Yeah, there's not much there in the google cache. I checked over at the Internet Wayback Machine and there is an older listing for the site, but heck... every little bit helps I guess.
There is some weird cat-and-mouse play going on here that can only be damaging to both sides in the upcoming trial against the RIAA and MPAA in California.
It might have something to do with the fact that Morpheus, owned by the American company StreamCast, was perhaps the most likely of the three to get convicted under United States' law. Thusly, they were the best target and perhaps the biggest liability of each of the companies running FastTrack. With them, and no other United States localized company running FastTrack, the network is a bit more secure since going after the others would be meddling in other country's laws. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I read it.
The information stored on the laser discs which is the equivalent of several sets of encyclopedia's is now impossible to access, reports The Observer.
And then...
He has now started work on Camileon, a program aimed at recovering the data on the Domesday discs. "We have got a couple of rather scratchy pairs of discs and we are confident we will eventually be able to read all their images, maps and text," he said.
Sorry, I thought that was ammusing. Perhaps their definition of 'impossible' simply means, 'it'll be kinda hard.'
Are there site statistics for this fellas page too? In the last case-mod post, it was almost as fun to check out the case as watch his server get nailed.
Ditto for the northern Delaware store (not a huge market, so go figure), the main G4 up front even had a rather nice DV camera hooked up and was running Final Cut Pro. Oooo, that was nice.
How about a case study book? A series of case study books?
I would have to agree with this one, "How to do X" books on the vast majority of subjects are pretty common and often very similar. For an example of the type of case-study book that I would like to see more of, check out Jakob Nielsen's first-rate Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. I'm a web-developer/graphic designer so I can't really speak to any of the more technically oriented books, but this book however is right up my alley.
From Jay Allard, General Director of the Xbox platform at Microsoft:
Players will have a single indentity that spans all the games and all the publishers.
No doubt this will be accessed through a Passport account (on TheZone I would assume). Hopefully Sony and Nintendo sign up with Liberty Alliance when they finnaly get online. Just imagine MS owning both your real and online persona, great.
Thats not the point though, whether one was better than the other. For a decent amount of time NS was the better browser, only due to the relentless onslaught of MS was it able to dominate the market. Also, what you need to keep in mind, is that the people that matter in law suits like this are not you or me, its the average user who doesn't know what IE is or what NS is, all they know is what the icon looks like on their desktop. And through MSs monopoly, that icon they see now looks like a round blue "E".
Not a huge anime fan, but...
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Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" was released by Miramax in 1999 in a dubbed version, featuring the voices of Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson and Minnie Driver...
I'm not a huge anime fan, but if you want a good introduction to the genre, see Princess Mononoke. However, what the NYTimes article fails to mention is the issue with dubbing (unless I missed it), stay away if you can. Even the well known cast that Disney was able to get for Princess Mononoke pales in comparison to the original Japanese with English subtitles. It took a significant effort on the part of the fans for Disney to finally decide to include the original dialog, and it was well worth their effort.
Apparently this is not the only project working on light passenger load rail systems, check out the Light Rail Transit Association's website for a whole host of details about other projects around the world (mostly in Europe though, figures...) and a bunch of other stuff. Note: this includes trams and other slightly less advanced projects than the one mentioned in the BBC article, but its still worth checking out if there is more you want to learn about the field.
I would disagree, aside from the fact that I don't think the X-Files has died (though it is perhaps more inconsistent in its successes as of late), part of the skillful talent that made it so great was to not always play the government conspiracy/aliens card in its plot. If anything, I felt that the most intelligent and intriguing episodes were the ones that didn't deal with this almost standard plot trick. That said however, I would agree that of the conspiracy/aliens episodes that they did have, where enhanced a great deal by the acting and writing from William B. Davis. Along that line, of the episodes in the same vein of government conspiracy that they did after he left were perhaps all that much worse for his absence.
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Heh, you're opinion, which you are, of course, entitled to.:-) But I'm my opinion the Simpson's has lost much of its intelligent and often more subtle humor in favor of broad gags that play to an arguably larger audience. What I loved about the Simpsons of old, was the small cultural allusions that most people would miss, now its as is they feel they need to hammer the reference home because they think you won't get it (I'm thinking namely of the play off Crimson Tide where they went on for nearly the entire episode with a ham-handed approach that was less a skillful jab and more a painful knockout punch to the gut.) I know I'm not alone in this opinion, but I do seem to be in the minority at any rate. Really though, it doesn't matter to me if they show the Simpsons until the end of the decade, I'll not be watching.
