I've always wanted Vengeance Unlimited to come out on DVD, but it may never happen:( If you look at the "Memorable Quotes" page, you might get a vague idea of why I like the show so much:)
The Big Hit was good, but I think my all-time favourite "underrated" movie was:
The Boondock Saints
It rocks:)
As for underrated TV shows, my all-time favourite is Vengeance Unlimited, with Firefly being a close second. I heard a rumor that Firefly is coming out on DVD! woo!
I felt that the media representations in the film were quite satirical. I mean, just compare it to the stuff that's on TV right now. It's funny. Laugh.
Yeah... until then, I'll just use Windows. Or BeOS, depending on the geriatricness of the machine.
Because of my bad experiences with the GUI interface, I've always viewed Linux/UNIX as a sort of non-graphical server-oriented operating system. On the plus side, they DO work marvelously at that task.
All I want is for all applications to unite and allow me to change the look of every single "standard" dialog to a different appearance visually with only a single click. Apparently, between GTK, tcl/tk, and KDE apps and all that... it's not possible. At least, it wasn't the last time I used Linux (Debian Woody with XFree 4.2 and Fluxbox).
In Windows, all the buttons look the same. And that's the way I like it. And no, I do *not* want XWindows buttons to look like Windows buttons, I just want them to look the same across all XWindows applications. Due to the design of X11, and the fragmented nature of the community, this has not been possible in the past.
Is it possible now, for a qt app and a GTK app and a KDE app to all look "identical", button-wise (or widget-wise, I suppose)?
(Given that I haven't used XWindows for a few months, I'm genuinely curious if maybe this hurdle - as I see it - has been overcome.)
It's not that I don't know what I'm talking about, it's that I'm blindly flaming away simply because back when I actually used Redhat I had to manually configure modelines. I'm still bitter about that.:)
I don't actually use X-Windows any more, so I can't really write out a concise explanation of what I don't like. I've seen screenshots of KDE3, though, and it actaully looks pretty darn decent.
Apparently it is not the job of Window Managers, because no matter what I've done in the past I've always ended up with butt-fugly dialogs, which are wholly independant of the Window Manager. Sure, sometimes they are controlled by the desktop environment (as is the case in Gnome) - but even then, it's rare to be able to change one setting and have it affect the entire system. If I want Gnome's Marble3D look, I want it on *all* the applications, not half of them.
And aside from Marble3D, I've never encountered a "look" in XWindows/Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment/Fluxbox/Etc that I could tolerate.
The only things I've encountered that I ever liked about X... were Fluxbox and Mozilla. And they provide the exact dichotomy that I am complaining about (although Mozilla has an excuse for it with XUL or whatever it is).
The design of X11, and its current implementation, allows for too many different dialog styles and interfaces - it's not standardized, and I've encountered situations where no two applications have the same visual style, in regard to dialogs and such. It makes me want to cry.
So, yes, currently I'm a crybaby Windows XP user with a headless, X-less FreeBSD server.
It is not designed for desktop usage, it is designed to bring multiple machines together over a network - in my opinion, while being a useful feature for network administrators and process-sharing, it is a fundamental flaw for the home user.
The inherent "fugliness" I mentioned had more to do with X11's practice of farming out the widget display to sub-libraries, so you end up with four or five different ways that certain applications display themselves. This leads to a great deal of disunity in dialogs and applications, and it simply doesn't appeal to me. I'm sure other people are OK with it.
Of course, I prefer FreeBSD... but that might just be me.
Last time I tried Mandrake was many years ago, and it was actually pretty decent, though I didn't use it for much. Hopefully with this new release... they've overcome the fugliness that the X11 protocol seems to force upon UNIX.
The day before Canada has to walk in and dig your smouldering asses out of a very large hole... Iraq is just an easy target. The US Government is being a bully:)
(One could argue that Panama and Cuba are also easy targets... but they're far too friendly with certain larger countries for the US to get away with an attack. And besides, they don't have as much oil as Iraq. And their leaders didn't try to kill Bush's daddy.)
Well, he DID say it was "the most affordable still". Does that count?
I do agree with the whining part:) But challenge-based email has been around for a while, so he does have a valid point... that is, I don't think Slashdot really covered other offerings of challenge-based email. I think there might even be some free ones.
Actually, many anti-smoking ads are by heavy smokers, although usually they are whining about how they lost a lung or some other vital organ due to smoking.
Yeah, what a bunch of whiners.
Anyway, to get back on track... I think a Microsoft seminar on security is equivalent to a "shock and awe" campaign. Awe at how a corporation with THAT many testers can miss so many bugs. Makes me wonder how many they caught beforehand?
Exactly:) That's one of the main problems with statistics - if you aren't careful in the way you state your results, you can say or imply something completely different from what the numbers reveal.
In other news, 79.5% of statistics are made up. And Slashdot is comprised of 72% Windows users.
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Yeah, tvshowsondvd.com posted the rumor/news earlier this week.
:( If you look at the "Memorable Quotes" page, you might get a vague idea of why I like the show so much :)
I've always wanted Vengeance Unlimited to come out on DVD, but it may never happen
The Big Hit was good, but I think my all-time favourite "underrated" movie was:
:)
The Boondock Saints
It rocks
As for underrated TV shows, my all-time favourite is Vengeance Unlimited, with Firefly being a close second. I heard a rumor that Firefly is coming out on DVD! woo!
