Especially now that companies are giving away iPods for free, what's to keep anyone looking at any other competitor? Free, and the best?
Salesman:Ignore the free Porsche 911 Turbo, we're offering Ford Escorts for $5,995, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, an exclusive, one day only sale!!!!! Shopper: Eh, you make a compelling argument. Porsches are sortof mid-life crisis like, anyway.
PDF document listing the 9 circles of spyware hell
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Here's the link - now, what in that made it necessary to be distributed as a PDF, and not as an HTML/XML document? The proliferation of PDFs for information that can be displayed consistantly in other, more compact and less processor hungry formats, is frankly disturbing.
What you really need is some way to carry the music around with the head phones, in a discrete, easy to use package. Hmmm. I wonder if apple will ever make something that like?
More fun would be an IPod WiFi gadget.
Re:Entry level and AOL Office == Open Office?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Here's the full excerpt - seems to be StarOffice:
What software is included with the system?
Along with AOL 9.0 Optimized, the system comes with AOL Office, powered by Sun.
What is AOL Office, powered by Sun?
This is a full suite of productivity tools that can open, edit and save documents in a variety of formats, including Microsoft® Office. AOL Office contains four main applications: AOL Office Writer (for text documents), AOL Office Calc (for spreadsheets), AOL Office Impress (for presentations) and AOL Office Draw graphics).
What is AOL Office Writer?
AOL Office Writer is a word processing program that helps you create many types of documents such as reports, greeting cards, letters and more.
What is AOL Office Calc?
AOL Office Calc is a spreadsheet application that you can use to organize and manipulate data that contains numbers, such as a household budget.
What is AOL Office Impress?
AOL Office Impress provides tools to help you create attractive presentations and slide shows. You can use Impress to show presentations on your computer or print them out.
What is AOL Office Draw?
AOL Office Draw lets you create simple and complex drawings. You can also insert tables, charts, formulas and other items created in AOL Office programs into your drawings.
AOL pushing free office software... I wonder if they are providing tech support for it as well. You could buy one AOL OPTIMIZED PC for the office, install StarOffice on all the computers, and then abuse AOL Tech support for all your MS -> Sun compatibility problems...
(And not the nintendo Power gloves) - Why not just take a set of comfortable, thin, strechy gloves, and glue them to the spots where your hands normally hold the controller? Then you only have to slip your hands in the gloves, and you have permanent supergrip. Leave the button fingers unattached, and you're good to go.
Having worked with a hospital on putting non-hospital computers onto the network, I can verify that they do lock things down pretty well. But they also slip up occasionally, like the time they put one of our machines on to their network segment - I started having problems with a program, checked ipconfig, and saw an address that was completely outside of what it was supposed to be. And when you think that all you need is one slip-up, letting one infected computer on to the network, and then it would spread amongst all the non-patched machines, and it gets to be a bit of a frightening scenario.
Frankly, many critical machines should have only outbound connections, and not accept *any* incoming network traffic. They can then be monitored remotely, but if something needs to be changed, then a person can physically walk up to the machine and change it locally. If it can't be affected by the network, then there are no worries at all.
' ESA To Study Human Hibernation', and 'DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record'.
But the defcon thing is totally applicable to daily life! I mean, now everyone can put 10' satellite dishes up on their houses and get 55 mile links to a non-evil broadband provider.
And the hibernation is good for waiting for the homeowners association to finish suing you for the 10' eyesore on the top of your house.
FMD disks, a third of the way down the page. A lot closer to reality, but also illustrates how pie-in-the-sky so many of these theoretical storage solutions are.
he turns into an over-the-top, shoot-at-your-partner, child-as-hostage, ranting-raving scenary-chewing badguy
That's what he is the whole time. You just don't fully realize it until the end. The whole movie, he's callous, bull-headed, but tries to be that wolf in sheeps clothing. There's no "turn-around" for the sake of the story. It's a story about a corrupt cop trying to corrupt another cop, and the boundaries keep getting pushed, until, yes, the rookie does survive, but barely, and we aren't given a resounding "bad men pay" message, we are given a message of eye for an eye survival, and the idea that it easily could have gone the other way. (very depressing movie all-around).
What other shows can you list which featured a blatant murderer as the main character?
