I think if you manage to think of her as more than a "whore" -- which is what Mal and other use as a put down -- and instead think of her as the companion she is, you will see that there is precedent in real life in the Geisha.
As always in Firefly, western and eastern culture meet somewhere...
If people really want to see O'Gara gone, they should contact the companies that advertise in Sys Con Media publications
Dear Microsoft, Sun and other assorted companies that hate linux, it has come to my attention that one of your paid shills is doing the job you all paid her to...
>Acrobat Reader, however, is like an eighty year old woman behind the wheel of an otherwise useful and speedy automobile.
I have a better question; why isn't there an obvious way (any way?) to bookmark a file and page?
My browser can do it. It's trivial.
Now I have to create a short-cut to the file, then each time I close down Reader, I have to rename the shortcut to include the page I was on. Then when I load the file up, I manually read off the page number and jump there.
Anyone else think this is MAJORLY FUCKED?
(also, if it could stop saying "This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled." EVERY TIME I CLOSE DOWN THE READER it would be much appreciated. Thanks)
No, it was a mirror universe where the girlie crew uniform is very nice (if you like bellies), and pretty much everyone is evil in very UNSUBTLE ways.
I think the concept meeting went like this; "Hmm.. what if we write in an alternative universe where Napoleon conquered the earth and instituted guantanamo bay..."
Wow, you really didn't get what it was all about, did you?
One of the points of the Firefly universe, if I may be so bold, was that things wouldn't be too different from what they are here and now! There's still good and evil, there are still hierarchies, things are dirty, messy... and the old motivator of wealth is still driving people on...
And as always with Joss, it's about people. So yes, if your only reason to watch a show is to experience hi-tech gadgets, then Firefly isn't for you. It never was.
If you're going to evaluate something, at least do it in it's proper genre.
Joss likes to tell stories about people, and the interesting thing is people who change. I've never found movies to be the best medium for that. There's just not enough time to get the audience to bond with the character at A and experience the complete transistion to B. I like series where it sort of starts out slow and change come creeping up on you.
I loved it in Angel how Wesley moved from being this uptight unintentionally (from his PoV) funny character, to a dark and gruesome killer, ready to do whatever it takes -- pretty much apexing with him taking an axe to the body of his former lover.
Yeah, actually I think this might become a big boon for gamers (such as myself). The stuff that makes games interesting to me is AI (which is a very wide field certainly, but I think of such things as finally being able to use reasoning-engines (F.E.A.R is the first game I know of that use one), better pathfinding (AI can now use focussed D* instead of cheating with A*, etc) all of which will finally get to some love and tender care.
With only one CPU, AI was always the ugly step child. "Yeah, sure.. we can give that 10% raster..." (okay, so I'm dating myself, anyho...). Now there will finally be CPU-power available that CAN NOT EASILY BE USED FOR TRANSFORM AND RENDERING (note "easily", not "possibly").
In short; ubiquitous dual-core CPUs will revolutionize gaming.
>Could it be that Dell's customers are not asking for AMD?
Well, why the hell should they ask Dell? I already know Dell doesn't sell AMD servers. Why should I waste time contacting them when I can just go directly to IBM or HP and get what I want, and not have to suffer the inhumanity of some sales-droid trying to convince me that I don't really know what I need, and maybe if I just took a look at some silly b0rken Xeon benchmarks I'd change my mind And See The Light That Is Intel?
SCOXE wanted time to "amend their complaint" (this is lawyereese for "change our story again"). Before IBM could object (I think...), the judge said "Yeah, right." and denied their plea for delay.
I think about the only thing I expected was to be entertained, actually.
But yes, when you put it like that; epic story-telling with both long and short story arcs, all twisty and complex, characters that evolve... even die.. in a maze of tactical action and political intrigue, yes, that'd be something I'd want in a long running sci-fi series in 2005.
I tried to watch it, but tuned out 10 minutes from the end of the show. I thought it was awful.
Having no prior experience with "The Doctor" I did watch the "The New Doctor Who Countdown"-programme which went through who had played all the previous doctors and what not. That didn't turn me off. Then some joker of a journalist(?) said "You can forget about Buffy now, the Doctor is alive!"
