Seeing the same effects laden chase scene spread across two movies gets old.
The philosophy in the matrix is that of introduction to philosophy courses. Sorry if that doesn't excite me much anymore.
The acting in the second and third movies is painful to watch (exceptions in the third movie for a handful of the zion defenders). Full of stilted monologues doing a hard sell for the philosophical themes that somehow managed to be in the first movie without huge neo(n) signs pointing them out.
Sorry if I've failed 'to grasp and appreciate themes that explore our world and life in it.' But if you liked the movies, good for you, I hope that the themes in it spark your interest and you look into philosophy more.
It's all about money, and they get none from third party clients. But it's their sandbox and they have every right to dictate who can play in it. No complaints there.
The Yahoo client, on linux at least, blows chunks. It crashes, it freezes X, it doesn't work anywhere near as well as gaim.
Creative Commons is not meant to be free, it's meant to create a balance between the copyright system and the public good.
CC doesn't want to be free, but they want to give content creators a wider range of options. It has about as much to do with open source as a wart on your ass.
That's what we try and do, as well as reviewing donations before accepting them. However, principals, teachers, and staff all roll over when a parent shows up with something, instead of sending them our way.
Often we'll find new donations when we get a call because something is not working, like the "new" computer can't see the network. Goes a little like this: us: what new computer? teacher: well, bobby's dad dropped it off for me. us: why didn't you send him to us? teacher: I wanted the computer to be in my room! us: if it had been up to our spec, you would have. But you see, this is a broken 386 with no hard drive or network card. We don't want anyting below pentium II's anymore. Now we'll be taking this to the recyclers, and it'll cost us $25 to dispose of the monitor. In future, please send all requests to donate computers to the tech dept. bye...
I'm a district over from Palo Alto, and it's not surprising to me that the wifi was open. That SasiXP and server shares were open is frightening. But this is what happens when parents are allowed to come in and run roughshod over the plans of the admins. Or when random parents are your admins. Palo Alto has tech people, they should get in trouble for leaving things unsecure, but the parent group that came in and blew a big hole in the existing security needs a solid slap on the knuckles too.
The tech staff that school have are usually underpaid and overworked, or contractors who are juggling the detail of 10-15 districts. I'm still cleaning up from the last time parents got involved, getting everyone connected to the internet.
To every tech minded parent out there: don't give us your used crap, don't come in and 'help,' just stay out of the way. We have a clue (well a lot of us do), but we spend 98% of our time cleaning up the messes left by helpful parents, clueless teachers, and malicious kids. We're trying to get the teachers up to speed, and we're working on making it hard for the kids to purposefully or accidentally fsck things up. But parents are totally deaf to the idea that the help they're offering is really hindering things.
How do you tell someone who wants to help, no. Or better yet, what's a good project to let parents feel good about helping without damaging my network, or my systems?
$95 is steep, but probably average for Gartner reports. It pays not for the text but the research, and presumably, the IT sector knowledge that went into the report.
Strange that you spend more time explaining how you are a *VERY IMPORTANT PERSON* than actual comments about the report. I have trouble believing such an important person would not have heard of Gartner.
Nice how you managed to get the Michael Sims dis in too. Extra points for total irrelevance.
Now, your writings had disposed me to thinking of you as smart, but proclaiming your own genius, and using your income as proof of that, tends to make me think you're an idiot.
Uhm, have you ever played with edutainment software? Originally written for dos or win3.1, they've been dragged up to win95, with the occasional update (if we're lucky). Under any of the NT derivative Windows, these games DO NOT WORK. Often your lucky to get them working in 98. Educational software, and the handful of companies making them, are crap. I say this as the IT guy of a well off school district. We've bought and tested most of the educational software out there, and 90% of the Windows side of things just suck. The Mac stuff is pretty rank as well, but seems to still run fine.
