before I answered, I just decided to do a quick google search, and my jaw nearly feel off, when I saw a link to Hyperion-film.com... but then I realised....
About hyperion as a movie: I would love to see it, but any one of the 7 main stories, just in the first book, could make one movie. I mean in the first book, they don't really get anywhere, we are just introduced to the characters. It might work as TV show or TV-movie in several parts, but they always turn out to be too shitty (eg. that 4-hour Stephen King movie, forgot the name).
If you have read the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" books, think the Shrike. It's shiny, spiky, ultra-violent and can control time, making it possible to be omnipresent
- that's how a T3 ass-wooper should be IMO.
But besides that, my guess is that transparency or super-camoflage will be T3 feature. Another possibility would be splitting into more entities (mini-mes) and kicking Arnyass from mulitiple angles. That would make for some awesome fighting scenes, if the robot suddenly splits into two and each of those do their thing.
Oh yeah, of course the whole thing would be filmed in matrix-o-scope with plenty of ninja moves.
Re:"FoxNews, The Most Biased Name in News" - FAIR.
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I completely agree that remaining unbiased is not possible. But it gets my goat when it's presented as unbiased: commentaries aren't.
Guerrillanews and mediachannel were mostly thrown in there for the interested reader to get a counterbalance. The Institute for Public Accuracy might have been a better addition to the list.
Guerrillanews is more of a commentary site than anything else. Of cause you can find speculative qoutes, if you look for them, but what I appreciate about the site, is they bring on people with non mainstream views. Sometimes they are dumb, but at least they don't read from a government press release. It's deliberately opinionated, but not presented as something else.
And for mediachannel, it links so many interesting articles on "both sides of the camp". Like interviewswithCNN journalists and editors.
That being said, I don't look at Guerillanews for breaking news - for sure. I read news papers, magazines and check out a range of channels. I completely agree that one source won't give you the entire picture, and that all you can is look around and make up your own mind.
My biggest complaint about CNN is NOT lou dobbs. At all. Did you read the article I linked to? Here's another complaint. There's much more.
And for CNN being regarded as being liberal biased news - hmm... let me guess. You are American and you don't have a passport, right;) ? And even if CNN is liberal biased news, who cares? That's really not the point.
I'm glad that you see the Fox bias, because Fox always claim that they are not.
> Please, just admit it that your biggest
> complaint about foxnews is that it shows a
> conservative voice. I would find it hard to
> believe that if a news
I'm more conservative than you imagine. I'm a capitalist, for globalization etc. If all the media was libral biased, I would have less of a problem with Fox, because it wouldn't be such a big problem in terms of ratings. I just don't see that as the case now, so if one is to seek "alternative" news sources, they will generally (in the US at least) have to look a bit to the left.
yeah, I did kinda have that feeling....
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Thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out.
I have a grudge with Fox, and this article didn't help either. I totally avoid it for any "War on Terror" news.
Recently Fair And Accuracy in Reporting wrote a special report titled: The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt (note that's it's written before sep.11).
Now that I am at it, CNN is no saint either, that's for sure. I feel like screaming BIASED! at the TV when I see Lou Dobbs et.al. wearing Stars and Stripes on their suit. All reporting is "WE need to fight this enemy...", "Protect OUR country...". So much for International.
As an old Dungeons & Dragons fan, I find CyberCon more interesting - a virtual RPG game convention, played on "virtual desktops", such as the python written openrpg.
Nice...
I have tried the openrpg program, and it works really well. My old gaming group is scattered across Europe, but now we are getting back together online. Still dont know if we can re-capture the old feel, but it's worth a shot.
Her measure to Congress is based on a Washington state law that went into effect in July. Under the measure, retailers would have to provide identity theft victims with copies of all fraudulent records, and credit agencies would have to block bad credit information on their reports if they were the result of identity theft.
Why buy someone elses identity? There are plenty of spooky sites around the net which deal with offshore banking, which offer second citizenship or identity cards. Usually in your own name, but also in a name of your choice.
The pricelist includes items like:
- international driving permit: $200
- international student card: $65
- novelty cards (body guard, pilot (!!), delta force, PI etc.): any four, $100
- press card: $2-500
I'm sure there are many more sites like these, (in fact there are). I remember seeing a site once (imsil.com - anyone knows what happened to them?) which offered a new identity for around $6000. It was a passport to some x-UK colony, which didn't (officially) issue passports any more, but the old one were still in use.
