I don't have any blind loyalty to Harrison Ford as Indy. River Phoenix played Indy well in the TV series. A scrawl of blocky pixels played Indy well in the LucasArts games.
Indiana Jones is a character, and played well, can be played by anyone.
Though he hasn't been around lately, the range of an actor like Jim Carrey can bring new life to this old character. Wit, intelligence, and a talking buttcrack are things that typify Indy. With the possible exceptions of Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford himself (who are both way past their prime in terms of physicality), Carrey would be an awesome choice to play this legendary character.
When we start talking about how we ought to be focusing our energies (pun intended) on future sources of electricity and power, there seems to be two distinct tacks. The first is to rely on limited-pollution sources like Nuclear and Solar. The second is to build on existing combustion systems with Diesel and BioDiesel.
I'm very unsure of the second choice's long-term viability as well as its efficacy in reducing pollution levels. After all, it is still burning the fuel and releasing those emissions back into the atmosphere. Forests act as carbon sinks. They absorb excess carbon from the atmosphere and release oxygen so we can breathe. However, when a tree dies, all that absorbed carbon is rereleased into the environment. Burning an oil derived from a carbon sink (like the algae described in the article) only takes excess pollutants from one place and puts it somewhere else. In this case it puts it directly back into the atmosphere as the result of combustion.
The road ahead is long, but eventually we need to wean ourselves off of oil. As a pollutant it is second to none. As a political lever, it is a threat to the sovereignty of any nation that is dependent on its import. As a resource, it is limited and will one day run to levels insufficient to support our current usage.
BTW, the text captchas are getting harder and harder to read
They hardly ought to be called "hackers". It's like calling arsonists "pyrotechnicians". Sure, the tools may be the same, but the level of expertise is very different.
You'd have to be a pretty big Pollyanna to believe that removing all security at the airport will result in safer air travel. There has to be some balance as to what is acceptable security and what is over the limit.
This falls on the "acceptable security" side for me. This, paired with a metal detector would mean almost 100% transparency with regards to body-carried weapons. Even ceramic items like knives or a Glock would be caught by the X-ray whereas the metal detector alone would have missed them.
There is a chance that some perv would get the job as x-ray screener, but that's a chance you take in any position (ask someone you know who has worked at a fast food restaurant what kind of nasty stuff goes on there).
This can only result in faster screening, less intrusive body searches, and greater security. I can't see what anyone could complain about. (That's a lie, I can see plenty of Chicken Littles finding plenty to complain about)
These things work fine alone, but when connected together they really shine. Built-in clustering hardware interfaces makes this a nerd's wet dream.
Putting them together into a rackable case looks to be very cool and finally putting a nail in the Windows coffin will be a delicious treat for IBM (the Cell ain't x86).
I can't wait to get my hands on my PS3 and see what I can do.
In the meantime, I just wish IBM had Cell samples available for a reasonable price. I just can't afford one for hacking yet!
If there was some sort of simple system that could be set up for a very reasonable fee that would essentially work well from the outset that didn't require them to shut down the connection completely and still encouraged users to buy products with a minimum of hassle, don't you think there'd be a little bit of money to be made in supplying that type of system?
I suppose you could restrict browsers to only IE and AOL on Windows. Those who would be most likely to abuse the wifi are the tech "elite", so they'd have already self-selected themselves out of the user pool by using Linux and Firefox.
I don't think that anyone is saying that all wifi hotspot locations need to implement a standard usage policy. In the case of this particular coffee shop there is a problem with free wifi abuse with too many non-customer users coming in and taking up seat space that is intended for paying customers.
So yeah, in this particular case it may make sense to go to a pay-as-you-go wifi system or some other setup that turns these users into customers or turns them away. The same may not hold true in your particular area.
What we need is some common sense and some manners. Sadly both are in short supply.
Something that will prompt you with a menu, allows you to order, you pay with a credit card and get a wifi connection immediately or you pay the coffee girl when she brings you your order and you get the connection when she completes the transaction.
Well, maybe I should have patented this before I wrote this post.
