Case in point: White Chicks. The trailer made me want to hwarf. The Wayans brothers in whiteface look hideous, and all the jokes in the trailer amounted to "White guys drive like this, black guys drive like this." Apparently many people disagree, since it was number 2 at the box office its first weekend, and was 3rd last weekend.
I'm more concerned about Shenmue 3. 1 and 2 were excellent, but it's obvious they left enough plot for a third game. Many fans were convinced that this would be the "sega-ton" announcement at E3, but no such luck.
We are not retiring the SeaMonkey [Mozilla] application suite, or its XPFE front end, in the foreseeable future. Several companies have shipped and will ship products based on this venerable component of the application suite, and on the entire suite. Many organizations deploy it or a derivative of it, such as Netscape 7.x. We intend to keep supporting these deployments in at least a conservative, sustaining engineering fashion. However, we still intend to focus on evolving Mozilla toward the more flexible application architecture pioneered by Firefox and Thunderbird. That's where our innovative engineering effort should go.
I didn't play it for 20 hours straight, so it might be that I didn't have enough experience with it, but I just couldn't get used to the thumbsticks. The entire time I was playing, I kept thinking I could do better with a keyboard and a mouse.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what he meant was that before Apple offered replacement earbuds, people who lost the originals bought white sony earbuds instead.
Here's yet another example of why I think Slashdot should implement something Plastic and Kuro5hin have been doing for quite a while: let participating users check the submission before it's posted to the main page.
It'd be a lot easier to stop stories like this from being posted without heavy editing, and dupes would never (or rarely) get through.
Of course, the downside is fewer articles and greater delay. Might be worth trying it out, though.
"Auds"? Obviously this is short for "audience," but still. Let's move on.
Variety seems to love these abbreviations. Nick Nunziata of CHUD sums it up:
For those not invested in Variety's ass injuring dialect, re-skedding and distribs are slightly quicker ways to say rescheduling and distributors. I can only imagine these folks in the bedroom saying "Honey, thank God I circummed my 'nis or you'd not know the face of Baldhammer(TM)". Annoying.
The best alcohol made by monks comes in the form of Chartreuse:
Only three monks know the identity of the 130 plants, how to blend them and how to distill them into this world famous liqueur. They are also the only ones who know which plants they have to macerate to produce the natural green and yellow colours. And they alone supervise the slow ageing in oak casks.
(text from http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_green&yellow_uk.htm)
Wonderful liquer. Tastes like drinking a Christmas tree, but one made of 55% alcohol.
Leave it to Slashdot to blow an issue way out of proportion just to raise the hairs on every paranoid geek's neck, and then make up for it by adding a small update at the end of the article. Shouldn't this entire article be deleted?
Good question. The statements in my userContent.css file hide iframes, image links, and images with the "display: none" command. It's a good bet that the banners are still being downloaded.
try one of the recent daily builds of phoenix (currently using 2/23/03 at home and a build from this month at work). they're surprisingly stable, and they've fixed some of the things that crashed 0.5 for me.
good thing new line announced both versions of LOTR at the same time, so people who wanted the 4-disc version knew to wait.
granted, most people do not read dvd sites enough to catch this kind of thing, but the information was there, and informed consumers were smart enough to hold off.
at first i (like many slashdotters, from the looks of some of the comments) thought apple had come up with some new technology for changing the color of the computer itself.
however, after seeing this picture posted on ars technica, it looks like what they're really doing is patenting a method of lighting. the picture suggests a light inside the monitor and the computer that illuminates the device. sounds like mod kiddes putting cold cathode lights and windows in their cases, doesn't it?
haha, i usually take the dust cover off the book while i'm reading it, and not just with harry potter books. not necessarily because i'm embarresed, but because i can't stand the things. they keep sliding all over the place.
although, maybe i felt better knowing not everyone could tell what i was reading...
i seriously doubt this was a joke. the sets are scheduled to be torn down in a week, so says the creator david kemper. i hardly think they'd joke about that.
that's what i keep hearing, but i had problems with both the boards i ordered. the first one, the agp port didn't work at all when i first installed it. so i had it replaced. the second worked ok for about a year, then it kept locking up if i tried to do anything 3d (games or otherwise). and if i rebooted, video would not work at all unless i removed the video card, powered on/off, and then replaced it.
finally replaced it a month ago with a soyo k7v dragon plus. no crashes since.
probably would have been more interesting, but then we wouldn't have a show. like i said, the show is more concerend with its characters and the overall plot, and so am i.
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Case in point: White Chicks. The trailer made me want to hwarf. The Wayans brothers in whiteface look hideous, and all the jokes in the trailer amounted to "White guys drive like this, black guys drive like this." Apparently many people disagree, since it was number 2 at the box office its first weekend, and was 3rd last weekend.
