In the setting of the movie, people can fly. Although I suspect this as a slight mistranslation. But that's ok.
My point was, the areal acrobatics, however unbelievable to us, were presented with the same seriousness of Superman being able to fly, or James Bond having a car that shoots Sidewinder missiles, or Tom Cruise being able to fly an F-14.
At least in CTHD you know it's actually Michelle Yeoh really doing all this stuff, and not some stunt person in front of a green screen. In that respect it's a hell of a lot more real than Superman/Bond/Matrix.
I've been to 'ambiance' theatres. Now, ambiance is nice, but I don't need the chairs to rock because they're so old they're not steady anymore, and I don't need the damn springs poking me in the ass. Also, it'd be nice if the projectionist had kept the movie in focus.
As for the whole laughing thing - I think you don't get it. Yes, people can't fly TODAY. But in Ancient China they COULD. It's not presented as a joke. Wudon Warriors (or whatever) could, definetly, fly. I suppose you laugh at Superman, too?
What bugged me was the "That's stupid" giggles from people who went "Whoa" at The Matrix.
And I for one think it was done very, very well in CTHD.
I saw "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" last weekend, and now I can't wait to get it on DVD so I can watch it in some kind of DECENT quality.
The thing was playing in only ONE theatre in Minneapolis, and the theatre had "Landmark" in it's name, which apparently in the US means "We have never changed the seats!!!"
Also, people were GIGGLING during allt he flying scenes. Totally not getitng it.
Oh, and since it was showing in one theatre in a 3.5million people area, you can believe there were lines. Standing outside for an hour and a half TO GET IN (not for tickets!) in -10 degrees F... was not fun. Especially when you get in and get crappy seats that are uncomfortable with crappy audiences.
Anyway.
I also note it never made it to #1. If it had opened at a normal number of theatres I'm pretty sure it'd have shot up there and beaten the crap out of whatever cheerleader movie is #1 this week...
Hey, how do you make those? Whenever I DL one I get a.bin file... I cdrecord -dao it and my DVD player can't read it. Neither can any software on te PC! What am I missing? (:
> Hell, nothing has changed that in the last
> 60,000+ years humans have walked the Earth
I don't know if I'd say absolutely nothing has changed. A lot has changed just in the past century (or 100 years).
It is now easy, and very possible, to get from one end of the world to the other within 24 hours, rather than weeks or months. Communication between any point to any other point in the world is almost unstoppable.
I'd like to think that within the next 100 years this will be true for everywhere. Communications even to the most remote village in Africa. Ballistic stratosphere jet thinggies that'll let you get from NYC to Australia in 30 minutes.
It'll be impossible to hide information from the masses. That done, it'll be harder for Kings and Priesssts to keep the masses opressed.
I don't know if it's absolutely going to happen, but I think communications is the basis for understanding, be it person to person or People to People.
I know what you mean. God knows I've been there. The only advice/reassurance I can give you is that every relationship I've been in stemmed out of friendship with girls who wouldn't think of me 'that way'. And that includes my wife.
So hang in there nd don't look too hard. Things come when you aren't looking (zen rocks)
I cannot believe there have been nothing but cynical/sarcastic responses to that. Sure, I expected some, but not all.
So, for what it's worth, here's a serious reply.
I would like nothing more than to see peace and love and understanding engulf the World. However, I would not predict that as happening within the next 10 years. I do not perceive the hatred deminishing at all anytime soon. Maybe in 50-100 years.
Maybe this is just my bleak perspective due to growing up in the Middle East, one of this world's the focal points for hatred.
Let me tell you a story.
When I was growing up in Israel (late 70s-early 80s), there was a garderner who worked in our neighbourhood. He was a palastenian, and the neighbourhood was Israeli. His name was Daud. All the kids loved him - he used to play with us, and bring us fruit from his village, come into our appartments, you name it.
Back then my vision of the future was that when I grow up, my neighbour, Ahmed, would send over his kids to borrow a cup of sugar. Very simplistic, but I was around 10.
Instead we got war. Conditions got nothing but worse, and just when it seemed like things were quieting down - they got worse yet. Look at it right now - you've got two sides who insist on hating each other, neither of them even know why.
Remember the whole Cold War thing? People always thought it'll end with Total Nukage(tm), but insead it just faded away. I hope all hatred manages to fade away without lighting a fuse.
Here's hoping for hatred and war to fade away (even if only a little bit) this year, and within our lifetime.
> I never read Dune, but I saw the first movie.
