A great movie, but I've never really seen it as underappreciated. It did really well in GB before it came to North America and I think it did pretty well here too. The soundtrack sure sold a lot.
The same can be said about Requiem for a Dream. I don't know many film buffs who can say they haven't seen it and everyone pretty much agrees that it was a great movie.
I can't decide whether or not I'm trolling.;-) Great cast and script. Will Smith's first serious acting effort, which he pulls off well... but I've always been a little embarassed about liking this movie, I thought it was really deep when I saw it at the age of sixteen or so, but I'm afraid if I watch it again (at the age of 29) I'll realize it's all a bunch of crap.
I just watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? tonight. It lacks some direction, but I still love it. "We thought you was a toad!". You can't mention the Coen Bros without mentioning Barton Fink and Fargo. I can't think of any movie that captures the winter better than Fargo.
After watching him in Species, I didn't think I'd ever be able to stomach Forest Whitaker again, but Ghost Dog proved me wrong. He was great, and the mafia that couldn't pay its bills had me ROTFLMAO.
Ok, so I already posted one (Until the End of the World), but The Mission has a great cast (Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro), beautiful cinematography, a fantastic score (Ennio Morricone), and a story that is a captivating meditation on Christ's exhortation to turn the other cheek. Timely viewing.:-)
It's a bit long, but this is a fantastic, hypnotic sci-fi movie. William Hurt is great and the premise is cool. I've been waiting for this one to come out on DVD for ages. Movie info
George H Bush (George Sr) was director of the CIA from 1975-1976. He was also close to the Nixon administration before that, and US Liason to China under Ford. I doubt *that* has anything to do with Bush Jr's executive order..;-)
The O(1) scheduler is a big bonus. Using the RH kernel in 8.0, I saw all kinds of strange NFS starvation under heavy CPU load and broken renice behaviour with pthreads. I expect that the new scheduler will fix these issues..
slack was my first, too, on a P133. I think I moved to a package-based system after the first time I tried to upgrade my libc from source and I buggered the whole system. That was before I discovered/bin/sash:-)
one thing slack teaches you is to build packages yourself and actually take the time to find/report/patch compile-time bugs. I can't count the number of times I had to fix the netpbm headers...
surely there is more than one blogger in iraq. I'd love to see some links assembled that give first-person accounts *other* than that which is officially sanctioned.
I thought it would be slashdotted but I just grabbed the linux build and it took about 30s to grab 14MB. My download peaked out at 300kb/s. That's kiloBYTES per second!
One the whole, I think this article is solid, but one thing that troubles me is the urging to not listen to someone who cites an establishment that is opposed to their evidence. There are plenty of examples where scientific evidence was supressed in order to achieve a particular agenda (think tobacco and lung cancer, vehicle safety in the 70s, and drug safety to name only the biggest). The author should at least acknowledge this issue and suggest as a rule to be highly skeptical of evidence presented by someone who has billions of dollars in profit at stake.
Why do I get the ever-increasing impression that the New Scientist is nothing but a forum for crackpot theories? Does this mean that at some point black holes will start regurtitating matter?
Sure, the further back you go, the more drastic an intervention might be, but all I really needed at 12 was some encouragement and a boost to my self esteem. If I could really go back and give myself advice, I'd aim more for myself at 18 or 19-- my career choices, my relationships-- those were truly pivotal years and I'd give myself an earful. Come to think of it, there are things I did yesterday that I wish I'd listened to that inner voice of mine (surely my 50-year-old self sending brain waves from the future).
the court ordered blocking may prevent access to legitimate sites that are hosted on the same server
I'm trying to imagine a context where a 'legitimate' site would be colocated with a child porn site on the same server. If the whoever's running the server knows its content, then they're clearly running a criminal operation and I wouldn't cry if his whole server was pulled. Otoh, if someone posts stuff to geocities, I think it's the responsibility of the host to keep the server clean and the threat of blocking all of their pages makes a strong enforcement tool. It's not that hard for a web operator, even of a large multi user site, to review its contents for illegal material.
All that being said, it *is* a slippery slope. However, the law is pretty clear about what is illegal and what is not.
First: "If you hack it, they will crack it." Go right ahead and give us DRM, because one way or another someone will find a way to circumvent it.
Second: These kinds of moves are exactly what undermine the power of the content holders. The more tightly the MPAA and RIAA squeeze content up their asses, the more energy, resources and popular attention that will go to the small-time independents who are actually doing something creative, and the more fragmented the audience will become. Fair use is what makes the world go round..
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Second that. The Cup was a lot of fun.
A great movie, but I've never really seen it as underappreciated. It did really well in GB before it came to North America and I think it did pretty well here too. The soundtrack sure sold a lot.
The same can be said about Requiem for a Dream. I don't know many film buffs who can say they haven't seen it and everyone pretty much agrees that it was a great movie.
Just kidding. ;-)
How about the most OVERRATED movies? My pick is the obvious choice: Titanic.
