I just watched 28 days later the other night (loved it). I didn't even notice that the film was ruined. Just to be sure though, I should probably download a copy and see how much better it could have been w/o the spots?
It's a similiar situation to the (computer illiterate) old man in Texas who's getting sued and claims that his grandsons must have put the software on the machine. The RIAA is going to sue the owner of the internet contract.
In this situation, they get the privilege of suing a single mother of two. Slightly better than suing a 12-year old in terms of PR, but not by much...
VCDHelp can tell you what features are availible on what players. You can select by model, capabilities (mp3/divx/vcd/etc), and by media types supported (cd/cd-r/dvd-r/etc)
It saves the repeat visits to the store returning devices that will only do 1/2 of what they lead you to believe they do.
They did use gravity assists, but I'm pretty sure that's not quite what is being discussed here. They stole a small amount of the rotational momentum from Jupiter/Saturn/Etc
Gravity assist is described as catching up from a planet from behind {it's orbital path} and letting the planet pull you up. Then you slingshot away. The process slows down the planets velocity around the sun just slightly, and speeds the craft up accordingly. No laws of thermodynamics broken here.
Seems like we already have a proof-of-concept
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Don't those little kid's toys, with the white and black vanes in them (shaped like a lightbulb) spin when you put them in sunlight?
I suppose we could try one of these with a mirror in place of the black vanes...
I googled the "Mars Attacks", but could find a lot of info on the sequel film that's in the works... Supposedly Warner Bros has put up $45mil for it, but I can't find a damn thing on "The WarnerBros" website.
The original didn't do so well in the box office, but it seems to have caught on as a cult hit. Most everybody I know has seen in on DVD or tape. I saw a link here (or perhaps on Some other news site for the complete set of images of the original trading cards, and had them printed up on card stock at a local print shop. My boy took them to school, and they were a big hit with the kids. (Although the teachers had a few things to "say" about them, haha)
Anyways, if you have more info on the sequel movie, please post it. I'd love to see what they have planned. Thx!
If you could put 50 of these things down at once, scatter them around.... (They are terribly light-weight, right? Supposed to be blown around by the thin martian wind?) You sprinkle them on mars from orbit, and they expand to catch the wind for re-entry. They bounce a few times, then start tumbling along.
So what if a few get stuck in a crevasse here and there? As far as location tracking, I'd assume they would each have their own radio frequency, and the orbiter would only be able to pick them up when it was over the horizon. Shouldn't be too terribly hard to get a rouch idea where the thing is. (Data sent back from the probe, compared against current mapping images ought to tell the rest of the story)
I like this idea better than building one (or two) big clunky rovers that have a 50/50 chance of surviving Nasa's re-entry math.
This affected my customer. Although he has wonderful antivirus software (installed by yours-truly), he was receiving many e-mails from people he did, and didn't know, claiming that he had sent this virus to them. This worried him enough to have me come in and take a look. (costing him $$$)
'From-Field' forgery ought to be part of the process in e-mail anti-virus programs, shouldn't it? I can LOOK at the headers at know they are fake. Seems like a several hundred $$$ exchange-server AV program should be able to do the same. Spoofing the from field is nothing new.
I read the article the other way. I'm thinking it might be much more interesting to throw the mainframes, etc back into the fray, and find the oldest continually running app...
It just might turn out to be a copy of Novell server sitting in somebody's closet, or inside a wall...
I suppose we'd need to qualify exactly what an application is, and perhaps we'd find an example where it didn't meet the criteria when switched on way-back-when, but has had bits added to it along the way, and now does?
How about you get rid of that noisy power supply fan, and THEN tell me how quiet your hard drive is? {GRIN}
That's where I'm at now... got rid of all the fans, and now am down to the minor noises. But when you are being passionate, etc, after watching a movie, you sure don't want a spinning-up HD to make her sit up and say, "what's that strange noise?"... Because then you'll get distracted from the main event, and start babbling at her about thermal recalibration, spin-down, suspend-mode, etc etc... Very quickly she'll realise you are NOT a dentist/lawyer/doctor like you said, but in fact one of those programmers you swore to her that you were not, and then lord knows you'd have to be pretty damn lucky if you ever get back the t-shirt of yours she was wearing as she bolts for the door...
Well, I've been thinking along these problems myself for a while... The hard drive noise is the only noise left in my bedroom system. (No CD, no Fans, just massive cooling fins...)
Even with the hard drive masked tightly for sound, I can hear it (especially when it wakes up from sleep... the spin-up sound is unmistakable in a truly quiet room)
Instead of an expensive flash-ram based IDE hard drive, is there a way to boot from a USB Ramdisk? A 64/128MB ramdisk outh to be enough to boot the O/S, load the drivers and contact the data that's out on the network. Perhaps a cheap USB2IDE converter somwhere out there could allow the box to boot from the $100 ramdisk? Conversion can be done the OTHER direction, but I couldn't google a way to hook the USB device to the IDE cable...
