Harrods has a brand of Earl Grey known as No. 42. (Review here ). Given that DNA was very particular about his tea, it's not that much of a stretch that the number was floating around in the back of his mind for that very reason.
(probably too late to get any moderation, but what the hell...)
I have a theory about that - I think that it's a reaction to all the "futuristic" sci-fi from generations past that never panned out.
For example, 2001 was four years ago, and we've barely started talking about going to Mars, much less Jupiter, with or without talking AI computers. As someone once said, "Where's my flying car?"
Based on past experiences, the popular opinion seems to be that most likely, the future (assuming we're talking about non-apocalyptic scenarios only) will look a lot like today, just with better gadgets.
(Posting after most people have stopped looking at this article, but oh well.)
I think the difference may just be in your encoder software, or maybe FLAC is just spending more time sleeping on disk accesses. If I remember right, FLAC is just ogg + (the difference between the ogg and the source material). That means that for the ogg, you're just encoding ogg, but for FLAC, you're encoding ogg, decoding ogg, and finding the difference.
If you're already SSH/Telneting into the machine, just install the necessary X libraries and run XMMS with a remote display. You don't even have to configure an X server on the machine itself.
I have an old P100 w/ 48MB EDO RAM in it connected to my stereo, and I control it that way. It works just fine, on top of being a Samba server (120 GB HD, where the music lives), and a DNS server.
It's not set up to rip on demand, because I do that from my main desktop machine. I tend to spend a lot of processor time encoding my MP3s (LAME presets standard or extreme), so it already takes long enough on a reasonably powered machine. However, if you were willing to settle for less (or were willing wait a week), it probably wouldn't take much to write a shell script to do it.
... I'd have to say that this is the right way to do it. That is to say, without destructively draconian legal maneuverings, and without illegally unauthorized access of other's machines. Besides, at worst, all this does is make it take longer to find what you want. If they want to fight back this way, more power to them. If they want to take away my right to fair use in order to prevent so-called piracy, then they're seriously mistaken if they think I'll support them in it.
It's their own customers they're risking alienating. If they fight fair, they'll win, and deservedly so. If not, then there will be consequences. It's as simple as that.
Ok, I just checked these two cartoons out (the Bugs war-bond commercial and the one with him shooting the Japanese).
The war bonds commercial blackface incident I believe was intended to be strictly a parody of Al Jolson, as evidenced by the voice and the "Uncle Sammy" bit. Apparently Jolson was well know for his songs about "mammy," and also performed in blackface. Another interesting fact - the song, "Any Bonds Today" was written by none other than Irving Berlin if my memory serves correctly.
As for the one about shooting the Japanese ("Bugs Nips the Nips"), it's your basic Bugs cartoon with Japanese soldiers taking the part of the antagonists. There's some pretty outrageous stereotyping going on; the Japanese soldiers all babble continuously in some unintelligible pidgin and all have buckteeth. At one point Bugs even calls them some fairly offensive names, though never uses the most ugly one-word slurs.
I dunno. It was a different time, and most people didn't even know they were being racist when they did stuff like that. Plus, you have to remember that we were at heavy-duty, unconditional-surrender-or-nothing war with them - a common reaction is to try and dehumanize the enemy.
I'm not trying to excuse the behavior, which I find incredibly shameful, only explain it. For an interesting read on a similar topic, check out Roger Ebert's essay on "Birth of a Nation."
Ok, I'm not trying to rip on your spelling, because I really do think that's lame, but this is what came to mind when I thought about what a "Loan Gunman" would be like:
"Lost another loan to DIE!!!!" (sound of machine guns blazing)
Schadenfreude - literally "hurt-joy," or perhaps "shame-joy" i.e., the joy you get from seeing someone hurt. If I'm a little off, please forgive me, as the entirety of my education in the German language consisted of three years in High School.
Think about it - it's commonplace now to re-edit shows for syndication. Lots of times they cut out a whole gag on The Simpsons to get more commercial time. If they can garner the same amount just by removing the occasional barely-perceptible frame of deadwood, I say go for it. On the other hand, if this is implemented as making every transition between scenes sudden and jolting, it will be much less preferable.
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I know I watched them, and thought that it could be one of two things:
Inspired stupidity. Think like the Airplane/early Naked Gun movies, where the gags are admittedly dumb, but dumb in such a creative, random way that there's a subversive intellectual quality underneath them.
Attempted inspired stupidity. They tried, but fell short. Problem is, falling short at all is death to this genre. I'm not sure why, but it seems to be an all or nothing thing.
