"Revenge of the Sith" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the four-day $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide.
I went to the movies to see it despite that my co-workers told me they have a downloaded version that morning (the day after the midnight show), and we're in central europe. And I go quite frequently to the movies, no matter if I have a copy or not beforehand, if it's good, I'll go and pay for it (and I'd go more frequently if the films were better). I also buy dvds. And I'm not alone doing this, judging by the crowds, and by the numbers such articles usually present.
What I don't like is when such associations complain about lossess in revenue they never ever had, so they never could've lost, and if they never had it, how come they know how much they would've lost if they ever happen to have it. Ok, confusion, big time:)
Will the day come sometime in the future, when MS will be a security company ? Maybe. The strange thing is, they are looking for ways (like the av and antispy sw acquisitions) to defend a basically unsecure os, and not for ways to make the os itself more secure. My foremost problem with this is, that I don't feel optimistic enough to trust in security questions a company with almost none security-related success stories in their past. But, no doubt, there are many of such optimistic people out there. In the meantime, all their honeys can crawl my home debian for free, given they most certainly will not be able to crawl my work windows boxes.
Apple would be just as bad if they were in Microsoft's position.
Yeah, and what do you get for this: insightful. Yup, right,/. alright.
In other news, every other politician would be as bad as the current ones of they were in the position. So why do we have them ?
Point is, we don't know how they would behave given such market position. And you surley also don't have a reasonable clue. Still, you trash them, and get insightful for it. Good job.
Colin Percival, who published a recent paper on the vulnerability,
Well, it's obvious that he has to be right then, since he has published a paper on the topic, right ? Right ? Nobody else can "understand a problem", only him, since he's got a paper on it. A real paper.
If I came home and found someone who had picked the lock on my house sitting on the couch watching TV, you'd better believe I'd call the police and press any charges possible.
As very many other people, you're just being too general here. There are/were various examples - some also in this thread, just read back - when despite the warning, the letting-them-know, nothing is done to make the system better, the defenses better, etc. Then, when something bad happens, sometimes those get punished who intended no real harm. I alao don't think that the breaking-into-my-house or the breaking-into-some-store parallelisms are that correct, but they still pop up from time to time. But what I feel to be quite wrong, that when people like the guys in the article come around and provide proof of a system's holes, they get beaten, and the system still will not be made more bulletproof. And the people who intend to cause harm will _not_ come around and tell you your weaknesses so you have the chance to defend yourself: they just hack in, get what they want and get away, maybe you'll never know.
Maybe the 9K itself caused the warining to be posted after the whole shebang has already passed. At least people could've prepared to see great Auroras.
You know, funny as it may seem, it is quite frequently true. However, I can only speak for myself and some close friends when I say that just in the last 2-3 months I've bought 19 CDs and 8 DVDs. When some music or dvd or tv show or movie comes out someplace months or sometimes years before coming here, I try to get my hands on them and watch. But that fact usually doesn't hold me back from going to the movies, or buying the disks. Although it is quite good that I can listen to the tracks before I pay for it.
That said, I certainly know that the above doesn't hold all the time and for everyone. All I wanted to point to is that it is not just repeating the "shit".
1). pick the best linux distro around
2). create yet another distro based on 1). use their huge package repos, and some of their devs
3). make 2). look more appealing to 6packs then the one in 1). or all similar like 2).
4). make a deal with a company to use the distro in 3). on their hw
5). profit
Knowing it's not quite perfectly written behind the scenes is a small worry sitting in the back of my mind
Ok, so that sounds like IE's early days. I say "early days" because its flaws are nothing less than eyepopping these days. Anyway, I don't care how well Safari works and how good or bad it is or isn't behind the scenes. What I care for is that Konqueror is very well written, very stable and very fast. I use Konqueror (for browsing) about as much as Firefox, maybe more. I really think the Konqueror guys deserve every bit of appreciation for their long great work. I wouldn't like KHTML being dropped in favour of an engine hacked together by Apple devs.
