They enter the main hallway of the Senate Office Building. They pass SEVERAL SENATORS, including REPRESENTATIVE JAR JAR BINKS from Naboo.
JAR JAR: Helloo Annie. Good en to see yousa . ..
The Gungan waves to Anakin.
ANAKIN: Hi, Jar Jar.
JAR JAR: Oopsin da Chancellor!! So sorry, Your Highness, sir.
Umm...that's the Jar Jar scene. Anakin/Vader apparently lets him live. And that shows you that Anakin has been allied with the Dark Side for longer than has been let on.
Oh yeah...and what's with calling Anakin "Annie?" Ye ghods and ghoddesses...that is a crime against nature. Shudder...
According to reports, the initials BMF really *are* engraved on the Mace Windu lightsabre. Whether in Latin letters or in that alphabet they use in Star Wars I'm not totally clear on. But it's there.
...are belong to Wegener Media in South Carolina. $60 for an eMate. They are still cool, although you're going to need an old (Beige G3 or earlier) Mac to sync with.
I hope I'm not going to regret putting this link on/., because I would like one of these for myself.
Really, after basically going between McJobs and total unemployed bum status and finally deciding "Fuck it" in 2003 and going back to school in a non-IT field, this is like rubbing salt in wounds that have yet to heal.
Fuck you, Bill Gates, sir. Fuck you, fuck Ballmer, fuck your fucking astroturfers, fuck your proxy warriors at SCOXE.
And fuck you if you think this is a troll. I am saying this straight from my guts. This article got me REAL MAD.
...this is good if it pans out. Considering how Global PeakOil might have been already reached, or if not, we're close to it, we're going to be needing a replacement for petroleum and soon.
w00t, it's a ThinkPad! I couldn't tell you which one, but that little red eraserhead is unmistakeable.
Question: The article makes a big deal about standard hard drives not being able to work in Zero G? Why does a laptop HD work in Zero G and a regular hard drive not work? Have I missed something?
My favorite Reznor/Mac story was how he went out and bought a Blue-and-white G3, and two months later the first G4s with their graphite-and-white color scheme was released. Not only was he kicking himself because he had missed out on Altivec, but he also thought the grey/white G4s were more aesthetically pleasing. The Blueberry color was too cheery, to his viewpoint.
And my Blue-and-white? It's netname is Trent. Named not after Reznor but his animated namesake from "Daria.";-) MacOS 8.5.1 was one of the flakiest MacOS releases ever, and that's what was installed on it when I got it. So, he was named after an animated flaky musician dude.
And let's not forget the gratuitous dwarf-tossing jokes in the first two films. Then again, the director of "Dead Alive" and "Meet The Feebles" not adding a little sophomoric humor to LOTR? Did you expect him to hold back? I didn't and wasn't offended.
The beauty of the LOTR movies was that even though they were not faithful to the letter of the book, they were faithful to the spirit of the book. I was not disappointed.
Of course, I would have rather seen Bjork as Arwen. She *looks* like an elf. She wouldn't have even had to play with a different accent...her Icelandic/British accent is pretty damn close to the way they did Elvish anyway.
Also I would have rather heard what Jimmy Page would have done on the soundtrack instead of Howard Shore. I'm a child of the '70s. Reading LOTR with Led Zeppelin on the stereo has inescapably twisted my mind. He's done orchestral scores before...anyone remember the "Death Wish" movies? Yeah, I know, bad example.
Of course, H2G2 has similar synaptic connections in my twisted mind. I still have an animated movie starring the voices of Eric Idle (Ford), Michael Palin (Arthur) and Bill Murray (Zaphod) in my mind, probably never to be erased by the actual movie. The deconstruction of the movie by DNA's biographer kinda had me worried, but I think I might just give this a chance.
Etch? Is this the name that the new Testing will receive once Sarge becomes the Stable release?
Wow, they're really grasping for Toy Story-related names. Hmm...was Wheeze ever used? Gotta give the little penguin some propers before moving on to Bug's Life/Nemo/Monsters Inc./Incredibles-related names.
Here's what I personally would have liked to see happen:
1.) Don't even bother to do it live action. Animation. 2D classical drawn animation. No CGI crap...humans still don't look right in CGI, and H2G2 was very humanoid-centric. Get someone with a cartoony sense to do the character design. Andreas Deja would be perfect. Then get a "dream team" of animators from both sides of the Pacific to work on it. This could have been Touchstone Pictures' triumphant return to animation. "Not since Who Framed Roger Rabbit?!"
