25 cents a copy? Maybe if you JUST focus on manufacturing the actual cds. don't forget though, a company like MS isn't just a one-shot-get-the-product-out-the-door-and-fold-won der. Where did the software to put on those cd's come from? Plus there is ongoing research to fund, advertising to pay for, company salaries, lobbying, etc., that all contribute to overall comany overhead and expenses. How do you think that's all paid for? The money tree? This all contributes to the end price of a product. Basic Economics 101. And because MS is so huge and because expenses are so high, even if they slashed the prices of their products to razor-thin margins and covered just their overhead and no profit - they STILL could never lower Windows/Office's product prices low enough to beat the price of Linux (free to dirt-cheap).
Agree %100. They're especially useful if you're in IT and need to find a product for a specific task. Many of the products we've purchased for our department were found using google searches and clicking the Ad.
Isn't the need to experience thrills to enjoy life one of the defining traits of a sociopath? Wouldn't that make this thing a magnet for psychopaths and axe-murderers?
This smells and not just the settlement. As several posters have already mentioned, the RIAA is going after small targets precisely because they wants settlements and not a court decision that could go against them. Obviously this shows that the courts and the justice system in general are not about justice. The fact is justice is out of reach of the average person. How can anyone possible say the justice system works when a person is forced to settle precisely because the cost of "defending" oneself will destroy you financially. Whether the students are really guilty is beside the point now. Guilt is irrelevant.
I could probably afford to pay the fine for at least one of these students and if I was more of a humanitarian I probably would just because I'm so pissed. But then hell... the RIAA would get their money. No. I strongly suggest these students strive to finish their educations as soon as they can. Make no money far as long as they can. And declare bankruptcy just to spite the RIAA.
I for one will NEVER buy another CD. Piss off RIAA. You're alienating the people you depend upon for your livelihood.
This is VERY true. I've seen this so often and not just usenet. Many online forums are like. A lot of forums, in fact, have a subforum where "newbies" can post their questions. Problem is, the people who can answer never read said forums. So disgruntled and frustrated newbie posts in another section that advanced members do read and is instantly flamed for not posting in the newbie forum. What the fu??
No. No. No. While it's sensible that the technology could recharge a submarines batteries (for example) by harnessing engine vibration, both the engine and ultimately the battery are still getting their fuel from diesel, exploding atoms, or whatever.
You could not effectively use a vibrating phone's vibrations to charge itself. If you could, you would have a perpetual motion machine which is impossible. No explanation necessary. If you don't understand why, then go back to your physics 101 notes.
However, it IS feasible that the vibrations from the human body could be harnessed to power gadgets hanging off of said body. In fact, this is nothing really new here. There are wristwatches, for instance, that use the body's minute vibrations to drive their time-keeping mechanisms.
If there are infinite universes with infinite possible combinations of events, then the logical conclusion is that we reside in one of an infinite many of the universes where nobody's double has crossed into. Afterall, if each of the infinite universes spawns infinitely many more universes from all quantum possibilies that can arise, you can't very well expect every universe to spawn a dimension-hopping traveler, let alone be visited by one.
Both good points, especially considering I have a gamespy account and can download all the demos I want (though I never have... but that's another issue). Oddly enough, the only demo version of any game I have ever played is the doom demo. But I guess that sort of leads to the answer to the next point: working fulltime and being a parent doesn't leave me a lot of time to actually play anything. So I either like a game enough to go buy it and commit whatever free time I have to it, or it just isn't worth my time and it gets uninstalled never to see the light of day again. I give the pretty-colored cd's to my 3 yr old daughter who mangles them up pretty good.
The only movie reviewer I pay any heed to is the filthy critic. His diatribes are a little tiring after a while, but at least the reviews are honest. Sadly he doesn't review games. The best form of review for games is a pirated copy of the full version. Seriously. I only buy games that I've played pirated first (and I DO go out and buy the game if I really like it) or belong to a series that I've enjoyed before. Even then, you get the odd stink-fest (panzer general 3 and warlords 3 come to mind).
I don't understand the sentiment of posters who complain that this is a dumb idea because they need help with food/water first, etc... blah.
The best way to help the Iraqi's is to contribute whatever you can the best you can. If you're a skilled IT professional who can donate time to help rebuild their IT infrastructure.. GREAT! Why should anybody be complaining about that?
