I dunno. I don't think 4-6 could really be considered to be based on the life of Anakin. It was centered much more around Luke, Leia, and Han.
Hell, Vader doesn't even get any character development until 6. He's just the evil force guy who likes to strangle people. Even in the revelation scene in Empire his character stays pretty well two-dimensional. If it wasn't for the cool outfit and James Earl Jones, he wouldn't be nearly as popular.
You could just as easily say that it's based on Palpatine - after all, he orchestrated the entire thing.
Funny, that's the way I felt about episodes I - III. Get a decent director, good screenwriters, and some rope to tie Lucas down so he couldn't meddle in it, and you'd have some damn good movies.
Thanks for the info on Vietnam - that's one of my weak spots in history. I don't have any relatives who fought in it, and most of the history I have studied has been European and early American.
As far as the Stalin thing - we weren't fighting Germany because Hitler was evil. We were fighting them because they were attacking our allies (and their allies were attacking us). An imperialistic Germany was not what we wanted - not to mention that many of the people in power in the U.S. were veterans of the first world war (and not too fond of them gerries).
The U.S. was fighting a war on two fronts. France was getting the crap beat out of them, and Great Britain had thrown its full resources into the war. It was still difficult fighting the germans.
Now, here's a large country with a lot of resources who is also being attacked by the germans, but they're on the other side geographically and can cause a lot of pain for the germans on the eastern front. Millions of people are dying. It would have been really, really stupid not to do as much coordination as possible with the soviets in order to end the war as soon as possible.
I agree that Stalin was certainly one of the worst things to happen to the U.S.S.R. - there's no telling how things would have turned out had he not come to power. The world would likely have been a much better place, and a lot of people would not have been killed or forced to starve to death. But when you boil it all down, the U.S. government has the responsibility to look out for the best interests of its citizens, and ending the war as quickly as possible was the best way of insuring that as few as possible of our young men would be killed.
I've never read that book, but I'll see if I can check it out. It sounds interesting.
I find it hard to believe that the U.S. has never had a problem with Cuba being communist. Communism was for quite some time treated akin to, say, Satanism is by most churches. The U.S. has had a very anti-communist stance since WWII. Hell, look at the crap Joseph McCarthy started.
It's stupid, I feel, since by locking out communist countries, we essentially handed them to the Soviet Union (what we were trying to avoid in the first place). We still do it today, although really the only major communist power left is China (and I can't see Castro gettin' buddy-buddy with them like he was the U.S.S.R.).
A good way for a cantidate to lose quickly would be to support a communist country (economic dealing with China excepted).
Dunno about Ho Chi Minh, but I think he's including Stalin because Stalin joined the allies after hitler turned on him.
That's like saying if you put, say, Napoleon and the king of England at the time (George the somethingth? I don't remember) in a pit and sent wild dogs to kill them, they would be allies. While true, it's still misleading.
Also, the FSF has no real resources to muster other than Stallman's big mouth. You will note that OOo2 will be just as based on Java as originally planned.
The FSF doesn't need resources for this. Stallman was contacted because he's a good point of contact for free software licensing in general. The FSF was contacted for advice, not because rms has the OOo developers by the balls or anything.
The real thing that moves OOo in this matter is that distributions that do not distribute sun's VM due to licensing issues (debian, for instance) will be unable to distribute OOo. Sure, it can be manually installed, but "Hey! What's this abiword? Gnumeric? I've already got that on my system..." - see? That's what they want to get worked out.
There's also the advantage that GCJ and the gnu classpath libraries should work on many, many more platforms than sun is willing to support. That's a huge plus for people like me who use strange architectures (like my vax, alpha, or ancient sun boxes I run linux on). OOo will be able to run damn near anywhere.
Exactly - I've got an old toshiba P133 laptop running debian (HINT: enable the IR port _before_ loading linux on one of these things - can't do it in linux). I do my programming assignments on it. Devhelp is a bit slow, but most of the time the docs I need are in the manpages. Compiling small programs takes little time, and it runs java fine for my purposes.
As a plus, I'm done with the COBOL-happy teacher who makes me flowchart everything. Dia sucks in 1024x768 and is slow as hell on that thing.
I'd use it as an X terminal at home except my desktop doesn't like anything below 1600x1200.
I never worried about how much something would cost because I wasn't the guy who handled finances. Enterprise-level software is expensive, and servers aren't cheap either. If the decision on what we bought was up to the finance guy, we'd have still been using little clusters of seperate netware 3.x networks.
So, American Taxpayers (of which I am one, thank you), Kiss My Ass.
