While I completely understand disappointment if a movie doesn't live up
to the story it's based on, nevertheless, that doesn't equate to the
equivalent of "this movie sucks". What I see here, I think, is the very
elitism decried: if this movie doesn't live up to my highest ideals,
then it completely sucks. It's not without its flaws, but in more ways
than just special effects, it was better than the 1960 George Pal version
and a quite enjoyable movie.
Yeah, moving it to New York was silly, as was taking out scenes of New
York's destruction, but really, what does it matter to the story? It
was relatively easy to overlook the flaws (unlike Jurassic Park III,
which while enjoyable, you had to forcibly ignore some major "no way!"s).
And it did hit one hot button: outrunning the explosion and creatures clearly
way faster than they were. And that chase through the tunnels almost
made me seasick.
Yet, I liked particularly that he tried to go back and change the past
and failed, so when he got to a future he could affect, he did. That's
a good motivation. The movie flowed well, and I could empathize with
all of the main characters.
It may not have been Blade Runner, but it was a fun ride and I was
pleasantly surprised.
7.42 billion miles, a little over 22 light hours away. Lesseee, divide by 22, times 2, divide by 27380 mph, divide by 24 hours/day: so in 1026 days, or about 3 years, it will cross the 1 light day boundary...
In a battle between PVRs and HDTV, PVRs will win. Much as I want the quality of HDTV, if I can't watch it when I want to, or even when I can, then it doesn't exist. And my family is much less techo/videophile than I am --- quality really doesn't matter that much to them.
The biggest problem with a lack of privacy is when you want to do something the majority doesn't like: The freedom to do only that which others approve of is no freedom at all. Yet see what happens when everyone knows you're gay in Podunk, North Carolina or say 50 years ago just about anywhere. Until we stop harassing or prosecuting victimless "crimes", or just people who are different, we need privacy.
If I wanted my book to have video and sound, I'd play a dvd instead. I will start reading ebooks when there's a standard available. Aside from general opposition to proprietary formats, I'm not going to buy 100 different reading programs to read 100 different books. Or even 10.
I buy most of my DVDs so that I can watch what I want when I want. If I'm unsure if I'll like a movie, I'll rent it first. Netflix *used to be* great for that, but I barely watch $20/month out of my own collection, much less rent them. I cancelled my Netflix account when they switched to this mode a couple years ago. I'd love to find one that will rent on a per-title basis.
I would like to see introductory books that don't just repeat the menus that are easy enough to figure out in the first place. Show me how to get useful work done. Same for languages. Either print a reference book or one that shows the particular strengths and weaknesses of the language by showing how to do difficult tasks (both things that the language makes easier, and how to work around deficiencies in the language).
What would *really* be useful is replacement "help" and "troubleshooting" for those of us stuck on Windoze. If I get another "help" message that tells me "to do a framboozle operation click the framboozle button" without telling me what a "framboozle" is or why or when I would want to do it, I'm gonna throw the computer out the window.
Only a lawyer can tell you how screwed you are at the moment, but a Beta tester taking that attitude is screwing themselves the worst. There are far more people who are willing to beta test for advance access to product than can be used, so this one's basically blacklisted. And if their name became public, they'd never get another beta. It's assholes like this that are reason for all these stupid legalese hoops you have to jump through to download stuff at a lot of places.
Is anyone else worrried about people driving at 60mph snapping away?
I've had a number of people take pictures of me while driving my sparrow down the road, it's very much an attention getter. I've had it over 70, though with the short wheelbase, the steering gets a bit twitchy at that speed. I saw one, albeit slightly modified, do the 1/4 mile at 86mph in just over 15 seconds at the EV Drag Races in Woodburn, Oregon. Mine wouldn't do burnouts like that one would, but it's nearly as fast, definitely fun to drive.
The biggest problem is the belt drive --- a $100 belt that likes to break every few thousand miles, which leaves you stranded (it's not field replaceable), and it's something of a "tinkering machine". But when it works, it's a blast.