Sorry if this was a bit of a rant, I just got done talking to my boss who wants to completely change the design of a site I did. Doh!
X-Files Still One of the Best Out There, By Far
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For awhile I was thinking that it was time for the X-Files to end. Many of the most recent plots centered around a hackneyed government conspiracy and the acting was only good at best (save Robert Patrick, he's been very good in my opinion.) but I hardly think that the X-Files has gone downhill as badly as, say, the Simpsons.
This was until I saw the latest episode last Saturday, which I can venture to say was one of the best X-Files Episodes I had ever seen. The plot was great, the acting likewise was excellent, and the cinematography was top-notch. It was really a testament to how well the X-Files has been able to recover after losing one of their stars, and nearly losing the other. Another of my favorite episodes also was a fairly recent one, also starring Robert Patrick and not David Ducovney, namely the one starring another Terminator 2 alum, Joe Morton. This was the one where the lawyer seems to be moving backward in time from when he is killed by the father of his wife who he allegedly killed, to the actual murder itself. The plot was ingenious, the acting equally as good, and ranks among my top 20 or so episodes. First rate work, and although I commend them on choosing to go out on top, unlike many of the posters here, I will be sad to see the show end.
Well, I'm stuck using the last evaluation version released, RC2, which is not supported by Microsoft in any way shape or form so I've not been able to update it. And here was me thinking all alone that this was a bad thing...
I'm behind a firewall so the UPnP issue shouldn't be a problem... well, unless I read that one wrong, though my new copy of XP Pro is in the mail.
These are actually completely different theories. What you call "multiple universes" sounds a lot like the Everett "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, i.e. that we can think of "wave function collapse" as a branching of the universe into different possibilities. Most people tend to think of this more as a way of looking at QM rather than an actual claim that other "universes" exist, and it certainly doesn't suggest any way of making contact with these other "universes."
Interesting, sorry about the error... I read a lot of science articles but on a very broad range of topics so I get things confused now and then. Too bad you can't edit posts... shucks.
Also, I actually have the newest Discover sitting about four feet from where I'm sitting but I have not yet had the chance to read the cover article. (I like to save the most interesting looking for last.) However the article on the new type of holography is absolutely not to be missed either, nor is the article on savants. Got a bit off-topic there... like I said, I have a varied taste.:-) Thanks again for the correction.
This wasn't one of the mentioned Slashbacks, but it probably could have been. The NY Times is running a story on Time Canada's (free reg...) apparent faux pas on the new iMac announcement. The article is a bit more about the content of the article than the error which was oh so recently immortalized here on slashdot, but its still a good read.
Coincidentally I was just reading an article from a Discover magazine about the possibility of multiple universes. Thankfully you can also get the very same article online from Discover's website. Here is a snippet:
We also have every possible option we've ever encountered acted out somewhere in some universe by at least one of our other selves. Unlike the traveler facing a fork in the road in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," who is "sorry that I could not travel both / And be one traveler," we take all the roads in our lives. This has some unsettling consequences and could explain why Deutsch is reluctant to venture from his house.
I don't see them on the feature list, dang... that would have made this one really worth having. Perhaps we might get lucky and see some on the upcoming sets.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I kinda remember reading that there are a host of licensing issues surrounding outtakes and bloopers hence the lack of any released tapes. I have a short mpeg of a few from Voyager, DS9, and TNG and they are great! You can find them on Kazaa (gotta love spyware...) since I doubt my host would be too impressed if I were to host them off my site.
TNG was not shot in widescreen, thats a recent trend partly due to the required switch over to HDTV (2006 is it?) and also because the producers feel it gives a more 'cinematic' feel to it.
More and more TV series are being shot in a widescreen aspect ratio. A bunch of the more recent X-Files are, and I think a few of the other more popular prime-time shows (ER... I think, among others). Perhaps the most ardent supporters of widescreen ratios on TV can be found on PBS, a great deal of the new episodes of Nova, Frontline, and The American Experience are in widescreen as well as a good deal of their specials.
I believe that NPR will also be switching to widescreen in the coming months as well.;)
Who knows, I've read that Seinfeld is tied up in licensing issues, though don't quote me on that. Just hope that whatever TV series your looking for isn't owned by Warner Bros, because then you'll get about 10 'Best Of...' DVDs so you'll probably never be able to buy them all and especially not be able to 'collect them.' I'm just praying that when Cartoon Network (who's owned by Warner) releases Samurai Jack they pull a New Line and go it alone (well, mostly). So far they are doing ok, the four part movie is slated to come out in March.... after that... who knows.
