Many consumers decided that forking $2+ for a ringtone was well worth it.
You mean many cell phone companies and/or teenagers decided that making their customers and/or their parents pay $2+ for a ringtone was worth it, right?
No one would willingly pay that much for a tinny tone out of their own pockets.
"Windows used to be 'cool'. Now, it's common knowledge that it sucks, it's inconsistent, unreliable, and a pain in the arse."
I hate to burst your bubble, but most people don't even know that Windows is an OS. They don't "know" Windows is unreliable, they "know" that computers in general are unreliable and virus-ridden because 90% of the computers they've seen in their life are Windows computers. On a worldwide scale, next to no one knows about Linux, and few people who have heard of it care enough even to use Knoppix and try it out.
So far, even the people who disliked the movie have said that it was pretty true to the book insomuch as the jokes and Guide entries, so what are you all whining about?
I saw the movie, and, quite frankly, I didn't really care that they added in a "Hello, Ground!" to the Sperm whale bit or took out the Guide's entry on towels (especially since, in the radio series, it would have fallen into the Restaurant Fits) or hid Zaphod's head and third arm or even made Marvin into a robot iPod with a gigantic head, all of which are the only complaints that/.ers have been whining about since the movie's hype started.
The problems start when they change Zaphod from someone who should have been so cool you could keep a side of meat in him for a month into someone whose brain is fueled by lemons, or when the dolphins' final message to humankind becomes an aggravating Broadway-sounding number that will make you absolutely sick of the words "So long, and thanks for all the fish!" by the time the movie is over.
I especially liked seeing the Guide's entries animated, and all the jokes were straight on with the radio series and the books, but the real problem is that the whole thing just smacks of Disney-fication, from the romance twixt Arthur and Trillian to the ending, which reminds me very strongly of Bambi for sheer happiness.
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Many consumers decided that forking $2+ for a ringtone was well worth it. You mean many cell phone companies and/or teenagers decided that making their customers and/or their parents pay $2+ for a ringtone was worth it, right? No one would willingly pay that much for a tinny tone out of their own pockets.
"Windows used to be 'cool'. Now, it's common knowledge that it sucks, it's inconsistent, unreliable, and a pain in the arse."
I hate to burst your bubble, but most people don't even know that Windows is an OS. They don't "know" Windows is unreliable, they "know" that computers in general are unreliable and virus-ridden because 90% of the computers they've seen in their life are Windows computers. On a worldwide scale, next to no one knows about Linux, and few people who have heard of it care enough even to use Knoppix and try it out.
So far, even the people who disliked the movie have said that it was pretty true to the book insomuch as the jokes and Guide entries, so what are you all whining about?
/.ers have been whining about since the movie's hype started.
I saw the movie, and, quite frankly, I didn't really care that they added in a "Hello, Ground!" to the Sperm whale bit or took out the Guide's entry on towels (especially since, in the radio series, it would have fallen into the Restaurant Fits) or hid Zaphod's head and third arm or even made Marvin into a robot iPod with a gigantic head, all of which are the only complaints that
The problems start when they change Zaphod from someone who should have been so cool you could keep a side of meat in him for a month into someone whose brain is fueled by lemons, or when the dolphins' final message to humankind becomes an aggravating Broadway-sounding number that will make you absolutely sick of the words "So long, and thanks for all the fish!" by the time the movie is over.
I especially liked seeing the Guide's entries animated, and all the jokes were straight on with the radio series and the books, but the real problem is that the whole thing just smacks of Disney-fication, from the romance twixt Arthur and Trillian to the ending, which reminds me very strongly of Bambi for sheer happiness.