I've just got back from seeing RotS. The sound in the theatre (yes, I'm in the UK) was appalling and the print was dusty and scratchy. Sadly many films seen at my local cinema and at others don't seem to be 'clean' prints and I'd have expected better of an opening-night showing.
Y'know, I actually believe that had I seen a torrent it would have been *better* quality, sadly. Maybe I've just got used to DVD quality and stuff.
(Wakefield Cineworld, UK, please take note).
Oh, as a film, the first 2 hours sucked ass. The rest of it was cool. But that's a conversation for another thread;)
"George, hi! It's Rick - Rick Berman, you remember Star Trek? Yeah, that one, I sorta invented Star Trek you know... Gene who...?.... Well, we're done with that franchise now... it sorta died out, the demand wasn't there... no... well, y'see, we thought we might be able to do the same for you. Whaddyathink? Couple of spinoff TV series, no original characters... mmhmmm... Brannon reckons we can introduce some of the original characters back later if it doesn't take off... yeah we could do that, tried and tested formula eh... sure, we can meet..."
Sorry, am I the only one concerned about how much data - and markets - Google is getting into? I might be doing the "oh shit fingers-in-everything" dance here but I'm finding it hard to think of a market Google *haven't* got into... how long before a Google store springs up on your corner (that can find a bag of rice *cheap*)!
ISTR that Douglas himself had a 'dream cast' for the movie, which (from memory) included:
Simon Jones as Arthur (naturally)
Jeff Goldblum as Ford
Eddie Murphy as Zaphod
I can't remember who the preferred choices for Marvin and Trillian were, but I'm sure you can dig for it somewhere.
And before someone volunteers Danny John-Jules as Zaphod, no no no no no - he's great as Cat but if he played Zaphod, it'd just be the cat with two heads.
Seriously, if you want to reject stuff at SMTP time rather than accepting it then processing it, try using sa-exim (a freshmeat search will turn it up) - it fits into exim and rejects as soon as it's worked out it's spam - mid-DATA if need be.
"What we are about to do is a first for STAR TREK," Berman tells TVG. "In the past, our captains have had the general mission to explore outer space and, in the case of Voyager, a mission to find a way back home. But there has never been a Trek series built around a specific mission and specific stakes-in this case, the very future of mankind."
Ahh, right, so the DS9 Delta Quadrant stuff never happened. Mm.
This sounds *well* sucky, and goes on to fulfil a pet hate of mine which is that episodes will no longer be 'stand-alone'. Which is a pity.
For ages I was using Cubase 5.0r3, then I upgraded to Cubase SX. I tried Logic, and a few others, and eventually I went back to Cubase 5.0r3. It comes down to what you feel comfortable with - you seem to have used Logic a bit, does that make you a "Logic" user now? If so, you'll find going to another app is a whole new learning curve.
At risk of making myself unpopular, the Linux apps just aren't there yet.
Of course, a Protools setup with a nice fat Mac would be preferable I'm sure;)
I've been working from home for almost the past two years now, with two days 'in the office' every week. I'll say now, It's difficult. I note that someone's posted "lucky bastard" earlier, but it's not all sweetness-and-light.
Firstly, you should note that it gets increasingly hard to separate work and play. I've got a separate office room I use for working, and it helps because I can at least close the door - however there are evenings when I just 'pop in' to check email or fix something which has been nagging on my mind. Having a door to close helps, having a separate work computer helps more, having a wife to kick you up the arse helps best. The door also helps with setting a boundary between family and work during the day - if the door's closed, I'm not to be disturbed.
On a related theme, for a while I used to "go to work" - this involved just walking to the shop to buy the paper, or taking a brief walk round the block. I left home, and I arrived at work. It worked for a while.
Get ready for the cow-orker backlash. You'll find that most of your peers, if they're not teleworkers, automatically assume you take the piss and hardly work at all - when in actual fact you probably work harder than your office-based counterparts. The way around this is to be visible, at least online - my staff are on IM systems, IRC or MUDs, and we do use it to collaborate, but it also has a nice side-effect in that you can say "morning!" to people.
