A common problem with a movie based on something episodic is that it gets tangled up in all of the continuity; you have to know about all of the storylines to make sense of the references dropped into the movie. This didn't happen with Cowboy Bebop. I haven't seen all of the episodes yet, and I really enjoyed the movie. There were a couple of references I missed, but friends assured me it wasn't major plot points, such as, say, Spike's life having Indian influences, or an apparent cameo that got a cheer from the audience.
Oh cool. This helped me verify that I got the right file from a mirror mentioned here. There's now a Bitzi ticket with a working link for eDonkey, plus Gnutella & Kazaa links.
You might check out Swappingtons. It works with swap points, and it's for books and other media. It's brand new, so you might have to dig for something you want.
Kurt Harland's making video game music, and occassionally goofing around with Counterstrike samples. His bandmate Paul Robb did the soundtrack for Orgazmo, commercials, and various other stuff.
Here are the bitzi tickets for the largest version and its zipped version. This is good for Kazaa (with sig2dat), Shareaza, Limewire, and eDonkey stuff.
Kazaa goes by the first 300k, IIRC. If you've got another P2P system, check the bitzi pages for 120-241.mpeg (11.4MB) and 245.mpeg (8.1MB) for the files if necessary. It looks like the main site is still working, after all.
You can increase your throughput by taking advantage of the drive heads' positions en route to do something else (seek-wise, rotational latency-wise too, apparently). It's called freeblock scheduling. An introduction is online, and other papers are around; this one makes reference to a 300% speedup when there is no idle time on a drive.
3com's wireless page doesn't list any 802.11g equipment yet. The only 802.11g cards I've seen in person were the Linksys WPC54G & WMP54G.
I was looking for compatibility between Linux and 802.11g last night; I found someone saying "long story short, Broadcom doesn't work" (Note: That link is down, and checking nearby files pop up errors about "vulnerable Internet Explorer version," closes the window, and probably fucks up my computer. Thanks a lot guys. Um. The upshot is, people have tried the Broadcom stuff on Linux, it doesn't work, and it's suggested you request documentation from Broadcom. Later.)
I got: c8c87e303453c8ef9d7215f41e67b55f animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov 446364e1c337cd0ddbb33fa11 0ce5d91 animatrixmedfinal_dl.mov 2aeb9a06a808788a304993e9 57474108 animatrixsmfinal_dl.mov I also posted some Bitzi tickets.
Here are some Bitzi tickets, with information on getting those files via Kazaa, Gnutella, and eDonkey: small, medium, and large. The md5sums I have: c8c87e303453c8ef9d7215f41e67b55f animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov 446364e1c337cd0ddbb33fa11 0ce5d91 animatrixmedfinal_dl.mov 2aeb9a06a808788a304993e9 57474108 animatrixsmfinal_dl.mov
The web of trust isn't meant to represent character references - it's not like the Slashdot friends and foes system. It's meant to work as an identification system, to verify that someone is who they claim to be. They may not be trustworthy, but to work with reputations online, you need persistent identities first, don't you?
Here's an edit of that script for noting the compression ratio:
#!/bin/bash # Entropic analysis by Full Decent SIZE=$(cat "$*" | wc -c).0 CSIZE=$(gzip -c --best "$*" | wc -c).0 ENTROPY=$(echo "scale=4; $CSIZE / $SIZE * 100" | bc) echo "$* is ${ENTROPY}% entropic or less"
I also edited it to point out that this gives an upper bound of entropy. Using (for example) bzip2 gives different (not necessarily lower) readings; I'd probably use the lower one, but either is useful for a good estimate.
(And this ignores, say, FLAC for audio, and... I don't feel like going into compression preprocessing. It is tempting, though.)
John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Shockwave Rider" are good dystopian lit.
Bruce Sterling is still around; he just wrote "Tomorrow Now," a non-fiction futurist book. Zeitgeist, Distraction, and Holy Fire were all enjoyable and insightful.
Vernor Vinge coined the term "singularity." "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" have a joining character pre- and post-Singularity, and both won Hugos. He just released some short stories, but I haven't read it yet.
Matt Ruff wrote the science fiction "Sewer Gas & Electric" and fantasy "Fool on the Hill." The first is funny and fast-paced.
Technical accuracy isn't his forte, but Jim Monroe, a former managing editor of Adbusters, wrote Angry Young Spaceman and Living in Silico. I downloaded AYS ages ago, but bought a copy during his tour so I can loan it to friends. Oh, and checking now, he's put his 1999 book Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask up.
I've heard that in the original script, the Matrix exploited the computational capacity of human brains. This actually makes sense, and it also explains spoon-bending and stuff like that; the Matrix trusts the clients, which is bad security. The directors changed the exploitation to power because someone thought the audience just wouldn't get the computational explanation.
It only improves the density by four times, but it might be capable of doing even better with, say, 1200 dpi. Or maybe you'd need special, heavier paper. It's obvious they've thought about it a bit; it copes with faxing well, for example.
The reason I mentioned it is because it only needs a scanner. The longevity of the software right now is admittedly questionable.
