I've got a better idea: Let's start killing all the stupid people now! We'll call them consumers and feed them products that cause cancer and bankroll a replacement for every one of their elected representatives!
Jesus. We have real problems and real news. Some stupid cunt drowning herself for a fucking video game console, even as the oddball story on a slow news day this is shit journalism at best.
I completely agree! I certainly would never promote the view that religion was innocent with regards to genocide during any era. I just think it was even MORE prevelant back when there were no scientists around to say, "Uh, look, these rocks are at least a million years old, so the current view you guys have made up is obviously inaccurate."
No, I'd have to say I'm pretty much anti-religion regardless of what time period you are talking about, this one included.
It's even MORE pathetic how much information is available to us today in the western world, and that people still fall for that mindless claptrap.
OOOOHHH, you questioned stupid beliefs that have been proven wrong by anybody with a pair of eyes, YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!!!!
Remind me to make sure the school my kids go to is short on "education". I mean, Jesus hates smart people who want to live in a healthy ecosystem and not get cancer or have their grandkids starve because of global warming and over-fishing, right?
How much do you want to bet these same idiots are the religious types who also think evolution is still a "theory", and point out that "theories" can be disproved, as if suddenly gravity will reverse or something.
Fucking Idiots. This planet is covered with fucking idiots who want their children and grandchildren to be miserable because of some ludicrous "relationship" they have with fictitious invisible men in the sky that ancient tribes used to use to justify genocide.
Given that Jobs Vader already said there would be no 3rd party apps for the iPhone, you can take it as a given that some other company will make a clone that does support 3rd party apps (including games), and will dominate the iphone both on price and performance.
Jobs will never learn. You can't expect Apple to suddenly invent all the killer apps (including games!), just because for a brief second in time they have the best interface. The interface will get copied (maybe even improved upon!), and the copy will be cheaper and allow 3rd party apps. Besides which, the "killer app" for an iphone is going to be something that hasn't even been invented yet, and I seriously doubt Mac has a patent on any kind of innovation. Jobs is an arrogant fool. They've already lost this battle. History repeats itself AGAIN. End of Story.
My comment wasn't a comparative analysis of me vs. everybody else, which would put me statistically lower than.01% probably.
My comparative analysis was Mac vs. Windows.
If you really don't think that currently, or hell even for the last decade, that Mac isn't a niche market, well.....
You're just another pissed off Mac zealot with no real information brought to the table. I probably shouldn't even respond to your troll, since you are obviously yet another pathetic Jobs fanboi.
Cute insult though, love bein' a weenie. Pathetic.
Oh, and Apple's attempted vendor lockout WAS at least a SIGNIFICANT factor in their original desire to be solely a niche market. I never said it was THE factor, just A factor.
iTunes will die too, it will just take time for the average Joe to realize that the DRM is fucking them. How much time, who knows? The average Joe likes McDonald's, and a lot of them even voted for Bush, so the average Joe is obviously not all that bright.
Which seems to be the only strengths that Apple OR MS seems to be relying on currently in the technology markets.
Still, it's cute how some of you average Joes somehow become Mac or MS fanbois.
Some other company will come to market with a clone that will let me do what I want, and I won't have to give that asshole Steve ANY of my hard earned cash.
I view this as a win/win. Let's hope the clone maker even makes the whole thing FOSS, so I can edit the source of any app on the phone. How much better and faster would my phone eventually be if I stayed with the most popular version of every app/game?
Jesus, it's like Apple STILL hasn't learned why they lost the pc wars, and now they're trying to set themselves up to lose the phone wars, too.
LOL, Jobs will never get an OS to more than a niche market with this thinking, on ANY type of device.
Well every advance in technology so far has led to an eventual advance in ethics and morals. Albeit they can be lost again at the blink of an eye (morals and technologies), but certainly as the premier technological race currently known on the planet, envisioning an advanced technological race seems to strengthen the connections between technology and logic, and logic and morals. There are connections there, which is why most of the truly brilliant inventors and such throughout history have also been humanitarians on at least some level.
