Help me out here, please. I like Brazil and I've probably watched it in full 10 times. However, I just don't fully "get it". I feel like I'm missing the deeper meaning that the film intends.
My Google-fu fails me here and I've never been able to completely figure the movie out. My last few viewings have been more analysis (looking for symbolism in *everything*) so I'm not getting as much from the movie as I'd like.
I think I get it on a high level (dystopian, capitalism, social commentary, etc) but I feel like I'm missing the true meaning and message of the film, which I also feel is there. Most of the movies I watch are for entertainment, but when it seems there's much more to it, I really want to understand it.
So who's going to prison? Not for harming shareholders (who cares about them!). But for injuring/killing countless people who used their faulty tests to make medical decisions?
That should be the real story here. Create a false company, pull in $9B of investment money, generate life-threatening product, go to prison. At least, that's how it should work.
Wish I could mod you up. Quality is decent for the price, but you can get it for $25 on sale, so even if it dies (my keyboards have been going fine for over 5 years) it's cheap to replace!
Warmer picture (it's been my desktop background for the past 8 years), and the contrast and detail seem to be better (compare closer spiral galaxies) than the Extreme Deep Field. Lower noise as well.
The "exposure" time and sensitivity and science of the Extreme is impressive, but for viewing pleasure I'll take the HUDF.
Hitachi's (previously IBM's) Drive Fitness Test is the most thorough disk test I've used. It works on all makes, and has a "drive exerciser" that can loop a test sequence.
I've seen it find problems with drives that the manufacturer's own tools don't expose.
My policy is that if a drive survives 20 loops of the exerciser and then a full extended test that it's fit for production service.
There's also Jim Bowden. Held the record for deepest open-system dive for awhile (does it still stand???). Lost his buddy on the dive as well. Took 12+ hours!
He's an avid cave diver, spends his time exploring caves around Mexico, and works to preserve them.
He's also a NAUI instructor, which is how I know him. Got to spend a week learning from the best diver in the world (at the time), and he also is a really nice guy. He gets really serious when it comes to diving, though. I think you have to be a little crazy to do the things he's tried, but that doesn't mean you're stupid. He is well aware that every time he goes down, even with years of training, that he may not come back up.
A really remarkable guy, and it was an honor to learn from him.
Yep. You don't have to click on anything to get infected. We've had a couple of our systems infected over the past couple of months. What scares me is:
1. We were running the latest version of Firefox
2. Acrobat Reader was fully patched (version 8, not 9. But, we have to leave the JS enabled)
3. Adobe Flash was up-to-date
4. Windows was fully patched
5. We have web filters
6. They got past 2 layers of IDS/IPS and 3 layers of antivirus scanners (different engines)
7. Users are NOT admins!!!
Since then, we have switched to a few new products and attempted to tighten things up even more, but these things have gotten incredibly complex. In one case, it was a triple attack. The Flash ad (0-day exploit) loaded an exploited PDF (0-day exploit) that took advantage of a 0-day IE exploit (keep in mind we use Firefox), which compromised the system. We have a nuke-from-orbit policy on any system we suspect has been infected, but what a waste of time!
It was hosted from a site in India. The user was on Yahoo's website (we've had 4 infections through Yahoo's ads). They did NOT click on anything!
We use Spiceworks mainly for ticketing, and they make regular updates (about every month or two) that increase usability. It has come leaps and bounds over the past couple of years.
And, it only takes 10 minutes to setup. Try it!
Oh, and it's free (ad supported). You can pay $200/year or so if you don't want the ads. Their support is quick and they have an active user community.
I would not be surprised to find that a sizable chunk of the money goes to buying TV spots to remind people the website is there. Marketing marketing marketing!
I'm not sure what you mean by no evidence of the gas explosion outside of Houston in 1992 (if this is what you are referring to), since a quick Google search returned this as the first result:
I was on my way to high school and could feel/hear the result while driving my car. Lived in NW Houston at the time. Parents later said they thought it was an earthquake, although they knew it was not really possible due to the type of soil in the area. Discussed it with a few friends at school, and we dismissed it as a weird fluke, but found out the cause that evening on the news. We never would have guessed that's what it was.
I have no opinion on Dr. Kundt's theories, but I have anecdotal evidence regarding the gas explosion outside of Houston.
I have been wondering about eeStor for awhile now. Here's something I posted on the ArsTechnica forums a few months back. I think it is quite interesting.
