Re:Newsflash: LOTR was not the best picture of 200
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LoTR Takes 4 Oscars
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· Score: 2, Insightful
(Gandalf in Bag End, Bilbo in Rivendel, Galadriel in Lorien). While I didn't really mind Gandalf in Bag End (the movie was just beginning and I hadn't had time to judge it or get a feel for it), Bilbo in Rivendell is horrible, and Galadriel in Lorien had to rate as the worst scene in the movie.
How bad? We're talking cringe and grimace inducing bad. I saw the movie with my girlfriend and literally dreaded having to explain to her what was supposed to be going on in that scene. So, she turns blue and starts talking in a wierd digitally enchanced voice, without reading the book I wouldn't be sure What the hell was going on. Of course, by that point I had already come to the conclusion that this was not the movie I had wanted to see. Except for the 3rd book, the first two are slow atmospheric works designed to help give a feeling for the place. The movie unfortunately made them into action pieces. I wonder how many people saw the movie, went out and bought the book and never finished it because of the slow pacing.
People are saying that A Beautiful Mind (which I haven't seen, so I can't judge it) shouldn't have won Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay as it was unfaithful to the life and works of John Nash. By that same reasoning, LOTR is right to have not won, as it was unfaithful to the books.
I can understand them leaving out Bombadil, but watching it I had the feeling that it should have been labelled as 'inspired by the works of JRR Tolkien' and not 'based on'.
Lucky you (no sarcasm intended), just the mention of a new levy or an increase in the existing one is enough for the stores in my local area to bump their prices up a small (large) amount.
I want one, just to have a home server that is not x86, is this board really for real???
Depending on what type of server and how heavy of use it's going to be getting, then why bother with a $600 motherboard that you just have to buy more parts for anyways? If you're willing to do a little messing around, just get an old PowerMac for cheap (make sure it's at least a 2nd generation PowerMac as anything before doesn't have PCI, and try to avoid those with the 601 processor, especially the 7200.)
Although it's not quite the same thing that you want to use it for, my router is a PowerMac 7600/132 (604 processor at 132MHz, 92MB of RAM) which was purchased for ~30 USD (+ shipping). As of this post it's been running for 32 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes without any sort of problems.
Only possible problems are the hardware quirks, but NetBSD has a good model support page detailing most of them for anyone who wishes to run any *nix, and the fact that if there isn't enough storage space then you may have to pay a bit for it depending on whether or not the drives are SCSI or IDE. But, with PPC you tend to pay a bit more for the hardware anyways...
Either way, PenguinPPC is a good place to check out info on Linux on the PPC architecture. (And for old Mac owners, MkLinux is a good place to check for solutions to problems that may be missing from the documentation of your chosen distro (*cough*Debian*cough*) )
Twice the price at half the performance? Care to explain what you mean by that comment?
The most obvious answer I can think of is that you're comparing MHz. In which case you should realize that in the world of the CPU, MHz is not the be all and end all.
Of course you didn't save money when you bought the CD's...BR>
LEt's look at what happened/happens: There's a new levy being applied or an existing one is being increased, people who don't like this type of thing are going to buy in bulk, and probably aren't going to buy many more after the levy for an extended period of time. So, what do you do? You jack the price up around the time that is announced that the levy will be introduced/increased. That way, you have a) people buying lots of stuff at inflated prices (supply and demand folks, the demand rises so the prices do too), and b) when the new levy is introduced, your prices don't change by such a huge margin as they would have otherwise as you have a buffer zone to fall back on.
Yes they do, it's slashdottted, so I can't tell you what number, but they put themselves in for putting Enron's CEO on the cover as a shining example of the new economy. The issue ran the week before he resigned.
That would explain why the name of the DB server at my univ. is named odin...
Anyways, seeing as my network is rather small, I've stuck with just the Norse gods. Thus Bragi, the god of poetry, is my audio server. Heimdall, the watcher of Bifrost (the rainbow bridge into Asgard) is my firewall/gateway/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. Last but not least is Loki, my main work machine, named such as I liked it (yes, I know it's not a server, deal with it!)
