The zealot support LOTR receives in some fronts makes me applaud the decission to give it only minor Oscars.
The acting got lost in the efects, and as a Fantasy or action movie is in the same league with many others. So what is so grandiose about this particular movie?
Is nicely done, a good movie, but to compare it to truly masterpieces is a bit gross honestly.
I am both Sys Admin and a profesional piano player.
Sys Admin is not an art pure and simple.
Want to be an artist? Paint, write, put performances, dance, play a musical instrument, write a movie, program a game perhaps.
To keep a datacentre running smoothly is not an art, is a profession that requires a methodic organized approach. There is no art in writing a perl script, jump starting a machine or configuring a DNS server.
China has no interest whatsoever to destroy the USA. Its economy is mora and more dependant on trade with teh US so to even think in destruction would be suicide. China may want Taiwan but not at the price of an all out war with the US.
All the above applies in braod terms to Russia.
Neither North Korea, Iran, Syria or Libya have the means to even dream to inflict such damage to destroy the US. The problem with this countries is that they happily sell weapon technology to the higest bidder, which should concern everybody but is no reason to issue such threats.
Finally Iraq. I think the Gulf War should be enough evidence that Iraq completely lacks the strenght to even defend Kuwait. How would they destroy the US?
I think that the one that need to think rationaly is other. Dismount your paranoia horse and think.
The current US goverment have a very particular view of the world, they truly believ the US should be the hegemonic power in the world and nothing will deterr these people to accomplish that. The attacks on Sept 11 were the perfect excuse and it is thanks to paranoid people everywhere that these individuals can get away with such outrageous policies.
In the real world were I live real people die when a bomb is droped. In the real world of these individuals that is called collateral damage. IN which world do you live?
Humans can't be classified in different species simply because humans are just one species.
The differences we appreciate are small adaptations to local conditions of the same animal.
Had somehow different groups of humans been isolated from each other for long enough periods of time it may have happened that different species of humanoid creatures would have emerged (as perhaps it happened during the early evolution of the human species).
The reality is that it did not happened and that all human beens belong to one species only.
So in place of using configuration files that I can analyze, modify and distribute in an automatic fashion you suggest that it is better to find out a little checkbox somehwere in the middle of who knows how many tabs, sub-menus and other check-boxes, all this sometimes hidden behind one or two buttons and that make the change undistributable (unless you understand the registry, and sometimes not even then).
Killing biodiveristy is aginst our own interest: the fewer species there are the easier it is for an oportunistic disease to wipe out big amounts of individuals.
Once the wildlife is gone the parasites, virii and bateria in the wild will have to concentrate only in humans and its domesticated animals to make a living.
"E=mc2 a biography of the world's most famous equation" by David Bodanis implies with all certainity that he published papers explaining the feasibility to make an A-bomb.
Unless you think Nazi Germany was going to big pains to increase production of heavy water in Norway, mining uranium as fast as they could from Czechslovakia(sp?), and putting Herr Professor Heisenberg in charge of a secret facility researching how to release energy from uranium all for the good of science (in spite of being understood by then that an A-bomb was possible) then you are very naive or malicious.
Add to that the terrifying tidibits of wisdom that Herr Heisenberg was sprouting about Germany ruling the world (as pointed out in this thread) and the only conclussion is villain.
He may have not known about attrocities, but anybody that is ready to use an a-bomb to conquer the world is villain in my book.
Some time ago, when Java was the fresh darling of the IT world, I was offered a job in a company doing just that: a virtual machine to run legacy COBOL programs in any modern platform.
They seemed quite stressed, thus I gave them the miss...
Evolution is not a religion, evolution (as the process that originates new species by means of natural selection is popularly known) is a theory that can be studied, tested, analyzed, scrutinized and even opossed and that eventually, based in all the evidence we currently have, we can reasonably expect that is going to be to be probed to be a law of nature (once human history spans 5000000 years and if there are any living beens that had developed naturaly, surely we will be able to document those changes. Damn, I whish I would be alive to see the last idiotic creationist accept he is wrong).
For goodness sake, don't never ever again use the words "evolution" and "I believe" in the same sentence.
Assuming the original poster is not lying (he gave no probe of his allegations) then an OS that crashes because software is running is unacceptable. These are not the 70s were you need to reboot your machine once a week to ensure good operation.
Same with network card.
There are resilient probed stable solutions (the initial poster was right, a UNIX solution would not require those shennanigans of people going stupid rebooting servers).
Even if there was any useful technology in C# (there is not, all has been done in other places before) to give in to a company with complete disregard for fair business practices is the last thing anybody making business doing software development should lock himslef into.
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The zealot support LOTR receives in some fronts makes me applaud the decission to give it only minor Oscars.
The acting got lost in the efects, and as a Fantasy or action movie is in the same league with many others. So what is so grandiose about this particular movie?
Is nicely done, a good movie, but to compare it to truly masterpieces is a bit gross honestly.
I am both Sys Admin and a profesional piano player.
Sys Admin is not an art pure and simple.
Want to be an artist? Paint, write, put performances, dance, play a musical instrument, write a movie, program a game perhaps.
To keep a datacentre running smoothly is not an art, is a profession that requires a methodic organized approach. There is no art in writing a perl script, jump starting a machine or configuring a DNS server.
