That's why I love Opera so much, Disable Images by default then with a click of a button (two clicks, actually) they load for you.
I'm on 40K dialup (that's the fastest that I can connect at--no chance for cable or DSL or even ISDN), and Opera is a life-saver.
"g" toggles the mode between show graphics, show place holders, and turn images off.
"Control G" turns off CSS styling for the web page you're viewing. (I use the accessibility layout--most web pages I surf for pure info look better this way).
These two keyboard options are at the top of my list of "things that keep me from switiching to Mozilla from opera".
(btw, "q" and "a" move forward and backward through links on the page)
and imo, when a game scales difficulty it should be akin to GoldenEye for the 64. On easy maybe just making it from point A to point B is enough to complete an area. But on 'hard' there should be more stringent requirements (no alarms, rescue a prisoner, steal some data, assassinate a general, destroy a depot, etc, etc).
Yes! This is the way to do it! Tie Fighter had something that was similar. Within the level (this is from memory, I could be wrong, and if I am, this is the way that it *should* have been), you had a goal to accomplish. Kill all of the X-Wings, lose at most one wingman. But then there were "optional" missions within the mission that were more difficult. Kill all of the X-Wings *and* all of the A-Wings *and* don't lose any wingman. (and then there were "secret" objectives like "capture, don't destroy the shuttle").
You didn't gain anything extra by doing the extra crap other than getting promoted more quickly or becoming a super sekrit Emperor drone with a sekrit tatoo on your arm.
Design the mission/level so that most players can complete it. Add additional subtasks/goals that are optional, but greatly increase the difficulty of the game.
sTalking Goat: so whats sally.au Google isn't coughing up any insight
It's a sound clip from "When Harry Met Sally". It's her "faking it" scene which takes place in the restaurant. Imagine that, played at full volume on the thirty Sun Sparcs in the lab. It was enough to chase off the creep.
sally.au!!! In 1993 there was this one guy who would sit in the back of the Sun lab and, uhm, look at pictures and, uhm, you know. Stuff.
I took advantage of the world-writable/dev/audio and kludged together a shell script to play the au on all of the computers in the lab at the same time. (about five minutes after he walked into the lab)
We never saw the man again.
I FTP'd my mp3s back in 92-95. Didn't really start seeing them on web pages until about 96.
Most of the MP3s I downloaded after the September That Never Ended were crappy, so I got rid of them.
I misread that as "turned his house into a cube". Wow, I thought, that must look cool, in a post-mod kinda way. And, Wow, I bet he catches heck from the neighbors.
My EB and CircuitCity both price match BestBuy. Unless I know for *CERTAIN* (ie, i've already got a pirated copy) that a game is going to be good and will work with my system, I *REFUSE* to buy from BestBuy. Their return policy is the pits. Basically, if it doesn't work or if you don't like it, tough. They'll be happy to give you another copy to replace the working merchandise, but woe to those who get suckered in by lousy games (FF7 for PC was one that really nailed me) while shopping at BestBuy.
EB's one week no-questions-asked exchange policy is a clear win for me.
Um, no. Talking isn't/shouldn't be illegal. Doing things that harm others is/should be illegal. If person A is selling drugs, and person B is saying where person A can be found, then go and prosecute person A.
Yes, it should be illegal. If I were to say "There's a lot of drugs in [insert name of local "urban" housing project]", that would be okay. If I were to say "Go down to the corner of 4th and MLK Blvd, and talk to the guy in the red stocking cap. Tell him Leroy sent you", then that would be an accessory to a crime (purchasing drugs).
I *should* be able to report facts. As in "These movies have been out for years and are legally purchaseable by non-US residents at these sites."
It's all about intent. If the intent is to get around importation regulations, then it's wrong. (Personally, I believe the restrictions are detestable, but that's another story). If the intent is to point out how corporations buy distribution rights and sit on them for a really long time to prevent competition with their home-grown crap movies, well, that's just reporting facts/giving opinions.
But he *was* impeached. Clinton, on Dec 19th? 1998 became only the second President to have been impeached.
