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Ive seen some scripts for the New ST Series, and the whole series is constructed around the idea that Jar Jar gets stuck in a time bubble. Every episode starts with him arriving on Tatooine, and ends with his death, then the time bubble collapses and hes alive and well and about to die in the next eposode.
One particularly touching script had him run over by a speeder in the opening sequence, with the rest of the episode charting his slow painful progress dragging his broken body across the street to safety, being repeatedly hit and stepped upon by passing traffic. He makes it to the sidewalk, only to be crushed when something falls from the back of a speeder.
I think the series is going to be a great success.
Its just a forbidden love story: Princess and the Pauper, Romeo and Juliet, Lolita, Lady Chatterley's Lover, etc etc.
You just start with "Who isnt allowed to shag who in some parts of society" and take it from there. There have even been a couple of inter species ones, like Enemy Mine.
I beleive so, as he would still have to continually monitor the DVRs for breakins, and also manage a fleet to firewall routers, and keep it documented, and keep it all maintained/serviced.
There is mindawn icon on the KDE menus: K-Multimedia-Audio-Mindawn.
For comparison, its in with Amarok, Kaudiocreator, Rosegarden and other audio applications.
I tried it, and dismissed it as too fussy and controlling. I dont bother with playlists and pictures of the album and other pointless stuff, so I went back to Amarok for playing, Kaudiocreator for ripping and Konqeror for browing my collection of downloaded/ripped music.
Being able to download and run stuff has always been a risk.
It doesnt matter what OS you use (zOS, Linux, windows, Mac, etc), you run the risk of damaging those parts the user has access to if you run things downloaded from random websites.
As a scripting language, its great, as you dont have to bother about having special libs developed for it, you get all the OS interface you need from the shell.
When the vista environment comes out, I wont have to learn a new scripting language, just learn the few vista shell commands I need to get what i need done.
Its not so good for full application development, but its the ideal universal scripting language.
See how Firefox developed once it came out from under a corporate yoke. All those shiny geek toys (XUL, plugins, etc) started getting the attention they needed instead of making it work on an infinite number of badly written web pages.
Orlowski is just a hack who slags things off on the cusp of thier sucess. Hes turned The Register into a personal rant blogg, dont be suprised when it goes bankrupt.
Mark Shuttleworth on the other hand clearly states the problem, gives a lucid account of its causes, and proposes a solution. Maybe you should read his article and actually learn something.
I had to steal my Sister's Electron. She eventually gave it to me, years later when I had my own PC.
I remember typing in 'The Great Cheese Race' from a magazine, and leaving it switched on all week cos the tape recorder for saving programs was broken.
There is a reason Microsoft and Ebay didnt license the patents, and then just payed out on them when challenged. Its because this is just the way you have to deal with the patent system with its millions of potential infringements waiting for your lawyers attention.
You cannot build a non-trivial peice of software without falling foul of a load of something obvious - on a computer patents like one-click or the infinite subtle variations on LZ compression. So the only way to actually get anything built at all is to ignore the whole thing and let the lawyers sort it out later.
The only difference between these two (Microsoft and Ebay) and smaller companies is that they can afford to pay up, whereas a smaller company will end up going bust. Someone like RIM is probably on the threshold of being big enough to survive the patent shark pool and will splash about a bit before getting eaten.
Downs syndrome is a result of a rather major DNA change, I understand that some forms of it also breed true.
Also, many Ataxias are caused by faults in DNA reproduction, causing duplication of DNA sequences.
Also, some radical body deformations can occur with a single gene change, such as those where flies grow without wings, or humans can be completely without pigment.
Whilst you are correct that no OS is completly secure, doesnt it say something that the page you link to lists 40ish Mac viruses, but doesnt even bother to enumerate the 1000s of Mac viruses that are in fact MS Word macro viruses?
The truth is, you have one anecdote of not-a-virus, vs. several years worth of no serious flaws unpatched for long periods, no botnets spamming away, no Sony rootkits, and no real need for desktop virus protection.
Unix variants have security built into the O/S, with superuser access required to install software, and executable files requiring a clear marker that they are executable. Windows still has a bolt-on system that only protects from inturusions after the fact. Any intrusions are seen as a problem in the O/S, not as something requiring an update to the database.
