Parent is a troll. Those are NOT the films for the roadhouse tour. Mods, please kick your crack habit and RTFA. From TFA;
Rolling Roadshow Tour
Description:
In 2005, the Alamo is setting out on a 6000 mile, 21 day journey, across the west for a series of film screenings that will take the movie-going experience to a whole new level. We will be screening 12 famous films in their original shooting locations, chosen specifically to intensify the viewing experience.
A pass is available for all of the screenings, or you can pick and choose a la carte. The website will be updated with complete driving directions, as well as other attractions in the area.
Shows Click on show title for more information. (click on a show time to buy tickets):
LAST PICTURE SHOW IN ARCHER CITY, TX (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 19
8:00 pm (No Passes) IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - 3D! in ROSWELL, NM (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 21
8:00 pm ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST IN MONUMENT VALLEY (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 23
8:00 pm PLANET OF THE APES AT LAKE POWELL, UT (RRSHOW)
Wednesday, August 24
8:00 pm REPO MAN ROAD RALLY IN LOS ANGELES, CA (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 26
8:00 pm NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN BAKERSFIELD (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 28
8:00 pm BULLITT ROAD RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 30
8:00 pm THE GOONIES IN ASTORIA, OR (RRSHOW)
Thursday, September 1
8:00 pm CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT DEVILS TOWER, WY (RRSHOW)
Saturday, September 3
8:00 pm CAT BALLOU AT BUCKSKIN JOES, CO (RRSHOW)
Monday, September 5
8:00 pm HUD IN CLAUDE, TX (RRSHOW)
Before 911 that you posted a telephone number for each of the emergency services next to your phone. Phone books would have the numbers inside the front cover.
I'm sorry to hear about the infant dying. But shouldn't VOIP users if they are technically savvy to use VOIP also be responsible and be sure that they can dial (ie have phone number handy) an emergency service?
As another idea, why not have an old cell phone around that is plugged in. You do not need to have a cell plan to dial 911.
The Amiga was a groundbreaking machine and all, but it's groundbreaking features were of little use in business, which was driving the PC market at that point, and AmigaOS was just horrible.
The one thing that the amiga had going for it was the "killer app" in the guise of the "video toaster" by Newtek that came bundled with "lightwave 3d."
Which in turn was given credence by the science fiction series babylon 5 using a render farm of amigas.
At the time all this was very ahead of its time.
But the amiga could not fight the fact that it was a proprietary platform with a proprietary OS that simply did not have the installed userbase like that of the macintosh.
If it wasn't for the videotoaster, there would have been little if any buying motivation for the amiga.
Here is a slashdot discussion about this last year.
Amiga was ahead of its time, but the single Newtek/lightwave app couldn't be the only thing to keep it alive.
What's interesting is that gemesis, the current leader in artificial diamonds (and they use the russian method for growing) for jewelry does nothing to hide the fact that they are artificial, and in fact inscribes there brand name on each one they make.
They offer their colored diamonds at 30% less than natural diamonds, and sell all of what they make.
It really would not take much marketing to have these take off if there was a large quantity of them. Especially with many natural diamonds being blood diamonds.
I too was working on an Sperry/Univac 1100, but that 1982 machine had a large array of disk drives at the centre of a network of ~320 dumb termials.
Yes, undergrad students always got the hand-me-down crap that the departments on campus had.
I thought I had it bad. I guess if I had to go lower it would be COBOL. But I hear that COBOL workers are making good money maintaining legacy code on old systems, because no-one wants to learn (puke!) it anymore.
One of the better teachers on campus quipped that "sex is the worlds worst spectator sport." That quote has stuck with me for 20 years because I know he was right. So soft porn to me is not as bad:-D
That was before Borland introduced Turbo Pascal, which everybody marvelled at. They sold a zillion pascal compilers and that was their bread and butter for a long time. Everybody was saying how they were gonna reuse all this pascal code they were writing and it really was the shiznit.
Then the Mac gained credibility with the laserprinter and Think C had a C++ compiler and everybody was starstruck by the term "object oriented," which blinded everybody until the internet came along with a new set of buzzwords that inflated a nice bubble filled mostly with worthless gas.
I do not see anybody falling over each other to reuse a lot of that old pascal code. And even though everybody says how they can reuse C++ stuff, it seems like every time I read details about some software project they are having to reinvent errr rewrite the wheel. Or if it's not that it's someone else's spaghetti code they can't read.
