Spielberg directed the first 3 Indy Jones movies, that's why they're so good.
"American Graffiti" was a popcorn movie that pandered to Baby Boomers' phony memories of growing up; its only real relevance was contributing to the 1950's craze in the '70s that peaked with "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley". The only reason anyone pays attention to it is that it was directed by Lucas and it has a cast with many people who became famous.
Star Wars (the first one) was a great film on many levels, both in terms of storytelling, establishing a mythic universe that felt real and in breakthrough effects.
But I think "THX-1138" was the only one that really strikes me as a good film that reaches for art and mostly grasps it.
Any small purchase can be used to "test" to make sure the card info is correct. For physical cards it's often a gas station, but that doesn't work when the fraud is 100% electronic (ie, no fake plastic) so any system where you can make small, but, verifiable purchases before maxing the card out on a larger purchase is desirable.
iTunes is great for that, but I've gotten calls about other small charges from my credit card company when they've flagged a questionable transaction.
Tunneled traffic looks different than keystrokes and occasional bursts of text, unless you are some kind of heroic typist.
It's pattern analysis. Packet counts, inter packet temporal spacing, data volume, etc.
Now it may be that ssh is used often enough for tunneling/file transfer/etc that tunnel sessions are common, but it still will look a lot different on the wire than a terminal session.
As for your port advice, I agree to avoid port 22 -- I have this totally disabled on my FreeBSD system.
443 is a good alternative since it is the normal HTTPS port, but in my work as a consultant I've run into client networks where HTTPS works fine but SSH through port 443 doesn't work at all. I seldom get to the bottom of it, but usually its a filtering/transparent proxy device that works with normal HTTPS traffic.
My work around (that hasn't failed yet) has been to run my SSH server on a few random non-reserved ports. It's not unusual or unknown for apps to exchange encrypted/binary data on negotiated high number ports so most/many filtering systems & transparent proxies avoid it to keep from breaking those apps.
I personally would avoid using ports otherwise used for FTP, SMTP or other well-known unencrypted protocols since those are likely to be filtered/proxied or otherwise not be reliable with SSH proxy sessions.
It also wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese didn't have some kind of pattern analysis software that LOOKED for tunneled data; SSH proxy traffic probably stands out like a sore thumb. It might make sense to use multiple ports on the SSH server end to avoid creating a pattern over time (eg, one session on port 6043 may not get detected, multiple sessions over time from the same place on that port might sound an alarm).
The only real discrimination was to restrict this legal contract to people of specific sexual orientation.
I'm actually opposed to domestic partnership and more in favor of homosexual marriage (same benefits, same cost, gay or straight).
That being said, it's just as discriminatory to deny marriage to polygamists as it is to homosexuals; homosexual marriage is no more justifiable than plural marriage.
Limiting marriage to two people is just as arbitrary and judgmental as not allowing homosexuals to marry.
WRT to file management, I wish you could use third party flash storage. I have a 64 GB wifi and 64 doesn't cut it, especially for net-disconnected travel. I don't want to load a half-dozen movies into iTunes and then sync into the iPad, I'd like to see the iPad be able to import from a memory stick somehow, even if it actually meant copying to internal flash; I could at least delete when I'm done and reclaim the space without permanently deleting the file.
Safari could use tabs; the window switching metaphor from the iPhone doesn't cut it. I've been using Atomic browser, which has tabs, and it's fabulous, but either it has poor memory management or there's just not enough in the iPad as three JavaScript-heavy active tabs will give me memory warnings. The big downside is you can't create web links that open Atomic browser like Safari can.
The other two minor gripes -- it feels slightly underpowered on "real" web sites that are Javascript heavy (facebook, netflix, etc). The Netflix app is a dog, although video playback seems OK. About 25% more CPU power would be welcome when viewing large web sites. The good news is that you can view big web sites generally speaking, although I find myself accessing mobile/iphone-oriented (touch.facebook.com) sites to gain a bit of speed.
Overall it works very well for what it was intended to be, a convient, simple couch/bedroom/kitchen table machine.
As cynical as it seems, there is something to that.
I'd wager that a lot of the graves belong to people whose living relatives/descendants have no idea they have a grave there and thus the grave is really only symbolic as part of the visual sea of gravestones.
And then there's the idea that, well, barring the dead walking again, none of those guys are walking again.
The other thing I think of is -- as long as the paper records are maintained (eg, copies stored offsite, new copies made periodically, etc), if they have managed to run the facility for this long, how "necessary" is a computerized database beyond sounding necessary?
