Why HTML? I mean as far as most of us are concerned, it's the scourge of the internet, responsible for a slew of poorly designed sites, bad GIF movies, and annoying advertisements. If Macromedia wants to go after the Linux crowd, wouldn't a more appreciable tool like Gopher be a better choice?
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Look, you can use any tool improperly. That doesn't mean the fault is with the TOOL. As with frames in HTML, so with Flash. A bad designer is going to do things badly, no matter the tool or technology.
I dunno. zip archives should _definitely_ be on the list of attachments to be able to scan inside of - especially.exe self-extracting type archives. I'd hope.cab ones, too.
Make sure your mail-server-based AV scanner can check inside attachments that are archives (zip, etc.), and not just individual documents. Many of the latest attachment-based viruses reside inside compressed archives. Also make sure it can tell the difference between an attached file's extension, and it's real format, as sometimes they're sent out with deliberately-incorrect file extensions to get around the more stupid AV scanners.
1) Lost in Translation 2) Finding Nemo (MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!:) 3) Peter Pan ("Good shot, though.") 4) Station Agent (coulda been 2nd or 1st if they'd had an ending!) 5) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl 6) Kill Bill, Vol 1 7) The Cooler 8) LOTR: ROTK 9) The Italian Job (yeah, I know, most didn't like it - I did! *shrug*) 10) Bad Santa (Lauren Graham's character - how fantastic was she!)
Yeah, so I was being generous saying ROTK for 3rd or 4th. Once I started thinking about the stuff I saw in 2003. Yeah, that's my list, and I'm sticking to it!
It's the best _adapted_ screenplay, yeah, I agree with that. It took an -amazing- amount of work to convert that from book to screen. No other project took even a tenth amount of work as LOTR did.
Best movie? No, to me, that was Lost in Translation, hands down. I'd put ROTK as maybe 4th, _maybe_ 3rd best movie of 2003. Nah, probably 4th. Maybe even 5th, depending on my mood. Freaking whiny Frodo, Sam & Gollum annoyed me no end. Fortunately, in ROTK all the other characters had great big important things to do. By far the best of the three LOTR films for me. Would love to see a Peter Jackson version of the Hobbit - let's hope all the legal wrangling gets sorted out. Definitely interested in seeing his version of King Kong.
Anyway, best original screenplay? LIT won, and it _absolutely_ deserved to. What a subtle & sublime joy that film was. If they'd been kowtowing to Sofia, I guarantee you LIT would've won more than just what it did. _11_ for ROTK? Gimme a break - that's excessive, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, they were kind of stuck. Having ignored the LOTR movies more than they should've previously, they kind of had to give it a lot this time around. That's okay - Sofia & LIT have won so many awards in so many other awards shows recently, I think everyone knows how fantastic it was. It must suck not to be able to enjoy LIT, but some movies aren't for everyone. Strange that something so many geeks have loved for so long is the more mainstream option, but there ya go. If you look at the all-time box office champ list, you'll note that the vast majority of the top films are sci-fi or fantasy. Strange how the sci-fi/fantasy literature world doesn't get much respect, even though sci-fi/fantasy novels are generally FAR superior to what gets made into movies. I don't consider LOTR to be the height of fantasy literature, though I know many do.
As for best movie? No _way_ did it deserve that. Even Finding Nemo was better than ROTK, but it got shunted off into another category.
I'd rather have another MK movie than another MK game.
Especially if Talisa Soto is in it.:)
Why do we need all these _new_ fighting games? Everyone knows that fight games were perfected with the release of 'Karate Champ.' It's a scientific fact!
If you compare the amount of time needed to fix the CSS problems in IE to the 2.5 YEARS they've had TO fix the problems, you'll find two very different numbers.:)
I agree, the CSS problems will take some time to fix. But it'll never get done if they don't freaking START.
And speaking of PNG problems - what the hell is with Adobe's Photoshop?! How many years will it be before the thing uses some actual compression? Programs like pngout and pngcrush shouldn't even be needed. Crazy.
I've switched to Mozilla, as it's CSS support for common things is better (in my experience) than that of Opera.
Plus Opera's just really _weird_ to use. I don't like it's ergonomics at _all_.
The problem is that I have to create websites. Most people use IE. IE is seriously broken. It doesn't _matter_ what I use personally - I still have to deal with IE (and the business end, at that!). Man, I _wish_ I was _just_ a browser _user_.
The documented bugs are _really, really bad_. Thus, I say IE's CSS support is horrid. They've been left unfixed for 2.5 years and counting. True, Mozilla doesn't have full support for CSS2, but IE doesn't yet have full support for CSS _1_!
I'm not using Firefox, but Mozilla itself crashes _far less_ than IE does on the machines I use. I think I've only seen Mozilla crash 1 or 2 times since I started using v1.6. IE would crash at _least_ every other day on me, quite often multiple times a day.
