Doohan maintained a healthy showbiz career despite the fact he was missing the middle finger of his right hand, a piece of trivia few fans are even aware of. Doohan lost the finger during D-Day of World War II when he was part of the Royal Canadian Artillery.
He later received an honorary engineering degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering after it was learned through a poll that more than half the students said they pursued engineering as a career thanks to watching Scotty in the original "Star Trek."
If that's not a damned role model, I don't know what is. He fought in damned World War 2, and he also inspired a lot of people. If that's not worth recognizing, what is? Actors serve as much a role in society as others, they just have to remember it. They're role models to children and teenagers, and they also help to express ideas and to bring awareness to a generally ignorant public.
Those games sucked! (except maybe Doom, that's still fun to play.)
Honestly, come on! Who's willing to play those games anymore? Hell, nobody was EVER willing to play fear effect. It sucked bad.
Mortal Combat was a shitty rip-off of every other 2d fighting game ever made - they just had enough money and time to create something decently popular. I've played all the mortal kombat games, and I'll pick Samurai Shodown or King of Fighters over them any day. Resident Evil? Hah, the original was crap. It was just simply a big enough budget to popularize the genre started by Alone in the Dark. The GC remake of Resident Evil is actually an excellent game, I hear, but who really wants to play the ORIGINAL resident evil these days? Playing the original Alone in the Dark is tolerable, due to the nostalgia factor, but the original RE? not really.
Just more proof of how ignorant the american society is becoming... Not only are we putting out loads of trite crap, but entire industries are being judged based on that crap. Not good. Games like 'Fear Effect' and 'Mortal Kombat' make it harder for REAL game developers to make good games. I'd like to see more games like Final Fantasy 7 (even though I didn't particularly like it, it WAS good), Starcraft (told a decent story along with great gameplay), and Rez (just totally unique). You can only re-use the same idea so many times before it's dead.
He was always one of my favorite actors from the original star trek. He added a unique sense of humor to it - especially the movies. I still remember the scene in the movie (I forget the number of it, it was the one with the whales:P), where he reprogrammed a black-and-white macintosh to support voice activation.:) The various 'cameo' episodes in other ST series where he showed up, were excellent as well - I remember the ST:TNG episode where they found him, that was excellent.
He'll be missed.
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... Jobs said this puts Apple two years ahead of 'the other guys.'
Is it just me or is Mac OS X not ahead at all? Windows has had hardware-accelerated GUI redrawing since, like, forever, mostly provided by drivers. 2000/XP extended that even further. And if I remember right, I thought some of the *nix UI stuff like KDE/GNOME supported hardware acceleration? BeOS supported hardware acceleration for the GUI, using VESA, as well. I don't know about any other OSes though, I haven't used most of them much. I really don't see how Mac OS X is 'ahead' at all, considering that their current versions aren't very accelerated at all (even though their speed is impressive considering what they do.)
I'm offtopic? Gee, thanks moderators. And I'm sure THIS comment (Which IS totally offtopic) will get modded up +5, Insightful, just to prove how totally lame some of the moderators are.:P
I'll say one thing, I don't plan on supporting Adobe or Apple after the garbage they're pulling over Flash. First the Sorenson lawsuit, and now this.
I currently use Paint Shop Pro - I bought it a while back for $75 and absolutely love it. I've been considering buying Photoshop or Illustrator, though, because PSP sorely lacks many features I could use greatly.
I also have been considering buying a macintosh, because I really want to learn how to use their new technologies and their new OS.
But I've been a longtime user of many Macromedia products, and have found them all to be of superior workmanship. Seeing Adobe and Apple pull this garbage has lost them a customer. I'll be sticking with my Macromedia Flash, and my Jasc Paint Shop Pro, thank you very much. They may not be the best product around, but they're worth every penny I paid for them, and both Macromedia and Jasc are good companies. I'll also be sticking with Windows XP, because I like the OS better, and I also don't see the need to support a monopoly in the making any more than I see the need to support a monopoly that already exists.
