I found one of his observations very interesting. The only useful function the record companies still serve is promotion. People can make studio recordings all on their own at home. However, people can not make blockbuster films at home. The cameras, the computers, the artists. Technology has not yet advanced to the point where hollywood no longer has a monopoly on movie production.
Buffy Sucks. It's just another one of those crappy television shows that idiots watch for some unknown reason. It's in the same boat as Star Trek (all of them). However, my friend tells me that there was a Trogdor the Burninator / Homestar Runner reference in an episode. So even though the show might blow goats, the people who write it are cool.
As you may know South Korea is king of the MMO. I tried to play one of them once. They all require you to provide your KSSN# in order to play. That is something which I could not get, being not a Korean citizen. The freaky part is that from the SSN using simple math, similar to the ISBN, you can figure out if the person is male or female. So in South Korean MMOs you are completely non anonymous.
I'd like to have their pretty pretty games, but not at that cost.
If you're into the whole anime thing, like I am, Bit Torrent is a godsend. BitTorrent is the biggest thing to happen to digital fansubs since DivX.
Prior to BitTorrent acquiring digital fansubs of anime was extremely difficult. Especially if you weren't at a college campus. The files are 200MB, so dial up users are out. Releases were made on IRC fserves, so propagation was slow. Things made their way slowly onto other p2p networks like WinMX and DC, but you were never able to find anything and everything. And only IRC fanboys could get things guaranteed as soon as they came out.
BitTorrent changed everything. Check out Anime Suki. The fansubbing groups are now setting up torrents of every episode they release. And every day the newest ones are listed as they come out. So anybody who has a fast enough connection, or is willing to wait for 200MB can get fansubs when they come out, guaranteed. The best new stuff is not limited to the fanboys anymore. And you don't have to deal with other p2p networks where people will do "trad3z onli!" or otherwise cancel your download. And no queues either.
The problem with BitTorrent is that when a file is no longer popular, BitTorrent becomes useless. And if a file is small BitTorrent is also useless. You need lots of people downloading and uploading and you need a big file. Prior to BitTorrent putting a video on a web page either meant you were badass or a big company with big ass servers and bandwith. Or nobody visited you and it didn't matter. BitTorrent brings video back to the web. WebMasters no longer need to fear crashing and burning if they host an awesome video.
If only there was something like SiteTorrent that found some way to keep/.ing away. Something like that will require much thinking however.
Ok, what I see happening here is a bunch of people who use Opera or Moz are going to try out Firebird now that it is at.6. The ones who use IE arent' a problem because they will be blown away and convert, I've seen it time and time again. The people who use Opera or Moz or Konqueror or something else aren't going to be taken in. Mainly because they've already seen most of the features before. But I assure you, Firebird is better. You just need to go get the extensions. Without the Tabbed Browsing Extension you lose a lot of tab functionality. Without the Mycroft search additions the search bar in the top right is only half as useful.
Go to www.texturizer.net/firebird/
get the extensions that you want and need. The themes are also there, I prefer phusion
There are more at www.mozdev.org
Do that before you judge this software. A raw install is awesome compared to IE and stuff, but the extensions are what really make Firebird the best browser.
I gets me a DVDR. Then I copies it, since it's just a standard DVD that degrades over time. Voila!
I guess this will make DVD burners illegal, since they circumvent a copy protection mechanism. But sharpie markers hasn't faced a lawsuit yet, so I think we're ok. Damn DMCA.
Okay, 3d is a neat thing. It's really neat because it creates entire new genres of video games. And it also make really cool animation for movies and such possible. However, for user interfaces 3d is bad unless it's a hologram, and we're still talking flat monitors here. It's one thing if you use the 3d stuff to make it look cool. Say an icon is a spinning 3d image of a disk instead of a pixellated icon of a disk. That would indeed be cool, if useless. However, making the actual interfact 3d is bad. 3d implies depth which means something is behind something else. Behind is bad in UI, because it's obscured.
