At one period in our childhood a friend of mine and I would destroy action figures in various creative ways. He realized later that some of the action figures we destroyed were worth some money.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I remember the Transformers: Beastwars cartoon ran on Cartoon Network for about two weeks. Anyway, aside from the cartoon, I've heard that the Beastwars line is a big success. The original Transformers fans can't stand them but plenty of kids are buying them. I don't think any of todays action figures etc. will be as worth as much as the first generation Transformers. Most are much cheaper made and there are so many different lines of action figures that it is hard for them to be memorable. On top of that, they quit making metal lunch boxes. *sigh*
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
We should compare running 64-bit math on an Itanium and 64-bit math on a P4. Running legacy code is as
illogical as running 16-bit code on a Pentium so I also question Intel's hardware emulation decision.
It would be more fitting to say "illogical as running 16-bit code on a Pentium Pro." Windows 95 killed that processor (that and the fact that the two chip design made it expensive to produce). Great chip if you had a pure 32 bit operating system. I remember reading that on a Pentium Pro box Windows NT would outperform Windows 95.
As for the emulation thing, I'm guessing the idea is to make people ditch the 32 bit code more quickly than they did 16 bit.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I really don't see anything wrong with DirecTV trying to stop people from accessing channels which normally cost extra for free. This isn't friendly hacking (eg hacking into someone else's system and closing the security hole and telling them how you did it). By circumventing DirecTV's security measures one is depriving them of income that is rightfully their's. As for threatening websites with law suits, well, that's the only thing they can do. It may seem heavy handed to some but what else can they do to stop sites from posting information on how to get their premium channels for free?
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
A long time ago I came up with the idea of a repository of video of various plays (start with Shakespeare and expand from there) to be made available over the internet. You can get all of the texts of Shakespeare's plays over the internet but you can't see them performed. For most people the only time they can see Shakespeare performed is at a local theater or in the form of a movie. While some movies versions are good, the best way to see Shakespeare is a well staged, professional performance. It would be really cool if they did the filming at the recently rebuilt Globe Theatre in London. I had the chance to see "The Tempest" performed there last summer and it was really great.
The problem is that storing that much video isn't cheap. Perhaps some kind soul could donate money to make such an effort possible.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
At home our cable company is our telephone company. This company Knology came into the region a few years ago. We got a package deal with cable, cable modem, local phone, and long distance for a good price. It took a little bit of time to get everything installed, but it certainly didn't take the three months one guy said he waited for DSL. I'm in college right now (Georgia Tech actually) so I'm not getting to enjoy the 6 months of free digital cable that my parents are getting right now.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
According to the PostGreSQL Howto development on MySQL will eventually be stopped since it is duplicates work being done for PostGreSQL. Not that I trust it. That howto is rather strange at times. Very strange at other times.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
AOL and MSN aren't going to change their protocols. They may extend them but they won't do anything that will break their old clients because doing so would make a lot of people angry possibly losing them a lot of customers.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I say that we stop worrying about the damn whales and start feeding them to the hungry. That way we've ignored one problem and solved another leaving only one problem left.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
That's why we need to be the conquering species rather than the conquered species. In movies it's always the alien race that is trying to conquer us. We need to be just as amoral as they are and conquer them first to get the resources to support our expanding population.
What was that line in Independence Day? "They're like locusts!" We should be that way, looting and pillaging the universe.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I believe that was a joke. Though there is a grain of truth to it. Imagine if you knew that your parents would always be around to nag you forever with nothing short of murder that could end the torment.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
You don't need XFS for XFree86 4.0 and up. Redhat 7 installed XFree86 4.0 on my system (I've heard that for some video cards it installs 3.whatever). Yet it installs XFS anyway. I don't really see any point in doing that.
Anyway, I realize that Redhat 7 is for the most part stupid. The only things I really like about is that the broken compiler has an march=athlon option and the graphical LILO is pretty. I found a way to change the LILO picture and changed it to display the message "Don't Panic!" I was lucky to have figured out how to change it. I couldn't find any documentation about it anywhere. Anyway, for those interested it's pretty simple. The LILO graphic is stored in/boot/message in pcx format.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
This reminds me of the sketch comedy show "Mr. Show." In one sketch NASA had plans to blow up the moon and everyone was excited about it. They got a monkey that was descended from one of the monkeys in the early space program tests to push the button to blow up the moon. But then the monkey asked (in sign language) why they were blowing up the moon. Everyone was pissed off and angry at the monkey for exposing the hole in their reasoning. Then the scientists got a different monkey that didn't know sign language to push the button and blow up the moon.
Personally I think blowing up the moon sounds like fun. Unknown effects on Earth? Sounds like even more fun.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Actually, I imagine that doing damage isn't as important as changing the orbit. If you break an asteroid into pieces you still have to deal with the bigger chunks. Changing the orbit is just a matter of flinging something with enough momentum at it (though it would take a lot of momentum for a large object).
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I'm sure I won't be the first (or last) to say this, but I just don't think DivX;-) really has a big effect on movie piracy.
The simple fact remains that most people do not have high-speed net connections, and most people don't want to be
bothered with finding and downloading movies.
DivX already has had a big effect on movie piracy. Like many colleges, my school has 10Mbit/s Ethernet ports in all of the dorm rooms (and the school has mandated that everyone own a computer). Lots of people make movies available through SMB. Most of this stuff is encoded with DivX.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
distributed amongst competing labels/artists. I mean, everybody could be listening to artist A, but what's to stop artist B
(who's talentless and whom nobody listens to) from getting a cut?
I think that I can help with that. It will be my job to define talent and to whom the money should go. Of course, any "artists" who fall outside of my definition of talent are screwed, but then, that's part of the fun.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Slashdot Mirror
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
It would be more fitting to say "illogical as running 16-bit code on a Pentium Pro." Windows 95 killed that processor (that and the fact that the two chip design made it expensive to produce). Great chip if you had a pure 32 bit operating system. I remember reading that on a Pentium Pro box Windows NT would outperform Windows 95.
As for the emulation thing, I'm guessing the idea is to make people ditch the 32 bit code more quickly than they did 16 bit.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
The problem is that storing that much video isn't cheap. Perhaps some kind soul could donate money to make such an effort possible.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
What was that line in Independence Day? "They're like locusts!" We should be that way, looting and pillaging the universe.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Anyway, I realize that Redhat 7 is for the most part stupid. The only things I really like about is that the broken compiler has an march=athlon option and the graphical LILO is pretty. I found a way to change the LILO picture and changed it to display the message "Don't Panic!" I was lucky to have figured out how to change it. I couldn't find any documentation about it anywhere. Anyway, for those interested it's pretty simple. The LILO graphic is stored in /boot/message in pcx format.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Personally I think blowing up the moon sounds like fun. Unknown effects on Earth? Sounds like even more fun.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)