Maybe not a live-action Ghost in the Shell, but there *is* a live-action Neon Genesis Evangelion movie in the works. WETA Workshop, the folks who went a long way towards helping the definite non-sucky LOTR trilogy not suck, is going to do the FX.
Hopefully Gainax, WETA, and ADV Films and the unnamed but Very Major American Movie Studio(s) will be able to make this work.
If it's done right, this Eva movie will blow the Star Wars prequels and The Matrix trilogy out of the water. Big time.
If it's done wrong, it's going to be the American-financed Godzilla movie all over again. Here lizard, lizard, lizard....
I have a dead 5150 (original 5-slot IBM PC for those not in the know) that's going to get a makeover. I'm thinking that I'll shove an entire VIA EPIA in a Cubid case into the 5150 case. Will it run Linux? Of course it will! The guts of several Macs could probably also fit in one of those cases...that would be a cool mod if someone did it.
And I agree...waste of Compact Mac. I would think a PowerBook logic board would fit in one of those cases, if not a CRT iMac logic board.
I finished my certs. I am still officially MCSE on Windows 2000 #2354237. Check on the Microsoft site. I will check out as being official.
In case you got here late, AC, 9/11 was the death blow to a tech economy that was reeling from the collapse of the Dot-bombs. It was the coup de grace. I was simply pointing out how 9/11 had made finding a low-level assistant sysadmin job near-impossible. I had actual experience behind my certs. The striplings who had none hadn't a prayer.
I have many other reasons why I am not going to "upgrade" my MCSE. Namely:
I have ZERO confidence in Microsoft's ability to harden Windows against constant security peril.
I think the current FUD they and their sock-puppets at SCO are churning out against Linux is 100% bullshit.
Windows Server 2K3 is similar enough to Server 2000 that if I was faced with a need to manage a network based on 2K3 (fat chance) I would do just fine, thank you.
My priorities have indeed changed. I have gone back to College and am looking to become a K-12 teacher with a Special Ed emphasis. Last I checked, I can't be replaced by a guy in Bangalore using Remote Desktop over a T1 if I'm a teacher. And my tech background will come in particularly handy because of all the adaptive technology currently used in Special Ed to accomodate disabled students.
Oh yeah, and for the punk-ass who scoffs at a 1 year MCSE prep program: yeah, it doesn't take 1 year to braindump your way to a paper certification, but 1 year is a modest amount of time to prepare people for entry-level jobs in networking. Some of my classmates actually did go from being secretaries to being geeks whom I'd trust with a network.
The year I took studying for the 7 MCSE/W2K exams was a year I will never get back, and it's gotten me exactly nowhere. I actually had tech industry background and experience. Most of the people in my "class" didn't. The day before my appointment for test #5 of 7 was 9/11. That basically sealed our fate.
MCSE on W2K3 Server? No fucking way. Redmond can pound sand.
My suggestion: start studying nursing. They can't outsource that job yet...although the anime Roujin-Z suggests that perhaps eventual outsourcing to cyber-nurse beds might be in the cards for the future. Same with teaching. You can't dial in a teacher from Bangalore...at least not yet.
Two buttons, with the optical ball centered between them. Lefties and righties can use one without a problem. This is the problem with the thumb-ball version of this device...it's set up for righties.
Also, your thumb doesn't have the same dexterity as your index finger, which is the finger that naturally falls on top of the ball. Actually, come to think of it, I often use both my index and middle finger to move the trackball around. But the index finger is what I use most of the time.
The Logitech Marble Mouse simply has ownage over any other pointing device on the planet. Optical trackball, requiring less frequent cleanings, with the cleanings being easier than similar roller ball trackballs like the Kensington Orbit.
The ultimate test of this is the FPS test. I love using this when playing Unreal Tournament. You can make very quick, flicking movements with this that are great for aiming and firing.
The only thing that a conventional mouse has over the Marble Mouse is in drawing. I am a bit more comfortable with a conventional mouse doing that. Then again, that's not the proper tool for the job, a tablet is.
Finally, someone gets to the heart of why ST:TOS and ST:TNG ruled and everything else sucked. They were both very strongly character driven. TOS had an edge over TNG because instead of frustrated sitcom writers they had some very good science fiction writers (Ellison in his prime for one example...need I say more?) writing for them.
In ST:TNG you still had that emphasis on character development and story development. Even Wesley Crusher developed beyond the "brat on the Bridge" that every red-blooded trekker hated.
