Jesus Christ, will you guys keep it down?? Some of us are trying to sleep, here. Whoever invited these guys with IDs greater than four digits needs to explain to his friends that this is not that kind of party, they need to bring their own beer, and YES, the girls will be perfectly fine until they get back from the liquor store.
IMO: I am confident "Open" can be trademarked by the Open market/sector community, because of the significant value added to all products and services that are truly "Open" as in GPL, Open Content, Open Standards I doubt it. What about:
OpenType fonts
Apple's OpenDoc
Apple's Open Transport
HP OpenView
...to say nothing of the paradox/hypocrisy of an industry group owning intellectual property as a way of making sure it remains more open.
My impression is that it had its heyday in the US well before I was of TV-watching age, so I guess the nostalgia is from the 34-and-up crowd. Speaking as a 35-year-old, Speed Racer was ancient, braindead garbage even when I was a kid. I don't know anyone who watched that junk. I think you hit the nail on the head with the MTV thing -- this is fake, studio-created nostalgia targeted at young people who were watching the show when it was revived in the last wave of nostalgia-baiting. This is also why the movie will fail: This time, the people who are supposed to be nostalgic for the show were already chuckling at how hokey it was the last time.
Of course, the CGI in Tron was nowhere near as extensive as that in Speed Racer. The characters themselves were not CGI; that was all hand-painted animation. Many of the sets were "real life," too -- green screen technology was not that advanced back then.
But they did have SOME idea of what the audience "would or would not like" -- Dillinger's helicopter at the beginning was CGI, but you weren't supposed to know that. The CGI that you were supposed to notice was very intentionally meant to look like computer graphics.
I hated that they had to cast plastic-looking Hollywood actor types for the U.S. version of The Ring, but I thought the film itself was actually a little scarier than the original.
Despite all the legitimate uses for handguns|hemp|abortions|porn|foreigners and the associated technologies, there appears to be a rather pervasive view (spin, rather) that all possible uses are nefarious.
As such, this will likely get spun as making the process of violent crime|drug abuse|premarital sex|rape|taking our jobs more efficient. Will that lead to this being blocked or otherwise pushed back against?
T-Mobile in the U.S. offers VoIP calling for several models of phones that support 802.11. If you're within range of your home wireless router, you can initiate a call over WiFi. Then, when you walk out the front door, the call will automatically switch over to the cellular network. They do charge a flat fee for this service, but WiFi calls are unmetered, and by all accounts the VoIP system works quite well.
but there's no way the pissant little warlord in the movie would have been able to afford one Jericho missle. Actually, a lot of people seem to have overlooked some things about that warlord. Did you notice how he was making speeches about Genghis Khan's empire? And did you catch the news reports talking about how his fighters were known locally as "the Ten Rings"? Think about Iron Man's #1 villain (not Doctor Doom, the other guy) and you might have an idea about where the next movie is going. Well, that and Rhodey's comment about the armor.
It's not a trailer. I don't understand where people are getting that from. It's another scene of the movie, featuring a famous actor in a cameo as a well-known Marvel Comics character.
When I saw it, there were a number of people saying, basically, "WTF? Nick Fury wasn't black."
The thing is, in Marvel's new "Ultimate" line of comics, which is sort of a re-envisioned version of the Marvel heroes, Nick Fury is black. And my understanding is that they specifically modeled the character on Samuel L. Jackson. So this role isn't actually that big of a stretch.
Ummmmmm... I think you're getting your panties in a wad over nothing here. It's not an ad after the credits. It's another scene of the movie. It features Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and the aforementioned cameo, and it hints at possible plot points for a future sequel. If you don't like that kind of thing, by all means leave the theater. Or for that matter, spare the people who aren't quite as high-strung as you and STF home, wait for it on DVD.
An Ubuntu package wouldn't be "some random site." I see no reason to include every single plugin in a default install just because someone, somewhere is really bothered when they don't have certain functionality.
I think Off-the-Record messaging is absolutely essential for IM... so what do I do? I dutifully install the package myself on every computer where I need it. Maybe I should pursue a doctorate in ballistic missile theory?
Mod parent up! Let's not forget that Reiser believes in being ready for combat at all times. Now's his chance to put all those combat-rehearsal activities (videogames) to work!
Pretty much every prison is a relatively pleasant place when you compare it to PB. ...which is probably why they won't send this schlub there. Seriously, if you're thinking of sending a white, fortyish computer programmer into the heart of California's prison gang complex, you might as well have him live at the bottom of a latrine. Out of sight, out of mind...
Ironically, that's what created the lockin that made Bill Gates the richest man on the planet: MS-DOS applications were poorly insulated from the underlying hardware, and were thus not very portable. Oh please. Everything you mention was par for the course for microcomputers until the late 1980s, and when they got things like process scheduling it was through clever add-ons like DESQview.
6502 assembly language had no instructions for multiplication or division. Does that mean the Apple ][ wasn't a "computer," if you had to perform basic computations manually?
Apple had a DOS, too, and if you wanted to do anything much beyond basic file I/O you needed to work around it, not with it, sometimes going as far as accessing the raw disk hardware with machine language.
You know why it wasn't a problem? Because Apple DOS computers, like MS-DOS computers, were personal computers that were never intended (and, arguably, lacked the resources) to run as time-shared, multitasking systems. Simply put, they didn't need Unix. (Where's that company you were working for in 1981 today?)
Argue the semantics on what does or does not constitute an OS in 2008 all you want, but your argument is silly from the context of what was really going on in computing in 1981.
Agreed, seems to me though that most lawyers would kick us pretty quickly. Young, unmarried, middle-class males often get kicked pretty quickly. Don't take it personally. You're just statistically less likely to be sympathetic, either to the defendant or to the victim of the alleged crime.
