If we assume the 3.2 +/- 0.4 mm rise per year holds true (and looking at the latest graph, that will have to be lowered some time), that still won't give you 3 feet. 3.2 mm per year x 100 years = 320 mm = about 1 ft and 1/2 inch (if my math is correct).
Here in the States, specifically in North Carolina where I live, our school always had heat. But we didn't always have air conditioning. It matters here because highs in 90's and 100's (Fahrenheit of course) are common. The cold and the heat each bring their own problems. Our schools weren't designed to let the heat out either. You try listening to the teacher when you are covered in sweat. And then knowing you have to put up with that heat the next day. Given a choice between the two, I rather put up with near freezing temps than being too hot.
And then, the year I graduated, our school was installing air conditioning.
Those who do everything do nothing well. I tried using Bing when its name was first changed from Live search. But I found it couldn't find water in the middle of the ocean. I had more success searching Microsoft's website using Google than Bing! Microsoft should stick to what they do best.
However, I disagree with you regarding "Winblows". Apparently you've never used Windows 7. And also, apparently you've never used Office. Those products are anything but crappy, and many people want to use them. Only people who cannot afford Office or fanboys want to use the alternatives to Office.
The core Microsoft products, the ones that have been around a long time such as Windows, Office, and SQL Server, are really good. The problem with Microsoft is they want to branch out too much.
On Windows Vista and later versions, any change that affects all users requires the UAC prompt, unless it exploits a security weakness. Most malware does not exploit weaknesses. Instead, what malware now does is to install in a folder specific to the user. In Windows Vista, this is usually the %localappdata% folder (c:\users\<my name>\appdata\local\). If it installs there, there is no UAC prompt, but the appdata folder is also hidden so most people don't know to search there. So now the malware creators have discovered that the same trick to avoid prompting for a password in Windows now works on Macs. If the file installs in a location specific to the user and not the system, it beats the password.
I pity you if you think the NYT, BBC, CBC, or any modern news organization has any professionalism at all. They have long since sold their soul to sensationalism.
You should try Eset NOD32. It isn't bloated at all. And it is very good on malware and worms. It does have a problem cleaning viruses, although it has no problem detecting viruses. NOD32 also doesn't detect rootkits. Despite those problems, it has been my experience with all malware and worms that if NOD32 doesn't stop it right away, it will remove them within two days when the definitions update. The nice thing about NOD32 is the on-access scan is as good as the on-demand scan, which really means you never need to schedule an antivirus scan.
I bought an iPad because I have a computer repair business and I got tired of saying "I don't know" when everybody asked me what I thought of the iPad. I like to be objective, I'm crazy like that. Now that I have it, I would say that 95% of the people in this world should not buy an iPad. I had the hardest time getting my movies to be compatible with it.
Having said all that, I am putting mine to good use. I bought an app that has a calendar on it, so now my appointments are on it. It syncs with Google calendar, so I can enter an appointment on my home computer and have it ready on my iPad. I have collected a lot of notes, which I put in a PDF file. Now I use my iPad for my repair notes. If I can get an app that integrates with my Quickbooks without a monthly fee, that would make the iPad worth my money by itself.
There is a market for tablet computers. But for most people it is a novelty and not a good idea.
About 80% of all US weather stations fail to meet NOAA's minimum requirements to provide accurate data according to surfacestations.org. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the best, over half are ranked a 4. To be considered accurate, a weather station is supposed to be 150 feet away from any structure and be 5 foot off the ground. Many sites sit near pavement, buildings, and AC units. The result is, of course, higher temperatures than what is really exists, especially at night.
When you feed garbage into the model, garbage comes out. If you can't get the here and now right, how can you get the future right? NOAA needs to focus on getting the basics right first. Until then, accuweather.com is my source.
"Criminal copyright infringement occurs on a massive scale over the internet, and reportedly results in billions of dollars in losses to the US economy. That translates into lost jobs and real hardships for ordinary working people," said US attorney Preet Bharara.
If you believe that claptrap, then I weep for you. Paris Hilton will call you stupid, which is not an honor. The real cause of loss of billions of dollars in losses to the US economy is the sorry movies Hollywood keeps producing. Garbage in, garbage out. But we live in a world where a person cannot blame themselves. This is how the movie execs are thinking: People aren't seeing our movies. We are perfect and never make a bad movie. Since all our movies are good, piracy is to blame for lost revenue.
I have a Bold 9000 and I currently have BB OS 5 installed. If you go to the website crackberry.com they will have links and instructions so you can download the latest OS for your BlackBerry, even if it is not carrier supported. Plus crackberry.com has a team of addicts who test every new OS out there and let you know if it is worth the time to upgrade.
Maybe it will be different across the pond, but here in the US, people often call Best Buy "Worst Buy" because of their dirty tricks. The website, consumerist.com, is filled with horror stories about Best Buy and their subsidiary Geek Squad. Some of their dirty tricks include mandatory "optional" extras. I shop at Best Buy, out of necessity and not by choice. If you are alert to the games they play, you'll be fine.
But buying Wolfram Alpha won't help Bing where it needs the most help. The last time I used Bing or Live or whatever search it is called this year, it couldn't find ice at the north pole in the middle of winter. That was actually a few months ago. I don't like what Google is doing, but I care about results. And the fact is, I can find what I need faster on Google. Until that changes, I will still use Google.
