Ah I know what ya mean about XP's desktop theme. Imagine a Dell laptop running Windows XP. It's like a Fisher Price "my first laptop!" So I got a desktop replacement app called Aston Desktop Shell, or something like that. Then I put some of my artwork as the wallpaper. It's much more serious looking now heh.
Heh @ Harry Potter. I don't mind it. Then again, I'm in the FX industry so I end up having to watch a bunch of movies as homework. Don't really have time to hate stuff. (Though Matrix Rebloated grated on my nerves.)
The Red Dwarf book is a novel writen the guys who made the show. "Grant Naylor" is actually two people. Doh I can't remember their names, but if you watch the credits, you'll see two guys with the last names Grant and Naylor. Is it related to the show? Well sort of. It shares some events with the TV show, but it's a parallel.. ah blast I can't really explain it. There's lotsa stuff that's new, but some stuff that's familiar too. It's very well written. My GF isn't a scifi fan. But she loves the show and insisited on borrowing my book. After finishing it, she went and ordered the other two books. (Technically there is 4, but the one I have contains books 1 and 2.) If you liked Hitchhiker's Guide, you'd probably like this book. It's a little less sci-fi'ish, but it's funnier too.
Monster's Inc was great. I liked it better than Nemo, but Nemo wasn't too shabby. I may apply at Pixar one day, but I have more growth to do before I try it.
I miss Futurama. I think we may get a movie from it, though. Pity Fox time slotted it to death.
I think Im gonna set up my replay to catch ATHF.
I don't think Anime is automatically cool, but the good anime is usually pretty damn good. It's more dramatic and adult than the animated crap we have here. I just finished watching Cowboy Bebop. That show has something that I wish American TV'd pick up.
Southpark's cool, though I've lost interest in catching it every week. Though it grabs my attention late at night. Just saw the 'metro-sexual' episode a few days ago, heh.
Hmm.. so why'd ya subscribe? Your general opinion of it seems negative. Kinda curious what about it did make ya wanna pay them.
Im not much of a scifi reader. My favorite book of all time is Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor. It's full of ironic humor, and the scifi in it is practical. I'd like to have a holodeck but I'm not sure I'd want a space ship. I wouldn't mind a Runabout for tooling around here on Earth, tho.
I love Spaceballs. (there's a nice out-of-context -sentence, eh? heh)
My interests focus around the creation of imagery for movies/TV. My favorite show was called "Movie Magic". It showed how a lot of CG and miniature work was done for movies. It's why I chose 3D art as a caree. One day in the not too distant future I'll probably be working at a movie fx studio.
Heh I like ATHF, but I've only seen a couple of eps. I miss Futurama and Family Guy, tho. I'd love to see more Cowboy Bebop too.
There's also an episode called "Trial of a Time Lord", with Colin baker as the Doctor. The last chunk of it involves entering the 'Matrix'. It was a little different, though. In this ep, the Matrix was a repository of all Time Lord knowledge. Or something like that. Imagine the universe having a black box recording everything that happens, then having a Holodeck to walk into and witness events that occured. It was taken over and the laws of physics were messed up, etc.
Though I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this episode had significant influence on the Matrix movies, it'd be difficult to say it was more than simply inspired.
Well, there's a few reasons. First off, I've been posting on Slashdot since.... oh.. 2001 I think. Maybe even 2000, not sure. I lurked for quite a while before posting so I'm not really sure when that started.
Mainly I do it for laughs. Sometimes I get some amusing comments in. Sometimes I want have something to say, i.e. catching people being stupid. Sometimes I get involved in an interesting discussion and I learn things. A lot of the time, I'm just plain bored. I do 3D artwork for a living, and I spend a chunk of most of my days at the office waiting for a render to finish. So I poke around on Slashdot or the art forums I frequent. Just something to do.
"Listen people, merely reducing the risk does not mean your wireless is secure."
Um.
"You don't want much more power, not only for security reasons but for frequency reuse!"
He did not say: "To make your wireless network secure, lower the power!" If he had said that, then your point would be worthwhile. But he didn't. He meant it as another aspect of it, and you've confirmed that lowering the power doesassist in securing your network. This flies right in the face of your original statement: "Power level has nothing to do with security."
Don't change the rules just so you can 'win'. Think about what he's saying instead of knee-jerk attacking what he didn't say. Discussion is about learning, it's not an IQ contest.
"Perhaps there should be laws to punish people who leave unpatched, unprotected computers sitting on the internet. There are laws that punish irresponsible gun owners, should we also punish negligent computer owners? What about negligent programmers?"
Not a fan of either. A significant chunk of vulnerable machines out there are owned by people who don't have a strong enough interest in computers to know they should be patching. Making sure your computer is secure is not as simple as putting a lock on your gun. On top of that, it's not a life or death situation. You'd be asking too much of the casual computer user.
