Imagine, if you can, Windows with the stability and security of OpenBSD - would we still treat M$ with such hatred then?
yes. yes we would, because the/. crowd is just too pigheaded to change. case in point: we can't say enough about how much of a megalomanical asshole Bill Gates is, and yet Theo De Rat [sic] can do anything and still be the new Messiah. Remember the whole thing with openssh.org?
Theo is the single biggest reason to not use OpenBSD/OpenSSH.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one, jonny. The pacing wasn't deliberately slow; it was uneven. The pacing of the film itself didn't match up with the action or even the editing; Shayamalan somehow managed to make a boring, painfully slow movie while still shooting a full 1/4 of it at an ultra-fast frame rate. The only time it was slow on purpose was when it was explaining everything four times.
Please kill the sequel now. Please don't ever let M. Knight Shayamalan behind a camera again. Someone may be seriously hurt.
doesn't spell everything out?!?!? what? This movie spells everything out...
(scene: samuel l. jackson talking to bruce willis's wife)
wife: i wouldn't have fallen in love with him if it hadn't been for the injury in the accident.
slj: i think his injury was faked so he could stop playing football.
(scene: samuel l. jackson talking to bruce willis)
slj: i think you faked that injury so you could stop playing football.
(scene: bruce willis - flashback to the night of the accident)
bw: [gets up and walks around]
bw: [checks to see if girlfriend is ok]
bw: [rips the car door off of its hinges]
bw: [takes girlfriend out of car to see if she's ok.]
guy: [walks up] are you hurt?
bw: what?
guy: are you hurt, man?
bw: yes. i think i broke my leg. i now must stop playing football.
(scene: slj talking to bw)
slj: i think you faked that injury so you could stop playing football.
bw: yes, i faked that injury so i could stop playing football.
I mean, how stupid do they think audiences are? i'm sick of movies like this one that have to repeat the same thing over and over and over so that every moron in the world can understand, then two more times just to make sure.
I'm sorry, but are you people trying to pretend that this movie is good because it doesn't have alot of high tech devices?
Maybe you're right. Maybe they were trying to not use anything high tech in the film.
And maybe they decided that things like "plot" and "good directing" and "pacing" were too high tech for them.
I don't think they took the low tech angle far enough. I wish they would have gone so low tech they didn't use a camera to film it. I wish they would have gone so low tech that they didn't make it at all.
Have you all lost your damn minds? "Unbreakable" was the biggest piece of shit i've seen in years! they should've called it "Unbearable!"
I wish I was on that train at the beginning. Then i wouldn't have had to sit through the rest of this piece of crap. It started out slow, but vaguely interesting, then got silly, then ridiculous, then just plain stupid. Mr. Shayamalan should never be let behind a camera again, because his direction is slow and pretentious (shooting from behind a curtain, or from the seats in front of the character? come on! its not innovation if it sucks.).
I'm a little shocked to see anyone give this thing a good review, let alone half of the slashdot community. ugh.
yes, good point! all you matrix-bashers should pay attention to this, they made the matrix with the intent of making a movie that was a combination of old kung fu movies and comic books, the sci-fi is secondary.
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Amen! This falls on deaf ears every time i say it, which is every time i get into an argument about the [im]morality of cracking: it is not ok to break in "just to look around."
Oh yeah, can't forget that. Frankly, i think the whole thing with companies refusing to release old games for free is just cheap. It's a perfect example of when a company has the legal right to do something, but only comes off looking like a giant ass if they do.
The reason the Amstrad guys are waiving the copyrights is because Amstrad doesn't make a system today. Other old game companies (nintendo, sega, etc.) refuse to let people play the games of yore because they want them to play the games of today. They'd make it illegal to play a game physically on an old system once a new one was out, if they could.
The best moderations system I've seen is the one in use on everything2. Users are awarded levels, a la and RPG, based on the number of times they post and the number of times they are voted up/down. With each level, you get new "powers." For example, at Level 2 you gain the ability to vote [mod] posts up/down, and at level 4 you get the ability to "C! (cool)" a post, giving the poster 10 extra experience points for an excellent post. This seems to work excellently over there, and I think it could here too.
