I am afraid it make too much sense from a Campbellian analysis. The fool, or the Sacred Fool, is a powerfull archetype in mythology. We see this with the Tarot Deck, which starts with 0,The Fool. The Major Arcana is considered to be a path, and the common representation of The Fool is of a simple youth carrying his belongings on a stick, being distracted by a dog's barking, and about to take a step into the Abyss.
Jar-Jar is too much of the "simple youth" to be anything but The Fool of Episode I. And if he continues the journey, he will become one with the Universe...a Jedi.
At least for TV. Star Trek fans have been writting this stuff for a long time, and some of the, like David Gerrold, have had the show produce them. Do a bit of research into it, and you will see this has been a long-time phenomena. I have FanFic going back to the '70s, others I know have it back to the '60s while the show was still being produced. It is part of what held together Star Trek Fandom before the Second Comming (AKA Star Trek: The Motionless Picture).
The only time that Paramount has been real iffy about FanFic is the whole Kirk/Spock (now known as "Slash") fiction. I'm not sure about it myself, but if it turns your crank, and no one gets hurt, it is O.K.
ttyl Farrell Science Fiction and STrek fan
What I think Neal was proposing...
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He was trying to promote the idea of a global Neighbourhood Watch program using encrypted video streams. Basically, you can either have a friend watch over your house while they are on computer, and you return the favour...ideally, you are on opposite sides of the planet, or one is a night person, the other a morning person.
Another proposaal was that you take a videostream that is monitoring your home, and split it into multiple streams, so that all parties have to agree that it is nessisaarry to look at it. One goes to your local police, another to your ACLU ( or your countrie's equiv) and a third to your most trusted friend/relative. If there is a break in, for example, and all three parties agree, then you can have all the streams combined, and a video of the breakin to your house will help the police investigate things.
Just commenting on the conference...I probably lost more sleep than I do at a Science Fiction Convention! There were more interesting things that started at 8:30 and others that didn't finish until after midnight...wow! Kudos to the organizer's! I just wish there was more programming that was Canadan specific...
(From the album: A Farwell to Kings) Book One ---- The Voyage
Prologue In the constellation of Cygnus There lurks a mysterious, invisible force The Black Hole Of Cygnus X-1 Six Stars of the Northern Cross In mourning for their sister's loss In a final flash of glory Nevermore to grace the night....
1 Invisible To telescopic eye Infinity The star that would not die All who dare To cross her course Are swallowed by A fearsome force Through the void To be destroyed Or is there something more? Atomized ---- at the core Or through the Astral Door ---- To soar....
This package is pretty good for basic recording/effects processing on a single stereo track...pretty basic, but good. I don't think that it is maintained anymore, since the last maintainer, Nick Bailey, has no reference to it on his home pages. It is written in TK/TCL + a tiny bit of C as a graphical interface to SOX. Very well done.
I've been using to digitize the songs that the person who has been recording in my studio.
Could this be the source of the problems from NVIDIA with Linux? Could MS have said "Nix the plans for the Open Source Linux drivers, or we will go with ATI?" Hmmm, possibly!
ttyl Farrell
...just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean Microsoft is not out to get us!
You can't...I talked to the Tivo people, and the viewers guide service is not available here in Canada...you can use it as a digital VCR...but you loose most of it's functionality. Hopefully they will support Canada soon, I mean, population wise, we are just another large city to the US.:-)
How do you think they got the money to licence the codec? Redhat...has deep pockets at the moment...
I would expect that the next major release of RealPlayer will have it, unless the Windoze Streaming Codec is so wonky that it will take a major re-write of RealPlayer to incorperate it. Then it will be two revisions.
I have to admit, i am real impressed with the Realplayer 7 I just started using under Linux. We should all be thanking them for their support!!!!
To re-cap...Windows Streaming Codec will be in the next one, unless it is really hard to code, then it will be in the release after the next.
We have to choose now...are we going to let mega-corps decide how the world is run, or are we going to do it ourselves. The more power we hand over to the mega-corps, the harder it will be to wretch it away from them latter. The time to fight it is today, not years from now. We want to empower the people, not give mega-corps power-over the people.