The south generally does seem to suffer from this, but Texas' textbook rumpus seemed oriented on non-religious issues (eg, promoting the 2nd ammendment, etc).
Intense concern over matters of religious adherence, blasphemy or other measures of religious adherence, practice or devotion. Focusing this concern on people outside your nation with substantial cultural and/or religious differences from you and/or the Internet intensifies this effect.
The overall impact of this is to make your nation appear filled with superstitious, power-hungry and intolerant zealots. People will not fear or respect you, they will dislike you for this and believe you are petty, small-minded and foolish.
You will be mocked and laughed at and your nation will remain an ignorant backwater, its people suffering from disease and maladies long since cured by more flexible and rational thinking.
The USPS delivers mail to everyone, not just to urban areas with high distribution area. For-profit companies would pick-and-choose their delivery area much like the cable companies as well phone companies do with Internet services.
When I read statements like this I'm inclined to agree with them initially and them I start to wonder if we really should be subsidizing some percentage of the population that wants to live in a rural area.
I'm not talking about people living in small towns necessarily, but people who choose to live in exurban areas. If they want to live there, then fine, but there's a cost to having everything you'd get easily in a concentrated living area (even a small town) and they should pay it rather than bitching that there's no high speed internet or mail delivery.
I think 10 gig ethernet has been an option for a while now. I'm almost positive one of the sales droids spouted something about Equalogic shipping 10 gig iSCSI SANs.
AFAIK, most small-midsize organizations engaged in iSCSI SAN also do virtualization and thus don't have a ton of hosts to connect so the fiber part is less of a pain than it might seem given they can still get the "IP" part of iSCSI and leverage cheap and still useful 1 gig connectivity elsewhere.
Plus 10 gig can do copper. But there won't be any equipment reasonable priced for a year and I doubt most disk implementations would show a huge difference between 10 and 40 or 100 gig.
Soylent Green I find tied with Rollerball (the original, starring James Caan and directed by Norman Jewison, not the shitty in-name-only remake) for 70s dystopia.
While Soylent Green uncovered the ecological horror (albeit set a little too close in the future), Rollerball seemed to show the politico-corporate horror far more clearly and seems to be a more apt critique of the future as we actually live it.
It often seems to me that Apple ignores the "corporate" market (or at least fails to cater to it) despite apparently high demand for their products among corporate folk who are forced by corporate bureaucracy to use products that cater to those markets.
As I'm often told by fans (btw, I own an iPad and an iPhone 3GS), "They don't need to", "It creates demand which drives their market", etc etc.
But at some point I would think that shareholders would believe that an Apple with even a slightly larger market would make even vastly more money, and thus push them in this direction. But that never seems to happen and based on Apple's skyrocketing market capitalization, my thesis is wrong someplace.
It would be pointless overkill; like GM stationing a permanent automotive engineer at my local car dealership to oversee oil changes.
Ha! They may soon have to given the complexity level of cars and the lack of sophistication in the repair department.
My Volvo actually required a software patch only the factory engineers knew about (unique to subset of ECMs in my model year) and I've run into other people who have had problems the "shop couldn't solve" and that actually required an engineer from the factory to figure out.
AFAIK it was also released on LaserDisc in Japan. I'm pretty sure I've seen it up on EBay in the past and I'm sure there are people selling laserdisc dubs onto DVD.
I think its worse than that. I think its tied up with racial politics due to the over-representation of non-whites in crime statistics (particularly violent crimes).
I think there's a belief that the crimes committed by non-whites are due to their victimhood and/or represent some kind of reaction against an inherently racist and oppressive society. I'd swear I've read some lefty political theorist even calling property crime committed against whites "legitimate redistributive economic justice."
In other words, whitey deserves it and allowing whitey a gun to defend himself only furthers oppression of non-whites.
It still doesn't solve the problem of generation capacity exceeding demand. You can stop the wind turbines but you're losing potential energy.
As long as the "stored" energy exceeds the conversion costs, it doesn't really matter if the process is generally inefficient -- you're getting to generate and store energy that would have otherwise been lost and can be used when the windmills can't turn.
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According to the VT340 manual (yeah, I know, OP has a VT320...), 800x480 for ReGIS graphics. Sixel is probably less.
Spielberg directed the first 3 Indy Jones movies, that's why they're so good.
"American Graffiti" was a popcorn movie that pandered to Baby Boomers' phony memories of growing up; its only real relevance was contributing to the 1950's craze in the '70s that peaked with "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley". The only reason anyone pays attention to it is that it was directed by Lucas and it has a cast with many people who became famous.
