> Cats are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The cat is merely a tool she uses to push the button.
Here, let me fix that sentence for you:
HUMANS are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The HUMAN is merely a tool A CAT uses to GET CANS OF FOOD OPENED.
It requires GnuPG to be installed as well so it's effectively a two part installer, but it works fine and does most of what you ask (it's still not the easiest GUI when it comes to paths but better than WinPT).
Sadly no one realises that this system has been in place for a long time, and works in subtle ways.
Just yesterday CNN.com headlined an article about how "terrorists" were hoping for the Democratic Party to win the mid-terms so that they could weaken Bush.
Of course, this article is actually a nice little plant by someone IN the GOP to get all red blooded Americans fired up to defy such statements, and prove it by voting GOP "to show those muthaf$%^ers that the US don't vote for the party that the enemy wants in power".
Ok, I can understand copying bookmarks.html when making a fresh profile on Firefox, but Thunderbird?!
Thunderbird is an email client. People keep emails most of the time, archived in folders or accounts.
How does one go about copying these emails over to a fresh profile WITHOUT porting over any bugs that might be in that database?
Does MozBackup copy only the data and not any latent bugs? I'd love to know.
"Why people are fighting is more important than what they are fighting with." - John Titor
A motivated group with little weaponry will always triumph over an unmotivated group with lots of weaponry. Witness Iraq today, or the upcoming Civil War II of the USA tomorrow:
As he stated, some "non-lethal" weapons turned out to be quite lethal.
To Americans - do you REALLY think these weapons are being developed for use overseas? The US doesn't care if it kills 100,000 civilians in Iraq. You think they need a non-lethal alternative which leaves the "enemy" alive to retaliate??
A more important question to ask is why do non-lethal weapons exist? They exist because of political repercussions to those who use lethal force on their own citizens. Better to say we are being gentle, thereby allowing far more liberal use of such weapons locally while having the plausible deniability of saying they were never intended to be lethal.... even if they turn out to be after the fact.
Wake up and smell reality - you are headed into a totalitarian abyss from which the only extrication is a second civil war.... and it's coming, believe me. Prepare yourselves now or regret it in five to ten years' time.
Explain that DRM stands for Digital RESTRICTIONS Management.
Then when they ask for clarification you can tell them, plus it gets the acronym of DRM to be more accurate to the point where it becomes Digital RESTRICTIONS Management, NOT Digital Rights Management.
If a game is designed to last that long, why not build in a five minute break every hour, with associated game world countdown etc?
Alternatively, have safe houses/bunkers where players can go (neutral ground?) to park their characters while they go for a toilet break, quick meal etc?
The more like an extended real life op the game becomes, the more you will have to build in some means of fatigue management. In a first person shooter environment this would be even more important that RPG style games where you can often have your units on a form of autopilot, harvesting, building etc.
I have to ask - did you buy Premiere Pro, or did you pirate it?
Because Premiere Pro 2.0 at least (and probably other versions too) exports direct to DVD if you want:
File - Export - To DVD
Pick your options and burn.
If you have Encore you can instead export from Premiere Pro using Adobe Media Encoder. Choose MPEG2-DVD format, pick your options again (VBR 2-Pass is best, max bitrate 7MB), export demuxed and then put the resulting.m2v and.wav files into Encore. Create a fancy menu, whatever you want. Encore will convert your WAV to AC3 automagically when you create your DVD.
Seriously - read the program's own help files!!! Sheesh...
I too am at the beginning of the process of my filmmaking career too, so I know what you mean.
My answer is to remain true to your emotions when writing a film script. Inbue it with yourself, your REAL self, and people will not fail to see it and therefore enjoy the film more, because it is GENUINE.
If your story has no heart, then people will not respond to it. Doesn't matter what genre it is. All good stories have heart in them. They give you a glimpse into someone else's emotions and reasons for things.
So tell your own story, direct it from the heart (and impress upon your actors that it is coming from your own emotional core), and it will invariably be successful.
I normally treat conspiracy theory stuff with a bit of disdain, but having read about John Titor and his predictions back in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq, I began to wonder. Like most, I was shocked when the World Trade Center attacks happened. Yet less than two years later, any sympathy I had for the US had vanished when I began to see what the US government was heading towards - a totalitarian police state. Readers of Orwell would not fail to notice the similarities.