It was immaterial to me. Like I said in my post, I wasn't the one who decided on which option to take, and generally you had to put down at least three options: what you can squeeze by with, what works well, and what would make the job easy.
I was a tech; I grok servers and networking, but I wasn't party to the squadron financial meetings. Usually the middle option was taken, since in all reality it was "cheaper" in a more general sense (time spent training new troops, increased uptime, better recovery from failure, etc.).
The expensive option was put there because our shop never got the expensive option, due to our commander being a complete putz and whore for the telephone guys (man, I'm glad I'm out of the military and can say that now), so we had to put a high-dollar solution in there so we would get what we needed. I mean, when I left in 2001, we were still using dual pentium 100's for half our servers - so we weren't the ones wasting your tax money.
Electrolisys doesn't work well with pure water. You'd have to use an extremely strong current, since pure water has such a high resistance.
That's why when you do electrolysis, you start out with distilled water and dissolve a certain substance into it (I think they suggested baking soda, but it's been forever). You have to be careful what you dissolve in it, or you won't get oxygen and hydrogen - for instance, salt water gives you chlorine and hydrogen in your gas collectors and sodium hydroxide in your water.
I could be wrong on some of this - it's been forever - but either way, the small charge the water molecule has due to it's unbalanced shape does nothing for conductivity. It does, IIRC, cause ice to crystalize.
But lemme tell ya, nothing's as satisfying. My business tanked in six months - my partner and I really didn't understand a lot of stuff we should have (like accounting) and had about three thousand dollars starting cash and a few computers. That's not enough to open a computer shop. But I tell ya, even though we both lost our asses in the deal, it was the most rewarding work I've ever done.
And yeah, anytime you see someone 18-20 walk in the door all clean cut with a tie and a backpack, kick 'em out as soon as they walk in. Frikkin' solicitors. They'll try to sell you stuff in front of customers. Hell, one tried to sell stuff to my customers when I was showing them a computer.
If you do it, make sure that you have someone that can do real accounting, decent startup money, and a good partner (if any). A partner helps spur you on, but if you make a bad choice, you'll have nothing but problems (in my case, my partner was excellent, but his wife was pure, unadulterated evil). And make sure you can bail if you need to - if we hadn't gotten out when we did, we'd have been stuck in Illinois for who knows how long.
When I worked for the Air Force, I never worried about how much something would cost. I put in a few proposals and put in costs, wrote up a report on the various options, and submitted it to my superiors. It was rare the cheapest option was chosen. Cost was immaterial to me.
On the other hand, having to deal with vendor $*#@ all day long was a real hassle. One thing that bugs the hell out of me with proprietary software is the lack of user input - some of the tools we used were klunky and broken, but they were the only tools that would work with a particular vendor. New features were useless, while good features were left out. Upgrades were often painful.
If I were considering a purchase for a large business or government, I'd be more worried about the vendor lock in than cost too.
One thing I would have added in there was an entry on enlightement - back in the day, it was the first window manager that allowed almost complete customization and theming. I'd say it's probably behind the drive to 'prettify' GUIs that has only become popular in the commercial world in the past few years (os X, xp (to an extent, anyway), other window managers for X). I can still remember the first time I saw someone running E - it blew my mind.
Also, did anyone else notice that the one entry for X was listed in the 80's, but showed a screenshot of KDE? It should have been wm or one of the early window managers. Or maybe twm at the newest.
The admin's wrong. Samba can do it now, although in all fairness it took a while after active directory was released for it to be able to work with it well. He's probably just basing that on old information.
As far as the protocol, SMB is (IIRC, I could be wrong) an IBM-designed protocol. It's been around for ages - hell, NT domains were just hopped up lan manager networks. The authentication in active directory uses a slightly modified form of kerberos - also an open protocol. They have tried to put a few legal barriers in the way, but those have been mostly ineffective.
Now, there is another possibility - it might be against policy at your university for non-windows machines to authenticate. If it's set up so that all machines have to be added to the tree by an admin, it's certainly enforcable, and thus your admin would be right in that particular case. He's just not right in the general case.
A sergeant I used to have used to be a morse code operator before she transferred to my career field. She had to switch because the started dreaming in morse code, and had to see a shrink about it.
I don't imagine that could happen with SMS text, but still, I'd much rather get a small keyboard with my phone.
Only if you're climbing the antenna, and only then if there's a significant amount of power coming out of it.
Yeah, microwave's bad, in large amounts, but for communications purposes it's in the milliwatt range (opposed to the watt to kilowatt range for microwave ovens).
