>As is stands presently, however, the TLDs are completely useless, except for.edu, which you actually had to prove. (and yet, a nursing school couldn't register as one, for some damned reason)
If you need cheap manpower, one other option you should look at is getting university or college co-ops. Though you'd certainly want a core employee or knowledgeable contractor doing your design and implementing the most complex stuff, co-ops are great for getting the grunt work done, especially for short projects.
Haven't gotten around to _The Diamond Age_ yet, but the ref that popped into my head when I read this was Pham's armour mites from _A Fire Upon the Deep_.
I don't agree that it was below average, but I don't think it was an amazing movie. When I watched it, it never quite clicked for me.
But.
I saw it with about 6 other people, only two of whom has heard the hype. The others had never heard of the thing. One of them even complained all through the start of the movie (when they were interviewing people in town), "Why are we watching this? This sucks! I could make a 'movie' like this!" He was pretty white when it ended. So were the others who hadn't heard of it.
Blair Witch was really effective if you went into it not expecting much. If you're not sure what you're getting, its very effective at playing on your imagination. If you've seen the hype and are expecting to be creeped out, though, you're attitude is more likely to be, "OK, I'm here - scare me."
I think becoming a massive hit took BWP far beyond its natural level. In an ideal world, it probably would have stayed as a great cult movie spread by word-of-mouth. As it is, I think the hype will alienate a lot of people who would otherwise have loved it.
The hype wasn't artificial at first, either. It started out with word-of-mouth, which is as natural as you can get. I heard it mentioned on two mailing lists and a MUD, then started seeing ads on Space (the Canadian sci-fi channel). Ads on Space don't count: they advertise 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' every Christmas. It was only after it became a hit through word-of-mouth that it started getting mainstream hype.
> Like how they miss the fact that the stream they were following CHANGED DIRECTIONS and started flowing UPHILL.
Magic, dude. If they were walking straight south all day (and it's pretty hard to make an exact circle when you're following a compass), how else could they have gotten back to their starting point?
> Or why they didn't just start a HUGE fire and WAIT for the search and rescue team to get them?
It was pretty obvious they weren't too experienced in the woods. They made a lot of mistakes. (In fact, they made all the typical horror-movie mistakes, but the acting was so good I didn't even notice until it was finished.) One mistake, BTW, is that they weren't following the stream, just heading out in a random compass direction. (And you thought you were watching so closely.)
> Or why they didn't kill and eat Mike after he admitted trashing the map?
Overreacting just a bit, don't you think? They screamed at him for a good long time.
> Anyone else notice the electrical wiring in the house? It certainly wasn't from the 40's. How about the beer bottle on the fireplace?
So they goofed. There are goofs far bigger in big-budget movies, it doesn't make them suck. (Take a look at the Star Wars blooper list some time. You could argue that Star Wars sucks, but it's not because of the bloopers.)
>Or the fact that people are running around in an unknown house, in the dark with CAMERAS in front of their faces.
Well, okay. Here you have a valid complaint. If you can't suspend your disbelief enough to ignore the cameras, you won't enjoy the movie. Or any movie, really - I can't think of any that don't need at least this much suspension of disbelief. Just stay away from movies, TV, and books, and these little inconsistencies won't annoy you anymore.
(That said, I think it would have been better if they swung the cameras around more, as if they were dangling by their sides and they just hadn't dropped them. But it was hardly necessary.)
> Or how their unknown assialant could have clubbed Mikey, ripped off his back pack, propped > him up in the corner and gotten back into position before she could make it down stairs?
Unknown assailant? The whole point of the ending is that something seriously weird is going on - just like with the stream. Of course it couldn't really happen - in a completely rational world.
>This movie SUCKED!!!
I don't think the reasons you've given are petty. Really, I don't.
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And I bet Peter Thiel was sweating a little... would have been fun if something had screwed up with that little transfer!
Effective gesture, though. They wouldn't have put $3 mil on the line without a well tested system!
The OSS/free may be obsoleted (a good thing - all principles aside, having something which is related to a specific commercial product in the kernel is confusing) but OSS is another matter. As long as hardware vendors want somebody who they can sign an NDA with, we're going to need an alternate available with the pragmatic attitude, as another poster put it, of 4front. Some people have posted vehemently that it shouldn't work like this, but unfortunately it does. We need to keep the ability to have binary-only drivers for a fall-back position if the only other option is not to support certain hardware at all.
Once Linux is a major platform, existence of binary vs. open source drivers will begin to be a selling point for hardware, instead of something that only a handful of people are concerned with. At that point at least some vendors will notice that cards with open-source drivers are selling better, and there will be enough choice that the community can begin pushing ALSA as the One True Way without worrying about cutting off the best cards. Right now we just don't have the numbers to convince anyone.
