As an earlier poster advised, all that is possible in Mozilla today (at least in 1.3 if not earlier). I'm only a student windows-luser who figured that out today, but for the past few months I have been a huge proponent for Moz. Mostly due to the fact that whenever I hit the labs to check email or web surf, I am forced to use IE (why did they replace 2k win winxp on EVERY machine, why?!), and therefore am constantly attacked by X10, gator, and those waving kitty popups.
I think the real question is when will stringent window controls be the default in browsers?
That doesn't actually mean it cost the USPS less than or equal to 40 cents to do it. If it cost them seventy-five bucks to get your letter out there wouldn't that qualify as non-cost-effective?
Back in hunter-gathering times suicide rates were no doubt low since the constant need to be on to move for food and livable climate kept people too busy to commit suicide. Plus, saber-tooth tiger and alien attacks.
I, personally, would more happily move to that world, AS LONG AS I could forget THIS world.
Visions of Joey Pants eating a bloody-red steak dancing through my head... On that note you should read some of the philosophy stuff on the Matrix site, they actually have some contributions from college/uni profs and the like on ideas like this.
You're not by any chance talking about the GW in Carousel Mall and Altered States in Syracuse, NY are you? While there are always people in Altered (at least a couple years ago when I was still working through that "phase"), and indeed at they're satellite across town, the GW store only ever seems to have 3-5 guys in it running a demo. Or maybe just store staff killing time?
Could we all start submitting stories with links to sites that have absolutely nothing to do with them, seeing as how the eds just seem to make sure the link points to something containing the right keywords? We could have our own April Fools whenever we wanted!
I'm more excited about the licensed games using Doom 3's engine than Doom 3. Also, as Warbucketpointed out, to get the "full" Doom 3 experience (legally), you're going to have to drop about a hundred bucks US. (Trust me, those links actually go to the right place.)
What about Ravenous? This movie surprised the hell out of me when I got around to watching the DVD a couple years ago. Crazy period-piece/horror/dark comedy with a soundtrack that somehow fit perfectly. Also, for me it was just self-aware aware enough for it to work perfectly, and I'm a big fan of movies admitting they're movies.
I don't mean to offend anyone's tastes but I really didn't see the big deal with Spirited Away; nor did the two anime fans I saw it in the theater with (some new but empty place near White Plains...). The voice acting was passable and it was a nice little fantasy setting and all but the pacing seemed horribly off. This was one of the few movies I've seen in recent times where I actually checked my watch hoping there wouldn't be much more to go.
First of all, the main character seemed to be a whiny little girl for far too long, and seemed fairly well-adapted to being enslaved as a bath wench. The main goal she had was to free her parents, but she doesn't actually embark on doing so until at least 2/3 of the way through the film. The bulk of the movie seemed to be clever and well-directed bits that didn't really relate to each other or the main storyline enough to warrant their length or involvement.
Admittedly, I'm usually more drawn to the more action-oriented but intelligent anime (Bebop, NGE, etc) or goofy stuff (FLCL, Excel Saga, w00t!), but I dig the brainy bits of Eva too, as well as Lain, Akira, and even Mononoke, although I hated the way that ended. Am I still just too Western? The only people I know that really enjoyed Spirited Away were either the die-hard anime fans that/.ers are warned about, or those that only ever enjoy the really esoteric and sort of isolationist-intellectual-film-nut anime. Anyhow, is there anyone else here that didn't really like it so much?
I don't mean to offend anyone's tastes but I really didn't see the big deal with Spirited Away; nor did the two anime fans I saw it in the theater with (some new but empty place near White Plains...). The voice acting was passable and it was a nice little fantasy setting and all but the pacing seemed horribly off. This was one of the few movies I've seen in recent times where I actually checked my watch hoping there wouldn't be much more to go.
First of all, the main character seemed to be a whiny little girl for far too long, and seemed fairly well-adapted to being enslaved as a bath wench. The main goal she had was to free her parents, but she doesn't actually embark on doing so until at least 2/3 of the way through the film. The bulk of the movie seemed to be clever and well-directed bits that didn't really relate to each other or the main storyline enough to warrant their length or involvement.
