I bought the French Connection because of the claims that it has great car chases, but I've yet to actually find said car chase (or watch the whole movie). I just skiped to the chapters that sounded like they might involve a car chase, and then just saw some guy driving around under an elevated train, chasing some other guy on foot. Then he shot the guy he was chasing. The movie appears a little slow, and I haven't had *that* much free time yet. I haven't watched "Vanishing Point" yet, either, but it's supposed to have some entertaining driving scenes as well. I bought them at the same time.
Bullit has a cool car chase that lasts for like half of the movie, and involves cool cars. Ronin's chases aren't the most exciting on the surface, but rank right at the very top of my list due to the driving skills and the observation that those aren't exactly sports cars in the chase.
BTW, I'm particulary dissapointed in the chase(s) in [the modern] Gone in 60 Seconds - esp when he's driving Elanor through the viaduct. In the interview (on the DVD), the director says that they filmed it at like 30MPh and then played it back at 4x speed. Like that wasn't obvious in the movie...
By "better ones" you must mean "not better ones". I change the oil in my modern, lean-burning engine every 3000 miles or so (the filter gets changed ever 3K), and I drive that car hard. 5 quarts go in, and 5 quarts come out (4 in the pan, 1 in the filter). I'm not sure where you read that good oils lose up to 25% of their volume under any semblence of normal use, but I'd cancel my subscription immediately. Or, switch to Royal Purple, and maybe invest in an oil cooler.
The PCV system is supposed to catch the contaminated unburned air/fuel mixture that inevitably slips past the rings during every revolution, and to keep that blowby from building up pressure in the crankcase. Pressure would counteract the rings' ability to seal in the cylinder, causing more blowby and less efficient operation (and increased oil consumption).
Are you replying to me, or to the general "you"? I'm a systems administrator. I don't have a marketing department, and if I did, they'd spend their time telling people how awesome I am and how I need another raise, not lying to them about how easy it is to use some piece of crap software pakage that management inexplicibly insisted that everyone should try to use. But blaming 100% of the problems on bad interface misses 50% of the problem. Unless the software consists solely of "here's a nipple. Suck when you're hungry", then the interface will require some level of learning. I do some programming, but I'm one of those rare few that actually spend time on the user interface because I'm not only a user, but the point of support for lots of other users. I've got lots of points of view to work with...
Anyway, if a computer's so vital to a Doctor or Lawyer's job, then learning how to use the tool is just as important as learning more about curent research in Macular Degeneration or reading current articles about <insert something lawyer-ly here>.
If Joe User doesn't have time to learn how to use his tools, then ol' Joe shouldn't be surprised when it doesn't function as expected. I'm trying to think of something I can't do. One moment... Ok, I don't know exactly how to rebuild an automatic transmission. Now, if I need a transmission rebuilt, by your logic, I should be able to just go buy a slide hammer and - without reading directions (that tool's directions are not worth my time, I'm a busy man, and just want my car to shift into reverse again!) - take the thing apart and put it back together. Automatic tranmissions don't look very complicated - they just have a shift lever and a shaft for input 'n output. Those smug-ass engineers and transmission repair shops should quit screwing the common man over, and just design a tranny that can be rebuilt in 5 minutes with no directions, without even requiring any thought.
Short-sighted, eh? A computer's way more complicated than an automatic tranny, but if you just experiement by picking random settings instead of Reading The Fine Manual, don't be surprised if you drive through the front wall of your garage before you figure out how to back up.
The "wasted" time and effort spent learning how to effectively use a computer will pay off quickly when you stop having to "babysit". Things tend to magically "work" when you actually know what you're doing, and you save all that time that would normally be lost to frustration. Manuals are kinda like a time savings account. Invest some up front, and collect dividends for a long time afterwards (though, I'll definitely agree, some software does have a pretty low rate of return).
He didn't die, and didn't get prostate cancer. At the end of this spot, he clearly states that Transformers(r)(tm)(c) are robots without organic internal organs, and therefore can't get prostate cancer.
Forget computer irregulars -- I know plenty of "geeks" that get nailed by every type of malware out there.