"I'm skeptical. After hearing of EEStor a while back, I looked them up, and their address looked familiar.
Turns out they are in the same commercial strip center as my doctor (along with a few other medical/small business enterprises), up in Cedar Park, TX (a "suburb" of Austin, TX, of about 46k people). It's just your standard run-of-the-mill small business park, with nothing noteworthy.
Now, this might just be their "business" and not research office, but most of their company info mentions Cedar Park. I would not think that a world-changing product would be developed in a place like this.
For one, there's no loading dock. I would think that some of the materials necessary to do this research would be large and heavy.
Secondly, there are no signs on the doors or windows indicating hazardous materials (you know, the 4-diamond sign that tells the fire department what kind of hazardous stuff is inside). So, I guess they could just be a think tank and not do any actual physical research there.
Lastly, it's hard to tell, but it looks like they only own 1 suite, which is pretty narrow. I don't see how you could set up a real lab in such a small space, especially developing such high-density storage devices.
Anyway, if they are for real, then great, and I look forward to the benefits. However, right now, just from their office appearance, it looks like they're just trying to make some money.
As a side note, the radiology clinic a couple of doors down DOES have the hazardous materials sticker, and takes up two suites. And it's a pretty small clinic."
Anyway, I hope they actually DO have a working product. It would be great. It's just hard to believe if that's their only lab. I mean, it's 25m from my kids' pediatrician!
The last page of the article has a chart showing where all of the H2 could come from.
Granted, they say that H2 will be produced via electrolysis from the heat of the nuclear reactor (rather than from the electricity produced by the NR), but they show that there will need to be 2000 600MW nuclear plants, as opposed to 1000 275MW coal plants.
With 1200GW nuclear vs. 275GW coal, couldn't they just use the surplus electricity to electrolysize the water, and cut WAY back on the number of nuclear plants required? If they figure it will only take 275GW of electricity (based on the coal estimate), then why not just build the ~460 600MW nuclear plants required, and use both the heat and electricity to make the H2? That brings the costs & nuclear fuel requirements WAY down for nuclear, and no CO2 emitted.
That's 1/4 the original nuclear estimate, bring the cost down below coal for "Price per GGE", as well as dropping the total cost FAR below anything else.
Was this a typo? Oversight? Study backed by coal? (how is the "Price per GGE" SO little (minimum: about half) for coal when the "Total Cost" for the plans are relatively close?)
I am not sure about Verizon, but my parent-in-laws just moved into a new house in February in Cedar Park and they have FTTP. I think they have SBC as their phone provider, and they have the APC battery backup in their house as well.
My understanding is that the whole neighborhood was built-out this way, and everybody has FTTP. The cable company (Time Warner) still has a presence, and they had to run the line from the cable box in the yard to the house when it was installed (just like everywhere else).
All of Amazon's technology is great, but it seems to be the one engine that does not work with Squid proxies in some cases. We use Astaro as our gateway/proxy appliance, and it uses Squid as its proxy, and Amazon (as well as Amazon-powered sites, such as Target, Toys R Us, Barnes & Noble, etc) does not work.
We have worked with Astaro support, and they have narrowed down the problem and sent the information to Amazon, but there has been no response yet.
In researching the issues, I have found posts all the way back to 1999 regarding incompatibilities with Squid and Amazon. Both ends have worked on the problem, but there has not been a 100% successful fix.
The issue only seems to affect far less than 5% of squid users, and even then it's sometimes inconsistent. So, it's almost impossible to fix because it's so hard to demonstrate. We can repeat the problem consistently, but it is the first case Astaro has had, and their systems are pretty much identical across the board, so it might even be a hardware compatibility issue with specific NICs. Who knows.
Is it just me, or are the side buttons located *exactly* where your thumb would normally rest?
As in, any time you grab the mouse you activate the button?
And yes, they are buttons. "Force-sensing" buttons.
MightyMouse
I like the idea, but it seems like the button placement could be an issue.
Keytronic E03600 Black
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· Score: 5, Informative
This keyboard is simply a Keytronic E03600 Black USB with the caps replaced. They didn't even change their wording for most of the description.
See the link for the Keytronic E03600, notice the pictures, key placement/arrangement, are exactly the same.
They didn't even bother to update the layout image for the different key weights (they simply resized it and put a note that "...the letters are visible on this diagram for information purposes only." See Keytronic's version and Das Keyboard's Version. Though for some reason, Das Keyboard's image is better.
