Listeners will also have the opportunity to review the drama and vote on whether they want the Timelord to return.
Listen, and vote, damnit, even if you hate audio webcasts (I know I do), but isn't it worth it just for the opportunity to vote a resounding "yes!" to bring our beloved Doctor back. It sounds like the BBC is actually listening here!
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I also have about 100 tapes, about a quarter of which are store bought... most of Tom Baker (only missing that one silly episode with the big man-eating plant -- the second one, with k9 & romana), most (if not all, I haven't done inventory in a while) of Peter Davidson (kinda/snakedance rules!), about half of Jon Pertwee (karate master / scientist extroidainere), a good chunk of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. I wish there was more Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell episodes to be found, though. I hardly have any of those very early ones.
I have been thinking about taking them out of episode format because that's how I was introduced to Doctor Who, age 10 in 1982. My local PBS station, WTTW Chicago used to play episodes in their entirety, every sunday night. Some of the tapes in my collection are from that period. I guess it's just a question of nostalga.
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Yes, but you are forgetting about something crucial. DeCSS is also only usable by folks with know-how and that didn't stop the MPAA going after it with a vengance. I think their (spurious) logic is that if geeks can do it now, we will make it eaiser for Joe Sixpack in the future. Even though hardware mods are impossible for Average Joe, there are enough electronics geeks around the world who might be willing to do this for a price. A good percentage of us here in the US know someone who can crack cable/direct-tv recievers. Something like this might just be the excuse the MPAA is looing for...
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How, exactly, was it a dumb question? I don't yet have any direct experience with shttp / mod_ssl / ApacheSSL, and I was looking for advice on reading materials *other* than the book being reviewed.
People in a community generally help each other. I know it is difficult for us anti-socal geeks who spend most of our time telling a machine what to do, but could you have just an ounce of respect for another human being in need of assistance?
If a newbie asked me a dumb question about, say, OpenGL, I would rather spend an hour explaining the subtleties than derriding them for their ignorance as you have done.
This is now a real moral plea: slashdotters, get off your high horse. If you know everything there is to know about a system, don't just sit on your pedistal, congratulating yourself on how smart you are... share your knowledge! Be patient with the new guy. Some day, he or she might be in a position to help you out in return.
Sorry for the rant, but I really believe slashdot has some great untapped potential for bringing us togther, and what we have done in the previous couple of posts is shameful.
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Do moderators just get kicks from modding other people down? Underrated? It was a serious on-topic question. No-one rated me up, so you are just sucking away my karma for no good reason. I'm beginning to seriously think that the moderation system here is totally broken. It doesn't achieve it's goal of reducing the signal-to-noise ratio, and it just pisses me off when I ask serious on-topic questions and my karma gets drained. This post will probably get modded "offtopic" but I'm starting to not care. I might as well be reading this site.
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Is mod_ssl the mechanism used to create an shttp connection? I probably should do a search for apache documentation, but I'm hoping the slashdot crowd can help me out the easy way;-) Is configuring mod_ssl all you need to do to get some information securely from the browser to a middle-tier process? Anyone have links to free resources on the subject, or is the info as hard to find as the reviewer suggests?
Thanks,
--d
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any more than it was Michael Jordan's fault that nobody could take him one-on-one
Hehehe. My little brother worked in a video arcade in Northbrook, IL for a while, and MJ had a b-day party for his son there. My little bro challenged MJ to a game of pop-a-shot (that basketball game you get in places like ESPN sports zone), and WON!!! It was pretty funny, 'cause some media people were there taking pictures:-)
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Yeah that's great, except that since MS has such a huge desktop market share, that none of these other OS examples matter. The fact is that MS uses it's desktop product to kill competition in another arena.
As for downloading, did you ever try downloading Mozilla on a 28.8 modem? I didn't think so...
And for the goddamn moderator who modded me flamebait go fuck yourself, the original "flame jon katz" comment was flamebait, not my response. I'm getting really sick of the dumb ass hivemind developing here at slashdot. Maybe it is time for me to switch to kuro5hin, where people really can have intelligent conversations.
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they did not act illegally in tying IE to their operating system. Quite simply, having IE as part of the OS makes it a better product for users
Man you are one spouting mindless, pathetic drivel. You don't seem to understand the fact that it doesn't matter how "innovative" microsoft is (and btw, IE is based on NCSA mosaic, not any innovation on ms's part) the fact remains that tying the browser to the OS squashes browser competition (ever heard of "embrace and extend|extinguish"?). There is a post on the front page of slashdot right now called "Netscape Backs Away From Browsers". Did you think that was because Netscape doesn't want to make browsers? No. It's because Netscape can't possibly compete in the environment that microsoft has produced.
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Hundreds of Slashdot readers were dissolusioned today when Slashdot posted it's 1000th troll, entitled "Ballmer Calls Linux 'A Cancer'". The more gullable breed of Slashbot fed the troll by posting the same old rhetoric: "MS sucks, Linux rools dude". More sensible users flocked like lemmings to kuro5hin where an intelligent discussion or five is taking place right now.
Man I'm getting cynical. I need to spend less time here.
