"There are a hell of a lot of great US directors out there, so I reject the whole "Hollywood doesn't put out any good movies" meme as a shallow and distorted view of the medium."
Agreed:) personally I'd stick Jim Jarmusch in there - "Dead Man" is one of my favourite movies.
"For every great foreign director you can name, I can name three great directors from the US."
You were specifically referring to _US Directors_ and including Peter Weir as a member of that group - I'm pointing out specifically that that is incorrect.
Reminds me of when I was younger and travelled to Melbourne I was amazed to see all these houses being built with stud walls - my grandad was a builder here in Perth and I'd seen plenty of houses being built in Perth, but they were all double brick and tile/tin roof. I never imagined newer houses being anything but!
Well that would be important to note if it were fact. The ZDnet article is a straight obedient lift from whatever PR releases MIPI put out.
Sites like Whirlpool http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ indicate that the BitTorrent site originated from a user forum which posted the tracker, and the 'specialized' Archie's Web site was a DC hub IP filtered to Swiftel's addresses by it's originator, most likely a client. The MIPI is taking the filtering as evidence it's Swiftel's doing, which is based on some specious logic, particularly when they announced it before they had even raided the place and ascertained exactly what was taking place.
This has bugger all to do with catching 'offending' P2P/BitTorrent end users, and everything to do with the MIPI ramping up the FUD so as to create an atmosphere of fear of litigation amongst ISP's, driving a push towards ISP's 'voluntarily' screwing down what end users do on the network. i.e. doing the MIPI's job for them. Fuck using current legislation which is wholly appropriate - too much trouble to tag individuals by due process: might as well scare the shit out of ISP's with litigious fear mongering and close-to-libelous PR (I'd love to see that tested in a court of law).
And Music Industry 'Piracy' Investigations for a title? What about Music Industry Copyright Investigations as a more correct name - oops, too easy to take the MICI out of them.
Without perusing the relevant laws (IANAL), I still have more than a vague suspicion that the quote below is a less-than-accurate view of the intent behind this legislation:
Justice Minister Chris Ellison says the laws will not apply to euthanasia sites and will not hinder free speech.
"We put in the legislation that a person is not guilty of an offence merely because a person is engaged in public discussion and debate about euthanasia," he said.
The current Howard Liberal government has been strongly present in the ongoing debate re: the morality of euthanasia - and are clearly anti in an overall moral/policy sense. Several cases over recent years involving assisted suicides have seen spouses/partners of the terminally ill going thru very public and debated legal processes, and Dr Phillip Nitschke, a prominent euthanasia advocate, has been the focus of much attention, particularly from the government - much of it bordering on ominous.
The legislation may ostensibly be framed such that "a person is not guilty of an offence merely because a person is engaged in public discussion and debate about euthanasia", but I am forced to wonder about the status under this legislation of Dr Nitschke and other pro-euthanasia figures who are prominent in their views, may seek to express these views online, and who have been specifically categorised by members of the current government as 'actively promoting' assisted suicide?
Perhaps the old tin foil is itching to see daylight, but I have an inherent suspicion about the motives behind such legislation given the current government philosophy, a suspicion intensified when the premise behind such legislation is the mere presence of 'suicide sites' in Japan and the US.
The concept of putting thought into increasing intellectual property laws in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, and I see merit in the pursuit of "more sophisticated and nuanced rules" if the global intent of such pursuit is to maximise freedom, reward the creative spirit etc. These, some may argue, are meritorious goals.
Many would argue, myself among them, that this is however not the intent (judging by current philisophical position or action) of those most vociferously pursuing greater IP laws: their goals are to create, or acquire, or to otherwise aggregate control of IP amongst a shrinking proportion of the corporate citizenship with a view to segregating, isolating and ultimately denying fair use and common shared knowledge amongst those not falling within the mandated 'control' regime.
"of course, in this RIAA case, it is a civil matter, and this story is about how the DCMA explicity protects ISPs from being targeted for traffic they cannot control. Plus, reasonable people are disagreeing over how illegal/unethical it is to copy pirated music."
Seems to me that these two sentences in and of themselves render the analogy invalid, or extremely weak at best. The distribution of illegal narcotics is analogous to p2p 'traffic' in copied music? - only in the most frivolous of ways.
