I'm a huge batman fan and, that being said, this movie is really exciting. All of the other Batman movies have disappointed me. The previous writer/director's redefinition of the villains, heros, and backstories is just unacceptable.
In my opinion, all the other movies weren't so much the essential Batman. All the characters in the movies make decisions as if they're PLANNING to lose at the end of the movie.
The Catwoman portrayals have been nothing short of embarrassing. "Hey it's like The Crow, but you know, with a cat, and not so dark. So it's an upbeat Crow. With leather. And high heels!"
From the trailers, this movie looks pretty close to Frank Miller's vision of Batman as The Dark Knight, which is precisely what I want to see. (The animated series was the closest representation).
I'm not saying that Batman can never be changed from Frank Miller's style, but if they're going to do it, it has to be a completely new story, like where they took Batman Beyond. You can't redefine a 30 year old character in an hour and a half movie.
There's really four elements of Batman that I think make the story so exciting. The psychological aspect, the detective story, his physical prowess, and the dark atmosphere.
The other Batman movies failed at all of them. Every clue is so obvious, as long as he's not mildly retarded he can figure them out. His physical prowess was hampered by a giant tank-like suit. The psychological aspect was undercut as the villains weren't so much persistent burdens on his conscience and sanity as they were minor annoyances that surfaced for a week and a half, caused a bit of an uproar, and dropped dead. And it's hard to be portray "dark" while dancing around with neon lights and shiny rubber nipples.
As far as I'm concerned, reardless of how good the actual movie is, the trailer was more entertainment than all the other movies put together.
Note: If you love the psychological aspect of it, see the animated movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
The best maintained filter set I've ever seen is the Filter.G http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/
Updated just about once a week. I think it's becoming too popular for geocities. When I visited just now it wasn't available (exceeding the data transfer limit).
These companies can battle until their blue in the face. It really doesn't matter, they're just taking turns one-upping each other in the most insignificant ways possible. It would be like pepsi and coke battling each other by making their bottles larger, 1/100000th of an ounce at a time.
Sorry if this angers anyone, but even Google's great search technology has become dated. It's the "IE won the battle" syndrome. Since no one else has closed in on their domination, they haven't really bothered fine-tuning, or completely refactoring, their search algorithms since days long ago.
Although Yahoo gave up on trying to offer a good search years before Google even got started.
All I'm saying is that I wish they'd start competing by offering truly significant innovations. "It's like normal e-mail, but with more space!" isn't really innovative (beyond the initial "Wow!" factor). Try something like a 100% standards compliant web browser with native in SVG support, and an XML parser.
I'm the first to say that Google is ahead of the game, but the problem is the game is penny-ante.
1 in 10 isn't hard to believe, but it really depends on what we define as 'buying from spam' and what exactly this survey is defining as spam. In my own judgement, if I try a software product and later decide to buy it from a follow-up email, I wouldn't consider that buying from spam, but did this survey consider marketing like that to be spam?
To understand the accuracy of the study we have to know the parameters they set.
According to this survey:
1. What is considered spam?
2. What is considered "buying from spam"? (i.e. how direct must the link between the spam and the purchase be?)
3. How large was the survey group?
The standard itself might be flawed, but only partially implementing it doesn't correct those flaws. When the browser is broken, it's difficult to identify the difference between flaws in the standard and flaws in the browser.
You pointed out that using vertical-align doesn't align the elements vertically, is that an oversight in the standard or a failure on the browser's implementation?
I agree. It's misleading to call something "free" because you don't have to pay cash.
You're not getting something for free if you have to give something in exchange, in this case, screen real-estate.
Everyone who watches TV will realize exactly how much free stuff costs. You can get your very own free sample of hair gel for only $12.95 (to help cover the cost of shipping and handling).
Whatever parties were involved in initiating and perpetrating this action, you have my whole-hearted thanks. You're my heroes. I like knowing that there's a spammer out there that's getting at least a small sample of what we deal with every day, there's nothing else in the world I could have read this afternoon to bring that kind of smile to my face. If you're discovered and there's ever legal action against you, I'm certain the slashdot community, and the rest of the world that appreciates the plight of spam victims, will band together to provide you with any social, financial, and legal support you might need. I, for one, won't forget the battle you fought for us on the moral front.
Slashdot Mirror
It just relies on a perpetual motion device to power the division by zero generator.
