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Mice have their uses.. I mean I can't edit photos in photoshop with my keyboard.. But for file management and stuff like that, give me a console over drag'n'drop any day.
Actually lately i've been noticing.. At least with IBM and Dell that they come preloaded with tons of crap but the CD they provide is just a basic OEM windows XP cd.. Usually with a warning on the cd saying it doesnt contain any software or drivers for that specific laptop/pc.
I'm sure that doesnt apply to every company though, i still see some that dont even come with a cd, just a hidden partition that you restore from using a hotkey on bootup.
Of course I never actually downloaded or installed the client, I just joined and then faxed a cancellation notice ~28 days later. Then a few weeks later I got a free ipod and mac mini =P
what exactly is being censored when searching "kazaa?" what should i be seeing that im not? i see kazaa.com as the first result, isn't that the correct site?
removed the IR filter, replaced it with a couple layers of film negatives and took scary pics of my eyes and the strips in money and the beam from my remote control. fun stuff, although i kind of liked that webcam.. oh well
I didn't see anyone else post a mirror, if there is one i must be blind and im sorry but here:
So the news came out that the Half Life movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is destined to join the list of the greatest science fiction movies that were never actually filmed. It has damned good company...
by David Wong
10. The "Real" Alien 3
1992, Directed by, oh, let's say Ridley Scott
The most excited I've ever been to see a movie ever in my life was the moment I saw the first Alien 3 "teaser" trailer in 1991 (teasers are shot well before the movie itself is finished filming). It's the one that promised the aliens were coming to freaking Earth.
No, I didn't dream it. They really did show that trailer (they even have a copy of it HERE), sending it to theaters before they had even started production, before they had even picked a script.
Visions of awesomeness flashed through my head, a Blade Runner-ish Earth with sprawling, filthy buildings, huge flashing billboards with giant Asian women on them, beat-up flying cars whooshing by and steam always rising from the streets for some reason. And then the aliens start breeding in the miles of dank sewers that tangle under the bustling streets, the creatures boiling up out of manholes by the hundreds, cut to pieces by Marines with pulse rifles and maybe in the climax the Army has to nuke the city...
"This movie can't possibly not be awesome!" I said to my little friend John at the time. "This is gonna make Aliens look like ET! I hope it's directed by the guy who will in the future direct Fight Club!"
A year and thirty fucking screenplays later (including this rejected script by William Gibson ) they came up with the movie that killed the franchise, squatted over the face of the corpse and farted. They had stumbled through concept after concept, built sets, tore them down, filmed scenes, threw them away, fired directors, fired crew. When Sigourney Weaver held out for more money, they wrote scripts without her, when she came back, they did rewrites to cram her back into the story again. Very late in the game they brought in a young director named David Fincher -- whose only experience was with Madonna videos -- to start shooting after most of the budget had already been scattered to the wind like parade confetti.
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What squeezed out the other end of the development's digestive tract was a movie that, just seconds in, meaninglessly kills off the three characters Ripley spent the last movie saving. The hundreds of aliens were replaced with one small alien dog. The vast futuristic landscape was replaced by one dim, dirty building. The frantic gunfights were replaced by scenes of identical bald cast members staring quietly at the wall. The main character commits suicide at the end.
So What happened?
Budget, mostly. My Alien 3 would have cost twice what Aliens did, with its sprawling sets and dozens of animatronic creatures and costumes and explosions and CGI that was, at the time, still very expensive. At the end of all that you wind up with an R-rated sci-fi film with almost no chance of making back its budget (Aliens only made about $85 million, 150 if you adjust for inflation).
So they settled for this stripped-down version on a budget of $50 million (about 20% of which actually winds up on screen) filmed in an abandoned lead factory. Then they watched as fanboys like me piled into the theater on opening day anyway. Again, this is why they're rich film executives and I live in my car.
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005, directed by not Garth Jennings
There was a movie that perfectly captured the Douglas Ad
I couldn't read your whole post (paragraphs, man, paragraphs!) but:
" Like when I was asked at 4PM on a Friday to organise a PC for someone starting on a Monday morning."
Made me laugh.. I think thats a requirement for all businesses, inform the IT dept to get a PC ready for a new employee 1 hour before the end of the business day before the person starts. It ALWAYS happens! Grr
but with the trolls and n00bz its similar to slashdot
go with totalfark, although then you get the dupe problem (cept instead of 2 or 3 dupes, its more like 300).. still worth the $5/mo though
yeah wow, i had a cjb.net subdomain back in 1997 or 98 (defsoft.cjb.net), now they're a spyware company?? their site looks like they still provide the same dns/redirect services, i dont see any spyware hmm
Slashdot Mirror
Mice have their uses.. I mean I can't edit photos in photoshop with my keyboard.. But for file management and stuff like that, give me a console over drag'n'drop any day.
Actually lately i've been noticing.. At least with IBM and Dell that they come preloaded with tons of crap but the CD they provide is just a basic OEM windows XP cd.. Usually with a warning on the cd saying it doesnt contain any software or drivers for that specific laptop/pc.
I'm sure that doesnt apply to every company though, i still see some that dont even come with a cd, just a hidden partition that you restore from using a hotkey on bootup.
That is until windows viruses come with built in HFS+ writable drivers heh
Yeah, I'm getting sick of all these stories relating to that Linus dude and his pet "Linux" project.
My test programs output "i hate you all!".. is that still comparible to this 5 stage ring oscillator?
""Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte"
I loved that movie, Pedro was the best!
Me too, twice.
