You may think it's ready to go but the W. Brothers want to rerender all the effects on linux boxes so people will think its cool
Nah, they're waiting to render it on Linux powered Opteron boxen. That way, it'll be so cool the audience will have to wear sun glasses.
So what's to render? Lots of stormy looking sky? All they'd have to do is focus a camera on the skies above Michigan during an average winter and they'd have all the grey, dark grey, drab grey, ugly grey, depressing grey and gray they'd need for any amount of gloom.
Sorry for the rant in this inane and pointless thread, but...wake up and smell the burning flesh, huh?
It's April Fools Day, here in the USA, a tradition of humor (as you may note, terribly needed at this current time) in pulling small pranks (your shoe is untied, spider on your shoulder, etc.) The real fools are either in Washington D.C. or elected this batch of extremists (good/evil, with us or against us, willing to kill women and children vs. willing to kill women and children)
Whatever, eh? The dig at the french is in humor, which apparently eluded you. I love the french and respect them (and the germans, too) for standing up to the bunch of coldwarriors who called them names and launched the war. Don't pity us yet, you'll have years to do that, as the people whose blood is boiling over this plot their revenge against us. It's all so stupid. Perhaps April Fools Day is more appropriat than ever.
Each of the 5 bits that have been added is slightly different, due to differing views on good and evil.
bit 1 - definately evil (contains pictures of dead babies being eaten by a man covered in feces)
bit 2 - mostly evil (internal microsoft memo)
bit 3 - pretty evil (download of a vi clone)
bit 4 - kinda evil (how to enlarge your penis)
bit 5 - just mischevious (b00bies)
This allows administrators a fine grained ability to block packets.
Actually, you left off bit 0 - Most Evil - (think Axis of Evil) Packet carries dreaded Worm of Mass Distruction, DoS stuff, warm wishes from France or 15 cent off coupon on next trip to Paris during transportation strike.
Duke Nukem Forever and Star Wars Galaxies to be combined in monochrome vectorgraphic blowout.
Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq
Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.
AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003
NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.
Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.
Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq
Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.
AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003
NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.
Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.
It'll be pretty much like this all day, today. And people were annoyed with the plethora of Apr. 1 gags last year. The Peter Jackson/King Kong is real, afaik, as it's been in the news the prior couple days. (How did that one slip through?)
In other news:
Warner Studios has anounced further sequels to it's popular film The Matrix. Sequels will be titled: The Matrix Transposed, The Matrix Inverted, The Matrix Rotated, The Matrix Scaled, The Matrix Translated, The Matrix Identity and finally The Matrix Determinant. After the full run of Matrix films an anonymous source has indicated the studio has expressed interest in a series based upon Sine, Cosine and Tangent, with options on Secant, Cosecant, Arcsine, etc. if interest persists.
It's going to be interesting to see Jackson's interperetation of this.
Three words:
Mighty Joe Young
Let's hope it's not. However, I like the old RKO version, it's pretty kick-butt for when it was made and, to reveal a bit of my geekiness, I'm really tripped out how they did some of those special effects without little more than creative imagination and engineering. Cool stuff. I'm unsure how even the mighty Peter Jackson can improve on it.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, founder and editor
on Slashdot.Org, an internet news site
was found to be infected by a mysterious new virus. The infection
had been long suspected, but
its severity has increased recently by
reducing his memory window. A posting on the news site
"New RFC Adds "Evil Bit", posted on Tuesday April 01, @05:02AM was reposted less than
three hours later, revealing the crippling effect and progression
of the disease. In prior instances articles
would be repeated several hours or over a day apart.
Experts have issued grave predictions for Mr. Malda. "It was that 534th viewing of Spirited Away, while popping blue penis pills that did it", CowboyNeal, an associate
lamented.
In other news: Intel unveiled a previously unknown high priority development project for a 64 bit CPU aimed at the consumer and server markets. Codenamed "Upsidaisyium" it shows
Intel did take the AMD Opteron threat seriously after all, further, upstaging Opteron with an earlier release. "We have no software whatsoever which can run on it," said an anonymous source, "because
the engineers accidently based it on the 6502 8-bit core. It should make for great new versions of the Commodore 64 and Apple II, though."
