I'm tired of fanatic movie fans who just can't accept it when others don't like their movies
I hear you, brother (sister).
I've faithfully gone to see both LOTR movies so far, and will probably go to ROTK as well, but I have to admit: I just don't get it. For those who read the books, I'm sure it's nice to see it on the big screen. But for those like me who haven't, I honestly just don't see why these movies are being hailed as the second coming.
I didn't mind TTT as much, but it struck me as mostly mindless action. FOTR was a snooze fest. A bunch of action scenes intertwined with precisely what people hate about the Matrix: vagueness disguised as "deepness". The entire Liv Tyler thing went on for far too long, and didn't seem to have a point. The end was just abrupt; I dunno, guess everyone else saw it coming. And yes, I'm aware that "this is one 15 hour movie", or whatever the usual argument it against there being self-contained movies. I think I'm one of the few who honestly believe these movies could have been done at 2 hours each.
Not a troll at all, btw. The visuals were fantastic, except for the Ents looking a bit too CG for my tastes. But as far as movies go, I think I'm the only person on the planet who's been disappointed.
Now watch as your "fanatic movie fans" mod me down into oblivion:)
Unfortunately, this was just the usual "free tickets" type thing. I'm nobody special:(
I have to assume reviewers stop getting free passes if they EVER badmouth industry procedures though, because I've never once heard of something like this going on. And I read a lot of reviews. I can't honestly believe that people have ZERO problems with search and seizure of their persons just for going out on the town.
Then again, I think we already do it for sporting events...
Just leave a bucket I am sure everyone would be honest.
Ever seen a newspaper vending box? The old style, all mechanical, drop in your 50 cents and open the door, and there's a nice big pile of copies inside?
Those things are trivial to break into. As well, once one person buys a copy, he or she could remove the rest of the copies, and give/sell them out to other people.
Yet, the streets (around here anyway) are littered with them.
Yeah, you're right, people are never honest. They're always trying to screw anyone any way they can.
I went to an advance screening last night for the first time in 5 years or so.
Printed on the back of the ticket was a 10 line disclaimer/EULA/warning about bringing in any "electronic recording equipment", claiming that my attending means I agree to have it confiscated if they find it (yeah, unsigned contracts always hold up in court!).
When we got to the theatre, we had our bags thoroughly searched (this is a leather attache case btw, and I was dressed in a suit and tie). They also ran a metal detector over us, and our bags. It was quite honestly as invasive as an airport screening area.
Then, when we sat down, the promotors did their shpiel, gave away some prizes, and went on a several minute tirade about how we shouldn't steal movies, we're hurting artists, etc. Anyone caught with a camera will be ejected and possible criminal charges brought against them. And (get this) if you see anyone else with a camera, please notify us immediately.
Finally, the movie starts, and I get to listen to another idiot telling me that downloading a movie is no different than stealing a chocolate bar.
I've never, ever felt more like a suspect in my life. After last night, I can understand why Blacks in the US complain about supposed random stops on the freeway. In fact, I almost expected a few police to be on hand.
Of course, for fun I poked around on Kazaa last night, and lo and behold, the movie was there. All it takes is one person, you morons, and inconveniencing and/or pissing off the MILLIONS of people who pay to see your movies is NOT a good way of doing business.
This is the final straw. It was bad enough last week seeing Master & Commander, and those damn brown spots were all over this one scene with mostly light-coloured backgrounds in it, so all I could do was sit there and think "Ok, enough with the dots!" and then lose track of what was going on with the movie.
I can't honesly see myself paying for another movie again, if this is how I'm going to be treated.
Oh, and in case anyone's curious, this happened in Canada. I guess we have our own MPAA equivalent here, or their reach is just that long.
Notice that he deliberately took a standard install from RedHat 9, something some IT person (Not a tr00 g33k) might buy at CompUSA. He then tried to install the provided product.
Ok, I'm confused. Everyone keeps justifying this "review" because "it comes with RH9, and only geeks would upgrade".
