Not only that, but the scripts are also to weed out the brainless home user who fancies himself a "Puter Ekspurt". Early in my career I had one of these script monkeys insist I pop out and reseat the RAM in the Gateway shitbox I was administering. Damned if that didn't do the trick.
Now I just go through the necessary script with the poor 1st-Liner because, I realize, this is not HIS fault; he's just following orders.
The RIAA has one simple solution. Report the copyright infringement to the US Attorney's office. I'm sure SBC would have no problem giving up the identity of their users if given a subpeona from federal prosecutors.
You see, that's part of the problem right there. Thanks (in part) to RIAA involvement, we now have wonderful laws such as the DMCA where parties like the RIAA don't HAVE to go and report anything to anybody - they can just have their own subpoenaes issued and people branded criminals without the benefit or oversite of the Judicial branch.
Did you forget their attempt to make it lawful for them to break into your computer and delete files without judicial review (meaning no warrant, no explanation of "probable cause", no standard of behavior whatsoever)?
Sorry.. the RIAA had its chance to play ball about 4 years ago. They chose to snuff out Napster (despite the multiple attempts to create a "legal" and mutually-beneficial model). The Corporation is not listening to the demands of the Customers. Therefore the Corporation must die and a new one rise in its place.
actually, if the movie is tailored for a wide audience (PG-13) then most kids will get a chance to read the book before they're old enough to see the movie.
When I was seeing the "The Two Towers", before the movie started, my wife and I started talking to this young girl (must have been under 8) who was there with her mother. She was seated in front of us and doing the usual young child sit-backward-in-the-seat-and-gape-at-strangers trick. We asked her if she'd seen the first movie; she said yes. We asked her if she liked it; she said yes. I asked her if she liked reading the books (hell, I first read them when I was about her age) and she replied, "Oh no, I don't have to read the books - my mom is buying the DVD!".
I didn't know who to slap - the little girl or her mother.
Wow.. You could do a trilogy just on that amount of material alone. Of course, by then I expect it all would have been thoroughly "Lucas-ized" and the Tolkien Estate's worst fears would be realized.
Could you imagine a 3-hour film with vignettes comprised of various parts of "Unfinished Tales"? That'd be like a Tolkien "Creepshow" (which was based on short stories by Stephen King).
I've read everything Tolkien many times over. While I didn't feel the Jackson movies were completely honest to the books, I can understand his explanation regarding pacing and whatnot as it applies to the visual medium.
I really enjoyed the first two of the Trilogy, and am very much looking forward to the third.
If Jackson wants to take on The Hobbit, I'd be very interested in seeing the resulting work.
I'd like to second the notion regarding running closed monolithic kernels on machines about which you care at all about security. It is, IMHO, one way (of many) to avoid trouble such as this.
That one little trick alone once saved me from some fuckwit's shenanigan attempt.
The point is, jackalope, that the US Constitution was set up *specifically* to avoid the type of government that the current administration is turning into. Given a paranoid executive, an ever-expanding budget, and completely unfettered ability to act, any government investigative organization will inevitably begin to maintain files on every citizen of that country. The potential for blatant misuse and corruption is enormous and, again, one of the things the Constitution was specifically designed to prevent.
However, since the Constitution appears to the current US government to be only so much ancient toilet paper, this comes as no surprise. What remains encouraging are a few semi-enlightened souls in Congress who seem resistant (although not nearly enough for my tastes).
You remember wrong. IIRC FVWM95 was the first WM to try and clone the taskbar. Have a think about why it was called FVWM*95*.
I believe you remember wrong. I seem to recall CDE (SunOS) using a taskbar years before 95 was released. 95 just released it to the PC masses, and Microsoft was NOT the innovator of the taskbar.
Wow.. you just completely described my own experience. Back in '81 I started using the original IBM PC and though DOS was da shiznit. I've used and supported every Microsoft OS from the beginning through XP. In the early 90s I got my first taste of UNIX (albeit IRIX...) and in the mid-90s started using Linux. I was a *nix convert almost immediately, even attempting to install one of the first versions of UnixWare on an old 486-SX80.
I'm glad that I finally saw the light; realizing what a true operating system is and does and how one should behave. It actually feels quite "Matrix" like..
I know the difference, and I like to help others to do the same.
Negative. Apple was clearly on top of the usability game before Microsoft could even spell "windows". What gave Microsoft its monopoly was that IBM decided to open the specs to the PC so that 3rd parties could provide hardware solutions for the platform. Microsoft wangled its way into providing the de facto standard PC OS load, and then proceeded to enhance and maintain that through illegal means (all you MS apologists should just accept that right now as proven history -- we don't have time to educate you any more).
Windows was no more usable than DOS (I tend to think that 3.11 was even less so).
The PC market was growing even before Windows was released - its price and user-customization (remember the point above regarding IBM opening the specs) made it a very popular platform. People bought PCs because of price and the plethora of software available. People bought Macs for usability.
