hate to argue, but i remember waiting for diablo 2.. waiting for fall of 99, then spring of '00 and then so one and so on.. ok so they didnt give a specific date, but they were way behind their "around this time" release dates, but again i dont care, much better to release their best, than to cut corners to release on time...
actually Blizzard has a good track record for making impressive games with low requirements, their code seems to be very tight, and i remember playing endless games of starcraft on my old 166 without a hitch, while age of empires (released around the same time, and same type of game) bogged everything down within 15 minutes of game play..
really though, when it comes to optimized code, great game play, and solid support, you know Blizzard will deliver, no need to even ask.. their only flaw is delivering ON TIME, but hey, i can live with the wait, cause i know i know its gonna be worth the wait.
yes, i have, and to date not one problem..
they aren't supposed to continue dumpuing stuff there, its just a temp solution till they know their way around better.. a starting point "for now" kind of thing
you underestimate how incompetent these people are when i get them. most have never touched a mouse, or know what a hard drive is.. this is a temp step that i teach them untill they learn more about files and folders.
what everyone in this thread is assuming is i teach them that, and then walk away, thats not so. they arent using the desktop long enough to clutter it full of files.
well this is quickly turning into a flame war.
say what you will. my methods work for me and the people i teach.
you don't like it? fine, thats your choice, rant all you want, doesnt bother me.
I dissagree, i found XP to be extreemly bug free and stable, which is why this sounds more plausible..
imagine for a moment you are a terrorist.. you want control over the majority of the world's computers.. best way is to embed it into the most widely used OS.. but for your evil plan to be sucessful you have to find a way to make this OS stable enough to be online long enough to implement phaze 2 of the plan.. follow the bread crumbs, the truth will reveal itself.
and what do we have.. XP is a complete turnaround from previous Windows OS's.. i smell a fish.. and whoever fixed all those bugs certainly wasnt your average M$ employee. this didnt "just happen" by itself, people... someone made this happen, and i for one am hella scared..
Bill Gates, and Bin Laden, the two biggest forces of evil in the world working together.. shudder
its a game. a competition between the piraters and the companies. one finds a new way to block you from copying something, the other side finds a way to crack it. and the only peopel who are really getting "hurt" is the honest users who cant play their music in ther cdrom, or have to enter a 3000 digit serial code for their game, or whatever.
the crackers are laughing at the big companies everytime they crack a protection scheme, and the companies only end up kicking the average user in their retaliation. pretty sad when the warezed music and programs are easier to use/install/play than the legal copy. i wonder where *this* trend is gonna lead..
see the difference is, with the desktop, its right in your face, and like it or not, its the easiest place to find anything on a windows computer.. and just cause you dont aggree with me, doesnt mean you should say my practices are idiotic. It works for my classes, and i've never had someone come back to me and question my lessons. its called baby steps.. once they know more about files and folders, they can progress to putting their stuff anywhere they want. In fact i tell them that they can put them anywhwere they want, just that for now they might want it on the desktop so they don't lose it.
and if i had kids (and lets make your analogy fit the situation better) and they got lost simply by stepping out of the room, yes, i would let them put their toys in a place that they are sure to be able to find, as long as it didnt get in MY way. and such is the case, as whatever Joe User puts on his desktop doesnt make a bit of difference to me.. When i lived at home and shared my puter with my parents, we all have a different profile and different desktops, so kinda liek their private bedroom, they could put what they wanted there.. and once they were comfortable with that, i showed them how to make folders on the desktop to better organize their stuff...
anyway, the fact remains that i've been teaching computers for years, and everyone i've taught has learned consistantly and effectively, and my methods have never failed. if you MUST judge me, go out there, teach computer classes every night and come back and tell me a more effective way of teaching someone how to be comfortable with a computer.
