I am not exactly sure what substance you are using, but it must be some pretty good stuff.
I have 3 machines in my house setup with nest drives that I use for testing releases (AMD 1800+ 128M, Intel P4 2.3G 512M, Athlon64 1G RAM). I also have my personal laptop with a PentM with 1G; however that is strictly an XP load with an occasional boot to Knoppix Live.
My nest drives (20-30G drives) have the following loads:
Windows XP (fully patched) Windows 2k (fully patched) Windows 98 (fully patched) Fedora Core 3 (KDE) SuSE 9 (KDE) BSD (not sure of the build our local xNix guy built it for me)
Out of all of them Windows 98 boots up the fastest, followed by FC3 - the rest are in a muddled pack with XP traditionally trailing that pack. None of the Windows boxes have hibernate turned on because they all suck at it. XP will come back properly 4 out of 5 times, but that 5th time it is completely screwed up and hangs the system - so it is best just to leave it off.
My favorite Windows build is 2k. Its support for modern hardware is good enough and it is not nearly as bloated as XP (faster response and smaller footprint). However, its support for USB drives seems flakey.
Of course, I would have loved to have VMWare for this type of sandbox stuff, but this company had surplus drives and the nest equipment from a previous task - thus it was effectively free for them.
Free Speech does not mean free from any consquences of that speech. If you are going around complaining how your employer "sickens" you - then expect that your employer will more than likely get rid of you. After all, he had no problems taking the money (even with his lame cruise missle excuse).
Nobody tried to gag him, certain projects just no longer want to be associated with him.
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Of course when your total land area is just slightly less that twice the size of Colorado (CIA World Fact Book) then it is far easier to wire high-speed capabilities.
France (total area): 547,030 sq km Korea, South (total area): 98,480 sq km United States (total area): 9,631,418 sq km
That puts the US (CIA World Fact Book again) at just under the size of China and about 2.5x size the the *entire* EU.
In the area of deploying area-based consumer technologies small is a big advantage.
When I was a freshman in HS I was involved in a motorcycle accident that laid me out for an entire semester (the whole tutor from home and doctors comtemplating taking my leg before it rotted away). Well, that money I was saving up for a new cycle just seemed rather foolish.
I got a Computer Shopper magazine (when it was good) and purchased a C64, 5.25 belt driven disk drive, 9-pin Star Micronics Printer, 300baud modem, and a 13" television. That machine and CompuServe opened up a whole new world for me.
As a SWAG, lets say there was a fanbase of 10M worldwide. If just one third could be convinced to pony up $1 per episode - that's $3.3M right there. By using the internet and some sort of paypal like system (pay attention to what google is doing in this area, they seem to be thinking right along these lines) they could collect that $1 per episode and put it into an escrow account. When the balance reaches $3.3M production begins. When the episode is completed, it is released to the public domain and the money is released to the production company.
That might work except for the fact that you cannot just reach into the magic shelf and pull things together in zero time. People and bits of kit move on. You cannot just hold all of the aspects of a movie in stasis until people come up with enough cash and then suddenly make movie magic.
You would also have to support a method for people to pull their money out - plus some supporting legal structure over who holds that money and gains its work value (read: interest, etc.).
This system still has the advantage of allowing advertisement - say Pepsi Co. drops in 100K per episode created as long as the main character develops a taste for Dr. Pepper. If this value goes high enough (or the production values are low enough) we end up with a return to the Golden Days of Radio and TV when shows were sponsored (when smoking was relaxing on the throat - as the actors told us).
In fact, there is nothing stopping you from building your own production company using this system right now. If really have any convictions for this system then there is little to stop you from implementing it. The cost of entry is quite low now and with internet distribution it would be minor to deploy.
Personally, I think that this system will fail because of human nature. I can withhold my money and still get the same thing assuming others are putting in their money - thus I am ahead of the game. Maybe instead turn the show into Private Stock Company. Then every dollar invested becomes so much stock - the people that put in money are investing into the franchise. Each movie is released into the public domain (as per your original intention), but licence fees from movie related materials (merchandise, etc.) get returned as profit to the stakeholders.
