Call me a luddite if you like but I prefer real paper books. I stare at a screen long enough during most of the day and don't want to look at it more as I read for fun.
This has been going on aand discussed on many different topics for my entire adult life. In one instance it was motorcycle magazines or car magazines or computer magazines and now online game review sites. All have their hand in the advertising cookie jar which makes reliable reviewing a huge conflict of interest. Kodus to the honest reviewer for giving truth a chance./dTd
Going to "the movies" is a dying pastime. I would much rather watch any film in the comfort of my living room than in a crowded, overpriced theater any day of the week. Modern televisions are huge, the sound can be amazing, the creature comforts are the best.
I suggest to the MPAA that they stop putting movies on film and concentrate all their efforts on making high quality DVD. I myself have bought more DVDs in the past year than the amount of times I've gone to the movie theater in my entire life. The same goes for VHS tapes before DVDs became affordable. Sorry movie industry, I believe your days are numbered in the theater.
Whenever windows code is the subject, the conversation revolves around whining about money and who stole what code for what reason. Use only quality GNU software to avoid these issues. I say, let's quit talking about windows and get back to coding and using linux. That way we can be assured of healthy happy minds.
While I wholeheartedly agree about the ambiance, it was the original that made this movie famous, not the DC. If not for the original, BladeRunner would have been mearly passe, an art critics delite maybe, but not the hit that it was, and later became.
I don't want to see another director's cut rehash. How about the original theater realease huh? As far as I'm concerned Ridley ruined what was one of the best movies in it's time with the DC. BladeRuner has endured and the fans have talked about it for so long because the original version left some things to your imagination, not spoonfeeding and helping you to see Deckard as a replicant. Without the question, or even the initial realization for some, that Deckard could be a replicant, the movie loses any of it's curiousity and interest. Just another futuristic holocost action flick.
I don't think this is really an issue. Linux has been my only OS at work and at home for 2 years now. Ever hear of plain text? Very cross platform compatible it is. Openoffice opens all the MS format docs I've ever had to open. I've not felt pressured in the least to install any other OS at all besides for curiosities sake. My wife uses linux, my mom uses linux, and she's just turned 60, my kids use linux. You just don't need anything else and if you think you do, you just haven't looked at all the apps that come in any new linux distribution. This desktop argument is stale, old news, and a waste of time. Linux has already taken over the desktop on the 6 machines I have access too, and quite a few more of my friends machines.
I already pay $19.95 for ISP and $30 for another phone line. This is too much IMHO. If all websites start charging, I'm done with the net. When cable TV service became over 20/month, I got rid of it, when ISP charges rise to over $20/month, I'll either switch or get rid of that too. C'mon people take a stand and have enough balls to show these companies what you "should" be paying instead of being mindless consumers, As far as I'm concerned, without users, there is no slashdot. Maybe we should be getting paid.
>- So many configuration options that you don't know where to start, and need a year's education to finish
All distrobutions come with a default standard desktop, whether it be Gnome or KDE or Windowmaker. No one needs change tem or even be concered with the others.....but choice is always better than no choice.
>- A broad base of information that you have to (a) go out and find on the internet, and (b)search through to find your answers.
Having information at your disposal is bad?? Uhh yeah, no one knows how to use the internet these days, especially search engines. What are you smoking, windows falls flat on program specs and operating system features and configurable attribute info.
>- Installations with prerequisites that you have to figure out how to find and install yourself
Are you talking about dependencies? Or RPM. What prerequisites are you talking about, pre OS ones? If your talking of libraries or package dependencies, all source and binaries I have downloaded have plenty of documentation of the requirements and almost always include information on where to locate it.
Ever use any windows dvd ripping software? Look at allt he things this requires: video codecs, audio codecs, video editing suites. Just the same as any linux app you don't have the library for.
>- User account management
Ever used win2k, NT. There is user account management, even in winXP. Of course I guess you never tried "single user mode" in linux or the default login in gdm or kdm.
>- Video, sound, and network card installations that require you to know the model of your card.
When was the last time you installed Redhat or Mandrake or even windows? Comments like these come from users used to buying packaged PCs that already have an OS installed and so never even look at what hardware they have. If you can't figure out what sound card you have in your PC than you have no business intalling any OS including windows. Just buy a linux preinstalled PC from Dell and forget all this hardware mishmash.
Let me sum up by saying that linux does everything on the desktop that windows does and isn't any harder to learn for a new PC user to learn. Every negative comment I've ever read on this issue stems from laziness in learning something new. Things forgotten by jaded PC users are their first attempt at creating a file, or discovering what a disk drive is, or a naming convention. Linux isn't windows, it's entirely different, from the file structure to the end user gui's that are available, but no less capable on the desktop.