Flash has long been the scourge of the internet. People use it to make large, annoying, ugly, flashy, and noisy animations instead of just making webpages. And now it's being used for obtrusive banner ads that even take up entire pages!
But Flash has a number of positive uses - it can be used to create complex animations for presentations, or to create simple amateur animated movies in a fraction of the time taken using other tools. It can be used to create simple database applications. It has a powerful variant of javascript, which allows you to do many complex scripting tasks using only flash. It has powerful XML support for exchanging data with servers, making it possible to use it for e-commerce and data-transaction applications. It has a light memory and disk footprint, doesn't use too much unnecessary bandwidth, and has great multimedia capabilities.
By the way, why not jail the programmers at microsoft for writing an e-mail client that allows "billions and billions of damage"
Ooh! Let's jail Linus Torvalds for writing an OS
that allows people to hack! And Bill Gates for creating an OS that allows viruses to be spread. And CmdrTaco for creating slashdot, because people can post flames and trolls, and links to illegal material.
Let's not be stupid, okay, buddy? The rest of your post is quite excellent, but stupid remarks like that one invalidate the whole thing.
Back and Forward were removed from most context menus, except the one for the page itself, slowing down navigation.
Of course, this was to simplify and shorten the menus, so there are valid arguments for both sides, but personally I like having Back and Forward on all the menus.
Yeah, one of the mailservers my mail goes through recently had MimeDefang installed on it, and I love it. There's nothing I like better than receiving strange messages that say "This email has been cleaned by MimeDefang", etc. I love the service, and I'm glad my ISP decided to use it. It saves me a lot of hassle and worry when it comes to email viruses, and it hasn't bothered my normal e-mail and attachment traffic at all.
When did I say I was trying to help Linux? And I didn't see any damned manual come with Red Hat. All I got was a bunch of cryptic error messages.
I've never needed to read a manual to use windows, and I've used every version since 3.0. It's not that hard.
Windows XP's setup isn't flawless - I never said that. I simply said it's the best setup I've ever used. I didn't say it was the easiest, I didn't say it let me play solitaire during the install (big deal), I didn't say it was the most flexible.
I just said it was the best I had ever used. Trust me, I've had plenty of problems with MS's installers of my own, but I still prefer them. Why? Because in general, I can count on them to work. Not perfectly, not exactly how I want them to, but they work.
Also, when I said it took me an hour to get Red Hat to install... that was an hour of rebooting and clicking through menu options in the setup. It didn't actually start copying files and configuring at any point in that process. After that, I had to spend a little while figuring out how to load the GUI and such - not really a problem, I expected that.
I was given a Red Hat 5 CD by someone who raved about Linux and said that I'd love it. I had already heard great things about Linux, and figured I'd give it a shot. I was overall, dissapointed by the quality of the CD and the distribution - but I could tell that Linux was good. When I finally got the OS loaded, I could tell it was good. But unfortunately, it was loaded with misconfigurations and problems (half of which were probably my fault.) The video drivers wouldn't work. The modem configuration program crashed my entire computer when I opened it. Etc. But when it worked, it worked well. I had an enjoyable time playing around with GIMP and the various cool apps Red Hat came with, and was very happy with the experience overall.
I had already reconfigured lilo twice - it was ignoring my configuration. But yes, I really don't know, because I hate how unuserfriendly Linux is. I don't mind hacking around a bit from time to time, but I like being able to get stuff done without having to reconfigure my boot loader and recompile my damned kernel.
Unless Linux's setup has gotten astronomically better since Red Hat 5.0 (which, btw, was very easy to use), I don't see how it competes with Microsoft's 'inferior' setup. MS's setup is the best OS setup I have ever used, period. On the other hand, Red Hat's setup WAS easy to understand and use. However, it didn't work properly. I had to reboot 5 times, and spent an hour getting the damn thing to actually install. And after it did, it turned out it had installed the incorrect drivers. And don't get me wrong - I know what I'm doing. It just simply didn't work.
If Linux hopes to compete with Windows, they have to pay a LOT of attention to small details. Red Hat's setup showed a complete lack of attention to small details.
