I saw both movies the same weekend. It was a couple weeks after AotC came out. The theater was pretty empty. The next day, me and a friend went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding... we were shocked at the turn out. The place was damned full. It was by far a superior movie.
Star Wars has totally lost me. The first three movies in their original release form is about all I'll watch now. Episode I wasn't very good, and Episode II is more of the same. Putting it on IMAX isn't going to fix the underlying problems with the movie.
I think someone needs to inform Mr. Lucas that all the special effects in the world can make a bad plot/story any better. Crap in a pretty box is still crap.
You seemed to have missed the part where MacOS was licensed (MacOS 7) to other clone makers. The SuperMac, the StarMax, etc computers? This is where Apple almost got burried. They can't make enough money off selling just the OS to other hardware manufacturers.
Why do you think the first thing Mr. Jobs did when he showed up on the scene again was to terminate the clone contracts?
I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly infringing on them. If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git.
Linus
I tend to agree that you probably shouldn't go looking for trouble. But "just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git." ? I had no idea Linus was so violent.
Just becuase you memorize definitions (ie: what is friendship? what is polymorphism? what is inheritance?)... doesn't mean you know what they are, how to use them, and WHEN to use them.
I would definetly hire someone who is capable of learning, interested in what you're doing, and a hard worker. All of the "programmers" at my company fit this description. Then again, none of them are CS majors. All of them are Electrical Engineers... Which is probably where their problem solving background was forged.
Hmm... I wonder if they'll sell them pre-configured with Linux. That would be great to have them selling Linux to normal consumers again.
Besides, aren't they looking to sell PCs with Windows, but still meet the requirement that their PCs have an OS? Forget that free DOS their including...put Red Hat on it. Then they'll have something worth talking about.
I have CDs that have been in my car for over 2 years...and they work just fine.... In fact... I have CDs that are 15 years old that play just wonderfully... I dunno what the hell you're doing to yours.
Have you considered crushing your nuts with your bear hands, cutting them off with a pair of garden shears, and then beating your skull in with a sledge hammer?
I guess the usefulness of the information depends on it's category. My Calculus books, useful. Physics texts, useful. Diff EQ, useful. And although I rarely look at them, my Algorithms texts, general C/C++ programming texts, discrete mathematics texts, etc... are still valid.
Now if your talking about cutting edge fields...things do change. Admittedly networking has changed. But any book on Networking is going to change. The technology changes of course. Network programming is a little less volitile. Most books, including Stevens' Unix Network Programming (back in his 1980's 1 volume edition), are still applicable and occaisonaly useful.
Don't get the idea that i read the text daily... but on quite a few occaisions they've come in handy. Other books I have, but don't use very much include: Control Theory, Signal Theory, Communications, Semiconductors, etc... It's all still applicable... and probably won't change anytime remotely soon...considering most of it's theory.
I guess I should clarify "take it with me." ie: It's not dependant on my continued enrollment in a particular University, and it's not going to change on me. The page will have the same writting 20 years from now that it did the day I bought it. It doesn't update, but the history doesn't go away.
I know the library at my school has over books that are over a thousand years old (rare). It commonly has hundred year old books.
But how many electronic documents do you think are still surviving from 10 years ago?
You're not paying for the paper... you're paying for what's printed on the paper. And I guarantee the college isn't getting it for free, so guess who they'll pass the cost on to?
Personally I'd rather just have books... maybe i'm old fashioned, but it means i can take it with me. I've been working for quite a number of years, and my college text still come in handy as a references... That and I don't have to worry about battery life either...
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True, and everytime you try to grab your mail with Outlook, Messenger tries to send something out as well...which I have NIS always blocking... I should install Ethereal and find out what it's sending out...
It's probably because of DSL. Most of them give away the ethernet bridge (DSL Modem) for free when you sign up. Cable charges you monthly, which i never understood. True, just about every DSL provider has their own modem... but if they can give them away, why does cable charge monthly?
Ahem... and how many of them are online?
What you fail to remember is that most of the country is rural village. Most of these people are happy to have food and water and couldn't care less about having internet access.