Furthermore, someone needs to tell Microsoft that you don't need to do everything. Let someone else make money for a change.
I *COULD* believe this study if the Antarctic didn't reach yet another record high in ice mass this year. Oh, they left that part out didn't they. Can't get funding if there isn't a problem. Tie "global warming" to a study and you'll be fat with cash faster than you can count to 3.
And since I am not a global warming advocate, I like to have proof. Unlike the global warming advocates, who hate proof of any kind.
Air Conditioning (and refrigeration) is the best invention ever. If you live in southern US, like I do, you'll know how good AC really is. I don't know how people survived the high heat and high humidity before AC. The AC makes life liveable in many more places.
And that is saying a lot since I've used OSX, Linux, and Unix. In college, I could only use Solaris Unix, and I liked it a lot. Of course, Microsoft is an idea stealing company, but that is for another day. (I also see the Penguin huggers and Apple worshipers are out trying to discredit it.)
I've been using W7 RTM from day 1. Every computer I installed it on had no issues. 32-bit, 64-bit, didn't matter. It is fast, efficient, and stable. Is it perfect? No. Operating systems are insanely complex, so it can never be perfect. There is only one bug that I have found. W7 doesn't work with HD DVD drives, not even the combo Blu-Ray/HD DVD drives. It made some changes that require an adjustment, but you quickly learn to love them.
The thing I like the most is that 7 just feels faster. Vista seemed slow, even with 8 GB of memory. It may not be quantifiable, but 7 just feels better to use. I also like the fact that 7 support H.264 movies. It still doesn't use hardware acceleration, so HD movies in H.264 tend to lag. VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movies don't however.
I had W7 RC1. Thanks to a few internet searches on how to upgrade from W7 beta to W7 RC1, I figured out how to upgrade my RC1 to the final build. Even doing that, it has been stable.
Facts are a climate change advocate's worst nightmare. The main reason why I do not believe in man-made climate change is because those who advocate it (a) Refuse to release their methods even when required to do so by law so that their studies can be verified; (b) They try to silence debate in any way possible, even though true science welcomes debate; (c) They always make out that is is worse than we thought; (d) They rely on computer models that cannot get known weather patterns right, much less unknown weather patterns; (e) Those that are pushing this the hardest have some very wicked ulterior motives; and (f) It is actually quite easy to prove, with unassailable facts, that humans are not causing global warming/climate change.
Anybody who believes in we are at fault is either ignorant or stands to gain a ton of money and/or power.
"According to AdGooRoo - a search marketing consultant that tracks search ads from a network of servers across the globe - Bing delivers better conversation rates than Google (as does Yahoo!). And you could argue that Bing is the better organic search engine."
Uh-huh. But according to Wade (that's me) Bing or Live or whatever its called this year couldn't find ice if it was standing at the north pole. I tried Bing, I really did. But the results are terrible, unless you need to search for something at a Microsoft owned website. If you click on the shopping links on msn.com which uses Bing, the results are all over the place from closely relevant to not even close. Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft should just quit and focus on not trying to copy everyone else's idea. Windows 7 is really good, run with that.
Yahoo is better than Bing. I can believe Yahoo is better organically than Google. But not Bing. And yes, I've used Bing lately.
I remember a time when major motherboard makers had to sell their product unlabeled else they would have to face Intel's wrath. When you prevent a company from succeeding, how on earth will that company be able to compete. It is like holding someone under water and asking why they can't swim. How can you explain it when AMD had a far far superior product called Athlon 64 and Opteron that ran circles around your Pentium 4 and Xeon but still could not gain major marketshare? How else can you explain how your lapdog called Dell only started to sell AMD products when Core 2 came out? Why did you adopt AMD's 64-bit technology? Why did you adopt AMD's concept of the CPU memory controller?
All of these fines should go to AMD and not to some EU bureaucrat. Lets see what AMD can do with a huge R&D budget. Intel has the superior product now. But something tells me AMD will finally use the ATI engineers to really expand the math ability of their CPU's very soon. The ATI acquisition hurt AMD in the short-term, but everyone knew it was a long-term purchase.
Have customers create a secret question and answer. Then before any orders can take place at a phone dealer, require the answer to that secret question.
With Apple products, the quality is solid but massively overpriced. Essentially, you are paying more for the name.
With Sony products, the quality is solid but massively overpriced. Essentially, you are paying more for the name.
You can get so much for so much less by going with another company. Even HD DVD did more than Blu-Ray until Blu-Ray released profile 1.1. For the money you spend on Sony, you can get a far superior product at the same price point with someone else. This applies to everything Sony makes.
When I came out of college, I had nothing handed to me. I could have did with this idiot did, I could have did what most Americans do, sue the bastards. Instead, I decided to become a productive member of society by starting my own business. I have better hours, I am happier, and my business is doing great even though it took years to become as good as it is.
It isn't your God given right to make a lot of money. You have to do something about it.