Star Wars (the first one) was a great film on many levels, both in terms of storytelling, establishing a mythic universe that felt real and in breakthrough effects.
But I think "THX-1138" was the only one that really strikes me as a good film that reaches for art and mostly grasps it.
That's when you've got something impressive. Text-mode output to a terminal isn't really that interesting.
Any small purchase can be used to "test" to make sure the card info is correct. For physical cards it's often a gas station, but that doesn't work when the fraud is 100% electronic (ie, no fake plastic) so any system where you can make small, but, verifiable purchases before maxing the card out on a larger purchase is desirable.
iTunes is great for that, but I've gotten calls about other small charges from my credit card company when they've flagged a questionable transaction.
Mom, why is dad such a boring, sanctimonious pain in the ass?
Tunneled traffic looks different than keystrokes and occasional bursts of text, unless you are some kind of heroic typist.
It's pattern analysis. Packet counts, inter packet temporal spacing, data volume, etc.
Now it may be that ssh is used often enough for tunneling/file transfer/etc that tunnel sessions are common, but it still will look a lot different on the wire than a terminal session.
This is all good advice.
As for your port advice, I agree to avoid port 22 -- I have this totally disabled on my FreeBSD system.
443 is a good alternative since it is the normal HTTPS port, but in my work as a consultant I've run into client networks where HTTPS works fine but SSH through port 443 doesn't work at all. I seldom get to the bottom of it, but usually its a filtering/transparent proxy device that works with normal HTTPS traffic.
My work around (that hasn't failed yet) has been to run my SSH server on a few random non-reserved ports. It's not unusual or unknown for apps to exchange encrypted/binary data on negotiated high number ports so most/many filtering systems & transparent proxies avoid it to keep from breaking those apps.
I personally would avoid using ports otherwise used for FTP, SMTP or other well-known unencrypted protocols since those are likely to be filtered/proxied or otherwise not be reliable with SSH proxy sessions.
It also wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese didn't have some kind of pattern analysis software that LOOKED for tunneled data; SSH proxy traffic probably stands out like a sore thumb. It might make sense to use multiple ports on the SSH server end to avoid creating a pattern over time (eg, one session on port 6043 may not get detected, multiple sessions over time from the same place on that port might sound an alarm).
The only real discrimination was to restrict this legal contract to people of specific sexual orientation.
I'm actually opposed to domestic partnership and more in favor of homosexual marriage (same benefits, same cost, gay or straight).
That being said, it's just as discriminatory to deny marriage to polygamists as it is to homosexuals; homosexual marriage is no more justifiable than plural marriage.
Limiting marriage to two people is just as arbitrary and judgmental as not allowing homosexuals to marry.
Definitely #3 and #4.
WRT to file management, I wish you could use third party flash storage. I have a 64 GB wifi and 64 doesn't cut it, especially for net-disconnected travel. I don't want to load a half-dozen movies into iTunes and then sync into the iPad, I'd like to see the iPad be able to import from a memory stick somehow, even if it actually meant copying to internal flash; I could at least delete when I'm done and reclaim the space without permanently deleting the file.
Safari could use tabs; the window switching metaphor from the iPhone doesn't cut it. I've been using Atomic browser, which has tabs, and it's fabulous, but either it has poor memory management or there's just not enough in the iPad as three JavaScript-heavy active tabs will give me memory warnings. The big downside is you can't create web links that open Atomic browser like Safari can.
The other two minor gripes -- it feels slightly underpowered on "real" web sites that are Javascript heavy (facebook, netflix, etc). The Netflix app is a dog, although video playback seems OK. About 25% more CPU power would be welcome when viewing large web sites. The good news is that you can view big web sites generally speaking, although I find myself accessing mobile/iphone-oriented (touch.facebook.com) sites to gain a bit of speed.
Overall it works very well for what it was intended to be, a convient, simple couch/bedroom/kitchen table machine.
That's what this reads like, pro-China PR. Bad round-eye company kicked out, good Chinese company on to world domination!
The only thing missing is the agitprop poster of the worker leading the masses to victory.
"Despite being browbeating car companies into making them, electric car dream still victim of market forces."
As cynical as it seems, there is something to that.
I'd wager that a lot of the graves belong to people whose living relatives/descendants have no idea they have a grave there and thus the grave is really only symbolic as part of the visual sea of gravestones.
And then there's the idea that, well, barring the dead walking again, none of those guys are walking again.
The other thing I think of is -- as long as the paper records are maintained (eg, copies stored offsite, new copies made periodically, etc), if they have managed to run the facility for this long, how "necessary" is a computerized database beyond sounding necessary?
