Actually, Braveheart was some idle fantisizing about Randall Wallace's ancestor, William, published in book form as "Braveheart", and then the movie was then based on the book.
Yeah.
These kind of movies do not make me proud to be American. just think about how you would feel if your "people" were portrayed as terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever. ..giant smear campaigns, and we wonder, as a whole, why the rest of the world doesn't like us (Americans, that is).
Romantic love wasn't even really in existance in the Western world as we know it until about the 11th century. It's existence was spurred on by poets who tried to woon nice women-folk into, err, sex, by promising them amazing things.
May be wrong, I learned it in college. They say. Of course, I don't think that makes it any less real.
The statement that "P2P networks are all built around searching" is false. Simple counter-example.
The P2P program I most use is SoulSeek.org's one. It allows you to browse someone's files that they have.
Let me throw you an example.
I hear of a band on the radio or in a magazine. Say Clinic. I search for Clinic on SoulSeek, see someone's got the whole album "Walking With Thee". I download it, but I also scour their shares for random stuff. So, I see some band with an intriguing name, Godspeed You Black Emperor!. I download a couple. Like it. A couple more. Love it. Go and buy the CD's.
I do this. Agreed, this is the most noble method of using P2P programs ever, but it's what I do.
Music, for me, I guess, isn't just something I listen to in the car. YMMV.
Yes, they do buy corporate and personal internet banking.
I worked for a small mid-western bank who recently activated internet banking. I was excited when my boss told me about it, hoped that I would be able to have some fun programming or SOMETHING, you know. Didn't happen, we "outsourced" it, like we do everything else, to M&I data services. We also outsourced the creation of the regular, non-banking, page, which upset me because it made a lot of no sense at all.
So, and our sister bank (same holding company) did the same exact thing.
really, it has to do with the age of majority statutes here in the U.S. of A. You cannot enter any contract while you are under 18, even, I think, if you've been emancipated from your parents. Parents, technically, own their children.
In the US, you're not a real citizen until 21, and for some things, 25.
When the first pre-recorded format was shown to Disney executives (60s?), they were worried that it would be able to be played over and over and over again.
Some engineers worked that out. It could be played once and would have to be "unlocked". They then showed it to executives, but then they had yet another problem.
How could they be sure that only one person was watching the film?
The idea was canned, until, of course, later . . . now we've got this same stuff worried about.
Oh well.
Like I said, possibly not true, I can find no corroboration on the 'net, but I didn't really look hard.
We could wait until all problems on the earth are solved, but who says that will happen?
Differences in people are what cause problems, and if we really want to foster a diverse world, then we're going to have certain world-views that collide.
If everyone was the same, there would be far fewer massive problems than right now. But I don't think most people would want to be like the rest of the world just because it would be a nicer place to live. No, the Muslims and Jews won't convert to Christianity to have a nicer place. The Democrats and Republicans aren't likely to get along just so that the world is nicer. VI and EMacs will never get along. Especially when all the above groups have an ideology to defend.
My opinion:
The only thing we have that could possibly bring us together is to once again have some sense of wonder about what's out there. Every step we take in the universe is a wonder, and if we wait . . . we're likely to be destroyed by our own differences.
Of course, that may be the right answer: make sure we don't infect the universe. That's awfully pessimistic, but it might be true. I just hope that through further exploration our differences even out because we realize that, really, Kashmir is just a little strip of land, and that there is a seemingly infinite amount of everything.
Idyllicly (I know that's probably misspelled), exploring and usage of space will allow us to have the material things that we desire and think we need, so that there are less things to fight about, and thereby solving problems.
Haves versus have-nots. It's all kind of pointless when you see how much is out there, and there is enough for everyone. Three percent of the budget seems rediculously (sp) small for that possibility.
Well, go to Amazon.com's page. It'll say, "Welcome, Homer. We have recommendations for you." Click on recommendations.
On your recommendations page, you'll see a link at the top of the right hand column, says: "Improve your Recommendations". Click it.
Sign in. Click continue. Uncheck the stuff that you bought with the field: "Use to Make Recommendations."
