This one I caught on Bravo one night (about 1/2 way through) and I searched and searched for it. Finally I found it on VHS and saw it through the whole way. It is perhaps one of the best "road" movies I have seen.
John Hurt, Terrence Stamp, and a young Tim Roth star. Terrence Stamp's character plays a criminal who turns state's evidence against his gang and gets sent to Spain on a witness protection program. After his boss gets out of prison, he sends John Hurt and Tim Roth to get Stamp and bring him back to England.
I don't want to spoil it, but all the actors do a superb performance and really develop their characters throughout the movie. Eric Clapton plays the intro music and Paco de Lucia plays a TON of flamenco over the different scenes (they are driving through Spain).
It's not a bad adaptation of the book, but it really does fall short (as most movies do when adapted from a book). I'm reading the book now for about the 4th time (makes me homesick for New Mexico).
On it's own it is a good movie. The Vista volunteer Herbie Goldstein (I think is the character's name) is just awesome. Freddy Fender as the mayor is pretty funny at times too. Melanie Griffith is horrible as always. Christopher Walken does a superb job as the undercover cop. One of his least over-the-top performances I have seen, but exactly as the character is depicted in the book. Ruben Blades does a good job as the bumbling town sheriff. Most of the other actors are not well known (though you might recognize Julie Carmen from Fright Night II--she plays Joe Mondrogon's wife, Nancy).
If anyone has lived in Northern New Mexico, you'll recognize a lot of the attitudes of the characters. Filmed on location (mostly in the hamlet of Truchas, on the high road to Taos, if I remember correctly) it has some stunning scenes.
Haven't seen the movie in a while. My tape is in a storage unit in New Mexico.:(
Man, Swimming with Sharks and Curdled? Mentioned in the same post?
Is this some kind multiverse where my split-personality goes by the name of Acidic Diarrhea? I have the Curdled soundtrack at home (someplace). Took me a long time to find it and I when I wanted to buy Curdled on tape I couldn't find it for less than the rental store prices ($90). Already have SWS. My favorite scene is when Whaley's character says something about stopping the yelling, and Spacey acts all concerned. I think that is where the bathmat quote is taken from. "This folder? This folder means more to this company than you do. These pens mean more [throw pens at Whaley], these paperclips [throw paperclips]"
Absolutely. If you don't have any exposure to computers, one OS will not be any more intuitive than another. So it all comes back to teaching and practice and with this combo (linux & ed) it should be good for the kids to learn on. And the GUIs are close enough that moving from KDE->MS would not be a big deal (if they need to in a job), but with the added bonus of knowing CLI and other unix ways of doing things.
I had the same experience as you, though I had experience with earlier Macs. But there was nothing in OS X that caused me problems in my day-to-day use of my iBook. I got this 'Missing Manual' thinking it would help me understand some of the more obscure features I could use. It didn't. It showed me how to (sort of) use the various iApps--the important ones I had already figured out (iMail and iTunes), so that was worthless. The command line info was pretty sparse, but I really didn't need it since I already know tcsh.
I'll have to take a look at the Nutshell book next time I swing by Fry's or MicroCenter.
>> A tribal dialect of swahili used by a tribal village of canabals that died off by eating themselves and never had any texts, OTOH, should not be something worth keeping and studying...
Not too familiar with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I guess? Maybe they have more ways of describing the way something tastes other than "like chicken".
Did he say Bush was better than Gore? No. He just said Gore is a fucking jerk. You made that inference. Maybe it was correct, maybe not. Based on the post you can't tell.
>>You understand now why I consider your "kind" stupid?
My 'kind'? What the fuck do you know about me? My company is one people around here have never heard of. You wouldn't have a clue who we were.
They are stable and have been profitable for 15 years, which is why I took this job. At the time, IPOs were setting records, but I am still gainfully employed.
If I wasn't and I couldn't find a local job, I would not be living here.
>>Heck, sometimes us programmers create bugs in programs that are fixed by other bugs existing. Closing one may expose a new one.
Preach on Brother Sporty!
Just fixed a bug today that didn't exist in Sunday's build, but was found by QA. My former fix to Thrusday's bug (Friday's build) caused this one.
Dammit, I hate it when I do that.
