> No need for righteous Unix-centric babbling.
> As any good Mac zealot could tell you, "mak oh es > ten" is the correct way to pronounce the name of
> the operating system. After all, what comes after > 9? X!
Hmm... Oh Ess EX vs. Oh Ess Ten
How about Malcom Ten vs Malcom X?
I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion [and mine [grin]], but Pi technically was *bad* -- The writing/plot was shakey at best, camera work was amateur [there is a difference between "bad for effect" and "bad, go back to film school"]. I understand why quite a few people liked the movie. I was even entertained, but I wouldn't call it a good/great movie... Hell, people liked the Matrix... again not a "good" movie, but highly entertaining.
Frank Miller, of course *needs* to do this! How could he not [other than the need to distance himself from the *really awful* post Burton batman movies]?
Maybe this will be the movie that will but the franchise back to life. Maybe they'll get rid of the nipples on the costume. Only time will tell.
Does anyone know who the villain[s] will be?
This is a very exciting development, as I am looking forward to a Batman noir film
Another interesting issue is the "sponsor links" at the bottom of the page... there is an advertisement for the neoplanet product, clear as day. Hmmmm.
It will be availalbe for $15-$20 for a CD. So much for *free*! On September 3, ten days before the release date, you can order it through the Apple store.
"free" is a relative term. if it is available on CD, that costs $$ to produce. This cost has to be recoup'd somehow.
That being said, I am sure they will have a downloadable disk image of the CD *for free*.
This is the same situation as everyone else... you want physical media, you pay. If you have lotz o' bandwidth, DL the sucker for free.
Some of the more interesting, non TV anime are as follows:
The Hakkenden "Legend of the Dog Warriors" This AFAIK is only VHS, a *perfect* Pioneer release, with a very complex storyline involving a dark pact with a dog and the daughter of the head of the house. Set in fudal Japan, with *lots* of action and a very deeeeeeep plot. This one is not to be missed
Castle of Cagliostro [comedy] Miazaki [sp?] film about a scatterbrained thief. Very Funny, superbly animated. This movie was also the basis of one of those LD based arcade games [like Space Ace and Dragon's Lair]
X/1999 [psychic drama] I don't even know where to begin... just see it.
That's all for now. For reviews etc, a cool place to check out is http://www.animeondvd.com [not related to me at all... I just go there]
I think there is one thing that most of you are missing. it really doesn't *matter* what version you purchase from the shop. All that matters to the companies are preorders or orders made from major ditributers [like Ingram, etc.] You can buy all the Linux/Mac versions you want from CompUSA, but those sales figures won't mean anything if Ingram buys 20:3:2 Win/Mac/Linux.
This means that id [or other company], before you even whip out the gold card has sold 20 copies of the windows version, 3 cpoies of the mac version and 2 copies of the Linux version.
How to solve this issue: [??] Well, it's kinda chicken or the egg. You have to get companies to produce/distribute multiplatform versions at the same time. If a platform version exists before another and it is brought to market, obviously that platform will have a leg up on the other versons.
Ship hybred CDs. This of course leaves the stores to do all sorts of oddball things like charge more for the mac/linux version, count all sales as windows, etc. This will however solve the Ingram problem.
Offer DLable package. This way, you know what you are getting via logfiles, unfort, marketers/droids/etc. don't care about logfiles, they care about pretty pictures and $$$
This doesn't take into account all the other sundry issues, but it does give some insight on how to change things. In a way, it's kinda like voting for a US Pres. We don't *actually* vote for him, an electoral college does. Just like our purchases don't mean anything as far as sales figures goes, only the orders from the big distros [like Ingram, [not RH/slack/debian silly]]
Agreed Mini-Disc and MP3s are where it's at! Sony however, as previously mentioned, has a conflict of interest. Do they release such a device, or do they protect their musical property [read the bands]?
This brings me to the question... SCREW them! How difficult is it for an EE person to reverse eng. the average minidisc player? Music encoded on those things is compressed anyway, so throw that out in favor of the traditional MPEG1 lyr III encoding. All minidiscs have optical ports on them... [keep, or] change that to firewire/usb and you are set. The media is just media... there isn't anything proprietary about it, is there?
If people have been doing this with CDs... why not a new medium?
The G4s aren't the only thing apple announced at Seybold SanFran. The also unvailed their Cinema Display [22 inch LCD] as well as OS9 shipping in October.
