Not correct. The Hangul letter riul sometimes sounds like "r", sometimes sounds like "l" depending on the Korean word. And Koreans speaking English often pronounce r's and l's in ways that are hard to distinguish one from the other. I hear that every day.
Arrghh! That screenshot for their file manager shows in the status bar "Internet Zone" a la Internet Explorer! I always hated that dorky part of IE..."don't look now, but we're entering (overly dramatic music here)....the INTERNET ZONE!"
more helpful to say: with brush or pencil, click and release, then move mouse, hold shift, and click and release again. A line results from point a to point b, but getting it to be straight with no jaggies requires setting guides to snap to. Would much prefer like PSP, where you drag while holding shift and you get a straight line, and can get a perfectly straight vertical or horizontal line. Something else: is there a way to see the x,y coordinates of where your cursor is? I like this in PSP. And I mean a more exact way than just eyeballing the pointers on the rulers.
more helpful to say: with brush or pencil, click and release, then move mouse, hold shift, and click and release again. A line results, but getting it to be straight with no jaggies requires setting guides to snap to. Would much prefer like PSP, where you *drag* while holding shift and you get a straight line, and can get a perfectly straight vertical or horizontal line. Something else: is there a way to see your x,y coordinates of where your cursor is? I like this in PSP. And I mean a more exact way than just eyeballing the pointers on the rulers.
I've seen both BWP and 6th Sense (in that order). I was really looking forward to 6th Sense; having seen it, I'd say it was an ok movie, I liked it, but thought it was underwhelming. At the end I felt like I was watching Ghost. And I was annoyed at the heavy reliance on typical "creepy" music, those overpowering crescendoes that tell you something's gonna jump out at you any second now. I was extremely much more disturbed by BWP, I found it to be more effective. But then, it was a tense situation, whereas 6th Sense isn't depicting a tense overwrought situation. Anyway, rambling now!
Doesn't work for me with Netscape 4.5, even with JavaScript turned off. It does work in IE 4, but man it's ugly with the menu having close to 0 margin width on the left margin. Where are the style police when you need them?
Plus, in the guest book, a supposed member of the win2000 dev team wrote to the Netscape complainers, "Netscape is not supposed to work in here". Now isn't that just a wonderful attitude? Screw M$.
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When she opened the bundle of sticks wrapped in strips of Josh's shirt, I heard someone in the audience murmur "his eyes". Not that they looked like eyes to me, but it would fit with the account of the child-killing hermit who said he could feel his victims' eyes on him, thus he made them face the wall of the basement. I don't think Heather told Mike about what she found. Why did they hope to still find Josh? Because they heard his voice calling to them. Josh was obviously mutilated the night they heard screams in the woods, so maybe he was alive still in the house, or it was the witch luring them and Josh was already dead.
Mike was in the corner. He said "I'm going downstairs" and it was documented well on tape, I didn't think he got there so fast. But with Heather screaming so much, was it her holding the other camera as it showed the camera-holding running downstairs to find Mike there? I guess so, and I guess the sound recording equipment wasn't from her camera? Why was Mike just standing in the corner? Well, in a word, witchcraft! Not that I'm an expert, but isn't there something about mystical writings creating a spell on a person and transfixing them? There was lots of scribbling on the walls, maybe that did it, or something else the witch did. Inexplicable, but part of the horror. So, with Mike standing in the corner, Heather's camera is knocked down, she's killed, and then Mike's next.
The stick figures are another inexplicable aspect of the mystery. Think about it, a supernatural centuries-old witch with a hair-covered body is likely to be non-human, and her actions and symbols used are going to be alien to human minds. That added to the spookiness of the movie for me; imagining an evil, killing creature whose motives you couldn't understand. Perhaps those stick figures have some basis in witchcraft mythology that I don't know about, or perhaps the filmmakers invented them. They could mark sacred (to the witch, profane to us) ground, or be offerings, or whatever. Personally, I like having some of these things unexplained, I'm glad the filmmakers didn't make everything so simple to understand.
I thought the film had a great idea behind it and they pulled it off very well. It was a real nail-biter for me. Imagining being in a tent at night with those weird noises all around, and then the bit with pushing on the tent...yikes! Even hours afterward my thoughts kept returning to the movie and I'd get shivers.
On the other hand, my girlfriend was totally unimpressed. She was bored and, as an experienced camper, she thought it was silly how they reacted to being lost in the woods. I did think it was odd how they spent so much time each day standing around bickering instead of getting the hell out of there (by following a stream would be a good idea). And the final scene confused me a little until later when I remembered what the hermit back in the 1940's said about his method of killing the kids -- having one stand in the corner, eyes to the wall. Ugh, I'm getting spooked again.
