When are people gonna accept this type of movie for what it is...ENTERTAINMENT. There is no deep message. No social commentary. The SF was merely a frame to give the action some context. In that sense, it was successful. The action was better than average. The FX were awesome. The sound track rocked. I enjoyed this movie. But then I didnt go in seeking spirituality or film as art.
Competition is always good. But the good people over at 4Front Technologies have supported Linux and *BSD for a long while. Nullsoft (AOL) could've been in this space a long time ago. They're only expanding their base now that its obvious that Microsoft's WMF will make every other media format a second class citizen on the windows platform. Show a little loyalty.
All you people saying that add-ons de-value the console and developers dont like them dont get the big picture. As Nicholas Petreley pointed out in his opinion piece, m$ has seen the NC light. The xbox is just another NC. Coupled with.NET, it becomes a full time player in m$ vision of windows software services. The more competitors out there in various sizes (watch, cell phone, pda, NC, desktop, etc), the less likely that m$ will be able to dominate. Start writing your http based web service apps now.
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When are people gonna accept this type of movie for what it is...ENTERTAINMENT. There is no deep message. No social commentary. The SF was merely a frame to give the action some context. In that sense, it was successful. The action was better than average. The FX were awesome. The sound track rocked. I enjoyed this movie. But then I didnt go in seeking spirituality or film as art.
Competition is always good. But the good people over at 4Front Technologies have supported Linux and *BSD for a long while. Nullsoft (AOL) could've been in this space a long time ago. They're only expanding their base now that its obvious that Microsoft's WMF will make every other media format a second class citizen on the windows platform. Show a little loyalty.
I love my IBM, but the Thinkpads never have enough video memory. My next one will be something like the Dell 8000.
A little older, and not about programming, but a very, very good book. Everyone should read it.
All you people saying that add-ons de-value the console and developers dont like them dont get the big picture. As Nicholas Petreley pointed out in his opinion piece, m$ has seen the NC light. The xbox is just another NC. Coupled with .NET, it becomes a full time player in m$ vision of windows software services. The more competitors out there in various sizes (watch, cell phone, pda, NC, desktop, etc), the less likely that m$ will be able to dominate. Start writing your http based web service apps now.