trading post, starts to feel the heat."
That's... a really, really unfortunate name, dude.
(I love that they managed to work "heat" and "conception" into a sentence about a guy named Semen.)
"Young IT Workers Delusional, Hard To Retain"
There, fixed that for you...
Has nobody ever heard of "paying your dues" anymore?
Not ALL peace-loving pansies are adversely affected every time some petite Asian girl sings, you insensitive clod!
Sincerely,
Maximillian Sterling
Interactive pr0n sites, wot...?
(I'm not picking on your typo, honest. I just found it absolutely hilarious and wanted to share my amusement with the world. And by "world" I mean "Slashdot community," of course.)
Well, I remember Driftnet. Does that count?
I remember horrifying the chief engineer at my last job by running that on the proxy/firewall box. My demonstration might have been more effective had I shown it to the General Manager, but then again I might've gotten myself thrown out the door that much sooner...
(MST3K, in "Diabolik", as Eva goes up the stairs)
Mike: Wow, dangerously steep stairs.
Tom: You're watching the stairs? Poor Mike.
Crow: Gee whiz.
Speaking of "more difficult to read," while I'm as big a fan of using commas as the next talentless hack, maybe this review could've done without roughly half of the little buggers that are sprinkled throughout.
Hey, when I posted it, there weren't any others. After I posted, I looked again. Still all alone.
So thanks awfully. *shrug* Whatever.
"Anime heroin," indeed. I may have a heroine addiction, but anime's not exactly a drug.
Mind you, my DVD shelf is testament to my occasional desire for a "Miyazaki fix." (And a "girls with guns fix." And a "post-apocalyptic adventure fix." And... well, you get the idea.)
First came myHTPC, a clunky but serviceable bit of software which allowed me to run music playlists and (more importantly) watch anime fansubs on my (moderately) large television and (again, more importantly) listen to them on my nice audio system in the living room, all controlled by something like ATI's Remote Wonder.
Then came Meedio, which we had to pay for (and I did, gladly) but reduced the clunk-factor by (let's pick an arbitrary fraction) 2/3 and did a much better job of playing nice with the remote control hardware available to me at the time, namely the aforementioned Remote Wonder as well as Creative's LiveDrive IR remote.
Over the weekend, on a whim, I selected "Check for updates" and, hello? "A new update is available. Visit www.meedio.com to download." Righto! And yet... no. Yes, there's a 1.41 release. No, you can't have it (from regular channels, anyway; thank the gods for Google, natch). Now it's Yahoo! Go, a slick, useless lump based on a fair portion of Meedio's code but without any of the configuration capability (short of hand-editing the XML, which... um, no?) and, by the way, no apparent support for reading tags in music files. But hey, it's free!
I won't say "I want my thirty-five bucks back," 'cause I don't, and I'm generally pleased with my Meedio experience. I am, however, deeply chagrined that things have taken a turn for the blah.
Oh, by the way: If your current Meedio version reads Ogg Vorbis tags correctly, DON'T hunt down the 1.41 upgrade. Updating broke Vorbis tag reading on my system...
The first computer I owned all by my little lonesome was an old Commodore PET 2001. This was back when I was about twelve years old, outside of a small town in Washington, early '80s. The PET was a big ugly lump of metal with chiclet keys and a built-in cassette tape drive. Woo hoo, big time computing, baby! I still have some of those tapes, though I suspect none of them are any good (not that I have a PET around to test them on). To this day, almost all of the programming "from scratch" I've done in my life was on that machine.
No, I don't remember what happened to it. Ah well.
Hear, hear.
I went mainly because my girlfriend wanted to see it. "What? Charlize Theron with dark hair running around blowing shit up? We MUST see this movie!" (Could I love her more? Heh.) I'd seen a few bits and pieces back in the old LTV run, just enough to know that what plot there might be would be fairly thin.
Color me pleasantly surprised. It's not a GREAT movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it held my interest, usually managed a respectable level of internal consistency, and very few of the set pieces or talky bits or wide shots set off my Cringe-O-Meter. The movie telegraphed a couple of the "twists" well in advance, but in a less-hamhanded fashion than one might expect. And for whatever major faults it may have, it looked good through and through... and I'm not just talking about Miz Theron (who makes a far better brunette than blond, it must be said). For instance, the sets don't carry that "we borrowed a university campus for a weekend" feel that we get in so many other B-grade "futuristic" genre flicks.
See it during a matinee, or rent it and watch it on a decent entertainment system. It's worth that, at least.
Nelson & Terry are on KRSK-FM, an Entercom radio station rather than ClearChannel. Not that this makes them or the station any more or less evil, mind you. (ObDisclaimer: I'm an Entercom employee. Like that's really relevant.) The point of that particular morning show, however, is to fill a sort of nostalgic void where the "Z Morning Zoo" used to be in Portland's collective consciousness. Hence the cackling and potty humor. I used to listen to KINK-FM's morning show a few years back, but some changes in airstaff and producers over there degraded the quality of an otherwise-pleasant listening experience. Now I don't listen to the radio at all... other than when I can't avoid it on account of where I work, that is. (And yes, KINK is an Infinity station. My conscience is clear, thank you.)
Entercom on the whole, however, continues to operate under an internal mandate of finding ways to maximize ad revenue without adding more minutes of commercial time. Going to shorter spot lengths such as 10, 15 and 30 seconds instead of the usual 60 is one solution being actively pursued.
Make of this what you will, of course. It's arguable that all of these measures such as political wrangling, Internet streaming (which we've all tried before, and look what little that got us!) and creative ways to fill spot breaks are only staving off the inevitable demise of the medium as we know it. If we're lucky, it'll simply... metamorphose. I'll enjoy the ride along the way, if nothing else.
I moved over to the BOINC client ages ago on all of my SETI-processing machines, and helped my friends do the same. Okay, so I suppose the "no more work for the old client" part may be news, but the main reason I did the migration at the time was that the old client wasn't pulling down work units...
Hear, hear! I'm not sure I agree on the Heavy Metal thing (animation experiment more than sci-fi movie, really) but Silent Running is a classic. Sure, it's terribly unsubtle in its basic premise and much of the execution, but still.
It's looking more like a Top List Of Vaguely Space-related Blockbusters, currently. Whee, gotta love the popularity contests...
...except that the 442 doesn't play Ogg Vorbis files.
I have a Neuros I. I loved it while the battery lasted, but now I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to get next. The Neuros II is disco'd, and the 442 doesn't play most of my music collection. I've seen the XiphWiki list; it's got a lot of brand names I've never heard of and can't trust not to vanish within a year. Even the much-vaunted Rio Karma is gone. So... I dunno.
Submitted as additional proof (like more is needed? perhaps not.): The Island, which is apparently a remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror, which is itself a movie bad enough to have been riffed by the MST3K crew.
What's next? Tim Burton's "Manos: Hands of Fate"? (Note to Johnny Depp: Don't do it!)
Man, I wouldn't want to be left on the AnimeOnDVD Forums... oh wait, you meant that the feedback can... er, nevermind. *cough, cough*
No, it's not opensource-yadda-yadda. Yes, I paid for my license. Yes, I'm loving the hell out of it for a general-purpose video-and-music playback machine for my living room. No, I'm not using it as a PVR, so I can't speak to that aspect of it. So... YMMV and all that. I just wanted to offer up another option.
You think that's bad? My hovercraft is full of eels!