unlike Chinese movies, you get to see every move in it's great beautie.
Not necessarily. Seemed like 99% of the action in Once Upon a Time in China 2 took place off screen. Tried to introduce a friend to Jet Li with that movie, but it was so bad it didn't work.
Also, most comics show a gradual progression of artistic ability; early Dilbert was kind of rough, but it got better as the comic matured. As far as I can tell, UF's art hasn't changed one iota. I mean, if he does this for a living now you'd think it would progress at least a little. Any charm the comic once had flew out the window when I saw ufmedia.com.
Hmmm, alarmist maybe, but I've never heard anyone refer to him as a fool.
Period.
Oops, I didn't see that period at first. Guess that means that nobody can dispute your statement. It's a period.
There's a difference between becoming a luddite and carefully considering the impact technological advances will have on our well-being. The whole point is that we shouldn't accelerate humanity's demise.
The fact that less than 10% of US agriculture is even remotely small farm operations any more but is instead large agri corporations destroys most of the images they use as an excuse. The europeans at least have used the subsidies and restrictions to maintain the rural societies even if they are inefficient. The US is just doing it to help corporations profits.
Well that's exactly my point. The US can undercut European agricultural prices because they've turned farming into a factory operation, and forced the small-scale agriculturalists out of farming. It's even worse when you consider industrial manufacturing in third world countries.
Oh yes, because we know how exacting and rigorous a SCIENCE economics is. Most economics departments are dominated by the Chicago school; the naive idea that a free market will solve all our problems. Doesn't matter how often they're proved wrong, they still keep giving each other Nobels.
Whenever another country can produce less expensive and often more effective products
Yeah, almost always by treating their workers as brutally as possible, something which (believe it or not) very few people want to replicate here in order to be "competitive". A fact glossed over by the snivelling free-market libertarian waaah-I-have-to-pay-taxes crowd.
I don't follow the logic here. That's like saying, "if I have a winning lottery ticket, then there must be plenty of winning lottery tickets out there."
I haven't either, and I don't plan to. Unless I have kids someday and read it to them. There are many, many more books on my reading list ahead of something written for 12 year olds...
My chip would have fried in a second if I hadn't noticed the clanking sound as I took the computer out of the box, and opened it up to find the heat sink rolling around, covered with gooey glue...They really should either integrate it somehow, or make the heatsinks screw on.
I think it's about time that a company has a long-term, high-capacity data solution that is suitable for the average home user. Tapes are still much too much.
Tapes are also by no stretch of the imagination, "long-term".
Actually New York doesn't really have the same gang problems most other large cities have.
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These chaps wouldn't be half as popular if they tried to recreate the 'fun' of loading from tape
Awww man...that brings back memories of loading ADVENTURE off tape onto a...I think it was a TI/994A. Maybe an early Atari computer though. I think even the 2600 had games you loaded off tape (the cord went into the cartridge).
Indeed they did, but Diznee did not have Matt Groening, so of course it would have to be a lousy onesided PC story. Would not surprice me if it ended with the words ",and DON'T do drugs!".
Heh, reminds me of this episode of Futurama:
(paraphrased of course)
Fry : Why do you drink so much?
Bender: Because it helps keep my circuits clean and functioning.
(so you figure it's a stupid public service announcement to keep kids from drinking)
Bender lights up a cigar.
Fry: Well why do you smoke?
Bender: Because it makes me look cool.
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There are two ways you can instantly tell that a movie is bad:
1. The protagonist is a monkey.
2. The leading actor plays his or her own twin.
unlike Chinese movies, you get to see every move in it's great beautie.
Not necessarily. Seemed like 99% of the action in Once Upon a Time in China 2 took place off screen. Tried to introduce a friend to Jet Li with that movie, but it was so bad it didn't work.
He has opinions. He just prefaces them all with "I don't care about that, BUT..." then goes on to give them.
Also, most comics show a gradual progression of artistic ability; early Dilbert was kind of rough, but it got better as the comic matured. As far as I can tell, UF's art hasn't changed one iota. I mean, if he does this for a living now you'd think it would progress at least a little. Any charm the comic once had flew out the window when I saw ufmedia.com.
