Kyoto would not have destroyed our economy. It would have been really bad for certain sectors (such as coal mining) but the US economy in general is way too powerful to be destroyed by that. Also, even if you do not care about saving the planet, we should still get rid of the coal industry and coal fired powerplants because it kills so many americans (cancer) and destroys swaths of beautiful american land.
Kyoto would have also helped some high tech sectors of the economy and ensured that the US is competetive in the ecological products field, which is guaranteed to increase in size and importance.
Unfortunately the perception of safety for SUVs is pretty much wrong.
US car safety laws are generally pretty good, but there is one really fucked up thing about them. And that is that there are vehicles which are classified as "commercial vehicles" which are allowed to be MUCH less safe than the usual cars.
And for some reason SUVs are classified as commercial vehicles because they are based on trucks. So they are not required to have the crumple zones, etc of cars. Now both the legislators and the car companies know very well that SUVs are mostly used for personal uses, but they keep classifying them as commercial vehicles because it is so much cheaper to convert a simple and cheap to built truck to a SUV than to built a separate chasis whith crumple zones and everything.
Just in case anyone from Linden labs is reading this, I would like to say that I almost signed up for their free trial, but did not because they required me to sign up for an account in order to get the free trial.
I will never sign up for one of those "free trials" where you have to cancel before your free trial expires, otherwise you pay. First of all I tend to be forgetfull and I may not cancel at the right time, also god knows how complicated their cancelation procedure is.
I am disappointed that a computer game which slashdotters seem to would borrow a tactic which is mostly used by porn sites.
Well the bus has to be compatible, because the processor is designed for specific buses. Same thing goes for the memory. I suppose the video cards, herd-drives, etc may be different but Apple already uses mostly PC compatible vid-cards and hard drives. So what is left? The one button mouse?
Well... i think we should stick with democracy but i am getting a lot of doubt about our public school system and its ability to produce adults capable of critical thought.
Well it should concern you, because while we do not depend on a key species we do depend on the diversity of species in general. Therefore, mass extinction will definately reduce the human species' chances of survival.
I did not like the Ring trilogy myself (I only saw the first one and was kind of bored). But so many other people like it so much, i thought it must have been good in some way.
Surely the cinematography is amazing, but is there a Kubrick movie where the cinematography is not amazing? (btw apologies for misspelling "Barry")
And of course it was amazing how he filmed whole scenes using candlelight. But that cannot be compared to Space Odyssey whose filiming techniques inspired pretty much all space movies (including the much worshipped Star Wars).
And lets face it the story is not as good as the other Kubrick movies. It is interesting enough to make for a great movie, but the main character, although very human, is kind of a selfish asshole. I am not complaining that the main character is a bad person, he is just bad in a very uninteresting ordinary way (as opposed to the more interesting sadist of Clockwork Orange for example).
I was much more engaged by the story lines of most other Kubrick movies.
Everyone likes some light music now and again, but Madonna eventually gets boring and the moonlight sonata gets better every time you listen to it.
And maybe thats the reason there are so many old movies. One needs time to really appreciate a good movie. And even more time is needed for a consensus to form that a certain movie is good.
Another reason for the number of older movies there, is the fact that the older movies invented certain aspects of film-making that are used by the newer ones. If one has to decide between an older movie and a just as good newer movie that uses the film techniques and plot pieces pioneered by the older movie, one always goes with the older movie.
Anyways, I am sure that some mor emodern movies will reveal themselves of being great and able to stand the test of time. PErsonally, I am hoping that The Big Lewbovsky (sp?) will be recognized as the classic of the nineties.
It could be worse. They could be talking about the runaway bride or Michael Jackson again.
I gave up on Time writing anything worthwhile on Iraq several years ago when they had one of their point-counterpoint spreads about whether we should attack Iraq. The funny part was that both the point and the counterpoint reached the conclusion that we should attack Iraq. It is was so nice of them to give me both sides of the story!!!
First of all let me say the obvious -- this list was obviously assembled in order to attract attention and controversy so it should not be taken too seriously.
The list does include a lot of classics but it also includes too many modern movies that are good but not 100 best of all time. Most obvious example is Finding Nemo. Great movie, especially if you have kids, but there is nothign really special about it. In fact I guarantee that it will be mostly forgotten in five years. (If you don't believe me, try to remember the last similar movie that was heralded as being brilliant -- Toy Story, which would look very dated and kind of boring nowadays).
Then there is the Ring trilogy, which although very succesful and good movies was once again nothing exceptional. I bet if this list was made in the late nineties it would include Titanic for the same reason it includes the ring trilogy now.
