And the US put Saddam in place and supported him for years, during his war with Iran. US foreign policy is not something hold up as an example of virtue.
Yeah right, because at the time the US had such a great alternative! You forget the threat that Iran posed to the US at that time. The Iranian government had just been overthrown by radical extremists and they had taken several American citizens hostage, or don't you remember that little hostage crisis that arguably cost your man Carter the presidency. The US armed and supported Saddam because he wanted to take on Iran and at the time Iran was a very serious problem. I doubt very much that the US had any idea that Saddam was going to turn into the monster that he became. Did the US have inklings? Probably. Was arming Saddam a better option at the time then doing nothing about Iran? Absolutely. Hindsight is always 20/20.
No one is saying that US foreign policy is something to hold up as an example of virtue. It's not. It's ugly and it's very necessary. The entire point of US foreign policy is to make things better for the US. You won't find a country in existance that acts in a disimilar fashion. The US stands out now because it is the only superpower left on the block and that, believe it or not, is actuallly a good thing when you consider the alternative. Or would you prefer if the USSR, that shining beacon of freedom, democracy and human rights, would have won the Cold War? Why don't you ask some of the people who risked their lives crossing the Berlin Wall just how wonderful that would have been.
Real is done, and Apple is done too, they just don't know it yet. In the long run the fight is going to be between Microsoft's DRM-supported formats and unencrypted formats.
Your way off base there in terms of Apple. The iTMS exists to further the sale of iPods and judging from their 4th quarter results that strategy seems to be working very well for them. If Apple was in it to dominate the online music distribution market you would see them partnering with other hardware manufacturers to get said manufacturers to support their encrypted music format.
Apple hasn't done that, and they probably never will, because the whole point of their music store is to sell more iPods. Steve Jobs has stated publicly that he doesn't think it's possible to make real profits distributing music online at this time. The record companies simply eat up to much of the profits and if you charge any more than a buck a track most customers won't bite. iPods, however, are a very profitable item for Apple. What the iTMS and iTunes combination does is facilitate the sale of more iPods by providing a very cohesive portable media player / music store / desktop media player solution. They are doing to digital music what they've done with the Mac. That is to provide an elegant, integrated, easy to use yet powerful solution marketed towards the higher end.
Apple isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I love my iPod and I love the ease of use of both iTunes and the iTMS. I'll continue buying iPods and purchasing music through the iTMS because I've had such a good experience with it. I know I'm not alone here and judging by fourth quarter sales I'm not the only one that feels that way. The sheer number of iPods that are being sold and the quality of iTunes and the iTMS ensures that the iTMS will be around for a very long time to come.
You're right about Real though. They are dead and they don't know it. Actually I'd wager that they probably do have a pretty good idea that they are done but, much like Howard "Yeeaah" Dean, they can't yet bring themselves to concede defeat.
we could spend every dime trying to cure every societal ailment, (which for the last fifty years hasn't worked)
You hit the nail right on the head there man. The current situation in America is proof positive that the government can't solve social problems by throwing money at them. Look at education. The federal government spends more on education than it ever has at any time in our history and look what it has gotten us. Namely, nothing much. In fact, we are worse off today in many respects.
I'd rather see billions spent on getting us to Mars and accomplishing something great then throwing more money away on education or any other social program or entitlement. The bottom line is that we spend more than enough on social programs in this country. In fact, we spend too much money on social programs. Cutting back would force government agencies to do more with less which might eliminate the vast waste and fraud that is now inherent in almost all social programs financed by the government.
Because as much fun as it is to have 100 consoles laying around, I actually do need room for other things. I've got a Nintendo, a Super Nintendo, a Sega Genesis, a Playstation 2 and an X-Box. If Playstation 3 and X-Box 2 aren't backward compatible then the list of consoles that need to be in my game room jumps by two. I'm running out of room in the gameroom man. It's nice when the next generation of a console can play the previous generatoins games for space purposes. I can get rid of the old consoles cause they are no loger necessary.
It also has to do with sales. I'm not going to fork out the money for an X-Box 2 or PS3 unless there is a very strong line up of titles for those platforms at launch time. There never usually is and when that's the case then I wait to buy. Now if a system is backward compatible and I can play all my old games on it, I'll probably preorder the thing. Even if there is only one new game I want, I can still justify the purchase because I can play all my old games on it. When new stuff comes out I can snap it up if I want it.
