HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"
Yeah, it sounds very familiar. Thanks to Opera I no longer see this sort of bullshit, but it sounds like those wonderful popups that you can't do anything with. You can't go back, you can't close them, you can't resize them, nothing. Add that to the automatic execution of ActiveX (free of browser security restrictions, remember) and you make me one more step closer to a dartboard with Bill's face on it.
I couldn't give a shit if someone patents this, although it would be nice if they did it just to prevent anyone from actually using it in the field. I do however think anyone who thinks taking CONTROL of a computer away from USERS should be tied up and shot. This would be like creating a road that, when you drove on it, disabled the brakes in your car. No friggin thanks.
WindowsUpdate could easily be utalized to infect millions of machines with a virus.
Pfft. We don't need WindowsUpdate for that.
We'll just use the handy always-on RPC service.... or Universal Plug and Play.... or defaulted folder shares.... or we can just spend the month between pacth releases finding more;)
Once again, we seem to have an influx of new Slashdot readers and posters. Let me spell it out for you: THIS SITE IS DECIDEDLY PRO-LINUX, PRO-OPEN SOURCE, AND ANTI-MICROSOFT. It has been since day one, and it will be until MS acquires OSDN or whoever the owner is. Deal with it, stop your bitching, and if you don't like it, there are plenty of pro-Microsoft newssites out there.
Yeesh. Every story lately these people are coming out. Listen kids, Microsoft doesn't need you to defend them. And you don't look cool just because you bash what's the popular thing around here. In my day, we used to call that "trolling".
Episode 2 was pretty dark for a Star Wars movie, man. Instead of "Yippee!!" every 5 minutes, we had Anakin hack up a bunch of Sand people. Lots of Jedi dying. Less Jar-Jar. Anakin losing an arm (note that the only other time this happens to a "hero" is in the other dark SW movie, ESB). Jango Fett dead, in front of his son. The Empire starting to form.
Take out that idiotic love scene (thank you Imax!), which is kind of important when you think about it, and there's hardly anything light in the whole movie.
Sure, it wasn't Natural Born Killers. Did you really expect that from Lucas?
I remember hearing this as far back as 1984, and it could go farther than that (if only my memories would:). It was either some fan magazine or the Fan club magazine itself.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was in the original Star Wars script. He had a LOT of stuff in that at first.
Lucas has this annoying need to visit a dozen planets each movie
You know, a number of years back (think Sonic days) I noticed that every platform game under the sun started falling into the same pattern. Each level is a different climate. Water levels, snow levels, forest levels, desert levels, lava levels, etc etc etc. At the time I thought "hey, this is kinda like how a Star Wars movie is arranged. cool!".
The more cynical side of me was looking forward to Anakin as Mario hopping around 12 different planets in the Episode 1 games. Then I realized, it's called STAR wars. Like, spaceships and such. It only makes sense that spaceships travel between planets (else, why are they there in the first place?).
The more I look at it, Lucas' problem is that he jumps around too much in the new movies. The original trilogy was fairly linear, start at one planet, follow the characters to the next, etc. Episode 1 I almost lost track of where everyone was at any given point. Episode 2 I didn't even bother keeping track.
Maybe it will have to get split into two parts like Kill Bill
Episode 3 followed by Episode 3.5? The geeks would like that:)
If I really wanted, I could carry roughly 100 CDs in my Lyra. It plays wav audio no problems. Hell of a lot nicer than carrying around 100 CDs every time I hit the road (never mind the fact that I'm on public transit:).
However, the number of times I've had on high end headphones and been sitting in a perfectly quiet room listening to mp3s.. well, I can't even count it. Background noise does far more to interfere with audio quality, and mp3 players are generally used outside of sound-proofed rooms, with a $10 pair of headphones.
Weekend trips. If you can find me a PocketPC that holds a gig or 3 for under $300 USD, you might convince me.
Now imagine a world where you can't predict to the song just what you're going to want to listen to days in advance.
I find I listen to a LOT more variety in my music collection now, simply because I don't pre-select what I'm going to carry with me that day. Also because I don't have to re-load the damn thing every day just to hear something new. It's amazing to re-discover an album you haven't heard in a decade, all thanks to the wonders of "shuffle":)
Get a deck with line in jacks. I did this a few years ago with my mp3 discman, when mp3 car stereos were well over $1000. The deck was $50 at the time as a refurb (couldn't care if the cassette broke).
I just picked up an RCA Lyra and couldn't be happier. It actually comes with cables to hook into a line in jack, AND the old style cassette adapter you describe. Oh, and it doesn't require any software to add music to it (it's just a portable hard drive, yay Linux support!), stores its codecs on the hard drive (yay future codec support), AND can take in playlists generated by Winamp or several other mp3 programs I've tried (yay not installing MusicMatch!).
