It's well known that roger ebert is a studio shill, and has been since Siskel died.. perhaps before.
The movies he likes are movies the studios pay him to like. The movies he dislikes are ones where he wasn't bribed enough.
My personal favorite movie reviewer is Elvis Mitchell of the new york times. If you want a really good source, though, check out www.rottentomatoes.com, which gives you a lovely sampling of all the reviews for a particular movie.
Yeh, 1.30h is backwards compatible with 1.29h, and every ut2 server I know of is running 1.29h currently, although some will probably update given the cheating countermeasures.
$6.23 -- Retail Markup
$3.34 -- Company Overhead, Distribution, and Shipping
$2.15 -- Marketing and Promotion
$1.99 -- Royalties to artist and songwriter
$1.08 -- Signing act/Producing Record
$0.85 -- Co-op advertising and discounts to retailers
$0.75 -- Pressing album and printing booklet
$0.59 -- Profit to label
This is all via Billboard Magazine (and CNN)
It should be noted that the Label makes the least money (the RIAA members) and the retail stores make the most (Coconuts, Sam Goody, CDNow)
See, I wasn't trying to be insightful really, I just was curious. All these things I had been pondering before, but it's very hard to do a web search on "color depth" or "frame rates" and get useful results unless you also know to add "alpha" and "mach banding" to those.
That's an interesting point... but my question is this:
The human eye can only recognize a color depth of X, where X is less than current standard "true-color" depths. Yet we still have 32 bit color. Why? Is it because of palettes? does having 16.7 million colors make our blues bluer, our reds redder? We can't individually recognize all 16.7 million colors, but if we're looking at a digital image of a lake, will having our color depth set to 32bpp instead of 24 make a difference, if the image is properly created?
So then there's the question, does the same apply to framerates? Sure, we can't see all the frame rates out there, but does having more to choose from make a difference?
That is, if you have 20 frames of your character at the edge of a cliff, versus only 7 frames (70 vs 200fps) are you more likely to better handle the cliff?
I've heard people claim that "high frame rates make strafe jumping easier" (understand that I'm a quake 2 guy). I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it may be an explanation.
So the question is, even though you can only see one third of those 210 frames per second, does that make your playing more enjoyable or better? Similarly, does looking at a 48bpp image make you happier than looking at a 24bpp image, even though you can't see more than 21bpp (or whatever the figure is)?
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Connect from host: 211.205.178.64/211.205.178.64 to TCP port: 111
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
I know what the port 111 exploit is, but I have never used it, yet I get many hits from this exploit a day on my servers. This is just one hit. I know how to stop it (portsentry/ipchains is a wonderful thing) and as you can see it is logged.
Portsentry/ipchains is *not* a wonderful thing in that instance. It would be much wiser for you to at least implement a brief timeout on the drop.
Here's a scenario:
I know your box is up, because I can connect to you at port 80, or whatever. So I portscan you.
And your box isn't up. EH? Oh! You must have some sort of portscan detector that automatically drops packets! Let's see if I can get to port 80!
Nope! Hmmmmm.
So what do I do? I spoof a portscan from the last hop between you and me. Lo, you block that IP. Lo, you lose your entire upstream.
Lo, you're screwed. All because you let an imperfect program control your TCP/IP stack.
Sure, blocking port scanners is OK. Just don't let them use it as an opportunity to launch a denial of service attack.
Think it through.
-gleam
Re:Couple of thoughts on tall buildings
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He didn't say they could move diagonally, or would be driven by a half-crazed candy maker. Or, for that matter, that they could go into outer space.
I've cruised the campus before, it's very nice--even has a full golf course. They actually do have courses on Working the Fry Basket, although they don't offer them as distance-learning:)
Good lord, have you looked anywhere in the past few months? XMPS supports DivX. XMMS supports DivX through two separate plugins. Xtheater and lamp both play DivX. It's not a "theoretically", it's a "does".
There are very few problems with DivX support in linux. The windows dll method works quite nicely, and performance is just fine on my system.