Yeah.. I'll forget about the wonderful Buffy for this... riiiight.
More like I wish I could forget Dr. Who. Mannequins coming alive? That's just cheese.
Note, I'm not totally slamming it as having no right to exist or anything, it's just that I can't appreciate it for some reason. Probably missing the in-jokes or something.
(that "last human in the universe"-thing with Zoé Wanamakers voice did look cool, I give you that)
That's just the thing, if the FSF isn't involved, then how can I be convinced that there will be fair representation? Why should I trust this to some lawyer who's never even heard of the GPL, when I know the FSF has got Eben Moglen on staff for the very purpose of handling these sorts of things?
New information might change my stance, of course.
I'm taking your "it's impossible to make [a decent grammar checker]" with a huge grain of salt.
I guess you could always set the ribbon to the unachievable.
I know NLP is Hard, but you're seriously overstating it, especially for something which mustn't necessarily be fully non-interactive or even stand-alone (not that I see it using google anytime soon...). No one (except the truly ignorant) is expecting perfection in that such could even be theoratically achieved (there is no "the one single correct grammar" to check against).
Slashdot Mirror
I never said they were, you idiot.
I think if you manage to think of her as more than a "whore" -- which is what Mal and other use as a put down -- and instead think of her as the companion she is, you will see that there is precedent in real life in the Geisha.
As always in Firefly, western and eastern culture meet somewhere...
If people really want to see O'Gara gone, they should contact the companies that advertise in Sys Con Media publications
Dear Microsoft, Sun and other assorted companies that hate linux, it has come to my attention that one of your paid shills is doing the job you all paid her to...
Yeah, that'll work.
We already have compression of HTTP content, it's just that some idiots don't enable it on their servers.
The magic words are: apt-get install libapache-mod-gzip
> 2.7 is actually higher than the fastest current A64 (which appears to be the 4000+ at 2.4 GHz.)
Close, but the fastest available Athlon is the FX-55 at 2.6GHz and 1MB L2 cache.
Sort of expensive though :-)
Thank you. I've already disabled the plugins, but getting rid of the "banner" was very welcome.
Now, if we could just get bookmarks...
>Acrobat Reader, however, is like an eighty year old woman behind the wheel of an otherwise useful and speedy automobile.
I have a better question; why isn't there an obvious way (any way?) to bookmark a file and page?
My browser can do it. It's trivial.
Now I have to create a short-cut to the file, then each time I close down Reader, I have to rename the shortcut to include the page I was on. Then when I load the file up, I manually read off the page number and jump there.
Anyone else think this is MAJORLY FUCKED?
(also, if it could stop saying "This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled." EVERY TIME I CLOSE DOWN THE READER it would be much appreciated. Thanks)
Can't wait!
No, it was a mirror universe where the girlie crew uniform is very nice (if you like bellies), and pretty much everyone is evil in very UNSUBTLE ways.
I think the concept meeting went like this; "Hmm.. what if we write in an alternative universe where Napoleon conquered the earth and instituted guantanamo bay..."
Wow, you really didn't get what it was all about, did you?
One of the points of the Firefly universe, if I may be so bold, was that things wouldn't be too different from what they are here and now! There's still good and evil, there are still hierarchies, things are dirty, messy... and the old motivator of wealth is still driving people on...
And as always with Joss, it's about people. So yes, if your only reason to watch a show is to experience hi-tech gadgets, then Firefly isn't for you. It never was.
If you're going to evaluate something, at least do it in it's proper genre.
I really doubt it, I do.
Joss likes to tell stories about people, and the interesting thing is people who change. I've never found movies to be the best medium for that. There's just not enough time to get the audience to bond with the character at A and experience the complete transistion to B. I like series where it sort of starts out slow and change come creeping up on you.
I loved it in Angel how Wesley moved from being this uptight unintentionally (from his PoV) funny character, to a dark and gruesome killer, ready to do whatever it takes -- pretty much apexing with him taking an axe to the body of his former lover.