Obviously what they ought to do is give time-limited wifi passkeys that can be "charged" when the customer buys a product. That way they don't get lingerers/squatters who are only there for the wifi without having to pay.
The higher the receipt, the longer the passkey works. It's a decent system, if not a little burdensome for freeloaders.
The question becomes, How easily or feasible would it be to put such a system into practice?
The Star Wars franchise can only be rescued by Lucas' continued meddling in the storyline.
After Return of the Jedi, I didn't think there was a hope for the Trilogy, but now, with the latest three movies delivered, I realize that my feelings back then about the original movies were truly happy and optimistic.
Because Lucas was able to show me how far down the toilet he was willing to let the franchise go, I appreciate the original trilogy all the more. Even his remasters of the original three make me wax nostalgic for my childhood.
What if someone was selling off your country's debt to its largest rival (ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily) to such an extent that they were able to blackmail your government with the threat of bankruptcy and thereby force your government to bow to their demands?
For all the hoopla about the pervasiveness of the internet in our daily lives, when it comes down to brass tacks, it's all just electronic pulses. When those pulses go dark, the wires are still around routing telephone calls. No one dies in a burning, collapsing building. No one dies in a hijacked airplane. No one dies because they stand too close to a bomb. Those bits just go dark and the internet disappears for a while.
A day without the internet is like a sky without vaportrails.
Even the data that is destroyed by such an attack is not at such a disadvantage. Though the paper-less office has been a longstanding goal, it is totally a dream. Everything has a papertrail and can be backed up.
There is no calamity awaiting us in the event of a terrorist cyberattack. The real calamity is the usurpation of rights due to terrorist attack fearmongering.
This is probably a stupid, domain-specific question.
I was recently trying to embed my JRun eServer through an SMB pipe to an NNTP share running on a remote VNC server without having to use the required intranet JVM. Would it be possible to attempt to lower my TCO using ND by utilizing the Active Directory installations in one division of the company while retaining administrator rights on the Linux network at the co-loc's Apache web server?
Money isn't a big issue, but keeping costs down is better than paying out the nose, naturally.
In the bad old days of the dotcom boom, Palm Pilots were the hottest executive PDA piece of flair out there. And all it really did was manage contacts.
Technology has really made a lot of progress since then and that old Dragonball chip looks like a Hyundai when compared to an XScale Ferrari. The processors can handle much more than the simple PalmOS requests, and in some respects this is a good thing. It means that the underlying OS is relatively light and lots of power can be used to run apps. Unfortunately, that also is a limitation of the OS.
Embedded Linux provides a full operating system with a plethora of drivers and applications. It uses the capabilities of the chipset without being too heavy. It is definitely the way to go.
And actually not just Linux, but any general-purpose embedded OS is the way to go. You'd obviously want something that had guaranteed real-time performance as well as a well-done threading model. The API would need to be very well understood too. This brings up a whole slew of embedded operating systems. It also leaves out PalmOS.
I'm not sold on Open Source entertainment. I have my tastes, you have yours. I doubt that you'd appreciate my imposing my creative vision on your work, and I know that I would resist your attempts to impose upon mine. Collaboration in creativity leads to such wonderful dreck as sitcoms and "dramedys". Just say no.
What I suppose is interesting about this is that the final product will be open and available for others to use. Free from copyright, so to speak. It seems like a nice idea, much like Creative Commons, but it doesn't seem like some really huge step forward in any respect.
The complete open-sourcing of the toolset would be cool (Blender and a few others are already open).
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I don't have any blind loyalty to Harrison Ford as Indy. River Phoenix played Indy well in the TV series. A scrawl of blocky pixels played Indy well in the LucasArts games.
Indiana Jones is a character, and played well, can be played by anyone.
Though he hasn't been around lately, the range of an actor like Jim Carrey can bring new life to this old character. Wit, intelligence, and a talking buttcrack are things that typify Indy. With the possible exceptions of Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford himself (who are both way past their prime in terms of physicality), Carrey would be an awesome choice to play this legendary character.
When we start talking about how we ought to be focusing our energies (pun intended) on future sources of electricity and power, there seems to be two distinct tacks. The first is to rely on limited-pollution sources like Nuclear and Solar. The second is to build on existing combustion systems with Diesel and BioDiesel.
