I can't hook my PC to my surround sound stereo system or my HDTV. I can't lounge on my sofa using a controller from my PC either. I have to hunch over a keyboard, mouse, and a flat surface for the mouse and a monitor for my PC.
That's slowly changing, though.
With a simple piece of shelf-board for a keyboard & mouse, I have the DVI video of my Mac mini hooked up the the HDMI input of my high-def projector, and a USB-TOSLink adapter to provide surround sound when watching movies and HDTV. Not only has the mini become my High-Def PVR and DVD Player, but I get to play World of Warcraft in 1280x720 on a 119" screen.
(That said, I also have my X-Box plugged in to the component inputs so I can play GTA, DOAX, etc., once in a while. It's also nice having a second DVD player available when I'm using the mini for some other CPU-heavy task.)
Item! Game consoles might not change your life after all. I know, it comes as a complete shock to us at CNN as well... but after researching this report, it turns out that game console companies sometimes hype the technical potential of consoles, and those expectations are seldom realized.
In our next report, we will demonstrate that political candidates from both parties often fail to keep their campaign promises. We're pretty sure this one will knock your socks off as well.... at least, if you are as incredibly fucking naive as we are.
It reminds me of the classic joke from "The Muppet Movie"
Gonzo: Well, I want to go to Bombay, India to become a movie star.
Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going, Hollywood!
Gonzo: Well sure, if you want to do it the easy way!
That line was hilarious when the movie came out, but just as "Major League" became less funny when the Cleveland Indians stopped sucking in the 90s, modern events ruined the joke.
Same movie, similar problem:
Waiter (Steve Martin): Sparkling Muscatel, one of the finest wines of Idaho.
Wet-yer-pants funny in 1979. Now... not so much. Damn you, quality Idaho wine producers!
Couldn't the same be said about internet browsers? I want a browser to do just that.... browse. I don't need it to fix my spelling, that's what my dictionary is for.
FYI: Spellcheck is not a Safari Browser feature, it's an OS feature.
All OS X apps which are programmed correctly automatically take advantage of the OS X spellchecker for anywhere that standard text is going to be entered by the user. If I type something as truly stupid as "donesn't" in mail.app, a textbox in safari, or anywhere else, OS X will underline it with the squiggly red "you are a dumbass" line, and I will see it before sending it off.
For shitty typists like me, it's a terrific feature.
Hey, Windows users: Use whatever you like. I don't give a fuck. If one of you decides that switching to the Mac is a good idea, it really donesn't make my preference of computers any better.... and you can tell I'm posting from work using Firefox on a PC, because the built-in spellcheck on my iBook at home would have caught that "donesn't" crap.
You know, I'm a Mac user. I freakin' love Macs. I think Steve Jobs, for all his flaws, is a hero.
That said, I think it's a sad state of affairs that people consider it a news story that some nobody columnist has decided he likes Macs better than Windows. All this cheerleading for "switchers" is really pathetic.
Hey, Windows users: Use whatever you like. I don't give a fuck. If one of you decides that switching to the Mac is a good idea, it really donesn't make my preference of computers any better.
Mea Culpa. Go with James Ivory then. My point doesn't change much. There are a hell of a lot of great US directors out there, so I reject the whole "Hollywood doesn't put out any good movies" meme as a shallow and distorted view of the medium.
I've seen all of the Star Wars movies in the theater as they came out, and I've liked them all. I just steadfastly remain intentionally shallow. It's supposed to be eye candy, not give you a doctorate in comparative theology or high-energy physics.
Okay, fine... But "Clones" looked awful. Even on an "eye candy" popcorn movie level, there's not much to like.
and the guy REALLY came up with it all is dead, his name was Frank Herbert
You spelled Jack Kirby's name wrong.
(Google for the comic "New Gods" sometime. The Hero was on the verge of turning evil, and did not know he was the villain's son... they relied on a cosmic power called "the source"... The list goes on.)
Drunken Master was a slapstick parody of period kung-fu flicks.
Drunken Master II was possibly Jackie Chan's most physically demanding film ever, and was absolutely brilliant from beginning to end.
DM-II is worth the price of the DVD just to see Anita Mui in a brilliant fight scene which blends classic Chan-style acrobatics, very subtle "wire fu", and delightful physical comedy all into a brief action sequence which I may never get tired of seeing.
