Well, think of it this way. They were indeed short on decent dialogue (I'm sorry, Lawrence Fishburn doesn't do a good Captain Kirk impression). They also revisted the questions of the last movie, and in a way instead of directly answering them, only gave rise to more questions. Some about the movie itself, the rest focusing on the political and spiritual questions visited upon in the first one.
Okay, yeah, so the philosophical stuff that goes on in the Matrix is fun and all, but what's in there that isn't a retread of Christianity, Buddhism, and solipsism? This isn't new stuff. If it's your first exposure to some of it, it could be interesting, but impacting comtemporary philosophy? Please.
The story might not be new, but contemporary philosphy as it is hasn't had nearly the impact that Plato and his contemporaries had in their own time. The impact is in that more people will see this and possibly see the cute allegories that exist then people who see it and not get it.
For just the impact this might have, on more than an awesome blockbuster:
I've heard that a 26 screen theatre in California had all screens showing Reloaded and were TOTALLY SOLD OUT. That's pretty impressive. If even half those people are inclined to question the imagery, allusions and allegory contained within, and only half of those search for answers to understand what they saw, that's a pretty big impact. Perhaps though I'm giving the American public too much credit.
Actually, NLUG was pretty hostile towards me from the beginning so I don't want to hear about how I acted on NLUG's list. What happened on the LUNA list, well, that's unforgivable. On GOLLUM, I didn't do shit until some dick wipe said something.
Now, there is NOTHING in your statement that addresses my LOCAL area. NLUG isn't local, LUNA isn't local, and GOLLUM sure as hell aint local.
I never said nothing was going on there (on the lists). Just nothing going on in MY AREA.
because rallying the technocracy isn't as politically correct as rallying the working class (although the geeks are working class folks too).
Living in TN myself, I know of only a handful of geeks in my area, and none are really interested in protesting something (even though they should protest the Super DMCA).
Personally, I'd go to protest but have no way of getting anywhere.
Linux, radio, and my PDA. That rocks (or it would if I had a PDA). Anyone know about cheap PCI radio tuner cards? I'm itching to listen to the radio on my comp.:)
Will they work with a standard PC sound card? I could use a good (sic) headset to replace my mic and speakers when I want to chat with friends via Gnomemeeting.
As contrived as your argument was, it is a perfectly legit argument.
As for the last of it, I believe there is precedent (probably not much, but I think it's there) for a law enforcement officer (or group of officers) to refuse to uphold a law s/he believes to be unjust. Granted, I'm not saying your ass won't still get busted, just it'll get busted later then sooner, and hopefully someone is taking a real long and hard look at why an officer of the law (who has sworn his life to upholding laws) in such a high position (I'm thinking a G-Man here, not your local yokel's, county mounties, or pooper troopers) would risk his career over dis-obeying an order.
Something to think about.
Unless I'm wrong. Than it's just digital flatulance and I apologize.
The current government, under the guise of trying to protect us from another 9/11 (pretty sad they are using such a tragic event in such a dastardly manner), won't be happy until they have totally raped the constitution and taken away any and all vestiges of privacy and freedom that we once had.
Of course no one listens to the mad loons until it's too late.
Here here. I don't know what SBC thinks it's doing, but hopefully someone won't let them get away with it. IF they are so hoping to gain precedence by smaller companies just settling out of court, they must know their patent aint' worth squat.
w/o reading the article, my ideal distro would not suffer from dependency hell with binary packages. I would have a full time team (or at least that is all they do) that makes sure all the binaries install to where the source would (and say in the case of GAIM, you did a source install, but all the modules are binary, then the binary should look in the place where the binary would have installed GAIM (which should be the same as where the source installs GAIM)).
That's my only real complaint.
Oh, and I'd work out the kinks in all the sound drivers. I'm tired of sound events in GAIM completely locking up my machine (I'm talking COMPLETE lock out where the only buttons that respond are the power button and the reset button).
I'd have a KDE like desktop using GTK (no, GNOME is no way near as good as KDE IMO).
The only binaries during the install would be for stuff like GLIBC so everything else can be compiled from source right off the bat.
I wouldn't over-brand any of the components (like fscking RedHat does), and I wouldn't just have a text based installer for the first release (a text and good gui installer (possibly grabbed from RH7.2 (interface wise)).
Actually, I used to have a job. Not a damn fucking thing was better.
Why bother? 1) Install Apache from RPM 2) Install modules from RPM (php module (even with PHP4 installed) still doesn't fucking work) 3) ?? 4) Profit (or at the very least have fun)!
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Oh nice. Thanks for the well thought out comment. How about you keep your thoughts to yourself on this one.
Well, think of it this way. They were indeed short on decent dialogue (I'm sorry, Lawrence Fishburn doesn't do a good Captain Kirk impression). They also revisted the questions of the last movie, and in a way instead of directly answering them, only gave rise to more questions. Some about the movie itself, the rest focusing on the political and spiritual questions visited upon in the first one.
Okay, yeah, so the philosophical stuff that goes on in the Matrix is fun and all, but what's in there that isn't a retread of Christianity, Buddhism, and solipsism? This isn't new stuff. If it's your first exposure to some of it, it could be interesting, but impacting comtemporary philosophy? Please.
