I have said before that if they stop making movies that suck that people will go and see them.
While I:
1) Agree that you are correct in that a lot of the movies they've put out (Dewd, where's my car?) have been ridiculously stupid..
2) Say most of your argument also applies to the music industry and 90% of the music being produced...
I must say that for all the really dumb shit that gets produced, there are plenty of people waiting in line to go eat it up.
I'm really surprised that LOTR did as well as it did, if you want MHO. Most people don't want a good story, they want cheesy humour, lots of explosions and impossible car physics. (see also your most popular video games).
I could not solicit any friends to go see LOTR with me, and i went during prime movie time (evenings on fridays and saturdays), and i probably counted a dozen people outside of myself in the theatre. Two people were so enthralled with the movie that they talked on their cell phone for about an hour each.
It baffles, scares, and humiliates me to see how many people seek mindless entertainment for their "me too!" lives.
Netcraft confirmed in a report today that the beleagured Pop-Up Advertisement industry is citing Mozilla and Firefox as the driving force that has snuffed out their livelihood and threatens to drive them into extinction....
(c'mon, someone else can do this better than me):-D
In other news.... when parasites and popups are no longer possible, what sorts of nefarious crap will the nefarious-mongers do next?
1) IBM is our friend 2) Apple is no longer just for coddled sheep 3) Sun is dying 4) Sun is embracing linux 5) Sun is no longer embracing linux 6) SGI is dying 7) ???
8) We might be watching the beginning of the end for Microsoft. Not just in this, but the whole pile of events over the last couple of years. If Microsoft loses relevance, and market share, and withers away...
Not 4 months ago MSN.com (obviously slanted) was trumpeting around "BROWSER WAR IS OVER!!!" and proclaiming that IE was the clear victor (though they never gave the conditions that made it a victor, they just sensationalized and re-iterated the same shit over and over in different wording in True Fox News Style(tm))
MS to "win the browser war" just in time to have their browser shot down every time they turn.
They had better wake up to this, too... These days, "internet" is about 85% of what computing is about. MS with all their attempts to blur the lines between your computer and the internet, and their flagship web application is poo.
"According to Wired, the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers."
I hope that this also translates into a large spike of donations to the mozilla organization. Firefox and T-bird are teh moh scheezi, and i started using mozilla years ago.
I've donated about $150 over the years, how bout y'all?
The thing that i have yet to see anyone mention is this:
Most of the car models in the lowest registers of the VIN numbers are no longer in production, and haven't been for 20-some years. We *could* re-use some of those numbers.
Secondly, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but there are much fewer car companies than there used to be, *and* each company is making much fewer models.
It won't be long before SUVs are no longer `cool', and gasoline will be rare and prohibitively expensive. More folks will be buying cars that run on fuel cells or electricity.
Thenagain, car makers should just STFU, bite the bullet, and understand that shit like this happens. If it were thought through a little more 30 years ago, we wouldn't have to do it yet.
The key is designing a system that doesn't expire until after you've died
The company i work for gets about 20-50 telemarketer calls a day.
I can spot them usually in the first 3 seconds and just hang up. I don't give them a chance to get going on their spiel. No hard feelings either, they're just a phone monkey sitting behind an autodialer. Once i hang up it dials the next number in line.
I've got work to do, i don't have time for that shit.
On top of that, we get about 10-15 junk faxes a day too.
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I think i should thank you for the links to the images. Not that i enjoy looking at them, but adds some armament against some of the jingoistic pro-war folks i know.
In any event, gives a fella something to think about.
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Apart from forces of one insane religious fanatic (George Bush) trying to kill the forces of another insane religious fanatic (Bin Laden) who is trying to do the same back, with neither party trying that hard to avoid hurting anyone vaguely in the same area I don't think there are any major problems with your business plan:-)
You do have a point with the insane religious mofos.. but to iraq's credit(?) the business landscape is probably very different. I don't want to make assumptions because i've never been there, but in Iraq i doubt that they've got huge corporate conglomerates like Microsoft, Sun, HP and the like with entrenched IT solutions and spouting FUD about OSS.
From their standpoint, they've probably got nothing entrenched or installed, and probably have computers that the average fat pro-bush-consumerist American would throw away.
From there, a free, well documented and supported OS that runs on modest hardware and doesn't come with any ridiculous licensing agreements from half the world away is probably rather desireable.
And besides, as far as i can tell, aside from what the U.S. gov't tells you, i don't think that the Iraqis are overly grateful for the U.S. coming in and `rescuing' them from Saddam.
Microsoft == USA
I don't buy it.
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The article discusses how the Iraqi Linux User Group believe Linux will aid the Iraqi people in the rebuilding of their country, and the benefits of open source in Iraq."