Yeah, actually I think this might become a big boon for gamers (such as myself). The stuff that makes games interesting to me is AI (which is a very wide field certainly, but I think of such things as finally being able to use reasoning-engines (F.E.A.R is the first game I know of that use one), better pathfinding (AI can now use focussed D* instead of cheating with A*, etc) all of which will finally get to some love and tender care.
With only one CPU, AI was always the ugly step child. "Yeah, sure.. we can give that 10% raster..." (okay, so I'm dating myself, anyho...). Now there will finally be CPU-power available that CAN NOT EASILY BE USED FOR TRANSFORM AND RENDERING (note "easily", not "possibly").
In short; ubiquitous dual-core CPUs will revolutionize gaming.
Yeah, but it's all windows, windows, windows. Sadly, the same is true for the Tech-Report.
>Could it be that Dell's customers are not asking for AMD?
Well, why the hell should they ask Dell? I already know Dell doesn't sell AMD servers. Why should I waste time contacting them when I can just go directly to IBM or HP and get what I want, and not have to suffer the inhumanity of some sales-droid trying to convince me that I don't really know what I need, and maybe if I just took a look at some silly b0rken Xeon benchmarks I'd change my mind And See The Light That Is Intel?
Sheesh.
>Think of a 50 foot tall cross walking out of Jesus tomb, shouting imprecations upon Jerusalem.
Yeah, because that's just sooo much more fantastic than floating axes and talking bushes.
SCOXE wanted time to "amend their complaint" (this is lawyereese for "change our story again"). Before IBM could object (I think...), the judge said "Yeah, right." and denied their plea for delay.
It's a minor thing.
Looks like Sokal All Over Again
AMD Athlon64 FX-55 overclocked to 4GHz.
A new FX release and we'll probably see some overclockers running stable 4GHz systems.
3GHz... the FX will hit that for sure. They're at 2.8GHz now and a new model is on the way IIRC
Guys, most of the world is now at 2005-04-02. Get with the program already.
I think about the only thing I expected was to be entertained, actually.
But yes, when you put it like that; epic story-telling with both long and short story arcs, all twisty and complex, characters that evolve... even die.. in a maze of tactical action and political intrigue, yes, that'd be something I'd want in a long running sci-fi series in 2005.
I tried to watch it, but tuned out 10 minutes from the end of the show. I thought it was awful.
Having no prior experience with "The Doctor" I did watch the "The New Doctor Who Countdown"-programme which went through who had played all the previous doctors and what not. That didn't turn me off. Then some joker of a journalist(?) said "You can forget about Buffy now, the Doctor is alive!"
Yeah.. I'll forget about the wonderful Buffy for this... riiiight.
More like I wish I could forget Dr. Who. Mannequins coming alive? That's just cheese. Note, I'm not totally slamming it as having no right to exist or anything, it's just that I can't appreciate it for some reason. Probably missing the in-jokes or something.
(that "last human in the universe"-thing with Zoé Wanamakers voice did look cool, I give you that)
Wow, there's FUD out there saying you should transfer your copyright to the FSF or Eddy won't help pay your lawyers?
I must be more important than I ever though possible!
That's just the thing, if the FSF isn't involved, then how can I be convinced that there will be fair representation? Why should I trust this to some lawyer who's never even heard of the GPL, when I know the FSF has got Eben Moglen on staff for the very purpose of handling these sorts of things?
New information might change my stance, of course.
I'll consider donating if/when PearPC transfer the copyright to the FSF, and the FSF gets to handle the talks/litigation.
(I'm working on the assumption, based on where they are, that they haven't bothered)
I'm taking your "it's impossible to make [a decent grammar checker]" with a huge grain of salt.
I guess you could always set the ribbon to the unachievable.
I know NLP is Hard, but you're seriously overstating it, especially for something which mustn't necessarily be fully non-interactive or even stand-alone (not that I see it using google anytime soon...). No one (except the truly ignorant) is expecting perfection in that such could even be theoratically achieved (there is no "the one single correct grammar" to check against).
That it's hard just means it's worth doing.