The book wasn't bad... not incredibly believable, but entertaining. The movie... eh... I feel bad for the trees that died to make the cellulose for the film...
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At Defcon this year, Kevin was one of the guys playing hacker jeopardy, and the other teams were teasing him... suddenly one of the players shouted 'don't make him mad, he'll use the launch codes!':)
Eh, there's nothing wrong with being good at your niche. While it's handy to have cross platform languages, sometimes there's no need to do so. Actionscript is great for Flash, but would be stupid for system admin, just because it wasn't designed for it.
Well, minimal for a desktop. I don't need to use one of the 'distros on a disk'. I'd just as soon avoid distro snobbism these days. There is no one 'best' distribution, it depends on your needs.
Mandrake is still fairly big if you do a default install, but it's nicely integrated and comfortable. I prefer redhat, but that's just cuz I run a minimal machine (firbird,openoffice,netbeans and perl stuff)
Actually, I would say that the US is (potentially) a very serious threat to any country that it decided to attack.
Since the U.S. is friendly with both Mexico and Canada, they are not much of a threat. It's not any kind of insult, but the U.S. has gotten massively stronger than its neighbors in the last 100 years. Events earlier than that don't much change that, y'know?
That last bit was actually much more upsetting for me on the day... because I knew that there was gonna be 10 times as many deaths in retalliation. Whatever the politics, it is NOT wise to anger the world's biggest military.
Have you considered that perhaps american (and western in general) culture has spread due to something other than nefarious intentions?
I would wager that no matter where, when 3000 people are slaughtered on live TV, it's going to have a big impact. That it was the US just guaranteed a massive retalliation, is all.
It makez sense that europeans would be more 'aware of the world' than americans. The US was long protected by relative geographic isolation in a way that no one in europe has been. (Canada and Mexico haven't been any serious threat in 100 years). While this distance isn't nearly as protective as it used to be, the effect on the american psyche is still there.
The thing is, 2001 was a Science Fiction movie, and followed the rules of the genre. Star Wars and Star Trek are fantasy that take place in space. There is nothing wrong with this, just the rules are somewhat different, i.e. they can play fast and loose with reality.
If 2001 (or Contact, etc.) tried to be so blatantly incorrect, the movie wouldn't have worked.
Incidently, whilst Contact was a SF movie, it was much more about a god or the lack thereof than aliens. Funny how many folks miss that.
Pesonally, I like the old science fiction from the late 30s and 40s... the science actually meant something, and was often used as the 'twist' that revealed the truth, much as a special clue would be used in a mystery. In fact, many old SF stories were mysteries.
For my money, it's hard to beat the Foundation trilogy (later - much later - expanded to 7 and then 10 books) for a good, thought provoking series.
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When Asimov brought together the Foundation/Empire and Robot series, I was just so shocked, it was a beautiful pieve of writing. Go read it people!
As I recall, most of the stuff that got cut was in the end battle scene... notably Aragorn butchering Uruk Hai as he ran down to Boromir. Also, an Uruk Hai pulling a knife out of his leg and licking the blood...
Ratings are weird. Sometimes cutting a couple of seconds will drop it from R to PG-13.
Sometimes resubmitting the exact same film will do that, too...
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... that movie sucked. Only redeeming scene was Liv tyler w/o her shirt...
The huge guys can't use 'em. I'm 6'5" 270 and too damned bug for the things. Maybe if I got 2 and welded them together...
The book wasn't bad... not incredibly believable, but entertaining. The movie... eh... I feel bad for the trees that died to make the cellulose for the film...
...like it's a bad thing you (wait... for... it...) insensitive clod!
Damn man, that's cold...
At Defcon this year, Kevin was one of the guys playing hacker jeopardy, and the other teams were teasing him... suddenly one of the players shouted 'don't make him mad, he'll use the launch codes!' :)
No, no... even with Perl you couldn't make this much of a mess (I say this as a perl hack even) if you tried.
you misspelled 'faux' there. common mistake.
Eh, there's nothing wrong with being good at your niche. While it's handy to have cross platform languages, sometimes there's no need to do so. Actionscript is great for Flash, but would be stupid for system admin, just because it wasn't designed for it.
That's true... I meant when you install all the Mandrake apps, but I shoulda stated that.
Well, minimal for a desktop. I don't need to use one of the 'distros on a disk'. I'd just as soon avoid distro snobbism these days. There is no one 'best' distribution, it depends on your needs.
Mandrake is still fairly big if you do a default install, but it's nicely integrated and comfortable. I prefer redhat, but that's just cuz I run a minimal machine (firbird,openoffice,netbeans and perl stuff)
Actually, I would say that the US is (potentially) a very serious threat to any country that it decided to attack.
Since the U.S. is friendly with both Mexico and Canada, they are not much of a threat. It's not any kind of insult, but the U.S. has gotten massively stronger than its neighbors in the last 100 years. Events earlier than that don't much change that, y'know?
That last bit was actually much more upsetting for me on the day... because I knew that there was gonna be 10 times as many deaths in retalliation. Whatever the politics, it is NOT wise to anger the world's biggest military.
Have you considered that perhaps american (and western in general) culture has spread due to something other than nefarious intentions?
I would wager that no matter where, when 3000 people are slaughtered on live TV, it's going to have a big impact. That it was the US just guaranteed a massive retalliation, is all.
It makez sense that europeans would be more 'aware of the world' than americans. The US was long protected by relative geographic isolation in a way that no one in europe has been. (Canada and Mexico haven't been any serious threat in 100 years). While this distance isn't nearly as protective as it used to be, the effect on the american psyche is still there.
The thing is, 2001 was a Science Fiction movie, and followed the rules of the genre. Star Wars and Star Trek are fantasy that take place in space. There is nothing wrong with this, just the rules are somewhat different, i.e. they can play fast and loose with reality.
If 2001 (or Contact, etc.) tried to be so blatantly incorrect, the movie wouldn't have worked.
Incidently, whilst Contact was a SF movie, it was much more about a god or the lack thereof than aliens. Funny how many folks miss that.
Pesonally, I like the old science fiction from the late 30s and 40s... the science actually meant something, and was often used as the 'twist' that revealed the truth, much as a special clue would be used in a mystery. In fact, many old SF stories were mysteries.
For my money, it's hard to beat the Foundation trilogy (later - much later - expanded to 7 and then 10 books) for a good, thought provoking series.
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When Asimov brought together the Foundation/Empire and Robot series, I was just so shocked, it was a beautiful pieve of writing. Go read it people!
For an O'Reilly book, that IS compact...
Eh, that's the problem with all 'logic' concerning all powerful beings. Kinda silly to try to read the mind of god/s (not that it stops most people).
Most likely the fact that he was a committed atheist, actually...
As I recall, most of the stuff that got cut was in the end battle scene... notably Aragorn butchering Uruk Hai as he ran down to Boromir. Also, an Uruk Hai pulling a knife out of his leg and licking the blood...
Ratings are weird. Sometimes cutting a couple of seconds will drop it from R to PG-13.
Sometimes resubmitting the exact same film will do that, too...
Cool, a microdot website...
You're right, my bad. I've been fighting all 3 for 2 days at work, and am tired and confused.
methinks that some support folks are gonna be given that suggestion when the management realizes how long the patch for this has been out...