It's funny. Time travel is usually held to be the most unlikely science fiction event to occur in reality (well, alongside matter transporters a la Star Trek I suppose). Yet there are some quite disturbing revelations that Titor predicted that really do seem to be happening. I've read them through thoroughly enough that I decided that 2007 was my litmus test on whether it was likely real enough or not to begin making at least some preparations as suggested by him.
So I will be very keenly watching what happens once the LHC starts up. If they make that black hole and contain it, as Titor predicted, then I will be willing to believe that the rest of his predictions are at least probably going to come true, if not exactly as specified by him (see more info on him as to why time variance comes into play).
Not sure if you are using OpenOffice.org or not, but just in case you are (and for others out there concerned about version changes staying in sensitive documents):
Tools - Options - General - OpenOffice.org - Remove personal information on saving (tick it)
You can also go into File - Properties - General and then press the Delete user data button on any existing document to clear revisions, user data etc.
Longer shows are exactly what the networks do NOT want. Their profit model is based on selling you, the viewer, to advertisers who PAY the TV networks to run ads for them.
The networks use THE SHOW as advertising to the advertisers - "We have this show which we can guarantee will have ten million eyeballs watching this week (or near enough thanks to Nielsen et al), so for $X million you will have lots of exposure for your ad."
This is why your TV shows get shorter in actual running time, they have ads before, after and DURING the show itself (those banners below the picture), and why the show's credits usually get squashed into a small corner so they can fit in EVEN MORE ads (I'm surprised the show's creators don't stomp on this aspect actually).
Pay TV is the ultimate form of TV network double dipping - all of the above is true, then the consumer (in the genuine sense of the word) PAYS THEM AGAIN!!! Something about a sucker born every minute...
Allows you to bypass Windows' own DNS server and gives you the useful feature of making DNS queries much quicker than resolving to your ISP all the time, among other benefits.
Very easy to install for Joe User and just as easy to uninstall.
Sorry to reply to my own post but also add "leadsponsors", the company that seems to own lsjmp.com. Perhaps if we shame these companies in public they'll stop this sort of behaviour. I know, pie in the sky idealism, but perhaps Slashdot can be used for some good:
Immigration Law - it's the hot button/diversionary tactic vote grabber for the 2006 mid-terms.
Gay marriages - that was the 2004 hot button/diversionary tactic.
Iraq's WMDs - 2002 hot button/diversionary tactic.
Need I go on? Simplistic generalisation I know, but basically with each successive elections since GWB was supposedly elected, the GOP have tightened their grip on power thanks to fearmongering and divisive issues. Why would they stop using a successful tactic this time around?
Watch for Iran to be hit shortly as well, probably with "precision" strikes using nuclear weapons, the second time the US will have used them (no other country has ever USED their nuclear weapons). It has to be done in the next couple of months because after that the Iranian oil bourse will likely be fully operational and the mid-terms will be too close to jeopardise with a new, dragged out war.
America's ONLY potential saving grace is that her citizens are armed to the teeth. Not to defend from outward aggression, but to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies who wish to destroy its principles.
Sadly many will die before your Constitution is restored....
It's instructive to watch history repeat itself, because it allows me to see just how Hitler and the Third Reich were able to achieve what they did without people stopping them. It's one thing to learn about it in school, when you seldom understand the full spectrum of what is being taught.
I can now safely say that it's not that people didn't know back then. Just as now, the people just DID NOT CARE enough to do something about it. So in sixty years we have learnt exactly.... nothing.
It's just sad that so many new people will have to die needlessly before we realise our error yet again. As an "intelligent" race we really don't deserve our place at the top of the food chain, because intelligence denotes reason and so far I don't see any.
I won't weep for our destruction, because we deserve it.
Let's see now. How about this for a hypothetical situation:
Criminal/drug dealer type buys expensive car with his ill gotten money. Said person then proceeds to install a GPS TRACKER in his expensive car so if it gets stolen, the company can track it and return it to him and he can take the person who stole it to court???