Unfortunately, the former comes along very rarely, and the latter comes around very often. Needless to say, I didn't hold much hope.
sorry, but everythin you see that is a major project is still shot on 35mm film.
Sorry to point this out, but if I remember correctly, isn't Attack of the Clones being shot in digital? I have as many doubts as the next guy as to the quality of said picture, but I'd say it definitely counts as a major project.
If I remember correctly, she's the same person who holds most of the responsibility for running Lucent into the ground, by doing things like encouraging vendor financing to inflate sales figures. A lot of analysts seem to think that she's just chasing golden parachutes.
This reminds of a problem we had at work. A guy I know had a slight configuration problem where every file he created started out with execute permissions. Occasionally he would go to edit a.c file and forget the editor command (aliased to "n", so it only took missing one keystroke.)
Even though these were just ASCII text files, they'd actually execute, filling his terminal with garbage and making it beep continuously. What's worse, they'd start spawning child processes, and if you killed one, three more would pop up. Eventually the machine would get so bogged down that no one on it could save their work. The only way to fix it was to reboot the machine, necessitating a call to the IT department.
This was on HPUX on an HP-RISC machine - I'd never have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
It's interesting you said that. Back when I was in high school, I took the "Independent Study" Calculus course. It was the only one my school offered, and I was one of three who took it. I took the whole thing on a beat-up TI scientific that a friend of mine had found laying outside on the ground. It was so old, it had batteries only - no solar. Anyway, later that year, I took the Calc AP test. The rules said that a graphing calculator was recommended, but my math teacher said it would probably just get in my way. The morning of the test, my calculator died - big crack through the LCD. The guidance counselor lent me his calculator - a four-function. Ok, it had a square root button too, but that was it. I took the whole test with it, and had to leave a lot of the answers in symbolic form - I think I gave the height of a tree as ln(3.8) + 2 or something.
Anyway, long story short, I got a 4 - first at my high school ever to pass.
So, in conclusion, symbolic answers can be a good thing.:)
TiVos are linux based, definitely consumer-oriented, and probably have one of the best user interfaces I've ever come across. They're also getting close to critical mass in terms of users, I figure.
So, if the general public decides that a group like that is wasting its time and is just a glutton for punishment, might they get labeld SADO-masochists?
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Harrods has a brand of Earl Grey known as No. 42. (Review here ). Given that DNA was very particular about his tea, it's not that much of a stretch that the number was floating around in the back of his mind for that very reason.
(probably too late to get any moderation, but what the hell...)
I have a theory about that - I think that it's a reaction to all the "futuristic" sci-fi from generations past that never panned out.
For example, 2001 was four years ago, and we've barely started talking about going to Mars, much less Jupiter, with or without talking AI computers. As someone once said, "Where's my flying car?"
Based on past experiences, the popular opinion seems to be that most likely, the future (assuming we're talking about non-apocalyptic scenarios only) will look a lot like today, just with better gadgets.
That reminds me of an old joke - "What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?" "God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison."
(Posting after most people have stopped looking at this article, but oh well.)
I think the difference may just be in your encoder software, or maybe FLAC is just spending more time sleeping on disk accesses. If I remember right, FLAC is just ogg + (the difference between the ogg and the source material). That means that for the ogg, you're just encoding ogg, but for FLAC, you're encoding ogg, decoding ogg, and finding the difference.
If you're already SSH/Telneting into the machine, just install the necessary X libraries and run XMMS with a remote display. You don't even have to configure an X server on the machine itself.
I have an old P100 w/ 48MB EDO RAM in it connected to my stereo, and I control it that way. It works just fine, on top of being a Samba server (120 GB HD, where the music lives), and a DNS server.
It's not set up to rip on demand, because I do that from my main desktop machine. I tend to spend a lot of processor time encoding my MP3s (LAME presets standard or extreme), so it already takes long enough on a reasonably powered machine. However, if you were willing to settle for less (or were willing wait a week), it probably wouldn't take much to write a shell script to do it.
In all seriousness, this could possibly be what the trademark issue is. Motorola uses this brand name for a line of digital public-safety radios.
It's their own customers they're risking alienating. If they fight fair, they'll win, and deservedly so. If not, then there will be consequences. It's as simple as that.
The war bonds commercial blackface incident I believe was intended to be strictly a parody of Al Jolson, as evidenced by the voice and the "Uncle Sammy" bit. Apparently Jolson was well know for his songs about "mammy," and also performed in blackface. Another interesting fact - the song, "Any Bonds Today" was written by none other than Irving Berlin if my memory serves correctly.
