I think this might be pretty easy. I don't know a lot about OS/X, so I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DistCC enabled by default?
If it is, I believe the version that ships with OS/X can be used to hijack (in userspace, not root)the system and utilize it with the priveleges of the distcc user.
While not a total compromise, you can still do a lot in regular userspace. I wonder if that counts, or does is it that the virus has to root the box, too? Simple replication and infection of other boxes can occur from a regular user, so I'd think that would qualify.
Besides Asimov and Bradbury, I would have thought for sure that he'd be there. The Dune series (and not just the first book!) is a serious contender for greatest work of SF/Fantasy ever written.
I'm not arguing with you that he shouldn't be there. I believe he has a place, for sure...
But it could be that your quote itself explains why he's not there. It's the "Science Fiction" hall of fame, not the Fantasy hall of fame.
Science Fiction != to Fantasy, and there are a lot of fantasy elements in Dune. I'd still probably slip it into the Science Fiction genre, but I could see the argument against it being included as such. But then again, there are a lot of books that are borderline as well.
So once again, I'm not disagreeing with you, but giving you a possible explanation for the lack of his inclusion.
Dunno what book stores you shop at (or library you visit) but all the large ones I deal with have Science Fiction and Fantasy in their own areas. Sometimes right next to each other, other times not.
I dunno what book stores you shop at, but I've never seen one that separates SciFi from Fantasy, much to my chagrin.
Please... enlighten 99.8% of the US population as to what bookstore is forward thinking enough to separate SciFi from Fantasy, because 99.8% of the bookstores in the US group them together.
Hey, I'm not disagreeing with you at ALL that there are tons of stupid name for purely American movies. I agree with you 100%.
That doesn't negate the fact that if Japan wants the movies to be accepted in America, they are going to have to come up with better names, even surpassing the names Americans come up with for our own crap.
It's going to have a tough time with a name like "Steamboy."
Akira is cryptic enough that American audiences wouldn't have a problem with it. But "Steamboy" is going to be a major problem with US audiences. The title, frankly, sounds pretty fruity. Couple that with the fact that most people will initially dismiss it as a "cartoon," and you've got a recipe for failure.
The whole concept of naming things in Asian culture versus American culture is really at odds, and things that sound ok or even good in Asian languages sound absolutely hideous, sexual/pornographic (LG/Lucky Gold anyone?), or just plain silly.
Porco Rosso sounds like a kids show.
Princess Mononoke is average, nothing particularly detracting about it, but nothing to make you think either.
My neighbor Totoro / Totoro next door sound like a black and white haughty French film that's only been seen by 7 people in the world outside of Cannes.
Naussica of the Valley of the Winds - really long title that doesn't flow exactly right (too many "of"'s in there).
Ghost in the Shell - this one had potential if marketed right, but it sounds like a horror movie, and just plain wasn't promoted properly.
Perfect Blue - Sounds like the name of a good pr0n movie.
Wings of Honneamise - This sounds like flying Hollendaise sauce. Really sounds food related. The life story of Julia Childs or something, perhaps!
I know I'm missing some, those are the ones I've seen/can think of off the top of my head, and in just about every case, the name just doesn't seem to be something the average American is going to want to see. Steamboy is not going to be an exception. No matter how good the movie is, the name is going to be a HUGE turn off to people.
The studios need to have a message board where people can submit English names for these shows that are appealing to the target audience... and that audience votes on the best name. This would save a lot of marketing dollars, and also, I think, provide the title with the best possible name for the money as it were.
I don't have any "archived" material on those tapes. I used them to record over regularly... so I don't know if they'd hold up sitting on a shelf for 7 years.
The tapes do wear out of after a time, like any tape (DVHS or SVHS) so who knows. It's not like tapes are (or should be) archival quality anyway. Anything that has one material sliding over another is going to wear out and be useless in the long run anyway.
