Read the book, the movie was very accurate about the battle. And they weren't marines, they were The Army Rangers, Delta Force that did most of the fighting, with the 10th Mountain Division coming in on the APC convoy.
The story WAS the battle. If you want to learn more about the characters read the book. The book spends about half the time depicting combat and the other half talking about WHO the soldiers are on the ground. You feel for them, and you pray for them when shit gets heavy. I had to put the book down a few times because it was too much emmotionally and I would start balling.
I felt the same in the movie. When Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon dropped into the crash site of the then fallen bird of, Mike Durrant, to try to save anyone on the ground. They knew well that if they went down on the ground they weren't coming back out. Still they went, and because of them Mike Durrant did survive. And that was enough for me to cry infront of my date.
Vanilla Sky was complete crap. It is a movie about ubsurd characters doing silly ubsurd things for two hours on screen. With thirty minutes of drawn out explanation laying out how everything fits together in the end. God, my blind had of hearing grandmother cold have followed that movie.
Interesting to see the outcome of a company bringing litigation against Philips via the DMCA for infringing on their copyrighted songs stored on technology that they licensed from Phillips.
No different than any of the unsolicited advetisments you are forced to view if you watch any TV show. Bandwidth ain't cheap, so suck it up, unless you want to pay $19.95 a month to use yahoo.
Computer Engineering at my University is pretty much just a Electrical Degree with a minor in CS. You take almost the exact same number of credits in Electrical Engineering as you would if you majored in EE, and you take about 5 classes of computer science.
To be honest you can pick CS, EE, or CE as a freshmen and then change it as a junior to one of the other three and not really be set back much. The core math and science classes for CS, EE, and CE are all about the same, and in all three you have to take an intro EE class, and an intro CS class. So start off taking classes that all three need. Decide which field you like better and then go for it.
I agree, at my University MIS is a business course. For people who want to be IT managers and Database Administrators. CS is in the engineering college and is devoted completely to programming and the theory there in, requiring a great deal of math an science. Usually several semesters of calculus and above math and a 2 years worth of lab sciences.
It is broken down like this, if you want to program and write code, get a CS degree. If you want to be a computer bitch and be a network admin, go for MIS. While graduating with one will not necessarly exclude you from pursuing a career more closely associate with the other.
I helped a friend of mine through the two computer science classes he took as a mech. engineer. Both classes were in C and actually pretty cool, use C to solve practical problems. I still have hardly done any practical coding in my three years as a CS major.
COX in my area is sending hdtv through their digital cable service. I honestly don't know if its any better than the current standards because the video is displayed on my room-mates 7 year old 27 inch TV. Is the quality any better than analog cable? I don't really know, but instead of there being 55 channels of nothing, I have 500.
COX cable modem service claims to be capped at 1.5 megabits. To be honest I get closer to 2.0 megabits downstream. Can't Really complain even I was only getting 1.5 down. COX in my area is also independent of @home, might be slower than @home in some areas, but at least it isn't going bankrupt.
I wasn't aware they offered degrees in computer services. I am a 3rd year CS student. To be honest, I really don't care about Windows or Linux. I have been a user and developer and both platforms for years. Windows is everywhere, easy to use, and relatively stable with the latest versions. Linux is fast, reliable, rock solid, fun and secure. To say nothing of M$ horrid security. If I end up writing code for windows, unix or just plain old X86 ASM when I graduate, I will be happy. Just as long as im not playing computer B$tch and troubleshooting email and network issues.
The US Airforce has a squadron of 747's with chemical lasers mounted on the nose of the plane. They are designed as anti-ICBM platforms and have tested well in that role. At $3000 in chemicals to fire the laser much cheaper than interceptor missles. The range of the laser is also less than the proposed anti-ICBM interceptorsk, and more prone to failure in bad weather. Not so silly is it?
I used to do a lot of gaming over the zone a few years back. Was probably the only Microsoft service that I ever liked. Damn shame, now ill never use the Zone again. Anyone up for an Open Source solution to the Zone?
