It feels like they've tried to draw out 2 films into 3.
True, and yet, at the same time it feels like they've tried to squeeze too much in, in some respects.... I've just finished my finals and I didn't want to have to juggle all that in my head.:-/
The first movie addressed some interesting issues, had a good plot, and mixed them with visuals that give eye-candy a good name. I can forgive fundamental plot flaws because it was just such a damn original movie... but it wasn't half as 'deep' as your average 15-year-old would like to believe.
I think my problem with this one may have been my determination to see it 'cold', i.e. avoiding almost everything that may have given anything away beyond the basic plot... bit confusing in parts, but that seemed to be as much because the film was much less coherent than its predecessor, as to the complex plot.
And what was the first half about? It felt like a totally different movie to the first- an expensive spinoff centering around Zion more than the Matrix itself. Too slow and pseudo-biblical, and the 'rave' scene was definitely out of place and inappropriate.
Grr... grumble, mutter.... I could go on about this.
Actually, it wasn't that bad a movie; in fact, I'd say it was still pretty damn enjoyable, given that I was prepared to be disappointed (more so, having seen two two-star ratings given). But it's definitely got a much less "tight" feel to the original.
Hate that thermal-pad s**t... doesn't give you much space for error if you mess things up attaching the heatsink, like I did.
Call me a sceptic, but isn't this very convenient for them if you mess up the pad and have to reattach the heatsink with something else?
BTW, for what it's worth, I did that to my Pentium 4; not only does it work fine with the cheapo grease I bought after panic-rushing into town, but more significantly, it runs even with a noticable *kink* at one side (and yeah, I was responsible when I almost squashed it with the heatsink in the first place).
1. Please don't call it the PS/2, that's a device interface
Since we're nitpicking here... the PS/2 is the computer series where the PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports first appeared, not the port itself. Click here for goatse^h^h^h^h^h^hPS/2 stuff if you don't believe me.
Every Friday, Microsoft will treat you to the Friday fest - free food and free unlimited beer. Yes you heard that right - every friday... They will take you out to trips, pay for your tickets for ball games, sponsor white water rafting trips and what not. I don't think after this experience there was a single one of us who hated MS anymore (and trust me, most of us were extremely anti-MS to begin with).
Apologies for C&Ping the bulk of that, but.... I'm not clear what you're trying to say here?- That you thought beforehand that MS were cheapskates and you liked them after all because they weren't?
Or that you didn't want to work for them because of ethics/principles/something, but they bought you off with lots of free goodies?
It's not too clear. Fair enough, I can understand an MS-hater going for an internship for curiosity/experience's sake, but what does the last bit tell us beyond the fact you like goodies?
If you want to help anyone, help the old folk who have been working their asses off to make a more comfortable world for you and me
Although your advice would have been not to bother (unless you mean your parents specifically), right?
not the whiny little shits who cry for more and haven't put a dime in.
Damn right. 6-month old babies are greedy scum. Put 'em to work!
Children are nothing more than immature adults, with all the potential to do very much good or very much harm...particularly when they grow up, which is a good reason against treating them like s**t now.
There are a dozen valid arguments against spam, and, "It will hurt the children," is not one of them.
Not in your world, anyway. Still, I'm wary whenever anyone starts using the protection of children in an argument- usually to justify some right-wing draconian moralist bulls**t that's ultimately little to do with children.
I am someone who used to be very politically correct.....then...(And before you ask, I'm 22, not 65.)
Let me guess... you just graduated, or are about to, and the reality of your "ideals" hit you- "damn! I didn't realise I'd have to pay for that!"
By the way, you come across as being far closer to 65 than 22.
The second-to-last thing you hear (or don't hear) is a very high audio frequency, lasting a few seconds... John Lennon said it was put there just to annoy your dog.
Coincidentally, I heard the White Album and figured about half of it was entirely audible sounds put there just to annoy humans (-1, Troll).
On CD, they play the loop a few times before ending the track
Is there any theoretical reason they couldn't do the loop 'for real' on a CD and have it actually work on a normal player?
You mean, like, Tron wasn't a realistic portrayal of life in the computer industry? I mean, I like based my decision to go to university on that movie.
