I agree with what you say, but I think if I had my druthers I'd definitely be watching the TV movie over the Lynch one. Lynch's was baaad. Sheepishly so.
I'd be the first to argue that Neuromancer is no great piece of literature, but, I feel the need to say a couple things:
* Sure, it's beginning is slow. But then again, think about it, most of the book really is. It's a langorous journey, not a mad rush. Yes, it has it's action sequences, but like the rest of Gibson's work (all that I can speak of that is.... I still haven't read pattern recognition), it's not the action that defines it. It is the almost dream like quality that his books have, while remaining rooted firmly in their reality that makes them some of my favorites to sit down and just enjoy. Gibson in my opinion has a wonderful ability to take a small topic and weave it into something wonderful, as he does in his short fiction. The movie Johnny Mnemnonic may be infamously bad (I can't, alas, testify), however, the short story is quite a piece of work. Read the New Rose Hotel. Yes, Gibson writes a bleak, dystopia of a future, but it feels bleak much in the way that a foggy beach, or broken neon is bleak. Bleak, but beautiful, and quite enjoyable to take in
* Compare that to Snow Crash, which, while enjoyable, has too much action (In a sense, as that point is arguable), and has a tendency to bend away into plain wierdness. I think that's why I enjoyed Cryptonomicon more, was because it felt more thought out, and showed the talent Stephenson has, rather than just his stylistic (and sometimes shallow feeling) views. I get the impression sometimes that Stephenson is a bit of a topical bulldog, and has a hard time letting go of an idea. Stephenson's writing, at least, in snow crash, comes off as almost a candy coated dystopian vision of the future, filled with neon, lazers and headphones.
I still don't understand why people obsessivly follow vulnerability COUNTS. They are, quite literally, useless. One can, like any statistic, twist it to whatever purpose one needs. Somone should be implementing a method of quantifying the IMPACT of vulnerabilities (which should be independent of OS popularity). After all, sure, oBSD had 77 vulnerabilities, but how many of those are vulnerabilities that can only be triggered in esoteric circumstances. XP may have had 11, but the WMF flaw (which, I will admit, was technically a design flaw), could be triggered by simply browsing the web with IE!
How much mass would have to be removed from the moon (percentage wise) before there would be a noticable effect on the orbit of the moon, or the tides. Which would come first?
I think ciniematic effects are a thing of balance, but also the developer needs to know if he can tell the story without the cinematics gettin in the way:
Two games: Halo and Half Life 2.
Halo: Cinematics: Short, to the point, and highly relevant to the story. Could Bungie have told the halo story without cinematics? Perhaps, but I think it would have taken away from the epic scale that I think they were aiming for.
half life 2: No cinematics: Excellent story (did the game life up to the hype? Not really...), told first person exclusivly. You don't say anythng. And not once do you lose control of your character in a non-sensical way.
Which was better? I can't tell you. I liked 'em both.
Sorry. I have no suggestions when it comes to hardware. But, I will tell you this: For anything (Other than windows clients... so perhaps run samba for them), save yourself the trouble and use NFS if at all possible. I worked and I worked, trying to get SMB set up. After all, it was supposed to be easiest, especially if connecting to a windows machine. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. SMB is a very fragile protocol IMO. So many things I dislike about it. NFS is a much much better solution for data storage. Jeeze, if you're using a *NIX on your client you can even NFS mount your home directory. (Consolidating your data making it even worse if a hard drive crashes. Just kidding). Ok, yes, windows can't (Natively at least) make use of NFS mounts, but I see no reason why you can't run nfsd and samba beside eachother.
I even got NFS working on my windows machine. (Serving... never tried client)
I have as high hopes about this game as the next person, (I like the procedural trees:D) But, doesn't anyone remember the hype behind fable? It was supposed to just like that, so that if you killed young, it changed the people, and people's reactions to you. But as I recall, most people ended up finding that the game was more like a disney ride.
I'm reading through the interview, and all I can think is WHO KEEPS FINANCING THIS MAN? I mean, he writes like a grade eight child,
1UP: Though BloodRayne hasn't officially screened for critics, there have been some select showings, one of which prompted a sharply negative review by Ain't It Cool News, a site you previously told 1UP you read. Is that the response you were expecting?
UB: no. HARRY and Quint are retards
Ok, so now we now how he responds to criticism... How about his feelings about his actors?
1UP: What stood out about the casting of Kristanna Loken? In the latest issue of FHM (an American men's magazine), she's quoted on the cover as saying "I love being naked." C'mon, tell us, that must be it.
UB: yes. and she is in the movie naked
...
1UP: How was Ben Kinglsey on the set? Rumor has it he's always wanted to play a vampire.
UB: super diciplined [sic]. this is true
Ok? Come on. Either he has a serious issue with self expression, or he REALLY is as inept as he comes off; Either way I come back to my original point: Who keeps financing him?!