You get to download great music in lossless formats at low prices... BUT... you also have to give your credit information to someone in Russia.
No you don't. Just transfer money via PayPal... so now the only thing those "Evil Russian Mafia people" have is your Paypal address, and I already get enough PayPal Phishing scams that one more isn't going to make a difference.
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I've been doing this for 7 years now on my JVC DVHS recorder. Never had a problem, and the tapes are readily available and cheaper.
I wonder how this is news, though, since this technique has been around since DVHS first came out.
That being the case, wouldn't that also imply that time is decoupled from space? IE - there is no space-time?
It would seem that you can't measure time without measuring space. Of course, I'm not a physicist and I don't pretend to know what I'm talking about. So I'm sure I'm totally off base and misinterpreting the entire thing, I don't need to be told that in a vicious fasion, thank you. Please drive through.
I would so pay a monthly subscription to download my TV shows off the respective channels.
Like $5 a month or something per channel/show would be fine for me and would allow me to finally get rid of my "traditional" TV subscription for satellite, AND it would get me exactly what I want.
Can someone explain what the application/use these primes are for? Not a flame, I'm honestly curious as to what something like this could be used for, as are others, I'm sure.
But you'll be dead either way, so how is that a bad thing? Take a chance at living, or die for sure?
I'm gonna have to go with the "Take a chance," since death is apparently a pretty final solution to the whole mess. You can't change your mind later, whereas you can change your mind if you take the HIV solution.
If you're gotten rid of 80% of the virus, you might not want to market it as "derived from HIV". Really.
But does it really matter to the people who would benefit from this?
Doctor: You're going to die from cancer. However, we have this cure that uses the HIV virus. It probably won't kill you.
Patient: Hmm, so you're telling me I'm going to die painfully from cancer, or I can take my chances with HIV with pretty damned good results. Let me think... Let me think... Nope, I think I'll take the cancer. Thanks though.
If you're going to die anyway, you're going to grasp at just about any straw you can, even HIV.
Trying to hide the fact that it's HIV derived would just be ASKING for lawsuits out the wazoo.
While the spyware makers may initially try to target Firefox... the fact is, Firefox is written to prevent just these sort of things. Is it possible there will be bugs that allow unauthorized code to run? Yeah... but they will be patched, and patche quickly.
Overall, no matter how you slice it, Firefox is more secure and is designed from the ground up to prevent the "fertile feeding ground" that IE offers Spyware writers.
So no, you aren't going to see the same rampant irresponsibility that you see with IE, and the threat is a tempest in a teapot.
Of course, nothing is going to protect your computer from your own stupidity when opening executables, etc... that's all on the user whether or not they authorize code to run or not.
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Never let them take the funds from your bank account. I always Paypal from my American Express. If there's a problem... Call Amex, Amex drops the hammer on Paypal and it's done.
Amex never questions me, and has always been helpful. There's a lot of things wrong with Amex, but customer protection from BS like this isn't one of them, and that's why I put up with a lot of thier inane crap.
I especially love the little blurb Paypal puts up everytime I use my American Express as my funding source, something along the lines of: "Paypal offers buyer protection up to $1000. There's no need to use a credit card, blah blah blah. Are you sure you want to switch your funding source to American Express?"
Haha, yeah, I've been on the receiving end of your "buyer protection." Paypal does exactly squat. Ship someone an empty box and you've fulfilled your obligation as far as Paypal is concerned. Buy protection my ass... thanks, I'll keep using American Express that offers REAL buyer protection.
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.
The only people who actually think that "art by comittee is soulless" are the pseudo-intellectuals who don't/can't really apprecaite art, so they critize it to beef up their ego/self-esteem.
Going by the logic here, a museum is also a "soulless" place, because it is, by definition, art by comittee. A comittee decides what's in the museum and the museum contains a hodge podge of different artists. Thus all art, except stand alone art in the middle of a field, with no one around to view is is "soulless."