No, you know plenty of people who claim to be "computer geeks" but actually don't know as much as they think. That's one of the problems with computers - lots of people think that they know more than they do, and then they start spouting off total BS like they actually know what they're talking about. Most all of us know a few people like that, and those that don't, probably *are* that person...
I've been using the internet for well over a decade. I even used Windows 95/98/NT as my primary OS for a few years, and have used windows extensively through my employer(s) for the remainder of those years. You know, Windows, the insecure, virus-prone OS that we all make fun of (yeah, I run primarily Linux now, and have for a long time). I have *never* had a virus problem. Never. I also do not run an anti-virus program. I had a linux box r00t'd once, due to an ssh hole, but the skript kiddie only got the kit installed - never got it to do anything due to the ipchains rules that blocked access in and out. His script didn't magically shut those down, I guess. Moron.
Anyway, someone reading this is thinking "well, cloudmaster, you're just lucky". Sure, maybe luck counts for a small part of it, but not all - not even most. The things that get people infected are almost 100% stupid things. Opening attachments and clicking links in spam and pop-up ads are right up there, not keeping your OS is up there, and installing every stupid-ass screensaver / desktop animation piece of crap you stumble across is on the list. Also, I read dialog boxes before I click on them.
Yeah, I've had some programs that install unwanted crap. Take Netscape 4.x - it installs aim, among other things. But, for "a computer geek", it doesn't take too long to find the installer files, notice that it's configured by a plain-text file, and figure out how to change the aim option to default to no, and to make it optional.
A so-called "computer geek" who has problems with simple tasks like avoiding virus/malware infections is actually just a computer user with a big mouth.
Yeah, it's entirely the fault of software developers that computer users don't bother to read a single manual, ever. Driving a car *well* requires training, even though most any idiot, given enough time, could probably figure out that one pedal goes fast, one goes slow, and the wheel thing makes the car turn. Similarly, most any idiot, given enough time, can figure out how to operate a computer mouse - but just because they're sitting in front of the box making clickie things go click, doesn't mean that it's my job to protect them from clicking on the "make computer go boom" series of buttons.
Anyone who's ever worked in tech suppport has heard "I didn't do anything, it just broke". Anyone who works in a garage has heard the same thing. And it's often the users fault that they were using something that they didn't understand. The solution is *not* to make everything indestructible, it's to aceive a good balance between ease of use (which may, gasp, incluede actually *learning*, maybe even from a manual) and flexibility.
Cars would be much less prone to fatal accidents if they would get rid of that pesky gas pedal, but I don't see many people pushing that...
If your oil levels are getting low, then your engine is already in poor shape. Oil should not be consumed in any significant way between scheduled oil changes, unless you're running an oil/gas mixture 2-cycle or similar.:)
I've had better luck with renamed packages in Gentoo than SuSE recently, but then, I haven't had a huge set change names yet. The newest KDE is set to move from a few large packages to a bunch of smaller packages, though, so we'll see how that goes when it's marked stable.
Keeping/etc in subversion is a really good idea. I've used CVS for a long time, but have been meaning to migrate to svn eventually. I like svn's versioning system a little better.
That's a sleazy trick - the kind that the OP was saying isn't required to get good page rank.:)
To optimize a site's intro, you put an accurate, semi-verbose description of the site's content on the front page. Coincidentally, that also results in a useful front page.
BTW, I don't know of a single sucessful search engine that still increases rank based on word frequency (within a single page). Those engines that *do* are so full of spam that no one uses them.
If the page isn't ranked, then it ends up at the end of the list, behind all those that do. When's the last time *you* went all the way to the end of a google search?:)
(yeah, I know it happens, and I do it sometimes, but most of the time, I've found something before the end or it doesn't exist within my search)
ebuilds install into a chroot then move the files from the chrooted dir to the real directory. So yeah, the maintainer of the Gentoo script would have to really foul up to overwrite libc. With apt, you're writing a whole system, wheras portage's designed to do this kind of thing.
My point is that it's easier to do with Gentoo's package manager, not that everyone who uses Debian made a poor choice. I personally dislike Debian (the system organization, the monolithic system updates, and the myriad of package repositories), but that's based on using it for a reasonable period of time, not on reading a few misinformed rants by the most clueless of its users.