Seriously, the characterisation in Tron is so flimsy and unconvincing, I can't believe he used this as an example. It's 20 years old as well...
Could it be that he was joking? Hmm...
AARGH! Repeat after me... Betamax != Betacam
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...all the media outlets (your local TV news, etc)...did (and continue to, to some extent) buy into Betamax technology. Why? It was broadcast quality and continued to be broadcast quality after being copied or played many, many times...
Home Betamax is not the same as the version typically used for broadcasting; search this discussion for "betacam" and stop repeating this drivel.
Whether it was better than VHS or not, I don't know. I doubt it was remotely as good as you claim.
I can't disagree more. The "did you mean" only automatically redirects when your original search came up with no results.
So what if you want to tweak your original (unsuccessful) query because you figured out a possible way to improve it?
Now the "did you mean"-ised query is in the search box, and you have to go back to change the original query.
Not in the X-cam "home security"/"b00b5" pop-up league of annoyance, but you see my point....
Google's lawyers would no doybt insist it is an adjective. Becomming a verb is a very bad thing for dillution claims
Perversely, neither is Yahoo- although from some of their advertising, it seems they'd like us to.
This is probably because using "yahoo" as a verb goes over the silliness threshold (Google isn't quite that bad)...
Is it? Assuming there's no [gG]od, and everything is relative, then your statement is not true, because "life" (the concept) is not concious.
In short, living things have a tendency to reproduce themselves because they're descended from ones that had a tendency to reproduce, and... so on.
Calling this a "purpose" is convenient, but IMHO not any more true than when we describe computer algorithms as if the machine running them were concious.
Re:Same game spam emailers are playing.
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if you can get even one half of one percent to buy something....the company is making money off of their "efforts". Those who don't like it and don't buy are considered to not have wanted to buy in the first place.
This works for spammers because they're not going to be around (in that guise) long enough for reputation to be a factor. For well-known companies with a reputation to defend, irritating the heck out of a customer who might otherwise have considered buying from them at a more opportune time is not good business practice.
The same is true of passing out flyers, sending spam emails, or going door-to-door. A numbers game.
Flyers- make them pay for cleaning up the subsequent litter, and if it's still cost effective, then... their money, their choice. I notice that most people seem to take them either to be polite or somehow because it's too much hassle to refuse. Most of the time I just react to people trying to hand me a flyer by saying "no thank you" and not taking it. No big deal.
Same when I buy something small in a shop and the assistant wants to put it in yet another small plastic bag when I already have several. It's less hassle for me to say I'll just put it in my pocket than sorting the bags from the goods and disposing of them later on. And it causes less pointless waste.
Yeah, spam... no-one's going to defend that, but at least door-to-door salesmen, political candidates, etc. have to get of their fat lazy asses(TM) and face the people they're annoying.
Having had a summer job testing these things, I can confirm that at least one manufacturer use both OS/2 and Win NT (not 2000 at that time IIRC) as the basis of their ATMs (at least they did last year...).
Makes sense, actually. If I was designing an ATM, I'd be ultra-conservative. I don't imagine those things do astoundingly sophisticated processing, but they certainly have to be damn secure. I'll bet most of OS/2's weaknesses are known and fixed by now. Not so sure about XP...
Thus should we say that those people that died from playing too much computer games have died of overdose?
From what I remember, there were allegations in at least one of these cases that the owners of the cafes were putting amphetamines (or whatever) in the water to keep people alert and playing.
DRM is new now, but we should be discussing what happens when it matures.
Depends on what you mean by matures; attitudes towards DRM don't seem particularly "mature" to me. Short of turning every western country into a draconian state with no freedom to do anything `unapproved' with a computer (including all those embedded ones) - a lot of hard work if you ask me - the music and film industries will *never* be able to change things back to how they were before.
'Mature' DRM would exploit new media, not attempt to suffocate it (current DRM technology just reflects these attitudes). But I think there are too many vested interests in the old way of doing things...
Until someone invents a key ring technology for digital rights, I'm buying nothing with copy protection.
I'm not doing that either. I'll just wait until someone cracks the protection and get a copy of that instead. More useful for me, but no money in that for Mr.Sony (*sob*! Just picture the faces of his ickle kiddies when there's no food on the table- remember, MP3 KILLS CHILDREN. JUST SAY NO.)
