As usual for a Slashdot movie review, I suppose...
Aintitcool.com has at least three articles of reviews, the latest one containing about TEN submitted reviews in them. Read those for in-depth reviews that don't bring up the Scouring (for the last freaking time, it wasn't filmed and won't appear, not even in the extended version) or other vague descriptions ("the scenes were cool, this character was funny, it was good, can't wait for extended version which I felt was better last time").
Look, people, this has been stated since 1998--there will be no Scouring of the Shire. It was not filmed. It will not be in the Extended Edition. The homage to it was the vision in the Mirror of Galadriel.
In every single LOTR article, someone brings up how they hope for the Scouring, when it's already been covered that it won't appear. Peter Jackson has been open about this since the very beginning. Stop talking about how you hope it appears!
Better that we tell the industry what our resistance is really about: We reject the government's copyright system that makes Federal authorities into thugs that enforce the music companies' restrictions of our freedom to spread information to whomever we want.
BS. Ask the average Kazaa downloader why they download music. Because it's there and it's easy! It has nothing to do with some sort of revolutionary movement. It's all about convenience, nothing more.
Maybe on Slashdot, it's something different, but that's because Slashdotters feel the need to build everything up into things they're not (for instance, this article, which is nothing more than a four-paragraph description of the local New Zealand music scene).
That doesn't matter to Slashdot when they can find some random thing (wow, some article in New Zealand) that supports piracy and latch onto it.
I'm sorry, but music piracy will always be wrong. There is no justification for it, because in the end, you are always damaging the artist in some way. It's become an anti-corporate culture movement by Slashdot, but that's really just a moral justification imposed to get rid of any pangs of guilt anyone might feel when they fire up Kazaa.
I think there are huge problems with Windows XP that are the fault of Microsoft. For example, the Windows XP file system is crippled. Unlike Windows 98, which can make a bootable full hard disk copy with the XCOPY.EXE program, Windows XP cannot copy all of its own files: Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?
I'm waiting for the part where the "file system" is "crippled?"
It was always something I noted in school that around seventh and eighth grade, I was called a "nerd" for using computers, chatting on the internet, having an e-mail account to talk to friends, and so on.
Fast forward two years, and those same people--jocks, preppy girls, and everyone else--had AIM and Yahoo usernames, checked their e-mail accounts to talk to people, and surfed the net. I couldn't help but laugh.
How are they changing their tune? Piracy is still their #1 target. They were never against the Internet--they were against piracy. Even good ol' Hillary Rosen used to repeat this constantly.
Slashbots love to say there is "spyware" in Windows XP and yet never mention it.
Please state a *single* example of spyware existing in Windows XP.
Also, XP doesn't tell me or anybody else what to do at all. Wow, it pops some informative things up the first time you run it. That sure is controlling...
And, by the way, no matter how fast your graphics updates are, you will always get shearing on a CRT, unless you blast your updates while the electron gun is returning to the top corner.
Longhorn will use a 3D buffer. There will be no shearing ever again, even for old apps. When will KDE or GNOME get this (serious question)?
It just got in the 4.3 series and was only available via CVS for a long time.
Considering even Windows 3.1 had the ability to modify its resolution instantly, I really do have to wonder what took so freaking long that a decade was needed for this to happen.
Here comes the part where people chime in about how one shouldn't need to change resolutions on the fly, then the people who design websites chime in and say they use it to test websites. Me? I just think--heaven forbid--that a modern GUI should allow the user to modify their resolution instantly. Maybe I have my reasons?
The only single positive fact you can offer is that Nintendo sold a million more Gamecubes than X-Boxes? Didn't it ever occur to you that the reason is because so many people already own X-Boxes? The Gamecube is in 3rd place here in the States. Even you know this.
That's why so many third-party developers program for the X-Box and PS2 instead. I already proved to you the 29% install base figure, and the quote about third-parties reducing their product lines for the Gamecube due to sluggish sales. 6 of the top 10 selling Gamecube titles are first-party development efforts such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. Can't help but notice you ignore all those points! Haha.
What part of "doing poorly" do you not understand? Why do you take it so personally that someone point out the facts of the 3rd place Gamecube's performance in America? Does your daddy work for NOA or something? Clearly, I have won this debate.
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As usual for a Slashdot movie review, I suppose...
Aintitcool.com has at least three articles of reviews, the latest one containing about TEN submitted reviews in them. Read those for in-depth reviews that don't bring up the Scouring (for the last freaking time, it wasn't filmed and won't appear, not even in the extended version) or other vague descriptions ("the scenes were cool, this character was funny, it was good, can't wait for extended version which I felt was better last time").
Look, people, this has been stated since 1998--there will be no Scouring of the Shire. It was not filmed. It will not be in the Extended Edition. The homage to it was the vision in the Mirror of Galadriel.
In every single LOTR article, someone brings up how they hope for the Scouring, when it's already been covered that it won't appear. Peter Jackson has been open about this since the very beginning. Stop talking about how you hope it appears!
Wow! You're right! That's all that Kazaa and eMule are used for.
You sure set me straight.
...and doing this doesn't harm anyone.
Of course it does.