If there isn't backward compatibility it's going to hurt sales at launch because I know I'm not the only one who is going to pass because they can't justify the cost if there isn't a bunch of cool new games that will be available at launch time to buy. I've heard other people in this talkback say the exact same thing.
Also, just because backward compatibility had never really happened before the PS2 doesn't mean that it shouldn't happen in the future and that it's not necessary. Cars didn't used to have any interchangable parts. Should we have kept it that way? Heck no. Intechangeable parts, where possible, makes things a ton easier on the consumer for a variety of reasons. Same with backward compatibility. It makes sense and it makes things easier for the consumer who doesn't want to have to keep 100 consoles around so he can play his old games.
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There is one reason why many businesses will stick with Windows for the time being and will be very, very happy to do so. It's because now many companies have finally gotten interoperability between their various business systems and it could be very, very costly to suddenly switch to a different operating system on the corporate desktop.
Here's an example from one industry. The company I work for sells Windows based construction accounting, estimating and project management software to mid to large sized construction companies. The parent company has acquired the various smaller software companies over time and has had their development team integrate the various acquired packages. It used to be that your accounting system was separate from your estimating system which was separate from your project management system.
Today, all of these systems are integrated and work together. There are also several third party applications out there developed by third party vendors that integrate with the packages that we sell to bring things like service management, property management and material management to the table.
As computers became more and more mainstream, various systems were put in place to handle various aspects of the operation but these systems rarely worked together or worked together well. We are finally approaching a time in the industry where small to mid sized business can automate almost all of their business processes and can integrate their various systems just like the big boys with a large IT staff and big IT budget have been able to do. The smaller guys who have been stuck using an amalgam of various different business systems that didn't integrate very well together finally have a range of affordable, integrated solutions to choose from. The vast majority of these solutions run on Windows.
So basically we've got a series of customers that finally have estimating that is integrated with accounting that is integrated with project management. Service management, property management and material management is also integrated. All of this is done on Windows. To throw Windows out the door and migrate to Linux is simply not an option for most of them until Linux has viable packages that integrate well in the areas I've mentioned above. To move to Linux otherwise would be a huge step backward for these customers. The cost of the operating system on desktop machines pales in comparison to the costs of having several different business systems that are not integrated.
I am just glad that Andy's attachement wasn't named "format_my_c_drive.exe"... I know people who received the attachment, couldn't open it, and forwarded to to others to see if they could open it.
Really. You could name a virus 'Don't Fucking Open Me I'm a Fucking Virus and I'll Fuck Up Your PC.exe' and you'd have hundreds of ass hats who would open the mother fucker anyway. "Hey, maybe it's a funny joke or something, I guess I'll open it up." The fuckers should be shot.
What in the hell were these people thinking? Hey why don't I go out and pay $6 dollars + tax for a DVD that lasts a week when I can rent the same thing for $3 at a rental store.
.. of dependency hell. The first seriously viable operating system that solves this problem is getting my money. Oh and please don't talk to me about.NET. Part of being seriously viable is being secure, and we all know where Microsoft stands on that.
To me it says that 75% of the Apache administrators on Linux boxes have thought about security. Sure, it's an Apache server, but do you really need to show which distribution you are using ?
Hey man, it beats the ever loving shit out of running any version IIS on any version of Windows.
I guess being a computer professional is like being a doctor. Everyone asks you anything related to your field regardless of the situation (ie, dinner, getting dental work done,...). I try to explain I'm a $100/hour (yes, outsourcing is my fault) contract software engineer. If you want me to reinstall your OS, Drivers, Applications and backup your data that will be about 6-8 hours (assuming they have any legit install disks) and roughly $600 to $800 total. They usually quit calling after that.
You hit the nail on the head there brother. I'm so sick and tired of people that I barely know calling me when their computer breaks asking for help. It always turns into a friggin 2 - 6 hour event. You know the routine. Uninstalling all the crap that people have downloaded. "Hey, let's install this cool looking Bonzi Buddy thingy, what can it hurt?". The idiots should be shot. Removing spyware, removing the 80 virues that have found there way onto the system. "Hey look at this funny attachment, it's called 'Dont Open Me I'm a Fucking Virus and I'll Fuck Up Your Computer.exe' why don't I open it and see what happens. Maybe it's a funny joke or something."
I think I'm going to start telling people that I work for the post office and I'm currently taking court ordered anger management classes. That will shut them the fuck up real quick.
