in the tried and true american tradition, the riaa is trying to incite fear in the file sharing populace.
given the shear number of file sharers out there, 261 people is pretty insignificant, much less than 1%. given that in the last five years, about 26% of drivers where involved in car accident (source) you should be more worried about crashing than the riaa suing you.
i'm sure the riaa realizes this but also knows that fear is a powerful motivating force. they're just hoping that hearing about these lawsuits will turn many of those who now share into leachers, or knock them off the network entirely.
for a lot if interesting info about the culture of fear in america you can look here
It's quite interesting. McCarthy tells a good story, and in the tradition of good science writing, introduces us to the interesting cast of characters that is working on this stuff.
That said, the book has more of a 'fiction' and less of a 'science' feel to it overall. This is a science in its very early stages and much of the theorizing McCarthy does comes off more as wishful thinking than anything that the data backs up. To his credit, McCarthy points this out and tries to be careful to let you know what's fact and what's speculation.
Overall it's a pretty interesting book though. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys popular-science writing (in the vain of Gleick or Greene) and doesn't mind a little wild speculation thrown in.
For those of you who are interested in the applications for computing, he talks a very little bit about the possibilities in quantum computing that this opens up, but he actually explicitly states that he's not particularly interested in it. As such, most of the book is about matter that can change it's chemical properties and the more material science applications for it.
Ohh, and the last section of the book (actually and appendix) is all about the patent he filed for a device he came up with over the course of writing the book called a quantum well. It makes me a little nervous when someone's already trying to patent stuff that isn't realizable for years and years. Not a call to arms, but something to think about.
Here are the names of the highlighted blocked sites. I have all the other stats too but the filter system won't let me post them for some reason.
Title: Asian American Baptist Church Title: ABC.com
Title: ABC Online Title: About Reuters Title: Association of Christian Community ComputerCenters Title: American Cancer Society - Northern California Chinese
UnitAir Intelligence Agency Title: AltaVista - The Search Company Title: MIT Alumni Association
Title: American Feed MagazineWelcome to America's Party Title: Amnesty International USA - Defending and PromotingHuman Rights Worldwide
Title: Center for Anti-CommunismThe Nando Times Title: The University of Arizona Title: The United States Army Homepage
Title: Russian Christian Orthodox church in BostoUSA Title: MIT Computer Architecture Group Home Page Title: Christian Academy in Japan
Title: The Cancer Information NetworkUS Army War College and Carlisle Barracks, alsoCenter for Strategic Leadership, Military History Institute, ArmyPhysical Fitness Research Institute, Parameters, and Strategic Studies
InstituteCBS.com Title: Welcome to ITS Title: Charlotte.com - Your Guide to Charlotte
Title: Welcome to the US Army Research Institute of ChemicaDefense Title: Chichester District Online Title: The China Times
Title: Bilingual Chinese children's books, Chinese movieDVDs, Chinese cultural products! Learn Mandarin Chinese, LearnCantonese, books, traditional chinese music & songs, CD's, CD-ROM,stories, and cassett tapes. Chinese language/mandarin
culture/herichristopherlydon.org Title: Welcome to CKS International Airport Title: Columbia University
Title: Le Consulat General de France - Hong KongCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)Calgary/Banff Chapter Title: The Stanford Daily Online Edition
Title: Deep ImpactDefend AMERICA - US Department of Defense News AboutThe War on Terrorism Title: DefenseLINK - Official Web Site of the
U.S. Department of Defense
Title: DFW.com - Your Dallas/Fort Worth Everything
Guide
Title: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Home Page Title: DefenseLINK - Official Web Site of theU.S. Department of Defense Title: Defense Technical Information Center Title: Study Tour to JAPAN 97
Title: Economic Services (Macau)MIT EECS - Home Page Title: Taipei e-campus Title: Environmental Protection Agency - Taiwan
Title: Falun Dafa CanadaFalun Dafa in Ireland Title: Canada Family Action Coalition - CFAC Title: Faith Bible Church, Seattle, WA USA
Title: Feng Shui USA HomepageFederal Judicial Center Title: The Free Methodist Church in Canada - MAINPAGE
Title: Fair Trade Commission - TaiwanJapan Fukuoka Mission Title: Government Information Office, Republic ofChina
Title: The George Washington UniversityHaneda Japanese Tutorial School Title: The Happy Hacker -- the web site computer criminalsdon't want you to visit!
