Has anyone here experience with this one? I'd like to give it a try.
Ubuntu Studio is "a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu." It includes applications for audio and video creation and for graphic work. It also has the Linux kernel optimized for low latency.
FYI, notice Tinyurl has a preview feature for some time now. It's off by default, so you have to activate it (it uses a cookie to remember your preference, no registering needed). But after that you can safely click on any Tinyurl link, and you will see a page with the full url first.
The main page states:
Update: The response to this album has been overwhelming, causing our website to slow to a crawl. We THOUGHT we were ready, but... We've been adding more servers to accommodate the unexpected demand and we expect to be running smoothly in the next few hours. In the meantime, if you've had any problems with downloads from the Ghosts site, don't worry - you'll be able to use your download link again when the site is more stable. Thanks everyone for making this such an immediate success.
posted by Trent Reznor at 5:47 PM pst, from hong kong.
That's a funny idea, but changing the handling of those 130 million requests per day from stateless to an application that keeps a session state per user, is going to take a hell of a lot more resources.
About the scenario, these guys should take a look at A Swarm of Angels, which takes a much more open approach at creating a movie. The community can contribute to the two candidate scenarios being written. Then there will be a vote choosing between those two.
The initial slate of Platinum MusicPass titles is as follows:
Platinum MusicPass Albums with Bonus Material (slrp $12.99):
Alejandro Fernandez, Viento A Favor Alicia Keys, As I Am Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Thing Backstreet Boys, UnBreakable Barry Manilow, The Greatest Songs of the Seventies Bob Dylan, Dylan Boys Like Girls, Boys Like Girls Brad Paisley, 5th Gear Britney Spears, Blackout Brooks & Dunn, Cowboy Town Bruce Springsteen, Magic Calle 13, Residente o Visitante Camila, Todo Cambio Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride Casting Crowns, The Altar and The Door Celine Dion, Taking Chances Chris Brown, Exclusive Daughtry, Daughtry Elvis Presley, Elvis 30 #1 Hits Jennifer Lopez, Brave John Mayer, Continuum Kenny Chesney, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates Martina McBride, Waking Up Laughing P!nk, I'm Not Dead Santana, Ultimate Santana Sara Bareilles, Little Voice Sean Kingston, Sean Kingston The Fray, How To Save A Life Three Days Grace, One-X Tony Bennett, Duets
Platinum MusicPass Compilations (slrp $12.99)
Various, 70's POP HITS Various, ROCK OF THE 70's Various, SENSATIONAL 60's Various, COUNTRY GOLD: THE 90's Various, 80's POP HITS Various, CLASSIC ROCK Various, Everlasting Love
Expanded MusicPass Titles (slrp $19.99 versions which include the complete album, bonus material, plus choice of one additional album from that same artist's rich catalog of recordings.)
Kenny Chesney, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates Celine Dion, Taking Chances
And if you want to go this far, here are some articles on modding your digital SLR for use in astronomy (noise reduction for longer exposure times by cooling the CMOS imaging chip, removal of the infrared filter,...). I've not done this myself, so YMMV.
we know that in the iPhone launch presentation Steve Jobs said Europe would get the iPhone in Q3 2007 No, he said Q4: "So here we are, and we're going to be shipping it in June in the U.S. We're going to Europe hopefully by the fourth calendar quarter of this year. And in Asia in 2008." (link)
What I don't know, IANAL : Is Scarlet already obliged to enforce this ass-hat decision while the case is appealed ? According to zdnet.be: Scarlet has 6 months to confirm. If they don't confirm, they risk a 2500 euro/day fine.
Somewhere at the end he says (translated): "Harvard University is giving us The Force, one even stronger than the Death Star in New Haven." A clear swipe at Yale:-)
My two favorite extensions aren't mentioned in the article. They are:
Conquery - let's you select any text on a web page, and in the right click menu you have an option to send this text to search engines and other sites (Wikipedia, IMDB, Amazon, Urban Dictionary, Google Images,...). The list is of course customizable, and you can use the standard Firefox search plugins.
Linkification - converts plain text links to clickable links, very useful on forums like Slashdot. Has a lot of options.
I don't think it's that at all. WalMart is so profitable because it targets average middle America. Its niche happens to be precisely the vast bulk of people who don't know much about computers [...]
So those people who want a computer that just works? Like, say, a Mac?
Apparently Walmart doesn't sell Macs? At least, I can't find any in their on-line shop. But they sell stuff for Mac users, like "iMac for Dummies."
