If that were the case, I might have seen TPM a second time. And when I go shopping and see all of those "cute" Jar Jar T-shirts, dolls, and posters with Fat Bastard on there instead of Jar Jar, it would really make my day.
I saw a 4:15 showing of it yesterday, and it was complete with idiots chanting, "yeah baybee" throughout the 6 previews shown, and 11-16 year old kiddies running rampant. The movie itself was cheezy as hell, but it was supposed to be that way. The original, as everyone knows, was a comical parody of 60's spy flicks, and the sequel was obviously based around the same thing. It amuses me to hear people say that it was unoriginal and predictable. It was SUPPOSED to be all of that. However, at the same time, it was very creatively written and directed. The character acting of Austin Powers and Dr. Evil were excellent, and Felicity Shagwell and Fat Bastard actually had me laughing out loud. It's simply a great movie. I'd definitely see this movie again before seeing The Phantom Menace again. And no, I'm not smoking crack.
Yes, RedHat will revolutionize the software industry by snuffing out the competition. Sound familiar? As far as my experiences with RH go, I am constantly kicking myself for ever being talked into going RH, when another (once) popular distro was more than adequate. I've had RH4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2. Shows you how much a sucker I've been, eh? Never a flawless install. I've gotten lazy, turned into the Microsoft-type drone and accepted it as normal. As for support for the dozens of mishaps I've had (RH shipping bug-laden software/rare hardware failures/etc) I've not ONCE gotten a reply from RedHat. Seven letters out, zero letters in. And I paid the extra bucks for this thing they call support? Again, it sounds all too familiar.
Just a week or two ago, wasn't it announced that Micro$oft was starting up an Anti-Linux group? So they're Anti-Linux, yet developing software for it. Hence, users should be quite wary about this. They never cease to amaze me.
It sure was meant to be taken seriously. With all the privacy invading tracking "features" already included in the most popular M$ products, I don't want any of that to affect me. Hence, I don't use Micro$oft crap, nor will I in the future. M$ has been tracking users for years, yet it was unraveled not too long ago, and of course, they lied about it by saying, "Oh, that was a feature that was supposed to have been turned off" and whatnot. It's hard enough trusting my machines at work that have M$ OSs on, but when I rely on my home PCs (not as replaceable), I'm not going to chance M$ copping a peek at my data.
The main reason I don't use any Micro$oft products is because I never appreciated M$ trashing my data. I run Linux now and am proud to say I am M$-free. I would never take the chance of putting IE for Linux on my machine. Who knows what sort of nasty code will be in there. Such as code to steal your/etc/passwd, as one example. Would anybody actually trust this?
"No signs of forced entry." Of course not, since it was an inside job. The film may be 'worth' $60,000, but they'd more than recoup their losses by bootlegging it.
Nintendo has good reasoning behind why they did it. Then again, maybe not. The only way I can see emulators as illegal is if they infringe upon the copyright holder. That is, "SNES9x, a fully fledged Super Nintendo Entertainment System" without permission from Nintendo to use their name or even a blurb about "SNES(tm) is a respective trademark of Nintendo..." What if you shelled out 50 bucks back in the day for Super Punchout! and your dog knocked over a 40 of Mickey's into your SNES cartridge collection and ruined them all? Does this mean you should never play those games again? Even though you shelled out, say, 10 x $50 = $500 for those games? That's bullshit. Same applies for people getting on my back for copying my CDs. I have my entire 250+ CD collection stored as mp3s on my computer. Every single song. If I can't play or rip a song from a CD, I download it. I'm not going to spend another 12 bucks for a CD I already own... So essentially Nintendo is saying that if you never played a vintage game and don't know a friend who has the original system, you're screwed. Sorry, but that doesn't jive with me. I LOVE classic games, yet I don't have the time nor energy to search through every rummage/garage sale finding these classic beauties. And Nintendo DOESN'T EVEN MAKE THEM ANYMORE. So I'm just supposed to forget about those games and should be led to believe that they no longer exist? Yeah right. And considering Nintendo's software warranty is something ridiculously low like 90 days. Spend 70 bucks on a N64 game, and on the off chance that it does fuck up, you have to plop down another 70 bucks? Hell no. Nintendo can kiss my ass. Then they can raid my safety deposit box with every NES/SNES/GB backed up on CDR. Dolts.
