As do I. I don't know why people do work that they don't enjoy.
Anyone with intelligence and skills can do what they want with their lives. If they choose to do a shitty job that they don't feel enthusiatic about, they shouldn't be whining about it.
Speaking of power management...
I send all my students to read this site, in the hopes that some power will be saved somewhere as a result. It's a noble cause...
Users Guide to Power Management
"The interesting this is that their marketing machine managed to hush this up so well: if it had been Cisco, they would have been toast."
Well, Microsoft (despite what it's trying to become) is hardly a mission critical systems retailer, nor a networking hardware vendor. Cisco is widely known to be the manufacturer of some of the best communications gear around.
If Cisco's network were to go down, that would say a lot more about their products than if the same thing happened to MS.
Saturation advertising has been proven time and time again to be far more successful than logic-driven marketing. Examples:
Coca-Cola. While in the USA Pepsi is more popular, in every other country in the world Coke is numer 1. Why? Because everyone knows that 'Coca-Cola is IT.' The Coca-Cola symbol is one of the most widely recognised brandings in the world, that is why people buy it.
At a major train station in Melbourne, Australia (where I live) a chocolate company, Cadbury, has bought all the advertising spaces in the place. About every six months they plaster the place with one specific product, at present it's a 'Picnic' chocolate bar. (I don't know if these exist in the USA) Anyway, I've only ever eaten one of these before in my life, and I didn't enjoy it that much, but the other day I found myself reaching for a Picnic as I went for my weekly chocolate purchasing voyage.
Saturation advertising works at a subliminal level. Hell, one of the biggest hurdles for marketing types is getting people to _remember_ the product name, let alone have it on the tip of their tongues.
Just because something is great as a book, doesn't mean that it's a trivial job to turn it into a great film.
2001 is perhaps one of the best serious Science Fiction movies ever made, and that can't be owed directly to Clarke's brlliant writing. If 2001 had been made by any other director it would've suffered, IMO, as Kubrick is the only director I know of that had the attention to detail and persistance to pull it off.
I mean, every single film Kubrick made is completely different from his others, and every one is extremely good, if not brilliant.
I recall a while back the UK police made the very logical argument, that "We'll only keep the DNA of convicted criminals on file, if your DNA is sampled and you're found to be innocent, the sample will be destroyed and your database entry erased." (paraphrased, of course)
Judging by what is happening here, it looks as if the officials have used the above argument as a way to get their metaphorical foot in the door on DNA databasing, so that they can eventually build up a comprehensive database of the populous.
IMO, this stinks. I don't want to seem alarmist, but there are very real, very genuine privacy issues that are being dealt with here, and I'm willing to bet that the majority of the public in the UK doesn't know anything about it, and I think that's a shame.
As for the CC Surveylence, I have absolutely no issues with such systems being implemented in public places. These have been shown to decrease vandalism and violent crime drastically, as well as increasing the feeling of safety among members of the community. Good stuff.
But isn't that true with most technology? "Better not upgrade that video card, because there'll be one with twice the RAM, and four times the speed available next spring!"
The reality is that technology is continuously moving forward, and there's really no reason why you shouldn't upgrade as soon as new technology is released, because there'll almost _always_ be something better being developed.
"and if your memory is good it's pretty pointless to watch something more than once"
I don't know about you, but I don't re-watch good films because I've forgotten what happened in them, or how good they were. I watch good films for the overall experience, for the same reason that we listen to good music, or eat good food more than once.
I can never get enough of Stanely Kubrick films, and I know a good portion of the/. crowd absolutely adore the Star Wars series.
Personally, I am going to look at HDTV once it's been around for a while and the benefits have become a little more sought-after. But IMO the only quality it has going for it, in reality, is the additional number of channels available.
There is just simply no way that millions of people are going to turn in their old sets in favour of 'better quality', when the reality is that the majority of people are content in watching poor reception on tiny TV's.
I work for a fairy large ISP, and all of our servers run FreeBSD, and frankly it's a great platform to work on, and it's extremely reliable.
I suggest that you're taking a sample group of your friends, who run Linux at home. Which is all well and good (I run Slackware on two of my machines), but I think you'll find that a BSD will be chosen over Linux for many professional environments, as it is (IMO) are more production grade OS.
Jackie Chan managed to do the remaining quarter of "Rumble In The Bronx" with a broken ankle, if memory serves correctly.
He did it when he did a big jump off a bridge onto a passing boat, and he slipped and his ankle absorbed the whole weight of his body.
Amazingly, they managed to edit around the fact that he could only kick with his other foot, and did a hell of a lot of punching in those last few scenes.:)
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MPAA sucks,
MPAA really sucks,
I repeat, they suck.
As do I. I don't know why people do work that they don't enjoy.
Anyone with intelligence and skills can do what they want with their lives. If they choose to do a shitty job that they don't feel enthusiatic about, they shouldn't be whining about it.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Seriously cool shit.
Mystery?
Everyone knows that there's a little sock eating troll that eats a sock here or there every once in a while.
Next you'll be telling us that the Tooth Fairy or Hogfather don't exist!
Not only that, but Lesbianism is okay according to me, too!
And the crap part, is that it's JAVA BASED.
*vomit*
Introduce a law that requires all US internet carriers to block any incoming or outgoing traffic from that country.
What I don't understand is why the country that happens to be the most powerful also has to be the most retarded.
