How else is Larry Wachowski gonna pay for that sex change operation?
It's a game of chinese whispers; the true (original) story is that a bunch of crazed Matrix fanboys saw the third film and are after the Wachowskis, "in order to cut off their meat-and-two-veg".
The second one had some really bad points to it (the raver party, the speech before the raver party, the unlimited Mr. Smith's that couldn't beat Neo).
Yeah; it had some very major flaws. But it still worked as a sort of Alice in Wonderland (okay; bad book, crap analogy) adventure inside the Matrix.
The third film was just *boring*. If you hated Morpheus' speech in the second, how could you not hate the endless bad dialogue spouted by the new-characters-that-no-one-in-their-right-mind-giv es-a-fuck-about in the third one?
Third rate war movie. Lousy new characters. Old characters gone missing (and when they *were* there, not always that good; Neo worked as an icon in the first film- he really didn't have a strongly defined character beyond acting confused- but the weaknesses showed in the second film where he should have developed and we should be seeing his motivations. Those weaknesses- due in large part to Reeves' mediocre acting- were another major reason to not give a damn about the third film). Endless, boring CGI action scenes.
I could right a decent critique of the third Matrix film if I could be arsed, but it comes down to this- bad dialogue, bad characters, stupid plot, dull setting. Boring film.
Hmm. Take it you mean they confuse it with Austria (don't see how they could get Australia mixed up with Europe otherwise).
If this is the case, then paint them the picture of Adolf Hitler with one of those cork hats and a "tinny" of Castlemaine XXXX (or whatever it is you lot actually drink- i.e. *not* Fosters!). This is about as stupid as their mistake and might get the difference into their heads.
Then all smiles, "I can get an associate to help you buy another laptop."
Fuck them about, make them think you want to buy the laptop, make them bring it out (if you have to wait, go off and do some other shopping), then write "BITE ME" in plain bold letters (*) on anything you need to sign and don't let them have your credit card or money.
(*) Can't be misconstrued as a real signature (hence obviously not fraud or your sig)
You'll find out some of those cameras aren't taped (fun).
The customer doesn't know that. Therefore, they are more likely to be telling the truth if it's their word against the store's. Put another way, the customer is less likely to lie if there is a good chance that the camera *was* working and recorded the truth of the situation.
You're right about not letting them bribe you. Personally, I'd rather have the satisfaction of bad publicity all over the papers (and possibly the web, if you play your cards right). They'd probably try to fob you off again after all that anyway, so why bother?
I always find "No thanks, under EU law it's covered by the manufacturer for five years anyway" is a great way to shut them up.
Yeah, but is it actually true? And if so, where did you find it out?
At any rate, I've never seen any store in the UK try to sell anything like a PS2 with a pathetic 90-day warranty; AFAIK, even without the EU, you could probably take them to court under existing UK law, on the basis that it was reasonable to expect that it would last longer than 90 days.
If they can get away with "90 days" in the US, then... no offence guys, but what a joke. No wonder you can buy $30 DVD players if they're really that bad.
Any why would anyone even remotely serious name a company after the term 'Sonny Boy'?
Have you ever seen some of the 'English' the Japanese can come up with when naming/describing products? I don't want to sound too disrespectful, and most of it is for domestic consumption (**), but some of it is damn strange.
I mean (in the UK at least) there was a car called the Nissan Sunny that was sold for years. No western company would ever call a car something like that. It didn't seem to affect sales much, but they eventually replaced it with the "Almera", a disgustingly vacuous name (*) that smacks of marketing men, inoffensiveness and the desire to sell in as many languages as possible. Anyway, point is that, cultural differences still permeate the marketing blandness even today, and back then I can see that the explanation I came across *would* be plausible.
Interestingly, the snopes.com website I quoted from gave several examples of urban myths or stories mutating into "facts" quoted in supposedly reputable sources. The other thing I'm thinking of now is from the course I did in artificial intelligence, where one could hear something from three sources, and think it reliable, little realising that those three sources all got the information from the same, single basic source. Not so reliable now....
Anyway, I'm waffling; the above might or might not be relevant to what you quoted. It might also apply to what I quoted.
(*) Almera != Almeria (the region of Spain).
(**) By which I mean, if you went to a shop in (say) the UK or the US and bought a shower curtain with Chinese or Japanese characters on it, you don't get too worried if it's gramatically correct- or even if it makes sense.
Lemme guess... you were going to post an insightful critique of my post, but before you got that far your keyboard filled up with drool and stopped working.
I suppose they'll include a convenient utility that will search for all your mp3s and convert them for you, and prevent you from using anyone else's player.