When I started college fall of 1976, there was a group of four of us hanging out in the computer center. I was a Physic major, the others were Business, Psychology and I think it was Accounting. All of us got programming jobs when we graduated, though two of us had switched to Computer Science by then.
That is the reason I don't put userdir in the user's home directory. I created/home/web/ for web directories. I have to create it for them, but it's a minor issue and avoids users, especially those unfamiliar with unix permissions, from having to worry about it.
I've been using paypal for sometime, and find it a very nice service. I use it for the usual auction trading, as well as accepting payments for my small ISP business and occasionally exchanging money with friends for various reimbursements. I've always been happy with them, except for the fact they keep raising the rates. Much more and the convenience won't be worth it. As for security, everything I've read says that one of the reasons they're successful is that they are very proactive about fraud, and the corollary I should think would be that they're very security conscious. I've not run into any insecure web misfeatures there as I have even on ebay itself (like defaulting to insecure logins). Still, it's not a bank, and I don't leave more than a few hundred in it ever. I would be really ticked off if someone damaged them by suing them because they weren't a bank, as only the banks have anything to gain by that. And if they would adopt a secure smart/cash-card based payment system, they'd put paypal out of business. That'll never happen because then the government couldn't snoop on all our financial transactions though.
Slashdot doesn't put the logo over the top of your posting. I really don't understand broadcasters. They're doing everything they can to make watching tv annoying, and then they wonder why ratings are going down. When will they learn that if they make commercials entertaining, we'll watch them,
and if they're annoying, we'll ignore them. Actually, some are learning that lesson --- that's why product placement is hot. If only we could get the idiots to stop ruining what's left of the wasteland.
That's the one thing keeping me from switching to Opera on my Windoze boxes: I can't stand not being able to get multiple windows up on my desktop. I feel like General Zod and company in that window pane prison in Superman.
Fans of animation already know this, but Ray Harryhausen was one of the greats of animation. He brought stop motion animation to an entirely new level with movies like Jason and the Argonauts and 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
Apparently only a couple of us in the theater last night got the reference that appears briefly in the movie, so I thought I'd mention it for those who haven't heard of him.
Are the algorithms used to generate the "art" one-way or reversible? I.e. is this art project a security hole of its own by allowing the original datastream to be resurrected?
I agree. I don't understand why people don't like it, as it perfectly describes what the show is about, especially with the historical background images shown with it.
I despise this as much as the rest of you, but can you really blame them? If you spent $300 million making, say, LOTR, would you want it on Napster? If you really want to put an end to misguided efforts like this, come up with a technical solution that preserves a user's valid rights while also protecting the content owner's rights not to be ripped off.
Excite and Yahoo both have reasonable ads in their articles --- very similar to what we normally see in print magazines. Not too intrusive, but easily accessible. Popups, popunders and now these forced ads just annoy and thereby drive away the very readers they're trying to appeal to. Having a subscription option that eliminates the ads is a good idea if the ads aren't harassing because you need free access to attract new readers. I'm not going to pay money for something I'm unfamiliar with, especially when there's lots of free alternatives. But if, say, slashdot articles frequently link to salon and I find that whenever I go there to read the related article, there are other interesting things their also, such that I want to make it a regular habit, then I'll happily subscribe to support them. For that matter, that's true of slashdot itself. I subscribe to Consumer Reports online even though I rarely go there because when I do, they're very likely to have good, useful information, and I want them to be there when I need them. But if everytime I go there, they throw an annoying ad in my face and I have to work to get to the content, or it's delayed, then I'll run for the exits.
It's an interesting idea, but DVD-RAM?!? That means it won't play on any real dvd players. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they slipped in that little line about "compatible with PC audio/video applications" so that you would see that keyword "compatible" and if you're just skimming it, that's what might stick. That seems like a pretty slimy marketing trick to me. In any case, as far as I'm concerned, if it's not compatible with a regular DVD player, what's the point?
