Next time you're browsing around the internet looking for absurd (well, absurd to most people) items like silent mice, keep an eye out for a "sense of humor" and a "thicker skin". They might help the next time you ask the smartasses here a question that you take way too seriously.
I mean c'mon, what did you expect? You DO read slashdot, right? I mean, you KNOW what people are generally like here, right? Is it really that hard to ignore the replies you don't find helpful and concentrate on the ones you like?
I think it's an interesting puzzle, and I wish you luck in resolving it. I just have trouble with the concept of you assuming most people would take the question seriously. A silent mouse? Next you're going to tell me you want a robot vacuum cleaner or a cell phone with a camera inside! THAT'S CRAZY TALK!
What's really stupid is that the movie studios have admitted (or studies have shown) that most "pre-release" copies out on the internet are inside jobs (from reviewers, ad agencies. etc.). All they have to do is change a line of dialouge or make a slight alteration to something small in one scene, and have that be different in every copy of a pre-release DVD they send out, and they could track the leakers down and prosecute them. BUT NO! That would be too much work (and, granted, expensive, but surely cheaper than paying off senators and hiring lawyers). Why go after the real source of the problem when you can scare college kids and other kazaa addicts with bizarre and disporpotionate penalties?
fyi - france, germany and "opposition" senators in the USA are the ones that want to make the aid to Iraq loans, not grants. It's NOT the current US administration. Blame them for causing the mess, but don't blame Bush's administration for trying to cheap out and rebuild with burdensome loans instead of grants.
Well, you probably already looked it up, but Ontrack is (or was) a well-known data recovery company, and I'm guessing that Kroll (one of those somewhat mysterious "security" companies) bought them out recently. Ontrack was still independent the last time I called them for an estimate on a hard drive recovery but that was over 2 years ago.
I never really got to watch much, but as far as "getting into it", FOX screwed around with the order of the episodes, so you really weren't introduced to the show in the way the writers inteneded. Maybe that wouldn't have been enough to make a difference, but I know I will be checking out the DVD just to see what the buzz is about.
You know, the one about the customer list of a business selling stuff via spam?
Scary stuff, and it just indicates how bad the problem is - all kinds of people actually do click on those links in the spam e-mails and actually do buy stuff. Scary. There's no way to prevent dangerously insane gullibility, although that would be a good first step towards fixing the spam problem.
Simply going with the raw score on these sites is absurd. The best thing about rottentomatoes and metacritic (a far better site, IMHO) is that I can read a bunch of reviews at once. I already know which critics I can usually trust, and which critics I can usually ignore, so I start with that and I can usually get a general feel for whether I will like the movie or not. The scores are only a very simple starting point - often a movie will get low scores, but if you read the reviews you can tell that there are some aspects of the movie that are still entertaining.
I would certainly agree that if you don't already have a sense which critics tend to come closest to your own tastes, then these "meta" sites aren't as useful as talking to people you know personally. I use both my friends and the critics, because I can usually count on people both groups to like or dislike certain things about movies in a particular way.
But at least you can get to Apple's website to see what you are missing!
It's not really fair to compare site access to service access, since the original poster was only complaining about not being able to see what the company has to offer. You have a good point, it's just a bit disingenuous to compare them in that way
Quotes don't always indicate a direct quote. Those are "air quotes" inserted in order to make a "joke" about SUN, based on the direct quote you'll see below that provides a solution without mentioning SUN at all. "Thanks" for removing what miniscule amount of "humor" that "joke" once contained.
The exact quote is this (from the first link on that linked page):
"Replace the Microsoft VM with a Java Virtual Machine from another company"
If you look here, then search around the web a bit, you can find out more about the first part of the ruling - removing Java from Windows.
They have already removed Java from their current OS (XP), and were seemingly more than happy to do so since they did so rather quickly without providing a Java alternative - they recommend migrating to a different product, or downloading a VM from "Some UNknown company"
XP doesn't come with a JVM by default, and since February you can no longer download-on-demand the MS VM nor is it included anymore in XPSP1. They removed it right away, and just waited for this appeal decision in order to find out if they needed to include Java's VM instead. Now they don't even need to do that, so when users try to run Java apps, they just don't work, so Java generally just looks like a bad technology. Or maybe that's just a coincidental side-effect!
Oh wait, she actually did die already, didn't she?
