Probably due to the third cut, which was probably cut due to violence/gore (for those who *still* dunno, Peter Jackson's more well known movies Bad Taste, Dead Alive, and Meet the Feebles, were all big time gore fests)... It usually takes just one punch in the face to move a film from a PG-13 rating to R...
One: yENC, when it was unveiled, did not really allow most conventional newsreaders any opportunity to adapt, til after the fact. This is akin to perhaps releasing zip files long before any archival software was actually available to open them... So do most of the folks using usenet for binaries get the opportunity to at least *choose* the way they do their downloads? Nope, they also are forced to adapt, or lose out...
Two: Loss in transmission... I've been downloading yENC attachments for the last month, and out of them, found over 50% loss/corruption in posting... Not due to retention/propagation either... Just files missing large chunks... Now this *could* be due to some problems on the senders' end, but it seems just a little *too* coincidental that almost all of the losses have occured with yENC uploads...
In case you haven't noticed, the economy is officially FUCKED right now... Sure, they're touting that the stock market has started the slow march to recovery, but between the market's performance and real life impact, you have upwards of 4 years (remember how long it took between Bush Sr.'s exiting the presidency, Clinton's moving in amongst the recession, and the time people actually started making money? That took almost 5 years to trickle down to the public's wallets)...
For the most part, even if you have a degree, you will have difficulty in finding work (though marginally better than those without paperwork or specialized skills)... We had several MAJOR companies declare bankrupcy in the last 6 months, if not die outright... What does that mean? In a job market where no less than 2 years ago was booming, you now have several dozen overqualified people applying for the same job...
On top of that, most of the things we've come to expect from the booming economy are going to suffer... From real estate through car sales, which in turn will result in a burgeoning population of "working homeless" (if you haven't been paying attention, there's several million people who *have* jobs, but cannot afford a simple home due to taking care of relatives, kids, etc, who live out of their cars, or if they're lucky enough, out of a friend's garage)...
Everyone ultimately pays for it indirectly, but don't pretend things are as bad as they are due to a few folks who're too lazy to work, a whole lot more people exist who probably work more than you, for far less pay than you would ever expect... Work a bartending or telemarketing job sometime, your official wage will be FAR below minimum wage, and your entire well being will largely depend on tips or commissions... Hardly anything I would call lazy...
Now if one was to blame anyone, how about the boatloads of IT experts who ultimately swamped the job markets, buying into an unstable employment situation, and spend every day online whining about how it's so hard to find work? What, you thought people were going to go ga ga over being able to order dog food online, when they could just drive to the local supermarket in 5 minutes and buy a can without paying shipping and credit card bills? Flip some burgers kiddies, learn what real work is...
The US government for funding DARPA and the implementation of the net...
Gates, Jobs, and IBM for making the computer an easily publically owned technology, which previously was only affordable by the corporations (AKA the "good" guys)...
MIT, UCLA, UCB, and every other university for developing, sharing and promoting new computer technologies which allowed the internet to exist in the first place...
Babbage for inventing the first true computer...
Ada Byron for creating the original mathmetical basis for all modern programming...
Nicolai Tesla, Westinghouse, Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and James Watt for discovering, modifying, and implementing electric power networks, which in turn allowed computers to move from the abacus to the laptop...
Oh, and Gronk Bubbababub, the caveman who discovered fire, that guy's DEFINATELY to blame...
Your corporate sponsers have realized that all these CRIMINALS have led to the losses of the RIAA and MPAA, and won't even let death be an excuse not to prosecute... And with your help, we can coerce our senators to approve of human cloning, so we can bring these lawbreakers back from the grave to face justice...
Windows users who jump in without having a single idea what they're doing, who download and run countless virii...
Linux users who jump in without having a single idea what they're doing, who ignore security updates entirely because they live under the myth that Linux is all that is good in the world, and can do no wrong...
In the end, it's user error on both sides that cause the security prolems, and the skript kiddiez who exploit them...
Recall that a couple of decades ago, Carl Sagan hypothesized that planets that could spawn intelligent life could have equal potential to self destruction to Earth... Chances are, if we manage to visit some of these planets, we'll find some ancient broken down probes, and maybe some nuked out cities, devoid of life...
I do like the idea of DVHS, but the sole problem is this: If the tape is damaged (all tape media has a tendacy to stretch with every play, and can sometimes be damaged by drops or heat), which in digital as opposed to analog, can render the tape completely unplayable... Analog would show it as a momentary video glitch, nothing worse than that...
