West Virginia has a long history of their population getting dispossessed and sold up the river broke-and-naked by rich out-of-state corporations so this warn't that big a surprise. Microsoft is just like any big coal company looking to take buttloads of money out of West Virginia except Microsoft hasn't started having their opponents murdered... yet. That we know of, anyways.
We have a large community of open-source housing here. Every few months though, the neighbors start to complain, and then the city makes them pack up the tents and fold up the cardboard boxes and move underneath a different bridge to stay out of the rain. No big deal, we got lots of bridges to keep moving them to.
Shantytown's much smaller now than it used to be, I think maybe they're all wintering in Arizona? In their time-share vacation boxes....
Those insightful comments by Sun and Novell illustrate in no uncertain terms exactly why Microsoft has 97% of the frigging market. Gates and company are competing against morons, that's why. It'd be damn near impossible for him to lose, faced with that kind of gormless opposition.
In the post-9/11 world, any country considering any kind of mass transport must ask what kind of target opportunity it represents? I think, unfortunately, that this will be much easier to attack than an airplane at 35,000 feet. Every foot of rail will have to be alarmed, patrolled, and inspected. With more passenger capacity than an Airbus A380, how long will the security checkpoints take? A full day?
While it may now be technologically practical, it remains impractical for political reasons.
I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll before I found another Matrox supporter. My G400 has run flawlessly on three different distros, and about 5 different XFree86 versions. It may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade, and especially not to change GPU sets. I had an Nvidia system sitting alongside the Matrox box for several months, and both had identical monitors. The Matrox box was very easy on the eyes while the Nvidia always looked fuzzy. The Matrox white backgrounds were solid white while the Nvidia painted rainbows and shifting Moire patterns.
As to gaming, I'm playing X-Plane on the Matrox box using the latest Wine RPM. The frame rates are the same as they are on the Nvidia in Linux - I don't know how the two cards compare under Windows since I don't use Windows for anything else other than to supply Wine some DLLs. So with frame rates being equal, the Matrox wins for clarity of display, better drivers, and a more open philosophy. One possible drawback for some - Matrox's OpenGL drivers for Windows are not very good, but that doesn't affect me. YMMV and all that....
I knew I should have looked it up before I posted. When will I learn? [grin] It's called photosensitive epilepsy and there's several hundred Googles available for reading. I provide cut-and-paste URL for one below....
So what this ruling means is that the DVD-CCA shysters (and hopefully maybe MPAA and RIAA) will be having to travel to where the offending server is geographically located in order to sue someone?
Hey, anybody out there from Baghdad who wanting to host a copy of DeCSS? The USofA would not dare bomb its own lawyers!
That would seem to explain the headaches everybody else keeps posting about in this column. I myself am particularly susceptible to low refresh rates, and get violent headaches after just a few minutes of viewing. When I was researching this problem last year I ran across tales of stroboscopic induced epileptic siezures, so a headache is not the worst that could happen I suppose.
I grew up on Herge's TinTin. The books (I decline to call them comics) were excellent, the large format and attention to detail in every frame was astounding, and the story-lines were remarkably mature for the audience they were supposedly aiming for at that time. And the animated cartoons that followed on were flawless reproductions of the books; if I close my eyes and concentrate I can still hear the opening theme... more than twenty years later.
Spielberg can't top this; there are just some things that if you try to imitate them you will only screw them up because the original is beyond imitation. I have a feeling this will turn out like the Batman series.. the first one will be just semi-OK and the rest will be banal marketing tripe used solely to stock toy store shelves at Christmas time.
He can film it if he wants, but I ain't gonna go see it.
I am loving this! Proof positive, absolute incontradictable evidence of that famous old saw "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". How much longer until they claim that it's illegal for us to possess ears and eyes? Are we to be eventually be legislated into buying movies we cannot view, and music we cannot hear? Will I be required by law to buy these things which I am forbidden to experience?
Keep screwing over your customers, and soon maybe you won't be having any.
After all that pigging out at MacDonald's, do your Sims end up weighing a simulated 300 pounds each? Do they get simulated atherosclerosis? Sim diabetes? Sim strokes? Sim food poisoning? Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD?
Will it cuss whenever it gets a core dump? Will it cry when its favorite sysadmin leaves for a new job? Will it get horny when a cute little beowulf cluster comes sashaying by? Will it eventually get totally stupid and become a manager?
