The movies are most definitely aimed at kids, however, as many others have already pointed out, the books are very enjoyable to adults as well. JKR has done an awesome job of sticking in subtle humour and wit that would completely pass over childrens heads, but which make the books alot more enjoyable for older readers.
Also, the books contain the entire story. Important parts of the plot aren't discarded to make time for an extra 30 seconds of pointless special effects. I've found it surprising that JKR has ok'd the scripts for the first three movies because in each of them alot of important info has been cut out of the movies. Which is a pity because she spends alot of effort going back to her stories to add hints and clues as to what might happen in a future book.
In short, the books rock. I've had the 6th one pre-ordered for months now
Seriously. My pc used to overheat, because of an incompatible cpu/motherboard combination (i think it was a p3 chip in a p2 board or the other way around). So my pc case was always open, with my desk-fan blowing directly onto the board and chip. Because of the setup of my room/desk/fan/pc, the pc had to face away from me, so the ports faced me. My friend lent me a bus-fan one day to see if that would work, as opposed to having to leave the case open all the time with a large deskfan blowing on it all the time. Well, since the ports-side of the pc faced me, that meant that the exhaust of the bus-fan was blowing onto my face constantly for a couple of hours. Add a weak immune system on my part, and...
If the big bang happened at the center of the universe, and matter was emitted from it in all directions, then whats the problem? Matter travelled for 14 billion light years in one direction, and simultaneously other matter travelled for 14 billion light years in the opposite direction. So the universe should be 28 billion light years from end to end. Obviously i'm not a physicist, but what am I missing here?
I really dont mean to sound like a troll, but I have a question:
what difference does it make if the accelerator is GPL'd or not? Its free, and it appears to work. I'm a programmer by professions, and i like to think i'm at least better than average if not good, but I doubt there are that many people who would benefit from having the source to something as low-level as an emulator available (apart from the obvious additional contributors, but i'm talking in the general open-source "i have the source so i can hack it if i want to" sense). Why can't you use and support it in its closed-source state?
Last i used lynx (which admittedly was years ago), it didnt appear to support https connections. Is this still the case? I'd be more concerned about a "tsunami relief website" that accepted donations over a non-secure protocol.
Start->Programs->Accessories->System tools->File and settings transfer wizard
You then choose if you want to back up or restore settings. You select if the source and destination are connected by a direct cable, or if the source/destination is a disk drive or network share or local directory. You then select which files and settings you want to transfer. These include settings for messenger, outlook, etc, display properties, file associations, and special folders like my documents. The wizard then copies the selected items to the destination (or from, if you're doing a restore).
According to the wizard, it works from win95 all the way to windows XP.
afaik, tar does not compress files, it just packages a lot of files into a single 'tarball'. thats why you'd have somefile.tar.gz - the tarball isnt compressed, so it has to be compressed by another utility like gzip.
no sir, your brain is not registering that THERE WAS NO BSOD AT THE DEMONSTRATION. did you even watch the video of the presentation? can you tell me at which point the machine blue-screened? ok, maybe you didnt watch the demo. did you read the article? in which sean alexander, who was actually on stage and CONTINUED USING THE VERY SAME BOX THAT YOU CLAIM TO HAVE BSOD'd explains why bill gates's remote control had no effect on the presentation?
thanks to/.'s sensationalist headline and article, everyone now thinks that gates' media center box crashed. IT DID NO SUCH THING. he tried to navigate the box using his remote, and it didnt respond. go and read the article and sean alexander explains why.
now, please go and download that video, and point me to the exact point where the machine bsod'd, and i will post a retraction to what i said above.
only on slashdot can an infra-red receiver not working because of too much light interference become mishmashed into 'windows being so unstable that an IR receiver can take down the kernel'. you really are an idiot. the machine worked fine. sean alexander used the same machine to do his presentation. bill gates was simply using another IR receiver so that he didnt have to twist around and point his remote at the setup on the other side of the stage. if you read the article, you'd notice sean mention that as he walked on stage to do his presentation, he unplugged bill's IR receiver, just to make sure that it didnt cause any other problems. there was absolutely nothing wrong with the software during the presentation.
