Third movie wasn't directed by Columbus. It was VERY different from the first two, as all the sets were different and didn't have Richard Harris. Frankly, I enjoyed the change, as the first two seemed to run together quite a bit.
However, I disagree with the parent poster in that I think the character moments capture the very essence of the books. The books aren't intended for (very) young audiences, and neither are the movies to an extent. Despite all this, first graders are definitely able to grasp the plot of all 3 movies.
I will agree with another user that I certainly preferred the "gritty realism" of the third. I think this reflects the change in director as well as a change in the style of Rowling's writing. You definitely see her evolution as a writer through the books. The last book was particularly dark (not necessarily a bad thing), but the books have definitely 'grown up', and the movies will have to do the same.
I'm unsure how Gilliam would have done it differently. Even though I liked the third one the best (despite the disjointedness of the ploy), Columbus's directorial style perfectly fit the first two. Perhaps it's a good idea for them to change directors each time (or every other time) around. Variety ain't bad for the HP series. If there were 3 different directors for LOTR, it would have been a disaster, but I think the variety makes it far more interesting to see 3 different takes on the books.
This is exactly why the computers in our CompSci lab don't have internet access.
It's fascinating that they managed to still allow file sharing to work and let us access our folders, but still completely remove the TCP/IP stack from Windows.
This is also the reason they won't upgrade past Win98 -- you can't remove the IP stacks from 2000/XP.
As you can imagine, my school treats its students like criminals and is quite backward in many of its policies... they're scared to death that one of us is going to hijack the network, so they simply revoke all of our privelidges
Because in WinXP, copying the whole profile gives you the user's application settings, cookies, desktop, etc....
it is nice to be able to log on anywhere and have everything be exactly the same.
On the other hand, I do think the way in which microsoft handles this is a tad inefficent. I think novell offers a better solution to this, but I honestly don't have a clue.
set up a small business that specializes in the installation and maintenence of your software, as it would seem that it requires a somewhat specialized hardware/software configuration.
target businesses that could save money by using the open source software, and sell it just like you would anything else.
chances are that most theatres have maintenence contracts with the software vendors they're currently using. They're not going to want to lose that, so you should probably offer that as well.
This has worked very well for projects such as Asterix, a linux-based telephony system.
Your best bet would be to target small independent venues. Chances are that the larger chains run a package they developed in-house.
they roll out updates to a small section of the net at a time, usually over the span of a day so that their servers don't die the instant they release a patch.
it's not a bad idea... Microsoft used a similar scheme for SP2, but did it over the course of several weeks leaving many customers high and dry for a few weeks until they got enabled to receive the update.
Egh. All the safari RSS reader does is apply a CSS stylesheet to a RSS feed and then add a little javascript for usability. I don't think there's very much coded at the application level.
that said, it is really damn nice
But is it the default config...
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Presumably with any previous release of IIS, if you turned enough features off and applied enough hacks, it was reasonably secure.
What I want to know is if this site is running a DEFAULT INSTALL. If it's ridiculously tweaked to be secure, it doesn't matter. most of the insecure IIS sites out there are the result of bad admins. apache can be made very insecure if you don't configure it properly.
that said, microsoft is certainly cleaning up its act on the server end. Win2000 was great, and Win2003 ain't too shabby considering what came before them.
that ALSO being said, Novell and OS X server still have 2003 beat from an administrative standpoint.
this is all still true. Dartmouth still calls their email system Blitz and they still use the same teminology
I have no clue if the backend has been switched over to something like IMAP or POP3, but I do know that it still appears the same to the users. Also interetsing to note was that the last (only) time I was at Dartmouth -- about a year ago, most of their computers were iMacs running OS9 which I found incredibly bizarre.....
granted, I use a mac too, but why anybody would stay on OS 9 for THAT LONG after the release of OSX is beyond me.
It's the ivy league. It's built entirely upon prestige. Each year, Ivy status means less and less, especially as the schools (rightfully) begin to drift away from their common roots.
Seriously, the only common thread between the ivies is that their admissions system is heavily biased toward legacies -- essentially a perverse reincarnation of the feudal system.
I can guarantee that small non-ivy liberal arts colleges (Williams, Amherst, Vassar), larger non-ivy 'traditional' universities like Duke, Northwestern, and technical schools like MIT and Olin all beat the ivies in terms of undergraduate education.
If you google for it, you should be able to find detailed admission statistics for princeton (and possibly the other ivies as well) showing in great depth how much a legacy will help as well as the number of 'tips' they give out per year... it's shocking.
