After watching that trailer I have to say I'm reminded of a scene out of a movie I really like.
Luke: I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be.
Before I saw Hayden Christensen (Anakin) act, I could easily say I wasn't afraid of Episode II. All the naysayers said I would be once I saw more footage from it. Now, after seeing him give his little temper tantrum in that trailer, I'm afraid my fear is going to lead to suffering in the theater.
Re:Salon investors and editorial slant...
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Would you mind explaining how exactly this is evidence of an editorial slant? Not to knock your research or anything but this doesn't seem to indicate any kind of bias. A board member used to work for a company that was part of AOLTimeWarner? How would this produce any slant? AOLTimeWarner is a huge company, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the entertainment industry that hasn't done some work for some subsidiary of AOLTW at one time or another.
If you read the article there's quite a bit of reference to various internal Intel projects. Maybe Intel just doesn't publicize every internal project they work on.
One of the things I remember hearing about DVDs before they came out was that discs would have this capbility built in. Most (all?) players have parental controls that you can set to not allow the player to play movies over the preset limit. The original feature was to allow parents to set their player for PG13 and it would follow the "PG13 track" that would skip around the nudity/violence/etc. The studio (and presumably the director in most cases) would define what would be on the "PG13 Track" and what would be on the "R Track". A R rated disc with no seperate tracks wouldn't be played at all on a player with a PG13 limit. I don't know if this feature never made it into real DVD players once production started or what but I know it was going to be originally.
Many, many, houses are close enough together nowadays to allow someone to put their computer in their room on your local wireless net and "crunch numbers for a week" from the comfort of their own desk. WEP is better than nothing in the same way a car with a body made of tinfoil is safer than a car made of nothing plastic wrap.
I just read an article on space.com about a speech Dan Goldin (of course I can't find the link anymore) gave about fully privatizing the shuttle maintenance. Apparently they have already privatized about 40% of the jobs. Seems like that's a much better option than privatizing the whole thing and taking it out of NASAs hands all together. I wonder if this a real proposal or just something a couple of administrators and senators are tossing around?
Here's something else from the 'How To Help' page in the section on buying the 2nd edition of the book based on the site:
Please do not purchase directly from CRC Press, since royalties to the author from such sales are reduced through a CRC-inserted contractural loophole.
What didn't CRC get in this deal, his first born child? This is about the most one-sided "settlement" I've ever seen in my life. I'm all for never buying a book from CRC ever again.
In a recent Tom Clancy book (don't throw heavy objects at me please) one of the plot points was a group of terrorists that developed an ebola strain that they could spread by putting it into fake shaving cream containers. They had guys go to various boat/gun/etc shows, put the cans down near active areas and activate the spray nozzles to release it into the air. One of the interesting things about it was the focus on the fact that since so many people fly around the country so often, a disease that doesn't kill quickly and is contagious would spread around the country, and the world, pretty quickly due to the freedom of travel that we have.
There was recently a story here on/. about how people are losing track of what shows are on what networks when they use a Tivo/other digital recording device. As these type of digital recorders become more and more prevalent, you can expect these logos to become more and more intrusive. The networks spend huge amounts of money promoting themselves (in addition to promoting individual shows) and they're not going to let that slip away just because people use DVRs to record shows. I know my favorite network is the Now Showing "network" on my Tivo and I couldn't give a crap less what "real" network The West Wing or any other standard network show is on. The only networks I care about are the specialty cable networks like HGTV, History Channel, etc.
I expect we'll see full "banner ads" on the bottom of the screen within a couple of years because they know people skip past commercials.
Would you prefer your writers to say 'Those great XY Magazine articles that you should read' without saying that they wrote said articles? It's called full disclosure, real journalists practice it regularly.
You might want to do the same
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You might want to look up lightyear on that link you just posted. It says that a lightyear is the distance light travels in a year. A year is a human construct based on the time it takes our planet to go around our sun. Beings from another planet wouldn't use the lightyear since it's only relevant to our planet. Like another posted said, Uranian lightyears would be a measurement of a vastly different amount of distance since Uranus takes so long to go around our sun.
