> hopefully the actress in this one has a better character.
The two main women in this movie either kick his ass, or save his ass (depending on the woman). Nicely done! And Zhang Ziyi....oh my...she needs to be in a LOT more movies!
I read an interview with her in a Kung-Fu magazine where she said she wanted to take this role to prove to herself that she could portray a character so opposite of herself, someone truly bad. She _really_ pulled it off - she's totally menacing in this movie. Also note: she's _not_ a martial artist - she's a national champion dancer, though, and that's what allowed her to do the necessary moves so well.
Okay, here's the explanation - they said there's no 'ROSWELL'. Strictly-speaking, this is true, but only in the 'stupid UNIX-style filesystem' sense. Since uppercase characters are different from lowercase ones, 'ROSWELL' does not equal 'Roswell', therefore, while there may, indeed be no 'ROSWELL', they've certainly not addressed 'Roswell'.
Also, I heard when you bootup the new beta, it plays a Dido.mp3. Sweet.
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> If we could just get enough of the message contained in Pi, maybe some order would magically appear.
I'm sure once it's calculated to an infinite number of digits, the true meaning will become clear.
> I really liked the show up until the movie, but the season after that, you start to realize that the story can no longer progress towards anything.
Methinks you missed something. A whole lotta somethings. I realized this during the first _season_. All the conspiracy nonsense meant that they could _never_ really reveal "the truth" without killing the premise of the show. Anyone remember what happened to Moonlighting after David and Maddy got together? It's kinda like letting the castaways get off Gilligan's island. Sure, you can bring the Harlem Globetrotters on, but it's not the same thing.
The only decent episodes, IMO, were the creature ones, with no connection to the conspiracy junk. My favourites were the town full of ex circus freaks, the one where Fox & Dana pose as husband and wife, and the one about the black baseball player/alien.
Duchovny should go back and do more Red Shoe Diaries, and Gillian Anderson can fade back into a much-deserved obscurity.
If Mac OS is ever ported to this technology, the conflict between it and Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field" may be enough to destroy the entire multiverse. Look at the bones, man!
I doubt there'll be much confusion, because I doubt too many people will bother with this. So when someone cays 'css', I think the safe assumption is that they're talking about 'cascading style sheets'.
These days, Most heat is generated from the CPU, and most noise, believe it or not, is generated from those cruddy little CPU fans. A lot of noise is also generated from extra case fans you may have trying to improve airflow in your case. P/S fans are often much quieter than those other fans in your system.
I've thought of this idea before, and I also think it'd be a fantastic idea. Just keep in mind, the P/S also needs to be cooled, so that external box will have fans in it, and once it's outside the case, it'll be making some noise, too. I remember my Amiga 500 fondly, though, as it's power needs were such the external P/S didn't need any fans...
You know, "Beyond 2000" sounded a lot cooler when we hadn't actually gotten past the year 2000. Now, it sounds like last year's news. And what's with 20th Century Fox? Sheesh! They each need to come up with a new naming scheme.
I say for "Beyond 2000", they rename it "Five Years Out" - as that seems to be the amount of time everything talked about seems to be.
As for 20th Century Fox...I guess it's easy enough for them to just change it to 21st Century Fox - it's not like they're likely to be around long enough for another name change anyway, right? Plus then they'd be able to use that cool song for their theme!:)
Which UPSs ('smart' and otherwise) have software (GPL'd) that works with Linux? Also there's the question of quality of the UPS hardware...anybody? Anybody?
Here are two special effect shots I created for the new show. I've put them up on my site for you all to see - Paramount will probably make me take them down once they find out about them, though, so mirror these quickly! I could tell you more about the show, but then I'd have to kill you all.
You can get a good feel for the new show seeing the setting in the first one & one of the craft used. The second shot has a pic of some aliens.
> Look at a book (I'll avoid the sarcastic description of what one is...), they've been around for centuries, and are still quite popular for communicating information. Now, notice how the book is laid out; is it artistic? No.
You have obviously never heard of the field of typography. Yes, books are artistic. Type design (nevermind the layout design) is an entire field unto itself. Just because YOU don't notice it, doesn't mean there isn't any artistry there. One could claim that means it's been done well - it's not getting in the way. That actually makes my point.
