He was waiting until he had enough of Episodes 1 - 3 done so he could rework the real originals to correct all of the errors in the historical continuity he brought in with Episodes 1 - 3.
Maybe the bonus disc will have the Holiday Special and we can laugh with glee at such gems of humor and "It will be delievered by hand, solo." Oh, how we laughed with glee and mirth.
I've seen that lame "you didn't 'get it'!" defence used to defend a lot of bad movies and it's utter hogslop. I've seen a lot of movies that I understood perfectly and didn't like.
I got 2001, but I thought it was one of the most boring and tedius movies of all time.
I got A.I. and felt that it was just stupid. The basic idea would have made a pretty cool movie 20 years ago, but we've already seen better movies about the plight of robots. (Bicentenial Man, anyone?)
I got Matrix Reloaded and thought it was just badly done.
I got The Matrix and thought that it was flashy and entertaining fluff with the philisophical depth of high school level philosophy class.
I got Donnie Darko and thought it was very stylish garbage.
If the audiance doesn't get what the filmmakers are trying to do the fault isn't with the unwashed masses (unless there are serious cultural gaps that need to be filled in), it is with the filmmakers who have failed in their job: to communicate an idea.
And using Open Source to bolster your argument is crap. What the hell does Open Source have to do with this movie?
You see, the FCC also recently mandated that all broadcasts be digital by 2006(?). So you can buck the system all you want but it won't make any difference.
Singles used to be a HUGE market. Bands used to release a stream of singles before releasing an album, and many times those singles were not even on the album that would later come out. If you missed the single, you missed the boat. Of, course, this was back in the day of the 45RPM record.
I used to buy a fair number of singles on 45, especially from bands I otherwise didn't really care for. And for about a dollar a pop, it wasn't bad deal. When CDs killed off LPs and 45's, the market for singles pretty much died for a while. At least until they convinced kids to fork out $4.00 - $6.00 a piece for the little blighters.
The market for singles died because the record companies refused to take a fair price for songs on CD. And sales forces were focused on the "album", which is odd since most albums of recent music are made up of a collection of seemingly random songs that have no central theme to hold them together. They might as well be collections of singles.
I think that buying only what you want online is going to bring back the era of the single. I know I've spent more money on music since iTunes for Windows came out than I have for the last year. And why? Because I can buy only the one song I like buy that band I otherwise don't care for. And for a dollar a pop, that's not bad.
Albums used to have a cerain geschtalt (sp?) aspect to them. You had the album cover, the sleeve with all the liner notes and then there was that fragile 12-inch black disk with the shiny grooves that you dare not let get scratched or else loose your investment. CDs are just small silver disks in annoying plastic boxes.
Oh, well. I guess you had to alive then to appreciate it all.
Considering that they are actually creating a marketspace rather than taking over an established one, I think they are "good" in this case.
And yes, one could argue that the Dreamcast actually created the online console gaming market, it didn't go anywhere in the USA, or Europe.
My problem with MS isn't when they create new markets, it's when they Wal-Mart an existing market. That and the piss-poor "security" on their Windows products.
How many consoles can run programs written for previous generations of their "line"? The only one that springs to mind is the PlayStation 2, and that was done to hide the fact that there weren't all that many PS2 titles at launch. While it would be nice, and it would save a few thousand cubic feet of living room space, it's probably not in their interest to do so.
Google holds no power. It's a search engine you can choose to use, or choose not to use. Until it is the ONLY search engine out there, it has no power at all. Where, pray tell, is the power of Yahoo! Or Dogpile? Or any of the other search engines out there?
Of course they are. They tend to be trusting and don't realize that perfect strangers are more than willing to screw them into the ground. But the OS doesn't need to be a welcome mat for these problems. There are some very basic things that MS could have done to make Windows secure enough that being a trusting user doesn't put the entire system at risk.
