On the subject of sound effects, remember the wilhelm scream?
http://www.starwars-rpg.net/swfa/issue3/wilhelm. ht ml
It's a scream from an old western that has been re-used by directors (mostly george lucas) in many movies. If you haven't heard of it before it's fun to check it out and realize just how many times you've heard it before.
Another sound effect that I'm aware of, but have never read about, is the "creaking door." I don't know what library it's from or who used it first. It's the sound of a creaky door opening, where the creak hits two distinct tones. I've heard it in more television shows and movies than I can count. I wonder if, like the wilhelm, it's done consciously as a wink to fellow movie/television people?
You're close - the money goes to the CRIA, our RIAA equivalent. Since the introduction of the levy over $70 million has been collected. I try to DL as much music as I can to make up for it.
[Geek] Okay, now you're running Linux! Your computer will run faster and be more stable. Also it's politically and morally superior, and the software is all free!
[AverageGuy] Awesome, thanks! So what games are on here?
"If we are for Israel and against the Arabs, then they hate us. On the other hand, if we help them against the Russians, it's our fault, too, because, well, um, er, it just is."
Exactly. What you're not seeing here is the third option, keeping to yourself and staying out of the business of other nations.
The CIA may deny specifically training Bin Laden, but it is common knowledge that they supplied the Afghans with weapons and training to fight the soviets. There is also no argument that they gave weapons to Saddam Hussein to fight Iran, and weapons to Iran to fight Iraq.
I laugh every time I hear GWB use the phrase "enemies of freedom" or "those who hate our freedom." Has anybody in the U.S. thought this through? How can you hate freedom? How could you hate somebody for being free? The concept of freedom is intrinsically good. Are they jealous of your freedom? No, they hate it. It doesn't make any sense.
Imagining that these people "Hate Freedom" - an abstract concept - is as moronic as declaring "War on Terror." Ockham's razor would suggest that their hatred has more to do with your despicable actions in their homelands.
Terrorists don't hate freedom. They hate America, and with good reason. That's what nobody wants to talk about.
qualification: they have good reason to hate america, but there's no excuse for terrorist acts.
An iPod built into a jacket?? You have to wear the jacket whenever you want to use the iPod! What if it goes out of style?
How about a network-aware wireless microdrive stitched into your wallet, to hold your personal data, PIM info, and for temporary file storage? Now that's useful.
"The bug in question is Rhodoferax ferriducens, which was found in airless sediment deep below ground at a terrestrial site at Oyster Bay, Virginia, and identified as a promising candidate for oxidising simple sugars."
USA Today:
"Bacteria are tiny living things. So tiny you can't even see them with your eyes! You need a microscope to see them. Microscopes help scientists see very small things."
"is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users?"
Yes, this is Microsoft trying to pounce on the amazing stream of expert and influential coders, admins and users that are pouring out of inner city Philadelphia.
On a more serious note, you can say what you will about Microsoft's posturing and tax writeoffs, but what is the open source movement doing for underprivileged inner city youth? Sure, we can offer them free software but it's useless to them without the knowledge to use it and the hardware to run it.
Oh, it's absurd alright. I remember being rather pissed off about it when it was passed a few years back. Fortunately now the joke is on the CRIA (Canadian RIAA), who lobbied for the levy and acquiesced to its accompanying exemption. Now that P2P is a reality they're the ones getting screwed instead of us, and personally I'm going to take full advantage of it.
If you read the article, or the Candian Copyright Act, you'll see that our recordable media levy was accompanied by an exemption, explicitly defined in the act. It allows for Private Copying, whose definition very neatly encompasses online file sharing.
You may recall that the Canadian Government created a "Recordable Media Levy" a few years back to reimburse the recording industry for the costs of "private copying." $0.77 for each blank CD and $0.29 for a blank audiocassette. Over $70 million has been taxed out of us since then.
The logical extension of this is that by paying this tax we make "private copying" acceptable and legal. Hell, we're paying for it - we'd be stupid not to do it!
For a more detailed examination, check out this article:
You can spy and get any personal information you want, as long as you collect it from a public source. Ask the papparazi who are there to snap photographs every time a starlette takes off her top at the beach, or Steven Seagal steps out on his front porch to get the paper.
"Her defence is that the RIAA is not properly affiliated with law enforcement agencies and thus its search of music files was a violation of her legal protection."
I agree that extracting personal information from ISPs is the most legally precarious part of this whole situation. But it appears that nycfashiongirl is taking issue with the RIAA's Kazaa surveillance activities.
