> I'm all for civil liberties, as long as those liberties don't > endanger or hurt anyone else. As a parent, I'd certainly like to > know who has been convicted of abusing children, so I can > better protect my child. For once, Think of the children! > actually applies.
My point is that the courts and legislators can and WILL abuse such system. Christ almighty people, didn't you read the Scarlet Letter in high school. History repeats itself, and folks prefer to look the other way.
If you are worried about your children, first campaign to stop drunk driving. This country loses how many children to violent sex crimes and how many to drunk drivers? I need to go look up the numbers.
> Uh, if they are repeat offenders, shouldn't we > just keep them locked up? Isn't that the only way > of really preventing them from preying on any more > people?
There's no room. The jails are full of kids who were caught with a quarter ounce of pot on them. And soon they will be full of people who cannot pay their debts.
And what happens when a state decides that two 17 year old boys who have sex with each other are sex offenders? The problem is not that violent sex offenders should be monitored. The problem is, who decides who is a sex offender?
When I phone screen someone, I never quiz on buzzwords. I ask the applicant to explain a couple of projects that they have worked on. I am looking for understanding, attitude, aptitude, originality, confidence. I will ask them why they did something the way they did, and not another possible way. Buzzwords and certifications never even considered.
> How the heck are you supposed to film that and > keep some semblance of flow to the story? You could > do it as a voiceover I suppose, but it has > absolutely nothing to do with the plot yet > passages like this are a defining feature of an > Adams book. I'll be interested to see if they > attempted to put passages like this in the movie > and if they can pull it off.
Easily. It gets changed to dialogue. Ford explaing to Arthur... Hollywood does it all the time.
One of the hardest things for a screen writer to write is good dialogue. It is absurd to throw out such great prose. Unless the hollywood re-writers, the people who punch up the script and trim out unneeded dialogue, had no idea that the lines were actually supposed to be funny.
This is ABSURD. (Please forgive my yelling.) What is "12:00?" The time people go to lunch. What is 11:00? (10:00 here in the midwest) The time that the news is on. Why change all the clocks, when what we are really doing is telling businesses to open an hour earlier/later, people to eat an hour earlier/later, and have the news start an hour earlier/later.
Why change the clocks? Are people really so tied to what the clock tells them to do?
Oblogitary Douglas Adams quote: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."
>I doubt he's afraid of being type cast. This is a >negotiating tactic, plain and simple. Let it be >known that you won't be around for a second run if >you're not already contractually obligated to do >so, and then they come at you with more money right >out of the gate.
I have not heard about a US release yet. The US networks are probably waiting to see the ratings before bidding. The star quitting makes the show that much less attractive. He is in a great bargaining position.
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If you order your MacMini from MacMall.com, you get a free keyboard, mouse, and Epson printer, albeit by rebate. You even get free shipping.
Is there a way to accurately define a "unique visit." You can't do it my IP, since many folks come through NATing firewalls. Until the internet has some kind of standard and secure directory based authentication, this is impossible.
Sadly, the better browser does NOT win. I recently worked for a large corporation, and everyone was required to use IE. Why? There were a couple of internal web apps that used weird M$ extensions that worked on IE only. Not to mention the Verisign certificate portal, the web front end to a specific brand of firewall, etc. etc. As long as developers keep using M$ extensions on their web pages/apps, then corporations cannot move to another browser.
BTW, 90% of people use whatever they use at work when they go home. Familiarity is ten times more imporant than features or ease of use.
Price comparision of Apple to Dell shows that Macintosh is NOT more expensive than a PC. Over, and over, and over again. Please refrain from this nonsense.
The reason that XHTML is more difficult than HTML is that most of the "simple" tags such as b, big, h1, etc are depricated. In HTML you can take a text document and mark it up pretty quickly using the simple tags.
The reason for XHTML is that most pages these days are not so simple. For a complicated page, XHTML is much cleaner than HTML. For a simple page, the opposite is true.
My web site, http://www.igsgames.com, has a couple dozen pages all written by hand with a text editor. I use bbedit mostly but never touch the web widgets. It is quite simple to cut and paste to create a new page. I know exactly what code is in each page, so it is easy to modify. And I am not a web developer by trade.
Please spread the word that HTML is easy for anyone to learn!!!:-)
There is nothing about video games that makes them inherently good or bad as movies. The answer is simple studio economics.
When a studio decides to make a movie on a video game, they are trying to cash in on the name. It is self marketing. People will go see the movie because they know the game, not because it is a good movie. So to maximize profits, the studio hires the cheapest (i.e. least compitent) writer, director, actors. Bam! Bad movie. It has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter.
For example, Ridley Scott took a B-Horror script by Dan O'Bannon and turned it into a classic called Alien.
btw, Mortal Combat is a decent action picture, with a great theme song by KMFDM, and good performance by Christopher Lambert. Resident Evil is a pretty good picture, with Mila kicking zombie ass. The rest that I have seen are best forgotten.
NextStep ran on Motorola 68k (Next slab and cube), PA RISC (HP workstations), Sparc (Sun workstations), and Intel (specific PC's). Applications could be compiled fat on any of the four platforms and run on all four platforms with no modification.