Save.
There you go. You don't have to deal with Mr. Boltan, and I don't have more WWII books recommended just because I bought my step-dad "Band Of Brothers."
I've been thinking about a console for myself for oh, the past month. I'm really leaning towards the PS2.
Why?
It's the games.
Grand Theft Auto 3, specifically. But that's just me.
I've been looking at the offerings for GameCube and Xbox, and none of them are really all that appealling. Tony Hawk 2x? What the hell? Why not just get Tony Hawk 3? Sure, we all know it's the same game as the first two . . .
I don't want a star-wars game. Halo looks good, as does Luigi's Castle, but I really don't want to play them. I'm just not drawn to them.
PS2 has Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10, whatever they are. Metal Gear Solid 2 (hell, even the first one will play on it). Regardless:
I think Nintendo really fumbled. Really. Great that it's 100 bucks cheaper than the other two major consoles, but still, the games aren't there . . . bettter than the Xbox, but not enough, you know.
And this all is because of PS2's lead time to market.
I work at UPS as a midnight-time package handler near at an air-hub near the Chicago area.
I get paid 8.50 an hour, US.
There are a few issues that I thought about the other night while placing packages in my canister (the airplane's cargo is split up with these giant plastic/metal bubbles).
1a) We are not paid to be careful.
1b) Acutally, you do care about the packages . . . for about a week. After that, you care about hobbies you have, if it's going slow. (Computers, musical stuff, I care about . . . that's it. Medical supplies. Live animals.)
2) After training, absolutely nothing has been said to me about the throwing of packages.
3) The managers throw packages. Not just the part-time supervisors, but the full time managers. It gets hectic. They are not paid to care about the packages either.
4) We're supposed to flip over all packages to make sure there aren't other/bad labels on them or they are HazMats.
5) You can see only so many packages labled "fragile," "HOT," "EXTREMELY URGENT" (which every Next Day Air label says, incidentally) before you really don't notice any more. A girl flipped over these lizards, didn't even pay attention to them, even though they said "live reptiles" all over them.
6) Most people who work there are idiots.
7) Turnover is so high, being fired for disciplinary action (when possible: Teamster union) is a vacation. Most people that are fired can be re-hired shortly thereafter.
8) Say what you will about drugs and their positive effects on the human subconcious, but if they instituted drug testing, their staff would drop to half what it is now.
Yes, #6 probably includes me, but I need the extra 100 bucks a week.
I think you're underestimating the power of what people are used to. (I'll discuss Windows XP later.)
If corporations were concerned about licenses and what software they buy and how much that will cost, they probably would have already looked into GNU/Linux. The thing is, though, is that they haven't.
BSD/Gnu/Linux developers are still half in the dark ages with new stuff. Yes, a lot of it has to do with nasty proprietary designs, not-quite-standards, etc. Part of that is the way non-techies see standards, as they are what works right now.
IE5 is a standard thing because it works on damn near every site.
Microsoft Office is standard because everyone (please pardon the generalization, it's painfully obvious that you don't) and their grandma uses it.
Who makes these decisions, generally? Companies. And guess who they trust. Companies, that's right.
My mom still uses an old copy of MSWorks (from '94) that suits her just fine, thank you very much. She needed to install Office not because she needed the functionality, but because her employer sent her word documents.
It's not just companies, tho'. Here at my University, when I asked people NOT to send MS Word files to me, they glared and stared and when I finally looked at the things they had sent me at work, they would just as easily been an e-mail messages.
Whatever. People use what they are used to. Now, Windows XP, that's gonna be a weird one. Microsoft is going to need hardcore new toys for this upgrade, but people are going to swallow it, because their employers do it, their university does it, and gosh darnit, it works most of the time.
People at work generally don't mind when their computer crashes, as long as they've saved. Lets them take a 3 minute nap. Dan
Reading aloud to yourself was pretty common until the 14th century. Christopher Marlowe expressed extreme amazement at watching a friend of his reading with simply his lips moving, with no sounds coming out.
