I think the movies are perhaps an interesting story, but they are *not* The Lord of the Rings.
The mistake they made was not making 6 movies (one for each book), and doing every single line of dialog exactly like the book, and shooting each shot exactly the way the book describes it, and fleshing out the images the way we imagined it. So what if most people don't like it -- it would rock.
Maybe Bravo or some independent director can do it properly in a few years when killer CGI is cheap.
I love watching the elderly on their Rascal scooters on the road -- god love 'em, more power to 'em, I hope I'm like that at their age. So, I was watching these two old ladies haul ass across the road the other day, and I was thinking: They need more power.
What we need is a Rascal that can go about as fast a moped and we'll make them wear helmets. Just like riding mowers got more powerful, why not give grandma a souped up rider? No reason not to let them enjoy the benefits of technology:-) I think they'd love it.
I wish my computer was reversible in the sense that I could press the rewind button and everything I did would happen in reverse.
I'm telling at as a joke, but I've always wondered why no chip designer ever wrote this. It should be possible to log every instruction that passes through the CPU and play them in reverse order. Imagine how cool that would be!
1. It ain't "Office Space": people really do address issues properly, at the level of the issue, no fakey-fake bullshit.
2. There's a real "Rosemary's Baby" thing going on: everybody sorta knows they company is increasing the quantity of Evil in the world. We just liked it. I think a lot of companies are like that, but the difference is Microsoft is highly successful at it.
3. It is better to have shitloads of money than almost anything else. Loads of stuff is de rigeur. You cannot underestimate the effect this has on your daily psychology - everyone has an Amex with no limit, unlimited cell minutes, lots of travel.
4. The evil that is produced does not occur at the individual level, somehow, it's just a product of everybody or somebody I didn't meet. I saw Whistler become XP and Server 2003, and I saw NGWS become.NET. At no point did anyone ever say: "hey, our plan is to fuck everybody else up and line our own pockets." (Well, I heard a mid-level manager and Gates say once that the explicit goal is for people to *ONLY* think of Microsoft when they think of XML). People sincerely try to produce good but the end result is always the same: same old evil shit.
To sum up: "Evil" is another word for "money". And it's better to have money than not to have money. And it's more fun to be evil than to be a saint. But the final check is a bitch:-)
My college freshman year (1989), I got $15/week from my parents. I'd buy two cases of Shafer for $5 (total), a few packs of cigs at.75 each (often buy 1 get 1 free), eat at Taco Bell 3 times ($2 for 3 tacos and a coke), and had change left over:-)
Of course this was just prior to the computer revolution (an i386 w/ 1mb ram was maybe $5000), so I typed papers for $3/page, and bought (uh-hum) "extra supplies" with that money:-)
Whereas a competent MCSE or IT director will have properly secured a corporation's machines against remote exploits (a properly designed network, even if none of the machines had been patched, should've been able to stay free of worms like Blaster and Welchia, for example), home users have been thrust into the unfortunate situation of running an enterprise OS (anything from the NT family), with no experience on securing it, and often, no knowledge that it needs to be secured at all
Except that when I worked there for 3 years the *only* places I ever got hacked from Nimda or Code Red was on the Microsoft Corporate Network, and my next door neighbor (who is still a contracted IT guy) says they Microsoft's email servers are constantly hammered by them.
If they can't protect themselves from the worms, why should they expect anybody else to?
The ACLU used to be so much more interesting when they were beyond-left, beyond-right libertarians -- things like defending the KKK and Nazis as well as supporting Abortion rights. Now, they are just so boring.
Basically anybody who I can predict what they are going to say before they open their mouth (Charles Heston or Michael Moore) just bores the shit out of me.
I'm 32, and I *definitely* do not consider Public Enemy to be part of the first generation of Rap. LL Cool J and Run DMC *almost* qualify, but I listened to a *lot* of Whodini and Grandmaster Flash before that. (I guess they were big in NY before they were big nationwide).
