Many people keep talking about a plot... but which one? What plot are you thinking about?
I liked Tron Legacy, and I liked the first Tron as well...
There is a "plot" but you shouldn't be looking for "the main story line" to be the "plot"...
For instance, in Tron (1) the main story is about Flynn having some programs ripped off and getting canned, then looking for that redeeming information in the system via hacking...
The Plot, however, is about the MCP and it's purpose, and how Alan was fighting against it... freedom of information... maybe just freedom in general... we can apply this "plot" and "moral" to any number of circumstances in our lives...
In Tron (2) the "main story line" is about young Flynn losing his dad one day, and growing up a little worse for the wear... again, like the first Tron, this isn't the "plot"...
The Plot is the struggle of "imperfection" vs. a perceived "perfection" and how, once loosed, some things are hard to undo and can actually be damaging, over all, to the desired outcome.
You can also apply this moral (plot) to things happening to us today with legislation designed to "do good" but actually being "bad" for us over all. (Patriot act, health care legislation, net neutraility legislation, financial reform, move to socialism vs. free market, etc)
Don't look at these movies for the "meaning of life", they are a "sub-plot" of life...
The story on the surface isn't necessarily the "plot"...
Wouldn't that explain it?
Each time you make a time jump, you create a new string.
You cannot travel up and down strings once created, you simply split new strings into new strings...each creating a new possibility with subtle differences...
It wasn't a tea party rally, it was a "Restoring Honor" rally...
To hold an "anti-Restoring Honor" rally is just plain stupid...what? we WANT to be dishonorable?
I'd be surprised if Colbert or anyone else could get more than Beck...just look at the last "icon" to have a rally there in D.C., what was it, back 2 years ago, the inauguration? Not even the charismatic leader of "hope" and "change" could draw more than 200,000 people.
Face it, people are fed up with the direction things are going. Colbert, if he is serious, would only make it worse, or prove the point.
not just "resisting" but something like "trespass" or "interfering with operation" (either metro or police), etc...
They could come up with something...better not to let them think on it too hard...
What dude should have done is take his lawyer along... they have fun with that kind of thing...
Is there anyone else that thinks this is a BAD IDEA?
We already have people crashing and killing each-other because of distracted driving... do we need to add to that with giving them something like this?
Once he goes to court and his name is entered into the Public Record, it becomes Public Domain (like it wasn't already??? he was a senator...) then it can be used without his consent...
What I want to know is where all the money (millions, I hear) that supposedly went to Utah's 4th Congressional District (Utah only has 3 Congressional Districts)...
According to the LAWS that govern the use of a Social Security number: it is illegal to use that number for anything but social security tax purposes...
In other words, you can only use it for Banks, Employment, and IRS Tax purposes.
The DMV is breaking Federal Law, and any other organization, group, entity, company, or even Government Agency that uses your Social Security number as an IDENTIFICATION number are BREAKING federal law...
So why not just enforce the law?
... That could save money and trouble:
Insure the Driver, not the Car.
In the State of Utah, if you (an individual, no family, etc) have 4 cars that are capable of being driven (registered, etc) you are REQUIRED by law to have insurance on each vehicle...so figure as cheap as you can per vehicle and times that by 4 or as expensive as you can imagine, and times that by 4...
Why not figure the most expensive to insure vehicle that you own, and just charge you that much...then you could drive any other car you own, and it would be covered, because your insurance is geared to the most expensive to insure car...
This makes sense because you can only drive one vehicle at a time. Then I could also drive other people's vehicles (no real special rider needed) because my insurance would be on ME and not on the car...
Rental agencies do this to some degree...
As for this idea...I don't see what the problem is. Each year you go in for Safety and Emissions inspections, just have the agency take the odometer reading and report back to the insurance company, who then figures the miles driven by a simple mathematical operation called "subtraction"...who then sends you a bill for the insurance on the miles driven (or an estimate of the miles you drive per year, making up the difference (to you or to them) in subsequent years...)
How much more simple could it be?
If it really takes that much money to redesign a web site, I'LL TAKE IT!
I have a small group of people who could have this done in phases throughout a year, for a heck of a lot less (we do it all the time) so this would be an incredible UPGRADE!
I worked for Microsoft for over 6 years, and I swore, when I left, that I would find a better way.
I ran into Ubuntu Linux after going from Red Hat, to Fedora, and Suse...