On a related note, does anybody have a recommedation on good small desktop cases that could be used for a settop box? I'd like to build my own Linux mp3/divx player and can't find any desktop cases with front panels that would look good in a stereo cabinet. Black would be nice but I can paint it if need be.
One of the main problems the English had with using the Enigma information was to make sure the Germans thought they got the information in other ways. For instance, if they caught a message that said a ship convoy was headed in a certain direction, they would fly planes over a large area that included the area where the ships were so the Germans would think they accidently got caught. They didn't actually use Enigma information that often without getting the information some other way (spies, reconnaissance, etc) IIRC.
IMO, v.92 is a solution in search of a problem, that's why nobody is going to it. Beyond the modem vendors making it difficult to upgrade in a lot of cases, I haven't had one customer ask about it. Not one. Where's the big benfit that people are going to throw away their old modems? (If you think most modem customers are going to upgrade their own modems you're crazy.) Wow, the connect time is down to 10 seconds from 20. Ooohh, I can upload at 40k instead of 33.6! (most people don't even know you only upload at 33.6, not 56) The only benefit is that you can use the phone while online for a certain amount of time. You won't be able to hold a conversation, your ISP can set the amount of time you can put your connection "on hold" and you can bet it's not going to be more than 5 minutes. If you "need" to stay online all the time, you're a business and you should be able to pay for a second line or ISDN. You don't "need" to stay online to play Diablo or download MP3s. v.92 might come to be the prevailing standard eventually but only because all the v.90 equipment has died and been replaced by stuff that happened to be v.92.
Weird kernel-source and kernel-headers problem. All fixed now though.
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When I try to compile it I get the following error:
# make ptracechk-up.o
gcc -c -o ptracechk-up.o ptracechk.c -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
ptracechk.c: In function `new_ptrace':
ptracechk.c:65: `PF_PTRACED' undeclared (first use in this function)
ptracechk.c:65: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ptracechk.c:65: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [ptracechk-up.o] Error 1
On the Efficient 5800 series units I've worked with you can connect a 9pin serial->RJ45 cord from the serial connection on your computer to the blank port on the back of the unit (it's the management port, it just isn't labelled) and then connect with minicom/hyperterm. From the command line you can do much more than you can from any interface. I'd be willing to guess that the interface won't let you do what you to do anyway, the Efficient windows|web interfaces I've seen are all pretty limited. Good luck.
I don't know anything about Mojo Nixon (your link is broken) but if you're an X-Men fan you'll probably remember the TV obsessed villian Mojo and his planet was also called Mojoworld IIRC. This was more than 10 years ago, probably closer to 20.
If you'd ever seen the works of art that come out of the Obfuscated Perl contests that already exist you wouldn't say it's easy. Some of the stuff those guys come up with blows your mind in terms of invention and thoughtfulness. Just because Perl has weird syntax to people brought up on C doesn't make it pre-obfuscated and doesn't reduce the genius behind some of the crazy code I've seen come out of those contests.
Go to perlmonks.org and search for 'obfuscated' or 'perl golf' and you'll see what I mean. The original Perl Golf game was to find a word in the dict file that had 10 non-repeating characters and the winner was a solution that was only 14 characters worth of code. Now that's cool.
The one idea I had was that some renegade Klingons had a colony where they bred with some Romulans (maybe were forced by the Romulans?) and the guys from TOS were the half-breeds. There are a lot of similarities between those TOS-Klingons and the Romulans so it wouldn't be too unbelievable for them to have something like that be the answer. Plus I would imagine that most Klingons wouldn't want anything to do with half-breed Romulan/Klingons so that explains why Worf didn't want to talk about it in the tribbles episode of DS9.
