Sympatico took a lot of flak when it introduced caps on its high speed service of 5gig uploads and 5 gig downloads. Something must happened as they recently changed their policy to 10 gig total of up/downloads. That is better except now everyone will be tempted to just download and on Kazaa not share for uploads. Maybe that is a concession to Hollywood who wants us to download(and pay) for their movies but not share with anyone else?
Thanks for the link but what do you think he means by we would push it in terms of structure?
I suspect it would be a very expensive scene to shoot with all the ghosts but then again the movie was long enough. Too bad as John Cleese is fantastic and I'd like to see more of him.
Here are the mistakes that fans have picked out for Harry Potter II courtesey of Movie Mistakes:
When Harry and Ron are sitting in the hall doing work and Hermione comes up to them she swings her leg over and it is bare. Then 2 seconds later as she is sitting down she is wearing tights.
When Harry Potter and Tom Riddle are talking inside the Chamber of Secrets, notice the bridge of Harry's nose. There is a small piece of duck tape under the bridge of the glasses to hold them in place.
When Ron and Harry are escaping from the spiders in the flying car the passenger's side window that broke earlier hitting the willow tree is not broken, you can see Ron's reflection. A minute later you see that the window is broken again.
During the final moments in the Chamber, Harry overcomes Tom Riddle (Voldemort) when putting the Basilisk tooth through the diary. If you watch carefully, you will notice that Harry is keeping his right arm idle, as it has also been posioned by the tooth. He keeps striking the diary and finally closes it for one final attack on the cover. Right before he closes it, you see his left hand still poised in the air with the tooth, but as they cut to the closing of the book right away, they show Harry's left hand closing the book with no sign of the tooth. Now they cut back to Harry's face and his left arm is still up holding the tooth.
At the beginning of the scene near the end of the movie with Lucius Malfoy fuming at Dubledore in his office, Malfoy's hair is fanned back behind his shoulders. The lighting in the room illuminates the back of his neck, where you can see his real, short brown hair.
When Harry first meets Dobby, Dobby is bouncing on the bed. There is a bulletin board of some kind with a Gryffindor flag thing on it. A couple of minutes later, the flaggy thing is still there, but the board itself is gone.
In the second to last scene when Dumbledore is talking to Harry and Ron, Ron's hair is a bit roughed and has a big cowlick. In the next shot, the cowlick is gone and both Ron and Harry's hair is neat.
In the scene where Harry has the bones in his arm regrown, we see him move his hand just before he sees Dobby, although he later claims that his arm has not healed yet. He also never shows any pain in this scene, while Madame Pomfrey told him the regrowing process would be painful.
In the scene when Harry, Ron, and Hermoine find Mrs. Norris petrified, the rest of the school comes rushing to them. How does the rest of the school find out about the attack? They couldn't of heard the Bastilik because they don't speak parsel-tongue. Harry, Ron, and Hermoine were also the first ones to discover the attack.
When Harry goes through the second door to get into the heart of the Chamber where he sees Ginny, the door closes slowly behind him. Then somehow Fawkes manages to fly though a solid two foot thick wall with the hat, how does he do this?
When the girl's restroom is flooding, Harry and Ron are going there and in the hallway, the water is about an inch high. In the bathroom, there are drains and the water hardly comes up to 1/4 inch. This is easy to see when Harry picks up Riddle's diary.
When Ron and the Weasley twins come to pick up Harry from the Dursleys in the flying car, they fly over hundreds of houses. How is it then that we and Harry can hear the car when it is quite a distance away, but the people who live in the houses that the car flies over can't? The car isn't even invisible at the time.
When Harry first meets Dobby, Dobby is moving all about, yet Harry is just focused on one spot.
When Harry is looking at the journal, a bright light appears right in his face and eyes, yet his pupils don't shrink.
When Hermoine takes the Polyjuice Potion, she takes on characteristics of a cat. Note that she took it before Harry did, yet Harry's wore off first. The Polyjuice Potion lasts for 1 hour no matter what you take the form of.
After the basilisk is killed, and Harry talks to Dumbledore, the sword used is lying on the desk, covered in blood. Harry picks it up, and it's clean and shiny. Later, when it's back onthe desk, it's all messy again.
The basilisk shown in the movie must be at least sixty feet long and 5-10 feet across. It would NOT be able to fit through pipes of any kind.
When Lockhart falls down the hole into the Chamber of Secrets, we hear him hit the ground a second or two later. When Ron and Harry jump down, not only do they take longer to get down, they also slide down the pipe, rather than fall straight down.