Thank you so much for the wonderful idea of fully integrating your web browser into your very secure and stable operating system! Windows XP is simply a joy to work on. I absolutely love it when I'm browsing the web and Internet Explorer crashes, which causes all open windows, including those that have nothing to do with your wonderful little browser, to close as well. What a well thought out idea it was to integrate the browser into the operating system!
I live about 40 minutes away from Ann Arbor, MI and I tried DirecWay about a year ago. I had a very similar experience to the parent poster. Stay the hell away from DirecWay, it's pretty much worthless. You'll be down all the time, have to reboot a few times a day when it's working to keep it working and the tech support is horrible. If you absolutely have to be able to download large files quickly I guess it's worth it if there is no other alternative but be sure to keep your dial-up account. Trust me. You'll need it.
Keep sueing. Seriously. Keep it coming. Keep pissing off your customer base all the while bringing out crappy pop song after crappy pop song. Then sit back, scratch your big fat stupid greedy heads and ponder why it is that record sales are continuing to plumit.
I'm loving this shit. I really am. I can't get enough. Between this, SCO, Howard "Yeeeaahhh" Dean, and Wesley "I was a Republican until I decided to run for President" Clark there is a lot too laugh at in the news these days.
... that created the collars for dogs and cats that can "translate" their barks and meows? If so, good luck with those glasses and I've got this great piece of ocean front property that I want to sell you for $7,000. No, you can't see it first.
Bring it on Doubleclick! It'll be a fucking frosty day in hell when I ever buy anything from any company that advertises with you. Doubleclick will do all of that work only to have companies that make pop-up blocking software figure out a way to block the new kind of pop-up ads and shut them down again. The problem is that as long as even 0.0001% of users are stupid enough to click the pop-ups and actually buy something there will always be scum sucking, bottom feeding companies that will do what Doubleclick does. It's just like the spam problem. All of us pay because of the few rocket scientists who buy things that are advertised via pop-ups and spam. I just hope these tools don't reproduce, but we all know they will. In fact, they are the type that tend to reproduce most.
"Hey, what the hell Bobby Sue, let's have another 13 kids we can't afford to feed. Hey, Bobby Sue, lookie here, it says here in my e-lectronic mail that they've get these new fangeled pills that can enlarge my penis. Heeeee hah! I'm saving this here message and if I can't find these babies at Wal-Mart then I'll just click this here website and buy these puppies. Your 4 credit cards aren't still maxed out is they Bobby Sue?"
They will never be happy until they have a missile base and a McDonalds drive through on every chunk of rock in the solar system bigger than 2 square meters.
Don't forget Wal-Mart. The sons of bitches can never be happy unless there is a big fat fucking Wal-Mart located next to the McDonalds and across from the missle base. Where else will the soliders and McDonalds employee's be able to go to save $3.25 on blue light special clothing?
... I have been hearing this for the past few years and I still personally believe that Linux is a year or two away. It made great strides last year, no doubt about it, and it will continue to make strides this year, but I still feel that there are a few major things really holding Linux back when it comes to widespread corporate desktop adoption. Need a shining example? How about the ability to cut and paste more than text between applications. Heck, sometimes even cutting and pasting basic text between certain apps can produce interesting results.
If I had to venture a guess I would say that 2006 will be the year that you begin to see fairly widespread Linux adoption on the corporate desktop. That is, of course, unless Microsoft drops the ever loving hell out of its prices to give Linux a run for its money. We've seen them pull crap like this before and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they pulled something like that again. Signs of this are already out there. All you have to do if you want a discount on Microsoft server software is to mention to the Microsoft sales rep that you're seriously looking at Linux and bam, the prices seem to drop almost instantly.
It reminds me of a very appropriate quote by Gandhi. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win." Well ladies and gentlemen. First they tried ignoring Linux, then they tried laughing at Linux, and now they are gearing up to attack Linux. We all know what happens next.
I disagree completely. As far as I can tell, there were no poop and fart jokes in the old movies. Episode I was a complete and total waste. The humor was clearly targeted at little kids. In fact, the majority of the movie was. There were many child characters in Episode I and there were very cartoony aliens all of which was clearly aimed at pleasing kids at the behest of adults. Re-watch the old trilogy. Minus the ewoks, there is nothing in the original movies that clearly panders to children. The humor in the originals, while hokey at times, isn't necessarily targeted to appeal to 5 year olds like Jar Jar's antics and the poop and fart jokes in Episode I. Episode II was a little better in the child pandering department, but the dialog overall, and the acting in some areas, was just plain horrible. The first two Star War's movies are movies that while a little hokey, appeal to both kids and adults. The third has the ewoks, but other than that minor annoyance, it also appeals to kids and adults. Episode I is certainly not geared toward adults. The humor is geared toward children, there is little real violence and Jar Jar is clearly only there to make 5 year olds laugh and sell toys.