I felt that the media representations in the film were quite satirical. I mean, just compare it to the stuff that's on TV right now. It's funny. Laugh.
I think I might prefer The Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Yeah ... until then, I'll just use Windows. Or BeOS, depending on the geriatricness of the machine.
Because of my bad experiences with the GUI interface, I've always viewed Linux/UNIX as a sort of non-graphical server-oriented operating system. On the plus side, they DO work marvelously at that task.
All I want is for all applications to unite and allow me to change the look of every single "standard" dialog to a different appearance visually with only a single click. Apparently, between GTK, tcl/tk, and KDE apps and all that ... it's not possible. At least, it wasn't the last time I used Linux (Debian Woody with XFree 4.2 and Fluxbox).
In Windows, all the buttons look the same. And that's the way I like it. And no, I do *not* want XWindows buttons to look like Windows buttons, I just want them to look the same across all XWindows applications. Due to the design of X11, and the fragmented nature of the community, this has not been possible in the past.
Is it possible now, for a qt app and a GTK app and a KDE app to all look "identical", button-wise (or widget-wise, I suppose)?
(Given that I haven't used XWindows for a few months, I'm genuinely curious if maybe this hurdle - as I see it - has been overcome.)
It's not that I don't know what I'm talking about, it's that I'm blindly flaming away simply because back when I actually used Redhat I had to manually configure modelines. I'm still bitter about that. :)
I don't actually use X-Windows any more, so I can't really write out a concise explanation of what I don't like. I've seen screenshots of KDE3, though, and it actaully looks pretty darn decent.
Apparently it is not the job of Window Managers, because no matter what I've done in the past I've always ended up with butt-fugly dialogs, which are wholly independant of the Window Manager. Sure, sometimes they are controlled by the desktop environment (as is the case in Gnome) - but even then, it's rare to be able to change one setting and have it affect the entire system. If I want Gnome's Marble3D look, I want it on *all* the applications, not half of them.
And aside from Marble3D, I've never encountered a "look" in XWindows/Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment/Fluxbox/Etc that I could tolerate.
The only things I've encountered that I ever liked about X ... were Fluxbox and Mozilla. And they provide the exact dichotomy that I am complaining about (although Mozilla has an excuse for it with XUL or whatever it is).
The design of X11, and its current implementation, allows for too many different dialog styles and interfaces - it's not standardized, and I've encountered situations where no two applications have the same visual style, in regard to dialogs and such. It makes me want to cry.
So, yes, currently I'm a crybaby Windows XP user with a headless, X-less FreeBSD server.
It is not designed for desktop usage, it is designed to bring multiple machines together over a network - in my opinion, while being a useful feature for network administrators and process-sharing, it is a fundamental flaw for the home user.
The inherent "fugliness" I mentioned had more to do with X11's practice of farming out the widget display to sub-libraries, so you end up with four or five different ways that certain applications display themselves. This leads to a great deal of disunity in dialogs and applications, and it simply doesn't appeal to me. I'm sure other people are OK with it.
Of course, I prefer FreeBSD ... but that might just be me.
... they've overcome the fugliness that the X11 protocol seems to force upon UNIX.
Last time I tried Mandrake was many years ago, and it was actually pretty decent, though I didn't use it for much. Hopefully with this new release
The day before Canada has to walk in and dig your smouldering asses out of a very large hole ... Iraq is just an easy target. The US Government is being a bully :)
... but they're far too friendly with certain larger countries for the US to get away with an attack. And besides, they don't have as much oil as Iraq. And their leaders didn't try to kill Bush's daddy.)
(One could argue that Panama and Cuba are also easy targets
So that's what all this is about? Saddam got modded "-5, Flamebait" on Slashdot?
I bet you use Telnet, don't you?
Well, he DID say it was "the most affordable still". Does that count?
:) But challenge-based email has been around for a while, so he does have a valid point ... that is, I don't think Slashdot really covered other offerings of challenge-based email. I think there might even be some free ones.
I do agree with the whining part
Damn those freaking zionists.
He never said humans weren't equal. He said that jews weren't humans. I guess no one ever told him about the black kettle ...
Microsoft doesn't ever work ...
actually, do I even need to finish that?
Yeah, what a bunch of whiners.
Anyway, to get back on track
My ears! ARGH! My Beautiful Ears!
... whatever ... I wish they just distributed it in raw audio, zipped :)
I download at 192. Still depends on the source, but
Or, you know, I could just go buy the CD. That could work.
He doesn't speak English. He speaks Merikin. :)
:)
Ah well. I guess it's a bit better than whatever the hell Canadian Prime Minister Jean Cretien speaks.
(I AM CANADIAN! So I have the requisite CretienSpeak interpretation skills.)
I thought fidelity was for audiophiles?
President George W. Bush will be teaching a course in diplomacy ...
Exactly :) That's one of the main problems with statistics - if you aren't careful in the way you state your results, you can say or imply something completely different from what the numbers reveal.
In other news, 79.5% of statistics are made up. And Slashdot is comprised of 72% Windows users.
MMMmmmm ... a truly yummy operating system ...