This list was horribly written and conceived. Almost nothing in the entire list was unattainable at the time the movies were made.
#10 - Wargames Simply put, the idea of a computer talking to you after you 'hack' into it is laughable in this day and age. The computer "talking" to him was it asking things in natural language (as it was programmed to do) mixed with the guy having a text-to-speech program (which did exist at the time).
#9 - The Italian Job Below is an image of a wire frame display on his laptop that shows a Mini Cooper making rounds. Seth now makes a wire frame program that follows a Mini around perfectly through walls? It's been over a year since I saw this, but IIRC the whole "wire frame Mini" part was Seth watching a computer simulation of what the Minis were supposed to be doing - the same simulation you saw him plotting out the heist with just a few minutes earlier in the movie.
#8 - Antitrust One scene that jumps right out is the ability for the security team to lift code off a computer screen via a security camera. At high enough resolution, or with good interpolation software, why not? Besides, if you can reconstruct everything someone types by listening to the keystrokes, I'm perfectly willing to accept a high-res camera being used to read text when pointed at a screen.
#7 - Hackers this film is borderline comedy Uhhh... actually it was a comedy. (Action/comedy, but comedy nonetheless.)
One obvious failure of technology here is the ridiculous flying through sequences of the supercomputer. Not only is all the data stored in what looks like skyscrapers, it's also technicolored like a crazy rainbow. So eye-candy and stylistic design makes everything else in the movie fradulent? The whole "skyscrapers computers" visual motif worked just fine when you think about what it was meant for.
Hackers is actually one of the most accurate portrayals of computer technology and hacking/cracking/phreaking in a movie if you ignore the visuals and ignore the crap added to appeal to the masses. Listen to the dialogue. Think about what they're doing. It all actually makes sense.
#6 - Transporter 2 French officer in the police station, he looks up a criminal on the computer. Within a few seconds, that information is magically beamed to Frank's car. How in the world did they sync up? How did the computer at the police station know where Frank was? I've never seen the movie, but I can hazard a guess: Satellite internet service (or similar wide-range wireless options) + FTP or other transfer protocol + static IP or dyndns.org.
#5 - Swordfish I never knew worms and viruses looked like little gems. Once again, complaining about visual elements rather than actual use of technology.
#4 - Goldeneye With the ability to 'spike' remote computer systems, Boris is the most powerful hacker in the world. I haven't seen this in over 10 years, and have forgotten what this is even referring to. I have no intention to see it again to find out what this is talking about, but the rest of the movie was so bad there's a decent chance they're actually right on this one... but then again, this list is so bad they probably aren't.
#3 - Mission: Impossible The emails he tries are not even formatted correctly. Also, his un-canny ability to find information through graphical newsgroups is something else. Once again, I haven't seen it in 10 years and will never see it again. They do sound right on the money in their complaint (backed up with screenshots this time), so I'm going to give them the thumbs up on this one.
#2 - Jurassic Park he grand-daughter of the park's owner, sits down at a computer terminal. Like magic, she exclaims "This is UNIX, I know this!". Where on this planet is there a 10 year old girl who knows and can under
Right. Of course, the ONLY places where these "millions of conservative voters out there who rightly or wrongly feel betrayed by the mainstream media" live are in Ohio and Florida. Also, exit polling caused some anti-Kerry districts to have 95+% turnout rates (a totally ridiculous number if you know anything about voter apathy in this country)? Plus, exit polling is also responsible for illegal voter purges, having less than half the number of voting machines per capita in Democrat-biased areas than there are in Republican-biased areas, etc. etc. etc?
Besides, the article itself (if you'd bothered to read it) addresses exactly the argument you stated and showed why it is complete bullshit. Oh, also, "some lib from Reuters outside the polling place" is NOT who did the polling. It was not Reuters, and the polling place was hired by several media outlets including Fox News (that bastion of liberal bias).
Quickest solution to fix the US political system: Instant Runoff Voting.
Actually, the quickest fix would be Approval Voting. It's as accurate (in terms of game theory / the 5 criteria of Arrow's Paradox) as IRV is, and is a hell of a lot easier both in implementation (the method of counting the votes is almost identical to how we do it now), and in explaining to people how it works (i.e. "Put a check next to anyone you think would do a good job. You are not limited to one choice.")
As for the best solution overall, one of the Condorcet methods would be the best — preferrably one of the clone-proof methods, such as CSSD.
Your best bets if you want no-risk are probably money market accounts and CDs.
