- Morpheus speech made him look like some kind of zealot preacher. I kept expecting the Blues Brothers to show up and everyone to start hootign and hollering and jumping around. Maybe that was on purpose. People did dance, but no Blues Brothers:P - The whole orgy scene was just bizzare. - They have the technology to live deep in the earth but most of the people dress in rags. - You would think that they would have created several cities by now in case Zion was knocked out. - When Trinity got that motorcycle, it already had gas in it. Wouldn't they transport it without gas? Now it would have made sense had she asked Link to do a hack to give it some fuel. Maybe she did and I just missed it. - The scene with the girl eating the cake, I couldn't seem to figure out what the point of that was. - At the end whent hey showed the evil guy on the table next to Neo they played what sounded a lot like the "Hall of Justice" scene music from Mad Max. I busted up laughing at that part.
But over all, a very good action movie, a little slow to start, but it picks up nicely eventually. I really liked the battle scene with the swords, pitchforks and such. The truck collision was awesome as well, I only wish that they had shown more explosions like that:)
You wouldn't make it. Even if you could survive the initial dousing in molten iron, and you wouldn't, the trip is one way. Once down there, explain to me how you plan to get back out?
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I think he was thinking of Nicholodean, who have dumbed cartoons down to the point of uselessness. They have had a few good ones, such as Invader Zim, but 90% of Nick is crap.
Me too, only in my case it was 80's cartoons. The local station put GI-Joe opposite GEM, which really pissed me off because my parents always let her have her way.
Ah yes, Tom and Jerry, the old violent ones with dynamite in the mouth and golf clubs upside the head.
Though as a kid I had a "cartoons = real world violence" incident. When I was four, after a saturday morning Tom & Jerry binge, I took a big red plastic baseball bat to my sleeping older brother because I wanted to see if one of those big red knots would rise up out of his head. Talk about your rude awakenings!
I remember doing it, I remember my reasoning behind it too. It sure made sense at the time. Lucky for him it was a plastic bat and four year olds aren't that strong. I still managed to black his eye though. One of those things you look back on and laugh about.
I had the misfortune of having to spend this saturday morning sitting in a Tires Plus while they replaced a tire which got damaged a particularly nasty pothole. I brought a book, expecting a wait but they also had a TV which had cartoons on. I spent some time watching it and man, I weep for the kids today. Cartoons are nothing like they were in the 70's and 80's. I think the last truely great cartoon I saw was Gargoyles, in the mid 90's. That and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the only memorable cartoons from the 90's. The 80's were filled with great shows as were the 70's, though I don't remember much of the 70's given I was born in'76, but a lot of the toons from the 70's were still on in the early 80's.
Anyway, I watched Nick on ABC (was the only channel the damn thing would get) and finally had to turn it off before I vomited all over the screen. Crappy near stick drawings for one show. Another was about kids going to school. I mean, WTF? You spend all week in a school as a kid. The last thing you want to see on saturday morning 'toons is kids going to school! I mean, where is the fancy in cartoons anymore? Pokemon seems to be the limit of that anymore. The rest are about going to school, being politcally correct, or watered down stick drawings for 4 year olds. Even the Smurfs is more appealing than what is on today.
What is really needed is some really good writers and cartoons which have a storyline which evolves over time, not just 30 minute sitcoms for kids. That is what I think would sell and sell well. Yes toys would come with it, but hey, if it helps fund a well done show, I'm all for it. Give kids something to take their minds off this shitty world, don't make them watch cartoons about kids in school.
Ah yes, Pee Wee's playhouse, I was glued to that as a kid. I think they shouldn't have cancled it just because of his little porn problem outside the studio. I mean he didn't do anything bad on the show and was funny as hell. I was really upset when they canned the show.
A few years later, they gave Weird Al a kids TV show which I had high hopes for. It didn't last long, sadly.:(
I think Ninja turtles and Transformers were two of the coolest cartoons ever made. I know Transformers and TMNT were meant to sell toys, but it at least had a story and a comic book aspect to it, and the movie for Transformers was truely awesome, unlike the live action Turtles movies which were just dumb.
Actually, the article didn't say that. It said this could help Microsoft fight Linux on the desktop. As in offer a cheap and gadget filled PC which will of course have Windows pre-installed.
