Where I live, SG-1 has barely put feet in season 6. but I already saw all episodes aired wherever up to this day. Alas, I'm not a die-hard-give-all-fsck-others fan of SG-1 (but you could call me one in the case of Trek and Babylon:) for tv-shows, and for a storefull of sci-fi literature), but there were many bits and points in the storyline [of SG-1] which kept me watching episodes one after the other.
These bits and points thing was a huge miss for me in the Farscape show, especially for two main reasons: the very immaturely childish nature of the storyline, and the actors [i.e. acting]. I deliberately don't include the design and the puppets, because a story's goodness factor doesn't really depend on there being puppets or not.
So when I read this story on guys coming over for extendd periods from Farscape, I just shivered. I guess SG-1 has provided me(us) fan(s) with a pretty long enjoyable story (pushed to be lenghtened twice already), so I won't be especially sad to see it go, but I hope these guys won't think they are still in Farscape, and provide us with a show worthy to still be called Stargate SG-1.
I hope JDA and AT will be back for good play, the show wouldn't be the same without JDA's "comments" either:))
Warning: I'm on my Christmas Trolling Spree (TM):)
I mean things like:
replicating such features on your Windows PC with little effort and a small investment
doesn't make me shiver or feel anything besides deep sadness for the (again) experienced ingorance wave.
First, I don't care how newbies are just discovering that their computers can do more than playing nobrainer video games for the price of a used car.
Second, still don't really care how greenhorns can make a Windows PC record anything. I mean I do to some extent like helping people out, or such, but not to the extent to read about it on/. front
Then, let's say there are people out there who use their computers for PVR-like purposes for more years than the supposedly informed writer knew such pieces of hardware exists. Sometimes I just wonder how many useless rants could one write on some evident applications of computers these days and there would be a mass of people who would still buy them as new stuff.
I'm out, hopefully no more/. this year:) More "news" like this on the front page and it will be for good:)
... but then I visited the site and now I think this guy is simply nuts:P
But hey, he managed to get into/.:) Give credit where it's due:) Great job, man:)
I think we should make every month 7 days long, each day should be 48 hours long, 1 hour should be 600 seconds long, and seconds should be the time a half-legged Santa can bounce around the Christmas tree. Yeah, and make those 7 days all Sundays, 'cause some people would just spend their lives fishing instead of reading stupid stuff all day long.
I hope this guy won't be too much surprised when he realizes that that hypnotizing show he went to last week actually worked !!:))))
I don't see. Some M$ (yes, that's a dollar sign, so complain) program manager has a weak morning, without his coffee, and pukes out some words, which are really nothing more/less one would expect from anyone from M$. So what we (/.) do ? Start bashing the poor guy, in hundreds of comments, uslessly, because he won't change his mind, no matter what.
So I won't do that [bash'm]. I just feel the same sadness which I've felt for many years now: with people thinking as this one does, working in hundreds at M$, this company still managed to pull so much dollars over the decades. I guess it takes really good braindeads to convince the braindead masses.
Unless such guys are totally schizophrenic, then they really do and live by what they think. And that makes me very happy that I don't know many of them.
These searching tools stand nothing close to good video searching. Video searching is when you make a query for football games like: green background, horizontal camera motion and multiple motions in the lower half.
Or when you say, I wish to find all the videos from the last 30 years with a specific theme or content.
There have begun to emerge sorts of MPEG-7-based video database/library applications and solutions, both indexing-wise and query-wise. And only this seems today the right way to gather large, indexable and searchable video databases.
Searching videos by names... lame and useless. Like: what, we can't have steak ? Ok, let's eat chicken then, that's meat of an animal too.
Read the freaking article, ~200 bucks is for a complete machine loaded with Xandros Linux Wal-Mart.com is carrying a fully loaded Linux desktop computer with the pre-installed Xandros Desktop Operating System (OS) for only $199.98
When I read trhough the comments, I saw the fortune down the page was: The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when then get to know each other (Cpt. Kirk)
Now this is also true for Linux distros. I just got fed up over the years with the ever going bashing and false arguments.