Sure they need food. But there are PLENTY of agencies that can help with that and if you can donate some money to that cause, wonderful. It shouldn't stop you from contributing your niche knowledge too.
When it comes to hands on skill I'll bet the vast majority of the/. readers wouldn't be able to physically help deliver meal packets or dig wells (ay least not as ably as the Red Cross or United Way could), so why not do something else that you CAN do?
As a community the readership does have a skill in a particular industry and to suggest that the Iraqis won't need that kind of help because of other problems is nonsense. The sooner everyone does what they can according to their abilities the sooner we'll all be better off.
The day everyone stands with your beloved President without question is the day democracy dies. Then again, it might already be too late for that given the recent spate of U.S. legislation.
Perhaps Java is "better" at web services than Perl. But if your developers aren't skilled in Java then is it still a better tool? It's all relative.
As someone who has programmed in both Java and Perl, I see your point. Problem however is that the "right tool for job" approach, as logical as it sounds isn't always workable. This industry is evolving so fast that it is simply impossible for anyone with a day-job to keep up with everything. So rather than everyone knowing all the best tools, what we tend to see are programmers specializing in a small "set" of tools that may not be the best at some niche job but are nevertheless adequate enough to get the job done 90% of the time. I feel this is also a more efficient use of one's knowledge. Most company's aren't looking for that one person who can do everything - they want the person who does one or two things exceptionally well.
So a book like this I don't think is aimed at the people who already develop web services in Java or.NET, but rather at those who are experts in Perl. It allows them to leverage those valuable perl skills in a new area.
The problem with this line of work, and the reason so many young'uns don't want to get into it is that it's pretty much dead-end. We're talking about machines and technology that are disappearing. I did my internship with a Cobol-shop but was pretty lucky to move on without much "stigma". Other's I know weren't so lucky. I've known developers, as young and fully capable as I if not more so, have a hard time getting non-Cobol, non-mainframe work afterwards because there seems to be stigma attached. Employers seem to have the perception "Oh, you're a Cobol developer. You won't be able to learn C++/Java/whatever". The only way to move out of Cobol would be to take a cut in pay (to start again at the bottom) or hopefully find an employer that's not so dim. Cobol/mainframe work is not exciting and the desire to move along is gonna be there. But if it's going to be difficult to get out of it then who the hell would want to get into it? The problem occurs because languages and architectures are concrete skills that employers will take note of. Knowledge of design methodology, the "computing sciences", and whatnot (the important skills) can be hard to define and too often get over looked.
I dunno, my read on the article is that the reason for dropping the requirement is because so much of the data comes from other sources. I guess if the sources in question are "reliable" why should the FBI be required to recheck the data? I mean, it's like writing a term paper. You back up your statements with credible sources, and if the sources are credible you're not expected to back up their statements too. Besides the existing system hasn't prevented mistakes anyway. Not saying it's right, but it's more like they're just making official what was standard practice (or non-practice I guess) already.
Bah. What do I care. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm Canadian.
My Japanese wife collects all of Miyazaki's movies. Spirited Away definitely deserved to win. If you enjoyed this one I highly recommend seeing his other movies as well. Interestingly, Spirited Away and Totoro (one of my all-time favourites) are the only ones I've seen either in English or subtitled, and I don't understand Japanese, but it hasn't detracted at all from my enjoyment of these movies. Basically, I just read an English summary of the movie on the Internet and then go enjoy. "Princess Mononoke" is incredible (but gory - not for young children) and you don't have to understand Japanese to enjoy it un-subtitled. "Castle In The Sky" is also great and is so vivid in it's animation you can "see" the words and intentions of the characters.
Any parents among you should introduce your child to "My Neighbour Totoro". This is by far my most favourite animated film ever and my 3 year-old daughter's as well. The magic in Miyazaki's story telling is just incredible.
You know, perhaps this is a bit off topic but while slashdot is nicely on the subject of names I'd like to b**ch about mine: Aaron. Pretty common name. Lot's of well-known cases: Elvis Aaron Presley, Aaron Spelling, Aaron frere de Moses, etc. Why then does everybody insist on spelling it wrong? I'm not a girl! The only way I ever seen it spelled for my gender is the way I have it spelled now. What planet does everyone else come from? In my 30+ years of life probably two strangers have ever spelled it correctly, and that is not an exaggeration. Maybe I should just make everyone happy and change it to Erin instead.