Admittedly, I'm usually more drawn to the more action-oriented but intelligent anime (Bebop, NGE, etc) or goofy stuff (FLCL, Excel Saga, w00t!), but I dig the brainy bits of Eva too, as well as Lain, Akira, and even Mononoke, although I hated the way that ended. Am I still just too Western? The only people I know that really enjoyed Spirited Away were either the die-hard anime fans that/.ers are warned about, or those that only ever enjoy the really esoteric and sort of isolationist-intellectual-film-nut anime. Anyhow, is there anyone else here that didn't really like it so much?
(On-topic points): "Get Empowered. Get Inspired. Get Registered. (emphasis theirs) How does registering for some newsletter empower and inspire us? With all the crap that's going on these days, being told to register for something actually rings of DRM and the rest of the acronym parade...
Anyway, back off-topic: Maybe only subscribers get to see articles with appropriate icons. Now there's something I'd pay subscription fees for: a version of Slashdot with correct icons, no duplicates, working links and proofread editor postings! (and after almost posting an incoherent paragraph, the ability to edit your own comments after posting...)
Does the term "proofread editor postings" seem oxymoronic to anyone else?
Well there's an easy solution for businesses: Just never have anything on your site that would interest slashdot readers (or editors). No more/. effect!
Actually, the best appearance I've seen of the Segway so far was on the Policy episode of Sealab 2021. However it was only there to show how much damage a moron with a high credit limit can do.
As previously stated, the problem is when that pellet is going 20,000mph in the opposite direction of the space craft. 40,000mph whammo.
On a related note, anyone here ever play RIFTS? I remember getting the expansion book describing whole space colonies which hadn't contacted the surface of the Earth for hundreds of years due to massive interweaving clouds of space crap that destroyed any ship attempting to land (or presumably move within communication distance).
If within half an hour of posting a story thirty readers have identified the story as a dupe, there must be some way the/. eds could just run submissions through a filter to detect dupes or not. 'Cause they sure ain't catching them on their own.
"Either way, humans have an opportnity to break the cycle of violence; maybe Neo will figure that out in the last two movies. I kind of doubt it, because "can't we all just get along?" doesn't mesh well with awesome fight sequences..."
Unless of course there's some dissent within the machines/humans that allows for some kind of bizarre common ground. I think a human resistance is hinted to in the Reloaded trailer, and I wouldn't be surprised if Agent Smith was at odds with those albino twins I've been seeing down at the Loews 19.
Imagine Neo fighting along side a hundred agents.... That would be a geek Braveheart. I've always had a small hope that the Wachowskis' would borrow from Dragonball and have Smith pull sort of a Vegeta-esque character change; not sure how that would be possible with his strong racism. But I guess even Vegeta married a human so who knows?
So I take it you believe the studios are selling DVDs near cost, since they already milked the public at the box office and they don't feel the need to earn (much) more money off the massive DVD campaign? DVDs are selling in larger and larger quantities, and for movies that do so-so at the box office, the DVD sales boost the total revenue of the film considerably (Reign of Fire comes to mind, did horrible in the theaters and was in top-5 of rental and sales charts for a few weeks).
I actually see non-Disney (boo his) DVD ads on TV on a regular basis now, more so than I see music ads, except those damn "Wow!" albums. Someone has to pay to get all those menus scripted, all the other language tracks recorded, the commentary tracks, the featurettes, the friggin' DVD-ROM content. Plus it comes in a nicer box than a jewel case, and is a fundamentaly more expensive media to produce. So why again are they close to if not less than the cost of a CD with 45 minutes of crap music?
How many people, do you think, will buy stock if it means all their personal assets can be taken for the company's debts?
A lot less and maybe that isn't such a bad thing. Shareholders would actually have a pressing imperative to make sure their company is being financially responsible, and isn't taking loans out the ying-yang or hiding expendatures via Anderson et al. If I declare myself a corporation (not really possible but you get the idea), buy all the stock I have, take out a huge loan and spend it all on hookers, why should me, the corporation, not be responsible for paying any of it back?
No I don't know anything about how corporate laws work. But that risk-free shit always gets to me for some reason.
I watched this on its second and third consecutive showing, and something immediately jumped out at me: in 5 million years, Paris will be an arctic wasteland, the inhabitants of which will be hunted by a creature with NO FAT. Snowstalker is "all bone, muscle, and fur", which means if it doesn't find a meal it metabolises its own muscle and organs and dies. Are there any examples of arctic dwelling mammals (or even non-mammals) today that have less than 30% body fat?