Now how silly is that. Art is created by the artist for their own edification. Art is viewed/consumed by the viewer for their own enjoyment. That's what art is, there's nothing soulless or soulful about it... you get out of art what you put into it, whether you are the viewer or the creator.
Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.
Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?
I just found this game a few days ago, and have been playing it quite a bit. It's great fun, and doesn't require a lot of time consuming linear movement through the "storyline" (such as it is).
It's definitely worth the money. However, the sound tracks get old after the first 10 hours of play or so... they need a lot more music. The music is good, don't get me wrong, but hearing only the first 1/3 of each song before it's changed to something else gets tiring, and also wears out the playlist that much faster, because you only hear part of the song, then the next song, then the next, and eventually it all starts to repeat.
You start to savor the moments when one of the songs you like comes on during a race, so you can actually hear the whole thing. If you could choose which songs were playing during the race, or better yet, use your own music, that would be killer.
It doesn't matter whether people are forced to go there, it's a pyramid scheme and, as such, is unethical.
According to whose ethics? Yours? I don't give two shits for your ethics, you mean nothing to me. So why, pray tell, is it unethical? If you don't want to participate, then don't! It's that simple.
I'm sick of idiots like you who think they can impose thier moral and ethical behavior on others. It's not YOUR job to police everyone else. Leave others in peace for Christs sake. Worry about your own house, not others. I'm sure yours isn't in all that great of shape to begin with.
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I think this might be pretty easy. I don't know a lot about OS/X, so I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DistCC enabled by default?
If it is, I believe the version that ships with OS/X can be used to hijack (in userspace, not root)the system and utilize it with the priveleges of the distcc user.
While not a total compromise, you can still do a lot in regular userspace. I wonder if that counts, or does is it that the virus has to root the box, too? Simple replication and infection of other boxes can occur from a regular user, so I'd think that would qualify.
Besides Asimov and Bradbury, I would have thought for sure that he'd be there. The Dune series (and not just the first book!) is a serious contender for greatest work of SF/Fantasy ever written.
I'm not arguing with you that he shouldn't be there. I believe he has a place, for sure...
But it could be that your quote itself explains why he's not there. It's the "Science Fiction" hall of fame, not the Fantasy hall of fame.
Science Fiction != to Fantasy, and there are a lot of fantasy elements in Dune. I'd still probably slip it into the Science Fiction genre, but I could see the argument against it being included as such. But then again, there are a lot of books that are borderline as well.
So once again, I'm not disagreeing with you, but giving you a possible explanation for the lack of his inclusion.
If I'm being chased by a T-Rex... (or any other beastie intent on eating me) I don't have to be a fast runner to get away.
I just have be faster than YOU.
Dunno what book stores you shop at (or library you visit) but all the large ones I deal with have Science Fiction and Fantasy in their own areas. Sometimes right next to each other, other times not.
I dunno what book stores you shop at, but I've never seen one that separates SciFi from Fantasy, much to my chagrin.
Please... enlighten 99.8% of the US population as to what bookstore is forward thinking enough to separate SciFi from Fantasy, because 99.8% of the bookstores in the US group them together.
Hey, I'm not disagreeing with you at ALL that there are tons of stupid name for purely American movies. I agree with you 100%.
That doesn't negate the fact that if Japan wants the movies to be accepted in America, they are going to have to come up with better names, even surpassing the names Americans come up with for our own crap.
Akira is cryptic enough that American audiences wouldn't have a problem with it. But "Steamboy" is going to be a major problem with US audiences. The title, frankly, sounds pretty fruity. Couple that with the fact that most people will initially dismiss it as a "cartoon," and you've got a recipe for failure.
The whole concept of naming things in Asian culture versus American culture is really at odds, and things that sound ok or even good in Asian languages sound absolutely hideous, sexual/pornographic (LG/Lucky Gold anyone?), or just plain silly.
Porco Rosso sounds like a kids show.
