You need to set up XMMS to use the proper output plugin or else it will use the wav-writer. The wav writer runs very fast and doesn't produce any sound.
"Insightful" is when you have a new POV to add to the discussion. Sharing true knowledge is merely "Informative". If you curse in a post, it's probably "Flamebait". If you yell at moderators, you're probably a "Troll".
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
All I had to say to sum up the film for someone who hadn't seen it was this:
"Basically, the plot revolved around the world as we see it being a simulation. The main character somehow gets out of the simulation and starts kicking ass. Good flick, you gotta see it."
Anyone who's screwed with computers enough could easily grasp the scenario without visual aids. Neo obviously has screwed with computers for a long time, and could have been given a better choice than "red pill or blue pill?"
Other than that, great film. For more of the same, see The Thirteenth Floor (sorry, no "bullet-time" sequences).
ObTopic: An even better philosophical question is raised during the scenes when Neo's brain is being filled with knowledge. If complex skills become downloadable, our society will collapse. I'll leave "why?" as an excersise for the reader, but here's a clue: A meritocracy's currency is knowledge.
The UDP is nothing remotely similar to a DOS attack. A UDP doesn't cause any extra traffic to be sent to a site.
Using the restraunt analogy...
The UDP - Refusing to go to a restraunt that you don't like.
A DOS attack - Throwing a molotov cocktail in the window of a restraunt you don't like.
(Could have moderated you, but decided to fight ignorance with knowledge instead.)
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Never assume a gun is safe unless you've checked it yourself.
Never assume a login from another box is valid unless your own sshd authenticated them.
Don't believe everything you read.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
Now... Never assume that it's real unless you've seen it with your own eyes, even if it's "live".
(With movies like The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor, the philosophers are probably wondering if our own eyes can be trusted.:P )
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Computer graphics people used to have an axim (probably still do) - "If you can tell it's a computer graphic, we're not doing our job right." Old demos like Second Reality were made all the more awesome because they were happening "live" on your CPU. In TV, it's still "live" even if the whole event is scripted, controlled, and planned out. Is it still "live", by the TV definition, if a computer generates the whole show on the fly?
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Come on Hollywood, blur the line a little further and ENTERTAIN me already! The Matrix was good, NYE was a letdown. We want MORE!
I don't get this Natalie Portman naked/petrified joke. Could someone please tell me where the humor lies in having a naked statue of a newly-crowned cult-film goddess?
Ramsey also manufactures kits that, when assembled (very easily), transmit on the 88-108MHz band... FM radio. Pump Up the Volume:)
There's specific FCC regulations for ultra-low-power FM devices, and Ramsey's kits (as shipped) all fall well inside, but the design of the devices is so simple and open that they can easily be modified to either put out more power on their own or to be the first stage in a massive pirate FM operation. It's a miracle that this legal action didn't originate from the FCC (Knock On Wood).
BTW: Ramsey makes good stuff and ships it out in good faith at a decent price. Truly a hobbyist's friend.:)
The Lost World had a point to make... Just because you can bring the creature back with genetic technology, doesn't mean you can raise that creature the way parents of its species, in the environment the species adapted to, would have. You get all of nature without any nurture, and thus an incomplete animal.
The best Apple IIgs emulator I've seen so far is KEGS. Freely available, emulates all graphics modes as well as normal and midi sound. Works with every disk image format I've ever heard of. Runs FTA's Modulae pretty well.
If your SCSI drive is formatted HFS I think you'll have the double benefit of being able to access it from linux and the emulated GS at the same time:)
If you can't get it working, drop me a line with any questions. Everyone who wants a GS should have one, IMHO. A2-4ever!
These projects are competing for the same niche, true, but regardless of whether Konq takes off as the "one true linux browser" (which isn't likely, IMHO), it will gain a good share of eyeballs as KDE's file-mangler (kfm, r.i.p.).
Opera might be neat-o-keen, but I think more than a few longtime Navigator/linux sufferers might look sideways at it's being developed first on Win32 and then ported.
At least we're going to have some good choices without too many trade-offs. No more having one browser for most things but rebooting to use IE on that one page you can't live without.
BTW: That snapshot of Konq looks NICE. Somehow makes slashdot look even smoother than it normally does. I want it. Oh yes, I want it bad.
