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1) Movies must have a brave hero to be good. 2) Because we're making a movie that's not about a brave hero, we as a Nation are somehow cowardly and decidedly unheroic.
I didn't get either of those ideas from the parent's comments. What I got from it what that America (and indeed as you say the rest of western society) seems to be getting their values from business values. A hero is now someone who makes an extra 100,000$ profit this year. A hero is someone who found a new process to cheapen the production of tennis shoes.
I dunno, but I think I'm quite upset about that.
Oh, and I think this movie will probably be crap. It sounds like it could be even less interesting than the one about Nick Leeson (Rogue Trader was it?)
My problem with the 3d of Monkey Island 4 was that it was completely unplayable. The play area was just lots of empty spaces that took ages to run through because you couldn't just click on a point on the screen to go there, you actually had to manuver around obstacles yourself. Bring back the 2D.
>It's sad that artist quality is judged on album sales when it's such a manipulated statistic. Whoever gets airplay gets sales. Whoever gets sales gets a higher rank.
One simple solution to your problem. Don't judge artist quality on album sales. If other people do, thats their problem.
The earlier CDs did sell badly, because they were fairly shit. Then he released Play, which was actually a really good CD (to everyone's surprise), but no-one paid any attention to it for a year. Then he licensed all the tracks off it, and the mainstream mom/pop crowd bought it cos they'd heard 30 seconds of a song on a car commercial and Moby offically became dinner party easy listening music.
Then he went back to making the music that he started off making, which is still shit, and THAT is why his current album isn't selling.
User testing said that the bottom right corner of a dialog box was where peoples eyes were resting when they'd finished reading the text in the dialog. So it followed from there that the OK button should go there. It's been hashed out on various gnome.org mailing lists and it's pretty much the same conclusion that Apple came to with MacOS.
My friend was given a pirated copy of Monsters Inc for her baby sister to watch, and we watched it with her. The pirating bastards cut the outtakes and the musical number thats in the closing credits, and they were the best bit of the whole film.
As far as I'm aware, the US is the only country that the UN Security Council has called a terrorist country, for what it got up to in Nicuagura. Don't ask me to prove it though.
Or maybe here?
Check out the other screenshots and you'll see that each of the sections in the tool palette can be folded up just like the word shot. Sodipodi has been doing this for ages.
If you use Mozilla on win32 you can convert.pst files into mbox files, that Evolution can then import. It's not the nicest way, but tis the only way at the moment.
> The web site owner doesn't get to charge for services they didn't render.
One word.
Bandwidth.
It ain't cheap.
The rest of your comment doesn't have anything I disagree with, but doesn't have any relevance to anything. You seem to have missed my point. (or are ignoring it)
> Want to argue otherwise? Go for it. You also > watch every commercial on TV, right? No getting > up to go to the bathroom/kitchen. No recording it > to VCR or PVR and fast forwarding/skipping > through the commercials. Because if you are then, > by your own definition, you are immoral. Maybe > even commiting a crime!
Bzzzzt!
Nope, the advert server (the television company or the magazine company) has already received its money whether you fast forward them or not. That way the people who are paying for the advert are taking the risk that some people will not see the adverts.
In the www case, the person serving the advert (the web site owner) does not receive money from the person who's ad it is, unless you read the advert.
The two cases are not the same, and it's not an abundantly stupid stance. Not saying which side of the fence I fall on, just pointing out that your analogy is crap.
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2) Because we're making a movie that's not about a brave hero, we as a Nation are somehow cowardly and decidedly unheroic.
I didn't get either of those ideas from the parent's comments. What I got from it what that America (and indeed as you say the rest of western society) seems to be getting their values from business values. A hero is now someone who makes an extra 100,000$ profit this year. A hero is someone who found a new process to cheapen the production of tennis shoes.
I dunno, but I think I'm quite upset about that.
Oh, and I think this movie will probably be crap. It sounds like it could be even less interesting than the one about Nick Leeson (Rogue Trader was it?)
Or maybe this is the result?
Steinski is hardly mainstream music.
