>received advanced orders for 30 to 50 Transitions.
Shouldn't that be "advance?" orders?
I've seen a lot of descriptions of upcoming movie screenings as "advanced"
screenings lately, too. How did that "d" get added on magically?
It's as simple as amending international marittime law to permit ship crews to arm themselves.
A.50 cal deck gun should deter most of the baddies, but the Captain and crew should have
sidearms and shotguns for close-in work if necessary.
But the hardest part is obtaining drivers for some of the newest built-in hardware.
I've been lucky so far (I've done dozens of my own "Vistactomies" since January of 2007) in finding them.
The easiest way has been to go into Visa's device manager and write down the OEMS of each device.
(If XP is already in, use Unknown Device Identifier, or Lavalys' tools to probe the hardware and discover the same info).
Whatever Dell, HP, etc. won't provide on their sites, the OEMS of each chipset usually do.
Also, if you're doing a clean install of XP on a former Vista PC, make sure to set the SATA operation to "Legacy" "Mixed" or "AHCI" to make sure that the XP CD can detect the SATA drives.
After escaping from the clutches of Earth's gravity well, anyone who has brought enough supplies and equipment to utilize in situ resources on the moon or an asteroid can essentially form their own independent little mini-nation. Free of Earth-bound rules, regulations and above all, taxes, such mini-states would be anathema to terrestrial nations. Given how difficult it would be to "launch fighters" and destroy or take over such settlements, it would be far easier to simply deny permission for them to take off. The dream of space settlement would be killed by paperwork first, then force thereafter if necessary (armed assaults on "unauthorized space facilities").
It's a tinfoil had notion, but I have to wonder if a US Government saboteur had something to do with the tragedy at Scaled Composites' facilities earlier this summer...
Here are some moments I remember quite vividly:
Summer, 1986: James Cameron's Aliens. Audience loving every minute of it - laughing at Hudson's goofy expressions
and cowardice, cheering at Hicks' "Eat This" and collectively gasping when the Alien Queen ripped Bishop in half.
There were many, many other such moments...
Fall, 1997: Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon. Theater was tomb-silent during most of the film until Laurence Fishburne
gets a look at the video logs of the EH, watching as the posessed crew members tore each other apart in a hellish frenzy.
After having enough he looks up and says, "we're leaving" and the audience must have laughed for about five minutes.
Sometime in 1990: Bonfire of the Vanities. DePalma's leaden translation of the excellent Wolff book. The comatose Henry Lamb is getting a visit from his mother one evening. A crush of non-family visitors enters the room, and creating a ruckus that's too much for her to take. She angrily berates them for the noise, causing me to quip, "Shhh... you might wake him up from his coma" Everyone in my section laughed for about five minutes...
Fall, 1990: John Woo's The Killer at the Film Forum in New York City. At the time, most Asian movies people had seen were Bruce Lee and Shaw Brothers pics. Jackie Chan was nowhere near the household name that he is now. The moment Chow Yun-Fat's character entered the nightclub, knocked on the door and began taking out enemy gangsters, an audience uproar began that barely let up throughout the whole thing.
My username is Vudufixit... how apt!
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This is the exact sort of thing that inspired me to
choose it as a Slashdot username!
1. The defender product integrated into Vista is based on Giant's antispyware product, which I recognized upon learning about it as an excellent anti-spyware product. I remove a lot of spyware and adware from clients' PCs and it's been a valuable tool in my arsenal.
2. That having been said, I also recognize that no product catches every last bit of malware out there. That's why in addition to Defender, I also use Spybot, AdAware, HiJack This and occasionally Ewido. I also check the usual suspect places such as c:\windows\system32 and the various temp directories and clean those out.
I really don't see how the inclusion of Defender is going to make people stop using the "multipronged" anti-malware approach.
Wait another five to ten years when someone creates a fully immersive, photorealistic VR-Style game in which people can assume God-like powers over a game world modeled after our own, or Middle Earth, etc.
I shudder to think of the people who would literally waste away playing something like that rather than dealing with real life.
One of Lem's most "accessible" books was The Invincible. The eponymous ship was "lost" on a distant planet, and the story follows a salvage/investigation team as they try to find out what happened to the predecessor ship.
Some striking stuff in there, including an opening scene of a ship and human crew awaking from hypersleep that reads like the opening scenes of the first Alien film.
