I wasn't knocking the Apple II. I was giving a counter-example to your analogy. Simply because we continue to talk about something is no indication that it has withstood the test of time.
Jeez. I think the original SW movies are overrated. This isn't flamebait. It's just an opinion.
And now, two cases argumentum ad hominem; the criticism must be unsound because I am a critical person, and my criticism of the first three movies is suspect because of my crtiicism of the most recent two.
So far, we've got three movies which don't stand the test of time (the orignal three) and two movies that stand neither the test of time nor of wallet nor of stomach (the most recent pair).
It's a pretty safe bet that Revenge of the Sith is going to smell like the ass of a baboon, too.
And yet, finding a SW fan who'll mail nine bucks to UNICEF, instead of going to the midnight show of a movie with a character named Kit Fisto, is like pulling teeth from a chicken.
The fact that we have lots of resources is not a credible reason for anyone to want to invade us. There are many countries with ample resources and poor militaries who aren't being invaded. These aren't colonial times.
We don't have to worry about China invading us, even if they somehow became our enemies. Even if the US played a hands-off role, it wouldn't happen. Ditto Russia.
Who are Canada's enemies? What nation would want to try to occupy the second-largest country in the world?
We are protrected by our geography, and not by the US navy. We are protected by our diplomacy, and not by our neighbours to the south.
We shoulder the burden of our own defense admirably. The US has nothing to do with it. Zero. Nada. The point is entirely invalid.
As Gwynne Dyer once said: "The Russians aren't going to trudge through eight thousand miles of tundra to take Saskatoon."
Defend our borders against whom? Who's gonna invade us?
The only country who would ever be even marginally likely to do so has a military so powerful that we could never defend against it regardless of what we spent.
Canada needs a military like a fish needs a bicycle.
I have been a consumer of violent movies, music, books and games for thirty-odd years. They have had no effect whatsoever on me, and I'll kill any son of a bitch who tries to tell me otherwise.
Chapter Four is about using common tools, like Ethereal, Netstat, PGP, etc. It explains how to monitor an Internet connection to spot software secretly reaching out or phoning home to remote servers; how to monitor your system for signs of malicious processes; and how to use PGP and GnuPG to encrypt sensitive files and Internet correspondence. This is one of the best introductions to using encryption available anywhere.
(And so on.) It looks to me as if the book has failed completely as a guide for the average home or small office user. Your mom is the average user. Your mom plays Pogo all evening and clicks on every mail she receives. You need to explain security to her in such a way that it can fit on both sides of an index card. GnuPG? I think not.
It strikes me that if you have to require your end users to constantly change their passwords in order to prevent them from being cracked, that's your entire problem.
Instead, you should be securing your system to prevent password lists being downloaded and to prevent multiple subsequent incorrect logins.
Secure your own system. Don't expect your users to do it for you.
One would think that the primary roadblock to software developemnt in Australia is the price of Net access and bandwidth. Isn't it ridiculously expensive there compared to North America?
The best part of the story is that the team got $500K in funding from Golden Palace.com, who is promoting the launch by saying that they'll enjoy playing casino games in suborbital flight.
Ha.
They've been showing pictures of the project on Space (the Canadian equivalent of Sc-Fi Channel) for months, and I've always gotten the impression that there's gonna be a lot of wreckage strewn over the Alberta countryside.
I can't explain why. Maybe it's the hip, urban office they have, gambling site sponsorship, proprietary fuel source, overall secrecy and hot-air balloon assist that all merge together to fill me with confidence.
"It's going to be one hell of a ride", Feeney said
If I had more dollars than sense, I'd go just to have a chance to play Marble Man, the never-released sequel to Marbell Madness. The few people who have working boards have sadly never allowed them to be ripped to ROM.
Enh. It hardly matters. 90% of the TV currently posted to Usenet is distributed via BT first, and long enough previously that one could finish downloading it before the last RAR propogated over a.b.multimedia. If Usenet distribution ever got shut down, it would affect my^H^Hsomeone's ability to download the new Dead Like Me not one whit.
2. This is going to be used by current Usenet, BT and Kazaa-based sharers as justification for their broad distribution of TV shows (don't get me wrong; I download TV, but I wouldn't justify it like this).
