It looks remarkably similar and I'm quite hopeful that this will be a credible conversion now.
Well, if there's one thing we learned from 300 it's that Snyder can make a movie scene look identical to a comic book panel, but is that quite enough to make it a good movie? (again, see 300 for the counterexample)
Slavish transcription never seems to work well as a strategy to translate something to a different medium (and especially when you are starting out with something as limiting as comics).
a $1500 mac is not enough to do the gaming that a $400 card equipped pc does. thats why.
Right, so the only measure of value is how much "gaming" your hardware will be enough for.
Therefore, typical Slashdot.
(Never mind the original point that you are paying a couple hundred dollar more for the video card just to turn some inconsequential settings from 10 to 11)
What features are there for dual monitors that aren't built into Windows?
How about monitor-specific task bars? At least the way I use them, multiple monitors lose half of their usefulness if you can't logically group your running apps by monitor (and therefore find them quickly when you need them). I rarely span a single application across both monitors, they are more of an organizational thing, and the lack of this feature is a real show-stopper in Windows.
UltraMon does this (not perfectly), but it's a fairly crappy program, overall.
The visuals were nice but the story was cheesy and had far too much "support the troops" patriotism in it (is there any reason Iraq had to be in the movie at all?)
I agree that it wasn't perfect, but it was definitely way, way above average for Summer Shlock. It had that rarest of qualities: internal consistency - characters actually behaving in a reasonable manner that drove the story forward (as opposed to the usual progression of explody set-pieces). Combine that with a smattering of charisma that actually makes you care the slightest bit about some of the people on screen, and I can forgive a lot of preposterousness (like McGivering up a walking, flying, rocket-launching and flame-throwing Mecha-thing, in a cave, out of rocket parts). It's cheesy, but it makes sense, which I like a lot more than the other way around.
I think it gets brought up so often because it actually is a well-made movie about explosions, and we are so used to being told that that's just not possible, or even desirable (usually regarding the sort of crap that Michael Bay and his ilk slap together from time to time).
It also didn't try to cram any sort of simplistic, cloying "message" down our throats, which I always appreciate (some people say it did, but then they seem to have diametrically opposed impressions of what that "message" was, which I think is evidence to the contrary).
For one, I don't even own a external HD, I back up my key files, but really that only leaves me with ~1 GB of space used up on a 2 Gig flash drive.
Many people have tens of gigs of pictures (which are usually irreplaceable) and music (which is less so) on their primary computer, for them an $80 external drive isn't such a ridiculous investment. And after a few years at a job (or in school) it's easy enough to rack up 5-10GB of documents (especially if you have an easy way to archive changes, which can be extremely useful).
Having set up Time Machine on my sister's laptop recently, I can agree that Apple got this one right - it's not much more than a daily cron of 'rsync -av' with a slick restore GUI, and it's exactly what's needed. I'm not an Apple fanboy (or even a user), but some things they just get right.
Not sure why people are in such a tizzy over this.
Really? You can't see the difference between basing a play on a well-known story and lifting other people's artwork for your game?
Your examples don't even have anything to do with plagiarism: there may be plenty of accusations against Shakespeare in that regard (Marlowe's name is usually attached), but I doubt he'd ever claimed to have invented Pericles or Julius Caesar, for example.
Seems to me that they should be free to require any identification that they like in order to gain a posting account. If you do not like the policy, then don't post.
Who says they aren't free to do such a thing? We are discussing whether or not we like this policy.
On a related sidenode: I'm very happy with SGI's xfs right now.
I seem to be plugging XFS in every fs thread recently, so I'll second that - I'm really surprised it's not more popular.
ext3 may have, more or less, caught up to XFS in IO speed recently, but file operations on large filesystems are still a disaster - just try deleting a 2TB tree with a couple million files in ext3, I dare you.
ext4fs is designed to be used in systems requiring many terabytes of storage and vast directory trees
Well yeah, but Slashdot seems like a pretty good place to find people who administer multi-TB systems, no?
A terabyte isn't what it used to be (hell, 1TB SATA disks are pretty common) and ext3 sucks pretty hard even on a measly TB.
Does the sub-TB desktop crowd even care about filesystems? I mean, they all pretty much work and these days the popular ones have pretty similar performance (on a single spindle, at least).
Um, you realize that the majority of those are either network file systems or specific to some small niche, and are not comparable to a general purpose fs like reiserfs?
