Most of my favorites either aren't out on DVD, are really BAD on DVD (I hope to GOD someone does a better Metropolis DVD. It is a crime.), are really obvious (The Professional - Natalie Portman comes to DVD, and in a GOOD movie!), or aren't out on DVD (Throne of Blood springs to mind.) So the only one I can really recommend is The Seven Samurai. 207 minute movies are exactly why the DVD format rules.
But it does - if you copy a VHS tape, you are incapable of getting anything of better quality than a VHS tape, rendering your copy virtually useless. Unless you digitally enhance some Ewoks and slap a "Special Edition" label on it, I guess.
(Which reminds me - am I the only one who really, really _enjoyed_ the duality of the original ending of Return of the Jedi? The way it left open the door that most of the people in the universe actually quite liked the Empire? I know this was purely unintentional, considering that the whole thing was a "pure good defeats pure evil" epic, but it sure made it a whole lot more enjoyable being able to fantasize.)
Huh. It looks to me like they are offering pan&scan and widescreen... That would be fine with me if I used a VCR for anything but staving off the need to buy Tivo.
I guess I can see the point about piracy, kind of...
Then again, I'm more of a George Clinton mind about things like that - it's better be ripped off and well known than to be well known for being a prick about being ripped off. Or something like that.
Or maybe it's just an admission that the movie sucked, and is suitable for viewing only by 5 year olds.
No, no, I think we should use MTBF as a measure of system stability, so we can punish machines for restarting, only to decide that they need to restart again. (Hmm. Wonder what OS I could have in mind?)
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That's fine. Percentage uptime is a good measure of that - not the length of each uptime. I would rather have a computer go down once a month for 1 minute than once every two years for a day. (Not that going down once every month will prevent you from having a day-long outage.)
No one is saying that Linux is bad. Well, ok, the guy you were replying to wasn't. The only claim was that having an uptime any longer than the most recent necessary security patch is stupid.
Uh... Well, one of us is certainly misreading the other. The original poster implied that legal protections for workers were unnecessary because all workers are free to find a job that meets their requirements. I was helpfully pointing out that more than half of this world's population has just that freedom, but for some odd reason chooses not to exercise it. I guess they must be the ones who are just plain weird.
Again - I'm not saying that minimum wage laws are good for the economy - perhaps they are the only thing holding America back from giving everyone a billion dollar paycheck the moment they are born, for all I know. I do know that working conditions in some countries would be illegal in America, and I presume that it is their illegality that prevents their practice. I'm not saying that they are inhumane. I'm just saying that the freedom to be employed by whoever you want so long as they will hire you on their terms is not sufficient to protect workers from injury, insufficient wages, malicious garnishment, or a slew of other things we have laws against.
It might not. The point is, "If working conditions are intolerable, get a better job" is only a valid answer for people who have jobs with tolerable working conditions.
Indeed - every telecommuter I know who is dialing into the company for their internet access is subject to exactly the same snooping as if they were at work.
If the employee thinks the employer should pay a living wage, and the employer does not, the employee should find a new employer.
If the employee thinks the employer should move to a building that has not been condemned, and the employer does not, the employee should find a new employer.
If the employee thinks that the employer should not deduct arbitrary amounts from his paycheck from week to week, and the employer continues to do so, the employee should find a new employer.
And once America has repealed all the relevant laws, it can once more compete with Indonesia, Russia, China and Mexico in the labour market.
'YOU should go to YOUR employer and say, "I require better ergonomics. I need a new keyboard, a desk that's X units high and a chair that's blah blah blah. And if you can't cut it, I'm out." You get the idea. I'm sure a lot of you are making $50,000/yr or more,'
And we'll all be fucked if the job market ever gets worse.
The one thing your argument overlooks is the possibility of coersion by the employer. It certainly doesn't invalidate your argument, but the possibility of the employer saying, "Yeah, we're supposed to provide you with ergonomically correct furniture, but this has been a really bad year - do you think you can make do without it for the next six months?" with the underlying message of "maybe we can do without you for the next six months if you can't" should be strongly noted.
Is curing the wave of first-posts worth the price of seriously increasing the number of "last posts"? I mean, at least you only have one shot at the first post.
Except that he is actually going to provide content. He is a talk show host, only instead of getting there by being fat and abrasive, or fat and cute, or funny, or controversial, or a competent journalist, or a good interviewer, he's getting draw by being dOTcOMgUY!
This angers me so much - I am so sick of hearing about this guy on the nightly news, in the newspaper - it's SO much worse when you live in Dallas, because so many of his sponsors are local, including fucking A.H. Belo corp who runs half the media in this city, so they're all covering it like it's interesting. What's even passingly interesting is the amount of money the sponsors are pumping into this. Otherwise, it's basically a year-long talk show featuring a dork.