2.) If you animate the movie, you don't have to get people to portray the roles who are exactly the right age to play them. For instance, you could have Michael Palin as Arthur, Eric Idle as Ford, Bill Murray as Zaphod and Jennifer Saunders as Trillian. Never mind that they would be the absolute PERFECT cast, they would be too old to portray them live action. But as voices for animated characters...badabingbadabangbadaboom! They would have been perfect.
3.) Be as faithful to the materials Douglas Adams left behind for the movie as possible. And when in doubt, consult those materials + the books + the radio show + the TV show. If the people who did this H2G2 movie gave Adams as much propers as Robert Rodriguez did Frank Miller with Sin City it would have rocked rather sucked as badly as it seems to according to this review.
The big problem with such a plan, though? Americans think that cartoons=kid stuff. It takes a Pixar or a "Shrek" to get adults into theatres to watch animation. Great animation for grownups like The Triplets of Belleville, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door and Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II gets lost. (Yeah, they all were put out domestically by Sony Pictures. They have no idea of what to do with their animated properties.) If the two Matrix sequels were as ripping good as the Animatrix shorts, they would be artistic successes but box-office failures. The current state of affairs sucks, dammit.
I live in the East San Fernando Valley. Adelphia has been our cable company since they bought the TCI franchise. We have always felt like the Red Headed Stepchildren of cable here because the West Valley has always had a better managed and more modern cable franchise. I'm not sure who had 'em first but Time Warner has been the franchise owner there for at least 25 years.
Adelphia also bought out the holdings of what started out as Theta Cable in Los Angeles proper, and became Century Cable Los Angeles. The one area of the Westside not covered by Century is now owned by Comcast.
Here's how the franchises will likely be divvied up in Los Angeles. Time Warner will probably take over the East San Fernando Valley and the Simi Valley, creating a contiguous cable system stretching from well into Ventura County to the eastern boundary of the old Adelphia Cable of the East Valley. Comcast will probably take the Westside, Central LA and Eagle Rock franchises, metastasising their toehold in Culver City into full 0wnage of the Los Angeles Basin.
Finally my neighborhood gets the non-shitty end of the stick in a cable merger! Time Warner Cable West Valley is known for their good service and fiber-to-the-curb technology. Hopefully they will deign to upgrade the East Valley from its current Coax-only doldrums to full fiber-to-the-curb/DOCSIS/Digital Cable that truly IS Digital Cable splendor.
DiDio is a total shill for Microsoft. I don't know why/. dotes on her every word. She isn't an unbiased source, y'know.
The non-biased information all says the obvious: Linux has TCO ownage on Windows. That said, I'd like to see a TCO study where Linux and Windows are compared to MacOS X, especially now that Apple has a relatively cheap model that could be a great replacement for enterprise desktops.
The reason why I mentioned the new installer (debian-installer, aka the Sarge Installer) was not because of the Sarge-iness of its packages, but because it is dead easy to use, unlike the old Woody installer. Maybe it doesn't have kewl framebuffer graphics like the Mandrake Installer, but I defy anyone to not understand it. Unlike the old Debian installer which is opaque as hell.
I have used debian-installer many times. The first time was on a ThinkPad and I had the fiddliness of installing to a laptop confused with inherent fiddliness of debian-installer. Then I used debian-installer on a plain beige-box homegrown desktop box. Dead easy.
Let me make this plain to all of you people trumpeting Ubuntu as "Debian for Tyros"...folks, they are using debian-installer straight out of the box! That ease of installation you trumpet in Ubuntu is right there in garden-variety Debian.
I've gone Debian and I'm not going back. It really is the universal OS. Give the new "release candidate" installer a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Sid's not stagnant. Want a bleeding edge Debian? Add some "unstable" repositories to your repertoire. Debian's idea of "unstable" is way more stable than Fedora's idea of unstable. Or Windows' idea of unstable, for that matter. Walk on the wild side, baby!:-)
In "Stand On Zanzibar" Brunner foresaw the sequencing of the human genome, genetic engineering, Road Rage/"Going Postal," MTV and CNN. He didn't foresee the personal computer and the breakup of the Soviet Union, but eh. It's still a bitchen read.
Fork OO.o. The source is out there. Create a Free Software-correct fork of OO.o, call it "Free And Open Office" and go to town. Replace the database module with MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever database you want. Hack out anything and everything that you don't like. F/OSS sees proprietariness as damage and routes around it.