Of course that allows the movie industry a shot at something they really can't do with DVD: Planned obsolescence... DVDs don't degrade as easily over the years as DVHS obviously will, and their plans for copy protection naturally means that the majority of buyers will come back time and time again to buy a fresh copy...
It's one of those cases of the movie industry pinching every penny and counting every dime... Even if they sell 5+ million copies of a DVD, the chance that another million may be swiping it online terrifies them... They hold the mentality that rather than the glass being half empty or half full, it's completely empty because they didn't take the last sip...
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· Score: 3, Informative
I've calculated a possible material to use for the binding agent, that's a no brainer: Silicone (as it can be formulated for varying degrees of clarity and density)or fiberglas epoxy resins (the added bonus of this is fairly rapid curing...
However, the ecological impact is a far better thing to consider... For example, recycled bottle glass can be ground down to make both aggregate and filler (you can seperate the colored glass and use that to add a touch of color to the finished product), and ground further down, it can act as filler as well...
Considering that the majority of states in the US only have voluntary glass recycling, it might provide incentive for deposit glass bottles, not to mention finally provide a real incentive to recycle old CRT's...
Or if you're feeling daring, you can use the same optical quality sand they use for reflective road striping to give the concrete an almost luminescent quality... For added strength, use polycarbonate rods or strips in a woven lattice...
The article stated that transparent/translucent concrete can only be prepared offsite, but in theory it can be done the same way as existing concrete, just bring a lot of drums of resin or silicone to the site...
As I recall, when an oxygen environment goes up in flames, anything combustable goes up as well... As the hoses were disconnected and/or burned through, that means the air in the astronauts' lungs were exposed to superheated gases, if not also subject to setting the lung tissues on fire... There's been occasional cases where this has happened with people in oxygen tanks or smokers who were on supplemental oxygen, when they were unlucky enough to have the gas magnify the burning potential of the materials involved by several times... So more than likely, the astronauts died from the interior of their lungs being scorched to the point of being nonfunctional...
We'll have more crappy software packages on DVD's that refuse to give bonus footage unless we install it on our PC's?
Take the Phantom Menace DVD for example, where you have to either search around for a copy of the quicktime video of the Ep 2 trailers, or install the crappy Interactual software that comes with the DVD in order to access the Starwars.com site preview (of course this also axes Mac/Linux users)...
Since this is a growing trend with any movie company that wants to make the buyers jump through hoops just for a crummy bonus footage shot, I think that the Australian courts should reexamine their stance... Since the DVD holds software *on* the media itself, along *with* a movie, it counts as software *and* video media...
What, you were expecting MacBeth?
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Next there'll be complaints about realism and plot in Godzilla movies...
But it's just SCREAMING for case modding... I can see some groovy blue graphical LCD/LED displays in the top dome spelling out heat, power consumption, cooling efficiency, etc... Carve some holes in the side for a black light, then color the coolant with any flourescent dyes (or antifreeze if that can flouresce), then mod the top to look like some kind of a head with the display as a visor, and, and...
Jeeze, this is like the Denis Leary joke about smoking pot to avoid going into carpentry...
In the Mini PC business, note that most of the systems are geared towards the Japanese market... Where a studio apartment on average is smaller than some folks' bedrooms, an ultra compact PC is ideal...
Well, aren't patents technically the same as copyrights, except as opposed to a copyright on a form of media, it's on a concept? Frankly it should be the same, for example, if someone comes up with and patents a concept for a product that is economically unfeasable now, but vital and economically profitable in the future, should they not be allowed to profit from same? Remember, in ye olden days, it wasn't really vast multinational corporations that applied for patents, it was yon little guy... The pendulum should swing both ways...
Their equipment is often sub par (remember, they own Magnavox, there may be some old'uns who remember their ads where the sound quality appeared to be recorded with a can and string connected to the microphone, but I digress), but at least their morals are not... Guess that IP lawyers aren't *all* evil, ehwot?
Can anyone provide actual reviews? I mean sheesh, this is such a new toy that it doesn't even show up on it's authorized retailer's listings... It looks okay, but what does it cost, how does it sound, etc?
Additionally, how does it perform while, say, scanning an image on a USB scanner, or while performing heavy mousing on a USB mouse, while playing Quake?
Other than looking like a nifty ad for the device, how about providing solid (and useful) information?
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Probably due to the third cut, which was probably cut due to violence/gore (for those who *still* dunno, Peter Jackson's more well known movies Bad Taste, Dead Alive, and Meet the Feebles, were all big time gore fests)... It usually takes just one punch in the face to move a film from a PG-13 rating to R...
