Of course, my college's CS department isn't exactly known for having a high quality program, what with our one dedicated professor. She's got a doctorate, and she tries hard, but we don't get much in the way of resources (read: none). I had to play tech support to my own CS profs.
I'm interested in this.. I've been looking for a good way to backup over at least 100GB on a home network. From the way this looks, it doesn't seem like it's my ideal solution because of the error rate..
Anyone else have any ideas? I've done the backup-to-cd plan a while back, but now that I have an entire network to backup, it'll quickly get very annoying. Is a tape drive my only solution?
Oh, is that why Paul said "Shall we fight, cousin?" in the book at the beginning of the fight? Granted, this is still definately different than what the series did, but still.. Also, Paul did surprise him in the book as well, and it would have taken a lot more explanation to tell the audience why he said "I will not say it!"
Of course, was I the only one wondering how they were going to show Feyd getting caught on the floor? I think that would have been kinda silly to show correctly. And I'm not going to go into the rest of the fight..
"Mood?" "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - No matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
I was screaming at them the whole time, myself. However, I still enjoyed it a lot. I do have a couple of comments about your comments!:-)
The worms somehow moved across the desert by magic. [snip]
True enough. I thought the first worm was good, but I wasn't real impressed by the rest of them. Also, did you notice that they basically clawed their way up to the top of the worm, even when first getting on? What happened to the elegant way of just having the worm's motivations clear? It didn't want to get sand in the sensitive areas. I don't think the motivation in the series was clear at all. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that the worms might as well just submerge while they're riding..
Lots of gaps in the backstory. My wife (never read Dune) tried to watch and got lost. The motivations of the supporting roles were mostly omitted.
I'll agree with you there, to an extent. My fiance watched it with me, I had to use the commercial breaks for explanations. She still didn't really get it very well, too much was missing. However, even though they ommitted stuff I thought they could have included, I think they had to make a judgement call on things, perhaps sacrificing a small bit of clarity here, for more clarity, or less "wierdness" overall. i.e. designed for the general audience.
Paul says he's waiting for a great storm before he attacks, but then there is no storm during the attack scene.
Umm.. I'm afraid I have to disagree completely here. I saw a storm, and it wasn't out my own window. In fact, right after they blew the wall, the storm went in and took down their shields. They even express concern about "The shields won't be able to hold!" However, it didn't last long enough in my opinion. It basically came through the gap in the wall and dissipated almost immediately. Pretty sorry for a "Great grandmother of a storm!"
I just noticed, was there no background music in most scenes?
That was one thing I missed about the Lynch movie.. The score.. Lynch's film had an epic feel to it just because of the music. I would have enjoyed the series much more if it would have had the music that Lynch's film had.
Well, just my opinion. Like I said, I still enjoyed it, even though I ranted and raved about the inconsistencies to about everyone I know..
Submitting the article for your perusal. Not real impressive, really..
LANCASTER NEW ERA (LANCASTER, PA.)
Saturday, November 18, 2000
Section: NEWS
Page: A-1
DID A HOT HUNK OF METEORITE CREAM HIS CAR?// STUNNED E. HEMPFIELD RESIDENT, COP SAY CELESTIAL ROCK MELTED DASHBOARD
It fell, apparently, from outer space -- and vaporized part of Robert Nelson's car.
The East Hempfield Township man, startled by a loud "thump" at 3 a.m. today, awoke later this morning to find a fist-size hole in the windshield of his 1980 Ford Fairmont.
The still-intact part of the glass around the hole had been melted.
Whatever slammed into Nelson's car was lodged deep inside the dashboard, leaving the surrounding plastic and foam charred and melted.
The interior smelled burnt.
A fine, grainy substance -- pulverized glass -- coated the seats and floor.
"The first impression I had when I walked up to the driver's door was that there was an animal in there, like a squirrel or something," Nelson laughed this morning.
But it wasn't a squirrel.
Nelson and police believe it may have been a meteorite from the Leonids meteor shower -- an event caused when the Earth passed through the dust particles of a comet overnight.
In this case, the debris was from Comet Temple-Tuttle. The annual shower is called the Leonids because the meteors appear to radiate out of the constellation Leo.
When the Earth passes through this debris, the dust particles, or meteors, heat up and glow.
Fragments that hit Earth are called meteorites.
Traveling 45 miles per second, they can cause quite an impact.
Take a look at Nelson's car, which was parked in front of his house at 814 Hillaire Road when all this happened.
Just as the Leonids were making their appearance in the sky over Lancaster, a massive thud shook the Nelsons' house after 3 a.m. His wife, Camelia, heard it, and so did a neighbor.