Sony can go to hell until they stop trying to charge me 10 times to listen to 1 CD where *they* want me to listen to it.
Israel defines: "'Jew' means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion."
In that case, it would require an unbroken chain of atheist descendants (i.e. not members of another religion) from a Jewish mother n generations up the line (where n is only limited by how old you believe the human race to be and practical breeding concerns).
Anyway, this is kind of missing the point. What the original poster said implied that most people in the world could be classified as `Jewish'; what you said implies that they can't.
OTOH, it all depends how that definition is parsed anyway. I think it might mean the same as the original poster said, but that's unlikely, and I have work to do.:-)
The credits listed The Doctor as "Dr. Who" until it's seventh season, when they listed it as "Doctor Who." The Doctor was never credited as "The Doctor," though it did flip-flip between "Dr. Who" and "Doctor Who" a few times.
Wrong. The one story I own on tape (The Caves of Androzani, with Peter Davison) lists the character as "The Doctor", and IIRC so do all the shows from the early '80s onwards(?)
I advise keeping your original pr0n even after that particular upgrade. It's generally the case that the RealLiveWomen product can be more satisfying, but that it doesn't always let you do what you went, when you want it, nor exactly the way you want to do it.
There are various editions of this product, but all of them are tempremental to some extent, and generally not quite as nice looking as HotCollegeGirls!!! (exclamation marks part of name).
Actually, this is a sh!t analogy, and I can't figure out which one is meant to be Linux and which is Windows. You continue it, I can't be arsed...:-P
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It feels like they've tried to draw out 2 films into 3.
:-/
True, and yet, at the same time it feels like they've tried to squeeze too much in, in some respects.... I've just finished my finals and I didn't want to have to juggle all that in my head.
The first movie addressed some interesting issues, had a good plot, and mixed them with visuals that give eye-candy a good name. I can forgive fundamental plot flaws because it was just such a damn original movie... but it wasn't half as 'deep' as your average 15-year-old would like to believe.
I think my problem with this one may have been my determination to see it 'cold', i.e. avoiding almost everything that may have given anything away beyond the basic plot... bit confusing in parts, but that seemed to be as much because the film was much less coherent than its predecessor, as to the complex plot.
And what was the first half about? It felt like a totally different movie to the first- an expensive spinoff centering around Zion more than the Matrix itself. Too slow and pseudo-biblical, and the 'rave' scene was definitely out of place and inappropriate.
Grr... grumble, mutter.... I could go on about this.
Actually, it wasn't that bad a movie; in fact, I'd say it was still pretty damn enjoyable, given that I was prepared to be disappointed (more so, having seen two two-star ratings given). But it's definitely got a much less "tight" feel to the original.
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"We spent so much time fscking, I never learned to spell her name right...."
Untrue. Getting to the moon is difficult to replicate. There's a reason why we haven't been back, it's because we likely can't anymore.
I always thought it was to do with it being too damn expensive after the initial novelty had worn off.
I wasn't around at the time, but I hear the public got pretty jaded pretty quickly; for a very expensive one-shot system, why bother?
That's my inner-politician speaking, by the way, not how I really feel. Or is it?... I'm not sure now.
Hate that thermal-pad s**t... doesn't give you much space for error if you mess things up attaching the heatsink, like I did.
Call me a sceptic, but isn't this very convenient for them if you mess up the pad and have to reattach the heatsink with something else?
BTW, for what it's worth, I did that to my Pentium 4; not only does it work fine with the cheapo grease I bought after panic-rushing into town, but more significantly, it runs even with a noticable *kink* at one side (and yeah, I was responsible when I almost squashed it with the heatsink in the first place).
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1. Please don't call it the PS/2, that's a device interface
Since we're nitpicking here... the PS/2 is the computer series where the PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports first appeared, not the port itself.
Click here for goatse^h^h^h^h^h^hPS/2 stuff if you don't believe me.
Every Friday, Microsoft will treat you to the Friday fest - free food and free unlimited beer. Yes you heard that right - every friday... They will take you out to trips, pay for your tickets for ball games, sponsor white water rafting trips and what not. I don't think after this experience there was a single one of us who hated MS anymore (and trust me, most of us were extremely anti-MS to begin with).