China has no interest whatsoever to destroy the USA. Its economy is mora and more dependant on trade with teh US so to even think in destruction would be suicide. China may want Taiwan but not at the price of an all out war with the US.
All the above applies in braod terms to Russia.
Neither North Korea, Iran, Syria or Libya have the means to even dream to inflict such damage to destroy the US. The problem with this countries is that they happily sell weapon technology to the higest bidder, which should concern everybody but is no reason to issue such threats.
Finally Iraq. I think the Gulf War should be enough evidence that Iraq completely lacks the strenght to even defend Kuwait. How would they destroy the US?
I think that the one that need to think rationaly is other. Dismount your paranoia horse and think.
The current US goverment have a very particular view of the world, they truly believ the US should be the hegemonic power in the world and nothing will deterr these people to accomplish that. The attacks on Sept 11 were the perfect excuse and it is thanks to paranoid people everywhere that these individuals can get away with such outrageous policies.
In the real world were I live real people die when a bomb is droped. In the real world of these individuals that is called collateral damage. IN which world do you live?
Humans can't be classified in different species simply because humans are just one species.
The differences we appreciate are small adaptations to local conditions of the same animal.
Had somehow different groups of humans been isolated from each other for long enough periods of time it may have happened that different species of humanoid creatures would have emerged (as perhaps it happened during the early evolution of the human species).
The reality is that it did not happened and that all human beens belong to one species only.
It is a sorry spectacle.
Go and read some biology for goodness sake. When you look at Asian, White or Black people you are looking at varioations of the same fucking animal.
How difficult is to understand that?
There are no different species of human beens.
Idiot.
So in place of using configuration files that I can analyze, modify and distribute in an automatic fashion you suggest that it is better to find out a little checkbox somehwere in the middle of who knows how many tabs, sub-menus and other check-boxes, all this sometimes hidden behind one or two buttons and that make the change undistributable (unless you understand the registry, and sometimes not even then).
Yeah, GUIs are very intuitive and easy to use.
There are fewer jobs, but obviously they are for the people willing to compete for them.
One way of enhancing your chances during the competition is acquiring new skills and experience.
The guy that does has a better chance than the guy that does not.
Killing biodiveristy is aginst our own interest: the fewer species there are the easier it is for an oportunistic disease to wipe out big amounts of individuals.
Once the wildlife is gone the parasites, virii and bateria in the wild will have to concentrate only in humans and its domesticated animals to make a living.
Following a long honored tradition may I ask: where is the mirror?
Congrats.
The program itself is telling you how to try to bypass security.
Unless one is a knowledgable person when it comes to computer issues, this should not be an option.
... why most geeks are against software patents.
sigh....
A.I. Could have been one very good movie had it ended earlier.
As it stands is a monument to how crowd pleasing can wretch completely a reasonable good work of art under the constrains of the Hollywood aparatus.
"E=mc2 a biography of the world's most famous equation" by David Bodanis implies with all certainity that he published papers explaining the feasibility to make an A-bomb.
Unless you think Nazi Germany was going to big pains to increase production of heavy water in Norway, mining uranium as fast as they could from Czechslovakia(sp?), and putting Herr Professor Heisenberg in charge of a secret facility researching how to release energy from uranium all for the good of science (in spite of being understood by then that an A-bomb was possible) then you are very naive or malicious.
Add to that the terrifying tidibits of wisdom that Herr Heisenberg was sprouting about Germany ruling the world (as pointed out in this thread) and the only conclussion is villain.
He may have not known about attrocities, but anybody that is ready to use an a-bomb to conquer the world is villain in my book.
Because Rwanda and the Balkans shows us we have learned very little.
Some time ago, when Java was the fresh darling of the IT world, I was offered a job in a company doing just that: a virtual machine to run legacy COBOL programs in any modern platform.
They seemed quite stressed, thus I gave them the miss...
But updated to recent standards.
... and the world is 4000 years old.
Yes all what you believe is true.
Evolution is not a religion, evolution (as the process that originates new species by means of natural selection is popularly known) is a theory that can be studied, tested, analyzed, scrutinized and even opossed and that eventually, based in all the evidence we currently have, we can reasonably expect that is going to be to be probed to be a law of nature (once human history spans 5000000 years and if there are any living beens that had developed naturaly, surely we will be able to document those changes. Damn, I whish I would be alive to see the last idiotic creationist accept he is wrong).
For goodness sake, don't never ever again use the words "evolution" and "I believe" in the same sentence.
Spell GNOME. Slowly, so you can understand it. Now tell us what that funny G stands for.
:-p.
Are you still with us? Good, really good.
Now, tell us who founded that "G" organization.
Good, well done. Here, a coockie for you:
Bye.
Assuming the original poster is not lying (he gave no probe of his allegations) then an OS that crashes because software is running is unacceptable. These are not the 70s were you need to reboot your machine once a week to ensure good operation.
Same with network card.
There are resilient probed stable solutions (the initial poster was right, a UNIX solution would not require those shennanigans of people going stupid rebooting servers).
The orignal poster wants to do this in C# not C.
Even if there was any useful technology in C# (there is not, all has been done in other places before) to give in to a company with complete disregard for fair business practices is the last thing anybody making business doing software development should lock himslef into.
How dogs evolved from wolfs.
Why the AIDS virus has mutated in some many different strains.
Even the Pope has recognized that evolution is "more than a theory".
Period.