Have you ever thought of digitally re-editing "Lawrence of Arabia" to replace Peter O'Toole with Brad Pitt? As I understand it, director David Lean had wanted to cast an actor who looks like Pitt but couldn't afford it at the time. So this change would be true to the director's original intentions.
Afterwards, could you destroy existing DVD copies of "Lawrence" and replace them solely with the new, improved version?
What? You think this is a bad idea?! Then why are you doing it with "Star Wars"??
Sincerely, Phil Obbard
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Totally agree - you named the 3 reasons I use Mozilla 1.3. I really like it - especially with the IE skin installed...
I still use IE for a few applications that don't seem to work 100% under Mozilla, like my banking site, my company's HR-related site, and windowsupdate.microsoft.com.:^)
I think I'm one of the few to have a relatively non-problematic Bell Atlantic DSL setup. I called in February, and had the equipment and live line 8 days later (only one day after it was schedule to go-live - I did spend some time on the phone with tech support). Everything has worked since then, with the exception of a few time-outs and periods where I can't get a PPP connection, but nothing severe. I have a 640k/90k line; I realistically seem to get 450k downstream, which isn't bad.
I even got it to work on NT4 Server, which the install didn't do by itself.
Also, the man pictured on the shroud is roughly 6' 10", and the "back" image isn't the same length as the "front" image. At no point in the New Testament is Jesus' height ever mentioned, so it seems unlikely that he was remarkably tall... also, the man on the shroud has a head that does not proportionately match his body!
The Turin shroud was one of several 'burial shrouds' (and one of thousands of apparent relics) brought back to Europe during the Crusades. Most shrouds were quickly revealed as fakes; even the Turin Shroud, when first displayed c.1375, was widely held to be a badly-painted fake. The owners opted not to show the shroud for nearly a century, at which point it suddenly looked like it does today, leading many to believe it was 'swapped' with another shroud (origin unknown) sometime in the 15th century.
"(more recently, Viet Nam defeated us through smart tactics, perseverance, outside help and America lacking freedom of movement; Afghanistan defeated the USSR similarly; and it took two atomic bombs, which were new at the time, to keep Japan from doing this to the US in WWII)"
A 1946 US Gov't military commission concluded that the atom bombs were not strategically necessary, and that Japan had been prepared to surrender as early as June of 1945. A Tokyo meeting of 20 June solidified the decision to end to war; the only thing left to do was finish the paperwork and agree to details. Most important to the Japanese: they did not want the emperor to be deposed; he needed to remain if only symbolically.
We said "maybe", dropped the bombs, and then said "ok"; the emperor remains to this day. More likely, we dropped the bombs to coincide with the USSR's entry into the war on August 8 (first bomb on Aug. 6, second on Aug. 9), since we were already encountering problems in jointly occupying Germany and Austria with them in the west. The bombs had the desired effect: the Soviets never got the zone of occupation they sought in Japan (although they did get 1/2 of Korea).
Yup, this poster sums it up perfectly... I had a terrific home office and work situation, but I finally stopped doing it last week and began a new job because the isolation is no fun - you lack contact with your known peers, and you can't establish proper working relationships with new employees, even though I went up to the office (600 miles away) once a month. It's a nice break for a few weeks, but I don't recommend it full-time.
Hourly contracting (e.g., programming) is a different matter; it's probably easier to do remotely.
...an article in the New Yorker dealt with this issue last year, and discussed the National Archives, where more than half the staff is now dedicated to transferring items from optical discs (the archival format of choice in the 1980s) to more modern media, while plenty of pre-1980 archival information (newspaper, video, gov't papers) both pre-1980 and current are still not yet archived. The problem is that optical disc turned out to be a dead end; the format they standardized on no longer has anyone manufacturing players for it! The article finished by pointing out that we now generate more 'recordable' information than ever before, but we are also losing it at a higher rater than ever before. The format least likely to be obsolete, ironically: paper. --Philip
"...at the order of the Recording Industry Association of America"
The RIAA is a private commercial organization. They cannot order anything without a legal authority making the order (FBI, police, etc.)
