hmmm. ..in the 90's this became a popular colloquialism. think Friends, That 70's Show, etc. i wonder if Rabbit of Seville is the first to use "so" in this way?
You may argue that this view is exceedingly cynical. I would agree
we had laws like that during Reconstruction in the Deep South. it amounts to literacy testing, which some people think disenfranchises certain minority groups.
Re:How do you say 'You've got Mail' in Mandarin?
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hopefully you can say it with better grammar than the english version.
"Just another dull, good-looking, wooden guy. They're a dime a dozen."
can you imagine him and Jason Lee in a buddy picture? eesh.
taking all the fun out of web-based narrative :)
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with these things i like to see if i can determine what entity is creating the hoax as quickly as i can. once i figure out that it is (being set in the future is something of a giveaway, though). this is done with the magic of WHOIS (also available in a handy spray at register.com). simply put it's the best way to quickly uncover who's behind the scenes when you think you're being fed a line via a website, or in this case a few.
Lee Jeans w/ Supergreg and the other two guys was really sloppily done. all the adminstrative contacts in the WHOIS records were from "Fallon.com." which after two more minutes of hunting i learned was an agency that had the Lee Jeans account.
mutantwatch.com was registered to 20th Century Fox. lame.
Blair Witch was also lame and registered to Artisan or Disney or something.
These guys (AI) did it right. all the contacts for the domains are registered to "Ghaepetto, Bianca," "Ghaepetto, Carla" and "Anna Ghaepetto," and so on. each of the records is formatted somewhat differerently BUT has the same technical contact, so it's kinda easy to tell the jig is up. but i kinda guessed it immediately given that i knew the movie was coming out and was similarly themed. "Ghaepetto" (nice allusion) has gotta be a code name for the web project, or maybe something or someone from the movie that i couldn't dig up. searches on google and NL for "Ghaepetto" turn up ZILCH. my hat's off; that's about the best and artiest way to sidestep geeks doing WHOIS on your sly undercover internet marketing schemes.
goddamn if that isn't the dumbest analysis i've ever read.
i've finally figured out Katz's methodology for stories: he has an idea and then works backwards to try and explain his hypothesis. synthesis before thesis + antithesis. that explains why his writing is so impossibly hard to understand.
how, precisely, does going to see Exit Wounds "mark the passing of a breed of cinematic dinosaurs"? i still don't get it. it just. ..it just doesn't make sense to me. i don't always expect to agree with a film critic, but i like for his writing to be at least lucid enough for me to understand what he's saying.
"He's the perfect anti-technology here in a technological age, but like this movie, like others in the genre, isn't blowing up box offices."
had to read that one a few times to get past the spelling errors and poor english. so. ..Katz is saying that Exit Wounds isn't making money? isn't $26 million in ten days pretty darn good?
From what I understand it's finite but unbounded. Meaning that there's only so much stuff in it, but you can't reach the end of it (space being curved and all). Wacky.
However, on the plus side, the nationalistic propaganda wasn't in evidence, as it was in Mission to Mars
One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb in this film was the fact that they did NOT work with NASA on the film. IIRC M2M and Armageddon both had lots of aid from NASA in production design and technical consultation. Hence the NASA logo splattered in almost every shot in those films. In RP there is NO mention of NASA (granted this is in 50 years or so), and the science definitely seems to suffer for it.
At the company where i used to work we had contracted with PSI to provide us simple webhosting with email, SSL, etc. One day we stopped receiving mail from our website's online forms. Nothing. Tests proved that it wasn't our end, and that in fact what was working smoothly the day before had simply stopped working. No real reason. Time spent with their tech support was utterly wasted. They made no effort at all to satisfy us in any way. They basically said, "Sorry, guys. no email." Meanwhile we were losing 10-20 potential multi-thousand dollar clients per day (perhaps that doesn't sound like too much, but it was a very small company, and these contacts were our bread and butter).
Fuck PSI. I have never felt so shit on by a company before. Seeing those commercials on television with the people knocking on the computer monitors makes me want to kill. Their ISP, their webhosting, it's all a joke in my book. Perhaps if your account with them is large enough you'll find someone there to fix your problem, but if you've only got a small enterprise account you're SOL.
Personally, I'm tickled pink that their stock is down 90%. What the hell kind of company posts a loss that's FIVE TIMES GREATER than analysts are expecting? Aren't these things usually a matter of pennies? I guess that explains the TV ads. . .
only Slashdot and the Security Focus article uses the word "arrested." the others use "detained" or "taken into custody." in fact, the cnn.com article states that he was "'invited' to answer questions because officers did not have arrest warrants for him."
is there a real distinction between being detained and being arrested in the Philippines? i know there's a huge one here in the US, but i imagine the area might be a little grayer elsewhere. ..can anyone enlighten?
