It is not a war and it's that sort of escalatory speech (amoung other things) which frightens me, especially when coming from someone who otherwise seems thoughtful. Most of us have never experienced one (and CNN doesn't count) but actual war is something very different to this.
Comparisons between the Blitz and September 11th are frankly absurd.
That's not to suggest this isn't bad or plain evil. But it different to war and needs to be thought of as such if the problem is to solved intelligently. The response needs to be thoughful and practical, not emotional.
I'm a citizen of two out of the three countries that entered Iraq (Australia and England) and I think the war was probably necessary and ultimatly carried out as well as a war can be.
But for me the scariest thing seems to have been the ease with which America appeared to fall into a sea of groupthink and propaganda in the name of patriotism. One single terrorist act, carried out by a small number of men, seems to have so greatly shifted America's perspective that I fear what could happen if something truly devastating happened.
You can modify you car if you like but if you want to enter that car in a competition it will have to meet the technical requirements of that competition.
Just as most competitions severely limit what modification can be done to cars in order to keep the racing "fair" it is perfectly reasonable for MS to limit modifications made to the XBox if you want to use it with their XBox live service.
I think theatre going is changing and the theatres know it and are changing to accomodate.
I'm certainly more inclined to wait for most movies to come out on DVD and see less at the theatre because of it. I'm sure the average (rather than avid) filmgoer is the same.
On the other hand when I do go to the cinema it is usually for a special movie and I'm happy to pay twice the price for a gold class seat and buy a couple of glasses of wine while I'm at it.
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That's just too pissweak...
My guess is that Neo can access the Matrix through alternate methods than just the ethernet cable in the back of his head. Effectively he's wireless. So when the octopuses come into range he senses them and "whack". He's probably always had this ability on a subconcious level and this extra communication channel could be what gives him his advantage in the Matrix but as he uses it more he's become more concious to it.
I think evolution might play a part. The Matrix is designed and built to interface with humans but due to unpredictable random evolution the humans change to better interface with the matrix, thus subverting it, Neo being the paragon of such advancement.
In some ways I think Neo is a human who has gained machine aspects and that will be juxtaposed with Smith who is a program who has gained human aspects. (Note the symbolism of them both bleeding from the hand, Smith in the real world and Neo in the Matrix, blood brothers to some extent?).
Who knows? But I bet it's going to be a blast finding out.
That's just too pissweak...
My guess is that Neo can access the Matrix through alternate methods than just the ethernet cable in the back of his head. Effectively he's wireless. So when the octopuses come into range he senses them and "whack".
He's probably always had this ability on a subconcious level and this extra communication channel could be what gives him his advantage in the Matrix but as he uses it more he's become more concious to it.
I think evolution might play a part. The Matrix is designed and built to interface with humans but due to unpredictable random evolution the humans change to better interface with the matrix, thus subverting it, Neo being the paragon of such advancement.
In some ways I think Neo is a human who has gained machine aspects and that will be juxtaposed with Smith who is a program who has gained human aspects. (Note the symbolism of them both bleeding from the hand, Smith in the real world and Neo in the Matrix, blood brothers to some extent?).
Who knows? But I bet it's going to be a blast finding out.
Interestingly in Mozilla 1.4b there is indeed a leader character listed in the edit menu for Find links/text as you type.
Opera is also very "hack" friendly, probably more so than Mozilla, for things like key bindings, menu arrangement and mouse gestures. The Opera ini files for these are very straightforward and there's even a bit of a UI for keyboard and mouse bindings in the preferences.
It means that 36 keys or so on my keyboard that could be used for a variety of navigation/other functions are instead reserved for one single function. To me this seems an incredibly inefficient way of using the keyboard.
I've only got the Windows version to go on at the moment but Opera 7 can window every which way you like. Tabs, subwindows or top level windows in whatever mixture you choose.
In this respect Opera have done a great job in sidestepping any doctrinal war and just letting each user work however suits them best.
Yes, there's certainly a reference there with the two bleeding hands.
I didn't suppose that Smiths blood signified any sort of transference. I suspected that he was just experimenting with his humanity.
Perhaps the link is that both of them are crossing a bridge. Neo is a human that has taken on machine aspects and Smith is a machine that has taken on a human aspect. In some way they are "blood" brothers.
I suspect the real world is still the real world, but something in Neo's development while attached to the Matrix gave him wireless capability as well as the standard cat 5 in the back of the head sort.
