Purple Noon is a very cool flick. It was re-released to the art-cinema circuit a few years ago, and we had the pleasure of seeing it. The only drawback I can think of was that all these French-speaking people had last names like Ripley and Greenleaf. =-)
And William Burroughs makes an uncredited cameo appearance in it as a wealthy boat buyer.. -----
"Manos Hands of Fate"! Now that's a great movie. No, wait, it's a terrible movie. I mean, it's a great, terrible movie.
Amen, brother.
I would love an MP3 of that
Someone actually made a Torgo module for the AfterDark screensaver, complete with music. Fscking hilarious.
You could probably extract the resources from said file (if it's still out there) and convert it with ease.
There are some things that are artfully bad, meaning that if most people tried to make something that bad, they wouldn't succeed.
As the Psychotronic Film Catalog says, "what kind of horror movie would a Texas fertilizer salesman make?" (Yes, you can order unedited versions of Manos from these guys, if $20 is burning a hole in your pocket. Can't say I was ever that tempted though..) -----
Roosevelt was one of the ugliest people imaginable... he was no better than stalin
Gimme a break! Mind you, the Japanese-American internment was bad (note that Canada also caved into this hysterical nonsense as well), but no American president ever caused atrocities like the gulag system to spring up. Some would say that FDR was the best president the USA had this century (I'd place Truman higher myself)...
As superpowers/empires go, the States historically have one of the best records for respecting human rights. Yes, we have some problems here, but comparing us to Stalin?? Jeezus, read a damn history book already..
Thanks, David, for choosing a man responsible for spreading america's own brand of imperialsm
Considering the other available alternatives after the war -- a Western Europe awash in poverty, starvation and anarchy seems the most likely -- I wouldn't be bitching. -----
Okay, I shouldn't reply, but dang if that didn't strike a nerve.
Sounds like the original enlightened AC has a few stereotypes to remove of his (her?) own. And maybe needs to get out more often.
Shameless plug time: If you like faster commutes, more home for your buck, great work, and yes, all sorts of interesting intelligent people, move to the Research Triangle Park area. (I never looked back.) If you're real nice, I'll tell you how to take all the back roads to whittle down your commute to under 20 minutes..
The talk of a "profiling system" reminds me of an exploit by Timothy Leary (as told by Robert Anton Wilson).
As Leary was rotting in a holding cell (having been busted for pot possession) in California, the state decided to administer a personality test to see where he belonged within their penal system.
The idiots in the Corrections Department issued him a test that he himself constructed.
So, he filled out all the answers that would lead the Powers That Be to think he was docile, complacement, looking for leadership, a born follower, etc. etc.
Once he was placed in minimum security for awhile, he escaped and high-tailed it for Switzerland.
Surely M2K could be mistreated as such, no? =-) -----
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..and that would be the need to patch the kernel source to enable MOL. Call me old-fashioned, but patching kernels to allow for one app to run is a tad loony.
But, the newest version fixes this problem, so perhaps it's time to look at MOL seriously again... hmm.. -----
I think we need to take this article with the same grain of salt as the MindCraft study for 2 reasons:
First, Gartner does have a huge M$ bias, like MindCraft's testing organization. And IS managers (nicespeak for "trained lobsters") listen to them. So we have to force Gartner to be accurate, much in the same may MindCraft came around.
Second, this is actually a Good Thing. Remember the end-result of the MindCraft shootout? Linux was shown to be deficient to NT in one key area: the threading (or lack of it) in Linux' IP stack. Hmm, what do you think will be a priority in the 2.4 kernel dev work?
IMHO, we should treat Gartner like MindCraft: force them to be accurate and precise in their statements, and then zero in on fixing those areas in which their complaints are valid.
I think the one point to bear in mind here is that Apple evangelists and Linux mavens are not necessarily diametrically opposed (and in fact have a common competitor on which to focus).
So.. now that Apple has demonstrated that they're open to the idea of open source (to some extent at least).. do you think we could.. um.. encourage them?
A saying about honey, vinegar and flies comes to mind... -----
what if a 'nuclear strength' EMP were developed that could fry the electronics of an entire city, or state, or country?
Well, from what I recall when researching the subject back in the eighties as an undergrad, it wouldn't take much to paralyze the USA.
Essentially, if you really wanted to do it, one of the smaller H-bombs (there's an oxymoron!) detonated over Nebraska or Kansas would nail a large amount of electronic equipment in the Lower 48, including that within large population centers. It may not have to be too much larger than what was tested above ground in the South Pacific in the 50's.
