Yes, you're right- we live in a compressed age. Our digital TV is compressed, our movies are compressed, our music is compressed, our images are compressed.
Where we used to get uncompresssed we now get compressed because although the quality is worse, we can fit more stuff on whatever medium comes on.
I was just starting to really get pissed off about the world we live in, and then I discovered that Opera (which I only started using yesterday after using Mozilla for a while) hides the mouse pointer while you are typing- at last! Sanity! No more elbowing the mouse out of the way while typing in usernames on websites! Hoorah!
I use a wintv pvr, and it definately worth noting that their newest drivers allow you to capture as large a file as your filesystem will support, which is damn handy considering that the hardware mpg2 encoder on the wintv pvr supports capturing at up to 12Mb/s.
Not true, Anonymous Coward! With the opendml implementation much larger avi files are possible! That having been said I find a 4 part episode of Dr. Who, running at approx 1.5 hours without adverts has acceptable quality when transformed into a 700MB divx5 avi, so whether one needs avi files larger than 2G is in dispute.
"People who have a command of the english language and Profanity such as you should be a newscaster or on TV"
Good evening, cunts, and here at 6pm is the motherfucking news.
Arab/Israli conflict sparks up again. Rim-licking Prime Minister Tony Blair has stated that he will do what the fuck he wants to about it, and the fucking fact that it is exactly what the fucking gay Americans are doing is none of the cock-munching press's business.
And in other news, a kitten with two heads. WTF? shit-stabbing Scientists in Idaho with nothing better to do have genetically-engineered a kitten with two heads. Two fucking heads. Big motherfucking deal.
I'm foul-mouthed bastard, and this has been the 6pm felch-fucking news. Goodnight, god-damn mother-fucking pieces of shit.
If you want to find fuckedcompany.com without swearing just..
GET A FUCKING LIFE! GOD IS NOT GOING TO COME AND TURN YOU INTO A SALT SHAKER BECAUSE YOU "SWORE".
FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
graspee
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OOOOH IT'S LIKE YELLING! OHHH SO FUCKING SORRY! ANYONE WHO THINKS ALL-CAPS IS LIKE YELLING OBVIOUSLY HAS A "SENSITIVE AURA" OR SOMETHING AND SHOULD BE SHUNNED BY SOCIETY!
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The line, the good captain informs us, must be drawn here. This far, and (apparently) no further.
If you want to join us, you've got to really hate the Borg.
I mean, besides trans-warp conduits, a sense of identity and belonging, increased efficiency, longer life-spans and cooler laser-pointers, what have the Borg ever done for us ?
Yay let's all use apples. You can play starcraft on an apple. Hooray for apples! But not for Apricots! BSD... whooooooerrrrrrrrrrr! I have been up all night coding again. Whoosh! Whoosh test! Perfect score, you may now play Starcraft online on your obscenely fast dsl connection. On an apple.
My snake knows your future! Also my snake can see that this post will be marked -1 troll within 1 hour of being posted.
Aha! But it's posted at +2 so all those newbies reading at +1 will see it! A forbidden suck on the dark fruit that is the slashdot underground. I shock you!
We should all make less sense and MORE NOISE!
Be heard! Be Hurd! Fresh and Gnu! Fresh apples! (You can play starcraft on an apple).
You can dance on the head of a pin. I am Deanna Troi, you may enter when ready. Deanna Troll.
Betazoid. This software is betazoid quality.
Not finished yet. Feature incomplete.
Unlike starcraft. Which you can play on an apple. But not an apricot death.
If you check me- check yourself.
Check your gun at the door. This hotel has a shoot-to-bill policy.
" One of my professors was talking about the problems with the IEEE and the DMCA, he is a fellow in the IEEE too, head of the EE department at my college. He was definitely against it. "
Great, so we'll get Gene Hackman to play him in the movie, in a "Admiral, you will lose your position if you do this" "Then so be it" kind of a way.
If you're so pissed off about companies "stealing" your images then why don't you just watermark your url into them ?
Or check the referrer, as everybody has pointed out about a billion times.
How some dumb post like this, especially when it happens to be a commercial entitiy whining about people "stealing" from them got modded up is totally beyond me.