Thing is, though, that so-called "Generic Debian" is just ducky on the desktop. The Sarge installer (debian-installer) *is* "ready for prime time" on sufficiently generic white-box PCs. It requires a little fiddling on more proprietary machines like laptops, but usually *any* install of Linux is fiddly on machines like that.
Ironically the safest way to run Debian is to run at the least a hybrid Sarge/Sid system, if not a full-on Sid system. Don't be frightened by the "unstable" tag...Sid is about as unstable as "normal" distros like Fedora and Mandrake. Sid also gets the latest security updates, something that Sarge doesn't get at this point.
So Sarge isn't officially released yet. BFD. It works for me and has for months now. Ubuntu is just too Gnome-centric, and what kind of installer does it use again? Oh yeah, the Sarge installer. Plain old garden-variety Debian is just as easy as Ubuntu is.
However, it *is* nice to have pressed installer disks. If you go to shipit.ubuntulinux.org you will indeed get pressed versions of the Ubuntu install disk and the Ubuntu customized version of Gnoppix. Not bad. Some old computers are allergic to CD-Rs, so Ubuntu giving away pressed disks is quite cool.
The one thing that annoys about Nero is this: why the HELL do they require a 500MHz PIII as the lowest-end system for using Nero 6.x??? This is so lame. I have a ThinkPad 600e retrofitted with a Panasonic slot-loading combo drive, and K3B works a treat on it. Perhaps Nero is getting a bit of middle-age bloat?
Since my Windows partition on the 600e is formatted as FAT32, I can burn anything from Linux, so having a working version of Nero doesn't hurt. Still...wtf are they doing in Nero 6.x that makes it so resource hungry????
Simple, a time-tested protocol, easy, tons of free/open source and free-beer-ware clients, and it doesn't take a genius to set up either side. If you don't like the big chat networks (I don't) set up your own. Really, it doesn't require a hell of a lot of resources to run an ircd.
If you are paranoid about security, run the ircd in a chroot jail.
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Umm...that's the Jar Jar scene. Anakin/Vader apparently lets him live. And that shows you that Anakin has been allied with the Dark Side for longer than has been let on.
Oh yeah...and what's with calling Anakin "Annie?" Ye ghods and ghoddesses...that is a crime against nature. Shudder...
According to reports, the initials BMF really *are* engraved on the Mace Windu lightsabre. Whether in Latin letters or in that alphabet they use in Star Wars I'm not totally clear on. But it's there.
...are belong to Wegener Media in South Carolina. $60 for an eMate. They are still cool, although you're going to need an old (Beige G3 or earlier) Mac to sync with.
/., because I would like one of these for myself.
I hope I'm not going to regret putting this link on
A nice fat Saguaro should do nicely.
I am a casualty of the Dot Com Bust.
Really, after basically going between McJobs and total unemployed bum status and finally deciding "Fuck it" in 2003 and going back to school in a non-IT field, this is like rubbing salt in wounds that have yet to heal.
Fuck you, Bill Gates, sir. Fuck you, fuck Ballmer, fuck your fucking astroturfers, fuck your proxy warriors at SCOXE.
And fuck you if you think this is a troll. I am saying this straight from my guts. This article got me REAL MAD.
...this is good if it pans out. Considering how Global Peak Oil might have been already reached, or if not, we're close to it, we're going to be needing a replacement for petroleum and soon.
w00t, it's a ThinkPad! I couldn't tell you which one, but that little red eraserhead is unmistakeable.
Question: The article makes a big deal about standard hard drives not being able to work in Zero G? Why does a laptop HD work in Zero G and a regular hard drive not work? Have I missed something?
My favorite Reznor/Mac story was how he went out and bought a Blue-and-white G3, and two months later the first G4s with their graphite-and-white color scheme was released. Not only was he kicking himself because he had missed out on Altivec, but he also thought the grey/white G4s were more aesthetically pleasing. The Blueberry color was too cheery, to his viewpoint.
;-) MacOS 8.5.1 was one of the flakiest MacOS releases ever, and that's what was installed on it when I got it. So, he was named after an animated flaky musician dude.
And my Blue-and-white? It's netname is Trent. Named not after Reznor but his animated namesake from "Daria."
And let's not forget the gratuitous dwarf-tossing jokes in the first two films. Then again, the director of "Dead Alive" and "Meet The Feebles" not adding a little sophomoric humor to LOTR? Did you expect him to hold back? I didn't and wasn't offended.
The beauty of the LOTR movies was that even though they were not faithful to the letter of the book, they were faithful to the spirit of the book. I was not disappointed.