My guess; as soon as the software is installed, it automatically searches, converts your MP3s to ATRAC format and "helpfully" overwrites/deletes the originals since "you won't be needing those anymore".
Proof by contradiction: Almost every VCR sold from the mid-80s onwards.
Granted, most recent VCRs I've seen (esp. those with VideoPlus- did that appear in the US?) have avoided some of the worst excesses of the late 80s/early 90s, but they could still have been easier to use.
My cheap-ass Akai which *didn't* have onscreen programming was easier to use than the more expensive model that my parents had (which did- unlike my one, you had to have the TV on to program the thing). The archaic ITT they got from a neighbour was just *so* easy to program (press timer 1-8, set start time, stop time, channel)... so much for progress. If ease of use had been so much more important than features, this wouldn't have happened.
Most people would be better off with PCs that just did a few simple things well and were *more* restrictive in the right ways (heh.... am I sounding like a fascist here?), but you just know they'll rush off and buy a machine with the fastest processor, latest gadgets, not enough memory, blah blah... then load it down with spyware.
would it make a rats ass difference if Cflat will hurt it or not?
Hmm. If you were a real geek, you'd have called it "D flat"; *same* note as the proper name (music theory and context be damned; it's the same key on the *piano*)
I thought marketing was suppose to create clarity in the minds of the potential customer.
Aaawww... they're so cute when they're all innocent and naive like that. (^_^)
Marketing is the reason I can buy two different brands of low-cal Pepsi (Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max(*)); any differences are relatively minor, but Pepsi Max allows men to buy the stuff without being seen drinking a "girl on a diet" drink.
Marketing is meant to sell stuff. Whether Sun will actually do this with their fscked-up numbering is beyond me. Personally, the whole "Java 2" business confused me to hell; this is worse.
I read a pretty good interview w/ Eckel and that guy who has done most of the work on C#.
The "guy who has done most of the work on C#" is the guy who has done most of the work on Java.
The whole thing seems to be "let's copy Java as much as we can get away with and do some bits slightly differently". And, yeah, I'll admit, from what I've seen, there *are* some improvements on Java; however, since the ground had already been broken and they didn't have compatibility to worry about, I'd expect that.
The radio industry doesn't particularly care about the recording industry... they just want to play the kind of music people want to hear when they're on-the-go or looking for new artists they haven't heard of yet.
No; the radio industry (particularly the American radio industry) cares about making money. In the UK, this results in most commercial stations sounding pretty much the same, and from what I've heard, the US is 100 times worse. You sound woefully idealistic.
You do realize that one can take on the criminal element by organizing neighborhood watches, calling to report suspicious activity, contacting government representatives and asking for more police patrols, etc., don't you?
You're right; as soon as I'd posted it, I realised that having Vin peering out from behind his net curtains and reporting dodgy characters to the police would make a far more exciting movie.
If your neighborhood is filled with thugs, muggers, murderers, and thieves, don't whine to Dominoes when they won't deliver a pizza there. Clean up the neighborhood and then you can have your pizza.
You know, that's a great idea for a movie. Vin Diesel as some hard man who loses it one night when he orders a pizza from Dominoes and they refuse because he lives in a bad neighborhood.
Watch Vin as he takes on the might of drug barons, crackheads and assorted criminal scum, risking life and limb for his pizza!
Spoiler: At the end, Vin's sidekick points out that Pizza Hut would have been quite happy to deliver to the neighborhood instead. Much hilarity ensues, then Vin shoots him dead, because Dominoes forked out a large amount of money for product placement in the movie.
So Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria would be part of the 2nd world, to the extent these terms retain any of their original meaning.
It has been pointed out that many of the so-called "second-world" countries (i.e. those controlled directly or indirectly by the Soviet Union) are either progressing and becoming first-world countries, or falling behind and becoming third-world countries.
Czech Republic and Poland would probably be good examples of the former; can't think of any good exampes of the latter.
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How else is Larry Wachowski gonna pay for that sex change operation?
It's a game of chinese whispers; the true (original) story is that a bunch of crazed Matrix fanboys saw the third film and are after the Wachowskis, "in order to cut off their meat-and-two-veg".
The second one had some really bad points to it (the raver party, the speech before the raver party, the unlimited Mr. Smith's that couldn't beat Neo).
v es-a-fuck-about in the third one?
Yeah; it had some very major flaws. But it still worked as a sort of Alice in Wonderland (okay; bad book, crap analogy) adventure inside the Matrix.
