Linux Enhances Shakespeare 174
marXian writes "Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven." Allright, pick your jaw up off the floor ;)
Shakespear.sourceforce.net (Score:1, Funny)
Public domain? (Score:2, Informative)
Public domain!
non?
MacBeth.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MacBeth.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MacBeth.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:MacBeth.... (Score:2)
Oh, yay, great (Score:1, Funny)
Linus MacBeth (Score:3, Funny)
"tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, Linux World Domination is all I see before me"
Re:Linus MacBeth (Score:3, Funny)
This thread would have been much the safer if it had been entitled in the curse-proof tradition:
The Scottish Play augmented by the Finnish OS
Let us hope that the old curse knows not how cross platforms lest all our files be iambically pentameterized...
Re:Linus MacBeth (Score:2)
Isn't that required for InterCal interoperation anyway?
On a related note... (Score:5, Informative)
"...we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor..."
--Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII
Shouldn't they call it: (Score:4, Funny)
(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B)) (Score:5, Funny)
answer="yes";
}
else{
answer="no";
}
printf(be);
>a.out
>yes
Re:(2*B) OR (NOT(2*B)) (Score:3, Funny)
I prefer the regex version... /(bb|[^b]{2})/
To the regex-ignorant... the above matches two B's or not-B twice ("to be or not to be").
There's even a t-shirt [thinkgeek.com] :)
MacBeth, not Hamlet (Score:5, Informative)
iMacBeth (Score:1)
In all fairness (Score:1)
In all fairness, no conventional computer can do anything without a program.
Many of these cheap shots at Windows would be directed at the most dominant desktop platform anyway. While some wouldn't.
But a computer that asks people "Where do you want to go today." will be hard pressed to keep its promise if the user wants it to gain super powers, merge with the power grid and turn into a mech that could be used to lay waste to Tokyo in a one-mech peace rally.
Choice of pager (Score:5, Funny)
Come on now, don't you know all the cool geeks are using less these days?
In other news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news ... (Score:2)
No, he was referring to, er, Richard's cousin, um, Really Simple Stallman.
Context is everything. (Score:1, Funny)
MACBETH: She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Si
Re:Context is everything. (Score:5, Funny)
-+-+-+-+
SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!
MACBETH: It should have died hereafter;
There would have been bandwidth for such requests.
Page after page after page
Creeps in this petty pace from client to client
To the last tag of a slashdotted site,
and all our access logs have lighted admins
to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light!
The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser
that struts and frets his hour upon the screen
and then is heard no more: it is an offer
made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises,
signifying nothing.
Appropriate (Score:1)
Re:Appropriate (Score:1)
Cursed heavens... that seems like a bad idea...
cursed havens, on the other hand... that might be a reality. I just think that "heaven" by definition, can't be cursed...
Re:Appropriate (Score:1)
Ah, who am I kidding?!
If your data does wind up in data heaven, you're pretty much screwed.
Shakespeare + Simpsons = (Score:5, Interesting)
MacHomer [machomer.com]. An excerpt from the 'About' page:
This one-man vocal spectacular features over 50 voices from TV's favourite dysfunctional family in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy! Starring 'Homer Simpson' as Macbeth and 'Marge' as Lady Macbeth (in a script which remains 85% Shakespeare), MacHomer is hysterically funny and amazing to watch.
A friend of mine saw MacHomer in the DC area and though it was great; apparently the voices are quite accurate.
Oops - sorry: Linux! Linux! Linux!
(Don't want to be off-topic. D'oh.)
Re:Shakespeare + Simpsons = (Score:1)
Re:Shakespeare + Simpsons = (Score:2)
Breaking news!! (Reuters) 15:22 GMT (Score:3, Funny)
Out, out, damned spot... (Score:1)
Not so fast! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not so fast! (Score:5, Funny)
Lawyers are currently debating whether it's feasible to build a time machine to sue those who infringe copyright even before the works have been scanned.
Actually, it's called GNU/Shakespeare. . . (Score:1)
Klingon? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Klingon? (Score:1)
a sample? (Score:1, Funny)
Here upon the platform oil
I do hack and code and toil
free information for them all
yet I recieve naught but their gall
They shall rue they day of spite
When their trust becomes my might
Forget Macbeth, go with Hamlet (Score:3, Funny)
Use C, or not use C, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The flags and warnings of a rude compiler,
Or to take arms against a sea of errors,
And by debugging, fix them? To code, to hack,
No more; and by a hack to say we end
The type-check and the thousand other checks
Pascal is heir to, 'tis a compilation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To code, to hack;
To hack! perchance to test: ay, there's the rub;
For in that hacker's bliss what bugs may come,
When we have written out this awful
Huh? (Score:1)
Re:Huh? (Score:1)
Re:Huh? (Score:1)
Shakespearean sonnets, however, virtually always carry the rhyme scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG. His most famous sonnet would be:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate,
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Someti
iMacBeth (Score:3, Funny)
In stylish blood red colors.
