If any of the stuff they cut actually made the movie better they would have left it in the theatrical edition.
What you mean is "If any of the stuff they cut actually made the movie better in theaters they would have left it in the theatrical edition."
DVD is not theater - different audience (fans), different viewing environment (couch, pause button, etc), all of which means that the judgement of what is "best" is different. And it seems to favour longer movies, with more extras.
e.g. for the first 2 LotR movies, the DVD versions are in my opinion far superior, but I don't know if I could have sat through either in a cinema.
I'm very interested in such a magazine, but disappointed that they almost inevitably are or become those "gadget" magazines
Make is not another one of those "gadget" magazines that feature products on every page. While we like gadgets as much as the next person, we chose to focus on cool things you can do with technology, not just what to buy. Each of us has plenty of new technology at home and in our briefcase, and we'll write about our experience using this technology. What we are most interested in is the knack for making that technology work the way we want it.
Yeah. What he's basically saying in this para is "everyone is thinking about Linux's copyright issues." (subtext: "why aren't YOU"). Whether it is factual or not is irrelevant, it will be true once it's been said often enough. It's all part of the spin.
Any other surprises? The surprising thing, a little bit, is how predictable our conversations are now with customers.... One other thing that's come up more over the last 12 months is this notion of indemnification [against patent and copyright claims]. More and more customers are asking us, "Help me understand what you do from an indemnification perspective versus HP or IBM or Red Hat or Novell." That's weighing into decisions more and more.... Customers began introducing it and asking me about it more than I was introducing it to them.
While this may be strictly true, the body's "store as fat" mechanism only happens if your body isn't burning all the Calories it ingests. This is a result of having a low metabolic rate. A low metabolic rate is caused by lack of exercise.
If you ingest more than you use, you will put on weight. a < b could be caused by small a or by large b.
If you want to lose weight, exercise. And eat what you want
I've worked out a lot, and I've watched what I eat, a lot. I can say without hesitation If you want to lose weight, eat less. Excercise is the lesser of the two factors involved in weight management. However, if you want to be fit, healthy and shapely with your thinness, that's a different matter. Work out too.
A distro I will probably not verbally recommend to anyone
Just say "Ooh boen too" (stress on the middle sylable).
As Bantu words go, this one is easy. Try saying "Rolihlahla" (Nelson Mandela's middle name), Mbaqanga (a style of music) or "Hluhluwe" (a place near Umfolozi)
Indeed, this movie is not set overseas, but right here in England, like the book.
Furthermore, the article says it was shot "on location in England and the Pacific Northwest." so that's not overseas for either of us. The heading is thus factually questionable.
It's only propaganda if you let it be propaganda. In the age of the global internet, with hundreds of different news sources at your disposal... They couldn't flip to FOX News
Yes, but the percentage of Americans who let thier information on current events begin and end at fox "news" is what? Far too high anyway.
You say it's not Propaganda, millions of couch potatoes to lazy to change the channel or read something say "let it be". I say "you'll get the government you deserve, you cretins". Unfortunately, I'll get it too, even though I live in England.
What's new? South Africa will have them before...
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there will be no prototypes before 2015.
What's new about this? I guess the novelty is that it's not a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. South Africa (yup. Follow the link.), among others will have portable nuclear power plants before that, so it's not exactly that the whole concept is new.
I base my predictions on the economy based on history, which shows that markets have an up-and-down cyclical nature. Although the market is never the same on the micro level, at a macro view it's generally the same idea.
And the next upswing will hopefully not be a bubble. Much of the late 1990s were a tech sector bubble, which should not happen the next time. Thus, things for techies will never again be like they were in 1998.
You will not get mass consumer flying cars any time soon.
We worry about how much fossil fuel cars use. Flying cars would be far worse. We complain about the noise of cars. Flying cars will be far worse.
But most of all, cars kill people at an appalling rate, through mechanical failure and driver error. Flying cars would be far worse. Do you really want carloads of drunken students in mechanically unsound vehicles to be hundreds of feet above our cities and houses?
John C. Dvorak writes: My biggest annoyance with the current version is that it keeps reinstalling features
So, he has encountered an annoying bug in a program, therefore the program should be junked and its developers shot. I've felt that way at times, but I try to keep a perspective.
Why is it that people use Mac OS or Microsoft Windows? Because they have a consistent GUI, however it's implemented, that isn't subject to the whims of each applications programmer.
