"Except there is NOWHERE for my money to go. I can't vote with my wallet, because every vendor makes the exact same fucking thing, without the slightest variation. This a total failure of the free market."
In other words, it's just like nowadays everybody has been forced into carrying the same stuff as Wal-Mart does, but you've a slightly lower chance of getting trapped behind a herd of fat families blocking the aisles in Target or K-Mart.
But projectors have a shutter system that flashes each frame on the screen twice (or interrupts each frame halfway through its time on screen), so it appears to be 48 frames per second.
Joss Whedon's Star Wars would be a bigger disaster than three episodes about Jar Jar.
I disagree. Serenity made me feel like Star Wars all over again: fun, smart, adventurous, light-hearted, but also thoughtful. Joss aces that kind of stuff. See Avengers for details.
Do you actually mean Serenity, the movie, or did you mean Firefly, the tv series?
I've really hated how so many movies lately has been redone, but I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything that deserves a proper reboot more than the Star Wars episode 1 to 3.
The people who brought the slaves over spent enormous sums on doing so as well. Clearly abolition was a naked attempt to deprive people of their property.
Abolition wasn't about depriving people of their property, it was about re-defining property to not include other people.
You could have deprived slave owners of their property by taking their slaves away and handing them over to a new set of owners.
Are you contending that intellectual property is somehow being held in slavery?
In order to create a real slave, you have to deprive a human being of their freedom and future.
Expecting a return on investment when you make a movie isn't exactly the same thing.
People who like copyright as it is today, would have liked slavery as it was in 1859. Every argument about the legality of IP law today, was made by apologists for slavery then.
So if somebody spends millions making a movie, their attempt to avoid letting you watch that movie without offering them any recompense whatsoever is the same as if they kidnapped you and transported you around the world to spend the rest of your life as a prisoner working the cotton fields?
Is it also immoral of them to decide not to have made the movie in the first place, since that would equally deprive you of a free viewing?
If you can't get something from someone else for free, that's the same as them taking something (liberty, labor, etc.) from you?
The above, of course, is a completely separate issue from "You're guilty until and unless proven innocent and you have to pony up $35 just to have the possibility of your innocence even considered".
I'm pro-DNT but "my hardware, my rules" doesn't apply to the internet, really. I don't get to dictate what slashdot does just because I access it on my hardware.
Just because you access the web page which Slashdot voluntarily chooses to make available on the internet does not mean they have any right at all to know what other web sites you have already been to, or to subsequently learn to what web sites you go in the future.
If they don't like that, they can get off of the internet, or block access to the site with the need for a password, the use of which is pre-agreed to allow them to spy on you.
Bought it used recently to use wrangling TiVo hard drives.
I haven't actually tried installing Linux on a hard drive on it, but when trying to boot the MFS Live cd v1.4 (IsoLinux something) or the Parted Magic cd, or a couple 3 other Linux based boot cds, it gets part of the way there and freezes.
That includes with alternate graphics options chosen.
It'll boot to DOS and do some simple graphics, like the Seagate and WD diagnostic cds.
I have tried installing XP Pro on a drive on it and it will install, but it doesn't want to actually run.
First time I ever saw display properties locked in at not 16 colors, not 8, but 4.
Tried different RAM, different cd drive and cable, different floppy drive and cable, different power supply, different BIOS versions.
I seemed to get a little further with XP with the SATA ports disabled and the drive connected via a JMicron chipset IDE/SATA adapter as primary master.
The BioStar board came with 2 of the 4 caps near the processor showing signs of "capacitor plague", but I replaced all 4 (same uF, high temp, low ESR) and it makes no difference at all, so whatever the problem, it's elsewhere.
Tried it with the built in video and an AGP card, can't find my one remaining working PCI video card.
I may go back one day and replace the smaller caps on the rest of the board just out of curiousity, although none of them are showing visible symptoms and all are physically smaller than the 4 near the CPU, and, I suspect, not called upon to work as hard.
I probably wouldn't have thought to make the joke (since it's obviously this individual board's fault, and not Linux), but in
Slashdot Mirror
How do I check my display resolution in Linux?
With a really good magnifying glass and an ability not to lose count.
"Except there is NOWHERE for my money to go. I can't vote with my wallet, because every vendor makes the exact same fucking thing, without the slightest variation. This a total failure of the free market."
In other words, it's just like nowadays everybody has been forced into carrying the same stuff as Wal-Mart does, but you've a slightly lower chance of getting trapped behind a herd of fat families blocking the aisles in Target or K-Mart.
I think you're missing his point. He's not quite satisfied with 0-9, he wants a 10 key as well... ;)
Screw that! I want one that goes up to 11!
And that has a "more cowbell" key as well!
But projectors have a shutter system that flashes each frame on the screen twice (or interrupts each frame halfway through its time on screen), so it appears to be 48 frames per second.
They are not widescreen, they are reduced height. When you look at them in this way you understand the complaints.
THIS!
I thought it couldn't get any worse than a movie with Jar Jar in it. Now I know it will get worse - a movie with Jar Jar's offspring....
You had to do it, didn't you? Introduce the concept of Jar Jar doing that which is necessary for reproduction.
How do I claw my entire brain out without that being in my last thought?
