When I went to art school I learned that while most everyone there is "different", most of the people there are all "different" in the same way.
The same applies to slashdot, you fight so blindly in the name of "privacy" you don't seem to care about what it is you are fighting about. I wouldn't care if a server that was storing child pornography was blown up by a helicopter. Who cares if they had other pages on it, people can find new hosts.
Jeez, how important are privacy laws if they're the only laws that are left.
Yes, thank you for telling me that this could be overused and if it did it should be moderated. It's a rule that applies to many things. Well, everything actually.
Local stores that sell hairsprays and pressurised lighter fluid, the favourite propellants for the DIY weapons, may also be asked to sell them only to adults. Failing that, police suggest that youngsters should have to explain why they are buying them.
"Uh, I have hair."
German police fear that the youths will turn to more lethal ammunition than potatoes. Tests have shown that such a bazooka firing an empty film canister filled with sand and the cardboard centres of toilet rolls filled with cement could penetrate brickwork.
"empty film canister filled with sand", yeah, that makes sense.
You don't understand the nature of morrison's film, he was not restoring films entirely, only small clips of them. It's more like he's distributing MP3's containing several hundred 5 second long clips of music no one has heard in about 70 years.
If only we had some numbers on the average pay for each position, I'de be willing to bet that while Java is real popular, you would get much higher pay for fortran.
Maybe the price of the programmers is also affecting which language people are hiring for.
Many films are no longer copywrited. Even more are totally lost. There are great film archives, several stories high, with rows upon rows of film canisters, mostly unmarked. If you open one up you can find a reel of flim, or you can find half a reel of film, the rest eaten away by insects living in the canister. Sometimes you open a film canister and find nothing but dust, the film deteriorated into a powdery and flammable substance.
Many of these old films are on silver nitrate film. Silver Nitrate isn't used anymore because of it's tendancy to burn down theaters when it catches fire when run through a hot projector.
Most of these films have no owners claiming them, no identifying pieces of information. The bits of film the bill morrison restored and edited into "decasia" are not sequences from old hollywood films. They are from documentaries, they are from personal films. And some of them look like nothing more than weird splotchy flashing covers.
I know this is slashdot, but not everything equates to copyrights.
It's not a science experement, It's an art film, I've seen it.
To translate it to a level of geek understanding, know anything about chaos theory? fractals? the art of a natural process? There is beauty in the way a chemically built image dies. The film is quite hypnotic. And anyone who says it can be done digitally has never seen truly decayed film.
It's like saying, Film a waterfall? can't they just use special effects to make fake water? I know they just want to test nature, and see if water actually falls.
Bill Morrison showed decasia in one of my classes at calarts (http://www.calarts.edu)
For what it's worth, here's what I wrote about it:
Film Today Decasia
Decay to many people is a sad thing. Bill Morrison's film shows it as more of a thing of beauty. It is kind of an odd viewpoint, mixing the horror of films lost with the beauty of the method that destroys them. In the past I've heard stories of people opening film canisters to find nothing but dust, or of films being harvested for the silver. It's almost painful to think of. But Morrison was on a hunt to find these decayed films. It must be an odd conflict to feel the loss of the old imagery but to be happier because of that that destroyed it. There is certainly a beauty in decay, similar to that which is demonstrated in fractals and other "chaos theory" art. Decasia simply more related to film itself.
Some of the images carried strange moods. The near introductory footage of the machines processing the film was very much like someone telling the story of film. And it was followed closely by the most decayed footage in Decasia, as previously mentioned in class; the scene with the nuns was most unsettling. Aside from the mood created by the music, the rotation of the contrast and the flashing of the light made the whole scene look like nuns chasing children through an apocalyptic war zone. I think also that anytime you have a nun moving in slow motion that you can scare people.
I think Decasia was an unusual film in that Morrison intended to create a hypnotic state. A state that isn't entirely uncommon in experimental films, but often unwanted. I did like the way he made the "story" rather ambiguous, as many artistic films use rather vague methods to convey a more specific storyline, and then usually fail to do so. Decasia is able to succeed without doing anything specific.
I had one of these as an infant.
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When I was young I had one of these. It was plastic with styrofoam sealed inside. I could bring it in the bathtub and read about stories with very small words.
After a few years the plastic cracked and it got all moldy inside.
Yeah, sounds like a case of an idiot catching another idiot. All this "Sluething" is really quite silly.
"Well, I had this guy's phone number and home address, and then I set out on the impossible task of figuring out who he was, I tried annoying the phone companies customer service..."
Anyone heard of white pages?
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"...cook the sewage first..."
Come on down, bring the family, we're having an old fashioned sewage cookoff!
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When I went to art school I learned that while most everyone there is "different", most of the people there are all "different" in the same way.
The same applies to slashdot, you fight so blindly in the name of "privacy" you don't seem to care about what it is you are fighting about. I wouldn't care if a server that was storing child pornography was blown up by a helicopter. Who cares if they had other pages on it, people can find new hosts.
Jeez, how important are privacy laws if they're the only laws that are left.
"What's with the arbitrary limitation? My kid sister's 'posse' (blech) is easily twice that big. Sounds like a mess."
Duh, like, all you have to do is, like, drop some of your friends, uh huh.
