It had more manic fight scenes. It developed the philosophy a bit more. I could see the Buddhist themes coming out a bit more: e.g. by the end of the third movie, the machines & the humans are both freed.
(cough) Here's the correctly spelled link. This was from way before 802.11 got popular. It used ham radio frequencies to propagate information with homebuilt hardware. I thought I remembered military surplus hardware as being part of this.
>> So what do you get? Check out the card list at www.vcdhelp.com which has a huge list of products with many user ratings which tend to be quite reliable.
Don't read it for the technical consistency or plausibility; after all, the main character has an allergy to soulless marketing. It has a nice melancholy mood, with a moving tragedy.
I don't think the stream-of-consciousness thing is the problem, although I'm sure lots of preparation is useful for those sections.
At a signing, Gibson said that he felt that stories were more convincing when drawn from reality; lots & lots of detail lead to a more immersive work. He's writing about something he finds an interesting detail either way. What he writes in the blog could well have gone into a novel instead, & so the blog sort of interferes.
One can blog just to get stuff out to the public, and get a bit of a response. Gibson said during a reading that he felt that blogging was too fun; it didn't feel like work. Even interracting to two or three dozen people in a blog struck him as a time sink.
Elsewhere, Warren Ellis & Bruce Sterling are just commenting on stuff that comes up as they research their upcoming work. Cory Doctorow (and co.) & Charlie Stross just have more varied interests than Gibson, I guess. And hell, the way they're working on a new story is in a blog.
Um. I feel weird that I'm pointing out so many examples. I read all these regularly, though.
I just checked; it's closer to having persistent pseudonymity than total anonymity. It would be like just calling you "Slashdot user #629338" instead of "wattersa." It's just easier to remember names, and those can be included in links and titles.
What's keeping you from posting absolute fiction? Was wattersa your given name?
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I fondly remember that show. Checking that link, I was also really surprised to see that JMS, that Babylon 5 writer, wrote for The Real Ghostbusters.
Bittorrent is a P2P system, like Kazaa or Gnutella, not like HTTP or FTP. If other downloaders can't contact you they don't send much to you either. So. If you need to use a proxy just download from one of the distributed mirrors or another web server.
What Dave said. I considered 0 & 9 to be sequential because it made the math cake: the odds were 0.8 * 0.8 that the numbers wouldn't be adjacent, or.64. If I had some paper around, I'd work out the odds, but it's easier here to run a couple of scripts to list 000 to 999 & cull out 01, 12, etc:.326 if you don't count 0 & 9 as adjacent,.36 if you do.
Hm. It's probably best that I did the empirical list; math-wise, I'm staring at odds of 0.3276 (1-((.8*.8+.2*.9)^2)) and wondering what I'm forgetting.
In fact, if you ask a human being for 3 random numbers, odds are very good that they will give you at least two sequential ones...such as 7 6 2...or 5 9 8...
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If you want to recompress the bloated PNGs written by Photoshop, a guide to PNG optimization is available.
Oh. Ouch. You would have needed to know about Alt-F2 & less & stuff, or have a rescue disc handy.
I don't think I'd let a newbie friend install Linux alone.
The FIPS docs were on the CD. You could see the CD drive from your Windows install, right?
Parted works much better than FIPS did, but then, Redhat's gotten much more capable since Redhat 5 too...
>> Black Iron Prison? Valis, right?
... Wait, no, that wouldn't be a good idea anyway.
Yes!
(Without reading that paper, I'd guess:) Life's what seems to have meaning to us? Cool.
I'll read that paper (from your comment) when I get a chance. Is there a hub for Matrix discussion?
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Yup. Lots of people won't buy into the Matrix; give them a prophecy, to give them the purpose of waiting for The One.
I'd just like to mutter about the Black Iron Prison, or that the Empire Never Died, but no one would get that, would they?
Disobedience was rampant, although Morpheus was kind of hung up on his own authority at points, wasn't he?
I need to go read The Invisibles again.
It had more manic fight scenes. It developed the philosophy a bit more. I could see the Buddhist themes coming out a bit more: e.g. by the end of the third movie, the machines & the humans are both freed.
