Sequels are ok, but remakes ARE NOT! Batman Begins, Star Wars... both did great.
Have you actually compared the new Batman to the previous ones? The only commonality is the source material. Batman Begins did well because the creative team respected the source material and made a movie that moviegoers actually wanted to see. Which is the whole point, supposedly.
Pretty much. I work at Motorola. Awhile ago they had a little internal contest asking us to come up with any cool 4 letter names. Never heard if that one yielded any fruit. I'm sure the marketing flacks are racking their brains.
I just tried it in Opera. Looks like it works. I only mention this because of the recent Opera story in which a bunch of posters said "Who cares about Opera. FF is free and good enough!"
Still, I tried Opera and I find it's interface cluttered and messy.
I'm an Opera user and I disagree, but I see where you're coming from, because Opera's default configuration is asinine.
Once you turn off the left side panel and some of the other crap that's enabled by default, it starts looking really clean. I suggest giving it another shot. Configuring it can't take longer than installing all of your FF extensions:)
Firefox is much leaner feeling, and has a much better tabbed-browsing implementation, IMO.
Regarding the tabbed-browsing implementation, I was using FireFox over the weekend (on a new distro install). As far as I could tell, the implementations look pretty much the same! What differences did you see?
When I first tried Opera, FireFox's ancestor Mozilla was at 0.9 or so, and it was hella-slow. My PC was only 333MHz, so Moz was effectively not an option. So I tried Opera. It was hella-fast, even on my dinosaur. I've kept with it ever since. Every version has had great quality, and I'll stand by it. It rocks, on Windows or Linux (I use both, but Windows only because of my job's tools).
You like tabbed browsing? Opera had it before FireFox did. In fact, I think it did before anyone. Open Source isn't the only source of innovation.
Don't get me wrong, I love the GPL. But if someone can put out a superior product in a hard market, I won't hesitate to send them money. How long did it take FireFox to get to where it is now? How many name changes, forks, reconfigurations?
Why don't you give it a look? The ads are really unobtrusive. Give it a 2 weeks, try to configure it so you like it. Sure, FireFox is a "viable free alternative" (your words), but "viable" is not exactly a compliment.
It takes talent to put together a website that crazy-looking. At first I thought it was incompetence, until I realized that it was carefully-crafted chaos.
The parent of your post is correct; "breakfast" comes first. This commercial appeared at a point where I was memorizing all kinds of stuff, for no apparent reason. Fresh Prince lyrics, commercials, the McDonald's Million Dollar Menu song... all kinds of brain clutter.
(It's been a long time. Apologies if these lyrics are not exactly right.)
Any place that you wanna gooooo
We'll take you there oh don't you know
At the club (cluh-cluh-cluh-cluh)
Club Ma-ri-o
Come join the club (cluh-cluh-cluh-cluh)
Club Ma-ri-o
I see another poster is bitching about it. At the time (I couldn't have been older than 12 or 13, mind you), my brother and I thought it was hilarious, and way better than Captain Lou.
But like so many things, I'm sure I would think it sucked if I saw it now. But I'd like to see it again to be sure...
My suspicion is that many Nintendo fanboys are actually just fans of Japanese popular culture
Well, some might call me a Nintendo fanboy (though not a frothing blind one) and I hate anime and manga.
I find that I stick by Nintendo because they have a track record of making solid games, innovating genres, and not disappointing me. I think the only games that I mourn not being able to play are GTA and Katamari Damancy.
If I was a sports gamer or FPS fan, I might have a different opinion, but those genres don't interest me. I'm guessing many Nintendo fans may have this in common (perhaps because fans of these genres have long left Nintendo).
I see where your coming from, but in that department I reserve my complaints for Majora's Mask. What it have, like 5?
Yeah, there were the spider houses, but who cares about those. All of the pseudo-dungeons didn't feel like dungeons. That game was more sidequests than dungeons.
The host site is "johndiesattheend.com". "John Dies at the End" is the title of a popular serial horror story feature on pointlesswasteoftime.com. Thus, the URL, which has no site yet, is probably owned by the same guys.
the graph is hosted on some other site (which im not going to bother looking for now, because this right here is a complete waste of my time.. )
In other words, you gladly repeat information without wasting any time critical thinking or confirming a source.
You just cited pointlesswasteoftime.com as a source for some console sales data.
THEY PROVIDED NO SOURCE. THEY MAKE SHIT UP.
Don't get me wrong. I love PWOT.com, I've been reading it since college, like, back in '99 when its web design sucked and nobody read it. It's hilarious and the articles are often well-done. But IT'S NOT A NEWS SOURCE.