Well, if that happens, I will be more than willing to contribute to keeping Slackware Alive. I've tried many a different Distro over the years, I am probably one of the first 1,000 Linux users, maybe the first 500, starting out with kernel ver. 0.12. I used to go around doing Novell Netware installs with a boot/root diskette pair in my shirt pocket and show people Linux...
I believe Bang & Olafson (sp?) had one in the mid to late '80s.
It is nice tech for people who have archives of old records, like Canada's CBC radio archives, and the US's Smithsonian (sp?). As well, some older bands that have wanted to put our CDs of their material have sometimes found that their original masters are either missing, or have deteriorated too much from time/improper storage etc. A facinating story is that of the Canadian Band, FM. Their masters had gone missing and they had to remaster from a virgin vinyl copy of their first album, Black Noise. Luckily, CBC, the label they were on had a nifty piece of technolgy called "No Noise" , that will digitally edit out unwanted noise. It's funny that there are two of these units in Canada, one owned by the CBC with their vast archives of recordings, and the RCMP.
FM did a test pressing of the remasterd CD, and one of the members brought it over to his friends house to try out. This guy was a big time audiophile. Had speakers suspended from the ceiling and everything. In between the cuts, the band member noticed that the woofers of the speakers were going in and out between the tracks, audio wise imperceptable, but quite dramatic with the woofers. He was horrified, they might have goofed up the No Noise session! He asked his audiophile friend what he thought it might be...his friend something to the effect that if they hadn't been playing a CD, he might have though it was turntable rumble!
You can now get the CD in Canada, and order it elsewhere. Without the turntable rumble.
ttyl Farrell Lo-Grade Audiphile Fan of the band FM
The Raeliens are for real...They believe that Jesus was an Astronaut/alien, or something like that. Sounds like a Chris DeBurg song. They are a Canadian export from Quebec. Part of their worship is that they, as a group, get naked and have sex in an open field, I believe to call down the Mothership or something.
But then again, I am a Discordian Druid...so who am I to judge, I am not a Brehon!
It is a said day...but he has not been well for a long time. We tried to get him as Guest of Honour at CAN-CON, back in the early 90s, but even then he was not well enough to attend. I hope that he passed peacefully.
This is going to be a landmark fight...this will help choose between a dark, corp. based planet, or one that an indivigual's rights are balanced against national and corp. rights. We loose this, and the people on this planet are screwed blue.
The last thing we need is some scam artist to get some investment money based upon a web site with the name Linux in it. That means good money is lost to legit hackers, and goes to a scam artist. Virtually all the domains that have Linux in them and almost any other common word have been registered, and very few of them have real Linux projects behind them. And that is sad.
I was about to upgrade my home video system by adding a DVD player, and some surround speakers. Until this case is resolved in favour of the defendants (ie, essentially, the Linux community), I will not buy a DVD player, or any movies. I will also encourage others to do the same.
Us Nerds, Geeks, or whatever you want to call computer people are early adopters of new tech, if we stop buying their stuff, they may sit up and take notice.
I used to work at a place called Reality Bytes, which was a cross between a Virtual Reality Gaming den and a coffee house. We used the Virtual IO iGlasses with their headtracker for our main VR head mounted displays. With the headtracker and PC interface, it was about a thousand dollars, but the Video (composite) only version was about $500 back then. Unfortunely, their isn't much demand for VR stuff, since many people saw movied like Lawnmower Man and were greatly disappointed when they experienced the real thing.
But it *was* good. I still shiver when I remember playing the Doom II Alien Total Conversion...with the sounds and graphics from Alien. It was really creapy.
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I am afraid it make too much sense from a Campbellian analysis. The fool, or the Sacred Fool, is a powerfull archetype in mythology. We see this with the Tarot Deck, which starts with 0,The Fool. The Major Arcana is considered to be a path, and the common representation of The Fool is of a simple youth carrying his belongings on a stick, being distracted by a dog's barking, and about to take a step into the Abyss.
Jar-Jar is too much of the "simple youth" to be anything but The Fool of Episode I. And if he continues the journey, he will become one with the Universe...a Jedi.
ttyl
Farrell
At least for TV. Star Trek fans have been writting this stuff for a long time, and some of the, like David Gerrold, have had the show produce them. Do a bit of research into it, and you will see this has been a long-time phenomena. I have FanFic going back to the '70s, others I know have it back to the '60s while the show was still being produced. It is part of what held together Star Trek Fandom before the Second Comming (AKA Star Trek: The Motionless Picture).
