Okay, am I the only one who thought Sith sucked in a galactic way?
It was dark, but not so dark as to be artful. The dialogue was unworthy of a film school student project. Lucas left Anakin's turn to the Dark Side an episode too late, then rush it to an unconvincing climax. Natalie Portman managed to look unsexy through the entire movie. The Jedi are bubling idiots, and the Sideous/Palpatine character morphed from a complex and delicious baddie into a ham-fisted George Bush caricature.
It galls the geek in me to say so, but there were too many special effects. Too much shit flying around for anything to have meaning or pathos. Give it a rest, George.
And there was nothing fun.
They say Spielburg cried at the end of an adance screening. Obviously tears of frustration. The muddled end of what should have been a brilliant epic.
I think we should lobby the government to ban the TCP/IP protocol, which makes all copyright infringement possible.
And wire. Wire carries all those bad signals to our computers. Let's ban wire while we can. It'll also take a bite out of terrorism, pormography, and probably gay rights. We'll just sit in the dark, all safe-like.
but of course they cannot have a vote against emergency military funding on their record, so they were forced to.
Ah... just like they were "forced" to vote in favor of the Iraq war, only to oppose it come election time? Fine leadership style.
I've come to expect dracononian legislation from the Republikans, but the Democrats should be ashamed. Not so much as a whimper. Spineless, gutless wonders.
I'm sure 10.4.1 is a week or two out. Unlike today's Darwin release, it will have the benefit of wider testing.
No "lagging" here. Go play with your widgets for a while and enjoy your new OS. The next point release will be available when Apple thinks it's ready for production machines.
> I'd just like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ms. Huffington on giving a voice to the silently oppressed celebrities and powerbrokers out there, who have for so long struggled to get their valuable messages out to the anxious public.
No shit. I'm happy to see anything left-of-center online, but Ariana's new rag just smacks of class superiority.
Fuck you and your celebrity liberals, Ariana. You aren't needed here in cyberspace. We The People have already arrived.
Closer, closer Apple edges to distributing video entertainment (DVD-quality movies, music videos, streaming video pay-per-view) via iTunes.
Won't be long now. This follows the introduction of the new H.264 video codec in Quicktime 7. Apple has pretty much all the pieces in place to begin content sales to early adopters.
You didn't think those 30" cinema monitors were just for pr0n, did you?;-)
At least you've noticed now. Give Apple Lossless a try. I was using variable-rate MP3s before, but have completely switched over. Unless you have really crappy speakers or headphones, you'll hear the difference.
Actually, this is a case of the workplace regulating itself. Employees are leaving due to the actions of an asshole manager. When the company has a hard time retaining or replacing people, they'll eventually realize why and the asshole will get the boot.
Right. Unless the manager is the owner, or has naked pictures of the CEO with the secretary. Or is tremndously valuable to the company. Or owns a lot of stock. Or...
Workplace law is almost all the fruit of the labor movement. Pity unionism has been largely gutted at the behest of wealthy political interests.
Sounds as if you've given sufficient notice. Unless you're violating some employment covenant, your employer has no legal basis by which to hold your final check and is probably attempting to intimidate you in an unlawful way.
Be professional, write or say nothing negative, ask for any employer complaint in writing, work out your notice with as much enthusiasm as you can muster, and seek any remedy after the fact.
This is why we have unions, folks. Or why we *had* unions. The workplace does NOT regulate itself.
I share the author's enthusiasm for Tiger, but wonder why this piece was deemed worthy of Slashdot. It is neither detailed nor particularly accurate, more a paraphrase of Apple's marketing pieces than a review.
The treatment of Automator is particularly disappointing: the author basically says he doesn't understand the feature. Ouch.
There's little mention of Tiger's under-the-hood improvements, and the author doesn't seem familiar with the complete overhaul of Quicktime.