In fact I bet you got your employees to mod you up, didn't you ?
"Let's see, at 64kbps, that 238kB manual took 29.75 seconds to download (no time at all my foot). At 1.904Mbps, it would have taken just shy of 1 second. Doesn't sound very comparable to me."
Heh, you just proved it was comparable by comparing it ! Kinda like if I ran in the Olympics I could be "competitive". I would be completely wanked on, but I'd still be competitive...
Maybe I would be leaving the music turned on back in the old days before we had footsteps etc in games, but nowadays I want to use headphones, loud sound effects and no music.
Come to think of it, I always turned the music off in the bad old days too because it was frequently playing off the cd-rom, so it would freeze up the damn computer for a couple of seconds when the track restarted...
Speed is physically addictive. It fucks your heart up. Many people end up injecting it. You never know what you're getting. You're paying people (dealers) you'd rather not have to be in the same universe with.
I have made it through many tough projects without using illegal drugs.
I know loads of people are now going to slap me down, disagree and generally piss all over me, but I don't want anyone to risk using speed after reading your post.
The longest I ever stayed up was 48 hours. It was when I first got Internet Access at home, and I had a free 48 hour access thing. (Yes, I knew that the 48 hours didn't have to be continuous, but I had lots of stuff to do).
I remember chatting to people a lot, saying the most inane crap (no change there then).
Eventually though I started hearing voices, falling asleep for very small amounts of time and waking with a bang, so went to bed.
I have always had weird sleep cycles though; I stay up for an average of 18 hours a day, so when I get up changes by 2 hours every day. I treat this as normal, (I have been doing it for years), although everyone else thinks I am some sort of freeeeeeeek. My dad, for example, has some Victorian idea that not sleeping regular hours is unnatural and satanic.
I do enjoy getting up early in the morning and being awake when it's light, but I just can't stay in that pattern. I will always find it difficult to go to bed because I am hacking something, playing Starcraft- whatever. ADSL doesn't help.
" if a drug was discoverd tomorrow that got you high for 1 hour, had no side effects and made you glow neon orange so every cop could know you were on it, it would still be illegal in the u.s. if it were fun."
Fuck the drug effect, I wanna glow neon orange! Bzzzzzz! Think how cool I would look, and how the chix (tm) would be impressed with my glowing goodness.
"heck, there was a recent Duke university study [radiofreenation.net], where if you looked closely into the results, placebos did better than the standard psych drug for treatments"
That's because the scientists had all been experimenting with different sleeping habits and fallen asleep, so the lemurs took over and ran the experiment for them.
Unfortunately, lemurs do NOT make good scientists- they tend to be distracted by bright shiny things and stuff that tastes good or moves in an interesting way.
Basically they got as far as putting on the lab coats (which were absurdly big on them- much amusement all round), then they got so into the clipboards and pencils that they forgot about running the experiment altogether.
When the scientists woke up, they were a bit confused, saw the lemurs' scribblings on the charts and assumed the experiment had been run and it was all ok.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, you're right- we live in a compressed age. Our digital TV is compressed, our movies are compressed, our music is compressed, our images are compressed.
Where we used to get uncompresssed we now get compressed because although the quality is worse, we can fit more stuff on whatever medium comes on.
I was just starting to really get pissed off about the world we live in, and then I discovered that Opera (which I only started using yesterday after using Mozilla for a while) hides the mouse pointer while you are typing- at last! Sanity! No more elbowing the mouse out of the way while typing in usernames on websites! Hoorah!
graspee
The +1 bonus is not a limited resource, you know, in fact it's more like a +1 sword in Ad&d. Ha! +1 vs. trolls!
graspee
ps2emu.com is my website. I am sitting on it until my ps2 emulator is finished. That's why it's still the "sample page".
graspee
PS Is it just me, or did the barrage of posts get somewhat confused just now?
You must be new to English to not capitalize the initial letter...
graspee
"When you say he's made no significan't "personal" contributions"
Just when you thought the poor apostrophe couldn't be abused any more it all gets a stage worse.
