That doesn't make sense. What keeps you from just ripping the redbook audio CD data, which a conventional CD player plays?
This data is unencrypted, uncompressed, and is easily copyable with a tool such as cdrdao.
Can someone enlighten me?
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Perhaps.. but even when they had closeups of the panels, the buttons would still be completely blank.
Since backgrounds are usually drawn only once for a shot, as opposed to characters which are drawn hundreds of times, you can spend the extra couple of minutes to write stuff on the buttons, and it would look really cool.
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Just like the ones in all the action cartoons of the 1980s, particularly GI Joe, where NONE OF THE KEYS ARE LABELLED!
I always wondered about that. Action cartoons have these huge control panels in the various friendly and enemy bases, with football-field sized consoles with millions of buttons and keys, NONE OF WHICH ARE LABELLED.
I guess people who use those systems must have amazing memory, eh?
I dunno about that. I think he planned to continue the saga from the start.
Notice that when the death star is destroyed, they CLEARLY show a shot of Vader in his ship, regaining control of it and flying off, presumably to cause more mischief in the future.
If this doesn't say.. "sequel coming!!" I dunno what does. }:)
Oh please. Human beings have this ability, that's called "learning new things". Unless your staff is composed of idiots that can't learn anything new, learning Linux shouldn't be a problem for them.
Afterall, IT is constantly changing, you have to constantly learn about new technologies just to keep up. Might as well add UNIX to that list; you can let your staff administrate a couple of linux boxes to perform some basic services, and expand from there.
Also, if they're geeks in any sense of the word (which you tend to be, if you get into IT), they'll probably be interested in playing with Linux; geeks are inately curious about new things.
My 32" CRT TV stays dark for a few seconds and then suddenly turns on. Not sure if it's linux booting, or just a circuit that suppresses the picture until the tube warms up so you never see a dim, blurry image before it's optimally warmed up...
Heh. I actually wish I had gotten more time to play with it, but it had to go back where it came from as soon as I "fixed" it.
I was just surprised to find out this thing even existed, and that Sony was using Linux in one of its products. Sony has always come off to me as a company that does everything their own proprietary way, and gives the finger to most open standards. (Memory stick, anyone?)
You'd think a web page about tigers (you know the stripey big cats who chuff and all) would be what should come first in a google search for "Tiger".
Tiger is a generic word. Anyone searching for TigerDirect would either enter tigerdirect in for the google search or something like "tiger mail order computer components". Both of which return TigerDirect as the top hit.
Someone searching for just "Tiger" probably just wants to learn about tigers, which were around long before humans even figured out how to use tools.
I just thought I'd post the aforementioned "license agreement" so you can see how outrageous (and somewhat funny) this is:
Hereafter:
1. _______ will be referred to as the Author.
2. Control is ownership of said item, able to change, manipulate, replace
or remove without exterior assistance.
3. Authorities are those who maintain, operate and govern the usage of
the muck within and outside of the virtual environment. This includes
the title Wizard.
Terms of Usage:
1. Use of this program is by permission of the Author ONLY. 2. NO editing or cross-muck transfers [known as porting] of this program are
allowed. Those who do so, are committing the act of Piracy, punishable
under local laws. 3. The Author must be of verifiable, connectable presence and in Control of
this program during ALL usage. If this program is removed from the
Author's Control, all of it's operation WILL be terminated immediately. 4. NO muck shall operate this program without the consent of the Author.
Doing so, circumvents all muck policies, AUP or legislation [on any media]
regarding restriction of legal obligations and places all muck Authorities
in the act of Theft, punishable by local laws. 5. This program does NOT apply to any policies which require replacements
found prior to shutdown. If this program is to be replaced, it remains
in Control OF the Author, until a replacement IS found. The Author
retains the right to shutdown this program at any time. 6. Muck Authorities must adhere to all of the above policies or the Author
maintains the rights to remove this program at any time, without warning. 7. The Author requires that the characters Slipstream or Lynx [or variants
there of], are *NOT* of official embodiment [known as Wizard or
Authorities]. If said become such, this program's operation will be
TERMINATED and removed, until such time when they are not. 8. The Author retains the right to maintain, change or replace this program
at any time without restrictions.
I've dealt with the same thing on the various TinyMUCKs I'm on (FurryMUCK and similar systems). For some reason MultiUserForth, or MUF (the programming language of TinyMUCK) authors are overprotective of their code, even though they write it for free and let people see it.
There was one particular coder who started putting very Microsft-esque "licensing agreements" at the beginning of her code. It was actually kind of amusing to read; she even forbade the code from being ported to systems on which a few particular people she doesn't like are on!
I'm not sure what it is about MUF programming that makes people over-restrictive about their code. I've always placed "distribute freely" on my code, and nobody makes any money off this. It doesn't make any sense...
A lot of the photos in that section are processed with dcraw. Basically any where the white balance and exposure weren't perfect right out of the camera. dcraw + gimp is a great combo for digital camera workflow.
Nikon can go f**k themselves with a telephone pole. Sideways.
