You could always buy the region-free collection from Hong Kong. It has (fair) English subtitles, and contains 11 movies, though for some reason they call "I Can Hear the Sea" "Ocean Waves." The translations are better than many Hong Kong DVDs I've seen, though nowhere near the standards that Disney has set. I'd highly recommend the boxed set since it contains several movies that Disney isn't going to bother releasing on DVD in America, including "Porco Rosso," which is still my favorite animated movie of all time.
There's another set out there with only 7 movies on 4 discs, but I don't know anything about it.
Actually, if you read the newspaper's article, the sheriff's department claims that they were the ones to provide all the content for the site.
Quote: "He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him," Hackel said. "(But) that content belongs to all of us."
He's not within his legal rights because he pulled a bait-and-switch on the sheriff's department when he decided to stick them with the bill for a site that they had come to rely on as free. I think they're calling it extortion because of the action he took to pull down a site which their organization relied on instead of negotiate in court. Not having that written contract is partially his fault too, and the lack of a solid termination clause opened him up to liability, I believe.
Then again, the sheriff's office did fully abuse their police powers when they slapped him in irons and seized his equipment.
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
Only Stallman could associate those five things together in a single sentence without a blush. What's next, suggesting moral equivalence between the genocide in Rwanda and MS's "embrace and extend" tactics?
And at the end, Linus wakes up and is surrounded by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Richard Stallman.
Linus: Uncle Ken, Uncle Ken, there's no place like/home!
Linus: But it wasn't a dream, it was a place! [looks at Ritchie] And you were some sort of strawman! [looks at Thompson] And you were some sort of robot! [looks at Stallman] And you were some sort of hoary man-beast!...I mean, more than usual.
I wonder if these results may lead to legitimacy for the claims of Grigg's hydrosonic pump -- a boiler-sized device that claims to generate over-unity heat generation from cavitation. The creator claims that it generates sonoluminescene which is its primary source of power.
Of course, as with any supposed "free energy" device, there's a lot of claims like, "Scientists have done tests that verify that it works," but I've never seen any published papers on the fact, and the device has been apparently known in the "free energy" fringe for over ten years, and supposedly there are buyers already using it to heat their water for much cheaper than usual.
(I keep meaning to look up this guy. He supposedly lives in my hometown.)
Actually, the Casimir effect means that you can have a free lunch thanks to quantum vacuum fluctuation. It's just an incredibly miserly, unfulfilling free lunch. I once did the math for this and found that to get 1 Newton of force, you had to put two uncharged, 1 meter square plates only 190 nanometers apart. So, even if ZPE exists, I can't see any practical way of extracting it, though some scientists have argued that ZPE is the basis of sonoluminescence.
Does anyone else see a similarity to wine snobs in this review? Here are some of my favorite highlights.
The lifelike timing and pace the Clairvoyant brings to music will startle some listeners. This AC cord dramatically improves the immediacy of a transient's inception, allowing for an incredible expanse of harmonic information and musical envelopment to follow. With the Clairvoyant handling AC, music leapt out of the speakers and created a see-through window into the recording that held me rapt throughout the review period. [...] The Clairvoyant's ability to recapture the subtle dynamic shades of each musician's instrument highlighted the nearly telepathic interplay among this amazing trio on the track "Whisper Not." [...] The Clairvoyant's signature is engaging, energetic, and bristling with light and microdynamic life. If you're looking to add color to music, fix an existing sound problem or you prefer dark and lovely tones, this AC cord may not be for you.
Oh, the pretentiousness! "This [power cable] has an award-winning oaken taste, with a hint of cinnamon and cherry to it. Clearly the well-aged vines, the robustness of the soil, and the gentle rainfall of the region bring a certain quiet zest to this year's vintage."
Thanks for sharing that review. What a bunch of nutjobs!
Indeed. Show that sponsoring the terrorists is not tolerated.
Oh, for crying out loud, does every irritating jackass who uses intimidation tactics have to be called a "terrorist" now? What a great idea, let's treat being litigious and greedy the same as being insane and murderous.