Bah, my iAudio 5 will stream radio to MP3, has (apparently) a timer mechanism to record according to a schedule, and also has voice activated recorder so I can hear what people are saying about me.
Its a shame I only listen to Bach and dont care what others think of me.
1. Everyone thats anyone has a flash card reader
Not always true, at all. Many people use their camera's as card readers, or have a external card reader that is just as much of a choir as using a camera. Also this makes it EXTREMELY portable, as you can now carry pictures to anyone's computer, without having to download them and then upload to a different media or upload to a server.
But its still fragile, and its not as useful as a direct USB connection to the camera (charges the battery too).
2. Oh no, yet another "as easy as VCR" thing.
Yes many office phones have this, but no cell phone I have encountered has this, which is what this is about. I would love this on my phone, and it is a good feature giving the Treo an edge on the competition.
Someone finally being able to kick and scream hard enough to get a simple design past product testers and marketing is indeed news.
3. Front side TV connector?
ALL the connectors are on the front, with a nice tunnel and door so NO cables are visible, this makes hooking things up much easier, and the door/tunnel combo makes things much nicer looking.
Still has the drawback of needing longer cables, and you still need to route the cables from the back into the tunnel. If you have a problem with your TV cabinet, then fix the cabinet, not 'everything else.
5. Finally, something thats sort of new. Except for Tivo and personal video recording and...gasp...VCRs?
If you look at the article you see this is talking about LEGAL downloads of TV sponsored by the networks, which is something completely new. Especially since Tivo and VCR's don't apply to mobile players or computer screens
You mean youve been downloading your pr0n.rm files from illegal sites and not direct from the producers? How about these folks?
Actually I think this is how things will eventually go, you have an account with the channel and pay to download episodes as they become available via an rss like scheme. Unfortunatly the entertainment industry will attempt all the wrong solutions first (DRM, PPV, price gouging, 'extra content', proprietry protocols) before ending up with podcasting for video.
7. Free domain name - 1999 called, it wants its news back.
This mentions the new MS Office Live Beta, which is to give everyone free domains and e-mails (though laced with adds). This is something quite a bit different then the 99 version.
Its a free domain name (that you dont want anyway, what you really want is free hosting) supported by ads. Domains are as cheap as chips (seriously, my domain is about the cost of a bag of chips (chips are a UK thing, a bit like french fries, only the taste nice)).
8. Ok, so its a portable DVD player with LCD screen and a plastic mount.
You missed entirely, it is a portable LCD. The way TFA mentions it the DVD player is not portable, but the screen is able to be moved between several devices.
Ive been wondering when this would happen, take the TV screen to the device instead of the device to the TV. It might even work well.
9. A multi-shot mode on cameras.
Multishot with a timer. The timer being the important part. My Canon has this too (up to 10 shots) but my Canon is also fairly new (SD400, or IXUS 50 for Europeans).
New, but not exactly innivotive, and you still have to balance the camera on a rock. Built in tripods with a remote shutter release would be a better option.
10. high definition camcorders.
The fact that the camcorder uses normal DV tapes is what is remarked about, instead of using the opportunity of switching to HD to bring in a higher priced format. These camcorders use the exact same tapes as HD camcorders, and can even hold both formats without a problem.
What, like putting data onto a CD instead of music? What you describe is the whole point of digital media, the information is no longer tied to
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Ive seen some scripts for the New ST Series, and the whole series is constructed around the idea that Jar Jar gets stuck in a time bubble. Every episode starts with him arriving on Tatooine, and ends with his death, then the time bubble collapses and hes alive and well and about to die in the next eposode.
One particularly touching script had him run over by a speeder in the opening sequence, with the rest of the episode charting his slow painful progress dragging his broken body across the street to safety, being repeatedly hit and stepped upon by passing traffic. He makes it to the sidewalk, only to be crushed when something falls from the back of a speeder.
I think the series is going to be a great success.
Its just a forbidden love story: Princess and the Pauper, Romeo and Juliet, Lolita, Lady Chatterley's Lover, etc etc.
