does the 35% of legal downloads include those using services like allofmp3, or mp3search.ru? i doubt it...but it might add another percent or two as both services are technicaly legal...
i still take math classes at the local universities. math is probably one of the greatest languages of all... and in essance, is one of the oldest languages known to man. maybe i should give up it and just become a mathamatician...
So if you're looking for an artistic rather than fiscal reason, that's it: George Lucas gets to make the movies he wants to make. He's writing and directing them, despite pleas from the fans to let somebody else do it. Supposedly that's what a real artist does: make the art his way, and critics, fans, and profits be damned.
unfortunally with such a die hard fan base, people will keep watching his stuff...even though he is pretty much a hack now...
this isnt that surprising...given the prototype that was shown, as well as nintendos track record of new technologies adoption...im sure every one remembers how popular the GC was for online play...
nintendo doesnt like to move on "future technologies". they realize that in 4 or 5 years new next gen consoles will becoming out...and then they will implament what we today see as future technologies.
this isnt a bad plan. this keeps the cost of their systems down and makes them able to compete while being profitable. right now people dont have massive HDTV's. early adopters do, but broke geeky gamers probably dont. and thats the majority of gamers...broke and rather geeky.
yes HDTV is the future, just like online blay was, but at the time those technologies were expensive. i for one am not concerned.
before they would even conceve a plan like this im sure that they spoke with the mayors office yo get what ever permits they needed.
and now for your reading pleasure, the teksno players reinactment of the trip to the permit office:
minimum wage clerk:"next...man i hate my f*#king job...
Google:"yes hi, i was wondering if we could get a permit to drive around the city with a truck full of lasers and scan all the buildings. we're trying to make a 3d map of the city..."
clerk: what the hell is this granolla nut talking about... ummm..what?
google: id like to make a 3d map of the city...we have big trucks woth lasers that are going to kill ever...er....scan all the buildings so we can plan our take over of the world one city at a time...i mean...wow did i just say that...what i meant to say is...ummm...yeah...look i doubt you have any permits for what i want to do so just give me one of everything...cause all i REALLY want to di is make a map of the city.
clerk: you can but a map at the gas station on the cornner...
Google: can i please just have all the permits you guys have...i want to do something so technologicaly advanced that no one in their right mind would even think about doing it...
clerk: well ok, wheres your paper work?
google:err...paper work...umm...yeah about that....look im from google...we didnt really know we needed paper work...
clerk: oh Google....like gmail and stuff...thats so cool. here ya go....dont worry about any paper work...ill take care of it. by the way, can i have an invite to gmail...i hear its kinda exclusive
google:...yeah...its real exclusive....here sonce youve been so cool about the whole paper work thing, heres 10,000,000,000 invites...do what ever you want with em..
clerk: WOW!!!thanks. im so cool.
this is a physical security nightmare...
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Writing Down Passwords?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
so it may be good to write down your passwords, as long as they are secured either on your person at all time, or locked in a vault someplace...
either way this is no real sub for godd old fashioned remembering things... just change your passwords on a timely schedule.
i have 20+ sites/programs that i change my passwords for ranging form ssh tunneling, to remote email servers to FTP servers...
i have 5 master phrases, one for each type of password protedted app/protocal, that i use to create strong alpha numeric symbolic passwords from. esentially its my own leet speek. i write down a single hint on a sticky in my wallet that will remind me of the type of replacement i used. as i use the same type of replace ment for all phrases, though it changes regularly...
there is no real good reason to write down passwords to any thing you want to keep secure. write down a hint that only you will understand, and make sure that you will remeber what it means.
just to show you kinda what i do ill use one of my old phrases:
midgetslutsdontlikeanalsex
how are you not gonna remember that....now just replace two character with numbers (preferbly not 0 for o or anything like that..more like 3 for 0)
and then replace two more letters with special characters.
a possible password using this type of "encryption" could look like:
nope sorry...not really. though i already use several different linux distros, and even a windows box (for gaming). i have a power book, but i just cant really get into it...its just...too gui for me.
though my parents love osx (as they arent power users). i never really saw much in the way of what OSX could offer me that my *nix boxes couldnt. even with a few simple steps my windows box is clean, though smei bloated with MS code and default features...
the purpose of the 'bible' is 'to make sure any changes to the script don't alter the universe established in the first two Halo games that will continue in future sequels,
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
even though the ending was t3h sux0r in halo 2, at least they are trying to stay somwhat true to the game. how many movies based on games have been totally unrelated to the games...the only one that was really close in my opinion was final fantasy, the spirits with in...because the final fantasy universe is so disjointed as is...