I think the point is that personal names follow "power law" distributions - IE. despite lots of freedom of choice in names, popularity still tends to clump towards a very select few. For example: look at the popularity of names like John or William, consistently in the top 10 over the last 100 years. I haven't looked at the female names as closely but they seem to be more prone to variance. Perhaps it's a result of a greater tendency of males to be named after an ancestor, whereas female names seem to follow "fashion trends".
I doubt it has anything to do with the RIAA. It's probably a county by-law to deter "real" "thieves" - you know, the ones that break into my car, grab the DVD case, and run. Then when I report the theft, the police can go check to see if any showed up in the local used-store or pawn shop and who the seller was.
I'm not sure I understand the responses of a lot of people to this issue. Don't get me wrong, I think this example of blocking is misguided and doomed to failure. But there seems to be a broader issue here that the sites being blocked are free-speech, must be embraced as such even if the content is "unsettling" and failure to do so condemns us to "Stalinism". Well... why? Why does everything seem to fall into a black-and-white all or nothing situation? Is the slope "really" that slippery that we'll just slide over the collective common-sense? I guess I'm one of the few who believe that hate-speech and encouragement of violent activity should not be enshrined as free-speech. And maybe I'm being naively optimistic by not assuming, as many of you seem to do, that removing the free-speech protections of this type of speech automatically empowers the state to remove all of those protections. I don't like violence and vulgarity pumped into my life by those people who feel it's their god-given "right". Problem is I can't just "shut it off" or turn a deaf-ear like some will undoubtably suggest. It has become endemic to western society and unless I want to go live in an isolated cabin on Baffin Island there is no escape. Ok ok.. with the internet, I probably could avoid things I find distateful, but as regards to the bigger picture I DO believe that some "limitations" need to be enshrined in law. It doesn't have to be ALL or NOTHING. If people have become complacent in the west, fail to vote, and allow bad laws to get passed, perhaps part of the problem is that too much crud has become part of our lives due to "free speech" that many people , perhaps unconsciously, don't feel its worth protecting or taking part in any more. Just my 2 cents. Go ahead and mod me down as a naive ultra-right Ashcroft loving idiot if that makes you happy. But that's where I stand. Or maybe I'm just playing the devils-advocate? I despise Ashcroft afterall.;)
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The problem with this sentiment is that it characterizes a very large group of people who aren't even "aware" of the problem.
For example, how many of the young people nowadays graduating from colleges and univiversities and starting careers in web development are even aware of Lynx. A text only browser? Hard to imagine for many people nowadays. I've heard of it but I can honestly say I have NEVER seen it or even heard of anyone I know using it. I've been doing web development for several years now. The ones that come after me? forget it.
Fact is, most new developers aren't even aware of the alt tags and what not or even how they would aid the disabled. And I think most developers would have difficulty comprehending how a blind person would even use the internet let account for their disability somehow.
While I sympathize with the disabled and certainly encourage developers to create disabled-friendly website, I could not even think to go so far as to mandate it. Where would you draw the line? If an airline could get sued, what about a commercial porn site? (seriously, think about it). How about average joe-shmow hotmail account user?
It's scary the direction a lot of this political correctness is going these days and its refreshing to see a judge use common sense instead of implementing some precedent that create a whole whack of problems. Just look at what's going on with the obesity-problems in the airline industry. On the one-hand you have a group of people "disabled" by obesity fighting the practice of charging obese passengers for two seats. And on the other hand you have a woman suing the airline because she is now disabled as a result of being crushed by the obese passenger crammed into the seat next to her. (I don't have a link but the story is on BBC).
Wonderful. The first thing I do after waking up is read slashdot. Whats the first thing I find? An article by Mr. Verbal Dysentry (spewing his guts about a movie about "not sleeping" at that). Can somebody else let me know if it's worth reading, perhaps leave an executive summary? I'm going back to bed.
Well, "Attack of the Clones" makes you think of some low-budget 50's era matinee. Ahhh... but those are great entertainment. I believe the original star wars was not big-budget flick either - Just a very well done one.
So, given that, I hope "Attack Of the Clones" lives up to the "name"... hee hee.
Along the same lines, I remember laughing my a** off in the theatre when I saw the trailer for "The Replacement Killers" which at the time seemed like a most hokey movie title. Turned out to be a great movie.