Okay, so last year I bought a Seagate hard drive, it died within a year. So I sent it in to claim the warranty. I received a refurbished Seagate hard drive back. It died within 2 months. Someone I know bought a HP computer which had a Seagate hard drive in it, it died within 6 months. So many Seagate hard drives are failing that after it died I saw an advisory about it on HP's website.
If you ask me, Seagate is going to lose its #1 crown because it forgot how to make a hard drive.
It is easier to get in the United States illegally than legally. Furthermore, once you are in illegally, you can get all the services of a legal citizen or legal alien without paying taxes.
While I do not doubt there is a glass ceiling for women in IT, there is more to it than that.
When I was in college for computer science and math, there were plenty of ladies in both classes. More so for math because of common requirements. The longer I was there, the fewer and fewer girls in both computer science and math. I had many computer science courses that were all male. I can guarantee you this, it was never because of bigotry. There were always girls in my math classes, but they were the vast minority.
Every person has a different way of thinking. Some are better at logic which makes them better with computers and math. Quite often, I found people asking me what this C++ code was doing when it was crystal clear to me, this was both men and women. Furthermore, like it or not, men and women do think differently. The glass ceiling cannot explain why many girls do not take computer classes or many math classes. Instead of trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole by worrying about being "equal", why not exploit what each person is good at? Focus on a person's strength and minimize their weakness. Instead, we have a culture now that wants to magnify a weakness just to be "equal". We are equal, we all have something we are good at and something we are bad at. I realize this is not the PC way of thinking, but it is the smart way of thinking. We would be a lot happier if we stopped trying to force equality by forcing people to do something they are not good at.
I know male dominated professions can be hard on the ladies. So if a woman truly is good at computers, she should be rewarded and not held back.
So Google dreams of a world without viruses. Well I dream of having endless wealth and being married to a supermodel, but that ain't going to happen either. It is very sad when someone working on an OS does not fully understand that these things are so complicated that it is next to impossible to close every security hole. When you add 3rd party applications, then being 100% secure is even more impossible. "It should just work" is what Apple says; Apple cannot give you that and has complete control over all the hardware.
(Of course, you might have to reside in the US of A to see this because apparently people in other countries don't matter, who knew? So here is a transcript written by someone with too much free time. The video is a joke, but the sad part is that it is real.
Right now, public outcry is great. So Phorm and NebuAd are axed and fade into the night. And then, because of the short term memory the majority of people suffer with today these companies will rise from the dead. The ISP's, having learned their lesson, will be able to covertly roll out Phorm the second and NebuAd the second (which, if you recall from El Reg, has relocated to the UK under the name Insight Ready).
This will happen. This is not a victory, this is a delay. It may be one year, or two or three or more, but it will happen again. Money is more powerful than you can imagine. Scruples mean nothing when it comes to make a lot of money.
Microsoft needs to stop trying to do EVERYTING and just focus on doing a few things. Those who do everything do nothing well. And Bing/Live Search is a perfect example. Google is no saint, but until someone else actually has a search as good as Google, I will be using it. I want results, not advertising blitzes. Bing/Live couldn't find the ocean if it was standing knee deep in water. I can find what I need faster with Google and Yahoo than with Bing/Live. Why waste my time just because it can play videos?
What about the adverse health effects of the spinning wind turbines? The rhythmic vibrations of wind turbines affects people nearby adversely. What about when, not if, the wind stops blowing? What about the birds who just happen to be flying near these things?
I realize Harvard is in a world in of itself. I just wish these university professors and this "green" movement would try to live in Planet Earth for a change. Just try, please, living in the real world and not some green utopia where everything is sunshine and lollipops.
We landed on the moon using feet and inches! How many times have we landed on the moon using meters? Case closed.
Which sounds better? "I walked for miles and miles" or "I walked for kilometers and kilometers"? Case closed.
The pound is a more accurate measurement of weight than grams because pounds is a measurement of force whereas grams is a measurement of mass.
Fahrenheit is more precise than Celsius because Fahrenheit has 180 degrees between boiling and freezing where Celsius only has 100.
Furthermore, why do we have to conform to you? You want to be metric, fine. When I go to your country, then I will use metric. But when you come here, don't ask me to do something you are unwilling to do. When in Rome, do as the Romans as the saying goes.
While I am all in support for banning "exclusive rights" deals, it won't go anywhere. First off, one of the bill's sponsors is John Kerry, a man who changes opinion faster than he changes underwear. Second, this will affect other rich corporations who have exclusive rights deals. For example, greedy, rich, and evil EA has an exclusive rights deal with the NFL for use of the players' names. No other company may make a video game and use the players' names. Satellite provider DirecTV also has an exclusive rights deal with the NFL so that only they can broadcast every single game. All other providers must accept what is on the local station. The NFL is the biggest money making sports league in the US and for EA and DirecTV this is a cash cow. If this law passes, then others can get the crazy idea that competition is a good thing too. Hey, if a company isn't allowed to have an exclusive rights deal when it comes to a particular phone, why should it be allowed in anything else? EA and DirecTV have enough money to bribe Congress to prevent that pro-consumer outcome.
If the bill somehow manages to get anywhere, us Americans can probably expect to see an ad on TV claiming how this bill is really anti-consumer using twisted logic. AT&T and Verizon won't give up their money maker without a fight.