Apart from the joke of featuring Jackie Chan as a hero who became actually drunk before deploying his "drunken boxing" technique, the films have almost no connection to each other.
It's sometimes called "Legend of Drunken Master" in the US, so Americans not familiar with the lower-budget original won't pass up on it thinking it's a sequel to something they never heard of.
That time is way past us now. I haven't read the entire list yet, but if half are made in the US, then it is skewed. When you look at masters like Fellini and Trauffaut
Umm... as soon as you bring up those two, you are not talking about "now" anymore, are you?
For every Fellini you can name, I can name a Gilliam, a Wells, and a Hitchcock. For every Kurosawa, I can name a Ford, a Hawkes, and a Curtiz.
Go ahead... spew them out. Trauffaut, Eisenstein, Leone, etc. For every great foreign director you can name, I can name three great directors from the US.
Want me to stick with directors who have not yet retired, perhaps even relatively new directors who have made good films in the last ten years? I could easily play that game. For every Wim Wenders you can throw at me, I can come back at you with a Darren Aronofsky, a Christopher Nolan, and a Sam Raimi. For every Tom Tykwer, I'll come back with a Wes Anderson, a Peter Weir and both Cohen Brothers.
Just because the summer blockbuster season is filled with Herbie Movies and half-assed sci fi doesn't mean that Hollywood doesn't still hold a dominant lead when it comes to producing great new directors and interesting film art. I think you're just choosing not to look very hard.
The post I was responding to was stating that, although there was no commercial release of Windows for PPC, that he believed Microsoft had such boxen up and running.
He then suggested that it was "rumored" that Apple was also capable of running the kernel of OS X on x86, and I replied by pointing out that it was more than just a rumor; it's fact.
Then you went all ballistic on me because you appear to think I was saying something to support Dvorak's bullshit from earlier this week, which I wasn't.
Plus these guys are freelance so they've got to make more money than the average joe b/c they don't know when they'll get their next gig.
$50/hour web contractors don't know when they'll get their next gig either, but I don't hear any of them crying.
I have no sympathy for somebody who gets to do something as fun as providing the voices for a video game and thinks there's something wrong with the industry if they can't make a living off it.
You want a steady living? In the words of Mr. Pink: "Learn to fuckin' type."
You are right, but I have a big news flash for them: They were hired because they were cheap.
Force game companies to pay royalties, and you will see people like Patrick Stewart and Minnie Driver doing all the voice-work for games (and the games will cost $80 a pop to cover the costs.) All of these whiners would have to go back to scrambling for radio advertisement work.
Then how sweet would $750 for two hours of making "getting shot" noises into a microphone sound?
Maybe she cannot break out of the C-List because her stand-up comedy subjects include sex, sexual politics, homosexuals, transvestites, and tolerance.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a cave man. I was frozen in ice thousands of years ago and then thawed out by your scientists.
Your world frightens and confuses me! When I see a car, I wonder, "what is that strange beast, and how does it move so fast?"
I don't know much, but if there's one thing I know, it's that comedy acts were including all those subjects before fire was invented.
There is nothing new about Margret Cho's act. Talking about alternative sexual behavior in a comedy routine is downright stodgy and traditional at this point.
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I'm all about "The Order of the Stick" myself.
So I really should have said "programmed ideally" instead of "programmed correctly."
Let's not split hairs, shall we?
Oh wait, I forgot where I was. Never mind.
I can't hook my PC to my surround sound stereo system or my HDTV. I can't lounge on my sofa using a controller from my PC either. I have to hunch over a keyboard, mouse, and a flat surface for the mouse and a monitor for my PC.
That's slowly changing, though.
With a simple piece of shelf-board for a keyboard & mouse, I have the DVI video of my Mac mini hooked up the the HDMI input of my high-def projector, and a USB-TOSLink adapter to provide surround sound when watching movies and HDTV. Not only has the mini become my High-Def PVR and DVD Player, but I get to play World of Warcraft in 1280x720 on a 119" screen.
(That said, I also have my X-Box plugged in to the component inputs so I can play GTA, DOAX, etc., once in a while. It's also nice having a second DVD player available when I'm using the mini for some other CPU-heavy task.)