Princess Mononoke is average, nothing particularly detracting about it, but nothing to make you think either.
My neighbor Totoro / Totoro next door sound like a black and white haughty French film that's only been seen by 7 people in the world outside of Cannes.
Naussica of the Valley of the Winds - really long title that doesn't flow exactly right (too many "of"'s in there).
Ghost in the Shell - this one had potential if marketed right, but it sounds like a horror movie, and just plain wasn't promoted properly.
Perfect Blue - Sounds like the name of a good pr0n movie.
Wings of Honneamise - This sounds like flying Hollendaise sauce. Really sounds food related. The life story of Julia Childs or something, perhaps!
I know I'm missing some, those are the ones I've seen/can think of off the top of my head, and in just about every case, the name just doesn't seem to be something the average American is going to want to see. Steamboy is not going to be an exception. No matter how good the movie is, the name is going to be a HUGE turn off to people.
The studios need to have a message board where people can submit English names for these shows that are appealing to the target audience... and that audience votes on the best name. This would save a lot of marketing dollars, and also, I think, provide the title with the best possible name for the money as it were.
Eh...
Just my 2c worth
I don't have any "archived" material on those tapes. I used them to record over regularly... so I don't know if they'd hold up sitting on a shelf for 7 years.
The tapes do wear out of after a time, like any tape (DVHS or SVHS) so who knows. It's not like tapes are (or should be) archival quality anyway. Anything that has one material sliding over another is going to wear out and be useless in the long run anyway.
DVR 4 l1f3, y0!
You get to download great music in lossless formats at low prices... BUT... you also have to give your credit information to someone in Russia.
No you don't. Just transfer money via PayPal... so now the only thing those "Evil Russian Mafia people" have is your Paypal address, and I already get enough PayPal Phishing scams that one more isn't going to make a difference.
I've been doing this for 7 years now on my JVC DVHS recorder. Never had a problem, and the tapes are readily available and cheaper.
I wonder how this is news, though, since this technique has been around since DVHS first came out.
So are they implying that time is a wave?
That being the case, wouldn't that also imply that time is decoupled from space? IE - there is no space-time?
It would seem that you can't measure time without measuring space. Of course, I'm not a physicist and I don't pretend to know what I'm talking about. So I'm sure I'm totally off base and misinterpreting the entire thing, I don't need to be told that in a vicious fasion, thank you. Please drive through.
$5 per show, not for unlimited content.
They just raised the rates a few days ago... and now they are already doing it again?!
Runaway inflation, I tell you.
I would so pay a monthly subscription to download my TV shows off the respective channels.
Like $5 a month or something per channel/show would be fine for me and would allow me to finally get rid of my "traditional" TV subscription for satellite, AND it would get me exactly what I want.
In a way, I kinda admire the cunts..
I always admire cunts.
Err... umm... I mean. Umm...
Gotta go!
Can someone explain what the application/use these primes are for? Not a flame, I'm honestly curious as to what something like this could be used for, as are others, I'm sure.
But you'll be dead either way, so how is that a bad thing? Take a chance at living, or die for sure?
I'm gonna have to go with the "Take a chance," since death is apparently a pretty final solution to the whole mess. You can't change your mind later, whereas you can change your mind if you take the HIV solution.
If you're gotten rid of 80% of the virus, you might not want to market it as "derived from HIV". Really.
But does it really matter to the people who would benefit from this?
Doctor: You're going to die from cancer. However, we have this cure that uses the HIV virus. It probably won't kill you.
Patient: Hmm, so you're telling me I'm going to die painfully from cancer, or I can take my chances with HIV with pretty damned good results. Let me think... Let me think... Nope, I think I'll take the cancer. Thanks though.
If you're going to die anyway, you're going to grasp at just about any straw you can, even HIV.
Trying to hide the fact that it's HIV derived would just be ASKING for lawsuits out the wazoo.