Of course here in Canada it's legal to distribute copyrighted content over file sharing networks, so we don't have to worry about such things.
While I applaud nycfashiongirl's stand, it appears to me that it may indeed be "shallow." The RIAA is not a law-enforcement agency, so is not bound to regulations regarding surveillance. And more importantly, she chose to share her many pirated files on a file-sharing service. How could they have violated her privacy when she decided to publicly display the files to the world? They didn't have to violate anything.
According to the article, entering the BIOS setup and switching the boot device to the CD-ROM caused it to boot straight into windows from the HD without the licensing screen, and the screen did not return when the BIOS was set back to default.
No "anykey" - no agreement. It sounds like the author found a way to circumvent the EULA. I don't blame him for returning it anyway though.
The new system offers not only a larger number space, but a different labelling strategy as well. So it's not just a higher capacity system but one that offers new features.
The main feature plugged in the article is taking advantage of this "endless" ID space to uniquely tag products so that every bottle of beer will have a unique identifier - not just every kind of beer. In theory this would provide ultimate lot-traceability.
But is total traceability really a requirement - or even desirable - for all products? I work in the aviation industry, and there is so much paperwork it's a headache. Yet when a part on an aircraft fails, it can always be traced through its entire lifespan back to its manufacturer and the lot/batch it belongs to. This is wonderful for aircraft, where nothing can go wrong. But who's going to adminster a database to track the movements of 1,000,000,000 cans of coke? This is going to mean the creation of gargantuan amounts of useless information, and somebody is going to have to maintain it if it's going to serve its intended use. In other words - total traceability isn't just a switch you can flip on. There's an overhead involved that might make it undesirable for every product on the planet.
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Correction: The effect first appeared in WB's "Distant Drums" (1951) and was later used in a western where a character named Wilhelm belted it out.
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Here's a better link and complete wilhelm filmography:
http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.ht
On the subject of sound effects, remember the wilhelm scream?
. ht ml
http://www.starwars-rpg.net/swfa/issue3/wilhelm
It's a scream from an old western that has been re-used by directors (mostly george lucas) in many movies. If you haven't heard of it before it's fun to check it out and realize just how many times you've heard it before.
Another sound effect that I'm aware of, but have never read about, is the "creaking door." I don't know what library it's from or who used it first. It's the sound of a creaky door opening, where the creak hits two distinct tones. I've heard it in more television shows and movies than I can count. I wonder if, like the wilhelm, it's done consciously as a wink to fellow movie/television people?
The man's gay. What, do you want to go beat him up?
You're close - the money goes to the CRIA, our RIAA equivalent. Since the introduction of the levy over $70 million has been collected. I try to DL as much music as I can to make up for it.
"Grr... Zrr... Graam!!!" were the highly curious last words of "Zeromus", A.K.A. "Zemus," the evil final boss in the SNES classic Final Fantasy II.
Why did he scream those particular syllables? We may never know.
DVORAK isn't an acronym, it's a proper name. I don't think August Dvorak spelled his last name in capital letters.
:)
(now you can ridicule me.
"Nerd" tends to refer to the socially inept, hygenically challenged stereotype, while a "Geek" is somebody who's good at geeky stuff.
Example: A Geek might have a high-paying job, while a Nerd would passionately explain to you the difference between an orc and a troll.
[Geek] Okay, now you're running Linux! Your computer will run faster and be more stable. Also it's politically and morally superior, and the software is all free!
[AverageGuy] Awesome, thanks! So what games are on here?
[Geek] I have to go now.
"If we are for Israel and against the Arabs, then they hate us. On the other hand, if we help them against the Russians, it's our fault, too, because, well, um, er, it just is."
Exactly. What you're not seeing here is the third option, keeping to yourself and staying out of the business of other nations.
The CIA may deny specifically training Bin Laden, but it is common knowledge that they supplied the Afghans with weapons and training to fight the soviets. There is also no argument that they gave weapons to Saddam Hussein to fight Iran, and weapons to Iran to fight Iraq.
I laugh every time I hear GWB use the phrase "enemies of freedom" or "those who hate our freedom." Has anybody in the U.S. thought this through? How can you hate freedom? How could you hate somebody for being free? The concept of freedom is intrinsically good. Are they jealous of your freedom? No, they hate it. It doesn't make any sense.
Imagining that these people "Hate Freedom" - an abstract concept - is as moronic as declaring "War on Terror." Ockham's razor would suggest that their hatred has more to do with your despicable actions in their homelands.
Terrorists don't hate freedom. They hate America, and with good reason. That's what nobody wants to talk about.
qualification: they have good reason to hate america, but there's no excuse for terrorist acts.
