Microsoft wants to move to a world where THEY decide what software a computer runs because that will allow them to extract the most money from consumers. They'll position this product with a comforting sounding name like "trustworthy" computing and tout the benefits, but it's really about shifting power over an individual's PC from the buyer to Microsoft. Microsoft will put up a permission gate before any software can be installed which will have a fee associated with it. It will ultimately give Microsoft control over a user's computer.
This is the first step in something like this becoming a reality. Control the hardware before you control the software.
Remember that story where microsoft wants to implement "classes" of pcs? Like "This game will only run on Class A or better machines"? This is a start, if only halfway.
This scares the hell out of me, and think long and hard about what the implications of such an act can cause if this becomes "mainstream".
3. We're gonna have to buy it all again after the fourth movie comes out, right?
No, of course not. We're going to tell everyone not to buy it and shout from the rafters at how terrible all of this rechristening of our favorite films have become..
.. while we quietly sneak away to Best Buy for another "All New Digital Transfer" and "DTS enhanced Sountrack" that we keep in our closets because any respectable geek wouldn't succumb to such blatant marketing.
I'm sure you're not aware, but Spielburg has NEVER, EVER done a commentary track. And he doesn't plan on it.
Lawrence Bouzereau is his faithful documentary guy, and he has done the docs on Schindler's List, Jaws, Jurrasic Park, [insert Spielburg flick here] and will be (I'm sure) doing one for this set.
Spielberg likes to allow the movie to speak for itself, though ironically he does do film school commentaries with an audience, to explain as best he can what he was trying to accomplish.
Spielberg, however, won't allow these types of commentaries to be included.
The press release says its because of bandwith issues, and that's simply a lie. No commentary, a small Dolby Digital 2.0 track, would ever take enough space to truly harm the picture.
Besides, video and audiophiles get their bandwidth-filled goodness with the Superbit line, something Paramount has yet to embrace. For now they simply say they leave off commentaries and exciting extras on each disc because "the picture will look better."
Of course, The Godfather has 9 hours of commentary, and you didn't hear them screaming "picture quality forever!" on that release, now did you?
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The difference is this doesn't rape system resources and it doesn't force web-only content. Active Desktop on a late 1998-1999 system (around when IE4 was released) would slow even the best machine to a crawl.
You can also use different languages (perl and python, from what I gather) to output/input information. Pretty neat stuff.
quote: ------------ Sure, it's easy enough to count the folks in any given room and make the decision to turn the lights off when the last person leaves, but what if I like the lights bright and my wife doesn't? If I'm in the room with the lights bright and she walks in, should it dim the lights? Pick some point between our two references? Same goes for TV channels/volume, room temp, etc. ------------
- You would willingly have to enter this machine - Its too big and bulky - It is too slow to detect many changes in brain activity
Just as a counterpoint, think about these reasons in regards to running arcade games on your home pc, circa 1988 or so:
- You wouldn't get the resolution\speed of the original machine - The program is too big and bulky (ie, not enough HD space) - Current PCs are too slow to respond/detect the rapid controller movements/configurations required to play such a game at home.
Now, with the right amount of initiative and backing, who knows how fast this thing will shrink/speed up to where its almost undetectable.
I was listening to NPR the other day which focused on DNA as a computer.
The guy interviewed correllated the DNA genetic map to spaghetti code, a programmers worst nightmare. Apparently all through the genetic make-up of our bodies are "fuction calls" (to put it simply) and pathways that reference other calls and other pathways, over and over upon itself for a hundred million lines.
Its not the listing of the GTAC code (ie, genetic map) that's really necessary. Though of course it plays a part. Its the understanding of such code, what it does and what it controls, where power lies.
The guys interviewed all guessed it would be a hundred years or more before we began truly understanding what "functions" do what in the DNA strand and how it affects the organism in question.
The 13th Floor was also the worst movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a LOT of movies. From the USA Late Night flicks to Kurosawa.
And nothing, other than that one-two punch of feces from Chris O'Donnel (Batman Forever and The Bachelor), could top that.
The difference is that I never saw those movies in the theater. I never paid my hard earned cash for the privilege of seeing those films on the bigscreen.
And when I couldn't take it anymore, when I just couldn't stand the terribleness of it, I had to go.
That was the only movie I ever walked out of. It was that bad.
