If you're going to be that picayune, I have a few
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more fronts.
Howabout the u-boats versus the convoys?
North Sea convoys to Russia vs. u-boats and airplanes?
The various partisan activity in Greece and Yugoslavia?
I think your definition of a front is too narrow.
It's good to see Soviet history on the big screen
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I welcome this film, because too many of my contrymen (I'm American) don't realize the huge contribution that the Soviets made in WWII in Europe. In a nutshell, the Soviets destroyed the German war machine.
About 80% of the German casualties were taken on the eastern front. At the time of D-Day, there wre about 10 German divisions on the western front, and 100 German divisions on the eatern front.
The biggest tank battle in WWII was at Kursk, on the Russian front.
I think a better movie would be about the siege of Leningrad though, that was about a 6 year siege.
The real moral is not sharing is for losers, but when ever you do something that the higher ups (ie your employer, the RIAA, the government) might look askance at, try to stay under the radar.
For example, LSD was legal and unknown until the media got ahold of it, in 1965-66.
The Grateful Dead were a great party until MTV's Day of the Dead in 1987.
Porn was free and unblocked by corporate networks in 1996.
I imagine that divx;) sites are going to get targeted next.
The United States, though created in revolutionary furor, has become one of the toughest environments in the world to maintain one.
Isn't that something to ponder over?
Well, it's more due to the fact that unrestrained Capitalism is a unstoppable meme, propaging like a virus gone mad. Just about anything Capitalism is confronted with, it can co-opt and subvert.
Open Source and the GPL may be able to stop Capitalism, although my money is on the GPL becoming trendy and showing up on T-shirts on Lettermen, so that psuedo-anti-capitalists can pay lip service to the principles of the GPL without having to actually make any sacrifices (you know, like a World Widelife Federation sticker on a gas hogging SUV).
Or you could become a Marxist, and hope that Capitalism contains the own seeds of it's destructions, to which I reply McDonalds and HDTV, I mean, bread and circuses for all the sheeple.
Instead of encouraging a common movement or agenda, the Net is increasingly Balkanized by an explosion in individualistic sites, weblogs, P2P systems, filtering and moderation programs.
What, Jon, do you mean popular web logs with moderation and filtering will end in positive feedback loops, with common viewpoints reinforcing each other until there is no diversity of views, and just a strict web dogma?
Astute readers will notice that the link is to the UK branch of ZDnet. They are still in the process of translating to American, ie. from:
Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS and announces a wireless Jornada
Hewlett-Packard's Jornada palmtops may drop Microsoft's Windows-based Pocket PC platform in favour of Linux or Palm OS, according to Iain Morris, the new head of HP's recently formed Embedded and Personal Systems group. The firm also announced a Jornada with wireless capability for later this year.
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Hewlett-Packard might do Linux or Palm OS and announces a radio Jornada
Hewlett-Packard's Jornada palm thingies may drop Microsoft's Windows-based Pocket PC warez in favor of Linux or Palm OS, according to Iain Morris, the new head of HP's recently formed Tiny Things group. The firm also announced a Jornada with AM/FM capability for later this year.
The real sexism: Where are the woman CEO's?
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Egads that's a sexist remark!
Yes, that could be a sexist remark, except that the real sexist issue is that there are few, if any, other woman CEO's in tech industries? Why is that?
Unlike the more traditional societies across the Pacific or Atlantic, where woman are expected to keep house, bear children and look good, in the US woman are expected to compete in the marketplace, and they have been expected to compete since feminism started in the '60s. That's almost 40 years ago, plenty of time for women to work their way up the corporate ladders, yes, the number of women CEO's in tech companies could probably be counted on one hand. Why?
Could it be the oft invoked glass ceiling? Could it be latent sexism on the part of the existing patriarchy? Are women less good (overall) at the tech things (This is not a slam at women, most geeks appear to suffer from borderline Auspergers sydrone, where they get obsessed over an os, or a technology, and play with it until they know it inside and out, to the exclusion of personal hygeine and social lives. Woman tend to treat things a little more balanced, thankfully.)? I don't know, but I think the real sexist remark is that 50% of our population is not reflected in the boardroom.
Can HP make a success of anything besides printers
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So, once again HP makes something innovative, OpenMail, and promptly bails out of the marketplace. HP needs a museum for leading tech they've developed that they stopped supporting. In this museum they can inlude the HPUX UNIX version, Open Mail, their optical storage units, and their partnershipped with Bell Packard-Bell computers.
