Bah! Everyone knows the only useful research going on in Ontario is being done at UW and UT, not UWO. Unless of course you consider research into the per-capita number of spoiled rich kids driving jaguars or porsches to be culturally significant. Or for that matter research into how many drinks I have to buy a UWO student's girlfriend before I can get her to cheat on him. (Current results are running around 1.2);-P
Umm, ever actually used an Intellimouse? When you hold down the scroll wheel button and move the mouse, *gasp* the screen scrolls in whatever direction you hold the mouse. You can even set it up as a toggle, so you click the scroll button once to turn the screen scroll on or off. It's kinda funky. I can't speak for the Logitech mice, or one from other companies, but the MS mice have had this since the scroll wheel was first introduced. I've not yet seen any support for this under linux (RedHat up thru 7.0, specifically), but I'm sure someone could write it up as good or better than the MS windows implementation.
Forget the mouse, does anyone know what kind of prices the huge monitor domes and rooms are running? Just for interest's sake, I'd like to know how many years I'd have to save up my worthless canadian dollars to be able to buy one.
Just because a thing is popular doesn't make it good. Similarly, just because a lot of people agree on something doesn't make it right. Popular opinion defines neither quality nor fact.
If someone enjoys something - great! More power to them. Someone who watches a Forrest Gump and has a good time I'm happy for - they got their money's worth. Someone who watches Fight Club and dislikes it I'm also happy for - they at least tried something. Someone who refuses to watch a different movie because it doesn't fit into their idea of what a film should be (happy endings, the american dream, other jimmy stewart trash) has my sympathy - their life is going to run exactly as they think, with no surprises because they won't try anything different.
This was my point, if you need it spelled out. People on average these days do NOT like to try 'something different' in their moviegoing experience, which is clearly what any movie produced by Square is going to be. Something different and hopefully wonderful. If you need links provided to find examples of past Square plotlines, obviously you need to re-familiarize yourself with the use of search engines, because there's plenty of info out there just waiting to be found. Had the plotlines themselves been the point of my post, perhaps I would have linked some, but since they were not...
"Your neighbors..." Please! I live in North America, you self-important twit! Far better to see the flows and tides of groupthink that define this continent from here than from elsewhere in the world. I enjoy Hollywood TV-dinner entertainment as much as the next guy, but I also yearn for better fare.
As to the "all you have to your credit" crap... please, and just what do YOU have to YOUR credit, that we should all bask in the glory of your intellect? I have better things to do with my time than to maintain a long history of posts for self-declared defenders of the mundane like you to judge me by.
I really hope you're right. I agree it should have almost limitless potential, and I'd love for it to kickstart some serious appreciation of modern animation for adults. I'll see it and all my friends will - I just hope lots of other folks do as well.
Problem is, a planet which is not under the effect of any local gravitational or magnetic fields will not maintain tectonic activity for long (in cosmological terms, anyway). Probably not nearly long enough for life to develop, let alone evolve in any significant way.
It's the earth's proximity to the sun and the moon's gravitational fields that help prolong our own tectonic activity, and for moons like Io circling Jupiter, they've got both crushing gravitational tides and magnetic fields to keep them active.
While I'm eager to see this movie, and I'm sure many other geeks are as well (be they anime geeks or FF geeks), I'm not sure how the general North American movie-going public will accept it. Let's face it, whenever a movie like Forrest Gump wins Best Picture while Fight Club is almost univerally hated, you have to question the average person's taste and capacity to enjoy something different. Square has always done a great job with warped plots, which should make this movie different enough to trouble the average nimrod who laid out $10 to see a pretty animated film expecting another Toy Story.
The download link for LiveTruss (as opposed to the screen saver version) appears to be slashdotted... perhaps they should turn their program towards evolving them some more capable web servers?
Of course from a web-geek's frame of mind ALT tags should have been included from the beginning. Don't make the mistake of believing IBM never thought about it either. Most of the people shouting "IBM should have known better!" here have obviously never dealt with IBM directly as a solution provider.
If you want a great, world-class solution, they'll be happy to build it for you, for a price. If on the other hand, you want the shoddiest, most god-awful, cheapest hunk of crap ever seen, they'll also smile quite happily, build it for you, and cash your cheque just as fast.
IBM will bend over backwards to give a client what they want... even if that means building absolute garbage. We have problems with this all the time where a single department has contracted a solution based on their own limited understanding of their needs, and we find a closed solution that has to be completely replaced.
With a little up-front work, we always find the IBM'ers are very receptive to doing things the right way, as long as that's what you want to pay for.
The article sums it up pretty well. Even if it does happen, it's nothing new, and nothing much to worry about. Journalists with slanted views or who are easily bought are pretty evident to those of us who can read between the lines. If a journalist pushes a product out of some agenda, like belief in Open Software, then that is one thing, and easy to determine. If it is due to their ethics being for sale, that's more negative, but equally apparent.
It all goes to show that the reviewer and any trust you have in them are as important as the review itself in helping you to determine its credibility.
Those who rely on reviews alone rather than doing some investigation in product selection dig their own graves anyway, in my opinion.
