What we need is the oposite of what the article describes - a way to force what we're currently playing onto other people's stereo's!
By god, I would have given a lot to be able to push some Bach onto the stereo of that idiot stuck next to me in the traffic jam tonight who was playing Jimmy Nail's greatest hits. Probably would have made his head explode....
Nah, that can't possibly happen, Darth Sidious isn't stupid, he'd say "Hmm, this guy has no legs, arms, or for that matter face and is best friends with Jar Jar. Looooooser! Now, which planet did I find Maul on again? Perhaps he has a brother."
"What's that Admiral Tarkin? Intelligence reports of a crazy guy living on Tatooine, next door to Annie's uncle (the one who just mysteriously adopted a kid), named Kenobi, who dresses like a Jedi? It's probably nothing but hey! lets live a little and nuke the site from orbit."
My next Ask Slashdot submission...
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"Hi! I live in a cave and have voices in my head telling me to kill people. I can pay my local prostitute to feign death, but what I'd really like to do is have a private basement pit, such that at home I would be able to do my murders undisturbed. I wouldn't have to worry about getting blood over my slacks, and I'd have all my brain-sized stewing pots right there. There are many other benefits. Ignoring local anti-murder laws, is there a particular type of teen hitch-hiker it's better to prey on?"
You took the words right out of my mouth (it must have been when you were kissing me)
Hey, I have a question for Ask Slashdot. "Are any slashdot readers in a coma? I'm thinking of entering a persistent vegitative state, any tips for me?"
Here's another one. Let us assume for a moment your rosy view that the Govt will not abuse this power. The thing is, what if other people get their hands on the data? If the database is there, people will get to it. I'm not even talking about cracking the system here, I'm talking about a brown envelope full of fivers passed to a call centre drone in a pub. You think that doesn't happen now?
Not too long ago they caught a DVLA (UK version of the DMV) employee who was passing information to "animal rights" terrorists - peoples addresses so they could go round and burn their houses down.
Neither of those arguments seems solid to me. Sure, there are technincal improvements in film, of course, but art doesn't work like that.
And at the moment of course the industry is polarised; either you make your film for peanuts, or you make it for zillions. No middle ground any more; all the big studios want is to have a blockbuster that makes gazillions back for them.
I would have thought considerably more movies were made in the 1930s than in the 80s. No TV back then meant that people went to the films a lot.
Between 1934 and 1944, for example, 20th Century Fox released about one film every week. In those days about between 40 and 60 percent of americans went to the movies at least once a week (it's under 10% now).
That is hard. I can sort of do Casablanca; Woody Allen's "Play It Again Sam" does of course use a big chunk of the plot of Casablanca, but it's not really the underlying idea of the film, it's a sort of Meta-Joke, a film about a man obsessed with Casablanca is obviously going to have to mirror the plot.
The other re-make of Casablanca is of course one of the best surprises in Film Criticism and I leave it as an exercise to the Slashdot reader.
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I know you were being serious, it's just that I wasn't being very serious. You're the one learning Braille in the hope that one day you will go blind and make it worthwhile, you gotta expect a little ribbing here and there.
Mind you, I imagine there's a whole lot more to being blind than just learning Braille, so maybe my snarky comment is accidentally insightful. I mean, if you're going to learn braille why not spend a weekend with your eyes closed, see what happens.
BTW, since you haven't yet learnt Braille, how do you know what is a good keyboard and what isn't?
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Why not just wear a bag over your head all the time to get the full effect?
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They were never going to put BeOS onto Palms. Never!
This mistake has been going around forever, and it's still here.... Palm bought Be because it was a company stuffed full of acclaimed OS developers that was about to go bust. That's all. They needed to massively boost their development resources in order to make Cobalt and the easiest way to do this was to buy an OS company.
Of course, it didn't work - I don't know what state Cobalt is in now but no-one has put it into a production PDA yet, so I'm assuming "bad".
another example of Palm's lack of vision. The V form factor is the single best form factor and PDA has ever had. Why don't they make something in this form factor any more? Why?
... these days, when I see a movie being made of a creator-owned comic book I like, I think to myself "oh good, a fat wodge of money going to $creator, that'll help him make some more comics, or buy food, or take better quality drugs, or something."
I don't actually go and see any of the wretched things, but I can tolerate their existance at least.
Is exactly, exactly, exactly what you need. They don't make 'em any more, so it'll have to be ebay.