To make a analogy that fits users of this level and background, your point is like saying that cars are less likely to get stolen if the doors are locked and blaming said car owners for because their Fnords are getting stollen because they haven't locked the doors that Fnord didn't bother to install in the first place.
It's not just a matter of straight currency conversion. Electronics are more expensive in Asutralia than in the USA.
Case in point: A few years ago it was cheaper for me to buy a Linksys Broadband router/firewall here in the USA and mail it to my friends in Australia. By a matter of $200.00 US. The unit I bought for $200.00 (US) and paid $40.00 (US) to ship and $20.00 (US) to insure, and they paid $40.00 (US) VAT and import duties on was still $200.00 (US) cheaper than they could have bought it for in Australia.
(For you math impaired, the router was $200.00 (US) in Alaska and $500.00 (US) in Australia.)
Well, seeing as this is nothing but the conversion of vibrations into audible sounds, it simply means that sounds, especially music and singing, are important to people. It's a form of communication and we deem it worth effort and praise.
We are simply connecting dots that we created ourselves.
Well, most of us aren't trying toi get by by stuffing 5 20GB drives in our systems. The point is that they are small and get out of your way. With almost everything built right into the motherboard you don't really need much else in there, do you?
They aren't overreacting at all. He's a temp who violated his NDA and they fired him. Happens all the time. He just happened to get exposure on/. because he was fired for posting pictures of Mac equipment on MS grounds.
The pertinant issues are these: 1: He took pictures on company grounds 2: He posted said pictures on his blog without checking to see if said pictuires were kosher with his employer
That's it. Nothing else. The fact that these were Macs means nothing. They'd have fired him for taking pictures of boxes of Dells or HPs or even pallets of MS Office 2003. The product doesn't matter.
I used to work in the banking industry as a data processor. Thsi mean that I was working with large numbers of people's bank accounts. I posted corporate and government payrolls, researched credit card problems, etc... I was exposed to confidential information every day at that job. I signed a NDA that said I WOULD be fired for divulging any confidential information. Period.
There is nothing sinsiter here. This is simply case of a temp exercising poor judgement.
If it's not proprietary info, it's not coverable by an NDA.
Well, that's really up to the language in the NDA that he signed, isn't it? NDAs cover whatever information the lawyers who wrote them decided to cover.
1) We do not have the technology, and will not for decades, to go out at get anything. Sure, we could get material from the moon, but there isn't a whole lot there that we need that we couldn't get cheaper and safer right here at home.
2) The real problem with the population rise is not material, but space to live. Nothing short of terraforming or a sever reduction in population will do anything about that. And the population isn't rising across the world either. It's in active decline in the USA and Europe. Italy is looking at sever labor shortages in 30-40 years due to the extreme drop in the birth rate.
3) Pollution will not be reduced by space exploration. It will be increased from the watse products of all of those rockets. The majority of pollution is still created in power generation and transportation. Space exploration won't solve either of those problems. Unless we figure out how to harness solar power in orbit and get that power down here without baking large areas with the microwave transmitters on the satelites.
4) And where shall we go? The moon? Mars? Venus? Europa? There isn't anywhere in the solar system we can live except for Earth. Until we actually find a planet that we can live on we're stuck here.
I think we'd be better served by finding means to live here without shitting in our dinner plates than betting on pie in the sky salvation in space.
I'm not saying the space program isn't a good idea, or that we shouldn't continue to fund it. There are reasons to go into space. Your reasons, however, are neither realistic or even feasable for multiple decades or even centuries.
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And just be a sheep? How about thinking for yourself? It's not all that hard.
He was waiting until he had enough of Episodes 1 - 3 done so he could rework the real originals to correct all of the errors in the historical continuity he brought in with Episodes 1 - 3.
Maybe the bonus disc will have the Holiday Special and we can laugh with glee at such gems of humor and "It will be delievered by hand, solo." Oh, how we laughed with glee and mirth.
Excuse me. I think i need to trow up now.
