I always forget how much movies cost. I'm used to a Carmike in my hometown that just recently raised its price to $2.50 a ticket. Drinks and popcorn are of course around $4 apiece which is the only way they (or any theater really) make money. Movie theaters ony get 10% of tickets sales in the first week, 20% in the second, 30% in the third, etc. etc. (the rest goes back to the studio) so the owners where I'm from never counted on ticket gains. They're not second run movies either, Spiderman 2 opened there the same time it opened everywhere else.
First figure out how many people would buy a movie at $50/unit. If that price reduces movie sales by more than 4/5ths then there's no need to talk. I think it would too.
Gentoo has a few dozen different kernels at your disposal. There used to be a gaming-sources kernel that was based on ck-sources. The other popular kernel in portage for gaming is mm-sources by Andrew Morton (the guy Linus lets go hog-wild with the kernel).
Kernels not in Gentoo portage but compatible and designed for speed are: nitro-sources (ck-sources + reiser4 + framebuffer + other stuff) love-sources (community maintained kernel to optimize desktop performance and test "unstable" patches) speedy-sources (love-sources w/ reiser4)
Oh, and looking at the forums nearly everyone uses an nVidia card. So far, nVidia plays nicer with x.org than ATI.
For video copy protection can only work as far as a screen capture: Framebuffer, meet harddrive.
Video games fall into two categories, ones where you're paying for a social service (MMORPGs) and ones you can play with a specific group or alone. Anything that requires internet authentication can be fooled.
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Bug report #11120759: Assumption that all graphic hardware manufacturers have binary drivers for the current stable Xorg release which allow for translucency and shadows to work is incorrect.
Affects: Many, if not all ATI cards and Xorg >= 6.8.0
Anyone else notice that in the whole body of the article it never directly says which way this "major climate change" will swing? It mentions plants stuck in a glacier about 5,200 years ago, a man trapped in ice at about that time, and Kilimanjaro was really cold at the time. It also says that we had a Little Ice age a few hundred years ago as if to allude to the fact that what they're talking about is another Ice Age. But it never says "global cooling" or anything else so definitive.
The thing is though, they can't say it. Global warming is where it's at. This is valid research that's been Google-proofed against discovery by people trying to support counter-global-warming arguments. Search for climate and all you'll get is "global warming" and "major climate change" because no one can say "global cooling" and get away with it since it flies in the face of all that speculation and computer modelling we've been doing for the past decade.
I'm sorry. It appears Anglefire has gone schizo on the poor guy's site, even though the link is run through the Coral. I feel like an ass now as it appears they're replaced every reference to one of his pictures with their picture, which is now tiled on the background.
Suffice to say there are some incredibly amazing creations out there. One man had this monstrosity that had about at least two elevators leading to about 8 unique tracks. It took a marble 20 minutes to traverse the whole thing.
Literary deconstruction is a whole field completely absorbed in making insights into books and stories. I don't know a single person working on an English degree who hasn't spent hours pouring over Joyce, Pynchon, or Kerouac (the whole beat generation probably counts) and has had to learn to make "insights." If you can't exhibit to the professor that you are capable of recognizing "insightful" things in a text (whether they be there or not) you're not going to pass.
My girlfriend is getting an English degree and has told me that it really doesn't matter what the author intended. Almost completely across the board, liberal arts degree programs teach you to be exceptionally pretentious in this manner.
Kuro5hin had a good article pointing this out a while back. Someone deconstructed Winnie-the-Pooh. Postmodern deconstructionism is a powerful and yet inbred movement that's been taking intellects by storm and has spawned all kinds of unique "insights" several degrees removed from the original intents of their creators.
I've been playing with my set since 1990 and have yet to get tired of it. The track is 1/8" diameter nylon which is easily replaced by buying 1000' of brake line. The marbles are 1/2" dia but if you get pachinko sized marbles (3/8") they stay on the tracks better. Really the only thing that hasn't been easily replaced (out of necessity) from these sets are the cross ties, though there are instructions for milling your own out of a tube of plastic. Some places have started making special parts for Spacewarp on request. I have Set 30 just like poster of this article and it goes for $150 now on eBay because of the scarcity of the original parts.