The only time that Paramount has been real iffy about FanFic is the whole Kirk/Spock (now known as "Slash") fiction. I'm not sure about it myself, but if it turns your crank, and no one gets hurt, it is O.K.
ttyl
Farrell
Science Fiction and STrek fan
He was trying to promote the idea of a global Neighbourhood Watch program using encrypted video streams. Basically, you can either have a friend watch over your house while they are on computer, and you return the favour...ideally, you are on opposite sides of the planet, or one is a night person, the other a morning person.
Another proposaal was that you take a videostream that is monitoring your home, and split it into multiple streams, so that all parties have to agree that it is nessisaarry to look at it. One goes to your local police, another to your ACLU ( or your countrie's equiv) and a third to your most trusted friend/relative. If there is a break in, for example, and all three parties agree, then you can have all the streams combined, and a video of the breakin to your house will help the police investigate things.
Just commenting on the conference...I probably lost more sleep than I do at a Science Fiction Convention! There were more interesting things that started at 8:30 and others that didn't finish until after midnight...wow! Kudos to the organizer's! I just wish there was more programming that was Canadan specific...
ttyl
Farrell
Someone who either knows nothing about Babylon-5, or hates B5 has abused their Moderator Privledges. Please correct this situation.
ttyl
Farrell
(From the album: A Farwell to Kings)
Book One ---- The Voyage
Prologue
In the constellation of Cygnus
There lurks a mysterious, invisible force
The Black Hole
Of Cygnus X-1
Six Stars of the Northern Cross
In mourning for their sister's loss
In a final flash of glory
Nevermore to grace the night....
1
Invisible
To telescopic eye
Infinity
The star that would not die
All who dare
To cross her course
Are swallowed by
A fearsome force
Through the void
To be destroyed
Or is there something more?
Atomized ---- at the core
Or through the Astral Door ----
To soar....
This package is pretty good for basic recording/effects processing on a single stereo track...pretty basic, but good. I don't think that it is maintained anymore, since the last maintainer, Nick Bailey, has no reference to it on his home pages. It is written in TK/TCL + a tiny bit of C as a graphical interface to SOX. Very well done.
I've been using to digitize the songs that the person who has been recording in my studio.
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
3Light Studio
Could this be the source of the problems from NVIDIA with Linux? Could MS have said "Nix the plans for the Open Source Linux drivers, or we will go with ATI?" Hmmm, possibly!
ttyl
Farrell
...just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean Microsoft is not out to get us!
You can't...I talked to the Tivo people, and the viewers guide service is not available here in Canada...you can use it as a digital VCR...but you loose most of it's functionality. Hopefully they will support Canada soon, I mean, population wise, we are just another large city to the US. :-)
ttyl
Farrell
Why not update it, and posted it to Slashdot as a Feature? Might not pay as well as EM...but you would get a great deal more egoboo here!
ttyl
Farrell
p.s. egoboo, Science Fiction Fandom term for "Ego Boost"
How do you think they got the money to licence the codec? Redhat...has deep pockets at the moment...
I would expect that the next major release of RealPlayer will have it, unless the Windoze Streaming Codec is so wonky that it will take a major re-write of RealPlayer to incorperate it. Then it will be two revisions.
I have to admit, i am real impressed with the Realplayer 7 I just started using under Linux. We should all be thanking them for their support!!!!
To re-cap...Windows Streaming Codec will be in the next one, unless it is really hard to code, then it will be in the release after the next.
ttyl
Farrell
We have to choose now...are we going to let mega-corps decide how the world is run, or are we going to do it ourselves. The more power we hand over to the mega-corps, the harder it will be to wretch it away from them latter. The time to fight it is today, not years from now. We want to empower the people, not give mega-corps power-over the people.
ttyl
Farrell
Well, if that happens, I will be more than willing to contribute to keeping Slackware Alive. I've tried many a different Distro over the years, I am probably one of the first 1,000 Linux users, maybe the first 500, starting out with kernel ver. 0.12. I used to go around doing Novell Netware installs with a boot/root diskette pair in my shirt pocket and show people Linux...
