The thing that can't be repeated enough is that RealAudio is a supported format on Linux. Now, Linux users are forced to use jury-rigged solutions to listen to Car Talk. Very sad.
Why do you, at Real, think that by dipping your toe in the OSS water and/or supporting Linux, you somehow invalidate all the justified criticism against your organization?
Real sucks. I will dance on its grave the day it goes out of business. They have been torturing me with a proprietary format and annoying (and downright dangerous, in some cases) players for years now.
No Linux support will ever help you with me, or with countless others who are NOT stupid and will never use your products willingly.
Markets don't maximize freedom, they maximize productivity. If the market weren't driving people to DO, then everyone would sit on their ass and get a lot less accomplished. You'd have a situation reminiscent of the Soviet Union, where people had a hard time getting enough to eat, never mind other consumer goods.
Freedom is a joke, do you think being a wage slave is freedom? It's the only way to extract reasonable amounts of effort from an apathetic public.
LotR was a hippy dippy novel in the 1960's and early 1970's - all the Zeppelin songs that refer to it and the foreword to the Houghton Mifflin edition should be enough to communicate that. Pot smokers and college dreamers were the main target audience for many years. When RPG gaming started around 1975 or so, it got to the kids, and that's how I got to read it.
It wasn't taken seriously till the 90's. Trust me. I was alive - I read it for the first time in the 70s, and it wasn't taken seriously until much much later.
There are certain bits that deserved being rendered on film.
The darkness spreading over the lands
The lightning-stroke of Grond breaking the gates, seen both from the Witch-King's perspective and the perspective of the Rohirrim.
The whole 'you shall not pass, flame of Udun' confrontation with Gandalf
The horns of the Rohirrim done correctly
The breaking of the tree and stars banner on the flagship
Get the king of the dead off the fucking Pelennor
Where was Imrahil? He had a role to play here.
I could go on but the Pelennor got totally fucked up in this movie. It isn't about being a book purist, it's about wanting the damn meaning inherent in the book translated onto the screen. The story got raped and raped again. I could deal with the alterations to everything, including the alteration to the last stand by the Black Gate, but don't fuck up the Pelennor...
He had three fucking films, he could have ditched so much extraneous horseshit to deliver this, and he didn't.
Last point, i'm sick of people who fail to understand the book story whining at me because they are Jackson fanboys. There was meaning in the battle scene that was completely lost by his hollywoodizing of the script. He fucked it up, deal with it.
The visuals were beautiful. MT was awe-inspiring. He blew so many aspects of the story, though, and didn't retain enough of the actual meaning inherent in JRRT's work. Like a sundae with nothing under the whipped cream.
Disappointing is all I can say. Maybe in a few years when CGI is cheaper someone can do a miniseries and do it justice.
SCO's two pronged approach includes the court of public opinion in addition to the U.S. judicial system. It suits SCO and their Redmond Muppet-masters to disparage the Open Source community, which is why we see pejoratives like "Communist," "Hacker" and "Anti-American" emanating from them at every opportunity. It would suit them perfectly for each of those terms to become synonyms in the common vernacular.
Of course, this doesn't address the fact that many of you are Communists (ok, Socialists, but to the US mindset there is little difference), Hackers (whatever sense of the word you choose to use it in doesn't matter - to the layperson the difference is immaterial), or Anti-american (just look at the anti-Bush shit we see on/. daily...).
It's true, revel in it.
I'm none of the above and I think the SCO thing is bunk too. You need people like me at this juncture. Cultivate us, and perhaps shut the fuck up and let people who are more acceptable to the mainstream do the talking for a bit.
You obviously don't have experience with business on that scale, or have lawyers that are stupid enough to not put clauses into contracts on that scale to ensure that there is not collateral business damage due to negligence on the part of your ISP.
Allowing sites to be shut off from mail is negligence and should be responded to via lawsuit against the ISP, if the cost of moving is too onerous.
Find me the nation that always abided by its treaties, please, Mr. AC.
I guarantee, whatever country you come from has repudiated a treaty at one point or another, probably in recent years too. It's the right of sovereign nations. Treaties are not death pacts.
You sir, are an asshole. I bet that sounded real convincing in your sick world where anti-Americanism defines everything.
Telling people to switch ISPs because their current one is suspected of harboring spammers is like telling the people of Iraq (pre-invasion, obviously) to move away because their country was suspected of harboring terrorists. Easy to say, but far more difficult to put into practice. And the end result is that when the bombs start falling, innocent people get hurt.
I'm crying real tears for how hard it is to change ISPs. I really am. Boo hoo.
That's bullshit. Changing ISPs is not that difficult even if you have a colo box. Sure it costs, but if my ISP sucks bad enough to ignore multiple notices that one of its clients is spamming, what else are they going to do to screw up my host?