Better that we tell the industry what our resistance is really about: We reject the government's copyright system that makes Federal authorities into thugs that enforce the music companies' restrictions of our freedom to spread information to whomever we want.
BS. Ask the average Kazaa downloader why they download music. Because it's there and it's easy! It has nothing to do with some sort of revolutionary movement. It's all about convenience, nothing more.
Maybe on Slashdot, it's something different, but that's because Slashdotters feel the need to build everything up into things they're not (for instance, this article, which is nothing more than a four-paragraph description of the local New Zealand music scene).
That doesn't matter to Slashdot when they can find some random thing (wow, some article in New Zealand) that supports piracy and latch onto it.
I'm sorry, but music piracy will always be wrong. There is no justification for it, because in the end, you are always damaging the artist in some way. It's become an anti-corporate culture movement by Slashdot, but that's really just a moral justification imposed to get rid of any pangs of guilt anyone might feel when they fire up Kazaa.
I think there are huge problems with Windows XP that are the fault of Microsoft. For example, the Windows XP file system is crippled. Unlike Windows 98, which can make a bootable full hard disk copy with the XCOPY.EXE program, Windows XP cannot copy all of its own files: Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?
I'm waiting for the part where the "file system" is "crippled?"
Man, this whole thing sure is a lot of shoes in a lot of Slashdotters' mouths.
It was always something I noted in school that around seventh and eighth grade, I was called a "nerd" for using computers, chatting on the internet, having an e-mail account to talk to friends, and so on.
Fast forward two years, and those same people--jocks, preppy girls, and everyone else--had AIM and Yahoo usernames, checked their e-mail accounts to talk to people, and surfed the net. I couldn't help but laugh.
It's also a glass cleaner in the states.
No, it isn't. It's called "cable theft."
That's off-topic, anyway.
Because of all of Canada's social programs, they need the money from crap like this. Just look at California and their black hole of a debt.
How are they changing their tune? Piracy is still their #1 target. They were never against the Internet--they were against piracy. Even good ol' Hillary Rosen used to repeat this constantly.
In other words, no matter what Microsoft does or how they do it, you'll spin it to be some devious tactic on their part.
Win98 had DCOM, RPM, and many other holes. I remember people crashing each other on IRC just by sending commands to the TCP/IP stack.
What "baby steps" in XP are you talking about? Every single option I know of can be turned off. You can make XP into 2000 in as little as a minute.
XP runs just fine as a gaming machine. Your vague implication it doesn't is just that--vague implications.
It's what we call FUD. That is, if it were about Linux...
Slashbots love to say there is "spyware" in Windows XP and yet never mention it.
Please state a *single* example of spyware existing in Windows XP.
Also, XP doesn't tell me or anybody else what to do at all. Wow, it pops some informative things up the first time you run it. That sure is controlling...
What are your Linux boxes doing in comparison to what you do on your gaming/Windows system?
I doubt you're doing taxing stuff like rendering 3D images and deathmatching.
Point out where I stated that I was opposed to Slashdot posting SCO stories.
Next.
Why do you ignore the quotes I gave? What are you afraid of in addressing them?
Yes, the Gamecube is doing poorly. All the links I gave you pointed to "sluggish" sales.
Face it and move on.
Next.
Welcome to last week's news. I read this Linus rebuttal last time on Groklaw.
People should just visit Groklaw, because they post EVEN MORE often about SCO, and most of their stuff trickles down to Slashdot a week or two later!
And, by the way, no matter how fast your graphics updates are, you will always get shearing on a CRT, unless you blast your updates while the electron gun is returning to the top corner.
Longhorn will use a 3D buffer. There will be no shearing ever again, even for old apps. When will KDE or GNOME get this (serious question)?
Someone ALWAYS mentions this.
He's talking about actually changing the video resolutions, not mucking with the virtual screen. That's what you're describing.
Why do people continue to be ignorant about this? And it always gets modded +5.
He meant actually changing video resolutions, not mucking with the virtual screen, which is what you're describing.
It just got in the 4.3 series and was only available via CVS for a long time.
Considering even Windows 3.1 had the ability to modify its resolution instantly, I really do have to wonder what took so freaking long that a decade was needed for this to happen.
Here comes the part where people chime in about how one shouldn't need to change resolutions on the fly, then the people who design websites chime in and say they use it to test websites. Me? I just think--heaven forbid--that a modern GUI should allow the user to modify their resolution instantly. Maybe I have my reasons?
The only single positive fact you can offer is that Nintendo sold a million more Gamecubes than X-Boxes? Didn't it ever occur to you that the reason is because so many people already own X-Boxes? The Gamecube is in 3rd place here in the States. Even you know this.
That's why so many third-party developers program for the X-Box and PS2 instead. I already proved to you the 29% install base figure, and the quote about third-parties reducing their product lines for the Gamecube due to sluggish sales. 6 of the top 10 selling Gamecube titles are first-party development efforts such as Mario Kart and Mario Party. Can't help but notice you ignore all those points! Haha.
What part of "doing poorly" do you not understand? Why do you take it so personally that someone point out the facts of the 3rd place Gamecube's performance in America? Does your daddy work for NOA or something? Clearly, I have won this debate.
Next.