This is an academic race, not a spectator sport... they don't go that fast, and it's more like a science fair versus a fashion show at the giddy speeds averaging upto 120 km/h... One vehicle will out class it's competitors and simply 'own' the race.
Speaking as a person who has seen the racers silently slink by, I don't think that watching them crash would be very satisfying, some guy jumping out of a crumpled solar car and running around screaming "It burns... it burns!!!"... battery acid after all isn't as much fun as gasoline when it comes to spectacular crashes.
Anyone out there can download quicktime 5 from apple for free without having to give out any information. And if you didn't want to watch the 'Large' quicktime of it, there would have been no need to go to google.com and type 'quicktime 5 serial'.
I think the bad people are to be found at the Lucas studios... over a minute of listening to someone with a lung condition, punctuated by three lightsaber lightsaber clashes. Not to mention the complete lack of anything to cause salivation (as I usually do at the mention of Star Wars).
When I finally finished jumping through hoops, and sat down to watch the 'Teaser', I felt like I had been ripped off (and that's considering all it cost me was time). I am saddened to think that all this is going to be, is a remake of the fast and the furious with lightsabers and Jar Jar Binks.
I agree, the command line is a powerful tool, I can also see that it has many options that would be hard for people that were brought up on iconised gui interfaces to grasp... like parameter extentions.
Granted they would still be using them, it's just that they would be dependent on other people to make decisions like this for them.
Sure you could hide the command line as an alternative, don't even tell the end consumer it exists, but how much of a step away from the current windows like setups is this?
Until the O/S programmers decide that consumers should have some ability to actually have direct control over their own systems, the quickly released/ slap together-patch up latter hieroglyph oriented downward spiral will continue, until eventually we won't even need the alphabet on our keyboards, we will just have two keys...an 'I LOVE BILL!' key which will be right next to the Windows key.
And for all you people that being able to have the choice as to wether or not you want to be able to define your own paramaters is a bit much... By all means let's hide the command line, get out our we-come-from-the-future identical uniforms, and lets all sing another chorus of "God save Bill's monopoly"... judging from the number of oxygen thieves I talk to every day people aren't using their brains anyway, let alone the command line.
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This is an academic race, not a spectator sport... they don't go that fast, and it's more like a science fair versus a fashion show at the giddy speeds averaging upto 120 km/h... One vehicle will out class it's competitors and simply 'own' the race.
Speaking as a person who has seen the racers silently slink by, I don't think that watching them crash would be very satisfying, some guy jumping out of a crumpled solar car and running around screaming "It burns... it burns!!!"... battery acid after all isn't as much fun as gasoline when it comes to spectacular crashes.
Finally, I'll be able to do high quality rips of all of the Shera princess of power series...
Well I really couldn't think of any other use for that much space...
Ooh ooh ooh, except maybe the worlds largest uncompressed picture of cowboy neil.
He's a bad man?
Anyone out there can download quicktime 5 from apple for free without having to give out any information. And if you didn't want to watch the 'Large' quicktime of it, there would have been no need to go to google.com and type 'quicktime 5 serial'.
I think the bad people are to be found at the Lucas studios... over a minute of listening to someone with a lung condition, punctuated by three lightsaber lightsaber clashes. Not to mention the complete lack of anything to cause salivation (as I usually do at the mention of Star Wars).
When I finally finished jumping through hoops, and sat down to watch the 'Teaser', I felt like I had been ripped off (and that's considering all it cost me was time). I am saddened to think that all this is going to be, is a remake of the fast and the furious with lightsabers and Jar Jar Binks.
I agree, the command line is a powerful tool, I can also see that it has many options that would be hard for people that were brought up on iconised gui interfaces to grasp... like parameter extentions.
Granted they would still be using them, it's just that they would be dependent on other people to make decisions like this for them.
Sure you could hide the command line as an alternative, don't even tell the end consumer it exists, but how much of a step away from the current windows like setups is this?
Until the O/S programmers decide that consumers should have some ability to actually have direct control over their own systems, the quickly released/ slap together-patch up latter hieroglyph oriented downward spiral will continue, until eventually we won't even need the alphabet on our keyboards, we will just have two keys...an 'I LOVE BILL!' key which will be right next to the Windows key.
And for all you people that being able to have the choice as to wether or not you want to be able to define your own paramaters is a bit much... By all means let's hide the command line, get out our we-come-from-the-future identical uniforms, and lets all sing another chorus of "God save Bill's monopoly"... judging from the number of oxygen thieves I talk to every day people aren't using their brains anyway, let alone the command line.