There are something like 345 DVDs on my shelves at home and it would not, in a million years, occur to me to actually watch one... Those movies are for even later, after the netflix movies. I've often found myself watching Pan'n'scan versions on cable of movies I own for this reason... the TV schedule provides a compelling reason to watch.
OT but does anybody think this abundance is part of the stagnation in the movie world right now? Movies that seemed so important are just gone in days and weeks, lost in the sands of time and replaced by the next coming thing.
Which is why they trademarked the term not the activity. Otherwise, I'm sure Herculese, Achilles and probably Jesus Christ would have decent case. In the meantime, the Catholic church should snap up the trademark on the 12th century term 'caped crusader'.
I find myself feeling like WWII era Ukraine. Squished between Hitler and Stalin. Destined to be punished by whoever wins. I, for one, can't wait to be liberated by either blu-ray or HD-DVD.
What scientists spotted it? What scientists were frustrated? I'm really tired of stories sourced to 'scientists' and 'officials'. I'm sure that TFA has some of the material that I want, but that's not the point. On a by-the-word basis, the internet is, for all intents and purposes, free. Putting 5-7 words of additional information in the story wouldn't break the bank and it would really make this thing feel less lazy.
Step away from the plastic box on your desk and try to take a look at the bigger picture. The man maybe ruined some competing software companies. Very few people actually got hurt. To put Bill Gates in with the 'Evil Men' in the world is absurd. That's not to say he hasn't had a hand in the suckification of the computer business, but seriously, take it easy.
Oh come on! It's completely different. The parts to the car that a normal person has to understand are pretty simple, and don't change. If you can drive one you can pretty much drive another. Meanwhile, if I change one piece of my cmputer or home theater system I've got to dig all those manuals back out and reconfigure all that equipment. It's insane. Not to mention the fact that I'm supposed to know, based on a ten page engrish language chart what settings like RSP-LFP_BST > NORMAL mean? Do you reconfigure your fuel injector when you fill up at a different gas station?
How much do you expect people to know about a car? How to drive it and make sure you bring it in every 3000 miles for service. No problem. With the computer, even if you excercise reasonable caution, Firewall, antivirus, security patches, you've got Sony rootkitting you here and who knows what else going on elswhere. If my mechanic plants a bomb in my car, is that my fault for not knowing what I'm looking for and being able to find it? I agree 100% that it's annoying when parents-in-law don't listen and then call and complain about computer problems but, seriously, blaming the victims isn't the solution. A computer is a tool, a person should be able to use it without a CS degree.
On the TV front, I'm a guilty party. I've got a 50" hi-def capable TV and I'm rolling a standard def satellite box. Basically, I got this TV about two months after I signed up for satellite and I'm not willing to drop another 700 simoleons on the upgrade and, let's be honest, there aren't hidden messages in That Seventies Show that I'm missing by staying low-def. Next upgrade cycle, I'll catch the parts I missed but, right now, it's not a big deal.
It's true, my wife's paypal account was hijacked last week by someone looking her her gmail account, probably by this very exploit. Luckily, the kid was a moron who immediately started forwarding all her mail to his own yahoo.it box. A sojourn through the gmail trashcan turned up a paypal receipt for an IRC hosting package. Needless to say panicked overreaction ensued, passwords were changed, credit cards cancelled, another windows install was replaced with Ubuntu. It's nice to know now, maybe/probably, what the problem was and the limits of our exposure.
I also did, during this period, suddenly realize that keeping everything on gmail means keeping EVERYTHING on gmail. We've not used paypal in at least a year, but still, there it was in the archive.
I first read MacBeth as a comic book. Then I saw the porno version. By the time I got around to the real play, I had a foundation to follow the non-x-rated action.
X is carrying is still passive. X carries is better.
The PV also tends to get people really screwed up on tense. Plus it's gramatical crack. Once you start, every sentence seems wrong unless it's passively built.
It's when they start putting multiple big names in villain roles that these superhero franchises usually start to go straight to hell. Everybody wants screen time even at the expense of comprehensible storyline. Case in point, Batman and Robin, the worst movie ever made.
One awesome way to avert cyber criminals (as well as non cyber criminals?) from using ebay and skype is to talk constantly about how willing ebay and skype are to hand over anything and everything that law enforcement asks for. I'm not even a criminal and I don't want to use ebay and skype. The plan's working!
