Hey, $1 million dollars was alot of money back then. Winning $1M back then you could retire and still splurge without blowing all of it. Nowadays it cuts your retirement down by 10 years.
I was around the same age and I remember the same scenes being used over and over also:the same shot of Galactica burning in space after a cylon attack, the same cylon attack force, the same explosions, the same cylon mothership, and so on.
Even so, back then at that age that show still looked way cool!
I think there was a Simpsons episode that satirized the technique
I think it was one where Bart and/or Homer went to the Itchy and Scratchy animation factory, and as they were walking the same background went by a few times, Flintstone style.
Couldn't agree more. The waste of that just to heat a few ounces of coffee reminds me of a Bugs Bunny cartoon where those two courteous chipmunks ("After you, my good sir." "No, I insist, you go first") end up in a lumber mill and you see entire logs getting shaved down just to make one toothpick.
My experience is exactly the same. The free AVG misses many viruses that Norton & Virusscan find each and every time. Perhaps the commercial verion does a better job, I don't know. Does the free AVG even detect any viruses?
Hmm, $50/year for something that works well, or use a mediocre product for free? No contest.
BeOS displayed something that MS's current offerings, Win95 (ugh) & Win98(double ugh), did not:speed and stability. If BeOS did crash, so what, a reboot would take ten seconds. Apps loaded amost instantly. Most webpages were still just text & images-scripting was not ubiquitous-so you could get by with BeOS's browser. KDE, Gnome, fvw95(sp) I did not find stable or very usable back then, IMHO, so BeOS compared to other offerings was enticing and I thought it has a bright future, or at least it would fill some niche.
In fact I won version 4 of BeOS from some online contest. The problem with it was the oft repeated story of a great OS that has no apps and poor hw support. It was fun to play with, it ran fast, but over time I got tired of switching to windows when I wanted to print or scan something or view a webpage that used scripting, etc, etc.
We're all glad to see that registry fixed those performance issues.
The registry allows developers (and the OS itself) to store all the configuration information in one database that can then be backed up regularly
The Winxx Resource Kit could not have said it better itself. Too bad that only works that way in theory. The registry rarely gets used properly, and almost every app leaves tons of crap behind after an install, leaving me to do a search or and spending 15 min deleting keys one by one.
Registry backups are useless if the OS blows and youhave to reinstall it. Since the registry points to specific folders, you still have to backup the entire system to preserve the relationship. I see no advantage there over ini files since the ini files would get backed up as well.
If I come up with a truly innovative idea, there is nothing to protect me against a mega-corporation simply taking that idea and implementing it - stealing any the R&D investment I have made.
Oh please! Since when have software patents protected the little guy? Patents cost money. How many individuals or small companies have the resources to patent every idea they come up with, let alone fight to uphold their patents against potential violators. Mega-corps have the resources to setup entire departments for these purposes-small guys do not have that luxury. Even if you have a patent and some mega-corp steals the idea, are you willing to spend years and a small personal fortune to fighting it? And you are hardly guaranteed of winning. If you lose then what? You are broke, you dont have a patent, and the company still gets to use your idea.
The litigation over patents we read about are one mega-corporation suing another mega-corp. Or a handful of crafty lawyers/businessmen creating a dummy corporation that buys up IP and then sues other companies. It's not individuals or small mom & pop software companies that pushed for software patents, it's huge corporations that did it. Copyright and licences have worked well for 20+ years, and they leveled the playing field somewhat between large corporations and solo programmers or small companies. Patents transfer the power from small companies to large corporate entities.
For that matter, name one software patent that is truly innovative.
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Just because you and I have outgrown it doesn't mean he has.
I haven't outgrown Star Wars-I still watch the original movies and watch scenes from the new ones every once in a while. No, the new movies were just bad movies; even the animated Clone war shorts were much better.
comments like yours demonstrate your inability to understand who and what the movies are for
Movies dont have to be divided into "for children" and "for adult" categories. Countless movies have been made that have appealed to both. Pixar and Disney can do it, but Lucas can't, at least not anymore when he directs. In an interview from the 80's Lucas said "a boring movie with great special FX is still a boring movie. He seems to have forgotten these words.