I tested it out for some time, setting up a server to handle all those functions I was paying hundreds of dollars for.
Then I converted all the machines over that I own, and I have been more than happy.
Every machine I set up has a RAID, My "user" machines all get RAID 1, my server and my play machines get either RAID 5 or RAID 6
I have had drives go bad, operating system troubles, hardware troubles, and everything imaginable.
My data is still safe. Stuff that I have collected for 10 or more years, files, mails, etc...
I don't worry about any of it.
I tried raid in Windows, and without purchasing expensive hardware, forget it. It doesn't work, or at least, it doesn't work well.
While I worked at Microsoft, I went in for a "blue badge" interview. While I waited, a currier brought in a box for a group in building 53. This box was a copy of Red Hat Enterprise.
I thought that was funny, but when the guy came to pick it up, he explained that they had sensitive data on their servers, and they couldn't trust that data to Windows Server Addition, (back in the Win 2K days).
If Microsoft cannot trust their own software, why should I?
I researched Drobo, and found it to waste too much space, not to mention that the network add-on is expensive...and then reduced to usb transfer rates...
I have a Buffalo on my desk, and it is ok, but if you need speed, that isn't a way to go.
I found that I could buy a real RAID card and roll my own RAID NAS with little trouble and get great speeds out of it.
Later I purchased a micro board, it has 6 sata ports, and I have a Software Raid running on Ubuntu server, with all the necessary bits for SAMBA, XFS, CIFS, etc. I have 6 disks all in raid and a Gigabit ethernet...faster than anything I have purchased previously...does a good job too...
A recent Business Week article indicated that we are loosing the Cyber War. I work in Computer Forensics and one of the obstacles I see (regularly) for a secure computer (secure data) is the operating system being used.
We have had little choice but to use Windows or Macintosh for the past 10 years, and according to Secunia, Windows is still unpatched (XP has 13% unpatched vulnerabilities and Vista has 12%).
With the current state of the economy, and with the prospect of loosing the so called "Cyber War", what are the governments plans to save money while increasing security, without affecting the Rights and Freedoms we currently enjoy on the Internet?
Actually, I think you missed my point.
There is no need to have timezones.
There is no need to have a leap anything.
The earth moves at a specific rate,
0.9856 degrees per day (around the sun)
15.04 degrees an hour (on axis)
So why do we need to have 365.25 days a year? why not adjust the way we measure time to compensate?
computers can give us an accurate rate of measure, which will remove the need to leap anything at any time.
Sure, we will have to relearn how to tell time, but the same thing happens when people move from STANDARD to METRIC...and they haven't died for the experience yet...
Doing things this way gives people the ability to start their day whenever they want to...and business could set their own hours, and even emulate "standard time" or "daylight saving time" as they so choose.
Why do we need to centralize this, when it really doesn't help...if it is pitch black when I get up, I turn on a light, get dressed and go to work with my headlights on...if it is light out side when I get up, I still have to get dressed and drive to work...and save what, an HOUR'S energy for not turning on my light, or using my headlights?
In this day and age, there is no reason we should even still be cut up into time-zones. There is no need for a leap year (or a leap anything...) and we should definitely not have "daylight savings".
We should go to something like "internet time" where the day (currently 24 hours) is equally divided and the time is measured at the exact moment around the world. So instead of having 5 pm Mountain time be 6 pm central, it would simply be 17, or 85, or whatever the numeric representation is... 1 might be in the middle of the night, or in the mid morning, or in the evening...but it would always be 1 at that very instant/event every day, and it would be for everyone.
Then there is no worry about daylight savings...
companies can decide when they want to open, when they want to do business (we are open from 8 to 16 - which would be the same 8-16 all over the planet...) and if a company decides to be open an hour earlier or close an hour later...then that is their deal...everyone will still be working within 2 hours of eachother, really no different than things are right now...
It used to be that the GNP meant something...this country could produce enough goods and services to cover our debt...
Well, no longer. We should only spend what we have to spend, not debt, but actual "income" or the tax money that the government collects (tariffs, etc).
Projected income = budgeted spending. The remainder or "actual" is either a surplus or deficit, and you fix that for the next budget...
Well...there is no way in hell we are paying off the national debt...you may as well borrow and spend, because it really doesn't matter.
Inflation will now go unchecked, our dollar will fall, and our economy will fail. This road has been chosen, and we must simply accept that fact.
