The second disc contains a TONNE of extras, mostly 'making of' specials, but also plenty of outtakes, the original opening scene, a LONG interview with lots of cast and crew in the early 90s...lots.
Here's what the 'official' chapter guide says:
Chapter 1 - A Long Time Ago In a TV Studio Far, Far Away...
The long making-of documentary produced in the 90s. Chapter 2 - Out of the Trees - The Cast
Uh, just what it says. Interviews with the cast. Chapter 3 - The Graphics
About the really cool (and award-winning) illustrations from the Guide. (From a Channel 4 interview) Chapter 4 - Zephod Beeblebrox
The second head was a major technological feat in the 80s, when the show was made. This is a short bit about it from a science programme. Chapter 5 - The Music
Namely the "Share and Enjoy" -- features the full lyrics, which are hilariously funny. Chapter 6 - Life as a Television Programme
About the conversion from radio to television.
And, like I said, lots of outtakes and more cool stuff you wouldn't normally see.
Who cares? After all, the results are OBVIOUSLY skewed -- there aren't that many FOX viewers, even in the international market! And don't try to tell me that Matt Groening is a real person, either.
I'd think that that would work here -- we're directly under an airplane landing path.
One idea to increase the speed of the system is to have a web cache set up on the plane that fetches documents and images that are one level deep from the current page. Unless it was something like cryptome.org, this would provide a significant speed-up for casual web browsers. (Though for the prices airlines charge for airphones, I'd think not much casual browsing would be going on.)
What happens when this company realizes this won't make them money? Why, they'll sell a list of the screen names that it's talked to to a bunch of companies! Ah, what a wonderful world.
Are you sure? Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. If we've found a large, easily tapped reserve, this is a good thing, I think.
I think what they were TRYING to say was that it's more freely available than PROCESSED and PACKAGED hydrogen fuel modules. Until we see hydrogen fuel stations popping up, it'll remain that way. Wind and sun are obviously freely available anywhere, processed (seeing as how nothing needs to be done), and well, I guess Nuclear power is already more popular than hydrogen power, and I guess that's what they meant. I guess.
Trillian comes with built-in SSH (*gasp*) and, IMO, does a much better job of handling connections with the various networks (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YIM, IRC) and uses the OSCAR protocol instead of the outdated "public usage" protocol that AOL "provides" (read: was forced to do by court order). Not to say your experience differs, as it probably does, but I've found Trillian to be a breeze and INCREDIBLY nice.
What a complete and utter piece of shit. Has anyone else tried using AppleWorks? It's unstable as hell, it has almost no advanced features, there are no foreign language dictionaries, its RTF support is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life, its table formatting is egregious, and the whole thing stinks of "cheap Microsoft ripoff". Now, I'm not saying that Word is much better, but at least it has good RTF support, excellent formatting, and some extra useless features like 3D text. And while it does crash occasionally, it's much better than AppleWorks (and, I imagine, it's more stable on the Mac platform than on the Windows platform). To tell you the truth, the only reason I use Word instead of WordPerfect (the ultimate in word processing) is because of Outlook, and the fact that for some reason on my last box (albeit running W98SE and using an earlier version of WordPerfect) I had some really bad crashing problems. But, whatever. It's your choice.
If the virii are illegal to distribute, how can we expect virus scanner manufacturers to be able to detect and remove them? As a matter of fact, parts of the virus' code is transmitted in the pattern files that detect them! (That's how these things work.) Making them illegal to distribute would only mean that virus scanners would be unable to do their jobs, and, looking at history, the script kiddies would find a way to distribute them anyway.
Dude, people don't CARE about spyware, even really BAD shit like CometCursor. Honestly. Every single person I tell that KaZaA has spyware just shrugs and says "oh well" (the opposite of what they SHOULD be doing, since all they use it for is stealing gobs of music and software). Likewise, most people are too stupid and/or ignorant to turn off downloaded plugins. Anyone smart enough to will probably notice JPEG2000 and install the plugin on their own.
The only thing that worries me is that they'll increase the cost of low-end systems that I like. It's been a long time since I did anything but basic coding and editing.
Why are you worried? You don't need anything above a 386/33 to code anyway. What are you, some kind of crazy person that needs to run Windows 4?
Even with a card that can decode OTA hi-definition TV signals it seems that NOTHING can decode digital cable. What's up with this, and what can be done to fix the problem? Also, what's with all these cards retrieving programming information over the web instead of through the cable line?