I blame Berman. Berman didn't "get it" from the very start. Instead of following in Roddenberry's footsteps and emphasizing story and character development, he emphasised bright shiny objects and fanservice.
It's time to put the whole ST continuum to bed. Say goodnight, Enterprise.
To quote the great Captain Beefheart: "Better a big waist than a big waste." So he's still got the "incipient paunch." Big fsckn deal. So he won't win Mr. Universe. Again, big fsckn deal. I don't think many of you all reading this site can boast of being physically fit. I'm not. So what?
If the "Guys of Open Source" calendar was for a good cause, like this dunk tank party was, then dammit, I'd buy it. Even if the centerfold was RMS. ^_^
The Blaster worm might have slowed reaction to the conditions that precipitated the Blackout of 2003. I believe a handful of people died as the result of the blackout.
BTW: this is a great article, great to show the PHBs that perhaps having a diversity of platforms is better than "standardizing" on one. Standardizing on one platform, be it Windows, Linux, MacOS X or even Amiga, is bad policy and potentially dangerous.
* Replace the core of their system with a Unix system like MacOS did.
Now *this* might happen. I suspect that if they continue to have problems with Longhorn, they might consider their very own fork of *BSD code. You know that they just *LOVE* the BSD License and *BSD code over there. They appropriate it often. Hell, SFU is probably crawling with *BSD code!
Having a free-as-in-beer SFU is very, very useful. It would be nice if SFU included a species of SSH as part of it, but oh well. SFU or Cygnus. Cygnus or SFU. Suddenly the picture gets more complicated for those who have to deal with Windows/UNIX/Linux interoperability. I don't know if it's good news or bad news or just weird news.
Yeah, they seem to be interested only in the fetus while it's still in the womb. When you're born, you are out of luck, Jack.
If you get right down to it, the anti-choice are less about "saving the children" and more about controlling the lives and choices of women. A barefoot-and-pregnant woman having babies every 9 months is also likely to be tied down to home and hearth, with none of the "uppity" ambitions that give these (mostly) men fits. She's also likely to die young, too.
A century ago, women like Margaret Sanger took up the cause of birth control because of the plight of the wife-as-baby-factory. Yes, she also had weird ideas about eugenics, but aside from those (which were common in her era) her arguments about the necessity of birth control are still valid.
In societies where safe and effective birth control is available and women are able to plan their families, women and children lead better lives. All religions except the Catholic Church and a small subset of Orthodox Judaism accept birth control now.
The thing that the anti-choice need to support is artificial womb research. If they want to end abortions, they should support research into making them obsolete. Instead of "killing" a fetus, you simply transfer it out of the womb and into the artificial womb until it comes to term. Then when the child is born, you find willing families to adopt.
Oh, silly me. Lots of kids are waiting for adoptive homes...where are the anti-choicers when the time comes to adopt? They're not there? What happened to "adoption, not abortion?" It went the same place as caring for the "poor unborn children" when they get born.
My husband is one, and he definitely can tell the difference between something encoded as MP3 and something encoded as.OGG/Vorbis. And there is a difference..OGG just sounds better to his ears.
This is why he's got.OGG files available for download next to the.MP3 files on his site. He could give a rat's ass about "Free as in Freedom," to him, the advantage is that it just sounds better to his ears.
OK, I'm not leaving Slashdot. I can't leave, I'm addicted.
All I am saying in my journal is that I'm not going to update that anymore...that I will be blogging exclusively on my Blogspot space, which you can reach through the URL under my name.
It's interesting that this is conceivably the best computer hardware commercial since the Apple "1984" commercial. Which, as you all remember, was a poke at IBM.
Everything works under Knoppix including sound. I haven't tried the modem yet, but really have no inclination to seeing as I have DSL at home and both 802.11b and GPRS connectivity available to me while out and about.
Only sticky bit is playing VCDs under Linux...the X video driver doesn't seem to be able to do video overlays like what is needed by Xine. I suspect with a little more digging I'll be able to deal with it. In the mean time, I can just boot over to the Dark Side and watch my VCDs happily.
Alan Cox still uses his 600 series ThinkPad, I believe, to give but one example of someone high up in the Linux Universe who uses a ThinkPad. However, there are hundreds of other Linux users who run Linux on ThinkPads. I think right now that the only laptop kit more common running Linux than ThinkPads are Apple PowerBooks and iBooks.