Of course they could just ignore it and we'd all just have to chalk it up to having modern special effects budget (take a look at Worf in season 1 of TNG versus Worf from DS9 for more evidence of that theory). That's not very fun though.:)
I was just telling my girlfriend this morning that if President Bush were smart (you can come to your own opinion on that), he would make a priority that after the rubble is cleared that the towers should be rebuilt with all possible speed. The first floor of each tower could be made into a memorial as to help remember those who died; including all the airplane passengers, the fire and police officers, etc. This would show that even these enormous structures can be knocked down and we will still rebuild them. Even this type of destruction won't just knock us down so we don't get up again. The restoration of the NY skyline would be the best f-you to the terrorist community that we can give.
I just got done building a desk/shelf along 2 walls of my new office and my girlfriend's brother-in-law liked it so much we built him one also. Mine is basically a shelf that sits at 30" high running along 2 walls of my office for a total of 24' of desk space with plenty of room underneath for towers. We used melamine, which is a heavy engineered lumber with a white plastic type covering on top. This makes it water resistant, scratch resistant and very durable for sliding monitors and parts around on top of. We attatched 1/x4" boards to the studs in the walls to mount the melamine to and then made supports to go out diagonally from the wall to hold the edges up. Even at 14' x 9', this is a very sturdy desk and will take a heck of a lot weight on top. You can get melamine with the edges covered or you can do like I did and run strips of oak along the edges for a very finished look. Just seal the oak with some spray sealant and your desk will hold up nicely to spilled cokes, crumbs, etc. This is a pretty easy project (1 Saturday with food breaks) if you've got access to a table saw or circular saw and it looks awesome. Next weekend I'm going to build some custom bookshelves along the shorter wall of the office, this is also a pretty easy project.
If you have tools and a little know-how (or access to someone with both, or you can rent the tools) you can do a lot of neat woodworking projects that cost way less than anything you can buy premade and you can impress all your friends as a bonus.:)
The only bank/credit card problem I've seen is stupid Bank of America that checks your browser name to see if you're using IE or Netscape 4.X otherwise it won't let you login. Other than that, all of my secure connections work fine.
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After watching that trailer I have to say I'm reminded of a scene out of a movie I really like.
Luke: I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be.
Before I saw Hayden Christensen (Anakin) act, I could easily say I wasn't afraid of Episode II. All the naysayers said I would be once I saw more footage from it. Now, after seeing him give his little temper tantrum in that trailer, I'm afraid my fear is going to lead to suffering in the theater.
Would you mind explaining how exactly this is evidence of an editorial slant? Not to knock your research or anything but this doesn't seem to indicate any kind of bias. A board member used to work for a company that was part of AOLTimeWarner? How would this produce any slant? AOLTimeWarner is a huge company, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the entertainment industry that hasn't done some work for some subsidiary of AOLTW at one time or another.
If you read the article there's quite a bit of reference to various internal Intel projects. Maybe Intel just doesn't publicize every internal project they work on.
One of the things I remember hearing about DVDs before they came out was that discs would have this capbility built in. Most (all?) players have parental controls that you can set to not allow the player to play movies over the preset limit. The original feature was to allow parents to set their player for PG13 and it would follow the "PG13 track" that would skip around the nudity/violence/etc. The studio (and presumably the director in most cases) would define what would be on the "PG13 Track" and what would be on the "R Track". A R rated disc with no seperate tracks wouldn't be played at all on a player with a PG13 limit. I don't know if this feature never made it into real DVD players once production started or what but I know it was going to be originally.
Many, many, houses are close enough together nowadays to allow someone to put their computer in their room on your local wireless net and "crunch numbers for a week" from the comfort of their own desk. WEP is better than nothing in the same way a car with a body made of tinfoil is safer than a car made of nothing plastic wrap.
I just read an article on space.com about a speech Dan Goldin (of course I can't find the link anymore) gave about fully privatizing the shuttle maintenance. Apparently they have already privatized about 40% of the jobs. Seems like that's a much better option than privatizing the whole thing and taking it out of NASAs hands all together. I wonder if this a real proposal or just something a couple of administrators and senators are tossing around?
