And those 6 episodes (the three hours) included both books. So the grandparent's argument is bunk, as the comparable portion of the miniseries was actually quite a bit shorter.
Yes, but the thing about the movie was that it was bad. I went into it with low expectation, but it blew away even those. I have loved the tv show, the radio shows (both the original and the new one) and the books, but the movie conveyed none of the greatness that filled the productions of the other mediums. By essentially removing all of the humor and corrupting all of the characters, what the viewer was left with was a non-sensical storyline and some cheap CG. I'm not saying that it has to be exactly like the book. I wouldn't have minded all of the new subplots they added, if they had been humorous. Instead, they became a laundry list of places to go to, at which some item had to be for no very good reason.
I didn't mind LoTR; sure the movie changed some things but I accepted that those changes probably helped it in the new medium. However, the H2G2 movie, irregaurdless of whether there had been a book before, was just bad.
I am so happy to hear this. In this IE6 world a webdesigner cannot use transparent pngs, because roughly 90% of your viewership's browser would not render them correctly. One was then forced to either use transparent gifs (which only support 2 level of transparency, i.e., on or off) or else try to fake it (which is difficult because IE and Gecko don't always render colors the same.) Hopefully they'll finally implement some more CSS2, like allowing the hover pseudo class to be used with any object, rather than just links. Oh, and perhaps they could finally fix the box model.
There was a mission on Dantooine where your character had to deal with a rogue jedi who was causing trouble. I did not have enough charisma, and so I was unable to change her mind about becoming a sith, and thus I had to kill her. When I returned to the jedi compound, one of her friends started yelling at me, angry that I had killed her friend. I was so angry that this jedi was accosting me; I had just cleansed the world of an evil.
Right. I got Panther to do this with a little tweaking, and from what I read, Tiger may be doing something similar. Talk about innovation...
Not only that, but Konqueror (and I believe also Nautilous, though It's been awhile since I've used it) has been doing this for years. At least Microsoft isn't varying from tradition: "Never innovate, just steal our competitions innovations and claim them as our own."
It's pretty much the only X file manager out there that dares to do something other than clone the Windows file browser, and for that "crime", it's widely castigated by the community.
I don't know if you remember, but this is how windows 95 worked. It was the most anoying thing, and I was extremely relieved when 98 came out and Microsoft changed the file manager. I cannot understand why the Gnome people would clone a decade old Microsoft model, over a new one (not to say that Microsoft invented either.) I use Konqueror both in Gnome and in KDE (which I use much more frequently, partly because Nautilus is so deeply ingrained in the DE.)
In that pic, you can read everything, but it is clear that if you use your computer for things like text, this would be a nearly unusable monitor.
While I won't comment on the practical applications of this monitor, your comment shows a lack of understanding about photography. Since the camera taking the picture can only take one in 2 dimensions, the true dimensiality of the monitor cannot be grasped through a photo.
I would look at this monitor in person before making any cracks about its usability.
The solution just might be buying out content companies, like Mark Cuban does. In the retrospect the Comcast bid for Disney and AOL buying Time Warner start making sense.
Yeah, because when a company has electronics/software components and media components they always work. What about Sony, who potentially lost its stronghold on the portable music player market because the media division wouldn't let the hardware division support the mp3 format on their players, fearing that their devices would just be used for the listening of their own pirated content. The content companies will come around eventually, just as they did for vhs, and as the music industry is starting to for digital distrubution. Buying them out will only cause problems (as it has for AOL/TimeWarner) and will serve little purpose.
I don't knwo what you're talking about. Here in Santa Cruz, CA we pay for busses (which is our only form of public transportation), and in S.F. (which actually has public transportation) people pay fo the subway (BART and MUNI), busses (MUNI), and trolleys. I don't know how it is in the interior of the country, but I would be very suprised if any Americans (let alone most) are offered free public transportation.
That is untrue. When the PS3 comes out it will have graphics beyond anything that is available for the PC market. That will change soon after, of course, but it will have revolutionary graphics for a short while. It definitely will not be outdated before it leaves the gate.
While it seems like a good idea, the technical implementation is lacking. I tried it with a Creative Zen Micro. When listening to N2G tracks there is a three or so second delay before songs start playing. Very anoying, especially with shorter songs. In addition, I was forced at one point to take out my battery (the player crashed), and this caused all of the N2G music to refuse to play. According to the Napster rep, in order to get it to play again, you have to reformat (!) your drive and resync your music (an hour long procedure with a few gigs of music.) Interesting idea, though I didn't really like the idea that I had no control over the music, that at Microsoft's or Napster's whim (or technical inability) my music would no play. I'd rather buy it.