Also, I think whomever they got to be their evolution "expert" was a big anime fan, as massive, multi-tentacled squid-creatures were featured in every other segment. At least on the Walking with Dinosaurs show on Discovery Channel they had some actual PhD Archaeologists talking about the dominant dino theories.
Oh how I wept when Frank Herbert had Waff freeze something at -275 Kelvin!
Well they also have ships traveling at FTL speeds, if I recall correctly. In the last couple books I seem to remember people traveling inter-planetary distances in a matter of minutes or hours. Perhaps 0 Kelvin isn't really the bottom of the scale. Those Ixian devils may have come up with some way of cooling stuff below that.
Not entirely flamebait, but Ogg is inferior to MP3? What FAQ are you reading? According to this FAQ Ogg is "better" than MP3, and several blind tests would seem to confirm it.
Unless you're not talking about quality-by-bitrate, in which case the only argument for MP3s superiority is that it is widespread (devices, decoders, etc). If that's all it takes to qualify for superiority then let's just support Microsoft, McDonalds and Dodge Neons (those things suck ass) all the way!
If I remember correctly, the original Dune took place beginning in the year 10,191. If the Buterlian Jyhad actually took place 10k years earlier, That would make it year ~200. 200 years after what? I had always assumed the Imperial subjects were still (for some reason) using our quaint reference frame for time, I guess not.
However that seat's springs are half-dead, the floor is disgusting, and thankfully its too dark to see the stains. The screen is big, unfortunately the movie is usually mildly unfocused for the first few minutes and anytime later than opening night the print is usually dusty or scratched. The sound system needed a retrofit or at least a visit from a sound engineer two years ago, and that $2,000,000 building is usually a mall filled with people I would never ever EVER want to associate with otherwise.
Of course, my fond memories of the United Artists theater in Union Square, NYC are a little better, but movie goers there seemed so much more likely to talk on cell-phones, use the theater as a make-out location or threaten each other's lives for some damn reason.
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As an earlier poster advised, all that is possible in Mozilla today (at least in 1.3 if not earlier). I'm only a student windows-luser who figured that out today, but for the past few months I have been a huge proponent for Moz. Mostly due to the fact that whenever I hit the labs to check email or web surf, I am forced to use IE (why did they replace 2k win winxp on EVERY machine, why?!), and therefore am constantly attacked by X10, gator, and those waving kitty popups.
I think the real question is when will stringent window controls be the default in browsers?
That doesn't actually mean it cost the USPS less than or equal to 40 cents to do it. If it cost them seventy-five bucks to get your letter out there wouldn't that qualify as non-cost-effective?
Back in hunter-gathering times suicide rates were no doubt low since the constant need to be on to move for food and livable climate kept people too busy to commit suicide.
Plus, saber-tooth tiger and alien attacks.
I, personally, would more happily move to that world, AS LONG AS I could forget THIS world.
Visions of Joey Pants eating a bloody-red steak dancing through my head... On that note you should read some of the philosophy stuff on the Matrix site, they actually have some contributions from college/uni profs and the like on ideas like this.
You're not by any chance talking about the GW in Carousel Mall and Altered States in Syracuse, NY are you? While there are always people in Altered (at least a couple years ago when I was still working through that "phase"), and indeed at they're satellite across town, the GW store only ever seems to have 3-5 guys in it running a demo. Or maybe just store staff killing time?
Could we all start submitting stories with links to sites that have absolutely nothing to do with them, seeing as how the eds just seem to make sure the link points to something containing the right keywords? We could have our own April Fools whenever we wanted!
I'm more excited about the licensed games using Doom 3's engine than Doom 3. Also, as Warbucket pointed out, to get the "full" Doom 3 experience (legally), you're going to have to drop about a hundred bucks US. (Trust me, those links actually go to the right place.)
Anyone attend HRUMC X yesterday? Just curious.
What about Ravenous? This movie surprised the hell out of me when I got around to watching the DVD a couple years ago. Crazy period-piece/horror/dark comedy with a soundtrack that somehow fit perfectly. Also, for me it was just self-aware aware enough for it to work perfectly, and I'm a big fan of movies admitting they're movies.
I don't mean to offend anyone's tastes but I really didn't see the big deal with Spirited Away; nor did the two anime fans I saw it in the theater with (some new but empty place near White Plains...). The voice acting was passable and it was a nice little fantasy setting and all but the pacing seemed horribly off. This was one of the few movies I've seen in recent times where I actually checked my watch hoping there wouldn't be much more to go.