What I would like to see is a vector graphics based user interface. Right now my task bar I have to set the width in pixels. I have to select one of 4 sides of the screen to put it on. All of my windows are rectangular in shape. With a GUI based on vectors I could have a round web browser. Or an oblong winamp. My task bar could be a triangle in the lop left of my screen. I could change the shape of existing windows to make room for new ones. Usually if I've got 3 or 4 windows open on a desktop all the room is used, but a small piece is left over, or one of the windows has to be sized awkwardly to fit. The awkwardly sized window ends up having it's internal ui elements messed up. With a vector based ui you could morph each window to maximize use of screen space.
Microsoft is using 3d because they can. They are thinking about keeping a hold on their 3 year upgrade cycle. Apple, while not making a vector based ui, is thinking about making a good ui.
They are available to consumers. You can buy Asimo if you want. It just costs rediculous amounts of money. Right now robots are only toys for geeks. Robots aren't good enough to customize themselves yet, so only a geek who can code can have a useful one. And geeks who can code usualy make neat things more often than useful things. Rich geeks who can code and will make useful things are few and far between. And if you were one, or are one, and you had say, a lawn-mowing robot. Would you let it go outside on its own? No! Someone would definitely steal it.
Robots will remain uncommon until much improved AI and sensory input is developed.
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Are they going to make it easier to install their operating system? Gamers aren't going to go through the mind numbing process of installing gentoo when they can install windows by pressing enter twice.
I see the future of gaming is boot cds and boot dvds. Take a knoppix type hardware detection base add a light weight graphics front end, the nvidia driver, the ati driver (who seriously uses a different card?), and a surround sound library. Load the whole mother into RAM and go for it. Read fmvs and load levels and maps from disc.
No matter what your OS you'll be able to game. Lower system requirements will also be possible. It takes a processor of power X to run doom 3 and windows at the same time. With a minimal os boot off a disc it will take power X - some.
Maybe. However, my roomate tells me that the Kirby vacuum cleaners sold at http://www.kirby.com/ are super awesome. Apparently he bought one from a door to door salesman ways back. He tells me the thing is super powerful and super loud. Better than any other vacuum ever.
I mean, just cause the method of advertising sucks doesn't make the product automatically suck. I hate banner and pop-up ads and spam just as much as door to door salesman. But occasionally they're for something good. I see think geek banner ads up top, and they are super awesome.
Actually, no I haven't seen a spam for something good. But I think that is more the result of me not seeing spam than there being no good spam. There has to be at least one spam for something cool out there. There has to be.
I've been trying shitloads of distros lately (journal has more info). And despite other problems all of them have asked me what my locale is, what character sets I want to support, and all that kind of stuff. I must say if there is one thing that is more trouble in windows than in *nix it's internationalization. As with everything though, there is a config file somewhere and a package to install.
The trueness. I have recently acquired a free Pentium 2 computer. So I've been attempting to install all kinds of oses on it. I tried FreeBSD 5.0 on a reccomendation. It hung up while it was booting off the CD. In my journal I tell a more detailed story.
All in all I realized that installed most operating systems and linux distros sucks ass. Mandrake. Red Hat, Knoppix(doesn't really count), Suse, and windows95+ are the only ones with decent installation. Everything else blows, from what I've tried, and I've been trying quite a bit.
that other time. Those British people attempted to find the funniest joke. But the joke wasn't funny. What they found was a joke that would be funny to everybody and anybody. There is no joke that would be hilarious to everyone, so the funniest joke is one which everyone can at least slighly enjoy. I mean, even though I didn't laugh out loud the joke did amuse me. I wish I remember what the joke was and had a link to the site, but oh well.
Anyway this seems to be the formula for a movie that will please everyone, much like the joke. I think that the relatively small amount of plot reflect the intelligence of our society. 10pc of society want plot 30pc want action. That's the way this has to be interpreted. So if you make a movie with this formula it wont be a smash super hit like Star Wars or Matrix or LotR. But it wont suck. People who see it will say "that was an ok movie".
I don't see this as very likely. OSX is so good because it runs on very specific hardware. Since the hardware is so limited they can optimize a whole lot. The same reason video game consoles have better graphics than the pc even though the hardware is half as fast.
If there is a breakup of some sort it will be awesome though. That virtually guarantees OSX for x86.