Also, DivX *has* been successfully reverse-engineered. A few weeks (months?) ago, it was ported to Macintosh by a group without access to the source. It's not a particularly difficult task, since the method used by the codec is very simple.
In any case, if you check the XMPS website (at least last time I checked) you can even see a screenshot of the software playing the trailer from "The Matrix". Unconfirmed? Sheeeeeeesh.
It's not being marketed for apartment buildings, it's being marketed for office buildings.
It would be pretty damn good for my office building. We currently have a partial T1 here, even though we have over 100 users in house. I work in the bloomingdale's building in chicago, and there are ~30 floors of offices. Spreading 100mbit/s over all the companies would work wonderfully. Besides, your landlord wouldn't be your sysadmin. Basically, everyone in the building would plug into a jack in their wall and be hooked directly up to either the company lan (more likely) or the building lan (less likely).
My impression is also that they are very picky about who they sell to, since they don't oversubscribe.
They'll only sell 24 of these for each 2.4Gbit/s OC48 MAN. That's not much money, and I'm worried that they won't be able to make money if they're only making 24k/month but splitting up OC48s.
I dunno, maybe they have a better business model in hiding.
This is my first post in months and I'm being picky. How unexpected. Heh.
Anyway, in a world where the average IQ was 150, the average IQ would be 100. The average 3 year old has an IQ of 100, the average 30 year old has an IQ of 100, and the average 103 year old has an IQ of 100.
Now if what you meant was "Everyone had an IQ of 150 based on our scale in this world", that makes a bit more sense. Kinda.
Actually, GAIM has basic OSCAR support. Of course, when I'm in windows and I need to use aim, I don't bother with the windows client, I just use Quickbuddy (no ads, java, and actually fairly fast)
2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll."
I wonder... by Anonymous Coward on Tue March 14, 12:13 AM CST (#5) ...if Natalie Portman likes pouring hot grits down her pants, too!
It appears some of the moderators didn't understand this post. It was both on-topic and not a troll. Allow me a moment to explain.
The idea behind the post, obviously, was that this particular troll would be ecstatic if he could find a mate who shared his excitement when he pours hot grits down his pants. This goal, combined with his obvious Natalie Portman fetish, is a rather common topic on slashdot.
Now to the on-topic part. This "troll", if you prefer to call them that (I don't, it doesn't match the proper definition of "troll"), looked at this particular article, and, suddenly, saw a possibility for all his dreams to come true at once!
Wistfully, he/she posted "I wonder...if Natalie Portman likes pouring hot grits down her pants, too!" Now consider what would happen if this poster, equipped with one of the devices the story references, were to run into Miss Portman, and discovered that she did, indeed, like hot grits down her pants? I think, and I can imagine you all agree, that he would be both on-topic, and scored +5/interesting.
But, it appears, the moderation system has failed yet again, and an obviously on-topic post has been moderated down as a "Troll". I metamoderate frequently, and believe me, "Troll" is not a valid definition in most cases. Indeed, I'm under the opinion that "Troll" should be, often, a bonus. True trolls catch those of us who post before thinking in a tight spot.
My guess is that some of these moderators have been caught by true trolls, and now associate "Troll" with any post they don't like. If the above post were to be moderated down, it should obviously be moderated down for "Overrated" since Offtopic and "Troll" don't apply here.
I priced the components earlier (I'm very intrigued by the possibility) and a 2 gig 2.5" IDE hard drive is $72. That's an IBM hdd, too, so it's likely quite good quality. A USB ethernet card is approx $30 for the low end ones, but I didn't check for supported ones. My guess is that the low end ones are the supported ones.
So we have now a whopping $200, which is what the unit cost originally. So while it's twice the price, it's still undeniably nifty.
Somewhere below (above?) someone mentioned a parallel port ethernet card which is also supported under linux. That, however, costs around $75 or $100, so now we're in the 275$ range.
Not nearly $350-400, though. And $275 (or even better, $200) is a fabulous deal for a tiny little terminal.