While the spyware makers may initially try to target Firefox... the fact is, Firefox is written to prevent just these sort of things. Is it possible there will be bugs that allow unauthorized code to run? Yeah... but they will be patched, and patche quickly.
Overall, no matter how you slice it, Firefox is more secure and is designed from the ground up to prevent the "fertile feeding ground" that IE offers Spyware writers.
So no, you aren't going to see the same rampant irresponsibility that you see with IE, and the threat is a tempest in a teapot.
Of course, nothing is going to protect your computer from your own stupidity when opening executables, etc... that's all on the user whether or not they authorize code to run or not.
Never let them take the funds from your bank account. I always Paypal from my American Express. If there's a problem... Call Amex, Amex drops the hammer on Paypal and it's done.
Amex never questions me, and has always been helpful. There's a lot of things wrong with Amex, but customer protection from BS like this isn't one of them, and that's why I put up with a lot of thier inane crap.
I especially love the little blurb Paypal puts up everytime I use my American Express as my funding source, something along the lines of: "Paypal offers buyer protection up to $1000. There's no need to use a credit card, blah blah blah. Are you sure you want to switch your funding source to American Express?"
Haha, yeah, I've been on the receiving end of your "buyer protection." Paypal does exactly squat. Ship someone an empty box and you've fulfilled your obligation as far as Paypal is concerned. Buy protection my ass... thanks, I'll keep using American Express that offers REAL buyer protection.
Isn't his son Corporal Punishment?
Yes, and his brother is Private Parts. He has a sister as well, Major Payne.
Here's a torrent mirror: http://208.29.16.74/1984macintro.mov.torrent
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night. The individual is the creator of art. Art by committee is soulless.
The only people who actually think that "art by comittee is soulless" are the pseudo-intellectuals who don't/can't really apprecaite art, so they critize it to beef up their ego/self-esteem.
Going by the logic here, a museum is also a "soulless" place, because it is, by definition, art by comittee. A comittee decides what's in the museum and the museum contains a hodge podge of different artists. Thus all art, except stand alone art in the middle of a field, with no one around to view is is "soulless."
Now how silly is that. Art is created by the artist for their own edification. Art is viewed/consumed by the viewer for their own enjoyment. That's what art is, there's nothing soulless or soulful about it... you get out of art what you put into it, whether you are the viewer or the creator.
Ahh... I love the thought of posting a site dedicated soley to serving images upon the Slashdot main page. In fact, I can't possibly think of any faster way to completely annihilate a server and it's connection to the internet.
Like linking to a predominately text site doesn't trash the site, someone thought it would be a good idea to link to a picture site? Like what, you expected people to be able to view any of the pictures before the server turned into a steaming pile of goo?
Well, I got to see one, nya nya nya!
I just found this game a few days ago, and have been playing it quite a bit. It's great fun, and doesn't require a lot of time consuming linear movement through the "storyline" (such as it is).
It's definitely worth the money. However, the sound tracks get old after the first 10 hours of play or so... they need a lot more music. The music is good, don't get me wrong, but hearing only the first 1/3 of each song before it's changed to something else gets tiring, and also wears out the playlist that much faster, because you only hear part of the song, then the next song, then the next, and eventually it all starts to repeat.
You start to savor the moments when one of the songs you like comes on during a race, so you can actually hear the whole thing. If you could choose which songs were playing during the race, or better yet, use your own music, that would be killer.
Definitely a good game though.
It doesn't matter whether people are forced to go there, it's a pyramid scheme and, as such, is unethical.
According to whose ethics? Yours? I don't give two shits for your ethics, you mean nothing to me. So why, pray tell, is it unethical? If you don't want to participate, then don't! It's that simple.
I'm sick of idiots like you who think they can impose thier moral and ethical behavior on others. It's not YOUR job to police everyone else. Leave others in peace for Christs sake. Worry about your own house, not others. I'm sure yours isn't in all that great of shape to begin with.