My favorite Stephen King book is actually "The Eyes of the Dragon." It's not as deep as the DT series, but I consider it to be a solid entry into the "fantasy" genre from him.
A lot of people hate his writing, but I just hate most of his books. He's a solid writer, though literary snobs might not think his vocabulary is to their standards.
At about 2 years old, my mom tried to make me eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (This is how I found out that I am allergic to peanuts). I almost died, and she insists that this happened at a much later time and it wasn't her, but my grandparents that made me eat it. What I do remember is that my mother was not obese, and I did not have a sister at the time. All this talk about the brain not being developed enough... well I disagree. If something is traumatic enough, you'll have memories about it. Maybe not birth, I assume that that's always traumatic for a baby and I don't remember that at all. I'm just pissed that my parents continue to lie about it. My dad wasn't even there, and he's trying to convince me what happened. Why can't they just admit it, and be like... yeah we didn't know... sorry. But NO, they have to fucking lie about it. They deny that my claims that the smell was making me sick didn't stop them. My mom claims that she never forced me to eat anything. YEAH AFTER THAT! I remember not being able to breathe, and going to the hospital. That's it.
Next comes picking weeds in the yard with my mom. She was really fat wearing a yellow jacket. I now know that she must have been pregnant, but I didn't think that at the time. I must have been about 2.75. I didn't know a damn thing about what pregnant was at the time.
I then remember being at the hospital when my sister was born, and getting a special pair of hospital pants. I remember my dad holding up my little sister from a distance... maybe 15 feet away. Down a hallway. I was told later on that the special pants were because I had pissed in my own pants. Apparently I was pretty excited about having a little sister.
She was born 2 weeks before my third birthday.
I don't have good memories until I'm maybe 4 or so. The weed picking thing is a weird one to have in there, but it's the only one that wasn't from a traumatic experience.
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Well, had you read the book, you'd notice that every race is described in detail. There are no caucasians in LOTR. There are MEN, which are described as being pretty much white. There are MEN who were evil (siding with Isengard) who were described as black.
Then there were hobbits, dwarves, elves, ents, istari, and so on. All were described as being pretty much white.
Note that what you call "minorities" are ONLY minorities in certain parts of the United States. This movie wasn't even filmed here. It wasn't even directed by an American.
How would you have liked that?
I don't think that spotted owls were shown in a favorable fucking light either; this movie sucked.
No matter if they bounce, or whatever, I hate them. I hate commercials.
It doesn't make any sense to me that anybody still uses AOL. They pay, and they also get advertised at. This is absurd. Like credit card companies. You pay them interest, and they harass you with ads on the phone.
Free + Ads, or Pay + NO ADS. That's the only way I can accept it and not be pissed off.
When the music gets all silly and MM goes nuts on those punks that come to mess up his garden and beat the hell out of Daniel.
KK2 was way better in general.
Sure the crane technique was a step above and beyond that Star Trek(TM) double fisted absurdity that he used in KK2 to beat that guy who also had a cameo in The Game (front desk at the hotel), but Tamlyn Tomita was THE number one cause of the "yellow fever" common among white male tech workers nowadays.
The same Captain Obvious who came up with this earth-shattering observation?
I'm sure Admiral No Fucking Shit has his own 2 cents to contribute. Maybe he'll figure out now that people think that it would be cool to go back in time too.
I'd give my left nut for a space ship. More interesting would be a study of which body parts people would be willing to trade for the ability to take a weekend excursion to Mars.
I saw it at 12:01, like any geek who remembers seeing ANH when he was still in a diaper.
I enjoyed it a bit. It's definitely no LOTR, but it had its moments. And then they let the actors keep talking.
They start a scene on Naboo, I think it was, and Amidala and Anakin are there on the porch by the water (that scene where she has no backing to her clothing). It's beautiful scenery for a love scene. How can they fuck it up? Some line about sand being coarser than her soft skin. That wasn't romantic, that was pure rubbish. All of the foundation was there, and the dialogue fucked it all up.
Then there's the scene that looked a lot like the Han Solo, and Leia scene in ESB. They're about to be dragged out into the stadium and killed, and there is some acceptable dialogue about her dying a little bit every day - sorta dumb but still ok. And then there's the "I Love You". At this point, Anakin has about 8 words to use for a response and have it left as a powerful scene, as long as they shut up.
