The Motherboard box is where you keep all the bits and bobs. Driver CDs, anti-static bags for the major components, warranty info, mobo manual, display/keyboard adapters, the original I/O port shield that came with the case, extra screws, case badges, excess modular power supply cables, receipts / packing slips, initial full image backup, etc.
If I bought this computer, I'd need another box to store those things.
College Freshman TODAY don't get that stuff right because they let any idiot into college now. And of course, there's the whole war against grammar (and spelling) that started in the 1980s.
Teachers couldn't teach it because they were inept. Parents were offended when their kids failed. Kids were frustrated when they didn't understand (or couldn't even speak English to begin with).
The solution? Throw grammar out! It's useless! Language "evolves"! You're culturally insensitive if you cater to kids who speak Spanish and "African-American Vernacular"!
99% of people under the age of 30 think someone who has a lovely singing voice sings lovely. They sing lovelily, damn it! I don't care if that word makes you feel gay because of the double syllable at the end.
If something is as serious as death, which of the following is it?
A) Dead serious B) Deadly serious C) Deathly serious D) Deadlily serious E) Deathlily serious
(The answer is Deathlily. Deathly is not an adverb, despite modern dictionaries claiming to be so. Deathlily is the adverb.)
Just because it doesn't suit your needs, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's a "failure". I have a beefy desktop machine for doing image manipulation and video encoding, but most of my computing time at home is spent using my little ultraportable laptop for exactly the kind of tasks this device is optimised for. I would guess in the average home this is going to be closer to optimal than an over specified power PC. How close to optimal it actually is will determine whether it's a failure or not, but it's certainly an interesting idea and almost certainly the way things will go in the future.
Horse. Shit.
Most of your IDLE time is spent on some dumbtop. Most of your computing time is spent on a proper computer with a proper keyboard and a proper mouse and a proper display and proper horsepower.
Google docs has real-time collaboration (you can see other people's edits as they happen). The video on collaboration for Google Cloud Connect in MS Office says you have to save before edits are synced to all collaborators. Sounds like a recipe for lots of sync inconsistencies to me.
And the thing is, that's a terrible design. You can't have multiple people editing a word document anymore than you can have multiple people driving a car on their way to the office.
It's almost as if they're taking advantage of their market dominance by screwing us all over!
Eerie, isn't it?
Well, when you've got Superior products, you tend to fuck everyone over. Though AMD's Ontario got out of the gate before Intel's Huron platform and is in fact, better. AMD's been successfully focusing on the segment they can compete in for a while now - the auto makers in Michigan could learn a few things from AMD.
"It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila processors."
But the desktop market? My oh my, that's impossible! See, we've added a single extra pin, and I'm afraid you have no choice but to buy a new motherboard if you want a new CPU, or vice versa.
I cannot get a pair of sneakers to make it more than a year tops and dress shoes never past a couple. I am not buying walmart shoes here, so a shoe that lasts 4 years would be a huge money saver.
I used to buy doc martins, but paying $100+ for a chinese made shoe is crazy talk.
You may not be buying shoes from WalMart, but you're buying the same shoes from the same workers in the same factories run by the same companies.
Unless you're buying hand-crafted shoes from a shop where you can shake the hand of the person that made the shoe, you're getting slave labor, mass-produced, low-quality, "WalMart shoes".
You know how when there's a problem with your car, any part of it, that engine light comes on? And then you can't figure out what the hell is really wrong, because all you got is the engine light? And then you start second guessing every little noise or bump, in your rush to get it to a garage to get it resolved, only to find out three hours later and $500, that a screw was loose?
No, because I know how to diagnose a check engine light;). Do yourself a favor and pick up one of these, and you won't have that problem anymore. Or, if you have a smartphone, you can usually get a cheap OBD-II bluetooth adapter to read this stuff on your phone directly. It takes a lot of the guess work out of trying to figure out whats wrong.
Good luck finding a vehicle that:
- Uses standard codes
- Lets you access the codes in a standard way
- Throws up the proper codes when a condition arises
The codes are as much of a well-intentioned, honestly-implemented, well-tested standard as.docx . And I don't even hate Microsoft.
When will whiny bitches like you realize that you can filter the stories.
When will apologists like you realize that, no, you in fact cannot. Since the redesign there is no way for me to filter Idle. You can filter the WORD Idle, but does that mean any stories with "Idle" in TFS get filtered? TFH? Nobody knows. I don't want to risk filtering a story about idle CPU time just because it has the word "idle" in it. And even when I do filter Idle, I still get Idle stories showing up. It doesn't work.
