Sequels never make it. Look at the Friday the 13th series... Friday the 13th, Jason goes to Euro-Itchy and Scratchy Land. Let's look at the Pentium: Pentium 4, Yes We Can Count But That's All We Can Do!
The processors... are a piece of hardware. not a movie or something where creativity is the prime requisite to keep people coming back.
Who gives a flying fuck what their processor is called, as long as it works, and works (sufficiently) fast(er than previous generations)?
That goes for a lot of movies, altho it's more predominantly old movies. Even the old Star Wars movies had a touch of this, now that I look back on things, but not nearly as bad as ep1 (which was... well, it's star wars, so it can't suck THAT bad, but that's about all I'll say:).
The most annoying thing is, I'm currently reading the coldfire trilogy of C.S Friedman, and well... there isn't a lot wrong with it, just a few niggling things... which brings me back to ep1. The difference between ep1 being what it is, and ep1 being good isn't THAT huge. It's really just a lot of small things, but those small things ruin it, just like the interaction in the coldfire trilogy (it's really just a paragraph here and there that i'm referring to) does.
We might, however, be able to put this down to the actors not being used to working with the blue background tech they used. We might see an improvement the next time around. If only they wouldn't make Jar Jar do "cutesy" things like dropping that blue cannon ball thingie and running away from it. I was just sitting there going "*groan* get it over with, this sucks. it's aimed at 4yo's".
You can't be using MP3's then... all my music use up 5-6GB. Granted, when I encoded it, I didn't use 128kbit... but still, getting ALL the music ever written onto a few gigs would be quite a feat (unless you discount 90% of the music out there as nothing but a clone, which with today's pop music wouldn't be too far off:)
I'm afraid so... some people simply don't seem to see sarcasm when it slaps them in the face. Then again, maybe it's because they're too busy flaming, they're not actually READING what you say:)
The strangest moment of the week came when one RIAA lawyer, in a moment of frustration, asked us how we'd feel if someone took Pan and gave it away to millions of users for free. After the Pan team stopped laughing, the Andover lawyers had to explain why we liked the idea so much.
They simply don't understand how Open Source programs work, do they? I also assume they haven't really seen their webpage, where they're giving it away for free already (this piece of idiocy i must admit does make me snicker myself).
Oh, and food for thought... does this really mean that anything that enables people to distribute Metallica mp3's in any way, shape or form... is illegal? Oh my GOD! Outlook is illegal, it can send MP3's! uuencode and uudecode is illegal, because it's used on the news servers! These people need to go get laid.
This AC I'm replying to should've been moderated up.
I didn't get 7 windows on my desktop, what I DID get, however, is just as big a sin (imo)... I closed the window, and it fucking opened up another window. I mean, HI! I CLOSED YOU! GO AWAY!
Yeah, this little snafu might kill the internet, but I'm sure it will get replaced with something else like FreeNet. I'll be glad when I don't have to dial up to these damn moneygrubbing ISPs anyway.
Oh, but you will, dearie... You don't honestly think theMAN will let you have anything for free, do you? People are greedy. Get used to it.
The problem with trying to only find stuff that's legal, is... HOW does the search engine know what's legal and what's not? People can search for Metallica because they simply want to find a fan site, so they can't filter out that... nor can they really filter out MP3, because even tho it's mostly used for "illegal uses", some of us DO use MP3 to listen to their own music instead of having to use a CD player (I find this immensly useful, even tho i use like 4-5% of my CPU while doing so).
And what if they DO ban anything retaining to MP3, where does it end? MPG is often used for porn, should we ban that too? etc etc.
Besides, from what I've heard, music CD's are WAY overpriced. I used to pay 150NOK for each CD 2 years ago. now it's more like 190NOK, and the CD takes like... 10NOK to make... and I seriously doubt more than 5% of that difference goes to the artist, the rest of it goes to the music companies. I can certainly see why they'd want to keep us from using anything even vaguely cheap...
I THINK you can relax somewhat there... if they were to go after each and every Joe, Angie and Harry out there with lotsamp3 (tm), they'd never get anything done. They'll go after the big fish, nothing more.