Nowhere did the article state that the machine would refuse to run Linux.
However this isn't really going to do much to help Microsoft. They already pretty much own the home market. Any home Linux users are using Linux because they want to and will not switch because of this new PC, or would simply install Linux on it even if they did get it.
Buisinesses which are running Linux are doing it because it is cheaper and they don't have to worry about BSA raids, rob me blind licenses and other such nonsense from Microsoft.
All this will do is sell to the same people who make up 90% of the home market, people who generally use their computer for email and to play solitare.
Probably not that long, but that is part of the point. How useful is steamboat Mickey to Disney anymore other than to use as filler on an overpriced DVD?
Also, sometimes good ideas come out of old books, ideas that were valid then and still valid today. I imagine "Unix in a nutshell" will be as useful twenty years from now as it is today.
Now they can be sued by Pontiac and Ford instead while Chevy sues the Camino team.
Though I think in this case, the best way to settle this is just to buy a bunch of SUV's from all three companies and run over all intellectual property lawyers, making everyone happy in the process, even the IP lawyers, who will be happily returned to the hell they spawned from:)
Well I said "about" any kind of software, not everything under the sun. But you get the same situation with Linux. However that doesn't mean something equivalent may not come along eventually.
Where I work we are stuck on Windows/Commercial Unix because none of the major CAD systems are out for the Mac, but with demand from users, that could change. There are some CAD packages for the Mac, though more of them are architectural than mechanical design.
Looking over the entire discussion I started here, it would be a good place for an enterprising Mac programmer to look over and see where all the holes in Mac software coverage are and exploit them.
You can get older iMacs and B&W G3's and early model G4's (300-500 mhz for all models) for less than $1000 which will run office just fine, the G4's, even though older probably handle anything the $1000 PC can unless your workers want to play high end games;) There are lots of them around and many are brand new as Apple dumped what they could on resellers when they released new models. Now if you need to run more power hungry software, then you have to spend more, but guess what? You would probably have to buy more than a $1000 PC as well.
You honestly think one can't do buisiness using a Macintosh? Mac OS X is every bit as usuable as Windows, some may argue more so. There is certainly Mac software to fill about any need you can think of, and free high quality development tools just in case you find the odd thing that someone isn't currently supporting on the Mac.
Don't believe me? Go to VersionTracker and take a look at all the software you could ever want for that platform.
True Apple does have licensing as well, but it's not near as arduous as Microsoft's, that and Apple supports open source far more than Microsoft ever has or ever will.
When you factor in software and hardware costs, using the Mac isn't so much more expensive given that even though the hardware costs more, you get far better terms on licensing, that and your support costs are a lot less given that Mac's don't break down near as often as PC's. It may even be less, I remember a study which showed total cost of ownership of a network of Mac's was less than comparable PC's using Windows, but I can't remember where it was.
Apple's had this speech technology for years and years now, but I've always wondered if anyone has made any new voices? Is there a tutorial out there on how to make your own voices for it?
I've always thought it would be cool to have the Star Trek computer voice for my Mac;)
So, are there any sites out there for this? I've had no luck finding them via google...
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This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.
You can get GBA Flash cards which can store text, images and games. There is even some kind of emulator to play old NES game ROMS on it. People use those to pirate GBA games a lot.
I've heard of some flash cards being seized by customs via some DMCA clause invoked by Nintendo and the person who ordered the card being out their money.
Of couse I could have posted it so that people could go back and read the last discussion on it and the points made there. I mean, really, I think the discussions and comments are more important than the articles. Without them,/. would just be another tech news site.
I know some other sites have comments, but/. was one of the first (that I know of anyway) where the comments and discussion were the main focus rather than the story.
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- Morpheus speech made him look like some kind of zealot preacher. I kept expecting the Blues Brothers to show up and everyone to start hootign and hollering and jumping around. Maybe that was on purpose. People did dance, but no Blues Brothers :P
:)
- The whole orgy scene was just bizzare.
- They have the technology to live deep in the earth but most of the people dress in rags.
- You would think that they would have created several cities by now in case Zion was knocked out.
- When Trinity got that motorcycle, it already had gas in it. Wouldn't they transport it without gas? Now it would have made sense had she asked Link to do a hack to give it some fuel. Maybe she did and I just missed it.