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Amusing. 'Nuff said. (Please don't kill my webserver...though, posting a link on /. ... is it possible NOT to?)
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Considering the relatively low CPU cost, you could probably underclock an old AMD K6 or Athlon and forego the need for fans on the processor.
Yeah, THIS doesn't sound like a police state or anything.
It's almost as irritating as people 'minusing' and 'timesing' stuff.
How about my NEC MultiSync FE1250+ (CRT) that has a dead pixel? The hell's up with that?!
The second disc contains a TONNE of extras, mostly 'making of' specials, but also plenty of outtakes, the original opening scene, a LONG interview with lots of cast and crew in the early 90s...lots.
Here's what the 'official' chapter guide says:
Chapter 1 - A Long Time Ago In a TV Studio Far, Far Away...
The long making-of documentary produced in the 90s.
Chapter 2 - Out of the Trees - The Cast
Uh, just what it says. Interviews with the cast.
Chapter 3 - The Graphics
About the really cool (and award-winning) illustrations from the Guide. (From a Channel 4 interview)
Chapter 4 - Zephod Beeblebrox
The second head was a major technological feat in the 80s, when the show was made. This is a short bit about it from a science programme.
Chapter 5 - The Music
Namely the "Share and Enjoy" -- features the full lyrics, which are hilariously funny.
Chapter 6 - Life as a Television Programme
About the conversion from radio to television.
And, like I said, lots of outtakes and more cool stuff you wouldn't normally see.
Who cares? After all, the results are OBVIOUSLY skewed -- there aren't that many FOX viewers, even in the international market! And don't try to tell me that Matt Groening is a real person, either.
Because, yeah, you couldn't change it before. Yeah.
The Wayback Machine does a much more accurate representation, IMO.
I'd think that that would work here -- we're directly under an airplane landing path.
One idea to increase the speed of the system is to have a web cache set up on the plane that fetches documents and images that are one level deep from the current page. Unless it was something like cryptome.org, this would provide a significant speed-up for casual web browsers. (Though for the prices airlines charge for airphones, I'd think not much casual browsing would be going on.)
Eh, they'd get money out of it if they put twenty or thirty banner ads on the page, like most pr0n sites.
What happens when this company realizes this won't make them money? Why, they'll sell a list of the screen names that it's talked to to a bunch of companies! Ah, what a wonderful world.
Trillian comes with built-in SSH (*gasp*) and, IMO, does a much better job of handling connections with the various networks (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YIM, IRC) and uses the OSCAR protocol instead of the outdated "public usage" protocol that AOL "provides" (read: was forced to do by court order). Not to say your experience differs, as it probably does, but I've found Trillian to be a breeze and INCREDIBLY nice.
What a complete and utter piece of shit. Has anyone else tried using AppleWorks? It's unstable as hell, it has almost no advanced features, there are no foreign language dictionaries, its RTF support is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life, its table formatting is egregious, and the whole thing stinks of "cheap Microsoft ripoff". Now, I'm not saying that Word is much better, but at least it has good RTF support, excellent formatting, and some extra useless features like 3D text. And while it does crash occasionally, it's much better than AppleWorks (and, I imagine, it's more stable on the Mac platform than on the Windows platform).
To tell you the truth, the only reason I use Word instead of WordPerfect (the ultimate in word processing) is because of Outlook, and the fact that for some reason on my last box (albeit running W98SE and using an earlier version of WordPerfect) I had some really bad crashing problems. But, whatever. It's your choice.
If the virii are illegal to distribute, how can we expect virus scanner manufacturers to be able to detect and remove them? As a matter of fact, parts of the virus' code is transmitted in the pattern files that detect them! (That's how these things work.) Making them illegal to distribute would only mean that virus scanners would be unable to do their jobs, and, looking at history, the script kiddies would find a way to distribute them anyway.
Dude, people don't CARE about spyware, even really BAD shit like CometCursor. Honestly. Every single person I tell that KaZaA has spyware just shrugs and says "oh well" (the opposite of what they SHOULD be doing, since all they use it for is stealing gobs of music and software). Likewise, most people are too stupid and/or ignorant to turn off downloaded plugins. Anyone smart enough to will probably notice JPEG2000 and install the plugin on their own.
VirtualDub. Where have you been living? The "real world"? Yeesh.
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Even with a card that can decode OTA hi-definition TV signals it seems that NOTHING can decode digital cable. What's up with this, and what can be done to fix the problem?
Also, what's with all these cards retrieving programming information over the web instead of through the cable line?