I certainly do. There are a number of things that I simply loathe about Firebird. About once every three months or so I try to give it another whirl, but I always end up shutting it down in disgust because of the way it behaves. Mozilla is my perfect browser right now, and since I'm not expecting the Firebird team to suddenly conform to MY expectations as to how a browser should work, I'll continue to care about future Moz releases. Blah blah blah etc etc etc...
Yeah. I was really pissed off about it. It looked great in the trailers, 'cause you're just looking at it compressed and either crammed into a window on your desktop or further mangled by expanding it to fullscreen, so in the downloadable previews it looked really cool. Alas.
and the whole Burly Brawl was completely spoiled when they showed a cloud of Agent Smiths getting tossed off in a "mushroom cloud."
Yeah, it was certainly a shame that awful POS fight scene got ruined. It would have been so much more exciting, had I not known how the obviously-computer-generated Neo was going to escape from all the obviously-computer-generated Agent Smiths, especially seeing as though all the actual fighting going on was obviously not doing a thing to either side. Watching other people play video games is always so much more thrilling when you don't know what's going to happen.
Oh, come on, when he moved in it wasn't there. It just kind of built up around him. That's one of the dangers of being one of the first people to move into a subdivision, you never know how it's going to turn out. I bet he protested pretty loudly at the town meetings, but after all he was probably still Mostly Good back then and wouldn't intimidate people to stop the dam. Too bad, really.
The article mentioned that the new cut would feature some explanations as to why exactly they turned Faramir into an asshole. I'm rather looking forward to that. That was pretty much my one major gripe with it.
Yeah, that Discovery article is a bit more informative. I didn't really care that there was a lack of information as to how the dragonflies can do that; I was more perturbed that the article didn't even go into any detail about how they gathered the data, how they went about exactly finding this out, etc. But yeah, the Discovery article was better, thanks.
What an incredibly hollow article. "We've used some technical majiggers to look at some stuff and wow! Look what we came up with!" It's a good thing there wasn't any actual details in there, it may have been interesting.
I've heard that a 26 screen theatre in California had all screens showing Reloaded and were TOTALLY SOLD OUT.
Well, I was more talking about the original Matrix... Personally, the only philosophy I think there was in Reloaded was contemplating the nature of suffering with regards to having spent money to watch the drivel on the screen, and wondering how the same team to come up with the first movie could have possibly screwed up so badly this time around.
"...the impact of The Matrix on contemporary philosophy?"
Okay, yeah, so the philosophical stuff that goes on in the Matrix is fun and all, but what's in there that isn't a retread of Christianity, Buddhism, and solipsism? This isn't new stuff. If it's your first exposure to some of it, it could be interesting, but impacting comtemporary philosophy? Please.
It is now my goal to create a movie which fits exactly into this mold. The first twenty-seven minutes will be nothing but action, The next fifteen or so will be comedy, the next eleven will be god and the devil arguing about something, then just under eleven minutes of porn, etc. It'll be great.
Reminds me of my plan to sculpt a movie designed to get exactly zero points on the capalert scale: 15 minutes of wanton violence/crime, followed by 15 minutes of Impudence and Hate, 15 minutes of Sex and Homosexuality, etc...
Well, yes, blacklisting and whitelisting would work to cut down on spam. My point was more that the lack of authentication on SMTP isn't nearly the problem that it once was now that more and more systems are becoming aware of keeping their relays closed. I don't think that a push towards SMTP authentication would have a bigger effect than the current movement to close relays and the like (though SMTP authentication certainly has OTHER benefits that make it a good idea).
I think that the (black|white)listing scheme has a much better chance of working, SMTP auth or no.
Spammers running their own mailservers are still going to be able to send out spam, though, 'cause they're authenticating to their own servers properly. You could argue that servers with spam coming out of them could just get added to blacklists, but that happens already for open relays, and the whole open relay thing is steadily beoming less of a problem as more admins wise up to it.
Other problems start when you have people using hotmail and yahoo, etc, to send out spam. They're authenticating correctly, they're just using the accounts to send the spam. Your solution makes a lot of sense if SMTP servers are scarce, but broadband being what it is, it's basically trivial to set up one of your own and use that. You no longer have the controls of forcing people to use well-known, trusted servers. (Again, you can play games with blacklisting, but this already happens today.)
Plus newer builds of Mozilla can block pop-ups on a per-site basis now, too (and enable on a per-site basis), so if your bank just INISISTS on opening up a popup for their site to work properly, you can let it and still have an ad-free environment. Wonderful stuff!
On the contrary, I've found sucking files from usenet to be exponentially easier than grabbing files from any p2p network (haven't tried IRC). The wonderful part about it is that what you see posted is what you GET. I see something I want off of Usenet, there in the list of subjects, and I know it's there. I don't have to waste a bunch of time downloading something from a potentially slow-as-all-hell connection just to find out that it's incomplete, or recorded from some crappy radio broadcast, or something else entirely. Even better, because my usenet feed comes from my ISP, it always maxes out my downlink. Now add in the fact that I can use incredibly simple command-line tools like brag to grab 'em, and you've got a nice little service there.
I spent awhile living off of alt.binaries.tv.simpsons; it's what finally got me to stop watching TV...
