I don't think most of us have a problem with people driving trucks who actually use them as trucks were meant to be used. I know I don't. What ticks us/me off are white collar guys commuting solo in hummers getting single-digit mph. Or buying big SUVs for their 16 year old kids because they feel "safer", never mind that it's too much car for them to handle and any accidents are way deadlier to those outside the car (and sometimes those inside).
Mwave rocks. Their prices are almost always within a couple dollars of the best ones on pricewatch, they don't rip you off with shipping, their web site is easy to find stuff on and their service is excellent.
I've built a dozen or so machines out of parts from mwave and never had a problem (well, once I had a credit card problem but that was my fault and we cleared it up with a couple emails).
Yeah, the whole theater I was in laughed at that one. I just figured Amidala was waiting for Anakin to come rescue her and when it turned out to be just some clone shmoe she dropped her hurt little girl act and got back to business. Chicks do that.
But what are the chances of Linus or Stallman doing a phone interview rather than an e-mail one, particularly for Slashdot? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the first interview Slashdot has done that wasn't e-mail based. Also, the impression I got was that one of the reasons Lars agreed to this interview was that he could say whatever he wanted, unedited, for better or for worse. It's not all that easy to edit someone's answers for grammer without changing what they said into your interpretation of what they said.
Um, dude, I think you need to turn on your sarcasm detector.
Seriously, though, I think anything being posted as a feature should be edited for spelling, grammar, and puctuation. Being sloppy in comments is fine (especially if English is not your native tongue), but a published work should have some measure of polish. This was a well thought-out piece (whether or not one agrees with it), but I found the poor grammar distracting. Maybe that's just me - too many english teachers in the family tree.
Hey Rob, maybe you should invest some of your newfound resources into hiring a part-time editor. Heck, I'd do a few articles in exchange for a slahdot email address.:)
I really think you should see this movie. No, not because I think it was incredibly funny (I did laugh, but I've seen better). But I think you just might be able to pick up on the films subtler message. Your comments thus far seem intelligent, but uninformed.
Unfortunately, South Park is being promoted as just a shock comedy. It is one, and a pretty good one (if one likes the genre, which you obviously do not, and I can respect that). But behind all the swearing, there is a message that you won't see in reviews or hear people talking about at the proverbial water cooler.
The only thing the movie really makes fun of is intolerence. Yes, many of the characters are bigoted and intolerent, but that is to make a point. Very rarely, if ever, does the movie bash a specific race/religion/whatever and really mean it, except when it bashes intolerence.
As to it being Great Satire:
1. Do they go overboard with the vulgarity? Yes. Do they really need to? Maybe. It sure draws a lot more people to the theatre than a shiny-happy Disney cartoon that sings about how everyone should get along (well, maybe not more people, but definately a different crowd, and that might be more important).
2. Do they have a focused target? Yes. Intolerence, in all it forms. Those forms are extremely varied, so the barrage seems random at first, but it does coalesce once you get past the swearing.
3. It very much holds up human vices to ridicule, as I said the vice of intolerence.
4. Irony and sarcasm are the chief tools South Park uses to discredit the vice of intolerence.
Um, I've been using Windows on and off for years and the only time it 'organizes functions such as Games, Internet, etc. into groups' is when I do it myself.
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I don't think most of us have a problem with people driving trucks who actually use them as trucks were meant to be used. I know I don't. What ticks us/me off are white collar guys commuting solo in hummers getting single-digit mph. Or buying big SUVs for their 16 year old kids because they feel "safer", never mind that it's too much car for them to handle and any accidents are way deadlier to those outside the car (and sometimes those inside).
Disney Princess: Magical Jewels is another good one, if she's in to the whole Princess craze.
Mwave rocks. Their prices are almost always within a couple dollars of the best ones on pricewatch, they don't rip you off with shipping, their web site is easy to find stuff on and their service is excellent.
I've built a dozen or so machines out of parts from mwave and never had a problem (well, once I had a credit card problem but that was my fault and we cleared it up with a couple emails).
I'll second www.mwave.com. That's where I get all my parts. Nice simple web site, great prices, good service and they don't rip you off on shipping.
Yeah, the whole theater I was in laughed at that one. I just figured Amidala was waiting for Anakin to come rescue her and when it turned out to be just some clone shmoe she dropped her hurt little girl act and got back to business. Chicks do that.
Congrats to the lucky couple.
But what are the chances of Linus or Stallman doing a phone interview rather than an e-mail one, particularly for Slashdot? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the first interview Slashdot has done that wasn't e-mail based. Also, the impression I got was that one of the reasons Lars agreed to this interview was that he could say whatever he wanted, unedited, for better or for worse. It's not all that easy to edit someone's answers for grammer without changing what they said into your interpretation of what they said.
Um, dude, I think you need to turn on your sarcasm detector.
:)
Seriously, though, I think anything being posted as a feature should be edited for spelling, grammar, and puctuation. Being sloppy in comments is fine (especially if English is not your native tongue), but a published work should have some measure of polish. This was a well thought-out piece (whether or not one agrees with it), but I found the poor grammar distracting. Maybe that's just me - too many english teachers in the family tree.
Hey Rob, maybe you should invest some of your newfound resources into hiring a part-time editor. Heck, I'd do a few articles in exchange for a slahdot email address.
I really think you should see this movie. No, not because I think it was incredibly funny (I did laugh, but I've seen better). But I think you just might be able to pick up on the films subtler message. Your comments thus far seem intelligent, but uninformed.
Unfortunately, South Park is being promoted as just a shock comedy. It is one, and a pretty good one (if one likes the genre, which you obviously do not, and I can respect that). But behind all the swearing, there is a message that you won't see in reviews or hear people talking about at the proverbial water cooler.
The only thing the movie really makes fun of is intolerence. Yes, many of the characters are bigoted and intolerent, but that is to make a point. Very rarely, if ever, does the movie bash a specific race/religion/whatever and really mean it, except when it bashes intolerence.
As to it being Great Satire:
1. Do they go overboard with the vulgarity? Yes. Do they really need to? Maybe. It sure draws a lot more people to the theatre than a shiny-happy Disney cartoon that sings about how everyone should get along (well, maybe not more people, but definately a different crowd, and that might be more important).
2. Do they have a focused target? Yes. Intolerence, in all it forms. Those forms are extremely varied, so the barrage seems random at first, but it does coalesce once you get past the swearing.
3. It very much holds up human vices to ridicule, as I said the vice of intolerence.
4. Irony and sarcasm are the chief tools South Park uses to discredit the vice of intolerence.
New York, baby, the biggest city in the world.
Where else?
It could be a sort of status symbol, even. If another city gets to be bigger, we could move it there. Wouldn't that be fun?
(just kidding, BTW, but I couldn't resist)
Um, I've been using Windows on and off for years and the only time it 'organizes functions such as Games, Internet, etc. into groups' is when I do it myself.