Pop the DVD in, crack a beer, and watch the film. Anytime you feel the nihilism of deep criticism threaten to overcome the movie, take a sip. Fanbois are well advised to keep several crates of ale on hand.
Good to know you've got lots of beer on hand.
See my kids love those films. They thing the Ewoks are cute and Jar Jar is funny. Maybe you're too old to be watching them.
Best pop out to the liquor store now, before it closes.
Personally I am quite glad they are delaying it until it is fully backwards compatible.
Umm dude this is slashdot. The correct response is "This new standard sucks. It would be 10x faster if they didn't worry about back compatibility cruft" from a bunch of people who didn't understand the old standard but have been told it was really complex.
A good example would be x64 replacing x86. Every single nerd on the internet knows that x86 is bloated and that x64 should have started from scratch, despite the fact that a look at a picture of the die of a modern processor shows that the actually CPU core is completely dwarfed by cache. Oh and lots of people including Intel have built RISC and VLIW chips without the x86 legacy stuff and they didn't turn out to have a long term performance advantage over the 'crufty' x86. Actually the cruft on x86 is a slightly larger hardware decode unit for frequently used instructions compared to RISC. Still x86 instructions take up less room in memory and thus in the cache. It could well be that it's cheaper to build a larger decoder than it would be to increase the cache size to fit the same number of RISC instructions in it.
Maybe it's like USB 3.0 XHCI spec. Our spec is like beautiful man. But you can't just download the PDF from a webpage. You need to get your boss to sign something and fax it and then post the originals. Bureaucratic Fucks.
Admittedly I haven't looked very far, but there don't appear to be any here on slashdot, and the article linked in the story is filled with dozens of comments saying "SOCIALISM IS TEH EVIL!!!!!1111111" or "OBAMA IS HITLER AND SATAN COMBINED", only with worse spelling.
The Obama worshippers are on Digg and Reddit. With even worse spelling.
That doesn't necessarily have to do with racism, either, he's being compared to a murdering psychopath. I don't recall seeing that too much, even with our last President.
Virtually all US Presidents get compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mao and so on at some point due to Godwin's law. More to the point a lot of the comparisons are funny, and hence in the public interest. Most Presidents haven't been compared to The Joker because the movie only came out recently.
I disagree with this being taken down but I also disagree with the knee-jerk response that this is high art and shouldn't be scrutinized. My mind was open to this image, I thought about it, and came to my own conclusions. Free speech is worthless without free thinking, if that makes any sense.
All people seem to be saying is that you can't take this down because of copyright because it is a parody and hence fair use. Whether it's a funny parody or a clever one is irrelevant.
I think it's one of those things which is likeable because it's not very clever. Like the image of the Burger King character menacing someone with "Where is your God now?" shopped on the bottom.
There's actually a formula for this case - take a (relatively) benign image and mix it with a creepy one. This example is not art IMO and it's not clever. However it should be protected by fair use because some images produced like this are both.
Actually if you believe in memes as version of genes this is what happens when two memes breed to produce offspring. The Burger King case is an example of random mutation from the perspective of the memes. Of course in practice some stoned dude captioned an image he found sinister. There's selection too - funny images will get posted more frequently and hence have a higher chance to mate.
Since this is how BABBY IS FORMED the process should be protected under copyright law as fair use.
I did read a page dealing with US Code, and the final entry said something about being repealed, but it wasn't clear if a subsection, or the entire section dealing with sedition had been repealed.
I strongly suspect that it can be rolled out if the government chooses to use it. I also feel that sedition should have been used against US citizens who went to Afghanistan to fight against US forces, rather than creating some damnfool "illegal combatant" laws to cover them.
Isn't fighting against your own country's army with a rival army treason rather than sedition?
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
The US is the fattest country on Earth - if you look at the data it has the highest percentage of people with a Body Mass Index above 30. Asians for some reason seem not to get as fat as Caucasians. I actually wonder if it might be a design thing - Caucasians after all are from Northern Europe where it is cold. It seems like a tendency to put on weight when there is lots of food would be a survival characteristic. Asians tend to come from warmer countries and there is probably is not. Still it's also a diet thing too - Asians fed on McDonalds will get fat, though not as fat as Caucasians.
> You are claiming "the meaning of life is endorphins."
