It's like Starship Troopers vs. 2010; They're both movies about space, but you watch one to be entertained, and you watch the other to be inspired.
Everyone else is griping about your BS language knowledge, but I'd like to gripe about this:
Why the hell would you use 2010: Odyssey Two as an example of an inspirational movie and not 2001: A Space Odyssey!? Criminy, the second movie is complete dreck compared to the first. (Although really not that bad stand-alone.)
So Hitler didn't fund the Illuminadi after being abducted by big-headed aliens in a UFO in the Bermuda Triangle while covering-up his involvement in the American Civil War? Impossible!
The text fields are the most annoying, IMO. First of all, since I use my browser for email, and I don't like looking like a moron, I need a spellchecker. EditFields in OS X come with a spell checker built-in, well, in all apps but Firefox which apparently goes out of its way to use a mutant EditField with no spell checker, but with lots of bugs. (My favorite is how sometimes if you're typing in the middle of a block of text, and you insert a line, the text below won't jump down a line like it should. Hard to explain, but I see it twice a day on Firefox.)
Of course, Safari doesn't have RichText EditFields that I need for Blogger.com, so it's kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I want BOTH a spell checker and RichEdit control, why is that so hard?
Ok, that's the 0.005% of the total userbase for web browsers, now let's hear from the other 99.995%
I like how everyone on Slashdot assumes that everyone else is like them. 6 computers? At least 6? What the hell do you do with all of them? I have three computers, and 90% of the time only one's even turned on.
God no. How do you take a show about a hot girl with superpowers and make it SO GODDAMNED BORING? In one of the few episodes I saw, she got captured and put in prison and she was going to die because she needs an injection of some chemical to keep her alive. Then she tried to escape from the prison, but couldn't jump high enough. And that was about the most action-packed thing that happened whatsoever. And I'm sitting there thinking, "wow, great superhero here. She should team up with Aquaman. But at least Aquaman doesn't need an injection every day to live."
The reason they film them with curse words is probably so they can sell them (with a higher rating) on the DVD market after they're aired. Some of the movies are actually somewhat clever and entertaining... some of them are complete dreck. (Like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ in which every line of dialog is a cliche, or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120331/ which is based entirely on bad science-- waves pass *through* each other, idiots, they don't cancel each other out!)
What's more amazing to me is how they get actors like Dean Cain and John Rhys-Davies in these movies. (I mean, come on Dean, you played *Superman!* You can do better than this!)
What I don't get is how they get John Rhys-Davies to star in every single one of them. Did the Sci-Fi Network kidnap his kid or something?
I mean, this is the guy who laughed at Indiana Jones for being named after a dog and now he's playing the role of the cruise ship captain of the ship that got invaded by the chupacabra!
John Rhys-Davies, please, call the police. They know how to handle hostage situations... and if they screw up, seriously man, losing a child is probably less painful than starring in the next Sci-Fi horror movie.
And an even better move would be to help the Java VM use native controls for its host OS, so Java programs on Macintosh stop looking like ugly hideous mutants that nobody wants to use.
Run a.net application alongside a non-.net application on Windows. Can you notice the difference, visually/behaviorally between the two? No? That's the POINT, and that's something Java totally missed.
... except any proprietary software you have won't, because the entire concept of "software repositories" is designed to discourage proprietary software from running on Linux. (Like so many other things on Linux...) So if you've installed a proprietary program (say, Oracle as in another poster's example), can you still update it with one command? Nope, you've lost that ability. Only vendor-supplied software is updated, on OS X, Windows *and* Linux.
What with all the news over the "New Game Enhancement" (or whatever they call it), I figured I'd download the demo and give it a try. Here's my experience:
1) The tutorial is wrong. This game has been around, what, 2.5 years now and even the TUTORIAL has bugs in it. To be specific, when piloting a spaceship, the tutorial says that the mouse controls the ship's movements when not in pointer mode. What it doesn't mention is the rather important fact that if you have a joystick plugged in, the mouse doesn't do SQUAT, only the joystick does. So despite the game knowing I had a joystick plugged in, the tutorial was giving me the wrong controls, lying to me. I was stuck in my little ship outside of the training base for about two hours before it occured to me to try the dusty old Logitech joystick hidden behind my monitor. And to make things worse, while you're stuck here, you can't put in a ticket for the help system because of (I presume) another bug where the Help button doesn't work.