> It was great because I got the whole plot
> about this guy who rides worms in about 2
> hours. Now I know how it ends.
Ummmm... no, you don't know how it ends. You also think that The Weirding Ways involve some kind of necklace/gun that turns sound into deadly weapons. You also missed out on a lot of mysticism. You also don't know wht there are no robots/computers. And more.
Actually, I assume that like most teenagers he considers weekends to be so obvious free time, it goes with out saying... just wait till he gets his first job where he gets to wear a pager.
Clinton, in your response to the girlfriend question, you say you have 'too much free time' on your hands. But in your schedule all I see is:
6:30-10:30 - music / irc / tv
That's only 4 hours!
Believe me, that is NOT a lot of free time. Enjoy it while you can. Nevermind that a girlfriend (who might suck up all your time, but might be a fair tradeoff). Just wait till you do school/work... you'll be dying to have enough time to play a complete match in Tribes. You'll want a TiVo so you don't have to be innefficient about watching TV. You'll be pissed at the cats for wanting food NOW when you've just got someone in the rail sight.
I use that resolution at work (actually, slightly higher res (modelines rule). It really helps to have a 21" monitor.
At home I'm stuck with what Sun calls a 17" (actually 15.7"), which lives at slightly more than 1280x1024. At least under Linux... Windoze for some reason refuses to go over... um. 1148xsomething?... I forget.
> Is there a way to setup multihead such that
> both screens are completely independant?? the
> only way I have seen to do it so far is with
> +xinerama..which just make one huge screen.
> that sucks. I need 'em to be completely
> separate for a project I am working on..
Um, just don't specify the +xinerama and you'll have two sperate heads. That's what I'm doing...
If you're... well, almost anywhere, there's a good chance you can find a local Linux User's Group. There's a list at http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Softwa re/Operating_Systems/UNIX/Linux/User_Gro ups/ (sorry, slashdot keeps breaking the loooong link).
If you can't find anything there try a Google search. Searching for "twin cities linux users group" found the local one here pretty easily (;
I hope I'm not posting this too late for it to get noticed.
I'm a geek. Always been one. Even before I was into computers, I was just sitting there reading all the time. I was getting Straight A in everything except PhysEd. I spoke a foreign language. Teachers liked me (sometimes).
I was very, very different.
But I had friends. Good friends. Some of which were the 'popular' kids. Sure, I got picked on, but not because of the geek thing (more because older kids pick on younger kids). I got to go to parties if I wanted to, but stopped when people started smoking/drinking in them. I talked to girls and they talked back.
Now I'm not trying to say Geeks Don't Suffer. I'm just saying not ALL geeks had to go through that. Some popular kids had to go through that too. Kids suck. I just wanted to point out that the Other Side of this whole Life Is Hell thing exists.
You're trying to remove a package named "openssh-2.2.0p1-1.i386.rpm" which is actually the filename the RPM comes with, not the package name. To find out what the package name is, you could go "rpm -qa | grep openssh" or " rpm -q openssh".
I'm fairly sure that "rpm -e openssh" will remove the openssh package.
If you have an older openssh package, try "rpm -Uvh openssh-2.2.0p1-1.i386.rpm" which will upgrade it for you.
I don't know what Atkins is so I can't really say anything about that. I am going to do some serious diet changes, which are pretty likely to result in weight loss (cutting out cholesterol and sugars). I've got to go see someone to find out what I actually can eat.
I've been a vegetarian for 11 years, and I became one because, frankly, I was never a really huge meat eater. Meat tends to gross me out. I don't really see me going back to that...
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Ok, I guess I was being a bit unclear.
In the setting of the movie, people can fly. Although I suspect this as a slight mistranslation. But that's ok.
My point was, the areal acrobatics, however unbelievable to us, were presented with the same seriousness of Superman being able to fly, or James Bond having a car that shoots Sidewinder missiles, or Tom Cruise being able to fly an F-14.
At least in CTHD you know it's actually Michelle Yeoh really doing all this stuff, and not some stunt person in front of a green screen. In that respect it's a hell of a lot more real than Superman/Bond/Matrix.
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I've been to 'ambiance' theatres. Now, ambiance is nice, but I don't need the chairs to rock because they're so old they're not steady anymore, and I don't need the damn springs poking me in the ass. Also, it'd be nice if the projectionist had kept the movie in focus.
