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Review: Kung Pow
This one should have worked. Oedekerk, writer and director of this mediocrity, is also the star. He uses digital film-editing techniques to insert himself into the older film as the new hero, a creative idea that in better hands could really have been funny.
The Chosen One saw his family killed by the evil Master Pain/Betty and was raised by rodents. He finds his way to Master Tang, then falls in love with Tang's daughter Ling, who speaks in a perpetual whine. The stop-action overdubs and hesitations are funny at first, but then are just headache-inducing. There are a few inspired moments -- I personally loved the karate brawl with the dairy cow -- but the movie derails as he comes closer and closer to his confrontation with Master Pain.
Don't be fooled by the trailers. Every funny scene is in them. There are few movies I can't sit through, but this one was a struggle. It really isn't worth much more discussion, and my best advice would be to skip it altogether.
sitch.
quake3 bollocks et al
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Michael Sims is a liar.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.
sorry people but i must spred the truth, openbsd is not secure, windows is audited, so is openbsd, auditing == not secure! linux and openwall is far more secure, although openbsd's inetd.conf is secure, comments?
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Windows system.
An important factor in Windows' cost is its maintenance. Windows requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the millions of low- paid Windows administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Windows seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Windows' native file system, FAT32, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system is accessed. Other OS file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows FAT32 out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
According to Windows advocates, an alternative to FAT32 would be FAT. Unfortunately, FAT is still in beta stage. This means it is not intended for production use (although according to many Windows advocates this shouldn't be a problem, which makes me wonder how (little) valuable they find your data).
The other proposed 'solution', NTFS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient FAT32 file system remain in NTFS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the EXT2 heritage in EXT3 was considered a very bad thing by the Windows community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Windows, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Windows advocates.
Back to Windows' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Windows than on any other OS. On other OSes, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Windows are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Windows advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "blue screens of death".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Windows' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of other OSes, but not one of them is implemented right. A Windows user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Windows is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.
I LOVED the first one! Is this sarcasm? I hope not!
fuck you if you think that ace ventura sucked. you lick nuts.
How can one breast be "Redundant"?
Who cares if it's off topic?