Of course, the scientists who uttered these remarks were SWAGging, so take this with a metric ton of salt. Then again, the US does have "launch on warning" as its official policy, and EMP (among other things of course) is used as justification: use 'em or lose 'em. -----
From what I've heard of OSX Server, it simply rocks. Not only does it come with a port of Apache, but also with a graphical shell for Apache. AFAIK, nobody else has that. And in the days before Java, more than a few CS grad students looked at NextSTEP and said, "yes, brothers and sisters, this is why we fought the revolution". And oh yeah, I think gcc and its entourage are thrown in as well with OS X Server (not sure about that tho'.)
The new hardware combined with OS X Server would be nothing short of stunning.
One thing that &^%$ess me off, however, is that there's no X server for OS X Server! (Did you get that?) Not without 3rd-party add-ons at least. Granted, the graphical rendering technology on NextSTEP was Display PostScript (cool), and the "Quartz" subsystem of OS X Server is supposed to use PDF (very cool).
But.. what the #%$@ do I do with X-based source code? Hack it to use Quartz? (Yeah, right.) Or try porting XFree86 to Darwin? (Yeah, right.) Or has someone come up with a solution to this snafu of which I'm unaware? (Always possible..) -----
For LinuxPPC? Yes! But.. mirrors?
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Sorry, but as a rule I wouldn't trust any political party to reflect my beliefs or act on my behalf.
Witness the Liberatarians, who have depicted Bill Gates as (ha!) an American hero. It's the "boy individualist becomes liberator of millions and captain of industry" angle that Microsoft would love for us to believe. I assume that most/.'ers would vomit at this idea, & rightfully so. But the Libs have swallowed it whole, practically canonizing the schmuck.
It's kind of consistent with their way of thinking: stick to a few absolute principles (e.g. "people who make money in a free market are inherently good"), and extend them in a facile way to ridiculous conclusions, real world contradictions be damned.
On the other hand, if the Libertarians actually campaigned to remove this type of censorship (be it.net, TV, flicks, whatever), I'd throw a few votes their way. But the Teeming Millions(tm), who prefer to be led like cattle, won't be doing so, so what's the point.. -----
I'm sorry, but Star Wars as a whole can't hold a candle to Star Trek (original, not the one with the hammy bald guy), which in turn pales in comparison to almost anything Asmiov or Ellison ever wrote. (I haven't read all of Asimov to say this unequivocally; I'm about 400 or so books short. =-) )
Guinness has a dead-on grasp of the situation. The original movie was the only one close to being watchable, and its dialogue was dubious at best. (Lucas lifted some of the plot from Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" anyway.)
Thanks, Alec, for proving that not all octagenarians have lost it. -----
Y'know, Fox could royally screw Duchovny by killing off Mulder in next season's finale.
Would they do it? I don't know. For most fans Duchovny and Anderson are the X-Files. Such a move would effectively wipe out any chance of movies in the future.
On the other hand, if the lawsuit wipes out that chance anyway, well.. -----
Here at Microsoft, we believe in quality not just an attribute, but as a way of life. Despite what people in certain quarters may imply about us, we honestly care about your business. You are a valued customer.
Unlike those snivelling little open source shits, what with their smug superiority complexes and secret handshakes.. claiming that their work is much more stable than whatever a magnificent bulwark of free enterprise like Microsoft Corporation could possibly provide! Everybody seems to hate the winner these days, don't they? We worked our fingers to the bone for the likes of those ingrates, and created the largest software organization in the process! What do those.. those hippies have to show? Red Hat? Oh come on now! We blew up penguins in my day, and I don't see why that trend shouldn't continue into the next century!! I wouldn't give the time of day let alone source code to any of those underpaid wretched Commie student bastards IF YOU BEGGED ME!!
Excuse me.
This fine new Merced box.. okay, play the little Intel sound logo here.. ding!.. thank you.. is running the latest and greatest version of Windows NT, your best choice for an Intel (ding!) system to function as a reliable server!
(blue screen of death appears, with a puff of smoke; surly glances off camera follow)
If Steve decides to keep Apple hardware closed, these machines will have the life expectancy of a NeXT cube on the open market. The geeks-only segment will be the only folks who care, and that group still isn't large enough to carry a serious manufacturer.
Sorry to burst bubbles here.
But, now that Apple need not bail out clone manufacturers, there's hope. IMHO, they should concentrate on morphing their image from a hardware company to a systems company..
And if these machines run MacOS 8/9/X and LinuxPPC, I can't wait to drive the necessary ten miles to pick one up. =-) ("Y'all can go screw Silicon Valley; we have.. Morrisville!") -----
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Purple Noon is a very cool flick. It was re-released to the art-cinema circuit a few years ago, and we had the pleasure of seeing it. The only drawback I can think of was that all these French-speaking people had last names like Ripley and Greenleaf. =-)
And William Burroughs makes an uncredited cameo appearance in it as a wealthy boat buyer..
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Amen, brother.