Other posters have cited Ars Technica's Tiger overview by way of comparison. I think the folks at Ars have shown us how an OS review is to be done. We don't see much of that quality at Slashdot or over at the hapless OS News.
Oops: missed that. But, as you pointed out, the G5 is picky. I'm only buying from Crucial these days, and am being certain each chip is identical. In my case, it's matched pairs of 256MB chips throughout. I'll run out of money before I run out of RAM slots.;-)
I received my copy of Tiger from Apple yesterday, and loaded it right away. A few first-blush impressions:
* A very smooth install. Point, click, walk away for 45 minutes. Added a drive before I started, and booted to a new RAID array. Entirely painless.
* I wasn't particularly excited about Spotlight until I tried it. We're all used to Find functions searching on demand. Having everything pre-indexed makes all the difference. It is REALLY easy to find things this way. I quit using the mouse to launch applications when I discovered Quicksilver. Now I'll stop using it to find things on the drive. You non-Mac guys are gonna love this feature as Beagle matures and Microsoft gets with the program. Makes mousing around a diectory tree feel like clubbing things with a stick.
* Not sure if I like Dashboard yet. It's impressive eye candy for visitors, but I don't know how really useful widgets are unless you have them open on the desktop all the time. Even on my big-ass flatscreen, that means burning valuable real estate. I'd rather call the apps more-or-less instantly from Quicksilver when they're needed. Guess we'll see what sort of widgets people come up with.
* Like previous releases, Tiger feels more nimble than its predecessor. I know a lot of this is just tweaked user interface, but I like it.
* The RSS screensaver is as cool as it is useless.;-)
* Mail is improved. But it's now ugly as sin.
* The cosmetic presentation of Tiger is cleaner and less "lickable" than 10.0-10.3.
* Nothing has broken yet. I have a LOT of apps to check, though. Am concerned older ones -- such as Office v.X -- won't run well.
* Safari totally smokes now. Fastest thing I've ever used, including Opera. We got a preview of this when Safari 1.3 was released with the last point update.
* Looks like Automator will be worth learning.
Pretty subjective stuff, but I'm quite pleased with Tiger so far. Looking forward to pushing it some over the weekend.
Yup: I entirely agree. I had stability issues with my dual 1.8 G5 (rev. 1) right after purchase. RAM passed all tests, but as soon as I replaced the aftermarket chips, all was well. Zero problems since. Most trouble-free computer I've ever owned.
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Apologies for the bad tag. HTML suckage. ;-)
It galls the geek in me to say so, but there were too many special effects. Too much shit flying around for anything to have meaning or pathos. Give it a rest, George.
And there was nothing fun.
They say Spielburg cried at the end of an adance screening. Obviously tears of frustration. The muddled end of what should have been a brilliant epic.
And wire. Wire carries all those bad signals to our computers. Let's ban wire while we can. It'll also take a bite out of terrorism, pormography, and probably gay rights. We'll just sit in the dark, all safe-like.
I don't believe IE for Mac shipped with Tiger.
... in a related move, Sony announced today its complete confidence in the Betamax format. Film at 11.
And what, exactly, would these robots do with "grey goo"? That's for biological construction.
Which sits on a heat sink the size of an iBook.
iDropIt
Ah ... just like they were "forced" to vote in favor of the Iraq war, only to oppose it come election time? Fine leadership style.
I've come to expect dracononian legislation from the Republikans, but the Democrats should be ashamed. Not so much as a whimper. Spineless, gutless wonders.
Another Green vote in 2008 ...
I'm sure 10.4.1 is a week or two out. Unlike today's Darwin release, it will have the benefit of wider testing.
No "lagging" here. Go play with your widgets for a while and enjoy your new OS. The next point release will be available when Apple thinks it's ready for production machines.
No shit. I'm happy to see anything left-of-center online, but Ariana's new rag just smacks of class superiority.
Fuck you and your celebrity liberals, Ariana. You aren't needed here in cyberspace. We The People have already arrived.