how many/. readers actually know that no software crashed during the show? i'd imagine very few, after the great big 'haha media center crashes during bill gates presentation' article the other day.
go back to your cave, troll, until you provide proof of the IR receiver taking down the kernel, as you implied. i think you are the one who should grow a brain before typing.
the windows shell is explorer.exe, microsoft's equivalent to kde. if explorer.exe crashes, web servers, ftp servers, database servers, and anything else running on the box, even user applications that are not tied in to the shell, will continue to run unhindered.
so, to respond to your first statement, crashing explorer.exe wont kill your system (do it yourself on windows xp, go to task manager and kill the explorer process). system services will keep on rolling just fine.
contrary to/. belief, the windows shell is not "tied in" to the windows kernel any more than kde is tied into bzImage.
I've got the 256k sentech package, and while http downloads fly through at almost 256kbps, i'm lucky if bittorrent hits 20kbps. Its taken me over a month and a half to download all 6 gummi bear seasons off suprnova, the largest being just over a gig, and the smallest being 300mb.
well yes, but if you've got a 802.11g wireless device, that device is only meant to operate on a specific frequency range, and nothing more. why not restrict the range in hardware instead of software, and then there's no need for keeping the firmware under wraps, because there's no way of creating a general purpose RF transmitter/receiver using the firmware?
Will reactos binaries work under ms windows? I see in another post you say you've got an explorer clone, and some other clones of windows programs. I'd imagine your binaries would have to be.exe's and.dll's. Would I be able to replace my explorer.exe with your's? Of course chances are there'd probably be some programs that won't like the change very much, but have you tried running your apps under ms windows, and how well do they work?
if thats correct, i wonder if cassini has been set up to take pictures of this? im sure the space agencies would have known about this ages ago, and since cassini is in the neighbourhood, it would be pretty neat to get some close-up shots of if:)
while microsoft discontinues support for old systems, they go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the API has always remained backwards compatible with all previous versions, to such an extent, that sometimes features have to get dropped because they would break backwards compatibility. for examples, read raymond chen's blog.
actually, judging from the numerous "warning to users of [x] - [y] doesnt compile under new kernel" posts everytime news of a new kernel gets posted to/., it seems to me that ms's backwards compatibility record is alot better than linux's
... what is your opinion on Telkom (South Africa's only fixed-line telephone operator for those who dont know) and their (government-enforced) strangle-hold on telecomms in SA, especially regarding the astronomical (no pun intended) prices that we pay for internet access? Do you think that 3GB of shaped ADSL traffic is enough per month, and is it worth the almost R1000 (~$150) per month that we are forced to pay for it?
Although this isnt related to Ubuntu Linux, is there anything that the Shuttleworth Foundation can do to change or influence the direction that South African telecomms is facing? Perhaps getting involved with the second national operator application, which seems likely to never take off because of new lawsuits everytime some progress is made?
While Larry Osterman (who posted the story on his blog) recently celebrated his 20th anniversary at Microsoft, I have not yet been able to find anything that says that Michal Zalewski (who found the bugs and made the post to Bugtraq that Larry linked to in his blog) ever worked for Microsoft.
"Michal Zalewski is a security researcher who has worked on topics ranging from hardware and OS design principles to networking. He has published research on many security topics and has worked for the past eight years in the InfoSec field for a number of reputable companies, including two major telecommunications firms."
So I doubt Mr Zalewski has ever had access to any of IE's code.
at the risk of going a bit off topic here, but couldnt the same argument be used to prevent government spending money on any other arb thing, like, say, executing prisoners, because executions use tax money from people who may oppose it? (i used this as an example cos there's a significant number of people who are opposed to the death penalty).
it seems to me that the government policy on this matter is only what it is, because its more friendly towards the religious groups that are against cloning altogether, without totally snubbing the scientists altogether ("ok mr scientist, you can clone embryos, but we will not fund it")
Microsoft says: Microsoft ASP.NET developers can add more checks to help reduce canonicalization issues for a Web application by adding an Application_BeginRequest event handler in their Global.asax file that is stored in the root directory of the Web application./. says: Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits
I'm sorry, I write windows services for a living, and I haven't rebooted my dev machine in... 30 days now. Record was 134 days. Clearly you're not doing something right.
