By ridley scotts own admission, for the first hour of "Alien", nothing happens, still I was riveted to my seat.
Agreed, but that was more of a nothing that in American Beauty. In Alien, you are constantly expecting something to jump out from around the next corner, or something. The psychology of the film is completely different.
But the point is that real character interacting with animated characters that were added later has already been done.
Like I said above, the Jar Jar character was very well animated, but the actual part of adding him to the scene wasn't anything special.
Sure, wasn't the same type of thing done in both B5 and Voyager, though to a lesser extent, with some of the aliens that they were fighting (the Borg killers in Voyager).
And finally there is the fact that the kid who has the camera, the one who films everything, find beauty everwhere, but only throught the lens of a camera. Gee, more Hollywood self validation.
I thought that he was capturing the beauty so that it could be viewed again, not that he only saw such beauty through a camera lens.
Anyway, as for the film itself, I didn't like it. I nearly fell asleep during it. This could be for a few reasons, though:
- I'm Irish, and have no real interest in American Surburban life, which is mainly what this film was about. - I was told the film was a comedy, and as such I was expecting it to be one. After 30 minutes, there wasn't much laughter, and I was really disappointed. - I was also told that the film doesn't really take off until about 30 minutes into it as the characters and stuff need to be setup in order for the rest of the film to be better. After 45 minutes, I was so bored I must have missed the changeover, and kept missing it until the end.
I will agree that the end was a bit of a surprise. I know he tells us that he will be dead by the end of the film, but you don't know how until the end of the film. And by the time you know how, you don't know who, and then it's a shock 'cos it's not who you thought it would be.
There were some good bits in the film alright, but on the whole, I didn't enjoy it.
I never walk out of films, no matter how bad. However, this was one that I was almost going to walk out of.
Sixth Sense, on the other hand, was excellent. I would have liked to have seen it get the oscar.
Kudos to The Matrix. It deserved what it got, and more.
Not really. What's the difference between putting in a CGI character, and drawing in a character. We all remember 'Who Frames Rodger Rabbit', don't we.
No, Jar Jar was hardly ground breaking. Very well done as a character though(even if he was annoying).
Is the GPL actually proven? I don't believe it has been tested in a court yet. Wasn't there an article about our friend John Carmak in Id software thinking about bringing someone to court over the GPL?
Chances are the GPL will be proven once (if?) that happens, but until then you can't really say, from a legal perspective, that it is proven. The GPL is an excellent license, however, and recommended for use. The fact that it is used on so many projects indicates that a lot of people trust it, and believe that, should it ever have it's time in court, it will win. I personally believe that it would.
From an open-source project point of view, then yes, GPL has been proven to work successfully.
Sounds to me that you are describing the GPL. Isn't that exactly that Linus does with Linux - other people view the source, make changes, send it back to Linus, and then he decides whether it will be in the kernel or not.
Looks like GPL is your only man. And we like it too, which is all the better:)
It's strange to me that for some reason that "One Ghz" thing seems important.
What about the year 2000? Does it seem strange to you that it should be so important? Apart from the Y2k bug, which didn't happen, it's just another year...
Actually, come to think of it, if the year 2001 is the Millenium, then would the 1GHz processer be clocked at 1001MHz???
I have to ask why you believe Frames to be a bad idea? Yes, I know that not all browsers support them, but my 3 test browsers do (Opera, Netscape, IE5), and Lynx semi-supports them. They do look good when used properly, and are very helpful in the design of a page.
Tables are used throughout the site, including on the main page (the one after the front page). Did you actually look at the rest of the site? And remember, a browser cannot display the contents of a table until the full table has loaded. A site can look very bad if a table is too big - especially on slower (modem!) links.
Unfortunately, the ALT tag is not my fault - that image is included by EasySpace, and they didn't specify the ALT tag. Real nuisance - the Javascript that they wrote doesn't work properly under Opera and messes up the targeted links. I mailed them, and Opera, about this, and didn't hear back from either of them.
And yeah, maybe one of these days I'll remember to put in that declaration...
Hmmm. He seems to like assuming that all HTML on the web is done in some sort of HTML Editor, like FrontPage, Netscape, etc. What about hand written. There is at least one page there that looks very hand written to me, and I would even take it that others (with no DTD) are also hand written. I know I'm constantly leaving out the DTD when I'm writing a page, and I always capitalise my tags, and use indentation.
If anyone would like to review my code, please take a look at the website I manage...
Did I miss something, or are all 4 Dilberitos vegitagian? Or possible even vegan (I know at least one of them has non-dairy cheese)?
Wonder what they taste like. They could be quite nice. They could probably look a little better - wonder how they look in real life - pictures never show food off properly.
Anyone know where to get any in downtown Chigago, IL? I'm going there for the weekend, and wouldn't mind trying one out. Please mail me if you know...
