If a two-star movie is TRYING to be a two-star movie, then does it deserve 4-stars if it succeeds outright?
I hated the D&D movie, and I loved the game when I was growing up. I loved fantasy in general, and D&D was often the source of inspiration for many stories that I wrote and still wanted to write. I got a degree in creative writing specifically so that I could prepare my skills to one day write the next Lord of the Rings (or whatever...).
I went to the movie with two friends for one of their's birthday. They both loved it. When they did their campaigns, their characters and plot devices frequently were reduced to the absurd. Their dialogue was of the spontaneous, thrown-together-by-committee and melodramatic extreme that was necessary when you either say something RIGHT when the band of orcs walks in the room or you get to say nothing at all.
They said that the movie, in all its cheesiness, was a fair representation of the way real campaigns went. Much like a Sam Reimi Hercules episode, no point trying to aim for quality when you're probably going to end up laughably short anyways. Better to be in on the gags yourself.
Personally, I'm suspicious of any movie that's supposed to be appreciated for its mediocrity. I expected a little more, but I guess I'll get that when the LOTR movie finally comes out...
Not to be an apologist for a crappy web browser or anything, but the internet is a pretty honkin' big thing to write a single application for. Yeah, yeah, N6 is a suite, but is it a suite in the same way that MS Office or KOffice etc. is a suite? Not really. We expect a browser to be able to handle all sorts of web page types and scripting and embedded applets, etc., whereas for a traditional office suite we allow for different applications for different office file types...
Problem is, you can set your Mime-types or registry (or whatever) depending on what sort of office application you want to have deal with a given file type, but the nature of a web page is that all sorts of stuff can be embedded within, and one application has to be the conduit of all these things.
Basically, my question is this: Shouldn't we be giving N6 a little latitude for trying to accomplish the near impossible? Yeah, 2 years is a long time to wait, but standards were (and are still) constantly being updated. It'd a tough thing to keep up with, no?
In short: This is a lot of tough talk coming from a community that's produced 37,000 different text editors. Of course, I can't even do THAT much, so maybe I should keep quiet...
...wouldn't this only apply to the Linux implementations, though? How do you explain N6's performance/crashing on my buddy's Win2000 machine? They can't be using Gtk+ for that, too, would they?
...because it might get rid of all this stupid copywriting of domains nonsense, as well as associating a specific media venue with a specific word. I mean, could you imagine Nike suing somebody over a series of digits?
The closest I could find to a problem would be if William Shatner couldn't get "911", but that's it.
On the other hand.. maintaining such a behemoth for no profit would suck, and would take someone far more idealistic than me.
I don't know just how hard a thing deja is to maintain. The code in itself seems like it hasn't undergone many changes in the last little while, including this #$@! bug that comes around every now and then asking it to search only for messages that contain the '*' character...
1. Mandrake 7.0 ships with a messed-up linker. Red Hat 7.0 ships with a compiler that's not even officially released. What's going on? Don't these companies know how important this stuff is (primarily when you've often got to 'make' your own binaries)?
2. I guess they could plead ignorance, but doesn't Red Hat have Cygnus in-house? Don't any of these people talk to each other?
3. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that somewhere along the way this was a management decision? "Make sure to give it all the bells and whistles, guys! By the way, have we started work on the first service pack yet?"
"We decided to accept their offer, for two main reasons. First, we have always tried to make Mercury available to the largest possible number of programmers compatible with our means..."
Taken from the Corel Acquisition Press Release...
"By leveraging Corel's development expertise and popular product line with Microsoft's.NET platform, we believe we have found a great combination to accelerate this process..NET promises to be a robust platform that we can use to build innovative, easy-to-use and reliable Web applications and services that will benefit our customers."
Taken from the Bungie acquisition FAQ...
"...this move will bring us much closer to domination of the world of gaming than we were ever likely to get as an independent publisher. Halo and our future games are likely to reach an astronomically larger audience than they would have if we published them ourselves."
You know, the way these companies say it, you'd think Microsoft was doing them a favour by absorbing them into the collective, talking about their long-term goals and strategies (not MS's) and totally avoiding the fact that this is ultimately to Microsoft's benefit, being the primary conduit for their work.
Meanwhile, these news items are pretty conspicuous by their absence from the news sections of www.microsoft.com, www.msn.com, www.msnbc.com... Toning down the "We got another one!" brag factor keeps them from looking like a monopoly, I suppose.
Advertising is all about distribution, and here's just a new way to distribute. Chances are it's something that's already happening to your student body through many other venues (ie: student newspapers, orientation-week booths, stadium names).
For every medium there is a chance to advertize, and these media can be as basic as the corridor walls and the bronze plaque above a new building's wing. As such, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that something like an intranet would be opened up to advertizers as much as it's bigger cousin (the internet) already is.
What's more interesting is the spin-offs that this could cause. Student campuses often vigourously enforce their distribution status (university students are a HUGE market), so you might find that any web pages students post using university facilities will probably have to be very kind to the advertizers, or at least not serve as advertizing to their competitors or generate any sort of revenue through advertizing/advocacy for the student that should (in the eyes of the university) be going to the university. You'll also find that this could lead to serious exclusive advertizing contracts, with universities pushing forward (for instance) Microsoft products with an understanding that competing products won't be given a venue to advertize to the university market.
Finally, don't be surprised if, should the university chose to go through with it, your student government doesn't decide to go through with it too. My old university's student association used whatever media they had at their disposal to advertize, right down to coasters in the bar to designated hallway space for long-distance providers to Pepsi posters everywhere. The degree this exlusivity went? You couldn't get a Coke anywhere in the student union building.
