A) Rent a camera, don't buy. You can rent a much better camera than you can ever afford and it'll show.
For those of us with no budget (relative) and because the submitter didn't give a budget, you can also borrow. Check out your local community access center. I know that mine actually will let you borrow an XL1 just because you live within the city limits, for free (with training of course) although this usually has stipulations like "You can't be using the equipment for personal or for-profit uses" but in reality means, "if you say you are doing it to put on public access and then let us air it first on public access, then what you do with the produced package after that is all up to you." And they will air it, trust me, they need stuff to put on there bad. Me and some friends tried to start a public access live call-in talk show about nerd stuff. We didn't get that far but we might try again if anyone would be interested in helping out in the Cincinnati area wink wink nudge nudge. (Disclaimer: We're pretty lazy.)
Public Access Television is awesome and very much in the ideal of open source. Nerds should check it out and use it's resources. After all, you're already paying for it through your taxes (I think that's how it works...) I have been doing volunteer work among other things with public access video for almost 10 years now and it is time not better spent.
Or maybe an XL1 or XL1S, now that they aren't top of the line, you will see a price drop because everyone wants the XL2. Besides, they look so much cooler...
The only thing that needs to be improved with bit torrent is a merger of all the small tracker sites into one big site where you can hook on to any torrent out there. Suprnova.org is getting there but still, more momentum needs to be developed.
That being said, the best thing about the bit torrent technology is that it's almost impossible for the RIAA to control it. The cat is out of the bag and theres no way it will be pushed back in.
That being said, wouldn't centralization (sp?) or merger of trackers create the one problem that other P2Ps have had? One target to attack? I think it's fine that BT is harder to find and nail down. That will help keep it as content-rich and un-**AA-able as possible.
You think that's bad, try clicking here. It seems to be some sort of "tampon recharging" device... with wing!
Everything feels like it was designed by a woman from this company. Even the name of the company and the logo. There's no appreciation for the hard edged right-angle logos.
I don't know if this is just a setting that I am missing, but I am pretty sure that using Remote Desktop (regarding Win XP Pro) prevents anyone at the actual desktop from using the computer, for the sole purpose of preventing two people using the same computer/software at the same time.
Whenever I try it from a laptop, it turns my desktop's monitor blank and then when I logoff RDP on the laptop, my desktop's monitor will come back up with a password prompt.
Michael Flatley I'm not, but I - even in my inherent inability to grasp the simplest dance steps - could hardly call that dancing.
PS - For those wondering about the video post slashdotting, imagine an akward looking slot machine with pointlessly complex legs wobbling aimlessly across a stage in a rythm and fashion in no way whatsoever resembling the happy-love-fun-time-gogogo japanese techno music playing in the background.
Cinergy is great, I'm in cincy and our house is 2,300 dollars in the hole as far as bills that we owe them and they haven't cut us off for the past 4 months. People say it's because of laws preventing loss of heating and electric during the winter, but I think it's just because they are nice.
BTW, anyone else noticed it has been getting warm here in Cincy? I think spring is on it's way and I ca-**NO CARRIER**
Central park, maybe not; no one ever forces you to look at their site. it's hard to put an analogy on the web and peoples personal sites because posting a personal site simultaneously (sp?) puts it at the same level as the largest most visited site on the net and the smallest least known pointless site. It's one giant level playing field where one site is never more or less accesible than another (all of this disregarding some variables like the slashdot effect or search engines or simplicity of domain name)
The point is, anyone can put stuff up and I think should be encouraged. It's not like this weighs the internet down and slows it down for the rest of us, at least as far as i know, but it instead adds another node of possible information. I don't know how many times I have received some sort of small snippet of useful information from someone's homepage or description or information of a personal hobby.
I also wish sometimes that people would post more of their stuff into the sort of "public domain" that the internet creates. If I had time and bandwidth to spare, I would post sites that explain the simple steps of how to get started into projects or hobbies or school assignments that I have done or quick explanations that bridge those gaps left by hardcore enthusiasts who have whole webrings devoted to the advanced topics of some hobby, but no one gives a good introduction helpers to the basic beginner, amerateur (I mangled that spelling.) things to do or know. Like what was your first few weeks of learning directly after you discovered this thing's existance? **cough**linux**cough** What do all those damned abbreviations stand for or where did that weird nonsensical name come from? How does this compare to other options? We all have to relearn this and then after the frustration and steep learning curve, we never go back and try and make that easier for others, lessen the learning curve.