Actually, Intel is evidently years ahead of everyone else. That's why the Timna is dead--RAMBUS is standard in the futuristic world of Intel, but not in the present.
The problem with marketing a chip at not much more than the level of 2-3 years ago is that you end up competing with 2-3 year old products. Pentium II's aren't impossible to get, even these days, if you look for them.
I recently got a PII-300mhz server, with 64 megs of RAM. You know how much it cost me? Nada. A company was forsaking it for a newer model, and I got it for free. Now why would someone pay now for a chip not much faster than the chip of yesteryear that can be had for free or close to it?
Wow, you made a pretty big ass of yourself, there, Zico. Rehnquist is on the Supreme Court, and therefore ethically infallible, and Pugsley is a professor in L.A., and is therefore ethically bankrupt, is that right? Geez, that's a brilliant argument.
Yeah, and not just the media, either. I don't have the exact number on hand (url, anyone?), but the government itself works to stop third parties, via requiring more signatures to get on a ballot, imposing lower limits on funding, etc.
Not so. The problem with Napster is that its such a mainstream thing that any idiot can use it. but what percentage of current napster users are intelligent enough to even know about the alternatives (gnutella, etc.), let alone use them? That's why I wish my school would ban napster, anyway.
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yes. yes we would, because the /. crowd is just too pigheaded to change. case in point: we can't say enough about how much of a megalomanical asshole Bill Gates is, and yet Theo De Rat [sic] can do anything and still be the new Messiah. Remember the whole thing with openssh.org?
Theo is the single biggest reason to not use OpenBSD/OpenSSH.
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Please kill the sequel now. Please don't ever let M. Knight Shayamalan behind a camera again. Someone may be seriously hurt.
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(scene: samuel l. jackson talking to bruce willis's wife)
wife: i wouldn't have fallen in love with him if it hadn't been for the injury in the accident.
slj: i think his injury was faked so he could stop playing football.
(scene: samuel l. jackson talking to bruce willis)
slj: i think you faked that injury so you could stop playing football.
(scene: bruce willis - flashback to the night of the accident)
bw: [gets up and walks around]
bw: [checks to see if girlfriend is ok]
bw: [rips the car door off of its hinges]
bw: [takes girlfriend out of car to see if she's ok.]
guy: [walks up] are you hurt?
bw: what?
guy: are you hurt, man?
bw: yes. i think i broke my leg. i now must stop playing football.
(scene: slj talking to bw)
slj: i think you faked that injury so you could stop playing football.
bw: yes, i faked that injury so i could stop playing football.
I mean, how stupid do they think audiences are? i'm sick of movies like this one that have to repeat the same thing over and over and over so that every moron in the world can understand, then two more times just to make sure.
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Maybe you're right. Maybe they were trying to not use anything high tech in the film.
And maybe they decided that things like "plot" and "good directing" and "pacing" were too high tech for them.
I don't think they took the low tech angle far enough. I wish they would have gone so low tech they didn't use a camera to film it. I wish they would have gone so low tech that they didn't make it at all.
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I wish I was on that train at the beginning. Then i wouldn't have had to sit through the rest of this piece of crap. It started out slow, but vaguely interesting, then got silly, then ridiculous, then just plain stupid. Mr. Shayamalan should never be let behind a camera again, because his direction is slow and pretentious (shooting from behind a curtain, or from the seats in front of the character? come on! its not innovation if it sucks.).
I'm a little shocked to see anyone give this thing a good review, let alone half of the slashdot community. ugh.
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thousands, eh?
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I recently got a PII-300mhz server, with 64 megs of RAM. You know how much it cost me? Nada. A company was forsaking it for a newer model, and I got it for free. Now why would someone pay now for a chip not much faster than the chip of yesteryear that can be had for free or close to it?
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You don't? One word: Linus.
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Here is that candidate
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