"I thought it was an electrical transformer," Nelson said.
The couple went back to bed.
Shortly after 8 this morning, on the way to church, he walked to his car and noticed the hole in the windshield. He called police.
"It definitely wasn't a rock. It was not a shotgun blast. I don't know what it was," said a perplexed East Hempfield Township police officer, Bret Hollis, who responded to Nelson's call early this morning.
"Whatever hit it was extremely hot and it was traveling extremely fast," Hollis said. "It melted the glass surrounding the hole."
"I've seen rocks thrown through windows, and this wasn't a rock," the officer said.
The first clue it wasn't a rock or shotgun: "The trajectory was from straight up. The guy would have to have been standing on top of the hood, shooting into the windshield," Nelson said.
And Hollis checked for footprints on the hood. There were none.
"It came from the sky," Hollis determined.
Say it's a meteorite. Now what?
Nelson is left with an old car that has 212,000 miles on it and a hunk of comet dust inside it. What to do?
Nelson will try to get it fixed.
"It's one of those cars that won't die," he said, "unless a meteorite hits it."
Illustration: COLOR PHOTO Marty Heisey / East Hempfield Township resident Bob Nelson believes a meteorite created this hole in his car windshield.
In all that I've seen Pioneer do, they've always been very considerate. Much more so than most of the companies that release Anime over here. (I won't mention ADV) Pioneer will generally fill up the tape or DVD in a series, halving the number of tapes you need to buy, and still providing it at a fair, decent price.
I have full confidence that Pioneer will be releasing a high-quality DVD with Japanese and English tracks. Of course, I think I read something about them re-dubbing it, and I've always seen good dub jobs when it comes from them.
I'm not worried about Pioneer putting out a good version. I have a feeling that their job won't be quite as cheesy as the previous company.
Okay, yeah, I'm a fan of Pioneer's. But anyone who releases 4 episodes on a tape gets extra points by me! (Not to mention the other great stuff they've put out!)
If Gore wins, er, ends up inaugurated, then Lieberman will have to resign his Senate seat.
Care to explain why he would have to resign his Senate seat? What about if he declined the VP seat?
He could do just that because of the reason you specify here. And what would happen? Gore would pick a new VP. Someone a little less independent, maybe? In any case, they would end up with Lieberman still in his Senate seat, and a new VP. Kinda like 2 seats for the price of one, eh?
Sure, the press would go haywire, they would have a field day. But how long would it last? A couple of months down the road everyone would forget about it. Of course, you also have to deal with the Jewish voters who feel that they were betrayed, but you could work around that with choosing a new VP who is also Jewish.
In today's election, the National party beat the Non-National party by a landslide. The final vote was 14 - 67 nationwide. There was an 66% voter turnout.
The 2 voters from Georgia commented that "This place was really crowded today, it seemed like everyone that was allowed to vote was here at the same time."
In reality, there were only up to 30 of the country's 122 allowed voters in the building at once.
I'd like to present another user scenario with these assumptions:
The senior citizen points to the top candidate and reads the name, not wanting Bush, he skips to the next person, Gore. Hmm, he'd rather not go with this person either. Let's go to Harry Browne.
Well, maybe the older fellow feels this guy is better than the others and wishes to choose him.
So, let's punch the 3rd hole. You know, the one WAY out of range of the box? Wha'?!?
Most older folks have likely seen several different types of ballots, and probably know, or should know, that they need to pay attention to the entire ballot.
I agree you that it's not that they're stupid, they might have just missed it. In understand that the ballot was not well done, and was slightly misleading. However, people are blowing it WAY out of proportion.
You know, my government prof used to say, "Anyone who wants public office enough to run for it is not fit for it." I mean, you gotta be crazy to want public office!:-)
"Does this guy have any history of censure from a school or company for any type of "hacking"? I know guys who have gotten in trouble, but not arrested, for reading people's email, port scanning, etc."
Even if he did, would it prove anything? Or a better question would be, should it prove anything?
When I first went to school, I had my first experience with a network. I started working in the computer labs and decided to check out the network. We were running a Novell network on DOS systems. I had no idea whatsoever what anything was, but I did what I viewed to be the most efficient way to find out what a program does. I ran everything (on a lab machine, of course). I was not able to do anything important, but I learned a lot about the capabilities of the network. About 10 minutes after I had finished, the head of the Tech Services department came into the lab and asked if I was . He told me I shouldn't be playing with the programs. I told him I thought they were okay (they were in a "public" directory!:-)
2 years later, after working with each person in the department and showing them I knew what I was doing and was trustworthy (or so I thought), I was turned down a technical job for the reason that I was a "security risk." Or too dangerous or something.. Umm.. Right..
