Woody Allen took a japanese spy movie and redid the audio so that the dialogue actually looked like what the peoples lips were saying. The movie is called "What's Up Pussycat" and revolves around a spy faction trying to come up with the best recipie for chicken salad.
I know...chicken salad, but that's what it looked like they were saying. I really loved it and can't wait for it to come out on DVD...
My cat isn't a killer, it just want's you to know how clever it is. Unfortunately after that it lets these trophys go and relocate in the house. I've had mice, hummingbirds and many many huge moths brought in, dropped and allowed to roam free while she heads back out to get more.
On the plus side she hasn't discovered the joy of earthworms that my friend's cat thinks is the best trophy...
If you are looking into Russian Science Fiction Movies, Solaris was excellent. I also really enjoyed "Window to Paris" I'm not too sure if you would all consider it sci-fi, it's certianly not solaris, but it's about some people who discover a window hidden in a cabinet in their Moscow apartment that takes them to Paris. Hey, if Star Trek can rip a hole in the continuum...
I would have to agree with you on this one. I took a Russian history class at the university I attended at the same time I was taking the Russian Language course, both taught by the same professor who was head of the department. It was actually the best classes I ever took.
The professors theory for the class was that no two people can see things in exactly the same way because of the "Vast rainbow of texts" (the exposure obtained in all situations) that shapes each persons life is not going to be the same for any two people. But there is a certain amount of convergence, the more texts people have in common, the better they can understand each other.
Following this, the reading list for the Russian history class was made up entirely out of Russian Literature (translated into english) including works of fiction. It was a great way to experience a little bit of the culture you don't normally get in a history class.
Of the books we read two stick out in my mind We by Yvegeny Zamyatin, a work of science fiction that is probably mentioned a whole lot in this thread... and The Master and Margarita" A fanciful allegory of good and evil written in the 1930's by Mikial Bulgakov. The writing of "The Master and Margarita" reminded me a lot of the writing styles of Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain.
I know I've always kind of been a nut for all things Russian, but I don't think that was the whole reason I really enjoyed getting into these books. The literature, even translated into english, gave a feeling I don't think you could get by reading a history book. Think of the feelings and the Ideas sparked by, say, Heinlein. Now, if you read Heinlein from outside the society that generated him, (or even possibly just outside the mainstream social class he was aiming at) you probably won't get the same feeling generated in those that love his work. But, read enough of him, and you may be able to better understand a heinlein fan when he expresses himself within similar context. (And I'm not just talking Grok.)
I'm most of the way with you on this, but occasionally one slips out that restores my faith long enough to keep me glued to the tv on sunday evenings... or at least in front of the vcr late sunday nights...
Last night re-ran one of my favorites, "Trilogy of Error" Where it shows a day in the life of Bart, Lisa and Homer all intertwined. The whole show rolled along pretty good and the jokes were really funny. Plus you get the added benefit of feeling really superior by understanding the homages to lesser known films like "Run Lola Run".
Just for kicks take a look at this site ht tp://www.thehooligan.com/20sfr.html it specifically does movie reviews from trailers, making assumptions about what will be seen from the inferrences in the trailers.
I agree totally, and comming from a location nearby caldera I hear a lot about them and watch continually for stories about them on slashdot. Funny thing, new releases and innovations never get mentioned like other distros, yet whenever Something Contraversial comes up about Caldera Rob, er, Slashdot, is the first to jump on the "Caldera is bad" bandwagon.
You are right. I had a friend in a company I worked for that often said he could "teach my mother to program, but I'll never make her a programmer."
Sure we complain about management for valid reasons, but the ones who dig the work try to find THE JOB instead of going off to dig ditches. I tried that and for a winter I did construction, but fun as drywalling is, it lacks the puzzle solving thrill that coding has. We do what we do because of who we are. And there aint many of us.
Now on comes the tv commercials for ITT tech and different certification programs offering the potential of tons of money if you just complete their course. I can see people in the go nowhere jobs saying, "Hey, that sounds like a good idea!" and joining up. I've also seen these same people who were taught programming but were never programmers.
So maybe the people are leaving in droves, the question is, did these people ever have the ability to fill the holes they temporarily occupied, or was it just another slacker pipe dream?