BS. Gigabyte may be 'famous' for Top end fully featured stuff but they are also fully into low and mid range boards as well. No way aimed solely at the enthusiast market. I own several of their cheap and cheerful VIA 400 and 600 boards.
Slight correction - Nvidia's SLI solution doesn't do the old Voodoo scan-line interleaving: it either does SFR (split frame rendering i.e. a portion of each frame is rendered by each gpu) or AFR (alternate frame rendering i.e each gpu renders each alternate frame completely), as per the driver profile you mention.
Actually no - as the article says, DOOM3 is profiled in the driver set used in the testing as an AFR (alternate frame rendering) user, hence screen splitting isn't applicable to it.
One of the best posts for a long time. Great to hear an artist's persepective on the issue rather than a bunch of spin from paid shills invoking artists' 'rights' whilst violating them at the same time.
"The trouble is, now I have to go through the motions of mounting the fucking image before I play."
What motions? Just leave the iso mounted, set DT to automount and DT doesn't even have to be started prior to running up the game. Zero, zip, zilch going thru' motions.
Because here in Australia, raw voting and by-booth tallying isn't computer based: it's all manual, maintains a hardcopy record for reference, has monitored proceedings, and is far more 'troublesome' to fuck around with post-election!:P
The thing about TT is it's one of a bunch of 'hysterics masquerading as reporting' programs competing for the Lowest Common Denominator demographic. You know the type of shit stories - 'please think of the children', 'evil-in-our-midst internet porn', 'welfare ripoffs (funnily enough having a bet each way with both welfare cheats and the welfare system ripping off deserving familes', 'my neighbour's noisy parrot is driving me crazy' etc etc.
Sad thing is they are proliferating - which speaks volumes about the intellectual state of middle Australia.
On the contrary, I think Howard's neo-conservativism IS one of the mitigating factors behind these ultra-right christian fundi groups sticking up their heads: they are encouraged by his direction and see that with his increasing right leanings, they are looking less far out there.
I'm sure the more 'moderates' in the FFP are rubbing their hands and thinking 'Howard is steering the political landscape our way' whilst the more 'extreme' members are doing a jig and thinking 'well with the direction mainstream liberal is taking looks like we can really make an effort to get our policies into the picture; after all we're not that much more right than John now'.
Coz I had the same issue with an LCD and the original UT - mouse lag big time but only in UT.
It turned out to be an issue with the game engine - on faster pcs that churn out high frame rates, unless the vertical sync is set on the game actually runs 'fast' and the mouse lag is noticeable. Try setting vsync on and see if it goes away? Worked for me.
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What, as opposed to involuntary ones? *scratches head*
hey - is that you honey?
"There are a hell of a lot of great US directors out there, so I reject the whole "Hollywood doesn't put out any good movies" meme as a shallow and distorted view of the medium." Agreed :) personally I'd stick Jim Jarmusch in there - "Dead Man" is one of my favourite movies.
"For every great foreign director you can name, I can name three great directors from the US."
You were specifically referring to _US Directors_ and including Peter Weir as a member of that group - I'm pointing out specifically that that is incorrect.
I'm sure Peter Weir will be surprised to find he's been co-opted as an American - he's an Australian. Peter Weir @ www.imdb.com
Reminds me of when I was younger and travelled to Melbourne I was amazed to see all these houses being built with stud walls - my grandad was a builder here in Perth and I'd seen plenty of houses being built in Perth, but they were all double brick and tile/tin roof. I never imagined newer houses being anything but!
Yeh, it's exactly like if you're not old enough to buy wine in a store, you can get someone to buy it for you - just a lot more of a hassle.
Sites like Whirlpool http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ indicate that the BitTorrent site originated from a user forum which posted the tracker, and the 'specialized' Archie's Web site was a DC hub IP filtered to Swiftel's addresses by it's originator, most likely a client. The MIPI is taking the filtering as evidence it's Swiftel's doing, which is based on some specious logic, particularly when they announced it before they had even raided the place and ascertained exactly what was taking place.