Title: Integrity Episcopal ChurchU.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence Title: INTERHIT RECORDS ONLINE Title: Irish Chronicle: news from Ireland and around the
worldIce Rink Management Asia & Ice Rink Resources Title: CIC - Canberra Islamic Centre Title: Islamic Virtual School
Title: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign AffairsIsrael Tour Connection - Free Bar/Bat Mitzvah toIsrael Title: The Judicial Yuan of the Republic of China
(Taiwan)Kaohshiung - Taiwan's Maritime Capital Title: Kinsman Redeemer Ministries Title: Los Angeles Times
Title: Welcome to the MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science
Title: The Learning Channel Title: The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Title: MIT Libraries Title: Wellesley College Library Title: Miami.com - Your Miami Everything Guide
Title: The Official State Web Site of MississippiMassachusetts Institute of Technology Title: City of Light; The Path to the True Islam Title: Critical in-depth studies of Christianity, Islam,
Ismailism, Evolution and AtheismMotorBikeAssociation Title: The Nando Times: Front Title: U.S. Navy's Official Web Site: Welcome Aboard
Title: The National Guard BureauNotre Dame Academy {Catholic High School inMiddleburg, Virginia} Title: National Public Radio
Title: oneworld.net homepageParti federaliste du France - POUR UNE FRANCEFEDERALE - POUR UNE EUROPE FEDERALE Title: Philly.com - "The Region's Home Page"
Title: FCIC - Home PageRadio Canada International Title: Red Horse Records-Independent record label, recordingstudio, music publisher, distributor, and online music store. Bobby
Carlson, Mustang Mesa, Michael Razz, Melissa Bates, and DebbiGrant. Title: Red Lobster Seafood Restaurants - Recipes and LiveLobster Delivery
Title: Home Page: American Memory from the Library oCongress Title: Saudi Times - latest news stories and topheadlines.
Title: æ--...å¥åç"Yèè¼æoefTaiwaStudent Club in Austria Title: Welcome to the National Food and Agriculture HomePage
Title: Supercomputer Computations Research InstituteYahoo! Singapore News Title: Singapore Millennium Study Tour Title: Welcome to Red Mountain
Title: SonyStyle USASourceForge.net: Welcome Title: National Statistics of Taiwan, the Republic ofChina
Title: New Mexico State GovernmentWelcome to Streamripper Title: Sunnyside Jazz Records first page Title: Scott Wiggerman's Poetry Pages
Title: Tibetan Incense Company : Incense for MeditationHealth and all Spiritual Practices Title: Welcome to TIME.com Title: The Truth in America Project
Title: Tucows Downloads - Download freeware and sharewarsoftware. Title: United Nations Moldova Title: Welcome to UNICEF Canada
Title: United Nations - daily news and currenevents Title: The Federal Judiciary Title: Official Website for the United States Marine
CorpsUyghur American Association Title: Veterans Affairs Commission, Taiwan Title: Voice of America
Title: washingtonpost.com - News FrontMassachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Space Science Division, NASA Title: The University of Virginia
So, I've just spent less than five minutes putting in names of bands that I like and this service has a REALLY limited selection. They have NOTHING from any of the following bands:
afro celt sound system amon tobin us3 DJ Smash bullfrog dead milkmen slackers goldfinger dashboard confessional joe strummer catch 22
I'll grant that some of those bands are a bit obscure but that's what's great about p2p networks is that I can find those less popular tracks. Until I find a service that can match the selection of soulseek et al. they won't be getting any money from me.
Hmm, apparently you either ignored or didn't understand my last paragraph. What you are calling POPULAR MUSIC is really CORPORATE MUSIC. Yeah the shite the comes out on MTV is for the most part just that. And perhaps if you're going by straight record sales you're right, popular music today is shite. But if get involved with your local music community AT ALL I think you'll find what you're calling popular music not all that popular.
