Personally, I think that quote sounds like someone whining about how
more-realistic-but-less-'emotional' colour film and stereo sound are. Or
digital audio's lack of vinyl 'rumble'. Whatever. The 24fps rate is
terrible for transfer to home video since getting a relatively smooth
picture on NTSC (slightly below 30fps) requires interlacing/5:4
pulldown/telecining jiggerypokery, and PAL (25fps) just can't hack it at
all without just speeding up the film accordingly and accepting that
music will sound too sharp and character's voices breathless. It's a
mess.
Phooey. You have to click through an obnoxious EULA then
fill out a nosey
registration form-- which doesn't seem to work for me; no matter how
many times I filled it out and hit "submit" it kept bouncing me back to
the same registration page-- before the mighty lords of the Relic
Development Network deign to confer upon you the rank and honour of "RDN
access level 1", which may or may not include a single whiff of source
code. "Not GPL'd"?! Not only is it not GPL'd, it's total jive. A curious
would-be game developer would be better off poking through some of the
many existent game engines rather than playing Relic's silly
registration game.
The New York Times's site is useless under my browser of
choice for reading Slashdot articles,
lynx (and anyone who yells "Use a different browser, then!" is
missing the point). I can fill out the cute little questionnaire,
register, use the login and password specified... and the damned site
bounces me back to the login page anyway. I refuse to play games,
and I refuse to use Mozilla (bog-slow) or MSIE (requires reboot into
MS-Windows) just because a site doesn't want to deal with a perfectly
good browser on the level. Most NYT articles eventually show up
on Google News, anyway, and those
that don't are typically redundant to other articles that do show
up on Google News.
If he's tracing the Received pathway, finding the addresses of
postmasters, and sending polite requests to postmasters to nuke those
bastards-- like a good Netizen should do-- then I can seeit easily
taking 30 minutes to work through 15 spams.
Like hell Macintosh and Linux users are unaffected. I've been getting
hundreds of copies of these little motherfuckers per day for the past
few days. The
spamassassin mailing list has been deluged with requests and
suggestions of rules to block the damned things (along with the usual
idealist whining that viruses/worms are not spam and therefore outside
spamassassin's scope-- sorry guys, but it's both prodigious and
unwanted, therefore it's spam, albeit not of a commercial nature).
F-Secure's detailed
write-up of Gibe/Swen includes examples of several of the worm's
canned subject lines and body phrases (not only does the worm pretend to
be a security patch from Microsoft, it also pretends to be a message
being 'returned' to you in other copies). Bah. Outlook must die.
From a cool guy in black armour to a whiny blonde-haired brat to a
pouty-faced wavy-haired
bishounen. Hey Lucas, why don't you just stomp all over your fans'
hopes and dreams while you're at it, eh?!
Sarcasm, I presume. In
my area, Clear Channel owns the top two Arbitron-rated stations, and
four out of the top ten. (And the number-one station is a furshlugginer
pop-country station, but that's another depressing trend entirely.)
The hashmark ('#') indicates that you are logged in as root. What,
just to browse Slashdot and check a manual page? Don't you know that
casually slinging around administrator rights is one of the things that
makes Microsoft Windows so vulnerable to attacks in the first place?!
It's nice that you're using a Unixoid system, but you should learn to
save the root login for just when you really need it.
No kidding. See one man's adventure in trying to give SCO money,
part one and part
two.
Re:alltheweb has ftp indexes!
on
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AllTheWeb's FTP searcher is okay, but unfortunately they seem to be
all too happy to yank sites from their database when they get whined at
about copyrights. I liked it better when it was still
ftpsearch.fast.no... bah, humbug. Anyway, for further searching
satisfaction, see
filesearching.com and a directory of FTP
search engines-- many of which are based on the original
ftpsearch server, whose
source code is available.
It's a foregone conclusion that Dreamcast fans will hack the
protocols and design their own servers. The question is how long it'll
be before the
cease-and-desist orders start flying.
Personally, I don't see the Eldred Act-- basically, a tax for
maintaining copyrights on works-- as helping much. By requiring payment
(of a small amount, yes, but any amount) to extend copyright, the
Eldred Act would basically move the country even further into Rule by
the Rich. What we need is a fixed short limit on copyrights, and no
extensions at all, period.
... but whenever I hear about HAL
Laboratory, I immediately think of their old cartridge games for the
Commodore Max Machine (a predecessor to the C64)! Pitiful, I
know.
There are already MPlayer, the
ffmpeg library,
mjpegtools,
bbmpeg,
Ogg Vorbis and
Theora,
Cinelerra... I
for one don't feel that I need a bone thrown to me by Real, much less a
proprietary, binary-only, NDA-encumbered (no, more like encrusted) one.
Others' mileage, of course, may vary. I admit, I may be just
preaching to the choir here-- but I hope that what I just named off
the top of my head can show potential moviemakers some of the options
that are available.
Yes, and thank God and UC-Berkeley that Apple is finally,
FINALLY, moving away from the data fork/resource fork garbage.
Hopefully this will mean an end to Aladdin Systems's de facto monopoly
on file archiving under Mac OS. I'm really, really tired of reaching a
dead end because nothing opens StuffIt archives except StuffIt.
And now, due to their damned patenting efforts, PKWare seems to be
attempting to do the same thing for zip archives, which seems to be the
whole point of, y'know, the article there.
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Personally, I think that quote sounds like someone whining about how more-realistic-but-less-'emotional' colour film and stereo sound are. Or digital audio's lack of vinyl 'rumble'. Whatever. The 24fps rate is terrible for transfer to home video since getting a relatively smooth picture on NTSC (slightly below 30fps) requires interlacing/5:4 pulldown/telecining jiggerypokery, and PAL (25fps) just can't hack it at all without just speeding up the film accordingly and accepting that music will sound too sharp and character's voices breathless. It's a mess.