Speaking of power management... I send all my students to read this site, in the hopes that some power will be saved somewhere as a result. It's a noble cause... Users Guide to Power Management
Hrmm...
...
Guinness - Alec Guinness (in memorial of)
Fisher - Carrie Fisher? Acted along side Guinness in Star Wars
"Any admin that installs a server and leaves the r-services enabled (with extremely few specific exceptions) should be tarred and feathered."
Haha, I read that the first time as "should be tarred and gzipped."
But if no one is logging in as root, there'll be no traffic that contains the root password travelling to it...
"The interesting this is that their marketing machine managed to hush this up so well: if it had been Cisco, they would have been toast."
Well, Microsoft (despite what it's trying to become) is hardly a mission critical systems retailer, nor a networking hardware vendor. Cisco is widely known to be the manufacturer of some of the best communications gear around.
If Cisco's network were to go down, that would say a lot more about their products than if the same thing happened to MS.
"they'd lose business faster than a fried chicken outlet selling a rat."
:)
KFC has been doing this for years, and you don't see any decline in their business!
(accidentally checked the AC box :)
Saturation advertising has been proven time and time again to be far more successful than logic-driven marketing. Examples:
Coca-Cola. While in the USA Pepsi is more popular, in every other country in the world Coke is numer 1. Why? Because everyone knows that 'Coca-Cola is IT.' The Coca-Cola symbol is one of the most widely recognised brandings in the world, that is why people buy it.
At a major train station in Melbourne, Australia (where I live) a chocolate company, Cadbury, has bought all the advertising spaces in the place. About every six months they plaster the place with one specific product, at present it's a 'Picnic' chocolate bar. (I don't know if these exist in the USA) Anyway, I've only ever eaten one of these before in my life, and I didn't enjoy it that much, but the other day I found myself reaching for a Picnic as I went for my weekly chocolate purchasing voyage.
Saturation advertising works at a subliminal level. Hell, one of the biggest hurdles for marketing types is getting people to _remember_ the product name, let alone have it on the tip of their tongues.
Actually, where I work I was allowed to do exactly that.
We can run whatever we want on our workstations, whatever makes us more productive.
It's the way it should be.
"In the end CBS Sports got input from rocket scientists at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and equipment and cameras from Japan and the Internet."
Wow, I must've been under a rock. Why didn't someone post on slashdot when they declared the Internet it's own nation?
Just make sure you turn everyone in, that way they'll be fudged so badly the system won't work at all. :)
Just because something is great as a book, doesn't mean that it's a trivial job to turn it into a great film.
2001 is perhaps one of the best serious Science Fiction movies ever made, and that can't be owed directly to Clarke's brlliant writing. If 2001 had been made by any other director it would've suffered, IMO, as Kubrick is the only director I know of that had the attention to detail and persistance to pull it off.
I mean, every single film Kubrick made is completely different from his others, and every one is extremely good, if not brilliant.
I recall a while back the UK police made the very logical argument, that "We'll only keep the DNA of convicted criminals on file, if your DNA is sampled and you're found to be innocent, the sample will be destroyed and your database entry erased." (paraphrased, of course)
Judging by what is happening here, it looks as if the officials have used the above argument as a way to get their metaphorical foot in the door on DNA databasing, so that they can eventually build up a comprehensive database of the populous.
IMO, this stinks. I don't want to seem alarmist, but there are very real, very genuine privacy issues that are being dealt with here, and I'm willing to bet that the majority of the public in the UK doesn't know anything about it, and I think that's a shame.
As for the CC Surveylence, I have absolutely no issues with such systems being implemented in public places. These have been shown to decrease vandalism and violent crime drastically, as well as increasing the feeling of safety among members of the community. Good stuff.
But isn't that true with most technology? "Better not upgrade that video card, because there'll be one with twice the RAM, and four times the speed available next spring!"
The reality is that technology is continuously moving forward, and there's really no reason why you shouldn't upgrade as soon as new technology is released, because there'll almost _always_ be something better being developed.
"and if your memory is good it's pretty pointless to watch something more than once"
/. crowd absolutely adore the Star Wars series.
I don't know about you, but I don't re-watch good films because I've forgotten what happened in them, or how good they were. I watch good films for the overall experience, for the same reason that we listen to good music, or eat good food more than once.
I can never get enough of Stanely Kubrick films, and I know a good portion of the
Personally, I am going to look at HDTV once it's been around for a while and the benefits have become a little more sought-after. But IMO the only quality it has going for it, in reality, is the additional number of channels available.
There is just simply no way that millions of people are going to turn in their old sets in favour of 'better quality', when the reality is that the majority of people are content in watching poor reception on tiny TV's.
I work for a fairy large ISP, and all of our servers run FreeBSD, and frankly it's a great platform to work on, and it's extremely reliable.
I suggest that you're taking a sample group of your friends, who run Linux at home. Which is all well and good (I run Slackware on two of my machines), but I think you'll find that a BSD will be chosen over Linux for many professional environments, as it is (IMO) are more production grade OS.
Jackie Chan managed to do the remaining quarter of "Rumble In The Bronx" with a broken ankle, if memory serves correctly.
:)
He did it when he did a big jump off a bridge onto a passing boat, and he slipped and his ankle absorbed the whole weight of his body.
Amazingly, they managed to edit around the fact that he could only kick with his other foot, and did a hell of a lot of punching in those last few scenes.
Was that supposed to be funny?
It wasn't.
(btw, I'm not that AC)
And you unquestioningly listen to your parents?