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You are wrong on the no one likes part.

There are plenty people out there who like that shiny-flashy braindead excuse for information.
So much, that CNN, NBC and like are flashing up and dumbing down to keep up.
See Outfoxed.

Didn't read the post subject. At first I thought you meant six Doctors Quinn, Medicine Woman. I suppose now that I'm in my thirties I can appreciate that idea. ;-)

The common methods I've discussed are backward to me. The only method I could see that's workable is to reactivate the core.

You seem to have a very personal definition of "workable". Even taking the recent Hollywood documentary on the matter, it doesn't seem to be that easy a task...

Seriously. They do.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/

This cryptic gem is a reference to a sketch in Kentucky Fried Movie called "A Fistful of Yen", which is arguably the best sketch of the movie besides Rex Cramer -- Danger seeker.

Beakman's World had Senta Moses on it.

Aaargle... Drool...

Exactly. They're The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. They're the most incompetent group of candy-assed thugs we've ever had to tolerate.

That's what's most offensive, I think, that we have to watch them waddle back and forth to our Treasury with their pants unzipped (or down) and donut icing on their ties. It's as though Homer Simpson were running the joint.

Apple radically reinvents stuff. They modify APIs, deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI. They change architectures and discontinue successful products.

The strange this is you are impressed with Apple for these things.

> They modify APIs

You didn't say "extend", "enhance", "improve". Modify sounds like "heh, you used to know where stuff was, but now I moved it all" [where "you" is a blind person (i.e. a program that is already compiled and designed to work in a certain way with dependencies on the OS to be there for it)]

> deprecate frameworks that used to be essential UI

deprecate: to express strong disapproval of; deplore". To do this to 'things that used to be essential', doesn't sound like A Good Thing(tm).

> They change architectures

This sounds dictatorial. I'm not hearing "improve", "enhance", "$THESAURUS(n), where n is something good".

> [They] discontinue successful products

Apparently that famous reality distortion field is contagious.

/me frantically trys to open the door to his Datsun 260z while a horde of fanatics leap on top of him

How about doing this to this?

Yeah, once you get past the initial hatred phase because of UAC prompts and it whining about being incompatible with Visual Studio 6.0 it's actually OK

VS 6.0 actually works ok too

I suppose in Rainman terms XP is a bit like a pair of old khaki slacks you got from K Mart and wear ever day. When they wore out you went back to K Mart and the new slacks were a slightly different style. You complained and complained and complained but K Mart wouldn't get you the old style. Eventually you get used to the new ones.

They've already been there, done that: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/ (if I'm offending some sort of implied /. context, please ignore).

I think you just described Cube Zero
And yes, the fat guy bites it hard early on.

....a slap for this. I've got friends who have aspergers (one of them a really talented and succuesful IT professional), and a cousin with autism. Its a really hard thing to deal with for families and all concerned, he's "lucky" because he's got it light. To raise a child with autism takes guts and commitment, I take my hat off to her. Furthermore, to take a stand against crackpots while juggling your own domestic issues is admirable, and certainly doesn't deserve a legal slap in the face for trying to a) educate people through her blog and b)debunk crackpot theories that only seek to gain monetary gain through litigation and not practical solutions. I think this lawyer has watched to many movies and wants to get a sex change. Its a shame this woman had to go through this kind of shit in the first place. Makes me glad that frivolous litigation has reached such absurd levels in Australia yet.

There is a movie about that specifically...

Dark Helmet: What's the matter with this thing? What's with all that churning and bubbling? You call that a Radar Screen?
[Sandurz points to the sign on the machine]
Colonel Sandurz: No sir, we call it Mr. Coffee. Care for some?
Dark Helmet: I always have coffee when I watch radar, you know that!
Colonel Sandurz: Of course I do, sir.
Dark Helmet: Everybody knows that!
All the henchmen in the room: Of course we do, sir!
Dark Helmet: Now that I have my coffee I'm ready to watch radar. Where is it?
Colonel Sandurz: Right here, sir.
[Sandurz points to the sign on the radar screen that says Mr. Radar]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes

I was watching him in Dogma just this weekend. That opening with him introducing the "Jesus Wow!" campaign still cracks me up.

He'll be missed.

Come on! There are better ways of disposing bodies.

...and I think it's pretty true to the movie it's based on.

This one?

If so, I do readily believe the reviewer that it sucks and blows at the same time.

