I am showing how Dr. Strangelove by Kubrik broke the mold on thermonuclear war genre films. It was the first mainstream movie to cast a negative light (in a funny way of course) on the government policies and policy makers.
Check out Variety for listings of reviews for related movies.
There is also a reference book that I found in the Pop-Culture library: Film by Genre, Daniel Lopez, 1993 There are plenty of references to Sci-Fi, etc there.
but you have to understand that people have to have something to complain about. They don't ever look at the positives of anything.
It is a political stance and people always have their sides.
I say that it is a great thing for the world. Just b/c someone is cloned (as the root author said) does not mean that we are going to have 1 million little Hitlers running around.
Genetic research is already going on to make the perfect children. No birth defects, whatever eye color you want, whatever. I don't see how this is very different.
For the countries of the world that could support this kind of research I don't really see any "mad scientist" type creating an army of super-humans (as is the general public fear it seems). China still hasn't had a manned space launch and they were quite a ways behind in the nuclear arms race. Russia only had the bomb built b/c they borrowed much of the information from their allies.
I say let it go on. There is nothing but good to come from this. Stem cell research as well.
yeah, it was hard to disrupt w/a nuclear explosion taking out half the country yet it isn't hard to take out a good majority of the network now by sending around a DoS attack that spreads.. A nuclear blast was theoretically a localized event (although a limited engagement is something that is debated). A DoS attack (as has been shown) spreads fast and furious due to stupid people not protecting themselves. Lead walls won't protect Lisa this time...
umm, this isn't "machine" in the sense that a program actually does it. The people @ the Onion are just a group of really fucking funny people.
I honestly don't think that what this program does is all that funny, nor do I care about what happens as a result of this...
It's one thing to do a parody of a site on your own as a joke or whatever but to make a fucking program so that other people can have the almost exact same thing so that they can be annoying and put up stupid, unoriginal, web-sites? Goto any mom-pop ISP and load up someone's web page. There are plenty of sites out there that are almost identical w/a few changes that are almost funny...
"Welcome to my HOMEPAGE! -- This site is under construction"
my father taught me to whistle really loud. I could hear him over a 1/2 mile away (it was really nice when he was in the stands at a large event) and if he whistled I had to whistle back and I knew I had about 5 mins to get home.
Honestly lugging around my fingers was a lot easier than a $500 piece of computer hardware.
Honestly, I have had a handheld device for almost a year now... I haven't had much use for it other than as a glorified gameboy and an oversided MP3 player.
Sure it is invaluable as a note taking device in research libraries that don't allow pens and since I don't have a laptop here w/me it is nice (especially that I don't have to lug around 10 lbs)
Honestly though I don't understand the need for a handheld other than that. It takes me more time to take down quick notes than it would on a piece of paper (in an appt book).
I love using it for what I use it for but I don't see the need for a $500 piece of paper/gameboy.
That's just my worthless.02 as a user of one of these devices.
yeah it could but w/an ABCDEF keyboard I could not understand why anyone would want it.
I live and die by my Landware keyboard for my Cassiopeia. I do all my note taking for research. I could NOT imagine using my TI85 for note taking
-- cheating on tests is another story;)
It is a great idea and I most certainly like the serial port but the keyboard was not a good idea.
my father is using a 40G firewire drive from Maxtor. There is no way to format the drive. If it get screwy you have to send it back to the manufactorer for a new one??
it is VERY slow and KILLS the system when trying to use it for anything. This was in Windows.
I can't even imagine what the drivers would be like in Linux.
I have posted this before, and I will say it again... The cost of admining a Linux network is going to end up being the same as admining a Windows network. There is basically no difference.
A admin that is hired to do Windows is going to be paid the same as doing a Linux network (as there are usually both OSs in the place). I don't see the long term costs being anything different.
The short term costs (so the anti-Linux people say) are going to be far less than w/Windows.
Stop arguing about this. Linux is going to cost less no matter how you look at it. It is NOT ready for the desktop, yet it is most certainly a viable alternative to running an NT based net.
in order to make sure that your connection is working they must be able to ping your computer. They make you take it down so that they can make sure that there is a connection to your modem and then to your computer (there are two seperate IPs, a local for the modem and a general one for the computer).
It's just part of the system. If you don't take it down that's fine for the most part but it isn't going to make a big difference if you do for just a moment while they run the test.
as of 10/25/01 @Home supported XP. They are not allowed to setup the computer for remote access nor can they help the people change over to classic view (yet they prefer that) but they do support it.
XP still makes you reboot when changing system settings, quite an annoyance for support personel.
Are you sure that RR won't support it at least soon? Most of the staff would have to be retrained for it (as it is quite different from the other Windows based OSs). It also wasn't supported at @Home until the official release date, which pissed off a lot of people but what the hell were they doing w/a copy of XP before the date anyway?
My biggest beef w/RR is the terrible ping response. They are way overselling the bandwith..