I got a free copy of norton virtual drive with my last motherboard, it copies the contents of the CD and stores them as a fake partition. As far as I know win2k also will let you mount/map... a partition as a directory onto another drive partition. However I don't know what kind of partition Norton makes the virtual drives, if they are fat, kinda screwed in a 2K enviormentl. No permissions and doubt you can map them to a folder.
My $0.02
Gnutella, if I find something new and it isn't crap, ill go out and buy the album. I could also walk into record store and see what they have. Been probably over a year since I last did that though.
The RIAA and MPAA would have the world think that those clever sods who crack their unbreakable encryption sacrificed virgins and sold their souls to Satan. Well maybe the later...
Re:I seem to remember...
on
SNES Portable
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Well, what is special is that this guy built it himself. Not with the help of a team of engineers and a fabrication plant. But in his garage with the full sized console and components that could be found at radio shack. What fun is buying a portable unit when you could build one yourself. That man is true to the origional hack philosophy, reverse engineering something for the sake of fun and knowledge.
Everything the author mentioned is old news. Internet phones? Telephony and services like Dialpad have been around for a while. TV on the internet? TV tuners are nothing new either.
However he was right on the money about 3d games. Right now games are the only things in the home enviorment that are pushing systems to their max.
Satellite Radio really does not provide any more advantages than regular old FM band Radio. For 150$, and 12$ a month I doubt I will be any happier than I will with what is on the free airwaives right now. No radio station will ever appeal to the music I want to hear without mixing in crap half the time. The fact is, the best DJ in the world is yourself, I just burn the songs I want to listen to onto a CD and when it gets old I burn something else from my library of MP3s. Grow a spine and start listening to the music you like, don't put up with the crap that these radio stations want to feed you as trendy or cool.
Slashdot Mirror
Read the book, the movie was very accurate about the battle. And they weren't marines, they were The Army Rangers, Delta Force that did most of the fighting, with the 10th Mountain Division coming in on the APC convoy.
The story WAS the battle. If you want to learn more about the characters read the book. The book spends about half the time depicting combat and the other half talking about WHO the soldiers are on the ground. You feel for them, and you pray for them when shit gets heavy. I had to put the book down a few times because it was too much emmotionally and I would start balling.
I felt the same in the movie. When Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon dropped into the crash site of the then fallen bird of, Mike Durrant, to try to save anyone on the ground. They knew well that if they went down on the ground they weren't coming back out. Still they went, and because of them Mike Durrant did survive. And that was enough for me to cry infront of my date.
Vanilla Sky was complete crap. It is a movie about ubsurd characters doing silly ubsurd things for two hours on screen. With thirty minutes of drawn out explanation laying out how everything fits together in the end. God, my blind had of hearing grandmother cold have followed that movie.
And to the better movie goes the #1 spot.
Interesting to see the outcome of a company bringing litigation against Philips via the DMCA for infringing on their copyrighted songs stored on technology that they licensed from Phillips.
No different than any of the unsolicited advetisments you are forced to view if you watch any TV show. Bandwidth ain't cheap, so suck it up, unless you want to pay $19.95 a month to use yahoo.
If I am paying 1300$ for a mac, there is no reason why I should have to go out and buy a 3rd party mouse.
Computer Engineering at my University is pretty much just a Electrical Degree with a minor in CS. You take almost the exact same number of credits in Electrical Engineering as you would if you majored in EE, and you take about 5 classes of computer science.
To be honest you can pick CS, EE, or CE as a freshmen and then change it as a junior to one of the other three and not really be set back much. The core math and science classes for CS, EE, and CE are all about the same, and in all three you have to take an intro EE class, and an intro CS class. So start off taking classes that all three need. Decide which field you like better and then go for it.
I agree, at my University MIS is a business course. For people who want to be IT managers and Database Administrators. CS is in the engineering college and is devoted completely to programming and the theory there in, requiring a great deal of math an science. Usually several semesters of calculus and above math and a 2 years worth of lab sciences.
