Fantasia wasn't meant to be a kiddie movie -- though, like all Disney movies, that's what it ended up being. It was Disney's attempt to show that he had culture: telling classic storie with classical music performed by a big-name symphony orchestra.
Now of course if you dramatize the Greek Myths, there are details a modern audience isn't going to accept. Naturally, you can't show these details. But you have to be true to the spirit of the story you're trying to tell. If there are parts of the story you can't tell honestly, you shouldn't tell them at all.
Right you are. I was a Disney addict when I was a kid, but as soon as I grew up I realized that Walt and all his heirs are evil. What put me over the edge was seeing Fantasia and realizing that he'd neutered all the satyrs!
Everybody who makes movies -- or does anything creative -- could learn a few things from this man.
It's been a couple years since I saw Spirited Away, and I still chuckle if anything reminds me of a scene from it. Can't say the same for any Pixar movie. They only make me thing of trite cuteness and over-the-top voice actors hired for their name, not their talent.
The "no cuts" story is interesting. Had no idea Miyazaki was such a tough S.O.B. But I guess that goes with being a great filmmaker.
If the eye candy that was added to XP annoys you, you can turn it off. If some newer features like System Restore annoy you, you can turn it off. If other added features like Auto Update annoy you, you can turn it off. Essentially you can make XP just like 2000 except for the added support for the things I listed above.
The things "listed above" aren't terribly compelling. And if I turn off everything else that's new, I've gone to a lot of trouble just to get back where I started. Why bother?
I do find system restore handy. But I could live without it if I had to (you can always just back up the registry before doing dangerous stuff). And there isn't a single other feature in XP that I place any value on. In some ways, XP is a step backwards, such as those idiot-friendly changes to Explorer. For that I should undergo the expense (moderate) and hassle (extreme) of an upgrade, added to the risk that some of my software will stop working?
And from what I see, your attitude is almost universal. That $200 million will be pretty much wasted. That's a lot of money. Why, it's almost a week's profits!
Oddly enough, it's not happening. Some moderately clueful sceptics, that's about it. I think Katrina has silenced the kneejerk "It's all just junkscience/liberal/treehugger hysteria." crowd. Every cloud has a silver lining!
I'm sure it's possible. But then the laptops would be useless away from a network connection. If wireless IP ever becomes really pervasive, we'll undoubtable see people doing this.
That is indeed a handy feature. But I hate memorizing keyboard shortcuts -- this is a GUI! Fortunately, there's an extension that defines toolbar buttons for this feature. Still, there should be toolbar buttons for all the features.
Extensions are both the best and worst feature of Firefox. Best, because dozens of people have provided simple tweaks and useful features in the form of easily-installable extensions. Worst, because a badly-written extension can ruin your whole day.
That is indeed a handy feature. But I hate memorizing keyboard shortcuts -- this is a GUI! Fortunately, there's an extension that defines toolbar buttons for this feature. Still, there should be toolbar buttons for all the features.
Seriously though, if the patients are reporting on their experience, then that is not slander.
Wrong. Somebody can describe an experience as they remember it and still get crucial facts wrong. Suppose a doctor says to a patient, "You need to stop bottling up your anger," and the patient reports, "This doctor told me to go around beating up people!" Or the doctor prescribes an approved, tested drug that nevertheless affects the patient adversely, and the patient says, "The doctor gave me a dangerous drug!"
You can state something you honestly believe to be true, and still be guilty of libel. You just have to be sloppy with your perceptions and fact checking -- to the degree that most Slashdotters are, come to think of it.
Those guys at MIT always had way too much money to spend on hardware. That's why EMACS is so much more complicated than Vi -- it was originally designed to work on a very expensive terminal, whereas Vi was designed for a cheap "dumb terminal".
When the MIT guys were doing that fancy Spacewar controller, less well-financed colleges were making them out of spice tins. Poke a couple holes for a rheostat and a trigger button, and voila! That was the first game controller I ever saw.
I have no idea what's there, but my guess is a sales and/or field service office that doesn't occuppy more than a floor or two. All the sign means is they paid the landlord extra for the right to put their name on the side of the building.
Lots of good answers, but none that quite satisfy me. Here's mine:
The virtual machines you mention all run on a single existing system. You want a virtual machine that runs on multiple systems. That goes way beyond what the existing VMs do. They just implement the hardware instructions of a single system in software running on a single system. Taking that implementation and spreading it out among multiple systems means anticipating every clustering problem the code might raise, and solving it in advance.
