Big fan of first Hellboy movie here. Got DVD and all that.
For this one, convinced 5 other people for Friday night show, now they are demanding their money back. I knew what was coming when Abe put on new lenses. For fuck sake!
Never owned a razr, never bought that hype too. I already have a great working smartphone which does everything your phone does and does it better - I can TYPE for one, and can copy-paste too, and no DRM bullshit.
Just because iphone may be better than razr does not say much about iphone.
As for the line, if there were two options I had - one phone without any hype and line of which nobody knew, another iphone, and both offered me same functionality, I would just go for the unknown one. YMMV.
It's a phone with a nice mp3 player and some other little features, using or not using it says nothing about a person.
Absolutely. Standing in lines whole night and then remaining without service for hours for a phone with nice mp3 player does not say anything about a person.
Good that you corrected it, but I am sure most of the macboys still want to believe your original claim.
That aside, from those 27%, I can bet hardly 5% are Apple geeks and using this new device with some objectivity. The rest are just look-at-my-penis-i-have-an-iphone sheeple (yes, I used that word, mode me down), who, other than totting around the 'cool', 'hip', 'trendy' to help their low self-esteem, hardly use it to it's strength.
Point is, nobody with a little bit of self-esteem would use this shiny junk for it's price and 2 yrs contract with worst telecom company out there.
I see. In my case, I had gotten hold of some old Dell 512MB machine which I wanted to convert into a music server. Amarok manages to work - but just, and hogs up everything available on the machine. This means I can not do anything else on that box, but then, I never intended to - as long as it plays my 20GB+ collection of music (its attached to my sound system directly). And now I can control music from my other Ubuntu/XP/anything with the web server.
Good luck with your efforts. It's a good beginning:-)
Its like you are asking somebody who is into BDSM about how he can let himself tied up, beaten and then raped in the ass. And while he has already gotten a 1st gen iphone and lusting for another one, do you think he would mind being ripped off by AT&T for mere $0.20 each message?
As someone said somewhere - "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
As for Amarok, not sure if this helps, but you can have this script run a web server after which, you just need a browser on your other pc, and control it over your local network.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36970
Well, I too do not really care about Golden ratio, but everybody has his/her own preferences. His point is partially valid too - while Picasa does let you crop pictures manually, there is no way to specify a ratio you want - Golden or any other.
The discussion is not about specific photo editing tools, its about managing workflow (organizing, tagging, editing raw as well as compressed pictures). Author did mention GIMP, and intends to use it as part of his workflow.
As far as GIMP interface is concerned, let's just say its different than, er, Photoshop. It has been discussed and beaten to death already anyways, and offtopic here.
Umm.... AFAIK, Lenovo Thinkpad Txx series is "Linux ready", yet I had to do some tweaks to get my T60 working completely fine with Ubuntu 7.10 - except hibernate/suspend. (But I have to agree, latest Ubuntu had almost everything working out of the box.)
May be we are not too far away from all vendors going "Linux ready" stickers? Probably wishful thinking, but a lot can change in next two years.
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Exactly. I have over 1000 movies rated under my own profile which is secondary to the main profile of my wife. Now if they do this, not only will we lose ability to maintain separate queues (which is very important, because our tastes are not completely overlapping), I will lose all the ratings which was essential to get new suggestions. New suggestions were one of the main resources for me to find new movies according to my taste.
I am a big fan of Netflix for all the good reasons, but this decision is almost a deal-breaker to me. Give me a fucking chance to get my history and data back.
I'm honestly curious to know; how could they have possibly investigated this more? Just like any other relatively reasonable employer would have done? By checking with IT staff for example? By just NOT ASSUMING things? By checking their security policies?
For fuck sake, if they have an IT department, they would now something about something known as trojan/malware/virus.
Same here. Though he looks like a retard himself going ga-ga over Apple and iPhone at every opportunity, I used to ignore it for his other interesting write-ups. You are right on about him not seeing the parallel, and he conveniently forgets everything about open source movement where geeks have contributed enough, for free.
So what? He used it to further his arguments, didn't he? What's your point?
As noted by AC above, he can't see the parallel. And not only that, he overlooks the most obvious aspect of programmers doing work for free - Open Source. He loves Mac, but conveniently forgets it's roots in BSD etc.
Point to note: Mr. David seems to be pissed off with all the Geeks shouting free (without him realizing the difference between beer and speech, of course). He wrote:
"Oh Mr. Freetard, you work as a programmer, do you? How interesting. So do you perform all your corporate programming duties for free, and earn your keep by selling personally branded mousemats on the side?
Not sure if ValueAmerica had anything geeky in their business other than having a store on teh Internets which did not even function properly.
It was simply [new buzzword] -> Start up -> IPO -> Get rich -> Profit!! What you read in the book is how they did it.
About geeks and business, I think its more true vice versa : Business Tycoons != Geeks. They don't know what works and how, while we have many examples of geeks going on to make hugely successful enterprises.
Well, one of the guys who made millions in the dot com boom is now making sure there are no more 9/11 disasters by writing books on terrorism: Craig Winn of ValueAmerica.
Read dot.bomb by David Kuo - a very interesting insider look into what all went wrong in a typical dot.com company.
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Chances are that the reason is not that it's bug-free, but that it's still buggy.
