Seriously, the last time I heard about someone using Trillian was years ago. They are a victim of their own business choices and no longer relevant, I've recommended Pidgin for those who want a all-in-one program instead of separate chat programs, but frankly most people seem to want to stick with whatever the separate companies provide. - HEX
... a road built nearby. Maybe I'm just getting old myself, but archaeological sites should be protected, and their destruction really makes me sick at the stupidity of the human race. - HEX
Moving to Kickass.To posted 14 Jun 2013, 14:42 by KickassTorrents
We had to drop Kat.ph as a part of our global maintenance and move to Kickass.to. This was a hard decision, but it was necessary for the further development of KickassTorrents. Stay tuned for more news.
Maybe they gave it up and the Government are now taking credit for it after the fact. Either way, hasn't screwed with their service, still working great. SickBeard Torrent version might need an update, maybe Couchpotato too. - HEX
I've been using XBMC (on my media center) and MusicBee (on my win7 personal machine) alongside MP3tag to fix/sort my collection. I've tried many different players on my own machine and just can't find one that does both large library management, importation/fix, etc, to my satisfaction. Bonus for Android sync of all the songs on a playlist. Testing Clementine but wondered if there were any suggestions that fit the bill. - HEX
Moving to Kickass.To
posted 14 Jun 2013, 14:42 by KickassTorrents
We had to drop Kat.ph as a part of our global maintenance and move to Kickass.to. This was a hard decision, but it was necessary for the further development of KickassTorrents. Stay tuned for more news.
Either way, hasn't screwed with their service, still working great. SickBeard Torrent version might need an update, maybe Couchpotato too. - HEX
Same here, I used to spend time squeezing every bit of speed out of my system including overclocking, now I'm more worried about having a decent speed, multiple cores, and support for VMs for development use. It is this last one that concerns me the most, if Intel is going to make me pick and choose between processors that support extended functions for VMs I'm not going to be very happy personally, of course at work the companies can afford better than I can.;) - HEX
Why yes I *do* bend my arm and wrist to wipe my ass just like everyone else, but no I couldn't since I also took the time to modify the lyrics to fit the current situation, you may have noticed that instead of "bananas" it now says "coffee". What makes it clever isn't the fact that I copied and pasted the lyrics, or even that I modified them, it's that I connected it to the historical disappearance of bananas due to disease and a song that has been attributed to that banana blight, which appears to be completely missed by both Anonymous Cowards and whoever modded my post off-topic, but such is life on/. and I'll continue posting whenever and whatever the mood strikes me.
A wild scenario? Not when you consider that there's already been one banana apocalypse. Until the early 1960s, American cereal bowls and ice cream dishes were filled with the Gros Michel, a banana that was larger and, by all accounts, tastier than the fruit we now eat. Like the Cavendish, the Gros Michel, or "Big Mike," accounted for nearly all the sales of sweet bananas in the Americas and Europe. But starting in the early part of the last century, a fungus called Panama disease began infecting the Big Mike harvest. The malady, which attacks the leaves, is in the same category as Dutch Elm disease. It appeared first in Suriname, then plowed through the Car- ibbean, finally reaching Honduras in the 1920s. (The country was then the world's largest banana producer; today it ranks third, behind Ecuador and Costa Rica.)
Growers adopted a frenzied strategy of shifting crops to unused land, maintaining the supply of bananas to the public but at great financial and environmental expense-the tactic destroyed millions of acres of rainforest. By 1960, the major importers were nearly bankrupt, and the future of the fruit was in jeopardy. (Some of the shortages during that time entered the fabric of popular culture; the 1923 musical hit "Yes! We Have No Bananas" is said to have been written after songwriters Frank Silver and Irving Cohn were denied in an attempt to purchase their favorite fruit by a syntactically colorful, out-of-stock neighborhood grocer.) U.S. banana executives were hesitant to recognize the crisis facing the Gros Michel, according to John Soluri, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Banana Cultures, an upcoming book on the fruit. "Many of them waited until the last minute."