I still need to figure out what to name the machine that I may be getting though... It's probably going to be a web server which means I'm going to have to check through lists of names of events and people. Of course, that's sometimes the fun part of a naming scheme like this, you get to learn new (and interesting) things!
Re:Linux on the desktop: very convincing...NOT
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Linux 2.4.18 Released
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2.4.18 isn't 2.4.18, it's 2.4.18-rc3, unless you're using an x86 in which case 2.4.18 is 2.4.18. Now, if you aren't using an x86 then 2.4.18 isn't 2.4.18, that's 2.4.18-rc4. See, it's really as clear as day.:-)
I (and some of my friends) have a really bad feeling about this movie. The basic idea works like this: "A prequel would be cool/decent/ok/whatever the opion of the first movie was, but a sequel will suck rancid goat nuts."
Why? Well, let's put it this way, take away the special effects from the first movie, and you're left with a plot with huge holes in it and a bunch of heavy handed Biblical metaphors.
Now, put the special effects back in, and you have an above-average action movie (Ok, it was WAY above average at the time, but not any more.) Which brings us to the next problem: The special effects aren't so 'special' anymore. Everyone's done it, everybody's seen it. There's no 'woah, that was cool' when we get a slow-bullet time effect or the sudden freeze, rotate camera, & continue effect. We've seen it beaten to death, propped up to seem like it's still alive, and beaten some more.
To sum up: Matrix sequel doesn't look too good IMHO. (Especially since I've heard that Keanu will fly in this movie. If there's any part of the movie that made me want to groan, it was that flying sequence at the end. Both unneccesary & horrible!)
Industry officials have already discussed with lawmakers the possible need to roll back some privacy protections in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Driver's Privacy Protection Act to enable them to use more of the credit and driver's-license data.
So, why do they need to roll back parts of these acts? What parts do they want to roll back? And most importantly, what do these acts say to begin with? <sarcasm> Is it because they want to know I only have 3 points left and used my credit card to buy a Big Mac last Tuesday? </sarcasm>
A limited model report, generated by Accenture on one individual, looked like any number of publicly available dossiers provided by information services. It included all his addresses for the past two decades, the telephone numbers and former addresses of people who now occupy those residences, and the names, ages, addresses, telephone numbers and partial Social Security numbers of possible relatives. Some of the information was incomplete or, apparently, unrelated to the passenger.
Ooooh! unrelated to the passeneger! Glad to know that they kept track of who now lives where I used to live, that's real useful info. Even more glad to know that I may get checked out for something that has nothing to do with me... (Yes, I know this was just a test system they're talking about, but test systems still have to be tested on the public eventually)
The company said it would eventually like to have more data in the analysis, including embassy warnings, passport information, foreign watch lists. Eventually, with government approval, they would link the system to a national ID or some sort of biometric or both.
Foreign watch lists? Emabassy warnings? What can I say, Salaman Rushdie (sp?) better not plan on flying anywhere. In fact, there's probably a lot of high-profile peole who would have some sort of warning against them by one country or another. Finally, national ID gets brought up yet again. As I'll say everytime it comes up: "yah, that's real useful..."
Unless anything is new since the last time I used it, Quake III only works with a Voodoo-based graphics card (not even sure what version of Voodoo... probably 3)
Anyways, I tried it back with v4, liked it but had no use for it, almost put it on one of my machines when v6 came out, but it still had that nice little isa network card problem that had plagued me before (3c509b, when it comes to non-mainstream OS's it causes more problems then it's worth, just ask any BeOS user)
Not only do most newbies interpret RTFM as 'this guy is an asshole,' you know what, sometimes they are right.
I've browsed through news group and mailing list archives trying to find solutions to problems, I've seen tons of of simple 'RTFM' responses, and not all of them are deserved. Some are simple problems that, yes are avaialble in the fine, fine manual. Others aren't so simple and aren't in the manual.
Sometimes some of them are in the manual but maybe, just maybe the manual isn't explaining it in a manner that's comprehensible to all users.
To put it simply, I can say nothing about the tech support provided by the companies for their distros, but as to the stuff avialable for the most part on the internet, well, it may be free but you aren't even getting your money's worth in that case.