But oh no! He spends more words than that on a response, and then she responds yet again to him with a bunch of shit about really really loving him a whole big bunch, or something as absurd as that.
A few minor changes, and the love story aspect to it could have been impressive. But alas, no.
Now on to what they left out (as most of these issues are caused by what they left in).
The slaughtering of the Tuscan Raiders. He cuts down a few of them, and we hear about the total annihilation of their tribe from him as told to Amidala. That didn't work. It just doesn't. He's trying to build up the emotional side of this character, and we're left with hints of rage and a lot of tears. There needed to be more of a balance. We need to visualize more of the rage to feel even more of a connection with this character.
Those two changes, kill the anti-smoking campaign, and make the animated characters less painful to watch, and we're left with a great movie. Not even major work was needed, just some minor changes to the dialogue and addition of a key scene.
It's tough to go wrong with a plot this strong - the turning of a really good kid into the most evil badass in the universe. I just wish the writing would have been better.
I believe this could have been one of the greatest movies in a long time, but sadly, it wasn't.
I feel your pain. Try naming a mailbox ABC in pine, and then try to save a message to mailbox abc. Mailbox does not exist. Create one?
Can't create one, it already exists. Try to rename ABC to abc... can't - already exists. You need to rename ABC to ABCX or something unrelated, then rename that to abc.
A pain in the ass.
Why not use UFS? I don't see any support from apple regarding UFS at all, and if they'll only be supporting HFS+, then well... I guess I'm stuck with it.
It only becomes an issue when you're using unix apps that expect case sensitivity. I might end up switching to UFS anyhow, but that's another story.
"There is no need for it" (the common response to your complaint) is just absurd. If you expect case sensitivity, then you DO need it. It's as simple as that.
My father worked in a FACTORY as a TINSMITH. And he made over $130k. Sure he had to work his ass off to get that, and put in many the 84 hour week, but who cares? He made a lot of damn money.
I don't make as little as $63k, but I'm not making double that either.
One of the reasons is that I'm no longer doing anything "new" or "difficult." A monkey could do 99 percent of what I've been doing recently. The economy has stagnated, there is no new development, and they don't need to hire smart people because the jobs that have to be done aren't complex.
When it turns around, and there is more R&D going on, then maybe I'll get back up to a reasonable salary. Until then, I'm stuck doing dipshit work for a dipshit company with a complete idiot for a Director.
Your neighbor watches your kids for more than your wife gets paid to sit in a room with a bunch of kids because she is an independent contractor.
If this same 13 year old neighbor were a government employee doing the same thing, I would think that she would make as much as your wife.
In all honesty, schooling has one purpose: to get kids to think like lemmings and learn to conform to whatever place the first employer they have tries to stick them in. That's all.
I think it's a horrible job, as well as a horrible goal. Sure, your wife might think that she's helping to expand the minds of the kids in the class, but that's not her fucking job.
Schools are the greatest fiasco of the present day, and I'm sorry that you think your wife is doing a great thing by being part of that machine.
Starting space exploration on a REAL scale WOULD be selfless, as you would never, ever, live to see the truly cool shit that would come from it.
When you do something really important that actually changes the future, that actually makes a difference in the way that humans go about their lives, you WILL be remembered, no matter what.
So all you fucking hippies that think that you have to give money to charity or whatever to be "humane" or whatever the hell you're going for is absurd at best. Why waste money on something that really won't affect all of humanity just to pretend to be a selfless philanthropist? Because you're a moron.
This only takes into account inflation. Wouldn't more people see movies now if they cost the same percentage of your weekly income as they used to? Movies used to cost $0.25.
There are so many factors to take into account that I think any attempt at normalizing the profits is impossible. Like CD's, something else that costs a lot more than it used to relative to how much people make.
Were the mountain bikes illegally on the street, or were the old ladies on a mountain bike trail, or in the street itself?
I think it's ridiculous that people think that the right thing to do is to regulate the shit out of everything. Automobile speed limits have turned into little more than a fund raiser for the regions that enforce them, and all of these fines/regulations are created under the false guise of safety.
Have you ever noticed areas with a lot of "no left turn" signs where left turns would be perfectly reasonable without the sign? OH - you are forced into driving into some commercial location if you want to turn around without driving 50 miles out of your way. I wonder who had a friend hook that up for him?
Traffic laws are 50 percent bullshit, as the ones that you actually notice are usually the ones there for absolutely no reason, save profit. Speed traps in the middle of nowhere are only part of the problem.