I worked in Tech Support and landed a nice job at Microsoft...
As someone who does interviews now, I look for people with experience from the USER point of view.
If your potential employer does not see this benefit, then maybe change your resume to says something more along the lines of "consumer advocate" instead of "tech support", and use the words "engineer" and "technical" in some way to qualify your job in support (but not "support engineer")...
More something like "technical engineer" or "technical analyst". Morph it to concentrate on your ability to analyze technical problems, and create solutions.
believe it or not it doesn't hurt to use some creativity on your part, and it doesn't hurt to put that positive spin on things...
The POINT of a NDA is that it is an AGREEMENT...was this an agreement signed by the developers PRIOR to their working with the SDK?
If not, Apple cannot simply send an NDA and expect you to abide by it...AFTER THE FACT...
That would be like Ubuntu turning around and sending everyone who has ever downloaded a copy a bill for $19.95 just because they changed their mind and figure we should now pay for it...
Just simply adding the phrase "this agreement may change at any time" does not bind anyone to A) continue to accept the agreement, and B) have unreasonable or not-agreed to clauses being forced upon the user. THAT, at least, has been proven in court.
You can get a free account at DynDNS, get any domain they offer, or get one from GoDaddy for about $9.
Set up a linux machine at home, stick it on the internet, make IMAP, POP3, etc...and it is all secure and available from anywhere (via DynDNS and your purchased domain.
If you pay for the services, it will cost under $50 a year, but I believe DynDNS gives ONE free account, and the domain is $9, so you could get away with it for under $10...
I have a server that has been running non-stop and without error for 3 years.
I think one of the biggest things we should complain about is that if someone is NOT a suspect in a crime, or is NOT suspected of violating any law, or is NOT a "person of interest" then WHERE IS ALL THE TIME going to come from that the FBI will use to spy on all the Americans?
Where is all the MONEY going to come from for the FBI to spend on surveillance that isn't attached to any crime?
These are important questions that should be asked.
I run Linux, and use FireFox...
This is the error I get when trying to use this thing...
"Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.
Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site."
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Many people keep talking about a plot... but which one? What plot are you thinking about? I liked Tron Legacy, and I liked the first Tron as well... There is a "plot" but you shouldn't be looking for "the main story line" to be the "plot"... For instance, in Tron (1) the main story is about Flynn having some programs ripped off and getting canned, then looking for that redeeming information in the system via hacking... The Plot, however, is about the MCP and it's purpose, and how Alan was fighting against it... freedom of information... maybe just freedom in general... we can apply this "plot" and "moral" to any number of circumstances in our lives... In Tron (2) the "main story line" is about young Flynn losing his dad one day, and growing up a little worse for the wear... again, like the first Tron, this isn't the "plot"... The Plot is the struggle of "imperfection" vs. a perceived "perfection" and how, once loosed, some things are hard to undo and can actually be damaging, over all, to the desired outcome. You can also apply this moral (plot) to things happening to us today with legislation designed to "do good" but actually being "bad" for us over all. (Patriot act, health care legislation, net neutraility legislation, financial reform, move to socialism vs. free market, etc) Don't look at these movies for the "meaning of life", they are a "sub-plot" of life... The story on the surface isn't necessarily the "plot"...
Wouldn't that explain it? Each time you make a time jump, you create a new string. You cannot travel up and down strings once created, you simply split new strings into new strings...each creating a new possibility with subtle differences...
It wasn't a tea party rally, it was a "Restoring Honor" rally...
To hold an "anti-Restoring Honor" rally is just plain stupid...what? we WANT to be dishonorable?
I'd be surprised if Colbert or anyone else could get more than Beck...just look at the last "icon" to have a rally there in D.C., what was it, back 2 years ago, the inauguration? Not even the charismatic leader of "hope" and "change" could draw more than 200,000 people.
Face it, people are fed up with the direction things are going. Colbert, if he is serious, would only make it worse, or prove the point.
not just "resisting" but something like "trespass" or "interfering with operation" (either metro or police), etc...
They could come up with something...better not to let them think on it too hard...
What dude should have done is take his lawyer along... they have fun with that kind of thing...
Is there anyone else that thinks this is a BAD IDEA? We already have people crashing and killing each-other because of distracted driving... do we need to add to that with giving them something like this?
