Netflix was amenable to having their movies play on big screens in France, but a law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release.
Where does a law like this originate? So if it is shown is a theater, at all, it automatically cannot be shown on any other medium for 3 years? I can only see this as a law to fuck content creators over because Theater operators have more say with the elected than the electorate.
Maybe this is a sign that most of the 'would be' democracies are oligarchies as well:(
A cruise ship company needs to pick this up and add free flyovers of the port cities they visit. I might actually consider going on one of those trips if they launched the flights from the deck.
Now they need a drool sensor in the table so when your too drunk to lift your head up it knows to stop signaling the waiter to bring you more beer.:)
I can see this making bars alot more money cause instead of a person walking around looking for thirsty people it can identify them immediately. Although the reall issue is getting all the bottling companies to install this in the bottles them selvs, cause alot of places don't sell good beer on tap.
Would a multi-threaded program sing 'The ants go marching two by two Hurrah Hurrah'?
On a serious note, this is an intresting way to help with a programs flow. Kinda reminds me of when sound cards got bad interference from the CPU and you could hear the diffrent pitched hums of tight loops.
At least for me. Until I'm in The Zone. Then once I'm in The Zone, its just things in my peripheral vision or people talking around me.
Best thing I have found is a good pair of head phones that act like ear plugs when you don't have any music playing in them and facing your desk to a wall.
Low lighting helps keep visual distractions down as well. The right music keeps my mind on the task at hand. Also the kind of music depends on what I'm working on.
I find that trance CD's that have been mixed all the way through are the best. Having the same or similar beat through an entire CD keeps my mind focused. Singing on tracks will also distract me, so just instrumental. On the plus side I played drums when I was in high school so the constant beat helps time my key strokes:).
A history test is for memorizing dates, not for learning why events happened or what that event's impact might have been.
Wow, If some one had told my that when I was in HS I might not have taken World History 3 years in a row. Not to mention all the other classes I failed for similar reasons. All the teachers wanted was regurgitated answers, one thing my brain could not comprehend at the time (so I get marked with a learning disability).
My experience led me to not attend college. Since I have been out of school I have learned hundreds of times over the amount of information I learned while in school. This is because of jobs and hobbies have taught me when and why to apply a solution, not just what the solution is.
I have to have colored prompts. I use them to designate what disto that computer is running or what that computer is used for. I use 2 diffrent ones for now. One for my slackware boxes and the other one for my debian boxes.
Since I wanted to test making prompts quickly I put them in seprate files and date them. Then I symlink that file to/etc/prompt. My.profile simply has:
PS1=`cat/etc/prompt`
I use extended ASCII so these may not come through correctly, but here is my slackware prompt:
Also since the 2.2.x kernels the extended ASCII dosen't show up correctly. Though if I run bitchx and quit then that terminal shows correctly. Does anyone know how to make this work at boot time?
Well I have it set so you can add music at a desiered rateing. I was going to take an average of how much time you spend listening to songs, and if you keep skipping past it then it will get rated down. The oppisit will be true as well, if you seek out certin songs then they will get rated up.
Right now the program doesnt learn, you just have to rate the music while its playing. I gave it a/. type rateing -1 to 5 system. Though I dont have a way to make it play anything other than the rateings you want to hear at the time (mainly 4-5 for me). Just while its playing you can rate that song down or up, and if it gets a rateing lower than what your listening to (4-5, and song gets rated to a 3) it bumps it out of the current playlist.
I mean, its more like binary logic to me. Im about to move into a duplex with a friend that lives on the other side. We want a geek house. One of the things I really want is music on demand.
Im going to take this music player im writing (only mp3's right now) and add a deamon mode. Right now it supports users rateing their music so they listen to what they want. Though I have been having a problem with my friends not likeing some of my music.
What I want is for me and my friends that are over a lot to have a small key chain radio ID tag. So when your in a room it plays the music you want to hear, but when some one else enters the room, it takes what you both like and plays what is aggreed on. I dont think I need a nutral net for that. Unless I wanted something to learn on which songs you dont listen to as much (like you forward past it) and ones you search for. Then rate them up or down approately.
To my understanding thats what my RAID controler does. Unfortanly fsck still wants to run on my RAID after a power cycle, but I just need to install a jurneling filesystem on it to acomplish the speed of the powerup.
Even with some of the problems I have run into with power around here befor I got my UPS I never lost a single bit. The Mylex 1164 RAID controler comes with a minimum 32Megs of read/write cache, that has a battery backup.
Now granted, it wasnt cheep, but with my small income I still managed to afford it. Also the Linux drivers worked perfectly. With RiserFS (or the likes) this would be exactly the solution he is talking about.