I guess this is why criminals continue to get caught - because by the sounds of it, most of them are stupid enough to voluntarily put TRACKING TECHNOLOGY in their own cars. Makes it easy for police to build a social network map of the criminal's associates and market now, doesn't it?
In reality, SMART criminals would work like this:
Buy aforementioned expensive car. No need to install expensive tracking device in case it gets stolen, because the thief would soon find themselves trying to play Harry Houdini with concrete slippers encased around their ankles....
Nice and quiet, no need to involve law enforcement, and everyone ends up happy (well, except for fishfood boy).
Only in America.... land of the stupid criminal mastermind!
I'd be quite happy with a digicam that took photos at 1920x1080 or even a multiple of that, say 3840x2160, in the aspect ratio of all future TVs and monitors (ok, 16:10 seems to be the monitor ratio thanks to stupid Microsoft and their idea of having HD res PLUS room for taskbar.... but close enough).
Anyone else notice how digicams all take 4:3 pictures these days no matter how high end they are, just as the public is moving to 16:9 as the default ratio?
So....
any digicams out there ahead of the pack and already implementing widescreen resolutions by default?
I would think that a 1920x1080 camera phone would be quite the sweet spot for storage and speed while preserving good quality pictures for viewing on TVs direct from the camera....
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> Cats are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The cat is merely a tool she uses to push the button.
Here, let me fix that sentence for you:
HUMANS are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The HUMAN is merely a tool A CAT uses to GET CANS OF FOOD OPENED.
You've never "owned" a cat, have you? :D
I use GPGShell:
http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html
It requires GnuPG to be installed as well so it's effectively a two part installer, but it works fine and does most of what you ask (it's still not the easiest GUI when it comes to paths but better than WinPT).
HTH
Sadly no one realises that this system has been in place for a long time, and works in subtle ways.
Just yesterday CNN.com headlined an article about how "terrorists" were hoping for the Democratic Party to win the mid-terms so that they could weaken Bush.
Of course, this article is actually a nice little plant by someone IN the GOP to get all red blooded Americans fired up to defy such statements, and prove it by voting GOP "to show those muthaf$%^ers that the US don't vote for the party that the enemy wants in power".
See how it works?
Ok, I can understand copying bookmarks.html when making a fresh profile on Firefox, but Thunderbird?! Thunderbird is an email client. People keep emails most of the time, archived in folders or accounts. How does one go about copying these emails over to a fresh profile WITHOUT porting over any bugs that might be in that database? Does MozBackup copy only the data and not any latent bugs? I'd love to know.
"Why people are fighting is more important than what they are fighting with." - John Titor
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A motivated group with little weaponry will always triumph over an unmotivated group with lots of weaponry. Witness Iraq today, or the upcoming Civil War II of the USA tomorrow:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread61544/p
It's a long read but may just open your eyes a little more on what is, in all likelihood, coming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
As he stated, some "non-lethal" weapons turned out to be quite lethal.
To Americans - do you REALLY think these weapons are being developed for use overseas? The US doesn't care if it kills 100,000 civilians in Iraq. You think they need a non-lethal alternative which leaves the "enemy" alive to retaliate??
A more important question to ask is why do non-lethal weapons exist? They exist because of political repercussions to those who use lethal force on their own citizens. Better to say we are being gentle, thereby allowing far more liberal use of such weapons locally while having the plausible deniability of saying they were never intended to be lethal.... even if they turn out to be after the fact.
Wake up and smell reality - you are headed into a totalitarian abyss from which the only extrication is a second civil war.... and it's coming, believe me. Prepare yourselves now or regret it in five to ten years' time.
Simple.
Explain that DRM stands for Digital RESTRICTIONS Management.
Then when they ask for clarification you can tell them, plus it gets the acronym of DRM to be more accurate to the point where it becomes Digital RESTRICTIONS Management, NOT Digital Rights Management.
If a game is designed to last that long, why not build in a five minute break every hour, with associated game world countdown etc?
Alternatively, have safe houses/bunkers where players can go (neutral ground?) to park their characters while they go for a toilet break, quick meal etc?