Hmmm, when I have to switch consoles from the installer to hand config the nic that the installer claims it did so I can actually do a network install... I'd call that a broken install. And as the install is the firsst thing someone deals with, if it's broken, that creates the expectation that the rest of the distro is gonna be just as fscked. Dig? I think it helps to be literate in *nix, and in debian ways to deal with installing debian. There seems to be a pretty good support network through irc and such, but if you can't get that far, it's a lonely and disheatening experience. And comparing to DOS6.22: a) I didn't have to think at all to get that install to work. It just worked. b) When was DOS released? Saying, 'hey our install is ALMOST as good as DOS,' impresses no one. c) I don't want tetris, I just want the install to do what it says it is, and WORK, the first time, without me having to tinker with it. DOS6.22 did that, debian (in my experience) has yet too.
Apt rocks. But if an installer tells me it can see the network, and proceeds to crash spectacularly because it really hasn't brought up the interface, well, this idiot is not going to be impressed.
No no, If you wish for a business connection (even ifit's just to connect to wrok from home at speed, you must use their @WORK service, which costs more, etc etc.
m.
Joining ICANN is, to a degree, an acceptance of their legitamacy. As I don't particularly think they have any legitimacy, why should I join?
I'm getting pretty damn tired of people with little or no technical knowledge trying to tell the people who do how to do things. (this is not to say that I am a knowledgable person, though I would like to be in time)
Now I don't know if ICANN is completely made up of useless smart people, idiots, or actually knowledgable people, but they've made no actions that don't look half assed. So based on their track record I'm not inclined to want them to have any legitamacy. In fact, I'm more inclined to push for their removal. Completely.
too much caffine has rotted my ability to think clearly.
Because I am not free to fix, see, or even request the info doubleclick had gathered.
I don't mind my clicktrails being recorded, if what happens with them is open, available for my perusal.
All info should be free. What people are doing with information should be open to public view.
What happens now is information that is really free (what I do with my time, etc) is being comodified and sold, behind closed doors. And that is wrong.
Those who are watched must be able to see just as much about their observers.
All of the information you mention, short of the porno (which I'm sure, could be found out), is already available for a price. And you don't know, and have no way to find out, who's buying it. Doesn't that worry you? Shouldn't the companies dealing with such information have to fully disclose what they do with it?
doubleckick.net said they were going to do one thing with the information they were gathering, and then did something else, anonimity was promised and then revoked. I object to that. Not the basic fact of personal information heing gathered.
To make the entire internet seem as fast as their local content...
At least that's what they taught me in the couple weeks I worked there. Basically the @home network is a whole high speed backbone with a small number (small in a relative term...) of peering points connecting it to the rest of the internet. To keep from bottlnecking at those peering points they cache stuff as much as possible. So the proxies aren't there to monitor you (lord knows the @home noc folks have better things to do than watch where you surf) they're there to relieve strain at the the possible bottlneck points in their network.
At least that's my hazy recolection of the network description.
I was (young and stupid long ago) arrested, for attempted burglary. In addition to the burglary charge was a charge of possession of burglary tools. These tools included: a flashlight, a backpack, a hammer, my old homework (as it was in the backpack).
If yo use something, no matter how legal it may be in and of itself, to do something illegal, it becomes another thing they can tack onto the charges.
I will eat animal products of animals I raise, tend and slaughter myself. As I currently reside in my office, I don't think I'll be reaising cattle...
I'm vegan cause I think the current production line style of the meat industries is dangerous. Mad cow disease comes from feeding cows back to cows. All manner of ill sh*t is done to the animals to make it quicker and easier to get them packaged and sold.
Argue left and right about whether it's inhumane to treat animals how their treated, but man, eating food that's tainted the way current meat is, is just a bad idea.
Flip through any vegan propaganda book you can find, ignor the 'be nice to the critters' sections and check out the health benefits and the nastiness that's acceptablely still able to be served as 'meat.' That's why I'm vegitarian.
I went vegan cause, well, it pisses people off more.
I moved out of my apartment two months ago, I live in my office now.
