Why can you go to Google and get a search of the web on "engines" in less than second, but when you do a search on your hard drive, it takes 10 minutes? Can you answer that question?
Of course you don't see a need for it--you're not thinking ahead or thinking practically. When everyone has 200 and 300GB hard drives and wants to find all documents on their computer having to do with "guitars," have fun with your brute-force method while the rest of us get feedback results in 2 seconds. I already have a massive "Stuff" folder with a bunch of my crap in it. It'll be nice to just have a *.MPC result window open to play my music, or look for all the digital pictures on my computer taken after last Wednesday that are over 25kb in size.
How you can't see why this would be useful, well, I just can't figure out.
How interesting that this comes announced by Apple after Microsoft's WinFS technologies were introduced to the world.
I expect the KDE/GNOME rip-offs in the next few years as well. And then when it's all over, I fully expect nobody to give credit to Microsoft for spurring the idea, and Slashdot to continue to label Microsoft as a non-innovator. Coming from people using KDE taskbars, KDE start menus, and even KDE integrated filesystem/browsers.
Slashdot, where Windows users go for all their Microsoft news! There are at least three Microsoft news postings every day, most of them innaccurate or incendiary.
Isn't there anything going on in the OSS world? What about those new GNOME 2.8 screenshots that were posted on OSNews? How about something regarding the kernel? Anything at all?
Prove the "roughly 50% of systems refuse to boot" claim. Oh, you can't. You're just regurgitating a single Slashdot article that doesn't reflect anyone else's experiences with SP2. After all, Slashdot is a bastion of truth when it comes to reporting on Windows.
After all, the military isn't full of volunteer adults or anything. Like Michael Moore said, we're sending our "children" over there to sacrifice them!
David Goyer wrote this. He's the guy behind all three Blade movies. In fact, he directed Blade Trinity due out this December. He's not British.
For the record, the screenplay is out on the net, I've read it, and I'm concerned. The movie isn't necessarily a restart of the storyline of the previous movies. It's a prequel that tells the story of how Batman became Batman. It starts with Bruce in a prison encountering ninja cult leader Ra's Al Ghul, and the story goes from there.
Personally, I wasn't very impressed with the story. I was hoping for something involving the Joker, more along the lines of the Batman short film that debuted at Comic-Con last year (the one with the two surprise villains at the end...). At the least, I was hoping for a very disturbing story involving the Scarecrow. He makes a brief appearance and nothing more.
I don't know, there just wasn't anything about the screenplay that grabbed me. Even Kevin Smith's campy Superman Lives screenplay was clever enough to keep me reading.
And the new Batmobile just leaves me befuddled. I think Tim Burton's gothic sleek urban-missile design was perfect. This looks like a giant four-wheeling dune buggy that I'm finding difficulty relating to Batman at all, or figuring out the usefulness of in a massive city. Is this thing gonna hop over cars on the freeway or something?
Of course there was footage held back. The original cut of ROTK was five hours long. That doesn't suddenly mean there's a new edition coming out just because theonering.net "hinted" at it. Movies have lots of footage that's held back. Even Hellboy's getting the Extended Edition treatment later this year.
Peter Jackson has stated emphatically that there won't be any new versions. At most, there would be a re-encode for HD-DVD farther down the road.
Nobody can steal code from them, but they can look at OSS and say "thats our idea."
This coming from the community who freely rips off taskbars, start menus, the integration of filesystem and browser,.NET, Intellisense, and much much more.
Just saying. Pot calling kettle black. I don't really see any innovation in OSS either. At least Microsoft is starting over with Longhorn.
Many of us, me included, have been running SP2 RC2 for quite a while now. I have not come across a single website that didn't work in SP2 that did previously.
Can you cite a single example? Unwanted pop-ups won't show--so what? I've not had a single problem.
I love the vague claims people wildly throw around in these discussions. It's like people believe it's true simply because they typed it.
Only on Slashdot do you get questions like "Does anybody even use IE anymore?"
IE, according to Google usage statistics as well as Slashdot's own statistics, accounts for a massively huge chunk of browser usage.
You showing a Slashdot thread to your workplace and their actually following it obviously means your workplace is unique from most. The vast majority of computer users on the internet are using Internet Explorer. Simple research online would have gleamed this, had you looked.
The table on the left (with the user and help links, etc.) routinely spills over into the story cells. This has been a problem for as long as I can remember using Mozilla. Note that Opera has never, ever had this problem.
