I've been watching Zatoichi recently. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Then again I've seen the first two DVDs in the series of 15 or so films. The actor Shintaro Katsu did well in the series but also did a much better job in Kozure Okami (Wolf and Cub) and the kid in the baby cart wound up in real life like many other child actors - he's currently in jail. Kozure Okami is very much like the "chop sockey" films back in the 70's, but with over-the-top swordplay, blood gushing, head-splitting and limb severing.
Even the Japanese rehash their own stories. There's many, many versions of the samurai drama Chushingura (47 Ronin) for example. Some better than others.
You know, one cool thing came about from Galactica 1980. When I was in high school in the San Fernando Valley (near Univeral Studios), someone bought one of the motorcycles used in the series. It was neat watching it tool around the neighborhood with the Galactica-esque type body panels on it.
One of the coolest lines in the show was when they were observing earth from space and zoomed in on the Los Angeles freeways:
"It must take them many years of training to be able to travel like that". (paraphrased)
The other funny moments were (also paraphrased): A Cylon shorting out when a nearby microwave oven started up.
From the WWII time-travel episode: (Viper pilot)"They seem to be launching many small metal objects at us." (Passenger)"They're shooting at us! Get out of here!"
and: (one nazi to another after firing on a Viper): "You fool! You are shooting at one of our own experimental aircraft!"
Galactica 80 was horrid, but it did have its moments.
Before you go on about "stolen plots" you should know that your example, Akira Kurosawa, took many of his plots from Shakespeare. Throne of Blood, Rashomon and Ran are three good examples. His "High and Low" looks a lot like something Hitchcock would have done.
Even great directors "borrow" material. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
OS/2 had a method of creating long filenames using extended attributes when running on FAT (instead of HPFS). OS/2 stores long filenames and extended attributes in files "ea data. sf" and "wp root. sf" in the root directory of the filesystem. The files are still accessible by plain old DOS.
Aside from the also-mentioned adoption rate, you also have the problem that the entire process will most likely be patented to the hilt. If there isn't something patented already.
I really doubt that anything as important as an email protocol would manage to avoid the current IP quagmire we have today.
Simple. Don't put just email addresses into the list. Put either email addresses *or* IP addresses. I have a fixed IP address where a mail server sits and want no spam going to it along with everyone else that shares the same mail server.
Dunno how the dynamic IP address crowd will deal with the problem, they will just have to trust their email address to the system.
This creates a whole new class of have and have-not's on the Internet, ensuring years of income to lawyers.
The reason there's no on/off switch is because if you wrap the vehicle around a telephone pole, you might not be able to reach the switch.
My questions to this matter are thus:
1. Were they monitoring paying customers? If the customers were on their 1-year trial or were subscribers, then yes, there's a problem.
2. If the service was not being used, then it's no different than a regular bug. About the only thing you can do as a non-subscriber (with OnStar) is hit the button and subscribe, otherwise the service is simply not there.
3. So they care about safety? So what happens when you drive the vehicle and crash it and the airbags deploy. Does a big red light come on over at OnStar and they call up your account and say "Wait! Don't call the ambulance! They didn't subscribe, so screw 'em!". Or do they come on the speaker in the car and ask the shattered bleeding occupant to provide a credit card number and activation fee so they can call emergency services?
"For only $9.95 a month and a $50 activation fee we can call an ambulance for you! May I have a valid credit card number and expiration date?"
"But both my arms are broken! I can't get my wallet! Where are my legs?!?"
"Our system shows all that and that you are also bleeding internally too... Are you sure you can't give us a valid credit card number? Hello? Hello?"
Technology only provides a comms tool. What's the difference if kids text eachother or pass notes? Write "Tammy is easy" on the boy's room wall or a web page? If anything the computer based comms makes it easier to trace and clamp down on.
Funny you mention this. I don't know how you can text message in certain school districts because in quite a few here in the US, cellphones/pagers and all are considered drug paraphenalia and subject the possessor to expulsion under zero-tolerance rules.