I don't really life Buffy that much, but after reading that recap, I really am tempted to watch at least the last few minutes of the finale (especially since it's on right before 24's season finale).
1. If you want gross-out factor, you go to see some gross-out movie. Raiders wasn't a gross-out film, it was a fun movie with a decent plot with some special effects to help where necessary. But nothing was done just to be gross and disgusting as was the case in Doom.
Are you forgetting the melting faces at the end? Was that really necessary? No, but it looked cool and gross. I do agree, though, that Doom certainly had more of these moments, and more of them that really didn't have much to do with the plot (unlike the melting faces in Raiders, which is a pretty important scene).
Exactly. Since this is an official announcement from starwars.com, you can hardly expect to have been able to avoid this "spoiler". While I get the feeling Lucas tries to pretend not to care about the terrible reviews, it sounds like he's eager to throw anything into the third movie to get the Star Wars fans back.
Besides, there were Wookies (and E.T.s) in the first movie (sitting in the Senate seats), so we really can't be too surprised about this.
But it was good production values with actual physical models and sets, not with computer graphics. I think that was his point, and I'd have to agree - a lot of the stuff in Blade Runner and Star Wars just looks real - really grimy, really beat-up, really real. Sometimes the CG stuff is just too perfect and too clean - kinda distracting, though pretty.
Actually, don't get your hopes up - I just looked at the website and it doesn't seem to allow for credit cards right now. So you'd still have to pay the driver in cash, which makes me think they would still want a verifiable land line phone number!;-(
Still, probably worth a shot if you really want delivery (I usually just call from my cell phone on my way home from work and pick it up).
Considering your average moviegoer didn't seem to care about the absurd and impossible "gravity" on the space station in Armaggedon, I'd have to agree - don't worry too much about explaining it, just show us some cool trees floating in a giant "smoke" ring!
a poster above already mentioned this, but have you tried Papa John's? Many locations will take orders through the Papa John's website, paid with credit card - that should get around the landline problem.
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Next time you're browsing around the internet looking for absurd (well, absurd to most people) items like silent mice, keep an eye out for a "sense of humor" and a "thicker skin". They might help the next time you ask the smartasses here a question that you take way too seriously.
I mean c'mon, what did you expect? You DO read slashdot, right? I mean, you KNOW what people are generally like here, right? Is it really that hard to ignore the replies you don't find helpful and concentrate on the ones you like?
I think it's an interesting puzzle, and I wish you luck in resolving it. I just have trouble with the concept of you assuming most people would take the question seriously. A silent mouse? Next you're going to tell me you want a robot vacuum cleaner or a cell phone with a camera inside! THAT'S CRAZY TALK!
What's really stupid is that the movie studios have admitted (or studies have shown) that most "pre-release" copies out on the internet are inside jobs (from reviewers, ad agencies. etc.). All they have to do is change a line of dialouge or make a slight alteration to something small in one scene, and have that be different in every copy of a pre-release DVD they send out, and they could track the leakers down and prosecute them. BUT NO! That would be too much work (and, granted, expensive, but surely cheaper than paying off senators and hiring lawyers). Why go after the real source of the problem when you can scare college kids and other kazaa addicts with bizarre and disporpotionate penalties?
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fyi - france, germany and "opposition" senators in the USA are the ones that want to make the aid to Iraq loans, not grants. It's NOT the current US administration. Blame them for causing the mess, but don't blame Bush's administration for trying to cheap out and rebuild with burdensome loans instead of grants.
Well, you probably already looked it up, but Ontrack is (or was) a well-known data recovery company, and I'm guessing that Kroll (one of those somewhat mysterious "security" companies) bought them out recently. Ontrack was still independent the last time I called them for an estimate on a hard drive recovery but that was over 2 years ago.
Don't worry, we'll all be safe as long as we are wearing the appropriate shirt.
I never really got to watch much, but as far as "getting into it", FOX screwed around with the order of the episodes, so you really weren't introduced to the show in the way the writers inteneded. Maybe that wouldn't have been enough to make a difference, but I know I will be checking out the DVD just to see what the buzz is about.
Update Expertfrom st. bernard software works pretty well.
Expensive, though. Especially when compared to SUS (isn't it free?).
You know, the one about the customer list of a business selling stuff via spam?
Scary stuff, and it just indicates how bad the problem is - all kinds of people actually do click on those links in the spam e-mails and actually do buy stuff. Scary. There's no way to prevent dangerously insane gullibility, although that would be a good first step towards fixing the spam problem.