You just start with "Who isnt allowed to shag who in some parts of society" and take it from there. There have even been a couple of inter species ones, like Enemy Mine.
Shurley:
If some things work in Wine, MIRACLE!
I beleive so, as he would still have to continually monitor the DVRs for breakins, and also manage a fleet to firewall routers, and keep it documented, and keep it all maintained/serviced.
Have you never heard of K.I.S.S.?
Or just go to the cinema.
Assuming you dont live amidst a bunch of impolite neanderthals who cough and chew and talk through every performance.
There is mindawn icon on the KDE menus: K-Multimedia-Audio-Mindawn. For comparison, its in with Amarok, Kaudiocreator, Rosegarden and other audio applications. I tried it, and dismissed it as too fussy and controlling. I dont bother with playlists and pictures of the album and other pointless stuff, so I went back to Amarok for playing, Kaudiocreator for ripping and Konqeror for browing my collection of downloaded/ripped music.
Nice Troll, sir!
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Accept the slack! Become one with Bob!
Seriously, get motivation to study/work hard (cash helps), or just go with it and use your advanced intellect to slack without starving.
Being able to download and run stuff has always been a risk.
It doesnt matter what OS you use (zOS, Linux, windows, Mac, etc), you run the risk of damaging those parts the user has access to if you run things downloaded from random websites.
Its not the bells and whistles that are bad, its the whizzing fans and spinning disks and all manner of other loud stuff.
/dev/hda wouldnt go amiss either. Whats the Windows MCE equivalent?
If its in the lounge, its got to be low power and passive cooled, nothing else will do.
And a hdparm -S1
What, like: address SH "your shell command here"
As a scripting language, its great, as you dont have to bother about having special libs developed for it, you get all the OS interface you need from the shell.
When the vista environment comes out, I wont have to learn a new scripting language, just learn the few vista shell commands I need to get what i need done.
Its not so good for full application development, but its the ideal universal scripting language.
Yes, I thought that they thought that I might think of that.
So I have a roomfull of Chinese clicking away as we speak.
These robot slaves, are they hot?
Orlowski is miles off.
See how Firefox developed once it came out from under a corporate yoke. All those shiny geek toys (XUL, plugins, etc) started getting the attention they needed instead of making it work on an infinite number of badly written web pages.
Orlowski is just a hack who slags things off on the cusp of thier sucess. Hes turned The Register into a personal rant blogg, dont be suprised when it goes bankrupt.
Mark Shuttleworth on the other hand clearly states the problem, gives a lucid account of its causes, and proposes a solution. Maybe you should read his article and actually learn something.
I had to steal my Sister's Electron. She eventually gave it to me, years later when I had my own PC.
I remember typing in 'The Great Cheese Race' from a magazine, and leaving it switched on all week cos the tape recorder for saving programs was broken.
[Reminisce over how great Office Space was.]
There is a reason Microsoft and Ebay didnt license the patents, and then just payed out on them when challenged. Its because this is just the way you have to deal with the patent system with its millions of potential infringements waiting for your lawyers attention.
You cannot build a non-trivial peice of software without falling foul of a load of something obvious - on a computer patents like one-click or the infinite subtle variations on LZ compression. So the only way to actually get anything built at all is to ignore the whole thing and let the lawyers sort it out later.
The only difference between these two (Microsoft and Ebay) and smaller companies is that they can afford to pay up, whereas a smaller company will end up going bust. Someone like RIM is probably on the threshold of being big enough to survive the patent shark pool and will splash about a bit before getting eaten.
Downs syndrome is a result of a rather major DNA change, I understand that some forms of it also breed true.
Also, many Ataxias are caused by faults in DNA reproduction, causing duplication of DNA sequences.
Also, some radical body deformations can occur with a single gene change, such as those where flies grow without wings, or humans can be completely without pigment.
They may have it, but they wont be dependant on it.
Like me with chocolate, I could give it up any time I want.
And fags, and booze, and coffee, and cigarettes.
Whilst you are correct that no OS is completly secure, doesnt it say something that the page you link to lists 40ish Mac viruses, but doesnt even bother to enumerate the 1000s of Mac viruses that are in fact MS Word macro viruses?
