That's because you've just got to the point where the ultra mega heavy dude is able to take over the nasty evil robots and save the world once and for all - which you don't get to see. That's what I thought was missing from the end of the movie, the bit where you get to see Neo destroying everything.
So yeah, you want the story to carry on, but there's not enough of a plot to make a solid second movie. The only possible storyline is that they run into some problem, ie, a bigger and better type of agent or some such Boss type dude. I think it'll be great, personally, I love the special effects.
Yeah it was a nice idea. Not original, but nicely done (except for the acting of course). The thing is, now that there's an invincible mega-hacker-d00d (Neo) on the loose, against which the pooters don't have any chance at all, what exactly can be in the next movie? Special effects, that's what! Explosions, electricity and funky twirling-round-some-guy-in-mid-air stuff. And guns. Big guns. Maybe some babes, too.
The sequel sounds perfect - no plot, more of Neo's superhuman powers, special effects - more of the same, ie just what made it so good in the first place.
I have java turned off in my browser. While it's a good idea in theory, unfortunately it's one of the recurring issues that you see in the security world. Plus the fact that having Java turned off has increased the time inbetween browser crashes greatly. I'm convinced that java is just not stable enough to be something that I can rely on, and the benefits I get from having it turned on are generally only little widgets or flashy addons that take ages to load and don't add much to the functionality of a site.
I think it's more an issue of the primary means of infection being the dominant reason that the virus exists and is so prevalent right now. However, I was addressing the issue that living in our times is good because of all the medical developments we are making - in the view of the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection, we are weakingening our gene pool against viruses and the like.
It's like spraying crops with insecticides - it's irrelevant what particular insects are attacking the crops at the time or how prevalent they are if you suddenly find that all your Super Duper UltraMega DieDieDie Insecticides stop working. Every time that happens, another insecticide gets developed that works, but it gets harder and harder to kill the little buggers.
Maybe... There's a little issue of evolution though. Natural selection means that viruses etc become more resistant to our cures - something that might give one man a longer life will in the long run give us less chance of survival against other relatives of this illness. we're gradually weakening our gene pool against things like this. AIDs would have never survived years and years ago, because all the people that got it would die out, so the AIDs virus would have disappeared. This particular cure might mean that the vpr gene resistant cells (if there aren't any now, mutations will provide one in the future) will become more prevalent and perhaps become the next big problem. (cue Twilight Zone music...)
Now, this may be a stupid thing to ask (this is not meant to be flamebait), but why is a publication called "LinuxWorld" covering BSD events? Don't get me wrong, I think it's great the FreeBSD is getting more exposure, I just find it odd that Linux related websites are covering non-Linux things. Are we going to see Linux kernel updates on www.freebsd.org soon? Am I going to find articles about hang gliding on Segfault? Will Slashdot be showing recipes for chicken wings?
Salon got it wrong (Illiad noted on his news page that there were a "few niggling points"). From the Userfriendly FAQ:
I've worked for game design companies, an internet service provider, and other nifty places. I've also had paying jobs as a writer, editor, art director, project manager, game designer and graphic artist. My principle background is in the creative industry, although I have always worked with computers.
A couple of other things - they say "If you're still looking for Infoseek you can click here to search", but the "here" only reloads the page - duh! Also, they link to the wrong site - www.infoseek.com just redirects to infoseek.go.com.
Reading this article made me realise how much things have changed in the last 5 years. On the one hand I'm making money creating coroprate sites - on the other hand I miss the days when every time you turned your head, you found another FTP repository of bizarre text files ranging from Blue Box plans to ideas for wolrd domination.
Aye. In maah deh, y'cud phown t'gels on chatlahn, crack t'lettest version of 'pache and still 'av tahm for a kebab on way home.
Have you tried postfix? It's another good alternative to sendmail. Personally, I think qmail is pretty easy to install.
The thing about sendmail is that it comes with every single distribution of any kind of UNIX that I know of - I hardly ever have to actually compile it. And yes, it does work straight out of the box, but that's no surprise; you generally have to tweak the configs depending on exactly how you want sendmail to act.
> One final thing... I heard rumours that to be Sun certified you have to be able to write the sendmail.cf from *scratch* is this true or just someones warped imagination?
I don't know if it's true or not, but if it is, it's certainly very very twisted. Evil. It gives a whole new meaning to the word "geek".
The fact that Hemos posted it at 7:18 in the morning, as the first thing he did would make me think it gets slightly more preference than other stories, but I reckon it's still a relevant article to slashdot.
What I like about Stephenson's books are the fact that they're all based around fact. In all the books I've read of his he goes off onto huge tangents discussing the subject matter of the book. In Snow Crash, there's a 50-odd page section in the middle that explains loads of theory about language, where it originated from, etc etc. Zodiac has all sorts of facts about chemicals and what they actually do to the soil, how they affect the environment and so on. When he wrote the 40,000 word (is that right?) essay on why the background of Cryptonomicon, that was another example of how he fills out his work with fact, extrapolating on what's actually happened to create an interesting story. Great stuff.