The third film was just *boring*. If you hated Morpheus' speech in the second, how could you not hate the endless bad dialogue spouted by the new-characters-that-no-one-in-their-right-mind-gi
Third rate war movie. Lousy new characters. Old characters gone missing (and when they *were* there, not always that good; Neo worked as an icon in the first film- he really didn't have a strongly defined character beyond acting confused- but the weaknesses showed in the second film where he should have developed and we should be seeing his motivations. Those weaknesses- due in large part to Reeves' mediocre acting- were another major reason to not give a damn about the third film). Endless, boring CGI action scenes.
I could right a decent critique of the third Matrix film if I could be arsed, but it comes down to this- bad dialogue, bad characters, stupid plot, dull setting. Boring film.
At least Reloaded had some life to it.
The store knows there is no tape.
You don't. See grandparent.
The "disappearing tape" case would also sound very suspicious in court.
Here's a tip - Australia isn't part of Europe.
Hmm. Take it you mean they confuse it with Austria (don't see how they could get Australia mixed up with Europe otherwise).
If this is the case, then paint them the picture of Adolf Hitler with one of those cork hats and a "tinny" of Castlemaine XXXX (or whatever it is you lot actually drink- i.e. *not* Fosters!). This is about as stupid as their mistake and might get the difference into their heads.
Then all smiles, "I can get an associate to help you buy another laptop."
Fuck them about, make them think you want to buy the laptop, make them bring it out (if you have to wait, go off and do some other shopping), then write "BITE ME" in plain bold letters (*) on anything you need to sign and don't let them have your credit card or money.
(*) Can't be misconstrued as a real signature (hence obviously not fraud or your sig)
You'll find out some of those cameras aren't taped (fun).
The customer doesn't know that. Therefore, they are more likely to be telling the truth if it's their word against the store's. Put another way, the customer is less likely to lie if there is a good chance that the camera *was* working and recorded the truth of the situation.
You're right about not letting them bribe you. Personally, I'd rather have the satisfaction of bad publicity all over the papers (and possibly the web, if you play your cards right). They'd probably try to fob you off again after all that anyway, so why bother?
I always find "No thanks, under EU law it's covered by the manufacturer for five years anyway" is a great way to shut them up.
Yeah, but is it actually true? And if so, where did you find it out?
At any rate, I've never seen any store in the UK try to sell anything like a PS2 with a pathetic 90-day warranty; AFAIK, even without the EU, you could probably take them to court under existing UK law, on the basis that it was reasonable to expect that it would last longer than 90 days.
If they can get away with "90 days" in the US, then... no offence guys, but what a joke. No wonder you can buy $30 DVD players if they're really that bad.
Any why would anyone even remotely serious name a company after the term 'Sonny Boy'?
Have you ever seen some of the 'English' the Japanese can come up with when naming/describing products? I don't want to sound too disrespectful, and most of it is for domestic consumption (**), but some of it is damn strange.
I mean (in the UK at least) there was a car called the Nissan Sunny that was sold for years. No western company would ever call a car something like that. It didn't seem to affect sales much, but they eventually replaced it with the "Almera", a disgustingly vacuous name (*) that smacks of marketing men, inoffensiveness and the desire to sell in as many languages as possible. Anyway, point is that, cultural differences still permeate the marketing blandness even today, and back then I can see that the explanation I came across *would* be plausible.
Interestingly, the snopes.com website I quoted from gave several examples of urban myths or stories mutating into "facts" quoted in supposedly reputable sources. The other thing I'm thinking of now is from the course I did in artificial intelligence, where one could hear something from three sources, and think it reliable, little realising that those three sources all got the information from the same, single basic source. Not so reliable now....
Anyway, I'm waffling; the above might or might not be relevant to what you quoted. It might also apply to what I quoted.
(*) Almera != Almeria (the region of Spain).
(**) By which I mean, if you went to a shop in (say) the UK or the US and bought a shower curtain with Chinese or Japanese characters on it, you don't get too worried if it's gramatically correct- or even if it makes sense.
You are an idiot.
Lemme guess... you were going to post an insightful critique of my post, but before you got that far your keyboard filled up with drool and stopped working.
It's a style thing, and fasion has great turnover. The iPod will be forgotten at some point
Huh?... the original Walkman in all its forms was "fashionable" for something like 15 years!
I suppose they'll include a convenient utility that will search for all your mp3s and convert them for you, and prevent you from using anyone else's player.
My guess; as soon as the software is installed, it automatically searches, converts your MP3s to ATRAC format and "helpfully" overwrites/deletes the originals since "you won't be needing those anymore".
Features don't sell products, it's ease of use.
Proof by contradiction: Almost every VCR sold from the mid-80s onwards.