Impeachment is an official accusation of wrongdoing and/or improper conduct by an elected official. That's what happened to Clinton. The House of Repensenatives impeaches people; the Senate tries the impeachment articles. He was subsequently acquitted (cleared of all charges) by the Senate during the impeachment trial, but he most definitely was impeached.
I can defame you and be sued for it without publishing anything; e.g., I can just go stand in a crowded public place and tell everyone you are a child molester.
Indeed. The word you're looking for is slander, the method of delivering defamation orally. More to the point, you can defame someone by actions other than speech and writing. More difficult to prove, true, but can be equally destructive.
A nod and a wink can go a long way to ruining someone's reputation.
[crap. had a less than that i didn't entityize correctly. apologies for screwed up parent post]
If you want to build your own using a prepackaged set of tools, I strongly suggest using buildroot.
My firewalls are all diskless boot machines (they pull their image from a server that's on a private network), so size *does* matter to me. Having the full development environment simply is not an option.
As others have pointed out, having gcc on your firewall isn't going to provide you with a great deal of security. Just another (and a tiny one, at that) hoop to jump through. If they can root your box, then they can upload a compiler (or, more likely, a precompiled binary).
I use buildroot to compile my system. I have to tweak the make scripts, but I can get openssh/iptables and a bootable system compiled in a <6MB image. (it can be made smaller, but I've got logging and other stuff on there).
I also have a modified version of gshield which generates a script that I can edit to use as my firewall.rc. (I don't actually use ghield as the firewall, just capture the commands that it would have executed to create the ruleset at runtime)
If you want to build your own using a prepackaged set of tools, I strongly suggest using buildroot.
My firewalls are all diskless boot machines (they pull their image from a server that's on a private network), so size *does* matter to me. Having the full development environment simply is not an option.
As others have pointed out, having gcc on your firewall isn't going to provide you with a great deal of security. Just another (and a tiny one, at that) hoop to jump through. If they can root your box, then they can upload a compiler (or, more likely, a precompiled binary).
I use buildroot to compile my system. I have to tweak the make scripts, but I can get openssh/iptables and a bootable system compiled in a gshield which generates a script that I can edit to use as my firewall.rc. (I don't actually use ghield as the firewall, just capture the commands that it would have executed to create the ruleset at runtime)
I'd do this:/usr/local/gugalwumpus-3.2 cp/home/you/froombor.tar.gz !$
The !$ means "the last part of the last command". Other cool "bang" commands are: !! - repeat the last command !-n - repeat the nth previous command !* - all of the arguments to the last command
So, if you've ever typed "vm stuff/newdir" You *could* up arrow, control-A, control-D, control-F v or you could type "mv !*"
Lots of nifty shortcuts. Of course, I use tcsh, so what do I know?
Are the headphones *really* that amazing? For buds, they're the best in the $100 price range. The bass really sucks and the treble *can* be tinny. I use Stanton Dynaphase 60's (old studio headphones you can get on ebay for $20). Using my studio headphones, the sound out of the iPod really is *amazing*. It's made me go back and re-record my entire CD collection using the --extreme preset in lame.
I *really can* tell the difference in sound quality using these headphones and the ipod. Using a Nomad, I can't tell the difference between a 128 and a 320.
[snip] 6302486693 / 163707 = 38498.57 people per square mile (of california). [snip] Although that doesn't give much space for growing food.
Come now, surely you're being purposefuly disingenuous? New York City has a population denisty (based on the 2000 census) of 26,402.9/square mile.
If you threw in Texas along with California, you'd have a much lower population density than New York City. Keep in mind that over 17% of New York City is parks and museums and other non-livable space (well, people still live there, but you know what I mean).
*I* wouldn't want to live in New York City (or the entire world's population compacted to a density matching that of New York City).
At any rate, all of the world's population could comfortably fit (presuming that New York City meets the definition of acceptably comfortable) into two US states; it's no wonder that most of the points of convergence are devoid of human existence.