Whilst I'm thinking of it - is the user page borked for everyone else, or is it just me? It's also not showing a comment I made about 30-45 mins ago, but it is showing the one I just now made. Did someone from the IE team join Slashdot?:)
Look, everyone knows (or should, by now) that the only part of XP that really NEEDS overhauling is IE. After the new stuff coming up in SP2 (security fixes, software firewall, built-in antivirus, etc.), that'll _still_ be the only thing that needs an overhaul. A popup blocker in IE with SP2 isn't going to cure the REAL ills of IE, namely, horrid CSS & PNG support. Merely fixing those two things would get me to buy an XP upgrade. As a web designer/developer, that is my number one, EVERY DAY biggest obstacle to computing happiness. Where do I want to go today, Microsoft asks. I want to go to that happy land where IE properly & fully supports CSS 1 & 2 & PNG. Is that so much to ask? Hell, just properly implementing what you started in the original IE 6 would be enough!
Screw Fermat's Last Theorem. MS spending time adding a _popup blocker_ to IE when the PNG & CSS issues remain is the biggest mystery of our time. If they add tabs and _still_ don't fix CSS & PNG, I'm gonna totally lose it.
Ah, just build your own cabinet with plans off the Internet, and put in a PC equipped with MAME. It'll be in a _lot_ better shape than any original machine. If all you want is Dig Dug, buy some broken-down board with the ROMs on it, and only load that ROM onto the MAME machine, all nice and legal.
That's a desk from BioMorph. If you have an Aeron chair, you need the Herman-Miller of desks to go along with it, which would be BioMorph. Seriously nice desks, with the attendant pricetag. *sigh*
Guess what. Photoshop had layers long before Macromedia Fireworks even existed. You can even link different layers, and manipulate them in groups. You can stack layers and apply effects to them individually.
If you've already got Photoshop, learn how to use it.
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I predict many fruitless searches hitting my website. :)
Sorry in advance, folks.
Why HTML? I mean as far as most of us are concerned, it's the scourge of the internet, responsible for a slew of poorly designed sites, bad GIF movies, and annoying advertisements. If Macromedia wants to go after the Linux crowd, wouldn't a more appreciable tool like Gopher be a better choice?
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Look, you can use any tool improperly. That doesn't mean the fault is with the TOOL. As with frames in HTML, so with Flash. A bad designer is going to do things badly, no matter the tool or technology.
Help, help! I'm being repressed!
I dunno. zip archives should _definitely_ be on the list of attachments to be able to scan inside of - especially .exe self-extracting type archives. I'd hope .cab ones, too.
Either way, something to check on.
Make sure your mail-server-based AV scanner can check inside attachments that are archives (zip, etc.), and not just individual documents. Many of the latest attachment-based viruses reside inside compressed archives. Also make sure it can tell the difference between an attached file's extension, and it's real format, as sometimes they're sent out with deliberately-incorrect file extensions to get around the more stupid AV scanners.
I believe he mentioned the phrase 'famous for.' Famous. Look it up. :)
...but not as we know it. It's physics, Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it, Jim!
Starrrr-Trekkin', across the universe,
Always going forward,
Cuz we can't find reverse...
BOOT TO THE HEAD! *thwop!* (whoops, sorry, wrong Dr. Demento song there...)
> Unless I'm missing something here? Cosmologists?
"Is there a cosmologist in the house? Anyone? My god, get this man a cosmologist!"
> I still look like that.
:)
I bet most of those rocket scientists do, too.
My picks:
:)
1) Lost in Translation
2) Finding Nemo (MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!
3) Peter Pan ("Good shot, though.")
4) Station Agent (coulda been 2nd or 1st if they'd had an ending!)
5) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
6) Kill Bill, Vol 1
7) The Cooler
8) LOTR: ROTK
9) The Italian Job (yeah, I know, most didn't like it - I did! *shrug*)
10) Bad Santa (Lauren Graham's character - how fantastic was she!)
Yeah, so I was being generous saying ROTK for 3rd or 4th. Once I started thinking about the stuff I saw in 2003. Yeah, that's my list, and I'm sticking to it!
It's the best _adapted_ screenplay, yeah, I agree with that. It took an -amazing- amount of work to convert that from book to screen. No other project took even a tenth amount of work as LOTR did.
Best movie? No, to me, that was Lost in Translation, hands down. I'd put ROTK as maybe 4th, _maybe_ 3rd best movie of 2003. Nah, probably 4th. Maybe even 5th, depending on my mood. Freaking whiny Frodo, Sam & Gollum annoyed me no end. Fortunately, in ROTK all the other characters had great big important things to do. By far the best of the three LOTR films for me. Would love to see a Peter Jackson version of the Hobbit - let's hope all the legal wrangling gets sorted out. Definitely interested in seeing his version of King Kong.
