try the Tolkien Challenge: read the Silmarillion, Histories of Middle Earth, The Lost Tales, Farmer Giles, Smith of Wooton Major, then all his translations: Orfeus, Pearl, Gwain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, etc. Should keep you busy for a while.
Colonel: "They've seen us! Prepare ship for Light Speed."
Dark Helmet: "No, no, no, Light Speed is too slow."
Colonel: "Light Speed too slow?"
Dark Helmet: "Yes. We're going to have to go right to...Ludicrous Speed!"
Oh...my...god...they've gone...PLAID!
Pardon me if i'm being a complete moron here, but i simply don't see how any copy protection scheme for any audio or video playback devide could ever succeed.
That was a big sentence, so i think i'm going to repeat it: i simply do not see how copy protection on audio and video could ever work
My argument goes something like this - for playback of an audio file to happen, a digital signal (typical for CDs is 2 16b channels per song) is read by the device, and transformed into an analog signal, which is then piped to speakers. Similarly, an identical digital-to-analog conversion takes place when an image is displayed on your monitor or your tv or whatever.
there is nothing that prevents the interruption and recording of that analog signal before it hits the speakers - or even removing the speakers and replacing them with a recording device. of course, my argument may be flawed, and i'm no electrical engineer... comments, corrections are welcome.
A feature I would like similar to 'back' would be to reopen the last page I was on when I last closed the browser. Often, I close the window and find that I still need some info that was on that last page.
as a tabbed-browsing convert, i have accidentally closed every tab i had open by just closing mozilla completely. Mozilla didn't have all the tab features i wanted by itself, so i got Multizilla and installed it for better tab support. It has an option to save open tabs on browser exit, and it works perfectly. The only issue i've found is that when you set it to open your homepage on load, it does this even when it's already open from the last time you kicked up mozilla. Every once and a while, i end up with about 4 copies of slashdot open at the same time... but what the hell, middle-click kills them quickly enough.
this might be the solution for you.
2) That was just a lie anyway, as the mirror was simply a way for galadriel to communicate and she just told another lie about the mirror so that frodo would do what she wanted him to, namely help destroy the one right and restore stasis to middle earth.
but the elves were *not* static, they were leaving, and Galadriel among them. "... i have passed the test... and go into the west, and remain Galadriel." the triliogy takes place at the end of an Age... that doesn't sound very static to me. And there are *very* strong hints that the destruction of the One Ring causes all the others to loose their powers, and mark the end of the age of elves. If galadriel wanted to maintain stasis, she'd have accepted the ring, overthrown Sauron, and ruled in his stead.
anyway, the answer is probably somewhere deep in the silmarillion, which i have yet to read.
truly it is said, "never ask an elf for advice, for they will say yes and no in the same breath" -Frodo
Later when Frodo is shown the future by the Lady of the Wood, the Dark Lord burns down people's houses and enslaves them.
hate to be a nitpick. but. Galadriel admits that "Many things can i command the Mirror to reveal, and to some i can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often tstranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be But which that it sees, even the wisest cannot tell."
to combine with star wars, as some people have been doing: "difficult to see...always in motion, the future is." -Yoda.
consider that Galadriel could have tried to sway the mirror, but it wouldn't have worked, since Frodo, by virtue of carrying the One Ring, is her equal.
Dear Rob:
As a present to you on your wedding, we, the Slashdot community as a whole, wish to give you this: the slashdotting of your pic/video server.
love,
The Gang
from the OED online:
[a. L. dogma philosophical tenet, a. Gr. , -, that which seems to one, opinion, tenet, decree, f. to seem, seem good, think, suppose, imagine. At first used with Gr.-L. plural; the forms dogme, dogm, represented F. dogme (16th c.in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. That which is held as an opinion; a belief, principle, tenet; esp. a tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down by a particular church, sect, or school of thought; sometimes, depreciatingly, an imperious or arrogant declaration of opinion. [a1600 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. VIII. ii. 13 [tr. D. Stapleton] Power to proclaim, to defend, and..to preserve from violation dogmata, very articles of religion themselves.] 1638 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. (ed. 2) 267 The grosse fanatick Dogmataes of the Alcoran. 1640 G. WATTS tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. III. iv. 3 Those Dogmaes and Paradoxes are almost vanished. a1652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. VII. iv. (1821) 350 Our dogmata and notions about justification. 1676 R. DIXON Nat. Two Test. 21 Prophane Dogms and impure Worship. 1704 HEARNE Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 400 Their Dogmata and Astrological Doctrine..we shall not enlarge upon them. 1843 RUSKIN Mod. Paint. I. (1844) p. lii, The dogmata of the schools of art. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. v. 3 (1882) 229 To assert the freedom of religious thought against the dogmas of the Papacy. 1893 J. ORR God & World I. 26 note, Dogma I take to be a formulation of doctrine stamped with ecclesiastical authority.
