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I may be wrong, as the OP didn't mention budget! |
However looking at their site, I'm guessing they're desperate to keep costs to an absolute minimum - correct me if I'm wrong (please), I think the S3 would be potentially quite expensive? |
I *think* the OP is looking for crowd-source solutions, i.e. a way for people to run mirrors themselves whilst maintaining integrity and copyright(s). |
Comment: I can't enter, I'm not a US citizen - but... (Score 1) 240 |
by wallyhall (#41706243) Attached to: Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota |
...if any US citizen *does* want to enter, feel free to take my idea! (I'm sure many others have proposed it already though...) Simply a CAPTCHA, audio version. Using DTMF codes to answer. i.e. "To connect this phone call, please type the number three thousand, seven hundred and twenty two on your keypad". Known "white listed" caller IDs can skip it. It can be made harder by presenting mathematics or asking "Please type on your keypad the number of duck quacks you hear ... woof quack moo quack woof." Etc. |
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by wallyhall (#37014828) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives? |
+1 parent. I've been using RoundCube for some time (3 - 4 years?), it's used both my myself (as a technical person) and many non-technical people, it both "gets on with the job" and provides a glossy UI for doing it (by glossy, I mean it's pretty and it shows similarity to popular desktop environments, like Windows, Gnome, KDE and OSX - drag/drop, buttons, scrolly bits, HTML previews, WYSIWYG editors, etc). It's only a web UI for IMAP though, so you're still going to need something powerful on the back-end for spam etc. For an MTA (email server), I use Courier-MTA. The whole lot can be installed on Debian (£30 a month dedicated server, or less for a virtual/home hosted option) in a day, there after I can honestly say you rarely have to touch it. Happy to provide help if you want it ... http://matt.matzi.org.uk/ |
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The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game lets gamers step into the shoes of the AUTOBOTS or DECEPTICONS, select any available mission and pick from the largest, most diverse range of playable Transformers: each with their own distinct abilities and weaponry. Set in unique environments across the globe such as Cairo and Shanghai, the game allows players to instantly switch between vehicle and robot modes as they drive, fly, fight and blast their way through intense, pressure-packed levels. After engaging in single player action, players for the first time ever will be able to go online and battle friends in all-new multiplayer modes. |
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Yuliandi and 19 others own Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots |
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It's ok. Not too bad. Having to hold buttons down to stay in vehicle/weapon mode is annoying though. TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen |
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Great Movie I don't understand why there is so much hate for it. TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen |
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Right, so that Anime Expo stuff isn't up yet, and I'm thinking of putting up the panel talk I've got anyway. Otherwise, I'm waiting for Vegi's contributions. |
Note there is another review up. It's from Activision again -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It's not exactly a winner, I'll tell you that much, but if you're interested in checking out the review for kicks, leaving some feedback, whatever, here it is: Neoseeker reviews Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. |
I still need to bug H and crew about some ideas I had, even though there's a good chance they won't go through. I know Jamie already proposed some of them, but eh, I really haven't a clue, being in another country and all. Sometimes, I wish I did work in the office. Neoseeker needs to open a Los Angeles branch! Now accepting donations. |
In other news, I won this GameStop / Activision sweepstakes that I don't remember entering. I do recall it was something Vegi encouraged me to participate in, so there's that. Either way, me and nine other winners will be going to Comic-Con and put up in a swanky hotel for a few days. We won't get to stay the entire duration, but it should still be quite an experience! |
Oh, and holy Hell, Mass Effect 2! Actually, it's all old news to me, since I did get to attend E3 this year and check out BioWare's closed demos. But still! THAAAAANE!!! I want him in my Shepard's pants-bodysuit-armor-thing. |
Video took just under 50 minutes to upload, thank you very much. But THAAAANE!! Man, screw exclusive vids and the sites that pay for them. Yeah, you heard me. A lot of these vids are timed exclusives, like video games, and then get an official release later. At that point, any media outlet can access and post the video. |
Looking for something to play? I'm spending time with Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires. |
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Bah, having trouble with one of the Missions (Starscream's Stand) Any idea which Transformer is best for it? Anyway 3 more to go... TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen PC |
Well 5 more Platinums in the Autobot Campaign to go... it really does get easier as time goes on... TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen PC |
Just spent the better part of the day, and gotten Platinums on ALL Decepticon missions. Only got 8 more Platinums to get and I'm done! TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen PC |
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Rediff News All News » Movies » Review: Lone Survivor is Hollywood's Lakshya |
Review: Lone Survivor is Hollywood's Lakshya |
February 07, 2014 09:01 IST |