And if anyone's ever seen it (God help you), I'm sure you too would relate to the sickening feeling of throwing down full price evening tickets, popcorn and a drink on a turd such as The 13th Floor.
Starvation today isn't caused by lack of food, but lack of food distribution, fuelled among others by IMF policies (IMF has for ages pushed for high revenue crops such as coffee and tobacco instead of food in the 3rd world) and anti dumping measures in the west.
Add to that that most GM food is sold in the industrialized countries, and your idea of GM food saving lives becomes ridiculous.
Don't you understand you just nulled your own argument? GM food is saving lives because the excess found in industrialized nations is not being distributed. This means that if we can get the local farmers in troubled areas to use GM crops, then they will produce more food for their family and surrounding areas. Then the trouble (and money required) to move all this extra food around won't be required.
That extra 130% isn't getting where it is needed because of greed and politics. So we can make 200% more than what's needed, but if it can't get to starving people its all for naut.
Zimbabwe has always been one of the largest food exporters in Africa. A large part of their market is the EU and other countries that have strict rules on import on GM food. If any of the imported grain had been replanted in Zimbabwe, it would have been a disaster for the countries food export as they would have faced severe restrictions on export to a wide range of countries.
Again, the argument collapses on itself. That food would've saved thousands of lives but, on account of greed and politics, was denied. Even if it was later accepted, people died in its delay. And that is not acceptable in my book.
The term Frankenfood is just another useless word by which none of the environmentalists can back up.
You see, I too thought that they spliced animal and plant genes together to make better producing crops.
But not so. This is what they would have you believe.
I'm not Flamebaiting, and I'm not Trolling. I was honestly surprised at what I learned from this episode of this show (which is great, btw), and how the only spliced genes in plants are from other plants.
Yes, really. Regardless of what Greenpeace would have you believe.
The environmentalists have made us think that genetically altered food is as bad as can be, and that we should stay away from it. That it's not regulated in any form or fashion. That the food industry runs amok with itself, feeding the world with whatever they can come up with in their Mad Scentist Labs.
But this is completely false. Any GM food is regulated far more than regular food, and these GM foods can save lives.
Dr. Borlog, the scientist who invented GM food, has saved an estimated billion lives in third world countries by making less land make more food. His research and development since the 1970's, when it began, is groundbreaking to say the least. And yet there are groups who protest this on a consistent basis. And you never see any of these group's members starving, do you?
A true tragedy was when an African country decided not to take an American donation of tons of corn because the environmentalists convinced the government of that nation that the genetically altered food was poison. An estimated 25,000 people die every day of starvation, and thousands of innocent people died in that country because of that misinformation.
Now I'm not for a GATTACA like society, but if we can GM a person so they don't get Downs Syndrome, or Cystic Fibrosis, I'm all for it. Most people are against it for moral reasons, not scientific ones.
These kinds of arguments hurt others whether they mean to or not.
It was made by the same group who produced RtCW, and Enemry Territory was going to be the big expansion everyone wanted. Unfortunately cost overruns and time forced it to be cut short, but they graciously decided to finish what was there and release it to the world.
They've already paid the licensing fee for the engine, and since they're using the same engine here, they don't have to pay for it again.
You're not getting any of the RtCW content, which is single and multiplayer, so they're not losing money there. And since this is a multiplayer-only mod, it can only boost sales of the existing retail product.
I too started a blog, and its prior incarnation. The reason I have a "prior incarnation" is becuase 1) I changed formats, and 2) I really, really pissed someone off.
Here's what happened:
My best friend was getting married, and I was invited to be one of the groomsmen. I'm cool with that, very excited to be a part of it, etc etc.
Well, during, before, and after the ceremony the bride's mother just got on my nerves. [politically correctness]She generally acted in a very non-friendly way[/politically correctness].
And a day later, after coming down with a cold, and pumped full of cold/flu meds, I re-iterated this truth in my blog, albeit a bit too unfriendly.
You see when I started a blog I wanted to be truthful. I didn't want to worry about holding back, about letting off the pressure a bit so I wouldn't offend people. I wanted to let my thoughts be known, no matter what.
Well, this will backfire for anyone. I promise. That is why this idea is f*cking brilliant.
You can't be brutally honest (such as, say, calling your best friend's new mother in law a bitch) without suffering repurcussions. Such as hateful, bodily-harm threatening email from the bride (and family).