Then there are the non-fiction, reference type books. Lots of design there - the table of contents, appendix, glossary, illustrations, and so forth. I've seen many an otherwise-great book get a thrashing in reviews for badly-done TOCs and appendices.
There is also artistry in writing. Well, there is if it's done well. I'm about to have my first article published in April (on Internet privacy), so I like to think that I know what I'm talking about!
Whether _most_ web pages exist to further artistic expression, or to communicate information, is not the point. Using proper design is KEY to communicating one's message - whether that message be informational only, or creative in some way. Proper design enhances that process. 'Artistry' doesn't mean lots of Flash and javascript pop-ups by default. I just want to have the option to use such technology.
Pop-up windows don't kill people - people kill people!
> The web is not at all about stylized content. It's about content. Period.
The web is about _lots_ of things, and to say something as sweeping as the above proves you don't understand that yet.
I'm a web interface designer/developer, and thus am _really_ picky about how things appear. It's often quite difficult to organize content and design interfaces to complex content. Most sites don't get it right - heck, most don't even come close! One of my mottos is, "If someone can't _find_ what they're looking for, it might as well not even _be_ there." There is a place on the web for both style as well as substance. You could put the best novel in the world online, but if you make all the text blink, it won't matter. _Think_ about that! People avoid sites with lots of crap, despite how good the content may be - simply because the other stuff is too irritating. It's not necessarily that there's too much 'technology' (ie: javascript, popup windows, etc.), it's that it's not DESIGNED properly. Some content lends itself to simple layout - all text, perhaps, single column, whatever. Some content does NOT (no matter what your personal opinion is, I'm sticking to this). Frames are not only somtimes appropriate, they're sometimes the ONLY _good_ way to present some content (generally navigation, though). Just because you've been subjected to evil web site design using frames or javascript or popup windows (as have we all), that doesn't make such things bad. Those things are just tools - neither good nor evil. I certainly like having the option to use such thing when I feel they're appropriate.
I've seen some _fantastically_ artistic presentations done via Flash - which many SlashDot snobs dismiss out of hand. I've seen things that simply couldn't be done without Flash. Sure, someday some of the upcoming vector and SMIL stuff will likely make that possible without Flash, but it ain't here, yet, so stop bitching about Flash. Instead, bitch about Macromedia not properly (not even REMOTELY properly) supporting non Win and Mac platforms. And where's the Flash program itself for Linux? Nowhere. Ugh. Nevertheless, the technology is here, and can be quite cool.
Anyone developing a website has to make many choices, not the least of which is, "How many people, and WHICH people, am I targeting this to?" Does it make sense to not be able to, or to have to dumb-down, your content to be able to reach more people? Many artists in non-web fields would answer that with a resounding "No!", so why should artistic expression on the web be any different? Just because a small percentage of people think so? The artist is the only person qualified to determine what is the 'proper' method of expressing their vision, be it text or audio or visual. Deal with it.
In a related vein, my opinion is that if content really WAS king for most people, the web would be vastly different than it is now, and people would be more willing to pay for quality content. I'd certainly be willing to pay a small fee for monthly local movie listings, for example, if they listed EVERY local movie theatre, and listed them correctly and reliably. Unfortunately, moviefone.com and citysearch.com both have similar such problems.:(
All of this is, of course, an opinion, just like yours.:^)
communicating in their own language? hmmm....
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Why do I get this uneasy feeling, and remember "Colossus" and "Guardian" from the movie "The Forbin Project"? Yikes...
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> hopefully the actress in this one has a better character.
The two main women in this movie either kick his ass, or save his ass (depending on the woman). Nicely done! And Zhang Ziyi....oh my...she needs to be in a LOT more movies!
I read an interview with her in a Kung-Fu magazine where she said she wanted to take this role to prove to herself that she could portray a character so opposite of herself, someone truly bad. She _really_ pulled it off - she's totally menacing in this movie. Also note: she's _not_ a martial artist - she's a national champion dancer, though, and that's what allowed her to do the necessary moves so well.
