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Review: Panic Room
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I had seen people rip on this guy for being a moron, but never really bothered to read his stuff. Now I read this, having seen the movie - and wow - did he sleep through it? the reason the theives don't leave right away is that they need the money based on a deadline - Leto is one of the kids of the deceased rich guy and he has his reasons for needing the money, as does Forrest's character - it is explained in the movie. the cell phone in the movie doesn't work in the panic room, which is true to life due to the shielding. and it had a phone, she just didn't get it hooked up. a net connection is a stupid thing to rant about it lacking since it isn't clear when this is set - either way, if she didn't hook up the phone, there is no way she would know how to hook up the net.
none of this really matters since he is ranting about a movie where the whole point is the Hitchcock like terror and suspense, not the petty details that only a geek would notice - so the ventalation is shared with the house - who cares?!
as for the "great camerawork" that was CG. fincher started using that in Fight Club and went on to do it in here heavily (which would explain how the camera passes through the wooden bannisters and through the handle of a coffee pot).
anyway, *note to self* ignore Jon Katz from now on - the guy is annoying and waste of time.
I'd be interested in seeing what people on here say - but from what I have heard - the damage to your ears can still be done, but you don't get all the noise... I personally don't see how that is - but I'd be curious if this would help prevent some of the damage from noise pollution or else we will be a world of deaf people in a few years seeing as the number of noisemakers is increasing at a rapid rate over the previous years. (or tell me a good hearing aid company to invest in)
I would "but" an intellimouse were I interested in a desktop system of theirs - and I would have to buy a keyboard as well since I hate their keyboard as well. But the idea I presented was that I liked their Ti laptop - and the whole point of a laptop is not having to lug all the extra shit around for it - like another fucking mouse.
I will never buy a mac as long as they....
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...keep doing annoying shit like that one button mouse. I would have gotten a cube, but I hate the mouse and the OS, then they basically made a cool X windows system and I was willing to get a Ti laptop - but the motherfucking one buttong mousepad on it, no way in hell I will ever get anything of theirs no matter how shiny it is until they do less retarded ergonomic shit. they claim they are innovative and doing things to better ergonomics - bullshit - they are doing it for the sake of being different. fuck that.
I can recall Sharper Image's catalog having these for whole walls in the past. If I recall a write up in a sound magazine, the quality is surprisingly good, but obviously not like audiophile level.
isn't that basically what john nash did? the guy that had the movie recently where they weren't very good at showing his life factually but instead hollywood-ized - A Beautiful Life
there is cambridgeside near kendall square in cambridge - they are pretty damn expensive (last I looked was a year or two ago and they were $1600 for a 1 bedroom) and they have like 8 billion phone lines per apt, lots of outlets, and a T1 in every room...
I'm plenty happy in my place with cable modem - but I only have one outlet and the place is old so the power sucks...
I'm out in Somerville (slummerville)
if you are in your car, and something goes wrong with it, then you come to a stop. you just sit there, and ideally nobody rear ends you - but even if they do, the most energy you can get involved is them and you combined.
but if you are in the sky, and something goes wrong, you don't just coast to a stop - there is that whole "plummeting to the earth" thing that happens as well.
this is classic slashdot - the parent to the post that I'm placing here states facts - and then because they are against the ideals of someone with moderation power at the time - what is a valid and good post gets modded down.
now had he reversed it and talked about how apple is this and that - but backed it with no facts, it would have been modded up.
hence why I visit slashdot less and less these days.
(admittedly I will come back to see this get modded down b/c I dissent)
the hair in it was amazing - hell, the lighting was great!
the short at the start - the birds - that alone was worth admission - the expressions were fantastic.
I love 3d animation and have done a lot of it, so it makes it that much more impressive.
the little girl in it was so cute - to do the cartoon feel but add some realism is very impressive.
Am I the only one that thought the character played by Steve Buscemi (sp?) was EXACTLY like the bad alien in Men in Black (the one they kill near the globe statue at the fairgrounds)??
the nvidia drivers (and newer chips) and the athlonXP are both faster under XP - other than that, I have only seen one main problem on mine (aside from the usual MS security holes open on the default install) - when it crashes - it doens't just kill that window/app, it reboots the whole system.
XP can reboot much faster now - but I don't want any rebooting at all.
I too am dropping "Linux" from the end of my name. I had it legally added in the late 90's when it was all so hip, fresh, and cool. But now in the 21st century it has just become passe. Just like heroin.
