Well, if the point of the movie is that nobody knows it's a Jedi (perhaps because he doesn't tell anyone and doesn't use the force until absolutely necessary) then either the audience knows the the characters in the movie don't know - or they're morons in which case any move with more brain than episode III will confuse them.
Besides, the fight scenes aren't the important part of the movie. If I'd make such a movie the fights would be excessively short - Jedi draws lightsaber, Jedi makes three cuts, Jedi puts away lightsaber. Fight over, enemies dead. And the cuts wouldn't even be the ballet-like stuff Lucas seems to prefer but just three simple cuts. The Jedi wouldn't even make more than two steps in that fight.
There's more to the Star Wars universe than action movies.
So when the Google datacenter loses connectivity and you can't access your Google Office apps, at least you can always pull your backups from Google Mail.
Seriously, some people are going to fail to see why the above scenario (main apps at Google, backups also at Google) is not a good way to handle backups.
It also doesn't help that whenever someone updated the Portage tree they immediately abort the build, apply the latest USE flags (and there are a lot of them) and remerge. Even though those new flags are usually stuff like "dotcom", "doomedtofail" and "broken".
Apart from that, they also need near-local response time (which IP's best-effort paradigm isn't really suited for) and availability (if you're blocked from the internet that's one thing, but if you're blocked from all your office suites and productivity apps that's an entirely different one).
I think that the desktop paradigm is only dead to people who are so Web 2.0 that they round the corners on theior paper documents. For pretty much every single real end user the desktop paradigm is going to stay alive for quite some time juat like the 16-bit Windows apps on which the company depends.
Education is an industry that cares about TCO? What's next, a principal getting fired by the board because he puts student education over shareholder value? The curriculum being reduced to stuff not relying on resources like books and experiments because cheaper teaching = higher ROI? Seriously, when education is being seen as an industry that's a sign of seriously screwed up values.
Finally, the grandparent's post about NT4 being a credible gaming platform is just laughable. I don't even know where to start. It seems to me that it is more likely to have been made to get additional performance out of CAD/CAM applications which also use 3d acceleration. So you are write about the GP poster not knowing what he writes about.
NT4 + faster video = (more or less) NT5 = Windows 2000 = the OS most gamers saw as the much superior successor to Windows 98 SE. While NT4 wasn't really a gaming platform, the faster video enabled the NT line to become one.
Nope, then it'd just be a 1 word prepositional phrase that's 10 words long.;)
It'd be a one word propositional phrase that would be one word long. It's you English speakers who put those weird spaces everywhere in compounds. Take, for example, "one word propositional phrase". That's four words. If we write "onewordprepositionalphrase" we only have one word and we saved three characters (and yes, "Einwortpräpositionalphrase" would be a correct and meaningful German compound).
So would you guys please stop wasting enormous amounts of bandwidth and remove those spaces from your compounds? We don't want our tubes to get clogged by all those 0x20s, do we?
Adium has a nice interface, but it's also quite resource hungry (about on par with Thunderbird). I suspect that's because of the fancy UI.
Oh, and it's a PITA to get Adium to just give you a plain text representation of what's being written. You have to go to their extension website and hunt for half an hour until you find a theme that is somewhat ergonomic.
Better than having his children go hungry and receive a bad education while he washes dishes for the rest of his life as no IT company will hire someone who was convicted of (probably criminal) serial copyright violation at the workplace.
If he wants maximal protection from not receiving a decent paycheck he should immediately start looking for a new job while stalling his boss in such a way that he neither violates the law nor gives them a reason to fire him. Doing so might be quite difficult.
Cable ties can also work surprisingly well if you have strong enough ties and one of these mechanical cable tie binders. It's amazing how well designs that should never be done, such as these, can work...
As far as I know Internet2 isn't quite as big as the "regular" internet. Maybe there just aren't enough nodes (and thus routes) to allow for effective damage mitigation.
Their new USB tablets are thinner and totally hassle-free, which makes them attractive for most people.
Tell that to a Volito 2/OS X user. Seriously, if it was in any way possible for you to write a Volito 2 driver for OS X that would be extremely welcome - even though there used to be an old driver that sorta kinda worked, every Mac using Tiger (and soon Leopard) has no way of properly using any USB-based Wacom tablet for under 150 bucks. Which sucks when you want to do graphic editing with your Mac and don't have the money to buy anything but Wacom's entry-level offering.
OTOH, I'd also be happy if you happened to know that I can just use a USB->serial adapter and a serial->USB adapter and your driver...
The French are notorious for not giving up, with one exception, when their "allies" deserted them with the entire German army on their doorstep.
Wrong. France surrendered, the French didn't. The Résistance might not have been an army, but it was there and I see it as a testament on their tenacity.
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Maybe the other OS is simply a hypothetical Solaris without those features.
Maybe he's remastering Clone Wars with all-new special effects and writing defects.
Well, if the point of the movie is that nobody knows it's a Jedi (perhaps because he doesn't tell anyone and doesn't use the force until absolutely necessary) then either the audience knows the the characters in the movie don't know - or they're morons in which case any move with more brain than episode III will confuse them.
Besides, the fight scenes aren't the important part of the movie. If I'd make such a movie the fights would be excessively short - Jedi draws lightsaber, Jedi makes three cuts, Jedi puts away lightsaber. Fight over, enemies dead. And the cuts wouldn't even be the ballet-like stuff Lucas seems to prefer but just three simple cuts. The Jedi wouldn't even make more than two steps in that fight.