Lem's Pirx tales were also great - Pirx was a slightly goofy stellar flight-school candidate who develops over the course of two short books' worth of stories - growing in rank, experience, and wisdom.
Three standout stories:
1. On Patrol - Pirx tries to find out why a patrol ship vanished without apparent cause, and in the process chases a mysterious object with an origin closer to home than anyone would suspect.
2. (Title forgotten) - Pirx travels to a lunar base, and teams up with an engineer to stop a mining robot that's lasering all people and structures in its path. Classic line from Pirx, "Against something insane, insane measures are often best."
3. Terminus - Pirx encounters a recalcitrant service robot and reconstructs its dark and disturbing past. The final paragraph will give you a real chill...
I could never understand his book The Investigation. It was completely inscrutable. Anyone here deciper it?
Actually, you meant to say "Robocop's modified Ford Taurus police cruisers."
The Taurus didn't debut until 1985 in real life, and Terminator was most definitely set in present day - except for the "future flashbacks" - Cameron definitely didn't modify any vehicles to alter their appearance.
How about we announce that we will never, ever do another "computer favor" for a gal that we like, in hopes of "hooking up with them."
One day, when their machines are hopelessly infected with spyware and their rockhead boyfriends can't do a damned thing, they'll finally value us... right???
Too much blame in the article assigned to David Fincher. Fox studio executives are the real bad guys - constantly changing their concept of what they wanted Alien3 to be. They threw so much development money at a host of screenwriters and directors (Vincent Ward was an intriguing choice to direct, and David Twohy had a well thought out take, too), that after about two years and little progress, they had a choice: pull the plug entirely, therefore wasting those invested millions, or do a quick hack job to get some sort of film with "Alien" on the nameplate.
David Fincher was little more than a director for hire. The final script is credited to Walter Hill and David Giler, who essentially cobbled together a semi-workable plot from all of the so-far submitted scripts and treatments.
Sigourney Weaver had a lot of input, too - her insistence on little or no gunplay (typical Hollywood anti-gunner) virtually assured it wouldn't be another Aliens-style actionfest.
Aliens Vs. Predator should have been awesome - a decent director was chosen (Paul W.S. Anderson), but the man doesn't write particularly well, and the film screws with the mythos too much, with the Aliens already appearing on Earth (Alien and Aliens were scary because it was humankind's first encounter with them), and alien chestbursters gestating far too quickly (hours instead of days).
Peter Briggs wrote a spec script for Aliens vs. Predator that really rocked (read it here:http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/aliens_vs_p redator.html) but it was ignored in favor of Paul Anderson's "clean sheet" draft.
This was a full product called Giant Anti-spyware that MS acquired. "Beta" is their term.
75% of my private client calls involve removing malware, and the MS product is a champ at this task.
MS antispyware gives you a summary screen that breaks down each item it found, assigns it a perceived threat rating, and gives you the choice to "Remove, Ignore, Quarantine."
So, anyone watching with any degree of care should notice that Norton was one of the choices and simply select the "ignore" option.
Personally, I haven't seen this happen myself.
I agree with many other posters that Norton isn't that great of a product. I've noticed their firewall suddenly,without provocation, start blocking all websites.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never to be turned on again. Reinstalling is often interesting, since even the least little trace of the product prevents an install/reinstall, but it almost never uninstalls cleanly.
How DirectRevenue and Bullseye network get away with forcing you to download an uninstaller, and fill out a fucking survey, respectively, before you can uninstall their adware.
Unbelievable.
You ripped them off by selling RAM instead of taking about 30 seconds to use MSCONFIG to disable all of the silly "helper apps" that drive up their commit charge.
>(I don't know what they do with them, but >people seem to like hording backplanes and their >screws . ..)
Backplanes (PCI/ISA/AGP backcovers) make cool bookmarks. But other than one or two, I chuck em with zeal.
As for screws, I find it absolutely invaluable to have extra screws around, especially ones to fasten the backs of cases, and various optical and 3.5 drives into their respective bays.
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>received advanced orders for 30 to 50 Transitions. Shouldn't that be "advance?" orders? I've seen a lot of descriptions of upcoming movie screenings as "advanced" screenings lately, too. How did that "d" get added on magically?
It's as simple as amending international marittime law to permit ship crews to arm themselves. A .50 cal deck gun should deter most of the baddies, but the Captain and crew should have
sidearms and shotguns for close-in work if necessary.