Apologies for C&Ping the bulk of that, but.... I'm not clear what you're trying to say here?- That you thought beforehand that MS were cheapskates and you liked them after all because they weren't?
Or that you didn't want to work for them because of ethics/principles/something, but they bought you off with lots of free goodies?
It's not too clear. Fair enough, I can understand an MS-hater going for an internship for curiosity/experience's sake, but what does the last bit tell us beyond the fact you like goodies?
If you want to help anyone, help the old folk who have been working their asses off to make a more comfortable world for you and me
...particularly when they grow up, which is a good reason against treating them like s**t now.
....then...(And before you ask, I'm 22, not 65.)
Although your advice would have been not to bother (unless you mean your parents specifically), right?
not the whiny little shits who cry for more and haven't put a dime in.
Damn right. 6-month old babies are greedy scum. Put 'em to work!
Children are nothing more than immature adults, with all the potential to do very much good or very much harm
There are a dozen valid arguments against spam, and, "It will hurt the children," is not one of them.
Not in your world, anyway. Still, I'm wary whenever anyone starts using the protection of children in an argument- usually to justify some right-wing draconian moralist bulls**t that's ultimately little to do with children.
I am someone who used to be very politically correct.
Let me guess... you just graduated, or are about to, and the reality of your "ideals" hit you- "damn! I didn't realise I'd have to pay for that!"
By the way, you come across as being far closer to 65 than 22.
The second-to-last thing you hear (or don't hear) is a very high audio frequency, lasting a few seconds... John Lennon said it was put there just to annoy your dog.
Coincidentally, I heard the White Album and figured about half of it was entirely audible sounds put there just to annoy humans (-1, Troll).
On CD, they play the loop a few times before ending the track
Is there any theoretical reason they couldn't do the loop 'for real' on a CD and have it actually work on a normal player?
Oh no!
You mean, like, Tron wasn't a realistic portrayal of life in the computer industry? I mean, I like based my decision to go to university on that movie.
Seriously, the characterisation in Tron is so flimsy and unconvincing, I can't believe he used this as an example. It's 20 years old as well...
Could it be that he was joking? Hmm...
...all the media outlets (your local TV news, etc)...did (and continue to, to some extent) buy into Betamax technology. Why? It was broadcast quality and continued to be broadcast quality after being copied or played many, many times...
Home Betamax is not the same as the version typically used for broadcasting; search this discussion for "betacam" and stop repeating this drivel.
Whether it was better than VHS or not, I don't know. I doubt it was remotely as good as you claim.
I can't disagree more. The "did you mean" only automatically redirects when your original search came up with no results.
So what if you want to tweak your original (unsuccessful) query because you figured out a possible way to improve it?
Now the "did you mean"-ised query is in the search box, and you have to go back to change the original query.
Not in the X-cam "home security"/"b00b5" pop-up league of annoyance, but you see my point....
Google's lawyers would no doybt insist it is an adjective. Becomming a verb is a very bad thing for dillution claims
Perversely, neither is Yahoo- although from some of their advertising, it seems they'd like us to.
This is probably because using "yahoo" as a verb goes over the silliness threshold (Google isn't quite that bad)...
The point of life is more life.
Is it? Assuming there's no [gG]od, and everything is relative, then your statement is not true, because "life" (the concept) is not concious.
In short, living things have a tendency to reproduce themselves because they're descended from ones that had a tendency to reproduce, and... so on.
Calling this a "purpose" is convenient, but IMHO not any more true than when we describe computer algorithms as if the machine running them were concious.
if you can get even one half of one percent to buy something....the company is making money off of their "efforts". Those who don't like it and don't buy are considered to not have wanted to buy in the first place.
This works for spammers because they're not going to be around (in that guise) long enough for reputation to be a factor. For well-known companies with a reputation to defend, irritating the heck out of a customer who might otherwise have considered buying from them at a more opportune time is not good business practice.
The same is true of passing out flyers, sending spam emails, or going door-to-door. A numbers game.
Flyers- make them pay for cleaning up the subsequent litter, and if it's still cost effective, then... their money, their choice. I notice that most people seem to take them either to be polite or somehow because it's too much hassle to refuse. Most of the time I just react to people trying to hand me a flyer by saying "no thank you" and not taking it. No big deal.