It's a shame, the only product they're good at selling (the HP laserjets) have their imaging engines made in Japan by Canon. It's almost a painful metaphor for America, original products are no longer sold, and only rebadged Japanese products are keeping the company afloat.
So how come American S-F series on TV suck so much. Think about it, Battlestar Galactica, a lame Star Wars ripoff; Buck Rogers, with that annoyiing little Tweekie (bee-dee-bee, bee-de-de Buck), Logan's Run, one aging boomer's preoccupation with grey hair becomes a TV series, Space: Above and Beoynd was Melrose place, but lower quality even Quark, Insteller Garbageman was pretty lame. I won't even mention Star Trek and it's innumerable spinoffs, there's a modern low brow hydra if there ever was.
I swear, if it wasn't for British imports like Dr. Who and Space 1999, there'd be no good S-F on TV at all. Perhaps it's because American S-F relies on flash, glitz and special effects, which plays well on the big screen, but for the telly, you need something smaller scaled, which relies on stories, dialog and character development, of which all of these things British literature surpasses American literature.
For in a real job, every day is filled with incredibly interesting experiences.
There is no boring paperwork to fill out, no stupid software tests to run, no boring software reloads, no drinking coffee and St John;s Wort endlessly just to stay awake in front of your web browser.
No tedious pruning of the 2000 odd pieces of mail in your inbox, no hard drive maintenance, nope, just laughts and giggles.
If the FORCE and GOD were equivalent, when Saul was struck down on the road to Damascus, he would have recovered, gained much evil power, and persecuted Christians ever more.
Now, if you want to make an analogy that using the FORCE is akin to witchcraft, possesion or Wicca, you can make a better analogy.
Yeap, I think the FORCE is evil, and an abomination, especially the way Lucas is portraying it usurping GOD's power to create a Virgin Birth.
Of course, that makes the Jedi akin to Templars, then, a goodlly group of people that were seduced by evil.
If the FORCE and GOD were equivalent, when Saul was struck down on the road to Damascus, he would have recovered, gained much evil power, and persecuted Christians ever more.
Now, if you want to make an analogy that using the FORCE is akin to witchcraft, possesion or Wicca, you can make a better analogy.
Yeap, I think the FORCE is evil, and an abomination, especially the way Lucas is portraying it usurping GOD's power to create a Virgin Birth.
Of course, that makes the Jedi akin to Templars, then, a goodlly group of people that were seduced by evil.
Sorry Sony, but I already have a gaming station with a propietary operating system that is networked, with cameras, removeable storage and a scanner. It's called Windows 98 PC.
What's the value added for my going to Playstation? Are the games that much better to justify buying all new peripherals and learning an all new operating system, with all it's new quirks?
Nope, can't see it, stick with console games for the Joe Sixpacks out there who can barely boot a PC, let alone do something as complex as editing their registry.
and don't let the stress of possibly being laid off in a recession get to you, I'm facing that too, at my dot.com, and I'm keeping a level head about me.
If you really want gauranteed bandwidth, get a business DSL line. Yeah, it will cost a lot more than a home DSL line that's only promises average bandwidth, but at least then you have a point worth bitching about.
not maximum load, which you geeks seem to be pushing.
For instance, telephone lines. The telco's pick a number of lines to allow the maxium average load access, but if too many people call (ie. during a natural distaster or such), you may not get through, you get a message like all circuits are busy. Now I don't know what algorithm they use, but they probably scale to something like 98%.
Now, they could scale expected calls to 99.9 %, but do you want your telephone bill to triple just so once or twice a year you don't get the "all circuits are busy" message? Is that one call worth $1200 USD to you?
So, apply this to DSL, same thing. They figure a high maximum average load, becuase most normal users aren't going to be maxing their download speed. Some will download, some will read a webpage, some won't even use it. The users share the bandwidth, it's a common bandwidth, and if you try to hog it all, well, look up Tragedy of the Commons.
Now, if you want to get your gauranted bandwidth, 24-7, I'm sure a DSL provider will sell you a nice guaranteed business connection, with uptime and bandwidth gaurantees. Just be prepared to shell out several times what home DSL costs, if you don't want to pay that, stop bitching.
For the record, I just got home DSL, and almost immediately asked my DSL provider for 5 IP addies instead of 1. It's a nonimal charge, $4.99 USD a month. Sure, I could have have NAT, but I'd rather pay a little and be honest. I thought being honest and upfront and paying your own way was what Oepn Source was about, but I guess it's really abotu stealing all that you can.
time, at least until the current RIAA executives die off or retire.