I'm very unsure of the second choice's long-term viability as well as its efficacy in reducing pollution levels. After all, it is still burning the fuel and releasing those emissions back into the atmosphere. Forests act as carbon sinks. They absorb excess carbon from the atmosphere and release oxygen so we can breathe. However, when a tree dies, all that absorbed carbon is rereleased into the environment. Burning an oil derived from a carbon sink (like the algae described in the article) only takes excess pollutants from one place and puts it somewhere else. In this case it puts it directly back into the atmosphere as the result of combustion.
The road ahead is long, but eventually we need to wean ourselves off of oil. As a pollutant it is second to none. As a political lever, it is a threat to the sovereignty of any nation that is dependent on its import. As a resource, it is limited and will one day run to levels insufficient to support our current usage.
BTW, the text captchas are getting harder and harder to read
They hardly ought to be called "hackers". It's like calling arsonists "pyrotechnicians". Sure, the tools may be the same, but the level of expertise is very different.
You'd have to be a pretty big Pollyanna to believe that removing all security at the airport will result in safer air travel. There has to be some balance as to what is acceptable security and what is over the limit.
This falls on the "acceptable security" side for me. This, paired with a metal detector would mean almost 100% transparency with regards to body-carried weapons. Even ceramic items like knives or a Glock would be caught by the X-ray whereas the metal detector alone would have missed them.
There is a chance that some perv would get the job as x-ray screener, but that's a chance you take in any position (ask someone you know who has worked at a fast food restaurant what kind of nasty stuff goes on there).
This can only result in faster screening, less intrusive body searches, and greater security. I can't see what anyone could complain about. (That's a lie, I can see plenty of Chicken Littles finding plenty to complain about)
Since they have obviously already released the binary to Sony for testing on the server, that counts as a distribution.
:-)
Under Section 3b of the GPL, the source must be given to any third party that requests it.
Are you a third party?
Next time you'll say there's no Santa.
Don't let anyone tell you that.
These things work fine alone, but when connected together they really shine. Built-in clustering hardware interfaces makes this a nerd's wet dream.
Putting them together into a rackable case looks to be very cool and finally putting a nail in the Windows coffin will be a delicious treat for IBM (the Cell ain't x86).
I can't wait to get my hands on my PS3 and see what I can do.
In the meantime, I just wish IBM had Cell samples available for a reasonable price. I just can't afford one for hacking yet!
We don't see enough of the community burning crosses on the lawns of people who are unwanted in our neighborhoods.
Oh, your definition of criminal is different from mine?
We just don't see enough people hanging from trees for marrying outside their race.
Oh, your concept of right and wrong is different from mine?
Stop thinking like a geek for 1 minute.
If there was some sort of simple system that could be set up for a very reasonable fee that would essentially work well from the outset that didn't require them to shut down the connection completely and still encouraged users to buy products with a minimum of hassle, don't you think there'd be a little bit of money to be made in supplying that type of system?
You can now go back to thinking like a geek.
I suppose you could restrict browsers to only IE and AOL on Windows. Those who would be most likely to abuse the wifi are the tech "elite", so they'd have already self-selected themselves out of the user pool by using Linux and Firefox.
I don't think that anyone is saying that all wifi hotspot locations need to implement a standard usage policy. In the case of this particular coffee shop there is a problem with free wifi abuse with too many non-customer users coming in and taking up seat space that is intended for paying customers.
So yeah, in this particular case it may make sense to go to a pay-as-you-go wifi system or some other setup that turns these users into customers or turns them away. The same may not hold true in your particular area.
What we need is some common sense and some manners. Sadly both are in short supply.
Something that will prompt you with a menu, allows you to order, you pay with a credit card and get a wifi connection immediately or you pay the coffee girl when she brings you your order and you get the connection when she completes the transaction.
Well, maybe I should have patented this before I wrote this post.
Surely they can come up with a system that uses a purchaseable card with a set number of minutes of wifi usage.
I suppose there might be a problem if you were in the middle of a download and the card expired, but caveat empty.
