"Freedom of association" only applies to rules enacted by the government. The government can't force you not to fraternize with your co-workers, but a private company sure can.
First, I'm not sure how a Voltron movie is great news. Voltron is one of those shows that we all watched as a kid that was.. certainly not great, and it's hard to even classify it as good, but we loved the concept so much back then that we now give it more credit than it was due through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. I loved Voltron has a kid. Then I rented a tape of it in college.. what terrible writing that show had. An unbelievable premise. It's hard to imagine how the concept could even be executed well as a major motion picture. It could be the Citizen Kane of "small ships that form a huge robot" movies, but it would still be a "small ships that form a huge robot" movie, an idea that really only works in animation.. or crappy Saturday morning Power Rangers shows.
we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow').
Followed almost immediately by crappy news.
Oh, better than that, he was an executive producer of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! However, he was also a producer for Speed and Saving Private Ryan, two movies I think are pretty good. The difference was Saving Private Ryan was directed by Steven Speilburg, while the Day After Tomorrow was directed by Stargate/Independance Day/Godzilla director Roland Emmerich, not known for his skills in demanding good plots or likable characters. So I won't worry much until a director has been announced.
Well, there was an animated Macross movie called SDF-1 Macross: Do you Remember Love? Basically a condensation of the Macross series into a single movie (not clips from the series, but original animation). It wasn't bad. Honestly I do prefer the English version for much of Macross, though I will admit that Minmei's voice is better in Japanese, not to mention her singing.
Let me ask you a question: do you think that the fact that he was a spammer makes his death acceptable?
I wouldn't think so. But the guy's job was to piss people off and get around any defenses the spamees might have put up. Eventually if you start indiscriminantly annoying the hell out of people, you'll tick someone off who won't put up with it.
He should have found another line of work. I don't think he deserved being clubbed to death, but when you cast a wide net like that, you're going to piss off the wrong guy.
If you listened to the story, he mentions being surprised netstat would show hundreds of connections from all over the world. He's just a scapegoat -- the real criminals are the ones who fail to secure sensitive data.
Isn't it possible that this was just one big honeypot?
If you want fact without excessive spin, Michael Moore is not the person to listen to. There are a number of intelligent voices on the left and the right, but they aren't as shrill as, say, Michael Moore or Ann Coulter.
That is why the old BBS door games were better - you only had to compete with people in your own area code, not the whole world. Even a mediocre player could still have fun.
Unfortunately, it sucks if you're in a collaberative game and the other guys on your server aren't very good, or are just plain clueless/asses. That's where the strength of a server with thousands of people comes in -- it's easier to put together a group that meets your needs/interests/levels. So who cares is Throg the level 60 Senior Commander Orc has more uber gear than you? You're fighting with a group of friends who are at the same level in areas where you'll never even meet those people. Does it matter?
Moreover, McDonald's served the coffee at that temperature at their drive-throughs. They claimed in court that they expected people to take the coffee home and drink it. What kind of BS is that? You buy coffee in a drive-through because you don't have time to take it home to drink it, and McDonald's knew that perfectly well.
No, I go through the drive-through because I don't want to stand/eat in the dirty "restaurant" with yelling kids. I'd rather drive through, get the food quickly, then head home and eat while watching TV or reading slashdot or something like that. I don't eat while driving though, because, well, I'm not a moron.
Also Blockbuster recently lost a class action lawsuit because they claim to not charge late fees.
Blockbuster also recently lost a class-action lawsuit because they charged late fees on videos turned in on time. One of the reasons I stopped renting there.
*P.S. Sorry to any Bruckheimer fans out there...but I couldn't think of a better all flash, no substance Hollywood guy at the moment:P
Try Michael Bay of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and (coming soon) Transformers fame. At least Bruckheimer (who has paired with Bay a number of times) has Pirates of the Caribbean to his name.
Doesn't matter if it's "taxpayer property" or not. It being "taxpayer property" doesn't mean any individual taxpayer can do what he or she wants with it.
MP3 files and the ability to access drives with FAT32 or NTFS on them are not part of an "everything" install of FC3. Unbelieveable! I'm suspecting MP2 files (from TV captures) aren't supported as well under FC3 but wasn't able to verify that part because I couldn't access any of my existing partitions with an FC3 install!
There are a number of file formats that Fedora can't support due to patent or licensing issues dealing with a completely free operating system. MP3 for example is not a free format, or at least some of the compressors/decompressors aren't. mp3 file support used to be standard under Red Hat until the "mp3 requires royalties" hooplah started and support was yanked. mplayer and xine play mp2 files very nicely, but they can't be included with Fedora either because of patent/licensing concerns again. The A/V world is an ugly mess of a patent/license minefield at the moment. When you install the MusicMatch software that comes with your soundcard (or whatever) and it can play and record mp3s, that's because the vendor has already paid the licensing fee and passed it on to you.
You can download apps that support these formats, but they're deemed too risky/non-free to include with the OS install.
I am glad you were lucky enough to get all supported hardware. With Linux, it's like winning the lottery.:-)
It's not that hard, but it means you have to look at getting hardware in a slightly different way. You have to look at what's recommended and what is reported working, take those cards, pick the one you want, and order/buy that. You can't go down to your local store, look at the features on the boxes, buy it, and then see if it will work under Linux. That is the road to frustration.. Since driver support is usually third-party, it's an unknown unless it's explicitly supported.
