Most people make full recoveries when they are "hurt". I think you're missing the point. "Realistically" most people who survive gunshot wounds recover.
And honestly, I'm getting a little tired of the "shades of grey" metaphor. Life is hardly "black and white", but the terminology is boring me to the point of annoyance.
In Iraq there's like what, 9 injured that survive to every one that dies? And yet in movies it's binary. You are shot and you either live or you die. So to me it seems amazingly hollow and superficial to be like "people dying is realistic". No, people GETTING HURT is realistic.
By the end of Serenity most of the principles have been shot or stabbed in one way or another. I'm not really sure where you get this binary death thing from, as several characters were pretty badly hurt and survived. Were you looking for Mal to lose a hand or an eye or something? Because if Firefly ever comes back again (not counting on it) don't put it past Joss to do that.
despite Universal's best marketing efforts, the film only mustered $25 million.
That's what killed the movie's box office take. Did anyone see the advertising they put out for it? If that's Universal's "best marketing efforts" I'd hate to see their worst. The TV ads were some of the worst ever.
Exactly. The worst part is that the old gtk file dialog was actually pretty nice, if a little rough around the edges. The new one is a complete pain in the ass to click through and their keyboard support blows. Just wait till some gnome fanboy comes on and starts talking about how you should use ^L or some shit which is somehow "discoverable" or some nonsense.
In addition to the file dialogs, the standard dialogs (things like image attributes, scaling, rotating, etc) don't take enter to confirm the dialog which creates this mouse to keyboard to mouse dynamic that wastes time AND isn't "intuitive" or "intuitable" or whatever drivel they're pushing this week.
It's enough that I'm seriously looking at a commercial alternative for Linux. Unfortunately (aside from Amazon which costs more than a decent used car or a brand new Kia) they all seem to be built in the Photoshop mold which makes them pretty annoying to use since it negates (and in some instances seems to break on) the sloppy focus and auto raise mechanics.
The worst part is that this must be alienating a huge number of potential and current users, since the ONLY windowing environment where this even fits in is gnome, and the vast majority of users don't run that and don't want to. Not to mention that anyone coming from windows, or even mac (which gnome developers claim to adore so much), are going to feel comfortable using it. I recently upgraded to Firefox 1.5 and it has the same issue, though it is not nearly as annoying as with Gimp since the dialogs aren't used as much.
But this is a serious threat to the future of desktop Linux since so many desktop applications on Linux are written using GTK+. Maybe it's time for some adventurous and talented group of programmers to look at forking some of these projects to Qt (I'm a KDE whore, so sue me) or one of the other toolkits that doesn't cripple the user experience as severely as GTK. Because almost every time I use Gimp these days I get so pissed off at the insanity of doing nearly anything involving a dialog that I quit and start thinking maybe I should really brush up my programming and start the forking myself. Which isn't how it should.
If that were true they would have released a bootloader for Linux like the Linux hackers requested instead of forcing them to hack the xbox in a way that would also allow piracy. Maybe microsoft wouldn't care if they didn't have an operating system monopoly to protect but then they also wouldn't have the billions of dollars to lose breaking into the game business.
Though the GUI is quickly becoming the hard part due to gnome/gtk2. gnome's (usually INSANE) interface guidelines are infecting just about every gtk app, many of which (Firefox and Gimp, particularly) lack any credible OSS alternatives.
Please read the posts that you are replying to more carefully. If you did you would be far less likely to make a complete jackass out of yourself.
While you are completely correct that it is not individuals that evolve but rather populations over time through incremental changes between generations, there was no one (at least not to whom you were replying) who was making such a claim. Furthermore, they were correct to point out that if fundamentalists beat on heads long enough that eventually (maybe a million years, though we can all hope there won't be any fundamentalists left by then) it will kill or weaken enough people to drastically reduce their ability reproduce successfully. This would most likely lead to the evolution of a more sturdy head.
I'm sure that you can agree with this and that you will see the error that you made when you reread the previous post more carefully.
Sincerely,
Aichpvee
Graduate of the Kindergarten Institute of Reading
I can only speak for the UK, but its already Java software, but its a web app. Sure you can buy Quicken UK etc, which will talk directly to the government gateway, but you can also just point any browser at government website and you can calculate and file your tax there too.
In the United States the tax prep software industry bought legislation making it illegal for the government to directly provide such a service. Makes me so proud to be an american when I know how vastly superior our government is by protecting us from useful services it makes me want to go wave a flag right now.
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Why? So when someone says, "nice screen saver, but does it run Linux?", he'll be able to say yes.
And honestly, I'm getting a little tired of the "shades of grey" metaphor. Life is hardly "black and white", but the terminology is boring me to the point of annoyance.