In the Quidditch scene, Harry breaks his right arm, but as he sits up after he falls off his broom, he leans directly on it.
In the first film, we see that Susan Bones (the red haired girl) is sorted into Hufflepuff, however throughtout the Chamber of Secrets, Susan not only has her classes with the Griffyndors BUT is also wearing a Griffyndor tie
The movie was fairly faithful to the book but there were some ommisions that disappointed me. For one in the book, Nearly Headless Nick had a bigger role and takes Harry to his Death Day party(anniversery of his death) which would have been an awesome scene in the movie but was unfortunately left out. Herminne must not of had enough lines so they let her explain Mudblood instead of Weasley. I was also a little disappointed with Moaning Mertile who sounded like a 3 year old. But all in all it was a solid movie.
That reply in the FAQ is 2 years old. Lots has changed since then. Storage is cheaper and Slashcode has been updated. There must be a way around the cache problem even if it was just selective to those who volunteer a link to their own small sites. I wonder if Slashdot has ever been threatened with a lawsuit for causing a denial of service attack?
And how is this off topic if it was brought up in the subject header? Dang.
Because that would involve them either manually downloading and saving the cached copy or actually spending time to write code to automatically download and cache a copy of everything that's linked.
Maybe Slashdot should invest $40 and buy a copy of Black Widow site mirroring tool? Maybe it is a legal thing but google has a cache of many sites including ones taken down.
Be the first on your block to try it out, today -- unless it gets slashdotted, then tomorrow. Resources are limited, so pace yourselves.
Others have said it but here it is again. Slashdot is a great resource but many interesting sites become inaccessable due to their servers not being able to handle the load. Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages like google does?
PR Newswire is reporting that 'Federal District Judge J. Frederick Motz of Baltimore today ruled that Microsoft will not be allowed to contest 395 separate findings that were made against the company in the case brought by the Department of Justice. Judge Motz entered today's ruling in cases brought by consumer plaintiffs, Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, Be Incorporated and Burst.com. Under today's decision, Microsoft cannot offer any evidence at trial to dispute any of the 395 factual findings. The findings provide the foundation for the determination in the Government case that Microsoft violated federal antitrust laws by illegally maintaining its Windows monopoly.
'This ruling is significant because it will make it much easier for the consumer and competitor plaintiffs to win their cases against Microsoft,' said Stanley M. Chesley, co-chair of the group of attorneys representing the consumer plaintiffs. 'Microsoft now enters the trial with one or two strikes against it,' he said. 'Microsoft had its day in court and lost when the District of Columbia court ruled against it on these 395 findings. Microsoft is now conclusively found to have engaged in numerous anticompetitive acts in order to maintain its dominance of the market, overcharge the public for Windows and stifle innovation of better, competing products.'
Dozens of consumer cases against Microsoft were filed in courts throughout the United States and transferred to Judge Motz in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The cases allege that Microsoft abused its monopoly power to prevent competition in the market for personal computer operating systems, leveraged its Windows monopoly to obtain monopolies in the markets for word processing and spreadsheet software and used its monopoly positions in these markets to overcharge purchasers of Windows, Word, Excel and Office software.
A billion to Sun, a few billion to the EU, a billion to AOL plus all the individual civil suits. The findings of facts make these lawsuits a slam dunk. After a while all these could add up to some real money.
I wonder if Scott Adams wrote today's Dilbert with Microsoft in mind?
Dogbert the attorney: 'Your Honor, is it too late to change sides? ' [next panel]'After hearing the evidence I want to punish my client. ---No?' [last panel - to client]I expect some awkward silences during the next break.'
Wow. Three times this was modded up and three times it was modded down as over rated. I don't care about the points but it is a shame that 6 points were wasted to neutralize each other out.
How does meta moderation work? Were these voted down?
I was surprised that Corel's Grafigo Tablet grahics/colaboration application was not mentioned. It has already been previewed last Sept at Seybold and got good reviews here. Corel started development early with Microsoft and designed it from scratch for the Tablet PC. From all accounts it is one of the best apps.
OK this is the same story as a couple days ago but I just remembered that in the movie Space Cowboys, a character wants to take the russian satelite with the nukes to the moon. Somebody says that that is a long way but someone else says that he only has to get half way and then the gravity from the moon will take him the rest of the way. Well now I know thatyou would have to get 5/6s of the distance before the moon's weaker gravity would capture you. Oh well, if you can suspend disbelief long enough to beleive they would send Clint Eastwood and James Gardner into space, I guess you can overlook the physics too.