Okay, here's the explanation - they said there's no 'ROSWELL'. Strictly-speaking, this is true, but only in the 'stupid UNIX-style filesystem' sense. Since uppercase characters are different from lowercase ones, 'ROSWELL' does not equal 'Roswell', therefore, while there may, indeed be no 'ROSWELL', they've certainly not addressed 'Roswell'.
.mp3. Sweet.
Also, I heard when you bootup the new beta, it plays a Dido
> If we could just get enough of the message contained in Pi, maybe some order would magically appear.
I'm sure once it's calculated to an infinite number of digits, the true meaning will become clear.
> I really liked the show up until the movie, but the season after that, you start to realize that the story can no longer progress towards anything.
Methinks you missed something. A whole lotta somethings. I realized this during the first _season_. All the conspiracy nonsense meant that they could _never_ really reveal "the truth" without killing the premise of the show. Anyone remember what happened to Moonlighting after David and Maddy got together? It's kinda like letting the castaways get off Gilligan's island. Sure, you can bring the Harlem Globetrotters on, but it's not the same thing.
The only decent episodes, IMO, were the creature ones, with no connection to the conspiracy junk. My favourites were the town full of ex circus freaks, the one where Fox & Dana pose as husband and wife, and the one about the black baseball player/alien.
Duchovny should go back and do more Red Shoe Diaries, and Gillian Anderson can fade back into a much-deserved obscurity.
"A very special episode of X-Files..."
Please to note that many Linux distributions have done this for a long time, and not just a web server, either.
"I ping nothing...NOTHING!"
If Mac OS is ever ported to this technology, the conflict between it and Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field" may be enough to destroy the entire multiverse. Look at the bones, man!
Turnabout being fair play and all that, I'd say Alec Baldwin should take over as Indy. :)
I doubt there'll be much confusion, because I doubt too many people will bother with this. So when someone cays 'css', I think the safe assumption is that they're talking about 'cascading style sheets'.
AMD 760 boards yes, AMD 760MP no. Big difference between the single-proc 760 and the dual-proc 760MP. FYI.
"I shall call him...CmdrTaquito."
Not hardly.
These days, Most heat is generated from the CPU, and most noise, believe it or not, is generated from those cruddy little CPU fans. A lot of noise is also generated from extra case fans you may have trying to improve airflow in your case. P/S fans are often much quieter than those other fans in your system.
I've thought of this idea before, and I also think it'd be a fantastic idea. Just keep in mind, the P/S also needs to be cooled, so that external box will have fans in it, and once it's outside the case, it'll be making some noise, too. I remember my Amiga 500 fondly, though, as it's power needs were such the external P/S didn't need any fans...
Do you have any plans to merge Stackless Python with Python? If yes, when? If not, why not?
Man, they better not _touch_ my computers! :)
You know, "Beyond 2000" sounded a lot cooler when we hadn't actually gotten past the year 2000. Now, it sounds like last year's news. And what's with 20th Century Fox? Sheesh! They each need to come up with a new naming scheme.
:)
I say for "Beyond 2000", they rename it "Five Years Out" - as that seems to be the amount of time everything talked about seems to be.
As for 20th Century Fox...I guess it's easy enough for them to just change it to 21st Century Fox - it's not like they're likely to be around long enough for another name change anyway, right? Plus then they'd be able to use that cool song for their theme!
Which UPSs ('smart' and otherwise) have software (GPL'd) that works with Linux? Also there's the question of quality of the UPS hardware...anybody? Anybody?
The install program for Debian!
*shudder*
I love the idea being Debian's design, but the installation of it gives me nightmares.
What about stainless steel?
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Then electrify it so it doesn't get tampered with.
CDW has a Kensington model which I've used for a few years now at home and work.
Nice product. There's a colour-coded version, and a cheaper, non-colour-coded version.
I've found them at such places as CompUSA, OfficeMax, and Office Depot, at reasonable prices.
Here are two special effect shots I created for the new show. I've put them up on my site for you all to see - Paramount will probably make me take them down once they find out about them, though, so mirror these quickly! I could tell you more about the show, but then I'd have to kill you all.
