That's the conclusion I've come to. If Lucas *really* wanted to take risks, he'd hand the director's job to some hotshot young director, preferably female.
I hope the Linux community never have a leader. That's the whole fucking point, isn't it? We are anarchy in the truest sense of the word, and we look after our own
Each side has it's maniacs/idiots/zealots. See that marketing quotes that MS produces? That's their zealots talking through their arses. It's almost a mirror image.
As long as this campaign remains a war of propaganda and words, I don't see any problem. This current affair proves the checks and balances are present: someone oversteps the mark, they get fired.
Capitalism is about the raising of capital, the selling and buying of shares for example, so that people can raise money to finance an enterprise. The enterprise can then make money return profit to the investor. How the enterprise makes money is, within legal and moral restraints, up to the enterprise. This has only a loose connection with the concept of a "free market" which is merely a sort of moral stricture on how to make money which is often ignored/adhered dependant on how much money the enterprise is making at the time.
So, DeBeers and Enron raise(d) capital on the open market therefore they are capitalists. You can't exclude them because they're morally reprehensible capitalists. You may want to exclude all capitalists on this basis. So, I reiterate, deBeers are a big bunch of capitalist fucks. On the one hand, they play fast and loose with the "free market" and, on the other, they're just bastards with incredibly crap labour policies amongst their many crimes.
h.
P.S. I always thought the "free market" was an illusion dreamt up by Adam Smith. After all, laudanum was widely used then.
P.P.S BTW, it's interesting how imperialists use the concept of freemarkets as a stick to beat others but often ignore it when it suits them - witness recent US steel subsidies, Freemarketering during the Irish Potato famine etc etc.
1. This is what client-side XSLT *should* have been like if XSLT had been a half-way decent language that one could understand. I think that most web-browsers can run XSLT. It's just that it's never taken off.
2. With suitable specialisations, I'd be interested in seeing a standalone *server-side* version of greasemonkey. All those projects like Maven etc could be done like this. In fact, wherever one can use XSLT, one could use Greasemonkey instead.
3. Couldn't this be a step forward in extending the capability of the on an ad hoc basis? All the browser does is implement a series of general purpose instructions for the GUI. You feed it an XML document with it's attendant scripts and wow, instant GUI time. You download the greasemonkey scripts with the webpage, so that the webpage uses the script to implement the page. Isn't this *sortof* what you're doing with your proposed META tag?
Also, diamonds used in rings today are stamped. Jewellers have a little gadget which detects and says if the stones are "genuine" or not. It's nothing to do with the "purity" which I agree is a complete scam.
DeBeers are the biggest bunch of capitalist fucks outside of Enron and all oil companies. I will be glad when they perish.
NASA didn't get anything done until the Russians started doing things. I think the US Air Force would have gotten there - they did pretty good with breaking the sound barrier.
I remember a document which tried to say there was a link btwn the X15 and the Shuttle. Nah. IMO, if the Airforce had a carried on, they would of built a reusable space-craft.
When Lucas could have made anything, he went on to make Revenge Of The Sith...
Spielberg's filmography http://imdb.com/name/nm0000229/ isn't exactly chock full of critical successes either. He's got a few holocaust projects to his credit but, outside of Jaws and, possibly ET, that's it. I like Sugarland Express. He's got a thing the 2ww, though, check out those credits on Medal Of Honour.
The only other people that I can immediately think of who do this sort of thing is Clint Eastwood and John Sayles. Once Eastwood had made his millions, he went on to make White Hunter, Black Heart, Bird and a few other non-commercial films. Although, looking again at his filmography, I don't think this is strictly true.
John Sayles is a better case - he writes films such as Jurassic IV - then uses it to finance films such as Lone Star and Passion Fish. But John Sayles, in his directorial persona, is strictly indy.
Come to think about it, you're barking up the wrong tree. Nobody in Hollywood does the sort of thing you say. Even Hitchcock in his day was always fighting to make his movies, and you'd a thought *there* was someone who made a banker. Carte blanche work is as rare as hen's teeth - purely because the more money you make, the more money you're expected to make, which automatically kicks in with a dampner on the risk factor. Peter Jackson has fashioned for himself a gilded cage. He's won the pinball game, is guaranteed a shot at a next movie however expectations are raised, and risk will be lessened. I guarantee that Jackson's next film will tank in some manner.
Any ship up to Lloyds A+ should be able to do this, and cruise-ship are supposed to have slightly better tech anyway - all those lives at risk etc. Of course, the titanic...You'd probably tick the engines over once in a while.
Offshore refuel and repair is relatively easy. The ship would have to be dry-docked occasionally. You could do that in Mexico. But it's still expensive.
Technically feasable but would the "savings" be worth it? I think not.
Most users aren't even looking for windows. They're looking for a PC. That's the important bit: they've heard of this thing called a PC and they need to get it. Another set might want Word "because that's what they use at work" but I figure they're rarer. The birds that gather at this watering hole are rarer still.
