There is nothing wrong with keeping society prim, proper, polite and personable on the surface.
Except for, you know, the idea that we should be free to do whatever the hell we want, so long as we're not harming others. I know freedom (and liberalism) in general is out of favour these days, but still...
don't force those who adminsiter and check these to suffer your personal tastes, and don't cry foul by their decisions. That is what pisses me off.
So we should all suffer YOUR personal tastes? Or should we go with "majority rules" here, and fuck anyone who disagrees with the majority?
Meet Bob, he had the same rights as everyone. One day he fucked a watermelon, and loved it. Now he felt that he didn't have the same rights as everyone else and started a campaign for 'equal rights' and 'tolerance'
And so long as Bob isn't harming a soul while fucking watermelons, what precisely is the problem? If he's prevented by law from doing that, he damned well SHOULD campaign for equal rights and tolerance.
I think your poorly-veiled allusion to gay rights, plus your use of quotation marks around 'equal rights' and 'tolerance' speaks volumes about your position, though. You do realize that without 'equal rights', it's just as easy for someone to find something about you that is slightly different than the majority, and get after you about it?
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And all marriages end badly - in either death or divorce.
Toys R Us, at least in Canada, briefly had an incredible pre-order offer on their website:
$279, includes the Wii, 2 games (I assume one is the pack-in), and an extra controller.
For a system that will likely sell for $299 in Canada, this was an amazing deal. They pulled it after about a day, though:(
Either way, as others have pointed out, pre-ordering this system is stupid. There will be millions on store shelves come December 1st. Might be a run on them at xmas time if the hype machine works itself into a frenzy, but if you're buying it for yourself there should be plenty on hand.
Would 6 million units selling out in a matter of weeks make this the most successful console launch ever?
an OS should operate as expected... JUST LIKE WINDOWS.
What about those of us who FUCKING HATE HOW WINDOWS OPERATES?
Oh yeah, we're the ones developing Linux.
You want an open source Windows clone? Go write one.
The rest of your post is pretty funny, though. I haven't seen a distro in 10 years that requires root permissions to copy and paste. You almost sound like you might have tried Linux once, but that one just doesn't cut the mustard.
Ironic, then, that the home edition of XP would offer up network services so efficiently targetted and exploited by various worms over the years. Services that you cannot turn off for the most part, because it's just too important to offer network services on a home computer.
Instead, they add a firewall. Something that only SERVERS, by definition, need.
What it DOES say is you can't put it on a network store... the HOME and STARTER versions that have no business being MASS installed from a network location.)
What in the hell are you talking about? No business?
Just this past weekend, I re-did my XP HOME install on my laptop. With the desire never to go through another 12 hour install process, the first thing I did when it was done was image the hard drive to a network store. For the record, XP Home SP1 takes at least 6 reboots to patch, plus hundreds of MB of downloads, plus hours of installation time. Add in a goodly amount of applications and it's the better part of a day.
What, home users aren't allowed Samba servers anymore? Or dd?
if you have a big enough family that you have 5 OTHER users in your house accessing a file or printer on your computer 'at the same time' then you probably need something other than the HOME edition
Bzzt. Wrong. Other than this one single artificial limitation, there's no reason that pwning a whopping 6 computers means you do anything but what the HOME version offers. I've got them spread all over my house, because every few upgrades it's nice to set up a terminal somewhere. I sure as hell have never needed anything beyond a HOME Windows version to accomplish this. Hell, Windows 3.1 allowed this functionality.
Why do you people insist on defending Microsoft's ridiculous software limitations? You know this is just a flag they've set somewhere in the software, right? There isn't actually any reason to do this beyond "we don't think HOME users have any business doing these things".
And you people wonder why some of us become zealots.
No kidding. Kids do stupid things all the time, some of which we should be concerned about, some of which are just "kids being kids".
These teens didn't exactly post shocking confessions about how they were abused by this person, and make claims of pedophilia. They claimed she was GAY. Maybe it's just me, but BIG FREAKING DEAL. I think the reactions here reflect more on the posters than on the teens - apparently being gay is such a horrible thing to most Slashdotters that accusations of it amount to libel. Sad, really.
Next, we'll see some 5 year old sued because they called their ex-best friend a "doodie head".