You know, the "it's cool to bash Lucas and the prequels"
I think the biggest problem is that there are still, believe it or not, people who have never seen it.
There are alway ppl that haven't experienced things older ppl have, but eventually they come to realize that the world's been turning for much longer than they've been around.
Laughing at Palpatine's makeup Well Palpatine's makeup, after he fights Windu, was pretty plasticy looking, and that buttcrack forehead was pretty silly looking as well. Still no excuse for heckling and ruining it for others.
People who complain this movie is campy seem to forget that the Star Wars trilogy is part of what helped us define what campy meant.
Star Wars was never campy. You forget you are looking at a movie that is almost 30 years old. Any movie from that many years ago whether it's Star Wars, ET, Rocky, Jaws, Dirty Harry, looks campy and dated.
Any PFW running on your client, such as Sygate, does this. If an executable/script tries to open a browser and establish a connection it pops up with a msg saying something like "Firefox was started by abcd.exe. Do you want to allow this?"
In Canada it's more like $35k Oh come on! 35K? Workers doing tech support over the phone make that here.
The days of everyone getting double digit raises may be over, but as far as I know wages certainly haven't gone down in computer related jobs. My companys' starting wage for developers is $50K+, and that's on par with other companies around town and what I've seen across the country.
Now finding a job as a developer, that is another issue.
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Where do you see this? I must be looking at the altered image.
and bought iriver instead.
All your Hans Island are belong to us
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Anyway, once i hit lvl 60 in the game it went from addictive to boring in about 5 minutes.
Funny how that happens, eh?
Hey, $1 million dollars was alot of money back then. Winning $1M back then you could retire and still splurge without blowing all of it. Nowadays it cuts your retirement down by 10 years.
I was around the same age and I remember the same scenes being used over and over also:the same shot of Galactica burning in space after a cylon attack, the same cylon attack force, the same explosions, the same cylon mothership, and so on.
Even so, back then at that age that show still looked way cool!
I think there was a Simpsons episode that satirized the technique
I think it was one where Bart and/or Homer went to the Itchy and Scratchy animation factory, and as they were walking the same background went by a few times, Flintstone style.
I started reading that executive email thinking the title was " Building Software That Is INOPERABLE By Design."
Man, time for bed.
Couldn't agree more. The waste of that just to heat a few ounces of coffee reminds me of a Bugs Bunny cartoon where those two courteous chipmunks ("After you, my good sir." "No, I insist, you go first") end up in a lumber mill and you see entire logs getting shaved down just to make one toothpick.
My experience is exactly the same. The free AVG misses many viruses that Norton & Virusscan find each and every time. Perhaps the commercial verion does a better job, I don't know. Does the free AVG even detect any viruses?
Hmm, $50/year for something that works well, or use a mediocre product for free? No contest.
I'd want that mileage sign too! I was like Starwars mask..boring, starwars mask...boring, M*A*S*H* Signpost...KOOL!
BeOS displayed something that MS's current offerings, Win95 (ugh) & Win98(double ugh), did not:speed and stability. If BeOS did crash, so what, a reboot would take ten seconds. Apps loaded amost instantly. Most webpages were still just text & images-scripting was not ubiquitous-so you could get by with BeOS's browser. KDE, Gnome, fvw95(sp) I did not find stable or very usable back then, IMHO, so BeOS compared to other offerings was enticing and I thought it has a bright future, or at least it would fill some niche.
In fact I won version 4 of BeOS from some online contest. The problem with it was the oft repeated story of a great OS that has no apps and poor hw support. It was fun to play with, it ran fast, but over time I got tired of switching to windows when I wanted to print or scan something or view a webpage that used scripting, etc, etc.
There were also performance implications.
We're all glad to see that registry fixed those performance issues.
The registry allows developers (and the OS itself) to store all the configuration information in one database that can then be backed up regularly
The Winxx Resource Kit could not have said it better itself. Too bad that only works that way in theory. The registry rarely gets used properly, and almost every app leaves tons of crap behind after an install, leaving me to do a search or and spending 15 min deleting keys one by one.