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if the reviewer went out and bought Windows, he'd have no spam filtering at all. If he bought ANY of these other products, he still has to go and get additional software and install it. I don't see how an upgrade is any harder or less geekier than installing an entirely new application.
If he's not comfortable being on the "bleeding edge", then why would he be going out and buying brand-new commercial software in the first place?
He used the expose feature to select the browser from the 10+ he had open at the time. The audience all went "Ooooooh"
Huh. Sounds like the reason why I prefer tabbed applications. 10 browser windows don't take up much space on the Windows taskbar if you use Opera (or Moz, if that's your thing).
I don't know what kind of screen resolution people run at, or just how many different applications people have open at any given time, but at 1024x768 and usually 10 apps (often with 5-10 tabs each), I have yet to ever have to search for what I want.
Does OSX make it that hard to see what you have open at a glance, and just click what you want? Or is there something I'm missing in amongst all the hoopla here?
Place I worked at had a very superstitious bookkepper. Oddly, not very religious. But she sure hated the "666" thing.
Apparently it went back to when the boss had a license plate with "666" on it, and his car broke down twice in a year or something.
To add context, we were a license plate issuing place (I won't even try to describe it properly, because of all the different jurisdictions on Slashdot). License plates (here) are issued in numerical sequence, in batches of 50. It was a standing order for years that if we ever got in a box of 650-699, to inform the bookkeeper immediately. She would then go and return the plate as "defective".
Eventually, the folks who supplied them got pissed, so she went to the trouble of using pliers to bend a corner on them after that. It went so far that when one of the new staff issued one to a customer in error, she (the bookkeeper) actually called the customer, informed them that we didn't have the correct plate or something, and got them to come in to do a swap. She just couldn't live with the thought of the evil things that would happen to them.
This also extended to cheques mailed in to us. If it was cheque #666, she would actually rip it up, and call the customer and say we never got the payment. If the amount of an insurance premium was $666.00, she had the whole staff trained to round it down to $665.00.
Ah, the fun we used to have trying to send anything her way that had 666 on it:)
I've always thought, if oldsters don't like being labelled as such, because it's discriminatory, then we can make them happy.
We'll treat them exactly the same as everyone else in society. No government paid money just for being old, no discounts at movies or restaurants, no subsidized housing, nothing.
Suddenly they don't seem to mind being called "old":)
Just like a certain college near me requires students attending to live in dorms the first couple of semesters and bans all sex, public display of affection, dancing between different sex people, and non-christian music
So what you're saying is, you live near a Christian college that encourages homosexual dancing?
Do people ever once *think* about how conflicting their rules and morals get once they try to restrict behaviour to this extent, or are they just hoping no one will catch on?
If you drink enough tonic water (say, in a Gin & Tonic), your urine has so much quinine in it that it will fluoresce under black light.
There was an underground/goth bar I went to a few times that had no lighting in the bathroom except for blacklights. Let me tell you, it's a sight to see (note: for full effect, pee standing up into a bowl).
Man, you're either really young, or not much of a music fan.
The iPod is like the Walkman of 20 years ago. The Walkman allowed us for the first time to really have portable music. How sweet was that, you could jog and not be stuck with radio! Pick whatever YOU want to listen to! It was a revolution.
The iPod, and other devices like it, extend and change that. Now, it's no longer "bring some music you like with you". It's "bring your entire music collection with you". No more carrying dozens of cassettes in your glove box. No more bitching about how your car only has slots for 10 jewel cases, and you're going on a road trip. No more having to listen to the same damn music when you're stuck on a really slow bus/train, and you're just trying to keep yourself upright, let alone worry about changing CDs/cassettes. Hell, I go for 4-8 hour hikes on a regular basis, and every pound saved is a blessing. Going to a party absolutely rocks, because I don't have to worry about what people will want to listen to. I can bring a THOUSAND ALBUMS, without cramming my trunk.
If you mean "it doesn't do anything special" because there are other hard drive based players on the market, then you don't grok geek. It's compact, it's sexy, it has a good interface. Kinda like why car buffs really drool over Ferraris (except for the compact issue:), even though there are many other car models out there.