Since the redesign, there is no way for me to get the mainpage to show the full summary (instead of just the headline) for all stories.
- This is a problem because it requires an initial click to read TFS.
- This is also a problem because if I middle click the link, my new tab opens up to the slashdot main page, NOT the story I wanted.
Prior to the redsign, many options simply didn't work. After the redesign, many options simply don't work.
Slashdot is broken. And the people who care get shat on whenever they say something about it. Mod me offtopic, but until there's an actual place where legitimate complaints and concerns will get actual attention, this place is just as apt as any.
Who's the marketing dipstick that decided to demarcate the lightpeakthunderboltwhatever port with the most recognizable symbol for power worldwide, the lightningbolt? Cause that's not gonna be confusing as hell for the general audience.
The most recognizable symbol for power is the I/O symbol.
Either represented as I/O or as a nearly-complete circle with a I at the top. Think C- and rotate it counter-clockwise 90 degrees).
This symbol represents an open and and closed circuit. Unfortunately, a lot of devices will incorrectly have "O" (the completed circuit) be off, because, you know, it's an O, and "off" starts with the letter "O"! And I've seen plenty of devices that have a button with "I / C-" on it, mixing the dual-symbol sign (typically used for switches that toggle or have some throw), and the single-symbol sign (typically used for momentary switches/buttons).
So basically, even though people fuck it up, O/I or C- is still the universal symbol for electrical power. It's related to the core idea of electrical flow. Lightning bolts are warning signs for the dumbest of the dumb.
Here is how I would implement a policy like that. I would ask, all applicants for their facebook username and password up front.
Then, everyone who gave it to me, would get a polite letter informing them that they did not get the job because they so easily violated the TOS of facebook, with whom they had a standing agreement before they applied with us. Thus, there is no way that we could trust them with access credentials on our system.
You failed the test, you are the weakest link, goodbye.
And anyone who passed the test, by refusing to divulge such information, should immediately turn down any job offer you give them. No one with a brain would work for a company that dicks them around with "tests" like that. They get enough of those mind games from their girlfriends.
A http protocol that, instead of (connect, download, disconnect), allows for a sustained connection throughout the session and then a final disconnect when the session concludes. A persistent connection could mean that your credentials would be valid only for a single connection and logging out would sever that connection and invalidate the credentials. I am sure the idea has been tossed around and thrown out already, but I am curious.
No, that would not solve this. This is client-side malware that has full control over internet traffic. The malware already intercepts the user's "logout" action, and serves up a bogus "You have logged out" page.
AFAIK, session hijacking has been an issue since - well - since Al Gore invented the intraweb.
No matter what browser you're using - unless it is Lynx - you probably can be involved in a session hijack issue. UNLESS you forcibly close that session by closing your browser.
I saw a post about using Wintendo. I don't think that Windows or Linux or OSX are any more or less vunerable. Just the fact that people don't forcibly close sessions.
Now, where did I put that copy of Firesheep?
This is client-side malware. The malware watches all network traffic. It looks for bank.com sessions. It monitors and intercepts GET and POST requests. When you do a transaction, it can alter the transaction to send money to their accounts instead, and then show you a screen that looks like it went to the right place (because they tailor their shit to certain banks and know what the various pages look like). When you click "log out", they can simply serve up the "You've successfully logged out! We also recommend you close your browser." page, without actually letting the logout request go through to the server. Since the session is still open, they can keep it alive in the background by firing off random activity (go to account summar page, go to home page, go to account summary page, etc.) until a human in Russia or wherever logs on and checks his malware reports for juicy account sessions, hijacks it, and does whatever he wants.
Closing your browser won't help if the bank can't tell the difference between the malware's activity or the legit browser's. The malware can simply mimic IE, or just have a hidden instance of IE running within itself.
The solution is to issue RSA-type tokens to all customers, and require a unique ID for every single transaction.
What will actually happen? Nothing. Banks like fraud. Banks profit off of fraud. The vast majority of fraudulent transactions go unnoticed and unreported (and thus, paid for by the end consumer). "Did I buy shit on iTunes last month? I dunno, probably." "My bill this month is $x, and my minimum payment is $y. No need to look at the individual charges, I'll just put $100 into my.79% savings account, and pay $2y on my 17.9% credit card."
