1. Notice how Empire is modified the least. Even Lucas knows which one not to touch too much:)
2. 03. Yoda is CG. Yoda disappears leaving his clothes behind like Obi-Wan now. Hmm. Yoda always did disappear leaving his clothes behind when he died. Something I'm missing?
3. I notice some deleted scenes (I assume from 20 years ago) being added. That would rock! Also, if they could clean up the Jabba scene in ANH I'd be pretty happy. When I was a kid the rumor'd "Jabba" footage got shown on TV years after the movie came out, and we all thought it was cool to see how Lucas had been planning this way back when. It was the only good thing to happen to the "new" trilogy, and it'd be nice if it wasn't so awkward when Han walks behind him.
Of course, this is probably all nonsense, because it looks too good to be true. Some of the re-scoring seems pointless and gratuitous, having that snotnosed Christenson around ruins it, but otherwise, not all that bad considering what he could have done.
those who have used BT really like it, those who haven't either have no opinion or don't think it's worth it. Draw your own conclusion from that.
My conclusion would be that it's impossible to have a positive opinion about something until you've really used it. Or rather, if someone thinks something is a good idea, they've probably gone and tried/used it. Kinda like everything else in the world.
Yeah, the cynical side of life:)
Good point about the presentation side of things though, those IR/RF mice/RC combos just don't cut it sometimes.
Slashdot had its first story on BT in April of 1998.
802.11 has been in the works since 1990, but was nothing more than paper until 1997:
Seven years later (1997), the group approved IEEE 802.11 as the world's first WLAN standard with data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps. In 1999 the working group approved two extensions to 802.11 - 802.11a and b.
Damn near everywhere I go I see this stuff for sale, and pretty soon every home router will have it by default.
I have yet to see a Bluetooth device anywhere for sale, or in use by anyone I know. Everyone mentions cellphones, but um.. I thought they already WERE wireless devices. I guess whatever features BT adds don't ring my bell. I've played with 802.11 on iPaqs, but have yet to see a PDA with BT on it, which is about the only use I can think for this stuff. Sorry, wireless mice and keyboards are a hassle to use IMHO - batteries, the extra cost, etc - and it's not like a wired keyboard that never moves makes one bit of difference to me.
And I think we've been hearing about BT longer than 802.11, but my memory could be fuzzy on this one.
Assuming the patch precedes the vulnerability, nothing.
Assuming you've turned off every service you can think of (like Messenger), nothing.
Assuming you patch diligently, nothing.
You're right. In a perfect world a personal firewall doesn't do a whole lot. But that's a lot of assumptions for my taste, and I'd just as soon sacrifice the whopping 10MB of ram (what's that, 2% of a modern system?) and be safe rather than chance it.
If I was able to safely close these vulnerabilities on my own (like I can on a Linux box - just shut off the service), I wouldn't even consider a firewall. Firewalls don't do much when you can't connect to the machine in question:) But forced to leave listening ports open, I'd just as soon not take my chances.
It's not Windows bashing, I'm a happy Windows user for the most part. It's just the reality when putting a box on the internet these days.
Speaking of which, how likely do you think it is for your average Windows machine to be probed (and compromised) in the time it takes from first boot to patching everything in Windows Update? I've personally seen boxes get hit within 30 seconds of going online.
how about just disabling the Windows Messenger service?
Yeah, that'll sure help the next time an RPC vulnerability is found. What are we on, 4 of these this year?
Have fun disabling that service and still using Windows.
A firewall is a MUST when running windows, and if you find that something like Zonealarm really takes that much out of your resources, I'd suggest upgrading past your 1st generation Pentium-class machine.
No, humans do not have free speech. In some countries, we do have freedom of expression though.
I liken advertising to "offensive" or threatening language.
You can't walk up to a 5 year old and start swearing at the top of your lungs, or tell every woman you meet that you'll be raping her later tonight. Why? Because society has deemed this sort of speech too much for good taste. Hence obscenity and harassment laws. Say those things all you like in the privacy of your own home, but not to my face, thank you very much.
The ONLY reason advertising is allowed is because we, as a society, permit it. It has nothing to do with some absolute concept of "free speech" that doesn't exist in any country I've ever heard of.
St. Catherine's and Hamilton are like 20-30 kms away, and there's really only the QEW as a major road between them. And it's pretty obvious when you're leaving Hamilton.
Not to flame, but your story reminds me of why I almost never use things like Mapquest. Just get a good road atlas and follow exit signs, and you sure as hell won't drive 30kms out of your way:)
It's also nice having something real, instead of a file that you may or may not own.
