Ah, yes. Scan Line Interleaving. That wonderful short VGA cable, and the slight but unmistakable Venetian blind effect that made it look like an old interlaced telly.
It's not just parodies. The definitive version of Episode IV, A New Hope, for example, is Adywan's Fan Edit. *much* better than any official version, no contest.
Episode V is in the works and looks to be released early next year. See here for the changes made so far.
These are the sorts of things that I am more worried about. Lucas for all his faults has had a very good relationship with fan editors (in a sense of leaving them alone unless they encourage blatant copyright infringement) .
Meh, I can plug a USB mouse and keyboard into my $75 Android tablet and it makes for a fine PC. Not a particularly fast one, but I can work and play with it.
For these and myriad other reasons - killing an American without trial, voting for telecom immunity, extending the Patriot Act &c - I have to vote against Obama.
Fair enough, but how exactly will you vote against Kang without voting for Kodos?
Given that Kodos is extremely unlikely to improve any of the concerns you raised, I can only assume you will be voting for one of the third parties. And for that, I applaud you.
Yeah, let's all pay Apple a $100 fee to unlock our own devices. There's a few well established names for that sort of thing, and "reasonable" is not one of them.
512MB is nice and all but, other than the cute name, what does the relatively closed architecture of the Raspberry Pi have over other efforts such as the Rhombus A10 project?
This "approach" is not optional - if you are in society you are already a part of it. You have money, maybe a lot, maybe a little, but once the bills are paid you can choose where any extra goes, however little that may be. The next time you buy a movie ticket or a song off iTunes you are voting for the current lobbyists.
My recommendation is to vote *against* current lobbyists such as the RIAA/MPAA by simply not giving them any more money (ie not buying their crap) so they can't keep doing what they are doing.
That is something both the rich and poor alike can do.
I meant to vote out the incumbent lobbyists who effectively "own" the politicians who come and go much more often. These lobbyists have influence because they have money. They have money because of a revenue stream, and that stream comes from people opening wallets to them.
To vote with your wallet is to choose where you spend your money. If you have disposable income, buy your music from ethical places such as Magnatune instead, or donate to a worthwhile charity such as EFF or FSF.
This also raises an important point. If enough people stop buying AMD processors and the company folds, what are Intel going to do?
I'll wager we would see two changes:
1. Prices for Intel processors will go up due to no competition on price. 2. Fewer new processors and refreshes due to no competition on innovation.
Both of these would of course be bad for us consumers. IOW, competition is good.
Mind you, this would only apply to desktop and perhaps laptop processors. Intel's real competition in the ultra-portable market (tablets, etc) is ARM, to whom they are losing badly.
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Ah, yes. Scan Line Interleaving. That wonderful short VGA cable, and the slight but unmistakable Venetian blind effect that made it look like an old interlaced telly.
Good times...
Umm, I'm pretty sure it was Disney who bought LucasArts, not Valve.
...then you have the FOSSies that don't give a shit if its the most fiddly obtuse mess on the planet as long as GPL is held above all
Reference: GRUB 2
It's not just parodies. The definitive version of Episode IV, A New Hope, for example, is Adywan's Fan Edit. *much* better than any official version, no contest.
Episode V is in the works and looks to be released early next year.
See here for the changes made so far.
These are the sorts of things that I am more worried about. Lucas for all his faults has had a very good relationship with fan editors (in a sense of leaving them alone unless they encourage blatant copyright infringement) .
Meh, I can plug a USB mouse and keyboard into my $75 Android tablet and it makes for a fine PC. Not a particularly fast one, but I can work and play with it.
Isn't that a bit like doing a Google search for "google" ?
But evidently not enough to make you skip replying to it.
And why, exactly, do people still think copyright beyond five years (or in fact at all) is a good idea?
This stuff should have been public domain long ago.
How exactly does mating lead to such a reward? Are you trying to make a case for orgone energy?
For these and myriad other reasons - killing an American without trial, voting for telecom immunity, extending the Patriot Act &c - I have to vote against Obama.
Fair enough, but how exactly will you vote against Kang without voting for Kodos?
Given that Kodos is extremely unlikely to improve any of the concerns you raised, I can only assume you will be voting for one of the third parties. And for that, I applaud you.
Yeah, let's all pay Apple a $100 fee to unlock our own devices. There's a few well established names for that sort of thing, and "reasonable" is not one of them.
Any person using FTFY or editing my postings agrees to a US$50.00 cheque.
FTFY
Hmm, interesting plot, thanks for that. I would have thought his speed would have levelled much more asymptotically. Do you have a source? Thanks.
512MB is nice and all but, other than the cute name, what does the relatively closed architecture of the Raspberry Pi have over other efforts such as the Rhombus A10 project?
Hey, maybe those mormons were on to something! Or was that Kolob?
If we're calling licences such as the GPL "viral" then we should refer to proprietary closed-source licences as "dead-end".
Now how are those alternative VOIP/Video clients coming along?
At worst, those nukes will spray the intended victims with used pinball machine parts.
Maybe if genuine airbags weren't so ludicrously expensive there wouldn't be such a market for counterfeit ones...
There's some price-fixing worth looking into.
I don't know, he appears pretty fucking far from the God I know.
Interesting, thanks!
This "approach" is not optional - if you are in society you are already a part of it. You have money, maybe a lot, maybe a little, but once the bills are paid you can choose where any extra goes, however little that may be. The next time you buy a movie ticket or a song off iTunes you are voting for the current lobbyists.
My recommendation is to vote *against* current lobbyists such as the RIAA/MPAA by simply not giving them any more money (ie not buying their crap) so they can't keep doing what they are doing.
That is something both the rich and poor alike can do.
I meant to vote out the incumbent lobbyists who effectively "own" the politicians who come and go much more often. These lobbyists have influence because they have money. They have money because of a revenue stream, and that stream comes from people opening wallets to them.
To vote with your wallet is to choose where you spend your money. If you have disposable income, buy your music from ethical places such as Magnatune instead, or donate to a worthwhile charity such as EFF or FSF.
Yes, but when Democracy of government fails (which it has in the US), then resort to Democracy of capitalism. Your wallet. Vote with it. Starting now.
This also raises an important point. If enough people stop buying AMD processors and the company folds, what are Intel going to do?
I'll wager we would see two changes:
1. Prices for Intel processors will go up due to no competition on price.
2. Fewer new processors and refreshes due to no competition on innovation.
Both of these would of course be bad for us consumers. IOW, competition is good.
Mind you, this would only apply to desktop and perhaps laptop processors. Intel's real competition in the ultra-portable market (tablets, etc) is ARM, to whom they are losing badly.