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I disagree. A couple days ago, my fiance and I were watching TV, and someone was incorrectly dubbed a "hacker". I tried to explain the difference, but she cut me off and told me that noone cares about the correct semantics, it's only popular perception that matters. In other words, the term has taken on a new meaning because of a widespread perception. I never got to finish my sentance...
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So I guess all you slashbot doomsayers were wrong. RMS was exactly the right person to deliver that speech. He didn't drag it into a point by point debate, he emphasized those things that are important to free software developers, exactly on the same playing field as Mundie. I really hope this catches the attention of the "Open Source" community. Free software is a philosophy and a choice, not a bright idea to get your source code used.
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The American Revolution (as with most wars) was more about economics and trade restrictions than it was about personal freedoms.
Right. And what this current debacle is really about, when you look under the writhing surface, is Microsoft futures, shareholers, et. al. It doesn't matter what the real reason is, just the public perception that matters.
My original post attempts to gain readership by a trade-off between realism and an attempt to capture the reader's imagination:-P
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This post will probably just get lost in all the noise, but here we go anyway.
To me, this clash of the titans represents the modern day equivelant of Washington and friends telling the British to go stick an egg up their nose. Those original Americans (no offence meant to Native Americans) left an opressive government to start their own that made more sense for the common man. A direct analogy can be made between Microsoft in it's current form and the sovereignty in 18th century England. [ you will use our sotware vs. you will worship our god ]
This monopoly will be tackled someday. I believe with all my heart that if anyone can lead such a rebellion, it is Richard Stallman. Such a battle will inevitably crush some peoples fortunes, and create new fortunes. The GNU GPL ensures that no one entity in the Free Software future possess all power. This scares the bejesus out of Microsoft, and with good reason.
If anyone's looking for a good introduction to Pratchett, and is too lazy to read a 200 page book, check out this Wyrd Sisters video. This mini-series captures Pratchett's style very well (it has DEATH). Definately worth a look.
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"THE DEATH OF RATS", not "THE DEATH OF MICE"? Any you call yourself a Pratchett fan. On an unrelated note, I was sad to read in the Douglas Adams interview
that he had never read Pratchett. I wonder if Pratchett ever read Adams? I bet he has.
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On a P3/900 custom built system with a GEForce2MX, this game installs and runs without a hitch. The graphics are as stunningly beautiful as Riven. Neat things about the engine include:
360 degree freedom of view, ala QuicktimeVR, that also have motion video, so you can watch a character move and speak while rotating the view.
spacial sound (lovely!)
engaging puzzles, just like the first two in the series
The puzzles aren't quite as enchanting as the first two, but it may be because I know more what to expect.
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Slashdot Mirror
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I also have about 100 tapes, about a quarter of which are store bought... most of Tom Baker (only missing that one silly episode with the big man-eating plant -- the second one, with k9 & romana), most (if not all, I haven't done inventory in a while) of Peter Davidson (kinda/snakedance rules!), about half of Jon Pertwee (karate master / scientist extroidainere), a good chunk of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. I wish there was more Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell episodes to be found, though. I hardly have any of those very early ones.
I have been thinking about taking them out of episode format because that's how I was introduced to Doctor Who, age 10 in 1982. My local PBS station, WTTW Chicago used to play episodes in their entirety, every sunday night. Some of the tapes in my collection are from that period. I guess it's just a question of nostalga.
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Yes, but you are forgetting about something crucial. DeCSS is also only usable by folks with know-how and that didn't stop the MPAA going after it with a vengance. I think their (spurious) logic is that if geeks can do it now, we will make it eaiser for Joe Sixpack in the future. Even though hardware mods are impossible for Average Joe, there are enough electronics geeks around the world who might be willing to do this for a price. A good percentage of us here in the US know someone who can crack cable/direct-tv recievers. Something like this might just be the excuse the MPAA is looing for...
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My Dr. Who collection thanks Mr. Andrew Tridgell. Now I can precisely edit those separate half-hour episodes into complete episodes. This rocks!
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How, exactly, was it a dumb question? I don't yet have any direct experience with shttp / mod_ssl / ApacheSSL, and I was looking for advice on reading materials *other* than the book being reviewed.
People in a community generally help each other. I know it is difficult for us anti-socal geeks who spend most of our time telling a machine what to do, but could you have just an ounce of respect for another human being in need of assistance?
If a newbie asked me a dumb question about, say, OpenGL, I would rather spend an hour explaining the subtleties than derriding them for their ignorance as you have done.
This is now a real moral plea: slashdotters, get off your high horse. If you know everything there is to know about a system, don't just sit on your pedistal, congratulating yourself on how smart you are... share your knowledge! Be patient with the new guy. Some day, he or she might be in a position to help you out in return.
Sorry for the rant, but I really believe slashdot has some great untapped potential for bringing us togther, and what we have done in the previous couple of posts is shameful.
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;
Do moderators just get kicks from modding other people down? Underrated? It was a serious on-topic question. No-one rated me up, so you are just sucking away my karma for no good reason. I'm beginning to seriously think that the moderation system here is totally broken. It doesn't achieve it's goal of reducing the signal-to-noise ratio, and it just pisses me off when I ask serious on-topic questions and my karma gets drained. This post will probably get modded "offtopic" but I'm starting to not care. I might as well be reading this site.