Linux has already conquored the desktop in my home and office. OpenOffice rules for my business and linux is king of the desktop at home also. I use a PC almost 20 hours a day and 100% of the time it's in linux. I play games (Quake3, RTCW, Myth2, UT, Pysol), I surf the net(Opera, Mozilla, Galeon), I send and recieve e-mail (pine, sylpheed), I read usenet(sylpheed, slrn). I create graphics and web page design(gimp,vim,bluefish,quanta). In my work I create forms, do billing, statements, estimates, and accounting. I watch dvds, videos, get streaming content from the web and program in C.
Anything I've ever done on a PC or wanted to do on a PC I've done and do in linux as easily as any other OS. I don't feel limited in any way by using linux as my only OS as I have no installations of any OS software other than slackware linux 8.0.
Christ even my mother uses linux. Recently I assembled a PC from spare parts left over from upgrades and installed linux on it and gave it to my mom. She had never used a PC before and has no trouble downloading recipes or checking the weather and chatting with me using gaim. She's even found a pentiant for creative writing since after her stroke her handwriting was very poor and the PC is much easier to use than a pencil.
Anyone who thinks linux isn't ready for the desktop just isn't using it as a desktop OS. Did I mention I listen to CDs,mp3, write to CDR, and dabble with composing in linux??
Terrorism has won. Obviously the very name "terrorism" means instilling terror. The comdex promoters must be pretty terrified. I say just don't go. The highjackers took over the planes with box cutters not bombs. I suppose that none of the vendors are allowed to have box cutters? I sure hope so as I might become terrified if I saw one. How about butane lighters? With a amll amount of effort these can be made into a substantial explosive, or shoe laces could be use to strangle someone "All Soes Must Tie With Velcro" This reactionism is getting out of hand.
I find the concept of sports starts as heros a major failing of society in the US today. With physical ability the prime factor neede for exelling in a sport, some children may never realize theur dreams and suffer from low self esteem. Considering themselves as failures in a world where a score of 65 in a basketball game earns more publicity than a scientific. This is indeed a sad affair.
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Call me a luddite if you like but I prefer real paper books. I stare at a screen long enough during most of the day and don't want to look at it more as I read for fun.
All I can say is SWEET! I'm glad to see all versions will be available.
I vote voiceover, hands down the best version.
btw Deckard is not a rep...
bleh spelling police...
This has been going on aand discussed on many different topics for my entire adult life. In one instance it was motorcycle magazines or car magazines or computer magazines and now online game review sites. All have their hand in the advertising cookie jar which makes reliable reviewing a huge conflict of interest. Kodus to the honest reviewer for giving truth a chance. /dTd
There's smoke on the horizon, I swear it's the Tivo company...
Not to buy it.
"Along those same lines, nothing gets me more riled when people bitch about windows and they haven't used a version since 95 or 98."
Since those were the last good versions of windows, why would you use any others?
I suggest to the MPAA that they stop putting movies on film and concentrate all their efforts on making high quality DVD. I myself have bought more DVDs in the past year than the amount of times I've gone to the movie theater in my entire life. The same goes for VHS tapes before DVDs became affordable. Sorry movie industry, I believe your days are numbered in the theater.
Whenever windows code is the subject, the conversation revolves around whining about money and who stole what code for what reason. Use only quality GNU software to avoid these issues. I say, let's quit talking about windows and get back to coding and using linux. That way we can be assured of healthy happy minds.
GNU-friends.org
I believe slashdot has solved all their bandwidth
;)
costs in three easy steps:
1. Big ads, subscription service
2. Readers flee slashdot the overbloated
3. Bandwidth problem miraculously disapears
Very eficient I must say
There's only 1 thing needed on any webpage:
Content - presented in a readable manner.
All else is fluff and unneccessary.
While I wholeheartedly agree about the ambiance, it was the original that made this movie famous, not the DC. If not for the original, BladeRunner would have been mearly passe, an art critics delite maybe, but not the hit that it was, and later became.
I don't want to see another director's cut rehash. How about the original theater realease huh? As far as I'm concerned Ridley ruined what was one of the best movies in it's time with the DC. BladeRuner has endured and the fans have talked about it for so long because the original version left some things to your imagination, not spoonfeeding and helping you to see Deckard as a replicant. Without the question, or even the initial realization for some, that Deckard could be a replicant, the movie loses any of it's curiousity and interest. Just another futuristic holocost action flick.
I don't think this is really an issue. Linux has been my only OS at work and at home for 2 years now. Ever hear of plain text? Very cross platform compatible it is. Openoffice opens all the MS format docs I've ever had to open. I've not felt pressured in the least to install any other OS at all besides for curiosities sake. My wife uses linux, my mom uses linux, and she's just turned 60, my kids use linux. You just don't need anything else and if you think you do, you just haven't looked at all the apps that come in any new linux distribution. This desktop argument is stale, old news, and a waste of time. Linux has already taken over the desktop on the 6 machines I have access too, and quite a few more of my friends machines.
