"I love James Bond and all, but that actor swapping really tripeed me out."
What about Dr. Who? The actor swapping is part of the appeal! But, then again, Jones was setup from the beginning to be one in the same with Ford, so it would be strange.
Does the script call for an aging Jones? That's the only way it would really work. Otherwise you'd really have to go to a *completely* different actor, and certainly not a look-alike. How about Mos Def?
The sequel to Silence of the Lambs failed IMO because they could not get Jodie Foster. I cannot think of any other examples right now.
"These days my head spins at the number of distros. Some may look at this as a good thing, but I am sure this keeps newbies away."
Like suggesting that multiple publishers keeps people from learning to read?
"Particularly I would like all my sound going out the SPDIF."
The ALSA driver should bring up a device node for it. It does not matter at all what distro you use. If you're trying to optimize for audio, you should start from scratch with the ALSA project; just my opinion.
"Yeah right, on the Broadcom wifi on my Presario 2210 it was just ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf followed by modprobe ndiswrapper."
I looked for that kind of information long enough to give up and buy a different wi-fi card. I still don't know where there is a cookbook procedure to get up and running with any wireless card on any distro.
"ACPI stuff" (suspend, resume, etc.) aren't simply luxuries on a battery powered portable device. In many applications, these features are of utmost importance.
"even the rivets in my Jeans set the metal detector off."
I get screened closely, quite often. It always amuses me when the rivets in my jeans are a subject of close scrutiny. I mean, Levi's jeans must be one of the most common garments in the world, right? And they have rivets in specific, well-defined, expected spots. Yet, every time I've been wanded, it's been treated as if it's the first time the screener has seen pants with metal parts.
"Those are specific laws designed to protect the images of people who use their image for their livelihood such as N'Sync suing a company that made unauthorized merchandise of them."
You missed the whole fundamental concept of "equal protection of the law."
If there is a law that protects N'Sync, it protects you too.
The United States is not an aristocracy with classes, each with different sets of laws.
That's what you're suggesting, and of course, you're completely wrong.
I don't want stuff, free or otherwise. I just want to be unimpeded from creating stuff. Taxes on media, copy protection enforced by recording devices, and suppression of distribution channels, all abridge my freedom to create stuff.
The corporate entertainment folks can swing their fists, but they must stop at the end of my nose.
They have a right to try to protect their property, but that right does not extend into the territory where it abridges my right to create my own property. And it does get into my territory, when I have to pay taxes on media just to copy my *own* work, when all the affordable recording devices use one-way copy protection that prevents me from copying my own work in the digital domain (or at all), and when the distribution channels that should be available to me, are being suppressed by people who are threatened by the very idea that individuals may enter their space via the intersection with the creative zone.
I really consider the file-swapping issue to be a red herring. From my point of view, the suppression of the creative outlet is a much larger issue, and it is an unacceptable level of collateral damage, no matter how vociferously the music distribution corporations argue to the contrary.
Your right to protect your property does NOT extend to the suppression of my right to create, record, or distribute my own work.
I watched it. I wanted to like it. I really, truly did. Now I'll settle for just being told what's good about it. I'm fairly certain it's the most boring movie I have ever sat through from beginning to end. There have been more boring movies, I suppose, but not that I actually watched all the way through.
"The hippies always do that, largely because the general public has absolutely no understanding of nuclear technology."
All the arguments against the Cassini launch that I heard, seemed fairly well-reasoned to me, and not coming from a misinformed or ignorant point of view at all. An accident at launch could have released highly toxic materal from the plutonium batteries. More than 30 kg of Plutonium, enough to be a legitimate concern, whether you are a hippy, a physics professor, or both. (The first person who clued me into Cassini was both.)
You can operate on a basis of reasonable risk management, but you cannot dismiss the concerns of the public by a simple ad-hominem approach (labeling anyone with a concern as a "hippie", or assuming the general public is entirely ignorant of physics or cancer risks from nuclear materials. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the "general public" who have studied more physics and bio/chemistry than you have.)
I agree that people sometimes go way overboard with their resistance to anything nuclear, but that attitude was instilled in them, or their parents, pretty forcefully. And it doesn't help the situation one bit, when the only response when concerns are raised is "go away, you are ignorant", or even, having the police beat them, instead of listening to their concerns.
Here is something the French managed to accomplish, where we have failed. Who do you blame more for this, the French or the hippies?
"Go pick up an old Model M for $5 at a computer show and rub the letters off the keys for a similar effect."
Do you realize how hard it is to "rub the letters off" Model M keycaps? There are boards that have seen continuous duty since the early 90s in factory environments and so on, that don't have the letters rubbed off!
