My god man thats it!:) Thanks alot, I've been wondering about it for quite some time. Im in a small town in california not far from an air field and two air bases...
or heard about a black aircraft with the shape of a violin body? I was into astronomy about 10 years ago and in the wee hours of the morning I was setting up my scope when all of the sudden out of nowhere this black aircraft (looked like an f15 with the body of a violin) flew overhead. I couldn't tell how big it was (no way to get perspective in a black sky). It was completley silent until it was over me and I heard a humming noise.
A few things dont make sense to me though, I thought it was flying low because it *looked* to be quite large, but I hardly heard any sound (meaning it could have been far away), but from my perspective it was traveling very slow meaning it would have to have been far away to keep a minimum airspeed [paralax motion]... so I dont know:)
I have one of those huge HDTV's, theres NOTHING TO WATCH ON IT. The only way you can get a HDTV signal is with a dish and who really wants to see documentaries on fish on HDTV.
Otherwise you are watching digital cable or watching broadcast cable which are low resolution ( ever blow up a 320x288 image to 62" ? it SUCKS ). DVD's look much better, but the MPEG artifacts are still distracting in all but the best transfers, and DVD's are still 2/3's HDTV resolution.
Once again, companies blaming technology for their own stupidity... Make a good movie, I'll go see it! Are there any GOOD movies out there that aren't making money? I see one or two movies in the theater a year because they only make one or two good movies per year.
What they are really complaining about is, they used to be able to make SHITTY movies and make good money on them, but not anymore. Most of my friends in the 20 something crowd are just SICK of the bullshit, and my younger (HS age) friends are filled with venom for bullshit music, movies, and corporations. Younger middle-class folks are rebelling against pre-packaged plastic crap.
If you're that valuable, the company should be going out of its way to insure that you get all the paper you need rather than classifying it as "theft".
You missed the point of my post entirely... People will steal because they *CAN* not because they need to. We were paying our guys a good wage (30-40k/year and FREE HOUSING) and they would steal reams of paper instead of pay 3.50$ for them down at office depot. They would steal cables from computers... Things got so bad after loosing a case of paper in 48 hours (our normal burn rate for a case of paper would be a month or two), that we had to lock the paper up... it was stupid
"We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or nudity -- we're just not going to do it"
The walmart spokesman cleared his throat and continued, "The staple of gaming content has always been VIOLENCE. Sure, we'll sell games where you can watch someone get their head cut off, THATS good clean fun."
Not really... A modeler is a very complex thing, expecting to be able to use it intuitively is folly.
Can you run complex real systems without any training? Could you drive a car intuitively? Play a saxophone intuitively?
Everything else in the world requires patience, practice and knowledge to operate. Why is it that people think extremely complex machines (computers) should/can be easy enough for any retard to use?
That being said I still hate the blender GUI. I tried in earnest for 3 or 4 hours to use it, didnt make any headway and said "Fuck this, im going back to rhino"
There is a simple reason they didnt threaten... Think about 2300+ colleges, if each college gave $5,000 (a drop in the bucket compared to normal legal fees each year), they would have a pool of 11.5 million dollars to litigate with.
Alternatley, the RIAA could never sue 2300 schools simultaneously. And could never afford to be sued by that many entities. Im sure they couldn't afford to be sued by 10% of the schools.
The RIAA can't beat 2300 colleges at anything. Their absolutle only hope is to pick on a single poor but well known college and beat them in court to set precident. Which is exactly what I expect to see soon.
Yea it had some biblical conection... There is the Book of Enoch in the old testament (I believe?) but I dont really understand how that related to linux if it did at all. Probably one of the reasons the name was changed:)
Hey, I named Gentoo, (seriously). I got invovled with the project when it was called Enoch because I was having some trouble compiling GTK because we'd stumbled onto some weird gcc bug (IIRC). I ended up working on some compiler tools and writing packages...
Anyways, one day drobbins decided to change the name to something less secular, and so we sat around thinking up names... We started thinking along the lines, what did we want to say about our linux?... we bandied around lots of names, eventually I found some zoo site that said the Gentoo Penguin was the fastest pengiun there was... and the name stuck
The entry in Symantec is "W32.Bugbear@mm"... My brother saw me looking at the symantec alert and told me that "mm" stands for Monster Manual (some kind of D&D book), and that Bugbear is a specific monster in that manual...
Im not either, but I play one on TV. Conductance (denoted by G) is measured in S (Siemens) and G=R^(-1) (R = resistance in OHMS)... so you are right it's technically an abuse of the language, but an understandable one as G and R are reciprocals.
Maybe someone who knows more about it could tell us why there needs to be a unit for conductance at all (must simplify something else?)
(this lecture brought to you by the asinine computer science requirements at UC Riverside)
In the olden days (dos) the print screen key was handled by a BIOS vector which would copy the contents of the screen to LPT1... This was possible because the standard text modes were character mapped... I assume the windows functionality of copying the screen to the clipboard came as an extension of that feature.