Don't take the piss with timekeeping. Seriously. Bosses can tell if you're out at the local store shopping for socks instead of grafting hard at your computer. It might get really tempting to quickly hoover up or watch Jerry Springer for a while, but don't - one bad step and you can really, really fall into bad habits.
That said, telecommuting has a great advantage in that if you're using a laptop and don't actually need the 'Net, you can go and work anywhere. I've sat in the middle of the park on a sunny day, spent the afternoon nursing the biggest latt Starbucks will sell me, and slobbed in my mother's front room while reading RFCs. A change of scenery can be really beneficial to the ol' psyche.
You mentioned about getting called out-of-hours. This happens, although a lot of bosses are quite reasonable about it. If it gets out-of-hand, simply unplug the phone at 6pm, and plug it back in at 8am. When we moved into this house we bought a small Lucent PBX which automatically shuts off the office phone at 8pm, and reactivates it at 8am. Works a treat.
I realise I've probably given conflicting advice here - it's a bit of a braindump, and I've just got back from my two days of away-graft (which usually involves evening work too).
Over at Fotopic and CentralNic we've already been using the Slackware pre stuff in production environments and it's pretty damn solid. It's also quite nice that automake and such deals with the Slack package format.
I've also got it running nicely on my laptop (HP Omnibook 9000), it's damn fine. Kudos to Pat and the gang.
Wow! Up to 2mb of memory available! I almost wet myself, I could store almost two floppy disks on there!
(oh, wait...)
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Indeed. I'm afraid I have little sympathy for a company which has burned that much cold, hard cash -- maybe they shouldn't be asking the community for yet more cash to fuel the office heaters, but instead examining their revenue models.
I mean, come on, it doesn't take $80M to run a server farm and pay a few journos...
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I read the title, and thought 'Mmmmmmmmm, Deanna Troi and Lt Torres in hot naked baby oil-fuelled action.' Then I read the article.
Frankly, I feel shortchanged.
There's still a bit of a Viewdata BBs revival going on - CCl4 still has the ability to log in via a java client (their bit on the revival is here).
Sadly, Heaven isn't running at the moment but maybe it'll be back soon.
I've just got back from seeing RotS. The sound in the theatre (yes, I'm in the UK) was appalling and the print was dusty and scratchy. Sadly many films seen at my local cinema and at others don't seem to be 'clean' prints and I'd have expected better of an opening-night showing.
;)
Y'know, I actually believe that had I seen a torrent it would have been *better* quality, sadly. Maybe I've just got used to DVD quality and stuff.
(Wakefield Cineworld, UK, please take note).
Oh, as a film, the first 2 hours sucked ass. The rest of it was cool. But that's a conversation for another thread
[phone rings]
.... Well, we're done with that franchise now... it sorta died out, the demand wasn't there... no... well, y'see, we thought we might be able to do the same for you. Whaddyathink? Couple of spinoff TV series, no original characters... mmhmmm... Brannon reckons we can introduce some of the original characters back later if it doesn't take off... yeah we could do that, tried and tested formula eh... sure, we can meet..."
"George, hi! It's Rick - Rick Berman, you remember Star Trek? Yeah, that one, I sorta invented Star Trek you know... Gene who...?
*sigh*
Fotopic keep tabs on it like this.
Cheers
jx
Sorry, am I the only one concerned about how much data - and markets - Google is getting into? I might be doing the "oh shit fingers-in-everything" dance here but I'm finding it hard to think of a market Google *haven't* got into ... how long before a Google store springs up on your corner (that can find a bag of rice *cheap*)!
The article has been changed since I first posted that (see Last Updated: Thursday, 7 October, 2004, 12:49 GMT 13:49 UK).
The original "safeguarding..." comment was made by a spokeman for the BPI.
As it is, they've updated it to say they're suing 28 people initially.
HTH.
jx
I've heard them referred to as "Digipacks" (possibly "Digiboxes"?) in the UK. May help?