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>As is stands presently, however, the TLDs are completely useless, except for .edu, which you actually had to prove. (and yet, a nursing school couldn't register as one, for some damned reason)
$whois mars.edu
If you need cheap manpower, one other option you should look at is getting university or college co-ops. Though you'd certainly want a core employee or knowledgeable contractor doing your design and implementing the most complex stuff, co-ops are great for getting the grunt work done, especially for short projects.
Haven't gotten around to _The Diamond Age_ yet, but the ref that popped into my head when I read this was Pham's armour mites from _A Fire Upon the Deep_.
>And Microsoft's Edwards says that Linux lacks many advanced capabilities, such as the ability to run on computers with multiple processor chips.
This is ridiculous.
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I don't agree that it was below average, but I don't think it was an amazing movie. When I watched it, it never quite clicked for me.
But.
I saw it with about 6 other people, only two of whom has heard the hype. The others had never heard of the thing. One of them even complained all through the start of the movie (when they were interviewing people in town), "Why are we watching this? This sucks! I could make a 'movie' like this!" He was pretty white when it ended. So were the others who hadn't heard of it.
Blair Witch was really effective if you went into it not expecting much. If you're not sure what you're getting, its very effective at playing on your imagination. If you've seen the hype and are expecting to be creeped out, though, you're attitude is more likely to be, "OK, I'm here - scare me."
I think becoming a massive hit took BWP far beyond its natural level. In an ideal world, it probably would have stayed as a great cult movie spread by word-of-mouth. As it is, I think the hype will alienate a lot of people who would otherwise have loved it.
The hype wasn't artificial at first, either. It started out with word-of-mouth, which is as natural as you can get. I heard it mentioned on two mailing lists and a MUD, then started seeing ads on Space (the Canadian sci-fi channel). Ads on Space don't count: they advertise 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' every Christmas. It was only after it became a hit through word-of-mouth that it started getting mainstream hype.
> Like how they miss the fact that the stream they were following CHANGED DIRECTIONS and started flowing UPHILL.
Magic, dude. If they were walking straight south all day (and it's pretty hard to make an exact circle when you're following a compass), how else could they have gotten back to their starting point?
> Or why they didn't just start a HUGE fire and WAIT for the search and rescue team to get them?
It was pretty obvious they weren't too experienced in the woods. They made a lot of mistakes. (In fact, they made all the typical horror-movie mistakes, but the acting was so good I didn't even notice until it was finished.) One mistake, BTW, is that they weren't following the stream, just heading out in a random compass direction. (And you thought you were watching so closely.)
> Or why they didn't kill and eat Mike after he admitted trashing the map?
Overreacting just a bit, don't you think? They screamed at him for a good long time.
> Anyone else notice the electrical wiring in the house? It certainly wasn't from the 40's. How about the beer bottle on the fireplace?
So they goofed. There are goofs far bigger in big-budget movies, it doesn't make them suck. (Take a look at the Star Wars blooper list some time. You could argue that Star Wars sucks, but it's not because of the bloopers.)
>Or the fact that people are running around in an unknown house, in the dark with CAMERAS in front of their faces.
Well, okay. Here you have a valid complaint. If you can't suspend your disbelief enough to ignore the cameras, you won't enjoy the movie. Or any movie, really - I can't think of any that don't need at least this much suspension of disbelief. Just stay away from movies, TV, and books, and these little inconsistencies won't annoy you anymore.
(That said, I think it would have been better if they swung the cameras around more, as if they were dangling by their sides and they just hadn't dropped them. But it was hardly necessary.)
> Or how their unknown assialant could have clubbed Mikey, ripped off his back pack, propped
> him up in the corner and gotten back into position before she could make it down stairs?
Unknown assailant? The whole point of the ending is that something seriously weird is going on - just like with the stream. Of course it couldn't really happen - in a completely rational world.
>This movie SUCKED!!!
I don't think the reasons you've given are petty. Really, I don't.
And I bet Peter Thiel was sweating a little... would have been fun if something had screwed up with that little transfer!
Effective gesture, though. They wouldn't have put $3 mil on the line without a well tested system!
The OSS/free may be obsoleted (a good thing - all principles aside, having something which is related to a specific commercial product in the kernel is confusing) but OSS is another matter. As long as hardware vendors want somebody who they can sign an NDA with, we're going to need an alternate available with the pragmatic attitude, as another poster put it, of 4front. Some people have posted vehemently that it shouldn't work like this, but unfortunately it does. We need to keep the ability to have binary-only drivers for a fall-back position if the only other option is not to support certain hardware at all.
Once Linux is a major platform, existence of binary vs. open source drivers will begin to be a selling point for hardware, instead of something that only a handful of people are concerned with. At that point at least some vendors will notice that cards with open-source drivers are selling better, and there will be enough choice that the community can begin pushing ALSA as the One True Way without worrying about cutting off the best cards. Right now we just don't have the numbers to convince anyone.