Here's a coralized link to one of the better galleries I know of. The possibilities with these things are absolutely amazing.
Gmail, by the way, has a really sharp spam filter...
Watch out for that though. Gmail has detected several false postives for me in the last week. It's especially annoying when they're from sellers on eBay. I also get an email from a word-a-day type site that occasionally gets enspammed.
Many of the files I get that have been packaged by more specific groups requiring membership have been RAR files with password protection, so yeah, they're already encrypting stuff that goes over BitTorrent.
On compressed files, don't they even without passwords stand as a form of encryption? Quake3 packages everything in.pk3 files which are essentially.zip files. It stands to reason that they once upon a time intended to use that naming scheme to prevent people from accessing their data. (Warcraft II used some oddball compression scheme for what appeared to be just that reason) Granted *they* don't care if modders and whatnot do it now, but if the compression was originally intended as a way to disguise copyrighted data then it can be argued that un-"encrypting" it with pkzip or winzip or whatever would be a protection circumvention mechanism which is prosecutable in criminal court.
So when are the federal laws going to show up and be functional? I know the CAN-SPAM act is in place but I'm still getting tons of spoofed reply-to headers. What are the chances that federal anti-spam law will be passed without including 500 addendums like the formation of an internet policing bureau with mandatory unions (a la Patriot Act) or some sort of internet tax in order to fund the effort. Ever since what's-his-face said the internet is a "wild west that will eventually have to come under government supervision" I've been waiting for some laws to show to get them deeper into the net.
I think that these spam laws are a little silly. We're getting closer and closer to a technical solution to the problem but people want a law to stop it "now!" It's the internet. Do you really want it governed like that? There are rules for the transmission of information. There are rules for flow control, protocols with RFCs, and a basic set of standards. Worms don't infect us, we let them in. Spam is and will be a problem up until the authentication services are in place to filter out the cruft, and those are already being put in place. Laws may help alleviate it all, but they're unnatural and don't do anything to fix the vulnerabilities. The net is still primitive and survival of the fittest. Laws come much later.
When I was growing up there were no arbitrary rules and no metering. I basically had 150 hours a month of internet. Did my parents try to get me off? Yes. How hard was it for them to actually get me off it without me seeing them as rivals against my wants, impossible. All the kind pleas we're easily countered with "Yeah, hold on." and "Oh, wait, lemme finish this." They held and it never finished. In the end I'd spend hours on end on the computer, sometimes so much that people couldn't call the house. If only my parents had resorted to something like that. I could have done all my truly useful internetting in metered time. Everything past the first couple hours was waste.
Quite simply, I'm sick of seeing so much of the temperance s*** going around. I feel all kinds of regret and spite because no one ever forced me to get off of my ass and do something towards my grades or my friends or some sort of hobby. I'm having to learn all of that stuff the hard way now that I'm in college and I see so many other people growing up just like me totally unprepared to stop f***ing around and get things done.
What happened to the 30 second rule? I'm pretty sure you can legally make 30 seconds of a copyrighted audio clip available without requiring a license.
I often wondered about the legality of taking a 3 minute song, giving 30 seconds to 6 different people, and then linking to it all. Maybe the rule only applies to the *first* 30 seconds. Maybe it's only 15 seconds. Whatever, it's certainly more than 1 second.
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He left out part of the story...
Of course, a recent gammaworld campaign has served to remind me that mutations are almost always beneficial to the gene pool.
Make more sense now?
(Yeah, I'm curious about where he got that information too.)
I always forget how much movies cost. I'm used to a Carmike in my hometown that just recently raised its price to $2.50 a ticket. Drinks and popcorn are of course around $4 apiece which is the only way they (or any theater really) make money. Movie theaters ony get 10% of tickets sales in the first week, 20% in the second, 30% in the third, etc. etc. (the rest goes back to the studio) so the owners where I'm from never counted on ticket gains. They're not second run movies either, Spiderman 2 opened there the same time it opened everywhere else.
First figure out how many people would buy a movie at $50/unit. If that price reduces movie sales by more than 4/5ths then there's no need to talk. I think it would too.
"Bring out the gimp."
"He's asleep."
"Well wake him up!"
The next time they have a logo contest I'll be submitting a leather clad figure that will surely make them change their minds about the name.
