When I got hooked up with DSL we were recommended a certain installer (his name was jeff or garry or something), So when we rung up to make an appointment it was a simple case of asking for him... the operator on the other end thought it crazy that anyone would wait a week to get a specific installer (the average was 2 days, yes drool if you want)
So this guy rolls up, notices KDE on the desktop... says that linux is an unsupported operating system etc but he has to check that it works.... so after installing it all And doing a beautiful job with the wireing and installation into the wall, he whips out his notebook and lo and behold... its running linux. He plugs into our connection, runs the router config script he had, then to check, he opens up the slashdot homepage!....
He then closes his notebook, hands us a piece of paper that he had prepared with all the numbers we need, and some handy links about setting up pinholes with the supplied router, then goes on his way....
so the moral of the story???? ask your friends if they had a good experience.... get someone who knows what they are doing
Do we really need another one. Google rocks, nuff said.
Yes we do, competition is a good thing, having many search engines battleing for our serch clicks is what keeps them free and what keeps them getting better.....
slashdot is a funny beast, people jeer the monopolies and people still jeer at a small upstart trying to take on the big boys.
we had someone visit a site with a really badly set up ad system, it kept refreshing the image every 14 mili seconds.. he managed to pull 8 gig overnight... and at 8c a Meg that gets expensive
Its a good day for slashdot
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First we get news of fricken laser beams, now we have mutated, ill tempered..... uh......... worms.
and all on the same day we get an article that holywood is down the tubes, must be a slow geek day!
In New Zealand region coding is considered a restraint of trade... couple that with educated consumers and you will find region free players are the norm.
.....I went to the sony store to buy a player and the sales guy said they flashed the firmware of all their players coming into the country because of consumer demand.... simply no one was buying them before.
They must be using this patch you talk about because I can skip through all the FBI warnings.
And why do they even put the FBI warning on zone 4 DVD's anyway???.... the FBI has absolutely no jurisdiction in any contries that are zone 4 (New Zealand, Australia, the pacific islands)
pulp fiction is the example I use when trying to explain the evils of pan&slash. You know the scene when Johnny T and mia Wallace are in the cars talking about the shake, they are looking straight at each other..... on film it is how the director wanted it, both of their faces are on either edge of the screen and theres a huge amount of screen space between them. the whole conversation is one huge shot.... very cinematic, very nice....
On the 4:3 hack and slash version they have the whole scene cut up and they cut back and foward between them as they speak..... totally speads up the pacing ruining the whole scene.
Its not just free. They go and distribute extra learning material with it... its great... truely inovative thinking to the piracy problem
and as its just for learning it of course comes with a watermark on your renders and it saves to a closed format that the comercial version cant read (to save companies trying to skimp on licenceing fees)
so paintings painted on a blank canvas are just derivitave works from my copyright on "Ode to nothingness" which stikes an uncanny resemblance to a blank canvas.....
BTW, if I may ask, where do you work? How are you reacting to the Shake situation? What about Shake do you find is important to your work?
I work on a major movie (thats all you need to know) Shakes command line is an invaluable part of my workflow... I will continue to use it untill it becomes so old and antiquated that it stops running on my linux box.
I want to know if they plan on setting any minimum standards on data security of this information..... If I was an isp I would use cheep tape drives and dump out all the logs onto cheep dlt tape and just turf them all into a big box in a cupbord in the office..... If any of the tapes go bad (which they often do around here... thats why we write 3 at a time) you just say.... oops sorry, we tried our hardest..
No No, Combustion is still in development and Discreet are committed to it because it is selling soo well,
Combustion is great when you have less then 5 people working on the project, but it has serious scaling issues which make it unusable for feature film work.
Where I am at at the moment we use shake and the onlu other option that would work is to write our own or use Fusion!
I imagine that keeping the few bytes in the dns system that make my browser point to hotmail.com or yahoo.com are very valuable to them, I wonder if they have them insured?
Not only that but the system they use puts very hard edges on each pixel.... I work in the visual effects industry and our laser film printers print 2048xwhatever and the laser scans even closer so its like it doubles that resolution when its printing.... match that with grain in film and theres no way you could ever see the jaged edges that I saw in AOTC
WOW this is the greatest news I have heard all year.... it has totally made my day.
