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Give it a radio, so I can listen to my traffic report or (wishful thinking) hockey game.. then let me record from that radio. Then give it a voice recorder:)
I'm seriously reconsidering adding it to my bittorrent queue, much less netflix. If more people re-watched Phantom & CLones they'd forget about this one. It's amazing how optimistic people are, just because of a decent trailer. I thought the Clones trailer was good, but damn... latex Yoda? HELLO, JARJAR anybody?????
Don't you think it's better to WAIT this time, and perhaps d/l a bit of the torrent before it comes out as a preview? Might prevent Phantom & CLones repeats.. save a few dollars and the 2 hours of your life that you'll be begging to have back if it's even a fraction as awful as the last two "Star Wars" episodes.. maybe you should rent Phantom Menace first, to be reminded.
Wait for the download edition, see if it's worth the theatre premium.
it's also intended for huge people: my friend is a head taller than most people, and in his hands the massive Compaq x6000 looks like a mini-subnotebook. It's not just for fat people.
Product lock-in can be done the same way Apple's managed it: proprietary GUI layer. Want to run UNIX stuff? It'll look like crap, and you have to jump through three flaming hoops to do it, install X.org, etc. Of course Apple's got the hardware lock-in too..
I just wish Microsoft would pull an Apple and stick a GUI on top of it. Sigh. Longhorn would come a lot sooner (mid-2010?) if they took this route. Plus it might not suck hairy donkey balls then.
The posted exploit code stopped working several minutes after posted on slashdot. The exploit code won't do anything at all. Reposting the story ad nauseum won't make it any more interesting or useful.
bonus points for NO jarjar at all. I would gladly have a plot discontinuous with the previous two disasters if jarjar were destroyed off-screen and without mention.
I'd settle for Mr. T kicking some jibba-jabba latex Binks ass with an air-powered cabbage launcher cobbled together from lipstick, three paperclips and a bathroom sponge. "Gotta get my gold, foo!"
I'm on the verge of not downloading it... after the Phantom Plot, and Attack of the Cloned Wooden Actors, there's no faint spark of hope that RotS won't suck donkey balls. Expect a total letdown. Jar Jar? Check. Hayden Cristensen? Check. Cartoon Yoda? Check. Yup, it's gonna suck. I pity tha fools.
check OSnews.com for the screens. apparently it's not user-friendly enough yet, and the fonts aren't spaced correctly. Expect eugenia's appraisal and some "how it should be done" mockups shortly.
I've found the nVidia nForce 3/4 to be better than Intel's latest; AMD's HTT makes a huge difference for memory-intensive computation:) With Intel having HT it's probably 6(1) or 1/2 dozen t'other, but I like my nForce.
The scientists themselves suggest that the liquid state is one of a number of states that quark/gluon soups can take, but that the early Universe was still most likely a gas.
Further proof, should you need it, that hindsight is *not* 20/20. I fscking hate that cliché; here is my public thanks for this story.
A social contract is simply the desire of a community to ensure mutual survival, and in most cases this means that everybody acts in an expected manner. It stands to reason that a certain amount of this ad-blocking behaviour is expected, and therefore within the social contract.
Likewise it is expected that if you repeatedly poke any person in the face with a stick s/he will seek to end the stick-poking behaviour.
If it did, would it matter? No. EULAs haven't been proven in court, and I suspect that the first good challenge will wash 'em all down the same sewer. Licensing agreements only apply to people who agree to their terms.
I have a blind friend who has no use for a built-in screen. However, he doesn't try to get a refund for the screen and then remove it from his laptop. These people getting refunds for Windows are idiots. If you don't want Windows, then don't buy a product which is advertised as COMING WITH WINDOWS. If you buy something which specifically comes with certain parts, then you have just paid for the whole bloody thing. Seriously, I wish these article writers would just fuck off and find something interesting to write about, instead of all this hand-wringing pussified bulshit about getting refunds for unwanted accessories.
I bought a motherboard. Can I send in the fiddly little SATA connectors just because I don't happen to want them right now? No? Same fucking deal. Get over it, people.
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Give it a radio, so I can listen to my traffic report or (wishful thinking) hockey game.. then let me record from that radio. Then give it a voice recorder
I'm seriously reconsidering adding it to my bittorrent queue, much less netflix. If more people re-watched Phantom & CLones they'd forget about this one. It's amazing how optimistic people are, just because of a decent trailer. I thought the Clones trailer was good, but damn... latex Yoda? HELLO, JARJAR anybody?????