Cool stuff: New Colours! The G4s are "silver and graphite"
Also bundled in Airport functionality [actually a card]
Just a quickie.... Why does this kid need a gang of editors? I am always interested in interviews even if it's someone I don't have any clue about [like this guy]. If he is a l33t hax0r l1nux dud3 why does he need editors to make sure he says "the right thing" he isn't a politician... he isn't even famous. I am just confused as to why he needs a "team" to talk to us... Linus or Alan or any of our gods don't have outside people editing them... why him?
This has kindof been touched upon in previous posts, but AFAIK not quite this way.
"The Great Unwashed" that think they wanna try Linux, but don't know the first thing about using/installing it don't care weather or not the interface is GUI or CLUI. What they do care about are things like partitions, video drivers, IRQs etc. it is those things that you want to "shield" TGUs from [and have the ability for the power user to micromanage the install]
All this gui does is show everything the textmode has in a "cute" closable window. My grandmother doesn't want to know what a partition is/ what mount points are.
To reiterate, "normal" people don't give a rats arse if the install procedure is text based or gui based, they just don't want to have to understand things like video drivers, refresh rates, IRQs, etc.
I think Stormix is missing the point of the GUI install
Actually the "ticker apps" don't read the standard webpage... they get an RDF file that *is* located on the server [and can be accessed via port 80, and therefore register in the apache log files...]
so in theory the count is correct [of course you have to account for things like proxies, etc. so you may have more people reading/., but it's cached information
Those dogs are pretty cool. I have friends at UPenn who are training [read coding] a fleet of them to play soccer on their own. pretty damn cool if you ask me. Thee big issue is a lot of the functions are currently "inaccessable"... read sony ain't tellin them what they need to know [like calls to things like leg actuaters]. From what I was hearing it's a pretty cool project [hi Bo!]
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While that maybe true [I know *i* haven't seen it]. The reason it isn't done is with UltraWide SCSI 3 you can't have a total length greater than 2 feet [they say 3 but even with the best shielded cables, I've found I have problems over 2 feet]
With SCSI LVD, you can have longer cable lengths, but still no where *near* as long as you can w/SCSI
Has it been mentioned that SCSI "dumbs down" to the slowest device on the chain? So even if you have that kickarse U2W card and 3 U2W devices, if you stick that narrow scsi2 on the chain you are going at a bus speed of about 10MB/s Boo! hiss!
Sure I am all for cheap domains for things like.org/.edu, but is cheaper reg fees really a good thing. There are already too many domain squatters at the price point now. What happens when registration is like $25 USD for a domain. Then every company will be more likely to buy every iterance of their supposed Int. Prop. I think Domain squatting will just get that much worse.
actually they already bumped up the imac to 333. They will be available the 19 of this month. They are already "in channel" and for the same 1199 USD price
NEver underestimate the power of Pron, MP3s and \/\/4r3z [ok and any MS/OS] to fill up a HD that large in minutes. This will however be pretty cool for video storage [assuming it's fast enough]. Maybe we'll be one step closer to *real* video on demand.
There are hidden "alien" messages all over the show... If you take a look at the "Slurm" Advert, you will see an alien language/code those "letters" translate to the word Slurm. In theory more hints will be in each episode so we can all look forward to decoding the messages
Sorry Jon, normally I don't read your posts, not because I find you inane [I don't], but your subject matter doesn't really interest me all that much. This article did [interest me] however and it was OK.
I have one major problem.... I know you are a mac user, so I won't go *too* hard on you, but is it really all that difficult to open up your article in BBEdit and force translate all of those Microsoft ISO Nonstandard single quotes to standard ISO entities that we can *all* read? C'mon man, it doesn't take a brilliant man to QA his own work.
Let me know when you fix the problem
Seems like old Apple Tech [and others as well]
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This seems like a modified MetaContent Format routine... MCF is [some of the basis for RDF] it's an interesting tech, but I don't know how usefull *that* style of visual is [keep the data structure, change the interface]
for more info on HotSouce/MCF... this was picked off of the Java Interface... go here Art icle
You aren't paying $500 for the BSD layer... [it has been opensourced] you are paying for things like the GUI, WebObjects, etc. TIMES FIVE [the CD allows you to put OSXServer on up to 5 different machines.
I'd pay $500 for WO alone [if you haven't used it... check it out... it really is *quite* robust/modular/reusable/scalable/fast very cool]
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While I dig the battlebots, I still like robocup a lot better. I think it's the "team" concept that I like...
