Doh! I've successfully done what you describe with many other trailers, but only where the reference.mov file was embedded in the actual page. With the Harry Potter one, the embedded file is http://movies.apple.com/movies/qt_posters/qtstart5 a_480x228.mov which is useless. I thought it was some sort of dynamic loader for the movie and didn't notice other links. Teach me not to look in the source code! Mod me down -5 dumb.
I was fine downloading it from the direct link - this is what I like to see in my/. summaries.
But I noticed that the Harry Potter trailer is out and I can't get that one on my linux box. I can download the.mov file but this is just a bootstrap of somesort. Some of them have the actual.mov file in them as a URL and you can get this out with a Hex editor. The Harry Potter one doesn't though. Anyone know how to get the actual trailer, please?
Neither Mein Kampf nor 1984 were written for young children.
That said, I do not feel the Chronicles of Narnia are effective propaganda because the enjoyment of the story does not (IMHO) do anything to encourage you to believe in the source material (Xtianity).
When I was a little kid I tried to work out how a light-sabre could be built. The problem I had difficulty with was making the beam stop at a fixed length.
So I figured what was needed was a thin conductor that could extend from the handle and have a small circle / dome on the end. This would be charged to a massive potential and the top of the handle (other than where the thin central conducting rod emerged) would be oppositely charged. This would then create a plasma between the two. The only remaining problems once I'd figured that out were finding a material for the central conductor that was able to withstand heat in the 1000C's, thin enough that the whole still seemed to be made out of energy, yet rigid enough that it didn't become a lightwhip. That and finding a powersource equivalent to a maglev train that would fit in a small handle. Um, and would work in a vacuum. And some other things... but I was twelve, you know? I figured I'd work on them later and went on to try and decide what colour I wanted.
The critical difference is who sets the deadline. A bunch of developers saying "we want to have it done by dd/mm/yy" may be good motivation. A manager or salesman coming in and saying "it will be done by now()" is not - most of us have probably had to deal with people like that at some point. It's not good.
The deadlines we set ourselves are hopefully sensible ones.
Alright, it's not negligible. If they've really settled with 10,000 people then that's money for them and so long as people don't take it to court then it may remain self-financing.
But though $30 million may sound a whole lotta mullah to you, frighteningly it isn't to the RIAA. Rod Stewart made more than that in one year alone from his back catalog. That's Rod Stewart, by the way.
Yep, you're right to point out that I understated the profits from litigation - I hadn't played with the numbers when I posted - but the main drive behind this is the desperate need to preserve the labels' role in distributing music. If the law-suits were costing them money the only negative effect would be the bad PR from looking like idiots, the financial cost they can bear.
10,000 settlements out of 10's of millions of downloaders? It's like the lottery in reverse. They're doomed. It's Steam Eng... I mean P2P time.:)
Of course the word in the Hebrew there is Youth... which refers to anyone under the age of 30... So the image should be that of a rowdy street gang. not a bunch of 5 year olds.
So how many "Christians"(1) read the bible in the original Latin->Greek->[old testament]Hebrew?
The result seems to be distortion in the meaning of the sacred text, then. Which looks like yet another "Gotcha".
(1) I use quotes here to convey the discrepancy between those who call themselves Christians and those that accurately follow Christ's teachings.
Just because they're Shiites doesn't mean they're puppets for Iran. The Iraqi Shiites belong to the quietist Najaf school of shiism, which is opposed to the Qum school of Khomeinism. The Najaf school is also the more prestigious and authoritative, and was the center of Shiite religious authority before Saddam. In other words, the Iraqi mullahs outrank the Iranians in religious authority, they belong to the separation-of-mosque-and-state school, and are not the puppets of Tehran. As a matter of fact, polls of Iraqis repeatedly indicate that they reject theocracy. And when Iraq went to war with Iran in the 80s, shiites compromised the majority of the armed forces. They are not stooges for "their brothers" across the Shat.
