I read somewhere that Adolf Hitler was really into Metropolis, and that he held it up as an example that all filmmakers should strive for. Food for thought.
And he offered a job to Lang as head of film production for all Germany, at which point Lang bought a ticket to France and then Hollywood. Just because a creep likes a film doesn't mean the guy who made the film is a creep.
Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.
Okay. Winona Ryder, Thora Birch, Christina Ricci, and the female cast of every Joss Whedon show except for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter.
Of course not. The complaint would be if you needed to replace the plastic tube in the atomizer of the perfume, and Amouage charged $20 for a new one when Chanel would only charge $10.
"Can you believe it? When I go to the local steakhouse, they charge me more than twice what the meat itself actually cost! I can grill porterhouses for the whole family for half of the cost of going to the restaurant, and then there's the cost of gas! WTF! Restaurants suck!"
The complaint isn't that Apple charges more than it'd cost you to do it yourself -- it's that they charge more than anyone else.
The proper analogy would be, "Wow, can you believe Apple Steak and Buffet charges twice as much for a refill of Coke as Dell's Steakhouse?"
Do they charge twice as much for the oil, or just more for the labor?
A dealer who has some rube bring the car in for general servicing because they don't think anyone else is able to do maintenance without voiding the warranty?
And really, what idiot would want to own a computer where simple hardware upgrades would void the warranty? That'd be as stupid as building a computer into the monitor so you could never upgrade the screen -- and nobody would be dumb enough to fall for that.
It's from the major Seattle paper, by the reporter who is conducting a series of interviews with Gates this week, and links to PDFs of the memos which were released during discovery one of the times someone sued Microsoft. If that's not enough provenance for you, nothing is.
This is a rant about micrsoft.*com* - the website (and related update sites etc). It isn't about Microsoft itself, or its applications and operating systems
RTFA:
"So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.
At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.
So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.
[...]
So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.
It is not there.
What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
"
I have to get permission from a queeen before calling someone Sir?
Why would you want to call anyone "sir," brother? It is an outmoded relic of a disgusting class-system, meant to single someone out as being superior to you. If you live in a system where the term has any meaning, you should throw off your shackles and overthrow those who impose it upon you; and if you live in a system where it is just a holdover from olden times, you should stop using it in favor of something more egalitarian.
Better than Firefox, where you consume it and begin bleeding memory from a hole no one can find, and then the doctor says, "I don't know what you're talking about."
It depends upon the context. Under current conditions, no. But if ISPs start charging by the gigabyte and you use my router to download 50 gigs of pr0n, you're stealing from me.
Yeah, I don't know why the xkcd folks think they can just get away with this
Well they like xkcd, which makes me seriously question their intelligence -- "Hoo haw! Badly drawn stick figures telling drawn out, badly constructed jokes to each other. I'm so smart for laughing at this. I rule."
I'd write a script that would continually submit whitehouse.gov, loc.gov, foxnews.com, msnbc.com and encourage everybody to run it constantly. It'd be so bitchin'.
Seriously though, I'd like to know what this plan actually entails -- is it something simple you could get around by using a foreign DNS, or would you need full on TOR.
Do you have control over what type of lock you have to use at work? If the PHB decides to install one of these color-code locks and you're colorblind, it's a problem.
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And he offered a job to Lang as head of film production for all Germany, at which point Lang bought a ticket to France and then Hollywood. Just because a creep likes a film doesn't mean the guy who made the film is a creep.
ClamWin is very light and open source.
Okay. Winona Ryder, Thora Birch, Christina Ricci, and the female cast of every Joss Whedon show except for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter.
Decades? Really? You know lots of people who still have 12 inch VGA monitors?
Of course not. The complaint would be if you needed to replace the plastic tube in the atomizer of the perfume, and Amouage charged $20 for a new one when Chanel would only charge $10.
The complaint isn't that Apple charges more than it'd cost you to do it yourself -- it's that they charge more than anyone else.
The proper analogy would be, "Wow, can you believe Apple Steak and Buffet charges twice as much for a refill of Coke as Dell's Steakhouse?"
A) No they don't.
B) Stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Apple isn't the Beamer of computers -- Prius, maybe -- and Dell certainly isn't the Hundai.
A dealer who has some rube bring the car in for general servicing because they don't think anyone else is able to do maintenance without voiding the warranty?
The answer is -- BOTH!
And really, what idiot would want to own a computer where simple hardware upgrades would void the warranty? That'd be as stupid as building a computer into the monitor so you could never upgrade the screen -- and nobody would be dumb enough to fall for that.
To get to Sourceforge you need to install TOR; but to install TOR you need to get to Sourceforge? Sounds like an impossible mission, Starfighter.
Chew out is what you do after biting someone's head off.
It's from the major Seattle paper, by the reporter who is conducting a series of interviews with Gates this week, and links to PDFs of the memos which were released during discovery one of the times someone sued Microsoft. If that's not enough provenance for you, nothing is.
"So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.
At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.
So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.
[...]
So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.
It is not there.
What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. "
Why put the most significant digit after the decimal? Why not 4.5e5/s?
That's Digg -- "Hey look at this cool link I found."
Facebook is where you spam your friends with pointless messages about how you've hurled a squirrel at them.
Better than Firefox, where you consume it and begin bleeding memory from a hole no one can find, and then the doctor says, "I don't know what you're talking about."
It depends upon the context. Under current conditions, no. But if ISPs start charging by the gigabyte and you use my router to download 50 gigs of pr0n, you're stealing from me.
But is connecting to a router really "accessing" it? To me access would mean I connect and then go to 192.168.0.1.
Sarcasm. Your head. One goes far above the other.
Whoosh.
I'd write a script that would continually submit whitehouse.gov, loc.gov, foxnews.com, msnbc.com and encourage everybody to run it constantly. It'd be so bitchin'.
Seriously though, I'd like to know what this plan actually entails -- is it something simple you could get around by using a foreign DNS, or would you need full on TOR.
I for one blame Bush.
Do you have control over what type of lock you have to use at work? If the PHB decides to install one of these color-code locks and you're colorblind, it's a problem.