I didn't name a country since it's still not clear where he's actually going to go yet but it's clear he wasn't going to stay in Hong Kong probably because extradition is possible from there given enough time and red tape. Speculation on where his eventual destination was going to be included Russia, China, Cuba, Ecuador and somewhere I read that Iceland had offered him sanctuary but as someone else mentioned Iceland is a NATO country and I don't think he would have been safe there in the long term.
I think you'd have to agree that Russia, China, Cuba and Ecuador are not really bastions of free speech and those governments have been known to crack down hard on anti-government protests.
While modded as funny this is tragic that the US government is spying wholesale on it's own citizens, breaking the spirit of the Constitution to the extent that employees of the government feel the need to "blow the whistle" and expose those activities. Then those whistle blowers have to seek asylum in country's that have been known to engage in wholesale repression of anti-government dissent by the citizens of those country's.
There is just something so wrong about all of this and on so many levels.
My high school got a DEC PDP-11 in my junior year (like 31 years ago) with dual 8inch floppy's which replaced the PDP-8 with dual DEC tapes.
Glad to see that they're still going but after all these years where do they get parts for them? Didn't Compaq buy DEC and then Compaq merged with HP, does HP still support hardware this old?
Just because he had to live underground doesn't mean that he couldn't have friends or family, Sarah was still with him for a number of years before she died of leukemia. If you take things that happened in "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" into account, more people from the future came back and I would expect that between Sarah, John and the others that they would work diligently on two goals: first trying to stop Skynet from being built or make sure the people building it built in safeguards so that the it would not become self-aware and second if they failed at that then to have supplies and a core resistance ready to go when the war started.
The script for Terminator 3 was trash plain and simple and John's character didn't fit what we saw of John in any of the movies (past or future) or in the TV series. If they're going to do another movie they need to throw away what happened in 3, maybe indicate that events that happened in the TV series stopped that particular future from happening. In the TV series we also saw Sarah going to a clinic and being tested for Leukemia and it's possible that with forewarning and preventative measures that Sarah didn't end up dying.
Did you? John was a wise ass juvenile delinquent who was on the verge of becoming a career criminal, pretty much because he thought his mother was insane and he had no idea who his real father was. When he found out that it was all true and that his father was a hero (from the future) and his mother had been doing everything possible to stop the end of the world as we know it his character took a turn for the better and was headed towards becoming the man that Kyle knew as the leader who would show the resistance how to destroy Skynet.
After watching The Last Stand, Arnold is without a doubt too old. But if they use some Avatar like technology I'm sure they can make him as good as new, we have the technology.
I just really hope they get a good script and some good casting, Terminator 3 was absolutely dreadful, starting with a really bad script to casting Nick Stahl as John Connor. They made his character a simpering emotional wreak and not the great leader of men who would lead mankind to overthrow Skynet. Terminator 4 was moderately better as Christian Bale better fit the character that we so briefly caught a glimpse of in the original movie but I sort of felt it was disjointed and that in the end nothing was really resolved.
Windows 8 has some real usability issues for the average person but that's mostly cosmetic and having used Windows 8 with one of the many Start Button replacements I don't find it too difficult. However, my main complaint is that Microsoft has not done enough to fix the sluggish performance of Windows on machines that by the standards of ten years ago are practically super computers. When Windows XP on a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 with 3.2GB of ram and a 500GB Western Digital Black Edition drive is much (much) more responsive than Windows 8 x64 running on a Socket 2011 system with an i7-3820 3.6Ghz cpu with 16GB of ram and a 2TB Western Digital Black Edition drive there's something seriously wrong under the hood.
There was an article here on Slashdot four or five years ago referencing a blog post by a Microsoft Kernel developer (I looked but couldn't find it in order to provide a link) but the blog post essentially said that the Windows kernel was just not written to take advantage of multi-core / hyper-threading enabled cpu's and that the kernel needed a complete overhaul to fix the problem. I also seem to remember that within days the blog post had been taken down, apparently Microsoft doesn't like it's employee's criticizing their products.
I'm sorry, but from day one I never liked Matt Smith. He is just wrong for the part, he looks like Herman Munster without makeup i.e. a neanderthal you can barely see his eye's underneath that jutting brow.