And then there is Schindler's List. It basicly silly to include Schindler's list and not include some of the original holocaust movies, such as Europa Europa. I guess they want to give the impression that Spielberg was being original with Schindler's List (definately not the case). In general Spielberg has too many movies in the list. He has a knack of making his movies seem more momentous than they really are.
Then there are the choices that seem to be specifically put in to invite controversy. For example Yojimbo is included but seven samurai isn't. Berry Lyndon is included but many of Kubrick's better movies aren't. Purple Rose of Cairo is included but Annie Hall isnt. I can argue why these choices are wrong (and even kind of bizarre) but I have the feeling Time put them in exactly so I can argue about them.
It also seems that Time might be making some unusual choices in order to get cross promotion from th emovie distributors themselves. For example, it is very unlikely that a DVD of Seven Samurai will say "Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best of all time", but very likely that a DVD of NEMO will say that.
The head of Intel DID NOT recommend apple. He merely said "you should buy something else". "Something else" certainly includes all flavors of Linux and BSD which may be based on Intel processors.
Slashdot editors should be more careful about the text of the articles they approve.
This is a good point. But there is a very good reason why Apply likes to stay away from intel processors, and it has nothing to do with the technical merits of PowerPC and x86.
Apple has very large profit margins for the computer industry and wants to keep them by preventing competitors from offering a similar system.
To put it simply they want to make sure there are no "apple clones". The way they make sure of that is they use hardware that is impossible to obtain for a reasonable price, unless it is part of an Apple computer. This hardware is mostly the CPU (the other hardware, such as harddrives, video cards has been steadily changing into versions very similar to the ones found PCs).
If Apple they the CPU to Intel, shitloads of cheap clones will begin to emerge from the Singapore/Taiwan factories six months from now. Of course, apple will still have the monopoly on software, but that is much harder to keep, because of piracy, and because if the financial incentives are high enough a competitor can coble up an OSX lookalike from open source software.
P.S. This is off topic but I must again complain about the moderation of Apple fanboys. It is ridiculous that the parent post was moderated as troll. Look fanboys, just because you do not agree with something does not mean it is a troll.
I can answer that. It is the same reason they made a version of Windows NT that runs on Alpha. Same reason they support AMD. They want to keep Intel on their toes.
They have never been very happy about sharing a monopoly with Intel. They know very well that the customer can only be squeezed for so much $ and they want most of that to go for MS software rather than Intel hardware.
So they keep supporting competitors of Intel, to ensure Intel's market share is always threatened and thus Intel's prices are always competitive.
It is great how there is this heated discussion about whether wormholes are or are not safe for space travel (and people are actually disappointed when they turn out to be unsafe) while no-one has ever seen a wormhole to begin with.
Were you under a legal requirement to keep the email? Probably not.
Remember that there is actually a law on the books that specifically requires banks doing that particular business to keep all emails. And believe me, all banks are very well aquainted with the laws that apply to them.
And this has nothing at all to do with anti corporate bias. The suit in question was between one corporation and another. The law in question was written to protect corporations that file for IPOs.
I have no problem with this. And no I am not just glad because it "fucks a corporation". If MS were not required to keep emails then another corporation would be fucked.
Lets rememebr that this is a specific law that only applies to underwriters (AFAIK) and that underwriters should be working on behalf of a client. It makes the perfect sense that the client should be able to see what the underwriters did on its behalf and that includes work emails. This is especially true seeing as how the underwriting industry is notorious for having conflicts of interest and fucking over their clients.
As far as "wasting money on lawyers" -- the legal department need not read all emails they just need to save them. You can save emails without paying any lawyer a cent.
As far as the worries about privacy -- you get no privacy in corporate email and IM. The corporation may spy on you, and many of them do. While this situation persists, the argument that the requirement to save emails reduces privacy is rather weak.
There is certainly a way for him to do this, (at least he can close it for another 70 or so years until his copyrights expire) but he will not do this, because he is a bearded whore and will do anything that will increase his position on the worlds richest 500 list.
I guarantee you another trilogy will appear. If there is any money to be made Lucas will make it.
But the trilogy will not be announced for a while. First Lucas will have to make sure he sells all the movie tickets to Sith he can, then he must make sure he sells all the DVD disks he can. Then he will do a revision in the movies and issue YET ANOTHER DVD collection and sell all of that.
Then he will combine the original series with the prequels and sell that. Then he might do another revision. During that time there will also be a TV series.
And after everyone has gotten sick of the original trilogy and the prequels, and anyone with the remotest chance of buying the DVD set has bought it... then Lucas will start work on another series.
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Well also many of the things china produces sell for much less than the things japan produces.
Kyoto would not have destroyed our economy. It would have been really bad for certain sectors (such as coal mining) but the US economy in general is way too powerful to be destroyed by that. Also, even if you do not care about saving the planet, we should still get rid of the coal industry and coal fired powerplants because it kills so many americans (cancer) and destroys swaths of beautiful american land.
Kyoto would have also helped some high tech sectors of the economy and ensured that the US is competetive in the ecological products field, which is guaranteed to increase in size and importance.
Unfortunately the perception of safety for SUVs is pretty much wrong.
US car safety laws are generally pretty good, but there is one really fucked up thing about them. And that is that there are vehicles which are classified as "commercial vehicles" which are allowed to be MUCH less safe than the usual cars.
And for some reason SUVs are classified as commercial vehicles because they are based on trucks. So they are not required to have the crumple zones, etc of cars. Now both the legislators and the car companies know very well that SUVs are mostly used for personal uses, but they keep classifying them as commercial vehicles because it is so much cheaper to convert a simple and cheap to built truck to a SUV than to built a separate chasis whith crumple zones and everything.
Just in case anyone from Linden labs is reading this, I would like to say that I almost signed up for their free trial, but did not because they required me to sign up for an account in order to get the free trial.
I will never sign up for one of those "free trials" where you have to cancel before your free trial expires, otherwise you pay. First of all I tend to be forgetfull and I may not cancel at the right time, also god knows how complicated their cancelation procedure is.
I am disappointed that a computer game which slashdotters seem to would borrow a tactic which is mostly used by porn sites.
Well the bus has to be compatible, because the processor is designed for specific buses. Same thing goes for the memory. I suppose the video cards, herd-drives, etc may be different but Apple already uses mostly PC compatible vid-cards and hard drives. So what is left? The one button mouse?
Well ... i think we should stick with democracy but i am getting a lot of doubt about our public school system and its ability to produce adults capable of critical thought.
I mean, did he check the serial numbers?
Well it should concern you, because while we do not depend on a key species we do depend on the diversity of species in general. Therefore, mass extinction will definately reduce the human species' chances of survival.
I was wondering how the Mac trolls would twist this story into an advertisement for Macs.
"In 2003, the school, who saved over $100,000 in the process,"
should be
"In 2003, the school, WHICH saved over $100,000 in the process,"
I did not like the Ring trilogy myself (I only saw the first one and was kind of bored). But so many other people like it so much, i thought it must have been good in some way.
Surely the cinematography is amazing, but is there a Kubrick movie where the cinematography is not amazing? (btw apologies for misspelling "Barry")
And of course it was amazing how he filmed whole scenes using candlelight. But that cannot be compared to Space Odyssey whose filiming techniques inspired pretty much all space movies (including the much worshipped Star Wars).
And lets face it the story is not as good as the other Kubrick movies. It is interesting enough to make for a great movie, but the main character, although very human, is kind of a selfish asshole. I am not complaining that the main character is a bad person, he is just bad in a very uninteresting ordinary way (as opposed to the more interesting sadist of Clockwork Orange for example).
I was much more engaged by the story lines of most other Kubrick movies.
Everyone likes some light music now and again, but Madonna eventually gets boring and the moonlight sonata gets better every time you listen to it.
And maybe thats the reason there are so many old movies. One needs time to really appreciate a good movie. And even more time is needed for a consensus to form that a certain movie is good.
Another reason for the number of older movies there, is the fact that the older movies invented certain aspects of film-making that are used by the newer ones. If one has to decide between an older movie and a just as good newer movie that uses the film techniques and plot pieces pioneered by the older movie, one always goes with the older movie.
Anyways, I am sure that some mor emodern movies will reveal themselves of being great and able to stand the test of time. PErsonally, I am hoping that The Big Lewbovsky (sp?) will be recognized as the classic of the nineties.
It could be worse. They could be talking about the runaway bride or Michael Jackson again.
I gave up on Time writing anything worthwhile on Iraq several years ago when they had one of their point-counterpoint spreads about whether we should attack Iraq. The funny part was that both the point and the counterpoint reached the conclusion that we should attack Iraq. It is was so nice of them to give me both sides of the story!!!
I agree there. Robocop is probly the most effective anti-military-industrial-complex movies out there. Spiderman may be a close second.
First of all let me say the obvious -- this list was obviously assembled in order to attract attention and controversy so it should not be taken too seriously.
The list does include a lot of classics but it also includes too many modern movies that are good but not 100 best of all time. Most obvious example is Finding Nemo. Great movie, especially if you have kids, but there is nothign really special about it. In fact I guarantee that it will be mostly forgotten in five years. (If you don't believe me, try to remember the last similar movie that was heralded as being brilliant -- Toy Story, which would look very dated and kind of boring nowadays).
Then there is the Ring trilogy, which although very succesful and good movies was once again nothing exceptional. I bet if this list was made in the late nineties it would include Titanic for the same reason it includes the ring trilogy now.
And then there is Schindler's List. It basicly silly to include Schindler's list and not include some of the original holocaust movies, such as Europa Europa. I guess they want to give the impression that Spielberg was being original with Schindler's List (definately not the case). In general Spielberg has too many movies in the list. He has a knack of making his movies seem more momentous than they really are.
Then there are the choices that seem to be specifically put in to invite controversy. For example Yojimbo is included but seven samurai isn't. Berry Lyndon is included but many of Kubrick's better movies aren't. Purple Rose of Cairo is included but Annie Hall isnt. I can argue why these choices are wrong (and even kind of bizarre) but I have the feeling Time put them in exactly so I can argue about them.
It also seems that Time might be making some unusual choices in order to get cross promotion from th emovie distributors themselves. For example, it is very unlikely that a DVD of Seven Samurai will say "Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best of all time", but very likely that a DVD of NEMO will say that.
The head of Intel DID NOT recommend apple. He merely said "you should buy something else". "Something else" certainly includes all flavors of Linux and BSD which may be based on Intel processors.
Slashdot editors should be more careful about the text of the articles they approve.
because they can use the extra energy to fuse other hydrogen nuclei?
This is a good point. But there is a very good reason why Apply likes to stay away from intel processors, and it has nothing to do with the technical merits of PowerPC and x86.
Apple has very large profit margins for the computer industry and wants to keep them by preventing competitors from offering a similar system.
To put it simply they want to make sure there are no "apple clones". The way they make sure of that is they use hardware that is impossible to obtain for a reasonable price, unless it is part of an Apple computer. This hardware is mostly the CPU (the other hardware, such as harddrives, video cards has been steadily changing into versions very similar to the ones found PCs).
If Apple they the CPU to Intel, shitloads of cheap clones will begin to emerge from the Singapore/Taiwan factories six months from now. Of course, apple will still have the monopoly on software, but that is much harder to keep, because of piracy, and because if the financial incentives are high enough a competitor can coble up an OSX lookalike from open source software.
P.S. This is off topic but I must again complain about the moderation of Apple fanboys. It is ridiculous that the parent post was moderated as troll. Look fanboys, just because you do not agree with something does not mean it is a troll.
I can answer that. It is the same reason they made a version of Windows NT that runs on Alpha. Same reason they support AMD. They want to keep Intel on their toes.
They have never been very happy about sharing a monopoly with Intel. They know very well that the customer can only be squeezed for so much $ and they want most of that to go for MS software rather than Intel hardware.
So they keep supporting competitors of Intel, to ensure Intel's market share is always threatened and thus Intel's prices are always competitive.
It is great how there is this heated discussion about whether wormholes are or are not safe for space travel (and people are actually disappointed when they turn out to be unsafe) while no-one has ever seen a wormhole to begin with.
Were you under a legal requirement to keep the email? Probably not.
Remember that there is actually a law on the books that specifically requires banks doing that particular business to keep all emails. And believe me, all banks are very well aquainted with the laws that apply to them.
And this has nothing at all to do with anti corporate bias. The suit in question was between one corporation and another. The law in question was written to protect corporations that file for IPOs.
I have no problem with this. And no I am not just glad because it "fucks a corporation". If MS were not required to keep emails then another corporation would be fucked.
Lets rememebr that this is a specific law that only applies to underwriters (AFAIK) and that underwriters should be working on behalf of a client. It makes the perfect sense that the client should be able to see what the underwriters did on its behalf and that includes work emails. This is especially true seeing as how the underwriting industry is notorious for having conflicts of interest and fucking over their clients.
As far as "wasting money on lawyers" -- the legal department need not read all emails they just need to save them. You can save emails without paying any lawyer a cent.
As far as the worries about privacy -- you get no privacy in corporate email and IM. The corporation may spy on you, and many of them do. While this situation persists, the argument that the requirement to save emails reduces privacy is rather weak.
There is certainly a way for him to do this, (at least he can close it for another 70 or so years until his copyrights expire) but he will not do this, because he is a bearded whore and will do anything that will increase his position on the worlds richest 500 list.
I guarantee you another trilogy will appear. If there is any money to be made Lucas will make it.
... then Lucas will start work on another series.
But the trilogy will not be announced for a while. First Lucas will have to make sure he sells all the movie tickets to Sith he can, then he must make sure he sells all the DVD disks he can. Then he will do a revision in the movies and issue YET ANOTHER DVD collection and sell all of that.
Then he will combine the original series with the prequels and sell that. Then he might do another revision. During that time there will also be a TV series.
And after everyone has gotten sick of the original trilogy and the prequels, and anyone with the remotest chance of buying the DVD set has bought it
Now start your spending!