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Because of my youth, any movie set before the eighties is a period piece to me. And that's basically how the show was split. The first week was between the Korean War and around 1980. It was interesting and colorful to me.
The second week was by contrast, just boring. And then the last three episodes had all that goofy-ass alien stuff and a bunch of nutjobs. The families over time gradually got worse (with exceptions, Tom Clarke was my favorite in the Clarke family). Owen Crawford (I believe that's the name of the first guy) was my favorite character.
My dad still uses Wordstar for wordprocessing. And this is someone that always has to have the latest hardware, from the fastest Powerbook and Thinkpad, and might put 5,000 miles on his car a year but gets a new one every four. In other words, he's a moron.
And yet, he still uses Wordstar. He still uses Lotus for that matter because he has so many macros and things invested in it. And he's frightened to death of what's going to happen after Win2k, because he still relies so heavily on DOS programs.
Wordstar was a good program in it's day, and just because it's not exactly pretty compared to the latest apps doesn't make it that obsolete. Vi is painfully complicated to use, and the shortcuts aren't very intuitive or easy to use. Wordstar is very easy to use, and compared to Word or Wordperfect, your hands never have to leave the keyboard. Professional writes have always praised Wordstar because it makes writing so fast.
But jeez, 16.1 inches, that's insane. Though it doesn't surprise me I guess, Sony's computers have always been aimed at impressionable consumers looking for powertoys.
Anyone ever seen the episode of the Powerpuff Girls where the girls try to create a fourth sister? They don't quite get it right, and create a bucktoothed, ugly as sin, monster with the intelligence of slime mold. Design wise, Vaios have always struck me as being the mongoloid sister of Macs.
Interestingly, while I was waiting for my DSL installation to come through, I had my Airport set up to dial an ISP when I wanted to go online. I suppose OSX doesn't distiguinsh between always-on broadband and simple ethernet connection. Because if I didn't have the Airport connected to the internet (from some other computer) and booted my machine up, it would wait for the Airport to dial up and get the time. So that answers part of that writers question. A little annoying, but it's easy to turn off. OSX checks the time everytime you boot. Yeah, not very interesting, but whatever. Oh yeah, I think this was also in OS9.
Jumping on the Wal-Mart bandwagon because they've taken a small potshot at Microsoft seems akin to supporting Stalin because he's helping us fight Hitler. They're both nasty SOBs.
Wal-Mart has historically priced their competitors out of business much worse than Microsoft by selling things at below cost (hmmm, sound familiar, i.e. IE). Wal-Mart frequently is put up with resistance from neighborhoods, environmental groups, and just about anyone who doesn't want to see another crappy little box put up. I could go on and on about that. Or the fact that Wal-Mart treats their employees like shit. I know Slashdot isn't the place to say it, but Wal-Mart is a much greater evil than Microsoft.
Well, I don't fit any of those categories. I'm closer to the show's origins, I live in Louisiana. Though geographically close, I don't really consider Texas 'southern' though.
The show was pretty good, but doesn't have anything close to the charm and appeal of The Simpsons. Which isn't to say it couldn't have succeeded. It had the worst timeslot available. 6:00 PM CST, that's not even primetime yet. Even worse, there's that useless cartoon between it and the Simpsons (King of the Hill, which is atrocious). Hell, they should've scrapped X-Files like three or four years ago and moved it back an hour, and kill King of the Hill of course.
It's also coming out for BeOS I think, I think what he meant was that we need more games like NWN which support multiple platforms.
Really nice if it'll contain support for all the different OSes, as I have several PCs and Macs in my house running different OSes. I think Blizzard is the only other company I can think of that makes games with both PC/Mac versions in one box. They of course release the PC version, and when the Mac version comes out they release a PC/Mac version.
Using Ad-Aware to remove unwanted components from various installs is okay? But using Junkbusters to remove unwanted components from Slashdot is a karma no-no?
I still have one of the last Heath kit TVs from about ten to twelves years ago. Made it with my dad back then, didn't understand what the hell what he was doing, but that was fun. I still use it all the time, the picture's not so great, and it's pretty small (9" screen). But, I guess I have some attachment to the little bugger. Cool thing indeed.
As has been mentioned too many times, the Mac and Windows version of IE are completely different. In fact, I'd go so far to say that the Mac version is superior, except for the fact that there's no 'find next' feature in the Mac version which is highly aggravating. I don't mean to troll, but Mozilla just isn't where IE for Mac is. The software breaks when I try to use a proxy, and breaks for good. It's slow as hell, and takes too long to load. Omniweb is a much better alternative browser for the Mac.
