So, in other words, to buy one of these, you have to have access to a PC already? Hmm, kinda defeats the 'unwashed masses' image of who's going to be buying these things.
Judging from the organizations I've worked in, deficiencies in current pay may not just result from an inability or will to pay more, but rather the mgmt has incomplete information about what the going rate is for a given position or class of positions. Maybe they just refuse to believe that Joe Employee can get $20k more a year, until an offer with that very figure is what is taking Joe away from them.
It sounds like a lot of Slashdotters have adversarial relationships with their employers, and that's too bad, but if you have a good relationship with your organization, and you have a position they can't easily fill (after all, so many jobs depend more on local knowledge rather than general skill level)), then just tactfully state that another offer is out there and you'd be hard-pressed not to take it. At the least, getting a counter-offer is one more option than hearing "actually, no, we can't pay you that." Reaction to getting more money depends totally on where you work; there is no pat answer for that.
On the other hand, if you're just another drone whose job is duplicated by many other employees, take the original offer and get a better chance to distinguish yourself.
I think it's selective here... some people have an image of Yoda as not being able to do the things he did in this movie (much like they'd be surprised when a real-life older person doesn something unusually active)... meanwhile, I had a harder time accepting the early scene in Coruscant where Obi-Wan and Anakin are chasing the chick through the skies between the skyscrapers... really had a hard time buying that one. Yoda in a lightsaber battle? No problem.
Trivial but true: years ago (about 1989?) I was working on a Sequent multi-processor box, which ran Dynix/PTX, and came across an entry in the/etc/magic file... can't recall what the file type was supposed to be, but the comment field read: "for Lucasfilm". I thought that was so cool at the time... OS mods, just for George;)
I can only guess that they probably used such machines for their motion cameras; in any case, I'm sure SGI wasn't the only hardware platform sitting around ILM back then.
Currently I have to deal with 4 Unixes... as long as they keep to themselves, they're fine (and that's the case here). It's when they have to interact with each other that the complexity shows up. Or when they break... nothing like getting 2 hardware vendors and one big software vendor in a conference call and having them accuse each other as being the cause of the major malfunction that is interrupting business.
Nah, not the characters, instead the artifacts and weapons should take on those post-mod qualities... SlashWorld would be a medieval battleground in a Net setting... I call dibs on the +3 poison dagger of flamebait!
So would CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco, JonKatz and others be flavorful NPCs, or whole character classes? Hmm....
In short, KPNQ was a joint venture between KPN and Qwest. Each of them owns a substantial minority share in the company. Don't know about KPN, but Qwest is a vastly bigger concern than KPNQ is.
Interesting idea... don't think you'll ever find a CP/M or Xenix CD, but I could be wrong. Back then, all they put on CD was large shareware collections (PC-SIG, etc.) Wasn't much need when the OS of the day could fit on a 360K floppy. So unless you stretch your scope to early Windows and NetWare versions, not sure what more you would find out there on CD. Old Slackware, maybe?;)
Yeah, but having done the SVR3 generation of Unix (incl. older Dynix/PTX for Unisys platforms, egaaaaddds), it's better to look back and say "wow, I'm glad I don't have to deal with the quirks anymore". Or the days where making it Internet ready meant you had to hack somebody's BSD sockets package to get things connected... hehe, when 'networking' meant UUCP. Those are good old days I can do without.
It's generational... if Lucas hadn't made it big in movies, he'd probably be tinkering with some American Graffiti-style hot rods like many other men of his age (my dad included).
Instead, he has some cool 'hot-rod' movies to tinker with, and with who knows how much unused footage just begging to see the light of day, he has the 'spare parts' ready to go.
Or maybe he's just annoyingly insecure about his creations. Personally, I say that if he's going to tinker, I hope he digitally removes the entire Ewok race from ROTJ.
Somewhere during the testimony part, they flashed back to a scene where the first Deep Throat gets shot on the bridge (?)... it only lasted for a split-second.
I didn't think the episode was all that bad, it just had too much courtroom drama and not enough meat to the story.
Tired/Wired is an American publication.... so it will have an American viewpoint. I'm sure that European publications would come up with an entirely different list.
As for bias, the list IS biased, towards newer movies. Leaving older classics like the Frankenstein pics, Metropolis, The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, and a ton of other films off the list is just short-sighted, and/or indication that they need a larger list.
Minor editorial: if the list was biased towards special effects, they could have put The Ten Commandments on the list... in some people's opinion, it qualifies as sci-fi;)
It's a borderline case, but certainly more in the sci-fi vein that Barbarella was. And it's not a ray-guns and rockets knida movie, either.