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Yeah right, because at the time the US had such a great alternative! You forget the threat that Iran posed to the US at that time. The Iranian government had just been overthrown by radical extremists and they had taken several American citizens hostage, or don't you remember that little hostage crisis that arguably cost your man Carter the presidency. The US armed and supported Saddam because he wanted to take on Iran and at the time Iran was a very serious problem. I doubt very much that the US had any idea that Saddam was going to turn into the monster that he became. Did the US have inklings? Probably. Was arming Saddam a better option at the time then doing nothing about Iran? Absolutely. Hindsight is always 20/20.
No one is saying that US foreign policy is something to hold up as an example of virtue. It's not. It's ugly and it's very necessary. The entire point of US foreign policy is to make things better for the US. You won't find a country in existance that acts in a disimilar fashion. The US stands out now because it is the only superpower left on the block and that, believe it or not, is actuallly a good thing when you consider the alternative. Or would you prefer if the USSR, that shining beacon of freedom, democracy and human rights, would have won the Cold War? Why don't you ask some of the people who risked their lives crossing the Berlin Wall just how wonderful that would have been.
Your way off base there in terms of Apple. The iTMS exists to further the sale of iPods and judging from their 4th quarter results that strategy seems to be working very well for them. If Apple was in it to dominate the online music distribution market you would see them partnering with other hardware manufacturers to get said manufacturers to support their encrypted music format.
Apple hasn't done that, and they probably never will, because the whole point of their music store is to sell more iPods. Steve Jobs has stated publicly that he doesn't think it's possible to make real profits distributing music online at this time. The record companies simply eat up to much of the profits and if you charge any more than a buck a track most customers won't bite. iPods, however, are a very profitable item for Apple. What the iTMS and iTunes combination does is facilitate the sale of more iPods by providing a very cohesive portable media player / music store / desktop media player solution. They are doing to digital music what they've done with the Mac. That is to provide an elegant, integrated, easy to use yet powerful solution marketed towards the higher end.
Apple isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I love my iPod and I love the ease of use of both iTunes and the iTMS. I'll continue buying iPods and purchasing music through the iTMS because I've had such a good experience with it. I know I'm not alone here and judging by fourth quarter sales I'm not the only one that feels that way. The sheer number of iPods that are being sold and the quality of iTunes and the iTMS ensures that the iTMS will be around for a very long time to come.
You're right about Real though. They are dead and they don't know it. Actually I'd wager that they probably do have a pretty good idea that they are done but, much like Howard "Yeeaah" Dean, they can't yet bring themselves to concede defeat.
Hey, it beats the shit out of Microsoft Access!
On a site that allows anonymous reviews the author and/or publisher is probabbly going to pull something like this. It shouldn't surprise anybody.
You hit the nail right on the head there man. The current situation in America is proof positive that the government can't solve social problems by throwing money at them. Look at education. The federal government spends more on education than it ever has at any time in our history and look what it has gotten us. Namely, nothing much. In fact, we are worse off today in many respects.
I'd rather see billions spent on getting us to Mars and accomplishing something great then throwing more money away on education or any other social program or entitlement. The bottom line is that we spend more than enough on social programs in this country. In fact, we spend too much money on social programs. Cutting back would force government agencies to do more with less which might eliminate the vast waste and fraud that is now inherent in almost all social programs financed by the government.
PETA is going to go fucking bonkers when they hear about this one!
Only if your business is the Catholic Church and the kids are alter boys
Who Fucking Cares just released his latest title, This Isn't News, in a similar fashion.