And this is why anime is coming in big. It isn't politically correct. Japanese people dont' give a crap about that stuff. They have more violence and sex and disgusting shit in their culture, yet their crime rate is insanely low. Because american made cartoons are going the politically correct route the anime is finally becoming big. It is the only entertaining animation currently being produced. I think this is for the better anyway, as the average anime is much more intelligent than the average cartoon ever was.
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After 1.0 the improvements in Mozilla are less noticeable. That's because all the noticeable and useful improvements are happening over in the Phoenix/Firebird department.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/why/
The biggest reasons I choose it over moz are
a) Tabbed browsing is implemented better b) Smaller, faster, lighter, better c) extensions and themes are cooler d) my computer is slow and crappy e) I prefer birds on fire to dinosaurs
I've got a question that still hasn't been answered. I know that 4 people will be able to play this game simultaneously. And I know the GBA can be used instead of a controller. But judging from the games I have that use the GBA link it seems that in order for it to work the GBA has to be player 2-4 and player 1 always has to be a normal cube controller. Does this mean player one in FFCC can't use a GBA? I want to see 4 GBAs with me as player 1 and 3 of my friends.
And despite lack of plot I personally can't wait. It's on the "must buy" list
An interesting feature of OpenNap is that it tells you exactly how many MB of files are out there for your downloading pleasure. I used to be blasted away at the large number. Sometimes I could get it up to 1 or 2 pedabytes.
A terabyte is 1000 gigs. You can get a terabyte of storage today for $1000 dollars. One dollar per gig. It's insane. Soon it will be a dollar a terabyte. We wont need things like divx anymore. We'll be looking for ways to increase the quality of our recording devices so that the video, image and audio files will take up more space. Nothing else really requires a large amount of storage.
The one limited is network speed. Sure, if I've got enough room for a collection of 2 gigabyte raw avi movies, that's great. But if I can't get enough speed to download them quickly it will suck.
Storage aint worth crap if you dont' got enough stuff to fill it.
Remember the days when DOS games would ask questions like this
minimum install (if you're low on space)- 50MB standard install (reccommended)- 100MB big install (runs faster)- 250MB CRAZY INSTALL (no cd required!) - 500MB!!!
Instead of having a centralized spam filter, why not have a spam filter on each users's individual machine? Sure spam will get through, but each user will take care of their own spam problem. This will also make it the users fault if something gets blocked. I mean it doesn't even have to be the best filtering in the world. Just use Mozilla Mail and the spam filter is has built in.
I can fault him for it, and I will. He's a pussy. A coward. Something that I see too much of these days. You can't expect to win anything if you aren't courageous and brave. You have to stand up for what you believe and be willing to fight for it despite consequences. If I were in his shoes I would have fought to the death, and I'm an even poorer college student.
This guy is half right. Every one of his myths is indeed a myth. But there is truth in every myth that he fails to note. For example:
Linux is Free: He says it isn't free because support costs money. Well, if you don't get support it is free. There are lots of CS and IT guys looking for jobs. If you hire them to support you rather than pay RedHat it may turn out to be cheaper.
So "Linux is Free" is a myth. But "Linux can be free" is not. If you're going to talk about what is true and what is not you better be absolute. He also mentions the TCO myth. I have yet to see real numbers showing it go either way, and there aren't any here either. So don't bother looking for them.
Sony probably does make a solution. Viewsonic also probably does.
I personally reccomend a large flat screen crt television. Get picture in picture for two tuners and extra inputs (sounds like you'll need them). Make sure it has S-Video, RCA, Coax, and Component. Also make sure it is a progressive scan HDTV. You can plug your pc into it via S-Video out on the video card. You can plug your console in by component (the 3 plug one) and your old console by RCA. Your DVD player on the other tuner via component and vcr by rca.
Actually I lied. The best display is gas plasma. It does it all. The reason I don't recomend it is beause of the price. You're better of buying a new car than a gas plasma.
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I found one of his observations very interesting. The only useful function the record companies still serve is promotion. People can make studio recordings all on their own at home. However, people can not make blockbuster films at home. The cameras, the computers, the artists. Technology has not yet advanced to the point where hollywood no longer has a monopoly on movie production.
