Re:I prefer Futurama to Simpsons
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You're definately not on your own there man.
Futurama is a big favourite here, as well as with quite a few of my friends and co-workers. Don't get me wrong, The Simpsons is a superb show, and despite alot of the bashing it recieves lately, it still remains so. But in my book it has nothing on Futurama. I guess it's the more 'geeky' humour that appeals to me, as well as the style of the characters and the environment for which the show is set.
Anyway, good news everybody all round. Let's hope this is the start of a decent rebirth for the show, rather than just a one-off.
My thoughts on the matter; as is often pointed out on Slashdot, you can't condemn something such as a network protocol because of the way it's used anymore than you can condemn a car manufacturer for its customers participating in a drunken hit-and-run. Everything can be used _and_ abused. Blaming a technology for how a person misuses it is illogical and abusrd to me.
If BitTorrent didn't exist, something else would take it's place (as history has shown us repeatadely) as the predominant means to the end, and people would use (or abuse;)) that to achieve the exact same results. The logical conclusion of a misguided argument to outlaw a protocol because people use it to break a law has some very scary ramifications. Take it a couple of steps further, should email be illegal "just in case" someone decides to mail their co-workers a copyrighted image? How about that there interweb? The whole premise of that is based on computers sharing data, maybe we should just nuke the whole thing and go back to writing letters to each other with pots of ink and papyrus. Oh wait, there would still be an opportunity for plagerism....
Myself and a friend have been running a BitTorrent tracker / site over at tlm-project.org for over 2 years now. We've put a hell of alot of effort into the site over that time, and spent alot of money funding dedicated servers and bandwidth bills (we also use our servers to seed torrents on other distribution's trackers). Our advertising revenue covers about 10% of the total monthly cost.
Why do we do it? We love the concept of Free and / or Open Source software. We _only_ serve out Open Source software, primarily Linux distributions and the odd kernel release, but also some BSD's and applications too. There has never been a single byte of illegal material on our tracker, and yet people seem to have this idea that because people use BitTorrent to break or bend their local piracy laws, it's a bad protocol that can only be used for illegal activity.
Maybe I've taken what you said the wrong way, if so I apologise, but I see so many people blurt out similar crap... it's a pet peeve of mine.
"Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers"
Oh yeah, they are getting really sophisticated in their trickery. Who wouldn't open an email with the subject line of "Donald Trump's Penis Patch"?
Imagine two of those being horrible brainless reality TV re-runs peppered with commercials for products you wouldn't even think about buying, one a giant fat dirty BSoD and the other a rather fetching locked-up "Do you want to send this error report to Microsoft" dialog box floating happily on a background of hills and blue sky.
Ahh yes, the future is bright. The future is BallmerVision.
I immediately thought of the Futurama episode - The Why of Fry - where the giant brains build the brainsphere and assimilate all the knowledge in existance, before attempting to destroy the entire universe so no new information can be added.
Serenity at the local cinema with several friends, one, like me, was a fan of the short-lived Firefly series, and the other 3 had never seen it before. Everyone enjoyed the movie, and although obviously it's something that is going to appeal more to fans of the series (mostly because these people are more attached to the characters), it does work as a stand alone movie very well. The brilliantly delivered dry humour, drama and all out action sequences are more than enough to satisfy almost everyone in the audience.
The only shame I feel about this movie is that it is a gem released during such a mundane (IMHO) year for theatrical releases, so although it stands out from the 2005 crowd, that in itself unfortunately isn't saying much at all. Still, I'd recommend it very highly to those who havn't seen it yet. And if you are even a more moderate fan of the series, then what the hell are you waiting for? Gogogo.
One thing that did dissapoint me was the lack of the theme tune, unless I missed it, but I didn't hear even a snippet during the whole movie:-(
Now, not only do I get to hear my neighbouring co-workers babble incoherent and meaningless nonsense whilst I'm on the phone, but I get to hear my own voice doing the exact same thing!
I could be wrong of course, but last I checked HTTP was still the #1 protocol in use, and there's no data here to prove that p2p is sucking up more bandwidth then that.
Actually, in terms of quantity of traffic, BitTorrent is way in the lead with roughly 35% of all internet traffic, followed by eMule and Fastrack.
if we get non-terrestrial life and it's genetic code, the results will be the biggest discovery of the last 100 yrs (leaving out quantum physics and atomic energy)
I'd say it would be the biggest discovery in recorded history. I'm not trying to belittle the significance of Atomic or Quantum physics, but lets step back and look at this.