- The scene with the girl eating the cake, I couldn't seem to figure out what the point of that was.
- At the end whent hey showed the evil guy on the table next to Neo they played what sounded a lot like the "Hall of Justice" scene music from Mad Max. I busted up laughing at that part.
But over all, a very good action movie, a little slow to start, but it picks up nicely eventually. I really liked the battle scene with the swords, pitchforks and such. The truck collision was awesome as well, I only wish that they had shown more explosions like that
You wouldn't make it. Even if you could survive the initial dousing in molten iron, and you wouldn't, the trip is one way. Once down there, explain to me how you plan to get back out?
Did anyone read the remote screenshot hack (scroll to bottom)?
If you allow say a friend to log in remotely, they could technically snap a shot of your screen while you were on your machine.
At the least only those who can log in can do this but still, ouch!
Of course it may not work at all, I've tried it on my machine, and it produced a blank white tile.
Anyone else got this to work?
Same with Ohio, you have to declare everything you buy online. But you know what? I don't know anyone who has ever done that.
I think he was thinking of Nicholodean, who have dumbed cartoons down to the point of uselessness. They have had a few good ones, such as Invader Zim, but 90% of Nick is crap.
Me too, only in my case it was 80's cartoons. The local station put GI-Joe opposite GEM, which really pissed me off because my parents always let her have her way.
Ah yes, Tom and Jerry, the old violent ones with dynamite in the mouth and golf clubs upside the head.
Though as a kid I had a "cartoons = real world violence" incident. When I was four, after a saturday morning Tom & Jerry binge, I took a big red plastic baseball bat to my sleeping older brother because I wanted to see if one of those big red knots would rise up out of his head. Talk about your rude awakenings!
I remember doing it, I remember my reasoning behind it too. It sure made sense at the time. Lucky for him it was a plastic bat and four year olds aren't that strong. I still managed to black his eye though. One of those things you look back on and laugh about.
Rant inside (TM).
I had the misfortune of having to spend this saturday morning sitting in a Tires Plus while they replaced a tire which got damaged a particularly nasty pothole. I brought a book, expecting a wait but they also had a TV which had cartoons on. I spent some time watching it and man, I weep for the kids today. Cartoons are nothing like they were in the 70's and 80's. I think the last truely great cartoon I saw was Gargoyles, in the mid 90's. That and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the only memorable cartoons from the 90's. The 80's were filled with great shows as were the 70's, though I don't remember much of the 70's given I was born in'76, but a lot of the toons from the 70's were still on in the early 80's.
Anyway, I watched Nick on ABC (was the only channel the damn thing would get) and finally had to turn it off before I vomited all over the screen. Crappy near stick drawings for one show. Another was about kids going to school. I mean, WTF? You spend all week in a school as a kid. The last thing you want to see on saturday morning 'toons is kids going to school! I mean, where is the fancy in cartoons anymore? Pokemon seems to be the limit of that anymore. The rest are about going to school, being politcally correct, or watered down stick drawings for 4 year olds. Even the Smurfs is more appealing than what is on today.
What is really needed is some really good writers and cartoons which have a storyline which evolves over time, not just 30 minute sitcoms for kids. That is what I think would sell and sell well. Yes toys would come with it, but hey, if it helps fund a well done show, I'm all for it. Give kids something to take their minds off this shitty world, don't make them watch cartoons about kids in school.
Blah, rant done.
Ah yes, Pee Wee's playhouse, I was glued to that as a kid. I think they shouldn't have cancled it just because of his little porn problem outside the studio. I mean he didn't do anything bad on the show and was funny as hell. I was really upset when they canned the show.
:(
A few years later, they gave Weird Al a kids TV show which I had high hopes for. It didn't last long, sadly.
I think Ninja turtles and Transformers were two of the coolest cartoons ever made. I know Transformers and TMNT were meant to sell toys, but it at least had a story and a comic book aspect to it, and the movie for Transformers was truely awesome, unlike the live action Turtles movies which were just dumb.
Actually, the article didn't say that. It said this could help Microsoft fight Linux on the desktop. As in offer a cheap and gadget filled PC which will of course have Windows pre-installed.
