Ok first of all let me say that I haven't seen the original, but I did enjoy this movie very much.
With that out of the way, you're right. This movie is chock full of plot and scientific holes. My favorite is:
When he comes out of the storm at the end of the movie he is travelling past Saturn. Two or three seconds later he's crashing on earth. Holy hell that's a fast little ship he's got there! That's about 1.2billion kilometers. Hmm...even if it took him a whole 3 seconds, that'd be about twice the speed of light. ---Zooom---
Of course a discussion on all the technical problems with this film would take more typing than anyone on slashdot probably wants to do.:)
"They had primitive tech so I dont seem to think they are survivors of oberon."
The survivors of the Oberon crash were subsequently attacked and killed by the enhanced monkeys from the ship. I believe the humans in the movies were the decendents of some Oberon humans who managed to escape the monkeys and live primitively in the forest.
Aside from numerous other inconsistencies/impossibilities, I think it is reasonable to assume that after 600 years worth of living in the forest on the run from intelligent apes, humans wouldn't have much tech left.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong [apologies to Miller...]
How many times has a cop car without its lights on blow by you doing 90MPH on the freeway? Have you ever seen one of these guys pulled over for speeding?
I like to make note of the vehicle number and make a call to the police station. I have called in and reported officers speeding, driving without seatbelts and tailgating a motorcycle.
I don't know that the officers are ever reprimanded or anything, but at least it lets someone at the station know that they are being watched.
My parents also had a little device for making square hard-boiled eggs. Not quite sure about the usefullness of that, but it exists.:)
Of course we got the most use out of it for entertainment purposes...it was an odd looking contraption and ppl would spend hours trying to figure out what the hell it was.
Ender
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They're blowing through 60 trillion watts an hour, but california has an energy crisis??
Ok, I know nothing about this sort of thing, but...
Could it be a long term affect of magnetism? If the metal of the probes are reacting to the solar systems magnetic fields, wouldn't it possibly show up with the same symptoms[slowing down]? I'd think it would show this over long periods if the probe was being magnetically pulled back towards the solar system. But I'm not sure how far out the sun's magnetic field goes, or if there is a larger [if fainter] magnetic field based around the entire solar system.
That's partially true. The problem is that people submitted data with the understanding that everything was GPL'd or would otherwise be available to everyone. CDDB has betrayed that trust but closing everything up and charging.
Thus I think that some action is required.
I will admit a possible way that CDDB will get away with that part. Before they closed up the data, the then-current database was available to all [the data that freedb used to get started]. Any submissions made after that time would be considered as part of the new closed system. Leaving out the fact that most people probably weren't aware of the fact that it was now closed.
All that aside, I still don't understand what Gracenote is really suing Roxio for. As far as I can tell, Roxio kept up with their end of any contracts throughout the life of the license. The license has now expired and Roxio has chosen to use another solution. I can see nothing in this situation that would warrant suing over. I hope it gets laughed out of court.
Court: "So you're suing Roxio because they chose to use a competitor after their agreements with you expired?" Gracenote: "Yes your honor." Court:"[snicker]...ok, well [chuckle] i'll have to bring this up with [giggle] the DOJ. [guffaw] Court is adjourned. [Bwahahahhahah!] Gracenote: "Doh!"
"you GAVE them that information, they can do whatever they want with it"
No, we gave them a copy of that information. And they should have no say over whether or not we decide to give another copy to freedb, and choose to access freedb instead of cddb.
It's our data, and we can do what we like with it and access it from whomever we choose.
"I would be interested in seeing a company that makes a profit from a linux distro"
I believe Slackware makes a profit.
"Slackware has always made money (who else producing a commercial distribution can say that?)"
See Patrick's post regarding Slackware and WindRiver. And Slashdot article on said subject.
Now admittedly, I don't know how MUCH money they've been making, but they do it by having a distro that is stable and secure [well, compared to most other distros]. I've found Slackware to be "short, sweet and to the point" Because of this I think more people are willing to fork over the $$ to get the distro. It's the only distro that I've liked enough to pay for anyway.
Er...that's "Ghost in the Shell"... great flick. I don't know that I'd consider it a 'hacker' movie, since it was more about the internet spawning a new Intelligence [ala Jane from Speaker for the Dead]. I will admit though, that I don't think there's a geek or hacker alive that wouldn't kill to have hands that could pop out dozens of fingers for some really speedy typing.:)
Then again, I don't really consider The Matrix a hacker movie either.