So, yeah, I work slightly more than 30 odd hours a week. I rarely leave without my laptop/cell/palm and an oreilly book...
It's sortof strange sometimes, but for the most part I ENJOY what I do, the challenges, the push to learn more, and to apply new knowledge. Yes I don't get enough sleep, yes sometimes things get stressfilled, but the reward is well worth it.
why worry about how much time you work? If you are, you probably aren't working someplace you want to be, and you should be looking for a new employer.
The idea is that you don't have to risk sending your CC number over and over again, unfortunately some companies don't seem to understand that if their going to hold onto CC numbers they should:
a) store them on a machine not directly connected to the internet, b) encrypt them, c) give users the choice of keeping their CC number or not.
If you're arrested, and they confiscate anything, don't expect to see it again.
Police evidence after a certain point goes to auction, to raise money to help them lock up more innocent people.
If it's a drug related seizure, they can sell it off immediately, otherwise there's some time limit it has to sit in an evidence locker before it can be sold.
I was arrested, and I admit I was doing something illegal, but the charges were dropped, everything they took however, was never returned.
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Seeing the same effects laden chase scene spread across two movies gets old.
The philosophy in the matrix is that of introduction to philosophy courses. Sorry if that doesn't excite me much anymore.
The acting in the second and third movies is painful to watch (exceptions in the third movie for a handful of the zion defenders). Full of stilted monologues doing a hard sell for the philosophical themes that somehow managed to be in the first movie without huge neo(n) signs pointing them out.
Sorry if I've failed 'to grasp and appreciate themes that explore our world and life in it.' But if you liked the movies, good for you, I hope that the themes in it spark your interest and you look into philosophy more.
Linux Journal (subscription)
Linux Magazine
Wax Poetics (subscription)
2600 meaning to get subscription
sysadmin (subscription)
Ready Made (subscription)
Wired (only purchased in airports)
Mother Jones (off the rack, when the cover grabs me)
Stay Free! (subscription)
Future Music almost every month
And I buy about a dozen random magazines a month, news, music making
It's all about money, and they get none from third party clients. But it's their sandbox and they have every right to dictate who can play in it. No complaints there.
The Yahoo client, on linux at least, blows chunks. It crashes, it freezes X, it doesn't work anywhere near as well as gaim.
This holds true if you replace 'blogs' with 'slashdot comments.'
Little on the web should be taken without a hefty amount of skepticism, be it blog, slashdot, or cnn.
That people believe a blog is factual, true, or newsworthy says little about the blog and a lot about the people.
Creative Commons is not meant to be free, it's meant to create a balance between the copyright system and the public good.
CC doesn't want to be free, but they want to give content creators a wider range of options. It has about as much to do with open source as a wart on your ass.
First, fill out form A, the register on form B, okay now re-fill out form A, now... maybe, you can download the iso's.
Jeeeebus save me.
oh well, something new to tinker with, and reaquaint myself with so I can keep Solaris on my resume.
"Use our software, it was made in DOS, and works Real Good (tm)"
I want to hear about how you get data of a drive that's been shattered, or shot, or burned in a fire, not how amazing your marketing department is.
Weak.
Uhm, yeah. Sorry, I don't talk about specifics of my work.
That's what we try and do, as well as reviewing donations before accepting them. However, principals, teachers, and staff all roll over when a parent shows up with something, instead of sending them our way.
Often we'll find new donations when we get a call because something is not working, like the "new" computer can't see the network. Goes a little like this:
us: what new computer?
teacher: well, bobby's dad dropped it off for me.
us: why didn't you send him to us?
teacher: I wanted the computer to be in my room!
us: if it had been up to our spec, you would have.
But you see, this is a broken 386 with no hard drive or network card. We don't want anyting below pentium II's anymore. Now we'll be taking this to the recyclers, and it'll cost us $25 to dispose of the monitor. In future, please send all requests to donate computers to the tech dept.
bye...
joy.
Schools have counsellers, and psychiatrists. They write up profiles of the students they see, and keep notes on them.