One: yENC, when it was unveiled, did not really allow most conventional newsreaders any opportunity to adapt, til after the fact. This is akin to perhaps releasing zip files long before any archival software was actually available to open them... So do most of the folks using usenet for binaries get the opportunity to at least *choose* the way they do their downloads? Nope, they also are forced to adapt, or lose out...
Two: Loss in transmission... I've been downloading yENC attachments for the last month, and out of them, found over 50% loss/corruption in posting... Not due to retention/propagation either... Just files missing large chunks... Now this *could* be due to some problems on the senders' end, but it seems just a little *too* coincidental that almost all of the losses have occured with yENC uploads...
They move too fast to watch, anyway...
Ummmmmmm, that would be DOS...
In case you haven't noticed, the economy is officially FUCKED right now... Sure, they're touting that the stock market has started the slow march to recovery, but between the market's performance and real life impact, you have upwards of 4 years (remember how long it took between Bush Sr.'s exiting the presidency, Clinton's moving in amongst the recession, and the time people actually started making money? That took almost 5 years to trickle down to the public's wallets)...
For the most part, even if you have a degree, you will have difficulty in finding work (though marginally better than those without paperwork or specialized skills)... We had several MAJOR companies declare bankrupcy in the last 6 months, if not die outright... What does that mean? In a job market where no less than 2 years ago was booming, you now have several dozen overqualified people applying for the same job...
On top of that, most of the things we've come to expect from the booming economy are going to suffer... From real estate through car sales, which in turn will result in a burgeoning population of "working homeless" (if you haven't been paying attention, there's several million people who *have* jobs, but cannot afford a simple home due to taking care of relatives, kids, etc, who live out of their cars, or if they're lucky enough, out of a friend's garage)...
Everyone ultimately pays for it indirectly, but don't pretend things are as bad as they are due to a few folks who're too lazy to work, a whole lot more people exist who probably work more than you, for far less pay than you would ever expect... Work a bartending or telemarketing job sometime, your official wage will be FAR below minimum wage, and your entire well being will largely depend on tips or commissions... Hardly anything I would call lazy...
Now if one was to blame anyone, how about the boatloads of IT experts who ultimately swamped the job markets, buying into an unstable employment situation, and spend every day online whining about how it's so hard to find work? What, you thought people were going to go ga ga over being able to order dog food online, when they could just drive to the local supermarket in 5 minutes and buy a can without paying shipping and credit card bills? Flip some burgers kiddies, learn what real work is...
The US government for funding DARPA and the implementation of the net...
Gates, Jobs, and IBM for making the computer an easily publically owned technology, which previously was only affordable by the corporations (AKA the "good" guys)...
MIT, UCLA, UCB, and every other university for developing, sharing and promoting new computer technologies which allowed the internet to exist in the first place...
Babbage for inventing the first true computer...
Ada Byron for creating the original mathmetical basis for all modern programming...
Nicolai Tesla, Westinghouse, Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and James Watt for discovering, modifying, and implementing electric power networks, which in turn allowed computers to move from the abacus to the laptop...
Oh, and Gronk Bubbababub, the caveman who discovered fire, that guy's DEFINATELY to blame...
Your corporate sponsers have realized that all these CRIMINALS have led to the losses of the RIAA and MPAA, and won't even let death be an excuse not to prosecute... And with your help, we can coerce our senators to approve of human cloning, so we can bring these lawbreakers back from the grave to face justice...
Those who can, compete...
Those who can't, sue...
The Japanese had built an artificial womb some years ago, and raised a goat to term in it... http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/BT/21.html#21womb
Windows users who jump in without having a single idea what they're doing, who download and run countless virii...
Linux users who jump in without having a single idea what they're doing, who ignore security updates entirely because they live under the myth that Linux is all that is good in the world, and can do no wrong...
In the end, it's user error on both sides that cause the security prolems, and the skript kiddiez who exploit them...
Especially in any arcade that has the 'Addams Family Generator' game, which has some pretty wicked vibrations...
Sure they do... Those labels, you see, aren't to ensure that the lowest forms of life survive, but to ensure they (eg: lawyers) don't prosper...
You mean the one where they say to take a break every hour or so? Yeah, I didn't read it either...
!= Inhabited planets...
Recall that a couple of decades ago, Carl Sagan hypothesized that planets that could spawn intelligent life could have equal potential to self destruction to Earth... Chances are, if we manage to visit some of these planets, we'll find some ancient broken down probes, and maybe some nuked out cities, devoid of life...
Red hot poker up the rump for the rest of us...