I'm surprised no one in this thread has mentioned one yet. It's a platform-independant, multi-use, upgradable geek's wet dream.
Just because you bought one CD doesn't mean that you can give copies away to everyone you know, nor does it automagically grant you the right to copy all the CDs of your friends.
In Canada it does:)
Well actually, I don't even have to buy that one CD. My right to copy CDs is firmly written into law.
Perhaps someone more enlightened can help me. My understanding was that this relates to the Java battle with Sun. MS being forced to stop shipping products without Sun's VM or some such.
Now, things like Win98 and IE I can understand. But Visio? Does MS ship a Java VM with Visio? Why? Is there some sort of Java backend to some of these MS apps that I'm unaware of?
I just find this one highly amusing; we're *just* migrating a pretty large org to Visio 2000. If it's no longer being officially distributed, where do we get more licenses from?:)
(I don't know what's scarier. The fact that I have Wil Wheaton's Slashdot nick memorized, or that I'll probably get 25 replies to this correcting me on the actual rank Wesley Crusher held on the Enterprise.)
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Patent your DNA. Clone yourself a few thousand times, and wait until your clones are ubiquitous and highly successful.
Then, just as the patent is going to run out, start suing for unauthorized use of your GIF^H^H^H DNA format.
I tried to email my complaint to them, but they didn't agree to accept my email first, and now I'm looking at 2-5 :(
you can bring up a suit saying that you didn't download that song, your 7-year-old did, who isn't old enough to participate in the contract, etc..
Try the same suit with your long distance carrier sometime.
Nah, the movies only *seem* to take that long to finish. /me ducks
Perhaps because there aren't all that many?
The last security advisories for Opera, for example, were something on the order of 8 months ago. Slashdot had at least 2 articles on that.
Maybe try providing some examples of what you think Slashdot is covering up, instead of trolling for MS.
HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"
Yeah, it sounds very familiar. Thanks to Opera I no longer see this sort of bullshit, but it sounds like those wonderful popups that you can't do anything with. You can't go back, you can't close them, you can't resize them, nothing. Add that to the automatic execution of ActiveX (free of browser security restrictions, remember) and you make me one more step closer to a dartboard with Bill's face on it.
I couldn't give a shit if someone patents this, although it would be nice if they did it just to prevent anyone from actually using it in the field. I do however think anyone who thinks taking CONTROL of a computer away from USERS should be tied up and shot. This would be like creating a road that, when you drove on it, disabled the brakes in your car. No friggin thanks.
WindowsUpdate could easily be utalized to infect millions of machines with a virus.
... or Universal Plug and Play. ... or defaulted folder shares. ... or we can just spend the month between pacth releases finding more ;)
Pfft. We don't need WindowsUpdate for that.
We'll just use the handy always-on RPC service.
Microsoft FUD? It makes Slashdot look rubbish.
Actually, it makes Slashdot look like Slashdot.
Once again, we seem to have an influx of new Slashdot readers and posters. Let me spell it out for you: THIS SITE IS DECIDEDLY PRO-LINUX, PRO-OPEN SOURCE, AND ANTI-MICROSOFT. It has been since day one, and it will be until MS acquires OSDN or whoever the owner is. Deal with it, stop your bitching, and if you don't like it, there are plenty of pro-Microsoft newssites out there.
Yeesh. Every story lately these people are coming out. Listen kids, Microsoft doesn't need you to defend them. And you don't look cool just because you bash what's the popular thing around here. In my day, we used to call that "trolling".
We should not see Darth Vader in Ep III at all. That would preserve suspense on who Darth Vader is until the end of ESB.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows, dude. Homer spoiled it when he left the theatre.
Who was that moron that got to play Anakin in the 2nd movie? My dog does better acting.
:)
It still amazes me that George Lucas so completely fails to understand what made the first movie a success.
Surely you're not talking about Mark Hamil, right?
Right?
RIGHT?
(deliberate exageration for the sarcasm impaired
Episode 2 was pretty dark for a Star Wars movie, man. Instead of "Yippee!!" every 5 minutes, we had Anakin hack up a bunch of Sand people. Lots of Jedi dying. Less Jar-Jar. Anakin losing an arm (note that the only other time this happens to a "hero" is in the other dark SW movie, ESB). Jango Fett dead, in front of his son. The Empire starting to form.
Take out that idiotic love scene (thank you Imax!), which is kind of important when you think about it, and there's hardly anything light in the whole movie.