Yup... they're called Shepherd Moons
Or get a PCI Sata card with XP drivers?
User Toshiba's Atheros wi-fi drivers.
They worked for me!
But the hardest part is obtaining drivers for some of the newest built-in hardware.
I've been lucky so far (I've done dozens of my own "Vistactomies"
since January of 2007) in finding them.
The easiest way has been to go into Visa's device manager and write down the OEMS of each device.
(If XP is already in, use Unknown Device Identifier, or Lavalys' tools to probe the hardware and discover the same info).
Whatever Dell, HP, etc. won't provide on their sites, the OEMS of each chipset usually do.
Also, if you're doing a clean install of XP on a former Vista PC, make sure to set the SATA operation to "Legacy" "Mixed" or "AHCI" to make sure that the XP CD can detect the SATA drives.
After escaping from the clutches of Earth's gravity well, anyone who has brought enough supplies and equipment to utilize in situ resources on the moon or an asteroid can essentially form their own independent little mini-nation. Free of Earth-bound rules, regulations and above all, taxes, such mini-states would be anathema to terrestrial nations. Given how difficult it would be to "launch fighters" and destroy or take over such settlements, it would be far easier to simply deny permission for them to take off. The dream of space settlement would be killed by paperwork first, then force thereafter if necessary (armed assaults on "unauthorized space facilities"). It's a tinfoil had notion, but I have to wonder if a US Government saboteur had something to do with the tragedy at Scaled Composites' facilities earlier this summer...
Abbreviation: FBI, CIA Acronym: LASER, MASER Difference - an acronym has to be a pronounceable word.
Here are some moments I remember quite vividly: Summer, 1986: James Cameron's Aliens. Audience loving every minute of it - laughing at Hudson's goofy expressions and cowardice, cheering at Hicks' "Eat This" and collectively gasping when the Alien Queen ripped Bishop in half. There were many, many other such moments... Fall, 1997: Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon. Theater was tomb-silent during most of the film until Laurence Fishburne gets a look at the video logs of the EH, watching as the posessed crew members tore each other apart in a hellish frenzy. After having enough he looks up and says, "we're leaving" and the audience must have laughed for about five minutes. Sometime in 1990: Bonfire of the Vanities. DePalma's leaden translation of the excellent Wolff book. The comatose Henry Lamb is getting a visit from his mother one evening. A crush of non-family visitors enters the room, and creating a ruckus that's too much for her to take. She angrily berates them for the noise, causing me to quip, "Shhh... you might wake him up from his coma" Everyone in my section laughed for about five minutes... Fall, 1990: John Woo's The Killer at the Film Forum in New York City. At the time, most Asian movies people had seen were Bruce Lee and Shaw Brothers pics. Jackie Chan was nowhere near the household name that he is now. The moment Chow Yun-Fat's character entered the nightclub, knocked on the door and began taking out enemy gangsters, an audience uproar began that barely let up throughout the whole thing.
This is the exact sort of thing that inspired me to choose it as a Slashdot username!
Sorry, but Carter Burke's line "worth millions to the BioWeapons division" immediately popped into my head.
>No one said the penalty would be pleasant.
Uh, but it's way beyond what is reasonable, and far out of proportion
to the crime committed.
Whatever happened to the concept of proportionality in our justice system?
1. The defender product integrated into Vista is based on Giant's antispyware product, which I recognized upon learning about it as an excellent anti-spyware product. I remove a lot of spyware and adware from clients' PCs and it's been a valuable tool in my arsenal. 2. That having been said, I also recognize that no product catches every last bit of malware out there. That's why in addition to Defender, I also use Spybot, AdAware, HiJack This and occasionally Ewido. I also check the usual suspect places such as c:\windows\system32 and the various temp directories and clean those out. I really don't see how the inclusion of Defender is going to make people stop using the "multipronged" anti-malware approach.
Wait another five to ten years when someone creates a fully immersive, photorealistic VR-Style game in which people can assume God-like powers over a game world modeled after our own, or Middle Earth, etc. I shudder to think of the people who would literally waste away playing something like that rather than dealing with real life.
Great! Please elaborate...