I don't mind if someone, anyone, everyone or noone wants KDE focusing more on usabilty issues (although my currently configured KDE desktop is the best desktop I've ever used), just please promise me something: please don't let any of the Gnome HIG people around. I don't want no more desktop4dumbs around.
I don't really care how they call it, but I don't want any of those things-of-the-past around my puter. And no matter how they call it, I don't believe this, until I see it happen. Talk is something in which MS is very good at. But I prefer deeds talking.
Probably, but only for people who don't have a clue about FOSS development, the FOSS community nor the minds, the motivation, the goal of FOSS users and developers. It's not about the money, it has never been about the money. It's freedom in usage, modification, customization, distribution, and last but not least, freedom for freedom's sake.
One more thing I just can't grasp: version 1: in the US all people are working 24/7 so they don't have any non-working hours free to go see a movie; version 2: in the US people deliberately go see a movie during working hours because they enjoy skipping a few hours of work (well, understandable but not very profitable); version 3: nobody has the patience to wait a few hours till work ends and go see a movie afterwards. Or what ?
So seriously, of all of the major language choices, which would be better?
I just hope you won't have a word in deciding that. I for one really like almost all of which you listed above, ruby and python being an exception. With c# I only have the problem that I'm against its usage for FOSS development.
Thing is, I don't really care in what language it's written while it's not yet another MS product and it has a Linux port.
Microsoft will never die, its far too rich now to disappear completely
If I am a shareholder or an investor, it's not the richness of the company I'm interested in but the continuous growth of my stock. If it doesn't rise, I take it as good as dead. Thing is, MS can keep on the rise also with PR, and without too much innovation, which would be much better,
For one, slashdot renders properly in IE. Secondly it does come with my box - not as a 4 Mb download I have to make afterwards.
Just so you know, the ability to render badly formatted pages "correctly" is _not_ a good thing, because it promotes bad coding. Regarding the download thing... just add together how much mbs of updates have you patched your base IE6 since winXPvanilla. Oh, you don't know ? That's one more point against it in my world. But the point is, even IE7 won't have near as good standards compliance as Safari, Firefox or Konqueror has already. I have more reasons if someone wants to listen. For example the extentions I use with Firefox (e.g. adblock, targetalert, send referer, gmail notify, etc.) make it so much better than IE has ever been.
Or am I alone when I say I couldn't care less about yet another MS-founded Linux-bashing tests ? For some reason they always pop up on/.'s front. Maybe you like'em so much, well, I have nothing against that, it's your right to like whatever you want. I just feel these "news" are not worthy of more than a sidenote on some last page among the worst ads.
Most state ids are and remain the property of the state. Technically, your DL or passport are not YOUR papers, they belong to the state.
Well, I'm no expert at where you live, but here we have to pay real money for getting any type of id cards (plain old id card, driver's licence, whatever else), including paying for the picture taken to put on it, etc. Still, they retain property. And yes, most people to whom I mentioned this didn't find a bit wierd that we have to pay for it. And why should thay, we pay for it anyways, doesn't matter that it comes directly from my pocket or from my taxes.
How about just sharing some of these castoffs with all of us
You'd just need to take a look around, pick a topic and visit some conferences. You'd be surprised how many good ideas you can pick up, some of them in their infancy, some of them mature. You know, there are quite many of us out there who really publish their ideas, for everyone to see. Granted, some of those get patented if they hold some businness opportunity, but the vast majority isn't. And sometimes all it takes is a great idea to get you started.
Yeah, problem occurs when you have to shell out the price difference on cooling those Intel chips:P
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Inaccurate alright. Still, I don't think you can blame them for targeting the 90 percent of home desktop user joe/jane6packs. Maybe, in time, they will give us some linux goodness also. Still, targeting a wider audience is what contributes more to their rising stocks.
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would have to say that this statement is a little bit rediculous
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"Revenge of the Sith" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the four-day $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide.