Hire someone who knows HTML, then, instead of a the first dumbass that comes to an interview saying "yeha, I know how to use Dreamweaver". It is *always* possible to develop pages that degrade well with regards to textual content. Pages that don'et read well to a search engine are poorly designed, and probably inaccessible. The best ranking content should never have "best viewed in..." anywhere on the site. Ever. Anything less is either laziness or lack of knowledge, both of which are rectifiable situations.
I dunno, the local electric company would't give me electricity without my SSN. They claimed that they were extending me credit, and therefore needed to do a credit check. I could tell by the poor grammar and slovenly appearence that this "supervisor" was not going to comprehend.
I wonder how many people have been turned down for electrical service for bad credit. I now know that, at the time, I had an unpaid electrical bill from my previous house as the only entry on my credit record, so they must not have done a very thorough check...
You got the URL wrong. I think you meant http://www.adobe(R).com/misc/trade.html#pho toshop( R)
Why do they insists on going overboard with that? I know damned well that those words are trademarked after reading it once. Readability is badly hurt by putting all of those "circle-r" brands in the text. Everywhere. If they miss one instance on a page, it's not an open license for others to start calling their painting software "Adobe Photoshop".
Prove it. I'll be waiting for the Gallup results - they're probably a little bored this time of year anyway (like anyone does polls for local mayoral / dog catcher elections).:)
Lots of people like the Yankees, but hate Yankee fans. I don't, but then, I think baseball is in a dead heat with golf and bowling for "most boring sports to watch". If poker was a sport, it'd beat all three. Even the scrabble tournaments are more fun to watch, if just for the "I can't believe that dork memorized the whole Scrabble Dictionary just for a chance to win a $500 prize" factor.
Each new SuSE release I have a fully tested and integrated system. No longer do I have to worry about some upgrade breaking something else.
You've never upgrades SuSE, have you? Every time I upgrade SuSE, some config files are changed, and there are some packages that I'm using that aren't in the new system, have been renamed, etc. The big thing with RPM-based distros is the config file management. Sometimes you get a new one in.rpmnew, sometimes your config file gets moved to.rpmbak. And where is that recorded? Where's the nice tool that lets you know what config files were messed with? Amusingly, I moved from SuSE to Gentoo on several of the servers and workstations here because I was tired of having to take the machine down to do mass upgrades that would semi-randomly change config files around, causing me to waste an extra day or so fixing broken configs.
Default setups are fine for some people, but I don't know any of them. BTW, SuSE by default is an open relay if you allow external SMTP connections. So don't run a default configuration on your public SuSE mail server.:)
and about the whole 'speed' nonissue - any official Debian package also has a source package that you can download and compile and install yourself, all with simple commands - to set whatever optimizations you want.
That doesn't make Debian better. That makes it "as good as". Except that it's harder to find Debian packages, and building the source packages on Debian is more difficult.
Anyway, managing all package files on your system with a package manager is good practice. Just because it "probably" won't cause a problem doesn't mean that a game won't try to overwrite libc with a different version, etc... You can get by with lots of bad practices.:)
You beat me to it. But you forgot about the various levels of cache between system RAM and the processor - it's rather difficult to add lots of cache to a typical system, and just saying that "-O3 is bad unless you have lots of RAM" lets someone with 1.5GB think that suddenly -O3 is perfect for them. It's only perfect in specific situations.
Now, if you want some obscure optimization flags, check into "-fsched-spec-load -fgcse-lm -fgcse-sm" and "-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer" to shrink down dinary size a bit more, at the expense of losing debugging info - when's the last time *you* ran strace?:)
Thank you. The PPro was a big step above the Pentium. I've got a 233MHz PPro and Pentium MMX, actually (I wonder why the grandparent forgot that the Pentium with MMX was a socket 7 processor sold as a Pentium with MMX, not a Pentium II), and the PPro is noticably faster. My P-II and Celeron systems run at higher clock speeds, so I can't meaninfully compare them, though.:(
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I took a shower this morning. First in 3 weeks, but none the less... :)
I bought the French Connection because of the claims that it has great car chases, but I've yet to actually find said car chase (or watch the whole movie). I just skiped to the chapters that sounded like they might involve a car chase, and then just saw some guy driving around under an elevated train, chasing some other guy on foot. Then he shot the guy he was chasing. The movie appears a little slow, and I haven't had *that* much free time yet. I haven't watched "Vanishing Point" yet, either, but it's supposed to have some entertaining driving scenes as well. I bought them at the same time.