Chances are that you are not a developer.
"He who is without a sin throw the first stone."
I'm not sure why I'm being modded a Troll above
Welcome to Apple Fanboy world.
Bingo!
Big fan of first Hellboy movie here. Got DVD and all that.
For this one, convinced 5 other people for Friday night show, now they are demanding their money back. I knew what was coming when Abe put on new lenses. For fuck sake!
Never owned a razr, never bought that hype too. I already have a great working smartphone which does everything your phone does and does it better - I can TYPE for one, and can copy-paste too, and no DRM bullshit.
Just because iphone may be better than razr does not say much about iphone.
As for the line, if there were two options I had - one phone without any hype and line of which nobody knew, another iphone, and both offered me same functionality, I would just go for the unknown one. YMMV.
It's a phone with a nice mp3 player and some other little features, using or not using it says nothing about a person.
Absolutely. Standing in lines whole night and then remaining without service for hours for a phone with nice mp3 player does not say anything about a person.
But Viacom has problem with that video too. According to them, throwing poop is their copyright.
Good that you corrected it, but I am sure most of the macboys still want to believe your original claim.
That aside, from those 27%, I can bet hardly 5% are Apple geeks and using this new device with some objectivity. The rest are just look-at-my-penis-i-have-an-iphone sheeple (yes, I used that word, mode me down), who, other than totting around the 'cool', 'hip', 'trendy' to help their low self-esteem, hardly use it to it's strength.
Point is, nobody with a little bit of self-esteem would use this shiny junk for it's price and 2 yrs contract with worst telecom company out there.
I see. In my case, I had gotten hold of some old Dell 512MB machine which I wanted to convert into a music server. Amarok manages to work - but just, and hogs up everything available on the machine. This means I can not do anything else on that box, but then, I never intended to - as long as it plays my 20GB+ collection of music (its attached to my sound system directly). And now I can control music from my other Ubuntu/XP/anything with the web server. :-)
Good luck with your efforts. It's a good beginning
Hey, leave him alone, willya?
Its like you are asking somebody who is into BDSM about how he can let himself tied up, beaten and then raped in the ass. And while he has already gotten a 1st gen iphone and lusting for another one, do you think he would mind being ripped off by AT&T for mere $0.20 each message?
As someone said somewhere - "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
As for Amarok, not sure if this helps, but you can have this script run a web server after which, you just need a browser on your other pc, and control it over your local network. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36970
Well, I too do not really care about Golden ratio, but everybody has his/her own preferences.
His point is partially valid too - while Picasa does let you crop pictures manually, there is no way to specify a ratio you want - Golden or any other.
The discussion is not about specific photo editing tools, its about managing workflow (organizing, tagging, editing raw as well as compressed pictures). Author did mention GIMP, and intends to use it as part of his workflow.
As far as GIMP interface is concerned, let's just say its different than, er, Photoshop. It has been discussed and beaten to death already anyways, and offtopic here.
Umm.... AFAIK, Lenovo Thinkpad Txx series is "Linux ready", yet I had to do some tweaks to get my T60 working completely fine with Ubuntu 7.10 - except hibernate/suspend. (But I have to agree, latest Ubuntu had almost everything working out of the box.)
May be we are not too far away from all vendors going "Linux ready" stickers? Probably wishful thinking, but a lot can change in next two years.
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What's wrong with sudo?
Exactly. I have over 1000 movies rated under my own profile which is secondary to the main profile of my wife. Now if they do this, not only will we lose ability to maintain separate queues (which is very important, because our tastes are not completely overlapping), I will lose all the ratings which was essential to get new suggestions. New suggestions were one of the main resources for me to find new movies according to my taste.
I am a big fan of Netflix for all the good reasons, but this decision is almost a deal-breaker to me. Give me a fucking chance to get my history and data back.
For fuck sake, if they have an IT department, they would now something about something known as trojan/malware/virus.
Same here. Though he looks like a retard himself going ga-ga over Apple and iPhone at every opportunity, I used to ignore it for his other interesting write-ups. You are right on about him not seeing the parallel, and he conveniently forgets everything about open source movement where geeks have contributed enough, for free.
So what? He used it to further his arguments, didn't he? What's your point?
As noted by AC above, he can't see the parallel. And not only that, he overlooks the most obvious aspect of programmers doing work for free - Open Source. He loves Mac, but conveniently forgets it's roots in BSD etc.
"Oh Mr. Freetard, you work as a programmer, do you? How interesting. So do you perform all your corporate programming duties for free, and earn your keep by selling personally branded mousemats on the side?
"Didn't think so."
Not sure if ValueAmerica had anything geeky in their business other than having a store on teh Internets which did not even function properly.
It was simply [new buzzword] -> Start up -> IPO -> Get rich -> Profit!! What you read in the book is how they did it.
About geeks and business, I think its more true vice versa : Business Tycoons != Geeks. They don't know what works and how, while we have many examples of geeks going on to make hugely successful enterprises.
Well, one of the guys who made millions in the dot com boom is now making sure there are no more 9/11 disasters by writing books on terrorism: Craig Winn of ValueAmerica.
Read dot.bomb by David Kuo - a very interesting insider look into what all went wrong in a typical dot.com company.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAq_FNHh0k