But what's with all these people getting ill from handheld camera scenes? Never bothered me. I don't get it.
I don't care Who's Best and who's not. For me, a hack guitarist, Townshend is a guitar god. It's all in his tone and delivery--the incredible attack, the percussiveness, the barking, brittle tone. When I played in a 3 piece, I had to carry lead and rhythm, and Pete was my model for playing style; high priority given to rhythm, low priority to flying fingers doing musical masturbation. I haven't liked everything he's put out, but I always get a thrill from his playing. I don't listen with an attitude of "oh, someone else can play better than that." If no rock artist stretched the boundaries of the art after the paramenters were set, then who set those parameters? You mean no rockers stretched the boundaries beyond, say, 1950's style rock and roll? For electric guitar, give me Townshend any day. Or Billy Zoom!
astonishing that not one driver who noticed this kid pulled their car over on the shoulder and stopped him. Not like he was speeding, I'd think you could stop something going at 5mph or under. No, they'd rather get on their cellphone to 911! Doh! How about immediate action that protects the kid?? I mean, one woman is quoted as telling him to get off the road -- why didn't she GET him off the road? And his response -- "shut up!" *sighs* this kid needs some parental guidance. I can't imagine being 6 and telling an adult to shut up.
...most readers here would applaud, laugh at, and otherwise feel positive about a pointed satire or send-up of someone like, say, Bill Gates, but when it comes around to jabbing at one of our own quasi-deities, then *gasp* oh no, we can't have that! That's immature! What a twat! How dare he! He must have too much free time on his hands! etc etc ad naseum (taking samples from the posted replies).
What a bunch of hyper-sensitive soreheads. If you didn't think it was funny, or had no shred of truth to it, can't you at least take it in stride?
well.....take a look at "He's so Fine" and George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord." Harrison lost the case and paid big time, even though his defense was that the two songs were different (in lyrics at least) and he had written his song without any influence from "He's so Fine." True, it wasn't just a matter of chord progression, it was also the melody line and the chorus. But that's built on chords.
Apple spent a lot of money, I'm sure, on paying designers to come up with the iMac's look. And then money for retooling so it could be manufactured. Why? Because, like it or not, a product can get more sales with a strong, fresh design that gets the press talking. Regardless of the technology inside. You might be only concerned with the guts and think "a box is a box", but Joe Consumer is going to reach for his wallet quicker if product B looks "cool" or "new" or "innovative" or whatever, while product A looks same old boring thing.
Having spent that money, you think Apple wants to sit back and let other companies make a quick buck of of Apple's work and the public awareness of their product's look? No way. Like any company that wants to stay in business, Apple is protecting something they came up with. This rip-off is just trying to profit off of Apple's work. If the iMac had been a flop, do you think they would style theirs this way?
And your obvious disgust of Apple products and their strategy, which you feel is dumbing down computers, has nothing to do with whether they should protect their designs.
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Why don't people CHECK before going hyper? Communicator 4.6, the most recent I know of, has the same "Automatically load images" option, as always, that _still_ can be disabled, in both the Linux and Winblows versions. Edit/Preferences/Advanced. Sheesh.
The existence of an M$ Competitive Analysis department has nothing to do with whether or not they try to improve their core product. You think they don't have enough money to spread between development and business support functions? I work in Competitive Intelligence/Analysis, and my department falls under the Marketing Department. Our aims are not to spew misinformation or FUD about our competitors based on what we've learned about them...it is to learn about our competitors to stay ahead of them through changes in our business strategy (if warranted). Before making pricing changes or new product offerings, we need to know both the overall market and the specifics of what our competitors are doing. Have they gained an edge through introducing a business practice we haven't thought of? Or did they flop with trying something we were about to try, too? These are the reasons we analyise our competitors. My department's "customers" are senior execs, ones calling the shots...not the public consumer. We aren't releasing what we know of the market to John Q. Public. Our goal is not to "sabotage" the name and reputation of our competitors. Sometimes we need to have this information to reply to reporters who are calling to do a story. This is the PR element. Although I don't trust M$ in this Linux endeavor, it makes perfect sense from a business perspective. Unfortunately, we've seen that M$ ethics include lying and disparaging the competition through lies. But I'm sure the Linux position is a drop in the bucket in their CI budget.
bzzzt! Wrong! I find the computer trespassing/home trespassing analogy to be very valid. A person's house is out in the open, on a street with other houses, and readily accessible in that it can be found, seen, walked around, and attempted to be entered. In effect, a house is on a "global network" just as a networked computer is. And laws against trespassing and breaking and entering aren't voided if the homeowner opts to NOT get adequate security. He might be dumb to leave his doors open, but that's no legal carte blanche for an intruder to walk in. "If you don't want people walking in your house, you lock your damn doors" ahem, but the crime is not in failing to lock doors, the onus of the crime is on the guy who walks in without permission. People decided they had the right to have their private property be undisturbed, hence laws against trespassing.