Lighten up, folks. It's a harmless teenage prank. Don't any of you remember being kids? Give the kids some community service. The parents are probably pretty damned embarassed. But a lawsuit against them? You'd think these kids had gone on a shooting rampage.
I don't see why this is moderated funny at all. It's one of the more insightful comments in this thread.
Folks like good ol' Jack, by using scare tactics and throwing logic entirely out the window, are why our society is going to pot right now.
Or have you forgotten your mysteriously exploding toothpaste? Did we all throw out our plastic sheeting and duct tape? Hey, they did it on Jericho, it must work!
Ironically enough, AnyDVD itself uses some decent copy protection to prevent people from copying it without paying.
Even more funny, the DVD ripping forums are full of people explaining how to use "rollback" software to fool AnyDVD into thinking it's never been installed, so that you can just keep re-using it without paying. Of course, this rollback software is also copy-protected.
But I'm sure we all use AnyDVD to bypass FBI warnings:)
Also because the "OS's disk cache" is simply swapped out memory in the first place? When your memory runs low, some of Firefox's cached data will be written to disk. This is how your OS works (assuming it has a disk cache of any sort).
there is not a shortage of oil - there is only a shortage of oil at today's prices
DING DING DING we have a winner!
When oil was $15/barrel, US and Canadian production was forecasted to go into a very steep decline. Once oil got to $50, suddenly oilsands and whole lot of other non-conventional sources became viable on a large scale. Not enough to make up for everyone else's declines, but a lot.
Yes, it's expensive. VERY expensive. But we've hardly scraped the surface (figuratively and literally) of the oilsands.
Let's see oil sit at $150-200/barrel for a few years and just watch as trillions of barrels of oil suddenly appear.
Well, natural gas is a big choice target for the petroleum industry, not simply a by-product.
And the two are very much related, as most natural gas deposits discovered these days are "polluted" with H2S. Lots of money is spent removing this highly toxic gas from CH4 supplies. See sour gas.
Lastly, it's not surprising that H2S slows heart rate, breathing, etc. This is why it kills dozens of people in the petroleum industry every year:)
I think we need a user profile tag on Slashdot, one that indicates whether you've actually done any IT work beyond your parent's basement. If not, you're barred from commenting on stories like this.
If I read another "who still uses 4 year old OS'es anyway??" comment, I think I'll barf. 4 years is an eyeblink in IT. Systems only 4 years old are considered "new" here.
Hell, we still support some early 80s portable TRS-80s, for portable serial interface to SCADA gear. Of course, the vendor hasn't supported those in years:) I think 23 years is older than the median age on Slashdot, though, so a lot of these posters probably have to ask themselves if those devices even used electricity.
Then, we have the minis (anyone still use this terminology anymore?) and the oddballs. Still many DEC machines. We've got one app that the vendor has supported for 12 years now, so long as we keep making support payments. And I believe it was 5 years old when we first tried it. It's not just software, either - our newest large tape automation system is 10 years old, and the silo is at least 15.
(Posted from Win2k, which we finally migrated to in 2004. I just got my "bye bye NT" t-shirt last week.)
The sad part is, Gibson was right. Is there any valid use for raw sockets in a consumer/business OS? Planning on implementing your own version of TCP anytime soon?
Too bad they didn't think to close some of those open network ports, instead of relying on a firewall... but that's another rant that I'm not sure even Steve-O taken up:)
Well, for one thing a Linux box (running any major distribution) wouldn't be listening on any TCP/UDP ports at all, rendering those attacks entirely useless (I'll play devil's advocate and assume these attacks work against Linux).
Firewall, patch, antivirus, blah blah blah. The simple fact is my Linux boxes are not vulnerable by default, because they don't open themselves up to it by default. No need for extra software, no need for patching, no need for a hardware firewall.
Have fun remotely compromising a box that refuses your traffic.
I've yet to see anyone comment on this - does Vista continue the same stupid tradition of opening network ports on a home OS?
Unfortunately, the plural of anecdote is still not data.
Back in the mid-80s, everyone was complaining that they didn't build microwaves like they did in the 70s, and that the 80s models would never last 20 years. Of course, you've proven that wrong for a couple of cases - after waiting 20 years to find out.