Ok calm down... explanation time..
I have had retina reatachment surgery 3 times in two years. this is where they take your eyes out, cut open the 6 rows of stiches in each eye and stick the retina back on. They dont know what is causing it (not bungee jumping or a car accident) and everytime it happens my retina gets a little more cut up and i have all sorts of weird stripes through my vision.
Now you my say.. "tough luck, you have bad eyes, live with it" but you see my whole life is based arround my eyes. I am a visual effects artist for the movies (lately 3d modeling on a movie about a ring) my eyes are my livilyhood.
And so the chance that they are one step closer to being able to replace them matters more to me then anything i have heard all year.
So if this is the "limited potential" you are talking about mr katz then i'm not really sorry for getting excited for nothing
calling people is overrated. now I'm a hightech worker and as such am being overpaid and am expected to have the cool toys.
I mean I was given a new nokia the other day, i currently own an ericsson and the nokia was smaller with a longer battery. but i gave it to a friend because i wanted to keep my ericsson... why??
because my phone has tetris and pacman....
YES thats the only reason..... dont say noone will buy one... because at the moment I'm eyeing up the new ericcson with java.. JUST SO I CAN PLAY GAMES!!
the great thing about cddb is that as soon as you put the cd in grip knows what the tracks are..... now i've searched my puter for the drive tray that takes books but i'm having a hard time locating it....
or do i need to buy all new books with IR or wifi???
I'm a professional artist using Maya and Shake (highend 3d and compositing packages) both under maya. it sucks to have to have a win2k box just for puting out to tape. i was planning on getting a g4 so i can keep it all under a unixie type environment but this looks like a great solution.
Slashdot Mirror
I live in New Zealand so your mileage may vary...
When I got hooked up with DSL we were recommended a certain installer (his name was jeff or garry or something), So when we rung up to make an appointment it was a simple case of asking for him... the operator on the other end thought it crazy that anyone would wait a week to get a specific installer (the average was 2 days, yes drool if you want)
So this guy rolls up, notices KDE on the desktop... says that linux is an unsupported operating system etc but he has to check that it works.... so after installing it all And doing a beautiful job with the wireing and installation into the wall, he whips out his notebook and lo and behold... its running linux. He plugs into our connection, runs the router config script he had, then to check, he opens up the slashdot homepage!....
He then closes his notebook, hands us a piece of paper that he had prepared with all the numbers we need, and some handy links about setting up pinholes with the supplied router, then goes on his way....
so the moral of the story???? ask your friends if they had a good experience.... get someone who knows what they are doing
heck if you look at it that way... MacGyver was a terrorist.... he never shot anyone but every eppisode he snuck round blowing stuff up
Do we really need another one. Google rocks, nuff said.
Yes we do, competition is a good thing, having many search engines battleing for our serch clicks is what keeps them free and what keeps them getting better.....
slashdot is a funny beast, people jeer the monopolies and people still jeer at a small upstart trying to take on the big boys.
we had someone visit a site with a really badly set up ad system, it kept refreshing the image every 14 mili seconds..
he managed to pull 8 gig overnight... and at 8c a Meg that gets expensive
First we get news of fricken laser beams, now we have mutated, ill tempered..... uh......... worms.
and all on the same day we get an article that holywood is down the tubes, must be a slow geek day!
In New Zealand region coding is considered a restraint of trade... couple that with educated consumers and you will find region free players are the norm.
.....I went to the sony store to buy a player and the sales guy said they flashed the firmware of all their players coming into the country because of consumer demand.... simply no one was buying them before.
They must be using this patch you talk about because I can skip through all the FBI warnings.
And why do they even put the FBI warning on zone 4 DVD's anyway???.... the FBI has absolutely no jurisdiction in any contries that are zone 4 (New Zealand, Australia, the pacific islands)
pulp fiction is the example I use when trying to explain the evils of pan&slash. You know the scene when Johnny T and mia Wallace are in the cars talking about the shake, they are looking straight at each other.....
on film it is how the director wanted it, both of their faces are on either edge of the screen and theres a huge amount of screen space between them. the whole conversation is one huge shot.... very cinematic, very nice....
On the 4:3 hack and slash version they have the whole scene cut up and they cut back and foward between them as they speak..... totally speads up the pacing ruining the whole scene.