The company I work for sells far too many AIT, DDS and DLT drives than is healthy for the customers, but they just don't see the importance upgrading, as you say.

However, disk is expensive. Even iSCSI. Contrary to popular belief, tape is not dead. Tape is also a tenth to a fifth of the cost of disk. Adding more drive arrays is far less cost effective than tape.

Co-lo failover systems have their place, but trying to run a backup over the internet is going to be painful. A single LTO3 drive writes at about 70MB/sec, that's 560 Megabits/sec. Effectively, an OC-12. Those aren't cheap. I regularly deal with tape libraries that can hold 20 to 24 LTO3 drives. That's a lot of bandwidth. Granted, your SAN better have the balls to keep up, or you've got bigger problems.

An L700 equipped with 20 LTO3's can backup half a petabyte (500TB) in about seven and a half hours. And, no matter what Hollywood may think, four hard drives in a briefcase, just won't cut it. ;-)

Maybe his site is an evil plot by the Chinese government to produce lots of random gibberish in English and make web surfers in the decadent west read it. Sooner or later he by sheer luck he is bound to hit on some English specific Gödel Sentence that causes the evil Americans to have a simultaneous brainstorm. Then China can take over the world.

I would continue posting, but there's a good documentary I've just finished downloading off conspiracytorrents.net, and I really should watch it.

I for one, welcome our new 70 degree rotated, 70 degrees temperature, 70 degrees educated, located somewhere between 70 degrees east and 6 degrees from kevin bacon *, tree overlords.

* theres bound to be a tree somewhere in that movie...

I agree that it would be nice if Netflix had a more robust database that could be queried by users. I offer this suggestion as a possible partial workaround, as the movies in the IMDB are do not coincide with the films inventoried by Netflix. The advanced option costs money, but at least the option exists.

Have you considered imdb's regular search page or their keyword search (click in the "Areas to Search" sidebar)?

My guess is that a Pro membership will allow you to boolean your searches.

Good luck and hope this helps.

I agree that it would be nice if Netflix had a more robust database that could be queried by users. I offer this suggestion as a possible partial workaround, as the movies in the IMDB are do not coincide with the films inventoried by Netflix. The advanced option costs money, but at least the option exists.

Have you considered imdb's regular search page or their keyword search (click in the "Areas to Search" sidebar)?

My guess is that a Pro membership will allow you to boolean your searches.

Good luck and hope this helps.

Or perhaps you are hearing white noise and it's Ghosts? I think your phone is possessed.

Gee, wasn't that the plot of a movie starring John Candy? Oh, here it is, Canadian Bacon. Apparently it was a Michael Moore movie, and John Candy's last before his death.

Sorry,

Woute was from IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406678/bio

Pimps became "cool" out of necessity long before you were born. I think your negative perceptions stem from a common misunderstanding of the "pimp" business model and sex-worker economy promoted by negative fictional role models in the media, such as Flyguy, which, although part of pimp-culture's marketing strategy, backfired. Let me explain.

Pimps serve a vital role as intermediaries between the the poverty-stricken segment of society (which the sex-worker economy typically draws on for labor) and its more affluent clientele (which account for most of its revenue if not the most number of "jobs"). You see, the sex-worker economy provides employment for otherwise unemployable individuals and serves as an avenue for a transfer of assets from rich to poor without the significant government overhead of welfare. It's not without any overhead, but compared to the feds, most pimps are models of efficiency in business.

A pimp has two equally important primary roles: marketing and human resources. Take your average upper middle class church going sexually deprived white guy. This potential client would feel everything from fear to pity to disgust at the thought of having sex with the average impoverished mid-to-late twenties drug-addicted alcoholic high school drop out prostitute. Likewise, the potential prostitute would be afraid, shy, nervous, and easily spotted by the cops. The two would never be able to enter into a mutually beneficial business transaction.

But the pimp makes it all possible. His "cool", as you describe it, prevents clients from having to be aware of the unfortunate but necessary source of raw materials for his business, much like your local supermarket, with its sparkling white floors and refrigerated cases of bright-red carbon monoxide soaked meat, hide the horrors of the meat processing industry from you. The pimp's fancy car, gold chains, expensive fashions and self expressive grooming show his clients the world of fantasy, excitement and culture they demand. These same qualities also show employees the potential benefits of hard work in their chosen field.

