If the trailer had told me what the film was about, I wouldn't have enjoyed the film half as much! Unfortunately, films like this have to spread through word-of-mouth, because informative trailers would destroy it. You have to just hear enough friends say "No, no, watch it, it's awesome!" and then watch it against your better judgement to appreciate it.
Maybe the trailers could have got away with showing some of the antics of the Space Monkeys, but even that would spoil it a little.
The demons were always just an annoying obstacle. You had to find the red key, open the red door, then find the blue key, open the blue door, then hit the switch. Sometimes there was even a yellow key, and they weren't even always in that order! Not to mention the secret areas filled with ammo.
that I can't try a friend's copy of Half-Life, because no-one I know wants to install Steam on their system. I can't, because I don't have my own internet access until after new year, just a work connection and occasional access to friends' dial-up internet access and internet cafés.
I played a friend's copy of Elite, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Repton, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Doom, then I bought my own, and Doom2, the Quakes, etc. I played a friend's copy of Half-Life, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Dungeon Keeper 2, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Populous 3, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Settlers, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of Settlers 4, then I bought my own. I played a friend's copy of GTA: Vice City, then I bought my own, and GTA3 as well. I played a friend's copy of Halo, then I bought Halo 2.
If I could not have played a friend's copy of all those games, I might not have bought half of them. There are a few games that I have played friends' copied of, and not bought my own, and that is generally because the game sucked, like Freelancer or Wing Commander.
but I watched the whole first series of "Greatest American Hero" from a torrent a few weeks ago. It took a whole week to download, though, so much for BitTorrent being quick!
Okay, it may not have actually broken them, but when I ran it on a friend's (thoroughly infested) PC, in among the thousand or so spyware elements that it did find, there were a lot that were obviously not spyware, but were.dll,.txt, etc. files that had something in the name that might were similar to other spyware hits. Some of them were for software (one was a game, I think) that had not been infected with anything. I didn't think that deleting a whole load of.dll and.txt files based on the file name was a polite thing to do on my friend's PC so I de-installed S&D and used Ad-Aware instead.
It didn't separate out the name-match results from the more conclusive hits, it just presented thousands of individual entries with all of them ticked by default. Separating out the good from the bad would have taken hours of laborious, error-prone work.
Huh? I installed Doom 3 on a system that had Virtual Drive installed, and it worked just fine. id have a long and glorious history of not using copy-protection systems.
Completing a marathon is an achievement. The Democrat candidate coming second in a Presidential election isn't. There are issues of stock market confidence, international reputation of U.S.'s democratic system, etc. to consider, and conceding is absolutely the right thing to do in these circumstances. If Ohio finish counting and do find a box of absentee ballots that swing the vote in Kerry's favour then the electoral college will appoint him, but that is so unlikely that conceding is the politically smart thing to do. Nixon did it, and got in 4 years later, but I don't think that could happen nowadays.
Does he think that cheaper hardware will make copying software harder to do?
That's not the point. The point is that when someone has forked out a load of money for something, they don't want to fork out even more to do something that they feel should be an inherent part of the device, such as being able to wordprocess a document.
I once knew a senior manager for a supposedly responsible IT firm who believed that since he was paying UKP 15 a month for broadband, he should be allowed to download all the MP3s that he wanted.
But maybe they all got their story from the same ``eyewitness'' (who happened to be shooting of his mouth in the bar where the reporters hang out), and maybe this eyewitness was lying.
this isn't the Recon roleplaying game, where the only location that reporters can be encountered was in bars. Besides, I doubt that Al-Jazeera reporters are in the same booze-hound league as most western reporters, or if they are, I suspect they prop up the bars in different neighbourhoods.
"...PS - please let me know the lowest/.id accounts who can be bought off to defend our story-ad."
I knew this account would pay off eventually.
1. Register on a fledgeling community discussion site 2. Wait for it to become famous 3. Wait for advertisers to approach you about making posts in favour of their product 4. Profit!
Billfold? Bi-fold? tri-fold? What are these terms? Is a tri-fold folded three times, or folded twice into three sections?:-)
My wallet is folded in half with velcro on the outside and over the internal coin pocket. I keep about a dozen pastic cards and my coinage in the wallet, and my banknotes (bills to you) folded in my right pocket behind my personal organiser. I wear reasonably close-fitting jeans, so my pockets aren't that easy to pick. It's never happened yet, anyway. If I'm carrying more than £100, I keep £100 in a zipped jacket pocket.
I think that's the thing I'd find most annoying if I moved from Win to Linux. I have a whole bunch of Perl scripts that read the clipboard, process the contents, then write the results back to the clipboard. Bind them to keypresses (like Ctrl-Shift-Q to wrap the clipboard text with <blockquote><i> tags, to take the simplest), and you have an awesome productivity boost. I use them to clip text from the console, my editor, Word, 3270 sessions, Terminal Services sessions, etc. indiscriminitely. I don't think Perl has any clipboard modules for Linux, except maybe Tk.