Nopes, Soma was deliberately an impossible drug. Huxley (who knew his drugs, mind you:) wanted Soma to be non-earthly.
In a 1960 interview he said*: "Soma is an imaginary drug with three different effects: euphoric, halluncinant, or sedative - an impossible combination."
Dammit, we need more of his kind!!
* From "Moksha - Aldous Huxley's classic writings on phychedelics and the visionary experience", p. 11.
And yes, they certainly have a clue at anandtech - I'm positive they don't make 10 seperate page articles for aesthetical reasons. They did it to make money. This information is free to the viewers, so I don't think it's too much to ask the visitors to browse through several pages, as long as anand keeps supplying quality reports.
However if people get pissed off about all the pages, they won't come back, and the system will regulate itself.
I have tried to go over to mozilla as part of my slow conversion from Win to Linux. Thought it might be a good place to start.
When I installed Mozilla at 0.9.5 I was impressed. This app has come a loong way!
However, I have a couple of hickups, which someone might be able to help me with
- Load time Compared to IE, which takes 1-2 secs to load, Mozilla take around 8 secs to load. Not that much extra, but when my short term memory is 5 seconds, I most often choose to load IE, so I don't forget what I wanted to check out.
- Shortcuts I don't know who fucked up the shortcuts, but I must use alt-d over 100 times a day in IE, the shortcut that brings you to the address bar. I had a (not too investigative) look at the Mozilla help, and couldn't find any info on shortcuts, which brings me to
- Help You can't search the help! Hello.
- Search My seconds favorite feature in any program is text search, and I have found the search in Mozilla to be buggy (forgetting last search word and settings, needing to 5 click before it starts, not finding text which is there)
The most important to me is load time. I just don't see myself, only using Mozilla until load time is decreased. But hey, good luck to the dev team, I will hang in there.
I was curious about his @pilosoft.com address, but the site is blank. However, a google search on his name revealed a personal homepage.
One thing worth noting: he's 22 years old.. hmmm. According to his resume, he has contributed to apache, mod_perl, postgresql and freebsd.
My personal guess is that he has convinced one of his employers to pay for this (Lazard Ferez & Co., which he works for, seem potential, but i don't know enough about them). I'll be following the bounty thread.
Anyway, I think he is for rea and wish him good luck. Here's a picture of our hero
I have a thinkpad t21, and from what I have read, one of the common linux problems with this laptop is bad modem support. As I use this machine on the road from time to time, I want that modem to work (hotels, friends house etc.) and if it doesn't it will be a deterrent to install linux.
I do think you are right in suposing that many linux fans are early adopters, but what I find interesting is the possibility of more "regular" users switching to linux, because of proper hardware support and thus: ease of use.
I have never worked with blind people, but after reading an article last year about how websites are getting more and more difficult for braille browsers (flash, imagelinks without alt tags etc.), I decided to make a lynx-friendly version of my site - and so should YOU!
Anyways, how does he do it?? Is it worth it to the company you work for, or does it cause everyone else problems? Is he good? Tell! Hopefuly this could encourage others to take on "disabled" in their company....
hostpro/vserver/vservers.. all the same thing. Now they have their own stuff systems, but they just used to be resellers for iServer (now viaverio.
Right now, my site and a friends is each running on a Free/BSD split with about 10 other users - it's a virtual server, and I can install/do anything I feel like on it. I get:
> FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (VKERN)
and
> BSDI BSD/OS 3.1 Virtual Kernel #17
(they are discontinuing BSD, afaik)
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I have the book, but no newsgroup access. Any clues to where else I might find an e-book version?
I the name of Jesus Christ, why was this link not caught by the link displayer!
And for the Love of All Things Holy - quit putting that goddam image in my face.
1-0 to the troll.
Why was parent modded funny? Any step to improve OSS documentation at this point deserves support, imo.
before I answered, I just decided to do a quick google search, and my jaw nearly feel off, when I saw a link to Hyperion-film.com... but then I realised....
:/ ).
About hyperion as a movie: I would love to see it, but any one of the 7 main stories, just in the first book, could make one movie. I mean in the first book, they don't really get anywhere, we are just introduced to the characters. It might work as TV show or TV-movie in several parts, but they always turn out to be too shitty (eg. that 4-hour Stephen King movie, forgot the name).