And Music Industry 'Piracy' Investigations for a title? What about Music Industry Copyright Investigations as a more correct name - oops, too easy to take the MICI out of them.
The current Howard Liberal government has been strongly present in the ongoing debate re: the morality of euthanasia - and are clearly anti in an overall moral/policy sense. Several cases over recent years involving assisted suicides have seen spouses/partners of the terminally ill going thru very public and debated legal processes, and Dr Phillip Nitschke, a prominent euthanasia advocate, has been the focus of much attention, particularly from the government - much of it bordering on ominous.
The legislation may ostensibly be framed such that "a person is not guilty of an offence merely because a person is engaged in public discussion and debate about euthanasia", but I am forced to wonder about the status under this legislation of Dr Nitschke and other pro-euthanasia figures who are prominent in their views, may seek to express these views online, and who have been specifically categorised by members of the current government as 'actively promoting' assisted suicide?
Perhaps the old tin foil is itching to see daylight, but I have an inherent suspicion about the motives behind such legislation given the current government philosophy, a suspicion intensified when the premise behind such legislation is the mere presence of 'suicide sites' in Japan and the US.
Many would argue, myself among them, that this is however not the intent (judging by current philisophical position or action) of those most vociferously pursuing greater IP laws: their goals are to create, or acquire, or to otherwise aggregate control of IP amongst a shrinking proportion of the corporate citizenship with a view to segregating, isolating and ultimately denying fair use and common shared knowledge amongst those not falling within the mandated 'control' regime.
Seems to me that these two sentences in and of themselves render the analogy invalid, or extremely weak at best. The distribution of illegal narcotics is analogous to p2p 'traffic' in copied music? - only in the most frivolous of ways.
BS. Gigabyte may be 'famous' for Top end fully featured stuff but they are also fully into low and mid range boards as well. No way aimed solely at the enthusiast market. I own several of their cheap and cheerful VIA 400 and 600 boards.
Slight correction - Nvidia's SLI solution doesn't do the old Voodoo scan-line interleaving: it either does SFR (split frame rendering i.e. a portion of each frame is rendered by each gpu) or AFR (alternate frame rendering i.e each gpu renders each alternate frame completely), as per the driver profile you mention.
Actually no - as the article says, DOOM3 is profiled in the driver set used in the testing as an AFR (alternate frame rendering) user, hence screen splitting isn't applicable to it.
errhh - make that "email you the pic". Don't think I can encode the pc :P
Can't link to it, but I can email you the pc - it's SWAT team handsignals and it's hilarious.
One of the best posts for a long time. Great to hear an artist's persepective on the issue rather than a bunch of spin from paid shills invoking artists' 'rights' whilst violating them at the same time.
Cheers
What motions? Just leave the iso mounted, set DT to automount and DT doesn't even have to be started prior to running up the game. Zero, zip, zilch going thru' motions.
Because here in Australia, raw voting and by-booth tallying isn't computer based: it's all manual, maintains a hardcopy record for reference, has monitored proceedings, and is far more 'troublesome' to fuck around with post-election! :P
So true - and it really shits me that the balance of power in the senate has been given up. It'll come home to roost...
The thing about TT is it's one of a bunch of 'hysterics masquerading as reporting' programs competing for the Lowest Common Denominator demographic. You know the type of shit stories - 'please think of the children', 'evil-in-our-midst internet porn', 'welfare ripoffs (funnily enough having a bet each way with both welfare cheats and the welfare system ripping off deserving familes', 'my neighbour's noisy parrot is driving me crazy' etc etc.
Sad thing is they are proliferating - which speaks volumes about the intellectual state of middle Australia.
In the case of pr0n, I doubt any country has the required infrastructure to accomplish this!
I'm sure the more 'moderates' in the FFP are rubbing their hands and thinking 'Howard is steering the political landscape our way' whilst the more 'extreme' members are doing a jig and thinking 'well with the direction mainstream liberal is taking looks like we can really make an effort to get our policies into the picture; after all we're not that much more right than John now'.
It turned out to be an issue with the game engine - on faster pcs that churn out high frame rates, unless the vertical sync is set on the game actually runs 'fast' and the mouse lag is noticeable. Try setting vsync on and see if it goes away? Worked for me.