Look at the issues in the Hans Reiser case: Marriage. Money. Economic disparity between the accused and the alleged victim. Breakdown of an abusive relationship. Comfortable, middle-class, single male may just not have a lot of empathy for any of these situations.
Or, to put it another way: Who would you want sitting on your jury? Hans Reiser?
The point is that you should be *at least* as good as Windows, and right now software installation on Linux isn't. Wow. Have you actually ever used Ubuntu, or are you just parroting the parent? I honestly can't fathom how software installation under Ubuntu could be any easier. You don't even have to use Synaptic... there's an "Add/Remove Software" icon in the very first menu.
Macintosh apps were designed (back in the 80s) to take over the screen so that you were using one application at a time. Thus, current Mac applications share the same menu bar at the top of the screen, and its content changes as you change the current app. Windows was designed differently, so it works differently. Your perception is the complete opposite of mine. Macintosh apps may share the same menubar, but they seem to be designed to have a zillion windows all over the screen. Windows, on the other hand, has a feature called "maximize Window," so that you really are using one application at a time. I'm still waiting for the Mac OS to get that one right.
Jansen says not much has affected the top ten programming languages in the last five years, with only Python entering the top 10 (replacing COBOL) Wait... so Ruby made the top 10 before Python did? That doesn't give me much faith in the validity of this list.
A company that couldn't even deliver the 8G is now supposed to sell us 20Gs? Central Computer in San Francisco had about four of the 8G models in a glass case when I was there a few weeks ago, along with several of the 4G models.
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Jesus Christ, will you guys keep it down?? Some of us are trying to sleep, here. Whoever invited these guys with IDs greater than four digits needs to explain to his friends that this is not that kind of party, they need to bring their own beer, and YES, the girls will be perfectly fine until they get back from the liquor store.
Of course, the CGI in Tron was nowhere near as extensive as that in Speed Racer. The characters themselves were not CGI; that was all hand-painted animation. Many of the sets were "real life," too -- green screen technology was not that advanced back then.
But they did have SOME idea of what the audience "would or would not like" -- Dillinger's helicopter at the beginning was CGI, but you weren't supposed to know that. The CGI that you were supposed to notice was very intentionally meant to look like computer graphics.
I hated that they had to cast plastic-looking Hollywood actor types for the U.S. version of The Ring, but I thought the film itself was actually a little scarier than the original.
Despite all the legitimate uses for handguns|hemp|abortions|porn|foreigners and the associated technologies, there appears to be a rather pervasive view (spin, rather) that all possible uses are nefarious.
As such, this will likely get spun as making the process of violent crime|drug abuse|premarital sex|rape|taking our jobs more efficient. Will that lead to this being blocked or otherwise pushed back against?
T-Mobile in the U.S. offers VoIP calling for several models of phones that support 802.11. If you're within range of your home wireless router, you can initiate a call over WiFi. Then, when you walk out the front door, the call will automatically switch over to the cellular network. They do charge a flat fee for this service, but WiFi calls are unmetered, and by all accounts the VoIP system works quite well.
Yeah. With the coming Slashdot Shortage and all, I would be pissed if they wasted all our Slashdot on something like this.
It's not a trailer. I don't understand where people are getting that from. It's another scene of the movie, featuring a famous actor in a cameo as a well-known Marvel Comics character.
When I saw it, there were a number of people saying, basically, "WTF? Nick Fury wasn't black."
The thing is, in Marvel's new "Ultimate" line of comics, which is sort of a re-envisioned version of the Marvel heroes, Nick Fury is black. And my understanding is that they specifically modeled the character on Samuel L. Jackson. So this role isn't actually that big of a stretch.
Ummmmmm... I think you're getting your panties in a wad over nothing here. It's not an ad after the credits. It's another scene of the movie. It features Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and the aforementioned cameo, and it hints at possible plot points for a future sequel. If you don't like that kind of thing, by all means leave the theater. Or for that matter, spare the people who aren't quite as high-strung as you and STF home, wait for it on DVD.
An Ubuntu package wouldn't be "some random site." I see no reason to include every single plugin in a default install just because someone, somewhere is really bothered when they don't have certain functionality.
... so what do I do? I dutifully install the package myself on every computer where I need it. Maybe I should pursue a doctorate in ballistic missile theory?
I think Off-the-Record messaging is absolutely essential for IM
Mod parent up! Let's not forget that Reiser believes in being ready for combat at all times. Now's his chance to put all those combat-rehearsal activities (videogames) to work!
Sure it is. I've seen one stubbed toenail soak an entire sock. Six inches wide is barely the diameter of a salad bowl.
6502 assembly language had no instructions for multiplication or division. Does that mean the Apple ][ wasn't a "computer," if you had to perform basic computations manually?
Apple had a DOS, too, and if you wanted to do anything much beyond basic file I/O you needed to work around it, not with it, sometimes going as far as accessing the raw disk hardware with machine language.
You know why it wasn't a problem? Because Apple DOS computers, like MS-DOS computers, were personal computers that were never intended (and, arguably, lacked the resources) to run as time-shared, multitasking systems. Simply put, they didn't need Unix. (Where's that company you were working for in 1981 today?)
Argue the semantics on what does or does not constitute an OS in 2008 all you want, but your argument is silly from the context of what was really going on in computing in 1981.
You are right. Believe it or not, the "body" in question is that of the accused.
Look at the issues in the Hans Reiser case: Marriage. Money. Economic disparity between the accused and the alleged victim. Breakdown of an abusive relationship. Comfortable, middle-class, single male may just not have a lot of empathy for any of these situations.
Or, to put it another way: Who would you want sitting on your jury? Hans Reiser?