:)
Yup, and in other news: MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution
I went to the movies to see it despite that my co-workers told me they have a downloaded version that morning (the day after the midnight show), and we're in central europe. And I go quite frequently to the movies, no matter if I have a copy or not beforehand, if it's good, I'll go and pay for it (and I'd go more frequently if the films were better). I also buy dvds. And I'm not alone doing this, judging by the crowds, and by the numbers such articles usually present.
What I don't like is when such associations complain about lossess in revenue they never ever had, so they never could've lost, and if they never had it, how come they know how much they would've lost if they ever happen to have it. Ok, confusion, big time
MPAA and the like can all kiss my bum.
Will the day come sometime in the future, when MS will be a security company ? Maybe. The strange thing is, they are looking for ways (like the av and antispy sw acquisitions) to defend a basically unsecure os, and not for ways to make the os itself more secure. My foremost problem with this is, that I don't feel optimistic enough to trust in security questions a company with almost none security-related success stories in their past. But, no doubt, there are many of such optimistic people out there. In the meantime, all their honeys can crawl my home debian for free, given they most certainly will not be able to crawl my work windows boxes.
you should expect only good ideas.
Well, that _is_ some quite an optimistic viewpoint. Be that about MS or else.
Apple would be just as bad if they were in Microsoft's position.
/. alright.
Yeah, and what do you get for this: insightful. Yup, right,
In other news, every other politician would be as bad as the current ones of they were in the position. So why do we have them ?
Point is, we don't know how they would behave given such market position. And you surley also don't have a reasonable clue. Still, you trash them, and get insightful for it. Good job.
Colin Percival, who published a recent paper on the vulnerability,
Well, it's obvious that he has to be right then, since he has published a paper on the topic, right ? Right ? Nobody else can "understand a problem", only him, since he's got a paper on it. A real paper.
If I came home and found someone who had picked the lock on my house sitting on the couch watching TV, you'd better believe I'd call the police and press any charges possible.
As very many other people, you're just being too general here. There are/were various examples - some also in this thread, just read back - when despite the warning, the letting-them-know, nothing is done to make the system better, the defenses better, etc. Then, when something bad happens, sometimes those get punished who intended no real harm. I alao don't think that the breaking-into-my-house or the breaking-into-some-store parallelisms are that correct, but they still pop up from time to time. But what I feel to be quite wrong, that when people like the guys in the article come around and provide proof of a system's holes, they get beaten, and the system still will not be made more bulletproof. And the people who intend to cause harm will _not_ come around and tell you your weaknesses so you have the chance to defend yourself: they just hack in, get what they want and get away, maybe you'll never know.
Maybe the 9K itself caused the warining to be posted after the whole shebang has already passed. At least people could've prepared to see great Auroras.
You know, funny as it may seem, it is quite frequently true. However, I can only speak for myself and some close friends when I say that just in the last 2-3 months I've bought 19 CDs and 8 DVDs. When some music or dvd or tv show or movie comes out someplace months or sometimes years before coming here, I try to get my hands on them and watch. But that fact usually doesn't hold me back from going to the movies, or buying the disks. Although it is quite good that I can listen to the tracks before I pay for it.
That said, I certainly know that the above doesn't hold all the time and for everyone. All I wanted to point to is that it is not just repeating the "shit".
1). pick the best linux distro around
2). create yet another distro based on 1). use their huge package repos, and some of their devs
3). make 2). look more appealing to 6packs then the one in 1). or all similar like 2).
4). make a deal with a company to use the distro in 3). on their hw
5). profit
, finalists must agree to formally license all intellectual property rights in their film ... to Microsoft
Now, what do you call that ?
Knowing it's not quite perfectly written behind the scenes is a small worry sitting in the back of my mind
Ok, so that sounds like IE's early days. I say "early days" because its flaws are nothing less than eyepopping these days. Anyway, I don't care how well Safari works and how good or bad it is or isn't behind the scenes. What I care for is that Konqueror is very well written, very stable and very fast. I use Konqueror (for browsing) about as much as Firefox, maybe more. I really think the Konqueror guys deserve every bit of appreciation for their long great work. I wouldn't like KHTML being dropped in favour of an engine hacked together by Apple devs.
