Actually after learning a bit of Russian in college and watching Clockwork Orange on cable, it appears to me that they were just sprinkling in russian replacements for words in their own language. Horoshow = fine muy droog = friend droogies = friends
I would imagine that those words were VERY foreign to most of the people around the characters and made them stand out. As if they needed any help after putting makeup on half of their face and running around in long underwear.
I guess I'm a real space geek, because I've heard of these and seen pictures years ago. As I recall the robots looked like a little red rectangular box with a foot on either side and it sort of walked. One model anyway. The Russians also sent probes to Mars and Venus for picture and samples.
I studied Russian history and language in college and before that anything I could get my hands on. I was fascinated with Russia. Probably because they were the unknown quantity to me, the most foreign people I could imagine.
take spare PC. Ghost OS image on it. Run all sec. updates and virus updates. save image of PC. copy suspected virus to pc. DISCONNECT from network. run suspected virus. Oh yeah, use a non-privledged account created for testing purposes. (testuser - no admin or poweruser rights)
Man, gentoo on the Zaurus is going to be great when I get done compiling.
(6 weeks later) Hey, I've got a command line now. Time to compile X11. (6 months later) Hey, I got X compiled, but it doesn't work and I still need a Window Manager. (6 months later) I got X fixed, I got KDE installed, but damn it's slow. I'm going to compile a smaller WM, like Fluxbox. (2 months later) Nirvana. (6 months later) User dead of stress from waiting on compiler.
Sounds like the perfect use for a LiveCD of Linux and a USB device to save to when done. There are ways to get dev tools on a Live CD. In Morphix, you just make your own custom CD, say of LightGUI, and add the devel minimod. Then you have gcc, make and everything else you need. Save to a memory stick when done and bingo, the PC looks like it was never touched.
I would unplug from the network though or you might leave a fingerprint on the DHCP server.
On either Knoppix or damnsmall use "knoppix toram" at the boot prompt. On Morphix, "morphix toram". Done. Sorted.
If you want to use USB there is some info at the Damnsmall and flonix sites about booting directly to USB or you can use the RUNT version 3 floppy to initialize the USB bus. That's what I do on an old laptop.
When you buy a product, it should be YOURS, period, end of story. If you want to mod your Xbox into a PC, and you have the skills to do it, then you damn well ought to be able to do so. Once you pay your $175 (or whatever they're going for) for an Xbox, Microsoft should cease to have any control over what you do with it -- save voiding the warranty if you decide to take it apart and start modding it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have thought for a long time that once I buy something, it is mine to do with as I please. This also relates to MS' EULA. They say they are selling a license, which I never signed and I believe shrink wrap and click through are highly unenforcible, but in that license they state that they take no responsibility for damage caused by their product nor for its useability for the purpose intended. Therefore, what the hell are they selling?!?
If I install it on one or 12 computers in my home, for MY use, how does it affect them? I would not buy 12 copies of Windows and I can only really use one PC at a time. But that's not really the point, I don't use their software since it is not fit for the purpose that they sell it for.
As far as music goes, if I but the CD or cassette, I feel I have the right to listen to that music in perpetuity in any format I convert it into. When I was a kid, my dad had a reel-to-reel tape player. The player had excellent sound. He had recorded several LP albums to tape and had enough music to run several hours without changing records or flipping sides. I could listen to the Beatles, Tom Jones and Elvis for hours on end until I memorized those songs. Now you can do the same thing with your computer, but you can have all of your media stored and available at an instant and it takes up less space. I have 40GB of MY music ripped from CD. I own over 200 CDs, but its a pain to find the one I want. The kids kept getting into them and getting them out of alphabetic order.
I'm not sure where I'm going on this, but I just had to get it off my chest. I bought it, now stay out of my house.
Wasn't he a character in Rocky? Looks like Talia Shire's Uncle in the Rocky series. He played a bigger role in parts 2 and 3. I could be wrong as IMDB doesn't list these credits at all. I'm just going by the picture.