So from then on I had to censor my posts, put my attitude and ideas in check and make sure they're in accordance with the Friendly Blog Act. This means you can't say anything too hurtful or truthful for fear of it affecting other areas of your life.
Was my friendship affected by the post? Sure. But it affected him far more than it affected me. That was the real hurt. Knowing that my words caused him grief, caused him to deal with the bride's family backlash, to try and make up for my stupid ass mistake.
With a service such as this I can tell the truth, change a few names, and no one ever know the wiser. Of course, if I get too specific I can get busted, but considering the amount of blogs this could generate, I'm not that worried about it. I can't wait to sign up and try it out, completely anonymous and completely guilt-free of any posts I might have to put up there.
Blog's can harm kids, remember. If its not your friends it may be the job interview, your future supervisor googling up your name and holding you responsible for some post you made while drunk out of your mind.
Not that I would know...or anything.
"So, you said last March you...'Love the pot.' Can you elaborate on that?"
Is it just me, or is this another great reason to buy cheaper, better network equipment from someone else?
Uh, like who? Who else makes equipment as dependable, and most especially, has the most kick-ass support I've ever come across.
True story:
I once had a router go out on me, a little 1600. Being clueless (well, mostly harmless as Mr. Adams would say) about em, I could telnet it and see that the flash memory had gone bad. I was freaked and has no idea how to fix it. As a last resort I called up Cisco, knowing I was going to be reamed for not having a contract.
After explaining my situation, the guy on the other end started walking me through fixing the problem. This is all fine and good, and I waited for one of those Okay-Now-We're-Going-To-Get-Paid breaks where they'll cut off support until you give them a credit card number. I've ran into these kinds of hiccups before, specifically with Symantec support.
But that moment never came. I kept waiting on it and during a file transfer, a new memory image which he made specifically for this problem and had given me a ftp user/pass to use in which to download it, I asked him how we should work out the payment for this call.
He responded: "No, that's okay. You bought our products and this call can demonstrate what kind of support you would get if you purchase a support contract with us."
Within 45 minutes of picking up the phone, my router was fixed and worked perfectly. He also guided me through backup and restore procedures, and some helpful hints in getting my CCNA.
We bought a 3 year contract with them the next day.
Now you tell me where you can get that kind of support and reliability. Do I agree with this being a terrible thing? Of course. But don't knock their equipment or their service. Top notch all the way.
Um, where's the content? Where's the screenshots? Looks like a press release in sheeps clothing to me.
"Yeah, it's got this feature and this one too...and it's gonna whoop up on Longhorn! Woohoo!"
Other than a feature list, which can be found in many other places, and some that aren't confirmed yet, this look like hype to me with little to back it up...
Yes, but you cannot make a movie from a comic book. You can't take the panels one-by-one and put them together into moving pictures and expect it to win awards, or to even entertain.
Things that work on the comic page layout do not necessarily translate to the big screen.
Hell, I'd go so far to say they NEVER do that. Movies are different beasts. You obviously have no experience in adapting material, so I understand the naivete.
Graphic Novels cannot be read like novels.
Soundtrack (Score) CDs cannot beat the experience of listening to it along with the moving pictures associated with it.
Certainly there are some awesome Daredevil miniseries that absolutely kick ass, riveting, interesting stories, but even the most lauded series in the daredevil arsenal could never work on the big screen. They're too long, too complicated, filled with too many plot points and too much character to make a 2 hour movie that doesn't bore the hell out of everyone but the most dedicated fanboy.
Movie studios don't want character studies, they want action, broad strokes to appeal to a broad audience. Daredevil went pretty far into the character department for a comic book flick (prescription drug taking, for example, which I thought was impressive as hell, considering), and Mark Steven Johnson had to fight to include what was in there.
Why do the comic book movies never follow the comic books? Now you know...
This is your favorite technical web site. Admit it. It is. Mine too. Forgive the occasional dupe, k?
You're absolutely right it is. That's why I strive for the editors of said site to care about it as much as I do. Considering there's only so many stories that can be posted per day, a dupe represents a missed opportunity.
And to continue...
Your comment itself is a duplicate - it's been posted at least 10 times for every duplicate the editors post. That's what's sad.
