No kidding. Out of morbid curiosity I went back through this guy's posts. Not all are as bad as this one, but few make any more sense. The guy is either an incredibly eccentric troll, a complete idiot, or totally fucking batshit insane.
That review sums up EXACTLY how I feel about this movie. It was half of a slashdot troll's dream. Natalie Portman's performance was so stiff she might as well have been petrified.
If the MPAA gave a fuck about the general public, they wouldn't make such shitty movies. As long as they have this example to point to in court, they will have gained something from the leak. I think it's more than a bit of stretch to think the leak was on purpose, but I can at least envision ways it could benefit them.
I do plan on going to see it saturday with my g/f and if I watch it before then, I dont "get any" for a long time.
I feel your pain. My g/f HATES star wars, yet she has told me quite sternly that if I see the movie without her, I will one day wake up missing my favorite body part. The really shitty part is, she's currently 800 miles away and I won't be seeing her until mid June.
Wait a minute... two most popular cross-platform browsers? Huh? I could have SWORE I had a copy of IE sitting in the applications folder on my mac. I guess it's only cross-platform if it crosses to your particular platform of choice, huh?
I received moderator points a grand total of one time in 2 years, yet this guy still has points. I'll sometimes get them twice in the same week. I've even gotten new mod points before using up the 5 I was already given. I tend to prefer to mod up, as you said. If I disagree with something someone says, I'd rather reply and tell them why, instead of using mod points to anonymously slap them.
While I wouldn't go so far as to call it obsession, I am certainly fascinated by the moderation here on/. By your own admission in your follow-up post, the original "article" at the register was false, yet very quickly after you gave the el reg link, the mods jumped all over the chance to mod it up. I wasn't really bashing your post so much as expressing my continued amazement at how arbitrary things seem around here. I guess when you're pulling from a vast pool of potential moderators, who run the gamut of various kinds of zealots, crazy things happen.
I didn't mean to imply that the OP pulled it out of his ass, but was merely suggesting that when you make an accusation like that, you should give SOME sort of info backing it up. I don't call random finger pointing with no stated justification insightful, yet the mods here do. Like I said I'm truly fascinated by this place. If I were a sociologist I bet I'd have a field day with/.
Heh, I get modded overrated while a post linking to an article with claims from a "hacker group" gets modded as informative. Am I the only one who thinks "hacker groups" aren't exactly the most reliable source of information?
Where did I say I cared about copying overpriced stuff? I said I wanted PhysOrg to give fucking credit. There's a BIG difference there. If a scientist busts his ass going through all the schooling to get a BS, MS, PhD, begs for some funding, makes significantly less than others who have the same level of training as he does, works ridiculous hours, and produces some new understanding of the world around us, the least he deserves is a little credit for his accomplishment.
I don't care if you copy verbatim every single article from every single physics journal in existence, and put them all on bittorrent, as long as you don't edit out the name of the fucking author at the top.
Physorg in general eats a whole lot of ass. I have lost count of how many times I've read a really good paper with some pretty groundbreaking results, then seen the results of said paper posted as an article on physorg without ever REFERENCING the original source. Physorg is teh suck.
Have any evidence to back that up? You're accusing the RIAA of a blatantly criminal act, so you should at least provide SOME sort of link to give credence to your story. What really scares me is the fact that you got modded insigtful.
Uh, metamod says something about the moderation, not the post itself. Why, exactly, would I care whether you metamodded them? Your statement is just silly.
I can think of lots of examples. Here's one: Say you're using an office program to manage documents you create, and something goes wrong with the application. Maybe a virus hits you, maybe your license expires. Now, if the application was the only thing handling the organization of your documents, you're screwed, left digging around trying to figure out what the app did with your data. If, however, the search and organize functionality was handled at a fundamental OS level, you can recover your organization structure easily.
There's asbolutely no reason to have firewall functioanlity in the OS. Why does my OS need to provide a firewall, when Norton does so just fine, and can actually do what I need with it (block attacks).
Sometimes it is better to have a certain functionality built in to the os. A powerful, indexed, robust search technology, built at the OS level, allows any program to use that functionality. Think of it this way: Your mp3 player indexes your mp3's, great, you can play them. Now, you want to use an mp3 as the background music in a photo slideshow you are creating, or a powerpoint presentation, or a new dvd. Suddenly, your mp3 player's organization isn't so important. Apple already has this functionality, with all of the ilife apps tying together so itunes' mp3 organization can benefit iphoto, for example. Spotlight takes this one step futher, by allowing third party developers hooks to use this search functionality in any arbitrary program.
What, you mean like smart folders, that automatically detect when you add a new file of a certain type, anywhere on your hard drive, and add it to the virtual folder? Oops, Tiger has that.
Smart folders WILL change the way you use your computer. There's no need to hunt through folders for a certain document, as all organization can be done at a smart folder level. Plainly put, it doesn't MATTER where your data is stored in the file structure, smart folders will allow you to organize everything easily and quickly. Just like file systems make it where you don't care where the bits lie on the disk, smart folders will make it where you don't care where the files lie in the directory structure. This is a BIG improvement.
Of course, you didn't actually bother to think about the point you were attempting to make, because you were rushing to get your post near the beginning of the dicsussion so it could be modded up.
I wish I had mod points - that is a hilarious video. College a capella performances are almost always incredibly fun. I've seen a lot of really awesome fun covers, and this video is a great example of the fun people can have with a little creativity.
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No kidding. Out of morbid curiosity I went back through this guy's posts. Not all are as bad as this one, but few make any more sense. The guy is either an incredibly eccentric troll, a complete idiot, or totally fucking batshit insane.