I took a lot of heat for saying this in a previous Doctor Who thread but the writing has been dreadful since Smith became the Doctor (or worse than it was), more silly comedy than sci-fi drama. Yes, every Doctor had some ridiculous episodes and Tom Baker was always my favorite Doctor. Episodes that always stood out to me: The Ark In Space, Planet Of Evil, Pyramids Of Mars, The Brain of Morbius, The Hand Of Fear, The Deadly Assassin, The Face Of Evil, The Robots of Death, Horror Of Fang Rock, The Stones Of Blood. These were outstanding episodes and that's not to say that others I didn't mention weren't good and I will admit that I didn't like the last two seasons as well, it seemed to me that the writing was not as good or original as if the show runner was getting bored and really didn't want to be doing it anymore.
I realize that this whole patent troll thing has been going on for a while but haven't a large number of high profile patent cases eventually gotten shot down as either prior art, unpatentable things or too vague and the claims have been dismissed?
Are Microsoft's patents that strong where everyone feels they will loose in court?
Is it really so much easier and cost efficient to pay extortion rather than all the company's co-operating and banding together in a lawsuit to challenge the validity of Microsoft's patent claims?
Back when there were only desktops and laptops, that's what people spent their money on. Now that there are more computing options people only have so much money to spend and so people are spending their money on alternative computing options so of course PC desktop and notebook sales are going to suffer.
I really think that the tag line here is a misnomer, Windows 8 is not the sole reason for the "worst decline in sales ever". Don't get me wrong, the new Windows 8 UI is terrible and the worse thing since Vista (maybe even worse) but with one of the many Start Menu replacements Windows 8 is at the very least usable by the average person.
Every Dr Who had some questionable episodes, when I think of Tom Baker I think of episodes like "The Pyramids Of Mars", "The Hand Of Fear", "Planet Of Evil", "The Deadly Assassin", "The Face Of Evil" these were more dramatic scifi than anything else. Great subtle humor and well written, I can't recall the episode that you mention but I vaguely remember that towards the end of his stint as Dr Who there were a number of really badly written episodes.
Without a doubt, this will be the hardest roll to fill and the most essential.
Paul Darrow was amazing in the role, I believe he was once quoted as saying "I decided to play the role as Dirty Harry to the max" (or something to that effect) and his character and portrayal made the show.
It was great that the BBC brought back Dr Who but you have to admit that they've really taken a wrong turn with Matt Smith as the new Doctor and the episodes that I've seen lately have been silly. He just looks odd, sort of like Herman Munster without makeup and the writing is much more comedic than dramatic.
I always felt that the Tom Baker years was among the best of Dr Who and the stories and characterization of the Doctor were both inventive and dramatic, great science fiction.
I loved this series and it's still a constant frustration that it's not available on DVD here in the US, a friend of mine who took a trip to the UK did and managed to get me season 1.
There were many things to like about this series and a number of things I didn't like. Despite the special effects not being great this was made up for by the acting and the writing. The whole mystery of the Liberator and it's superior design and abilities were one of the major components of the first season and I felt that the series took a strange turn when major characters were killed off and Gareth Thomas (Blake) left the series. Among the things I disliked was the fact that they frequently lost or didn't come out on top, but it was rather refreshing to have stories unlike Star Trek where they didn't always win and people died.
Of course my favorite character was Avon (played by Paul Darrow), he was awesome and the new series will rise or fall on who is cast in this roll. I think my second favorite was Vila (Michael Keating) and it was always fun watching the back and fourth between the two characters of Avon and Vila.
Syfy's last show that tried to be dark and gritty (Stargate Universe) didn't gain much traction and in my opinion was killed prematurely, I just hope that they make a better effort here and concentrate on casting and writing.
I'm sure there were a whole host of reasons that Windows server started taking over from Netware but to my mind the reason that my company of the time started using Windows Server was that it was a good platform for things like a mail server and database server. I can't remember if Netware even had the ability to be an application platform or if it was just that no one wanted to write for it.
Thanks for the information, I'll see what I can do. I've been having a hell of a time talking to my parents doctor's, even though they've signed forms saying that the doctors can discuss their medical information with me the doctor's keep forgetting that and it's days and weeks before I hear back from them. I'm sure that the Pharmacist will insist on some kind of similar paperwork.