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Stories like this get posted because the iPod is one of the most popular geek toys out there. And one of the coolest. Neat, different uses of cool toys - sounds like a Slashdotter's wet dream to me.
Seeing technology change people's behaviour also ranks up there for brownie points.
Sometimes it's nice to read something that isn't about in-fighting, the US government vs the tin foil hats, or some corporation doing yet another evil thing.
Don't mind the paper, though, because they're paying the bulk of the cost anyway and I have recycling at home.
I mind the paper.
Recycling or not, until you have a closed, 100% efficient system, printing something and then recycling it is still wasteful.
And even if they pay for it, who do you think ends up bearing the brunt of the cost? Their customers. A group that I am often included in, long before they decided to mail me.
I've also had times where the post office has held some of my mail because our mailbox fills with ulk mail in about 2 days on average. THAT is a hell of a lot more of a burden on my time than deleting some emails.
Mind you, I hate all of it. I'm an intelligent person, I can find out about your company on my own if I want to, thank you very much.
I'm not 100% sure where you were going with your comment, but as for
what is the ratio of "Windows machines that have been compromised to the "Administrator" level"
I'd say close to 100%, seeing as most Windows exploits, if not all, are of services that run at a privlege level HIGHER than Administrator (local system or some such name).
But RedHat bashing is old, man. It is, or at least up till 9 was, a great distro.
Everyone and their dog told me to try their distro of choice, and I've done most of the major ones. Debian still has that horrible installer which makes vi commands seem intuitive, Mandrake is.. well, Mandrake, and Slack was huge pain in the ass to get working properly.
Haven't tried LFS or Gentoo, because that seems like a lot of work to just use a computer. Suse neither, because the thought of re-downloading a gig or 2 every time I want to install just irritates the piss out of me.
RedHat installs nicely, things play well together, and the best part, it works flawlessly on my laptop (short of certain drivers that don't exist in any Linux distro - yet).
I've tried them (in fact, RedHat wasn't my first Linux), and I can most certainly say I didn't find other distros "much better".
Redhat wants us to develop and test fedora for free, turn around sell it to enteprise for big bucks
Test it for free?
The distro is free! They're giving you an entire operating system, plus a load of other goodies, gratis. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Try getting Microsoft to let you download free (beer only, mind you) copies of Windows and Office so that you can complain about free testing. Oh wait, we already do that for them:)
As for developers, you have a point. However, the party line seems to me to be "OSS developers do it because they like to develop", not for money. To me, I also look at the side benefits. If I was the guy who wrote the next KDE (or whatever), it'd help pad my resume to write "wrote application that millions of people use every day".
I mean, unless OSS moves to a license of "you can't sell this, to anyone, ever", this is how things are going to be. Anyone can take GPL/BSD licensed code and make money.
Notice the word "might". A customer "might" want RedHat to give them install CD's, provide technical support 24-7, and send over a team of RHCE's to install the software, all at no charge, on a 5000 node network.
My view of reasonable and this fictional customer's view of reasonable are very different, and so would RedHat's be.
I have friends who think GM should be reasonable and sell their cars for under $5,000. I doubt GM thinks that's reasonable.
You can't hate a company that doesn't automatically buckle to any customer's request, no matter how silly. RedHat is just playing it safe.
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I'm tired of fanatic movie fans who just can't accept it when others don't like their movies
:)
I hear you, brother (sister).
I've faithfully gone to see both LOTR movies so far, and will probably go to ROTK as well, but I have to admit: I just don't get it. For those who read the books, I'm sure it's nice to see it on the big screen. But for those like me who haven't, I honestly just don't see why these movies are being hailed as the second coming.
I didn't mind TTT as much, but it struck me as mostly mindless action. FOTR was a snooze fest. A bunch of action scenes intertwined with precisely what people hate about the Matrix: vagueness disguised as "deepness". The entire Liv Tyler thing went on for far too long, and didn't seem to have a point. The end was just abrupt; I dunno, guess everyone else saw it coming. And yes, I'm aware that "this is one 15 hour movie", or whatever the usual argument it against there being self-contained movies. I think I'm one of the few who honestly believe these movies could have been done at 2 hours each.