Now that is a distinct possibility that I will admit is quite likely. The guy knew what was supposed to be coming in, and may or may not have made it up. My guess is that it's one of those things that no one will really know.
Sigh.... what's being celebrated here has nothing to do with who invented the radio (take a look at the articles, there's nothing mentioned about Marconi having invented it)
What's being celebrated here is quite simple: It's the first ever wireless trans-Atlantic communication, which is quite clearly Marconi's. Even the site you link to admits that Marconi was the one who performed this feat. Sure, Marconi may not have been the first to invent the radio (he may not, as you point out, even have invented a version of it at all) But without him performing this experiment, it's unlikely we would be in the same place we are today. After all, the radio station in New York that Tesla was building to transmit electric signals and electricity to the entire planet didn't start construction until 1901, the same year Marconi made his transmission. From the sounds of it, I'm not sure if Tesla's project would have worked, even if he hadn't run out of funding.
Summary: Tesla beat Marconi to the radio, but that's not what is being discussed here. Marconi made the first trans-Atlantic broadcast, that IS being discussed, and is most definately a fact.
Not to mention the fact that the 'widespread use of portable satelite phones' isn't quite as widespread as he'd like to think, in some aprts of the world, you're more likely to get someone close by with a nice radio transmission than with a digital uplink.
Now for the final question, what happens if those satelites get knocked out somehow? And don't say it can't happen...
I take great pride in nitpicking, thank you very much... Anyways, if I really had wanted to get picky I could have pulled out the fact that this is a percentage of time spent online, and 'Veteran Users' spend slightly over 2x as much time online as newbies. Which means that the 0.8% actually represents a difference of a much higher magnitude.
Personally, the real reason I brought it up was all the people who started posting 'Yah, I spend much less time downloading music now than I did when I first got on the internet' (possibly because if they actually downloaded music 5 years ago, it probably took them a lot longer on their 28.8 and 14.4 modems) without having even looked at the article in question.
And then, don't forget that this is as a percentage of time spent online, and seeing as people with 5 or more years online spend twice as much time online as people with less than one year online... so remember for the close ones, that means for sure that the experienced users spend more time, just not a larger percent of the time.
I'm not in the mood to work out the actual hours based on the percentages, but yeah, I know a few who've been online for years, and spend most of their time is spent hanging around irc.
*cough* *cough* I would like to point something out about this article vs. the item it points to, and I quote:
Some interesting claims: online shoppers believe prices are lower in brick-and-mortar stores, and experienced Interneters are less likely to use chatrooms, play games, and download music than their newbie counterparts.
While I haven't reached the stats on online shopping yet (at 95 pages, this thing is massive), but I would like to point out to the submitter of this article a few stats from one of the charts (new users (those less than one year) and very experienced users (five or more years in 2001) that is located on page 18):
Chatrooms:
New users: 6.5%
Experienced users: 1.6%
Games:
New Users: 5.7%
Experienced Users: 2.8%
Download Music:
New Users: 2.0%
Experienced Users: 2.8%
Now, last time I checked, 2.8% > 2.0%, so while, yes, newbies do play games and hang around chat rooms more (geez, they had to do a survey of that? I could have told them that), it seems that the 'old-timers' are (slightly) more likely to download music.
So let this be a lesson for you: Always make sure your facts are correct when submitting an article, it's a little less embarrasing.
Actually, I believe he meant 1% of 50 Million.
Still, that's 500 000 people. I'd hardly call that no one. Hell, most bands don't sell that many copies of their albums.
If I have severe arthritis, I'm disabled, you may not notice it, but I am.
If I'm blind in one eye, technically I'm disabled.
I may only have partial hearing, you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at me, but I'd be disabled then too.
There's plenty of other disabilities that aren't readily apparent. Just remember: disability is more than a wheelchair, crutches, leg braces or a cane...
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(Gandalf in Bag End, Bilbo in Rivendel, Galadriel in Lorien).
While I didn't really mind Gandalf in Bag End (the movie was just beginning and I hadn't had time to judge it or get a feel for it), Bilbo in Rivendell is horrible, and Galadriel in Lorien had to rate as the worst scene in the movie.
