I don't buy their mumbo jumbo for a second. The one thing I did find humorous about the response was requesting an extension of the UDP. If they would have taken precautions against spammers instead of blaming it on spam relaying, they wouldn't be in this mess. Sock it to 'em.
Certain networks have been doing this with sporting event broadcasts for quite some time now. I saw a special on it about a year ago in which they found a logo (I think it was Coke), then stretched it and made it fit on a certain part of the ballpark. Every single shot of the logo (near or far or on weird angles) showed what it would look like as if you were at the game itself. It was nearly impossible to tell the difference. Then they showed a split screen of an actual game - one with no 'branded' logos, one with branded logos. Even after commercial breaks, the logos changed. The whole concept is pretty cool... However... I'd probably freak if there was some bizarre occurance in which the software screwed up. For example, if a (branded) Veterans Stadium wall collapsed (which has happened), what would happen to the logo? Would it stay there? Would it disappear? Curious, as you know the camera would not turn away from an incident like that.
Larry Flynt may be a pornmonger, but he also had the balls to stand up for what he believed in. It wasn't sex he believed in. It was the freedom of speech/expression he believed in. He fought long and hard for these things and refused to back down - something most Americans would not do. Woody Harrelson's representation of Larry Flynt was excellent. It was also a very intriguing movie, although it lacked a few important details. Now, in relation to Man on the Moon, no movie 'biography' of any person is going to be 100% complete. Yet MotM lacked very important developments of Kaufman which made the movie sub par.
Interesting review, but you seem to not know all that much about Andy Kaufman, except for what was in the movie. I have always admired Kaufman for what he did, and the way he did it. The movie did Andy Kaufman a mediocre amount of justice. Bits and pieces here and there, but never the full scoop. I'm aware that by simply summarizing his most notable accomplishments that it limited the movie to slightly over 2 hours. But that's what plagued the movie. It went from him being a young boy to being a comic. Nothing in between. And when they tried to recreate Taxi, I almost walked out. Few attempts were made to make it look like Taxi, side the construction of the set. The few cast members they managed to squeeze into the movie are OLD. Then again, they've aged 20 some years since then. I'm not surprised that Judd Hirsch wasn't in it. I have never been a Jim Carrey fan. I personally find him unamusing. The only part he played well, and what most people still go apeshit over is one line: "Tank you vedy much" After the movie I promptly got out my Kaufman tapes and pretty much completed the movie. There was one key difference with watching Kaufman rather than Carrey. I laughed.
The History Channel had a few specials on History's Greatest Blunders. One of the segments was on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It was quite the sight to see - a bridge twisting and turning like that... What I didn't get was the fact that even through wind tunnel testing, which, inevitably proved what would happen, the engineers insisted on doing it the wrong way. Wasn't it because of that incident that the government stepped in and laid down huge safety requirements?
There aren't really any secret features in older M$ executables. All you have to do is "[command]/?" Ok, most of that stuff is documented from within each program, but if all else fails, read the help. And no, I'm not a M$ supporter. I am forced to use older technologies at work.
I have hundreds of cassette tapes and LPs. I am not going to pay another $x for each tape/LP for the CD version of something I already own. I'm not going to pay twice for the same thing. If I own it, damn right I can download it.
I've said this before when stories such as this have been posted on here. The bottom line is: This clown is a lousy gambler. Losing a couple grand is one thing, but digging yourself in debt to hopefully hit that lucky payday is just plain stupid. The only thing the credit card companies did was boost his line of credit. They do that, usually automatically, once you're pushing your current limit. My combined credit is worth roughly $43,000. Yet my debt is only $4,000 due to several recent computer purchases. Sure, I could have purchased $43,000 worth of systems, but I didn't. I have a brain that works, unlike the gambler who doesn't know how to gamble. Donations for a.44 magnum for self inflicted wound(s) to be sent to Mr. Marino. Idiot.
