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Posted: Sun Aug 26th, 2007 03:33 am |
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At long last, two years after filming ended "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" hits screens this September 21. Brad Pitt stars as Jesse James. Casey Affleck stars as Robert Ford. A new trailer is posted at <themovieblog.com>. Scroll way down the page past photos of weird conventioneers. The trailer doesn't do anything for me. It is slow, moody, and Affleck's voice grates on me. The music is wrong for the mood. I actually much preferred the first trailer which is still posted at various web sites including Yahoo. I'm hoping against hope the new trailer does not in any way reflect the actual pace tone or score of this movie. The story has so much potential. I hope Hollywood didn't mess up a golden opportunity to have a truly great "western." In contrast "3:10 to Yuma" has a fast paced, dynamic, tense trailer that really hauls you into the story and makes you want to see more while music pounds in the background building tension. With "Jesse" the music comes dangerously close to being soporific. Regardless of my apprehensions I will definitely be checking out Pitt and Affleck on the 21st. I hope some of you catch the movie too and share your opinions. |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:15 am |
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Evening. Two Westerns at the Movie Theaters in the same month is unheard of nowadays, but am glad, and will be seeing both. Have seen the trailer for the Pitt movie, and not all that impressed by it either. Sorta reminded me of the trailer for Costner's version of the Wyatt Earp story from the mid 1990s. Hope all is well. Regards from the Garden State, Steve Basic |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:36 am |
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Actually, if one stretches their imagination a bit, "September Dawn" can qualify as a "western" also because the massacre of a wagon train of immigrants portrayed did take place in the west in the 1850s. So that would make THREE westerns in one month--unheard of for decades at theaters. We used to go a year and never see a western. But there is more. "No Country for Old Men"which can be described as a "modern western" that takes place in the southwest. Maybe some would argue with me on that point. A purist would say it isn't a true western, but I have read Cormac McCarthy's book on which the movie was based and it does have a definite western vibe even though the situation is modern. This movie comes out in early December, I think. Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and other well known actors star. None of this current crop of movies glamorizes the western. I can't wait to see them. |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:56 am |
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Good point, as I forgot about "September Dawn". Highly doubt that will be in theaters all that long, and with stuff going on here family wise, guess I will just wait until the DVD comes out. As for Modern Westerns, I can't stand them. IMHO, it ruined the genre. And it's a trend that started many years ago. Like I need to watch Roy Rogers and Gene Autry driving vehicles, especially when they had Trigger and Champion as modes of transportation. Not kidding, if I see a phone or any type of car or truck in a movie that is described as a western, I won't watch it. It's not a true western, IMHO. Call me old fashioned, but in terms of Westerns, I am. Hope all is well. Regards from the Garden State, Steve Last edited on Mon Aug 27th, 2007 02:57 am by Basecat |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 03:17 am |
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I hear you, Basecat, about modern westerns such as Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry, and the Lone Ranger. I was a kid then and I couldn't stand them either. I have to think. Maybe the Lone Ranger didn't have aspects of modern life such as phones and cars. Anyway, by modern western, I mean a storyline with the same tradition of the original westerns. "No Country for Old Men" meets that definition for me because the same story could be moved back into the 1800s and just change cars for horses, drugs for stolen money from a bank or stolen gold from a gold mine, etc and change the clothing and the story could fit right in. By the way, if 3:10 to Yuma and Jesse James are box office successes, I bet Holly- wood will put out a bunch of westerns in the next couple of years until everyone is sick and tired of them. Then they will disappear again. |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 03:52 am |
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And that's the problem I have with the modern western...place the story back in them thar days...but what do I know. As for the success of the new films coming out, tend to think the new "3:10 To Yuma" will do better than the Pitt movie. Problem with Hollywood, if any genre becomes successful, instead of doing future films right, they rush everything and produce crap. The best western to hit the big screen the past few years was "Open Range" and by rights, Duvall should have gotten an Academy Award for his performance in that movie. I laugh as it came out a few months after Duvall played Lee in "Gods and Generals" and you can see which is the better script...memo to Ron Maxwell. Regards from the Garden State, Steve |
Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 06:28 pm |