Just because you're teaching them the "best" way to do things, doesnt mean they're going to understand and learn. I'm teaching how to be comfortable with computer, not how to know the whole file system inside and out. If they get confused in their first lessons and can't understand how to do anything, they'll get frustrated, and give up, and then i will have failed them as a teacher.
counting on your fingers is a very slow, simple, and almost laughable way to do calculations, but we don't start kids with pre-calc, we start them with 1 to 10 on their fingers..
actually thats a great idea.. i wonder how hard it would be for them to recycle an entire computer's heat back into energy.. that would certainly make laptops run forever and a half....
Part of my job is to teach computer basics and gui navigation skills to newbies. with that said, imagine knowing nothing about a computer, and trying to navigate through it without having a point of refrence. Its like being in a new country, but having no "home" or place to stay where you start from every morning.
I reccomend to new users to save files they dont want to lose on their desktop just because its so much easier to remember where it is. eventually it WILL get cluttered, but its a good temp solution until they're more at ease with the hard drive, and finding their way through it. I can just imagine how lost some people would feel without their desktop and most used files staring back at them when they turn on their computers.
I can accept that there are some people who feel the desktop and hard drive icon metaphor are out dated, but i fail to see how their preference should override other peoples prefs.. instead of "killing" something you don't aggree with, how about encouraging an implamentation to have it or not, depending on your settings?
i dunno, to me its like saying "oh i can ride a bike now, so training wheels should be abolished, they only get in the way now".
its short sighted and biased, and only makes things harder for those who are just starting out.
It's been my experience that nobody, anywhere, is not afflicted with *some* kind of mental/emotional/physical challenge.
And i can prove it. If you take all the statistics and percentages of messed up people in this day and age, and add them up, 218% of the population are suffering from some sort of handicap...
Hmm and you speak of offspring of programmers? Maybe you're talking to them in the wrong language. Of course they don't respond to english (Basic), go up to the kid and say "POP 0x665, JMP 0x4431" and see what you get, hmm?
Sorry, i just can't aggree with that. i can understand having to pay for a business hookup if you were running the business from home, but to connect to your place of work to do work? bah! its not right.
and where do you draw the line? i connect you my work's email server to check my email at home, and send out work related emails, does that mean i should pay for a business connection? If my isp ever told me i'd have to pay for a business conection, i would call em up, tell them in no uncertain terms where they can shove their tos, and that they just lost a customer.
the only time one should be required to buy a business connection is if they're running that business on that connection, such as ftp, email, http, and other servers. What if the town you lived in said you needed to purchace a business licence for your house cause you sometimes do work at home?
and futhermore, if they charge extra for a business connection, they should be required to offer a better service, such as more bandwidth, and better uptime.
"Would you buy a hammer which was designed to break after having hit a nail 1000 times?"
Good question. In logic, no one would do that... IF it wasnt the only hammer on the market.. but what if that was the only hammer you could get? then the question is "do you want to build your house or not? don't like it? too bad, you don't HAVE to buy the hammer, just smash the nails with this rock then."
I know someone is gonna have to reply to this mentioning the alternatives, like BSD, linux, etc, but to a huge amount of people, this isn't an alternative.. ok get the hammer that breaks, or try to use this free hammer with the head on the bottom, and hooked to the right, so you have to twist your wrist in a bizzare way to hit the nail, instead of using the motion you're used to.
unix is just too hard to grasp for 90% of the population, so their only choice is the Devil's Own brand of software. So they either use the software with its restricted, laughably evil licencing,or do all their work on paper, and play board games.
Since i only get one channel, i have no choice what i watch, just whether i watch or not. TWL is "ok", but having the ST people on added a nice twist. Unlike alot of people here i really don't care how bad crusher's lines were, i wouldnt hold it against Wil himself. but i digress..
When i saw Wil was playing, i KNEW he was gonna play for the EFF, or something closely related to that. And i just KNEW soons i could check/. there would be some kind of hype about it. I don't think he seemed overly arrogant so much as just slightly over confident, but that was a better face to put up than one of a beaten dog, considering his PR.