The "blind" search you are referring is not so blind. I don't care what some "blind" search says, my firsthand actual factual real-world experience shows Google to be the best. I'm no fan of Google, but until someone else is just as good, I won't be using anyone else. I care about results. Microsoft will never have a good search engine because they are too divided. Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft will always have a lot of money, they don't need to try to do what everyone else does.
Here in the stateside part of the world, Microsoft has been on a huge advertising blitz. So naturally people will start to use it. But it won't last. Live search (of which Bing is really just an extension of) couldn't find the ocean standing in knee deep of water. I don't care what a Microsoft funded "blind" search study says. I know this from firsthand experience. Already there are stories floating around on the tubes about how Bing came up with bad results. Microsoft really needs to stop trying to do what others do better and just keep focusing on Windows and Office.
I've been tethering with AT&T for 5 years now. Each time, the software to tether was included with my phone. First it was with a Nokia, no problem at all. Then with an Ericsson, no problem at all. Right now I have a Blackberry Bold and a non-tethering data plan and yet I can still tether with no issue at all. I have even been able to tether while roaming.
The problem isn't AT&T's network, but people not willing to try. Tethering isn't exactly plug and chug. And that is probably the problem. Just don't tell AT&T you are doing it.
To do the same thing again but expect different results is stupidity. Big media wonders why people steal all the while they are pricing themselves right out of the business. If it wasn't so true it would be sad.
If these execs were a business like most other businesses (unless you are a bank or make cars), they would fail due to the stupidity of the business model. Adapt or die. Some other business comes along which has adapted and replaces the dinosaur who failed to adapt. But hey, it is a cruel world and you failed to change. No pity. The net result is deadwood is cleared out and a younger more dynamic company replaces it.
However, the music and record industry are unique and they know it. They have enough power to bribe Western governments to make favorable laws to them. The problem is, the dynamics still change and the media dinosaurs don't want to change. So what you have is the problem we have today: a collision between the new and a stubborn refusal to adapt to the new aided by the legal system.
What the music and record dinosaurs don't realize is that you can only fight the inevitable so long. You can only keep your finger in the dike for so long before it bursts. And now they made enemies, namely the consumers who will help you adapt. So when the inevitable eventually comes, no one will cry.
Hulu micropayments is a continuation of the failed policies of yesterday.
I am already boycotting all thing EA. They will never get any of my money ever again. SecuROM is not the reason, but it does add to how much I hate EA. I hate EA because they hate competition. A good game studio comes along and what does EA do? Buy them and destroy the series with crappy sequels. If they cannot buy the studio, they attempt to destroy it in other ways. For sports games, they attempt to buy "exclusive rights" from the league.
Fast forwarding to the future, if EA was the only game studio left, I would never play a new game again.
I could take Greenpeace and other eco-nazis seriously if they had verifiable proof for climate change. If you ask the eco-nazis for proof, they shout insults at you and brand you as a climate heretic. Any true science would welcome debate. If the science is sound and proof available, it cannot be disproven. Only the faux sciences, like climate change and phrenology, suppress debate because any debate will expose them. Why doesn't Al Gore discuss the climate with those who disagree with him? Why does James Hansen refuse to disclose his algorithm for calculating global temperature? I'll tell you why, because Steve McIntyre will come along and quickly disprove it, like he did with Michael Mann's hockey stick. McIntyre at climateaudit.org found out that no matter what numbers you put in, a hockey stick always comes out.
CEO's must make the company money. Taking into account a sham and a lie is not in the interest of the company. Of course, if capitalism was no more ...
Oh, that is right. Nuclear is cheap and very efficient. Can't be having that. Wind and solar is not cheap, which means it will lower the cost of living, which means the greens attain their goal of destroying our way of life. Meltdowns is a made up fear just like climate change to scare people. In reality, with a modern nuclear reactor, you have a better chance of seeing a flying unicorn than seeing a meltdown. Nuclear power plants exist in earthquake prone areas, and these have never had a meltdown. Furthermore, modern nuclear reactors produce 3 cubic meters of waste per year after reprocessing. We do not have more nuclear plants because the greens do not want them because cheap energy equals prosperity.
Lets suppose a solar panel converted 100% of the sunlight into energy. It never will, but lets assume that for this argument. Then the amount of energy produce by a solar plant the size of a modern nuclear reactor would still be far less.
@A J Stiles - Yes oil is finite resource. However, we have enough known reserves of oil to last decades at current consumption. This is KNOWN reserves with new reserves being discovered often. Right now off California oil is leaking naturally into the ocean. A reserve off Brazil was discovered which may have enough oil to satisfy the Americas for a decade. Oil is finite, but the end of it is nowhere near. Add to this, natural gas reserves exceed oil reserves. 30 years ago they said we would run out of oil in 30 years. Guess what? That wasn't true then just it isn't true now. Now, we should wean off it. Remember, however, that something will not succeed unless it is better, and wind and solar is not better. Solar may be better in the future, but not now. Really, we must be balanced and never dogmatic. We should wean off our use of oil and not cut off our use of oil.