Computer Geeks still has 600X laptops around for super cheap...those have Pentium IIIs instead of Pentium IIs like the 600 and 600E do. Why look, here's one now. Enjoy!
DSLExtreme. Locally run (Canoga Park, CA) and geek-friendly. Consistently rated high on Broadband Reports. They are now available in all areas served by SBC. If you are with Verizon, you have to live in Southern California to use the peanutbuttery goodness of DSLExtreme as your broadband ISP.
As far as DSLExtreme's dialup goes, it's also dead-solid perfect. They resell Level 3 points of presence...solid.
And I can assure you that you won't be supporting anyone but a bunch of geeks who started an ISP. No connections to the Cof$, RIAA and MPAA or Bill Gates.
No, they aren't paying me for this. They should, but they aren't. Just a happy user for many years, back when they were So-Cal only.
Like I said, you can run the Knoppix disk from your CD-ROM drive and it will not touch your Windows install except to add a file called knoppix.swp to your root directory. The file is easily trashable from Windows.
Repeat after me: Knoppix will not fuxor your Windows install. It is safe to try Linux using Knoppix.
Get a Knoppix disk and boot your ThinkPad with it. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. It won't touch your install of XP. My 600e is currently running a HD install of Knoppix. I liked how it worked so much running from CD I did the knx-hdinstall. Only sound didn't come up from first boot.
Four words. Open Office dot org. Unless there's really fancy crap in that.DOC file (which Open Office usually ignores gleefully) it will open the.DOC easily.
It's a good thing. Nothing says "Fuck you, Darl" like a ThinkPad running Linux. We will probably see ThinkPads preloaded with Linux by the end of the year. [Daria]Go, go, kick butt.[/Daria]
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Maybe not a live-action Ghost in the Shell, but there *is* a live-action Neon Genesis Evangelion movie in the works. WETA Workshop, the folks who went a long way towards helping the definite non-sucky LOTR trilogy not suck, is going to do the FX.
Hopefully Gainax, WETA, and ADV Films and the unnamed but Very Major American Movie Studio(s) will be able to make this work.
If it's done right, this Eva movie will blow the Star Wars prequels and The Matrix trilogy out of the water. Big time.
If it's done wrong, it's going to be the American-financed Godzilla movie all over again. Here lizard, lizard, lizard....
I have a dead 5150 (original 5-slot IBM PC for those not in the know) that's going to get a makeover. I'm thinking that I'll shove an entire VIA EPIA in a Cubid case into the 5150 case. Will it run Linux? Of course it will! The guts of several Macs could probably also fit in one of those cases...that would be a cool mod if someone did it.
And I agree...waste of Compact Mac. I would think a PowerBook logic board would fit in one of those cases, if not a CRT iMac logic board.
I finished my certs. I am still officially MCSE on Windows 2000 #2354237. Check on the Microsoft site. I will check out as being official.
In case you got here late, AC, 9/11 was the death blow to a tech economy that was reeling from the collapse of the Dot-bombs. It was the coup de grace. I was simply pointing out how 9/11 had made finding a low-level assistant sysadmin job near-impossible. I had actual experience behind my certs. The striplings who had none hadn't a prayer.
I have many other reasons why I am not going to "upgrade" my MCSE. Namely:
I have ZERO confidence in Microsoft's ability to harden Windows against constant security peril.
I think the current FUD they and their sock-puppets at SCO are churning out against Linux is 100% bullshit.
Windows Server 2K3 is similar enough to Server 2000 that if I was faced with a need to manage a network based on 2K3 (fat chance) I would do just fine, thank you.
My priorities have indeed changed. I have gone back to College and am looking to become a K-12 teacher with a Special Ed emphasis. Last I checked, I can't be replaced by a guy in Bangalore using Remote Desktop over a T1 if I'm a teacher. And my tech background will come in particularly handy because of all the adaptive technology currently used in Special Ed to accomodate disabled students.
Oh yeah, and for the punk-ass who scoffs at a 1 year MCSE prep program: yeah, it doesn't take 1 year to braindump your way to a paper certification, but 1 year is a modest amount of time to prepare people for entry-level jobs in networking. Some of my classmates actually did go from being secretaries to being geeks whom I'd trust with a network.
