I loathe and ridicule Apple as much as the next guy, but seriously, how many times to we have to be subjected to this? The same giggles and snickers over the puck mouse and the Apple III? C'mon...
coming from 40-somethings whose prepubescent selves likely giggled with glee when a bunch of teddy bears with spears and slingshots defeated an Imperial garrison.
Yes, it wasn't literally Microsoft as I have been reminded. But the point remains; Apple once billed itself as the great liberator but has now become quite draconian.
I have a hotmail account and have used it for a contact for job applications for years. But the account predates even Microsoft's acquisition of hotmail, so the username is only 4 letters long.
Surely that would earn some cool points, like the low digit user IDs do here?:)
The problem is that there was a 16-year gap between the originals and the new movie. The vast majority of us were in the 5-10 yr old age range when the original came out, and spent that time playing with toys, reading other Star Wars novels, playing the video games, etc... Filling in the gap with either the derivative/side works or our imaginations, or both.
We grew up over that period of time, but by the time Lucas got around to making the prequels, there was simply no way what he did would ever match what our childhood-borne anticipation and imagination had already created. We also forgot that these films...and film in general...is rarely specifically targeted at a single audience. Lucas didn't make the prequels solely for the 30-somethings; he made them for everyone, which includes the 5-10 year audience of 1999. Kids find Jar Jar antics funny, just as we found R2 and C3P0's antics funny 30 years ago.
I am sick to death of the nerd rage over how "bad" they feel The Phantom Menace is.
It does nothing of the sort, stop being such a drama queen. If law enforcement has a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, then they present evidence to a judge who can the issue a warrant. If they wish to search your house or tail your car, it is all the same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
is a fiction I can certainly live with.
Unless "softwear" was an acceptable alternative at the time.
Sorry, these things just jump out at me.
Take a swig for every post titled "Meet the new boss..." or "Lipstick on a pig".
I loathe and ridicule Apple as much as the next guy, but seriously, how many times to we have to be subjected to this? The same giggles and snickers over the puck mouse and the Apple III? C'mon...
coming from 40-somethings whose prepubescent selves likely giggled with glee when a bunch of teddy bears with spears and slingshots defeated an Imperial garrison.
Innovation and producing the "Next Big Thing" is the more difficult but potentially more rewarding path.
Slapping lipstick on your competitor's pig is the easy shortcut.
I still recall fondly the days when all (3!) TV stations would cut to live shuttle takeoff coverage.
The wondrous has become the routine.
A day late and a dollar short, bro.
Yes, it wasn't literally Microsoft as I have been reminded. But the point remains; Apple once billed itself as the great liberator but has now become quite draconian.
That doesn't change the point, Mr. Pedantic. :) I just really don't see the innovation in pushing a closed system.
The Apple of today is more 1984-ish than Microsoft ever was at the time of the aforementioned Superbowl ad.
Surely this will bring about regime change if the Chinese are forced to, er, buy someone else's cellphone.
Yea. :/
I have a hotmail account and have used it for a contact for job applications for years. But the account predates even Microsoft's acquisition of hotmail, so the username is only 4 letters long.
Surely that would earn some cool points, like the low digit user IDs do here? :)
A corollary of Rule 34.
Some of his worries turned out to be unwarranted, others turned out to be quite valid.
"Information available over the Internet is often stale, incomplete, misleading, unreviewed, or simply wrong. "
Well, he sure nailed it regarding the Wikipdia.
Ahh, nerdrage. How precious it is.
Just because it was too complicated fro you doesn't mean it would be for a kid.
The problem is that there was a 16-year gap between the originals and the new movie. The vast majority of us were in the 5-10 yr old age range when the original came out, and spent that time playing with toys, reading other Star Wars novels, playing the video games, etc... Filling in the gap with either the derivative/side works or our imaginations, or both.
We grew up over that period of time, but by the time Lucas got around to making the prequels, there was simply no way what he did would ever match what our childhood-borne anticipation and imagination had already created. We also forgot that these films...and film in general...is rarely specifically targeted at a single audience. Lucas didn't make the prequels solely for the 30-somethings; he made them for everyone, which includes the 5-10 year audience of 1999. Kids find Jar Jar antics funny, just as we found R2 and C3P0's antics funny 30 years ago.
I am sick to death of the nerd rage over how "bad" they feel The Phantom Menace is.
I was all set to name my company Goo and base it out of Greenland.
Damn you, Google!
Still with the "Phantom Menace is racist" BS?
End yourself, please.
Rising from "inconsequential" to "negligible" is hardly newsworthy.
No income or sales tax.
money is being spent to protect people from their own stupidity.
Biting into the label? Seriously?
I still use it as the start page. It has a bit more going on than the austere google homepage, but not as garish as bing/MSN/whateverMS.
Before that, my start page for the longest time was altavista.digital.com
It does nothing of the sort, stop being such a drama queen. If law enforcement has a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, then they present evidence to a judge who can the issue a warrant. If they wish to search your house or tail your car, it is all the same thing.
Checks and balances. Read up on it sometime.
/interest in topic plummets.