Just about everyone who read a bit about Mr Douglas Noel Adams, born the same year as his narrow-minded scientific counterpart, but in a more artisanal fashion.
Well, the radio series (that came before the books) and the TV series (that came after IIRC) both make heavy use of 'off(' commentaries. The movie could do that and do well, then. Without the 'off' comments, s'gonna be harder. But... not impossible.:)
It doesn't. There are two recordings following each other on the CD; that is called "multisession". A home CD player will always read session #1 (real CD-audio, clean session). A computer will, unless coreectly talked into changing habits:), read the last session, here #2 (useless data, and junk code my Linux box can't run).
You don't even have to bother doing it yourself; just wait for someone to do it all and then rpm -ivh noads-1.0mdk.rpm. Unless it's a.deb, of course.:)
I am not even sure what *I* will get for a living after I retire from over forty years of work, but I am sure my children will not get a cent from that. Why would revenues from copyright be any different?
Okay, you may deserve the right to profit from you intellectual property. But if you want your children to profit off copyright, teach them how to write well, then tell them to write their *own* best sellers.
I say copyright should go, if any, to the *creator* of the work.
One of the biggest problems I see with Free Software development is the problem of the blindered developer.
... but then one of the solutions I see with Free Software development is the solution of the enlightened (no pun intended) software engineer.
For you can take this hacker's code and make it work in your environment, or backport it to DRI and/or XFree, and he'll probably be ok with it, as long as he doesn't have to support that
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>Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
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Time to patch that ping utility of yours. It uses earth-relative time when measuring individual packet routnd-trip, but packet-relative time for the stats line.
And please make the patch GPL (Got Past Lightspeed).
It comes from tunings other than the commonplace 12-tone equal temperament (read: pianos and guitars).
For instance, there is a tuning (its exact name escapes me; is it pythagorean?) in which pitches are built upon integer ratios between their frequencies.
Imagine you have written a melody in C maj using this tuning. Now the singer is more confortable if the melody is one tone higher, so he tries singing in D maj. And all of a sudden the thing sounds awful.
This is because tones in D maj do not have the same relative ratios as those in C have (again, if you play in a non-equal tuning).
And then yes, Cb would be *really* different from B nat.
OK, C flat and B nat are not *functionnally* the same, and a composer would not notate one instead of the other on a score.
But C flat is also *physically not* the same as B nat unless you're playing a guitar, piano or other so-called well-tempered instrument.
Violin players, for instance, will make a difference, and so might an a cappella singer because they build pitches by resonance (sp?) using (mostly simple) integer ratios, while well-tempered scales use logarithmic divisions.
Wouldn't it be better if we'd let those harmful agents infect our cells and let our body learn how to produce matching antibodies by itself? Like, you know, the natural way.
Damned right! Just look how much healthier Europeans were back in the 14th century, with a nice dose of the Black Death to eliminate the weak. And look at the wonders that natural exposure to smallpox did for the native Americans!
But then, why not rather concentrate on vaccine, which does train the body in defending itself without risking anything?
my kids are getting antibiotics
Not only your kids, but the bacteria in them as well. Not all bacteria die from the contact, and the stronger ones will "learn" to survive antibiotics. There are already several little beasties out here which are as much antibiotics-resistant as their human bearer. Looks like bacteria are evolving from their 14th century to their 21st.:)
As for glasses, orthodontics and the like, I agree with you: that makes life better -- without putting it too much at risk some other way.
to me, the sheer volume of april fools jokes today, the duplicates that happen every week, the spelling mistakes that happen in 4 of 5 posts PROVE to me that this site is one giant year-long april fools joke.
Well, in this cas, it would be unprofessional for./ to *change* their editorial line and stop doing jokes just on april the 1st only, wouldn't it?:)
Albert.
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Count yourself happy. In the French dubbing, they have him say "un virgule vingt-et-un gigowatts". Yes, no spelling error, that's a o and that's a horrible mistake. And, to fill it up, he utters the final "s" clearly. I'd rather hear the English soundtrack.
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Just about everyone who read a bit about Mr Douglas Noel Adams, born the same year as his narrow-minded scientific counterpart, but in a more artisanal fashion.