Here's a scenario: If I accept as a given that my email is likely passing through FBI hands, then it has at least the possibility of being monitored. So I must wonder how long it will be before I am turned back at the border for some off-handed sarcastic comment about american policies which I make in the context of a private discussion? My relatively leftist/anarchic views conflict on a daily basis with mainstream american policy, so I may well already have a file open on me in some FBI database. A chilling thought.
PLEASE don't start in on this "anti-competitive" bullshit with regards to internet standards and Microsoft. Microsoft is simply following a long-standing practice begun by Netscape of extending beyond the standards. This is nothing new. If you don't like it you might as well stop using Netscape too, since they're so non-standard as to be laughable. Mozilla/Netscape6 has great promise, but it doesn't exist yet. What we can damn Microsoft for is their inability (or unwillingness) to support the EXISTING standards before extending them. THIS is the message we need to make clear to them - that standards are important FIRST and FOREMOST. Get that right, and only then think about adding proprietary extensions.
As a canadian customer of @Home (don't knock it, it's the only game in town), I wonder if my own email is flowing through some american justice/intelligence agency's hands on a daily basis? It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that I'm sharing the same infrastructure as the american customers of @Home - and in that case it would seem obvious that @Home wouldn't bother separating our traffic out. Most of the time we canadians can sit up here and shake our heads at the U.S. government's thick-headedness with regards to the internet, safe in the assumption that for the most part they can't touch us. In this case however, it looks like they just might have their grubby hands sifting through our lives too. This is not to imply that the canadian government's intrusion would be any more preferable (in fact, probably quite the opposite - CSIS is not well-known for respecting privacy or having proper oversight), but at least in theory they are accountable to me in some way. The FBI and CIA are not.
They told us the same thing in Canada... "Sure, get rid of the hidden sales tax, implement the GST, and prices will be lower, your children will grow up strong and healthy, world peace will follow, and even your pets will like you more!"
What really happened? Prices went up instead. For a while businesses claimed it was due to transitional costs in changing over to the GST, and as public outrage faded, it simply never got mentioned again. We elected a national government based on their promise to rid us of the GST, and thanks to big business lobbying, nothing has happened.
This is simply the way capitalist businesses act - get used to it.
I wonder how long it'll take the RIAA before they launch a lawsuit against Kenwood for "contributing to piracy" or some such nonsense for their making MP3's sound better.
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Bah! Everyone knows the only useful research going on in Ontario is being done at UW and UT, not UWO. Unless of course you consider research into the per-capita number of spoiled rich kids driving jaguars or porsches to be culturally significant. Or for that matter research into how many drinks I have to buy a UWO student's girlfriend before I can get her to cheat on him. (Current results are running around 1.2) ;-P
Umm, ever actually used an Intellimouse? When you hold down the scroll wheel button and move the mouse, *gasp* the screen scrolls in whatever direction you hold the mouse. You can even set it up as a toggle, so you click the scroll button once to turn the screen scroll on or off. It's kinda funky. I can't speak for the Logitech mice, or one from other companies, but the MS mice have had this since the scroll wheel was first introduced. I've not yet seen any support for this under linux (RedHat up thru 7.0, specifically), but I'm sure someone could write it up as good or better than the MS windows implementation.
Forget the mouse, does anyone know what kind of prices the huge monitor domes and rooms are running? Just for interest's sake, I'd like to know how many years I'd have to save up my worthless canadian dollars to be able to buy one.
I expect I'm being trolled, but...
Just because a thing is popular doesn't make it good. Similarly, just because a lot of people agree on something doesn't make it right. Popular opinion defines neither quality nor fact.
If someone enjoys something - great! More power to them. Someone who watches a Forrest Gump and has a good time I'm happy for - they got their money's worth. Someone who watches Fight Club and dislikes it I'm also happy for - they at least tried something. Someone who refuses to watch a different movie because it doesn't fit into their idea of what a film should be (happy endings, the american dream, other jimmy stewart trash) has my sympathy - their life is going to run exactly as they think, with no surprises because they won't try anything different.
This was my point, if you need it spelled out. People on average these days do NOT like to try 'something different' in their moviegoing experience, which is clearly what any movie produced by Square is going to be. Something different and hopefully wonderful. If you need links provided to find examples of past Square plotlines, obviously you need to re-familiarize yourself with the use of search engines, because there's plenty of info out there just waiting to be found. Had the plotlines themselves been the point of my post, perhaps I would have linked some, but since they were not...
"Your neighbors..." Please! I live in North America, you self-important twit! Far better to see the flows and tides of groupthink that define this continent from here than from elsewhere in the world. I enjoy Hollywood TV-dinner entertainment as much as the next guy, but I also yearn for better fare.
As to the "all you have to your credit" crap... please, and just what do YOU have to YOUR credit, that we should all bask in the glory of your intellect? I have better things to do with my time than to maintain a long history of posts for self-declared defenders of the mundane like you to judge me by.
I really hope you're right. I agree it should have almost limitless potential, and I'd love for it to kickstart some serious appreciation of modern animation for adults. I'll see it and all my friends will - I just hope lots of other folks do as well.
