heh i hope gamespy is the next to go. they treat their employees like crap, and they have very little respect for anybody else. the guy who runs gamespy, mark surfas, goes by the nick of "Bastard"... so much truth there...
gamecenter wasn't all that. biased opinions, dumb reviews and comparisons (pokemon vs. quake?) and painful loadings. a lot of the game sites are going the way of the dodo, i hope some of the real ones aren't next..
thats a big post. like, so big i'm not even going to bother reading it. i'm just going to assume that that the 15 guys who are developing amiga stuff are making a LOT of noise.
they already have these. they are called "replicators". they are used to make "tea. early grey. hot."
all joking aside, this would actually be pretty much useless for the common joe. why? say you need a... light bulb. "polymer goop" is neither glass nor metal, two substances you need to make a light bulb. it can't be auto magically transformed into it either. so unless you're a mega rich guy or a corporation, and can have big vats of polymer gooped aluminum" i don't see where this will help anybody...
its odd. in february '99 I got DSL as soon as it was provided by BellSouth in my office. It was ROCK solid. no horror stories. i think i had a total of 6 hours down time in a year and a half. so, as soon as it becae available in the area where my home was, i was like "sign me up!"
oddly enough, the service was TERRIBLE. in 3 months i had 2 weeks of uptime. it was that bad. I ditched it, got the po-dunk cable co's net service and its as good as i could possibly want.
heh bull. Nintendo is full of crap. I know two guys working on it down at Retro Studios down in Austin texas... Dave "Zoid" Kirsch, the creator of the original CTF mod for Quake, and Jack "Spell it with one 'T'" Mathews, the guy who did gamespy (before it got bought by planetquake) and some QW programming and did the engine work on "SiN"...
Ok, I've never bitched about how much I've hated Katz or how he sucks or he should go somewhere or another, I've generally considered him this overly loquasious guy who is more impressed with his on vocabulary that his ability to research what he's writing on.
Note: Next time you hand Jon Katz a computer/type writer/word processor, also hand him a clue.
A) it's "Magneto," Master of Magnetism, not "Magento" master of the color red.
B) They are claws. Not knife fingers. They don't flex or have joints. He's called "Wolverine." Wolverine's carry neither knifes nor have fingers.
C) My biggest complaint: We are never supposed to hate Magneto. He's always been my favorite "villian" for one reason. He's not a bad guy. He's just a poor, mis-guided man who has been affected by traumatic events in his past and is just trying to protect his on. As someone else said, this is the most dangerous kind of person.
I must admit I know Katz probably liked that movie. He knows most everyone else who saw the movie enjoyed it. It raked in *57 MILLION* dollars in its first weekend. In three days. What movies beat this? Episode I and Jurassic Park 2. MI:2 also made more in its first week, but I don't count that because it was released on a Wednesday. Arguably, X-Men was better than JP:2 and SW:E2. Anyway, he's probably thinking "let's bash X-Men and get everybody up in a huff!" Eh, worked for me. I went in with 3 friends (male) and my girl friend. I've pretty much kept of with the X-Men for the last 10 years, one guy knew nothing about it other than the commercials, 2 guys had a fairly good grasp on what it was about, and my girlfriend had just seen the cartoon. And each and everyone one of us was like "OMG That was cool, let's see it again." Sometimes you old farts (*cough*KATZ*cough*) need to remember that movies are necessarily works of art. They aren't always commentary on social situations. They aren't generally supposed to inspire people. They are entertainment. When you go to a movie, the hope is either a) you're rolling in the aisles laughing b) you're holding on the arm rests because of the intensity or c) you're crying because something sad had happened. 2 out of 3 ain't bad, especially when we were not supposed to be crying. Stuff like Logan touching Rogue so she could heal herself or the "You're a dick" comment (that was great) made it feel human. Anna Paquin did a very good job as Rogue. Hugh Jackman did an *extremely* good job as Logan. Remember how much people bitched when he was cast as Wolverine? He had a big uphill battle and he nailed it. And yeah, Cyclops is as gay as we had always thought;) Jean Grey was good. Storm wasn't the best, but hey, she didn't have a big part. Sabretooth was menacing, though the extensive past relationship wasn't explored between Logan and Sabretooth. That is my only gripe about the comic -> movie translation. For what was expected, the movie was nothing short of a phenomenal success. It had a veritable shoe string budget (for a summer/action flick) a cut production time and the length of the movie was cut down. I give it two thumbs up. Even the snooty movie reviewer in Charlotte NC (Lawrence Toppman) liked it. He's the snootiest guy I've ever seen:) So uhm, there's my review. Cool flick, see it twice, buy the DVD and hope Singer puts the outtakes on there:)
if you've stop paying attention to them but want to get back in, here's a real good time... next month starts X-Men: Revolution - basically they are splitting the x-men into 2 teams (like back in the claremont/jim lee days), cyclops is dead (halelujah) and Chris Claremont has taken over writing again. hot damn. marvel has a special, get a years subscription to both x-men and uncanny x-men for like $38 which is a pretty good deal. also pick up the new Gambit series... it's generally considered the best book right now. it's hilarious and actually has plot. it even has star trek references ("spock doesn't make fun of kirk in front of the bad guys"). anyway, i'll go see the movie just cuz r.r. stamos is running around topless errrr painted.