It helps you process the text, and depending what you're reading, it can be the only way to understand it. (For example, highly dialected texts, like Trainspotting or something like that.) Dan
I'll agree here. As a musician and a writer, both have their spots in my life. The music is more visceral, and I personally don't care if I flub a note or two when I'm playing by myself in some room. And my writing, that's much different than the mindless shit I do all day at work.
However . . .
When I go to work, and then I come home, I find it exceptionally hard to write, which, at least the way I do it, requires a lot of thought. That's what I like to do best. My mind wants to shut down, and I have to force it to stay active. I get frustrated when I play my guitar, too, but it's like I can't even think anymore.
Dan
There's a company that does this. I saw it on CNN . . .
Looking at google, I did a quick search and came up with this press release. The real site is here, actually, that's not true, because the "real" site is in Japanese. That is the English version.
They have notebooks, desktops, etc. in your choice of dead tree flavors.
As for Legos, I did that, with a 486-66, but I figured, why bother with a standard case design when you have legos? Mine looked vaguely like a mushroom (power supply on bottom, moboard on top). Of course, people looked at me funny when I went up to the check-out of Wal-Mart with 2 boxes of 1000 peice sets of lego.
Pet Peeve? It means both. But it only means what you say it means to those who took too many philosophy classes or just know better. It's an idiom.
See this. While not definative, it's what most people think it is, and, grammar purists aside, what it's used as is what it becomes. (ex: gay) Trying to keep changes in usage out will kill a language.
And they have re-released the Bill Hicks collection.
For those of you unaware, Bill Hicks was a comedian, and he said a lot of funny stuff. He also had a really, really, really interesting outlook on the musicians of his time (Vanilla Ice, Motley Crue, you know, late 80's-early 90's).
Sorry, I just felt the need to point that out.
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Actually, Braveheart was some idle fantisizing about Randall Wallace's ancestor, William, published in book form as "Braveheart", and then the movie was then based on the book.
.giant smear campaigns, and we wonder, as a whole, why the rest of the world doesn't like us (Americans, that is).
Yeah.
These kind of movies do not make me proud to be American. just think about how you would feel if your "people" were portrayed as terrorists, drug dealers, or whatever. .
re love:
Romantic love wasn't even really in existance in the Western world as we know it until about the 11th century. It's existence was spurred on by poets who tried to woon nice women-folk into, err, sex, by promising them amazing things.
May be wrong, I learned it in college. They say. Of course, I don't think that makes it any less real.
The statement that "P2P networks are all built around searching" is false. Simple counter-example.
The P2P program I most use is SoulSeek.org's one. It allows you to browse someone's files that they have.
Let me throw you an example.
I hear of a band on the radio or in a magazine. Say Clinic. I search for Clinic on SoulSeek, see someone's got the whole album "Walking With Thee". I download it, but I also scour their shares for random stuff. So, I see some band with an intriguing name, Godspeed You Black Emperor!. I download a couple. Like it. A couple more. Love it. Go and buy the CD's.
I do this. Agreed, this is the most noble method of using P2P programs ever, but it's what I do.
Music, for me, I guess, isn't just something I listen to in the car. YMMV.
Yes, they do buy corporate and personal internet banking.
I worked for a small mid-western bank who recently activated internet banking. I was excited when my boss told me about it, hoped that I would be able to have some fun programming or SOMETHING, you know. Didn't happen, we "outsourced" it, like we do everything else, to M&I data services. We also outsourced the creation of the regular, non-banking, page, which upset me because it made a lot of no sense at all.
So, and our sister bank (same holding company) did the same exact thing.
YMMV
really, it has to do with the age of majority statutes here in the U.S. of A. You cannot enter any contract while you are under 18, even, I think, if you've been emancipated from your parents. Parents, technically, own their children.
In the US, you're not a real citizen until 21, and for some things, 25.
This may or may not be true, so . . .
When the first pre-recorded format was shown to Disney executives (60s?), they were worried that it would be able to be played over and over and over again.
Some engineers worked that out. It could be played once and would have to be "unlocked". They then showed it to executives, but then they had yet another problem.