Yes there's a lot of crap websites out there, but what do you care? A) no one is forcing you to look at it and B) it doesn't slow down or bog the internet or take up precious space (although IP addresses could be argued) because it creates its own space to exist in as soon as it goes up. The internet is one of the most free open things in existance.
Crap is an inevitability in free/openness and is a good sign that it still is a free and open system. Embrace it.
From said article:
"They (movie studios) learned that, by lowering prices (of VHS tapes), they made more money and eliminated much of the piracy problem. In other words, reasonable pricing makes the system work for everyone."
Oh my god, cover the kids' eyes, Captain Obvious is just raping this quote, he's raping it hard. And uh oh, Here comes Ironic Boy and Sarcasmo Man, they look like they want a piece of the action too. Dude, this ain't gonna be pretty...
(Parentheses, bold type and tasteless rape reference added by me.)
It will become a war of hacking. Can the enemy get good enough hackers and hacking devices to take control of these automated giants and turn them against us? Can the american army get good enough computer whizzes to hack back, and ingenious(sp?) mechanisms built into the strykers to prevent this? I think it may lead to a war or the intelligences rather than brute force. Or yes, EMPs, and of course, there is the whole idea of skynet.
Or we could all just drop this whole war thing, get along, and all work towards a goal of getting our space exploration act together. Just think of what could be accomplished if, worldwide, all this effort and money being put towards war could be put towards science and exploration?
I mean, cmon, what's the point anymore? This is such a large planet with such a vast collection of knowledge and information and so many people in so many different locales working on so many different projects that it is so very easily plausible that two or more people are going to invent the same idea (maybe slightly different) at the same time that patenting stuff is just pointless. It stems innovation so quickly at such a low level in it's development that there could have been a thousand other people individually working on it that could have been a thousand times better. But now they have to give up and move on. Patenting stuff has become survival of the first instead of survival of the fittest. This is just riduculous(sp?).
I think patents should be replaced with a more "innocent until proven guilty" idea where, if two similar inventions appear at similar times where one starts to eat into the original's profits, then it is investigated, and then patents are enforced if it is proven that one copied off the other. Otherwise, deal with the frickin competition. Competition breeds healthy results, it keeps the competitors on their toes.
Public Domain and Open Source work so well, it's just scary. Patent abuse is so uncontrolled and unscaleable, it's just as scary. Look at SCO, look at Microsoft. We waste so much time bickering amongst ourselves and arguing on who did what first that we are spending one fifth the time doing and four fifths making sure no one else does. This is why the news is four fifths "election" and not even one fifth "hey we're doin shit on a planet 36 frickin million miles away"
And all we're doin there is playin around in the dirt with a remote control car. Just think where we could be now if we'd made an "open" space program. Maybe that's why we don't have floating cars and colonies on mars yet.
Although I don't agree with you that posting a slightly critical comment on slashdot qualifies me as insane, I do agree that the concepts and problems that our government has to deal with are mush more complicated and intricate and sometimes delicate than any of us could comprehend. This happens though, I beleive, because of the nature of our democratic polotics. There is a large status quo that develops around large governing bodies that makes it, by nature, lethargic and slow to respond.
This status quo also prevents radical/different views form even being considered in some cases and Although this is bad (mutations, good or bad, help natural selection and evolution, especially the good ones) The alternative is a monolithic ruling and control of the government, where the governing body is much smaller and quicker to respond, albeit less in tune with the public it is governing.
I give poloticians much credit, they deserve a large amount of respect for the job that they carry out, I just sometimes wish they were more efficient with it. In a system where lots of decisions have to be made by a large group of people, the main thing that the group should strive for is efficiency and logic in it's process.
To play devil's advocate here, do you assume that every action by the government has the sole purpose of stealing privacy? I would be inclined to agree with you maybe in some cases, but spam affects everyone, so all these "power hungry" poloticians are probably having the same problems with spam that we are, so maybe they are just more motivated to get rid of annoying spam because it affects them directly and personally?
Now if only poloticians were open minded, creative, pure and logical enough to see that things like copyright law, monopoly control, government spending, medicare and social security are flawed. Someone just needs to step up and do the right thing. But that's not the case because none of that directly and personally affects most poloticians.
