There is a very interesting short story by Greg Egan that presents a similar type of problem.
People are implanted with a crystal that mirrors the brain's state from the moment they are born. Then at 18 the person must switch between using his living brain to the perfect copy on the crystal.
Mao? Um, Mao was not in charge of China last time I checked. Dubya is. Let's stay on current events.
The U.S. detaining foreign citizens for 3 years, subjecting them to brutal interrogation only to release them with NO charge is astounding to say the least.
Can you imagine the outcry if China did the same to a U.S. citizen? Habib is an _Australian_ citizen and got subjected to -if proven to be correct- what I could only label as War crimes by the US government.
All I'm saying is that it is pretty damn arrogant for US citizens to expect to be treated well in foreign countries when they do not have a similar respect for foreign citizens. Even if they are their allies!
Um, yeah maybe you forgot about a little place called Guantanamo Bay. If you think China is bad you obviously do not know about the following:
Degrading torture on Habib: lawyer By Tamara McLean and Brendan Nicholson January 27, 2005
The lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has outlined an extraordinary series of torture methods that he says were used against his client by the United States.
Steven Hopper said that Mr Habib was tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him after he failed to co-operate with interrogators.
Mr Habib is due back in Australia within a week after the US said it would release him without charge. The US has held him for more than three years on suspicion he knew about the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US and trained with al-Qaeda.
Mr Hopper made the claims at an Australia Day forum in Sydney focusing on Australia's political relationship with the US.
"Make no doubt about it, Guantanamo Bay wasn't a prisoner-of-war camp," Mr Hopper said. "It was a facility designed to interrogate people. It was nothing more than a vulgar concentration camp and it has marked a new high in the rise of American fascism."
Mr Hopper said the Americans used prostitutes as "tools". "They'd say to detainees 'If you co-operate with us, we'll let you at this woman for the night'. And if they wouldn't agree they'd use them in other ways."
According to British detainees held with Mr Habib and since released, "one of the prostitutes stood over him naked while he was strapped to the floor and menstruated on him".
Mr Hopper told The Age last night that interrogators also defaced photographs of his four children that had been sent to him by his wife Maha. He said they superimposed the heads from the photographs on the bodies of animals offensive to Muslims, such as pigs.
These were enlarged and put on the wall of the interrogation room. "They held up a picture of Maha and said 'It's a shame we had to kill your family'," Mr Hopper told the forum.
He said Mr Habib said he was subjected to interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay similar to those used on prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the Federal Government was aware of similar allegations of torture made by former British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
"We haven't heard those sorts of allegations from Mr Habib," he said. "But if he's got any evidence to support those sorts of claims we'd pass them on."
Mr Habib was detained in Afghanistan in late 2001 and sent to Egypt before being flown to Guantanamo Bay in 2002.
Mr Hopper also detailed alleged abuses against Mr Habib in Egypt, saying he was strapped to the ceiling with only an electrified barrel to stand on.
"On other occasions they used German shepherd guard dogs and (interrogators) told him they train dogs to sexually assault people," the lawyer said. But he said Mr Habib said he was not sexually assaulted by the dogs. "Who would admit to it, particularly an Arab Muslim male?"
The Government said it would charter a jet to fly Mr Habib back from Cuba. He will be free to go home.
Thinking back, while all the other kids got a C64, I got a TRS-80. But because the games were so crap on it it forced me to take a look at this thing called "programming". Luckily the TRS-80 also came with a very easy to understand BASIC manual and gave this 10 year old a start into his future career. I shudder to think what would have happened if I got the C64 (I did get one later and all I did was play games on it, the BASIC on that wasn't as easy to understand as it was on the TRS-80).
The impact that machine had on my life was huge. While all the other kids were playing Rambo:First Blood (could anyone finish that anyway?) I was trying to emulate wireframe model animations of Americas Cup boats because of an ad on TV showing that showed a cool CAD 3D design spinning around. I got it looking kinda alright and even animated it spinning around (albiet in 2D). I was so pround.. ah, my very first program of my own and also the first "warm inner glow" feeling of getting a program to work.
Yes, she didn't pay for the album... but she hasn't got a copy of the actual CD either. The same people who download music now are the same that would have taped the album off someone else pre-napster. The people who buy the CD are the fans who like the artists/album enough to buy the damn thing for it's own sake.. not just to have a high quality recording of it.
As for the poor starving artists u refer to, they should start becoming a little more business conscious and treat their profession as a job and not a free ticket to bundles of cash. Any true artist that signs to a label knows what they are sacrificing by doing it, make no mistake. The artists get jerked whether some 12 year-old downloads this or not. Full fucking stop.