CDs will give you a higher interest rate, but will not allow you to take the money out early without forfeiting some or all of the interest you've gained.
--The Rizz
"Money is just something to make bookkeeping convenient." --H.L. Hunt
Otherwise get ready for gigantic taxes, because we'd need 100 times as many judges, clerks, sheriffs to carry the workload.
On the plus side, this massive increase in taxes would probably cause a backlash, and the public might actually demand simpler and clearer laws so this mess of a legal system would work more efficiently.
--The Rizz
"Bulls do not win bull fights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do." --Norman Augustine
If the record companies had computed real costs for distribution and packaging for a download, it would have found that they are next to nothing. The artists should receive more. This is due to either the record companies not updating their accounting to deal with digital medium or purposefully shorting the artists. As a pessimist, I would think the latter.
I can pretty much guarantee you it's the latter. If the % cost of anything in that chain went up, you can bet that they'd immediately factor that right into any new contracts. There is no way in hell they can claim that they just "overlooked" updating that information for digital downloads: their accountants know damn well how much money is made/spent each step of the way, and keep a very close eye on it.
This is nothing more than the record companies screwing the artist even harder than they have in the past.
And Ridley Scott has said that he is a replicant. And since he is the main creative force behind this particular telling of the story [...]
I would consider the writer to be the main creative force behind a story. While a director may tweak the nuances of a story, the story itself is crafted by the writer. And the writer specifically said Deckard is not a replicant.
It is not plausible for Gaff to know about the specific content of the unicorn dream if it is a natural memory.
Here you're missing my point entirely. I never said Gaff knew Deckard's dream. In fact, my point is that he did not know it. When symbolism is used in books/movies/etc. the same symbol will typically pop up repeatedly, often independently of each other. This is what the unicorn is - an indepenently repeated symbol.
Moreover, for most good filmmakers and story-tellers, effective symbolism needs to be plausible within the rules of the narrative - otherwise the symbols become arbitrary, and can be interpreted arbitrarily.
How is this any more arbitrary than any of the other symbolism in the movie? How is the Rachael as Unicorn symbol implausible within the narrative?
It is however plausible for him to know about the unicorn dream if it is an artificial memory.
...and here is one of my other main problems with your argument: This is Deckard's dream. Dreams are not the same thing as memories. So, unless you're trying to say that Decard really was in a field watching a unicorn running at him, and was simply remembering it, your argument breaks down.
Overall, your entire argument comes down to dismissing off-hand the idea that the unicorn could possibly be a symbol and giving dubious opinions as to why it can't be, while at the same time ignoring the problems in your own argument.
It is certain that Deckard is a replicant at the end of that cut.
Just from this article's discussion I think it can clearly be seen that you are wrong about this.
The dream of the unicorn and the origami at the end of the movie pretty much settles the question of whether Deckard is a replicant.
I take it you've never heard of symbolism.
Unicorn = man-made (mythical) animal
Rachel = man-made (bio-engineered) animal
In the movie, the unicorn is a symbol for Rachel. Deckard only dreams of the unicorn after he falls in love with Rachel. At the end of the movie, Gaff leaves a unicorn not because he knows Deckard's dreams, but because the same symbol was being used consistently in the movie.
As for whether or not Deckard is a replicant - the actor, producers, writers, and original book all say that he is defeinitely not a replicant.
Kaspersky has good multi-year and multi-PC discounts, and central-administration options. It also does a MUCH better job than Norton or (God-forbid) McAfee do.
being able to say "Ah, this phone number we found on this captured terrorist laptop was in contact with phones A, B, and C. Are any of those numbers interesting?" has its merits. There's all sorts of scenarios where it's useful to know who a person of interest has been in contact with.
What you say is true - however, what you say also has no bearing whatsoever on this case. This case is about the telcos handing over the information without a warrant. If the NSA/FBI/CIA/whatever wants any of that information, fine - they can go and get a warrant for it, just like they've had to do since the founding of this nation. There is NO reason why the government should be collecting this information on anyone who is not under investigation for a crime.
> It is not possible to play Dungeons and Dragons Online solo. Anyone else out there really disappointed by this?
I am. If I've only got 20-30 minutes free to play at some point (which is very common), it would be nice to be able to sit down and play the game, and not just pop in and sit there for 10+ minutes trying to find a party to work with. In contrast, if you play Neverwinter Nights you generally can just pop in and play, even if you don't have a party. It's more difficult, but generally do-able.