The judge said that the makers of the software were not responsible for the actions of it's users. He didn't say the user's actions were not illegal.
The best point made in this article was that the RIAA was stressing that they could NOT contact the users themselves, therefore Verizon had to give up confidential information. By doing this {messaging scare tactic} they invalidated their own arguments, and weakened their position overall...
Simple launcher (Atlas?) on standby, with tools, fuel, food, oxygen, etc... If a spacecraft were in trouble, it gets launched to meet up with the troubled craft. Astronauts tie a rope, and ferry across the goods. Perhaps make repairs on the spot, perhaps just use the fuel to get to the ISS, perhaps just stay up long enough for somebody to think of SOMETHING better...
Match orbits, ferry the goods needed to repair, and if all else fails, pack the people into the small old-style rentry capsule, and get them down.
Aren't the older launchers reliable enough to (cheaply) keep one on standby? I honestly can't see a problem with an idea like this...
No hypocracy here... Go PAY to see them live. They get paid for the work they do that way... Download the music for free, and if they are any good, they'll draw large crowds when they come to town. They won't get royalty checks for 20 years on the recording session they spent a few months on, but what's so bad about that? I don't get paid for 20 years for the network I spent 6 months perfecting.
The recurring theme around here seems to be 'update the business model'... How about a business model that doesn't include money for recordings anymore? No hypocracy involved...
Well, I'm sure this will appear in the large ISP's if it's proven to work on the small-scale...
Perhaps with this 'fingerprinting' technology the big boys can just charge us the ($.50/$1/whatever) a song they want from us anyways? Instant delivery system for them that they didn't even have to build!
This whole deal about copyrighted material somehow reminds me of the war-on-drugs... Making criminals of all the users didn't work there... Trying to stop the supplies at the street level didn't work either. The only thing that will work is legalizing the controlled substance... then taxing the hell out of it... hehee
And this will work in the short term. People are supporting her, because she is bucking the system. If every artist tried to do this, would people be as supportive, or just start to take it for granted that musician's products are availible for free on the internet? (as some are already doing)
At some point, won't the artists have to treat recordings as simply free advertising for their concert tours... Nothing more?
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I just watched 28 days later the other night (loved it). I didn't even notice that the film was ruined. Just to be sure though, I should probably download a copy and see how much better it could have been w/o the spots?
Kind of the wrong way around... They were anti-spam services, I believe.
It's a similiar situation to the (computer illiterate) old man in Texas who's getting sued and claims that his grandsons must have put the software on the machine. The RIAA is going to sue the owner of the internet contract.
In this situation, they get the privilege of suing a single mother of two. Slightly better than suing a 12-year old in terms of PR, but not by much...
I read it a little differently.
It ssems to act more like a transitor, whic is switched by the Hydrogen Ions. (So, yes... it just changes the conductivity)
It saves the repeat visits to the store returning devices that will only do 1/2 of what they lead you to believe they do.
Um... No, they didn't.
They did use gravity assists, but I'm pretty sure that's not quite what is being discussed here. They stole a small amount of the rotational momentum from Jupiter/Saturn/Etc
Gravity assist is described as catching up from a planet from behind {it's orbital path} and letting the planet pull you up. Then you slingshot away. The process slows down the planets velocity around the sun just slightly, and speeds the craft up accordingly. No laws of thermodynamics broken here.
Don't those little kid's toys, with the white and black vanes in them (shaped like a lightbulb) spin when you put them in sunlight?
I suppose we could try one of these with a mirror in place of the black vanes...
Cow Chicken Cow Cow ???
I googled the "Mars Attacks", but could find a lot of info on the sequel film that's in the works... Supposedly Warner Bros has put up $45mil for it, but I can't find a damn thing on "The WarnerBros" website.
The original didn't do so well in the box office, but it seems to have caught on as a cult hit. Most everybody I know has seen in on DVD or tape. I saw a link here (or perhaps on Some other news site for the complete set of images of the original trading cards, and had them printed up on card stock at a local print shop. My boy took them to school, and they were a big hit with the kids. (Although the teachers had a few things to "say" about them, haha)
Anyways, if you have more info on the sequel movie, please post it. I'd love to see what they have planned. Thx!
Damn.... Well said. (Thanks for the smile this morning)
If you could put 50 of these things down at once, scatter them around.... (They are terribly light-weight, right? Supposed to be blown around by the thin martian wind?) You sprinkle them on mars from orbit, and they expand to catch the wind for re-entry. They bounce a few times, then start tumbling along.
So what if a few get stuck in a crevasse here and there? As far as location tracking, I'd assume they would each have their own radio frequency, and the orbiter would only be able to pick them up when it was over the horizon. Shouldn't be too terribly hard to get a rouch idea where the thing is. (Data sent back from the probe, compared against current mapping images ought to tell the rest of the story)
I like this idea better than building one (or two) big clunky rovers that have a 50/50 chance of surviving Nasa's re-entry math.
This affected my customer.