I think that's where the shared libraries, which run in user not kernel land, come into play. Yes, there should be a standard set of widgets and windowing routines that apps normally use.
But doesn't it also sound appealing that this is a choice, that can be bypassed?
Would this result in chaos? I don't know. A lot would depend on how good the default widget set is, and how strong the policy of always using it is. These are not entirely software architecture decisions.
Meanwhile, we have a massive fusion plant in the center of the solar system that's been operating maintenance free for eons and we're barely even exploiting it.
Yeah, but safety standards have since been raised, and you couldn't get that design built today. It may not be nearby, but it is completely unshielded, and prolonged exposure to it's radiation is known to cause cancer.
It remains to be seen if they can do it without breaking backwards compatability.
Nope, the betas are out, so anyone can see, and they haven't found that to be the case. And support for generics was always planned in.NET, and thus apparently is techincally superior to the kludge that was retrofitted to the Java VM.
what you see is all there is.... the vast majority of people at every stage of humanity's scientific progress believed this.
On the contrary, I think that there is good evidence that most people throughout history, as well as most of the posters here, live in a form of hope that is grounded on thier wishes rather than any evidence.
I think of people who: Pray to God to heal thier ills Perform sacrifices in the hope that it will bring them career advancement Boil horseshit while meditating, to try to turn lead into gold Claim that a wealth of experimental and theoretical evidence that matter never crosses space faster than light does, and in fact the whole idea is nonsensical and paradoxical, is just 'our current understanding of science' and will evaporate when some new theory contradicts it.
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If any of the stuff they cut actually made the movie better they would have left it in the theatrical edition.
What you mean is "If any of the stuff they cut actually made the movie better in theaters they would have left it in the theatrical edition."
DVD is not theater - different audience (fans), different viewing environment (couch, pause button, etc), all of which means that the judgement of what is "best" is different. And it seems to favour longer movies, with more extras.
e.g. for the first 2 LotR movies, the DVD versions are in my opinion far superior, but I don't know if I could have sat through either in a cinema.
Yeah. What he's basically saying in this para is "everyone is thinking about Linux's copyright issues." (subtext: "why aren't YOU"). Whether it is factual or not is irrelevant, it will be true once it's been said often enough. It's all part of the spin.
Any other surprises? The surprising thing, a little bit, is how predictable our conversations are now with customers. ... One other thing that's come up more over the last 12 months is this notion of indemnification [against patent and copyright claims]. More and more customers are asking us, "Help me understand what you do from an indemnification perspective versus HP or IBM or Red Hat or Novell." That's weighing into decisions more and more. ... Customers began introducing it and asking me about it more than I was introducing it to them.
The FUD is working, and working well.
While this may be strictly true, the body's "store as fat" mechanism only happens if your body isn't burning all the Calories it ingests. This is a result of having a low metabolic rate. A low metabolic rate is caused by lack of exercise.
If you ingest more than you use, you will put on weight. a < b could be caused by small a or by large b.
If you want to lose weight, exercise. And eat what you want
I've worked out a lot, and I've watched what I eat, a lot. I can say without hesitation If you want to lose weight, eat less. Excercise is the lesser of the two factors involved in weight management. However, if you want to be fit, healthy and shapely with your thinness, that's a different matter. Work out too.
A distro I will probably not verbally recommend to anyone
Just say "Ooh boen too" (stress on the middle sylable).
As Bantu words go, this one is easy. Try saying "Rolihlahla" (Nelson Mandela's middle name), Mbaqanga (a style of music) or "Hluhluwe" (a place near Umfolozi)
In short, "humanity towards others".
Two defintions:
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"overseas" is a silly thing to say.
Indeed, this movie is not set overseas, but right here in England, like the book.
Furthermore, the article says it was shot "on location in England and the Pacific Northwest." so that's not overseas for either of us. The heading is thus factually questionable.
Answer: Simple. Romero would have made it legendary.
True, Romero does make legendary games. Daikatana totaly legendary.
But not in a good way.
It's only propaganda if you let it be propaganda. In the age of the global internet, with hundreds of different news sources at your disposal ... They couldn't flip to FOX News
Yes, but the percentage of Americans who let thier information on current events begin and end at fox "news" is what? Far too high anyway.
