Using memo and a rhyming dictionary, I work on my song lyrics while I'm in the subway. I keep track of all my expenses for business and personal accounts using Pocket Quicken. I write e-mail, I read the news, stare in horror at my todo list, store all my logins using Password Wallet (which encrypts all entries and syncs them to my Mac).
That's pretty good for a device that cost me $150 three years ago and for which I never have to worry about batteries. Useful? I live by my Palm Vx, but find very little need for a cellphone. All people use cellphones for is to call someone to say "I'll talk to you later and we'll decide then."
Here's a link to an interesting interview that was just posted with Lawrence Lessig. Some really good, in depth conversation on the case. Here, he talks about public-domain web-publishing, the history of copyright, and the relevance of Thomas Jefferson to the internet. Enjoy! http://www.immaterial.net/page.php/95/
"Anyone who doesn't speak Norwegian and didn't see this when it came out in Norway in 1997 won't think this film is better, unless they are being an art-film poser."
I don't speak Norwegian, saw the film in '98, and have to say, the ONE thing that makes the original superior to this remake is simply Stellan Skarsgaard. He's an incredible actor. Pacino is good, but won't blow you away. Skarsgaard made the movie for me. Does that make me an art-film poser? (I would also like to point out that just because a film is foreign doesn't mean its an "art-film"), as if there was Hollywood and the rest of the world made art, which you could then just sneer at. Other cultures make movies just like we do, and just because they don't have the big budgets, and use their native language rather than English doesn't mean they're being pretentious. Or does it just bother you that people speak any other languages than English?
Due to the glaring obfuscation in the lead post of Comet and Asteroid, I have compiled the following glossary for the poster's edification:
Comet: A ball of frozen methane and cosmic dust travelling in sharply elliptical orbits from far outside the inner solar system and back out again.
Asteroid: Large, irregularly shaped metallic chunks floating in a dispersed belt which orbits the sun in a more nearly circular path between Mars and Jupiter.
Meteor: A piece of solid space matter that enters the earth's atmosphere.
Meteorite: A piece of solid space matter that enters the earth's atmosphere and doesn't get completely burnt up, but actually makes it to the surface of the earth. _______________brokenhill.net_____________ _
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Using memo and a rhyming dictionary, I work on my song lyrics while I'm in the subway. I keep track of all my expenses for business and personal accounts using Pocket Quicken. I write e-mail, I read the news, stare in horror at my todo list, store all my logins using Password Wallet (which encrypts all entries and syncs them to my Mac).
That's pretty good for a device that cost me $150 three years ago and for which I never have to worry about batteries. Useful? I live by my Palm Vx, but find very little need for a cellphone. All people use cellphones for is to call someone to say "I'll talk to you later and we'll decide then."
Here's a link to an interesting interview that was just posted with Lawrence Lessig. Some really good, in depth conversation on the case. Here, he talks about public-domain web-publishing, the history of copyright, and the relevance of Thomas Jefferson to the internet. Enjoy! http://www.immaterial.net/page.php/95/
"Anyone who doesn't speak Norwegian and didn't see this when it came out in Norway in 1997 won't think this film is better, unless they are being an art-film poser." I don't speak Norwegian, saw the film in '98, and have to say, the ONE thing that makes the original superior to this remake is simply Stellan Skarsgaard. He's an incredible actor. Pacino is good, but won't blow you away. Skarsgaard made the movie for me. Does that make me an art-film poser? (I would also like to point out that just because a film is foreign doesn't mean its an "art-film"), as if there was Hollywood and the rest of the world made art, which you could then just sneer at. Other cultures make movies just like we do, and just because they don't have the big budgets, and use their native language rather than English doesn't mean they're being pretentious. Or does it just bother you that people speak any other languages than English?
Due to the glaring obfuscation in the lead post of Comet and Asteroid, I have compiled the following glossary for the poster's edification:
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Comet: A ball of frozen methane and cosmic dust travelling in sharply elliptical orbits from far outside the inner solar system and back out again.
Asteroid: Large, irregularly shaped metallic chunks floating in a dispersed belt which orbits the sun in a more nearly circular path between Mars and Jupiter.
Meteor: A piece of solid space matter that enters the earth's atmosphere.
Meteorite: A piece of solid space matter that enters the earth's atmosphere and doesn't get completely burnt up, but actually makes it to the surface of the earth.
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