I mean like: install and looks like Windows - so what the heck, exactly a point why I never would want such a distro on my machines; or it's the best multimedia distro - again, what the heck, it's just what you make of it, my main debian box (this one going, updated and cared of for more then 1.5 years - hardware changed about 5 times since then, the linux remained the same - try that Widnows) is just as good in multimedia as any other you would find out there, because I'm not just chatting about it, but I actually install and customiaze everything to my needs. Or better yet: hey, it supports this and that [hardware, that is] - biggest BS that could be - aside from some company customizations, the kernel is the same, stop making my head spin.
And I could just go on. Thing is, at least IMO, while all this BS-ing is a good way to show all-time Windows (l)users that Linux can be Windows-like if one wishes so, I just couldn't care less how Windows-like a distro is. And I'm not alone.
And that means one has to come up with more than such argumentation to even consider me switching. That doesn't mean I don't try and use other distros than Debian - it's just means Debian stays, others come-and-go all the time.
I mean, come on, advising such things as shutting down one's mail server in order not to receive the spam is not a solution. It's like turning away from a problem and say that if you don't see it, it doesn't exist. It's plain stupid.
Geez, I just keep smacking my head into my desk, after having read it again:) Really, if someone would come up to me with a "solution" like this I would loudly laugh in his face right away:)
Like, hey the road is bumpy, so I won't use my car for a week, and they'll just go away.
One thing would help though: if you would shut down the spammers' machines for a long while:)
Oh, so you have to enable javascript for this "hack" to work:) and even if, it may not work. Sorry guys@secunia, javascript is such luxury which I enable only purposedly on (pretty rare) occasions.
People are just plain ignorant. Not few of them, some of them, but most of them. Just think how many computers are sold on a year, and try to guess how many of those are as much as amateurs regarding basic computer operating: pretty low, that number would be. People just buy the box, don't really care what's inside, they just want that their internet (which is equivalent to them with Internet Explorer in terms and in function as well) just works, that their movies and music just play. They never even get to the point where they would recognize the fact that basic protection would save them from 99% of their troubles. They just blame those fscking hackers, viruses (if they know whatthey are, that is), file sharers and open source in general. I have met such people, that's why I tell. For some of them FOSS developers are malicious hakcers spreading programs that make their computers slow so they need to buy a new one.
If it rains outside generally people take an umbrella or a cab or go by car. If a tsunami comes over their computers, they just simply don't care, but they are high and quick on blaming and spreading their stupidity (well, they don't know that, of course).
I don't know how this situation could be alleviated. Really don't. We had talks now and then with my friends on this matter, and e could never come up with an idea that would solve Everyday Joe's problems regarding computer illiteracy. And mostly because these everyday people think they know whatthey ae doing. Why ? Because companies like MS tell them, that everything is easy and that Windows is secure. And yes, to most people out there computer===Windows.
Just another bad idea being forced (and for money, geez) upon everyone. Just wondering, how many people are there with same names (I am one of those people, who have such names that are one in a dozen in my culture and language) who will fight for a good i-name. The other point, who on this planet would trust every online access on a single id ? Well, nobody with a sane mind would. Once found out, all your base are belong to them.
No way I am willing to be forced into such a thing and even cashing out money for such a wrong purpose.
MS's passport wasn't that good either, but at least I (we) didn't have to pay for it.
Well, probably just like all those other illiterates [i.e. technical, computer/ing, networking, network security, inter(-)net(-)working, etc.] political faces out there who like to regulate those anarchistic people who think the internet is all theirs. How could anything in this world be completely free and not regulated by some [american] authority in some form ? That would not be the world I'm living in. They probably just get the shivers running all over them when reminded the people have a medium where they can freely express in text/audio/still&motion picture/whatever their opinions on anything, and perform almost free and uncontrolled data [i.e. anything in any form] interchange.
He just probably feels like, hey, there's something I didn't (yet) put my hands on, that can't be good.