I realize that would concern a lot of people and HIPA regulations may come into play but there are a lot of elderly people having a lot of problems because they're on a "cocktail" of more than six medications and many are having undocumented drug interactions. There has to be a way to gather anonymous statistics that doctors and pharmacists can use to better say to patients "Doctor B is prescribing ABCXYZ and that may cause you problems because you're already taking DEFXYZ and GHIXYZ medications and adding ABCXYZ could cause you to have so and so side effect".
I don't know how many people here have elderly parents but my mother is on over ten prescription medications and I've strongly suspected for years that some issues she's having are undocumented drug interactions. I've talked to several of her doctors and the best that they can come up with is "Sorry, there's no real data to support that theory / claim; nothing I can do".
There really needs to be a system in place to gather data on people who are on this level of medication and try and figure out if some of their problems that started after they were on combinations of medication are related.
What's going to become of Star Wars now that Disney and Abrams have gotten their hands on it?
I originally liked the Star Trek reboot but when I watched it a few times after it came out on DVD I really had to wonder about who wrote the script and didn't anyone actually review it because it seemed to me that it had some very big problems:
First, Spock acted out of character in a number of instances and as far as I can tell it was mainly a plot device to achieve a particular goal i.e. Spock would have never broken regulations to eject Kirk in a life pod, the only purpose for that was so that Kirk could meet old Spock and Scotty on the planet.
Second, at the end what purpose did it serve for Kirk to fire weapon's at the Romulan ship when it was being consumed by the black hole (it couldn't possibly escape) other than to delay their departure long enough so that they could have that whole "trying to escape the black hole" sequence.
These are just the most glaring errors (to my mind) but I'm sure that I could find more if I thought about it.
So I have to wonder what's going to become of Star Wars with the kind of director who would make massive plot mistakes like this.
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I didn't name a country since it's still not clear where he's actually going to go yet but it's clear he wasn't going to stay in Hong Kong probably because extradition is possible from there given enough time and red tape. Speculation on where his eventual destination was going to be included Russia, China, Cuba, Ecuador and somewhere I read that Iceland had offered him sanctuary but as someone else mentioned Iceland is a NATO country and I don't think he would have been safe there in the long term.
I think you'd have to agree that Russia, China, Cuba and Ecuador are not really bastions of free speech and those governments have been known to crack down hard on anti-government protests.
While modded as funny this is tragic that the US government is spying wholesale on it's own citizens, breaking the spirit of the Constitution to the extent that employees of the government feel the need to "blow the whistle" and expose those activities. Then those whistle blowers have to seek asylum in country's that have been known to engage in wholesale repression of anti-government dissent by the citizens of those country's.
There is just something so wrong about all of this and on so many levels.
My high school got a DEC PDP-11 in my junior year (like 31 years ago) with dual 8inch floppy's which replaced the PDP-8 with dual DEC tapes.
Glad to see that they're still going but after all these years where do they get parts for them? Didn't Compaq buy DEC and then Compaq merged with HP, does HP still support hardware this old?
Just because he had to live underground doesn't mean that he couldn't have friends or family, Sarah was still with him for a number of years before she died of leukemia. If you take things that happened in "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" into account, more people from the future came back and I would expect that between Sarah, John and the others that they would work diligently on two goals: first trying to stop Skynet from being built or make sure the people building it built in safeguards so that the it would not become self-aware and second if they failed at that then to have supplies and a core resistance ready to go when the war started.
The script for Terminator 3 was trash plain and simple and John's character didn't fit what we saw of John in any of the movies (past or future) or in the TV series. If they're going to do another movie they need to throw away what happened in 3, maybe indicate that events that happened in the TV series stopped that particular future from happening. In the TV series we also saw Sarah going to a clinic and being tested for Leukemia and it's possible that with forewarning and preventative measures that Sarah didn't end up dying.
Did you? John was a wise ass juvenile delinquent who was on the verge of becoming a career criminal, pretty much because he thought his mother was insane and he had no idea who his real father was. When he found out that it was all true and that his father was a hero (from the future) and his mother had been doing everything possible to stop the end of the world as we know it his character took a turn for the better and was headed towards becoming the man that Kyle knew as the leader who would show the resistance how to destroy Skynet.
