Chan and Tucker don't act as well, and the plots and writing are weaker, but they're funnier, and Chan's martial arts tricks, gags and maneuvers are, as always, amazing.
I live in Hong Kong.
Chan pioneered a new style of martial art movie ever since his first movie in Hong Kong, Drunken Fighter,(Many years ago, you probably haven't seen it) which added comedy elements in martial fighting.
Jacky Chan said in a local radio that he had a hard time working with Hollywood movie makers. He doesn't like they took everything too seriously. For example he proposed to use a silver-dye paper gun for a gun-kicking shot. The Hollywood producers didn't like it, but he argued the kicking scene just took 0.02 sec and nobody would notice.
That's his style, he'd rather put more effort to add more action and fun in action movie, then to spend time to build the plot.
Frankly I don't like watching weak-plot movies but his work is still very entertaining.
Not going to flame you, but give my personal opinions:
--News Flash Y2K was a hoax.
We spent months to fix various Y2K problems in many lagacy systems, which'd have been failed if we didn't take actions.
Your system is immune to Y2K problems doesn't mean Y2K problems are non-existance.
--News Flash The internet is not going to be "shut down" by any stupid virus.
Of course not by stupid virus. *wink*
--Any half decent FW comes with its own proprietary TCP/IP stack... Yeah MS might think about changing over to something else.
I don't think Cringely is talking about proprietary network traffics within a private infrastructure, but on the Internet as a whole.
--It is time for "technologists" to cut it out and stop trying to scare the Hell out of everyone with this MS is evil and the internet is falling shit.
Most of the time we bring up the facts and then media in turn scare the shit out of general public, and some half-wit techs. Code Red for instance, would only infect Microsoft IIS servers. CNN replaced 'IIS servers' with 'computers', and some local newspaper replaced 'Microsoft' with 'all'. Life would have been better if they didn't scare my boss off out of these misleading news.
--Bottom line if MS was as bad as WE all think it is it WOULD disappear. Truth is it isn't that horrible. For 90 minutes at a time it's a great gaming platform.
How could I agrue on such a good point?:)
A couple of weeks after Mandrake Gnu/Linux 8.0 was released I left my Puter on non stop for around 6 days to get the two ISO's over a 56k.... So it is possible
Don't underestimate the power of desperate users.:)
This message was encrypted with rot-26 cryptography.
Attempting to circumvent this encoding is illegal under the DMCA
I cracked your so-call encryption and successfully deciphered your message. Frankly i don't know much about encryption but I'm sure I could do a better job than you. I know that would upset Digital Morons/Cowards Act much but look do I care.
I spent much much more on Linux than Windows. The pirate copy of Windows 2000/98/95 only costed me $10; while I spent more than $6000 on books and VA/Redhat's stocks.
You are right, Linux suck hell lots of money out of my pocket. This sucker.
BTW, If you excuse me, I'll go back to my $20,000 freelance job implementing Linux servers.....
Besides patent the technology, we can also patent the business process and concept. One of my friend has filed several patents which idea come from sci fictions.
Now he's waiting for one of these patents earn him a fortune so that he can retire to an isolated tropical island for the rest of his life.
friends came to my house and started talking about new email virus and their methods to prevent them. It seems that they've a great time infecting each other.
When it came to my turn I said:
"I don't use Outlook."
It was a long silence after that. To break the ice, I repeated:
"I don't use Outlook."
Sometime the solution to problems is so obvious and simple.
Media here told the public Code Red would infect all computers. They simply ignore the fact that Code Red infects only IIS 5 server.
A local lead moron - the president of Hong Kong Computer Society, a branch of British CS, told the public that in order to protect yourself from virus, we all should update the latest virus signature and do not swith on computers. I'm sure all their members would feel shame of their president's cluelessness.
Scott Adam is right, idiots, morons and clueless people are defining the reality.
Why would a book need to be long lasting to be qualified in library?
A couple big commercial bookstores in Shenzhen of China has floors of technies books. I can still find '6502 programming design', 'Player missle graphics and game design'(for ATARI), 'Complete 8086' and 'Inside DR. DOS 3.1', etc.
I wonder why libraries has to exclude those books which has great academic values.
Aye, that's exactly what I am saying. What I said about cheaper discs was kidding.:)
Just want everybody to know far east people would rather pay more for more choices, regardless of their living standard. Those money-minded big heads should hear, they are so obsessed with thus introducing zoning to max their profit.
Well, I doubt any one of these "DVD compatible" player could be imported to US, in view of the fact that merely 'discussing' an encryption algorithm would violate DMCA.
I'm currently located in China and we use full-region DVD player for viewing more expensive US and Japanese version of Hollywood's movies, because far east version are always not available.