I'd be interested in finding out if there has been any real adoption of D in the real world. Even academically. It seems to me that I haven't heard much about it. Perhaps is just that it's being outshouted by python, and rails.
Computers Facilitating Illegal
Swapping of Star Wars On Day of Opening
Statement by MPAA President Dan Glickman
Washington, D.C. - - Responding to news reports today that the invention of the personal computer is already facilitating the illegal file sharing of the final Star Wars episode, Revenge of the Sith which opens in theaters today, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) President and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement:
"There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding usage of personal computers providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on shoestring networks all over the world.
"Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials by methods such as floppy toting.
"If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice."
Glickman said that the average movie costs $98 million to make and market. Less than one in ten movies re-coup their original investment from the domestic box office and six in ten never recoup their investment . The average personal computer can copy movies at a rapid rate. The movie industry is the only industry with a positive balance of trade in countries with which it does business. Copyrighted industries are responsible for an estimated $626 billion of the total gross domestic product.
"My message to illegal users everywhere is plain and simple: You are stealing, it is wrong and you are not anonymous," said Glickman. "In short, you can click, but you only might be able to hide.
The Motion Picture Association is engaged in an all out effort to root out Internet movie thieves and make them pay the consequences of illegally watching bad movies. It has hundreds of investigators looking into these kinds of cases worldwide and has already been successful in shutting down several computer users hopes.. As part of its anti-piracy effort, the MPAA and its member companies have brought lawsuits against many poor, underpriveledged, and elderly across the United States and plan to continue such action.
About the MPAA: The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. These members include: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal Studios from Universal City Studios; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
# # #
MPAA Los Angeles Kori Bernards Anne Caliguiri (818) 995-6600
MPAA Washington, DC John Feehery Gayle Osterberg (202) 293-1966
Now, not that I condone stealing, but the massive generalizations they make are just terrible.
Does this mean you have blacklisted it, or whitelisted selected boxes? I certainly hope you are whitelisting, otherwise this will be your kids best friend: http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/macshift/
This means no one is going to insure me from an American invasion.... I mean, liberation. After all, my country is going to hell in a hand basket, gay marriage, relaxed dope laws, liberal policies.
Japanese school girls text on their cells a hundred times more than any blackberry user (Remember, to them it is their social life. ). I'd be more interested in hearing about japan.
Slashdot Mirror
Annndd...... google answers all my questions preemptively.
Rather interesting to know. How DO you know that? Or is WebObjects a standard platform?
I agree with what you say, but I think if I had my druthers I'd definitely be watching the TV movie over the Lynch one. Lynch's was baaad. Sheepishly so.
I'd be the first to argue that Neuromancer is no great piece of literature, but, I feel the need to say a couple things:
* Sure, it's beginning is slow. But then again, think about it, most of the book really is. It's a langorous journey, not a mad rush. Yes, it has it's action sequences, but like the rest of Gibson's work (all that I can speak of that is.... I still haven't read pattern recognition), it's not the action that defines it. It is the almost dream like quality that his books have, while remaining rooted firmly in their reality that makes them some of my favorites to sit down and just enjoy. Gibson in my opinion has a wonderful ability to take a small topic and weave it into something wonderful, as he does in his short fiction. The movie Johnny Mnemnonic may be infamously bad (I can't, alas, testify), however, the short story is quite a piece of work. Read the New Rose Hotel. Yes, Gibson writes a bleak, dystopia of a future, but it feels bleak much in the way that a foggy beach, or broken neon is bleak. Bleak, but beautiful, and quite enjoyable to take in
* Compare that to Snow Crash, which, while enjoyable, has too much action (In a sense, as that point is arguable), and has a tendency to bend away into plain wierdness. I think that's why I enjoyed Cryptonomicon more, was because it felt more thought out, and showed the talent Stephenson has, rather than just his stylistic (and sometimes shallow feeling) views. I get the impression sometimes that Stephenson is a bit of a topical bulldog, and has a hard time letting go of an idea. Stephenson's writing, at least, in snow crash, comes off as almost a candy coated dystopian vision of the future, filled with neon, lazers and headphones.
What happens if they fail? A bunch of vaporized citizens?
I still don't understand why people obsessivly follow vulnerability COUNTS. They are, quite literally, useless. One can, like any statistic, twist it to whatever purpose one needs. Somone should be implementing a method of quantifying the IMPACT of vulnerabilities (which should be independent of OS popularity). After all, sure, oBSD had 77 vulnerabilities, but how many of those are vulnerabilities that can only be triggered in esoteric circumstances. XP may have had 11, but the WMF flaw (which, I will admit, was technically a design flaw), could be triggered by simply browsing the web with IE!