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I wonder if the comments in this article will be of the same tone as the comments posted in this article.
*waits for the flamebait mod
Whats wrong with Right click, Save link as... ?
The movies are most definitely aimed at kids, however, as many others have already pointed out, the books are very enjoyable to adults as well. JKR has done an awesome job of sticking in subtle humour and wit that would completely pass over childrens heads, but which make the books alot more enjoyable for older readers.
Also, the books contain the entire story. Important parts of the plot aren't discarded to make time for an extra 30 seconds of pointless special effects. I've found it surprising that JKR has ok'd the scripts for the first three movies because in each of them alot of important info has been cut out of the movies. Which is a pity because she spends alot of effort going back to her stories to add hints and clues as to what might happen in a future book.
In short, the books rock. I've had the 6th one pre-ordered for months now
Seriously. My pc used to overheat, because of an incompatible cpu/motherboard combination (i think it was a p3 chip in a p2 board or the other way around). So my pc case was always open, with my desk-fan blowing directly onto the board and chip. Because of the setup of my room/desk/fan/pc, the pc had to face away from me, so the ports faced me. My friend lent me a bus-fan one day to see if that would work, as opposed to having to leave the case open all the time with a large deskfan blowing on it all the time. Well, since the ports-side of the pc faced me, that meant that the exhaust of the bus-fan was blowing onto my face constantly for a couple of hours. Add a weak immune system on my part, and...
my pc gave me a cold!
If the big bang happened at the center of the universe, and matter was emitted from it in all directions, then whats the problem? Matter travelled for 14 billion light years in one direction, and simultaneously other matter travelled for 14 billion light years in the opposite direction. So the universe should be 28 billion light years from end to end. Obviously i'm not a physicist, but what am I missing here?
I really dont mean to sound like a troll, but I have a question:
what difference does it make if the accelerator is GPL'd or not? Its free, and it appears to work. I'm a programmer by professions, and i like to think i'm at least better than average if not good, but I doubt there are that many people who would benefit from having the source to something as low-level as an emulator available (apart from the obvious additional contributors, but i'm talking in the general open-source "i have the source so i can hack it if i want to" sense). Why can't you use and support it in its closed-source state?
Last i used lynx (which admittedly was years ago), it didnt appear to support https connections. Is this still the case? I'd be more concerned about a "tsunami relief website" that accepted donations over a non-secure protocol.
Start->Programs->Accessories->System tools->File and settings transfer wizard
You then choose if you want to back up or restore settings. You select if the source and destination are connected by a direct cable, or if the source/destination is a disk drive or network share or local directory. You then select which files and settings you want to transfer. These include settings for messenger, outlook, etc, display properties, file associations, and special folders like my documents. The wizard then copies the selected items to the destination (or from, if you're doing a restore).
According to the wizard, it works from win95 all the way to windows XP.
afaik, tar does not compress files, it just packages a lot of files into a single 'tarball'. thats why you'd have somefile.tar.gz - the tarball isnt compressed, so it has to be compressed by another utility like gzip.
no sir, your brain is not registering that THERE WAS NO BSOD AT THE DEMONSTRATION. did you even watch the video of the presentation? can you tell me at which point the machine blue-screened? ok, maybe you didnt watch the demo. did you read the article? in which sean alexander, who was actually on stage and CONTINUED USING THE VERY SAME BOX THAT YOU CLAIM TO HAVE BSOD'd explains why bill gates's remote control had no effect on the presentation? thanks to /.'s sensationalist headline and article, everyone now thinks that gates' media center box crashed. IT DID NO SUCH THING. he tried to navigate the box using his remote, and it didnt respond. go and read the article and sean alexander explains why.
now, please go and download that video, and point me to the exact point where the machine bsod'd, and i will post a retraction to what i said above.