Yes, it is sad that people must continue to comment on this duplication. The problem is that if we do nothing, nothing is ever done. How long did we, the readers, have to mod up "Give us a LOTR icon!" posts until they finally broke down and gave us one? Heck, now we've got the cool Matrix blue/red pill logo, and I'll bet its not because they just stumbled upon that idea, but that it took posts like mine, over and over, objecting to the lack of such a thing.
I've been using fileshack for awhile, paying the "Mercury" subscription and I am very pleased. A lot of my friends ask why, considering the lines are like 10 minutes or so most of the time.
Well, I'm impatient, and I know that I get more than my $6 a month worth of service/bandwidth out of em. I highly recommend it, and I see little difference in it and FilePlanet, though a few exclusives are thrown around amongst them.
For example, FilePlanet got C&C Generals early, and Mercury got Counterstrike 1.6 beta. Interesting stuff, but generally for demos and trailers and patches, you can't beat the fee considering the unlimited bandwidth/downloads such a service provides.
Is it me, or have more dupes been posted in the past 3 months than in the past 4 years? I'm not trolling, I'm just generally curious if the editors actually read their publication (if it can be considered a "publication" or site or whatever).
This story was big news, at least, I thought so. I thought it was insightful and telling (especially of MS monopolistic practices), and that it got a lot of (deserved) attention, even more so that it's been on/. But now, another dupe, and CmdrTaco is so oblivious to this it's really just sad.
It's okay if you don't agree. I can take the -1 Offtopic and -1 Troll if you wish. I can hear the karma sizzling...
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I think a professional site could do a bit better than that. As some of you may have discovered after downloading a hundred megabyte file.
/.'er would've noticed the filenames were the same...
I think an informed
To those who wasted their bandwidth, its like my friend says "It's your own fault, buddy."
This is yet another attempt at total desktop control, something Microsoft can't wait to have.
Micahel Robertson said it best:
Microsoft wants to move to a world where THEY decide what software a computer runs because that will allow them to extract the most money from consumers. They'll position this product with a comforting sounding name like "trustworthy" computing and tout the benefits, but it's really about shifting power over an individual's PC from the buyer to Microsoft. Microsoft will put up a permission gate before any software can be installed which will have a fee associated with it. It will ultimately give Microsoft control over a user's computer.
This is the first step in something like this becoming a reality. Control the hardware before you control the software.
Remember that story where microsoft wants to implement "classes" of pcs? Like "This game will only run on Class A or better machines"? This is a start, if only halfway.
This scares the hell out of me, and think long and hard about what the implications of such an act can cause if this becomes "mainstream".
No, of course not. We're going to tell everyone not to buy it and shout from the rafters at how terrible all of this rechristening of our favorite films have become..
I'm sure you're not aware, but Spielburg has NEVER, EVER done a commentary track. And he doesn't plan on it.
Lawrence Bouzereau is his faithful documentary guy, and he has done the docs on Schindler's List, Jaws, Jurrasic Park, [insert Spielburg flick here] and will be (I'm sure) doing one for this set.
Spielberg likes to allow the movie to speak for itself, though ironically he does do film school commentaries with an audience, to explain as best he can what he was trying to accomplish.
Spielberg, however, won't allow these types of commentaries to be included.
The press release says its because of bandwith issues, and that's simply a lie. No commentary, a small Dolby Digital 2.0 track, would ever take enough space to truly harm the picture.
Besides, video and audiophiles get their bandwidth-filled goodness with the Superbit line, something Paramount has yet to embrace. For now they simply say they leave off commentaries and exciting extras on each disc because "the picture will look better."
Of course, The Godfather has 9 hours of commentary, and you didn't hear them screaming "picture quality forever!" on that release, now did you?
The difference is this doesn't rape system resources and it doesn't force web-only content. Active Desktop on a late 1998-1999 system (around when IE4 was released) would slow even the best machine to a crawl.
You can also use different languages (perl and python, from what I gather) to output/input information. Pretty neat stuff.
Congratulations sir, on the worst/funniest pun I've ever read in my life.
quote:
p orn = 0;e s_to;
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Sure, it's easy enough to count the folks in any given room and make the decision to turn the lights off when the last person leaves, but what if I like the lights bright and my wife doesn't? If I'm in the room with the lights bright and she walks in, should it dim the lights? Pick some point between our two references? Same goes for TV channels/volume, room temp, etc.