99% of windows security bugs stem from this fact. It's sheer lunacy to fault IE for some of these security faults when it's really the underlying OS that is the problem.
If mshtml.dll sucked, programmers wouldn't intergrate it into their applications. The fact is that they do. It works well and intergrates nicely into the OS (intergration is one thing OSS folks have a hard time understanding). It's Microsoft's longing for backward compatibility which requires its users to always constantly run their commputers with full administrative rights.
Personally, I like the apple approach where the OS nicely asks you to su (using a nice dialog box) whenever you need to install a program or modify a global setting.
Erm. If you're using any modern OS, all you should need to do is to recreate your user profile to fix any trashed application weather or not it's part of the OS.
The guts of the browser should never be touched by the operating system just like the system files. User preferences are stored in the user folder.
Of course, IE just like the rest of windows is vulnerable to various permission-related bugs in which the core guts CAN get screwed up by an errant program -- of course, this is true of any part of the operating system. I for one actually LIKE the concept of the HTML rendering engine being a core part of the operating system.
This is definitely a good thing. From what people say, the NYC subway is a technological nightmare. A few months back a fire destroyed an equipment room full of controol equipment dating from the 70s, effectively disabling a portion of the line for several months because the equipment was completely proprietary and non-redundant.
That being said, the whole NYC transit system needs to be seriously rethought. Even worse than the transit system in NYC itself is the regional transit system in the suburban areas. Coverage is dismal.
although it's based upon SVN (which I know has its downsides), I've found trac to be the best package to work with in terms of version control and project managment.
perhaps our model of a versioning system is outdated just because everyone keeps thinking of CVS. maybe we really just need a graphical set of tools to manage source.
there are definite usability advantages to using a visual/sptaial interface for managing large quantities of information (such as the linux source tree).
and yes, I am a mac user. I also run linux. I also see the necessity of the command prompt and use it for scripting in addition to applescript (both of which are soon going to become unnecessary. . Of course, for everyday tasks, when asked to choose between the Aqua GUI and the commandline, one would be a fool to pick the commandline. The linux GUI paradigm is absurd -- X is basically a wrapper for the command line -- most GUIs and programs are based around the limitations of their command-line equivalents. It just pains me to see so much effort being wasted on open source development due to poor project organization.
If you can picture the entire source tree and kernel structure in your head, great, there are about 9 other people in the world like you. If not, then kernel development will slow to a crawl. Granted, any usability expert will argue that in order to be functional, the developer should not HAVE to know the inner workings to contribute, but still.
Nice, but not exactly practical or well-supported.
There's a product called DeepFreeze commonly used in academic computer labs that effectively has the same effect. Any changes written to disk are lost at the next reboot. You don't have the RAM limitations of a LiveCD, and you're immune to any virus or spyware under the sun.
As far as I know, it's a very secure piece of software. The company used to have a challange that they'd pay $500 anyone who could disable the software without the password or booting off of a floppy and reformatting the hard drive.
As you can imagine, it's a godsend for K-8 computer labs. Students can experiment and install whatever the heck they want, and if they screw something up, just shut down and reboot.
actually, apple's been really good with supporting old hardware provided you stuff it with enough ram.
my G4-450 tower is over 6 years old, and works great with the latest version of OS X Panther -- everything is just as snappy as it is on my fairly new powerbook (as far as the os is concerned...). I've been using the latest release of final cut pro on it without a problem for the past few weeks.
can you say that you can use a 6-year old PC without any siginificant upgrades and still run the latest OS and software and be productive with it? Paying $2000 for a machine that will last 6 years is definitely justifiable compared to paying $1000 for a mediocre machine that lasts 2.5 years.
I really love how linux-support always gets thrown into the mix.
Linux users don't pay for stuff. I highly dobut that apple would profit from a linux iTunes. they know this.
of course, they could release a simple command line player that authenticates against the iTMS server, but I dobut that. iTunes for linux is almost definitely a no.
funny you should say that. when I switched two years ago, I had a windows desktop, a windows laptop, and a linux desktop.
the powerbook was supposed to be an 'addition to the collection' like you said.
within 6 months, I had tossed the linux box, and in about a year the CPU fan on my desktop gave out and the chip fried -- granted, it was a very old athlon and I could have easily repaired it for under $100 -- but I didn't do that until about a month ago.
it's odd. I switched completely -- I had gotten a used G4 back in the days of OS 9 and hadn't really ever used it much. The programs I needed weren't available and OS 9 was just horrible (think Windows ME). But now, I switched from 3 machines on two platforms to one tiny laptop (with a gigantic screen attached:-) )
I wonder if other/.ers have the same story...