It is broken down like this, if you want to program and write code, get a CS degree. If you want to be a computer bitch and be a network admin, go for MIS. While graduating with one will not necessarly exclude you from pursuing a career more closely associate with the other.
I helped a friend of mine through the two computer science classes he took as a mech. engineer. Both classes were in C and actually pretty cool, use C to solve practical problems. I still have hardly done any practical coding in my three years as a CS major.
I use trillian on my Windows 2k machine, it supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and IRC communications. Wonder if they too are exploitable by this.
COX in my area is sending hdtv through their digital cable service. I honestly don't know if its any better than the current standards because the video is displayed on my room-mates 7 year old 27 inch TV. Is the quality any better than analog cable? I don't really know, but instead of there being 55 channels of nothing, I have 500.
COX cable modem service claims to be capped at 1.5 megabits. To be honest I get closer to 2.0 megabits downstream. Can't Really complain even I was only getting 1.5 down. COX in my area is also independent of @home, might be slower than @home in some areas, but at least it isn't going bankrupt.
I wasn't aware they offered degrees in computer services. I am a 3rd year CS student. To be honest, I really don't care about Windows or Linux. I have been a user and developer and both platforms for years. Windows is everywhere, easy to use, and relatively stable with the latest versions. Linux is fast, reliable, rock solid, fun and secure. To say nothing of M$ horrid security. If I end up writing code for windows, unix or just plain old X86 ASM when I graduate, I will be happy. Just as long as im not playing computer B$tch and troubleshooting email and network issues.
The US Airforce has a squadron of 747's with chemical lasers mounted on the nose of the plane. They are designed as anti-ICBM platforms and have tested well in that role. At $3000 in chemicals to fire the laser much cheaper than interceptor missles. The range of the laser is also less than the proposed anti-ICBM interceptorsk, and more prone to failure in bad weather. Not so silly is it?
I used to do a lot of gaming over the zone a few years back. Was probably the only Microsoft service that I ever liked. Damn shame, now ill never use the Zone again. Anyone up for an Open Source solution to the Zone?
No but your hand is free, however its not GPLd.
Cygwin might work too.
I got a free copy of norton virtual drive with my last motherboard, it copies the contents of the CD and stores them as a fake partition. As far as I know win2k also will let you mount/map... a partition as a directory onto another drive partition. However I don't know what kind of partition Norton makes the virtual drives, if they are fat, kinda screwed in a 2K enviormentl. No permissions and doubt you can map them to a folder. My $0.02
Gnutella, if I find something new and it isn't crap, ill go out and buy the album. I could also walk into record store and see what they have. Been probably over a year since I last did that though.
The RIAA and MPAA would have the world think that those clever sods who crack their unbreakable encryption sacrificed virgins and sold their souls to Satan. Well maybe the later...
Well, what is special is that this guy built it himself. Not with the help of a team of engineers and a fabrication plant. But in his garage with the full sized console and components that could be found at radio shack. What fun is buying a portable unit when you could build one yourself. That man is true to the origional hack philosophy, reverse engineering something for the sake of fun and knowledge.
Everything the author mentioned is old news. Internet phones? Telephony and services like Dialpad have been around for a while. TV on the internet? TV tuners are nothing new either. However he was right on the money about 3d games. Right now games are the only things in the home enviorment that are pushing systems to their max.
Satellite Radio really does not provide any more advantages than regular old FM band Radio. For 150$, and 12$ a month I doubt I will be any happier than I will with what is on the free airwaives right now. No radio station will ever appeal to the music I want to hear without mixing in crap half the time. The fact is, the best DJ in the world is yourself, I just burn the songs I want to listen to onto a CD and when it gets old I burn something else from my library of MP3s. Grow a spine and start listening to the music you like, don't put up with the crap that these radio stations want to feed you as trendy or cool.
Ever digital computer from the Altair to the AMD Athlon is a direct decendent from the Turing Machine invisioned by Alan Turing.
Thank the maker