I already pay $19.95 for ISP and $30 for another phone line. This is too much IMHO. If all websites start charging, I'm done with the net. When cable TV service became over 20/month, I got rid of it, when ISP charges rise to over $20/month, I'll either switch or get rid of that too. C'mon people take a stand and have enough balls to show these companies what you "should" be paying instead of being mindless consumers, As far as I'm concerned, without users, there is no slashdot. Maybe we should be getting paid.
Question:
What would it take for you to switch to Microsoft clusters?
Thats easy
Answer:
Free liscensing for all the machines
Salesmen are too much.
Who in there right mind would sign up for these services anyway?
>> I simply have no need for it, and everything I use my computer for can be done without problems under windows.
vice versa
Daniel T. Drea
Let's address these one at a time shall we:
>- So many configuration options that you don't know where to start, and need a year's education to finish
All distrobutions come with a default standard desktop, whether it be Gnome or KDE or Windowmaker. No one needs change tem or even be concered with the others.....but choice is always better than no choice.
>- A broad base of information that you have to (a) go out and find on the internet, and (b)search through to find your answers.
Having information at your disposal is bad?? Uhh yeah, no one knows how to use the internet these days, especially search engines. What are you smoking, windows falls flat on program specs and operating system features and configurable attribute info.
>- Installations with prerequisites that you have to figure out how to find and install yourself
Are you talking about dependencies? Or RPM. What prerequisites are you talking about, pre OS ones? If your talking of libraries or package dependencies, all source and binaries I have downloaded have plenty of documentation of the requirements and almost always include information on where to locate it.
Ever use any windows dvd ripping software? Look at allt he things this requires: video codecs, audio codecs, video editing suites. Just the same as any linux app you don't have the library for.
>- User account management
Ever used win2k, NT. There is user account management, even in winXP. Of course I guess you never tried "single user mode" in linux or the default login in gdm or kdm.
>- Video, sound, and network card installations that require you to know the model of your card.
When was the last time you installed Redhat or Mandrake or even windows? Comments like these come from users used to buying packaged PCs that already have an OS installed and so never even look at what hardware they have. If you can't figure out what sound card you have in your PC than you have no business intalling any OS including windows. Just buy a linux preinstalled PC from Dell and forget all this hardware mishmash.
Let me sum up by saying that linux does everything on the desktop that windows does and isn't any harder to learn for a new PC user to learn. Every negative comment I've ever read on this issue stems from laziness in learning something new. Things forgotten by jaded PC users are their first attempt at creating a file, or discovering what a disk drive is, or a naming convention. Linux isn't windows, it's entirely different, from the file structure to the end user gui's that are available, but no less capable on the desktop.
Danirl T. Drea
Linux has already conquored the desktop in my home and office. OpenOffice rules for my business and linux is king of the desktop at home also. I use a PC almost 20 hours a day and 100% of the time it's in linux. I play games (Quake3, RTCW, Myth2, UT, Pysol), I surf the net(Opera, Mozilla, Galeon), I send and recieve e-mail (pine, sylpheed), I read usenet(sylpheed, slrn). I create graphics and web page design(gimp,vim,bluefish,quanta). In my work I create forms, do billing, statements, estimates, and accounting. I watch dvds, videos, get streaming content from the web and program in C.
Anything I've ever done on a PC or wanted to do on a PC I've done and do in linux as easily as any other OS. I don't feel limited in any way by using linux as my only OS as I have no installations of any OS software other than slackware linux 8.0.
Christ even my mother uses linux. Recently I assembled a PC from spare parts left over from upgrades and installed linux on it and gave it to my mom. She had never used a PC before and has no trouble downloading recipes or checking the weather and chatting with me using gaim. She's even found a pentiant for creative writing since after her stroke her handwriting was very poor and the PC is much easier to use than a pencil.
Anyone who thinks linux isn't ready for the desktop just isn't using it as a desktop OS. Did I mention I listen to CDs,mp3, write to CDR, and dabble with composing in linux??
This argument is old, stale, and nonexistent.
Daniel T. Drea
Terrorism has won. Obviously the very name "terrorism" means instilling terror. The comdex promoters must be pretty terrified. I say just don't go. The highjackers took over the planes with box cutters not bombs. I suppose that none of the vendors are allowed to have box cutters? I sure hope so as I might become terrified if I saw one. How about butane lighters? With a amll amount of effort these can be made into a substantial explosive, or shoe laces could be use to strangle someone "All Soes Must Tie With Velcro" This reactionism is getting out of hand.
I find the concept of sports starts as heros a major
failing of society in the US today. With physical ability the prime
factor neede for exelling in a sport, some children may never
realize theur dreams and suffer from low self esteem. Considering
themselves as failures in a world where a score of 65 in a
basketball game earns more publicity than a scientific. This is
indeed a sad affair.