Same when I buy something small in a shop and the assistant wants to put it in yet another small plastic bag when I already have several. It's less hassle for me to say I'll just put it in my pocket than sorting the bags from the goods and disposing of them later on. And it causes less pointless waste.
Yeah, spam... no-one's going to defend that, but at least door-to-door salesmen, political candidates, etc. have to get of their fat lazy asses(TM) and face the people they're annoying.
Special Sauce is a proprietary trade secret, dude! There's no way you'll be able to recreate it!
The idea is that you have an old Mac you no longer want, and you retrieve the "special sauce" off it. Didn't you read the article?
Mmmmm.... 5-year old special sauce.
Having had a summer job testing these things, I can confirm that at least one manufacturer use both OS/2 and Win NT (not 2000 at that time IIRC) as the basis of their ATMs (at least they did last year...).
Makes sense, actually. If I was designing an ATM, I'd be ultra-conservative. I don't imagine those things do astoundingly sophisticated processing, but they certainly have to be damn secure. I'll bet most of OS/2's weaknesses are known and fixed by now. Not so sure about XP...
Thus should we say that those people that died from playing too much computer games have died of overdose?
From what I remember, there were allegations in at least one of these cases that the owners of the cafes were putting amphetamines (or whatever) in the water to keep people alert and playing.
DRM is new now, but we should be discussing what happens when it matures.
Depends on what you mean by matures; attitudes towards DRM don't seem particularly "mature" to me. Short of turning every western country into a draconian state with no freedom to do anything `unapproved' with a computer (including all those embedded ones) - a lot of hard work if you ask me - the music and film industries will *never* be able to change things back to how they were before.
'Mature' DRM would exploit new media, not attempt to suffocate it (current DRM technology just reflects these attitudes). But I think there are too many vested interests in the old way of doing things...
Until someone invents a key ring technology for digital rights, I'm buying nothing with copy protection.
I'm not doing that either. I'll just wait until someone cracks the protection and get a copy of that instead. More useful for me, but no money in that for Mr.Sony (*sob*! Just picture the faces of his ickle kiddies when there's no food on the table- remember, MP3 KILLS CHILDREN. JUST SAY NO.)
Sony can go to hell until they stop trying to charge me 10 times to listen to 1 CD where *they* want me to listen to it.
Israel defines: "'Jew' means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion."
:-)
In that case, it would require an unbroken chain of atheist descendants (i.e. not members of another religion) from a Jewish mother n generations up the line (where n is only limited by how old you believe the human race to be and practical breeding concerns).
Anyway, this is kind of missing the point. What the original poster said implied that most people in the world could be classified as `Jewish'; what you said implies that they can't.
OTOH, it all depends how that definition is parsed anyway. I think it might mean the same as the original poster said, but that's unlikely, and I have work to do.
His mother being Jewish makes him Jewish.
By that reasoning, doesn't that make a large proportion (if not the vast majority) of the people on this planet Jewish?
The point isn't to destroy Quicken, the point is to maximize profit. And giving away "Money for nothing" (heh) doesn't maximize profit.
Does this mean they won't be giving away Chicks For Free either, then?
The credits listed The Doctor as "Dr. Who" until it's seventh season, when they listed it as "Doctor Who." The Doctor was never credited as "The Doctor," though it did flip-flip between "Dr. Who" and "Doctor Who" a few times.
Wrong. The one story I own on tape (The Caves of Androzani, with Peter Davison) lists the character as "The Doctor", and IIRC so do all the shows from the early '80s onwards(?)
I should not care about this, but I do...
I advise keeping your original pr0n even after that particular upgrade. It's generally the case that the RealLiveWomen product can be more satisfying, but that it doesn't always let you do what you went, when you want it, nor exactly the way you want to do it.
:-P
There are various editions of this product, but all of them are tempremental to some extent, and generally not quite as nice looking as HotCollegeGirls!!! (exclamation marks part of name).
Actually, this is a sh!t analogy, and I can't figure out which one is meant to be Linux and which is Windows. You continue it, I can't be arsed...
According to the news, that game's been cancelled for an unspecified length of time.