I answered all of these questions (except the first) when I submitted an article on this the day the press release came out:
2004-02-17 19:04:50 ATI to Ship HDTV Tuner Card (articles,tv) (rejected) (Not that I'm bitter or anything.)
No, it doesn't have an MPEG-2 decoder. Who needs one nowdays when software decoding is so easy? No, it doesn't have TV-out. It's meant to be a card used side-by-side with an All-in-Wonder which has the TV-out components. The big deal is that it's cheap and handles American OTA standards.
Well, I'll be. Someone else managed to make a Strong's Concordance reference (and more good links) in the time it took me to figure out that I can't type Greek letters into Slashdot. You beat me to the punch, and you should've been moderated up more than me.
According to Strong's Concordance, the word in the original Greek is "praus" (latinized spelling) which means mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit, or meekness. If this page doesn't load, go here, type "meek" into the first line, submit, find Matthew 5:5 and click on the number 4239. This word is close to the modern Greek "praos" which also means "meek."
In other words, Jesus was saying that the humble and mild-mannered will inherit the Earth. You can find this same word commonly translated as meek in 1st Peter 3:4. Also, if you look at the context of Matthew 5:1-13, the opening of one of Jesus's sermons, it's quite clear that he's saying that rewards await the humble and downtrodden. They "are the salt of the Earth" and there is not an aggressive or angry group among "the poor in spirit," "those who mourn," "the meek," "those who hunger for righteousness," "the merciful," "the pure of heart," or "the peacemakers."
I'd be very surprised if Strong's Concordance was wrong on the issue given the context and the modern descendant of the word. I'd love to see some evidence for your professor's claims.
It's not that suprising if you know how your DSL "connection fee" is spent. Telecom companies have large racks of switches that your phone line physically plugs into near where you live. All a company has to do to give you DSL is pull the plug out of the "phone only" card and plug it into the "DSL too" card (which has all the phone-handling capabilities of the simpler card).
That's it. Every now and then, as enough DSL customers sign up, they replace an empty "phone only" card with a DSL card. Since the DSL card has all the voice handling capabilities built into it, it's not like you can truly have a DSL-only connection. Also your DSL connection is addressed by a phone number (if I recall correctly). So, the phone companies see no valid reason to disconnect the services.
I wonder if Qwest's idea will result in "dead" phone numbers that aren't used being taken up.
Would someone with more knowledge of telcom hardware please correct any misconceptions that I might have?
Expect about fifty redundant comments about how great this will be if all you want is VoIP.
So? Many of us actually desire this service greatly. Where I live, I have several DSL providers (none of them Qwest), but I have only one cable provider -- the dreaded Comcast -- so I don't exactly have the option of VoIP. If I did, I could be saving $30 a month AND have free long-distance.
I have friends who would love to have just their cell phone but who also won't deal with Comcast for their internet addictions.
Whoops. I was actually talking about the PPC 970 having core full cores on one die, but apparently, my info is out of date, and the 970 shipped as a single-core CPU only. The 90 nm 970FX will also ship as a single-core CPU, and a dual-core and SMT model is expected to be the next replacement (but the rumor mill thought that the 970 would've been dual-core as well).
Actually, while I'm a big Mac fan, and I've longed for a chip that brought the PPC back over x86 for speed, the PowerMac G5 really was playing catchup to the PC world for motherboard architecture.
DDR RAM? Been there for over 5 years. 8 GB memory? AMD boards beat us by a few months. Hypertransport? Been used for over 2 years. AGP 8X? Been used for a few months before. Dolby 5.1 sound on board? Been there for over 5 years. USB 2.0? Been there for over 2 years. PCI-X slots? Been there for over a year. ATA-133? PC has been there for over a year with built-in hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 01, & 10 support that the Mac still doesn't have.