Slashdot has been overrun by a bunch of kiddiez. That's why I can go days (or weeks) without reading Slashdot, unlike a year+ ago when I had to read it on an hourly basis. What's the highest user account # now? Must be 6 digits by now, or pretty damn close. (I'm #3209)... Anyway, I post less and less these days because there's nothing to comment on. The same old shit that nobody cares about but because/. is so mainstream now, they HAVE to post. Reminds me (sort of) of the comments on any ZDNET crap site. Ah well. There's always bastards that are out to ruin a good thing. Thanks for succeeding with it, kidz.
Isn't it a coincidence that there are going to be 16 contestants, and there are 16 cities that one can be interviewed in? One contestant from each city? Geographical diversity? On another note, what if a person or persons die? I can see it now, 16 people damn near starving to death, while some fat producer is munching on a candy bar offshore. Hmm. I wonder how I'll convince my employers to let me have a 7 week vacation.
So it's acceptable to say that Linux is the world's best operating system, yet a previous post of mine that stated that lynx is the world's best browser gets knocked down to -1:flamebait? Double standards? I love it. -3209
I ran into some guy last night that administers rather old mainframes. He feared today. Really feared. I asked him who the hell would abbreviate MMDDYY to MDYY. I then asked him who would code September 9th, 1999 as 999999.
Now I ask you... Who the hell would do the above? That would make for some ugly code, especially the MDYY bit. With all the added code to accomodate MDYY, it would have been more feasible to store all dates as MMDDYYYY. Go figure.
Anyway, it's also the debut of the Dreamcast. Oh yeah, and MTV's Video Music Awards, if anyone actually watches that crap.
-mj
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The only part that was scripted was the beginning of the movie. The interviews and the cemetery, and that was it. The rest of the movie simply had an outline, but no script. That is even more fascinating.
Not what I expected, but intriguing.
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I saw the movie last night and wasn't all that impressed. I had (female) friends crying because it was so darn scary. A theater employee that I know poked me last night when the credits came on in an attempt to scare me. Then she couldn't believe how I wasn't jumpy or freaked out at all. On a scale of 1-10 of scariness, I'd give it a 5. Maybe a 4. But what made this movie very interesting was the fact that it's fiction, yet was made out to be true. Even theater employees (in some chains anyway) were told to lie when asked, "Is this for real?!" But what I learned AFTER the movie freaked me out more than the movie itself. The whole GPS factor, the care packages they received, and the true fright involved... In addition to they themselves being taped from far away, unbenownst to them. I will probably go back to see it again just because of these things that were not so obvious. I would have to say that this is the most original movie I've seen in many years.
This will be great for our sysadmin/netadmin. Instead of having to painfully minimize his porn sessions when someone walks by, he can just wear his glasses all day. Neat!
There are lots of resources into developing patterns that will let you beat each screen flawlessly. My most winning example was the insert from Buckner & Garcia's Pac Man Fever album. I picked up the album at a record convention awhile ago, and tried it out using MAME. However, most resources simply show how to clear the board w/ getting all the bonus fruit. Most of them would be too complex to explain how to eat all blue/flashing ghosts. ((200+400+800+1600)*4) per screen... Then again, after a certain key (nice fruit. heh.) level, the ghosts don't turn blue again, much like Ms Pacman right before the 3rd babyPac intermission. It's a bitch, and will leave you sweaty, but I prefer to clear boards than gobble all the ghosts in higher levels...
Does this test take into consideration real-world applications? Sure, you can beat on any machine for 5 days and hope it doesn't crash. What would happen to the NT machine in 10 days? 20 days? Would it BSoD itself to oblivion? From my experiences, it would, while the Linux box would still be chugging away. In any rate, even if NT is a little bit faster, I'd still run Linux, because in the long run, Linux DOES have the edge in overall performance. Linux doesn't crash for no reason. Linux doesn't require a reboot every x days to keep itself happy. When I reboot a machine, it's because I want to, not because I have to.
It wasn't advocacy that killed OS/2 or Amiga. It was lack of marketing. If you want a product to succeed, you market it. You don't just rely on word of mouth. I used OS/2 quite a bit. I had to stop using it due to lack of support. I had 3 Amigas in my heyday of Amiga-geekdom. I had to give them up because it became impossible to find a place (locally) that would repair them on the offchance they needed repair. The (Commodore) Amiga architecture was so much better than typical IBM compatible PCs. OS/2 was tons better than Windows. What killed them both? IBM killed OS/2. Commodore killed Amiga. Period. Hell, my Amiga 1200 (14mhz 68020), 4MB RAM (2MB fast 2MB chip), 130MB HDD, left p133's (32MB, 1.2GB) in the dust. However, I probably shouldn't get on a big advocacy kick now, eh?