Bullit has a cool car chase that lasts for like half of the movie, and involves cool cars. Ronin's chases aren't the most exciting on the surface, but rank right at the very top of my list due to the driving skills and the observation that those aren't exactly sports cars in the chase.
BTW, I'm particulary dissapointed in the chase(s) in [the modern] Gone in 60 Seconds - esp when he's driving Elanor through the viaduct. In the interview (on the DVD), the director says that they filmed it at like 30MPh and then played it back at 4x speed. Like that wasn't obvious in the movie...
By "better ones" you must mean "not better ones". I change the oil in my modern, lean-burning engine every 3000 miles or so (the filter gets changed ever 3K), and I drive that car hard. 5 quarts go in, and 5 quarts come out (4 in the pan, 1 in the filter). I'm not sure where you read that good oils lose up to 25% of their volume under any semblence of normal use, but I'd cancel my subscription immediately. Or, switch to Royal Purple, and maybe invest in an oil cooler.
The PCV system is supposed to catch the contaminated unburned air/fuel mixture that inevitably slips past the rings during every revolution, and to keep that blowby from building up pressure in the crankcase. Pressure would counteract the rings' ability to seal in the cylinder, causing more blowby and less efficient operation (and increased oil consumption).
Are you replying to me, or to the general "you"? I'm a systems administrator. I don't have a marketing department, and if I did, they'd spend their time telling people how awesome I am and how I need another raise, not lying to them about how easy it is to use some piece of crap software pakage that management inexplicibly insisted that everyone should try to use. But blaming 100% of the problems on bad interface misses 50% of the problem. Unless the software consists solely of "here's a nipple. Suck when you're hungry", then the interface will require some level of learning. I do some programming, but I'm one of those rare few that actually spend time on the user interface because I'm not only a user, but the point of support for lots of other users. I've got lots of points of view to work with...
Anyway, if a computer's so vital to a Doctor or Lawyer's job, then learning how to use the tool is just as important as learning more about curent research in Macular Degeneration or reading current articles about <insert something lawyer-ly here>.
If Joe User doesn't have time to learn how to use his tools, then ol' Joe shouldn't be surprised when it doesn't function as expected. I'm trying to think of something I can't do. One moment... Ok, I don't know exactly how to rebuild an automatic transmission. Now, if I need a transmission rebuilt, by your logic, I should be able to just go buy a slide hammer and - without reading directions (that tool's directions are not worth my time, I'm a busy man, and just want my car to shift into reverse again!) - take the thing apart and put it back together. Automatic tranmissions don't look very complicated - they just have a shift lever and a shaft for input 'n output. Those smug-ass engineers and transmission repair shops should quit screwing the common man over, and just design a tranny that can be rebuilt in 5 minutes with no directions, without even requiring any thought.
Short-sighted, eh? A computer's way more complicated than an automatic tranny, but if you just experiement by picking random settings instead of Reading The Fine Manual, don't be surprised if you drive through the front wall of your garage before you figure out how to back up.
The "wasted" time and effort spent learning how to effectively use a computer will pay off quickly when you stop having to "babysit". Things tend to magically "work" when you actually know what you're doing, and you save all that time that would normally be lost to frustration. Manuals are kinda like a time savings account. Invest some up front, and collect dividends for a long time afterwards (though, I'll definitely agree, some software does have a pretty low rate of return).
He didn't die, and didn't get prostate cancer. At the end of this spot, he clearly states that Transformers(r)(tm)(c) are robots without organic internal organs, and therefore can't get prostate cancer.
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From another post above:
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Forget computer irregulars -- I know plenty of "geeks" that get nailed by every type of malware out there.
:)
No, you know plenty of people who claim to be "computer geeks" but actually don't know as much as they think. That's one of the problems with computers - lots of people think that they know more than they do, and then they start spouting off total BS like they actually know what they're talking about. Most all of us know a few people like that, and those that don't, probably *are* that person...