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Is mod_ssl the mechanism used to create an shttp connection? I probably should do a search for apache documentation, but I'm hoping the slashdot crowd can help me out the easy way ;-) Is configuring mod_ssl all you need to do to get some information securely from the browser to a middle-tier process? Anyone have links to free resources on the subject, or is the info as hard to find as the reviewer suggests?
Thanks,--d
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Wouldn't this leave a seam in a panoramic view like in qtvr? Not very useful...
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Yeah that's great, except that since MS has such a huge desktop market share, that none of these other OS examples matter. The fact is that MS uses it's desktop product to kill competition in another arena.
As for downloading, did you ever try downloading Mozilla on a 28.8 modem? I didn't think so...
And for the goddamn moderator who modded me flamebait go fuck yourself, the original "flame jon katz" comment was flamebait, not my response. I'm getting really sick of the dumb ass hivemind developing here at slashdot. Maybe it is time for me to switch to kuro5hin, where people really can have intelligent conversations.
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;
Hundreds of Slashdot readers were dissolusioned today when Slashdot posted it's 1000th troll, entitled "Ballmer Calls Linux 'A Cancer'". The more gullable breed of Slashbot fed the troll by posting the same old rhetoric: "MS sucks, Linux rools dude". More sensible users flocked like lemmings to kuro5hin where an intelligent discussion or five is taking place right now.
Man I'm getting cynical. I need to spend less time here.
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I disagree. A couple days ago, my fiance and I were watching TV, and someone was incorrectly dubbed a "hacker". I tried to explain the difference, but she cut me off and told me that noone cares about the correct semantics, it's only popular perception that matters. In other words, the term has taken on a new meaning because of a widespread perception. I never got to finish my sentance...
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So I guess all you slashbot doomsayers were wrong. RMS was exactly the right person to deliver that speech. He didn't drag it into a point by point debate, he emphasized those things that are important to free software developers, exactly on the same playing field as Mundie. I really hope this catches the attention of the "Open Source" community. Free software is a philosophy and a choice, not a bright idea to get your source code used.
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- Had to re-build perl from source because I couldn't build a module because of missing headers
- Cannot, no matter how many fscking versions of the gcc source and/or egcs get a cross compiler to build.
- Flaky hardware detection software (call me when HardDrake actually works)
- Cannot, no matter how hard I twiddle the configuration get both an internal network working at the same time as a ppp dialup.
All in all, the pretty GUI configuration tools just aren't ready for prime time yet. I think it's time for GNU/Debian land...Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;
Right. And what this current debacle is really about, when you look under the writhing surface, is Microsoft futures, shareholers, et. al. It doesn't matter what the real reason is, just the public perception that matters.
My original post attempts to gain readership by a trade-off between realism and an attempt to capture the reader's imagination :-P
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This post will probably just get lost in all the noise, but here we go anyway.
To me, this clash of the titans represents the modern day equivelant of Washington and friends telling the British to go stick an egg up their nose. Those original Americans (no offence meant to Native Americans) left an opressive government to start their own that made more sense for the common man. A direct analogy can be made between Microsoft in it's current form and the sovereignty in 18th century England. [ you will use our sotware vs. you will worship our god ]
This monopoly will be tackled someday. I believe with all my heart that if anyone can lead such a rebellion, it is Richard Stallman. Such a battle will inevitably crush some peoples fortunes, and create new fortunes. The GNU GPL ensures that no one entity in the Free Software future possess all power. This scares the bejesus out of Microsoft, and with good reason.
Sorry for the rant, but this is the reason I volunteer my time to work with the Free Software Foundation, and watch Free Developers with interest.
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Agreed. "Free Software" is better than "Open Source".
Anyway, shouldn't that have read gpl==oss? We're all geeks here, you meant to say "gpl is equivelant to oss" and not "assign oss to the gpl".
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If anyone's looking for a good introduction to Pratchett, and is too lazy to read a 200 page book, check out this Wyrd Sisters video. This mini-series captures Pratchett's style very well (it has DEATH). Definately worth a look.
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"THE DEATH OF RATS", not "THE DEATH OF MICE"? Any you call yourself a Pratchett fan. On an unrelated note, I was sad to read in the Douglas Adams interview that he had never read Pratchett. I wonder if Pratchett ever read Adams? I bet he has.
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Um that was "one million times faster". Therefore, your post is wrong by a factor of 50,000.
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- 360 degree freedom of view, ala QuicktimeVR, that also have motion video, so you can watch a character move and speak while rotating the view.
- spacial sound (lovely!)
- engaging puzzles, just like the first two in the series
The puzzles aren't quite as enchanting as the first two, but it may be because I know more what to expect.Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;
Don't make me send a bunch of high priced lawyers after your ass, you damn open source hippie freak! Better yet, I'll send Craig Mundie.
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It is propriatery IP, and you may not use it for any purpose, unless you pay me $1,000,000. Also, I absolutely refuse to GPL the code.
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