Okay, I just watched CN and nope, no "Bebop." Instead it was "Toonheads" - which is a strong show that my girlfriend and I enjoy watching. But this show is exploring Friz Freleng's "musical" shorts, and the first short was "Rhapsody in Rivets."
Normally I would think nothing about it, until I watched it: the music follows a construction crew building an impossibly tall building called the "Umpire State" building, which cracks and crumbles in the end falling sown on top of the foreman and one of his workers.
Of course, it's a cartoon, and the two come out of the rubble alive. But it strikes me as odd, and hypocritcal, that CN pulled "Bebop" because it is too voilent, but then showed this instead. I think the Freleng short would do more to remind people of the attack than if Spike gets into a fight....
Oops...not paying attention to my tags (I should "preview" more). It should read:
However, passing judgement on others, calling us "losers," for watching/listening/reading/etc. **place your variable here** and wanting to discuss it isn't exactly the most mature or intelligent way to get your point across, bridge dweller.
No, it isn't a flame. It's a troll. I think the argument that this is a "technology site" is a little out of gas. As the blurb says, this is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to its commmunity. A lot of us who work in the tech field happen to enjoy movies and music and toys and books, etc. I can go from reading The Sandman to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea just as easily as I can go from watching Cowboy Bebop to Citizen Kane or listening to Bizet and then Limp Bizkit. It's all entertainment and art on some level. Maybe you don't like it. That's your opinion. However, passing judgement on others, calling us "losers," for watching/listening/reading/etc. >place your variable here and wanting to discuss it isn't exactly the most mature or intelligent way to get your point across, bridge dweller.
That's another LucasArts game. You play either Obi-wan or Amidala and have to help the Gungans create a stable ecosystem on Naboo's moon. It's not a simple game, but it is fun and helps with natural science lessons - especially concerning food chains.
Nevermind...upon closer reading I see he used the camera. But, in the end, the bot still isn't deciding how to solve it, it's just implementing a general solution.
...I would love to see a Mindstorms bot that works by sight as opposed to working out the equations. If you look at the parts used list, you'll see that neither the camera nor the light sensor were used, he used the general solutions found on the web.
Again, spiffy, but I think it would be cooler to have one figure out how to solve it by sight (which this, I admit, is the first step in).
I think the question of whether Napster or other P2P systems are legal is clearer after this ruling.
Think about it: If I provide you with a hammer with the purpose of you using it as a device to pound nails into wood, etc., I really don't expect to be sued if you use it to bash in a guy's head down the street. eBay wasn't created to facilitate the transfer of illegal copies of materials, though some might use it for such.
The question the courts should be asking is: did the system - let's say Napster - purposfully come about to circumvent legal aquisition of music? If I sold you the hammer with the purpose of selling you an offensive weapon, I should expect to be a party to the demise of the former human on the sidewalk.
So, Legal Eagles, were Napster, Gnutella, etc. created as P2P systems that were "turned evil," or were they "evil" from the get-go? Therein lies the answer, I think.
Obviously you didn't actually read what was written - which seems par for the course on/.. Sad.
I didn't say I liked the Democratic party, I didn't say I was a liberal. I merely said that the Dems were slightly better. And they are. But only slightly so. Next time, read the words as they have been written and you won't be as confused.
And, sorry kid, but Clinton was more aggressive than any other president (except Carter) when it came to Mid-East peace. Look at how much time he spent on it in the last year of his time in office. Let's be honest: one does not secure a legacy on Mid-East peace negotiations. There are other ways to do it. I'm not saying he was being selfless and doing it solely out of the kindness of his heart, but there were other ways for him to try and paint over the problems with the peace process.
Actually, this discussion is rather silly. Jewish-Muslim relations have been strained, yes, and they have been strained by both sides. However, I will reminder you that Mohammed and the Koran clearly state that other religions were to be respected and tolerated. For centuries the Muslims openly welcomed Jews and Christians into the Middle East so they could make pilgramages to the Holy Land.
Frankly, continually placing blame on one group or another isn't going to lead to a wortyhy conclusion - just further violence.
Mistakes were made in the past, it's behind us. I would suggest learning from them and not making those same mistakes in the future.