Granted, most recent VCRs I've seen (esp. those with VideoPlus- did that appear in the US?) have avoided some of the worst excesses of the late 80s/early 90s, but they could still have been easier to use.
My cheap-ass Akai which *didn't* have onscreen programming was easier to use than the more expensive model that my parents had (which did- unlike my one, you had to have the TV on to program the thing). The archaic ITT they got from a neighbour was just *so* easy to program (press timer 1-8, set start time, stop time, channel)... so much for progress. If ease of use had been so much more important than features, this wouldn't have happened.
Most people would be better off with PCs that just did a few simple things well and were *more* restrictive in the right ways (heh.... am I sounding like a fascist here?), but you just know they'll rush off and buy a machine with the fastest processor, latest gadgets, not enough memory, blah blah... then load it down with spyware.
Sony (whose name comes from a combination of the words - 'Sound Nippon')
That's not where I understood it was derived from:-
Here it says that it (basically) comes from the latin Sonus and 'Sonny boy'
$100 to replace the *melted* keyboard.
$thousands for violating Salvador Dali's copyright...
would it make a rats ass difference if Cflat will hurt it or not?
Hmm. If you were a real geek, you'd have called it "D flat"; *same* note as the proper name (music theory and context be damned; it's the same key on the *piano*)
I thought marketing was suppose to create clarity in the minds of the potential customer.
Aaawww... they're so cute when they're all innocent and naive like that. (^_^)
Marketing is the reason I can buy two different brands of low-cal Pepsi (Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max(*)); any differences are relatively minor, but Pepsi Max allows men to buy the stuff without being seen drinking a "girl on a diet" drink.
Marketing is meant to sell stuff. Whether Sun will actually do this with their fscked-up numbering is beyond me. Personally, the whole "Java 2" business confused me to hell; this is worse.
(*) Known as Pepsi One in the US, I believe.
I read a pretty good interview w/ Eckel and that guy who has done most of the work on C#.
The "guy who has done most of the work on C#" is the guy who has done most of the work on Java.
The whole thing seems to be "let's copy Java as much as we can get away with and do some bits slightly differently". And, yeah, I'll admit, from what I've seen, there *are* some improvements on Java; however, since the ground had already been broken and they didn't have compatibility to worry about, I'd expect that.
Did once a del *.* in an Windows 3.11 command promt in the c:\windows directory
That was a mistake?
The radio industry doesn't particularly care about the recording industry... they just want to play the kind of music people want to hear when they're on-the-go or looking for new artists they haven't heard of yet.
No; the radio industry (particularly the American radio industry) cares about making money. In the UK, this results in most commercial stations sounding pretty much the same, and from what I've heard, the US is 100 times worse. You sound woefully idealistic.
Some of the eastern states of the former Soviet Union?
Probably; but in all honesty, I don't know enough about many of these countries- let alone their current state- to post any specific names.
You do realize that one can take on the criminal element by organizing neighborhood watches, calling to report suspicious activity, contacting government representatives and asking for more police patrols, etc., don't you?
You're right; as soon as I'd posted it, I realised that having Vin peering out from behind his net curtains and reporting dodgy characters to the police would make a far more exciting movie.
If your neighborhood is filled with thugs, muggers, murderers, and thieves, don't whine to Dominoes when they won't deliver a pizza there. Clean up the neighborhood and then you can have your pizza.
You know, that's a great idea for a movie. Vin Diesel as some hard man who loses it one night when he orders a pizza from Dominoes and they refuse because he lives in a bad neighborhood.
Watch Vin as he takes on the might of drug barons, crackheads and assorted criminal scum, risking life and limb for his pizza!
Spoiler: At the end, Vin's sidekick points out that Pizza Hut would have been quite happy to deliver to the neighborhood instead. Much hilarity ensues, then Vin shoots him dead, because Dominoes forked out a large amount of money for product placement in the movie.
So Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria would be part of the 2nd world, to the extent these terms retain any of their original meaning.
It has been pointed out that many of the so-called "second-world" countries (i.e. those controlled directly or indirectly by the Soviet Union) are either progressing and becoming first-world countries, or falling behind and becoming third-world countries.
Czech Republic and Poland would probably be good examples of the former; can't think of any good exampes of the latter.
another friend of mine was saying that Russians didn't wear t-shirts with funny sayings,
Nonsense; the most popular T-shirt in Russia at the minute is the one saying
"In Capitalist America, *you* watch the TV".
Read the sentence after it in which he blames the language for insecure sites, rather than the developers.
The phrasing could be better, but if he/she meant to imply that PHP had shitty security, I reckon it would have been more explicit.