"I think it's a huge error to say he "doesn't have the balls" to write that the movie is crap."
He almost never writes it about any movie, and with the advent of the internet his opinion carries much less weight than it used to. In the old days, thumbs up/down could make or break a film. Now its just another in a sea of opinions, and does not carry nearly as much importance.
. Saying that he is afraid to write what *you* think he should or what someone else wrote is just stupid.
I didn't say he should think what think, I just think he has no spine for the most part at all. Perhaps its the fact that are tons of reviewers out there now who both write better, and have the courage of conviction, which your beloved Ebert doesn't anymore. I'm sorry I've somehow hurt your feelings, but calling me stupid for it is rather hypocritical and childish on your part.
i suppose I was more or less talking about the thumb's up or down which once meant something. As others have mentioned on here, he's written glowing reviews of some pretty crappy films, regardless of the star rating you're trying to hammer me on.
and as well, he doesn't have the balls to actually write "while better than the last 2, its still crap" like the author I previously linked to.
like others, i prefer to read the barometer at rottentomatoes.com and skim the summaries to avoid any spoilers.
of course, people are going to go see this thing anyway, and i will as well, just to see how its all wrapped up.
Absolutely. He has been slipping quite a bit lately. This review from Salon (required to watch an ad to read the whole thing) seems to put it like I think it might wind up being:
I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it.
But "Revenge of the Sith" is still crap
and by the way, Ebert has been giving more and more "crap" good thumbs up lately. That's one of the reasons the late Siskel is missed--he balanced Roger out, and when they both gave a thumb's up, it actually meant something.
Perhaps, but if I'm actually interested in seeing a movie these days, I won't read the reviews until after I've seen the movie. These days, reviews share something in common with my beef on trailers--giving away too much. Maybe not in the Star Wars case where we all have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen, but how many times have you seen trailers that give away the funniest line, or show the best action sequence, e.t.c.?
Reviews are doing the same thing these days, and some include major spoilers, although many contain minor ones. If I'm going to give a film a chance, I'd prefer not to know the wittiest line ahead of time, or the neatest view, or whatever.
What I will do is go to Rotten Tomatoes and scan both the freshness ratings and the synopsis. That way I get a general feel for what reviewers think without having to worry about spoilers.
You're right, Cyrix chips were terrible. I know this not as an expert in the field, but as an end (l)user who's first pc purchase was a cyrix-based computer. Thought I was getting a great deal.
Then one day a piece of software said "sorry, you must run at least xxxMHZ," and my Cyrix chip rating was quite a bit higher (I don't remember the exact numbers, it was something like 133 vs. 100, or 166 vs 200). This started to happen more and more.
That, and it eventually gave me other problems related to overheating (remember, I didn't build the box). I finally chunked it, learned to build my own thanks to arstechnica, and went to an AMD Athlon 600 which I've been running right up until last week. (hey, I use xbox for games)
while most seem to prefer photoshop, I can get something up and running for the web much more quickly with Fireworks than I can with any Adobe product.
There have been several attempts to translate british comedies to the american market and not with success.
Boy, I missed this while the discussion was happening, but just thought I would let you know that you're not 100% accurate here. In the 70's, Sanford and Son was a popular television comedy. It came directly from a British comedy called Steptoe and Son. It did rather well.
Another one was called All in the Family, based on a UK show called Till Death Do Us Part. Norman Lear, producer of both, seemed very adept at adopting British comedies to American audiences
further on in the multi-page interview, he states:
"Well, my success is creating great software... And I think my most important work was the early work -- conceiving of the idea of the PC and how important that would be, and the role software would play, having standards there."
Amazing, he really does believe he created not only the PC, but even the very idea of the PC.
no, unfortunately, it most certainly is [i]not[/i].
its steve jobs introducing the mac, with the chariots of fire theme playing while it makes pretty drawings and mac fanatics scream. and then highly disappointing, as i sure did want to see that commerical you speak of.
ut I don't see Congress being all that sympathetic at the moment
I don't have a link offhand, but I remember hearing on the radio the other day that Congress just increased the number of H-1B visas to be awarded in the current fiscal year from 65,000 to 85,000.