Umm no. Life has no meaning and you're just a machine that is programmed to breed. Endorphins are the way the primitive bits of your brain tell the less primitive bits to do that. If you ignore them you'll be miserable. You have no free will per se, it is just an illusion.
Still sex feels good and when babies arrive you're programmed to care about them. Tina when you meet her is programmed to love you and you are programmed to love her. Well actually love is just as illusory as free will, but like free will it seems subjectively very real and that is all that matters.
The problem with things like WoW is that you think you can choose them instead of doing what you're designed to do but then you run into the hard limit on free will. Robots that are programmed to breed would obviously not last long if they were able to choose to do something else.
You don't help such people by taking away their games and forcing them to go to dance clubs (or whatever). They just sit there, feeling alone in the crowd, and wishing they could be doing something more interesting than listen to air-heads blather on about shoes.
Think of life as being an adventure. No, I'm not being trite, consider.
You are in a room at a club. It is dark. An airhead is talking about shoes. It is dark here, you may be beaten by a chav.
:N
You go North. You are in a room at a club. It is dark. A cute girl is wearing a T shirt with an XKCD cartoon on it
:TALK TO GIRL
Her name is Tina, she is studying for a PhD in physics....
And look on the bright side. At least Tina speaks the same language as you. Some of us have it much harder. See you have goals, helpfully hardwired into by evolution. If you pursue them you will be rewarded with endorphins, like the Achievements on XBox.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for? Louis: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
You think you can fool Microsoft so easily? Perhaps you can disguise your mouse and your IP address--but as soon as you switch your spelling dictionary to American English, they'll nail you.
Microsoft is like seawater. Everywhere, but poisonous.
Actually, what I want is REAL choice = REAL freedom.
In our current episode, Microsoft is playing games with the European regulators in hopes of appeasing them. In our last episode, Microsoft wanted to dictate Vista or DEATH! Wait, Microsoft didn't mean it. Now you can choose Windows 7 with only 35% of the awful and unneeded features of Vista! And at a special price, too. Such a deal!
Microsoft has become way to big to fail, which means too big to exist. Sooner or later they are going to fail. Whoops. Who am I kidding? Microsoft is constantly failing. What I mean is sooner or later they are going to fail so big and so hard that the economic consequences will be astronomical. This is TOO big.
Actually, I think the part that most annoys me is that Microsoft has actually become such a powerful a brake on progress. No software innovation is safe if Microsoft wants to kill it. My personal least favorite is what Microsoft did to Palm. Is it somehow supposed to be better because the entire thing was insincere? Now they've apparently decided to abandon that turkey?
From the 'positive' perspective, why would Microsoft want to innovate when they're already getting the lion's share? New versions? That's a decision for marketing! What year will be convenient for the next marketing campaign? That's the WRONG basis for improvements.
Suggestion: Cut Microsoft into 5 companies. Call them Microsoft A to E with a time limit before they need to pick new names. Give each of them a copy of the source code and 1/5 of the people and facilities and assets. Require them to compete. Windows can remain the standard OS, but they have to compete on the basis of the standard, and all changes and improvements to the standard must be discussed in public and agreed to, or the changes will be proprietary to that branch of the company.
Result? Real choice = freedom.
Side effect? As the code bases evolve over time, the single points of failure will be eliminated. Instead of 80% of the world's computers being at risk from one programming mistake, the risk will be greatly reduced.
Don't think of it as a penalty for success. It's an inducement to reproduce your company when you are successful enough. A new form of corporate evolution that increases our freedom while also creating more pressure for creative innovations and progress. (If you succeed again up to about 40% of the market, then your company should reproduce again, just to note the obvious.)
How do you feel about the Search Doggy in Windows XP?
In five years time, Vista will never have happened too. It's hard to write this in English because it doesn't have a Future Nonpast tense like Newspeak.
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As someone said to me after quoting some obnoxious but funny football chant "I'm not a football fan, I'm a football fan fan".
Pop the DVD in, crack a beer, and watch the film. Anytime you feel the nihilism of deep criticism threaten to overcome the movie, take a sip. Fanbois are well advised to keep several crates of ale on hand.
Good to know you've got lots of beer on hand.
See my kids love those films. They thing the Ewoks are cute and Jar Jar is funny. Maybe you're too old to be watching them.
Best pop out to the liquor store now, before it closes.
Personally I am quite glad they are delaying it until it is fully backwards compatible.
