I'm not a mega film buff, but ones that spring to mind: The Count of Monte Cristo was pretty good, as was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
By far the best film I've seen recently was Touching The Void. It's out on DVD some time in the spring and I urge everyone to rush out and buy it. It's a true story about mountaineering gone wrong (but seems to be pretty gripping even for non-mountaineers), told by the actual people involved with the aid of reconstructions: it's very realistically portrayed and incredibly touching. Definitely a must-see.
This will only affect contributors to XFree itself. XFree isn't the only X implementation and therefore stuff that links against X libraries can't be considered a derived work of XFree any more than it can be considered a derived work of a commercial X server or of XOuvert or fd.o's X server.
What counts as "derived from"? Just extensions to XFree? You could pretty convincingly argue that stuff that links against standard X libraries isn't a derived work: it could equally use commercial X server libraries, XFree libraries or unrestrictive fd.o or XOuvert libraries. That would mean it wasn't a problem for widget libraries like GTK or Qt, or for application writers, unless (possibly) they're using some weird XFree-only extension.
So this sounds like it's just an internal matter for the XFree team when considering their choice of license to release work that is to be a part of XFree. I don't see that it affects much else - am I missing something?
Agreed. The only thing issuing limited-life DVDs will accomplish is it will make the general public much more familiar with DVD ripping tools. If someone buys a DVD and it'll only play once then it's not going to take long for them to decide that that single play is going straight to DVD:Rip or the hard disk so that it can be watched repeatedly.
Of course, that's only if titles are only released in such a format: if there's a choice, consumers will just ignore the self-destructing option.
New Line got it right with the Special Edition LoTR DVDs. They're lovely products, well packaged with high quality extras (and don't self-destruct;-)). People will happily pay for something like that: they will be far less happy at movie companies that treat them like scum who can't be trusted with the content they're so graciously permitted to view.
There were licensing problems a few years ago that held up the entire XFree86 v4 project for ages. There were probably two years lost when nothing got coded due to such problems - it's sad that they haven't learnt from their mistakes, but very good that XFree isn't our only option for much longer. Here's hoping XOuvert and fd.o get their servers nice and stable as soon as possible so that we can all make it clear to XFree what a bunch of assclowns they are being.
I found a weight-limit-compliant 20dB cooler for my Athlon, which is pretty sweet: not silent, but a good trade-off between silence and not trashing my motherboard. My graphics card is old so I got away with the weird GPU heatsink that isn't quite as massive as the heatpipe, but is still silent. I don't bother with case fans. Now I just need a silent PSU, so I might check out this Zalman of which you speak (since the link in the article doesn't work from here). Thanks.
Depends. If they drive SUVs purely to collect their children from the school 500 yards from their house, then yes. If they drive them in the Paris-Dakar rally each year then I'm a little more impressed.
I don't have AD(H)D. I don't notice monitor whine if the monitor is already on but do notice the difference when one is switched on or off. Degaussing I'm not sure about. It's deafening on my monitor but then my monitor is old and crappy - I'm probably hearing more than the actual flipping of magnets...
That was my first impression (largely because of the Ford reader in the radio series, which still largely informs my perception of the characters)[0]. But given, in the book, he's done such a bad job of researching the ideal character for comfortable white, middle-class England that he's called himself after a motorcar, it's actually not that weird that he should be black, or American (especially given who puts out most EM broadcasting...)
[0] A part I definitely thought was better done in the radio version of LoTR than in the movie was Bilbo - John le Mesurier had exactly the right vocal characteristics for Bilbo. It's a pity they won't be able to get him to play the Wise Old Bird in HHG either...
> Probably because there's a greater detectable cultural difference between the nations of Western Europe (and nations occupied mostly by them, like Canada, Australia, and the U.S.) and other nations than there are between two people from opposite ends of the UK.
Although it's still funny watching a Cornish yokel trying to make himself understood in a bar in Glasgow (or vice versa):-)
Well, if you take the proper definition of "East" and "West" as being defined in relation to the Greenwich meridian then most of Europe is indeed Eastern. Spain, Portugal, Ireland, quite a lot of France and most of the UK are the only bits that can properly be described as western.
I'm playing Devil's advocate to an extent, but when did the term "Western" get reassigned to cover North America (but not necessarily Central or South America), Europe (including large chunks of Europe East of Greenwich) and sometimes Australia as well? It now seems to be used instead of the older term "First World" - is this an upshot of political correctness, laziness or what?