Once he goes to court and his name is entered into the Public Record, it becomes Public Domain (like it wasn't already??? he was a senator...) then it can be used without his consent...
Maybe a dough nut, or .... pick up my dry-cleaning... ;)
Yes, wrongdooers have privacy issues, and so do the rest of us. Google isn't winning any friends over this statement...
What I want to know is where all the money (millions, I hear) that supposedly went to Utah's 4th Congressional District (Utah only has 3 Congressional Districts)...
According to the LAWS that govern the use of a Social Security number: it is illegal to use that number for anything but social security tax purposes... In other words, you can only use it for Banks, Employment, and IRS Tax purposes. The DMV is breaking Federal Law, and any other organization, group, entity, company, or even Government Agency that uses your Social Security number as an IDENTIFICATION number are BREAKING federal law... So why not just enforce the law?
... That could save money and trouble: Insure the Driver, not the Car. In the State of Utah, if you (an individual, no family, etc) have 4 cars that are capable of being driven (registered, etc) you are REQUIRED by law to have insurance on each vehicle...so figure as cheap as you can per vehicle and times that by 4 or as expensive as you can imagine, and times that by 4... Why not figure the most expensive to insure vehicle that you own, and just charge you that much...then you could drive any other car you own, and it would be covered, because your insurance is geared to the most expensive to insure car... This makes sense because you can only drive one vehicle at a time. Then I could also drive other people's vehicles (no real special rider needed) because my insurance would be on ME and not on the car... Rental agencies do this to some degree... As for this idea...I don't see what the problem is. Each year you go in for Safety and Emissions inspections, just have the agency take the odometer reading and report back to the insurance company, who then figures the miles driven by a simple mathematical operation called "subtraction"...who then sends you a bill for the insurance on the miles driven (or an estimate of the miles you drive per year, making up the difference (to you or to them) in subsequent years...) How much more simple could it be?
If it really takes that much money to redesign a web site, I'LL TAKE IT! I have a small group of people who could have this done in phases throughout a year, for a heck of a lot less (we do it all the time) so this would be an incredible UPGRADE!
I worked for Microsoft for over 6 years, and I swore, when I left, that I would find a better way. I ran into Ubuntu Linux after going from Red Hat, to Fedora, and Suse... I tested it out for some time, setting up a server to handle all those functions I was paying hundreds of dollars for. Then I converted all the machines over that I own, and I have been more than happy. Every machine I set up has a RAID, My "user" machines all get RAID 1, my server and my play machines get either RAID 5 or RAID 6 I have had drives go bad, operating system troubles, hardware troubles, and everything imaginable. My data is still safe. Stuff that I have collected for 10 or more years, files, mails, etc... I don't worry about any of it. I tried raid in Windows, and without purchasing expensive hardware, forget it. It doesn't work, or at least, it doesn't work well. While I worked at Microsoft, I went in for a "blue badge" interview. While I waited, a currier brought in a box for a group in building 53. This box was a copy of Red Hat Enterprise. I thought that was funny, but when the guy came to pick it up, he explained that they had sensitive data on their servers, and they couldn't trust that data to Windows Server Addition, (back in the Win 2K days). If Microsoft cannot trust their own software, why should I?
I researched Drobo, and found it to waste too much space, not to mention that the network add-on is expensive...and then reduced to usb transfer rates... I have a Buffalo on my desk, and it is ok, but if you need speed, that isn't a way to go. I found that I could buy a real RAID card and roll my own RAID NAS with little trouble and get great speeds out of it. Later I purchased a micro board, it has 6 sata ports, and I have a Software Raid running on Ubuntu server, with all the necessary bits for SAMBA, XFS, CIFS, etc. I have 6 disks all in raid and a Gigabit ethernet...faster than anything I have purchased previously...does a good job too...
A recent Business Week article indicated that we are loosing the Cyber War. I work in Computer Forensics and one of the obstacles I see (regularly) for a secure computer (secure data) is the operating system being used. We have had little choice but to use Windows or Macintosh for the past 10 years, and according to Secunia, Windows is still unpatched (XP has 13% unpatched vulnerabilities and Vista has 12%). With the current state of the economy, and with the prospect of loosing the so called "Cyber War", what are the governments plans to save money while increasing security, without affecting the Rights and Freedoms we currently enjoy on the Internet?