As for the Tired list, who cares about what order they're in? Just make it a 'club' of sorts, the top 20 in no particular order.
My prefs:
Scratch off: Clockwork Orange, Boys From Brazil (more a political pic than sci-fi), RoboCop (hardly original at the time), Barbarella (a drug fantasy more than sci-fi).
Add on: Forbidden Planet, Metropolis, Altered States, and some choice among the original Frankenstein movies (perhaps Son of Frankenstein).
I'd mod this up, not because it's funny but because it's true.
ChicksHateMe, you poor soul, you really want to be a sysadmin right out of high school? Ouch. Forget it. Hit college running, find a real-world (i.e. non-computer-related) interest that you can make a career out of, and don't look back.
Sincerely,
One of the Damned.
P.S. Chicks hate me too, but at my age, I expect that.
Nobody should, based only on a PR news release. Issues of location and corporate structure aside, these news releases crop up on the PR newswire and Yahoo stock message boards constantly throughout the day, from all sorts of small/startup businesses, and appear to be generated at a frequency inversely proportional to the company's net worth. Releases mentioning "alliances" between the small company and a much larger one are common. Because of this, I kinda question whether this article should have even been Slashdotted... it's really just an ad, rather than news.
As for the product itself, it sounds a lot like a classic boondoggle, but I have no way of saying if it is or not. Seems like it would be a challenge to effectively transfer that much cooling capacity to a large volume of air/fluid from such a small surface area.
Roger Ebert has been near worthless since Siskel passed away... I swear, his reviews are so random anymore that his attitude must stem from whether he had a tough grunt on the can that morning...
Even Leonard Maltin has lost me; I used to buy his movie guides every few years, but now I don't bother. Guess I never forgave him for giving Blade Runner one and a half stars.
Anymore, I just go to rottentomatoes, or the Slashdot-linked Filthy Critic, and check out the movie from there.
For those of you who love spoilers, here's one that probably isn't listed on rottentomatoes (which I often consult as my first reference for a movie)... The Other Paper's 2-Star Review of AOTC
The link will be good for about 5 days, which is about as much as the review is worth... this rag's reviewers have what I call 'inverse value': when they give it 1 star, assume it's a 5, and vice versa. So AOTC must be a 4;)
Well, it does take skill, but more imagination than anything. You'd need a jig (something which facilitates repetitive operations) to cut the 110+ element boxes out, then lots of well-ventilated room for clamping and gluing. And the woods he uses aren't terribly expensive until you get down to the koa and ebony, and of course the rare elements. (The handling of which is discussed above; I wouldn't even want the radioactives in my house, much less a piece of furniture.)
Whatever.... this is one f'cking cool project. Wish I'd thought of it.
Except that the Baby Boomer generation is currently 40 to 55 years old. If they all retire at 60, that large chunk of population won't be out of the job market until around 2020. Throw in the ones who bought Akamai at $300+ a share for their retirement funds, and thus have to work later in life, and you've got a long bulge in the curve, followed by a lot of old people with an outmatched (by then) Social Security system. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!;)
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So, in other words, to buy one of these, you have to have access to a PC already? Hmm, kinda defeats the 'unwashed masses' image of who's going to be buying these things.
It sounds like a lot of Slashdotters have adversarial relationships with their employers, and that's too bad, but if you have a good relationship with your organization, and you have a position they can't easily fill (after all, so many jobs depend more on local knowledge rather than general skill level)), then just tactfully state that another offer is out there and you'd be hard-pressed not to take it. At the least, getting a counter-offer is one more option than hearing "actually, no, we can't pay you that." Reaction to getting more money depends totally on where you work; there is no pat answer for that.
On the other hand, if you're just another drone whose job is duplicated by many other employees, take the original offer and get a better chance to distinguish yourself.
I think it's selective here... some people have an image of Yoda as not being able to do the things he did in this movie (much like they'd be surprised when a real-life older person doesn something unusually active)... meanwhile, I had a harder time accepting the early scene in Coruscant where Obi-Wan and Anakin are chasing the chick through the skies between the skyscrapers... really had a hard time buying that one. Yoda in a lightsaber battle? No problem.
I can only guess that they probably used such machines for their motion cameras; in any case, I'm sure SGI wasn't the only hardware platform sitting around ILM back then.
Currently I have to deal with 4 Unixes... as long as they keep to themselves, they're fine (and that's the case here). It's when they have to interact with each other that the complexity shows up. Or when they break... nothing like getting 2 hardware vendors and one big software vendor in a conference call and having them accuse each other as being the cause of the major malfunction that is interrupting business.