Of course, encrypting your partitions is always a good idea:)
the 8.3 thing you see in a DOS shell is there for backward compatibility only. I mount fat32 drives all the time, and that too gives me the long filenames, so I consider win95's fat32 filesystem to be 256 (255?) characters long.
Of course, this whole thing is a hack (looking at the fat table with a disk editor isn't fun... fat32 filenames go like this:
lmnopqrs.tuv abcdefgh.ijk
and windows reads this as "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv".
Anyway, that convinces me that win95 has true long filenames (altho it IS really just a gigantic hack).
If people had to log in, maybe they'd think twice before even thinking about responding to anything here... I've refrained from posting stuff here more than once by just sitting back and thinking "is it really necessary? will I contribute anything useful by responding?", and most of the times the answer has been "no".
Of course, then there are the AC-route, which enables people to get their rocks off quickly, without anybody knowing them. Pity, really.
muhaha i did steal head server of Internet. If push "power" button the hole net will be shutdown. i hate all you Quake Playas!! !! !! uu!! And If i push reset button the whole internet going to DIE
I can't find his karma on his user info page, so I can't make any comments. heh.
If he really does have a karma of like 14, then it could suggest he should just ditch his current account and start a new one... or maybe he's overflowing the variable used to keep track of things:)
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Sequels never make it. Look at the Friday the 13th series... Friday the 13th, Jason goes to Euro-Itchy and Scratchy Land. Let's look at the Pentium: Pentium 4, Yes We Can Count But That's All We Can Do!
... are a piece of hardware. not a movie or something where creativity is the prime requisite to keep people coming back.
The processors
Who gives a flying fuck what their processor is called, as long as it works, and works (sufficiently) fast(er than previous generations)?
Just how many times are you going to tell people that? :)
If they'd named it Peon, they had better name a chip chanop or ircop :)
That goes for a lot of movies, altho it's more predominantly old movies. Even the old Star Wars movies had a touch of this, now that I look back on things, but not nearly as bad as ep1 (which was ... well, it's star wars, so it can't suck THAT bad, but that's about all I'll say :).
The most annoying thing is, I'm currently reading the coldfire trilogy of C.S Friedman, and well... there isn't a lot wrong with it, just a few niggling things... which brings me back to ep1. The difference between ep1 being what it is, and ep1 being good isn't THAT huge. It's really just a lot of small things, but those small things ruin it, just like the interaction in the coldfire trilogy (it's really just a paragraph here and there that i'm referring to) does.
We might, however, be able to put this down to the actors not being used to working with the blue background tech they used. We might see an improvement the next time around. If only they wouldn't make Jar Jar do "cutesy" things like dropping that blue cannon ball thingie and running away from it. I was just sitting there going "*groan* get it over with, this sucks. it's aimed at 4yo's".
If that was supposed to be the first post, then I strongly suggest you readjust your sniper scope. :)
If microsoft had done that, /. would just have to run around singing YMCA.
:)
(Ugh. that one was *bad*. Sorry
You can't be using MP3's then... all my music use up 5-6GB. Granted, when I encoded it, I didn't use 128kbit... but still, getting ALL the music ever written onto a few gigs would be quite a feat (unless you discount 90% of the music out there as nothing but a clone, which with today's pop music wouldn't be too far off :)
I'm afraid so... some people simply don't seem to see sarcasm when it slaps them in the face. Then again, maybe it's because they're too busy flaming, they're not actually READING what you say :)
Hahaha, i love that...
The strangest moment of the week came when one RIAA lawyer, in a moment of frustration, asked us how we'd feel if someone took Pan and gave it away to millions of users for free. After the Pan team stopped laughing, the Andover lawyers had to explain why we liked the idea so much.
They simply don't understand how Open Source programs work, do they? I also assume they haven't really seen their webpage, where they're giving it away for free already (this piece of idiocy i must admit does make me snicker myself).