The problem with the web vs. the bathroom wall is that "Tammy" only hears rumors about the message from her peers and has the custodial staff remove the message (or she can do it herself). If it's on the web, it's there in her face and nothing she can do will get the offensive text removed without a big fuss: TOS violations, legal processes all take time. If the website is somehow untouchable it adds to the feeling of helplessness. She may never know who the attacker is, but the attacker will likely know that an attempt to shut the site down occurred leaving them with little doubt as to whom it was supplying them with more ammo for their next "update".
When my fiancee's little sister just started High School, it had draconian rules and it was Catholic. I was shown the "rules" that every parent/guardian must read and sign. Under the list for expulsions was the following (paraphrased):
1. Any student that gets an abortion 2. Any student that aids another student in getting an abortion 3. Any student that has heard of, or knows of another student that has gotten an abortion and fails to notify the school authorities.
Not only to they try to enforce their rules on students off campus, they also force the students to snitch on each other was well. Funny thing is, the rules for drugs/alcohol were not as draconian: only the user/supplier was punished and only if it was on school grounds.
As for public schools, the rules should be simple:
If a student can be punished for making a website critical of the school, a teacher, or the school policies on non-school equipment on non-school time and on non-school servers, then the school should also punish the bullies for attacking one of their students. Quite frequently the former happens, but rarely the latter.
Victims are really in a sorry state when they are tormented by the bullies and then the school permits the torment by not doing anything. When victims lash out (like in Columbine) their situation gets even worse since the schools then treat all the victims as if they were potential terrorists. I'm pretty sure every ostracized kid in every school in the US was watched very carefully by the schools thereafter.
Perhaps the bullies tend to get jobs as school administrators?
Tell that to the California State Government. The DMV allows you to pay fees online with a credit card but charge an additional fee to do so. I also think the IRS has something similar.
Cute. This fee only applies to (online) credit card transactions of course. The flip side is hoping you get an appointment before your license expires or wait in horrid lines.
I had this problem when I was required to appear this year to get a renewal, though I made it with a few day's leeway. I paid cash, but they got their revenge: I now have jury duty the week of Dec 22nd.
..or does everyone else have a HUGE list of businesses they refuse to do business with?
And Best Buy DOES seem to have some pretty good prices, too, at least on new-release DVD's...
I don't know about the Best Buy you've been shopping at. Here in Southern California we had Circuit City and Silo come to town with discounted prices and run all the mom & pop discount electronics stores out of business (such as LA Tronics and Adray's). These latter stores are where they really had the rock-bottom prices.
After these were driven out of business, the prices at CC and more lately Goodguys, Fry's and Best Buy are none other than full MSRP. Do some comparison shopping and see. The only real difference in price is where the price ends in.95,.97,.98 or.99. Sales, when they do occur are authorized by the manufacturer (Sony is notorious for this). Every retailer will have a similar offering or discount on the same items.
As for cheap DVDs, they used to be really cheap. You could come in the 1st week after the release and get a title for $15 or so for the most popular titles. Very recently some of the retailers (*cough* Fry's *cough*) now only have the title on sale the day of release only - then it's full MSRP. So as an example, T3 was $15.99 on Tuesday, on Wednesday it's full retail at $22.95.
These stores ruined opportunities for customers to get good buys until the Internet came along. So now they are attacking the Internet. No big surprise.
She may not be the greatest actress in the world, but those going through (or were post) puberty in the late 1970's knew that Bo Derek and Farah Fawcett were the very definition of "foxy" as the word was used those days. Both were the subject of millions of masterbatory fantasies.
Bo Derek wasn't that great, and neither was the Tarzan movie she starred in, but no one ever complained about the scene where she was nude and being slathered in white body paint by jungle savages.
I'm aware of that. Here's the true meaning (I am assuming def #2 applies in this case):
ghetto
n 1: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in
which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
2: any segregated mode of living or working that results from
bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay
ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a
minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship
and social restrictions
[also: ghettoes (pl)]
There's no negative bias by me, I was using the platform exclusively to complete my undergraduate degree from 1993-1998.