Not to get off on a rant, but.../rant What most people choose to ignore here is that the US was going on our best information about the capabilities of the Iraqi defense programs (e.g. bio-weapons, nuke program, chemical weapons). First off, the Clinton administration stripped the CIA, FBI and other investigative units of budget money and people, changed the rules for using/paying informants, lowered our military capability, etc. Then people are surprised when a key item about the possibility of crashing planes into buildings slips through the info gathering cracks or we over-estimate their capabilities. Personally, I don't think it matters now if we find WMDs (they were likely carted over to Syria before we invaded or buried like the tanks and other ordinance we've found).
I think we need to look at the side benefits of the War in Iraq. We now know that Saddam was doing some wicked crap to the people in his country. Some of it religiously motivated, some political, some ethnic, some just mean and cruel so he could have power over his people. Now he can't do it any more. If there is WMD in country, it will be found. The people are free and can elect a more fair gov't without fear. We can act as a stabilizing force in that volatile area. The other volatile countries have an example of what free people are capable of doing. Dictators should be quaking or at least worried. Apparently Quadaffi was worried he was next. Saddam can no longer break his peace agreements he made w/ the UN. The UN can quit its collective hand-wringing over what to do in the middle-east, there's a sheriff in town now. Yes, oil is a factor. Oil production in Iraq is up and maybe at a fair price. Now maybe we won't be held hostage by the oil cartels and the Iraqi people can now rebuild with oil money and not our money. They can rebuild infrastructure, build much needed and neglected hospitals, schools and other social services. They can make better use of the personal palaces of Saddam and his family.
So even if we were wrong about WMD, everybody but Saddam and his cronies are better off.
I've heard the criticism about the US supporting Saddam at a time when it served our purposes, but I think he was a lesser of two evils at the time and we didn't know how bad he would become. Remember, we played ball with Stalin at a time when we thought Hitler was the greater evil. We didn't know about Stalin's atrocities til later./end rant
I took my son to see the Hulk because he begged me and I had heard the CGI was great, they had spent a lot of time in post production getting it right and I had heard Ang Lee was this great filmaker (I had not seen Crouching Tiger), etc.
It was HORRID. I have never seen such a piece of crap. The only thing that was good was the part where he changes into the Hulk. Not only did I want to throw something at the screen, I felt like I had 2 hours of my time stolen from me. I thought the director should be put in jail for letting such a total piece of crap loose on the world.
The dialog sucked, sucked, sucked. Jennifer Connelly was completely wasted in this movie. She had bad hair, bad clothes, worse lines. The guy playing David Banner was wooden, worse lines, looked like he would trip over himself just walking around. Nick Nolte was OK, but his character was over the top. When he turned into that water creature, that didn't make any sense. He should have turned into Magneto. The general's character probably had the worst lines, and he was not believeable, nor was the defense contractor that wanted to kill the Hulk. I couldn't buy Jennifer Connelly's character EVER having a relationship with Banner. I couldn't buy the whole act of Banner not having any feelings. Maybe the old comics went into this, but I was used to the Bill Bixby character more and thought it was more believable. At least Lou Farigno wasn't super duper sized Hulk. The movie Hulk was too much over the top. I didn't like the way they jumped around in the timeline. The movie would have been better told from beginning to end and with out the POOR flashbacks. The dog fight scene sucked and made little sense. If Banner's dad wanted to kill him because he was afraid of what he had become, why not get up close and kill him and then kill himself. That would make more sense. Also, why would he then try to turn himself into a super being? Hulk was able to jump WAAAY too far. Physics defied.
There was so much wrong here I can't go into it all. The only redeeming value the movie had was the closing scene.
They could just call it Whine. For all the lusers who complain that Outlook or Office doesn't work on Linux. Or the crappy Flash and Shockwave ads. Whatever.
If you kill "God", then don't you become "God"? It's like humanism, where you deny the existence of a higher power in order to elevate the self or ego.
Religion is all about the aknowledgement of a higher power and its control over us, plan for us or creation of us. Makes one humble and capable of great things. Humanism in it's denial of the existence of a higher power, not only elevates man, but dissolves ethics and morals. Anything you do is OK as long as you can get away with it.