Because as much fun as it is to have 100 consoles laying around, I actually do need room for other things. I've got a Nintendo, a Super Nintendo, a Sega Genesis, a Playstation 2 and an X-Box. If Playstation 3 and X-Box 2 aren't backward compatible then the list of consoles that need to be in my game room jumps by two. I'm running out of room in the gameroom man. It's nice when the next generation of a console can play the previous generatoins games for space purposes. I can get rid of the old consoles cause they are no loger necessary. It also has to do with sales. I'm not going to fork out the money for an X-Box 2 or PS3 unless there is a very strong line up of titles for those platforms at launch time. There never usually is and when that's the case then I wait to buy. Now if a system is backward compatible and I can play all my old games on it, I'll probably preorder the thing. Even if there is only one new game I want, I can still justify the purchase because I can play all my old games on it. When new stuff comes out I can snap it up if I want it. If there isn't backward compatibility it's going to hurt sales at launch because I know I'm not the only one who is going to pass because they can't justify the cost if there isn't a bunch of cool new games that will be available at launch time to buy. I've heard other people in this talkback say the exact same thing. Also, just because backward compatibility had never really happened before the PS2 doesn't mean that it shouldn't happen in the future and that it's not necessary. Cars didn't used to have any interchangable parts. Should we have kept it that way? Heck no. Intechangeable parts, where possible, makes things a ton easier on the consumer for a variety of reasons. Same with backward compatibility. It makes sense and it makes things easier for the consumer who doesn't want to have to keep 100 consoles around so he can play his old games.
There is one reason why many businesses will stick with Windows for the time being and will be very, very happy to do so. It's because now many companies have finally gotten interoperability between their various business systems and it could be very, very costly to suddenly switch to a different operating system on the corporate desktop. Here's an example from one industry. The company I work for sells Windows based construction accounting, estimating and project management software to mid to large sized construction companies. The parent company has acquired the various smaller software companies over time and has had their development team integrate the various acquired packages. It used to be that your accounting system was separate from your estimating system which was separate from your project management system. Today, all of these systems are integrated and work together. There are also several third party applications out there developed by third party vendors that integrate with the packages that we sell to bring things like service management, property management and material management to the table. As computers became more and more mainstream, various systems were put in place to handle various aspects of the operation but these systems rarely worked together or worked together well. We are finally approaching a time in the industry where small to mid sized business can automate almost all of their business processes and can integrate their various systems just like the big boys with a large IT staff and big IT budget have been able to do. The smaller guys who have been stuck using an amalgam of various different business systems that didn't integrate very well together finally have a range of affordable, integrated solutions to choose from. The vast majority of these solutions run on Windows. So basically we've got a series of customers that finally have estimating that is integrated with accounting that is integrated with project management. Service management, property management and material management is also integrated. All of this is done on Windows. To throw Windows out the door and migrate to Linux is simply not an option for most of them until Linux has viable packages that integrate well in the areas I've mentioned above. To move to Linux otherwise would be a huge step backward for these customers. The cost of the operating system on desktop machines pales in comparison to the costs of having several different business systems that are not integrated.
Really. You could name a virus 'Don't Fucking Open Me I'm a Fucking Virus and I'll Fuck Up Your PC.exe' and you'd have hundreds of ass hats who would open the mother fucker anyway. "Hey, maybe it's a funny joke or something, I guess I'll open it up." The fuckers should be shot.
Every campus is a coke campus. Err ... wait ... you guys are talking about which pop is available at the vending machines.
Duh!
What in the hell were these people thinking? Hey why don't I go out and pay $6 dollars + tax for a DVD that lasts a week when I can rent the same thing for $3 at a rental store.
Hey man, it beats the ever loving shit out of running any version IIS on any version of Windows.
You hit the nail on the head there brother. I'm so sick and tired of people that I barely know calling me when their computer breaks asking for help. It always turns into a friggin 2 - 6 hour event. You know the routine. Uninstalling all the crap that people have downloaded. "Hey, let's install this cool looking Bonzi Buddy thingy, what can it hurt?". The idiots should be shot. Removing spyware, removing the 80 virues that have found there way onto the system. "Hey look at this funny attachment, it's called 'Dont Open Me I'm a Fucking Virus and I'll Fuck Up Your Computer.exe' why don't I open it and see what happens. Maybe it's a funny joke or something."
I think I'm going to start telling people that I work for the post office and I'm currently taking court ordered anger management classes. That will shut them the fuck up real quick.
Thank you so much for the wonderful idea of fully integrating your web browser into your very secure and stable operating system! Windows XP is simply a joy to work on. I absolutely love it when I'm browsing the web and Internet Explorer crashes, which causes all open windows, including those that have nothing to do with your wonderful little browser, to close as well. What a well thought out idea it was to integrate the browser into the operating system!