The problem is we are to compassionate and/or willing to meddle. Think of it, if somebody isn't smart enough to wear a seatbelt when driving or a life jacket when waterskiing, then we have to make a law to protect the stupid people from themselves. Now the timid people are protected and able to propagate efficiently.
By a similar train of thought, The laws that prevent the Creative people from experementing and therefore draw more attention to themselves and attract suitable mates (DMCA, Local ordinances against building spaceships in the back yard, etc.) make the propigation of genius more difficult.
The only people weeded out are the Creative stupid people (ala darwin awards) and you have to know some of these people are responsible for the creation of new laws to protect other similarly stupid people.
From a gene pool standpoint we are only shooting ourselves in the foot...
If your'e going to make any money in litigation I think you should get a copyright on the smell of dogslobber (preferably labrador) on tennis balls. Then you can go after all the manufacturers in the parks producing illicit copies of slobbery smelling tennis balls.
The problem is most users don't see the problems whether through desensitization or just not knowing that computers don't need to be rebooted every day or two.
I read an article once where one guy said that he thought windows products were getting better and better until he realized it was just Pavlovian conditiong to stop hitting ctrl-v and instead select paste from the edit menu because the hotkey combo crashed the program. After awhile you don't even remember there should be an easer way to do things, you just do them in the way they work.
A book has to be AWFULLY bad for me to do more than say, "I didn't like this book". I mean who wants to sit down and say "This sucked" in a review, much less finish a book that was bad.
I also seem to remember Cmdr. Taco saying he threw "The Diamond Age" across the room after he finished it. I can't remember if it was in the review of the book, though.
I work at a university and they have a devil of a time just getting every grad student that wants to run a linux box to shut down the mail forwarding feature, much less apply filters. Then there is the problem of filtering what should be open and the people that rubs wrong. There is a good way to do it, but most solutons are bigger in the $ department, than directors want to pay.
On the plus side, however, it's gotten to the point where they will yank a whole department off the network if they find a DoS, or spam relay working through even a single machine on that subnet.
I agree. Anything important (at least in the US) has some beurocratic official breathing down their necks. Not that beurocracies solve anything...But when Uncle Sam says we shut you down in june if it's not fixed --the critical things got fixed. And I saw plenty of people putting in 22+ hour days on the weeks before deadlines.
I worked in the programming department of a good sized bank, (lucky for me I worked on web stuff and had little to do with y2k) but you shoulda seen the stuff break when we tested the internet access to peoples accounts for y2k compliance.
Just a simple mistake from javascript that picked up the year instead of the longYear value cost a ton of debugging time. And that affected whether the information passed to the mainframe transferred your money to your account today or 100 years ago. (and even if you payed 100 years ago,your loan payment is still late) And that doesn't even touch all the problems with the accounting software. Fortunately they say they have it all fixed. (and I work somewhere else)
Didntya ever read Neuromancer? You never know when you're gonna need the Dixie Flatlines cracking ability.
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Mark Twain, after seeing some of the polygamist women in utah, said something to the effect that heaven wouldn't be worth the price... Wish I could find the actual comment though...
I hope that your posting was submitted using strong encryption, or posting anonymously will bode you no protection. You think that the government doesn't monitor this hotbed of individualism? Don't look out your window, they will know by now that we are on to them...
Part of the reason there are so many unsigned bands isn't because their music isn't good enough, it's all about marketability and selling out. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. One reply Elbo Finn got from a major label was something along the lines of "These guys are songwriters" and not somebody who would be easily manipulated into changing to fit the current in thing. Take a look at Blondie. If you know their old stuff you could see the change from punk to some mainstream disco fluff. Heart of glass wasn't a soft dance hit until they were told it would sell better in it's current encarnation. Luckily Blondie rocks no matter what they do.
Have you ever listened to any of the stuff at MP3.com? I got their 103 best songs you never heard and most of the stuff on there isn't bad.
I also helped a local band upload their songs from two albums to mp3.com and these guys spent alot of money in the studio and their stuff sounds great. You ought to check them out their name is Elbo Finn and maybe you can stop knocking garage bands...