It's not an advance in web-cam intrusiveness - we have 24-7 webcams all over the place.
It's not an advance in "using technology to avoid leaving the house" - my parents have just about managed it, themselves. Thousands of people have lived most of their lives that way without the benefit of professional caretakers. Even 50 years ago, with enough money, you could buy every single thing you wanted with just the phone. Augh.
Why not default all replies to Katz articles to (-1, Flamebait) to save moderators their precious points? The number of moderator points that have been wasted trying to keep people who browse at 1 or higher from noticing that half of the people who post on/. hate Katz must be staggering.
I didn't much care for this review of the review of JonKatz's review of 'Man In The Moon'. It was too short for me to get a good idea what the review of the review was really like.
It's funny how fast culture is moving, isn't it? I know people who hate George Carlin and Stephen Wright, but who eat it up when other comedians steal their respective schticks. NWA was controversial, and now Eminem is filed next to Enigma. I guess it's always been that way.
I know so many people who know three things about Kaufman - Latka, The Mighty Mouse Theme, and R.E.M.
"Going to a store, saying 'I need thing x, I only have 10 bucks, do you have a thing x for 10 dollars? '"
Yeah, but that's where Priceline's model is superior to yours - if you went into a store and said, "I need a toothbrush. I only have $1 billion. Do you have a toothbrush for $1 billion?" the store would then be forced to sell you a toothbrush for $1 billion! Priceline brilliantly did away with such nonsense, thereby adding value.
As for the Space Shuttle size, that one's rarer, but basically it goes on to say that because the SRBs (they're called something else, now, I think, but they're the long widgets that get it off the ground. not cranes) are transported by rail (they are!) through rail tunnels (probably) they are therefore only slightly wider than the rails (inasmuch as 12' is slightly wider than 5', yeah, I'll buy that) and therefore mankinds first method of transportation (horse's ass) determined important details of his most advanced (space shuttle). All very stupid.
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Most of my favorites either aren't out on DVD, are really BAD on DVD (I hope to GOD someone does a better Metropolis DVD. It is a crime.), are really obvious (The Professional - Natalie Portman comes to DVD, and in a GOOD movie!), or aren't out on DVD (Throne of Blood springs to mind.) So the only one I can really recommend is The Seven Samurai. 207 minute movies are exactly why the DVD format rules.
But it does - if you copy a VHS tape, you are incapable of getting anything of better quality than a VHS tape, rendering your copy virtually useless. Unless you digitally enhance some Ewoks and slap a "Special Edition" label on it, I guess.
(Which reminds me - am I the only one who really, really _enjoyed_ the duality of the original ending of Return of the Jedi? The way it left open the door that most of the people in the universe actually quite liked the Empire? I know this was purely unintentional, considering that the whole thing was a "pure good defeats pure evil" epic, but it sure made it a whole lot more enjoyable being able to fantasize.)
I swear to god, this is the funniest thing I have ever read on or near /.
Huh. It looks to me like they are offering pan&scan and widescreen... That would be fine with me if I used a VCR for anything but staving off the need to buy Tivo.
Well, IMDB has them listed at 2002 and 2005.
Just in case anyone was curious.
I guess I can see the point about piracy, kind of...
Then again, I'm more of a George Clinton mind about things like that - it's better be ripped off and well known than to be well known for being a prick about being ripped off. Or something like that.
Or maybe it's just an admission that the movie sucked, and is suitable for viewing only by 5 year olds.
No, no, I think we should use MTBF as a measure of system stability, so we can punish machines for restarting, only to decide that they need to restart again. (Hmm. Wonder what OS I could have in mind?)
That's fine. Percentage uptime is a good measure of that - not the length of each uptime. I would rather have a computer go down once a month for 1 minute than once every two years for a day. (Not that going down once every month will prevent you from having a day-long outage.)
No one is saying that Linux is bad. Well, ok, the guy you were replying to wasn't. The only claim was that having an uptime any longer than the most recent necessary security patch is stupid.
Uh... Well, one of us is certainly misreading the other. The original poster implied that legal protections for workers were unnecessary because all workers are free to find a job that meets their requirements. I was helpfully pointing out that more than half of this world's population has just that freedom, but for some odd reason chooses not to exercise it. I guess they must be the ones who are just plain weird.
Again - I'm not saying that minimum wage laws are good for the economy - perhaps they are the only thing holding America back from giving everyone a billion dollar paycheck the moment they are born, for all I know. I do know that working conditions in some countries would be illegal in America, and I presume that it is their illegality that prevents their practice. I'm not saying that they are inhumane. I'm just saying that the freedom to be employed by whoever you want so long as they will hire you on their terms is not sufficient to protect workers from injury, insufficient wages, malicious garnishment, or a slew of other things we have laws against.