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Sounds like it was your individual unit. Mine's been a peach and I'll never give it up.
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Perhaps the cheapest laptop LCD screens are being sold at a loss, and the desktop ones are sold at a high profit?
Some desktop 17" LCD monitors are as low as $250. Now consider that that includes a case, powersupply and some components, it's unlikely the mfrs are making a whopping profit. Most of the expensive LCD monitors I've seen, mine included, are DV-I, have sound, remotes, other features. I shelled ~600$US for a Samsung SyncMaster 172t, and I'm quite happy with it, although it's very bright at its lowest setting. Great otherwise.
I think the prices will take care of themselves. Oh, and you get what you pay for. YMMV:-)
Execution is pretty fast on my AMD XP2600+, it seems like it wades through bloated MS code pretty well, but even with the fast HDD and everything, program loading is inexplicably slow, and the drive hasn't had enough time to get seriously fragmented, so I was wondering. Probably should order a 160GB drive and get busy installing Manduck Linux 9...
I've put off getting a PDA for ages, usually what I like costs way more than I want to pay. Now I'm going to get all these little pieces of paper together and enter phone nums, email addrs, snailmail addrs, etc. into this baby. It's pretty cool, though the battery certainly has too short a life to play games on it. I've looked around and batteries are ~50$US. I figure I'll get one next month. Big project will be finding a way to connect it to my Garmin ETrex:-)
I'd be interested to see how this applies within the framework of NAFTA and WTO. The US just got slapped for the Steel Tariff. Like many things, outsourcing to remote location(including countries) has its drawbacks. A few friends have had to put in really strange hours because of meetings/teleconferences with overseas offices, which can be a real drag. "We're cheap, if that's what you're looking for, just don't ask about our customer support, anyone who really knows anything about your problem is probably sleeping right now." I had problems with an IBM RS/6000 a few years back and was very unimpressed by having my tech support call answered by a low level tech (read: knows how to answer a phone and what a keyboard and monitor are, but after that he just types up notes for others to respond to later) in Oz (I was in Michigan at the time) Left to my own devices that would have been the last piece of Blue equipment I ever bought.
Of course, lunkhead that I am, I've built a home computer out of a large-ish pile of stuff, all from China or Korea. I'd feel a lot better if some of this stuff was made nearby and I could speak to someone in english without some heavy accent, regarding support. The old anti-dumping tariff on memory doesn't seem to have any impact, even tangentially, to the 9,999 things that go into a PC.
Um. Ok, I actually read the whole article and it has influenced my to change the direction, or consider strongly doing so, exporting data for archival purposes. We have an old system which will go out the door in the near future and I have been charged with archiving tables from a database in some form which makes they easily readable for auditing purposes, or for the more masochistic, able to be plugged into their happy little desktop database of choice (usually Access.) That said.
That said, the challenge stems from MV-fields. Those nifty things in PICK which give you the power of keeping associated fields within one table, with as many associations as you like. (for good or for bad, bad usually when it's been abused or good housekeeping neglected.) Piling MV stuff into CSV is just plain icky. Normalizing it first is also icky. However XML may offer a simple, elegant way of keeping it all together in the shape it existed in (which may be important down the road if someone has to produce a report from it (auditors, second guessers, or a55-covering because some account didn't have the right amount of debits or credits for years and the difference needs to be found.)
I'm off to explore XML more fully. There's probably yet-another O'Reilly book in my future...
Cheat me once, shame on you. Cheat me twice, shame on me. If I continue to play against cheaters, or people who continuously kick my butt, where probability should demand a more balanced percentage of win/loss, it's my own fault. Better to play honest people like me, who play for the fun of playing, not for some thrill of cheating fellow players.
The warning should say something like "Due to overzealous...
Ok, my version:
The Programmer General Warns You: Product is not Open Source. It contains non-user-servicable code and may result in finger pointing between software vendor(s), hardware vendor(s), installer/administrator and end user. Attempt to install or run on upgraded hardware may result in incomaptibilities which the vendor may choose not to support due to strategic alliances, incompetence, lack of foresite or being out of business. Just be happy you aren't forced to use a dongle.