And maybe monkeys will fly out of my ass. I'm not betting on either event to ever take place.
And don't forget the Cron virus from the last "season" (and I use that term loosely). She was a serious hottie.
I've installed iTines on two Win2K Pro machines and have no problem at all. But, I've always used CDPLAYER.EXE to listen to CDs.
I've seen that lame "you didn't 'get it'!" defence used to defend a lot of bad movies and it's utter hogslop. I've seen a lot of movies that I understood perfectly and didn't like.
- I got 2001, but I thought it was one of the most boring and tedius movies of all time.
- I got A.I. and felt that it was just stupid. The basic idea would have made a pretty cool movie 20 years ago, but we've already seen better movies about the plight of robots. (Bicentenial Man, anyone?)
- I got Matrix Reloaded and thought it was just badly done.
- I got The Matrix and thought that it was flashy and entertaining fluff with the philisophical depth of high school level philosophy class.
- I got Donnie Darko and thought it was very stylish garbage.
If the audiance doesn't get what the filmmakers are trying to do the fault isn't with the unwashed masses (unless there are serious cultural gaps that need to be filled in), it is with the filmmakers who have failed in their job: to communicate an idea.And using Open Source to bolster your argument is crap. What the hell does Open Source have to do with this movie?
You see, the FCC also recently mandated that all broadcasts be digital by 2006(?). So you can buck the system all you want but it won't make any difference.
Singles used to be a HUGE market. Bands used to release a stream of singles before releasing an album, and many times those singles were not even on the album that would later come out. If you missed the single, you missed the boat. Of, course, this was back in the day of the 45RPM record.
I used to buy a fair number of singles on 45, especially from bands I otherwise didn't really care for. And for about a dollar a pop, it wasn't bad deal. When CDs killed off LPs and 45's, the market for singles pretty much died for a while. At least until they convinced kids to fork out $4.00 - $6.00 a piece for the little blighters.
The market for singles died because the record companies refused to take a fair price for songs on CD. And sales forces were focused on the "album", which is odd since most albums of recent music are made up of a collection of seemingly random songs that have no central theme to hold them together. They might as well be collections of singles.
I think that buying only what you want online is going to bring back the era of the single. I know I've spent more money on music since iTunes for Windows came out than I have for the last year. And why? Because I can buy only the one song I like buy that band I otherwise don't care for. And for a dollar a pop, that's not bad.
Albums used to have a cerain geschtalt (sp?) aspect to them. You had the album cover, the sleeve with all the liner notes and then there was that fragile 12-inch black disk with the shiny grooves that you dare not let get scratched or else loose your investment. CDs are just small silver disks in annoying plastic boxes.
Oh, well. I guess you had to alive then to appreciate it all.
And you know what? No one else gives a damn.
Album art died when CDs took over. The days of that glorious 12" record jacket and the detailed artwork it could hold have been gone for 15 years.
As much as the idea sucks, it's a fact of life that things change.
I've lost my job for a lot worse reasons that for curing cancer. That's one pink slip I'd gladly accept.
And think of it, all those out of work cancer researchers could turn their attentions to something really important, like coding for Linux!
And yes, one could argue that the Dreamcast actually created the online console gaming market, it didn't go anywhere in the USA, or Europe.
My problem with MS isn't when they create new markets, it's when they Wal-Mart an existing market. That and the piss-poor "security" on their Windows products.
How many consoles can run programs written for previous generations of their "line"? The only one that springs to mind is the PlayStation 2, and that was done to hide the fact that there weren't all that many PS2 titles at launch. While it would be nice, and it would save a few thousand cubic feet of living room space, it's probably not in their interest to do so.
Google holds no power. It's a search engine you can choose to use, or choose not to use. Until it is the ONLY search engine out there, it has no power at all. Where, pray tell, is the power of Yahoo! Or Dogpile? Or any of the other search engines out there?