Here's something else from the 'How To Help' page in the section on buying the 2nd edition of the book based on the site:
Please do not purchase directly from CRC Press, since royalties to the author from such sales are reduced through a CRC-inserted contractural loophole.
What didn't CRC get in this deal, his first born child? This is about the most one-sided "settlement" I've ever seen in my life. I'm all for never buying a book from CRC ever again.
In a recent Tom Clancy book (don't throw heavy objects at me please) one of the plot points was a group of terrorists that developed an ebola strain that they could spread by putting it into fake shaving cream containers. They had guys go to various boat/gun/etc shows, put the cans down near active areas and activate the spray nozzles to release it into the air. One of the interesting things about it was the focus on the fact that since so many people fly around the country so often, a disease that doesn't kill quickly and is contagious would spread around the country, and the world, pretty quickly due to the freedom of travel that we have.
There was recently a story here on /. about how people are losing track of what shows are on what networks when they use a Tivo/other digital recording device. As these type of digital recorders become more and more prevalent, you can expect these logos to become more and more intrusive. The networks spend huge amounts of money promoting themselves (in addition to promoting individual shows) and they're not going to let that slip away just because people use DVRs to record shows. I know my favorite network is the Now Showing "network" on my Tivo and I couldn't give a crap less what "real" network The West Wing or any other standard network show is on. The only networks I care about are the specialty cable networks like HGTV, History Channel, etc.
I expect we'll see full "banner ads" on the bottom of the screen within a couple of years because they know people skip past commercials.
One would hope. You never know though. I like that you put quotes around "punch line" because it isn't much of one.
Would you prefer your writers to say 'Those great XY Magazine articles that you should read' without saying that they wrote said articles? It's called full disclosure, real journalists practice it regularly.
You might want to look up lightyear on that link you just posted. It says that a lightyear is the distance light travels in a year. A year is a human construct based on the time it takes our planet to go around our sun. Beings from another planet wouldn't use the lightyear since it's only relevant to our planet. Like another posted said, Uranian lightyears would be a measurement of a vastly different amount of distance since Uranus takes so long to go around our sun.
On a related note, does anybody have a recommedation on good small desktop cases that could be used for a settop box? I'd like to build my own Linux mp3/divx player and can't find any desktop cases with front panels that would look good in a stereo cabinet. Black would be nice but I can paint it if need be.
One of the main problems the English had with using the Enigma information was to make sure the Germans thought they got the information in other ways. For instance, if they caught a message that said a ship convoy was headed in a certain direction, they would fly planes over a large area that included the area where the ships were so the Germans would think they accidently got caught. They didn't actually use Enigma information that often without getting the information some other way (spies, reconnaissance, etc) IIRC.
IMO, v.92 is a solution in search of a problem, that's why nobody is going to it. Beyond the modem vendors making it difficult to upgrade in a lot of cases, I haven't had one customer ask about it. Not one. Where's the big benfit that people are going to throw away their old modems? (If you think most modem customers are going to upgrade their own modems you're crazy.) Wow, the connect time is down to 10 seconds from 20. Ooohh, I can upload at 40k instead of 33.6! (most people don't even know you only upload at 33.6, not 56) The only benefit is that you can use the phone while online for a certain amount of time. You won't be able to hold a conversation, your ISP can set the amount of time you can put your connection "on hold" and you can bet it's not going to be more than 5 minutes. If you "need" to stay online all the time, you're a business and you should be able to pay for a second line or ISDN. You don't "need" to stay online to play Diablo or download MP3s. v.92 might come to be the prevailing standard eventually but only because all the v.90 equipment has died and been replaced by stuff that happened to be v.92.
Weird kernel-source and kernel-headers problem. All fixed now though.
When I try to compile it I get the following error:
# make ptracechk-up.o
gcc -c -o ptracechk-up.o ptracechk.c -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
ptracechk.c: In function `new_ptrace':
ptracechk.c:65: `PF_PTRACED' undeclared (first use in this function)
ptracechk.c:65: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ptracechk.c:65: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [ptracechk-up.o] Error 1
Am I missing something?
