Also, an early telephone call to the guys complained about the folks who kept talking over the movie and that it sounded like a bunch of jr. high school kids.
That's pretty much what I see when I watch an episode of MST3K. If I wanted that kind of immature nonsense I'd go to a school holiday session at the local picture theatre.
I think it must be a yank thing. I've watched a few episodes and it always comes across as three loudmouths in a movie theatre poking jibes at the (usually old) movie on screen. There's very little variation in the jokes and after a while you can often guess what kind comment an upcoming scene is going to elicit.
I guess that appeals to some peoples sense of humour but I find it rather obnoxious and rude. I suppose it reminds me of the kind of people who actually do sit in movie theatres and talk loudly.
I don't really care what they do with leap seconds, but IMO their time would be better spent abolishing that routine-breaking, parent-killing, accident-causing abomination which is Daylight Savings Time.
The only benefits I can see is slightly later barbecues in summer and a six-monthly reminder to check smoke detector batteries about the house.
It's funny the lengths MS is going to in order to hasten Vista adoption. Halo 2 for Windows was released not long ago. That's right, Halo 2. The old game from about 3 years ago that ran on a Pentium 750. Now the PC version is nothing special (as with Halo 1 suitably crippled to make the XBox look good), but it requires, you guessed it, Vista.
Of course there's no reason the game code actually needs Vista to run and in fact there's a patch (in the form of a DLL) that lets you run it under Windows XP but I just find it interesting how desparate MS seems in obsoleting XP.
I see you got your -1 Offtopic mod, and deservedly so.
The US is certainly no utopian Land of the Free and the current administration has a lot to answer for, but comparing them to China is, well, grossly misguided at best.
Next time you're out shopping, look for labels that say "MADE IN CHINA". That way you'll know what not to buy.
Seriously, these guys are killing our economy. Local manufacturers can't compete with the cheap crap coming from China these days, so much so that a lot of them are actually packing up and moving their operations over there. Unfortunately self-centric consumers will always go for the lower-priced item if of comparable quality.
On a Core 2 Duo? Windows Vista usually takes 1 minute 51 seconds to boot, and a little head jiggle, er, 20 second reduction is supposed to make me happy?
Something is seriously wrong here. Perhaps not limited to just Vista in this case, but something is badly wrong if modern computers with all their supercomputing glory take four times as long to boot today than they did 15 years ago.
C'mon guys, get parallel boot dependencies going properly. Yes I'm talking more to the Linux/BSD crowd now.
Erm, no. What makes you think that dubious jargon compilation is authorative?
Hackers are people who use computers to break into other computers. Crackers are traditionally served with cheese.
Some people who write programs (programmers) like to be called hackers so they can liken aspects of themselves to the cool guys (hackers) but they're still just programmers.
And don't get me started on white hat vs black hat.
If the patent was obtained through lawful and ethical means, is valid, and is infringed on by Google, then how is it "unduly aggressive or opportunistic" for Northeastern University to enforce the patent?
This patent cannot possibly have been obtained through ethical means, since any ethical patent process would never have granted it in the first place.
An academic question, but how would you feel if next year the UN and all its member countries unilaterally declared perpetual copyright to be a fundamental human right?
Would you respect the decision as law, or find another angle to attack it?
Slashdot Mirror
Everything in the SW universe was crap after the first Ewok appeared on screen.
Okay except for, you know, the best frickin' space battle in any movie ever.
Me too. But please don't tell those recycling guys.
Also, an early telephone call to the guys complained about the folks who kept talking over the movie and that it sounded like a bunch of jr. high school kids.
That's pretty much what I see when I watch an episode of MST3K. If I wanted that kind of immature nonsense I'd go to a school holiday session at the local picture theatre.
I think it must be a yank thing. I've watched a few episodes and it always comes across as three loudmouths in a movie theatre poking jibes at the (usually old) movie on screen. There's very little variation in the jokes and after a while you can often guess what kind comment an upcoming scene is going to elicit.