Yes, banks pay (or have to work to get another bank to pay) when you report fraudulent transactions. They tout this as a feature ("With Bank of Fuckyourass, you're NEVER responsible for fraudulent charges on your account!"), but it's simply a federal requirement. But the volume*amount of fraudulent transactions that go unnoticed or unreported far outweigh that of the full-scale "I'm in ur account, drainin' ur cash" attacks and "I'm a responsible adult and I check my statements." people.
If you use Internet Explorer on Windows, "closing" your browser is not enough. Internet Explorer is part of the OS, and keeps on running in the background even if no window of it is showing.
Wasn't there an article recently complaining that the speed of SHA made it relativly useless as a hashing algorithm to protrect passwords? Surely the increase in speed would have a greater effect on cracking speed than on the speed of legitimite authentication.
Yes and no.
Yes there was such an article. No it doesn't mean shit - that's what salts and multiple rounds of an algorithm are for.
But then again, yes this is bad news bears because nobody can seem to keep their password file out of reach of hackers, nobody can seem to figure out why and how they should use a salt, and no one ever configures their crypto to do anything but the bog standard shit. This is a result of idiots mindlessly screaming "Don't roll your own crypto!!!!" and forgetting that the last word of that sentence is supposed to be "algorithm". You absolutely should have a non-standard crypto routine using a standard algorithm. This isn't security through obscurity, it's security though making script kiddies' rainbow tables useless.
After a little looking around, I have discovered that she was driving southbound on Ewing Ave (which heads approximately due south) in southern Chicago. The sunrise for that day was 7:17 am, which means the sun is still low in east-south-eastern sky (to the Drivers left). Presumably, the pedestrian who had been in a recent accident is off to the driver's right (generally motorists pull off to the right, in this country.) If that is the case (I couldn't find any corroboratory evidence here) then I find it hard to believe that the sun would have blinded the driver from the left such that they wouldn't be able to see what's in front of them/to the right.
I see you've played a lot of Phoenix Wright! Now if we can just get Professor Layton to solve the timing and ordering of crash, post, and 9-11 call puzzle, we'd have this shit solved!
But to say that it would have done better if it was PG-13 is a joke.
It would have made more money. Period. And in the end, that's all that matters when you're trying to get investors, which is what this article is about. Whether you liked the movie or not is irrelevant.
What evidence is there for this statement? If it was PG-13, the content would have to have been toned down. The main thing the fans of Watchmen like is its "dark" subject matter - heroes raping heroes, murdering foreigners, etc. They think this makes it more real, less bland, more edgy, whatever. I think they're fucking stupid, but that is what they like about Watchmen, and that's their business. But if you dumb that down to get a PG-13 rating, you lose the core fans. Without the core fans supporting Watchmen, no one would have been hyping it up. It would have failed harder than it did.
Really? I thought it was one of the most faithful adaptations of anything I've ever seen
I can get you a faithful adaptation short video of a dog taking a dump on the side walk. It could be the most faithful adaptation ever constructed. But you know what? It's still just a video of a dog taking a crap.
-Rick
And judging by the "Hallpass" and "Just Go With It" crap they're pandering to the aging college sex romp / weed/beer comedy audiences, "Dog Shits on Sidewalk" is a great contender for comedy of the year.
Watchmen was an overlong, overwrought, overly wordy, over hyped, over produced mess.
It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, good.
This is 100% correct. Mode me troll and flamebait, I don't give a fuck.
Watchmen was a bad movie and it failed because it was a bad movie. Is Slashdot going to post an article next week about Scott Pilgrim and how it was actually a good movie?
Being different, weird, and so against the grain to the point of being contrarian, doesn't make something unique, deep, or good. It just makes anti-social people feel better for liking it, as well as more inclined to like it in the first place because it's different, weird, and contrarian - just like them.
The only things the general public saw when they saw Watchmen were an unnecessary blue dick, a bad plot, forced edginess in the form of "we're heroes, but we're so dark and moody we often act like villains and play out our own little soap opera in our secret club", and shitty costumes that screamed "Batman Ripoff". And you know what? This was one of the rare occasions when the general public got something right.
If you liked it, fine. Enjoy your movie. But to say that it would have done better if it was PG-13 is a joke.
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The Motherboard box is where you keep all the bits and bobs.
Driver CDs, anti-static bags for the major components, warranty info, mobo manual, display/keyboard adapters, the original I/O port shield that came with the case, extra screws, case badges, excess modular power supply cables, receipts / packing slips, initial full image backup, etc.
If I bought this computer, I'd need another box to store those things.
College Freshman TODAY don't get that stuff right because they let any idiot into college now.