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I loved Duvall in "Open Range." I have never understood why he didn't win for the movie "The Apostle" in which he was a fervent preacher who killed someone and became a fugitive, managed to set up a new church, only to have the law eventually catch up with him. It seemed that Duval put his heart and soul into the part. It must have been very draining to give so much to the role. |
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My idea of the perfect western is John Wayne astride a horse being told by Robert Duvall "those are pretty bold words for a one-eyed fat man" and one of Wayne's best lines ever in a movie "fill your hand you son of a bitch!" Pure gold! Best Rob Last edited on Tue Aug 28th, 2007 03:16 am by booklover |
Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 05:04 am |
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ole Member
And those words, booklover, were the first time (IIRC), that Wayne ever uttered a vulgarity on screen. Can you imagine the backroom consternation on viewing that clip? And the forces that prevailed? Must have also been the equivalent of the shock when Joh Wayne first died in a movie. Of course, you can name that one. ole |
Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 11:35 pm |
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Ole, IIRC, that would be "The Cowboys". Best Rob |
Posted: Wed Aug 29th, 2007 12:12 am |
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Ole- Here is a list of the movies that John Wayne died in. The first time was an uncredited role in 1931. Wayne, John: John Wayne |
Posted: Wed Aug 29th, 2007 02:57 pm |
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ole Member
Thanks, Texas. Learn somethin new ever day. |
Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 03:26 am |
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Wayne would never play a Confed. either is always in blue. Wayne is an icon .. found memories of watching him with my father Think some of the new stuff is good too 3 10 to yuma looks awsome Longriders is my favorite James movie so far. Cant beat the classics |
Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 02:14 pm |
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My favorite John Wayne movie is not a western but an "African." The movie is "Hatari" (Swahili for 'danger') and it was filmed in Kenya. It has an awesome score composed by Henry Mancini. Many of the songs from that movie can still be heard today. I first saw the movie as a young teenager and just loved it. Little did I know or dream that one day I would actually live in Kenya. In fact, my first child was born in Nairobi. Last edited on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 02:17 pm by CleburneFan |
Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 04:02 pm |
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David White Member
Ole was probably going for The Sands of Iwo Jima, where his character was based on a Texas Aggie I might add. Younglobo: He played an unreconstructed Confederate in what may be my favorite John Wayne film The Searchers or is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence my favorite? Both outstanding hard to pick which is the best. |
Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 04:09 pm |
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guess i should of been clearer , i meant we never saw the duke in a confed. uniform, in the movies that the civil war was associated with . As far as i know anyway. |
Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2007 07:55 pm |
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I subscribe to an online newsletter for the writer Ridley Pearson. I really like his books one series is set in Seattle with a Jazz loving police dectective. I got a news letter today with a review of the new Jesse James Movie. Reading his review made me want to see the movie. Check it out http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A3M34SJ7MQ98D1/ref=cm_blog_blog/103-7855647-7325418 Susan |
Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 12:41 am |
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Very interesting review and well written. I am not familar with Ridley Pearson but I like the way he thinks. Whew! I didn't know the movie was two hours and forty minutes long! I'd better eat a good lunch before I go. |
Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007 06:18 am |
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Order the largest popcorn but NOT the large drink. |
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Cleburne Fan, Take care not to smell the fumes coming from the popcorn. ABC News: Microwave Popcorn: Easy. Yummy. Toxic? Last edited on Fri Sep 7th, 2007 06:43 am by Texas Defender |
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What are the sensible investment ploys for those institutional investors who think they have a better than 50-50 chance of predicting the election outcome?
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The U.S. presidential election is a discomfiting time for those strategists accustomed to changing investment positions after minute analysis of the carefully measured comments of Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi and other central bankers. Markets have a tendency to overinterpret what these bankers say, because at times so little of their true thinking is revealed. However, when it comes to elections, the opposite is true. Politicians promise the earth to win over the electorate and then deliver much less.
