Thanks, for the info, you should definitely be modded up. I didn't send in the petition, but I did fill out a couple that were available from my own area, regarding the DMCA and the Trademark act. I'd encourage others to do the same via the good folks over at the EFF.
I know this is a bit ignorant of me, but, what happens when you sign a petition and you're not a member of one of the resident states. Do the petitions just not go anywhere? Are they seen but disregarded, do a fleet of black trucks show up at my house for "inconveniencing the reps". More importantly, does the voice get heard at all. Sorta like when a line gets stricken from the record in court, yeah, the jury is supposed to ignore it, but it still gets heard. What happens?
Honestly, years ago before AOL went to the unlimited hours plan, the chat rooms on AOL used to be a more fun, more intelligent space, but I believe that's because mostly it was adults who were paying $2.95/hr to be there. So they made it more worth their while thus making it better for everyone else there. But as soon as they went to that free for all, the floodgates were opened wide with the kids and the "a/s/l" "if yoor a gurl and wanna have hot sex press 11111". Ah, the good old days....wait, did I just say something good about AOL? Damn! What's come over me?
I never thought of Yahoo as the hot chat room spot. No matter how many Yahoo chats or Aol or whatever, the chat place to be will always be IRC, which they'll never shut down and probably always have the most freedom in terms of channels available and content within.
Why cut it loose, let it complete the missions that it can, then retire it in a timely fashion, just because it can't do all that is necessary isn't a cause dismiss it entirely.
I was like you. I didn't know, nor care about the show, until I read a couple articles here. So, I rented the DVDs out of curiousity, and found it to be quite a solid show with solid storylines, and complex, realistic characters. After watching the entire series, I'm now excited about the film. I'd say try it out, maybe you like it, maybe not. But I think it's worth a go round and maybe next time a Firefly article pops up, you might be one of us blathering idiots, screaming things like "I can't wait for the movie" and "I can't believe those idiots at Fox ruined this series", etc, etc.
ps: I'm not a die hard Sci-Fi series fan. I haven't ever really followed any of the Star Trek series, or Battlestar Galactica (new series), or any thing on the SciFi network for that matter. I just found Firefly to be a good show.
I must agree, his hidden story intrigued more than River. Something tells me, he did some dirty deeds in his day. Something I doubt they'll go into too much depth in the movie.
I'd much rather have the DVDs, than have to wait for Sci-Fi to pick it up, and air it at their discretion. "Hmm, do I want to wait until Sci-Fi shows it Wed. @ 8:00, or whenever I damn well please?". Winner: DVDs. Bonus, you get all the extras, like the gag reel, and the behind the scenes stuff.
As long as it runs their copy of Office and all programs they're running are also compatible with 2000 still, I don't see the incentive to spend thousands on a upgrade that is probably seen as highly unnecessary at this time, not to mention they're probably running them on boxes that would be slowed down by XP. The lack of support coming at the end of the month may have some incentive to move to a new version, but I still doubt many will see it as a great need to move on.
Your method does sound better. Maybe they weren't thinking so practically. My guess is that one party proposed an idea that incorporated the kids, the other obliged. I'm sure that this wasn't the optimal method or the most necessary project, but I still stick to my opinion that for the kids it was something cool, that's all. Simply, a fun little project for the schoolkids who have the opportunity for the rest of their lives to say "Hey! My class project got taken into outer space."
My basic meaning is that he wont be as embraced by the people as much as he once was and he'll probably be viewed as a traitor and/or a sell out by more than a few. Of course he can't be shut out by the code, but he can by the contributors, who may no longer wish to collaborate with him as they might be weary of his motives.
The impressive part would not be the incineration, but the orbit. They get to do something few, if any kids have gotten to do. Which is have their classwork put into space and possibly transmitted. Which does a minimum of two things:
1. Get them interested in some normally mundane schoolwork
2. Get them interested in the space program.
The cost is minimal for both the school and the space program, as it is just the cost of scanning some pics, burning a few cd's and mailing them to space authority, where they will have piggybacked on an already planned mission and thrown out with the suit that has been deemed surplus and is going to be jettisoned anyway. They aren't spending billions of dollars to send artwork into space, the astronauts are just taking it with them and putting them into orbit along with the radio equipment. There's not a lot of trouble accompanied with this nice action. Jeez, lighten up a bit and remember they're doing it for the kids.