I'm pretty blind without my glasses, but I can significantly improve my resolution by making a crude pinhole lens by circling my index finger to a near pinhole of a few millimeters.
Glad to know I'm not the only person walking around with their hand in front of their eye. I use a three-finger approach. I touch my middle finger with my thumb (kind of like an "OK" gesture, but with the middle finger instead of the index finger). In between the thumb and middle finger is where I put my index finger. As a child, I learned that I got fewer strange looks using this method.
... After a whole 3 seconds of research... Struts homepage
And, after a whole 3 seconds of typing, the editor could have done his frickin' job and included that in the article blurb. They editorialize (often pointlessly, IMHO) everything else, why not include something, say, *useful* from time to time?
[insert conspiracy theory here regarding click-through and ad traffric revenues]
I have a similar experience with MCI's The Neighborhood.
Under Bellsouth, Caller ID+3way calling+Call waiting Plus voicemail+local service (plus taxes and tarrifs and service charges) on one line is $56. With TheNeighborhood, I get all of that *plus* free long distance for just under $70.
Since over 90% of my minutes are long distance, this was a no-brainer for me. I've only had one phone problem, and they were able to reset my line from their switch and I was back up and running in less than two minutes (including hold time).
The voice mail is really cool because I can access it from the internet (the messages are saved as.wav files). I have it set up to page me and email me when I get a new voice mail. Hella cool.
Having said that, Bellsouth now has (at least in my area) a similar plan. All the bells and whistles, plus unlimited long distance, for about $2 cheaper a month. I'll not be changing providers. Their customer support has almost always been horrid.
Thanks! Do you know of anything that combines something like T9, only for the palm? T9+TextPlus would be the ultimate in text input for the palm. I might even be able to get up to (slow) typing speeds.
There are other options out there. One is the fitaly keyboard, which is supposed to be optimized for use with a stylus. They claim you can get 50 wpm. I've never tried it, but it certainly looks easier than Graffitti to me. Anybody out there tried it?
I can do ~20wpm using Graffitti, and about 35wpm using fitaly. The thing that *REALLY* bumps up my wpm is TextPlus. Taking notes and whatnot, I can get 57wpm (oddly enough, it doesn't seem to matter if i use graffitti or fitaly). It's useful for completion of commonly used phrases and long words. If the word/phrase is longer than five characters, I use the TextPlus autocomplete and *poof* my wpm jumps by at least 20.
The Nokia text thing is amazing. I can get about 20wpm doing text messaging with the Nokia phone and my two phones. I have younger friends who can text input on the phone at 50wpm. Amazing. I forget what the system is called, but you "type" in the numbers and the system is able to tell based on further text input what word you meant, eliminating the "this is not a word" combinations. For example, it "knows" that 27753 is apple (rather than, say "brrke" or "arsle")
My fiancee has the QCP-6035 and it's really nice....The main downside is that the phones are PCS
Are we on the same planet? The QCP-6035 SmartPhone, often (ahem) affectionately referred to by its users as the "SmartBrick", is *HUGE*. We're talking bigger than a Palm III and then some huge.
My other big complaint is that it is useful as both a palm and as a phone, but it does not quite excel in either arena. A jack of all trades....
I kept having problems with the flip-cover becoming loose and auto-dialing the last number I had used (keylock didn't help). Also, it would lock up about once a week (requiring a hard reset).
Having said that, being able to surf the web and use it to ssh into my boxen was way cool. I *loved* eudora mail on it. I haven't tried blazer, I'll have to check it out.
I've switched back to using a Palm V as my primary PDA, with a cheep nextel as my phone. I don't think the palm/phone/mp3 player/camera is *quite* there yet. Give it another year....
Honestly, I would feel surprised if the W bros didn't heavily debate using a flawed physical representation ("power plants") over using a much more profound, but subtler, idea of humans adding processing power as a reason for imprisonment.
What do you think?
Waaay back when the first movie came out, the whatisthematrix.com website had a whole bunch of "in the world of" stories and comics from various authors and artists. It was *very* apparent that the original design was that humans were CPU power for the machines, ala Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.