With Linux, customers "end up being in the operating systems business," managing software updates and security patches while making sure the multitude of software packages don't conflict with each other," Miller said. "That's the job of a software vendor like Microsoft."
too bad that they only supply patches when the problem is absolutely demanding it. I don't really see MS going out and patching all these machines.
From the article MS had very little to say about this whole ordeal. They kept going back to the "it's free, sure, but you will pay in the long run." no. I will never pay. It is going to cause me the same, if not less problems in the long run, especially w/new licensing issues.
As far as it is usually for low end servers. Anyone see the IBM commercials lately?
that sounds less like ego and more like a mistake on the employees part. Yeah conflicts keep your mouth shut at times but I am sure there was discussion among the rest of you that would have let you know that a good majority of those people you worked w/disagreed w/the route of the project.
Why not all express your opinion instead of being passive participants?
Sounds like it was a management fuck up not an ego issue.
Then again, I really don't know how it works in the real world, or so that's what they always seem to tell me.
MacOS and BSD are completely different beasts too. They were combined into a single well running OS.
I am also rather annoyed w/the comments I have been reading about this, "why are they wasting their time making new binaries, why are they wasting their time doing this, it is just another WM for X." -- no fools, it is a project that someone wants to do. Let them do it stop judging so fast. Remember Linux started the exact same way and heard the exact same comments...
honestly, over a 10mbit LAN X isn't fast enough to run the applications I use everyday. GAIM, WordPerfect, and Netscape all run too slow over 10mbit to be worth even bothering.
I switched to 100mbit recently and it is better but not exactly what I would call some sort of godsend that would make me say that X is worth using just for network application.
X is a standard across many platforms and I believe that is to singling Linux out a little more on its own but I do think it is a good option for those that want to use it.
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I am showing how Dr. Strangelove by Kubrik broke the mold on thermonuclear war genre films. It was the first mainstream movie to cast a negative light (in a funny way of course) on the government policies and policy makers.
Check out Variety for listings of reviews for related movies.
There is also a reference book that I found in the Pop-Culture library: Film by Genre, Daniel Lopez, 1993 There are plenty of references to Sci-Fi, etc there.
Enjoy.
but you have to understand that people have to have something to complain about. They don't ever look at the positives of anything.
It is a political stance and people always have their sides.
I say that it is a great thing for the world. Just b/c someone is cloned (as the root author said) does not mean that we are going to have 1 million little Hitlers running around.
Genetic research is already going on to make the perfect children. No birth defects, whatever eye color you want, whatever. I don't see how this is very different.
For the countries of the world that could support this kind of research I don't really see any "mad scientist" type creating an army of super-humans (as is the general public fear it seems). China still hasn't had a manned space launch and they were quite a ways behind in the nuclear arms race. Russia only had the bomb built b/c they borrowed much of the information from their allies.
I say let it go on. There is nothing but good to come from this. Stem cell research as well.
why am I seeing the moderation totals for this comment?
:)
He can download the movies on the Commodore but saving and viewing them would be another challenge
yeah, it was hard to disrupt w/a nuclear explosion taking out half the country yet it isn't hard to take out a good majority of the network now by sending around a DoS attack that spreads.. A nuclear blast was theoretically a localized event (although a limited engagement is something that is debated). A DoS attack (as has been shown) spreads fast and furious due to stupid people not protecting themselves. Lead walls won't protect Lisa this time...
umm, this isn't "machine" in the sense that a program actually does it. The people @ the Onion are just a group of really fucking funny people.
I honestly don't think that what this program does is all that funny, nor do I care about what happens as a result of this...
It's one thing to do a parody of a site on your own as a joke or whatever but to make a fucking program so that other people can have the almost exact same thing so that they can be annoying and put up stupid, unoriginal, web-sites? Goto any mom-pop ISP and load up someone's web page. There are plenty of sites out there that are almost identical w/a few changes that are almost funny...
"Welcome to my HOMEPAGE! -- This site is under construction"
GNU/Linux. And you are talking about "cults"?
well at least they are getting closer to not doing duplicates :)
well in order to stop this problem the obvious solution is to sick a pair of dobermans on them.
my father taught me to whistle really loud. I could hear him over a 1/2 mile away (it was really nice when he was in the stands at a large event) and if he whistled I had to whistle back and I knew I had about 5 mins to get home.
Honestly lugging around my fingers was a lot easier than a $500 piece of computer hardware.
Kids these days...
no, they expect you to either use pencil (at least at the archives I have visited) or use some other form of note taking methods:
1. digital camera/standard camera
2. dictation to cassette (etc)
3. laptop
Honestly, I have had a handheld device for almost a year now... I haven't had much use for it other than as a glorified gameboy and an oversided MP3 player.
.02 as a user of one of these devices.
Sure it is invaluable as a note taking device in research libraries that don't allow pens and since I don't have a laptop here w/me it is nice (especially that I don't have to lug around 10 lbs)
Honestly though I don't understand the need for a handheld other than that. It takes me more time to take down quick notes than it would on a piece of paper (in an appt book).