What about negligent programmers? Nope. There's a can of worms you don't want to open. First off, whether or not somebody built something exploitable, the guilty party is still the one who exploits it. Secondly, how do you judge how negligent a programmer is? His job is to write a program that performs a task. There are a lot of security issues out there that the average programmer is not even going to consider. Who would want to contribute to the Open Source Community if one little human mistake made on their part could make them liable because of some script kiddie?
There's one more fundamental problem here that needs to be considered. Computers fail. Power surges happen. Parts wear out. Shit happens. Nobody in their right mind would put somebody's life into the hands of a computer without considering the possibility that the system won't behave as needed. If a virus or worm put somebody's life in danger because a computer wasn't doing what it should be, then where's the punishment for the dude who didn't make the system fail safely?
If you want laws passed that'll help security, try stiffer punishments for the jackasses that create these self-propogating headaches. Not only does the right person get punished, but it also creates incentive for those maintaining these machines to make sure that hacking attempts are traceable.
It really kind of depends on how you look at it. Okay, VHS isn't dead dead, but a large segment of the market can now live without VHS. You could define dead that way, though independence would be a much better word if they meant that.
" but they also made it pretty clear it was something they wouldn't classify either as a console or handheld."
You could almost describe the GameCube that way. It's easy to pick up and move around the house to other rooms, but it needs to be stationary to be played.
Hmm... Updated GameCube with a built in screen? How cool would that be for mulitplayer? Bring two units side by side and network them, and no more dreaded splitscreen. Bonus points if they can do it without having to buy multiple copies of a game.
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"Priorities?"
Safety of the world.
Im well aware of the weak five year plan it had. doesn't mean they couldn't have continued it.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, people."
Cliches are never insightful, people.
No, it died. B5 would have kept going if it could have. They definitely tried. They had a mini-movie not so long ago, and everybody barfed at it.
Ah I know what ya mean about XP's desktop theme. Imagine a Dell laptop running Windows XP. It's like a Fisher Price "my first laptop!" So I got a desktop replacement app called Aston Desktop Shell, or something like that. Then I put some of my artwork as the wallpaper. It's much more serious looking now heh.
Heh @ Harry Potter. I don't mind it. Then again, I'm in the FX industry so I end up having to watch a bunch of movies as homework. Don't really have time to hate stuff. (Though Matrix Rebloated grated on my nerves.)
The Red Dwarf book is a novel writen the guys who made the show. "Grant Naylor" is actually two people. Doh I can't remember their names, but if you watch the credits, you'll see two guys with the last names Grant and Naylor. Is it related to the show? Well sort of. It shares some events with the TV show, but it's a parallel.. ah blast I can't really explain it. There's lotsa stuff that's new, but some stuff that's familiar too. It's very well written. My GF isn't a scifi fan. But she loves the show and insisited on borrowing my book. After finishing it, she went and ordered the other two books. (Technically there is 4, but the one I have contains books 1 and 2.) If you liked Hitchhiker's Guide, you'd probably like this book. It's a little less sci-fi'ish, but it's funnier too.
Monster's Inc was great. I liked it better than Nemo, but Nemo wasn't too shabby. I may apply at Pixar one day, but I have more growth to do before I try it.
I miss Futurama. I think we may get a movie from it, though. Pity Fox time slotted it to death.
I think Im gonna set up my replay to catch ATHF.
I don't think Anime is automatically cool, but the good anime is usually pretty damn good. It's more dramatic and adult than the animated crap we have here. I just finished watching Cowboy Bebop. That show has something that I wish American TV'd pick up.
Southpark's cool, though I've lost interest in catching it every week. Though it grabs my attention late at night. Just saw the 'metro-sexual' episode a few days ago, heh.
How's your weekend?
"Babylon 5 is the only scifi i ever mourned."
I was sad when B5 died too. I had nobody to argue with about how great DS9 was. Just when I had them wriggling within the grip of reason. *sigh*
Hmm.. so why'd ya subscribe? Your general opinion of it seems negative. Kinda curious what about it did make ya wanna pay them.
Im not much of a scifi reader. My favorite book of all time is Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor. It's full of ironic humor, and the scifi in it is practical. I'd like to have a holodeck but I'm not sure I'd want a space ship. I wouldn't mind a Runabout for tooling around here on Earth, tho.
I love Spaceballs. (there's a nice out-of-context -sentence, eh? heh)
My interests focus around the creation of imagery for movies/TV. My favorite show was called "Movie Magic". It showed how a lot of CG and miniature work was done for movies. It's why I chose 3D art as a caree. One day in the not too distant future I'll probably be working at a movie fx studio.
Heh I like ATHF, but I've only seen a couple of eps. I miss Futurama and Family Guy, tho. I'd love to see more Cowboy Bebop too.
"My friend immediately reversed his stance on Genetic Engineering and wanted more testing."
My kingdom for a babel fish!
"How do we stop it, simple... We break it."
Okay. It's friday, my evening's available. Let's go break it!
