I don't know if Ebert's opinion counts for anything, he seems to be going senile. Gives pretty much every film four stars no matter how average it is. I don't know anyone who thought Hulk was anything other than awful.
And it's funny to see Ebert slam a film in the 70s/80s, then come back twenty years later and hail it as a 'Great Movie' when he realises everyone else liked it. The man's a fraud.
Being the best superhero movie is like being the tallest dwarf at the circus, and imdb is infested with raving fanboys who think the film industry started in 1990.
HD limitation is only an issue if you're saving a file. It's not important for watching videos. But at the end of the day your speed will be limited by all the links from your computer to the site. I have an 8MB connection but still can't download from youtube faster than it plays. I can on Google video, but then there's not much to watch on there.
Slashdot nerds don't make up a very high percentage of the film-viewing public, so that isn't really an issue at all. He knew what he was doing when he decided to domain-squat.
Style doesn't matter on something that sits in your pocket, it doesn't fit more files on, it doesn't make them sound better, it doesn't make the battery life last longer. But I'm sure the inside of your pockets are impressed...
A 10GB OS install means 10GB less actual content you can put on your computer. It's like buying a big van and then filling it with useless concrete blocks, just to use up the space.
In which case, we should carry on experimenting on animals, so more people's lives can be saved who can then fight to stop animal experimentation, and the cycle of hypocricy can continue.
I wouldn't say it's FUD because there is no uncertainty.
Actually if you read their 25 points, there is plenty of speculating on what might happen if you use Vista. I consider that to be spreading uncertainty.
And dare I say there is not even any fear in the end user
What makes you think that filling the hard disk with Windows bloat is getting anything out of it? You may as well just write 100GB's worth of random data to the disk so you're making full use of it...
I can install a Linux distro in 2GB, does Vista provide five times as much functionality, or five times as much security or stability? I very much doubt it.
From a business point of view it is real simple do you want someone to not buy your product?
If it's a public transport system, then no, they don't. It's easier for them if no-one uses it, they get their money from the tax-payer whether they have one passenger or a million.
So if you look at a thousand credit card transactions in 2005, and there are two itunes songs bought, then if you look at a thousand credit card transactions in 2006, and only one itunes song is bought, then you are 95% sure that itunes sales have halved?
You know very well that if it was Sony's wriststraps breaking in exactly the same way, the fanboys would be tearing them to pieces. But because it's Nintendo they get away with it. But then it wouldn't be a Zonk article without the obligatory Sony-bashing, even when the story has nothing to do with Sony.
Yes, there's plenty of 2D games on the DS, but I sympathize with the original point. You could do some drop dead gorgeous hand painted games in 1080i. There's so much more detail that could be squeezed into games.
That's the problem: you'd have to handpaint every single graphic in the game. It would take years and years to do. A side benefit of 3D is that it makes complicated graphics very simple. Make a shape, put a texture on it, let all the fancy algorithms do the rest.
The problem is you're assuming everyone uses Linux because it's open source. I use it because it's free and I prefer using it to Windows, I couldn't give a damn whether it's open source or closed source written by Satan himself.
So you're saying that business and consumers around the world should suffer because you're too fucking dumb to work out whether someone's advertising something or not? I don't see why the whole world of commerce should change just to pander to a few retards.
The problem would be easier solved by putting up a billboard saying that throwing yourself off a bridge makes your car go faster. All the people who can't work out what an advert is disappear, and the rest of us who actually have more than five brain cells can get back to our daily lives unhindered by your idiocy.
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I don't know if Ebert's opinion counts for anything, he seems to be going senile. Gives pretty much every film four stars no matter how average it is. I don't know anyone who thought Hulk was anything other than awful.
And it's funny to see Ebert slam a film in the 70s/80s, then come back twenty years later and hail it as a 'Great Movie' when he realises everyone else liked it. The man's a fraud.
Being the best superhero movie is like being the tallest dwarf at the circus, and imdb is infested with raving fanboys who think the film industry started in 1990.
Not if that guilty person goes on to kill five people it ain't.
HD limitation is only an issue if you're saving a file. It's not important for watching videos. But at the end of the day your speed will be limited by all the links from your computer to the site. I have an 8MB connection but still can't download from youtube faster than it plays. I can on Google video, but then there's not much to watch on there.
Slashdot nerds don't make up a very high percentage of the film-viewing public, so that isn't really an issue at all. He knew what he was doing when he decided to domain-squat.
Are these effects more or less than the effects of burning coal instead?
Style doesn't matter on something that sits in your pocket, it doesn't fit more files on, it doesn't make them sound better, it doesn't make the battery life last longer. But I'm sure the inside of your pockets are impressed...
From what little I've read of Time magazine, it just seems to be a series of watch adverts. I don't need a watch so I don't read it.
A 10GB OS install means 10GB less actual content you can put on your computer. It's like buying a big van and then filling it with useless concrete blocks, just to use up the space.
How exactly did millions of grainy video clips of people lip-syncing pop songs or pirated TV clips change the world?
I didn't notice much of a coherent plot either. Maybe that was computer generated?
CD tax anyone?
Of course you'd look like a corpse and fall over in a breeze.
In which case, we should carry on experimenting on animals, so more people's lives can be saved who can then fight to stop animal experimentation, and the cycle of hypocricy can continue.
Actually if you read their 25 points, there is plenty of speculating on what might happen if you use Vista. I consider that to be spreading uncertainty.
The purpose of this site is to cause that fear.
What makes you think that filling the hard disk with Windows bloat is getting anything out of it? You may as well just write 100GB's worth of random data to the disk so you're making full use of it...
I can install a Linux distro in 2GB, does Vista provide five times as much functionality, or five times as much security or stability? I very much doubt it.
If it's a public transport system, then no, they don't. It's easier for them if no-one uses it, they get their money from the tax-payer whether they have one passenger or a million.
So if you look at a thousand credit card transactions in 2005, and there are two itunes songs bought, then if you look at a thousand credit card transactions in 2006, and only one itunes song is bought, then you are 95% sure that itunes sales have halved?
And you're a professor for which university?
You know very well that if it was Sony's wriststraps breaking in exactly the same way, the fanboys would be tearing them to pieces. But because it's Nintendo they get away with it. But then it wouldn't be a Zonk article without the obligatory Sony-bashing, even when the story has nothing to do with Sony.
50 years ago, the pound was divided into 960 divisions, now it's only divided into 100.
That's the problem: you'd have to handpaint every single graphic in the game. It would take years and years to do. A side benefit of 3D is that it makes complicated graphics very simple. Make a shape, put a texture on it, let all the fancy algorithms do the rest.
The problem is you're assuming everyone uses Linux because it's open source. I use it because it's free and I prefer using it to Windows, I couldn't give a damn whether it's open source or closed source written by Satan himself.
Unless your local university is on the banks of the river where this dolphin lives, how is his opinion of any value?
So you're saying that business and consumers around the world should suffer because you're too fucking dumb to work out whether someone's advertising something or not? I don't see why the whole world of commerce should change just to pander to a few retards.
The problem would be easier solved by putting up a billboard saying that throwing yourself off a bridge makes your car go faster. All the people who can't work out what an advert is disappear, and the rest of us who actually have more than five brain cells can get back to our daily lives unhindered by your idiocy.
You're saying that if you offer anything for free, you should be legally obligated to provide it for free perpetually?