And you can buy Keytronic's for $21.50 directly from the manufacturer, or even less elsewhere. It's currently out of stock from Keytronic; maybe these people bought them all thinking they had a gold mine at 400% profit!:-b
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Help me out here, please. I like Brazil and I've probably watched it in full 10 times. However, I just don't fully "get it". I feel like I'm missing the deeper meaning that the film intends.
My Google-fu fails me here and I've never been able to completely figure the movie out. My last few viewings have been more analysis (looking for symbolism in *everything*) so I'm not getting as much from the movie as I'd like.
I think I get it on a high level (dystopian, capitalism, social commentary, etc) but I feel like I'm missing the true meaning and message of the film, which I also feel is there. Most of the movies I watch are for entertainment, but when it seems there's much more to it, I really want to understand it.
Can someone break it down for me?
Here's a video of the explosion. It's just over 1 minute in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So who's going to prison? Not for harming shareholders (who cares about them!). But for injuring/killing countless people who used their faulty tests to make medical decisions?
That should be the real story here. Create a false company, pull in $9B of investment money, generate life-threatening product, go to prison. At least, that's how it should work.
Wish I could mod you up. Quality is decent for the price, but you can get it for $25 on sale, so even if it dies (my keyboards have been going fine for over 5 years) it's cheap to replace!
Personally I prefer the 2004 Hubble Ultra Deep Field
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040309.html
Warmer picture (it's been my desktop background for the past 8 years), and the contrast and detail seem to be better (compare closer spiral galaxies) than the Extreme Deep Field. Lower noise as well.
The "exposure" time and sensitivity and science of the Extreme is impressive, but for viewing pleasure I'll take the HUDF.
Hitachi's (previously IBM's) Drive Fitness Test is the most thorough disk test I've used. It works on all makes, and has a "drive exerciser" that can loop a test sequence.
I've seen it find problems with drives that the manufacturer's own tools don't expose.
My policy is that if a drive survives 20 loops of the exerciser and then a full extended test that it's fit for production service.
He's an avid cave diver, spends his time exploring caves around Mexico, and works to preserve them.
He's also a NAUI instructor, which is how I know him. Got to spend a week learning from the best diver in the world (at the time), and he also is a really nice guy. He gets really serious when it comes to diving, though. I think you have to be a little crazy to do the things he's tried, but that doesn't mean you're stupid. He is well aware that every time he goes down, even with years of training, that he may not come back up.
A really remarkable guy, and it was an honor to learn from him.
http://www.mexicoprofundo.org/teammembers-jimbowden.html
Yep. You don't have to click on anything to get infected. We've had a couple of our systems infected over the past couple of months. What scares me is:
1. We were running the latest version of Firefox
2. Acrobat Reader was fully patched (version 8, not 9. But, we have to leave the JS enabled)
3. Adobe Flash was up-to-date
4. Windows was fully patched
5. We have web filters
6. They got past 2 layers of IDS/IPS and 3 layers of antivirus scanners (different engines)
7. Users are NOT admins!!!
Since then, we have switched to a few new products and attempted to tighten things up even more, but these things have gotten incredibly complex. In one case, it was a triple attack. The Flash ad (0-day exploit) loaded an exploited PDF (0-day exploit) that took advantage of a 0-day IE exploit (keep in mind we use Firefox), which compromised the system. We have a nuke-from-orbit policy on any system we suspect has been infected, but what a waste of time!
It was hosted from a site in India. The user was on Yahoo's website (we've had 4 infections through Yahoo's ads). They did NOT click on anything!
Be very afraid!
What's great about all of this is that in 20 years, this will be easy. And a silly question.
But for now, yes..... [nearly] Impossible.
We use Spiceworks mainly for ticketing, and they make regular updates (about every month or two) that increase usability. It has come leaps and bounds over the past couple of years.
And, it only takes 10 minutes to setup. Try it!
Oh, and it's free (ad supported). You can pay $200/year or so if you don't want the ads. Their support is quick and they have an active user community.
I would not be surprised to find that a sizable chunk of the money goes to buying TV spots to remind people the website is there. Marketing marketing marketing!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2D7143DF93BA35757C0A964958260
I was on my way to high school and could feel/hear the result while driving my car. Lived in NW Houston at the time. Parents later said they thought it was an earthquake, although they knew it was not really possible due to the type of soil in the area. Discussed it with a few friends at school, and we dismissed it as a weird fluke, but found out the cause that evening on the news. We never would have guessed that's what it was.