Actually, I've seen many programs that completely and totally disable the start bar, replacing it with a 'better' application. They're a bitch to remove, too.
The argument is actually VERY valid. His argument about linux force-loading is also quite true - my experiences with lilo have been very bad - LiLo forced me to load Linux by default at startup, the only way to get it to load 98 was to type 'win' every time it started up. On the other hand, MS's boot loader is very flexible and doesn't force you to load anything. I'm sure I had an older version of lilo, but it still sucked.
Using x86-64 is great. It means that people used to coding in 32-bit x86, will be able to easily adapt their codebases to 64-bit, all the while learning about 64-bit coding and preparing their code. Then when the time comes to move to IA64, their code will already be prepared, and they'll have the necessary skills to make it work great on the new platform.
Every time a complete and total change is made, developers have to spend forever re-learning - but take Win32 for example. Win32 was similar enough to Win16, that Win16 developers were able to easily port their code, and then learn how to write good Win32 code. Now they are writing pure Win32 from the start, and they never had a problem, because it was an incremental step up instead of an enormous change all at once.
Free software definitely provides a service... but when you have the money for a commercial product, and it's better than the free one, it's downright silly to stick with the free one.
In some cases, free software is better. In other cases, you can make much better use of your time and money by buying quality commercial software. From any company - small or big.
Somewhat off-topic - People often recommend Opera as a browser to people. I then tell them to use Mozilla instead. Why? Because most of the people who get Opera, are just going to download the demo (with ads), and then crack it to remove the ads. What's the point? Mozilla is an easily equal browser, available for free. Why pirate a shareware app when you can get a better free one?
Yeah, and Java 1.0 ran blazing fast. You probably still use Netscape 4.x for the nifty 'What's Related' button... also known as the 'Keep track of all the sites you go to and tell you about similar sites' button.
Netscape 3 was okay, as was IE3. Netscape 4.x was a horrid piece of SHIT. IE4 was decent. IE5 was quite good, while NS 4.7 and pals were just as bad as they were when IE4 came out. Now we have IE6 versus Netscape 6... and Netscape 6 is just a horrible rip of Mozilla. Netscape 6 is worthless - I'm sticking to mozilla.
BTW, before you label me a troll - I don't even use IE. I'm just trying to make a point here.
I've been using netscape since v2.0 - hell, I owned a copy of Netscape 2 Gold. But even 2 sucked - I got GPF's in it all the time on my old win 3.x machine. I tried netscape 3, and it was okay... then I tried IE3 on that same 3.x machine. It was an amazing difference - IE3 was faster, more stable, and worked with all of my pages. After that, I moved onto IE4 and Netscape 4 with win9x... and which do you think I chose? Yep, IE4. Why? Because netscape 4 sucked. The most glaring problem was the resizing - resizing a Netscape 4.x browser window is horribly slow compared to resizing an IE or Mozilla window.
"5. Because MS was giving IE away for free (which has now been ruled illegal) this destroyed Netscape's revenue stream which essentially prohibited their future development. "
Ruling that giving away anything for free, is illegal, is pretty fucked up. Proves how retarded our legal system is.
Sure, MS leveraged a monopoly... but it being illegal for them to give away IE is retarded. The day it's illegal for me to give away my property or creations, is the day I move to another country. I don't care if it's improving my market share, or creating a monopoly - prosecute me for the actual crime, not for giving something away!
Nah, we'll be fine, don't you remember? What's-his-name from/. created that 1-byte turing machine... well, all we have to do is change the '1' to a '0' and we get a rabid flying monkey. Tokyo's saved, though I'm not sure what we'd do about the monkey...
They recently also spent a lot of money making a switch from Novell GroupWise, to Lotus Notes. Why? Nobody really knows, though it's suspected that it's because someone was looking at a supervisor's mail and he wanted an encrypting mail system. (Of course, GroupWise is encrypting, but they went with Notes anyway.)
They've spent hundreds of millions of dollars making the switch, and are spending more every day trying to keep it up to date and running.