Look at the $100 laptop they are touting for the 3rd world. Sure, its pretty basic, but do you honestly think that there wouldn't be people who would be perfectly happy with a basic machine that lets them view webpages and check their email and cost that little? I think they would sell like hotcakes, but the manufacturers would make ~$2.00 profit per sale and thus have no interest.
Actually, one of the (secondary) goals of the One Laptop per Child project is to bring these laptops in a commercial version to other markets. People have talked about selling them for $300 in developed countries.
In the press release (warning, PDF) announcing Quanta Computer Inc. will be the manufacturer of the $100 Laptop, they state "A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel." Quanta is the world's largest manufacturer of laptop PCs, they work for Dell, HP and IBM.
The article mentions Google Spreadsheets, but it's not in their list of Office killers:
"In March, Microsoft's online nemesis Google acquired an online word processing startup, Writely. Soon after that, it introduced its own version of an online spreadsheet. "Earlier we were a lone voice in the wilderness, but Google's acquisition of Writely had validated the business," said Mr. Kang."
I do get the correct page for page 1 and 2, for 3 I also get the "This site has reached its bandwidth limit." I didn't notice that when posting. But it seems the original site is back up, so here is page 3. I don't know how long it takes for the Coral cache to refresh, but it's not needed for the moment anyway.
Go to Options->Advanced->General and deselect "Begin finding when you begin typing"
Even with this option turned on, it shouldn't do this when a text field on the page has the focus. And normally it doesn't, but from time to time Firefox start behaving this way. The only option at that point is restarting the browser. That's the bug the GP was talking about.
I've never heard of Marshmallow Peeps. Are they our secret masters?
As an European, neither had I. Sweet Wikipedia to the rescue!
I like this part: The messy and largely self-entertaining game, "Peep Jousting" is played with a microwave. One takes two Peeps, and licks the right-hand side of each until sticky. A toothpick is thereby adhered to each Peep, pointing forward like a jousting lance. The Peeps are then set in a microwave, squared off against one another, and heated up. As they expand, the toothpick lances thrust toward each opponent, and the winner is the one that does not pop and deflate.
Slashdot Mirror
Has anyone here experience with this one? I'd like to give it a try.
Ubuntu Studio is "a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu." It includes applications for audio and video creation and for graphic work. It also has the Linux kernel optimized for low latency.
http://ubuntustudio.org/
Download (not accessible at the moment):
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/hardy/release
Torrent mirror:
MD5: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/MD5SUMS
i386: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/ubuntustudio-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
AMD64: http://mma.users.ubuntustudio.org/Hardy-Torrents/ubuntustudio-8.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent
FYI, notice Tinyurl has a preview feature for some time now. It's off by default, so you have to activate it (it uses a cookie to remember your preference, no registering needed). But after that you can safely click on any Tinyurl link, and you will see a page with the full url first.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php
Of course there are other "url shorteners." But while I don't click urls I don't trust, I can now safely click any Tinyurl link.
We've been adding more servers to accommodate the unexpected demand and we expect to be running smoothly in the next few hours. In the meantime, if you've had any problems with downloads from the Ghosts site, don't worry - you'll be able to use your download link again when the site is more stable. Thanks everyone for making this such an immediate success.
posted by Trent Reznor at 5:47 PM pst, from hong kong.
That's a funny idea, but changing the handling of those 130 million requests per day from stateless to an application that keeps a session state per user, is going to take a hell of a lot more resources.
As far as I understand, versions before 2.0.0.12 are also vulnerable...
About the scenario, these guys should take a look at A Swarm of Angels, which takes a much more open approach at creating a movie. The community can contribute to the two candidate scenarios being written. Then there will be a vote choosing between those two.
Here's an older Slashdot article about this project, "Creative Commons Filmmaking Remixes Modern Cinema", and the Wikipedia link.