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek
And he keeps good things to eat But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no"
He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough He tells you
"Yes, we have no coffee
We have-a no coffee today
We've string beans, and onions
Cabashes, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned tomato
A Long Island potato But yes, we have no coffee
We have no coffee today
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away"
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet
Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet
All answered "Yes, we have no coffee
We have-a no coffee today
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing
But yes, we have no coffee
We have no coffee today"
He, he, he, he, ha, ha, ha whatta you laugh at?
You gotta soup or pie?
Yes, I don't think we got soup or pie
You gotta coconut pie?
Yes, I don't think we got coconut pie
Well I'll have one cup a coffee
We gotta no coffee
Then watta you got?
I got a coffee!
Oh you've got a coffee!
Yes, we gotta no coffee, No coffee, No coffee, I tell you we gotta no coffee today
I sella you no coffee
Hey, Mary Anna, you gotta... gotta no coffee?
Why this man, he's no believe-a what I say no he no believe me
Now whatta you wanta mister? You wanna buy twelve for a quarter?
Well, just a one of a look, I'm gonna call for my daughter
Hey, Mary Anna You gotta piana
Yes, a coffee, no
Yes, we gotta no coffee today!
The new English "clark" (a.k.a. "clerk"):
Yes, we are very sorry to inform you
That we are entirely out of the fruit in question
The afore-mentioned vegetable Bearing the cognomen "coffee"
We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,
But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green grocery
I should say not. No no no no no no no
But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea
Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?
However we regret that after a diligent search
Of the premises By our entire staff
We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction
That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious
Very delicious But we have no coffee today.
They are probably directed as part of the Special Source Ops program to tell the NSA version of the truth. If you are legally obligated to lie, to tell only the truth the government wants out there, you'd have to talk around it in order to promote change. So they are being false and misleading because they legally can't do anything else. They need to work in allegory and talk about aspects of it that they can talk about it in public. - HEX
Too many possibilities to list, but frankly I would love to use one of these as my mobile machine. Load it up with all the Windows and Android programs I currently find most useful and use them on a single device with a keyboard/mouse anywhere... I'll keep the large desktop setup of course, and while most of the servers are in datacenters elsewhere so I'm fairly sedentary this would be great for the local datacenter/lab setup instead of rolling the crash cart around. Ok I want it because it sounds like an all in one toolbox that I'll probably use far less than I'm thinking right now but damn it, I want one. - HEX
From whales to sea kittens, eating stuff from the ocean is now completely absurd. I'm sticking with cows.. yummy, yummy dead cow. Surely no one could object to eating a cow! - HEX
I've got an older HTC Supersonic and I could go for a 0.99 upgrade as long as I could move it over to my current Sprint account. Why can't this be unlocked and reflashed with a decent version of Android?
That's why I switched first to curated codec/player packages like CCCP, then to XBMC for my multimedia center with VLC for one off playing on other systems. I may get a notice that there is a new VLC, but I don't get random drive by codec upgrade alerts.
All the time? I install Java and Flash, both from the companies websites, and never install anything that pops up in my browser which isn't very often. For multimedia codecs I use a curated package of codecs and once again ignore/delete anything else that gives me a "must visit website to view this file" since it's most likely fake. With proper ad blocking in Firefox/Chrome I get hardly any "helpful reminders to upgrade/install" while browsing the web, and Java/Flash releases are also not "all the time". - HEX
The main problem I see with the "provide hooks to a DRM plugin" is this opens the door wide to malicious plugin installation using standardized dialogs and a process the end user will become familiar with. Reminds me of the issues Windows Media Player had (or might still even have) with files demanding a special codec/DRM. And what if someone spoofs Netflix or Hulu, replacing their plugin with a malicious one... it'll be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next few years. - HEX
Another great (the definitive) Documentary on him is Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. It has some of the original armature and foam pieces unearthed from his garage as well as lots of interviews with people in the industry and the man himself. Well worth the hour and a half run time. - HEX
The worst part of this kind of scientific research is all the quacks who'll use it to make a quick buck, and possibly even do some harm along the way. Reminds me of a recent M. Curie special and all the products they put Radium in after the discovery, and how little things have changed in the rush to capitalize on anything "discovered".
For some odd reason (probably since I only signed up to watch the new pilots and had no history) recently Amazon "recommended" that I buy a diet book called How to Heal your Pineal Gland to facilitate Enlightenment optimize Melatonin and Live Longer which claims to do everything imaginable and quite a few things that are impossible for you or your health. Just reading the description out loud had my M.D. girl and myself rolling in laughter, with one amazing claim after another... enjoy.