2. The body of opinion formulated or authoritatively stated; systematized belief; tenets or principles collectively; doctrinal system. 1791 BURKE Fr. Affairs Wks. VII. 13 The present..is a revolution of doctrine and theoretick dogma. 1856 EMERSON Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 111 If, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture. 1871 KINGSLEY Lett. (1878) II. 368 If you wish to save Christian dogma. 1871 MORLEY Carlyle (1878) 191 It places character on the pedestal where Puritanism places dogma.
I remember reading an article on CNN about a week ago (the link is no longer on their page) about "high quality, but unfriendly" CD's....which basically goes along with this topic. They mentioned a few of the DRM techniques that different companies are using, bla, bla, bla... but here's the funny thing. One of the CD's pictured to have a new form of content protection was Linkin Park's "Reanimation", a remix of their first CD. I went out and bought that CD about 3 months ago, came home, popped it in my computer, kicked up CDex, and burned the tracks to mp3 at 320 kbps. took me about 4 minutes. then i shelved the CD. (i was packing for college, and i prefer not to have my CD collection subject to the perils of a dorm:) ) How is that copy protection, again? or does CDex just have l33t skillz?
speaking of spamming, why don't you scroll up two comments to look at... wait... it's the same comment! twice! posted by the same person!... both modded up >=3. why is one interesing and the other insightful?
There's a nice, safe air-gap between your local Internet connection and anything "THAT" serious on military networks.
yeah, until some yahoo with clearance takes his personal laptop and plugs it into SIPRNET. And yes, it has happened. I think Bruce Schneier
mentioned dumb stuff like this in a cryptopane issue...
Does it have good points? yes, like the ability to draw doodles, figures, and graphs easily (that is still faster today to do it by hand than by computer commands, but only for simple graphs). point taken - but you can always hook up a wacom to your laptop (if you want to doodle on the go) or your desktop (for stationary doodling) It's a lot cheaper, and doesn't run windows XP by default...
indeed. The Ultimate answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. However, the Earth, which was a gigantic organic computer built to find the ultimate question, was destroyed 5 minutes before the program was completed by the Vogons, making way for an interstellar bypass.
Arthur Dent, the last human male in existance, and last-generation program output, drew scrabble pieces from a rabbit skin to use chaos to tap into his subconcious and reveal the ultimate question that way- but the program outputted a false result anyway, because the earth was mistakenly seeded with throwaway citizens from another planet, who burned down the forests and disrupted the evolution of the monkeys (thus introducing unknown variables into the computer matrix...). Thus, the 'ultimate question' gives the wrong answer; 54. (oddly enough, 6*9 = 42, modulus 13. . . but douglas adams didn't know that when he wrote the books...)
What if we're all part of some gigantic computer and the molecules we put to work computing were already computing something?
1. We'd better not end up with "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" 2. Watch out for Vogon deconstructor fleets.
Slashdot Mirror
try the Tolkien Challenge: read the Silmarillion, Histories of Middle Earth, The Lost Tales, Farmer Giles, Smith of Wooton Major, then all his translations: Orfeus, Pearl, Gwain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, etc. Should keep you busy for a while.
Colonel: "They've seen us! Prepare ship for Light Speed."
Dark Helmet: "No, no, no, Light Speed is too slow." Colonel: "Light Speed too slow?"
Dark Helmet: "Yes. We're going to have to go right to...Ludicrous Speed!"
Oh...my...god...they've gone...PLAID!
