Sure the LOTR people deserved the awards they got. The visual effects and all that stuff was awesome..
But some of you are complaining over the fact that they did not win best picture or best director, and have all kinds of exuses for it. "Fantasy films will never win because they are not considered serious enough" etc.
Am I the only one here that thought that the movie was actually pretty weak? If I had not already read the books I wouldn't have had a clue to what was going on. You would need to make 3 movies out of each book to be able to cram enoug detail and background material in there to tell the whole story.
Who was it that said the LOTR story is not filmamble? Spielberg? Lucas? I think that whoever it was, they were right.
People from the bay area have been moving up to Sacramento (about 100 miles) away because of the high cost of living for a long time.
However, companies are not doing the same, and a lot of people end up keeping their old jobs and commuting every day.
Perhaps it's not as inexpensive in Sacramento as some other areas, but the cost of relocation would be significantly less, plus it would probably be easier to retain employees when it's not so far.
Actually I do suggest you do try again very soon.
Star Office about a year ago (5.1 or 5.2) was very functional and usable, but also very annoying.
I have tried out the 6.0 beta for a while and I am very happy with it considering it is only a beta.
For one it is much faster and they got rid of that annoying Star desktop.
The beta program is closed, so hopefully we should see the final 6.0 version soon, which should take care of the small problems I have seen so far.
Actually though, even though it is a beta, I rather work in Star Office even though I have Office 2000 on my windows machine. Star Office is a pleasure to use and I can use the same app on all the computers I use.
The new Star Office is a big step forward from version 5 so I suggest you give it a try once it is released.
Well, Linux may have better pipes, but we all know that Microsoft has lots of more money so they can afford to buy much better crack which more than makes up for the poor quality pipes.
Well, I don't know a whole lot about OSX or this theme tool. But I believe that this theme tool is open source, right? And it's using some of Apples unpublished API's right? I don't think it's the fact that you can make other themes for your mac that they object to but rather that the themes project is, with it's open source, in effect publishing API's that Apple doesn't want published.
How funny, the last reason the article mention is that a delayed release will hurt MS's corporate pride... If that happens everytime they release something behind the scheduled date they can't have much of that comodity left by now.
Imagine you're driving down the road and some jerk zooms up behind you. Now if you hit your brakes, you've actually CAUSED the ensuing accident. Let's leave legal responsibility to the lawyers. But common sense says you are responsible.
Err... Well, in traffic schol I was taught to keep enough distance to the veichle in front of me so that I can stop without slamming into it even though it might slam on it's brakes for whatever reason. Common sense says that the person who is following too closely to be able to stop is responsible for the accident. Sure it's undoubtably very stupid to just slam on your brakes for no reason while cruising down the freeway, but still, if you're so close you can't stop before you smash into the car in front of you there is no doubt who is in error.
The P3 is not a "spy-plane" it's an electronic surveilance plane.
If you are in your house using your cordless phone anyone that is in range of the radio waves transmitted from your phone can pick it up and listen to your conversation. This is not illegal.. You'd probably be mad, but that doesn't change the fact that whatever is brodcasted into the public domain is in the public domain.
This is done routinely for military intelligence gathering not only by the US but by virtually every country in the world from the groud as well as from the air or space. If you think that your country isn't doing the same "information gathering" you are very naive. I'm from a country in Europe and I know that my country "does it" and other countries does it to us. It's not spying, if I'm stupid enogh to broadcast sensitive information to anyone who listens then I have to realise it's not private information anymore.
"Any device, anywhere" view that Microsoft has been driving at for a while now (Auto PC, Pocket PC, Tablet PCs, Web TV, upcoming Stinger cell phone, and so on).
The apps don't live in the cloud, only the data does (well, apps may keep a replicating copy in the cloud, but you don't run the app from the cloud -- it runs from whatever device it can run on). In fact, the only app neccessary for most of this is a web browser.
And since the backend of all this runs on Microsoft software that means that every client that will use these services (disregarding of what they are or what OS they use) will have to pay Microsoft licensing fees...
Yep, souds like MS has lots of good stuff up their sleeves indeed.
The "friendly" radios have to be "synced" before they can start communicating with each other. Then they must have a common--and preferrably very, very secret (otherwise you kinda spoil the whole idea)--pattern of what frequencies to jump to at a particular time.
network that uses frequency-hopping technology to avoid communication intercepts and location-finding capability.
Actually, you can pinpoint a frequency-hopping source of transmission much more accurately than a single-frequency one (because you have all the different frequencies to compare).
You just need to have a scanner that is fast enough (which most military/intelligence organisations already have).
But more likely than that (IMHO), they'll get caught up in the Microcrap machine and stick with CE.
