Now there is a show that has gone from no budget, dogy sets to increasing budget and more sophisticated plots. Not everyone agrees with the last series.
Being the longest running Sit-com on BBC, it probably could have died years ago. I just take what comes and apreciate it.
Why the BBC decided to drop Doctor Who is a mystery to me though...
I seem to remember that Atari machines were rare in the UK in the 80's. The majority of game machines were Spectrums, C64s and Amstrads.
There was no real reason to have more than one of them as games came out simultaneously all of them.
In the recent past, games for consoles seem to be for one platform or another (I bought an N64 for Zelda and Goldeneye and a Ps2 for Driver et all).
I've noticed in the past few months that increasingly games are coming out for all three major consoles at the same time (The Spiderman game for example). Which is good for the consumer, and allows for better comparitives on the three consoles.
I hope this comment is meant to get a 'Funny' rating.
The most efficient method of dealing with terrorism is to offer the leaders a seat in a legislative and the usually perks of the 'gravy train'.
Then you can depsise and complain bitterly how stupid and half-assed they are as you do any other politician...
It worked in Northern Ireland. We now have idiotic zealots sitting in debate and wasting public money on 2 copies of everything to the masses (i.e letters to schoolchildren in english and irish)(should have used e-mail, then the kids could class both as spam).
In my opinion the specical effects were good (as usual) I even liked Yodas fight.
My problem was with the storyline and characterisations (plus acting, but maybe the acting is crap because the characterisations were crap).
There was a tension between the lead characters in eps 3-5 that is just not there in the first two. Perhaps its the myth related elements missing I don't know. In eps 3-5 Luke, Han and Leia are thrown together and the characters develop together. There is tension between Han and Leia, Leia and Luke, Han and Luke. In AOTC there is little tension, and what there is isn't believable. I think Anakin and Padme going off to Naboo was not productive to the storyline, it didn't work for me. All three should have gone in search of the mystery, not just Obi Wan, then there would have been the opportunity for character interaction and Anakin could have abandoned him friends at a crucial moment to go to tatooine in search of his mother (a similar situation to which his son is subject in ep 5 where Luke realises through the force that his friends are in danger on Bespin).
Instead we had a long meaningless set of scenes with Padme and Anakin where there is little or no plot and absolutely no tension (Padme at least could have been engaged to somebody else that might have provided some tension). it was more like... Anakin: 'Give'us a shag.' Padme: 'No.' Anakin: 'Aw, go on, I really fancy you.' Padme: 'No.' Anakin: 'Please'. Padme: 'Mmmh, hmmm. No.'
I really enjoyed the end of the movie though, the battle was great. It didn't feel right that the Stormtroopers were fighting alongside the good guys though, that just felt plain wrong.
I know the organisations you mean. The Sealed Knot in the UK, the SEAR in Ireland.
Probably more likely to be watching people who've training on shield and baton style combat (even though it's actually just a kind of dance) and have experience functioning as a unit.
Our local government level are a bunch of idiots (and sometimes worse). The amount of attention our MPs will give this (even with letters) would be on the level of '?'. They only concern themselves with their own petty tribsl bickerings.
I preferred it when the beaurocrats of the Civil Service ran the show...
Okay, we may be ROI ten or so years down the line By then it'll be as bad everywhere.
Suse UnitedLinux 2000 ?
Suse XP Proffessional Edition ?
Suse XP Personal Edition ?
I'd guess they won't carry the Brand 'United Linux' but I can't see them going out of their way to make them incompatible (Suse Proffessional is already pretty close to the LSB).
Brand names are for people with more money than sense. Brand names are going after PrintPhoto Proffessional(or whatever) at $499 when you can get a lesser known program for a lot less.
The 'per seat licensing' reference was either mis-interpreted and then blown out of all proportion until Suse had to come out and set the facts straight.
No GNU/Linux distro company could do a 'microsoft' on anybody. Its not possible. Everybody would wander off to debian or Slackware or non-participating distros and leave them on the dance-floor, on their own, during the slow set, looking very sad and lonely.
This is purely in order to go after Enterprise money. The hobby user, geek and techheads will get the benefits with (I think) is a modest outlay for a distro (I have never used the install support, but I do like the manuals and the Install DVD). Plus we should all benefit if this brings more applications and support to the GNU/Linux Platform.
