>> ^NicoleBee:

doublepromote abandoned places


You into the urban exploration thing too? Cool!

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>> ^juliovega914:

Way to go, six flags. Most of the infrastructure is completely intact. By giving up and selling for scrap, they are giving up an opportunity to invest in one of the most severely ravaged communities in the world. If they restored the park, it would continue to bring tourism and money from all over, which is really what New Orleans needs right now.


Six Flags is having financial problems.

Way to go, six flags. Most of the infrastructure is completely intact. By giving up and selling for scrap, they are giving up an opportunity to invest in one of the most severely ravaged communities in the world. If they restored the park, it would continue to bring tourism and money from all over, which is really what New Orleans needs right now.

>> ^Yogi:

Zombieland 2 should start filming now.


I was thinking a live-action Left 4 Dead movie. As long as Uwe Boll doesn't direct it...

>> ^ant:

Wow, Six Flags never recovered this one?


Six Flags? Hell, NEW ORLEANS hasn't recovered. They had almost 500,000 people pre-Katrina. It's taken 5 years to get back above 300,000. 200,000 is a lot of rollercoaster rides.

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Did you wind up seeing anything good at the festival?

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Next week's the New Orleans Film Festival. I was wondering if you had any favorites/must sees that are on this year's film list.

http://neworleansfilmsociety.org/films/category/15/NOFF-2010

Choosing is going to be a lot tougher with six locations for screenings.

Looks like a pretty interesting batch of films. The only one I've seen is one of the more obvious picks in the bunch -- Black Swan. That was definitely one of my favourites at TIFF this year so I'd definitely recommend that.

In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Next week's the New Orleans Film Festival. I was wondering if you had any favorites/must sees that are on this year's film list.

http://neworleansfilmsociety.org/films/category/15/NOFF-2010

Choosing is going to be a lot tougher with six locations for screenings.

Next week's the New Orleans Film Festival. I was wondering if you had any favorites/must sees that are on this year's film list.

http://neworleansfilmsociety.org/films/category/15/NOFF-2010

Choosing is going to be a lot tougher with six locations for screenings.

There's also a comic going on (Think the comics they did for the Engineer and solder/demo) that can be found Here

There's 3 parts to it with a 4th coming october 5th.

First part explains louis' backstory, second explains Zoeys, Third explains Francis' (and how they get to new orleans) and the fourth will explain all about Bill.

I watched most of this video but gave up part way through because it's shit. All it is is images we've all seen before and audio of various news broadcasts talking about either reports of secondary explosions or how there may have been secondary explosions. These reports are all meaningless as evidence. remember Katrina, after it blew through reporters were going on about how little damage there was and how New Orleans dodged a bullet. In the heat of the action the media and everybody else often get things wrong. Not saying there weren't secondary explosions and other events that sounded like explosions. there almost certainly were as there are at many disaster and fire sites, but this video is not evidence of anything

>> ^shuac:

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^shuac:
Agreed about Norton products sucking. In my 25 years as a PC enthusiast, I've tried all the AV products at one point or another and the New Orleans levy system had fewer breaches than Norton.

That's why it's the #1 selling Av product, because it sucks so much.

Yes, it's got a huge market share but not because it's an effective product. It's simply marketed well (this commercial for instance). And how much was it to produce this commercial? Those funds could have been used to make a better product, no? You see, son, market share is the important thing when you're as big as Norton, not program effectiveness.
I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort...but biggest does not mean best. I mean, duh. And aren't you just a tad biased, being a Norton employee? I have boatloads of PC experience. I've forgotten more about PCs than most people know and in my experience, Norton is a mediocre anti-virus/anti-malware shield.
Yes, I've used them recently. When you guys started using disc imaging tech for your install routines back in 2006-2007 (I may have the year wrong but you know what I mean), I figured I'd give you another try. Damn, it really did install the quickest I'd ever seen, I gotta give you that. But within the year, I found a fucking keylogger happily recording all my keystrokes. Seems to have slipped between the tightly-machined cracks of the #1 selling AV product. Well done. After changing all my passwords and getting a new debit card, I uninstalled that shit and never looked back.
These days, I run a combo of BitDefender and Emisoft Anti-Malware on Win 7 64 and manual-run-only version of Spybot. Emisoft in particular is a frighteningly effective malware shield. But I am completely non-loyal when it comes to AV programs. I buy a one year license and if I get stung during that year, out it goes.