I live about 40 minutes away from Ann Arbor, MI and I tried DirecWay about a year ago. I had a very similar experience to the parent poster. Stay the hell away from DirecWay, it's pretty much worthless. You'll be down all the time, have to reboot a few times a day when it's working to keep it working and the tech support is horrible. If you absolutely have to be able to download large files quickly I guess it's worth it if there is no other alternative but be sure to keep your dial-up account. Trust me. You'll need it.
An you're not man enough to put a name on that post. You must be a liberal.
Keep sueing. Seriously. Keep it coming. Keep pissing off your customer base all the while bringing out crappy pop song after crappy pop song. Then sit back, scratch your big fat stupid greedy heads and ponder why it is that record sales are continuing to plumit.
I'm loving this shit. I really am. I can't get enough. Between this, SCO, Howard "Yeeeaahhh" Dean, and Wesley "I was a Republican until I decided to run for President" Clark there is a lot too laugh at in the news these days.
... that created the collars for dogs and cats that can "translate" their barks and meows? If so, good luck with those glasses and I've got this great piece of ocean front property that I want to sell you for $7,000. No, you can't see it first.
Bring it on Doubleclick! It'll be a fucking frosty day in hell when I ever buy anything from any company that advertises with you. Doubleclick will do all of that work only to have companies that make pop-up blocking software figure out a way to block the new kind of pop-up ads and shut them down again. The problem is that as long as even 0.0001% of users are stupid enough to click the pop-ups and actually buy something there will always be scum sucking, bottom feeding companies that will do what Doubleclick does. It's just like the spam problem. All of us pay because of the few rocket scientists who buy things that are advertised via pop-ups and spam. I just hope these tools don't reproduce, but we all know they will. In fact, they are the type that tend to reproduce most.
"Hey, what the hell Bobby Sue, let's have another 13 kids we can't afford to feed. Hey, Bobby Sue, lookie here, it says here in my e-lectronic mail that they've get these new fangeled pills that can enlarge my penis. Heeeee hah! I'm saving this here message and if I can't find these babies at Wal-Mart then I'll just click this here website and buy these puppies. Your 4 credit cards aren't still maxed out is they Bobby Sue?"
Don't forget Wal-Mart. The sons of bitches can never be happy unless there is a big fat fucking Wal-Mart located next to the McDonalds and across from the missle base. Where else will the soliders and McDonalds employee's be able to go to save $3.25 on blue light special clothing?
... I have been hearing this for the past few years and I still personally believe that Linux is a year or two away. It made great strides last year, no doubt about it, and it will continue to make strides this year, but I still feel that there are a few major things really holding Linux back when it comes to widespread corporate desktop adoption. Need a shining example? How about the ability to cut and paste more than text between applications. Heck, sometimes even cutting and pasting basic text between certain apps can produce interesting results.
If I had to venture a guess I would say that 2006 will be the year that you begin to see fairly widespread Linux adoption on the corporate desktop. That is, of course, unless Microsoft drops the ever loving hell out of its prices to give Linux a run for its money. We've seen them pull crap like this before and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they pulled something like that again. Signs of this are already out there. All you have to do if you want a discount on Microsoft server software is to mention to the Microsoft sales rep that you're seriously looking at Linux and bam, the prices seem to drop almost instantly.
It reminds me of a very appropriate quote by Gandhi. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win." Well ladies and gentlemen. First they tried ignoring Linux, then they tried laughing at Linux, and now they are gearing up to attack Linux. We all know what happens next.
I disagree completely. As far as I can tell, there were no poop and fart jokes in the old movies. Episode I was a complete and total waste. The humor was clearly targeted at little kids. In fact, the majority of the movie was. There were many child characters in Episode I and there were very cartoony aliens all of which was clearly aimed at pleasing kids at the behest of adults. Re-watch the old trilogy. Minus the ewoks, there is nothing in the original movies that clearly panders to children. The humor in the originals, while hokey at times, isn't necessarily targeted to appeal to 5 year olds like Jar Jar's antics and the poop and fart jokes in Episode I. Episode II was a little better in the child pandering department, but the dialog overall, and the acting in some areas, was just plain horrible. The first two Star War's movies are movies that while a little hokey, appeal to both kids and adults. The third has the ewoks, but other than that minor annoyance, it also appeals to kids and adults. Episode I is certainly not geared toward adults. The humor is geared toward children, there is little real violence and Jar Jar is clearly only there to make 5 year olds laugh and sell toys.