I don't remember where I read/saw this, but apparently the decision was made by WBstudios that the "brain as CPU" concept would be too difficult to grasp for the general viewing public. From a sci-fi perspective, humans as processors is more appealing, but I suppose from the higher level of "you are a prisoner to your reality", it doesn't really matter *what* the agents use humans for, as long as humans are willing slaves to the matrix.
Time in the Matrix also happened at an accelerated rate over "real time". Three days in RL equated to about twelve years in the matrix.
Fast forwarding and rewinding of the timeline happened often, almost like the matrix world kept re-living the 1990's-2000s. In one of the stories, agents used humans to write, well, agents, implying that there was some sort of "spark of creativity" that the agents leeched from us.
Also, body image did *not* necessarily carry over from the matrix to the real world. Switch, for example, was supposed to be a guy in the real world, but a female (a lesbian) in the matrix.
I haven't seen the Animatrix series yet, but am told that it's much closer to the original vision than what the WBrothers eventually turned out through WBstudios.
As late as 1998 Mr. Chenney was doing business with Iraq for over $25M via his beloved Haliburton.
Yes, but it wan't Haliburton US. It was Haliburton Cayman Islands (or wherever it was that they incorporated). It's a trivial difference, but such quibblings matter in the realm of politics. If it were Haliburton US, then the current US VP would have been knowningly engaging in trade with a coutry on the banned list of known terrorist supporting countries. (Haliburton offShore also did about the same amount of business with Libya). Couldn't have the second-in-line leader of the freeworld (TM) making money off of the enemy, now could we?
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That's why I love Opera so much, Disable Images by default then with a click of a button (two clicks, actually) they load for you.
I'm on 40K dialup (that's the fastest that I can connect at--no chance for cable or DSL or even ISDN), and Opera is a life-saver.
"g" toggles the mode between show graphics, show place holders, and turn images off.
"Control G" turns off CSS styling for the web page you're viewing. (I use the accessibility layout--most web pages I surf for pure info look better this way).
These two keyboard options are at the top of my list of "things that keep me from switiching to Mozilla from opera".
(btw, "q" and "a" move forward and backward through links on the page)
and imo, when a game scales difficulty it should be akin to GoldenEye for the 64. On easy maybe just making it from point A to point B is enough to complete an area. But on 'hard' there should be more stringent requirements (no alarms, rescue a prisoner, steal some data, assassinate a general, destroy a depot, etc, etc).
Yes! This is the way to do it! Tie Fighter had something that was similar. Within the level (this is from memory, I could be wrong, and if I am, this is the way that it *should* have been), you had a goal to accomplish. Kill all of the X-Wings, lose at most one wingman. But then there were "optional" missions within the mission that were more difficult. Kill all of the X-Wings *and* all of the A-Wings *and* don't lose any wingman. (and then there were "secret" objectives like "capture, don't destroy the shuttle").
You didn't gain anything extra by doing the extra crap other than getting promoted more quickly or becoming a super sekrit Emperor drone with a sekrit tatoo on your arm.
Design the mission/level so that most players can complete it. Add additional subtasks/goals that are optional, but greatly increase the difficulty of the game.
Thief:The Dark Project also had this feature.
sTalking Goat:
so whats sally.au
Google isn't coughing up any insight
It's a sound clip from "When Harry Met Sally". It's her "faking it" scene which takes place in the restaurant. Imagine that, played at full volume on the thirty Sun Sparcs in the lab. It was enough to chase off the creep.
sally.au!!! In 1993 there was this one guy who would sit in the back of the Sun lab and, uhm, look at pictures and, uhm, you know. Stuff.
/dev/audio and kludged together a shell script to play the au on all of the computers in the lab at the same time. (about five minutes after he walked into the lab)
I took advantage of the world-writable
We never saw the man again.
I FTP'd my mp3s back in 92-95. Didn't really start seeing them on web pages until about 96.
Most of the MP3s I downloaded after the September That Never Ended were crappy, so I got rid of them.
