Great show, decent movie
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Futurama Returns!
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· Score: 4, Interesting
One thing I've realized about Futurama is that, unlike most "adult cartoons," it actually has a lot of heart. The episodes about Fry's brother, his dog, Lela's parents, and of course the whole Lela and Fry subplot are quite sweet, and you it actually give a crap about the loserish characters.
As for the movie, the story wasn't amazing, but there was a huge amount of fan service in it. To the point where only an avid fan could really appreciate it. I was so overjoyed to see new content that it was pretty easy to overlook the flaws.
iTunes is great if your music collection is well-tagged and well-organized. However, the average user has a bunch of crap downloaded from Kazaa that they've just thrown into folders for makeshift playlists. If they want to correct the metadata, they rename the file. Meaning the actual tags are less accurate than the filename. For these people iTunes is a huge, confusing hassle and most people I've setup with iPods would be happier with the option to drag-and-drop through Explorer. Few people take the time to properly tag their files.
Back in the day I used to be a huge fan of AbiWord. It's very lightweight and really does all the most people need from a simple word processor. Reminds me of Word for Windows 2.0, actually. Three years ago I had a friend using it on a Pentium 133 with 16 MB of RAM! I'd take it over OOo Writer any day.
Of course, now I'm on OS X, and the Mac port is fugly, so I haven't touched it in a while.
Just like when the iTunes DRM was cracked, I might actually consider buying in these formats now.
And because of that, when I put my iPod shuffle through the wash I was able to replace it with a good AAC-playing MP3 phone and flip the bird to Steve Jobs. Same thing with these...I want my media in formats I can move around and use to my liking.
I'm not going to pay for the same content twice, ever. And if I can't get my content in a cracked DRM or DRM-free format, I'll just pirate it. That'll show 'em.
I used to be a big gamer back when I was a student, but now that I spend all day staring at a computer screen that's pretty much the last thing I want to do when I get home. Plus playing my "buddy" HeadShot4349 over XBox live isn't something I'd call "being social". In-person games (including party video games) and toys certainly have their place.
Now, while we're getting all nostalgic, let's break out the lawn darts!
I've always thought that under the right circumstances the average American would put up with all his/her liberties being taken away, save one: the right to consume.
Am I the only initial detractor who's actually getting used to the name? At first I thought it was awful, but it's sort of growing on me. And now that the press has gotten over the cheap jokes it looks like they're starting to take the device seriously as well. It may not be the best name in history, but now I don't think that the name is bad enough to sink the console, at least.
Wii Nintendo, Wii? Gotta say that's a very bad name. It doesn't make me think of video games at all, and opens itself to too many easy jokes (Wii Bother?). Maybe it sounds clever in Japanese, but I think the Revolution was a much better name for the console. But what do I know, I don't have a marketing degree or anything.
Interesting, didn't know that. What did it have then? Some type of half-assed other form of multiprocessor support..sorta like cooperative multitasking?
Guess I'll have to be better informed when I feed the trolls next time.
Uh..what? Apple screamed that it didn't need USB? Last time I checked Apple was the first (or one of the first) manufacturers to ditch legacy ports and go USB-only..back in 1998.
As for SMP Apple released the dual processor Power Mac 9500 in 1995. They started using PCI around 1996.
"Well we all know how that turned out..."
Apparently not.
How To Become Root on OS X
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Sudo vs. Root
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· Score: 3, Informative
Last login: Tue Mar 21 10:44:32 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! Hunter:~ Adam$ sudo su Password: Hunter:/Users/Adam root#
This is on an unmodified install....woops I guess that root account wasn't disabled after all!
How exactly are you going to see where you're going in that FPS without two screens? One screen for mouselook, one "main" screen.
Feel the Magic has a few good uses of the top screen. For example, in on game a shopping cart is coming down the top screen and you have to move obstacles on the bottom screen before it gets there. The minigames in Mario 64 DS are chalk-full of good gameplay ideas for the handheld.
I'm a little hard up for cash these days, but I added $5 to the pot. As a DS owner I think I have a lot to gain from a more active homebrew scene.
My question is thus: would this only be useful in allowing wireless play in homebrew games, or would it also be helpful in creating tunneling software (allowing wireless enabled DS games to play through the internet using a PC for tunneling)?
It kinda sucks that it doesn't at least include unprotected AAC support. It seems like, outside of Apple, AAC is turning into a flop (although I know the Roku Soundbridge supports it).
Heck, with Hymn they could even add support for iTMS files, outside of the US anyways. Not that it matters. If I wanted to change portable players I'd just find one that played unprotected AAC and run my music through Hymn myself. But there don't seem to be any options out there!
Will we ever see some sort of automatic update feature in Firefox? I know it checks automatically, but if it could update itself as well it'd make my life a lot easier. I do free tech support for a couple of friends, so it saves me having to VNC in and do it myself.