In fact, it's the very idea of "pop" not Jazz that is dead. I assure you that jazz is alive and well. A search at East Bay Express (paper for the Easy Bay where we have a vibrant and exciting music scene) for Jazz turns up 8 shows tonight, Rock gets 11. Tommorow Jazz gets 5 while rock only 3, HipHop gets NONE. And you claim Jazz is dead? Why don't you check on this sort of thing before making riduculous claims like that. Like I said, MUSIC IS FRAGMENTED. If you're to lazy to get off your ass and talk the more than 2 of the "young and ignorant" about what they're listening to then you can stay in your rocking chair on your front porch and keep yelling at us kids about how much things were better in your day. Pathetic...
>This generation is pathetic and lost. They are without a distinct identity, the the garbage that is made by them (Linkin Park for example) is base beyond measure.
Okay, I'll bite...
Are you living under a rock? Or perhaps (and the rest of your comment might indicate this) are you stuck in the past? There is at least as much - if not more - interesting and exciting music coming out today than at any time in the past. Just because it doesn't sound like the stuff you grew up with doesn't make it "base beyond measure" and the fact that the best band you can come up with to bash is Linkin Park suggests you might be the one who's "pathetic and lost".
Why don't you go listen to something on Blue Note? (Madeski Martin and Wood or DJ Logic to mention a few of the great new people on this label). There is all sorts of amazing experimental stuff coming out, check out Alien8 Recordings for some pointers. Punk rock has redefined itself and has a modern message and killer sound. Warped Tour (if you've ever heard of it) is one of the best (and cheapest) big shows around. I've had a great time at every show I've gone to.
The current music scene has fragmented and is moving in a thousand directions. I've mentioned only a few of those fragments and I'm sure that anyone who is at all "with it" could add many more references without even thinking about it. Get the hell out of your rut and start listing to stuff that doesn't play on MTV before you go bashing today's music.
For any of you out there who might be UC Berkeley students there will be a decal offered next semester in which we will build a team to play in the Simulation league. It'll be focused on developing the AI needed to do something like play soccer and should be a lot of fun. Watch the decal page for more info.
From the article: >It cited compatibility problems, namely among users trying to receive Microsoft World documents.(emphasis mine)
Gad, I hope this guy doesn't have an inside on The Next Big Thing from microsoft that I don't. I suppose it'll be Microsoft Galaxy documents in a few years too. Or a Freudian slip perhaps?
Slashdot a bit behind the times?
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Man, I've been stealing cable from AT&T for about 2.5 years now. I've transfered my account to different locations twice (you move a lot when you're in college) and I've never had a problem.
A piece of advice from an EE major friend of mine. Don't use more than an extra 50cm (about 1.5' for you americans) of extra cable to do this (meaning you should put your modem near the tv). If you do it can be detected by the change in the capacitance on the line. I've never wanted to test this but better safe than sorry I guess.
There's an interesting paper on "Warhol Worms" here.
Basically the author predicts that, by using efficient algorithms to search the space of potential victims a worm could infect most of the vulnerable computers in 15 minutes to an hour. Pretty scary when you think of how much damage Code Red variants were doing 3 weeks after the initial hit.
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API!
Sounds pretty good to me. Of course, I don't use much ASP so I don't really know what most 'hard core' m$ shops would need support for to be convinced to switch.
So, how does it know which sounds to block?
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Perhaps someone with a bit more knowledge about this stuff can enlighten us all. How do I choose which sounds I want it block? It's all well and good for my computer to be ultra quiet but I don't want the scream of the platter as my hdd crashes and burns blocked out. It seems like it would take some pretty spiffy AI to figure out what are blockable sounds and what aren't. (this is more directed towards the 'advanced version' due out in a year or so)
We here at 'Rights for Dummies" kindly request that you remove this slanderous material from your website. It is material like this story that helps keep the fallacy that 'Dummies aren't people' alive. Just because someone's a dummy doesn't make him any less a man that you.
If they can't support themselves in some other way besides me buying cds they shouldn't be an opensource company. Being in this game requires that you have a model to support yourself without relying on cd sales.
That said, if you can afford the cds it's always nice to support a good company like Mandrake.
I am very disapointed not to see Amelie nominated for more of the big awards. It did get Art Direction, Cinematography, and Foreign Language (a fairly impresive list) but I felt like this was one of the best movies made in a long time, period.
Audrey Tautou was simply amazing, and I have yet to meet someone who didn't come out of the theater with a big smile on their face. This movie deserves the big nominations not only for being a beautiful film but for doing it without the usual trappings of a blockbuster.