Even stores like FYE have them for about 15.00 I work for them and our prices are high (as I've been told ad nausium), but since I get them for 30% off... Anyhow, I kinda think it'd be worse releasing them like the original series. I'm not a huge trekker, so correct me if I'm wrong... but there were 40 TOS episodes to TNGs 70 or so, right? That would add up real fast I'd think.
Anyhow, I might buy some of the later seasons, something about the first season... naa...
Perhaps what I found most interesting abot the setup mentioned was the inclusion of a firewire port. Its good to see that this is getting more and more attention from PC manufactures after Apple made it a crucial part of their desktop line. I have a firewire harddrive which is plenty fast for general use and with more and more devices coming out the limited expandability due to the size of the case could become less and less important.
However, I would be included to wait a little while if I were to invest in a system of this type. Once Bluetooth or 802.1 gets established, the issue of space could be even less of a hindrance as it won't be as important that there is that direct and internalized method of communication. That said however, I have to echo what had been said earlier, why would you bother packing in decent amounts of RAM and a fairly fast processor if you're going to be using this for word processing and the like. Not necessarily a criticism of the case per se, but something that I thought of reading THG's review.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, there's not much there in the google cache. I checked over at the Internet Wayback Machine and there is an older listing for the site, but heck... every little bit helps I guess.
Are there site statistics for this fellas page too? In the last case-mod post, it was almost as fun to check out the case as watch his server get nailed.
Ditto for the northern Delaware store (not a huge market, so go figure), the main G4 up front even had a rather nice DV camera hooked up and was running Final Cut Pro. Oooo, that was nice.
Thats not the point though, whether one was better than the other. For a decent amount of time NS was the better browser, only due to the relentless onslaught of MS was it able to dominate the market. Also, what you need to keep in mind, is that the people that matter in law suits like this are not you or me, its the average user who doesn't know what IE is or what NS is, all they know is what the icon looks like on their desktop. And through MSs monopoly, that icon they see now looks like a round blue "E".
C|Net is reporting on this, check out the article which includes a few more details that haven't been mentioned here.
Apparently this is not the only project working on light passenger load rail systems, check out the Light Rail Transit Association's website for a whole host of details about other projects around the world (mostly in Europe though, figures...) and a bunch of other stuff. Note: this includes trams and other slightly less advanced projects than the one mentioned in the BBC article, but its still worth checking out if there is more you want to learn about the field.
I would disagree, aside from the fact that I don't think the X-Files has died (though it is perhaps more inconsistent in its successes as of late), part of the skillful talent that made it so great was to not always play the government conspiracy/aliens card in its plot. If anything, I felt that the most intelligent and intriguing episodes were the ones that didn't deal with this almost standard plot trick. That said however, I would agree that of the conspiracy/aliens episodes that they did have, where enhanced a great deal by the acting and writing from William B. Davis. Along that line, of the episodes in the same vein of government conspiracy that they did after he left were perhaps all that much worse for his absence.
Heh, you're opinion, which you are, of course, entitled to. :-) But I'm my opinion the Simpson's has lost much of its intelligent and often more subtle humor in favor of broad gags that play to an arguably larger audience. What I loved about the Simpsons of old, was the small cultural allusions that most people would miss, now its as is they feel they need to hammer the reference home because they think you won't get it (I'm thinking namely of the play off Crimson Tide where they went on for nearly the entire episode with a ham-handed approach that was less a skillful jab and more a painful knockout punch to the gut.) I know I'm not alone in this opinion, but I do seem to be in the minority at any rate. Really though, it doesn't matter to me if they show the Simpsons until the end of the decade, I'll not be watching.
Sorry if this was a bit of a rant, I just got done talking to my boss who wants to completely change the design of a site I did. Doh!
For awhile I was thinking that it was time for the X-Files to end. Many of the most recent plots centered around a hackneyed government conspiracy and the acting was only good at best (save Robert Patrick, he's been very good in my opinion.) but I hardly think that the X-Files has gone downhill as badly as, say, the Simpsons.
This was until I saw the latest episode last Saturday, which I can venture to say was one of the best X-Files Episodes I had ever seen. The plot was great, the acting likewise was excellent, and the cinematography was top-notch. It was really a testament to how well the X-Files has been able to recover after losing one of their stars, and nearly losing the other. Another of my favorite episodes also was a fairly recent one, also starring Robert Patrick and not David Ducovney, namely the one starring another Terminator 2 alum, Joe Morton. This was the one where the lawyer seems to be moving backward in time from when he is killed by the father of his wife who he allegedly killed, to the actual murder itself. The plot was ingenious, the acting equally as good, and ranks among my top 20 or so episodes. First rate work, and although I commend them on choosing to go out on top, unlike many of the posters here, I will be sad to see the show end.