But if you can find, bring to my door, and show me, one open minded, creative, pure and logical polotician, I'll show you two idiots standing at my door.
Slashdot Mirror
The website's gone rampant!
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Public Access Television is awesome and very much in the ideal of open source. Nerds should check it out and use it's resources. After all, you're already paying for it through your taxes (I think that's how it works...) I have been doing volunteer work among other things with public access video for almost 10 years now and it is time not better spent.
Or maybe an XL1 or XL1S, now that they aren't top of the line, you will see a price drop because everyone wants the XL2. Besides, they look so much cooler...
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They know our weakness!
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-0
You think that's bad, try clicking here. It seems to be some sort of "tampon recharging" device... with wing!
Everything feels like it was designed by a woman from this company. Even the name of the company and the logo. There's no appreciation for the hard edged right-angle logos.
-5 Sexist? I dunno...
I don't know if this is just a setting that I am missing, but I am pretty sure that using Remote Desktop (regarding Win XP Pro) prevents anyone at the actual desktop from using the computer, for the sole purpose of preventing two people using the same computer/software at the same time.
Whenever I try it from a laptop, it turns my desktop's monitor blank and then when I logoff RDP on the laptop, my desktop's monitor will come back up with a password prompt.
Oh yeah, well we have one in Cincinnati. Beat that, damn mormons...
and I quote: "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."
Ha, if any of my neighbors did this, I would just be happy that my free internet was finally increasing in bandwidth and signal power.
Michael Flatley I'm not, but I - even in my inherent inability to grasp the simplest dance steps - could hardly call that dancing.
PS - For those wondering about the video post slashdotting, imagine an akward looking slot machine with pointlessly complex legs wobbling aimlessly across a stage in a rythm and fashion in no way whatsoever resembling the happy-love-fun-time-gogogo japanese techno music playing in the background.
Then call that "dancing".
Cinergy is great, I'm in cincy and our house is 2,300 dollars in the hole as far as bills that we owe them and they haven't cut us off for the past 4 months. People say it's because of laws preventing loss of heating and electric during the winter, but I think it's just because they are nice.
BTW, anyone else noticed it has been getting warm here in Cincy? I think spring is on it's way and I ca-**NO CARRIER**
Central park, maybe not; no one ever forces you to look at their site. it's hard to put an analogy on the web and peoples personal sites because posting a personal site simultaneously (sp?) puts it at the same level as the largest most visited site on the net and the smallest least known pointless site. It's one giant level playing field where one site is never more or less accesible than another (all of this disregarding some variables like the slashdot effect or search engines or simplicity of domain name)
The point is, anyone can put stuff up and I think should be encouraged. It's not like this weighs the internet down and slows it down for the rest of us, at least as far as i know, but it instead adds another node of possible information. I don't know how many times I have received some sort of small snippet of useful information from someone's homepage or description or information of a personal hobby.
I also wish sometimes that people would post more of their stuff into the sort of "public domain" that the internet creates. If I had time and bandwidth to spare, I would post sites that explain the simple steps of how to get started into projects or hobbies or school assignments that I have done or quick explanations that bridge those gaps left by hardcore enthusiasts who have whole webrings devoted to the advanced topics of some hobby, but no one gives a good introduction helpers to the basic beginner, amerateur (I mangled that spelling.) things to do or know. Like what was your first few weeks of learning directly after you discovered this thing's existance? **cough**linux**cough** What do all those damned abbreviations stand for or where did that weird nonsensical name come from? How does this compare to other options? We all have to relearn this and then after the frustration and steep learning curve, we never go back and try and make that easier for others, lessen the learning curve.
Yes there's a lot of crap websites out there, but what do you care? A) no one is forcing you to look at it and B) it doesn't slow down or bog the internet or take up precious space (although IP addresses could be argued) because it creates its own space to exist in as soon as it goes up. The internet is one of the most free open things in existance.
Crap is an inevitability in free/openness and is a good sign that it still is a free and open system. Embrace it.
there's about 800,000 users whose sole purpose seems to be to take that content down, one site at a time...
And sometimes we even turn on eachother.
From said article:
"They (movie studios) learned that, by lowering prices (of VHS tapes), they made more money and eliminated much of the piracy problem. In other words, reasonable pricing makes the system work for everyone."