Having said that, if these do work it might just provide the impetus I need to make me install 2.6 on my debian/unstable box. It seems fairly stable by all accounts and I'm sure the developers could do with as many eyes as possible to squash any remaining bugs prior to distributions adopting 2.6.
The last (2.4) drivers that worked for me were 1.0.4496; the recent ones are a disaster, so hopefully they've taken the time to iron out the bugs and this isn't just the latest version of the driver with the (already existing) 2.6 patch bolted on.
Completely off-topic, but you reminded me of something: given that most modern CPUs have a meg or so of cache built into the chip, would it be possible to build a machine with no plug-in memory modules and have it boot something simple like DOS? Or would the motherboard complain that you were being silly?
> If by "everything" you mean "every modern method for committing genocide" and "every modern method for running a horrific, totalitarian government" you have a point.
Yeah. 'Cos it was EUians that invented nuclear weapons, dynamite, the machine gun, the electric chair, hanging chads... Oh, wait.
Idiot. (karma-protecting disclaimer: yes, I know the EU isn't perfect and the US isn't the source of all evil, but this AC is still a moron.)
Yeah... the karma sutra is a reference guide to advanced slashdot trolling, Meeept!ing and whoring techniques, written in the late 1990s by Mr A. Coward (distant relation of Noel). Although liberally illustrated by goatse pr0n it isn't related to the earlier, canonical, DIY pr0n manual.
The point is, they can't revoke the GPL for all the versions that are already distributed under the GPL. So the worst case is, the KDE team say "screw you, Trolltech, we're forking Qt" and continue to develop the last GPLed version as KQt, or whatever, and Trolltech go their own way with Qt but lose a huge chunk of their userbase. As for the moderation: this isn't +1, Interesting but -1, Redundant: we've done this debate to death over the past 5 years.
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I'm not a mega film buff, but ones that spring to mind: The Count of Monte Cristo was pretty good, as was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
By far the best film I've seen recently was Touching The Void. It's out on DVD some time in the spring and I urge everyone to rush out and buy it. It's a true story about mountaineering gone wrong (but seems to be pretty gripping even for non-mountaineers), told by the actual people involved with the aid of reconstructions: it's very realistically portrayed and incredibly touching. Definitely a must-see.
This will only affect contributors to XFree itself. XFree isn't the only X implementation and therefore stuff that links against X libraries can't be considered a derived work of XFree any more than it can be considered a derived work of a commercial X server or of XOuvert or fd.o's X server.
What counts as "derived from"? Just extensions to XFree? You could pretty convincingly argue that stuff that links against standard X libraries isn't a derived work: it could equally use commercial X server libraries, XFree libraries or unrestrictive fd.o or XOuvert libraries.
That would mean it wasn't a problem for widget libraries like GTK or Qt, or for application writers, unless (possibly) they're using some weird XFree-only extension.
So this sounds like it's just an internal matter for the XFree team when considering their choice of license to release work that is to be a part of XFree. I don't see that it affects much else - am I missing something?
Agreed. The only thing issuing limited-life DVDs will accomplish is it will make the general public much more familiar with DVD ripping tools. If someone buys a DVD and it'll only play once then it's not going to take long for them to decide that that single play is going straight to DVD:Rip or the hard disk so that it can be watched repeatedly.
;-)).
Of course, that's only if titles are only released in such a format: if there's a choice, consumers will just ignore the self-destructing option.
New Line got it right with the Special Edition LoTR DVDs. They're lovely products, well packaged with high quality extras (and don't self-destruct
People will happily pay for something like that: they will be far less happy at movie companies that treat them like scum who can't be trusted with the content they're so graciously permitted to view.
There were licensing problems a few years ago that held up the entire XFree86 v4 project for ages. There were probably two years lost when nothing got coded due to such problems - it's sad that they haven't learnt from their mistakes, but very good that XFree isn't our only option for much longer. Here's hoping XOuvert and fd.o get their servers nice and stable as soon as possible so that we can all make it clear to XFree what a bunch of assclowns they are being.
I found a weight-limit-compliant 20dB cooler for my Athlon, which is pretty sweet: not silent, but a good trade-off between silence and not trashing my motherboard. My graphics card is old so I got away with the weird GPU heatsink that isn't quite as massive as the heatpipe, but is still silent. I don't bother with case fans. Now I just need a silent PSU, so I might check out this Zalman of which you speak (since the link in the article doesn't work from here). Thanks.