Great movie. Another great Italian flick is Il Postino.
I can't decide whether or not I'm trolling. ;-) Great cast and script. Will Smith's first serious acting effort, which he pulls off well. .. but I've always been a little embarassed about liking this movie, I thought it was really deep when I saw it at the age of sixteen or so, but I'm afraid if I watch it again (at the age of 29) I'll realize it's all a bunch of crap.
Movie info.
I'd moderate you up but I've already posted.. five times. :-)
I just watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? tonight. It lacks some direction, but I still love it. "We thought you was a toad!". You can't mention the Coen Bros without mentioning Barton Fink and Fargo. I can't think of any movie that captures the winter better than Fargo.
After watching him in Species, I didn't think I'd ever be able to stomach Forest Whitaker again, but Ghost Dog proved me wrong. He was great, and the mafia that couldn't pay its bills had me ROTFLMAO.
Ok, so I already posted one (Until the End of the World), but The Mission has a great cast (Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro), beautiful cinematography, a fantastic score (Ennio Morricone), and a story that is a captivating meditation on Christ's exhortation to turn the other cheek. Timely viewing. :-)
It's a bit long, but this is a fantastic, hypnotic sci-fi movie. William Hurt is great and the premise is cool. I've been waiting for this one to come out on DVD for ages. Movie info
The most overhyped underappreciated movie in history..
George H Bush (George Sr) was director of the CIA from 1975-1976. He was also close to the Nixon administration before that, and US Liason to China under Ford. I doubt *that* has anything to do with Bush Jr's executive order.. ;-)
The O(1) scheduler is a big bonus. Using the RH kernel in 8.0, I saw all kinds of strange NFS starvation under heavy CPU load and broken renice behaviour with pthreads. I expect that the new scheduler will fix these issues..
slack was my first, too, on a P133. I think I moved to a package-based system after the first time I tried to upgrade my libc from source and I buggered the whole system. That was before I discovered /bin/sash :-)
one thing slack teaches you is to build packages yourself and actually take the time to find/report/patch compile-time bugs. I can't count the number of times I had to fix the netpbm headers...
surely there is more than one blogger in iraq. I'd love to see some links assembled that give first-person accounts *other* than that which is officially sanctioned.
This just in.. capitalism funds terrorism!!!
I thought it would be slashdotted but I just grabbed the linux build and it took about 30s to grab 14MB. My download peaked out at 300kb/s. That's kiloBYTES per second!
One the whole, I think this article is solid, but one thing that troubles me is the urging to not listen to someone who cites an establishment that is opposed to their evidence. There are plenty of examples where scientific evidence was supressed in order to achieve a particular agenda (think tobacco and lung cancer, vehicle safety in the 70s, and drug safety to name only the biggest). The author should at least acknowledge this issue and suggest as a rule to be highly skeptical of evidence presented by someone who has billions of dollars in profit at stake.
Why do I get the ever-increasing impression that the New Scientist is nothing but a forum for crackpot theories?
Does this mean that at some point black holes will start regurtitating matter?
Sure, the further back you go, the more drastic an intervention might be, but all I really needed at 12 was some encouragement and a boost to my self esteem. If I could really go back and give myself advice, I'd aim more for myself at 18 or 19-- my career choices, my relationships-- those were truly pivotal years and I'd give myself an earful. Come to think of it, there are things I did yesterday that I wish I'd listened to that inner voice of mine (surely my 50-year-old self sending brain waves from the future).
Oh, and take the red pill..
the court ordered blocking may prevent access to legitimate sites that are hosted on the same server
I'm trying to imagine a context where a 'legitimate' site would be colocated with a child porn site on the same server. If the whoever's running the server knows its content, then they're clearly running a criminal operation and I wouldn't cry if his whole server was pulled. Otoh, if someone posts stuff to geocities, I think it's the responsibility of the host to keep the server clean and the threat of blocking all of their pages makes a strong enforcement tool. It's not that hard for a web operator, even of a large multi user site, to review its contents for illegal material.
All that being said, it *is* a slippery slope. However, the law is pretty clear about what is illegal and what is not.
Imagine trying to do that to a windows box. With each patch you'd have to engineer a probe to go up and hit 'Ok' when it reminds you to reboot. ;-)
He wasn't exactly a programmer, but I thought the older brother in Orange County resembled more than a few of the geeks that I know.. ;-)
The 0.766917 is the guy who burns the CD's- he gets a staff discount.
Two thought come to mind on this one:
First: "If you hack it, they will crack it." Go right ahead and give us DRM, because one way or another someone will find a way to circumvent it.
Second: These kinds of moves are exactly what undermine the power of the content holders. The more tightly the MPAA and RIAA squeeze content up their asses, the more energy, resources and popular attention that will go to the small-time independents who are actually doing something creative, and the more fragmented the audience will become. Fair use is what makes the world go round..