I misread that as "turned his house into a cube". Wow, I thought, that must look cool, in a post-mod kinda way. And, Wow, I bet he catches heck from the neighbors.
My EB and CircuitCity both price match BestBuy. Unless I know for *CERTAIN* (ie, i've already got a pirated copy) that a game is going to be good and will work with my system, I *REFUSE* to buy from BestBuy. Their return policy is the pits. Basically, if it doesn't work or if you don't like it, tough. They'll be happy to give you another copy to replace the working merchandise, but woe to those who get suckered in by lousy games (FF7 for PC was one that really nailed me) while shopping at BestBuy.
EB's one week no-questions-asked exchange policy is a clear win for me.
Yes, it should be illegal. If I were to say "There's a lot of drugs in [insert name of local "urban" housing project]", that would be okay. If I were to say "Go down to the corner of 4th and MLK Blvd, and talk to the guy in the red stocking cap. Tell him Leroy sent you", then that would be an accessory to a crime (purchasing drugs).
I *should* be able to report facts. As in "These movies have been out for years and are legally purchaseable by non-US residents at these sites."
It's all about intent. If the intent is to get around importation regulations, then it's wrong. (Personally, I believe the restrictions are detestable, but that's another story). If the intent is to point out how corporations buy distribution rights and sit on them for a really long time to prevent competition with their home-grown crap movies, well, that's just reporting facts/giving opinions.
Rent, rip & burn is faster(3 hours turnaround) and better(full movie, ~ full quality) than buying.
And at $1/rental, almost as cheap as bit torrent!
Where do you get $1 rentals? New movies for me at Blockbuster/MovieGallery are $3.50/movie/week.
"Pad three, please."
Clinton was impeached for lieing before Congress.
No he wasn't. That article failed.
But he *was* impeached. Clinton, on Dec 19th? 1998 became only the second President to have been impeached.
Impeachment is an official accusation of wrongdoing and/or improper conduct by an elected official. That's what happened to Clinton. The House of Repensenatives impeaches people; the Senate tries the impeachment articles. He was subsequently acquitted (cleared of all charges) by the Senate during the impeachment trial, but he most definitely was impeached.
I can defame you and be sued for it without publishing anything; e.g., I can just go stand in a crowded public place and tell everyone you are a child molester.
Indeed. The word you're looking for is slander, the method of delivering defamation orally. More to the point, you can defame someone by actions other than speech and writing. More difficult to prove, true, but can be equally destructive.
A nod and a wink can go a long way to ruining someone's reputation.
[crap. had a less than that i didn't entityize correctly. apologies for screwed up parent post]
If you want to build your own using a prepackaged set of tools, I strongly suggest using buildroot.
My firewalls are all diskless boot machines (they pull their image from a server that's on a private network), so size *does* matter to me. Having the full development environment simply is not an option.
As others have pointed out, having gcc on your firewall isn't going to provide you with a great deal of security. Just another (and a tiny one, at that) hoop to jump through. If they can root your box, then they can upload a compiler (or, more likely, a precompiled binary).
I use buildroot to compile my system. I have to tweak the make scripts, but I can get openssh/iptables and a bootable system compiled in a <6MB image. (it can be made smaller, but I've got logging and other stuff on there).
I also have a modified version of gshield which generates a script that I can edit to use as my firewall.rc. (I don't actually use ghield as the firewall, just capture the commands that it would have executed to create the ruleset at runtime)
Best of luck.
If you want to build your own using a prepackaged set of tools, I strongly suggest using buildroot.
My firewalls are all diskless boot machines (they pull their image from a server that's on a private network), so size *does* matter to me. Having the full development environment simply is not an option.
As others have pointed out, having gcc on your firewall isn't going to provide you with a great deal of security. Just another (and a tiny one, at that) hoop to jump through. If they can root your box, then they can upload a compiler (or, more likely, a precompiled binary).