It's described on its homepage as a set of "CPU Slowdown Utilities".
It's crippleware, but the only thing the cripple keeps you from doing is slowing down in fractional increments. A friend of mine uses moslo extensively on his win box, unregistered, and it works fine.
I would bet it works under dosemu as well.
They actually have two copies, Mo'Slo Deluxe, and Mo'Slo BIZ. It even has in-program speed adjustment.
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Trust me, the hacks available for the TI are nowhere near as cool as those available for the HP:
:)
http://www.multimania.com/zdi/
Instructions on building an 8bit sound card for your hp48gx. It fits in the expansion slot, and can play WAV samples directly. Beat that.
Believe me, you can do a lot more hackworthy things with an hp48gx than with any TI out there.
-gleam
I have a relative who will go nameless who insisted on typing it "eMail."
Always threw me off.
me, I do email.
It's well known that roger ebert is a studio shill, and has been since Siskel died.. perhaps before.
The movies he likes are movies the studios pay him to like. The movies he dislikes are ones where he wasn't bribed enough.
My personal favorite movie reviewer is Elvis Mitchell of the new york times. If you want a really good source, though, check out www.rottentomatoes.com, which gives you a lovely sampling of all the reviews for a particular movie.
-gleam
-gleam
Yeh, 1.30h is backwards compatible with 1.29h, and every ut2 server I know of is running 1.29h currently, although some will probably update given the cheating countermeasures.
-gleam
Of course, Microsoft gave him $3,500.
But that only buys a few copies of WinXP. You can see why Schumer is peeved.
-gleam
He actually became an evangelist. Yep. I've seen him a few times on late-night TV.
He's starting to release albums/singles again, though.
Anyway, here's a url to a little blurb about his rebirth.
http://www.connectionmagazine.org/mchammer.htm
-gleam
The writing system with the smallest alphabet that is in current use is Hawaiian, with 12 letters. (aeiou hklmnpw) source
A good source for your obscure questions is, as always, the Straight Dope, which answers the "Chinese Typewriter" question here.
Regards,
gleam
Where the cost of a USD 17 comes from:
Cost of CDs
$6.23 -- Retail Markup
$3.34 -- Company Overhead, Distribution, and Shipping
$2.15 -- Marketing and Promotion
$1.99 -- Royalties to artist and songwriter
$1.08 -- Signing act/Producing Record
$0.85 -- Co-op advertising and discounts to retailers
$0.75 -- Pressing album and printing booklet
$0.59 -- Profit to label
This is all via Billboard Magazine (and CNN)
It should be noted that the Label makes the least money (the RIAA members) and the retail stores make the most (Coconuts, Sam Goody, CDNow)
Anyway.
-gleam
Thank you :)
See, I wasn't trying to be insightful really, I just was curious. All these things I had been pondering before, but it's very hard to do a web search on "color depth" or "frame rates" and get useful results unless you also know to add "alpha" and "mach banding" to those.
Thanks much!
-gleam
That's an interesting point... but my question is this:
The human eye can only recognize a color depth of X, where X is less than current standard "true-color" depths. Yet we still have 32 bit color. Why? Is it because of palettes? does having 16.7 million colors make our blues bluer, our reds redder? We can't individually recognize all 16.7 million colors, but if we're looking at a digital image of a lake, will having our color depth set to 32bpp instead of 24 make a difference, if the image is properly created?
So then there's the question, does the same apply to framerates? Sure, we can't see all the frame rates out there, but does having more to choose from make a difference?
That is, if you have 20 frames of your character at the edge of a cliff, versus only 7 frames (70 vs 200fps) are you more likely to better handle the cliff?
I've heard people claim that "high frame rates make strafe jumping easier" (understand that I'm a quake 2 guy). I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it may be an explanation.
So the question is, even though you can only see one third of those 210 frames per second, does that make your playing more enjoyable or better? Similarly, does looking at a 48bpp image make you happier than looking at a 24bpp image, even though you can't see more than 21bpp (or whatever the figure is)?
