Come on, watch a few episodes of Thundercats and you'll know what I mean....
Twice when I was in college, other guys in my dorm set up viewing parties for Transformers: The Movie. I respectfully declined both times.
Why? Because I remember liking it when I was a kid. And I know if I watched it now I would be tempted to pull a MST3K on it. I'd rather keep the memories.
Agreed. I just watched Garden State a few days ago and, with all the Episode III hype going around, I couldn't help but compare Natalie Portman's performance in that to her performance in Attack of the Clones.
Of course, the presences of a fireplace scene in both films probably contributed...
And because of that pattern, I would be waiting at least two weeks for the word of mouth to get around before seeing this movie if there were going to be more.
Since it's the final installment, I figure I'm willing to shell out $8-10 just to see the conclusion. And on the off-chance it turns out to be any good, I'll shell out more to see it again.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Several months ago I pointed Howl/mDNSResponder (built into Fedora Core) at Netatalk so that I could easily connect to my Linux desktop from my PowerBook.
I remember noticing at the time that Howl was also available for Windows.
Though now that I look at it more closely, I'm reminded that Howl doesn't have a double-clickable installer...and I don't see any actual *applications* on there.
If Bush said the same thing, he would never be allowed off the hook and would receive 10x the bashing. I find it crap, that if Clinton or Gore say something poorly worded and/or easily misinterpreted everyone here tries to defend them.
Of course! Clinton and Gore are ex-(vice)-presidents. Bush is the current president. Sitting politicians always get more grief than those who have been out of office for five frickin' years.
Actually it's not nearly so distracting when maximized. And just for kicks, I compared the available space on Firefox with the bookmarks bar open and tabs vs. Netscrape 8... and they're almost identical. I think the Netscape content area starts 1 or 2 pixels lower, but that's it.
Hmm, your link isn't pointing anywhere but Slashdot. I assume you were aiming for Secunia's page. Interestingly, no Secunia advisory for Firefox 1.x has gone past "Moderately critical" -- 3 on a scale of 1 to 5 -- and those are all either fixed or partially fixed.
The vulnerabilites labeled as unpatched are all described as "less critical":
Nah. My stats page has never been visible without a password, and I get referrer spam all the time. But frankly, I don't care, because it isn't doing them any good.
It's the comment/trackback spam that bugs me, and like another poster said, Spam Karma (on Wordpress, anyway) seems to be working wonders. (This is after trying built-in moderation, three strikes, stopgap, and several other methods)
I set up a Gmail account a few months ago, and I've never used it.
I've logged in from time to time, but I've never sent a single message from it, never posted the address anywhere, never used it to sign up for anything.
Not once.
And, believe it or not, it gets 2-5 pieces of spam each day. Fortunately they're all routed into the spam folder...
For anyone reading this, be sure to mark the International Response Fund, not the Disaster Relief Fund, if you want the money to go to this recovery effort. The Disaster Relief Fund is earmarked for efforts inside the US, so that's the one to use the next time a quake/flood/hurricane hits us.
"Instantaneously?" As in it would never actually appear on the site? Or as in an admin would notice it sometime between 1 second and 5 minutes of it being posted and click a button to revert it?
If it's up for 5 minutes, and "Little Johnny" just happens to load the page during those five minutes, you've got a problem.
He pitched an idea earlier this year, but that's all. While he has some projects coming up, Trek isn't involved.
From a recent (Aug. 23) post: "Pending contractual negotiations and formal pickup by the networks involved, I've been offered two different series, so we'll see which goes first. They could both be very cool to work on, but one of them could be insanely successful. I should know more about this situation in late October. (Neither is Trek-related, just to nip any potential rumors in the bud.)" (emphasis added)
Heck, I grew up ten miles away, and every night at 9:30, if the house was quiet, you could hear the fireworks from Disneyland. But you're right - I've never heard anyone complain about it.
My theory has always been that Paramount turned down JMS' B5 pitch, then called up Berman and said, "Hey, would you like to do a Trek show based on a space station?"
Sounds similar to "The Proteus Operation" (I can't remember the author)
The book starts out in the 1970s, when the Axis powers have taken over everything but North America. The Americans discover that, from the beginning, Nazis had been aided by time travellers from the 21st century. The Americans figure out a way to send their own team back to undo the damage, but they can only make it as far as the 30s (by which time the Nazis were firmly in power in Germany), so they have to focus on winning the war instead of preventing it.
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Come on, watch a few episodes of Thundercats and you'll know what I mean....
Twice when I was in college, other guys in my dorm set up viewing parties for Transformers: The Movie. I respectfully declined both times.
Why? Because I remember liking it when I was a kid. And I know if I watched it now I would be tempted to pull a MST3K on it. I'd rather keep the memories.
Perhaps Harrison Ford has some sort of natural immunity to the "Lucas Effect".
+5 to charisma?
Agreed. I just watched Garden State a few days ago and, with all the Episode III hype going around, I couldn't help but compare Natalie Portman's performance in that to her performance in Attack of the Clones.
Of course, the presences of a fireplace scene in both films probably contributed...
And because of that pattern, I would be waiting at least two weeks for the word of mouth to get around before seeing this movie if there were going to be more.