All of the stuff you're talking about sounds to me like comparing Kiss with the Yardbirds as conteporaries:-)
Herbie Hancock's song in like 197? started the sound. Amazon says Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash released major label albums in 1984-5. So I think my memory is correct: we as dumb white kids were the last to get on board// first to pay attention. It was definitely an underground thing.
LL Cool J represents the beginning of the "2nd wave", along with the other guy who far better at being a Beat Box then the original (the Human Beat Box). I consider MC Hammer to represent the "3rd wave", and after that I quit paying attention.
The last music of the genre I liked was the Ghetto Boys, because they just explicitly talked about raping and murdering each other and then doing crack:-) It was a killer album.
Bullshit. Sam Phillips Sun Records recorded black artists, and was EXPLICITLY looking for a "white artist who sounded black", so he could get white people to listen to it. Watch a documentary some time.
Your defensiveness amuses me -- you're obviously projecting your own insecurities. Touched a cord?
The first (only) time I liked Rap was when I was in 7th grade -- 1983. We used to wear Pink shirts with white colors, razor thin white ties, white patent leather shoes, and gold tie bars (??? some random imitation of black culture, we shopped at the Chess King). The summer before the fad was crew cuts and the summer after the fad was mullets and parachute pants.
Anyway I remember doing camel hops on my BMX down my friend's quarter-pipe in his driveway, and then we went and scratched records on his two turntables, like the local black radio station with 45 minute mixes.
It's wierd that THAT dumb shit we did was what teenagers now think is "just so cool".
I predict early-60's doo-wop and bobby sox will be popular next. Black culture has to run to find something else for us to imitate: Al Jolsen, Elvis Pressley, Eric Clapton, and Eminem are all in the same tradition: white guy imitating black guy.
I call bullshit. I was a consultant for Microsoft working with a customer who ran a telnet server on Windows 2000. Each telnet connection launched an instance of cmd.exe. After about 100 connections they'd get failures.
Remember "running out of free system resources" with plenty of memory in Windows 3.1? The limit that was 64k then is 48mb now.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=k b; en-us;184802 See cause 2
I guess you must be some Windows kernel engineer who magically obtained the source code to Longhorn
I was a consultant at Microsoft from 2000 to 2003 who had read only access to the NT source depot and worked on the kernel perf team. I read the "Longhorn API" spec that was published internally about 1 year ago.
You're reading the hype. I'm predicting what'll happen at RTM.
Darwin was supposed to be this huge thing, and a lot of people use it, but only Office uses install on demand. This will be like that -- new junk for microsoft to use, for 3rd parties, more lipstick on the pig.
WinFS was supposed to replace NTFS. Now it's just gonna be IMDB (in-memory database) which was stripped from Win2000 at the last minute file-system filter driver, which will be used by Explorer. Neat, but isn't gonna change your business.
The shell theme will change.
The most interesting development, Avalon, will attempt to replace the Win32 api with managed code, *not* Windows.Forms but a new client API. What'll end up happening by RTM is Microsoft will have written a great big propriatary app that you won't be able to use.
There will be minor kernel perf tweaks, but if you still launch > 200 processes you still see random failures from CreateProcess. (Never tried it, have you?)
Gee, that means 1,000,000 years of plants will only last us 2,737 years! And we all know the prehistoric period wasn't measured in hundreds of millions of years!
[For the record, I support Hydrogen so we can tell the Arabs and Environmentists to go jump in a lake and quit bugging me.]
I've seen video on CNN of a women catching fire due to static electricity arcing to the gas she was pumping. In her panic, she flailed around the nozzle, and covered everything with gas. She died.
Since then, I've been paranoid at the pump. They said it happens to about 10 people per year.
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I think the movies are perhaps an interesting story, but they are *not* The Lord of the Rings.