This extra communication channel has always given him an advantage but has been largely subconcious until now. He's gradually become aware of it and uses it conciously for the first time when he feels the octopus things coming into range at the end.
Actually that could be an interesting subcontext. The machines took over because they were capable of being designed to be far more efficient than man. However they cannot account for man's greatest advantage, the ability to adapt and evolve by chance. They can design The Matrix to fit humans, but over time humans can evolve and change to exploit aspects of the matrix in ways the machines cannot predict.
It's great that we have an Open Source V Closed Source fight (floabw) on which opinions aren't distorted by one side being the MS behemoth.
It's cool to see two sets of obviously talented engineers working so hard at something and in the process demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of both models.
Which made me happy as it's a kick ass album but I'm not buying something I can't use.
So for a few extra bucks I got one with a nice red cover and a t-shirt. And I can actually listen to it too.
I want discs that work forever not just current hw
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One issue that people don't see with these discs is that even if they work on whatever hardware you have now that doesn't mean it will work in what you buy later.
With a CD you know it will work in anything with a CD logo on it. With these things you could find in five years time that you don't have any hardware that will play it.
When my bog standard CD player dies I'm unlikely to replace it. I already have two PCs, an xBox and a DVD player that should be perfectly capable of playing my music but won't these discs don't work (or at least the one disc I tried).
If particular versions of copy protection are only employed for a short period time then future hardware manufacters aren't going to worry too much about compatibility with every single different type.
That's why I took 100th Window back and why I haven't bought one of these discs since. And I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month.
It's specifically mentioned in our (AU) copyright law.
It's actually quite interesting if you read it. The law makes exemptions for "fair dealing" and then goes on to specifically mention some things that are included in "fair dealing". However the wording (to me at least) doesn't indicate that the list is an exclusive.
I think you'd have every chance to stand up in court and argue that making a backup copy of a CD you own is "fair dealing".
The reason that hasn't happened is because in the real world the record companies have no interest in stopping you doing that anyway. There is no money to be gained and they don't want to cause a weakening of the copyright law by creating a precedent that expands "fair dealing".
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It is not a war and it's that sort of escalatory speech (amoung other things) which frightens me, especially when coming from someone who otherwise seems thoughtful. Most of us have never experienced one (and CNN doesn't count) but actual war is something very different to this.
Comparisons between the Blitz and September 11th are frankly absurd.
That's not to suggest this isn't bad or plain evil. But it different to war and needs to be thought of as such if the problem is to solved intelligently. The response needs to be thoughful and practical, not emotional.
You need those checks more than you need yes men.
I'm a citizen of two out of the three countries that entered Iraq (Australia and England) and I think the war was probably necessary and ultimatly carried out as well as a war can be.
But for me the scariest thing seems to have been the ease with which America appeared to fall into a sea of groupthink and propaganda in the name of patriotism. One single terrorist act, carried out by a small number of men, seems to have so greatly shifted America's perspective that I fear what could happen if something truly devastating happened.
You can modify you car if you like but if you want to enter that car in a competition it will have to meet the technical requirements of that competition.
Just as most competitions severely limit what modification can be done to cars in order to keep the racing "fair" it is perfectly reasonable for MS to limit modifications made to the XBox if you want to use it with their XBox live service.
I think theatre going is changing and the theatres know it and are changing to accomodate. I'm certainly more inclined to wait for most movies to come out on DVD and see less at the theatre because of it. I'm sure the average (rather than avid) filmgoer is the same. On the other hand when I do go to the cinema it is usually for a special movie and I'm happy to pay twice the price for a gold class seat and buy a couple of glasses of wine while I'm at it.
That'd be totally excellent dude!
At the very least she told Neo he wasn't the one.
As far as I can tell the robot dude demanded that they gave up their flesh and then blew up the leaders as an example to prevent resistance.
The oracle very definitaly did.
That's just too pissweak...
My guess is that Neo can access the Matrix through alternate methods than just the ethernet cable in the back of his head. Effectively he's wireless. So when the octopuses come into range he senses them and "whack". He's probably always had this ability on a subconcious level and this extra communication channel could be what gives him his advantage in the Matrix but as he uses it more he's become more concious to it.
I think evolution might play a part. The Matrix is designed and built to interface with humans but due to unpredictable random evolution the humans change to better interface with the matrix, thus subverting it, Neo being the paragon of such advancement.
In some ways I think Neo is a human who has gained machine aspects and that will be juxtaposed with Smith who is a program who has gained human aspects. (Note the symbolism of them both bleeding from the hand, Smith in the real world and Neo in the Matrix, blood brothers to some extent?).