You can get a good feel for the new show seeing the setting in the first one & one of the craft used. The second shot has a pic of some aliens.
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Aliens.
> Look at a book (I'll avoid the sarcastic description of what one is...), they've been around for centuries, and are still quite popular for communicating information. Now, notice how the book is laid out; is it artistic? No.
You have obviously never heard of the field of typography. Yes, books are artistic. Type design (nevermind the layout design) is an entire field unto itself. Just because YOU don't notice it, doesn't mean there isn't any artistry there. One could claim that means it's been done well - it's not getting in the way. That actually makes my point.
Then there are the non-fiction, reference type books. Lots of design there - the table of contents, appendix, glossary, illustrations, and so forth. I've seen many an otherwise-great book get a thrashing in reviews for badly-done TOCs and appendices.
There is also artistry in writing. Well, there is if it's done well. I'm about to have my first article published in April (on Internet privacy), so I like to think that I know what I'm talking about!
Whether _most_ web pages exist to further artistic expression, or to communicate information, is not the point. Using proper design is KEY to communicating one's message - whether that message be informational only, or creative in some way. Proper design enhances that process. 'Artistry' doesn't mean lots of Flash and javascript pop-ups by default. I just want to have the option to use such technology.
Pop-up windows don't kill people - people kill people!
> The web is not at all about stylized content. It's about content. Period.
:(
:^)
The web is about _lots_ of things, and to say something as sweeping as the above proves you don't understand that yet.
I'm a web interface designer/developer, and thus am _really_ picky about how things appear. It's often quite difficult to organize content and design interfaces to complex content. Most sites don't get it right - heck, most don't even come close! One of my mottos is, "If someone can't _find_ what they're looking for, it might as well not even _be_ there." There is a place on the web for both style as well as substance. You could put the best novel in the world online, but if you make all the text blink, it won't matter. _Think_ about that! People avoid sites with lots of crap, despite how good the content may be - simply because the other stuff is too irritating. It's not necessarily that there's too much 'technology' (ie: javascript, popup windows, etc.), it's that it's not DESIGNED properly. Some content lends itself to simple layout - all text, perhaps, single column, whatever. Some content does NOT (no matter what your personal opinion is, I'm sticking to this). Frames are not only somtimes appropriate, they're sometimes the ONLY _good_ way to present some content (generally navigation, though). Just because you've been subjected to evil web site design using frames or javascript or popup windows (as have we all), that doesn't make such things bad. Those things are just tools - neither good nor evil. I certainly like having the option to use such thing when I feel they're appropriate.
I've seen some _fantastically_ artistic presentations done via Flash - which many SlashDot snobs dismiss out of hand. I've seen things that simply couldn't be done without Flash. Sure, someday some of the upcoming vector and SMIL stuff will likely make that possible without Flash, but it ain't here, yet, so stop bitching about Flash. Instead, bitch about Macromedia not properly (not even REMOTELY properly) supporting non Win and Mac platforms. And where's the Flash program itself for Linux? Nowhere. Ugh. Nevertheless, the technology is here, and can be quite cool.
Anyone developing a website has to make many choices, not the least of which is, "How many people, and WHICH people, am I targeting this to?" Does it make sense to not be able to, or to have to dumb-down, your content to be able to reach more people? Many artists in non-web fields would answer that with a resounding "No!", so why should artistic expression on the web be any different? Just because a small percentage of people think so? The artist is the only person qualified to determine what is the 'proper' method of expressing their vision, be it text or audio or visual. Deal with it.
In a related vein, my opinion is that if content really WAS king for most people, the web would be vastly different than it is now, and people would be more willing to pay for quality content. I'd certainly be willing to pay a small fee for monthly local movie listings, for example, if they listed EVERY local movie theatre, and listed them correctly and reliably. Unfortunately, moviefone.com and citysearch.com both have similar such problems.
All of this is, of course, an opinion, just like yours.
Why do I get this uneasy feeling, and remember "Colossus" and "Guardian" from the movie "The Forbin Project"? Yikes...
The 5 DIMM slots are almost certainly a combination of 2/3 with 2 being one type, and 3 of another (between SDRAM and DDR-SDRAM).