You do of course realize that CD audio is just a bunch of digital files encoded onto a plastic disc, right?:)
Altho if you're talking the DRM angle I agree 100% with you. If I could get iTMS, I'd be burning every song I downloaded to CD (for backup), and most likely re-ripping that to mp3 for portability between systems. And praying my burnt CDs don't die in a year. Thank god for cheap multi-hundred gigabyte hard drives!
Anyone happen to know? I haven't seen a clear description of the Pepsi promotion, and I assume the McDonald's one will be similar.
1. You get whatever song they give you. I don't quite see this doing much for the service.. yay, my 15th copy of the latest Britnet single.
2. You get "a song" off iTMS. Any song you like. Just redeem and download. That'd be way cooler, but hell, I can buy a bottle of Pepsi for less than 99 cents US, so I'd be getting as much music as I could drink Pepsi for free. And raiding recycling bins? I could easily pull 2-300 songs a week from campus alone.
Anyone have any further information?
Of course, this is a moot point for me, as iTMS isn't available in Canada anyway:(
Yeah, this reminds me of "surveys" we would take in high school.
Half the kids (the 'good' ones) would never admit to having done drugs, or had sex, even if they had. They were worried that the school would tell their parents somehow, that it wasn't truly anonymous.
The other half of us.. well let's just say that at 14 I was having sex at least twice a day, drinking probably 40 ounces of alcohol a night, and had done crack twice in the past week alone. Oh, and I was also a gay transvestite horse-buggerer (for the surveys that had write-on options).
you can pick and choose as little or as much as you want. Install just the core stuff and you won't even be asked for the 2nd and 3rd CDs.
Just download the first CD. Done. Assuming you don't want any extras that is:)
Having said that, if it takes you an entire day to download 3 CDs, talk to your provider. Takes me a couple of hours at most with my cable ISP. Or use the nice Netherlands mirrors, they're always fast:)
You know, no one's forcing you to install any of what you listed.
Unless the Fedora installer has changed from what RedHat (free) used to have, you can pick and choose as little or as much as you want. Install just the core stuff and you won't even be asked for the 2nd and 3rd CDs.
Personally, I like it. Much easier than hunting around for online all day.
Oh, and last time I checked, many other distros are even larger (iirc, Debian was up to 5 CDs a while ago), so I don't see where the RedHat bashing comes from.
No, really. Most older fans hated PM. Walking out of the theatre after the first (midnight) showing, you heard nothing but silence, as opposed to the excited chatter you usually hear after a movie people enjoy.
For weeks after, everyone and their dog went to see it, because after all, it was the NEW STAR WARS MOVIE. Most people I know went to see it regardless of what their friends said, because "it can't possibly be that bad, it's STAR WARS!".
Reviews by critics rarely echo public opinion (Gigli notwithstanding), and box office receipts mean diddly. Bring up numbers all you want, but trust me: PM was panned by most people over 20 for months after it came out. One reason people spoke so highly about AOTC at first was that it was "better than PM" - even though it was pretty dreadful upon reflection as well.
Oh, and as far as I can remember, Waterworld turned a profit for Costner. Again, opinion and box office receipts don't always coincide.
Just curious, Apple's site doesn't seem clear on this:
I know you can use the iPod as a portable hard drive; just drag and drop files in Explorer and you're done.
My question is, can you do this with your mp3s, and still have your iPod play them?
Quite honestly, as much as everyone raves about the features in iTunes, I don't really see the need for it - it would be cool to just be able to treat it like a portable drive that plays music without installing software in order to use it. My digital camera works this way, and it's handy to share photos with people when I don't feel like carrying HP's installation CD around.
But hey, the point is to make the groom cough up as much as he can afford, or more, right?
Exactly, which is why I added "doesn't expect a ring" to my dating criteria.
Limits my choices severely, but it's amazing how much less shallow people are when they don't equate money == love. I'm certainly happier, and the extra dough is fun for a nice trip for 2 somewhere private:)
Slashdot Mirror
have we reverted to referring to letters by the way they look?
Why yes.
You ever notice that "C" stands for "Cookie"?
It's good enough for me.
Now find me some Crescent shaped cookies.
I haven't seen the damn show in 15 years, yet the first thought I had was "you missed an E".
It went
"We are the E E E E E E Ewoks!"
I think I'll go shoot myself now.
I don't know what the cost for M$ to produce a bulk CD is, but I'm betting it's waaaay lower than the retail price for the software on it.
You're "betting"? You're BETTING???
Next time you find OfficeXP being sold on the shelves for 30 cents (the cost of an average CD-R, and pressed CDs can be even cheaper) PLEASE email me!
Oh yeah, and according to the article (and the article summary), non-MS s/w and h/w can be purchased too.
You can't be a libertarian...what sane person would do a terrorist act for a few thousand dollars?