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You forgot option 4:
Worker's salaries are slashed so much they no longer buy anything the company makes. Local companies in India (or wherever) make a similar knock-off product for 10% less. Company bleeds red until they file chapter 11.
>>Unemployment is at 5.8 percent. In total, 8.5 million people were unemployed last month.
What is this based on? If it is based on the number of people taking unemployment benefits, I think it misleading. Many people I know who were laid off looked for a job for 6 months or a year. Then they went back to school. They won't show up as unemployed, but most of them are.
Silicon Valley is in a deep recession right now. Other parts California have not been as hard hit. I know people who moved to the Sacramento area just to escape high cost of living.
>>so we have protectionistic measures like repeatedly trying to save the steel industry
Part of that might be defense related. Think of Japan prior to WWII. They had no real steel industry and relied on the US (and others) for much of their steel. The US stopped selling them steel and what happened?
Pearl Harbor.
Simplistic in a sense, but if we relied on S Korea for our steel (as you suggest) our industry would go down the shitter. When we needed to retool for defense, we would be up shit's creek if SK decides not to sell to us anymore.
I found that between about Aug 2001 - Nov 2002 commuting was a breeze, but lately my morning commute has gotten worse (101N, Mtn View to San Mateo). Evening commute is easier though.
I drive by the old Excite@Home building everyday and it just seems like such a festering sore... not because it is ugly, but because it is so prominent, large, and shockingly empty.
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Forget my question. A floppy boot disk ought to solve my problem.
How about computers that can't boot from disk? IIRC, Knoppix needs to boot from the disk (at least the CD I have does).
Not familiar with FIRE, so maybe that solves this problem.
>> where are you going to get enough Turkeys (or carbon source of choice) to make enough for a whole country?
You do sit on the can and release carbon waste into your local septic system, don't you?
This one I caught on Bravo one night (about 1/2 way through) and I searched and searched for it. Finally I found it on VHS and saw it through the whole way. It is perhaps one of the best "road" movies I have seen.
John Hurt, Terrence Stamp, and a young Tim Roth star. Terrence Stamp's character plays a criminal who turns state's evidence against his gang and gets sent to Spain on a witness protection program. After his boss gets out of prison, he sends John Hurt and Tim Roth to get Stamp and bring him back to England.
I don't want to spoil it, but all the actors do a superb performance and really develop their characters throughout the movie. Eric Clapton plays the intro music and Paco de Lucia plays a TON of flamenco over the different scenes (they are driving through Spain).
It's not a bad adaptation of the book, but it really does fall short (as most movies do when adapted from a book). I'm reading the book now for about the 4th time (makes me homesick for New Mexico).
:(
On it's own it is a good movie. The Vista volunteer Herbie Goldstein (I think is the character's name) is just awesome. Freddy Fender as the mayor is pretty funny at times too. Melanie Griffith is horrible as always. Christopher Walken does a superb job as the undercover cop. One of his least over-the-top performances I have seen, but exactly as the character is depicted in the book. Ruben Blades does a good job as the bumbling town sheriff. Most of the other actors are not well known (though you might recognize Julie Carmen from Fright Night II--she plays Joe Mondrogon's wife, Nancy).
If anyone has lived in Northern New Mexico, you'll recognize a lot of the attitudes of the characters. Filmed on location (mostly in the hamlet of Truchas, on the high road to Taos, if I remember correctly) it has some stunning scenes.
Haven't seen the movie in a while. My tape is in a storage unit in New Mexico.
Man, Swimming with Sharks and Curdled? Mentioned in the same post?
Is this some kind multiverse where my split-personality goes by the name of Acidic Diarrhea? I have the Curdled soundtrack at home (someplace). Took me a long time to find it and I when I wanted to buy Curdled on tape I couldn't find it for less than the rental store prices ($90). Already have SWS. My favorite scene is when Whaley's character says something about stopping the yelling, and Spacey acts all concerned. I think that is where the bathmat quote is taken from. "This folder? This folder means more to this company than you do. These pens mean more [throw pens at Whaley], these paperclips [throw paperclips]"
Absolutely. If you don't have any exposure to computers, one OS will not be any more intuitive than another. So it all comes back to teaching and practice and with this combo (linux & ed) it should be good for the kids to learn on. And the GUIs are close enough that moving from KDE->MS would not be a big deal (if they need to in a job), but with the added bonus of knowing CLI and other unix ways of doing things.