Since it's the final installment, I figure I'm willing to shell out $8-10 just to see the conclusion. And on the off-chance it turns out to be any good, I'll shell out more to see it again.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Several months ago I pointed Howl/mDNSResponder (built into Fedora Core) at Netatalk so that I could easily connect to my Linux desktop from my PowerBook.
I remember noticing at the time that Howl was also available for Windows.
Though now that I look at it more closely, I'm reminded that Howl doesn't have a double-clickable installer...and I don't see any actual *applications* on there.
AIX, IIRC.
If Bush said the same thing, he would never be allowed off the hook and would receive 10x the bashing. I find it crap, that if Clinton or Gore say something poorly worded and/or easily misinterpreted everyone here tries to defend them.
Of course! Clinton and Gore are ex-(vice)-presidents. Bush is the current president. Sitting politicians always get more grief than those who have been out of office for five frickin' years.
We've known since 1977 that Darth Vader hunts down and kills nearly all the Jedi. (And we've known since 1977 that he missed a few.)
OF COURSE IT'S GONNA BE VIOLENT.
What, did you think he spiked the punch at the Jedi pot luck with cyanide?
People.
Amazingly, it didn't even do that. Just its own icon in three places (desktop, quick launch, start menu), no more than Firefox does.
I can only assume they'll "fix" this in the final version.
Actually it's not nearly so distracting when maximized. And just for kicks, I compared the available space on Firefox with the bookmarks bar open and tabs vs. Netscrape 8... and they're almost identical. I think the Netscape content area starts 1 or 2 pixels lower, but that's it.
Hmm, your link isn't pointing anywhere but Slashdot. I assume you were aiming for Secunia's page. Interestingly, no Secunia advisory for Firefox 1.x has gone past "Moderately critical" -- 3 on a scale of 1 to 5 -- and those are all either fixed or partially fixed.
The vulnerabilites labeled as unpatched are all described as "less critical":
Mozilla Firefox Image Javascript URI Dragging Cross-Site Scripting
Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability
Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Apple Java Plugin Tab Spoofing Vulnerability
The partial fixes are all spoofing-related.
Curiosity.
That's the only reason I downloaded it.
Nah. My stats page has never been visible without a password, and I get referrer spam all the time. But frankly, I don't care, because it isn't doing them any good.
It's the comment/trackback spam that bugs me, and like another poster said, Spam Karma (on Wordpress, anyway) seems to be working wonders. (This is after trying built-in moderation, three strikes, stopgap, and several other methods)
I set up a Gmail account a few months ago, and I've never used it.
I've logged in from time to time, but I've never sent a single message from it, never posted the address anywhere, never used it to sign up for anything.
Not once.
And, believe it or not, it gets 2-5 pieces of spam each day. Fortunately they're all routed into the spam folder...
First degree murder and manslaughter are different crimes, treated differently, with different sentencing guidelines, precisely *because* of intent.
I sent some money to the Red Cross last night.
For anyone reading this, be sure to mark the International Response Fund, not the Disaster Relief Fund, if you want the money to go to this recovery effort. The Disaster Relief Fund is earmarked for efforts inside the US, so that's the one to use the next time a quake/flood/hurricane hits us.
Good luck finding the mythical "original" version...
"Instantaneously?" As in it would never actually appear on the site? Or as in an admin would notice it sometime between 1 second and 5 minutes of it being posted and click a button to revert it?
If it's up for 5 minutes, and "Little Johnny" just happens to load the page during those five minutes, you've got a problem.
I thought JMS was pushing a Star Trek TV show.
AKA The Rumor That Wouldn't Die.
He pitched an idea earlier this year, but that's all. While he has some projects coming up, Trek isn't involved.
From a recent (Aug. 23) post: "Pending contractual negotiations and formal pickup by the networks involved, I've been offered two different series, so we'll see which goes first. They could both be very cool to work on, but one of them could be insanely successful. I should know more about this situation in late October. (Neither is Trek-related, just to nip any potential rumors in the bud.)" (emphasis added)
But where is the auto-update feature for Firefox á la Windows XP, OS X, YAST or Up2date?
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Software Update.
To check manually: Tools -> Extensions -> Update.
It's not perfect yet, but remember, it's still 0.9.x, not 1.0.
(Wait, you did want an answer, right?)
Heck, I grew up ten miles away, and every night at 9:30, if the house was quiet, you could hear the fireworks from Disneyland. But you're right - I've never heard anyone complain about it.
I can't remember what the problem was, but I thought some people did not like what DIsney did to the US release of this movie.
They dubbed it.
One of my favorite DS9 quotes. I actually ordered root beer at Quark's in Vegas in order to see if the Ferengi-dressed waiter would pick up on it.
My theory has always been that Paramount turned down JMS' B5 pitch, then called up Berman and said, "Hey, would you like to do a Trek show based on a space station?"
Sounds similar to "The Proteus Operation" (I can't remember the author)
The book starts out in the 1970s, when the Axis powers have taken over everything but North America. The Americans discover that, from the beginning, Nazis had been aided by time travellers from the 21st century. The Americans figure out a way to send their own team back to undo the damage, but they can only make it as far as the 30s (by which time the Nazis were firmly in power in Germany), so they have to focus on winning the war instead of preventing it.