These are the 37 titles (from http://gift.musicpass.com/):
The initial slate of Platinum MusicPass titles is as follows:
Platinum MusicPass Albums with Bonus Material (slrp $12.99):
Alejandro Fernandez, Viento A Favor
Alicia Keys, As I Am
Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Thing
Backstreet Boys, UnBreakable
Barry Manilow, The Greatest Songs of the Seventies
Bob Dylan, Dylan
Boys Like Girls, Boys Like Girls
Brad Paisley, 5th Gear
Britney Spears, Blackout
Brooks & Dunn, Cowboy Town
Bruce Springsteen, Magic
Calle 13, Residente o Visitante
Camila, Todo Cambio
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride
Casting Crowns, The Altar and The Door
Celine Dion, Taking Chances
Chris Brown, Exclusive
Daughtry, Daughtry
Elvis Presley, Elvis 30 #1 Hits
Jennifer Lopez, Brave
John Mayer, Continuum
Kenny Chesney, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
Martina McBride, Waking Up Laughing
P!nk, I'm Not Dead
Santana, Ultimate Santana
Sara Bareilles, Little Voice
Sean Kingston, Sean Kingston
The Fray, How To Save A Life
Three Days Grace, One-X
Tony Bennett, Duets
Platinum MusicPass Compilations (slrp $12.99)
Various, 70's POP HITS
Various, ROCK OF THE 70's
Various, SENSATIONAL 60's
Various, COUNTRY GOLD: THE 90's
Various, 80's POP HITS
Various, CLASSIC ROCK
Various, Everlasting Love
Expanded MusicPass Titles (slrp $19.99 versions which include the complete album, bonus material, plus choice of one additional album from that same artist's rich catalog of recordings.)
Kenny Chesney, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
Celine Dion, Taking Chances
WinThe WinWindows WinWorld WinLuckily WinDoesn't WinHave WinThis WinIssue.
And if you want to go this far, here are some articles on modding your digital SLR for use in astronomy (noise reduction for longer exposure times by cooling the CMOS imaging chip, removal of the infrared filter,...). I've not done this myself, so YMMV.
300D Peltier Modification
Canon Digital Rebel 300D IR Filter Removal Modification and Peltier Cooling Plans -by Gary Honis
Scarlet has 6 months to confirm. If they don't confirm, they risk a 2500 euro/day fine.
Somewhere at the end he says (translated): "Harvard University is giving us The Force, one even stronger than the Death Star in New Haven." A clear swipe at Yale :-)
I don't think it's that at all. WalMart is so profitable because it targets average middle America. Its niche happens to be precisely the vast bulk of people who don't know much about computers [...]
So those people who want a computer that just works? Like, say, a Mac?Apparently Walmart doesn't sell Macs? At least, I can't find any in their on-line shop. But they sell stuff for Mac users, like "iMac for Dummies."
This reminds me of the clip of George W. Bush singing U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday, also a great stop-motion video.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnO_FxmHes
Look at the $100 laptop they are touting for the 3rd world. Sure, its pretty basic, but do you honestly think that there wouldn't be people who would be perfectly happy with a basic machine that lets them view webpages and check their email and cost that little? I think they would sell like hotcakes, but the manufacturers would make ~$2.00 profit per sale and thus have no interest.
Actually, one of the (secondary) goals of the One Laptop per Child project is to bring these laptops in a commercial version to other markets. People have talked about selling them for $300 in developed countries.
In the press release (warning, PDF) announcing Quanta Computer Inc. will be the manufacturer of the $100 Laptop, they state "A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel." Quanta is the world's largest manufacturer of laptop PCs, they work for Dell, HP and IBM.
Can I use MS Paint?
FYI, vrtnieuws.net also has an English section. Here's the article: Google sentenced in Belgian court.
The article mentions Google Spreadsheets, but it's not in their list of Office killers:
"In March, Microsoft's online nemesis Google acquired an online word processing startup, Writely. Soon after that, it introduced its own version of an online spreadsheet. "Earlier we were a lone voice in the wilderness, but Google's acquisition of Writely had validated the business," said Mr. Kang."
I do get the correct page for page 1 and 2, for 3 I also get the "This site has reached its bandwidth limit." I didn't notice that when posting. But it seems the original site is back up, so here is page 3. I don't know how long it takes for the Coral cache to refresh, but it's not needed for the moment anyway.
Here's the Coral cache (page 2 - page 3).
Not for me, but just in case: here's the coral cache.
As the review doesn't show any graphics, here are a number of screenshots on Digital Leisure's site. Their site also has a trailer here.
Go to Options->Advanced->General and deselect "Begin finding when you begin typing"
Even with this option turned on, it shouldn't do this when a text field on the page has the focus. And normally it doesn't, but from time to time Firefox start behaving this way. The only option at that point is restarting the browser. That's the bug the GP was talking about.
I've never heard of Marshmallow Peeps. Are they our secret masters?
As an European, neither had I. Sweet Wikipedia to the rescue!
I like this part: The messy and largely self-entertaining game, "Peep Jousting" is played with a microwave. One takes two Peeps, and licks the right-hand side of each until sticky. A toothpick is thereby adhered to each Peep, pointing forward like a jousting lance. The Peeps are then set in a microwave, squared off against one another, and heated up. As they expand, the toothpick lances thrust toward each opponent, and the winner is the one that does not pop and deflate.