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in the tried and true american tradition, the riaa is trying to incite fear in the file sharing populace.
given the shear number of file sharers out there, 261 people is pretty insignificant, much less than 1%. given that in the last five years, about 26% of drivers where involved in car accident (source) you should be more worried about crashing than the riaa suing you.
i'm sure the riaa realizes this but also knows that fear is a powerful motivating force. they're just hoping that hearing about these lawsuits will turn many of those who now share into leachers, or knock them off the network entirely.
for a lot if interesting info about the culture of fear in america you can look here
It's quite interesting. McCarthy tells a good story, and in the tradition of good science writing, introduces us to the interesting cast of characters that is working on this stuff.
That said, the book has more of a 'fiction' and less of a 'science' feel to it overall. This is a science in its very early stages and much of the theorizing McCarthy does comes off more as wishful thinking than anything that the data backs up. To his credit, McCarthy points this out and tries to be careful to let you know what's fact and what's speculation.
Overall it's a pretty interesting book though. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys popular-science writing (in the vain of Gleick or Greene) and doesn't mind a little wild speculation thrown in.
For those of you who are interested in the applications for computing, he talks a very little bit about the possibilities in quantum computing that this opens up, but he actually explicitly states that he's not particularly interested in it. As such, most of the book is about matter that can change it's chemical properties and the more material science applications for it.
Ohh, and the last section of the book (actually and appendix) is all about the patent he filed for a device he came up with over the course of writing the book called a quantum well. It makes me a little nervous when someone's already trying to patent stuff that isn't realizable for years and years. Not a call to arms, but something to think about.
Here are the names of the highlighted blocked sites. I have all the other stats too but the filter system won't let me post them for some reason.
Title: Asian American Baptist Church
Title: ABC.com
Title: ABC Online
Title: About Reuters
Title: Association of Christian Community ComputerCenters
Title: American Cancer Society - Northern California Chinese Unit Air Intelligence Agency
Title: AltaVista - The Search Company
Title: MIT Alumni Association
Title: American Feed Magazine Welcome to America's Party
Title: Amnesty International USA - Defending and PromotingHuman Rights Worldwide
Title: Center for Anti-Communism The Nando Times
Title: The University of Arizona
Title: The United States Army Homepage
Title: Russian Christian Orthodox church in BostoUSA
Title: MIT Computer Architecture Group Home Page
Title: Christian Academy in Japan
Title: The Cancer Information Network US Army War College and Carlisle Barracks, alsoCenter for Strategic Leadership, Military History Institute, ArmyPhysical Fitness Research Institute, Parameters, and Strategic Studies Institute CBS.com
Title: Welcome to ITS
Title: Charlotte.com - Your Guide to Charlotte
Title: Welcome to the US Army Research Institute of ChemicaDefense
Title: Chichester District Online
Title: The China Times
Title: Bilingual Chinese children's books, Chinese movieDVDs, Chinese cultural products! Learn Mandarin Chinese, LearnCantonese, books, traditional chinese music & songs, CD's, CD-ROM,stories, and cassett tapes. Chinese language/mandarin culture/heri christopherlydon.org
Title: Welcome to CKS International Airport
Title: Columbia University
Title: Le Consulat General de France - Hong Kong Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)Calgary/Banff Chapter
Title: The Stanford Daily Online Edition
Title: Deep Impact Defend AMERICA - US Department of Defense News AboutThe War on Terrorism
Title: DefenseLINK - Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Defense
Title: DFW.com - Your Dallas/Fort Worth Everything Guide
Title: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Home Page
Title: DefenseLINK - Official Web Site of theU.S. Department of Defense
Title: Defense Technical Information Center
Title: Study Tour to JAPAN 97
Title: Economic Services (Macau) MIT EECS - Home Page
Title: Taipei e-campus
Title: Environmental Protection Agency - Taiwan
Title: Falun Dafa Canada Falun Dafa in Ireland
Title: Canada Family Action Coalition - CFAC
Title: Faith Bible Church, Seattle, WA USA
Title: Feng Shui USA Homepage Federal Judicial Center
Title: The Free Methodist Church in Canada - MAINPAGE
Title: Fair Trade Commission - Taiwan Japan Fukuoka Mission
Title: Government Information Office, Republic ofChina
Title: The George Washington University Haneda Japanese Tutorial School
Title: The Happy Hacker -- the web site computer criminalsdon't want you to visit!