2) During the non-ship sections, my framerate slowed to 1 FPS twice for no apparent reason, and I had to re-log to fix it both times. (The second time, I actually died because some NPC shot at me while the framerate was screwy, and I didn't even know it until I logged back in.
3) Even after I was done being stuck in my starship, I couldn't figure out how to open a support ticket for the above two items. I found where the game listed open tickets, so I know it's possible, but I couldn't find how to make a new one.
4) The game is generally crude, ignoring the bugs. The creatures didn't have death animations, instead just going from standing to being dead in 1 frame. Many items had no visual appearance, so they appeared as a huge featureless cube around my character. There were (get this) clipping errors in the *pre-rendered* videos describing the classes! If you're pre-rendering the movie, pick a camera angle that won't show obvious clipping errors!
Anyway. The game is losing players because it's crap. Other than the Star Wars brand, I have no clue why anybody started playing it in the first place. I used exactly four hours of my 10-day demo before giving up for life.
To be fair, it's possible all his ripped songs are obscure enough that they aren't in the iTunes database. iTunes showed "no match" for several of my more obscure tracks ripped from CD.
Just FYI, it does look up (some) of the MP3s you've added yourself, although you'll find it will say "no match" for most of the more obscure items. (I tested it on the 2000 Gorillaz CD and Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe, which it recognized, and some Lemon Demon songs downloaded from their homepage, which it didn't.)
You know, if you're dumpster diving to get computer parts but grab so many that you then have to shovel them off your lawn-- you might have a problem! You need to break the cycle of dumpster diving.
I used Claris Emailer 2.0 for years after it was (arguably) obsolete, and it had no problem handling my entire message archive, all 800 MB of it. (That's just the text, not attachments.) If Claris Emailer could do it in 2 MB in 1998, Thunderbird can do it in 6 MB in 2006.
Maybe the problem isn't Thunderbird, but the mbox file format?
No, Mac users generally hate the "metal" look as well. It doesn't fit OS 9 *or* OS X interface guidelines, either. What that is is the marketing department getting out of control, and I think Mac, Linux *and* Windows geeks all hate that.
Firefox "gets" the home market, but totally misses the corporate market. For instance, it can't be deployed with roaming profiles, because it roams the cache instead of putting it in Local Settings where it belongs.
There are several ways you can do this. The most obvious is to put the cursor on one of the corner handles and move it toward the opposite corner while holding down the left mouse button. The only problem with this method is that it can distort the photo if you aren't careful.
This can be a fun "effect" if you do it on purpose, but this time you'll press Ctrl-Z or select Edit > Undo to take you back to where you were. Now you'll resize the photo correctly by right-clicking it and choosing Position and Size (the third menu choice from the top). You see the Position and Size dialog box.
Can't you just hold down shift as you drag to constrain proportions? You have to go to a DIALOG to do this? What an ass-pain.
Was about Gartner's research showing that companies should probably wait a few years before switching en masse to Windows Vista. I got the story myself from a Google News auto-search for "Windows Vista" and when it came into my email box, I knew it was going to be Slashdot Gold... so I wrote up a little summary and submitted it.
Now I don't know if I was the only submission or not, but I *do* know that Slashdot was exactly the *second* news agency to carry the story right after zdnet.co.uk (the site I linked to) according to my Google News auto-search. That's pretty damn impressive, considering. And when you think ther are tens of thousands of users, and each one of them could be submitting articles like this, it's really impressive.
Also, thankfully, Zonk didn't edit any of the text of my submission and so I think it holds the world record for being the first Slashdot story with no spelling or grammar errors. (He did change the link to the *wrong* keywords, though, which is really annoying-- he misled people into thinking the link pointed at the actual study when, instead, it went to an article about the study.)
Slashdot Mirror
What the heck is spanning? Spanning between what and what?
Because if you put an LCD screen onto your humanoid android, it looks less human.
Soylent Green! Mmmmm, tasty.
It's like Starship Troopers vs. 2010; They're both movies about space, but you watch one to be entertained, and you watch the other to be inspired.