There was also "Ghost in the Machine" which was kind of a bad rehash of the Lawnmower Man.
Well I could be completely wrong here, I've never been very good at History. But believe I saw that same History Channel documentary on snipers.
What I remember is that Zaitsev had a wife who was also a sniper, but that she died at some point. So there wasn't really a love triangle, but he was married to a sniper.
Then again, it could have been a different WWII sniper that I've gotten mixed up with Zeitsev.
But over all I enjoyed the movie. As another poster mentioned, they could have been a little more detailed on Zaitsev getting out of some of his predicaments. Though I think they did a 'fair' job of keeping a rather boring undertaking somewhat interesting. Seeing as sniping is 99% waiting, it would have made for a slow movie:)
Let them go for it! They could sue me all they want, all they'd get from me is my life savings [currently around $25.00] and my $40,000 of debt.
I keep wondering how stupid someone has to be in order to believe any of the crap they push on their members. Don't these people realize that LRH was just a [bad] Science FICTION writer? And that all these OT whatevers are just that..Fiction?
I mean, what exactly is the initial selling point of this 'religion'?
To a Woman passing on the street: "Scuze me ma'am. Did you know that the souls of hundreds of exploded aliens are infesting your body? But hey, it's ok. For lots of $$$ we can help you out!"
I just don't get it.
So F*ck 'em! And that's my political statement of the day.
as if Rambus wins, memory prices are going
up, and fast.
It seems to me that nobody is happy with the performance of Rambus anyway. I for one will go for DDR on my next system, not Rambus. And I believe the DDR is cheaper already [ie. not much more than SDRAM, though I could be quite mistaken in that]. So screw Rambus, I want nothing to do with them.
On another note, as I mentioned in another recent article: Rambus had a booth at last weeks Brassring Job Fair, and the main position they had open was for a patent attorney. I laughed out loud as I passed the booth and saw that.:)
You know, Chuck. I think we'd better Chuck your name Chuck, into every sentence we can Chuck it into...
Ah, it's even funnier if you read the entire article imagining that it's Peppermint Patty berating Charlie Brown over something stupid that he's done.:)
"Gee, Chuck, you sure are stupid. You're not making any sence Chuck. You're not even in the same game, Chuck. Why can't you even hit the ball, Chuck?"
In addition to the possibilities of using old analog speakers and making homemade equipment, there could also be a resurgence[sp?] in live music. They can either use homemade equipment for amps and speakers, or go back to acoustic instruments.
I for one would rather go to a free/cheap live show than deal with getting a telephone-like bill with charges for the music I listen to. I pretty much always have some sort of music playing, whether I'm working, playing or just driving somewhere. And though I may not be able to get a live band in the back of my car, I can still play the old tapes, CD's and MP3's that I already have.
this analysis doesn't take into account certain facts, such as that names do not always accurately reflect content, some listed keys were never inserted into Freenet, some listed keys have since fallen out of Freenet, and some information in Freenet is not listed.
On the contrary. The third paragraph is pretty clear on the fact that the names don't neccessarily reflect the content, saying that a file called "constitution.txt" could contain ANYTHING be it an MPEG or copy of software. The author then suggests that he is indulging himself by constructing the demographics based on keyname, even though he knows it is not neccessarily accurate...
Sounds to me like he's taken into account the probable inaccuracies and made that clear to the reader.
I can imagine it now!
"Send in 5 Paper RF ID tags with a self-addressed stamed envelope to recieve you toy, in specially marked boxes only"
Why would you need to send it in? Just use your anti-Cue:Cat 2000 to read the RFID tags, and send the data to the company. Since the tags are unique, they can be stored in a database so they can't be reused. No Mail necessary. We can put the US Postal service out of business:)
Well... we can at last save $1.50 on postage [yeah it might be that expensive by then]
I spent about 20 or 30 minutes playing on a PS2 last night at Fry's. The polygon counts were rather nice, but the games themselves seemed pretty unremarkable to me. Honestly, the games don't seem to be any more interesting or sophisticated than games for earlier consoles. The graphics are better, and the game pad feels nicer. But the games don't seem any different.