Advances in various fields further each other. This is a historical fact. One type of advance (technological) does not necessarily dictate for certain another type of specific advance (moral), but generally it DOES dictate another advance (any field). Frequently not the one(s) predicted, interestingly enough.
The fact that we are acting like animals though, with regard to torture and our current malaise towards actual democracy, means that very likely the aliens view us more as such, than say if we still were following the constitution, for one small example. I for one look at the cabal of ruthless corporate slaves running this country as little better than rabid barking dogs, begging for scraps off the Enron table. I'm not separating Dems or Reps, either, they are currently both completely corrupt and working at odds to American life, liberty, and happiness, and have been since even before Kennedy's assassination. I can hardly imagine anybody with even a basic grasp of economics, politics, ethics, or sociobiology (which I'm sure an advanced race would have some knowledge of) arriving at any other conclusion.
And as this same corrupt greedy government is "representing" all of us....
Woof woof, mother fucker (or as you stated, we might be little more than ants to them, solely because we act like it). I'm half surprised the aliens haven't already wiped us out hoping for some other species to evolve further, and in a more healthy way for themselves and the ecosystem they live in.
The media machine we live in has done so much irrevocable harm to ourselves, our families, our ethics, and even our science at this point, that if over half the population wasn't on Zoloft, there'd have already been violent clashes in the streets, I suppose.
It's easy to ignore it all and watch shit TV like American Idol though, when you are stoned, drunk, fat, and heavily under the illusion of happiness.
So this thing isn't going to have a SIM card? I can't just buy a used one on ebay after about 4 months and switch SIM cards?
Honestly, I have been SALIVATING for a reasonable all in one device that is actually a good:
Phone Alarm Clock Camera SNES emulator quick wifi mp3 folder
and the SDA was kinda close, except for having a crap interface, etc... and not having any reasonable buttons to play NES games on...
And I'm jazzed that the iphone will also be a tv show player ipod, and stock ticker
But I really just want it to be good at the first 5 things. And $500 is pretty ridiculous.
Nobody should pay $500 for something as infinitely losable / breakable / disposable / temporary as a cell phone. That just makes bad sense on a number of levels.
I'm as excited as the next nerd to poke around on one and give it a whirl, but I hate cingular, will probably never use them again on purpose. Further, if it's really a little bad ass computer running os x, there are literally DOZENS of cool apps that can be programmed for it, and none of these were mentioned in the slightest.
Granted, what it's shipping with is cool, especially if the implementation is better than the ipod, which frankly I felt was grossly over-rated. Honestly, having struggled with Samsung menus just to change my alarm time before I go to bed, if there is less than 5 buttons to get to that menu I'll be happIER, but unless it is REALLY an intuitive interface, I still won't be all that joyous.
I don't want to be a wet blanket. This thing looks like an exciting step in the right direction, but given how screwed up apple has been with DRM, and a myriad of other annoying things that have kept them firmly behind MS (who I could probably unleash even MORE venom on), I'm really not counting my chickens here.
Especially if they are that heavily locked in with Cingular.
I'll wait until a few phone review sites review it before I go completely ape shit and start saving my nickels and dimes.
I mean, of course Steve is going to rave about it. It's his product. But Steve raves all the time, and so far, he hasn't made one single product that I've wanted to own. I can ditto that with the majority of my friends/family as well.
I hope this time he's really raving about something worthwhile, and considering that ALL my friends and family have a (in my eyes) horribly shitty cell phone implementation, I'm cautiously optimistic.
Unless alien civilizations are just as beholden to corporate interests and backward technology as we are (which I doubt, and if it is the case why should we bother communicating with their ignorant asses anyway?), I would assume their civilization has fiber to the home, and I doubt their wireless controllers, cell phones, and remote controls are going to have a signal that gets off the planet at all.