Nobody knows how to do that. If they did, they'd implement it as the back end of compiler rather than waste the overhead of using a VM.
(They say that there are no stupid questions. Not true. But there are lame stupid questions, and interesting stupid questions. My vocation is answering interesting stupid questions, which is why I'm grateful for this one!)
... or just destroy the item in question. With the low price of storage devices, the latter is probably preferable.
And do what with it? Throw it in the dumpster, where it will go into a landfill, and the heavy metals will leach out and poison your grandchildren? Computer hardware should be safely recycled -- which isn't free. Easier and cheaper just to wipe the drive. Especially if you're getting rid of the computer it's in.
I take your point, but the reality is that most markets come to be dominated by 1 player which is so large that it stifles all competition. That's just the way unbridled capitalism works.
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Now of course if you dramatize the Greek Myths, there are details a modern audience isn't going to accept. Naturally, you can't show these details. But you have to be true to the spirit of the story you're trying to tell. If there are parts of the story you can't tell honestly, you shouldn't tell them at all.
You're misinformed. The usual procedure involves not a padlock, but an Uzi.
Right you are. I was a Disney addict when I was a kid, but as soon as I grew up I realized that Walt and all his heirs are evil. What put me over the edge was seeing Fantasia and realizing that he'd neutered all the satyrs!
It's been a couple years since I saw Spirited Away, and I still chuckle if anything reminds me of a scene from it. Can't say the same for any Pixar movie. They only make me thing of trite cuteness and over-the-top voice actors hired for their name, not their talent.
The "no cuts" story is interesting. Had no idea Miyazaki was such a tough S.O.B. But I guess that goes with being a great filmmaker.
Jeez, don't even mention an artists like Miyazaki and a hack like Tarentino in the same breath!
I do find system restore handy. But I could live without it if I had to (you can always just back up the registry before doing dangerous stuff). And there isn't a single other feature in XP that I place any value on. In some ways, XP is a step backwards, such as those idiot-friendly changes to Explorer. For that I should undergo the expense (moderate) and hassle (extreme) of an upgrade, added to the risk that some of my software will stop working?
And from what I see, your attitude is almost universal. That $200 million will be pretty much wasted. That's a lot of money. Why, it's almost a week's profits!
The thing is with Lego is they want people to play with their stuff. Build, hack, smash, it's all the same to them. Just don't let it gather dust!
Oddly enough, it's not happening. Some moderately clueful sceptics, that's about it. I think Katrina has silenced the kneejerk "It's all just junkscience/liberal/treehugger hysteria." crowd. Every cloud has a silver lining!
A good icon requires no memorization. And I don't have even a fraction of a zillion -- just dozen of them for the functions I use most often.
If you've locked down the system so that only the terminal server can run, how are you supposed to work on the file?
I'm sure it's possible. But then the laptops would be useless away from a network connection. If wireless IP ever becomes really pervasive, we'll undoubtable see people doing this.
Extensions are both the best and worst feature of Firefox. Best, because dozens of people have provided simple tweaks and useful features in the form of easily-installable extensions. Worst, because a badly-written extension can ruin your whole day.
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You can state something you honestly believe to be true, and still be guilty of libel. You just have to be sloppy with your perceptions and fact checking -- to the degree that most Slashdotters are, come to think of it.
OK, so let's start with the controls of the first steam powered machines, invented back in the 1820s....
When the MIT guys were doing that fancy Spacewar controller, less well-financed colleges were making them out of spice tins. Poke a couple holes for a rheostat and a trigger button, and voila! That was the first game controller I ever saw.
And precisely what kind of game do you play on a lathe?
I have no idea what's there, but my guess is a sales and/or field service office that doesn't occuppy more than a floor or two. All the sign means is they paid the landlord extra for the right to put their name on the side of the building.
The virtual machines you mention all run on a single existing system. You want a virtual machine that runs on multiple systems. That goes way beyond what the existing VMs do. They just implement the hardware instructions of a single system in software running on a single system. Taking that implementation and spreading it out among multiple systems means anticipating every clustering problem the code might raise, and solving it in advance.
Nobody knows how to do that. If they did, they'd implement it as the back end of compiler rather than waste the overhead of using a VM.
(They say that there are no stupid questions. Not true. But there are lame stupid questions, and interesting stupid questions. My vocation is answering interesting stupid questions, which is why I'm grateful for this one!)
... which case has the most drive bays?