The youngsters may not know Psion - they were makers of some of the earliest PDAs, and were the company that begot Symbian, the people who make the best smartphone OS software.
Why the 5MX? Because it has the single best keyboard any PDA has ever had, no question. All the other PDA keyboards have buttons like calculators or mobile phones; the 5 has a keyboard like a... well... like a keyboard actually. Some very clever engineering means it folds up smaller than seems possible.
Runs on AA batteries, too.
Decent word processor built in, also various text editors etc. are still available to download - http://www.ericlindsay.com/epoc/siedit5.htm#text has plenty.
There are good open sync tools for Linux too. Come to that, it has a CF slot so you can use that to move your files about no matter what machine you have. Hell, before now I've transfered files by using zmodem out the serial port on the back!
I've considered buying shite films, but i have too much self-respect, sorry.
But there may be other markets, of course. I recently bought Singing In The Rain, because some bastard had made a hip-hop remix of the title song for an advert, which reminded me of how good the original was.
Seriously, if you apply any value to the drunken ramblings of BigLig, go and buy a copy of Singing In The Rain. You'll love it. And get a copy of Casablanca too. Under £10 a pop for brilliant films. There's plenty of it out there...
For that matter, the Star Wars Box Set is only £15.
Let me help. Apparently, software RAID is slower than hardware RAID, and Linux SCSI drivers are of variable quality, and also setting a PC on fire degrades its disk performance.
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I only remember two, but there are 16 tracks on his Greatest Hits album!
What we need is the oposite of what the article describes - a way to force what we're currently playing onto other people's stereo's!
By god, I would have given a lot to be able to push some Bach onto the stereo of that idiot stuck next to me in the traffic jam tonight who was playing Jimmy Nail's greatest hits. Probably would have made his head explode....
What? You need their informed consent if you are going to irradiate someone's genitals?
Oh well, there go my Friday nights...
"With the greatest respect, that's the biggest load of idealistic Utopian horse-pucky I've ever read."
You're new here, aren't you?
(I'm sorry, it had to be done!)
Yeah, well, it's not diffcult is it. How many other people are walking down the main street of Peoria, Illinois wearing a tinfoil helmet?
Nah, that can't possibly happen, Darth Sidious isn't stupid, he'd say "Hmm, this guy has no legs, arms, or for that matter face and is best friends with Jar Jar. Looooooser! Now, which planet did I find Maul on again? Perhaps he has a brother."
"What's that Admiral Tarkin? Intelligence reports of a crazy guy living on Tatooine, next door to Annie's uncle (the one who just mysteriously adopted a kid), named Kenobi, who dresses like a Jedi? It's probably nothing but hey! lets live a little and nuke the site from orbit."
"Hi! I live in a cave and have voices in my head telling me to kill people. I can pay my local prostitute to feign death, but what I'd really like to do is have a private basement pit, such that at home I would be able to do my murders undisturbed. I wouldn't have to worry about getting blood over my slacks, and I'd have all my brain-sized stewing pots right there. There are many other benefits. Ignoring local anti-murder laws, is there a particular type of teen hitch-hiker it's better to prey on?"
You took the words right out of my mouth (it must have been when you were kissing me)
Hey, I have a question for Ask Slashdot. "Are any slashdot readers in a coma? I'm thinking of entering a persistent vegitative state, any tips for me?"
Here's another one. Let us assume for a moment your rosy view that the Govt will not abuse this power. The thing is, what if other people get their hands on the data? If the database is there, people will get to it. I'm not even talking about cracking the system here, I'm talking about a brown envelope full of fivers passed to a call centre drone in a pub. You think that doesn't happen now?
Not too long ago they caught a DVLA (UK version of the DMV) employee who was passing information to "animal rights" terrorists - peoples addresses so they could go round and burn their houses down.
Never mind him, they stopped Ted Kennedy getting on a plane not too long ago.
Neither of those arguments seems solid to me. Sure, there are technincal improvements in film, of course, but art doesn't work like that.
And at the moment of course the industry is polarised; either you make your film for peanuts, or you make it for zillions. No middle ground any more; all the big studios want is to have a blockbuster that makes gazillions back for them.
I would have thought considerably more movies were made in the 1930s than in the 80s. No TV back then meant that people went to the films a lot.
Between 1934 and 1944, for example, 20th Century Fox released about one film every week. In those days about between 40 and 60 percent of americans went to the movies at least once a week (it's under 10% now).
