BILL GATES AND STEVE BALLMER ARE THE SPAWN OF SATAN AND MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE THEY DO MORE DAMAGE!
That feels better.
Sorry, no logical arguments here. Just brainfarts and disgust.
For godsakes - now M$ sees Google as a competitor? A strong search Internet engine with newsgroup archives and an (overly priced) search appliance is a competitor? I don't see it. I just don't see it, and trying to think about the jumps in logic M$ is making my head pound...
Is that why I have to append ".com" whenever I am forced to use IE on Wintel? Is M$ that worried about hits to that stupid MSN search engine?
I'm awaiting the day M$ decides to take on Maytag as a competitor.
Will nobody stop them? Hell, I'll volunteer to manage your help desk! I know a ton of coders and support folk ready to head to greener pastures...
Just as an aside: Why do I have a feeling the geek world might be a better place to live if Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak had stayed on in their respective companies and Gates and Jobs had wandered off...
Okay...I'm off to play more Wind Waker. Sorry for this brief lapse of logical thought...
Probably not. The people who frequent arcades (Dave & Buster's, Gameworks, etc.) are already console owners. I'm looking at my consoles (8 at this point, 9 if you consider that the PS2 can play PSX games...but that may be stretching it;) and realizing that I bought each one on its own merits - not based on an arcade game. I did buy Crazy Taxi for the Dreamcast after playing it in the arcade. But that is the only case, of the 150 or so games I have sitting here, that an arcade game affected a purchase decision (and I already owned the DC - I don't think playing CT in the arcade would have convinced me to buy a DC).
So, let's say MS brings Halo 2 to the arcade...that's not going to make me go out and buy an Xbox. Why should I? If I need a Halo fix, I can go to D&B's, get a beer and play...and proably tire of it before I spend the $250 needed to buy the Xbox and the game...
Nope, MS was infected by something at Sega. They've no real direction for the Xbox, or even the games division, to take. There is nothing that MS can be said as doing right - other than throwing money at something till they win.
Thankfully, Sony can fight them off, Nintendo should be able to, and I'm sure Bandai can keep kicking their asses in Japan. Certainly is an interesting time to be a gamer...
You and your friends can be Michiganders, if you so please. I'm a Michiganian. I don't goosestep to anyone's tune just because a poll from a union-busting scab newspaper says so.
Wow. That's an amazingly and rather closed-minded attitude. What about Harlan Ellison's work in comics? Or Neil Gaiman's? Or Asimov's?
Please keep in mind: I'm saying this with two English degrees (BA and MA) under my belt - nobody enjoys a good book more than I do (my wife and I own roughly 3500 books, and we've read 95%+ of those). If anyone should be a snob, it should be me.
But I'm not.
There are different mediums, different creative forces, different thoughts that come to the fore in comics and cartoons. Some of the most creative work I've seen from my generation (I'm 29, turning 30 in May) has been in pushing these visual mediums foreward and making them more than just the Batman comic of old or the '70s Super Friends cartoon.
Open your mind, son. I could go on, but the horse I'm beating is developing rigor mortis...
Competition? Nintendo has competition on the handheld market. How could anyone overlook that wonderful device? Of course, there's always this great piece of hardware, too.
Things will change. You're talking about the present, Dell's talking about the future. I should hope that they're smart enough to handle such concerns...
I think it's a pretty silly one. You'd be better off supporting the EFF with cash, writing the "MPAA etc" and writing your respective legislators. Getting involved by volunteering for the politicos trying to stop silly "MPAA etc" legislation, or even running for something yourself, would be a better use of your time.
Sitting at home or work and posting on/. really won't help change the Valenti's attitude. I doubt he reads, or even knows of, this site.
Well, people said that Stan Lee and DC would never happen, and it did...
Yep, I made mention of it knowlingly, and I know it wouldn't happen, but that would be the beauty of it! Ellison and JMS working on Trek! Granted, it's only a Trekker/B5 geek's wet dream, and I can't imagine Ellison ever touching Trek again. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a nice shot in the arm for the franchise.
While I'm on the general subject: For a darker Trek, I would say getting David Fincher (Fight Club), Alex Proyas (The Crow), or Darren Aronofsky (Pi) would be a good way to go.
1) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
2) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3) Star Wars Episode II IMAX
Now, I know Berman is thick, but to ask this question and to wonder why it happened outdoes any of the insipid things he's done since Gene's death. Paramount opened the movie smack-dab in the middle of two major, highly anticipated openings and one major "event" release (I think AOTC IMAX made more than Nemesis did, even). Berman needs to be replaced with someone who has a strong sense of SF and storytelling. J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison would be a great team to take on the franchise.
That said, I found Nemesis to be fairly strong. My expectations were low when I went in, but I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. I think it sets up a Star Trek XI that could, truly, be a massive hit (or mess), involving the TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager crews and could tie up the Romulan thread (especially considering that Scotty is still tooling around out there and Spock is still on Romulus!).
Functionality similar, but not really. Jobs demoed that you could share playlists between computers - but not the files. If my coworker closes his iBook in the middle of my listening to something of his, the music goes away - and I don't get the file. iCommune was different in that you actually had downloading of files goign on.
Yep. You should've seen the stereo in my first car (1980 Chevy Citation). All AM all the time! Me cruising down the main drag while blasting talk radio - that got me a ton of women...too cool. Now I have to deal with AM/FM and a CD player! Yuck.
Not the same experience...
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I converted my iTools account ot a.Mac account as well, and, except for the one time the e-mail was acting up, I've noticed none of the outages that people continually complain about.
Working at a help desk always makes me wonder if the complaintants are diagnosing their problems correctly. Have you tried it in different ways, instead of just dealing with one configuration? Don't always assume that the problem is with "them" when it may turn out to be something a little closer to home.
I am not, by far, saying that Apple is perfect. However, when regular.Mac users, both here and on other boards, post that they've had no issues, then I suggest that configuation may be to blame, not the service itself.
"Troll?" Troll my ass...I think this post clearly points out (when you look at the postings before it) that people jump the gun and don't read the source material before bitching that some corporate entity somewhere is trying to cornhole them.
The reporter on the article screwed up. He made mistakes a Journalism 101 student is taught not to make (considering that I took Journalism 101 as an undergrad, I should know a little about that).
Before everyone goes jumping all over SBC and Yahoo (trust me - I'm not an apologist for either of them), michael is right - the reporter did a really poor job looking into why Yahoo might need a user's Social Security number or info about their assets. It's akin to asking why someone needs your street address when they want to send you something you've ordered (oh, wait, Bezos is trying the patent that, isn't he?;).
Re:I wonder how much of this is quality . . .
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Right. That's why I specifically wrote "Ellison." I have to imagine that Ellison was a conduit for a lot of Trekkies into harder SF when you consider Ellison's New Wave credentials, his admiration for Golden Age authors, the admiration of him by Cyberpunk authors and his work with things like Babylon 5.
Nice guy, by the way. A bit pompous, but nice. I met him a few years back and he promptly, but nicely, informed me that my copy of Dangerous Visions was an unauthorized one from the SF Book Club and then showed me how to tell one.
Man...you're not looking for anything other than brain candy, are you (looking at the words "dumb fun" I'm assuming not)? I've never trusted Trek, especially the TOS crew, for great storytelling. With TOS, you can always count on that the crew will live on to the next flick, and, of course, the other folks are either: a) dead; b) bad guys; or c) not coming back in the next movie.
TNG took the drama/storytelling that one step further by killing Tasha Yar (and proving that the crew is not immortal), allowing Picard to be assimilated (in TOS that would have been Spock, I bet) and being willing to deal with overreaching themes (like the conspiracy plotlines, etc.). The other series have failed to continue making the universe credible. Babylon 5 did an excellent job of picking up where TNG left off: you see a functioning crew - people get promoted, people die, people take other assignments, new people come in.
TNG had started to show that SF can be dynamic, but its successors (and the movies) have only proven to be static.
Look at casting: C'mon - Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon? I was 11 or 12 and I couldn't even buy that one. Plus they didn't bring Kirstie Alley back as Saavik.