After watching The Last Stand, Arnold is without a doubt too old. But if they use some Avatar like technology I'm sure they can make him as good as new, we have the technology.
I just really hope they get a good script and some good casting, Terminator 3 was absolutely dreadful, starting with a really bad script to casting Nick Stahl as John Connor. They made his character a simpering emotional wreak and not the great leader of men who would lead mankind to overthrow Skynet. Terminator 4 was moderately better as Christian Bale better fit the character that we so briefly caught a glimpse of in the original movie but I sort of felt it was disjointed and that in the end nothing was really resolved.
Windows 8 has some real usability issues for the average person but that's mostly cosmetic and having used Windows 8 with one of the many Start Button replacements I don't find it too difficult. However, my main complaint is that Microsoft has not done enough to fix the sluggish performance of Windows on machines that by the standards of ten years ago are practically super computers. When Windows XP on a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 with 3.2GB of ram and a 500GB Western Digital Black Edition drive is much (much) more responsive than Windows 8 x64 running on a Socket 2011 system with an i7-3820 3.6Ghz cpu with 16GB of ram and a 2TB Western Digital Black Edition drive there's something seriously wrong under the hood.
There was an article here on Slashdot four or five years ago referencing a blog post by a Microsoft Kernel developer (I looked but couldn't find it in order to provide a link) but the blog post essentially said that the Windows kernel was just not written to take advantage of multi-core / hyper-threading enabled cpu's and that the kernel needed a complete overhaul to fix the problem. I also seem to remember that within days the blog post had been taken down, apparently Microsoft doesn't like it's employee's criticizing their products.
I didn't think of that but I agree, if you could get him to do it he would be perfect.
I'm sorry, but from day one I never liked Matt Smith. He is just wrong for the part, he looks like Herman Munster without makeup i.e. a neanderthal you can barely see his eye's underneath that jutting brow.
I took a lot of heat for saying this in a previous Doctor Who thread but the writing has been dreadful since Smith became the Doctor (or worse than it was), more silly comedy than sci-fi drama. Yes, every Doctor had some ridiculous episodes and Tom Baker was always my favorite Doctor. Episodes that always stood out to me: The Ark In Space, Planet Of Evil, Pyramids Of Mars, The Brain of Morbius, The Hand Of Fear, The Deadly Assassin, The Face Of Evil, The Robots of Death, Horror Of Fang Rock, The Stones Of Blood. These were outstanding episodes and that's not to say that others I didn't mention weren't good and I will admit that I didn't like the last two seasons as well, it seemed to me that the writing was not as good or original as if the show runner was getting bored and really didn't want to be doing it anymore.
Whoever approved this incredible waste of taxpayer money really needs to loose their job along with half of Congress.
I realize that this whole patent troll thing has been going on for a while but haven't a large number of high profile patent cases eventually gotten shot down as either prior art, unpatentable things or too vague and the claims have been dismissed?
Are Microsoft's patents that strong where everyone feels they will loose in court?
Is it really so much easier and cost efficient to pay extortion rather than all the company's co-operating and banding together in a lawsuit to challenge the validity of Microsoft's patent claims?
Why are manufacturers paying this extortion rather than banding together and trying to fight it like any other patent troll?
What is Google's position on this and why aren't they indemnifying manufacturers that use Android or fighting this themselves?
Back when there were only desktops and laptops, that's what people spent their money on. Now that there are more computing options people only have so much money to spend and so people are spending their money on alternative computing options so of course PC desktop and notebook sales are going to suffer.
I really think that the tag line here is a misnomer, Windows 8 is not the sole reason for the "worst decline in sales ever". Don't get me wrong, the new Windows 8 UI is terrible and the worse thing since Vista (maybe even worse) but with one of the many Start Menu replacements Windows 8 is at the very least usable by the average person.
Every Dr Who had some questionable episodes, when I think of Tom Baker I think of episodes like "The Pyramids Of Mars", "The Hand Of Fear", "Planet Of Evil", "The Deadly Assassin", "The Face Of Evil" these were more dramatic scifi than anything else. Great subtle humor and well written, I can't recall the episode that you mention but I vaguely remember that towards the end of his stint as Dr Who there were a number of really badly written episodes.
Without a doubt, this will be the hardest roll to fill and the most essential.