If we were REALLY interested in contacting alien civilizations, we would make our own much more attractive first. I doubt any alien civilization is going to be interested in sharing technology with a planet of retarded monkeys that give morons like Bush who openly admit talking to invisible men in the sky nuclear weapons.
As a matter of fact, I can't imagine any advanced civilization bothering with the kooks who live here and believe in such ludicrous stone age fantasies. Particularly kooks with nuclear weapons and who engage in water-boarding.
I'm so ashamed of our whole species I can't even begin to imagine why *I* bother interacting with them, much less some aliens who weren't so unlucky as to be born in this idiotic power-structure of ignorance.
I thought the momentum that most developers seem to have already in the DX camp meant this war was mostly over, but you raise some excellent points, and at any rate, I'm inclined to join in on the wishful thinking with you, and even hope that it's not all that wishful.
...right as soon as it runs as fast and as clean as TinyXP. It's not that MS can't make a decent OS, TinyXP in a round about way proves that they can. A lot of people I know stayed on Win 2000 over XP for a long time for the same reasons.
Who can blame them?
Now, if ReactOS continues to improve and evolve, I'll lay wagers that it will succeed XP on some of my machines in another year or two.
That is, unless someone actually comes up with a new game that I absolutely have to have, which judging by the releases of the past few years, they won't, and furthermore, if they do, will it really REQUIRE vista? If the answer is still no....
I didn't see or play any good NEW games this year. I'm not that picky either, I've had one new game a year added to my list pretty much on the regular. I just wasn't impressed by any games in 2006, of course, I may have missed one.
I didn't like any of the/. guy's picks.
Here's my top 11 that I STILL play though:
1. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 2. Super Mario 64, 1, 2, 3, and Super Mario Land. 3. Tetris 4. Quake 2 5. Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit 6. Mario Kart 64 7. Urban Terror 8. Bust a Move 9. Enemy Territory 10. Civilization II 11. Mortal Kombat II
Now, pretty much every other game I've installed gets played a couple times and then deleted. I have yet to find a fun flying game that is as easy and fun as say, Mario Kart, or the old Wing Commander games. I'd love to have a good death match 3d flyer with updated graphics. As a matter of fact, if any of these games had updated versions of themselves that were ACTUALLY FUN (I'm looking at you Civ III and IV, and Quake III and IV, and every other Need for Speed, and that shit bag Double Dash), I'd be ecstatic.
I don't understand why so many game devs refuse to keep the games FUN during upgrades.
The MPAA has done everything possible in order to NOT get any of my dollars. Nearly every film out is some formulaic droll foisted on a demographic that I am generally not a part of. Nor are any of my friends or family! So not only do they not generally OFFER things for which I can throw hard earned money away, the things they do offer that hold some interest are generally of such low quality acting (Keanu Reeves can NOT act), awful script (The last major blockbuster movie with decent dialog I can't even remember), and then they are charging way too much for it. I know a DVD costs like twenty five cents to make, including the box it comes in. I'm not spending $17.99 on some movie with no plot, no acting, no dialog, and no continuity, even on the rare occasion it IS about something I'm even remotely interested in, which is INCREDIBLY uncommon.
I'm also definitely not going to a theater to watch it once, get way over charged for soda and popcorn, and probably sit by somebody who doesn't turn off their phone, smells bad, is partying loudly with a six pack of beer (which I myself have done at some of these movies, in an attempt to improve their observed quality), or is making out with another teenager in ways that are not only illegal to be watching, but so badly done as to be more embarrassing than erotic.
I generally enjoy documentaries and WELL MADE films. They are almost NEVER available at the theater, and are also extraordinarily rare at Blockbuster, Hollywood, or any of the other cookie cutter corporate rental chains that do not offer any services for individuals like me whatsoever.