BTRON ran into trouble, though--political trouble. In April 1989, the fledgling OS specifications became embroiled in a trade dispute between Japan and the United States when the United States Trade Representative got wind of the Japanese government's plans to use BTRON as the OS for computers to be used in Japanese classrooms. The USTR said BTRON's use would constitute "actual and potential market intervention" and placed BTRON on the list of products to be sanctioned under the Super 301 article of the U.S. Omnibus Trade Act.
How a freely available, freely traded computer operating system could be conceived of as a trade barrier was never clear. Any company in any country can freely create its own TRON OS without even bothering with the channels of international trade. It didn't take long for the USTR to recognize its mistake. BTRON was immediately removed from Super 301 sanctions and the USTR retracted its initial criticism of the Japanese government's proposed use of the OS for classroom computers.
But the damage had already been done. Sakamura believes it was fear of political fallout that caused nearly all Japanese companies to drop the BTRON project like a hot potato, while the government decided not to designate any specific OS for in-school computers.
When it was first revealed in 1984, TRON, which can be modified for use on personal computers, was hailed in Japan as a homemade software which could break the dominance of Microsoft and free Japanese computer firms from the burden of paying for the basic software.
But the dream was shattered in 1989 when the United States threatened to designate TRON as an unfair trade barrier under its Super 301 trade law when it learned of plans by the Japanese government to use the software for computers in schools.
Alberto Korda, the photographer who took the picture of Che Guevara that became an icon of left-wing revolutionaries and students worldwide, has died aged 72.
Korda, whose real name was Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, suffered a heart attack while in Paris for an exhibition of his works.
It's a great loss for Cuban culture. He was one of the top chroniclers of the revolution
He worked for the Cuban newspaper Revolucion after Fidel Castro's forces took power in 1959 - although it did not publish the famous picture.
Korda later worked as Castro's personal photographer.
"It's a great loss for Cuban culture. He was one of the top chroniclers of the revolution," said fellow Cuban photographer Liborio Noval.
Two shots
Korda took the photo for which he will be best remembered at a memorial service in March 1960.
Che Guevara stepped onto the podium and scanned the crowd. Korda snapped two quick shots, including the legendary one of the revolutionary with his beret, gazing like a prophet into the distance.
Che is an icon of the revolutionary left
Revolucion rejected the photo, instead running pictures of Castro and the French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
But Korda recognised its greatness and kept the photo tacked to his wall for seven years, until an Italian journalist saw it.
Korda allowed the Italian to take it, and when Che Guevara was killed a few months later, it was published as a poster in Italy.
It immediately became one of the most recognisable images of leftist revolution, and has been reproduced on countless T-shirts, banners and posters since.
No profits
Although Korda kept the negative and the camera with which he took the photo, he never received royalties for the picture that the Maryland Institute of Art called "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century".
He was happy to see it used as a revolutionary banner - but when a vodka company used it in an advertisement last year, Korda drew the line.
Korda was Mr Castro's personal photographer
He filed suit in London.
"As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world," Korda said in the autumn of 2000.
"But I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che."
Korda won an out-of-court settlement of about $50,000, which he donated to the Cuban medical system.
"If Che were still alive, he would have done the same," Korda told the Reuters news agency.
Korda's other memorable photos include shots of the victorious rebels arriving in Havana and Quixote of the Lamp Post, which shows a Cuban man sitting on a lamp post in a sea of people listening to a Castro speech.
He photographed Castro playing golf and fishing with Guevara, in the company of writer Ernest Hemingway, and staring at a tiger in a New York zoo.
Not only that but "01" (pronounced zero one) was the original name of Zion, which according to the Animatrix series was the first non-human city the machines built to avoid being destroyed by humanity.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but Toshiba is working on a HD-DVD drive for Microsoft. When they release the 360 with a HD-DVD drive you will be able to get HD on component.
- Incorporate-HD-DVD-Drive/
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8591/Xbox-360-Might
The XBOX 360 uses HD-DVD and supports 1080i from component.
- Interview-Todd-Holmdahl/p1/
http://interviews.teamxbox.com/xbox/1190/Xbox-360
Exactly. Maybe he's using the "remix" as a metaphor?
There is a very interesting short story by Greg Egan that presents a similar type of problem.
People are implanted with a crystal that mirrors the brain's state from the moment they are born. Then at 18 the person must switch between using his living brain to the perfect copy on the crystal.
Very interesting reading.
Great, that now leaves me with two batteries that will need charging.
Or better yet when will it be out on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? I can't watch DVDs anymore when my free to air TV is higher resolution!
It lets you post a torrent to a blog?? You mean like [a href="mytorrent.torrent"]Warez[/a]
;)
Wow
Mao? Um, Mao was not in charge of China last time I checked. Dubya is. Let's stay on current events.