Now... SMP on a single chip? Mac beat the PC there. Firewire 800? Mac beat the PC there. ...but neither of those really help the internal processing speed. (Neither does USB 2.0 or Dolby 5.1 sound.) The PowerMac G5 is just getting up to parity. The new 90 nm G5s will make a jump ahead for a short time, but Intel and AMD won't be sitting still. I hope that Apple doesn't sit on its rear on the PCI Express standard and gets us ready for it. With NVidia and ATI pushing it for graphics, I doubt that they can afford to.
This is actually a great tool to solve one of the problem of RFIDs when used in pharmaceuticals. It's a problem I honestly never thought of before. When you buy some drugs from the pharmacy, anyone with a scanner can easily figure out what sort of meds you're taking -- such as anti-STD medication. To preserve privacy, the pharmacy can now place the drugs in a bag which prevents your drugs from being identified on the way out of the store, sitting in the back of your car, or in your purse or pockets.
Of course, it's no "easily ripped out and destroyed before going into your trash can," but it's a step in the right direction.
Both a virtual keyboard and a midikeyboard are shitty versions of what they're based on - they both have feedback mechanisms - which let you know which key you've pressed and how hard you've pressed it - which are simply not up to the job of serious typing or piano playing.
How exactly does knowing how hard you hit a key affect typing? I can see someone saying that virtual keyboards "don't feel right," much like I say about that horrid keyboard in the original iBooks, but feedback has nothing to do with the actual performance of the tool for its job -- just for comfort.
Comcast has awful tech support, a draconian AUP and no. fucking. clue. They are oversubscribing their loops (while vehemently denying it) and they will come to no good end, mark my words.
You're kidding, right? They're slashing their operating costs by shafting customers who have no where else to turn, no way of proving they're getting shafted, and no recourse of action against getting shafted other that to not have cable modems, and you think this will end badly for them?
Heck, that's a winning strategy in today's market! Customer satisfaction is utterly irrelevant in the world of utility companies.
So, your issue is that a patch which tells you requires a reboot actually does require a reboot when you install it? That's a far cry from saying that the system will automatically install patches for you with no way of cancelling and will force you to shutdown or reboot, which is what you originally said.
Pfft. Non-issue. Don't apply a patch that says you have to reboot if you aren't prepared to reboot.
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You could always buy the region-free collection from Hong Kong. It has (fair) English subtitles, and contains 11 movies, though for some reason they call "I Can Hear the Sea" "Ocean Waves." The translations are better than many Hong Kong DVDs I've seen, though nowhere near the standards that Disney has set. I'd highly recommend the boxed set since it contains several movies that Disney isn't going to bother releasing on DVD in America, including "Porco Rosso," which is still my favorite animated movie of all time.
There's another set out there with only 7 movies on 4 discs, but I don't know anything about it.
Actually, if you read the newspaper's article, the sheriff's department claims that they were the ones to provide all the content for the site.
Quote:
"He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him," Hackel said. "(But) that content belongs to all of us."
He's not within his legal rights because he pulled a bait-and-switch on the sheriff's department when he decided to stick them with the bill for a site that they had come to rely on as free. I think they're calling it extortion because of the action he took to pull down a site which their organization relied on instead of negotiate in court. Not having that written contract is partially his fault too, and the lack of a solid termination clause opened him up to liability, I believe.
Then again, the sheriff's office did fully abuse their police powers when they slapped him in irons and seized his equipment.
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
Only Stallman could associate those five things together in a single sentence without a blush.
What's next, suggesting moral equivalence between the genocide in Rwanda and MS's "embrace and extend" tactics?
Actually, I already pay $60 for my DSL and $50 for my phone line. I'd gladly pay $80 for FTTH and $25 for VoIP. It would be a cost reduction for me.
Of course it does. Budweiser has not yet mastered the secrets of splitting the beer atom!
And at the end, Linus wakes up and is surrounded by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Richard Stallman.
/home!
...I mean, more than usual.
Linus: Uncle Ken, Uncle Ken, there's no place like
Linus: But it wasn't a dream, it was a place!
[looks at Ritchie] And you were some sort of strawman!
[looks at Thompson] And you were some sort of robot!