If Microsoft truly wants to get in touch with the Open Source community, why remove Robbins from it completely. I think they would do better to make him a paid freelance consultant. I believe that once he's gone to "the dark side" in the community's eyes, he'll never be able to look at the movement from an insider's point of view again. But now, MS will have taken a big player away, and as I see it, they're simply killing of bit of competition and will use this knowledge to kill more. But then again, I see MS as not wanting OSS to exist at all. I believe a more faith based relationship will have been developed between MS and the OS community if they had gone the consultant route, allowing Robbins to continue to develop there, but keep MS abreast of what's going on and how they could coexist more peacefully or even intermingle.
If I was one of those students, whether it's being transmitted or not, I'd think it's much more awesome that my art is orbiting space rather than just hanging on the class wall or in the hallways or even on the fridge (which they may also be). Can you say that your schoolwork got to hitch a ride on a spaceship then got to float in orbit in a spacesuit for a while? It's not necessarily important, but for a few kids, on a scale from 1 to Cool Shit: I'd say it ranks, Cool Shit.
In ninth grade algebra, I walk into class and the teacher had put an infinity symbol on the whiteboard. I, being the smart ass I am says,
"Mr. Dewey, who killed eight?"
Mr. Dewey says without missing a beat,
"Pi, It's an irrational number."
(Feel free to throw tomatoes at my post. But I did warn you that it was corny, plus this is as humorous as I get at 2am EDT.)
I'm not sure what breaks PS CS on SP2, but I know a few people who haven't had any problems with it. My version stopped working after SP2, it locks up during the splash screen.
If you read the reference link that I added, you'll see that it applies to all SP2 machines. Check the title, introduction, and "applies to" section at the bottom it does not single out 64 processors. The part where they speak about the 64bit with NX is in reference to a different function; the Data Execution Prevention feature.
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A response can also be a bash, it's been known to happen.
Thanks, for the info, you should definitely be modded up. I didn't send in the petition, but I did fill out a couple that were available from my own area, regarding the DMCA and the Trademark act. I'd encourage others to do the same via the good folks over at the EFF.
I know this is a bit ignorant of me, but, what happens when you sign a petition and you're not a member of one of the resident states. Do the petitions just not go anywhere? Are they seen but disregarded, do a fleet of black trucks show up at my house for "inconveniencing the reps". More importantly, does the voice get heard at all. Sorta like when a line gets stricken from the record in court, yeah, the jury is supposed to ignore it, but it still gets heard. What happens?
I prefer to do most camera work in color and grayscale it in photoshop, you can have much more controls with levels there.
Honestly, years ago before AOL went to the unlimited hours plan, the chat rooms on AOL used to be a more fun, more intelligent space, but I believe that's because mostly it was adults who were paying $2.95/hr to be there. So they made it more worth their while thus making it better for everyone else there. But as soon as they went to that free for all, the floodgates were opened wide with the kids and the "a/s/l" "if yoor a gurl and wanna have hot sex press 11111". Ah, the good old days....wait, did I just say something good about AOL? Damn! What's come over me?
I never thought of Yahoo as the hot chat room spot. No matter how many Yahoo chats or Aol or whatever, the chat place to be will always be IRC, which they'll never shut down and probably always have the most freedom in terms of channels available and content within.
Why cut it loose, let it complete the missions that it can, then retire it in a timely fashion, just because it can't do all that is necessary isn't a cause dismiss it entirely.
I was like you. I didn't know, nor care about the show, until I read a couple articles here. So, I rented the DVDs out of curiousity, and found it to be quite a solid show with solid storylines, and complex, realistic characters. After watching the entire series, I'm now excited about the film. I'd say try it out, maybe you like it, maybe not. But I think it's worth a go round and maybe next time a Firefly article pops up, you might be one of us blathering idiots, screaming things like "I can't wait for the movie" and "I can't believe those idiots at Fox ruined this series", etc, etc.
ps: I'm not a die hard Sci-Fi series fan. I haven't ever really followed any of the Star Trek series, or Battlestar Galactica (new series), or any thing on the SciFi network for that matter. I just found Firefly to be a good show.
I must agree, his hidden story intrigued more than River. Something tells me, he did some dirty deeds in his day. Something I doubt they'll go into too much depth in the movie.