I also played the PS2 at Fry's. I think they made a poor choice of games to Demo. They had Tekken Tag on the PSX2, and right next to it was a DC running Soul Caliber... The DC looked 10 times better than the PSX2! I KNOW there are better games they could have demo'd for the Playstation.
In particular, I'm looking forward to DOA2:Hardcore, Bouncers and Zone of Enders..
Then again they had yet another DC running some stupid@ss mexican maraca[sp?] game...really frightening.
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With that out of the way, you're right. This movie is chock full of plot and scientific holes. My favorite is:
When he comes out of the storm at the end of the movie he is travelling past Saturn. Two or three seconds later he's crashing on earth. Holy hell that's a fast little ship he's got there! That's about 1.2billion kilometers. Hmm...even if it took him a whole 3 seconds, that'd be about twice the speed of light. ---Zooom---
Of course a discussion on all the technical problems with this film would take more typing than anyone on slashdot probably wants to do. :)
Ender
The survivors of the Oberon crash were subsequently attacked and killed by the enhanced monkeys from the ship. I believe the humans in the movies were the decendents of some Oberon humans who managed to escape the monkeys and live primitively in the forest.
Aside from numerous other inconsistencies/impossibilities, I think it is reasonable to assume that after 600 years worth of living in the forest on the run from intelligent apes, humans wouldn't have much tech left.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong [apologies to Miller...]
Ender
I like to make note of the vehicle number and make a call to the police station. I have called in and reported officers speeding, driving without seatbelts and tailgating a motorcycle.
I don't know that the officers are ever reprimanded or anything, but at least it lets someone at the station know that they are being watched.
Ender
Of course we got the most use out of it for entertainment purposes...it was an odd looking contraption and ppl would spend hours trying to figure out what the hell it was.
Ender
I'd hate to see their electric bill. :)
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Ender
Could it be a long term affect of magnetism? If the metal of the probes are reacting to the solar systems magnetic fields, wouldn't it possibly show up with the same symptoms[slowing down]? I'd think it would show this over long periods if the probe was being magnetically pulled back towards the solar system. But I'm not sure how far out the sun's magnetic field goes, or if there is a larger [if fainter] magnetic field based around the entire solar system.
Just a thought...
Ender
I will admit a possible way that CDDB will get away with that part. Before they closed up the data, the then-current database was available to all [the data that freedb used to get started]. Any submissions made after that time would be considered as part of the new closed system. Leaving out the fact that most people probably weren't aware of the fact that it was now closed.
All that aside, I still don't understand what Gracenote is really suing Roxio for. As far as I can tell, Roxio kept up with their end of any contracts throughout the life of the license. The license has now expired and Roxio has chosen to use another solution. I can see nothing in this situation that would warrant suing over. I hope it gets laughed out of court.
Court: "So you're suing Roxio because they chose to use a competitor after their agreements with you expired?" ...ok, well [chuckle] i'll have to bring this up with [giggle] the DOJ. [guffaw] Court is adjourned. [Bwahahahhahah!]
Gracenote: "Yes your honor."
Court:"[snicker]
Gracenote: "Doh!"
Ender
No, we gave them a copy of that information. And they should have no say over whether or not we decide to give another copy to freedb, and choose to access freedb instead of cddb.
It's our data, and we can do what we like with it and access it from whomever we choose.
Ender
Anyway while it wouldn't be my first choice, I can certainly think of worse places to work than the porn industry.
Ender
I believe Slackware makes a profit.
"Slackware has always made money (who else producing a commercial distribution can say that?)"
See Patrick's post regarding Slackware and WindRiver. And Slashdot article on said subject.
Now admittedly, I don't know how MUCH money they've been making, but they do it by having a distro that is stable and secure [well, compared to most other distros]. I've found Slackware to be "short, sweet and to the point" Because of this I think more people are willing to fork over the $$ to get the distro. It's the only distro that I've liked enough to pay for anyway.
Ender
Oh gee thanks! Now I have to pick all these FruitLoops out of my keyboard!