I'm sure it's an interesting article, and i am glad that they too will have all the same benefits and fun of OSS as most of us on/. enjoy...
But to be quite honest, i think that there are probably some more pressing issues in Iraq at hand that need to be sorted out first.
Then we can play.
Mod me down and i will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
I'll believe the release dates when I have a copy in my grubby little hands and not before.
Lots of games like that. Most recently Driv3r (their cutesy name for Driver 3). We've been strung along for almost 2 years on the release date, watching it get announced then pushed back again and again.
Now that i've got a copy in my grubby hands (and slightly less than grubby ps2), i still question whether they were *really* done with it, or if they just got to a point where the devels said to each other:
"Well, we've got the basic idea down, fixed most of the big problems, the rest we can live with. It's been 3 years.. shove it out the door and let's wash our hands of it"....
Still seems like it'll be a fun game though. As an armchair programmer, i can understand and appreciate the types of delays one gets with a complicated program (even without various levels of management and all that bullshit getting in the way). But to develop something that will get scrutinized lloudly and publicly by every pimply-faced teenager to young adult male in the world would drive me batshit insane.
I used to want to be a game developer, but on second thought, no thanks. At least coding has given me some more empathy and patience when it comes to game release dates.:-D
It's ironic (this story comes up) in that a friend of mine recently duped me into installing and running quakeforge. I went along with it because my gf keeps telling me that i need to play more video games.
It's hilarious. I have a fairly up-to-date athlonxp system w/ 512mb of ram, huge fast drives, a decent surround sound system and such, but since i'm not a huge FPS player, my video card is still the old STB Velocity 4400 (i.e. a RIVA TNT) from the k6-II that now serves files from my closet.
I get about 17 FPS in fugly-graphics mode, but it cracks me up. I fire up the game and all of a sudden it is 1997 again. All i need now is Duke Nukem, Doom, Sim City Classic and HotelChat, and i get all those warm fuzzies i haven't felt since the days on the roommate's 486.
"I'm tired of HD failures. I've suffered through a few of them. Even with backups, they are still a pain to recover from.
If you just run Gentoo, you can type "emerge new_harddrive" and it takes care of everything by the end of the month!
or..
Your shit PEECEE WINTEL crap parts made in china are no match for real quality Mac hardware, which are fully integrated with the UNIX UNDERPINNINGS that have the Best GUI Ever(tm) on top.
Agree. I've been using Slack just about as long as you. Everytime I use another distribution I eventually bang my head against their packaging and configuration schemes. Life's too short to waste it learning about proprietary voodoo.
Well said. And interesting to note, it seems that the Linux camp is getting more and more divided into the "everything by console and text editor" and the "eyecandy clicky clicky" types. There used to be somewhat of an integration, but now it's looking like some huge rift between the two camps, both with different ideals, different desires and of course, different types of zealots and trolls.
It's like we've got an extra camp now:
Windows crowd OSX snobs BSD crowd sparse-distro-linux crowd heavy-distro-linux crowd
oh yeah, and then the my-gentoo-is-just-like-bsd-but-bsd-is-too-hard group.
the others have answered your question, and I'll even add this, it even comes with RPM, should you feel the need to scream out loud.
Yeah, but RPM is a horrible awful thing and its implementation is a plague on the Linux world.
No central repository, no consistent interface, sparse documentation, incompatible versions, etc. Debian's APT, Slackware's pkgtool, and the ports system the BSDs have have all been a much better working and better designed system, for much longer than RPM has been around.
Just IMHO.
Oh yeah, and shutup all you Gentoo Partyliners, you're way late in this game.
Rabid and clueless. I try to like the Mac folks, but the OS X IS THE BEST UNIX EVER BECAUSE STEVE JOBS IS GOD partyline is right up there with the worst linux zealotry. Regurgitated hype with no facts to back them up, just strawman arguments.
Oh well. Mod me down and i will become more powerful than you could ever imagine, but those that read at -1 will nod their heads in agreement.
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....are all about product placement and creating a backdrop for a line of action figures and video games.
Of course, there have also been movies made from video games.
And there are video games with product placement (driv3r, anyone?) strewn about them.
It all makes me so sick i don't ever want to watch another movie or play another game, sometimes...
I have said before that if they stop making movies that suck that people will go and see them.
While I:
1) Agree that you are correct in that a lot of the movies they've put out (Dewd, where's my car?) have been ridiculously stupid..
2) Say most of your argument also applies to the music industry and 90% of the music being produced...
I must say that for all the really dumb shit that gets produced, there are plenty of people waiting in line to go eat it up.
I'm really surprised that LOTR did as well as it did, if you want MHO. Most people don't want a good story, they want cheesy humour, lots of explosions and impossible car physics. (see also your most popular video games).