Title: Integrity Episcopal Church U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence
Title: INTERHIT RECORDS ONLINE
Title: Irish Chronicle: news from Ireland and around the world Ice Rink Management Asia & Ice Rink Resources
Title: CIC - Canberra Islamic Centre
Title: Islamic Virtual School
Title: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel Tour Connection - Free Bar/Bat Mitzvah toIsrael
Title: The Judicial Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Kaohshiung - Taiwan's Maritime Capital
Title: Kinsman Redeemer Ministries
Title: Los Angeles Times
Title: Welcome to the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Title: The Learning Channel
Title: The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Title: MIT Libraries
Title: Wellesley College Library
Title: Miami.com - Your Miami Everything Guide
Title: The Official State Web Site of Mississippi Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: City of Light; The Path to the True Islam
Title: Critical in-depth studies of Christianity, Islam, Ismailism, Evolution and Atheism MotorBikeAssociation
Title: The Nando Times: Front
Title: U.S. Navy's Official Web Site: Welcome Aboard
Title: The National Guard Bureau Notre Dame Academy {Catholic High School inMiddleburg, Virginia}
Title: National Public Radio
Title: oneworld.net homepage Parti federaliste du France - POUR UNE FRANCEFEDERALE - POUR UNE EUROPE FEDERALE
Title: Philly.com - "The Region's Home Page"
Title: FCIC - Home Page Radio Canada International
Title: Red Horse Records-Independent record label, recordingstudio, music publisher, distributor, and online music store. Bobby Carlson, Mustang Mesa, Michael Razz, Melissa Bates, and DebbiGrant.
Title: Red Lobster Seafood Restaurants - Recipes and LiveLobster Delivery
Title: Home Page: American Memory from the Library oCongress
Title: Saudi Times - latest news stories and topheadlines.
Title: æ--...å¥åç"Yèè¼æoefTaiwaStudent Club in Austria
Title: Welcome to the National Food and Agriculture HomePage
Title: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Yahoo! Singapore News
Title: Singapore Millennium Study Tour
Title: Welcome to Red Mountain
Title: SonyStyle USA SourceForge.net: Welcome
Title: National Statistics of Taiwan, the Republic ofChina
Title: New Mexico State Government Welcome to Streamripper
Title: Sunnyside Jazz Records first page
Title: Scott Wiggerman's Poetry Pages
Title: Tibetan Incense Company : Incense for MeditationHealth and all Spiritual Practices
Title: Welcome to TIME.com
Title: The Truth in America Project
Title: Tucows Downloads - Download freeware and sharewarsoftware.
Title: United Nations Moldova
Title: Welcome to UNICEF Canada
Title: United Nations - daily news and currenevents
Title: The Federal Judiciary
Title: Official Website for the United States Marine Corps Uyghur American Association
Title: Veterans Affairs Commission, Taiwan
Title: Voice of America
Title: washingtonpost.com - News Front Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Space Science Division, NASA
Title: The University of Virginia
So, I've just spent less than five minutes putting in names of bands that I like and this service has a REALLY limited selection. They have NOTHING from any of the following bands:
afro celt sound system
amon tobin
us3
DJ Smash
bullfrog
dead milkmen
slackers
goldfinger
dashboard confessional
joe strummer
catch 22
I'll grant that some of those bands are a bit obscure but that's what's great about p2p networks is that I can find those less popular tracks. Until I find a service that can match the selection of soulseek et al. they won't be getting any money from me.
Man, Klex takes on a whole new meaning when it's a kde program.
This is a Linux distribution to watch out for, and it would straight compete with both Lycoris and Lindows.
Umm, yeah. It's good to know that we've been 'straight competing' all this time. Here I was thinking we were just in normal competition.
From the requirements list:
>Internet connection recommended for multiplayer use
I'm very curious how well they've managed to get multiplayer working without an internet connection...