If not that, then it'd at least be nice if it was more obvious when updates were available. The little arrow thing doesn't really cut it.
It seems to be the iPod way these days, but part of the price reductions come from fewer pack-in accessories. Apple did the same thing last year with the price cut on the 20 GB 4G.
iPod minis no longer include an AC charger, and the iPod photos no longer include a dock, carrying case, or AV cable. Apparently they'll have USB host support with an accessory though, and you'll be able to download and view photos right from your camera.
But most shocking of all to the "faithful" is the lack of a firewire cable with any iPod. It's optional across the board. Apple sold Macs with USB 1 and Firewire very recently, so they're essentially screwing over their fans. There's already a petition to but the cable back in the box. And you don't want to piss of a Mac fanatic!
I'm kinda disappointed with the lack of Bluetooth, though. It'd be nice to have the music pause when a call comes in on my T616, and maybe allow the headphones to double as a headset. iTunes already pauses the music for me courtesy of Salling Clicker.
I'm interested in a project that will be very similar to the original poster's. Ideally what I'd like to do is set up a nice RAID 5 array that can hum away in the closet, serving video and allowing me to rsync backups to it.
It'd also be nice if I could set the box up as a Myth back-end, then put a smaller, nicer, quieter Mac Mini as a myth back-end. And if the closet box could do some low-load web serving over cable, that'd be nice too.
But is this asking too much of one box? Will I have to get a hardware RAID controller and hardware MPEG encoder for it all to work? And what kind of power supply should I get for 5-7 7200 RPM disks?
The iPod shuffle is EXACTLY what I need. I already have a regular iPod, but I need a flash player for jogging. Obviously I won't be screwing around and looking for a specific song while I'm running, so I won't miss the screen. This is perfect!
I wouldn't get one for my main player though...
That's Broadcasting
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Inside TechTV/G4
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I can't say I'm entirely surprised. As a journalism student I've seen that there's an inherent "fakeness" in broadcasting.
It was worse for TV, but even in my radio class we "greened" our live interviews by pre-interviewing them off air and writing up questions. So the interviewee pretty much knew what to expect. A print reporter wouldn't typically do that.
You know that back-and-forth the host sometimes does with a reporter (CBC radio uses this a fair bit)? It's all scripted ahead of time, the reporter just has to learn to sound conversational.
But as I said, TV is worse. Ever notice a TV interview will go between the interviewee speaking and the interviewer nodding? There aren't two cameras there, the latter is called a reverse shot, and it's usually taken before the interview even starts. The interview audio is then dubbed over top. A reverse shot is a clue that the reporter is cutting something out, avoiding a "jump cut" between two different parts.
Now I look at TV news a lot more critically, because they emphasize the appearance of "smoothness" and "continuity" over honesty.
is if the whole desk was one big "power pad" that your laptop, printer, mouse etc could all be powered by. I could eliminate the last must-have cables running all over my desk. This is pretty much useless.
Unlike WinFS, this doesn't sound all that different from what can be done in Panther today.
...varies according to where you're searching from.
I've already got near instantaneous searching in iTunes, iCal, Mail and the Finder. Safari already has an integrated Google search box. How Spotlight/WinFS is/was supposed to be different is/was quick full-text and metadata searching (IIRC). It didn't explicitly say anything in the Neowin article, but I got the impression that this suite won't do it.
...integrates directly throughout the OS
As I said above most of the Apple apps have this (at least the ones where it makes sense). And I believe there's an API available to put it into 3rd party apps as well.
IMHO, it looks like MS is just trying to save face after they dropped WinFS.
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As for the movie, the story wasn't amazing, but there was a huge amount of fan service in it. To the point where only an avid fan could really appreciate it. I was so overjoyed to see new content that it was pretty easy to overlook the flaws.
I should mention, however, that you can switch TextEdit to plain text mode by choosing Format > Make Plain Text.
iTunes is great if your music collection is well-tagged and well-organized. However, the average user has a bunch of crap downloaded from Kazaa that they've just thrown into folders for makeshift playlists. If they want to correct the metadata, they rename the file. Meaning the actual tags are less accurate than the filename. For these people iTunes is a huge, confusing hassle and most people I've setup with iPods would be happier with the option to drag-and-drop through Explorer. Few people take the time to properly tag their files.
Of course, now I'm on OS X, and the Mac port is fugly, so I haven't touched it in a while.
Wait, so Homer was right about the donut shaped universe? Damn Hawking, always taking credit for other people's ideas!
And because of that, when I put my iPod shuffle through the wash I was able to replace it with a good AAC-playing MP3 phone and flip the bird to Steve Jobs. Same thing with these...I want my media in formats I can move around and use to my liking.
I'm not going to pay for the same content twice, ever. And if I can't get my content in a cracked DRM or DRM-free format, I'll just pirate it. That'll show 'em.
Now, while we're getting all nostalgic, let's break out the lawn darts!
I've always thought that under the right circumstances the average American would put up with all his/her liberties being taken away, save one: the right to consume.