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Ok, I know I'll probably get flamed for not seeing the "art" of the film, or picking up the nuances of its in depth look at being an "outsider"... But dear god. You will NEVER get that 2 and a half hours of your life back, no matter how badly you'll want to. And trust me, you will want to. From it's mind bogglingly slow pace to it's unlikely coincidences and then on to its not so subtle homosexual undertones... egads. It was fraught with improbabilities, bad accents and aside from Matt Damon going from mild mannered piano tuner to heartless killer, absolutely ZERO character development. Though, I actually did find 1 things entertaining: Kate Blanchett. For no other reason than she played (is?) a good airhead:) The two young ladies I was with, who seemed to be totally infatuated with the 2 lead actors, could not believe how just absolutely boring the movie was. Now I realize I'm not picking up on the "art" of the movie... But honestly, if I want art, I'll go visit a museum. For god's sake, if I'm going to spend $6.75 (or however overpriced the ticket was) to be entertained, please, entertain me. Don't make me sit there and wish I was somewhere else. Peeling potatoes. Or reading more Katz:)
Slashdot Mirror
BWAHAHAHAH
i know how you feel man
I think I'm going to try to watch the Alias marathon. Alias = Dark Angel without the sleaze.
/me goes to search for "credit card"
/me buys an x-box with stuff he found by reading slashdot
the gods of irony salute!
is this why, when I start giFT, it gives me a "No supernodes to talk to... attempting to fetch nodes file" ?
Real men just download the entire contents of slackware-current :)
heh that could be cool
:)
am i the only person who sees porn in their future?
sign the contract, get your 2 months of pay, and then sue them. obviously, contract don't mean squat.
heh i hope gamespy is the next to go. they treat their employees like crap, and they have very little respect for anybody else. the guy who runs gamespy, mark surfas, goes by the nick of "Bastard"... so much truth there...
gamecenter wasn't all that. biased opinions, dumb reviews and comparisons (pokemon vs. quake?) and painful loadings. a lot of the game sites are going the way of the dodo, i hope some of the real ones aren't next..
there are 3 words that strike fear into the heart of any user - 'Acceptable Use Policy'
First thing that came to my mind was the cheat code for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 for NES. Guess I was wrong :(
I never did cheat, much.
never seen an SQL statement as a headline. good job!
For me to poop on!
thats a big post. like, so big i'm not even going to bother reading it. i'm just going to assume that that the 15 guys who are developing amiga stuff are making a LOT of noise.
to quote that freaky dancing would be robber from 5th Element
"gimme da caaaassssshhhhh!"
they already have these. they are called "replicators". they are used to make "tea. early grey. hot."
all joking aside, this would actually be pretty much useless for the common joe. why? say you need a... light bulb. "polymer goop" is neither glass nor metal, two substances you need to make a light bulb. it can't be auto magically transformed into it either. so unless you're a mega rich guy or a corporation, and can have big vats of polymer gooped aluminum" i don't see where this will help anybody...
its odd. in february '99 I got DSL as soon as it was provided by BellSouth in my office. It was ROCK solid. no horror stories. i think i had a total of 6 hours down time in a year and a half. so, as soon as it becae available in the area where my home was, i was like "sign me up!"
oddly enough, the service was TERRIBLE. in 3 months i had 2 weeks of uptime. it was that bad. I ditched it, got the po-dunk cable co's net service and its as good as i could possibly want.
you obviously never played Super Smash Brothers. That game... egads, the time I wasted playing that...
heh bull. Nintendo is full of crap. I know two guys working on it down at Retro Studios down in Austin texas... Dave "Zoid" Kirsch, the creator of the original CTF mod for Quake, and Jack "Spell it with one 'T'" Mathews, the guy who did gamespy (before it got bought by planetquake) and some QW programming and did the engine work on "SiN"...
universities and isps aren't the police. do your own dirty work!
this is cool i guess, but it doesn't circumvent the underlying problem:
NetWare sucks.
isn't this the place where you use the quote:
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics"? (prolly got that wrong, but thats gist of it!)
oh well, just more proof that people need to learn to listen and read before they learn to talk
Ok, I've never bitched about how much I've hated Katz or how he sucks or he should go somewhere or another, I've generally considered him this overly loquasious guy who is more impressed with his on vocabulary that his ability to research what he's writing on.