I think you're exactly right. The Internet is the main problem. For pretty much everything, all the time.:D
In all seriousness, it used to be that companies would work towards the big trade shows. "Jenkins, your team needs to come up with somethign really big for the trade show." "You bet, chief!"
That doesn't happen anymor, since the publishers simply release information any time they like. They're no longer on a media release schedule.
I suspect that this attitude has also been the cause of the increasingly late delivery times of final products; since games aren't jst a Christmas item anymore, one doesn't have to work towards (say) a November release.
See, I don't look at undr 15% on one market is clobbering.
According to this site: http://www.pcvsconsole.com/hank/answer.php?file=54 9, Gamecube outpaces Xbox slightly worldwide.
In cas eyou are stupid, XBox is #3. Not #2.
There's your proof. Buh-bye now. Want more reponses? Then log in. Until then, I go back to surfing at 1.
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The medium isn't the message, per se. The message is the message. It doesn't really matter with what edium a message is transmitted; information is information.
This was reinforced recently by the blogsters at the Democratic Convention. Few said anything of consequence. That what they transmitted was using new media didn't matter. Crap is crap.
And as such, I don't think I can agree with Gilmour; while September 11 showed that personal media could be an important infotransmission tool, July 2004 showed that it's overrated, and that we still need professionals.
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I wasn't knocking the Apple II. I was giving a counter-example to your analogy. Simply because we continue to talk about something is no indication that it has withstood the test of time.
Jeez. I think the original SW movies are overrated. This isn't flamebait. It's just an opinion.
And now, two cases argumentum ad hominem; the criticism must be unsound because I am a critical person, and my criticism of the first three movies is suspect because of my crtiicism of the most recent two.
We still talk about the Apple II, as well. What's your point?
By what standard? By my standard. I find them embarassingly dated.
Popularity is no gauge of quality. That's the argumentum ad numerum fallacy.
For me, their shine faded in the mid-80s.
No, seriously. Kit Fisto.
So far, we've got three movies which don't stand the test of time (the orignal three) and two movies that stand neither the test of time nor of wallet nor of stomach (the most recent pair).
It's a pretty safe bet that Revenge of the Sith is going to smell like the ass of a baboon, too.
And yet, finding a SW fan who'll mail nine bucks to UNICEF, instead of going to the midnight show of a movie with a character named Kit Fisto, is like pulling teeth from a chicken.
Pass. Pass pass pass pass pass.
Both you and the anonymous grandchild post are wrong.
'Staff' is a collective noun, and neither a plural nor a singular noun. Check out your Strunk & White or your Chicago Manual of Style.
As a collective noun, it is used in plural when referring to its constituents and in singular otherwise.
The staff are at each other's throats. but
The staff is loyal.
The usage "The staff has temporarily relocated" is absolutely correct, by virtually every news editorial style guide in North America.
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The fact that we have lots of resources is not a credible reason for anyone to want to invade us. There are many countries with ample resources and poor militaries who aren't being invaded. These aren't colonial times.
We don't have to worry about China invading us, even if they somehow became our enemies. Even if the US played a hands-off role, it wouldn't happen. Ditto Russia.
Who are Canada's enemies? What nation would want to try to occupy the second-largest country in the world?
We are protrected by our geography, and not by the US navy. We are protected by our diplomacy, and not by our neighbours to the south.
We shoulder the burden of our own defense admirably. The US has nothing to do with it. Zero. Nada. The point is entirely invalid.
As Gwynne Dyer once said: "The Russians aren't going to trudge through eight thousand miles of tundra to take Saskatoon."
Defend our borders against whom? Who's gonna invade us?
The only country who would ever be even marginally likely to do so has a military so powerful that we could never defend against it regardless of what we spent.
Canada needs a military like a fish needs a bicycle.
I have been a consumer of violent movies, music, books and games for thirty-odd years. They have had no effect whatsoever on me, and I'll kill any son of a bitch who tries to tell me otherwise.