When a well known band or individual does a commercial for the gap, that entity has officially sold out. Aerosmith, Run DMC, and LL Cool J have all sold out. I've always had the gut feeling that Metallica would be next on The Gap sell out list, because their (new) music sucks now, and the only way to get people back into it is to turn to The Gap. As far as I know, Lucas has no affiliation with The Gap, so he hasn't officially sold out...... Yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when Taco Bell (and KFC/PH) "sponsor" a movie, doesn't that movie end up sucking ass? I can only recall Congo and Godzilla right now. Any other sucky movies that PepsiCo has "sponsored?" And don't say SW:TPM, because everyone knows Colonel Sanders is a bad ass, with or without a lightsaber.
"* No OEM guarantees uptime on Linux systems" I don't see how any OEM could guarantee uptime on any system, specifically NT systems. My Linux server has been up for 137 days now, with 99.9% CPU being used. I would love to see a) An NT server be up for for 100+ days, and b) An NT server being up for more than 30 days with 99.9% CPU, and c) NT being able to do something better than Linux. Not happening.
The Internet is definitely infinitely expandable, but that doesn't matter. The bigger it gets, the more crappy it's going to get. Most people do not know how to write decent web pages, and most people don't know anything about worthy content. If I'm looking for an mp3 because a CD of mine is scratched beyond ripping capability, I have to wade through dozens of porno-pop-up-pages and hordes of broken links. I'm better off spending another 12 bucks for the same CD than looking for one track off of it. That is just one example. Another great example is when looking for, say, a simple text file, and the page loads a 200K GIF/JPG as the background. The page could have loaded in a second, but instead takes up to a minute... or more... For plain text, that's absurd. How many 404's have you run into in the last 24 hours? Quite a few, I'm sure. As far as 'intellectual property' goes, all the power to them. If someone wants to build up a character for a year, only to auction it off later, that's fine by me. I certainly wouldn't buy it. I don't know any sane people who would. Isn't part of the fun of gaming working to build your character up? If people want to waste their money through laziness, go nuts. Or better yet, go outside. The Internet is probably 75% toxic waste. It's a pain in the ass to wade through the toxic waste to get to the gold mines...
I first heard about these 5 or 6 years ago back in the days of living with roommates. One of the two was a tremendous bullshitter and managed to acquire a demo of those type of speakers. The only reason he wanted them was to piss off the upstairs neighbor because he was a dick. Apparently they worked too well, because 7 days later, we got an eviction notice. But anyway, they cost a pretty penny back then, but now only $60. Definitely worth looking into now.
This is freakin' scary stuff. Like previously stated, muggings would be of great ease, and corrupt government figures abusing it as well... Bad cops bad cops. Whatcha gonna do. Whatcha gonna do when they freeze ray you?
That's why it kicks ass to have friends that work at theaters. I saw the three Star Wars rereleases (2 years ago?) at an 'employee only' showing at 12:01AM for each flick. A friend of mine just started working at one of the theaters that managed to get 2 prints of Phantom Menace, so I'm there too. The best thing about the 3 re-releases was the fact that open intoxicants and tobacco (and wacky tobaccy for that matter) were permitted. Life is good.:)
While over a thousand people requested more information, 233 people didn't. The site had nothing to back any of it's claims. These 233 people were going to dump $10,000 to $50,000 a piece with minimal information about it??? Essentially giving money away? I know a lot of people are gullible, but hot damn... If they're just going to give money away, my address is _________________.
There's a few reasons I can't do that. First off, Time Warner sends a time signal through the entire cable system to automatically set converter boxes to the correct time. Secondly, the shows actually do start 2-3 minutes before the hour. On those two networks (WB and UPN), the non-prime-time shows are the only ones that broadcast a few minutes earlier. Prime-time gets broadcast at the correct time. And the TW time signal is, in fact, the correct time, +/- 15 seconds. It's just darn annoying, and it's been like that for years...