The problem with a lot of old media is that drives for them are no longer available, period. There's a large difference between players that are kind of expensive and players that everyone threw away years ago - when building your own player looks cheaper, easier, and more plausible than finding one elsewhere.
If CD drives disappear now, the various DVD drives can pick up the slack. I would guess in the future that I'll be able to easily read a CD long after I'll be able to read the various DVD formats, though.
I live near a DJ gear store. They have Technics 1200s for roughly $500, and that's a turntable perfectly suited for DJs. They referred me to a two other stores that should stock new & used turntables; I asked a nearby friend who used to work at one of those for a price range, and he guessed $350 to $500.
Now, I would guess that Beta VCRs would be a better analogy, but I think that TV stations used much of them for archival, and they could be more popular than I think.
Heh. Vinyl's also a bad analogy because many people still have record players hanging around their attics, and many DJs prefer vinyl to anything else because of its versatility. There are boutique shops that only bother stocking vinyl.
I worry about hardware obsolescence. I think consumer commodities are relatively stable - for example, drives that read CDs should be available for decades. Similarly, using, say, MiniDV to backup stuff in larger quantities appeals to me; there was a recent Ask Slashdot about that, and the responses pointed out dvbackup (around 10 Gig per tape) and tsbep (for some error correction, making LP available, for 15 Gig per tape).
>> Assuming double the standard density (160 chars per line instead of 80, 132 lines per page instead of 66), which actually works out to quad density, you get 160x132=20120, say 20k per page >>
I remembered reading something about this; dataglyphs use slashes to encode data to present a grey background to a page, if you don't look too closely. I quote: "At 600dpi, DataGlyphs can offer up to 1KB per square inch of data." If you want, you can encode less densely, and make it faxable. This strikes me as a cool way to avoid hardware obsolescence, which I worry about.
(checks page) Cool. There's an accompanying program that does error correction: rsbep takes up 14% with error-correction codes, but it can cope with 12240 consecutive bytes getting botched. So it can cope with (some) drop outs.
Slashdot Mirror
Four-letter words? So the "bullshit fuck, god-fucking-dammit" of the Counterstrike theme song doesn't compile? Bah.
A common problem with a movie based on something episodic is that it gets tangled up in all of the continuity; you have to know about all of the storylines to make sense of the references dropped into the movie. This didn't happen with Cowboy Bebop. I haven't seen all of the episodes yet, and I really enjoyed the movie. There were a couple of references I missed, but friends assured me it wasn't major plot points, such as, say, Spike's life having Indian influences, or an apparent cameo that got a cheer from the audience.
To be specific: For best results, BitTorrent requires incoming access to ports 6881 through 6889 via TCP.
Oh cool. This helped me verify that I got the right file from a mirror mentioned here. There's now a Bitzi ticket with a working link for eDonkey, plus Gnutella & Kazaa links.
You might check out Swappingtons. It works with swap points, and it's for books and other media. It's brand new, so you might have to dig for something you want.
Kurt Harland's making video game music, and occassionally goofing around with Counterstrike samples. His bandmate Paul Robb did the soundtrack for Orgazmo, commercials, and various other stuff.
Dude. They used to wipe your ass for you.
Here are the bitzi tickets for the largest version and its zipped version. This is good for Kazaa (with sig2dat), Shareaza, Limewire, and eDonkey stuff.
Kazaa goes by the first 300k, IIRC. If you've got another P2P system, check the bitzi pages for 120-241.mpeg (11.4MB) and 245.mpeg (8.1MB) for the files if necessary. It looks like the main site is still working, after all.
You can increase your throughput by taking advantage of the drive heads' positions en route to do something else (seek-wise, rotational latency-wise too, apparently). It's called freeblock scheduling. An introduction is online, and other papers are around; this one makes reference to a 300% speedup when there is no idle time on a drive.
3com's wireless page doesn't list any 802.11g equipment yet. The only 802.11g cards I've seen in person were the Linksys WPC54G & WMP54G.
I was looking for compatibility between Linux and 802.11g last night; I found someone saying "long story short, Broadcom doesn't work" (Note: That link is down, and checking nearby files pop up errors about "vulnerable Internet Explorer version," closes the window, and probably fucks up my computer. Thanks a lot guys. Um. The upshot is, people have tried the Broadcom stuff on Linux, it doesn't work, and it's suggested you request documentation from Broadcom. Later.)
I got:1 0ce5d91 animatrixmedfinal_dl.mov9 57474108 animatrixsmfinal_dl.mov
c8c87e303453c8ef9d7215f41e67b55f animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov
446364e1c337cd0ddbb33fa1
2aeb9a06a808788a304993e
I also posted some Bitzi tickets.
Here are some Bitzi tickets, with information on getting those files via Kazaa, Gnutella, and eDonkey: small, medium, and large. The md5sums I have:1 0ce5d91 animatrixmedfinal_dl.mov9 57474108 animatrixsmfinal_dl.mov
c8c87e303453c8ef9d7215f41e67b55f animatrixlgfinal_dl.mov
446364e1c337cd0ddbb33fa1
2aeb9a06a808788a304993e
The web of trust isn't meant to represent character references - it's not like the Slashdot friends and foes system. It's meant to work as an identification system, to verify that someone is who they claim to be. They may not be trustworthy, but to work with reputations online, you need persistent identities first, don't you?