An early happy 28th birthday, Apple II.
Won't be long now. This follows the introduction of the new H.264 video codec in Quicktime 7. Apple has pretty much all the pieces in place to begin content sales to early adopters.
You didn't think those 30" cinema monitors were just for pr0n, did you? ;-)
Be read to buy more hard drive space, though. ;-)
Right. Unless the manager is the owner, or has naked pictures of the CEO with the secretary. Or is tremndously valuable to the company. Or owns a lot of stock. Or ...
Workplace law is almost all the fruit of the labor movement. Pity unionism has been largely gutted at the behest of wealthy political interests.
Yup. Safari just tossed the widget on my desktop for consideration. Still ...
WorkplaceFairness has a few tips along these lines.
Sounds as if you've given sufficient notice. Unless you're violating some employment covenant, your employer has no legal basis by which to hold your final check and is probably attempting to intimidate you in an unlawful way.
Be professional, write or say nothing negative, ask for any employer complaint in writing, work out your notice with as much enthusiasm as you can muster, and seek any remedy after the fact.
This is why we have unions, folks. Or why we *had* unions. The workplace does NOT regulate itself.
Good luck, and enjoy your new job.
This story is dated Monday. It's not news anymore.
The treatment of Automator is particularly disappointing: the author basically says he doesn't understand the feature. Ouch.
There's little mention of Tiger's under-the-hood improvements, and the author doesn't seem familiar with the complete overhaul of Quicktime.
Other posters have cited Ars Technica's Tiger overview by way of comparison. I think the folks at Ars have shown us how an OS review is to be done. We don't see much of that quality at Slashdot or over at the hapless OS News.
Oops: missed that. But, as you pointed out, the G5 is picky. I'm only buying from Crucial these days, and am being certain each chip is identical. In my case, it's matched pairs of 256MB chips throughout. I'll run out of money before I run out of RAM slots. ;-)
* A very smooth install. Point, click, walk away for 45 minutes. Added a drive before I started, and booted to a new RAID array. Entirely painless.
* I wasn't particularly excited about Spotlight until I tried it. We're all used to Find functions searching on demand. Having everything pre-indexed makes all the difference. It is REALLY easy to find things this way. I quit using the mouse to launch applications when I discovered Quicksilver. Now I'll stop using it to find things on the drive. You non-Mac guys are gonna love this feature as Beagle matures and Microsoft gets with the program. Makes mousing around a diectory tree feel like clubbing things with a stick.
* Not sure if I like Dashboard yet. It's impressive eye candy for visitors, but I don't know how really useful widgets are unless you have them open on the desktop all the time. Even on my big-ass flatscreen, that means burning valuable real estate. I'd rather call the apps more-or-less instantly from Quicksilver when they're needed. Guess we'll see what sort of widgets people come up with.
* Like previous releases, Tiger feels more nimble than its predecessor. I know a lot of this is just tweaked user interface, but I like it.
* The RSS screensaver is as cool as it is useless. ;-)
* Mail is improved. But it's now ugly as sin.
* The cosmetic presentation of Tiger is cleaner and less "lickable" than 10.0-10.3.
* Nothing has broken yet. I have a LOT of apps to check, though. Am concerned older ones -- such as Office v.X -- won't run well.
* Safari totally smokes now. Fastest thing I've ever used, including Opera. We got a preview of this when Safari 1.3 was released with the last point update.
* Looks like Automator will be worth learning.
Pretty subjective stuff, but I'm quite pleased with Tiger so far. Looking forward to pushing it some over the weekend.
Yup: I entirely agree. I had stability issues with my dual 1.8 G5 (rev. 1) right after purchase. RAM passed all tests, but as soon as I replaced the aftermarket chips, all was well. Zero problems since. Most trouble-free computer I've ever owned.
We try to dumb down the humor here just for you. Glad you're keeping pace.
... Pear sues Cherry over Apple emulation. Film at Eleven.