It's also possible that the Cylons are trying to cut out man as the middle-man and become closer to God. Once they find out about Cobol (Earth), they want to kill the people there too (in the old series anyway). They were really just toying w/ Adama until he led them to Earth.
I'm sure others could state it better or more precisely, but there's something to chew on.
Since he's/.ed I can't verify what he actually has, BUT a friend of mine routinely works on PhotoShop files that are at or over a gig.
I built him a new machine a couple of years ago to speed up his artwork. PIII-933, 768MB of Ram, 64MB Geforce card, 40GB HDD. He says he is ready for a nother new one in Spring as this one improved his situation by about half of what he really wanted.
new BIOS features are a waste of time.
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This is going to end up just like BIOS based Virus detection. To get anything to install on your computer you will have to reboot, enter the BIOS and turn this feature off and then enter the OS and install your app. How many of those BIOS virus protection features get turned back on after the first couple of times having to hassle with it?
If Phoenix thinks companies are going to pay for the digital certificate creation or whatever is needed to be able to install their app then they are mistaken. They should ask Microsoft how many software companies get them and keep them up to date. How many hardware vendors have gotten digital certs. on their drivers? Not many. As it is, we put the driver disk in that came w/ the hardware and move on. Or we download the latest driver from the net, install it and move on.
Just post md5 sums on the website w/ the driver and software downloads. Microsoft should build a simple MD5 sum checker that can be loaded from Windowsupdate. That would be the BEST thing they could do for security.
YMMV and if you break it, you get to keep both parts.
I really liked the thirteenth floor, a film that had another layer of reality. A few other films have done the same thing, and in some cases done it well.
Definitely a good movie. The 13th Floor did the whole virtual world and "what happens if I get killed while in the computer?", long before The Matrix. And it had a hot female lead IIRC. Worth renting.
I think it was modern marvels a couple of months ago that had an hour long show about Haz-Mat Transportation. I used to be in the shipping business and had to deal with Haz-Mats so I was interested. They road along with a trucker that had all the Haz-Mat certs and endorsements and showed the GPS tracking, tracking station, remote guage reading, remote kill, etc. They talked to Chem-Trec that pretty much was the first to track Haz-Mats end-to-end, pick-up to delivery. They talked about the placarding system and how that started.
They started placarding trains carrying dynamite and separating the explosives from the passenger cars. (Salesmen were going on trains with a satchel full of TNT which was their product demo kit.) After several trains blew up in transit, they decided to put explosives only in separate freight cars. When they used the first placards on trains some good 'ol boys in the countryside would shoot at the placards for target practice. Just like they do with stop signs. Several more trains blew up. Big surprise.
Then the show talked about special handling and transportation containers for stuff like nuclear waste. No Homer Simpson here, they are REAL careful with this stuff. They made a container that was so tough that they broadsided it with a train engine at 90 miles and hour and it just put a little ding on the outside and no cracks.
It was a really cool show if you are interested in this stuff, but as others have stated, this is hardly new technology. It's easily several years old.
Looks like they just don't support Mozilla 1.4. I just tried to view their page in IE 6.0 and it worked fine. As far as Mozilla, the connection times out. Great design boys and girls. Here's to not even attempting to work on standard browsers. You go, blink tag users!! Run that baby right into the iceberg at full speed, I won't read your site ever. L8ters, gators.
I've been trying to read an article someone sent me the link to for about 4 days. As far as I can tell the site is dead. The only way I was able to read the story was via google cache. Great way to run a business,.... Into the ground.
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Actually after learning a bit of Russian in college and watching Clockwork Orange on cable, it appears to me that they were just sprinkling in russian replacements for words in their own language.
Horoshow = fine
muy droog = friend
droogies = friends
I would imagine that those words were VERY foreign to most of the people around the characters and made them stand out. As if they needed any help after putting makeup on half of their face and running around in long underwear.
I guess I'm a real space geek, because I've heard of these and seen pictures years ago. As I recall the robots looked like a little red rectangular box with a foot on either side and it sort of walked. One model anyway. The Russians also sent probes to Mars and Venus for picture and samples.