The RIAA wants you to believe it has legal authority, but it has none. The AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) has about as much authority to "order" a college to sweep college computers for illegally distributed music files.
Guys, you're all worrying too much. Remember that old TV show about Max Headroom? Edison Carter, a TV reporter, is almost killed when his motorcyle runs into roadbloack (which reads MAX HEADROOM 5' 8", hence the name). In the fear that he is about to die, his semi-evil corporate employers (Channel 23) have an in-house teenage computer whiz create a computer clone. Unfortunately, not everything goes right, as the computer clone (Max Headroom) develops a markedly different personality and from there on runs amock in Channel 23's networks. And a short-lived series was born.
I still find myself drawn to buy more Coca-Cola everytime I see it in reruns on the Sci-Fi channel.
Anyhow... Linus, Alan, et al., should just get computer clones made now, and we can 'release' them onto the networks of the world if anything happens to the real thing.
Does Sun buying StarOffice remind anyone of Novell buying WordPerfect in the early 1990s - i.e., a company trying to enter a market it does not understand or have a vested interest in, but only seeks to attack and scare their chief competitor (MS in both cases)?
Novell essentially let WordPerfect die before seeling it off to Corel; I fear Sun will do the same to StarOffice once the initial interest fades...
Actually, albums as a 'concept' was short-lived anyhow. Albums started as singles surrounded by filler (often 80%) in the early 60s. Check out some of the pre-WHAT'S GOING ON stuff Motown put out - one amazing single, loads of rerecordings of other artists songs. And they weren't alone. I think the 'concept album' (really starting about 1965) still exists, but is currently much less successful commercially than the standard hits-and-filler format. There are exceptions (e.g., Radiohead's OK COMPUTER) but they are exceptions, much like they were in 1965.
Amtrak does not use OS/2, but what appears to be a variant of OS/2. I've seen one of those ticket machines 'break' so that the desktop underneath was revealed, and while it looked like Warp 4, it identified itself as OS/400 (no, not AS/400), I believe.
That's nothing new for NASA. It's just realistic. Had NASA not thought we were ready to put men on the moon in 1969, they were just going to have men orbit the moon instead. This, by the way, was the exact same plan the USSR was pursuing: land on the moon, but if you can't do that, just orbit the moon before 1970. In other words: save face.
All of this was written up in a fairly interesting article in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks back, on an article about the USSR space program in the 1960s.
--Philip
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Yeah, ditto - I'm happy to give RedHat $50 once a year or so. It's a great package and a cause I support. For some reason, not having to pay makes me more inclined to do so, though not in the same guilty way I pay for charitable events that have a "suggested donation".
I have no problem with CheapBytes either, as long as I have a fairly recent Redhat installation manual on hand.
Cringely also takes the record company line, hook & sinker, that MP3 will destroy the music industry by stealing royalties from artists. That's nonsense, just as much nonsense as it was in the 1980s when record company execs testified before Congress in an attempt to get blank audio tapes taxed prohibitively so that people wouldn't make copies of their audio tapes and LPs. (Even Congress didn't believe them, and in return, our people in DC accused the record companies of using unnecessarily cheap material to make 'commercial' audio tapes).
MP3 won't kill off anybody anymore than the VCR or the tape deck did. The record companies need to stop dreaming of 78s and start capitalizing on the new technology, whether through value-add or new distribution techniques. I would say that the VCR and audio tape deck did more for their respective industries in terms of increasing sales, rather than decreasing sales, since their introduction. Like Microsoft, the record companies want to control the playing field, even if that means stifling or co-opting (e.g., encoded MP3 files) the playing field.
Slashdot Mirror
...does anyone else find the font in the body of the 'Compose' page waaaay too small to read?
--Phil
As of today's upgrade, Yahoo allows 50 filters instead of 10. Still maybe not enough, but a big improvement.