The fucking OS comes a long way down the list.
That's why MS spend so much time on strongarming OEMs. Once the OEM's get the idea that they can offer a choice of OS for the consumer, then the game will be over for MS. Once there's real choice out there, then OSs can compete on features. It might take a couple of years, but MS's main revenue stream will be gone. Until such time, all of these threads concerning people buying MS because of quality are bollocks.
true, so true. However, HHGG was written for the radio, hence lots of dialog which has to carry the story. You can see this bourne out by the quotes given. Although books can contain a heap of dialog, description, more often than not, carries the narrative. The HHGG books contain a lot of narrative in the description.
Compare this with Dune's tx to the big screen. It contains more than a few appearances of exposition man just to carry the story. (Incidentally, this is why the Dune TV series - with it's luxury of X episodes - is better than the film.) But this doesn't make good cinema as cinema tends to rely on images to tell the story, particularly American cinema. European cinema tends to rely on literature, which has a problematic relation to the image.
In a TV context, both can carry the story: Neighbours (an obscure oz soap) is unique in the fact that you can pick up the story after 60's of action during an episode. The dialogue tends to be of a different nature. It's not often that it has to refer *to* something to make a point. If the something is within viewing distance, then its: "Oh look, there it is". Whereas on radio, the same sentence might read "Oh, look, there's that 10 week-old corpse." I exagerate, but not by much I think.
I'm actually beginning to pity the script-writers for the HHGG film. They are trying to adapt not just one genre of writing but several. As source, you have the radio series, the TV series and the books. Umm. You might as well rip it up and start again. I think the guiding madness of Adams will be sorely missed. But would he have ever made the deadlines?
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*anyone* could direct more than the traffic cone that Lucas is impersonating
That's the conclusion I've come to. If Lucas *really* wanted to take risks, he'd hand the director's job to some hotshot young director, preferably female.
+2
http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/
On machines in places I distrust, I delete *all* cached info every time I log out.
It isn't just Google you have to worry about - lots of people out there want to grab your info.
Now, if only I could carry my cookie data with me. That'd be a bonus.
Yes, John Ford would make a perfect director, I mean, he even went to war...oh, wait
Randall who?
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I am not worthy
I hope the Linux community never have a leader. That's the whole fucking point, isn't it? We are anarchy in the truest sense of the word, and we look after our own
Each side has it's maniacs/idiots/zealots. See that marketing quotes that MS produces? That's their zealots talking through their arses. It's almost a mirror image.
As long as this campaign remains a war of propaganda and words, I don't see any problem. This current affair proves the checks and balances are present: someone oversteps the mark, they get fired.
Capitalism is about the raising of capital, the selling and buying of shares for example, so that people can raise money to finance an enterprise. The enterprise can then make money return profit to the investor. How the enterprise makes money is, within legal and moral restraints, up to the enterprise. This has only a loose connection with the concept of a "free market" which is merely a sort of moral stricture on how to make money which is often ignored/adhered dependant on how much money the enterprise is making at the time.
So, DeBeers and Enron raise(d) capital on the open market therefore they are capitalists. You can't exclude them because they're morally reprehensible capitalists. You may want to exclude all capitalists on this basis. So, I reiterate, deBeers are a big bunch of capitalist fucks. On the one hand, they play fast and loose with the "free market" and, on the other, they're just bastards with incredibly crap labour policies amongst their many crimes.
h.
P.S. I always thought the "free market" was an illusion dreamt up by Adam Smith. After all, laudanum was widely used then.
P.P.S BTW, it's interesting how imperialists use the concept of freemarkets as a stick to beat others but often ignore it when it suits them - witness recent US steel subsidies, Freemarketering during the Irish Potato famine etc etc.
I overstated in my enthusiasm.
There are three interesting directions for this:
1. This is what client-side XSLT *should* have been like if XSLT had been a half-way decent language that one could understand. I think that most web-browsers can run XSLT. It's just that it's never taken off.
2. With suitable specialisations, I'd be interested in seeing a standalone *server-side* version of greasemonkey. All those projects like Maven etc could be done like this. In fact, wherever one can use XSLT, one could use Greasemonkey instead.
3. Couldn't this be a step forward in extending the capability of the on an ad hoc basis? All the browser does is implement a series of general purpose instructions for the GUI. You feed it an XML document with it's attendant scripts and wow, instant GUI time. You download the greasemonkey scripts with the webpage, so that the webpage uses the script to implement the page. Isn't this *sortof* what you're doing with your proposed META tag?
Also, diamonds used in rings today are stamped. Jewellers have a little gadget which detects and says if the stones are "genuine" or not. It's nothing to do with the "purity" which I agree is a complete scam.
DeBeers are the biggest bunch of capitalist fucks outside of Enron and all oil companies. I will be glad when they perish.