Amusing. You should visit Santa Cruz someday.. there are:
A car with a huge ant on it, amoung buildings, called the 'Them Car'
A car covered with dolls and bobbleheads, sure to be a lawyers dream if it ever impales a pedestrian.
A significant population of VW mini-busses covered with environmental and peace stickers, belching exhaust which will make your eyes water.
On yet-another note, and also off-topic (except for possible humor value) I saw this on Google News:
Harvard says common virus, MS may be linked
Boston Globe - 8 hours ago
virus believed to infect up to 95 percent of all Americans may play a crucial role in triggering multiple sclerosis, Harvard researchers reported today, potentially providing an important clue to understanding...
Of course, I saw the MS and thought the obvious and thought, "no, really?"
A russian, cuban, an Intel salesman and an overclocker are riding in a train.
The russian pulls a bottle of vodka from his jacket, opens it, takes a quick pull then opens the window and throws the bottle out and shuts the window again. The cuban turns to the russian and says, "Why you throw away perfectly good vodka like that?" The russian replies, "in Russia, we have the best vodka in the entire world and more of it than we know what to do with, I can afford to do that, no problem."
The cuban considers what the russian has said then pulls a cigar from a pocket, lights it up, takes a couple puffs, opens the window, throws it out and shuts the window again. The russian is non-plused, but the salesman and the overclocker look amazedly at the cuban. The cuban says, "in Cuba we have the best cigars in all the world and so many of them they just get in the way."
The salesman and overclocker each consider this for a moment. Then the salesman opens the window and bodily throws the overclocker from the trai
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Nah, they're waiting to render it on Linux powered Opteron boxen. That way, it'll be so cool the audience will have to wear sun glasses.
So what's to render? Lots of stormy looking sky? All they'd have to do is focus a camera on the skies above Michigan during an average winter and they'd have all the grey, dark grey, drab grey, ugly grey, depressing grey and gray they'd need for any amount of gloom.
Sorry for the rant in this inane and pointless thread, but...wake up and smell the burning flesh, huh?
It's April Fools Day, here in the USA, a tradition of humor (as you may note, terribly needed at this current time) in pulling small pranks (your shoe is untied, spider on your shoulder, etc.) The real fools are either in Washington D.C. or elected this batch of extremists (good/evil, with us or against us, willing to kill women and children vs. willing to kill women and children)
Whatever, eh? The dig at the french is in humor, which apparently eluded you. I love the french and respect them (and the germans, too) for standing up to the bunch of coldwarriors who called them names and launched the war. Don't pity us yet, you'll have years to do that, as the people whose blood is boiling over this plot their revenge against us. It's all so stupid. Perhaps April Fools Day is more appropriat than ever.
Actually, you left off bit 0 - Most Evil - (think Axis of Evil) Packet carries dreaded Worm of Mass Distruction, DoS stuff, warm wishes from France or 15 cent off coupon on next trip to Paris during transportation strike.
Duke Nukem Forever and Star Wars Galaxies to be combined in monochrome vectorgraphic blowout.
Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq
Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.
AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003
NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.
Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.
IPv4 to include Evil Bit (RFC 3514)
The MJY I was referring to was the rather poor Disney remake. There's been a remake, in the 70's, of King Kong, which was pretty cheesy.
Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq
Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.
AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003
NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.
Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.
IPv4 to include Evil Bit
You don't see the pattern here?
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
It'll be pretty much like this all day, today. And people were annoyed with the plethora of Apr. 1 gags last year. The Peter Jackson/King Kong is real, afaik, as it's been in the news the prior couple days. (How did that one slip through?)
In other news:
If you're an overclocker, you'd already know this. ;-)
Three words:
Let's hope it's not. However, I like the old RKO version, it's pretty kick-butt for when it was made and, to reveal a bit of my geekiness, I'm really tripped out how they did some of those special effects without little more than creative imagination and engineering. Cool stuff. I'm unsure how even the mighty Peter Jackson can improve on it.
Sounds like it was your individual unit. Mine's been a peach and I'll never give it up.
