But none were nearly as powerful as Schindler's List. That movie is one that definitely deserves placement on the list. It's just too good to be left out.
No, it's not a very good film at all. It's trite and overwrought. Hotel Rwanda would have been a much better choice. Schindler's list is just shit. I mean, how can you forgive the hackneyed "let's use the color red for the girl's dress in a black-and-white film." Ooooooh, how deep.
The only reason it gets high rating is because of Holocaust nostalgia and Spielberg. It's quite offensive really, the way he used that topic to further his own career, while showing no real depth or power.
What's preventing them from taking a page from IBM's playbook [zdnet.co.uk] and firing people, mostly in Europe, to make up for the $5 million a day?
Well, the $5 million a day would be more than enough for the EU to pay those employees for doing nothing - or working for a competing (perhaps OSS) company and spreading bad PR about Microsoft.
Sure, MS, could conceivably do this (unless it is prohibited by EU law) - but if they did, Europeans would ditch Microsoft products in droves, and serious competing companies would spring up - perhaps even using Microsoft inside information. Payback's a bitch.
Amit Singh has released a commandline app called FSLogger for looking under the hood of Tiger's Spotlight. You can watch all kinds of filesystem changes going on in realtime.
So, this application would shine a spotlight on Spotlight? Is that anything like when you point a video camera at a monitor hooked up to the camera's output?
Just checking facts and understanding the issue makes a blogger more qualfied than most of the press in this country.
Except that hardly any bloggers check their facts. There are a lot more dishonest and unskilled than there are dishonest, unskilled journalists. And they aren't accountable to editors or anyone, really. Such undeserved praise of bloggers is just going to make them as corrupt as anyone else.
How horribly buzzwordy. What's wrong with simply saying "new episodes of Futurama"?
If it's fresh, does that mean I have to keep the DVDs in my fridge?
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Big, obnoxious, no power steering,
That's another thing. Power steering. You can't even feel the road, or the weight of the car! I consider it dangerous, when people can so easily oversteer without any mechanical feedback. Even if it isn't dangerous, power steering makes driving unpleasant.
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Most automatic gearboxes allow you to downshift. In fact I can't recall a single car built after 1992 that doesn't allow for downshifting in an auto gearbox.
But how do you control the clutch, when it's automatic? Compare downshifting in an auto compared to a manual. there's no comparison. Automatic transmissions and clutches are too slow to react, and don't usually do what you want them to. Not to mention that they are high-maintenance.
Curves help with air resistance. Cars are getting to the point where this actually starts making a noticable difference in fuel consumption.
Only up to a certain point. A round car isn't exactly aerodynamic. Neither is a square care. Something in-between that's designed to lower air resistance is good. Not these over-round things which are designed for "style" and aren't actually more aerodynamic.
Think about it. Have you ever seen a round jet aircraft? No, they usually have a pointy nose, and gentle curves - not a big blob of a shape like many modern cars.
Modern cars are far better built than the 70's clunkers.
Who said I like 70s cars? I can't stand most of them. I prefer Japanese four-cylinder cars of the 80s and early 90s. Even the Japanese cars are going down in quality and reliability these days.
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So if I want to save the hearing in my left ear by opening up the passenger side window instead...I'm supposed to reach over there and turn a crank while I'm driving
Well, you could do it when you come to a stop. Or not open it in the first place. Didn't you realize it would make a noise when you rolled it down in the first place?
Taking my hand off the wheel to change gears, and then screwing with the clutch...it's just another distraction I don't need
It's not a distraction, it actually improves your concentration on driving. I find that people who drive automatics are the most easily distracted and least attentive drivers.
If really need to downshift going downhill or something, my Passat's automatic transmission still lets me do that anyway.
But you don't really have control over it, because the clutch is automatic.
The "bland" rounded shape you were taking about also cuts down on noise and wind resistance, which saves on gas.
Not when they take it to extremes. to cut down on air resistance, it should be aerodynamically shaped - not so fucking rounded that it makes it less aerodynamic.
It sounds like you'd rather be driving around in some 1970's beatermobile. Big, obnoxious, no power steering, abs or airbags... just the sort of thing that'll take your genes out of the pool.