The year I took studying for the 7 MCSE/W2K exams was a year I will never get back, and it's gotten me exactly nowhere. I actually had tech industry background and experience. Most of the people in my "class" didn't. The day before my appointment for test #5 of 7 was 9/11. That basically sealed our fate.
MCSE on W2K3 Server? No fucking way. Redmond can pound sand.
My suggestion: start studying nursing. They can't outsource that job yet...although the anime Roujin-Z suggests that perhaps eventual outsourcing to cyber-nurse beds might be in the cards for the future. Same with teaching. You can't dial in a teacher from Bangalore...at least not yet.
Two buttons, with the optical ball centered between them. Lefties and righties can use one without a problem. This is the problem with the thumb-ball version of this device...it's set up for righties.
Also, your thumb doesn't have the same dexterity as your index finger, which is the finger that naturally falls on top of the ball. Actually, come to think of it, I often use both my index and middle finger to move the trackball around. But the index finger is what I use most of the time.
The Logitech Marble Mouse simply has ownage over any other pointing device on the planet. Optical trackball, requiring less frequent cleanings, with the cleanings being easier than similar roller ball trackballs like the Kensington Orbit.
The ultimate test of this is the FPS test. I love using this when playing Unreal Tournament. You can make very quick, flicking movements with this that are great for aiming and firing.
The only thing that a conventional mouse has over the Marble Mouse is in drawing. I am a bit more comfortable with a conventional mouse doing that. Then again, that's not the proper tool for the job, a tablet is.
Finally, someone gets to the heart of why ST:TOS and ST:TNG ruled and everything else sucked. They were both very strongly character driven. TOS had an edge over TNG because instead of frustrated sitcom writers they had some very good science fiction writers (Ellison in his prime for one example...need I say more?) writing for them.
In ST:TNG you still had that emphasis on character development and story development. Even Wesley Crusher developed beyond the "brat on the Bridge" that every red-blooded trekker hated.
I blame Berman. Berman didn't "get it" from the very start. Instead of following in Roddenberry's footsteps and emphasizing story and character development, he emphasised bright shiny objects and fanservice.
It's time to put the whole ST continuum to bed. Say goodnight, Enterprise.
To quote the great Captain Beefheart: "Better a big waist than a big waste." So he's still got the "incipient paunch." Big fsckn deal. So he won't win Mr. Universe. Again, big fsckn deal. I don't think many of you all reading this site can boast of being physically fit. I'm not. So what?
If the "Guys of Open Source" calendar was for a good cause, like this dunk tank party was, then dammit, I'd buy it. Even if the centerfold was RMS. ^_^
The Blaster worm might have slowed reaction to the conditions that precipitated the Blackout of 2003. I believe a handful of people died as the result of the blackout.
BTW: this is a great article, great to show the PHBs that perhaps having a diversity of platforms is better than "standardizing" on one. Standardizing on one platform, be it Windows, Linux, MacOS X or even Amiga, is bad policy and potentially dangerous.
Worst. Rumor. Ever.
However, Lucas, if this is true, FORGET ABOUT IT!!!! LET IT REST!!!!!!
* Comply with standards
Not bloody likely.
* Open the source
No way in hell.
* Replace the core of their system with a Unix system like MacOS did.
Now *this* might happen. I suspect that if they continue to have problems with Longhorn, they might consider their very own fork of *BSD code. You know that they just *LOVE* the BSD License and *BSD code over there. They appropriate it often. Hell, SFU is probably crawling with *BSD code!
Having a free-as-in-beer SFU is very, very useful. It would be nice if SFU included a species of SSH as part of it, but oh well. SFU or Cygnus. Cygnus or SFU. Suddenly the picture gets more complicated for those who have to deal with Windows/UNIX/Linux interoperability. I don't know if it's good news or bad news or just weird news.
Yeah, they seem to be interested only in the fetus while it's still in the womb. When you're born, you are out of luck, Jack.
If you get right down to it, the anti-choice are less about "saving the children" and more about controlling the lives and choices of women. A barefoot-and-pregnant woman having babies every 9 months is also likely to be tied down to home and hearth, with none of the "uppity" ambitions that give these (mostly) men fits. She's also likely to die young, too.
A century ago, women like Margaret Sanger took up the cause of birth control because of the plight of the wife-as-baby-factory. Yes, she also had weird ideas about eugenics, but aside from those (which were common in her era) her arguments about the necessity of birth control are still valid.
