There has always been quite a bit of sexual innuendo in kids movies.
The great thing about that is that it all goes straight over the kids' heads (who just laugh at the way Miss Piggy says "long") and allows the poor parents who have to sit through a kids movie to have a few laughs as well.
Check out many of the old Merry Melodies cartoons and you'll see much of the same. Adult comedy hidden within a child's medium.
And what you don't know is that Galileo did have quite a bit of proof..
for example: 1) the sun has spots (not perfect as the church liked to think) 2) Jupiter has moons which revolve around it, which means that Jupiter is an object, not just a spot on a perfect sphere 3) Venus has phases (like the moon, from crescent to full) 4) the moon is a physical place... all those funky spots that look like a face are actually 3 dimensional: mountains, craters, etc.
And yes the church was bad and evil because several of the cardinals looked at Galileo's evidence and understood its implications perfectly well, but chose to punnish him in order to save face.
The only problem with fade to black detectors is that some shows, take Frazier for example, fade to black during the show itself. Then you lose part of the show.
Another way of blocking ads that I've heard of is monitoring the closed captioning, since commercials tend not to be closed captioned (AFAIK).
The problem is there isn't a definite "if X then its a commercial" relationship to rely on. There never will either. It's death to a network to say broadcast some information along with the way you make your money so that people can ignore them and put you out of business.
Just do yourself a favor and switch to PBS (although those "sponsored by" notes are getting very close to commercials these days).
Doug
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Last time I knew Cox has two levels of tech support, level one and level 2.
Level one (the ones that actually speak english) have a little manual in front of them which advises: reset the modem, check that it's turned on, check the cables... i dunno, lemmie transfer you to level 2.
The trick is to call up and before they can say anything scream at them to transfer you to level 2. Otherwise you'll never get anywhere.
The fight with Stilson is gone? Howabout the fight with Bonso?
Those fights are crucial for the underlying current of manipulation of Ender. They were breeding for someone incredibly smart, but also incredibly ruthless.
When Ender is forced into a fight he will win, and he makes sure he wins for good.
Oh well, I'll go see it, but if they butcher it as much as Starship Troopers, I'm going to be depressed for months.
Doug
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Note: this is not a flame, just answering the question 1) they are called beowolf clusters 2) you could probably create a beowolf cluster (with enough hacks) but the problem is that its a very slow processor with not very much ram. Beowolf clusters work best when you have a large amount of calculations which can be done between each message sent between the processors. Otherwise you just spend all your time creating network connections, and you never actually get anything done (diminishing rate of returns). Since this only has 8mb of ram, and is a slow processor, the cost for communicating via ethernet would be relatively high, and its ability to carry out complex calculations on large amounts of data would be very low. In short, it could probably be done, but you'd be much better off buying a single PC rather than a bunch of these. Doug
Yes, but given the average computational power of people I've dealt with (don't even try to consider accuracy here) I'd take my old 386 over a 6 billion node computer made of such shoddy parts:)
AFAIK the reason it is believed that the Big Bang created more matter is that we are unable to observe large groups of antimatter such as antimatter galaxies (as would be consistent with a universe full of both matter and antimatter from the Big Bang).
Now this experiment may cause some changes to that model (and then again it may not).
As long as people refuse to at least consider the scientific evidence of the world about them rather than stubbornly cling to outdated and misguided dogma, the human race will continue to fight progress every step of the way.
Not to be overly overly serious, but dimensions don't have a particular order.
If I want to call time the first dimension, well there it is. X, Y, Z, and however many other dimensions we discover/invent will just have to wait their turn.
Oh I don't know about that... nobody cares too much about the Win2000 machine, but if I had any cracking skills whatsoever I'd try my hand at the linuxppc in order to win the machine.
Yup, the 3rd type can be the best. My GF is a Math/CS double major, isn't quite as geeky as I am, but hell, her nick is smiley if that gives you some idea of her character.
2) Yes masterbation is more efficient, but to (approx) quote from Robert Heinlein: "Masterbation is cheap, clean, and free from hassles... but it's LONELY"
3) I was dating a virgin 'till married kinda girl... and all I can tell you is respect her decision. Mine came around (turned out she was hornier than I was:) but never ever try to push her. It will foster resentment and you'll never get anywhere.
On a side note, I've found Geek chicks are hornier than hell if you care to find out:)
First of all, many of these theaters are not allowing any people under the age of 18 in PERIOD. Not with an adult, not with a parent, not at all.
Secondly, it's one thing to prevent minors from viewing content without the knowledge/permission of their parents or guardians, but the government/MPAA/theaters should be superseeded by the will of the parent.
The only form of censorship which is even remotely defendable is that of the parent.
"Last time I checked, at least in the Western Nations, the military was there to protect us from people who decide that they have a better right to our land, property, and people than the citizens of those nations do."
Exactly! We've been having so many problems lately with those damn serbs trying to snatch rhode island.