How could they be sure that only one person was watching the film?
The idea was canned, until, of course, later . . . now we've got this same stuff worried about.
Oh well.
Like I said, possibly not true, I can find no corroboration on the 'net, but I didn't really look hard.
We could wait until all problems on the earth are solved, but who says that will happen?
Differences in people are what cause problems, and if we really want to foster a diverse world, then we're going to have certain world-views that collide.
If everyone was the same, there would be far fewer massive problems than right now. But I don't think most people would want to be like the rest of the world just because it would be a nicer place to live. No, the Muslims and Jews won't convert to Christianity to have a nicer place. The Democrats and Republicans aren't likely to get along just so that the world is nicer. VI and EMacs will never get along. Especially when all the above groups have an ideology to defend.
My opinion:
The only thing we have that could possibly bring us together is to once again have some sense of wonder about what's out there. Every step we take in the universe is a wonder, and if we wait . . . we're likely to be destroyed by our own differences.
Of course, that may be the right answer: make sure we don't infect the universe. That's awfully pessimistic, but it might be true. I just hope that through further exploration our differences even out because we realize that, really, Kashmir is just a little strip of land, and that there is a seemingly infinite amount of everything.
Idyllicly (I know that's probably misspelled), exploring and usage of space will allow us to have the material things that we desire and think we need, so that there are less things to fight about, and thereby solving problems.
Haves versus have-nots. It's all kind of pointless when you see how much is out there, and there is enough for everyone. Three percent of the budget seems rediculously (sp) small for that possibility.
My opinion, I could be wrong. . .
On your recommendations page, you'll see a link at the top of the right hand column, says: "Improve your Recommendations". Click it.
Sign in. Click continue. Uncheck the stuff that you bought with the field: "Use to Make Recommendations."
Save.
There you go. You don't have to deal with Mr. Boltan, and I don't have more WWII books recommended just because I bought my step-dad "Band Of Brothers."
A couple points were raised:
I really don't like to buy game systems "on spec." I know that these games are more likely to come out than not.
Tony Hawk 3 is not the killer app, err, game, or whatever. Just one example, and yes, GameCube's got it.
But right now, when I have some money burning proverbial black holes in my pocket, when I may not in a few weeks . . . spontanious decisions apply.
Of course, I should just buy a new hard drive and stick with my PC.
dan
I've been thinking about a console for myself for oh, the past month. I'm really leaning towards the PS2.
Why?
It's the games.
Grand Theft Auto 3, specifically. But that's just me.
I've been looking at the offerings for GameCube and Xbox, and none of them are really all that appealling. Tony Hawk 2x? What the hell? Why not just get Tony Hawk 3? Sure, we all know it's the same game as the first two . . .
I don't want a star-wars game. Halo looks good, as does Luigi's Castle, but I really don't want to play them. I'm just not drawn to them.
PS2 has Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10, whatever they are. Metal Gear Solid 2 (hell, even the first one will play on it). Regardless:
I think Nintendo really fumbled. Really. Great that it's 100 bucks cheaper than the other two major consoles, but still, the games aren't there . . . bettter than the Xbox, but not enough, you know.
And this all is because of PS2's lead time to market.
I think that's about right.
Saggitarius: You're gonna die.
--chris rock
Footer on the bottom of the slashdot's story page (at least when I opened the it first):
"Don't get to bragging."
heh
Original Name:
GRIDS
Gay Related Immunity Deficiency Syndrome
I work at UPS as a midnight-time package handler near at an air-hub near the Chicago area.
I get paid 8.50 an hour, US.
There are a few issues that I thought about the other night while placing packages in my canister (the airplane's cargo is split up with these giant plastic/metal bubbles).
1a) We are not paid to be careful.
1b) Acutally, you do care about the packages . . . for about a week. After that, you care about hobbies you have, if it's going slow. (Computers, musical stuff, I care about . . . that's it. Medical supplies. Live animals.)
2) After training, absolutely nothing has been said to me about the throwing of packages.
