Exactly, this will simply waste tax payer dollars and add complexity to a safety device adding to the likelyhood it will fail to perform when needed.
So instead let's just not have safety devices because they might fail.
Nod. Ok, let's field test them with patrol officers, (because officers having their gun taken and used against them is apparently a real thing) and then gradually make them a requirement for all branches of government. When the secret service adopts them, (according to the news, a secret service agent lost his gun just recently) I'll be right behind.
It was a Lisa that someone had converted to a Mac XL. It had a small hard drive (in low megabytes, I think) and ran some tweaked version of the Mac OS (to support the different geometry of the Lisa display). As I recall, it had a crunchy drive, not the weird floppy drive the Lisa had.
A museum sounds like a good idea. I'll ask her if she still has it. It's possible that someone made a real interesting find at a garage sale...
Funny thing - never thought the Okidata 830 chassis would live that damned long. But then, carbon copies aren't dead yet either.:)
...not quite (carbon copies). A relative of mine manages her own business, and although she's upgraded from the Mac-XL (points if you know what that is) to a real computer, she still uses carbon paper in her business. It's become rare enough that she bought out all the inventory in town and and stores it carefully. She figures she now has a supply that'll last somewhat longer than she would expect to be alive.
They found kilobytes and kilobytes of nudie RTTY art. The only one they could have published was this one so they decided to just put the floppies back in the box and forget the whole thing.
Even better, why can't we realize the promise of IPv6? I'd like to set up a kerberos server I can authenticate to remotely that then grants access to all internet-of-things goodies in my house. I'd set it up so that the firewall would block traffic to everything except the kerberos server until I authenticate to kerberos and then only for the IPv6 addr that authenticated. I think that would work. Might need to set up some script hooks to add/remove ip6tables rules on the fly.
A normal tech savvy person would just ssh/ or vpn into their home computer and control shit on the LAN from there. A normal not as savvy person would use something like teamviewer or gotmypc to their home computer.
I'm not sure why ANYBODY would fart around with on the fly scripting iptables re-configuration for something like this?! If you simply must get too clever set up port knocking for your vpn server listening port and call it a day.:p
Especially since PCs are dirt cheap. Even on a network that didn't happen to have a PC, it'd be easier to buy a micro-ATX-no-moving-parts PC just to be a teamviewer box for the local net.
Back in the olden days, when the web was geeks only, you'd see websites of a coffee pot (useful for the developers on that floor, but exported to the world) for a sandwich slowly going bad, and for the pop inventory in the breakroom. Now 20 years later, anyone can do it. In fact, probably, most people will forget to check the opt out and all of our fridge contents will be available on the internet.
I don't have feelings one way or another, but I observe that the greens here in Oregon are pushing something like "green diesel" that uses vegetable oil and is supposed to have a much smaller carbon footprint. Now, I only know about this what I've read on bumper stickers, and don't know if this is actually clean or not, but whether or not, it seems like this will also be a casualty of this new anti-diesel movement.
You'll "let them" go their way? When you got paid the money, you lost the ability to say anything about it.
George, the prequels sucked. You've lost the ability to tell a compelling story, if you, personally, ever had it. Thanks very much for inventing Star Wars. Nobody can take that away from you. But you've proven without any possible shadow of a doubt that you have no more to contribute. Please step aside while you still have some shred of dignity.
> [...] but the result was mid-level. The film had to be rewritten and many sequences even reshot, so you got a $100m film for the low, low price of $250m. I still think it's a mid-level film, but the budget was so high that it had to be close to "#1 film of the year" territory to even break even.
With that stipulation, we are in agreement. But seriously -- you saw the trailers. Disney had lost hope of the film being a hit, or even a near miss, before it was even released. (Justified, in my opinion.)
Full disclosure: I really REALLY hated John Carter. I disliked pretty much everything about it. (Except, I have to say, the framing story of Burroughs inheriting Carter's memoirs and the tomb that could only be opened from the inside. That was reasonably cool.) I'm willing to admit that my rabid dislike for that expensive waste of time colors any discussions I can have about it.
The music reminded me of the soundtrack on the historical dramas on "wonderful world of color". So much so that I thought this was a design cue or a callback to those shows.
Lynn Colins was too old for the part.
Taylor Kitsch was just about as colorless a main character as you could find anywhere.
The flying machines didn't make any senses in the context of the story, and just looked silly. Costumes were not much of anything. Disney had decades of Frank Frazetta and Michael Whelan art at their disposal, much of which would be ready-made storyboards, and instead decided to go cyberpunk. The film was one huge missed opportunity.
I wouldn't consider a $250M budget "mid-level", even in this day. It's pretty obvious that all of that money did not end up on the screen. I wonder where the remainder went.
> How exactly does one assess either of those things BEFORE they see the movie?
Well, it's assumed that the people involved in making the film have some taste, and can see if the film is coming together or not, and if the storyline is compelling or not. There are also test audiences if the director and producers can't make themselves critique it objectively.
> Movie bombs in the box office because there was no interest, then explodes in rentals, netflix, premium channels (hbo, showtime, etc) because it was a great film. That movie is and forever will be considered a flop.