How strange is this?
I'm a district over from Palo Alto, and it's not surprising to me that the wifi was open. That SasiXP and server shares were open is frightening. But this is what happens when parents are allowed to come in and run roughshod over the plans of the admins. Or when random parents are your admins. Palo Alto has tech people, they should get in trouble for leaving things unsecure, but the parent group that came in and blew a big hole in the existing security needs a solid slap on the knuckles too.
The tech staff that school have are usually underpaid and overworked, or contractors who are juggling the detail of 10-15 districts. I'm still cleaning up from the last time parents got involved, getting everyone connected to the internet.
To every tech minded parent out there: don't give us your used crap, don't come in and 'help,' just stay out of the way. We have a clue (well a lot of us do), but we spend 98% of our time cleaning up the messes left by helpful parents, clueless teachers, and malicious kids. We're trying to get the teachers up to speed, and we're working on making it hard for the kids to purposefully or accidentally fsck things up. But parents are totally deaf to the idea that the help they're offering is really hindering things.
How do you tell someone who wants to help, no. Or better yet, what's a good project to let parents feel good about helping without damaging my network, or my systems?
He's not denying it, he's saying that it's not the point, not relevant to the arguement at hand.
Which it's not.
So we've got some arrogance in the open source community? This is news to you?
We've also got irritating whiners. And a whole gamut inbetween of personalities. It's always been that way, it always will.
The only difference in this story is that tech media paid attention to it, because Mozilla is 'special.'
$95 is steep, but probably average for Gartner reports. It pays not for the text but the research, and presumably, the IT sector knowledge that went into the report.
Strange that you spend more time explaining how you are a *VERY IMPORTANT PERSON* than actual comments about the report. I have trouble believing such an important person would not have heard of Gartner.
Nice how you managed to get the Michael Sims dis in too. Extra points for total irrelevance.
Now, your writings had disposed me to thinking of you as smart, but proclaiming your own genius, and using your income as proof of that, tends to make me think you're an idiot.
Uhm, have you ever played with edutainment software?
Originally written for dos or win3.1, they've been dragged up to win95, with the occasional update (if we're lucky).
Under any of the NT derivative Windows, these games DO NOT WORK. Often your lucky to get them working in 98.
Educational software, and the handful of companies making them, are crap. I say this as the IT guy of a well off school district. We've bought and tested most of the educational software out there, and 90% of the Windows side of things just suck. The Mac stuff is pretty rank as well, but seems to still run fine.
Hmmm, when I have to switch consoles from the installer to hand config the nic that the installer claims it did so I can actually do a network install... I'd call that a broken install.
And as the install is the firsst thing someone deals with, if it's broken, that creates the expectation that the rest of the distro is gonna be just as fscked.
Dig? I think it helps to be literate in *nix, and in debian ways to deal with installing debian. There seems to be a pretty good support network through irc and such, but if you can't get that far, it's a lonely and disheatening experience.
And comparing to DOS6.22:
a) I didn't have to think at all to get that install to work. It just worked.
b) When was DOS released? Saying, 'hey our install is ALMOST as good as DOS,' impresses no one.
c) I don't want tetris, I just want the install to do what it says it is, and WORK, the first time, without me having to tinker with it. DOS6.22 did that, debian (in my experience) has yet too.
Apt rocks. But if an installer tells me it can see the network, and proceeds to crash spectacularly because it really hasn't brought up the interface, well, this idiot is not going to be impressed.
No no, If you wish for a business connection (even ifit's just to connect to wrok from home at speed, you must use their @WORK service, which costs more, etc etc. m.
Joining ICANN is, to a degree, an acceptance of their legitamacy. As I don't particularly think they have any legitimacy, why should I join?
I'm getting pretty damn tired of people with little or no technical knowledge trying to tell the people who do how to do things. (this is not to say that I am a knowledgable person, though I would like to be in time)
Now I don't know if ICANN is completely made up of useless smart people, idiots, or actually knowledgable people, but they've made no actions that don't look half assed. So based on their track record I'm not inclined to want them to have any legitamacy. In fact, I'm more inclined to push for their removal. Completely.
too much caffine has rotted my ability to think clearly.