Morgan Stanley encapsulates this slightly unreal world of political promises in a recent currency note, saying: While we know what the candidates stand for, we will only know after the November 6 election day how much these policies may have to lean towards compromise. Hence, the long-term implication of the outcome of the election may be very different to the initial market response.
A rational response is, therefore, to glean those promises that are more likely to be delivered, from the mass of more doubtful practicality looking mainly at Romneys promises, since Obama would broadly maintain the status quo.
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Factor: Unions Control America
Authors Mallory and Elizabeth Factor argue that unions have far too much influence in the U.S.
Sep 21, 2012
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And that union rally in Philadelphia workers told me that unions should have.
More power.
But I say they have plenty already.
Elizabeth and Mallory factor just wrote a book with an ominous title.
Shadow bosses government unions the sometimes -- control America and robbed taxpayers.
Blind self.
Elizabeth they control -- America -- say we're powerless.
Now they do.
That they really do control America they're in government there in our military.
They're in our national security sites.
There in our favourite sector there are now small where people have a right to choose yes or no who.
Increasingly the industries that are not unionized grew in the union share shrink -- in government it's bigger than ever.
Yeah because of course they unionized shops in the private sector go out of business but the government never goes out of business.
And now 41%.
Of government employees all across our nation are unionized and this is having a -- big effect in fact we think.
We think government employee unions are fueling.
Big government and government growth and that's -- our big takeaways.
-- yeah okay.
-- -- -- Explain how they -- but they want bigger government because then they get so it's really easy it's one of the greatest scams being perpetrated on the American public money goes from.
The government.
To the unions to the politicians who are bought and paid for back to the unions.
It is an amazing scam.
And in the case of the leaders of the unions you say they are the true 1%.
Of course I mean will they get a lot of money to Occupy Wall Street.
You don't you know bush deal with why occupy wall fisherman occupying -- plus she headquarters these are people who make.
I half a million dollars a year one of them 325000.
In eighteen months.
I'm private planes.
I mean is astounding -- they make about ten times what the rank and file union members -- talk about income inequality.
And you've written apology offices that they've really are elegant flat and the you're the teacher's union office I I tried to go in.
To take pictures recently and but I'll do that ardent.
Give -- explanation of that on another show but those places are beautiful.
You say.
That the union support some shadowy cause it's oh they sure do.
From the media matters mean I don't know if you -- know would media matters is what I know because -- this is media or review group but.
It is dedicates itself to killing off fox so that's right they've come after -- 800000.
NEA national education association of the teacher's union teacher is right to teachers union that but since then rank and file members don't know that.
But also asks me American federation of state -- employees gave money.
The AF of LCI OC IO gave them money but you know what the -- classified ads.
Public relations.
Right well as its public relations side -- their side and media matters and the Democrats say.
More money free unit -- -- noble but -- members don't know this the members never get a chance to know how this money's being spent.
-- is classified as public relations.
It just goes into administration and overhead.
And the members seem happy when I go to union rallies mural -- suits well I'd I would disagree with the and that when they have an opportunity to have their job without having to be part of the union.
They vote pretty quickly to not in Wisconsin when they weren't forced to pay tribute or to be a member of the union to keep their -- tax left like that.
Yeah that's important to give all of those rank and file union members real voice and a vote to unions are not pro worker.
They're pro shadow bosses.
Hundreds -- if you got my attention we you talked about the military I assume the military is an exception.
A third of the military our civilian employees and of those 60% are are ready union that's that means that you have unions on military bases.
Filing grievances and telling people how they can use these civilian employees in fact we found agreements that was hilarious.
Where the union has filed a grievance on a military base.
When the price of Soto went from fifty cents to 55 cents this constant filing grievances makes it tough to run an enterprise -- in the -- jag corps had to fight patent imagine how much taxpayer dollars went to just defeat that one grievance and by their.