Back to the segway thing. I say see what problems arise, and then possibly consider legislation to solve those problems. NOT creating new laws based on NOTHING but speculation.
I'm sorry about the old ladies in your town who seem to be MTN Bike magnets, but Jesus H Christ - can someone have some fucking backbone once in a while and watch out for themselves? Why must everyone demand laws to protect themselves from basically harmless things?
I really hate trying to drive with people on Bikes riding. Here's my issue. I'm in the rightmost CAR lane, and I want to make a right turn. There is a bike lane to my right with a guy that wants to go straight.
Collision.
Separate thoroughfares for bikes would be more sensible than lanes.
They are terrible about providing linux drivers. I have one of those n1220u scanners (the thin grey ones) and it only works on windows, or old school macs.
I will never buy anything from canon, as they not only refuse to support linux, but they act like they're doing you a favor to tell you that you should buy windows.
But then the spam started. And I realized that commercial software in general is the opposite of what I usually need. If I want something that's just plain fast, the commercial software is slow and "pretty." If I want something that I have a lot of control over, the commercial software takes all control from me in the name of being user-friendly. If I want something that does one thing quite well, I get a package that tries to be an end-all-be-all of computer use (and if I want that I can use fucking emacs).
That all said, I usually stick to writing software myself, or just downloading some free GPL stuff. At least that way I'll HEAR about bugs, or be able to work on fixing them myself.
Commercial software has never been my first choice.
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My favorite Stephen King book is actually "The Eyes of the Dragon." It's not as deep as the DT series, but I consider it to be a solid entry into the "fantasy" genre from him.
A lot of people hate his writing, but I just hate most of his books. He's a solid writer, though literary snobs might not think his vocabulary is to their standards.
~D
Well here are a few of my earliest.
At about 2 years old, my mom tried to make me eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (This is how I found out that I am allergic to peanuts). I almost died, and she insists that this happened at a much later time and it wasn't her, but my grandparents that made me eat it. What I do remember is that my mother was not obese, and I did not have a sister at the time. All this talk about the brain not being developed enough... well I disagree. If something is traumatic enough, you'll have memories about it. Maybe not birth, I assume that that's always traumatic for a baby and I don't remember that at all. I'm just pissed that my parents continue to lie about it. My dad wasn't even there, and he's trying to convince me what happened. Why can't they just admit it, and be like... yeah we didn't know... sorry. But NO, they have to fucking lie about it. They deny that my claims that the smell was making me sick didn't stop them. My mom claims that she never forced me to eat anything. YEAH AFTER THAT! I remember not being able to breathe, and going to the hospital. That's it.
Next comes picking weeds in the yard with my mom. She was really fat wearing a yellow jacket. I now know that she must have been pregnant, but I didn't think that at the time. I must have been about 2.75. I didn't know a damn thing about what pregnant was at the time.
I then remember being at the hospital when my sister was born, and getting a special pair of hospital pants. I remember my dad holding up my little sister from a distance... maybe 15 feet away. Down a hallway. I was told later on that the special pants were because I had pissed in my own pants. Apparently I was pretty excited about having a little sister.
She was born 2 weeks before my third birthday.
I don't have good memories until I'm maybe 4 or so. The weed picking thing is a weird one to have in there, but it's the only one that wasn't from a traumatic experience.
~D
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Well, had you read the book, you'd notice that every race is described in detail. There are no caucasians in LOTR. There are MEN, which are described as being pretty much white. There are MEN who were evil (siding with Isengard) who were described as black.
Then there were hobbits, dwarves, elves, ents, istari, and so on. All were described as being pretty much white.
Note that what you call "minorities" are ONLY minorities in certain parts of the United States. This movie wasn't even filmed here. It wasn't even directed by an American.
How would you have liked that?
I don't think that spotted owls were shown in a favorable fucking light either; this movie sucked.
God DAMN I hate leftist cretins.
~D
March 2002
U.S. Patent Des. 134,115 to Maxwell B. Litwin
Design For An Animated Amusement Device
You have to see this one. Just the damn picture.
~D
Funny.
Are you under the impression that Time Warner gave us the internet?
~D
...because of the ads.
I hate ads. I really do.
No matter if they bounce, or whatever, I hate them. I hate commercials.