Even then, I don't know about disease. I knew a guy back when I was in the air force who was sterile due to the work he did with satillite uplinks. But that's a really strong signal, tight beam, and marked with radiation signs to warn anyone who comes near. Apparently the only bad thing that happened to him was it fried his sperm producing areas.
We've been doing satcom for a long while now, and a lot of it is microwave range - why not look up studies on that?
It's not this way anymore, but it used to be a big deal because your desktop size and color depth were limited by your video ram.
I don't play games and rarely do 3D stuff (occasionally work in wings3d, and that's been very recently). But back when I put this system together, I went out and bought a 64M radeon. Why? I run my desktop at 1600x1200 at 24 bit color, and that eats a lot of video ram.
Of course, nowdays it doesn't matter - anything more than 64 megs is a waste on me. But I can remember when we put the best video card in the house - a matrox mystique with 2M - into the alpha along with the best monitor (a 15") so I could run the gimp remotely and be able to get a decent resolution and set of colors.
Dunno about currently, but here in northern Oklahoma we've still got a set of old buildings out by the airport that were used to train British pilots in WWII. One of them is a bus barn now for a trasport company.
Of course, it was probably not a British installation, but that's the closest I know of.
Without copyright, you wouldn't get the quality of books you get now. You'd get the quality of slash fanfiction.
Without patents, companies wouldn't bother to improve their products - why bother when it's easier to wait for a competitor to do it and then copy them?
The chief problem is that patents overstep their bounds (one click shopping) and copyrights are way, way, way too long (mickey mouse law). The DMCA removes fair use rights, limiting what we can do with what we own. Those laws are broken, in the sense that they do nothing for the public benefit and everything for a small group of large corporations.
Ask a professional writer or a product development researcher if they make money on ideas sometime.
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I dunno. I don't think 4-6 could really be considered to be based on the life of Anakin. It was centered much more around Luke, Leia, and Han.
Hell, Vader doesn't even get any character development until 6. He's just the evil force guy who likes to strangle people. Even in the revelation scene in Empire his character stays pretty well two-dimensional. If it wasn't for the cool outfit and James Earl Jones, he wouldn't be nearly as popular.
You could just as easily say that it's based on Palpatine - after all, he orchestrated the entire thing.
Not touch the script?
Maybe not change the story, but the script needs tossed. These movies have some of the worst dialog ever.
I mean, come on, a character looking up and yelling "NO!!!!" is about at cliché as you can get. And don't get me started with ep. 2's love scenes.
Funny, that's the way I felt about episodes I - III. Get a decent director, good screenwriters, and some rope to tie Lucas down so he couldn't meddle in it, and you'd have some damn good movies.
Thanks for the info on Vietnam - that's one of my weak spots in history. I don't have any relatives who fought in it, and most of the history I have studied has been European and early American.
As far as the Stalin thing - we weren't fighting Germany because Hitler was evil. We were fighting them because they were attacking our allies (and their allies were attacking us). An imperialistic Germany was not what we wanted - not to mention that many of the people in power in the U.S. were veterans of the first world war (and not too fond of them gerries).
The U.S. was fighting a war on two fronts. France was getting the crap beat out of them, and Great Britain had thrown its full resources into the war. It was still difficult fighting the germans.
Now, here's a large country with a lot of resources who is also being attacked by the
germans, but they're on the other side geographically and can cause a lot of pain for the germans on the eastern front. Millions of people are dying. It would have been really, really stupid not to do as much coordination as possible with the soviets in order to end the war as soon as possible.
I agree that Stalin was certainly one of the worst things to happen to the U.S.S.R. - there's no telling how things would have turned out had he not come to power. The world would likely have been a much better place, and a lot of people would not have been killed or forced to starve to death. But when you boil it all down, the U.S. government has the responsibility to look out for the best interests of its citizens, and ending the war as quickly as possible was the best way of insuring that as few as possible of our young men would be killed.
I've never read that book, but I'll see if I can check it out. It sounds interesting.
I find it hard to believe that the U.S. has never had a problem with Cuba being communist. Communism was for quite some time treated akin to, say, Satanism is by most churches. The U.S. has had a very anti-communist stance since WWII. Hell, look at the crap Joseph McCarthy started.
It's stupid, I feel, since by locking out communist countries, we essentially handed them to the Soviet Union (what we were trying to avoid in the first place). We still do it today, although really the only major communist power left is China (and I can't see Castro gettin' buddy-buddy with them like he was the U.S.S.R.).
A good way for a cantidate to lose quickly would be to support a communist country (economic dealing with China excepted).