NeXTSTEP as an OS was not "ghetto" by any means. The hardware platform had been dead for the previous three years (from 1995), but the OS lived on for quite a while on its deathbed until Apple snapped it up.
Its user interface was light years ahead of its time and the ease of development showed that this system, as marginalized as it had become, was still the development platform of CHOICE. The developers of DOOM were not locked into it by any means. They found the best tool for the job. It says quite a bit about the competing offerings doesn't it?
Hardly any OS since has approached the elegance and simplicity of NeXTSTEP, and they had 15 years to try.
Well, two have: BeOS (from what I have seen of it) and OS X (obviously).
I watched it back then as well, and I distinctly remember the "Episode IV" in the beginning.
I also remember my 10-year old brain at the time generating one parity error after another trying to figure out how I could have possibly missed the three previous films to this one very cool movie - and why the heck could I not find a trace of them nor heard a peep about them previously from my Star Wars fanboy friends.
I perfectly well understand your position. Claiming you have the right makes you a "person of interest", since "they" will view anyone who insists on their constitutional rights as being part of the lunatic fringe.
I may not have a right to carry guns but I think everone can agree I have a right to say I have a right to carry guns.
In this day and age, try to exercise that right and say it:
1. In a school 2. In an airport 3. In any local or federal government-controlled building 4. At one of the president's political rallies/speeches.
You'll find that many people DON'T agree, and you'll have a few years in prison to think that over.
Don't take my comment as saying you don't have the right, I believe you do. I just don't think it's "prudent" to exercise that right in today's society. That's even more chilling than the Political Correctness assault on free speech in the 90's.
Love Apple. The activation procedure is specific to the Windows version only:
The activation process is currently included only on the Windows(R) version of Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) CS software licensed to end users at retail. Photoshop CS software may also be a part of the Adobe Creative Suite or the Adobe Video Collection Professional version 2.0. If you are unsure whether your copy of Photoshop CS requires activation, please check the outside of the software box.
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I've been watching Zatoichi recently. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Then again I've seen the first two DVDs in the series of 15 or so films. The actor Shintaro Katsu did well in the series but also did a much better job in Kozure Okami (Wolf and Cub) and the kid in the baby cart wound up in real life like many other child actors - he's currently in jail. Kozure Okami is very much like the "chop sockey" films back in the 70's, but with over-the-top swordplay, blood gushing, head-splitting and limb severing.
Even the Japanese rehash their own stories. There's many, many versions of the samurai drama Chushingura (47 Ronin) for example. Some better than others.
You know, one cool thing came about from Galactica 1980. When I was in high school in the San Fernando Valley (near Univeral Studios), someone bought one of the motorcycles used in the series. It was neat watching it tool around the neighborhood with the Galactica-esque type body panels on it.
One of the coolest lines in the show was when they were observing earth from space and zoomed in on the Los Angeles freeways:
"It must take them many years of training to be able to travel like that". (paraphrased)
The other funny moments were (also paraphrased):
A Cylon shorting out when a nearby microwave oven started up.
From the WWII time-travel episode:
(Viper pilot)"They seem to be launching many small metal objects at us."
(Passenger)"They're shooting at us! Get out of here!"
and:
(one nazi to another after firing on a Viper):
"You fool! You are shooting at one of our own experimental aircraft!"
Galactica 80 was horrid, but it did have its moments.
Before you go on about "stolen plots" you should know that your example, Akira Kurosawa, took many of his plots from Shakespeare. Throne of Blood, Rashomon and Ran are three good examples. His "High and Low" looks a lot like something Hitchcock would have done.
Even great directors "borrow" material. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
OS/2 had a method of creating long filenames using extended attributes when running on FAT (instead of HPFS). OS/2 stores long filenames and extended attributes in files "ea data. sf" and "wp root. sf" in the root directory of the filesystem. The files are still accessible by plain old DOS.
Aside from the also-mentioned adoption rate, you also have the problem that the entire process will most likely be patented to the hilt. If there isn't something patented already.
I really doubt that anything as important as an email protocol would manage to avoid the current IP quagmire we have today.