Re:iMacBeth (Score:1)
Re:iMacBeth (Score:1)
That would be MacOnRouge then?
shakespeare parser (Score:4, Interesting)
Probably the tech was bought up by the CIA and classified - could be being used to verify identities of known persons in transcripts of discussions intelligence intercepts in bagdad right now.
Re:shakespeare parser (Score:1)
Re:shakespeare parser (Score:1)
Re:shakespeare parser (Score:1)
Mainly, you have to be sure that the canon you feed it is actually entirely written by the author.
Since: 1) The Shakespeare texts were pieced together by actors in the plays--each only having their own cue's and their own lines (and who knows what changes slipped in during this process
2) Since the authorship of some of the peices have been question -- which is the whole point of doing this right -- how do you know what you fed is actually part of shakespear
OT: Fonts are different? (Score:2)
Hmmm. (Score:1)
Re:Hmmm. (Score:1)
Kwanzaa
All the web's a stage (Score:5, Funny)
And all the web designers and database admins merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one programmer in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the n00b,
Drooling and clicking on his brother's comp.
And then the whining freshman, with his pirated WinXP
And shining new imac, lugging his laptop
Unwillingly to class. And then the coder,
Cursing like furnace, with a woeful sigh
On the night of the deadline. Then a hacker,
Full of strange perl scripts and bearded like RMS,
Jealous in GNU/honor, sudden and quick in attacking M$,
Seeking the wizard reputation
Even in the economic downturn. And then the guru,
In fair round belly with long flowing hair,
With eyes severe and beard uncut,
Full of wise one-liners and modern programming paradigms;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful PDP11 code, well saved, now obsolete
On his rusting i686; and his quick nerdy keystrokes,
Falling again toward newbie typing speeds, null pointers
And unmatched parentheses in his code. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans keyboard, sans monitor, sans processor, sans everything.
Didn't get it? Read Shakespeare's original [shu.ac.uk]
new topic (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:new topic (Score:1)
Re:new topic (Score:1)
my utmost appologies... (Score:1)
Re:new topic (Score:2)
I pitty the moderators that gave you +1.
Re:new topic (Score:1)
perhaps those moderators dont take it quite as seriously as some of the mod nazis around here. maybe they even agreed with me, because im not the only one to notice that that topic doesnt make it out much. maybe i dont want to disable the topic icons, maybe i like those pretty little things!!!my sincere appologies for not doing an exhaustive search on the matter before i so foolhardedly used my freedom of s
Re:new topic (Score:2)
I don't see the problem.
The point of moderation is to highlight posts with interesting content... not to save someone from spending 5 seconds to find something out.
I never suggested you do. In fact, you could have hovered your cursor over the icon for a couple seconds and read the alt text to find out what the toric was.
It wasn't the question.
Wrong old story... (Score:5, Funny)
The ASCII Play (Score:1)
Maybe they should call it "The ASCII Play"
(I haven't read the article, I suppose the FB and VLC and others can be used as video players, and maybe everyone doesn't think that watching The Matrix using a high-res aalib window is really cool.)
Re:The ASCII Play (Score:3, Insightful)
Now, Slashdot may have some trouble since they have now used the name without the performance so if you read that a fire destroyed all the computers in the /. cage and no other equipment, don't be surprised :)
well, (Score:2)
I gave up, and just go "three one... you know".
Re:well, (Score:1)
"thirty-one, three, thirty-seven", or
"Ee-leet".
Re:well, (Score:2)
Re:well, (Score:1)
Which kind of makes you the dictionary defintion of a 14m3r.
If you don't know....now you know...
Awful play (Score:4, Interesting)
Having said that, pretty cool that something in my area got slashdotted, never thought I would see the day! \o/
Re:Awful play (Score:1)
Maybe there's a problem with the difference between adaptation and modernisation here. The play's not supposed to be a version of Macbeth - its about a guy who becomes obsessed _with_ Macbeth. So you're right its not a "good version" but then its not really a version at all.
We've had more positive views from others who were in the audience at that preview (though I guess they don't read
You're dead right on one count though - Leighton is a dodgy old man...
Open up! (Score:1)
Re:Open up! (Score:1)
Which license would you suggest?
Re:Open up! (Score:1)
Which license would you suggest?
I think the artistic license would be something for you artists
Oh boy. (Score:2)
Would Slashdot be interested if I were to create a 'woop-de-doo!' icon?
Re:Oh boy. (Score:1)
Wanna see 27 Shakespeare plays at once.... (Score:1)
Take a look at planethamlet [spatialknowledge.com]
an AVI of the running app is here [spatialknowledge.com]
Shakespeare is 1337! (Score:2)
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[Flash] should have died hereafter... (Score:3, Informative)
That said, Macbeth is my most favorite of the Bard's plays, and also the play of his that I've acted in 3 productions of... I know the material rather well, you could say.