Mark Wahlberg in Lone SurvivorLone Survivor not only fails to engage the audience but it also seems conflicted about whether it wishes to honour the immense bravery of four individuals or whether it wishes to prove the US’s decision of interfering in Afghanistan correct, writes Paloma Sharma. |
Peter Berg’s latest film Lone Survivor is based on Marcus Luttrell’s ghost written, eponymous memoirs of the same name that chronicle US Navy SEAL Team 10’s journey into the Afghan province of Kunar, where they are to carry out Operation Redwings, which was a mission designed to eliminate the notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. |
Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) is part of a four-man reconnaissance and surveillance team -- the other members of which are Lieutenant Michael P Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) and Matt Axelson (Ben Foster). |
Marcus and his team are hiding in the mountains, waiting for a clear shot at Ahmad Shah (Yousuf Azami) when a group of goat herders discover them -- two boys and an old man. The Marines find a phone with the old man and suspect him, along with the boys, of being Talibani spies. |
While the Rules of Engagement forbid them from killing unarmed civilians without proof of their complicity, letting them go might mean risking the success of a mission that will forever put to rest a merciless man who is responsible for the death of at least 20 US Marines. |
As far as being a war film goes, Lone Survivor proves to be more war and less film. |
Berg’s glorified version of war worships machismo and puts blood-soaked sacrifice up on a high pedestal. Lone Survivor looks at the US’s involvement in the Afghan civil war from a perspective so narrow that you’d think it was a propaganda film from the George W Bush camp. |
The politics of the film aside, it seems that Berg’s idea of an action sequence is limited to Taliban mujahideen falling back after taking a single shot in the head and the Marines tumbling down ravines, bullets grazing their limbs and their faces being torn open. |
Lone Survivor will surely be remembered for its bone-crunching, blood soaked scenes of war and it is here that Berg excels. He makes you feel the impact of every single bullet and piece of shrapnel that tears open a piece of human flesh and he does it so much, so often that you become immune to violence. |
You stop wincing after the first few times. |
It just doesn’t matter to you anymore. |
As Carl Denham said in King Kong (2005), 'There is still some mystery left in this world, and we can all have a piece of it for the price of an admission ticket.' |
Unfortunately, even though you may pay for an admission ticket, you will find very little mystery here. |
Lone Survivor’s title pretty much gives away what the film is about and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out which one will survive. (Hint: read the opening credits, one of the producers and lead actors have the same name). |
Despite some fairly amazing performances by the leads, not only does Lone Survivor fail to engage the audience but it also seems conflicted about whether it wishes to honour the immense bravery of four individuals or whether it wishes to prove the US’s decision of interfering in Afghanistan correct. |
Lone Survivor is no Saving Private Ryan. It chooses to concentrate on gore rather than on bringing any depth to the story. The characters are 2D individuals. Nobody bothered to portray each soldier as an individual and instead, chose to lump them up as a group. Their stories are pretty much uniform -- loving family men, on the job, away from home, will do anything to protect their country. |
That Berg decides to spend a whole of about 10-15 minutes in the beginning showing footage from the Navy training sessions and a discussion among the group about marriage and home, is quite generous of him. A majority of this 121 minute yawn-worthy saga centres around the four men hiking up mountains, hiding and blowing holes in the enemy’s heads. |
It becomes quite difficult to connect with the characters or even feel the slightest touch of emotion for them. |
Why Berg chose to make a film about one in a hundred more strategically important battles of a war that is not doing America any good, I will never figure out. It will take a particular fetish for war to be able to sit through Lone Survivor. You will find yourself struggling to make it to the interval. |
Lone Survivor is Hollywood’s Lakshya -- except, without the spunk, the entertainment factor and Hrithik Roshan. |
This is not a film. |
This is a test; |
And of all the people I sat in the theatre with, I think I have emerged the lone survivor. |
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Paloma Sharma in Mumbai |
After ten years of practicing law in Allen Parish and after much consideration and prayer, I have decided to run for Judge of the 33rd Judicial District Court. The people of Allen Parish deserve a judge that understands the challenges of this position and that can ensure that the judicial process will be effective, efficient and above all fair. I have spent the vast majority of my career in the courtroom. I have tried hundreds of cases, both civil and criminal. I have the experience, passion and energy to do this job and I am asking for your support on November 4, 2014. |
Thank you for your consideration. |
Chad B. Guidry |
Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis, but until the late 20th century a column in a newspaper - a regular, signed and often opinionated piece - was a rare ornament to the plain stuff of news. The first columns I can remember were The Hon Man, The Doc Says and Francis Gay, all in the Sunday Post. Hon stood for Holiday on Nothing: every week the writer tried to go somewhere or be somebody (a postman, a sailor) in the disguise of an ordinary person rather than a resourceful operative for northern Britain's leading Sunday newspaper, and in this way, you might argue, he was an early example of the "participatory journalism" that the late George Plimpton made into such a successful specialism. |