In this book nutritionist Joel Blanchard cheerfully offers information and tools designed specifically to help us create a reality of health, happiness and enlightenment for ourselves. He alerts us to the fact that our pineal glands have almost certainly become damaged by environmental conditions on this industrialized planet. Your pineal gland is responsible for making the majority of your melatonin, which is much more than just a neurohormone or sleep aid. According to the studies cited in this book, the melatonin molecule, which is found in every plant and animal on this planet, may very well be the most powerful cell-protecting molecule in existence. Unlike normal hormones, melatonin is welcome inside every cell of your body, where some scientists believe that it communicates with and protects your DNA. Research studies have demonstrated that melatonin can help keep your cardiovascular system healthy, help protect your cells and organs from damage, help to prevent macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma, help to increase HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels, dramatically increase your body’s ability to make antibodies, help people lose weight and lower elevated blood sugar levels, help counteract many, if not all, forms of cancer and ultimately may determine how long you are going to live! In addition to all of these profound health benefits of optimal melatonin levels, Joel discusses your pineal gland’s role in perception, intuition, self-mastery, and insight. There are reasons why Rene Descartes stated "In man, soul and body touch each other only at a single point, the pineal gland in the head." This gland is considered by many spiritual practitioners, philosophers, cultures, religions and researchers to be either the center of your “third eye” chakra or an information receiver, or both. Joel explains how to restore the health of this gland and get your melatonin levels to where you want them to be, and relates some of the amazing experiences he had after he got his pineal gland functioning properly again. These experiences ranged from being able to “receive” the contents of an email message without using any electronic device to resuming a conversation with an off-world being that he had not been able to speak with, while awake, for 13 years. Joel also discusses the role cannabis (marijuana) and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) can play in creativity, melatonin production and personal epiphanies. Are you ready to turn your pineal gland back on and start receiving the kind of creativity and body energy you had as a child, before your pineal gland became calcified? Are you ready to use your built-in Enlightenment App?
Actually the funded #4 is for a Video Render Queue and is free, but #5 is for the Video Editing Server and is still at the $40K mark.
Stretch Goal #4: FREE!
As a thank you, I have decided to make some BIG CHANGES to the remaining stretch goals, starting with including Stretch Goal #4: Video Render Queue (queue up multiple renders) for FREE! This is a great feature, and will improve the work-flow for rendering multiple versions of your timeline.
Stretch Goal #5: REDUCED!
As a final thank you, I am reducing the price for Stretch Goal #5: Video Editing Server, in hopes to meet everyone halfway. This is a highly complex system, for offloading CPU, Memory, and Disk Cache to a local server (or server farm), dramatically improving the speed of previews and renders. I have already created successful small scale experiments with this technology, but as you can imagine, it will have far reaching implications in the design of OpenShot, which is why I originally set the goal so high. However, I really want to see this feature get implemented, and I'm crossing my fingers that we'll hit this goal before we run out of time.
How do they handle AVCHD, can it encode? I ended up going with the paid version of Lightworks some time ago to get the ability to stick with what my camera outputs natively, and I hazily recall that part of my payment went for licensing the extra codecs including AVCHD encode licensing. Their features page says it handles AVCHD, but usually that just means decode support. I'd really love more open source video editor choices on Windows, especially since the decent paid ones are expensive. - HEX
These retailers have agreed to participate because Maxfield & Oberton has refused to participate in the recall of all Buckyballs and Buckycubes.
Nice to see that Maxfield & Oberton were willing to brave it out and stick up for themselves and our rights to own Buckyballs! Let's go see if they have any reaction to the news on their homepage.
On December 27, 2012 Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC (the "Company") stopped doing business and filed a Certificate of Cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, thereby ceasing to exist pursuant to applicable Delaware law. The MOH Liquidating Trust has been established to deal with and, to the extent they are valid, pay, to the extent assets are available, certain claims which have been, and may later be, asserted against the Company. If you believe you have a claim against the Company, please click on link below to obtain the Proof of Claim form which you must complete and submit to the Trustee of the MOH Liquidating Trust. If the Trustee determines that a claim is valid, the Trustee will pay that claim, to the extent assets are available, in accordance with the terms of the MOH Liquidating Trust.