It doesn't make any sense to me that anybody still uses AOL. They pay, and they also get advertised at. This is absurd. Like credit card companies. You pay them interest, and they harass you with ads on the phone.
Free + Ads, or Pay + NO ADS. That's the only way I can accept it and not be pissed off.
~D
"Tea tastes good."
Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded. I suppose taste is a matter of opinion, but jesus christ does tea taste horrible.
~D
bullshit.
When the music gets all silly and MM goes nuts on those punks that come to mess up his garden and beat the hell out of Daniel.
KK2 was way better in general.
Sure the crane technique was a step above and beyond that Star Trek(TM) double fisted absurdity that he used in KK2 to beat that guy who also had a cameo in The Game (front desk at the hotel), but Tamlyn Tomita was THE number one cause of the "yellow fever" common among white male tech workers nowadays.
What more can you say about a movie than that?
~D
Based on the research of some unknown guy with his own domain to publish his "results", we should definitely believe that this snake oil works.
Do you have any St. Johns' Wort links?
Fucking hippies.
~D
The same Captain Obvious who came up with this earth-shattering observation?
I'm sure Admiral No Fucking Shit has his own 2 cents to contribute. Maybe he'll figure out now that people think that it would be cool to go back in time too.
I'd give my left nut for a space ship. More interesting would be a study of which body parts people would be willing to trade for the ability to take a weekend excursion to Mars.
~D
I saw it at 12:01, like any geek who remembers seeing ANH when he was still in a diaper.
I enjoyed it a bit. It's definitely no LOTR, but it had its moments. And then they let the actors keep talking.
They start a scene on Naboo, I think it was, and Amidala and Anakin are there on the porch by the water (that scene where she has no backing to her clothing). It's beautiful scenery for a love scene. How can they fuck it up? Some line about sand being coarser than her soft skin. That wasn't romantic, that was pure rubbish. All of the foundation was there, and the dialogue fucked it all up.
Then there's the scene that looked a lot like the Han Solo, and Leia scene in ESB. They're about to be dragged out into the stadium and killed, and there is some acceptable dialogue about her dying a little bit every day - sorta dumb but still ok. And then there's the "I Love You". At this point, Anakin has about 8 words to use for a response and have it left as a powerful scene, as long as they shut up.
But oh no! He spends more words than that on a response, and then she responds yet again to him with a bunch of shit about really really loving him a whole big bunch, or something as absurd as that.
A few minor changes, and the love story aspect to it could have been impressive. But alas, no.
Now on to what they left out (as most of these issues are caused by what they left in).
The slaughtering of the Tuscan Raiders. He cuts down a few of them, and we hear about the total annihilation of their tribe from him as told to Amidala. That didn't work. It just doesn't. He's trying to build up the emotional side of this character, and we're left with hints of rage and a lot of tears. There needed to be more of a balance. We need to visualize more of the rage to feel even more of a connection with this character.
Those two changes, kill the anti-smoking campaign, and make the animated characters less painful to watch, and we're left with a great movie. Not even major work was needed, just some minor changes to the dialogue and addition of a key scene.
It's tough to go wrong with a plot this strong - the turning of a really good kid into the most evil badass in the universe. I just wish the writing would have been better.
I believe this could have been one of the greatest movies in a long time, but sadly, it wasn't.
~D
I feel your pain. Try naming a mailbox ABC in pine, and then try to save a message to mailbox abc. Mailbox does not exist. Create one?
Can't create one, it already exists. Try to rename ABC to abc... can't - already exists. You need to rename ABC to ABCX or something unrelated, then rename that to abc.
A pain in the ass.
Why not use UFS? I don't see any support from apple regarding UFS at all, and if they'll only be supporting HFS+, then well... I guess I'm stuck with it.
It only becomes an issue when you're using unix apps that expect case sensitivity. I might end up switching to UFS anyhow, but that's another story.
"There is no need for it" (the common response to your complaint) is just absurd. If you expect case sensitivity, then you DO need it. It's as simple as that.
Happy computing.
~D
My father worked in a FACTORY as a TINSMITH. And he made over $130k. Sure he had to work his ass off to get that, and put in many the 84 hour week, but who cares? He made a lot of damn money.
I don't make as little as $63k, but I'm not making double that either.
One of the reasons is that I'm no longer doing anything "new" or "difficult." A monkey could do 99 percent of what I've been doing recently. The economy has stagnated, there is no new development, and they don't need to hire smart people because the jobs that have to be done aren't complex.