They delay the release of far east version so that US people wouldn't be able enjoy cheaper version even if they could get a full-region DVD player. So your plan wouldn't work.:)
Americans want full-region DVD players for saving cost in buying DVD, while Chineses buy them for viewing more expensive US version. Irony isn't it?
Once again I don't know this Bruce(may be you know him well), he might be very aggressive, but honestly he has some points worth discussing. You're right, he may need to change his geeky attitude a bit to have a better chance of getting response.
Like I said, that's why they even made the Troll and Flamebait moderations here at Slashdot, where childish behavior is practically the norm.
:) That's why I set the threshold to 3. Well, there's still a lot of people having insightful comments. That's how I found your post.
I asked SV to remove him from the panel due to his past history of annoyance but SV ignored me, and that lead to a fruitless debate thanks to Brett Glass and SV.
Zico I don't know much about this Bruce but I hardly find him offensive. Zico, if you are offended by people calling your name repeatedly, Zico, it's time to change a better name you don't hate, Zico.
Zico, what is the purpose of the panel? Shaking hands, hugging and kissing each other until reaching a consent? Zico, Zico, Zico, if he's that lame he shouldn't join any debate.
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Chan and Tucker don't act as well, and the plots and writing are weaker, but they're funnier, and Chan's martial arts tricks, gags and maneuvers are, as always, amazing.
I live in Hong Kong.
Chan pioneered a new style of martial art movie ever since his first movie in Hong Kong, Drunken Fighter,(Many years ago, you probably haven't seen it) which added comedy elements in martial fighting.
Jacky Chan said in a local radio that he had a hard time working with Hollywood movie makers. He doesn't like they took everything too seriously. For example he proposed to use a silver-dye paper gun for a gun-kicking shot. The Hollywood producers didn't like it, but he argued the kicking scene just took 0.02 sec and nobody would notice.
That's his style, he'd rather put more effort to add more action and fun in action movie, then to spend time to build the plot.
Frankly I don't like watching weak-plot movies but his work is still very entertaining.
Microsoft to prevent users from installing certain device drivers.
Oh Great! One more product edge taken down by marketing idiots!
Do they get a clue why their product is so popular?
Not going to flame you, but give my personal opinions:
:)
--News Flash Y2K was a hoax.
We spent months to fix various Y2K problems in many lagacy systems, which'd have been failed if we didn't take actions.
Your system is immune to Y2K problems doesn't mean Y2K problems are non-existance.
--News Flash The internet is not going to be "shut down" by any stupid virus.
Of course not by stupid virus. *wink*
--Any half decent FW comes with its own proprietary TCP/IP stack... Yeah MS might think about changing over to something else.
I don't think Cringely is talking about proprietary network traffics within a private infrastructure, but on the Internet as a whole.
--It is time for "technologists" to cut it out and stop trying to scare the Hell out of everyone with this MS is evil and the internet is falling shit.
Most of the time we bring up the facts and then media in turn scare the shit out of general public, and some half-wit techs. Code Red for instance, would only infect Microsoft IIS servers. CNN replaced 'IIS servers' with 'computers', and some local newspaper replaced 'Microsoft' with 'all'. Life would have been better if they didn't scare my boss off out of these misleading news.
--Bottom line if MS was as bad as WE all think it is it WOULD disappear. Truth is it isn't that horrible. For 90 minutes at a time it's a great gaming platform.
How could I agrue on such a good point?
A couple of weeks after Mandrake Gnu/Linux 8.0 was released I left my Puter on non stop for around 6 days to get the two ISO's over a 56k .... So it is possible
:)
Don't underestimate the power of desperate users.
if Microsoft stays away from TCP/IP, then we'd be free of all those NETBIOS traffics(aka network background noise).
I welcome the decision of Micosoft on segmentating the Internet. Vines IP is surely a successful story that Microsoft should follow.
This message was encrypted with rot-26 cryptography.
Attempting to circumvent this encoding is illegal under the DMCA
I cracked your so-call encryption and successfully deciphered your message. Frankly i don't know much about encryption but I'm sure I could do a better job than you. I know that would upset Digital Morons/Cowards Act much but look do I care.
I spent much much more on Linux than Windows. The pirate copy of Windows 2000/98/95 only costed me $10; while I spent more than $6000 on books and VA/Redhat's stocks.
You are right, Linux suck hell lots of money out of my pocket. This sucker.
BTW, If you excuse me, I'll go back to my $20,000 freelance job implementing Linux servers.....
One of the best I've seen and heard of is asking "What's the most difficult programming problem or task you've encountered? How did you solve it?"
Haha...I'm an UNIX admin and was asked to sit in an interview panel to replace someone sick, and I asked the same question. I thought it was sensible.
To my surprise he said he has no programming experience because he's looking for an admin job. I took a closer look at the job spec and *ding*:
System Administrator: NT server
No wonder.
