What you state is true most of the time, but not all, because of company policy.
And...I hate it.
They always pull the old "we own the computer, therefore" line. It's the same reason given for why they feel justified in reading your emails and such. Well, they own the phones, too, but they cannot legally record your calls without notice.
A friend and I were talking about this a while back. We were allowed to play games at work from time to time, and so sometimes I did. He teased me that I played games on company time. Technically, that can't be said...because we were salaried employees. An extreme analogy would be: make me an hourly employee, and put a timeclock on my desk. I might clock-in and clock-out at intervals of only 10 seconds here and 2 minutes there. A salary employee is essentially doing that, but without the physical timeclock on the desk...just as a mental exercise. Therefore, a salary employee never plays games on company time... and, possibly, might always be free to develop his own ideas which might still belong to him... aside from the fact that he used the company-owned PC at the time.
I'd better check with the carpenters that built my house... it's possible that they own the house, and not me, because they owned the hammers and saws used to build it!
but unlike trademarks, patents and copyright do not diminish with disuse
That's not the point here.
copyrights do diminish when there is a lack of enforcement.
If I write a book it is automatically copyright. Done. But, if I learn later that someone is copying my book without my permission then I have a choice: fight to enforce the copyright, or just shrug my shoulders. If I shrug, then I lose my copyright, de facto.
If it can be demonstrated that SCO ignored any obligation to protect their copyright in the past, and in fact participated in the alledged damaging behavior themselves...then they are screwed.
Either way...they've screwed themselves.
BTW, if Novell really believes what they've stated, then they should sue SCO.
There's no point in arguing for the sex scene
I was not. I was arguing agin' it.
which if anything was too tame
The opinion I shared was not regarding tame/lurid. In my opinion, it was a stupid useless and *long* scene.
but it can be easily argued that you're wrong about the CG being too good to notice mistakes.
Argue? Why? I was, again, sharing an opinion (subject line: "my impressions"). It's my opinion that the CG is great, and that people nit-picking it are just being pretentious and superior. That's what the/. crowd does, though.
During the courtyard scene where Neo fights dozens of Smiths it's obvious several times that Neo's face is unrealistically simple. The CG was amazing, best I've ever seen, but there's no point arguing it was flawless.
Yap, I agree with you, etc, etc. But, there's no point in arguing it wasn't flawless.
So, he's used computers for 30 years, apparently not programmed them.
Other important questions:
Why do computers still cost money?
Why do computers still require power?
Why can't computers yet read my mind?
Why don't computers smell pretty?
Well, back to the crashing... it's all my fault. I'm sorry. I won't do it again.
For the full-featured HTTP server that I designed and implemented at my last job...I found just one book to be all the help a person needs:
"HTTP Pocket Reference", O'Reilly, maybe 4 bucks at Bookpool.
75 pages, of which about 65 aren't necessary.
656 pages on HTTP??? It's not a detailed technical reference on all the topics mentioned in the table of contents (above); it would be tough to fit all that material into the book's 650-plus pages.... good grief!!
I totally agree that the dance/love scene toward the beginning was bad. In fact, it was absolutely stupid and long. Maybe 5 minutes. I turned to my brother and said "wake me when they get back to the movie".
The rest is good. Excellent action, fast pace, excellent effects. You sit there for, what- 2 hours or so, the whole time very focused. One friend didn't go because he figured the huge crowd would be loud. It wasn't...people with popcorn didn't even eat their popcorn once the movie started...because they were sitting and watching, not blinking and I'm not sure about breathing.
The freeway scene is amazing. You might also notice that every single car is a GM product...but who cares? I'd have loved it even if they were all Fords.
The ending is not just abrupt. It's incredibly abrupt. Your jerk sister waltzed into the theater and changed the channel then hid the remote.
Spoiler stuff... Don't blame me if you read this!
By the time the movie is over, it seems to me that the secret of the Matrix is revealed too much. My theory: they never left the Matrix. They're inside a Matrix within a Matrix kind of thing. It would explain how Agent Smith is able to infect a person inside the Matrix and, in a sense, return with that person to the "real" world. It would also explain Neo's trick at the end with the Sentinels. It would also explain why he's in a coma (essentially he blue-screens because he acted contrary to this outer Matrix's logic rules). I'm not complaining about this Matrix within a Matrix...just that I wish it didn't seem so obvious. Ah, but still, I'm sure I'll be surprised.
I wasn't too happy with the direction they took The Oracle. But, it works well. All the stuff that The Architect tells Neo...it's interesting. And, it totally explains how anyone (ie. The Oracle and Neo) is able to know the future.