To convert MS Word docs to XML, I just open the doc in WordPerfect 10 than save to XML. Whats the big deal? WordPerfect has been able to do it for the past couple years. BTW, It also publishes to pdf.
As I said above, Word can show someformatting but not everything(fonts, language, line spacing etc) like reveal codes can. In WordPerfect you can also search and replace codes like fonts.
One of the biggest reasons I use WordPerfect over Word is the Reveal Codes feature. I have to use Word at work and it drives me crazy. It puts in formating the way its thinks it should be done, not the way I want it. In WP if something is not right, I can select reveal codes and see exactly what the problem is. Nothing is hidden. I know Word can reveal some of its formating but not everything like WP. When I want to get my work done in a reasonable amount of time I use WordPerfect.
What lack of features? The only features WP lacks is its vulnerabilty to Word macro viruses. WP 10 can publish to PDF and has an integrated XML publisher. I have to use Word at work but I always use WordPerfect at home and on my laptop. Quatro Pro is no slouch either. It can handle worksheets with a million rows, has more functions than Excel and has the best charting on the market.
Mean Time to failure is an average which depends on how many units they estimate will be built (n) over the estimated time to failure(TTF). If you have a really big n it will make up for the odd unit that fails just after the warrenty expires. So I guess you can say that in this case
The Scientific American article notes that traveling into the future is possible and in small ways happens every day. It is the traveling into the past that is really hard. Micheal Crichton in his book and soon to be released movie Timeline gives a lengthy explanation of how time travel could be accomplished if we had a quantum computer. It involves 'faxing' someone into a past time through the quantum foam. I thought it was an interesting theory but I don't see how you could destroy someone in the present and reconstruct them in the past if there was not some sort of receiver already in the past. When I first read the book I thought the part about the quantum computer also sounded impossible but it was reported here that a practical quantum computer using existing silicon fabrication techniques has already been simulated and could be manufactured in the next year or two so who knows - it might be possible sooner then we think.
BTW the movie Timeline Movie trailer is out and looks pretty good if you like 13th century adventures mixed in with time travel.
The NASA Von Braun biography skips over much of his war contributions. It leaves out that the rocket facility used slave labour to dig the tunnels. That aside, my favourite Von Braun quote was:
When the first V-2 hit London von Braun remarked to his colleagues, "The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Sympatico took a lot of flak when it introduced caps on its high speed service of 5gig uploads and 5 gig downloads. Something must happened as they recently changed their policy to 10 gig total of up/downloads. That is better except now everyone will be tempted to just download and on Kazaa not share for uploads. Maybe that is a concession to Hollywood who wants us to download(and pay) for their movies but not share with anyone else?
Thanks for the link but what do you think he means by we would push it in terms of structure?
I suspect it would be a very expensive scene to shoot with all the ghosts but then again the movie was long enough. Too bad as John Cleese is fantastic and I'd like to see more of him.
The first movie was riddled with errors.
Here are the mistakes that fans have picked out for Harry Potter II courtesey of Movie Mistakes:
When Harry and Ron are sitting in the hall doing work and Hermione comes up to them she swings her leg over and it is bare. Then 2 seconds later as she is sitting down she is wearing tights.
When Harry Potter and Tom Riddle are talking inside the Chamber of Secrets, notice the bridge of Harry's nose. There is a small piece of duck tape under the bridge of the glasses to hold them in place.
When Ron and Harry are escaping from the spiders in the flying car the passenger's side window that broke earlier hitting the willow tree is not broken, you can see Ron's reflection. A minute later you see that the window is broken again.
During the final moments in the Chamber, Harry overcomes Tom Riddle (Voldemort) when putting the Basilisk tooth through the diary. If you watch carefully, you will notice that Harry is keeping his right arm idle, as it has also been posioned by the tooth. He keeps striking the diary and finally closes it for one final attack on the cover. Right before he closes it, you see his left hand still poised in the air with the tooth, but as they cut to the closing of the book right away, they show Harry's left hand closing the book with no sign of the tooth. Now they cut back to Harry's face and his left arm is still up holding the tooth.
At the beginning of the scene near the end of the movie with Lucius Malfoy fuming at Dubledore in his office, Malfoy's hair is fanned back behind his shoulders. The lighting in the room illuminates the back of his neck, where you can see his real, short brown hair.
When Harry first meets Dobby, Dobby is bouncing on the bed. There is a bulletin board of some kind with a Gryffindor flag thing on it. A couple of minutes later, the flaggy thing is still there, but the board itself is gone.