* You don't have to declare variables
* Code blocks are simply based on how you indent, making it always very legible
These are the two very reasons I dislike python. It is far to easy to have a typo cause problems in the use of a variable. Since you do not have to declare variables if you want striker, but instead fatkey in an increment to strikr then it becomes a problem that can be difficult to find.
Second, any language that requires indenting to signify code blocks is in my mind a great step backwards to the days of Fortran. This makes code blocking too vulnerable to pretty printers and version control methods that may "adjust" indentation.
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I am not exactly sure what substance you are using, but it must be some pretty good stuff.
I have 3 machines in my house setup with nest drives that I use for testing releases (AMD 1800+ 128M, Intel P4 2.3G 512M, Athlon64 1G RAM). I also have my personal laptop with a PentM with 1G; however that is strictly an XP load with an occasional boot to Knoppix Live.
My nest drives (20-30G drives) have the following loads:
Windows XP (fully patched)
Windows 2k (fully patched)
Windows 98 (fully patched)
Fedora Core 3 (KDE)
SuSE 9 (KDE)
BSD (not sure of the build our local xNix guy built it for me)
Out of all of them Windows 98 boots up the fastest, followed by FC3 - the rest are in a muddled pack with XP traditionally trailing that pack. None of the Windows boxes have hibernate turned on because they all suck at it. XP will come back properly 4 out of 5 times, but that 5th time it is completely screwed up and hangs the system - so it is best just to leave it off.
My favorite Windows build is 2k. Its support for modern hardware is good enough and it is not nearly as bloated as XP (faster response and smaller footprint). However, its support for USB drives seems flakey.
Of course, I would have loved to have VMWare for this type of sandbox stuff, but this company had surplus drives and the nest equipment from a previous task - thus it was effectively free for them.
Free Speech does not mean free from any consquences of that speech. If you are going around complaining how your employer "sickens" you - then expect that your employer will more than likely get rid of you. After all, he had no problems taking the money (even with his lame cruise missle excuse).
Nobody tried to gag him, certain projects just no longer want to be associated with him.
Of course when your total land area is just slightly less that twice the size of Colorado (CIA World Fact Book) then it is far easier to wire high-speed capabilities.
France (total area): 547,030 sq km
Korea, South (total area): 98,480 sq km
United States (total area): 9,631,418 sq km
That puts the US (CIA World Fact Book again) at just under the size of China and about 2.5x size the the *entire* EU.
In the area of deploying area-based consumer technologies small is a big advantage.
When I was a freshman in HS I was involved in a motorcycle accident that laid me out for an entire semester (the whole tutor from home and doctors comtemplating taking my leg before it rotted away). Well, that money I was saving up for a new cycle just seemed rather foolish.
I got a Computer Shopper magazine (when it was good) and purchased a C64, 5.25 belt driven disk drive, 9-pin Star Micronics Printer, 300baud modem, and a 13" television. That machine and CompuServe opened up a whole new world for me.
That might work except for the fact that you cannot just reach into the magic shelf and pull things together in zero time. People and bits of kit move on. You cannot just hold all of the aspects of a movie in stasis until people come up with enough cash and then suddenly make movie magic.
You would also have to support a method for people to pull their money out - plus some supporting legal structure over who holds that money and gains its work value (read: interest, etc.).
This system still has the advantage of allowing advertisement - say Pepsi Co. drops in 100K per episode created as long as the main character develops a taste for Dr. Pepper. If this value goes high enough (or the production values are low enough) we end up with a return to the Golden Days of Radio and TV when shows were sponsored (when smoking was relaxing on the throat - as the actors told us).
In fact, there is nothing stopping you from building your own production company using this system right now. If really have any convictions for this system then there is little to stop you from implementing it. The cost of entry is quite low now and with internet distribution it would be minor to deploy.
Personally, I think that this system will fail because of human nature. I can withhold my money and still get the same thing assuming others are putting in their money - thus I am ahead of the game. Maybe instead turn the show into Private Stock Company. Then every dollar invested becomes so much stock - the people that put in money are investing into the franchise. Each movie is released into the public domain (as per your original intention), but licence fees from movie related materials (merchandise, etc.) get returned as profit to the stakeholders.
Second, any language that requires indenting to signify code blocks is in my mind a great step backwards to the days of Fortran. This makes code blocking too vulnerable to pretty printers and version control methods that may "adjust" indentation.