Well, I'm stuck using the last evaluation version released, RC2, which is not supported by Microsoft in any way shape or form so I've not been able to update it. And here was me thinking all alone that this was a bad thing...
I'm behind a firewall so the UPnP issue shouldn't be a problem... well, unless I read that one wrong, though my new copy of XP Pro is in the mail.
These are actually completely different theories. What you call "multiple universes" sounds a lot like the Everett "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, i.e. that we can think of "wave function collapse" as a branching of the universe into different possibilities. Most people tend to think of this more as a way of looking at QM rather than an actual claim that other "universes" exist, and it certainly doesn't suggest any way of making contact with these other "universes."
:-) Thanks again for the correction.
Interesting, sorry about the error... I read a lot of science articles but on a very broad range of topics so I get things confused now and then. Too bad you can't edit posts... shucks.
Also, I actually have the newest Discover sitting about four feet from where I'm sitting but I have not yet had the chance to read the cover article. (I like to save the most interesting looking for last.) However the article on the new type of holography is absolutely not to be missed either, nor is the article on savants. Got a bit off-topic there... like I said, I have a varied taste.
This wasn't one of the mentioned Slashbacks, but it probably could have been. The NY Times is running a story on Time Canada's (free reg...) apparent faux pas on the new iMac announcement. The article is a bit more about the content of the article than the error which was oh so recently immortalized here on slashdot, but its still a good read.
I don't see them on the feature list, dang... that would have made this one really worth having. Perhaps we might get lucky and see some on the upcoming sets.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I kinda remember reading that there are a host of licensing issues surrounding outtakes and bloopers hence the lack of any released tapes. I have a short mpeg of a few from Voyager, DS9, and TNG and they are great! You can find them on Kazaa (gotta love spyware...) since I doubt my host would be too impressed if I were to host them off my site.
TNG was not shot in widescreen, thats a recent trend partly due to the required switch over to HDTV (2006 is it?) and also because the producers feel it gives a more 'cinematic' feel to it.
;)
More and more TV series are being shot in a widescreen aspect ratio. A bunch of the more recent X-Files are, and I think a few of the other more popular prime-time shows (ER... I think, among others). Perhaps the most ardent supporters of widescreen ratios on TV can be found on PBS, a great deal of the new episodes of Nova, Frontline, and The American Experience are in widescreen as well as a good deal of their specials.
I believe that NPR will also be switching to widescreen in the coming months as well.
Who knows, I've read that Seinfeld is tied up in licensing issues, though don't quote me on that. Just hope that whatever TV series your looking for isn't owned by Warner Bros, because then you'll get about 10 'Best Of...' DVDs so you'll probably never be able to buy them all and especially not be able to 'collect them.' I'm just praying that when Cartoon Network (who's owned by Warner) releases Samurai Jack they pull a New Line and go it alone (well, mostly). So far they are doing ok, the four part movie is slated to come out in March.... after that... who knows.
Even stores like FYE have them for about 15.00 I work for them and our prices are high (as I've been told ad nausium), but since I get them for 30% off... Anyhow, I kinda think it'd be worse releasing them like the original series. I'm not a huge trekker, so correct me if I'm wrong... but there were 40 TOS episodes to TNGs 70 or so, right? That would add up real fast I'd think.
Anyhow, I might buy some of the later seasons, something about the first season... naa...
Yeah, I noticed that... something tells me I need to second guess CmdrTaco more often.
At least there will always be a secondary use for silicone.
Perhaps what I found most interesting abot the setup mentioned was the inclusion of a firewire port. Its good to see that this is getting more and more attention from PC manufactures after Apple made it a crucial part of their desktop line. I have a firewire harddrive which is plenty fast for general use and with more and more devices coming out the limited expandability due to the size of the case could become less and less important.
However, I would be included to wait a little while if I were to invest in a system of this type. Once Bluetooth or 802.1 gets established, the issue of space could be even less of a hindrance as it won't be as important that there is that direct and internalized method of communication. That said however, I have to echo what had been said earlier, why would you bother packing in decent amounts of RAM and a fairly fast processor if you're going to be using this for word processing and the like. Not necessarily a criticism of the case per se, but something that I thought of reading THG's review.