I simplified in my post and your information is very interesting but I certainly never said stooges. I'm not evisioning Iran as behind Iraqi insurgency. But there is a cultural bond and I believe that US policy has been strengthening this by presenting a common foe. Under US aggression, I think Iraq will veer (is veering?) more towards fundamentalism and away from secularism. The sooner the US grip is loosened and Iraq is free to choose a middle path that isn't a submission to foreign occupation, the better for all of us. Otherwise those polls that advocate moderate religious control will start to slide.
I'm not disagreeing with you, please note. Just explaining my take on things.
If it takes 1 million dead iraqies in order to make it safe for my kids, then thats fine.
How will murdering a million Iraqis make things safe for your children? Al Quaeda exists because of previous US military and economic aggression. And your cure for this is more agression? If you want your children to be safe perhaps you should stop the US from creating enemies out of an entire people and deal with them as equals. This might send the price of oil up for your children, but by the time they're middle-aged it'll be running out anyway and think of all the billions they'll have saved on "defence." to offset this with better education and new technologies.
If it takes obliterating the entire middle east, fine, lets do it.
And when there were no more Middle East and you'd nuked all the other countries too that weren't comfortable sharing a planet with a genocidal state and there was only Americans left, then you could watch the same attitude you profess turn on yourselves as removed of outside cultures your own fragmented.
What none of the US people seem to be considering is that maybe with their aggression, they are creating an enemy that ultimately, might beat them.
Well, I've just followed your link and compared Dell prices in the UK and the USA. It's shocking how cheap you have everything over there. A Dell desktop that goes for $499 over there is sold here for £409. Check it yourself, it's hard to believe.
So, argument to me I think, and irritatingly cheap computers to you.:(
The question is... how did you spend on your system? More or less than a £180.00-£200.00 Dell?
Hah! Well, certainly not a Dell. For a start, as Linux user I want to avoid the Microsoft tax and last time I checked the only home user systems they were selling had this already installed. Also, I like AMD. Not sure where you got the £200 figure for a new Dell from, however.
As you're curious, I managed up until the end of last year with an old 400MHz desktop 2nd hand. I've spent most of my career so far as a C++ programmer (telecoms and device drivers) - I offer that up as a contrast to my lack of need for the latest and greatest hardware. Late last December however, I caved in and bought a 2.0GHz Semperon with accompanying motherboard and RAM. Can't remember the exact figure but it was something like £150 all together. The casing, monitor etc are all what was lying around. Anyway, it all comes out much cheaper than PC World and running Debian it is more than adequate for my needs. However, I am not a gamer so factor that in if you like. I'm sure there are plenty of self-builders out there who do spend a fortune on their PCs, but hopefully they're the people who have a need for it. The rest of the word-processing and web-surfing people out there are being robbed blind. (Except for bragging rights).
You may well be right, I was not there. But the [G]GP is wrong to base his defense on what the Italians should have expected from the circumstances in the US account, when their argument is not that the US soldiers behaved incorrectly under those circumstances but that the account of the circumstances is account false. It was bad logic.
The only other points to mention are that Berlusconi is swearing left right and centre that the Italians fully informed the US that they were coming, when, where and how and Berlusconi, I am certain, does not want to pick a fight with Bush if he can help it. Secondly, according the account I read, the check-point was a temporary one. As you're out there, you can clear up whether this is visually distinct from a permanent check point, whether there are signs, or if it's just a tank by the road or what. I'd be interested to know.
The Americans (I am an American) may or may not have had a motive. It is irrelevant to the discussion since the soldier who fired had no idea at all who might be in the car. Nobody was in communication with the soldier on duty.
I think the general drift at the moment is that motive would be relevant as the modus operandi could have been this lack of communication.
Again, I wasn't there and am not currently advocating one view or another. I'm just picking up logical gaps in the arguments. People can draw their own conclusions.