If movie makers want to make money again, they are going to have to start making decent movies. It's unbelievable to me that crappy sequels like X-men 3 make as much money as they do, but when the alternative is crappy sequels to "Bridget Jones' Diary", I can't actually say I'm even mildly surprised.
This entire rant can also be copied nearly verbatim for the RIAA and why I don't purchase many albums from corporate labels anymore, either. Just substitute the words movie and album, and swap theater with concert venue, most of which are also shitty corporate owned parks that also over charge for shitty unhealthy beverages.
Make it look and operate like windows, and everybody will switch. Install wine by default. Make sure all the codecs are loaded, and that it plays dvds, cds, and most windows software.
You're of course implying that at some point you MIGHT wish to electrocute either yourself or your family. Listen. The holidays aren't THAT bad. Have some rum and egg nog and try to forget about it.
Other than windows, I use exclusively FOSS software. And I shouldn't have to inform you about the importance of FOSS. There is plenty of information out there already showing how important it is now, and how much more important it will be in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got a better idea: Let's start killing all the stupid people now! We'll call them consumers and feed them products that cause cancer and bankroll a replacement for every one of their elected representatives!
Jesus. We have real problems and real news. Some stupid cunt drowning herself for a fucking video game console, even as the oddball story on a slow news day this is shit journalism at best.
Yes, even on Slashdot.
rhY
Sweet! Now if I can just imagine some real estate that I could actually afford in San Diego County.
I completely agree! I certainly would never promote the view that religion was innocent with regards to genocide during any era. I just think it was even MORE prevelant back when there were no scientists around to say, "Uh, look, these rocks are at least a million years old, so the current view you guys have made up is obviously inaccurate."
No, I'd have to say I'm pretty much anti-religion regardless of what time period you are talking about, this one included.
It's even MORE pathetic how much information is available to us today in the western world, and that people still fall for that mindless claptrap.
OOOOHHH, you questioned stupid beliefs that have been proven wrong by anybody with a pair of eyes, YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!!!!
rhY
Remind me to make sure the school my kids go to is short on "education". I mean, Jesus hates smart people who want to live in a healthy ecosystem and not get cancer or have their grandkids starve because of global warming and over-fishing, right?
How much do you want to bet these same idiots are the religious types who also think evolution is still a "theory", and point out that "theories" can be disproved, as if suddenly gravity will reverse or something.
Fucking Idiots. This planet is covered with fucking idiots who want their children and grandchildren to be miserable because of some ludicrous "relationship" they have with fictitious invisible men in the sky that ancient tribes used to use to justify genocide.
rhY
Given that Jobs Vader already said there would be no 3rd party apps for the iPhone, you can take it as a given that some other company will make a clone that does support 3rd party apps (including games), and will dominate the iphone both on price and performance.
Jobs will never learn. You can't expect Apple to suddenly invent all the killer apps (including games!), just because for a brief second in time they have the best interface. The interface will get copied (maybe even improved upon!), and the copy will be cheaper and allow 3rd party apps. Besides which, the "killer app" for an iphone is going to be something that hasn't even been invented yet, and I seriously doubt Mac has a patent on any kind of innovation. Jobs is an arrogant fool. They've already lost this battle. History repeats itself AGAIN. End of Story.
rhY
My comment wasn't a comparative analysis of me vs. everybody else, which would put me statistically lower than .01% probably.
My comparative analysis was Mac vs. Windows.
If you really don't think that currently, or hell even for the last decade, that Mac isn't a niche market, well.....
You're just another pissed off Mac zealot with no real information brought to the table. I probably shouldn't even respond to your troll, since you are obviously yet another pathetic Jobs fanboi.
Cute insult though, love bein' a weenie. Pathetic.
Oh, and Apple's attempted vendor lockout WAS at least a SIGNIFICANT factor in their original desire to be solely a niche market. I never said it was THE factor, just A factor.
iTunes will die too, it will just take time for the average Joe to realize that the DRM is fucking them. How much time, who knows? The average Joe likes McDonald's, and a lot of them even voted for Bush, so the average Joe is obviously not all that bright.