As for the whole laughing thing - I think you don't get it. Yes, people can't fly TODAY. But in Ancient China they COULD. It's not presented as a joke. Wudon Warriors (or whatever) could, definetly, fly. I suppose you laugh at Superman, too?
What bugged me was the "That's stupid" giggles from people who went "Whoa" at The Matrix.
And I for one think it was done very, very well in CTHD.
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I saw "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" last weekend, and now I can't wait to get it on DVD so I can watch it in some kind of DECENT quality.
The thing was playing in only ONE theatre in Minneapolis, and the theatre had "Landmark" in it's name, which apparently in the US means "We have never changed the seats!!!"
Also, people were GIGGLING during allt he flying scenes. Totally not getitng it.
Oh, and since it was showing in one theatre in a 3.5million people area, you can believe there were lines. Standing outside for an hour and a half TO GET IN (not for tickets!) in -10 degrees F... was not fun. Especially when you get in and get crappy seats that are uncomfortable with crappy audiences.
Anyway.
I also note it never made it to #1. If it had opened at a normal number of theatres I'm pretty sure it'd have shot up there and beaten the crap out of whatever cheerleader movie is #1 this week...
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But you can go ahead and look at My resume.
I promise to release something as Open Source if you hire me and help me move to California. Hell, I'll pay for my own move!
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Granted. Now, you could leave me to wallow in my mononity, or you could educate me and thus lower the total moronness in the universe.
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Hey, how do you make those? Whenever I DL one I get a .bin file... I cdrecord -dao it and my DVD player can't read it. Neither can any software on te PC! What am I missing? (:
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Of course nobody needs one. Nobody needs a small TV either, nor a big monitor, 1GHz CPU, 80GB HDD, fast car or hey, a nice hairdo.
But some of us enjoy watching movies in really high quality on really big screens with really big (yes) sound.
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> Hell, nothing has changed that in the last
> 60,000+ years humans have walked the Earth
I don't know if I'd say absolutely nothing has changed. A lot has changed just in the past century (or 100 years).
It is now easy, and very possible, to get from one end of the world to the other within 24 hours, rather than weeks or months. Communication between any point to any other point in the world is almost unstoppable.
I'd like to think that within the next 100 years this will be true for everywhere. Communications even to the most remote village in Africa. Ballistic stratosphere jet thinggies that'll let you get from NYC to Australia in 30 minutes.
It'll be impossible to hide information from the masses. That done, it'll be harder for Kings and Priesssts to keep the masses opressed.
I don't know if it's absolutely going to happen, but I think communications is the basis for understanding, be it person to person or People to People.
--
I know what you mean. God knows I've been there. The only advice/reassurance I can give you is that every relationship I've been in stemmed out of friendship with girls who wouldn't think of me 'that way'. And that includes my wife.
So hang in there nd don't look too hard. Things come when you aren't looking (zen rocks)
--
I cannot believe there have been nothing but cynical/sarcastic responses to that. Sure, I expected some, but not all.
So, for what it's worth, here's a serious reply.
I would like nothing more than to see peace and love and understanding engulf the World. However, I would not predict that as happening within the next 10 years. I do not perceive the hatred deminishing at all anytime soon. Maybe in 50-100 years.
Maybe this is just my bleak perspective due to growing up in the Middle East, one of this world's the focal points for hatred.
Let me tell you a story.
When I was growing up in Israel (late 70s-early 80s), there was a garderner who worked in our neighbourhood. He was a palastenian, and the neighbourhood was Israeli. His name was Daud. All the kids loved him - he used to play with us, and bring us fruit from his village, come into our appartments, you name it.
Back then my vision of the future was that when I grow up, my neighbour, Ahmed, would send over his kids to borrow a cup of sugar. Very simplistic, but I was around 10.
Instead we got war. Conditions got nothing but worse, and just when it seemed like things were quieting down - they got worse yet. Look at it right now - you've got two sides who insist on hating each other, neither of them even know why.
Remember the whole Cold War thing? People always thought it'll end with Total Nukage(tm), but insead it just faded away. I hope all hatred manages to fade away without lighting a fuse.
Here's hoping for hatred and war to fade away (even if only a little bit) this year, and within our lifetime.
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> I never read Dune, but I saw the first movie.
> It was great because I got the whole plot
> about this guy who rides worms in about 2
> hours. Now I know how it ends.
Ummmm... no, you don't know how it ends. You also think that The Weirding Ways involve some kind of necklace/gun that turns sound into deadly weapons. You also missed out on a lot of mysticism. You also don't know wht there are no robots/computers. And more.