Congress is most definitely "sympathetic" to the whims of big business.
glad you got modded to 5, because this is the best post I've read on this whole story. you are 100% correct, there are always tradeoffs in life, and people justify their decisions every day whether conciously or not.
people who are employed, that is. the unemployed have both my empathy (having been there), and my sympathy (looking at current trends in this industry).
Slightly off-topic, as I am saddened more by PBS seeking to go with modern trends than PBS not being able to use the F-word.
Like many here, I spent my time with Sesame Street and Electric Company, and then of course Monty Python, Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, Dr. Who, and many more.
These days Nova is like "Science For Dummies", and PBS has its own versions of Reality Shows. Thank god for Red Green reruns combined with British Comedy reruns. The occaisional Nature show is still allright, but its getting more and more where I can't tell where the music video stops and the science is supposed to begin. Even that miniseries on String Theory started out good and then petered out.
Now we top it off with the need for "gritty" cop shows that use realistically foul language.
To me the decline of PBS is a much more sad affair then whether or not the FCC will let them curse.
Many if not most bosses will never willingly tolerate a daytime work at home situation of any time. If you're not under their eyes/thumb, in their gut they don't feel you're working.
Nailed it, right there. When I did consulting, we knew that the difference between writing code offsite and writing code onsite was that if the customer sees you doing it, he believes his money is well spent.
Now I work in a local govt. job (hard times) where I could easily do everything I do at home. And I mean, everything. But the PHB's don't believe I'm working if I'm not physically present. Oh, to only not have that hour commute each way....I'm thinking of trying to suggest a 3 day rotation from home, wish me luck.
I want an objective search engine, not one where companies can pay for placement
I agree with you, but that doesn't happen with google? It seems with all the google ads everywhere, that something, somewhere is being affected.
as well, more and more my google searches disappoint me in that my first 20 results (give or take) are almost always commercial sites. Yes, I know there's ways to "hack around" that, but that's not the point.
as well, i swear i've read stories about certain sites vying in random ways to have their site come up higher than the compeition's in google searches.
Yes, everyone in Texas is a backwoods idiot...nevermind Austin, Dallas, Houston, e.t.c...its all like you see on TV. And everyone in small southern Towns, especially Texas, are religious nuts.
I'm betting you've never been to Texas. As a lifelong Texan, however, I've never read of anyone, anywhere getting arrested for wearing a T-shirt.
This quote getting modded as insightful shows quite a bit about real cultural bias, methinks. And its "Texas" not "texas", and absolutely you should have been modded as flamebait.
Yeargh.
OK, here's some free tech support for you:
Yup, it forgets that you want to keep the preview pane up. The only solution I found to this on the web was to put some script [SNIP}
There's a VERY easy solution--Go to file>>database>>Properties. Then go to the "rocket ship" tab (sorry, but most people who have these troubles need pictures). Then choose "Restore as last viewed by user" under the "When opened in Notes client" option.
See, very simple. Should that have been automatically set? Perhaps.
some obscure scripting language.
Ahem. Lotusscript is EXACTLY the same syntactically as Visual Basic (prior to.Net). While it may not be favored here on slashdot, its not exactly obscure, unless you're not a programmer, but then every language would be obscure to you.
System reports that I have new mail, but selecting "open mail" doesn't reveal any messages
1. Make sure you're checking all your folders. One flaw is that Notes doesn't have an unread count next to the folder, prior to R6.
2. Make sure you're at least past 5.0.5, b/c this issue hasn't shown up for me since then.
The concept of a trash folder is missing;
Well, that's a personal aesthetics, issue, as well, if you have a programmer/developer worth his/her salt, its a very EASY scripting fix.