I do an obscene amount of garage sailing, and I can tell you I've seen literally thousands of microwaves, VCRs, typewriters, televisions, vaccum cleaners (name something people think is built like "crap" today) for sale. Lots work. Most don't. Junkyards are full of 1970s and 80s consumer goods. The bulk of everything ever created is no longer working. You just remember the ones that still work, because they're still with us. No one keeps a log of everything they've thrown out over the years.
Talk to appliance guys sometime, that have been in the business for a few decades. They will tell you just how many "things were built to last back then" 1950s fridges they threw out in the 60s, how many 1980s fridges they threw out in the 90s.
Pick a decade, pick a consumer good - overall, nothing lasts. You can't just pick a few things you have that still work and say "stuff used to last longer".
This same myth applies to cars as well, which makes me chuckle. People forget how common it was to have your new car in for servicing just 20 years ago. Today, you can get a car with a 7-10 year warranty, that almost never breaks down during that time. Overall, I find things today seem to be lasting longer and longer.
That's very funny, because as someone who was actually alive over 20 years ago, I can tell you that people said the very same thing back then.
Notice the pattern:
In the 2000s, everything built in the 1980s lasted forever; things made in the 2000s break after a few years. In the 1980s, everything built in the 1960s lasted forever; things made in the 1980s break after a few years. In the 1960s, everything built in the 1940s lasted forever; things made in the 1960s break after a few years. In the 1940s, everything built in the 1920s lasted forever; things made in the 1940s break after a few years. In the 1920s, everything built in the 19th century lasted forever; things made in the 1920s break after a few years.
And yes, I've done research on this. My grandparents are over 90 and swear that everything made since the Great Depression is crap and never lasts. I've found early newspaper op-ed pieces from the 1910s that claim the very same thing, just pushing back the date a little.
(The secret, of course, is that the things made in year X that only last a few years are long since discarded, and we only remember the things that last any decent length of time)
Repeated post from a while back. I can't believe people still believe the "stuff made today is shit, while everything made in the past lasted forever" meme.
Who says you need internet access on your phone for this? Those are the types of assumptions that hinder innovation. Couldn't you do some kind of query/response to a server somewhere?
Yeah!
What we could do is set up this server, and design some sort of transmission protocol to handle the query/response that you mentioned.
Of course, one server would (understandably) be limited in terms of what it could offer, and how many queries it could handle at once. What we'd really need to do is set up many of these servers - each could help share the load, and each could have different content on them.
Of course, with millions of cellphone users, we'd need many, many servers to handle the load. And with the amount of information available today, no one server could provide any sizable fraction of the content. Well, let's set up thousands of servers, then.
Now, with all these servers, it sure would be nice to let them talk to each other as well - this way they can keep tabs on what everyone else is offering. Also, it's getting pretty cumbersome to try and find one server out of thousands - we'll need some sort of naming system, and likely hierarchical, to sort it all out.
Hmm.. now if only we could tie this all up together in some sort of futuristic Interconnecting network, you might be onto something!
They do most of the back-story and interiors in LA, and they end up flying people back and forth.
Just watching the extras on the season 2 DVDs last week, and they mentioned that practically ALL shooting on Lost is done in Hawaii. The scenes of Charlie in England? Shot in Hawaii. Apparently it took a hell of a long time trying to find anything remotely "English" architecture-wise on the islands. Also, the lack of right-hand drive cars caused them some trouble - so they created entire outdoor sets with every sign written backwards, then flipped the film so that everything looked OK.
I was rather amazed. Even the scenes from Iraq were supposedly shot in Hawaii. I got the impression that they fly everyone out to the islands for a week at a time for ALL filming. Still very expensive.
Now imagine how the scriptwriters have been forbidden to try any outdoor winter scenes in the flashbacks:)
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There is nothing wrong with keeping society prim, proper, polite and personable on the surface.
Except for, you know, the idea that we should be free to do whatever the hell we want, so long as we're not harming others. I know freedom (and liberalism) in general is out of favour these days, but still...
don't force those who adminsiter and check these to suffer your personal tastes, and don't cry foul by their decisions. That is what pisses me off.
So we should all suffer YOUR personal tastes? Or should we go with "majority rules" here, and fuck anyone who disagrees with the majority?
