You can't make a fully animated movie and expect everyone to ignore the animation. I did pay attention to the dialog/story, and I thought that was bad, too.
What caught my eye was the comment that the animation looked like a beta version of A Toy Story, and unless he was viewing a test-copy of the rendering for the movie, that statement is simply untrue and an obvious clue to the intent of the poster.
I watched both of those movies on DVD. The quality of the video was not the issue. Shrek featured very basic textures (many times none at all), very unnatural movement in things like fabric and plantlife, and the mouths were nowhere close to the words. It looked to me like a sketch that was to be filled in later with more detail. Okay, it was more than a sketch, but it needed more life added to it, especially textures. The donkey's hair did not move, everyone's skin looked like plastic, and they were all very stiff when walking.
I assure you my original post was not a troll. I am a big fan of CG-animated movies. I loved Ice Age, which had even more simplistic animation than Shrek, because it at least had it's own style and artistic quality, in the same way that South Park is not gorgeous but it has a unique style. Shrek looked like it was trying to be Toy Story, but it failed.
I know this isn't a very popular opinion, but 'Shrek' is the worst movie I've ever seen. I was so utterly disappointed by both the animation, the characters, and the story, the very things that seemed to rave about. The animation looked like a beta version of 'Toy Story', which by the way came out six years prior. The story was one gimmick after another. I despised all the characters, especially the donkey. I did not feel anything positive towards Shrek (the character) because of his attitude; I wasn't rooting for him at all.
Overall I have never been so disappointed by a movie. There was so much potential, but they really let me down. I've seen a lot of bad movies, but they end up being funny because of how bad they are, or they at least have an original story. 'Shrek' just made me feel sorry for the folks who made it.
The parent isn't being funny, it's true, to some degree. I think turning services off is a bit advanced for normal users -- the OS should know which services to have on or off and employ whatever security is needed to prevent abuse. While users should have some knowledge of how the system works, they shouldn't have to spend several minutes a day configuring Windows. The OS should get out of the way and let them work or play.
Legal battles are still pending in federal court over whether investors who backed the original Napster sustained the service and helped it cost the music industry a purported $17 billion in lost sales.
It did? Says who, the same people who say my CD burner is really the same as 52 burners?
Wikipedia seems like a truly priceless knowledgebase. It would be a good idea if a non-electronic backup could be made and stored away in the event of a catastrophic world crisis. I realize it is over 700,000 articles, but it would be such a shame for something like a nuclear war to wipe out all of this knowledge. Perhaps a paper edition is printed every X years (to keep up with changing articles) and properly stored?
Yes. Most people have never heard of Mozilla but they have used Netscape. It's good that Netscape keeps making releases because it keeps the amount of gecko-based browsers up, which impacts how web designers develop their sites. Most people also don't care about corporate politics or whether a product is free or Free.
Even MyWay and the My Yahoo! pages have done this. The articles are from a variety of sources (mostly AP, Reuters, and a few big newspapers). But you can choose what headlines you want to see, how many of each, which sports scores to show, tv listings, your weather, local movie listings, etc. I prefer MyWay because they don't have banners or popups and it's much more customizable.
Doctor: Mayor West, you have Lymphoma.
Mayor: Oh My.
Doctor: Probably from rolling around in that Toxic waste. What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor: I was trying to gain super powers.
Doctor: Well that's just silly.
Mayor: Silly yes... Idiotic... yes.!
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All of it (email, web, IM) has been "the intarweb" to most non-techie folks for some time.
You can't make a fully animated movie and expect everyone to ignore the animation. I did pay attention to the dialog/story, and I thought that was bad, too.
I assure you my original post was not a troll. I am a big fan of CG-animated movies. I loved Ice Age, which had even more simplistic animation than Shrek, because it at least had it's own style and artistic quality, in the same way that South Park is not gorgeous but it has a unique style. Shrek looked like it was trying to be Toy Story, but it failed.
Your opinion of me being a troll is stupid. Fair's fair, no?
I didn't laugh, nor did I enjoy it, therefore I found it to be a bad movie. What's so difficult about that?
Overall I have never been so disappointed by a movie. There was so much potential, but they really let me down. I've seen a lot of bad movies, but they end up being funny because of how bad they are, or they at least have an original story. 'Shrek' just made me feel sorry for the folks who made it.
...and what will become of us when they start hiring Indian monkeys!?
But it can wait.
The parent isn't being funny, it's true, to some degree. I think turning services off is a bit advanced for normal users -- the OS should know which services to have on or off and employ whatever security is needed to prevent abuse. While users should have some knowledge of how the system works, they shouldn't have to spend several minutes a day configuring Windows. The OS should get out of the way and let them work or play.
Nope, it's $250,000.
If you use 127.0.0.1 it'll ping your own PC... That's not good because I actually run a web server. With 0.0.0.0 it pings nothing so there's no delay.
If you use 127.0.0.1 it'll ping your own PC... That's not good because I actually run a web server. With 0.0.0.0 it pings nothing so there's no delay.
I run Windows, you insensitive clod!
I've had the following in my HOSTS file for a while now
0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.com
0.0.0.0 ads.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad2.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad3.doubleclick.net
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0.0.0.0 ad.ch.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.ca.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.de.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.fr.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.jp.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.nl.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.no.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ad.uk.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 ln.doubleclick.net
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0.0.0.0 m2.doubleclick.net
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0.0.0.0 ebay.doubleclick.net
Lameness filter randomness: eed d ed wdwe de ff g v fdovk fok fb f osvi jfvioj asv d vp vv jspavj spav dsv aspdvj ede oijf o greg ewrg
Wikipedia seems like a truly priceless knowledgebase. It would be a good idea if a non-electronic backup could be made and stored away in the event of a catastrophic world crisis. I realize it is over 700,000 articles, but it would be such a shame for something like a nuclear war to wipe out all of this knowledge. Perhaps a paper edition is printed every X years (to keep up with changing articles) and properly stored?
It used to be called shareware.
Yes. Most people have never heard of Mozilla but they have used Netscape. It's good that Netscape keeps making releases because it keeps the amount of gecko-based browsers up, which impacts how web designers develop their sites. Most people also don't care about corporate politics or whether a product is free or Free.
It's Windows 98/ME that doesn't work
...someone develops a phone that looks and feels like a regular household portable phone, but uses Skype via your home wifi network?
Even MyWay and the My Yahoo! pages have done this. The articles are from a variety of sources (mostly AP, Reuters, and a few big newspapers). But you can choose what headlines you want to see, how many of each, which sports scores to show, tv listings, your weather, local movie listings, etc. I prefer MyWay because they don't have banners or popups and it's much more customizable.
Snoop Dogg's cars have had this ability for years.
Doctor: Mayor West, you have Lymphoma. ... Idiotic ... yes.!
Mayor: Oh My.
Doctor: Probably from rolling around in that Toxic waste. What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor: I was trying to gain super powers.
Doctor: Well that's just silly.
Mayor: Silly yes
AP story
Sports Illustrated/CNN