I could not solicit any friends to go see LOTR with me, and i went during prime movie time (evenings on fridays and saturdays), and i probably counted a dozen people outside of myself in the theatre. Two people were so enthralled with the movie that they talked on their cell phone for about an hour each.
It baffles, scares, and humiliates me to see how many people seek mindless entertainment for their "me too!" lives.
Netcraft confirmed in a report today that the beleagured Pop-Up Advertisement industry is citing Mozilla and Firefox as the driving force that has snuffed out their livelihood and threatens to drive them into extinction....
:-D
(c'mon, someone else can do this better than me)
In other news.... when parasites and popups are no longer possible, what sorts of nefarious crap will the nefarious-mongers do next?
1) IBM is our friend
2) Apple is no longer just for coddled sheep
3) Sun is dying
4) Sun is embracing linux
5) Sun is no longer embracing linux
6) SGI is dying
7) ???
8) We might be watching the beginning of the end for Microsoft. Not just in this, but the whole pile of events over the last couple of years. If Microsoft loses relevance, and market share, and withers away...
Who Is Going To Be The New Evil Empire????
I want to know who to unconditionally hate next!!
Not 4 months ago MSN.com (obviously slanted) was trumpeting around "BROWSER WAR IS OVER!!!" and proclaiming that IE was the clear victor (though they never gave the conditions that made it a victor, they just sensationalized and re-iterated the same shit over and over in different wording in True Fox News Style(tm))
MS to "win the browser war" just in time to have their browser shot down every time they turn.
They had better wake up to this, too... These days, "internet" is about 85% of what computing is about. MS with all their attempts to blur the lines between your computer and the internet, and their flagship web application is poo.
"According to Wired, the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers."
I hope that this also translates into a large spike of donations to the mozilla organization. Firefox and T-bird are teh moh scheezi, and i started using mozilla years ago.
I've donated about $150 over the years, how bout y'all?
The thing that i have yet to see anyone mention is this:
Most of the car models in the lowest registers of the VIN numbers are no longer in production, and haven't been for 20-some years. We *could* re-use some of those numbers.
Secondly, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but there are much fewer car companies than there used to be, *and* each company is making much fewer models.
It won't be long before SUVs are no longer `cool', and gasoline will be rare and prohibitively expensive. More folks will be buying cars that run on fuel cells or electricity.
Thenagain, car makers should just STFU, bite the bullet, and understand that shit like this happens. If it were thought through a little more 30 years ago, we wouldn't have to do it yet.
The key is designing a system that doesn't expire until after you've died
I wonder if it's healthy for humans to get attached to robots "as friends"...
;)
Robots won't be attached to us, and we're setting ourselves up for a one-sided relationship.
Now... if someone's going to invent Sexbots....
The company i work for gets about 20-50 telemarketer calls a day.
I can spot them usually in the first 3 seconds and just hang up. I don't give them a chance to get going on their spiel. No hard feelings either, they're just a phone monkey sitting behind an autodialer. Once i hang up it dials the next number in line.
I've got work to do, i don't have time for that shit.
On top of that, we get about 10-15 junk faxes a day too.
SimIndian?
Is this a new Maxis Game?
oh and be British!
yet another reason to wish i were british.
I think i should thank you for the links to the images. Not that i enjoy looking at them, but adds some armament against some of the jingoistic pro-war folks i know.
In any event, gives a fella something to think about.
Apart from forces of one insane religious fanatic (George Bush) trying to kill the forces of another insane religious fanatic (Bin Laden) who is trying to do the same back, with neither party trying that hard to avoid hurting anyone vaguely in the same area I don't think there are any major problems with your business plan :-)
You do have a point with the insane religious mofos.. but to iraq's credit(?) the business landscape is probably very different. I don't want to make assumptions because i've never been there, but in Iraq i doubt that they've got huge corporate conglomerates like Microsoft, Sun, HP and the like with entrenched IT solutions and spouting FUD about OSS.
From their standpoint, they've probably got nothing entrenched or installed, and probably have computers that the average fat pro-bush-consumerist American would throw away.
From there, a free, well documented and supported OS that runs on modest hardware and doesn't come with any ridiculous licensing agreements from half the world away is probably rather desireable.
And besides, as far as i can tell, aside from what the U.S. gov't tells you, i don't think that the Iraqis are overly grateful for the U.S. coming in and `rescuing' them from Saddam.
Microsoft == USA
The article discusses how the Iraqi Linux User Group believe Linux will aid the Iraqi people in the rebuilding of their country, and the benefits of open source in Iraq."
/. enjoy...
I'm sure it's an interesting article, and i am glad that they too will have all the same benefits and fun of OSS as most of us on
But to be quite honest, i think that there are probably some more pressing issues in Iraq at hand that need to be sorted out first.