Of course, I would have rather seen Bjork as Arwen. She *looks* like an elf. She wouldn't have even had to play with a different accent...her Icelandic/British accent is pretty damn close to the way they did Elvish anyway.
Also I would have rather heard what Jimmy Page would have done on the soundtrack instead of Howard Shore. I'm a child of the '70s. Reading LOTR with Led Zeppelin on the stereo has inescapably twisted my mind. He's done orchestral scores before...anyone remember the "Death Wish" movies? Yeah, I know, bad example.
Of course, H2G2 has similar synaptic connections in my twisted mind. I still have an animated movie starring the voices of Eric Idle (Ford), Michael Palin (Arthur) and Bill Murray (Zaphod) in my mind, probably never to be erased by the actual movie. The deconstruction of the movie by DNA's biographer kinda had me worried, but I think I might just give this a chance.
http://www.linmodems.org/
Etch? Is this the name that the new Testing will receive once Sarge becomes the Stable release?
Wow, they're really grasping for Toy Story-related names. Hmm...was Wheeze ever used? Gotta give the little penguin some propers before moving on to Bug's Life/Nemo/Monsters Inc./Incredibles-related names.
Here's what I personally would have liked to see happen:
1.) Don't even bother to do it live action. Animation. 2D classical drawn animation. No CGI crap...humans still don't look right in CGI, and H2G2 was very humanoid-centric. Get someone with a cartoony sense to do the character design. Andreas Deja would be perfect. Then get a "dream team" of animators from both sides of the Pacific to work on it. This could have been Touchstone Pictures' triumphant return to animation. "Not since Who Framed Roger Rabbit?!"
2.) If you animate the movie, you don't have to get people to portray the roles who are exactly the right age to play them. For instance, you could have Michael Palin as Arthur, Eric Idle as Ford, Bill Murray as Zaphod and Jennifer Saunders as Trillian. Never mind that they would be the absolute PERFECT cast, they would be too old to portray them live action. But as voices for animated characters...badabingbadabangbadaboom! They would have been perfect.
3.) Be as faithful to the materials Douglas Adams left behind for the movie as possible. And when in doubt, consult those materials + the books + the radio show + the TV show. If the people who did this H2G2 movie gave Adams as much propers as Robert Rodriguez did Frank Miller with Sin City it would have rocked rather sucked as badly as it seems to according to this review.
The big problem with such a plan, though? Americans think that cartoons=kid stuff. It takes a Pixar or a "Shrek" to get adults into theatres to watch animation. Great animation for grownups like The Triplets of Belleville, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door and Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II gets lost. (Yeah, they all were put out domestically by Sony Pictures. They have no idea of what to do with their animated properties.) If the two Matrix sequels were as ripping good as the Animatrix shorts, they would be artistic successes but box-office failures. The current state of affairs sucks, dammit.
I would have to agree...Adelphia sux0rz.
I live in the East San Fernando Valley. Adelphia has been our cable company since they bought the TCI franchise. We have always felt like the Red Headed Stepchildren of cable here because the West Valley has always had a better managed and more modern cable franchise. I'm not sure who had 'em first but Time Warner has been the franchise owner there for at least 25 years.
Adelphia also bought out the holdings of what started out as Theta Cable in Los Angeles proper, and became Century Cable Los Angeles. The one area of the Westside not covered by Century is now owned by Comcast.
Here's how the franchises will likely be divvied up in Los Angeles. Time Warner will probably take over the East San Fernando Valley and the Simi Valley, creating a contiguous cable system stretching from well into Ventura County to the eastern boundary of the old Adelphia Cable of the East Valley. Comcast will probably take the Westside, Central LA and Eagle Rock franchises, metastasising their toehold in Culver City into full 0wnage of the Los Angeles Basin.
Finally my neighborhood gets the non-shitty end of the stick in a cable merger! Time Warner Cable West Valley is known for their good service and fiber-to-the-curb technology. Hopefully they will deign to upgrade the East Valley from its current Coax-only doldrums to full fiber-to-the-curb/DOCSIS/Digital Cable that truly IS Digital Cable splendor.
Comcast, however...meh...
DiDio is a total shill for Microsoft. I don't know why /. dotes on her every word. She isn't an unbiased source, y'know.
The non-biased information all says the obvious: Linux has TCO ownage on Windows. That said, I'd like to see a TCO study where Linux and Windows are compared to MacOS X, especially now that Apple has a relatively cheap model that could be a great replacement for enterprise desktops.