Obviously what they ought to do is give time-limited wifi passkeys that can be "charged" when the customer buys a product. That way they don't get lingerers/squatters who are only there for the wifi without having to pay.
The higher the receipt, the longer the passkey works. It's a decent system, if not a little burdensome for freeloaders.
The question becomes, How easily or feasible would it be to put such a system into practice?
The Star Wars franchise can only be rescued by Lucas' continued meddling in the storyline.
After Return of the Jedi, I didn't think there was a hope for the Trilogy, but now, with the latest three movies delivered, I realize that my feelings back then about the original movies were truly happy and optimistic.
Because Lucas was able to show me how far down the toilet he was willing to let the franchise go, I appreciate the original trilogy all the more. Even his remasters of the original three make me wax nostalgic for my childhood.
Too hot in the summer.
A nice "Digital Banff" to summer in would be appreciated.
What if someone was selling off your country's debt to its largest rival (ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily) to such an extent that they were able to blackmail your government with the threat of bankruptcy and thereby force your government to bow to their demands?
For all the hoopla about the pervasiveness of the internet in our daily lives, when it comes down to brass tacks, it's all just electronic pulses. When those pulses go dark, the wires are still around routing telephone calls. No one dies in a burning, collapsing building. No one dies in a hijacked airplane. No one dies because they stand too close to a bomb. Those bits just go dark and the internet disappears for a while.
A day without the internet is like a sky without vaportrails.
Even the data that is destroyed by such an attack is not at such a disadvantage. Though the paper-less office has been a longstanding goal, it is totally a dream. Everything has a papertrail and can be backed up.
There is no calamity awaiting us in the event of a terrorist cyberattack. The real calamity is the usurpation of rights due to terrorist attack fearmongering.
This is probably a stupid, domain-specific question.
I was recently trying to embed my JRun eServer through an SMB pipe to an NNTP share running on a remote VNC server without having to use the required intranet JVM. Would it be possible to attempt to lower my TCO using ND by utilizing the Active Directory installations in one division of the company while retaining administrator rights on the Linux network at the co-loc's Apache web server?
Money isn't a big issue, but keeping costs down is better than paying out the nose, naturally.
How does this improve my user experience?
How can using ND make my life, as a user/administrator/purveyor of exotic animals, easier?
I think that is a useful question to ask any time a "new" feature is presented.
But "Top xxx Anything" type lists do not really represent anything other than the author's personal preference and biases.
For example, where is Top Gun or A Few Good Men?
Where is Real Genius?
How about Breakfast at Tiffanys?
Three Kings?
They list the inferior Star Wars (ANH) and don't give The Empire Strikes Back?
Weak.
In the bad old days of the dotcom boom, Palm Pilots were the hottest executive PDA piece of flair out there. And all it really did was manage contacts.
Technology has really made a lot of progress since then and that old Dragonball chip looks like a Hyundai when compared to an XScale Ferrari. The processors can handle much more than the simple PalmOS requests, and in some respects this is a good thing. It means that the underlying OS is relatively light and lots of power can be used to run apps. Unfortunately, that also is a limitation of the OS.
Embedded Linux provides a full operating system with a plethora of drivers and applications. It uses the capabilities of the chipset without being too heavy. It is definitely the way to go.
And actually not just Linux, but any general-purpose embedded OS is the way to go. You'd obviously want something that had guaranteed real-time performance as well as a well-done threading model. The API would need to be very well understood too. This brings up a whole slew of embedded operating systems. It also leaves out PalmOS.
Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?
I think so, but where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?
I'm not sold on Open Source entertainment. I have my tastes, you have yours. I doubt that you'd appreciate my imposing my creative vision on your work, and I know that I would resist your attempts to impose upon mine. Collaboration in creativity leads to such wonderful dreck as sitcoms and "dramedys". Just say no.
What I suppose is interesting about this is that the final product will be open and available for others to use. Free from copyright, so to speak. It seems like a nice idea, much like Creative Commons, but it doesn't seem like some really huge step forward in any respect.
The complete open-sourcing of the toolset would be cool (Blender and a few others are already open).