Way to stick it to the man!? Now where do we get awesome magnets... - HEX
Thinking a bit further ahead, we're actually doomed as a species if we can't get out of our own solar system. Getting off our own planet is a decent start, but we're still tied to a very small "island" around the sun, with all the other possible places to live generations away. This means Hawking's words are truer than he knows, we must learn to live in the space between solar systems. But still we must spread out, as some have said like a cancer in the universe, or it will all end here.
Do we dare play for the longest payoff and work for future generations to have the resources and tech they need to spread out, or do we continue to think only of the immediate future? How do we prevent the latter from cannibalizing humanity and resources for their own gain while working on these "blue sky" issues, rely on those few who have "beaten them at their own game" and amassed large fortunes of their own? - HEX
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, the last time I heard about someone using Trillian was years ago. They are a victim of their own business choices and no longer relevant, I've recommended Pidgin for those who want a all-in-one program instead of separate chat programs, but frankly most people seem to want to stick with whatever the separate companies provide. - HEX
... a road built nearby. Maybe I'm just getting old myself, but archaeological sites should be protected, and their destruction really makes me sick at the stupidity of the human race. - HEX
Maybe they gave it up and the Government are now taking credit for it after the fact. Either way, hasn't screwed with their service, still working great. SickBeard Torrent version might need an update, maybe Couchpotato too. - HEX
I've been using XBMC (on my media center) and MusicBee (on my win7 personal machine) alongside MP3tag to fix/sort my collection. I've tried many different players on my own machine and just can't find one that does both large library management, importation/fix, etc, to my satisfaction. Bonus for Android sync of all the songs on a playlist. Testing Clementine but wondered if there were any suggestions that fit the bill. - HEX
Either way, hasn't screwed with their service, still working great. SickBeard Torrent version might need an update, maybe Couchpotato too. - HEX
Same here, I used to spend time squeezing every bit of speed out of my system including overclocking, now I'm more worried about having a decent speed, multiple cores, and support for VMs for development use. It is this last one that concerns me the most, if Intel is going to make me pick and choose between processors that support extended functions for VMs I'm not going to be very happy personally, of course at work the companies can afford better than I can. ;) - HEX
Well he did say "my some deity punish you", which sounds like a group of one worshiping a personal deity, if that's not extreme I don't know what is.
Thanks, it's fairly entertaining on it's own, although very dated in it's racial sensitivity. ;)
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek
And he keeps good things to eat But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no"
He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough He tells you
"Yes, we have no coffee
We have-a no coffee today
We've string beans, and onions
Cabashes, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned tomato
A Long Island potato But yes, we have no coffee
We have no coffee today
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away"
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet
Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet
All answered "Yes, we have no coffee
We have-a no coffee today
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing
But yes, we have no coffee
We have no coffee today"
He, he, he, he, ha, ha, ha whatta you laugh at?
You gotta soup or pie?
Yes, I don't think we got soup or pie
You gotta coconut pie?
Yes, I don't think we got coconut pie
Well I'll have one cup a coffee
We gotta no coffee
Then watta you got?
I got a coffee!
Oh you've got a coffee!
Yes, we gotta no coffee, No coffee, No coffee, I tell you we gotta no coffee today
I sella you no coffee
Hey, Mary Anna, you gotta... gotta no coffee?
Why this man, he's no believe-a what I say no he no believe me
Now whatta you wanta mister? You wanna buy twelve for a quarter?
Well, just a one of a look, I'm gonna call for my daughter
Hey, Mary Anna You gotta piana
Yes, a coffee, no
Yes, we gotta no coffee today!
The new English "clark" (a.k.a. "clerk"):
Yes, we are very sorry to inform you
That we are entirely out of the fruit in question
The afore-mentioned vegetable Bearing the cognomen "coffee"
We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,
But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green grocery
I should say not. No no no no no no no
But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea
Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?
However we regret that after a diligent search
Of the premises By our entire staff
We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction
That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious
Very delicious But we have no coffee today.