But one day, it might.
Buffy Sucks. It's just another one of those crappy television shows that idiots watch for some unknown reason. It's in the same boat as Star Trek (all of them). However, my friend tells me that there was a Trogdor the Burninator / Homestar Runner reference in an episode. So even though the show might blow goats, the people who write it are cool.
As you may know South Korea is king of the MMO. I tried to play one of them once. They all require you to provide your KSSN# in order to play. That is something which I could not get, being not a Korean citizen. The freaky part is that from the SSN using simple math, similar to the ISBN, you can figure out if the person is male or female. So in South Korean MMOs you are completely non anonymous.
I'd like to have their pretty pretty games, but not at that cost.
If you're into the whole anime thing, like I am, Bit Torrent is a godsend. BitTorrent is the biggest thing to happen to digital fansubs since DivX.
/.ing away. Something like that will require much thinking however.
Prior to BitTorrent acquiring digital fansubs of anime was extremely difficult. Especially if you weren't at a college campus. The files are 200MB, so dial up users are out. Releases were made on IRC fserves, so propagation was slow. Things made their way slowly onto other p2p networks like WinMX and DC, but you were never able to find anything and everything. And only IRC fanboys could get things guaranteed as soon as they came out.
BitTorrent changed everything. Check out Anime Suki. The fansubbing groups are now setting up torrents of every episode they release. And every day the newest ones are listed as they come out. So anybody who has a fast enough connection, or is willing to wait for 200MB can get fansubs when they come out, guaranteed. The best new stuff is not limited to the fanboys anymore. And you don't have to deal with other p2p networks where people will do "trad3z onli!" or otherwise cancel your download. And no queues either.
The problem with BitTorrent is that when a file is no longer popular, BitTorrent becomes useless. And if a file is small BitTorrent is also useless. You need lots of people downloading and uploading and you need a big file. Prior to BitTorrent putting a video on a web page either meant you were badass or a big company with big ass servers and bandwith. Or nobody visited you and it didn't matter. BitTorrent brings video back to the web. WebMasters no longer need to fear crashing and burning if they host an awesome video.
If only there was something like SiteTorrent that found some way to keep
This will result in every porno watching person from perverts to pedophiles to unite into one large and dangerous organization.
Also privacy, spam, etc. Don't want one guy who looked for porn one time to get sucked into 10 porn mailing lists or anything like that.
Ok, what I see happening here is a bunch of people who use Opera or Moz are going to try out Firebird now that it is at .6. The ones who use IE arent' a problem because they will be blown away and convert, I've seen it time and time again.
The people who use Opera or Moz or Konqueror or something else aren't going to be taken in. Mainly because they've already seen most of the features before. But I assure you, Firebird is better. You just need to go get the extensions. Without the Tabbed Browsing Extension you lose a lot of tab functionality. Without the Mycroft search additions the search bar in the top right is only half as useful.
Go to www.texturizer.net/firebird/
get the extensions that you want and need.
The themes are also there, I prefer phusion
There are more at www.mozdev.org
Do that before you judge this software. A raw install is awesome compared to IE and stuff, but the extensions are what really make Firebird the best browser.
I gets me a DVDR. Then I copies it, since it's just a standard DVD that degrades over time. Voila!
I guess this will make DVD burners illegal, since they circumvent a copy protection mechanism. But sharpie markers hasn't faced a lawsuit yet, so I think we're ok. Damn DMCA.
Okay, 3d is a neat thing. It's really neat because it creates entire new genres of video games. And it also make really cool animation for movies and such possible. However, for user interfaces 3d is bad unless it's a hologram, and we're still talking flat monitors here. It's one thing if you use the 3d stuff to make it look cool. Say an icon is a spinning 3d image of a disk instead of a pixellated icon of a disk. That would indeed be cool, if useless. However, making the actual interfact 3d is bad. 3d implies depth which means something is behind something else. Behind is bad in UI, because it's obscured.