Perhaps we will learn from the mistakes of the current administration and the dangerous way they're conducting themselves: a raid on a hosting provider, boycotting racial relations talks, and making biased statements in public is not the way the President (and his administration) of the only super power should be directing relations.
Again, as long as you act like themm, they'll love you.
...is that the Muslim community in this country actively supported George W. Bush in the presidental campaign because they were scared of Gore's choice of Lieberman. However, when you look at the record and the campaign statements, Bush continually expressed views that were anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian, while both Gore and Lieberman were clearly on the side of following Clinton's aggressive stance on helping the peace agreement. And they're surprised that the FBI, under an Attorney General who holds some really antiquated political views, have taken these actions.
Frankly, this doesn't surprise me. George W. Bush and his administration have no problem with you being a different skin color, economic/social class, sexual orientation, etc. as long as you act like them. I'm not saying the Dems are better, but at least there's some indicator from them that you don't have to goosestep to their march exactly the way the Republicans do...
I'm seriously thinking of moving to Canada until the Shrub presidency is over if this type of action is going to become commonplace. I definitely don't want to raise my children (who will be European/Filipino) in an environment that the Bush Clan seems to think ideal if that environment means silencing dissent and allowing banks to close accounts based on religious views...
There is a Mac version, son. But you have to ante up an additional amount and buy the educational RoboLab 2.0 software, which is Win/Mac. It works just like the Mindstorms program itself. Oh, and please take note that RoboLab 2.0 was released in January 2000, so I suspect that any new items from Mindstorms 2.0 might make up RoboLab 2.5 or 3.0.
Now, as for your pissing and moaning: instead of badmouthing Lego on/., why don't you send them a constructive letter where you don't use the spelling "Windoze" and don't insult Windows users? Maybe, if enough Mac users sent enough letters Lego would be willing to port Mindstorms.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go and program my latest bot from my Power Mac 6500.
It's a matter of the pocketbook. Even at 28, I still find myself buying Lego sets - but only after the prices have gone down. For example, I found the Mindstorms Robotics Invention Kit for $99 and the Dark Side Developer Kit for $49 on clearance at Target about seven months ago, found some of the expansions on clearance at CompUSA, and I buy Star Wars sets and some Bionicle stuff when I have extra money. But, I don't have kids yet and my soon-to-be wife and I have a combined income of close to $90K. Parents can't go hog wild spending $200 on a Steven Spielberg Director's Studio and then come up with cash for the other Lego sets the kids might want. Lego has got to join the real world and find a way to bring production costs down and pass those savings on to the consumer. Then parents - our generation, specifically - will be ready to buy more Legos.
Now, that's a statement I have a hard time understanding. If a newbie has a Mac, which is supported by a specific distro, how is that going to be harder to install? There's no real worry about a machines being toomuch different from its factory specs because it's a Mac - Apple controls the hardware from the top down, which means, if anything, it is easier to handle the install on a Mac than on an x86 box. For example, I've installed MkLinux DR 3 (1998), LinuxPPC 2000 & 2000 Q4 (2000, obviously), and Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (2001) on my 6500. All installed with no problem. However, at my previous workplace we installed Mandrake 7.1 on a recent Dell OptiPlex and the damn thing choked on the odd variant Adaptec SCSI card we had to interface with the CD burner. It took us two weeks to finally get that working properly, and then the thing choked on a driver for something Dell installed.
I've never had a problem with installing Linux on a Mac, and, in 1998, I was a newbie dropping himself into a pretty archaic Red Hat installer, and I still understood what I was doing (even got the hang of pdisk after a couple of tries). I think stating that Mac Linux distros aren't for newbies is not making an educated satement...
Interesting. I think your view of the legal system is slightly skewed, though. You see, it is our right to shop at any store we wish - that is a protected right that was fought for in the 60s, remember? I should be able to walk into any store and make a purchase - that is my right.
Now, the question comes about of what rights do the stores have in controlling inventory? Plenty. They have the right to prosecute a crime when the crime is committed and the suspect is caught. However, why is there the assumption that a known shoplifter is going to shoplift again? What if you shoplifted something at 18 as an initiation or prank at college and were caught. How would you at, let's say, 28 feel if you knew that the store manager at the Borders you were in was watching you because the facial recognition software recognized you when you entered the store?