Well, the radio series (that came before the books) and the TV series (that came after IIRC) both make heavy use of 'off(' commentaries. The movie could do that and do well, then. Without the 'off' comments, s'gonna be harder. But... not impossible. :)
It doesn't. There are two recordings following each other on the CD; that is called "multisession". A home CD player will always read session #1 (real CD-audio, clean session). A computer will, unless coreectly talked into changing habits :), read the last session, here #2 (useless data, and junk code my Linux box can't run).
- - install: do you install every day?
- - screensaver: install a non-mdk screensaver.
- - browser: reconfigure browser.
You don't even have to bother doing it yourself; just wait for someone to do it all and then rpm -ivh noads-1.0mdk.rpm. Unless it's aI'll have to tell my character devices that they should *not* let themselves be mmap()ed.
Sheesh. They do it all the time.
So there were female samurai?
I am not even sure what *I* will get for a living after I retire from over forty years of work, but I am sure my children will not get a cent from that. Why would revenues from copyright be any different?
Okay, you may deserve the right to profit from you intellectual property. But if you want your children to profit off copyright, teach them how to write well, then tell them to write their *own* best sellers.
I say copyright should go, if any, to the *creator* of the work.
Well, at least we french use a noun, whereas your 'radio' is not even a noun, only a prefix.
Hey, *you* started it.
Of all places, they chose Good Omens' Milton Keynes?
Hmm, lessee... Red wire with red wire, green wire with green wi--oops.
One of the biggest problems I see with Free Software development is the problem of the blindered developer.
... but then one of the solutions I see with Free Software development is the solution of the enlightened (no pun intended) software engineer.
For you can take this hacker's code and make it work in your environment, or backport it to DRI and/or XFree, and he'll probably be ok with it, as long as he doesn't have to support that
Albert, French.
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>Ping statistics for 178.223.52.43:
>Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
>Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>Minimum = 60ms, Maximum = 183ms, Average = 114ms
Time to patch that ping utility of yours. It uses earth-relative time when measuring individual packet routnd-trip, but packet-relative time for the stats line.
And please make the patch GPL (Got Past Lightspeed).
That would make all the diodes on your left side hurt more -- if it were possible of course.
"Droid" is supposed to be a popular form of "android", which means "shaped like a human".
So formally, C3PO might be a droid, but Artoo is definitely not.
It comes from tunings other than the commonplace 12-tone equal temperament (read: pianos and guitars).
For instance, there is a tuning (its exact name escapes me; is it pythagorean?) in which pitches are built upon integer ratios between their frequencies.
Imagine you have written a melody in C maj using this tuning. Now the singer is more confortable if the melody is one tone higher, so he tries singing in D maj. And all of a sudden the thing sounds awful.
This is because tones in D maj do not have the same relative ratios as those in C have (again, if you play in a non-equal tuning).
And then yes, Cb would be *really* different from B nat.
Albert.
OK, C flat and B nat are not *functionnally* the same, and a composer would not notate one instead of the other on a score.
But C flat is also *physically not* the same as B nat unless you're playing a guitar, piano or other so-called well-tempered instrument.
Violin players, for instance, will make a difference, and so might an a cappella singer because they build pitches by resonance (sp?) using (mostly simple) integer ratios, while well-tempered scales use logarithmic divisions.
Albert.
Small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri, most probably.
But then, why not rather concentrate on vaccine, which does train the body in defending itself without risking anything?
my kids are getting antibiotics
Not only your kids, but the bacteria in them as well. Not all bacteria die from the contact, and the stronger ones will "learn" to survive antibiotics. There are already several little beasties out here which are as much antibiotics-resistant as their human bearer. Looks like bacteria are evolving from their 14th century to their 21st. :)
As for glasses, orthodontics and the like, I agree with you: that makes life better -- without putting it too much at risk some other way.
Albert.
to me, the sheer volume of april fools jokes today, the duplicates that happen every week, the spelling mistakes that happen in 4 of 5 posts PROVE to me that this site is one giant year-long april fools joke.
./ to *change* their editorial line and stop doing jokes just on april the 1st only, wouldn't it? :)
Well, in this cas, it would be unprofessional for
Albert.
Doubling every five hours or so. :)
Albert, French--but you would have guessed. :)
So how about the seven samurai? That's 1954, which makes it a 48 years old movie, and yes, I've got it on DVD. :)
Albert.
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Gorobei! GOROBEI!