Registry backups are useless if the OS blows and youhave to reinstall it. Since the registry points to specific folders, you still have to backup the entire system to preserve the relationship. I see no advantage there over ini files since the ini files would get backed up as well.
Of course, they plan to leave the exploding parts out of their next versions
The parts that explode are the fuel tanks, and without them the craft wont get very far off the ground. The exploding parts stay!
If I come up with a truly innovative idea, there is nothing to protect me against a mega-corporation simply taking that idea and implementing it - stealing any the R&D investment I have made.
Oh please! Since when have software patents protected the little guy? Patents cost money. How many individuals or small companies have the resources to patent every idea they come up with, let alone fight to uphold their patents against potential violators. Mega-corps have the resources to setup entire departments for these purposes-small guys do not have that luxury. Even if you have a patent and some mega-corp steals the idea, are you willing to spend years and a small personal fortune to fighting it? And you are hardly guaranteed of winning. If you lose then what? You are broke, you dont have a patent, and the company still gets to use your idea.
The litigation over patents we read about are one mega-corporation suing another mega-corp. Or a handful of crafty lawyers/businessmen creating a dummy corporation that buys up IP and then sues other companies. It's not individuals or small mom & pop software companies that pushed for software patents, it's huge corporations that did it. Copyright and licences have worked well for 20+ years, and they leveled the playing field somewhat between large corporations and solo programmers or small companies. Patents transfer the power from small companies to large corporate entities.
For that matter, name one software patent that is truly innovative.
Just because you and I have outgrown it doesn't mean he has.
I haven't outgrown Star Wars-I still watch the original movies and watch scenes from the new ones every once in a while. No, the new movies were just bad movies; even the animated Clone war shorts were much better.
comments like yours demonstrate your inability to understand who and what the movies are for
Movies dont have to be divided into "for children" and "for adult" categories. Countless movies have been made that have appealed to both. Pixar and Disney can do it, but Lucas can't, at least not anymore when he directs. In an interview from the 80's Lucas said "a boring movie with great special FX is still a boring movie. He seems to have forgotten these words.
You know, the "it's cool to bash Lucas and the prequels"
On slashdot, everything gets bashed.
Listen to the servers R2, they're dying.
I think the biggest problem is that there are still, believe it or not, people who have never seen it.
There are alway ppl that haven't experienced things older ppl have, but eventually they come to realize that the world's been turning for much longer than they've been around.
Forge the reply so it looks like it came from their own planet.
I always think an alien visiting earth would just laugh at the primitive beliefs of our so called 'advanced' civilisations
Many of us do that already so it wouldn't suprise me aliens would.
Would Mohammed, Jesus etc have any relevance to someone from Alpha Centauri?
That is something to wonder about, but I guarantee many humans would start worshiping Alpha Centaurians right after they are found.
As a WOW goblin would say...Hmmmm, interesting!
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Laughing at Palpatine's makeup
Well Palpatine's makeup, after he fights Windu, was pretty plasticy looking, and that buttcrack forehead was pretty silly looking as well. Still no excuse for heckling and ruining it for others.
People who complain this movie is campy seem to forget that the Star Wars trilogy is part of what helped us define what campy meant.
Star Wars was never campy. You forget you are looking at a movie that is almost 30 years old. Any movie from that many years ago whether it's Star Wars, ET, Rocky, Jaws, Dirty Harry, looks campy and dated.
Any PFW running on your client, such as Sygate, does this. If an executable/script tries to open a browser and establish a connection it pops up with a msg saying something like "Firefox was started by abcd.exe. Do you want to allow this?"
He also gave 'The Phantom Menace' 3 and a half stars.
That must have been out of 10.
Funny, I thought Star Wars was entertainment, not a political or economic commentary. I didn't know they still made you read Animal Farm in school.
In Canada it's more like $35k
Oh come on! 35K? Workers doing tech support over the phone make that here.
The days of everyone getting double digit raises may be over, but as far as I know wages certainly haven't gone down in computer related jobs. My companys' starting wage for developers is $50K+, and that's on par with other companies around town and what I've seen across the country.
Now finding a job as a developer, that is another issue.
That sounds alot like CNN over the last couple years.