If you want encryption, you can use rsync over ssh. If you need it to be automated, set up certificates for ssh.
Here's an edit of that script for noting the compression ratio:
#!/bin/bash
# Entropic analysis by Full Decent
SIZE=$(cat "$*" | wc -c).0
CSIZE=$(gzip -c --best "$*" | wc -c).0
ENTROPY=$(echo "scale=4; $CSIZE / $SIZE * 100" | bc)
echo "$* is ${ENTROPY}% entropic or less"
I also edited it to point out that this gives an upper bound of entropy. Using (for example) bzip2 gives different (not necessarily lower) readings; I'd probably use the lower one, but either is useful for a good estimate.
(And this ignores, say, FLAC for audio, and... I don't feel like going into compression preprocessing. It is tempting, though.)
I'm wondering if maybe he's occluded due to drugs. Listen, you can't take visions from the prankster shroom or acid elves as gospel.
At least, that's what the DMT elves say.
I might like technical consistence & cluefulness more than most people. The following list of writers reflects that.
Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing just released Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory and his work have been mentioned here a time or five before. He just co-wrote Jury Service with Charlie Stross, another loopy fun writer. Stross' Lobsters is online; Stross' interview and appearance on Slashdot made me seek out more. Stross' list of published fiction includes a dozen online versions of stories. Both Doctorow & Stross are entertainingly loopy, and technically consistent & clueful.
John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Shockwave Rider" are good dystopian lit.
Bruce Sterling is still around; he just wrote "Tomorrow Now," a non-fiction futurist book. Zeitgeist, Distraction, and Holy Fire were all enjoyable and insightful.
Vernor Vinge coined the term "singularity." "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" have a joining character pre- and post-Singularity, and both won Hugos. He just released some short stories, but I haven't read it yet.
Matt Ruff wrote the science fiction "Sewer Gas & Electric" and fantasy "Fool on the Hill." The first is funny and fast-paced.
I've enjoyed K. W. Jeter, Rudy Rucker, Roger Williams (The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect) a bit...
Technical accuracy isn't his forte, but Jim Monroe, a former managing editor of Adbusters, wrote Angry Young Spaceman and Living in Silico. I downloaded AYS ages ago, but bought a copy during his tour so I can loan it to friends. Oh, and checking now, he's put his 1999 book Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask up.
I've heard that in the original script, the Matrix exploited the computational capacity of human brains. This actually makes sense, and it also explains spoon-bending and stuff like that; the Matrix trusts the clients, which is bad security.
The directors changed the exploitation to power because someone thought the audience just wouldn't get the computational explanation.
It only improves the density by four times, but it might be capable of doing even better with, say, 1200 dpi. Or maybe you'd need special, heavier paper. It's obvious they've thought about it a bit; it copes with faxing well, for example.
The reason I mentioned it is because it only needs a scanner. The longevity of the software right now is admittedly questionable.
The problem with a lot of old media is that drives for them are no longer available, period. There's a large difference between players that are kind of expensive and players that everyone threw away years ago - when building your own player looks cheaper, easier, and more plausible than finding one elsewhere.
If CD drives disappear now, the various DVD drives can pick up the slack. I would guess in the future that I'll be able to easily read a CD long after I'll be able to read the various DVD formats, though.
I live near a DJ gear store. They have Technics 1200s for roughly $500, and that's a turntable perfectly suited for DJs. They referred me to a two other stores that should stock new & used turntables; I asked a nearby friend who used to work at one of those for a price range, and he guessed $350 to $500.
Now, I would guess that Beta VCRs would be a better analogy, but I think that TV stations used much of them for archival, and they could be more popular than I think.
Heh. Vinyl's also a bad analogy because many people still have record players hanging around their attics, and many DJs prefer vinyl to anything else because of its versatility. There are boutique shops that only bother stocking vinyl.
I worry about hardware obsolescence. I think consumer commodities are relatively stable - for example, drives that read CDs should be available for decades. Similarly, using, say, MiniDV to backup stuff in larger quantities appeals to me; there was a recent Ask Slashdot about that, and the responses pointed out dvbackup (around 10 Gig per tape) and tsbep (for some error correction, making LP available, for 15 Gig per tape).
Nice analysis, by the way.
>> Assuming double the standard density (160 chars per line instead of 80, 132 lines per page instead of 66), which actually works out to quad density, you get 160x132=20120, say 20k per page >>
I remembered reading something about this; dataglyphs use slashes to encode data to present a grey background to a page, if you don't look too closely. I quote: "At 600dpi, DataGlyphs can offer up to 1KB per square inch of data." If you want, you can encode less densely, and make it faxable. This strikes me as a cool way to avoid hardware obsolescence, which I worry about.
Why not?
(checks page) Cool. There's an accompanying program that does error correction: rsbep takes up 14% with error-correction codes, but it can cope with 12240 consecutive bytes getting botched. So it can cope with (some) drop outs.