I think of everyone there, Shatner made an ass of himself, as usual, shames me to be Canadian... Roxanne.. well, i share the sentiment of the majority here, she totally over reacted, and got labeled a sabre-toothed-battle-bitch, too bad for her career.. but theres always bitch roles available in the movies, it could open doors. and babe, if your husband is that jealous as to have a problem with innocent flirting banter like that, put on some shoes, get out of the kitchen, and find yourself a 21st century man.
burton and picardo really impressed me, although i did expect that from levar, he's always struck me as intelligent.. and of course Wil did a competent job, but i couldn't claim i would do better on a show like that. I'd just be happy that i didnt come off looking like an idiot...
nuff said..
My God, i can't imagine shipping something anywhere without insurance and then being able to even sleep a wink at night.
When i relocated (within canada) i had my stuff shipped, and it did cost (too much, imho) to insure my pathetic celleron ($1500 heh) and 15" P.O.S monitor ($500). Theres no way in hell that computer would have left my old place without insurance, even if i would have had to go back, pick it up, and carry it myself to my new place. I dunno, maybe i'm one of those rare people who expect the worse, and always take steps for that.
long story short, they destroyed my monitor completely (Canadian postal service) and when i went to claim the insurance, they told me "sorry, we normally dont insure breakable things like monitors".. well too bad, they DID accept the money to insure it, so after a month of running around, i did finally get my claim.. and now today i am viewing this page from my sweet top of the line 17" monitor, that only cost me the shipping cost and a month of grief. but if anything, this experience has only reaffirmed my belief that if they can break it, they will. never never never ship without insurance.. if they don't offer insurance, find someone else. if no one does, pay one of your out of work bum friends to drive it down.. if you still cant take those suggestions, for god's sake, sell the computer and then buy a new one in the new place..
well then you've proven me wrong, i guess there are people out there that don't mind wasting gobs of time waiting. But in a world where time is money, i would imagine most people cant afford to wait 2 days while downloading something. i know for a fact my boss would crucify me if she couldn't get a hold of me for 2 days while i was download something.
as for my father's computer, actually it takes him closer to minute to open an ms ofice program on his computer. and more annoying than that, if it crashes, another 4 or 5 minutes to reboot.
but again, i'll reitterate that its all a matter of perspective. if your time isn't worth all that much to you, then waiting isnt a big deal.
"CEO Ballmer acknowledged they may have a popularity bug"
hahahah.. its all too true.. and in true MS style, it took them forever to even admit the bug existed.. and we know exactly where this is going, taking microsoft's track record at fixing bugs into account.
Thats quite interesting, where exactly in quebec do you live? i was lving in Chicoutimi for a while, about 2 years ago, and the *minute* DSL became available, i switched over..
Yea videotron was good back in 98 when i first got it, but as the months passed, the speeds became slower and slower, as they added more users without adding more bandwidth to handle them.. my top speed at the begining was about 400+ K/sec but by the end i was lucky to see 30K/sec.. mind you, i still wouldnt have switched to dialup, i mean, 30K is still better than 5, but still, that experience with cable left a bad taste in my mouth. as for outages, it seemed like they had a router down every 2 or 3 weeks, but even that i could live with..
but i'll tell you, for *speed* reliability, i would recomend Bell's DSL in quebec over videotron's cable, unless you're lucky to live in an area where their lines are capable of handling the users...
I really can't see that happening in the real world, unless of course your ISP has a 50% average uptime. i've had many HS ISPs, and even with even the worse of them, i would bitch and moan when it was down, but never would consider dialup. now i am forced to be on dialup because of my new location, and i can't understand anyone who would *choose* this..
Ok maybe if you're a tight-wad, and you use the internet maybe 2 or 3 times a week to check your mail, it wouldn't be a big deal, but i personally can't stand clicking on my inbox, and then having enough time to go make a coffee before i get to the next page. And with so many people on HS internet these days, i find the majority of sites are loaded with graphics and the like which make them almost impossible to view on dialup.