Norton products were #1 in the market when I started here in '99 and we didn't have adverts like this back then, so what's you're explanation for that? Symantec didn't really start pushing the products until the last 5-6 years or so.

Yes I know that bigger isn't better, but Symantec has made strides to improve the product, and has accomplished that goal. Proven by the reviews and benchmark tests. And no I'm not biased. If it was shit, I'd be the first to say it was. I already admitted that I wouldn't touch the consumer products when I first started working here, what more do you want?

So let me get this straight, SON. You are blaming an AV software for your inadequacies? If you have "boatloads of PC experience" and have "forgotten more about PCs than most people know" you wouldn't get keyloggers on your system to begin with. I certainly have never had one on any of my systems. Guess you should stay away from warez, and games you download from torrent sites, eh? Because that's typically where they come from. Again, I have been using computers since '95 and I've had a total of 2 viruses, one from an ISP's installation floppy, and one that a roommate downloaded onto my system 2 years ago when I was at work which ended up to be a fake AV program or what I like to call extortionware. As Tymbrwulf said, you can't rely ONLY on AV, anti-spyware, and anti-malware products to protect your system, if you do you're a fool. It also takes common sense, OS patches, software patches, etc. Viruses/malware/spyware can, and do use vulnerabilities in OSes and installed software to infect a machine even though it has a 100% perfectly working AV software installed on it. But why am I telling you this? You're the computer expert you should already know this right?

"I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort", but there's no AV software that 100% effective. If you find one let me know because I can tell you it doesn't exist. As I said in a previous post, things will always get by AV software because they depend on customer submissions, and definitions in order to stop threats. They are REACTIVE not PROACTIVE. Which means if a new variant of an old threat, or a new threat altogether gets released in the wild. Guess what? You, or somebody else is going to get infected, period. Again, if you were the computer expert you claim to be you'd understand this fact. Also, if you seriously think that you will find an AV software that will protect you 100% from threats, you are in for a rude awakening my friend. I wish you good luck in your endeavors.

>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^shuac:
Agreed about Norton products sucking. In my 25 years as a PC enthusiast, I've tried all the AV products at one point or another and the New Orleans levy system had fewer breaches than Norton.

That's why it's the #1 selling Av product, because it sucks so much.


Yes, it's got a huge market share but not because it's an effective product. It's simply marketed well (this commercial for instance). And how much did it cost to produce this commercial? Those funds could have been used to make a better product, no? You see, son, maintaining/increasing market share is the important thing when you're as big as Norton, not program effectiveness.

I hate stating the obvious because it's such a waste of time & effort...but biggest does not mean best. I mean, duh. And aren't you just a tad biased, being a Norton employee? I have boatloads of PC experience. I've forgotten more about PCs than most people know and in my experience, Norton is a mediocre anti-virus/anti-malware shield.

Yes, I've used them recently. When you guys started using disc imaging tech for your install routines back in 2006-2007 (I may have the year wrong but you know what I mean), I figured I'd give you another try. Damn, it really did install the quickest I'd ever seen, I gotta give you that. But within the year, I found a fucking keylogger happily recording all my keystrokes. Seems to have slipped between the tightly-machined cracks of the #1 selling AV product. Well done. After changing all my passwords and getting a new debit card, I uninstalled that shit and never looked back.

These days, I run a combo of BitDefender and Emisoft Anti-Malware on Win 7 64 and manual-run-only version of Spybot. Emisoft in particular is a frighteningly effective malware shield. But I am completely non-loyal when it comes to AV programs. I buy a one year license and if I get stung during that year, out it goes.

>> ^shuac:

Agreed about Norton products sucking. In my 25 years as a PC enthusiast, I've tried all the AV products at one point or another and the New Orleans levy system had fewer breaches than Norton.


That's why it's the #1 selling Av product, because it sucks so much.