My place in the universe is still very much assured it would seem.
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I fogged a lot of film last year with way-too-long exposures. When you get one of those persistant fire trails, it's time to close the shutter and advance the film. And a good fireball doesn't even have to be in-frame to do this, I had a few off axis sparklers that caused some major lense artifacts (although some of those turned out to be *really* good prints unintentionally). If the artifacting bothers your sense of purity, use a big lens hood.
That figures. They's already gots perishable pickup trucks down there. So does this like mean their DVD players is a gonna end up on concrete blocks in the front yard?
San Diego sporting goods stores are reporting record sales of 12 ga. shotguns to San Clemente SDSC personnel who were alleged to have made cryptic statements about "frame drops", "bandwidth", and "all these f*cking seagulls".
Many times I have *taught* UNIX system administration in only twenty-four hours. Ususally it was in the first twenty-four hours following me telling my boss to go fuck himself.
Last year I went camping out in the Arizona desert to watch these. I'll be going back there again this year as well.
Something I discovered last year... if you plan on doing any time exposure photography, don't leave the shutter open for as long as you normally would for a night sky photo. I ended up with a lot of fogged prints because of the high occurence of super-bright meteoroids. You know the ones I mean, the kind you can almost read by, the ones that leave fluorescing smoke trails that seem to linger for five or ten seconds.
And too bad I get drug screened where I work, it could've been a "wow - bitchin'" night.
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West Virginia has a long history of their population getting dispossessed and sold up the river broke-and-naked by rich out-of-state corporations so this warn't that big a surprise. Microsoft is just like any big coal company looking to take buttloads of money out of West Virginia except Microsoft hasn't started having their opponents murdered... yet. That we know of, anyways.
We have a large community of open-source housing here. Every few months though, the neighbors start to complain, and then the city makes them pack up the tents and fold up the cardboard boxes and move underneath a different bridge to stay out of the rain. No big deal, we got lots of bridges to keep moving them to.
Shantytown's much smaller now than it used to be, I think maybe they're all wintering in Arizona? In their time-share vacation boxes....
They should have asked me to participate, they could be having a most excellent map of the red light district by now!
Oh, it wasn't funded? Never mind.
Those insightful comments by Sun and Novell illustrate in no uncertain terms exactly why Microsoft has 97% of the frigging market. Gates and company are competing against morons, that's why. It'd be damn near impossible for him to lose, faced with that kind of gormless opposition.
In the post-9/11 world, any country considering any kind of mass transport must ask what kind of target opportunity it represents? I think, unfortunately, that this will be much easier to attack than an airplane at 35,000 feet. Every foot of rail will have to be alarmed, patrolled, and inspected. With more passenger capacity than an Airbus A380, how long will the security checkpoints take? A full day?
While it may now be technologically practical, it remains impractical for political reasons.
My answer: For business use, buy Matrox.
I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll before I found another Matrox supporter. My G400 has run flawlessly on three different distros, and about 5 different XFree86 versions. It may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade, and especially not to change GPU sets. I had an Nvidia system sitting alongside the Matrox box for several months, and both had identical monitors. The Matrox box was very easy on the eyes while the Nvidia always looked fuzzy. The Matrox white backgrounds were solid white while the Nvidia painted rainbows and shifting Moire patterns.
As to gaming, I'm playing X-Plane on the Matrox box using the latest Wine RPM. The frame rates are the same as they are on the Nvidia in Linux - I don't know how the two cards compare under Windows since I don't use Windows for anything else other than to supply Wine some DLLs. So with frame rates being equal, the Matrox wins for clarity of display, better drivers, and a more open philosophy. One possible drawback for some - Matrox's OpenGL drivers for Windows are not very good, but that doesn't affect me. YMMV and all that....
With Microsoft getting involved, it's going to be more than a mere collision... it's going to be a train wreck.
Just last night, my wife was also asking me if she could get more face time. "Sure", I responded, "only if I get more head time."
I knew I should have looked it up before I posted. When will I learn? [grin] It's called photosensitive epilepsy and there's several hundred Googles available for reading. I provide cut-and-paste URL for one below....