What I would like to see is a vector graphics based user interface. Right now my task bar I have to set the width in pixels. I have to select one of 4 sides of the screen to put it on. All of my windows are rectangular in shape. With a GUI based on vectors I could have a round web browser. Or an oblong winamp. My task bar could be a triangle in the lop left of my screen. I could change the shape of existing windows to make room for new ones. Usually if I've got 3 or 4 windows open on a desktop all the room is used, but a small piece is left over, or one of the windows has to be sized awkwardly to fit. The awkwardly sized window ends up having it's internal ui elements messed up. With a vector based ui you could morph each window to maximize use of screen space.
Microsoft is using 3d because they can. They are thinking about keeping a hold on their 3 year upgrade cycle. Apple, while not making a vector based ui, is thinking about making a good ui.
They are available to consumers. You can buy Asimo if you want. It just costs rediculous amounts of money. Right now robots are only toys for geeks. Robots aren't good enough to customize themselves yet, so only a geek who can code can have a useful one. And geeks who can code usualy make neat things more often than useful things. Rich geeks who can code and will make useful things are few and far between. And if you were one, or are one, and you had say, a lawn-mowing robot. Would you let it go outside on its own? No! Someone would definitely steal it.
Robots will remain uncommon until much improved AI and sensory input is developed.
Are they going to make it easier to install their operating system? Gamers aren't going to go through the mind numbing process of installing gentoo when they can install windows by pressing enter twice.
I see the future of gaming is boot cds and boot dvds. Take a knoppix type hardware detection base add a light weight graphics front end, the nvidia driver, the ati driver (who seriously uses a different card?), and a surround sound library. Load the whole mother into RAM and go for it. Read fmvs and load levels and maps from disc.
No matter what your OS you'll be able to game. Lower system requirements will also be possible. It takes a processor of power X to run doom 3 and windows at the same time. With a minimal os boot off a disc it will take power X - some.
Maybe. However, my roomate tells me that the Kirby vacuum cleaners sold at http://www.kirby.com/ are super awesome. Apparently he bought one from a door to door salesman ways back. He tells me the thing is super powerful and super loud. Better than any other vacuum ever.
I mean, just cause the method of advertising sucks doesn't make the product automatically suck. I hate banner and pop-up ads and spam just as much as door to door salesman. But occasionally they're for something good. I see think geek banner ads up top, and they are super awesome.
Actually, no I haven't seen a spam for something good. But I think that is more the result of me not seeing spam than there being no good spam. There has to be at least one spam for something cool out there. There has to be.
I've been trying shitloads of distros lately (journal has more info). And despite other problems all of them have asked me what my locale is, what character sets I want to support, and all that kind of stuff. I must say if there is one thing that is more trouble in windows than in *nix it's internationalization. As with everything though, there is a config file somewhere and a package to install.
The trueness. I have recently acquired a free Pentium 2 computer. So I've been attempting to install all kinds of oses on it. I tried FreeBSD 5.0 on a reccomendation. It hung up while it was booting off the CD. In my journal I tell a more detailed story.
All in all I realized that installed most operating systems and linux distros sucks ass. Mandrake. Red Hat, Knoppix(doesn't really count), Suse, and windows95+ are the only ones with decent installation. Everything else blows, from what I've tried, and I've been trying quite a bit.
that other time. Those British people attempted to find the funniest joke. But the joke wasn't funny. What they found was a joke that would be funny to everybody and anybody. There is no joke that would be hilarious to everyone, so the funniest joke is one which everyone can at least slighly enjoy. I mean, even though I didn't laugh out loud the joke did amuse me. I wish I remember what the joke was and had a link to the site, but oh well.
Anyway this seems to be the formula for a movie that will please everyone, much like the joke. I think that the relatively small amount of plot reflect the intelligence of our society. 10pc of society want plot 30pc want action. That's the way this has to be interpreted. So if you make a movie with this formula it wont be a smash super hit like Star Wars or Matrix or LotR. But it wont suck. People who see it will say "that was an ok movie".
I don't see this as very likely. OSX is so good because it runs on very specific hardware. Since the hardware is so limited they can optimize a whole lot. The same reason video game consoles have better graphics than the pc even though the hardware is half as fast.
If there is a breakup of some sort it will be awesome though. That virtually guarantees OSX for x86.