Generally, though, one thing I liked about M1 is that you felt Agent Smith was acting on direct behalf, and with near total knowledge of, the mainframe. You felt that if Agent Smith lacked any piece of information on Neo it was because the Mainframe did. Neo represented a mysterious and perhaps uncontrollable force to the entire system. In M2 we see that's not the case at all. It was kinda disappointing to see that every single programmed manifestation (any 'person' that is not tied to a real body, like the Agents, but not an Agent...and there are many)...every single one of them seem to know every single thing there is to know about Neo. Only Neo is out of the loop, and he doesn't seem to mind much. For the story to work, what The Architect explains to Neo about Neo's true purpose and the looping nature of the Matrix...well, of course everyone knows everything about Neo except Neo. But, I just missed the treatment in M1 that gave a feeling of vulnerability to the system.
Here's one thought that might blow your mind...if I'm right about the Matrix within a Matrix, then given some of what The Architect explained...it would seem that Neo isn't tied to a real body at all. He's another programmed manifestation. In the next movie, when all the minds are freed from whatever they are really trapped within (if any are, since this could all be a simulation within a single PC) then Neo won't be joining Trinity on the outside...
Other little thoughts:
- I thought the Twins would play an important role of some kind. They don't.
- Every single programmed manifestation seems to be programmed as a philosopher. They all wax on about causallity or fate or something deep.
- Morpheus and Trinity have both improved their fighting skills. So much so that, Morpheus at least, actually holds his own pretty well against an Agent in an excellent fight scene. Either that...or it seems the Agent's have forgotten how to move fast.
- You're never quite sure why Agent Smith is in the movie. There's the notion of exiled programs that continue to exist, but they've bucked the system themselves. Agent Sm
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you obviously did not read my reply to filth grinder.
i'll accept your apology when you feel fit to grow up.
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and countless other excellent comics...
Thank you for your opinion. But, I'm happy with my own.
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I've been a member since 2/2000 when it was 4-out for $15. They grandfathered me for many months but finally raised my price to $20, but still 4-out.
In this time I've rotated movies very quickly and only seen any kind of wait time just once or twice.
I did notice that following 9-11 the deliveries slowed to a crawl. Suddenly, the deliveries came the next day...and I noticed the return address very close to home. Now days, it's never more than 3 days turn-around to swap one movie for another.
But, here's the thing that might save me from the long waits. Possibly they use algorithms such as described, and possibly the algorithms don't affect me because of this... of our 4-out I only rotate 3 quickly. The other 1 is always something my wife wants to see, and she'll be busy and not get around to seeing it for a month or two. That one might throw off their trick.
Whatever... anything is better than Blockbuster...
"how many will be as good as Spiderman or X-Men, and how many will be as bad as Daredevil?"
My own 2-cents:
Spiderman was alright. TobyM's acting was pretty weak. He was supposed to act like a kinda shy, kinda introverted, kinda geek...but ended up looking a little mentally slow and a lot constipated.
X-Men was boring. It was just an introduction for those not familiar with X-Men. Also...of all the mutants to choose...the frog dude?? How stupid.
Dare Devil was pretty fun. I liked it fine. And, I like that they succeeded in giving it a dark feel. Consider the dorky Batman films...none of which felt dark. Instead, they felt like a circus without much color.
It's absolutely silly to suggest Sony's choice of 5GHz is better than Sharp's choice of 2.4GHz.
Besides, we all learned from the movie "Signs" that even advanced alien beings able to cross galaxies... prefer to use 900MHz.
The comment: "The cordless Sony Vega TV series use 5GHz to avoid interference, so Sharp is a bit behind here." was lacking in... well, I'll avoid another 'flamebait'.
Next... we'll learn that "War and Peace" is a better book than "Danny and the Dinosaur"... because it has more pages.
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It has nothing to do with copyright law.
What you state is true most of the time, but not all, because of company policy.
And...I hate it.
They always pull the old "we own the computer, therefore" line. It's the same reason given for why they feel justified in reading your emails and such. Well, they own the phones, too, but they cannot legally record your calls without notice.
A friend and I were talking about this a while back. We were allowed to play games at work from time to time, and so sometimes I did. He teased me that I played games on company time. Technically, that can't be said...because we were salaried employees. An extreme analogy would be: make me an hourly employee, and put a timeclock on my desk. I might clock-in and clock-out at intervals of only 10 seconds here and 2 minutes there. A salary employee is essentially doing that, but without the physical timeclock on the desk...just as a mental exercise. Therefore, a salary employee never plays games on company time... and, possibly, might always be free to develop his own ideas which might still belong to him... aside from the fact that he used the company-owned PC at the time.