I do like the idea of DVHS, but the sole problem is this: If the tape is damaged (all tape media has a tendacy to stretch with every play, and can sometimes be damaged by drops or heat), which in digital as opposed to analog, can render the tape completely unplayable... Analog would show it as a momentary video glitch, nothing worse than that...
Of course that allows the movie industry a shot at something they really can't do with DVD: Planned obsolescence... DVDs don't degrade as easily over the years as DVHS obviously will, and their plans for copy protection naturally means that the majority of buyers will come back time and time again to buy a fresh copy...
It's one of those cases of the movie industry pinching every penny and counting every dime... Even if they sell 5+ million copies of a DVD, the chance that another million may be swiping it online terrifies them... They hold the mentality that rather than the glass being half empty or half full, it's completely empty because they didn't take the last sip...
I've calculated a possible material to use for the binding agent, that's a no brainer: Silicone (as it can be formulated for varying degrees of clarity and density)or fiberglas epoxy resins (the added bonus of this is fairly rapid curing...
However, the ecological impact is a far better thing to consider... For example, recycled bottle glass can be ground down to make both aggregate and filler (you can seperate the colored glass and use that to add a touch of color to the finished product), and ground further down, it can act as filler as well...
Considering that the majority of states in the US only have voluntary glass recycling, it might provide incentive for deposit glass bottles, not to mention finally provide a real incentive to recycle old CRT's...
Or if you're feeling daring, you can use the same optical quality sand they use for reflective road striping to give the concrete an almost luminescent quality... For added strength, use polycarbonate rods or strips in a woven lattice...
The article stated that transparent/translucent concrete can only be prepared offsite, but in theory it can be done the same way as existing concrete, just bring a lot of drums of resin or silicone to the site...
As I recall, when an oxygen environment goes up in flames, anything combustable goes up as well... As the hoses were disconnected and/or burned through, that means the air in the astronauts' lungs were exposed to superheated gases, if not also subject to setting the lung tissues on fire... There's been occasional cases where this has happened with people in oxygen tanks or smokers who were on supplemental oxygen, when they were unlucky enough to have the gas magnify the burning potential of the materials involved by several times... So more than likely, the astronauts died from the interior of their lungs being scorched to the point of being nonfunctional...
We'll have more crappy software packages on DVD's that refuse to give bonus footage unless we install it on our PC's?
Take the Phantom Menace DVD for example, where you have to either search around for a copy of the quicktime video of the Ep 2 trailers, or install the crappy Interactual software that comes with the DVD in order to access the Starwars.com site preview (of course this also axes Mac/Linux users)...
Since this is a growing trend with any movie company that wants to make the buyers jump through hoops just for a crummy bonus footage shot, I think that the Australian courts should reexamine their stance... Since the DVD holds software *on* the media itself, along *with* a movie, it counts as software *and* video media...
Next there'll be complaints about realism and plot in Godzilla movies...
But it's just SCREAMING for case modding... I can see some groovy blue graphical LCD/LED displays in the top dome spelling out heat, power consumption, cooling efficiency, etc... Carve some holes in the side for a black light, then color the coolant with any flourescent dyes (or antifreeze if that can flouresce), then mod the top to look like some kind of a head with the display as a visor, and, and...
Jeeze, this is like the Denis Leary joke about smoking pot to avoid going into carpentry...
In the Mini PC business, note that most of the systems are geared towards the Japanese market... Where a studio apartment on average is smaller than some folks' bedrooms, an ultra compact PC is ideal...
Well, aren't patents technically the same as copyrights, except as opposed to a copyright on a form of media, it's on a concept? Frankly it should be the same, for example, if someone comes up with and patents a concept for a product that is economically unfeasable now, but vital and economically profitable in the future, should they not be allowed to profit from same? Remember, in ye olden days, it wasn't really vast multinational corporations that applied for patents, it was yon little guy... The pendulum should swing both ways...
Their equipment is often sub par (remember, they own Magnavox, there may be some old'uns who remember their ads where the sound quality appeared to be recorded with a can and string connected to the microphone, but I digress), but at least their morals are not... Guess that IP lawyers aren't *all* evil, ehwot?
"Guess what. NBC (or was it CBS) aired the 4th episode as the pilot! People were lost and wondering what the hell was going on when they saw it."
Worse, it was ABC (Disney)...
Can anyone provide actual reviews? I mean sheesh, this is such a new toy that it doesn't even show up on it's authorized retailer's listings... It looks okay, but what does it cost, how does it sound, etc?
Additionally, how does it perform while, say, scanning an image on a USB scanner, or while performing heavy mousing on a USB mouse, while playing Quake?
Other than looking like a nifty ad for the device, how about providing solid (and useful) information?