The truth is, you have one anecdote of not-a-virus, vs. several years worth of no serious flaws unpatched for long periods, no botnets spamming away, no Sony rootkits, and no real need for desktop virus protection.
Unix variants have security built into the O/S, with superuser access required to install software, and executable files requiring a clear marker that they are executable. Windows still has a bolt-on system that only protects from inturusions after the fact. Any intrusions are seen as a problem in the O/S, not as something requiring an update to the database.
FWIW, my upgrade cycle is on hold till UT2007 hits the shelves, when I will take a hit on and AMD64 CPU, MOBO and nVidia GPU in one go.
Currently running passivly cooled 2500 Barton core and nv 4200Ti.
I just wonder whether I'll be able to hit a bangs/watt sweetspot like I did with my current setup.
Well, I'd go with Rose, but I'd be thinking of Leela.
or that, for the f'ing love of God, dont disable the damn anti-spyware and anti-virus
Being an IT guru isn't about knowing not to disable the security, but knowing when to disable the security.
Bah, my iAudio 5 will stream radio to MP3, has (apparently) a timer mechanism to record according to a schedule, and also has voice activated recorder so I can hear what people are saying about me.
Its a shame I only listen to Bach and dont care what others think of me.
But its still fragile, and its not as useful as a direct USB connection to the camera (charges the battery too).
2. Oh no, yet another "as easy as VCR" thing. Yes many office phones have this, but no cell phone I have encountered has this, which is what this is about. I would love this on my phone, and it is a good feature giving the Treo an edge on the competition.
Someone finally being able to kick and scream hard enough to get a simple design past product testers and marketing is indeed news.
3. Front side TV connector? ALL the connectors are on the front, with a nice tunnel and door so NO cables are visible, this makes hooking things up much easier, and the door/tunnel combo makes things much nicer looking.
Still has the drawback of needing longer cables, and you still need to route the cables from the back into the tunnel. If you have a problem with your TV cabinet, then fix the cabinet, not 'everything else.
5. Finally, something thats sort of new. Except for Tivo and personal video recording and...gasp...VCRs? If you look at the article you see this is talking about LEGAL downloads of TV sponsored by the networks, which is something completely new. Especially since Tivo and VCR's don't apply to mobile players or computer screens
You mean youve been downloading your pr0n.rm files from illegal sites and not direct from the producers? How about these folks?
Actually I think this is how things will eventually go, you have an account with the channel and pay to download episodes as they become available via an rss like scheme. Unfortunatly the entertainment industry will attempt all the wrong solutions first (DRM, PPV, price gouging, 'extra content', proprietry protocols) before ending up with podcasting for video.
7. Free domain name - 1999 called, it wants its news back. This mentions the new MS Office Live Beta, which is to give everyone free domains and e-mails (though laced with adds). This is something quite a bit different then the 99 version.
Its a free domain name (that you dont want anyway, what you really want is free hosting) supported by ads. Domains are as cheap as chips (seriously, my domain is about the cost of a bag of chips (chips are a UK thing, a bit like french fries, only the taste nice)).
8. Ok, so its a portable DVD player with LCD screen and a plastic mount. You missed entirely, it is a portable LCD. The way TFA mentions it the DVD player is not portable, but the screen is able to be moved between several devices.
Ive been wondering when this would happen, take the TV screen to the device instead of the device to the TV. It might even work well.
9. A multi-shot mode on cameras. Multishot with a timer. The timer being the important part. My Canon has this too (up to 10 shots) but my Canon is also fairly new (SD400, or IXUS 50 for Europeans).
New, but not exactly innivotive, and you still have to balance the camera on a rock. Built in tripods with a remote shutter release would be a better option.
10. high definition camcorders. The fact that the camcorder uses normal DV tapes is what is remarked about, instead of using the opportunity of switching to HD to bring in a higher priced format. These camcorders use the exact same tapes as HD camcorders, and can even hold both formats without a problem.
What, like putting data onto a CD instead of music? What you describe is the whole point of digital media, the information is no longer tied to