I don't think your argument would apply in this case. Notice that it is VB developers (if you can call them that) that are complaining. Not businesses. The developers can always learn VB.NET (or, god forbid, a language that is actually halfway decent.) It's the companies that will have these problems.
While your argument is...uh...interesting, the point where it totally falls apart is here:
These browsers that hold the minority in market share will be ignored by web application developers just like they are today because "everybody uses IE."
I know a lot of web developers (and in fact am one myself.) Even though standard support is extremely difficult in an era when IE holds a vast majortity of the market share, it does not stop of from developing with standards. When Microsoft implements XAML into their browser many web developers will not use it, because it cuts out EVERYONE except those on IE. Everyone. 10% is a lot of people if you're Amazon. Even with css, you can hack it so that it renders properly in IE. With XAML (which will be an IE only technology) there will be not hope of that.
A game like HL2 can easily be done on a PS3 and xbox2.
I wouldn't say that as if it were a good thing. To say that a next generation console that won't be out for another year at the earliest can play a PC game that came out a few months ago is no great feat. The problem (one that will not go away) with consoles is that for the lifetime (~6 years for the PS2) of the console its specs will not get any better, so PC gaming will surpass it.
Microsoft Voice Command provides a similar service for pocket pcs, through its integration with windows media player (for the pocket pc). I played with it, and it was novel for about a week, and then I realized that it was really not that difficult just to push one of the hard buttons, and I haven't used it much since. Though I must say I did attract some strange looks when I was shouting at my PPC.
Mainly it's that wordpress lacks some really important functionality neccessary for this application, for instance being able to have a different template for the main index page.
Dreamwever and even Front Page and the like have been invaulable in getting large numbers of people creating their own web based material
I, for one, do not view this as a good thing. The simplicity of using dreamweaver or Front Page causes people who have no sense of web design to create atrocious pages, which I am forced daily to trudge through. Not to mention the horrible code that these generators create.
Considering that Slate is owned by Microsoft, I would think that they are more than a little biased against google, as Google is now a major compeditor for Microsoft.
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And those 6 episodes (the three hours) included both books. So the grandparent's argument is bunk, as the comparable portion of the miniseries was actually quite a bit shorter.
Yes, but the thing about the movie was that it was bad. I went into it with low expectation, but it blew away even those. I have loved the tv show, the radio shows (both the original and the new one) and the books, but the movie conveyed none of the greatness that filled the productions of the other mediums. By essentially removing all of the humor and corrupting all of the characters, what the viewer was left with was a non-sensical storyline and some cheap CG. I'm not saying that it has to be exactly like the book. I wouldn't have minded all of the new subplots they added, if they had been humorous. Instead, they became a laundry list of places to go to, at which some item had to be for no very good reason.
I didn't mind LoTR; sure the movie changed some things but I accepted that those changes probably helped it in the new medium. However, the H2G2 movie, irregaurdless of whether there had been a book before, was just bad.
Those hacks are very nice, but unfortunately they do not work for background images, which makes them much less useful.
They have finally added proper PNG support
I am so happy to hear this. In this IE6 world a webdesigner cannot use transparent pngs, because roughly 90% of your viewership's browser would not render them correctly. One was then forced to either use transparent gifs (which only support 2 level of transparency, i.e., on or off) or else try to fake it (which is difficult because IE and Gecko don't always render colors the same.) Hopefully they'll finally implement some more CSS2, like allowing the hover pseudo class to be used with any object, rather than just links. Oh, and perhaps they could finally fix the box model.
There was a mission on Dantooine where your character had to deal with a rogue jedi who was causing trouble. I did not have enough charisma, and so I was unable to change her mind about becoming a sith, and thus I had to kill her. When I returned to the jedi compound, one of her friends started yelling at me, angry that I had killed her friend. I was so angry that this jedi was accosting me; I had just cleansed the world of an evil.
Right. I got Panther to do this with a little tweaking, and from what I read, Tiger may be doing something similar. Talk about innovation...
Not only that, but Konqueror (and I believe also Nautilous, though It's been awhile since I've used it) has been doing this for years. At least Microsoft isn't varying from tradition: "Never innovate, just steal our competitions innovations and claim them as our own."
It's pretty much the only X file manager out there that dares to do something other than clone the Windows file browser, and for that "crime", it's widely castigated by the community.
I don't know if you remember, but this is how windows 95 worked. It was the most anoying thing, and I was extremely relieved when 98 came out and Microsoft changed the file manager. I cannot understand why the Gnome people would clone a decade old Microsoft model, over a new one (not to say that Microsoft invented either.) I use Konqueror both in Gnome and in KDE (which I use much more frequently, partly because Nautilus is so deeply ingrained in the DE.)