Meet Bob, he had the same rights as everyone. One day he fucked a watermelon, and loved it. Now he felt that he didn't have the same rights as everyone else and started a campaign for 'equal rights' and 'tolerance'
And so long as Bob isn't harming a soul while fucking watermelons, what precisely is the problem? If he's prevented by law from doing that, he damned well SHOULD campaign for equal rights and tolerance.
I think your poorly-veiled allusion to gay rights, plus your use of quotation marks around 'equal rights' and 'tolerance' speaks volumes about your position, though. You do realize that without 'equal rights', it's just as easy for someone to find something about you that is slightly different than the majority, and get after you about it?
And all marriages end badly - in either death or divorce.
Cheerful stuff on a Friday the 13th.
"Even a smaller store like ours could be getting upwards of 50 units day one."
Nuff said.
This isn't going to be like the Xbox360 debacle.
Besides, stores will have plenty a week or two later. Is it really worth lining up just to get a spot in a line-up?
Reminds me of concert tickets. Come line up for your chance to be in a lineup for your chance to buy some concert tickets. Wow, could I?
Toys R Us, at least in Canada, briefly had an incredible pre-order offer on their website:
:(
$279, includes the Wii, 2 games (I assume one is the pack-in), and an extra controller.
For a system that will likely sell for $299 in Canada, this was an amazing deal. They pulled it after about a day, though
Either way, as others have pointed out, pre-ordering this system is stupid. There will be millions on store shelves come December 1st. Might be a run on them at xmas time if the hype machine works itself into a frenzy, but if you're buying it for yourself there should be plenty on hand.
Would 6 million units selling out in a matter of weeks make this the most successful console launch ever?
A much wiser man than I once said:
"Reality has a liberal bias".
1020 Petabytes should be enough for anybody...
Niiiiiice troll!
... JUST LIKE WINDOWS.
an OS should operate as expected
What about those of us who FUCKING HATE HOW WINDOWS OPERATES?
Oh yeah, we're the ones developing Linux.
You want an open source Windows clone? Go write one.
The rest of your post is pretty funny, though. I haven't seen a distro in 10 years that requires root permissions to copy and paste. You almost sound like you might have tried Linux once, but that one just doesn't cut the mustard.
the home edition is not a network server
:)
Ironic, then, that the home edition of XP would offer up network services so efficiently targetted and exploited by various worms over the years. Services that you cannot turn off for the most part, because it's just too important to offer network services on a home computer.
Instead, they add a firewall. Something that only SERVERS, by definition, need.
Finally, non-Alanis irony
I can understand a reactivation with a motherboard swap
How?
Is this just acceptable now? Having to re-affirm your usage of things because you don't follow "normal" patterns of usage?
Activation hasn't stopped a single person from pirating XP. All it's done is annoy people who like to build their own machines.
How can you "understand" this?
Why is everyone so complacent and accepting of this, like it's somehow normal and a good thing?
What it DOES say is you can't put it on a network store ... the HOME and STARTER versions that have no business being MASS installed from a network location.)
What in the hell are you talking about? No business?
Just this past weekend, I re-did my XP HOME install on my laptop. With the desire never to go through another 12 hour install process, the first thing I did when it was done was image the hard drive to a network store. For the record, XP Home SP1 takes at least 6 reboots to patch, plus hundreds of MB of downloads, plus hours of installation time. Add in a goodly amount of applications and it's the better part of a day.
What, home users aren't allowed Samba servers anymore? Or dd?
if you have a big enough family that you have 5 OTHER users in your house accessing a file or printer on your computer 'at the same time' then you probably need something other than the HOME edition
Bzzt. Wrong. Other than this one single artificial limitation, there's no reason that pwning a whopping 6 computers means you do anything but what the HOME version offers. I've got them spread all over my house, because every few upgrades it's nice to set up a terminal somewhere. I sure as hell have never needed anything beyond a HOME Windows version to accomplish this. Hell, Windows 3.1 allowed this functionality.
Why do you people insist on defending Microsoft's ridiculous software limitations? You know this is just a flag they've set somewhere in the software, right? There isn't actually any reason to do this beyond "we don't think HOME users have any business doing these things".
And you people wonder why some of us become zealots.
No kidding. Kids do stupid things all the time, some of which we should be concerned about, some of which are just "kids being kids".