XFS is one of the best server filesystems available, and is probably more popular than JFS.
Heh, I loved the beard "deconstruction" in the Cryptonomicon:
She pulled down statistics on racial variation in beard growth. American Indians didn't grow beards, Asians hardly did, Africans were a special case because daily shaving gave them a painful skin condition. "The ability to grow heavy, full beards as a matter of choice appears to be a privilege accorded by nature solely to white males," she wrote.
Alarm bells, red lights, and screaming klaxons went off in Randy's mind when he happened across that phrase.
"But this assertion buys into a specious subsumption. 'Nature' is a socially constructed discourse, not an objective reality [many footnotes here]. That is doubly true in the case of the 'nature' that accords full beards to the specific minority population of northern European males. Homo sapiens evolved in climatic zones where facial hair was of little practical use. The development of an offshoot of the species characterized by densely bearded males is an adaptive response to cold climates. These climates did not 'naturally' invade the habitats of early humans--rather, the humans invaded geographical regions where such climates prevailed. This geographical transgression was strictly a sociocultural event and so all physical adaptations to it must be placed in the same category--including the development of dense facial hair."
and the benefit of his filesystem over the competition was always marginal
Are you kidding? Five years ago ext3 had absolutely abysmal performance and XFS was still fairly new to Linux - reiserfs was the filesystem for many server applications.
The guy may be a murderer, but there's no question he could write a good filesystem.
Why do people keep harping on circumstantial evidence? It's a perfectly valid type of evidence, and most murder convictions rely on it. Seriously, how often do you expect people to see someone getting murdered?
Even if the client's testimony can only hurt the defense, the lawyer must allow the client to testify if the client so insists.
Don't lawyers generally have to comply with their client's wishes? Even without constitutional rights being involved, I don't think a lawyer can just go off and present a defense that the defendant doesn't approve of.
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It looks remarkably similar and I'm quite hopeful that this will be a credible conversion now.
Well, if there's one thing we learned from 300 it's that Snyder can make a movie scene look identical to a comic book panel, but is that quite enough to make it a good movie? (again, see 300 for the counterexample)
Slavish transcription never seems to work well as a strategy to translate something to a different medium (and especially when you are starting out with something as limiting as comics).
(admit it, you'd be tempted to go LOL I MOD ZONK DOWN EVERY TIME), but it could be useful later on
Only if people continue to mod Zonk down every time.
a $1500 mac is not enough to do the gaming that a $400 card equipped pc does. thats why.
Right, so the only measure of value is how much "gaming" your hardware will be enough for.
Therefore, typical Slashdot.
(Never mind the original point that you are paying a couple hundred dollar more for the video card just to turn some inconsequential settings from 10 to 11)
What features are there for dual monitors that aren't built into Windows?
How about monitor-specific task bars? At least the way I use them, multiple monitors lose half of their usefulness if you can't logically group your running apps by monitor (and therefore find them quickly when you need them). I rarely span a single application across both monitors, they are more of an organizational thing, and the lack of this feature is a real show-stopper in Windows.
UltraMon does this (not perfectly), but it's a fairly crappy program, overall.
The visuals were nice but the story was cheesy and had far too much "support the troops" patriotism in it (is there any reason Iraq had to be in the movie at all?)
I agree that it wasn't perfect, but it was definitely way, way above average for Summer Shlock. It had that rarest of qualities: internal consistency - characters actually behaving in a reasonable manner that drove the story forward (as opposed to the usual progression of explody set-pieces). Combine that with a smattering of charisma that actually makes you care the slightest bit about some of the people on screen, and I can forgive a lot of preposterousness (like McGivering up a walking, flying, rocket-launching and flame-throwing Mecha-thing, in a cave, out of rocket parts). It's cheesy, but it makes sense, which I like a lot more than the other way around.
I think it gets brought up so often because it actually is a well-made movie about explosions, and we are so used to being told that that's just not possible, or even desirable (usually regarding the sort of crap that Michael Bay and his ilk slap together from time to time).
It also didn't try to cram any sort of simplistic, cloying "message" down our throats, which I always appreciate (some people say it did, but then they seem to have diametrically opposed impressions of what that "message" was, which I think is evidence to the contrary).
For one, I don't even own a external HD, I back up my key files, but really that only leaves me with ~1 GB of space used up on a 2 Gig flash drive.