Hound of the Baskervilles, of course, but we should probably lump Holmes and the Bible in with Shakespeare.
Heart of Darkness should be in there, but of course Welles never got to make his version.
That is hard. I can sort of do Casablanca; Woody Allen's "Play It Again Sam" does of course use a big chunk of the plot of Casablanca, but it's not really the underlying idea of the film, it's a sort of Meta-Joke, a film about a man obsessed with Casablanca is obviously going to have to mirror the plot.
The other re-make of Casablanca is of course one of the best surprises in Film Criticism and I leave it as an exercise to the Slashdot reader.
I know you were being serious, it's just that I wasn't being very serious. You're the one learning Braille in the hope that one day you will go blind and make it worthwhile, you gotta expect a little ribbing here and there.
Mind you, I imagine there's a whole lot more to being blind than just learning Braille, so maybe my snarky comment is accidentally insightful. I mean, if you're going to learn braille why not spend a weekend with your eyes closed, see what happens.
BTW, since you haven't yet learnt Braille, how do you know what is a good keyboard and what isn't?
Why not just wear a bag over your head all the time to get the full effect?
Here ya go:
m #kbmrf100
http://www.fentek-ind.com/rf-wireless-keyboard.ht
the nipple is in the top right corner, so not quite as handy as a thinkpad.
They do ones with trackballs and touchpads too, but the best mouse is this foot operated one: http://www.fentek-ind.com/nh-mouse.htm
They were never going to put BeOS onto Palms. Never!
This mistake has been going around forever, and it's still here.... Palm bought Be because it was a company stuffed full of acclaimed OS developers that was about to go bust. That's all. They needed to massively boost their development resources in order to make Cobalt and the easiest way to do this was to buy an OS company.
Of course, it didn't work - I don't know what state Cobalt is in now but no-one has put it into a production PDA yet, so I'm assuming "bad".
another example of Palm's lack of vision. The V form factor is the single best form factor and PDA has ever had. Why don't they make something in this form factor any more? Why?
Google is your friend; Results 1 - 10 of about 20,000 for wodge. You'll find a few definitions there.
It appears to be derived from wedge or wad, as far as I can tell, in the mid to late 19th century.
Here is the BBC using it in a story, although of course it is always possible that the BBC only exists in my head as well.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/542252.stm
... these days, when I see a movie being made of a creator-owned comic book I like, I think to myself "oh good, a fat wodge of money going to $creator, that'll help him make some more comics, or buy food, or take better quality drugs, or something."
I don't actually go and see any of the wretched things, but I can tolerate their existance at least.
BTW, isn't wodge a lovely word? Wretched, too.
Is exactly, exactly, exactly what you need. They don't make 'em any more, so it'll have to be ebay.
The youngsters may not know Psion - they were makers of some of the earliest PDAs, and were the company that begot Symbian, the people who make the best smartphone OS software.
Why the 5MX? Because it has the single best keyboard any PDA has ever had, no question. All the other PDA keyboards have buttons like calculators or mobile phones; the 5 has a keyboard like a... well... like a keyboard actually. Some very clever engineering means it folds up smaller than seems possible.
Runs on AA batteries, too.
Decent word processor built in, also various text editors etc. are still available to download - http://www.ericlindsay.com/epoc/siedit5.htm#text has plenty.
There are good open sync tools for Linux too. Come to that, it has a CF slot so you can use that to move your files about no matter what machine you have. Hell, before now I've transfered files by using zmodem out the serial port on the back!
Seriously, you need to check out the 5mx.
Why don't people just pry open your radio and ask the tiny elf inside what she just played?
(The idea that they have a giant metal rod that sends invisible music thru the air is simply too much for me to believe.)
I've considered buying shite films, but i have too much self-respect, sorry.
But there may be other markets, of course. I recently bought Singing In The Rain, because some bastard had made a hip-hop remix of the title song for an advert, which reminded me of how good the original was.
Seriously, if you apply any value to the drunken ramblings of BigLig, go and buy a copy of Singing In The Rain. You'll love it. And get a copy of Casablanca too. Under £10 a pop for brilliant films. There's plenty of it out there...
For that matter, the Star Wars Box Set is only £15.
I mean, if it cost 100 billion, getting $9.99 isn't so bad...
Let me help. Apparently, software RAID is slower than hardware RAID, and Linux SCSI drivers are of variable quality, and also setting a PC on fire degrades its disk performance.