Which seems to be the only strengths that Apple OR MS seems to be relying on currently in the technology markets.
Still, it's cute how some of you average Joes somehow become Mac or MS fanbois.
Now who's the fuckin' weenie? Asshole.
rhY
rhY
Some other company will come to market with a clone that will let me do what I want, and I won't have to give that asshole Steve ANY of my hard earned cash.
I view this as a win/win. Let's hope the clone maker even makes the whole thing FOSS, so I can edit the source of any app on the phone. How much better and faster would my phone eventually be if I stayed with the most popular version of every app/game?
Jesus, it's like Apple STILL hasn't learned why they lost the pc wars, and now they're trying to set themselves up to lose the phone wars, too.
LOL, Jobs will never get an OS to more than a niche market with this thinking, on ANY type of device.
rhY
...is does anybody really consider Microsoft competition? I imagine Nintendo doesn't even lose five minutes of sleep over the 360.
The truth is, I can name about 20 great Nintendo games, and fewer than 2 great Microsoft ones.
It's not really about the console wars. It's about who has the funnest games.
I'm amused that any arm chair pundits would even consider Microsoft OR Sony as competition to Miyamoto. They simply aren't.
rhY
Are you telling me that Fun>Graphics?
I'm sure nobody's had that epiphany before!
rhY
Everyone knows global warming isn't really, jesus you guys. Ok, now stop laughing/crying and check out:
http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1
Is there any reason we couldn't invest in this and solar RIGHT FUCKIN' NOW?!?
rhY
Well, duh, then you could just fab a car!
Dude, I can do that with a regular printer and pornotube.com
rhY
Well every advance in technology so far has led to an eventual advance in ethics and morals. Albeit they can be lost again at the blink of an eye (morals and technologies), but certainly as the premier technological race currently known on the planet, envisioning an advanced technological race seems to strengthen the connections between technology and logic, and logic and morals. There are connections there, which is why most of the truly brilliant inventors and such throughout history have also been humanitarians on at least some level.
Advances in various fields further each other. This is a historical fact. One type of advance (technological) does not necessarily dictate for certain another type of specific advance (moral), but generally it DOES dictate another advance (any field). Frequently not the one(s) predicted, interestingly enough.
The fact that we are acting like animals though, with regard to torture and our current malaise towards actual democracy, means that very likely the aliens view us more as such, than say if we still were following the constitution, for one small example. I for one look at the cabal of ruthless corporate slaves running this country as little better than rabid barking dogs, begging for scraps off the Enron table. I'm not separating Dems or Reps, either, they are currently both completely corrupt and working at odds to American life, liberty, and happiness, and have been since even before Kennedy's assassination. I can hardly imagine anybody with even a basic grasp of economics, politics, ethics, or sociobiology (which I'm sure an advanced race would have some knowledge of) arriving at any other conclusion.
And as this same corrupt greedy government is "representing" all of us....
Woof woof, mother fucker (or as you stated, we might be little more than ants to them, solely because we act like it). I'm half surprised the aliens haven't already wiped us out hoping for some other species to evolve further, and in a more healthy way for themselves and the ecosystem they live in.
The media machine we live in has done so much irrevocable harm to ourselves, our families, our ethics, and even our science at this point, that if over half the population wasn't on Zoloft, there'd have already been violent clashes in the streets, I suppose.
It's easy to ignore it all and watch shit TV like American Idol though, when you are stoned, drunk, fat, and heavily under the illusion of happiness.
rhY
So this thing isn't going to have a SIM card? I can't just buy a used one on ebay after about 4 months and switch SIM cards?
Honestly, I have been SALIVATING for a reasonable all in one device that is actually a good:
Phone
Alarm Clock
Camera
SNES emulator
quick wifi mp3 folder
and the SDA was kinda close, except for having a crap interface, etc... and not having any reasonable buttons to play NES games on...