There's more to the Star Wars universe than action movies.
So when the Google datacenter loses connectivity and you can't access your Google Office apps, at least you can always pull your backups from Google Mail.
Seriously, some people are going to fail to see why the above scenario (main apps at Google, backups also at Google) is not a good way to handle backups.
It also doesn't help that whenever someone updated the Portage tree they immediately abort the build, apply the latest USE flags (and there are a lot of them) and remerge. Even though those new flags are usually stuff like "dotcom", "doomedtofail" and "broken".
Apart from that, they also need near-local response time (which IP's best-effort paradigm isn't really suited for) and availability (if you're blocked from the internet that's one thing, but if you're blocked from all your office suites and productivity apps that's an entirely different one).
I think that the desktop paradigm is only dead to people who are so Web 2.0 that they round the corners on theior paper documents. For pretty much every single real end user the desktop paradigm is going to stay alive for quite some time juat like the 16-bit Windows apps on which the company depends.
LFG for raid on MSDN Mountain. Level 20+. Can provide [gdb].
Maybe his daughters had 235 non-working webcams, keeping them busy, thus keeping him bored?
Education is an industry that cares about TCO? What's next, a principal getting fired by the board because he puts student education over shareholder value? The curriculum being reduced to stuff not relying on resources like books and experiments because cheaper teaching = higher ROI? Seriously, when education is being seen as an industry that's a sign of seriously screwed up values.
Actually, I think that the EFF must be wrong on this one. They're sharing an opinion with Dvorak so they have to be.
Finally, the grandparent's post about NT4 being a credible gaming platform is just laughable. I don't even know where to start. It seems to me that it is more likely to have been made to get additional performance out of CAD/CAM applications which also use 3d acceleration. So you are write about the GP poster not knowing what he writes about.
NT4 + faster video = (more or less) NT5 = Windows 2000 = the OS most gamers saw as the much superior successor to Windows 98 SE. While NT4 wasn't really a gaming platform, the faster video enabled the NT line to become one.
Maybe they detemined that an elaborate frame-job is more expensive than the usual approach and thus preferable?
Nope, then it'd just be a 1 word prepositional phrase that's 10 words long. ;)
It'd be a one word propositional phrase that would be one word long. It's you English speakers who put those weird spaces everywhere in compounds. Take, for example, "one word propositional phrase". That's four words. If we write "onewordprepositionalphrase" we only have one word and we saved three characters (and yes, "Einwortpräpositionalphrase" would be a correct and meaningful German compound).
So would you guys please stop wasting enormous amounts of bandwidth and remove those spaces from your compounds? We don't want our tubes to get clogged by all those 0x20s, do we?
That reminds me of a certain thing I can't quite remember, I think it starts with a "t".
Tflamebait?
It always amuses me to read/hear people that think "we have to get off this rock" in order to "preserve" the human race.
T-Minus 15.193792102158E+9 years until the universe closes!
Think about it.
Maybe it's time to un-pimp the OS. :-P
Vee-Dub in da house? Or, as we'd rather need a German-ish coder instead of an engineer, how about "H to the Jail" Reiser?
Adium has a nice interface, but it's also quite resource hungry (about on par with Thunderbird). I suspect that's because of the fancy UI.
Oh, and it's a PITA to get Adium to just give you a plain text representation of what's being written. You have to go to their extension website and hunt for half an hour until you find a theme that is somewhat ergonomic.
Better than having his children go hungry and receive a bad education while he washes dishes for the rest of his life as no IT company will hire someone who was convicted of (probably criminal) serial copyright violation at the workplace.
If he wants maximal protection from not receiving a decent paycheck he should immediately start looking for a new job while stalling his boss in such a way that he neither violates the law nor gives them a reason to fire him. Doing so might be quite difficult.
Cable ties can also work surprisingly well if you have strong enough ties and one of these mechanical cable tie binders. It's amazing how well designs that should never be done, such as these, can work...
Actually, first I'd like to see a working version of XHTML1. But that's not the W3C's problem but Microsoft's.
I bet that IE8 will still not support application/xhtml+xml, damning XHTML to further irrelevance.
As far as I know Internet2 isn't quite as big as the "regular" internet. Maybe there just aren't enough nodes (and thus routes) to allow for effective damage mitigation.
Their new USB tablets are thinner and totally hassle-free, which makes them attractive for most people.
Tell that to a Volito 2/OS X user. Seriously, if it was in any way possible for you to write a Volito 2 driver for OS X that would be extremely welcome - even though there used to be an old driver that sorta kinda worked, every Mac using Tiger (and soon Leopard) has no way of properly using any USB-based Wacom tablet for under 150 bucks. Which sucks when you want to do graphic editing with your Mac and don't have the money to buy anything but Wacom's entry-level offering.
OTOH, I'd also be happy if you happened to know that I can just use a USB->serial adapter and a serial->USB adapter and your driver...
I'm waiting for the WWII movie where the Brits, the French, the Russians and the Germans will be completely replaced by Americans...
The French are notorious for not giving up, with one exception, when their "allies" deserted them with the entire German army on their doorstep.
Wrong. France surrendered, the French didn't. The Résistance might not have been an army, but it was there and I see it as a testament on their tenacity.
Aliens did it. The very same aliens that are going to shock freeze a small tropical island soon. See? Crysis.