If ~50% of my time in a game is spent waiting to play, I think I'll move to something else, TYVM.
The Bone series was excellent, and could translate into a wonderful line of games. The old Sam & Max video game was one of my all-time favorites, and if they can make a Bone game even half as good as that, I'll defeinitely be buying it.
Actually, there are a few really good reasons to use electronic voting even if it prints out a full ballot. 1) It can also store ballot information in the system, so you can have an accurate vote count within minutes of the election closing. 2) The system can ensure that all votes are valid (not voting for too many people for a single position, etc.) 3) Electronic voting becomes essential if we ever move to a better voting system (condorcet, etc.)
Re:this is the natural response to rampent piracy
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Did you ever think that if they just sold us something that works in the first place, we wouldn't have to download? As is, in order to watch HD content on my HDTV, I would have to pirate it, or crack the copy protection in some way.
The download page says that a beta for Windows will be coming out. Odds are, the Windows version is still just too buggy for a public release, beta or not.
CPU upgrade, well no. NEVER. Ever. [...] Primary reason? You will often find that the most powerfull processor in your old hardware will be limited by the rest of the computer.
That really depends on what processor you have, what motherboard you have, how much of a speed increase you can get, and what you use the computer for.
For example, I recently upgraded the processor in one of my systems. (One I use for playing AVI/etc. onto my TV, and doing some video recording.) I had an old 1GHz Athlon chip in it, and that just wasn't keeping up with the high-bitrate scenes on the new codecs. I was able to pick up a Sempron 2800+ processor for cheap, and even though the motherboard doesn't officially support it, it works fine and has more than doubled the speed of the machine.
According to your logic, instead of spending ~$60 on a new processor, I should have and spent several hundred on a whole new system... when this upgrade will probably be good enough for another 2+ years.
FBI? NSA? Homeland Security?
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Why hasn't Sony been raided by the Feds, yet?
If this had been an individual, or small business, you know they would already be behind bars awaiting trial for violating some law or another... possibly even being brought up on some sort of national security-related charges. (Someone in a secure/top secret/classified government network has probably stuck one of these CDs into their machine at some point.)
I want to know why the Feds aren't treating Sony like they would anyone else... break into their offices, confiscate every single piece of electronics and CD in the place, and never give them back, ever (or at least, not until years after you've replaced everything).
A guy plies his trade in a place where certain taxes apply and he has a problem with this?
Uhhh... you didn't RTFA did you?
He said he didn't object to paying the taxes on the income he earned in NY - the problem is that NY is trying to tax him on ALL of his income, whether earned from New York or not.
If someone does a fair amount of telecommuting, they could end up owing more in taxes than his entire income if he "works" in enough states.
Since when did not having a physical presence in a place exempt you from from their laws?
Uhh... pretty much since always? Or do you think that everyone in the US should be banned from talking about freedom/etc., because Communist China has laws against that sort of thing? I mean, you may not have a physical presence there, but it's not like that should exempt you from their laws, eh?
Really, as far as New York is concerned this guy is working in their manor and drawing an income from their economy and is therefore liable for their taxes.
Taxes are paid on the principal that you get something back for what you put in. This includes things like emergency services (ambulance, etc.), public transportation, police enforcement, road construction, etc. If he has a heart attack or gets robbed in his Tennassee home, is New York paying the bills? Is New York paying for the street maintainence where he lives? How about unemployment? If he loses his job, is New York going to be sending him a check every month?
Simply put, taxing those who live elsewhere is contrary to the entire principal of taxation; that those who are taxed gain something in return for those taxes.
Odds are, any computer that is still running Windows 98 couldn't even come close to handling the decoding of a QT7 stream. Granted, there are a few (insane) people who buy 3GHz machines and install 98... but if they're that much of a nut about 98, then they probably know where to go and get standalone QT7-compatible codecs to install.
That's just 'cause the quicktime player is crap. The codec, however, is just fine.
Just use some other player to play the quicktime files, and you'll have no problem. (My suggestion: Media Player Classic)
I still have to love the screen program. It's one of the most useful programs I've ever seen, especially if you have to remotely connect to said system. Teminal multiplexing, ability to "detach" screens in one location and "reattach" them elsewhere (such as when you login from another physical location), allow you to splitscreen, etc. etc. Also is VERY handy if you're connecting over an unreliable connection (such as a modem) - if your connection drops, you can reconnect, do a screen -r, and you're right where you left off - the program never even stops running.