Of course they are. They tend to be trusting and don't realize that perfect strangers are more than willing to screw them into the ground. But the OS doesn't need to be a welcome mat for these problems. There are some very basic things that MS could have done to make Windows secure enough that being a trusting user doesn't put the entire system at risk.
To make a analogy that fits users of this level and background, your point is like saying that cars are less likely to get stolen if the doors are locked and blaming said car owners for because their Fnords are getting stollen because they haven't locked the doors that Fnord didn't bother to install in the first place.
It's not just a matter of straight currency conversion. Electronics are more expensive in Asutralia than in the USA.
Case in point: A few years ago it was cheaper for me to buy a Linksys Broadband router/firewall here in the USA and mail it to my friends in Australia. By a matter of $200.00 US. The unit I bought for $200.00 (US) and paid $40.00 (US) to ship and $20.00 (US) to insure, and they paid $40.00 (US) VAT and import duties on was still $200.00 (US) cheaper than they could have bought it for in Australia.
(For you math impaired, the router was $200.00 (US) in Alaska and $500.00 (US) in Australia.)
Well, seeing as this is nothing but the conversion of vibrations into audible sounds, it simply means that sounds, especially music and singing, are important to people. It's a form of communication and we deem it worth effort and praise.
We are simply connecting dots that we created ourselves.
How much further would cancer research be if you spent your time at it rather than whining on Slashdot?
Why does everyone else's idea of research have to meet with your aproval? Pull that stick out of your ass and relax a bit.
You're right. He obvioulsy has a job.
Well, most of us aren't trying toi get by by stuffing 5 20GB drives in our systems. The point is that they are small and get out of your way. With almost everything built right into the motherboard you don't really need much else in there, do you?
They aren't overreacting at all. He's a temp who violated his NDA and they fired him. Happens all the time. He just happened to get exposure on /. because he was fired for posting pictures of Mac equipment on MS grounds.
The pertinant issues are these:
1: He took pictures on company grounds
2: He posted said pictures on his blog without checking to see if said pictuires were kosher with his employer
That's it. Nothing else. The fact that these were Macs means nothing. They'd have fired him for taking pictures of boxes of Dells or HPs or even pallets of MS Office 2003. The product doesn't matter.
I used to work in the banking industry as a data processor. Thsi mean that I was working with large numbers of people's bank accounts. I posted corporate and government payrolls, researched credit card problems, etc... I was exposed to confidential information every day at that job. I signed a NDA that said I WOULD be fired for divulging any confidential information. Period.
There is nothing sinsiter here. This is simply case of a temp exercising poor judgement.
Well, that's really up to the language in the NDA that he signed, isn't it? NDAs cover whatever information the lawyers who wrote them decided to cover.
1) We do not have the technology, and will not for decades, to go out at get anything. Sure, we could get material from the moon, but there isn't a whole lot there that we need that we couldn't get cheaper and safer right here at home.
2) The real problem with the population rise is not material, but space to live. Nothing short of terraforming or a sever reduction in population will do anything about that. And the population isn't rising across the world either. It's in active decline in the USA and Europe. Italy is looking at sever labor shortages in 30-40 years due to the extreme drop in the birth rate.
3) Pollution will not be reduced by space exploration. It will be increased from the watse products of all of those rockets. The majority of pollution is still created in power generation and transportation. Space exploration won't solve either of those problems. Unless we figure out how to harness solar power in orbit and get that power down here without baking large areas with the microwave transmitters on the satelites.
4) And where shall we go? The moon? Mars? Venus? Europa? There isn't anywhere in the solar system we can live except for Earth. Until we actually find a planet that we can live on we're stuck here.
I think we'd be better served by finding means to live here without shitting in our dinner plates than betting on pie in the sky salvation in space.
I'm not saying the space program isn't a good idea, or that we shouldn't continue to fund it. There are reasons to go into space. Your reasons, however, are neither realistic or even feasable for multiple decades or even centuries.