Well, I have to tell, that I substantally wouldn't be against some form of - not government-controlled - signed/verified internet ID. But presenting such ID while accessing internet contents shouldn't be made compulsory - with the exception of certain agency- and gov. sites. --- But the thing is, when government people start to talkabout internet access and/or content control and access rights I become opposing and offensive right in the first moment.
I just don't like to be controlled more. Thing is, these days the internet is one of those still free places, in one or the other way. It's hard to speak about loosing ground.
There must come a time when you will stop deluding yourselves on this mass scale. Your stealing stuff and these companies are not evil trying to stop you, you're the ones that are evil.
I don't think I'm the delusional here. I never stated pirating is good. Never would. But that doesn't justify the actions (generally, not specifically) of the beloved associations, which have been anything but ethical or agreeable.
What I'm tired of sometimtes are narrow people like yourself, sir, who see the sharing (be that torrent or else) as being bad and sharers as being or doing evil - which they are not (again, generically, not specifically).
Whoever was responsible, it surely isn't one of the many-many, oh yes, and many other:) people, who use bittorent regularly to fetch stuff. That is, we all have some hunch who might be the bad guy: a). those who oppose all forms of sharing (won't name them, you know those bad, bad, bad guys in associations:) needn't have been themselves personally, but you know this alright b). somebody who just has something against suprnova or the others.
Port scanning for this purpose ? Naah, why be brutal and unethical (on the top of sharing, that is) since we have service discovery solutions for ages now.
[...]A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal[...]
How is this new. I've been tracking this app for months now, downloading from time to tie and trying it. It's good and everything (mythtv and freevo stand closer to my heart by anyway), but drooling it being new stuff... well, just nother well informed guy.
Okay, so two of them to have 1.6T in mirror (not much else to do with this for data protection I guess, it beeing seen as 1 large HDD) would be ~$6000.
Ummkey. So 8 pieces of Seagate 400gb would be around $3000-3500 and I Raid them anyway I wish.
Yes, you're right. The XML-like meta-data possibilties of MPEG7 provide a framework for this kind of application - for this very purpose.
But what is by any means needed to be able to automatically index the hundreds of thousands of videos out there and generate the meta-data with which to fill in the provided framework, so that in future queries can be performed.
One might think indexing is an easy task but it isn't. We are also working on different kinds of indexing techniques which can provide many ways of extracting different types of informations from videos and store them in a format compatible with MPEG7's meta-data recommendations.
There's a very bright future in this matter. The strange thing to many regarding this topic may be that the main task is not in the searching, but in the indexing. Google is a company which has the brain-power in stock to quickly introduce this in practice. And it needn't be perfect, business works different than science: being faster in delivery is more important than being perfect. What's the researchers' (i.e. ours too) task is to find out better and faster ways of doing it.
I'd certainly welcome a useful video searching application in the future, and also would be pleased to see it delivered by Google (yes, I'm quite a Google fan).
Copyright matters ? I'll just leave those to lawyers, they also need money for food you know:)
According to the place where I ordered my LOTR3 EE box set (preordered so many months ago, I can't even recall the exact date:) ), they'll ship it on dec10, so I'm counting the days already. A marathon with my friends has already been discussed after LOTR2:) so I'm looking forward to it also:) Will be hell of a day, 12+ hours of LOTR:) Kewlest ever:)
I have id's for all the major IM's (icq, msn, aim, jabber) and I also use it from time to time, but I always and ever prefer signed e-mail-ing. Why ? Because I usually don't have the time for IM-chitchatting. People tend to be extensively gassy when talking over IM channels. With e-mail, I check when I have the time, I answer when I have the time (usually 2-3 times a day) and I "speak" only that much as time permits. I find it simply more effective.
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Where I live, SG-1 has barely put feet in season 6. but I already saw all episodes aired wherever up to this day. Alas, I'm not a die-hard-give-all-fsck-others fan of SG-1 (but you could call me one in the case of Trek and Babylon :) for tv-shows, and for a storefull of sci-fi literature), but there were many bits and points in the storyline [of SG-1] which kept me watching episodes one after the other.