I don't care about protection - just put one in the hallway who's only mission is to get through the door at the end.
then put the other one who's only job it is to guard the door... well, right be the door.
then program them to scream when parts of them fall off.
and give them lasers.
everybody love lasters. just like that tv show.
what about us jaded and burnt out programmers? who is creating a program for us to turn to a life of crime and hit the streets popping caps and offing rival members and shit so that we can have some excitement in our lives?
damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
my life is so much fucking like office space it isn't even funny. except I don't get jennifer anniston. fuck.
no no, not terminal server - you have been able to do that since Win NT days way back when.
There is a new thing that seems to be like pcAnywhere or netmeeting that is installed as default where someone can take over your system - what I would assume would be so taht when you are retarded and need some help, you can let a MS help desk person take it over, but it is just going to be a security hole I know it...
I have a 4 port belkin switch on mine, and my 21" Sony trinitron also has a switch on it (only for two though, and it just switches the display).
I have another 19" sitting around, but not enough space on one desk for it (need to move the printer).
The Belkin I have (OmniCube 4-Port - F1D094) is decent, but not great - I have a linux box, and two win boxen on it, soon to likely add another win system.
The main problem with the belkin, that I have, is that when you swtich to a different computer - you have to un plug and then re-plug the keyboard into the front of it. This is annoying b/c it resets any keyboard properties on that machine (so it will have slow repeat among other things) - if you don't do that, the character mappings go screwy - normal letters are all the same - but the up arrow will start putting out backslashes and that sort of thing.
This might be b/c I run at 1600x1200 on all machines, and it doesn't like that. I don't know.
Other than that, it has been great for me. It has some feature that allows you to switch computers all via the keyboard, but I never use it - and the ones at work in the server room are ultra annoying in that they are hyper sensitive to what you type - and I think it is ctrl keys that set off the menu system for it - so if you are doing copying an dpasting, then it will sometimes set it off if the copies are too close together in key time pressing.
with anything more than two computers I really don't know how people get by without the switch - of course assuming they are the only ones using them, or they are servers. obviously if multiple people are using them at the same time, then you need the monitors.
And as someone else said VNC is very good - I used to use it all the time in college. I'd go work up a scene in lightwave on the lab workstation and then rendering it out would take some time, so I'd head back to my dorm room to get other things done, or just take a nap, and then I could vnc into that machine and see what the progress was before heading back over there (although my senior year it wasn't all that far away, maybe a block).
there is also netmeeting and pcAnywhere - as well as whatever this peice of shit that is built into winxp now does - I disabled it right after install, but I suspect there will be new exploits on it much like back orifice of the past.
I worked with a Russian dude (well, he was from Odessa, which I don't think is Russia anymore... if it ever was - I'm retarded with geography... among other things), and he was by far one of the more painful people I have had to share an office with. he would spend the entire day doing the following pattern 1) sit down at his computer, and disconnect the ethernet cable, 2) unplug the phone and plug the computer modem into it (which he must have brought from home since there was no need for them at work) and then he'd dial up into... somewhere, 3) then he'd sit there and slowly click on things which looking at C++ code and mumbling, then he'd go "aaaaahhhhhh" then unplug the modem, and plug the phone back in, from which 4) he'd call someone and talk for an hour in russian - loudly, then 5) he'd hang up and mumble and then go outside and smoke, then come back in and get a coffee - then repeat the whole process.
The only three times I saw a change from this were 1) I came back into our office and he had his tower workstation on the side, was standing on it and pulling with his hands trying to get the cover off - not understanding why it was so hard. 2) he was trying to get a desk drawer open and he was using all fo his weight pulling like he was on a strong man show on espn pulling a truck - I told him that the drawers had a lock mechanism where you had to pull the bottom one out slightly and that would disengage the top one - I didn't know why, but it worked. he nodded, turned back around and then proceeded to pull with all his bodyweight again, but this time in many large jerking motions, which dragged the desk about the office. and then 3) the glorious day he was fired for not ever getting anything done.
The fact that I had to be near him all the time (he was annoying in many ways, the above was the humorous parts) made me consider quitting, so I'm glad that he was fired first.