thank you bungie. i may actually go see this if its ever made.
while this is nothing more than hype, similar to that of when halo 2 was released (btw i went to best buy at 8 pm and got a special edition copy with out having to wait in line...)
the y still have one less person to worry about as i wont be buying one... i am personally waiting for the revolution from nintendo...as they are the only real gaming company left...
sony and MS are trying to sell gaming as a fad, the next hip thing...nintendo just wnats to push units to push games...look at the hype machines from all 3 companies...the two major players this year an undoubtly MS and sony...all they are touting is graphics capabilities...while nintendo realizes that they cant compete in that are so they dont...instead focousing on gameplay. when i play a game on any system, i want to enjoy my self. and frankly...i havent been enjoying all the BS hype from the 2 evil mega corps.
well i took on the project of backing up all my DVD's to my media server, and then building a lightweight DVR HTPC...well i found the ultimate in online dvd back up knowledge...
granted most of the software is based for a windows box...but if you go to the forums you can find a section dedicated for mac and *nix users...that should help you alot....
as far as keeping all the spicial features, its possible, the easiest way, rip to iso, and then mount... but if you want to compress them to mp4, you may lose the little extra vidoe bits (unless you rip those seperatly)...but keeping the extra languages audio tracks and the sub tracks isnt that big of a deal.
i know the.ogm container supports multi audio track as well as multi sub, and i believe the.mkv container supports all the abouve pluse scene selection...im not 100% sure (as i only rip the main movie in.avi with any forced subs) but if anyone can help...its the fair use freedom fighters over at doom 9
that has got to be the biggest spin of all time...
look, jack even said education was part of the solution, and henry made a very good point... Unlike the previous generation, at least many young parents today have grown up playing games, so they will know that not all games are appropriate for young kids.
i know my mom was very interested in what games i was playing while i was growing up and even more interested in what i was watching on TV...
my father was in the coin op business since the 70's. ive grown up around video games, hunting, guns, and the military...if any one should be ready to snap and go on a personal black ops mission...its me. and frankly, i think i "normal".
i can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. and i dont take joy in seeing others suffer.
this burden lies with the parents. if they would take a proactive role in their childs life alot of stuff like teen violence and teen pregancy would be on the decline instead of the rise.
but now since both parents are typically working, who is doing the parenting...britney spears and tommy lee...tommy verciti and lara croft...Jenna Jameson and ron jeremy...
people need to look at what they are doing within their own family units to solve the problem. do your kids play violent video games...are the games you child plays approiate for his age...this just takes some good old fashioned parenting. thats it thats all.
good... but never able to replace my toolbox
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The Ultimate Leatherman?
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· Score: 3, Insightful
i work comm maintence for the usaf and i use my wave letherman almost daily...
but for what you are talking about...i have neither seen, nor heard of anything like that. i think your best bet would get a smal toolbox and go buy the tools you desire/require.
lethermans werent made for use in specialzed areas...they are just a general purpose tool that was designed for quick fixes. it was never intended to replace the quality or flexibility of a good set of tools.
Take your music with you. Yahoo! Music Unlimited songs can be moved to Plays-For-Sure subscription-compatible players as long as your subscription is valid.
thats just like napster....i dont think its a streaming system....i think its exactly like napster unlimited, just cheaper....
the trick is gonna be the network handoffs though.....im not sure if you could seamlessly intergrate wifi and what ever cellular net you on though (3g type or not...)
i highly doubt it, and i have even bigger doubts that the cellular providars would allow such a thing. but i can dream
just part of the digital revolution that is now happening. paradigms are shifting away from what we have known and "early adopters", like this group of universites, will in the end be our (read: net junkies like me and you...) best friends....
this is a great step....we already have the music thing down....were trying to tackle video, but this here is a great stride for the demand of digital libraries
well the 2 markets have a lot of influence on each other....why do you think the majority of people use MS off at home....because its already familiar to them. they use it at work. but if we can convert the private sector....then there will be a corprate demand for it.....because users will want to use the same apps that they are already comfy with.
now what this actually could lead to is a set of open document standards the even MS would support wholey....(wait sombody punch me im dreaming again)
Slashdot Mirror
after this ask /., its not surprising we get stories like this: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/051 7229&tid=185&tid=98&tid=218
how is the general public supposed to find copyright infringment wrong when companies are doing it, and your boss is telling you to do it...
does the 35% of legal downloads include those using services like allofmp3, or mp3search.ru? i doubt it...but it might add another percent or two as both services are technicaly legal...
speaking of leo...
i still take math classes at the local universities. math is probably one of the greatest languages of all... and in essance, is one of the oldest languages known to man. maybe i should give up it and just become a mathamatician...
