It's interesting you mention the disjointed nature of the songs. Bob Rock was going around mentioning how they recorded the songs and then went and twisted all the bits and pieces around in Pro Tools. He was trying to say it was some sort of art movement.
All it really means is that Metallica have gotten even lazier in the studio and can't even play their own parts good enough for an album. So it's now some "garage art" movement.
I think the real reason is that they don't want "Hollywood" exposing their beloved geek culture material to the mass market, no matter how good and funny the movie may end up. Heaven forbid it not be a tightly-knit geek thing.
It's never been "renamed". It was always titled "Episode IV - A New Hope". Don't you remember seeing it in the theather all those years ago? Or perhaps you are too young for that?
The originaly text crawl at the beginning said "STAR WARS."
Only after Empire Strikes Back had been announced was "A NEW HOPE" tacked onto the text crawl in all subsequent presses.
People are bitching that it's "tailored to a book medium" (even though the radio series came first). People are bitching that it will suck as a movie. That it should have been a CG animated movie (huh?).
I, for one, am really excited to hear that this project that Douglas Adams tried to get off the ground for so many years is now one step closer. If this movie pulls it off, imagine how much of a classic it will be.
Enter The Matrix gave you actual filmed backstory. The other stuff is just drinks and cellphones and sunglasses. I don't see anywhere near the level of gratuitious whoring that Star Wars enjoys on a regular basis to gullible sheep.
It is becoming a widespread myth that free software developers are little Tele-tubbie-happy people just sitting on their asses coding for hundreds of idiots that luckilly flock to their mailing lists.
Completely wrong.
The widespreath my that is spreading is that free software developers don't give two shits about the user. It's all "volunteer work," and if anybody dares criticize apps, they should be burned.
Which, of course, impedes progress. And then we wonder why Microsoft still slays on the desktop arena.
So, you think we should all just go with one software project and kill the other? Which should we kill? Did you know that Xine did the GUI thing first? Mplayer has been the leader in figuring out how to play new formats (especially Quicktime codecs)
Uh, moron, who said anything about killing? What about merging?
The mentality of Linux desktop users really gets me sometimes. I don't get the vehement opposition to combining resources to make killer, top-notch apps. Instead we need ten of each, all reinventing the wheel.
It also is redundant and reinvents the wheel. Instead of pooling resources, we get to listen to morons drone on about "choice" when what is required is a unification of resources so we can get away from this obsessive "let's reinvent the wheel all the time" mentality. It's like Linux users absolutely FEAR any change whatsoever.
Two applications that do the exact same thing. Most sane people would see that as pointless and redundant. It's a waste of resources.
Except that we're not dealing with commercial companies competing with each other, so your insane and bizarre toothpaste argument holds no water whatsoever.
This is all community effort, and people need to gel resources instead of spreading them thin all the time just so they can have yet more conflicting user interfaces, skinning, and other reinvented wheels.
There is a world of difference between toothpastes competing in a store and the NECESSARY unification of design required for Linux to ever successfully penetrate the desktop market.
The obvious point which you missed is that people shouldn't dismiss SCO anymore. It is entirely possible stuff got leaked in, despite all the nonstop arguments people have been making that nothing has tainted the kernel.
Linux users absolutely resist any change or progress whatsoever. They claim they are open-minded and free because they use an alternative OS, but when it comes to actually improving and moving forward by doing things differently, people are vehemently opposed and quite happy to use aging protocols like X11, etc.
In other words, we need to sway people from insecure products. So that means no usage of ssh in Valve either. Or OpenSSL. Or anything else listed in my sig.
I even feel bad for downloading it now because I know if someone stole my code I'd be way more than pissed about it.
Where are the idealists who usually rush in at this point and declare the difference between "copying" and "stealing?" They are deafeningly silent.
Why has nobody defended this in the way they defend leaked albums and ripped CDs? What's the difference, the fact that it's a game company you may like and not some corporation like the RIAA that you hate?
Sucks when something you made gets copied all over the net, doesn't it? Maybe this will give a few people an impression of how artists feel about their mp3s doing the same thing...
Only on Slashdot is it somehow a good thing when SGI admits to having put SysV code into Linux. Of course they'll claim it was public domain. But all it shows is that, yes, that stuff can easily end up in the kernel. What else is there that we DON'T know about?
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It's interesting you mention the disjointed nature of the songs. Bob Rock was going around mentioning how they recorded the songs and then went and twisted all the bits and pieces around in Pro Tools. He was trying to say it was some sort of art movement.
All it really means is that Metallica have gotten even lazier in the studio and can't even play their own parts good enough for an album. So it's now some "garage art" movement.
Slashbots just love something to bitch about.
I think the real reason is that they don't want "Hollywood" exposing their beloved geek culture material to the mass market, no matter how good and funny the movie may end up. Heaven forbid it not be a tightly-knit geek thing.
It's never been "renamed". It was always titled "Episode IV - A New Hope". Don't you remember seeing it in the theather all those years ago? Or perhaps you are too young for that?
