But I'm still not sure that radio, nor film, can do the books justice. The surreal whimsical quality is just very hard to convey.
Quite the opposite: the books never quite captured the atmosphere of the original versions. A lot of effort was put into the sound effects and background music and it paid off.
I assume you've not read the book, which is fair enough since the director obviously hasn't either. Regardless of the accuracy of adaptation (Blade Runner is a great movie but a lousy adaptation), LotR is just plain bad movie-making. Great marketing effort, though.
Of course the first one is always the favorite; everything is novel, new, and mysterious;
Unless you've read any William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, or "Tiger, Tiger" by Alfred Bester, in which case everything is an interesting visulisation of things you've read about for years. Bullet time, in particular, is interesting to see after reading Bester's description of it.
Take China, for instance. People marched in the street, and even stood up to tanks. Then they got mowed down by machine gun fire and were run over by the tanks.
I take your point but it's also true that the Chinese government was very afraid that the protests would spread. Their control of the media largely stopped ordinary Chinese people from knowing just how big a deal it was. If they had, and had joined in, then there wouldn't have been enough tanks in China to keep them down.
Terror comes from the barrel of a gun, and terror gives you power; once the people are not scared of you you're in trouble.
So, the only option that offers an auto-update is getting killed off of linux.
How strange. I took all our servers off Red Hat early this year because of their auto-update. Our servers, and several desktops, are now Gentoo because I needed a good, maintainable, stable update system that didn't collapse each time the major version number got bumped.
Auto-updating is over-rated -- packagers do make mistakes (and that certainly includes Microsoft) -- but if you have to then just add "0 1 * * emerge -U world" to your crontab.
Is this political slant common in censorware? Have slashdotters found similar glitches in other 'parental control' software?"
In what way is it a "glitch", or even political, if selecting "weapons" on your filter prevents you viewing gun sites? What category should the NRA be in if not "weapons"?
Pity that Woking's such a crappy place to live otherwise.
We're actually in Brookwood; we drive up to the common with the mutt. The town's really suffered at the hands of the country's most inane architects. I've never seen an entire town suffer from "sick building syndrome" before.
took a trip out to the location where the "meteor" (sparking the invasion and spooking the local population) originally impacted
We walk our dog in the sandpit where the first cylinder landed in the book; Horsel Common is just up the road from where we live and there's a nice statue of a war-machine in the town centre too.
If enough informed people say that X is better, well then by any reasonable metric, X is better.
But is it true? By any reasonable metric Jackson's Lord of the Rings is better than Bakshi's. But, to me, Bakshi did a better job of what material he covered and I personally think Jackson's version stinks to high heaven. Now the problem is, I'm right! To me, at least. No amount of stats about how many people saw LotR, bought the DVD, bought the extended DVD, and repeated the routine for the second one makes any difference to me: I can see that it's a straight-forward crap movie! Fetch the Paxo, this turkey needs stuffing.
You might say that this is unimportant since I'm just one bitter voice in the wilderness but it works the other way around too: how many books, plays, movies etc. have been ignored when they were new and are revered now? Were their supporters wrong to ignore the "reasonable metric" in the past when they were the bitter voices; voices that we happen to now agree with?
What I'm saying is that there is no reasonable metric for the arts (and probably not for science either), no matter how often someone tries to come up with one. If the people that score badly today might score well tomorrow, and vice-versa, even though it's the exact same material being scored, what value can that score have?
It's the fact that he gave away too much information regarding security issues on the Microsoft campus.
Yeah, right. Let's have a look at what he said:
MSCopy, the print shop I work in, is in the same building as MS's shipping and receiving
Well, Jesus Christ! Osama Bin Laden must be on his way over in his Cessna as we speak!
I mean, how many people know that fantastically important piece of security info? Hundreds at least. Have they all been vetted by the MS Thought Police? Has the guy driving that van, been cleared by the CIA for such vital Homeland Security super-sensitive information? Has he buggery!
MS didn't like the tone of the posting which makes it sound like they don't eat their own shit (even though everyone knows MS writes Mac software and needs to have Macs to do that) and they kicked this poor bastard out the door on the ever popular catch-all, oh-sorry-was-that-your-rights? excuse of security.
On the other hand, what do you expect from Microsoft? Ethics?