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Oops, you're right. :) I haven't watched that movie in a long time, I think I'll pull it out and watch it again one of these days.
If that's not a damned role model, I don't know what is. He fought in damned World War 2, and he also inspired a lot of people. If that's not worth recognizing, what is? Actors serve as much a role in society as others, they just have to remember it. They're role models to children and teenagers, and they also help to express ideas and to bring awareness to a generally ignorant public.
Those games sucked! (except maybe Doom, that's still fun to play.)
Honestly, come on! Who's willing to play those games anymore? Hell, nobody was EVER willing to play fear effect. It sucked bad.
Mortal Combat was a shitty rip-off of every other 2d fighting game ever made - they just had enough money and time to create something decently popular. I've played all the mortal kombat games, and I'll pick Samurai Shodown or King of Fighters over them any day. Resident Evil? Hah, the original was crap. It was just simply a big enough budget to popularize the genre started by Alone in the Dark. The GC remake of Resident Evil is actually an excellent game, I hear, but who really wants to play the ORIGINAL resident evil these days? Playing the original Alone in the Dark is tolerable, due to the nostalgia factor, but the original RE? not really.
Just more proof of how ignorant the american society is becoming... Not only are we putting out loads of trite crap, but entire industries are being judged based on that crap. Not good. Games like 'Fear Effect' and 'Mortal Kombat' make it harder for REAL game developers to make good games. I'd like to see more games like Final Fantasy 7 (even though I didn't particularly like it, it WAS good), Starcraft (told a decent story along with great gameplay), and Rez (just totally unique). You can only re-use the same idea so many times before it's dead.
He was always one of my favorite actors from the original star trek. He added a unique sense of humor to it - especially the movies. I still remember the scene in the movie (I forget the number of it, it was the one with the whales :P), where he reprogrammed a black-and-white macintosh to support voice activation. :) The various 'cameo' episodes in other ST series where he showed up, were excellent as well - I remember the ST:TNG episode where they found him, that was excellent.
He'll be missed.
... Jobs said this puts Apple two years ahead of 'the other guys.'
Is it just me or is Mac OS X not ahead at all? Windows has had hardware-accelerated GUI redrawing since, like, forever, mostly provided by drivers. 2000/XP extended that even further. And if I remember right, I thought some of the *nix UI stuff like KDE/GNOME supported hardware acceleration? BeOS supported hardware acceleration for the GUI, using VESA, as well. I don't know about any other OSes though, I haven't used most of them much. I really don't see how Mac OS X is 'ahead' at all, considering that their current versions aren't very accelerated at all (even though their speed is impressive considering what they do.)
Proof that coding in Java is bad for you!
I'm offtopic? Gee, thanks moderators. And I'm sure THIS comment (Which IS totally offtopic) will get modded up +5, Insightful, just to prove how totally lame some of the moderators are. :P
I'll say one thing, I don't plan on supporting Adobe or Apple after the garbage they're pulling over Flash. First the Sorenson lawsuit, and now this.
I currently use Paint Shop Pro - I bought it a while back for $75 and absolutely love it. I've been considering buying Photoshop or Illustrator, though, because PSP sorely lacks many features I could use greatly.
I also have been considering buying a macintosh, because I really want to learn how to use their new technologies and their new OS.
But I've been a longtime user of many Macromedia products, and have found them all to be of superior workmanship. Seeing Adobe and Apple pull this garbage has lost them a customer. I'll be sticking with my Macromedia Flash, and my Jasc Paint Shop Pro, thank you very much. They may not be the best product around, but they're worth every penny I paid for them, and both Macromedia and Jasc are good companies. I'll also be sticking with Windows XP, because I like the OS better, and I also don't see the need to support a monopoly in the making any more than I see the need to support a monopoly that already exists.
Flash has long been the scourge of the internet. People use it to make large, annoying, ugly, flashy, and noisy animations instead of just making webpages. And now it's being used for obtrusive banner ads that even take up entire pages!