I agree about the logic point.
Are there any satellites running webservers? Oh yes there is...
http://www.g4store.com/news/skycorp/
plus it's a g4!!!! Yeah!
...I love FireFox and it's programmers. If only some companies displayed half the amount of ingenuity.
NASA didn't get anything done until the Russians started doing things. I think the US Air Force would have gotten there - they did pretty good with breaking the sound barrier.
I remember a document which tried to say there was a link btwn the X15 and the Shuttle. Nah. IMO, if the Airforce had a carried on, they would of built a reusable space-craft.
I thought someone mentioned balls earlier on.
When Lucas could have made anything, he went on to make Revenge Of The Sith...
Spielberg's filmography http://imdb.com/name/nm0000229/ isn't exactly chock full of critical successes either. He's got a few holocaust projects to his credit but, outside of Jaws and, possibly ET, that's it. I like Sugarland Express. He's got a thing the 2ww, though, check out those credits on Medal Of Honour.
The only other people that I can immediately think of who do this sort of thing is Clint Eastwood and John Sayles. Once Eastwood had made his millions, he went on to make White Hunter, Black Heart, Bird and a few other non-commercial films. Although, looking again at his filmography, I don't think this is strictly true.
John Sayles is a better case - he writes films such as Jurassic IV - then uses it to finance films such as Lone Star and Passion Fish. But John Sayles, in his directorial persona, is strictly indy.
Come to think about it, you're barking up the wrong tree. Nobody in Hollywood does the sort of thing you say. Even Hitchcock in his day was always fighting to make his movies, and you'd a thought *there* was someone who made a banker. Carte blanche work is as rare as hen's teeth - purely because the more money you make, the more money you're expected to make, which automatically kicks in with a dampner on the risk factor. Peter Jackson has fashioned for himself a gilded cage. He's won the pinball game, is guaranteed a shot at a next movie however expectations are raised, and risk will be lessened. I guarantee that Jackson's next film will tank in some manner.
"Oh no it doesn't"
You have one?
Any ship up to Lloyds A+ should be able to do this, and cruise-ship are supposed to have slightly better tech anyway - all those lives at risk etc. Of course, the titanic...You'd probably tick the engines over once in a while.
Offshore refuel and repair is relatively easy. The ship would have to be dry-docked occasionally. You could do that in Mexico. But it's still expensive.
Technically feasable but would the "savings" be worth it? I think not.
So does Eurostar.
r _p reps_wifi_train_trial/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/10/eurosta
So, most everyone else does offer it. And they've got faster trains. So it is some kind of subtle taunt. Why is this news again?
Better blame management. No more engineers round the table going "dunno" and shrugging shoulders.
Most users aren't even looking for windows. They're looking for a PC. That's the important bit: they've heard of this thing called a PC and they need to get it. Another set might want Word "because that's what they use at work" but I figure they're rarer. The birds that gather at this watering hole are rarer still.
The fucking OS comes a long way down the list.
That's why MS spend so much time on strongarming OEMs. Once the OEM's get the idea that they can offer a choice of OS for the consumer, then the game will be over for MS. Once there's real choice out there, then OSs can compete on features. It might take a couple of years, but MS's main revenue stream will be gone. Until such time, all of these threads concerning people buying MS because of quality are bollocks.
Do Japanese trains offer Wifi? I bet Eurostar - hang, on I bet everyone else with High Speed trains offers WiFi. Is this some kind of subtle taunt?
oh wait...this one's broken. It keeps sending repeats.
true, so true. However, HHGG was written for the radio, hence lots of dialog which has to carry the story. You can see this bourne out by the quotes given. Although books can contain a heap of dialog, description, more often than not, carries the narrative. The HHGG books contain a lot of narrative in the description.
Compare this with Dune's tx to the big screen. It contains more than a few appearances of exposition man just to carry the story. (Incidentally, this is why the Dune TV series - with it's luxury of X episodes - is better than the film.) But this doesn't make good cinema as cinema tends to rely on images to tell the story, particularly American cinema. European cinema tends to rely on literature, which has a problematic relation to the image.
In a TV context, both can carry the story: Neighbours (an obscure oz soap) is unique in the fact that you can pick up the story after 60's of action during an episode. The dialogue tends to be of a different nature. It's not often that it has to refer *to* something to make a point. If the something is within viewing distance, then its: "Oh look, there it is". Whereas on radio, the same sentence might read "Oh, look, there's that 10 week-old corpse." I exagerate, but not by much I think.
I'm actually beginning to pity the script-writers for the HHGG film. They are trying to adapt not just one genre of writing but several. As source, you have the radio series, the TV series and the books. Umm. You might as well rip it up and start again. I think the guiding madness of Adams will be sorely missed. But would he have ever made the deadlines?
I feel for you: 8 x Police Academy and Police Academy: The Series. When will the madness end?