Chapter Four is about using common tools, like Ethereal, Netstat, PGP, etc. It explains how to monitor an Internet connection to spot software secretly reaching out or phoning home to remote servers; how to monitor your system for signs of malicious processes; and how to use PGP and GnuPG to encrypt sensitive files and Internet correspondence. This is one of the best introductions to using encryption available anywhere.
(And so on.) It looks to me as if the book has failed completely as a guide for the average home or small office user. Your mom is the average user. Your mom plays Pogo all evening and clicks on every mail she receives. You need to explain security to her in such a way that it can fit on both sides of an index card. GnuPG? I think not.
Doohan. He's got Alzheimer's and has been in and out of hospital constantly ove the last couple of years.
It strikes me that if you have to require your end users to constantly change their passwords in order to prevent them from being cracked, that's your entire problem.
Instead, you should be securing your system to prevent password lists being downloaded and to prevent multiple subsequent incorrect logins.
Secure your own system. Don't expect your users to do it for you.
$39.95 Cdn per month for cable Net access, fastest consumer cable speed in the world (Shaw), 60 gigs a month but seldom enforced.
One would think that the primary roadblock to software developemnt in Australia is the price of Net access and bandwidth. Isn't it ridiculously expensive there compared to North America?
And something like 20 miles from the Alberta border.
I rather doubt that much of the inevitable wreckage will end up in Saskatchewan, as summer winds in the area are most often from the south and east.
Yep, I'm sure. Those eyeglasses are memorable.
The best part of the story is that the team got $500K in funding from Golden Palace.com, who is promoting the launch by saying that they'll enjoy playing casino games in suborbital flight.
Ha.
They've been showing pictures of the project on Space (the Canadian equivalent of Sc-Fi Channel) for months, and I've always gotten the impression that there's gonna be a lot of wreckage strewn over the Alberta countryside.
I can't explain why. Maybe it's the hip, urban office they have, gambling site sponsorship, proprietary fuel source, overall secrecy and hot-air balloon assist that all merge together to fill me with confidence.
"It's going to be one hell of a ride", Feeney said
Yeah, I'll bet.
If I had more dollars than sense, I'd go just to have a chance to play Marble Man, the never-released sequel to Marbell Madness. The few people who have working boards have sadly never allowed them to be ripped to ROM.
One day. One day...
If history is any indication, they won't.
You'd think that they could release one US DDR for PS or PS2 with "Butterfly". But noooo.
Enh. It hardly matters. 90% of the TV currently posted to Usenet is distributed via BT first, and long enough previously that one could finish downloading it before the last RAR propogated over a.b.multimedia. If Usenet distribution ever got shut down, it would affect my^H^Hsomeone's ability to download the new Dead Like Me not one whit.
1. There's no way that this is gonna last.
2. This is going to be used by current Usenet, BT and Kazaa-based sharers as justification for their broad distribution of TV shows (don't get me wrong; I download TV, but I wouldn't justify it like this).
I think you're exactly right. The Internet is the main problem. For pretty much everything, all the time. :D
In all seriousness, it used to be that companies would work towards the big trade shows. "Jenkins, your team needs to come up with somethign really big for the trade show." "You bet, chief!"
That doesn't happen anymor, since the publishers simply release information any time they like. They're no longer on a media release schedule.
I suspect that this attitude has also been the cause of the increasingly late delivery times of final products; since games aren't jst a Christmas item anymore, one doesn't have to work towards (say) a November release.
See, I don't look at undr 15% on one market is clobbering.
4 9, Gamecube outpaces Xbox slightly worldwide.
According to this site: http://www.pcvsconsole.com/hank/answer.php?file=5
In cas eyou are stupid, XBox is #3. Not #2.
There's your proof. Buh-bye now. Want more reponses? Then log in. Until then, I go back to surfing at 1.
The medium isn't the message, per se. The message is the message. It doesn't really matter with what edium a message is transmitted; information is information.
This was reinforced recently by the blogsters at the Democratic Convention. Few said anything of consequence. That what they transmitted was using new media didn't matter. Crap is crap.
And as such, I don't think I can agree with Gilmour; while September 11 showed that personal media could be an important infotransmission tool, July 2004 showed that it's overrated, and that we still need professionals.