Dunno about Ho Chi Minh, but I think he's including Stalin because Stalin joined the allies after hitler turned on him.
That's like saying if you put, say, Napoleon and the king of England at the time (George the somethingth? I don't remember) in a pit and sent wild dogs to kill them, they would be allies. While true, it's still misleading.
Also, the FSF has no real resources to muster other than Stallman's big mouth. You will note that OOo2 will be just as based on Java as originally planned.
The FSF doesn't need resources for this. Stallman was contacted because he's a good point of contact for free software licensing in general. The FSF was contacted for advice, not because rms has the OOo developers by the balls or anything.
The real thing that moves OOo in this matter is that distributions that do not distribute sun's VM due to licensing issues (debian, for instance) will be unable to distribute OOo. Sure, it can be manually installed, but "Hey! What's this abiword? Gnumeric? I've already got that on my system..." - see? That's what they want to get worked out.
There's also the advantage that GCJ and the gnu classpath libraries should work on many, many more platforms than sun is willing to support. That's a huge plus for people like me who use strange architectures (like my vax, alpha, or ancient sun boxes I run linux on). OOo will be able to run damn near anywhere.
I believe that's a quote from the simpsons episode "Simpson Tide". Homer corrects the commander of a "nucular" submarine.
Really, though, I'm from oklahoma, and the accent here tends more towards "nucular" than "nuclear". Just like February is pronounced "Febuary".
Exactly - I've got an old toshiba P133 laptop running debian (HINT: enable the IR port _before_ loading linux on one of these things - can't do it in linux). I do my programming assignments on it. Devhelp is a bit slow, but most of the time the docs I need are in the manpages. Compiling small programs takes little time, and it runs java fine for my purposes.
As a plus, I'm done with the COBOL-happy teacher who makes me flowchart everything. Dia sucks in 1024x768 and is slow as hell on that thing.
I'd use it as an X terminal at home except my desktop doesn't like anything below 1600x1200.
Reading comprehension problems?
I never worried about how much something would cost because I wasn't the guy who handled finances. Enterprise-level software is expensive, and servers aren't cheap either. If the decision on what we bought was up to the finance guy, we'd have still been using little clusters of seperate netware 3.x networks.
So, American Taxpayers (of which I am one, thank you), Kiss My Ass.
When I was stationed in japan, that was the way we (military folk on the base) referred to the U.S. all the time.
Hell, I still do it, and I've been out of the military a while.
It was immaterial to me. Like I said in my post, I wasn't the one who decided on which option to take, and generally you had to put down at least three options: what you can squeeze by with, what works well, and what would make the job easy.
I was a tech; I grok servers and networking, but I wasn't party to the squadron financial meetings. Usually the middle option was taken, since in all reality it was "cheaper" in a more general sense (time spent training new troops, increased uptime, better recovery from failure, etc.).
The expensive option was put there because our shop never got the expensive option, due to our commander being a complete putz and whore for the telephone guys (man, I'm glad I'm out of the military and can say that now), so we had to put a high-dollar solution in there so we would get what we needed. I mean, when I left in 2001, we were still using dual pentium 100's for half our servers - so we weren't the ones wasting your tax money.
Electrolisys doesn't work well with pure water. You'd have to use an extremely strong current, since pure water has such a high resistance.
That's why when you do electrolysis, you start out with distilled water and dissolve a certain substance into it (I think they suggested baking soda, but it's been forever). You have to be careful what you dissolve in it, or you won't get oxygen and hydrogen - for instance, salt water gives you chlorine and hydrogen in your gas collectors and sodium hydroxide in your water.
I could be wrong on some of this - it's been forever - but either way, the small charge the water molecule has due to it's unbalanced shape does nothing for conductivity. It does, IIRC, cause ice to crystalize.
True, true, true...
But lemme tell ya, nothing's as satisfying. My business tanked in six months - my partner and I really didn't understand a lot of stuff we should have (like accounting) and had about three thousand dollars starting cash and a few computers. That's not enough to open a computer shop. But I tell ya, even though we both lost our asses in the deal, it was the most rewarding work I've ever done.
And yeah, anytime you see someone 18-20 walk in the door all clean cut with a tie and a backpack, kick 'em out as soon as they walk in. Frikkin' solicitors. They'll try to sell you stuff in front of customers. Hell, one tried to sell stuff to my customers when I was showing them a computer.
If you do it, make sure that you have someone that can do real accounting, decent startup money, and a good partner (if any). A partner helps spur you on, but if you make a bad choice, you'll have nothing but problems (in my case, my partner was excellent, but his wife was pure, unadulterated evil). And make sure you can bail if you need to - if we hadn't gotten out when we did, we'd have been stuck in Illinois for who knows how long.