I haven't noticed a big speed jump from Communicator 4.5 to 4.6. I can't see how CNN got 4.6 to be faster than IE5, as claimed below. I just tried this: I set all my browsers' home pages to news.com, not a terribly complicated page but with a few elements to download. Then I opened each browser a few times, to test between non-cached and cached speeds. I timed them with second hand on my watch, not exactly a scientific test but just to get ballpark figures. I did this about 5 times for each browser. This is on a Compaq Pentium Pro 266 with NT4sp3. Results: Netscape 4.6 took 9 to *18* seconds to open program and download the page. IE5 took 5-6 seconds to do the same. Opera took 4-6 seconds, but I have to quickly click an "evaluate" button before the page loads, slowing things down. Neoplanet, using IE engine, took 2-4 seconds. Blazing! If it would only have a bookmark setup like Netscape's. I miss that.
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Not correct. The Hangul letter riul sometimes sounds like "r", sometimes sounds like "l" depending on the Korean word. And Koreans speaking English often pronounce r's and l's in ways that are hard to distinguish one from the other. I hear that every day.
You a member of DCLUG? I haven't been to any meetings yet.
BTW, how do you feel about seeing two women kissing? For many guys, there's a double standard going on there. Why's that?
And I have yet to see any two humans on the side of the road getting each other up the ass, let alone any dogs or cats.
And microwaves travel at whatever speed you select on the front panel....1 minute, 20 seconds, whatever you need!
Go to practically any shopping mall in America and you will literally see how wrong you are on that point ;)
Do I need a zone sticker to park there?
more helpful to say: with brush or pencil, click and release, then move mouse, hold shift, and click and release again. A line results from point a to point b, but getting it to be straight with no jaggies requires setting guides to snap to. Would much prefer like PSP, where you drag while holding shift and you get a straight line, and can get a perfectly straight vertical or horizontal line. Something else: is there a way to see the x,y coordinates of where your cursor is? I like this in PSP. And I mean a more exact way than just eyeballing the pointers on the rulers.
more helpful to say: with brush or pencil, click and release, then move mouse, hold shift, and click and release again. A line results, but getting it to be straight with no jaggies requires setting guides to snap to. Would much prefer like PSP, where you *drag* while holding shift and you get a straight line, and can get a perfectly straight vertical or horizontal line. Something else: is there a way to see your x,y coordinates of where your cursor is? I like this in PSP. And I mean a more exact way than just eyeballing the pointers on the rulers.
I've seen both BWP and 6th Sense (in that order). I was really looking forward to 6th Sense; having seen it, I'd say it was an ok movie, I liked it, but thought it was underwhelming. At the end I felt like I was watching Ghost. And I was annoyed at the heavy reliance on typical "creepy" music, those overpowering crescendoes that tell you something's gonna jump out at you any second now. I was extremely much more disturbed by BWP, I found it to be more effective. But then, it was a tense situation, whereas 6th Sense isn't depicting a tense overwrought situation. Anyway, rambling now!
yeah, I got that just now, and then when I tried again, I can't connect to the server at all! Pesky thunderstorms?
Plus, in the guest book, a supposed member of the win2000 dev team wrote to the Netscape complainers, "Netscape is not supposed to work in here". Now isn't that just a wonderful attitude? Screw M$.
I thought the film had a great idea behind it and they pulled it off very well. It was a real nail-biter for me. Imagining being in a tent at night with those weird noises all around, and then the bit with pushing on the tent...yikes! Even hours afterward my thoughts kept returning to the movie and I'd get shivers.
On the other hand, my girlfriend was totally unimpressed. She was bored and, as an experienced camper, she thought it was silly how they reacted to being lost in the woods. I did think it was odd how they spent so much time each day standing around bickering instead of getting the hell out of there (by following a stream would be a good idea). And the final scene confused me a little until later when I remembered what the hermit back in the 1940's said about his method of killing the kids -- having one stand in the corner, eyes to the wall. Ugh, I'm getting spooked again.
But what's with all these people getting ill from handheld camera scenes? Never bothered me. I don't get it.
But you're right about NYoung kicking ass. Boy, does he ever.
I don't care Who's Best and who's not. For me, a hack guitarist, Townshend is a guitar god. It's all in his tone and delivery--the incredible attack, the percussiveness, the barking, brittle tone. When I played in a 3 piece, I had to carry lead and rhythm, and Pete was my model for playing style; high priority given to rhythm, low priority to flying fingers doing musical masturbation. I haven't liked everything he's put out, but I always get a thrill from his playing. I don't listen with an attitude of "oh, someone else can play better than that." If no rock artist stretched the boundaries of the art after the paramenters were set, then who set those parameters? You mean no rockers stretched the boundaries beyond, say, 1950's style rock and roll? For electric guitar, give me Townshend any day. Or Billy Zoom!