The originaly text crawl at the beginning said "STAR WARS."
Only after Empire Strikes Back had been announced was "A NEW HOPE" tacked onto the text crawl in all subsequent presses.
People are bitching that it's "tailored to a book medium" (even though the radio series came first). People are bitching that it will suck as a movie. That it should have been a CG animated movie (huh?).
I, for one, am really excited to hear that this project that Douglas Adams tried to get off the ground for so many years is now one step closer. If this movie pulls it off, imagine how much of a classic it will be.
Freaking naysayers.
Hahaha! Hahahahaaa..hahaaahahahahahaaa....haha..haha....ha aa....haa....ha.
*whew*
As opposed to what? The endless stream of ssh vulnerabilities? Mind reading my sig?
Enter The Matrix gave you actual filmed backstory. The other stuff is just drinks and cellphones and sunglasses. I don't see anywhere near the level of gratuitious whoring that Star Wars enjoys on a regular basis to gullible sheep.
They were going to release a "special" version which was really the original with some tack-on Matrix Revisited footage.
The Wachowskis axed it because they don't want to milk it.
You don't "know" they're going to whore the Matrix. All actions suggest otherwise.
Perhaps it's a clue that MetaCortex is the heart of the Matrix? Or the beginnings of another one in the far future?
Seeing people dancing in the sweaty dirt, half-naked, in a big cavern that looks like hell...it's called symbolism, dude.
And people wonder why this shit isn't mainstream yet?
Honestly. I'm not trolling...
Clearly, you hate when anything involving Linux is criticized. Tough.
It is becoming a widespread myth that free software developers are little Tele-tubbie-happy people just sitting on their asses coding for hundreds of idiots that luckilly flock to their mailing lists.
Completely wrong.
The widespreath my that is spreading is that free software developers don't give two shits about the user. It's all "volunteer work," and if anybody dares criticize apps, they should be burned.
Which, of course, impedes progress. And then we wonder why Microsoft still slays on the desktop arena.
So, you think we should all just go with one software project and kill the other? Which should we kill? Did you know that Xine did the GUI thing first? Mplayer has been the leader in figuring out how to play new formats (especially Quicktime codecs)
Uh, moron, who said anything about killing? What about merging?
The mentality of Linux desktop users really gets me sometimes. I don't get the vehement opposition to combining resources to make killer, top-notch apps. Instead we need ten of each, all reinventing the wheel.
It also is redundant and reinvents the wheel. Instead of pooling resources, we get to listen to morons drone on about "choice" when what is required is a unification of resources so we can get away from this obsessive "let's reinvent the wheel all the time" mentality. It's like Linux users absolutely FEAR any change whatsoever.
Two applications that do the exact same thing. Most sane people would see that as pointless and redundant. It's a waste of resources.
Except that we're not dealing with commercial companies competing with each other, so your insane and bizarre toothpaste argument holds no water whatsoever.
This is all community effort, and people need to gel resources instead of spreading them thin all the time just so they can have yet more conflicting user interfaces, skinning, and other reinvented wheels.
There is a world of difference between toothpastes competing in a store and the NECESSARY unification of design required for Linux to ever successfully penetrate the desktop market.
In other words, spread all resources as thin as possible instead of making one big kick-ass killer app. All in the name of idealist "diversity."
All that matters is net output. That's it.
Maybe they do. So what?
The obvious point which you missed is that people shouldn't dismiss SCO anymore. It is entirely possible stuff got leaked in, despite all the nonstop arguments people have been making that nothing has tainted the kernel.
Linux users absolutely resist any change or progress whatsoever. They claim they are open-minded and free because they use an alternative OS, but when it comes to actually improving and moving forward by doing things differently, people are vehemently opposed and quite happy to use aging protocols like X11, etc.
You are way off-base.
If you record music and it's taken and put online, that's bad.
If you spend five years writing software and the source code is taken and put online, that's bad.
You spent paragraphs desperately trying to make some sort of difference between two thefts of intellectual property. It's laughable.
Next.
In other words, we need to sway people from insecure products. So that means no usage of ssh in Valve either. Or OpenSSL. Or anything else listed in my sig.
Gobs of time? It takes a single night to grab a few CDs if you're on a T1.
It's the legally licensed Havoc physics engine, dummy.
I even feel bad for downloading it now because I know if someone stole my code I'd be way more than pissed about it.
Where are the idealists who usually rush in at this point and declare the difference between "copying" and "stealing?" They are deafeningly silent.
Why has nobody defended this in the way they defend leaked albums and ripped CDs? What's the difference, the fact that it's a game company you may like and not some corporation like the RIAA that you hate?
Sucks when something you made gets copied all over the net, doesn't it? Maybe this will give a few people an impression of how artists feel about their mp3s doing the same thing...
What a spin job.
Only on Slashdot is it somehow a good thing when SGI admits to having put SysV code into Linux. Of course they'll claim it was public domain. But all it shows is that, yes, that stuff can easily end up in the kernel. What else is there that we DON'T know about?
Maybe SCO really does know.