Paul Darrow was amazing in the role, I believe he was once quoted as saying "I decided to play the role as Dirty Harry to the max" (or something to that effect) and his character and portrayal made the show.
It was great that the BBC brought back Dr Who but you have to admit that they've really taken a wrong turn with Matt Smith as the new Doctor and the episodes that I've seen lately have been silly. He just looks odd, sort of like Herman Munster without makeup and the writing is much more comedic than dramatic.
I always felt that the Tom Baker years was among the best of Dr Who and the stories and characterization of the Doctor were both inventive and dramatic, great science fiction.
I loved this series and it's still a constant frustration that it's not available on DVD here in the US, a friend of mine who took a trip to the UK did and managed to get me season 1.
There were many things to like about this series and a number of things I didn't like. Despite the special effects not being great this was made up for by the acting and the writing. The whole mystery of the Liberator and it's superior design and abilities were one of the major components of the first season and I felt that the series took a strange turn when major characters were killed off and Gareth Thomas (Blake) left the series. Among the things I disliked was the fact that they frequently lost or didn't come out on top, but it was rather refreshing to have stories unlike Star Trek where they didn't always win and people died.
Of course my favorite character was Avon (played by Paul Darrow), he was awesome and the new series will rise or fall on who is cast in this roll. I think my second favorite was Vila (Michael Keating) and it was always fun watching the back and fourth between the two characters of Avon and Vila.
Syfy's last show that tried to be dark and gritty (Stargate Universe) didn't gain much traction and in my opinion was killed prematurely, I just hope that they make a better effort here and concentrate on casting and writing.
I'm sure there were a whole host of reasons that Windows server started taking over from Netware but to my mind the reason that my company of the time started using Windows Server was that it was a good platform for things like a mail server and database server. I can't remember if Netware even had the ability to be an application platform or if it was just that no one wanted to write for it.
Put that old war horse down easy, it did it's duty and then some, it deserves some respect.
I loved Netware and worked on 2.x, 3.x and 4.x, it's a real shame what's become of Novell.
Thanks for the information, I'll see what I can do. I've been having a hell of a time talking to my parents doctor's, even though they've signed forms saying that the doctors can discuss their medical information with me the doctor's keep forgetting that and it's days and weeks before I hear back from them. I'm sure that the Pharmacist will insist on some kind of similar paperwork.
I realize that would concern a lot of people and HIPA regulations may come into play but there are a lot of elderly people having a lot of problems because they're on a "cocktail" of more than six medications and many are having undocumented drug interactions. There has to be a way to gather anonymous statistics that doctors and pharmacists can use to better say to patients "Doctor B is prescribing ABCXYZ and that may cause you problems because you're already taking DEFXYZ and GHIXYZ medications and adding ABCXYZ could cause you to have so and so side effect".
I don't know how many people here have elderly parents but my mother is on over ten prescription medications and I've strongly suspected for years that some issues she's having are undocumented drug interactions. I've talked to several of her doctors and the best that they can come up with is "Sorry, there's no real data to support that theory / claim; nothing I can do".
There really needs to be a system in place to gather data on people who are on this level of medication and try and figure out if some of their problems that started after they were on combinations of medication are related.
by 1/6 if I can only receive DVD's on weekdays.
What's going to become of Star Wars now that Disney and Abrams have gotten their hands on it?
I originally liked the Star Trek reboot but when I watched it a few times after it came out on DVD I really had to wonder about who wrote the script and didn't anyone actually review it because it seemed to me that it had some very big problems:
First, Spock acted out of character in a number of instances and as far as I can tell it was mainly a plot device to achieve a particular goal i.e. Spock would have never broken regulations to eject Kirk in a life pod, the only purpose for that was so that Kirk could meet old Spock and Scotty on the planet.
Second, at the end what purpose did it serve for Kirk to fire weapon's at the Romulan ship when it was being consumed by the black hole (it couldn't possibly escape) other than to delay their departure long enough so that they could have that whole "trying to escape the black hole" sequence.
These are just the most glaring errors (to my mind) but I'm sure that I could find more if I thought about it.
So I have to wonder what's going to become of Star Wars with the kind of director who would make massive plot mistakes like this.
At first glance I thought the title said "Mad Scientists More Prone To Misconduct" and thought this could be an interesting article.