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25 cents a copy? Maybe if you JUST focus on manufacturing the actual cds. don't forget though, a company like MS isn't just a one-shot-get-the-product-out-the-door-and-fold-won der. Where did the software to put on those cd's come from? Plus there is ongoing research to fund, advertising to pay for, company salaries, lobbying, etc., that all contribute to overall comany overhead and expenses. How do you think that's all paid for? The money tree? This all contributes to the end price of a product. Basic Economics 101. And because MS is so huge and because expenses are so high, even if they slashed the prices of their products to razor-thin margins and covered just their overhead and no profit - they STILL could never lower Windows/Office's product prices low enough to beat the price of Linux (free to dirt-cheap).
Agree %100. They're especially useful if you're in IT and need to find a product for a specific task. Many of the products we've purchased for our department were found using google searches and clicking the Ad.
Isn't the need to experience thrills to enjoy life one of the defining traits of a sociopath? Wouldn't that make this thing a magnet for psychopaths and axe-murderers?
This smells and not just the settlement. As several posters have already mentioned, the RIAA is going after small targets precisely because they wants settlements and not a court decision that could go against them. Obviously this shows that the courts and the justice system in general are not about justice. The fact is justice is out of reach of the average person. How can anyone possible say the justice system works when a person is forced to settle precisely because the cost of "defending" oneself will destroy you financially. Whether the students are really guilty is beside the point now. Guilt is irrelevant.
I could probably afford to pay the fine for at least one of these students and if I was more of a humanitarian I probably would just because I'm so pissed. But then hell... the RIAA would get their money. No. I strongly suggest these students strive to finish their educations as soon as they can. Make no money far as long as they can. And declare bankruptcy just to spite the RIAA.
I for one will NEVER buy another CD. Piss off RIAA. You're alienating the people you depend upon for your livelihood.
This is VERY true. I've seen this so often and not just usenet. Many online forums are like. A lot of forums, in fact, have a subforum where "newbies" can post their questions. Problem is, the people who can answer never read said forums. So disgruntled and frustrated newbie posts in another section that advanced members do read and is instantly flamed for not posting in the newbie forum. What the fu??
No. No. No. While it's sensible that the technology could recharge a submarines batteries (for example) by harnessing engine vibration, both the engine and ultimately the battery are still getting their fuel from diesel, exploding atoms, or whatever.
You could not effectively use a vibrating phone's vibrations to charge itself. If you could, you would have a perpetual motion machine which is impossible. No explanation necessary. If you don't understand why, then go back to your physics 101 notes.
However, it IS feasible that the vibrations from the human body could be harnessed to power gadgets hanging off of said body. In fact, this is nothing really new here. There are wristwatches, for instance, that use the body's minute vibrations to drive their time-keeping mechanisms.
If there are infinite universes with infinite possible combinations of events, then the logical conclusion is that we reside in one of an infinite many of the universes where nobody's double has crossed into. Afterall, if each of the infinite universes spawns infinitely many more universes from all quantum possibilies that can arise, you can't very well expect every universe to spawn a dimension-hopping traveler, let alone be visited by one.
Both good points, especially considering I have a gamespy account and can download all the demos I want (though I never have... but that's another issue). Oddly enough, the only demo version of any game I have ever played is the doom demo. But I guess that sort of leads to the answer to the next point: working fulltime and being a parent doesn't leave me a lot of time to actually play anything. So I either like a game enough to go buy it and commit whatever free time I have to it, or it just isn't worth my time and it gets uninstalled never to see the light of day again. I give the pretty-colored cd's to my 3 yr old daughter who mangles them up pretty good.
The only movie reviewer I pay any heed to is the filthy critic.
His diatribes are a little tiring after a while, but at least the reviews are honest. Sadly he doesn't review games. The best form of review for games is a pirated copy of the full version. Seriously. I only buy games that I've played pirated first (and I DO go out and buy the game if I really like it) or belong to a series that I've enjoyed before. Even then, you get the odd stink-fest (panzer general 3 and warlords 3 come to mind).
Is there a filthy critic of the game world?
I don't understand the sentiment of posters who complain that this is a dumb idea because they need help with food/water first, etc... blah.
/. readers wouldn't be able to physically help deliver meal packets or dig wells (ay least not as ably as the Red Cross or United Way could), so why not do something else that you CAN do?
The best way to help the Iraqi's is to contribute whatever you can the best you can. If you're a skilled IT professional who can donate time to help rebuild their IT infrastructure.. GREAT! Why should anybody be complaining about that?