But I left the company I was at prior b/c I worked with a girl on a project who was by far the most painful person in the world. There were many things I couldn't stand, but again, the ones that are funny are what stick out - she was a documentation person, and that somehow entitled her to always carry an open felt pen around with her. Fine. Except she also had some weird condition where when she talked she shifted her weight all around and waved her hands as if she were casting a spell on you - in the process you'd have to dodge the pen or it would mark all over you - she on the other hand never dodged her own waving hands - so she had pen marks on her neck, hands, forehead - or anything else that got in the way. They moved her desk in her office one day and there was an odd half moon patter on the wall from below where the desk was - we pondered it for a bit and then cam to the conclusion that while seated her legs flailed about and left marks all over the wall. Those things alone are just odd - but she was terrible painful in every respect which made any conversation with her resulting in you pondering to yourself if a swift blow to her throat would kill her or just shut her up for a bit, or if you took your own pen and jabbed yourself hard enough in the stomach if the resulting injury would be enough to get out of the conversation.
good times.
now I just work with a bunch of guys that don't speak english very well and smell bad. but most of them do good work (one doesn't seem to understand that you can't name all functions "function1" so it makes debugging his code interesting.
heh heh - to each their own.
I've run on my home machines Solaris, every varient of windows (well, not the 64bit one), Linux (3 different "flavors"), FreeBSD, and briefly some Mac stuff - the Mac stuff was all from friends that are zealots and kind enough to let me try out the things I needed to get done (my two biggest things I spend my home time on are 3D graphics and encryption). I asked them how much the stuff cost, and then compared the performance to the cost of my stuff. MacOS anything was PAINFIL to work in - but again, all a matter of taste. The MacOS X sure was purdy, but I did most everything in the same way I would in x windows... command line and emacs, so I'm not sure why I need all the other fancy shit wasting my ram and processor time.
Up to the G3, the Mac was worthless, couldn't touch any of my pc systems (some intel, some athlon), esp if you looked at cost. The G4 could certainly whoop ass in some areas - but it matters what you are looking at. It is pretty damn good at floating point stuff - but I don't enjoy the programming on that system (again, personal preference). But it costs way more than any of my pc shit, and the cost outweights the performance improvement you see in some areas.
and yeah, I do wonder how the hell programmers in mac environments get their shit done - but even more so, I wonder why they even bother.
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I had seen people rip on this guy for being a moron, but never really bothered to read his stuff.
Now I read this, having seen the movie - and wow - did he sleep through it?
the reason the theives don't leave right away is that they need the money based on a deadline - Leto is one of the kids of the deceased rich guy and he has his reasons for needing the money, as does Forrest's character - it is explained in the movie.
the cell phone in the movie doesn't work in the panic room, which is true to life due to the shielding. and it had a phone, she just didn't get it hooked up. a net connection is a stupid thing to rant about it lacking since it isn't clear when this is set - either way, if she didn't hook up the phone, there is no way she would know how to hook up the net.
none of this really matters since he is ranting about a movie where the whole point is the Hitchcock like terror and suspense, not the petty details that only a geek would notice - so the ventalation is shared with the house - who cares?!
as for the "great camerawork" that was CG. fincher started using that in Fight Club and went on to do it in here heavily (which would explain how the camera passes through the wooden bannisters and through the handle of a coffee pot).
anyway, *note to self* ignore Jon Katz from now on - the guy is annoying and waste of time.
I'd be interested in seeing what people on here say - but from what I have heard - the damage to your ears can still be done, but you don't get all the noise... I personally don't see how that is - but I'd be curious if this would help prevent some of the damage from noise pollution or else we will be a world of deaf people in a few years seeing as the number of noisemakers is increasing at a rapid rate over the previous years.
(or tell me a good hearing aid company to invest in)
I would "but" an intellimouse were I interested in a desktop system of theirs - and I would have to buy a keyboard as well since I hate their keyboard as well.
But the idea I presented was that I liked their Ti laptop - and the whole point of a laptop is not having to lug all the extra shit around for it - like another fucking mouse.
...keep doing annoying shit like that one button mouse. I would have gotten a cube, but I hate the mouse and the OS, then they basically made a cool X windows system and I was willing to get a Ti laptop - but the motherfucking one buttong mousepad on it, no way in hell I will ever get anything of theirs no matter how shiny it is until they do less retarded ergonomic shit. they claim they are innovative and doing things to better ergonomics - bullshit - they are doing it for the sake of being different. fuck that.
this was on slashdot in the last year or two. it is still cool... but a repeat.
how flat it your chest?