Not a troll at all, btw. The visuals were fantastic, except for the Ents looking a bit too CG for my tastes. But as far as movies go, I think I'm the only person on the planet who's been disappointed.
Now watch as your "fanatic movie fans" mod me down into oblivion
Unfortunately, this was just the usual "free tickets" type thing. I'm nobody special :(
I have to assume reviewers stop getting free passes if they EVER badmouth industry procedures though, because I've never once heard of something like this going on. And I read a lot of reviews. I can't honestly believe that people have ZERO problems with search and seizure of their persons just for going out on the town.
Then again, I think we already do it for sporting events...
Just leave a bucket I am sure everyone would be honest.
Ever seen a newspaper vending box? The old style, all mechanical, drop in your 50 cents and open the door, and there's a nice big pile of copies inside?
Those things are trivial to break into. As well, once one person buys a copy, he or she could remove the rest of the copies, and give/sell them out to other people.
Yet, the streets (around here anyway) are littered with them.
Yeah, you're right, people are never honest. They're always trying to screw anyone any way they can.
Yup, the record sales levels being set during the Napster years sure back up your sarcasm.
And hey! The movie studios are making more money than ever, and Kazaa is still going strong.
Imagine that.
I went to an advance screening last night for the first time in 5 years or so.
Printed on the back of the ticket was a 10 line disclaimer/EULA/warning about bringing in any "electronic recording equipment", claiming that my attending means I agree to have it confiscated if they find it (yeah, unsigned contracts always hold up in court!).
When we got to the theatre, we had our bags thoroughly searched (this is a leather attache case btw, and I was dressed in a suit and tie). They also ran a metal detector over us, and our bags. It was quite honestly as invasive as an airport screening area.
Then, when we sat down, the promotors did their shpiel, gave away some prizes, and went on a several minute tirade about how we shouldn't steal movies, we're hurting artists, etc. Anyone caught with a camera will be ejected and possible criminal charges brought against them. And (get this) if you see anyone else with a camera, please notify us immediately.
Finally, the movie starts, and I get to listen to another idiot telling me that downloading a movie is no different than stealing a chocolate bar.
I've never, ever felt more like a suspect in my life. After last night, I can understand why Blacks in the US complain about supposed random stops on the freeway. In fact, I almost expected a few police to be on hand.
Of course, for fun I poked around on Kazaa last night, and lo and behold, the movie was there. All it takes is one person, you morons, and inconveniencing and/or pissing off the MILLIONS of people who pay to see your movies is NOT a good way of doing business.
This is the final straw. It was bad enough last week seeing Master & Commander, and those damn brown spots were all over this one scene with mostly light-coloured backgrounds in it, so all I could do was sit there and think "Ok, enough with the dots!" and then lose track of what was going on with the movie.
I can't honesly see myself paying for another movie again, if this is how I'm going to be treated.
Oh, and in case anyone's curious, this happened in Canada. I guess we have our own MPAA equivalent here, or their reach is just that long.
Now that you've quoted me, I'm a little embarassed about the "speek" business. Oops.
I figured you were trying to balance the scales, due to the Slashdot obsession with talking about "free speach".
Ah well, that'd be rideculous.
Notice that he deliberately took a standard install from RedHat 9, something some IT person (Not a tr00 g33k) might buy at CompUSA. He then tried to install the provided product.
Ok, I'm confused. Everyone keeps justifying this "review" because "it comes with RH9, and only geeks would upgrade".
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if the reviewer went out and bought Windows, he'd have no spam filtering at all. If he bought ANY of these other products, he still has to go and get additional software and install it. I don't see how an upgrade is any harder or less geekier than installing an entirely new application.
If he's not comfortable being on the "bleeding edge", then why would he be going out and buying brand-new commercial software in the first place?
He used the expose feature to select the browser from the 10+ he had open at the time. The audience all went "Ooooooh"
Huh. Sounds like the reason why I prefer tabbed applications. 10 browser windows don't take up much space on the Windows taskbar if you use Opera (or Moz, if that's your thing).