I use buildroot to compile my system. I have to tweak the make scripts, but I can get openssh/iptables and a bootable system compiled in a gshield which generates a script that I can edit to use as my firewall.rc. (I don't actually use ghield as the firewall, just capture the commands that it would have executed to create the ruleset at runtime)
Best of luck.
So you have a situation like this?:
/usr/local/gugalwumpus-3.2 /home/you/froombor.tar.gz ___________
/usr/local/gugalwumpus-3.2 /home/you/froombor.tar.gz !$
/newdir"
mkdir
cp
I'd do this:
cp
The !$ means "the last part of the last command".
Other cool "bang" commands are:
!! - repeat the last command
!-n - repeat the nth previous command
!* - all of the arguments to the last command
So, if you've ever typed "vm stuff
You *could* up arrow, control-A, control-D, control-F v
or you could type "mv !*"
Lots of nifty shortcuts. Of course, I use tcsh, so what do I know?
Are the headphones *really* that amazing?
For buds, they're the best in the $100 price range. The bass really sucks and the treble *can* be tinny. I use Stanton Dynaphase 60's (old studio headphones you can get on ebay for $20). Using my studio headphones, the sound out of the iPod really is *amazing*. It's made me go back and re-record my entire CD collection using the --extreme preset in lame.
I *really can* tell the difference in sound quality using these headphones and the ipod. Using a Nomad, I can't tell the difference between a 128 and a 320.
Heck, I'd like 8mbps down on my ADSL. I'm stuck with 1.53mbps/640kbps.
Oh, to be so lucky to have 1.53/640. I can't even get *cable TV* where I live. I do the happy dance when I'm able to connect at 40K on dial-up.
(insert "and I was *grateful*" speech here)
Someone's always got it worse off than you.
[snip]
6302486693 / 163707 = 38498.57 people per square mile (of california).
[snip]
Although that doesn't give much space for growing food.
Come now, surely you're being purposefuly disingenuous? New York City has a population denisty (based on the 2000 census) of 26,402.9/square mile.
If you threw in Texas along with California, you'd have a much lower population density than New York City. Keep in mind that over 17% of New York City is parks and museums and other non-livable space (well, people still live there, but you know what I mean).
*I* wouldn't want to live in New York City (or the entire world's population compacted to a density matching that of New York City).
At any rate, all of the world's population could comfortably fit (presuming that New York City meets the definition of acceptably comfortable) into two US states; it's no wonder that most of the points of convergence are devoid of human existence.
I'm pretty blind without my glasses, but I can significantly improve my resolution by making a crude pinhole lens by circling my index finger to a near pinhole of a few millimeters.
Glad to know I'm not the only person walking around with their hand in front of their eye. I use a three-finger approach. I touch my middle finger with my thumb (kind of like an "OK" gesture, but with the middle finger instead of the index finger). In between the thumb and middle finger is where I put my index finger. As a child, I learned that I got fewer strange looks using this method.
... After a whole 3 seconds of research... Struts homepage
And, after a whole 3 seconds of typing, the editor could have done his frickin' job and included that in the article blurb. They editorialize (often pointlessly, IMHO) everything else, why not include something, say, *useful* from time to time?
[insert conspiracy theory here regarding click-through and ad traffric revenues]
I have a similar experience with MCI's The Neighborhood.
.wav files). I have it set up to page me and email me when I get a new voice mail. Hella cool.
Under Bellsouth, Caller ID+3way calling+Call waiting Plus voicemail+local service (plus taxes and tarrifs and service charges) on one line is $56. With TheNeighborhood, I get all of that *plus* free long distance for just under $70.
Since over 90% of my minutes are long distance, this was a no-brainer for me. I've only had one phone problem, and they were able to reset my line from their switch and I was back up and running in less than two minutes (including hold time).
The voice mail is really cool because I can access it from the internet (the messages are saved as
Having said that, Bellsouth now has (at least in my area) a similar plan. All the bells and whistles, plus unlimited long distance, for about $2 cheaper a month. I'll not be changing providers. Their customer support has almost always been horrid.
The technology to which you refer is T9, by Tegic Communications.