:)
No one ever claimed all Libertarians are sane
(Before you mod me as flamebait, I'm card-carrying. Libertarian, that is, not mental patient)
And here I thought it was always Americans who don't know the first thing about other countries.
:)
Once again, reality slaps us in the face
Ahhhhhh.
I knew something seemed wrong, even as I typed that. But for the life of me I swear I remembered something falling.
1. Notice how Empire is modified the least. Even Lucas knows which one not to touch too much :)
2. 03. Yoda is CG. Yoda disappears leaving his clothes behind like Obi-Wan now. Hmm. Yoda always did disappear leaving his clothes behind when he died. Something I'm missing?
3. I notice some deleted scenes (I assume from 20 years ago) being added. That would rock! Also, if they could clean up the Jabba scene in ANH I'd be pretty happy. When I was a kid the rumor'd "Jabba" footage got shown on TV years after the movie came out, and we all thought it was cool to see how Lucas had been planning this way back when. It was the only good thing to happen to the "new" trilogy, and it'd be nice if it wasn't so awkward when Han walks behind him.
Of course, this is probably all nonsense, because it looks too good to be true. Some of the re-scoring seems pointless and gratuitous, having that snotnosed Christenson around ruins it, but otherwise, not all that bad considering what he could have done.
And probably will.
Yeah, Empire :)
those who have used BT really like it, those who haven't either have no opinion or don't think it's worth it. Draw your own conclusion from that.
:)
My conclusion would be that it's impossible to have a positive opinion about something until you've really used it. Or rather, if someone thinks something is a good idea, they've probably gone and tried/used it. Kinda like everything else in the world.
Yeah, the cynical side of life
Good point about the presentation side of things though, those IR/RF mice/RC combos just don't cut it sometimes.
Slashdot had its first story on BT in April of 1998.
802.11 has been in the works since 1990, but was nothing more than paper until 1997:
Seven years later (1997), the group approved IEEE 802.11 as the world's first WLAN standard with data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps. In 1999 the working group approved two extensions to 802.11 - 802.11a and b.
From random googling.
Sure. I'll be a stickler and volunteer 802.11.
Damn near everywhere I go I see this stuff for sale, and pretty soon every home router will have it by default.
I have yet to see a Bluetooth device anywhere for sale, or in use by anyone I know. Everyone mentions cellphones, but um.. I thought they already WERE wireless devices. I guess whatever features BT adds don't ring my bell. I've played with 802.11 on iPaqs, but have yet to see a PDA with BT on it, which is about the only use I can think for this stuff. Sorry, wireless mice and keyboards are a hassle to use IMHO - batteries, the extra cost, etc - and it's not like a wired keyboard that never moves makes one bit of difference to me.
And I think we've been hearing about BT longer than 802.11, but my memory could be fuzzy on this one.
Assuming the patch precedes the vulnerability, nothing.
:) But forced to leave listening ports open, I'd just as soon not take my chances.
Assuming you've turned off every service you can think of (like Messenger), nothing.
Assuming you patch diligently, nothing.
You're right. In a perfect world a personal firewall doesn't do a whole lot. But that's a lot of assumptions for my taste, and I'd just as soon sacrifice the whopping 10MB of ram (what's that, 2% of a modern system?) and be safe rather than chance it.
If I was able to safely close these vulnerabilities on my own (like I can on a Linux box - just shut off the service), I wouldn't even consider a firewall. Firewalls don't do much when you can't connect to the machine in question
It's not Windows bashing, I'm a happy Windows user for the most part. It's just the reality when putting a box on the internet these days.
Speaking of which, how likely do you think it is for your average Windows machine to be probed (and compromised) in the time it takes from first boot to patching everything in Windows Update? I've personally seen boxes get hit within 30 seconds of going online.
how about just disabling the Windows Messenger service?
Yeah, that'll sure help the next time an RPC vulnerability is found. What are we on, 4 of these this year?
Have fun disabling that service and still using Windows.
A firewall is a MUST when running windows, and if you find that something like Zonealarm really takes that much out of your resources, I'd suggest upgrading past your 1st generation Pentium-class machine.
No, humans do not have free speech. In some countries, we do have freedom of expression though.
I liken advertising to "offensive" or threatening language.
You can't walk up to a 5 year old and start swearing at the top of your lungs, or tell every woman you meet that you'll be raping her later tonight. Why? Because society has deemed this sort of speech too much for good taste. Hence obscenity and harassment laws. Say those things all you like in the privacy of your own home, but not to my face, thank you very much.
The ONLY reason advertising is allowed is because we, as a society, permit it. It has nothing to do with some absolute concept of "free speech" that doesn't exist in any country I've ever heard of.