In fact, it's the very idea of "pop" not Jazz that is dead. I assure you that jazz is alive and well. A search at East Bay Express (paper for the Easy Bay where we have a vibrant and exciting music scene) for Jazz turns up 8 shows tonight, Rock gets 11. Tommorow Jazz gets 5 while rock only 3, HipHop gets NONE. And you claim Jazz is dead? Why don't you check on this sort of thing before making riduculous claims like that. Like I said, MUSIC IS FRAGMENTED. If you're to lazy to get off your ass and talk the more than 2 of the "young and ignorant" about what they're listening to then you can stay in your rocking chair on your front porch and keep yelling at us kids about how much things were better in your day. Pathetic...
Okay, I'll bite...
Are you living under a rock? Or perhaps (and the rest of your comment might indicate this) are you stuck in the past? There is at least as much - if not more - interesting and exciting music coming out today than at any time in the past. Just because it doesn't sound like the stuff you grew up with doesn't make it "base beyond measure" and the fact that the best band you can come up with to bash is Linkin Park suggests you might be the one who's "pathetic and lost".
Why don't you go listen to something on Blue Note? (Madeski Martin and Wood or DJ Logic to mention a few of the great new people on this label). There is all sorts of amazing experimental stuff coming out, check out Alien8 Recordings for some pointers. Punk rock has redefined itself and has a modern message and killer sound. Warped Tour (if you've ever heard of it) is one of the best (and cheapest) big shows around. I've had a great time at every show I've gone to.
The current music scene has fragmented and is moving in a thousand directions. I've mentioned only a few of those fragments and I'm sure that anyone who is at all "with it" could add many more references without even thinking about it. Get the hell out of your rut and start listing to stuff that doesn't play on MTV before you go bashing today's music.
For any of you out there who might be UC Berkeley students there will be a decal offered next semester in which we will build a team to play in the Simulation league. It'll be focused on developing the AI needed to do something like play soccer and should be a lot of fun. Watch the decal page for more info.
From the article:
>It cited compatibility problems, namely among users trying to receive Microsoft World documents.(emphasis mine)
Gad, I hope this guy doesn't have an inside on The Next Big Thing from microsoft that I don't. I suppose it'll be Microsoft Galaxy documents in a few years too. Or a Freudian slip perhaps?
Man, I've been stealing cable from AT&T for about 2.5 years now. I've transfered my account to different locations twice (you move a lot when you're in college) and I've never had a problem.
A piece of advice from an EE major friend of mine. Don't use more than an extra 50cm (about 1.5' for you americans) of extra cable to do this (meaning you should put your modem near the tv). If you do it can be detected by the change in the capacitance on the line. I've never wanted to test this but better safe than sorry I guess.
There's an interesting paper on "Warhol Worms" here.
Basically the author predicts that, by using efficient algorithms to search the space of potential victims a worm could infect most of the vulnerable computers in 15 minutes to an hour. Pretty scary when you think of how much damage Code Red variants were doing 3 weeks after the initial hit.
Well, you could ask the folks at Apache::ASP.
From their website:
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API!
Sounds pretty good to me. Of course, I don't use much ASP so I don't really know what most 'hard core' m$ shops would need support for to be convinced to switch.
Perhaps someone with a bit more knowledge about this stuff can enlighten us all. How do I choose which sounds I want it block? It's all well and good for my computer to be ultra quiet but I don't want the scream of the platter as my hdd crashes and burns blocked out. It seems like it would take some pretty spiffy AI to figure out what are blockable sounds and what aren't. (this is more directed towards the 'advanced version' due out in a year or so)
We here at 'Rights for Dummies" kindly request that you remove this slanderous material from your website. It is material like this story that helps keep the fallacy that 'Dummies aren't people' alive. Just because someone's a dummy doesn't make him any less a man that you.
Thank You,
RFD inC.
If they can't support themselves in some other way besides me buying cds they shouldn't be an opensource company. Being in this game requires that you have a model to support yourself without relying on cd sales.
That said, if you can afford the cds it's always nice to support a good company like Mandrake.
I am very disapointed not to see Amelie nominated for more of the big awards. It did get Art Direction, Cinematography, and Foreign Language (a fairly impresive list) but I felt like this was one of the best movies made in a long time, period.
Audrey Tautou was simply amazing, and I have yet to meet someone who didn't come out of the theater with a big smile on their face. This movie deserves the big nominations not only for being a beautiful film but for doing it without the usual trappings of a blockbuster.