My personal feeling on this is that there is a lot of overlap there. For example, between the Corporate Net and the Buyers net, between the TechNet, and the InfoNet.
Good break down, though. Diagramatically, I would see fuzzy boarders between some of these continents, and some being sub-continents of others (BuyNet being encapsulated withing the CorporateNet).
Who is to say that either Linux or Solaris were used in these attacks? And who is to say that some lame coder in MS didn't slip some code into Windows 2000 to do exactly that? There are, what, 40,000,000 or so lines of code in there. What if 10 of them do a random DoS depending on a signal this guys might send from Microsoft HQ - DoS www.linux.org, say, and several hundred thousand PCs world wide start a DDoS on that site? I know, complete paranoid, but they could do it.
And in some code was slipped into Linux, I'm sure Alan or Linus, or some other coder, would find it quite quickly, and it would be removed quicker than it went in.
Surely you mean the.netscape/cookies.txt file, and not the bookmarks file. Unless you explicitly bookmark a doubleclick site, it won't appear in the bookmarks file...
Good point though. Mark 'cookies.txt' as Read-Only, and you never save any cookies through a session. Of course, this affects all sites, not just doubleclick.
Hmmm. AWEB3 on the Amiga lets you deny cookies from specific sites - why don't we petition Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/MS to do the same in their browsers, thus giving us the option to opt-out on all cookies from sites we are not sure about?
Would like like to accept this cookie? Yes, No, Always from this site, never from this site.
Move to Ireland. By the time we read these posts, either everyone has Slashdotted the site, and it's back up again, or everyone is in bed snoring away. Either way, usually hassle free downloads for the first few hours of the day. Then the US wakes up, and everything gets slow again.
You will probably find that the US police, or the CIA or someone, contacted the Norwegian Police and asked them to arrest him for the crime, which they did. Depending on Norwegian Extradition treaties with the States, he may or may not be sent on trial. From what I read in the article, he was questioned and then let go again. I assume his equipment is still being held. However, again, I would say that the equipment will remain in Norway. It is just International Diplomacy.
Something similar happened here in Ireland when a college student sent a death threat to the President of the US. The CIA contanted the Gardai (Irish Police Force) and asked them to arrest and question him. I believe the CIA were in Ireland too in that case. Anyway, once it was explained that it was a joke (very funny!), the charges were dropped.
Forgot about that. NT spawns off a process called OS2, and run the OS2 program within that. Just like the NTVM (with WOWEXEC for Windows On Windows executable - Win31 programs), and POSIX for running POSIX complient programs. All SubSystems running under NT when required.
It is my belief that IBM devised OS/2, and commissioned Microsoft to write it for them. Then, when they split up, IBM kept OS/2. Microsoft then went on to create other things (NT). However, even then, Microsoft Mail (the precurser to Exchange) came with the recommendation that the MTA run on OS/2 in a DOS box so that multiple MTA could be run - NT didn't have the capability then to do it. MSMail even came with a copy of OS/2 in the box, purely for this purpose. In the notes from the MSMail course I did, they even said to use OS/2 over NT due to OS/2's superior multitasking capabilities. IIRC, MS don't even suggest running multiple MTAs on NT4 and suggest using OS/2, and an old version of OS/2 at that.
OK, so 128 bit encryption sounds good. But what about the encryption method? We all saw DES64 fall in less than 24 hours, and we are all watching RC5-64 still holding out after 2 years. If Microsoft decide to use XOR encryption (which they have used as recently as WindowsCE Administrator password enctyption), then it is about as secure as painting all the information in 6' high letters all along a wall.
Ok, so with E-Commerce, and now this, all we need to do is find some way of automatically getting the food we buy over the internet into the Microwave, which will automatically know how to cook the food and will tell you when it is ready. Hmmm. Maybe some way of getting it to your computer desk too, already tipped out onto a plate.
We need transporters. Come one, scientist type guys, help us out here.
Yep, that's it. Couldn't find the ONE,N myself. Very nicely done, though. Well hidden. I didn't spot the ---.--.-.--..--. for ages, and it was staring me in the face. And I was going to mail them to tell them to fix up their graphics.
View Source will help you get 2 of those 4. Can't find number 5 though.
Oh, and they made an error in the Text-only version of the page - the binary string, which is coloured the same as the background in the Graphics page, is coloured white. If you are not using IE, then your background will be grey, and the binary will just jump out at you.
Still wondering where the ONE,N is. If anyone finds it, please let me know.
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By ridley scotts own admission, for the first hour of "Alien", nothing happens, still I was riveted to my seat.
Agreed, but that was more of a nothing that in American Beauty. In Alien, you are constantly expecting something to jump out from around the next corner, or something. The psychology of the film is completely different.
T.
But the point is that real character interacting with animated characters that were added later has already been done.