In that pic, you can read everything, but it is clear that if you use your computer for things like text, this would be a nearly unusable monitor.
While I won't comment on the practical applications of this monitor, your comment shows a lack of understanding about photography. Since the camera taking the picture can only take one in 2 dimensions, the true dimensiality of the monitor cannot be grasped through a photo.
I would look at this monitor in person before making any cracks about its usability.
The solution just might be buying out content companies, like Mark Cuban does. In the retrospect the Comcast bid for Disney and AOL buying Time Warner start making sense.
Yeah, because when a company has electronics/software components and media components they always work. What about Sony, who potentially lost its stronghold on the portable music player market because the media division wouldn't let the hardware division support the mp3 format on their players, fearing that their devices would just be used for the listening of their own pirated content. The content companies will come around eventually, just as they did for vhs, and as the music industry is starting to for digital distrubution. Buying them out will only cause problems (as it has for AOL/TimeWarner) and will serve little purpose.
Am I the only person who feels that this is almost criminal?
I don't knwo what you're talking about. Here in Santa Cruz, CA we pay for busses (which is our only form of public transportation), and in S.F. (which actually has public transportation) people pay fo the subway (BART and MUNI), busses (MUNI), and trolleys. I don't know how it is in the interior of the country, but I would be very suprised if any Americans (let alone most) are offered free public transportation.
That is untrue. When the PS3 comes out it will have graphics beyond anything that is available for the PC market. That will change soon after, of course, but it will have revolutionary graphics for a short while. It definitely will not be outdated before it leaves the gate.
While it seems like a good idea, the technical implementation is lacking. I tried it with a Creative Zen Micro. When listening to N2G tracks there is a three or so second delay before songs start playing. Very anoying, especially with shorter songs. In addition, I was forced at one point to take out my battery (the player crashed), and this caused all of the N2G music to refuse to play. According to the Napster rep, in order to get it to play again, you have to reformat (!) your drive and resync your music (an hour long procedure with a few gigs of music.) Interesting idea, though I didn't really like the idea that I had no control over the music, that at Microsoft's or Napster's whim (or technical inability) my music would no play. I'd rather buy it.
Definitely Gentoo. A pain to install, but emerge is even nicer than apt-get. Just 'emerge packagename' and the package is downloaded and installed.
Ummmm...I'm sorry?
I don't think your argument would apply in this case. Notice that it is VB developers (if you can call them that) that are complaining. Not businesses. The developers can always learn VB.NET (or, god forbid, a language that is actually halfway decent.) It's the companies that will have these problems.
While your argument is...uh...interesting, the point where it totally falls apart is here:
These browsers that hold the minority in market share will be ignored by web application developers just like they are today because "everybody uses IE."
I know a lot of web developers (and in fact am one myself.) Even though standard support is extremely difficult in an era when IE holds a vast majortity of the market share, it does not stop of from developing with standards. When Microsoft implements XAML into their browser many web developers will not use it, because it cuts out EVERYONE except those on IE. Everyone. 10% is a lot of people if you're Amazon. Even with css, you can hack it so that it renders properly in IE. With XAML (which will be an IE only technology) there will be not hope of that.
From this post at engadget: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000680031783/
A game like HL2 can easily be done on a PS3 and xbox2.
I wouldn't say that as if it were a good thing. To say that a next generation console that won't be out for another year at the earliest can play a PC game that came out a few months ago is no great feat. The problem (one that will not go away) with consoles is that for the lifetime (~6 years for the PS2) of the console its specs will not get any better, so PC gaming will surpass it.
Microsoft Voice Command provides a similar service for pocket pcs, through its integration with windows media player (for the pocket pc). I played with it, and it was novel for about a week, and then I realized that it was really not that difficult just to push one of the hard buttons, and I haven't used it much since. Though I must say I did attract some strange looks when I was shouting at my PPC.
Mainly it's that wordpress lacks some really important functionality neccessary for this application, for instance being able to have a different template for the main index page.
That's mainly it, though also I really don't want to spend a few months trying to make a generic cms do what I want it to.
Dreamwever and even Front Page and the like have been invaulable in getting large numbers of people creating their own web based material I, for one, do not view this as a good thing. The simplicity of using dreamweaver or Front Page causes people who have no sense of web design to create atrocious pages, which I am forced daily to trudge through. Not to mention the horrible code that these generators create.
Ummmm....That's the stats for Microsoft. I'm suprised that Microsoft even allows there employees to install firefox.
Considering that Slate is owned by Microsoft, I would think that they are more than a little biased against google, as Google is now a major compeditor for Microsoft.