Long live Slackware!
ttyl
Farrell
The Guess Who, Eric Clapton, Paul Shaefer...
Ouch! That hurts!
ttyl
Farrell
I believe Bang & Olafson (sp?) had one in the mid to late '80s.
It is nice tech for people who have archives of old records, like Canada's CBC radio archives, and the US's Smithsonian (sp?). As well, some older bands that have wanted to put our CDs of their material have sometimes found that their original masters are either missing, or have deteriorated too much from time/improper storage etc. A facinating story is that of the Canadian Band, FM. Their masters had gone missing and they had to remaster from a virgin vinyl copy of their first album, Black Noise. Luckily, CBC, the label they were on had a nifty piece of technolgy called "No Noise" , that will digitally edit out unwanted noise. It's funny that there are two of these units in Canada, one owned by the CBC with their vast archives of recordings, and the RCMP.
FM did a test pressing of the remasterd CD, and one of the members brought it over to his friends house to try out. This guy was a big time audiophile. Had speakers suspended from the ceiling and everything. In between the cuts, the band member noticed that the woofers of the speakers were going in and out between the tracks, audio wise imperceptable, but quite dramatic with the woofers. He was horrified, they might have goofed up the No Noise session! He asked his audiophile friend what he thought it might be...his friend something to the effect that if they hadn't been playing a CD, he might have though it was turntable rumble!
You can now get the CD in Canada, and order it elsewhere. Without the turntable rumble.
ttyl
Farrell
Lo-Grade Audiphile
Fan of the band FM
The Raeliens are for real...They believe that Jesus was an Astronaut/alien, or something like that. Sounds like a Chris DeBurg song. They are a Canadian export from Quebec. Part of their worship is that they, as a group, get naked and have sex in an open field, I believe to call down the Mothership or something.
But then again, I am a Discordian Druid...so who am I to judge, I am not a Brehon!
ttyl
Farrell
Back in 1977, he forsaw the PDA...go, read it, and then you will have an idea of what they can become.
ttyl
Farrell
It is a said day...but he has not been well for a long time. We tried to get him as Guest of Honour at CAN-CON, back in the early 90s, but even then he was not well enough to attend. I hope that he passed peacefully.
ttyl
Farrell
Or at least take some of the award money and donate it to EFF towards fighting the battle?
ttyl
Farrell
This is going to be a landmark fight...this will help choose between a dark, corp. based planet, or one that an indivigual's rights are balanced against national and corp. rights. We loose this, and the people on this planet are screwed blue.
It sounds dramatic, but it really is.
ttyl
Farrell
pnm://rn1-bld.vstr eam.com/basic/providers/zdtvradio/zdtvradio.rm
Enjoy!
ttyl
Farrell
The last thing we need is some scam artist to get some investment money based upon a web site with the name Linux in it. That means good money is lost to legit hackers, and goes to a scam artist. Virtually all the domains that have Linux in them and almost any other common word have been registered, and very few of them have real Linux projects behind them. And that is sad.
ttyl
Farrell
Stuff like Jeff Green's Midnight Stranger and Mode?
ttyl
Farrell
I was about to upgrade my home video system by adding a DVD player, and some surround speakers. Until this case is resolved in favour of the defendants (ie, essentially, the Linux community), I will not buy a DVD player, or any movies. I will also encourage others to do the same.
Us Nerds, Geeks, or whatever you want to call computer people are early adopters of new tech, if we stop buying their stuff, they may sit up and take notice.
ttyl
Farrell
I used to work at a place called Reality Bytes, which was a cross between a Virtual Reality Gaming den and a coffee house. We used the Virtual IO iGlasses with their headtracker for our main VR head mounted displays. With the headtracker and PC interface, it was about a thousand dollars, but the Video (composite) only version was about $500 back then. Unfortunely, their isn't much demand for VR stuff, since many people saw movied like Lawnmower Man and were greatly disappointed when they experienced the real thing.
But it *was* good. I still shiver when I remember playing the Doom II Alien Total Conversion...with the sounds and graphics from Alien. It was really creapy.
ttyl
Farrell
Sometime VR Guy