My son is five years old. I wanted to watch Tron: Legacy with him so I got him to watch the original Tron (we have the special edition DVD) in October/November and we talked about all the cool (i.e., light cycles, etc.). We watched the trailers for Tron: Legacy together and talked about how things looked different in the new Tron world. We saw the movie together on opening night and although there were some scary bits for him (Quorra losing an arm and going catatonic) he fully enjoyed the movie.
I think most people who have a poor impression of the movie came into it with their own ideas and failed to just watch it and enjoy it for what it was/is...a pretty cool show about being inside the computer world. Watching it with my five year old made me feel the same excitement I felt seeing the original Tron in the theaters when I was a boy.
Tron: Legacy was for me a very entertaining movie; I put aside my disbelief and jumped into the grid and enjoyed every minute of it. I watched it like I was five years old.
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Wish I had mod points because I feel the same way with regard to the OP's comments.
There are internal rules that the programs have to abide by otherwise everything goes to hell -- which we know isn't allowed in the "perfect system" created by Kevin Flynn and CLU. What didn't make sense to me was why Kevin Flynn couldn't re-exert control over CLU since he was a user; I guess that's because CLU was created by splintering something off of himself (versus being a program written on the outside as in the original Tron).
I saw the movie opening night with my son (5 years old). We caught the 2-D version. He loves the light cycles from the original Tron and really got into the new light cycles and lightrunner. Not to mention Quorra:) As he says "she's pretty cute."
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It would have been nice to see more of Tron but it was cool to make the connection between Rinzler and Tron. The light bulb clicked when we saw Tron pick up and use the second disk. The fact that Rinzler saw Sam Flynn bleed and later looked Sam in the eye when he was closing in on their plane towards the end probably woke Tron up internally and broke CLU's programming.
about 82.5% of the earth is inhabitable; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#Natural_resources_and_land_use. satellite phones work in these regions provided that there is clear line-of-sight to the sky. some of these inhabitable regions are traversed by ships, planes, people, etc. these are the folks that want and use satellite phones. satellite phones are not designed for urban environments which include the countries with the infrastructure for cellular communications.
you have no idea what you're talking about. ask the guys in Antartica, or scientists who have remote glider-type sensors that are in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic oceans, or even folks out in countries without infrastructure. there is no cellular or wireless service there. satellite phones address these problems and more.
I have two daughters, 16 and 17. They know nothing about how the Internet works and they don't don't even think about it. They use the tools (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) without needing/wanting to know how they work. They have no idea about DNS or even what/where the data goes after they hit the send button. The Internet is now equivalent to a hair dryer or curling iron.
Take a look at Iridium's 10-Q filing where they state that one of the challenges and uncertainties is related to their "ability to maintain... relationship with U.S. government customers, particularly the DoD."
There is an entire paragraph devoted to their Government Services Revenues:
"Government services revenue increased by 3.0% to $19.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 from $18.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2009, due to voice subscriber growth and growth related to Netted Iridium introduced in late 2009 and an increase in M2M data revenue driven primarily by subscriber growth. The voice average revenue per unit, or ARPU, decreased slightly by $1 to $151 for the three months ended March 31, 2010 due to an increase in billable subscribers on lower tiered pricing plans. We expect total government revenue to be slightly lower in 2010 as compared to 2009 as engineering and support services contract work is expected to decrease in 2010 as work curtails. Also, future growth in voice and M2M data subscribers and revenue may be negatively affected by changes in U.S. defense spending, the current administration’s plans to reduce troops and a corresponding decrease in usage under our agreements with the U.S. government. This is revenue accounts for a majority of our government services revenue and is subject to annual renewals."
Don't let your ego get in the way of a cool story; so what if you get more TPS...what chaps my ass is that FedEx will charge me $30.00 to send a box from California to Hawaii while the USPS can do that for $8.00. Beat that.
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" -- Herodotus
Iridium data service is available globally. You can connect at speeds of up to 9.6Kbps (more if you can afford to multiplex) which is speedy enough to upload XML files to some website/database. Pricing for Iridium phones and data plans have come down since the 90s and are relatively affordable (about $1,400.00 for the phone and basic airtime plan of $40.00 per month with $1.40 per additional minute). Iridium SBD modems are $500.00 apiece and can transmit up to 2Kb in around 10 seconds (normal Iridium data connections take about 25 seconds to establish) and these are perfect for embedded systems.
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
I recommend mod_security and mod_evasive. A reverse proxy would help as well. The DoD and NSA have configuration guides that provide tips on securing Apache (as well as IIS).
what he means is that money is no longer guaranteed by the government to be backed by a "gold standard" - in the past you could trade in your paper dollar and get a dollar's worth of gold. Today, paper money is worth exactly what it's printed on.
Mindbridge appears to be a managed service company. Basically, they sell the use of applications to companies. They need all the servers to run the applications and store the data. Think of Microsoft's wet dream to sell Office as a service and you'll understand the need for a shitload of servers.
Actually, "yolk" is 100% correct: he's using a literary device called a confectionary allegorasm. Notice the play-on word "whipping" at the end of the sentence, which alludes to cream.
Actually, you are wrong. As someone else mentioned, you whip egg whites.
When you attach a draft animal (i.e., ox, horse, etc.) to a wagon (or plow, for example), you put the yoke on the animal and then whip the animal to get them to move.
The original reponse was correct...guess the egg's on your face now.
With apologies to Neil Diamond...
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As sung by Darl McBride...