A person feels they might be in danger. In order to assess their real risk, they are put in front of the computer which then asks a series of questions about the suspect's behavior towards the potential victim. Based on this information, an expert system returns a value which tells the user how well-grounded their fear and anxiety is.
That's just one mode of the program. I'm sure they will set it up to question the suspect.
Both situations are frightening, because of the expert system involved. It's based entirely upon heuristics. In the case of school kids, the questions won't be "does this person own any weapons?", they will be "does this person ever play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons(tm)?"
The expert system is constructed to match behaviors of suspects to behaviors of past violent offenders. There are going to be a lot of false alarms.
The problem with human beings is that we've removed ourselves from the natural loop. In every case, those natural forces that keep other species healthy, fit, and continuously evolving have been short circuited by man.
Natural Selection, the Darwinian force, is no longer an issue for us. Genetic disease runs rampant. We have the power, through medical science, to keep even the most terribly afflicted alive and suffering.
Starvation, while still a problem in some regions, is being overcome. We can bend nature to our will and turn a cow into a milk-making machine. We can hydroponically grow nearly anything. If you're hungry in this world, it's only through enormously bad luck. Even in those places where starvation is still a problem, it obviously hasn't interrupted the breeding cycle. We're immune to overcrowding now.
Natural disasters take out a goodly number of humans every so often, but the rest of humanity rushes to the scene. Through massive state funded reconstruction efforts we can maintain livable conditions in even the worst ravaged areas.
Morals... Anything that could possibly carry this species closer to godhead is held back by morality. It's been happening since the dark ages; Galileo et. al..
Why is it that a commedian can scream out loud "It's time to thin the herd! It's time to stop rewarding stupidity!" and the crowd laughs, applauds, and AGREES, but a scientist who considers the ethics of the commedian's reasoning is branded as immoral? Has the global consciousness been so damaged by the actions of a few madmen that we can no longer even consider the possibility that not everyone is fit to survive? Why not take the classic jokes seriously: How come you need a license to drive but any idiot can become a parent?
In the movie Gattaca, a world was presented where there was no excuse for weakness. No genetic predisposition towards heart failure, madness, bigotry, violence, addiction, and a host of other conditions. The trend in the movie was not towards killing the weak, but preventing them from being born at all. The supposed reward for the rest of humanity was in science and the arts; humans on the moons of Jupiter, six fingered pianists, etc..
Even with rewards like these dangling in front of our noses, we can't admit that what we really want - global cosmic justice - can't be attained. We continually block genetic research on moral grounds. We are afraid, when we know that fear is useless and only ACTION gets results.
It's about time to stop bowing to religion when we know that we're approaching godhead. It's time to conquer our bodies and our minds.
The first step towards losing the War is letting the Enemy pick the battleground. This is, most likely, why RH and others don't respond to FUD except to call it FUD and move on.
Linux has made bigger gains through the strategy of quietly pushing forward than it has through playing catch-up.
the term "kernel patch"! Maybe we need "net patches", give the user a feeling of having learned something 24/7:P (whoops, that's what info-TV is for)
Seriously... My employer pays me to sit in front of a PC nearly non-stop, and a goodly portion of that time is spent with, at the very least, a browser window under whatever I'm working on. By the time the weekend rolls around I'm sick of PCs, the internet, and everything with an interface more complicated than "on/off".
My home PC hasn't been used for anything more serious than playing MP3s and checking the current status of the state lottery in about a year.
Now, smoking on the other hand... THAT is an addiction. If I go 24 hours without getting some nicotine in my bloodstream, I go insane. If they outlawed nicotine tomorrow, I'd probably have to sell off my PlayStation to buy patches off the black market.
That hasn't happened, though, and I'm happy to say that with the help of "The Patch" I've gone 2 weeks. It's been ROUGH.
Next on the chopping block, CAFFEINE. This link says all: http://home.msen.com/~ferret/Excess.htm
I can see one big internet-related problem... Ultima Online, the first graphical MUD. That game is addictive. Plenty of people have come out of it with tales of compulsion, carpel tunnel syndrome, and (for some european players) staggering phone bills. For what? A game whose quirky too-much-like-real-life-to-be-a-game rules force a player to use 4 of his 5 characters to get virtual JOBS to support the one character that goes out and has fun. I've seen people spend 40 hours doing mindless tasks on one character to support 2 hours of hack-n-slash on another. (tasks like: use axe on tree, use knife on wood, rinse and repeat until weight limit reached, sell items, deposit gold, rinse, repeat)
I must say I agree with the addict-in-recovery that posted his tale of woe... Give meth, H, or even a prolonged course of codeine a try before you spout off about addiction.
