Beautiful, stable, "freedom"* distribution that just works, plenty of software for club or corporate members, very reactive staff (since they're willing to save their heads right now:-). Try it, buy it...
*Reminder: "Freedom", apart from the "free" aspect of things, is also used to replace the name of a bunch of arrogant, anti-american bastards in the old Europe...
Well, I guess the're not running experiments every day. Otherwise, when will they find the time / cpu power needed to parse all of this ? Are we goingg to see a SLAC-athon@HOME any time soon ?
Animatrix is a series of nine animated movies, from 7 well know anime directors, based on the world of Matrix. The Wachowsky brothers made some of the scripts, and the whole thing is to come to DVD later this year, with the first four movies made available to download, one episode per month. I can't tell for this one, but the first one was well done.
"Si jamais je vous rencontre, je donnerai un coup de pied à votre ane".
"If ever I meet you, I will kick your mule". If you intended "I will kick your ass", the right translation is "Je vous botterai les fesses" or "Je vous botterai le cul"(more slangish).
The famous sentence "La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas" (the guard dies but does not surrender) is attributed to general Cambronne, in Waterloo, as he was already wounded, and the English troops commanded him to surrender with the imperial guard, which he leaded. Hugo would write later that the real winner of Waterloo was Cambronne, for his heroic behaviour in front of adversity.
More accurate evidences seem to suggest that the sentence actually was from general Michel, who found death during this battle. Cambronne's answer was shorter, although no less heroic, in the form of the famous "word of Cambronne": Merde ! (Shit !).
Supposed dead during the battle, Cambronne was captured by the english military, then freed and sentenced to martial court by the new french monarchy for having served under Bonaparte, before being freed again to serve the Bourbons.
So perharps it makes the citation more appropriate for poor Mandrake, willing to fight until its last breath without admitting defeat, the way real stubborn french people do.
Reminds me of another famous citation, from Cyrano de Bergerac, a fictional character of Edmod Rostand:
Que dites-vous ? C'est inutile ? Je le sais, mais on se bat pas dans l'espoir du succès.
(Lame translation: What do you say ? it's useless ? I know that, but one does not fight hoping for success).
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It's 1h30 long, 48kbps. Lots of things, some of them interesting, but you've got to take your pick in all of this.
Beautiful, stable, "freedom"* distribution that just works, plenty of software for club or corporate members, very reactive staff (since they're willing to save their heads right now :-). Try it, buy it...
*Reminder: "Freedom", apart from the "free" aspect of things, is also used to replace the name of a bunch of arrogant, anti-american bastards in the old Europe...
Well, I guess the're not running experiments every day. Otherwise, when will they find the time / cpu power needed to parse all of this ? Are we goingg to see a SLAC-athon@HOME any time soon ?
Animatrix is a series of nine animated movies, from 7 well know anime directors, based on the world of Matrix. The Wachowsky brothers made some of the scripts, and the whole thing is to come to DVD later this year, with the first four movies made available to download, one episode per month. I can't tell for this one, but the first one was well done.
East, sorry. Almost grown up now, and still mistaking left and right...
To the west, looking France, because this is the way your independance came from...
By linux expert 1 and linux expert 2 alike ? Ok, ok, minus 1...
"If ever I meet you, I will kick your mule". If you intended "I will kick your ass", the right translation is "Je vous botterai les fesses" or "Je vous botterai le cul"(more slangish).
Hope it helps...
The famous sentence "La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas" (the guard dies but does not surrender) is attributed to general Cambronne, in Waterloo, as he was already wounded, and the English troops commanded him to surrender with the imperial guard, which he leaded. Hugo would write later that the real winner of Waterloo was Cambronne, for his heroic behaviour in front of adversity.
More accurate evidences seem to suggest that the sentence actually was from general Michel, who found death during this battle. Cambronne's answer was shorter, although no less heroic, in the form of the famous "word of Cambronne": Merde ! (Shit !).
Supposed dead during the battle, Cambronne was captured by the english military, then freed and sentenced to martial court by the new french monarchy for having served under Bonaparte, before being freed again to serve the Bourbons.
So perharps it makes the citation more appropriate for poor Mandrake, willing to fight until its last breath without admitting defeat, the way real stubborn french people do.
Reminds me of another famous citation, from Cyrano de Bergerac, a fictional character of Edmod Rostand:
Que dites-vous ? C'est inutile ? Je le sais, mais on se bat pas dans l'espoir du succès.
(Lame translation: What do you say ? it's useless ? I know that, but one does not fight hoping for success).
Use Bit Torrent over a http server, and you get scalability, download resuming and fault tolerance almost for free. Plus, it's definitely fashionable.
Launch
mplayer -delay -10 animatrix.mov
You'll miss the first few seconds of the movie, but the sound will be more or less synced (play with keypad +/- to adjust).
Don't try and skip forward though, or you'll loose a/v sync again.