File it under "submitter doesn't know what the hell he's talking about."
If they write a musical about, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey, he'd probably still call it a Star Wars ripoff because there's a spaceship in it... and the spaceship is like really long and there's the one shot where the camera travels the length of the ship while it's traveling in space and stuff! (A lot of stupid people I meet actually think 2001: A Space Odyssey was made AFTER Star Wars because of the mistaken perception that a) Star Wars revolutionized space special effects, and b) any movie with effects as good as 2001 must be pretty modern.)
Is there an archetype for this yet? The "annoying foreign holier-than-thou asshole?" Is that it? Or maybe the "smirking Canadian dipshit?" Or how about the "sarcastic off-topic dumbass?"
Let's have a decision here so I know the proper kind of insult to reply with.
Look, if people point out a weakness in Linux, don't immediately reply that the same weakness exists in Windows. How does that help anything? That's basically admitting, "yes, well, we can't fix it but... uh... look over there! They have the same problem!" With this strategy, how can Linux EVER hope to surpass Windows in quality? You're basically saying, "we can't fix the problems that Windows has, but Linux is better! Somehow..."
Instead of instantly pointing the finger to Windows, why don't you discuss ways to fix it in Linux? If Linux fixes the issue better than Windows copes with it, BAM, you've just created a selling point for any business converting to Linux. Read this ad copy:
"Windows fragmentation, what a pain! 98? ME? XP? IE 5? IR 5.5? Office XP? 2003? SP2? With Linux, you'll never have to worry... it just works."
Doesn't that sound nice? Now go out and MAKE IT HAPPEN instead of just saying, "yeah, well, they can't either!"
I'm also starting to get annoyed at the lack of progress here. I mean, slashcode is an open-source project, right? Isn't one of the reasons to use open-source because it's faster-moving then closed-source? Slashcode hasn't moved anywhere at all in years...
The ONLY change we've had in years is a few new sections, all of which have TERRIBLE eye-hurting colors (Games, IT for instance.)
Even worse, some features (like filtering-out specific topics) have been broken and never fixed... or is that fixed now?
This is a free market economy. He is welcome to say that a sunday afternoon's worth of programming work is worth five euros. If you disagree, you're welcome to NOT purchase the product.
But because a product was easy to make does NOT give you the write to pirate it.
Voting opens at 10:00 AM in EST Voting opens at 6:00 AM in PST And I'm sure you can fill in the blanks.
Then when the day is getting near, the election closes exactly 12 hours after it started.
It opens at the exact same moment in the entire US, and closes at the exact same moment in the entire US, and there's no way the press can be blamed for calling the election. (Sure, they'll call it around noonish, but people in PST have an even chance to be in the exit poll that way.)
Of course, this is a very easy and simple change that could make elections in the US a dozen times better, and therefore nobody would actually implement it...
If you even tried to start a war with North Korea, they'd flatten Seoul with missiles before you even set foot on the border. It'd be foolish. The best way to deal with North Korea is diplomatically.
It's because software very rarely (really, never) scales well. Windows allows you to set the font zoom, but most software packages can't cope with this and text will run off the side of windows. MacOS X doesn't allow the user to tweak the font size at all (that I can determine, at least.)
If Longhorn's display technology ever makes it, it'll fix all this. Or if Apple beats them to the punch. It'll be nice to run a monitor at 1600x1200 and not have to press my nose against the glass to read text... I have poor eyesight, too.
Another solution would be to come up with a technology that makes software *think* it's running on an 800x600 screen, but actually be running at 1600x1200... all the scaling up could be done by code that intercepts the drawing commands given to the OS, which would keep fonts and GUI elements smooth. Someone develop this.
Because, uh, you can't DO anything about him without North Korea devastating Seoul first. The only way to deal with North Korea without the massacre of MILLIONS of people is diplomatically, and we're already making as many diplomatic moves as is possible... you don't hear about them as much because they're not as exciting as tanks rumbling through the desert, but they're there working to reunite Korea every day.
You can invade Iraq and dismantle their government with relatively few casualties.
But if you even START to THINK about invading North Korea, Seoul gets hit by 50,000 missiles before our troops can even step across the border. Sure, North Korea would fall in a matter of days, but not until after they'd done tons of damage.
The ONLY way to deal with North Korea is diplomacy. Any other dealing will reduce Seoul to rubble in a matter of minutes. THAT is why nobody has done anything about that particular psychotic dictator, except met with him diplomatically.
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Forget about this story, I just heard something even better!
Did you guys know that MIT has a robot that can walk on water?
I know this site is rife with Disney-hate, but Lilo and Stitch is an *excellent* movie which has at least as much hand-drawn animation as The Iron Giant (if not more. I seem to recall hearing that most of The Iron Giant was CGI made to look like hand-drawn, like that Sinbad movie that came out a few years ago and made a big deal about it.)