> people who drives SUV's have small penises.
Depends. If they drive SUVs purely to collect their children from the school 500 yards from their house, then yes. If they drive them in the Paris-Dakar rally each year then I'm a little more impressed.
I don't have AD(H)D. I don't notice monitor whine if the monitor is already on but do notice the difference when one is switched on or off. Degaussing I'm not sure about. It's deafening on my monitor but then my monitor is old and crappy - I'm probably hearing more than the actual flipping of magnets...
That was my first impression (largely because of the Ford reader in the radio series, which still largely informs my perception of the characters)[0]. But given, in the book, he's done such a bad job of researching the ideal character for comfortable white, middle-class England that he's called himself after a motorcar, it's actually not that weird that he should be black, or American (especially given who puts out most EM broadcasting...)
[0] A part I definitely thought was better done in the radio version of LoTR than in the movie was Bilbo - John le Mesurier had exactly the right vocal characteristics for Bilbo. It's a pity they won't be able to get him to play the Wise Old Bird in HHG either...
> Probably because there's a greater detectable cultural difference between the nations of Western Europe (and nations occupied mostly by them, like Canada, Australia, and the U.S.) and other nations than there are between two people from opposite ends of the UK.
:-)
Although it's still funny watching a Cornish yokel trying to make himself understood in a bar in Glasgow (or vice versa)
My bad: I had forgotten to modprobe hid. It works again now...
Well, if you take the proper definition of "East" and "West" as being defined in relation to the Greenwich meridian then most of Europe is indeed Eastern. Spain, Portugal, Ireland, quite a lot of France and most of the UK are the only bits that can properly be described as western.
I'm playing Devil's advocate to an extent, but when did the term "Western" get reassigned to cover North America (but not necessarily Central or South America), Europe (including large chunks of Europe East of Greenwich) and sometimes Australia as well? It now seems to be used instead of the older term "First World" - is this an upshot of political correctness, laziness or what?
Having said that, if these do work it might just provide the impetus I need to make me install 2.6 on my debian/unstable box. It seems fairly stable by all accounts and I'm sure the developers could do with as many eyes as possible to squash any remaining bugs prior to distributions adopting 2.6.
The last (2.4) drivers that worked for me were 1.0.4496; the recent ones are a disaster, so hopefully they've taken the time to iron out the bugs and this isn't just the latest version of the driver with the (already existing) 2.6 patch bolted on.
Whaat? You mean the Acme Corporation didn't invent dynamite? Road Runner has been deceiving me all this time.
Either that or I was talking out of my ass.
Completely off-topic, but you reminded me of something: given that most modern CPUs have a meg or so of cache built into the chip, would it be possible to build a machine with no plug-in memory modules and have it boot something simple like DOS? Or would the motherboard complain that you were being silly?
> If by "everything" you mean "every modern method for committing genocide" and "every modern method for running a horrific, totalitarian government" you have a point.
Yeah. 'Cos it was EUians that invented nuclear weapons, dynamite, the machine gun, the electric chair, hanging chads... Oh, wait.
Idiot.
(karma-protecting disclaimer: yes, I know the EU isn't perfect and the US isn't the source of all evil, but this AC is still a moron.)
Is "cameltoes" referring to the same phenomenon as "goat's in the garden"?
She's not a virtual dummy, she's brunette :-)
Debian stable has that reputation, certainly; it always will to an extent. But unstable (which isn't) and testing are considerably more up-to-date
Similar here (current firebird 0.7 build from debian/unstable).
Yeah... the karma sutra is a reference guide to advanced slashdot trolling, Meeept!ing and whoring techniques, written in the late 1990s by Mr A. Coward (distant relation of Noel). Although liberally illustrated by goatse pr0n it isn't related to the earlier, canonical, DIY pr0n manual.
Disclaimer: 87.63% of the above is lies.
The point is, they can't revoke the GPL for all the versions that are already distributed under the GPL. So the worst case is, the KDE team say "screw you, Trolltech, we're forking Qt" and continue to develop the last GPLed version as KQt, or whatever, and Trolltech go their own way with Qt but lose a huge chunk of their userbase.
As for the moderation: this isn't +1, Interesting but -1, Redundant: we've done this debate to death over the past 5 years.
Nah, there's some guy called deuphil who's beginning to get really angry aboutthe length of time his book is taking to arrive :-)
So write to them and point out that now might be a good time to submit some prior art (or do it yourself if you have enough solid evidence).