If your a geek like me with a big collection of mp3's and mpg's you can not lose, and have many users, its the perfect solution. It was for me:)
I agree, it was an execelent tech conference. I had a great time, though I didn't like the registration process, and the first day the network was up they didn't have ssh installed on any of the machines. That im sure will all be fixed in next years conference
I do plan on attending next years OLS. Since I live here in Texas it was a big change in environment for me, I should have brought a jacket.
After listening to the Free S/WAN talks I plan on trying it out, and hearing raster's talk gave me some good ideas for optimizations for some projects im working on. Over all I think it was excelent, and the Helix code party was awsome.
Actualy, their is one convience store I know of here in the Dallas area that swipes your drivers license to verify your age. This scares me, not to mention what if your from another country and dont have a drivers license?
This is a term I have detested, just like the term hacker it gets bent out of proportion. The first thing that comes to mind when I think surfing is someone riding a board on waves of WATER in the OCEAN or the like.
If they mean looking at web pages, then thats about 1% of my total internet use. I can admit I sometimes spend up to an hour looking for a webpage with some of the search engins out their. Personaly I spend most of my time on IRC and chating with my friends. If this is under their umbrela of 'surfing' then why don't we consider communicating in general, addictive.
Another thing is, I do not disconnect from the internet, I have a static IP and a 5 computer network at home. Granted I don't use the computers THAT much, but I have software projects on some of them, others used for serving webpages, one for serving the mp3's:). I do not consider my self addicted because I like getting away from the computers, and if friends are over they are more likely to use the computers than I.
Its funny you mention giving up conveniences, I refuse to get a drivers licesn as of right now because they have installed digital fingerprint scanners at my local DMV, my only form of ID is my social security card and a old school ID.
Ya, some may have a problem with not driving. But hey, at least im not polutting the air. Also IMO I do not want to be just a nother number in a database.
I agree its intriguing, i especially like their discription on what actualy is happening. I was mearly pointing out that if it is intented to enter the flat display market, its going to be rough.
For cheaper Fabing of IC's, but this will have to move fast to compete in the flat screen market. Theirs all ready Electronic Ink. making paper thin displays, although they may not do video but its a start. Also thier is a companie making a phophorus flat screen display where their is an electron gun for every pixel, and they have OEM demos out.
Unless this is cheaper and makes it to the market in time, it will not survive. As for Cheaper Fab's this will help the processor market a lot.
Thiers a company near me (like a 5 min drive) that makes rugged laptops. Arbor Systems, they have pictures of coustomers driving trucks on to the laptops. I was going to check them out when i get some money for a new laptop, maby being weather restistant it might last.
First off this sounds very insecure. i work on computers 24/7 and i dont trust any computer outside my reach. I think they should implement a more secure method.
My idea would be more like, when applying for the account they have a randomly generated 4096byte key genrated, this would be used to unlock you accound when it needs to be accessed to with draw from an ATM or else ware. Then they could use you iris as the encrypting key using somthing like RSA's RC5-64, or somthing better.
That way when you goto get some money from the ATM machine it just uses you IRIS to decrypt the key to unlock you account. no need to store you iris, execpt in your head:).
It just seems more secure that way, cause if some one did break into the banks computers, then they would be trying to decrypt keys for a long time, you will probly be dead and have passed you money on in your will befor it gets cracked.
Kinda sounds to me like a prmitive R2-D2, you know how it makes sounds and people still knew what it was talking about. Or, maby Im just antisipating the The Phantom Menace all too much.
Some one has to point thier finger. Why not at the computer indrustry, they have allready done it to the TV brocasting.
Computers: the scapegoat of the future. ive played all of thoes games, ive never killed anyone (flys and roaches, but i wont count thoes right now), nor ever really wanted to. I would like to play a game of quake in something like the matrix, i guess they did also, and forgot no one could respawn.
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And similar to this concept truck by MAN: http://blackandgold.com/ee/507... Which seems to pre-date the Nikola design by 4 years.
Where does a law like this originate? So if it is shown is a theater, at all, it automatically cannot be shown on any other medium for 3 years? I can only see this as a law to fuck content creators over because Theater operators have more say with the elected than the electorate. Maybe this is a sign that most of the 'would be' democracies are oligarchies as well :(
A cruise ship company needs to pick this up and add free flyovers of the port cities they visit. I might actually consider going on one of those trips if they launched the flights from the deck.
High-res link
http://maps.measurement-factory.com/gallery/Routeviews/
Does anyone else notice that with that one crater and the ridge, it looks surprisingly like the Death Star.