"Usability" is not an excuse for piss-poor security. You *can* have both when both are soberly regarded in a holistic manner. Microsoft never gave a rat's ass about any of it (Windows PCs are still best when used in complete isolation), hence our current issues...
The flaw in your argument comes when you realize that a company with the resources of Microsoft (money and personnel) should be able to realize that balance between usability and proper security in about one fiscal quarter.
Instead, for years and years, since there was little incentive for them to do anything about it due to their monopoly (and the tactics to keep it), nothing was done to make the software more secure. Even the normal "usability" features were largely unexciting past Windows 95.
So, in the 8 years since the release of 95 (wherein the current Windows user interface and experience was defined) the security problems have gotten quite a bit worse while the usability has been marginally increased. Some stability was added with the 2000 release, but with an even larger decrease in security.
This is why people hate MS so much (well, one of the reasons). Despite the fact that they COULD do better, and SHOULD do better, they don't. There is no excuse in the world why they couldn't have produced truly top notch software when companies working for free can.
I believe there was also a test done on the "A" variant where, due to the placement of the warp nacelles well above the CG (Center of Gravity) line, the ship would merely tumble end-over-end. Apparently the Enterprise designers didn't get it right until the STNG version (C? D?) where the nacelles were placed in-line with the saucer section creating a better CG (and the nacelle struts were widened significantly to absorb the stress of acceleration).
The problem I always had with the transporter is more of a metaphysical one. I had no trouble with the concept of transporting physical matter (breaking it down into energy, transport, reassembly at remote point).
However, for living beings, how does one explain the transportation of the SOUL, the consciousness of the person or being which is transported? Even one single lepton out of place in the reassembly and you've materially changed that person's psychic makeup.
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What the fuck, you work for HPaq or something?
Dell has never done me wrong in 6 years of using and recommending them. HP/Compaq/Gateway can NOT make that same claim (much to contrary).
Not only that, but the scripts are also to weed out the brainless home user who fancies himself a "Puter Ekspurt". Early in my career I had one of these script monkeys insist I pop out and reseat the RAM in the Gateway shitbox I was administering. Damned if that didn't do the trick.
Now I just go through the necessary script with the poor 1st-Liner because, I realize, this is not HIS fault; he's just following orders.
The RIAA has one simple solution. Report the copyright infringement to the US Attorney's office. I'm sure SBC would have no problem giving up the identity of their users if given a subpeona from federal prosecutors.
You see, that's part of the problem right there. Thanks (in part) to RIAA involvement, we now have wonderful laws such as the DMCA where parties like the RIAA don't HAVE to go and report anything to anybody - they can just have their own subpoenaes issued and people branded criminals without the benefit or oversite of the Judicial branch.
Did you forget their attempt to make it lawful for them to break into your computer and delete files without judicial review (meaning no warrant, no explanation of "probable cause", no standard of behavior whatsoever)?
Sorry.. the RIAA had its chance to play ball about 4 years ago. They chose to snuff out Napster (despite the multiple attempts to create a "legal" and mutually-beneficial model). The Corporation is not listening to the demands of the Customers. Therefore the Corporation must die and a new one rise in its place.
actually, if the movie is tailored for a wide audience (PG-13) then most kids will get a chance to read the book before they're old enough to see the movie.
When I was seeing the "The Two Towers", before the movie started, my wife and I started talking to this young girl (must have been under 8) who was there with her mother. She was seated in front of us and doing the usual young child sit-backward-in-the-seat-and-gape-at-strangers trick. We asked her if she'd seen the first movie; she said yes. We asked her if she liked it; she said yes. I asked her if she liked reading the books (hell, I first read them when I was about her age) and she replied, "Oh no, I don't have to read the books - my mom is buying the DVD!".
I didn't know who to slap - the little girl or her mother.
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Wow.. You could do a trilogy just on that amount of material alone. Of course, by then I expect it all would have been thoroughly "Lucas-ized" and the Tolkien Estate's worst fears would be realized.
Could you imagine a 3-hour film with vignettes comprised of various parts of "Unfinished Tales"? That'd be like a Tolkien "Creepshow" (which was based on short stories by Stephen King).
I've read everything Tolkien many times over. While I didn't feel the Jackson movies were completely honest to the books, I can understand his explanation regarding pacing and whatnot as it applies to the visual medium.
I really enjoyed the first two of the Trilogy, and am very much looking forward to the third.
If Jackson wants to take on The Hobbit, I'd be very interested in seeing the resulting work.
I'm just hoping that when I *DO* find this girl, she'll be interested in exploiting my root.
and that my wife doesn't find out...
Why is it so much worse to see someone get blown then to see them get their head blown off?
Or you could just watch a snuff film and get both!
I'd like to second the notion regarding running closed monolithic kernels on machines about which you care at all about security. It is, IMHO, one way (of many) to avoid trouble such as this.