Face recognition, in many cases, throws away the idea that a party is innocent until proven guilty - even if they have committed a crime before.
This is a privacy matter, amoken. Just place yourself in the situation. A corporation still has to abide by the laws that we want the government and ourselves to abide by. If the corporations don't abide by them, and we don't expect them to, how can we hold the government to those standards? If the RIAA gets their way and manages to 'fingerprint' music, and know when you're listening to what track, and who you copied/burned/ripped that track off of, and what other music you're listening to, then how do we stop the government from doing the same thing?
Same privacy issue. Open your eyes and look around.
I've got a Voodoo 3 card running (the built-in ATI powers a second monitor on the Mac side). YDL has no complaints and runs like a charm. I didn't have to play with any settings at all.
I've used MkLinux, LinuxPPC and YDL on my Power Mac 6500, and YDL has given me the easiest install (even though the disc isn't bootable for Old World machines) and it flies - no problems with X, no problems updating, no problems switching back and forth fron KDE to Gnome and back. Terra Soft is proving itself to be a major thinker in the Linux world, and hopefully that will follow with some more revenue for not only YDL, but also Black Lab Linux (embedded systems) and their briQ hardware. This is a killer distro.
You're missing something, and it's disappointing that so many people here are missing it.
FireWire was developed by Apple. Apple makes iMovie, bundled on every consumer machine, to edit DV. Apple makes Final Cut Pro, which is in direct competition with Avid (and, I must say, easier to use than Avid) and is used in the industry.
I just finished reading the article and either the reporter or this group's lawyer (or both) is a complete idiot and has no idea what the mp3.com service did.
For the record, I was big user of the service before it was stopped. I had roughly 175 albums (my own albums) in my library, my workplace had a nice, fat pipeline to the net (ahhh...research universities), and I played those things all day.
However, they (being mp3.com) streamedthose tracks. If you actually tried downloading the damn things (and I tried) you would get a voice telling you that this file was no longer available and that you should re-load your playlist...
So, the only way I can see this insipid idea of "viral copyright infringement" actually having merit is if someone was streaming the sonds through Real Player Pro and recording the stream. I can't imagine that would be a really good rip because, even with the big fat pipeline at my workplace, I was still running up against net congestion ("Porn Alley" was the problem...).
I find the panel a rather sad group to be commenting on Apple's future - each of the former Apple employees there have done their fair share at destroying the company. How they could truly comment on Apple's future is beyond me.
Truly, I think that Apple will continue to push the industry forward. Indeed, Apple may eventually push past the magical 10% marketshare which will help ensure their survival.
But, I think Apple has to see where the wind blows in the next year (they'll be busy with OS X anyways). With the push in the internet appliance space (Sony's e Villa, Palm's buyout of Be, PeoplePC's new IA program) lately, Apple may see their "digital hub" idea begin to really pay off. Whether Apple buys Palm after Palm has created something useful out of Be, or whether Darwin (or OS X) becomes Apple's way of entering embedded systems, I think the next year will point the way that Apple should go.
And, as we've seen in the past, where Apple goes, the industy goes...
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What moment of anger? The Gulf of Tonkin, son, the Gulf of Tonkin. I really suggest you go and check your high school history books...
And you know what? The Best Buy near my house has pulled all three movies. You have to ask for them now. The silliness is getting to be too much.
Normally I would think nothing about it, until I watched it: the music follows a construction crew building an impossibly tall building called the "Umpire State" building, which cracks and crumbles in the end falling sown on top of the foreman and one of his workers.
Of course, it's a cartoon, and the two come out of the rubble alive. But it strikes me as odd, and hypocritcal, that CN pulled "Bebop" because it is too voilent, but then showed this instead. I think the Freleng short would do more to remind people of the attack than if Spike gets into a fight....
Oops...not paying attention to my tags (I should "preview" more). It should read: However, passing judgement on others, calling us "losers," for watching/listening/reading/etc. **place your variable here** and wanting to discuss it isn't exactly the most mature or intelligent way to get your point across, bridge dweller.