The U.S. wanted to be quite the fuck out of Iraq by now, which a happy little democratic puppet government and some shiny new military bases where U.S. troops would be stationed forever. The U.S. isn't going to depose another Iraqi government; it's going to prevent what it sees as intentional disruption of its puppet government by radicals from neighboring countries.
Yep - you're absolutely right. The US administration seems to have genuinely expected Iraq to roll over in submission. Even their own military was warning them but some people hear what they want to hear. And that includes thinking any disruption must be due to outside radicals because they must present the case that Iraqis want the US there, otherwise the lie of humanitarian causes is a little too naked.
There was a case for humanitarian intervention in Iraq, but the people of the US and the UK were denied the opportunity to weigh up the arguments for themselves (i.e. they've been lied to); and further, to follow through on such a humanitarian cause would have required a higher degree of virtue than the current war-leaders possess (e.g. allowing Iraqis to self-organise, manage their own oil supplies, etc).
Oh, and for those not clued in, trying to "run" a checkpoint at 60MPH when it is manned by guys with guns gets you shot at, often a lot.
Well you've immediately assumed the US party line is the truth. The Italians are claiming a slow approach (30mph), that all necessary contacts with the US for safe passage were made, the driver stopped immediately when a light flashed 10m away but at the same time shots were fired into car for 10-15 seconds. Just wanted to clear that up for anyone who didn't RTFA, but did read your post.
A quick overview here.
The Italians also consider the US to have a motive.
Iraq may have voted but they had to fight for it. The original intention of the US wasn't to allow voting for a good while longer (poss. 2006). They were forced into it by insurgency in Iraq and the need for good PR from pressure at home.
When Saddam was deposed, the Iraqis quickly self-organized and elected community leaders, took care of routine work (hospitals, refuse collection, etc) and this was done largely democratically. However, this (a) didn't fit with the US plan of importing management trained civil structure and (b) was an immediate threat to their authority. Many people were duly arrested and declared "terrorists."
The US doesn't want to share power and is pulling every string it can under the mask of democracy. I'm not well-informed enough to say where the balance of power is between democratic and US forces in Iraq but this definitely isn't quite the situation that the US wants. Notice all the sabre rattling that's been done at Iran recently. That's because a large number of the Iraqis would like to get cosy with their brother's next door and that is the last thing that the US wants.
You can be sure that if the Iraq 'democracy' gets too far away from US plans then there will be further large scale military action. The power factions in Iraq are well aware of that and are planning accordingly.
Let's face it, a self builder is going to spend more money on their PC than your average Dell buyer.
I don't know about that - the more ignorant you are, the more you succumb to marketing. This morning I put together a 300MHz 64MB desktop system for someone who needed e-mail, web and minimal word-processing. Total cost: £30. And I could have got it down further but at some point, my time becomes more valuable than my money.
On topic - I hope this show was better than Buffy -couldn't stand it (or her).
Considering the millions of dollars that Celera invested in gene sequencing, it should at least have the opportunity to make back that money.
If he were creating something new then perhaps, but it was just a land grab. The DNA was there and they tried to patent as much of it as possible. It reminds me of the Eddie Izzard skit when the Europeans claim America and the Indians say, "but it's here, you know, we're using it, how can it be yours?" And the Europeans say, "but ah, have you got a flag?"
Replace flag with patent. You might as well say that the Spaniards spent a lot of money colonizing Peru so they deserved all the gold. This is DNA! It belongs to no individual or corporation. I want access to my source code for whatever purposes I choose.
It's never been about stopping the P2P flood. It's always been about making money.
Rubbish. The money an organisation the size of the RIAA is doesn't care about the dribs and drabs that they can get out of individuals. It's about (a) stopping the sharing of music that the record labels think is costing them so much and (b) the RIAA capitalising on the record label's belief so that they can justify their existence further and make more money out of the record labels.
Artists no longer need the major labels for distribution and that's what scares them. The lawsuits are just trying to fit the genie back in the bottle.
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Doh! I've successfully done what you describe with many other trailers, but only where the reference
Many thanks to all three of you replying people.