Thanks, that's a perfect indicator that I should move, and if I need my mail rehosted elsewhere I can do that rapidly - probably within 1 day, plus admin time to set up the mailboxes again.
If the military meets the 2008 suspense i'll eat my headgear. Literally nothing is IPv6 compliant and we've got 4 years to make it that way. Can you say 'not happening'? I knew you could. There's not enough budget behind this initiative to get it done in 4 years.
You can speculate on what the solution will be - gatewaying, just throwing up their hands and requesting a 4 year extension, whatever.
Sorry, we're going to be sore over here for a while until we get over being called imperialists for wanting to fix a problem that cost us 2500 or so of our fellow citizens in one day, on our own soil. Blasting the shit out of the Arabian peninsula and the near environs is about the only choice short of rolling over and dying that we had left, but that doesn't seem real obvious to the critics in Europe, now, does it?
I understand that Blair helped out and all, but we know the Brit public wasn't behind us, and the general xenophobia thus created is not going to be easy to shake. Don't expect much in the warm feelings department in the near term.
Stop back in a decade, maybe we'll be better then. Then again, people like me haven't forgotten about France and those F-111s bombing Tripoli and overflight rights...
Isn't democracy grand? I wonder how many more infringements upon freedom and privacy intelligence agencies can sneak past our apathetic, uninformed legislators.
They aren't apathetic and they aren't uninformed.
This was a payoff for some political debt, engineered behind closed doors.
If you believe they are apathetic and stupid - they have won.
the ChiComs cannot attack Taiwan as long as the US has a naval presence in the region. Doing a hostile amphibious assault without sea control is the height of foolishness. They won't even try if they can't get that sea control.
They can't, at least not in the short term.
All this hysteria is just that. It isn't going to happen.
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As if they had any credibility.
AI announces something, general public promptly ignores.
Like Microsoft is worried about this...
The thing that can't be repeated enough is that RealAudio is a supported format on Linux. Now, Linux users are forced to use jury-rigged solutions to listen to Car Talk. Very sad.
Why do you, at Real, think that by dipping your toe in the OSS water and/or supporting Linux, you somehow invalidate all the justified criticism against your organization?
Real sucks. I will dance on its grave the day it goes out of business. They have been torturing me with a proprietary format and annoying (and downright dangerous, in some cases) players for years now.
No Linux support will ever help you with me, or with countless others who are NOT stupid and will never use your products willingly.
Markets don't maximize freedom, they maximize productivity. If the market weren't driving people to DO, then everyone would sit on their ass and get a lot less accomplished. You'd have a situation reminiscent of the Soviet Union, where people had a hard time getting enough to eat, never mind other consumer goods.
Freedom is a joke, do you think being a wage slave is freedom? It's the only way to extract reasonable amounts of effort from an apathetic public.
LotR was a hippy dippy novel in the 1960's and early 1970's - all the Zeppelin songs that refer to it and the foreword to the Houghton Mifflin edition should be enough to communicate that. Pot smokers and college dreamers were the main target audience for many years. When RPG gaming started around 1975 or so, it got to the kids, and that's how I got to read it.
It wasn't taken seriously till the 90's. Trust me. I was alive - I read it for the first time in the 70s, and it wasn't taken seriously until much much later.
I went to high school 1983-87 and LotR was not to be found within either of the two high schools.
Revise your numbers - LotR was not considered serious literature till the 90s
I could go on but the Pelennor got totally fucked up in this movie. It isn't about being a book purist, it's about wanting the damn meaning inherent in the book translated onto the screen. The story got raped and raped again. I could deal with the alterations to everything, including the alteration to the last stand by the Black Gate, but don't fuck up the Pelennor...
He had three fucking films, he could have ditched so much extraneous horseshit to deliver this, and he didn't.
Last point, i'm sick of people who fail to understand the book story whining at me because they are Jackson fanboys. There was meaning in the battle scene that was completely lost by his hollywoodizing of the script. He fucked it up, deal with it.
I was really hoping they'd dump Fiorina, and I am hoping Eisner gets the boot.
:-)
I'll check back in a year to see if anything happened. That's how interested I am
You are right. This did happen.
Perfection?
The visuals were beautiful. MT was awe-inspiring. He blew so many aspects of the story, though, and didn't retain enough of the actual meaning inherent in JRRT's work. Like a sundae with nothing under the whipped cream.
Disappointing is all I can say. Maybe in a few years when CGI is cheaper someone can do a miniseries and do it justice.