Say I wanted to tape all Simpsons episodes. On channel 24 (UPN?) in Milwaukee, they air Simpsons episodes at 6PM. However, the show actually starts at 5:57 or 5:58. Likewise, when channel 18 (WB) airs Simpsons at 10PM, it's actually 9:58. How can these devices handle these broadcast time errors?
That's pretty much what I wrote yesterday, and I too don't want to repeat myself. When I was in high school, I made it a better place, at least for myself. I learned how to deal with the social injustices in subtle ways. I was an outcast. I was a geek. At first, I hated 90% of the jocks, 90% of the preppy bitchy cheerleaders, and 90% of the rest of the classes. It was the 10% of each that I managed to get along with that eventually saved my ass. Although I was a geek, my status went from the bottom of the barrel to close to the top... Just because I decided not to hate whoever was not like me, which was everyone... By the time I graduated, I had special privileges that nobody else had, and I was by no means an ass-kisser. But I had teachers eating out of my hand, the Bottomless Hall Pass (meaning I never needed one), and I could take 2 hour lunches if I wanted to. In the end, those 90% of people I wanted nothing to do with turned to 10%. I made it a better place. I went back to that high school one year later to visit some teachers. Most of the boys turned into wiggers, and a lot of the girls turned into wigger chicks. Vandalism was rampant. Major thefts occured (like stealing an entire lab's worth of computers), arson, blowing up toilets, breaking windows, and all that. In the matter of one year. I'm just glad I got out when I did...
It irks me to see the nation going after trenchcoats and video games. That is not the problem. The problem lies with the schools themselves. The social order, or cliques. Jocks and preps/cheerleaders are on the top. The "weirdos" are on the bottom. If you were to be looked down on by a jock, would you actually look up to a jock? But of course, because Harris and Klebold played Doom/Quake/whatever and wore trenchcoats, parents are taking computers away from their children, schools/cities are banning trenchcoats, video game makers are being criticized, yet the social order will remain the same. Schools are too fucked up, and the pecking order WILL NEVER CHANGE. So let's ban trenchcoats and whatnot even though that's not the problem. It's sickening to see my elders, people I'm supposed to respect, making these braindead decisions. Argh. Period.
I've been getting sick and tired of seeing all Linux growth articles focusing only on Red Hat. The article I just read states that 'nobody owns Linux,' but it's quite obvious that Red Hat is trying to snuff out other distributions. It sickens me when Linux newbies (or wanna-be's) assume that Red Hat *IS* Linux, and Linux *IS* Red Hat. Just like with Micro$oft, they know of no alternatives. Plus, investors are throwing cash at Red Hat. They're not investing in Linux per se, but just Red Hat. Pretty soon, the other slick distros (which, coincidentally, ARE better than RH's distros) will be no more. Everything will be Red Hat. I don't like that. While Red Hat may be a "cool" company in the sense of employee appearance, they're not cool in the fact that they're trying to clean up shop and horde Linux. It's happening, yet too many people don't realize it. It is a bad thing.
When I'm done watching TV, I hit the big green power button on my receiver's remote, and it powers down the TV, VCR, and receiver all at once. The cable box is always turned on. Does this mean if I'm gone for a week that I watched 168 hours of Sci-Fi because I never turned the box off? If this ever does roll out in my area, that's when I cancel my cable. It is nobody's business what I watch and when I watch it. Even with the "...if you read the fine print you can get out of it" crap, I'm sure Time Warner would find some way of making me use something I don't want to. And of course, since I have 11 TV Guide channels (TWHT1-5, DIS, CMX, TMC, SHO, HBO + actual TV Guide channel) because I don't dig movie channels, if I leave the station on a scrambled channel such as one of those, would that arouse suspicion of theft? After all, that's 168 hours of TV Guide, but set to a pay station... Bah.
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If that were the case, I might have seen TPM a second time. And when I go shopping and see all of those "cute" Jar Jar T-shirts, dolls, and posters with Fat Bastard on there instead of Jar Jar, it would really make my day.