Who knows? But I bet it's going to be a blast finding out.
That's just too pissweak... My guess is that Neo can access the Matrix through alternate methods than just the ethernet cable in the back of his head. Effectively he's wireless. So when the octopuses come into range he senses them and "whack". He's probably always had this ability on a subconcious level and this extra communication channel could be what gives him his advantage in the Matrix but as he uses it more he's become more concious to it. I think evolution might play a part. The Matrix is designed and built to interface with humans but due to unpredictable random evolution the humans change to better interface with the matrix, thus subverting it, Neo being the paragon of such advancement. In some ways I think Neo is a human who has gained machine aspects and that will be juxtaposed with Smith who is a program who has gained human aspects. (Note the symbolism of them both bleeding from the hand, Smith in the real world and Neo in the Matrix, blood brothers to some extent?). Who knows? But I bet it's going to be a blast finding out.
It seems to work here. Oh, and it seems to work here too.
Interestingly in Mozilla 1.4b there is indeed a leader character listed in the edit menu for Find links/text as you type.
Opera is also very "hack" friendly, probably more so than Mozilla, for things like key bindings, menu arrangement and mouse gestures. The Opera ini files for these are very straightforward and there's even a bit of a UI for keyboard and mouse bindings in the preferences.
Unless disabling "Find as you type" enables the sort of rich keyboard interface that Opera provides that doesn't really get me anywhere though...
It means that 36 keys or so on my keyboard that could be used for a variety of navigation/other functions are instead reserved for one single function. To me this seems an incredibly inefficient way of using the keyboard.
I've only got the Windows version to go on at the moment but Opera 7 can window every which way you like. Tabs, subwindows or top level windows in whatever mixture you choose.
In this respect Opera have done a great job in sidestepping any doctrinal war and just letting each user work however suits them best.
Rather than just some assertions?
Opera simply works in the vast majority of cases for me.
Yes, there's certainly a reference there with the two bleeding hands. I didn't suppose that Smiths blood signified any sort of transference. I suspected that he was just experimenting with his humanity. Perhaps the link is that both of them are crossing a bridge. Neo is a human that has taken on machine aspects and Smith is a machine that has taken on a human aspect. In some way they are "blood" brothers.
I suspect the real world is still the real world, but something in Neo's development while attached to the Matrix gave him wireless capability as well as the standard cat 5 in the back of the head sort.
This extra communication channel has always given him an advantage but has been largely subconcious until now. He's gradually become aware of it and uses it conciously for the first time when he feels the octopus things coming into range at the end.
Actually that could be an interesting subcontext. The machines took over because they were capable of being designed to be far more efficient than man. However they cannot account for man's greatest advantage, the ability to adapt and evolve by chance. They can design The Matrix to fit humans, but over time humans can evolve and change to exploit aspects of the matrix in ways the machines cannot predict.
Your argument was pretty good, apart from that!
It's great that we have an Open Source V Closed Source fight (floabw) on which opinions aren't distorted by one side being the MS behemoth. It's cool to see two sets of obviously talented engineers working so hard at something and in the process demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of both models.
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Which made me happy as it's a kick ass album but I'm not buying something I can't use. So for a few extra bucks I got one with a nice red cover and a t-shirt. And I can actually listen to it too.
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One issue that people don't see with these discs is that even if they work on whatever hardware you have now that doesn't mean it will work in what you buy later.
With a CD you know it will work in anything with a CD logo on it. With these things you could find in five years time that you don't have any hardware that will play it.
When my bog standard CD player dies I'm unlikely to replace it. I already have two PCs, an xBox and a DVD player that should be perfectly capable of playing my music but won't these discs don't work (or at least the one disc I tried).
If particular versions of copy protection are only employed for a short period time then future hardware manufacters aren't going to worry too much about compatibility with every single different type.
That's why I took 100th Window back and why I haven't bought one of these discs since. And I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month.
It's specifically mentioned in our (AU) copyright law.
It's actually quite interesting if you read it. The law makes exemptions for "fair dealing" and then goes on to specifically mention some things that are included in "fair dealing". However the wording (to me at least) doesn't indicate that the list is an exclusive.
I think you'd have every chance to stand up in court and argue that making a backup copy of a CD you own is "fair dealing".
The reason that hasn't happened is because in the real world the record companies have no interest in stopping you doing that anyway. There is no money to be gained and they don't want to cause a weakening of the copyright law by creating a precedent that expands "fair dealing".