Neither of them are particularly inspiring though, I thought the community was hoping to steal the hearts and minds of the consumer in 2004.
I think you're right. We are trying too hard to copy what has already come before. No matter how good we do it, we are still copying.
So, with my years of experience at interface and graphic design, I've spent the last couple hours trying to come up with a file selector that tries to be, as you said, inspiring.
"CD sales are down 15 percent from last year, while legal online services like the new Napster and Apple's iTunes have taken off, especially for the holidays. Apple's iTunes sold more than $1 million in download gift certificates since October."
I'm curious to know what is actually selling on iTunes, etc. Is it new stuff? Or classic, older stuff from the labels' catablogs?
I don't by any CDs now because most new music sucks, and I've already got my preferred CDs in my library. I may be a White Stripes or a Jet disc. But, of all the material being released in the past few year, almost none of it appeals to me.
I have to wonder if all the iTunes sales are for Zeppelin, Stones, Floyd, etc. (or artists from your genre of choice).
Eventually, iTunes users will have filled their iPods with the older music they've heard and know they already like.
When that point arrives, the industry will have to convince customers that Britney is more deserving of space on the iPod, and more deserving of one's listening time, than Jimmy Hendricks and Janis Joplin.
Nope. Like most things from MS, the power users and admins will realize that they need more protectin then what is standard. They will then tell their family/friends, and the market will continue like it was.
Auto mp3 players are under $150, who actually listens to the radio anymore?
uh, people who want traffic reports? People who want to listen to the news or weather
And people who want 10 minutes of commercials for every 8 minutes of music. And for people who like to listen to "morning personalities" engage in forced banter, lame call-in contests and laugh like they've been sniffing nitrious oxide.
Does anyone besides me make a mad dash for the Mute button every time Detrol's "gotta go gotta go gotta go right now" commercial comes on???
Or any car commercial.
Or any long distance collect call service. (Alf? Carrot Top? You've got to be kidding.)
Or Sony's new incredibly irritating Digicam "You are my shining star" commercial that seems to play during every single effing commercial break. Sometimes twice in the same break!
The only commercials worth watching are Budweiser commercials. But I don't drink Bud. Go figure.
I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going. You cannot make the movie 1:1 identical with the book.
I agree. I just watched the TTT extended edition this weekend, *and* all the footage in the appendexes. (That's a lot of LOTR for one weekend! I've still got to watch the commentary tracks.)
The extended edition is much, much better than the theatrical release, explores the "tempting of Faramir" much more, and the appendexes explain *why* Jackson and Co. put the tempting in the movie at all.
I was initially upset they added that part in, but with the extended edition footage, and given the very plausible reasons that they did it, I like it.
Heresy, perhaps, but so be it.
My only real problems with TTT were:
* Using Gimli as comic relief with all the short-jokes.
* The shot of Legolas surfing down the stairs on a shield.
which means that with that ISBN I can refer to the book and find it at libraries or bookstores. Why don't we setup a sort of unique web page number if articles of interest or knowledge are published there.
You are absolutely right!
We need some sort of Uniform Resource Identifier for the Internet. Maybe we should create an organization, a Consortium if you will, of companies on the World Wide Web to agree on a standard.
Good idea! I wonder why know one has thought of it before?
When Lindows releases it Nvu package (a WYSIWYG html editor/site management too based on Mozilla Composer, meant to replace FrontPage or Dreamweaver) in the first quarter of '04, I will finally be able to go Microsoft-free at home. The wife won't let me switch her desktop until they have a Dreamweaver-like product that runs on Linux. So '04 for me.
YahooPOPs! is an application which emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail server. You can use a mail client of your choice!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/
I don't use it (or yahoo) anymore, so I can't vouch for features or stability, but this may solve your problem.
IMHO the privatizing of utilities such as electricity is *not* a matter of consumers' interests and not even a matter of producers' interests really. It's ideology. Religion if you like.
Magnetic flux density is local by definition and it's measured in Tesla.... Magnetic flux is magnetic flux density multiplied (or integrated) by the surface.
OK, but how does the flux capacitor fit into this?
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Some might say if you can't master parallel parking, perhaps you shouldn't be driving.
Let's hope not. *pats driver's license*
We're talking about _American_ animation.
Beavis and Butthead do America - think it mae around $80 million which isn't too shabb
No, it made $63,118,386
South Park Movie - also did around the $75 million mark.
No, it made $52,037,603
Name three more. I dare you. Non-children's animated feature films very rarely get made in America.
There's Heavy Metal. I think Aeon Flux deserves a mention. Even though it was never a feature film, it was a whole different class than The Simpsons.
Neither of them are particularly inspiring though, I thought the community was hoping to steal the hearts and minds of the consumer in 2004.
I think you're right. We are trying too hard to copy what has already come before. No matter how good we do it, we are still copying.
So, with my years of experience at interface and graphic design, I've spent the last couple hours trying to come up with a file selector that tries to be, as you said, inspiring.
What do you think?
http://mshiltonj.com/new_stuff/file_selector.html
Men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day lowered their risk by 50%
I drink so much coffee, the people around me must have a lowered risk of diabetes, just by proximity.