One of Lem's most "accessible" books was The Invincible. The eponymous ship was "lost" on a distant planet, and the story follows a salvage/investigation team as they try to find out what happened to the predecessor ship. Some striking stuff in there, including an opening scene of a ship and human crew awaking from hypersleep that reads like the opening scenes of the first Alien film. Lem's Pirx tales were also great - Pirx was a slightly goofy stellar flight-school candidate who develops over the course of two short books' worth of stories - growing in rank, experience, and wisdom. Three standout stories: 1. On Patrol - Pirx tries to find out why a patrol ship vanished without apparent cause, and in the process chases a mysterious object with an origin closer to home than anyone would suspect. 2. (Title forgotten) - Pirx travels to a lunar base, and teams up with an engineer to stop a mining robot that's lasering all people and structures in its path. Classic line from Pirx, "Against something insane, insane measures are often best." 3. Terminus - Pirx encounters a recalcitrant service robot and reconstructs its dark and disturbing past. The final paragraph will give you a real chill... I could never understand his book The Investigation. It was completely inscrutable. Anyone here deciper it?
Actually, you meant to say "Robocop's modified Ford Taurus police cruisers."
The Taurus didn't debut until 1985 in real life, and Terminator was most definitely set in present day - except for the "future flashbacks" - Cameron definitely didn't modify any vehicles to alter their appearance.
How about we announce that we will never, ever do another "computer favor" for a gal that we like, in hopes of "hooking up with them."
One day, when their machines are hopelessly infected with spyware and their rockhead boyfriends can't do a damned thing, they'll finally value us... right???
Too much blame in the article assigned to David Fincher. Fox studio executives are the real bad guys - constantly changing their concept of what they wanted Alien3 to be. They threw so much development money at a host of screenwriters and directors (Vincent Ward was an intriguing choice to direct, and David Twohy had a well thought out take, too), that after about two years and little progress, they had a choice: pull the plug entirely, therefore wasting those invested millions, or do a quick hack job to get some sort of film with "Alien" on the nameplate.
p redator.html) but it was ignored in favor of Paul Anderson's "clean sheet" draft.
David Fincher was little more than a director for hire. The final script is credited to Walter Hill and David Giler, who essentially cobbled together a semi-workable plot from all of the so-far submitted scripts and treatments.
Sigourney Weaver had a lot of input, too - her insistence on little or no gunplay (typical Hollywood anti-gunner) virtually assured it wouldn't be another Aliens-style actionfest.
Aliens Vs. Predator should have been awesome - a decent director was chosen (Paul W.S. Anderson), but the man doesn't write particularly well, and the film screws with the mythos too much, with the Aliens already appearing on Earth (Alien and Aliens were scary because it was humankind's first encounter with them), and alien chestbursters gestating far too quickly (hours instead of days).
Peter Briggs wrote a spec script for Aliens vs. Predator that really rocked (read it here:http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/aliens_vs_
Get into an accident, and it will become a Honda Accordion
This was a full product called Giant Anti-spyware that MS acquired.
"Beta" is their term.
75% of my private client calls involve removing malware, and the MS product
is a champ at this task.
MS antispyware gives you a summary screen that breaks down each item it found,
assigns it a perceived threat rating, and gives you the choice to "Remove, Ignore, Quarantine."
So, anyone watching with any degree of care should notice that Norton was one of the choices
and simply select the "ignore" option.
Personally, I haven't seen this happen myself.
I agree with many other posters that Norton isn't that great of a product.
I've noticed their firewall suddenly,without provocation, start blocking
all websites.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never
to be turned on again. Reinstalling is often interesting, since even the
least little trace of the product prevents an install/reinstall, but it
almost never uninstalls cleanly.
How DirectRevenue and Bullseye network get away with forcing you to download an uninstaller, and fill out a fucking survey, respectively, before you can uninstall their adware. Unbelievable.
Great character, buddy.
You ripped them off by selling RAM instead of taking about 30 seconds to use MSCONFIG to disable
all of the silly "helper apps" that drive up their commit charge.
>(I don't know what they do with them, but >people seem to like hording backplanes and their >screws . . .)
Backplanes (PCI/ISA/AGP backcovers) make cool bookmarks. But other than one or two, I chuck em with zeal.
As for screws, I find it absolutely invaluable to have extra screws around, especially ones to fasten the backs of cases, and various optical and 3.5 drives into their respective bays.
That's a Moon!
Saturn's moon Mimas looks very much like the Death Star.