:))
These bits and points thing was a huge miss for me in the Farscape show, especially for two main reasons: the very immaturely childish nature of the storyline, and the actors [i.e. acting]. I deliberately don't include the design and the puppets, because a story's goodness factor doesn't really depend on there being puppets or not.
So when I read this story on guys coming over for extendd periods from Farscape, I just shivered. I guess SG-1 has provided me(us) fan(s) with a pretty long enjoyable story (pushed to be lenghtened twice already), so I won't be especially sad to see it go, but I hope these guys won't think they are still in Farscape, and provide us with a show worthy to still be called Stargate SG-1.
I hope JDA and AT will be back for good play, the show wouldn't be the same without JDA's "comments" either
Warning: I'm on my Christmas Trolling Spree (TM) :)
/. front
/. this year :) More "news" like this on the front page and it will be for good :)
I mean things like:
replicating such features on your Windows PC with little effort and a small investment
doesn't make me shiver or feel anything besides deep sadness for the (again) experienced ingorance wave.
First, I don't care how newbies are just discovering that their computers can do more than playing nobrainer video games for the price of a used car.
Second, still don't really care how greenhorns can make a Windows PC record anything. I mean I do to some extent like helping people out, or such, but not to the extent to read about it on
Then, let's say there are people out there who use their computers for PVR-like purposes for more years than the supposedly informed writer knew such pieces of hardware exists. Sometimes I just wonder how many useless rants could one write on some evident applications of computers these days and there would be a mass of people who would still buy them as new stuff.
I'm out, hopefully no more
... but then I visited the site and now I think this guy is simply nuts :P
/. :) Give credit where it's due :) Great job, man :)
:))))
But hey, he managed to get into
I think we should make every month 7 days long, each day should be 48 hours long, 1 hour should be 600 seconds long, and seconds should be the time a half-legged Santa can bounce around the Christmas tree. Yeah, and make those 7 days all Sundays, 'cause some people would just spend their lives fishing instead of reading stupid stuff all day long.
I hope this guy won't be too much surprised when he realizes that that hypnotizing show he went to last week actually worked !!
I don't see. Some M$ (yes, that's a dollar sign, so complain) program manager has a weak morning, without his coffee, and pukes out some words, which are really nothing more/less one would expect from anyone from M$. So what we (/.) do ? Start bashing the poor guy, in hundreds of comments, uslessly, because he won't change his mind, no matter what.
So I won't do that [bash'm]. I just feel the same sadness which I've felt for many years now: with people thinking as this one does, working in hundreds at M$, this company still managed to pull so much dollars over the decades. I guess it takes really good braindeads to convince the braindead masses.
Unless such guys are totally schizophrenic, then they really do and live by what they think. And that makes me very happy that I don't know many of them.
I can't listen to this stuff, maybe someone in the first few moved it instead of copying, so please put it back :)
/. crowd, all them servers are belong to us :7
Geez, we, the
These searching tools stand nothing close to good video searching. Video searching is when you make a query for football games like: green background, horizontal camera motion and multiple motions in the lower half.
Or when you say, I wish to find all the videos from the last 30 years with a specific theme or content.
There have begun to emerge sorts of MPEG-7-based video database/library applications and solutions, both indexing-wise and query-wise. And only this seems today the right way to gather large, indexable and searchable video databases.
Searching videos by names... lame and useless. Like: what, we can't have steak ? Ok, let's eat chicken then, that's meat of an animal too.
Yup, inless they make a deal like those british folks over the water, right in their neighborhood.
Oh, holy A.C., thank you for thy fine words filled with heavenly wisdom, for our poor souls can now be saved.
STFU
Read the freaking article, ~200 bucks is for a complete machine loaded with Xandros Linux Wal-Mart.com is carrying a fully loaded Linux desktop computer with the pre-installed Xandros Desktop Operating System (OS) for only $199.98
Again, RTFA, man.
When I read trhough the comments, I saw the fortune down the page was: The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when then get to know each other (Cpt. Kirk)
Now this is also true for Linux distros. I just got fed up over the years with the ever going bashing and false arguments.