1 - Jump start. This is a beautiful box to ethernet over to your new server to install Solaris via jumpstart, especially if you need to do the install while off the net, e.g. a tripwired hardened server like a firewall running Checkpoint Firewall/1.
2 - CDE. So many of the admin tools for SunOne software are buggy in any version of X other than standard CDE. Examples are the directory/web server java based console.
3 - Portable development. Let's say that you are debugging Sparc assembly for a new device driver, or just testing your C code on a particular patch level of Solaris XYZ to find issues with the shared libraries, and you would rather sit in the coffee shop than in your dusty cube.
4 - Portable 64 bit processing. Particularly useful for math or physics types who want to crank out some data on the way to a conference or in the hotel room. (Yes, 1GB of RAM, but no limit on Swap. Not to mention REALLY big Ints.)
5 - Full solaris application testing environment. A wonderful thing to have to take to datacenters in other parts of the country which are not part of the corporate backbone yet to help you figure out why those new Websphere application servers cannot talk SSL LDAP over 636 to the new SunOne Directory Servers.
6 - I could keep going, but I have to get back to work.:-) I want one!
I have had 182+ auctions on eBay, most of them purchases, and I have not had a single instance of fraud. Am I just lucky? Statistics say no.
I think what we are seeing is "small town" syndrome, that is, out of towners being taken in by obvious scams that any "big city" person would smell a mile away. I can pull up eBay right now and find a dozen suspicious auctions.
If it's too good to be true, then, yes, it is too good to be true. If it's a hardship case, then it will be your hardship. If you think you are smarter than the seller and ripping him off, then you are the one who will get ripped off.
In no way do I blame eBay for fraud. As a buyer I know that if I do not like the results of my purchase, then I leave negative feedback and move on.
If an auction is for a high cost item, then always insist on escrow. If the seller refuses, then refuse to do business. It's your responsibility as a buyer to protect your own ass.
When I saw the headline, the first thing that popped into my head is that Ford has implemented an interesting solution to increase productivity. Give them a PC and internet line at home, and then disallow all personal web surfing from the desk at work. Lost revenues verses cost of a PC. This must be the CFO's idea.
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> I'm all for civil liberties, as long as those liberties don't
> endanger or hurt anyone else. As a parent, I'd certainly like to
> know who has been convicted of abusing children, so I can
> better protect my child. For once, Think of the children!
> actually applies.
My point is that the courts and legislators can and WILL abuse such system. Christ almighty people, didn't you read the Scarlet Letter in high school. History repeats itself, and folks prefer to look the other way.
If you are worried about your children, first campaign to stop drunk driving. This country loses how many children to violent sex crimes and how many to drunk drivers? I need to go look up the numbers.
> Uh, if they are repeat offenders, shouldn't we
> just keep them locked up? Isn't that the only way
> of really preventing them from preying on any more
> people?
There's no room. The jails are full of kids who were caught with a quarter ounce of pot on them. And soon they will be full of people who cannot pay their debts.
jfs
And what happens when a state decides that two 17 year old boys who have sex with each other are sex offenders? The problem is not that violent sex offenders should be monitored. The problem is, who decides who is a sex offender?
jfs
When I phone screen someone, I never quiz on buzzwords. I ask the applicant to explain a couple of projects that they have worked on. I am looking for understanding, attitude, aptitude, originality, confidence. I will ask them why they did something the way they did, and not another possible way. Buzzwords and certifications never even considered.
Maybe I'm different than the average manager.
jfs
I think you mean to say that Firefly was the best sci-fi since Blake's Seven. (Youngsters! :-)
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> How the heck are you supposed to film that and
> keep some semblance of flow to the story? You could
> do it as a voiceover I suppose, but it has
> absolutely nothing to do with the plot yet
> passages like this are a defining feature of an
> Adams book. I'll be interested to see if they
> attempted to put passages like this in the movie
> and if they can pull it off.
Easily. It gets changed to dialogue. Ford explaing to Arthur... Hollywood does it all the time.
One of the hardest things for a screen writer to write is good dialogue. It is absurd to throw out such great prose. Unless the hollywood re-writers, the people who punch up the script and trim out unneeded dialogue, had no idea that the lines were actually supposed to be funny.
It is also true that Gilliam did the visuals, not the dialog.
jfs
This is ABSURD. (Please forgive my yelling.) What is "12:00?" The time people go to lunch. What is 11:00? (10:00 here in the midwest) The time that the news is on. Why change all the clocks, when what we are really doing is telling businesses to open an hour earlier/later, people to eat an hour earlier/later, and have the news start an hour earlier/later.
Why change the clocks? Are people really so tied to what the clock tells them to do?
Oblogitary Douglas Adams quote: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."
The pics of downtown Chicago are at least 2 years out of date. The building that I am currently in is shown as a construction site.
jfs
>I doubt he's afraid of being type cast. This is a
>negotiating tactic, plain and simple. Let it be
>known that you won't be around for a second run if
>you're not already contractually obligated to do
>so, and then they come at you with more money right
>out of the gate.