Just some stuff to ponder...
-gleam
Yeah, after I posted I noticed it called a custom script :)
Still, most people use the default action of completely dropping the connection, and they should know it's unwise to do so....
-gleam
I get hit with about 10-15 of these a day:
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Connect from host: 211.205.178.64/211.205.178.64 to TCP port: 111
Apr 22 06:17:20 mayday portsentry[9235]: attackalert: Host 211.205.178.64 has been blocked via dropped route using command: "/etc/portsentry/portsentry.bash 211.205.178.64 111"
I know what the port 111 exploit is, but I have never used it, yet I get many hits from this exploit a day on my servers. This is just one hit. I know how to stop it (portsentry/ipchains is a wonderful thing) and as you can see it is logged.
Portsentry/ipchains is *not* a wonderful thing in that instance. It would be much wiser for you to at least implement a brief timeout on the drop.
Here's a scenario:
I know your box is up, because I can connect to you at port 80, or whatever. So I portscan you.
And your box isn't up. EH? Oh! You must have some sort of portscan detector that automatically drops packets! Let's see if I can get to port 80!
Nope! Hmmmmm.
So what do I do? I spoof a portscan from the last hop between you and me. Lo, you block that IP. Lo, you lose your entire upstream.
Lo, you're screwed. All because you let an imperfect program control your TCP/IP stack.
Sure, blocking port scanners is OK. Just don't let them use it as an opportunity to launch a denial of service attack.
Think it through.
-gleam
He didn't say they could move diagonally, or would be driven by a half-crazed candy maker. Or, for that matter, that they could go into outer space.
And fight evil purple(?) things.
Yep.
-gleam
I assume you already knew about Hamburger University, but hey, just in case you didn't..
:)
Hamburger University
I've cruised the campus before, it's very nice--even has a full golf course. They actually do have courses on Working the Fry Basket, although they don't offer them as distance-learning
-gleam
...is my personal favorite.
Time to break internic's rules:
Registrant:
The Old School (OLDSCHOOL7-DOM)
1111 Karlstad Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
US
Domain Name: OLDSCHOOL.EDU
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Bell, Wade (WB216) wbell@BEST.COM
8oz. Publishing
2432 Karen Dr #1
Santa Clara, CA 95050
408 249 1557
Record last updated on 08-Mar-2001.
Record created on 12-Oct-1998.
Database last updated on 12-Apr-2001 06:35:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NAME.ROC.GBLX.NET 209.130.187.10
NAME.PHX.GBLX.NET 206.165.6.10
NAME.IAD.GBLX.NET 204.152.166.155
-----
-gleam
Good lord, have you looked anywhere in the past few months? XMPS supports DivX. XMMS supports DivX through two separate plugins. Xtheater and lamp both play DivX. It's not a "theoretically", it's a "does".
There are very few problems with DivX support in linux. The windows dll method works quite nicely, and performance is just fine on my system.
Also, DivX *has* been successfully reverse-engineered. A few weeks (months?) ago, it was ported to Macintosh by a group without access to the source. It's not a particularly difficult task, since the method used by the codec is very simple.
In any case, if you check the XMPS website (at least last time I checked) you can even see a screenshot of the software playing the trailer from "The Matrix". Unconfirmed? Sheeeeeeesh.
Regards,
gleam
It's not being marketed for apartment buildings, it's being marketed for office buildings.
It would be pretty damn good for my office building. We currently have a partial T1 here, even though we have over 100 users in house. I work in the bloomingdale's building in chicago, and there are ~30 floors of offices. Spreading 100mbit/s over all the companies would work wonderfully. Besides, your landlord wouldn't be your sysadmin. Basically, everyone in the building would plug into a jack in their wall and be hooked directly up to either the company lan (more likely) or the building lan (less likely).
My impression is also that they are very picky about who they sell to, since they don't oversubscribe.
They'll only sell 24 of these for each 2.4Gbit/s OC48 MAN. That's not much money, and I'm worried that they won't be able to make money if they're only making 24k/month but splitting up OC48s.