I've been using the internet for well over a decade. I even used Windows 95/98/NT as my primary OS for a few years, and have used windows extensively through my employer(s) for the remainder of those years. You know, Windows, the insecure, virus-prone OS that we all make fun of (yeah, I run primarily Linux now, and have for a long time). I have *never* had a virus problem. Never. I also do not run an anti-virus program. I had a linux box r00t'd once, due to an ssh hole, but the skript kiddie only got the kit installed - never got it to do anything due to the ipchains rules that blocked access in and out. His script didn't magically shut those down, I guess. Moron.
Anyway, someone reading this is thinking "well, cloudmaster, you're just lucky". Sure, maybe luck counts for a small part of it, but not all - not even most. The things that get people infected are almost 100% stupid things. Opening attachments and clicking links in spam and pop-up ads are right up there, not keeping your OS is up there, and installing every stupid-ass screensaver / desktop animation piece of crap you stumble across is on the list. Also, I read dialog boxes before I click on them.
Yeah, I've had some programs that install unwanted crap. Take Netscape 4.x - it installs aim, among other things. But, for "a computer geek", it doesn't take too long to find the installer files, notice that it's configured by a plain-text file, and figure out how to change the aim option to default to no, and to make it optional.
A so-called "computer geek" who has problems with simple tasks like avoiding virus/malware infections is actually just a computer user with a big mouth.
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Yeah, it's entirely the fault of software developers that computer users don't bother to read a single manual, ever. Driving a car *well* requires training, even though most any idiot, given enough time, could probably figure out that one pedal goes fast, one goes slow, and the wheel thing makes the car turn. Similarly, most any idiot, given enough time, can figure out how to operate a computer mouse - but just because they're sitting in front of the box making clickie things go click, doesn't mean that it's my job to protect them from clicking on the "make computer go boom" series of buttons.
Anyone who's ever worked in tech suppport has heard "I didn't do anything, it just broke". Anyone who works in a garage has heard the same thing. And it's often the users fault that they were using something that they didn't understand. The solution is *not* to make everything indestructible, it's to aceive a good balance between ease of use (which may, gasp, incluede actually *learning*, maybe even from a manual) and flexibility.
Cars would be much less prone to fatal accidents if they would get rid of that pesky gas pedal, but I don't see many people pushing that...
If your oil levels are getting low, then your engine is already in poor shape. Oil should not be consumed in any significant way between scheduled oil changes, unless you're running an oil/gas mixture 2-cycle or similar. :)
Thick walls.
Noise problem solved.
I've had better luck with renamed packages in Gentoo than SuSE recently, but then, I haven't had a huge set change names yet. The newest KDE is set to move from a few large packages to a bunch of smaller packages, though, so we'll see how that goes when it's marked stable.
/etc in subversion is a really good idea. I've used CVS for a long time, but have been meaning to migrate to svn eventually. I like svn's versioning system a little better.
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That's a sleazy trick - the kind that the OP was saying isn't required to get good page rank. :)
To optimize a site's intro, you put an accurate, semi-verbose description of the site's content on the front page. Coincidentally, that also results in a useful front page.
BTW, I don't know of a single sucessful search engine that still increases rank based on word frequency (within a single page). Those engines that *do* are so full of spam that no one uses them.
If the page isn't ranked, then it ends up at the end of the list, behind all those that do. When's the last time *you* went all the way to the end of a google search? :)
(yeah, I know it happens, and I do it sometimes, but most of the time, I've found something before the end or it doesn't exist within my search)
ebuilds install into a chroot then move the files from the chrooted dir to the real directory. So yeah, the maintainer of the Gentoo script would have to really foul up to overwrite libc. With apt, you're writing a whole system, wheras portage's designed to do this kind of thing.
My point is that it's easier to do with Gentoo's package manager, not that everyone who uses Debian made a poor choice. I personally dislike Debian (the system organization, the monolithic system updates, and the myriad of package repositories), but that's based on using it for a reasonable period of time, not on reading a few misinformed rants by the most clueless of its users.