I do think United Linux is a naff name though - sounds like a football (soccer if you are in the US) club - And I'm sick to death of the 'World Cup' already.
Caldera have been going with 'per-seat licensing' for a while now. I never investigated further as I don't use Caldera.
However I do use Suse. I'd guess the per-seat licensing is more to do with Service Contracts. Downloaded ISO's generally come with no support, this has been true for RH and Mandrake. Bought distros (like the Suse 8.0 Proffessional version I just recently acquired) come with limited installation support and after that - you're on your own.
Since the United Linux consortium are aiming squarely at Enterprise and commercial custom, they're talking about that sector of the market as it is more likely to be profitable. They are not really interested in the home user. I'd guess more Corporations might take an interest in GNU/Linux if 'per-seat licensing' were in place as they'd have a support lifeline. Businesses need to have a support agreement (even huge corporations with inhouse knowledge) no support contract or service agreement would leave them vulnerable to problems which might jeopardise continuity.
I'd seriously doubt they'd strangle the non-enterprise user, they'd have only small change to gain by forcing non-enterprise customers to pay non-seat and too much to loose as a lot of non-enterprise customers are the people who write most of their product.
I doubt very much GNU/LInux is the core product that brings their revenue. I'd guess their principle resource is the knowledge of their staff. But then, that's true for any company.
You are thinking too much in the Proprietry model.
Suse, and the others are only interested in sales of their distro as an intro. What makes their product distinguishable is not as important as what makes their Service distinguishable.
Thats also why the target is business customers. When did you average home user ever take out a five year service agreement with any distro company (even RH).
Together, they can refine a standard, stable operating system and take it into Businesses with the guarantee that should the business not like their service they can switch to another vendor with little or no transition hassles.
Are you sure you are a newbie - when I was a newbie I generally was too afraid to touch anything (and anything I did touch, broke).
That's all the Distro really should be, a collection of packages. The advantage GNU/Linux has over Windows is that you can change ALL packages (even the core of the OS).
It's up to the individual(or the corporation in Enterprise space) which distro they use. Most single Linux users will not be buying support packages beyond the free with the distro support (if they buy their distro rather than d/l an ISO).
The Distro Companies (RH, Suse et all) make their money from support. Any improvements in the distro software generally are in the areas of installation, configuration and some usability tools in order to actually reduce the amount of support they have to do to earn the money from their Service Level Agreements.
The inclusion of a standard Package management tool or process. The process in itself would ensure each distro adheres to the paths/library locations standard. It would also greatly assist in the usability of the GNU/Linux system.
I use Suse Linux personally (have done regularly since 7.0) as my home desktop. There's a lot I like about Suse. Most reviews I've ever read rate it higher than Red Hat keeps me coming back. The regular and relatively well priced releases mean I can depend on regular base upgrades in addition to the online updates. Good KDE (my choice of default)and improving Gnome and other Window Manager support.
MY only gripe is the environment scripted setup, but I don't usually have too much of a problem with installation as long as I compile from Source.
While Yast2 et all are by no means perfect, the appliance of a standard among the allied distributions would be an ideal way of pooling resources and avoiding duplication of effort (very apt-get to the Open Source philosophy) and it would free up paid distro programmers to work on further enhancements (hint hint, the package management tool).
SILENT HILL2 was the first game to REALLY scare the crap out of me in a long time. I don't think the original Dooms did that (I always feel safe with a shotgun). 'Scarabeus' on the C64 was the first game to give me the creeps - it had that eerie music at the start.
I have it - I was a little disappointed. It's way more cartoony than GTA3, there's not as much satisfaction in the gameplay and there is not as much freedom as in GTA3. There is the 'REvoluion mode' which is mission based, and 'Chaos mode' which is smashing things and hitting people - only a few targets.. Best fun is 'Last Clone standing' You just run around one of the levels attempting to kill all these scared people. At the end it says 'Congratulations, you killed Everybody!'
We all know that. However 'the customer' is increasingly the parent. The parent is increasingly aware of 'the internet' by that definition (why else do people buy into AOL's market hype? 'Disney is nice' and 'Disney is safe' in the opinion of the general public. The main XBox plugs I saw around the release date earlier in the year were being aimed at parents mainly (on UK T.V anyway). I don't recall the PS2 being pushed in quite the same way when it was released.