The U.S. detaining foreign citizens for 3 years, subjecting them to brutal interrogation only to release them with NO charge is astounding to say the least.
Can you imagine the outcry if China did the same to a U.S. citizen? Habib is an _Australian_ citizen and got subjected to -if proven to be correct- what I could only label as War crimes by the US government.
All I'm saying is that it is pretty damn arrogant for US citizens to expect to be treated well in foreign countries when they do not have a similar respect for foreign citizens. Even if they are their allies!
In Soviet Russia all us belong to your base!
Runs very well on my 2500+, 512meg and GeForce MX400 card. No slowdown at all and looks so much nicer than I expected.
Wasn't Homer a writer of fiction also? Maybe it was just the style of writing back then for conveying historical information?
Um, Hibernate?
Any further pointers as to how to soundproof a room dirt cheap?
Cheers..
The impact that machine had on my life was huge. While all the other kids were playing Rambo:First Blood (could anyone finish that anyway?) I was trying to emulate wireframe model animations of Americas Cup boats because of an ad on TV showing that showed a cool CAD 3D design spinning around. I got it looking kinda alright and even animated it spinning around (albiet in 2D). I was so pround.. ah, my very first program of my own and also the first "warm inner glow" feeling of getting a program to work.
I was hooked.
Exactly. The only artists that get screwed over are the dumb fucks that would get screwed over no matter WHAT career they happened to choose.
and that's a bad thing?
Yes, she didn't pay for the album... but she hasn't got a copy of the actual CD either. The same people who download music now are the same that would have taped the album off someone else pre-napster. The people who buy the CD are the fans who like the artists/album enough to buy the damn thing for it's own sake.. not just to have a high quality recording of it.
As for the poor starving artists u refer to, they should start becoming a little more business conscious and treat their profession as a job and not a free ticket to bundles of cash. Any true artist that signs to a label knows what they are sacrificing by doing it, make no mistake. The artists get jerked whether some 12 year-old downloads this or not. Full fucking stop.
European spelling? I thought the whole English speaking world spells it "flavour" and "colour" apart from the Americans.
7L and Eso are HUGE in the underground hip-hop scene man. I don't think that is a good example...
But I can name many artists that are better that have sold less albums. talent != albums sold, that's fah damn sure.
from: Tron: twenty years on
another interesting article:
How the USTR Saved the BTRON Subproject
Alberto Korda, the photographer who took the picture of Che Guevara that became an icon of left-wing revolutionaries and students worldwide, has died aged 72. Korda, whose real name was Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, suffered a heart attack while in Paris for an exhibition of his works. It's a great loss for Cuban culture. He was one of the top chroniclers of the revolution He worked for the Cuban newspaper Revolucion after Fidel Castro's forces took power in 1959 - although it did not publish the famous picture. Korda later worked as Castro's personal photographer. "It's a great loss for Cuban culture. He was one of the top chroniclers of the revolution," said fellow Cuban photographer Liborio Noval.
Two shots
Korda took the photo for which he will be best remembered at a memorial service in March 1960. Che Guevara stepped onto the podium and scanned the crowd. Korda snapped two quick shots, including the legendary one of the revolutionary with his beret, gazing like a prophet into the distance. Che is an icon of the revolutionary left Revolucion rejected the photo, instead running pictures of Castro and the French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. But Korda recognised its greatness and kept the photo tacked to his wall for seven years, until an Italian journalist saw it. Korda allowed the Italian to take it, and when Che Guevara was killed a few months later, it was published as a poster in Italy. It immediately became one of the most recognisable images of leftist revolution, and has been reproduced on countless T-shirts, banners and posters since.No profits
Although Korda kept the negative and the camera with which he took the photo, he never received royalties for the picture that the Maryland Institute of Art called "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century". He was happy to see it used as a revolutionary banner - but when a vodka company used it in an advertisement last year, Korda drew the line. Korda was Mr Castro's personal photographer He filed suit in London. "As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world," Korda said in the autumn of 2000. "But I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che." Korda won an out-of-court settlement of about $50,000, which he donated to the Cuban medical system. "If Che were still alive, he would have done the same," Korda told the Reuters news agency. Korda's other memorable photos include shots of the victorious rebels arriving in Havana and Quixote of the Lamp Post, which shows a Cuban man sitting on a lamp post in a sea of people listening to a Castro speech. He photographed Castro playing golf and fishing with Guevara, in the company of writer Ernest Hemingway, and staring at a tiger in a New York zoo.Not only that but "01" (pronounced zero one) was the original name of Zion, which according to the Animatrix series was the first non-human city the machines built to avoid being destroyed by humanity.
now.
you can play the MPEG-2 files directly from the Xbox/PC HD also. No need to waste time and money burning to DVDs at all..