How bad? We're talking cringe and grimace inducing bad. I saw the movie with my girlfriend and literally dreaded having to explain to her what was supposed to be going on in that scene. So, she turns blue and starts talking in a wierd digitally enchanced voice, without reading the book I wouldn't be sure What the hell was going on. Of course, by that point I had already come to the conclusion that this was not the movie I had wanted to see. Except for the 3rd book, the first two are slow atmospheric works designed to help give a feeling for the place. The movie unfortunately made them into action pieces. I wonder how many people saw the movie, went out and bought the book and never finished it because of the slow pacing.
People are saying that A Beautiful Mind (which I haven't seen, so I can't judge it) shouldn't have won Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay as it was unfaithful to the life and works of John Nash. By that same reasoning, LOTR is right to have not won, as it was unfaithful to the books.
I can understand them leaving out Bombadil, but watching it I had the feeling that it should have been labelled as 'inspired by the works of JRR Tolkien' and not 'based on'.
Lucky you (no sarcasm intended), just the mention of a new levy or an increase in the existing one is enough for the stores in my local area to bump their prices up a small (large) amount.
I want one, just to have a home server that is not x86, is this board really for real???
Depending on what type of server and how heavy of use it's going to be getting, then why bother with a $600 motherboard that you just have to buy more parts for anyways? If you're willing to do a little messing around, just get an old PowerMac for cheap (make sure it's at least a 2nd generation PowerMac as anything before doesn't have PCI, and try to avoid those with the 601 processor, especially the 7200.)
Although it's not quite the same thing that you want to use it for, my router is a PowerMac 7600/132 (604 processor at 132MHz, 92MB of RAM) which was purchased for ~30 USD (+ shipping). As of this post it's been running for 32 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes without any sort of problems.
Only possible problems are the hardware quirks, but NetBSD has a good model support page detailing most of them for anyone who wishes to run any *nix, and the fact that if there isn't enough storage space then you may have to pay a bit for it depending on whether or not the drives are SCSI or IDE. But, with PPC you tend to pay a bit more for the hardware anyways...
Either way, PenguinPPC is a good place to check out info on Linux on the PPC architecture. (And for old Mac owners, MkLinux is a good place to check for solutions to problems that may be missing from the documentation of your chosen distro (*cough*Debian*cough*) )
Twice the price at half the performance? Care to explain what you mean by that comment?
The most obvious answer I can think of is that you're comparing MHz. In which case you should realize that in the world of the CPU, MHz is not the be all and end all.
Of course you didn't save money when you bought the CD's...BR>
:)
LEt's look at what happened/happens: There's a new levy being applied or an existing one is being increased, people who don't like this type of thing are going to buy in bulk, and probably aren't going to buy many more after the levy for an extended period of time. So, what do you do? You jack the price up around the time that is announced that the levy will be introduced/increased. That way, you have a) people buying lots of stuff at inflated prices (supply and demand folks, the demand rises so the prices do too), and b) when the new levy is introduced, your prices don't change by such a huge margin as they would have otherwise as you have a buffer zone to fall back on.
Or I could be horribly, horribly wrong
...but it appears to be slashdotted...
Once again: google is our friend!
Page:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Well, I know that doesn't look nice, but otherwise it's hard to post due to characters per line restrictions...
Yes they do, it's slashdottted, so I can't tell you what number, but they put themselves in for putting Enron's CEO on the cover as a shining example of the new economy. The issue ran the week before he resigned.
That would explain why the name of the DB server at my univ. is named odin...
Anyways, seeing as my network is rather small, I've stuck with just the Norse gods. Thus Bragi, the god of poetry, is my audio server. Heimdall, the watcher of Bifrost (the rainbow bridge into Asgard) is my firewall/gateway/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. Last but not least is Loki, my main work machine, named such as I liked it (yes, I know it's not a server, deal with it!)
I still need to figure out what to name the machine that I may be getting though... It's probably going to be a web server which means I'm going to have to check through lists of names of events and people. Of course, that's sometimes the fun part of a naming scheme like this, you get to learn new (and interesting) things!