I'm glad I'm single and horribly perverse - I can play what I want...
B?gger creating your own gang. I want my own Club in Redlight - just call me Toni...
I'd like to see more accurate hand to hand fighting and use of the baseball bat and maybe a bit of knifing... Imagine having some Virtua Fighter type moves in the game.
It'd also be cool to have a few more indoor areas. The city was really great except for lack of Shopping malls etc to go mad in. The underground was the only place you could organise a siege against the law.
Another thing that annoyed me was the way the cops came after you if you slapped down a gang member after he started it. There I was, minding my own business (I was sneaking up on that guy in china town in order to assasinate him, but that's beside the point) and along comes some jumped up chinese mafia member who tries to give me plastic surgery with a baseball bat. I slap him down and suddenly the cops are on my case... What gives man?
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65 minutes of Britney Spears sucking?
I'd buy that.
This must be where the music industry is going wrong...
Well, they have continued to support Red Dwarf.
Now there is a show that has gone from no budget, dogy sets to increasing budget and more sophisticated plots. Not everyone agrees with the last series.
Being the longest running Sit-com on BBC, it probably could have died years ago. I just take what comes and apreciate it.
Why the BBC decided to drop Doctor Who is a mystery to me though...
I wish the cell phone manufacturers would spend some time improving the sound output a little instead.
I am really tired of hearing the same beep-beep tunes.
I'd like a mobile phone with at least a Commodore Sid chip inside (yay, Thing-on-a-spring music).
What about the phone/camera combos.
/her mug onto every demon on Doom.
It'd be cool to be able to take a snap of some ass who cuts you off in traffic and paste his
It might help relieve road rage if you could spend some time while stuck in a traffic jam chain-sawing them to death.
I hardly use my phone though. I'd rather have a mobile phone interface for my Zaurus so I can carry fewer electronics about.
Fat chance of wireless access in my neck of the woods at the moment.
Well, he seems to be trying to hold Linux at 'Ransom'
I seem to remember that Atari machines were rare in the UK in the 80's.
The majority of game machines were Spectrums, C64s and Amstrads.
There was no real reason to have more than one of them as games came out simultaneously all of them.
In the recent past, games for consoles seem to be for one platform or another (I bought an N64 for Zelda and Goldeneye and a Ps2 for Driver et all).
I've noticed in the past few months that increasingly games are coming out for all three major consoles at the same time (The Spiderman game for example). Which is good for the consumer, and allows for better comparitives on the three consoles.
I hope this comment is meant to get a 'Funny' rating.
The most efficient method of dealing with terrorism is to offer the leaders a seat in a legislative and the usually perks of the 'gravy train'.
Then you can depsise and complain bitterly how stupid and half-assed they are as you do any other politician...
It worked in Northern Ireland. We now have idiotic zealots sitting in debate and wasting public money on 2 copies of everything to the masses (i.e letters to schoolchildren in english and irish)(should have used e-mail, then the kids could class both as spam).
Naw,
I've seen the piccies, it's about as sexy as R2D2 (at least he's got a round head).
I think I'll wait for something with a rubber sleeve and a Haptic version of Lula...
In my opinion the specical effects were good (as usual) I even liked Yodas fight.
My problem was with the storyline and characterisations (plus acting, but maybe the acting is crap because the characterisations were crap).
There was a tension between the lead characters in eps 3-5 that is just not there in the first two. Perhaps its the myth related elements missing I don't know. In eps 3-5 Luke, Han and Leia are thrown together and the characters develop together. There is tension between Han and Leia, Leia and Luke, Han and Luke.
In AOTC there is little tension, and what there is isn't believable.
I think Anakin and Padme going off to Naboo was not productive to the storyline, it didn't work for me. All three should have gone in search of the mystery, not just Obi Wan, then there would have been the opportunity for character interaction and Anakin could have abandoned him friends at a crucial moment to go to tatooine in search of his mother (a similar situation to which his son is subject in ep 5 where Luke realises through the force that his friends are in danger on Bespin).