A military's purpose is twofold: 1) protect the nation, its land and its people, as you have described 2) project the power and political interests of that nation, which are mostly ideological or economical in nature (Cold War=ideological, Gulf War=economics)
Howabout when it breaks now, they don't fix it and it also breaks a month after the release?
If you read my comment, I agree that this is a nice idea *in theory* but there's really no guarantee that Microsoft will bother to do anything but slap this on a couple of press releases and ship the same beta-quality software they always do.
I applaud Microsoft's intentions behind this test, but it really won't benefit its end customers.
Howabout releasing some specs as to what hardware this machine is on, and what security settings they are using.
We're not even certain they haven't made unfair modifications to their code (say randomly changing usernames and passwords if someone brute hacks them). Is this a realistic level of security which can be maintained by the average sysadmin, or will you need to hire half the NT 5.0 development team.
Say someone does crack this system. Or everyone fails? Then what? Are we going to recieve detailed data on what people tried and succeeded/failed? If not we have no assurances that Microsoft will even attempt to fix any security holes they find.
Essentially Microsoft has created a marketing gimick, nothing more.
Doug
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Actually, AFAIK they're called WinModems because you can't use them in any DOS programs because they need a windows driver to provide the actual modem support.
I couldn't agree more. I love everything else about KDE, except that panel just sticks out like a sore thumb.
I love GNOME's level of configurability, and the way I can have my pager on the lower right with the clock, but have my menu's and shortcut buttons hanging out at the upper right...
Plus the taskbar icons (the little icons next to the clock) need more spacing left and right, and less spacing top to bottom...
It's only a little more configurable than the windows 9X toolbar... which says a lot. Plus it's just as ugly.
I'd take KDE with gnome's panel and never look back.
I agree that trojans aren't really the fault of the operating system... to a point.
If an admin is stupid enough to install something like this, then they deserve what they get.
The real question is whether joe user, who barely understands the difference between a computer and their toaster can install this and have it provide access to sensitive files.
It is the job of the operating system (especially one in a networked environment) to limit the ability of users, and programs run by users, to modify, delete, view, or execute certain files. Otherwise the operating system is wide open if someone can get ahold of a simple user account.
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There has always been quite a bit of sexual innuendo in kids movies.
The great thing about that is that it all goes straight over the kids' heads (who just laugh at the way Miss Piggy says "long") and allows the poor parents who have to sit through a kids movie to have a few laughs as well.
Check out many of the old Merry Melodies cartoons and you'll see much of the same. Adult comedy hidden within a child's medium.
Doug
And what you don't know is that Galileo did have quite a bit of proof..
for example:
1) the sun has spots (not perfect as the church liked to think)
2) Jupiter has moons which revolve around it, which means that Jupiter is an object, not just a spot on a perfect sphere
3) Venus has phases (like the moon, from crescent to full)
4) the moon is a physical place... all those funky spots that look like a face are actually 3 dimensional: mountains, craters, etc.
And yes the church was bad and evil because several of the cardinals looked at Galileo's evidence and understood its implications perfectly well, but chose to punnish him in order to save face.
Doug
The only problem with fade to black detectors is that some shows, take Frazier for example, fade to black during the show itself. Then you lose part of the show.
Another way of blocking ads that I've heard of is monitoring the closed captioning, since commercials tend not to be closed captioned (AFAIK).
The problem is there isn't a definite "if X then its a commercial" relationship to rely on. There never will either. It's death to a network to say broadcast some information along with the way you make your money so that people can ignore them and put you out of business.
Just do yourself a favor and switch to PBS (although those "sponsored by" notes are getting very close to commercials these days).
Doug
Last time I knew Cox has two levels of tech support, level one and level 2.
Level one (the ones that actually speak english) have a little manual in front of them which advises: reset the modem, check that it's turned on, check the cables... i dunno, lemmie transfer you to level 2.
The trick is to call up and before they can say anything scream at them to transfer you to level 2. Otherwise you'll never get anywhere.
Doug
Don't reserve a copy.
I reserved my copy at least 9 months ago... when it was "coming out in april"
It got caught up in some copyright dispute, and I wouldn't trust it to stick to any release schedule if I were you.
Doug
The fight with Stilson is gone? Howabout the fight with Bonso?
Those fights are crucial for the underlying current of manipulation of Ender. They were breeding for someone incredibly smart, but also incredibly ruthless.
When Ender is forced into a fight he will win, and he makes sure he wins for good.
Oh well, I'll go see it, but if they butcher it as much as Starship Troopers, I'm going to be depressed for months.
Doug
Note: this is not a flame, just answering the question 1) they are called beowolf clusters 2) you could probably create a beowolf cluster (with enough hacks) but the problem is that its a very slow processor with not very much ram. Beowolf clusters work best when you have a large amount of calculations which can be done between each message sent between the processors. Otherwise you just spend all your time creating network connections, and you never actually get anything done (diminishing rate of returns). Since this only has 8mb of ram, and is a slow processor, the cost for communicating via ethernet would be relatively high, and its ability to carry out complex calculations on large amounts of data would be very low. In short, it could probably be done, but you'd be much better off buying a single PC rather than a bunch of these. Doug
Yes, but given the average computational power of people I've dealt with (don't even try to consider accuracy here) I'd take my old 386 over a 6 billion node computer made of such shoddy parts :)
Doug
AFAIK the reason it is believed that the Big Bang created more matter is that we are unable to observe large groups of antimatter such as antimatter galaxies (as would be consistent with a universe full of both matter and antimatter from the Big Bang).