"So now, 33 years later, it looks like Disney finally got the real thing. The actual Star Wars franchise."
Yeah, but they're going to have to make this one without Borgnine.
Joss Whedon's Star Wars would be a bigger disaster than three episodes about Jar Jar.
I disagree. Serenity made me feel like Star Wars all over again: fun, smart, adventurous, light-hearted, but also thoughtful. Joss aces that kind of stuff. See Avengers for details.
Do you actually mean Serenity, the movie, or did you mean Firefly, the tv series?
I've really hated how so many movies lately has been redone, but I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything that deserves a proper reboot more than the Star Wars episode 1 to 3.
Nah, they just deserve the boot.
If they do them animated, Goofy could play Jar-Jar.
Which Disney animated characters would you cast as which Star Wars characters?
To bad it's not Warner Brothers. Tasmanian Devil as Chewbacca and Bugs as Han Solo.
Bugs in drag as Leia.
Darth Fudd
The people who brought the slaves over spent enormous sums on doing so as well. Clearly abolition was a naked attempt to deprive people of their property.
Abolition wasn't about depriving people of their property, it was about re-defining property to not include other people.
You could have deprived slave owners of their property by taking their slaves away and handing them over to a new set of owners.
Are you contending that intellectual property is somehow being held in slavery?
In order to create a real slave, you have to deprive a human being of their freedom and future.
Expecting a return on investment when you make a movie isn't exactly the same thing.
People who like copyright as it is today, would have liked slavery as it was in 1859. Every argument about the legality of IP law today, was made by apologists for slavery then.
So if somebody spends millions making a movie, their attempt to avoid letting you watch that movie without offering them any recompense whatsoever is the same as if they kidnapped you and transported you around the world to spend the rest of your life as a prisoner working the cotton fields?
Is it also immoral of them to decide not to have made the movie in the first place, since that would equally deprive you of a free viewing?
If you can't get something from someone else for free, that's the same as them taking something (liberty, labor, etc.) from you?
The above, of course, is a completely separate issue from "You're guilty until and unless proven innocent and you have to pony up $35 just to have the possibility of your innocence even considered".
What is the user ID number of the real Bruce Perens?
Feel free to express the answer in the form of a sig file.
: - )
But most of us live in places where the local phone and cable companies don't know FiOS from BIOS.
"high-end specialty product" does not mean "unavailable".
On my budget it does!
: - )
I'm pro-DNT but "my hardware, my rules" doesn't apply to the internet, really. I don't get to dictate what slashdot does just because I access it on my hardware.
Just because you access the web page which Slashdot voluntarily chooses to make available on the internet does not mean they have any right at all to know what other web sites you have already been to, or to subsequently learn to what web sites you go in the future.
If they don't like that, they can get off of the internet, or block access to the site with the need for a password, the use of which is pre-agreed to allow them to spy on you.
MEEPT!
Yeah, I'm that old...
I miss him.
He was glorious!
"I'm sure there will be lots of "Slashdot is dying" posts..."
Only if Netcraft confirms it.
That would be hilarious.
It would also be easily explainable.
Somebody used a live cd so they could surf porn without any trace being left on the hard drive.
Then forgot to take their cd out afterwards.
I'm guessing the main principle is to find ways to annoy people who liked the previous versions and to hide stuff from them.
How very Microsoft of them.
BioStar K8M800-M7A ver1.0
Athlon 64
Bought it used recently to use wrangling TiVo hard drives.
I haven't actually tried installing Linux on a hard drive on it, but when trying to boot the MFS Live cd v1.4 (IsoLinux something) or the Parted Magic cd, or a couple 3 other Linux based boot cds, it gets part of the way there and freezes.
That includes with alternate graphics options chosen.
It'll boot to DOS and do some simple graphics, like the Seagate and WD diagnostic cds.
I have tried installing XP Pro on a drive on it and it will install, but it doesn't want to actually run.
First time I ever saw display properties locked in at not 16 colors, not 8, but 4.
Tried different RAM, different cd drive and cable, different floppy drive and cable, different power supply, different BIOS versions.
I seemed to get a little further with XP with the SATA ports disabled and the drive connected via a JMicron chipset IDE/SATA adapter as primary master.
The BioStar board came with 2 of the 4 caps near the processor showing signs of "capacitor plague", but I replaced all 4 (same uF, high temp, low ESR) and it makes no difference at all, so whatever the problem, it's elsewhere.
Tried it with the built in video and an AGP card, can't find my one remaining working PCI video card.
I may go back one day and replace the smaller caps on the rest of the board just out of curiousity, although none of them are showing visible symptoms and all are physically smaller than the 4 near the CPU, and, I suspect, not called upon to work as hard.
I probably wouldn't have thought to make the joke (since it's obviously this individual board's fault, and not Linux), but in
http://www.mfslive.org/readme.txt
there is this, from back at v1.0
"Known Issue:
Currently this CD does not boot on AMD K6-2, VIA C3 based machines."
so AMD/Linux incompatibility isn't completely unheard of.
SHHH!
Not so loud.
But how can you be sure?
There's only one way.
...I've already got an AMD board that won't run Linux.
No distance is safe.
Well, there's always from orbit.