Because I am not free to fix, see, or even request the info doubleclick had gathered.
I don't mind my clicktrails being recorded, if what happens with them is open, available for my perusal.
All info should be free. What people are doing with information should be open to public view.
What happens now is information that is really free (what I do with my time, etc) is being comodified and sold, behind closed doors. And that is wrong.
Those who are watched must be able to see just as much about their observers.
All of the information you mention, short of the porno (which I'm sure, could be found out), is already available for a price. And you don't know, and have no way to find out, who's buying it. Doesn't that worry you? Shouldn't the companies dealing with such information have to fully disclose what they do with it?
doubleckick.net said they were going to do one thing with the information they were gathering, and then did something else, anonimity was promised and then revoked. I object to that. Not the basic fact of personal information heing gathered.
m.
To make the entire internet seem as fast as their local content...
At least that's what they taught me in the couple weeks I worked there. Basically the @home network is a whole high speed backbone with a small number (small in a relative term...) of peering points connecting it to the rest of the internet. To keep from bottlnecking at those peering points they cache stuff as much as possible. So the proxies aren't there to monitor you (lord knows the @home noc folks have better things to do than watch where you surf) they're there to relieve strain at the the possible bottlneck points in their network.
At least that's my hazy recolection of the network description.
Well, it downloaded okay, installed okay, logged in okay...
my applet panel chorks. no happy footprint icon, no icons at all... just chork.
Logging out by 'kill -9 X' sucks...
Now to figure out how to fix this...
Yes, that's the point.
I was (young and stupid long ago) arrested, for attempted burglary. In addition to the burglary charge was a charge of possession of burglary tools. These tools included: a flashlight, a backpack, a hammer, my old homework (as it was in the backpack).
If yo use something, no matter how legal it may be in and of itself, to do something illegal, it becomes another thing they can tack onto the charges.
It's always been like that.
m.
I will eat animal products of animals I raise, tend and slaughter myself. As I currently reside in my office, I don't think I'll be reaising cattle...
I'm vegan cause I think the current production line style of the meat industries is dangerous. Mad cow disease comes from feeding cows back to cows. All manner of ill sh*t is done to the animals to make it quicker and easier to get them packaged and sold.
Argue left and right about whether it's inhumane to treat animals how their treated, but man, eating food that's tainted the way current meat is, is just a bad idea.
Flip through any vegan propaganda book you can find, ignor the 'be nice to the critters' sections and check out the health benefits and the nastiness that's acceptablely still able to be served as 'meat.' That's why I'm vegitarian.
I went vegan cause, well, it pisses people off more.
I moved out of my apartment two months ago, I live in my office now.
So, yeah, I work slightly more than 30 odd hours a week. I rarely leave without my laptop/cell/palm and an oreilly book...
It's sortof strange sometimes, but for the most part I ENJOY what I do, the challenges, the push to learn more, and to apply new knowledge. Yes I don't get enough sleep, yes sometimes things get stressfilled, but the reward is well worth it.
why worry about how much time you work? If you are, you probably aren't working someplace you want to be, and you should be looking for a new employer.
The idea is that you don't have to risk sending your CC number over and over again, unfortunately some companies don't seem to understand that if their going to hold onto CC numbers they should:
a) store them on a machine not directly connected
to the internet,
b) encrypt them,
c) give users the choice of keeping their CC
number or not.
If you're arrested, and they confiscate anything, don't expect to see it again.
Police evidence after a certain point goes to auction, to raise money to help them lock up more innocent people.
If it's a drug related seizure, they can sell it off immediately, otherwise there's some time limit it has to sit in an evidence locker before it can be sold.
I was arrested, and I admit I was doing something illegal, but the charges were dropped, everything they took however, was never returned.