Now you can pull the caps off, but that is a little annoying, since the wide keys leave small square keys when you pull them, you have to leave the space bar in place, etc. But you can get blank keycaps, or numerous languages, APL, symbol sets, that sort of thing.
But good luck rubbing the letters off. Maybe sandblasting will do it.
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>You forgot the most important thing (to me, >anyway): Sealed!
"How many clue-by-four are required to make some people understand that the only bloody thing that makes projects like Linux possible IS copyright and someone having the copyright for some stuff?"
Only one, and for best results, it should come in the form of a whopping huge bankrupting settlement against some large, well-funded corporation, which transfers all their assets to the FSF after being found guilty of repeated intentional copyright violations.
That's the only clue-by-four that would ever be needed, and it would be the last time anyone ever questioned the legal authority of copyright law as it is reserved under the GPL.
If you want my sympathy, you have to appeal to me so that I can know you've been wronged. Nothing about any injustice on either of those websites you posted, so I cannot carry an opinion that any harm has been done. I can only assume that everything has been to the satisfaction of, and with the consent of, the administrators of the schools, the school board, and the parents. I won't get upset for them until they indicate that there's a problem.
"Okay, so having watched on TV a firearm being used, I can SAFELY defend my home and cause no risk to myself, my family, or my neighbors."
People show up at my range all the time with their Glocks, dressed to the nines like thugs... and manage to miss the paper at 25 feet.
My favorite TV-firearm thing is whenever someone with a slide action auto runs out of ammo, but the action continues to cycle.
Also, the "gangsta stance" where they hold it sideways. Ever try to shoot like that? Ever see somebody get bit by the slide that way?
Another thing they never show you on TV, how to safely decock a S&W revolver. There's a ton of stories about how someone is playing with someone else's gun, cocks the hammer, then realizes he doesn't know how to decock it (and it does not occur to them to stop messing with it.) Sometimes the story ends with a shattered toilet bowl (true), but I can easily see it ending in tragedy also.
It is farily realistic when you see S&W style revolvers being cocked for single action, but on TV, that's always done for dramatic effect, the shooter is escalating the threat with the action.
Another thing that amuses me on TV is the idea that you're going to be able to hear someone talking 30 feet away during, or after, a firefight. TV is not realistic as to just how loud a.357 is in a confined space like a parking garage.
And how do you learn the basic concept of sight alingment from TV? Strange as it sounds, a gun actually *isn't* "point-and-shoot". Aiming isn't as easy as its made out to be. It takes practice.
"Good luck getting it on the plsne, to begin with. You'd be lucky to get away with a strp-search and a warning."
Treat it exactly like you would a paintball gun, and follow the TSA and airport rules for a paintball gun, and it will be shockingly easy.
I say "shockingly easy", because you should realize that the same rules you follow for a paintball gun, will work for a real gun with ammo.
I check in all my bags now. It sometimes takes a little bit longer, but it's much less hassle, and it's really nice to be able to go through the checkpoint with just a small briefcase containing a laptop computer.
You won't find yourself standing there waiting for the agent to go through your bags, if you don't *have* any bags.
>..or our local schools. Zero tolerance policy on >anything repotely shaped like a gun. > >Kids have gotten suspended for pointing a finger >and saying "Bang!"
This is one of the more obvious things that, to me, distinguishes today's wartime attitude from the Vietnam-era attitide.
During the Johnson administration, the toy market had a sudden glut of realistic war toys. There was a life-size GI-Joe spinoff line that had little rubber-band-loaded mines that would pop, guns that would shoot projectiles, camo stuff, Tonka tanks (I don't remember if they were Tonka branded, but they were realistic looking and tough), the list goes on and on. The propaganda was everywhere in toys. I especially remember a pod-mounted BAR that would shoot little hard plastic bullets off a ribbon magazine. Nowadays, you can't even get anything that shoots soft projectiles like the Star Trek phaser with its cool little uv-reactive discs (that didn't even hurt when they hit you...)
Today, there seems to be a different kind of propaganda, and it appears to be aimed at sensitizing children to televised violence while distracting them from any associations to real, immediate violence. Or something like that.
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"Who REALLY thinks that tabbed browsing is the selling feature of FF?"
I know such a user. The tabs are the "must have, could not be happy without it", feature. Not just "at the top of the list of features." THE feature.
"I love James Bond and all, but that actor swapping really tripeed me out."
What about Dr. Who? The actor swapping is part of the appeal! But, then again, Jones was setup from the beginning to be one in the same with Ford, so it would be strange.
Does the script call for an aging Jones? That's the only way it would really work. Otherwise you'd really have to go to a *completely* different actor, and certainly not a look-alike. How about Mos Def?
