My mom has told me stories of using analog tape in her high school days that I found fascinating.
The really interesting part for me was that she used to edit tapes together by literally cutting them with scissors and splicing pieces together with tape - as in, scotch tape or cello tape. The magnetic pickups weren't bothered at all by the adhesive tape, and as long as you made the cuts diagonally across the (audio) tape, the new splice would be strong enough to play.
This kind of directly working with media and data in the old analog formats like tape and film is fascinating to me, being used to working with digital formats through arcane software interfaces. I hope the formats will survive into the future.
(Frued-mode on) It must be Lucas's subconcious assault on those who masturbate to thoughts of Leia or Amidalia, who he sees as his mother, combined with a castration complex he gets from his cold parents.
On a more serious note, I've heard that the most common battlefield injury during the middle ages was a missing hand, from when people tried to block swords with their hand after being knocked down. If you remember from the series, Vader loses his doing that against Luke.
Just out of curiosity, does the military enforce American copyright laws or stop file-sharing on its bases overseas? Would a soldier/marine/sailor be punished if they found pirate DVDs or music on him?
Just wondering 'cause I've heard how networked the military is these days...
I think I heard your girlfriend say the same thing... I don't think she was talking about computers, though.
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May as well post something informative...
I grew up in Japan, and we celebrate Christmas pretty much like in the west, except we don't have the christian religious meaning to it. To us, it's just a fun holiday that's an excuse to give toys to kids. Parents tell their kids about Santa, and they do believe in him until they grow older.
The more traditional Japanese holiday is new year's, for which the family gathers around to have a feast on new year's eve, much like the American thanksgiving holiday. The day after, most people go to a shrine to greet the new year with blessings, and some still dress up in traditional clothes to do this.
On new year's day, relatives will often travel to visit one another and give gifts of money to young children. This is called "Otoshidama", and it can be as much or more than what's spent on christmas gifts.
Anyways, I usually liked christmas, but Japanese new years was a bit more fun, since I got to see my cousins and stuff. Japan tends to have a lot of fun holidays for kids, check out the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_festivals
I know this isn't a help forum, but I have a question...
I have an old Red Hat box sitting around, version 9 (last one before Fedora), I think. I'm using it as a file server using Samba & NFS on my home LAN, which is behind a NAT on a cable modem. Should I be worried about my RH box becoming compromised? Do I have to upgrade?
But I bet you you don't know the secret entry codes to NORAD headquarters - in fact, I'll BET YOU A HUNDRED DOLLARS that you don't know, and couldn't possibly tell me how to get in. : )
What I don't get is why Sony doesn't get more press on Slashdot, except for their robots and PS2. Among the PC manufacturers, they are the most stylish, and are probobly the most innovative in terms of design. They also are closer to achieving the "digital hub" than Apple, to boot. Too bad their best stuff is relased only in Japan.
Check out some of their kickass designs:
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGX-X90P/ - The Type X models, a PC media server with P4/3.6 Ghz, 1920x1080 TV display, 6 simultanious channel TV tuner, 1TB storage (127 hours of high-quality Mpegs), remote control, DVD recorder, network video server, and remote control.
I'm not disagreeing with the parent post, but I hope that they don't "throw the book" at the guy that was in the video.
Child porn laws are there to protect children from predators, not punish kids for stupid mistakes they make while they're teenagers. I know several people who did stupid stuff like that, taking "racy" pics when they were in high school, which were probobly technically illegal. Kids on hormones do stupid things like that, putting them in prison will not help them at all.
Jesus, I thought I was the only one that remembered Pathfinder. For those that don't know, Pathfinder was Time-Warner's attempt to create a service similar to AOL or CompuServe's portals, but on the web without a dial-up service. This was before they got swallowed up by AOL, way back in the early 90's. Apparently, they decided to lump everything owned by them under the "Pathfinder" name, from CNN to Loony Tunes to Babylon 5. It was a disaster, from most accounts.
I was a regular on their Babylon 5 forum, and to this day I have great memories of the people there, and I prefer that board's layout to others like Slashcode and UBB. Unfortunately, Time-Warner basically thought of the boards as a place to get free PR and marketing, and their management of the boards was pretty poor.
The admins did not do much to try to foster a community, and they often seemed to be fighting with the users. I remember they would occasionally delete some sections, and force changess on the board with no warning. It was like the whole BB system was just a forgotten corner of the T-W empire, and we were tossed about by high-level decisions of their marketing dept. The whole board ended up closing with short notice before the end of season 4, I believe. That's when I discovered the joys of Usenet and rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, but that's another story...
Anyone here from the old Pathfinder Bab5 boards? I was ZoqFotPik, and that was my first BBS...
Actually, the first joke I thought of from the headline was a feminine hygene joke... "Light Knoppix for light days, and Maximum Knoppix for like-a-stuck-pig days."
I am currently trapped inside the server room of my company, condemned to stay until I fix our 2 million lines of perl code that runs our trash compactor. I have been here for seven months, and have not been able to shave, for I cannot unplug any of our servers to plug in my electric razor.
I shall welcome this miracle of technology which will allow me to be free of body hair.