When Athlon 64 and Opteron came out, Intel had no answer. They both kicked everything Intel has in the gonads and still cost less. Yet despite the advantages of performance and price, AMD has having trouble finding a distributor. The reason was that Intel was giving discounts, not on how many units you sell like all other businesses, but on what percentage of Intel units you sold. It wasn't 100%, but it was very high. Motherboard manufacturers were making AMD motherboards unbranded. Does that sound fair? Intel strong-armed the competition to keep AMD down on purpose. The result was the you and I paid more for computers and Intel got even more money to keep AMD down.
Fortunately for AMD, HP was a maverick. HP had this crazy idea of giving customers what they wanted instead of telling customers what they wanted. Are you listening Dell or should I say Intel Jr? Dell refused to sell AMD chips stating that nobody wanted them. But at the same time HP overtook Dell as the #1 PC maker because of selling both AMD and Intel chips. Dell only started to sell AMD chips when Core 2 came out. Coincidence? Why would Dell only sell AMD chips when Intel had something better? Think about it.
My complaint with this fine is that one most affected won't see any of it. AMD was shafted, yet they will get nothing but a "you were right". Try paying the bills with that. Competition benefits us all. It is the reason why you can get a really good computer for 1/3 of what it have cost several years ago. Intel has the money to spare. They will be around tomorrow.
I'm not AMD loyalists, I am a price-performance loyalists.
Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right does
So I see an article slamming Microsoft and I scroll back to the top of Reg's website and what do I see? A Microsoft banner ad asking me I remember before the internet and email. I guess the slogan "Biting the hand that feeds IT" is appropriate on another level.
"You'll see us innovating in search," said Ballmer.
If only that were true. Live search is terrible. I tried it, I really did. Until I did some comparisons and I was able to find what I needed with Google and Yahoo faster and easier. Not to mention that Google's and Yahoo's results were far more relevant. Those that do everything do nothing well. Get out of the search engine game; you will never be as good as Yahoo, much less Google.
Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft needs to stop trying to be like Apple ... and Adobe and Google and well, everybody. The core of what you do is really good. Most of the new stuff you tried for the general market isn't worth what I just flushed down the toilet. The only new thing you did that is really good is VC-1. And that is just for movies. XBox 360 is good but really good.
Speaking of the toilet, I decided Zune was not worth my money when Microsoft came out with a brown Zune and decided the newest catchphrase would be "squirting". Imagine "squirting" with your brown Zune. Was some guy in a tie taking care of business in the Microsoft executive bathroom when he said "Hey! Brown is a good color and squirting is a good idea. It doesn't remind me at all what I just did."
Windows is good, don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise. Office is good, don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise. The XBox 360 is good enough. Leave Flash type stuff alone. Leave open document formats alone. Leave internet browsers alone. Live search couldn't find the ocean if it was standing knee deep in water, and that is an improvement when it couldn't find the ocean if it was up to the neck in water. Stop trying to be everything and just be focused.
I have not seen the leaked movie. In fact, I had already decided NOT to see the movie long before I read about the bad reviews. None of the movies coming out soon will I see. None. That includes the new Terminator even though Christian Bale is a great actor. I am not going to see these movies because they all clearly are terrible.
Piracy and the economy is not killing the movie industry. Competition from other forms of entertainment isn't killing movies either. It is the sorry product Hollywood is putting out. These big studios think sex and CGI and violence can replace a good plot and story; it cannot.
The #1 problem with movie and music studios is they refuse the admit they are wrong. They blame anything and everything except themselves. Because, in their eyes, are not wrong, they will not change and the fundamental problem remains. Until movie studies demand a good story, ticket sales will always be down. I do not pirate movies, yet the last movie I considered worth seeing was Batman, The Dark Knight. How long ago was that?
From what I've read, this movie is so bad it is a crime against humanity. No amount of CGI can improve the plot. The plot is what people are attacking, not the visual effects. A movie without a plot is like a Ferrari without an engine. Sure, it looks good, but it isn't worth the money.
If you are into conspiracy theories, here is one. This whole leak is suspicious. How could an unfinished movie just happen to leak out? Well, what if Fox decided to "leak" out the movie to generate buzz? Then the "leak" generated such bad reviews that Fox was forced to save face by coming down hard and claiming piracy. Let the conspiracy begin!
Comments to me are proof positive I am right. I struck a nerve. I found out a long time ago that the quickest way to make some angry is to be right. Try it.
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Re: Sea level rise, what sea level rise?
Just to drive the point home.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/files/2011_rel4/sl_ns_global.png
If we assume the 3.2 +/- 0.4 mm rise per year holds true (and looking at the latest graph, that will have to be lowered some time), that still won't give you 3 feet. 3.2 mm per year x 100 years = 320 mm = about 1 ft and 1/2 inch (if my math is correct).
Too hot is just as bad
Here in the States, specifically in North Carolina where I live, our school always had heat. But we didn't always have air conditioning. It matters here because highs in 90's and 100's (Fahrenheit of course) are common. The cold and the heat each bring their own problems. Our schools weren't designed to let the heat out either. You try listening to the teacher when you are covered in sweat. And then knowing you have to put up with that heat the next day. Given a choice between the two, I rather put up with near freezing temps than being too hot.
And then, the year I graduated, our school was installing air conditioning.