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Woody Allen took a japanese spy movie and redid the audio so that the dialogue actually looked like what the peoples lips were saying. The movie is called "What's Up Pussycat" and revolves around a spy faction trying to come up with the best recipie for chicken salad.
I know...chicken salad, but that's what it looked like they were saying. I really loved it and can't wait for it to come out on DVD...
My cat isn't a killer, it just want's you to know how clever it is. Unfortunately after that it lets these trophys go and relocate in the house. I've had mice, hummingbirds and many many huge moths brought in, dropped and allowed to roam free while she heads back out to get more.
On the plus side she hasn't discovered the joy of earthworms that my friend's cat thinks is the best trophy...
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If you are looking into Russian Science Fiction Movies, Solaris was excellent. I also really enjoyed "Window to Paris" I'm not too sure if you would all consider it sci-fi, it's certianly not solaris, but it's about some people who discover a window hidden in a cabinet in their Moscow apartment that takes them to Paris. Hey, if Star Trek can rip a hole in the continuum...
I would have to agree with you on this one. I took a Russian history class at the university I attended at the same time I was taking the Russian Language course, both taught by the same professor who was head of the department. It was actually the best classes I ever took.
The professors theory for the class was that no two people can see things in exactly the same way because of the "Vast rainbow of texts" (the exposure obtained in all situations) that shapes each persons life is not going to be the same for any two people. But there is a certain amount of convergence, the more texts people have in common, the better they can understand each other.
Following this, the reading list for the Russian history class was made up entirely out of Russian Literature (translated into english) including works of fiction. It was a great way to experience a little bit of the culture you don't normally get in a history class.
Of the books we read two stick out in my mind We by Yvegeny Zamyatin, a work of science fiction that is probably mentioned a whole lot in this thread... and The Master and Margarita" A fanciful allegory of good and evil written in the 1930's by Mikial Bulgakov. The writing of "The Master and Margarita" reminded me a lot of the writing styles of Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain.
I know I've always kind of been a nut for all things Russian, but I don't think that was the whole reason I really enjoyed getting into these books. The literature, even translated into english, gave a feeling I don't think you could get by reading a history book. Think of the feelings and the Ideas sparked by, say, Heinlein. Now, if you read Heinlein from outside the society that generated him, (or even possibly just outside the mainstream social class he was aiming at) you probably won't get the same feeling generated in those that love his work. But, read enough of him, and you may be able to better understand a heinlein fan when he expresses himself within similar context. (And I'm not just talking Grok.)
Double plus good idea...
I'm most of the way with you on this, but occasionally one slips out that restores my faith long enough to keep me glued to the tv on sunday evenings... or at least in front of the vcr late sunday nights...
Last night re-ran one of my favorites, "Trilogy of Error" Where it shows a day in the life of Bart, Lisa and Homer all intertwined. The whole show rolled along pretty good and the jokes were really funny. Plus you get the added benefit of feeling really superior by understanding the homages to lesser known films like "Run Lola Run".
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" type thinking can come back and really bite you.
Reminds me of a story about a revolutionary armed and trained by the americans to fight the russians I heard about once...
Just for kicks take a look at this site ht tp://www.thehooligan.com/20sfr.html it specifically does movie reviews from trailers, making assumptions about what will be seen from the inferrences in the trailers.
I agree totally, and comming from a location nearby caldera I hear a lot about them and watch continually for stories about them on slashdot. Funny thing, new releases and innovations never get mentioned like other distros, yet whenever Something Contraversial comes up about Caldera Rob, er, Slashdot, is the first to jump on the "Caldera is bad" bandwagon.
You are right. I had a friend in a company I worked for that often said he could "teach my mother to program, but I'll never make her a programmer."
Sure we complain about management for valid reasons, but the ones who dig the work try to find THE JOB instead of going off to dig ditches. I tried that and for a winter I did construction, but fun as drywalling is, it lacks the puzzle solving thrill that coding has. We do what we do because of who we are. And there aint many of us.
Now on comes the tv commercials for ITT tech and different certification programs offering the potential of tons of money if you just complete their course. I can see people in the go nowhere jobs saying, "Hey, that sounds like a good idea!" and joining up. I've also seen these same people who were taught programming but were never programmers.
So maybe the people are leaving in droves, the question is, did these people ever have the ability to fill the holes they temporarily occupied, or was it just another slacker pipe dream?