That's really bizarre.
:)
St. Catherine's and Hamilton are like 20-30 kms away, and there's really only the QEW as a major road between them. And it's pretty obvious when you're leaving Hamilton.
Not to flame, but your story reminds me of why I almost never use things like Mapquest. Just get a good road atlas and follow exit signs, and you sure as hell won't drive 30kms out of your way
It's also nice having something real, instead of a file that you may or may not own.
:)
You do of course realize that CD audio is just a bunch of digital files encoded onto a plastic disc, right?
Altho if you're talking the DRM angle I agree 100% with you. If I could get iTMS, I'd be burning every song I downloaded to CD (for backup), and most likely re-ripping that to mp3 for portability between systems. And praying my burnt CDs don't die in a year. Thank god for cheap multi-hundred gigabyte hard drives!
Anyone happen to know? I haven't seen a clear description of the Pepsi promotion, and I assume the McDonald's one will be similar.
:(
1. You get whatever song they give you. I don't quite see this doing much for the service.. yay, my 15th copy of the latest Britnet single.
2. You get "a song" off iTMS. Any song you like. Just redeem and download. That'd be way cooler, but hell, I can buy a bottle of Pepsi for less than 99 cents US, so I'd be getting as much music as I could drink Pepsi for free. And raiding recycling bins? I could easily pull 2-300 songs a week from campus alone.
Anyone have any further information?
Of course, this is a moot point for me, as iTMS isn't available in Canada anyway
Yeah, this reminds me of "surveys" we would take in high school.
Half the kids (the 'good' ones) would never admit to having done drugs, or had sex, even if they had. They were worried that the school would tell their parents somehow, that it wasn't truly anonymous.
The other half of us.. well let's just say that at 14 I was having sex at least twice a day, drinking probably 40 ounces of alcohol a night, and had done crack twice in the past week alone. Oh, and I was also a gay transvestite horse-buggerer (for the surveys that had write-on options).
The Nomad came out well before the N64, and earlier than the PSX and Saturn.
The reason no one bought it (it was a genius idea, by the way) was the battery life. I think under an hour depending on what you used.
Re-read my post.
:)
:)
you can pick and choose as little or as much as you want. Install just the core stuff and you won't even be asked for the 2nd and 3rd CDs.
Just download the first CD. Done. Assuming you don't want any extras that is
Having said that, if it takes you an entire day to download 3 CDs, talk to your provider. Takes me a couple of hours at most with my cable ISP. Or use the nice Netherlands mirrors, they're always fast
You know, no one's forcing you to install any of what you listed.
Unless the Fedora installer has changed from what RedHat (free) used to have, you can pick and choose as little or as much as you want. Install just the core stuff and you won't even be asked for the 2nd and 3rd CDs.
Personally, I like it. Much easier than hunting around for online all day.
Oh, and last time I checked, many other distros are even larger (iirc, Debian was up to 5 CDs a while ago), so I don't see where the RedHat bashing comes from.
No, really. Most older fans hated PM. Walking out of the theatre after the first (midnight) showing, you heard nothing but silence, as opposed to the excited chatter you usually hear after a movie people enjoy.
For weeks after, everyone and their dog went to see it, because after all, it was the NEW STAR WARS MOVIE. Most people I know went to see it regardless of what their friends said, because "it can't possibly be that bad, it's STAR WARS!".
Reviews by critics rarely echo public opinion (Gigli notwithstanding), and box office receipts mean diddly. Bring up numbers all you want, but trust me: PM was panned by most people over 20 for months after it came out. One reason people spoke so highly about AOTC at first was that it was "better than PM" - even though it was pretty dreadful upon reflection as well.
Oh, and as far as I can remember, Waterworld turned a profit for Costner. Again, opinion and box office receipts don't always coincide.
Just curious, Apple's site doesn't seem clear on this:
I know you can use the iPod as a portable hard drive; just drag and drop files in Explorer and you're done.
My question is, can you do this with your mp3s, and still have your iPod play them?
Quite honestly, as much as everyone raves about the features in iTunes, I don't really see the need for it - it would be cool to just be able to treat it like a portable drive that plays music without installing software in order to use it. My digital camera works this way, and it's handy to share photos with people when I don't feel like carrying HP's installation CD around.
Anyone?
But hey, the point is to make the groom cough up as much as he can afford, or more, right?
:)
Exactly, which is why I added "doesn't expect a ring" to my dating criteria.
Limits my choices severely, but it's amazing how much less shallow people are when they don't equate money == love. I'm certainly happier, and the extra dough is fun for a nice trip for 2 somewhere private
Yup, and today we're seeing "must have 10 years Java programming experience" on job postings.
:)
(if you don't get the joke, you're under 25