FredCDobbs

The Amazing Adventure

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/01/microsoft-issues-fix-for-major-internet-explorer-bug-even-for-windows-xp-users/ Microsoft released a security update for its Internet Explorer browser Thursday to fix a bug that allowed hackers to take over a computer. The tech company said it will be releasing a similar update for Windows XP, even though it dropped support for the 12-year-old operating system last month. Users who have automatic updates enabled should not have to take any action, Microsoft said.

It loads very fast for me. About 2-3 seconds when I change pages. I think it's because of this board's program plus my new RAM chips. Oh, and also, I stepped up my modum speed to DSL 1.5 Mbs about two years ago. That helped a lot.

lz, Hearing that 47 minute interview finally answered some questions I’ve had for the past 40 years. I’ll tell you the story and then you will know some new background information about "Apocalypse Now". The film we now know was almost not made at all. I lived in San Francisco in the late 60s and early 70s, at a time when Coppola had his own independent Zoetrope film company based there, along with George Lucas. Word was going around among all the freelance film makers in town that Coppola was trying to develop a major film project about the Vietnam war, and it was supposed to have a lot of college radicals in it and Berkeley riots and anti-war demonstrations. Well, I was filming the major anti-war riots back then, and I was the only one filming them in 35 mm Eastman Color. I used my own 35 mm B&H Eyemo. I managed to set up an appointment at Zoetrope and show some of my exciting riot films to some of the staff of Zoetrope, in their fairly large screening room, with assurances that they would get back in touch with me when their film project finally got underway. That’s the last I ever heard of them because the theme of their film idea gradually changed, and that is what John Milius cleared up for me in the 47 minute interview. He said the original project was something Lucas, or maybe Coppola, wanted to make in a style something like “The Battle of Algiers”, a black and white film made in a semi-documentary cinema-verite style, with both real actors in scripted parts, mixed with film of real anti-war riots. Similar also to Wexler’s “Medium Cool” style of mixing TV news footage with drama footage. The actual war footage would be kept to a minimum and shot in California. I think Milius said in the interview that he is the one who talked Coppola into changing the theme to the same theme as “Heart of Darkness”, and concentrating 100% on the war, with no US domestic stuff and no American footage in it. So now I finally know what happened and why the project changed formats and who was responsible for it, and why they never called me back. I eventually sold some of my riot film to TV documentary programs.

lz, I just finished watching the 47 minute video interview. Very interesting.

lz, Thanks very much! This guy is sure smart. I never realized until now that he wrote the script.

I wonder which where his own lines in "Apocalypse Now". I always remember many of the famous lines which often summed up complex situations with just a few words, such as "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," and "Never get out of the boat," and "Saigon... ****; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle." "Home....... When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter." "No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ***. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away." Dennis Hopper's weird dialogue is some of the oddest I've ever heard in any film, but back in the late 1960s, when I lived in San Francisco, I used to hear ston*ed hippies talking just like that. I assume it was Coppola who decided to do Willard's narration with Martin Sheen's mouth close to the microphone. A lot of non-technicians do not notice this technique. It allows Willard to speak softly, almost in a whisper, yet be fully understood since the gain was turned up loud during recording. Martin Sheen actually was speaking almost in a whisper. This technique was good to show us what he was thinking to himself, and at the same time tell us in the audience as if he were whispering the confidential information to us. This technique was used in some noir film narration in the late 1940s.

Ralph Morgan and brother Frank Morgan:

Brian Ahern and Louis Calhern:

My repairman told me that the best way to speed up an old computer is to add more RAM chips. Seems that the longer a person uses a computer, the more the newer downloads and upgrades of programs like Flash, Real Player, Acrobat, and newer anti-virus programs, require more and more RAM space as time goes by. RAM is what your computer loads from the hard drive every time you start it up. With plenty of RAM memory, the programs operate rapidly, without having to keep accessing the hard drive for more information. Hard drive accessing requires a mechanical operation, while RAM access require only electronic access, which movies around in your computer much faster than hard drive access. So a few years after using a new computer, we wind up with our original RAM chips all filled up each time our computer is turned on, and we are left with not enough RAM to run the newer programs that we've downloaded over the past few years. So our computers have to keep slowing down and going to the hard drive to bring up newer programs that don't have any or much RAM space to run those newer programs at full speed. So, my repairman doubled my RAM by adding new and additional chips to my computer, and now, with this new upgraded TCM message board program, when I click on a thread page or a forum, it loads in 2 to 3 seconds, instead of half a minute to a minute. So, adding new RAM chips will speed up any old computer and any XP machine.

Barry Fitzgerald and his brother Arthur Shields

At the end, the man and woman in the alley committed a murder, so they too had to be punished. That is why they bumped into the policeman in the last scene, and he shined his flashlight in their faces.... so he could identify them at their trial later..... after the movie had ended.

And go through the same thing all over again when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7? Naaaah.

Yes, I did too.

Yes, that's what I mean. That scene was done so the cop could later identify the killers at their own trial.

How about you, Rover? Did you notice the 2nd Code Requirement at the end of the film?

Did you notice that there were TWO code-requirments at the end of the film, not just that one that Mr. Osborne mentioned? I had watched the film for years before I noticed the second one.

Did you notice that Mr. Osborne mentioned the code-required ending to this film? Did you notice that there were TWO code-requirments, not just that one, in the last segment of the film?

The best line in the film went something like this: "Strange that a man can live with a woman for ten years and not know the first thing about her."

This was supposed to be a "futuristic" film, such as with that modern electric wheelchair. But the thing was almost as big as a golf cart! Actual modern ones are much more compact.

This is the first time I've seen the complete film since it was first in the theaters. I loved it. Very interesting all the way through. The last half hour was very tense, because I was afraid one or more of the stars might get killed in battle.

Using this system, the contract actors tended to make more films than freelance actors, and this helped them improve their acting skill. This helped people like Betty Davis, Jane Wyman, and many others become very good serious actors, as they studied their earlier films and improved upon certain acting styles, voices, mannerisms, etc.

No, but the rascal made off with my goods!!