I'd better check with the carpenters that built my house... it's possible that they own the house, and not me, because they owned the hammers and saws used to build it!
This geocaching idea is great. Never again will I have to hike out my own trash!
Of course, this ruins the old trick of sneaking a bowling ball into a friend's backpack that he'll be forced to hike out with...
some article
Maybe the judge ruled this way because her last date refused to sign an NDA before going out...
but unlike trademarks, patents and copyright do not diminish with disuse
That's not the point here.
copyrights do diminish when there is a lack of enforcement.
If I write a book it is automatically copyright. Done. But, if I learn later that someone is copying my book without my permission then I have a choice: fight to enforce the copyright, or just shrug my shoulders. If I shrug, then I lose my copyright, de facto.
If it can be demonstrated that SCO ignored any obligation to protect their copyright in the past, and in fact participated in the alledged damaging behavior themselves...then they are screwed.
Either way...they've screwed themselves.
BTW, if Novell really believes what they've stated, then they should sue SCO.
There's no point in arguing for the sex scene
/. crowd does, though.
I was not. I was arguing agin' it.
which if anything was too tame
The opinion I shared was not regarding tame/lurid. In my opinion, it was a stupid useless and *long* scene.
but it can be easily argued that you're wrong about the CG being too good to notice mistakes.
Argue? Why? I was, again, sharing an opinion (subject line: "my impressions"). It's my opinion that the CG is great, and that people nit-picking it are just being pretentious and superior. That's what the
During the courtyard scene where Neo fights dozens of Smiths it's obvious several times that Neo's face is unrealistically simple. The CG was amazing, best I've ever seen, but there's no point arguing it was flawless.
Yap, I agree with you, etc, etc. But, there's no point in arguing it wasn't flawless.
Why Do Computers Still Crash?
So, he's used computers for 30 years, apparently not programmed them.
Other important questions:
Why do computers still cost money?
Why do computers still require power?
Why can't computers yet read my mind?
Why don't computers smell pretty?
Well, back to the crashing... it's all my fault. I'm sorry. I won't do it again.
They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!
Sometimes, I need a puff of compressed gas to separate my cheeks...
Did I say full-featured? I mean full-figured.
Well, it's true, Mr. A. Coward is correct...
I did not implement even half as many bugs as IIS, making that one more full-featured.
I guess some people like to read. I prefer to just get in there and do sumsing.
(I did exaggerate. The RFCs are very handy.)
For the full-featured HTTP server that I designed and implemented at my last job...I found just one book to be all the help a person needs:
... good grief!!
"HTTP Pocket Reference", O'Reilly, maybe 4 bucks at Bookpool.
75 pages, of which about 65 aren't necessary.
656 pages on HTTP??? It's not a detailed technical reference on all the topics mentioned in the table of contents (above); it would be tough to fit all that material into the book's 650-plus pages.
I liked it quite a lot.
I totally agree that the dance/love scene toward the beginning was bad. In fact, it was absolutely stupid and long. Maybe 5 minutes. I turned to my brother and said "wake me when they get back to the movie".
The rest is good. Excellent action, fast pace, excellent effects. You sit there for, what- 2 hours or so, the whole time very focused. One friend didn't go because he figured the huge crowd would be loud. It wasn't...people with popcorn didn't even eat their popcorn once the movie started...because they were sitting and watching, not blinking and I'm not sure about breathing.
The freeway scene is amazing. You might also notice that every single car is a GM product...but who cares? I'd have loved it even if they were all Fords.
The ending is not just abrupt. It's incredibly abrupt. Your jerk sister waltzed into the theater and changed the channel then hid the remote.
Spoiler stuff...
Don't blame me if you read this!
By the time the movie is over, it seems to me that the secret of the Matrix is revealed too much. My theory: they never left the Matrix. They're inside a Matrix within a Matrix kind of thing. It would explain how Agent Smith is able to infect a person inside the Matrix and, in a sense, return with that person to the "real" world. It would also explain Neo's trick at the end with the Sentinels. It would also explain why he's in a coma (essentially he blue-screens because he acted contrary to this outer Matrix's logic rules). I'm not complaining about this Matrix within a Matrix...just that I wish it didn't seem so obvious. Ah, but still, I'm sure I'll be surprised.
I wasn't too happy with the direction they took The Oracle. But, it works well. All the stuff that The Architect tells Neo...it's interesting. And, it totally explains how anyone (ie. The Oracle and Neo) is able to know the future.