I know most linux switchers keep a windows box around -- any sane person would. But with Mac, I've found that the ONLY program that I need to go back to windows for is QuickBooks (the mac version is several years out of date and the data files are incompatible with the windows version)
unlikely. the current generation of 3d cards are all polygon-pushers. Direct3D/OpenGL are all about polygons. virtually all raytracing is done by the CPU.
Of course, raytracing produces beautiful results compared to the other methods of 3d graphics, but it is MUCH more expensive in terms of CPU cycles on today's CPUs and non-existant on graphics chips -- the first gfx chips were polygon-based because drawing polygons is indeed easier than raytracing even with specialized hardware. of course, specialized hardware definitely helps polygons as well. my 300mhz/whatever TNT2 can render a scene as fast as the fastest pentiums today can using software rendering.
all of the big renderfarms rely exclusively on the CPU to do their animations. this could change all that. I for one look forward to seeing the potential this has.
the firmware loaded onto macs nowindays is quite impressive in that it can do all sorts of things with firewire. booting off of a firewire device is one of the more tame 'tricks' it can do.
OpenFirmware can also make your mac pretend that it's a firewire hard drive. Connect the mac to another machine (another mac or a PC that can read HFS+ partitions), and boot up the machine while holding down the T key. Before the OS loads, the computer enters target disk mode, and every hard drive attached to that computer appears as a normal firewire device to the other computer.
I don't see why this wouldn't work with an ext3 or ReiserFS partition... it's a VERY useful trick for restoring a trashed system (which in all honsety rarely happens in Mac OS, but is rather common on Windows and Linux if you're compiling your own kernels and such)
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Third movie wasn't directed by Columbus. It was VERY different from the first two, as all the sets were different and didn't have Richard Harris. Frankly, I enjoyed the change, as the first two seemed to run together quite a bit.
However, I disagree with the parent poster in that I think the character moments capture the very essence of the books. The books aren't intended for (very) young audiences, and neither are the movies to an extent. Despite all this, first graders are definitely able to grasp the plot of all 3 movies.
I will agree with another user that I certainly preferred the "gritty realism" of the third. I think this reflects the change in director as well as a change in the style of Rowling's writing. You definitely see her evolution as a writer through the books. The last book was particularly dark (not necessarily a bad thing), but the books have definitely 'grown up', and the movies will have to do the same.
I'm unsure how Gilliam would have done it differently. Even though I liked the third one the best (despite the disjointedness of the ploy), Columbus's directorial style perfectly fit the first two. Perhaps it's a good idea for them to change directors each time (or every other time) around. Variety ain't bad for the HP series. If there were 3 different directors for LOTR, it would have been a disaster, but I think the variety makes it far more interesting to see 3 different takes on the books.
This is exactly why the computers in our CompSci lab don't have internet access.
It's fascinating that they managed to still allow file sharing to work and let us access our folders, but still completely remove the TCP/IP stack from Windows.
This is also the reason they won't upgrade past Win98 -- you can't remove the IP stacks from 2000/XP.
As you can imagine, my school treats its students like criminals and is quite backward in many of its policies... they're scared to death that one of us is going to hijack the network, so they simply revoke all of our privelidges
Because in WinXP, copying the whole profile gives you the user's application settings, cookies, desktop, etc....
it is nice to be able to log on anywhere and have everything be exactly the same.
On the other hand, I do think the way in which microsoft handles this is a tad inefficent. I think novell offers a better solution to this, but I honestly don't have a clue.
set up a small business that specializes in the installation and maintenence of your software, as it would seem that it requires a somewhat specialized hardware/software configuration.
target businesses that could save money by using the open source software, and sell it just like you would anything else.
chances are that most theatres have maintenence contracts with the software vendors they're currently using. They're not going to want to lose that, so you should probably offer that as well.
This has worked very well for projects such as Asterix, a linux-based telephony system.
Your best bet would be to target small independent venues. Chances are that the larger chains run a package they developed in-house.
Yes. this is normal procedure.
they roll out updates to a small section of the net at a time, usually over the span of a day so that their servers don't die the instant they release a patch.
it's not a bad idea... Microsoft used a similar scheme for SP2, but did it over the course of several weeks leaving many customers high and dry for a few weeks until they got enabled to receive the update.