My point, if you're still with my rambling, is that something may be counted as "hacking" even if it doesn't make any sense to anyone who knows a flip about computers. So chances are, everyone here has a "hacking" record of some sort..
Excellent touch of realism for the folks who don't understand.
I also think it is hilariously funny about that people say that the art style is rediculous and stupid, and the Japanese are stupid for drawing it that way. What's funny is that it's not really the way they've always done it.
Please correct me if I'm off base, but what happened was that their artists were inspired by Mickey Mouse (and other American characters). They already had distinctive styles, but they took some things from our characters. Apparently they found some of the details to be effective in portraying the idea correctly.
Also, people whine about the tenticles, etc. Please just remember that Japanese are actually normal people, they have other customs, but they are really just like you. Things like tenticles, etc. come about because of the wording of particular anti-pornography laws.
Pornography will exist in any culture, but it is shaped by other forces.
What about the thin film that comes on top of many plastic or glass covers on products that you buy? I had to peel off the cover on just about every product I've gotten with a small screen of some sort.
He's just saying that they're going to find out if it does aquire information it should not have aquired, and the way it aquires the information. Keep in mind that the system could aquire information it is allowed to, but in an illegal manner.
Also, I'd like to point out that he said "by law" in each case. While I do trust this guy to do his job, I fear that the job may be to ignore anything not covered specifically by a law.. And we're lacking a lot of laws for this stuff.. I'd love to know how much leeway he's allowed in reporting the possibility of the system breaking the law.
Just a thought.. I really didn't mean to sound like a psycho..
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Dissappointing our kids? Well, we obviously need to invade and get them back!
;-)
For a full refund of course..
Maybe they can band together into a larger organization themselves!
Oh, wait.. They already had that in mind when they created this..
"Kernel? What's that?"
Of course, my college's CS department isn't exactly known for having a high quality program, what with our one dedicated professor. She's got a doctorate, and she tries hard, but we don't get much in the way of resources (read: none). I had to play tech support to my own CS profs.
She knows programming theory okay though.
Is someone else interested on it?
I'm interested in this.. I've been looking for a good way to backup over at least 100GB on a home network. From the way this looks, it doesn't seem like it's my ideal solution because of the error rate..
Anyone else have any ideas? I've done the backup-to-cd plan a while back, but now that I have an entire network to backup, it'll quickly get very annoying. Is a tape drive my only solution?
Oh, is that why Paul said "Shall we fight, cousin?" in the book at the beginning of the fight? Granted, this is still definately different than what the series did, but still.. Also, Paul did surprise him in the book as well, and it would have taken a lot more explanation to tell the audience why he said "I will not say it!"
Of course, was I the only one wondering how they were going to show Feyd getting caught on the floor? I think that would have been kinda silly to show correctly. And I'm not going to go into the rest of the fight..
:-)
"Mood?" "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - No matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
Sorry, just had to do it..
I was screaming at them the whole time, myself. However, I still enjoyed it a lot. I do have a couple of comments about your comments! :-)
The worms somehow moved across the desert by magic. [snip]
True enough. I thought the first worm was good, but I wasn't real impressed by the rest of them. Also, did you notice that they basically clawed their way up to the top of the worm, even when first getting on? What happened to the elegant way of just having the worm's motivations clear? It didn't want to get sand in the sensitive areas. I don't think the motivation in the series was clear at all. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that the worms might as well just submerge while they're riding..
Lots of gaps in the backstory. My wife (never read Dune) tried to watch and got lost. The motivations of the supporting roles were mostly omitted.
I'll agree with you there, to an extent. My fiance watched it with me, I had to use the commercial breaks for explanations. She still didn't really get it very well, too much was missing. However, even though they ommitted stuff I thought they could have included, I think they had to make a judgement call on things, perhaps sacrificing a small bit of clarity here, for more clarity, or less "wierdness" overall. i.e. designed for the general audience.
Paul says he's waiting for a great storm before he attacks, but then there is no storm during the attack scene.
Umm.. I'm afraid I have to disagree completely here. I saw a storm, and it wasn't out my own window. In fact, right after they blew the wall, the storm went in and took down their shields. They even express concern about "The shields won't be able to hold!" However, it didn't last long enough in my opinion. It basically came through the gap in the wall and dissipated almost immediately. Pretty sorry for a "Great grandmother of a storm!"
I just noticed, was there no background music in most scenes?
That was one thing I missed about the Lynch movie.. The score.. Lynch's film had an epic feel to it just because of the music. I would have enjoyed the series much more if it would have had the music that Lynch's film had.