Does anyone know if they're going to make a coffee maker on ethernet power?
Hell, for that much money, why not just pay a third world country to make a Mars base and have its citizens pretend to be zombies so you could shoot them? You'd get better framerate, anyways...
Well, the survey found that Finland is #1. And we all know what OS came out of Finland, don't we?
Of course, Linus moved to California, so maybe that says a lot about why the U.S. is successful? Our schools may suck, but we lure people here with sunny beaches and Disneyland. Try getting a tan on a beach in Finland...
Yes, you shouldn't take music without permission. However, let's not ignore the fact that the internet does empower artists to distribute music on their own terms, without having to go through a label.
Back in the pre-Napster days when MP3s were pretty new, I was asked by a friend to rip short clips (but not the whole songs) for her brother's band to MP3. They were going to put in on their website to publicize them, and maybe get people to buy CDs online. Again, this was way back, shortly before Napster made MP3 a household name, and way before the big labels even thought of using MP3 clips as advertisement. They were an unsigned band, so it made sense to get their music heard as much as possible.
I don't think that they would have liked people trading whole songs online for free, but the point is that the internet allowed them to be heard on their own terms, by a broader audience than they otherwise could have reached. There's no way a little indie band would have gotten regular airplay on radio or TV. The music business is so damn locked up by big labels and media companies that it makes sense for small outfits and independent artists to give some stuff away for free.
The band, btw, was called Revolving Rudy, and they appear to have renamed themselves Gravity and Henry, and you can buy their music at their web site. They still have MP3s for download, though not the ones I ripped for them years ago.
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My mom has told me stories of using analog tape in her high school days that I found fascinating.
The really interesting part for me was that she used to edit tapes together by literally cutting them with scissors and splicing pieces together with tape - as in, scotch tape or cello tape. The magnetic pickups weren't bothered at all by the adhesive tape, and as long as you made the cuts diagonally across the (audio) tape, the new splice would be strong enough to play.
This kind of directly working with media and data in the old analog formats like tape and film is fascinating to me, being used to working with digital formats through arcane software interfaces. I hope the formats will survive into the future.
Keep in mind, though, that Zinn is a pacifist communist academic, so his definition of "better" may be radically different than yours : )
I still like his book though, and thanks for giving the first Zinn reference I've seen on Slashdot...
(Frued-mode on)
It must be Lucas's subconcious assault on those who masturbate to thoughts of Leia or Amidalia, who he sees as his mother, combined with a castration complex he gets from his cold parents.
On a more serious note, I've heard that the most common battlefield injury during the middle ages was a missing hand, from when people tried to block swords with their hand after being knocked down. If you remember from the series, Vader loses his doing that against Luke.
Just out of curiosity, does the military enforce American copyright laws or stop file-sharing on its bases overseas? Would a soldier/marine/sailor be punished if they found pirate DVDs or music on him?
Just wondering 'cause I've heard how networked the military is these days...
And I'm glad you're back safe, btw.
And then you were like, "OMG! Z0mbi3s!!!1!" and blew them away with your +10 Boomstick of Flamage, right?
I mean, that's what real internet addict would do : )
I think I heard your girlfriend say the same thing... I don't think she was talking about computers, though.
May as well post something informative...
I grew up in Japan, and we celebrate Christmas pretty much like in the west, except we don't have the christian religious meaning to it. To us, it's just a fun holiday that's an excuse to give toys to kids. Parents tell their kids about Santa, and they do believe in him until they grow older.
The more traditional Japanese holiday is new year's, for which the family gathers around to have a feast on new year's eve, much like the American thanksgiving holiday. The day after, most people go to a shrine to greet the new year with blessings, and some still dress up in traditional clothes to do this.
On new year's day, relatives will often travel to visit one another and give gifts of money to young children. This is called "Otoshidama", and it can be as much or more than what's spent on christmas gifts.
Anyways, I usually liked christmas, but Japanese new years was a bit more fun, since I got to see my cousins and stuff. Japan tends to have a lot of fun holidays for kids, check out the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_festivals
I know this isn't a help forum, but I have a question...
I have an old Red Hat box sitting around, version 9 (last one before Fedora), I think. I'm using it as a file server using Samba & NFS on my home LAN, which is behind a NAT on a cable modem. Should I be worried about my RH box becoming compromised? Do I have to upgrade?
It probably has something to do with increased traffic - it's the holidays, and people are snowed in all over the country.
I was able to get in through the RSS page, btw. Go to http://slashdot.org/index.rss and the main page will be there, just in a non-html format.
But I bet you you don't know the secret entry codes to NORAD headquarters - in fact, I'll BET YOU A HUNDRED DOLLARS that you don't know, and couldn't possibly tell me how to get in. : )
I agree. That thing looks really ugly.
What I don't get is why Sony doesn't get more press on Slashdot, except for their robots and PS2. Among the PC manufacturers, they are the most stylish, and are probobly the most innovative in terms of design. They also are closer to achieving the "digital hub" than Apple, to boot. Too bad their best stuff is relased only in Japan.