Anyone who had SP2 RC2 installed wasn't affected by the vulnerability. That includes people like me.:)
I have a feeling SP2 will change a lot of attitudes about Windows XP security. I can't even view a locally downloaded Flash file without Windows prompting me first (it doesn't allow local content to execute without your permission).
Clearly, you didn't even bother to read the article.
Yes, Doom started that genre. Before that was what, Wolfenstein 3D? After Doom came out, 3D shooters were an established genre, and companies spent years trying to top it. The only one to do it was...Quake.
You're just prejudging against it. No matter, I'll be the one having fun. Next.
People are really masturbating all over this game to obscene levels. It's not going to be *that* big of a milestone in gaming. It's another atmospheric FPS shooter with a plotline.
I mean, I've already done the shadowy, bump-mapped corridor thing in a little game called Far Cry that in addition to that, has outdoor levels with an infinite distance. I doubt I'll be seeing anything in Doom 3 that is as fun as driving an inflatable boat into an enemy camp on a gorgeous outdoor beach.
The indoor areas of Far Cry look exactly like Doom 3's screenshots. Just less shadowy.
Why do people think this is funny? It's always been clear, right from the start, before the release of the first movie on DVD, that there would be a normal release, and then an extended footage release for the fans.
A normal release, then a later release with extra footage and in-depth documentaries. Why is this such a chaotic issue for Slashdotters? In every LOTR article, there is someone who makes a "super mega extended remix bonus edition" joke--seemingly, the more adjectives they put it in, the funnier they think they're being.
It's not confusing, it's not Lucas-like, and it's been known since the very beginning. Normal edition, extended edition. Christ, people.
We get these EVERY SINGLE LOTR article. Some yahoo thinks he's being funny by making up a fictional title with a lot of adjectives. "EXTENDED EXTENDED Super Mega Bonus Edition 2007! Mod me up!"
Ever since 2001, the plan has always been clear--normal edition released first, an extended edition with extra footage released later. It's been those SINGLE TWO releases for every movie so far. Peter Jackson has stated there won't be new versions. It's always been and always will be standard and extended.
Why do people think it's still funny to pretend it's more chaotic than that? It's not. It's very simple, and they've been open about it since the very beginning. This isn't Lucas we're talking about here. Stop with these moronic "jokes."
It was called the "New Shadow," and was an attempt to write about the Fourth Age. Tolkien realized the story was going nowhere and abandoned it. Most fans know about this and have read it (Christopher did release it).
Barring the fact that WinFS isn't a filesystem replacement anyway, but a service running in the background, let's see you do some brute-force searching in 2006 on the new 200GB hard drives that will be out by then.
When Longhorn can do a search for e-mail contacts who like the same MP3 playlists you like, or all the Quake 4 pictures on your hard drive, and it can return the results in 2 seconds, let me know if you still feel that vanilla ext3 is something we can stick with for years to come.
It's not about actually making good applications for computing, it's about a losing penis competition with Microsoft and Apple.
Microsoft is the big penis. It got big through buying lots of natural herbs, getting its dick sucked by lesser folk, and having an expensive personal trainer make them do cock pushups everyday.
Apple is the small penis, but it works hard to make itself look bigger by trimming the pubes around the base of its shaft. Commonly, the pubes are trimmed into artistic mutton chops, and you'll see cockrings and piercings.
Linux is the extremely tiny penis, desperately trying to extend itself with a very painful penis pump. It's also desperately downing lots of penis enlargment pills and furiously masturbating itself in any attempt whatsoever to compete with the other guys.
The other two penises accept their size and work with it. The Linux penis tries to be the other penises.
Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"
Okay, okay, we get it, you hate "M$." But WinFS is coming. The API is already implemented in Longhorn builds. Not sure what you're trying to say here--that it won't ever come out? It's coming out. That it's a rip-off? Yeah, you say that on the website that supports a UNIX clone which runs a Windows clone on top of it. Do we really want to start listing off rip-offs? Because I guarantee OSS would have the longer list.
Maybe the point was that you just had to get that quota of "M$" bashing off of your chest because you knew it would get you posted...
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Why can you go to Google and get a search of the web on "engines" in less than second, but when you do a search on your hard drive, it takes 10 minutes? Can you answer that question?