Unless, of course, you refer to their tagline "The only news source you'll never need."
While Moore did create the John Constantine character (in the pages of Swamp Thing), he isn't a guy who's developed him a whole lot.
Crediting Moore solely for this character is a great disservice to Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, and Mike Carey who have written most of the memorable runs of Hellblazer and shaped the character's continuity and history. In fact, of the 200+ issues of Hellblazer, Moore has written ZERO of them. (see here)
(Of course, the Constantine film is an even greater disservice to the writers, but that's another rant.)
I beg to differ. He wrote a "comedy" take on Superman called "True Brit". In this alternate take on the story, Superman lands in England, and his parents raise him to hide his powers and he ends up working for a London tabloid.
Guess what? It sucks! I really wanted to like it, but it just wasn't funny!
I like John Cleese, and thought it would be good. I'm not really sure what he was trying to do, but it didn't work.
I believe only British people and people from countries who submit to the monarchy (if in ceremonial form only) like, I think Australia (Canada too?) can use the title "Sir".
Anyway, he's not "Sir Bill". I believe the best he can do is "Bill, KBE" (Knight of the British Empire).
Anybody -- please correct or elaborate if you can.
Theaters must enforce R and NC-17 ratings for movies distributed by members of the MPAA as a contractual condition of being able to show movies distributed by MPAA members.
I didn't know that, though now that I've read it, I can't believe I hadn't thought of that possibility. Thanks for mentioning that.
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Sequels are ok, but remakes ARE NOT! Batman Begins, Star Wars... both did great.
Have you actually compared the new Batman to the previous ones? The only commonality is the source material. Batman Begins did well because the creative team respected the source material and made a movie that moviegoers actually wanted to see. Which is the whole point, supposedly.
Try this one: Alien Hominid.
You like Metal Slug? Contra? You'll like this.
Spanish infinitives generally end in -er. That's what I thought of when I read it. Made me laugh, at least.
As subject.
Pretty much. I work at Motorola. Awhile ago they had a little internal contest asking us to come up with any cool 4 letter names. Never heard if that one yielded any fruit. I'm sure the marketing flacks are racking their brains.
Open source community copies, clones and plagiarises.
Yes. Exclusively. Members of the open source community have never innovated or come up with anything new.
You idiot.
There was some Opera bashing in a recent story. But all of these problem sites render fine in Opera.
That doesn't excuse them from being non-compliant, but it does illustrate why some people may like Opera over FF.
I just tried it in Opera. Looks like it works. I only mention this because of the recent Opera story in which a bunch of posters said "Who cares about Opera. FF is free and good enough!"
Okay, despite the fact that that was a pithy statement meant as part of a broad brush of criticism, I'll offer a clarification:
The Open Source community isn't the only source of innovation.
Like you didn't interpret it that way in the first place.
Still, I tried Opera and I find it's interface cluttered and messy.
:)
I'm an Opera user and I disagree, but I see where you're coming from, because Opera's default configuration is asinine. Once you turn off the left side panel and some of the other crap that's enabled by default, it starts looking really clean. I suggest giving it another shot. Configuring it can't take longer than installing all of your FF extensions
Firefox is much leaner feeling, and has a much better tabbed-browsing implementation, IMO.
Regarding the tabbed-browsing implementation, I was using FireFox over the weekend (on a new distro install). As far as I could tell, the implementations look pretty much the same! What differences did you see?
No one really uses it.
Eat me. I'm using it right now.
When I first tried Opera, FireFox's ancestor Mozilla was at 0.9 or so, and it was hella-slow. My PC was only 333MHz, so Moz was effectively not an option. So I tried Opera. It was hella-fast, even on my dinosaur. I've kept with it ever since. Every version has had great quality, and I'll stand by it. It rocks, on Windows or Linux (I use both, but Windows only because of my job's tools).
You like tabbed browsing? Opera had it before FireFox did. In fact, I think it did before anyone. Open Source isn't the only source of innovation.
Don't get me wrong, I love the GPL. But if someone can put out a superior product in a hard market, I won't hesitate to send them money. How long did it take FireFox to get to where it is now? How many name changes, forks, reconfigurations?
Why don't you give it a look? The ads are really unobtrusive. Give it a 2 weeks, try to configure it so you like it. Sure, FireFox is a "viable free alternative" (your words), but "viable" is not exactly a compliment.
It takes talent to put together a website that crazy-looking. At first I thought it was incompetence, until I realized that it was carefully-crafted chaos.