The mistake they made was not making 6 movies (one for each book), and doing every single line of dialog exactly like the book, and shooting each shot exactly the way the book describes it, and fleshing out the images the way we imagined it. So what if most people don't like it -- it would rock.
Maybe Bravo or some independent director can do it properly in a few years when killer CGI is cheap.
I love watching the elderly on their Rascal scooters on the road -- god love 'em, more power to 'em, I hope I'm like that at their age. So, I was watching these two old ladies haul ass across the road the other day, and I was thinking: They need more power.
:-) I think they'd love it.
What we need is a Rascal that can go about as fast a moped and we'll make them wear helmets. Just like riding mowers got more powerful, why not give grandma a souped up rider? No reason not to let them enjoy the benefits of technology
I wish my computer was reversible in the sense that I could press the rewind button and everything I did would happen in reverse.
I'm telling at as a joke, but I've always wondered why no chip designer ever wrote this. It should be possible to log every instruction that passes through the CPU and play them in reverse order. Imagine how cool that would be!
1. It ain't "Office Space": people really do address issues properly, at the level of the issue, no fakey-fake bullshit.
.NET. At no point did anyone ever say: "hey, our plan is to fuck everybody else up and line our own pockets." (Well, I heard a mid-level manager and Gates say once that the explicit goal is for people to *ONLY* think of Microsoft when they think of XML). People sincerely try to produce good but the end result is always the same: same old evil shit.
:-)
2. There's a real "Rosemary's Baby" thing going on: everybody sorta knows they company is increasing the quantity of Evil in the world. We just liked it. I think a lot of companies are like that, but the difference is Microsoft is highly successful at it.
3. It is better to have shitloads of money than almost anything else. Loads of stuff is de rigeur. You cannot underestimate the effect this has on your daily psychology - everyone has an Amex with no limit, unlimited cell minutes, lots of travel.
4. The evil that is produced does not occur at the individual level, somehow, it's just a product of everybody or somebody I didn't meet. I saw Whistler become XP and Server 2003, and I saw NGWS become
To sum up: "Evil" is another word for "money". And it's better to have money than not to have money. And it's more fun to be evil than to be a saint. But the final check is a bitch
My college freshman year (1989), I got $15/week from my parents. I'd buy two cases of Shafer for $5 (total), a few packs of cigs at .75 each (often buy 1 get 1 free), eat at Taco Bell 3 times ($2 for 3 tacos and a coke), and had change left over :-)
Of course this was just prior to the computer revolution (an i386 w/ 1mb ram was maybe $5000), so I typed papers for $3/page, and bought (uh-hum) "extra supplies" with that money :-)
Kids today ...
I saw this band at Chuck -e- Cheese. They rock.
Except that when I worked there for 3 years the *only* places I ever got hacked from Nimda or Code Red was on the Microsoft Corporate Network, and my next door neighbor (who is still a contracted IT guy) says they Microsoft's email servers are constantly hammered by them.
If they can't protect themselves from the worms, why should they expect anybody else to?
Well, we're clearly at loggerheads here. The next time you change your mind about something, think of me :-)
The reason the two positions are not identical are similar to:
All X are Y.
Some X are not Y.
You're saying I'm saying:
No X are Y.
You're confusing rationality with dogmatism.
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man .html
You're straw manning me.
The ACLU used to be so much more interesting when they were beyond-left, beyond-right libertarians -- things like defending the KKK and Nazis as well as supporting Abortion rights. Now, they are just so boring.
Basically anybody who I can predict what they are going to say before they open their mouth (Charles Heston or Michael Moore) just bores the shit out of me.
I'm 32, and I *definitely* do not consider Public Enemy to be part of the first generation of Rap. LL Cool J and Run DMC *almost* qualify, but I listened to a *lot* of Whodini and Grandmaster Flash before that. (I guess they were big in NY before they were big nationwide).
