it's not the cost of the recording media that makes movies and music expensive, otherwise CDs would've come down in price like the industry promised (ha!) when the technology first came out.
if it was possible, you could come up with digital video disks made from cow chips, and they would still charge the same price for a movie.
slightly offtopic, but have any of you guys seen the hilarious Hong Kong comedy/horror Bio Zombie? (www.imdb.com/title/tt0277605/)
The movie starts just like someone is taping it with a camcorder, with people passing in front of the camera, and people shushing, telling others to stop smoking, etc.
Proof that camcordering movies is seeping into pop culture.
I wouldnt be surprised if at some point some hollywood movie uses such a reference.
we need to tell everyone that has windows PCs to set up two easy rules in outlook:
first rule: From Line contains -- add all the email addresses of people you know Action: stop processing rules. second rule: All emails Action: move it to specified folder - Deleted email.
After then can browse the deleteds to make sure they didnt forget any of their friends.
Much later when they are sure they have everyone theyll ever receive email from in their list, they can just modify the 2nd rule to "delete from server".
I think it was on slashdot that I once read about this guy who built a soundproofed cabinet for his PC, which could be easily opened for access to his cd/dvd drive...
Anyway, should be interesting in places were the winters are harsh... I've seen the surroundings of a building after the firemen hosed it down for a few hours at -26C... everything is encased in ice.
"I dunno if I subscribe to the idea that to save something, you have to destroy it..."
well, I think in most cases we shouldnt do that, but in the case of email, the system is headed for self-destruction anyway... at a slowly enough pace that people barely notice.
when all the technical and legal solutions have been exhausted, people will just stop using email as we know it, permanently.
"Even now, when I'm on a commercial flight, I always implicitly rate my pilot based on the landing, how much of a bump, whether we hop, etc."
The ethnic group I belong to is known and sometimes laughed at) for cheering and applauding the pilot of an airplane after a successful landing (WOOO WE MADE IT!), most often in chartered flights to/from caribbean resorts. I guess we were right to do it all along!
"Alternatively. Get your shitest old 386 and shitest pre-IDE hard disks and watch the CPU spend ages sucking data from here and there"
better yet, I still have an old Tandy 1000 and an acoustic modem!
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One thing I have noticed in this world is, nothing gets fixed until there's some major crap hitting the big collective fan.
Now here we have an email system which is increasingly broken, taken over by spammers, yet no one can agree to cooperate on a solution. Even the laws we make dont have any teeth.
I think we should promote this new thing, and all jump onto the bandwagon.
We should be able to definitely slashdot the email system at a planetary scale, thereby causing massive amounts of media aired/printed 24/7 for a few weeks.
The repercussions on spammers would be spectacular, to say the least.
I bet there would also be some political clout to revamp email to eliminate spam and prevent it from ever occuring again.
I equate this to a spammer saying: "here's a perfectly working gun. now use it to shoot me."
so terrorists like targets with lots of people to kill at the same time...
we'll just have to reorganize ourselves to be more dispersed, which, incidentally, could solve some other current problems as well.
for example: telecommuting (ie working from home)
another good thing I would like to see happen is personal aircraft use, more specifically, one that the majority of people could fly safely, like a family-size zeppelin using inert gas and solar power-assist, or a cheap ground-effect vehicle (called ekranoplan I think) if you want to travel faster overseas.
I was tempted to say "free as in beer", but beer isnt free. Even if you had access to free hops and free equipment to brew it, it would still cost you time.
It's only "free" (electrical/isp subscription costs notwithstanding) if you infringe the copyright.
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it's not the cost of the recording media that makes movies and music expensive, otherwise CDs would've come down in price like the industry promised (ha!) when the technology first came out.
if it was possible, you could come up with digital video disks made from cow chips, and they would still charge the same price for a movie.
yea that's why he keeps a camcorder in the projection room. not because he wants to pirate movies.
slightly offtopic, but have any of you guys seen the hilarious Hong Kong comedy/horror Bio Zombie? (www.imdb.com/title/tt0277605/)
The movie starts just like someone is taping it with a camcorder, with people passing in front of the camera, and people shushing, telling others to stop smoking, etc.
Proof that camcordering movies is seeping into pop culture.
I wouldnt be surprised if at some point some hollywood movie uses such a reference.
first they came for the people smuggling food into the theatres, but I didnt say anything because I wasnt a theatre food smuggler...
then they came for the cellular phone users, but I didnt say anything because I dont use a cellphone while watching movies at the theatre...
then they came for the camcorder users, but I didnt say anything because I didnt tape movies at the theatre...
when they came for me I didnt say anything, I just decided to spend my money elsewhere.
so what kind of frames per second can I get with the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra and this game?
we need to tell everyone that has windows PCs to set up two easy rules in outlook:
first rule: From Line contains -- add all the email addresses of people you know
Action: stop processing rules.
second rule: All emails
Action: move it to specified folder - Deleted email.