One of the charms of The Scottish Play is its inherent level of accessibility to just about anyone. The Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (well, witchy, at any rate) factor. The core characters are tragically flawed at a very base level -- human nature: pride, jealousy, lust, ambition, greed and trust. If acted and directed well, the language acts as less of a barrier for entry to this play than many of Shakespeare's works.
Judging by the creative direction choices made in the *cough* "trailer*, production sketches, etc. -- it seems that they're purposefully trying to make it as 1337 and "insider" as possible. Problem is, they really don't seem to get the 1337 part. So, you have a bit of a catch-22. The viewer has to be both 1) very familiar with Macbeth to get the in-joke and 2) a 31337 h4x0r to get the context. Or completely fucked up.
The short of it: if the same creative team is responsible for the production as was responsible for the most abhorrent piece of flash drivel I've seen in a year, I'd sooner volunteer for a full upper GI exploratory than sit through 2 hours of that kind of pain.
That's not to say that tech and Shakespeare can't mate well. Apple has a feature about another version of Macbeth done in the same spirit [apple.com] -- but much less... well... full of itself?
Definitely worth a look if the fusion of tech and theatre intrigues you.
small font-size in pirateutopia.org (Score:1)
yes, IE has it too, but doesn't work as good
Damn! (Score:1)
I guess I'm just the only one who will speak up with something other than a bard quote.
Simply put, I browsed the site and I'm boggled.
My two cents, adjusted for inflation (Score:2)
>On an abandoned oil platform in the North Sea, a community of libertarian cypher-punks establish the world's first free data haven:
Great. Shalkespeare redone in leetspeek as a William Gibson clone. I think I can safely skip this one. "Cypher-punk" is just soo 1994 Wired anyway, isn't it?
For a more accessible reworking of Macbeth, the other night I watched Scotland, PA [imdb.com], set in a hamburger restaurant in rural Pennsylvania in the 1970's. James LeGros as Macbeth, Christopher
Shakespeare discredited (Score:1)
aalib: (Score:1)
Marathon-Esque (Score:1)
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"Orbis non suficit"
bah. the mac's way ahead of you once again (Score:2)
after all, human actors are all so finicky and outdated.
plus, there's nothing quite like hearing zarvox give the pronouncement that "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead!"
Re:an Ode (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:an Ode (Score:2)
Re:an Ode (Score:1)
This is a very bad ripoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette ~ Have you ever read it? It's Juliet - no tte at the end :)
This being due to the fact that his sirname was that of the archrivals of Juliette's family. ~ Pray tell, what is a sirname? I'm hoping you meant sUrname...
1. Quote good 2. Rip quote 3. .... 4. Profit!!! BUT, it doesn't work if you get the quote wrong. ~ actually, everybody got the gist of his post, so who cares? It works even less if you spell y
Re:an Ode (Score:1)
Indeed it's Juliet, you got me there.
But considering we are discussing an English writer not an American one: sirname indeed is correct. Surname would be the American version of the word.
But you are right, most would have gotten the gist. My main gripe is not with this post but moreso with people abusing this Shakespeare quote in general. And considering this topic was about Shakespeare, it seemed relevant.
I'll just end my boring rant
What's a sirname? (Score:2)
Re:an Ode (Score:1)
Re:ouvrez le théâtre de source (Score:2)
Public Domain (Score:5, Interesting)
Ever wonder what theater these days would be like if Shakespeare's plays were protected under copyright by a control-minded estate like that of Kurt Cobain? I imagine the content would stay truer to the originals, but I'm a big fan of the creative and nutty derivative works Shakespeare has inspired over the years.
Re:Public Domain (Score:5, Informative)
The problem there is that there really aren't any definitive versions of the originals--playwrights back in the day used to give their work over to professional copyists who would introduce their own errors, for one thing. For another, a lot of the plays weren't actually published until after Shakespeare's death, and a lot of those were taken from different performing copies. Ask just about any English literature major about the various quartos and folios and so on.
I know, I know...a Shakespeare geek is me.
Re:Public Domain (Score:2)
The really sick part is that I didn't even realize I'd done that until you pointed it out to me.
Re:Public Domain (Score:1)
Re:ouvrez le théâtre de source (Score:2)
Wrong. Shakespeare was actually under copyright, and was one of the first major copyright battles, as the publishers wanted the copyright on Shakespeare to last forever.
Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII (Score:5, Funny)
You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right?
I can see it now:
Yo! What's wit dis damn spot?
KFG
Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII (Score:1)
You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right?
Like The Skinhead Hamlet [mit.edu] or Ebonics Hamlet [8m.com]?
Not Macbeth, true, but still Shakespeare.
Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII in Jive... (Score:1)
Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII (Score:2, Funny)
"fux0r!"
Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII (Score:1)
Re: Macbeth : Act V Scene VIII (Score:1)
We will do all these things and whatever else as necessary. Thanks to you all; please come and see me crowned at Scone. [=ancient seat of the Scottish kings]
Doesn't quite sound the same, doe