/.ers are warned about, or those that only ever enjoy the really esoteric and sort of isolationist-intellectual-film-nut anime. Anyhow, is there anyone else here that didn't really like it so much?
First of all, the main character seemed to be a whiny little girl for far too long, and seemed fairly well-adapted to being enslaved as a bath wench. The main goal she had was to free her parents, but she doesn't actually embark on doing so until at least 2/3 of the way through the film. The bulk of the movie seemed to be clever and well-directed bits that didn't really relate to each other or the main storyline enough to warrant their length or involvement.
Admittedly, I'm usually more drawn to the more action-oriented but intelligent anime (Bebop, NGE, etc) or goofy stuff (FLCL, Excel Saga, w00t!), but I dig the brainy bits of Eva too, as well as Lain, Akira, and even Mononoke, although I hated the way that ended. Am I still just too Western? The only people I know that really enjoyed Spirited Away were either the die-hard anime fans that
I don't mean to offend anyone's tastes but I really didn't see the big deal with Spirited Away; nor did the two anime fans I saw it in the theater with (some new but empty place near White Plains...). The voice acting was passable and it was a nice little fantasy setting and all but the pacing seemed horribly off. This was one of the few movies I've seen in recent times where I actually checked my watch hoping there wouldn't be much more to go.
/.ers are warned about, or those that only ever enjoy the really esoteric and sort of isolationist-intellectual-film-nut anime. Anyhow, is there anyone else here that didn't really like it so much?
First of all, the main character seemed to be a whiny little girl for far too long, and seemed fairly well-adapted to being enslaved as a bath wench. The main goal she had was to free her parents, but she doesn't actually embark on doing so until at least 2/3 of the way through the film. The bulk of the movie seemed to be clever and well-directed bits that didn't really relate to each other or the main storyline enough to warrant their length or involvement.
Admittedly, I'm usually more drawn to the more action-oriented but intelligent anime (Bebop, NGE, etc) or goofy stuff (FLCL, Excel Saga, w00t!), but I dig the brainy bits of Eva too, as well as Lain, Akira, and even Mononoke, although I hated the way that ended. Am I still just too Western? The only people I know that really enjoyed Spirited Away were either the die-hard anime fans that
Too tired to preview, the die is cast.
(On-topic points): "Get Empowered. Get Inspired. Get Registered. (emphasis theirs) How does registering for some newsletter empower and inspire us? With all the crap that's going on these days, being told to register for something actually rings of DRM and the rest of the acronym parade...
Anyway, back off-topic: Maybe only subscribers get to see articles with appropriate icons. Now there's something I'd pay subscription fees for: a version of Slashdot with correct icons, no duplicates, working links and proofread editor postings! (and after almost posting an incoherent paragraph, the ability to edit your own comments after posting...)
Does the term "proofread editor postings" seem oxymoronic to anyone else?
Well there's an easy solution for businesses: Just never have anything on your site that would interest slashdot readers (or editors). No more /. effect!
I kinda wanna see what my university's connection and my box can handle
If there was a "+1 Brave" mod option, you would definately get it my friend.
Actually, the best appearance I've seen of the Segway so far was on the Policy episode of Sealab 2021. However it was only there to show how much damage a moron with a high credit limit can do.
As previously stated, the problem is when that pellet is going 20,000mph in the opposite direction of the space craft. 40,000mph whammo.
On a related note, anyone here ever play RIFTS? I remember getting the expansion book describing whole space colonies which hadn't contacted the surface of the Earth for hundreds of years due to massive interweaving clouds of space crap that destroyed any ship attempting to land (or presumably move within communication distance).
If within half an hour of posting a story thirty readers have identified the story as a dupe, there must be some way the /. eds could just run submissions through a filter to detect dupes or not. 'Cause they sure ain't catching them on their own.
"Either way, humans have an opportnity to break the cycle of violence; maybe Neo will figure that out in the last two movies. I kind of doubt it, because "can't we all just get along?" doesn't mesh well with awesome fight sequences..."
Unless of course there's some dissent within the machines/humans that allows for some kind of bizarre common ground. I think a human resistance is hinted to in the Reloaded trailer, and I wouldn't be surprised if Agent Smith was at odds with those albino twins I've been seeing down at the Loews 19.