Gentoo has a few dozen different kernels at your disposal. There used to be a gaming-sources kernel that was based on ck-sources. The other popular kernel in portage for gaming is mm-sources by Andrew Morton (the guy Linus lets go hog-wild with the kernel).
Kernels not in Gentoo portage but compatible and designed for speed are:
nitro-sources (ck-sources + reiser4 + framebuffer + other stuff)
love-sources (community maintained kernel to optimize desktop performance and test "unstable" patches)
speedy-sources (love-sources w/ reiser4)
Oh, and looking at the forums nearly everyone uses an nVidia card. So far, nVidia plays nicer with x.org than ATI.
Copy protection can never work. Ever.
In this case: Audio out jack, meet audio in.
For video copy protection can only work as far as a screen capture: Framebuffer, meet harddrive.
Video games fall into two categories, ones where you're paying for a social service (MMORPGs) and ones you can play with a specific group or alone. Anything that requires internet authentication can be fooled.
Bug report #11120759:
Assumption that all graphic hardware manufacturers have binary drivers for the current stable Xorg release which allow for translucency and shadows to work is incorrect.
Affects: Many, if not all ATI cards and Xorg >= 6.8.0
Workaround: harass the hell out of ATI
The technology should be stopping spam, not the FTC. As much as Slashdot complains about government oversight...
I'd continue on with the jokes, but this thread is already too long.
* St. Arbirix ducks
the Lorenz manifold involved string theory.
*badump-chink*
I'd ask you to explain it to me, but it's probably too long a yarn for my time.
*badump-dump-chink*
Unless 25,511 stitches in time save 229,599, in which case you can go ahead and spin your story.
*bradadadada-dump-dump-chiiing*
Whoa, we better get cracking on that one right away.
I'm sure someone somewhere is.
For some reason most people have this natural compulsion to believe all the effects we see in the environment are caused by humanity.
I think it's obvious the martians are depleting it in preparation for an attack.
I get the feeling they were asked to.
Anyone else notice that in the whole body of the article it never directly says which way this "major climate change" will swing? It mentions plants stuck in a glacier about 5,200 years ago, a man trapped in ice at about that time, and Kilimanjaro was really cold at the time. It also says that we had a Little Ice age a few hundred years ago as if to allude to the fact that what they're talking about is another Ice Age. But it never says "global cooling" or anything else so definitive.
The thing is though, they can't say it. Global warming is where it's at. This is valid research that's been Google-proofed against discovery by people trying to support counter-global-warming arguments. Search for climate and all you'll get is "global warming" and "major climate change" because no one can say "global cooling" and get away with it since it flies in the face of all that speculation and computer modelling we've been doing for the past decade.
I'm sorry. It appears Anglefire has gone schizo on the poor guy's site, even though the link is run through the Coral. I feel like an ass now as it appears they're replaced every reference to one of his pictures with their picture, which is now tiled on the background.
Suffice to say there are some incredibly amazing creations out there. One man had this monstrosity that had about at least two elevators leading to about 8 unique tracks. It took a marble 20 minutes to traverse the whole thing.
Literary deconstruction is a whole field completely absorbed in making insights into books and stories. I don't know a single person working on an English degree who hasn't spent hours pouring over Joyce, Pynchon, or Kerouac (the whole beat generation probably counts) and has had to learn to make "insights." If you can't exhibit to the professor that you are capable of recognizing "insightful" things in a text (whether they be there or not) you're not going to pass.
My girlfriend is getting an English degree and has told me that it really doesn't matter what the author intended. Almost completely across the board, liberal arts degree programs teach you to be exceptionally pretentious in this manner.
Kuro5hin had a good article pointing this out a while back. Someone deconstructed Winnie-the-Pooh. Postmodern deconstructionism is a powerful and yet inbred movement that's been taking intellects by storm and has spawned all kinds of unique "insights" several degrees removed from the original intents of their creators.
For real???!!