Bill Joy is an alarmist fool.
Hmmm, alarmist maybe, but I've never heard anyone refer to him as a fool.
Period.
Oops, I didn't see that period at first. Guess that means that nobody can dispute your statement. It's a period.
There's a difference between becoming a luddite and carefully considering the impact technological advances will have on our well-being. The whole point is that we shouldn't accelerate humanity's demise.
The fact that less than 10% of US agriculture is even remotely small farm operations any more but is instead large agri corporations destroys most of the images they use as an excuse. The europeans at least have used the subsidies and restrictions to maintain the rural societies even if they are inefficient. The US is just doing it to help corporations profits.
Well that's exactly my point. The US can undercut European agricultural prices because they've turned farming into a factory operation, and forced the small-scale agriculturalists out of farming. It's even worse when you consider industrial manufacturing in third world countries.
Oh my, take a f*cking economics class.
Oh yes, because we know how exacting and rigorous a SCIENCE economics is. Most economics departments are dominated by the Chicago school; the naive idea that a free market will solve all our problems. Doesn't matter how often they're proved wrong, they still keep giving each other Nobels.
Whenever another country can produce less expensive and often more effective products
Yeah, almost always by treating their workers as brutally as possible, something which (believe it or not) very few people want to replicate here in order to be "competitive". A fact glossed over by the snivelling free-market libertarian waaah-I-have-to-pay-taxes crowd.
This story was published a few weeks ago, and portrayed as negative (oh no, Solaris 9 won't ship with Gnome at first).
An adversarial system is key to our overall economic health.
No, it's the key to the economic health of a tiny majority of the ultrarich. Who then try to convince us what's good for them is good for us.
I don't understand much about quantum computers using light
Nobody knows much about quantum computers using anything...
Problem with Java in games is that most games require that which Java is worst at; a graphical interface.
If I exist, there's gotta be plenty more like me.
I don't follow the logic here. That's like saying, "if I have a winning lottery ticket, then there must be plenty of winning lottery tickets out there."
Really? Hmmm, I assumed it was just non-toxic thermal glue. Well, since this happened several months ago I guess I'm fine.
But it's worth noting that most of what they offer is already available under Linux. As far as I'm concerned, they're re-inventing the wheel.
Hell, Linux is the king of wheel reinvention...
I haven't either, and I don't plan to. Unless I have kids someday and read it to them. There are many, many more books on my reading list ahead of something written for 12 year olds...
My chip would have fried in a second if I hadn't noticed the clanking sound as I took the computer out of the box, and opened it up to find the heat sink rolling around, covered with gooey glue...They really should either integrate it somehow, or make the heatsinks screw on.
I think it's about time that a company has a long-term, high-capacity data solution that is suitable for the average home user. Tapes are still much too much.
Tapes are also by no stretch of the imagination, "long-term".
Are they trying to cloak the low power of their computers when they use "words" as storage units rather than bytes?
We really need this open source BSOD library
that would make our life more convenient and
our applications more commercial-like.
So you're attributing a Windows-specific problem to all commercial software everywhere?
Uhhh....I can understand the others, but Fritz Leiber? I hope you're not referring to the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories...
Actually New York doesn't really have the same gang problems most other large cities have.
These chaps wouldn't be half as popular if they tried to recreate the 'fun' of loading from tape
Awww man...that brings back memories of loading ADVENTURE off tape onto a...I think it was a TI/994A. Maybe an early Atari computer though. I think even the 2600 had games you loaded off tape (the cord went into the cartridge).
Indeed they did, but Diznee did not have Matt Groening, so of course it would have to be a lousy onesided PC story. Would not surprice me if it ended with the words ",and DON'T do drugs!".
Heh, reminds me of this episode of Futurama: (paraphrased of course)
Fry : Why do you drink so much?
Bender: Because it helps keep my circuits clean and functioning.
(so you figure it's a stupid public service announcement to keep kids from drinking)
Bender lights up a cigar.
Fry: Well why do you smoke?
Bender: Because it makes me look cool.
I'm just surprised your workers have been stoking it's furnace continuously for that long.