Actually, the bugs (er...insectiles, or insectoids, or whatever sci-fi version of the "how you spell vampyre, or magic, or whatever" game the author wants to play) aren't always the bad guys...the Thranx in Alan Dean Fosters "Humanx" series are probably better people, on a novel-by-novel basis, than the humans.
On a different track, GOD FREAKING BLESS YOU for your open "Weber writes novels with plots almost as complex as your average Harlequin Romance" stance. I have NO FREAKING IDEA why so many people who are into sci-fi like them, and defend Webber (I told the sci-fi geek at the local barns and noble that I think most of the Honor Harrington books are just paragraphs from the previous novels stuck together with "find and replace" used on the names and I swear to god he stopped talking to me).
Why is it no producer seems to remember the '80s? Conan the Barbarian came out, had a budget backing it, and was a hit (and a fun film to watch). On the other hand, the deluge of fantasy films that followed, both in this country and in Europe (cough -Italy- cough) sucked the life out of the decade, and were mostly responsible for making a generation of Gamers sulk about in high school hallways like so many thieves failing their "hide in shadows" roll (the other being that damn Tom Hanks film.
Fantasy looks like silly crap without a budget. Fantasy looks like a bad movie with a budget and a bunch of producers and executives who're shooting for a certain demographic and a PG-13 rating so's they can bring in the teen market, and a cute side-kick to sell as an action figure... The only time fantasy works is when you dump a bunch of cash on a fanboy who's a skilled director and has enough clout to get his own way in most things.
On the other hand, House of the Dead was the first major release of the '00s, at least that I know of, that proves the 5 minute rule, that being that if you see tits in the first five minutes of the film, enjoy them and leave, as the film will suck.
Unless it's porn.
Well, philosophically, he's using the same argument SCO is vs. Linux, that being that the altruistic/scholastic crowd obviously can't take care of this on their own (screaming "see, they have our IP in there...somewhere...or something" is just a smokescreen for getting Linux more comfortably under corporate control, at least in a way that an MBA isn't made uncomfortable/not able to understand it), c'mon guys, we'll be the responsible business that'll come in and manage this resource in a manner we all understand.
Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support
I don't know if anyone else pointed this out, but, now that we know Linux lacks JFS and SMP support, Darl McBride is like SO screwed, as that's the stuff he's claiming was stolen...
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Actually, the bugs (er...insectiles, or insectoids, or whatever sci-fi version of the "how you spell vampyre, or magic, or whatever" game the author wants to play) aren't always the bad guys...the Thranx in Alan Dean Fosters "Humanx" series are probably better people, on a novel-by-novel basis, than the humans. On a different track, GOD FREAKING BLESS YOU for your open "Weber writes novels with plots almost as complex as your average Harlequin Romance" stance. I have NO FREAKING IDEA why so many people who are into sci-fi like them, and defend Webber (I told the sci-fi geek at the local barns and noble that I think most of the Honor Harrington books are just paragraphs from the previous novels stuck together with "find and replace" used on the names and I swear to god he stopped talking to me).
Why is it no producer seems to remember the '80s? Conan the Barbarian came out, had a budget backing it, and was a hit (and a fun film to watch). On the other hand, the deluge of fantasy films that followed, both in this country and in Europe (cough -Italy- cough) sucked the life out of the decade, and were mostly responsible for making a generation of Gamers sulk about in high school hallways like so many thieves failing their "hide in shadows" roll (the other being that damn Tom Hanks film.
Fantasy looks like silly crap without a budget. Fantasy looks like a bad movie with a budget and a bunch of producers and executives who're shooting for a certain demographic and a PG-13 rating so's they can bring in the teen market, and a cute side-kick to sell as an action figure... The only time fantasy works is when you dump a bunch of cash on a fanboy who's a skilled director and has enough clout to get his own way in most things.
er..IMO
On the other hand, House of the Dead was the first major release of the '00s, at least that I know of, that proves the 5 minute rule, that being that if you see tits in the first five minutes of the film, enjoy them and leave, as the film will suck. Unless it's porn.
Well, philosophically, he's using the same argument SCO is vs. Linux, that being that the altruistic/scholastic crowd obviously can't take care of this on their own (screaming "see, they have our IP in there...somewhere...or something" is just a smokescreen for getting Linux more comfortably under corporate control, at least in a way that an MBA isn't made uncomfortable/not able to understand it), c'mon guys, we'll be the responsible business that'll come in and manage this resource in a manner we all understand.
Trust a Windows user to give appearance precedence over functionality.
Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support I don't know if anyone else pointed this out, but, now that we know Linux lacks JFS and SMP support, Darl McBride is like SO screwed, as that's the stuff he's claiming was stolen...