SCO's two pronged approach includes the court of public opinion in addition to the U.S. judicial system. It suits SCO and their Redmond Muppet-masters to disparage the Open Source community, which is why we see pejoratives like "Communist," "Hacker" and "Anti-American" emanating from them at every opportunity. It would suit them perfectly for each of those terms to become synonyms in the common vernacular.
/. daily...).
Of course, this doesn't address the fact that many of you are Communists (ok, Socialists, but to the US mindset there is little difference), Hackers (whatever sense of the word you choose to use it in doesn't matter - to the layperson the difference is immaterial), or Anti-american (just look at the anti-Bush shit we see on
It's true, revel in it.
I'm none of the above and I think the SCO thing is bunk too. You need people like me at this juncture. Cultivate us, and perhaps shut the fuck up and let people who are more acceptable to the mainstream do the talking for a bit.
It's amazing that people nowadays can't determine intrinsically when it is time to be pragmatic and when it's time to stand on principle.
Hint: this is one of those principle times. This is, in essence, the government misusing funds to influence public opinion.
What happens if you have a well sealed mine that doesn't leak nitrates?
Thank goodness someone said it, sheesh.
Good job!
You obviously don't have experience with business on that scale, or have lawyers that are stupid enough to not put clauses into contracts on that scale to ensure that there is not collateral business damage due to negligence on the part of your ISP.
Allowing sites to be shut off from mail is negligence and should be responded to via lawsuit against the ISP, if the cost of moving is too onerous.
Find me the nation that always abided by its treaties, please, Mr. AC.
I guarantee, whatever country you come from has repudiated a treaty at one point or another, probably in recent years too. It's the right of sovereign nations. Treaties are not death pacts.
You sir, are an asshole. I bet that sounded real convincing in your sick world where anti-Americanism defines everything.
I sense your lunch money got stolen a lot.
Telling people to switch ISPs because their current one is suspected of harboring spammers is like telling the people of Iraq (pre-invasion, obviously) to move away because their country was suspected of harboring terrorists. Easy to say, but far more difficult to put into practice. And the end result is that when the bombs start falling, innocent people get hurt.
I'm crying real tears for how hard it is to change ISPs. I really am. Boo hoo.
That's bullshit. Changing ISPs is not that difficult even if you have a colo box. Sure it costs, but if my ISP sucks bad enough to ignore multiple notices that one of its clients is spamming, what else are they going to do to screw up my host?
Thanks, that's a perfect indicator that I should move, and if I need my mail rehosted elsewhere I can do that rapidly - probably within 1 day, plus admin time to set up the mailboxes again.
Whine to someone who doesn't know better.
Yeah but the assholes who modded the parent down don't really care about the problem. They're more concerned about their own convenience.
Hence, they are responsible ultimately for propagating the spam problem through their own inaction.
Or, they actually generate spam themselves...
I actually was thinking about this also :-)
Maybe a casket with space for horns at the top.
If the military meets the 2008 suspense i'll eat my headgear. Literally nothing is IPv6 compliant and we've got 4 years to make it that way. Can you say 'not happening'? I knew you could. There's not enough budget behind this initiative to get it done in 4 years.
You can speculate on what the solution will be - gatewaying, just throwing up their hands and requesting a 4 year extension, whatever.
Sorry, we're going to be sore over here for a while until we get over being called imperialists for wanting to fix a problem that cost us 2500 or so of our fellow citizens in one day, on our own soil. Blasting the shit out of the Arabian peninsula and the near environs is about the only choice short of rolling over and dying that we had left, but that doesn't seem real obvious to the critics in Europe, now, does it?
I understand that Blair helped out and all, but we know the Brit public wasn't behind us, and the general xenophobia thus created is not going to be easy to shake. Don't expect much in the warm feelings department in the near term.
Stop back in a decade, maybe we'll be better then. Then again, people like me haven't forgotten about France and those F-111s bombing Tripoli and overflight rights...
You are a fool if you believe for a moment that the restrictions on that activity are going to be paid attention to.
Isn't democracy grand? I wonder how many more infringements upon freedom and privacy intelligence agencies can sneak past our apathetic, uninformed legislators.
They aren't apathetic and they aren't uninformed.
This was a payoff for some political debt, engineered behind closed doors.
If you believe they are apathetic and stupid - they have won.
BOP was a lot of fun, but it was very nihilistic. It definitely got the point across about mutual assured destruction.
I loved it.
No US citizens have died from foreign terrorism on U.S. soil EVER... until GWB.
You are wrong.
Only utter lack of diligence of study, or gross bias can explain your omission. I suspect the latter.
the ChiComs cannot attack Taiwan as long as the US has a naval presence in the region. Doing a hostile amphibious assault without sea control is the height of foolishness. They won't even try if they can't get that sea control.
They can't, at least not in the short term.
All this hysteria is just that. It isn't going to happen.