2.4.18 isn't 2.4.18, it's 2.4.18-rc3, unless you're using an x86 in which case 2.4.18 is 2.4.18. Now, if you aren't using an x86 then 2.4.18 isn't 2.4.18, that's 2.4.18-rc4. See, it's really as clear as day. :-)
You do? Really?
I (and some of my friends) have a really bad feeling about this movie. The basic idea works like this: "A prequel would be cool/decent/ok/whatever the opion of the first movie was, but a sequel will suck rancid goat nuts."
Why? Well, let's put it this way, take away the special effects from the first movie, and you're left with a plot with huge holes in it and a bunch of heavy handed Biblical metaphors.
Now, put the special effects back in, and you have an above-average action movie (Ok, it was WAY above average at the time, but not any more.) Which brings us to the next problem: The special effects aren't so 'special' anymore. Everyone's done it, everybody's seen it. There's no 'woah, that was cool' when we get a slow-bullet time effect or the sudden freeze, rotate camera, & continue effect. We've seen it beaten to death, propped up to seem like it's still alive, and beaten some more.
To sum up: Matrix sequel doesn't look too good IMHO.
(Especially since I've heard that Keanu will fly in this movie. If there's any part of the movie that made me want to groan, it was that flying sequence at the end. Both unneccesary & horrible!)
Industry officials have already discussed with lawmakers the possible need to roll back some privacy protections in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Driver's Privacy Protection Act to enable them to use more of the credit and driver's-license data.
So, why do they need to roll back parts of these acts? What parts do they want to roll back? And most importantly, what do these acts say to begin with?
<sarcasm> Is it because they want to know I only have 3 points left and used my credit card to buy a Big Mac last Tuesday? </sarcasm>
A limited model report, generated by Accenture on one individual, looked like any number of publicly available dossiers provided by information services. It included all his addresses for the past two decades, the telephone numbers and former addresses of people who now occupy those residences, and the names, ages, addresses, telephone numbers and partial Social Security numbers of possible relatives. Some of the information was incomplete or, apparently, unrelated to the passenger.
Ooooh! unrelated to the passeneger! Glad to know that they kept track of who now lives where I used to live, that's real useful info. Even more glad to know that I may get checked out for something that has nothing to do with me... (Yes, I know this was just a test system they're talking about, but test systems still have to be tested on the public eventually)
The company said it would eventually like to have more data in the analysis, including embassy warnings, passport information, foreign watch lists. Eventually, with government approval, they would link the system to a national ID or some sort of biometric or both.
Foreign watch lists? Emabassy warnings? What can I say, Salaman Rushdie (sp?) better not plan on flying anywhere. In fact, there's probably a lot of high-profile peole who would have some sort of warning against them by one country or another. Finally, national ID gets brought up yet again. As I'll say everytime it comes up: "yah, that's real useful..."
More reviews (Not that many right now actually, more are added as more reviews are published)
Right now, my favorite's the one that says "It could well end up being the worst movie of 2002. It's that bad."
I'm still trying to figure out how anyone could have found the trailers interesting though...
They were 'taken in' as shown through a story titled: "Jasker Power Source - Perpetual Energy or Hoax?"?
Hmmm... not sure if I'd call that 'taken in' or 'thought it was worth discussion.' If you look, a lot of the comments don't believe it's real either.
Sigh.... I really should follow my own advice some time and RTFA (read the fine article)...
"[...] and 3D support seems to still only work with Glide and Voodoo3."
Well, guess that answers that...
Unless anything is new since the last time I used it, Quake III only works with a Voodoo-based graphics card (not even sure what version of Voodoo... probably 3)
Anyways, I tried it back with v4, liked it but had no use for it, almost put it on one of my machines when v6 came out, but it still had that nice little isa network card problem that had plagued me before (3c509b, when it comes to non-mainstream OS's it causes more problems then it's worth, just ask any BeOS user)
Not only do most newbies interpret RTFM as 'this guy is an asshole,' you know what, sometimes they are right.
I've browsed through news group and mailing list archives trying to find solutions to problems, I've seen tons of of simple 'RTFM' responses, and not all of them are deserved. Some are simple problems that, yes are avaialble in the fine, fine manual. Others aren't so simple and aren't in the manual.