Imagine Neo fighting along side a hundred agents.... That would be a geek Braveheart. I've always had a small hope that the Wachowskis' would borrow from Dragonball and have Smith pull sort of a Vegeta-esque character change; not sure how that would be possible with his strong racism. But I guess even Vegeta married a human so who knows?
So I take it you believe the studios are selling DVDs near cost, since they already milked the public at the box office and they don't feel the need to earn (much) more money off the massive DVD campaign? DVDs are selling in larger and larger quantities, and for movies that do so-so at the box office, the DVD sales boost the total revenue of the film considerably (Reign of Fire comes to mind, did horrible in the theaters and was in top-5 of rental and sales charts for a few weeks).
I actually see non-Disney (boo his) DVD ads on TV on a regular basis now, more so than I see music ads, except those damn "Wow!" albums. Someone has to pay to get all those menus scripted, all the other language tracks recorded, the commentary tracks, the featurettes, the friggin' DVD-ROM content. Plus it comes in a nicer box than a jewel case, and is a fundamentaly more expensive media to produce. So why again are they close to if not less than the cost of a CD with 45 minutes of crap music?
How many people, do you think, will buy stock if it means all their personal assets can be taken for the company's debts?
A lot less and maybe that isn't such a bad thing. Shareholders would actually have a pressing imperative to make sure their company is being financially responsible, and isn't taking loans out the ying-yang or hiding expendatures via Anderson et al. If I declare myself a corporation (not really possible but you get the idea), buy all the stock I have, take out a huge loan and spend it all on hookers, why should me, the corporation, not be responsible for paying any of it back?
No I don't know anything about how corporate laws work. But that risk-free shit always gets to me for some reason.
I watched this on its second and third consecutive showing, and something immediately jumped out at me: in 5 million years, Paris will be an arctic wasteland, the inhabitants of which will be hunted by a creature with NO FAT. Snowstalker is "all bone, muscle, and fur", which means if it doesn't find a meal it metabolises its own muscle and organs and dies. Are there any examples of arctic dwelling mammals (or even non-mammals) today that have less than 30% body fat?
Also, I think whomever they got to be their evolution "expert" was a big anime fan, as massive, multi-tentacled squid-creatures were featured in every other segment. At least on the Walking with Dinosaurs show on Discovery Channel they had some actual PhD Archaeologists talking about the dominant dino theories.
...but I think I'd enjoy a side-scrolling, third-person account of video game addiction more myself. Even Metroid is first-person now...
Oh how I wept when Frank Herbert had Waff freeze something at -275 Kelvin!
Well they also have ships traveling at FTL speeds, if I recall correctly. In the last couple books I seem to remember people traveling inter-planetary distances in a matter of minutes or hours. Perhaps 0 Kelvin isn't really the bottom of the scale. Those Ixian devils may have come up with some way of cooling stuff below that.
Not entirely flamebait, but Ogg is inferior to MP3? What FAQ are you reading? According to this FAQ Ogg is "better" than MP3, and several blind tests would seem to confirm it.
Unless you're not talking about quality-by-bitrate, in which case the only argument for MP3s superiority is that it is widespread (devices, decoders, etc). If that's all it takes to qualify for superiority then let's just support Microsoft, McDonalds and Dodge Neons (those things suck ass) all the way!
Christ, if Doom II will require next gen hardware, then we're pretty much screwed as far as Doom III is concerned.
If I remember correctly, the original Dune took place beginning in the year 10,191. If the Buterlian Jyhad actually took place 10k years earlier, That would make it year ~200. 200 years after what? I had always assumed the Imperial subjects were still (for some reason) using our quaint reference frame for time, I guess not.
However that seat's springs are half-dead, the floor is disgusting, and thankfully its too dark to see the stains. The screen is big, unfortunately the movie is usually mildly unfocused for the first few minutes and anytime later than opening night the print is usually dusty or scratched. The sound system needed a retrofit or at least a visit from a sound engineer two years ago, and that $2,000,000 building is usually a mall filled with people I would never ever EVER want to associate with otherwise.
Of course, my fond memories of the United Artists theater in Union Square, NYC are a little better, but movie goers there seemed so much more likely to talk on cell-phones, use the theater as a make-out location or threaten each other's lives for some damn reason.