Anyway, best original screenplay? LIT won, and it _absolutely_ deserved to. What a subtle & sublime joy that film was. If they'd been kowtowing to Sofia, I guarantee you LIT would've won more than just what it did. _11_ for ROTK? Gimme a break - that's excessive, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, they were kind of stuck. Having ignored the LOTR movies more than they should've previously, they kind of had to give it a lot this time around. That's okay - Sofia & LIT have won so many awards in so many other awards shows recently, I think everyone knows how fantastic it was. It must suck not to be able to enjoy LIT, but some movies aren't for everyone. Strange that something so many geeks have loved for so long is the more mainstream option, but there ya go. If you look at the all-time box office champ list, you'll note that the vast majority of the top films are sci-fi or fantasy. Strange how the sci-fi/fantasy literature world doesn't get much respect, even though sci-fi/fantasy novels are generally FAR superior to what gets made into movies. I don't consider LOTR to be the height of fantasy literature, though I know many do.
As for best movie? No _way_ did it deserve that. Even Finding Nemo was better than ROTK, but it got shunted off into another category.
Yeah, dead horses suck.
I'd rather have another MK movie than another MK game.
:)
Especially if Talisa Soto is in it.
Why do we need all these _new_ fighting games? Everyone knows that fight games were perfected with the release of 'Karate Champ.' It's a scientific fact!
"Full Point!"
If you compare the amount of time needed to fix the CSS problems in IE to the 2.5 YEARS they've had TO fix the problems, you'll find two very different numbers. :)
I agree, the CSS problems will take some time to fix. But it'll never get done if they don't freaking START.
And speaking of PNG problems - what the hell is with Adobe's Photoshop?! How many years will it be before the thing uses some actual compression? Programs like pngout and pngcrush shouldn't even be needed. Crazy.
I've switched to Mozilla, as it's CSS support for common things is better (in my experience) than that of Opera.
Plus Opera's just really _weird_ to use. I don't like it's ergonomics at _all_.
The problem is that I have to create websites. Most people use IE. IE is seriously broken. It doesn't _matter_ what I use personally - I still have to deal with IE (and the business end, at that!). Man, I _wish_ I was _just_ a browser _user_.
Oh yeah, that'd be sweet.
The documented bugs are _really, really bad_. Thus, I say IE's CSS support is horrid. They've been left unfixed for 2.5 years and counting. True, Mozilla doesn't have full support for CSS2, but IE doesn't yet have full support for CSS _1_!
I'm not using Firefox, but Mozilla itself crashes _far less_ than IE does on the machines I use. I think I've only seen Mozilla crash 1 or 2 times since I started using v1.6. IE would crash at _least_ every other day on me, quite often multiple times a day.
Whilst I'm thinking of it - is the user page borked for everyone else, or is it just me? It's also not showing a comment I made about 30-45 mins ago, but it is showing the one I just now made. Did someone from the IE team join Slashdot? :)
Look, everyone knows (or should, by now) that the only part of XP that really NEEDS overhauling is IE. After the new stuff coming up in SP2 (security fixes, software firewall, built-in antivirus, etc.), that'll _still_ be the only thing that needs an overhaul. A popup blocker in IE with SP2 isn't going to cure the REAL ills of IE, namely, horrid CSS & PNG support. Merely fixing those two things would get me to buy an XP upgrade. As a web designer/developer, that is my number one, EVERY DAY biggest obstacle to computing happiness. Where do I want to go today, Microsoft asks. I want to go to that happy land where IE properly & fully supports CSS 1 & 2 & PNG. Is that so much to ask? Hell, just properly implementing what you started in the original IE 6 would be enough!
Screw Fermat's Last Theorem. MS spending time adding a _popup blocker_ to IE when the PNG & CSS issues remain is the biggest mystery of our time. If they add tabs and _still_ don't fix CSS & PNG, I'm gonna totally lose it.
"Around the mail servers a firewall create."
Ah, just build your own cabinet with plans off the Internet, and put in a PC equipped with MAME. It'll be in a _lot_ better shape than any original machine. If all you want is Dig Dug, buy some broken-down board with the ROMs on it, and only load that ROM onto the MAME machine, all nice and legal.
The 2.2 kernel isn't dead...it just smells that way. :)
That's a desk from BioMorph. If you have an Aeron chair, you need the Herman-Miller of desks to go along with it, which would be BioMorph. Seriously nice desks, with the attendant pricetag. *sigh*
No way, man, Joust! Wizard of War. Dig Dug. Marble Madness. If you want difficult games, go for Lunar Lander or Gravitar.
Oh, and don't forget Sinistar. "Run, Coward!"
Why anyone would want a frickin' foosball table is quite beyond me. Pool table, sure. _Maybe_ air hockey.
If you wanted to _really_ stand out with an old school arcade game, get "I, Robot."
Sorry, folks, "-1, Nostalgia" in progress. Move along...
Guess what. Photoshop had layers long before Macromedia Fireworks even existed. You can even link different layers, and manipulate them in groups. You can stack layers and apply effects to them individually.
If you've already got Photoshop, learn how to use it.
Great, interstellar refugees, that's all we need.
So, Baboochi, since you're so into 'sharing,' howzabout making with the interstellar-capable spacecraft? C'mon, sharing is good!