I gots a friend who has a fujitsu lifebook. He runs Debian, and it is mad crazy.
And this is why anime is coming in big. It isn't politically correct. Japanese people dont' give a crap about that stuff. They have more violence and sex and disgusting shit in their culture, yet their crime rate is insanely low. Because american made cartoons are going the politically correct route the anime is finally becoming big. It is the only entertaining animation currently being produced. I think this is for the better anyway, as the average anime is much more intelligent than the average cartoon ever was.
After 1.0 the improvements in Mozilla are less noticeable. That's because all the noticeable and useful improvements are happening over in the Phoenix/Firebird department.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/why/
The biggest reasons I choose it over moz are
a) Tabbed browsing is implemented better
b) Smaller, faster, lighter, better
c) extensions and themes are cooler
d) my computer is slow and crappy
e) I prefer birds on fire to dinosaurs
I've got a question that still hasn't been answered. I know that 4 people will be able to play this game simultaneously. And I know the GBA can be used instead of a controller. But judging from the games I have that use the GBA link it seems that in order for it to work the GBA has to be player 2-4 and player 1 always has to be a normal cube controller. Does this mean player one in FFCC can't use a GBA? I want to see 4 GBAs with me as player 1 and 3 of my friends.
And despite lack of plot I personally can't wait. It's on the "must buy" list
An interesting feature of OpenNap is that it tells you exactly how many MB of files are out there for your downloading pleasure. I used to be blasted away at the large number. Sometimes I could get it up to 1 or 2 pedabytes.
A terabyte is 1000 gigs. You can get a terabyte of storage today for $1000 dollars. One dollar per gig. It's insane. Soon it will be a dollar a terabyte. We wont need things like divx anymore. We'll be looking for ways to increase the quality of our recording devices so that the video, image and audio files will take up more space. Nothing else really requires a large amount of storage.
The one limited is network speed. Sure, if I've got enough room for a collection of 2 gigabyte raw avi movies, that's great. But if I can't get enough speed to download them quickly it will suck.
Storage aint worth crap if you dont' got enough stuff to fill it.
Remember the days when DOS games would ask questions like this
minimum install (if you're low on space)- 50MB
standard install (reccommended)- 100MB
big install (runs faster)- 250MB
CRAZY INSTALL (no cd required!) - 500MB!!!
those were the days...
Instead of having a centralized spam filter, why not have a spam filter on each users's individual machine? Sure spam will get through, but each user will take care of their own spam problem. This will also make it the users fault if something gets blocked. I mean it doesn't even have to be the best filtering in the world. Just use Mozilla Mail and the spam filter is has built in.
I can fault him for it, and I will. He's a pussy. A coward. Something that I see too much of these days. You can't expect to win anything if you aren't courageous and brave. You have to stand up for what you believe and be willing to fight for it despite consequences. If I were in his shoes I would have fought to the death, and I'm an even poorer college student.
no, I suggest that it might be cheaper than outsourcing. It depends on how many people and who you hire to do it and how you do it.
This guy is half right. Every one of his myths is indeed a myth. But there is truth in every myth that he fails to note. For example:
Linux is Free:
He says it isn't free because support costs money. Well, if you don't get support it is free. There are lots of CS and IT guys looking for jobs. If you hire them to support you rather than pay RedHat it may turn out to be cheaper.
So "Linux is Free" is a myth. But "Linux can be free" is not. If you're going to talk about what is true and what is not you better be absolute. He also mentions the TCO myth. I have yet to see real numbers showing it go either way, and there aren't any here either. So don't bother looking for them.
Sony probably does make a solution. Viewsonic also probably does.
I personally reccomend a large flat screen crt television. Get picture in picture for two tuners and extra inputs (sounds like you'll need them). Make sure it has S-Video, RCA, Coax, and Component. Also make sure it is a progressive scan HDTV. You can plug your pc into it via S-Video out on the video card. You can plug your console in by component (the 3 plug one) and your old console by RCA. Your DVD player on the other tuner via component and vcr by rca.
Actually I lied. The best display is gas plasma. It does it all. The reason I don't recomend it is beause of the price. You're better of buying a new car than a gas plasma.