-H.
I was fine downloading it from the direct link - this is what I like to see in my
But I noticed that the Harry Potter trailer is out and I can't get that one on my linux box. I can download the
Neither Mein Kampf nor 1984 were written for young children.
That said, I do not feel the Chronicles of Narnia are effective propaganda because the enjoyment of the story does not (IMHO) do anything to encourage you to believe in the source material (Xtianity).
Never mind all that! They named it after me! After me ME MEEEE!!!
When I was a little kid I tried to work out how a light-sabre could be built. The problem I had difficulty with was making the beam stop at a fixed length.
So I figured what was needed was a thin conductor that could extend from the handle and have a small circle / dome on the end. This would be charged to a massive potential and the top of the handle (other than where the thin central conducting rod emerged) would be oppositely charged. This would then create a plasma between the two. The only remaining problems once I'd figured that out were finding a material for the central conductor that was able to withstand heat in the 1000C's, thin enough that the whole still seemed to be made out of energy, yet rigid enough that it didn't become a lightwhip. That and finding a powersource equivalent to a maglev train that would fit in a small handle. Um, and would work in a vacuum. And some other things... but I was twelve, you know? I figured I'd work on them later and went on to try and decide what colour I wanted.
The critical difference is who sets the deadline. A bunch of developers saying "we want to have it done by dd/mm/yy" may be good motivation. A manager or salesman coming in and saying "it will be done by now()" is not - most of us have probably had to deal with people like that at some point. It's not good.
The deadlines we set ourselves are hopefully sensible ones.
If only there was something bigger than man.
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Alright, it's not negligible. If they've really settled with 10,000 people then that's money for them and so long as people don't take it to court then it may remain self-financing.
But though $30 million may sound a whole lotta mullah to you, frighteningly it isn't to the RIAA. Rod Stewart made more than that in one year alone from his back catalog. That's Rod Stewart, by the way.
Yep, you're right to point out that I understated the profits from litigation - I hadn't played with the numbers when I posted - but the main drive behind this is the desperate need to preserve the labels' role in distributing music. If the law-suits were costing them money the only negative effect would be the bad PR from looking like idiots, the financial cost they can bear.
10,000 settlements out of 10's of millions of downloaders? It's like the lottery in reverse. They're doomed. It's Steam Eng... I mean P2P time.
Of course the word in the Hebrew there is Youth... which refers to anyone under the age of 30... So the image should be that of a rowdy street gang. not a bunch of 5 year olds.
So how many "Christians"(1) read the bible in the original Latin->Greek->[old testament]Hebrew?
The result seems to be distortion in the meaning of the sacred text, then. Which looks like yet another "Gotcha".
(1) I use quotes here to convey the discrepancy between those who call themselves Christians and those that accurately follow Christ's teachings.
Hey, 50 years ago called, they want their re-worded 'bacon slicer' joke back.
Remember - jokes timed for 25 year cycles are also timed for 50 year cycles.
And he looks like this.
Just because they're Shiites doesn't mean they're puppets for Iran. The Iraqi Shiites belong to the quietist Najaf school of shiism, which is opposed to the Qum school of Khomeinism. The Najaf school is also the more prestigious and authoritative, and was the center of Shiite religious authority before Saddam. In other words, the Iraqi mullahs outrank the Iranians in religious authority, they belong to the separation-of-mosque-and-state school, and are not the puppets of Tehran. As a matter of fact, polls of Iraqis repeatedly indicate that they reject theocracy. And when Iraq went to war with Iran in the 80s, shiites compromised the majority of the armed forces. They are not stooges for "their brothers" across the Shat.
I simplified in my post and your information is very interesting but I certainly never said stooges. I'm not evisioning Iran as behind Iraqi insurgency. But there is a cultural bond and I believe that US policy has been strengthening this by presenting a common foe. Under US aggression, I think Iraq will veer (is veering?) more towards fundamentalism and away from secularism. The sooner the US grip is loosened and Iraq is free to choose a middle path that isn't a submission to foreign occupation, the better for all of us. Otherwise those polls that advocate moderate religious control will start to slide.