So if you're looking for an artistic rather than fiscal reason, that's it: George Lucas gets to make the movies he wants to make. He's writing and directing them, despite pleas from the fans to let somebody else do it. Supposedly that's what a real artist does: make the art his way, and critics, fans, and profits be damned.
unfortunally with such a die hard fan base, people will keep watching his stuff...even though he is pretty much a hack now...
adam sandler was on to somthing with the medium pace...
i think ill go get that shampoo bottle now...
this is so pointless i dont even want to try to come up with a whimsical reotrt to point out the pointlessnes of this article getting /.'ed...
this isnt that surprising...given the prototype that was shown, as well as nintendos track record of new technologies adoption...im sure every one remembers how popular the GC was for online play...
nintendo doesnt like to move on "future technologies". they realize that in 4 or 5 years new next gen consoles will becoming out...and then they will implament what we today see as future technologies.
this isnt a bad plan. this keeps the cost of their systems down and makes them able to compete while being profitable. right now people dont have massive HDTV's. early adopters do, but broke geeky gamers probably dont. and thats the majority of gamers...broke and rather geeky.
yes HDTV is the future, just like online blay was, but at the time those technologies were expensive. i for one am not concerned.
yeah ok i suck at spelling....im giving up.
before they would even conceve a plan like this im sure that they spoke with the mayors office yo get what ever permits they needed.
...wow did i just say that...what i meant to say is...ummm...yeah...look i doubt you have any permits for what i want to do so just give me one of everything...cause all i REALLY want to di is make a map of the city.
...yeah...its real exclusive....here sonce youve been so cool about the whole paper work thing, heres 10,000,000,000 invites...do what ever you want with em..
and now for your reading pleasure, the teksno players reinactment of the trip to the permit office:
minimum wage clerk:"next...man i hate my f*#king job...
Google:"yes hi, i was wondering if we could get a permit to drive around the city with a truck full of lasers and scan all the buildings. we're trying to make a 3d map of the city..."
clerk: what the hell is this granolla nut talking about... ummm..what?
google: id like to make a 3d map of the city...we have big trucks woth lasers that are going to kill ever...er....scan all the buildings so we can plan our take over of the world one city at a time...i mean
clerk: you can but a map at the gas station on the cornner...
Google: can i please just have all the permits you guys have...i want to do something so technologicaly advanced that no one in their right mind would even think about doing it...
clerk: well ok, wheres your paper work?
google:err...paper work...umm...yeah about that....look im from google...we didnt really know we needed paper work...
clerk: oh Google....like gmail and stuff...thats so cool. here ya go....dont worry about any paper work...ill take care of it. by the way, can i have an invite to gmail...i hear its kinda exclusive
google:
clerk: WOW!!!thanks. im so cool.
so it may be good to write down your passwords, as long as they are secured either on your person at all time, or locked in a vault someplace...
either way this is no real sub for godd old fashioned remembering things... just change your passwords on a timely schedule.
i have 20+ sites/programs that i change my passwords for ranging form ssh tunneling, to remote email servers to FTP servers...
i have 5 master phrases, one for each type of password protedted app/protocal, that i use to create strong alpha numeric symbolic passwords from. esentially its my own leet speek. i write down a single hint on a sticky in my wallet that will remind me of the type of replacement i used. as i use the same type of replace ment for all phrases, though it changes regularly...
there is no real good reason to write down passwords to any thing you want to keep secure. write down a hint that only you will understand, and make sure that you will remeber what it means.
just to show you kinda what i do ill use one of my old phrases:
midgetslutsdontlikeanalsex
how are you not gonna remember that....now just replace two character with numbers (preferbly not 0 for o or anything like that..more like 3 for 0)
and then replace two more letters with special characters.
a possible password using this type of "encryption" could look like:
1i@get0l9y0@o)tlikea)alsex
that will probably take a long time to break...
theyre not gonna use a different CPU any more...or did you mis that memo...
nope sorry...not really. though i already use several different linux distros, and even a windows box (for gaming). i have a power book, but i just cant really get into it...its just ...too gui for me.
though my parents love osx (as they arent power users). i never really saw much in the way of what OSX could offer me that my *nix boxes couldnt. even with a few simple steps my windows box is clean, though smei bloated with MS code and default features...