Taken straight from this wonderful book from Bert Kersey and Bill Sanders, circa Bantam Books, April 1986: APPLE I? Of course there was an Apple I. Back in the old days when computers cost megabucks and only corporations and the government could afford them, the Apple I was one of the first "affordable" computers for the home. It was around 10K (that is, $10,000). Of course, it only came with about 4K of RAM, and you had to supply your own keyboard and there were no disk drives; only cassettes. Now that was fun! ---------------------- Now if my dad hadn't donated my//c to Goodwill... Grr!
I wish I still had Beagle Bros' Big Tip Book laying around at work so I could quote this. I remember them stating, somewhere in the mid-80's, a very brief history of Apple (pre-Mac) machines. When they started off with the Apple I, they said not to expect seeing one, as they were extremely rare and worth $10,000. 15 years of inflation and vintage-ness only crank the 'value' of it to $40,000? I'd actually expect it to be auctioned off much higher. Does any old Apple ][ guy/girl have this book laying around to quote that section? Man, Beagle Bros. rocked!
Phone line. Is it really required?
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I saw no mention of "phone line" in any thread, so this poses a serious question: Does the box really require a phone line? The text in the article said it needed a phone line to download program information. Is this really necessary? Couldn't I just tell the box to "save everything on Fox (channel 6 here) on Tuesdays at 7:30pm to 8:00pm"??? I do that with my VCR now without needing a phone line because I know what's on and know how to program my VCR. So will the TiVo box not work if I don't plug a phone cord into it regardless of the fact I know exactly when a program is on?
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Apparently you did not read the UDP FAQ. There was a link to it in the original (or deja) posting.
I don't buy their mumbo jumbo for a second. The one thing I did find humorous about the response was requesting an extension of the UDP.
If they would have taken precautions against spammers instead of blaming it on spam relaying, they wouldn't be in this mess.
Sock it to 'em.
Certain networks have been doing this with sporting event broadcasts for quite some time now. I saw a special on it about a year ago in which they found a logo (I think it was Coke), then stretched it and made it fit on a certain part of the ballpark.
Every single shot of the logo (near or far or on weird angles) showed what it would look like as if you were at the game itself. It was nearly impossible to tell the difference. Then they showed a split screen of an actual game - one with no 'branded' logos, one with branded logos. Even after commercial breaks, the logos changed.
The whole concept is pretty cool... However... I'd probably freak if there was some bizarre occurance in which the software screwed up. For example, if a (branded) Veterans Stadium wall collapsed (which has happened), what would happen to the logo? Would it stay there? Would it disappear? Curious, as you know the camera would not turn away from an incident like that.
Larry Flynt may be a pornmonger, but he also had the balls to stand up for what he believed in. It wasn't sex he believed in. It was the freedom of speech/expression he believed in. He fought long and hard for these things and refused to back down - something most Americans would not do.
Woody Harrelson's representation of Larry Flynt was excellent. It was also a very intriguing movie, although it lacked a few important details.
Now, in relation to Man on the Moon, no movie 'biography' of any person is going to be 100% complete. Yet MotM lacked very important developments of Kaufman which made the movie sub par.
Interesting review, but you seem to not know all that much about Andy Kaufman, except for what was in the movie. I have always admired Kaufman for what he did, and the way he did it. The movie did Andy Kaufman a mediocre amount of justice. Bits and pieces here and there, but never the full scoop. I'm aware that by simply summarizing his most notable accomplishments that it limited the movie to slightly over 2 hours.
But that's what plagued the movie. It went from him being a young boy to being a comic. Nothing in between. And when they tried to recreate Taxi, I almost walked out. Few attempts were made to make it look like Taxi, side the construction of the set. The few cast members they managed to squeeze into the movie are OLD. Then again, they've aged 20 some years since then. I'm not surprised that Judd Hirsch wasn't in it.