Look at story: it was a device to bring Spock back. The entire movie revolved around bringing him back into the series. It was basically more like Star Trek II.5.
Look at Paramount's reaction: Check out the new DVDs for I, II & III. I is a "director's cut" (and much better for it - I suggest renting or buying it used); II is a little enhanced here and there, but for the most part is seen as the Trek movie of all time and, as such, got really nice treatment on the new DVD (the author interviews were useless though); but III wasn't touched - no strong extras, no enhancements - Paramount put no money into it.
No, there are two needed elements in III: David's death and Spock's "resurrection." Those both could have been handled in different ways.
Re:It all went downhill when Gene died
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Are you saying that Enterprise may be the beginning of the Mirror Universe? Scott Bakula needs to grow a goatee...
Slashdot Mirror
That feels better.
Sorry, no logical arguments here. Just brainfarts and disgust.
For godsakes - now M$ sees Google as a competitor? A strong search Internet engine with newsgroup archives and an (overly priced) search appliance is a competitor? I don't see it. I just don't see it, and trying to think about the jumps in logic M$ is making my head pound...
Is that why I have to append ".com" whenever I am forced to use IE on Wintel? Is M$ that worried about hits to that stupid MSN search engine?
I'm awaiting the day M$ decides to take on Maytag as a competitor.
Will nobody stop them? Hell, I'll volunteer to manage your help desk! I know a ton of coders and support folk ready to head to greener pastures...
Just as an aside: Why do I have a feeling the geek world might be a better place to live if Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak had stayed on in their respective companies and Gates and Jobs had wandered off...
Okay...I'm off to play more Wind Waker. Sorry for this brief lapse of logical thought...
So, let's say MS brings Halo 2 to the arcade...that's not going to make me go out and buy an Xbox. Why should I? If I need a Halo fix, I can go to D&B's, get a beer and play...and proably tire of it before I spend the $250 needed to buy the Xbox and the game...
Nope, MS was infected by something at Sega. They've no real direction for the Xbox, or even the games division, to take. There is nothing that MS can be said as doing right - other than throwing money at something till they win.
Thankfully, Sony can fight them off, Nintendo should be able to, and I'm sure Bandai can keep kicking their asses in Japan. Certainly is an interesting time to be a gamer...
You and your friends can be Michiganders, if you so please. I'm a Michiganian. I don't goosestep to anyone's tune just because a poll from a union-busting scab newspaper says so.
I am from Michigan. I'm not a goose, homey. I'm clearly on the side of "Michiganian."
Sigh.
I guess Sonic won't be joining up in the next version of Super Smash Bros. after all...
It is a merger and was announced about two months ago. The merger will take place on April 1 (no, this isn't an April Fool's joke).
Please keep in mind: I'm saying this with two English degrees (BA and MA) under my belt - nobody enjoys a good book more than I do (my wife and I own roughly 3500 books, and we've read 95%+ of those). If anyone should be a snob, it should be me.
But I'm not.
There are different mediums, different creative forces, different thoughts that come to the fore in comics and cartoons. Some of the most creative work I've seen from my generation (I'm 29, turning 30 in May) has been in pushing these visual mediums foreward and making them more than just the Batman comic of old or the '70s Super Friends cartoon.
Open your mind, son. I could go on, but the horse I'm beating is developing rigor mortis...
Competition? Nintendo has competition on the handheld market. How could anyone overlook that wonderful device? Of course, there's always this great piece of hardware, too.
But, since you're obviously from the Intel side of the world, you must be used to having crappy support and no one to listen to your concerns. ;)
That comment makes almost no sense whatsoever - and I've read it three times...can you try again and, this time, proofread it?
Things will change. You're talking about the present, Dell's talking about the future. I should hope that they're smart enough to handle such concerns...
Someone was first, with an item called the "iMac" 4.5 years ago...
Sitting at home or work and posting on /. really won't help change the Valenti's attitude. I doubt he reads, or even knows of, this site.
Yep, I made mention of it knowlingly, and I know it wouldn't happen, but that would be the beauty of it! Ellison and JMS working on Trek! Granted, it's only a Trekker/B5 geek's wet dream, and I can't imagine Ellison ever touching Trek again. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a nice shot in the arm for the franchise.
