A few years ago, I saw a screening of W&G's 'The Wrong Trousers' at a small arts festival over here in Belgium...
The big thing there was that the movie was being 'scored' by a not-very-well-known post-rock-kinda band called de.portables...
You should have seen it! It rocked like hell, timing was perfect for every scene, for every move... it was very emotional in the scene where Gromit was leaving, suspenseful when Wallace was stealing the diamond, and the train chase scene had to be seen and heard to be believed...
aardman should get in touch with these guys and let them score the vegetable plot movie!!!
But in the mean time, download some of their music (legally) from here and from the site mentioned above...
What do you want politicians to do? Let the people who need help sleep in the streets?
I'd like to give some comments on your rant here...
Yes, we do have free healthcare, and yes, we do pay a lot of taxes, but it's those taxes that make sure that EVERYONE can get the medical help they need. Being healthy has nothing to do with having money to burn or not. We also have other interesting things that we do with the taxes over here: free schools for EVERYONE, very cheap higher education (about $400 for a year of university, but if you can't afford even that -which has to be proven of course- , it's only about $70), very cheap water, gas and electricity (and is works all the time too), and a lot more even...
The other thing that you rant about is the 'welfare support' that exists here. The amount of money you get in Belgium is about $470 each month. That's not much. If you think that that's too much you should try to live on this amount of money for some time.
But if you want welfare support, you cannot have property. If you own a house, or even a 'mansion', you won't get any money from the state. There are certain criteria that someone has to comply to to get support: no property, no capital in the bank, no monetary obligations or stocks, you must live by yourself (or your family), if your partner makes enough money to support 2 persons then you won't receive anything neither.
And you even think that it's wrong to try and push people into the information age... why?
Do you think that it's money not well spent?
Would you rather have the government spend it on bombs? And use those bombs on poor countries? You're probably one of the people that was yelling 'NUKE AFGHANISTAN' a while ago... sad...
Don't forget that a government's task is to create rules and take decisions that are good for everybody. They aren't supposed to make decisions that are profitable for a minority (dubya and the kyoto protocol anyone??)
And by now you're probably calling me a socialist. well, yes I am. and proud of it too.
But then allow me to call you a redneck inbred capitalist trailer park trash nitwit.
The only way to build a really "silent" pc is to get or make one without any fans in it.
How come Apple can make computers that run completely fanless? G4 cube? iMac? I mean, PC builders should get their heads together and make a completely silent pc!
You could make an almost silent one by using the Via C3 processor(the ones running at 933Mhz of course;-), or maybe even one of the more recent Celeron babies, but then you still have the noise generated by the PSU.
Someone: Please make me a fanless Pwer Supply!!! (or if they already exist: where can I find one??)
I must say, the ogg stream sounds real good. It took me about 1,5 minutes to get it working (winamp plugin on winXP -- yeah yeah... shoot me -> this is my gaming rig;-).
I'm a fan!
If xiph just got version 1.0 out soon... I could start working on my jukebox;-)
I mean, the only use that I can think of for one of these machines is as an 'appliance' or 'convergence device' (as in: get my mp3s/oggs or divx movies -- or software dvd? -- in the living room without putting a big beige box in there). If you need something portable, get yourself a laptop. If you need a pc at your desk, get a 'real' pc. (and spend a lot less money...).
I think that what we really need is some kind of small motherboard (like the shuttle sv-24) maybe, plug in one of the faster VIA C3 processors (heatsink cooled -- of course), and, very important, a fanless power supply.
(anybody know where to get one of those?)
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Hey, what's all the fuss about?
I'm born exactly at noon on the middle day of the year!
So that makes my birthday special every year!!
A few years ago, I saw a screening of W&G's 'The Wrong Trousers' at a small arts festival over here in Belgium...
The big thing there was that the movie was being 'scored' by a not-very-well-known post-rock-kinda band called de.portables...