Aibo is zero hassle. In the worst case, unlike a dog, if Aibo isn't what you expected you can put it in a cupboard and forget about it. How did all those puppy dogs get abandoned in the first place?
Which is where most of them will end up at least at this point.
Humans aren't getting cheaper, and most of them don't like being treated as servants.
Could've fooled me. Lots of people do animal husbandry. Lots of people have kids. Before we domesticated dogs from wolves, wolves were perfectly self-sufficient. Over thousands of years of selective breeding, we've breed them to depend on us as servants. So your comment that humans don't like to be treated as servants makes absolutely no sense to me.
The future Aibo robot will remember where you left your keys yesterday, it may be able to go and fetch them, it can certainly turn off the TV and lights when you fall asleep. It may be able to screen your phone calls, order your groceries and help with your finances.
And while impressive, I don't want a PDA.
If your Aibo smells smoke it will alert you. It will notice if you stop breathing, or if you fall and hurt yourself, and it will summon assistance without panic. Perhaps if people enter the house unexpectedly while you are away or asleep it will call the police.
As someone who's actually had their house saved because of my dog, I certainly am glad it wasn't an Aibo. The fire was in my backyard, and thanks to my dog, I had a place to sleep the next night. As for people entering my house unexpectedly? With a dog, nothing enters a house unexpectedly. And it's packed with a summon device called a bark, which also conveniently is quite terrifying for people who see a 125 pound lab jumping at them (even if given the chance, he'd probably just lick and sniff them).
After spending so much time with dogs, I have to say people are looking at this thing completely bassackwards. We should be replacing the humans with robots, not animals. Hell, here's a study, take a group of people students out of the country for awhile. Tell me why they get homesick, what they miss. Of the ones with pets, I guarantee a solid majority will say they miss their pets more than their friends and family. I myself have met very few people I would consider even half as nice a person as my dog.
Virtual PC only emulates a x86 processor, so you can only load x86 OSes on it. So, you could run Linux (just not a PPC distro!), DOS, Windows, OS/2 whatever (though, BeOS doesn't work).
Personally I think running Gimp on XDarwin is the best solution. Use Fink, and do it rootless and that's even better.
The biggest bug for me (as an OSX user), is that Moz breaks PERMANENTLY if you use a proxy server. I run Junkbuster on 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) on port 8000. Try doing it with Mozilla. The browser will now be unable to access any page after you restart it. Not only that, if you turn off the proxy in Mozilla, the thing is still broken.
Deregulation-Regulation is a cyclical thing that's built on the public having an attention span of fruit flies.
A big company sets up an infrastructure of product using consumer's funds. The service becomes more and more pivotal and necessary to modern society, the company expands more, and gains an even further amount of ownership.
Then people realize the whole thing sucks, they're getting increasingly crappier service and paying more for something they paid for in the first place. Enragement ensues, lawmakers act. Regulation steps in.
Later, all has died down. People can't remember what happened so long ago. They still have crappy service (however, given regulation they at least have partial ownership now). They complain. They say, we want choices, better service, better prices, we want competition. Deregulation steps in.
What has changed? Not a damn thing. Now the people have no ownership of the service or infrastructure. But they have a warm fuzzy feeling that they're allowing competition, and one day the magical happy balloon of competition will save them.
Of course, the company still has the ownership, they have no inclination to let others use their system. And no other companies have the investment to compete with such a monolithic juggernaut.
The short of it is, deregulation is a fix, yes it sucks, it's terrible. But do you want a regulated monopoly that you at least have some ownership? Or do you want an unregulated monopoly, that won't allow any serious competition, gives worse service, and has all the property that you funded?
For me, the answer is obvious. I'll choose the lesser of two evils, deregulation.
I do think LoTR was one of the best movies of the year (other favorites were Memento, The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother, and a few others).
But saying LoTR had the best makeup seems pretty stupid to me. It's an abortion that the film with the best makeup didn't even get nominated, yes Planet of the Apes. Sure it was mediocre, but the makeup was fantastic and better than anything else this year (I can't believe Beautiful Mind got nominated for this category, urrrgh).
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Because of my youth, any movie set before the eighties is a period piece to me. And that's basically how the show was split. The first week was between the Korean War and around 1980. It was interesting and colorful to me.
The second week was by contrast, just boring. And then the last three episodes had all that goofy-ass alien stuff and a bunch of nutjobs. The families over time gradually got worse (with exceptions, Tom Clarke was my favorite in the Clarke family). Owen Crawford (I believe that's the name of the first guy) was my favorite character.