I studied Russian history and language in college and before that anything I could get my hands on. I was fascinated with Russia. Probably because they were the unknown quantity to me, the most foreign people I could imagine.
Here's the way I test for viruses:
take spare PC.
Ghost OS image on it.
Run all sec. updates and virus updates.
save image of PC.
copy suspected virus to pc.
DISCONNECT from network.
run suspected virus.
Oh yeah, use a non-privledged account created for testing purposes. (testuser - no admin or poweruser rights)
Man, gentoo on the Zaurus is going to be great when I get done compiling.
(6 weeks later)
Hey, I've got a command line now. Time to compile X11.
(6 months later)
Hey, I got X compiled, but it doesn't work and I still need a Window Manager.
(6 months later)
I got X fixed, I got KDE installed, but damn it's slow. I'm going to compile a smaller WM, like Fluxbox.
(2 months later)
Nirvana.
(6 months later)
User dead of stress from waiting on compiler.
Sounds like the perfect use for a LiveCD of Linux and a USB device to save to when done. There are ways to get dev tools on a Live CD. In Morphix, you just make your own custom CD, say of LightGUI, and add the devel minimod. Then you have gcc, make and everything else you need. Save to a memory stick when done and bingo, the PC looks like it was never touched.
I would unplug from the network though or you might leave a fingerprint on the DHCP server.
On either Knoppix or damnsmall use "knoppix toram" at the boot prompt. On Morphix, "morphix toram". Done. Sorted.
If you want to use USB there is some info at the Damnsmall and flonix sites about booting directly to USB or you can use the RUNT version 3 floppy to initialize the USB bus. That's what I do on an old laptop.
When you buy a product, it should be YOURS, period, end of story. If you want to mod your Xbox into a PC, and you have the skills to do it, then you damn well ought to be able to do so. Once you pay your $175 (or whatever they're going for) for an Xbox, Microsoft should cease to have any control over what you do with it -- save voiding the warranty if you decide to take it apart and start modding it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have thought for a long time that once I buy something, it is mine to do with as I please. This also relates to MS' EULA. They say they are selling a license, which I never signed and I believe shrink wrap and click through are highly unenforcible, but in that license they state that they take no responsibility for damage caused by their product nor for its useability for the purpose intended. Therefore, what the hell are they selling?!?
If I install it on one or 12 computers in my home, for MY use, how does it affect them? I would not buy 12 copies of Windows and I can only really use one PC at a time. But that's not really the point, I don't use their software since it is not fit for the purpose that they sell it for.
As far as music goes, if I but the CD or cassette, I feel I have the right to listen to that music in perpetuity in any format I convert it into. When I was a kid, my dad had a reel-to-reel tape player. The player had excellent sound. He had recorded several LP albums to tape and had enough music to run several hours without changing records or flipping sides. I could listen to the Beatles, Tom Jones and Elvis for hours on end until I memorized those songs. Now you can do the same thing with your computer, but you can have all of your media stored and available at an instant and it takes up less space. I have 40GB of MY music ripped from CD. I own over 200 CDs, but its a pain to find the one I want. The kids kept getting into them and getting them out of alphabetic order.
I'm not sure where I'm going on this, but I just had to get it off my chest. I bought it, now stay out of my house.
Wasn't he a character in Rocky? Looks like Talia Shire's Uncle in the Rocky series. He played a bigger role in parts 2 and 3. I could be wrong as IMDB doesn't list these credits at all. I'm just going by the picture.
Not to get off on a rant, but... /rant What most people choose to ignore here is that the US was going on our best information about the capabilities of the Iraqi defense programs (e.g. bio-weapons, nuke program, chemical weapons). First off, the Clinton administration stripped the CIA, FBI and other investigative units of budget money and people, changed the rules for using/paying informants, lowered our military capability, etc. Then people are surprised when a key item about the possibility of crashing planes into buildings slips through the info gathering cracks or we over-estimate their capabilities. Personally, I don't think it matters now if we find WMDs (they were likely carted over to Syria before we invaded or buried like the tanks and other ordinance we've found).