This sounds suspiciously like WebTV renamed - "integrated television and internet". You can get TV cards for PCs anyway! I don't think this is anything new, just more marketing hype.
(when is someone going to make a set top box based on FreeBSD, huh?)
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That's because you've just got to the point where the ultra mega heavy dude is able to take over the nasty evil robots and save the world once and for all - which you don't get to see. That's what I thought was missing from the end of the movie, the bit where you get to see Neo destroying everything.
So yeah, you want the story to carry on, but there's not enough of a plot to make a solid second movie. The only possible storyline is that they run into some problem, ie, a bigger and better type of agent or some such Boss type dude. I think it'll be great, personally, I love the special effects.
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Yeah it was a nice idea. Not original, but nicely done (except for the acting of course). The thing is, now that there's an invincible mega-hacker-d00d (Neo) on the loose, against which the pooters don't have any chance at all, what exactly can be in the next movie? Special effects, that's what! Explosions, electricity and funky twirling-round-some-guy-in-mid-air stuff. And guns. Big guns. Maybe some babes, too.
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The sequel sounds perfect - no plot, more of Neo's superhuman powers, special effects - more of the same, ie just what made it so good in the first place.
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Uh, sorry. It's getting late and I shouldn't be here. I misread the post and replied too quick... I should leave the office.
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I have java turned off in my browser. While it's a good idea in theory, unfortunately it's one of the recurring issues that you see in the security world. Plus the fact that having Java turned off has increased the time inbetween browser crashes greatly. I'm convinced that java is just not stable enough to be something that I can rely on, and the benefits I get from having it turned on are generally only little widgets or flashy addons that take ages to load and don't add much to the functionality of a site.
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It's like spraying crops with insecticides - it's irrelevant what particular insects are attacking the crops at the time or how prevalent they are if you suddenly find that all your Super Duper UltraMega DieDieDie Insecticides stop working. Every time that happens, another insecticide gets developed that works, but it gets harder and harder to kill the little buggers.
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Best time in history to be sick, I guess.
Maybe... There's a little issue of evolution though. Natural selection means that viruses etc become more resistant to our cures - something that might give one man a longer life will in the long run give us less chance of survival against other relatives of this illness. we're gradually weakening our gene pool against things like this. AIDs would have never survived years and years ago, because all the people that got it would die out, so the AIDs virus would have disappeared. This particular cure might mean that the vpr gene resistant cells (if there aren't any now, mutations will provide one in the future) will become more prevalent and perhaps become the next big problem. (cue Twilight Zone music...)
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I'm not upset about it! I'm just curious...
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I think having Taco recipes on Slashdot would definitely be cool.
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Is that talking paperclip patented?
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Because it's a Linux related website? Do you see Ferrari magazines covering Porsche conventions?
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Now, this may be a stupid thing to ask (this is not meant to be flamebait), but why is a publication called "LinuxWorld" covering BSD events? Don't get me wrong, I think it's great the FreeBSD is getting more exposure, I just find it odd that Linux related websites are covering non-Linux things. Are we going to see Linux kernel updates on www.freebsd.org soon? Am I going to find articles about hang gliding on Segfault? Will Slashdot be showing recipes for chicken wings?
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At last, the bigger companies are starting to take notice of *BSDs. Now, when are we going to get native VMWare and Oracle??
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(last question in the list).
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It's nothing compared to Bill Gate's 10 billion dollars! I wonder if any of that is being used for biotech research? (I hope so...)
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Their section on search engines is still there, with all the normal ones listed:
http://dir.lycos.com/Computers/Internet/WWW/Search ing_the_Web/Search_Engines/General/
A couple of other things - they say "If you're still looking for Infoseek you can click here to search", but the "here" only reloads the page - duh! Also, they link to the wrong site - www.infoseek.com just redirects to infoseek.go.com.
Marketing droids. Jeez.
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Aye. In maah deh, y'cud phown t'gels on chatlahn, crack t'lettest version of 'pache and still 'av tahm for a kebab on way home.
moo!
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The thing about sendmail is that it comes with every single distribution of any kind of UNIX that I know of - I hardly ever have to actually compile it. And yes, it does work straight out of the box, but that's no surprise; you generally have to tweak the configs depending on exactly how you want sendmail to act.
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I don't know if it's true or not, but if it is, it's certainly very very twisted. Evil. It gives a whole new meaning to the word "geek".
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The fact that Hemos posted it at 7:18 in the morning, as the first thing he did would make me think it gets slightly more preference than other stories, but I reckon it's still a relevant article to slashdot.
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Hard fiction rocks.
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You should definitely pick it up. There isn't a book by Neal Stephenson that even remotely sucks.
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No, I think it was something to do with... uhm... Hey, did you hear about that Linux Myths thing Microsoft did?
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I have a horrible memory, but I've got huge, uh... er... what was I saying?
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(when is someone going to make a set top box based on FreeBSD, huh?)
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