Of course, the sequel and cartoon series kind of suck, but Lilo and Stitch is great. Also, Disney's recent The Emporer's New Groove is noteworthy as being full as all hell, even if it might not be a great movie.
1) It's not an XBox port, it's actually the sequel to the first game that happened to be made on the XBox. If you play both, you'll notice the story is entirely different and that the XBox game definately sequels the PC one.
2) I always thought Crimson Skies was a ripoff (at least in theme) of that old Disney Cartoon "Tail Spin." It also had groovy prop planes, huge dirigibles, film-noir leanings and an Art Deco style.
I concur. Also, Tron seemed to throw in CGI scenes just because it could. For instance, while they are on a solar sail over some valley in the computer world, one of the characters points to the ground and says, "look, gridbugs!" Cut to a scene of little CGI bug critters puttering around a grid for a few seconds. Then they're gone. The gridbugs disappear. They had NOTHING to do with the story of the movie.
The Last Starfighter had a lot more compelling features:
1) Everything that looked like CGI in it was actually CGI. Tron had many, many sets that were made of wood and paint, and just painted to look like CGI.
2) The CGI was used to simulate real-world objects. For instance, when the recruiter lands in his 'space car' the car is a prop constructed for use in the movie. Later on, this car flies into space and becomes a CGI effect seamlessly. (Of course, the careful observer can tell when it happens, but the CGI does look good.)
3) General polish. Tron feels a lot like a tech demo. The Last Starfighter feels a lot like a movie, albeit a really cheesy one.
Of course, neither of the movies were very good...
And to a lesser extent, the Disney cartoon show "Tail Spin" which takes place in a similar setting, but is occupied by animals instead of humans. Tail Spin was always my favorite of all the afternoon Disney cartoons because of its creative setting.
Just as a quick note, MacOS Classic accomplished the same goal simply but not having shared library functionality built-into the system. (Until System 8, I believe... maybe 7.) So this isn't a new thing in the MacOS world, it's just OS X's way of accomplishing the same goal.
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Where DOES the Green Party stand on issues other than the environment? I have no clue.
File it under "submitter doesn't know what the hell he's talking about."
If they write a musical about, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey, he'd probably still call it a Star Wars ripoff because there's a spaceship in it... and the spaceship is like really long and there's the one shot where the camera travels the length of the ship while it's traveling in space and stuff! (A lot of stupid people I meet actually think 2001: A Space Odyssey was made AFTER Star Wars because of the mistaken perception that a) Star Wars revolutionized space special effects, and b) any movie with effects as good as 2001 must be pretty modern.)
Is there an archetype for this yet? The "annoying foreign holier-than-thou asshole?" Is that it? Or maybe the "smirking Canadian dipshit?" Or how about the "sarcastic off-topic dumbass?"
Let's have a decision here so I know the proper kind of insult to reply with.
Do yourself a favor and pretend you've never heard of 3001. It really is that bad.
I hate this.
Look, if people point out a weakness in Linux, don't immediately reply that the same weakness exists in Windows. How does that help anything? That's basically admitting, "yes, well, we can't fix it but... uh... look over there! They have the same problem!" With this strategy, how can Linux EVER hope to surpass Windows in quality? You're basically saying, "we can't fix the problems that Windows has, but Linux is better! Somehow..."
Instead of instantly pointing the finger to Windows, why don't you discuss ways to fix it in Linux? If Linux fixes the issue better than Windows copes with it, BAM, you've just created a selling point for any business converting to Linux. Read this ad copy:
"Windows fragmentation, what a pain! 98? ME? XP? IE 5? IR 5.5? Office XP? 2003? SP2? With Linux, you'll never have to worry... it just works."
Doesn't that sound nice? Now go out and MAKE IT HAPPEN instead of just saying, "yeah, well, they can't either!"
And here chimes in Mr. Doesn't-Get-The-Joke to spoil everyone's fun.
Heh, that's funny. Care to go into more detail?
I'm also starting to get annoyed at the lack of progress here. I mean, slashcode is an open-source project, right? Isn't one of the reasons to use open-source because it's faster-moving then closed-source? Slashcode hasn't moved anywhere at all in years...
The ONLY change we've had in years is a few new sections, all of which have TERRIBLE eye-hurting colors (Games, IT for instance.)
Even worse, some features (like filtering-out specific topics) have been broken and never fixed... or is that fixed now?
Enough said. Damn straight!
If those pirating jackasses would just realize how many great products DON'T exist because of the companies that they've driven out of business...
Yikes, man, calm down. Listen to some Kenny G. Stand up, get away from the computer, and go outside for a few hours.
Someday I'm going to find that guy who moderates Clippy jokes as funny and I'm going to strangle him.
The X makes it sound cool.
That misses the point entirely.
This is a free market economy. He is welcome to say that a sunday afternoon's worth of programming work is worth five euros. If you disagree, you're welcome to NOT purchase the product.
But because a product was easy to make does NOT give you the write to pirate it.