Don't you think it's better to WAIT this time, and perhaps d/l a bit of the torrent before it comes out as a preview? Might prevent Phantom & CLones repeats.. save a few dollars and the 2 hours of your life that you'll be begging to have back if it's even a fraction as awful as the last two "Star Wars" episodes.. maybe you should rent Phantom Menace first, to be reminded.
Wait for the download edition, see if it's worth the theatre premium.
...there's nothing monopolistic about the iPod
:)
somebody should alert Real about this new development
it's also intended for huge people: my friend is a head taller than most people, and in his hands the massive Compaq x6000 looks like a mini-subnotebook.
It's not just for fat people.
I was imagining upskirt cam technology rapidly advancing up until i read your post..
Product lock-in can be done the same way Apple's managed it: proprietary GUI layer. Want to run UNIX stuff? It'll look like crap, and you have to jump through three flaming hoops to do it, install X.org, etc.
Of course Apple's got the hardware lock-in too..
I just wish Microsoft would pull an Apple and stick a GUI on top of it. Sigh. Longhorn would come a lot sooner (mid-2010?) if they took this route. Plus it might not suck hairy donkey balls then.
The posted exploit code stopped working several minutes after posted on slashdot. The exploit code won't do anything at all.
Reposting the story ad nauseum won't make it any more interesting or useful.
Doesn't work here either. No javascript errors, nothing.. clicking just highlights text. Tested on WinXP.
bonus points for NO jarjar at all. I would gladly have a plot discontinuous with the previous two disasters if jarjar were destroyed off-screen and without mention.
Hell, Apple used a LOT of folks in their ads... And they didn't look like models either (nor did their words sound like PR text).
Ellen Feiss was totally hot, stoned *and* covered in hot grits, as I recall.. made for a very memorable advert. w00t!
I'd settle for Mr. T kicking some jibba-jabba latex Binks ass with an air-powered cabbage launcher cobbled together from lipstick, three paperclips and a bathroom sponge.
"Gotta get my gold, foo!"
I'm on the verge of not downloading it... after the Phantom Plot, and Attack of the Cloned Wooden Actors, there's no faint spark of hope that RotS won't suck donkey balls.
Expect a total letdown.
Jar Jar? Check.
Hayden Cristensen? Check.
Cartoon Yoda? Check.
Yup, it's gonna suck. I pity tha fools.
only twelve years behind the competition. I for one am seriously impressed by our new graphically compiling overlords. woohoo.
check OSnews.com for the screens. apparently it's not user-friendly enough yet, and the fonts aren't spaced correctly. Expect eugenia's appraisal and some "how it should be done" mockups shortly.
And hey, if the above news about the asteroid comes to light, he'll have a 50% strike rate on invading for legitimate reasons!
:)
Give any Texan oil-man those odds and you're guaranteed financing for your war
I believe it's a physical process, like cutting with a laser.
I've found the nVidia nForce 3/4 to be better than Intel's latest; AMD's HTT makes a huge difference for memory-intensive computation :)
With Intel having HT it's probably 6(1) or 1/2 dozen t'other, but I like my nForce.
The scientists themselves suggest that the liquid state is one of a number of states that quark/gluon soups can take, but that the early Universe was still most likely a gas.
Further proof, should you need it, that hindsight is *not* 20/20. I fscking hate that cliché; here is my public thanks for this story.
The universe was created from a shot of vodka!
Sir Adams posits it was the mighty Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster(TM)
A social contract is simply the desire of a community to ensure mutual survival, and in most cases this means that everybody acts in an expected manner. It stands to reason that a certain amount of this ad-blocking behaviour is expected, and therefore within the social contract.
Likewise it is expected that if you repeatedly poke any person in the face with a stick s/he will seek to end the stick-poking behaviour.
If it did, would it matter? No. EULAs haven't been proven in court, and I suspect that the first good challenge will wash 'em all down the same sewer.
Licensing agreements only apply to people who agree to their terms.
I have a blind friend who has no use for a built-in screen. However, he doesn't try to get a refund for the screen and then remove it from his laptop.
These people getting refunds for Windows are idiots. If you don't want Windows, then don't buy a product which is advertised as COMING WITH WINDOWS. If you buy something which specifically comes with certain parts, then you have just paid for the whole bloody thing.
Seriously, I wish these article writers would just fuck off and find something interesting to write about, instead of all this hand-wringing pussified bulshit about getting refunds for unwanted accessories.
I bought a motherboard. Can I send in the fiddly little SATA connectors just because I don't happen to want them right now? No? Same fucking deal. Get over it, people.
/. now duping apologies. Glad the hate mail made it through. Encouraged to hear it encourages improvement. Love, HN