If extra-terrestrial life were discovered, on Mars, or elsewhere, and there was solid proof for it, it would change the entire world. Many religious beliefs would be decimated, many scientific theories would be challenged or completely re-written, we would know that we are not alone in the universe, that we are an even more insignificant part of it that we already think we are, and importantly it would give a huge boost to those who want to see space exploration in our future.
It would have a profound effect upon every human on this planet... what could be bigger than answering one of our greatest questions about existance of life in our known universe?
I don't know about you guys, but this whole "sue anything that moves" culture is really starting to piss me off.
I'm not saying that legally they don't have a legitimate case, but is it really necessary to persue an organisation such as the Internet Archive over something so passive as this? In my opinion, hell no it isn't.
I've spoken to a few people who have written letters or placed phone calls to various MEPs, and the majority of them have told me that the MEPs have seemed uninterested in what they had to say, or appeared to side with the swpatent lobbyists.
It was all second-hand information of course, but that led me to believe that it would be a much closer margin than 648 - 14. Obviously, they were wrong in their assumptions, or they spoke to the handful of MEP's that voted for the directive.
The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.
That's a pretty big majority. To be honest, I expected the bill to slip through, or at least be a pretty close call either way based on what people have been telling me about the responses they have recieved from their MEPs.
I realise this wasn't really the best outcome, but it's a damn sight better than seeing that brutal directive sneak it's way into EU law.
I'd assume the level of detail required to differentiate one person's vein layout from another would be pretty high, so would problems not be caused with this (and indeed other similar biometric solutions) due to injuries, even small ones.
I don't know about you guys, but the amount of times I've cut or bruised my hands, let alone bone breakages is quite high. I assume all these injuries, even the more minor ones would cause a change in the exact layout of your veins... especially after surgery to repair broken bones or torn ligaments.
On a similar note, what happens when someone has to have their hand in a cast? Or how about the problems dealing with children who are still growing rapidly... their vein structure is constantly changing with the rest of their bodies.
However, 'the idea of obtaining DNA from dinosaurs, depicted in the film Jurassic Park, remains science fiction.'
Yes, what a shame. Unfortunately because of limitations with current technology and scientific knowledge, we won't be able to reproduce a race of ancient evil uber bears bent on destroying humans and swiping pic-a-nic baskets.
Cue the "I welcome our new Ancient Bear Overlords" comments.....
If M$ is listening (and for the sake of IE, I hope they are) the biggest need to save IE right now is an ability in XP to uninstall IE cleanly. I mean, one should be able to uninstall and install IE at his whim. No strapping it down to the OS crap!
I agree wholeheartadly, but the main reason Internet Explorer dominates 85 - 95% of the market (depending on who you ask) is that it is bundled with Windows, and not really removable. I've noticed that even when I recommend Firefox to Windows users, they eventually go back to using IE, partly because it's "just there" and won't sod off.
Because of this, and aside from the technical reasons, I don't think Microsoft have any motivation to enable IE to be uninstalled easily though Add/Remove programs.
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Futurama is a big favourite here, as well as with quite a few of my friends and co-workers. Don't get me wrong, The Simpsons is a superb show, and despite alot of the bashing it recieves lately, it still remains so. But in my book it has nothing on Futurama. I guess it's the more 'geeky' humour that appeals to me, as well as the style of the characters and the environment for which the show is set.
Anyway, good news everybody all round. Let's hope this is the start of a decent rebirth for the show, rather than just a one-off.
Over 6 months to realise and admit that? Nice going ...
My thoughts on the matter; as is often pointed out on Slashdot, you can't condemn something such as a network protocol because of the way it's used anymore than you can condemn a car manufacturer for its customers participating in a drunken hit-and-run. Everything can be used _and_ abused. Blaming a technology for how a person misuses it is illogical and abusrd to me.
If BitTorrent didn't exist, something else would take it's place (as history has shown us repeatadely) as the predominant means to the end, and people would use (or abuse ;)) that to achieve the exact same results. The logical conclusion of a misguided argument to outlaw a protocol because people use it to break a law has some very scary ramifications. Take it a couple of steps further, should email be illegal "just in case" someone decides to mail their co-workers a copyrighted image? How about that there interweb? The whole premise of that is based on computers sharing data, maybe we should just nuke the whole thing and go back to writing letters to each other with pots of ink and papyrus. Oh wait, there would still be an opportunity for plagerism....
Myself and a friend have been running a BitTorrent tracker / site over at tlm-project.org for over 2 years now. We've put a hell of alot of effort into the site over that time, and spent alot of money funding dedicated servers and bandwidth bills (we also use our servers to seed torrents on other distribution's trackers). Our advertising revenue covers about 10% of the total monthly cost.