"CD sales are down 15 percent from last year, while legal online services like the new Napster and Apple's iTunes have taken off, especially for the holidays. Apple's iTunes sold more than $1 million in download gift certificates since October."
I'm curious to know what is actually selling on iTunes, etc. Is it new stuff? Or classic, older stuff from the labels' catablogs?
I don't by any CDs now because most new music sucks, and I've already got my preferred CDs in my library. I may be a White Stripes or a Jet disc. But, of all the material being released in the past few year, almost none of it appeals to me.
I have to wonder if all the iTunes sales are for Zeppelin, Stones, Floyd, etc. (or artists from your genre of choice).
Eventually, iTunes users will have filled their iPods with the older music they've heard and know they already like.
When that point arrives, the industry will have to convince customers that Britney is more deserving of space on the iPod, and more deserving of one's listening time, than Jimmy Hendricks and Janis Joplin.
Good luck with that.
OnStar is a good system, and can even save your life in the event of an accident.
.
Or, the government can use it to track you down and assassinate you because of your contributions to
Which one of these two situations are you more likely to be in?
Who wants to know? Did someone put you up to this? You're one of them, aren't you?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0118883/
Nope. Like most things from MS, the power users and admins will realize that they need more protectin then what is standard. They will then tell their family/friends, and the market will continue like it was.
Yep, just like the web browser market.
Bad-dum-bump.
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all night!
And people who want 10 minutes of commercials for every 8 minutes of music. And for people who like to listen to "morning personalities" engage in forced banter, lame call-in contests and laugh like they've been sniffing nitrious oxide.
No thanks.
I bet it works on SUSE.
Evolution == Ximian == Novell == SUSE
FP! Did I get it? Did I get it?
...there is the downside of missing meetings because the calendar isn't supported.
Missing meetings isn't a bug -- it's a feature!
Does anyone besides me make a mad dash for the Mute button every time Detrol's "gotta go gotta go gotta go right now" commercial comes on???
Or any car commercial.
Or any long distance collect call service. (Alf? Carrot Top? You've got to be kidding.)
Or Sony's new incredibly irritating Digicam "You are my shining star" commercial that seems to play during every single effing commercial break. Sometimes twice in the same break!
The only commercials worth watching are Budweiser commercials. But I don't drink Bud. Go figure.
I for one enjoyed TTT ALOT. Sure, there were deviations from the book, but they were necessary to keep the story going. You cannot make the movie 1:1 identical with the book.
I agree. I just watched the TTT extended edition this weekend, *and* all the footage in the appendexes. (That's a lot of LOTR for one weekend! I've still got to watch the commentary tracks.)
The extended edition is much, much better than the theatrical release, explores the "tempting of Faramir" much more, and the appendexes explain *why* Jackson and Co. put the tempting in the movie at all.
I was initially upset they added that part in, but with the extended edition footage, and given the very plausible reasons that they did it, I like it.
Heresy, perhaps, but so be it.
My only real problems with TTT were:
* Using Gimli as comic relief with all the short-jokes.
* The shot of Legolas surfing down the stairs on a shield.
which means that with that ISBN I can refer to the book and find it at libraries or bookstores. Why don't we setup a sort of unique web page number if articles of interest or knowledge are published there.
You are absolutely right!
We need some sort of Uniform Resource Identifier for the Internet. Maybe we should create an organization, a Consortium if you will, of companies on the World Wide Web to agree on a standard.
Good idea! I wonder why know one has thought of it before?
When Lindows releases it Nvu package (a WYSIWYG html editor/site management too based on Mozilla Composer, meant to replace FrontPage or Dreamweaver) in the first quarter of '04, I will finally be able to go Microsoft-free at home. The wife won't let me switch her desktop until they have a Dreamweaver-like product that runs on Linux. So '04 for me.
Also I wonder if they make the same turn around when they see the strong Firefly DVD sales
/. story? Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen. In the linked story, it says that Universal bought the rights to the show.
You took the words right out my mouth. I *so* hope that is the case. Firefly was an awesome show.
Did you catch this
Rather like Superman II, I bet all these small bits of money add up to a considerable sum...
That would be Superman III, with Richard Pryor. I doubt Zod could hack a mainframe.
It's just chock full of jokes that only a Linux-loving geek could find funny.
Wait, I'm confused. The review was negative, but you're saying I'll find the book funny. Should I buy it, or not?
In America, you can sue anyone for anything.
A SourceForge project:
YahooPOPs! is an application which emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail server. You can use a mail client of your choice!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/
I don't use it (or yahoo) anymore, so I can't vouch for features or stability, but this may solve your problem.
Mono is just another competitor to java and MS .NET as well. And the most important point is that it is fully free.
It's only "fully free" until Microsoft sues because of the patent infringment. It's only a matter of time.
using IMAP to connect to exchange, I cant REALLY delete anything. All ximian does is mark it as 'deleted' and not show it.
CTRL-E == Expunge == "REALLY delete"
IMHO the privatizing of utilities such as electricity is *not* a matter of consumers' interests and not even a matter of producers' interests really. It's ideology. Religion if you like.
Spoken like a true ideologue.
Magnetic flux density is local by definition and it's measured in Tesla. ... Magnetic flux is magnetic flux density multiplied (or integrated) by the surface.
OK, but how does the flux capacitor fit into this?