HOWEVER! just found this:
Dan Simmons: "Oh, part II of Eli's question . . . talks about HYPERION are still underway."
!!!! and then my jaw fell off !!!
Anyway, I havn't read anything else by Simmons, but read that he is working on a movie script for CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (its gonna be in German
If you have read the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" books, think the Shrike. It's shiny, spiky, ultra-violent and can control time, making it possible to be omnipresent
- that's how a T3 ass-wooper should be IMO.
But besides that, my guess is that transparency or super-camoflage will be T3 feature. Another possibility would be splitting into more entities (mini-mes) and kicking Arnyass from mulitiple angles. That would make for some awesome fighting scenes, if the robot suddenly splits into two and each of those do their thing.
Oh yeah, of course the whole thing would be filmed in matrix-o-scope with plenty of ninja moves.
here. Interview with COO Patrick Hurley from August this year. The interview is very "content provider" oriented and is a good read.
They do have this
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;) ? And even if CNN is liberal biased news, who cares? That's really not the point.
I completely agree that remaining unbiased is not possible. But it gets my goat when it's presented as unbiased: commentaries aren't.
Guerrillanews and mediachannel were mostly thrown in there for the interested reader to get a counterbalance. The Institute for Public Accuracy might have been a better addition to the list.
Guerrillanews is more of a commentary site than anything else. Of cause you can find speculative qoutes, if you look for them, but what I appreciate about the site, is they bring on people with non mainstream views. Sometimes they are dumb, but at least they don't read from a government press release. It's deliberately opinionated, but not presented as something else.
And for mediachannel, it links so many interesting articles on "both sides of the camp". Like interviews with CNN journalists and editors.
That being said, I don't look at Guerillanews for breaking news - for sure. I read news papers, magazines and check out a range of channels. I completely agree that one source won't give you the entire picture, and that all you can is look around and make up your own mind.
My biggest complaint about CNN is NOT lou dobbs. At all. Did you read the article I linked to? Here's another complaint. There's much more.
And for CNN being regarded as being liberal biased news - hmm... let me guess. You are American and you don't have a passport, right
I'm glad that you see the Fox bias, because Fox always claim that they are not.
> Please, just admit it that your biggest
> complaint about foxnews is that it shows a
> conservative voice. I would find it hard to
> believe that if a news
I'm more conservative than you imagine. I'm a capitalist, for globalization etc. If all the media was libral biased, I would have less of a problem with Fox, because it wouldn't be such a big problem in terms of ratings. I just don't see that as the case now, so if one is to seek "alternative" news sources, they will generally (in the US at least) have to look a bit to the left.
.... that e-paper is just around the corner, because someone told me that E-Paper Moves Closer and someone else said that Electronic paper moving off the drawing board and then I heard that that Full Color Electronic Paper was a Reality.
.... if I got a nickle for every time.....
Thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out.
I have a grudge with Fox, and this article didn't help either. I totally avoid it for any "War on Terror" news.
Recently Fair And Accuracy in Reporting wrote a special report titled:
The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt (note that's it's written before sep.11).
Now that I am at it, CNN is no saint either, that's for sure. I feel like screaming BIASED! at the TV when I see Lou Dobbs et.al. wearing Stars and Stripes on their suit. All reporting is "WE need to fight this enemy...", "Protect OUR country...". So much for International.
No thank you, I will stick with:
- guerrillanews
- mediachannel
- and for TV, EuroNews or even BBC
As an old Dungeons & Dragons fan, I find CyberCon more interesting - a virtual RPG game convention, played on "virtual desktops", such as the python written openrpg.
Nice...
I have tried the openrpg program, and it works really well. My old gaming group is scattered across Europe, but now we are getting back together online. Still dont know if we can re-capture the old feel, but it's worth a shot.
I would.
In Denmark, where I'm from, people usually end up spending around 1200 dollars for a permit.
Her measure to Congress is based on a Washington state law that went into effect in July. Under the measure, retailers would have to provide identity theft victims with copies of all fraudulent records, and credit agencies would have to block bad credit information on their reports if they were the result of identity theft.
Why buy someone elses identity? There are plenty of spooky sites around the net which deal with offshore banking, which offer second citizenship or identity cards. Usually in your own name, but also in a name of your choice.