The sequel to Silence of the Lambs failed IMO because they could not get Jodie Foster. I cannot think of any other examples right now.
> Ubuntu has an awesome wiki for stuff like that.
Good to know. I'm expecting a CD any time now. Really looking forward to trying it out.
"I've got a decent accounting package on Linux (gnucash)."
Personal finance only, or have I missed some major breakthrough developments?
"These days my head spins at the number of distros. Some may look at this as a good thing, but I am sure this keeps newbies away."
Like suggesting that multiple publishers keeps people from learning to read?
"Particularly I would like all my sound going out the SPDIF."
The ALSA driver should bring up a device node for it. It does not matter at all what distro you use. If you're trying to optimize for audio, you should start from scratch with the ALSA project; just my opinion.
"Yeah right, on the Broadcom wifi on my Presario 2210 it was just ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf followed by modprobe ndiswrapper."
I looked for that kind of information long enough to give up and buy a different wi-fi card. I still don't know where there is a cookbook procedure to get up and running with any wireless card on any distro.
"ACPI stuff" (suspend, resume, etc.) aren't simply luxuries on a battery powered portable device. In many applications, these features are of utmost importance.
>People fear changes.
The whole portable personal computer market is still in its infancy.
If people really feared change, they wouldn't have adopted personal computers in the first place.
Of *course* they will jump to the next thing. As long as it's presented correctly, that is, the consumer believes it's *his* idea to buy it...
Ok, so how fast does your single-engine Cessna fly?
How long would it take you to travel, say, from Seattle to Atlanta, and how much would that cost?
Now, compare that with Delta.
"even the rivets in my Jeans set the metal detector off."
I get screened closely, quite often. It always amuses me when the rivets in my jeans are a subject of close scrutiny. I mean, Levi's jeans must be one of the most common garments in the world, right? And they have rivets in specific, well-defined, expected spots. Yet, every time I've been wanded, it's been treated as if it's the first time the screener has seen pants with metal parts.
"Those are specific laws designed to protect the images of people who use their image for their livelihood such as N'Sync suing a company that made unauthorized merchandise of them."
You missed the whole fundamental concept of "equal protection of the law."
If there is a law that protects N'Sync, it protects you too.
The United States is not an aristocracy with classes, each with different sets of laws.
That's what you're suggesting, and of course, you're completely wrong.
>The photographer/videographer owns the rights to
>the photos.
Do you know what a model release is?
I don't want stuff, free or otherwise.
I just want to be unimpeded from creating stuff.
Taxes on media, copy protection enforced by recording devices, and suppression of distribution channels, all abridge my freedom to create stuff.
The corporate entertainment folks can swing their fists, but they must stop at the end of my nose.
They have a right to try to protect their property, but that right does not extend into the territory where it abridges my right to create my own property. And it does get into my territory, when I have to pay taxes on media just to copy my *own* work, when all the affordable recording devices use one-way copy protection that prevents me from copying my own work in the digital domain (or at all), and when the distribution channels that should be available to me, are being suppressed by people who are threatened by the very idea that individuals may enter their space via the intersection with the creative zone.
I really consider the file-swapping issue to be a red herring. From my point of view, the suppression of the creative outlet is a much larger issue, and it is an unacceptable level of collateral damage, no matter how vociferously the music distribution corporations argue to the contrary.
Your right to protect your property does NOT extend to the suppression of my right to create, record, or distribute my own work.
"Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema?"
No breasts, ever.
The Russian Solaris?
I watched it. I wanted to like it. I really, truly did. Now I'll settle for just being told what's good about it. I'm fairly certain it's the most boring movie I have ever sat through from beginning to end. There have been more boring movies, I suppose, but not that I actually watched all the way through.
"The hippies always do that, largely because the general public has absolutely no understanding of nuclear technology."
All the arguments against the Cassini launch that I heard, seemed fairly well-reasoned to me, and not coming from a misinformed or ignorant point of view at all. An accident at launch could have released highly toxic materal from the plutonium batteries. More than 30 kg of Plutonium, enough to be a legitimate concern, whether you are a hippy, a physics professor, or both. (The first person who clued me into Cassini was both.)
You can operate on a basis of reasonable risk management, but you cannot dismiss the concerns of the public by a simple ad-hominem approach (labeling anyone with a concern as a "hippie", or assuming the general public is entirely ignorant of physics or cancer risks from nuclear materials. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the "general public" who have studied more physics and bio/chemistry than you have.)
I agree that people sometimes go way overboard with their resistance to anything nuclear, but that attitude was instilled in them, or their parents, pretty forcefully. And it doesn't help the situation one bit, when the only response when concerns are raised is "go away, you are ignorant", or even, having the police beat them, instead of listening to their concerns.