I'm not disagreeing with you, please note. Just explaining my take on things.
If it takes 1 million dead iraqies in order to make it safe for my kids, then thats fine.
How will murdering a million Iraqis make things safe for your children? Al Quaeda exists because of previous US military and economic aggression. And your cure for this is more agression? If you want your children to be safe perhaps you should stop the US from creating enemies out of an entire people and deal with them as equals. This might send the price of oil up for your children, but by the time they're middle-aged it'll be running out anyway and think of all the billions they'll have saved on "defence." to offset this with better education and new technologies.
If it takes obliterating the entire middle east, fine, lets do it.
And when there were no more Middle East and you'd nuked all the other countries too that weren't comfortable sharing a planet with a genocidal state and there was only Americans left, then you could watch the same attitude you profess turn on yourselves as removed of outside cultures your own fragmented.
What none of the US people seem to be considering is that maybe with their aggression, they are creating an enemy that ultimately, might beat them.
My point exactly. The text book slashdot fanboy (pardon the term) is far more likely to spend £150 on an upgrade than £225 on a new base machine.
Actually, just re-read your post and that was my original point. Have we been agreeing with each other all along?
Well, I've just followed your link and compared Dell prices in the UK and the USA. It's shocking how cheap you have everything over there. A Dell desktop that goes for $499 over there is sold here for £409. Check it yourself, it's hard to believe.
So, argument to me I think, and irritatingly cheap computers to you.
The question is... how did you spend on your system? More or less than a £180.00-£200.00 Dell?
Hah! Well, certainly not a Dell. For a start, as Linux user I want to avoid the Microsoft tax and last time I checked the only home user systems they were selling had this already installed. Also, I like AMD. Not sure where you got the £200 figure for a new Dell from, however.
As you're curious, I managed up until the end of last year with an old 400MHz desktop 2nd hand. I've spent most of my career so far as a C++ programmer (telecoms and device drivers) - I offer that up as a contrast to my lack of need for the latest and greatest hardware. Late last December however, I caved in and bought a 2.0GHz Semperon with accompanying motherboard and RAM. Can't remember the exact figure but it was something like £150 all together. The casing, monitor etc are all what was lying around. Anyway, it all comes out much cheaper than PC World and running Debian it is more than adequate for my needs. However, I am not a gamer so factor that in if you like. I'm sure there are plenty of self-builders out there who do spend a fortune on their PCs, but hopefully they're the people who have a need for it. The rest of the word-processing and web-surfing people out there are being robbed blind. (Except for bragging rights).
You may well be right, I was not there. But the [G]GP is wrong to base his defense on what the Italians should have expected from the circumstances in the US account, when their argument is not that the US soldiers behaved incorrectly under those circumstances but that the account of the circumstances is account false. It was bad logic.
The only other points to mention are that Berlusconi is swearing left right and centre that the Italians fully informed the US that they were coming, when, where and how and Berlusconi, I am certain, does not want to pick a fight with Bush if he can help it. Secondly, according the account I read, the check-point was a temporary one. As you're out there, you can clear up whether this is visually distinct from a permanent check point, whether there are signs, or if it's just a tank by the road or what. I'd be interested to know.
The Americans (I am an American) may or may not have had a motive. It is irrelevant to the discussion since the soldier who fired had no idea at all who might be in the car. Nobody was in communication with the soldier on duty.
I think the general drift at the moment is that motive would be relevant as the modus operandi could have been this lack of communication.
Again, I wasn't there and am not currently advocating one view or another. I'm just picking up logical gaps in the arguments. People can draw their own conclusions.
The U.S. wanted to be quite the fuck out of Iraq by now, which a happy little democratic puppet government and some shiny new military bases where U.S. troops would be stationed forever. The U.S. isn't going to depose another Iraqi government; it's going to prevent what it sees as intentional disruption of its puppet government by radicals from neighboring countries.