And forget about downloading the new Mandrake release iso or something, not on dialup, unless you have a few days of spare time to kill...
I can understand some people being "fine" with dialup, not seeing the need for speed, so to say. but that is akin to my father being "fine" with his pentium 166.. its all a matter of perspective; if you don't know better, then dialup is good enough for you.
i dont know, but in my oppinion, anyone who would choose dialup after tasting the speed of 1 megabit or more of bandwith, is the same type of person who probly has a few whips and chains in the bedroom, cause they like pain.
Maybe we were just spoiled by the depth of The Matrix story line, how alot of people had to watch it 2 or 3 times to get it (i dunno, i got it the first time).. but in The One, they could have improved the story line better by starting before HuLaw (or whatever) killed his first, and take the audience along with his discovery of what effect that had, etc..
I must say, i liked how the travel worked, just made it a tad bit more believable to see them incapacitated afterwards; i've always felt that with how transporters rip you apart atom by atom, they should be a bit more painful than a light tingly feeling. although i hate how in the end they convienently recovered so much faster after the inter-dimentional travelling.
then theres the predictability of the whole thing, you KNOW in the end they'd grab the wrong guy to sentence him to the hades universe.
All in all, however, it was worth my time.. wasn't worth $8.50, but was worth my time. I'm paid to think all day, and my brain almost aches by 6pm, so i'm not *that* dissapointed when i see a movie that doesn't make me think.
why do you have to bash someone cause of their prefs? i mean, the whole spirit of having such a multitude of options is so you can choose what you want, not what some company thinks you should want. and i'm not talking about this thread specifically, but the whole attitude in general.
i mean... would you go up to someone and tell them "oh you have a washburn guitar? washburn sucks, so you suck".. oh wait.. people do that already...
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hate to argue, but i remember waiting for diablo 2.. waiting for fall of 99, then spring of '00 and then so one and so on.. ok so they didnt give a specific date, but they were way behind their "around this time" release dates, but again i dont care, much better to release their best, than to cut corners to release on time...
too bad, get your own game development companys :P
actually Blizzard has a good track record for making impressive games with low requirements, their code seems to be very tight, and i remember playing endless games of starcraft on my old 166 without a hitch, while age of empires (released around the same time, and same type of game) bogged everything down within 15 minutes of game play..
really though, when it comes to optimized code, great game play, and solid support, you know Blizzard will deliver, no need to even ask.. their only flaw is delivering ON TIME, but hey, i can live with the wait, cause i know i know its gonna be worth the wait.
yes, i have, and to date not one problem..
they aren't supposed to continue dumpuing stuff there, its just a temp solution till they know their way around better.. a starting point "for now" kind of thing
you underestimate how incompetent these people are when i get them. most have never touched a mouse, or know what a hard drive is.. this is a temp step that i teach them untill they learn more about files and folders.
what everyone in this thread is assuming is i teach them that, and then walk away, thats not so. they arent using the desktop long enough to clutter it full of files.
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+antitrust
that enough for you?
well this is quickly turning into a flame war.
say what you will. my methods work for me and the people i teach.
you don't like it? fine, thats your choice, rant all you want, doesnt bother me.
I dissagree, i found XP to be extreemly bug free and stable, which is why this sounds more plausible..
imagine for a moment you are a terrorist.. you want control over the majority of the world's computers.. best way is to embed it into the most widely used OS.. but for your evil plan to be sucessful you have to find a way to make this OS stable enough to be online long enough to implement phaze 2 of the plan.. follow the bread crumbs, the truth will reveal itself.
and what do we have.. XP is a complete turnaround from previous Windows OS's.. i smell a fish.. and whoever fixed all those bugs certainly wasnt your average M$ employee. this didnt "just happen" by itself, people... someone made this happen, and i for one am hella scared..