Actually, I think you missed my point. There is no need to have timezones. There is no need to have a leap anything. The earth moves at a specific rate, 0.9856 degrees per day (around the sun) 15.04 degrees an hour (on axis) So why do we need to have 365.25 days a year? why not adjust the way we measure time to compensate? computers can give us an accurate rate of measure, which will remove the need to leap anything at any time. Sure, we will have to relearn how to tell time, but the same thing happens when people move from STANDARD to METRIC ...and they haven't died for the experience yet...
Doing things this way gives people the ability to start their day whenever they want to...and business could set their own hours, and even emulate "standard time" or "daylight saving time" as they so choose.
Why do we need to centralize this, when it really doesn't help...if it is pitch black when I get up, I turn on a light, get dressed and go to work with my headlights on...if it is light out side when I get up, I still have to get dressed and drive to work...and save what, an HOUR'S energy for not turning on my light, or using my headlights?
In this day and age, there is no reason we should even still be cut up into time-zones. There is no need for a leap year (or a leap anything...) and we should definitely not have "daylight savings". We should go to something like "internet time" where the day (currently 24 hours) is equally divided and the time is measured at the exact moment around the world. So instead of having 5 pm Mountain time be 6 pm central, it would simply be 17, or 85, or whatever the numeric representation is... 1 might be in the middle of the night, or in the mid morning, or in the evening...but it would always be 1 at that very instant/event every day, and it would be for everyone. Then there is no worry about daylight savings... companies can decide when they want to open, when they want to do business (we are open from 8 to 16 - which would be the same 8-16 all over the planet...) and if a company decides to be open an hour earlier or close an hour later...then that is their deal...everyone will still be working within 2 hours of eachother, really no different than things are right now...
It used to be that the GNP meant something...this country could produce enough goods and services to cover our debt...
Well, no longer. We should only spend what we have to spend, not debt, but actual "income" or the tax money that the government collects (tariffs, etc).
Projected income = budgeted spending. The remainder or "actual" is either a surplus or deficit, and you fix that for the next budget...
Well...there is no way in hell we are paying off the national debt...you may as well borrow and spend, because it really doesn't matter.
Inflation will now go unchecked, our dollar will fall, and our economy will fail. This road has been chosen, and we must simply accept that fact.
http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/movie/d2612.html
I worked in Tech Support and landed a nice job at Microsoft...
As someone who does interviews now, I look for people with experience from the USER point of view. If your potential employer does not see this benefit, then maybe change your resume to says something more along the lines of "consumer advocate" instead of "tech support", and use the words "engineer" and "technical" in some way to qualify your job in support (but not "support engineer")...
More something like "technical engineer" or "technical analyst". Morph it to concentrate on your ability to analyze technical problems, and create solutions.
believe it or not it doesn't hurt to use some creativity on your part, and it doesn't hurt to put that positive spin on things...
Think Different, Think of ANYTHING but an Apple product...
The POINT of a NDA is that it is an AGREEMENT...was this an agreement signed by the developers PRIOR to their working with the SDK?
If not, Apple cannot simply send an NDA and expect you to abide by it...AFTER THE FACT...
That would be like Ubuntu turning around and sending everyone who has ever downloaded a copy a bill for $19.95 just because they changed their mind and figure we should now pay for it...
Just simply adding the phrase "this agreement may change at any time" does not bind anyone to A) continue to accept the agreement, and B) have unreasonable or not-agreed to clauses being forced upon the user. THAT, at least, has been proven in court.
You can get a free account at DynDNS, get any domain they offer, or get one from GoDaddy for about $9.
Set up a linux machine at home, stick it on the internet, make IMAP, POP3, etc...and it is all secure and available from anywhere (via DynDNS and your purchased domain.
If you pay for the services, it will cost under $50 a year, but I believe DynDNS gives ONE free account, and the domain is $9, so you could get away with it for under $10...
I have a server that has been running non-stop and without error for 3 years.
I think one of the biggest things we should complain about is that if someone is NOT a suspect in a crime, or is NOT suspected of violating any law, or is NOT a "person of interest" then WHERE IS ALL THE TIME going to come from that the FBI will use to spy on all the Americans?
Where is all the MONEY going to come from for the FBI to spend on surveillance that isn't attached to any crime?
These are important questions that should be asked.
I run Linux, and use FireFox...
This is the error I get when trying to use this thing...
"Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.
Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site."