Everyone else is griping about your BS language knowledge, but I'd like to gripe about this:
Why the hell would you use 2010: Odyssey Two as an example of an inspirational movie and not 2001: A Space Odyssey!? Criminy, the second movie is complete dreck compared to the first. (Although really not that bad stand-alone.)
So Hitler didn't fund the Illuminadi after being abducted by big-headed aliens in a UFO in the Bermuda Triangle while covering-up his involvement in the American Civil War? Impossible!
The text fields are the most annoying, IMO. First of all, since I use my browser for email, and I don't like looking like a moron, I need a spellchecker. EditFields in OS X come with a spell checker built-in, well, in all apps but Firefox which apparently goes out of its way to use a mutant EditField with no spell checker, but with lots of bugs. (My favorite is how sometimes if you're typing in the middle of a block of text, and you insert a line, the text below won't jump down a line like it should. Hard to explain, but I see it twice a day on Firefox.)
Of course, Safari doesn't have RichText EditFields that I need for Blogger.com, so it's kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I want BOTH a spell checker and RichEdit control, why is that so hard?
Ok, that's the 0.005% of the total userbase for web browsers, now let's hear from the other 99.995%
I like how everyone on Slashdot assumes that everyone else is like them. 6 computers? At least 6? What the hell do you do with all of them? I have three computers, and 90% of the time only one's even turned on.
God no. How do you take a show about a hot girl with superpowers and make it SO GODDAMNED BORING? In one of the few episodes I saw, she got captured and put in prison and she was going to die because she needs an injection of some chemical to keep her alive. Then she tried to escape from the prison, but couldn't jump high enough. And that was about the most action-packed thing that happened whatsoever. And I'm sitting there thinking, "wow, great superhero here. She should team up with Aquaman. But at least Aquaman doesn't need an injection every day to live."
The reason they film them with curse words is probably so they can sell them (with a higher rating) on the DVD market after they're aired. Some of the movies are actually somewhat clever and entertaining... some of them are complete dreck. (Like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ in which every line of dialog is a cliche, or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120331/ which is based entirely on bad science-- waves pass *through* each other, idiots, they don't cancel each other out!)
What's more amazing to me is how they get actors like Dean Cain and John Rhys-Davies in these movies. (I mean, come on Dean, you played *Superman!* You can do better than this!)
What I don't get is how they get John Rhys-Davies to star in every single one of them. Did the Sci-Fi Network kidnap his kid or something?
I mean, this is the guy who laughed at Indiana Jones for being named after a dog and now he's playing the role of the cruise ship captain of the ship that got invaded by the chupacabra!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ - not making this up!
John Rhys-Davies, please, call the police. They know how to handle hostage situations... and if they screw up, seriously man, losing a child is probably less painful than starring in the next Sci-Fi horror movie.
And an even better move would be to help the Java VM use native controls for its host OS, so Java programs on Macintosh stop looking like ugly hideous mutants that nobody wants to use.
.net application alongside a non-.net application on Windows. Can you notice the difference, visually/behaviorally between the two? No? That's the POINT, and that's something Java totally missed.
Run a
... except any proprietary software you have won't, because the entire concept of "software repositories" is designed to discourage proprietary software from running on Linux. (Like so many other things on Linux...) So if you've installed a proprietary program (say, Oracle as in another poster's example), can you still update it with one command? Nope, you've lost that ability. Only vendor-supplied software is updated, on OS X, Windows *and* Linux.
I can't blame the game for LYING to me about what the controls are, making it impossible for me to do anything with the ship? What do I blame?
What with all the news over the "New Game Enhancement" (or whatever they call it), I figured I'd download the demo and give it a try. Here's my experience:
1) The tutorial is wrong. This game has been around, what, 2.5 years now and even the TUTORIAL has bugs in it. To be specific, when piloting a spaceship, the tutorial says that the mouse controls the ship's movements when not in pointer mode. What it doesn't mention is the rather important fact that if you have a joystick plugged in, the mouse doesn't do SQUAT, only the joystick does. So despite the game knowing I had a joystick plugged in, the tutorial was giving me the wrong controls, lying to me. I was stuck in my little ship outside of the training base for about two hours before it occured to me to try the dusty old Logitech joystick hidden behind my monitor. And to make things worse, while you're stuck here, you can't put in a ticket for the help system because of (I presume) another bug where the Help button doesn't work.