I don't have moderator points so I just gotta say +5Funny... that made my day. :^)
Ender
Er...that's "Ghost in the Shell"... great flick. I don't know that I'd consider it a 'hacker' movie, since it was more about the internet spawning a new Intelligence [ala Jane from Speaker for the Dead]. I will admit though, that I don't think there's a geek or hacker alive that wouldn't kill to have hands that could pop out dozens of fingers for some really speedy typing. :)
Then again, I don't really consider The Matrix a hacker movie either.
There was also "Ghost in the Machine" which was kind of a bad rehash of the Lawnmower Man.
Ender
What I remember is that Zaitsev had a wife who was also a sniper, but that she died at some point. So there wasn't really a love triangle, but he was married to a sniper.
Then again, it could have been a different WWII sniper that I've gotten mixed up with Zeitsev.
But over all I enjoyed the movie. As another poster mentioned, they could have been a little more detailed on Zaitsev getting out of some of his predicaments. Though I think they did a 'fair' job of keeping a rather boring undertaking somewhat interesting. Seeing as sniping is 99% waiting, it would have made for a slow movie :)
Ender
I keep wondering how stupid someone has to be in order to believe any of the crap they push on their members. Don't these people realize that LRH was just a [bad] Science FICTION writer? And that all these OT whatevers are just that..Fiction?
I mean, what exactly is the initial selling point of this 'religion'?
To a Woman passing on the street:
"Scuze me ma'am. Did you know that the souls of hundreds of exploded aliens are infesting your body? But hey, it's ok. For lots of $$$ we can help you out!"
I just don't get it.
So F*ck 'em! And that's my political statement of the day.
It seems to me that nobody is happy with the performance of Rambus anyway. I for one will go for DDR on my next system, not Rambus. And I believe the DDR is cheaper already [ie. not much more than SDRAM, though I could be quite mistaken in that]. So screw Rambus, I want nothing to do with them.
On another note, as I mentioned in another recent article: Rambus had a booth at last weeks Brassring Job Fair, and the main position they had open was for a patent attorney. I laughed out loud as I passed the booth and saw that. :)
Ender
And just what wonderful position was open at the illustrious RAMBUS? Why, they want to hire Patent Attorneys!!!
Anyone else find this funny? [yet sad?] I actually laughed out loud as I passed their booth when I saw that. :)
Ender
Ah, it's even funnier if you read the entire article imagining that it's Peppermint Patty berating Charlie Brown over something stupid that he's done. :)
"Gee, Chuck, you sure are stupid. You're not making any sence Chuck. You're not even in the same game, Chuck. Why can't you even hit the ball, Chuck?"
Ender
I believe that the underside of the bridge is off-limits, so crawling underneath to setup the cabling to support the car was tresspassing.
Ender
I for one would rather go to a free/cheap live show than deal with getting a telephone-like bill with charges for the music I listen to. I pretty much always have some sort of music playing, whether I'm working, playing or just driving somewhere. And though I may not be able to get a live band in the back of my car, I can still play the old tapes, CD's and MP3's that I already have.
Ender
On the contrary. The third paragraph is pretty clear on the fact that the names don't neccessarily reflect the content, saying that a file called "constitution.txt" could contain ANYTHING be it an MPEG or copy of software. The author then suggests that he is indulging himself by constructing the demographics based on keyname, even though he knows it is not neccessarily accurate...
Sounds to me like he's taken into account the probable inaccuracies and made that clear to the reader.
Ender
Now I have to kill my uptime to install it again
Oh well... the things we do for connectivity...
Ender
Why would you need to send it in? Just use your anti-Cue:Cat 2000 to read the RFID tags, and send the data to the company. Since the tags are unique, they can be stored in a database so they can't be reused. No Mail necessary. We can put the US Postal service out of business :)
Well... we can at last save $1.50 on postage [yeah it might be that expensive by then]
Ender
[nitpick] Elmo is red... Grover is blue [/nitpick] :^)
Sorry, I'm a muppet fan [pre-elmo muppets anyway]
Ender
I also played the PS2 at Fry's. I think they made a poor choice of games to Demo. They had Tekken Tag on the PSX2, and right next to it was a DC running Soul Caliber... The DC looked 10 times better than the PSX2! I KNOW there are better games they could have demo'd for the Playstation.
In particular, I'm looking forward to DOA2:Hardcore, Bouncers and Zone of Enders..
Then again they had yet another DC running some stupid@ss mexican maraca[sp?] game...really frightening.
Ender