At my last place of employment we had a very expensive 3d scanner(100K)... and man are they cool!! this is probably out of the question for your foundation... so my question is:
Can anyone recomend an affordable 3d scanner and software ?
I dont think that the government has the means to stop MP3 trading or anyhting else, at this moment. However I think there are elements of the government who *want* this kind of control over the internet.
All you can do is not buy it, and exercise your free speech to try to convince as many other people as possible to not buy into either.
You've got it man:) As an "independent artist" I cant *WAIT* for Paladium -- when the new Brittany album won't play in your daughters CD player, when you cant load your tunes onto your mp3 player to exercise, I'll be there giving away mp3s and selling cheap unprotected cds:)
If the music industry screws up this DRM stuff, they really will deal customers right into the arms of independents (mostly smaller labels). Here's how I see the breakdown:
DRM albums start coming out that have to be used on the PC, they can't be used on MP3 players (maybe secure ones), or on regular CD players (because if they could, we could rip the data). (Possibly they release a new format entirely). RIAA dangles some new format cookie in front of consumers "New music format delivers extra fidelity, new unreleased Beetles tracks in this format only!" (Really, they want you to buy all your old albums again)
People realize it doesn't matter how many times you buy the white album, it was still recorded on analog equipment and 70db DNR sounds just as shitty at 32 bits as it does at 16 (DNR of a 16 bit cd is 96db). Same goes for even newly recorded albums, because the most accurate A/D converter on the market riight now and for the forseable future is ~120db (and just try to get 120db DNR out of a mic, its not possible). Consumers go FUCK THIS, meanwhile some "hackers" (good guys) figure out how to kill the watermark in the data, they release watermark tools, we have another DECSS on our hands, but the cat is out of the bag.
Audio warez groups start to form using the illicit tools. They beg/borrow/steal albums, rip them and release mp3s or Oggs. Pirated mp3s start to have *MORE* value then actual cds, you can play them wherever you want, load them onto an mp3 player; you don't have to hassle with restrictions. RIAA tries to halt this by getting a few people sent to jail. Various free so and so campaigns pop up, further polarizing the community. RIAA tries some kind of attack on the internet itself it buys legislation to allow it to install filtering routers, live monitoring of ISPs. Government supports this because they want draconian control over the internet... for awhile P2P becomes a whack-a-mole game, but people become fed up with the instability this causes and the fact that legitimate transfers are being killed, and the RIAA gives up, leaving just the various 3 letter agencies using the equipment.
RIAA persists and albums sales grind to a halt. RIAA blames this on music pirates, but the hassle over DRM forced consumers to find music elsewhere. Consumers find they are paying less money for [independent] music with more content and a wider variety. Independent labels and artists flourish. The giant media corporations are severely damaged and the glory days for the media industry are over. Some big stars persist but music becomes fragmented. New internet businesses pop up which help artists distribute and sell their music by producing professional cds and helping artists promote (like mp3.com but less bastardly). As these companies flourish all but a few are put out of business by consolidation and they BECOME just as bastardly as the current crop of mega-corps, and in 30 years our kids are having this same discussion.
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My god man thats it! :) Thanks alot, I've been wondering about it for quite some time. Im in a small town in california not far from an air field and two air bases...
A few things dont make sense to me though, I thought it was flying low because it *looked* to be quite large, but I hardly heard any sound (meaning it could have been far away), but from my perspective it was traveling very slow meaning it would have to have been far away to keep a minimum airspeed [paralax motion]... so I dont know :)
Otherwise you are watching digital cable or watching broadcast cable which are low resolution ( ever blow up a 320x288 image to 62" ? it SUCKS ). DVD's look much better, but the MPEG artifacts are still distracting in all but the best transfers, and DVD's are still 2/3's HDTV resolution.
What they are really complaining about is, they used to be able to make SHITTY movies and make good money on them, but not anymore. Most of my friends in the 20 something crowd are just SICK of the bullshit, and my younger (HS age) friends are filled with venom for bullshit music, movies, and corporations. Younger middle-class folks are rebelling against pre-packaged plastic crap.
must be a mac
You missed the point of my post entirely ... People will steal because they *CAN* not because they need to. We were paying our guys a good wage (30-40k /year and FREE HOUSING) and they would steal reams of paper instead of pay 3.50$ for them down at office depot. They would steal cables from computers ... Things got so bad after loosing a case of paper in 48 hours (our normal burn rate for a case of paper would be a month or two), that we had to lock the paper up ... it was stupid
My point is that humans have infinite wan't
The walmart spokesman cleared his throat and continued, "The staple of gaming content has always been VIOLENCE. Sure, we'll sell games where you can watch someone get their head cut off, THATS good clean fun."
Normally honest people will steal when they think there is 0 chance of being caught.
People will steal the *stupidest* things just because they can.
People develop a sense of entitlement to what they are stealing.
The risk is almost never worth the item stolen.
I've seen people risk graduate degrees to steal reams of paper, risk a 200k job to steal 10k worth of stuff ...
Can you run complex real systems without any training? Could you drive a car intuitively? Play a saxophone intuitively?
