When I first read this, I thought "wow, a beautifully rendered black triangle???"
Then I realised that it was actually a RECTangle not a TRIangle, and that I needed to sleep. And, the question asker needs to adjust his closed captioning settings.
Oh, and that Slashdot does occasionally need a "Delete Story" button when someone makes a mistake that seems that moronic. I'm not saying that the person who didn't realise it was CC was a moron, that letting this story stay in the light of day is moronic.
It was great, however, it was basically 10 minutes of plot with an hour and 55 minutes of action scene crammed into it.
As opposed to the review in the main article, I feel there was virtually NO character development. You get a new take on the Oracle and a bit of a view of how the Matrix functions, to some degree, but other than that, there's really not much of anything going on. It's all action after action after action after action.
Then again, the sentinel thing at the end was quite the interesting surprise.
As far as an action movie it was awesome...
however, the fight scenes were NOT as awesome as they were made out to be before hand. The car chase was NOT as awesome as it was made out to be beforehand (in fact, some of the scenes in the car chase that were in the trailers, were not actually IN the movie...)
There was a time, mostly before but for a short time after the first Gulf War, where there were no IRC bots. There were no people sitting idle online for WEEKS at a time.
A time when Internet Relay Chat was used for CHAT.
NOW, it is all elitist assholes, bots, file traders, and stupid crap.
It has nothing to do with using an "alternative OS". Unix is the OS that most of the things on the Internet were created on. In one of my other replies in this same discussion, I posted my thoughts about that. Basically Windows clients are to IRC what AOL is to the Internet.
The original IRC clients were written for Unix, for VMS, and for emacs.
I wrote the first DOS based client. I regret that decision entirely, beacuse it led to the eventuality of the Windows client, and this led to exactly the same thing for IRC as what happened for the entire Internet when AOL users were given full Internet access.
True, but there was only one network then. Now, there are multiple networks, and the largest I think I've ever seen at any one time was 50-60,000 users online. Of course, probably more than half of those were bots or idle for weeks.
Back before IRC was the 50,000+ user behemoth that it's become, I supplied a very simple suggestion that would've solved all of IRC's problems:
Don't allow Windows clients to connect.
That's it. No IRC server should allow mIRC, pIRCh, or anything else that can positively identify itself as running within Windows to connect to itself, or any other server.
My biggest problem with Linux is that in many many cases, the DEVELOPERS don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Unfortunatly, I don't really qualify as a developer anymore (I haven't hacked anything but PHP code in years, except for a single kernel patch that went in around 2.5.35 or so), but I am definitely a user -- all my personal machines run Linux in some form (all 5 of the machines).
So, I'm a user, and I think it's got serious problems. One day, I'll actually sit down and figure out what they all are, and work towards changing them. And that's the GOOD thing about Linux.
The original comment didn't compare it to Windows. Nor did he say that Windows installer was awesome. For that matter, in the part that you quoted, he didn't even mention Windows Installer.
If Windows UnInstaller sucks hardcore at 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, then Linux UnInstallation sucks at 10,000,000 on the same 1-to-10 scale.
Ah, but when they want to tell their Web Browser what executeable to use when it loads a MIME type it doesn't yet understand... that's just one place where clarity in hierarchy can make a difference. I think it took me 20 minutes to get realplayer selected for Mozilla to play realplayer files.. all 20 minutes of it was spent with find / -print | grep player.. because i had no idea what realplayer's exe filename was (thanks dumb installer guys) or where it was kept.
The world is different now than it was 10-20 years ago. The Unix directory structure is an absolutely convoluted piece of garbage now. It made sense then. It no longer makes sense.
I don't have access to a Linux box from work, but at home, after over a year of running basically the same installation, do you think I can possibly remember where all teh junk installed on the system is? hell, i don't even know what HALF the stuff installed on the system is anymore. And with a directory structure like we have been handed over from this legacy, the likelihood of me ever actualyl figuring it OUT is slim to none.
Just because something is different from Unix doesn't mean it's bad! and just because unix has 30+ years, doesn't mean things can't be improved upon!
I mean, really, how long have we been using BSD and SysV style init programs, that make absolutely no sense to anyone who didn't grow up with them? Hell, I -DID- grow up with System III and System V, and I still don't even have the slightest clue about how it's init works.
I'm glad to see that someone's changing some of the shit.
OK, so change it. Obviously their intent is for single machines, or at least not machines with shared home directories. Besides, you don't -really- have anything stored IN root's home dir do you?
Panasonic DVD Recorder.. I bought one of these bad boys at their original retail of $700... still well worth it. At $400, only a few months later, it's practically a steal. Media's still fairly expensive, about $3-$12 per disc, in singles.. though I haven't looked around too much for multi-packs.. I mostly have just been using 1 or 2 different DVD-RW discs with it...
Just pop the engine over the redline for a while, don't need to kill the radiator or the fuel mixture.. i've blown two engines in the last few years..;-)
or just cause the oil pump to fail. that'll do it good.
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When I first read this, I thought "wow, a beautifully rendered black triangle???"
Then I realised that it was actually a RECTangle not a TRIangle, and that I needed to sleep. And, the question asker needs to adjust his closed captioning settings.
Oh, and that Slashdot does occasionally need a "Delete Story" button when someone makes a mistake that seems that moronic. I'm not saying that the person who didn't realise it was CC was a moron, that letting this story stay in the light of day is moronic.
Every word to come out of Chris Sontag's mouth is a fucking boldfaced lie, and every word out of Darl's mouth is completely clueless.
Then again, none of those "Enterprise Features" exist for that matter in SCO Unix, as far as I can tell.
Hmm. A Denial of Service, as done through the Courts.