And I'm jazzed that the iphone will also be a
tv show player
ipod,
and stock ticker
But I really just want it to be good at the first 5 things. And $500 is pretty ridiculous.
Nobody should pay $500 for something as infinitely losable / breakable / disposable / temporary as a cell phone. That just makes bad sense on a number of levels.
I'm as excited as the next nerd to poke around on one and give it a whirl, but I hate cingular, will probably never use them again on purpose. Further, if it's really a little bad ass computer running os x, there are literally DOZENS of cool apps that can be programmed for it, and none of these were mentioned in the slightest.
Granted, what it's shipping with is cool, especially if the implementation is better than the ipod, which frankly I felt was grossly over-rated. Honestly, having struggled with Samsung menus just to change my alarm time before I go to bed, if there is less than 5 buttons to get to that menu I'll be happIER, but unless it is REALLY an intuitive interface, I still won't be all that joyous.
I don't want to be a wet blanket. This thing looks like an exciting step in the right direction, but given how screwed up apple has been with DRM, and a myriad of other annoying things that have kept them firmly behind MS (who I could probably unleash even MORE venom on), I'm really not counting my chickens here.
Especially if they are that heavily locked in with Cingular.
I'll wait until a few phone review sites review it before I go completely ape shit and start saving my nickels and dimes.
I mean, of course Steve is going to rave about it. It's his product. But Steve raves all the time, and so far, he hasn't made one single product that I've wanted to own. I can ditto that with the majority of my friends/family as well.
I hope this time he's really raving about something worthwhile, and considering that ALL my friends and family have a (in my eyes) horribly shitty cell phone implementation, I'm cautiously optimistic.
rhY
Unless alien civilizations are just as beholden to corporate interests and backward technology as we are (which I doubt, and if it is the case why should we bother communicating with their ignorant asses anyway?), I would assume their civilization has fiber to the home, and I doubt their wireless controllers, cell phones, and remote controls are going to have a signal that gets off the planet at all.
If we were REALLY interested in contacting alien civilizations, we would make our own much more attractive first. I doubt any alien civilization is going to be interested in sharing technology with a planet of retarded monkeys that give morons like Bush who openly admit talking to invisible men in the sky nuclear weapons.
As a matter of fact, I can't imagine any advanced civilization bothering with the kooks who live here and believe in such ludicrous stone age fantasies. Particularly kooks with nuclear weapons and who engage in water-boarding.
I'm so ashamed of our whole species I can't even begin to imagine why *I* bother interacting with them, much less some aliens who weren't so unlucky as to be born in this idiotic power-structure of ignorance.
rhY
I thought the momentum that most developers seem to have already in the DX camp meant this war was mostly over, but you raise some excellent points, and at any rate, I'm inclined to join in on the wishful thinking with you, and even hope that it's not all that wishful.
rhY
...right as soon as it runs as fast and as clean as TinyXP. It's not that MS can't make a decent OS, TinyXP in a round about way proves that they can. A lot of people I know stayed on Win 2000 over XP for a long time for the same reasons.
Who can blame them?
Now, if ReactOS continues to improve and evolve, I'll lay wagers that it will succeed XP on some of my machines in another year or two.
That is, unless someone actually comes up with a new game that I absolutely have to have, which judging by the releases of the past few years, they won't, and furthermore, if they do, will it really REQUIRE vista? If the answer is still no....
rhY
I didn't see or play any good NEW games this year. I'm not that picky either, I've had one new game a year added to my list pretty much on the regular. I just wasn't impressed by any games in 2006, of course, I may have missed one.
/. guy's picks.