2) During the non-ship sections, my framerate slowed to 1 FPS twice for no apparent reason, and I had to re-log to fix it both times. (The second time, I actually died because some NPC shot at me while the framerate was screwy, and I didn't even know it until I logged back in.
3) Even after I was done being stuck in my starship, I couldn't figure out how to open a support ticket for the above two items. I found where the game listed open tickets, so I know it's possible, but I couldn't find how to make a new one.
4) The game is generally crude, ignoring the bugs. The creatures didn't have death animations, instead just going from standing to being dead in 1 frame. Many items had no visual appearance, so they appeared as a huge featureless cube around my character. There were (get this) clipping errors in the *pre-rendered* videos describing the classes! If you're pre-rendering the movie, pick a camera angle that won't show obvious clipping errors!
Anyway. The game is losing players because it's crap. Other than the Star Wars brand, I have no clue why anybody started playing it in the first place. I used exactly four hours of my 10-day demo before giving up for life.
To be fair, it's possible all his ripped songs are obscure enough that they aren't in the iTunes database. iTunes showed "no match" for several of my more obscure tracks ripped from CD.
Just FYI, it does look up (some) of the MP3s you've added yourself, although you'll find it will say "no match" for most of the more obscure items. (I tested it on the 2000 Gorillaz CD and Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe, which it recognized, and some Lemon Demon songs downloaded from their homepage, which it didn't.)
You know, if you're dumpster diving to get computer parts but grab so many that you then have to shovel them off your lawn-- you might have a problem! You need to break the cycle of dumpster diving.
I used Claris Emailer 2.0 for years after it was (arguably) obsolete, and it had no problem handling my entire message archive, all 800 MB of it. (That's just the text, not attachments.) If Claris Emailer could do it in 2 MB in 1998, Thunderbird can do it in 6 MB in 2006.
Maybe the problem isn't Thunderbird, but the mbox file format?
Later, when my arm functioned again and the bleeding stopped I thought, wow, that would have been pretty funny, if it hadn't happened to me...
After reading your story, I can confirm that it's not very funny regardless of who it happened to.
All the games in this competition were pretty creative except the one that, uh, was just a clone of F-zero.
Hovercrafts? Check. Forcefield? Check. Gravity faces track? Check. Tracks twist and turn all around? Check.
But other than that, they were all good.
No, Mac users generally hate the "metal" look as well. It doesn't fit OS 9 *or* OS X interface guidelines, either. What that is is the marketing department getting out of control, and I think Mac, Linux *and* Windows geeks all hate that.
Firefox "gets" the home market, but totally misses the corporate market. For instance, it can't be deployed with roaming profiles, because it roams the cache instead of putting it in Local Settings where it belongs.
This kind of scares me off OpenOffice:
There are several ways you can do this. The most obvious is to put the cursor on one of the corner handles and move it toward the opposite corner while holding down the left mouse button. The only problem with this method is that it can distort the photo if you aren't careful.
This can be a fun "effect" if you do it on purpose, but this time you'll press Ctrl-Z or select Edit > Undo to take you back to where you were. Now you'll resize the photo correctly by right-clicking it and choosing Position and Size (the third menu choice from the top). You see the Position and Size dialog box.
Can't you just hold down shift as you drag to constrain proportions? You have to go to a DIALOG to do this? What an ass-pain.
The only link I ever bothered to submit and happened to get selected:
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/22
Was about Gartner's research showing that companies should probably wait a few years before switching en masse to Windows Vista. I got the story myself from a Google News auto-search for "Windows Vista" and when it came into my email box, I knew it was going to be Slashdot Gold... so I wrote up a little summary and submitted it.
Now I don't know if I was the only submission or not, but I *do* know that Slashdot was exactly the *second* news agency to carry the story right after zdnet.co.uk (the site I linked to) according to my Google News auto-search. That's pretty damn impressive, considering. And when you think ther are tens of thousands of users, and each one of them could be submitting articles like this, it's really impressive.
Also, thankfully, Zonk didn't edit any of the text of my submission and so I think it holds the world record for being the first Slashdot story with no spelling or grammar errors. (He did change the link to the *wrong* keywords, though, which is really annoying-- he misled people into thinking the link pointed at the actual study when, instead, it went to an article about the study.)
But but but... but http://www.hiareyou.com/!