Sure, it wasn't Natural Born Killers. Did you really expect that from Lucas?
I remember hearing this as far back as 1984, and it could go farther than that (if only my memories would :). It was either some fan magazine or the Fan club magazine itself.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was in the original Star Wars script. He had a LOT of stuff in that at first.
Lucas has this annoying need to visit a dozen planets each movie
:)
You know, a number of years back (think Sonic days) I noticed that every platform game under the sun started falling into the same pattern. Each level is a different climate. Water levels, snow levels, forest levels, desert levels, lava levels, etc etc etc. At the time I thought "hey, this is kinda like how a Star Wars movie is arranged. cool!".
The more cynical side of me was looking forward to Anakin as Mario hopping around 12 different planets in the Episode 1 games. Then I realized, it's called STAR wars. Like, spaceships and such. It only makes sense that spaceships travel between planets (else, why are they there in the first place?).
The more I look at it, Lucas' problem is that he jumps around too much in the new movies. The original trilogy was fairly linear, start at one planet, follow the characters to the next, etc. Episode 1 I almost lost track of where everyone was at any given point. Episode 2 I didn't even bother keeping track.
Maybe it will have to get split into two parts like Kill Bill
Episode 3 followed by Episode 3.5? The geeks would like that
I see people posting "Stephen King dead at 52" every other day on Slashdot, but my world doesn't collapse into a singularity around me.
Jeez, dude, lighten up.
If I really wanted, I could carry roughly 100 CDs in my Lyra. It plays wav audio no problems. Hell of a lot nicer than carrying around 100 CDs every time I hit the road (never mind the fact that I'm on public transit :).
However, the number of times I've had on high end headphones and been sitting in a perfectly quiet room listening to mp3s.. well, I can't even count it. Background noise does far more to interfere with audio quality, and mp3 players are generally used outside of sound-proofed rooms, with a $10 pair of headphones.
Weekend trips. If you can find me a PocketPC that holds a gig or 3 for under $300 USD, you might convince me.
:)
Now imagine a world where you can't predict to the song just what you're going to want to listen to days in advance.
I find I listen to a LOT more variety in my music collection now, simply because I don't pre-select what I'm going to carry with me that day. Also because I don't have to re-load the damn thing every day just to hear something new. It's amazing to re-discover an album you haven't heard in a decade, all thanks to the wonders of "shuffle"
Get a deck with line in jacks. I did this a few years ago with my mp3 discman, when mp3 car stereos were well over $1000. The deck was $50 at the time as a refurb (couldn't care if the cassette broke).
I just picked up an RCA Lyra and couldn't be happier. It actually comes with cables to hook into a line in jack, AND the old style cassette adapter you describe. Oh, and it doesn't require any software to add music to it (it's just a portable hard drive, yay Linux support!), stores its codecs on the hard drive (yay future codec support), AND can take in playlists generated by Winamp or several other mp3 programs I've tried (yay not installing MusicMatch!).
I'm surprised no one in this thread has mentioned one yet. It's a platform-independant, multi-use, upgradable geek's wet dream.
Just because you bought one CD doesn't mean that you can give copies away to everyone you know, nor does it automagically grant you the right to copy all the CDs of your friends.
:)
In Canada it does
Well actually, I don't even have to buy that one CD. My right to copy CDs is firmly written into law.
Damn, and here I thought 'organic' meant any over-priced, feel-good, no-pandas-harmed food.
Stupid hippies *grumble*
Why exactly are we modding up comments made by people entirely ignorant of the most successful space missions to date?
See the other post for a bunch more important missions you seem to be unaware of.
Tactical nukes don't kill people, people kill people.
What does a giant corporation like Viacom have to gain from sending out penis-enlargement advertisements?
/me ducks
The next generation of porn stars?
Visio? VISIO?
:)
Perhaps someone more enlightened can help me. My understanding was that this relates to the Java battle with Sun. MS being forced to stop shipping products without Sun's VM or some such.
Now, things like Win98 and IE I can understand. But Visio? Does MS ship a Java VM with Visio? Why? Is there some sort of Java backend to some of these MS apps that I'm unaware of?
I just find this one highly amusing; we're *just* migrating a pretty large org to Visio 2000. If it's no longer being officially distributed, where do we get more licenses from?
Wouldn't 0/1 be a valid fraction?
:)
Dear god, are we actually having a discussion about this?
But maybe we can find a young ensign to help out.
(I don't know what's scarier. The fact that I have Wil Wheaton's Slashdot nick memorized, or that I'll probably get 25 replies to this correcting me on the actual rank Wesley Crusher held on the Enterprise.)