-- security you mean Border Patrol.
-- feeling about the emergency management agency immigration and even NASA scientists.
That's right even the peace corps just looking at Homeland Security.
We found its we found 62 people getting paid to do Homeland Security work.
And you know what they're doing full time -- just union work.
This is Homeland Security Homeland Security is 40% unionized.
Well I'm depressed I don't know what you.
Thank you.
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queXML is a simple XML schema for designing questionnaires. Included are stylesheets to administer a questionnaire in PDF (paper), CASES, and LimeSurvey. queXML is compatible with the DDI standard for data description. Instruments can also be designed in LimeSurvey and exported.
queXF (pronounced kweks-eff) takes scanned paper forms generated using queXML and reads them. Operators can then verify that queXF has read the form correctly. Once this is done, the data collected can be exported in a fixed width ASCII file with a DDI data description. queXF can be used as an alternative to programs such as Cardiff Teleform and Remark OMR, in some situations. It removes the need to manually enter form data, therefore reducing error and fatigue. It does OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) on each form to determine if boxes have been filled, and can use ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) to determine what characters have been entered into boxes.
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MAGIC MOVES Sadly, the new Xanadu dance class at Crunch gym (38 E Grand Ave, 312-828-9777) does not involve roller skates. That's probably a good thing, though, considering I can barely dance. But that doesn't stop me from having a good time at the first session of this weekly class (ongoing through the end of March). Led by instructor Rebecca, who's clad in 1980s-inspired blue leg warmers, participants (mostly ladies; I was the lone male) learn choreography inspired by the campy 1980 film and the Broadway musical currently on stage at the Drury Lane Theatre. Rebecca starts us with simple warm-up moves (a side step, cha-cha and a little bit of a salsa) that are incorporated into a sequence we put together in the second half of the 60-minute class (this week, choreographed to Olivia Newton-John's "Magic"). It's not an intense workout, but it takes concentration to get the moves down, and once I master a teeny little portion of the sequence, my sense of accomplishment is akin to the feeling I get after running four miles. Just like with Crunch's class based on Dirty Dancing when that show was in town, Rebecca promises Xanadu cast members will occasionally drop in to co-teach and give away tickets. Thursdays at 6:45pm. Free to Crunch members; day passes for nonmembers are $16.


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Elephant StewPosted Friday, June 24, 2011, at 4:48 PM
1-Elephant (medium size)
2-Rabbits (Optional) Lots of brown gravy Cut the elephant into bite-sized pieces. This will take about 2 months. Add enough brown gravy to cover. Cook over open fire for about 4 weeks at 465 degrees. This will serve about 3800 people. If more are expected, two rabbits may be added, but do this only in an Emergency as some people do not like to find a Hare in their stew. Now before any animal rights people get on me this is only a joke recipe that has been around for years so take it that way LOL. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] HAHAHAHAHA ! I like the cut into bite size pieces. Ok I might be able to get the rabbit but don't think I will ever find the Elephant unless they sell the meat in the grocery store. Thanks Joe ! -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jun 24, 2011, at 5:39 PM
will pink elephants do? I think I saw a couple last saterday night after the bar closed. -- Posted by grammaidaho on Fri, Jun 24, 2011, at 10:50 PM
We don't seem to have any Elephants available in our area for stew. What else could I substitute? -- Posted by KH Gal on Sun, Jun 26, 2011, at 3:48 PM
No I don't think your going to find Elephant meat in the store. Doesn't matter what color they are, if you that wasted you going to have a hard time cutting it up lol No substitue here and have nothing even close to the size of an Elephant, so maybe have to settle for Hare stew LOL -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Sun, Jun 26, 2011, at 4:43 PM
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Using Twitter to Invest
FBN's Jeff Flock interviews Social Market Analytics to see how the company is using Twitter to predict market movements.
May 9, 2013
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Weeks per day on Twitter per day there should be a way to make money in the stock market with all that information that's out there but.