Oh, and food for thought... does this really mean that anything that enables people to distribute Metallica mp3's in any way, shape or form... is illegal? Oh my GOD! Outlook is illegal, it can send MP3's! uuencode and uudecode is illegal, because it's used on the news servers! These people need to go get laid.
This AC I'm replying to should've been moderated up.
I didn't get 7 windows on my desktop, what I DID get, however, is just as big a sin (imo)... I closed the window, and it fucking opened up another window. I mean, HI! I CLOSED YOU! GO AWAY!
Yeah, this little snafu might kill the internet, but I'm sure it will get replaced with something else like FreeNet. I'll be glad when I don't have to dial up to these damn moneygrubbing ISPs anyway.
Oh, but you will, dearie... You don't honestly think theMAN will let you have anything for free, do you? People are greedy. Get used to it.
Gimme that, it's MINE! GIMME THAT, IT'S MINE! *End George Carlin Quote*
The problem with trying to only find stuff that's legal, is... HOW does the search engine know what's legal and what's not? People can search for Metallica because they simply want to find a fan site, so they can't filter out that... nor can they really filter out MP3, because even tho it's mostly used for "illegal uses", some of us DO use MP3 to listen to their own music instead of having to use a CD player (I find this immensly useful, even tho i use like 4-5% of my CPU while doing so).
And what if they DO ban anything retaining to MP3, where does it end? MPG is often used for porn, should we ban that too? etc etc.
Besides, from what I've heard, music CD's are WAY overpriced. I used to pay 150NOK for each CD 2 years ago. now it's more like 190NOK, and the CD takes like... 10NOK to make... and I seriously doubt more than 5% of that difference goes to the artist, the rest of it goes to the music companies. I can certainly see why they'd want to keep us from using anything even vaguely cheap...
I THINK you can relax somewhat there... if they were to go after each and every Joe, Angie and Harry out there with lotsamp3 (tm), they'd never get anything done. They'll go after the big fish, nothing more.
:)
Of course, encrypting your partitions is always a good idea
the 8.3 thing you see in a DOS shell is there for backward compatibility only. I mount fat32 drives all the time, and that too gives me the long filenames, so I consider win95's fat32 filesystem to be 256 (255?) characters long.
Of course, this whole thing is a hack (looking at the fat table with a disk editor isn't fun... fat32 filenames go like this:
lmnopqrs.tuv
abcdefgh.ijk
and windows reads this as "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv".
Anyway, that convinces me that win95 has true long filenames (altho it IS really just a gigantic hack).
Hehe, that's when you say "oops" :)
Hey, it'd be worth a try.
If people had to log in, maybe they'd think twice before even thinking about responding to anything here... I've refrained from posting stuff here more than once by just sitting back and thinking "is it really necessary? will I contribute anything useful by responding?", and most of the times the answer has been "no".
Of course, then there are the AC-route, which enables people to get their rocks off quickly, without anybody knowing them. Pity, really.
Moo?
muhaha i did steal head server of Internet. If push "power" button the hole net will be shutdown. i hate all you Quake Playas!! !! !! uu!! And If i push reset button the whole internet going to DIE
Fine. s/redundant/useless/
Now find the Useless choice on the moderation menu. Oh, wait... you never log in, so you haven't SEEN those. So solly.
What about the FTP sites?!? That's used for warez! kill it! KILL IT!
:)
Okay, i'm better now.
(1) his post was redundant. it said NOTHING. At All.
/. (which, btw, is dwindling by the seconds).
(2) The whole Anonymous Cowards scheme should be banned instead. If people have something to say... LOG IN OR SHUT THE FUCK UP. It's that simple.
It'd probably help somewhat on the maturity level here on
I can't find his karma on his user info page, so I can't make any comments. heh.
:)
If he really does have a karma of like 14, then it could suggest he should just ditch his current account and start a new one... or maybe he's overflowing the variable used to keep track of things
I'll go out on a limb here and assume they'll be just as stable on all platforms, and just as bug-free... :)
Not entirely sure, but i think it's like that until you post stuff that's moderated up.
All of you lose. I hereby taketh away thy winning streak! muahahahahahahaha!