You say it's not Propaganda, millions of couch potatoes to lazy to change the channel or read something say "let it be". I say "you'll get the government you deserve, you cretins". Unfortunately, I'll get it too, even though I live in England.
there will be no prototypes before 2015.
What's new about this? I guess the novelty is that it's not a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. South Africa (yup. Follow the link.), among others will have portable nuclear power plants before that, so it's not exactly that the whole concept is new.
I am looking at 6 if not more plane trips in the next month for some multi-hop trips. ... I travel with a subnotebook ... so I wouldn't buy one
In short, people in your position of being in the potential market are rare, and are already served by thier laptop/notebook pcs.
I've noticed that all the PDAs in recent sci-fi movies have extensible screens. The ones that spring to mind are from Minority Report and The One.
Obviously, extensible screens are the way to go.
No, it just means that it looks cool on screen.
I base my predictions on the economy based on history, which shows that markets have an up-and-down cyclical nature. Although the market is never the same on the micro level, at a macro view it's generally the same idea.
And the next upswing will hopefully not be a bubble. Much of the late 1990s were a tech sector bubble, which should not happen the next time. Thus, things for techies will never again be like they were in 1998.
So, the economy comes back.
What evidence do you have that things will be like they were before? It may not be so, and you shouldn't assume it.
All the effort, fuel and pollution required just to get a hunk of metal off the ground and keep it there with the current technology is wasteful
Well, yes, but we've found that really big airplanes that carry lots of people at once are less wasteful. Ie jumbo jets, not flying cars.
You will not get mass consumer flying cars any time soon.
We worry about how much fossil fuel cars use. Flying cars would be far worse.
We complain about the noise of cars. Flying cars will be far worse.
But most of all, cars kill people at an appalling rate, through mechanical failure and driver error. Flying cars would be far worse. Do you really want carloads of drunken students in mechanically unsound vehicles to be hundreds of feet above our cities and houses?
John C. Dvorak writes: My biggest annoyance with the current version is that it keeps reinstalling features
So, he has encountered an annoying bug in a program, therefore the program should be junked and its developers shot. I've felt that way at times, but I try to keep a perspective.
The contract the manufacturers signed said they would not produce or sell devices that could be used for copying DVDs
So outputting a signal to a screen, where anyone could video it, is right out then?
Why is it that people use Mac OS or Microsoft Windows? Because they have a consistent GUI, however it's implemented, that isn't subject to the whims of each applications programmer.
I think that's where the shared libraries, which run in user not kernel land, come into play. Yes, there should be a standard set of widgets and windowing routines that apps normally use.
But doesn't it also sound appealing that this is a choice, that can be bypassed?
Would this result in chaos? I don't know. A lot would depend on how good the default widget set is, and how strong the policy of always using it is. These are not entirely software architecture decisions.
That's because the European Socialist parties are so FAR left, that they're ready to fall off the globe.
Nope. In Global terms, US politics is the odd one out, the UK's attempt to catch up with your rightwards shuffle with "New Labour" notwithstanding.
Meanwhile, we have a massive fusion plant in the center of the solar system that's been operating maintenance free for eons and we're barely even exploiting it.
Yeah, but safety standards have since been raised, and you couldn't get that design built today. It may not be nearby, but it is completely unshielded, and prolonged exposure to it's radiation is known to cause cancer.
We are not running out of oil.
Are you sure ?
.NET is years behind and plans to bring similar features only in 2007 (generics).
.NET, with generics, is due in early 2005, is it not?
.NET, and thus apparently is techincally superior to the kludge that was retrofitted to the Java VM.
Uh, I think that's wrong. The whidbey release of
It remains to be seen if they can do it without breaking backwards compatability.
Nope, the betas are out, so anyone can see, and they haven't found that to be the case. And support for generics was always planned in
what you see is all there is. ... the vast majority of people at every stage of humanity's scientific progress believed this.
On the contrary, I think that there is good evidence that most people throughout history, as well as most of the posters here, live in a form of hope that is grounded on thier wishes rather than any evidence.
I think of people who:
Pray to God to heal thier ills
Perform sacrifices in the hope that it will bring them career advancement
Boil horseshit while meditating, to try to turn lead into gold
Claim that a wealth of experimental and theoretical evidence that matter never crosses space faster than light does, and in fact the whole idea is nonsensical and paradoxical, is just 'our current understanding of science' and will evaporate when some new theory contradicts it.