When it turns around, and there is more R&D going on, then maybe I'll get back up to a reasonable salary. Until then, I'm stuck doing dipshit work for a dipshit company with a complete idiot for a Director.
That's where $63k comes from.
~D
Your neighbor watches your kids for more than your wife gets paid to sit in a room with a bunch of kids because she is an independent contractor.
If this same 13 year old neighbor were a government employee doing the same thing, I would think that she would make as much as your wife.
In all honesty, schooling has one purpose: to get kids to think like lemmings and learn to conform to whatever place the first employer they have tries to stick them in. That's all.
I think it's a horrible job, as well as a horrible goal. Sure, your wife might think that she's helping to expand the minds of the kids in the class, but that's not her fucking job.
Schools are the greatest fiasco of the present day, and I'm sorry that you think your wife is doing a great thing by being part of that machine.
~D
Starting space exploration on a REAL scale WOULD be selfless, as you would never, ever, live to see the truly cool shit that would come from it.
When you do something really important that actually changes the future, that actually makes a difference in the way that humans go about their lives, you WILL be remembered, no matter what.
So all you fucking hippies that think that you have to give money to charity or whatever to be "humane" or whatever the hell you're going for is absurd at best. Why waste money on something that really won't affect all of humanity just to pretend to be a selfless philanthropist? Because you're a moron.
That's the only explanation.
Bye bye karma.
~D
Nobody on slashdot can do math? .02 = 50 ideas per dollar, = 2 trillion ideas. so, 1,999,999,999,999 more ideas can be paid for.
.98 of an idea, well, that WAS where windows came from.
As for
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This only takes into account inflation. Wouldn't more people see movies now if they cost the same percentage of your weekly income as they used to? Movies used to cost $0.25.
There are so many factors to take into account that I think any attempt at normalizing the profits is impossible. Like CD's, something else that costs a lot more than it used to relative to how much people make.
~D
Were the mountain bikes illegally on the street, or were the old ladies on a mountain bike trail, or in the street itself?
I think it's ridiculous that people think that the right thing to do is to regulate the shit out of everything. Automobile speed limits have turned into little more than a fund raiser for the regions that enforce them, and all of these fines/regulations are created under the false guise of safety.
Have you ever noticed areas with a lot of "no left turn" signs where left turns would be perfectly reasonable without the sign? OH - you are forced into driving into some commercial location if you want to turn around without driving 50 miles out of your way. I wonder who had a friend hook that up for him?
Traffic laws are 50 percent bullshit, as the ones that you actually notice are usually the ones there for absolutely no reason, save profit. Speed traps in the middle of nowhere are only part of the problem.
Back to the segway thing. I say see what problems arise, and then possibly consider legislation to solve those problems. NOT creating new laws based on NOTHING but speculation.
I'm sorry about the old ladies in your town who seem to be MTN Bike magnets, but Jesus H Christ - can someone have some fucking backbone once in a while and watch out for themselves? Why must everyone demand laws to protect themselves from basically harmless things?
~D
I really hate trying to drive with people on Bikes riding. Here's my issue. I'm in the rightmost CAR lane, and I want to make a right turn. There is a bike lane to my right with a guy that wants to go straight.
Collision.
Separate thoroughfares for bikes would be more sensible than lanes.
~D
They are terrible about providing linux drivers. I have one of those n1220u scanners (the thin grey ones) and it only works on windows, or old school macs.
I will never buy anything from canon, as they not only refuse to support linux, but they act like they're doing you a favor to tell you that you should buy windows.
~D
But then the spam started. And I realized that commercial software in general is the opposite of what I usually need. If I want something that's just plain fast, the commercial software is slow and "pretty." If I want something that I have a lot of control over, the commercial software takes all control from me in the name of being user-friendly. If I want something that does one thing quite well, I get a package that tries to be an end-all-be-all of computer use (and if I want that I can use fucking emacs).
That all said, I usually stick to writing software myself, or just downloading some free GPL stuff. At least that way I'll HEAR about bugs, or be able to work on fixing them myself.
Commercial software has never been my first choice.
~D
Why aren't they suing over the "Portable Monopoly" thing, too? Thought they were constantly threatening to move their operations out of the US.
~D
...trying to figure out why on earth this guy would want to log his speed in THIS manner.
Yeah, -O-dometer.
I hate flash, though.
~D