The first computer language I learned was was Fortran at a terminal with computer time you had to buy in CPU seconds. It was a sperry univac that had a rotating drum (not disk) and I believe it was a five megger --> 5 megabytes. The entire university had only a couple of cpm computers in the library for student use. When I enquired about them nobody knew if they worked and there was no software for them. This was 1983. Needless to say wordprocessing was a bitch back then, and the student paper was filled with ads for people who would do typing for you. Anyway, I digress.
I was told how gosh darn important Fortran was going to be in my chosen field of electrical engineering. Well, it wasn't and isn't. I won't tell you what the school is, but I will say they are responsible for the world-changing discovery of cold fusion. They have since become important in the areas of supercomputing and contribute a lot to Linux. I would like to think that there is irony there, but I have my doubts.
Through my years of learning, I think I like straight pascal the most. It is elegant, and bug hunting MUCH more straightforward. Though I am sure to findle ample amounts of people who will disagree with me on slashdot. But trust me, I've been there, done that, and got the t-shirt.
I mention this because the date of the the article is 1983, and even though it was (is) a joke, it hits close to home.
Wine has a lot of antioxidants and flavnoids, which can help with the heart and brain
I think that this is in the context of an occasional glass of wine. In these amounts the effects would be negligible to the liver, if any. However, alcholism, which is an entirely different matter is very damaging to the body.
I think that with many "teetotalers" they can not imagine the concept of moderation or the possibility that people can drink moderately and safely. It's an all or nothing proposition and there is really no arguing with them as it seems to be (and many instances prompted by) religous fervor.
Drunkeness is not the greatest ills of our society. I would put smoking at the top of the list as there is nothing that can be said that is redeeming about it health wise. All current medical studies are unequivocal and damming, but yet cigarettes are still allowed to be sold.
Another one would be the lack of fundamental health coverage for 35-40 million americans (myself included) which is very troubling and not being addressed in any manner.
So, I think a certain amount of perspective is in order.
Wine: there are some really crap wines out there. The only people who drink them are drinking it to get drunk. I didn't drink wine regularly until two years ago because I valued my brain cells
Actually a glass of wine a day has been shown by medical studies to be a healthful thing for the body, including brain cells.
However, getting drunk does nothing to increase this effect and can be considered more hurtful than helpful. But a glass of wine a day is healthy.
I was thinking the same thing. But once you implement a system wide "delete' function for one thing, you have everybody showing up at your door wanting you to delete something else.
So it's a tough nut to crack. But some type of community "vote" function might be plausible. But in the end probably unworkable.
Finally, I don't have to hunt through multiple databases to swipe all of the pertinent information about someone. It's all collected in one place for easy access. Thanks, DC
What's really funny is how hard of time they have taking care of the identity theft problem (aka misuse of ssn numbers), but have an easy time passing this bill.
Not to mention all that census data that they already collect.
I think that what the real problem is similar to what hapenned with social security numbers. Originally a justifiable government purpose it has become hijacked by commercial interests to the point that they want your ssn when you apply to rent videos.
I think the "slippery slope" argument is particularly pertinent here, as you corporate interests start demanding to see your federal id.
Very thoughtless of our senators (not that they have much consideration to begin with).
Perhaps maybe that's why Apple charges for each copy of their software. I think you are right, usability in the open source world is an after thought if at all.
However, things are stumbling along torwards better usability. I find Mepis linux very usable, partly because KDE is _nothing_ like it was a couple of years ago. So I would say there is hope.
I think part of it is because usability requires a large amount of "grunt programming" that is a lot of work and takes a while to get done. And there is not a huge amount of incentive to implement it among those who spend a large amount of time at the command line anyway.
Not that I am afraid of the command line. But my mother certainly is.
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Parent is a troll. Those are NOT the films for the roadhouse tour. Mods, please kick your crack habit and RTFA. From TFA;
Rolling Roadshow Tour
Description:
In 2005, the Alamo is setting out on a 6000 mile, 21 day journey, across the west for a series of film screenings that will take the movie-going experience to a whole new level. We will be screening 12 famous films in their original shooting locations, chosen specifically to intensify the viewing experience.
A pass is available for all of the screenings, or you can pick and choose a la carte. The website will be updated with complete driving directions, as well as other attractions in the area.
Shows Click on show title for more information.