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hmmm. .
Slow and steady wins the race!
J. Craig Wheeler - The Krone Experiment. dunno if he's related to John, but John's got a testimonial on the back :)
i suppose it does have a better ring than the Granny Smith, or the Golden Delicious
we had laws like that during Reconstruction in the Deep South. it amounts to literacy testing, which some people think disenfranchises certain minority groups.
hopefully you can say it with better grammar than the english version.
can you imagine him and Jason Lee in a buddy picture? eesh.
Lee Jeans w/ Supergreg and the other two guys was really sloppily done. all the adminstrative contacts in the WHOIS records were from "Fallon.com." which after two more minutes of hunting i learned was an agency that had the Lee Jeans account.
mutantwatch.com was registered to 20th Century Fox. lame.
Blair Witch was also lame and registered to Artisan or Disney or something.
These guys (AI) did it right. all the contacts for the domains are registered to "Ghaepetto, Bianca," "Ghaepetto, Carla" and "Anna Ghaepetto," and so on. each of the records is formatted somewhat differerently BUT has the same technical contact, so it's kinda easy to tell the jig is up. but i kinda guessed it immediately given that i knew the movie was coming out and was similarly themed. "Ghaepetto" (nice allusion) has gotta be a code name for the web project, or maybe something or someone from the movie that i couldn't dig up. searches on google and NL for "Ghaepetto" turn up ZILCH. my hat's off; that's about the best and artiest way to sidestep geeks doing WHOIS on your sly undercover internet marketing schemes.
-jeff
I mean, how many times do you have to send a packet or something before you figure out that the problem is at the other end?
Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" explores this in a neat way.
i've finally figured out Katz's methodology for stories: he has an idea and then works backwards to try and explain his hypothesis. synthesis before thesis + antithesis. that explains why his writing is so impossibly hard to understand.
how, precisely, does going to see Exit Wounds "mark the passing of a breed of cinematic dinosaurs"? i still don't get it. it just. . .it just doesn't make sense to me. i don't always expect to agree with a film critic, but i like for his writing to be at least lucid enough for me to understand what he's saying.
"He's the perfect anti-technology here in a technological age, but like this movie, like others in the genre, isn't blowing up box offices."
had to read that one a few times to get past the spelling errors and poor english. so. . .Katz is saying that Exit Wounds isn't making money? isn't $26 million in ten days pretty darn good?
doesn't something similar to that interface exist for *nix?
From what I understand it's finite but unbounded. Meaning that there's only so much stuff in it, but you can't reach the end of it (space being curved and all). Wacky.
One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb in this film was the fact that they did NOT work with NASA on the film. IIRC M2M and Armageddon both had lots of aid from NASA in production design and technical consultation. Hence the NASA logo splattered in almost every shot in those films. In RP there is NO mention of NASA (granted this is in 50 years or so), and the science definitely seems to suffer for it.
. . .I know this!"
At the company where i used to work we had contracted with PSI to provide us simple webhosting with email, SSL, etc. One day we stopped receiving mail from our website's online forms. Nothing. Tests proved that it wasn't our end, and that in fact what was working smoothly the day before had simply stopped working. No real reason. Time spent with their tech support was utterly wasted. They made no effort at all to satisfy us in any way. They basically said, "Sorry, guys. no email." Meanwhile we were losing 10-20 potential multi-thousand dollar clients per day (perhaps that doesn't sound like too much, but it was a very small company, and these contacts were our bread and butter).
Fuck PSI. I have never felt so shit on by a company before. Seeing those commercials on television with the people knocking on the computer monitors makes me want to kill. Their ISP, their webhosting, it's all a joke in my book. Perhaps if your account with them is large enough you'll find someone there to fix your problem, but if you've only got a small enterprise account you're SOL.
Personally, I'm tickled pink that their stock is down 90%. What the hell kind of company posts a loss that's FIVE TIMES GREATER than analysts are expecting? Aren't these things usually a matter of pennies? I guess that explains the TV ads. . .
i walked out of "6-5000" as well. . .spent the next hour playing "Xevious" in the foyer.
flashcards are the best way to learn the Gameboy
how about this?
is there a real distinction between being detained and being arrested in the Philippines? i know there's a huge one here in the US, but i imagine the area might be a little grayer elsewhere. . .can anyone enlighten?