It all just reminds me of my MIT years... thank gods that's over with
> As any good Mac zealot could tell you, "mak oh es
> ten" is the correct way to pronounce the name of
> the operating system. After all, what comes after
> 9? X!
Hmm... Oh Ess EX vs. Oh Ess Ten
How about Malcom Ten vs Malcom X?
you can check it out over on the macnn forums and http://osx.macnn.com
I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion [and mine [grin]], but Pi technically was *bad* -- The writing/plot was shakey at best, camera work was amateur [there is a difference between "bad for effect" and "bad, go back to film school"]. I understand why quite a few people liked the movie. I was even entertained, but I wouldn't call it a good/great movie... Hell, people liked the Matrix... again not a "good" movie, but highly entertaining.
Frank Miller, of course *needs* to do this! How could he not [other than the need to distance himself from the *really awful* post Burton batman movies]?
Maybe this will be the movie that will but the franchise back to life. Maybe they'll get rid of the nipples on the costume. Only time will tell.
Does anyone know who the villain[s] will be?
This is a very exciting development, as I am looking forward to a Batman noir film
Another interesting issue is the "sponsor links" at the bottom of the page... there is an advertisement for the neoplanet product, clear as day. Hmmmm.
Makes ya think don't it?
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"free" is a relative term. if it is available on CD, that costs $$ to produce. This cost has to be recoup'd somehow.
That being said, I am sure they will have a downloadable disk image of the CD *for free*.
This is the same situation as everyone else... you want physical media, you pay. If you have lotz o' bandwidth, DL the sucker for free.
Whats the problem?
Some of the more interesting, non TV anime are as follows:
The Hakkenden
"Legend of the Dog Warriors"
This AFAIK is only VHS, a *perfect* Pioneer release, with a very complex storyline involving a dark pact with a dog and the daughter of the head of the house. Set in fudal Japan, with *lots* of action and a very deeeeeeep plot. This one is not to be missed
Castle of Cagliostro [comedy]
Miazaki [sp?] film about a scatterbrained thief. Very Funny, superbly animated. This movie was also the basis of one of those LD based arcade games [like Space Ace and Dragon's Lair]
X/1999 [psychic drama]
I don't even know where to begin... just see it.
That's all for now. For reviews etc, a cool place to check out is http://www.animeondvd.com [not related to me at all... I just go there]
Actually, it was called Galaxy High... It was a CBS cartoon [don't know who produced it] but was on during the same era of the Teen-Wolf Cartoon.
I think I can still remember most of the chars and the theme song...
Oh man... not on a monday morning
I think there is one thing that most of you are missing. it really doesn't *matter* what version you purchase from the shop. All that matters to the companies are preorders or orders made from major ditributers [like Ingram, etc.] You can buy all the Linux/Mac versions you want from CompUSA, but those sales figures won't mean anything if Ingram buys 20:3:2 Win/Mac/Linux.
This means that id [or other company], before you even whip out the gold card has sold 20 copies of the windows version, 3 cpoies of the mac version and 2 copies of the Linux version.
How to solve this issue: [??]
Well, it's kinda chicken or the egg. You have to get companies to produce/distribute multiplatform versions at the same time. If a platform version exists before another and it is brought to market, obviously that platform will have a leg up on the other versons.
Ship hybred CDs. This of course leaves the stores to do all sorts of oddball things like charge more for the mac/linux version, count all sales as windows, etc. This will however solve the Ingram problem.
Offer DLable package. This way, you know what you are getting via logfiles, unfort, marketers/droids/etc. don't care about logfiles, they care about pretty pictures and $$$
This doesn't take into account all the other sundry issues, but it does give some insight on how to change things. In a way, it's kinda like voting for a US Pres. We don't *actually* vote for him, an electoral college does. Just like our purchases don't mean anything as far as sales figures goes, only the orders from the big distros [like Ingram, [not RH/slack/debian silly]]
Agreed Mini-Disc and MP3s are where it's at! Sony however, as previously mentioned, has a conflict of interest. Do they release such a device, or do they protect their musical property [read the bands]?
This brings me to the question... SCREW them! How difficult is it for an EE person to reverse eng. the average minidisc player? Music encoded on those things is compressed anyway, so throw that out in favor of the traditional MPEG1 lyr III encoding. All minidiscs have optical ports on them... [keep, or] change that to firewire/usb and you are set. The media is just media... there isn't anything proprietary about it, is there?
If people have been doing this with CDs... why not a new medium?