Last CD I purchased was:
The Vapours: Anthology about a year ago. Before that it was the Bloodhound Gang: Hooray for Boobies.
Before that? Dunno. I think the Smiths were still together at the time.
Ah yes, that's called "the vinegar strokes". Be sure to lock up the cat beforehand...
Yes, but give it to a bunch of rednecks and you've got a whole new dimension on ways for them to kill themselves.
Simple. Don't put just email addresses into the list. Put either email addresses *or* IP addresses. I have a fixed IP address where a mail server sits and want no spam going to it along with everyone else that shares the same mail server.
Dunno how the dynamic IP address crowd will deal with the problem, they will just have to trust their email address to the system.
This creates a whole new class of have and have-not's on the Internet, ensuring years of income to lawyers.
Actually I think that was the:
"Don't let us catch you doing that again, again" DOJ verdict. MS is a two-time loser.
The reason there's no on/off switch is because if you wrap the vehicle around a telephone pole, you might not be able to reach the switch.
My questions to this matter are thus:
1. Were they monitoring paying customers? If the customers were on their 1-year trial or were subscribers, then yes, there's a problem.
2. If the service was not being used, then it's no different than a regular bug. About the only thing you can do as a non-subscriber (with OnStar) is hit the button and subscribe, otherwise the service is simply not there.
3. So they care about safety? So what happens when you drive the vehicle and crash it and the airbags deploy. Does a big red light come on over at OnStar and they call up your account and say "Wait! Don't call the ambulance! They didn't subscribe, so screw 'em!". Or do they come on the speaker in the car and ask the shattered bleeding occupant to provide a credit card number and activation fee so they can call emergency services?
"For only $9.95 a month and a $50 activation fee we can call an ambulance for you! May I have a valid credit card number and expiration date?"
"But both my arms are broken! I can't get my wallet! Where are my legs?!?"
"Our system shows all that and that you are also bleeding internally too... Are you sure you can't give us a valid credit card number? Hello? Hello?"
Funny you mention this. I don't know how you can text message in certain school districts because in quite a few here in the US, cellphones/pagers and all are considered drug paraphenalia and subject the possessor to expulsion under zero-tolerance rules.
The problem with the web vs. the bathroom wall is that "Tammy" only hears rumors about the message from her peers and has the custodial staff remove the message (or she can do it herself). If it's on the web, it's there in her face and nothing she can do will get the offensive text removed without a big fuss: TOS violations, legal processes all take time. If the website is somehow untouchable it adds to the feeling of helplessness. She may never know who the attacker is, but the attacker will likely know that an attempt to shut the site down occurred leaving them with little doubt as to whom it was supplying them with more ammo for their next "update".
Perhaps Tammy should study up on DDoS attacks.
Oh yes, private schools do.
When my fiancee's little sister just started High School, it had draconian rules and it was Catholic. I was shown the "rules" that every parent/guardian must read and sign. Under the list for expulsions was the following (paraphrased):
1. Any student that gets an abortion
2. Any student that aids another student in getting an abortion
3. Any student that has heard of, or knows of another student that has gotten an abortion and fails to notify the school authorities.
Not only to they try to enforce their rules on students off campus, they also force the students to snitch on each other was well. Funny thing is, the rules for drugs/alcohol were not as draconian: only the user/supplier was punished and only if it was on school grounds.
As for public schools, the rules should be simple:
If a student can be punished for making a website critical of the school, a teacher, or the school policies on non-school equipment on non-school time and on non-school servers, then the school should also punish the bullies for attacking one of their students. Quite frequently the former happens, but rarely the latter.
Victims are really in a sorry state when they are tormented by the bullies and then the school permits the torment by not doing anything. When victims lash out (like in Columbine) their situation gets even worse since the schools then treat all the victims as if they were potential terrorists. I'm pretty sure every ostracized kid in every school in the US was watched very carefully by the schools thereafter.
Perhaps the bullies tend to get jobs as school administrators?
Tell that to the California State Government. The DMV allows you to pay fees online with a credit card but charge an additional fee to do so. I also think the IRS has something similar.