Nowhere did the article state that the machine would refuse to run Linux.
However this isn't really going to do much to help Microsoft. They already pretty much own the home market. Any home Linux users are using Linux because they want to and will not switch because of this new PC, or would simply install Linux on it even if they did get it.
Buisinesses which are running Linux are doing it because it is cheaper and they don't have to worry about BSA raids, rob me blind licenses and other such nonsense from Microsoft.
All this will do is sell to the same people who make up 90% of the home market, people who generally use their computer for email and to play solitare.
If its B, they lost any advertising revenue in bandwidth costs the minute the article got posted here.
Probably not that long, but that is part of the point. How useful is steamboat Mickey to Disney anymore other than to use as filler on an overpriced DVD?
Also, sometimes good ideas come out of old books, ideas that were valid then and still valid today. I imagine "Unix in a nutshell" will be as useful twenty years from now as it is today.
Not if the Iraqi's reject them outright or change them once we are gone (or more likely thrown out after several years and a lot of injustices).
Hey, I had this *EXACT SAME THING* happen to me from Mad Dog Multimedia. I did follow the form exactly and they said I didn't.
Now I see other people are also suffering this. I think it is time for a class action suit.
Now they can be sued by Pontiac and Ford instead while Chevy sues the Camino team.
:)
Though I think in this case, the best way to settle this is just to buy a bunch of SUV's from all three companies and run over all intellectual property lawyers, making everyone happy in the process, even the IP lawyers, who will be happily returned to the hell they spawned from
No but typing like that all day would slow me down.
Well I said "about" any kind of software, not everything under the sun. But you get the same situation with Linux. However that doesn't mean something equivalent may not come along eventually.
Where I work we are stuck on Windows/Commercial Unix because none of the major CAD systems are out for the Mac, but with demand from users, that could change. There are some CAD packages for the Mac, though more of them are architectural than mechanical design.
Looking over the entire discussion I started here, it would be a good place for an enterprising Mac programmer to look over and see where all the holes in Mac software coverage are and exploit them.
You can get older iMacs and B&W G3's and early model G4's (300-500 mhz for all models) for less than $1000 which will run office just fine, the G4's, even though older probably handle anything the $1000 PC can unless your workers want to play high end games ;) There are lots of them around and many are brand new as Apple dumped what they could on resellers when they released new models. Now if you need to run more power hungry software, then you have to spend more, but guess what? You would probably have to buy more than a $1000 PC as well.
You honestly think one can't do buisiness using a Macintosh? Mac OS X is every bit as usuable as Windows, some may argue more so. There is certainly Mac software to fill about any need you can think of, and free high quality development tools just in case you find the odd thing that someone isn't currently supporting on the Mac.
Don't believe me? Go to VersionTracker and take a look at all the software you could ever want for that platform.
True Apple does have licensing as well, but it's not near as arduous as Microsoft's, that and Apple supports open source far more than Microsoft ever has or ever will.
When you factor in software and hardware costs, using the Mac isn't so much more expensive given that even though the hardware costs more, you get far better terms on licensing, that and your support costs are a lot less given that Mac's don't break down near as often as PC's. It may even be less, I remember a study which showed total cost of ownership of a network of Mac's was less than comparable PC's using Windows, but I can't remember where it was.
Also don't forget that Apple has been using OpenFirmware for a while now as well.
Apple's had this speech technology for years and years now, but I've always wondered if anyone has made any new voices? Is there a tutorial out there on how to make your own voices for it?
;)
I've always thought it would be cool to have the Star Trek computer voice for my Mac
So, are there any sites out there for this? I've had no luck finding them via google...
And both of them are dying.
I just couldn't resist.
You can get GBA Flash cards which can store text, images and games. There is even some kind of emulator to play old NES game ROMS on it. People use those to pirate GBA games a lot.
I've heard of some flash cards being seized by customs via some DMCA clause invoked by Nintendo and the person who ordered the card being out their money.
Of couse I could have posted it so that people could go back and read the last discussion on it and the points made there. I mean, really, I think the discussions and comments are more important than the articles. Without them, /. would just be another tech news site.
/. was one of the first (that I know of anyway) where the comments and discussion were the main focus rather than the story.
I know some other sites have comments, but
Here is a previous discussion of this subject.