And of course, there's the whole war against grammar (and spelling) that started in the 1980s.
Teachers couldn't teach it because they were inept.
Parents were offended when their kids failed.
Kids were frustrated when they didn't understand (or couldn't even speak English to begin with).
The solution?
Throw grammar out! It's useless! Language "evolves"! You're culturally insensitive if you cater to kids who speak Spanish and "African-American Vernacular"!
99% of people under the age of 30 think someone who has a lovely singing voice sings lovely. They sing lovelily, damn it! I don't care if that word makes you feel gay because of the double syllable at the end.
If something is as serious as death, which of the following is it?
A) Dead serious
B) Deadly serious
C) Deathly serious
D) Deadlily serious
E) Deathlily serious
(The answer is Deathlily. Deathly is not an adverb, despite modern dictionaries claiming to be so. Deathlily is the adverb.)
I think you mean this.
http://i.imgur.com/czMlc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/n3qzC.jpg
(Often seen with a quick photoshop that changes "blink" to "brink".)
Just because it doesn't suit your needs, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's a "failure". I have a beefy desktop machine for doing image manipulation and video encoding, but most of my computing time at home is spent using my little ultraportable laptop for exactly the kind of tasks this device is optimised for. I would guess in the average home this is going to be closer to optimal than an over specified power PC. How close to optimal it actually is will determine whether it's a failure or not, but it's certainly an interesting idea and almost certainly the way things will go in the future.
Horse.
Shit.
Most of your IDLE time is spent on some dumbtop.
Most of your computing time is spent on a proper computer with a proper keyboard and a proper mouse and a proper display and proper horsepower.
Google docs has real-time collaboration (you can see other people's edits as they happen). The video on collaboration for Google Cloud Connect in MS Office says you have to save before edits are synced to all collaborators. Sounds like a recipe for lots of sync inconsistencies to me.
And the thing is, that's a terrible design.
You can't have multiple people editing a word document anymore than you can have multiple people driving a car on their way to the office.
It's always a clustefuck.
Sorry, no matter how attractive, I still wont let anyone near my cavities.
Not even your dentist?
Why make it secure, when there is money to be made by having it INsecure. Trust Google...
Do not attribute to malice that which is more adequately explained by stupidity.
Do not attribute to stupidity that which is more adequately explained by greed.
-- Enron's razor
You can never have too many razors.
--Gillette's Razor
Eerie, isn't it?
Well, when you've got Superior products, you tend to fuck everyone over.
Though AMD's Ontario got out of the gate before Intel's Huron platform and is in fact, better.
AMD's been successfully focusing on the segment they can compete in for a while now - the auto makers in Michigan could learn a few things from AMD.
"It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila processors."
But the desktop market?
My oh my, that's impossible!
See, we've added a single extra pin, and I'm afraid you have no choice but to buy a new motherboard if you want a new CPU, or vice versa.
What brand was that?
I cannot get a pair of sneakers to make it more than a year tops and dress shoes never past a couple. I am not buying walmart shoes here, so a shoe that lasts 4 years would be a huge money saver.
I used to buy doc martins, but paying $100+ for a chinese made shoe is crazy talk.
You may not be buying shoes from WalMart, but you're buying the same shoes from the same workers in the same factories run by the same companies.
Unless you're buying hand-crafted shoes from a shop where you can shake the hand of the person that made the shoe, you're getting slave labor, mass-produced, low-quality, "WalMart shoes".
You know how when there's a problem with your car, any part of it, that engine light comes on? And then you can't figure out what the hell is really wrong, because all you got is the engine light? And then you start second guessing every little noise or bump, in your rush to get it to a garage to get it resolved, only to find out three hours later and $500, that a screw was loose?
No, because I know how to diagnose a check engine light ;). Do yourself a favor and pick up one of these, and you won't have that problem anymore. Or, if you have a smartphone, you can usually get a cheap OBD-II bluetooth adapter to read this stuff on your phone directly. It takes a lot of the guess work out of trying to figure out whats wrong.
Good luck finding a vehicle that:
- Uses standard codes
- Lets you access the codes in a standard way
- Throws up the proper codes when a condition arises
The codes are as much of a well-intentioned, honestly-implemented, well-tested standard as .docx . And I don't even hate Microsoft.
When will whiny bitches like you realize that you can filter the stories.
When will apologists like you realize that, no, you in fact cannot.
