Er, maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this have the problem of the `nokia ring' that when one person gets a call everyone jumps?
Directonality doesn't help here. Phones obvuiously up the other end of a railway carriage make me twitch. The only solution is different noises for each phone and that brings in the problem of some people's taste in such things being vile.
(eg I use a chumk of `A Very Celular Song' by the Incredible String Band and live in fear of the wrath of ageing hippies with low pun tollerance) _O_
Note that civil disobedience doesn't necessary mean walking into the police station and giving them your name, address and Social
Security number.
Yes it does. That indeed is the entire point.
That is what makes it civil dissobedience and not just acting illegally.
You don't make salt on some out of the way beach, you stage a huge march, let the authorities know where you will be and you make sure they see you doing it. You don't chain yourself to a railing in some obscure backstreet, you do it in Downing Street. You don't burn your ID card in your kitchen you do it in front of a police officer.
The aim is to get arrested, or even better to get them to run out of resources trying to arrest thousands of people.
Ignoring the law and hopeing you don't get caught is not an act of protest. Speeding is not civil dissobedience (unless of course you take to speeding back and forth in front of a cop with a radar gun until he stops you then doing it again and again until you get on TV being arrested). _O_
My previous reservations aside, doesn't the successful test make you want to eat your words?
If you test something like this often enough, sooner or later it will work by pure luck. Then you stop because you have done enough to secure your funding and can spend the next 5 years building fun toys.
The trick is to convince the wooden heads to fund enough tests in the first place. That is what pork barrel is for. _O_
This is, of course, complete rubbish. Psion handhelds have shipped with Psiwin and a link cable for many years now, at no extra
cost.
Indeed, if the Psion did have a weakness in the connectivity area it was just the reverse, they were too tied to Windows. Psion connectivity is one of the reasons I have a Windows machine. _O_
Let's all say a little prayer for Symbian and Palm now.
Psion were the only people seling worthwhile portable computers (as opposed to souped up PIMs). Now I have to decide whether to buy a 5mx or just give up (I was waiting hopeing for a new machine to replace the 5 series).
_O_
Have you actually read a book by Frank Herbert - he packs in so many internal monologues and contemplations that you can't
convey an ounce of what he's writing without characters doing just that.
This is, of course, an argument that the story is unsuitable for being a movie.
And it's not the occasional internal monologue which is the indication of failure. Some quite good writers have been known to throw in a `to be or not to be':-).
The problem is, eg, Jessica narrating `my son lives!'. That is needed in a book where we can't see her, on screen the reaction should be there for us to see without being told.
Yes, let's just ignore the weirding-weapons and the whole concept of 'Muad'dib' being an unknown 'power-word' for the Fremen
people. That was an important turning point in the book if you don't remember.
I don't remember a shouting at people weapon in the book.
_O_
I don't know why EVERY single time a book is made into a movie there's a grumpy guy going "the movie sucked ass".
Basicly because movie adaptations of novels do `suck ass'.
Apart from anything else there isn't time in a feature film to cover a story big enough to make a good novel.
It's rare for them to pick a novel which hasa sub-plot of the right length which can be extracted and still make sense.
To use an exception to proove the rule, Blade Runner is a wonderful movie. Has bugger all to do with DADoES, they just took one idea and made a good movie from it.
It's hard to think of a SF movie which is directly based on a novel which is worth much. This Island Earth is good if you ignore the stupid scene with the rubber monster, but of course drops the main bit of the novel.
One of the (ridiculously over-repeated) interviews the ScfFi channel has been playing allong side it's run of The Prisoner included the comment that only on TV could one man have been allowd to produce a 17 hour work of art. That's what Dune needed. _O_
I don't understand the problem so many people seem to have with Lynch's Dune rendition.
Far too much voice over. If you have to have the actors speaking their thoughts to the audience, then clearly actors, director and writers have not done a good enough job.
The stupid thing with the shouting-at-people weapon. For the sake of beating us over the head with one very very obvious metaphor they turned the big battle at the end into an embarassing joke.
None of the characters were drawn well. The baron was a cartoon. Jessica had no depth. Stilgar was just a spear carrier. And Paul, well, when we should have seen the emergence of a messiah, we just got a comic book hero who had a couple of bad dreams.
Once, the location of the sniper has been determined, it's just a quick call to arty (artillery) or the local air base to bring a large
amount of ordinance on the sniper location.