- Simon Jones as Arthur (naturally)
- Jeff Goldblum as Ford
- Eddie Murphy as Zaphod
I can't remember who the preferred choices for Marvin and Trillian were, but I'm sure you can dig for it somewhere.And before someone volunteers Danny John-Jules as Zaphod, no no no no no - he's great as Cat but if he played Zaphod, it'd just be the cat with two heads.
Hmm, cat with two heads. Let me get my hacksaw...
We've been doing this for ages in the UK. See here for Andy's way of doing it ;)
Seriously, if you want to reject stuff at SMTP time rather than accepting it then processing it, try using sa-exim (a freshmeat search will turn it up) - it fits into exim and rejects as soon as it's worked out it's spam - mid-DATA if need be.
Does that mean we can have the Gay Daleks back, too?
"Resistance is futile. Your website will be slashdotted."
Ahh, right, so the DS9 Delta Quadrant stuff never happened. Mm.
This sounds *well* sucky, and goes on to fulfil a pet hate of mine which is that episodes will no longer be 'stand-alone'. Which is a pity.
...I'd probably buy an Xbox just to mess around with, and see if I could make a cheap server out of it!
At risk of making myself unpopular, the Linux apps just aren't there yet.
Of course, a Protools setup with a nice fat Mac would be preferable I'm sure ;)
Possibly unacceptable while on a conference call tho ;)
- Firstly, you should note that it gets increasingly hard to separate work and play. I've got a separate office room I use for working, and it helps because I can at least close the door - however there are evenings when I just 'pop in' to check email or fix something which has been nagging on my mind. Having a door to close helps, having a separate work computer helps more, having a wife to kick you up the arse helps best. The door also helps with setting a boundary between family and work during the day - if the door's closed, I'm not to be disturbed.
- On a related theme, for a while I used to "go to work" - this involved just walking to the shop to buy the paper, or taking a brief walk round the block. I left home, and I arrived at work. It worked for a while.
- Get ready for the cow-orker backlash. You'll find that most of your peers, if they're not teleworkers, automatically assume you take the piss and hardly work at all - when in actual fact you probably work harder than your office-based counterparts. The way around this is to be visible, at least online - my staff are on IM systems, IRC or MUDs, and we do use it to collaborate, but it also has a nice side-effect in that you can say "morning!" to people.
- Don't take the piss with timekeeping. Seriously. Bosses can tell if you're out at the local store shopping for socks instead of grafting hard at your computer. It might get really tempting to quickly hoover up or watch Jerry Springer for a while, but don't - one bad step and you can really, really fall into bad habits.
- That said, telecommuting has a great advantage in that if you're using a laptop and don't actually need the 'Net, you can go and work anywhere. I've sat in the middle of the park on a sunny day, spent the afternoon nursing the biggest latt Starbucks will sell me, and slobbed in my mother's front room while reading RFCs. A change of scenery can be really beneficial to the ol' psyche.
- You mentioned about getting called out-of-hours. This happens, although a lot of bosses are quite reasonable about it. If it gets out-of-hand, simply unplug the phone at 6pm, and plug it back in at 8am. When we moved into this house we bought a small Lucent PBX which automatically shuts off the office phone at 8pm, and reactivates it at 8am. Works a treat.
I realise I've probably given conflicting advice here - it's a bit of a braindump, and I've just got back from my two days of away-graft (which usually involves evening work too).Good luck!
Cheers for the support,
Joel & Nicky.
I've also got it running nicely on my laptop (HP Omnibook 9000), it's damn fine. Kudos to Pat and the gang.
Wow! Up to 2mb of memory available! I almost wet myself, I could store almost two floppy disks on there!
(oh, wait...)
I mean, come on, it doesn't take $80M to run a server farm and pay a few journos...
What utter rubbish. It's 500 to join (setup fee), then 100 per year.
You might not, but lots of other people do.
;)
A quick grep of the mailspool shows ass@no.com, nnnnnnnnnnoooooooooo@no.com, jackMehoff@no.com, fake@no.com, no@no.com, nobody@no.com, noemail@no.com, never@no.com, acidreign.sez@no.com, bob@no.com, noyouwonticqme@no.com, no_no_no_no@no.com, yeahwhatever@no.com...
Time to clean things up again I think