The south generally does seem to suffer from this, but Texas' textbook rumpus seemed oriented on non-religious issues (eg, promoting the 2nd ammendment, etc).
Intense concern over matters of religious adherence, blasphemy or other measures of religious adherence, practice or devotion. Focusing this concern on people outside your nation with substantial cultural and/or religious differences from you and/or the Internet intensifies this effect.
The overall impact of this is to make your nation appear filled with superstitious, power-hungry and intolerant zealots. People will not fear or respect you, they will dislike you for this and believe you are petty, small-minded and foolish.
You will be mocked and laughed at and your nation will remain an ignorant backwater, its people suffering from disease and maladies long since cured by more flexible and rational thinking.
The USPS delivers mail to everyone, not just to urban areas with high distribution area. For-profit companies would pick-and-choose their delivery area much like the cable companies as well phone companies do with Internet services.
When I read statements like this I'm inclined to agree with them initially and them I start to wonder if we really should be subsidizing some percentage of the population that wants to live in a rural area.
I'm not talking about people living in small towns necessarily, but people who choose to live in exurban areas. If they want to live there, then fine, but there's a cost to having everything you'd get easily in a concentrated living area (even a small town) and they should pay it rather than bitching that there's no high speed internet or mail delivery.
I think 10 gig ethernet has been an option for a while now. I'm almost positive one of the sales droids spouted something about Equalogic shipping 10 gig iSCSI SANs.
AFAIK, most small-midsize organizations engaged in iSCSI SAN also do virtualization and thus don't have a ton of hosts to connect so the fiber part is less of a pain than it might seem given they can still get the "IP" part of iSCSI and leverage cheap and still useful 1 gig connectivity elsewhere.
Plus 10 gig can do copper. But there won't be any equipment reasonable priced for a year and I doubt most disk implementations would show a huge difference between 10 and 40 or 100 gig.
Soylent Green I find tied with Rollerball (the original, starring James Caan and directed by Norman Jewison, not the shitty in-name-only remake) for 70s dystopia.
While Soylent Green uncovered the ecological horror (albeit set a little too close in the future), Rollerball seemed to show the politico-corporate horror far more clearly and seems to be a more apt critique of the future as we actually live it.
Both were great, though.
...that I worry about. He's played AniMatch on my iPhone and when he sees the iPad he gets this look in his eyes and I'm scared for the iPad.
Doesn't work for me on a 3GS. I do have a problem with the little colored dots for seperate calendars in the Calendar app all being the same color.
I guess I could have waited for 4.01 or something but other than that it's been glitch free.
It often seems to me that Apple ignores the "corporate" market (or at least fails to cater to it) despite apparently high demand for their products among corporate folk who are forced by corporate bureaucracy to use products that cater to those markets.
As I'm often told by fans (btw, I own an iPad and an iPhone 3GS), "They don't need to", "It creates demand which drives their market", etc etc.
But at some point I would think that shareholders would believe that an Apple with even a slightly larger market would make even vastly more money, and thus push them in this direction. But that never seems to happen and based on Apple's skyrocketing market capitalization, my thesis is wrong someplace.
You might try another hobby or social activity besides reading. That'll make moving less strenuous and maybe provide people to help.
It would be pointless overkill; like GM stationing a permanent automotive engineer at my local car dealership to oversee oil changes.
Ha! They may soon have to given the complexity level of cars and the lack of sophistication in the repair department.
My Volvo actually required a software patch only the factory engineers knew about (unique to subset of ECMs in my model year) and I've run into other people who have had problems the "shop couldn't solve" and that actually required an engineer from the factory to figure out.
AFAIK it was also released on LaserDisc in Japan. I'm pretty sure I've seen it up on EBay in the past and I'm sure there are people selling laserdisc dubs onto DVD.
I think its worse than that. I think its tied up with racial politics due to the over-representation of non-whites in crime statistics (particularly violent crimes).
I think there's a belief that the crimes committed by non-whites are due to their victimhood and/or represent some kind of reaction against an inherently racist and oppressive society. I'd swear I've read some lefty political theorist even calling property crime committed against whites "legitimate redistributive economic justice."
In other words, whitey deserves it and allowing whitey a gun to defend himself only furthers oppression of non-whites.
It still doesn't solve the problem of generation capacity exceeding demand. You can stop the wind turbines but you're losing potential energy.
As long as the "stored" energy exceeds the conversion costs, it doesn't really matter if the process is generally inefficient -- you're getting to generate and store energy that would have otherwise been lost and can be used when the windmills can't turn.