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http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/info/leaflets
So what this ruling means is that the DVD-CCA shysters (and hopefully maybe MPAA and RIAA) will be having to travel to where the offending server is geographically located in order to sue someone?
Hey, anybody out there from Baghdad who wanting to host a copy of DeCSS? The USofA would not dare bomb its own lawyers!
That would seem to explain the headaches everybody else keeps posting about in this column. I myself am particularly susceptible to low refresh rates, and get violent headaches after just a few minutes of viewing. When I was researching this problem last year I ran across tales of stroboscopic induced epileptic siezures, so a headache is not the worst that could happen I suppose.
I grew up on Herge's TinTin. The books (I decline to call them comics) were excellent, the large format and attention to detail in every frame was astounding, and the story-lines were remarkably mature for the audience they were supposedly aiming for at that time. And the animated cartoons that followed on were flawless reproductions of the books; if I close my eyes and concentrate I can still hear the opening theme... more than twenty years later.
Spielberg can't top this; there are just some things that if you try to imitate them you will only screw them up because the original is beyond imitation. I have a feeling this will turn out like the Batman series.. the first one will be just semi-OK and the rest will be banal marketing tripe used solely to stock toy store shelves at Christmas time.
He can film it if he wants, but I ain't gonna go see it.
How can they possibly expect us to use the efficient new Radix-50 character encoding to store text? RAD-50 requires 16 bits to compact characters.
DeCastro was right, this 12 bit nonsense will never go anywhere.
[...] the public management ministry is setting up a panel of scholars and computer experts, including Microsoft officials..."
In other news, the farmer has invited a group of forest critters, including some foxes, to guard his hen-house.
Do not be holding your breath for this to actually happen. There is still plenty of JET A-1 fuel at Sea-Tac for Mr. Bill's airplane.
I hear he has a delicate stomach, I wonder how well he is tolerating Indian food?
I am loving this! Proof positive, absolute incontradictable evidence of that famous old saw "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". How much longer until they claim that it's illegal for us to possess ears and eyes? Are we to be eventually be legislated into buying movies we cannot view, and music we cannot hear? Will I be required by law to buy these things which I am forbidden to experience?
Keep screwing over your customers, and soon maybe you won't be having any.
After all that pigging out at MacDonald's, do your Sims end up weighing a simulated 300 pounds each? Do they get simulated atherosclerosis? Sim diabetes? Sim strokes? Sim food poisoning? Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD?
Not entirely accurate then, is it?
Killer asteroids don't bother me, it's killer hemorrhoids that need attention.
Will it cuss whenever it gets a core dump? Will it cry when its favorite sysadmin leaves for a new job? Will it get horny when a cute little beowulf cluster comes sashaying by? Will it eventually get totally stupid and become a manager?
My place in the universe is still very much assured it would seem.
I fogged a lot of film last year with way-too-long exposures. When you get one of those persistant fire trails, it's time to close the shutter and advance the film. And a good fireball doesn't even have to be in-frame to do this, I had a few off axis sparklers that caused some major lense artifacts (although some of those turned out to be *really* good prints unintentionally). If the artifacting bothers your sense of purity, use a big lens hood.
Retailers in the Southern United States...
That figures. They's already gots perishable pickup trucks down there. So does this like mean their DVD players is a gonna end up on concrete blocks in the front yard?
San Diego sporting goods stores are reporting record sales of 12 ga. shotguns to San Clemente SDSC personnel who were alleged to have made cryptic statements about "frame drops", "bandwidth", and "all these f*cking seagulls".
Many times I have *taught* UNIX system administration in only twenty-four hours. Ususally it was in the first twenty-four hours following me telling my boss to go fuck himself.
Yup. Sure sounds like paper to me. Simple to describe. Locate anywhere. Interpret it how I want. Render whatever's on it.
Plus, there's almost no smell as comforting to the soul as the smell of an old book.
Last year I went camping out in the Arizona desert to watch these. I'll be going back there again this year as well.
Something I discovered last year... if you plan on doing any time exposure photography, don't leave the shutter open for as long as you normally would for a night sky photo. I ended up with a lot of fogged prints because of the high occurence of super-bright meteoroids. You know the ones I mean, the kind you can almost read by, the ones that leave fluorescing smoke trails that seem to linger for five or ten seconds.
And too bad I get drug screened where I work, it could've been a "wow - bitchin'" night.