Bill Gates, and Bin Laden, the two biggest forces of evil in the world working together.. shudder
its a game. a competition between the piraters and the companies. one finds a new way to block you from copying something, the other side finds a way to crack it. and the only peopel who are really getting "hurt" is the honest users who cant play their music in ther cdrom, or have to enter a 3000 digit serial code for their game, or whatever.
the crackers are laughing at the big companies everytime they crack a protection scheme, and the companies only end up kicking the average user in their retaliation. pretty sad when the warezed music and programs are easier to use/install/play than the legal copy. i wonder where *this* trend is gonna lead..
see the difference is, with the desktop, its right in your face, and like it or not, its the easiest place to find anything on a windows computer.. and just cause you dont aggree with me, doesnt mean you should say my practices are idiotic. It works for my classes, and i've never had someone come back to me and question my lessons. its called baby steps.. once they know more about files and folders, they can progress to putting their stuff anywhere they want. In fact i tell them that they can put them anywhwere they want, just that for now they might want it on the desktop so they don't lose it.
and if i had kids (and lets make your analogy fit the situation better) and they got lost simply by stepping out of the room, yes, i would let them put their toys in a place that they are sure to be able to find, as long as it didnt get in MY way. and such is the case, as whatever Joe User puts on his desktop doesnt make a bit of difference to me.. When i lived at home and shared my puter with my parents, we all have a different profile and different desktops, so kinda liek their private bedroom, they could put what they wanted there.. and once they were comfortable with that, i showed them how to make folders on the desktop to better organize their stuff...
anyway, the fact remains that i've been teaching computers for years, and everyone i've taught has learned consistantly and effectively, and my methods have never failed. if you MUST judge me, go out there, teach computer classes every night and come back and tell me a more effective way of teaching someone how to be comfortable with a computer.
Just because you're teaching them the "best" way to do things, doesnt mean they're going to understand and learn. I'm teaching how to be comfortable with computer, not how to know the whole file system inside and out. If they get confused in their first lessons and can't understand how to do anything, they'll get frustrated, and give up, and then i will have failed them as a teacher.
counting on your fingers is a very slow, simple, and almost laughable way to do calculations, but we don't start kids with pre-calc, we start them with 1 to 10 on their fingers..
actually thats a great idea.. i wonder how hard it would be for them to recycle an entire computer's heat back into energy.. that would certainly make laptops run forever and a half....
Part of my job is to teach computer basics and gui navigation skills to newbies. with that said, imagine knowing nothing about a computer, and trying to navigate through it without having a point of refrence. Its like being in a new country, but having no "home" or place to stay where you start from every morning.
I reccomend to new users to save files they dont want to lose on their desktop just because its so much easier to remember where it is. eventually it WILL get cluttered, but its a good temp solution until they're more at ease with the hard drive, and finding their way through it. I can just imagine how lost some people would feel without their desktop and most used files staring back at them when they turn on their computers.
I can accept that there are some people who feel the desktop and hard drive icon metaphor are out dated, but i fail to see how their preference should override other peoples prefs.. instead of "killing" something you don't aggree with, how about encouraging an implamentation to have it or not, depending on your settings?
i dunno, to me its like saying "oh i can ride a bike now, so training wheels should be abolished, they only get in the way now".
its short sighted and biased, and only makes things harder for those who are just starting out.
nothing.
It's been my experience that nobody, anywhere, is not afflicted with *some* kind of mental/emotional/physical challenge.
And i can prove it. If you take all the statistics and percentages of messed up people in this day and age, and add them up, 218% of the population are suffering from some sort of handicap...
Hmm and you speak of offspring of programmers? Maybe you're talking to them in the wrong language. Of course they don't respond to english (Basic), go up to the kid and say "POP 0x665, JMP 0x4431" and see what you get, hmm?