I would love an MP3 of that
Someone actually made a Torgo module for the AfterDark screensaver, complete with music. Fscking hilarious.
You could probably extract the resources from said file (if it's still out there) and convert it with ease.
There are some things that are artfully bad, meaning that if most people tried to make something that bad, they wouldn't succeed.
As the Psychotronic Film Catalog says, "what kind of horror movie would a Texas fertilizer salesman make?" (Yes, you can order unedited versions of Manos from these guys, if $20 is burning a hole in your pocket. Can't say I was ever that tempted though..)
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I would totally love to buy a copy on video
Oh no you don't.
The memories are coming back..
Deep hurting indeed.. nyaaigh....
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No shit. Sounds like you don't know TR from FDR..
Roosevelt was one of the ugliest people imaginable ... he was no better than stalin
Gimme a break! Mind you, the Japanese-American internment was bad (note that Canada also caved into this hysterical nonsense as well), but no American president ever caused atrocities like the gulag system to spring up. Some would say that FDR was the best president the USA had this century (I'd place Truman higher myself)...
As superpowers/empires go, the States historically have one of the best records for respecting human rights. Yes, we have some problems here, but comparing us to Stalin?? Jeezus, read a damn history book already..
Thanks, David, for choosing a man responsible for spreading america's own brand of imperialsm
Considering the other available alternatives after the war -- a Western Europe awash in poverty, starvation and anarchy seems the most likely -- I wouldn't be bitching.
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Okay, I shouldn't reply, but dang if that didn't strike a nerve.
Sounds like the original enlightened AC has a few stereotypes to remove of his (her?) own. And maybe needs to get out more often.
Shameless plug time: If you like faster commutes, more home for your buck, great work, and yes, all sorts of interesting intelligent people, move to the Research Triangle Park area. (I never looked back.) If you're real nice, I'll tell you how to take all the back roads to whittle down your commute to under 20 minutes..
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The Gilligan's Island theme keeps going thru my head: "Like Robinson Crusoe / as primitive as can be.. / as primitive as can be.. "
Not that I'm dissing Transmeta here (hey, maybe they're using a very simple "primitive" instruction set).
Hopefully, their sales force will provide a nice "three-ee hour tour/ a three-ee hour tour"..
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The talk of a "profiling system" reminds me of an exploit by Timothy Leary (as told by Robert Anton Wilson).
As Leary was rotting in a holding cell (having been busted for pot possession) in California, the state decided to administer a personality test to see where he belonged within their penal system.
The idiots in the Corrections Department issued him a test that he himself constructed.
So, he filled out all the answers that would lead the Powers That Be to think he was docile, complacement, looking for leadership, a born follower, etc. etc.
Once he was placed in minimum security for awhile, he escaped and high-tailed it for Switzerland.
Surely M2K could be mistreated as such, no? =-)
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But, the newest version fixes this problem, so perhaps it's time to look at MOL seriously again... hmm..
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I think we need to take this article with the same grain of salt as the MindCraft study for 2 reasons:
IMHO, we should treat Gartner like MindCraft: force them to be accurate and precise in their statements, and then zero in on fixing those areas in which their complaints are valid.
My 1/50th of a sawbuck..
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I think the one point to bear in mind here is that Apple evangelists and Linux mavens are not necessarily diametrically opposed (and in fact have a common competitor on which to focus).
So.. now that Apple has demonstrated that they're open to the idea of open source (to some extent at least).. do you think we could.. um.. encourage them?
A saying about honey, vinegar and flies comes to mind...
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They don't support Linux, but they'll provide some tech notes for you to wade thru (which is very Linuxy thing to do).
So please don't just rant against Qwest et. al.
Support the folks who do listen! Let them know we approve.. and that we're watching.
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Well, from what I recall when researching the subject back in the eighties as an undergrad, it wouldn't take much to paralyze the USA.
Essentially, if you really wanted to do it, one of the smaller H-bombs (there's an oxymoron!) detonated over Nebraska or Kansas would nail a large amount of electronic equipment in the Lower 48, including that within large population centers. It may not have to be too much larger than what was tested above ground in the South Pacific in the 50's.
Of course, the scientists who uttered these remarks were SWAGging, so take this with a metric ton of salt. Then again, the US does have "launch on warning" as its official policy, and EMP (among other things of course) is used as justification: use 'em or lose 'em.
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From what I've heard of OSX Server, it simply rocks. Not only does it come with a port of Apache, but also with a graphical shell for Apache. AFAIK, nobody else has that. And in the days before Java, more than a few CS grad students looked at NextSTEP and said, "yes, brothers and sisters, this is why we fought the revolution". And oh yeah, I think gcc and its entourage are thrown in as well with OS X Server (not sure about that tho'.)