Egh. All the safari RSS reader does is apply a CSS stylesheet to a RSS feed and then add a little javascript for usability. I don't think there's very much coded at the application level.
that said, it is really damn nice
Presumably with any previous release of IIS, if you turned enough features off and applied enough hacks, it was reasonably secure.
What I want to know is if this site is running a DEFAULT INSTALL. If it's ridiculously tweaked to be secure, it doesn't matter. most of the insecure IIS sites out there are the result of bad admins. apache can be made very insecure if you don't configure it properly.
that said, microsoft is certainly cleaning up its act on the server end. Win2000 was great, and Win2003 ain't too shabby considering what came before them.
that ALSO being said, Novell and OS X server still have 2003 beat from an administrative standpoint.
this is all still true. Dartmouth still calls their email system Blitz and they still use the same teminology
I have no clue if the backend has been switched over to something like IMAP or POP3, but I do know that it still appears the same to the users. Also interetsing to note was that the last (only) time I was at Dartmouth -- about a year ago, most of their computers were iMacs running OS9 which I found incredibly bizarre.....
granted, I use a mac too, but why anybody would stay on OS 9 for THAT LONG after the release of OSX is beyond me.
It's the ivy league. It's built entirely upon prestige. Each year, Ivy status means less and less, especially as the schools (rightfully) begin to drift away from their common roots.
Seriously, the only common thread between the ivies is that their admissions system is heavily biased toward legacies -- essentially a perverse reincarnation of the feudal system.
I can guarantee that small non-ivy liberal arts colleges (Williams, Amherst, Vassar), larger non-ivy 'traditional' universities like Duke, Northwestern, and technical schools like MIT and Olin all beat the ivies in terms of undergraduate education.
If you google for it, you should be able to find detailed admission statistics for princeton (and possibly the other ivies as well) showing in great depth how much a legacy will help as well as the number of 'tips' they give out per year... it's shocking.
Eeeeh? Since when are data transmission speeds measured in kilometers per hour?
I mean, if they managed to slow light down to 120km/h i'm damn impressed and I think a nobel prize would be in order for these people.....
The person who conducted this reasearch is quite the character...
:)
He posts anonymously, but leaves his E-mail address, not to mention the fact that he specializes in measuring the digital throughput of small animals
If DNA or Dave Barry were still writing, I'm sure they'd come up with something clever about this whole situation
You're absolutely 100% right.
99% of windows security bugs stem from this fact. It's sheer lunacy to fault IE for some of these security faults when it's really the underlying OS that is the problem.
If mshtml.dll sucked, programmers wouldn't intergrate it into their applications. The fact is that they do. It works well and intergrates nicely into the OS (intergration is one thing OSS folks have a hard time understanding). It's Microsoft's longing for backward compatibility which requires its users to always constantly run their commputers with full administrative rights.
Personally, I like the apple approach where the OS nicely asks you to su (using a nice dialog box) whenever you need to install a program or modify a global setting.
Erm. If you're using any modern OS, all you should need to do is to recreate your user profile to fix any trashed application weather or not it's part of the OS.
The guts of the browser should never be touched by the operating system just like the system files. User preferences are stored in the user folder.
Of course, IE just like the rest of windows is vulnerable to various permission-related bugs in which the core guts CAN get screwed up by an errant program -- of course, this is true of any part of the operating system. I for one actually LIKE the concept of the HTML rendering engine being a core part of the operating system.
a bunch of JHU students did the same thing a while back.
And it's a lot more palatable since it's audio-only.
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This is definitely a good thing. From what people say, the NYC subway is a technological nightmare. A few months back a fire destroyed an equipment room full of controol equipment dating from the 70s, effectively disabling a portion of the line for several months because the equipment was completely proprietary and non-redundant.
That being said, the whole NYC transit system needs to be seriously rethought. Even worse than the transit system in NYC itself is the regional transit system in the suburban areas. Coverage is dismal.
although it's based upon SVN (which I know has its downsides), I've found trac to be the best package to work with in terms of version control and project managment.
perhaps our model of a versioning system is outdated just because everyone keeps thinking of CVS. maybe we really just need a graphical set of tools to manage source.
there are definite usability advantages to using a visual/sptaial interface for managing large quantities of information (such as the linux source tree).
and yes, I am a mac user. I also run linux. I also see the necessity of the command prompt and use it for scripting in addition to applescript (both of which are soon going to become unnecessary. . Of course, for everyday tasks, when asked to choose between the Aqua GUI and the commandline, one would be a fool to pick the commandline. The linux GUI paradigm is absurd -- X is basically a wrapper for the command line -- most GUIs and programs are based around the limitations of their command-line equivalents. It just pains me to see so much effort being wasted on open source development due to poor project organization.