I'd like to know exactly how one goes about troubleshooting sound in MacOSX anyway. Do you open up some control applet and stare helplessly at a bunch of checkboxes that you have already tried before to no avail? Or do you fire up an xterm, bash , man and vi and hack away at/etc files just as you would under any other unix?
Well you see, these days Linux uses something called ALSA, a poorly designed and difficult to use sound system where often you need to experiment with mostly-undocumented and confusingly-named switches in a mixer app, along with the somewhat-documented yet still confusing.asoundrc to perform special advanced effects such as letting two applications simultaniously use a sound device that has no hardware mixer. All to do things such as digital out and AC3-passthrough that other OSes have working right out of the box.
I like Linux, I really do. But sound is one of those areas that could use a huge amount of improvement. These days the general consensus is "Get an SB Live!" (Not bad advice, they're nice cheap cards that work right with ALSA by default. With other sound chips though, you're likely to be out of luck)
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we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow').
Followed almost immediately by crappy news.
Oh, better than that, he was an executive producer of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! However, he was also a producer for Speed and Saving Private Ryan, two movies I think are pretty good. The difference was Saving Private Ryan was directed by Steven Speilburg, while the Day After Tomorrow was directed by Stargate/Independance Day/Godzilla director Roland Emmerich, not known for his skills in demanding good plots or likable characters. So I won't worry much until a director has been announced.
I wouldn't think so. But the guy's job was to piss people off and get around any defenses the spamees might have put up. Eventually if you start indiscriminantly annoying the hell out of people, you'll tick someone off who won't put up with it.
He should have found another line of work. I don't think he deserved being clubbed to death, but when you cast a wide net like that, you're going to piss off the wrong guy.
Because that's not what "hacker" means anymore.
Isn't it possible that this was just one big honeypot?
Vader doesn't make the list?
NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Unfortunately, it sucks if you're in a collaberative game and the other guys on your server aren't very good, or are just plain clueless/asses. That's where the strength of a server with thousands of people comes in -- it's easier to put together a group that meets your needs/interests/levels. So who cares is Throg the level 60 Senior Commander Orc has more uber gear than you? You're fighting with a group of friends who are at the same level in areas where you'll never even meet those people. Does it matter?
No, I go through the drive-through because I don't want to stand/eat in the dirty "restaurant" with yelling kids. I'd rather drive through, get the food quickly, then head home and eat while watching TV or reading slashdot or something like that. I don't eat while driving though, because, well, I'm not a moron.
Blockbuster also recently lost a class-action lawsuit because they charged late fees on videos turned in on time. One of the reasons I stopped renting there.
Jesus. Reporters in this country throw softballs at the president and have for well over a decade now. That was nothing.
They're most well-known for publishing "Civilization: Call to Power."
Who is that Mario and his brothers? Tell me please.
They had a TV show once, later made into a movie.
Try Michael Bay of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and (coming soon) Transformers fame. At least Bruckheimer (who has paired with Bay a number of times) has Pirates of the Caribbean to his name.
Sure, I could go on a guided tour there, but I sure as hell wouldn't drink any of the water.
Maybe not, but they're often packed with compressed files, like the Linux ISOs being filled with rpm or gz files.
There are a number of file formats that Fedora can't support due to patent or licensing issues dealing with a completely free operating system. MP3 for example is not a free format, or at least some of the compressors/decompressors aren't. mp3 file support used to be standard under Red Hat until the "mp3 requires royalties" hooplah started and support was yanked. mplayer and xine play mp2 files very nicely, but they can't be included with Fedora either because of patent/licensing concerns again. The A/V world is an ugly mess of a patent/license minefield at the moment. When you install the MusicMatch software that comes with your soundcard (or whatever) and it can play and record mp3s, that's because the vendor has already paid the licensing fee and passed it on to you.
You can download apps that support these formats, but they're deemed too risky/non-free to include with the OS install.
It's not that hard, but it means you have to look at getting hardware in a slightly different way. You have to look at what's recommended and what is reported working, take those cards, pick the one you want, and order/buy that. You can't go down to your local store, look at the features on the boxes, buy it, and then see if it will work under Linux. That is the road to frustration.. Since driver support is usually third-party, it's an unknown unless it's explicitly supported.
Well you see, these days Linux uses something called ALSA, a poorly designed and difficult to use sound system where often you need to experiment with mostly-undocumented and confusingly-named switches in a mixer app, along with the somewhat-documented yet still confusing .asoundrc to perform special advanced effects such as letting two applications simultaniously use a sound device that has no hardware mixer. All to do things such as digital out and AC3-passthrough that other OSes have working right out of the box.
I like Linux, I really do. But sound is one of those areas that could use a huge amount of improvement. These days the general consensus is "Get an SB Live!" (Not bad advice, they're nice cheap cards that work right with ALSA by default. With other sound chips though, you're likely to be out of luck)
*sigh*
He never should have shaved off the beard. Made him look more stately, old, and even admiralish. Stuck-up sometimes yes, but still.