My other useful command (in my.bash_profile): alias cls='clear ; w -fs ; echo ; free ; echo ; df -hT ; echo' This gives me the vital system information with one command.
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This list was horribly written and conceived. Almost nothing in the entire list was unattainable at the time the movies were made.
#10 - Wargames
Simply put, the idea of a computer talking to you after you 'hack' into it is laughable in this day and age.
The computer "talking" to him was it asking things in natural language (as it was programmed to do) mixed with the guy having a text-to-speech program (which did exist at the time).
#9 - The Italian Job
Below is an image of a wire frame display on his laptop that shows a Mini Cooper making rounds. Seth now makes a wire frame program that follows a Mini around perfectly through walls?
It's been over a year since I saw this, but IIRC the whole "wire frame Mini" part was Seth watching a computer simulation of what the Minis were supposed to be doing - the same simulation you saw him plotting out the heist with just a few minutes earlier in the movie.
#8 - Antitrust
One scene that jumps right out is the ability for the security team to lift code off a computer screen via a security camera.
At high enough resolution, or with good interpolation software, why not? Besides, if you can reconstruct everything someone types by listening to the keystrokes, I'm perfectly willing to accept a high-res camera being used to read text when pointed at a screen.
#7 - Hackers
this film is borderline comedy
Uhhh... actually it was a comedy. (Action/comedy, but comedy nonetheless.)
One obvious failure of technology here is the ridiculous flying through sequences of the supercomputer. Not only is all the data stored in what looks like skyscrapers, it's also technicolored like a crazy rainbow.
So eye-candy and stylistic design makes everything else in the movie fradulent? The whole "skyscrapers computers" visual motif worked just fine when you think about what it was meant for.
Hackers is actually one of the most accurate portrayals of computer technology and hacking/cracking/phreaking in a movie if you ignore the visuals and ignore the crap added to appeal to the masses. Listen to the dialogue. Think about what they're doing. It all actually makes sense.
#6 - Transporter 2
French officer in the police station, he looks up a criminal on the computer. Within a few seconds, that information is magically beamed to Frank's car. How in the world did they sync up? How did the computer at the police station know where Frank was?
I've never seen the movie, but I can hazard a guess: Satellite internet service (or similar wide-range wireless options) + FTP or other transfer protocol + static IP or dyndns.org.
#5 - Swordfish
I never knew worms and viruses looked like little gems.
Once again, complaining about visual elements rather than actual use of technology.
#4 - Goldeneye
With the ability to 'spike' remote computer systems, Boris is the most powerful hacker in the world.
I haven't seen this in over 10 years, and have forgotten what this is even referring to. I have no intention to see it again to find out what this is talking about, but the rest of the movie was so bad there's a decent chance they're actually right on this one... but then again, this list is so bad they probably aren't.
#3 - Mission: Impossible
The emails he tries are not even formatted correctly. Also, his un-canny ability to find information through graphical newsgroups is something else.
Once again, I haven't seen it in 10 years and will never see it again. They do sound right on the money in their complaint (backed up with screenshots this time), so I'm going to give them the thumbs up on this one.
#2 - Jurassic Park
he grand-daughter of the park's owner, sits down at a computer terminal. Like magic, she exclaims "This is UNIX, I know this!". Where on this planet is there a 10 year old girl who knows and can under
Right.
Of course, the ONLY places where these "millions of conservative voters out there who rightly or wrongly feel betrayed by the mainstream media" live are in Ohio and Florida.
Also, exit polling caused some anti-Kerry districts to have 95+% turnout rates (a totally ridiculous number if you know anything about voter apathy in this country)?
Plus, exit polling is also responsible for illegal voter purges, having less than half the number of voting machines per capita in Democrat-biased areas than there are in Republican-biased areas, etc. etc. etc?
Besides, the article itself (if you'd bothered to read it) addresses exactly the argument you stated and showed why it is complete bullshit.
Oh, also, "some lib from Reuters outside the polling place" is NOT who did the polling. It was not Reuters, and the polling place was hired by several media outlets including Fox News (that bastion of liberal bias).
Actually, the quickest fix would be Approval Voting. It's as accurate (in terms of game theory / the 5 criteria of Arrow's Paradox) as IRV is, and is a hell of a lot easier both in implementation (the method of counting the votes is almost identical to how we do it now), and in explaining to people how it works (i.e. "Put a check next to anyone you think would do a good job. You are not limited to one choice.")