[looks at Stallman] And you were some sort of hoary man-beast!
Professor Knuth: Oh! [others laugh]
Linus: But you couldn't have been, could you?
I wonder if these results may lead to legitimacy for the claims of Grigg's hydrosonic pump -- a boiler-sized device that claims to generate over-unity heat generation from cavitation. The creator claims that it generates sonoluminescene which is its primary source of power.
Of course, as with any supposed "free energy" device, there's a lot of claims like, "Scientists have done tests that verify that it works," but I've never seen any published papers on the fact, and the device has been apparently known in the "free energy" fringe for over ten years, and supposedly there are buyers already using it to heat their water for much cheaper than usual.
(I keep meaning to look up this guy. He supposedly lives in my hometown.)
Actually, the Casimir effect means that you can have a free lunch thanks to quantum vacuum fluctuation. It's just an incredibly miserly, unfulfilling free lunch. I once did the math for this and found that to get 1 Newton of force, you had to put two uncharged, 1 meter square plates only 190 nanometers apart. So, even if ZPE exists, I can't see any practical way of extracting it, though some scientists have argued that ZPE is the basis of sonoluminescence.
"Swim" is a sufficiently vague term to apply well.
Don't forget that bacteria can leave fossils too.
Still, we need a word for this... "Fearist?" hmm, too pansey...
Bully? Extortionist? Liar? Sower of FUD? Marketing executive
We already have plenty of words for this kind of scum.
Thanks for sharing that review. What a bunch of nutjobs!
Indeed. Show that sponsoring the terrorists is not tolerated.
Oh, for crying out loud, does every irritating jackass who uses intimidation tactics have to be called a "terrorist" now?
What a great idea, let's treat being litigious and greedy the same as being insane and murderous.
I answered all of these questions (except the first) when I submitted an article on this the day the press release came out:
2004-02-17 19:04:50 ATI to Ship HDTV Tuner Card (articles,tv) (rejected)
(Not that I'm bitter or anything.)
No, it doesn't have an MPEG-2 decoder. Who needs one nowdays when software decoding is so easy?
No, it doesn't have TV-out. It's meant to be a card used side-by-side with an All-in-Wonder which has the TV-out components.
The big deal is that it's cheap and handles American OTA standards.
Innnnnteresting....
Got a source I can look up for this?
Well, I'll be. Someone else managed to make a Strong's Concordance reference (and more good links) in the time it took me to figure out that I can't type Greek letters into Slashdot. You beat me to the punch, and you should've been moderated up more than me.
According to Strong's Concordance, the word in the original Greek is "praus" (latinized spelling) which means mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit, or meekness. If this page doesn't load, go here, type "meek" into the first line, submit, find Matthew 5:5 and click on the number 4239. This word is close to the modern Greek "praos" which also means "meek."
In other words, Jesus was saying that the humble and mild-mannered will inherit the Earth. You can find this same word commonly translated as meek in 1st Peter 3:4. Also, if you look at the context of Matthew 5:1-13, the opening of one of Jesus's sermons, it's quite clear that he's saying that rewards await the humble and downtrodden. They "are the salt of the Earth" and there is not an aggressive or angry group among "the poor in spirit," "those who mourn," "the meek," "those who hunger for righteousness," "the merciful," "the pure of heart," or "the peacemakers."
I'd be very surprised if Strong's Concordance was wrong on the issue given the context and the modern descendant of the word. I'd love to see some evidence for your professor's claims.
Which would you prefer? "WinXP 2: Electric Boogaloo?"
"Hey, fuck you, man, 'cause time's gonna tell on that one."
It's not that suprising if you know how your DSL "connection fee" is spent. Telecom companies have large racks of switches that your phone line physically plugs into near where you live. All a company has to do to give you DSL is pull the plug out of the "phone only" card and plug it into the "DSL too" card (which has all the phone-handling capabilities of the simpler card).