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Those who do everything do nothing well. I tried using Bing when its name was first changed from Live search. But I found it couldn't find water in the middle of the ocean. I had more success searching Microsoft's website using Google than Bing! Microsoft should stick to what they do best.
However, I disagree with you regarding "Winblows". Apparently you've never used Windows 7. And also, apparently you've never used Office. Those products are anything but crappy, and many people want to use them. Only people who cannot afford Office or fanboys want to use the alternatives to Office.
The core Microsoft products, the ones that have been around a long time such as Windows, Office, and SQL Server, are really good. The problem with Microsoft is they want to branch out too much.
This is how malware beats Windows too
On Windows Vista and later versions, any change that affects all users requires the UAC prompt, unless it exploits a security weakness. Most malware does not exploit weaknesses. Instead, what malware now does is to install in a folder specific to the user. In Windows Vista, this is usually the %localappdata% folder (c:\users\<my name>\appdata\local\). If it installs there, there is no UAC prompt, but the appdata folder is also hidden so most people don't know to search there. So now the malware creators have discovered that the same trick to avoid prompting for a password in Windows now works on Macs. If the file installs in a location specific to the user and not the system, it beats the password.
Sad
I pity you if you think the NYT, BBC, CBC, or any modern news organization has any professionalism at all. They have long since sold their soul to sensationalism.
Consider Eset
You should try Eset NOD32. It isn't bloated at all. And it is very good on malware and worms. It does have a problem cleaning viruses, although it has no problem detecting viruses. NOD32 also doesn't detect rootkits. Despite those problems, it has been my experience with all malware and worms that if NOD32 doesn't stop it right away, it will remove them within two days when the definitions update. The nice thing about NOD32 is the on-access scan is as good as the on-demand scan, which really means you never need to schedule an antivirus scan.
There is a new Worms game
The new Worms is even better than the old ones.
But the best game not on the list is Transport Tycoon. I still play that game even today.
It is useful for some people
I bought an iPad because I have a computer repair business and I got tired of saying "I don't know" when everybody asked me what I thought of the iPad. I like to be objective, I'm crazy like that. Now that I have it, I would say that 95% of the people in this world should not buy an iPad. I had the hardest time getting my movies to be compatible with it.
Having said all that, I am putting mine to good use. I bought an app that has a calendar on it, so now my appointments are on it. It syncs with Google calendar, so I can enter an appointment on my home computer and have it ready on my iPad. I have collected a lot of notes, which I put in a PDF file. Now I use my iPad for my repair notes. If I can get an app that integrates with my Quickbooks without a monthly fee, that would make the iPad worth my money by itself.
There is a market for tablet computers. But for most people it is a novelty and not a good idea.
NOAA's problems run deeper than that
About 80% of all US weather stations fail to meet NOAA's minimum requirements to provide accurate data according to surfacestations.org. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the best, over half are ranked a 4. To be considered accurate, a weather station is supposed to be 150 feet away from any structure and be 5 foot off the ground. Many sites sit near pavement, buildings, and AC units. The result is, of course, higher temperatures than what is really exists, especially at night.
When you feed garbage into the model, garbage comes out. If you can't get the here and now right, how can you get the future right? NOAA needs to focus on getting the basics right first. Until then, accuweather.com is my source.
Sure ...
"Criminal copyright infringement occurs on a massive scale over the internet, and reportedly results in billions of dollars in losses to the US economy. That translates into lost jobs and real hardships for ordinary working people," said US attorney Preet Bharara.
If you believe that claptrap, then I weep for you. Paris Hilton will call you stupid, which is not an honor. The real cause of loss of billions of dollars in losses to the US economy is the sorry movies Hollywood keeps producing. Garbage in, garbage out. But we live in a world where a person cannot blame themselves. This is how the movie execs are thinking: People aren't seeing our movies. We are perfect and never make a bad movie. Since all our movies are good, piracy is to blame for lost revenue.
fanboiApple userI can't jump because...
Because jumping is only available in the next version dubbed Mountain Snow Leopard and I haven't paid to upgrade yet.
You can get OS 5
I have a Bold 9000 and I currently have BB OS 5 installed. If you go to the website crackberry.com they will have links and instructions so you can download the latest OS for your BlackBerry, even if it is not carrier supported. Plus crackberry.com has a team of addicts who test every new OS out there and let you know if it is worth the time to upgrade.
Be very careful
Maybe it will be different across the pond, but here in the US, people often call Best Buy "Worst Buy" because of their dirty tricks. The website, consumerist.com, is filled with horror stories about Best Buy and their subsidiary Geek Squad. Some of their dirty tricks include mandatory "optional" extras. I shop at Best Buy, out of necessity and not by choice. If you are alert to the games they play, you'll be fine.
Good idea for cash poor Microsoft
Enough said.
It may help with math
But buying Wolfram Alpha won't help Bing where it needs the most help. The last time I used Bing or Live or whatever search it is called this year, it couldn't find ice at the north pole in the middle of winter. That was actually a few months ago. I don't like what Google is doing, but I care about results. And the fact is, I can find what I need faster on Google. Until that changes, I will still use Google.
Furthermore, someone needs to tell Microsoft that you don't need to do everything. Let someone else make money for a change.