The problem is we are to compassionate and/or willing to meddle. Think of it, if somebody isn't smart enough to wear a seatbelt when driving or a life jacket when waterskiing, then we have to make a law to protect the stupid people from themselves. Now the timid people are protected and able to propagate efficiently.
By a similar train of thought, The laws that prevent the Creative people from experementing and therefore draw more attention to themselves and attract suitable mates (DMCA, Local ordinances against building spaceships in the back yard, etc.) make the propigation of genius more difficult.
The only people weeded out are the Creative stupid people (ala darwin awards) and you have to know some of these people are responsible for the creation of new laws to protect other similarly stupid people.
From a gene pool standpoint we are only shooting ourselves in the foot...
If your'e going to make any money in litigation I think you should get a copyright on the smell of dogslobber (preferably labrador) on tennis balls. Then you can go after all the manufacturers in the parks producing illicit copies of slobbery smelling tennis balls.
The problem is most users don't see the problems whether through desensitization or just not knowing that computers don't need to be rebooted every day or two.
I read an article once where one guy said that he thought windows products were getting better and better until he realized it was just Pavlovian conditiong to stop hitting ctrl-v and instead select paste from the edit menu because the hotkey combo crashed the program. After awhile you don't even remember there should be an easer way to do things, you just do them in the way they work.
Wouldn't that have been funnier as "Da DUO Ron Ron?"
A book has to be AWFULLY bad for me to do more than say, "I didn't like this book". I mean who wants to sit down and say "This sucked" in a review, much less finish a book that was bad.
I also seem to remember Cmdr. Taco saying he threw "The Diamond Age" across the room after he finished it. I can't remember if it was in the review of the book, though.
And I'm too lazy to look.
Naw, that's "Hi-Ho, Kermit the Frog, here"
I work at a university and they have a devil of a time just getting every grad student that wants to run a linux box to shut down the mail forwarding feature, much less apply filters. Then there is the problem of filtering what should be open and the people that rubs wrong. There is a good way to do it, but most solutons are bigger in the $ department, than directors want to pay.
On the plus side, however, it's gotten to the point where they will yank a whole department off the network if they find a DoS, or spam relay working through even a single machine on that subnet.
I agree. Anything important (at least in the US) has some beurocratic official breathing down their necks. Not that beurocracies solve anything...But when Uncle Sam says we shut you down in june if it's not fixed --the critical things got fixed. And I saw plenty of people putting in 22+ hour days on the weeks before deadlines.
I worked in the programming department of a good sized bank, (lucky for me I worked on web stuff and had little to do with y2k) but you shoulda seen the stuff break when we tested the internet access to peoples accounts for y2k compliance.
Just a simple mistake from javascript that picked up the year instead of the longYear value cost a ton of debugging time. And that affected whether the information passed to the mainframe transferred your money to your account today or 100 years ago. (and even if you payed 100 years ago,your loan payment is still late) And that doesn't even touch all the problems with the accounting software. Fortunately they say they have it all fixed. (and I work somewhere else)
Didntya ever read Neuromancer? You never know when you're gonna need the Dixie Flatlines cracking ability.
Mark Twain, after seeing some of the polygamist women in utah, said something to the effect that heaven wouldn't be worth the price... Wish I could find the actual comment though...
I hope that your posting was submitted using strong encryption, or posting anonymously will bode you no protection. You think that the government doesn't monitor this hotbed of individualism? Don't look out your window, they will know by now that we are on to them...
Part of the reason there are so many unsigned bands isn't because their music isn't good enough, it's all about marketability and selling out. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. One reply Elbo Finn got from a major label was something along the lines of "These guys are songwriters" and not somebody who would be easily manipulated into changing to fit the current in thing. Take a look at Blondie. If you know their old stuff you could see the change from punk to some mainstream disco fluff. Heart of glass wasn't a soft dance hit until they were told it would sell better in it's current encarnation. Luckily Blondie rocks no matter what they do.
I also helped a local band upload their songs from two albums to mp3.com and these guys spent alot of money in the studio and their stuff sounds great. You ought to check them out their name is Elbo Finn and maybe you can stop knocking garage bands...