I had the same experience as you, though I had experience with earlier Macs. But there was nothing in OS X that caused me problems in my day-to-day use of my iBook. I got this 'Missing Manual' thinking it would help me understand some of the more obscure features I could use. It didn't. It showed me how to (sort of) use the various iApps--the important ones I had already figured out (iMail and iTunes), so that was worthless. The command line info was pretty sparse, but I really didn't need it since I already know tcsh.
I'll have to take a look at the Nutshell book next time I swing by Fry's or MicroCenter.
How often do you boot? I think I haven't booted since I installed 10.2
That was in December. Sleep works great, much better than on any other laptop I have owned/used.
>> That is entirely why differing languages are important. Different languages capture *differences* in culture, and differences in mindset.
AKA the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
>> A tribal dialect of swahili used by a tribal village of canabals that died off by eating themselves and never had any texts, OTOH, should not be something worth keeping and studying...
Not too familiar with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I guess? Maybe they have more ways of describing the way something tastes other than "like chicken".
Was Rush just appointed to the Board of Directors of Apple? If he was, at least he has an ounce of business experience, unlike Gore.
This is a stupid business move, plain and simple.
Did he say Bush was better than Gore? No. He just said Gore is a fucking jerk. You made that inference. Maybe it was correct, maybe not. Based on the post you can't tell.
>>2. Gore didn't just attend the Vanderbilt school of Divinity, he FLUNKED OUT!
Yeah, but apparently Bush is the moron. How do you flunk out of divinity school? Without Papa Senator, there is no way he would even have a degree.
>>You understand now why I consider your "kind" stupid?
My 'kind'? What the fuck do you know about me? My company is one people around here have never heard of. You wouldn't have a clue who we were.
They are stable and have been profitable for 15 years, which is why I took this job. At the time, IPOs were setting records, but I am still gainfully employed.
If I wasn't and I couldn't find a local job, I would not be living here.
>>Heck, sometimes us programmers create bugs in programs that are fixed by other bugs existing. Closing one may expose a new one.
Preach on Brother Sporty!
Just fixed a bug today that didn't exist in Sunday's build, but was found by QA. My former fix to Thrusday's bug (Friday's build) caused this one.
Dammit, I hate it when I do that.
You forgot option 4:
Worker's salaries are slashed so much they no longer buy anything the company makes. Local companies in India (or wherever) make a similar knock-off product for 10% less. Company bleeds red until they file chapter 11.
>>Unemployment is at 5.8 percent. In total, 8.5 million people were unemployed last month.
What is this based on? If it is based on the number of people taking unemployment benefits, I think it misleading. Many people I know who were laid off looked for a job for 6 months or a year. Then they went back to school. They won't show up as unemployed, but most of them are.
Silicon Valley is in a deep recession right now. Other parts California have not been as hard hit. I know people who moved to the Sacramento area just to escape high cost of living.
>>so we have protectionistic measures like repeatedly trying to save the steel industry
Part of that might be defense related. Think of Japan prior to WWII. They had no real steel industry and relied on the US (and others) for much of their steel. The US stopped selling them steel and what happened?
Pearl Harbor.
Simplistic in a sense, but if we relied on S Korea for our steel (as you suggest) our industry would go down the shitter. When we needed to retool for defense, we would be up shit's creek if SK decides not to sell to us anymore.
>>WTF, people can't just up and move to some 3rd world country because they want to work.
Not only for the reasons you state, but also because most of these countries don't allow easy immigration, compared to the US.
>>On my commute to work ( 101 is a breeze
... not because it is ugly, but because it is so prominent, large, and shockingly empty.
now)
I found that between about Aug 2001 - Nov 2002 commuting was a breeze, but lately my morning commute has gotten worse (101N, Mtn View to San Mateo). Evening commute is easier though.
I drive by the old Excite@Home building everyday and it just seems like such a festering sore
>>when I used to browse in the Computer Literacy Bookstore
Well you can erase that particular nostalgia. Comp Literacy is gone.
>> But then what the hell is the jelly?
EGADS! You've solved the problem of Dark Matter.
Because I read somewhere that "Sun is Dying."
It depends.