Many people have tens of gigs of pictures (which are usually irreplaceable) and music (which is less so) on their primary computer, for them an $80 external drive isn't such a ridiculous investment. And after a few years at a job (or in school) it's easy enough to rack up 5-10GB of documents (especially if you have an easy way to archive changes, which can be extremely useful).
Having set up Time Machine on my sister's laptop recently, I can agree that Apple got this one right - it's not much more than a daily cron of 'rsync -av' with a slick restore GUI, and it's exactly what's needed. I'm not an Apple fanboy (or even a user), but some things they just get right.
That is one of the sanest postings I've come across on slashdot. So why is it marked as a troll?
The mind-numbing combination of preachiness and hypocrisy?
and then right an algorithm to go through and figure out which ones are rubbish and which ones are actually recognizable pictures
Sounds like you'll need a Demon of the Second Kind - those are notoriously hard to construct.
Not sure why people are in such a tizzy over this.
Really? You can't see the difference between basing a play on a well-known story and lifting other people's artwork for your game?
Your examples don't even have anything to do with plagiarism: there may be plenty of accusations against Shakespeare in that regard (Marlowe's name is usually attached), but I doubt he'd ever claimed to have invented Pericles or Julius Caesar, for example.
Like he was friends, and his wife was seeing, a guy that murdered several people.
Do you feel that repeating that enough times will make it true? Or were you just not paying any attention to the whole thing?
the lazafaire practices
You can't be serious.
presumably if you are downloading the browser then you are doing so with the intention of making it your default browser
Or maybe you want to, you know, try it?
They suggested I answer twenty more to remove the penalty. IN 60 SECONDS!!!
You get 60 seconds for every 10 questions, genius, they just want you to do it a couple of times.
It's still a trivia quiz, though.
Windows 95 is one of the very few times that Microsoft got things indisputably right.
You keep using that word... etc, etc...
Incidentally, the trailer for "Clone Wars" looks like a video game ad for a bad video game, one with a low poly and keyframe budget.
Wait, that trailer wasn't for a video game?
Dang, that's just pathetic.
Seems to me that they should be free to require any identification that they like in order to gain a posting account. If you do not like the policy, then don't post.
Who says they aren't free to do such a thing? We are discussing whether or not we like this policy.
Don't worry, no one's freedom is being impinged.
We have enough birds.
Plus, if they can't figure out that flying into the spinning blady thing is a bad idea, the species is better off without those individuals.
On a related sidenode: I'm very happy with SGI's xfs right now.
I seem to be plugging XFS in every fs thread recently, so I'll second that - I'm really surprised it's not more popular.
ext3 may have, more or less, caught up to XFS in IO speed recently, but file operations on large filesystems are still a disaster - just try deleting a 2TB tree with a couple million files in ext3, I dare you.
ext4fs is designed to be used in systems requiring many terabytes of storage and vast directory trees
Well yeah, but Slashdot seems like a pretty good place to find people who administer multi-TB systems, no?
A terabyte isn't what it used to be (hell, 1TB SATA disks are pretty common) and ext3 sucks pretty hard even on a measly TB.
Does the sub-TB desktop crowd even care about filesystems? I mean, they all pretty much work and these days the popular ones have pretty similar performance (on a single spindle, at least).
Coda, NFS, Andrew, GFS, HPFS, FAT-12, cramfs, ISO-9660, ext2, OCFS, Minix fs, UDF, Acorn disk FS, Amiga FFS, BeFS, and GoogleFS
Um, you realize that the majority of those are either network file systems or specific to some small niche, and are not comparable to a general purpose fs like reiserfs?
XFS is one of the best server filesystems available, and is probably more popular than JFS.
and the benefit of his filesystem over the competition was always marginal
Are you kidding? Five years ago ext3 had absolutely abysmal performance and XFS was still fairly new to Linux - reiserfs was the filesystem for many server applications.
The guy may be a murderer, but there's no question he could write a good filesystem.
all circumstantial evidence
Why do people keep harping on circumstantial evidence? It's a perfectly valid type of evidence, and most murder convictions rely on it. Seriously, how often do you expect people to see someone getting murdered?
there is no acceptable error rate for putting innocent people in jail. one is too many.
That's an admirable, uncompromising position. How do you propose we achieve that in real life?
Even if the client's testimony can only hurt the defense, the lawyer must allow the client to testify if the client so insists.
Don't lawyers generally have to comply with their client's wishes? Even without constitutional rights being involved, I don't think a lawyer can just go off and present a defense that the defendant doesn't approve of.