But it doesn't say anything about him having edited his own page on his page at wikipedia! So it NEVER happened!
By the end of Serenity most of the principles have been shot or stabbed in one way or another. I'm not really sure where you get this binary death thing from, as several characters were pretty badly hurt and survived. Were you looking for Mal to lose a hand or an eye or something? Because if Firefly ever comes back again (not counting on it) don't put it past Joss to do that.
That's what killed the movie's box office take. Did anyone see the advertising they put out for it? If that's Universal's "best marketing efforts" I'd hate to see their worst. The TV ads were some of the worst ever.
It'll look like GNOME, of course!
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Well just so long as we have enough warriors to protect the healers from the adds we should be fine.
In addition to the file dialogs, the standard dialogs (things like image attributes, scaling, rotating, etc) don't take enter to confirm the dialog which creates this mouse to keyboard to mouse dynamic that wastes time AND isn't "intuitive" or "intuitable" or whatever drivel they're pushing this week.
It's enough that I'm seriously looking at a commercial alternative for Linux. Unfortunately (aside from Amazon which costs more than a decent used car or a brand new Kia) they all seem to be built in the Photoshop mold which makes them pretty annoying to use since it negates (and in some instances seems to break on) the sloppy focus and auto raise mechanics.
The worst part is that this must be alienating a huge number of potential and current users, since the ONLY windowing environment where this even fits in is gnome, and the vast majority of users don't run that and don't want to. Not to mention that anyone coming from windows, or even mac (which gnome developers claim to adore so much), are going to feel comfortable using it. I recently upgraded to Firefox 1.5 and it has the same issue, though it is not nearly as annoying as with Gimp since the dialogs aren't used as much.
But this is a serious threat to the future of desktop Linux since so many desktop applications on Linux are written using GTK+. Maybe it's time for some adventurous and talented group of programmers to look at forking some of these projects to Qt (I'm a KDE whore, so sue me) or one of the other toolkits that doesn't cripple the user experience as severely as GTK. Because almost every time I use Gimp these days I get so pissed off at the insanity of doing nearly anything involving a dialog that I quit and start thinking maybe I should really brush up my programming and start the forking myself. Which isn't how it should.
If that were true they would have released a bootloader for Linux like the Linux hackers requested instead of forcing them to hack the xbox in a way that would also allow piracy. Maybe microsoft wouldn't care if they didn't have an operating system monopoly to protect but then they also wouldn't have the billions of dollars to lose breaking into the game business.
Though the GUI is quickly becoming the hard part due to gnome/gtk2. gnome's (usually INSANE) interface guidelines are infecting just about every gtk app, many of which (Firefox and Gimp, particularly) lack any credible OSS alternatives.
Why would anyone close their web browser?
You know, ESR. The company that made D&D before they got bought by Wizards of the Coast.
Please read the posts that you are replying to more carefully. If you did you would be far less likely to make a complete jackass out of yourself.
While you are completely correct that it is not individuals that evolve but rather populations over time through incremental changes between generations, there was no one (at least not to whom you were replying) who was making such a claim. Furthermore, they were correct to point out that if fundamentalists beat on heads long enough that eventually (maybe a million years, though we can all hope there won't be any fundamentalists left by then) it will kill or weaken enough people to drastically reduce their ability reproduce successfully. This would most likely lead to the evolution of a more sturdy head.
I'm sure that you can agree with this and that you will see the error that you made when you reread the previous post more carefully.
Sincerely,
Aichpvee
Graduate of the Kindergarten Institute of Reading
Maybe he's from Indiana, you insensitive clod! I heard that it's "a great place to end a sentence with a preposition at."
Pretty much forever? This idiot does realise that "PC" is a term linked to the Intel/AMD/x86/etc hardware platform and not windows, right?
Even mac is going to be on "PC" next year. How about you start buying up some clues and whoring them away so you'll be ready?
We were talking about Linux, not BSD.
Yeah, if he were he wouldn't have any problems watching wmv. I certainly don't
If someone's missing their of I'll sell them a used one on eBay for 20 bucks.
Another Apple innovation "stolen" by Microsoft?
I think I'll make my own distro, "Ubuntu Construction Kit", designed for creating Ubuntu-based distributions. It will of course be based on Slack.
And all the haters are always saying Microsoft doesn't innovate!
Because flash popups circumvent most (if not all) popup blockers. Which is fucking annoying.
In the United States the tax prep software industry bought legislation making it illegal for the government to directly provide such a service. Makes me so proud to be an american when I know how vastly superior our government is by protecting us from useful services it makes me want to go wave a flag right now.
But GMaps fits so much better with their other products, GMail, GSearch, GBase, GReader, etc...