I don't know what kind of screen resolution people run at, or just how many different applications people have open at any given time, but at 1024x768 and usually 10 apps (often with 5-10 tabs each), I have yet to ever have to search for what I want.
Does OSX make it that hard to see what you have open at a glance, and just click what you want? Or is there something I'm missing in amongst all the hoopla here?
Place I worked at had a very superstitious bookkepper. Oddly, not very religious. But she sure hated the "666" thing.
:)
Apparently it went back to when the boss had a license plate with "666" on it, and his car broke down twice in a year or something.
To add context, we were a license plate issuing place (I won't even try to describe it properly, because of all the different jurisdictions on Slashdot). License plates (here) are issued in numerical sequence, in batches of 50. It was a standing order for years that if we ever got in a box of 650-699, to inform the bookkeeper immediately. She would then go and return the plate as "defective".
Eventually, the folks who supplied them got pissed, so she went to the trouble of using pliers to bend a corner on them after that. It went so far that when one of the new staff issued one to a customer in error, she (the bookkeeper) actually called the customer, informed them that we didn't have the correct plate or something, and got them to come in to do a swap. She just couldn't live with the thought of the evil things that would happen to them.
This also extended to cheques mailed in to us. If it was cheque #666, she would actually rip it up, and call the customer and say we never got the payment. If the amount of an insurance premium was $666.00, she had the whole staff trained to round it down to $665.00.
Ah, the fun we used to have trying to send anything her way that had 666 on it
I've always thought, if oldsters don't like being labelled as such, because it's discriminatory, then we can make them happy.
:)
We'll treat them exactly the same as everyone else in society. No government paid money just for being old, no discounts at movies or restaurants, no subsidized housing, nothing.
Suddenly they don't seem to mind being called "old"
Give me a site with polls and commented stories!
We already have that; now we need to convince the rest of the Linux world that Slashdot is the end-all and be-all of Linux commentary.
Unfortunately, the next KDE version will ship with the goatse guy as the default wallpaper, but, you win some, you lose some...
an interesting variation of "message in a bottle."
.5mph trip across the Atlantic would.
Nah, it just *seemed* like that movie lasted as long as a
Because the things in the article go underwater, and are autonomous?
Just a guess.
Just like a certain college near me requires students attending to live in dorms the first couple of semesters and bans all sex, public display of affection, dancing between different sex people, and non-christian music
So what you're saying is, you live near a Christian college that encourages homosexual dancing?
Do people ever once *think* about how conflicting their rules and morals get once they try to restrict behaviour to this extent, or are they just hoping no one will catch on?
If you drink enough tonic water (say, in a Gin & Tonic), your urine has so much quinine in it that it will fluoresce under black light.
There was an underground/goth bar I went to a few times that had no lighting in the bathroom except for blacklights. Let me tell you, it's a sight to see (note: for full effect, pee standing up into a bowl).
telemarketers have changed tactics, their calls are now veiled in the guise of surveys and "charities"
And this is one of many reasons why I really think that ALL telemarketers should have to follow the DNC list.
I. Don't. Want. Unsolicited. Phone calls.
Now, how loud do I have to shout it before people will get a clue?
Man, you're either really young, or not much of a music fan.
:), even though there are many other car models out there.
The iPod is like the Walkman of 20 years ago. The Walkman allowed us for the first time to really have portable music. How sweet was that, you could jog and not be stuck with radio! Pick whatever YOU want to listen to! It was a revolution.
The iPod, and other devices like it, extend and change that. Now, it's no longer "bring some music you like with you". It's "bring your entire music collection with you". No more carrying dozens of cassettes in your glove box. No more bitching about how your car only has slots for 10 jewel cases, and you're going on a road trip. No more having to listen to the same damn music when you're stuck on a really slow bus/train, and you're just trying to keep yourself upright, let alone worry about changing CDs/cassettes. Hell, I go for 4-8 hour hikes on a regular basis, and every pound saved is a blessing. Going to a party absolutely rocks, because I don't have to worry about what people will want to listen to. I can bring a THOUSAND ALBUMS, without cramming my trunk.