How much faith do you really put in Twitter trends when it comes to investing.
So -- -- Jeff Flock to Chicago with the very latest at a company where they're doing that stuff.
A lot of companies are in this space but I tell you nobody has I don't think at least to my knowledge refined it in a way.
That social market analytics has done it.
Take a look at what they do you know there's a lot as you point out -- out -- Twitter first in terms of stocks but what they do was they weed out the stupid people on Twitter half.
And putting and only the financial professionals so we only see their tweets right chill that's exactly correct we put a lot of intellectual property in the making sure that the accounts that we're following are legitimate so take a look real quick just to show you an example.
We were looking at what we got to look at well we looked it.
-- close ones these are what they call test scores when they start to trend of away from the norm Betts and go ahead and pull up -- pull up quite -- -- got first well earlier offers this one is Tesla Motors this is Tesla today.
What they started to see -- Positive tweets coming out before you got the jump in the stock yesterday they came -- -- is early yesterday show me what some of the actual -- if he can give you can do that.
-- that are coming in right now.
Let's find a legitimate account here at tech trading -- back -- same calls -- -- your ego.
Say you're buying what they're doing is they're buying calls -- -- get another push towards the end of the day so that this is a guy who's going along.
Because he's anticipating a stock going up this'll get calculated in -- -- Yeah I was gonna say they they do this and what they do is they weed out people that they know are not you know great.
But traders and so did you -- you begin to get a score that you can actually trade on show -- this real quick to a gotcha question -- who is.
One of them fathers of this program.
What -- what my senior religion you're looking at a it's cumulative distribution of a sequence of portfolios selected -- choosing a scores greater than to any given day so if you chose those and bought at the beginning to trade -- when he started to see positive you get what kind of a return to 34 priests.
So to return on this interval from -- from -- starting point.
Compared to about a 13% return for the S&P and that's it and more important almost Liz if you got a problem you've got -- you wanna watch when you see the negative it will also start to -- negative tweets early on if you wanna get out of that's hockey camp.
That's exactly right a lot of our clients are looking at this for an early warning system of potential problem there to be risk managers.
Or short firms and all right now just hedge funds get this service 5000 dollars a month for five users are gonna rule it out to regular customers like you and me shortly.
What I like about this company is that they based shift and they aggregate higher quality.
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NetWorx: Monitor your bandwidth usage to verify you're being billed properly by your ISP
March 6, 2012 40 Email article | Print articleMany people run on what is known as a "bandwidth-limited" Internet connection (okay, I admit, I don't know if that is the official name… I just came up with it on the spot); people on these plans are only allowed to use X amount of GB in regards to bandwidth per month, and any usage higher than that results in the ISP charging the customer extra. Other people run on a pay-as-you-go or prepay Internet connection (okay, I admit, I don't know if that is the official name either… I just came up with it on the spot); people on these plans only pay for the amount of bandwidth they use per month (or per day, per hour, etc.) as opposed to having a set monthly bill. For users on these type of Internet connections, when the bill arrives at the end of the month, it can often be a surprise how much bandwidth was used; basically one puts trust into their ISP's hands and accepts they are being billed properly. I am not saying all ISPs are cheats; what I am saying is everyone should trust, but verify. NetWorx is a program that allows you to do just that.
NetWorx is a software that allows users to monitor how much bandwidth you have used…
…and then provides multiple different methods to analyze the usage, such as via daily reports, weekly reports, monthly reports, hourly rates, etc.:
To make it easy to share your usage reports with others, NetWorx allows you to export each report into .XLS, .RTF, .HTM, .TXT, and .CSV formats. For dial-up users NetWorx has the ability to monitor bandwidth usage by dial-up sessions. For multi-user computers, NetWorx has the ability to differentiate bandwidth usage between users, or to view bandwidth usage in total.