Its not just free. They go and distribute extra learning material with it... its great... truely inovative thinking to the piracy problem
and as its just for learning it of course comes with a watermark on your renders and it saves to a closed format that the comercial version cant read (to save companies trying to skimp on licenceing fees)
Can someone set up a mirror or two before we loose it please??
Yes same thing happens to me whenever I visit the doctor.... except once..... when I had meningitis and the antibiotics saved my life....
so paintings painted on a blank canvas are just derivitave works from my copyright on "Ode to nothingness" which stikes an uncanny resemblance to a blank canvas.....
I find it ironic that the real threats to the U.S. are elected...
At least we know where to find the latest DOS tools, in #R114_l337_h4X0R or #M374L1C4
BTW, if I may ask, where do you work? How are you reacting to the Shake situation? What about Shake do you find is important to your work?
I work on a major movie (thats all you need to know)
Shakes command line is an invaluable part of my workflow... I will continue to use it untill it becomes so old and antiquated that it stops running on my linux box.
How about a overly paitiotic story about flying a jet fighter being flown into the big glowing heart of redmond and the whole place blowing up.....
or is that a little too insensitive these days??
I want to know if they plan on setting any minimum standards on data security of this information.....
If I was an isp I would use cheep tape drives and dump out all the logs onto cheep dlt tape and just turf them all into a big box in a cupbord in the office..... If any of the tapes go bad (which they often do around here... thats why we write 3 at a time) you just say.... oops sorry, we tried our hardest..
No No, Combustion is still in development and Discreet are committed to it because it is selling soo well,
Combustion is great when you have less then 5 people working on the project, but it has serious scaling issues which make it unusable for feature film work.
Where I am at at the moment we use shake and the onlu other option that would work is to write our own or use Fusion!
I imagine that keeping the few bytes in the dns system that make my browser point to hotmail.com or yahoo.com are very valuable to them, I wonder if they have them insured?
Not only that but the system they use puts very hard edges on each pixel.... I work in the visual effects industry and our laser film printers print 2048xwhatever and the laser scans even closer so its like it doubles that resolution when its printing.... match that with grain in film and theres no way you could ever see the jaged edges that I saw in AOTC
but linus flying into the center of microsofts building in his jet fighter would be in bad taste wouldn't it?
slashdot has a built in list of sites currently being slashdotted..... its called the /. front page
WOW this is the greatest news I have heard all year.... it has totally made my day.
Ok calm down... explanation time..
I have had retina reatachment surgery 3 times in two years. this is where they take your eyes out, cut open the 6 rows of stiches in each eye and stick the retina back on. They dont know what is causing it (not bungee jumping or a car accident) and everytime it happens my retina gets a little more cut up and i have all sorts of weird stripes through my vision.
Now you my say.. "tough luck, you have bad eyes, live with it" but you see my whole life is based arround my eyes. I am a visual effects artist for the movies (lately 3d modeling on a movie about a ring) my eyes are my livilyhood.
And so the chance that they are one step closer to being able to replace them matters more to me then anything i have heard all year.
So if this is the "limited potential" you are talking about mr katz then i'm not really sorry for getting excited for nothing
calling people is overrated. now I'm a hightech worker and as such am being overpaid and am expected to have the cool toys.
I mean I was given a new nokia the other day, i currently own an ericsson and the nokia was smaller with a longer battery. but i gave it to a friend because i wanted to keep my ericsson... why??
because my phone has tetris and pacman....
YES thats the only reason..... dont say noone will buy one... because at the moment I'm eyeing up the new ericcson with java.. JUST SO I CAN PLAY GAMES!!
the great thing about cddb is that as soon as you put the cd in grip knows what the tracks are..... now i've searched my puter for the drive tray that takes books but i'm having a hard time locating it....
or do i need to buy all new books with IR or wifi???
well your a good 12 hours behind us in new zealand where its past lunchtime, the official ending time for tricks in our culture.
does that mean I cant fool my american friends??
I'm a professional artist using Maya and Shake (highend 3d and compositing packages) both under maya. it sucks to have to have a win2k box just for puting out to tape. i was planning on getting a g4 so i can keep it all under a unixie type environment but this looks like a great solution.