;) Jean Grey was good. Storm wasn't the best, but hey, she didn't have a big part. Sabretooth was menacing, though the extensive past relationship wasn't explored between Logan and Sabretooth. That is my only gripe about the comic -> movie translation. For what was expected, the movie was nothing short of a phenomenal success. It had a veritable shoe string budget (for a summer/action flick) a cut production time and the length of the movie was cut down. I give it two thumbs up. Even the snooty movie reviewer in Charlotte NC (Lawrence Toppman) liked it. He's the snootiest guy I've ever seen :) So uhm, there's my review. Cool flick, see it twice, buy the DVD and hope Singer puts the outtakes on there :)
Note: Next time you hand Jon Katz a computer/type writer/word processor, also hand him a clue.
A) it's "Magneto," Master of Magnetism, not "Magento" master of the color red.
B) They are claws. Not knife fingers. They don't flex or have joints. He's called "Wolverine." Wolverine's carry neither knifes nor have fingers.
C) My biggest complaint: We are never supposed to hate Magneto. He's always been my favorite "villian" for one reason. He's not a bad guy. He's just a poor, mis-guided man who has been affected by traumatic events in his past and is just trying to protect his on. As someone else said, this is the most dangerous kind of person.
I must admit I know Katz probably liked that movie. He knows most everyone else who saw the movie enjoyed it. It raked in *57 MILLION* dollars in its first weekend. In three days. What movies beat this? Episode I and Jurassic Park 2. MI:2 also made more in its first week, but I don't count that because it was released on a Wednesday. Arguably, X-Men was better than JP:2 and SW:E2. Anyway, he's probably thinking "let's bash X-Men and get everybody up in a huff!" Eh, worked for me. I went in with 3 friends (male) and my girl friend. I've pretty much kept of with the X-Men for the last 10 years, one guy knew nothing about it other than the commercials, 2 guys had a fairly good grasp on what it was about, and my girlfriend had just seen the cartoon. And each and everyone one of us was like "OMG That was cool, let's see it again." Sometimes you old farts (*cough*KATZ*cough*) need to remember that movies are necessarily works of art. They aren't always commentary on social situations. They aren't generally supposed to inspire people. They are entertainment. When you go to a movie, the hope is either a) you're rolling in the aisles laughing b) you're holding on the arm rests because of the intensity or c) you're crying because something sad had happened. 2 out of 3 ain't bad, especially when we were not supposed to be crying. Stuff like Logan touching Rogue so she could heal herself or the "You're a dick" comment (that was great) made it feel human. Anna Paquin did a very good job as Rogue. Hugh Jackman did an *extremely* good job as Logan. Remember how much people bitched when he was cast as Wolverine? He had a big uphill battle and he nailed it. And yeah, Cyclops is as gay as we had always thought
if you've stop paying attention to them but want to get back in, here's a real good time... next month starts X-Men: Revolution - basically they are splitting the x-men into 2 teams (like back in the claremont/jim lee days), cyclops is dead (halelujah) and Chris Claremont has taken over writing again. hot damn. marvel has a special, get a years subscription to both x-men and uncanny x-men for like $38 which is a pretty good deal. also pick up the new Gambit series... it's generally considered the best book right now. it's hilarious and actually has plot. it even has star trek references ("spock doesn't make fun of kirk in front of the bad guys"). anyway, i'll go see the movie just cuz r.r. stamos is running around topless errrr painted.
Microsoft Bob? Hello?
Ok, I know I'll probably get flamed for not seeing the "art" of the film, or picking up the nuances of its in depth look at being an "outsider"... But dear god. You will NEVER get that 2 and a half hours of your life back, no matter how badly you'll want to. And trust me, you will want to. From it's mind bogglingly slow pace to it's unlikely coincidences and then on to its not so subtle homosexual undertones... egads. It was fraught with improbabilities, bad accents and aside from Matt Damon going from mild mannered piano tuner to heartless killer, absolutely ZERO character development. Though, I actually did find 1 things entertaining: Kate Blanchett. For no other reason than she played (is?) a good airhead :) The two young ladies I was with, who seemed to be totally infatuated with the 2 lead actors, could not believe how just absolutely boring the movie was. Now I realize I'm not picking up on the "art" of the movie... But honestly, if I want art, I'll go visit a museum. For god's sake, if I'm going to spend $6.75 (or however overpriced the ticket was) to be entertained, please, entertain me. Don't make me sit there and wish I was somewhere else. Peeling potatoes. Or reading more Katz :)