The story might not be new, but contemporary philosphy as it is hasn't had nearly the impact that Plato and his contemporaries had in their own time. The impact is in that more people will see this and possibly see the cute allegories that exist then people who see it and not get it.
For just the impact this might have, on more than an awesome blockbuster:
I've heard that a 26 screen theatre in California had all screens showing Reloaded and were TOTALLY SOLD OUT. That's pretty impressive. If even half those people are inclined to question the imagery, allusions and allegory contained within, and only half of those search for answers to understand what they saw, that's a pretty big impact. Perhaps though I'm giving the American public too much credit.
I completely agree. Same should go for rapists of all sorts as well as murderers and the like.
It wouldn't surprise me if SCO had been lifting code from Linux. It'd be just like when AT&T was lifting code from BSD.
What I don't understand is how they can claim they own SMP when
1) Unix didn't have SMP until a year after Linux
2) SCO's unix products still don't have SMP
Source? Go here
Actually, NLUG was pretty hostile towards me from the beginning so I don't want to hear about how I acted on NLUG's list. What happened on the LUNA list, well, that's unforgivable. On GOLLUM, I didn't do shit until some dick wipe said something.
Now, there is NOTHING in your statement that addresses my LOCAL area. NLUG isn't local, LUNA isn't local, and GOLLUM sure as hell aint local.
I never said nothing was going on there (on the lists). Just nothing going on in MY AREA.
because rallying the technocracy isn't as politically correct as rallying the working class (although the geeks are working class folks too).
Living in TN myself, I know of only a handful of geeks in my area, and none are really interested in protesting something (even though they should protest the Super DMCA).
Personally, I'd go to protest but have no way of getting anywhere.
And truth is not one of the things he's filled with. ;)
;)
I'm thinking along the lines of hot air, bullshit, or something similar.
sweet!
I forgot to mention it has to be Linux compatible. :-p
Linux, radio, and my PDA. That rocks (or it would if I had a PDA). Anyone know about cheap PCI radio tuner cards? I'm itching to listen to the radio on my comp. :)
Ah, okay, thanks. :)
Will they work with a standard PC sound card? I could use a good (sic) headset to replace my mic and speakers when I want to chat with friends via Gnomemeeting.
I'm just waiting until The GIMP supports MNG creation/editing. :)
Boo-yah.
As contrived as your argument was, it is a perfectly legit argument.
As for the last of it, I believe there is precedent (probably not much, but I think it's there) for a law enforcement officer (or group of officers) to refuse to uphold a law s/he believes to be unjust. Granted, I'm not saying your ass won't still get busted, just it'll get busted later then sooner, and hopefully someone is taking a real long and hard look at why an officer of the law (who has sworn his life to upholding laws) in such a high position (I'm thinking a G-Man here, not your local yokel's, county mounties, or pooper troopers) would risk his career over dis-obeying an order.
Something to think about.
Unless I'm wrong. Than it's just digital flatulance and I apologize.
The current government, under the guise of trying to protect us from another 9/11 (pretty sad they are using such a tragic event in such a dastardly manner), won't be happy until they have totally raped the constitution and taken away any and all vestiges of privacy and freedom that we once had.
Of course no one listens to the mad loons until it's too late.
Oh well.
Or he could use Gnomemeeting if the comp is running Linux.
lol :)
Here here. I don't know what SBC thinks it's doing, but hopefully someone won't let them get away with it. IF they are so hoping to gain precedence by smaller companies just settling out of court, they must know their patent aint' worth squat.
...and my website
A friend of mine uses Gentoo. I'm kinda comfortable with installing from source.
As for editing text files, pico and nano are my best friends. I do all my html by hand, I've edited (but not created) batch files and other scripts.
w/o reading the article, my ideal distro would not suffer from dependency hell with binary packages. I would have a full time team (or at least that is all they do) that makes sure all the binaries install to where the source would (and say in the case of GAIM, you did a source install, but all the modules are binary, then the binary should look in the place where the binary would have installed GAIM (which should be the same as where the source installs GAIM)).
That's my only real complaint.
Oh, and I'd work out the kinks in all the sound drivers. I'm tired of sound events in GAIM completely locking up my machine (I'm talking COMPLETE lock out where the only buttons that respond are the power button and the reset button).
I'd have a KDE like desktop using GTK (no, GNOME is no way near as good as KDE IMO).
The only binaries during the install would be for stuff like GLIBC so everything else can be compiled from source right off the bat.
I wouldn't over-brand any of the components (like fscking RedHat does), and I wouldn't just have a text based installer for the first release (a text and good gui installer (possibly grabbed from RH7.2 (interface wise)).
Now that's MY ideal Linux distro.
well, consider I'm never using Debian again, it's moot.
Let me amend the above.
This does NOT in any way solve any problems.
That's total fucking bullshit.
I used Debian Woody 3.0r0. Same fucking problems (some worse).
Actually, I used to have a job. Not a damn fucking thing was better.
Why bother?
1) Install Apache from RPM
2) Install modules from RPM (php module (even with PHP4 installed) still doesn't fucking work)
3) ??
4) Profit (or at the very least have fun)!