You should have seen it! It rocked like hell, timing was perfect for every scene, for every move... it was very emotional in the scene where Gromit was leaving, suspenseful when Wallace was stealing the diamond, and the train chase scene had to be seen and heard to be believed...
aardman should get in touch with these guys and let them score the vegetable plot movie!!!
But in the mean time, download some of their music (legally) from here and from the site mentioned above...
How about the Capitalist propaganda that pollutes just about everything? Movies, music, television, commercials, billboards, etc...
I thought that people were into all the "free" stuff around here...
Free Software -> Some form of Socialism
Open Source -> Power to the people -> Communism
What are you doing here?
Sure...
Capitalism rules, doesn't it?
Let all 'poor' people rot away. They surely won't get any help from you...
What do you think of the whole Open Source movement then?
Where's the work ethic in the hacker society?
What do you want politicians to do? Let the people who need help sleep in the streets?
... we're both right.
I'd like to give some comments on your rant here...
Yes, we do have free healthcare, and yes, we do pay a lot of taxes, but it's those taxes that make sure that EVERYONE can get the medical help they need. Being healthy has nothing to do with having money to burn or not. We also have other interesting things that we do with the taxes over here: free schools for EVERYONE, very cheap higher education (about $400 for a year of university, but if you can't afford even that -which has to be proven of course- , it's only about $70), very cheap water, gas and electricity (and is works all the time too), and a lot more even...
The other thing that you rant about is the 'welfare support' that exists here. The amount of money you get in Belgium is about $470 each month. That's not much. If you think that that's too much you should try to live on this amount of money for some time.
But if you want welfare support, you cannot have property. If you own a house, or even a 'mansion', you won't get any money from the state. There are certain criteria that someone has to comply to to get support: no property, no capital in the bank, no monetary obligations or stocks, you must live by yourself (or your family), if your partner makes enough money to support 2 persons then you won't receive anything neither.
And you even think that it's wrong to try and push people into the information age... why?
Do you think that it's money not well spent?
Would you rather have the government spend it on bombs? And use those bombs on poor countries? You're probably one of the people that was yelling 'NUKE AFGHANISTAN' a while ago... sad...
Don't forget that a government's task is to create rules and take decisions that are good for everybody. They aren't supposed to make decisions that are profitable for a minority (dubya and the kyoto protocol anyone??)
And by now you're probably calling me a socialist. well, yes I am. and proud of it too.
But then allow me to call you a redneck inbred capitalist trailer park trash nitwit.
Classic.
;-)
But hey, they sure won't be bombing any poor countries with them
another cooling article?
The only way to build a really "silent" pc is to get or make one without any fans in it.
;-), or maybe even one of the more recent Celeron babies, but then you still have the noise generated by the PSU.
How come Apple can make computers that run completely fanless? G4 cube? iMac? I mean, PC builders should get their heads together and make a completely silent pc!
You could make an almost silent one by using the Via C3 processor(the ones running at 933Mhz of course
Someone: Please make me a fanless Pwer Supply!!! (or if they already exist: where can I find one??)
I must say, the ogg stream sounds real good. It took me about 1,5 minutes to get it working (winamp plugin on winXP -- yeah yeah... shoot me -> this is my gaming rig ;-).
;-)
I'm a fan!
If xiph just got version 1.0 out soon... I could start working on my jukebox
I don't think that a small pc is all we need...
I mean, the only use that I can think of for one of these machines is as an 'appliance' or 'convergence device' (as in: get my mp3s/oggs or divx movies -- or software dvd? -- in the living room without putting a big beige box in there). If you need something portable, get yourself a laptop. If you need a pc at your desk, get a 'real' pc. (and spend a lot less money...).
I think that what we really need is some kind of small motherboard (like the shuttle sv-24) maybe, plug in one of the faster VIA C3 processors (heatsink cooled -- of course), and, very important, a fanless power supply. (anybody know where to get one of those?)
I ain't buying this stuff...