Honestly, if they refuse to let photographers have open access to their OWN PROPERTY (photos), I'll continue to support one of their competitors that will.
I just hope Canon doesn't try to pull this shit too. I love being able to use gimp+dcraw to tweak my photos.
o/~ Up where they code.. Up where they hack... Up where they type all day in the dark... Using GNU... Wish I could be... Part of that wooooooooorld... o/~
Yup, I even submitted a Bug to Bugzilla. I hope they fix this; this is one of those bugs that would cause a user trying Firefox to ARRRGH and go back to MSIE.
I install all software I compile into/usr/local/packages/softwarename, then run a script that creates all the necessary links from/usr/local/bin, man, lib, etc. to/usr/local/packages/softwarename so that the software works properly.
This method is very handy; to remove software, you just rm -rf/usr/local/packages/softwarename, then use a find to remove all broken symlinks under/usr/local/{bin|lib|man} and so on.
This also makes it easy to move installed software between my systems running the same OS; just copy over/usr/local/packages/softwarename and run the symlink update script on the new box.
I've always wondered why software companies are allowed to get away with charging more money for multi-CPU systems anyway. I mean, there's still only one copy of the software on the system, so where's the justification in charging for more than one CPU?
Afterall, you don't have to pay twice as much to run the software on a system that has a CPU with twice the clockspeed...
It feels like this is just another way to unjustly gouge the customer...
There's lots of these. I myself have the Panasonic DMR-HS2, an older model. Just google for "dvd recorder with hard drive" on eBay. I'm partial to the Panasonic ones, but there's other brands as well, and the plus side is you can edit out all the ads and burn the show to DVD if you wish.
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That doesn't make sense. What keeps you from just ripping the redbook audio CD data, which a conventional CD player plays?
This data is unencrypted, uncompressed, and is easily copyable with a tool such as cdrdao.
Can someone enlighten me?
-Z
Perhaps.. but even when they had closeups of the panels, the buttons would still be completely blank.
Since backgrounds are usually drawn only once for a shot, as opposed to characters which are drawn hundreds of times, you can spend the extra couple of minutes to write stuff on the buttons, and it would look really cool.
-Z
Just like the ones in all the action cartoons of the 1980s, particularly GI Joe, where NONE OF THE KEYS ARE LABELLED!
I always wondered about that. Action cartoons have these huge control panels in the various friendly and enemy bases, with football-field sized consoles with millions of buttons and keys, NONE OF WHICH ARE LABELLED.
I guess people who use those systems must have amazing memory, eh?
-Z
I dunno about that. I think he planned to continue the saga from the start.
Notice that when the death star is destroyed, they CLEARLY show a shot of Vader in his ship, regaining control of it and flying off, presumably to cause more mischief in the future.
If this doesn't say.. "sequel coming!!" I dunno what does. }:)
-Z
How is this poor writing?
It doesn't AFFECT (change, modify) the EFFECT (what the movie does to you) of the movies.
-Z
Oh please. Human beings have this ability, that's called "learning new things". Unless your staff is composed of idiots that can't learn anything new, learning Linux shouldn't be a problem for them.
Afterall, IT is constantly changing, you have to constantly learn about new technologies just to keep up. Might as well add UNIX to that list; you can let your staff administrate a couple of linux boxes to perform some basic services, and expand from there.
Also, if they're geeks in any sense of the word (which you tend to be, if you get into IT), they'll probably be interested in playing with Linux; geeks are inately curious about new things.
-Z
My 32" CRT TV stays dark for a few seconds and then suddenly turns on. Not sure if it's linux booting, or just a circuit that suppresses the picture until the tube warms up so you never see a dim, blurry image before it's optimally warmed up...
-Z
Heh. I actually wish I had gotten more time to play with it, but it had to go back where it came from as soon as I "fixed" it.
I was just surprised to find out this thing even existed, and that Sony was using Linux in one of its products. Sony has always come off to me as a company that does everything their own proprietary way, and gives the finger to most open standards. (Memory stick, anyone?)
-Z
You'd think a web page about tigers (you know the stripey big cats who chuff and all) would be what should come first in a google search for "Tiger".
Tiger is a generic word. Anyone searching for TigerDirect would either enter tigerdirect in for the google search or something like "tiger mail order computer components". Both of which return TigerDirect as the top hit.
Someone searching for just "Tiger" probably just wants to learn about tigers, which were around long before humans even figured out how to use tools.
-Z
I just thought I'd post the aforementioned "license agreement" so you can see how outrageous (and somewhat funny) this is:
Hereafter:
1. _______ will be referred to as the Author.
2. Control is ownership of said item, able to change, manipulate, replace
or remove without exterior assistance.
3. Authorities are those who maintain, operate and govern the usage of
the muck within and outside of the virtual environment. This includes
the title Wizard.
Terms of Usage:
1. Use of this program is by permission of the Author ONLY.
2. NO editing or cross-muck transfers [known as porting] of this program are
allowed. Those who do so, are committing the act of Piracy, punishable
under local laws.