Umm dude this is slashdot. The correct response is "This new standard sucks. It would be 10x faster if they didn't worry about back compatibility cruft" from a bunch of people who didn't understand the old standard but have been told it was really complex.
A good example would be x64 replacing x86. Every single nerd on the internet knows that x86 is bloated and that x64 should have started from scratch, despite the fact that a look at a picture of the die of a modern processor shows that the actually CPU core is completely dwarfed by cache. Oh and lots of people including Intel have built RISC and VLIW chips without the x86 legacy stuff and they didn't turn out to have a long term performance advantage over the 'crufty' x86. Actually the cruft on x86 is a slightly larger hardware decode unit for frequently used instructions compared to RISC. Still x86 instructions take up less room in memory and thus in the cache. It could well be that it's cheaper to build a larger decoder than it would be to increase the cache size to fit the same number of RISC instructions in it.
Maybe it's like USB 3.0 XHCI spec. Our spec is like beautiful man. But you can't just download the PDF from a webpage. You need to get your boss to sign something and fax it and then post the originals. Bureaucratic Fucks.
http://www.intel.com/technology/usb/xhcispec.htm
Wait, so they expect user to recharge the screen so that they can watch ads? Doesn't seem too effective and easy to pass over...
You'd be better off powering the adverts with a radiothermal generator. That way the bastards won't escape.
Hal Porter
CEO
Porter Nuclear Advertising Inc
Any tool that would measure Olympic athletes as obese should not be taken seriously.
Well you shouldn't use it to measure the obesity of olympic athletes. For the average cubicle drone it works fine.
Admittedly I haven't looked very far, but there don't appear to be any here on slashdot, and the article linked in the story is filled with dozens of comments saying "SOCIALISM IS TEH EVIL!!!!!1111111" or "OBAMA IS HITLER AND SATAN COMBINED", only with worse spelling.
The Obama worshippers are on Digg and Reddit. With even worse spelling.
That doesn't necessarily have to do with racism, either, he's being compared to a murdering psychopath. I don't recall seeing that too much, even with our last President.
Virtually all US Presidents get compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mao and so on at some point due to Godwin's law. More to the point a lot of the comparisons are funny, and hence in the public interest. Most Presidents haven't been compared to The Joker because the movie only came out recently.
I disagree with this being taken down but I also disagree with the knee-jerk response that this is high art and shouldn't be scrutinized. My mind was open to this image, I thought about it, and came to my own conclusions. Free speech is worthless without free thinking, if that makes any sense.
All people seem to be saying is that you can't take this down because of copyright because it is a parody and hence fair use. Whether it's a funny parody or a clever one is irrelevant.
I think it's one of those things which is likeable because it's not very clever. Like the image of the Burger King character menacing someone with "Where is your God now?" shopped on the bottom.
There's actually a formula for this case - take a (relatively) benign image and mix it with a creepy one. This example is not art IMO and it's not clever. However it should be protected by fair use because some images produced like this are both.
Actually if you believe in memes as version of genes this is what happens when two memes breed to produce offspring. The Burger King case is an example of random mutation from the perspective of the memes. Of course in practice some stoned dude captioned an image he found sinister. There's selection too - funny images will get posted more frequently and hence have a higher chance to mate.
Since this is how BABBY IS FORMED the process should be protected under copyright law as fair use.
I did read a page dealing with US Code, and the final entry said something about being repealed, but it wasn't clear if a subsection, or the entire section dealing with sedition had been repealed.
I strongly suspect that it can be rolled out if the government chooses to use it. I also feel that sedition should have been used against US citizens who went to Afghanistan to fight against US forces, rather than creating some damnfool "illegal combatant" laws to cover them.
Isn't fighting against your own country's army with a rival army treason rather than sedition?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2381.html
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
You are dancing all by yourself...as always....
You could write a song about that. I don't reckon Billy Idol had problems picking up women.
The US is the fattest country on Earth - if you look at the data it has the highest percentage of people with a Body Mass Index above 30. Asians for some reason seem not to get as fat as Caucasians. I actually wonder if it might be a design thing - Caucasians after all are from Northern Europe where it is cold. It seems like a tendency to put on weight when there is lots of food would be a survival characteristic. Asians tend to come from warmer countries and there is probably is not. Still it's also a diet thing too - Asians fed on McDonalds will get fat, though not as fat as Caucasians.
> You are claiming "the meaning of life is endorphins."