Sorry, i just can't aggree with that. i can understand having to pay for a business hookup if you were running the business from home, but to connect to your place of work to do work? bah! its not right.
and where do you draw the line? i connect you my work's email server to check my email at home, and send out work related emails, does that mean i should pay for a business connection? If my isp ever told me i'd have to pay for a business conection, i would call em up, tell them in no uncertain terms where they can shove their tos, and that they just lost a customer.
the only time one should be required to buy a business connection is if they're running that business on that connection, such as ftp, email, http, and other servers. What if the town you lived in said you needed to purchace a business licence for your house cause you sometimes do work at home?
and futhermore, if they charge extra for a business connection, they should be required to offer a better service, such as more bandwidth, and better uptime.
"Would you buy a hammer which was designed to break after having hit a nail 1000 times?"
Good question. In logic, no one would do that... IF it wasnt the only hammer on the market.. but what if that was the only hammer you could get? then the question is "do you want to build your house or not? don't like it? too bad, you don't HAVE to buy the hammer, just smash the nails with this rock then."
I know someone is gonna have to reply to this mentioning the alternatives, like BSD, linux, etc, but to a huge amount of people, this isn't an alternative.. ok get the hammer that breaks, or try to use this free hammer with the head on the bottom, and hooked to the right, so you have to twist your wrist in a bizzare way to hit the nail, instead of using the motion you're used to.
unix is just too hard to grasp for 90% of the population, so their only choice is the Devil's Own brand of software. So they either use the software with its restricted, laughably evil licencing,or do all their work on paper, and play board games.
well i knew most of it...
/. there would be some kind of hype about it. I don't think he seemed overly arrogant so much as just slightly over confident, but that was a better face to put up than one of a beaten dog, considering his PR.
Since i only get one channel, i have no choice what i watch, just whether i watch or not. TWL is "ok", but having the ST people on added a nice twist. Unlike alot of people here i really don't care how bad crusher's lines were, i wouldnt hold it against Wil himself. but i digress..
When i saw Wil was playing, i KNEW he was gonna play for the EFF, or something closely related to that. And i just KNEW soons i could check
I think of everyone there, Shatner made an ass of himself, as usual, shames me to be Canadian... Roxanne.. well, i share the sentiment of the majority here, she totally over reacted, and got labeled a sabre-toothed-battle-bitch, too bad for her career.. but theres always bitch roles available in the movies, it could open doors. and babe, if your husband is that jealous as to have a problem with innocent flirting banter like that, put on some shoes, get out of the kitchen, and find yourself a 21st century man.
burton and picardo really impressed me, although i did expect that from levar, he's always struck me as intelligent.. and of course Wil did a competent job, but i couldn't claim i would do better on a show like that. I'd just be happy that i didnt come off looking like an idiot...
nuff said..
last thing, so what IS the reason of the 1 "L"?
my philosophy has always been that if it can be made by humans, it can be hacked by humans. someone somewhere will figure it out.
My God, i can't imagine shipping something anywhere without insurance and then being able to even sleep a wink at night.
When i relocated (within canada) i had my stuff shipped, and it did cost (too much, imho) to insure my pathetic celleron ($1500 heh) and 15" P.O.S monitor ($500). Theres no way in hell that computer would have left my old place without insurance, even if i would have had to go back, pick it up, and carry it myself to my new place. I dunno, maybe i'm one of those rare people who expect the worse, and always take steps for that.
long story short, they destroyed my monitor completely (Canadian postal service) and when i went to claim the insurance, they told me "sorry, we normally dont insure breakable things like monitors".. well too bad, they DID accept the money to insure it, so after a month of running around, i did finally get my claim.. and now today i am viewing this page from my sweet top of the line 17" monitor, that only cost me the shipping cost and a month of grief. but if anything, this experience has only reaffirmed my belief that if they can break it, they will. never never never ship without insurance.. if they don't offer insurance, find someone else. if no one does, pay one of your out of work bum friends to drive it down.. if you still cant take those suggestions, for god's sake, sell the computer and then buy a new one in the new place..