Huh
I *COULD* believe this study if the Antarctic didn't reach yet another record high in ice mass this year. Oh, they left that part out didn't they. Can't get funding if there isn't a problem. Tie "global warming" to a study and you'll be fat with cash faster than you can count to 3.
And since I am not a global warming advocate, I like to have proof. Unlike the global warming advocates, who hate proof of any kind.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/icing-the-hype/reminder_antarctic_ice_growing_not_melting_away/
http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/terra-nova-bay-or-bust/
X-Ray not the best
Air Conditioning (and refrigeration) is the best invention ever. If you live in southern US, like I do, you'll know how good AC really is. I don't know how people survived the high heat and high humidity before AC. The AC makes life liveable in many more places.
Best OS I've ever used
And that is saying a lot since I've used OSX, Linux, and Unix. In college, I could only use Solaris Unix, and I liked it a lot. Of course, Microsoft is an idea stealing company, but that is for another day. (I also see the Penguin huggers and Apple worshipers are out trying to discredit it.)
I've been using W7 RTM from day 1. Every computer I installed it on had no issues. 32-bit, 64-bit, didn't matter. It is fast, efficient, and stable. Is it perfect? No. Operating systems are insanely complex, so it can never be perfect. There is only one bug that I have found. W7 doesn't work with HD DVD drives, not even the combo Blu-Ray/HD DVD drives. It made some changes that require an adjustment, but you quickly learn to love them.
The thing I like the most is that 7 just feels faster. Vista seemed slow, even with 8 GB of memory. It may not be quantifiable, but 7 just feels better to use. I also like the fact that 7 support H.264 movies. It still doesn't use hardware acceleration, so HD movies in H.264 tend to lag. VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movies don't however.
I had W7 RC1. Thanks to a few internet searches on how to upgrade from W7 beta to W7 RC1, I figured out how to upgrade my RC1 to the final build. Even doing that, it has been stable.
*Sigh*
Facts are a climate change advocate's worst nightmare. The main reason why I do not believe in man-made climate change is because those who advocate it (a) Refuse to release their methods even when required to do so by law so that their studies can be verified; (b) They try to silence debate in any way possible, even though true science welcomes debate; (c) They always make out that is is worse than we thought; (d) They rely on computer models that cannot get known weather patterns right, much less unknown weather patterns; (e) Those that are pushing this the hardest have some very wicked ulterior motives; and (f) It is actually quite easy to prove, with unassailable facts, that humans are not causing global warming/climate change.
Anybody who believes in we are at fault is either ignorant or stands to gain a ton of money and/or power.
Uh-huh
"According to AdGooRoo - a search marketing consultant that tracks search ads from a network of servers across the globe - Bing delivers better conversation rates than Google (as does Yahoo!). And you could argue that Bing is the better organic search engine."
Uh-huh. But according to Wade (that's me) Bing or Live or whatever its called this year couldn't find ice if it was standing at the north pole. I tried Bing, I really did. But the results are terrible, unless you need to search for something at a Microsoft owned website. If you click on the shopping links on msn.com which uses Bing, the results are all over the place from closely relevant to not even close. Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft should just quit and focus on not trying to copy everyone else's idea. Windows 7 is really good, run with that.
Yahoo is better than Bing. I can believe Yahoo is better organically than Google. But not Bing. And yes, I've used Bing lately.
Earth to Intel
I remember a time when major motherboard makers had to sell their product unlabeled else they would have to face Intel's wrath. When you prevent a company from succeeding, how on earth will that company be able to compete. It is like holding someone under water and asking why they can't swim. How can you explain it when AMD had a far far superior product called Athlon 64 and Opteron that ran circles around your Pentium 4 and Xeon but still could not gain major marketshare? How else can you explain how your lapdog called Dell only started to sell AMD products when Core 2 came out? Why did you adopt AMD's 64-bit technology? Why did you adopt AMD's concept of the CPU memory controller?
All of these fines should go to AMD and not to some EU bureaucrat. Lets see what AMD can do with a huge R&D budget. Intel has the superior product now. But something tells me AMD will finally use the ATI engineers to really expand the math ability of their CPU's very soon. The ATI acquisition hurt AMD in the short-term, but everyone knew it was a long-term purchase.
Easy fix
Have customers create a secret question and answer. Then before any orders can take place at a phone dealer, require the answer to that secret question.
Sony is just like Apple
With Apple products, the quality is solid but massively overpriced. Essentially, you are paying more for the name.
With Sony products, the quality is solid but massively overpriced. Essentially, you are paying more for the name.
You can get so much for so much less by going with another company. Even HD DVD did more than Blu-Ray until Blu-Ray released profile 1.1. For the money you spend on Sony, you can get a far superior product at the same price point with someone else. This applies to everything Sony makes.
Idiot
When I came out of college, I had nothing handed to me. I could have did with this idiot did, I could have did what most Americans do, sue the bastards. Instead, I decided to become a productive member of society by starting my own business. I have better hours, I am happier, and my business is doing great even though it took years to become as good as it is.
It isn't your God given right to make a lot of money. You have to do something about it.