No way I'm checking out the source, though.
The parent of your post is correct; "breakfast" comes first. This commercial appeared at a point where I was memorizing all kinds of stuff, for no apparent reason. Fresh Prince lyrics, commercials, the McDonald's Million Dollar Menu song... all kinds of brain clutter.
(It's been a long time. Apologies if these lyrics are not exactly right.)
Any place that you wanna gooooo
We'll take you there oh don't you know
At the club (cluh-cluh-cluh-cluh)
Club Ma-ri-o
Come join the club (cluh-cluh-cluh-cluh)
Club Ma-ri-o
I see another poster is bitching about it. At the time (I couldn't have been older than 12 or 13, mind you), my brother and I thought it was hilarious, and way better than Captain Lou.
But like so many things, I'm sure I would think it sucked if I saw it now. But I'd like to see it again to be sure...
(crap, ignore parent, somehow I accidentally hit submit before I was finished...)
Which do you think is really worse, the voice acting, or the script writing?
Are we talking about Episode 3?
I learned from that movie that no matter how good an actor is, bad lines will make him look like a bad actor. I'm talking about Samuel L Jackson here.
So, back to the topic, with game voice acting in the past, I'd say both can be equal contributors.
Which do you think is really worse, the voice acting, or the script writing?
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My suspicion is that many Nintendo fanboys are actually just fans of Japanese popular culture
Well, some might call me a Nintendo fanboy (though not a frothing blind one) and I hate anime and manga.
I find that I stick by Nintendo because they have a track record of making solid games, innovating genres, and not disappointing me. I think the only games that I mourn not being able to play are GTA and Katamari Damancy.
If I was a sports gamer or FPS fan, I might have a different opinion, but those genres don't interest me. I'm guessing many Nintendo fans may have this in common (perhaps because fans of these genres have long left Nintendo).
I see where your coming from, but in that department I reserve my complaints for Majora's Mask. What it have, like 5?
Yeah, there were the spider houses, but who cares about those. All of the pseudo-dungeons didn't feel like dungeons. That game was more sidequests than dungeons.
The host site is "johndiesattheend.com". "John Dies at the End" is the title of a popular serial horror story feature on pointlesswasteoftime.com. Thus, the URL, which has no site yet, is probably owned by the same guys.
the graph is hosted on some other site (which im not going to bother looking for now, because this right here is a complete waste of my time.. )
In other words, you gladly repeat information without wasting any time critical thinking or confirming a source.
You just cited pointlesswasteoftime.com as a source for some console sales data.
THEY PROVIDED NO SOURCE. THEY MAKE SHIT UP.
Don't get me wrong. I love PWOT.com, I've been reading it since college, like, back in '99 when its web design sucked and nobody read it. It's hilarious and the articles are often well-done. But IT'S NOT A NEWS SOURCE.
Unless, of course, you refer to their tagline "The only news source you'll never need."
Regarding Moore and Hellblazer...
While Moore did create the John Constantine character (in the pages of Swamp Thing), he isn't a guy who's developed him a whole lot.
Crediting Moore solely for this character is a great disservice to Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, and Mike Carey who have written most of the memorable runs of Hellblazer and shaped the character's continuity and history. In fact, of the 200+ issues of Hellblazer, Moore has written ZERO of them. (see here)
(Of course, the Constantine film is an even greater disservice to the writers, but that's another rant.)
Everything that man touches turns to gold.
I beg to differ. He wrote a "comedy" take on Superman called "True Brit". In this alternate take on the story, Superman lands in England, and his parents raise him to hide his powers and he ends up working for a London tabloid.
Guess what? It sucks! I really wanted to like it, but it just wasn't funny!
I like John Cleese, and thought it would be good. I'm not really sure what he was trying to do, but it didn't work.
Since he is American, he can't be called "Sir".
I believe only British people and people from countries who submit to the monarchy (if in ceremonial form only) like, I think Australia (Canada too?) can use the title "Sir".
Anyway, he's not "Sir Bill". I believe the best he can do is "Bill, KBE" (Knight of the British Empire).
Anybody -- please correct or elaborate if you can.
Don't you know? She plays for the other team.
I can't be bothered to find something to back this up, but it's not a secret (as evidenced by the quote you cited). She's gay.
Theaters must enforce R and NC-17 ratings for movies distributed by members of the MPAA as a contractual condition of being able to show movies distributed by MPAA members.
I didn't know that, though now that I've read it, I can't believe I hadn't thought of that possibility. Thanks for mentioning that.