Item! Game consoles might not change your life after all. I know, it comes as a complete shock to us at CNN as well... but after researching this report, it turns out that game console companies sometimes hype the technical potential of consoles, and those expectations are seldom realized.
... at least, if you are as incredibly fucking naive as we are.
In our next report, we will demonstrate that political candidates from both parties often fail to keep their campaign promises. We're pretty sure this one will knock your socks off as well.
It reminds me of the classic joke from "The Muppet Movie"
Gonzo: Well, I want to go to Bombay, India to become a movie star.
Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going, Hollywood!
Gonzo: Well sure, if you want to do it the easy way!
That line was hilarious when the movie came out, but just as "Major League" became less funny when the Cleveland Indians stopped sucking in the 90s, modern events ruined the joke.
Same movie, similar problem:
Waiter (Steve Martin): Sparkling Muscatel, one of the finest wines of Idaho.
Wet-yer-pants funny in 1979. Now... not so much. Damn you, quality Idaho wine producers!
No, mathematically it's called a parabola or a hyperbola, I don't know many mathematicians who would call it a "hill".
You might be on to something there. I would certainly describe most of what is being said by both sides of this issue as "hyperbola."
Slashdot has been nothing FARK with moderation bitchslaps for at least couple years now. Where have you been? :P
I'm surprised they haven't added a "Japan" section with headlines linking to all the weirdest Mainichi Daily News stories.
Once they have that, all it will take is the addition of allowing image tags, and their journey to the Dark Side will be complete.
Couldn't the same be said about internet browsers? I want a browser to do just that.... browse. I don't need it to fix my spelling, that's what my dictionary is for.
FYI: Spellcheck is not a Safari Browser feature, it's an OS feature.
All OS X apps which are programmed correctly automatically take advantage of the OS X spellchecker for anywhere that standard text is going to be entered by the user. If I type something as truly stupid as "donesn't" in mail.app, a textbox in safari, or anywhere else, OS X will underline it with the squiggly red "you are a dumbass" line, and I will see it before sending it off.
For shitty typists like me, it's a terrific feature.
Please don't haul me off to slashdotjail.
They have that!?
Holy crap, I'd better stop pointing out that Futurama and The Family Guy were never very funny.
(Pffft. -1 Flamebait indeed. It's like walking on eggshells with you people sometimes.)
You can't win, Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Burn, Karma Burn!
Please don't haul me off to slashdotjail.
They have that!?
Holy crap, I'd better stop pointing out that Futurama and The Family Guy were never very funny.
Hey, Windows users: Use whatever you like. I don't give a fuck. If one of you decides that switching to the Mac is a good idea, it really donesn't make my preference of computers any better. ... and you can tell I'm posting from work using Firefox on a PC, because the built-in spellcheck on my iBook at home would have caught that "donesn't" crap.
You know, I'm a Mac user. I freakin' love Macs. I think Steve Jobs, for all his flaws, is a hero.
That said, I think it's a sad state of affairs that people consider it a news story that some nobody columnist has decided he likes Macs better than Windows. All this cheerleading for "switchers" is really pathetic.
Hey, Windows users: Use whatever you like. I don't give a fuck. If one of you decides that switching to the Mac is a good idea, it really donesn't make my preference of computers any better.
You are correct about Hitchcock, my bad, but Terry Gilliam is from my home state of Minnesota.
Mea Culpa. Go with James Ivory then. My point doesn't change much. There are a hell of a lot of great US directors out there, so I reject the whole "Hollywood doesn't put out any good movies" meme as a shallow and distorted view of the medium.
It's a rip off of Wizard of OZ! Think abou it.
So, are you saying Star Wars is even better if you turn the sound off and listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon twice while watching it?
Dude... I gotta try that!
I've seen all of the Star Wars movies in the theater as they came out, and I've liked them all. I just steadfastly remain intentionally shallow. It's supposed to be eye candy, not give you a doctorate in comparative theology or high-energy physics.
Okay, fine... But "Clones" looked awful. Even on an "eye candy" popcorn movie level, there's not much to like.
and the guy REALLY came up with it all is dead, his name was Frank Herbert
You spelled Jack Kirby's name wrong.