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Here's a bit of code for you to clear it up:
if ($wife_in_room){
$wife->$gets_what_she_wants;
$
}
elseif (!$wife_in_room){
$husband->$gets_what_wife_agre
if($husband->$wants_porn(yes)){
if($wife->$in_house() == true){
$porn = 0;
var $husband_in_trouble = 1;
}
else { must_ask_wife(); }
}
Dunno bout you, but that's certainly my household.php
Here were your reasons as to why it won't work:
- You would willingly have to enter this machine
- Its too big and bulky
- It is too slow to detect many changes in brain activity
Just as a counterpoint, think about these reasons in regards to running arcade games on your home pc, circa 1988 or so:
- You wouldn't get the resolution\speed of the original machine
- The program is too big and bulky (ie, not enough HD space)
- Current PCs are too slow to respond/detect the rapid controller movements/configurations required to play such a game at home.
Now, with the right amount of initiative and backing, who knows how fast this thing will shrink/speed up to where its almost undetectable.
Food for thought.
"Not quite ready for Hollywood, but the scientific and engineering communities have some obvious uses for it already..."
Porn?
Is right here. Highly suggested reading/listening.
I was listening to NPR the other day which focused on DNA as a computer.
The guy interviewed correllated the DNA genetic map to spaghetti code, a programmers worst nightmare. Apparently all through the genetic make-up of our bodies are "fuction calls" (to put it simply) and pathways that reference other calls and other pathways, over and over upon itself for a hundred million lines.
Its not the listing of the GTAC code (ie, genetic map) that's really necessary. Though of course it plays a part. Its the understanding of such code, what it does and what it controls, where power lies.
The guys interviewed all guessed it would be a hundred years or more before we began truly understanding what "functions" do what in the DNA strand and how it affects the organism in question.
Food for thought.
I wait patiently for natalieportman.slashdot.org
You know they say the waiting is the hardest part...er...
That come out wrong. Ish.
The 13th Floor was also the worst movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a LOT of movies. From the USA Late Night flicks to Kurosawa.
And nothing, other than that one-two punch of feces from Chris O'Donnel (Batman Forever and The Bachelor), could top that.
The difference is that I never saw those movies in the theater. I never paid my hard earned cash for the privilege of seeing those films on the bigscreen.
And when I couldn't take it anymore, when I just couldn't stand the terribleness of it, I had to go.
That was the only movie I ever walked out of. It was that bad.
And if anyone's ever seen it (God help you), I'm sure you too would relate to the sickening feeling of throwing down full price evening tickets, popcorn and a drink on a turd such as The 13th Floor.
I shudder to think of its awfulness.
Sweet! The Rock! He's good in anything!!!
Hmm...
The Mummy Returns
The Scorpion King
How you said that without bursting out laughing is beyond me.
I know I did...
Starvation today isn't caused by lack of food, but lack of food distribution, fuelled among others by IMF policies (IMF has for ages pushed for high revenue crops such as coffee and tobacco instead of food in the 3rd world) and anti dumping measures in the west.
Add to that that most GM food is sold in the industrialized countries, and your idea of GM food saving lives becomes ridiculous.
Don't you understand you just nulled your own argument? GM food is saving lives because the excess found in industrialized nations is not being distributed. This means that if we can get the local farmers in troubled areas to use GM crops, then they will produce more food for their family and surrounding areas. Then the trouble (and money required) to move all this extra food around won't be required.
That extra 130% isn't getting where it is needed because of greed and politics. So we can make 200% more than what's needed, but if it can't get to starving people its all for naut.
Zimbabwe has always been one of the largest food exporters in Africa. A large part of their market is the EU and other countries that have strict rules on import on GM food. If any of the imported grain had been replanted in Zimbabwe, it would have been a disaster for the countries food export as they would have faced severe restrictions on export to a wide range of countries.
Again, the argument collapses on itself. That food would've saved thousands of lives but, on account of greed and politics, was denied. Even if it was later accepted, people died in its delay. And that is not acceptable in my book.
The term Frankenfood is just another useless word by which none of the environmentalists can back up.
You see, I too thought that they spliced animal and plant genes together to make better producing crops.
But not so. This is what they would have you believe.