:-)
All of the stuff you're talking about sounds to me like comparing Kiss with the Yardbirds as conteporaries
Herbie Hancock's song in like 197? started the sound. Amazon says Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash released major label albums in 1984-5. So I think my memory is correct: we as dumb white kids were the last to get on board // first to pay attention. It was definitely an underground thing.
:-) It was a killer album.
LL Cool J represents the beginning of the "2nd wave", along with the other guy who far better at being a Beat Box then the original (the Human Beat Box). I consider MC Hammer to represent the "3rd wave", and after that I quit paying attention.
The last music of the genre I liked was the Ghetto Boys, because they just explicitly talked about raping and murdering each other and then doing crack
Bullshit. Sam Phillips Sun Records recorded black artists, and was EXPLICITLY looking for a "white artist who sounded black", so he could get white people to listen to it. Watch a documentary some time.
Your defensiveness amuses me -- you're obviously projecting your own insecurities. Touched a cord?
The first (only) time I liked Rap was when I was in 7th grade -- 1983. We used to wear Pink shirts with white colors, razor thin white ties, white patent leather shoes, and gold tie bars (??? some random imitation of black culture, we shopped at the Chess King). The summer before the fad was crew cuts and the summer after the fad was mullets and parachute pants.
Anyway I remember doing camel hops on my BMX down my friend's quarter-pipe in his driveway, and then we went and scratched records on his two turntables, like the local black radio station with 45 minute mixes.
It's wierd that THAT dumb shit we did was what teenagers now think is "just so cool".
I predict early-60's doo-wop and bobby sox will be popular next. Black culture has to run to find something else for us to imitate: Al Jolsen, Elvis Pressley, Eric Clapton, and Eminem are all in the same tradition: white guy imitating black guy.
I call bullshit. I was a consultant for Microsoft working with a customer who ran a telnet server on Windows 2000. Each telnet connection launched an instance of cmd.exe. After about 100 connections they'd get failures.
k b; en-us;184802
Remember "running out of free system resources" with plenty of memory in Windows 3.1? The limit that was 64k then is 48mb now.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
See cause 2
When servers written using Tomcat interact with clients using Indigo, I'll believe you.
God, the astroturfers are out in full force.
I guess you must be some Windows kernel engineer who magically obtained the source code to Longhorn I was a consultant at Microsoft from 2000 to 2003 who had read only access to the NT source depot and worked on the kernel perf team. I read the "Longhorn API" spec that was published internally about 1 year ago.
You're reading the hype. I'm predicting what'll happen at RTM.
Darwin was supposed to be this huge thing, and a lot of people use it, but only Office uses install on demand. This will be like that -- new junk for microsoft to use, for 3rd parties, more lipstick on the pig.
Longhorn is a yawn, a client-only release.
WinFS was supposed to replace NTFS. Now it's just gonna be IMDB (in-memory database) which was stripped from Win2000 at the last minute file-system filter driver, which will be used by Explorer. Neat, but isn't gonna change your business.
The shell theme will change.
The most interesting development, Avalon, will attempt to replace the Win32 api with managed code, *not* Windows.Forms but a new client API. What'll end up happening by RTM is Microsoft will have written a great big propriatary app that you won't be able to use.
There will be minor kernel perf tweaks, but if you still launch > 200 processes you still see random failures from CreateProcess. (Never tried it, have you?)
Gee, that means 1,000,000 years of plants will only last us 2,737 years! And we all know the prehistoric period wasn't measured in hundreds of millions of years!
[For the record, I support Hydrogen so we can tell the Arabs and Environmentists to go jump in a lake and quit bugging me.]
All games suck except some variant of Quake (and basically just Quake): Left, Right, Up, Down, Shoot. Play for 15 minutes. Start over.
Once you turn 18 that's about it. It just takes you 10 years to realize that.
I've seen video on CNN of a women catching fire due to static electricity arcing to the gas she was pumping. In her panic, she flailed around the nozzle, and covered everything with gas. She died.
Since then, I've been paranoid at the pump. They said it happens to about 10 people per year.