English of the future:
"A'l'l' y'o'u'r'e' b'a's'e' a'r'e' b'e'l'o'n'g' t'o' u's'!"
graspee
I use a wintv pvr, and it definately worth noting that their newest drivers allow you to capture as large a file as your filesystem will support, which is damn handy considering that the hardware mpg2 encoder on the wintv pvr supports capturing at up to 12Mb/s.
graspee
Not true, Anonymous Coward! With the opendml implementation much larger avi files are possible! That having been said I find a 4 part episode of Dr. Who, running at approx 1.5 hours without adverts has acceptable quality when transformed into a 700MB divx5 avi, so whether one needs avi files larger than 2G is in dispute.
graspee
"People who have a command of the english language and Profanity such as you should be a newscaster or on TV"
Good evening, cunts, and here at 6pm is the motherfucking news.
Arab/Israli conflict sparks up again. Rim-licking Prime Minister Tony Blair has stated that he will do what the fuck he wants to about it, and the fucking fact that it is exactly what the fucking gay Americans are doing is none of the cock-munching press's business.
And in other news, a kitten with two heads. WTF? shit-stabbing Scientists in Idaho with nothing better to do have genetically-engineered a kitten with two heads. Two fucking heads. Big motherfucking deal.
I'm foul-mouthed bastard, and this has been the 6pm felch-fucking news. Goodnight, god-damn mother-fucking pieces of shit.
graspee
I made one cunning mistake. Correct it and you win an inflatable Anya.
graspee
I touch the fire and it freezes me
I look into it and it's cold
Why can't I feel
My skin should crack and peel
I want my fire back!
graspee
If you want to find fuckedcompany.com without swearing just..
GET A FUCKING LIFE! GOD IS NOT GOING TO COME AND TURN YOU INTO A SALT SHAKER BECAUSE YOU "SWORE".
FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
graspee
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
OOOOH IT'S LIKE YELLING! OHHH SO FUCKING SORRY! ANYONE WHO THINKS ALL-CAPS IS LIKE YELLING OBVIOUSLY HAS A "SENSITIVE AURA" OR SOMETHING AND SHOULD BE SHUNNED BY SOCIETY!
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
" (oh, and the filters comment was due to me saying some cusswords to him earlier in the session)."
Is it just me, or is the phrase "cusswords" entirely more offensive than "cock-sucking, ass-felching, rim-sniffing smeg-fuckers" ?
Ok, thought so.
graspee
You see, if it ain't on the front page you get fuck all posts on a story. How fucking sad.
Anyway, I'd just like to say that whoever wrote that piece for yahoo should get off their strange stuff and call it "file sharing".
"File swapping" makes it sound like some pre-teen football sticker swapping thing.
Oh great! Photoshop 7! I need that to fill! I'll give you a foily of Unreal Tournament beta for it!
graspee
The line, the good captain informs us, must be drawn here. This far, and (apparently) no further.
If you want to join us, you've got to really hate the Borg.
I mean, besides trans-warp conduits, a sense of identity and belonging, increased efficiency, longer life-spans and cooler laser-pointers, what have the Borg ever done for us ?
graspee
" On your feet on on your knees."
On your knees- beggin'. And I ain't much one for beggin'. I say 'Fuck it!' Let's fight this thing!
Aeieieieiei Chomp chomp chomp belch!
graspee
Yay let's all use apples. You can play starcraft on an apple. Hooray for apples! But not for Apricots! BSD... whooooooerrrrrrrrrrr! I have been up all night coding again. Whoosh! Whoosh test! Perfect score, you may now play Starcraft online on your obscenely fast dsl connection. On an apple.
My snake knows your future! Also my snake can see that this post will be marked -1 troll within 1 hour of being posted.
Aha! But it's posted at +2 so all those newbies reading at +1 will see it! A forbidden suck on the dark fruit that is the slashdot underground. I shock you!
We should all make less sense and MORE NOISE!
Be heard! Be Hurd! Fresh and Gnu! Fresh apples! (You can play starcraft on an apple).
You can dance on the head of a pin. I am Deanna Troi, you may enter when ready. Deanna Troll.
Betazoid. This software is betazoid quality.
Not finished yet. Feature incomplete.
Unlike starcraft. Which you can play on an apple. But not an apricot death.
If you check me- check yourself.
Check your gun at the door. This hotel has a shoot-to-bill policy.