Oh my god, cover the kids' eyes, Captain Obvious is just raping this quote, he's raping it hard. And uh oh, Here comes Ironic Boy and Sarcasmo Man, they look like they want a piece of the action too. Dude, this ain't gonna be pretty...
(Parentheses, bold type and tasteless rape reference added by me.)
that's hosting that website, or this could be the first slashdotting to start a small fire.
Are you happy now? Y'all have slashdotted a battery.
Still, he didn't ask what you thought he should do with the money, he asked how to build a large wireless network.
He didn't ask what you thought he should do with the money, he asked how to build a large wireless network.
It will become a war of hacking. Can the enemy get good enough hackers and hacking devices to take control of these automated giants and turn them against us? Can the american army get good enough computer whizzes to hack back, and ingenious(sp?) mechanisms built into the strykers to prevent this? I think it may lead to a war or the intelligences rather than brute force. Or yes, EMPs, and of course, there is the whole idea of skynet.
Or we could all just drop this whole war thing, get along, and all work towards a goal of getting our space exploration act together. Just think of what could be accomplished if, worldwide, all this effort and money being put towards war could be put towards science and exploration?
-P
Halo
I mean, cmon, what's the point anymore? This is such a large planet with such a vast collection of knowledge and information and so many people in so many different locales working on so many different projects that it is so very easily plausible that two or more people are going to invent the same idea (maybe slightly different) at the same time that patenting stuff is just pointless. It stems innovation so quickly at such a low level in it's development that there could have been a thousand other people individually working on it that could have been a thousand times better. But now they have to give up and move on. Patenting stuff has become survival of the first instead of survival of the fittest. This is just riduculous(sp?).
I think patents should be replaced with a more "innocent until proven guilty" idea where, if two similar inventions appear at similar times where one starts to eat into the original's profits, then it is investigated, and then patents are enforced if it is proven that one copied off the other. Otherwise, deal with the frickin competition. Competition breeds healthy results, it keeps the competitors on their toes.
Public Domain and Open Source work so well, it's just scary. Patent abuse is so uncontrolled and unscaleable, it's just as scary. Look at SCO, look at Microsoft. We waste so much time bickering amongst ourselves and arguing on who did what first that we are spending one fifth the time doing and four fifths making sure no one else does. This is why the news is four fifths "election" and not even one fifth "hey we're doin shit on a planet 36 frickin million miles away"
And all we're doin there is playin around in the dirt with a remote control car. Just think where we could be now if we'd made an "open" space program. Maybe that's why we don't have floating cars and colonies on mars yet.
-P
Although I don't agree with you that posting a slightly critical comment on slashdot qualifies me as insane, I do agree that the concepts and problems that our government has to deal with are mush more complicated and intricate and sometimes delicate than any of us could comprehend. This happens though, I beleive, because of the nature of our democratic polotics. There is a large status quo that develops around large governing bodies that makes it, by nature, lethargic and slow to respond.
This status quo also prevents radical/different views form even being considered in some cases and Although this is bad (mutations, good or bad, help natural selection and evolution, especially the good ones) The alternative is a monolithic ruling and control of the government, where the governing body is much smaller and quicker to respond, albeit less in tune with the public it is governing.
I give poloticians much credit, they deserve a large amount of respect for the job that they carry out, I just sometimes wish they were more efficient with it. In a system where lots of decisions have to be made by a large group of people, the main thing that the group should strive for is efficiency and logic in it's process.
-P
To play devil's advocate here, do you assume that every action by the government has the sole purpose of stealing privacy? I would be inclined to agree with you maybe in some cases, but spam affects everyone, so all these "power hungry" poloticians are probably having the same problems with spam that we are, so maybe they are just more motivated to get rid of annoying spam because it affects them directly and personally?
Now if only poloticians were open minded, creative, pure and logical enough to see that things like copyright law, monopoly control, government spending, medicare and social security are flawed. Someone just needs to step up and do the right thing. But that's not the case because none of that directly and personally affects most poloticians.
But if you can find, bring to my door, and show me, one open minded, creative, pure and logical polotician, I'll show you two idiots standing at my door.
-P
Bleak Future for Videogame Publishers
Y'know, I didn't see yesterday's story, so I for one am glad for dupes, sometimes it helps people see stories that they miss.
-P