Furthermore, the whole analogy is wrong. Running a successful steakhouse in a city or large town is going to net you, the owner, more dough than being a McDonalds franchisee, though obviously Ronald is pocketing more than anyone.
The thing that's great about the restaurant analogy is that it really highlights the fundamental flaw in the whole 'what linux has to do to win' argument. Microsoft has us all thinking that it's a win-or-lose game. It's not. When I go out in my little town, I can choose three different pizza joints, 2 italian, 4 chinese, McD's and Burger King. The real winner in that situation is me. It's the same thing when I walk into my office... Win, Mac, Lin, BSD... Sometimes I want a quarter pounder with cheese and sometimes I want hand fed kobe beef. Whatever the situation, I'll have it my way thanks.
Also possibly because Johnny Mnemonic tanked hard. (How could they leave out Christian White and his aryan reggae band?!?) Additionally, it's a distinct possibility that neuromancer wouldn't make a particularly good big studio movie (too conceptual not enough explosions) and Matrix was actually quite good. It's kinda like the whole Star Wars/Dune thing. Sometimes, in transliteration, the cheap schlocky ripoff works better.
I find Wired fully relevant, man. There's nothing that makes me feel more at home here in the future than kicking back in my egg shaped acrylic chair wearing a silver jumpsuit with a primary colored chevron on the front and counting the number of times they describe something non-computer related as a 'distributed network'. That, my friends, is not tired or expired... it is wired. yea verily.
First an idea factory... Next thing you know, yahoo!'s going to be putting up 'Let your imagination soar' posters in the break room. Revenue should double. But, if they really want do dominate the internet, yahoo is going to have to spring for the 'employees must wash hands' poster in the bathroom. While typhus and ringworm bring google to its knees, the clean handed geniuses at Yahoo! laugh all the way to the bank.
Wasn't Oliver Cromwell's brain something like twice the size of a normal man?
Wasn't that info in an article in Scientific American about four months back that said that new studies showed brain size to be irrelevant? Clearly, my pea brain is too small to hold the info, but if someone with a few ounces more grey matter is capable of looking it up...
I'm more concerned about the embrace and extend issue. Maybe they see piracy as the next killer app for windows and want to lock us all in with their super kewl proprietary p2p app. It's not going to work. Piracy and Porn drive P2P communities to critical mass. If nobody's using this thing, it's not going to be that fast, is it?
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yes, but it's a centralized problem.
OT but does anybody think this abundance is part of the stagnation in the movie world right now? Movies that seemed so important are just gone in days and weeks, lost in the sands of time and replaced by the next coming thing.
You forgot to include people who buy a PC in that category. That's most of the copies of windows, and the overwhelming majority of those are legit.
Which is why they trademarked the term not the activity. Otherwise, I'm sure Herculese, Achilles and probably Jesus Christ would have decent case. In the meantime, the Catholic church should snap up the trademark on the 12th century term 'caped crusader'.
Why are you assuming Chuck Norris needs to 'go' anywhere. Chuck stays still and stuff comes to him.
Yes but, in this case it does.
yea verily.
I find myself feeling like WWII era Ukraine. Squished between Hitler and Stalin. Destined to be punished by whoever wins. I, for one, can't wait to be liberated by either blu-ray or HD-DVD.
What scientists spotted it? What scientists were frustrated? I'm really tired of stories sourced to 'scientists' and 'officials'. I'm sure that TFA has some of the material that I want, but that's not the point. On a by-the-word basis, the internet is, for all intents and purposes, free. Putting 5-7 words of additional information in the story wouldn't break the bank and it would really make this thing feel less lazy.
the apostrophe that you think you're making fun of is correctly used. It's for the contraction of star is.
Step away from the plastic box on your desk and try to take a look at the bigger picture. The man maybe ruined some competing software companies. Very few people actually got hurt. To put Bill Gates in with the 'Evil Men' in the world is absurd. That's not to say he hasn't had a hand in the suckification of the computer business, but seriously, take it easy.
How much do you expect people to know about a car? How to drive it and make sure you bring it in every 3000 miles for service. No problem. With the computer, even if you excercise reasonable caution, Firewall, antivirus, security patches, you've got Sony rootkitting you here and who knows what else going on elswhere. If my mechanic plants a bomb in my car, is that my fault for not knowing what I'm looking for and being able to find it? I agree 100% that it's annoying when parents-in-law don't listen and then call and complain about computer problems but, seriously, blaming the victims isn't the solution. A computer is a tool, a person should be able to use it without a CS degree.