(cough) Here's the correctly spelled link. This was from way before 802.11 got popular. It used ham radio frequencies to propagate information with homebuilt hardware. I thought I remembered military surplus hardware as being part of this.
>> So what do you get? Check out the card list at www.vcdhelp.com which has a huge list of products with many user ratings which tend to be quite reliable.
Just to be helpful: here's the dvdrhelp.com capture card list with ratings, and questions to ask to work out a good capture method.
Incidentally, if you're looking at ripping music videos, is dedicated to it.
Emperor Norton, the Emperor of the United States, banned the use of the word "Frisco" in 1872. Not all old laws are outdated.
Don't read it for the technical consistency or plausibility; after all, the main character has an allergy to soulless marketing. It has a nice melancholy mood, with a moving tragedy.
I don't think the stream-of-consciousness thing is the problem, although I'm sure lots of preparation is useful for those sections.
At a signing, Gibson said that he felt that stories were more convincing when drawn from reality; lots & lots of detail lead to a more immersive work. He's writing about something he finds an interesting detail either way. What he writes in the blog could well have gone into a novel instead, & so the blog sort of interferes.
One can blog just to get stuff out to the public, and get a bit of a response. Gibson said during a reading that he felt that blogging was too fun; it didn't feel like work. Even interracting to two or three dozen people in a blog struck him as a time sink.
Neil Gaiman is writing very conversationally, responding to questions. (In verifying the address, I noticed he has written about this topic already.)
Elsewhere, Warren Ellis & Bruce Sterling are just commenting on stuff that comes up as they research their upcoming work. Cory Doctorow (and co.) & Charlie Stross just have more varied interests than Gibson, I guess. And hell, the way they're working on a new story is in a blog.
Um. I feel weird that I'm pointing out so many examples. I read all these regularly, though.
I got a copy of it thanks to the earlier article; there's a bitzi ticket for it.
If I re-encoded them to something other than Realvideo, would I have a place to post them?
I just checked; it's closer to having persistent pseudonymity than total anonymity. It would be like just calling you "Slashdot user #629338" instead of "wattersa." It's just easier to remember names, and those can be included in links and titles.
What's keeping you from posting absolute fiction? Was wattersa your given name?
I fondly remember that show. Checking that link, I was also really surprised to see that JMS, that Babylon 5 writer, wrote for The Real Ghostbusters.
Cool.
I was looking for a non-Real copy of that lecture, and came across highlight excerpts on that server, courtesy of curiousLee.
Doh! Of course! The last time I looked at that part of it was before Bram split off the tracker. (Now I'm uncertain I remember correctly anyway.)
GPG/browser integration: For example: You could have trust based on seeing someone sign their web pages consistently for years. That might be cool.
Bittorrent is a P2P system, like Kazaa or Gnutella, not like HTTP or FTP. If other downloaders can't contact you they don't send much to you either. So. If you need to use a proxy just download from one of the distributed mirrors or another web server.
The .torrent files must be dynamically generated to point towards other downloaders. It wouldn't help you trust the server to automate signing.
The thought of integrating GPG to all the platforms and browsers isn't a pleasant one anyway.
Quicktime:
4.8 meg, 320x180: bitzi
11.6 meg, 428x240: bitzi
I'd provide eDonkey or Gnutella links but the links get broken here.
You'd think with all the talent out there someone would have written a quick CGI to do this...
Biglumber has. It currently has 498 people listed.
Do you want suggestions? It would be nice to point toward alternate sources... You could post a mirror, or post some bitzi tickets for those episodes.
What Dave said. I considered 0 & 9 to be sequential because it made the math cake: the odds were 0.8 * 0.8 that the numbers wouldn't be adjacent, or .64. If I had some paper around, I'd work out the odds, but it's easier here to run a couple of scripts to list 000 to 999 & cull out 01, 12, etc: .326 if you don't count 0 & 9 as adjacent, .36 if you do.
Hm. It's probably best that I did the empirical list; math-wise, I'm staring at odds of 0.3276 (1-((.8*.8+.2*.9)^2)) and wondering what I'm forgetting.
In fact, if you ask a human being for 3 random numbers, odds are very good that they will give you at least two sequential ones...such as 7 6 2...or 5 9 8...
I'd expect 1 in 3 odds of that happening anyway.