only on slashdot can an infra-red receiver not working because of too much light interference become mishmashed into 'windows being so unstable that an IR receiver can take down the kernel'. you really are an idiot. the machine worked fine. sean alexander used the same machine to do his presentation. bill gates was simply using another IR receiver so that he didnt have to twist around and point his remote at the setup on the other side of the stage. if you read the article, you'd notice sean mention that as he walked on stage to do his presentation, he unplugged bill's IR receiver, just to make sure that it didnt cause any other problems. there was absolutely nothing wrong with the software during the presentation. how many /. readers actually know that no software crashed during the show? i'd imagine very few, after the great big 'haha media center crashes during bill gates presentation' article the other day.
go back to your cave, troll, until you provide proof of the IR receiver taking down the kernel, as you implied. i think you are the one who should grow a brain before typing.
the windows shell is explorer.exe, microsoft's equivalent to kde. if explorer.exe crashes, web servers, ftp servers, database servers, and anything else running on the box, even user applications that are not tied in to the shell, will continue to run unhindered. so, to respond to your first statement, crashing explorer.exe wont kill your system (do it yourself on windows xp, go to task manager and kill the explorer process). system services will keep on rolling just fine. contrary to /. belief, the windows shell is not "tied in" to the windows kernel any more than kde is tied into bzImage.
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I've got the 256k sentech package, and while http downloads fly through at almost 256kbps, i'm lucky if bittorrent hits 20kbps. Its taken me over a month and a half to download all 6 gummi bear seasons off suprnova, the largest being just over a gig, and the smallest being 300mb.
:/
Sentech's port shaping sucks ass
well yes, but if you've got a 802.11g wireless device, that device is only meant to operate on a specific frequency range, and nothing more. why not restrict the range in hardware instead of software, and then there's no need for keeping the firmware under wraps, because there's no way of creating a general purpose RF transmitter/receiver using the firmware?
Will reactos binaries work under ms windows? I see in another post you say you've got an explorer clone, and some other clones of windows programs. I'd imagine your binaries would have to be .exe's and .dll's. Would I be able to replace my explorer.exe with your's? Of course chances are there'd probably be some programs that won't like the change very much, but have you tried running your apps under ms windows, and how well do they work?
if thats correct, i wonder if cassini has been set up to take pictures of this? im sure the space agencies would have known about this ages ago, and since cassini is in the neighbourhood, it would be pretty neat to get some close-up shots of if :)
actually, judging from the numerous "warning to users of [x] - [y] doesnt compile under new kernel" posts everytime news of a new kernel gets posted to /., it seems to me that ms's backwards compatibility record is alot better than linux's
... what is your opinion on Telkom (South Africa's only fixed-line telephone operator for those who dont know) and their (government-enforced) strangle-hold on telecomms in SA, especially regarding the astronomical (no pun intended) prices that we pay for internet access? Do you think that 3GB of shaped ADSL traffic is enough per month, and is it worth the almost R1000 (~$150) per month that we are forced to pay for it? Although this isnt related to Ubuntu Linux, is there anything that the Shuttleworth Foundation can do to change or influence the direction that South African telecomms is facing? Perhaps getting involved with the second national operator application, which seems likely to never take off because of new lawsuits everytime some progress is made?
... oil lands on you!
this topic reminds me of a poster i have
What I did find, however, was this:
"Michal Zalewski is a security researcher who has worked on topics ranging from hardware and OS design principles to networking. He has published research on many security topics and has worked for the past eight years in the InfoSec field for a number of reputable companies, including two major telecommunications firms."
So I doubt Mr Zalewski has ever had access to any of IE's code.
at the risk of going a bit off topic here, but couldnt the same argument be used to prevent government spending money on any other arb thing, like, say, executing prisoners, because executions use tax money from people who may oppose it? (i used this as an example cos there's a significant number of people who are opposed to the death penalty).
it seems to me that the government policy on this matter is only what it is, because its more friendly towards the religious groups that are against cloning altogether, without totally snubbing the scientists altogether ("ok mr scientist, you can clone embryos, but we will not fund it")
Microsoft says: /. says:
Microsoft ASP.NET developers can add more checks to help reduce canonicalization issues for a Web application by adding an Application_BeginRequest event handler in their Global.asax file that is stored in the root directory of the Web application.
Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits
Talk about FUD.
I'm sorry, I write windows services for a living, and I haven't rebooted my dev machine in... 30 days now. Record was 134 days. Clearly you're not doing something right.