As for the one about shooting the Japanese ("Bugs Nips the Nips"), it's your basic Bugs cartoon with Japanese soldiers taking the part of the antagonists. There's some pretty outrageous stereotyping going on; the Japanese soldiers all babble continuously in some unintelligible pidgin and all have buckteeth. At one point Bugs even calls them some fairly offensive names, though never uses the most ugly one-word slurs.
I dunno. It was a different time, and most people didn't even know they were being racist when they did stuff like that. Plus, you have to remember that we were at heavy-duty, unconditional-surrender-or-nothing war with them - a common reaction is to try and dehumanize the enemy.
I'm not trying to excuse the behavior, which I find incredibly shameful, only explain it. For an interesting read on a similar topic, check out Roger Ebert's essay on "Birth of a Nation."
Ok, I'm not trying to rip on your spelling, because I really do think that's lame, but this is what came to mind when I thought about what a "Loan Gunman" would be like:
Yeah, it's stupid, but I found it amusing.
And BSD is now in every new Mac in the world, as well as having a decent market penetration in small-iron servers.
So, they then asked the people who ran the City Council. (This would be The Outfit.)
According to John Landis, the news was presented to him as, "Bad news, we got the permission to do the scene."
I've seen AOTC in digital, and I could definitely see pixelation. The easiest place to see it is whenever there are subtitles.
Uh... Been to a restaurant lately?
Disclaimer: Technically offtopic, but short.
Schadenfreude - literally "hurt-joy," or perhaps "shame-joy" i.e., the joy you get from seeing someone hurt. If I'm a little off, please forgive me, as the entirety of my education in the German language consisted of three years in High School.
Think about it - it's commonplace now to re-edit shows for syndication. Lots of times they cut out a whole gag on The Simpsons to get more commercial time. If they can garner the same amount just by removing the occasional barely-perceptible frame of deadwood, I say go for it. On the other hand, if this is implemented as making every transition between scenes sudden and jolting, it will be much less preferable.
Unfortunately, the former comes along very rarely, and the latter comes around very often. Needless to say, I didn't hold much hope.
Sorry to point this out, but if I remember correctly, isn't Attack of the Clones being shot in digital? I have as many doubts as the next guy as to the quality of said picture, but I'd say it definitely counts as a major project.
If I remember correctly, she's the same person who holds most of the responsibility for running Lucent into the ground, by doing things like encouraging vendor financing to inflate sales figures. A lot of analysts seem to think that she's just chasing golden parachutes.
Still offtopic but...
Don Wahlberg is an actor too - he was that messed up guy that shot Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.
This reminds of a problem we had at work. A guy I know had a slight configuration problem where every file he created started out with execute permissions. Occasionally he would go to edit a .c file and forget the editor command (aliased to "n", so it only took missing one keystroke.)
Even though these were just ASCII text files, they'd actually execute, filling his terminal with garbage and making it beep continuously. What's worse, they'd start spawning child processes, and if you killed one, three more would pop up. Eventually the machine would get so bogged down that no one on it could save their work. The only way to fix it was to reboot the machine, necessitating a call to the IT department.
This was on HPUX on an HP-RISC machine - I'd never have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
It's interesting you said that. Back when I was in high school, I took the "Independent Study" Calculus course. It was the only one my school offered, and I was one of three who took it. I took the whole thing on a beat-up TI scientific that a friend of mine had found laying outside on the ground. It was so old, it had batteries only - no solar. Anyway, later that year, I took the Calc AP test. The rules said that a graphing calculator was recommended, but my math teacher said it would probably just get in my way. The morning of the test, my calculator died - big crack through the LCD. The guidance counselor lent me his calculator - a four-function. Ok, it had a square root button too, but that was it. I took the whole test with it, and had to leave a lot of the answers in symbolic form - I think I gave the height of a tree as ln(3.8) + 2 or something.
:)
Anyway, long story short, I got a 4 - first at my high school ever to pass.
So, in conclusion, symbolic answers can be a good thing.
TiVos are linux based, definitely consumer-oriented, and probably have one of the best user interfaces I've ever come across. They're also getting close to critical mass in terms of users, I figure.
So, if the general public decides that a group like that is wasting its time and is just a glutton for punishment, might they get labeld SADO-masochists?
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Don't get me wrong, this (proposed draft) bill is seriously wrong. I just believe in the power of humor in the face of adversity.
Well, they do say that 9 out of 10 housewives can't tell it from a dead crab...
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."