Since the redesign there is no way for me to filter Idle. You can filter the WORD Idle, but does that mean any stories with "Idle" in TFS get filtered? TFH? Nobody knows. I don't want to risk filtering a story about idle CPU time just because it has the word "idle" in it. And even when I do filter Idle, I still get Idle stories showing up. It doesn't work.
Since the redesign, there is no way for me to get the mainpage to show the full summary (instead of just the headline) for all stories.
- This is a problem because it requires an initial click to read TFS.
- This is also a problem because if I middle click the link, my new tab opens up to the slashdot main page, NOT the story I wanted.
Prior to the redsign, many options simply didn't work.
After the redesign, many options simply don't work.
Slashdot is broken. And the people who care get shat on whenever they say something about it.
Mod me offtopic, but until there's an actual place where legitimate complaints and concerns will get actual attention, this place is just as apt as any.
Who's the marketing dipstick that decided to demarcate the lightpeakthunderboltwhatever port with the most recognizable symbol for power worldwide, the lightningbolt? Cause that's not gonna be confusing as hell for the general audience.
The most recognizable symbol for power is the I/O symbol.
Either represented as I/O or as a nearly-complete circle with a I at the top. Think C- and rotate it counter-clockwise 90 degrees).
This symbol represents an open and and closed circuit.
Unfortunately, a lot of devices will incorrectly have "O" (the completed circuit) be off, because, you know, it's an O, and "off" starts with the letter "O"!
And I've seen plenty of devices that have a button with "I / C-" on it, mixing the dual-symbol sign (typically used for switches that toggle or have some throw), and the single-symbol sign (typically used for momentary switches/buttons).
So basically, even though people fuck it up, O/I or C- is still the universal symbol for electrical power. It's related to the core idea of electrical flow.
Lightning bolts are warning signs for the dumbest of the dumb.
Here is how I would implement a policy like that. I would ask, all applicants for their facebook username and password up front.
Then, everyone who gave it to me, would get a polite letter informing them that they did not get the job because they so easily violated the TOS of facebook, with whom they had a standing agreement before they applied with us. Thus, there is no way that we could trust them with access credentials on our system.
You failed the test, you are the weakest link, goodbye.
And anyone who passed the test, by refusing to divulge such information, should immediately turn down any job offer you give them.
No one with a brain would work for a company that dicks them around with "tests" like that.
They get enough of those mind games from their girlfriends.
A http protocol that, instead of (connect, download, disconnect), allows for a sustained connection throughout the session and then a final disconnect when the session concludes. A persistent connection could mean that your credentials would be valid only for a single connection and logging out would sever that connection and invalidate the credentials. I am sure the idea has been tossed around and thrown out already, but I am curious.
No, that would not solve this.
This is client-side malware that has full control over internet traffic.
The malware already intercepts the user's "logout" action, and serves up a bogus "You have logged out" page.
AFAIK, session hijacking has been an issue since - well - since Al Gore invented the intraweb.
No matter what browser you're using - unless it is Lynx - you probably can be involved in a session hijack issue. UNLESS you forcibly close that session by closing your browser.
I saw a post about using Wintendo. I don't think that Windows or Linux or OSX are any more or less vunerable. Just the fact that people don't forcibly close sessions.
Now, where did I put that copy of Firesheep?
This is client-side malware.
The malware watches all network traffic.
It looks for bank.com sessions.
It monitors and intercepts GET and POST requests.
When you do a transaction, it can alter the transaction to send money to their accounts instead, and then show you a screen that looks like it went to the right place (because they tailor their shit to certain banks and know what the various pages look like).
When you click "log out", they can simply serve up the "You've successfully logged out! We also recommend you close your browser." page, without actually letting the logout request go through to the server.
Since the session is still open, they can keep it alive in the background by firing off random activity (go to account summar page, go to home page, go to account summary page, etc.) until a human in Russia or wherever logs on and checks his malware reports for juicy account sessions, hijacks it, and does whatever he wants.
Closing your browser won't help if the bank can't tell the difference between the malware's activity or the legit browser's. The malware can simply mimic IE, or just have a hidden instance of IE running within itself.
The solution is to issue RSA-type tokens to all customers, and require a unique ID for every single transaction.
What will actually happen? Nothing. .79% savings account, and pay $2y on my 17.9% credit card."
Banks like fraud. Banks profit off of fraud. The vast majority of fraudulent transactions go unnoticed and unreported (and thus, paid for by the end consumer).
"Did I buy shit on iTunes last month? I dunno, probably."