Why? They're jealous, they're aging baby boomers who are jealous of the gen x and y hackers who've created online music.
These RIAA execs are mostly of the baby boomer generation, and I would be hard pressed to find a more spoiled and egocentric generation (though the Atlantic said that the generation at the start of the century was close, though this article was about 10 years ago, and may not be online). They grew up with every material desire fulfilled, and with no impulse thwarted, thanks to one Dr. Spock (not the Star Trek character that most/.'ers are familiar with, Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatrician and author of "How to spoil your child."). These boomers were raised to believe that their opinions and feelings were more important than anyone elses, and society would have to bend to their will, rather than them bending to the will of society. If this reminds you of certain unpleasant characterizations of USia, well, think who the most influential age group of USIans are, yes, that's right, boomers.
Back on track, boomers feel that they invented rock and roll and popular music. Ignoring the fallacy of that popular conceit (a little Caruso anyone, Sinatra even), since Boomers feel they invented the popular music industry, they feel that they should have sole control over it. And sole control over it they did have, up until a few years ago.
Now, some punk gen x and y kids code up Napster and a few rippers and players, and all of a sudden, these Baby Boomers RIAA execs are rendered superflous. Not only are they aging, graying, balding and unable to have sex without Viagra, these young whippersnappers who have hair, muscles and instant erections (well, I'm speaking for myself here) have pulled the music rug out from underneath them and made them obsolete!
It's now a pride thing, they won't back down, ever, even though their industy has been dealt a fatal death blow. Good Luck Representative Hatch, you will need it!
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more fronts.
Howabout the u-boats versus the convoys?
North Sea convoys to Russia vs. u-boats and airplanes?
The various partisan activity in Greece and Yugoslavia?
I think your definition of a front is too narrow.
I welcome this film, because too many of my contrymen (I'm American) don't realize the huge contribution that the Soviets made in WWII in Europe. In a nutshell, the Soviets destroyed the German war machine.
About 80% of the German casualties were taken on the eastern front. At the time of D-Day, there wre about 10 German divisions on the western front, and 100 German divisions on the eatern front.
The biggest tank battle in WWII was at Kursk, on the Russian front.
I think a better movie would be about the siege of Leningrad though, that was about a 6 year siege.
Though I live in Rochester and I pronounce it raw-ches-ter.
Perhaps I should pronounce it Rooster.
At leat it played the Spirit of Christmas that I downloaded, and the Lego 2001.
It didn't play ParkWars, though.
Why, 12 years ago, before I got on the net, I was cooking hamburgers, making pizzas, washing dishes, changing diapers.
Now, I sit in my cube, surf for porn, try to understand PDF's and write PERL.
Definitely easier for me!
The real moral is not sharing is for losers, but when ever you do something that the higher ups (ie your employer, the RIAA, the government) might look askance at, try to stay under the radar.
For example, LSD was legal and unknown until the media got ahold of it, in 1965-66.
The Grateful Dead were a great party until MTV's Day of the Dead in 1987.
Porn was free and unblocked by corporate networks in 1996.
I imagine that divx;) sites are going to get targeted next.
The United States, though created in revolutionary furor, has become one of the toughest environments in the world to maintain one.
Isn't that something to ponder over?
Well, it's more due to the fact that unrestrained Capitalism is a unstoppable meme, propaging like a virus gone mad. Just about anything Capitalism is confronted with, it can co-opt and subvert.
Open Source and the GPL may be able to stop Capitalism, although my money is on the GPL becoming trendy and showing up on T-shirts on Lettermen, so that psuedo-anti-capitalists can pay lip service to the principles of the GPL without having to actually make any sacrifices (you know, like a World Widelife Federation sticker on a gas hogging SUV).
Or you could become a Marxist, and hope that Capitalism contains the own seeds of it's destructions, to which I reply McDonalds and HDTV, I mean, bread and circuses for all the sheeple.
Instead of encouraging a common movement or agenda, the Net is increasingly Balkanized by an explosion in individualistic sites, weblogs, P2P systems, filtering and moderation programs.
What, Jon, do you mean popular web logs with moderation and filtering will end in positive feedback loops, with common viewpoints reinforcing each other until there is no diversity of views, and just a strict web dogma?