In the second to last scene when Dumbledore is talking to Harry and Ron, Ron's hair is a bit roughed and has a big cowlick. In the next shot, the cowlick is gone and both Ron and Harry's hair is neat.
In the scene where Harry has the bones in his arm regrown, we see him move his hand just before he sees Dobby, although he later claims that his arm has not healed yet. He also never shows any pain in this scene, while Madame Pomfrey told him the regrowing process would be painful.
In the scene when Harry, Ron, and Hermoine find Mrs. Norris petrified, the rest of the school comes rushing to them. How does the rest of the school find out about the attack? They couldn't of heard the Bastilik because they don't speak parsel-tongue. Harry, Ron, and Hermoine were also the first ones to discover the attack.
When Harry goes through the second door to get into the heart of the Chamber where he sees Ginny, the door closes slowly behind him. Then somehow Fawkes manages to fly though a solid two foot thick wall with the hat, how does he do this?
When the girl's restroom is flooding, Harry and Ron are going there and in the hallway, the water is about an inch high. In the bathroom, there are drains and the water hardly comes up to 1/4 inch. This is easy to see when Harry picks up Riddle's diary.
When Ron and the Weasley twins come to pick up Harry from the Dursleys in the flying car, they fly over hundreds of houses. How is it then that we and Harry can hear the car when it is quite a distance away, but the people who live in the houses that the car flies over can't? The car isn't even invisible at the time.
When Harry first meets Dobby, Dobby is moving all about, yet Harry is just focused on one spot.
When Harry is looking at the journal, a bright light appears right in his face and eyes, yet his pupils don't shrink.
When Hermoine takes the Polyjuice Potion, she takes on characteristics of a cat. Note that she took it before Harry did, yet Harry's wore off first. The Polyjuice Potion lasts for 1 hour no matter what you take the form of.
After the basilisk is killed, and Harry talks to Dumbledore, the sword used is lying on the desk, covered in blood. Harry picks it up, and it's clean and shiny. Later, when it's back onthe desk, it's all messy again.
The basilisk shown in the movie must be at least sixty feet long and 5-10 feet across. It would NOT be able to fit through pipes of any kind.
When Lockhart falls down the hole into the Chamber of Secrets, we hear him hit the ground a second or two later. When Ron and Harry jump down, not only do they take longer to get down, they also slide down the pipe, rather than fall straight down.
In the Quidditch scene, Harry breaks his right arm, but as he sits up after he falls off his broom, he leans directly on it.
In the first film, we see that Susan Bones (the red haired girl) is sorted into Hufflepuff, however throughtout the Chamber of Secrets, Susan not only has her classes with the Griffyndors BUT is also wearing a Griffyndor tie
The movie was fairly faithful to the book but there were some ommisions that disappointed me. For one in the book, Nearly Headless Nick had a bigger role and takes Harry to his Death Day party(anniversery of his death) which would have been an awesome scene in the movie but was unfortunately left out. Herminne must not of had enough lines so they let her explain Mudblood instead of Weasley. I was also a little disappointed with Moaning Mertile who sounded like a 3 year old. But all in all it was a solid movie.
Everyone knows that in the beginning there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light'. There was still nothing, but now you could see it.
That reply in the FAQ is 2 years old. Lots has changed since then. Storage is cheaper and Slashcode has been updated. There must be a way around the cache problem even if it was just selective to those who volunteer a link to their own small sites. I wonder if Slashdot has ever been threatened with a lawsuit for causing a denial of service attack?
And how is this off topic if it was brought up in the subject header? Dang.
Because that would involve them either manually downloading and saving the cached copy or actually spending time to write code to automatically download and cache a copy of everything that's linked.
Maybe Slashdot should invest $40 and buy a copy of Black Widow site mirroring tool? Maybe it is a legal thing but google has a cache of many sites including ones taken down.
Be the first on your block to try it out, today -- unless it gets slashdotted, then tomorrow. Resources are limited, so pace yourselves.
Others have said it but here it is again. Slashdot is a great resource but many interesting sites become inaccessable due to their servers not being able to handle the load. Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages like google does?
Your right. Microsoft's illegal monopolist business practices probally had no effect on Corel and it is all their fault.