So would CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco, JonKatz and others be flavorful NPCs, or whole character classes? Hmm....
In short, KPNQ was a joint venture between KPN and Qwest. Each of them owns a substantial minority share in the company. Don't know about KPN, but Qwest is a vastly bigger concern than KPNQ is.
Yes, Qwest is 47% owner of KPNQ. Probably won't have a noticeable effect on Q, as Q is having its own problems right now.
Interesting idea... don't think you'll ever find a CP/M or Xenix CD, but I could be wrong. Back then, all they put on CD was large shareware collections (PC-SIG, etc.) Wasn't much need when the OS of the day could fit on a 360K floppy. So unless you stretch your scope to early Windows and NetWare versions, not sure what more you would find out there on CD. Old Slackware, maybe? ;)
Yeah, but having done the SVR3 generation of Unix (incl. older Dynix/PTX for Unisys platforms, egaaaaddds), it's better to look back and say "wow, I'm glad I don't have to deal with the quirks anymore". Or the days where making it Internet ready meant you had to hack somebody's BSD sockets package to get things connected... hehe, when 'networking' meant UUCP. Those are good old days I can do without.
Instead, he has some cool 'hot-rod' movies to tinker with, and with who knows how much unused footage just begging to see the light of day, he has the 'spare parts' ready to go.
Or maybe he's just annoyingly insecure about his creations. Personally, I say that if he's going to tinker, I hope he digitally removes the entire Ewok race from ROTJ.
I didn't think the episode was all that bad, it just had too much courtroom drama and not enough meat to the story.
As for bias, the list IS biased, towards newer movies. Leaving older classics like the Frankenstein pics, Metropolis, The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, and a ton of other films off the list is just short-sighted, and/or indication that they need a larger list.
Minor editorial: if the list was biased towards special effects, they could have put The Ten Commandments on the list... in some people's opinion, it qualifies as sci-fi ;)
As for the Tired list, who cares about what order they're in? Just make it a 'club' of sorts, the top 20 in no particular order.
My prefs:
Scratch off: Clockwork Orange, Boys From Brazil (more a political pic than sci-fi), RoboCop (hardly original at the time), Barbarella (a drug fantasy more than sci-fi).
Add on: Forbidden Planet, Metropolis, Altered States, and some choice among the original Frankenstein movies (perhaps Son of Frankenstein).
ChicksHateMe, you poor soul, you really want to be a sysadmin right out of high school? Ouch. Forget it. Hit college running, find a real-world (i.e. non-computer-related) interest that you can make a career out of, and don't look back.
Sincerely,
One of the Damned.
P.S. Chicks hate me too, but at my age, I expect that.
What, it's taken? Oh. Nuts.
Nobody should, based only on a PR news release. Issues of location and corporate structure aside, these news releases crop up on the PR newswire and Yahoo stock message boards constantly throughout the day, from all sorts of small/startup businesses, and appear to be generated at a frequency inversely proportional to the company's net worth. Releases mentioning "alliances" between the small company and a much larger one are common. Because of this, I kinda question whether this article should have even been Slashdotted... it's really just an ad, rather than news.
As for the product itself, it sounds a lot like a classic boondoggle, but I have no way of saying if it is or not. Seems like it would be a challenge to effectively transfer that much cooling capacity to a large volume of air/fluid from such a small surface area.
I'm all for supporting pure science, in all its many forms, but this story just whispers to me: "desperate attempt for funding" ;)
Which I suppose would leave him on the censorship side of things... maybe not Ed Meese-conservative, but enough to be a PITA.
Even Leonard Maltin has lost me; I used to buy his movie guides every few years, but now I don't bother. Guess I never forgave him for giving Blade Runner one and a half stars.
Anymore, I just go to rottentomatoes, or the Slashdot-linked Filthy Critic, and check out the movie from there.
The link will be good for about 5 days, which is about as much as the review is worth... this rag's reviewers have what I call 'inverse value': when they give it 1 star, assume it's a 5, and vice versa. So AOTC must be a 4 ;)
Acc. to the site, run time is 2 hours, 22 minutes. A good long film... one second will likely not be missed.
Whatever.... this is one f'cking cool project. Wish I'd thought of it.
It also said he fathered a child at 80, with his current 40-something wife.
I can just hear the moment of conception now... : "I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!"
Except that the Baby Boomer generation is currently 40 to 55 years old. If they all retire at 60, that large chunk of population won't be out of the job market until around 2020. Throw in the ones who bought Akamai at $300+ a share for their retirement funds, and thus have to work later in life, and you've got a long bulge in the curve, followed by a lot of old people with an outmatched (by then) Social Security system. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades! ;)