The Doc's business was to suggest remedies for everyday maladies, rashes, itches, interior rumbles, etc. The Doc had a following so large that it was said every chemist in Scotland could tell by the demand on a Monday what The Doc had recommended the day before. Francis Gay specialised in heartwarming stories of individuals taking on and beating adversity, and often referred to his "readers' postbag" from which these stories had been plucked. He was the Sunday Post's Dr Pangloss, forever finding silver linings, and in our house unread and despised. |
These weren't columns as we now understand them. The authorship of the pieces remained obscure. All were written in the same pithy, one-or-two-sentences-per-paragraph style as the rest of the paper. They were impersonal. It may even be that the Doc, rather like Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts, was merely a sub-editor who manufactured both the complaint and the cure, consulting a well-used copy of the Family Medical Dictionary. |
I first noticed proper columnists when I was 12 or 13, when the Scotsman was delivered to our house in the morning and dad brought the Daily Mirror home from work. The Mirror's Cassandra was then the most celebrated column in Britain - its author, William Connor, must be one of the few people to be knighted for column-writing - though he seemed to have been put on Earth purely to annoy my father, who would sometimes say "I just can't stick that Bill Connor" as though Cassandra were someone in overalls he worked beside. By contrast, Wilfred Taylor in the Scotsman was too oblique - or perhaps just too fancy - to evoke any reaction at all. Some friends of ours swore by him, and perhaps I was too young to see the wit in his prose other than his frequent mention of "Skinflats", a real hamlet on the flood-plain of the Forth, which I think Taylor may have deployed in much the same way as Myles na Gopaleen used the "Plain People of Ireland" in his column for the Irish Times (a source of inspiration for many later columnists). |
Newspaper columnists could then be divided into two kinds. There was the pungent column of opinion and polemic, the men (and they were always men) you had to read or loved to hate: Cassandra, Robert Pitman in the Daily Express. There was the comic, whimsical or memory-based column: na Gopaleen, Beachcomber in the Express, Paul Jennings in the Observer (who devised, among other inventions, the terrific tongue-twister "Tuskless rustics eating crustless ruskets"). Both traditions still survive in the form of, say, Simon Jenkins, Richard Littlejohn and Miles Kington. Then, in the early 1960s, Michael Frayn added modern satire (Rollo Swavely, the well-known PR man) in his Miscellany columns for the Guardian, which were so sensationally funny that my older brother, who lived in London, cut them from the paper and posted them to me weekly in Fife. Around the same time Katherine Whitehorn added a large category, women, with a column in the Observer that famously, and in retrospect so innocently, defined a slut as a woman who kept her broken nylons up by using aspirins to fit through the holes in her suspender belt. |
In 1965 I joined my first newspaper and met my first columnist. The Glasgow Herald had decided to abolish its centre-page diary, which appeared unsigned and under the rubric "From All Quarters" (with a drawing of a medieval turret), and replace it with the Samuel Hunter column, named after an 18th-century Herald editor whose portly and wigged silhouette appeared at the head. Confusingly, the column was written by another Hunter, Willie, the opposite of a Regency figure, being small, balding, quiet and, no matter how many times he was told he "wrote like a dream", often rather depressed. His piece on the last night of the Glasgow Alhambra must be one of the finest things ever written by a journalist in Scotland, but there was no use telling Willie that. He gave me, as his young admirer, some early advice one night in the pub. "The trouble with columns is that you have to keep on doing the bloody things." |
Willie was the Herald's only real columnist, and when I joined the Sunday Times in 1970 the paper had only two - Patrick Campbell and Jilly Cooper - or three if you include Michael Parkinson in the sports pages. Sometimes it seems we are all columnists now. Certainly this newspaper is filled with lively, fluent, confident column writers, many of them young. Apart from entertainment and opinion, they supply the atmosphere of intimacy that marks out British newspapers from their more austere counterparts in Europe and the US. |
My question is: how long can it last? Some columnists, by dint of their knowledge and wisdom (the list includes Hugo Young and Neal Ascherson in the past, Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot now), need to be read. But others? The web overflows with opinion and blogs. Anyone can write a blog, and even some newspaper columnists write them. If informality is one of the aims of the column, then how does it differ from a blog? Only in one basic respect, so far as I can see: that readers pay to read columns and writers are paid to write them. The web is free - a democracy of electronic columnists. |
With this troubling thought, I am taking a break from column-writing for a while, hoping there is a job to come back to. |
· Ian Jack is the editor of Granta |
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I have a $cbDescription variable in a Perl script. When I print out $cbDescription, I get the following: |
tIP SOLD -5 /ESH4 @1832.00 |
I want to remove any + or - or @ signs or commas from the string, so I have the following line: |
$cbDescription =~ s/[+-\@,]//g; |
I expect that line to change $cbDescription to: |
tIP SOLD 5 /ESH4 1832.00 |
But when I print out $cbDescription after that line, I get: |
Why did it also remove all the numbers and the decimal point? |
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- is a range delimiter in between brackets sou you need to escape it: |
% echo "tIP SOLD -5 /ESH4 @1832.00" | perl -pi -e 's/[+\-\@,]//g' |
tIP SOLD 5 /ESH4 1832.00 |
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You can also specify it as the very first character in the class. – choroba Feb 16 at 23:43 |
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