On the Efficient 5800 series units I've worked with you can connect a 9pin serial->RJ45 cord from the serial connection on your computer to the blank port on the back of the unit (it's the management port, it just isn't labelled) and then connect with minicom/hyperterm. From the command line you can do much more than you can from any interface. I'd be willing to guess that the interface won't let you do what you to do anyway, the Efficient windows|web interfaces I've seen are all pretty limited. Good luck.
I don't know anything about Mojo Nixon (your link is broken) but if you're an X-Men fan you'll probably remember the TV obsessed villian Mojo and his planet was also called Mojoworld IIRC. This was more than 10 years ago, probably closer to 20.
If you read the last couple of paragraphs of the review, you'll see that he mentions mailman.
Moderators: you should at least be reading the articles before you start throwing mod points around.
If you'd ever seen the works of art that come out of the Obfuscated Perl contests that already exist you wouldn't say it's easy. Some of the stuff those guys come up with blows your mind in terms of invention and thoughtfulness. Just because Perl has weird syntax to people brought up on C doesn't make it pre-obfuscated and doesn't reduce the genius behind some of the crazy code I've seen come out of those contests.
Go to perlmonks.org and search for 'obfuscated' or 'perl golf' and you'll see what I mean. The original Perl Golf game was to find a word in the dict file that had 10 non-repeating characters and the winner was a solution that was only 14 characters worth of code. Now that's cool.
The one idea I had was that some renegade Klingons had a colony where they bred with some Romulans (maybe were forced by the Romulans?) and the guys from TOS were the half-breeds. There are a lot of similarities between those TOS-Klingons and the Romulans so it wouldn't be too unbelievable for them to have something like that be the answer. Plus I would imagine that most Klingons wouldn't want anything to do with half-breed Romulan/Klingons so that explains why Worf didn't want to talk about it in the tribbles episode of DS9.
:)
Of course they could just ignore it and we'd all just have to chalk it up to having modern special effects budget (take a look at Worf in season 1 of TNG versus Worf from DS9 for more evidence of that theory). That's not very fun though.
I was just telling my girlfriend this morning that if President Bush were smart (you can come to your own opinion on that), he would make a priority that after the rubble is cleared that the towers should be rebuilt with all possible speed. The first floor of each tower could be made into a memorial as to help remember those who died; including all the airplane passengers, the fire and police officers, etc. This would show that even these enormous structures can be knocked down and we will still rebuild them. Even this type of destruction won't just knock us down so we don't get up again. The restoration of the NY skyline would be the best f-you to the terrorist community that we can give.
I just got done building a desk/shelf along 2 walls of my new office and my girlfriend's brother-in-law liked it so much we built him one also. Mine is basically a shelf that sits at 30" high running along 2 walls of my office for a total of 24' of desk space with plenty of room underneath for towers. We used melamine, which is a heavy engineered lumber with a white plastic type covering on top. This makes it water resistant, scratch resistant and very durable for sliding monitors and parts around on top of. We attatched 1/x4" boards to the studs in the walls to mount the melamine to and then made supports to go out diagonally from the wall to hold the edges up. Even at 14' x 9', this is a very sturdy desk and will take a heck of a lot weight on top. You can get melamine with the edges covered or you can do like I did and run strips of oak along the edges for a very finished look. Just seal the oak with some spray sealant and your desk will hold up nicely to spilled cokes, crumbs, etc. This is a pretty easy project (1 Saturday with food breaks) if you've got access to a table saw or circular saw and it looks awesome. Next weekend I'm going to build some custom bookshelves along the shorter wall of the office, this is also a pretty easy project.
:)
If you have tools and a little know-how (or access to someone with both, or you can rent the tools) you can do a lot of neat woodworking projects that cost way less than anything you can buy premade and you can impress all your friends as a bonus.
The only bank/credit card problem I've seen is stupid Bank of America that checks your browser name to see if you're using IE or Netscape 4.X otherwise it won't let you login. Other than that, all of my secure connections work fine.