Am I missing something? Please discuss.
The G4s aren't the only thing apple announced at Seybold SanFran. The also unvailed their Cinema Display [22 inch LCD] as well as OS9 shipping in October.
Cool stuff: New Colours! The G4s are "silver and graphite"
Also bundled in Airport functionality [actually a card]
It's like christmas in August!!!
Just a quickie.... Why does this kid need a gang of editors? I am always interested in interviews even if it's someone I don't have any clue about [like this guy]. If he is a l33t hax0r l1nux dud3 why does he need editors to make sure he says "the right thing" he isn't a politician... he isn't even famous. I am just confused as to why he needs a "team" to talk to us... Linus or Alan or any of our gods don't have outside people editing them... why him?
"The Great Unwashed" that think they wanna try Linux, but don't know the first thing about using/installing it don't care weather or not the interface is GUI or CLUI. What they do care about are things like partitions, video drivers, IRQs etc. it is those things that you want to "shield" TGUs from [and have the ability for the power user to micromanage the install]
All this gui does is show everything the textmode has in a "cute" closable window. My grandmother doesn't want to know what a partition is/ what mount points are.
To reiterate, "normal" people don't give a rats arse if the install procedure is text based or gui based, they just don't want to have to understand things like video drivers, refresh rates, IRQs, etc.
I think Stormix is missing the point of the GUI install
Actually the "ticker apps" don't read the standard webpage... they get an RDF file that *is* located on the server [and can be accessed via port 80, and therefore register in the apache log files...]
/., but it's cached information
so in theory the count is correct [of course you have to account for things like proxies, etc. so you may have more people reading
Those dogs are pretty cool. I have friends at UPenn who are training [read coding] a fleet of them to play soccer on their own. pretty damn cool if you ask me. Thee big issue is a lot of the functions are currently "inaccessable"... read sony ain't tellin them what they need to know [like calls to things like leg actuaters]. From what I was hearing it's a pretty cool project [hi Bo!]
While that maybe true [I know *i* haven't seen it]. The reason it isn't done is with UltraWide SCSI 3 you can't have a total length greater than 2 feet [they say 3 but even with the best shielded cables, I've found I have problems over 2 feet]
With SCSI LVD, you can have longer cable lengths, but still no where *near* as long as you can w/SCSI
Has it been mentioned that SCSI "dumbs down" to the slowest device on the chain? So even if you have that kickarse U2W card and 3 U2W devices, if you stick that narrow scsi2 on the chain you are going at a bus speed of about 10MB/s Boo! hiss!
Firewire also has Isochronos transfers.
Sure I am all for cheap domains for things like .org/.edu, but is cheaper reg fees really a good thing. There are already too many domain squatters at the price point now. What happens when registration is like $25 USD for a domain. Then every company will be more likely to buy every iterance of their supposed Int. Prop. I think Domain squatting will just get that much worse.
What do you think?
actually they already bumped up the imac to 333. They will be available the 19 of this month. They are already "in channel" and for the same 1199 USD price
not bad
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NEver underestimate the power of Pron, MP3s and \/\/4r3z [ok and any MS/OS] to fill up a HD that large in minutes. This will however be pretty cool for video storage [assuming it's fast enough]. Maybe we'll be one step closer to *real* video on demand.
There are hidden "alien" messages all over the show... If you take a look at the "Slurm" Advert, you will see an alien language/code those "letters" translate to the word Slurm. In theory more hints will be in each episode so we can all look forward to decoding the messages
Just for clarification they were Visigoths not Visgoths
[sorry, but my login is based on Visigoth]
I have one major problem.... I know you are a mac user, so I won't go *too* hard on you, but is it really all that difficult to open up your article in BBEdit and force translate all of those Microsoft ISO Nonstandard single quotes to standard ISO entities that we can *all* read? C'mon man, it doesn't take a brilliant man to QA his own work.
Let me know when you fix the problem
for more info on HotSouce/MCF... this was picked off of the Java Interface... go here Art icle
Apple is/has ported QuickTime to Java... it's still "devel" quality... but once it hits, expect to run it on your box
You aren't paying $500 for the BSD layer... [it has been opensourced] you are paying for things like the GUI, WebObjects, etc. TIMES FIVE [the CD allows you to put OSXServer on up to 5 different machines.
I'd pay $500 for WO alone [if you haven't used it... check it out... it really is *quite* robust/modular/reusable/scalable/fast very cool]