Reminds me of a quote from some field commander in the US civil war: "At this range they couldn't hit an elephant!" Those were his last words.:)
I like this one: "The world is not going to explode. The pacific ocean is not going to evaporate. I am not an atomic playboy." --Some high-rank naval officer, on the nuclear tests on a US-depopulated island.
Running Netscape on KDE on XFree86 on Kernel 2.2.4... Where's the bloat? NETSCAPE!
Netscape is always my largest running process, unless it's one of those rare occasions when I'm running Applixware because I had to open a Word doc file.
KDE is running thin as can be right now. Adding dynamically (un)loadable objects to it isn't going to hurt much at all. Making more components interchangeable and shared (more dynamic) can only help the situation.
Nothing good ever came out of the House Judiciary Comittee, and the few good things that come out of other comittees (and state governments) always get clotheslined at the kneecaps by McCullum & Co.
This is the same bunch of losers that headed up a sense of the house resolution that read something to the effect of "Marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug", smacked D.C. voters across the tender bits by not letting them count the votes for one of their ballot initiatives, and I'm pretty sure they're the ones that started the whole Monica/Clinton investigation.
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You need to set up XMMS to use the proper output plugin or else it will use the wav-writer. The wav writer runs very fast and doesn't produce any sound.
How can the privacy of the confessional be maintained over a public medium (think of all those courtroom dramas you've watched over the years)?
:)
Duh... SSL!
"Insightful" is when you have a new POV to add to the discussion. Sharing true knowledge is merely "Informative". If you curse in a post, it's probably "Flamebait". If you yell at moderators, you're probably a "Troll".
Why, oh why, did Morpheus say:
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
All I had to say to sum up the film for someone who hadn't seen it was this:
"Basically, the plot revolved around the world as we see it being a simulation. The main character somehow gets out of the simulation and starts kicking ass. Good flick, you gotta see it."
Anyone who's screwed with computers enough could easily grasp the scenario without visual aids. Neo obviously has screwed with computers for a long time, and could have been given a better choice than "red pill or blue pill?"
Other than that, great film. For more of the same, see The Thirteenth Floor (sorry, no "bullet-time" sequences).
ObTopic: An even better philosophical question is raised during the scenes when Neo's brain is being filled with knowledge. If complex skills become downloadable, our society will collapse. I'll leave "why?" as an excersise for the reader, but here's a clue: A meritocracy's currency is knowledge.
The UDP is nothing remotely similar to a DOS attack. A UDP doesn't cause any extra traffic to be sent to a site.
Using the restraunt analogy...
The UDP - Refusing to go to a restraunt that you don't like.
A DOS attack - Throwing a molotov cocktail in the window of a restraunt you don't like.
(Could have moderated you, but decided to fight ignorance with knowledge instead.)
Never assume a gun is safe unless you've checked it yourself.
:P )
Never assume a login from another box is valid unless your own sshd authenticated them.
Don't believe everything you read.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
Now... Never assume that it's real unless you've seen it with your own eyes, even if it's "live".
(With movies like The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor, the philosophers are probably wondering if our own eyes can be trusted.
---
Computer graphics people used to have an axim (probably still do) - "If you can tell it's a computer graphic, we're not doing our job right." Old demos like Second Reality were made all the more awesome because they were happening "live" on your CPU. In TV, it's still "live" even if the whole event is scripted, controlled, and planned out. Is it still "live", by the TV definition, if a computer generates the whole show on the fly?
---
Come on Hollywood, blur the line a little further and ENTERTAIN me already! The Matrix was good, NYE was a letdown. We want MORE!
I don't get this Natalie Portman naked/petrified joke. Could someone please tell me where the humor lies in having a naked statue of a newly-crowned cult-film goddess?
I think what Katz means is that the puritan view - porn==evil - is a new concept to humanity.
Ramsey also manufactures kits that, when assembled (very easily), transmit on the 88-108MHz band... FM radio. Pump Up the Volume :)
:)
There's specific FCC regulations for ultra-low-power FM devices, and Ramsey's kits (as shipped) all fall well inside, but the design of the devices is so simple and open that they can easily be modified to either put out more power on their own or to be the first stage in a massive pirate FM operation. It's a miracle that this legal action didn't originate from the FCC (Knock On Wood).