The more like an extended real life op the game becomes, the more you will have to build in some means of fatigue management. In a first person shooter environment this would be even more important that RPG style games where you can often have your units on a form of autopilot, harvesting, building etc.
I have to ask - did you buy Premiere Pro, or did you pirate it?
.m2v and .wav files into Encore. Create a fancy menu, whatever you want. Encore will convert your WAV to AC3 automagically when you create your DVD.
Because Premiere Pro 2.0 at least (and probably other versions too) exports direct to DVD if you want:
File - Export - To DVD
Pick your options and burn.
If you have Encore you can instead export from Premiere Pro using Adobe Media Encoder. Choose MPEG2-DVD format, pick your options again (VBR 2-Pass is best, max bitrate 7MB), export demuxed and then put the resulting
Seriously - read the program's own help files!!! Sheesh...
Hey, good on you!
I too am at the beginning of the process of my filmmaking career too, so I know what you mean.
My answer is to remain true to your emotions when writing a film script. Inbue it with yourself, your REAL self, and people will not fail to see it and therefore enjoy the film more, because it is GENUINE.
If your story has no heart, then people will not respond to it. Doesn't matter what genre it is. All good stories have heart in them. They give you a glimpse into someone else's emotions and reasons for things.
So tell your own story, direct it from the heart (and impress upon your actors that it is coming from your own emotional core), and it will invariably be successful.
Let's make good movies!
"Why haven't Nelly and countless others done the right and proper thing?"
4. Indentured servitude thanks to their contracts?
"Firstly, Isn't this a dupe? And secondly, have they checked ebay yet?"
:)
If it was a dupe, there would be no slashdot article to speak of... because a dupe would mean a backup copy existed, negating the reason!
I was going to ask the same question.
I normally treat conspiracy theory stuff with a bit of disdain, but having read about John Titor and his predictions back in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq, I began to wonder. Like most, I was shocked when the World Trade Center attacks happened. Yet less than two years later, any sympathy I had for the US had vanished when I began to see what the US government was heading towards - a totalitarian police state. Readers of Orwell would not fail to notice the similarities.
It's funny. Time travel is usually held to be the most unlikely science fiction event to occur in reality (well, alongside matter transporters a la Star Trek I suppose). Yet there are some quite disturbing revelations that Titor predicted that really do seem to be happening. I've read them through thoroughly enough that I decided that 2007 was my litmus test on whether it was likely real enough or not to begin making at least some preparations as suggested by him.
So I will be very keenly watching what happens once the LHC starts up. If they make that black hole and contain it, as Titor predicted, then I will be willing to believe that the rest of his predictions are at least probably going to come true, if not exactly as specified by him (see more info on him as to why time variance comes into play).
More info here to get readers started:
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
You might be quite surprised at how much of those "predictions" are starting to come true, and what that portends for our world in the next 20 years.
Great quote! It's an interesting viewpoint that is going to really come to the fore when robotics is able to create a convincing human facsimile...
Check out my film trailer of "Eve" for a possible future scenario to do with just this concept.
Not sure if you are using OpenOffice.org or not, but just in case you are (and for others out there concerned about version changes staying in sensitive documents):
Tools - Options - General - OpenOffice.org - Remove personal information on saving (tick it)
You can also go into File - Properties - General and then press the Delete user data button on any existing document to clear revisions, user data etc.
HTH
Longer shows are exactly what the networks do NOT want. Their profit model is based on selling you, the viewer, to advertisers who PAY the TV networks to run ads for them.
The networks use THE SHOW as advertising to the advertisers - "We have this show which we can guarantee will have ten million eyeballs watching this week (or near enough thanks to Nielsen et al), so for $X million you will have lots of exposure for your ad."
This is why your TV shows get shorter in actual running time, they have ads before, after and DURING the show itself (those banners below the picture), and why the show's credits usually get squashed into a small corner so they can fit in EVEN MORE ads (I'm surprised the show's creators don't stomp on this aspect actually).
Pay TV is the ultimate form of TV network double dipping - all of the above is true, then the consumer (in the genuine sense of the word) PAYS THEM AGAIN!!! Something about a sucker born every minute...