I have no opinion on Dr. Kundt's theories, but I have anecdotal evidence regarding the gas explosion outside of Houston.
And Google already indexes almost all of it.....
"I'm skeptical. After hearing of EEStor a while back, I looked them up, and their address looked familiar.
Turns out they are in the same commercial strip center as my doctor (along with a few other medical/small business enterprises), up in Cedar Park, TX (a "suburb" of Austin, TX, of about 46k people). It's just your standard run-of-the-mill small business park, with nothing noteworthy.
Now, this might just be their "business" and not research office, but most of their company info mentions Cedar Park. I would not think that a world-changing product would be developed in a place like this.
For one, there's no loading dock. I would think that some of the materials necessary to do this research would be large and heavy.
Secondly, there are no signs on the doors or windows indicating hazardous materials (you know, the 4-diamond sign that tells the fire department what kind of hazardous stuff is inside). So, I guess they could just be a think tank and not do any actual physical research there.
Lastly, it's hard to tell, but it looks like they only own 1 suite, which is pretty narrow. I don't see how you could set up a real lab in such a small space, especially developing such high-density storage devices.
Anyway, if they are for real, then great, and I look forward to the benefits. However, right now, just from their office appearance, it looks like they're just trying to make some money.
As a side note, the radiology clinic a couple of doors down DOES have the hazardous materials sticker, and takes up two suites. And it's a pretty small clinic."
Anyway, I hope they actually DO have a working product. It would be great. It's just hard to believe if that's their only lab. I mean, it's 25m from my kids' pediatrician!
Granted, they say that H2 will be produced via electrolysis from the heat of the nuclear reactor (rather than from the electricity produced by the NR), but they show that there will need to be 2000 600MW nuclear plants, as opposed to 1000 275MW coal plants.
With 1200GW nuclear vs. 275GW coal, couldn't they just use the surplus electricity to electrolysize the water, and cut WAY back on the number of nuclear plants required? If they figure it will only take 275GW of electricity (based on the coal estimate), then why not just build the ~460 600MW nuclear plants required, and use both the heat and electricity to make the H2? That brings the costs & nuclear fuel requirements WAY down for nuclear, and no CO2 emitted.
That's 1/4 the original nuclear estimate, bring the cost down below coal for "Price per GGE", as well as dropping the total cost FAR below anything else.
Was this a typo? Oversight? Study backed by coal? (how is the "Price per GGE" SO little (minimum: about half) for coal when the "Total Cost" for the plans are relatively close?)
My understanding is that the whole neighborhood was built-out this way, and everybody has FTTP. The cable company (Time Warner) still has a presence, and they had to run the line from the cable box in the yard to the house when it was installed (just like everywhere else).
We have worked with Astaro support, and they have narrowed down the problem and sent the information to Amazon, but there has been no response yet.
In researching the issues, I have found posts all the way back to 1999 regarding incompatibilities with Squid and Amazon. Both ends have worked on the problem, but there has not been a 100% successful fix.
The issue only seems to affect far less than 5% of squid users, and even then it's sometimes inconsistent. So, it's almost impossible to fix because it's so hard to demonstrate. We can repeat the problem consistently, but it is the first case Astaro has had, and their systems are pretty much identical across the board, so it might even be a hardware compatibility issue with specific NICs. Who knows.
Problem description
Amazon employee post
If anybody has had problems in the past and was successful in resolving them, please reply!
Thanks,
Brian
According to the article, GM is bullish, not Ford.
Is it just me, or are the side buttons located *exactly* where your thumb would normally rest?
As in, any time you grab the mouse you activate the button?
And yes, they are buttons. "Force-sensing" buttons. MightyMouse
I like the idea, but it seems like the button placement could be an issue.
See the link for the Keytronic E03600, notice the pictures, key placement/arrangement, are exactly the same.
They didn't even bother to update the layout image for the different key weights (they simply resized it and put a note that "...the letters are visible on this diagram for information purposes only." See Keytronic's version and Das Keyboard's Version. Though for some reason, Das Keyboard's image is better.
And you can buy Keytronic's for $21.50 directly from the manufacturer, or even less elsewhere. It's currently out of stock from Keytronic; maybe these people bought them all thinking they had a gold mine at 400% profit! :-b
Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!