"I mean, at this stage I'm sure it is not even realistic to say whether said ports will even RUN on that box!"
They will if that's his goal.
I've seen some cool stuff there. Never really thought about subscribing, though. Only site I ever subscribed to was a porn site. ;)
There's also an episode called "Trial of a Time Lord", with Colin baker as the Doctor. The last chunk of it involves entering the 'Matrix'. It was a little different, though. In this ep, the Matrix was a repository of all Time Lord knowledge. Or something like that. Imagine the universe having a black box recording everything that happens, then having a Holodeck to walk into and witness events that occured. It was taken over and the laws of physics were messed up, etc.
Though I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this episode had significant influence on the Matrix movies, it'd be difficult to say it was more than simply inspired.
Well, there's a few reasons. First off, I've been posting on Slashdot since.... oh.. 2001 I think. Maybe even 2000, not sure. I lurked for quite a while before posting so I'm not really sure when that started.
Mainly I do it for laughs. Sometimes I get some amusing comments in. Sometimes I want have something to say, i.e. catching people being stupid. Sometimes I get involved in an interesting discussion and I learn things. A lot of the time, I'm just plain bored. I do 3D artwork for a living, and I spend a chunk of most of my days at the office waiting for a render to finish. So I poke around on Slashdot or the art forums I frequent. Just something to do.
How about you?
Heh now I'm confused about who I was talking to.
There was 2 of you?
"Listen people, merely reducing the risk does not mean your wireless is secure."
Um.
"You don't want much more power, not only for security reasons but for frequency reuse!"
He did not say: "To make your wireless network secure, lower the power!" If he had said that, then your point would be worthwhile. But he didn't. He meant it as another aspect of it, and you've confirmed that lowering the power does assist in securing your network. This flies right in the face of your original statement: "Power level has nothing to do with security."
Don't change the rules just so you can 'win'. Think about what he's saying instead of knee-jerk attacking what he didn't say. Discussion is about learning, it's not an IQ contest.
"What if it's the office in the floor above you doing the evesdropping?"
You defeated your own argument. Thanks for pointing out that lowering the power causes an intruder to be in a very specific area.
"Power level has nothing to do with security."
Yes it does. The less you use, the closer somebody has to be to your physical location to peek into your signal.
Think, then reply.
"Perhaps there should be laws to punish people who leave unpatched, unprotected computers sitting on the internet. There are laws that punish irresponsible gun owners, should we also punish negligent computer owners? What about negligent
programmers?"
Not a fan of either. A significant chunk of vulnerable machines out there are owned by people who don't have a strong enough interest in computers to know they should be patching. Making sure your computer is secure is not as simple as putting a lock on your gun. On top of that, it's not a life or death situation. You'd be asking too much of the casual computer user.
What about negligent programmers? Nope. There's a can of worms you don't want to open. First off, whether or not somebody built something exploitable, the guilty party is still the one who exploits it. Secondly, how do you judge how negligent a programmer is? His job is to write a program that performs a task. There are a lot of security issues out there that the average programmer is not even going to consider. Who would want to contribute to the Open Source Community if one little human mistake made on their part could make them liable because of some script kiddie?
There's one more fundamental problem here that needs to be considered. Computers fail. Power surges happen. Parts wear out. Shit happens. Nobody in their right mind would put somebody's life into the hands of a computer without considering the possibility that the system won't behave as needed. If a virus or worm put somebody's life in danger because a computer wasn't doing what it should be, then where's the punishment for the dude who didn't make the system fail safely?
If you want laws passed that'll help security, try stiffer punishments for the jackasses that create these self-propogating headaches. Not only does the right person get punished, but it also creates incentive for those maintaining these machines to make sure that hacking attempts are traceable.
Ah okay, I get what you mean.
It really kind of depends on how you look at it. Okay, VHS isn't dead dead, but a large segment of the market can now live without VHS. You could define dead that way, though independence would be a much better word if they meant that.
Never really considered that. I have a Replay for recording shows, haven't been interested in recordable DVDs.
" but they also made it pretty clear it was something they wouldn't classify either as a console or handheld."
You could almost describe the GameCube that way. It's easy to pick up and move around the house to other rooms, but it needs to be stationary to be played.
Hmm... Updated GameCube with a built in screen? How cool would that be for mulitplayer? Bring two units side by side and network them, and no more dreaded splitscreen. Bonus points if they can do it without having to buy multiple copies of a game.
"That's what I thought would happen, what with the Gamecube price drop. I hope this next one can play DVDs, etc."
I just paid $40 for a DVD player at Walmart. If my next game console plays DVDs, I'd be surprised if I ever used it.
"It's been done - the Creative Labs 3DO Blaster was a 3DO on an expansion card. It wasn't a success."
It couldn't be a success. You had to have a VERY specific CD-ROM for it to work.
" so why the unilateral conclusion?"
I blame the Bush Administration!