No, I hate big cars. I like efficient, reliable four-cylinder Japanese cars of the 80s. I like rally cars. Small cars that are agile, have good acceleration and great handling. But hey - nice attempt at an ad-hominem.
The internet? Nah, I blame humanity's drive to create. Curse the first artist who put brush to paper, chisel to rock, or hand to cave-wall. Look at where we ended up, because of this cursed "creativity." It just leads to theft. Better if we are all humorless lawyers.
I only want a couple of features in a mobile phone. It should act as a telephone, and also be a shoe. How is it that they had shoephones on TV in the 1960s, but I still can't buy one? Come to think of it, a Cone of Silence would also come in very handy when talking in busy places.
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10. Macintosh compatibility.
I wholeheartedly agree. Screw this Symbian shit, I want my phone to run System 7.5.3!
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I don't know about that one. I don't know how many times I've gotten a call from someone who has his phone in his pocket and it presses the key that is speed dial to my phone.
This happened to my girlfriend while we were fucking. She rolled onto her phone, which promptly dialled her boss. Looking at the call record later, he had been listening for at least 5 minutes...
I want an MP3 player so that I don't have to carry an iPod. I want a USB drive so that I don't have to carry a USB drive.
And you'll want a stack of batteries the size of an iPod, if you use your phone as an MP3 player.
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You wouldn't decide not to buy a car simply because it had too many gadgets, would you?
Hell, yes! I hate cars that are full of electronics and other unreliable features. Air-conditiooning is environmentally unfriendly, and expensive to maintain. Automatic transmission - WTF? Who likes automatic transmission? It doesn't even feel like you are driving - and you have less control, not being able to change down a gear to slow down around a corner without braking, for example. Power Windows - what is that all about? Are there really people who are too weak to turn a hand crank, that they have to add another point of failure and battery dependency?
Give me a simple, manual-transmission car with a good engine and gearbox, that I can fix myself, and not need a mechanic with a proprietary system analysis computer to adjust the settings. Simple cars are a thing of beauty. I simply don't get the appeal of most cars on the market today - they are so ugly, stuffed with useless crap, and try to automate everything. It feels like living in a bubble or an airline seat, rather than driving a car.
And what's with the obsession of having all rounded edges on cars these days? Sure, a few curves aren't bad, but we're getting to the point where they resemble tennis balls in their bland, round shape.
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If I want to be able to communicate quickly and easily with friends and family, do I really need a camera, PDA, Bluetooth, appointment scheduler, or any of the other thousand or so features that can baloon the price upwards of $1000?
Actually, Bluetooth is the one feature you mentioned, that does greatly speed up and ease communication with friends and family. I really can't stand entering text messages with the numeric keypad. I simply refuse to do it. This makes the phone worthless, as very few people I know use their phones for talking - it's all text messages. So, I just get my iBook with bluetooth out, and I can send messages much more quickly with the qwerty keyboard. Not to mention the ease and speed of backing up data on the phone.
In fact, why don't they just eliminate the numeric keypad, and put a full alpha keyboard on phones? I can't remember the last time I actually dialled a number using numbers. It's all done from the address book.
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but it's a case of reading the message, remembering the number, backing out back to the main interface and typing it in)? Maybe other countries do this?
Just use cut-n-paste on the text message they send you. Some phones also have "make new entry from this" features.
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and is currently held together with sellotape.
I'm surprised that worked without using cellotape - you know, the special tape for cellphones.
But I would never trust the democratic party (in it's current extreme liberal status) to national security They are too passive.
So then, why was it that the Clinton administration was active in tracking and going after Osama - but when Bush came to office, his administration ignored the warnings about Osama, and dismantled the anti-Osama unit?
Umm, cycling is good for laptop batteries. You are more likely for performance to degrade if you NEVER let it run flat, and keep it plugged into the power. Not to mention the charge-level sensor will be miscalibrated if you don't regularly discharge and recharge the battery. Apple recommends deliberately doing it once a month.
So, now you can get a new battery and treat it properly, instead of abusing it through "babying."
Are you so sure that the blogs are the origin of the narcissism and ego?