--Phil
Dear Fox Home Video,
Have you ever thought of digitally re-editing "Lawrence of Arabia" to replace Peter O'Toole with Brad Pitt? As I understand it, director David Lean had wanted to cast an actor who looks like Pitt but couldn't afford it at the time. So this change would be true to the director's original intentions.
Afterwards, could you destroy existing DVD copies of "Lawrence" and replace them solely with the new, improved version?
What? You think this is a bad idea?! Then why are you doing it with "Star Wars"??
Sincerely,
Phil Obbard
Totally agree - you named the 3 reasons I use Mozilla 1.3. I really like it - especially with the IE skin installed...
:^)
I still use IE for a few applications that don't seem to work 100% under Mozilla, like my banking site, my company's HR-related site, and windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
--Philip
I think I'm one of the few to have a relatively non-problematic Bell Atlantic DSL setup. I called in February, and had the equipment and live line 8 days later (only one day after it was schedule to go-live - I did spend some time on the phone with tech support). Everything has worked since then, with the exception of a few time-outs and periods where I can't get a PPP connection, but nothing severe. I have a 640k/90k line; I realistically seem to get 450k downstream, which isn't bad.
I even got it to work on NT4 Server, which the install didn't do by itself.
--Philip
Also, the man pictured on the shroud is roughly 6' 10", and the "back" image isn't the same length as the "front" image. At no point in the New Testament is Jesus' height ever mentioned, so it seems unlikely that he was remarkably tall... also, the man on the shroud has a head that does not proportionately match his body!
The Turin shroud was one of several 'burial shrouds' (and one of thousands of apparent relics) brought back to Europe during the Crusades. Most shrouds were quickly revealed as fakes; even the Turin Shroud, when first displayed c.1375, was widely held to be a badly-painted fake. The owners opted not to show the shroud for nearly a century, at which point it suddenly looked like it does today, leading many to believe it was 'swapped' with another shroud (origin unknown) sometime in the 15th century.
--Philip
A 1946 US Gov't military commission concluded that the atom bombs were not strategically necessary, and that Japan had been prepared to surrender as early as June of 1945. A Tokyo meeting of 20 June solidified the decision to end to war; the only thing left to do was finish the paperwork and agree to details. Most important to the Japanese: they did not want the emperor to be deposed; he needed to remain if only symbolically.
We said "maybe", dropped the bombs, and then said "ok"; the emperor remains to this day. More likely, we dropped the bombs to coincide with the USSR's entry into the war on August 8 (first bomb on Aug. 6, second on Aug. 9), since we were already encountering problems in jointly occupying Germany and Austria with them in the west. The bombs had the desired effect: the Soviets never got the zone of occupation they sought in Japan (although they did get 1/2 of Korea).
A few books have been written on this subject; the best is "The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb".
--Philip
Yup, this poster sums it up perfectly... I had a terrific home office and work situation, but I finally stopped doing it last week and began a new job because the isolation is no fun - you lack contact with your known peers, and you can't establish proper working relationships with new employees, even though I went up to the office (600 miles away) once a month. It's a nice break for a few weeks, but I don't recommend it full-time.
Hourly contracting (e.g., programming) is a different matter; it's probably easier to do remotely.
--Philip
...an article in the New Yorker dealt with this issue last year, and discussed the National Archives, where more than half the staff is now dedicated to transferring items from optical discs (the archival format of choice in the 1980s) to more modern media, while plenty of pre-1980 archival information (newspaper, video, gov't papers) both pre-1980 and current are still not yet archived. The problem is that optical disc turned out to be a dead end; the format they standardized on no longer has anyone manufacturing players for it! The article finished by pointing out that we now generate more 'recordable' information than ever before, but we are also losing it at a higher rater than ever before. The format least likely to be obsolete, ironically: paper. --Philip
"...at the order of the Recording Industry Association of America"
The RIAA is a private commercial organization. They cannot order anything without a legal authority making the order (FBI, police, etc.)