The pricelist includes items like:
- international driving permit: $200
- international student card: $65
- novelty cards (body guard, pilot (!!), delta force, PI etc.): any four, $100
- press card: $2-500
I'm sure there are many more sites like these, (in fact there are). I remember seeing a site once (imsil.com - anyone knows what happened to them?) which offered a new identity for around $6000. It was a passport to some x-UK colony, which didn't (officially) issue passports any more, but the old one were still in use.
Nopes, Soma was deliberately an impossible drug. Huxley (who knew his drugs, mind you :) wanted Soma to be non-earthly.
In a 1960 interview he said*: "Soma is an imaginary drug with three different effects: euphoric, halluncinant, or sedative - an impossible combination."
Dammit, we need more of his kind!!
* From "Moksha - Aldous Huxley's classic writings on phychedelics and the visionary experience", p. 11.
The ads are there to do two things
1. Pay the costs
2. Motivate
And yes, they certainly have a clue at anandtech - I'm positive they don't make 10 seperate page articles for aesthetical reasons. They did it to make money. This information is free to the viewers, so I don't think it's too much to ask the visitors to browse through several pages, as long as anand keeps supplying quality reports.
However if people get pissed off about all the pages, they won't come back, and the system will regulate itself.
Ok, that sounds great.
But how do I load it? Do you have more info on it?
I have tried to go over to mozilla as part of my slow conversion from Win to Linux. Thought it might be a good place to start.
When I installed Mozilla at 0.9.5 I was impressed. This app has come a loong way!
However, I have a couple of hickups, which someone might be able to help me with
- Load time Compared to IE, which takes 1-2 secs to load, Mozilla take around 8 secs to load. Not that much extra, but when my short term memory is 5 seconds, I most often choose to load IE, so I don't forget what I wanted to check out.
- Shortcuts I don't know who fucked up the shortcuts, but I must use alt-d over 100 times a day in IE, the shortcut that brings you to the address bar. I had a (not too investigative) look at the Mozilla help, and couldn't find any info on shortcuts, which brings me to
- Help You can't search the help! Hello.
- Search My seconds favorite feature in any program is text search, and I have found the search in Mozilla to be buggy (forgetting last search word and settings, needing to 5 click before it starts, not finding text which is there)
The most important to me is load time. I just don't see myself, only using Mozilla until load time is decreased. But hey, good luck to the dev team, I will hang in there.
I was curious about his @pilosoft.com address, but the site is blank. However, a google search on his name revealed a personal homepage.
One thing worth noting: he's 22 years old.. hmmm. According to his resume, he has contributed to apache, mod_perl, postgresql and freebsd.
My personal guess is that he has convinced one of his employers to pay for this (Lazard Ferez & Co., which he works for, seem potential, but i don't know enough about them). I'll be following the bounty thread.
Anyway, I think he is for rea and wish him good luck. Here's a picture of our hero
think laptops...
I have a thinkpad t21, and from what I have read, one of the common linux problems with this laptop is bad modem support. As I use this machine on the road from time to time, I want that modem to work (hotels, friends house etc.) and if it doesn't it will be a deterrent to install linux.
I do think you are right in suposing that many linux fans are early adopters, but what I find interesting is the possibility of more "regular" users switching to linux, because of proper hardware support and thus: ease of use.
First Look: Senseboard Virtual Keyboard
Can an acronym-savvy please tell what the parent is talking about? (I got the IBM and OS/2 part 8-)
The baltic states are still quite difficult for me to keep straight in my head, I confess.
Not quite sure what you meant, but just so there is not confusion, the Baltic States include Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - not Slovenia.
Yep, it's another urban legend
correct. See snopes for full details on the myth:
NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" that would work in outer space; the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils. . Status: false.
Wow! Your Oracle admin is blind? *im baffled*
I have never worked with blind people, but after reading an article last year about how websites are getting more and more difficult for braille browsers (flash, imagelinks without alt tags etc.), I decided to make a lynx-friendly version of my site - and so should YOU!
Anyways, how does he do it?? Is it worth it to the company you work for, or does it cause everyone else problems? Is he good? Tell! Hopefuly this could encourage others to take on "disabled" in their company....
hostpro/vserver/vservers.. all the same thing. Now they have their own stuff systems, but they just used to be resellers for iServer (now viaverio.
Right now, my site and a friends is each running on a Free/BSD split with about 10 other users - it's a virtual server, and I can install/do anything I feel like on it. I get:
> FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (VKERN)
and
> BSDI BSD/OS 3.1 Virtual Kernel #17
(they are discontinuing BSD, afaik)