After then can browse the deleteds to make sure they didnt forget any of their friends.
Much later when they are sure they have everyone theyll ever receive email from in their list, they can just modify the 2nd rule to "delete from server".
Whitelist for Dummies.
Dyou guys think Richard Hoagland will manage to find some alien artifacts in those big pixels?
"Oh, and Inuits would be offended if you call them Red Indian. Any native Americans would, in fact, but Inuits are not even 'red'"
Inuits are also offended to be referred to as "eskimos", which was what the other natives called them... IIRC it means "raw meat eater" or somesuch.
I think it was on slashdot that I once read about this guy who built a soundproofed cabinet for his PC, which could be easily opened for access to his cd/dvd drive...
that's an option I'm looking at right now
would it be possible to sniff spam packets?
what's that in Celcius?
Anyway, should be interesting in places were the winters are harsh... I've seen the surroundings of a building after the firemen hosed it down for a few hours at -26C... everything is encased in ice.
The PDF says:
"the inhalation LC50 and cardiac sensitization NOAEL are greater than 10% v/v."
I now fully expect to have to build my next PC around a video card, with the rest of the hardware being peripheral to the VPU and its board/heatsink.
Crazy.
I bet in a few generations more, home PCs will have fans so big, you'll be able to drive them around the house and mow the lawn, too!
you mean it isnt already?
"I dunno if I subscribe to the idea that to save something, you have to destroy it..."
well, I think in most cases we shouldnt do that, but in the case of email, the system is headed for self-destruction anyway... at a slowly enough pace that people barely notice.
when all the technical and legal solutions have been exhausted, people will just stop using email as we know it, permanently.
"Even now, when I'm on a commercial flight, I always implicitly rate my pilot based on the landing, how much of a bump, whether we hop, etc."
The ethnic group I belong to is known and sometimes laughed at) for cheering and applauding the pilot of an airplane after a successful landing (WOOO WE MADE IT!), most often in chartered flights to/from caribbean resorts. I guess we were right to do it all along!
"Alternatively. Get your shitest old 386 and shitest pre-IDE hard disks and watch the CPU spend ages sucking data from here and there"
better yet, I still have an old Tandy 1000 and an acoustic modem!
One thing I have noticed in this world is, nothing gets fixed until there's some major crap hitting the big collective fan.
Now here we have an email system which is increasingly broken, taken over by spammers, yet no one can agree to cooperate on a solution. Even the laws we make dont have any teeth.
I think we should promote this new thing, and all jump onto the bandwagon.
We should be able to definitely slashdot the email system at a planetary scale, thereby causing massive amounts of media aired/printed 24/7 for a few weeks.
The repercussions on spammers would be spectacular, to say the least.
I bet there would also be some political clout to revamp email to eliminate spam and prevent it from ever occuring again.
I equate this to a spammer saying: "here's a perfectly working gun. now use it to shoot me."
I think they'll keep on making WW2 games until we have WW3, then after a few years, they'll start making WW3 games.
so terrorists like targets with lots of people to kill at the same time...
we'll just have to reorganize ourselves to be more dispersed, which, incidentally, could solve some other current problems as well.
for example:
telecommuting (ie working from home)
another good thing I would like to see happen is personal aircraft use, more specifically, one that the majority of people could fly safely, like a family-size zeppelin using inert gas and solar power-assist, or a cheap ground-effect vehicle (called ekranoplan I think) if you want to travel faster overseas.
"If some brick-and-mortar company spray painted their ads on the side of my house"
I think you're onto something there... *cough*
Ahem, can someone give me a list of spyware companies' addresses? I need some physical space to place a little advertising...
who are these people who mod down perfectly on-topic jokes "off-topic?"
if I had mod points, the parent would be +5 Funny.
well, at the risk of getting flamed...
;)
I thought the female Juggernauts in Unreal Tournament are a spot-on representation of some lesbian activists I've met in the past.
I was tempted to say "free as in beer", but beer isnt free. Even if you had access to free hops and free equipment to brew it, it would still cost you time.
It's only "free" (electrical/isp subscription costs notwithstanding) if you infringe the copyright.
consider this poll here for Unreal Tournament 2004:
. ph p?s=&threadid=367258
so far... 43 people (19.28%) said they played under Linux, while 180 (80.72%) said they played under Windows.
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread