...and that, ultimately [IMO] is why OS/2 failed. I never had serious problems with OS/2 Warp, but it became obvious to me [lack of apps, lack of drivers] that its days were numbered. I made the decision to switch to Win 2000 and haven't looked back. Kind of like switching from Blackberry last year to Android. Good system but it just fell out of favour and started to trail the pack too far. [I liked Betamax too...oh well...].
I loved ST:OS when I was a kid, and these remake/homages definitely capture the fun and a lot of the spirit [and a bunch of the cheese] of the original. Definitely worthwhile.
Kids nowadays....you can't understand how groundbreaking and exciting Star Trek was back in the '60's.
Ok boys and girls, there's the scoop from the other side. I am an armoured car guard, and my principle job is refilling ATMs...some of them in public access areas. People doing my job have been attacked, robbed and murdered for the contents of ATM safes...that's the reason for the guns, body armour and all our other equipment. For this reason we take a VERY SERIOUS ATTITUDE toward people who show too much interest in what we do, or give us a hard time about it.
If Shane Becker had had the simple courtesy and decency to co-operate with the Loomis guards it would have taken a minute out of his day. Instead he was an asshole and acted suspiciously. Believe it or not, some robbery attempts start with people pretending to be harmless assholes, getting in arguments with truck guards or otherwise distracting them from their jobs. That ATM was being loaded with tens , if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, right out in the open. Why would any sensible person crowd up to an armed guard going about dangerous business? Sure, maybe he was simply curious...but why should any guard take a chance?
I'm a Canadian, so I can't comment on the specifics of Seattle police procedure or American laws that come into play. However I will say that if somebody's day gets upset because he acted in a suspicious and unreasonable manner around armed guards handling money, that's real tough shit. Maybe it didn't get handled 'right'..and that's real tough shit too. He was lucky he didn't get worse.
People who stand on their right to be unreasonable assholes are the ones who make reasonable people's rights fragile. Having a little sense and discretion would make things better for everybody concerned.
I downloaded Mandrake and Fedora and SuSE, just as it happens. Mandrake and Fedora both failed to enable my Soundblaster Live card or automatically configure my LAN/ADSL connection. I _think_ SuSE got my LAN/ADSL okay, but for some reason it never put a real image up on my monitor display...I got an Sync Out OF Range box floating around on the screen.
HOWEVER....The latest Knoppix automatically connected me to the net and got my SoundBlaster card working fine, without additional input from me.
I'd like to work with Linux, but until I can set up an initial install that just plain _works_, as well as oh, say, Windows XP right out of the box, I'm not going to bother to do much with it.
I'm excited about these movies mainly because of the spectacle and look of the things...not because I don't know how the movie turns out. I'm starting to really _hate_ trailers that show all the groovy bits of a movie before their opening day...to the point where I deliberately look away and don't watch them when they appear in the theatre or on TV. In some cases, I've attended movies that gave very little more than the trailers did...one of my fave comments to the wife now is 'I guess we don't have to see _that_ movie now...'...and we don't!
I want my first sight of a great movie to actually be _in_ the movie theatre when it starts to roll. Am I weird?
...according to my lovely wife, who works as a senior claims analyst for a national insurance company here [and has a disturbingly broad acquaintance with the civil law machinery]. It's a commonplace practice to do what is called a 'conflict search' when a big suit comes up, but sometimes it goes wrong, or just doesn't get done.
It seems to me that there are only a very few real surprises in the practice of law...this is a very minor one.
I'm not ready to believe this just on Tom's say-so, but it does seem odd that so few major mobo manufacturers seem to be turning out Slot-A boards to take advantage of the demand for what looks to be a truly superior CPU.
I've always had good luck with AMD CPUs (not being a demanding gamer, I always found them quite satisfactory) and the only Intel CPU I ever bought (486 DX-4 100) was bad.
I was going to at least consider a PIII for my next upgrade, but if this rumour turns out to be remotely true, I'll stick with AMD. If Intel can't get by on the excellence of its product and service to its customers, I don't want to deal with them...I'll take an honest second-rater any day over a company that feels it necessary to use every trick in the book, clean or dirty, to maintain its overwhelming market share... [which is not to say that the Athlon is a second rate product...I suspect the main problem with it will be lack of easy availability...]
...after I saw the first 1/2 hour on a CANADIAN news show dedicated to 'the tragedy'.
I predict that the media will burn out people's nostalgia for fake celebrities like JFK Jr. pretty darn quick. Of course there will always a core group of media consumers who will eagerly lap up people's news and tragedies...anybody who grew up in a small town will know that there were always gossips and the same faces that would show up at every funeral.
Let's not mistake the gloss of media attention for some new heightened reality. People remain being people, whether they get the news via TV and Internet, or over the back fence.
I'm AVOIDING the hype like the plague...
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I was there in '77...I saw the FIRST showing of A NEW HOPE on its first day in Toronto. Everybody knew it was going to be big, but basically that was all we knew. Not the stars, not the effects, not the sights or sounds or concepts. Nada. At least part of the movie's impact was that it all came as a wonderful surprise...and I am TRYING to recreate that feeling. It's damned difficult.
I have not seen ANY of the trailers. I avert my eyes when a promo comes on at the theatres or on TV. I haven't read any of the articles about the move (tho' I have read a few about McGregor and Neeson in connection with the movie). I've glimpsed a few things, but not much.
What is everybody thinking about this hype??? Does anybody seriously think that there is a single person in the world who won't see the damned movie if they don't get a preview of the highlights beforehand? I HATE spoilers...I haven't logged onto Ain't It Cool News for months to avoid any taint.
I'm not gonna buy the books (print or colouring). I'm not going to buy the toys and souveneirs. I'm not going to buy a T-shirt or poster or any of the zillion and one bits of flotsam surrounding this movie.
All I want is to be surprised and thrilled...just like I was the first time. But keeping my Phantom Menace virginity is an uphill battle, let me tell you.
Why the **** couldn't IBM have supported OS/2 like this...or get started with it, even now?
Beware of IBM, Linux fans...they don't give a damn about operating systems, software or anything else if it isn't selling itself and raking in profits. If enterprise customers don't shell out the big bucks for it, Linux will get dropped from the IBM catalog faster than Monica Lewinski leaving the White House...
Okay, I'm a weirdo boomer with more money than sense (maybe), but I've bought several CDs based on individual MP3 tracks 'illegally' downloaded from the Net (gotta love ADSL), and will likely buy more as time goes on...and I'm talking disks and artists that don't regularly get into the Top Thirty countdowns too...
I think the music business is missing out on a great opportunity to gain exposure for artists and music via the net by not embracing the MP3 format. Is there any PROOF that the availability of MP3 pirate tracks hurts sales? Did Madonna's Ray Of Light flop because a few tracks got pirated all over the place?
Sure, some people would download 'free' MP3s, listen to them a few times, and never buy the album...but I really believe this would be the exception, rather than the rule...people like that wouldn't be buying the CD in any case.
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...and that, ultimately [IMO] is why OS/2 failed. I never had serious problems with OS/2 Warp, but it became obvious to me [lack of apps, lack of drivers] that its days were numbered. I made the decision to switch to Win 2000 and haven't looked back. Kind of like switching from Blackberry last year to Android. Good system but it just fell out of favour and started to trail the pack too far. [I liked Betamax too...oh well...].
My first and main reaction to this story is hilarity. The PC world appears to be well on the way to self-cannibalism...
I loved ST:OS when I was a kid, and these remake/homages definitely capture the fun and a lot of the spirit [and a bunch of the cheese] of the original. Definitely worthwhile.
Kids nowadays....you can't understand how groundbreaking and exciting Star Trek was back in the '60's.
To paraphrase Woody Allen -- I don't want to achieve immortality via web presence....I want to achieve it by _not dying..._
Ok boys and girls, there's the scoop from the other side. I am an armoured car guard, and my principle job is refilling ATMs...some of them in public access areas. People doing my job have been attacked, robbed and murdered for the contents of ATM safes...that's the reason for the guns, body armour and all our other equipment. For this reason we take a VERY SERIOUS ATTITUDE toward people who show too much interest in what we do, or give us a hard time about it.
If Shane Becker had had the simple courtesy and decency to co-operate with the Loomis guards it would have taken a minute out of his day. Instead he was an asshole and acted suspiciously. Believe it or not, some robbery attempts start with people pretending to be harmless assholes, getting in arguments with truck guards or otherwise distracting them from their jobs. That ATM was being loaded with tens , if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, right out in the open. Why would any sensible person crowd up to an armed guard going about dangerous business? Sure, maybe he was simply curious...but why should any guard take a chance?
I'm a Canadian, so I can't comment on the specifics of Seattle police procedure or American laws that come into play. However I will say that if somebody's day gets upset because he acted in a suspicious and unreasonable manner around armed guards handling money, that's real tough shit. Maybe it didn't get handled 'right'..and that's real tough shit too. He was lucky he didn't get worse.
People who stand on their right to be unreasonable assholes are the ones who make reasonable people's rights fragile. Having a little sense and discretion would make things better for everybody concerned.
I downloaded Mandrake and Fedora and SuSE, just as it happens. Mandrake and Fedora both failed to enable my Soundblaster Live card or automatically configure my LAN/ADSL connection. I _think_ SuSE got my LAN/ADSL okay, but for some reason it never put a real image up on my monitor display...I got an Sync Out OF Range box floating around on the screen.