Well, I disagree. The general trend seems to be moving more and more towards realism. Obviously you're going to have some health meters and stuff like that; you'd know you got hurt in real life, and you have to have a way of knowing that you just got hurt in the game. Also obviously respawning is an impediment to the realism, but that's just the framework for how the game is played. While you're alive and moving about, overall realism is more and more the point of these games. Why else would they be putting so much energy into having realistic weapons, realistic firing rates, realistic overheating, realistic terrain, more realistic interactions between players (having medics and people who are better at some things than others), etc... I think realism is very MUCH the point when you're playing the game, at least for "historical" games when you're battling it out in WWII. If I'm playing something set in WWII, I want to feel basically like I'm there; I don't want to have some laser beam, I don't want to have some teleport device, and I don't want to suddenly see a player's name above his head because some magical device knows it's my teammate.
If realism wasn't the point, then you would have laser beams and teleportation devices and all that. What I'm saying is why not go all the way?
I've never understood why games that go to so much trouble to be realistic do things like have players' names show up above them when you're targetting them, or "Don't shoot!" icons. I mean, really, you've got the ability to disguise yourself as the enemy; that's really cool. But then your teammates can automatically know it's you from afar just by leaving their crosshairs on you for a second or two. Riiiiight.
I can't focus on things that big, especially when there's lots of fast action going on. It's like sitting too close to the front of the theater. It just ruins the whole experience. I've disliked most of the "Bigger Than God" screens that I've been at, and actively avoid them now. The standard screen size that the big theaters in the area use is perfect; it occupies my whole field of vision and I can still make out what's happening when things are going quickly. So I say, "Bah!" to IMAX! Take that!
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I also have high hopes for someday being able to use vimpart as a textarea editor in Konqueror - that alone would get me to switch over from Moz.
I certainly do. There are a number of things that I simply loathe about Firebird. About once every three months or so I try to give it another whirl, but I always end up shutting it down in disgust because of the way it behaves. Mozilla is my perfect browser right now, and since I'm not expecting the Firebird team to suddenly conform to MY expectations as to how a browser should work, I'll continue to care about future Moz releases. Blah blah blah etc etc etc...
Yeah. I was really pissed off about it. It looked great in the trailers, 'cause you're just looking at it compressed and either crammed into a window on your desktop or further mangled by expanding it to fullscreen, so in the downloadable previews it looked really cool. Alas.
Meh.
Sssssh! You'll let out the secret!
Oh, come on, when he moved in it wasn't there. It just kind of built up around him. That's one of the dangers of being one of the first people to move into a subdivision, you never know how it's going to turn out. I bet he protested pretty loudly at the town meetings, but after all he was probably still Mostly Good back then and wouldn't intimidate people to stop the dam. Too bad, really.
But yeah, the Ent thing would be nice too.
Yeah, that Discovery article is a bit more informative. I didn't really care that there was a lack of information as to how the dragonflies can do that; I was more perturbed that the article didn't even go into any detail about how they gathered the data, how they went about exactly finding this out, etc. But yeah, the Discovery article was better, thanks.
What an incredibly hollow article. "We've used some technical majiggers to look at some stuff and wow! Look what we came up with!" It's a good thing there wasn't any actual details in there, it may have been interesting.
But that's just me. :P
Okay, yeah, so the philosophical stuff that goes on in the Matrix is fun and all, but what's in there that isn't a retread of Christianity, Buddhism, and solipsism? This isn't new stuff. If it's your first exposure to some of it, it could be interesting, but impacting comtemporary philosophy? Please.
Nice! I must have missed that one. Brilliant!
Reminds me of my plan to sculpt a movie designed to get exactly zero points on the capalert scale: 15 minutes of wanton violence/crime, followed by 15 minutes of Impudence and Hate, 15 minutes of Sex and Homosexuality, etc...
I think that the (black|white)listing scheme has a much better chance of working, SMTP auth or no.
Other problems start when you have people using hotmail and yahoo, etc, to send out spam. They're authenticating correctly, they're just using the accounts to send the spam. Your solution makes a lot of sense if SMTP servers are scarce, but broadband being what it is, it's basically trivial to set up one of your own and use that. You no longer have the controls of forcing people to use well-known, trusted servers. (Again, you can play games with blacklisting, but this already happens today.)
Plus newer builds of Mozilla can block pop-ups on a per-site basis now, too (and enable on a per-site basis), so if your bank just INISISTS on opening up a popup for their site to work properly, you can let it and still have an ad-free environment. Wonderful stuff!
I spent awhile living off of alt.binaries.tv.simpsons; it's what finally got me to stop watching TV...
That or, um, ugly as sin. Take your pick.
... that Chewbacca will show up in practically every preview for Ep3.
If realism wasn't the point, then you would have laser beams and teleportation devices and all that. What I'm saying is why not go all the way?
I've never understood why games that go to so much trouble to be realistic do things like have players' names show up above them when you're targetting them, or "Don't shoot!" icons. I mean, really, you've got the ability to disguise yourself as the enemy; that's really cool. But then your teammates can automatically know it's you from afar just by leaving their crosshairs on you for a second or two. Riiiiight.
I can't focus on things that big, especially when there's lots of fast action going on. It's like sitting too close to the front of the theater. It just ruins the whole experience. I've disliked most of the "Bigger Than God" screens that I've been at, and actively avoid them now. The standard screen size that the big theaters in the area use is perfect; it occupies my whole field of vision and I can still make out what's happening when things are going quickly. So I say, "Bah!" to IMAX! Take that!
No, I haven't... I gathered from the article that they hadn't really released the particulars yet. If so, then I'm with you 100%. :)
I wonder if we'll see a derivative of Godwin's Law pop up anytime soon . . .