This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
That review sums up EXACTLY how I feel about this movie. It was half of a slashdot troll's dream. Natalie Portman's performance was so stiff she might as well have been petrified.
If the MPAA gave a fuck about the general public, they wouldn't make such shitty movies. As long as they have this example to point to in court, they will have gained something from the leak. I think it's more than a bit of stretch to think the leak was on purpose, but I can at least envision ways it could benefit them.
That gave me a headache just thinking about trying to undertake the act of beginning to approach reading it.
Imagine what life would be like if the same so-called level of innovation was applied to common household items like the kitchen faucet or the toilet.
What, you mean your toilet doesn't have a built-in camera? Get with the times, man!
I do plan on going to see it saturday with my g/f and if I watch it before then, I dont "get any" for a long time.
I feel your pain. My g/f HATES star wars, yet she has told me quite sternly that if I see the movie without her, I will one day wake up missing my favorite body part. The really shitty part is, she's currently 800 miles away and I won't be seeing her until mid June.
It's peanut butter jelly time!
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat?
Wait a minute... two most popular cross-platform browsers? Huh? I could have SWORE I had a copy of IE sitting in the applications folder on my mac. I guess it's only cross-platform if it crosses to your particular platform of choice, huh?
Zum Teufel!
Bless you!
I received moderator points a grand total of one time in 2 years, yet this guy still has points. I'll sometimes get them twice in the same week. I've even gotten new mod points before using up the 5 I was already given. I tend to prefer to mod up, as you said. If I disagree with something someone says, I'd rather reply and tell them why, instead of using mod points to anonymously slap them.
Or turn off the neon undercarriage lighting?
It's a toyota prius, not a honda civic
While I wouldn't go so far as to call it obsession, I am certainly fascinated by the moderation here on /. By your own admission in your follow-up post, the original "article" at the register was false, yet very quickly after you gave the el reg link, the mods jumped all over the chance to mod it up. I wasn't really bashing your post so much as expressing my continued amazement at how arbitrary things seem around here. I guess when you're pulling from a vast pool of potential moderators, who run the gamut of various kinds of zealots, crazy things happen.
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I didn't mean to imply that the OP pulled it out of his ass, but was merely suggesting that when you make an accusation like that, you should give SOME sort of info backing it up. I don't call random finger pointing with no stated justification insightful, yet the mods here do. Like I said I'm truly fascinated by this place. If I were a sociologist I bet I'd have a field day with
Heh, I get modded overrated while a post linking to an article with claims from a "hacker group" gets modded as informative. Am I the only one who thinks "hacker groups" aren't exactly the most reliable source of information?
Where did I say I cared about copying overpriced stuff? I said I wanted PhysOrg to give fucking credit. There's a BIG difference there. If a scientist busts his ass going through all the schooling to get a BS, MS, PhD, begs for some funding, makes significantly less than others who have the same level of training as he does, works ridiculous hours, and produces some new understanding of the world around us, the least he deserves is a little credit for his accomplishment.
I don't care if you copy verbatim every single article from every single physics journal in existence, and put them all on bittorrent, as long as you don't edit out the name of the fucking author at the top.
Physorg in general eats a whole lot of ass. I have lost count of how many times I've read a really good paper with some pretty groundbreaking results, then seen the results of said paper posted as an article on physorg without ever REFERENCING the original source. Physorg is teh suck.
Have any evidence to back that up? You're accusing the RIAA of a blatantly criminal act, so you should at least provide SOME sort of link to give credence to your story. What really scares me is the fact that you got modded insigtful.
piles of money large enough to roll around naked in.
that sounds a little.. uh.. gay
Uh, metamod says something about the moderation, not the post itself. Why, exactly, would I care whether you metamodded them? Your statement is just silly.
Sure he does. He has a clue how to troll.
I can think of lots of examples. Here's one: Say you're using an office program to manage documents you create, and something goes wrong with the application. Maybe a virus hits you, maybe your license expires. Now, if the application was the only thing handling the organization of your documents, you're screwed, left digging around trying to figure out what the app did with your data. If, however, the search and organize functionality was handled at a fundamental OS level, you can recover your organization structure easily.
There's asbolutely no reason to have firewall functioanlity in the OS. Why does my OS need to provide a firewall, when Norton does so just fine, and can actually do what I need with it (block attacks).
Sometimes it is better to have a certain functionality built in to the os. A powerful, indexed, robust search technology, built at the OS level, allows any program to use that functionality. Think of it this way: Your mp3 player indexes your mp3's, great, you can play them. Now, you want to use an mp3 as the background music in a photo slideshow you are creating, or a powerpoint presentation, or a new dvd. Suddenly, your mp3 player's organization isn't so important. Apple already has this functionality, with all of the ilife apps tying together so itunes' mp3 organization can benefit iphoto, for example. Spotlight takes this one step futher, by allowing third party developers hooks to use this search functionality in any arbitrary program.
What, you mean like smart folders, that automatically detect when you add a new file of a certain type, anywhere on your hard drive, and add it to the virtual folder? Oops, Tiger has that.
Smart folders WILL change the way you use your computer. There's no need to hunt through folders for a certain document, as all organization can be done at a smart folder level. Plainly put, it doesn't MATTER where your data is stored in the file structure, smart folders will allow you to organize everything easily and quickly. Just like file systems make it where you don't care where the bits lie on the disk, smart folders will make it where you don't care where the files lie in the directory structure. This is a BIG improvement.
Of course, you didn't actually bother to think about the point you were attempting to make, because you were rushing to get your post near the beginning of the dicsussion so it could be modded up.
I wish I had mod points - that is a hilarious video. College a capella performances are almost always incredibly fun. I've seen a lot of really awesome fun covers, and this video is a great example of the fun people can have with a little creativity.
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