Disagree: the Mac fans will love it because Gnome is very MacOS X-like. The Microsofties will like Kubuntu. Those who love Linux will love Debian.
The reason why I mentioned the new installer (debian-installer, aka the Sarge Installer) was not because of the Sarge-iness of its packages, but because it is dead easy to use, unlike the old Woody installer. Maybe it doesn't have kewl framebuffer graphics like the Mandrake Installer, but I defy anyone to not understand it. Unlike the old Debian installer which is opaque as hell.
I have used debian-installer many times. The first time was on a ThinkPad and I had the fiddliness of installing to a laptop confused with inherent fiddliness of debian-installer. Then I used debian-installer on a plain beige-box homegrown desktop box. Dead easy.
Let me make this plain to all of you people trumpeting Ubuntu as "Debian for Tyros"...folks, they are using debian-installer straight out of the box! That ease of installation you trumpet in Ubuntu is right there in garden-variety Debian.
I've gone Debian and I'm not going back. It really is the universal OS. Give the new "release candidate" installer a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Umm...did you use the old "Woody" installer or the current debian-installer, aka the "Sarge" installer?
I just upgraded to a 120GB hard drive in my daily drive machine, and debian-installer found and partitioned the whole blessed hard drive with ease.
Now if only "Sarge" would become the stable distro so that I can get security updates for the "Sarge" packages on my system...grumble...
Sid's not stagnant. Want a bleeding edge Debian? Add some "unstable" repositories to your repertoire. Debian's idea of "unstable" is way more stable than Fedora's idea of unstable. Or Windows' idea of unstable, for that matter. Walk on the wild side, baby! :-)
In "Stand On Zanzibar" Brunner foresaw the sequencing of the human genome, genetic engineering, Road Rage/"Going Postal," MTV and CNN. He didn't foresee the personal computer and the breakup of the Soviet Union, but eh. It's still a bitchen read.
"The Shockwave Rider" is also pretty kick-ass.
Fork OO.o. The source is out there. Create a Free Software-correct fork of OO.o, call it "Free And Open Office" and go to town. Replace the database module with MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever database you want. Hack out anything and everything that you don't like. F/OSS sees proprietariness as damage and routes around it.
Here's how you fix dependencies in Debian:
#apt-get update
#apt-get dist-upgrade
Badabingbadabangbadaboom. It's done. Happy days are here again.
Their server is now in smoking ruins.
Thing is, though, that so-called "Generic Debian" is just ducky on the desktop. The Sarge installer (debian-installer) *is* "ready for prime time" on sufficiently generic white-box PCs. It requires a little fiddling on more proprietary machines like laptops, but usually *any* install of Linux is fiddly on machines like that.
Ironically the safest way to run Debian is to run at the least a hybrid Sarge/Sid system, if not a full-on Sid system. Don't be frightened by the "unstable" tag...Sid is about as unstable as "normal" distros like Fedora and Mandrake. Sid also gets the latest security updates, something that Sarge doesn't get at this point.
So Sarge isn't officially released yet. BFD. It works for me and has for months now. Ubuntu is just too Gnome-centric, and what kind of installer does it use again? Oh yeah, the Sarge installer. Plain old garden-variety Debian is just as easy as Ubuntu is.
However, it *is* nice to have pressed installer disks. If you go to shipit.ubuntulinux.org you will indeed get pressed versions of the Ubuntu install disk and the Ubuntu customized version of Gnoppix. Not bad. Some old computers are allergic to CD-Rs, so Ubuntu giving away pressed disks is quite cool.
This is yet another root to Ping-chan's family tree.
And yes, I want one.
The one thing that annoys about Nero is this: why the HELL do they require a 500MHz PIII as the lowest-end system for using Nero 6.x??? This is so lame. I have a ThinkPad 600e retrofitted with a Panasonic slot-loading combo drive, and K3B works a treat on it. Perhaps Nero is getting a bit of middle-age bloat?
Since my Windows partition on the 600e is formatted as FAT32, I can burn anything from Linux, so having a working version of Nero doesn't hurt. Still...wtf are they doing in Nero 6.x that makes it so resource hungry????
I would indeed welcome a Windows port of K3B.
I. R. C.
Simple, a time-tested protocol, easy, tons of free/open source and free-beer-ware clients, and it doesn't take a genius to set up either side. If you don't like the big chat networks (I don't) set up your own. Really, it doesn't require a hell of a lot of resources to run an ircd.
If you are paranoid about security, run the ircd in a chroot jail.