That's a little different. Sometimes movies bomb because the marketing was to the wrong audience or just didn't work. And ok, sometimes there's just no accounting for taste. For instance, I *liked* Pluto Nash, own the DVD, and have watched it several times. Don't judge me!
I don't think you have to depend on the fan base for a movie to be popular. Movies scale differently from novels. I think that a large fan base is an indication that there is material that might make a popular movie, not the bare numbers thing that print fans = movie fans, $profit$.
The problem with going with material that has a proven track record in a different medium, is that (1) there is the issue of translation into a different medium, and (2) let's face it, if the implementation sucks, the very best story material won't save it.
Although there are lots of films that made money despite being terrible films, in general, I think that if you're telling a good story on a reasonable way people will tend to want to see it, and if you screw up enough of the film elements, people will tend not to want to see it regardless of the quality of the original material. (There are exceptions, of course.)
But if a film fails because the film itself sucked, the studio will try to spin it as (a) nobody was interested in the source material, (b) that genre is overdone, (c) the show was up against insurmountable competition, anything except the fact it was a bad movie.
Yep. Top articles (copied and pasted from the forums):
I Can't Deal With The 950XL Anymore...
Glance screen issues
why is my phone freezing up after a phone call (side note: Wow, I saw that one on Windows 6 mobile. They still haven't fixed it?)
Things I don't like about Windows 10
Don't understand why Windows phones aren't more popular
...so there appear to be a substantial number of forum users, for some values of "substantial", but I'm not sure they all count as "fans". With a market penetration in the low single digits (2.1 percent was the last number I remember seeing) and developersdeserting the platform, true fans might have a tough time going forward.
Mind you, as a former Crackberry user, I completely understand being a desperate fan of a dying platform. Had my company been able to keep BES up reliably, I might still be using one.
It isn't because John Carter is a new franchise. It's because the movie sucked and it wasn't that popular of subject matter in the first place.
sucked, agreed. Not popular... I dunno, maybe these days. There was talk of Disney acquiring the franchise back in the eighties (where we were discussing it on this thing called Usenet. (get off my lawn...)) so John Carter must have been in some form of development hell for a very long time -- long enough for the original fan base to die off or, I dunno, get interested in other things. I'm writing this as a big fan of the novels. I would really like to see a more print-accurate, or at least, a more watchable, Frank Frazetta or Michael Whelan - inspired version. But we'll probably never get to see that now, because the word is out "nobody wants to see a barsoom movie". Sad.
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Again? That trick never works!
Cue silly music.
Exactly, this will simply waste tax payer dollars and add complexity to a safety device adding to the likelyhood it will fail to perform when needed.
So instead let's just not have safety devices because they might fail.
Nod. Ok, let's field test them with patrol officers, (because officers having their gun taken and used against them is apparently a real thing) and then gradually make them a requirement for all branches of government. When the secret service adopts them, (according to the news, a secret service agent lost his gun just recently) I'll be right behind.
It was a Lisa that someone had converted to a Mac XL. It had a small hard drive (in low megabytes, I think) and ran some tweaked version of the Mac OS (to support the different geometry of the Lisa display). As I recall, it had a crunchy drive, not the weird floppy drive the Lisa had.
A museum sounds like a good idea. I'll ask her if she still has it. It's possible that someone made a real interesting find at a garage sale...
"What was the cause of the accident?"
"Um, I was looking for the 'What-If Analysis' feature in the Excel ribbon, officer."
"Data tab, sir."
"Oh! Thank you!"
"You're welcome, sir. Step out of the car, please."
But that wouldn't be any fun. Meme first, then have someone check the data.
Funny thing - never thought the Okidata 830 chassis would live that damned long. But then, carbon copies aren't dead yet either. :)
I miss those days.
Fanfold printouts.
I'm a little sad that programmers these days don't even know what that is.
They found kilobytes and kilobytes of nudie RTTY art. The only one they could have published was this one so they decided to just put the floppies back in the box and forget the whole thing.
Even better, why can't we realize the promise of IPv6? I'd like to set up a kerberos server I can authenticate to remotely that then grants access to all internet-of-things goodies in my house. I'd set it up so that the firewall would block traffic to everything except the kerberos server until I authenticate to kerberos and then only for the IPv6 addr that authenticated. I think that would work. Might need to set up some script hooks to add/remove ip6tables rules on the fly.
A normal tech savvy person would just ssh/ or vpn into their home computer and control shit on the LAN from there. A normal not as savvy person would use something like teamviewer or gotmypc to their home computer.
I'm not sure why ANYBODY would fart around with on the fly scripting iptables re-configuration for something like this?! If you simply must get too clever set up port knocking for your vpn server listening port and call it a day. :p
Especially since PCs are dirt cheap. Even on a network that didn't happen to have a PC, it'd be easier to buy a micro-ATX-no-moving-parts PC just to be a teamviewer box for the local net.
It's a cell phone... with snacks.
Back in the olden days, when the web was geeks only, you'd see websites of a coffee pot (useful for the developers on that floor, but exported to the world) for a sandwich slowly going bad, and for the pop inventory in the breakroom. Now 20 years later, anyone can do it. In fact, probably, most people will forget to check the opt out and all of our fridge contents will be available on the internet.