Do you look down on the president of your company for wearing an expensive 3-piece suit or driving a late-model BMW? Of course not. You know he's worked hard to build the company that puts food on your table every night. That same charisma keeps sales coming in and your paycheck going out. The more impressive he is, the more business your company gets and the harder you're willing to work for him, right? So why then would you criticize pimps for doing the same thing. Sure, the nature of their business means that they need to demonstrate their success slightly differently, but the basic idea is the same.

Pimps are cool because they have to be. They simply cater to what their potential clients demand. They personify "process improvement" because their hard work provides good pay to thousands who would otherwise flood social services and the minimum-wage job market. Drugs are simply a side business that both clients and employees demand and threats are part of the show for the clients. In short, don't hate the player, hate the game.

Forget Osama. They overtook the coffee maker. The whole fucking coffee maker!

Inspired by Bluto

Unfortunately, payment of the prize money is in nano-sized dollar bills.

And they're in orbit.

I typed a very thorough response to what you said as to why I hate the game so much, and then I closed the tab due to a sudden outbreak of nooblet syndrome. I agree with you on the gameplay points you brought up; I did like those. However, many things were underutilized, or suffered from being horrible gameplay mechanics. For example, the suit was horribly underutilized, and the escort mission was incredibly annoying and stupid, among other things.

Point is though, after I played that game, I regretted wasting my time on Crysis... and that's coming from someone who saw Alexander in the theater. And that movie, though a waste of time, did have a nude Rosario Dawson and *was* comically bad near the end.

A quick look at Mr. Boll's IMDB entry would have told you that's not the case. He has no less than seven movies currently under production or post-production. Some of them are based on video games; others are not. He's even producing at least one movie -- the Alone in the Dark sequel -- for someone else to direct. Obviously, Mr. Boll's method remains profitable for his investors.

As Larry Meistrich of all people could tell you, a neat trick to selling an offbeat indie movie is to make a short version first. Or just beg, borrow, and steal to get the funding yourself; make the whole feature; and THEN seek out the distributors. A finished (or at least partially finished) product can often say a lot more than any 5-minute pitch can--especially for a quirky indie.

Ever seen The Right Stuff (1983)?

There is this scene where Gus Grissom (played by Fred Ward) is drinking in the bar and is trying to woo a certain waitress who is playing "not very impressed with just another astronaut".
So he shows her a pocket model of Apollo capsule and asks her if she's got one of those.
She answers - sure, they are about a dollar at every thrift store.
Gus answers "Yes, but did you ever have one that went up there?", at which she distinctly changes her posture about him being "just another astronaut".

There it is my fellow slashdotian.
Taking small things into orbit gets you laid.

What would you do when a maniac truck driver sees your sticker?

I can't believe how many morons on youtube thought that was a real commercial. I know (with that /. ID) you didn't. Here is the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/.

fellacious (GNAP) Intercourse, PA - Windows Vista appears to finally be taking off, at least within one Fortune 100 company. The GNAA had for the past 13 years been using Red Hat Linux and it's successor, Fedora Core, but growing discontent with the free software operating system forced CTO Jmax to declare on Wednesday that the company was to be switching its entire infrastructure to the new version of Windows, effective immediately. "I'm not going to theatrically claim that I wasn't expecting to have to do this," Jmax said. "This has been coming for quite some time." The GNAA's troubles with Red Hat's Linux system included chronic governance problems, a persistent failure to maintain key repositories, a complex and undocumented submission process which has kept the GNAA's free trolling utilities off the Red Hat-based desktops of thousands of would-be trolls, inability to keep RPM up to date, and a failure to address the problem of Firefox not crashing a entire computer when the user loads Last Measure. "The deal-breaker, though, was when a key Last Measure server remained down for four hours while our entire Intercourse development team tried desperately to bring it up despite not having statically-linked package manager binaries." What had happened was Dikky, visiting from Norway, wanted to play the child pornography mod of Doom 3 on that server- which had to drag several libraries with it. "In addition," said Jmax, "several key software applications used in the GNAA's corporate workflow are proprietary software- which means that they had to be run in an Ubuntu compatibility environment anyway." However, being as those unnamed applications were written in C#.NET, "We expect that our transition to Windows Vista will come off without a hitch."

About Jmax:

The CTO of the GNAA, Jmax also has a seat on Microsoft's board of directors. His resume can be accessed at http://goatse.fr/.