I never said that. I just said blogging fosters it, and allows people to go deeper into their egos.
I'd say it's the other way around. They were created BECAUSE people were becoming so narcissic and selfish.
Right.
And when I think of journals, it sounds like an organized and professional group of people publishing quality and researched articles.
I call those periodicals. I think of personal diaries, when I think of journals, and those "class journals" you write in high school to keep track of your progress.
The whole "journalism" process is different from someone posting on a blog!
Which is another reason I hate blogs. They think they can replace real journalists. Heck, they think they are better than journalists.
Don't always reject something because most of it is bad. It's just hard to filter out the crap, that's all.
I know there are some good ones, but they are extremely rare, and many aren't your typical blogs in terms of form and subject, anyway.
Blogs are basically when you write about yourself, or your web-surfing. Blogs about a particular topic (rather than a particular person) don't fit the strict definition of "blog=web log."
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No, it's not a very good film at all. It's trite and overwrought. Hotel Rwanda would have been a much better choice. Schindler's list is just shit. I mean, how can you forgive the hackneyed "let's use the color red for the girl's dress in a black-and-white film." Ooooooh, how deep.
The only reason it gets high rating is because of Holocaust nostalgia and Spielberg. It's quite offensive really, the way he used that topic to further his own career, while showing no real depth or power.
Nah, ubergeeks have a keyboard on their slide rule.
Well, the $5 million a day would be more than enough for the EU to pay those employees for doing nothing - or working for a competing (perhaps OSS) company and spreading bad PR about Microsoft.
Sure, MS, could conceivably do this (unless it is prohibited by EU law) - but if they did, Europeans would ditch Microsoft products in droves, and serious competing companies would spring up - perhaps even using Microsoft inside information. Payback's a bitch.
So, this application would shine a spotlight on Spotlight? Is that anything like when you point a video camera at a monitor hooked up to the camera's output?
Isn't freedom a good thing? Isn't volunteering 100% to do something better than being "forced" to?
Except that hardly any bloggers check their facts. There are a lot more dishonest and unskilled than there are dishonest, unskilled journalists. And they aren't accountable to editors or anyone, really. Such undeserved praise of bloggers is just going to make them as corrupt as anyone else.
If it's fresh, does that mean I have to keep the DVDs in my fridge?
That's another thing. Power steering. You can't even feel the road, or the weight of the car! I consider it dangerous, when people can so easily oversteer without any mechanical feedback. Even if it isn't dangerous, power steering makes driving unpleasant.
But how do you control the clutch, when it's automatic? Compare downshifting in an auto compared to a manual. there's no comparison. Automatic transmissions and clutches are too slow to react, and don't usually do what you want them to. Not to mention that they are high-maintenance.
Curves help with air resistance. Cars are getting to the point where this actually starts making a noticable difference in fuel consumption.
Only up to a certain point. A round car isn't exactly aerodynamic. Neither is a square care. Something in-between that's designed to lower air resistance is good. Not these over-round things which are designed for "style" and aren't actually more aerodynamic.
Think about it. Have you ever seen a round jet aircraft? No, they usually have a pointy nose, and gentle curves - not a big blob of a shape like many modern cars.
Modern cars are far better built than the 70's clunkers.
Who said I like 70s cars? I can't stand most of them. I prefer Japanese four-cylinder cars of the 80s and early 90s. Even the Japanese cars are going down in quality and reliability these days.
Well, you could do it when you come to a stop. Or not open it in the first place. Didn't you realize it would make a noise when you rolled it down in the first place?
Taking my hand off the wheel to change gears, and then screwing with the clutch...it's just another distraction I don't need
It's not a distraction, it actually improves your concentration on driving. I find that people who drive automatics are the most easily distracted and least attentive drivers.
If really need to downshift going downhill or something, my Passat's automatic transmission still lets me do that anyway.But you don't really have control over it, because the clutch is automatic.
The "bland" rounded shape you were taking about also cuts down on noise and wind resistance, which saves on gas.
Not when they take it to extremes. to cut down on air resistance, it should be aerodynamically shaped - not so fucking rounded that it makes it less aerodynamic.