Only on Slashdot would anyone consider Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon an arthouse movie.
My dad still uses Wordstar for wordprocessing. And this is someone that always has to have the latest hardware, from the fastest Powerbook and Thinkpad, and might put 5,000 miles on his car a year but gets a new one every four. In other words, he's a moron.
And yet, he still uses Wordstar. He still uses Lotus for that matter because he has so many macros and things invested in it. And he's frightened to death of what's going to happen after Win2k, because he still relies so heavily on DOS programs.
Wordstar was a good program in it's day, and just because it's not exactly pretty compared to the latest apps doesn't make it that obsolete. Vi is painfully complicated to use, and the shortcuts aren't very intuitive or easy to use. Wordstar is very easy to use, and compared to Word or Wordperfect, your hands never have to leave the keyboard. Professional writes have always praised Wordstar because it makes writing so fast.
I mean, yeah, boo Microsoft. But Wal-Mart practically taught Microsoft everything they know.
Yeah, Michael Dell said only a couple years ago that Apple should close up shop and give all their investors a refund?
But jeez, 16.1 inches, that's insane. Though it doesn't surprise me I guess, Sony's computers have always been aimed at impressionable consumers looking for powertoys.
Anyone ever seen the episode of the Powerpuff Girls where the girls try to create a fourth sister? They don't quite get it right, and create a bucktoothed, ugly as sin, monster with the intelligence of slime mold. Design wise, Vaios have always struck me as being the mongoloid sister of Macs.
The catch is that he is arguing that his name is a valuable brand, in effect, he is arguing that he is selling religion.
That's exactly what they do, don't be so naive. Ask any CPA if religious institutions are truly non-profit organizations.
There is such a thing as too stupid a question.
Interestingly, while I was waiting for my DSL installation to come through, I had my Airport set up to dial an ISP when I wanted to go online. I suppose OSX doesn't distiguinsh between always-on broadband and simple ethernet connection. Because if I didn't have the Airport connected to the internet (from some other computer) and booted my machine up, it would wait for the Airport to dial up and get the time. So that answers part of that writers question. A little annoying, but it's easy to turn off. OSX checks the time everytime you boot. Yeah, not very interesting, but whatever. Oh yeah, I think this was also in OS9.
Jumping on the Wal-Mart bandwagon because they've taken a small potshot at Microsoft seems akin to supporting Stalin because he's helping us fight Hitler. They're both nasty SOBs.
Wal-Mart has historically priced their competitors out of business much worse than Microsoft by selling things at below cost (hmmm, sound familiar, i.e. IE). Wal-Mart frequently is put up with resistance from neighborhoods, environmental groups, and just about anyone who doesn't want to see another crappy little box put up. I could go on and on about that. Or the fact that Wal-Mart treats their employees like shit. I know Slashdot isn't the place to say it, but Wal-Mart is a much greater evil than Microsoft.
Well, I don't fit any of those categories. I'm closer to the show's origins, I live in Louisiana. Though geographically close, I don't really consider Texas 'southern' though.
The show was pretty good, but doesn't have anything close to the charm and appeal of The Simpsons. Which isn't to say it couldn't have succeeded. It had the worst timeslot available. 6:00 PM CST, that's not even primetime yet. Even worse, there's that useless cartoon between it and the Simpsons (King of the Hill, which is atrocious). Hell, they should've scrapped X-Files like three or four years ago and moved it back an hour, and kill King of the Hill of course.
It's also coming out for BeOS I think, I think what he meant was that we need more games like NWN which support multiple platforms.
Really nice if it'll contain support for all the different OSes, as I have several PCs and Macs in my house running different OSes. I think Blizzard is the only other company I can think of that makes games with both PC/Mac versions in one box. They of course release the PC version, and when the Mac version comes out they release a PC/Mac version.
Using Ad-Aware to remove unwanted components from various installs is okay? But using Junkbusters to remove unwanted components from Slashdot is a karma no-no?
Except having traffic cops pays for the more serious policework. A lof ot the funding for police officers comes from traffic duty.
I still have one of the last Heath kit TVs from about ten to twelves years ago. Made it with my dad back then, didn't understand what the hell what he was doing, but that was fun. I still use it all the time, the picture's not so great, and it's pretty small (9" screen). But, I guess I have some attachment to the little bugger. Cool thing indeed.
I'm still waiting for the Linux distro for the asses.
