It would be fitting to noir it up a bit, as it really is a very cynical work. When I read H2G2 back in the early 80's I thought it was a stitch. The last time I read it, about 1995, I realized it was cynical and very biting, though appears humorous and whimsical on the surface. What DNA was saying about things though his characters and story line is unfortunately true enough about Britain if not other parts of the world, the USA prominently included. Sirius Cybernetics == Microsoft? That would have been some foresight, but that SC would be some company or companies was inspired by something.
Read the books again and look beyond the humor. It's probably only the humor which will appear on the screen, which could be a bit of a let down. Include some of that cynicism from the books and it could be better than just another light british comedy.
A film version of Hitchhiker's may be interesting, but I think it's safe to say that a film simply cannot pick up on the wordplay of Douglas Adams. Adams is simply a master of twisting words that can make the reader laugh out loud.
Unless the director chooses to use lots of narration, which could ruin a film.
Received H2G2 series DVD as Christmas present, haven't watched yet, but did catch a bit of the series on PBS years ago, looked pretty good.
I think that it's being done by brits gives it a pretty good shot, alone. Before you get your wingin' engine up to a whine, consider how bad this could have been if done by Hollywood standards. John Travolta as Zaphod... *shudder*
That is a "server" part. You can get those boards a variety of places for about $25,000 each.
Bah!
What we're seeing is the same old motherboards Taiwan, Inc. has been cranking out for 32bit CPU's for ages, no real redesign to take advantage of that 64 bit architecture. I can understand it to a small degree, but honestly, isn't the real reason for getting an Athnlon 64 so you can go beyond 4 Gb? Otherwise, it's just an Athlon on steroids, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe when they have on of those big tech shows in Taiwan in the near future, they'll unveil something.
I waited all this time for the 64b CPU's to hit the shelves now I'm waiting on mobos... foo.
The only reason I'm even considering one of these gems is so I can cram more memory into a system for video work. All the boards I've seen for Athlon 64 max at 3Gb. The SK8* boards for the Athlon FX will take, IIRC 8Gb. Where's the boards I can cram 32 or more into?
I was actually looking forward to buying my son some of the more interesting modern Lego sets available these days. If they gut their line, I certainly won't be buying. There really wouldn't be a point.
So buy them up now, before they're gone. They're tomorrow's collectors items. Maybe if you can keep the box in nice shape and all the pieces they can pay his first semester in college.
20 years ago, someone at Lego thought that they should be a huge powerhouse company, with their hands in everything. Why not just be a medium sized company, making a few million dollars of profit every year with your core business?
Back when Lego introduced a lot of the new stuff I couldn't see the point, as it limited the use of specialty items, which was IMHO unattractive. In my youth I made lots of stuff and spent uncounted hours developing my imagination with a few simple pieces. I'm sure my parents loved it, as it kept me busy and quiet while building things. Same applied to Erector sets, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. Provide the kids with the basics and their minds will do the rest. Provide them with limited toys and they lose interest in a short time and expect something new.
There was also something like brown or red plastic girders and green plastic sheets which could be used to make buildings, houses, etc. which were really cool, but I can't remember the name of. I'd buy them if they were still for sale.
Once again, brick and mortar prove most successful.
I looked at this and said cool... My wife looked at it and said YUCK!!!
Just goes to show, Not for everybody.
I got one of those little Cateye night riding lights with three high intensity LEDs. It will run 15 hours (they claim) on 3 AAA cells. That's pretty impressive. I expect at some time we will light indoors with LED's and save a lot of cash doing so. The only problem I've seen with LED's off house current is the 60Hz flicker (LED Christmas lights)
I had no idea Microsoft even had dial-up, I wonder how they spent that marketing money.
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware the Leopard.'" -- Douglas Adams, H2G2p
SCO seems to have decided that they would prefer to put the final nail in their coffin from the inside.
Laugh. This is pure blackmail. It's clearly aimed at the upcoming IPO of Google and the last thing a company facing before an IPO is a legal battle, hence they might just throw a bone to SCO to sweep the problem under the rug. Well planned move on SCO's part.
Today's Lesson: It's better to deny the truth as long as you can, putting off going down in a spectacular and brilliant fireball until it's inevitable than face reality, appolgise and make the best of it.
Small wonder the rest of the world thinks americans are wackos. It's not just the way we do business, it's a way of life.
So, in the light of these Linux lawsuits, where does this leave the rest of us? Probably a little safer than we thought we were. Novell is running long and strong on detail, SCO just as long and strong on rhetoric! When one lawyer quotes details and the other is doing little more than flapping his arms, I tend to go with the details.