(Google for the comic "New Gods" sometime. The Hero was on the verge of turning evil, and did not know he was the villain's son... they relied on a cosmic power called "the source"... The list goes on.)
Drunken Master was a slapstick parody of period kung-fu flicks.
Drunken Master II was possibly Jackie Chan's most physically demanding film ever, and was absolutely brilliant from beginning to end.
DM-II is worth the price of the DVD just to see Anita Mui in a brilliant fight scene which blends classic Chan-style acrobatics, very subtle "wire fu", and delightful physical comedy all into a brief action sequence which I may never get tired of seeing.
Apart from the joke of featuring Jackie Chan as a hero who became actually drunk before deploying his "drunken boxing" technique, the films have almost no connection to each other.
It's sometimes called "Legend of Drunken Master" in the US, so Americans not familiar with the lower-budget original won't pass up on it thinking it's a sequel to something they never heard of.
Both were manipulative stories and high-budget chick flics.
Correction: Both were manipulative stories and extremely well-made high-budget chick flics.
You didn't like them. Good for you. Hold your dick high with pride, for you have asserted your manhood.
They are still both fucking masterpieces.
(Disclaimer: Not a huge fan of either film, but I believe in credit where credit is due.)
No, that was a parody on "The Simpsons."
Watch an actual highly-touted Bollywood movie someday, and you might just discover you like them more than you thought you would.
That time is way past us now. I haven't read the entire list yet, but if half are made in the US, then it is skewed. When you look at masters like Fellini and Trauffaut
Umm... as soon as you bring up those two, you are not talking about "now" anymore, are you?
For every Fellini you can name, I can name a Gilliam, a Wells, and a Hitchcock. For every Kurosawa, I can name a Ford, a Hawkes, and a Curtiz.
Go ahead... spew them out. Trauffaut, Eisenstein, Leone, etc. For every great foreign director you can name, I can name three great directors from the US.
Want me to stick with directors who have not yet retired, perhaps even relatively new directors who have made good films in the last ten years? I could easily play that game. For every Wim Wenders you can throw at me, I can come back at you with a Darren Aronofsky, a Christopher Nolan, and a Sam Raimi. For every Tom Tykwer, I'll come back with a Wes Anderson, a Peter Weir and both Cohen Brothers.
Just because the summer blockbuster season is filled with Herbie Movies and half-assed sci fi doesn't mean that Hollywood doesn't still hold a dominant lead when it comes to producing great new directors and interesting film art. I think you're just choosing not to look very hard.
(sigh) Let's recap, shall we?
The post I was responding to was stating that, although there was no commercial release of Windows for PPC, that he believed Microsoft had such boxen up and running.
He then suggested that it was "rumored" that Apple was also capable of running the kernel of OS X on x86, and I replied by pointing out that it was more than just a rumor; it's fact.
Then you went all ballistic on me because you appear to think I was saying something to support Dvorak's bullshit from earlier this week, which I wasn't.
Chill.
Plus these guys are freelance so they've got to make more money than the average joe b/c they don't know when they'll get their next gig.
$50/hour web contractors don't know when they'll get their next gig either, but I don't hear any of them crying.
I have no sympathy for somebody who gets to do something as fun as providing the voices for a video game and thinks there's something wrong with the industry if they can't make a living off it.
You want a steady living? In the words of Mr. Pink: "Learn to fuckin' type."
You are right, but I have a big news flash for them: They were hired because they were cheap.
Force game companies to pay royalties, and you will see people like Patrick Stewart and Minnie Driver doing all the voice-work for games (and the games will cost $80 a pop to cover the costs.) All of these whiners would have to go back to scrambling for radio advertisement work.
Then how sweet would $750 for two hours of making "getting shot" noises into a microphone sound?
Maybe she cannot break out of the C-List because her stand-up comedy subjects include sex, sexual politics, homosexuals, transvestites, and tolerance.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a cave man. I was frozen in ice thousands of years ago and then thawed out by your scientists.
Your world frightens and confuses me! When I see a car, I wonder, "what is that strange beast, and how does it move so fast?"
I don't know much, but if there's one thing I know, it's that comedy acts were including all those subjects before fire was invented.
There is nothing new about Margret Cho's act. Talking about alternative sexual behavior in a comedy routine is downright stodgy and traditional at this point.