"Note: A $4 convenience fee will be added to the amount shown on your renewal notice."
Cute. This fee only applies to (online) credit card transactions of course. The flip side is hoping you get an appointment before your license expires or wait in horrid lines.
I had this problem when I was required to appear this year to get a renewal, though I made it with a few day's leeway. I paid cash, but they got their revenge: I now have jury duty the week of Dec 22nd.
I don't know about the Best Buy you've been shopping at. Here in Southern California we had Circuit City and Silo come to town with discounted prices and run all the mom & pop discount electronics stores out of business (such as LA Tronics and Adray's). These latter stores are where they really had the rock-bottom prices.
After these were driven out of business, the prices at CC and more lately Goodguys, Fry's and Best Buy are none other than full MSRP. Do some comparison shopping and see. The only real difference in price is where the price ends in
As for cheap DVDs, they used to be really cheap. You could come in the 1st week after the release and get a title for $15 or so for the most popular titles. Very recently some of the retailers (*cough* Fry's *cough*) now only have the title on sale the day of release only - then it's full MSRP. So as an example, T3 was $15.99 on Tuesday, on Wednesday it's full retail at $22.95.
These stores ruined opportunities for customers to get good buys until the Internet came along. So now they are attacking the Internet. No big surprise.
Some of you are just too young.
She may not be the greatest actress in the world, but those going through (or were post) puberty in the late 1970's knew that Bo Derek and Farah Fawcett were the very definition of "foxy" as the word was used those days. Both were the subject of millions of masterbatory fantasies.
Bo Derek wasn't that great, and neither was the Tarzan movie she starred in, but no one ever complained about the scene where she was nude and being slathered in white body paint by jungle savages.
Cool, so does this mean I can dust off policeman, fireman, mailman from my PC dustbin?
I'm aware of that. Here's the true meaning (I am assuming def #2 applies in this case):
ghetto
n 1: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in
which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
2: any segregated mode of living or working that results from
bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay
ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a
minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship
and social restrictions
[also: ghettoes (pl)]
There's no negative bias by me, I was using the platform exclusively to complete my undergraduate degree from 1993-1998.
While I agree with most of the points brought up:
NeXTSTEP as an OS was not "ghetto" by any means. The hardware platform had been dead for the previous three years (from 1995), but the OS lived on for quite a while on its deathbed until Apple snapped it up.
Its user interface was light years ahead of its time and the ease of development showed that this system, as marginalized as it had become, was still the development platform of CHOICE. The developers of DOOM were not locked into it by any means. They found the best tool for the job. It says quite a bit about the competing offerings doesn't it?
Hardly any OS since has approached the elegance and simplicity of NeXTSTEP, and they had 15 years to try.
Well, two have: BeOS (from what I have seen of it) and OS X (obviously).
I watched it back then as well, and I distinctly remember the "Episode IV" in the beginning.
I also remember my 10-year old brain at the time generating one parity error after another trying to figure out how I could have possibly missed the three previous films to this one very cool movie - and why the heck could I not find a trace of them nor heard a peep about them previously from my Star Wars fanboy friends.
I perfectly well understand your position. Claiming you have the right makes you a "person of interest", since "they" will view anyone who insists on their constitutional rights as being part of the lunatic fringe.
In this day and age, try to exercise that right and say it:
1. In a school
2. In an airport
3. In any local or federal government-controlled building
4. At one of the president's political rallies/speeches.
You'll find that many people DON'T agree, and you'll have a few years in prison to think that over.
Don't take my comment as saying you don't have the right, I believe you do. I just don't think it's "prudent" to exercise that right in today's society. That's even more chilling than the Political Correctness assault on free speech in the 90's.
When viewing the report supplied by Memory Hole under Adobe Reader 6.0 the redacted parts in yellow show up and all is fine.
Under Preview.app (OS X's PDF viewer, Panther's in my case), all the yellow sections are removed.
It's a conspiracy I tell you!
So Gator isn't spyware it's adware.
And North Korea isn't communist, it's the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. So they say.
So names mean nothing then.