Shows how unimaginative they are...or how they have delusions of hipness. I had to roll my eyes when I saw that big link to "Snowcrash".
astonishing that not one driver who noticed this kid pulled their car over on the shoulder and stopped him. Not like he was speeding, I'd think you could stop something going at 5mph or under. No, they'd rather get on their cellphone to 911! Doh! How about immediate action that protects the kid?? I mean, one woman is quoted as telling him to get off the road -- why didn't she GET him off the road? And his response -- "shut up!" *sighs* this kid needs some parental guidance. I can't imagine being 6 and telling an adult to shut up.
What a bunch of hyper-sensitive soreheads. If you didn't think it was funny, or had no shred of truth to it, can't you at least take it in stride?
well.....take a look at "He's so Fine" and George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord." Harrison lost the case and paid big time, even though his defense was that the two songs were different (in lyrics at least) and he had written his song without any influence from "He's so Fine." True, it wasn't just a matter of chord progression, it was also the melody line and the chorus. But that's built on chords.
Having spent that money, you think Apple wants to sit back and let other companies make a quick buck of of Apple's work and the public awareness of their product's look? No way. Like any company that wants to stay in business, Apple is protecting something they came up with. This rip-off is just trying to profit off of Apple's work. If the iMac had been a flop, do you think they would style theirs this way?
And your obvious disgust of Apple products and their strategy, which you feel is dumbing down computers, has nothing to do with whether they should protect their designs.
Why don't people CHECK before going hyper? Communicator 4.6, the most recent I know of, has the same "Automatically load images" option, as always, that _still_ can be disabled, in both the Linux and Winblows versions. Edit/Preferences/Advanced. Sheesh.
The existence of an M$ Competitive Analysis department has nothing to do with whether or not they try to improve their core product. You think they don't have enough money to spread between development and business support functions? I work in Competitive Intelligence/Analysis, and my department falls under the Marketing Department. Our aims are not to spew misinformation or FUD about our competitors based on what we've learned about them...it is to learn about our competitors to stay ahead of them through changes in our business strategy (if warranted). Before making pricing changes or new product offerings, we need to know both the overall market and the specifics of what our competitors are doing. Have they gained an edge through introducing a business practice we haven't thought of? Or did they flop with trying something we were about to try, too? These are the reasons we analyise our competitors. My department's "customers" are senior execs, ones calling the shots...not the public consumer. We aren't releasing what we know of the market to John Q. Public. Our goal is not to "sabotage" the name and reputation of our competitors. Sometimes we need to have this information to reply to reporters who are calling to do a story. This is the PR element. Although I don't trust M$ in this Linux endeavor, it makes perfect sense from a business perspective. Unfortunately, we've seen that M$ ethics include lying and disparaging the competition through lies. But I'm sure the Linux position is a drop in the bucket in their CI budget.
bzzzt! Wrong! I find the computer trespassing/home trespassing analogy to be very valid. A person's house is out in the open, on a street with other houses, and readily accessible in that it can be found, seen, walked around, and attempted to be entered. In effect, a house is on a "global network" just as a networked computer is. And laws against trespassing and breaking and entering aren't voided if the homeowner opts to NOT get adequate security. He might be dumb to leave his doors open, but that's no legal carte blanche for an intruder to walk in. "If you don't want people walking in your house, you lock your damn doors" ahem, but the crime is not in failing to lock doors, the onus of the crime is on the guy who walks in without permission. People decided they had the right to have their private property be undisturbed, hence laws against trespassing.
Perhaps Microserfs should learn how to write a hyperlink. This was really funny, BTW.
I haven't noticed a big speed jump from Communicator 4.5 to 4.6. I can't see how CNN got 4.6 to be faster than IE5, as claimed below. I just tried this: I set all my browsers' home pages to news.com, not a terribly complicated page but with a few elements to download. Then I opened each browser a few times, to test between non-cached and cached speeds. I timed them with second hand on my watch, not exactly a scientific test but just to get ballpark figures. I did this about 5 times for each browser. This is on a Compaq Pentium Pro 266 with NT4sp3. Results: Netscape 4.6 took 9 to *18* seconds to open program and download the page. IE5 took 5-6 seconds to do the same. Opera took 4-6 seconds, but I have to quickly click an "evaluate" button before the page loads, slowing things down. Neoplanet, using IE engine, took 2-4 seconds. Blazing! If it would only have a bookmark setup like Netscape's. I miss that.