BTW: Ramsey makes good stuff and ships it out in good faith at a decent price. Truly a hobbyist's friend.
The Lost World had a point to make... Just because you can bring the creature back with genetic technology, doesn't mean you can raise that creature the way parents of its species, in the environment the species adapted to, would have. You get all of nature without any nurture, and thus an incomplete animal.
The best Apple IIgs emulator I've seen so far is KEGS. Freely available, emulates all graphics modes as well as normal and midi sound. Works with every disk image format I've ever heard of. Runs FTA's Modulae pretty well.
:)
If your SCSI drive is formatted HFS I think you'll have the double benefit of being able to access it from linux and the emulated GS at the same time
If you can't get it working, drop me a line with any questions. Everyone who wants a GS should have one, IMHO. A2-4ever!
These projects are competing for the same niche, true, but regardless of whether Konq takes off as the "one true linux browser" (which isn't likely, IMHO), it will gain a good share of eyeballs as KDE's file-mangler (kfm, r.i.p.).
Opera might be neat-o-keen, but I think more than a few longtime Navigator/linux sufferers might look sideways at it's being developed first on Win32 and then ported.
At least we're going to have some good choices without too many trade-offs. No more having one browser for most things but rebooting to use IE on that one page you can't live without.
BTW: That snapshot of Konq looks NICE. Somehow makes slashdot look even smoother than it normally does. I want it. Oh yes, I want it bad.
--Threed
I saw this thing on TV.
A person feels they might be in danger. In order to assess their real risk, they are put in front of the computer which then asks a series of questions about the suspect's behavior towards the potential victim. Based on this information, an expert system returns a value which tells the user how well-grounded their fear and anxiety is.
That's just one mode of the program. I'm sure they will set it up to question the suspect.
Both situations are frightening, because of the expert system involved. It's based entirely upon heuristics. In the case of school kids, the questions won't be "does this person own any weapons?", they will be "does this person ever play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons(tm)?"
The expert system is constructed to match behaviors of suspects to behaviors of past violent offenders. There are going to be a lot of false alarms.
--Threed
That's the way to tell 'em: Put up or shut up.
--Threed
The problem with human beings is that we've removed ourselves from the natural loop. In every case, those natural forces that keep other species healthy, fit, and continuously evolving have been short circuited by man.
Natural Selection, the Darwinian force, is no longer an issue for us. Genetic disease runs rampant. We have the power, through medical science, to keep even the most terribly afflicted alive and suffering.
Starvation, while still a problem in some regions, is being overcome. We can bend nature to our will and turn a cow into a milk-making machine. We can hydroponically grow nearly anything. If you're hungry in this world, it's only through enormously bad luck. Even in those places where starvation is still a problem, it obviously hasn't interrupted the breeding cycle. We're immune to overcrowding now.
Natural disasters take out a goodly number of humans every so often, but the rest of humanity rushes to the scene. Through massive state funded reconstruction efforts we can maintain livable conditions in even the worst ravaged areas.
Morals... Anything that could possibly carry this species closer to godhead is held back by morality. It's been happening since the dark ages; Galileo et. al..
Why is it that a commedian can scream out loud "It's time to thin the herd! It's time to stop rewarding stupidity!" and the crowd laughs, applauds, and AGREES, but a scientist who considers the ethics of the commedian's reasoning is branded as immoral? Has the global consciousness been so damaged by the actions of a few madmen that we can no longer even consider the possibility that not everyone is fit to survive? Why not take the classic jokes seriously: How come you need a license to drive but any idiot can become a parent?
In the movie Gattaca, a world was presented where there was no excuse for weakness. No genetic predisposition towards heart failure, madness, bigotry, violence, addiction, and a host of other conditions. The trend in the movie was not towards killing the weak, but preventing them from being born at all. The supposed reward for the rest of humanity was in science and the arts; humans on the moons of Jupiter, six fingered pianists, etc..
Even with rewards like these dangling in front of our noses, we can't admit that what we really want - global cosmic justice - can't be attained. We continually block genetic research on moral grounds. We are afraid, when we know that fear is useless and only ACTION gets results.
It's about time to stop bowing to religion when we know that we're approaching godhead. It's time to conquer our bodies and our minds.