I can recall Sharper Image's catalog having these for whole walls in the past. If I recall a write up in a sound magazine, the quality is surprisingly good, but obviously not like audiophile level.
isn't that basically what john nash did? the guy that had the movie recently where they weren't very good at showing his life factually but instead hollywood-ized - A Beautiful Life
programming is what I do at home or at work. the programming at home tends to be more fun - 3d at home, j2ee boooooring stuff at work.
at this point, I know I'm getting laid off soon, so I'd gladly work just to have the job.
there is cambridgeside near kendall square in cambridge - they are pretty damn expensive (last I looked was a year or two ago and they were $1600 for a 1 bedroom) and they have like 8 billion phone lines per apt, lots of outlets, and a T1 in every room...
I'm plenty happy in my place with cable modem - but I only have one outlet and the place is old so the power sucks...
I'm out in Somerville (slummerville)
if you are in your car, and something goes wrong with it, then you come to a stop. you just sit there, and ideally nobody rear ends you - but even if they do, the most energy you can get involved is them and you combined.
but if you are in the sky, and something goes wrong, you don't just coast to a stop - there is that whole "plummeting to the earth" thing that happens as well.
this is classic slashdot - the parent to the post that I'm placing here states facts - and then because they are against the ideals of someone with moderation power at the time - what is a valid and good post gets modded down.
now had he reversed it and talked about how apple is this and that - but backed it with no facts, it would have been modded up.
hence why I visit slashdot less and less these days.
(admittedly I will come back to see this get modded down b/c I dissent)
the hair in it was amazing - hell, the lighting was great!
the short at the start - the birds - that alone was worth admission - the expressions were fantastic.
I love 3d animation and have done a lot of it, so it makes it that much more impressive.
the little girl in it was so cute - to do the cartoon feel but add some realism is very impressive.
Am I the only one that thought the character played by Steve Buscemi (sp?) was EXACTLY like the bad alien in Men in Black (the one they kill near the globe statue at the fairgrounds)??
the nvidia drivers (and newer chips) and the athlonXP are both faster under XP - other than that, I have only seen one main problem on mine (aside from the usual MS security holes open on the default install) - when it crashes - it doens't just kill that window/app, it reboots the whole system.
XP can reboot much faster now - but I don't want any rebooting at all.
I too am dropping "Linux" from the end of my name. I had it legally added in the late 90's when it was all so hip, fresh, and cool. But now in the 21st century it has just become passe. Just like heroin.
I don't care about protection - just put one in the hallway who's only mission is to get through the door at the end.
then put the other one who's only job it is to guard the door... well, right be the door.
then program them to scream when parts of them fall off.
and give them lasers.
everybody love lasters. just like that tv show.
join the army.
travel to exotic distant lands.
meet exciting and unusual people.
and kill them.
what about us jaded and burnt out programmers? who is creating a program for us to turn to a life of crime and hit the streets popping caps and offing rival members and shit so that we can have some excitement in our lives?
damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
my life is so much fucking like office space it isn't even funny. except I don't get jennifer anniston. fuck.
it has the geforce3 in it right?
that isn't exactly a cool running chip...
no no, not terminal server - you have been able to do that since Win NT days way back when.
There is a new thing that seems to be like pcAnywhere or netmeeting that is installed as default where someone can take over your system - what I would assume would be so taht when you are retarded and need some help, you can let a MS help desk person take it over, but it is just going to be a security hole I know it...
I have a 4 port belkin switch on mine, and my 21" Sony trinitron also has a switch on it (only for two though, and it just switches the display).
I have another 19" sitting around, but not enough space on one desk for it (need to move the printer).
The Belkin I have (OmniCube 4-Port - F1D094) is decent, but not great - I have a linux box, and two win boxen on it, soon to likely add another win system.
The main problem with the belkin, that I have, is that when you swtich to a different computer - you have to un plug and then re-plug the keyboard into the front of it. This is annoying b/c it resets any keyboard properties on that machine (so it will have slow repeat among other things) - if you don't do that, the character mappings go screwy - normal letters are all the same - but the up arrow will start putting out backslashes and that sort of thing.
This might be b/c I run at 1600x1200 on all machines, and it doesn't like that. I don't know.
Other than that, it has been great for me. It has some feature that allows you to switch computers all via the keyboard, but I never use it - and the ones at work in the server room are ultra annoying in that they are hyper sensitive to what you type - and I think it is ctrl keys that set off the menu system for it - so if you are doing copying an dpasting, then it will sometimes set it off if the copies are too close together in key time pressing.
with anything more than two computers I really don't know how people get by without the switch - of course assuming they are the only ones using them, or they are servers. obviously if multiple people are using them at the same time, then you need the monitors.