Some desktop 17" LCD monitors are as low as $250. Now consider that that includes a case, powersupply and some components, it's unlikely the mfrs are making a whopping profit. Most of the expensive LCD monitors I've seen, mine included, are DV-I, have sound, remotes, other features. I shelled ~600$US for a Samsung SyncMaster 172t, and I'm quite happy with it, although it's very bright at its lowest setting. Great otherwise.
I think the prices will take care of themselves. Oh, and you get what you pay for. YMMV :-)
Work it so you get feedback on a joystick, driven by the audio and you'll be able to feel the music, too.
I'm a bit worried where this technology is going, when will the TV be watching me? How do I know it isn't, already? ;-)
1: Ask the question, "Are Programmers Engineers?" on a tech-oriented website.
2: Well... pretty much any other question, but No. 1 is the humdinger granddaddy of all waltzing in a minefield questions.
And just to get things started, "Yes."
Execution is pretty fast on my AMD XP2600+, it seems like it wades through bloated MS code pretty well, but even with the fast HDD and everything, program loading is inexplicably slow, and the drive hasn't had enough time to get seriously fragmented, so I was wondering. Probably should order a 160GB drive and get busy installing Manduck Linux 9...
I've put off getting a PDA for ages, usually what I like costs way more than I want to pay. Now I'm going to get all these little pieces of paper together and enter phone nums, email addrs, snailmail addrs, etc. into this baby. It's pretty cool, though the battery certainly has too short a life to play games on it. I've looked around and batteries are ~50$US. I figure I'll get one next month. Big project will be finding a way to connect it to my Garmin ETrex :-)
Of course, lunkhead that I am, I've built a home computer out of a large-ish pile of stuff, all from China or Korea. I'd feel a lot better if some of this stuff was made nearby and I could speak to someone in english without some heavy accent, regarding support. The old anti-dumping tariff on memory doesn't seem to have any impact, even tangentially, to the 9,999 things that go into a PC.
That said, the challenge stems from MV-fields. Those nifty things in PICK which give you the power of keeping associated fields within one table, with as many associations as you like. (for good or for bad, bad usually when it's been abused or good housekeeping neglected.) Piling MV stuff into CSV is just plain icky. Normalizing it first is also icky. However XML may offer a simple, elegant way of keeping it all together in the shape it existed in (which may be important down the road if someone has to produce a report from it (auditors, second guessers, or a55-covering because some account didn't have the right amount of debits or credits for years and the difference needs to be found.)
I'm off to explore XML more fully. There's probably yet-another O'Reilly book in my future...
Could be a whole new employement niche, Spam Collection Agent.
"Hello, you bad old spammer you, I'm here to tow away your server."
Cheat me once, shame on you. Cheat me twice, shame on me. If I continue to play against cheaters, or people who continuously kick my butt, where probability should demand a more balanced percentage of win/loss, it's my own fault. Better to play honest people like me, who play for the fun of playing, not for some thrill of cheating fellow players.
Ok, my version:
A car with a huge ant on it, amoung buildings, called the 'Them Car'
A car covered with dolls and bobbleheads, sure to be a lawyers dream if it ever impales a pedestrian.
A significant population of VW mini-busses covered with environmental and peace stickers, belching exhaust which will make your eyes water.
On yet-another note, and also off-topic (except for possible humor value) I saw this on Google News:
Of course, I saw the MS and thought the obvious and thought, "no, really?"
The GBA SP was covered in a recent PA strip.
The russian pulls a bottle of vodka from his jacket, opens it, takes a quick pull then opens the window and throws the bottle out and shuts the window again. The cuban turns to the russian and says, "Why you throw away perfectly good vodka like that?" The russian replies, "in Russia, we have the best vodka in the entire world and more of it than we know what to do with, I can afford to do that, no problem."
The cuban considers what the russian has said then pulls a cigar from a pocket, lights it up, takes a couple puffs, opens the window, throws it out and shuts the window again. The russian is non-plused, but the salesman and the overclocker look amazedly at the cuban. The cuban says, "in Cuba we have the best cigars in all the world and so many of them they just get in the way."
The salesman and overclocker each consider this for a moment. Then the salesman opens the window and bodily throws the overclocker from the trai