Pardon me if i'm being a complete moron here, but i simply don't see how any copy protection scheme for any audio or video playback devide could ever succeed.
That was a big sentence, so i think i'm going to repeat it:
i simply do not see how copy protection on audio and video could ever work
My argument goes something like this - for playback of an audio file to happen, a digital signal (typical for CDs is 2 16b channels per song) is read by the device, and transformed into an analog signal, which is then piped to speakers. Similarly, an identical digital-to-analog conversion takes place when an image is displayed on your monitor or your tv or whatever.
there is nothing that prevents the interruption and recording of that analog signal before it hits the speakers - or even removing the speakers and replacing them with a recording device.
of course, my argument may be flawed, and i'm no electrical engineer... comments, corrections are welcome.
A feature I would like similar to 'back' would be to reopen the last page I was on when I last closed the browser. Often, I close the window and find that I still need some info that was on that last page.
as a tabbed-browsing convert, i have accidentally closed every tab i had open by just closing mozilla completely. Mozilla didn't have all the tab features i wanted by itself, so i got Multizilla and installed it for better tab support. It has an option to save open tabs on browser exit, and it works perfectly. The only issue i've found is that when you set it to open your homepage on load, it does this even when it's already open from the last time you kicked up mozilla. Every once and a while, i end up with about 4 copies of slashdot open at the same time... but what the hell, middle-click kills them quickly enough.
this might be the solution for you.
2) That was just a lie anyway, as the mirror was simply a way for galadriel to communicate and she just told another lie about the mirror so that frodo would do what she wanted him to, namely help destroy the one right and restore stasis to middle earth.
but the elves were *not* static, they were leaving, and Galadriel among them. "... i have passed the test... and go into the west, and remain Galadriel." the triliogy takes place at the end of an Age... that doesn't sound very static to me. And there are *very* strong hints that the destruction of the One Ring causes all the others to loose their powers, and mark the end of the age of elves. If galadriel wanted to maintain stasis, she'd have accepted the ring, overthrown Sauron, and ruled in his stead.
anyway, the answer is probably somewhere deep in the silmarillion, which i have yet to read.
truly it is said, "never ask an elf for advice, for they will say yes and no in the same breath" -Frodo
you forgot these :
Team Fortress 2
duke nukem forever
Later when Frodo is shown the future by the Lady of the Wood, the Dark Lord burns down people's houses and enslaves them.
hate to be a nitpick. but. Galadriel admits that
"Many things can i command the Mirror to reveal, and to some i can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often tstranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be But which that it sees, even the wisest cannot tell."
to combine with star wars, as some people have been doing: "difficult to see...always in motion, the future is." -Yoda.
consider that Galadriel could have tried to sway the mirror, but it wouldn't have worked, since Frodo, by virtue of carrying the One Ring, is her equal.
um. Zelda. nuff said. probably the best series of games i've ever played. (ok, ok... mario too.)
Hah, they'll probably GPL notepad.
BAH! EMACS!
ah, the smell of napalm in the morning...
Dear Rob:
As a present to you on your wedding, we, the Slashdot community as a whole, wish to give you this: the slashdotting of your pic/video server.
love,
The Gang
that's like saying that people with shellshock aren't injured. sorry, this ain't M*A*S*H, you ain't frank burns, and you're dead wrong.
from the OED online:
[a. L. dogma philosophical tenet, a. Gr. , -, that which seems to one, opinion, tenet, decree, f. to seem, seem good, think, suppose, imagine. At first used with Gr.-L. plural; the forms dogme, dogm, represented F. dogme (16th c.in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. That which is held as an opinion; a belief, principle, tenet; esp. a tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down by a particular church, sect, or school of thought; sometimes, depreciatingly, an imperious or arrogant declaration of opinion.
[a1600 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. VIII. ii. 13 [tr. D. Stapleton] Power to proclaim, to defend, and..to preserve from violation dogmata, very articles of religion themselves.] 1638 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. (ed. 2) 267 The grosse fanatick Dogmataes of the Alcoran. 1640 G. WATTS tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. III. iv. 3 Those Dogmaes and Paradoxes are almost vanished. a1652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. VII. iv. (1821) 350 Our dogmata and notions about justification. 1676 R. DIXON Nat. Two Test. 21 Prophane Dogms and impure Worship. 1704 HEARNE Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 400 Their Dogmata and Astrological Doctrine..we shall not enlarge upon them. 1843 RUSKIN Mod. Paint. I. (1844) p. lii, The dogmata of the schools of art. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. v. 3 (1882) 229 To assert the freedom of religious thought against the dogmas of the Papacy. 1893 J. ORR God & World I. 26 note, Dogma I take to be a formulation of doctrine stamped with ecclesiastical authority.