Nope, never gonna happen.
Oh yeah, hail Linux!
Astute readers will notice that the link is to the UK branch of ZDnet. They are still in the process of translating to American, ie. from:
Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS and announces a wireless Jornada
Hewlett-Packard's Jornada palmtops may drop Microsoft's Windows-based Pocket PC platform in favour of Linux or Palm OS, according to Iain Morris, the new head of HP's recently formed Embedded and Personal Systems group. The firm also announced a Jornada with wireless capability for later this year.
to
Hewlett-Packard might do Linux or Palm OS and announces a radio Jornada
Hewlett-Packard's Jornada palm thingies may drop Microsoft's Windows-based Pocket PC warez in favor of Linux or Palm OS, according to Iain Morris, the new head of HP's recently formed Tiny Things group. The firm also announced a Jornada with AM/FM capability for later this year.
Egads that's a sexist remark!
Yes, that could be a sexist remark, except that the real sexist issue is that there are few, if any, other woman CEO's in tech industries? Why is that?
Unlike the more traditional societies across the Pacific or Atlantic, where woman are expected to keep house, bear children and look good, in the US woman are expected to compete in the marketplace, and they have been expected to compete since feminism started in the '60s. That's almost 40 years ago, plenty of time for women to work their way up the corporate ladders, yes, the number of women CEO's in tech companies could probably be counted on one hand. Why?
Could it be the oft invoked glass ceiling? Could it be latent sexism on the part of the existing patriarchy? Are women less good (overall) at the tech things (This is not a slam at women, most geeks appear to suffer from borderline Auspergers sydrone, where they get obsessed over an os, or a technology, and play with it until they know it inside and out, to the exclusion of personal hygeine and social lives. Woman tend to treat things a little more balanced, thankfully.)? I don't know, but I think the real sexist remark is that 50% of our population is not reflected in the boardroom.
So, once again HP makes something innovative, OpenMail, and promptly bails out of the marketplace. HP needs a museum for leading tech they've developed that they stopped supporting. In this museum they can inlude the HPUX UNIX version, Open Mail, their optical storage units, and their partnershipped with Bell Packard-Bell computers.
It's a shame, the only product they're good at selling (the HP laserjets) have their imaging engines made in Japan by Canon. It's almost a painful metaphor for America, original products are no longer sold, and only rebadged Japanese products are keeping the company afloat.
so, most of them were probably working but too old.
I'd just set them up and boot them. Any that didn't work would become parts donors.
You might get 30+ working machines out of those 40.
So how come American S-F series on TV suck so much. Think about it, Battlestar Galactica, a lame Star Wars ripoff; Buck Rogers, with that annoyiing little Tweekie (bee-dee-bee, bee-de-de Buck), Logan's Run, one aging boomer's preoccupation with grey hair becomes a TV series, Space: Above and Beoynd was Melrose place, but lower quality even Quark, Insteller Garbageman was pretty lame. I won't even mention Star Trek and it's innumerable spinoffs, there's a modern low brow hydra if there ever was.
I swear, if it wasn't for British imports like Dr. Who and Space 1999, there'd be no good S-F on TV at all. Perhaps it's because American S-F relies on flash, glitz and special effects, which plays well on the big screen, but for the telly, you need something smaller scaled, which relies on stories, dialog and character development, of which all of these things British literature surpasses American literature.
For in a real job, every day is filled with incredibly interesting experiences.
There is no boring paperwork to fill out, no stupid software tests to run, no boring software reloads, no drinking coffee and St John;s Wort endlessly just to stay awake in front of your web browser.
No tedious pruning of the 2000 odd pieces of mail in your inbox, no hard drive maintenance, nope, just laughts and giggles.
At least any PS Level 3 compatible RIP should intepret a PDF.
Are you looking for dead tree output, or you just want inscrutable PS files?
Yea, check the time stamps, 2 posts in less than 1 minute!
Am I l333t, or what!
If the FORCE and GOD were equivalent, when Saul was struck down on the road to Damascus, he would have recovered, gained much evil power, and persecuted Christians ever more.
Now, if you want to make an analogy that using the FORCE is akin to witchcraft, possesion or Wicca, you can make a better analogy.
Yeap, I think the FORCE is evil, and an abomination, especially the way Lucas is portraying it usurping GOD's power to create a Virgin Birth.
Of course, that makes the Jedi akin to Templars, then, a goodlly group of people that were seduced by evil.