Well, just my opinion. Like I said, I still enjoyed it, even though I ranted and raved about the inconsistencies to about everyone I know..
I posted the article here.
Submitting the article for your perusal. Not real impressive, really..
// STUNNED E. HEMPFIELD RESIDENT, COP SAY CELESTIAL ROCK MELTED DASHBOARD
LANCASTER NEW ERA (LANCASTER, PA.) Saturday, November 18, 2000 Section: NEWS Page: A-1
DID A HOT HUNK OF METEORITE CREAM HIS CAR?
It fell, apparently, from outer space -- and vaporized part of Robert Nelson's car.
The East Hempfield Township man, startled by a loud "thump" at 3 a.m. today, awoke later this morning to find a fist-size hole in the windshield of his 1980 Ford Fairmont.
The still-intact part of the glass around the hole had been melted. Whatever slammed into Nelson's car was lodged deep inside the dashboard, leaving the surrounding plastic and foam charred and melted.
The interior smelled burnt.
A fine, grainy substance -- pulverized glass -- coated the seats and floor.
"The first impression I had when I walked up to the driver's door was that there was an animal in there, like a squirrel or something," Nelson laughed this morning.
But it wasn't a squirrel.
Nelson and police believe it may have been a meteorite from the Leonids meteor shower -- an event caused when the Earth passed through the dust particles of a comet overnight.
In this case, the debris was from Comet Temple-Tuttle. The annual shower is called the Leonids because the meteors appear to radiate out of the constellation Leo.
When the Earth passes through this debris, the dust particles, or meteors, heat up and glow.
Fragments that hit Earth are called meteorites.
Traveling 45 miles per second, they can cause quite an impact.
Take a look at Nelson's car, which was parked in front of his house at 814 Hillaire Road when all this happened.
Just as the Leonids were making their appearance in the sky over Lancaster, a massive thud shook the Nelsons' house after 3 a.m. His wife, Camelia, heard it, and so did a neighbor.
"I thought it was an electrical transformer," Nelson said.
The couple went back to bed.
Shortly after 8 this morning, on the way to church, he walked to his car and noticed the hole in the windshield. He called police.
"It definitely wasn't a rock. It was not a shotgun blast. I don't know what it was," said a perplexed East Hempfield Township police officer, Bret Hollis, who responded to Nelson's call early this morning.
"Whatever hit it was extremely hot and it was traveling extremely fast," Hollis said. "It melted the glass surrounding the hole."
"I've seen rocks thrown through windows, and this wasn't a rock," the officer said.
The first clue it wasn't a rock or shotgun: "The trajectory was from straight up. The guy would have to have been standing on top of the hood, shooting into the windshield," Nelson said.
And Hollis checked for footprints on the hood. There were none.
"It came from the sky," Hollis determined.
Say it's a meteorite. Now what?
Nelson is left with an old car that has 212,000 miles on it and a hunk of comet dust inside it. What to do?
Nelson will try to get it fixed.
"It's one of those cars that won't die," he said, "unless a meteorite hits it."
Illustration: COLOR PHOTO Marty Heisey / East Hempfield Township resident Bob Nelson believes a meteorite created this hole in his car windshield.
In all that I've seen Pioneer do, they've always been very considerate. Much more so than most of the companies that release Anime over here. (I won't mention ADV) Pioneer will generally fill up the tape or DVD in a series, halving the number of tapes you need to buy, and still providing it at a fair, decent price.
I have full confidence that Pioneer will be releasing a high-quality DVD with Japanese and English tracks. Of course, I think I read something about them re-dubbing it, and I've always seen good dub jobs when it comes from them.
I'm not worried about Pioneer putting out a good version. I have a feeling that their job won't be quite as cheesy as the previous company.
Okay, yeah, I'm a fan of Pioneer's. But anyone who releases 4 episodes on a tape gets extra points by me! (Not to mention the other great stuff they've put out!)
If Gore wins, er, ends up inaugurated, then Lieberman will have to resign his Senate seat.
Care to explain why he would have to resign his Senate seat? What about if he declined the VP seat?
He could do just that because of the reason you specify here. And what would happen? Gore would pick a new VP. Someone a little less independent, maybe? In any case, they would end up with Lieberman still in his Senate seat, and a new VP. Kinda like 2 seats for the price of one, eh?
Sure, the press would go haywire, they would have a field day. But how long would it last? A couple of months down the road everyone would forget about it. Of course, you also have to deal with the Jewish voters who feel that they were betrayed, but you could work around that with choosing a new VP who is also Jewish.
Newsflash!
In today's election, the National party beat the Non-National party by a landslide. The final vote was 14 - 67 nationwide. There was an 66% voter turnout.