Thus we get the market for cheap, robust but inaccurate firearms with timers or proximity switches which can be planted in locations you'd like your enemy to shell.:-) _O_
Given colour prompts are common, I presume everyone lese has managed to persuade bash not to screw up when the line wrappes because it doesn't understand escapes in the prompt...
I was there in February (great place,except Puerta Plata) and there were constant blackouts. Most hotels and restaraunts had backup
generators to provide power.
You sure they didn't divert you to California? _O_
Is this going to catch things like a new version of a base package coming out, which breaks a package depending on it? (eg.
libmcrypt 2.4.pre-11 breaks PHP)
No. The port knows which versions of which packages it needs, so it will (if necessary) download the older version and install that for you.
This only causes problems when you end up needing a version of something so old that nowhere seems to have it. This has happened to me occasionally on machines I have left runing really old versions of FBSD for whatever reason.
Of course, if a badly designed package can't co-exist with other versions of itself and you want to install things which depend on both you are stuck. However, no package mechanism is going to cope with that. Sometimes you just have to go 'round and beat the developer over the head with a stick with a nail in it. _O_
I am not sure what is messy about
rpm -ivh program.to.install.rpm
It's not the makeing stuff that is messy, it's the general agangement of the system. It still gives the feel of `download a kernel, download some other stuff, throw it on a CD and ship it'.
As a quick example, do `man hostname' and then try and use that information to set the hostname. On RH 7.1 at least it gives two possibilities bioth of which are wrong. _O_
While cute, the cube is also extremely practical in terms of desk space for those who do not need a lot of expansion options. It's
noiselessness is also very practical, especially for musicians.
A laptop gets you all that, an dthe ability to unplug it from external screen and keyboard to take it 'round to your mates for a jam.
I don't know why you hate beautiful things,
What is particularly beautiful about a cube? It's just a brick of unpleasing dimensions.
BTW, what is the 3D equivalent of the golden ratio? Just one of those factoids I feel I aught to know but don't. _O_
We just got a Linux machine. Coincidentally a customer just asked us to put stuff on RH. What a mess. If this is wht it's like now I grateful I never surcumbed to the temptation to give it a try in it's earlier incarnations. _O_
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Directonality doesn't help here. Phones obvuiously up the other end of a railway carriage make me twitch. The only solution is different noises for each phone and that brings in the problem of some people's taste in such things being vile.
(eg I use a chumk of `A Very Celular Song' by the Incredible String Band and live in fear of the wrath of ageing hippies with low pun tollerance)
_O_
Microdsoft use internally to keep track of bug reports...:-)
_O_
Did you submit it?
_O_
What do you count as annoying if McDonalds ads don't count?
I think you are proving the point you tried to counter, annoying and intrusive adverts are the ones which work.
Perhaps your perceptions have been permanently corrupted by watching too much advertising.
_O_
Yes it does. That indeed is the entire point. That is what makes it civil dissobedience and not just acting illegally.
You don't make salt on some out of the way beach, you stage a huge march, let the authorities know where you will be and you make sure they see you doing it. You don't chain yourself to a railing in some obscure backstreet, you do it in Downing Street. You don't burn your ID card in your kitchen you do it in front of a police officer.
The aim is to get arrested, or even better to get them to run out of resources trying to arrest thousands of people.
Ignoring the law and hopeing you don't get caught is not an act of protest. Speeding is not civil dissobedience (unless of course you take to speeding back and forth in front of a cop with a radar gun until he stops you then doing it again and again until you get on TV being arrested).
_O_
How many napsteroids are reporting themselves to the copyright holder and the local police each time they copy something?
Sitting at the front of the bus quickly when no one is looking then running away is not civil dissobedience.
_O_
If you test something like this often enough, sooner or later it will work by pure luck. Then you stop because you have done enough to secure your funding and can spend the next 5 years building fun toys.
The trick is to convince the wooden heads to fund enough tests in the first place. That is what pork barrel is for.
_O_
Why not. If you are shipping your software on CD or even more so with DVD you could put half a dozen optimised versions on there.
_O_
Indeed, if the Psion did have a weakness in the connectivity area it was just the reverse, they were too tied to Windows. Psion connectivity is one of the reasons I have a Windows machine.