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Anyway, thats my
Now they need a drool sensor in the table so when your too drunk to lift your head up it knows to stop signaling the waiter to bring you more beer. :)
I can see this making bars alot more money cause instead of a person walking around looking for thirsty people it can identify them immediately. Although the reall issue is getting all the bottling companies to install this in the bottles them selvs, cause alot of places don't sell good beer on tap.
Now all we need is some VR helmets, a couple of joysticks and this could be a kick ass arcade game :)
That and flight simulators that you see in anime could be a reality very shortly. Neat stuff.
-magister-
Would a multi-threaded program sing 'The ants go marching two by two Hurrah Hurrah'?
On a serious note, this is an intresting way to help with a programs flow. Kinda reminds me of when sound cards got bad interference from the CPU and you could hear the diffrent pitched hums of tight loops.
At least for me. Until I'm in The Zone. Then once I'm in The Zone, its just things in my peripheral vision or people talking around me.
:).
Best thing I have found is a good pair of head phones that act like ear plugs when you don't have any music playing in them and facing your desk to a wall.
Low lighting helps keep visual distractions down as well. The right music keeps my mind on the task at hand. Also the kind of music depends on what I'm working on.
I find that trance CD's that have been mixed all the way through are the best. Having the same or similar beat through an entire CD keeps my mind focused. Singing on tracks will also distract me, so just instrumental. On the plus side I played drums when I was in high school so the constant beat helps time my key strokes
A history test is for memorizing dates, not for learning why events happened or what that event's impact might have been.
Wow, If some one had told my that when I was in HS I might not have taken World History 3 years in a row. Not to mention all the other classes I failed for similar reasons. All the teachers wanted was regurgitated answers, one thing my brain could not comprehend at the time (so I get marked with a learning disability).
My experience led me to not attend college. Since I have been out of school I have learned hundreds of times over the amount of information I learned while in school. This is because of jobs and hobbies have taught me when and why to apply a solution, not just what the solution is.
I have to have colored prompts. I use them to designate what disto that computer is running or what that computer is used for. I use 2 diffrent ones for now. One for my slackware boxes and the other one for my debian boxes.
/etc/prompt. My .profile simply has:
/etc/prompt`
\ [\033[01;35m\]\d\
[ \[ \033[01;31m\]\t\
- \[ \033[00;34m\]=:\
m \] \[\033[00;34m\]\[\033[00;37m\]
d \[\033[01;35m\]>\[\033[01;35m\]:\
Since I wanted to test making prompts quickly I put them in seprate files and date them. Then I symlink that file to
PS1=`cat
I use extended ASCII so these may not come through correctly, but here is my slackware prompt:
\[\033[00;34m\]ÚÄ\[\033[01;34m\]®\[\033[00;36m\][
\[\033[00;36m\]]\[\033[01;36m\]ð\[\033[00;36m\]
\[\033[00;36m\]]\[\033[01;36m\])\[\033[01;34m\]
\[\033[01;37m\]ù\n\[\033[00;34m\]ÀÄ\[\033[01;34
and my debian prompt:
\[\033[00;35m\]ÕÍ\[\033[01;35m\](\[\033[00;36m\]\
\[\033[00;35m\])\[\033[00;37m\]
Also since the 2.2.x kernels the extended ASCII dosen't show up correctly. Though if I run bitchx and quit then that terminal shows correctly. Does anyone know how to make this work at boot time?
...is the lzip file is a jpeg of a monkey holding some bannas.
Defintaly a very funny april fools joke.
My favorite part is in the FAQ, especially #11.
Well I have it set so you can add music at a desiered rateing. I was going to take an average of how much time you spend listening to songs, and if you keep skipping past it then it will get rated down. The oppisit will be true as well, if you seek out certin songs then they will get rated up.
/. type rateing -1 to 5 system. Though I dont have a way to make it play anything other than the rateings you want to hear at the time (mainly 4-5 for me). Just while its playing you can rate that song down or up, and if it gets a rateing lower than what your listening to (4-5, and song gets rated to a 3) it bumps it out of the current playlist.
Right now the program doesnt learn, you just have to rate the music while its playing. I gave it a
I mean, its more like binary logic to me. Im about to move into a duplex with a friend that lives on the other side. We want a geek house. One of the things I really want is music on demand.
Im going to take this music player im writing (only mp3's right now) and add a deamon mode. Right now it supports users rateing their music so they listen to what they want. Though I have been having a problem with my friends not likeing some of my music.