I'm not Flamebaiting, and I'm not Trolling. I was honestly surprised at what I learned from this episode of this show (which is great, btw), and how the only spliced genes in plants are from other plants.
Yes, really. Regardless of what Greenpeace would have you believe.
The environmentalists have made us think that genetically altered food is as bad as can be, and that we should stay away from it. That it's not regulated in any form or fashion. That the food industry runs amok with itself, feeding the world with whatever they can come up with in their Mad Scentist Labs.
But this is completely false. Any GM food is regulated far more than regular food, and these GM foods can save lives.
Dr. Borlog, the scientist who invented GM food, has saved an estimated billion lives in third world countries by making less land make more food. His research and development since the 1970's, when it began, is groundbreaking to say the least. And yet there are groups who protest this on a consistent basis. And you never see any of these group's members starving, do you?
A true tragedy was when an African country decided not to take an American donation of tons of corn because the environmentalists convinced the government of that nation that the genetically altered food was poison. An estimated 25,000 people die every day of starvation, and thousands of innocent people died in that country because of that misinformation.
Now I'm not for a GATTACA like society, but if we can GM a person so they don't get Downs Syndrome, or Cystic Fibrosis, I'm all for it. Most people are against it for moral reasons, not scientific ones.
These kinds of arguments hurt others whether they mean to or not.
It was made by the same group who produced RtCW, and Enemry Territory was going to be the big expansion everyone wanted. Unfortunately cost overruns and time forced it to be cut short, but they graciously decided to finish what was there and release it to the world.
They've already paid the licensing fee for the engine, and since they're using the same engine here, they don't have to pay for it again.
You're not getting any of the RtCW content, which is single and multiplayer, so they're not losing money there. And since this is a multiplayer-only mod, it can only boost sales of the existing retail product.
So there ya go.
Windows version here
and your Linux version is here.
I too started a blog, and its prior incarnation. The reason I have a "prior incarnation" is becuase 1) I changed formats, and 2) I really, really pissed someone off.
Here's what happened:
My best friend was getting married, and I was invited to be one of the groomsmen. I'm cool with that, very excited to be a part of it, etc etc.
Well, during, before, and after the ceremony the bride's mother just got on my nerves. [politically correctness]She generally acted in a very non-friendly way[/politically correctness].
And a day later, after coming down with a cold, and pumped full of cold/flu meds, I re-iterated this truth in my blog, albeit a bit too unfriendly.
You see when I started a blog I wanted to be truthful. I didn't want to worry about holding back, about letting off the pressure a bit so I wouldn't offend people. I wanted to let my thoughts be known, no matter what.
Well, this will backfire for anyone. I promise. That is why this idea is f*cking brilliant.
You can't be brutally honest (such as, say, calling your best friend's new mother in law a bitch) without suffering repurcussions. Such as hateful, bodily-harm threatening email from the bride (and family).
So from then on I had to censor my posts, put my attitude and ideas in check and make sure they're in accordance with the Friendly Blog Act. This means you can't say anything too hurtful or truthful for fear of it affecting other areas of your life.
Was my friendship affected by the post? Sure. But it affected him far more than it affected me. That was the real hurt. Knowing that my words caused him grief, caused him to deal with the bride's family backlash, to try and make up for my stupid ass mistake.
With a service such as this I can tell the truth, change a few names, and no one ever know the wiser. Of course, if I get too specific I can get busted, but considering the amount of blogs this could generate, I'm not that worried about it. I can't wait to sign up and try it out, completely anonymous and completely guilt-free of any posts I might have to put up there.
Blog's can harm kids, remember. If its not your friends it may be the job interview, your future supervisor googling up your name and holding you responsible for some post you made while drunk out of your mind.
Not that I would know...or anything.
"So, you said last March you...'Love the pot.' Can you elaborate on that?"
Is it just me, or is this another great reason to buy cheaper, better network equipment from someone else?
Uh, like who? Who else makes equipment as dependable, and most especially, has the most kick-ass support I've ever come across.
True story:
I once had a router go out on me, a little 1600. Being clueless (well, mostly harmless as Mr. Adams would say) about em, I could telnet it and see that the flash memory had gone bad. I was freaked and has no idea how to fix it. As a last resort I called up Cisco, knowing I was going to be reamed for not having a contract.