Although he has wonderful antivirus software (installed by yours-truly), he was receiving many e-mails from people he did, and didn't know, claiming that he had sent this virus to them. This worried him enough to have me come in and take a look. (costing him $$$)
'From-Field' forgery ought to be part of the process in e-mail anti-virus programs, shouldn't it? I can LOOK at the headers at know they are fake. Seems like a several hundred $$$ exchange-server AV program should be able to do the same. Spoofing the from field is nothing new.
I read the article the other way.
I'm thinking it might be much more interesting to throw the mainframes, etc back into the fray, and find the oldest continually running app...
It just might turn out to be a copy of Novell server sitting in somebody's closet, or inside a wall...
I suppose we'd need to qualify exactly what an application is, and perhaps we'd find an example where it didn't meet the criteria when switched on way-back-when, but has had bits added to it along the way, and now does?
Very cool link... Might be worth checking out that motherboard. (thx)
Hmm... If you say so.
How about you get rid of that noisy power supply fan, and THEN tell me how quiet your hard drive is?
{GRIN}
That's where I'm at now... got rid of all the fans, and now am down to the minor noises. But when you are being passionate, etc, after watching a movie, you sure don't want a spinning-up HD to make her sit up and say, "what's that strange noise?"... Because then you'll get distracted from the main event, and start babbling at her about thermal recalibration, spin-down, suspend-mode, etc etc... Very quickly she'll realise you are NOT a dentist/lawyer/doctor like you said, but in fact one of those programmers you swore to her that you were not, and then lord knows you'd have to be pretty damn lucky if you ever get back the t-shirt of yours she was wearing as she bolts for the door...
Cool... Didn't even think of those little guys (and I have two sitting on my desk, haha)
Thx man...
Well, I've been thinking along these problems myself for a while... The hard drive noise is the only noise left in my bedroom system. (No CD, no Fans, just massive cooling fins...)
Even with the hard drive masked tightly for sound, I can hear it (especially when it wakes up from sleep... the spin-up sound is unmistakable in a truly quiet room)
Instead of an expensive flash-ram based IDE hard drive, is there a way to boot from a USB Ramdisk? A 64/128MB ramdisk outh to be enough to boot the O/S, load the drivers and contact the data that's out on the network. Perhaps a cheap USB2IDE converter somwhere out there could allow the box to boot from the $100 ramdisk? Conversion can be done the OTHER direction, but I couldn't google a way to hook the USB device to the IDE cable...
The judge said that the makers of the software were not responsible for the actions of it's users.
He didn't say the user's actions were not illegal.
The best point made in this article was that the RIAA was stressing that they could NOT contact the users themselves, therefore Verizon had to give up confidential information. By doing this {messaging scare tactic} they invalidated their own arguments, and weakened their position overall...
"Say you get the crew off, what does one do with 100 tons of Shuttle in an uncontroled degrading orbit?"
Um, Open the bay doors, then let it re-enter?
Hehee... Would be a spectacular show...
Simple launcher (Atlas?) on standby, with tools, fuel, food, oxygen, etc... If a spacecraft were in trouble, it gets launched to meet up with the troubled craft. Astronauts tie a rope, and ferry across the goods. Perhaps make repairs on the spot, perhaps just use the fuel to get to the ISS, perhaps just stay up long enough for somebody to think of SOMETHING better...
Match orbits, ferry the goods needed to repair, and if all else fails, pack the people into the small old-style rentry capsule, and get them down.
Aren't the older launchers reliable enough to (cheaply) keep one on standby? I honestly can't see a problem with an idea like this...
No hypocracy here... Go PAY to see them live. They get paid for the work they do that way... Download the music for free, and if they are any good, they'll draw large crowds when they come to town.
They won't get royalty checks for 20 years on the recording session they spent a few months on, but what's so bad about that? I don't get paid for 20 years for the network I spent 6 months perfecting.
The recurring theme around here seems to be 'update the business model'... How about a business model that doesn't include money for recordings anymore?
No hypocracy involved...
Haha... I'm just imagining the Hamburgler being the official spokes-(person?) for the next Napster... I'd make a great commercial.
(Now what part would the clown play, do you suppose? Ronald==Rosen?)
Don't know what I'd do with a 1st post if I had one, but wouldn't it be nice if this wasn't the 57th first post comment in here?
haha
Well, I'm sure this will appear in the large ISP's if it's proven to work on the small-scale...
Perhaps with this 'fingerprinting' technology the big boys can just charge us the ($.50/$1/whatever) a song they want from us anyways? Instant delivery system for them that they didn't even have to build!
This whole deal about copyrighted material somehow reminds me of the war-on-drugs... Making criminals of all the users didn't work there... Trying to stop the supplies at the street level didn't work either. The only thing that will work is legalizing the controlled substance... then taxing the hell out of it... hehee
And this will work in the short term. People are supporting her, because she is bucking the system. If every artist tried to do this, would people be as supportive, or just start to take it for granted that musician's products are availible for free on the internet? (as some are already doing)
At some point, won't the artists have to treat recordings as simply free advertising for their concert tours... Nothing more?