Yahoo and eBay aren't going to pay to access the market. Basically all this will do is make the internet less attractive to Indian citizens. They're cutting off access to services that cost them nothing, but add value to what the ISPs sell... seems like shooting yourself in the foot to me.
That's just disrespectful. First of all it's disrespectful to the dead person. Secondly it's disrespectful to the person coming to view their loved one's grave. They're going to remember someone and have a quiet moment to themselves, not shop for a video game.
I for one will just not buy this game... I don't like companies that are this disprespectful and irreverant. Yeah, you need to promote your game and what not, but there are limits of decency...
If you don't want the new features, don't buy them. Stay with MacOS X 10.1.5...
The "paying for features I don't want" excuse is getting old. If what you have is working well for you, then you have no need to upgrade. I for one still have several Red Hat 6.2 boxes running here because Red Hat 7.2 has features I don't need. It's a free upgrade if I want it, but I don't.
Mac OS X is a great OS. Apple put a lot into those new features you don't want. $129 isn't bad for what you're getting. Hell, look at Windows. It doesn't include half the functionalty and it costs $200-$300 depending on your persuasion (Home/Pro).
I agree with you, the newer ICQ clients aren't so hot. Get ICQ 2000a. It's the last client before they started sticking add banners all over the chat windows.
Then all you need to do is take a few minutes and turn off all the extra crap that's on by default. Then you have a lean, mean chat client.
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Not kaki pants and a sport jacket, but an actual suit!
Oh my! Heaven forbid!!!
I saw both movies the same weekend. It was a couple weeks after AotC came out. The theater was pretty empty. The next day, me and a friend went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding... we were shocked at the turn out. The place was damned full. It was by far a superior movie.
Star Wars has totally lost me. The first three movies in their original release form is about all I'll watch now. Episode I wasn't very good, and Episode II is more of the same. Putting it on IMAX isn't going to fix the underlying problems with the movie.
I think someone needs to inform Mr. Lucas that all the special effects in the world can make a bad plot/story any better. Crap in a pretty box is still crap.
You seemed to have missed the part where MacOS was licensed (MacOS 7) to other clone makers. The SuperMac, the StarMax, etc computers? This is where Apple almost got burried. They can't make enough money off selling just the OS to other hardware manufacturers.
Why do you think the first thing Mr. Jobs did when he showed up on the scene again was to terminate the clone contracts?
Actually, we can, and I will.
I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible
waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If
you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly
infringing on them. If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you
just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git.
Linus
I tend to agree that you probably shouldn't go looking for trouble. But "just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git." ? I had no idea Linus was so violent.
that the person who submitted this article (linuxwrangler) is really none other than.... Dr. EVIL!!! ;-)
Just becuase you memorize definitions (ie: what is friendship? what is polymorphism? what is inheritance?)... doesn't mean you know what they are, how to use them, and WHEN to use them.
I would definetly hire someone who is capable of learning, interested in what you're doing, and a hard worker. All of the "programmers" at my company fit this description. Then again, none of them are CS majors. All of them are Electrical Engineers... Which is probably where their problem solving background was forged.
doh!... That should read "without Windows", not "with Windows."
Hmm... I wonder if they'll sell them pre-configured with Linux. That would be great to have them selling Linux to normal consumers again.
Besides, aren't they looking to sell PCs with Windows, but still meet the requirement that their PCs have an OS? Forget that free DOS their including...put Red Hat on it. Then they'll have something worth talking about.
I have CDs that have been in my car for over 2 years...and they work just fine.... In fact... I have CDs that are 15 years old that play just wonderfully... I dunno what the hell you're doing to yours.
Hmm
Have you considered crushing your nuts with your bear hands, cutting them off with a pair of garden shears, and then beating your skull in with a sledge hammer?
No?
Well, I have!
I guess the usefulness of the information depends on it's category. My Calculus books, useful. Physics texts, useful. Diff EQ, useful. And although I rarely look at them, my Algorithms texts, general C/C++ programming texts, discrete mathematics texts, etc... are still valid.