When did they open Best Buy?
You mean you don't have to go the whole way over to Cambridge to get stuff now?
My problem with the 3d of Monkey Island 4 was that it was completely unplayable. The play area was just lots of empty spaces that took ages to run through because you couldn't just click on a point on the screen to go there, you actually had to manuver around obstacles yourself. Bring back the 2D.
There is no longer a seperation between workspaces and viewports. So you can have multiple viewports. I have 4 at the moment.
It's also completely unusable for someone who can't use a mouse
alt drag and alt tab work for me.
Sucks to be you.
>It's sad that artist quality is judged on album sales when it's such a manipulated statistic. Whoever gets airplay gets sales. Whoever gets sales gets a higher rank.
One simple solution to your problem. Don't judge artist quality on album sales. If other people do, thats their problem.
The earlier CDs did sell badly, because they were fairly shit. Then he released Play, which was actually a really good CD (to everyone's surprise), but no-one paid any attention to it for a year. Then he licensed all the tracks off it, and the mainstream mom/pop crowd bought it cos they'd heard 30 seconds of a song on a car commercial and Moby offically became dinner party easy listening music.
Then he went back to making the music that he started off making, which is still shit, and THAT is why his current album isn't selling.
User testing said that the bottom right corner of a dialog box was where peoples eyes were resting when they'd finished reading the text in the dialog. So it followed from there that the OK button should go there. It's been hashed out on various gnome.org mailing lists and it's pretty much the same conclusion that Apple came to with MacOS.
And no, it's never caused me much confusion.
My friend was given a pirated copy of Monsters Inc for her baby sister to watch, and we watched it with her. The pirating bastards cut the outtakes and the musical number thats in the closing credits, and they were the best bit of the whole film.
Bastards.
What was ironic about that?
I think you meant "The concept of humour"
And I bet he went and got all the other employees who were just standing around to come and see too.
As far as I'm aware, the US is the only country that the UN Security Council has called a terrorist country, for what it got up to in Nicuagura. Don't ask me to prove it though.
Nah, you didn't make it very well really.
Or maybe here?
Check out the other screenshots and you'll see that each of the sections in the tool palette can be folded up just like the word shot. Sodipodi has been doing this for ages.
If you use Mozilla on win32 you can convert .pst files into mbox files, that Evolution can then import. It's not the nicest way, but tis the only way at the moment.
It imports from outlook express 4 and I've got over 60,000 mails in folders and it doesn't eve nbreak a sweat.
Yeah, but moderators clearly aren't too bright.
Now, will this be "Funny", "Insightful" or "Troll"?
Evolution:
* Ability to check multiple POP3 boxes at once
Yup
* Smart quoting (no wrapping artifacts)
Seems to work for me
* Performance
I've got 320Mb of mail and it runs just the same as when I had 5. (In a good way, I don't mean that 5mb of mail was dog slow)
* Data integrity
I've never lost data in the 1.5 years I've been running it.
> The web site owner doesn't get to charge for services they didn't render.
One word.
Bandwidth.
It ain't cheap.
The rest of your comment doesn't have anything I disagree with, but doesn't have any relevance to anything. You seem to have missed my point. (or are ignoring it)
> Want to argue otherwise? Go for it. You also
> watch every commercial on TV, right? No getting
> up to go to the bathroom/kitchen. No recording it
> to VCR or PVR and fast forwarding/skipping
> through the commercials. Because if you are then,
> by your own definition, you are immoral. Maybe
> even commiting a crime!
Bzzzzt!
Nope, the advert server (the television company or the magazine company) has already received its money whether you fast forward them or not. That way the people who are paying for the advert are taking the risk that some people will not see the adverts.
In the www case, the person serving the advert (the web site owner) does not receive money from the person who's ad it is, unless you read the advert.
The two cases are not the same, and it's not an abundantly stupid stance. Not saying which side of the fence I fall on, just pointing out that your analogy is crap.
For what it's worth, Bush suck, but I still like other guitar bands that are better. However I also like "electronica"
> Have you heard of Bush?
Yes, they suck.