Instead we had a long meaningless set of scenes with Padme and Anakin where there is little or no plot and absolutely no tension (Padme at least could have been engaged to somebody else that might have provided some tension). it was more like...
Anakin: 'Give'us a shag.'
Padme: 'No.'
Anakin: 'Aw, go on, I really fancy you.'
Padme: 'No.'
Anakin: 'Please'.
Padme: 'Mmmh, hmmm. No.'
I really enjoyed the end of the movie though, the battle was great. It didn't feel right that the Stormtroopers were fighting alongside the good guys though, that just felt plain wrong.
I know the organisations you mean.
The Sealed Knot in the UK, the SEAR in Ireland.
Probably more likely to be watching people who've training on shield and baton style combat (even though it's actually just a kind of dance) and have experience functioning as a unit.
You betcha - I live in Northern Ireland.
Our local government level are a bunch of idiots (and sometimes worse). The amount of attention our MPs will give this (even with letters) would be on the level of '?'. They only concern themselves with their own petty tribsl bickerings.
I preferred it when the beaurocrats of the Civil Service ran the show...
Okay, we may be ROI ten or so years down the line
By then it'll be as bad everywhere.
Excellant
All we need now is a program that will asist in creating a decent plot and three dimensional characters into a movie.
Mr. Lucas could use it to give his latest a Re-Master...
I doubt they'll keep that up for long...
What will they be calling their versions?
Suse UnitedLinux 2000 ?
Suse XP Proffessional Edition ?
Suse XP Personal Edition ?
I'd guess they won't carry the Brand 'United Linux' but I can't see them going out of their way to make them incompatible (Suse Proffessional is already pretty close to the LSB).
Brand names are for people with more money than sense. Brand names are going after PrintPhoto Proffessional(or whatever) at $499 when you can get a lesser known program for a lot less.
No surprises here.
The 'per seat licensing' reference was either mis-interpreted and then blown out of all proportion until Suse had to come out and set the facts straight.
No GNU/Linux distro company could do a 'microsoft' on anybody. Its not possible. Everybody would wander off to debian or Slackware or non-participating distros and leave them on the dance-floor, on their own, during the slow set, looking very sad and lonely.
This is purely in order to go after Enterprise money. The hobby user, geek and techheads will get the benefits with (I think) is a modest outlay for a distro (I have never used the install support, but I do like the manuals and the Install DVD).
Plus we should all benefit if this brings more applications and support to the GNU/Linux Platform.
I do think United Linux is a naff name though - sounds like a football (soccer if you are in the US) club - And I'm sick to death of the 'World Cup' already.
Caldera have been going with 'per-seat licensing' for a while now. I never investigated further as I don't use Caldera.
However I do use Suse.
I'd guess the per-seat licensing is more to do with Service Contracts. Downloaded ISO's generally come with no support, this has been true for RH and Mandrake. Bought distros (like the Suse 8.0 Proffessional version I just recently acquired) come with limited installation support and after that - you're on your own.
Since the United Linux consortium are aiming squarely at Enterprise and commercial custom, they're talking about that sector of the market as it is more likely to be profitable. They are not really interested in the home user.
I'd guess more Corporations might take an interest in GNU/Linux if 'per-seat licensing' were in place as they'd have a support lifeline.
Businesses need to have a support agreement (even huge corporations with inhouse knowledge) no support contract or service agreement would leave them vulnerable to problems which might jeopardise continuity.
I'd seriously doubt they'd strangle the non-enterprise user, they'd have only small change to gain by forcing non-enterprise customers to pay non-seat and too much to loose as a lot of non-enterprise customers are the people who write most of their product.
I doubt very much GNU/LInux is the core product that brings their revenue. I'd guess their principle resource is the knowledge of their staff.
But then, that's true for any company.
DR DOS 6. with Novell Netware light bundled
This is not so much a dead operating system but a murdered one.
Win 3.1 real didn't like running on top of it.
I think the distros most of the current members of United Linux default to KDE.
I've used Suse for some time, and their packages always have a comprehensive and up-to-date Gnome package (although maybe not at the bleeding edge).
Suse's Yast package integration also fits nicely into Gnome.
I can't really comment on most of the other companies as I've not extensively used their products.
I'm afraid I've always prefered KDE, but Gnome 2 on Suse 8.0 has almost turned my head.