But Flash has a number of positive uses - it can be used to create complex animations for presentations, or to create simple amateur animated movies in a fraction of the time taken using other tools. It can be used to create simple database applications. It has a powerful variant of javascript, which allows you to do many complex scripting tasks using only flash. It has powerful XML support for exchanging data with servers, making it possible to use it for e-commerce and data-transaction applications. It has a light memory and disk footprint, doesn't use too much unnecessary bandwidth, and has great multimedia capabilities.
If Flash dissapears, I will sorely miss it.
Outlook hasn't killed people. Ford has.
Any questions?
Further proof that Slashdot is the root of all evil. Well, maybe not the root, but at least a subfolder. :P
By the way, why not jail the programmers at microsoft for writing an e-mail client that allows "billions and billions of damage"
Ooh! Let's jail Linus Torvalds for writing an OS that allows people to hack! And Bill Gates for creating an OS that allows viruses to be spread. And CmdrTaco for creating slashdot, because people can post flames and trolls, and links to illegal material.
Let's not be stupid, okay, buddy? The rest of your post is quite excellent, but stupid remarks like that one invalidate the whole thing.
Back and Forward were removed from most context menus, except the one for the page itself, slowing down navigation.
Of course, this was to simplify and shorten the menus, so there are valid arguments for both sides, but personally I like having Back and Forward on all the menus.
Does it suck as much as the windows version? If not, I'm switching to Linux exclusively ;)
Yeah, one of the mailservers my mail goes through recently had MimeDefang installed on it, and I love it. There's nothing I like better than receiving strange messages that say "This email has been cleaned by MimeDefang", etc. I love the service, and I'm glad my ISP decided to use it. It saves me a lot of hassle and worry when it comes to email viruses, and it hasn't bothered my normal e-mail and attachment traffic at all.
When did I say I was trying to help Linux?
And I didn't see any damned manual come with Red Hat. All I got was a bunch of cryptic error messages.
I've never needed to read a manual to use windows, and I've used every version since 3.0. It's not that hard.
Windows XP's setup isn't flawless - I never said that. I simply said it's the best setup I've ever used. I didn't say it was the easiest, I didn't say it let me play solitaire during the install (big deal), I didn't say it was the most flexible.
I just said it was the best I had ever used. Trust me, I've had plenty of problems with MS's installers of my own, but I still prefer them. Why? Because in general, I can count on them to work. Not perfectly, not exactly how I want them to, but they work.
Also, when I said it took me an hour to get Red Hat to install... that was an hour of rebooting and clicking through menu options in the setup. It didn't actually start copying files and configuring at any point in that process. After that, I had to spend a little while figuring out how to load the GUI and such - not really a problem, I expected that.
I was given a Red Hat 5 CD by someone who raved about Linux and said that I'd love it. I had already heard great things about Linux, and figured I'd give it a shot. I was overall, dissapointed by the quality of the CD and the distribution - but I could tell that Linux was good. When I finally got the OS loaded, I could tell it was good. But unfortunately, it was loaded with misconfigurations and problems (half of which were probably my fault.) The video drivers wouldn't work. The modem configuration program crashed my entire computer when I opened it. Etc. But when it worked, it worked well. I had an enjoyable time playing around with GIMP and the various cool apps Red Hat came with, and was very happy with the experience overall.
I had already reconfigured lilo twice - it was ignoring my configuration. But yes, I really don't know, because I hate how unuserfriendly Linux is. I don't mind hacking around a bit from time to time, but I like being able to get stuff done without having to reconfigure my boot loader and recompile my damned kernel.
Unless Linux's setup has gotten astronomically better since Red Hat 5.0 (which, btw, was very easy to use), I don't see how it competes with Microsoft's 'inferior' setup. MS's setup is the best OS setup I have ever used, period. On the other hand, Red Hat's setup WAS easy to understand and use. However, it didn't work properly. I had to reboot 5 times, and spent an hour getting the damn thing to actually install. And after it did, it turned out it had installed the incorrect drivers. And don't get me wrong - I know what I'm doing. It just simply didn't work.
If Linux hopes to compete with Windows, they have to pay a LOT of attention to small details. Red Hat's setup showed a complete lack of attention to small details.