I've been playing with my set since 1990 and have yet to get tired of it. The track is 1/8" diameter nylon which is easily replaced by buying 1000' of brake line. The marbles are 1/2" dia but if you get pachinko sized marbles (3/8") they stay on the tracks better. Really the only thing that hasn't been easily replaced (out of necessity) from these sets are the cross ties, though there are instructions for milling your own out of a tube of plastic. Some places have started making special parts for Spacewarp on request. I have Set 30 just like poster of this article and it goes for $150 now on eBay because of the scarcity of the original parts.
Here's a coralized link to one of the better galleries I know of. The possibilities with these things are absolutely amazing.
The top three blockbusters right now are: Ocean's Twelve, Blade: Trinity, and National Treasure. Yeah, that's some real art for you.
Consequently, I've had to download these three and many movies like them to a networked folder to distract my roommates while I play games.
It's okay to consider Gentoo a game, right?
Gmail, by the way, has a really sharp spam filter...
Watch out for that though. Gmail has detected several false postives for me in the last week. It's especially annoying when they're from sellers on eBay. I also get an email from a word-a-day type site that occasionally gets enspammed.
Many of the files I get that have been packaged by more specific groups requiring membership have been RAR files with password protection, so yeah, they're already encrypting stuff that goes over BitTorrent.
.pk3 files which are essentially .zip files. It stands to reason that they once upon a time intended to use that naming scheme to prevent people from accessing their data. (Warcraft II used some oddball compression scheme for what appeared to be just that reason) Granted *they* don't care if modders and whatnot do it now, but if the compression was originally intended as a way to disguise copyrighted data then it can be argued that un-"encrypting" it with pkzip or winzip or whatever would be a protection circumvention mechanism which is prosecutable in criminal court.
On compressed files, don't they even without passwords stand as a form of encryption? Quake3 packages everything in
I read this in Wikipedia last week while browsing stouts. Is it news if it's in an encyclopedia, even a peer edited one?
So when are the federal laws going to show up and be functional? I know the CAN-SPAM act is in place but I'm still getting tons of spoofed reply-to headers. What are the chances that federal anti-spam law will be passed without including 500 addendums like the formation of an internet policing bureau with mandatory unions (a la Patriot Act) or some sort of internet tax in order to fund the effort. Ever since what's-his-face said the internet is a "wild west that will eventually have to come under government supervision" I've been waiting for some laws to show to get them deeper into the net.
I think that these spam laws are a little silly. We're getting closer and closer to a technical solution to the problem but people want a law to stop it "now!" It's the internet. Do you really want it governed like that? There are rules for the transmission of information. There are rules for flow control, protocols with RFCs, and a basic set of standards. Worms don't infect us, we let them in. Spam is and will be a problem up until the authentication services are in place to filter out the cruft, and those are already being put in place. Laws may help alleviate it all, but they're unnatural and don't do anything to fix the vulnerabilities. The net is still primitive and survival of the fittest. Laws come much later.
The government has, to prevent vendor lock-in, look voor new, smart ways to realize savings.
Bork!
When I was growing up there were no arbitrary rules and no metering. I basically had 150 hours a month of internet. Did my parents try to get me off? Yes. How hard was it for them to actually get me off it without me seeing them as rivals against my wants, impossible. All the kind pleas we're easily countered with "Yeah, hold on." and "Oh, wait, lemme finish this." They held and it never finished. In the end I'd spend hours on end on the computer, sometimes so much that people couldn't call the house. If only my parents had resorted to something like that. I could have done all my truly useful internetting in metered time. Everything past the first couple hours was waste.
Quite simply, I'm sick of seeing so much of the temperance s*** going around. I feel all kinds of regret and spite because no one ever forced me to get off of my ass and do something towards my grades or my friends or some sort of hobby. I'm having to learn all of that stuff the hard way now that I'm in college and I see so many other people growing up just like me totally unprepared to stop f***ing around and get things done.
What happened to the 30 second rule? I'm pretty sure you can legally make 30 seconds of a copyrighted audio clip available without requiring a license.
I often wondered about the legality of taking a 3 minute song, giving 30 seconds to 6 different people, and then linking to it all. Maybe the rule only applies to the *first* 30 seconds. Maybe it's only 15 seconds. Whatever, it's certainly more than 1 second.
It's exam week.
They're either studying or going home.
Until exam week studying goes on hold.
Then Slashdot goes on hold.
It's a cycle, yin-yang-like.