I found it quite comical that the most evil coffee company is also owned by one Dr. Evil. :)
I saw a 4:15 showing of it yesterday, and it was complete with idiots chanting, "yeah baybee" throughout the 6 previews shown, and 11-16 year old kiddies running rampant. The movie itself was cheezy as hell, but it was supposed to be that way. The original, as everyone knows, was a comical parody of 60's spy flicks, and the sequel was obviously based around the same thing.
It amuses me to hear people say that it was unoriginal and predictable. It was SUPPOSED to be all of that. However, at the same time, it was very creatively written and directed. The character acting of Austin Powers and Dr. Evil were excellent, and Felicity Shagwell and Fat Bastard actually had me laughing out loud.
It's simply a great movie. I'd definitely see this movie again before seeing The Phantom Menace again. And no, I'm not smoking crack.
Yes, RedHat will revolutionize the software industry by snuffing out the competition. Sound familiar?
As far as my experiences with RH go, I am constantly kicking myself for ever being talked into going RH, when another (once) popular distro was more than adequate. I've had RH4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2. Shows you how much a sucker I've been, eh?
Never a flawless install. I've gotten lazy, turned into the Microsoft-type drone and accepted it as normal. As for support for the dozens of mishaps I've had (RH shipping bug-laden software/rare hardware failures/etc) I've not ONCE gotten a reply from RedHat. Seven letters out, zero letters in. And I paid the extra bucks for this thing they call support?
Again, it sounds all too familiar.
Just a week or two ago, wasn't it announced that Micro$oft was starting up an Anti-Linux group?
So they're Anti-Linux, yet developing software for it. Hence, users should be quite wary about this.
They never cease to amaze me.
It sure was meant to be taken seriously. With all the privacy invading tracking "features" already included in the most popular M$ products, I don't want any of that to affect me. Hence, I don't use Micro$oft crap, nor will I in the future. M$ has been tracking users for years, yet it was unraveled not too long ago, and of course, they lied about it by saying, "Oh, that was a feature that was supposed to have been turned off" and whatnot.
It's hard enough trusting my machines at work that have M$ OSs on, but when I rely on my home PCs (not as replaceable), I'm not going to chance M$ copping a peek at my data.
The main reason I don't use any Micro$oft products is because I never appreciated M$ trashing my data. I run Linux now and am proud to say I am M$-free. I would never take the chance of putting IE for Linux on my machine. Who knows what sort of nasty code will be in there. Such as code to steal your /etc/passwd, as one example. Would anybody actually trust this?
"No signs of forced entry." Of course not, since it was an inside job. The film may be 'worth' $60,000, but they'd more than recoup their losses by bootlegging it.
Nintendo has good reasoning behind why they did it. Then again, maybe not. The only way I can see emulators as illegal is if they infringe upon the copyright holder.
That is, "SNES9x, a fully fledged Super Nintendo Entertainment System" without permission from Nintendo to use their name or even a blurb about "SNES(tm) is a respective trademark of Nintendo..."
What if you shelled out 50 bucks back in the day for Super Punchout! and your dog knocked over a 40 of Mickey's into your SNES cartridge collection and ruined them all? Does this mean you should never play those games again? Even though you shelled out, say, 10 x $50 = $500 for those games? That's bullshit. Same applies for people getting on my back for copying my CDs. I have my entire 250+ CD collection stored as mp3s on my computer. Every single song. If I can't play or rip a song from a CD, I download it. I'm not going to spend another 12 bucks for a CD I already own...
So essentially Nintendo is saying that if you never played a vintage game and don't know a friend who has the original system, you're screwed.
Sorry, but that doesn't jive with me. I LOVE classic games, yet I don't have the time nor energy to search through every rummage/garage sale finding these classic beauties. And Nintendo DOESN'T EVEN MAKE THEM ANYMORE. So I'm just supposed to forget about those games and should be led to believe that they no longer exist? Yeah right. And considering Nintendo's software warranty is something ridiculously low like 90 days. Spend 70 bucks on a N64 game, and on the off chance that it does fuck up, you have to plop down another 70 bucks? Hell no.