In addition to the already mentioned, NetWorx has a few other "extra" tools, such as ping and trace route, accessible via right-click on NetWorx's system tray icon:
Of course for NetWorx to be able to accurately monitor bandwidth usage you need to have it running all the time whenever you are connected to the Internet, need to run it for all users (if applicable), and need to run it on all computers (if applicable). However, NetWorx is not a very heavy app, using 5-10 MB of RAM only, so it shouldn't have too large of a burden on your computer while it is running. Plus, for those people that hate installing programs, NetWorx has portable and installer versions.
All in all, if used properly NetWorx can be a very useful tool for those unfortunate, bandwidth-limited users. You can grab NetWorx from the following link:
Version reviewed: v5.1.2
Supported OS: Windows 2000 and higher
Download size: 1.5-1.7 MB
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@alan: If they have access into your router, I would think so…
BUT you shouldn't be running an UN-SECURED Network..You need to be running the highest level of security/encryption your router allows ( and set a strong password key…) Any computer accessing your router needs to have the same security/encryption method and key… And, you should be able to set your router to not broadcast its SSID (computer name) so it isn't even visible to your neighbors regardless of whether its secure or not.. (of course someone with the correct security/encryption & password would still be able to connect even if the SSID wasn't being broadcast).
Security types would be WEP, WPA2-Personal, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA-Enterprise, etc..
Encryption: AES or TKIP
Password/Key – the longer the better, include numbers, capital & lowercase letters, special characters, etc..27@alan: I can only go by personal experience on this one..
As I've already mentioned, I have 3 computers on my network.. One, the desktop is a wired connection… The other 2, both laptops are wireless only..
When I check the usage, it shows the individual usage for each computer and the sum total for all.. Beyond that, I really can't tell you anything else.. I'm not the developer of the software, just a very very happy user who happened to stumble across it after a very nasty phone session with Comcast threatening to disconnect me for 1 year if I went over their (unknown at the time) bandwidth cap.
I know it seems to very accurately track my actual up/down usage total and the figure it shows meshes with what Comcast says I'm using..
If you go to the NetWorx homepage, there is a link to their forum page.. The software developer is pretty good about responding to all questions and concerns..29you can monitor your bandwidth using ProteMac Meter http://protemac.com/Meter/
.It;s really nice prog)32for traffic monitoring i use ProteMac Meter too. it's really cool prog protemac. com
33@jSwannO: Your data usage isn't just what you download – it is everything you look at online, everything you listen to online, every email or IM you sent out or receive: because they all use packets of data to take the information to you and from you.
@Joleca: I'm going to give it another go around with Networx- I have a new modem and router. I think the reason it only showed me my own usage previously was because the modem router I had then wasn't query compatible… hopefully this one is! ;)
34Go for it Jenny,
I've been using Networx for almost 3 years now and can't be happier.. It tracks almost spot-on what Comcast shows I'm using, and I haven't had to worry about going over (or near) the Comcast bandwidth cap since I first installed it…
Now have 4 computers on my network (wired desktop, 2 laptops and a netbook which are all wireless) and it accurately tracks and totals all 4 showing me the total bandwidth for the entire network on each computer.
35OK, NetWorx monitors my side of the internet connection (and I like it), but I need to determine if my internet service provider is reliable, or "up."
Are you aware of any software that samples (and records) a cable modem (periodically) to see if there is a signal?
Thank you.
36lol ashraf, thanks for bringing this back up. I was looking for something similar to monitor my bandwidth :)
37Just adding a thumbs up for NetWorx and to explain why this is a very useful tool to have. I've been using it for a couple of years now.
My reason for using this is very obvious.
A couple of years ago my ISP decided up "upgrade" its tracking SW for user usage (i.e. upload/download.) I occasionally checked my usage, but was always within my limit. Imagine my surprise when I received a bill for over-usage charges to the tune of $30.00 over and above my normal monthly charge. And it happened again the following month.
I called my ISP and complained and assured them it wasn't me, but they didn't believe me. I refused to pay the amount since I knew it wasn't me. Then it happened again the following month, and this time the amount was over $40.00.