As for the best solution overall, one of the Condorcet methods would be the best — preferrably one of the clone-proof methods, such as CSSD.
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Your best bets if you want no-risk are probably money market accounts and CDs.
CDs will give you a higher interest rate, but will not allow you to take the money out early without forfeiting some or all of the interest you've gained.
--The Rizz
"Money is just something to make bookkeeping convenient." --H.L. Hunt
On the plus side, this massive increase in taxes would probably cause a backlash, and the public might actually demand simpler and clearer laws so this mess of a legal system would work more efficiently.
--The Rizz
"Bulls do not win bull fights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do." --Norman Augustine
If the record companies had computed real costs for distribution and packaging for a download, it would have found that they are next to nothing. The artists should receive more. This is due to either the record companies not updating their accounting to deal with digital medium or purposefully shorting the artists. As a pessimist, I would think the latter.
I can pretty much guarantee you it's the latter. If the % cost of anything in that chain went up, you can bet that they'd immediately factor that right into any new contracts. There is no way in hell they can claim that they just "overlooked" updating that information for digital downloads: their accountants know damn well how much money is made/spent each step of the way, and keep a very close eye on it.
This is nothing more than the record companies screwing the artist even harder than they have in the past.
I would consider the writer to be the main creative force behind a story. While a director may tweak the nuances of a story, the story itself is crafted by the writer. And the writer specifically said Deckard is not a replicant.
It is not plausible for Gaff to know about the specific content of the unicorn dream if it is a natural memory.
Here you're missing my point entirely. I never said Gaff knew Deckard's dream. In fact, my point is that he did not know it. When symbolism is used in books/movies/etc. the same symbol will typically pop up repeatedly, often independently of each other. This is what the unicorn is - an indepenently repeated symbol.
Moreover, for most good filmmakers and story-tellers, effective symbolism needs to be plausible within the rules of the narrative - otherwise the symbols become arbitrary, and can be interpreted arbitrarily.
How is this any more arbitrary than any of the other symbolism in the movie? How is the Rachael as Unicorn symbol implausible within the narrative?
It is however plausible for him to know about the unicorn dream if it is an artificial memory.
...and here is one of my other main problems with your argument: This is Deckard's dream. Dreams are not the same thing as memories. So, unless you're trying to say that Decard really was in a field watching a unicorn running at him, and was simply remembering it, your argument breaks down.
Overall, your entire argument comes down to dismissing off-hand the idea that the unicorn could possibly be a symbol and giving dubious opinions as to why it can't be, while at the same time ignoring the problems in your own argument.
Just from this article's discussion I think it can clearly be seen that you are wrong about this.
The dream of the unicorn and the origami at the end of the movie pretty much settles the question of whether Deckard is a replicant.
I take it you've never heard of symbolism.
Unicorn = man-made (mythical) animal
Rachel = man-made (bio-engineered) animal
In the movie, the unicorn is a symbol for Rachel. Deckard only dreams of the unicorn after he falls in love with Rachel. At the end of the movie, Gaff leaves a unicorn not because he knows Deckard's dreams, but because the same symbol was being used consistently in the movie.
As for whether or not Deckard is a replicant - the actor, producers, writers, and original book all say that he is defeinitely not a replicant.
Kaspersky has good multi-year and multi-PC discounts, and central-administration options. It also does a MUCH better job than Norton or (God-forbid) McAfee do.
Hit their website and you can even get a 1-month demo from them to see if it'll work for you.
What you say is true - however, what you say also has no bearing whatsoever on this case. This case is about the telcos handing over the information without a warrant. If the NSA/FBI/CIA/whatever wants any of that information, fine - they can go and get a warrant for it, just like they've had to do since the founding of this nation. There is NO reason why the government should be collecting this information on anyone who is not under investigation for a crime.
...huh? You mean something like, "Dude, I totally saw your Baby Jesus" ?
> It is not possible to play Dungeons and Dragons Online solo.
Anyone else out there really disappointed by this?
I am. If I've only got 20-30 minutes free to play at some point (which is very common), it would be nice to be able to sit down and play the game, and not just pop in and sit there for 10+ minutes trying to find a party to work with. In contrast, if you play Neverwinter Nights you generally can just pop in and play, even if you don't have a party. It's more difficult, but generally do-able.
If ~50% of my time in a game is spent waiting to play, I think I'll move to something else, TYVM.
The Bone series was excellent, and could translate into a wonderful line of games.
The old Sam & Max video game was one of my all-time favorites, and if they can make a Bone game even half as good as that, I'll defeinitely be buying it.