I dunno, maybe they have a better business model in hiding.
This is my first post in months and I'm being picky. How unexpected. Heh.
Anyway, in a world where the average IQ was 150, the average IQ would be 100. The average 3 year old has an IQ of 100, the average 30 year old has an IQ of 100, and the average 103 year old has an IQ of 100.
Now if what you meant was "Everyone had an IQ of 150 based on our scale in this world", that makes a bit more sense. Kinda.
-Ed
Actually, GAIM has basic OSCAR support. Of course, when I'm in windows and I need to use aim, I don't bother with the windows client, I just use Quickbuddy (no ads, java, and actually fairly fast)
get to it here:
http://www.aol.com/aim/quickbuddy.html
they also bring us drew carey, and whose line is it anyway... so I like ABC sitcoms, but not abcnews.
whoo.
On slashdot, it's quite obvious that the standard dictionary doesn't apply. Try the New Hackers' Dictionary (The jargon file, eh?):
troll v.,n.
2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup,
discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real
interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no
redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll."
Ya just gotta use the right tool for the job.
HAND.
-Ed
I wonder...
...if Natalie Portman likes pouring hot grits down her pants, too!
by Anonymous Coward on Tue March 14, 12:13 AM CST (#5)
It appears some of the moderators didn't understand this post. It was both on-topic and not a troll. Allow me a moment to explain.
The idea behind the post, obviously, was that this particular troll would be ecstatic if he could find a mate who shared his excitement when he pours hot grits down his pants. This goal, combined with his obvious Natalie Portman fetish, is a rather common topic on slashdot.
Now to the on-topic part. This "troll", if you prefer to call them that (I don't, it doesn't match the proper definition of "troll"), looked at this particular article, and, suddenly, saw a possibility for all his dreams to come true at once!
Wistfully, he/she posted "I wonder...if Natalie Portman likes pouring hot grits down her pants, too!" Now consider what would happen if this poster, equipped with one of the devices the story references, were to run into Miss Portman, and discovered that she did, indeed, like hot grits down her pants? I think, and I can imagine you all agree, that he would be both on-topic, and scored +5/interesting.
But, it appears, the moderation system has failed yet again, and an obviously on-topic post has been moderated down as a "Troll". I metamoderate frequently, and believe me, "Troll" is not a valid definition in most cases. Indeed, I'm under the opinion that "Troll" should be, often, a bonus. True trolls catch those of us who post before thinking in a tight spot.
My guess is that some of these moderators have been caught by true trolls, and now associate "Troll" with any post they don't like. If the above post were to be moderated down, it should obviously be moderated down for "Overrated" since Offtopic and "Troll" don't apply here.
Moderators, use a dictionary.
-Ed
I priced the components earlier (I'm very intrigued by the possibility) and a 2 gig 2.5" IDE hard drive is $72. That's an IBM hdd, too, so it's likely quite good quality. A USB ethernet card is approx $30 for the low end ones, but I didn't check for supported ones. My guess is that the low end ones are the supported ones.
So we have now a whopping $200, which is what the unit cost originally. So while it's twice the price, it's still undeniably nifty.
Somewhere below (above?) someone mentioned a parallel port ethernet card which is also supported under linux. That, however, costs around $75 or $100, so now we're in the 275$ range.
Not nearly $350-400, though. And $275 (or even better, $200) is a fabulous deal for a tiny little terminal.
-Ed
is fun.
do it more.
-ed
Why not just download Mo'Slo?
It's described on its homepage as a set of "CPU Slowdown Utilities".
It's crippleware, but the only thing the cripple keeps you from doing is slowing down in fractional increments. A friend of mine uses moslo extensively on his win box, unregistered, and it works fine.
I would bet it works under dosemu as well.
They actually have two copies, Mo'Slo Deluxe, and Mo'Slo BIZ. It even has in-program speed adjustment.
Really. Check it out.
-ed fisher