I have never been a Jim Carrey fan. I personally find him unamusing. The only part he played well, and what most people still go apeshit over is one line:
"Tank you vedy much"
After the movie I promptly got out my Kaufman tapes and pretty much completed the movie. There was one key difference with watching Kaufman rather than Carrey.
I laughed.
Quite a few inaccuracies I've noticed with their reporting. Check outj 1
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/8.75.html#sub
for a more technical overview...
(no html tags. fooey.)
The History Channel had a few specials on History's Greatest Blunders. One of the segments was on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It was quite the sight to see - a bridge twisting and turning like that...
What I didn't get was the fact that even through wind tunnel testing, which, inevitably proved what would happen, the engineers insisted on doing it the wrong way.
Wasn't it because of that incident that the government stepped in and laid down huge safety requirements?
Probably not, as fox.com doesn't allow lynx users. I don't think it ever has.
There aren't really any secret features in older M$ executables. All you have to do is "[command] /?" Ok, most of that stuff is documented from within each program, but if all else fails, read the help.
And no, I'm not a M$ supporter. I am forced to use older technologies at work.
I have hundreds of cassette tapes and LPs. I am not going to pay another $x for each tape/LP for the CD version of something I already own. I'm not going to pay twice for the same thing. If I own it, damn right I can download it.
I've said this before when stories such as this have been posted on here. The bottom line is: This clown is a lousy gambler. Losing a couple grand is one thing, but digging yourself in debt to hopefully hit that lucky payday is just plain stupid. The only thing the credit card companies did was boost his line of credit. They do that, usually automatically, once you're pushing your current limit. My combined credit is worth roughly $43,000. Yet my debt is only $4,000 due to several recent computer purchases. Sure, I could have purchased $43,000 worth of systems, but I didn't. I have a brain that works, unlike the gambler who doesn't know how to gamble. Donations for a .44 magnum for self inflicted wound(s) to be sent to Mr. Marino. Idiot.
Slashdot has been overrun by a bunch of kiddiez. That's why I can go days (or weeks) without reading Slashdot, unlike a year+ ago when I had to read it on an hourly basis. /. is so mainstream now, they HAVE to post. Reminds me (sort of) of the comments on any ZDNET crap site.
What's the highest user account # now? Must be 6 digits by now, or pretty damn close. (I'm #3209)... Anyway, I post less and less these days because there's nothing to comment on. The same old shit that nobody cares about but because
Ah well. There's always bastards that are out to ruin a good thing. Thanks for succeeding with it, kidz.
Isn't it a coincidence that there are going to be 16 contestants, and there are 16 cities that one can be interviewed in? One contestant from each city? Geographical diversity? On another note, what if a person or persons die? I can see it now, 16 people damn near starving to death, while some fat producer is munching on a candy bar offshore. Hmm. I wonder how I'll convince my employers to let me have a 7 week vacation.
So it's acceptable to say that Linux is the world's best operating system, yet a previous post of mine that stated that lynx is the world's best browser gets knocked down to -1:flamebait? Double standards? I love it. -3209
I ran into some guy last night that administers rather old mainframes. He feared today. Really feared. I asked him who the hell would abbreviate MMDDYY to MDYY. I then asked him who would code September 9th, 1999 as 999999.
Now I ask you... Who the hell would do the above? That would make for some ugly code, especially the MDYY bit. With all the added code to accomodate MDYY, it would have been more feasible to store all dates as MMDDYYYY. Go figure.
Anyway, it's also the debut of the Dreamcast. Oh yeah, and MTV's Video Music Awards, if anyone actually watches that crap.
-mj
The only part that was scripted was the beginning of the movie. The interviews and the cemetery, and that was it. The rest of the movie simply had an outline, but no script. That is even more fascinating.