Actually, there are a few really good reasons to use electronic voting even if it prints out a full ballot.
1) It can also store ballot information in the system, so you can have an accurate vote count within minutes of the election closing.
2) The system can ensure that all votes are valid (not voting for too many people for a single position, etc.)
3) Electronic voting becomes essential if we ever move to a better voting system (condorcet, etc.)
...a Richard Gere simulator?
Did you ever think that if they just sold us something that works in the first place, we wouldn't have to download?
As is, in order to watch HD content on my HDTV, I would have to pirate it, or crack the copy protection in some way.
The download page says that a beta for Windows will be coming out.
Odds are, the Windows version is still just too buggy for a public release, beta or not.
CPU upgrade, well no. NEVER. Ever. [...] Primary reason? You will often find that the most powerfull processor in your old hardware will be limited by the rest of the computer.
... when this upgrade will probably be good enough for another 2+ years.
That really depends on what processor you have, what motherboard you have, how much of a speed increase you can get, and what you use the computer for.
For example, I recently upgraded the processor in one of my systems. (One I use for playing AVI/etc. onto my TV, and doing some video recording.) I had an old 1GHz Athlon chip in it, and that just wasn't keeping up with the high-bitrate scenes on the new codecs. I was able to pick up a Sempron 2800+ processor for cheap, and even though the motherboard doesn't officially support it, it works fine and has more than doubled the speed of the machine.
According to your logic, instead of spending ~$60 on a new processor, I should have and spent several hundred on a whole new system
...a lawsuit?
Why hasn't Sony been raided by the Feds, yet?
... break into their offices, confiscate every single piece of electronics and CD in the place, and never give them back, ever (or at least, not until years after you've replaced everything).
If this had been an individual, or small business, you know they would already be behind bars awaiting trial for violating some law or another... possibly even being brought up on some sort of national security-related charges.
( Someone in a secure/top secret/classified government network has probably stuck one of these CDs into their machine at some point.)
I want to know why the Feds aren't treating Sony like they would anyone else
A guy plies his trade in a place where certain taxes apply and he has a problem with this?
Uhhh... you didn't RTFA did you?
He said he didn't object to paying the taxes on the income he earned in NY - the problem is that NY is trying to tax him on ALL of his income, whether earned from New York or not.
If someone does a fair amount of telecommuting, they could end up owing more in taxes than his entire income if he "works" in enough states.
Since when did not having a physical presence in a place exempt you from from their laws?
Uhh... pretty much since always?
Or do you think that everyone in the US should be banned from talking about freedom/etc., because Communist China has laws against that sort of thing? I mean, you may not have a physical presence there, but it's not like that should exempt you from their laws, eh?
Really, as far as New York is concerned this guy is working in their manor and drawing an income from their economy and is therefore liable for their taxes.
Taxes are paid on the principal that you get something back for what you put in. This includes things like emergency services (ambulance, etc.), public transportation, police enforcement, road construction, etc.
If he has a heart attack or gets robbed in his Tennassee home, is New York paying the bills? Is New York paying for the street maintainence where he lives?
How about unemployment? If he loses his job, is New York going to be sending him a check every month?
Simply put, taxing those who live elsewhere is contrary to the entire principal of taxation; that those who are taxed gain something in return for those taxes.
Odds are, any computer that is still running Windows 98 couldn't even come close to handling the decoding of a QT7 stream. ... but if they're that much of a nut about 98, then they probably know where to go and get standalone QT7-compatible codecs to install.
Granted, there are a few (insane) people who buy 3GHz machines and install 98
That's just 'cause the quicktime player is crap. The codec, however, is just fine.
Just use some other player to play the quicktime files, and you'll have no problem. (My suggestion: Media Player Classic)
"I coded open-source software all summer, and all I got was $4500 and this lousy T-shirt" ??
I still have to love the screen program. It's one of the most useful programs I've ever seen, especially if you have to remotely connect to said system. Teminal multiplexing, ability to "detach" screens in one location and "reattach" them elsewhere (such as when you login from another physical location), allow you to splitscreen, etc. etc. Also is VERY handy if you're connecting over an unreliable connection (such as a modem) - if your connection drops, you can reconnect, do a screen -r, and you're right where you left off - the program never even stops running.
.bash_profile):
My other useful command (in my
alias cls='clear ; w -fs ; echo ; free ; echo ; df -hT ; echo'
This gives me the vital system information with one command.