After explaining my situation, the guy on the other end started walking me through fixing the problem. This is all fine and good, and I waited for one of those Okay-Now-We're-Going-To-Get-Paid breaks where they'll cut off support until you give them a credit card number. I've ran into these kinds of hiccups before, specifically with Symantec support.
But that moment never came. I kept waiting on it and during a file transfer, a new memory image which he made specifically for this problem and had given me a ftp user/pass to use in which to download it, I asked him how we should work out the payment for this call.
He responded: "No, that's okay. You bought our products and this call can demonstrate what kind of support you would get if you purchase a support contract with us."
Within 45 minutes of picking up the phone, my router was fixed and worked perfectly. He also guided me through backup and restore procedures, and some helpful hints in getting my CCNA.
We bought a 3 year contract with them the next day.
Now you tell me where you can get that kind of support and reliability. Do I agree with this being a terrible thing? Of course. But don't knock their equipment or their service. Top notch all the way.
Um, where's the content? Where's the screenshots? Looks like a press release in sheeps clothing to me.
"Yeah, it's got this feature and this one too...and it's gonna whoop up on Longhorn! Woohoo!"
Other than a feature list, which can be found in many other places, and some that aren't confirmed yet, this look like hype to me with little to back it up...
Yes, but you cannot make a movie from a comic book. You can't take the panels one-by-one and put them together into moving pictures and expect it to win awards, or to even entertain.
Things that work on the comic page layout do not necessarily translate to the big screen.
Hell, I'd go so far to say they NEVER do that. Movies are different beasts. You obviously have no experience in adapting material, so I understand the naivete.
Graphic Novels cannot be read like novels.
Soundtrack (Score) CDs cannot beat the experience of listening to it along with the moving pictures associated with it.
Certainly there are some awesome Daredevil miniseries that absolutely kick ass, riveting, interesting stories, but even the most lauded series in the daredevil arsenal could never work on the big screen. They're too long, too complicated, filled with too many plot points and too much character to make a 2 hour movie that doesn't bore the hell out of everyone but the most dedicated fanboy.
Movie studios don't want character studies, they want action, broad strokes to appeal to a broad audience. Daredevil went pretty far into the character department for a comic book flick (prescription drug taking, for example, which I thought was impressive as hell, considering), and Mark Steven Johnson had to fight to include what was in there.
Why do the comic book movies never follow the comic books? Now you know...
This is your favorite technical web site. Admit it. It is. Mine too. Forgive the occasional dupe, k?
You're absolutely right it is. That's why I strive for the editors of said site to care about it as much as I do. Considering there's only so many stories that can be posted per day, a dupe represents a missed opportunity.
And to continue...
Your comment itself is a duplicate - it's been posted at least 10 times for every duplicate the editors post. That's what's sad.
Yes, it is sad that people must continue to comment on this duplication. The problem is that if we do nothing, nothing is ever done. How long did we, the readers, have to mod up "Give us a LOTR icon!" posts until they finally broke down and gave us one? Heck, now we've got the cool Matrix blue/red pill logo, and I'll bet its not because they just stumbled upon that idea, but that it took posts like mine, over and over, objecting to the lack of such a thing.
A bit offtopic, but still:
I've been using fileshack for awhile, paying the "Mercury" subscription and I am very pleased. A lot of my friends ask why, considering the lines are like 10 minutes or so most of the time.
Well, I'm impatient, and I know that I get more than my $6 a month worth of service/bandwidth out of em. I highly recommend it, and I see little difference in it and FilePlanet, though a few exclusives are thrown around amongst them.
For example, FilePlanet got C&C Generals early, and Mercury got Counterstrike 1.6 beta. Interesting stuff, but generally for demos and trailers and patches, you can't beat the fee considering the unlimited bandwidth/downloads such a service provides.
Is it me, or have more dupes been posted in the past 3 months than in the past 4 years? I'm not trolling, I'm just generally curious if the editors actually read their publication (if it can be considered a "publication" or site or whatever).
/. But now, another dupe, and CmdrTaco is so oblivious to this it's really just sad.
This story was big news, at least, I thought so. I thought it was insightful and telling (especially of MS monopolistic practices), and that it got a lot of (deserved) attention, even more so that it's been on
It's okay if you don't agree. I can take the -1 Offtopic and -1 Troll if you wish. I can hear the karma sizzling...