No, it isn't a flame. It's a troll. I think the argument that this is a "technology site" is a little out of gas. As the blurb says, this is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to its commmunity. A lot of us who work in the tech field happen to enjoy movies and music and toys and books, etc. I can go from reading The Sandman to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea just as easily as I can go from watching Cowboy Bebop to Citizen Kane or listening to Bizet and then Limp Bizkit. It's all entertainment and art on some level. Maybe you don't like it. That's your opinion. However, passing judgement on others, calling us "losers," for watching/listening/reading/etc. >place your variable here and wanting to discuss it isn't exactly the most mature or intelligent way to get your point across, bridge dweller.
Which easily could describe the Civil War...
That's another LucasArts game. You play either Obi-wan or Amidala and have to help the Gungans create a stable ecosystem on Naboo's moon. It's not a simple game, but it is fun and helps with natural science lessons - especially concerning food chains.
Nevermind...upon closer reading I see he used the camera. But, in the end, the bot still isn't deciding how to solve it, it's just implementing a general solution.
Again, spiffy, but I think it would be cooler to have one figure out how to solve it by sight (which this, I admit, is the first step in).
Think about it: If I provide you with a hammer with the purpose of you using it as a device to pound nails into wood, etc., I really don't expect to be sued if you use it to bash in a guy's head down the street. eBay wasn't created to facilitate the transfer of illegal copies of materials, though some might use it for such.
The question the courts should be asking is: did the system - let's say Napster - purposfully come about to circumvent legal aquisition of music? If I sold you the hammer with the purpose of selling you an offensive weapon, I should expect to be a party to the demise of the former human on the sidewalk.
So, Legal Eagles, were Napster, Gnutella, etc. created as P2P systems that were "turned evil," or were they "evil" from the get-go? Therein lies the answer, I think.
Obviously you didn't actually read what was written - which seems par for the course on /.. Sad.
I didn't say I liked the Democratic party, I didn't say I was a liberal. I merely said that the Dems were slightly better. And they are. But only slightly so. Next time, read the words as they have been written and you won't be as confused.
And, sorry kid, but Clinton was more aggressive than any other president (except Carter) when it came to Mid-East peace. Look at how much time he spent on it in the last year of his time in office. Let's be honest: one does not secure a legacy on Mid-East peace negotiations. There are other ways to do it. I'm not saying he was being selfless and doing it solely out of the kindness of his heart, but there were other ways for him to try and paint over the problems with the peace process.
Back it up? Two words: Strom Thurmond.
"Anonymous Coward" indeed...
Frankly, continually placing blame on one group or another isn't going to lead to a wortyhy conclusion - just further violence.
Mistakes were made in the past, it's behind us. I would suggest learning from them and not making those same mistakes in the future.
Perhaps we will learn from the mistakes of the current administration and the dangerous way they're conducting themselves: a raid on a hosting provider, boycotting racial relations talks, and making biased statements in public is not the way the President (and his administration) of the only super power should be directing relations.
Again, as long as you act like themm, they'll love you.
Frankly, this doesn't surprise me. George W. Bush and his administration have no problem with you being a different skin color, economic/social class, sexual orientation, etc. as long as you act like them. I'm not saying the Dems are better, but at least there's some indicator from them that you don't have to goosestep to their march exactly the way the Republicans do...
I'm seriously thinking of moving to Canada until the Shrub presidency is over if this type of action is going to become commonplace. I definitely don't want to raise my children (who will be European/Filipino) in an environment that the Bush Clan seems to think ideal if that environment means silencing dissent and allowing banks to close accounts based on religious views...
Now, as for your pissing and moaning: instead of badmouthing Lego on /., why don't you send them a constructive letter where you don't use the spelling "Windoze" and don't insult Windows users? Maybe, if enough Mac users sent enough letters Lego would be willing to port Mindstorms.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go and program my latest bot from my Power Mac 6500.