Everything else in the world requires patience, practice and knowledge to operate. Why is it that people think extremely complex machines (computers) should/can be easy enough for any retard to use?
That being said I still hate the blender GUI. I tried in earnest for 3 or 4 hours to use it, didnt make any headway and said "Fuck this, im going back to rhino"
Because my telco company charges me 5c/min for calling a city I can SEE from my backyard on a clear day.
Alternatley, the RIAA could never sue 2300 schools simultaneously. And could never afford to be sued by that many entities. Im sure they couldn't afford to be sued by 10% of the schools.
The RIAA can't beat 2300 colleges at anything. Their absolutle only hope is to pick on a single poor but well known college and beat them in court to set precident. Which is exactly what I expect to see soon.
Yea it had some biblical conection ... There is the Book of Enoch in the old testament (I believe?) but I dont really understand how that related to linux if it did at all. Probably one of the reasons the name was changed :)
Anyways, one day drobbins decided to change the name to something less secular, and so we sat around thinking up names ... We started thinking along the lines, what did we want to say about our linux? ... we bandied around lots of names, eventually I found some zoo site that said the Gentoo Penguin was the fastest pengiun there was ... and the name stuck
nahhhh im pretty sure he meant cum-puppets. Ive heard about this guy before
oh I can see it now ... girlswithgills.com and "HOT NON-TERRAN TEENS WANT YOU" spam.
So who is naming these viruses? :)
Maybe someone who knows more about it could tell us why there needs to be a unit for conductance at all (must simplify something else?)
(this lecture brought to you by the asinine computer science requirements at UC Riverside)
In the olden days (dos) the print screen key was handled by a BIOS vector which would copy the contents of the screen to LPT1 ... This was possible because the standard text modes were character mapped ... I assume the windows functionality of copying the screen to the clipboard came as an extension of that feature.
Can anyone recomend an affordable 3d scanner and software ?
Live by the sword, die by the arrow ... the irony is deliscious
Just keep telling yourself that. A commodity 2ghz PC costs around 500 - 700$. A "top quality" pc costs 1000 - 1500$.
I saw a story on CNN about it as well! This is not news, this is advertising.
I dont think that the government has the means to stop MP3 trading or anyhting else, at this moment. However I think there are elements of the government who *want* this kind of control over the internet.
Shit, Ive lived in california all my life (desert) and I didnt know doors COULD stick :)
You've got it man :) As an "independent artist" I cant *WAIT* for Paladium -- when the new Brittany album won't play in your daughters CD player, when you cant load your tunes onto your mp3 player to exercise, I'll be there giving away mp3s and selling cheap unprotected cds :)
If the music industry screws up this DRM stuff, they really will deal customers right into the arms of independents (mostly smaller labels). Here's how I see the breakdown:
DRM albums start coming out that have to be used on the PC, they can't be used on MP3 players (maybe secure ones), or on regular CD players (because if they could, we could rip the data). (Possibly they release a new format entirely). RIAA dangles some new format cookie in front of consumers "New music format delivers extra fidelity, new unreleased Beetles tracks in this format only!" (Really, they want you to buy all your old albums again)
People realize it doesn't matter how many times you buy the white album, it was still recorded on analog equipment and 70db DNR sounds just as shitty at 32 bits as it does at 16 (DNR of a 16 bit cd is 96db). Same goes for even newly recorded albums, because the most accurate A/D converter on the market riight now and for the forseable future is ~120db (and just try to get 120db DNR out of a mic, its not possible). Consumers go FUCK THIS, meanwhile some "hackers" (good guys) figure out how to kill the watermark in the data, they release watermark tools, we have another DECSS on our hands, but the cat is out of the bag.
Audio warez groups start to form using the illicit tools. They beg/borrow/steal albums, rip them and release mp3s or Oggs. Pirated mp3s start to have *MORE* value then actual cds, you can play them wherever you want, load them onto an mp3 player; you don't have to hassle with restrictions. RIAA tries to halt this by getting a few people sent to jail. Various free so and so campaigns pop up, further polarizing the community. RIAA tries some kind of attack on the internet itself it buys legislation to allow it to install filtering routers, live monitoring of ISPs. Government supports this because they want draconian control over the internet... for awhile P2P becomes a whack-a-mole game, but people become fed up with the instability this causes and the fact that legitimate transfers are being killed, and the RIAA gives up, leaving just the various 3 letter agencies using the equipment.
RIAA persists and albums sales grind to a halt. RIAA blames this on music pirates, but the hassle over DRM forced consumers to find music elsewhere. Consumers find they are paying less money for [independent] music with more content and a wider variety. Independent labels and artists flourish. The giant media corporations are severely damaged and the glory days for the media industry are over. Some big stars persist but music becomes fragmented. New internet businesses pop up which help artists distribute and sell their music by producing professional cds and helping artists promote (like mp3.com but less bastardly). As these companies flourish all but a few are put out of business by consolidation and they BECOME just as bastardly as the current crop of mega-corps, and in 30 years our kids are having this same discussion.
(and HOPEFULLY rap turns out to be just a fad) :D