Shoot to Bill. Gates.
Integral Wingates Hellsing Sama.
Sasami. Icon. Was found dead.
I'm sure we'll all miss her.
We never could shoot straight.
graspee
" One of my professors was talking about the problems with the IEEE and the DMCA, he is a fellow in the IEEE too, head of the EE department at my college. He was definitely against it. "
Great, so we'll get Gene Hackman to play him in the movie, in a "Admiral, you will lose your position if you do this" "Then so be it" kind of a way.
graspee
If you're so pissed off about companies "stealing" your images then why don't you just watermark your url into them ?
Or check the referrer, as everybody has pointed out about a billion times.
How some dumb post like this, especially when it happens to be a commercial entitiy whining about people "stealing" from them got modded up is totally beyond me.
In fact I bet you got your employees to mod you up, didn't you ?
graspee
Oooooh flashback!
....
boodeewooodooleeeedoooobeebooooo....
chig chig chig chig chig chig chig chig kerching! chig chig chig chig chig chig chig crash! chig chig crash! crash! kerching! kerching! chig chig chig chig
Boulderdash- one of the best games ever.
graspee
"Let's see, at 64kbps, that 238kB manual took 29.75 seconds to download (no time at all my foot). At 1.904Mbps, it would have taken just shy of 1 second. Doesn't sound very comparable to me."
Heh, you just proved it was comparable by comparing it ! Kinda like if I ran in the Olympics I could be "competitive". I would be completely wanked on, but I'd still be competitive...
graspee
Maybe I would be leaving the music turned on back in the old days before we had footsteps etc in games, but nowadays I want to use headphones, loud sound effects and no music.
Come to think of it, I always turned the music off in the bad old days too because it was frequently playing off the cd-rom, so it would freeze up the damn computer for a couple of seconds when the track restarted...
graspee
Speed is physically addictive. It fucks your heart up. Many people end up injecting it. You never know what you're getting. You're paying people (dealers) you'd rather not have to be in the same universe with.
I have made it through many tough projects without using illegal drugs.
I know loads of people are now going to slap me down, disagree and generally piss all over me, but I don't want anyone to risk using speed after reading your post.
graspee
The longest I ever stayed up was 48 hours. It was when I first got Internet Access at home, and I had a free 48 hour access thing. (Yes, I knew that the 48 hours didn't have to be continuous, but I had lots of stuff to do).
I remember chatting to people a lot, saying the most inane crap (no change there then).
Eventually though I started hearing voices, falling asleep for very small amounts of time and waking with a bang, so went to bed.
I have always had weird sleep cycles though; I stay up for an average of 18 hours a day, so when I get up changes by 2 hours every day. I treat this as normal, (I have been doing it for years), although everyone else thinks I am some sort of freeeeeeeek. My dad, for example, has some Victorian idea that not sleeping regular hours is unnatural and satanic.
I do enjoy getting up early in the morning and being awake when it's light, but I just can't stay in that pattern. I will always find it difficult to go to bed because I am hacking something, playing Starcraft- whatever. ADSL doesn't help.
graspee
" if a drug was discoverd tomorrow that got you high for 1 hour, had no side effects and made you glow neon orange so every cop could know you were on it, it would still be illegal in the u.s. if it were fun."
Fuck the drug effect, I wanna glow neon orange! Bzzzzzz! Think how cool I would look, and how the chix (tm) would be impressed with my glowing goodness.
glowing graspee
"heck, there was a recent Duke university study [radiofreenation.net], where if you looked closely into the results, placebos did better than the standard psych drug for treatments"
That's because the scientists had all been experimenting with different sleeping habits and fallen asleep, so the lemurs took over and ran the experiment for them.
Unfortunately, lemurs do NOT make good scientists- they tend to be distracted by bright shiny things and stuff that tastes good or moves in an interesting way.
Basically they got as far as putting on the lab coats (which were absurdly big on them- much amusement all round), then they got so into the clipboards and pencils that they forgot about running the experiment altogether.
When the scientists woke up, they were a bit confused, saw the lemurs' scribblings on the charts and assumed the experiment had been run and it was all ok.
Hence the somewhat peculiar results...
graspee