How does having "a blatant murderer" as the main character stop it from being a soap opera? I refer you first to this and this. Yes, Star Trek is a soap opera for nerds. The fact remains that people aren't really shocked by The Sopranos, we've always liked our mobsters, and this just fills that fantasy in a TV soap format. It's not based on real life mobs, it doesn't portray anything that has really happened, it is a bit on fantastical escapism, and the characters fit the mold of characters on all sorts of other soap operas. Sure, it's a new twist, but it's like calling a new guadruple cheeseburger at Jack in the Box groundbreaking. Sure, it's in a place you've never seen it before. Sure, it takes it a little bit farther. But it's still all the same ingredients.
Once you get past the pop tripe, and filter out most traditional fantasy stories, you wind up with a whole bunch of good stories that don't have final solutions for just about anything.
The easiest examples I can think of are FX's The Shield and HBO's The Sopranos. Spend some time in a bookstore, and you'll find even more complex stories by Americans for Americans.
To get back to the topic at hand, that is, movies, the only movies that don't end with a "wrap up all the loose ends and make the world alright" are horror movies, and the occasional social commentary, like "Training Day". Otherwise, Hollywood aims for clean, convienient endings, and bad guys that are bad, and good guys that are good. Every once in a while, they try to throw a little bit of a curve in there, but they're really avoiding the complex characters.
Cable shows are a whole different ball of wax, and aren't subject to the same controls and mores that movies are. They are allowed, by the powers that be, to be more adventurous, and, due to the easy access people have to them, people are more likely to give them a chance. However, a show like the Sopranos, which is a "mob background" to a soap opera, is not ground-breaking TV. It may be good fun, but it's not anything outside the normal american expectations.
I think the biggest problem anime currently faces in the US is not translation, or people not liking sub-titles. It comes down to two things: People expect anime to be childrens cartoons, because that's all american cartoons are (in general) or People look for a traditional western storyline, and they can't handle characters who are both good and bad, and stories that deal with multiple social issues, without offering panaceas at the end.
It takes a unique type of American to enjoy an anime, and until the rest of the country realizes the walls they have up, and takes them down, and appreciates anime for the beautiful deep art it is, anime won't be widely accepted.
What does this have to do with GITS? I would love to see that movie on a big screen, but unless I catch it at a local college, I've got no chance. We need to change American preconceptions so that we can watch our movies the way they were meant to be watched!
I often show friends the movie Princess Mononoke(sp?), and they say, "Wow, that was incredible!", and I tell them, "There are more movies like that, and a lot that are better than that." But no one has ever heard of it, because the american public can't understand or be bothered to try and understand an animated cartoon not aimed at children, or that doesn't hinge on humour. Sure, Pixar has gotten animation into the mainstream, but all of pixars movies are considered "Funny" and "child-safe".
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Well, at least they don't write anything about C coding.. and I'm definitely not *addicted* to that.. */me goes back to coding*
/*me goes back to coding*/
I dunno about your skills, that code won't parse through gcc, and your comment block is completely wrong. It should be
I was looking at their site, and I saw the Eye of Sauron! Run away, run away!!!
Especially now that companies are giving away iPods for free, what's to keep anyone looking at any other competitor? Free, and the best?
Salesman: Ignore the free Porsche 911 Turbo, we're offering Ford Escorts for $5,995, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, an exclusive, one day only sale!!!!!
Shopper: Eh, you make a compelling argument. Porsches are sortof mid-life crisis like, anyway.
Here's the link - now, what in that made it necessary to be distributed as a PDF, and not as an HTML/XML document? The proliferation of PDFs for information that can be displayed consistantly in other, more compact and less processor hungry formats, is frankly disturbing.
What you really need is some way to carry the music around with the head phones, in a discrete, easy to use package. Hmmm. I wonder if apple will ever make something that like?
More fun would be an IPod WiFi gadget.
(And not the nintendo Power gloves) - Why not just take a set of comfortable, thin, strechy gloves, and glue them to the spots where your hands normally hold the controller? Then you only have to slip your hands in the gloves, and you have permanent supergrip. Leave the button fingers unattached, and you're good to go.
Having worked with a hospital on putting non-hospital computers onto the network, I can verify that they do lock things down pretty well. But they also slip up occasionally, like the time they put one of our machines on to their network segment - I started having problems with a program, checked ipconfig, and saw an address that was completely outside of what it was supposed to be. And when you think that all you need is one slip-up, letting one infected computer on to the network, and then it would spread amongst all the non-patched machines, and it gets to be a bit of a frightening scenario.
Frankly, many critical machines should have only outbound connections, and not accept *any* incoming network traffic. They can then be monitored remotely, but if something needs to be changed, then a person can physically walk up to the machine and change it locally. If it can't be affected by the network, then there are no worries at all.