Nintendo can kiss my ass. Then they can raid my safety deposit box with every NES/SNES/GB backed up on CDR. Dolts.
When a well known band or individual does a commercial for the gap, that entity has officially sold out.
Aerosmith, Run DMC, and LL Cool J have all sold out. I've always had the gut feeling that Metallica would be next on The Gap sell out list, because their (new) music sucks now, and the only way to get people back into it is to turn to The Gap.
As far as I know, Lucas has no affiliation with The Gap, so he hasn't officially sold out......
Yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when Taco Bell (and KFC/PH) "sponsor" a movie, doesn't that movie end up sucking ass?
I can only recall Congo and Godzilla right now. Any other sucky movies that PepsiCo has "sponsored?"
And don't say SW:TPM, because everyone knows Colonel Sanders is a bad ass, with or without a lightsaber.
"* No OEM guarantees uptime on Linux systems"
I don't see how any OEM could guarantee uptime on any system, specifically NT systems.
My Linux server has been up for 137 days now, with 99.9% CPU being used.
I would love to see a) An NT server be up for for 100+ days, and b) An NT server being up for more than 30 days with 99.9% CPU, and c) NT being able to do something better than Linux.
Not happening.
The Internet is definitely infinitely expandable, but that doesn't matter. The bigger it gets, the more crappy it's going to get. Most people do not know how to write decent web pages, and most people don't know anything about worthy content.
If I'm looking for an mp3 because a CD of mine is scratched beyond ripping capability, I have to wade through dozens of porno-pop-up-pages and hordes of broken links. I'm better off spending another 12 bucks for the same CD than looking for one track off of it.
That is just one example. Another great example is when looking for, say, a simple text file, and the page loads a 200K GIF/JPG as the background. The page could have loaded in a second, but instead takes up to a minute... or more... For plain text, that's absurd.
How many 404's have you run into in the last 24 hours? Quite a few, I'm sure.
As far as 'intellectual property' goes, all the power to them. If someone wants to build up a character for a year, only to auction it off later, that's fine by me. I certainly wouldn't buy it. I don't know any sane people who would. Isn't part of the fun of gaming working to build your character up? If people want to waste their money through laziness, go nuts.
Or better yet, go outside.
The Internet is probably 75% toxic waste. It's a pain in the ass to wade through the toxic waste to get to the gold mines...
I first heard about these 5 or 6 years ago back in the days of living with roommates. One of the two was a tremendous bullshitter and managed to acquire a demo of those type of speakers. The only reason he wanted them was to piss off the upstairs neighbor because he was a dick. Apparently they worked too well, because 7 days later, we got an eviction notice.
But anyway, they cost a pretty penny back then, but now only $60. Definitely worth looking into now.
This is freakin' scary stuff. Like previously stated, muggings would be of great ease, and corrupt government figures abusing it as well...
Bad cops bad cops. Whatcha gonna do. Whatcha gonna do when they freeze ray you?
That's why it kicks ass to have friends that work at theaters. I saw the three Star Wars rereleases (2 years ago?) at an 'employee only' showing at 12:01AM for each flick. :)
A friend of mine just started working at one of the theaters that managed to get 2 prints of Phantom Menace, so I'm there too.
The best thing about the 3 re-releases was the fact that open intoxicants and tobacco (and wacky tobaccy for that matter) were permitted.
Life is good.
While over a thousand people requested more information, 233 people didn't. The site had nothing to back any of it's claims. These 233 people were going to dump $10,000 to $50,000 a piece with minimal information about it??? Essentially giving money away? I know a lot of people are gullible, but hot damn...
If they're just going to give money away, my address is _________________.
There's a few reasons I can't do that. First off, Time Warner sends a time signal through the entire cable system to automatically set converter boxes to the correct time. Secondly, the shows actually do start 2-3 minutes before the hour. On those two networks (WB and UPN), the non-prime-time shows are the only ones that broadcast a few minutes earlier. Prime-time gets broadcast at the correct time. And the TW time signal is, in fact, the correct time, +/- 15 seconds.
It's just darn annoying, and it's been like that for years...