In societies where safe and effective birth control is available and women are able to plan their families, women and children lead better lives. All religions except the Catholic Church and a small subset of Orthodox Judaism accept birth control now.
The thing that the anti-choice need to support is artificial womb research. If they want to end abortions, they should support research into making them obsolete. Instead of "killing" a fetus, you simply transfer it out of the womb and into the artificial womb until it comes to term. Then when the child is born, you find willing families to adopt.
Oh, silly me. Lots of kids are waiting for adoptive homes...where are the anti-choicers when the time comes to adopt? They're not there? What happened to "adoption, not abortion?" It went the same place as caring for the "poor unborn children" when they get born.
No, I think this beats it.
I still think it should have been animated rather than live-action. That's it, you may now go back to your regularly scheduled trolling.
Well, if someone starts building hyperspace gates near The Moon, that "Moon landing on your head" insurance might come in handy a few years later.
For those on a budget, click here. There is nothing that says "Bite me, Darl!" like a ThinkPad running Linux.
Umm...you are obviously not a musician, are you?
.OGG/Vorbis. And there is a difference. .OGG just sounds better to his ears.
.OGG files available for download next to the .MP3 files on his site. He could give a rat's ass about "Free as in Freedom," to him, the advantage is that it just sounds better to his ears.
My husband is one, and he definitely can tell the difference between something encoded as MP3 and something encoded as
This is why he's got
Clown shoes? Shehyeahright...
OK, I'm not leaving Slashdot. I can't leave, I'm addicted.
All I am saying in my journal is that I'm not going to update that anymore...that I will be blogging exclusively on my Blogspot space, which you can reach through the URL under my name.
Hope that explains things...
Michelle aka Ms. Geek
It's interesting that this is conceivably the best computer hardware commercial since the Apple "1984" commercial. Which, as you all remember, was a poke at IBM.
Everything works under Knoppix including sound. I haven't tried the modem yet, but really have no inclination to seeing as I have DSL at home and both 802.11b and GPRS connectivity available to me while out and about.
Only sticky bit is playing VCDs under Linux...the X video driver doesn't seem to be able to do video overlays like what is needed by Xine. I suspect with a little more digging I'll be able to deal with it. In the mean time, I can just boot over to the Dark Side and watch my VCDs happily.
Alan Cox still uses his 600 series ThinkPad, I believe, to give but one example of someone high up in the Linux Universe who uses a ThinkPad. However, there are hundreds of other Linux users who run Linux on ThinkPads. I think right now that the only laptop kit more common running Linux than ThinkPads are Apple PowerBooks and iBooks.
Computer Geeks still has 600X laptops around for super cheap...those have Pentium IIIs instead of Pentium IIs like the 600 and 600E do. Why look, here's one now. Enjoy!
DSLExtreme. Locally run (Canoga Park, CA) and geek-friendly. Consistently rated high on Broadband Reports. They are now available in all areas served by SBC. If you are with Verizon, you have to live in Southern California to use the peanutbuttery goodness of DSLExtreme as your broadband ISP.
As far as DSLExtreme's dialup goes, it's also dead-solid perfect. They resell Level 3 points of presence...solid.
And I can assure you that you won't be supporting anyone but a bunch of geeks who started an ISP. No connections to the Cof$, RIAA and MPAA or Bill Gates.
No, they aren't paying me for this. They should, but they aren't. Just a happy user for many years, back when they were So-Cal only.
Like I said, you can run the Knoppix disk from your CD-ROM drive and it will not touch your Windows install except to add a file called knoppix.swp to your root directory. The file is easily trashable from Windows.
Repeat after me: Knoppix will not fuxor your Windows install. It is safe to try Linux using Knoppix.
Get a Knoppix disk and boot your ThinkPad with it. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. It won't touch your install of XP. My 600e is currently running a HD install of Knoppix. I liked how it worked so much running from CD I did the knx-hdinstall. Only sound didn't come up from first boot.
Four words. Open Office dot org. Unless there's really fancy crap in that .DOC file (which Open Office usually ignores gleefully) it will open the .DOC easily.
When I was at SCALE 2x in November of last year, I got to talk to a few IBM-ers. They were all, to a person, gung-ho about the Linux switch.
It's a good thing. Nothing says "Fuck you, Darl" like a ThinkPad running Linux. We will probably see ThinkPads preloaded with Linux by the end of the year. [Daria]Go, go, kick butt.[/Daria]