Here is something the French managed to accomplish, where we have failed. Who do you blame more for this, the French or the hippies?
"Go pick up an old Model M for $5 at a computer show and rub the letters off the keys for a similar effect."
Do you realize how hard it is to "rub the letters off" Model M keycaps? There are boards that have seen continuous duty since the early 90s in factory environments and so on, that don't have the letters rubbed off!
Now you can pull the caps off, but that is a little annoying, since the wide keys leave small square keys when you pull them, you have to leave the space bar in place, etc. But you can get blank keycaps, or numerous languages, APL, symbol sets, that sort of thing.
But good luck rubbing the letters off. Maybe sandblasting will do it.
>You forgot the most important thing (to me,
>anyway): Sealed!
"I gather that officially you are not supposed to be able to copy music off the iPod."
If that applies to my music (that I wrote, performed, recorded, and reserve all rights to), the legal shoe is on the other foot.
"How many clue-by-four are required to make some people understand that the only bloody thing that makes projects like Linux possible IS copyright and someone having the copyright for some stuff?"
Only one, and for best results, it should come in the form of a whopping huge bankrupting settlement against some large, well-funded corporation, which transfers all their assets to the FSF after being found guilty of repeated intentional copyright violations.
That's the only clue-by-four that would ever be needed, and it would be the last time anyone ever questioned the legal authority of copyright law as it is reserved under the GPL.
I love the hill country! Nothing wrong with Kerrville, and there is still some open real estate there.
If you want my sympathy, you have to appeal to me so that I can know you've been wronged. Nothing about any injustice on either of those websites you posted, so I cannot carry an opinion that any harm has been done. I can only assume that everything has been to the satisfaction of, and with the consent of, the administrators of the schools, the school board, and the parents. I won't get upset for them until they indicate that there's a problem.
"Okay, so having watched on TV a firearm being used, I can SAFELY defend my home and cause no risk to myself, my family, or my neighbors."
People show up at my range all the time with their Glocks, dressed to the nines like thugs... and manage to miss the paper at 25 feet.
My favorite TV-firearm thing is whenever someone with a slide action auto runs out of ammo, but the action continues to cycle.
Also, the "gangsta stance" where they hold it sideways. Ever try to shoot like that? Ever see somebody get bit by the slide that way?
Another thing they never show you on TV, how to safely decock a S&W revolver. There's a ton of stories about how someone is playing with someone else's gun, cocks the hammer, then realizes he doesn't know how to decock it (and it does not occur to them to stop messing with it.) Sometimes the story ends with a shattered toilet bowl (true), but I can easily see it ending in tragedy also.
It is farily realistic when you see S&W style revolvers being cocked for single action, but on TV, that's always done for dramatic effect, the shooter is escalating the threat with the action.
Another thing that amuses me on TV is the idea that you're going to be able to hear someone talking 30 feet away during, or after, a firefight. TV is not realistic as to just how loud a
And how do you learn the basic concept of sight alingment from TV? Strange as it sounds, a gun actually *isn't* "point-and-shoot". Aiming isn't as easy as its made out to be. It takes practice.
"Good luck getting it on the plsne, to begin with. You'd be lucky to get away with a strp-search and a warning."
Treat it exactly like you would a paintball gun, and follow the TSA and airport rules for a paintball gun, and it will be shockingly easy.
I say "shockingly easy", because you should realize that the same rules you follow for a paintball gun, will work for a real gun with ammo.
I check in all my bags now. It sometimes takes a little bit longer, but it's much less hassle, and it's really nice to be able to go through the checkpoint with just a small briefcase containing a laptop computer.
You won't find yourself standing there waiting for the agent to go through your bags, if you don't *have* any bags.
>..or our local schools. Zero tolerance policy on
>anything repotely shaped like a gun.
>
>Kids have gotten suspended for pointing a finger
>and saying "Bang!"
This is one of the more obvious things that, to me, distinguishes today's wartime attitude from the Vietnam-era attitide.
During the Johnson administration, the toy market had a sudden glut of realistic war toys. There was a life-size GI-Joe spinoff line that had little rubber-band-loaded mines that would pop, guns that would shoot projectiles, camo stuff, Tonka tanks (I don't remember if they were Tonka branded, but they were realistic looking and tough), the list goes on and on. The propaganda was everywhere in toys. I especially remember a pod-mounted BAR that would shoot little hard plastic bullets off a ribbon magazine. Nowadays, you can't even get anything that shoots soft projectiles like the Star Trek phaser with its cool little uv-reactive discs (that didn't even hurt when they hit you...)
Today, there seems to be a different kind of propaganda, and it appears to be aimed at sensitizing children to televised violence while distracting them from any associations to real, immediate violence. Or something like that.