If they're running Sendmail instead of any of the faster, easier to configure, better in every way MTAs, then yeah, they should be banned. :)
Hire someone who knows HTML, then, instead of a the first dumbass that comes to an interview saying "yeha, I know how to use Dreamweaver". It is *always* possible to develop pages that degrade well with regards to textual content. Pages that don'et read well to a search engine are poorly designed, and probably inaccessible. The best ranking content should never have "best viewed in..." anywhere on the site. Ever. Anything less is either laziness or lack of knowledge, both of which are rectifiable situations.
Pfft, all of the money I'm paying in to SS is going to old people now. When I die, probably no one will get my SS.
Phantom Theater tickets don't look like were all that expensive...
I dunno, the local electric company would't give me electricity without my SSN. They claimed that they were extending me credit, and therefore needed to do a credit check. I could tell by the poor grammar and slovenly appearence that this "supervisor" was not going to comprehend.
I wonder how many people have been turned down for electrical service for bad credit. I now know that, at the time, I had an unpaid electrical bill from my previous house as the only entry on my credit record, so they must not have done a very thorough check...
Maybe it was a South Park-esque v-chip, and they both responded "What the fuck's wrong with you, asshole?"
You got the URL wrong. I think you meanto toshop( R)
http://www.adobe(R).com/misc/trade.html#ph
Why do they insists on going overboard with that? I know damned well that those words are trademarked after reading it once. Readability is badly hurt by putting all of those "circle-r" brands in the text. Everywhere. If they miss one instance on a page, it's not an open license for others to start calling their painting software "Adobe Photoshop".
Prove it. I'll be waiting for the Gallup results - they're probably a little bored this time of year anyway (like anyone does polls for local mayoral / dog catcher elections). :)
Lots of people like the Yankees, but hate Yankee fans. I don't, but then, I think baseball is in a dead heat with golf and bowling for "most boring sports to watch". If poker was a sport, it'd beat all three. Even the scrabble tournaments are more fun to watch, if just for the "I can't believe that dork memorized the whole Scrabble Dictionary just for a chance to win a $500 prize" factor.
Each new SuSE release I have a fully tested and integrated system. No longer do I have to worry about some upgrade breaking something else.
You've never upgrades SuSE, have you? Every time I upgrade SuSE, some config files are changed, and there are some packages that I'm using that aren't in the new system, have been renamed, etc. The big thing with RPM-based distros is the config file management. Sometimes you get a new one in .rpmnew, sometimes your config file gets moved to .rpmbak. And where is that recorded? Where's the nice tool that lets you know what config files were messed with? Amusingly, I moved from SuSE to Gentoo on several of the servers and workstations here because I was tired of having to take the machine down to do mass upgrades that would semi-randomly change config files around, causing me to waste an extra day or so fixing broken configs.
Default setups are fine for some people, but I don't know any of them. BTW, SuSE by default is an open relay if you allow external SMTP connections. So don't run a default configuration on your public SuSE mail server. :)
and about the whole 'speed' nonissue - any official Debian package also has a source package that you can download and compile and install yourself, all with simple commands - to set whatever optimizations you want.
That doesn't make Debian better. That makes it "as good as". Except that it's harder to find Debian packages, and building the source packages on Debian is more difficult.
Anyway, managing all package files on your system with a package manager is good practice. Just because it "probably" won't cause a problem doesn't mean that a game won't try to overwrite libc with a different version, etc... You can get by with lots of bad practices.
You beat me to it. But you forgot about the various levels of cache between system RAM and the processor - it's rather difficult to add lots of cache to a typical system, and just saying that "-O3 is bad unless you have lots of RAM" lets someone with 1.5GB think that suddenly -O3 is perfect for them. It's only perfect in specific situations.
:)
Now, if you want some obscure optimization flags, check into "-fsched-spec-load -fgcse-lm -fgcse-sm" and "-momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer" to shrink down dinary size a bit more, at the expense of losing debugging info - when's the last time *you* ran strace?
Thank you. The PPro was a big step above the Pentium. I've got a 233MHz PPro and Pentium MMX, actually (I wonder why the grandparent forgot that the Pentium with MMX was a socket 7 processor sold as a Pentium with MMX, not a Pentium II), and the PPro is noticably faster. My P-II and Celeron systems run at higher clock speeds, so I can't meaninfully compare them, though. :(