"My bill this month is $x, and my minimum payment is $y. No need to look at the individual charges, I'll just put $100 into my
Yes, banks pay (or have to work to get another bank to pay) when you report fraudulent transactions. They tout this as a feature ("With Bank of Fuckyourass, you're NEVER responsible for fraudulent charges on your account!"), but it's simply a federal requirement. But the volume*amount of fraudulent transactions that go unnoticed or unreported far outweigh that of the full-scale "I'm in ur account, drainin' ur cash" attacks and "I'm a responsible adult and I check my statements." people.
If you use Internet Explorer on Windows, "closing" your browser is not enough. Internet Explorer is part of the OS, and keeps on running in the background even if no window of it is showing.
No part of that statement is true.
Wasn't there an article recently complaining that the speed of SHA made it relativly useless as a hashing algorithm to protrect passwords? Surely the increase in speed would have a greater effect on cracking speed than on the speed of legitimite authentication.
Yes and no.
Yes there was such an article.
No it doesn't mean shit - that's what salts and multiple rounds of an algorithm are for.
But then again, yes this is bad news bears because nobody can seem to keep their password file out of reach of hackers, nobody can seem to figure out why and how they should use a salt, and no one ever configures their crypto to do anything but the bog standard shit. This is a result of idiots mindlessly screaming "Don't roll your own crypto!!!!" and forgetting that the last word of that sentence is supposed to be "algorithm". You absolutely should have a non-standard crypto routine using a standard algorithm. This isn't security through obscurity, it's security though making script kiddies' rainbow tables useless.
After a little looking around, I have discovered that she was driving southbound on Ewing Ave (which heads approximately due south) in southern Chicago. The sunrise for that day was 7:17 am, which means the sun is still low in east-south-eastern sky (to the Drivers left). Presumably, the pedestrian who had been in a recent accident is off to the driver's right (generally motorists pull off to the right, in this country.) If that is the case (I couldn't find any corroboratory evidence here) then I find it hard to believe that the sun would have blinded the driver from the left such that they wouldn't be able to see what's in front of them/to the right.
I see you've played a lot of Phoenix Wright!
Now if we can just get Professor Layton to solve the timing and ordering of crash, post, and 9-11 call puzzle, we'd have this shit solved!
“We will find out from the system how those times are recorded,” he said. “We are going to subpoena everything.”
Hide yo logs, hide yo clocks, hide yo hardware cuz they suboenain evarythan!
It would have made more money. Period. And in the end, that's all that matters when you're trying to get investors, which is what this article is about. Whether you liked the movie or not is irrelevant.
What evidence is there for this statement?
If it was PG-13, the content would have to have been toned down.
The main thing the fans of Watchmen like is its "dark" subject matter - heroes raping heroes, murdering foreigners, etc. They think this makes it more real, less bland, more edgy, whatever. I think they're fucking stupid, but that is what they like about Watchmen, and that's their business.
But if you dumb that down to get a PG-13 rating, you lose the core fans. Without the core fans supporting Watchmen, no one would have been hyping it up. It would have failed harder than it did.
Nokia Plan 9
Is this the one from outer space?
graphic novels
They are comic books.
Comic.
Books.
Really? I thought it was one of the most faithful adaptations of anything I've ever seen
I can get you a faithful adaptation short video of a dog taking a dump on the side walk. It could be the most faithful adaptation ever constructed. But you know what? It's still just a video of a dog taking a crap.
-Rick
And judging by the "Hallpass" and "Just Go With It" crap they're pandering to the aging college sex romp / weed/beer comedy audiences, "Dog Shits on Sidewalk" is a great contender for comedy of the year.
Watchmen was an overlong, overwrought, overly wordy, over hyped, over produced mess.
It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, good.
This is 100% correct. Mode me troll and flamebait, I don't give a fuck.
Watchmen was a bad movie and it failed because it was a bad movie.
Is Slashdot going to post an article next week about Scott Pilgrim and how it was actually a good movie?
Being different, weird, and so against the grain to the point of being contrarian, doesn't make something unique, deep, or good. It just makes anti-social people feel better for liking it, as well as more inclined to like it in the first place because it's different, weird, and contrarian - just like them.
The only things the general public saw when they saw Watchmen were an unnecessary blue dick, a bad plot, forced edginess in the form of "we're heroes, but we're so dark and moody we often act like villains and play out our own little soap opera in our secret club", and shitty costumes that screamed "Batman Ripoff".
And you know what? This was one of the rare occasions when the general public got something right.
If you liked it, fine. Enjoy your movie.
But to say that it would have done better if it was PG-13 is a joke.