Then we can play.
Mod me down and i will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
But a couple of years ago i got by happily with:
gcc
vi
bitchx
frotz (and a pile of Infocom game files)
lynx
slrn
pine
man
um....
bash
Spent about 5 months in the summer without X even installed. I didn't really miss it, at the time.
I'll believe the release dates when I have a copy in my grubby little hands and not before.
:-D
Lots of games like that. Most recently Driv3r (their cutesy name for Driver 3). We've been strung along for almost 2 years on the release date, watching it get announced then pushed back again and again.
Now that i've got a copy in my grubby hands (and slightly less than grubby ps2), i still question whether they were *really* done with it, or if they just got to a point where the devels said to each other:
"Well, we've got the basic idea down, fixed most of the big problems, the rest we can live with. It's been 3 years.. shove it out the door and let's wash our hands of it"....
Still seems like it'll be a fun game though. As an armchair programmer, i can understand and appreciate the types of delays one gets with a complicated program (even without various levels of management and all that bullshit getting in the way). But to develop something that will get scrutinized lloudly and publicly by every pimply-faced teenager to young adult male in the world would drive me batshit insane.
I used to want to be a game developer, but on second thought, no thanks. At least coding has given me some more empathy and patience when it comes to game release dates.
It's ironic (this story comes up) in that a friend of mine recently duped me into installing and running quakeforge. I went along with it because my gf keeps telling me that i need to play more video games.
It's hilarious. I have a fairly up-to-date athlonxp system w/ 512mb of ram, huge fast drives, a decent surround sound system and such, but since i'm not a huge FPS player, my video card is still the old STB Velocity 4400 (i.e. a RIVA TNT) from the k6-II that now serves files from my closet.
I get about 17 FPS in fugly-graphics mode, but it cracks me up. I fire up the game and all of a sudden it is 1997 again. All i need now is Duke Nukem, Doom, Sim City Classic and HotelChat, and i get all those warm fuzzies i haven't felt since the days on the roommate's 486.
w00t!
Disclaimer: i love both debian and freebsd
Oh, and my uptime IN WINDOWS is about a month.
Going a month without doing Windows Update is not recommended
"I'm tired of HD failures. I've suffered through a few of them. Even with backups, they are still a pain to recover from.
If you just run Gentoo, you can type "emerge new_harddrive" and it takes care of everything by the end of the month!
or..
Your shit PEECEE WINTEL crap parts made in china are no match for real quality Mac hardware, which are fully integrated with the UNIX UNDERPINNINGS that have the Best GUI Ever(tm) on top.
Disclaimer: I love trolls.
Sco is damn silly...
We couldn't have asked for a more entertaining lawsuit!
Agree. I've been using Slack just about as long as you. Everytime I use another distribution I eventually bang my head against their packaging and configuration schemes. Life's too short to waste it learning about proprietary voodoo.
Well said. And interesting to note, it seems that the Linux camp is getting more and more divided into the "everything by console and text editor" and the "eyecandy clicky clicky" types. There used to be somewhat of an integration, but now it's looking like some huge rift between the two camps, both with different ideals, different desires and of course, different types of zealots and trolls.
It's like we've got an extra camp now:
Windows crowd
OSX snobs
BSD crowd
sparse-distro-linux crowd
heavy-distro-linux crowd
oh yeah, and then the my-gentoo-is-just-like-bsd-but-bsd-is-too-hard group.
the others have answered your question, and I'll even add this, it even comes with RPM, should you feel the need to scream out loud.
Yeah, but RPM is a horrible awful thing and its implementation is a plague on the Linux world.
No central repository, no consistent interface, sparse documentation, incompatible versions, etc. Debian's APT, Slackware's pkgtool, and the ports system the BSDs have have all been a much better working and better designed system, for much longer than RPM has been around.
Just IMHO.
Oh yeah, and shutup all you Gentoo Partyliners, you're way late in this game.
I can still remember my grandpa telling me stories about this distro.
:-D
Ahh yes... but did he conveniently leave out the 12 BSD users that said "Linux is Dying(tm)"?
(Disclaimer: I use debian, slackware and fbsd and love them all)
Boy, and I thought the Mac crowd was rabid!
Rabid and clueless. I try to like the Mac folks, but the OS X IS THE BEST UNIX EVER BECAUSE STEVE JOBS IS GOD partyline is right up there with the worst linux zealotry. Regurgitated hype with no facts to back them up, just strawman arguments.
Oh well. Mod me down and i will become more powerful than you could ever imagine, but those that read at -1 will nod their heads in agreement.
[b] Ahem... I have *five* friends, thank you very much.[/b]
:oP
I've got you beat! I have 4 friends *and* a weekend girlfriend! Ha! And, one of those 4 friends i met IRL once!