HTH
....can we keep the teens? :D
Here' a simple solution to the Microsoft controlled DNS HOSTS file:
http://treewalkdns.com/
Allows you to bypass Windows' own DNS server and gives you the useful feature of making DNS queries much quicker than resolving to your ISP all the time, among other benefits.
Very easy to install for Joe User and just as easy to uninstall.
HTH
Sorry to reply to my own post but also add "leadsponsors", the company that seems to own lsjmp.com. Perhaps if we shame these companies in public they'll stop this sort of behaviour. I know, pie in the sky idealism, but perhaps Slashdot can be used for some good:
/. pretties, kill, kill!!!
:D
Go forth my
http://www.leadsponsors.com/
Actually the spybouncer page is called from:
hxxp://lsjmp.com/12/135.htm?r=135&u=519
which is in turn called from:
hxxp://www.goggle.com/
Put "spybouncer" and "lsjmp" in your ad filters to stop this (I added them to my Proxomitron filter set).
....and here's why:
Immigration Law - it's the hot button/diversionary tactic vote grabber for the 2006 mid-terms.
Gay marriages - that was the 2004 hot button/diversionary tactic.
Iraq's WMDs - 2002 hot button/diversionary tactic.
Need I go on? Simplistic generalisation I know, but basically with each successive elections since GWB was supposedly elected, the GOP have tightened their grip on power thanks to fearmongering and divisive issues. Why would they stop using a successful tactic this time around?
Watch for Iran to be hit shortly as well, probably with "precision" strikes using nuclear weapons, the second time the US will have used them (no other country has ever USED their nuclear weapons). It has to be done in the next couple of months because after that the Iranian oil bourse will likely be fully operational and the mid-terms will be too close to jeopardise with a new, dragged out war.
America's ONLY potential saving grace is that her citizens are armed to the teeth. Not to defend from outward aggression, but to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies who wish to destroy its principles.
Sadly many will die before your Constitution is restored....
I guess the next revolution is one step closer.
It's instructive to watch history repeat itself, because it allows me to see just how Hitler and the Third Reich were able to achieve what they did without people stopping them. It's one thing to learn about it in school, when you seldom understand the full spectrum of what is being taught.
I can now safely say that it's not that people didn't know back then. Just as now, the people just DID NOT CARE enough to do something about it. So in sixty years we have learnt exactly.... nothing.
It's just sad that so many new people will have to die needlessly before we realise our error yet again. As an "intelligent" race we really don't deserve our place at the top of the food chain, because intelligence denotes reason and so far I don't see any.
I won't weep for our destruction, because we deserve it.
Thanks for that! I am going to check this camera out ASAP. Some review links for others:
/ lx1.shtml
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasoniclx1/
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras
Let's see now. How about this for a hypothetical situation:
Criminal/drug dealer type buys expensive car with his ill gotten money. Said person then proceeds to install a GPS TRACKER in his expensive car so if it gets stolen, the company can track it and return it to him and he can take the person who stole it to court???
I guess this is why criminals continue to get caught - because by the sounds of it, most of them are stupid enough to voluntarily put TRACKING TECHNOLOGY in their own cars. Makes it easy for police to build a social network map of the criminal's associates and market now, doesn't it?
In reality, SMART criminals would work like this:
Buy aforementioned expensive car. No need to install expensive tracking device in case it gets stolen, because the thief would soon find themselves trying to play Harry Houdini with concrete slippers encased around their ankles....
Nice and quiet, no need to involve law enforcement, and everyone ends up happy (well, except for fishfood boy).
Only in America.... land of the stupid criminal mastermind!
I'd be quite happy with a digicam that took photos at 1920x1080 or even a multiple of that, say 3840x2160, in the aspect ratio of all future TVs and monitors (ok, 16:10 seems to be the monitor ratio thanks to stupid Microsoft and their idea of having HD res PLUS room for taskbar.... but close enough).
Anyone else notice how digicams all take 4:3 pictures these days no matter how high end they are, just as the public is moving to 16:9 as the default ratio?
So....
any digicams out there ahead of the pack and already implementing widescreen resolutions by default?
I would think that a 1920x1080 camera phone would be quite the sweet spot for storage and speed while preserving good quality pictures for viewing on TVs direct from the camera....
Anyone?