Funnily enough I thought the opposite: silly idea but when I saw the logo I thought "actually, that's rather good".
As the page itself hints, this is because the glider was a key moment in many people's hacking lives: the realisation that something you didn't put into a program can arise from it and surprise you. It's just dots but...it walks!
Seeing that little glider took me back to those days, when it was all new and no one was sure if home computers would take off, copyright didn't cover computer programs and everyone was in their own little way working together. Kids today? Pah!
Sorry, drifted off there. Anyway: simplicity has it's own quality.
So tell me, Skippy: out of all the dozens of countries that have attempted to implement Communism, why is it that NOT ONE has ever gotten it "right"?
I can't actually think of more than a couple of countries that actually tried communism, Russia is the big one and it forced Stalinism on lots of others. The reason that they all failed is that, in your words, "IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK?"
I wasn't supporting communism, mearly pointing out that it isn't the same as what it turns into. In the same way that the idea of the Olympics is miles from the acuallity of drugged-up atheletes competing for multi-million dollar marketing contracts.
Communism simply can't work with real people, unless perhaps its a community of a dozen people or so. But that says no more about the ideals of communism than the "color" laws of 1950's Alabama tell you about the ideals of the US Constitution.
You'd think that the stench of 150 million corpses would serve as a convincing argument. I guess I just don't have the "intellectual" view on these things.
The American Guide to political theory: Socialism = Communism and the both = Stalinism.
They're actually all different; you're thinking of Stalinism. Stalin called himself a communist but it was just a way to make his opponents look bad to "the people", he didn't actually mean it.
The problem as I see it seems to be that Harold Hunt issued an ultimatum to the XFree86 group, then started exchanging escalating insults with core team members
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that Harold said that a (sub)-project leader should be able to apply aptches to his own project instead of wasting time sending them in and then trying to find out what happened to them. He was told that this was an unreasonable request and that he should damn well work the way he's told to work and stop bothering the great minds in charge.
Strangely, Harold took this badly!
Thomas Dickey in particular showed himself to be a wanker of the highest order. Any project with people of this sort in charge is doomed.
Why would anyone choose to work with a person who's response to a straight forward assersion that he was being unreasonable is "google doesn't show me any posting by you that I can use as a good
reference of your opinion."? I don't know you so I don't have to reason with you!?!
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Quite the opposite: the books never quite captured the atmosphere of the original versions. A lot of effort was put into the sound effects and background music and it paid off.
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I assume you've not read the book, which is fair enough since the director obviously hasn't either. Regardless of the accuracy of adaptation (Blade Runner is a great movie but a lousy adaptation), LotR is just plain bad movie-making. Great marketing effort, though.
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They can but are usually too lazy to try, in which case nothing will help. See www.dilbert.com for details.
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Unless you've read any William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, or "Tiger, Tiger" by Alfred Bester, in which case everything is an interesting visulisation of things you've read about for years. Bullet time, in particular, is interesting to see after reading Bester's description of it.
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One day, your computer may be the ONLY thing in your house connected to the outside mains supply!
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Gee, did anybody get her name?
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Because he was caught. There is a certain amount of ironic humour creeping in as people start to wonder just how bad an idea it was, though.
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I take your point but it's also true that the Chinese government was very afraid that the protests would spread. Their control of the media largely stopped ordinary Chinese people from knowing just how big a deal it was. If they had, and had joined in, then there wouldn't have been enough tanks in China to keep them down.
Terror comes from the barrel of a gun, and terror gives you power; once the people are not scared of you you're in trouble.
TWW
How strange. I took all our servers off Red Hat early this year because of their auto-update. Our servers, and several desktops, are now Gentoo because I needed a good, maintainable, stable update system that didn't collapse each time the major version number got bumped.
Auto-updating is over-rated -- packagers do make mistakes (and that certainly includes Microsoft) -- but if you have to then just add "0 1 * * emerge -U world" to your crontab.
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Well, maybe both.
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In what way is it a "glitch", or even political, if selecting "weapons" on your filter prevents you viewing gun sites? What category should the NRA be in if not "weapons"?
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Nothing to see here, move along.
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We're actually in Brookwood; we drive up to the common with the mutt. The town's really suffered at the hands of the country's most inane architects. I've never seen an entire town suffer from "sick building syndrome" before.