About Windows Vista:

The fastest-growing desktop operating system on the market, Windows Vista combines the legendary security of Windows 98 with the legendary ease of use of those computer interfaces you see in the movies into one ultra-fast, ultra-stable computing platform.

About Red Hat:

A failure of a computer company, Red Hat burns through investor money while giving its products away for free. It is currently under investigation from the SEC for misuse of invested funds, and being sued by the GNAA for breach of contract for sucking more than specified in the GNAA's contract with Red Hat.

About the Linux community:

Trolled.

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Who thought of this movie upon reading the headline?

Don't be silly. Peak Oil clearly means oil that we "Peek" at. The DOE, under Bush, is simply one of the most alarmist, green-hippie agencies ever to walk the Earth.

Or

You could check out "The End of Suburbia" and really ruin your din din. I'm actually shocked the DOE is confirming the crisis openly. This movie predicted the Peak in 6 years- it was released in 2004, and the DOE is giving us 3 years in 2008. Damned brilliant documentary. Scary stuff though. The sharp timeline makes the space-launchs-are-the-future crowd seem really delusional. As for space, with oil gone, it may be our only hope is some Vulcans warping in about now. (I'm so bummed that there are no anti-grav Mr. Fusion Delorians zipping about- all the important future stuff didn't come true yet. At least we have cellphones!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446320/

I used to buy into Wikipedia's stated ethos until I realized that any one person can ... hijack articles to push and protect their point of view and once that happens you can forget about the "Five Pillars" and objectivity.

Well, trust is not a binary thing. You can trust someone for one thing and not another. And even if you do trust, you can have trust at a wide variety of different levels.

I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia in some ways either, not so much because it lies, but because it doesn't want the truth. If I know something true, and I'm the only person in the world, it doesn't want it. But if I know something false, and I write it up, then it's referenceable, and it becomes closer to something Wikipedia does want. I can understand both of those at some level, but I think Wikipedia should care a lot more than it does about creating new mechanisms to let in real truth (perhaps creating a mechanism by which individual knowledge can be vetted) and keep out falsehoods (perhaps creating mechanisms for peer review of referenced documents). The fact that it doesn't is, of course, why other competitors have come up. I guess on that point, you have to score one for the marketplace for at least creating the idea and allowing competition to crank out alternatives.

But as to what to trust in Wikipedia, their strength is that the things they say are supposed to be things that can be backed up by reference. Where you see a strong claim and no reference, find a way to flag that fact and maybe the person who put it in will add a reference. Where you see a reference, follow the chain back to the original source. That source may ultimately be believable or not, of course. In some sense, by its choice of paradigm, Wikipedia is just a complicated, statically-enumerated set of search engine results. It gets you started, but it isn't the whole of the thing you want.

If I knew more about phenomenology, I'd probably say that's just the nature of the Universe, and that Wikipedia can no more escape it than anyone can escape the Three Laws of Thermodynamics. That is, no one ever really knows anything about the Universe other than what they're told, and what they can work out in terms of internal consistency checks on what they're told. But all I know of that is what I've seen mentioned in Dark Star. So I'll let you do your own research there. Whether to direct you to Wikipedia or the movie though, to study more of phenomenology... I dunno, that's a hard choice. Probably I'd say just see the movie. It's worth more than the 6.5 stars IMDB gives it. One could just imagine what Bomb #20 might have to say on the matter of Wikipedia...

Remove the covers (expose the platters) and hang them from the walls of your cube as decorations, like Kevin Mitnick's character in the movie Takedown. Any other use would be a pitiful waste.

(Every self respecting nerd must know what I'm talking about, right?)

The newsreel footage of the disaster is still fascinating. It's so good that it was used as stock footage in Atom Man vs. Superman, the second Superman serial, in 1950. They used it as an episode-ending cliffhanger, with Superman bracing the bridge long enough for the one car still on the bridge to get off. (There actually is a car racing to get clear before the collapse!) Very compelling, even when you know what they did.

How does 10 years for using lawless lawyers sound?

Especially with the highly provocative story title..

Troma Films did one called The Troma System a bunch of years ago that I caught late one night. Can't say I bought any of their films - other than the ones that I already had - but it was hilarious.

It means a lot to crazy capitalists...

Walter Chang: I got it! Plutoids!