(click on a show time to buy tickets):
LAST PICTURE SHOW IN ARCHER CITY, TX (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 19
8:00 pm (No Passes)
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - 3D! in ROSWELL, NM (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 21
8:00 pm
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST IN MONUMENT VALLEY (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 23
8:00 pm
PLANET OF THE APES AT LAKE POWELL, UT (RRSHOW)
Wednesday, August 24
8:00 pm
REPO MAN ROAD RALLY IN LOS ANGELES, CA (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 26
8:00 pm
NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN BAKERSFIELD (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 28
8:00 pm
BULLITT ROAD RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 30
8:00 pm
THE GOONIES IN ASTORIA, OR (RRSHOW)
Thursday, September 1
8:00 pm
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT DEVILS TOWER, WY (RRSHOW)
Saturday, September 3
8:00 pm
CAT BALLOU AT BUCKSKIN JOES, CO (RRSHOW)
Monday, September 5
8:00 pm
HUD IN CLAUDE, TX (RRSHOW)
Wednesday, September 7
8:00 pm
They could at least have the honesty to admit that they were pressured into it by the Dept. of Homeland Security. Oh wait, no they couldn't.
No, they were pressured by the local company making the biometric scan devices.
...library officials discovered that many patrons logged onto library computers using library cards and passwords of friends or relatives.
You mean make sure that everyone has their own library card so they don't have to borrow someone else's?
Before 911 that you posted a telephone number for each of the emergency services next to your phone. Phone books would have the numbers inside the front cover.
I'm sorry to hear about the infant dying. But shouldn't VOIP users if they are technically savvy to use VOIP also be responsible and be sure that they can dial (ie have phone number handy) an emergency service?
As another idea, why not have an old cell phone around that is plugged in. You do not need to have a cell plan to dial 911.
Roger Ebert is one of the few critics where I can successfully apply that test, even if there's a few films where you wonder what he was thinking
:-)
Also like his review of Blade Runner which he completely dissed and gave a thumbs down, and Weird Science which he liked.
I assume that the latter was probably becuase he liked Kelly Lebrock, which is a mistake we all could make.
Gene Siskell was the better reviewer IMHO
The Amiga was a groundbreaking machine and all, but it's groundbreaking features were of little use in business, which was driving the PC market at that point, and AmigaOS was just horrible.
The one thing that the amiga had going for it was the "killer app" in the guise of the "video toaster" by Newtek that came bundled with "lightwave 3d."
Which in turn was given credence by the science fiction series babylon 5 using a render farm of amigas.
At the time all this was very ahead of its time.
But the amiga could not fight the fact that it was a proprietary platform with a proprietary OS that simply did not have the installed userbase like that of the macintosh.
If it wasn't for the videotoaster, there would have been little if any buying motivation for the amiga.
Here is a slashdot discussion about this last year.
Amiga was ahead of its time, but the single Newtek/lightwave app couldn't be the only thing to keep it alive.
Plus PCs were much less costly.
What's interesting is that gemesis, the current leader in artificial diamonds (and they use the russian method for growing) for jewelry does nothing to hide the fact that they are artificial, and in fact inscribes there brand name on each one they make.
They offer their colored diamonds at 30% less than natural diamonds, and sell all of what they make.
It really would not take much marketing to have these take off if there was a large quantity of them. Especially with many natural diamonds being blood diamonds.
I too was working on an Sperry/Univac 1100, but that 1982 machine had a large array of disk drives at the centre of a network of ~320 dumb termials.
:-D
Yes, undergrad students always got the hand-me-down crap that the departments on campus had.
I thought I had it bad. I guess if I had to go lower it would be COBOL. But I hear that COBOL workers are making good money maintaining legacy code on old systems, because no-one wants to learn (puke!) it anymore.
One of the better teachers on campus quipped that "sex is the worlds worst spectator sport." That quote has stuck with me for 20 years because I know he was right. So soft porn to me is not as bad
Not to mention that artificial diamond is "more pure", in the sense that it's not a blood/conflict diamond.
Bring them on.
But of course, we should remember that Real Programmers don't use PASCAL
That was before Borland introduced Turbo Pascal, which everybody marvelled at. They sold a zillion pascal compilers and that was their bread and butter for a long time. Everybody was saying how they were gonna reuse all this pascal code they were writing and it really was the shiznit.
Then the Mac gained credibility with the laserprinter and Think C had a C++ compiler and everybody was starstruck by the term "object oriented," which blinded everybody until the internet came along with a new set of buzzwords that inflated a nice bubble filled mostly with worthless gas.
I do not see anybody falling over each other to reuse a lot of that old pascal code. And even though everybody says how they can reuse C++ stuff, it seems like every time I read details about some software project they are having to reinvent errr rewrite the wheel. Or if it's not that it's someone else's spaghetti code they can't read.
The first computer language I learned was was Fortran at a terminal with computer time you had to buy in CPU seconds. It was a sperry univac that had a rotating drum (not disk) and I believe it was a five megger --> 5 megabytes. The entire university had only a couple of cpm computers in the library for student use. When I enquired about them nobody knew if they worked and there was no software for them. This was 1983. Needless to say wordprocessing was a bitch back then, and the student paper was filled with ads for people who would do typing for you. Anyway, I digress.