Lovely, lovely Green Suse....yum
You are thinking too much in the Proprietry model.
Suse, and the others are only interested in sales of their distro as an intro. What makes their product distinguishable is not as important as what makes their Service distinguishable.
Thats also why the target is business customers. When did you average home user ever take out a five year service agreement with any distro company (even RH).
Together, they can refine a standard, stable operating system and take it into Businesses with the guarantee that should the business not like their service they can switch to another vendor with little or no transition hassles.
Trying to avoid being as crude as possible, but,
/. regulars would prefer to have the verb 'inserted' and Natalie Portman in an entirely different context.
I'd have thought most of the
Are you sure you are a newbie - when I was a newbie I generally was too afraid to touch anything (and anything I did touch, broke).
That's all the Distro really should be, a collection of packages. The advantage GNU/Linux has over Windows is that you can change ALL packages (even the core of the OS).
It's up to the individual(or the corporation in Enterprise space) which distro they use. Most single Linux users will not be buying support packages beyond the free with the distro support (if they buy their distro rather than d/l an ISO).
The Distro Companies (RH, Suse et all) make their money from support. Any improvements in the distro software generally are in the areas of installation, configuration and some usability tools in order to actually reduce the amount of support they have to do to earn the money from their Service Level Agreements.
A agree wholly on this. With one proviso.
The inclusion of a standard Package management tool or process. The process in itself would ensure each distro adheres to the paths/library locations standard. It would also greatly assist in the usability of the GNU/Linux system.
I use Suse Linux personally (have done regularly since 7.0) as my home desktop. There's a lot I like about Suse.
Most reviews I've ever read rate it higher than Red Hat keeps me coming back.
The regular and relatively well priced releases mean I can depend on regular base upgrades in addition to the online updates.
Good KDE (my choice of default)and improving Gnome and other Window Manager support.
MY only gripe is the environment scripted setup, but I don't usually have too much of a problem with installation as long as I compile from Source.
While Yast2 et all are by no means perfect, the appliance of a standard among the allied distributions would be an ideal way of pooling resources and avoiding duplication of effort (very apt-get to the Open Source philosophy) and it would free up paid distro programmers to work on further enhancements (hint hint, the package management tool).
Demons creeping out of Hell?
Preview screenshots of a mens toilet?
Sounds a bit like 'silent Hill' as well.
SILENT HILL2 was the first game to REALLY scare the crap out of me in a long time. I don't think the original Dooms did that (I always feel safe with a shotgun).
'Scarabeus' on the C64 was the first game to give me the creeps - it had that eerie music at the start.
I have it - I was a little disappointed.
It's way more cartoony than GTA3, there's not as much satisfaction in the gameplay and there is not as much freedom as in GTA3.
There is the 'REvoluion mode' which is mission based, and 'Chaos mode' which is smashing things and hitting people - only a few targets..
Best fun is 'Last Clone standing' You just run around one of the levels attempting to kill all these scared people. At the end it says 'Congratulations, you killed Everybody!'
We all know that.
However 'the customer' is increasingly the parent. The parent is increasingly aware of 'the internet' by that definition (why else do people buy into AOL's market hype?
'Disney is nice' and 'Disney is safe' in the opinion of the general public.
The main XBox plugs I saw around the release date earlier in the year were being aimed at parents mainly (on UK T.V anyway).
I don't recall the PS2 being pushed in quite the same way when it was released.
I'm glad I'm single and horribly perverse - I can play what I want...
B?gger creating your own gang. I want my own Club in Redlight - just call me Toni...
I'd like to see more accurate hand to hand fighting and use of the baseball bat and maybe a bit of knifing... Imagine having some Virtua Fighter type moves in the game.
It'd also be cool to have a few more indoor areas. The city was really great except for lack of Shopping malls etc to go mad in. The underground was the only place you could organise a siege against the law.
Another thing that annoyed me was the way the cops came after you if you slapped down a gang member after he started it. There I was, minding my own business (I was sneaking up on that guy in china town in order to assasinate him, but that's beside the point) and along comes some jumped up chinese mafia member who tries to give me plastic surgery with a baseball bat. I slap him down and suddenly the cops are on my case... What gives man?