Now if your talking about cutting edge fields...things do change. Admittedly networking has changed. But any book on Networking is going to change. The technology changes of course. Network programming is a little less volitile. Most books, including Stevens' Unix Network Programming (back in his 1980's 1 volume edition), are still applicable and occaisonaly useful.
Don't get the idea that i read the text daily... but on quite a few occaisions they've come in handy. Other books I have, but don't use very much include: Control Theory, Signal Theory, Communications, Semiconductors, etc... It's all still applicable... and probably won't change anytime remotely soon...considering most of it's theory.
I guess I should clarify "take it with me." ie: It's not dependant on my continued enrollment in a particular University, and it's not going to change on me. The page will have the same writting 20 years from now that it did the day I bought it. It doesn't update, but the history doesn't go away.
I know the library at my school has over books that are over a thousand years old (rare). It commonly has hundred year old books.
But how many electronic documents do you think are still surviving from 10 years ago?
You're not paying for the paper... you're paying for what's printed on the paper. And I guarantee the college isn't getting it for free, so guess who they'll pass the cost on to?
Personally I'd rather just have books... maybe i'm old fashioned, but it means i can take it with me. I've been working for quite a number of years, and my college text still come in handy as a references... That and I don't have to worry about battery life either...
True, and everytime you try to grab your mail with Outlook, Messenger tries to send something out as well...which I have NIS always blocking... I should install Ethereal and find out what it's sending out...
Actually these companies buy OC198s... I doubt major providers even mess with T1, T3, OC3, etc. anymore.
Uhmm... Ever priced out how much it costs to bury a T1. Try getting one run to your home.
It's probably because of DSL. Most of them give away the ethernet bridge (DSL Modem) for free when you sign up. Cable charges you monthly, which i never understood. True, just about every DSL provider has their own modem... but if they can give them away, why does cable charge monthly?
Ahem... and how many of them are online?
What you fail to remember is that most of the country is rural village. Most of these people are happy to have food and water and couldn't care less about having internet access.
Yahoo and eBay aren't going to pay to access the market. Basically all this will do is make the internet less attractive to Indian citizens. They're cutting off access to services that cost them nothing, but add value to what the ISPs sell... seems like shooting yourself in the foot to me.
That's just disrespectful. First of all it's disrespectful to the dead person. Secondly it's disrespectful to the person coming to view their loved one's grave. They're going to remember someone and have a quiet moment to themselves, not shop for a video game.
I for one will just not buy this game... I don't like companies that are this disprespectful and irreverant. Yeah, you need to promote your game and what not, but there are limits of decency...
98 -> 98SE = $99
98SE -> ME = $69
ME -> XP home = $99
all told that comes to about $270...
Sure, you could just upgrade from 98 -> XP Home, but that's not really a fair comparison. That's more akin to MacOS 8 -> MacOS X...
That and there is also upgrade pricing yet to be announced. The $129 install will install on a bare hard drive. Try that with WinXP...
If you don't want the new features, don't buy them. Stay with MacOS X 10.1.5 ...
The "paying for features I don't want" excuse is getting old. If what you have is working well for you, then you have no need to upgrade. I for one still have several Red Hat 6.2 boxes running here because Red Hat 7.2 has features I don't need. It's a free upgrade if I want it, but I don't.
Mac OS X is a great OS. Apple put a lot into those new features you don't want. $129 isn't bad for what you're getting. Hell, look at Windows. It doesn't include half the functionalty and it costs $200-$300 depending on your persuasion (Home/Pro).
get back satan!!
Please don't even think of turning OpenSource into a ad banner.
May you burn in hell for even suggesting it!
Not true. You have a license for XP, not Win 2000. You'd have to get Microsoft to "downgrade" you, to do it legally.
There's only one word for that.
sick.
I agree with you, the newer ICQ clients aren't so hot. Get ICQ 2000a. It's the last client before they started sticking add banners all over the chat windows.
Then all you need to do is take a few minutes and turn off all the extra crap that's on by default. Then you have a lean, mean chat client.