On the TV front, I'm a guilty party. I've got a 50" hi-def capable TV and I'm rolling a standard def satellite box. Basically, I got this TV about two months after I signed up for satellite and I'm not willing to drop another 700 simoleons on the upgrade and, let's be honest, there aren't hidden messages in That Seventies Show that I'm missing by staying low-def. Next upgrade cycle, I'll catch the parts I missed but, right now, it's not a big deal.
It's true, my wife's paypal account was hijacked last week by someone looking her her gmail account, probably by this very exploit. Luckily, the kid was a moron who immediately started forwarding all her mail to his own yahoo.it box. A sojourn through the gmail trashcan turned up a paypal receipt for an IRC hosting package. Needless to say panicked overreaction ensued, passwords were changed, credit cards cancelled, another windows install was replaced with Ubuntu. It's nice to know now, maybe/probably, what the problem was and the limits of our exposure. I also did, during this period, suddenly realize that keeping everything on gmail means keeping EVERYTHING on gmail. We've not used paypal in at least a year, but still, there it was in the archive.
I first read MacBeth as a comic book. Then I saw the porno version. By the time I got around to the real play, I had a foundation to follow the non-x-rated action.
X is carrying is still passive. X carries is better. The PV also tends to get people really screwed up on tense. Plus it's gramatical crack. Once you start, every sentence seems wrong unless it's passively built.
It's when they start putting multiple big names in villain roles that these superhero franchises usually start to go straight to hell. Everybody wants screen time even at the expense of comprehensible storyline. Case in point, Batman and Robin, the worst movie ever made.
One awesome way to avert cyber criminals (as well as non cyber criminals?) from using ebay and skype is to talk constantly about how willing ebay and skype are to hand over anything and everything that law enforcement asks for. I'm not even a criminal and I don't want to use ebay and skype. The plan's working!
Furthermore, the whole analogy is wrong. Running a successful steakhouse in a city or large town is going to net you, the owner, more dough than being a McDonalds franchisee, though obviously Ronald is pocketing more than anyone. The thing that's great about the restaurant analogy is that it really highlights the fundamental flaw in the whole 'what linux has to do to win' argument. Microsoft has us all thinking that it's a win-or-lose game. It's not. When I go out in my little town, I can choose three different pizza joints, 2 italian, 4 chinese, McD's and Burger King. The real winner in that situation is me. It's the same thing when I walk into my office... Win, Mac, Lin, BSD... Sometimes I want a quarter pounder with cheese and sometimes I want hand fed kobe beef. Whatever the situation, I'll have it my way thanks.
Also possibly because Johnny Mnemonic tanked hard. (How could they leave out Christian White and his aryan reggae band?!?) Additionally, it's a distinct possibility that neuromancer wouldn't make a particularly good big studio movie (too conceptual not enough explosions) and Matrix was actually quite good. It's kinda like the whole Star Wars/Dune thing. Sometimes, in transliteration, the cheap schlocky ripoff works better.
I find Wired fully relevant, man. There's nothing that makes me feel more at home here in the future than kicking back in my egg shaped acrylic chair wearing a silver jumpsuit with a primary colored chevron on the front and counting the number of times they describe something non-computer related as a 'distributed network'. That, my friends, is not tired or expired... it is wired. yea verily.
Are you talking about the heartless part or the brainless part or both?
...Those grapes were sour anyway.
First an idea factory... Next thing you know, yahoo!'s going to be putting up 'Let your imagination soar' posters in the break room. Revenue should double. But, if they really want do dominate the internet, yahoo is going to have to spring for the 'employees must wash hands' poster in the bathroom. While typhus and ringworm bring google to its knees, the clean handed geniuses at Yahoo! laugh all the way to the bank.
Wasn't Oliver Cromwell's brain something like twice the size of a normal man? Wasn't that info in an article in Scientific American about four months back that said that new studies showed brain size to be irrelevant? Clearly, my pea brain is too small to hold the info, but if someone with a few ounces more grey matter is capable of looking it up...
I'm more concerned about the embrace and extend issue. Maybe they see piracy as the next killer app for windows and want to lock us all in with their super kewl proprietary p2p app. It's not going to work. Piracy and Porn drive P2P communities to critical mass. If nobody's using this thing, it's not going to be that fast, is it?