Sure they need food. But there are PLENTY of agencies that can help with that and if you can donate some money to that cause, wonderful. It shouldn't stop you from contributing your niche knowledge too.
When it comes to hands on skill I'll bet the vast majority of the
As a community the readership does have a skill in a particular industry and to suggest that the Iraqis won't need that kind of help because of other problems is nonsense. The sooner everyone does what they can according to their abilities the sooner we'll all be better off.
ha ha.. your subject heading has a typo. A typo of a typo.
Ok. it's been a long day.
Two words asswad: "My Lai"
The day everyone stands with your beloved President without question is the day democracy dies. Then again, it might already be too late for that given the recent spate of U.S. legislation.
Perhaps Java is "better" at web services than Perl. But if your developers aren't skilled in Java then is it still a better tool? It's all relative.
.NET, but rather at those who are experts in Perl. It allows them to leverage those valuable perl skills in a new area.
As someone who has programmed in both Java and Perl, I see your point. Problem however is that the "right tool for job" approach, as logical as it sounds isn't always workable. This industry is evolving so fast that it is simply impossible for anyone with a day-job to keep up with everything. So rather than everyone knowing all the best tools, what we tend to see are programmers specializing in a small "set" of tools that may not be the best at some niche job but are nevertheless adequate enough to get the job done 90% of the time. I feel this is also a more efficient use of one's knowledge. Most company's aren't looking for that one person who can do everything - they want the person who does one or two things exceptionally well.
So a book like this I don't think is aimed at the people who already develop web services in Java or
I'm scared to read the article. Is April fool's over yet?
The problem with this line of work, and the reason so many young'uns don't want to get into it is that it's pretty much dead-end. We're talking about machines and technology that are disappearing. I did my internship with a Cobol-shop but was pretty lucky to move on without much "stigma". Other's I know weren't so lucky. I've known developers, as young and fully capable as I if not more so, have a hard time getting non-Cobol, non-mainframe work afterwards because there seems to be stigma attached. Employers seem to have the perception "Oh, you're a Cobol developer. You won't be able to learn C++/Java/whatever". The only way to move out of Cobol would be to take a cut in pay (to start again at the bottom) or hopefully find an employer that's not so dim. Cobol/mainframe work is not exciting and the desire to move along is gonna be there. But if it's going to be difficult to get out of it then who the hell would want to get into it? The problem occurs because languages and architectures are concrete skills that employers will take note of. Knowledge of design methodology, the "computing sciences", and whatnot (the important skills) can be hard to define and too often get over looked.
I dunno, my read on the article is that the reason for dropping the requirement is because so much of the data comes from other sources. I guess if the sources in question are "reliable" why should the FBI be required to recheck the data? I mean, it's like writing a term paper. You back up your statements with credible sources, and if the sources are credible you're not expected to back up their statements too. Besides the existing system hasn't prevented mistakes anyway.
Not saying it's right, but it's more like they're just making official what was standard practice (or non-practice I guess) already.
Bah. What do I care. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm Canadian.
My Japanese wife collects all of Miyazaki's movies. Spirited Away definitely deserved to win. If you enjoyed this one I highly recommend seeing his other movies as well. Interestingly, Spirited Away and Totoro (one of my all-time favourites) are the only ones I've seen either in English or subtitled, and I don't understand Japanese, but it hasn't detracted at all from my enjoyment of these movies. Basically, I just read an English summary of the movie on the Internet and then go enjoy. "Princess Mononoke" is incredible (but gory - not for young children) and you don't have to understand Japanese to enjoy it un-subtitled. "Castle In The Sky" is also great and is so vivid in it's animation you can "see" the words and intentions of the characters.
Any parents among you should introduce your child to "My Neighbour Totoro". This is by far my most favourite animated film ever and my 3 year-old daughter's as well. The magic in Miyazaki's story telling is just incredible.
You know, perhaps this is a bit off topic but while slashdot is nicely on the subject of names I'd like to b**ch about mine: Aaron. Pretty common name. Lot's of well-known cases: Elvis Aaron Presley, Aaron Spelling, Aaron frere de Moses, etc. Why then does everybody insist on spelling it wrong? I'm not a girl! The only way I ever seen it spelled for my gender is the way I have it spelled now. What planet does everyone else come from? In my 30+ years of life probably two strangers have ever spelled it correctly, and that is not an exaggeration. Maybe I should just make everyone happy and change it to Erin instead.
Just my 2cents.