I haven't used a floppy disk all year. Mostly I use my iRiver iHP-120 as a portable storage device, when I can't just jack into the ethernet hub that all my friends have in their living rooms.
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Take a look at the way the clouds are moving - I've never seen clouds billowing inwards.
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If the trailer had told me what the film was about, I wouldn't have enjoyed the film half as much! Unfortunately, films like this have to spread through word-of-mouth, because informative trailers would destroy it. You have to just hear enough friends say "No, no, watch it, it's awesome!" and then watch it against your better judgement to appreciate it.
Maybe the trailers could have got away with showing some of the antics of the Space Monkeys, but even that would spoil it a little.
The demons were always just an annoying obstacle. You had to find the red key, open the red door, then find the blue key, open the blue door, then hit the switch. Sometimes there was even a yellow key, and they weren't even always in that order! Not to mention the secret areas filled with ammo.
that I can't try a friend's copy of Half-Life, because no-one I know wants to install Steam on their system. I can't, because I don't have my own internet access until after new year, just a work connection and occasional access to friends' dial-up internet access and internet cafés.
I played a friend's copy of Elite, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Repton, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Doom, then I bought my own, and Doom2, the Quakes, etc.
I played a friend's copy of Half-Life, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Dungeon Keeper 2, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Populous 3, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Settlers, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of Settlers 4, then I bought my own.
I played a friend's copy of GTA: Vice City, then I bought my own, and GTA3 as well.
I played a friend's copy of Halo, then I bought Halo 2.
If I could not have played a friend's copy of all those games, I might not have bought half of them. There are a few games that I have played friends' copied of, and not bought my own, and that is generally because the game sucked, like Freelancer or Wing Commander.
but I watched the whole first series of "Greatest American Hero" from a torrent a few weeks ago. It took a whole week to download, though, so much for BitTorrent being quick!
I think the term "share" was already bastardised by those that like to justify copyright violaton in the name of "sharing".
Okay, it may not have actually broken them, but when I ran it on a friend's (thoroughly infested) PC, in among the thousand or so spyware elements that it did find, there were a lot that were obviously not spyware, but were .dll, .txt, etc. files that had something in the name that might were similar to other spyware hits. Some of them were for software (one was a game, I think) that had not been infected with anything. I didn't think that deleting a whole load of .dll and .txt files based on the file name was a polite thing to do on my friend's PC so I de-installed S&D and used Ad-Aware instead.
It didn't separate out the name-match results from the more conclusive hits, it just presented thousands of individual entries with all of them ticked by default. Separating out the good from the bad would have taken hours of laborious, error-prone work.
I've been an Ad-Aware user ever since I discovered spyware. SS&D was always over-zealous and broke too many legit applications for my liking.
Huh? I installed Doom 3 on a system that had Virtual Drive installed, and it worked just fine. id have a long and glorious history of not using copy-protection systems.
Completing a marathon is an achievement. The Democrat candidate coming second in a Presidential election isn't. There are issues of stock market confidence, international reputation of U.S.'s democratic system, etc. to consider, and conceding is absolutely the right thing to do in these circumstances. If Ohio finish counting and do find a box of absentee ballots that swing the vote in Kerry's favour then the electoral college will appoint him, but that is so unlikely that conceding is the politically smart thing to do. Nixon did it, and got in 4 years later, but I don't think that could happen nowadays.
I also have this T-Shirt, which I think is cool.
I once knew a senior manager for a supposedly responsible IT firm who believed that since he was paying UKP 15 a month for broadband, he should be allowed to download all the MP3s that he wanted.
"...PS - please let me know the lowest /.id accounts who can be bought off to defend our story-ad."
I knew this account would pay off eventually.
1. Register on a fledgeling community discussion site
2. Wait for it to become famous
3. Wait for advertisers to approach you about making posts in favour of their product
4. Profit!
Billfold? Bi-fold? tri-fold? What are these terms? Is a tri-fold folded three times, or folded twice into three sections? :-)
My wallet is folded in half with velcro on the outside and over the internal coin pocket. I keep about a dozen pastic cards and my coinage in the wallet, and my banknotes (bills to you) folded in my right pocket behind my personal organiser. I wear reasonably close-fitting jeans, so my pockets aren't that easy to pick. It's never happened yet, anyway. If I'm carrying more than £100, I keep £100 in a zipped jacket pocket.
I hadn't heard of Nerdorama. I find this story to be interesting. It's news, it's for nerds, what's your problem?
IE6 is affected, though, so if they run that on WinME then d/l the patch for it.
Piracy is not worth legislating against if it's sufficiently difficult that it doesn't occur on a large enough scale.
What's the difference between a URI and a URL?
No, but I can boot off a CD, which is good enough for me.
Out of interest, what kind of boot floppy would you imagine using? I'd have thought 1.4 MB is a bit light for booting off nowadays.
I haven't used a floppy disk all year. Mostly I use my iRiver iHP-120 as a portable storage device, when I can't just jack into the ethernet hub that all my friends have in their living rooms.