Why do we do it? We love the concept of Free and / or Open Source software. We _only_ serve out Open Source software, primarily Linux distributions and the odd kernel release, but also some BSD's and applications too. There has never been a single byte of illegal material on our tracker, and yet people seem to have this idea that because people use BitTorrent to break or bend their local piracy laws, it's a bad protocol that can only be used for illegal activity.
Maybe I've taken what you said the wrong way, if so I apologise, but I see so many people blurt out similar crap... it's a pet peeve of mine.
Oh yeah, they are getting really sophisticated in their trickery. Who wouldn't open an email with the subject line of "Donald Trump's Penis Patch"?
Not for long man:
X-45 J-UCAS Unmanned Combat Air System
Hardcore nudity on the left monitor, Slashdot front page auto-refreshing on the right. What more could a geek at work ask for?
Oh wait.. for work you say? Well, how liberal is your boss?
Imagine two of those being horrible brainless reality TV re-runs peppered with commercials for products you wouldn't even think about buying, one a giant fat dirty BSoD and the other a rather fetching locked-up "Do you want to send this error report to Microsoft" dialog box floating happily on a background of hills and blue sky.
Ahh yes, the future is bright. The future is BallmerVision.
Googlesphere anyone?
The only shame I feel about this movie is that it is a gem released during such a mundane (IMHO) year for theatrical releases, so although it stands out from the 2005 crowd, that in itself unfortunately isn't saying much at all. Still, I'd recommend it very highly to those who havn't seen it yet. And if you are even a more moderate fan of the series, then what the hell are you waiting for? Gogogo.
One thing that did dissapoint me was the lack of the theme tune, unless I missed it, but I didn't hear even a snippet during the whole movie :-(
How is this a good invention?
Everyone knows NASA faked the moon landings, and this is just a black and white close up of a rice crispy in Mike Griffin's morning cereal! ;-)
Actually, in terms of quantity of traffic, BitTorrent is way in the lead with roughly 35% of all internet traffic, followed by eMule and Fastrack.
Source:Cache Logic
I'd say it would be the biggest discovery in recorded history. I'm not trying to belittle the significance of Atomic or Quantum physics, but lets step back and look at this.
If extra-terrestrial life were discovered, on Mars, or elsewhere, and there was solid proof for it, it would change the entire world. Many religious beliefs would be decimated, many scientific theories would be challenged or completely re-written, we would know that we are not alone in the universe, that we are an even more insignificant part of it that we already think we are, and importantly it would give a huge boost to those who want to see space exploration in our future.
It would have a profound effect upon every human on this planet... what could be bigger than answering one of our greatest questions about existance of life in our known universe?
Yeah I know, clutching at straws. Was worth a shot though. ;-)
I'm not saying that legally they don't have a legitimate case, but is it really necessary to persue an organisation such as the Internet Archive over something so passive as this? In my opinion, hell no it isn't.
It was all second-hand information of course, but that led me to believe that it would be a much closer margin than 648 - 14. Obviously, they were wrong in their assumptions, or they spoke to the handful of MEP's that voted for the directive.
That's a pretty big majority. To be honest, I expected the bill to slip through, or at least be a pretty close call either way based on what people have been telling me about the responses they have recieved from their MEPs.
I realise this wasn't really the best outcome, but it's a damn sight better than seeing that brutal directive sneak it's way into EU law.
I don't know about you guys, but the amount of times I've cut or bruised my hands, let alone bone breakages is quite high. I assume all these injuries, even the more minor ones would cause a change in the exact layout of your veins... especially after surgery to repair broken bones or torn ligaments.
On a similar note, what happens when someone has to have their hand in a cast? Or how about the problems dealing with children who are still growing rapidly... their vein structure is constantly changing with the rest of their bodies.
<MPAA_Exec> Does a bear shit in the forest?!?!
Eurasian spies are everywhere....
Yes, what a shame. Unfortunately because of limitations with current technology and scientific knowledge, we won't be able to reproduce a race of ancient evil uber bears bent on destroying humans and swiping pic-a-nic baskets.
Cue the "I welcome our new Ancient Bear Overlords" comments.....
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I agree wholeheartadly, but the main reason Internet Explorer dominates 85 - 95% of the market (depending on who you ask) is that it is bundled with Windows, and not really removable. I've noticed that even when I recommend Firefox to Windows users, they eventually go back to using IE, partly because it's "just there" and won't sod off.
Because of this, and aside from the technical reasons, I don't think Microsoft have any motivation to enable IE to be uninstalled easily though Add/Remove programs.
Roll on September!