If you can picture the entire source tree and kernel structure in your head, great, there are about 9 other people in the world like you. If not, then kernel development will slow to a crawl. Granted, any usability expert will argue that in order to be functional, the developer should not HAVE to know the inner workings to contribute, but still.
Nice, but not exactly practical or well-supported.
There's a product called DeepFreeze commonly used in academic computer labs that effectively has the same effect. Any changes written to disk are lost at the next reboot. You don't have the RAM limitations of a LiveCD, and you're immune to any virus or spyware under the sun.
As far as I know, it's a very secure piece of software. The company used to have a challange that they'd pay $500 anyone who could disable the software without the password or booting off of a floppy and reformatting the hard drive.
As you can imagine, it's a godsend for K-8 computer labs. Students can experiment and install whatever the heck they want, and if they screw something up, just shut down and reboot.
actually, apple's been really good with supporting old hardware provided you stuff it with enough ram.
my G4-450 tower is over 6 years old, and works great with the latest version of OS X Panther -- everything is just as snappy as it is on my fairly new powerbook (as far as the os is concerned...). I've been using the latest release of final cut pro on it without a problem for the past few weeks.
can you say that you can use a 6-year old PC without any siginificant upgrades and still run the latest OS and software and be productive with it? Paying $2000 for a machine that will last 6 years is definitely justifiable compared to paying $1000 for a mediocre machine that lasts 2.5 years.
it's like the linguistic equivilant to an irrational number. brilliant!
I really love how linux-support always gets thrown into the mix.
Linux users don't pay for stuff. I highly dobut that apple would profit from a linux iTunes. they know this.
of course, they could release a simple command line player that authenticates against the iTMS server, but I dobut that. iTunes for linux is almost definitely a no.
funny you should say that. when I switched two years ago, I had a windows desktop, a windows laptop, and a linux desktop.
:-) )
/.ers have the same story...
the powerbook was supposed to be an 'addition to the collection' like you said.
within 6 months, I had tossed the linux box, and in about a year the CPU fan on my desktop gave out and the chip fried -- granted, it was a very old athlon and I could have easily repaired it for under $100 -- but I didn't do that until about a month ago.
it's odd. I switched completely -- I had gotten a used G4 back in the days of OS 9 and hadn't really ever used it much. The programs I needed weren't available and OS 9 was just horrible (think Windows ME). But now, I switched from 3 machines on two platforms to one tiny laptop (with a gigantic screen attached
I wonder if other
I know most linux switchers keep a windows box around -- any sane person would. But with Mac, I've found that the ONLY program that I need to go back to windows for is QuickBooks (the mac version is several years out of date and the data files are incompatible with the windows version)
unlikely. the current generation of 3d cards are all polygon-pushers. Direct3D/OpenGL are all about polygons. virtually all raytracing is done by the CPU.
Of course, raytracing produces beautiful results compared to the other methods of 3d graphics, but it is MUCH more expensive in terms of CPU cycles on today's CPUs and non-existant on graphics chips -- the first gfx chips were polygon-based because drawing polygons is indeed easier than raytracing even with specialized hardware. of course, specialized hardware definitely helps polygons as well. my 300mhz/whatever TNT2 can render a scene as fast as the fastest pentiums today can using software rendering.
all of the big renderfarms rely exclusively on the CPU to do their animations. this could change all that. I for one look forward to seeing the potential this has.
wow, that has to be one of the most throughly seeded torrents i've seen.
1536 seeds, 1490 peers
the firmware loaded onto macs nowindays is quite impressive in that it can do all sorts of things with firewire. booting off of a firewire device is one of the more tame 'tricks' it can do.
OpenFirmware can also make your mac pretend that it's a firewire hard drive. Connect the mac to another machine (another mac or a PC that can read HFS+ partitions), and boot up the machine while holding down the T key. Before the OS loads, the computer enters target disk mode, and every hard drive attached to that computer appears as a normal firewire device to the other computer.
I don't see why this wouldn't work with an ext3 or ReiserFS partition... it's a VERY useful trick for restoring a trashed system (which in all honsety rarely happens in Mac OS, but is rather common on Windows and Linux if you're compiling your own kernels and such)