_O_
Psion were the only people seling worthwhile portable computers (as opposed to souped up PIMs). Now I have to decide whether to buy a 5mx or just give up (I was waiting hopeing for a new machine to replace the 5 series).
_O_
This is, of course, an argument that the story is unsuitable for being a movie.
And it's not the occasional internal monologue which is the indication of failure. Some quite good writers have been known to throw in a `to be or not to be' :-).
The problem is, eg, Jessica narrating `my son lives!'. That is needed in a book where we can't see her, on screen the reaction should be there for us to see without being told.
Yes, let's just ignore the weirding-weapons and the whole concept of 'Muad'dib' being an unknown 'power-word' for the Fremen people. That was an important turning point in the book if you don't remember.
I don't remember a shouting at people weapon in the book.
_O_
Basicly because movie adaptations of novels do `suck ass'.
Apart from anything else there isn't time in a feature film to cover a story big enough to make a good novel.
It's rare for them to pick a novel which hasa sub-plot of the right length which can be extracted and still make sense.
To use an exception to proove the rule, Blade Runner is a wonderful movie. Has bugger all to do with DADoES, they just took one idea and made a good movie from it.
It's hard to think of a SF movie which is directly based on a novel which is worth much. This Island Earth is good if you ignore the stupid scene with the rubber monster, but of course drops the main bit of the novel.
One of the (ridiculously over-repeated) interviews the ScfFi channel has been playing allong side it's run of The Prisoner included the comment that only on TV could one man have been allowd to produce a 17 hour work of art. That's what Dune needed.
_O_
Far too much voice over. If you have to have the actors speaking their thoughts to the audience, then clearly actors, director and writers have not done a good enough job.
The stupid thing with the shouting-at-people weapon. For the sake of beating us over the head with one very very obvious metaphor they turned the big battle at the end into an embarassing joke.
None of the characters were drawn well. The baron was a cartoon. Jessica had no depth. Stilgar was just a spear carrier. And Paul, well, when we should have seen the emergence of a messiah, we just got a comic book hero who had a couple of bad dreams.
And the book is called `Dune' not `Paul'.
_O_
Except in the scene where the Baron pulls the heartplug of a slave; He shows revulsion while the Baron isn't looking
As in `I am surrounded by such second rate talent'.
_O_
Thus we get the market for cheap, robust but inaccurate firearms with timers or proximity switches which can be planted in locations you'd like your enemy to shell. :-)
_O_
Go-on, give an old bloke a clue...
_O_
Lister systems wish to anounce project Ouroboros which will be an open-source clone of the Ouroboros system from Lister systems.
_O_
You sure they didn't divert you to California?
_O_
Think of your own city or town, and where you would put that much solar cells.
Over here buildings come equipped with a wonfderful device called a roof.
_O_
Says who?.
_O_
No. The port knows which versions of which packages it needs, so it will (if necessary) download the older version and install that for you.
This only causes problems when you end up needing a version of something so old that nowhere seems to have it. This has happened to me occasionally on machines I have left runing really old versions of FBSD for whatever reason.
Of course, if a badly designed package can't co-exist with other versions of itself and you want to install things which depend on both you are stuck. However, no package mechanism is going to cope with that. Sometimes you just have to go 'round and beat the developer over the head with a stick with a nail in it.
_O_
rpm -ivh program.to.install.rpm
It's not the makeing stuff that is messy, it's the general agangement of the system. It still gives the feel of `download a kernel, download some other stuff, throw it on a CD and ship it'.
As a quick example, do `man hostname' and then try and use that information to set the hostname. On RH 7.1 at least it gives two possibilities bioth of which are wrong.
_O_
A laptop gets you all that, an dthe ability to unplug it from external screen and keyboard to take it 'round to your mates for a jam.
I don't know why you hate beautiful things,
What is particularly beautiful about a cube? It's just a brick of unpleasing dimensions.
BTW, what is the 3D equivalent of the golden ratio? Just one of those factoids I feel I aught to know but don't.
_O_
I think you just defined it as the worst of all possible languages.
If you want 5 different programming methodologies, use 5 different excelent languages not one horific mush.
_O_
We just got a Linux machine. Coincidentally a customer just asked us to put stuff on RH. What a mess. If this is wht it's like now I grateful I never surcumbed to the temptation to give it a try in it's earlier incarnations.
_O_