the purpose of the 'bible' is 'to make sure any changes to the script don't alter the universe established in the first two Halo games that will continue in future sequels,
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
even though the ending was t3h sux0r in halo 2, at least they are trying to stay somwhat true to the game. how many movies based on games have been totally unrelated to the games...the only one that was really close in my opinion was final fantasy, the spirits with in...because the final fantasy universe is so disjointed as is...
thank you bungie. i may actually go see this if its ever made.
while this is nothing more than hype, similar to that of when halo 2 was released (btw i went to best buy at 8 pm and got a special edition copy with out having to wait in line...)
the y still have one less person to worry about as i wont be buying one... i am personally waiting for the revolution from nintendo...as they are the only real gaming company left...
sony and MS are trying to sell gaming as a fad, the next hip thing...nintendo just wnats to push units to push games...look at the hype machines from all 3 companies...the two major players this year an undoubtly MS and sony...all they are touting is graphics capabilities...while nintendo realizes that they cant compete in that are so they dont...instead focousing on gameplay. when i play a game on any system, i want to enjoy my self. and frankly...i havent been enjoying all the BS hype from the 2 evil mega corps.
well i took on the project of backing up all my DVD's to my media server, and then building a lightweight DVR HTPC...well i found the ultimate in online dvd back up knowledge...
.ogm container supports multi audio track as well as multi sub, and i believe the .mkv container supports all the abouve pluse scene selection...im not 100% sure (as i only rip the main movie in .avi with any forced subs) but if anyone can help...its the fair use freedom fighters over at doom 9
http://www.doom9.net/
granted most of the software is based for a windows box...but if you go to the forums you can find a section dedicated for mac and *nix users...that should help you alot....
as far as keeping all the spicial features, its possible, the easiest way, rip to iso, and then mount... but if you want to compress them to mp4, you may lose the little extra vidoe bits (unless you rip those seperatly)...but keeping the extra languages audio tracks and the sub tracks isnt that big of a deal.
i know the
murder simulators
that has got to be the biggest spin of all time...
look, jack even said education was part of the solution, and henry made a very good point... Unlike the previous generation, at least many young parents today have grown up playing games, so they will know that not all games are appropriate for young kids.
i know my mom was very interested in what games i was playing while i was growing up and even more interested in what i was watching on TV...
my father was in the coin op business since the 70's. ive grown up around video games, hunting, guns, and the military...if any one should be ready to snap and go on a personal black ops mission...its me. and frankly, i think i "normal".
i can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. and i dont take joy in seeing others suffer.
this burden lies with the parents. if they would take a proactive role in their childs life alot of stuff like teen violence and teen pregancy would be on the decline instead of the rise.
but now since both parents are typically working, who is doing the parenting...britney spears and tommy lee...tommy verciti and lara croft...Jenna Jameson and ron jeremy...
people need to look at what they are doing within their own family units to solve the problem. do your kids play violent video games...are the games you child plays approiate for his age...this just takes some good old fashioned parenting. thats it thats all.
i work comm maintence for the usaf and i use my wave letherman almost daily...
but for what you are talking about...i have neither seen, nor heard of anything like that. i think your best bet would get a smal toolbox and go buy the tools you desire/require.
lethermans werent made for use in specialzed areas...they are just a general purpose tool that was designed for quick fixes. it was never intended to replace the quality or flexibility of a good set of tools.
i thought it was either about pooh bear going to rehab, or something about network security...
Take your music with you. Yahoo! Music Unlimited songs
can be moved to Plays-For-Sure subscription-compatible
players as long as your subscription is valid.
thats just like napster....i dont think its a streaming system....i think its exactly like napster unlimited, just cheaper....
just what drm'd file type do they use?...im just wondering.
the trick is gonna be the network handoffs though.....im not sure if you could seamlessly intergrate wifi and what ever cellular net you on though (3g type or not...) i highly doubt it, and i have even bigger doubts that the cellular providars would allow such a thing. but i can dream
because you could get a smart phone with wifi and not use you minutes, and instead use you vonage account....
just part of the digital revolution that is now happening. paradigms are shifting away from what we have known and "early adopters", like this group of universites, will in the end be our (read: net junkies like me and you...) best friends.... this is a great step....we already have the music thing down....were trying to tackle video, but this here is a great stride for the demand of digital libraries
i know its been in speculation since the ipod photo came out....but do you would think that this might be a precurser to the "ipod video".....
well the 2 markets have a lot of influence on each other....why do you think the majority of people use MS off at home....because its already familiar to them. they use it at work. but if we can convert the private sector....then there will be a corprate demand for it.....because users will want to use the same apps that they are already comfy with. now what this actually could lead to is a set of open document standards the even MS would support wholey....(wait sombody punch me im dreaming again)