These teens didn't exactly post shocking confessions about how they were abused by this person, and make claims of pedophilia. They claimed she was GAY. Maybe it's just me, but BIG FREAKING DEAL. I think the reactions here reflect more on the posters than on the teens - apparently being gay is such a horrible thing to most Slashdotters that accusations of it amount to libel. Sad, really.
Next, we'll see some 5 year old sued because they called their ex-best friend a "doodie head".
Lighten up, folks. It's a harmless teenage prank. Don't any of you remember being kids? Give the kids some community service. The parents are probably pretty damned embarassed. But a lawsuit against them? You'd think these kids had gone on a shooting rampage.
Yeesh.
I don't see why this is moderated funny at all. It's one of the more insightful comments in this thread.
Folks like good ol' Jack, by using scare tactics and throwing logic entirely out the window, are why our society is going to pot right now.
Or have you forgotten your mysteriously exploding toothpaste? Did we all throw out our plastic sheeting and duct tape? Hey, they did it on Jericho, it must work!
Insert "what would ICBMs look like if women ran the Pentagon" joke here...
Ironically enough, AnyDVD itself uses some decent copy protection to prevent people from copying it without paying.
:)
Even more funny, the DVD ripping forums are full of people explaining how to use "rollback" software to fool AnyDVD into thinking it's never been installed, so that you can just keep re-using it without paying. Of course, this rollback software is also copy-protected.
But I'm sure we all use AnyDVD to bypass FBI warnings
Good for the goose, good for the gander, I say.
Because memory is faster than disk?
Also because the "OS's disk cache" is simply swapped out memory in the first place? When your memory runs low, some of Firefox's cached data will be written to disk. This is how your OS works (assuming it has a disk cache of any sort).
there is not a shortage of oil - there is only a shortage of oil at today's prices
DING DING DING we have a winner!
When oil was $15/barrel, US and Canadian production was forecasted to go into a very steep decline. Once oil got to $50, suddenly oilsands and whole lot of other non-conventional sources became viable on a large scale. Not enough to make up for everyone else's declines, but a lot.
Yes, it's expensive. VERY expensive. But we've hardly scraped the surface (figuratively and literally) of the oilsands.
Let's see oil sit at $150-200/barrel for a few years and just watch as trillions of barrels of oil suddenly appear.
Well, natural gas is a big choice target for the petroleum industry, not simply a by-product.
:)
And the two are very much related, as most natural gas deposits discovered these days are "polluted" with H2S. Lots of money is spent removing this highly toxic gas from CH4 supplies. See sour gas.
Lastly, it's not surprising that H2S slows heart rate, breathing, etc. This is why it kills dozens of people in the petroleum industry every year
No kidding.
:) I think 23 years is older than the median age on Slashdot, though, so a lot of these posters probably have to ask themselves if those devices even used electricity.
I think we need a user profile tag on Slashdot, one that indicates whether you've actually done any IT work beyond your parent's basement. If not, you're barred from commenting on stories like this.
If I read another "who still uses 4 year old OS'es anyway??" comment, I think I'll barf. 4 years is an eyeblink in IT. Systems only 4 years old are considered "new" here.
Hell, we still support some early 80s portable TRS-80s, for portable serial interface to SCADA gear. Of course, the vendor hasn't supported those in years
Then, we have the minis (anyone still use this terminology anymore?) and the oddballs. Still many DEC machines. We've got one app that the vendor has supported for 12 years now, so long as we keep making support payments. And I believe it was 5 years old when we first tried it. It's not just software, either - our newest large tape automation system is 10 years old, and the silo is at least 15.
(Posted from Win2k, which we finally migrated to in 2004. I just got my "bye bye NT" t-shirt last week.)
The sad part is, Gibson was right. Is there any valid use for raw sockets in a consumer/business OS? Planning on implementing your own version of TCP anytime soon?
:)
Too bad they didn't think to close some of those open network ports, instead of relying on a firewall... but that's another rant that I'm not sure even Steve-O taken up
Well, for one thing a Linux box (running any major distribution) wouldn't be listening on any TCP/UDP ports at all, rendering those attacks entirely useless (I'll play devil's advocate and assume these attacks work against Linux).
Firewall, patch, antivirus, blah blah blah. The simple fact is my Linux boxes are not vulnerable by default, because they don't open themselves up to it by default. No need for extra software, no need for patching, no need for a hardware firewall.