Now this experiment may cause some changes to that model (and then again it may not).
Doug
by returning to the 11th....
As long as people refuse to at least consider the scientific evidence of the world about them rather than stubbornly cling to outdated and misguided dogma, the human race will continue to fight progress every step of the way.
Doug
phew... bet it felt good to get THAT off your shoulders now didn't it...
guess I should save a seat for ya at the brimstone huh?
Not to be overly overly serious, but dimensions don't have a particular order.
If I want to call time the first dimension, well there it is. X, Y, Z, and however many other dimensions we discover/invent will just have to wait their turn.
Oh I don't know about that... nobody cares too much about the Win2000 machine, but if I had any cracking skills whatsoever I'd try my hand at the linuxppc in order to win the machine.
Doug
Yup, the 3rd type can be the best. My GF is a Math/CS double major, isn't quite as geeky as I am, but hell, her nick is smiley if that gives you some idea of her character.
Doug
1) Sex is not and cannot ever be overrated
:) but never ever try to push her. It will foster resentment and you'll never get anywhere.
:)
2) Yes masterbation is more efficient, but to (approx) quote from Robert Heinlein: "Masterbation is cheap, clean, and free from hassles... but it's LONELY"
3) I was dating a virgin 'till married kinda girl... and all I can tell you is respect her decision. Mine came around (turned out she was hornier than I was
On a side note, I've found Geek chicks are hornier than hell if you care to find out
Doug
Actually you couldn't be more wrong.
First of all, many of these theaters are not allowing any people under the age of 18 in PERIOD. Not with an adult, not with a parent, not at all.
Secondly, it's one thing to prevent minors from viewing content without the knowledge/permission of their parents or guardians, but the government/MPAA/theaters should be superseeded by the will of the parent.
The only form of censorship which is even remotely defendable is that of the parent.
Doug
"Last time I checked, at least in the Western Nations, the military was there to protect us from people who decide that they have a better right to our land, property, and people than the citizens of those nations do."
Exactly! We've been having so many problems lately with those damn serbs trying to snatch rhode island.
A military's purpose is twofold:
1) protect the nation, its land and its people, as you have described
2) project the power and political interests of that nation, which are mostly ideological or economical in nature (Cold War=ideological, Gulf War=economics)
Doug
Howabout when it breaks now, they don't fix it and it also breaks a month after the release?
If you read my comment, I agree that this is a nice idea *in theory* but there's really no guarantee that Microsoft will bother to do anything but slap this on a couple of press releases and ship the same beta-quality software they always do.
Doug
I applaud Microsoft's intentions behind this test, but it really won't benefit its end customers.
Howabout releasing some specs as to what hardware this machine is on, and what security settings they are using.
We're not even certain they haven't made unfair modifications to their code (say randomly changing usernames and passwords if someone brute hacks them). Is this a realistic level of security which can be maintained by the average sysadmin, or will you need to hire half the NT 5.0 development team.
Say someone does crack this system. Or everyone fails? Then what? Are we going to recieve detailed data on what people tried and succeeded/failed? If not we have no assurances that Microsoft will even attempt to fix any security holes they find.
Essentially Microsoft has created a marketing gimick, nothing more.
Doug
Actually, AFAIK they're called WinModems because you can't use them in any DOS programs because they need a windows driver to provide the actual modem support.
Doug
I couldn't agree more. I love everything else about KDE, except that panel just sticks out like a sore thumb.
I love GNOME's level of configurability, and the way I can have my pager on the lower right with the clock, but have my menu's and shortcut buttons hanging out at the upper right...
Plus the taskbar icons (the little icons next to the clock) need more spacing left and right, and less spacing top to bottom...
It's only a little more configurable than the windows 9X toolbar... which says a lot. Plus it's just as ugly.
I'd take KDE with gnome's panel and never look back.
Doug
If you read the article more carefully you'll note that they're using an elevator CABLE, not an entire elevator :)
Right now most coasters just hook into a chain which drags you up... but its noisy and jerky.
Doug
which software? Back orifice or SMS? :)
Doug
I agree that trojans aren't really the fault of the operating system... to a point.
If an admin is stupid enough to install something like this, then they deserve what they get.
The real question is whether joe user, who barely understands the difference between a computer and their toaster can install this and have it provide access to sensitive files.
It is the job of the operating system (especially one in a networked environment) to limit the ability of users, and programs run by users, to modify, delete, view, or execute certain files. Otherwise the operating system is wide open if someone can get ahold of a simple user account.
Doug
AFAIK they specifically went after it now in order to correspond to the 30th anniversary.
Doug