The name for the technolgoy is hardly accurate. At twenty seven inches, only a smurf could "walk-through" this screen.
An iPod built into a jacket?? You have to wear the jacket whenever you want to use the iPod! What if it goes out of style?
How about a network-aware wireless microdrive stitched into your wallet, to hold your personal data, PIM info, and for temporary file storage? Now that's useful.
bellbottoms were back ten years ago. they're gone again.
Have you read USA Today before?
From Al Jazeera:
"The bug in question is Rhodoferax ferriducens, which was found in airless sediment deep below ground at a terrestrial site at Oyster Bay, Virginia, and identified as a promising candidate for oxidising simple sugars."
USA Today:
"Bacteria are tiny living things. So tiny you can't even see them with your eyes! You need a microscope to see them. Microscopes help scientists see very small things."
note: usa today quote made up for fun's sake.
"is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users?"
Yes, this is Microsoft trying to pounce on the amazing stream of expert and influential coders, admins and users that are pouring out of inner city Philadelphia.
On a more serious note, you can say what you will about Microsoft's posturing and tax writeoffs, but what is the open source movement doing for underprivileged inner city youth? Sure, we can offer them free software but it's useless to them without the knowledge to use it and the hardware to run it.
Oh, it's absurd alright. I remember being rather pissed off about it when it was passed a few years back. Fortunately now the joke is on the CRIA (Canadian RIAA), who lobbied for the levy and acquiesced to its accompanying exemption. Now that P2P is a reality they're the ones getting screwed instead of us, and personally I'm going to take full advantage of it.
If you read the article, or the Candian Copyright Act, you'll see that our recordable media levy was accompanied by an exemption, explicitly defined in the act. It allows for Private Copying, whose definition very neatly encompasses online file sharing.
You may recall that the Canadian Government created a "Recordable Media Levy" a few years back to reimburse the recording industry for the costs of "private copying." $0.77 for each blank CD and $0.29 for a blank audiocassette. Over $70 million has been taxed out of us since then.
The logical extension of this is that by paying this tax we make "private copying" acceptable and legal. Hell, we're paying for it - we'd be stupid not to do it!
For a more detailed examination, check out this article:
http://techcentralstation.com/081803C.html
You can spy and get any personal information you want, as long as you collect it from a public source. Ask the papparazi who are there to snap photographs every time a starlette takes off her top at the beach, or Steven Seagal steps out on his front porch to get the paper.
Why can't they just leave Mr. Seagal alone?
I wonder if you could borrow against that equity?
From the article:
"Her defence is that the RIAA is not properly affiliated with law enforcement agencies and thus its search of music files was a violation of her legal protection."
I agree that extracting personal information from ISPs is the most legally precarious part of this whole situation. But it appears that nycfashiongirl is taking issue with the RIAA's Kazaa surveillance activities.
Of course here in Canada it's legal to distribute copyrighted content over file sharing networks, so we don't have to worry about such things.
While I applaud nycfashiongirl's stand, it appears to me that it may indeed be "shallow." The RIAA is not a law-enforcement agency, so is not bound to regulations regarding surveillance. And more importantly, she chose to share her many pirated files on a file-sharing service. How could they have violated her privacy when she decided to publicly display the files to the world? They didn't have to violate anything.
According to the article, entering the BIOS setup and switching the boot device to the CD-ROM caused it to boot straight into windows from the HD without the licensing screen, and the screen did not return when the BIOS was set back to default.
No "anykey" - no agreement. It sounds like the author found a way to circumvent the EULA. I don't blame him for returning it anyway though.
The new system offers not only a larger number space, but a different labelling strategy as well. So it's not just a higher capacity system but one that offers new features.
The main feature plugged in the article is taking advantage of this "endless" ID space to uniquely tag products so that every bottle of beer will have a unique identifier - not just every kind of beer. In theory this would provide ultimate lot-traceability.
But is total traceability really a requirement - or even desirable - for all products? I work in the aviation industry, and there is so much paperwork it's a headache. Yet when a part on an aircraft fails, it can always be traced through its entire lifespan back to its manufacturer and the lot/batch it belongs to. This is wonderful for aircraft, where nothing can go wrong. But who's going to adminster a database to track the movements of 1,000,000,000 cans of coke? This is going to mean the creation of gargantuan amounts of useless information, and somebody is going to have to maintain it if it's going to serve its intended use. In other words - total traceability isn't just a switch you can flip on. There's an overhead involved that might make it undesirable for every product on the planet.