I'm more concerned about Shenmue 3. 1 and 2 were excellent, but it's obvious they left enough plot for a third game. Many fans were convinced that this would be the "sega-ton" announcement at E3, but no such luck.
And me (honest), and Crispin Glover!
I think the real question is: What happens when Slashdot runs a Windows story that doesn't have a comment joking about a BSOD? Does the site implode?
Here's your answer (from the roadmap):
We are not retiring the SeaMonkey [Mozilla] application suite, or its XPFE front end, in the foreseeable future. Several companies have shipped and will ship products based on this venerable component of the application suite, and on the entire suite. Many organizations deploy it or a derivative of it, such as Netscape 7.x. We intend to keep supporting these deployments in at least a conservative, sustaining engineering fashion. However, we still intend to focus on evolving Mozilla toward the more flexible application architecture pioneered by Firefox and Thunderbird. That's where our innovative engineering effort should go.
I didn't play it for 20 hours straight, so it might be that I didn't have enough experience with it, but I just couldn't get used to the thumbsticks. The entire time I was playing, I kept thinking I could do better with a keyboard and a mouse.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what he meant was that before Apple offered replacement earbuds, people who lost the originals bought white sony earbuds instead.
Here's yet another example of why I think Slashdot should implement something Plastic and Kuro5hin have been doing for quite a while: let participating users check the submission before it's posted to the main page.
It'd be a lot easier to stop stories like this from being posted without heavy editing, and dupes would never (or rarely) get through.
Of course, the downside is fewer articles and greater delay. Might be worth trying it out, though.
"Auds"? Obviously this is short for "audience," but still. Let's move on.
Variety seems to love these abbreviations. Nick Nunziata of CHUD sums it up:
For those not invested in Variety's ass injuring dialect, re-skedding and distribs are slightly quicker ways to say rescheduling and distributors. I can only imagine these folks in the bedroom saying "Honey, thank God I circummed my 'nis or you'd not know the face of Baldhammer(TM)". Annoying.
I drink it for the taste (and the smell). Guinness is great, but I like finishing up a night at the bar with a shot of Chartreuse.
Unknown, but supposedly they're not allowed to ride in the same car at once. I'm guessing they have more rules as well.
The best alcohol made by monks comes in the form of Chartreuse:
Only three monks know the identity of the 130 plants, how to blend them and how to distill them into this world famous liqueur. They are also the only ones who know which plants they have to macerate to produce the natural green and yellow colours. And they alone supervise the slow ageing in oak casks.
(text from http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_green&yellow_uk.htm)
Wonderful liquer. Tastes like drinking a Christmas tree, but one made of 55% alcohol.
Leave it to Slashdot to blow an issue way out of proportion just to raise the hairs on every paranoid geek's neck, and then make up for it by adding a small update at the end of the article. Shouldn't this entire article be deleted?
Not while Mozilla and Firebird are free.
Good question. The statements in my userContent.css file hide iframes, image links, and images with the "display: none" command. It's a good bet that the banners are still being downloaded.
ahem. see the post in this thread about userContent.css, which does exactly what you describe.
two words that have redeemed him: donnie darko
try one of the recent daily builds of phoenix (currently using 2/23/03 at home and a build from this month at work). they're surprisingly stable, and they've fixed some of the things that crashed 0.5 for me.
good thing new line announced both versions of LOTR at the same time, so people who wanted the 4-disc version knew to wait.
granted, most people do not read dvd sites enough to catch this kind of thing, but the information was there, and informed consumers were smart enough to hold off.
at first i (like many slashdotters, from the looks of some of the comments) thought apple had come up with some new technology for changing the color of the computer itself.
however, after seeing this picture posted on ars technica, it looks like what they're really doing is patenting a method of lighting. the picture suggests a light inside the monitor and the computer that illuminates the device. sounds like mod kiddes putting cold cathode lights and windows in their cases, doesn't it?
speaking of christmas, where's geek gifts 2002? i need ideas for my christmas list, damnit!
haha, i usually take the dust cover off the book while i'm reading it, and not just with harry potter books. not necessarily because i'm embarresed, but because i can't stand the things. they keep sliding all over the place.
although, maybe i felt better knowing not everyone could tell what i was reading...
i seriously doubt this was a joke. the sets are scheduled to be torn down in a week, so says the creator david kemper. i hardly think they'd joke about that.
that's what i keep hearing, but i had problems with both the boards i ordered. the first one, the agp port didn't work at all when i first installed it. so i had it replaced. the second worked ok for about a year, then it kept locking up if i tried to do anything 3d (games or otherwise). and if i rebooted, video would not work at all unless i removed the video card, powered on/off, and then replaced it.
finally replaced it a month ago with a soyo k7v dragon plus. no crashes since.
probably would have been more interesting, but then we wouldn't have a show. like i said, the show is more concerend with its characters and the overall plot, and so am i.