If you mean "it doesn't do anything special" because there are other hard drive based players on the market, then you don't grok geek. It's compact, it's sexy, it has a good interface. Kinda like why car buffs really drool over Ferraris (except for the compact issue
Stories like this get posted because the iPod is one of the most popular geek toys out there. And one of the coolest. Neat, different uses of cool toys - sounds like a Slashdotter's wet dream to me.
Seeing technology change people's behaviour also ranks up there for brownie points.
Sometimes it's nice to read something that isn't about in-fighting, the US government vs the tin foil hats, or some corporation doing yet another evil thing.
The part you quoted made me chuckle.
:)
indemnify
To protect against damage, loss, or injury; insure.
To make compensation to for damage, loss, or injury suffered.
I'd say doing the complete opposite of indemnify Linux users qualifies as "a little different"
Don't mind the paper, though, because they're paying the bulk of the cost anyway and I have recycling at home.
I mind the paper.
Recycling or not, until you have a closed, 100% efficient system, printing something and then recycling it is still wasteful.
And even if they pay for it, who do you think ends up bearing the brunt of the cost? Their customers. A group that I am often included in, long before they decided to mail me.
I've also had times where the post office has held some of my mail because our mailbox fills with ulk mail in about 2 days on average. THAT is a hell of a lot more of a burden on my time than deleting some emails.
Mind you, I hate all of it. I'm an intelligent person, I can find out about your company on my own if I want to, thank you very much.
I'm not 100% sure where you were going with your comment, but as for
what is the ratio of "Windows machines that have been compromised to the "Administrator" level"
I'd say close to 100%, seeing as most Windows exploits, if not all, are of services that run at a privlege level HIGHER than Administrator (local system or some such name).
I agree with your summary of his comments 100%.
But RedHat bashing is old, man. It is, or at least up till 9 was, a great distro.
Everyone and their dog told me to try their distro of choice, and I've done most of the major ones. Debian still has that horrible installer which makes vi commands seem intuitive, Mandrake is.. well, Mandrake, and Slack was huge pain in the ass to get working properly.
Haven't tried LFS or Gentoo, because that seems like a lot of work to just use a computer. Suse neither, because the thought of re-downloading a gig or 2 every time I want to install just irritates the piss out of me.
RedHat installs nicely, things play well together, and the best part, it works flawlessly on my laptop (short of certain drivers that don't exist in any Linux distro - yet).
I've tried them (in fact, RedHat wasn't my first Linux), and I can most certainly say I didn't find other distros "much better".
YMMV
Redhat wants us to develop and test fedora for free, turn around sell it to enteprise for big bucks
:)
Test it for free?
The distro is free! They're giving you an entire operating system, plus a load of other goodies, gratis. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Try getting Microsoft to let you download free (beer only, mind you) copies of Windows and Office so that you can complain about free testing. Oh wait, we already do that for them
As for developers, you have a point. However, the party line seems to me to be "OSS developers do it because they like to develop", not for money. To me, I also look at the side benefits. If I was the guy who wrote the next KDE (or whatever), it'd help pad my resume to write "wrote application that millions of people use every day".
I mean, unless OSS moves to a license of "you can't sell this, to anyone, ever", this is how things are going to be. Anyone can take GPL/BSD licensed code and make money.
No, this is called reality.
Notice the word "might". A customer "might" want RedHat to give them install CD's, provide technical support 24-7, and send over a team of RHCE's to install the software, all at no charge, on a 5000 node network.
My view of reasonable and this fictional customer's view of reasonable are very different, and so would RedHat's be.
I have friends who think GM should be reasonable and sell their cars for under $5,000. I doubt GM thinks that's reasonable.
You can't hate a company that doesn't automatically buckle to any customer's request, no matter how silly. RedHat is just playing it safe.
I'm pretty sute I saw a copy of Catcher in the Rye sticking out of a Diebold official's pocket...