Seriously though, is anyone else as afraid as I am that in microsoft's future people are only allowed to have 10 friends.
Yes, thank you for telling me that this could be overused and if it did it should be moderated. It's a rule that applies to many things. Well, everything actually.
Solution: Steal from movies!
Wasn't this thing microsoft describes in that movie "The Net".
BTW: I believe it was in "microsoft's home of the future" as well.
Local stores that sell hairsprays and pressurised lighter fluid, the favourite propellants for the DIY weapons, may also be asked to sell them only to adults. Failing that, police suggest that youngsters should have to explain why they are buying them.
"Uh, I have hair."
German police fear that the youths will turn to more lethal ammunition than potatoes. Tests have shown that such a bazooka firing an empty film canister filled with sand and the cardboard centres of toilet rolls filled with cement could penetrate brickwork.
"empty film canister filled with sand", yeah, that makes sense.
I think they meant 10-hour laptop batteries.
Ohhh, ohhh. Can we copy people too?
70 mile per hour wind will not move a car at 70 miles per hour.
You don't understand the nature of morrison's film, he was not restoring films entirely, only small clips of them. It's more like he's distributing MP3's containing several hundred 5 second long clips of music no one has heard in about 70 years.
If only we had some numbers on the average pay for each position, I'de be willing to bet that while Java is real popular, you would get much higher pay for fortran.
Maybe the price of the programmers is also affecting which language people are hiring for.
Speaking of ignorance...
Many films are no longer copywrited. Even more are totally lost. There are great film archives, several stories high, with rows upon rows of film canisters, mostly unmarked. If you open one up you can find a reel of flim, or you can find half a reel of film, the rest eaten away by insects living in the canister. Sometimes you open a film canister and find nothing but dust, the film deteriorated into a powdery and flammable substance.
Many of these old films are on silver nitrate film. Silver Nitrate isn't used anymore because of it's tendancy to burn down theaters when it catches fire when run through a hot projector.
Most of these films have no owners claiming them, no identifying pieces of information. The bits of film the bill morrison restored and edited into "decasia" are not sequences from old hollywood films. They are from documentaries, they are from personal films. And some of them look like nothing more than weird splotchy flashing covers.
I know this is slashdot, but not everything equates to copyrights.
It's not a science experement, It's an art film, I've seen it.
To translate it to a level of geek understanding, know anything about chaos theory? fractals? the art of a natural process? There is beauty in the way a chemically built image dies. The film is quite hypnotic. And anyone who says it can be done digitally has never seen truly decayed film.
It's like saying, Film a waterfall? can't they just use special effects to make fake water? I know they just want to test nature, and see if water actually falls.
Bill Morrison showed decasia in one of my classes at calarts (http://www.calarts.edu)
For what it's worth, here's what I wrote about it:
Film Today
Decasia
Decay to many people is a sad thing. Bill Morrison's film shows it as more of a thing of beauty. It is kind of an odd viewpoint, mixing the horror of films lost with the beauty of the method that destroys them. In the past I've heard stories of people opening film canisters to find nothing but dust, or of films being harvested for the silver. It's almost painful to think of. But Morrison was on a hunt to find these decayed films. It must be an odd conflict to feel the loss of the old imagery but to be happier because of that that destroyed it. There is certainly a beauty in decay, similar to that which is demonstrated in fractals and other "chaos theory" art. Decasia simply more related to film itself.
Some of the images carried strange moods. The near introductory footage of the machines processing the film was very much like someone telling the story of film. And it was followed closely by the most decayed footage in Decasia, as previously mentioned in class; the scene with the nuns was most unsettling. Aside from the mood created by the music, the rotation of the contrast and the flashing of the light made the whole scene look like nuns chasing children through an apocalyptic war zone. I think also that anytime you have a nun moving in slow motion that you can scare people.
I think Decasia was an unusual film in that Morrison intended to create a hypnotic state. A state that isn't entirely uncommon in experimental films, but often unwanted. I did like the way he made the "story" rather ambiguous, as many artistic films use rather vague methods to convey a more specific storyline, and then usually fail to do so. Decasia is able to succeed without doing anything specific.
I assume that they mean the phones cost the operators money despite people paying for the calls.
"Transformers! Robots in disguise."
When I was young I had one of these. It was plastic with styrofoam sealed inside. I could bring it in the bathtub and read about stories with very small words.
After a few years the plastic cracked and it got all moldy inside.
Is this some candid version of x-10 advertising on slashdot?
Seriously, all these people trying to turn his lights on and off... Must look like a strobe-light.
Universal should build one from their terminator license and they could battle each other.
Dinosaur VS. terminator robot...
Technically It's not really a computer anymore, It's a huge spark plug.
Yeah, sounds like a case of an idiot catching another idiot. All this "Sluething" is really quite silly.
"Well, I had this guy's phone number and home address, and then I set out on the impossible task of figuring out who he was, I tried annoying the phone companies customer service..."
Anyone heard of white pages?
"...cook the sewage first..."
Come on down, bring the family, we're having an old fashioned sewage cookoff!
Same thing that happens if you put water into a blender or you hit it with a hammer.
lots of splashing.
Nope, as the article states, it doesn't break down the organic compound.
That's not very nice.
I'm waiting for the real "rat patrol", A team of rat's the drive around on little motorcycles and hunt canadians.