It sounds to me like your frustration stems from some misinformation, and a lack of a Notes Developer. The Notes mail template is very easily customized, so quite a few options seem to have been left in a manner you don't care for, but with customization could be fixed.
As for your looking forward to Exchange, well good luck to you, and hope it stays up for more than 24 hours. To borrow the bashing phrase being used all over this thread, I find Outlook to be crap.
oops, apologies, the I've never seen it came across as a denial. (hit submit to soon). I don't doubt your experience, but perhaps its been troubleshot already.
Try The R5 forums which are usually better then any online help.
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Is it being shown on both?
Not that I truly care, as I don't watch it. Its main problem being it looks not a damn bit like the original BSG, which while corny, I grew up with.
If there's not a cylon with a cylclops red eye, you can kiss my daggit.
He almost never writes it about any movie, and with the advent of the internet his opinion carries much less weight than it used to. In the old days, thumbs up/down could make or break a film. Now its just another in a sea of opinions, and does not carry nearly as much importance.
. Saying that he is afraid to write what *you* think he should or what someone else wrote is just stupid.
I didn't say he should think what think, I just think he has no spine for the most part at all. Perhaps its the fact that are tons of reviewers out there now who both write better, and have the courage of conviction, which your beloved Ebert doesn't anymore. I'm sorry I've somehow hurt your feelings, but calling me stupid for it is rather hypocritical and childish on your part.and as well, he doesn't have the balls to actually write "while better than the last 2, its still crap" like the author I previously linked to.
like others, i prefer to read the barometer at rottentomatoes.com and skim the summaries to avoid any spoilers.
of course, people are going to go see this thing anyway, and i will as well, just to see how its all wrapped up.
and by the way, Ebert has been giving more and more "crap" good thumbs up lately. That's one of the reasons the late Siskel is missed--he balanced Roger out, and when they both gave a thumb's up, it actually meant something.
Reviews are doing the same thing these days, and some include major spoilers, although many contain minor ones. If I'm going to give a film a chance, I'd prefer not to know the wittiest line ahead of time, or the neatest view, or whatever.
What I will do is go to Rotten Tomatoes and scan both the freshness ratings and the synopsis. That way I get a general feel for what reviewers think without having to worry about spoilers.
i swear, i'm not making this up.
Then one day a piece of software said "sorry, you must run at least xxxMHZ," and my Cyrix chip rating was quite a bit higher (I don't remember the exact numbers, it was something like 133 vs. 100, or 166 vs 200). This started to happen more and more.
That, and it eventually gave me other problems related to overheating (remember, I didn't build the box). I finally chunked it, learned to build my own thanks to arstechnica, and went to an AMD Athlon 600 which I've been running right up until last week. (hey, I use xbox for games)
Cyrix was indeed crap.
while most seem to prefer photoshop, I can get something up and running for the web much more quickly with Fireworks than I can with any Adobe product.
Boy, I missed this while the discussion was happening, but just thought I would let you know that you're not 100% accurate here. In the 70's, Sanford and Son was a popular television comedy. It came directly from a British comedy called Steptoe and Son. It did rather well.
Another one was called All in the Family, based on a UK show called Till Death Do Us Part. Norman Lear, producer of both, seemed very adept at adopting British comedies to American audiences
You have no chance to survive make your time. ....
Ha Ha Ha Ha
"Well, my success is creating great software... And I think my most important work was the early work -- conceiving of the idea of the PC and how important that would be, and the role software would play, having standards there."
Amazing, he really does believe he created not only the PC, but even the very idea of the PC.
All most ask is if you use their design, let 'em know.
Well, no, but that's a good guess, for sure (i do know who he was). Its actually a reference to a Louis Jordan song.
ah, well thank you very much...:)
no, unfortunately, it most certainly is [i]not[/i]. its steve jobs introducing the mac, with the chariots of fire theme playing while it makes pretty drawings and mac fanatics scream. and then highly disappointing, as i sure did want to see that commerical you speak of.