/end rant
I think we need to look at the side benefits of the War in Iraq. We now know that Saddam was doing some wicked crap to the people in his country. Some of it religiously motivated, some political, some ethnic, some just mean and cruel so he could have power over his people. Now he can't do it any more. If there is WMD in country, it will be found. The people are free and can elect a more fair gov't without fear. We can act as a stabilizing force in that volatile area. The other volatile countries have an example of what free people are capable of doing. Dictators should be quaking or at least worried. Apparently Quadaffi was worried he was next. Saddam can no longer break his peace agreements he made w/ the UN. The UN can quit its collective hand-wringing over what to do in the middle-east, there's a sheriff in town now. Yes, oil is a factor. Oil production in Iraq is up and maybe at a fair price. Now maybe we won't be held hostage by the oil cartels and the Iraqi people can now rebuild with oil money and not our money. They can rebuild infrastructure, build much needed and neglected hospitals, schools and other social services. They can make better use of the personal palaces of Saddam and his family.
So even if we were wrong about WMD, everybody but Saddam and his cronies are better off.
I've heard the criticism about the US supporting Saddam at a time when it served our purposes, but I think he was a lesser of two evils at the time and we didn't know how bad he would become.
Remember, we played ball with Stalin at a time when we thought Hitler was the greater evil. We didn't know about Stalin's atrocities til later.
I took my son to see the Hulk because he begged me and I had heard the CGI was great, they had spent a lot of time in post production getting it right and I had heard Ang Lee was this great filmaker (I had not seen Crouching Tiger), etc.
It was HORRID. I have never seen such a piece of crap. The only thing that was good was the part where he changes into the Hulk. Not only did I want to throw something at the screen, I felt like I had 2 hours of my time stolen from me. I thought the director should be put in jail for letting such a total piece of crap loose on the world.
The dialog sucked, sucked, sucked. Jennifer Connelly was completely wasted in this movie. She had bad hair, bad clothes, worse lines.
The guy playing David Banner was wooden, worse lines, looked like he would trip over himself just walking around.
Nick Nolte was OK, but his character was over the top. When he turned into that water creature, that didn't make any sense. He should have turned into Magneto.
The general's character probably had the worst lines, and he was not believeable, nor was the defense contractor that wanted to kill the Hulk.
I couldn't buy Jennifer Connelly's character EVER having a relationship with Banner. I couldn't buy the whole act of Banner not having any feelings. Maybe the old comics went into this, but I was used to the Bill Bixby character more and thought it was more believable. At least Lou Farigno wasn't super duper sized Hulk. The movie Hulk was too much over the top.
I didn't like the way they jumped around in the timeline. The movie would have been better told from beginning to end and with out the POOR flashbacks.
The dog fight scene sucked and made little sense. If Banner's dad wanted to kill him because he was afraid of what he had become, why not get up close and kill him and then kill himself. That would make more sense. Also, why would he then try to turn himself into a super being?
Hulk was able to jump WAAAY too far. Physics defied.
There was so much wrong here I can't go into it all. The only redeeming value the movie had was the closing scene.
They could just call it Whine. For all the lusers who complain that Outlook or Office doesn't work on Linux. Or the crappy Flash and Shockwave ads. Whatever.
If you kill "God", then don't you become "God"? It's like humanism, where you deny the existence of a higher power in order to elevate the self or ego.
Religion is all about the aknowledgement of a higher power and its control over us, plan for us or creation of us. Makes one humble and capable of great things. Humanism in it's denial of the existence of a higher power, not only elevates man, but dissolves ethics and morals. Anything you do is OK as long as you can get away with it.
It's also possible that the Cylons are trying to cut out man as the middle-man and become closer to God. Once they find out about Cobol (Earth), they want to kill the people there too (in the old series anyway). They were really just toying w/ Adama until he led them to Earth.
I'm sure others could state it better or more precisely, but there's something to chew on.