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Yeah, moving it to New York was silly, as was taking out scenes of New York's destruction, but really, what does it matter to the story? It was relatively easy to overlook the flaws (unlike Jurassic Park III, which while enjoyable, you had to forcibly ignore some major "no way!"s). And it did hit one hot button: outrunning the explosion and creatures clearly way faster than they were. And that chase through the tunnels almost made me seasick.
Yet, I liked particularly that he tried to go back and change the past and failed, so when he got to a future he could affect, he did. That's a good motivation. The movie flowed well, and I could empathize with all of the main characters.
It may not have been Blade Runner, but it was a fun ride and I was pleasantly surprised.
7.42 billion miles, a little over 22 light hours away. Lesseee, divide by 22, times 2, divide by 27380 mph, divide by 24 hours/day: so in 1026 days, or about 3 years, it will cross the 1 light day boundary...
In a battle between PVRs and HDTV, PVRs will win. Much as I want the quality of HDTV, if I can't watch it when I want to, or even when I can, then it doesn't exist. And my family is much less techo/videophile than I am --- quality really doesn't matter that much to them.
The biggest problem with a lack of privacy is when you want to do something the majority doesn't like: The freedom to do only that which others approve of is no freedom at all. Yet see what happens when everyone knows you're gay in Podunk, North Carolina or say 50 years ago just about anywhere. Until we stop harassing or prosecuting victimless "crimes", or just people who are different, we need privacy.
If I wanted my book to have video and sound, I'd play a dvd instead. I will start reading ebooks when there's a standard available. Aside from general opposition to proprietary formats, I'm not going to buy 100 different reading programs to read 100 different books. Or even 10.
I buy most of my DVDs so that I can watch what I want when I want. If I'm unsure if I'll like a movie, I'll rent it first. Netflix *used to be* great for that, but I barely watch $20/month out of my own collection, much less rent them. I cancelled my Netflix account when they switched to this mode a couple years ago. I'd love to find one that will rent on a per-title basis.
I would like to see introductory books that don't just repeat the menus that are easy enough to figure out in the first place. Show me how to get useful work done. Same for languages. Either print a reference book or one that shows the particular strengths and weaknesses of the language by showing how to do difficult tasks (both things that the language makes easier, and how to work around deficiencies in the language).
What would *really* be useful is replacement "help" and "troubleshooting" for those of us stuck on Windoze. If I get another "help" message that tells me "to do a framboozle operation click the framboozle button" without telling me what a "framboozle" is or why or when I would want to do it, I'm gonna throw the computer out the window.
Only a lawyer can tell you how screwed you are at the moment, but a Beta tester taking that attitude is screwing themselves the worst. There are far more people who are willing to beta test for advance access to product than can be used, so this one's basically blacklisted. And if their name became public, they'd never get another beta. It's assholes like this that are reason for all these stupid legalese hoops you have to jump through to download stuff at a lot of places.
I've had a number of people take pictures of me while driving my sparrow down the road, it's very much an attention getter. I've had it over 70, though with the short wheelbase, the steering gets a bit twitchy at that speed. I saw one, albeit slightly modified, do the 1/4 mile at 86mph in just over 15 seconds at the EV Drag Races in Woodburn, Oregon. Mine wouldn't do burnouts like that one would, but it's nearly as fast, definitely fun to drive.
The biggest problem is the belt drive --- a $100 belt that likes to break every few thousand miles, which leaves you stranded (it's not field replaceable), and it's something of a "tinkering machine". But when it works, it's a blast.
When I started college fall of 1976, there was a group of four of us hanging out in the computer center. I was a Physic major, the others were Business, Psychology and I think it was Accounting. All of us got programming jobs when we graduated, though two of us had switched to Computer Science by then.
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That is the reason I don't put userdir in the user's home directory. I created /home/web/ for web directories. I have to create it for them, but it's a minor issue and avoids users, especially those unfamiliar with unix permissions, from having to worry about it.