PR Newswire is reporting that
'Federal District Judge J. Frederick Motz of Baltimore today ruled that Microsoft will not be allowed to contest 395 separate findings that were made against the company in the case brought by the Department of Justice. Judge Motz entered today's ruling in cases brought by consumer plaintiffs, Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, Be Incorporated and Burst.com. Under today's decision, Microsoft cannot offer any evidence at trial to dispute any of the 395 factual findings. The findings provide the foundation for the determination in the Government case that Microsoft violated federal antitrust laws by illegally maintaining its Windows monopoly.
'This ruling is significant because it will make it much easier for the consumer and competitor plaintiffs to win their cases against Microsoft,' said Stanley M. Chesley, co-chair of the group of attorneys representing the consumer plaintiffs. 'Microsoft now enters the trial with one or two strikes against it,' he said. 'Microsoft had its day in court and lost when the District of Columbia court ruled against it on these 395 findings. Microsoft is now conclusively found to have engaged in numerous anticompetitive acts in order to maintain its dominance of the market, overcharge the public for Windows and stifle innovation of better, competing products.'
Dozens of consumer cases against Microsoft were filed in courts throughout the United States and transferred to Judge Motz in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The cases allege that Microsoft abused its monopoly power to prevent competition in the market for personal computer operating systems, leveraged its Windows monopoly to obtain monopolies in the markets for word processing and spreadsheet software and used its monopoly positions in these markets to overcharge purchasers of Windows, Word, Excel and Office software.
A billion to Sun, a few billion to the EU, a billion to AOL plus all the individual civil suits. The findings of facts make these lawsuits a slam dunk. After a while all these could add up to some real money.
When you go to the Icrontic link you see:
With the help of the folks at WiNBETA we were able to get our dirty little hands on some Windows Longhorn screenies.
These are *legit* and actual screenshots -- no photoshop action here folks.
This article is quoted from WiNBETA here.
SCREENSHOTS REMOVED DUE TO MICROSOFT REQUEST
That was fast work by Microsoft
I wonder if Scott Adams wrote today's Dilbert with Microsoft in mind?
Dogbert the attorney: 'Your Honor, is it too late to change sides? '
[next panel]'After hearing the evidence I want to punish my client. ---No?'
[last panel - to client]I expect some awkward silences during the next break.'
Wow. Three times this was modded up and three times it was modded down as over rated. I don't care about the points but it is a shame that 6 points were wasted to neutralize each other out.
How does meta moderation work? Were these voted down?
I was surprised that Corel's Grafigo Tablet grahics /colaboration application was not mentioned. It has already been previewed last Sept at Seybold and got good reviews here. Corel started development early with Microsoft and designed it from scratch for the Tablet PC. From all accounts it is one of the best apps.
That was a good line. Hard to believe Dirty Harry came out 31 years ago.
OK this is the same story as a couple days ago but I just remembered that in the movie Space Cowboys, a character wants to take the russian satelite with the nukes to the moon. Somebody says that that is a long way but someone else says that he only has to get half way and then the gravity from the moon will take him the rest of the way. Well now I know thatyou would have to get 5/6s of the distance before the moon's weaker gravity would capture you. Oh well, if you can suspend disbelief long enough to beleive they would send Clint Eastwood and James Gardner into space, I guess you can overlook the physics too.
To convert MS Word docs to XML, I just open the doc in WordPerfect 10 than save to XML. Whats the big deal? WordPerfect has been able to do it for the past couple years. BTW, It also publishes to pdf.
As I said above, Word can show someformatting but not everything(fonts, language, line spacing etc) like reveal codes can. In WordPerfect you can also search and replace codes like fonts.
One of the biggest reasons I use WordPerfect over Word is the Reveal Codes feature. I have to use Word at work and it drives me crazy. It puts in formating the way its thinks it should be done, not the way I want it. In WP if something is not right, I can select reveal codes and see exactly what the problem is. Nothing is hidden. I know Word can reveal some of its formating but not everything like WP. When I want to get my work done in a reasonable amount of time I use WordPerfect.
What lack of features? The only features WP lacks is its vulnerabilty to Word macro viruses. WP 10 can publish to PDF and has an integrated XML publisher. I have to use Word at work but I always use WordPerfect at home and on my laptop. Quatro Pro is no slouch either. It can handle worksheets with a million rows, has more functions than Excel and has the best charting on the market.
"the n's justifys the means'.
Leela: Don't you want to go see the 20th century theme park?
Fry: ah, if I wanted to go back to the year 2000, I could just have myself frozen again.
BTW the movie Timeline Movie trailer is out and looks pretty good if you like 13th century adventures mixed in with time travel.
When the first V-2 hit London von Braun remarked to his colleagues, "The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.