I'm a huge batman fan and, that being said, this movie is really exciting. All of the other Batman movies have disappointed me. The previous writer/director's redefinition of the villains, heros, and backstories is just unacceptable.
In my opinion, all the other movies weren't so much the essential Batman. All the characters in the movies make decisions as if they're PLANNING to lose at the end of the movie.
The Catwoman portrayals have been nothing short of embarrassing. "Hey it's like The Crow, but you know, with a cat, and not so dark. So it's an upbeat Crow. With leather. And high heels!"
From the trailers, this movie looks pretty close to Frank Miller's vision of Batman as The Dark Knight, which is precisely what I want to see. (The animated series was the closest representation).
I'm not saying that Batman can never be changed from Frank Miller's style, but if they're going to do it, it has to be a completely new story, like where they took Batman Beyond. You can't redefine a 30 year old character in an hour and a half movie.
There's really four elements of Batman that I think make the story so exciting. The psychological aspect, the detective story, his physical prowess, and the dark atmosphere.
The other Batman movies failed at all of them. Every clue is so obvious, as long as he's not mildly retarded he can figure them out. His physical prowess was hampered by a giant tank-like suit. The psychological aspect was undercut as the villains weren't so much persistent burdens on his conscience and sanity as they were minor annoyances that surfaced for a week and a half, caused a bit of an uproar, and dropped dead. And it's hard to be portray "dark" while dancing around with neon lights and shiny rubber nipples.
As far as I'm concerned, reardless of how good the actual movie is, the trailer was more entertainment than all the other movies put together. Note: If you love the psychological aspect of it, see the animated movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
The best maintained filter set I've ever seen is the Filter.G http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ Updated just about once a week. I think it's becoming too popular for geocities. When I visited just now it wasn't available (exceeding the data transfer limit).
These companies can battle until their blue in the face. It really doesn't matter, they're just taking turns one-upping each other in the most insignificant ways possible. It would be like pepsi and coke battling each other by making their bottles larger, 1/100000th of an ounce at a time. Sorry if this angers anyone, but even Google's great search technology has become dated. It's the "IE won the battle" syndrome. Since no one else has closed in on their domination, they haven't really bothered fine-tuning, or completely refactoring, their search algorithms since days long ago. Although Yahoo gave up on trying to offer a good search years before Google even got started. All I'm saying is that I wish they'd start competing by offering truly significant innovations. "It's like normal e-mail, but with more space!" isn't really innovative (beyond the initial "Wow!" factor). Try something like a 100% standards compliant web browser with native in SVG support, and an XML parser. I'm the first to say that Google is ahead of the game, but the problem is the game is penny-ante.
1 in 10 isn't hard to believe, but it really depends on what we define as 'buying from spam' and what exactly this survey is defining as spam. In my own judgement, if I try a software product and later decide to buy it from a follow-up email, I wouldn't consider that buying from spam, but did this survey consider marketing like that to be spam? To understand the accuracy of the study we have to know the parameters they set. According to this survey: 1. What is considered spam? 2. What is considered "buying from spam"? (i.e. how direct must the link between the spam and the purchase be?) 3. How large was the survey group?
The standard itself might be flawed, but only partially implementing it doesn't correct those flaws. When the browser is broken, it's difficult to identify the difference between flaws in the standard and flaws in the browser. You pointed out that using vertical-align doesn't align the elements vertically, is that an oversight in the standard or a failure on the browser's implementation?
I agree. It's misleading to call something "free" because you don't have to pay cash. You're not getting something for free if you have to give something in exchange, in this case, screen real-estate. Everyone who watches TV will realize exactly how much free stuff costs. You can get your very own free sample of hair gel for only $12.95 (to help cover the cost of shipping and handling).
At least we DO have treatments for cancer, nothing has yet proven effective against spam. Jekler
Whatever parties were involved in initiating and perpetrating this action, you have my whole-hearted thanks. You're my heroes. I like knowing that there's a spammer out there that's getting at least a small sample of what we deal with every day, there's nothing else in the world I could have read this afternoon to bring that kind of smile to my face. If you're discovered and there's ever legal action against you, I'm certain the slashdot community, and the rest of the world that appreciates the plight of spam victims, will band together to provide you with any social, financial, and legal support you might need. I, for one, won't forget the battle you fought for us on the moral front.
Jekler