MS will not be outbid!!! Looks like they have a lot of people and groups in their pocket and on the payroll.
Since he's /.ed I can't verify what he actually has, BUT a friend of mine routinely works on PhotoShop files that are at or over a gig.
I built him a new machine a couple of years ago to speed up his artwork. PIII-933, 768MB of Ram, 64MB Geforce card, 40GB HDD. He says he is ready for a nother new one in Spring as this one improved his situation by about half of what he really wanted.
This is going to end up just like BIOS based Virus detection. To get anything to install on your computer you will have to reboot, enter the BIOS and turn this feature off and then enter the OS and install your app. How many of those BIOS virus protection features get turned back on after the first couple of times having to hassle with it?
If Phoenix thinks companies are going to pay for the digital certificate creation or whatever is needed to be able to install their app then they are mistaken. They should ask Microsoft how many software companies get them and keep them up to date. How many hardware vendors have gotten digital certs. on their drivers? Not many. As it is, we put the driver disk in that came w/ the hardware and move on. Or we download the latest driver from the net, install it and move on.
Just post md5 sums on the website w/ the driver and software downloads. Microsoft should build a simple MD5 sum checker that can be loaded from Windowsupdate. That would be the BEST thing they could do for security.
YMMV and if you break it, you get to keep both parts.
I really liked the thirteenth floor, a film that had another layer of reality. A few other films have done the same thing, and in some cases done it well.
Definitely a good movie. The 13th Floor did the whole virtual world and "what happens if I get killed while in the computer?", long before The Matrix. And it had a hot female lead IIRC.
Worth renting.
Kuney said that Internet Explorer is a fruit, but Microsoft's Lacovar said that there is no evidence to show that.
I admit that I hate microsoft just as much as the next guy but reverting to this kind of name calling is just plain wrong.
Hey, IE, get back in the closet!
I think it was modern marvels a couple of months ago that had an hour long show about Haz-Mat Transportation. I used to be in the shipping business and had to deal with Haz-Mats so I was interested. They road along with a trucker that had all the Haz-Mat certs and endorsements and showed the GPS tracking, tracking station, remote guage reading, remote kill, etc. They talked to Chem-Trec that pretty much was the first to track Haz-Mats end-to-end, pick-up to delivery. They talked about the placarding system and how that started.
They started placarding trains carrying dynamite and separating the explosives from the passenger cars. (Salesmen were going on trains with a satchel full of TNT which was their product demo kit.) After several trains blew up in transit, they decided to put explosives only in separate freight cars. When they used the first placards on trains some good 'ol boys in the countryside would shoot at the placards for target practice. Just like they do with stop signs. Several more trains blew up. Big surprise.
Then the show talked about special handling and transportation containers for stuff like nuclear waste. No Homer Simpson here, they are REAL careful with this stuff. They made a container that was so tough that they broadsided it with a train engine at 90 miles and hour and it just put a little ding on the outside and no cracks.
It was a really cool show if you are interested in this stuff, but as others have stated, this is hardly new technology. It's easily several years old.
You mean the Macs were protected from the baddies in the Tempest game or from actually loading the game itself?
I couldn't even get through the headline without busting a gut. What were those marketers thinking? Are they NUTS?
And the shell, Welcome to MS Hell. I'm already there, baby.
It requires shots to get rid of. A shot of Ad-aware or a shot of Spybot Seek and Destroy.
I just read an article in Linux Journal about using vtun over an SSH connection. Is it possible that this combination would fix some of the problem?
Looks like they just don't support Mozilla 1.4. I just tried to view their page in IE 6.0 and it worked fine. As far as Mozilla, the connection times out. Great design boys and girls. Here's to not even attempting to work on standard browsers. You go, blink tag users!! Run that baby right into the iceberg at full speed, I won't read your site ever. L8ters, gators.
I've been trying to read an article someone sent me the link to for about 4 days. As far as I can tell the site is dead. The only way I was able to read the story was via google cache. Great way to run a business, .... Into the ground.
> It is not yours, has never been >yours, and will >never be yours.
You can pry it from my cold, dead hands.