What I want is for me and my friends that are over a lot to have a small key chain radio ID tag. So when your in a room it plays the music you want to hear, but when some one else enters the room, it takes what you both like and plays what is aggreed on. I dont think I need a nutral net for that. Unless I wanted something to learn on which songs you dont listen to as much (like you forward past it) and ones you search for. Then rate them up or down approately.
To my understanding thats what my RAID controler does. Unfortanly fsck still wants to run on my RAID after a power cycle, but I just need to install a jurneling filesystem on it to acomplish the speed of the powerup.
:)
Even with some of the problems I have run into with power around here befor I got my UPS I never lost a single bit. The Mylex 1164 RAID controler comes with a minimum 32Megs of read/write cache, that has a battery backup.
Now granted, it wasnt cheep, but with my small income I still managed to afford it. Also the Linux drivers worked perfectly. With RiserFS (or the likes) this would be exactly the solution he is talking about.
If your a geek like me with a big collection of mp3's and mpg's you can not lose, and have many users, its the perfect solution. It was for me
I agree, it was an execelent tech conference. I had a great time, though I didn't like the registration process, and the first day the network was up they didn't have ssh installed on any of the machines. That im sure will all be fixed in next years conference
I do plan on attending next years OLS. Since I live here in Texas it was a big change in environment for me, I should have brought a jacket.
After listening to the Free S/WAN talks I plan on trying it out, and hearing raster's talk gave me some good ideas for optimizations for some projects im working on. Over all I think it was excelent, and the Helix code party was awsome.
Actualy, their is one convience store I know of here in the Dallas area that swipes your drivers license to verify your age. This scares me, not to mention what if your from another country and dont have a drivers license?
This is a term I have detested, just like the term hacker it gets bent out of proportion. The first thing that comes to mind when I think surfing is someone riding a board on waves of WATER in the OCEAN or the like.
:). I do not consider my self addicted because I like getting away from the computers, and if friends are over they are more likely to use the computers than I.
If they mean looking at web pages, then thats about 1% of my total internet use. I can admit I sometimes spend up to an hour looking for a webpage with some of the search engins out their. Personaly I spend most of my time on IRC and chating with my friends. If this is under their umbrela of 'surfing' then why don't we consider communicating in general, addictive.
Another thing is, I do not disconnect from the internet, I have a static IP and a 5 computer network at home. Granted I don't use the computers THAT much, but I have software projects on some of them, others used for serving webpages, one for serving the mp3's
Its funny you mention giving up conveniences, I refuse to get a drivers licesn as of right now because they have installed digital fingerprint scanners at my local DMV, my only form of ID is my social security card and a old school ID.
Ya, some may have a problem with not driving. But hey, at least im not polutting the air. Also IMO I do not want to be just a nother number in a database.
What ever happened to the Atlantis project?
I agree its intriguing, i especially like their discription on what actualy is happening. I was mearly pointing out that if it is intented to enter the flat display market, its going to be rough.
For cheaper Fabing of IC's, but this will have to move fast to compete in the flat screen market. Theirs all ready Electronic Ink. making paper thin displays, although they may not do video but its a start. Also thier is a companie making a phophorus flat screen display where their is an electron gun for every pixel, and they have OEM demos out.
Unless this is cheaper and makes it to the market in time, it will not survive. As for Cheaper Fab's this will help the processor market a lot.
Thiers a company near me (like a 5 min drive) that makes rugged laptops. Arbor Systems, they have pictures of coustomers driving trucks on to the laptops. I was going to check them out when i get some money for a new laptop, maby being weather restistant it might last.
First off this sounds very insecure. i work on computers 24/7 and i dont trust any computer outside my reach. I think they should implement a more secure method.
:).
My idea would be more like, when applying for the account they have a randomly generated 4096byte key genrated, this would be used to unlock you accound when it needs to be accessed to with draw from an ATM or else ware. Then they could use you iris as the encrypting key using somthing like RSA's RC5-64, or somthing better.
That way when you goto get some money from the ATM machine it just uses you IRIS to decrypt the key to unlock you account. no need to store you iris, execpt in your head
It just seems more secure that way, cause if some one did break into the banks computers, then they would be trying to decrypt keys for a long time, you will probly be dead and have passed you money on in your will befor it gets cracked.
Kinda sounds to me like a prmitive R2-D2, you know how it makes sounds and people still knew what it was talking about. Or, maby Im just antisipating the The Phantom Menace all too much.
Some one has to point thier finger. Why not at the computer indrustry, they have allready done it to the TV brocasting.
Computers: the scapegoat of the future. ive played all of thoes games, ive never killed anyone (flys and roaches, but i wont count thoes right now), nor ever really wanted to. I would like to play a game of quake in something like the matrix, i guess they did also, and forgot no one could respawn.