Like I said above, the Jar Jar character was very well animated, but the actual part of adding him to the scene wasn't anything special.
Sure, wasn't the same type of thing done in both B5 and Voyager, though to a lesser extent, with some of the aliens that they were fighting (the Borg killers in Voyager).
T.
And finally there is the fact that the kid who has the camera, the one who films everything, find beauty everwhere, but only throught the lens of a camera. Gee, more Hollywood self validation.
I thought that he was capturing the beauty so that it could be viewed again, not that he only saw such beauty through a camera lens.
Anyway, as for the film itself, I didn't like it. I nearly fell asleep during it. This could be for a few reasons, though:
- I'm Irish, and have no real interest in American Surburban life, which is mainly what this film was about.
- I was told the film was a comedy, and as such I was expecting it to be one. After 30 minutes, there wasn't much laughter, and I was really disappointed.
- I was also told that the film doesn't really take off until about 30 minutes into it as the characters and stuff need to be setup in order for the rest of the film to be better. After 45 minutes, I was so bored I must have missed the changeover, and kept missing it until the end.
I will agree that the end was a bit of a surprise. I know he tells us that he will be dead by the end of the film, but you don't know how until the end of the film. And by the time you know how, you don't know who, and then it's a shock 'cos it's not who you thought it would be.
There were some good bits in the film alright, but on the whole, I didn't enjoy it.
I never walk out of films, no matter how bad. However, this was one that I was almost going to walk out of.
Sixth Sense, on the other hand, was excellent. I would have liked to have seen it get the oscar.
Kudos to The Matrix. It deserved what it got, and more.
T.
Not really. What's the difference between putting in a CGI character, and drawing in a character. We all remember 'Who Frames Rodger Rabbit', don't we.
No, Jar Jar was hardly ground breaking. Very well done as a character though(even if he was annoying).
T.
What about the knife and spoon jokes...
Linux may fork, but will it use a knife?
T.
Is the GPL actually proven? I don't believe it has been tested in a court yet. Wasn't there an article about our friend John Carmak in Id software thinking about bringing someone to court over the GPL?
Chances are the GPL will be proven once (if?) that happens, but until then you can't really say, from a legal perspective, that it is proven. The GPL is an excellent license, however, and recommended for use. The fact that it is used on so many projects indicates that a lot of people trust it, and believe that, should it ever have it's time in court, it will win. I personally believe that it would.
From an open-source project point of view, then yes, GPL has been proven to work successfully.
T.
Sounds to me that you are describing the GPL. Isn't that exactly that Linus does with Linux - other people view the source, make changes, send it back to Linus, and then he decides whether it will be in the kernel or not.
:)
Looks like GPL is your only man. And we like it too, which is all the better
T.
It's strange to me that for some reason that "One Ghz" thing seems important.
What about the year 2000? Does it seem strange to you that it should be so important? Apart from the Y2k bug, which didn't happen, it's just another year...
Actually, come to think of it, if the year 2001 is the Millenium, then would the 1GHz processer be clocked at 1001MHz ???
T.
Aren't Trey and Matt both Canadian? And isn't South Park made in Canada?
T.
I have to ask why you believe Frames to be a bad idea? Yes, I know that not all browsers support them, but my 3 test browsers do (Opera, Netscape, IE5), and Lynx semi-supports them. They do look good when used properly, and are very helpful in the design of a page.
Tables are used throughout the site, including on the main page (the one after the front page). Did you actually look at the rest of the site? And remember, a browser cannot display the contents of a table until the full table has loaded. A site can look very bad if a table is too big - especially on slower (modem!) links.
However, thank you for the comments.
T.
Unfortunately, the ALT tag is not my fault - that image is included by EasySpace, and they didn't specify the ALT tag. Real nuisance - the Javascript that they wrote doesn't work properly under Opera and messes up the targeted links. I mailed them, and Opera, about this, and didn't hear back from either of them.
And yeah, maybe one of these days I'll remember to put in that declaration...
T.
Hmmm. He seems to like assuming that all HTML on the web is done in some sort of HTML Editor, like FrontPage, Netscape, etc. What about hand written. There is at least one page there that looks very hand written to me, and I would even take it that others (with no DTD) are also hand written. I know I'm constantly leaving out the DTD when I'm writing a page, and I always capitalise my tags, and use indentation.
If anyone would like to review my code, please take a look at the website I manage...
Artane Senior Band web page
T.
Did I miss something, or are all 4 Dilberitos vegitagian? Or possible even vegan (I know at least one of them has non-dairy cheese)?
Wonder what they taste like. They could be quite nice. They could probably look a little better - wonder how they look in real life - pictures never show food off properly.
Anyone know where to get any in downtown Chigago, IL? I'm going there for the weekend, and wouldn't mind trying one out. Please mail me if you know...
T.