To the folks at KDE: Jesus, who CARES what you guys think? Just pump out KDE2 and WE'LL tell YOU if you have anything to worry about from the GNome foundation.
This is just some article saving face for another article that was saving face for another article that may have trashed Gnome unfairly. At this point, it's all spin doctoring, so who cares?
Funny, I haven't been hearing all that much from GNome about what their position on KDE is. Maybe it's because they're too busy WORKING?
I thought it was a given that microprocessors had the capability of hitting even higher speeds, but that the biggest problem was with heat. We were going to have to be looking at new physical setups anyway, weren't we? If not with the P4, then with the P6, etc?
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If a two-star movie is TRYING to be a two-star movie, then does it deserve 4-stars if it succeeds outright?
I hated the D&D movie, and I loved the game when I was growing up. I loved fantasy in general, and D&D was often the source of inspiration for many stories that I wrote and still wanted to write. I got a degree in creative writing specifically so that I could prepare my skills to one day write the next Lord of the Rings (or whatever...).
I went to the movie with two friends for one of their's birthday. They both loved it. When they did their campaigns, their characters and plot devices frequently were reduced to the absurd. Their dialogue was of the spontaneous, thrown-together-by-committee and melodramatic extreme that was necessary when you either say something RIGHT when the band of orcs walks in the room or you get to say nothing at all.
They said that the movie, in all its cheesiness, was a fair representation of the way real campaigns went. Much like a Sam Reimi Hercules episode, no point trying to aim for quality when you're probably going to end up laughably short anyways. Better to be in on the gags yourself.
Personally, I'm suspicious of any movie that's supposed to be appreciated for its mediocrity. I expected a little more, but I guess I'll get that when the LOTR movie finally comes out...
Not to be an apologist for a crappy web browser or anything, but the internet is a pretty honkin' big thing to write a single application for. Yeah, yeah, N6 is a suite, but is it a suite in the same way that MS Office or KOffice etc. is a suite? Not really. We expect a browser to be able to handle all sorts of web page types and scripting and embedded applets, etc., whereas for a traditional office suite we allow for different applications for different office file types...
Problem is, you can set your Mime-types or registry (or whatever) depending on what sort of office application you want to have deal with a given file type, but the nature of a web page is that all sorts of stuff can be embedded within, and one application has to be the conduit of all these things.
Basically, my question is this: Shouldn't we be giving N6 a little latitude for trying to accomplish the near impossible? Yeah, 2 years is a long time to wait, but standards were (and are still) constantly being updated. It'd a tough thing to keep up with, no?
In short: This is a lot of tough talk coming from a community that's produced 37,000 different text editors. Of course, I can't even do THAT much, so maybe I should keep quiet...
...wouldn't this only apply to the Linux implementations, though? How do you explain N6's performance/crashing on my buddy's Win2000 machine? They can't be using Gtk+ for that, too, would they?
...because it might get rid of all this stupid copywriting of domains nonsense, as well as associating a specific media venue with a specific word. I mean, could you imagine Nike suing somebody over a series of digits?
The closest I could find to a problem would be if William Shatner couldn't get "911", but that's it.
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
I don't know just how hard a thing deja is to maintain. The code in itself seems like it hasn't undergone many changes in the last little while, including this #$@! bug that comes around every now and then asking it to search only for messages that contain the '*' character...
...who's from Venus?
1. Mandrake 7.0 ships with a messed-up linker. Red Hat 7.0 ships with a compiler that's not even officially released. What's going on? Don't these companies know how important this stuff is (primarily when you've often got to 'make' your own binaries)? 2. I guess they could plead ignorance, but doesn't Red Hat have Cygnus in-house? Don't any of these people talk to each other? 3. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that somewhere along the way this was a management decision? "Make sure to give it all the bells and whistles, guys! By the way, have we started work on the first service pack yet?"
Advertising is all about distribution, and here's just a new way to distribute. Chances are it's something that's already happening to your student body through many other venues (ie: student newspapers, orientation-week booths, stadium names).
For every medium there is a chance to advertize, and these media can be as basic as the corridor walls and the bronze plaque above a new building's wing. As such, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that something like an intranet would be opened up to advertizers as much as it's bigger cousin (the internet) already is.
What's more interesting is the spin-offs that this could cause. Student campuses often vigourously enforce their distribution status (university students are a HUGE market), so you might find that any web pages students post using university facilities will probably have to be very kind to the advertizers, or at least not serve as advertizing to their competitors or generate any sort of revenue through advertizing/advocacy for the student that should (in the eyes of the university) be going to the university. You'll also find that this could lead to serious exclusive advertizing contracts, with universities pushing forward (for instance) Microsoft products with an understanding that competing products won't be given a venue to advertize to the university market.
Finally, don't be surprised if, should the university chose to go through with it, your student government doesn't decide to go through with it too. My old university's student association used whatever media they had at their disposal to advertize, right down to coasters in the bar to designated hallway space for long-distance providers to Pepsi posters everywhere. The degree this exlusivity went? You couldn't get a Coke anywhere in the student union building.
This is just some article saving face for another article that was saving face for another article that may have trashed Gnome unfairly. At this point, it's all spin doctoring, so who cares?
Funny, I haven't been hearing all that much from GNome about what their position on KDE is. Maybe it's because they're too busy WORKING?
I thought it was a given that microprocessors had the capability of hitting even higher speeds, but that the biggest problem was with heat. We were going to have to be looking at new physical setups anyway, weren't we? If not with the P4, then with the P6, etc?