Is it time to thin the herd?
--Threed
The first step towards losing the War is letting the Enemy pick the battleground. This is, most likely, why RH and others don't respond to FUD except to call it FUD and move on.
Linux has made bigger gains through the strategy of quietly pushing forward than it has through playing catch-up.
--Threed
Such a beast already exists. It's called (drum-roll please...) MandrakeUpdate!
--Threed
That, and it isn't exactly a song... Just a track on a CD.
--Threed
the term "kernel patch"! Maybe we need "net patches", give the user a feeling of having learned something 24/7 :P (whoops, that's what info-TV is for)
Seriously... My employer pays me to sit in front of a PC nearly non-stop, and a goodly portion of that time is spent with, at the very least, a browser window under whatever I'm working on. By the time the weekend rolls around I'm sick of PCs, the internet, and everything with an interface more complicated than "on/off".
My home PC hasn't been used for anything more serious than playing MP3s and checking the current status of the state lottery in about a year.
Now, smoking on the other hand... THAT is an addiction. If I go 24 hours without getting some nicotine in my bloodstream, I go insane. If they outlawed nicotine tomorrow, I'd probably have to sell off my PlayStation to buy patches off the black market.
That hasn't happened, though, and I'm happy to say that with the help of "The Patch" I've gone 2 weeks. It's been ROUGH.
Next on the chopping block, CAFFEINE. This link says all: http://home.msen.com/~ferret/Excess.htm
I can see one big internet-related problem... Ultima Online, the first graphical MUD. That game is addictive. Plenty of people have come out of it with tales of compulsion, carpel tunnel syndrome, and (for some european players) staggering phone bills. For what? A game whose quirky too-much-like-real-life-to-be-a-game rules force a player to use 4 of his 5 characters to get virtual JOBS to support the one character that goes out and has fun. I've seen people spend 40 hours doing mindless tasks on one character to support 2 hours of hack-n-slash on another. (tasks like: use axe on tree, use knife on wood, rinse and repeat until weight limit reached, sell items, deposit gold, rinse, repeat)
I must say I agree with the addict-in-recovery that posted his tale of woe... Give meth, H, or even a prolonged course of codeine a try before you spout off about addiction.
--Threed
Reminds me of a quote from some field commander in the US civil war: :)
.wav of that quote...
"At this range they couldn't hit an elephant!" Those were his last words.
I like this one:
"The world is not going to explode. The pacific ocean is not going to evaporate. I am not an atomic playboy."
--Some high-rank naval officer, on the nuclear tests on a US-depopulated island.
I'd LOVE a
--Threed
Yes, that's what I am. And lets not forget paranoid...
What are the odds that the forms of encryption whose restrictions are being eased are only the ones that the NSA has learned to crack?
(Had to say it, even if it does get moderated down.)
--Threed
Running Netscape on KDE on XFree86 on Kernel 2.2.4... Where's the bloat? NETSCAPE!
Netscape is always my largest running process, unless it's one of those rare occasions when I'm running Applixware because I had to open a Word doc file.
KDE is running thin as can be right now. Adding dynamically (un)loadable objects to it isn't going to hurt much at all. Making more components interchangeable and shared (more dynamic) can only help the situation.
--Threed
The beginning seemed to hypothesize that successful young people turn on to cocaine because its perceived as being glamorous...
This article reeks of 80s anti-drug hype. For the most part, the drug users I know stick to psychedelics, empathogens, and pot.
This article doesn't belong on Slashdot. Anyone can do drugs, and anyone can have a drug problem. Techies aren't more or less vulnerable.
(BTW: Someone please tell the walls to stop breathing; they're freaking me out. NYAR!)
--Threed
I like the little new-media spiel at the end of
the Shredder's "about" page. Reminded me of the
installation ANSI movie from Terminate.
--Threed
Nothing good ever came out of the House Judiciary Comittee, and the few good things that come out of other comittees (and state governments) always get clotheslined at the kneecaps by McCullum & Co.
This is the same bunch of losers that headed up a sense of the house resolution that read something to the effect of "Marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug", smacked D.C. voters across the tender bits by not letting them count the votes for one of their ballot initiatives, and I'm pretty sure they're the ones that started the whole Monica/Clinton investigation.
The Judiciary Comittee should be disbanded.
--Threed