I guess that appeals to some peoples sense of humour but I find it rather obnoxious and rude. I suppose it reminds me of the kind of people who actually do sit in movie theatres and talk loudly.
I don't really care what they do with leap seconds, but IMO their time would be better spent abolishing that routine-breaking, parent-killing, accident-causing abomination which is Daylight Savings Time.
The only benefits I can see is slightly later barbecues in summer and a six-monthly reminder to check smoke detector batteries about the house.
References, please?
Why would the US go for somewhere as (relatively, compared to its neighbours) oil-poor as Iraq?
Possibly, but there's another unintended consequence here. My local Mac store has never been so busy since Vista came out.
(No, I don't own a Mac and never intend to. I use Linux)
is that apparently 10% of IT professionals do want Microsoft Windows Vista.
Except the last time I checked nobody was claiming Iraq as US soil.
Nobody.
Given that we have Postfix, I'm left wondering why anyone would even bother with Qmail?
It's funny the lengths MS is going to in order to hasten Vista adoption. Halo 2 for Windows was released not long ago. That's right, Halo 2. The old game from about 3 years ago that ran on a Pentium 750. Now the PC version is nothing special (as with Halo 1 suitably crippled to make the XBox look good), but it requires, you guessed it, Vista.
Of course there's no reason the game code actually needs Vista to run and in fact there's a patch (in the form of a DLL) that lets you run it under Windows XP but I just find it interesting how desparate MS seems in obsoleting XP.
... is a bad idea.
There, finished that for you.
I see you got your -1 Offtopic mod, and deservedly so.
The US is certainly no utopian Land of the Free and the current administration has a lot to answer for, but comparing them to China is, well, grossly misguided at best.
One way you can help:
Next time you're out shopping, look for labels that say "MADE IN CHINA". That way you'll know what not to buy.
Seriously, these guys are killing our economy. Local manufacturers can't compete with the cheap crap coming from China these days, so much so that a lot of them are actually packing up and moving their operations over there. Unfortunately self-centric consumers will always go for the lower-priced item if of comparable quality.
On a Core 2 Duo? Windows Vista usually takes 1 minute 51 seconds to boot, and a little head jiggle, er, 20 second reduction is supposed to make me happy?
Something is seriously wrong here. Perhaps not limited to just Vista in this case, but something is badly wrong if modern computers with all their supercomputing glory take four times as long to boot today than they did 15 years ago.
C'mon guys, get parallel boot dependencies going properly. Yes I'm talking more to the Linux/BSD crowd now.
To pronounce C# in the non-musical:
See-hash
Erm, no. What makes you think that dubious jargon compilation is authorative?
Hackers are people who use computers to break into other computers. Crackers are traditionally served with cheese.
Some people who write programs (programmers) like to be called hackers so they can liken aspects of themselves to the cool guys (hackers) but they're still just programmers.
And don't get me started on white hat vs black hat.
While I'm not sure it's a good thing that this hacker network has vanished, I am still pleased with the headline using the term 'hacker' correctly.
Perhaps we are finally ready to put the misnomer 'cracker' to rest once and for all.
Now I feel like a bit of cheese...
I know what those words mean, but that phrase didn't make any sense.
If the patent was obtained through lawful and ethical means, is valid, and is infringed on by Google, then how is it "unduly aggressive or opportunistic" for Northeastern University to enforce the patent?
This patent cannot possibly have been obtained through ethical means, since any ethical patent process would never have granted it in the first place.
8. You can throw a rock in urban cities and hit 3 starbuck locations.
Sorry I fail to see how that could possibly be a good thing.
Another sudden outbreak of common sense?
Now I'm worried. Do RCMP count as horsemen?
An academic question, but how would you feel if next year the UN and all its member countries unilaterally declared perpetual copyright to be a fundamental human right?
Would you respect the decision as law, or find another angle to attack it?
these MS shills don't let the door hit them on their way out.
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."
I read it in a book once.