It sounds like you'd rather be driving around in some 1970's beatermobile. Big, obnoxious, no power steering, abs or airbags... just the sort of thing that'll take your genes out of the pool.
No, I hate big cars. I like efficient, reliable four-cylinder Japanese cars of the 80s. I like rally cars. Small cars that are agile, have good acceleration and great handling. But hey - nice attempt at an ad-hominem.
The internet? Nah, I blame humanity's drive to create. Curse the first artist who put brush to paper, chisel to rock, or hand to cave-wall. Look at where we ended up, because of this cursed "creativity." It just leads to theft. Better if we are all humorless lawyers.
Yeah, I'd be hissed-off too.
I only want a couple of features in a mobile phone. It should act as a telephone, and also be a shoe. How is it that they had shoephones on TV in the 1960s, but I still can't buy one? Come to think of it, a Cone of Silence would also come in very handy when talking in busy places.
I wholeheartedly agree. Screw this Symbian shit, I want my phone to run System 7.5.3!
This happened to my girlfriend while we were fucking. She rolled onto her phone, which promptly dialled her boss. Looking at the call record later, he had been listening for at least 5 minutes ...
And you'll want a stack of batteries the size of an iPod, if you use your phone as an MP3 player.
Hell, yes! I hate cars that are full of electronics and other unreliable features. Air-conditiooning is environmentally unfriendly, and expensive to maintain. Automatic transmission - WTF? Who likes automatic transmission? It doesn't even feel like you are driving - and you have less control, not being able to change down a gear to slow down around a corner without braking, for example. Power Windows - what is that all about? Are there really people who are too weak to turn a hand crank, that they have to add another point of failure and battery dependency?
Give me a simple, manual-transmission car with a good engine and gearbox, that I can fix myself, and not need a mechanic with a proprietary system analysis computer to adjust the settings. Simple cars are a thing of beauty. I simply don't get the appeal of most cars on the market today - they are so ugly, stuffed with useless crap, and try to automate everything. It feels like living in a bubble or an airline seat, rather than driving a car.
And what's with the obsession of having all rounded edges on cars these days? Sure, a few curves aren't bad, but we're getting to the point where they resemble tennis balls in their bland, round shape.
Actually, Bluetooth is the one feature you mentioned, that does greatly speed up and ease communication with friends and family. I really can't stand entering text messages with the numeric keypad. I simply refuse to do it. This makes the phone worthless, as very few people I know use their phones for talking - it's all text messages. So, I just get my iBook with bluetooth out, and I can send messages much more quickly with the qwerty keyboard. Not to mention the ease and speed of backing up data on the phone.
In fact, why don't they just eliminate the numeric keypad, and put a full alpha keyboard on phones? I can't remember the last time I actually dialled a number using numbers. It's all done from the address book.
Just use cut-n-paste on the text message they send you. Some phones also have "make new entry from this" features.
I'm surprised that worked without using cellotape - you know, the special tape for cellphones.
But isn't it even worse to never discharge them, and leave them constantly topped up at 96 to 100 percent?
So then, why was it that the Clinton administration was active in tracking and going after Osama - but when Bush came to office, his administration ignored the warnings about Osama, and dismantled the anti-Osama unit?
So, now you can get a new battery and treat it properly, instead of abusing it through "babying."
No, it's not.
I never said that. I just said blogging fosters it, and allows people to go deeper into their egos.
I'd say it's the other way around. They were created BECAUSE people were becoming so narcissic and selfish.
Right.
And when I think of journals, it sounds like an organized and professional group of people publishing quality and researched articles.
I call those periodicals. I think of personal diaries, when I think of journals, and those "class journals" you write in high school to keep track of your progress.
The whole "journalism" process is different from someone posting on a blog!
Which is another reason I hate blogs. They think they can replace real journalists. Heck, they think they are better than journalists.
Don't always reject something because most of it is bad. It's just hard to filter out the crap, that's all.
I know there are some good ones, but they are extremely rare, and many aren't your typical blogs in terms of form and subject, anyway.
Blogs are basically when you write about yourself, or your web-surfing. Blogs about a particular topic (rather than a particular person) don't fit the strict definition of "blog=web log."