They already have lead lined bags for shielding film, just use those for your sensitive electronics.
"due to licensing restrictions, remote DVD playback is not available in homes using wireless networking"
So, you don't use their wireless hardware and put in a separate Access Point. Will these idiots never learn?
I've been using paypal for sometime, and find it a very nice service. I use it for the usual auction trading, as well as accepting payments for my small ISP business and occasionally exchanging money with friends for various reimbursements. I've always been happy with them, except for the fact they keep raising the rates. Much more and the convenience won't be worth it. As for security, everything I've read says that one of the reasons they're successful is that they are very proactive about fraud, and the corollary I should think would be that they're very security conscious. I've not run into any insecure web misfeatures there as I have even on ebay itself (like defaulting to insecure logins). Still, it's not a bank, and I don't leave more than a few hundred in it ever. I would be really ticked off if someone damaged them by suing them because they weren't a bank, as only the banks have anything to gain by that. And if they would adopt a secure smart/cash-card based payment system, they'd put paypal out of business. That'll never happen because then the government couldn't snoop on all our financial transactions though.
I've had high speed access at home for 7 years now, and there's no way I'd go back to a modem!
Slashdot doesn't put the logo over the top of your posting. I really don't understand broadcasters. They're doing everything they can to make watching tv annoying, and then they wonder why ratings are going down. When will they learn that if they make commercials entertaining, we'll watch them,
and if they're annoying, we'll ignore them. Actually, some are learning that lesson --- that's why product placement is hot. If only we could get the idiots to stop ruining what's left of the wasteland.
That's the one thing keeping me from switching to Opera on my Windoze boxes: I can't stand not being able to get multiple windows up on my desktop. I feel like General Zod and company in that window pane prison in Superman.
Fans of animation already know this, but Ray Harryhausen was one of the greats of animation. He brought stop motion animation to an entirely new level with movies like Jason and the Argonauts and 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
Apparently only a couple of us in the theater last night got the reference that appears briefly in the movie, so I thought I'd mention it for those who haven't heard of him.
Are the algorithms used to generate the "art" one-way or reversible? I.e. is this art project a security hole of its own by allowing the original datastream to be resurrected?
I agree. I don't understand why people don't like it, as it perfectly describes what the show is about, especially with the historical background images shown with it.
I despise this as much as the rest of you, but can you really blame them? If you spent $300 million making, say, LOTR, would you want it on Napster? If you really want to put an end to misguided efforts like this, come up with a technical solution that preserves a user's valid rights while also protecting the content owner's rights not to be ripped off.
...maybe we'll start reading again.
Naaahhhh. America's been turned into a nation of sheep.
Excite and Yahoo both have reasonable ads in their articles --- very similar to what we normally see in print magazines. Not too intrusive, but easily accessible. Popups, popunders and now these forced ads just annoy and thereby drive away the very readers they're trying to appeal to. Having a subscription option that eliminates the ads is a good idea if the ads aren't harassing because you need free access to attract new readers. I'm not going to pay money for something I'm unfamiliar with, especially when there's lots of free alternatives. But if, say, slashdot articles frequently link to salon and I find that whenever I go there to read the related article, there are other interesting things their also, such that I want to make it a regular habit, then I'll happily subscribe to support them. For that matter, that's true of slashdot itself. I subscribe to Consumer Reports online even though I rarely go there because when I do, they're very likely to have good, useful information, and I want them to be there when I need them. But if everytime I go there, they throw an annoying ad in my face and I have to work to get to the content, or it's delayed, then I'll run for the exits.
It's an interesting idea, but DVD-RAM?!? That means it won't play on any real dvd players. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they slipped in that little line about "compatible with PC audio/video applications" so that you would see that keyword "compatible" and if you're just skimming it, that's what might stick. That seems like a pretty slimy marketing trick to me. In any case, as far as I'm concerned, if it's not compatible with a regular DVD player, what's the point?