Effectively, SCO is maintaining it's stance that it is on firm ground, with assets well in hand, for the alternative is disaster. Deny reality as long as possible, hope stock price rises as gullible investers throw away money and sell (which SCO execs did) before reality asserts itself. Nice ploy, when you got nothing else.
Users can stream MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MP3, WMA, and other formats from their PC to the TV. Sure I can do this cobbling together other tools, but this is a self contained box even newbies can use. Think how many people could install and config a router and an AP, versus the number of people that can plug in one of the self-contained wireless routers? "
Pilot: There's that movie playing on the HUD again.
Co Pilot: It's the *&%#$ Matrix: Revolutions, again.
Pilot: Let's do a barrel roll and see if we can lose that geeks DVD player, buckle up.
I think I'd prefer seeing tax and other incentives given to companies to KEEP jobs here.
You're right! How's this for a proposal?
You keep jobs in the US and we won't tax the living hell out of your fat executive compensation, Carly, you sack of dirt and that goes for all your fat-cat chums at HP.
"The problem with hiring executives in the USA is that they all expect huge salaries, golden parachutes, stock options, perks, etc. We can save so much money by outsourcing executive jobs to India, where they'd be thrilled to make the salary the average worker at McDonald's earns."
I'm using the AMD supplied fan/HS on my XP2600/333 and it's louder then the PS fan, or any other fans for that matter. There was something useful on a review site some time back, where they reviewed the individual fans. Once you found a sink you liked you could usually go quieter with an Oryx or somesuch fan. That info would be welcome. Which fans are quietest, without sacrificing CFM/RPM.
High definition photos of Mars and now High definition radio? I do believe/. is spoiling us.
And that nifty Athlon 64 3400+ article this morning, too.
Well, it's probably sweeps week at/. and it'll be back to the usual banal stuff next week, after MW and CES are all over and we've got bored of Mars happenings.
Satellite radio has little or no advertising, but you do have to pay a monthly subscription fee.
Take a long trip through the american southwest or into the bible belt and see what you think of broadcast. In the Mojave I only got AM stations at night, thanks to the lowered ionosphere. It can also be pretty tough anywhere finding a station you consistently like listening to. With the 4 presets I have for sat. I'm pretty happy and can listen to them in the middle of Death Valley if I want (which I have done.)
Realistically speaking, the only big problem with FM radio
Thanks to engine noise, etc, it's marginally better than AM. Thanks to borish DJ's it's no better than all the talk-radio crap which has taken over AM. Tapes or CD's were all that was left, or go satellite.
I bought into satellite a year and half ago and rarely listen to regular broadcast anymore. Audio quality is good enough and far fewer annoying DJ's and commercials. The only reason left to catch local broadcasts is traffice reports.
Worth it? Yeah, I spend an average of an hour a day driving. It's definitely worth it.
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Red sand between my toes,
Summer vacation in outer space.
--Robin Williams, "Reality, What a Concept"
Read the books again and look beyond the humor. It's probably only the humor which will appear on the screen, which could be a bit of a let down. Include some of that cynicism from the books and it could be better than just another light british comedy.
Unless the director chooses to use lots of narration, which could ruin a film.
Received H2G2 series DVD as Christmas present, haven't watched yet, but did catch a bit of the series on PBS years ago, looked pretty good.
I think that it's being done by brits gives it a pretty good shot, alone. Before you get your wingin' engine up to a whine, consider how bad this could have been if done by Hollywood standards. John Travolta as Zaphod... *shudder*
Bah!
What we're seeing is the same old motherboards Taiwan, Inc. has been cranking out for 32bit CPU's for ages, no real redesign to take advantage of that 64 bit architecture. I can understand it to a small degree, but honestly, isn't the real reason for getting an Athnlon 64 so you can go beyond 4 Gb? Otherwise, it's just an Athlon on steroids, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe when they have on of those big tech shows in Taiwan in the near future, they'll unveil something.
I waited all this time for the 64b CPU's to hit the shelves now I'm waiting on mobos... foo.
"3 Gigabytes should be enough for anybody."
The only reason I'm even considering one of these gems is so I can cram more memory into a system for video work. All the boards I've seen for Athlon 64 max at 3Gb. The SK8* boards for the Athlon FX will take, IIRC 8Gb. Where's the boards I can cram 32 or more into?