You're probably thinking of the PET's killer poke.
Phooey. You have to click through an obnoxious EULA then fill out a nosey registration form-- which doesn't seem to work for me; no matter how many times I filled it out and hit "submit" it kept bouncing me back to the same registration page-- before the mighty lords of the Relic Development Network deign to confer upon you the rank and honour of "RDN access level 1", which may or may not include a single whiff of source code. "Not GPL'd"?! Not only is it not GPL'd, it's total jive. A curious would-be game developer would be better off poking through some of the many existent game engines rather than playing Relic's silly registration game.
The New York Times's site is useless under my browser of choice for reading Slashdot articles, lynx (and anyone who yells "Use a different browser, then!" is missing the point). I can fill out the cute little questionnaire, register, use the login and password specified... and the damned site bounces me back to the login page anyway. I refuse to play games, and I refuse to use Mozilla (bog-slow) or MSIE (requires reboot into MS-Windows) just because a site doesn't want to deal with a perfectly good browser on the level. Most NYT articles eventually show up on Google News, anyway, and those that don't are typically redundant to other articles that do show up on Google News.
Let's try that 405: The Movie link again.
Haven't given the game a chance? Then do so!
The oracle of the Internet (i.e., Google) indicates that Haag used illegal employment methods in Germany and has been involved in setting up front groups for Scientology. Gee, I wonder if the parking is done not by robots at all but by body thetans.
Wouldn't work. SUV-owning ingrates already squeeze their rolling death-traps into spaces plainly marked "compact".
If he's tracing the Received pathway, finding the addresses of postmasters, and sending polite requests to postmasters to nuke those bastards-- like a good Netizen should do-- then I can seeit easily taking 30 minutes to work through 15 spams.
Right. You should link to Scientology like this:
<a href="http://www.xenu.net/">Scientology</a>
You mean VeriSign.
Like hell Macintosh and Linux users are unaffected. I've been getting hundreds of copies of these little motherfuckers per day for the past few days. The spamassassin mailing list has been deluged with requests and suggestions of rules to block the damned things (along with the usual idealist whining that viruses/worms are not spam and therefore outside spamassassin's scope-- sorry guys, but it's both prodigious and unwanted, therefore it's spam, albeit not of a commercial nature).
F-Secure's detailed write-up of Gibe/Swen includes examples of several of the worm's canned subject lines and body phrases (not only does the worm pretend to be a security patch from Microsoft, it also pretends to be a message being 'returned' to you in other copies). Bah. Outlook must die.
From a cool guy in black armour to a whiny blonde-haired brat to a pouty-faced wavy-haired bishounen. Hey Lucas, why don't you just stomp all over your fans' hopes and dreams while you're at it, eh?!
(Yes, that was a very poor attempt at a joke.)
Sarcasm, I presume. In my area, Clear Channel owns the top two Arbitron-rated stations, and four out of the top ten. (And the number-one station is a furshlugginer pop-country station, but that's another depressing trend entirely.)
The hashmark ('#') indicates that you are logged in as root. What, just to browse Slashdot and check a manual page? Don't you know that casually slinging around administrator rights is one of the things that makes Microsoft Windows so vulnerable to attacks in the first place?! It's nice that you're using a Unixoid system, but you should learn to save the root login for just when you really need it.
No kidding. See one man's adventure in trying to give SCO money, part one and part two.
AllTheWeb's FTP searcher is okay, but unfortunately they seem to be all too happy to yank sites from their database when they get whined at about copyrights. I liked it better when it was still ftpsearch.fast.no... bah, humbug. Anyway, for further searching satisfaction, see filesearching.com and a directory of FTP search engines-- many of which are based on the original ftpsearch server, whose source code is available.
It's a foregone conclusion that Dreamcast fans will hack the protocols and design their own servers. The question is how long it'll be before the cease-and-desist orders start flying.
Note that he doesn't rule out the possibility of a Commander Keen sequel. Oh well, I can dream.
Personally, I don't see the Eldred Act-- basically, a tax for maintaining copyrights on works-- as helping much. By requiring payment (of a small amount, yes, but any amount) to extend copyright, the Eldred Act would basically move the country even further into Rule by the Rich. What we need is a fixed short limit on copyrights, and no extensions at all, period.
... but whenever I hear about HAL Laboratory, I immediately think of their old cartridge games for the Commodore Max Machine (a predecessor to the C64)! Pitiful, I know.
There are already MPlayer, the ffmpeg library, mjpegtools, bbmpeg, Ogg Vorbis and Theora, Cinelerra... I for one don't feel that I need a bone thrown to me by Real, much less a proprietary, binary-only, NDA-encumbered (no, more like encrusted) one.
Others' mileage, of course, may vary. I admit, I may be just preaching to the choir here-- but I hope that what I just named off the top of my head can show potential moviemakers some of the options that are available.
And this is different from commercial games how, exactly?
Have fun broadcasting on empty frequencies between stations, you mean!
Yes, and thank God and UC-Berkeley that Apple is finally, FINALLY, moving away from the data fork/resource fork garbage. Hopefully this will mean an end to Aladdin Systems's de facto monopoly on file archiving under Mac OS. I'm really, really tired of reaching a dead end because nothing opens StuffIt archives except StuffIt.
And now, due to their damned patenting efforts, PKWare seems to be attempting to do the same thing for zip archives, which seems to be the whole point of, y'know, the article there.