Apologies to these guys
They are probably directed as part of the Special Source Ops program to tell the NSA version of the truth. If you are legally obligated to lie, to tell only the truth the government wants out there, you'd have to talk around it in order to promote change. So they are being false and misleading because they legally can't do anything else. They need to work in allegory and talk about aspects of it that they can talk about it in public. - HEX
Someone should check Silk Road for what's available in this type of technology, isn't that where all the underground stuff is sold these days? - HEX
Too many possibilities to list, but frankly I would love to use one of these as my mobile machine. Load it up with all the Windows and Android programs I currently find most useful and use them on a single device with a keyboard/mouse anywhere... I'll keep the large desktop setup of course, and while most of the servers are in datacenters elsewhere so I'm fairly sedentary this would be great for the local datacenter/lab setup instead of rolling the crash cart around. Ok I want it because it sounds like an all in one toolbox that I'll probably use far less than I'm thinking right now but damn it, I want one. - HEX
From whales to sea kittens, eating stuff from the ocean is now completely absurd. I'm sticking with cows.. yummy, yummy dead cow. Surely no one could object to eating a cow! - HEX
I'm waiting for McAfee - The Motion Picture in order to find out who done it! - HEX
I've got an older HTC Supersonic and I could go for a 0.99 upgrade as long as I could move it over to my current Sprint account. Why can't this be unlocked and reflashed with a decent version of Android?
That's why I switched first to curated codec/player packages like CCCP, then to XBMC for my multimedia center with VLC for one off playing on other systems. I may get a notice that there is a new VLC, but I don't get random drive by codec upgrade alerts.
All the time? I install Java and Flash, both from the companies websites, and never install anything that pops up in my browser which isn't very often. For multimedia codecs I use a curated package of codecs and once again ignore/delete anything else that gives me a "must visit website to view this file" since it's most likely fake. With proper ad blocking in Firefox/Chrome I get hardly any "helpful reminders to upgrade/install" while browsing the web, and Java/Flash releases are also not "all the time". - HEX
The main problem I see with the "provide hooks to a DRM plugin" is this opens the door wide to malicious plugin installation using standardized dialogs and a process the end user will become familiar with. Reminds me of the issues Windows Media Player had (or might still even have) with files demanding a special codec/DRM. And what if someone spoofs Netflix or Hulu, replacing their plugin with a malicious one... it'll be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next few years. - HEX
Another great (the definitive) Documentary on him is Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. It has some of the original armature and foam pieces unearthed from his garage as well as lots of interviews with people in the industry and the man himself. Well worth the hour and a half run time. - HEX
For some odd reason (probably since I only signed up to watch the new pilots and had no history) recently Amazon "recommended" that I buy a diet book called How to Heal your Pineal Gland to facilitate Enlightenment optimize Melatonin and Live Longer which claims to do everything imaginable and quite a few things that are impossible for you or your health. Just reading the description out loud had my M.D. girl and myself rolling in laughter, with one amazing claim after another... enjoy.
How do they handle AVCHD, can it encode? I ended up going with the paid version of Lightworks some time ago to get the ability to stick with what my camera outputs natively, and I hazily recall that part of my payment went for licensing the extra codecs including AVCHD encode licensing. Their features page says it handles AVCHD, but usually that just means decode support. I'd really love more open source video editor choices on Windows, especially since the decent paid ones are expensive. - HEX
Nice to see that Maxfield & Oberton were willing to brave it out and stick up for themselves and our rights to own Buckyballs! Let's go see if they have any reaction to the news on their homepage.
Way to stick it to the man!? Now where do we get awesome magnets... - HEX
Thinking a bit further ahead, we're actually doomed as a species if we can't get out of our own solar system. Getting off our own planet is a decent start, but we're still tied to a very small "island" around the sun, with all the other possible places to live generations away. This means Hawking's words are truer than he knows, we must learn to live in the space between solar systems. But still we must spread out, as some have said like a cancer in the universe, or it will all end here.
Do we dare play for the longest payoff and work for future generations to have the resources and tech they need to spread out, or do we continue to think only of the immediate future? How do we prevent the latter from cannibalizing humanity and resources for their own gain while working on these "blue sky" issues, rely on those few who have "beaten them at their own game" and amassed large fortunes of their own? - HEX