I don't mind if someone, anyone, everyone or noone wants KDE focusing more on usabilty issues (although my currently configured KDE desktop is the best desktop I've ever used), just please promise me something: please don't let any of the Gnome HIG people around. I don't want no more desktop4dumbs around.
I don't really care how they call it, but I don't want any of those things-of-the-past around my puter. And no matter how they call it, I don't believe this, until I see it happen. Talk is something in which MS is very good at. But I prefer deeds talking.
the results are nevertheless startling
Probably, but only for people who don't have a clue about FOSS development, the FOSS community nor the minds, the motivation, the goal of FOSS users and developers. It's not about the money, it has never been about the money. It's freedom in usage, modification, customization, distribution, and last but not least, freedom for freedom's sake.
It's a flawed analysis.
One more thing I just can't grasp: version 1: in the US all people are working 24/7 so they don't have any non-working hours free to go see a movie; version 2: in the US people deliberately go see a movie during working hours because they enjoy skipping a few hours of work (well, understandable but not very profitable); version 3: nobody has the patience to wait a few hours till work ends and go see a movie afterwards. Or what ?
But, sadly (?) America is not California alone.
So seriously, of all of the major language choices, which would be better?
I just hope you won't have a word in deciding that. I for one really like almost all of which you listed above, ruby and python being an exception. With c# I only have the problem that I'm against its usage for FOSS development.
Thing is, I don't really care in what language it's written while it's not yet another MS product and it has a Linux port.
Microsoft will never die, its far too rich now to disappear completely
If I am a shareholder or an investor, it's not the richness of the company I'm interested in but the continuous growth of my stock. If it doesn't rise, I take it as good as dead. Thing is, MS can keep on the rise also with PR, and without too much innovation, which would be much better,
For one, slashdot renders properly in IE. Secondly it does come with my box - not as a 4 Mb download I have to make afterwards.
Just so you know, the ability to render badly formatted pages "correctly" is _not_ a good thing, because it promotes bad coding. Regarding the download thing... just add together how much mbs of updates have you patched your base IE6 since winXPvanilla. Oh, you don't know ? That's one more point against it in my world. But the point is, even IE7 won't have near as good standards compliance as Safari, Firefox or Konqueror has already. I have more reasons if someone wants to listen. For example the extentions I use with Firefox (e.g. adblock, targetalert, send referer, gmail notify, etc.) make it so much better than IE has ever been.
Or am I alone when I say I couldn't care less about yet another MS-founded Linux-bashing tests ? For some reason they always pop up on /.'s front. Maybe you like'em so much, well, I have nothing against that, it's your right to like whatever you want. I just feel these "news" are not worthy of more than a sidenote on some last page among the worst ads.
Most state ids are and remain the property of the state. Technically, your DL or passport are not YOUR papers, they belong to the state.
Well, I'm no expert at where you live, but here we have to pay real money for getting any type of id cards (plain old id card, driver's licence, whatever else), including paying for the picture taken to put on it, etc. Still, they retain property. And yes, most people to whom I mentioned this didn't find a bit wierd that we have to pay for it. And why should thay, we pay for it anyways, doesn't matter that it comes directly from my pocket or from my taxes.
How about just sharing some of these castoffs with all of us
You'd just need to take a look around, pick a topic and visit some conferences. You'd be surprised how many good ideas you can pick up, some of them in their infancy, some of them mature. You know, there are quite many of us out there who really publish their ideas, for everyone to see. Granted, some of those get patented if they hold some businness opportunity, but the vast majority isn't. And sometimes all it takes is a great idea to get you started.
Yeah, problem occurs when you have to shell out the price difference on cooling those Intel chips :P
Inaccurate alright. Still, I don't think you can blame them for targeting the 90 percent of home desktop user joe/jane6packs. Maybe, in time, they will give us some linux goodness also. Still, targeting a wider audience is what contributes more to their rising stocks.
would have to say that this statement is a little bit rediculous
I would say: it's quite a bit true.