Ooooh good to know you. You made a great page! :)
Apple Mac SE ?? That ain't shit.
:)
Hey, did I say listed are shit?
If you do think that way, you are insulting the rest of them too.(j/k)
In fact they were remarkable computers at time. Many are still working well. My ATARI 400 is still running very smooth.
Besides patent the technology, we can also patent the business process and concept. One of my friend has filed several patents which idea come from sci fictions.
Now he's waiting for one of these patents earn him a fortune so that he can retire to an isolated tropical island for the rest of his life.
Acron Atom
Acron BBC Micro
Acron Electron
ACT Apricot
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad CPC6128
Amstrad CPC664
Apple II+
Apple Lisa 2
Apple Mac SE
Atari 2600
Atari 2600jr
Atari 400
Atari XE
Cambridge Computer Z88
Camputers Lynx
Casio PB-100
Commodore CBM 8032-SK
Commodore CBM 8096
Commodore Plus/4
Commodore VIC-20
Dragon 32
EACA Colour Genie
EACA Video Genie EG3003
Epson HX-20
Exidy Sorcerer
HP 9000/217
Jupiter Ace
Mattel Aquarius
Memotech MTX 512(internel)
Memotech MTX 512
Oric 1
Sage II
Sharp MZ-711
Sinclair QL
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair Spectrum+
Thanks Kevan!
friends came to my house and started talking about new email virus and their methods to prevent them. It seems that they've a great time infecting each other.
When it came to my turn I said:
"I don't use Outlook."
It was a long silence after that. To break the ice, I repeated:
"I don't use Outlook."
Sometime the solution to problems is so obvious and simple.
Media here told the public Code Red would infect all computers. They simply ignore the fact that Code Red infects only IIS 5 server.
A local lead moron - the president of Hong Kong Computer Society, a branch of British CS, told the public that in order to protect yourself from virus, we all should update the latest virus signature and do not swith on computers. I'm sure all their members would feel shame of their president's cluelessness.
Scott Adam is right, idiots, morons and clueless people are defining the reality.
I have a +1 bonus. How the hell did I pull that off?
Just check the "No Score +1 Bonus" above the "Submit" button.
Why would a book need to be long lasting to be qualified in library?
A couple big commercial bookstores in Shenzhen of China has floors of technies books. I can still find '6502 programming design', 'Player missle graphics and game design'(for ATARI), 'Complete 8086' and 'Inside DR. DOS 3.1', etc.
I wonder why libraries has to exclude those books which has great academic values.
it's about consumer choice
:)
Aye, that's exactly what I am saying. What I said about cheaper discs was kidding.
Just want everybody to know far east people would rather pay more for more choices, regardless of their living standard. Those money-minded big heads should hear, they are so obsessed with thus introducing zoning to max their profit.
How clueless they are.
Well, I doubt any one of these "DVD compatible" player could be imported to US, in view of the fact that merely 'discussing' an encryption algorithm would violate DMCA.
:)
I'm currently located in China and we use full-region DVD player for viewing more expensive US and Japanese version of Hollywood's movies, because far east version are always not available.
They delay the release of far east version so that US people wouldn't be able enjoy cheaper version even if they could get a full-region DVD player. So your plan wouldn't work.
Americans want full-region DVD players for saving cost in buying DVD, while Chineses buy them for viewing more expensive US version. Irony isn't it?
Like this?
of this medical instrument.
must have been dressing like that.
Once again I don't know this Bruce(may be you know him well), he might be very aggressive, but honestly he has some points worth discussing. You're right, he may need to change his geeky attitude a bit to have a better chance of getting response.
:) That's why I set the threshold to 3. Well, there's still a lot of people having insightful comments. That's how I found your post.
Like I said, that's why they even made the Troll and Flamebait moderations here at Slashdot, where childish behavior is practically the norm.
Get to know this Brett Glass, he's typical.
I asked SV to remove him from the panel due to his past history of annoyance but SV ignored me, and that lead to a fruitless debate thanks to Brett Glass and SV.
Zico I don't know much about this Bruce but I hardly find him offensive. Zico, if you are offended by people calling your name repeatedly, Zico, it's time to change a better name you don't hate, Zico.
Zico, what is the purpose of the panel? Shaking hands, hugging and kissing each other until reaching a consent? Zico, Zico, Zico, if he's that lame he shouldn't join any debate.
Dear Spencley,
Your CV is impressive, and you've demonstrated to us your vast knowledge in cryptography technology.
Would you like to come over here for a brief talk on cryptography? People like you are harder to find nowaday.
We'll continue to invite more and more experts like you to give talk in US. I'm sure you'll find your company here.
Yours truely,
Agent Smith
State Jail Division
CC: Adobe, DMCA, Microsoft
P.S. Would you send us more detail information of you to our invitation mailbox for an early issue of your warrant?