As has been mentioned too many times, the Mac and Windows version of IE are completely different. In fact, I'd go so far to say that the Mac version is superior, except for the fact that there's no 'find next' feature in the Mac version which is highly aggravating.
I don't mean to troll, but Mozilla just isn't where IE for Mac is. The software breaks when I try to use a proxy, and breaks for good. It's slow as hell, and takes too long to load. Omniweb is a much better alternative browser for the Mac.
Which is where most of them will end up at least at this point.
Humans aren't getting cheaper, and most of them don't like being treated as servants.
Could've fooled me. Lots of people do animal husbandry. Lots of people have kids. Before we domesticated dogs from wolves, wolves were perfectly self-sufficient. Over thousands of years of selective breeding, we've breed them to depend on us as servants. So your comment that humans don't like to be treated as servants makes absolutely no sense to me.
The future Aibo robot will remember where you left your keys yesterday, it may be able to go and fetch them, it can certainly turn off the TV and lights when you fall asleep. It may be able to screen your phone calls, order your groceries and help with your finances.
And while impressive, I don't want a PDA.
If your Aibo smells smoke it will alert you. It will notice if you stop breathing, or if you fall and hurt yourself, and it will summon assistance without panic. Perhaps if people enter the house unexpectedly while you are away or asleep it will call the police.
As someone who's actually had their house saved because of my dog, I certainly am glad it wasn't an Aibo. The fire was in my backyard, and thanks to my dog, I had a place to sleep the next night. As for people entering my house unexpectedly? With a dog, nothing enters a house unexpectedly. And it's packed with a summon device called a bark, which also conveniently is quite terrifying for people who see a 125 pound lab jumping at them (even if given the chance, he'd probably just lick and sniff them).
After spending so much time with dogs, I have to say people are looking at this thing completely bassackwards. We should be replacing the humans with robots, not animals. Hell, here's a study, take a group of people students out of the country for awhile. Tell me why they get homesick, what they miss. Of the ones with pets, I guarantee a solid majority will say they miss their pets more than their friends and family. I myself have met very few people I would consider even half as nice a person as my dog.
Virtual PC only emulates a x86 processor, so you can only load x86 OSes on it. So, you could run Linux (just not a PPC distro!), DOS, Windows, OS/2 whatever (though, BeOS doesn't work).
Personally I think running Gimp on XDarwin is the best solution. Use Fink, and do it rootless and that's even better.
The biggest bug for me (as an OSX user), is that Moz breaks PERMANENTLY if you use a proxy server. I run Junkbuster on 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) on port 8000. Try doing it with Mozilla. The browser will now be unable to access any page after you restart it. Not only that, if you turn off the proxy in Mozilla, the thing is still broken.
I could see it now. Using the metals measuring standard.
"Hey what version of Mozilla are you using?"
"I'm using six nines."
"Holy crap man, I'm still on four nines."
Deregulation-Regulation is a cyclical thing that's built on the public having an attention span of fruit flies.
A big company sets up an infrastructure of product using consumer's funds. The service becomes more and more pivotal and necessary to modern society, the company expands more, and gains an even further amount of ownership.
Then people realize the whole thing sucks, they're getting increasingly crappier service and paying more for something they paid for in the first place. Enragement ensues, lawmakers act. Regulation steps in.
Later, all has died down. People can't remember what happened so long ago. They still have crappy service (however, given regulation they at least have partial ownership now). They complain. They say, we want choices, better service, better prices, we want competition. Deregulation steps in.
What has changed? Not a damn thing. Now the people have no ownership of the service or infrastructure. But they have a warm fuzzy feeling that they're allowing competition, and one day the magical happy balloon of competition will save them.
Of course, the company still has the ownership, they have no inclination to let others use their system. And no other companies have the investment to compete with such a monolithic juggernaut.
The short of it is, deregulation is a fix, yes it sucks, it's terrible. But do you want a regulated monopoly that you at least have some ownership? Or do you want an unregulated monopoly, that won't allow any serious competition, gives worse service, and has all the property that you funded?
For me, the answer is obvious. I'll choose the lesser of two evils, deregulation.
I do think LoTR was one of the best movies of the year (other favorites were Memento, The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother, and a few others).
But saying LoTR had the best makeup seems pretty stupid to me. It's an abortion that the film with the best makeup didn't even get nominated, yes Planet of the Apes. Sure it was mediocre, but the makeup was fantastic and better than anything else this year (I can't believe Beautiful Mind got nominated for this category, urrrgh).