When she get's my old ds. I'm totally buying. I feel like such a consumer whore. I am such a consumer whore.
Meh. Twas an idle question formed out of fancy. I knew little enough about the subject to wonder.
How much mass would have to be removed from the moon (percentage wise) before there would be a noticable effect on the orbit of the moon, or the tides. Which would come first?
(oh, and is this licencing europe only?)
I'll admit it, I'm shocked. However, I have to ask the question? What is this going to change?
I think ciniematic effects are a thing of balance, but also the developer needs to know if he can tell the story without the cinematics gettin in the way: Two games: Halo and Half Life 2. Halo: Cinematics: Short, to the point, and highly relevant to the story. Could Bungie have told the halo story without cinematics? Perhaps, but I think it would have taken away from the epic scale that I think they were aiming for. half life 2: No cinematics: Excellent story (did the game life up to the hype? Not really...), told first person exclusivly. You don't say anythng. And not once do you lose control of your character in a non-sensical way. Which was better? I can't tell you. I liked 'em both.
Sorry. I have no suggestions when it comes to hardware. But, I will tell you this: For anything (Other than windows clients... so perhaps run samba for them), save yourself the trouble and use NFS if at all possible. I worked and I worked, trying to get SMB set up. After all, it was supposed to be easiest, especially if connecting to a windows machine. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. SMB is a very fragile protocol IMO. So many things I dislike about it. NFS is a much much better solution for data storage. Jeeze, if you're using a *NIX on your client you can even NFS mount your home directory. (Consolidating your data making it even worse if a hard drive crashes. Just kidding). Ok, yes, windows can't (Natively at least) make use of NFS mounts, but I see no reason why you can't run nfsd and samba beside eachother. I even got NFS working on my windows machine. (Serving... never tried client)
I have as high hopes about this game as the next person, (I like the procedural trees :D) But, doesn't anyone remember the hype behind fable? It was supposed to just like that, so that if you killed young, it changed the people, and people's reactions to you. But as I recall, most people ended up finding that the game was more like a disney ride.
I'd be interested in finding out if there has been any real adoption of D in the real world. Even academically. It seems to me that I haven't heard much about it. Perhaps is just that it's being outshouted by python, and rails.
Computers Facilitating Illegal
Swapping of Star Wars On Day of Opening
Statement by MPAA President Dan Glickman
Washington, D.C. - - Responding to news reports today that the invention of the personal computer is already facilitating the illegal file sharing of the final Star Wars episode, Revenge of the Sith which opens in theaters today, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) President and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement:
"There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding usage of personal computers providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on shoestring networks all over the world.
"Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials by methods such as floppy toting.
"If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice."
Glickman said that the average movie costs $98 million to make and market. Less than one in ten movies re-coup their original investment from the domestic box office and six in ten never recoup their investment . The average personal computer can copy movies at a rapid rate. The movie industry is the only industry with a positive balance of trade in countries with which it does business. Copyrighted industries are responsible for an estimated $626 billion of the total gross domestic product.
"My message to illegal users everywhere is plain and simple: You are stealing, it is wrong and you are not anonymous," said Glickman. "In short, you can click, but you only might be able to hide.
The Motion Picture Association is engaged in an all out effort to root out Internet movie thieves and make them pay the consequences of illegally watching bad movies. It has hundreds of investigators looking into these kinds of cases worldwide and has already been successful in shutting down several computer users hopes.. As part of its anti-piracy effort, the MPAA and its member companies have brought lawsuits against many poor, underpriveledged, and elderly across the United States and plan to continue such action.
About the MPAA: The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. These members include: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal Studios from Universal City Studios; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
# # #
MPAA Los Angeles
Kori Bernards
Anne Caliguiri
(818) 995-6600
MPAA Washington, DC
John Feehery
Gayle Osterberg
(202) 293-1966
Now, not that I condone stealing, but the massive generalizations they make are just terrible.
Oh goodness. This could make someone feel ill quite easily. The reprecussions of this happening will be bad. Very bad.
Of course, I'm certain there will also be at least one guy who wants to sleep with you, and numerous girls who want to be you.
Does this mean you have blacklisted it, or whitelisted selected boxes? I certainly hope you are whitelisting, otherwise this will be your kids best friend: http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/macshift/
What about Paul Thurrott? He's (from what I remeber), quite a hardcore Windows man, about as militant as they get.
This means no one is going to insure me from an American invasion.... I mean, liberation. After all, my country is going to hell in a hand basket, gay marriage, relaxed dope laws, liberal policies.
Just what I Need to help my confidence, robots getting it more than I do.
Japanese school girls text on their cells a hundred times more than any blackberry user (Remember, to them it is their social life. ). I'd be more interested in hearing about japan.
am quite happy about this. go novell!