I think the point is that personal names follow "power law" distributions - IE. despite lots of freedom of choice in names, popularity still tends to clump towards a very select few. For example: look at the popularity of names like John or William, consistently in the top 10 over the last 100 years. I haven't looked at the female names as closely but they seem to be more prone to variance. Perhaps it's a result of a greater tendency of males to be named after an ancestor, whereas female names seem to follow "fashion trends".
Not to mention the shrapnel caused by all the exploding eggs.
I doubt it has anything to do with the RIAA. It's probably a county by-law to deter "real" "thieves" - you know, the ones that break into my car, grab the DVD case, and run. Then when I report the theft, the police can go check to see if any showed up in the local used-store or pawn shop and who the seller was.
I'm not sure I understand the responses of a lot of people to this issue. Don't get me wrong, I think this example of blocking is misguided and doomed to failure. But there seems to be a broader issue here that the sites being blocked are free-speech, must be embraced as such even if the content is "unsettling" and failure to do so condemns us to "Stalinism". Well... why? Why does everything seem to fall into a black-and-white all or nothing situation? Is the slope "really" that slippery that we'll just slide over the collective common-sense? I guess I'm one of the few who believe that hate-speech and encouragement of violent activity should not be enshrined as free-speech. And maybe I'm being naively optimistic by not assuming, as many of you seem to do, that removing the free-speech protections of this type of speech automatically empowers the state to remove all of those protections. I don't like violence and vulgarity pumped into my life by those people who feel it's their god-given "right". Problem is I can't just "shut it off" or turn a deaf-ear like some will undoubtably suggest. It has become endemic to western society and unless I want to go live in an isolated cabin on Baffin Island there is no escape. Ok ok.. with the internet, I probably could avoid things I find distateful, but as regards to the bigger picture I DO believe that some "limitations" need to be enshrined in law. It doesn't have to be ALL or NOTHING. If people have become complacent in the west, fail to vote, and allow bad laws to get passed, perhaps part of the problem is that too much crud has become part of our lives due to "free speech" that many people , perhaps unconsciously, don't feel its worth protecting or taking part in any more. Just my 2 cents. Go ahead and mod me down as a naive ultra-right Ashcroft loving idiot if that makes you happy. But that's where I stand. Or maybe I'm just playing the devils-advocate? I despise Ashcroft afterall. ;)
The problem with this sentiment is that it characterizes a very large group of people who aren't even "aware" of the problem.
For example, how many of the young people nowadays graduating from colleges and univiversities and starting careers in web development are even aware of Lynx. A text only browser? Hard to imagine for many people nowadays. I've heard of it but I can honestly say I have NEVER seen it or even heard of anyone I know using it. I've been doing web development for several years now. The ones that come after me? forget it.
Fact is, most new developers aren't even aware of the alt tags and what not or even how they would aid the disabled. And I think most developers would have difficulty comprehending how a blind person would even use the internet let account for their disability somehow.
While I sympathize with the disabled and certainly encourage developers to create disabled-friendly website, I could not even think to go so far as to mandate it. Where would you draw the line? If an airline could get sued, what about a commercial porn site? (seriously, think about it). How about average joe-shmow hotmail account user?
It's scary the direction a lot of this political correctness is going these days and its refreshing to see a judge use common sense instead of implementing some precedent that create a whole whack of problems. Just look at what's going on with the obesity-problems in the airline industry. On the one-hand you have a group of people "disabled" by obesity fighting the practice of charging obese passengers for two seats. And on the other hand you have a woman suing the airline because she is now disabled as a result of being crushed by the obese passenger crammed into the seat next to her. (I don't have a link but the story is on BBC).
Wonderful. The first thing I do after waking up is read slashdot. Whats the first thing I find? An article by Mr. Verbal Dysentry (spewing his guts about a movie about "not sleeping" at that). Can somebody else let me know if it's worth reading, perhaps leave an executive summary? I'm going back to bed.
Well, "Attack of the Clones" makes you think of some low-budget 50's era matinee. Ahhh... but those are great entertainment. I believe the original star wars was not big-budget flick either - Just a very well done one.
So, given that, I hope "Attack Of the Clones" lives up to the "name"... hee hee.
Along the same lines, I remember laughing my a** off in the theatre when I saw the trailer for "The Replacement Killers" which at the time seemed like a most hokey movie title. Turned out to be a great movie.
Hmmm... do I detect a trend.