I was thinking of checking out A History of Violence but not if I have to sit through 30 minutes of brainwashing...
This is the reason I don't go to the movies anymore. I don't mind the trailers so much, but forcing me to watch commercials when I've paid for a ticket is sick. Same goes for DVDs with unskippable things before the menu. Is it really worth pissing people off just to make a few extra cents?
Re: showing older movies, a local independent theater (one which does not show commercials, I might add) recently had a midnight screening of Dr. Strangelove. It was packed.
but shit like "St. Anger" to me means the RIAA is about profits, not music.
s/RIAA/Metallica/
Of *course* the RIAA doesn't give a damn what they're selling, as long as it's doing well. It's somewhat disappointing when the artist feels the same way.
Worse! Steve Jobs could make HIS OWN RECORDING COMPANY! *GASP*
RIAA, meet your nemesis.
You know, sitting back and screwing over the artists while the money rolls in isn't the only thing that record labels do. There's a massive amount of work involved in promotion. If Apple wants to offer a very basic service that only involves putting your independently-created songs on iTMS (and hopefully a good deal on CD duplication), well sure, they could do that. But you'll be touring constantly just to get your name out there.
I'm not sure where the lack of loyalty comes from - perhaps it's business that started it (It is pretty stupid to be loyal to a business as an employee these days).
Or maybe people just realized that being "loyal" to someone who doesn't even know you personally doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Even if Steve Jobs shares your ideals (and that's a very big if), he doesn't give a fuck about you.
Well that's stupid. Let's say I use a GPL'd weblog internal to my company. I don't want the field viewing the source. In the context of my business, it has no value to them and could cause other issues. I'm going to strip it out by god.
You act like you're entitled to use someone else's code however you want, just because it falls under the category of open source. Too fucking bad; you can't. Either you abide by the terms of the license, or you don't use it. It's not your code.
A great deal of GPL'd software uses the recommended "v2 or later" line. It certainly doesn't force anyone to upgrade, but it has the potential for creating a great deal of confusion. I just hope that they're compatible with each other.
The slowness of remote access has absolutely nothing to do with "outperforming the premier Linux desktop". Such things work on a much lower level. VNC does suck compared to RDP, but look at NX.
It's a nuisance when Windows Explorer on an average Athlon is slightly more responsive than Linux and KDE
Interesting. I've found the opposite to be true, especially with the Start/K menu. If you want to speed up Konqueror's file browsing features, turn off stuff like document previews.
I hate to criticize someone, but six times on a titration experiment?
Wow. It's worse; he says he tried six times and NEVER got it right. And from the description, it sounds like the perfectly standard HCl/NaOH titration with phenolphthalein as an indicator. If you can't get light pink by your third or fourth run, you have a serious problem. If you can't ask for help when you need it (instead, "they assigned..."), you have a serious problem.
It seems to me that the entire concept of a "business degree" is asinine -- a couple of business class just ought to be tacked onto the requirements for other degrees.
My thoughts exactly. My brother got a B.A. in Biochemistry, then an MBA. Doing business-related stuff as an undergrad, then getting an MBA seems like a huge waste of time.
Why bother? So you can have a 10-year career lifespan and then be laid off by the guy who did start his classes at 10 AM and end them at 3 PM, then went out drinking; who, incidentally, makes more than you?
Because some of us are actually passionate about science and are willing to suffer through the intense education required to practice it.
Same thing with Tetsuya. I really hope the banal crap in these clips aren't representative of the series. Then again, maybe they are. I knew there was a good reason I hate anime.
Re:Colonization?
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How do you feel about the largely unrecognized awesomeness of Colonization?
I have very mixed feelings about Colonization. The concept is really cool and much of the game is fun, but there's no sense of epic scale like in Civ. And I hate how it ends: you pack your coastal cities with troops, hit the Declare Independence button, and wait it out. Nothing resembling the guerrilla warfare tactics of the real American Revolution. That would be a fascinating game in itself.
What about open sourcing it so guys like me can fix it up to work on modern OS's?
You're missing the point. You don't turn into a "total pothead" unless you have other problems. I've tried all sorts of drugs, but I've never seen the attraction in using any of them regularly.
Great, good luck to you. But you probably won't make any money selling shareware apps to Linux users. Some of us are anal about open source purity, and some of us will just use the free alternative even though it's not quite as good. If your app is really good, it will be cloned and released on SourceForge.
Shareware games may have a role, though. They're much harder to clone, and will more likely be seen as worth the money. These are just my impressions of the community, of course; I haven't done the market research. In the end, your best option is to use a cross-platform toolkit and release on both platforms with few modifications.
An OS kernel is to an extent the impractical side.
No. Unit testing a monolithic kernel is impractical. Unit testing and OO-like design are some of my favorite benefits of microkernels. Creating mock-hardware to use in the testing would still be extremely complex, but worthwhile in the end.
Do you have a point? Find the torrents you want, and queue them up in Azureus. Check back a day later. No time "wasted". Most people do other things while their files are downloading.
Oh, and you should have gone to a university with dual OC3s. Never had a noticeable slowdown here:)
If you can admit that there is a place for shareware on Linux, as opposed to freeware, then, having a mechanism such as this is a godsend for independent authors.
There is little room for "shareware" or "freeware" on Linux. What do they offer that open source software does not?