Problem is, a planet which is not under the effect of any local gravitational or magnetic fields will not maintain tectonic activity for long (in cosmological terms, anyway). Probably not nearly long enough for life to develop, let alone evolve in any significant way.
It's the earth's proximity to the sun and the moon's gravitational fields that help prolong our own tectonic activity, and for moons like Io circling Jupiter, they've got both crushing gravitational tides and magnetic fields to keep them active.
While I'm eager to see this movie, and I'm sure many other geeks are as well (be they anime geeks or FF geeks), I'm not sure how the general North American movie-going public will accept it. Let's face it, whenever a movie like Forrest Gump wins Best Picture while Fight Club is almost univerally hated, you have to question the average person's taste and capacity to enjoy something different. Square has always done a great job with warped plots, which should make this movie different enough to trouble the average nimrod who laid out $10 to see a pretty animated film expecting another Toy Story.
The download link for LiveTruss (as opposed to the screen saver version) appears to be slashdotted... perhaps they should turn their program towards evolving them some more capable web servers?
Of course from a web-geek's frame of mind ALT tags should have been included from the beginning. Don't make the mistake of believing IBM never thought about it either. Most of the people shouting "IBM should have known better!" here have obviously never dealt with IBM directly as a solution provider.
If you want a great, world-class solution, they'll be happy to build it for you, for a price. If on the other hand, you want the shoddiest, most god-awful, cheapest hunk of crap ever seen, they'll also smile quite happily, build it for you, and cash your cheque just as fast.
IBM will bend over backwards to give a client what they want... even if that means building absolute garbage. We have problems with this all the time where a single department has contracted a solution based on their own limited understanding of their needs, and we find a closed solution that has to be completely replaced.
With a little up-front work, we always find the IBM'ers are very receptive to doing things the right way, as long as that's what you want to pay for.
General Tso... mmmmmmm, he makes goood chicken! He can invade my house any day, if his cooks come with him.
Do you have on exhibit the evidence collected from the very first time the NSA illegally infringed on someone's privacy?
The article sums it up pretty well. Even if it does happen, it's nothing new, and nothing much to worry about. Journalists with slanted views or who are easily bought are pretty evident to those of us who can read between the lines. If a journalist pushes a product out of some agenda, like belief in Open Software, then that is one thing, and easy to determine. If it is due to their ethics being for sale, that's more negative, but equally apparent.
It all goes to show that the reviewer and any trust you have in them are as important as the review itself in helping you to determine its credibility.
Those who rely on reviews alone rather than doing some investigation in product selection dig their own graves anyway, in my opinion.
Here's a scenario: If I accept as a given that my email is likely passing through FBI hands, then it has at least the possibility of being monitored. So I must wonder how long it will be before I am turned back at the border for some off-handed sarcastic comment about american policies which I make in the context of a private discussion? My relatively leftist/anarchic views conflict on a daily basis with mainstream american policy, so I may well already have a file open on me in some FBI database. A chilling thought.
PLEASE don't start in on this "anti-competitive" bullshit with regards to internet standards and Microsoft. Microsoft is simply following a long-standing practice begun by Netscape of extending beyond the standards. This is nothing new. If you don't like it you might as well stop using Netscape too, since they're so non-standard as to be laughable. Mozilla/Netscape6 has great promise, but it doesn't exist yet. What we can damn Microsoft for is their inability (or unwillingness) to support the EXISTING standards before extending them. THIS is the message we need to make clear to them - that standards are important FIRST and FOREMOST. Get that right, and only then think about adding proprietary extensions.
As a canadian customer of @Home (don't knock it, it's the only game in town), I wonder if my own email is flowing through some american justice/intelligence agency's hands on a daily basis? It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that I'm sharing the same infrastructure as the american customers of @Home - and in that case it would seem obvious that @Home wouldn't bother separating our traffic out. Most of the time we canadians can sit up here and shake our heads at the U.S. government's thick-headedness with regards to the internet, safe in the assumption that for the most part they can't touch us. In this case however, it looks like they just might have their grubby hands sifting through our lives too. This is not to imply that the canadian government's intrusion would be any more preferable (in fact, probably quite the opposite - CSIS is not well-known for respecting privacy or having proper oversight), but at least in theory they are accountable to me in some way. The FBI and CIA are not.
They told us the same thing in Canada... "Sure, get rid of the hidden sales tax, implement the GST, and prices will be lower, your children will grow up strong and healthy, world peace will follow, and even your pets will like you more!"
What really happened? Prices went up instead. For a while businesses claimed it was due to transitional costs in changing over to the GST, and as public outrage faded, it simply never got mentioned again. We elected a national government based on their promise to rid us of the GST, and thanks to big business lobbying, nothing has happened.
This is simply the way capitalist businesses act - get used to it.
I wonder how long it'll take the RIAA before they launch a lawsuit against Kenwood for "contributing to piracy" or some such nonsense for their making MP3's sound better.
Hell, whether or not if fulfills its goal, the mere fact that Lessig supports it is enough for me to walk the other way.