I mean like: install and looks like Windows - so what the heck, exactly a point why I never would want such a distro on my machines; or it's the best multimedia distro - again, what the heck, it's just what you make of it, my main debian box (this one going, updated and cared of for more then 1.5 years - hardware changed about 5 times since then, the linux remained the same - try that Widnows) is just as good in multimedia as any other you would find out there, because I'm not just chatting about it, but I actually install and customiaze everything to my needs. Or better yet: hey, it supports this and that [hardware, that is] - biggest BS that could be - aside from some company customizations, the kernel is the same, stop making my head spin.
And I could just go on. Thing is, at least IMO, while all this BS-ing is a good way to show all-time Windows (l)users that Linux can be Windows-like if one wishes so, I just couldn't care less how Windows-like a distro is. And I'm not alone.
And that means one has to come up with more than such argumentation to even consider me switching. That doesn't mean I don't try and use other distros than Debian - it's just means Debian stays, others come-and-go all the time.
I mean, come on, advising such things as shutting down one's mail server in order not to receive the spam is not a solution. It's like turning away from a problem and say that if you don't see it, it doesn't exist. It's plain stupid.
:) Really, if someone would come up to me with a "solution" like this I would loudly laugh in his face right away :)
:)
Geez, I just keep smacking my head into my desk, after having read it again
Like, hey the road is bumpy, so I won't use my car for a week, and they'll just go away.
One thing would help though: if you would shut down the spammers' machines for a long while
Man, my head still aches from this one.
Oh, so you have to enable javascript for this "hack" to work :) and even if, it may not work. Sorry guys@secunia, javascript is such luxury which I enable only purposedly on (pretty rare) occasions.
People are just plain ignorant. Not few of them, some of them, but most of them. Just think how many computers are sold on a year, and try to guess how many of those are as much as amateurs regarding basic computer operating: pretty low, that number would be. People just buy the box, don't really care what's inside, they just want that their internet (which is equivalent to them with Internet Explorer in terms and in function as well) just works, that their movies and music just play. They never even get to the point where they would recognize the fact that basic protection would save them from 99% of their troubles. They just blame those fscking hackers, viruses (if they know whatthey are, that is), file sharers and open source in general. I have met such people, that's why I tell. For some of them FOSS developers are malicious hakcers spreading programs that make their computers slow so they need to buy a new one.
If it rains outside generally people take an umbrella or a cab or go by car. If a tsunami comes over their computers, they just simply don't care, but they are high and quick on blaming and spreading their stupidity (well, they don't know that, of course).
I don't know how this situation could be alleviated. Really don't. We had talks now and then with my friends on this matter, and e could never come up with an idea that would solve Everyday Joe's problems regarding computer illiteracy. And mostly because these everyday people think they know whatthey ae doing. Why ? Because companies like MS tell them, that everything is easy and that Windows is secure. And yes, to most people out there computer===Windows.
Just another bad idea being forced (and for money, geez) upon everyone. Just wondering, how many people are there with same names (I am one of those people, who have such names that are one in a dozen in my culture and language) who will fight for a good i-name. The other point, who on this planet would trust every online access on a single id ? Well, nobody with a sane mind would. Once found out, all your base are belong to them.
No way I am willing to be forced into such a thing and even cashing out money for such a wrong purpose.
MS's passport wasn't that good either, but at least I (we) didn't have to pay for it.
What exactly does he want?
Well, probably just like all those other illiterates [i.e. technical, computer/ing, networking, network security, inter(-)net(-)working, etc.] political faces out there who like to regulate those anarchistic people who think the internet is all theirs. How could anything in this world be completely free and not regulated by some [american] authority in some form ? That would not be the world I'm living in. They probably just get the shivers running all over them when reminded the people have a medium where they can freely express in text/audio/still&motion picture/whatever their opinions on anything, and perform almost free and uncontrolled data [i.e. anything in any form] interchange.
He just probably feels like, hey, there's something I didn't (yet) put my hands on, that can't be good.