well then you've proven me wrong, i guess there are people out there that don't mind wasting gobs of time waiting. But in a world where time is money, i would imagine most people cant afford to wait 2 days while downloading something. i know for a fact my boss would crucify me if she couldn't get a hold of me for 2 days while i was download something.
as for my father's computer, actually it takes him closer to minute to open an ms ofice program on his computer. and more annoying than that, if it crashes, another 4 or 5 minutes to reboot.
but again, i'll reitterate that its all a matter of perspective. if your time isn't worth all that much to you, then waiting isnt a big deal.
exactly :)
"CEO Ballmer acknowledged they may have a popularity bug"
hahahah.. its all too true.. and in true MS style, it took them forever to even admit the bug existed.. and we know exactly where this is going, taking microsoft's track record at fixing bugs into account.
Thats quite interesting, where exactly in quebec do you live? i was lving in Chicoutimi for a while, about 2 years ago, and the *minute* DSL became available, i switched over..
Yea videotron was good back in 98 when i first got it, but as the months passed, the speeds became slower and slower, as they added more users without adding more bandwidth to handle them.. my top speed at the begining was about 400+ K/sec but by the end i was lucky to see 30K/sec.. mind you, i still wouldnt have switched to dialup, i mean, 30K is still better than 5, but still, that experience with cable left a bad taste in my mouth. as for outages, it seemed like they had a router down every 2 or 3 weeks, but even that i could live with..
but i'll tell you, for *speed* reliability, i would recomend Bell's DSL in quebec over videotron's cable, unless you're lucky to live in an area where their lines are capable of handling the users...
I really can't see that happening in the real world, unless of course your ISP has a 50% average uptime. i've had many HS ISPs, and even with even the worse of them, i would bitch and moan when it was down, but never would consider dialup. now i am forced to be on dialup because of my new location, and i can't understand anyone who would *choose* this..
Ok maybe if you're a tight-wad, and you use the internet maybe 2 or 3 times a week to check your mail, it wouldn't be a big deal, but i personally can't stand clicking on my inbox, and then having enough time to go make a coffee before i get to the next page. And with so many people on HS internet these days, i find the majority of sites are loaded with graphics and the like which make them almost impossible to view on dialup.
And forget about downloading the new Mandrake release iso or something, not on dialup, unless you have a few days of spare time to kill...
I can understand some people being "fine" with dialup, not seeing the need for speed, so to say. but that is akin to my father being "fine" with his pentium 166.. its all a matter of perspective; if you don't know better, then dialup is good enough for you.
i dont know, but in my oppinion, anyone who would choose dialup after tasting the speed of 1 megabit or more of bandwith, is the same type of person who probly has a few whips and chains in the bedroom, cause they like pain.
But then again it could have been worse..
*spoiler or whatever*
Maybe we were just spoiled by the depth of The Matrix story line, how alot of people had to watch it 2 or 3 times to get it (i dunno, i got it the first time).. but in The One, they could have improved the story line better by starting before HuLaw (or whatever) killed his first, and take the audience along with his discovery of what effect that had, etc..
I must say, i liked how the travel worked, just made it a tad bit more believable to see them incapacitated afterwards; i've always felt that with how transporters rip you apart atom by atom, they should be a bit more painful than a light tingly feeling. although i hate how in the end they convienently recovered so much faster after the inter-dimentional travelling.
then theres the predictability of the whole thing, you KNOW in the end they'd grab the wrong guy to sentence him to the hades universe.
All in all, however, it was worth my time.. wasn't worth $8.50, but was worth my time. I'm paid to think all day, and my brain almost aches by 6pm, so i'm not *that* dissapointed when i see a movie that doesn't make me think.
why do you have to bash someone cause of their prefs? i mean, the whole spirit of having such a multitude of options is so you can choose what you want, not what some company thinks you should want. and i'm not talking about this thread specifically, but the whole attitude in general.
i mean... would you go up to someone and tell them "oh you have a washburn guitar? washburn sucks, so you suck".. oh wait.. people do that already...