Of course you don't see a need for it--you're not thinking ahead or thinking practically. When everyone has 200 and 300GB hard drives and wants to find all documents on their computer having to do with "guitars," have fun with your brute-force method while the rest of us get feedback results in 2 seconds. I already have a massive "Stuff" folder with a bunch of my crap in it. It'll be nice to just have a *.MPC result window open to play my music, or look for all the digital pictures on my computer taken after last Wednesday that are over 25kb in size.
How you can't see why this would be useful, well, I just can't figure out.
How interesting that this comes announced by Apple after Microsoft's WinFS technologies were introduced to the world.
I expect the KDE/GNOME rip-offs in the next few years as well. And then when it's all over, I fully expect nobody to give credit to Microsoft for spurring the idea, and Slashdot to continue to label Microsoft as a non-innovator. Coming from people using KDE taskbars, KDE start menus, and even KDE integrated filesystem/browsers.
Slashdot, where Windows users go for all their Microsoft news! There are at least three Microsoft news postings every day, most of them innaccurate or incendiary.
Isn't there anything going on in the OSS world? What about those new GNOME 2.8 screenshots that were posted on OSNews? How about something regarding the kernel? Anything at all?
Prove the "roughly 50% of systems refuse to boot" claim. Oh, you can't. You're just regurgitating a single Slashdot article that doesn't reflect anyone else's experiences with SP2. After all, Slashdot is a bastion of truth when it comes to reporting on Windows.
but since the dollar has strengthened slightly since then
Much to the chagrin of lunatic Bush-bashers.
After all, the military isn't full of volunteer adults or anything. Like Michael Moore said, we're sending our "children" over there to sacrifice them!
Selma Blair said during filming of Hellboy, she always saw him off set surrounded by women.
Ron just exudes manly confidence, and women are attracted to that. Plus, his really deep voice.
David Goyer wrote this. He's the guy behind all three Blade movies. In fact, he directed Blade Trinity due out this December. He's not British.
For the record, the screenplay is out on the net, I've read it, and I'm concerned. The movie isn't necessarily a restart of the storyline of the previous movies. It's a prequel that tells the story of how Batman became Batman. It starts with Bruce in a prison encountering ninja cult leader Ra's Al Ghul, and the story goes from there.
Personally, I wasn't very impressed with the story. I was hoping for something involving the Joker, more along the lines of the Batman short film that debuted at Comic-Con last year (the one with the two surprise villains at the end...). At the least, I was hoping for a very disturbing story involving the Scarecrow. He makes a brief appearance and nothing more.
I don't know, there just wasn't anything about the screenplay that grabbed me. Even Kevin Smith's campy Superman Lives screenplay was clever enough to keep me reading.
And the new Batmobile just leaves me befuddled. I think Tim Burton's gothic sleek urban-missile design was perfect. This looks like a giant four-wheeling dune buggy that I'm finding difficulty relating to Batman at all, or figuring out the usefulness of in a massive city. Is this thing gonna hop over cars on the freeway or something?
Of course there was footage held back. The original cut of ROTK was five hours long. That doesn't suddenly mean there's a new edition coming out just because theonering.net "hinted" at it. Movies have lots of footage that's held back. Even Hellboy's getting the Extended Edition treatment later this year.
Peter Jackson has stated emphatically that there won't be any new versions. At most, there would be a re-encode for HD-DVD farther down the road.
Nobody can steal code from them, but they can look at OSS and say "thats our idea."
.NET, Intellisense, and much much more.
This coming from the community who freely rips off taskbars, start menus, the integration of filesystem and browser,
Just saying. Pot calling kettle black. I don't really see any innovation in OSS either. At least Microsoft is starting over with Longhorn.
Many of us, me included, have been running SP2 RC2 for quite a while now. I have not come across a single website that didn't work in SP2 that did previously.
Can you cite a single example? Unwanted pop-ups won't show--so what? I've not had a single problem.
I love the vague claims people wildly throw around in these discussions. It's like people believe it's true simply because they typed it.
Only on Slashdot do you get questions like "Does anybody even use IE anymore?"
IE, according to Google usage statistics as well as Slashdot's own statistics, accounts for a massively huge chunk of browser usage.
You showing a Slashdot thread to your workplace and their actually following it obviously means your workplace is unique from most. The vast majority of computer users on the internet are using Internet Explorer. Simple research online would have gleamed this, had you looked.
The table on the left (with the user and help links, etc.) routinely spills over into the story cells. This has been a problem for as long as I can remember using Mozilla. Note that Opera has never, ever had this problem.