I don't have feelings one way or another, but I observe that the greens here in Oregon are pushing something like "green diesel" that uses vegetable oil and is supposed to have a much smaller carbon footprint. Now, I only know about this what I've read on bumper stickers, and don't know if this is actually clean or not, but whether or not, it seems like this will also be a casualty of this new anti-diesel movement.
These people always say, why worry, if you have nothing to hide.
So, my question is what does this guy have to hide?
He's a politician. Probably a lot. Bad example...
You'll "let them" go their way? When you got paid the money, you lost the ability to say anything about it.
George, the prequels sucked. You've lost the ability to tell a compelling story, if you, personally, ever had it. Thanks very much for inventing Star Wars. Nobody can take that away from you. But you've proven without any possible shadow of a doubt that you have no more to contribute. Please step aside while you still have some shred of dignity.
> [...] but the result was mid-level. The film had to be rewritten and many sequences even reshot, so you got a $100m film for the low, low price of $250m. I still think it's a mid-level film, but the budget was so high that it had to be close to "#1 film of the year" territory to even break even.
With that stipulation, we are in agreement. But seriously -- you saw the trailers. Disney had lost hope of the film being a hit, or even a near miss, before it was even released. (Justified, in my opinion.)
Full disclosure: I really REALLY hated John Carter. I disliked pretty much everything about it. (Except, I have to say, the framing story of Burroughs inheriting Carter's memoirs and the tomb that could only be opened from the inside. That was reasonably cool.) I'm willing to admit that my rabid dislike for that expensive waste of time colors any discussions I can have about it.
The music reminded me of the soundtrack on the historical dramas on "wonderful world of color". So much so that I thought this was a design cue or a callback to those shows.
Lynn Colins was too old for the part.
Taylor Kitsch was just about as colorless a main character as you could find anywhere.
The flying machines didn't make any senses in the context of the story, and just looked silly. Costumes were not much of anything. Disney had decades of Frank Frazetta and Michael Whelan art at their disposal, much of which would be ready-made storyboards, and instead decided to go cyberpunk. The film was one huge missed opportunity.
I wouldn't consider a $250M budget "mid-level", even in this day. It's pretty obvious that all of that money did not end up on the screen. I wonder where the remainder went.
> How exactly does one assess either of those things BEFORE they see the movie?
Well, it's assumed that the people involved in making the film have some taste, and can see if the film is coming together or not, and if the storyline is compelling or not. There are also test audiences if the director and producers can't make themselves critique it objectively.
> Movie bombs in the box office because there was no interest, then explodes in rentals, netflix, premium channels (hbo, showtime, etc) because it was a great film. That movie is and forever will be considered a flop.
That's a little different. Sometimes movies bomb because the marketing was to the wrong audience or just didn't work. And ok, sometimes there's just no accounting for taste. For instance, I *liked* Pluto Nash, own the DVD, and have watched it several times. Don't judge me!
Get your ass to mars!
I don't think you have to depend on the fan base for a movie to be popular. Movies scale differently from novels. I think that a large fan base is an indication that there is material that might make a popular movie, not the bare numbers thing that print fans = movie fans, $profit$.
The problem with going with material that has a proven track record in a different medium, is that (1) there is the issue of translation into a different medium, and (2) let's face it, if the implementation sucks, the very best story material won't save it.
Although there are lots of films that made money despite being terrible films, in general, I think that if you're telling a good story on a reasonable way people will tend to want to see it, and if you screw up enough of the film elements, people will tend not to want to see it regardless of the quality of the original material. (There are exceptions, of course.)
But if a film fails because the film itself sucked, the studio will try to spin it as (a) nobody was interested in the source material, (b) that genre is overdone, (c) the show was up against insurmountable competition, anything except the fact it was a bad movie.
Yep. Top articles (copied and pasted from the forums):
I Can't Deal With The 950XL Anymore...
Glance screen issues
why is my phone freezing up after a phone call (side note: Wow, I saw that one on Windows 6 mobile. They still haven't fixed it?)
Things I don't like about Windows 10
Don't understand why Windows phones aren't more popular
Mind you, as a former Crackberry user, I completely understand being a desperate fan of a dying platform. Had my company been able to keep BES up reliably, I might still be using one.
"fans" is plural, so there must be at least two.
Air gap. Learn it, live it, love it.
It isn't because John Carter is a new franchise. It's because the movie sucked and it wasn't that popular of subject matter in the first place.
sucked, agreed. Not popular... I dunno, maybe these days. There was talk of Disney acquiring the franchise back in the eighties (where we were discussing it on this thing called Usenet. (get off my lawn...)) so John Carter must have been in some form of development hell for a very long time -- long enough for the original fan base to die off or, I dunno, get interested in other things. I'm writing this as a big fan of the novels. I would really like to see a more print-accurate, or at least, a more watchable, Frank Frazetta or Michael Whelan - inspired version. But we'll probably never get to see that now, because the word is out "nobody wants to see a barsoom movie". Sad.