Perhaps we should all organize a "Sue SCO" day, where we all file papers on the same day?
Anyone in?
Philosophy and religion is nothing but a load of crap, anyway.
Duh, all the BATTERIES are on the SURFACE. lol
Sorry, seemed an obvious joke. I had to take the shot.
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure was a precursor to The Matrix. They share a lot of the same lines!
"Whoa."
Untrasonic Sony AIBO receives snapshot of your home from him to your mobile phone.
New Untrasoni Sony AIBO or more than happy to replace ones that are killed?
Two stories back to back with just absolutely mindnumbingly bad spelling and/or grammar. *sigh*
It was great, however, it was basically 10 minutes of plot with an hour and 55 minutes of action scene crammed into it.
As opposed to the review in the main article, I feel there was virtually NO character development. You get a new take on the Oracle and a bit of a view of how the Matrix functions, to some degree, but other than that, there's really not much of anything going on. It's all action after action after action after action.
Then again, the sentinel thing at the end was quite the interesting surprise.
As far as an action movie it was awesome...
however, the fight scenes were NOT as awesome as they were made out to be before hand. The car chase was NOT as awesome as it was made out to be beforehand (in fact, some of the scenes in the car chase that were in the trailers, were not actually IN the movie...)
Speaking of new Friday the 13th movies, Matrix Reloaded has a trailer for Freddy Vs. Jason.. FINALLY I SAY.. FINALLY DAMMIT.
Probably a decent idea - the anonymity of IRC has really caused a lot of those issues.
As they say, Anonymity breeds Immaturity.
If I received a letter such as this, I would respond as such:
Dear Darl McBride,
Suck my balls, and lick my ass.
Cheers,
You missed the hey day of IRC, then.
There was a time, mostly before but for a short time after the first Gulf War, where there were no IRC bots. There were no people sitting idle online for WEEKS at a time.
A time when Internet Relay Chat was used for CHAT.
NOW, it is all elitist assholes, bots, file traders, and stupid crap.
It has nothing to do with using an "alternative OS". Unix is the OS that most of the things on the Internet were created on. In one of my other replies in this same discussion, I posted my thoughts about that. Basically Windows clients are to IRC what AOL is to the Internet.
ircd was written for Unix.
The original IRC clients were written for Unix, for VMS, and for emacs.
I wrote the first DOS based client. I regret that decision entirely, beacuse it led to the eventuality of the Windows client, and this led to exactly the same thing for IRC as what happened for the entire Internet when AOL users were given full Internet access.
Think about it.
True, but there was only one network then. Now, there are multiple networks, and the largest I think I've ever seen at any one time was 50-60,000 users online. Of course, probably more than half of those were bots or idle for weeks.
Back before IRC was the 50,000+ user behemoth that it's become, I supplied a very simple suggestion that would've solved all of IRC's problems:
Don't allow Windows clients to connect.
That's it. No IRC server should allow mIRC, pIRCh, or anything else that can positively identify itself as running within Windows to connect to itself, or any other server.
My biggest problem with Linux is that in many many cases, the DEVELOPERS don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Unfortunatly, I don't really qualify as a developer anymore (I haven't hacked anything but PHP code in years, except for a single kernel patch that went in around 2.5.35 or so), but I am definitely a user -- all my personal machines run Linux in some form (all 5 of the machines).
So, I'm a user, and I think it's got serious problems. One day, I'll actually sit down and figure out what they all are, and work towards changing them. And that's the GOOD thing about Linux.
The original comment didn't compare it to Windows. Nor did he say that Windows installer was awesome. For that matter, in the part that you quoted, he didn't even mention Windows Installer.
If Windows UnInstaller sucks hardcore at 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, then Linux UnInstallation sucks at 10,000,000 on the same 1-to-10 scale.
Ah, but when they want to tell their Web Browser what executeable to use when it loads a MIME type it doesn't yet understand... that's just one place where clarity in hierarchy can make a difference. I think it took me 20 minutes to get realplayer selected for Mozilla to play realplayer files.. all 20 minutes of it was spent with find / -print | grep player .. because i had no idea what realplayer's exe filename was (thanks dumb installer guys) or where it was kept.
The world is different now than it was 10-20 years ago. The Unix directory structure is an absolutely convoluted piece of garbage now. It made sense then. It no longer makes sense.
I don't have access to a Linux box from work, but at home, after over a year of running basically the same installation, do you think I can possibly remember where all teh junk installed on the system is? hell, i don't even know what HALF the stuff installed on the system is anymore. And with a directory structure like we have been handed over from this legacy, the likelihood of me ever actualyl figuring it OUT is slim to none.
Just because something is different from Unix doesn't mean it's bad! and just because unix has 30+ years, doesn't mean things can't be improved upon!
I mean, really, how long have we been using BSD and SysV style init programs, that make absolutely no sense to anyone who didn't grow up with them? Hell, I -DID- grow up with System III and System V, and I still don't even have the slightest clue about how it's init works.
I'm glad to see that someone's changing some of the shit.
OK, so change it. Obviously their intent is for single machines, or at least not machines with shared home directories. Besides, you don't -really- have anything stored IN root's home dir do you?
sorry, mistyped the price.. i suppose you could try a retail store..
Panasonic DVD Recorder .. I bought one of these bad boys at their original retail of $700... still well worth it. At $400, only a few months later, it's practically a steal. Media's still fairly expensive, about $3-$12 per disc, in singles.. though I haven't looked around too much for multi-packs.. I mostly have just been using 1 or 2 different DVD-RW discs with it...
Just pop the engine over the redline for a while, don't need to kill the radiator or the fuel mixture.. i've blown two engines in the last few years.. ;-)
or just cause the oil pump to fail. that'll do it good.