Generally, though, one thing I liked about M1 is that you felt Agent Smith was acting on direct behalf, and with near total knowledge of, the mainframe. You felt that if Agent Smith lacked any piece of information on Neo it was because the Mainframe did. Neo represented a mysterious and perhaps uncontrollable force to the entire system. In M2 we see that's not the case at all. It was kinda disappointing to see that every single programmed manifestation (any 'person' that is not tied to a real body, like the Agents, but not an Agent...and there are many)...every single one of them seem to know every single thing there is to know about Neo. Only Neo is out of the loop, and he doesn't seem to mind much. For the story to work, what The Architect explains to Neo about Neo's true purpose and the looping nature of the Matrix...well, of course everyone knows everything about Neo except Neo. But, I just missed the treatment in M1 that gave a feeling of vulnerability to the system.
Here's one thought that might blow your mind...if I'm right about the Matrix within a Matrix, then given some of what The Architect explained...it would seem that Neo isn't tied to a real body at all. He's another programmed manifestation. In the next movie, when all the minds are freed from whatever they are really trapped within (if any are, since this could all be a simulation within a single PC) then Neo won't be joining Trinity on the outside...
Other little thoughts:
- I thought the Twins would play an important role of some kind. They don't.
- Every single programmed manifestation seems to be programmed as a philosopher. They all wax on about causallity or fate or something deep.
- Morpheus and Trinity have both improved their fighting skills. So much so that, Morpheus at least, actually holds his own pretty well against an Agent in an excellent fight scene. Either that...or it seems the Agent's have forgotten how to move fast.
- You're never quite sure why Agent Smith is in the movie. There's the notion of exiled programs that continue to exist, but they've bucked the system themselves. Agent Sm
you obviously did not read my reply to filth grinder.
i'll accept your apology when you feel fit to grow up.
and countless other excellent comics...
Thank you for your opinion. But, I'm happy with my own.
I count 3.
the software industry is dead. do not get a degree in software. there are no jobs in software.
(phew, if he believes it then *my* job is a smidge safer)
I agree!! (but saying so is flagged flamebait by Taco's FragileEgo script)
That's not a bad idea. Start out by giving this CmdrTaco dude a -1000 karma. "nyways keep on the good work Taco" ... what a joke.
Check out your bill and notice the "Federal Excise Tax"...it's about 3% of your bill. Ever wonder what it's for?
It was originally supposed to pay for the Spanish American War.
It was supposed to be a temporary tax that went away after it satisfied it's original intent. Haha! Sure...
I wonder what is the oldest such tax??
but, I never have the problem of long wait times.
I've been a member since 2/2000 when it was 4-out for $15. They grandfathered me for many months but finally raised my price to $20, but still 4-out.
In this time I've rotated movies very quickly and only seen any kind of wait time just once or twice.
I did notice that following 9-11 the deliveries slowed to a crawl. Suddenly, the deliveries came the next day...and I noticed the return address very close to home. Now days, it's never more than 3 days turn-around to swap one movie for another.
But, here's the thing that might save me from the long waits. Possibly they use algorithms such as described, and possibly the algorithms don't affect me because of this... of our 4-out I only rotate 3 quickly. The other 1 is always something my wife wants to see, and she'll be busy and not get around to seeing it for a month or two. That one might throw off their trick.
Whatever... anything is better than Blockbuster...
My own 2-cents:
Spiderman was alright. TobyM's acting was pretty weak. He was supposed to act like a kinda shy, kinda introverted, kinda geek...but ended up looking a little mentally slow and a lot constipated.
X-Men was boring. It was just an introduction for those not familiar with X-Men. Also...of all the mutants to choose...the frog dude?? How stupid.
Dare Devil was pretty fun. I liked it fine. And, I like that they succeeded in giving it a dark feel. Consider the dorky Batman films...none of which felt dark. Instead, they felt like a circus without much color.
Let me re-phrase.
... well, I'll avoid another 'flamebait'.
It's absolutely silly to suggest Sony's choice of 5GHz is better than Sharp's choice of 2.4GHz.
Besides, we all learned from the movie "Signs" that even advanced alien beings able to cross galaxies... prefer to use 900MHz.
The comment: "The cordless Sony Vega TV series use 5GHz to avoid interference, so Sharp is a bit behind here." was lacking in
Next... we'll learn that "War and Peace" is a better book than "Danny and the Dinosaur"... because it has more pages.
band
band!!
not protocol
in math 1+1 = 2 = dual
thanks for your worthless unthoughtout insight.
my gosh...think! even just a little bit...
Who here is willing to fork out that much for tri-band gear?
Maybe, you should ask that question in some other article...one that discusses tri-band gear instead of dual-band.
The cordless Sony Vega TV series use 5GHz to avoid interference, so Sharp is a bit behind here.
Pinhead. Get some stink in your poop.
I'm sure that Apple will want to be careful with regards to Apple Corps