Say I wanted to tape all Simpsons episodes. On channel 24 (UPN?) in Milwaukee, they air Simpsons episodes at 6PM. However, the show actually starts at 5:57 or 5:58. Likewise, when channel 18 (WB) airs Simpsons at 10PM, it's actually 9:58. How can these devices handle these broadcast time errors?
That's pretty much what I wrote yesterday, and I too don't want to repeat myself.
When I was in high school, I made it a better place, at least for myself. I learned how to deal with the social injustices in subtle ways. I was an outcast. I was a geek. At first, I hated 90% of the jocks, 90% of the preppy bitchy cheerleaders, and 90% of the rest of the classes. It was the 10% of each that I managed to get along with that eventually saved my ass. Although I was a geek, my status went from the bottom of the barrel to close to the top... Just because I decided not to hate whoever was not like me, which was everyone... By the time I graduated, I had special privileges that nobody else had, and I was by no means an ass-kisser. But I had teachers eating out of my hand, the Bottomless Hall Pass (meaning I never needed one), and I could take 2 hour lunches if I wanted to. In the end, those 90% of people I wanted nothing to do with turned to 10%.
I made it a better place.
I went back to that high school one year later to visit some teachers.
Most of the boys turned into wiggers, and a lot of the girls turned into wigger chicks.
Vandalism was rampant. Major thefts occured (like stealing an entire lab's worth of computers), arson, blowing up toilets, breaking windows, and all that.
In the matter of one year.
I'm just glad I got out when I did...
It irks me to see the nation going after trenchcoats and video games. That is not the problem. The problem lies with the schools themselves. The social order, or cliques.
Jocks and preps/cheerleaders are on the top. The "weirdos" are on the bottom. If you were to be looked down on by a jock, would you actually look up to a jock?
But of course, because Harris and Klebold played Doom/Quake/whatever and wore trenchcoats, parents are taking computers away from their children, schools/cities are banning trenchcoats, video game makers are being criticized, yet the social order will remain the same.
Schools are too fucked up, and the pecking order WILL NEVER CHANGE.
So let's ban trenchcoats and whatnot even though that's not the problem.
It's sickening to see my elders, people I'm supposed to respect, making these braindead decisions.
Argh.
Period.
Heh. See my previous post in the replies to ZD on Red Hat... :)
I've been getting sick and tired of seeing all Linux growth articles focusing only on Red Hat. The article I just read states that 'nobody owns Linux,' but it's quite obvious that Red Hat is trying to snuff out other distributions. It sickens me when Linux newbies (or wanna-be's) assume that Red Hat *IS* Linux, and Linux *IS* Red Hat. Just like with Micro$oft, they know of no alternatives.
Plus, investors are throwing cash at Red Hat. They're not investing in Linux per se, but just Red Hat. Pretty soon, the other slick distros (which, coincidentally, ARE better than RH's distros) will be no more. Everything will be Red Hat.
I don't like that. While Red Hat may be a "cool" company in the sense of employee appearance, they're not cool in the fact that they're trying to clean up shop and horde Linux. It's happening, yet too many people don't realize it. It is a bad thing.
rpm -i --force --nodepends DamnIWishIWouldaGottenTheTarballInstead.rpm
Pretty sweet, but $1500 to $5000? Unless they'd consider giving me one of them bad boys (yeah right), I'll have to pass
When I'm done watching TV, I hit the big green power button on my receiver's remote, and it powers down the TV, VCR, and receiver all at once. The cable box is always turned on. Does this mean if I'm gone for a week that I watched 168 hours of Sci-Fi because I never turned the box off?
If this ever does roll out in my area, that's when I cancel my cable. It is nobody's business what I watch and when I watch it. Even with the "...if you read the fine print you can get out of it" crap, I'm sure Time Warner would find some way of making me use something I don't want to. And of course, since I have 11 TV Guide channels (TWHT1-5, DIS, CMX, TMC, SHO, HBO + actual TV Guide channel) because I don't dig movie channels, if I leave the station on a scrambled channel such as one of those, would that arouse suspicion of theft? After all, that's 168 hours of TV Guide, but set to a pay station...
Bah.