I was told how gosh darn important Fortran was going to be in my chosen field of electrical engineering. Well, it wasn't and isn't. I won't tell you what the school is, but I will say they are responsible for the world-changing discovery of cold fusion. They have since become important in the areas of supercomputing and contribute a lot to Linux. I would like to think that there is irony there, but I have my doubts.
Through my years of learning, I think I like straight pascal the most. It is elegant, and bug hunting MUCH more straightforward. Though I am sure to findle ample amounts of people who will disagree with me on slashdot. But trust me, I've been there, done that, and got the t-shirt.
I mention this because the date of the the article is 1983, and even though it was (is) a joke, it hits close to home.
There is quite a number of theories about what it could be.
Wine has a lot of antioxidants and flavnoids, which can help with the heart and brain
I think that this is in the context of an occasional glass of wine. In these amounts the effects would be negligible to the liver, if any. However, alcholism, which is an entirely different matter is very damaging to the body.
I think that with many "teetotalers" they can not imagine the concept of moderation or the possibility that people can drink moderately and safely. It's an all or nothing proposition and there is really no arguing with them as it seems to be (and many instances prompted by) religous fervor.
Drunkeness is not the greatest ills of our society. I would put smoking at the top of the list as there is nothing that can be said that is redeeming about it health wise. All current medical studies are unequivocal and damming, but yet cigarettes are still allowed to be sold.
Another one would be the lack of fundamental health coverage for 35-40 million americans (myself included) which is very troubling and not being addressed in any manner.
So, I think a certain amount of perspective is in order.
Wine: there are some really crap wines out there. The only people who drink them are drinking it to get drunk. I didn't drink wine regularly until two years ago because I valued my brain cells
Actually a glass of wine a day has been shown by medical studies to be a healthful thing for the body, including brain cells.
However, getting drunk does nothing to increase this effect and can be considered more hurtful than helpful. But a glass of wine a day is healthy.
The miracles of photoshop never cease to amaze.
I was thinking the same thing. But once you implement a system wide "delete' function for one thing, you have everybody showing up at your door wanting you to delete something else.
So it's a tough nut to crack. But some type of community "vote" function might be plausible. But in the end probably unworkable.
How could you say that about mommy?! My mom could cook a brick and I would be grateful.
A fireman that rescued me (barely sensible) after an electronic device exploded, said that BeO was probably the culprit.
I should shower more often. I have a lot of BeO when I don't.
Actually patents are measured twenty years out from the filing date, giving this nine more years.
No, it's going to be more like this if they go with fixed contract amounts.
Trinity: What do you need?
Neo: Some ducting and tape.
Trinity: Ok, I'll run down to Home Depot and grab you some. Shouldn't this stuff be space-rated??
Neo: Nah, get the cheap stuff, we'll be lucky to break even on this project as it is. Love you honey.
Trinity: Be right back.
the issue could be argued as one of interstate commerce (transportation), which the federal government does have control over.
And why the government is always trying to attach unrelated subjects to "interstate commerce" so they can regulate it (like hate crimes).
Finally, I don't have to hunt through multiple databases to swipe all of the pertinent information about someone. It's all collected in one place for easy access. Thanks, DC
What's really funny is how hard of time they have taking care of the identity theft problem (aka misuse of ssn numbers), but have an easy time passing this bill.
Not to mention all that census data that they already collect.
I think that what the real problem is similar to what hapenned with social security numbers. Originally a justifiable government purpose it has become hijacked by commercial interests to the point that they want your ssn when you apply to rent videos.
I think the "slippery slope" argument is particularly pertinent here, as you corporate interests start demanding to see your federal id.
Very thoughtless of our senators (not that they have much consideration to begin with).
more used in the clothing, accessory, and toy markets
Because Apple computers are toys that people like to accessorize with???
This is a "design patent", not a "utility patent". Meaning it's the basic look and curves, not functionality that's being patented.
Though I can't help but think that there are already tablet computers with rounded corners.
Perhaps maybe that's why Apple charges for each copy of their software. I think you are right, usability in the open source world is an after thought if at all.
However, things are stumbling along torwards better usability. I find Mepis linux very usable, partly because KDE is _nothing_ like it was a couple of years ago. So I would say there is hope.
I think part of it is because usability requires a large amount of "grunt programming" that is a lot of work and takes a while to get done. And there is not a huge amount of incentive to implement it among those who spend a large amount of time at the command line anyway.
Not that I am afraid of the command line. But my mother certainly is.
Likewise, IMHO.