So buy them up now, before they're gone. They're tomorrow's collectors items. Maybe if you can keep the box in nice shape and all the pieces they can pay his first semester in college.
Back when Lego introduced a lot of the new stuff I couldn't see the point, as it limited the use of specialty items, which was IMHO unattractive. In my youth I made lots of stuff and spent uncounted hours developing my imagination with a few simple pieces. I'm sure my parents loved it, as it kept me busy and quiet while building things. Same applied to Erector sets, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. Provide the kids with the basics and their minds will do the rest. Provide them with limited toys and they lose interest in a short time and expect something new.
There was also something like brown or red plastic girders and green plastic sheets which could be used to make buildings, houses, etc. which were really cool, but I can't remember the name of. I'd buy them if they were still for sale.
Once again, brick and mortar prove most successful.
Do you believe him this time? After so long, I have my doubts we've heard the full truth, yet.
Just goes to show, Not for everybody.
I got one of those little Cateye night riding lights with three high intensity LEDs. It will run 15 hours (they claim) on 3 AAA cells. That's pretty impressive. I expect at some time we will light indoors with LED's and save a lot of cash doing so. The only problem I've seen with LED's off house current is the 60Hz flicker (LED Christmas lights)
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware the Leopard.'" -- Douglas Adams, H2G2p
Laugh. This is pure blackmail. It's clearly aimed at the upcoming IPO of Google and the last thing a company facing before an IPO is a legal battle, hence they might just throw a bone to SCO to sweep the problem under the rug. Well planned move on SCO's part.
Today's Lesson: It's better to deny the truth as long as you can, putting off going down in a spectacular and brilliant fireball until it's inevitable than face reality, appolgise and make the best of it.
Small wonder the rest of the world thinks americans are wackos. It's not just the way we do business, it's a way of life.
Effectively, SCO is maintaining it's stance that it is on firm ground, with assets well in hand, for the alternative is disaster. Deny reality as long as possible, hope stock price rises as gullible investers throw away money and sell (which SCO execs did) before reality asserts itself. Nice ploy, when you got nothing else.
Pilot: There's that movie playing on the HUD again.
Co Pilot: It's the *&%#$ Matrix: Revolutions, again.
Pilot: Let's do a barrel roll and see if we can lose that geeks DVD player, buckle up.
You're right! How's this for a proposal?
You keep jobs in the US and we won't tax the living hell out of your fat executive compensation, Carly, you sack of dirt and that goes for all your fat-cat chums at HP.
"The problem with hiring executives in the USA is that they all expect huge salaries, golden parachutes, stock options, perks, etc. We can save so much money by outsourcing executive jobs to India, where they'd be thrilled to make the salary the average worker at McDonald's earns."
Yeah, I knew that as a _kid_ back in the 70's. It's still classic humor and the coldwar overtones would probably work under Bush's regime these days.
"Look Muhammad, is Moose and Squirrel!"
I'm using the AMD supplied fan/HS on my XP2600/333 and it's louder then the PS fan, or any other fans for that matter. There was something useful on a review site some time back, where they reviewed the individual fans. Once you found a sink you liked you could usually go quieter with an Oryx or somesuch fan. That info would be welcome. Which fans are quietest, without sacrificing CFM/RPM.
Mr. Peabody never makes a mistake. Didn't you learn anything, Sherman? It was the right thing to do.
Trivia: I bought the season 1 DVD of Rocky and Bullwinkle and saw the original spelling was 'WAYBAC'
And that nifty Athlon 64 3400+ article this morning, too.
Well, it's probably sweeps week at /. and it'll be back to the usual banal stuff next week, after MW and CES are all over and we've got bored of Mars happenings.
Take a long trip through the american southwest or into the bible belt and see what you think of broadcast. In the Mojave I only got AM stations at night, thanks to the lowered ionosphere. It can also be pretty tough anywhere finding a station you consistently like listening to. With the 4 presets I have for sat. I'm pretty happy and can listen to them in the middle of Death Valley if I want (which I have done.)
Thanks to engine noise, etc, it's marginally better than AM. Thanks to borish DJ's it's no better than all the talk-radio crap which has taken over AM. Tapes or CD's were all that was left, or go satellite.
Worth it? Yeah, I spend an average of an hour a day driving. It's definitely worth it.
Maybe they just assume they've bought all the other parties ... or all the other parties who seem to matter to them.
"Microsoft, because we're not quite as bad as we used to be, we're pretty sure of that."
<zombie>More memory, must have more memory... </zombie>