It's a matter of the pocketbook. Even at 28, I still find myself buying Lego sets - but only after the prices have gone down. For example, I found the Mindstorms Robotics Invention Kit for $99 and the Dark Side Developer Kit for $49 on clearance at Target about seven months ago, found some of the expansions on clearance at CompUSA, and I buy Star Wars sets and some Bionicle stuff when I have extra money. But, I don't have kids yet and my soon-to-be wife and I have a combined income of close to $90K. Parents can't go hog wild spending $200 on a Steven Spielberg Director's Studio and then come up with cash for the other Lego sets the kids might want. Lego has got to join the real world and find a way to bring production costs down and pass those savings on to the consumer. Then parents - our generation, specifically - will be ready to buy more Legos.
I've never had a problem with installing Linux on a Mac, and, in 1998, I was a newbie dropping himself into a pretty archaic Red Hat installer, and I still understood what I was doing (even got the hang of pdisk after a couple of tries). I think stating that Mac Linux distros aren't for newbies is not making an educated satement...
Now, the question comes about of what rights do the stores have in controlling inventory? Plenty. They have the right to prosecute a crime when the crime is committed and the suspect is caught. However, why is there the assumption that a known shoplifter is going to shoplift again? What if you shoplifted something at 18 as an initiation or prank at college and were caught. How would you at, let's say, 28 feel if you knew that the store manager at the Borders you were in was watching you because the facial recognition software recognized you when you entered the store?
Face recognition, in many cases, throws away the idea that a party is innocent until proven guilty - even if they have committed a crime before.
This is a privacy matter, amoken. Just place yourself in the situation. A corporation still has to abide by the laws that we want the government and ourselves to abide by. If the corporations don't abide by them, and we don't expect them to, how can we hold the government to those standards? If the RIAA gets their way and manages to 'fingerprint' music, and know when you're listening to what track, and who you copied/burned/ripped that track off of, and what other music you're listening to, then how do we stop the government from doing the same thing?
Same privacy issue. Open your eyes and look around.
I've got a Voodoo 3 card running (the built-in ATI powers a second monitor on the Mac side). YDL has no complaints and runs like a charm. I didn't have to play with any settings at all.
I've used MkLinux, LinuxPPC and YDL on my Power Mac 6500, and YDL has given me the easiest install (even though the disc isn't bootable for Old World machines) and it flies - no problems with X, no problems updating, no problems switching back and forth fron KDE to Gnome and back. Terra Soft is proving itself to be a major thinker in the Linux world, and hopefully that will follow with some more revenue for not only YDL, but also Black Lab Linux (embedded systems) and their briQ hardware. This is a killer distro.
FireWire was developed by Apple. Apple makes iMovie, bundled on every consumer machine, to edit DV. Apple makes Final Cut Pro, which is in direct competition with Avid (and, I must say, easier to use than Avid) and is used in the industry.
A standard has to be developed somewhere. IEEE is, basically, a bunch of guys sitting around handing out numbers, not actually inventing the stuff...
For the record, I was big user of the service before it was stopped. I had roughly 175 albums (my own albums) in my library, my workplace had a nice, fat pipeline to the net (ahhh...research universities), and I played those things all day.
However, they (being mp3.com) streamedthose tracks. If you actually tried downloading the damn things (and I tried) you would get a voice telling you that this file was no longer available and that you should re-load your playlist...
So, the only way I can see this insipid idea of "viral copyright infringement" actually having merit is if someone was streaming the sonds through Real Player Pro and recording the stream. I can't imagine that would be a really good rip because, even with the big fat pipeline at my workplace, I was still running up against net congestion ("Porn Alley" was the problem...).
This is a silly lawsuit...
Truly, I think that Apple will continue to push the industry forward. Indeed, Apple may eventually push past the magical 10% marketshare which will help ensure their survival.
But, I think Apple has to see where the wind blows in the next year (they'll be busy with OS X anyways). With the push in the internet appliance space (Sony's e Villa, Palm's buyout of Be, PeoplePC's new IA program) lately, Apple may see their "digital hub" idea begin to really pay off. Whether Apple buys Palm after Palm has created something useful out of Be, or whether Darwin (or OS X) becomes Apple's way of entering embedded systems, I think the next year will point the way that Apple should go.
And, as we've seen in the past, where Apple goes, the industy goes...