Sometimes some of them are in the manual but maybe, just maybe the manual isn't explaining it in a manner that's comprehensible to all users.
To put it simply, I can say nothing about the tech support provided by the companies for their distros, but as to the stuff avialable for the most part on the internet, well, it may be free but you aren't even getting your money's worth in that case.
I think your first link should point here instead, as you made a typo in the address.
Now that is a distinct possibility that I will admit is quite likely. The guy knew what was supposed to be coming in, and may or may not have made it up. My guess is that it's one of those things that no one will really know.
Sigh.... what's being celebrated here has nothing to do with who invented the radio (take a look at the articles, there's nothing mentioned about Marconi having invented it)
What's being celebrated here is quite simple: It's the first ever wireless trans-Atlantic communication, which is quite clearly Marconi's. Even the site you link to admits that Marconi was the one who performed this feat. Sure, Marconi may not have been the first to invent the radio (he may not, as you point out, even have invented a version of it at all) But without him performing this experiment, it's unlikely we would be in the same place we are today. After all, the radio station in New York that Tesla was building to transmit electric signals and electricity to the entire planet didn't start construction until 1901, the same year Marconi made his transmission. From the sounds of it, I'm not sure if Tesla's project would have worked, even if he hadn't run out of funding.
Summary: Tesla beat Marconi to the radio, but that's not what is being discussed here. Marconi made the first trans-Atlantic broadcast, that IS being discussed, and is most definately a fact.
Not to mention the fact that the 'widespread use of portable satelite phones' isn't quite as widespread as he'd like to think, in some aprts of the world, you're more likely to get someone close by with a nice radio transmission than with a digital uplink.
Now for the final question, what happens if those satelites get knocked out somehow? And don't say it can't happen...
I take great pride in nitpicking, thank you very much... Anyways, if I really had wanted to get picky I could have pulled out the fact that this is a percentage of time spent online, and 'Veteran Users' spend slightly over 2x as much time online as newbies. Which means that the 0.8% actually represents a difference of a much higher magnitude.
Personally, the real reason I brought it up was all the people who started posting 'Yah, I spend much less time downloading music now than I did when I first got on the internet' (possibly because if they actually downloaded music 5 years ago, it probably took them a lot longer on their 28.8 and 14.4 modems) without having even looked at the article in question.
And then, don't forget that this is as a percentage of time spent online, and seeing as people with 5 or more years online spend twice as much time online as people with less than one year online... so remember for the close ones, that means for sure that the experienced users spend more time, just not a larger percent of the time.
I'm not in the mood to work out the actual hours based on the percentages, but yeah, I know a few who've been online for years, and spend most of their time is spent hanging around irc.
While I haven't reached the stats on online shopping yet (at 95 pages, this thing is massive), but I would like to point out to the submitter of this article a few stats from one of the charts (new users (those less than one year) and very experienced users (five or more years in 2001) that is located on page 18):
- Chatrooms:
- New users: 6.5%
- Experienced users: 1.6%
- Games:
- New Users: 5.7%
- Experienced Users: 2.8%
- Download Music:
- New Users: 2.0%
- Experienced Users: 2.8%
Now, last time I checked, 2.8% > 2.0%, so while, yes, newbies do play games and hang around chat rooms more (geez, they had to do a survey of that? I could have told them that), it seems that the 'old-timers' are (slightly) more likely to download music.So let this be a lesson for you: Always make sure your facts are correct when submitting an article, it's a little less embarrasing.
Actually, I believe he meant 1% of 50 Million.
Still, that's 500 000 people. I'd hardly call that no one. Hell, most bands don't sell that many copies of their albums.
Disabled doesn't mean visibly diasbled.
If I have severe arthritis, I'm disabled, you may not notice it, but I am.
If I'm blind in one eye, technically I'm disabled.
I may only have partial hearing, you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at me, but I'd be disabled then too.
There's plenty of other disabilities that aren't readily apparent. Just remember: disability is more than a wheelchair, crutches, leg braces or a cane...