I love using it for what I use it for but I don't see the need for a $500 piece of paper/gameboy.
That's just my worthless
yeah it could but w/an ABCDEF keyboard I could not understand why anyone would want it.
;)
I live and die by my Landware keyboard for my Cassiopeia. I do all my note taking for research. I could NOT imagine using my TI85 for note taking
-- cheating on tests is another story
It is a great idea and I most certainly like the serial port but the keyboard was not a good idea.
my father is using a 40G firewire drive from Maxtor. There is no way to format the drive. If it get screwy you have to send it back to the manufactorer for a new one??
it is VERY slow and KILLS the system when trying to use it for anything. This was in Windows.
I can't even imagine what the drivers would be like in Linux.
get lucky...
;)
:)
very good tip. you aren't going to do that (unless you found one of those amazing computer chics) w/a wireless LAN.
www.thehun.com doesn't count
myself, I would have a blanket, something nice to eat, something great to drink, and my fine lady
:)
I don't read freshmeat. I search for things there. It isn't something I really care to see everyday.
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I don't subscribe to the kernel announce list. I don't care to read a bunch of garbage everday.
A new kernel may not be news for everyone but it is certainly news for nerds.
If they tell us when the release of XP is, or when the release of a new variant of Code Red or the like is out, why not the kernel.
Sorry but I feel that the latest kernel is quite acceptable to be shown on
If you don't, tough. It obviously is going to stay no matter how many of you comment on it (remember, we have seen these posts before).
I like it.
I have posted this before, and I will say it again... The cost of admining a Linux network is going to end up being the same as admining a Windows network. There is basically no difference.
A admin that is hired to do Windows is going to be paid the same as doing a Linux network (as there are usually both OSs in the place). I don't see the long term costs being anything different.
The short term costs (so the anti-Linux people say) are going to be far less than w/Windows.
Stop arguing about this. Linux is going to cost less no matter how you look at it. It is NOT ready for the desktop, yet it is most certainly a viable alternative to running an NT based net.
in order to make sure that your connection is working they must be able to ping your computer. They make you take it down so that they can make sure that there is a connection to your modem and then to your computer (there are two seperate IPs, a local for the modem and a general one for the computer).
It's just part of the system. If you don't take it down that's fine for the most part but it isn't going to make a big difference if you do for just a moment while they run the test.
as of 10/25/01 @Home supported XP. They are not allowed to setup the computer for remote access nor can they help the people change over to classic view (yet they prefer that) but they do support it.
XP still makes you reboot when changing system settings, quite an annoyance for support personel.
Are you sure that RR won't support it at least soon? Most of the staff would have to be retrained for it (as it is quite different from the other Windows based OSs). It also wasn't supported at @Home until the official release date, which pissed off a lot of people but what the hell were they doing w/a copy of XP before the date anyway?
My biggest beef w/RR is the terrible ping response. They are way overselling the bandwith..
With Linux, customers "end up being in the operating systems business," managing software updates and security patches while making sure the multitude of software packages don't conflict with each other," Miller said. "That's the job of a software vendor like Microsoft."
too bad that they only supply patches when the problem is absolutely demanding it. I don't really see MS going out and patching all these machines.
From the article MS had very little to say about this whole ordeal. They kept going back to the "it's free, sure, but you will pay in the long run." no. I will never pay. It is going to cause me the same, if not less problems in the long run, especially w/new licensing issues.
As far as it is usually for low end servers. Anyone see the IBM commercials lately?
didn't come out at the same time as the Windows version, most people hopped out and grabbed the first god damn copy they could.
Only the absolute Windows haters would grab the Linux only copy.
that sounds less like ego and more like a mistake on the employees part. Yeah conflicts keep your mouth shut at times but I am sure there was discussion among the rest of you that would have let you know that a good majority of those people you worked w/disagreed w/the route of the project.
Why not all express your opinion instead of being passive participants?
Sounds like it was a management fuck up not an ego issue.
Then again, I really don't know how it works in the real world, or so that's what they always seem to tell me.
MacOS and BSD are completely different beasts too. They were combined into a single well running OS.
I am also rather annoyed w/the comments I have been reading about this, "why are they wasting their time making new binaries, why are they wasting their time doing this, it is just another WM for X." -- no fools, it is a project that someone wants to do. Let them do it stop judging so fast. Remember Linux started the exact same way and heard the exact same comments...
"ad and popup image search".
I would buy stock in the popups.
find out what is reported by IE/NS and have Konq send that out as the ID.
honestly, over a 10mbit LAN X isn't fast enough to run the applications I use everyday. GAIM, WordPerfect, and Netscape all run too slow over 10mbit to be worth even bothering.
:)
I switched to 100mbit recently and it is better but not exactly what I would call some sort of godsend that would make me say that X is worth using just for network application.
X is a standard across many platforms and I believe that is to singling Linux out a little more on its own but I do think it is a good option for those that want to use it.
Hope it all works out for ya