I wonder if these would follow under the UnderNet section, maybe. Hmmm. Then again, maybe not.
Probably should be a little small continent somewhere out in the middle of the ocean...
Jon, continent number 10 has just been found, orbitted in the other direction, as if captured by... oh, er. Sorry. Hmmm.
T.
My personal feeling on this is that there is a lot of overlap there. For example, between the Corporate Net and the Buyers net, between the TechNet, and the InfoNet.
Good break down, though. Diagramatically, I would see fuzzy boarders between some of these continents, and some being sub-continents of others (BuyNet being encapsulated withing the CorporateNet).
T.
Who is to say that either Linux or Solaris were used in these attacks? And who is to say that some lame coder in MS didn't slip some code into Windows 2000 to do exactly that? There are, what, 40,000,000 or so lines of code in there. What if 10 of them do a random DoS depending on a signal this guys might send from Microsoft HQ - DoS www.linux.org, say, and several hundred thousand PCs world wide start a DDoS on that site? I know, complete paranoid, but they could do it.
And in some code was slipped into Linux, I'm sure Alan or Linus, or some other coder, would find it quite quickly, and it would be removed quicker than it went in.
T.
Surely you mean the .netscape/cookies.txt file, and not the bookmarks file. Unless you explicitly bookmark a doubleclick site, it won't appear in the bookmarks file...
Good point though. Mark 'cookies.txt' as Read-Only, and you never save any cookies through a session. Of course, this affects all sites, not just doubleclick.
Hmmm. AWEB3 on the Amiga lets you deny cookies from specific sites - why don't we petition Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/MS to do the same in their browsers, thus giving us the option to opt-out on all cookies from sites we are not sure about?
Would like like to accept this cookie?
Yes, No, Always from this site, never from this site.
T.
Move to Ireland. By the time we read these posts, either everyone has Slashdotted the site, and it's back up again, or everyone is in bed snoring away. Either way, usually hassle free downloads for the first few hours of the day. Then the US wakes up, and everything gets slow again.
T.
You will probably find that the US police, or the CIA or someone, contacted the Norwegian Police and asked them to arrest him for the crime, which they did. Depending on Norwegian Extradition treaties with the States, he may or may not be sent on trial. From what I read in the article, he was questioned and then let go again. I assume his equipment is still being held. However, again, I would say that the equipment will remain in Norway. It is just International Diplomacy.
Something similar happened here in Ireland when a college student sent a death threat to the President of the US. The CIA contanted the Gardai (Irish Police Force) and asked them to arrest and question him. I believe the CIA were in Ireland too in that case. Anyway, once it was explained that it was a joke (very funny!), the charges were dropped.
T.
Forgot about that. NT spawns off a process called OS2, and run the OS2 program within that. Just like the NTVM (with WOWEXEC for Windows On Windows executable - Win31 programs), and POSIX for running POSIX complient programs. All SubSystems running under NT when required.
It is my belief that IBM devised OS/2, and commissioned Microsoft to write it for them. Then, when they split up, IBM kept OS/2. Microsoft then went on to create other things (NT). However, even then, Microsoft Mail (the precurser to Exchange) came with the recommendation that the MTA run on OS/2 in a DOS box so that multiple MTA could be run - NT didn't have the capability then to do it. MSMail even came with a copy of OS/2 in the box, purely for this purpose. In the notes from the MSMail course I did, they even said to use OS/2 over NT due to OS/2's superior multitasking capabilities. IIRC, MS don't even suggest running multiple MTAs on NT4 and suggest using OS/2, and an old version of OS/2 at that.
T.
OK, so 128 bit encryption sounds good. But what about the encryption method? We all saw DES64 fall in less than 24 hours, and we are all watching RC5-64 still holding out after 2 years. If Microsoft decide to use XOR encryption (which they have used as recently as WindowsCE Administrator password enctyption), then it is about as secure as painting all the information in 6' high letters all along a wall.
T.
Crusoe: What do you want to be standard today?
Ok, so with E-Commerce, and now this, all we need to do is find some way of automatically getting the food we buy over the internet into the Microwave, which will automatically know how to cook the food and will tell you when it is ready. Hmmm. Maybe some way of getting it to your computer desk too, already tipped out onto a plate.
We need transporters. Come one, scientist type guys, help us out here.
T.
Yep, that's it. Couldn't find the ONE,N myself. Very nicely done, though. Well hidden. I didn't spot the --- .-- .- .--. .--. for ages, and it was staring me in the face. And I was going to mail them to tell them to fix up their graphics.
View Source will help you get 2 of those 4. Can't find number 5 though.
Oh, and they made an error in the Text-only version of the page - the binary string, which is coloured the same as the background in the Graphics page, is coloured white. If you are not using IE, then your background will be grey, and the binary will just jump out at you.
Still wondering where the ONE,N is. If anyone finds it, please let me know.
T.