I then searched the 'net to see if anyone else was experiencing the same problem and lo and behold there was an outrage from many, many others with the same ISP that the same thing happened to them.
End result was that the ISP was forced to apologise and to give a credit on everyone's account that had be charged this ridiculous fee.
Their explanation was that there was a bug in the new "upgrade" and that it was now fixed. I don't believe that, but they are not overcharging anymore for over-usage when it doesn't happen.
I started using Networx after the first charge showed up on my account and had proof that they were wrong in their tracking.
I pays to have it installed as a backup in case this ever happens again.
38OK, I know that I'm a bit late entering this conversation but my experience is a big plus for NetWorx.
I have been using the program for a couple of years and not long ago my ISP sent an account showing that I had exceeded my download limit. With NetWorx I was able to converse with their Tech guys and compare my use on a daily basis showing a pattern which resulted in them cancelling the over-charged account. They reissued an account that was within my download limit, and this would never have happened but for the presence of NetWorx on my computer.39"NetWorx: Monitor your bandwidth usage to verify you?re being billed properly by your ISP | Reviews, news,
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After typing up my mini-reviews of the SCREAM sequels for the Blood Theatres Guide to Gore, I realized that there are a few things I wanted to mention about the series as a whole-
I recently watched the entire series with a friend who had never seen them before. After the first one she told me that what she liked about the film was how real the chase scenes felt. I thought about that and carried it in the back of my mind for the next three films. She is right and it is true of all the films, not just the first.
When a character is being chased you feel the sense of urgency, every bump and bruise along the way seems like it hurts. The objects used during the chase are there because they actually belong in the setting. Nothing feels placed for advantage. The obstacles created are realistic and plausible. If you were to look at it from their point of view; its life or death, you have limited time, and only these things around you, you would probably come to the same conclusions that the characters do. Not once did I sarcastically say oh yeah right!
This is a slasher film which makes the chase a vital element. I especially love that its not a killer who walks and is still always behind you. Save those for films about evil entities like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, there is nothing humane about those guys, so they can get away with it. The Scream killers are always just regular people, ones that we get to know throughout the film. So their stalking abilities definitely need to represent that of an average human.
Each film also includes a large cast of well known actors. Recently with Scream 4, you see at least one actress from almost every popular prime-time show in just the opening sequence alone.
I also love that the SCREAM series never had a need to come up with ridiculous sequel titles like Scream 2: Ghost faced Revenge, its just straight to the point 1, 2, 3 and 4.
I really enjoy this series since its the one that I grew up with and got to experience in theatres. I highly recommend it to everyone.
*NOTE: I am not knocking slow walking stalkers, I actually love them, its just nice that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson realized that this wasnt the type of film for that sort of thing. I just hate it when its out of place.
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Dead on, Ali! That's exactly what made Scream a sensation.
When Scream came out, it felt like a horror movie I hadn't seen before. There was no monster, no supernatural being, no gypsy curse etcetc. Most "real life" staker-killer types are in the suspense psychological thriller category. Scream didn't take itself too seriously to fall in that section (as it was originally meant to be a spoof), which helped make this one of the best rides of the mid-late 90's.
Scream is the "real" slasher flick, a throwback to films before the Freddies, Jasons and Chuckies to which of course I still adore. The now legendary introduction not only set an exciting tone for the rest of the film, but set itself apart from the other films coming out at the time, putting pressures on the horror industry to capture the feel Scream created. Without a doubt, it spawned I Know What You Did Last Summer, which really finished off the 90's with a stalker feel.
That said, the chase scenes were cringing. I had my shoes in the victims at all times. I felt like "that could have been me" in the very first scene. When we got close to the hero, we started to feel that "survival of the fittest" instinct kicking in. Awesome, awesome series!
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Scream still holds up to this day and the opening is one of the best openings put to film. The 2nd one is good, just not the same calibre. The 3rd is pretty trashy and got way too tongue and cheek.
I liked the 4th one and thought it was the best since the first.
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