Well, I have to tell, that I substantally wouldn't be against some form of - not government-controlled - signed/verified internet ID. But presenting such ID while accessing internet contents shouldn't be made compulsory - with the exception of certain agency- and gov. sites. --- But the thing is, when government people start to talkabout internet access and/or content control and access rights I become opposing and offensive right in the first moment.
I just don't like to be controlled more. Thing is, these days the internet is one of those still free places, in one or the other way. It's hard to speak about loosing ground.
There must come a time when you will stop deluding yourselves on this mass scale. Your stealing stuff and these companies are not evil trying to stop you, you're the ones that are evil.
I don't think I'm the delusional here. I never stated pirating is good. Never would. But that doesn't justify the actions (generally, not specifically) of the beloved associations, which have been anything but ethical or agreeable.
What I'm tired of sometimtes are narrow people like yourself, sir, who see the sharing (be that torrent or else) as being bad and sharers as being or doing evil - which they are not (again, generically, not specifically).
Whoever was responsible, it surely isn't one of the many-many, oh yes, and many other :) people, who use bittorent regularly to fetch stuff. That is, we all have some hunch who might be the bad guy: a). those who oppose all forms of sharing (won't name them, you know those bad, bad, bad guys in associations :) needn't have been themselves personally, but you know this alright b). somebody who just has something against suprnova or the others.
Port scanning for this purpose ? Naah, why be brutal and unethical (on the top of sharing, that is) since we have service discovery solutions for ages now.
[...]A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal[...]
How is this new. I've been tracking this app for months now, downloading from time to tie and trying it. It's good and everything (mythtv and freevo stand closer to my heart by anyway), but drooling it being new stuff... well, just nother well informed guy.
...please don't allow Santa to bring me worthless junk this year, please, we already got failry cheap toilet paper stocked up
if you do, I will write a book about having received a book about iPods, I swear I will
hey, maybe then I'll get loads of cash 'cause stupid folks are going to buy it
hell, there really are people out there who are so damn bored that they start to write books about their music players
Okay, so two of them to have 1.6T in mirror (not much else to do with this for data protection I guess, it beeing seen as 1 large HDD) would be ~$6000.
Ummkey. So 8 pieces of Seagate 400gb would be around $3000-3500 and I Raid them anyway I wish.
Crap for gold, that's what this is.
Yes, you're right. The XML-like meta-data possibilties of MPEG7 provide a framework for this kind of application - for this very purpose.
:)
But what is by any means needed to be able to automatically index the hundreds of thousands of videos out there and generate the meta-data with which to fill in the provided framework, so that in future queries can be performed.
One might think indexing is an easy task but it isn't. We are also working on different kinds of indexing techniques which can provide many ways of extracting different types of informations from videos and store them in a format compatible with MPEG7's meta-data recommendations.
There's a very bright future in this matter. The strange thing to many regarding this topic may be that the main task is not in the searching, but in the indexing. Google is a company which has the brain-power in stock to quickly introduce this in practice. And it needn't be perfect, business works different than science: being faster in delivery is more important than being perfect. What's the researchers' (i.e. ours too) task is to find out better and faster ways of doing it.
I'd certainly welcome a useful video searching application in the future, and also would be pleased to see it delivered by Google (yes, I'm quite a Google fan).
Copyright matters ? I'll just leave those to lawyers, they also need money for food you know
According to the place where I ordered my LOTR3 EE box set (preordered so many months ago, I can't even recall the exact date :) ), they'll ship it on dec10, so I'm counting the days already. A marathon with my friends has already been discussed after LOTR2 :) so I'm looking forward to it also :) Will be hell of a day, 12+ hours of LOTR :) Kewlest ever :)
I have id's for all the major IM's (icq, msn, aim, jabber) and I also use it from time to time, but I always and ever prefer signed e-mail-ing. Why ? Because I usually don't have the time for IM-chitchatting. People tend to be extensively gassy when talking over IM channels. With e-mail, I check when I have the time, I answer when I have the time (usually 2-3 times a day) and I "speak" only that much as time permits. I find it simply more effective.
well, 203 was ment to be 2-3, sorry