Simple solution:
Voting opens at 10:00 AM in EST
Voting opens at 6:00 AM in PST
And I'm sure you can fill in the blanks.
Then when the day is getting near, the election closes exactly 12 hours after it started.
It opens at the exact same moment in the entire US, and closes at the exact same moment in the entire US, and there's no way the press can be blamed for calling the election. (Sure, they'll call it around noonish, but people in PST have an even chance to be in the exit poll that way.)
Of course, this is a very easy and simple change that could make elections in the US a dozen times better, and therefore nobody would actually implement it...
Iraq isn't well-armed or organized.
If you even tried to start a war with North Korea, they'd flatten Seoul with missiles before you even set foot on the border. It'd be foolish. The best way to deal with North Korea is diplomatically.
It's because software very rarely (really, never) scales well. Windows allows you to set the font zoom, but most software packages can't cope with this and text will run off the side of windows. MacOS X doesn't allow the user to tweak the font size at all (that I can determine, at least.)
If Longhorn's display technology ever makes it, it'll fix all this. Or if Apple beats them to the punch. It'll be nice to run a monitor at 1600x1200 and not have to press my nose against the glass to read text... I have poor eyesight, too.
Another solution would be to come up with a technology that makes software *think* it's running on an 800x600 screen, but actually be running at 1600x1200... all the scaling up could be done by code that intercepts the drawing commands given to the OS, which would keep fonts and GUI elements smooth. Someone develop this.
Because, uh, you can't DO anything about him without North Korea devastating Seoul first. The only way to deal with North Korea without the massacre of MILLIONS of people is diplomatically, and we're already making as many diplomatic moves as is possible... you don't hear about them as much because they're not as exciting as tanks rumbling through the desert, but they're there working to reunite Korea every day.
Yes, but here's the fundamental issue:
What do you DO about North Korea?
You can invade Iraq and dismantle their government with relatively few casualties.
But if you even START to THINK about invading North Korea, Seoul gets hit by 50,000 missiles before our troops can even step across the border. Sure, North Korea would fall in a matter of days, but not until after they'd done tons of damage.
The ONLY way to deal with North Korea is diplomacy. Any other dealing will reduce Seoul to rubble in a matter of minutes. THAT is why nobody has done anything about that particular psychotic dictator, except met with him diplomatically.
Forget about this story, I just heard something even better!
Did you guys know that MIT has a robot that can walk on water?
Man! Someone should submit that to Slashdot...
Brilliant troll.
I know this site is rife with Disney-hate, but Lilo and Stitch is an *excellent* movie which has at least as much hand-drawn animation as The Iron Giant (if not more. I seem to recall hearing that most of The Iron Giant was CGI made to look like hand-drawn, like that Sinbad movie that came out a few years ago and made a big deal about it.)
Of course, the sequel and cartoon series kind of suck, but Lilo and Stitch is great. Also, Disney's recent The Emporer's New Groove is noteworthy as being full as all hell, even if it might not be a great movie.
Couple things here...
1) It's not an XBox port, it's actually the sequel to the first game that happened to be made on the XBox. If you play both, you'll notice the story is entirely different and that the XBox game definately sequels the PC one.
2) I always thought Crimson Skies was a ripoff (at least in theme) of that old Disney Cartoon "Tail Spin." It also had groovy prop planes, huge dirigibles, film-noir leanings and an Art Deco style.
I concur. Also, Tron seemed to throw in CGI scenes just because it could. For instance, while they are on a solar sail over some valley in the computer world, one of the characters points to the ground and says, "look, gridbugs!" Cut to a scene of little CGI bug critters puttering around a grid for a few seconds. Then they're gone. The gridbugs disappear. They had NOTHING to do with the story of the movie.
The Last Starfighter had a lot more compelling features:
1) Everything that looked like CGI in it was actually CGI. Tron had many, many sets that were made of wood and paint, and just painted to look like CGI.
2) The CGI was used to simulate real-world objects. For instance, when the recruiter lands in his 'space car' the car is a prop constructed for use in the movie. Later on, this car flies into space and becomes a CGI effect seamlessly. (Of course, the careful observer can tell when it happens, but the CGI does look good.)
3) General polish. Tron feels a lot like a tech demo. The Last Starfighter feels a lot like a movie, albeit a really cheesy one.
Of course, neither of the movies were very good...
Hey, that's not fair... a lot of them do very good. The ones that do, however, usually turn into the original that other movies are sequels of.
But look at movies like, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Blade Runner, Minority Report, A.I.
They're out there. Don't be a pessimist.
And to a lesser extent, the Disney cartoon show "Tail Spin" which takes place in a similar setting, but is occupied by animals instead of humans. Tail Spin was always my favorite of all the afternoon Disney cartoons because of its creative setting.
Just as a quick note, MacOS Classic accomplished the same goal simply but not having shared library functionality built-into the system. (Until System 8, I believe... maybe 7.) So this isn't a new thing in the MacOS world, it's just OS X's way of accomplishing the same goal.