Of course I never actually downloaded or installed the client, I just joined and then faxed a cancellation notice ~28 days later. Then a few weeks later I got a free ipod and mac mini =P
what exactly is being censored when searching "kazaa?" what should i be seeing that im not? i see kazaa.com as the first result, isn't that the correct site?
removed the IR filter, replaced it with a couple layers of film negatives and took scary pics of my eyes and the strips in money and the beam from my remote control. fun stuff, although i kind of liked that webcam.. oh well
I didn't see anyone else post a mirror, if there is one i must be blind and im sorry but here:
So the news came out that the Half Life movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is destined to join the list of the greatest science fiction movies that were never actually filmed. It has damned good company...
by David Wong
10. The "Real" Alien 3
1992, Directed by, oh, let's say Ridley Scott
The most excited I've ever been to see a movie ever in my life was the moment I saw the first Alien 3 "teaser" trailer in 1991 (teasers are shot well before the movie itself is finished filming). It's the one that promised the aliens were coming to freaking Earth.
No, I didn't dream it . They really did show that trailer (they even have a copy of it HERE ), sending it to theaters before they had even started production, before they had even picked a script.
Visions of awesomeness flashed through my head, a Blade Runner-ish Earth with sprawling, filthy buildings, huge flashing billboards with giant Asian women on them, beat-up flying cars whooshing by and steam always rising from the streets for some reason. And then the aliens start breeding in the miles of dank sewers that tangle under the bustling streets, the creatures boiling up out of manholes by the hundreds, cut to pieces by Marines with pulse rifles and maybe in the climax the Army has to nuke the city...
"This movie can't possibly not be awesome!" I said to my little friend John at the time. "This is gonna make Aliens look like ET! I hope it's directed by the guy who will in the future direct Fight Club!"
A year and thirty fucking screenplays later (including this rejected script by William Gibson ) they came up with the movie that killed the franchise, squatted over the face of the corpse and farted. They had stumbled through concept after concept, built sets, tore them down, filmed scenes, threw them away, fired directors, fired crew. When Sigourney Weaver held out for more money, they wrote scripts without her, when she came back, they did rewrites to cram her back into the story again. Very late in the game they brought in a young director named David Fincher -- whose only experience was with Madonna videos -- to start shooting after most of the budget had already been scattered to the wind like parade confetti.
Article continues after this ad...
What squeezed out the other end of the development's digestive tract was a movie that, just seconds in, meaninglessly kills off the three characters Ripley spent the last movie saving. The hundreds of aliens were replaced with one small alien dog. The vast futuristic landscape was replaced by one dim, dirty building. The frantic gunfights were replaced by scenes of identical bald cast members staring quietly at the wall. The main character commits suicide at the end.
So What happened?
Budget, mostly. My Alien 3 would have cost twice what Aliens did, with its sprawling sets and dozens of animatronic creatures and costumes and explosions and CGI that was, at the time, still very expensive. At the end of all that you wind up with an R-rated sci-fi film with almost no chance of making back its budget (Aliens only made about $85 million, 150 if you adjust for inflation).
So they settled for this stripped-down version on a budget of $50 million (about 20% of which actually winds up on screen) filmed in an abandoned lead factory. Then they watched as fanboys like me piled into the theater on opening day anyway. Again, this is why they're rich film executives and I live in my car.
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005, directed by not Garth Jennings
There was a movie that perfectly captured the Douglas Ad
I agree.. hell I even started writing a screenplay for it.. but i cant write so i gave up
First: TI-99/4A
Second: 66MHz 486 w/4MB ram, 240MB HDD
That was a big jump, I was in heaven
I still have my TI-99/4A (well 2 of em).
http://moon.google.com/
I couldn't read your whole post (paragraphs, man, paragraphs!) but:
" Like when I was asked at 4PM on a Friday to organise a PC for someone starting on a Monday morning."
Made me laugh.. I think thats a requirement for all businesses, inform the IT dept to get a PC ready for a new employee 1 hour before the end of the business day before the person starts. It ALWAYS happens! Grr
"So you could teach him to ride a bike but he'd be unable to to remember that he can ride a bike? Now that would be a weird experience."
I know kung fu? Whoa!
but with the trolls and n00bz its similar to slashdot go with totalfark, although then you get the dupe problem (cept instead of 2 or 3 dupes, its more like 300).. still worth the $5/mo though
yeah wow, i had a cjb.net subdomain back in 1997 or 98 (defsoft.cjb.net), now they're a spyware company?? their site looks like they still provide the same dns/redirect services, i dont see any spyware hmm
Opera
How about a donut that IS a bagel?
Get the engineers working on that!
Speak for yourself! (ok you were heh) but I keep every movie ticket stub I get.
I've never been to a concert.
On the Subject of Slashdot Article Formatting
Posted by CmdrTaco on 11:31 AM January 18th, 2006
what year is it? (Score:1)
by nugas (836231) on 12:55 PM January 18th, 2006 (#14501390)
You mean like that? Hint: Check the Preferences area on slashdot.
Yeah actually the feeling i feel when i wake up is more like being drunk (as in glass of water) than being drunk (as in beer)
p.s. i hate you for posting that DA reference first
I woke up at 5am, it's currently 7:39 and im sitting at work and I still feel "drunk".
I prefer being ACTUALLY drunk. Maybe if I start drinking as soon as I wake up it'll cancel out the sleep inertia.. hmmm
RTFA, it starts and ends talking about intelligent design. Taco didn't bring it up.
yeah, all my important files are burned at under 16X, and ive never had problems