Actually, I've seen many programs that completely and totally disable the start bar, replacing it with a 'better' application. They're a bitch to remove, too.
The argument is actually VERY valid. His argument about linux force-loading is also quite true - my experiences with lilo have been very bad - LiLo forced me to load Linux by default at startup, the only way to get it to load 98 was to type 'win' every time it started up. On the other hand, MS's boot loader is very flexible and doesn't force you to load anything. I'm sure I had an older version of lilo, but it still sucked.
Using x86-64 is great. It means that people used to coding in 32-bit x86, will be able to easily adapt their codebases to 64-bit, all the while learning about 64-bit coding and preparing their code. Then when the time comes to move to IA64, their code will already be prepared, and they'll have the necessary skills to make it work great on the new platform.
Every time a complete and total change is made, developers have to spend forever re-learning - but take Win32 for example. Win32 was similar enough to Win16, that Win16 developers were able to easily port their code, and then learn how to write good Win32 code. Now they are writing pure Win32 from the start, and they never had a problem, because it was an incremental step up instead of an enormous change all at once.
Free software definitely provides a service...
but when you have the money for a commercial product, and it's better than the free one, it's downright silly to stick with the free one.
In some cases, free software is better. In other cases, you can make much better use of your time and money by buying quality commercial software. From any company - small or big.
Somewhat off-topic - People often recommend Opera as a browser to people. I then tell them to use Mozilla instead. Why? Because most of the people who get Opera, are just going to download the demo (with ads), and then crack it to remove the ads. What's the point? Mozilla is an easily equal browser, available for free. Why pirate a shareware app when you can get a better free one?
Yeah, and Java 1.0 ran blazing fast. You probably still use Netscape 4.x for the nifty 'What's Related' button... also known as the 'Keep track of all the sites you go to and tell you about similar sites' button.
Netscape 3 was okay, as was IE3. Netscape 4.x was a horrid piece of SHIT. IE4 was decent. IE5 was quite good, while NS 4.7 and pals were just as bad as they were when IE4 came out. Now we have IE6 versus Netscape 6... and Netscape 6 is just a horrible rip of Mozilla. Netscape 6 is worthless - I'm sticking to mozilla.
BTW, before you label me a troll - I don't even use IE. I'm just trying to make a point here.
I've been using netscape since v2.0 - hell, I owned a copy of Netscape 2 Gold. But even 2 sucked - I got GPF's in it all the time on my old win 3.x machine. I tried netscape 3, and it was okay... then I tried IE3 on that same 3.x machine. It was an amazing difference - IE3 was faster, more stable, and worked with all of my pages. After that, I moved onto IE4 and Netscape 4 with win9x... and which do you think I chose? Yep, IE4. Why? Because netscape 4 sucked. The most glaring problem was the resizing - resizing a Netscape 4.x browser window is horribly slow compared to resizing an IE or Mozilla window.
"5. Because MS was giving IE away for free (which has now been ruled illegal) this destroyed Netscape's revenue stream which essentially prohibited their future development. "
Ruling that giving away anything for free, is illegal, is pretty fucked up. Proves how retarded our legal system is.
Sure, MS leveraged a monopoly... but it being illegal for them to give away IE is retarded. The day it's illegal for me to give away my property or creations, is the day I move to another country. I don't care if it's improving my market share, or creating a monopoly - prosecute me for the actual crime, not for giving something away!
Nah, we'll be fine, don't you remember? What's-his-name from /. created that 1-byte turing machine... well, all we have to do is change the '1' to a '0' and we get a rabid flying monkey. Tokyo's saved, though I'm not sure what we'd do about the monkey...
They recently also spent a lot of money making a switch from Novell GroupWise, to Lotus Notes. Why? Nobody really knows, though it's suspected that it's because someone was looking at a supervisor's mail and he wanted an encrypting mail system. (Of course, GroupWise is encrypting, but they went with Notes anyway.)
They've spent hundreds of millions of dollars making the switch, and are spending more every day trying to keep it up to date and running.
California knows how to waste money.