Have fun remotely compromising a box that refuses your traffic.
I've yet to see anyone comment on this - does Vista continue the same stupid tradition of opening network ports on a home OS?
Unfortunately, the plural of anecdote is still not data.
Back in the mid-80s, everyone was complaining that they didn't build microwaves like they did in the 70s, and that the 80s models would never last 20 years. Of course, you've proven that wrong for a couple of cases - after waiting 20 years to find out.
I do an obscene amount of garage sailing, and I can tell you I've seen literally thousands of microwaves, VCRs, typewriters, televisions, vaccum cleaners (name something people think is built like "crap" today) for sale. Lots work. Most don't. Junkyards are full of 1970s and 80s consumer goods. The bulk of everything ever created is no longer working. You just remember the ones that still work, because they're still with us. No one keeps a log of everything they've thrown out over the years.
Talk to appliance guys sometime, that have been in the business for a few decades. They will tell you just how many "things were built to last back then" 1950s fridges they threw out in the 60s, how many 1980s fridges they threw out in the 90s.
Pick a decade, pick a consumer good - overall, nothing lasts. You can't just pick a few things you have that still work and say "stuff used to last longer".
This same myth applies to cars as well, which makes me chuckle. People forget how common it was to have your new car in for servicing just 20 years ago. Today, you can get a car with a 7-10 year warranty, that almost never breaks down during that time. Overall, I find things today seem to be lasting longer and longer.
That's very funny, because as someone who was actually alive over 20 years ago, I can tell you that people said the very same thing back then.
Notice the pattern:
In the 2000s, everything built in the 1980s lasted forever; things made in the 2000s break after a few years.
In the 1980s, everything built in the 1960s lasted forever; things made in the 1980s break after a few years.
In the 1960s, everything built in the 1940s lasted forever; things made in the 1960s break after a few years.
In the 1940s, everything built in the 1920s lasted forever; things made in the 1940s break after a few years.
In the 1920s, everything built in the 19th century lasted forever; things made in the 1920s break after a few years.
And yes, I've done research on this. My grandparents are over 90 and swear that everything made since the Great Depression is crap and never lasts. I've found early newspaper op-ed pieces from the 1910s that claim the very same thing, just pushing back the date a little.
(The secret, of course, is that the things made in year X that only last a few years are long since discarded, and we only remember the things that last any decent length of time)
Repeated post from a while back. I can't believe people still believe the "stuff made today is shit, while everything made in the past lasted forever" meme.
Who says you need internet access on your phone for this? Those are the types of assumptions that hinder innovation. Couldn't you do some kind of query/response to a server somewhere?
Yeah!
What we could do is set up this server, and design some sort of transmission protocol to handle the query/response that you mentioned.
Of course, one server would (understandably) be limited in terms of what it could offer, and how many queries it could handle at once. What we'd really need to do is set up many of these servers - each could help share the load, and each could have different content on them.
Of course, with millions of cellphone users, we'd need many, many servers to handle the load. And with the amount of information available today, no one server could provide any sizable fraction of the content. Well, let's set up thousands of servers, then.
Now, with all these servers, it sure would be nice to let them talk to each other as well - this way they can keep tabs on what everyone else is offering. Also, it's getting pretty cumbersome to try and find one server out of thousands - we'll need some sort of naming system, and likely hierarchical, to sort it all out.
Hmm.. now if only we could tie this all up together in some sort of futuristic Interconnecting network, you might be onto something!
We stopped killing off people once they hit 55 right around the same time Logan went for a Run.
They do most of the back-story and interiors in LA, and they end up flying people back and forth.
:)
Just watching the extras on the season 2 DVDs last week, and they mentioned that practically ALL shooting on Lost is done in Hawaii. The scenes of Charlie in England? Shot in Hawaii. Apparently it took a hell of a long time trying to find anything remotely "English" architecture-wise on the islands. Also, the lack of right-hand drive cars caused them some trouble - so they created entire outdoor sets with every sign written backwards, then flipped the film so that everything looked OK.
I was rather amazed. Even the scenes from Iraq were supposedly shot in Hawaii. I got the impression that they fly everyone out to the islands for a week at a time for ALL filming. Still very expensive.
Now imagine how the scriptwriters have been forbidden to try any outdoor winter scenes in the flashbacks