The RIAA wants you to believe it has legal authority, but it has none. The AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) has about as much authority to "order" a college to sweep college computers for illegally distributed music files.
--Philip
"The Man in the White Suit" - brilliant. The perfect nerd parable, as you say.
Last line: "Wait, I think I've figured it out..."
--Philip
Guys, you're all worrying too much. Remember that old TV show about Max Headroom? Edison Carter, a TV reporter, is almost killed when his motorcyle runs into roadbloack (which reads MAX HEADROOM 5' 8", hence the name). In the fear that he is about to die, his semi-evil corporate employers (Channel 23) have an in-house teenage computer whiz create a computer clone. Unfortunately, not everything goes right, as the computer clone (Max Headroom) develops a markedly different personality and from there on runs amock in Channel 23's networks. And a short-lived series was born.
I still find myself drawn to buy more Coca-Cola everytime I see it in reruns on the Sci-Fi channel.
Anyhow... Linus, Alan, et al., should just get computer clones made now, and we can 'release' them onto the networks of the world if anything happens to the real thing.
Feel better?
--Philip
Does Sun buying StarOffice remind anyone of Novell buying WordPerfect in the early 1990s - i.e., a company trying to enter a market it does not understand or have a vested interest in, but only seeks to attack and scare their chief competitor (MS in both cases)?
Novell essentially let WordPerfect die before seeling it off to Corel; I fear Sun will do the same to StarOffice once the initial interest fades...
--Philip
Actually, albums as a 'concept' was short-lived anyhow. Albums started as singles surrounded by filler (often 80%) in the early 60s. Check out some of the pre-WHAT'S GOING ON stuff Motown put out - one amazing single, loads of rerecordings of other artists songs. And they weren't alone. I think the 'concept album' (really starting about 1965) still exists, but is currently much less successful commercially than the standard hits-and-filler format. There are exceptions (e.g., Radiohead's OK COMPUTER) but they are exceptions, much like they were in 1965.
--Philip
Amtrak does not use OS/2, but what appears to be a variant of OS/2. I've seen one of those ticket machines 'break' so that the desktop underneath was revealed, and while it looked like Warp 4, it identified itself as OS/400 (no, not AS/400), I believe.
--Philip
That's nothing new for NASA. It's just realistic. Had NASA not thought we were ready to put men on the moon in 1969, they were just going to have men orbit the moon instead. This, by the way, was the exact same plan the USSR was pursuing: land on the moon, but if you can't do that, just orbit the moon before 1970. In other words: save face.
All of this was written up in a fairly interesting article in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks back, on an article about the USSR space program in the 1960s.
--Philip
Yeah, ditto - I'm happy to give RedHat $50 once a year or so. It's a great package and a cause I support. For some reason, not having to pay makes me more inclined to do so, though not in the same guilty way I pay for charitable events that have a "suggested donation".
I have no problem with CheapBytes either, as long as I have a fairly recent Redhat installation manual on hand.
--Philip
Cringely also takes the record company line, hook & sinker, that MP3 will destroy the music industry by stealing royalties from artists. That's nonsense, just as much nonsense as it was in the 1980s when record company execs testified before Congress in an attempt to get blank audio tapes taxed prohibitively so that people wouldn't make copies of their audio tapes and LPs. (Even Congress didn't believe them, and in return, our people in DC accused the record companies of using unnecessarily cheap material to make 'commercial' audio tapes).
MP3 won't kill off anybody anymore than the VCR or the tape deck did. The record companies need to stop dreaming of 78s and start capitalizing on the new technology, whether through value-add or new distribution techniques. I would say that the VCR and audio tape deck did more for their respective industries in terms of increasing sales, rather than decreasing sales, since their introduction. Like Microsoft, the record companies want to control the playing field, even if that means stifling or co-opting (e.g., encoded MP3 files) the playing field.
--Philip