Read the book. Trust me.
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I agree. I think a better title would've been "Random Slashdot Reader". or "Random Teenage Slashdot Reader".
or "Teenage Mutant Slashdot Reader" !!!
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Actually, I assume that like most teenagers he considers weekends to be so obvious free time, it goes with out saying... just wait till he gets his first job where he gets to wear a pager.
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Hi,
Clinton, in your response to the girlfriend question, you say you have 'too much free time' on your hands. But in your schedule all I see is:
6:30-10:30 - music / irc / tv
That's only 4 hours!
Believe me, that is NOT a lot of free time. Enjoy it while you can. Nevermind that a girlfriend (who might suck up all your time, but might be a fair tradeoff). Just wait till you do school/work... you'll be dying to have enough time to play a complete match in Tribes. You'll want a TiVo so you don't have to be innefficient about watching TV. You'll be pissed at the cats for wanting food NOW when you've just got someone in the rail sight.
Enjoy your freedom while you can!
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Oh MAN! I should've mentioned it earlier!!!
Oh wait, I did! Now look what you've done, Slashdot Staff That Reviews Submissions!!!
I bought the first A&E set (2 discs) off a friend who ordered two by mistake.
Wait, 5 disc? That can't be the whole series, can it?
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Sure, Carl Sagan stuff and anything ANIME you post. But that The Prisoner is finally available on DVD, that you ignore???
No justice, I tell you.
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> The fact of the matter is these computer
> systems died because they couldn't compete
> with the PC.
Oh, you mean systems like this one couldn't compete with the PC?
(yes, I know he's just trolling, but what the hell).
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I use that resolution at work (actually, slightly higher res (modelines rule). It really helps to have a 21" monitor.
At home I'm stuck with what Sun calls a 17" (actually 15.7"), which lives at slightly more than 1280x1024. At least under Linux... Windoze for some reason refuses to go over... um. 1148xsomething?... I forget.
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I'm doing that with X 4.0.1. 4.0.2 had some... problems, so I downgraded for now (might play with it over the weekend).
I am using the secondary head to to TVOUT, but I have tried connecting two monitors, and it worked fine.
You do need the Matrox binary driver.
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My G400 has no fan, either. Killer card, too (:
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> Is there a way to setup multihead such that
> both screens are completely independant?? the
> only way I have seen to do it so far is with
> +xinerama..which just make one huge screen.
> that sucks. I need 'em to be completely
> separate for a project I am working on..
Um, just don't specify the +xinerama and you'll have two sperate heads. That's what I'm doing...
--
If you're... well, almost anywhere, there's a good chance you can find a local Linux User's Group. There's a list at http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Softwa re/Operating_Systems/UNIX/Linux/User_Gro ups/ (sorry, slashdot keeps breaking the loooong link).
If you can't find anything there try a Google search. Searching for "twin cities linux users group" found the local one here pretty easily (;
--
I hope I'm not posting this too late for it to get noticed.
I'm a geek. Always been one. Even before I was into computers, I was just sitting there reading all the time. I was getting Straight A in everything except PhysEd. I spoke a foreign language. Teachers liked me (sometimes).
I was very, very different.
But I had friends. Good friends. Some of which were the 'popular' kids. Sure, I got picked on, but not because of the geek thing (more because older kids pick on younger kids). I got to go to parties if I wanted to, but stopped when people started smoking/drinking in them. I talked to girls and they talked back.
Now I'm not trying to say Geeks Don't Suffer. I'm just saying not ALL geeks had to go through that. Some popular kids had to go through that too. Kids suck. I just wanted to point out that the Other Side of this whole Life Is Hell thing exists.
--
You're trying to remove a package named "openssh-2.2.0p1-1.i386.rpm" which is actually the filename the RPM comes with, not the package name. To find out what the package name is, you could go "rpm -qa | grep openssh" or " rpm -q openssh".
I'm fairly sure that "rpm -e openssh" will remove the openssh package.
If you have an older openssh package, try "rpm -Uvh openssh-2.2.0p1-1.i386.rpm" which will upgrade it for you.
HTH.
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I don't know what Atkins is so I can't really say anything about that. I am going to do some serious diet changes, which are pretty likely to result in weight loss (cutting out cholesterol and sugars). I've got to go see someone to find out what I actually can eat.
I've been a vegetarian for 11 years, and I became one because, frankly, I was never a really huge meat eater. Meat tends to gross me out. I don't really see me going back to that...
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