You can get an IPod for free here, bringing it down to a reasonable level of expense - much cheaper that $50 Remote Commandors and the like.
Have you tried reading the FAQ?
I mean, it's really not *that* hard.
' ESA To Study Human Hibernation', and 'DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record'.
But the defcon thing is totally applicable to daily life! I mean, now everyone can put 10' satellite dishes up on their houses and get 55 mile links to a non-evil broadband provider.
And the hibernation is good for waiting for the homeowners association to finish suing you for the 10' eyesore on the top of your house.
FMD disks, a third of the way down the page. A lot closer to reality, but also illustrates how pie-in-the-sky so many of these theoretical storage solutions are.
he turns into an over-the-top, shoot-at-your-partner, child-as-hostage, ranting-raving scenary-chewing badguy
That's what he is the whole time. You just don't fully realize it until the end. The whole movie, he's callous, bull-headed, but tries to be that wolf in sheeps clothing. There's no "turn-around" for the sake of the story. It's a story about a corrupt cop trying to corrupt another cop, and the boundaries keep getting pushed, until, yes, the rookie does survive, but barely, and we aren't given a resounding "bad men pay" message, we are given a message of eye for an eye survival, and the idea that it easily could have gone the other way. (very depressing movie all-around).
What other shows can you list which featured a blatant murderer as the main character?
How does having "a blatant murderer" as the main character stop it from being a soap opera? I refer you first to this and this. Yes, Star Trek is a soap opera for nerds. The fact remains that people aren't really shocked by The Sopranos, we've always liked our mobsters, and this just fills that fantasy in a TV soap format. It's not based on real life mobs, it doesn't portray anything that has really happened, it is a bit on fantastical escapism, and the characters fit the mold of characters on all sorts of other soap operas. Sure, it's a new twist, but it's like calling a new guadruple cheeseburger at Jack in the Box groundbreaking. Sure, it's in a place you've never seen it before. Sure, it takes it a little bit farther. But it's still all the same ingredients.
for indeed Hallowe'en (all hallow's[saints] eve) has been celebrated in Scotland and the north of England for generations.
You're british, right? Shouldn't that be 'allowe'en then? Since when did you start saying the leading h's, 'alf-pin 'al?
You don't read much, do you?
Once you get past the pop tripe, and filter out most traditional fantasy stories, you wind up with a whole bunch of good stories that don't have final solutions for just about anything.
The easiest examples I can think of are FX's The Shield and HBO's The Sopranos. Spend some time in a bookstore, and you'll find even more complex stories by Americans for Americans.
To get back to the topic at hand, that is, movies, the only movies that don't end with a "wrap up all the loose ends and make the world alright" are horror movies, and the occasional social commentary, like "Training Day". Otherwise, Hollywood aims for clean, convienient endings, and bad guys that are bad, and good guys that are good. Every once in a while, they try to throw a little bit of a curve in there, but they're really avoiding the complex characters.
Cable shows are a whole different ball of wax, and aren't subject to the same controls and mores that movies are. They are allowed, by the powers that be, to be more adventurous, and, due to the easy access people have to them, people are more likely to give them a chance. However, a show like the Sopranos, which is a "mob background" to a soap opera, is not ground-breaking TV. It may be good fun, but it's not anything outside the normal american expectations.
I think the biggest problem anime currently faces in the US is not translation, or people not liking sub-titles. It comes down to two things:
People expect anime to be childrens cartoons, because that's all american cartoons are (in general)
or
People look for a traditional western storyline, and they can't handle characters who are both good and bad, and stories that deal with multiple social issues, without offering panaceas at the end.
It takes a unique type of American to enjoy an anime, and until the rest of the country realizes the walls they have up, and takes them down, and appreciates anime for the beautiful deep art it is, anime won't be widely accepted.
What does this have to do with GITS? I would love to see that movie on a big screen, but unless I catch it at a local college, I've got no chance. We need to change American preconceptions so that we can watch our movies the way they were meant to be watched!
I often show friends the movie Princess Mononoke(sp?), and they say, "Wow, that was incredible!", and I tell them, "There are more movies like that, and a lot that are better than that." But no one has ever heard of it, because the american public can't understand or be bothered to try and understand an animated cartoon not aimed at children, or that doesn't hinge on humour. Sure, Pixar has gotten animation into the mainstream, but all of pixars movies are considered "Funny" and "child-safe".
Just my 3.5 cents.