HOWEVER....The latest Knoppix automatically connected me to the net and got my SoundBlaster card working fine, without additional input from me.
I'd like to work with Linux, but until I can set up an initial install that just plain _works_, as well as oh, say, Windows XP right out of the box, I'm not going to bother to do much with it.
I'm excited about these movies mainly because of the spectacle and look of the things...not because I don't know how the movie turns out. I'm starting to really _hate_ trailers that show all the groovy bits of a movie before their opening day...to the point where I deliberately look away and don't watch them when they appear in the theatre or on TV. In some cases, I've attended movies that gave very little more than the trailers did...one of my fave comments to the wife now is 'I guess we don't have to see _that_ movie now...'...and we don't!
I want my first sight of a great movie to actually be _in_ the movie theatre when it starts to roll. Am I weird?
...according to my lovely wife, who works as a senior claims analyst for a national insurance company here [and has a disturbingly broad acquaintance with the civil law machinery]. It's a commonplace practice to do what is called a 'conflict search' when a big suit comes up, but sometimes it goes wrong, or just doesn't get done.
It seems to me that there are only a very few real surprises in the practice of law...this is a very minor one.
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I'm not ready to believe this just on Tom's say-so, but it does seem odd that so few major mobo manufacturers seem to be turning out Slot-A boards to take advantage of the demand for what looks to be a truly superior CPU.
I've always had good luck with AMD CPUs (not being a demanding gamer, I always found them quite satisfactory) and the only Intel CPU I ever bought (486 DX-4 100) was bad.
I was going to at least consider a PIII for my next upgrade, but if this rumour turns out to be remotely true, I'll stick with AMD. If Intel can't get by on the excellence of its product and service to its customers, I don't want to deal with them...I'll take an honest second-rater any day over a company that feels it necessary to use every trick in the book, clean or dirty, to maintain its overwhelming market share... [which is not to say that the Athlon is a second rate product...I suspect the main problem with it will be lack of easy availability...]
...after I saw the first 1/2 hour on a CANADIAN news show dedicated to 'the tragedy'.
I predict that the media will burn out people's nostalgia for fake celebrities like JFK Jr. pretty darn quick. Of course there will always a core group of media consumers who will eagerly lap up people's news and tragedies...anybody who grew up in a small town will know that there were always gossips and the same faces that would show up at every funeral.
Let's not mistake the gloss of media attention for some new heightened reality. People remain being people, whether they get the news via TV and Internet, or over the back fence.
I was there in '77...I saw the FIRST showing of A NEW HOPE on its first day in Toronto. Everybody knew it was going to be big, but basically that was all we knew. Not the stars, not the effects, not the sights or sounds or concepts. Nada. At least part of the movie's impact was that it all came as a wonderful surprise...and I am TRYING to recreate that feeling. It's damned difficult.
I have not seen ANY of the trailers. I avert my eyes when a promo comes on at the theatres or on TV. I haven't read any of the articles about the move (tho' I have read a few about McGregor and Neeson in connection with the movie). I've glimpsed a few things, but not much.
What is everybody thinking about this hype??? Does anybody seriously think that there is a single person in the world who won't see the damned movie if they don't get a preview of the highlights beforehand? I HATE spoilers...I haven't logged onto Ain't It Cool News for months to avoid any taint.
I'm not gonna buy the books (print or colouring). I'm not going to buy the toys and souveneirs. I'm not going to buy a T-shirt or poster or any of the zillion and one bits of flotsam surrounding this movie.
All I want is to be surprised and thrilled...just like I was the first time. But keeping my Phantom Menace virginity is an uphill battle, let me tell you.
Why the **** couldn't IBM have supported OS/2 like this...or get started with it, even now?
Beware of IBM, Linux fans...they don't give a damn about operating systems, software or anything else if it isn't selling itself and raking in profits. If enterprise customers don't shell out the big bucks for it, Linux will get dropped from the IBM catalog faster than Monica Lewinski leaving the White House...
Okay, I'm a weirdo boomer with more money than sense (maybe), but I've bought several CDs based on individual MP3 tracks 'illegally' downloaded from the Net (gotta love ADSL), and will likely buy more as time goes on...and I'm talking disks and artists that don't regularly get into the Top Thirty countdowns too...
I think the music business is missing out on a great opportunity to gain exposure for artists and music via the net by not embracing the MP3 format. Is there any PROOF that the availability of MP3 pirate tracks hurts sales? Did Madonna's Ray Of Light flop because a few tracks got pirated all over the place?
Sure, some people would download 'free' MP3s, listen to them a few times, and never buy the album...but I really believe this would be the exception, rather than the rule...people like that wouldn't be buying the CD in any case.