That one little trick alone once saved me from some fuckwit's shenanigan attempt.
Shouldn't that be "FO, PC"?
For the record, I'm one of the few (?) Democracts who own firearms and absolutely believe in the 2nd Amendment.
The point is, jackalope, that the US Constitution was set up *specifically* to avoid the type of government that the current administration is turning into. Given a paranoid executive, an ever-expanding budget, and completely unfettered ability to act, any government investigative organization will inevitably begin to maintain files on every citizen of that country. The potential for blatant misuse and corruption is enormous and, again, one of the things the Constitution was specifically designed to prevent.
However, since the Constitution appears to the current US government to be only so much ancient toilet paper, this comes as no surprise. What remains encouraging are a few semi-enlightened souls in Congress who seem resistant (although not nearly enough for my tastes).
Wait a minute.. did you just use "SBC" and "reliable" in the same sentence??
That's either "+5 Funny" or "-5 Deluded".
The victim now can return fire.
The Columbine shooters had a website, too..
Can anyone name one useful feature that Microsoft has invented that wasn't prior art on some other platform?
Uh, Clippy? oh shit.. you said "useful"..
You remember wrong. IIRC FVWM95 was the first WM to try and clone the taskbar. Have a think about why it was called FVWM*95*.
I believe you remember wrong. I seem to recall CDE (SunOS) using a taskbar years before 95 was released. 95 just released it to the PC masses, and Microsoft was NOT the innovator of the taskbar.
Wow.. you just completely described my own experience. Back in '81 I started using the original IBM PC and though DOS was da shiznit. I've used and supported every Microsoft OS from the beginning through XP. In the early 90s I got my first taste of UNIX (albeit IRIX...) and in the mid-90s started using Linux. I was a *nix convert almost immediately, even attempting to install one of the first versions of UnixWare on an old 486-SX80.
I'm glad that I finally saw the light; realizing what a true operating system is and does and how one should behave. It actually feels quite "Matrix" like..
I know the difference, and I like to help others to do the same.
Actually, suing DEBIAN would be like squeezing blood out of a potato (or a woody.. or a sarge.. or a sid..)
Negative. Apple was clearly on top of the usability game before Microsoft could even spell "windows". What gave Microsoft its monopoly was that IBM decided to open the specs to the PC so that 3rd parties could provide hardware solutions for the platform. Microsoft wangled its way into providing the de facto standard PC OS load, and then proceeded to enhance and maintain that through illegal means (all you MS apologists should just accept that right now as proven history -- we don't have time to educate you any more).
Windows was no more usable than DOS (I tend to think that 3.11 was even less so).
The PC market was growing even before Windows was released - its price and user-customization (remember the point above regarding IBM opening the specs) made it a very popular platform. People bought PCs because of price and the plethora of software available. People bought Macs for usability.
"Usability" is not an excuse for piss-poor security. You *can* have both when both are soberly regarded in a holistic manner. Microsoft never gave a rat's ass about any of it (Windows PCs are still best when used in complete isolation), hence our current issues...
The flaw in your argument comes when you realize that a company with the resources of Microsoft (money and personnel) should be able to realize that balance between usability and proper security in about one fiscal quarter.
Instead, for years and years, since there was little incentive for them to do anything about it due to their monopoly (and the tactics to keep it), nothing was done to make the software more secure. Even the normal "usability" features were largely unexciting past Windows 95.
So, in the 8 years since the release of 95 (wherein the current Windows user interface and experience was defined) the security problems have gotten quite a bit worse while the usability has been marginally increased. Some stability was added with the 2000 release, but with an even larger decrease in security.
This is why people hate MS so much (well, one of the reasons). Despite the fact that they COULD do better, and SHOULD do better, they don't. There is no excuse in the world why they couldn't have produced truly top notch software when companies working for free can.
Isn't that the whole plot to The Matrix?
I believe you owe the Wachowski brothers some $$ for the theft of their Intellectual Property...
Dude, sign me up! I going to buy a Stadium Pal and go worry-free!
Menage-a-Troi??
cool.. (although Marina Sirtis isn't aging all that well...)
I believe there was also a test done on the "A" variant where, due to the placement of the warp nacelles well above the CG (Center of Gravity) line, the ship would merely tumble end-over-end. Apparently the Enterprise designers didn't get it right until the STNG version (C? D?) where the nacelles were placed in-line with the saucer section creating a better CG (and the nacelle struts were widened significantly to absorb the stress of acceleration).
The problem I always had with the transporter is more of a metaphysical one. I had no trouble with the concept of transporting physical matter (breaking it down into energy, transport, reassembly at remote point).
However, for living beings, how does one explain the transportation of the SOUL, the consciousness of the person or being which is transported? Even one single lepton out of place in the reassembly and you've materially changed that person's psychic makeup.
Then again, I try not to lose sleep over it...