M$ has done it before. I'm sure HP's desktop division will get a little letter in the mail from M$ sayng that there is some "problems" with their licensing fees for Windows X?X? and thir license agreement will be suspended unlit it is sorted out.
That is basically what happened to IBM's Desktop division when their Software division was pushing OS/2 and SmartSuite..
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And after seeing the movie, we also know who is really responsible for sinking the Titanic.
Sure the LOTR people deserved the awards they got. The visual effects and all that stuff was awesome..
But some of you are complaining over the fact that they did not win best picture or best director, and have all kinds of exuses for it. "Fantasy films will never win because they are not considered serious enough" etc.
Am I the only one here that thought that the movie was actually pretty weak? If I had not already read the books I wouldn't have had a clue to what was going on. You would need to make 3 movies out of each book to be able to cram enoug detail and background material in there to tell the whole story.
Who was it that said the LOTR story is not filmamble? Spielberg? Lucas?
I think that whoever it was, they were right.
People from the bay area have been moving up to Sacramento (about 100 miles) away because of the high cost of living for a long time.
However, companies are not doing the same, and a lot of people end up keeping their old jobs and commuting every day.
Perhaps it's not as inexpensive in Sacramento as some other areas, but the cost of relocation would be significantly less, plus it would probably be easier to retain employees when it's not so far.
Actually, to heck with babelfish, using the only real translation tool.
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This is the correct translation:
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Actually I do suggest you do try again very soon.
Star Office about a year ago (5.1 or 5.2) was very functional and usable, but also very annoying.
I have tried out the 6.0 beta for a while and I am very happy with it considering it is only a beta.
For one it is much faster and they got rid of that annoying Star desktop.
The beta program is closed, so hopefully we should see the final 6.0 version soon, which should take care of the small problems I have seen so far.
Actually though, even though it is a beta, I rather work in Star Office even though I have Office 2000 on my windows machine. Star Office is a pleasure to use and I can use the same app on all the computers I use.
The new Star Office is a big step forward from version 5 so I suggest you give it a try once it is released.
Hmm, DSL and cable doesn't even seem like broadband compared to my fiber-to-house connection. Sacramento is finally in the front on something...
I heard on the radio that at midnight you will be able to get it at CompUSA here. Didn't they do that whole midnight thing with 95 and 98 as well.
Where? Where?
If they're giving them away I'll take one!
Well, Linux may have better pipes, but we all know that Microsoft has lots of more money so they can afford to buy much better crack which more than makes up for the poor quality pipes.
Yea, you would have a point there if it was the "no porn" part of the EULA that was in question here.
But now it is the "no dissing of Microsoft" part people are objecting to.
That's like Office Depot selling you pen and paper but prohibiting you from writing office depot sucks with it.
Well, I don't know a whole lot about OSX or this theme tool. But I believe that this theme tool is open source, right? And it's using some of Apples unpublished API's right?
I don't think it's the fact that you can make other themes for your mac that they object to but rather that the themes project is, with it's open source, in effect publishing API's that Apple doesn't want published.
How funny, the last reason the article mention is that a delayed release will hurt MS's corporate pride...
If that happens everytime they release something behind the scheduled date they can't have much of that comodity left by now.
The P3 is not a "spy-plane" it's an electronic surveilance plane.
If you are in your house using your cordless phone anyone that is in range of the radio waves transmitted from your phone can pick it up and listen to your conversation. This is not illegal.. You'd probably be mad, but that doesn't change the fact that whatever is brodcasted into the public domain is in the public domain.
This is done routinely for military intelligence gathering not only by the US but by virtually every country in the world from the groud as well as from the air or space. If you think that your country isn't doing the same "information gathering" you are very naive. I'm from a country in Europe and I know that my country "does it" and other countries does it to us. It's not spying, if I'm stupid enogh to broadcast sensitive information to anyone who listens then I have to realise it's not private information anymore.
Yep, souds like MS has lots of good stuff up their sleeves indeed.
The "friendly" radios have to be "synced" before they can start communicating with each other.
Then they must have a common--and preferrably very, very secret (otherwise you kinda spoil the whole idea)--pattern of what frequencies to jump to at a particular time.
You just need to have a scanner that is fast enough (which most military/intelligence organisations already have).
But more likely than that (IMHO), they'll get caught up in the Microcrap machine and stick with CE.
M$ has done it before. I'm sure HP's desktop division will get a little letter in the mail from M$ sayng that there is some "problems" with their licensing fees for Windows X?X? and thir license agreement will be suspended unlit it is sorted out.
That is basically what happened to IBM's Desktop division when their Software division was pushing OS/2 and SmartSuite..