That's it. Every now and then, as enough DSL customers sign up, they replace an empty "phone only" card with a DSL card. Since the DSL card has all the voice handling capabilities built into it, it's not like you can truly have a DSL-only connection. Also your DSL connection is addressed by a phone number (if I recall correctly). So, the phone companies see no valid reason to disconnect the services.
I wonder if Qwest's idea will result in "dead" phone numbers that aren't used being taken up.
Would someone with more knowledge of telcom hardware please correct any misconceptions that I might have?
Expect about fifty redundant comments about how great this will be if all you want is VoIP.
So? Many of us actually desire this service greatly. Where I live, I have several DSL providers (none of them Qwest), but I have only one cable provider -- the dreaded Comcast -- so I don't exactly have the option of VoIP. If I did, I could be saving $30 a month AND have free long-distance.
I have friends who would love to have just their cell phone but who also won't deal with Comcast for their internet addictions.
Whoops. I was actually talking about the PPC 970 having core full cores on one die, but apparently, my info is out of date, and the 970 shipped as a single-core CPU only. The 90 nm 970FX will also ship as a single-core CPU, and a dual-core and SMT model is expected to be the next replacement (but the rumor mill thought that the 970 would've been dual-core as well).
Actually, while I'm a big Mac fan, and I've longed for a chip that brought the PPC back over x86 for speed, the PowerMac G5 really was playing catchup to the PC world for motherboard architecture.
DDR RAM? Been there for over 5 years.
8 GB memory? AMD boards beat us by a few months.
Hypertransport? Been used for over 2 years.
AGP 8X? Been used for a few months before.
Dolby 5.1 sound on board? Been there for over 5 years.
USB 2.0? Been there for over 2 years.
PCI-X slots? Been there for over a year.
ATA-133? PC has been there for over a year with built-in hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 01, & 10 support that the Mac still doesn't have.
Now...
SMP on a single chip? Mac beat the PC there.
Firewire 800? Mac beat the PC there.
...but neither of those really help the internal processing speed. (Neither does USB 2.0 or Dolby 5.1 sound.) The PowerMac G5 is just getting up to parity. The new 90 nm G5s will make a jump ahead for a short time, but Intel and AMD won't be sitting still. I hope that Apple doesn't sit on its rear on the PCI Express standard and gets us ready for it. With NVidia and ATI pushing it for graphics, I doubt that they can afford to.
This is actually a great tool to solve one of the problem of RFIDs when used in pharmaceuticals. It's a problem I honestly never thought of before. When you buy some drugs from the pharmacy, anyone with a scanner can easily figure out what sort of meds you're taking -- such as anti-STD medication. To preserve privacy, the pharmacy can now place the drugs in a bag which prevents your drugs from being identified on the way out of the store, sitting in the back of your car, or in your purse or pockets.
Of course, it's no "easily ripped out and destroyed before going into your trash can," but it's a step in the right direction.
Both a virtual keyboard and a midikeyboard are shitty versions of what they're based on - they both have feedback mechanisms - which let you know which key you've pressed and how hard you've pressed it - which are simply not up to the job of serious typing or piano playing.
How exactly does knowing how hard you hit a key affect typing? I can see someone saying that virtual keyboards "don't feel right," much like I say about that horrid keyboard in the original iBooks, but feedback has nothing to do with the actual performance of the tool for its job -- just for comfort.
Comcast has awful tech support, a draconian AUP and no. fucking. clue. They are oversubscribing their loops (while vehemently denying it) and they will come to no good end, mark my words.
You're kidding, right? They're slashing their operating costs by shafting customers who have no where else to turn, no way of proving they're getting shafted, and no recourse of action against getting shafted other that to not have cable modems, and you think this will end badly for them?
Heck, that's a winning strategy in today's market! Customer satisfaction is utterly irrelevant in the world of utility companies.
So, your issue is that a patch which tells you requires a reboot actually does require a reboot when you install it? That's a far cry from saying that the system will automatically install patches for you with no way of cancelling and will force you to shutdown or reboot, which is what you originally said.
Pfft. Non-issue. Don't apply a patch that says you have to reboot if you aren't prepared to reboot.