2. The body of opinion formulated or authoritatively stated; systematized belief; tenets or principles collectively; doctrinal system.
1791 BURKE Fr. Affairs Wks. VII. 13 The present..is a revolution of doctrine and theoretick dogma. 1856 EMERSON Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 111 If, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture. 1871 KINGSLEY Lett. (1878) II. 368 If you wish to save Christian dogma. 1871 MORLEY Carlyle (1878) 191 It places character on the pedestal where Puritanism places dogma.
Big Dig...And I'm going to get to drive on it in a month.
you must be new to boston.
The size of the hobbits still keeps changing. yes. merry and pippin get bigger. Ent drafts do that. nifty, huh?
I remember reading an article on CNN about a week ago (the link is no longer on their page) about "high quality, but unfriendly" CD's....which basically goes along with this topic. They mentioned a few of the DRM techniques that different companies are using, bla, bla, bla... but here's the funny thing. One of the CD's pictured to have a new form of content protection was Linkin Park's "Reanimation", a remix of their first CD. I went out and bought that CD about 3 months ago, came home, popped it in my computer, kicked up CDex, and burned the tracks to mp3 at 320 kbps. took me about 4 minutes. then i shelved the CD. (i was packing for college, and i prefer not to have my CD collection subject to the perils of a dorm :) ) How is that copy protection, again? or does CDex just have l33t skillz?
1 LOC = 530 miles shelf space.
this guy has 3000mi(1LOC/530mi)=5.667 LOC's of storage space.
The first thing going through my mind was the need to mail a set of recent backup discs to a family member...
/. reader who doesn't devote much of his harddrive to pr0n! (or maybe not.... eww.....)
Amazing! The only
hippie 1: i can hear the meteors, man!
hippie 2: yeah, man... if you sit over here, you can hear the mountains, too!
maybe it's time to lay off the peyote...
wasn't that patrick stewart? or did both stewart and shatner train as shakesperian actors before star trek - and if so... wierd...
speaking of spamming, why don't you scroll up two comments to look at... wait... it's the same comment! twice! posted by the same person! ... both modded up >=3. why is one interesing and the other insightful?
There's a nice, safe air-gap between your local Internet connection and anything "THAT" serious on military networks.
yeah, until some yahoo with clearance takes his personal laptop and plugs it into SIPRNET. And yes, it has happened. I think Bruce Schneier mentioned dumb stuff like this in a cryptopane issue...
Does it have good points? yes, like the ability to draw doodles, figures, and graphs easily (that is still faster today to do it by hand than by computer commands, but only for simple graphs).
point taken - but you can always hook up a wacom to your laptop (if you want to doodle on the go) or your desktop (for stationary doodling) It's a lot cheaper, and doesn't run windows XP by default...
... use TeX.
indeed. The Ultimate answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. However, the Earth, which was a gigantic organic computer built to find the ultimate question, was destroyed 5 minutes before the program was completed by the Vogons, making way for an interstellar bypass.
Arthur Dent, the last human male in existance, and last-generation program output, drew scrabble pieces from a rabbit skin to use chaos to tap into his subconcious and reveal the ultimate question that way- but the program outputted a false result anyway, because the earth was mistakenly seeded with throwaway citizens from another planet, who burned down the forests and disrupted the evolution of the monkeys (thus introducing unknown variables into the computer matrix...). Thus, the 'ultimate question' gives the wrong answer; 54.
(oddly enough, 6*9 = 42, modulus 13. . . but douglas adams didn't know that when he wrote the books...)
What if we're all part of some gigantic computer and the molecules we put to work computing were already computing something?
1. We'd better not end up with "What do you get when you multiply six by nine"
2. Watch out for Vogon deconstructor fleets.