I'd much rather have the DVDs, than have to wait for Sci-Fi to pick it up, and air it at their discretion. "Hmm, do I want to wait until Sci-Fi shows it Wed. @ 8:00, or whenever I damn well please?". Winner: DVDs. Bonus, you get all the extras, like the gag reel, and the behind the scenes stuff.
As long as it runs their copy of Office and all programs they're running are also compatible with 2000 still, I don't see the incentive to spend thousands on a upgrade that is probably seen as highly unnecessary at this time, not to mention they're probably running them on boxes that would be slowed down by XP. The lack of support coming at the end of the month may have some incentive to move to a new version, but I still doubt many will see it as a great need to move on.
Your method does sound better. Maybe they weren't thinking so practically. My guess is that one party proposed an idea that incorporated the kids, the other obliged. I'm sure that this wasn't the optimal method or the most necessary project, but I still stick to my opinion that for the kids it was something cool, that's all. Simply, a fun little project for the schoolkids who have the opportunity for the rest of their lives to say "Hey! My class project got taken into outer space."
My basic meaning is that he wont be as embraced by the people as much as he once was and he'll probably be viewed as a traitor and/or a sell out by more than a few. Of course he can't be shut out by the code, but he can by the contributors, who may no longer wish to collaborate with him as they might be weary of his motives.
The impressive part would not be the incineration, but the orbit. They get to do something few, if any kids have gotten to do. Which is have their classwork put into space and possibly transmitted. Which does a minimum of two things:
1. Get them interested in some normally mundane schoolwork
2. Get them interested in the space program.
The cost is minimal for both the school and the space program, as it is just the cost of scanning some pics, burning a few cd's and mailing them to space authority, where they will have piggybacked on an already planned mission and thrown out with the suit that has been deemed surplus and is going to be jettisoned anyway. They aren't spending billions of dollars to send artwork into space, the astronauts are just taking it with them and putting them into orbit along with the radio equipment. There's not a lot of trouble accompanied with this nice action. Jeez, lighten up a bit and remember they're doing it for the kids.
If Microsoft truly wants to get in touch with the Open Source community, why remove Robbins from it completely. I think they would do better to make him a paid freelance consultant. I believe that once he's gone to "the dark side" in the community's eyes, he'll never be able to look at the movement from an insider's point of view again. But now, MS will have taken a big player away, and as I see it, they're simply killing of bit of competition and will use this knowledge to kill more. But then again, I see MS as not wanting OSS to exist at all. I believe a more faith based relationship will have been developed between MS and the OS community if they had gone the consultant route, allowing Robbins to continue to develop there, but keep MS abreast of what's going on and how they could coexist more peacefully or even intermingle.
PS: It could also spark some young interest in the space program, which isn't as popular as it once was with schoolkids
(sorry for responding to my own post)
If I was one of those students, whether it's being transmitted or not, I'd think it's much more awesome that my art is orbiting space rather than just hanging on the class wall or in the hallways or even on the fridge (which they may also be). Can you say that your schoolwork got to hitch a ride on a spaceship then got to float in orbit in a spacesuit for a while? It's not necessarily important, but for a few kids, on a scale from 1 to Cool Shit: I'd say it ranks, Cool Shit.
In ninth grade algebra, I walk into class and the teacher had put an infinity symbol on the whiteboard. I, being the smart ass I am says,
"Mr. Dewey, who killed eight?"
Mr. Dewey says without missing a beat,
"Pi, It's an irrational number."
(Feel free to throw tomatoes at my post. But I did warn you that it was corny, plus this is as humorous as I get at 2am EDT.)
Am I the only one who thinks of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors ?
And how would you expect to react when finding out that your wife died? By softly whispering, "yes" and then doing the moonwalk?
robert blake did.
OK, I was wrong, now that I've done some double, triple checking. Now I've got to find out what the hell is wrong with my Photoshop.
No, I'm running dual PIII.
I'm not sure what breaks PS CS on SP2, but I know a few people who haven't had any problems with it. My version stopped working after SP2, it locks up during the splash screen.
If you read the reference link that I added, you'll see that it applies to all SP2 machines. Check the title, introduction, and "applies to" section at the bottom it does not single out 64 processors. The part where they speak about the 64bit with NX is in reference to a different function; the Data Execution Prevention feature.
Oops! Forgot to put the reference link