A few other things they've thankfully dropped from the movie:
1. Stained mentat lips - bah! In the movie, they decided that the mentats used a drug to gain their abilities. In the book, only Piter had stained lips because he was an addict - that's partially how the Baron controlled him.
2. "Weirding modules" - wtf? Yes, a society which shuns high-tech will use technology to assist a messiah. Yeah, right.
3. Old Bene Gesserit. Remember, spice prolongs youth. Bene Gesserit were described as almost ageless.
As we go for parts 2 and 3, let's hope they don't make Alia a ventriloquist's manniquin. Let's hope they don't ride the worms like circus performers. Let's hope Feyd doesn't fight like a rock star on speed.
What happens if you're a girl geek and have long fingernails? Ouch!
And what happens when all those cops who *don't* know about new technologies see people wandering around city streets talking to themselves with their fingers in their ears? Will the "white coats" be sent after them?
E-comm dead? No, just one bad site.
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When Boo was first launched, it was critiqued on almost every web design list in which I participate. The overwhelming consensus was that this site had not been designed as a viable business site, rather, it was more of a portfolio site for the designer, i.e. "Look at all the stuff that I can do!"
Half of its "features" either never loaded, crashed browsers across the board, or didn't work like they were supposed to. That this site was ever touted as a real e-commerce site is just plain ludicrous.
Good ecommerce sites work. Bad ones don't. You can take the "ecommerce" out of the first sentence and it's still true.
Elsewhere in this thread, kwsNI states that the hype of ecommerce may be fading. This is not a bad thing - it lightens some of the pressure put on each and every high-profile e-commerce site, and lets them instead do their job - selling things to people. Maybe it's not so much that e-commerce isn't the rage anymore, as it is that it's becoming an accepted and normal means of doing business. My personal validation of this is that my mom, 75 years' old, using her first computer that I bought her in April, now banks online, bought her vacation clothes online, and used Amazon to send a gift recently. This from a woman who's scared to use her VCR remote! If that ain't acceptance, I don't know what is!
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as they don't make it freakin RAIN at the end.
When I saw that I just about died.
A few other things they've thankfully dropped from the movie:
1. Stained mentat lips - bah! In the movie, they decided that the mentats used a drug to gain their abilities. In the book, only Piter had stained lips because he was an addict - that's partially how the Baron controlled him.
2. "Weirding modules" - wtf? Yes, a society which shuns high-tech will use technology to assist a messiah. Yeah, right.
3. Old Bene Gesserit. Remember, spice prolongs youth. Bene Gesserit were described as almost ageless.
As we go for parts 2 and 3, let's hope they don't make Alia a ventriloquist's manniquin. Let's hope they don't ride the worms like circus performers. Let's hope Feyd doesn't fight like a rock star on speed.
What happens if you're a girl geek and have long fingernails? Ouch!
And what happens when all those cops who *don't* know about new technologies see people wandering around city streets talking to themselves with their fingers in their ears? Will the "white coats" be sent after them?
When Boo was first launched, it was critiqued on almost every web design list in which I participate. The overwhelming consensus was that this site had not been designed as a viable business site, rather, it was more of a portfolio site for the designer, i.e. "Look at all the stuff that I can do!"
Half of its "features" either never loaded, crashed browsers across the board, or didn't work like they were supposed to. That this site was ever touted as a real e-commerce site is just plain ludicrous.
Good ecommerce sites work. Bad ones don't. You can take the "ecommerce" out of the first sentence and it's still true.
Elsewhere in this thread, kwsNI states that the hype of ecommerce may be fading. This is not a bad thing - it lightens some of the pressure put on each and every high-profile e-commerce site, and lets them instead do their job - selling things to people. Maybe it's not so much that e-commerce isn't the rage anymore, as it is that it's becoming an accepted and normal means of doing business. My personal validation of this is that my mom, 75 years' old, using her first computer that I bought her in April, now banks online, bought her vacation clothes online, and used Amazon to send a gift recently. This from a woman who's scared to use her VCR remote! If that ain't acceptance, I don't know what is!
LisaYou can hear it on Shoutcast. Several of their 'stations' broadcast it: HGthG on Shoutcast