When I worked for the Air Force, I never worried about how much something would cost. I put in a few proposals and put in costs, wrote up a report on the various options, and submitted it to my superiors. It was rare the cheapest option was chosen. Cost was immaterial to me.
On the other hand, having to deal with vendor $*#@ all day long was a real hassle. One thing that bugs the hell out of me with proprietary software is the lack of user input - some of the tools we used were klunky and broken, but they were the only tools that would work with a particular vendor. New features were useless, while good features were left out. Upgrades were often painful.
If I were considering a purchase for a large business or government, I'd be more worried about the vendor lock in than cost too.
One thing I would have added in there was an entry on enlightement - back in the day, it was the first window manager that allowed almost complete customization and theming. I'd say it's probably behind the drive to 'prettify' GUIs that has only become popular in the commercial world in the past few years (os X, xp (to an extent, anyway), other window managers for X). I can still remember the first time I saw someone running E - it blew my mind.
Also, did anyone else notice that the one entry for X was listed in the 80's, but showed a screenshot of KDE? It should have been wm or one of the early window managers. Or maybe twm at the newest.
The admin's wrong. Samba can do it now, although in all fairness it took a while after active directory was released for it to be able to work with it well. He's probably just basing that on old information.
As far as the protocol, SMB is (IIRC, I could be wrong) an IBM-designed protocol. It's been around for ages - hell, NT domains were just hopped up lan manager networks. The authentication in active directory uses a slightly modified form of kerberos - also an open protocol. They have tried to put a few legal barriers in the way, but those have been mostly ineffective.
Now, there is another possibility - it might be against policy at your university for non-windows machines to authenticate. If it's set up so that all machines have to be added to the tree by an admin, it's certainly enforcable, and thus your admin would be right in that particular case. He's just not right in the general case.
A sergeant I used to have used to be a morse code operator before she transferred to my career field. She had to switch because the started dreaming in morse code, and had to see a shrink about it.
I don't imagine that could happen with SMS text, but still, I'd much rather get a small keyboard with my phone.
Only if you're climbing the antenna, and only then if there's a significant amount of power coming out of it.
Yeah, microwave's bad, in large amounts, but for communications purposes it's in the milliwatt range (opposed to the watt to kilowatt range for microwave ovens).
Even then, I don't know about disease. I knew a guy back when I was in the air force who was sterile due to the work he did with satillite uplinks. But that's a really strong signal, tight beam, and marked with radiation signs to warn anyone who comes near. Apparently the only bad thing that happened to him was it fried his sperm producing areas.
We've been doing satcom for a long while now, and a lot of it is microwave range - why not look up studies on that?
Ack, I meant the concrete.
Man, I should read my posts when I hit preview.
It's not this way anymore, but it used to be a big deal because your desktop size and color depth were limited by your video ram.
I don't play games and rarely do 3D stuff (occasionally work in wings3d, and that's been very recently). But back when I put this system together, I went out and bought a 64M radeon. Why? I run my desktop at 1600x1200 at 24 bit color, and that eats a lot of video ram.
Of course, nowdays it doesn't matter - anything more than 64 megs is a waste on me. But I can remember when we put the best video card in the house - a matrox mystique with 2M - into the alpha along with the best monitor (a 15") so I could run the gimp remotely and be able to get a decent resolution and set of colors.
Doesn't the rebar generally outlast the steel?
Funny, that. My father was always going on about NAFTA and how it was going to send all the jobs to Mexico.
Of course, apparently no one told the Mexicans, since the meat packing plant here gets busted by immigration every six months.
Somebody's getting rich off it, I'm sure, but it ain't us Oklahomans.
Dunno about currently, but here in northern Oklahoma we've still got a set of old buildings out by the airport that were used to train British pilots in WWII. One of them is a bus barn now for a trasport company.
Of course, it was probably not a British installation, but that's the closest I know of.
Without copyright, you wouldn't get the quality of books you get now. You'd get the quality of slash fanfiction.
Without patents, companies wouldn't bother to improve their products - why bother when it's easier to wait for a competitor to do it and then copy them?
The chief problem is that patents overstep their bounds (one click shopping) and copyrights are way, way, way too long (mickey mouse law). The DMCA removes fair use rights, limiting what we can do with what we own. Those laws are broken, in the sense that they do nothing for the public benefit and everything for a small group of large corporations.
Ask a professional writer or a product development researcher if they make money on ideas sometime.