I didn't like any of the
Here's my top 11 that I STILL play though:
1. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
2. Super Mario 64, 1, 2, 3, and Super Mario Land.
3. Tetris
4. Quake 2
5. Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
6. Mario Kart 64
7. Urban Terror
8. Bust a Move
9. Enemy Territory
10. Civilization II
11. Mortal Kombat II
Now, pretty much every other game I've installed gets played a couple times and then deleted. I have yet to find a fun flying game that is as easy and fun as say, Mario Kart, or the old Wing Commander games. I'd love to have a good death match 3d flyer with updated graphics. As a matter of fact, if any of these games had updated versions of themselves that were ACTUALLY FUN (I'm looking at you Civ III and IV, and Quake III and IV, and every other Need for Speed, and that shit bag Double Dash), I'd be ecstatic.
I don't understand why so many game devs refuse to keep the games FUN during upgrades.
rhY
The MPAA has done everything possible in order to NOT get any of my dollars. Nearly every film out is some formulaic droll foisted on a demographic that I am generally not a part of. Nor are any of my friends or family! So not only do they not generally OFFER things for which I can throw hard earned money away, the things they do offer that hold some interest are generally of such low quality acting (Keanu Reeves can NOT act), awful script (The last major blockbuster movie with decent dialog I can't even remember), and then they are charging way too much for it. I know a DVD costs like twenty five cents to make, including the box it comes in. I'm not spending $17.99 on some movie with no plot, no acting, no dialog, and no continuity, even on the rare occasion it IS about something I'm even remotely interested in, which is INCREDIBLY uncommon.
/ sr=8-1/qid=1167268342/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4951360- 3451255?ie=UTF8&s=dvd. It's got a great script, plot, dialog, and acting.
I'm also definitely not going to a theater to watch it once, get way over charged for soda and popcorn, and probably sit by somebody who doesn't turn off their phone, smells bad, is partying loudly with a six pack of beer (which I myself have done at some of these movies, in an attempt to improve their observed quality), or is making out with another teenager in ways that are not only illegal to be watching, but so badly done as to be more embarrassing than erotic.
I generally enjoy documentaries and WELL MADE films. They are almost NEVER available at the theater, and are also extraordinarily rare at Blockbuster, Hollywood, or any of the other cookie cutter corporate rental chains that do not offer any services for individuals like me whatsoever.
If movie makers want to make money again, they are going to have to start making decent movies. It's unbelievable to me that crappy sequels like X-men 3 make as much money as they do, but when the alternative is crappy sequels to "Bridget Jones' Diary", I can't actually say I'm even mildly surprised.
This entire rant can also be copied nearly verbatim for the RIAA and why I don't purchase many albums from corporate labels anymore, either. Just substitute the words movie and album, and swap theater with concert venue, most of which are also shitty corporate owned parks that also over charge for shitty unhealthy beverages.
If you want to see a GREAT movie you've never even heard of, check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00000IQC5
This is a shameless plug, but if you want a great album check out http://cdbaby.com/cd/leperkhanz/.
Otherwise, trolling http://www.mininova.org/ and http://btjunkie.org/ are going to yield better music and movie offerings than any local corporate theater or rental house.
rhY
For the 789th time.
Make it look and operate like windows, and everybody will switch. Install wine by default. Make sure all the codecs are loaded, and that it plays dvds, cds, and most windows software.
Thank you.
rhY
You're of course implying that at some point you MIGHT wish to electrocute either yourself or your family. Listen. The holidays aren't THAT bad. Have some rum and egg nog and try to forget about it.
I am a volunteer Deputy for the the Scranton Sheriff's Department. But I am also trained in Karate.
Dwight Shrute
Can someone point me to a way to view what other people are watching in VLC? It's my job.
Dwight Shrute.
You can try one, or more of the flavors of TinyXP. My machine boots up much faster than it would with the version of windows that came on my machine.
rhY
Other than windows, I use exclusively FOSS software. And I shouldn't have to inform you about the importance of FOSS. There is plenty of information out there already showing how important it is now, and how much more important it will be in the future.
rhY