While I'm on the general subject: For a darker Trek, I would say getting David Fincher (Fight Club), Alex Proyas (The Crow), or Darren Aronofsky (Pi) would be a good way to go.
Again, this is all a pipedream.
2) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 3) Star Wars Episode II IMAX
Now, I know Berman is thick, but to ask this question and to wonder why it happened outdoes any of the insipid things he's done since Gene's death. Paramount opened the movie smack-dab in the middle of two major, highly anticipated openings and one major "event" release (I think AOTC IMAX made more than Nemesis did, even). Berman needs to be replaced with someone who has a strong sense of SF and storytelling. J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison would be a great team to take on the franchise.
That said, I found Nemesis to be fairly strong. My expectations were low when I went in, but I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. I think it sets up a Star Trek XI that could, truly, be a massive hit (or mess), involving the TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager crews and could tie up the Romulan thread (especially considering that Scotty is still tooling around out there and Spock is still on Romulus!).
Functionality similar, but not really. Jobs demoed that you could share playlists between computers - but not the files. If my coworker closes his iBook in the middle of my listening to something of his, the music goes away - and I don't get the file. iCommune was different in that you actually had downloading of files goign on.
Yep. You should've seen the stereo in my first car (1980 Chevy Citation). All AM all the time! Me cruising down the main drag while blasting talk radio - that got me a ton of women...too cool. Now I have to deal with AM/FM and a CD player! Yuck.
Working at a help desk always makes me wonder if the complaintants are diagnosing their problems correctly. Have you tried it in different ways, instead of just dealing with one configuration? Don't always assume that the problem is with "them" when it may turn out to be something a little closer to home.
I am not, by far, saying that Apple is perfect. However, when regular .Mac users, both here and on other boards, post that they've had no issues, then I suggest that configuation may be to blame, not the service itself.
The reporter on the article screwed up. He made mistakes a Journalism 101 student is taught not to make (considering that I took Journalism 101 as an undergrad, I should know a little about that).
Poor form, moderator-baby. Poor form.
I dunno what's scarier: your statement, or the fact that I'm going to correct you that it's PS, not PDF, that Ghost is used for. ;)
Before everyone goes jumping all over SBC and Yahoo (trust me - I'm not an apologist for either of them), michael is right - the reporter did a really poor job looking into why Yahoo might need a user's Social Security number or info about their assets. It's akin to asking why someone needs your street address when they want to send you something you've ordered (oh, wait, Bezos is trying the patent that, isn't he? ;).
Nice guy, by the way. A bit pompous, but nice. I met him a few years back and he promptly, but nicely, informed me that my copy of Dangerous Visions was an unauthorized one from the SF Book Club and then showed me how to tell one.
TNG took the drama/storytelling that one step further by killing Tasha Yar (and proving that the crew is not immortal), allowing Picard to be assimilated (in TOS that would have been Spock, I bet) and being willing to deal with overreaching themes (like the conspiracy plotlines, etc.). The other series have failed to continue making the universe credible. Babylon 5 did an excellent job of picking up where TNG left off: you see a functioning crew - people get promoted, people die, people take other assignments, new people come in.
TNG had started to show that SF can be dynamic, but its successors (and the movies) have only proven to be static.
Look at casting: C'mon - Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon? I was 11 or 12 and I couldn't even buy that one. Plus they didn't bring Kirstie Alley back as Saavik.
Look at story: it was a device to bring Spock back. The entire movie revolved around bringing him back into the series. It was basically more like Star Trek II.5.
Look at Paramount's reaction: Check out the new DVDs for I, II & III. I is a "director's cut" (and much better for it - I suggest renting or buying it used); II is a little enhanced here and there, but for the most part is seen as the Trek movie of all time and, as such, got really nice treatment on the new DVD (the author interviews were useless though); but III wasn't touched - no strong extras, no enhancements - Paramount put no money into it.
No, there are two needed elements in III: David's death and Spock's "resurrection." Those both could have been handled in different ways.
Are you saying that Enterprise may be the beginning of the Mirror Universe? Scott Bakula needs to grow a goatee...