If the FORCE and GOD were equivalent, when Saul was struck down on the road to Damascus, he would have recovered, gained much evil power, and persecuted Christians ever more.
Now, if you want to make an analogy that using the FORCE is akin to witchcraft, possesion or Wicca, you can make a better analogy.
Yeap, I think the FORCE is evil, and an abomination, especially the way Lucas is portraying it usurping GOD's power to create a Virgin Birth.
Of course, that makes the Jedi akin to Templars, then, a goodlly group of people that were seduced by evil.
Sorry Sony, but I already have a gaming station with a propietary operating system that is networked, with cameras, removeable storage and a scanner. It's called Windows 98 PC.
What's the value added for my going to Playstation? Are the games that much better to justify buying all new peripherals and learning an all new operating system, with all it's new quirks?
Nope, can't see it, stick with console games for the Joe Sixpacks out there who can barely boot a PC, let alone do something as complex as editing their registry.
and don't let the stress of possibly being laid off in a recession get to you, I'm facing that too, at my dot.com, and I'm keeping a level head about me.
Now, where did I put the beer and bong?
See my post downbelow.
If you really want gauranteed bandwidth, get a business DSL line. Yeah, it will cost a lot more than a home DSL line that's only promises average bandwidth, but at least then you have a point worth bitching about.
not maximum load, which you geeks seem to be pushing.
For instance, telephone lines. The telco's pick a number of lines to allow the maxium average load access, but if too many people call (ie. during a natural distaster or such), you may not get through, you get a message like all circuits are busy. Now I don't know what algorithm they use, but they probably scale to something like 98%.
Now, they could scale expected calls to 99.9 %, but do you want your telephone bill to triple just so once or twice a year you don't get the "all circuits are busy" message? Is that one call worth $1200 USD to you?
So, apply this to DSL, same thing. They figure a high maximum average load, becuase most normal users aren't going to be maxing their download speed. Some will download, some will read a webpage, some won't even use it. The users share the bandwidth, it's a common bandwidth, and if you try to hog it all, well, look up Tragedy of the Commons.
Now, if you want to get your gauranted bandwidth, 24-7, I'm sure a DSL provider will sell you a nice guaranteed business connection, with uptime and bandwidth gaurantees. Just be prepared to shell out several times what home DSL costs, if you don't want to pay that, stop bitching.
For the record, I just got home DSL, and almost immediately asked my DSL provider for 5 IP addies instead of 1. It's a nonimal charge, $4.99 USD a month. Sure, I could have have NAT, but I'd rather pay a little and be honest. I thought being honest and upfront and paying your own way was what Oepn Source was about, but I guess it's really abotu stealing all that you can.
time, at least until the current RIAA executives die off or retire.
/.'ers are familiar with, Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatrician and author of "How to spoil your child."). These boomers were raised to believe that their opinions and feelings were more important than anyone elses, and society would have to bend to their will, rather than them bending to the will of society. If this reminds you of certain unpleasant characterizations of USia, well, think who the most influential age group of USIans are, yes, that's right, boomers.
Why? They're jealous, they're aging baby boomers who are jealous of the gen x and y hackers who've created online music.
These RIAA execs are mostly of the baby boomer generation, and I would be hard pressed to find a more spoiled and egocentric generation (though the Atlantic said that the generation at the start of the century was close, though this article was about 10 years ago, and may not be online). They grew up with every material desire fulfilled, and with no impulse thwarted, thanks to one Dr. Spock (not the Star Trek character that most
Back on track, boomers feel that they invented rock and roll and popular music. Ignoring the fallacy of that popular conceit (a little Caruso anyone, Sinatra even), since Boomers feel they invented the popular music industry, they feel that they should have sole control over it. And sole control over it they did have, up until a few years ago.
Now, some punk gen x and y kids code up Napster and a few rippers and players, and all of a sudden, these Baby Boomers RIAA execs are rendered superflous. Not only are they aging, graying, balding and unable to have sex without Viagra, these young whippersnappers who have hair, muscles and instant erections (well, I'm speaking for myself here) have pulled the music rug out from underneath them and made them obsolete!
It's now a pride thing, they won't back down, ever, even though their industy has been dealt a fatal death blow. Good Luck Representative Hatch, you will need it!
Close, but reread the Scouring of the Shire, and figure out which powerful former wizard returned to the Shire to live off of and exploit the hobbits.
to go with that whine?
You see, I'm always thinking
and I type fast