TWW
We walk our dog in the sandpit where the first cylinder landed in the book; Horsel Common is just up the road from where we live and there's a nice statue of a war-machine in the town centre too.
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Mice. They make good mice.
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But is it true? By any reasonable metric Jackson's Lord of the Rings is better than Bakshi's. But, to me, Bakshi did a better job of what material he covered and I personally think Jackson's version stinks to high heaven. Now the problem is, I'm right! To me, at least. No amount of stats about how many people saw LotR, bought the DVD, bought the extended DVD, and repeated the routine for the second one makes any difference to me: I can see that it's a straight-forward crap movie! Fetch the Paxo, this turkey needs stuffing.
You might say that this is unimportant since I'm just one bitter voice in the wilderness but it works the other way around too: how many books, plays, movies etc. have been ignored when they were new and are revered now? Were their supporters wrong to ignore the "reasonable metric" in the past when they were the bitter voices; voices that we happen to now agree with?
What I'm saying is that there is no reasonable metric for the arts (and probably not for science either), no matter how often someone tries to come up with one. If the people that score badly today might score well tomorrow, and vice-versa, even though it's the exact same material being scored, what value can that score have?
TWW
Yes, it's called a "prototype".
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Yeah, right. Let's have a look at what he said:
Well, Jesus Christ! Osama Bin Laden must be on his way over in his Cessna as we speak!
I mean, how many people know that fantastically important piece of security info? Hundreds at least. Have they all been vetted by the MS Thought Police? Has the guy driving that van, been cleared by the CIA for such vital Homeland Security super-sensitive information? Has he buggery!
MS didn't like the tone of the posting which makes it sound like they don't eat their own shit (even though everyone knows MS writes Mac software and needs to have Macs to do that) and they kicked this poor bastard out the door on the ever popular catch-all, oh-sorry-was-that-your-rights? excuse of security.
On the other hand, what do you expect from Microsoft? Ethics?
Next time, RTFA.
Next time, UTFA (Understand The Fine Article).
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Sell it to other countries that don't have a water table that's higher than the kitchen table?
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Funnily enough I thought the opposite: silly idea but when I saw the logo I thought "actually, that's rather good".
As the page itself hints, this is because the glider was a key moment in many people's hacking lives: the realisation that something you didn't put into a program can arise from it and surprise you. It's just dots but...it walks!
Seeing that little glider took me back to those days, when it was all new and no one was sure if home computers would take off, copyright didn't cover computer programs and everyone was in their own little way working together. Kids today? Pah!
Sorry, drifted off there. Anyway: simplicity has it's own quality.
TWW
I can't actually think of more than a couple of countries that actually tried communism, Russia is the big one and it forced Stalinism on lots of others. The reason that they all failed is that, in your words, "IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK?"
I wasn't supporting communism, mearly pointing out that it isn't the same as what it turns into. In the same way that the idea of the Olympics is miles from the acuallity of drugged-up atheletes competing for multi-million dollar marketing contracts.
Communism simply can't work with real people, unless perhaps its a community of a dozen people or so. But that says no more about the ideals of communism than the "color" laws of 1950's Alabama tell you about the ideals of the US Constitution.
You'd think that the stench of 150 million corpses would serve as a convincing argument. I guess I just don't have the "intellectual" view on these things.
Paradoxally, it does and you don't.
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The American Guide to political theory: Socialism = Communism and the both = Stalinism.
They're actually all different; you're thinking of Stalinism. Stalin called himself a communist but it was just a way to make his opponents look bad to "the people", he didn't actually mean it.
TWW
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that Harold said that a (sub)-project leader should be able to apply aptches to his own project instead of wasting time sending them in and then trying to find out what happened to them. He was told that this was an unreasonable request and that he should damn well work the way he's told to work and stop bothering the great minds in charge.
Strangely, Harold took this badly!
Thomas Dickey in particular showed himself to be a wanker of the highest order. Any project with people of this sort in charge is doomed.
Why would anyone choose to work with a person who's response to a straight forward assersion that he was being unreasonable is "google doesn't show me any posting by you that I can use as a good reference of your opinion."? I don't know you so I don't have to reason with you!?!
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