I understand that (pseudo)ephedrine as the most easily controlled precursor is very closely watched these days in the US.
IIRC, drugstores have to report it if you bought more than two boxes of Sudafed. That means you can still get about 5g of pseudoephedrine from each of your local drugstores. Safrole (MDMA precursor) is also closely watched. It's typically impossible to find more than 5mL of it for sale, but it can still be synthesized from eugenol (extracted from cloves or cinnamon). Good luck to the DEA in controlling the sale of whole cloves.
For those interested, rhodium.ws remains dead, but a mirror is available here.
Please note: actually doing any of these things is a really bad idea. I'm just a chemistry student with an unusual curiosity about such things.
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I know! Star Wars 1 - 3 are almost bearable without sound.
This is the reason I don't go to the movies anymore. I don't mind the trailers so much, but forcing me to watch commercials when I've paid for a ticket is sick. Same goes for DVDs with unskippable things before the menu. Is it really worth pissing people off just to make a few extra cents?
Re: showing older movies, a local independent theater (one which does not show commercials, I might add) recently had a midnight screening of Dr. Strangelove. It was packed.
You've watched way too many bad sci-fi movies. Seriously.
s/RIAA/Metallica/
Of *course* the RIAA doesn't give a damn what they're selling, as long as it's doing well. It's somewhat disappointing when the artist feels the same way.
RIAA, meet your nemesis.
You know, sitting back and screwing over the artists while the money rolls in isn't the only thing that record labels do. There's a massive amount of work involved in promotion. If Apple wants to offer a very basic service that only involves putting your independently-created songs on iTMS (and hopefully a good deal on CD duplication), well sure, they could do that. But you'll be touring constantly just to get your name out there.
Or maybe people just realized that being "loyal" to someone who doesn't even know you personally doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Even if Steve Jobs shares your ideals (and that's a very big if), he doesn't give a fuck about you.
Or before. The Han Solo Adventures are pretty good.
You act like you're entitled to use someone else's code however you want, just because it falls under the category of open source. Too fucking bad; you can't. Either you abide by the terms of the license, or you don't use it. It's not your code.
A great deal of GPL'd software uses the recommended "v2 or later" line. It certainly doesn't force anyone to upgrade, but it has the potential for creating a great deal of confusion. I just hope that they're compatible with each other.
The slowness of remote access has absolutely nothing to do with "outperforming the premier Linux desktop". Such things work on a much lower level. VNC does suck compared to RDP, but look at NX.
Interesting. I've found the opposite to be true, especially with the Start/K menu. If you want to speed up Konqueror's file browsing features, turn off stuff like document previews.
Wow. It's worse; he says he tried six times and NEVER got it right. And from the description, it sounds like the perfectly standard HCl/NaOH titration with phenolphthalein as an indicator. If you can't get light pink by your third or fourth run, you have a serious problem. If you can't ask for help when you need it (instead, "they assigned..."), you have a serious problem.
My thoughts exactly. My brother got a B.A. in Biochemistry, then an MBA. Doing business-related stuff as an undergrad, then getting an MBA seems like a huge waste of time.
Because some of us are actually passionate about science and are willing to suffer through the intense education required to practice it.
Same thing with Tetsuya. I really hope the banal crap in these clips aren't representative of the series. Then again, maybe they are. I knew there was a good reason I hate anime.
I have very mixed feelings about Colonization. The concept is really cool and much of the game is fun, but there's no sense of epic scale like in Civ. And I hate how it ends: you pack your coastal cities with troops, hit the Declare Independence button, and wait it out. Nothing resembling the guerrilla warfare tactics of the real American Revolution. That would be a fascinating game in itself.
What about open sourcing it so guys like me can fix it up to work on modern OS's?
Use DOSBox! Works for me.
You're missing the point. You don't turn into a "total pothead" unless you have other problems. I've tried all sorts of drugs, but I've never seen the attraction in using any of them regularly.
Shareware games may have a role, though. They're much harder to clone, and will more likely be seen as worth the money. These are just my impressions of the community, of course; I haven't done the market research. In the end, your best option is to use a cross-platform toolkit and release on both platforms with few modifications.
No. Unit testing a monolithic kernel is impractical. Unit testing and OO-like design are some of my favorite benefits of microkernels. Creating mock-hardware to use in the testing would still be extremely complex, but worthwhile in the end.
Oh, and you should have gone to a university with dual OC3s. Never had a noticeable slowdown here :)
There is little room for "shareware" or "freeware" on Linux. What do they offer that open source software does not?
Ha ha. Why would copy protection in a shiny box be more effective? Until it's done in the hardware, there will always be cracks.
IIRC, drugstores have to report it if you bought more than two boxes of Sudafed. That means you can still get about 5g of pseudoephedrine from each of your local drugstores. Safrole (MDMA precursor) is also closely watched. It's typically impossible to find more than 5mL of it for sale, but it can still be synthesized from eugenol (extracted from cloves or cinnamon). Good luck to the DEA in controlling the sale of whole cloves.
For those interested, rhodium.ws remains dead, but a mirror is available here.
Please note: actually doing any of these things is a really bad idea. I'm just a chemistry student with an unusual curiosity about such things.
mldonkey (with the KMLDonkey GUI) is decent if you can figure out how to set it up.
Yes. But until running a BSD userland on top of the Linux kernel becomes popular, just "Linux" implies a GNU userland anyway.