3) The managers throw packages. Not just the part-time supervisors, but the full time managers. It gets hectic. They are not paid to care about the packages either.
4) We're supposed to flip over all packages to make sure there aren't other/bad labels on them or they are HazMats.
5) You can see only so many packages labled "fragile," "HOT," "EXTREMELY URGENT" (which every Next Day Air label says, incidentally) before you really don't notice any more. A girl flipped over these lizards, didn't even pay attention to them, even though they said "live reptiles" all over them.
6) Most people who work there are idiots.
7) Turnover is so high, being fired for disciplinary action (when possible: Teamster union) is a vacation. Most people that are fired can be re-hired shortly thereafter.
8) Say what you will about drugs and their positive effects on the human subconcious, but if they instituted drug testing, their staff would drop to half what it is now.
Yes, #6 probably includes me, but I need the extra 100 bucks a week.
It really did seem like something out of DeLillo's _White Noise_.
Someone on ABC made the stupidly obvious point about this being a suicide mission.
Comic Book Guy: Bloodiest Movie Ever.
Dan
If corporations were concerned about licenses and what software they buy and how much that will cost, they probably would have already looked into GNU/Linux. The thing is, though, is that they haven't.
BSD/Gnu/Linux developers are still half in the dark ages with new stuff. Yes, a lot of it has to do with nasty proprietary designs, not-quite-standards, etc. Part of that is the way non-techies see standards, as they are what works right now.
IE5 is a standard thing because it works on damn near every site.
Microsoft Office is standard because everyone (please pardon the generalization, it's painfully obvious that you don't) and their grandma uses it.
Who makes these decisions, generally? Companies. And guess who they trust. Companies, that's right.
My mom still uses an old copy of MSWorks (from '94) that suits her just fine, thank you very much. She needed to install Office not because she needed the functionality, but because her employer sent her word documents.
It's not just companies, tho'. Here at my University, when I asked people NOT to send MS Word files to me, they glared and stared and when I finally looked at the things they had sent me at work, they would just as easily been an e-mail messages.
Whatever. People use what they are used to. Now, Windows XP, that's gonna be a weird one. Microsoft is going to need hardcore new toys for this upgrade, but people are going to swallow it, because their employers do it, their university does it, and gosh darnit, it works most of the time.
People at work generally don't mind when their computer crashes, as long as they've saved. Lets them take a 3 minute nap.
Dan
It helps you process the text, and depending what you're reading, it can be the only way to understand it. (For example, highly dialected texts, like Trainspotting or something like that.)
Dan
Dan
However . . .
When I go to work, and then I come home, I find it exceptionally hard to write, which, at least the way I do it, requires a lot of thought. That's what I like to do best. My mind wants to shut down, and I have to force it to stay active. I get frustrated when I play my guitar, too, but it's like I can't even think anymore.
Dan
This has me curious.
There's some anti-intellecutal property stuff posted here, and I'm wondering what the reasons are:
for intellectual property
against intellectual property
As for abandonware, I like what iD does with the software, personally.
Looking at google, I did a quick search and came up with this press release. The real site is here, actually, that's not true, because the "real" site is in Japanese. That is the English version.
They have notebooks, desktops, etc. in your choice of dead tree flavors.
As for Legos, I did that, with a 486-66, but I figured, why bother with a standard case design when you have legos? Mine looked vaguely like a mushroom (power supply on bottom, moboard on top).
Of course, people looked at me funny when I went up to the check-out of Wal-Mart with 2 boxes of 1000 peice sets of lego.
See this. While not definative, it's what most people think it is, and, grammar purists aside, what it's used as is what it becomes. (ex: gay) Trying to keep changes in usage out will kill a language.
You're a U.S. citizen, ain't ya?
{Wait, so am I. Nevermind.)
And they have re-released the Bill Hicks collection.
For those of you unaware, Bill Hicks was a comedian, and he said a lot of funny stuff. He also had a really, really, really interesting outlook on the musicians of his time (Vanilla Ice, Motley Crue, you know, late 80's-early 90's).
Sorry, I just felt the need to point that out.