Umm no. Life has no meaning and you're just a machine that is programmed to breed. Endorphins are the way the primitive bits of your brain tell the less primitive bits to do that. If you ignore them you'll be miserable. You have no free will per se, it is just an illusion.
Still sex feels good and when babies arrive you're programmed to care about them. Tina when you meet her is programmed to love you and you are programmed to love her. Well actually love is just as illusory as free will, but like free will it seems subjectively very real and that is all that matters.
The problem with things like WoW is that you think you can choose them instead of doing what you're designed to do but then you run into the hard limit on free will. Robots that are programmed to breed would obviously not last long if they were able to choose to do something else.
It's not just Caucasians either. I've noticed people getting fatter in Thailand and Japan over the last say ten years.
You don't help such people by taking away their games and forcing them to go to dance clubs (or whatever). They just sit there, feeling alone in the crowd, and wishing they could be doing something more interesting than listen to air-heads blather on about shoes.
Think of life as being an adventure. No, I'm not being trite, consider.
And look on the bright side. At least Tina speaks the same language as you. Some of us have it much harder. See you have goals, helpfully hardwired into by evolution. If you pursue them you will be rewarded with endorphins, like the Achievements on XBox.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for?
Louis: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
However, Canucks appear to be split or undecided on the vexed question of whether to use "aluminum" or "aluminium"
Why not use the Eunified Eunglish spelling of alumininiium?
I think calling an OS "Doctor DOS" is a bit elitist. What about non PhDs?
You think you can fool Microsoft so easily? Perhaps you can disguise your mouse and your IP address--but as soon as you switch your spelling dictionary to American English, they'll nail you.
Microsoft is like seawater. Everywhere, but poisonous.
Actually, what I want is REAL choice = REAL freedom.
In our current episode, Microsoft is playing games with the European regulators in hopes of appeasing them. In our last episode, Microsoft wanted to dictate Vista or DEATH! Wait, Microsoft didn't mean it. Now you can choose Windows 7 with only 35% of the awful and unneeded features of Vista! And at a special price, too. Such a deal!
Microsoft has become way to big to fail, which means too big to exist. Sooner or later they are going to fail. Whoops. Who am I kidding? Microsoft is constantly failing. What I mean is sooner or later they are going to fail so big and so hard that the economic consequences will be astronomical. This is TOO big.
Actually, I think the part that most annoys me is that Microsoft has actually become such a powerful a brake on progress. No software innovation is safe if Microsoft wants to kill it. My personal least favorite is what Microsoft did to Palm. Is it somehow supposed to be better because the entire thing was insincere? Now they've apparently decided to abandon that turkey?
From the 'positive' perspective, why would Microsoft want to innovate when they're already getting the lion's share? New versions? That's a decision for marketing! What year will be convenient for the next marketing campaign? That's the WRONG basis for improvements.
Suggestion: Cut Microsoft into 5 companies. Call them Microsoft A to E with a time limit before they need to pick new names. Give each of them a copy of the source code and 1/5 of the people and facilities and assets. Require them to compete. Windows can remain the standard OS, but they have to compete on the basis of the standard, and all changes and improvements to the standard must be discussed in public and agreed to, or the changes will be proprietary to that branch of the company.
Result? Real choice = freedom.
Side effect? As the code bases evolve over time, the single points of failure will be eliminated. Instead of 80% of the world's computers being at risk from one programming mistake, the risk will be greatly reduced.
Don't think of it as a penalty for success. It's an inducement to reproduce your company when you are successful enough. A new form of corporate evolution that increases our freedom while also creating more pressure for creative innovations and progress. (If you succeed again up to about 40% of the market, then your company should reproduce again, just to note the obvious.)
How do you feel about the Search Doggy in Windows XP?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/crawford_september03.mspx
They don't flush backwards, you're just looking at the vortex from the other side.
Low particulate emissions are bourgeois imperialist plot to deprive the great Chinese Race of vital air vitamins.
VMs let me run both OSs. Windows 7 as the host and Windows XP as the guest.
Gullible has been removed from the dictionary too.
Don't worry. This reactor is cooled by liquid metal, i.e. mimetic polyalloy.
the lightbulb in your refrigerator, which turns on when the door is open, and off when it is closed.
That's just a theory.
Windows ME never happened.
In five years time, Vista will never have happened too. It's hard to write this in English because it doesn't have a Future Nonpast tense like Newspeak.