Here you go.
Simply going with the raw score on these sites is absurd. The best thing about rottentomatoes and metacritic (a far better site, IMHO) is that I can read a bunch of reviews at once. I already know which critics I can usually trust, and which critics I can usually ignore, so I start with that and I can usually get a general feel for whether I will like the movie or not. The scores are only a very simple starting point - often a movie will get low scores, but if you read the reviews you can tell that there are some aspects of the movie that are still entertaining.
I would certainly agree that if you don't already have a sense which critics tend to come closest to your own tastes, then these "meta" sites aren't as useful as talking to people you know personally. I use both my friends and the critics, because I can usually count on people both groups to like or dislike certain things about movies in a particular way.
Seriously, with rottentomatoes and metacritic, I really don't need to rely on word-of-mouth, whether it's from text messaging or actual spoken words.
But at least you can get to Apple's website to see what you are missing!
It's not really fair to compare site access to service access, since the original poster was only complaining about not being able to see what the company has to offer. You have a good point, it's just a bit disingenuous to compare them in that way
You only need to fear the robots if you don't have Robot Insurance.
Quotes don't always indicate a direct quote. Those are "air quotes" inserted in order to make a "joke" about SUN, based on the direct quote you'll see below that provides a solution without mentioning SUN at all. "Thanks" for removing what miniscule amount of "humor" that "joke" once contained.
The exact quote is this (from the first link on that linked page):
"Replace the Microsoft VM with a Java Virtual Machine from another company"
If you look here, then search around the web a bit, you can find out more about the first part of the ruling - removing Java from Windows.
They have already removed Java from their current OS (XP), and were seemingly more than happy to do so since they did so rather quickly without providing a Java alternative - they recommend migrating to a different product, or downloading a VM from "Some UNknown company"
XP doesn't come with a JVM by default, and since February you can no longer download-on-demand the MS VM nor is it included anymore in XPSP1. They removed it right away, and just waited for this appeal decision in order to find out if they needed to include Java's VM instead. Now they don't even need to do that, so when users try to run Java apps, they just don't work, so Java generally just looks like a bad technology. Or maybe that's just a coincidental side-effect!
Well that was certainly funnier than the penis jokes. Nice one.;-)
Oh wait, she actually did die already, didn't she?
I don't really life Buffy that much, but after reading that recap, I really am tempted to watch at least the last few minutes of the finale (especially since it's on right before 24's season finale).
Crank, maybe. Crack, doubtful.
1. If you want gross-out factor, you go to see some gross-out movie. Raiders wasn't a gross-out film, it was a fun movie with a decent plot with some special effects to help where necessary. But nothing was done just to be gross and disgusting as was the case in Doom.
Are you forgetting the melting faces at the end? Was that really necessary? No, but it looked cool and gross. I do agree, though, that Doom certainly had more of these moments, and more of them that really didn't have much to do with the plot (unlike the melting faces in Raiders, which is a pretty important scene).
Exactly. Since this is an official announcement from starwars.com, you can hardly expect to have been able to avoid this "spoiler". While I get the feeling Lucas tries to pretend not to care about the terrible reviews, it sounds like he's eager to throw anything into the third movie to get the Star Wars fans back.
Besides, there were Wookies (and E.T.s) in the first movie (sitting in the Senate seats), so we really can't be too surprised about this.
But it was good production values with actual physical models and sets, not with computer graphics. I think that was his point, and I'd have to agree - a lot of the stuff in Blade Runner and Star Wars just looks real - really grimy, really beat-up, really real. Sometimes the CG stuff is just too perfect and too clean - kinda distracting, though pretty.
Actually, don't get your hopes up - I just looked at the website and it doesn't seem to allow for credit cards right now. So you'd still have to pay the driver in cash, which makes me think they would still want a verifiable land line phone number!
Still, probably worth a shot if you really want delivery (I usually just call from my cell phone on my way home from work and pick it up).
Considering your average moviegoer didn't seem to care about the absurd and impossible "gravity" on the space station in Armaggedon, I'd have to agree - don't worry too much about explaining it, just show us some cool trees floating in a giant "smoke" ring!
a poster above already mentioned this, but have you tried Papa John's? Many locations will take orders through the Papa John's website, paid with credit card - that should get around the landline problem.