Yep - you're absolutely right. The US administration seems to have genuinely expected Iraq to roll over in submission. Even their own military was warning them but some people hear what they want to hear. And that includes thinking any disruption must be due to outside radicals because they must present the case that Iraqis want the US there, otherwise the lie of humanitarian causes is a little too naked.
There was a case for humanitarian intervention in Iraq, but the people of the US and the UK were denied the opportunity to weigh up the arguments for themselves (i.e. they've been lied to); and further, to follow through on such a humanitarian cause would have required a higher degree of virtue than the current war-leaders possess (e.g. allowing Iraqis to self-organise, manage their own oil supplies, etc).
Oh, and for those not clued in, trying to "run" a checkpoint at 60MPH when it is manned by guys with guns gets you shot at, often a lot.
Well you've immediately assumed the US party line is the truth. The Italians are claiming a slow approach (30mph), that all necessary contacts with the US for safe passage were made, the driver stopped immediately when a light flashed 10m away but at the same time shots were fired into car for 10-15 seconds. Just wanted to clear that up for anyone who didn't RTFA, but did read your post.
A quick overview here.
The Italians also consider the US to have a motive.
Iraq may have voted but they had to fight for it. The original intention of the US wasn't to allow voting for a good while longer (poss. 2006). They were forced into it by insurgency in Iraq and the need for good PR from pressure at home.
When Saddam was deposed, the Iraqis quickly self-organized and elected community leaders, took care of routine work (hospitals, refuse collection, etc) and this was done largely democratically. However, this (a) didn't fit with the US plan of importing management trained civil structure and (b) was an immediate threat to their authority. Many people were duly arrested and declared "terrorists."
The US doesn't want to share power and is pulling every string it can under the mask of democracy. I'm not well-informed enough to say where the balance of power is between democratic and US forces in Iraq but this definitely isn't quite the situation that the US wants. Notice all the sabre rattling that's been done at Iran recently. That's because a large number of the Iraqis would like to get cosy with their brother's next door and that is the last thing that the US wants.
You can be sure that if the Iraq 'democracy' gets too far away from US plans then there will be further large scale military action. The power factions in Iraq are well aware of that and are planning accordingly.
Let's face it, a self builder is going to spend more money on their PC than your average Dell buyer.
I don't know about that - the more ignorant you are, the more you succumb to marketing. This morning I put together a 300MHz 64MB desktop system for someone who needed e-mail, web and minimal word-processing. Total cost: £30. And I could have got it down further but at some point, my time becomes more valuable than my money.
On topic - I hope this show was better than Buffy -couldn't stand it (or her).
Find a news story that talks about him in the present tense please.
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Considering the millions of dollars that Celera invested in gene sequencing, it should at least have the opportunity to make back that money.
If he were creating something new then perhaps, but it was just a land grab. The DNA was there and they tried to patent as much of it as possible. It reminds me of the Eddie Izzard skit when the Europeans claim America and the Indians say, "but it's here, you know, we're using it, how can it be yours?" And the Europeans say, "but ah, have you got a flag?"
Replace flag with patent. You might as well say that the Spaniards spent a lot of money colonizing Peru so they deserved all the gold. This is DNA! It belongs to no individual or corporation. I want access to my source code for whatever purposes I choose.
I saw a bumper sticker back in the days of tape cassettes that read: "Home Copying is Killing Music."
And then underneath it said, "So are Venom."
It's never been about stopping the P2P flood. It's always been about making money.
Rubbish. The money an organisation the size of the RIAA is doesn't care about the dribs and drabs that they can get out of individuals. It's about (a) stopping the sharing of music that the record labels think is costing them so much and (b) the RIAA capitalising on the record label's belief so that they can justify their existence further and make more money out of the record labels.
Artists no longer need the major labels for distribution and that's what scares them. The lawsuits are just trying to fit the genie back in the bottle.