It might not. The point is, "If working conditions are intolerable, get a better job" is only a valid answer for people who have jobs with tolerable working conditions.
That is, of course, unless the employer mandates telecommuting. Not that that would ever happen.
Indeed - every telecommuter I know who is dialing into the company for their internet access is subject to exactly the same snooping as if they were at work.
If the employee thinks the employer should pay a living wage, and the employer does not, the employee should find a new employer.
If the employee thinks the employer should move to a building that has not been condemned, and the employer does not, the employee should find a new employer.
If the employee thinks that the employer should not deduct arbitrary amounts from his paycheck from week to week, and the employer continues to do so, the employee should find a new employer.
And once America has repealed all the relevant laws, it can once more compete with Indonesia, Russia, China and Mexico in the labour market.
'YOU should go to YOUR employer and say, "I require better ergonomics. I need a new keyboard, a desk that's X units high and a chair that's blah blah blah. And if you can't cut it, I'm out." You get the idea. I'm sure a lot of you are making $50,000/yr or more,'
And we'll all be fucked if the job market ever gets worse.
The one thing your argument overlooks is the possibility of coersion by the employer. It certainly doesn't invalidate your argument, but the possibility of the employer saying, "Yeah, we're supposed to provide you with ergonomically correct furniture, but this has been a really bad year - do you think you can make do without it for the next six months?" with the underlying message of "maybe we can do without you for the next six months if you can't" should be strongly noted.
Is curing the wave of first-posts worth the price of seriously increasing the number of "last posts"? I mean, at least you only have one shot at the first post.
Except that he is actually going to provide content. He is a talk show host, only instead of getting there by being fat and abrasive, or fat and cute, or funny, or controversial, or a competent journalist, or a good interviewer, he's getting draw by being dOTcOMgUY!
This angers me so much - I am so sick of hearing about this guy on the nightly news, in the newspaper - it's SO much worse when you live in Dallas, because so many of his sponsors are local, including fucking A.H. Belo corp who runs half the media in this city, so they're all covering it like it's interesting. What's even passingly interesting is the amount of money the sponsors are pumping into this. Otherwise, it's basically a year-long talk show featuring a dork.
It's not an advance in web-cam intrusiveness - we have 24-7 webcams all over the place.
It's not an advance in "using technology to avoid leaving the house" - my parents have just about managed it, themselves. Thousands of people have lived most of their lives that way without the benefit of professional caretakers. Even 50 years ago, with enough money, you could buy every single thing you wanted with just the phone. Augh.
This is an advance in hype. Nothing more.
Why not default all replies to Katz articles to (-1, Flamebait) to save moderators their precious points? The number of moderator points that have been wasted trying to keep people who browse at 1 or higher from noticing that half of the people who post on /. hate Katz must be staggering.
I didn't much care for this review of the review of JonKatz's review of 'Man In The Moon'. It was too short for me to get a good idea what the review of the review was really like.
It's funny how fast culture is moving, isn't it? I know people who hate George Carlin and Stephen Wright, but who eat it up when other comedians steal their respective schticks. NWA was controversial, and now Eminem is filed next to Enigma. I guess it's always been that way.
I know so many people who know three things about Kaufman - Latka, The Mighty Mouse Theme, and R.E.M.
"Going to a store, saying 'I need thing x, I only
have 10 bucks, do you have a thing x for 10 dollars? '"
Yeah, but that's where Priceline's model is superior to yours - if you went into a store and said, "I need a toothbrush. I only have $1 billion. Do you have a toothbrush for $1 billion?" the store would then be forced to sell you a toothbrush for $1 billion! Priceline brilliantly did away with such nonsense, thereby adding value.
The Venerable Bede was obviously concerned about:
>cal 1 750
January 750
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>
But he was wrong to be concerned - no one complains about:
>cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
>
Foolish Bede.
Then now would be a good time to go to http://www.qnx.com/~glen/deadbeef/1897. html or http://www.hmrs.org.uk/fourfoot.htm or http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pkt/f eb98/0556.html.
As for the Space Shuttle size, that one's rarer, but basically it goes on to say that because the SRBs (they're called something else, now, I think, but they're the long widgets that get it off the ground. not cranes) are transported by rail (they are!) through rail tunnels (probably) they are therefore only slightly wider than the rails (inasmuch as 12' is slightly wider than 5', yeah, I'll buy that) and therefore mankinds first method of transportation (horse's ass) determined important details of his most advanced (space shuttle). All very stupid.
Man, do I ever wish I could still moderate this discussion. (+1, Funny), indeed.