Thanks! Do you know of anything that combines something like T9, only for the palm? T9+TextPlus would be the ultimate in text input for the palm. I might even be able to get up to (slow) typing speeds.
There are other options out there. One is the fitaly keyboard, which is supposed to be optimized for use with a stylus. They claim you can get 50 wpm. I've never tried it, but it certainly looks easier than Graffitti to me. Anybody out there tried it?
I can do ~20wpm using Graffitti, and about 35wpm using fitaly. The thing that *REALLY* bumps up my wpm is TextPlus. Taking notes and whatnot, I can get 57wpm (oddly enough, it doesn't seem to matter if i use graffitti or fitaly). It's useful for completion of commonly used phrases and long words. If the word/phrase is longer than five characters, I use the TextPlus autocomplete and *poof* my wpm jumps by at least 20.
The Nokia text thing is amazing. I can get about 20wpm doing text messaging with the Nokia phone and my two phones. I have younger friends who can text input on the phone at 50wpm. Amazing. I forget what the system is called, but you "type" in the numbers and the system is able to tell based on further text input what word you meant, eliminating the "this is not a word" combinations. For example, it "knows" that 27753 is apple (rather than, say "brrke" or "arsle")
My fiancee has the QCP-6035 and it's really nice....The main downside is that the phones are PCS
Are we on the same planet? The QCP-6035 SmartPhone, often (ahem) affectionately referred to by its users as the "SmartBrick", is *HUGE*. We're talking bigger than a Palm III and then some huge.
My other big complaint is that it is useful as both a palm and as a phone, but it does not quite excel in either arena. A jack of all trades....
I kept having problems with the flip-cover becoming loose and auto-dialing the last number I had used (keylock didn't help). Also, it would lock up about once a week (requiring a hard reset).
Having said that, being able to surf the web and use it to ssh into my boxen was way cool. I *loved* eudora mail on it. I haven't tried blazer, I'll have to check it out.
I've switched back to using a Palm V as my primary PDA, with a cheep nextel as my phone. I don't think the palm/phone/mp3 player/camera is *quite* there yet. Give it another year....
Honestly, I would feel surprised if the W bros didn't heavily debate using a flawed physical representation ("power plants") over using a much more profound, but subtler, idea of humans adding processing power as a reason for imprisonment.
What do you think?
Waaay back when the first movie came out, the whatisthematrix.com website had a whole bunch of "in the world of" stories and comics from various authors and artists. It was *very* apparent that the original design was that humans were CPU power for the machines, ala Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.
I don't remember where I read/saw this, but apparently the decision was made by WBstudios that the "brain as CPU" concept would be too difficult to grasp for the general viewing public. From a sci-fi perspective, humans as processors is more appealing, but I suppose from the higher level of "you are a prisoner to your reality", it doesn't really matter *what* the agents use humans for, as long as humans are willing slaves to the matrix.
Time in the Matrix also happened at an accelerated rate over "real time". Three days in RL equated to about twelve years in the matrix.
Fast forwarding and rewinding of the timeline happened often, almost like the matrix world kept re-living the 1990's-2000s. In one of the stories, agents used humans to write, well, agents, implying that there was some sort of "spark of creativity" that the agents leeched from us.
Also, body image did *not* necessarily carry over from the matrix to the real world. Switch, for example, was supposed to be a guy in the real world, but a female (a lesbian) in the matrix.
I haven't seen the Animatrix series yet, but am told that it's much closer to the original vision than what the WBrothers eventually turned out through WBstudios.
As late as 1998 Mr. Chenney was doing business with Iraq for over $25M via his beloved Haliburton.
Yes, but it wan't Haliburton US. It was Haliburton Cayman Islands (or wherever it was that they incorporated). It's a trivial difference, but such quibblings matter in the realm of politics. If it were Haliburton US, then the current US VP would have been knowningly engaging in trade with a coutry on the banned list of known terrorist supporting countries. (Haliburton offShore also did about the same amount of business with Libya).
Couldn't have the second-in-line leader of the freeworld (TM) making money off of the enemy, now could we?