And as someone else said VNC is very good - I used to use it all the time in college. I'd go work up a scene in lightwave on the lab workstation and then rendering it out would take some time, so I'd head back to my dorm room to get other things done, or just take a nap, and then I could vnc into that machine and see what the progress was before heading back over there (although my senior year it wasn't all that far away, maybe a block).
there is also netmeeting and pcAnywhere - as well as whatever this peice of shit that is built into winxp now does - I disabled it right after install, but I suspect there will be new exploits on it much like back orifice of the past.
5 minutes?! you must be insane!
we ALL know it was 3 minutes.
5 minutes... sheesh.
the bible tells me that there is just no way that stuff could be that old.
hee hee.
silly bible.
I worked with a Russian dude (well, he was from Odessa, which I don't think is Russia anymore... if it ever was - I'm retarded with geography... among other things), and he was by far one of the more painful people I have had to share an office with. he would spend the entire day doing the following pattern 1) sit down at his computer, and disconnect the ethernet cable, 2) unplug the phone and plug the computer modem into it (which he must have brought from home since there was no need for them at work) and then he'd dial up into... somewhere, 3) then he'd sit there and slowly click on things which looking at C++ code and mumbling, then he'd go "aaaaahhhhhh" then unplug the modem, and plug the phone back in, from which 4) he'd call someone and talk for an hour in russian - loudly, then 5) he'd hang up and mumble and then go outside and smoke, then come back in and get a coffee - then repeat the whole process.
The only three times I saw a change from this were 1) I came back into our office and he had his tower workstation on the side, was standing on it and pulling with his hands trying to get the cover off - not understanding why it was so hard. 2) he was trying to get a desk drawer open and he was using all fo his weight pulling like he was on a strong man show on espn pulling a truck - I told him that the drawers had a lock mechanism where you had to pull the bottom one out slightly and that would disengage the top one - I didn't know why, but it worked. he nodded, turned back around and then proceeded to pull with all his bodyweight again, but this time in many large jerking motions, which dragged the desk about the office. and then 3) the glorious day he was fired for not ever getting anything done.
The fact that I had to be near him all the time (he was annoying in many ways, the above was the humorous parts) made me consider quitting, so I'm glad that he was fired first.
But I left the company I was at prior b/c I worked with a girl on a project who was by far the most painful person in the world. There were many things I couldn't stand, but again, the ones that are funny are what stick out - she was a documentation person, and that somehow entitled her to always carry an open felt pen around with her. Fine. Except she also had some weird condition where when she talked she shifted her weight all around and waved her hands as if she were casting a spell on you - in the process you'd have to dodge the pen or it would mark all over you - she on the other hand never dodged her own waving hands - so she had pen marks on her neck, hands, forehead - or anything else that got in the way. They moved her desk in her office one day and there was an odd half moon patter on the wall from below where the desk was - we pondered it for a bit and then cam to the conclusion that while seated her legs flailed about and left marks all over the wall. Those things alone are just odd - but she was terrible painful in every respect which made any conversation with her resulting in you pondering to yourself if a swift blow to her throat would kill her or just shut her up for a bit, or if you took your own pen and jabbed yourself hard enough in the stomach if the resulting injury would be enough to get out of the conversation.
good times.
now I just work with a bunch of guys that don't speak english very well and smell bad. but most of them do good work (one doesn't seem to understand that you can't name all functions "function1" so it makes debugging his code interesting.
heh heh - to each their own.
I've run on my home machines Solaris, every varient of windows (well, not the 64bit one), Linux (3 different "flavors"), FreeBSD, and briefly some Mac stuff - the Mac stuff was all from friends that are zealots and kind enough to let me try out the things I needed to get done (my two biggest things I spend my home time on are 3D graphics and encryption). I asked them how much the stuff cost, and then compared the performance to the cost of my stuff. MacOS anything was PAINFIL to work in - but again, all a matter of taste. The MacOS X sure was purdy, but I did most everything in the same way I would in x windows... command line and emacs, so I'm not sure why I need all the other fancy shit wasting my ram and processor time.
Up to the G3, the Mac was worthless, couldn't touch any of my pc systems (some intel, some athlon), esp if you looked at cost. The G4 could certainly whoop ass in some areas - but it matters what you are looking at. It is pretty damn good at floating point stuff - but I don't enjoy the programming on that system (again, personal preference). But it costs way more than any of my pc shit, and the cost outweights the performance improvement you see in some areas.
and yeah, I do wonder how the hell programmers in mac environments get their shit done - but even more so, I wonder why they even bother.