Check out some of their kickass designs:
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGX-X90P/ - The Type X models, a PC media server with P4/3.6 Ghz, 1920x1080 TV display, 6 simultanious channel TV tuner, 1TB storage (127 hours of high-quality Mpegs), remote control, DVD recorder, network video server, and remote control.
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGC-M50B/ - Type M model, a PC that can be used as a TV or a standalone stereo with its keyboard folded.
Couple of nice notebook designs:
http://www.dynamism.com/x505/main.shtml
http://www.dynamism.com/u101/main.shtml
I'm not disagreeing with the parent post, but I hope that they don't "throw the book" at the guy that was in the video.
Child porn laws are there to protect children from predators, not punish kids for stupid mistakes they make while they're teenagers. I know several people who did stupid stuff like that, taking "racy" pics when they were in high school, which were probobly technically illegal. Kids on hormones do stupid things like that, putting them in prison will not help them at all.
Jesus, I thought I was the only one that remembered Pathfinder. For those that don't know, Pathfinder was Time-Warner's attempt to create a service similar to AOL or CompuServe's portals, but on the web without a dial-up service. This was before they got swallowed up by AOL, way back in the early 90's. Apparently, they decided to lump everything owned by them under the "Pathfinder" name, from CNN to Loony Tunes to Babylon 5. It was a disaster, from most accounts.
I was a regular on their Babylon 5 forum, and to this day I have great memories of the people there, and I prefer that board's layout to others like Slashcode and UBB. Unfortunately, Time-Warner basically thought of the boards as a place to get free PR and marketing, and their management of the boards was pretty poor.
The admins did not do much to try to foster a community, and they often seemed to be fighting with the users. I remember they would occasionally delete some sections, and force changess on the board with no warning. It was like the whole BB system was just a forgotten corner of the T-W empire, and we were tossed about by high-level decisions of their marketing dept. The whole board ended up closing with short notice before the end of season 4, I believe. That's when I discovered the joys of Usenet and rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, but that's another story...
Anyone here from the old Pathfinder Bab5 boards? I was ZoqFotPik, and that was my first BBS...
Hi, this is identity0's son. Dad passed away last night, and he wrote in his will to tell you that you're a frickin' moron. Your idea will never work.
Have a nice day, sir.
Does it run Linux? :P
Actually, the first joke I thought of from the headline was a feminine hygene joke... "Light Knoppix for light days, and Maximum Knoppix for like-a-stuck-pig days."
Maybe I should have kept that to myself.
Why not just save some steps?
Boot Knoppix, then type knx-hdinstall at the command prompt : )
Nah, it'll probobly be like "No bluetooth. Clunkier than a Nokia. Lame." anyways : )
I am currently trapped inside the server room of my company, condemned to stay until I fix our 2 million lines of perl code that runs our trash compactor. I have been here for seven months, and have not been able to shave, for I cannot unplug any of our servers to plug in my electric razor.
I shall welcome this miracle of technology which will allow me to be free of body hair.
Does anyone know if they're going to make a coffee maker on ethernet power?
Hell, for that much money, why not just pay a third world country to make a Mars base and have its citizens pretend to be zombies so you could shoot them? You'd get better framerate, anyways...
How about a casemod that includes some bawls?
They're really good, you should try some... come on, you know you want to...
Hacker: I'll form the head!
Scammer: I'll form the heart!
Pornographer: I'll form the right hand!
Spammer: I'll form the crotch!
All: Together, we are - ASSHOLETRON!
(catchy theme music here)
Heathen! Everyone knows Strip Scrabble is the best way to get laid!
"I swear, Yjuimy is a real word! Now take your top off!"
A Slashdot ID of 5 digits?!?! Turn in your Black Brother Card, and report to the nearest Ghetto Gangsta Skool for "De-Whiteyification"!
And that better not be Mr. Spock underwear, 'cause you'll be wearing low-riders from now on...
Well, the survey found that Finland is #1. And we all know what OS came out of Finland, don't we?
Of course, Linus moved to California, so maybe that says a lot about why the U.S. is successful? Our schools may suck, but we lure people here with sunny beaches and Disneyland. Try getting a tan on a beach in Finland...
Yes, you shouldn't take music without permission. However, let's not ignore the fact that the internet does empower artists to distribute music on their own terms, without having to go through a label.
Back in the pre-Napster days when MP3s were pretty new, I was asked by a friend to rip short clips (but not the whole songs) for her brother's band to MP3. They were going to put in on their website to publicize them, and maybe get people to buy CDs online. Again, this was way back, shortly before Napster made MP3 a household name, and way before the big labels even thought of using MP3 clips as advertisement. They were an unsigned band, so it made sense to get their music heard as much as possible.
I don't think that they would have liked people trading whole songs online for free, but the point is that the internet allowed them to be heard on their own terms, by a broader audience than they otherwise could have reached. There's no way a little indie band would have gotten regular airplay on radio or TV. The music business is so damn locked up by big labels and media companies that it makes sense for small outfits and independent artists to give some stuff away for free.
The band, btw, was called Revolving Rudy, and they appear to have renamed themselves Gravity and Henry, and you can buy their music at their web site. They still have MP3s for download, though not the ones I ripped for them years ago.