The 2 voters from Georgia commented that "This place was really crowded today, it seemed like everyone that was allowed to vote was here at the same time."
In reality, there were only up to 30 of the country's 122 allowed voters in the building at once.
- AP Newswire
I'd like to present another user scenario with these assumptions:
The senior citizen points to the top candidate and reads the name, not wanting Bush, he skips to the next person, Gore. Hmm, he'd rather not go with this person either. Let's go to Harry Browne.
Well, maybe the older fellow feels this guy is better than the others and wishes to choose him.
So, let's punch the 3rd hole. You know, the one WAY out of range of the box? Wha'?!?
Most older folks have likely seen several different types of ballots, and probably know, or should know, that they need to pay attention to the entire ballot.
I agree you that it's not that they're stupid, they might have just missed it. In understand that the ballot was not well done, and was slightly misleading. However, people are blowing it WAY out of proportion.
What's next -- hydroelectric power?
You think there's enough water vapor for that?
You know, my government prof used to say, "Anyone who wants public office enough to run for it is not fit for it." I mean, you gotta be crazy to want public office! :-)
"Does this guy have any history of censure from a school or company for any type of "hacking"? I know guys who have gotten in trouble, but not arrested, for reading people's email, port scanning, etc."
:-)
Even if he did, would it prove anything? Or a better question would be, should it prove anything?
When I first went to school, I had my first experience with a network. I started working in the computer labs and decided to check out the network. We were running a Novell network on DOS systems. I had no idea whatsoever what anything was, but I did what I viewed to be the most efficient way to find out what a program does. I ran everything (on a lab machine, of course). I was not able to do anything important, but I learned a lot about the capabilities of the network. About 10 minutes after I had finished, the head of the Tech Services department came into the lab and asked if I was . He told me I shouldn't be playing with the programs. I told him I thought they were okay (they were in a "public" directory!
2 years later, after working with each person in the department and showing them I knew what I was doing and was trustworthy (or so I thought), I was turned down a technical job for the reason that I was a "security risk." Or too dangerous or something.. Umm.. Right..
My point, if you're still with my rambling, is that something may be counted as "hacking" even if it doesn't make any sense to anyone who knows a flip about computers. So chances are, everyone here has a "hacking" record of some sort..
Thanks for clearing things up more! Good information. I think you were more coherent too..
and we won't go near the Japanese obsession with bunny girls
Or cat girls, or angels, etc..
Of course, I'm not complaining, I think the neko-chans are cute! (God help me, I actually think about all the chans are cute!)
Disclaimer: IANAL (I Am Not a Lama)
I love the sig, but quick question: What's a Lama?
Excellent touch of realism for the folks who don't understand.
I also think it is hilariously funny about that people say that the art style is rediculous and stupid, and the Japanese are stupid for drawing it that way. What's funny is that it's not really the way they've always done it.
Please correct me if I'm off base, but what happened was that their artists were inspired by Mickey Mouse (and other American characters). They already had distinctive styles, but they took some things from our characters. Apparently they found some of the details to be effective in portraying the idea correctly.
Also, people whine about the tenticles, etc. Please just remember that Japanese are actually normal people, they have other customs, but they are really just like you. Things like tenticles, etc. come about because of the wording of particular anti-pornography laws.
Pornography will exist in any culture, but it is shaped by other forces.
Hope this was coherent.
Just for kicks, I'll put it in a href Like this?
It is kinda funny, in a way..
And then you have the option of pressing the space bar, or enter, or whatever else the browser might let you do to select the link. (IE is enter)
Anyone browse Amazon with Lynx?
What about the thin film that comes on top of many plastic or glass covers on products that you buy? I had to peel off the cover on just about every product I've gotten with a small screen of some sort.
He's just saying that they're going to find out if it does aquire information it should not have aquired, and the way it aquires the information. Keep in mind that the system could aquire information it is allowed to, but in an illegal manner.
Also, I'd like to point out that he said "by law" in each case. While I do trust this guy to do his job, I fear that the job may be to ignore anything not covered specifically by a law.. And we're lacking a lot of laws for this stuff.. I'd love to know how much leeway he's allowed in reporting the possibility of the system breaking the law.
Just a thought.. I really didn't mean to sound like a psycho..
Yeah, I need to go back and continue reading the paper, myself. I only had a chance to skim it earlier.
This looks like a pretty cool project, but anyone else concerned that we'll now have folks training it to recognize all sorts of 4 letter words?
/.?
I wonder if opening it up to the general public to do whatever they want was a wise idea.
Anyone remember what happened to that "Post what you want" website that was posted to
- "I am the cheese!"