3. The Author must be of verifiable, connectable presence and in Control of
this program during ALL usage. If this program is removed from the
Author's Control, all of it's operation WILL be terminated immediately.
4. NO muck shall operate this program without the consent of the Author.
Doing so, circumvents all muck policies, AUP or legislation [on any media]
regarding restriction of legal obligations and places all muck Authorities
in the act of Theft, punishable by local laws.
5. This program does NOT apply to any policies which require replacements
found prior to shutdown. If this program is to be replaced, it remains
in Control OF the Author, until a replacement IS found. The Author
retains the right to shutdown this program at any time.
6. Muck Authorities must adhere to all of the above policies or the Author
maintains the rights to remove this program at any time, without warning.
7. The Author requires that the characters Slipstream or Lynx [or variants
there of], are *NOT* of official embodiment [known as Wizard or
Authorities]. If said become such, this program's operation will be
TERMINATED and removed, until such time when they are not.
8. The Author retains the right to maintain, change or replace this program
at any time without restrictions.
I've dealt with the same thing on the various TinyMUCKs I'm on (FurryMUCK and similar systems). For some reason MultiUserForth, or MUF (the programming language of TinyMUCK) authors are overprotective of their code, even though they write it for free and let people see it.
There was one particular coder who started putting very Microsft-esque "licensing agreements" at the beginning of her code. It was actually kind of amusing to read; she even forbade the code from being ported to systems on which a few particular people she doesn't like are on!
I'm not sure what it is about MUF programming that makes people over-restrictive about their code. I've always placed "distribute freely" on my code, and nobody makes any money off this. It doesn't make any sense...
-Z
There's open-source software to handle Canon RAW files:
8 78 .JPG.html
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
The results are great, here's an example of a photo processed with it:
http://zorin.org/vs/2005-04-23/imagepages/img_6
A lot of the photos in that section are processed with dcraw. Basically any where the white balance and exposure weren't perfect right out of the camera. dcraw + gimp is a great combo for digital camera workflow.
-Z
I'm so glad I bought a Canon Digital Rebel.
Nikon can go f**k themselves with a telephone pole. Sideways.
Honestly, if they refuse to let photographers have open access to their OWN PROPERTY (photos), I'll continue to support one of their competitors that will.
I just hope Canon doesn't try to pull this shit too. I love being able to use gimp+dcraw to tweak my photos.
Freakin' morons.
-Z
o/~ Up where they code..
Up where they hack...
Up where they type all day in the dark...
Using GNU...
Wish I could be...
Part of that wooooooooorld... o/~
KaBOOM!
Yup, I even submitted a Bug to Bugzilla. I hope they fix this; this is one of those bugs that would cause a user trying Firefox to ARRRGH and go back to MSIE.
-Z
I install all software I compile into /usr/local/packages/softwarename, then run a script that creates all the necessary links from /usr/local/bin, man, lib, etc. to /usr/local/packages/softwarename so that the software works properly.
/usr/local/packages/softwarename, then use a find to remove all broken symlinks under /usr/local/{bin|lib|man} and so on.
/usr/local/packages/softwarename and run the symlink update script on the new box.
This method is very handy; to remove software, you just rm -rf
This also makes it easy to move installed software between my systems running the same OS; just copy over
-Z
If it's so valuable, then why the heck did they cancel Enterprise in the middle of its run?
Isn't making some money better than making no money? It's not like Paramount wouldn't see a cut of any profits that come about...
-Z
Stop it with the free PSPs. They're paying you to spam; you're just as bad as any other spammer.
-Z
I've always wondered why software companies are allowed to get away with charging more money for multi-CPU systems anyway. I mean, there's still only one copy of the software on the system, so where's the justification in charging for more than one CPU?
Afterall, you don't have to pay twice as much to run the software on a system that has a CPU with twice the clockspeed...
It feels like this is just another way to unjustly gouge the customer...
-Z
Standards... Gotta love'em.
Sweet! Most USB/PS2 adapters I've tried did not work properly with the M, as that page said.
It seems computer manufacturers can't keep their own freakin' standards.
But now that I know that one will work, it's ordering time!
-Z
No way man, we must KEEP The PS/2 keyboard port... Where else are you going to plug in your vintage IBM Model M clicky-keyboard?
Not available in USB!
-Z
Err, I meant to say just google for "dvd recorder with hard drive". I have no idea why I said "on eBay". I must be losing it in my old age...
Though I guess eBay is a good place to find these too. }:)
There's lots of these. I myself have the Panasonic DMR-HS2, an older model. Just google for "dvd recorder with hard drive" on eBay. I'm partial to the Panasonic ones, but there's other brands as well, and the plus side is you can edit out all the ads and burn the show to DVD if you wish.
-Z
One of the reasons I'm not getting a PSP is the lack of a TVout. You'd think Sony would include such an obvious connection, but they didn't.
When I'm at home and have a 32" TV in front of me, I want to be able to play the games on it instead of the tiny screen on the portable.
It seems that a feature so inexpensive to add and so useful would be left out. Especially when the thing can play movies too!