I don't have a link offhand, but I remember hearing on the radio the other day that Congress just increased the number of H-1B visas to be awarded in the current fiscal year from 65,000 to 85,000.
Congress is most definitely "sympathetic" to the whims of big business.
*sigh* I wish they could convict my mother-in-law of this.
people who are employed, that is. the unemployed have both my empathy (having been there), and my sympathy (looking at current trends in this industry).
Like many here, I spent my time with Sesame Street and Electric Company, and then of course Monty Python, Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, Dr. Who, and many more.
These days Nova is like "Science For Dummies", and PBS has its own versions of Reality Shows. Thank god for Red Green reruns combined with British Comedy reruns. The occaisional Nature show is still allright, but its getting more and more where I can't tell where the music video stops and the science is supposed to begin. Even that miniseries on String Theory started out good and then petered out.
Now we top it off with the need for "gritty" cop shows that use realistically foul language.
To me the decline of PBS is a much more sad affair then whether or not the FCC will let them curse.
Now I work in a local govt. job (hard times) where I could easily do everything I do at home. And I mean, everything. But the PHB's don't believe I'm working if I'm not physically present. Oh, to only not have that hour commute each way....I'm thinking of trying to suggest a 3 day rotation from home, wish me luck.
user: slashdot2001 pw: slashdot2001 works as well
I agree with you, but that doesn't happen with google? It seems with all the google ads everywhere, that something, somewhere is being affected.
as well, more and more my google searches disappoint me in that my first 20 results (give or take) are almost always commercial sites. Yes, I know there's ways to "hack around" that, but that's not the point.
as well, i swear i've read stories about certain sites vying in random ways to have their site come up higher than the compeition's in google searches.
its unfortunately, all commercial.
Yes, everyone in Texas is a backwoods idiot...nevermind Austin, Dallas, Houston, e.t.c...its all like you see on TV. And everyone in small southern Towns, especially Texas, are religious nuts.
I'm betting you've never been to Texas. As a lifelong Texan, however, I've never read of anyone, anywhere getting arrested for wearing a T-shirt. This quote getting modded as insightful shows quite a bit about real cultural bias, methinks. And its "Texas" not "texas", and absolutely you should have been modded as flamebait.
OK, here's some free tech support for you:
Yup, it forgets that you want to keep the preview pane up. The only solution I found to this on the web was to put some script [SNIP}
There's a VERY easy solution--Go to file>>database>>Properties. Then go to the "rocket ship" tab (sorry, but most people who have these troubles need pictures). Then choose "Restore as last viewed by user" under the "When opened in Notes client" option.
See, very simple. Should that have been automatically set? Perhaps.
some obscure scripting language.
Ahem. Lotusscript is EXACTLY the same syntactically as Visual Basic (prior to .Net). While it may not be favored here on slashdot, its not exactly obscure, unless you're not a programmer, but then every language would be obscure to you.
System reports that I have new mail, but selecting "open mail" doesn't reveal any messages
1. Make sure you're checking all your folders. One flaw is that Notes doesn't have an unread count next to the folder, prior to R6. 2. Make sure you're at least past 5.0.5, b/c this issue hasn't shown up for me since then.
The concept of a trash folder is missing;
Well, that's a personal aesthetics, issue, as well, if you have a programmer/developer worth his/her salt, its a very EASY scripting fix.
It sounds to me like your frustration stems from some misinformation, and a lack of a Notes Developer. The Notes mail template is very easily customized, so quite a few options seem to have been left in a manner you don't care for, but with customization could be fixed.
As for your looking forward to Exchange, well good luck to you, and hope it stays up for more than 24 hours. To borrow the bashing phrase being used all over this thread, I find Outlook to be crap.
Try The R5 forums which are usually better then any online help.