Am I the only initial detractor who's actually getting used to the name? At first I thought it was awful, but it's sort of growing on me. And now that the press has gotten over the cheap jokes it looks like they're starting to take the device seriously as well. It may not be the best name in history, but now I don't think that the name is bad enough to sink the console, at least.
Wii Nintendo, Wii? Gotta say that's a very bad name. It doesn't make me think of video games at all, and opens itself to too many easy jokes (Wii Bother?). Maybe it sounds clever in Japanese, but I think the Revolution was a much better name for the console. But what do I know, I don't have a marketing degree or anything.
It's nice to see a distro with a sense of humour. I especially like that the severity is set to critical.
Grandparent needs to get a life. He posted pretty much the same thing yesterday and it's no more true now than it was then. Good thing we're around to set the record straight!
Guess I'll have to be better informed when I feed the trolls next time.
As for SMP Apple released the dual processor Power Mac 9500 in 1995. They started using PCI around 1996.
"Well we all know how that turned out..."
Apparently not.
Last login: Tue Mar 21 10:44:32 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Hunter:~ Adam$ sudo su
Password:
Hunter:/Users/Adam root#
This is on an unmodified install....woops I guess that root account wasn't disabled after all!
Feel the Magic has a few good uses of the top screen. For example, in on game a shopping cart is coming down the top screen and you have to move obstacles on the bottom screen before it gets there. The minigames in Mario 64 DS are chalk-full of good gameplay ideas for the handheld.
My question is thus: would this only be useful in allowing wireless play in homebrew games, or would it also be helpful in creating tunneling software (allowing wireless enabled DS games to play through the internet using a PC for tunneling)?
Heck, with Hymn they could even add support for iTMS files, outside of the US anyways. Not that it matters. If I wanted to change portable players I'd just find one that played unprotected AAC and run my music through Hymn myself. But there don't seem to be any options out there!
If not that, then it'd at least be nice if it was more obvious when updates were available. The little arrow thing doesn't really cut it.
iPod minis no longer include an AC charger, and the iPod photos no longer include a dock, carrying case, or AV cable. Apparently they'll have USB host support with an accessory though, and you'll be able to download and view photos right from your camera.
But most shocking of all to the "faithful" is the lack of a firewire cable with any iPod. It's optional across the board. Apple sold Macs with USB 1 and Firewire very recently, so they're essentially screwing over their fans. There's already a petition to but the cable back in the box. And you don't want to piss of a Mac fanatic!
I'm kinda disappointed with the lack of Bluetooth, though. It'd be nice to have the music pause when a call comes in on my T616, and maybe allow the headphones to double as a headset. iTunes already pauses the music for me courtesy of Salling Clicker.
I'm interested in a project that will be very similar to the original poster's. Ideally what I'd like to do is set up a nice RAID 5 array that can hum away in the closet, serving video and allowing me to rsync backups to it.
It'd also be nice if I could set the box up as a Myth back-end, then put a smaller, nicer, quieter Mac Mini as a myth back-end. And if the closet box could do some low-load web serving over cable, that'd be nice too.
But is this asking too much of one box? Will I have to get a hardware RAID controller and hardware MPEG encoder for it all to work? And what kind of power supply should I get for 5-7 7200 RPM disks?
I wouldn't get one for my main player though...
I can't say I'm entirely surprised. As a journalism student I've seen that there's an inherent "fakeness" in broadcasting.
It was worse for TV, but even in my radio class we "greened" our live interviews by pre-interviewing them off air and writing up questions. So the interviewee pretty much knew what to expect. A print reporter wouldn't typically do that.
You know that back-and-forth the host sometimes does with a reporter (CBC radio uses this a fair bit)? It's all scripted ahead of time, the reporter just has to learn to sound conversational.
But as I said, TV is worse. Ever notice a TV interview will go between the interviewee speaking and the interviewer nodding? There aren't two cameras there, the latter is called a reverse shot, and it's usually taken before the interview even starts. The interview audio is then dubbed over top. A reverse shot is a clue that the reporter is cutting something out, avoiding a "jump cut" between two different parts.
Now I look at TV news a lot more critically, because they emphasize the appearance of "smoothness" and "continuity" over honesty.
is if the whole desk was one big "power pad" that your laptop, printer, mouse etc could all be powered by. I could eliminate the last must-have cables running all over my desk. This is pretty much useless.
I've already got near instantaneous searching in iTunes, iCal, Mail and the Finder. Safari already has an integrated Google search box. How Spotlight/WinFS is/was supposed to be different is/was quick full-text and metadata searching (IIRC). It didn't explicitly say anything in the Neowin article, but I got the impression that this suite won't do it.
As I said above most of the Apple apps have this (at least the ones where it makes sense). And I believe there's an API available to put it into 3rd party apps as well.
IMHO, it looks like MS is just trying to save face after they dropped WinFS.