Anyone who had SP2 RC2 installed wasn't affected by the vulnerability. That includes people like me. :)
I have a feeling SP2 will change a lot of attitudes about Windows XP security. I can't even view a locally downloaded Flash file without Windows prompting me first (it doesn't allow local content to execute without your permission).
Clearly, you didn't even bother to read the article.
Yes, Doom started that genre. Before that was what, Wolfenstein 3D? After Doom came out, 3D shooters were an established genre, and companies spent years trying to top it. The only one to do it was...Quake.
You're just prejudging against it. No matter, I'll be the one having fun. Next.
An unoriginal plot
Doom started that plot years before Half-Life.
An unoriginal genre
Doom started that genre years before Quake.
Did id even bother hiring writers?
Yes, they did.
High hardware requirements
The HardOCP article makes it a point to state that the minimum spec machine ran the game great.
Nice troll.
People are really masturbating all over this game to obscene levels. It's not going to be *that* big of a milestone in gaming. It's another atmospheric FPS shooter with a plotline.
I mean, I've already done the shadowy, bump-mapped corridor thing in a little game called Far Cry that in addition to that, has outdoor levels with an infinite distance. I doubt I'll be seeing anything in Doom 3 that is as fun as driving an inflatable boat into an enemy camp on a gorgeous outdoor beach.
The indoor areas of Far Cry look exactly like Doom 3's screenshots. Just less shadowy.
Windows XP users everywhere are amazed! 127!
Why do people think this is funny? It's always been clear, right from the start, before the release of the first movie on DVD, that there would be a normal release, and then an extended footage release for the fans.
A normal release, then a later release with extra footage and in-depth documentaries. Why is this such a chaotic issue for Slashdotters? In every LOTR article, there is someone who makes a "super mega extended remix bonus edition" joke--seemingly, the more adjectives they put it in, the funnier they think they're being.
It's not confusing, it's not Lucas-like, and it's been known since the very beginning. Normal edition, extended edition. Christ, people.
We get these EVERY SINGLE LOTR article. Some yahoo thinks he's being funny by making up a fictional title with a lot of adjectives. "EXTENDED EXTENDED Super Mega Bonus Edition 2007! Mod me up!"
Ever since 2001, the plan has always been clear--normal edition released first, an extended edition with extra footage released later. It's been those SINGLE TWO releases for every movie so far. Peter Jackson has stated there won't be new versions. It's always been and always will be standard and extended.
Why do people think it's still funny to pretend it's more chaotic than that? It's not. It's very simple, and they've been open about it since the very beginning. This isn't Lucas we're talking about here. Stop with these moronic "jokes."
It was called the "New Shadow," and was an attempt to write about the Fourth Age. Tolkien realized the story was going nowhere and abandoned it. Most fans know about this and have read it (Christopher did release it).
Laugh a little. :) It wasn't a troll, sheesh.
Barring the fact that WinFS isn't a filesystem replacement anyway, but a service running in the background, let's see you do some brute-force searching in 2006 on the new 200GB hard drives that will be out by then.
When Longhorn can do a search for e-mail contacts who like the same MP3 playlists you like, or all the Quake 4 pictures on your hard drive, and it can return the results in 2 seconds, let me know if you still feel that vanilla ext3 is something we can stick with for years to come.
It's not about actually making good applications for computing, it's about a losing penis competition with Microsoft and Apple.
Microsoft is the big penis. It got big through buying lots of natural herbs, getting its dick sucked by lesser folk, and having an expensive personal trainer make them do cock pushups everyday.
Apple is the small penis, but it works hard to make itself look bigger by trimming the pubes around the base of its shaft. Commonly, the pubes are trimmed into artistic mutton chops, and you'll see cockrings and piercings.
Linux is the extremely tiny penis, desperately trying to extend itself with a very painful penis pump. It's also desperately downing lots of penis enlargment pills and furiously masturbating itself in any attempt whatsoever to compete with the other guys.
The other two penises accept their size and work with it. The Linux penis tries to be the other penises.
Be your own penis, Linux!
Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"
Okay, okay, we get it, you hate "M$." But WinFS is coming. The API is already implemented in Longhorn builds. Not sure what you're trying to say here--that it won't ever come out? It's coming out. That it's a rip-off? Yeah, you say that on the website that supports a UNIX clone which runs a Windows clone on top of it. Do we really want to start listing off rip-offs? Because I guarantee OSS would have the longer list.
Maybe the point was that you just had to get that quota of "M$" bashing off of your chest because you knew it would get you posted...