The new hardware combined with OS X Server would be nothing short of stunning.
One thing that &^%$ess me off, however, is that there's no X server for OS X Server! (Did you get that?) Not without 3rd-party add-ons at least. Granted, the graphical rendering technology on NextSTEP was Display PostScript (cool), and the "Quartz" subsystem of OS X Server is supposed to use PDF (very cool).
But.. what the #%$@ do I do with X-based source code? Hack it to use Quartz? (Yeah, right.) Or try porting XFree86 to Darwin? (Yeah, right.) Or has someone come up with a solution to this snafu of which I'm unaware? (Always possible..)
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Thx for the URL, and thx to Franzo!
But, can we d/l this from a mirror?
Just trying to be a good citizen...
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Sorry, but as a rule I wouldn't trust any political party to reflect my beliefs or act on my behalf.
Witness the Liberatarians, who have depicted Bill Gates as (ha!) an American hero. It's the "boy individualist becomes liberator of millions and captain of industry" angle that Microsoft would love for us to believe. I assume that most /.'ers would vomit at this idea, & rightfully so. But the Libs have swallowed it whole, practically canonizing the schmuck.
It's kind of consistent with their way of thinking: stick to a few absolute principles (e.g. "people who make money in a free market are inherently good"), and extend them in a facile way to ridiculous conclusions, real world contradictions be damned.
On the other hand, if the Libertarians actually campaigned to remove this type of censorship (be it .net, TV, flicks, whatever), I'd throw a few votes their way. But the Teeming Millions(tm), who prefer to be led like cattle, won't be doing so, so what's the point..
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Just think if Chris Carter gets tired of putting up with David Duchovny ..
The Smoking Man pulls out his HERF gun while Mulder is on his omnipresent cell-phone, and .. end of franchise.
poof!
Anyone wanna take bets on when (not if) this technology gets butchered to fit into an X-Files episode?
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I'm sorry, but Star Wars as a whole can't hold a candle to Star Trek (original, not the one with the hammy bald guy), which in turn pales in comparison to almost anything Asmiov or Ellison ever wrote. (I haven't read all of Asimov to say this unequivocally; I'm about 400 or so books short. =-) )
Guinness has a dead-on grasp of the situation. The original movie was the only one close to being watchable, and its dialogue was dubious at best. (Lucas lifted some of the plot from Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" anyway.)
Thanks, Alec, for proving that not all octagenarians have lost it.
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Y'know, Fox could royally screw Duchovny by killing off Mulder in next season's finale.
Would they do it? I don't know. For most fans Duchovny and Anderson are the X-Files. Such a move would effectively wipe out any chance of movies in the future.
On the other hand, if the lawsuit wipes out that chance anyway, well..
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Sorry, but a bad movie starring these two entered my mind (which itself could use a better body BTW).
Post if you got the reference.
Hint: The Simpsons' writers used it, with Homer and Mr. Burns (snicker)...
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*Sniff* Call me sensitive..
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So either shut up or improve upon it.
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Actually, I wish to have an argument.
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Here at Microsoft, we believe in quality not just an attribute, but as a way of life.
Despite what people in certain quarters may imply about us, we honestly care about your business. You are a valued customer.
Unlike those snivelling little open source shits, what with their smug superiority complexes and secret handshakes.. claiming that their work is much more stable than whatever a magnificent bulwark of free enterprise like Microsoft Corporation could possibly provide! Everybody seems to hate the winner these days, don't they? We worked our fingers to the bone for the likes of those ingrates, and created the largest software organization in the process! What do those.. those hippies have to show? Red Hat? Oh come on now! We blew up penguins in my day, and I don't see why that trend shouldn't continue into the next century!! I wouldn't give the time of day let alone source code to any of those underpaid wretched Commie student bastards IF YOU BEGGED ME!!
Excuse me.
This fine new Merced box.. okay, play the little Intel sound logo here.. ding!.. thank you.. is running the latest and greatest version of Windows NT, your best choice for an Intel (ding!) system to function as a reliable server!
(blue screen of death appears, with a puff of smoke; surly glances off camera follow)
Anyone else wish to continue this thread?..
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Hate to say it, but it's true.
If Steve decides to keep Apple hardware closed, these machines will have the life expectancy of a NeXT cube on the open market. The geeks-only segment will be the only folks who care, and that group still isn't large enough to carry a serious manufacturer.
Sorry to burst bubbles here.
But, now that Apple need not bail out clone manufacturers, there's hope. IMHO, they should concentrate on morphing their image from a hardware company to a systems company..
And if these machines run MacOS 8/9/X and LinuxPPC, I can't wait to drive the necessary ten miles to pick one up. =-)
("Y'all can go screw Silicon Valley; we have.. Morrisville!")
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MS trolls perhaps?
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