I saw the movie last night and wasn't all that impressed. I had (female) friends crying because it was so darn scary. A theater employee that I know poked me last night when the credits came on in an attempt to scare me. Then she couldn't believe how I wasn't jumpy or freaked out at all. On a scale of 1-10 of scariness, I'd give it a 5. Maybe a 4. But what made this movie very interesting was the fact that it's fiction, yet was made out to be true. Even theater employees (in some chains anyway) were told to lie when asked, "Is this for real?!" But what I learned AFTER the movie freaked me out more than the movie itself. The whole GPS factor, the care packages they received, and the true fright involved... In addition to they themselves being taped from far away, unbenownst to them. I will probably go back to see it again just because of these things that were not so obvious. I would have to say that this is the most original movie I've seen in many years.
This will be great for our sysadmin/netadmin. Instead of having to painfully minimize his porn sessions when someone walks by, he can just wear his glasses all day. Neat!
So what kind of nifty bugs in these chips are we going to be anticipating?
There are lots of resources into developing patterns that will let you beat each screen flawlessly. My most winning example was the insert from Buckner & Garcia's Pac Man Fever album. I picked up the album at a record convention awhile ago, and tried it out using MAME.
However, most resources simply show how to clear the board w/ getting all the bonus fruit. Most of them would be too complex to explain how to eat all blue/flashing ghosts. ((200+400+800+1600)*4) per screen...
Then again, after a certain key (nice fruit. heh.) level, the ghosts don't turn blue again, much like Ms Pacman right before the 3rd babyPac intermission.
It's a bitch, and will leave you sweaty, but I prefer to clear boards than gobble all the ghosts in higher levels...
Does this test take into consideration real-world applications? Sure, you can beat on any machine for 5 days and hope it doesn't crash. What would happen to the NT machine in 10 days? 20 days? Would it BSoD itself to oblivion? From my experiences, it would, while the Linux box would still be chugging away.
In any rate, even if NT is a little bit faster, I'd still run Linux, because in the long run, Linux DOES have the edge in overall performance. Linux doesn't crash for no reason. Linux doesn't require a reboot every x days to keep itself happy.
When I reboot a machine, it's because I want to, not because I have to.
It wasn't advocacy that killed OS/2 or Amiga. It was lack of marketing. If you want a product to succeed, you market it. You don't just rely on word of mouth.
I used OS/2 quite a bit. I had to stop using it due to lack of support.
I had 3 Amigas in my heyday of Amiga-geekdom. I had to give them up because it became impossible to find a place (locally) that would repair them on the offchance they needed repair.
The (Commodore) Amiga architecture was so much better than typical IBM compatible PCs. OS/2 was tons better than Windows.
What killed them both? IBM killed OS/2. Commodore killed Amiga. Period.
Hell, my Amiga 1200 (14mhz 68020), 4MB RAM (2MB fast 2MB chip), 130MB HDD, left p133's (32MB, 1.2GB) in the dust.
However, I probably shouldn't get on a big advocacy kick now, eh?
Taken straight from this wonderful book from Bert Kersey and Bill Sanders, circa Bantam Books, April 1986: //c to Goodwill... Grr!
APPLE I?
Of course there was an Apple I. Back in the old days when computers cost megabucks and only corporations and the government could afford them, the Apple I was one of the first "affordable" computers for the home. It was around 10K (that is, $10,000). Of course, it only came with about 4K of RAM, and you had to supply your own keyboard and there were no disk drives; only cassettes. Now that was fun!
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Now if my dad hadn't donated my
I wish I still had Beagle Bros' Big Tip Book laying around at work so I could quote this. I remember them stating, somewhere in the mid-80's, a very brief history of Apple (pre-Mac) machines. When they started off with the Apple I, they said not to expect seeing one, as they were extremely rare and worth $10,000. 15 years of inflation and vintage-ness only crank the 'value' of it to $40,000? I'd actually expect it to be auctioned off much higher.
Does any old Apple ][ guy/girl have this book laying around to quote that section?
Man, Beagle Bros. rocked!
I saw no mention of "phone line" in any thread, so this poses a serious question:
Does the box really require a phone line? The text in the article said it needed a phone line to download program information. Is this really necessary? Couldn't I just tell the box to "save everything on Fox (channel 6 here) on Tuesdays at 7:30pm to 8:00pm"???
I do that with my VCR now without needing a phone line because I know what's on and know how to program my VCR. So will the TiVo box not work if I don't plug a phone cord into it regardless of the fact I know exactly when a program is on?