I have not heard about a US release yet. The US networks are probably waiting to see the ratings before bidding. The star quitting makes the show that much less attractive. He is in a great bargaining position.
jfs
If you order your MacMini from MacMall.com, you get a free keyboard, mouse, and Epson printer, albeit by rebate. You even get free shipping.
jfs
Is there a way to accurately define a "unique visit." You can't do it my IP, since many folks come through NATing firewalls. Until the internet has some kind of standard and secure directory based authentication, this is impossible.
jfs
Sadly, the better browser does NOT win. I recently worked for a large corporation, and everyone was required to use IE. Why? There were a couple of internal web apps that used weird M$ extensions that worked on IE only. Not to mention the Verisign certificate portal, the web front end to a specific brand of firewall, etc. etc. As long as developers keep using M$ extensions on their web pages/apps, then corporations cannot move to another browser.
BTW, 90% of people use whatever they use at work when they go home. Familiarity is ten times more imporant than features or ease of use.
jfs
Price comparision of Apple to Dell shows that Macintosh is NOT more expensive than a PC. Over, and over, and over again. Please refrain from this nonsense.
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Check out http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/But-Macs-Are-Sl
jfs
I would argue that XHTML has a lot more rules.
jfs
The reason that XHTML is more difficult than HTML is that most of the "simple" tags such as b, big, h1, etc are depricated. In HTML you can take a text document and mark it up pretty quickly using the simple tags.
The reason for XHTML is that most pages these days are not so simple. For a complicated page, XHTML is much cleaner than HTML. For a simple page, the opposite is true.
jfs
My web site, http://www.igsgames.com, has a couple dozen pages all written by hand with a text editor. I use bbedit mostly but never touch the web widgets. It is quite simple to cut and paste to create a new page. I know exactly what code is in each page, so it is easy to modify. And I am not a web developer by trade.
Please spread the word that HTML is easy for anyone to learn!!!
jfs
There is nothing about video games that makes them inherently good or bad as movies. The answer is simple studio economics.
When a studio decides to make a movie on a video game, they are trying to cash in on the name. It is self marketing. People will go see the movie because they know the game, not because it is a good movie. So to maximize profits, the studio hires the cheapest (i.e. least compitent) writer, director, actors. Bam! Bad movie. It has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter.
For example, Ridley Scott took a B-Horror script by Dan O'Bannon and turned it into a classic called Alien.
btw, Mortal Combat is a decent action picture, with a great theme song by KMFDM, and good performance by Christopher Lambert. Resident Evil is a pretty good picture, with Mila kicking zombie ass. The rest that I have seen are best forgotten.
jfs
NextStep ran on Motorola 68k (Next slab and cube), PA RISC (HP workstations), Sparc (Sun workstations), and Intel (specific PC's). Applications could be compiled fat on any of the four platforms and run on all four platforms with no modification.
jfs
1 - Jump start. This is a beautiful box to ethernet over to your new server to install Solaris via jumpstart, especially if you need to do the install while off the net, e.g. a tripwired hardened server like a firewall running Checkpoint Firewall/1.
2 - CDE. So many of the admin tools for SunOne software are buggy in any version of X other than standard CDE. Examples are the directory/web server java based console.
3 - Portable development. Let's say that you are debugging Sparc assembly for a new device driver, or just testing your C code on a particular patch level of Solaris XYZ to find issues with the shared libraries, and you would rather sit in the coffee shop than in your dusty cube.
4 - Portable 64 bit processing. Particularly useful for math or physics types who want to crank out some data on the way to a conference or in the hotel room. (Yes, 1GB of RAM, but no limit on Swap. Not to mention REALLY big Ints.)
5 - Full solaris application testing environment. A wonderful thing to have to take to datacenters in other parts of the country which are not part of the corporate backbone yet to help you figure out why those new Websphere application servers cannot talk SSL LDAP over 636 to the new SunOne Directory Servers.
6 - I could keep going, but I have to get back to work.
jfs
I have had 182+ auctions on eBay, most of them purchases, and I have not had a single instance of fraud. Am I just lucky? Statistics say no.
I think what we are seeing is "small town" syndrome, that is, out of towners being taken in by obvious scams that any "big city" person would smell a mile away. I can pull up eBay right now and find a dozen suspicious auctions.
If it's too good to be true, then, yes, it is too good to be true. If it's a hardship case, then it will be your hardship. If you think you are smarter than the seller and ripping him off, then you are the one who will get ripped off.
In no way do I blame eBay for fraud. As a buyer I know that if I do not like the results of my purchase, then I leave negative feedback and move on.
If an auction is for a high cost item, then always insist on escrow. If the seller refuses, then refuse to do business. It's your responsibility as a buyer to protect your own ass.
jfs
When I saw the headline, the first thing that popped into my head is that Ford has implemented an interesting solution to increase productivity. Give them a PC and internet line at home, and then disallow all personal web surfing from the desk at work. Lost revenues verses cost of a PC. This must be the CFO's idea.