SCO on the rocks Ain't no surprise Pour me a drink And I'll tell you some lies Got nothin' to lose So you just sing the blues all the time
Gave you my heart Gave you my soul You left me alone here With nothing to hold Yesterday's gone Now all I want is a smile
First, they say they want you How they really need you Suddenly you find you're out there Walking in a storm When they know they have you Then they really have you Nothing you can do or say You've got to leave, just get away We all know the song
You need what you need You can say what you want Not much you can do When the feeling is gone May be blue skies above But it's cold when your SCO's on the rocks
First, they say they want you How they really need you Suddenly you find you're out there Walking in a storm When they know they have you Then they really have you Nothing you can do or say You've got to leave, just get away We all know the song
SCO on the rocks Ain't no surprise Pour me a drink And I'll tell you some lies Yesterday's gone And now all I want is a smile
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Wrong, see this article -- US Government information maybe protected by copyright -- by Bonnie Klein, a copyright specialist with the DTIC.
I think most people who have a poor impression of the movie came into it with their own ideas and failed to just watch it and enjoy it for what it was/is...a pretty cool show about being inside the computer world. Watching it with my five year old made me feel the same excitement I felt seeing the original Tron in the theaters when I was a boy.
Tron: Legacy was for me a very entertaining movie; I put aside my disbelief and jumped into the grid and enjoyed every minute of it. I watched it like I was five years old.
There are internal rules that the programs have to abide by otherwise everything goes to hell -- which we know isn't allowed in the "perfect system" created by Kevin Flynn and CLU. What didn't make sense to me was why Kevin Flynn couldn't re-exert control over CLU since he was a user; I guess that's because CLU was created by splintering something off of himself (versus being a program written on the outside as in the original Tron).
I saw the movie opening night with my son (5 years old). We caught the 2-D version. He loves the light cycles from the original Tron and really got into the new light cycles and lightrunner. Not to mention Quorra :) As he says "she's pretty cute."
** Spoiler Alert **
It would have been nice to see more of Tron but it was cool to make the connection between Rinzler and Tron. The light bulb clicked when we saw Tron pick up and use the second disk. The fact that Rinzler saw Sam Flynn bleed and later looked Sam in the eye when he was closing in on their plane towards the end probably woke Tron up internally and broke CLU's programming.
about 82.5% of the earth is inhabitable; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#Natural_resources_and_land_use. satellite phones work in these regions provided that there is clear line-of-sight to the sky. some of these inhabitable regions are traversed by ships, planes, people, etc. these are the folks that want and use satellite phones. satellite phones are not designed for urban environments which include the countries with the infrastructure for cellular communications.
you have no idea what you're talking about. ask the guys in Antartica, or scientists who have remote glider-type sensors that are in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic oceans, or even folks out in countries without infrastructure. there is no cellular or wireless service there. satellite phones address these problems and more.
False flag operation?
Do what the DoD's done, make another NIPRNet - but leave the Internet alone
does he not know how to send email?
I have two daughters, 16 and 17. They know nothing about how the Internet works and they don't don't even think about it. They use the tools (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) without needing/wanting to know how they work. They have no idea about DNS or even what/where the data goes after they hit the send button. The Internet is now equivalent to a hair dryer or curling iron.
top level; domain root?
Take a look at Iridium's 10-Q filing where they state that one of the challenges and uncertainties is related to their "ability to maintain ... relationship with U.S. government customers, particularly the DoD."
There is an entire paragraph devoted to their Government Services Revenues:
You're full of shit. If that were true the DoD wouldn't have to sign multi-million dollar contracts with Iridium for upkeep and airtime. See http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=2769, http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iridium-03a.html, http://investor.iridium.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=412313, http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3235, etc.
$ sudo -i
sudo: Illegal option -i
usage: sudo -V | -h | -L | -l | -v | -k | -K | [-H] [-P] [-S] [-b] [-p prompt] [-u username/#uid] -s |
$ sudo -V
Sudo version 1.6.7p5
Don't let your ego get in the way of a cool story; so what if you get more TPS...what chaps my ass is that FedEx will charge me $30.00 to send a box from California to Hawaii while the USPS can do that for $8.00. Beat that. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" -- Herodotus
Iridium data service is available globally. You can connect at speeds of up to 9.6Kbps (more if you can afford to multiplex) which is speedy enough to upload XML files to some website/database. Pricing for Iridium phones and data plans have come down since the 90s and are relatively affordable (about $1,400.00 for the phone and basic airtime plan of $40.00 per month with $1.40 per additional minute). Iridium SBD modems are $500.00 apiece and can transmit up to 2Kb in around 10 seconds (normal Iridium data connections take about 25 seconds to establish) and these are perfect for embedded systems.
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
I recommend mod_security and mod_evasive. A reverse proxy would help as well. The DoD and NSA have configuration guides that provide tips on securing Apache (as well as IIS).
Or is it "Mojave?"
what he means is that money is no longer guaranteed by the government to be backed by a "gold standard" - in the past you could trade in your paper dollar and get a dollar's worth of gold. Today, paper money is worth exactly what it's printed on.
Yes, Microsoft's version of MicroChannel is here...it's called VISTA
Mindbridge appears to be a managed service company. Basically, they sell the use of applications to companies. They need all the servers to run the applications and store the data. Think of Microsoft's wet dream to sell Office as a service and you'll understand the need for a shitload of servers.
I recommend a thermite disk eraser - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/599982/how_to_make_t hermite/ - which will provide a very quick method of creating a very non-recoverable hard disk. Thermite FTW!
Hmm. You must be new here. This is Slashdot, no one bothers with doing research or fact gathering...
You wrote:
Actually, "yolk" is 100% correct: he's using a literary device called a confectionary allegorasm. Notice the play-on word "whipping" at the end of the sentence, which alludes to cream.
Actually, you are wrong. As someone else mentioned, you whip egg whites.
When you attach a draft animal (i.e., ox, horse, etc.) to a wagon (or plow, for example), you put the yoke on the animal and then whip the animal to get them to move.
The original reponse was correct...guess the egg's on your face now.