Recent Seagate Experiences
Okay, so last year I bought a Seagate hard drive, it died within a year. So I sent it in to claim the warranty. I received a refurbished Seagate hard drive back. It died within 2 months. Someone I know bought a HP computer which had a Seagate hard drive in it, it died within 6 months. So many Seagate hard drives are failing that after it died I saw an advisory about it on HP's website.
If you ask me, Seagate is going to lose its #1 crown because it forgot how to make a hard drive.
The Stupidity of Bureaucracy
It is easier to get in the United States illegally than legally. Furthermore, once you are in illegally, you can get all the services of a legal citizen or legal alien without paying taxes.
Square peg in a round hole
While I do not doubt there is a glass ceiling for women in IT, there is more to it than that.
When I was in college for computer science and math, there were plenty of ladies in both classes. More so for math because of common requirements. The longer I was there, the fewer and fewer girls in both computer science and math. I had many computer science courses that were all male. I can guarantee you this, it was never because of bigotry. There were always girls in my math classes, but they were the vast minority.
Every person has a different way of thinking. Some are better at logic which makes them better with computers and math. Quite often, I found people asking me what this C++ code was doing when it was crystal clear to me, this was both men and women. Furthermore, like it or not, men and women do think differently. The glass ceiling cannot explain why many girls do not take computer classes or many math classes. Instead of trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole by worrying about being "equal", why not exploit what each person is good at? Focus on a person's strength and minimize their weakness. Instead, we have a culture now that wants to magnify a weakness just to be "equal". We are equal, we all have something we are good at and something we are bad at. I realize this is not the PC way of thinking, but it is the smart way of thinking. We would be a lot happier if we stopped trying to force equality by forcing people to do something they are not good at.
I know male dominated professions can be hard on the ladies. So if a woman truly is good at computers, she should be rewarded and not held back.
Uh-huh
So Google dreams of a world without viruses. Well I dream of having endless wealth and being married to a supermodel, but that ain't going to happen either. It is very sad when someone working on an OS does not fully understand that these things are so complicated that it is next to impossible to close every security hole. When you add 3rd party applications, then being 100% secure is even more impossible. "It should just work" is what Apple says; Apple cannot give you that and has complete control over all the hardware.
Planet earth calling Google, are you there?
probesreviews US telecom powersReminds me of this
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4163/saturday-night-live-ernestine
(Of course, you might have to reside in the US of A to see this because apparently people in other countries don't matter, who knew? So here is a transcript written by someone with too much free time. The video is a joke, but the sad part is that it is real.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml
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Just wait until the heat's off
Right now, public outcry is great. So Phorm and NebuAd are axed and fade into the night. And then, because of the short term memory the majority of people suffer with today these companies will rise from the dead. The ISP's, having learned their lesson, will be able to covertly roll out Phorm the second and NebuAd the second (which, if you recall from El Reg, has relocated to the UK under the name Insight Ready).
This will happen. This is not a victory, this is a delay. It may be one year, or two or three or more, but it will happen again. Money is more powerful than you can imagine. Scruples mean nothing when it comes to make a lot of money.
Um, Telenav charges everyone $10 a month
I just checked, Telenav is going to charge everyone $10 a month, including me Blackberry user and including people not on AT&T.
Ugh
Microsoft needs to stop trying to do EVERYTING and just focus on doing a few things. Those who do everything do nothing well. And Bing/Live Search is a perfect example. Google is no saint, but until someone else actually has a search as good as Google, I will be using it. I want results, not advertising blitzes. Bing/Live couldn't find the ocean if it was standing knee deep in water. I can find what I need faster with Google and Yahoo than with Bing/Live. Why waste my time just because it can play videos?
(Love the new icons! Suck on this!)
The green myopia strikes again
What about the adverse health effects of the spinning wind turbines? The rhythmic vibrations of wind turbines affects people nearby adversely. What about when, not if, the wind stops blowing? What about the birds who just happen to be flying near these things?
I realize Harvard is in a world in of itself. I just wish these university professors and this "green" movement would try to live in Planet Earth for a change. Just try, please, living in the real world and not some green utopia where everything is sunshine and lollipops.
Bah!
We landed on the moon using feet and inches! How many times have we landed on the moon using meters? Case closed.
Which sounds better? "I walked for miles and miles" or "I walked for kilometers and kilometers"? Case closed.
The pound is a more accurate measurement of weight than grams because pounds is a measurement of force whereas grams is a measurement of mass.
Fahrenheit is more precise than Celsius because Fahrenheit has 180 degrees between boiling and freezing where Celsius only has 100.
Furthermore, why do we have to conform to you? You want to be metric, fine. When I go to your country, then I will use metric. But when you come here, don't ask me to do something you are unwilling to do. When in Rome, do as the Romans as the saying goes.
Won't fly
While I am all in support for banning "exclusive rights" deals, it won't go anywhere. First off, one of the bill's sponsors is John Kerry, a man who changes opinion faster than he changes underwear. Second, this will affect other rich corporations who have exclusive rights deals. For example, greedy, rich, and evil EA has an exclusive rights deal with the NFL for use of the players' names. No other company may make a video game and use the players' names. Satellite provider DirecTV also has an exclusive rights deal with the NFL so that only they can broadcast every single game. All other providers must accept what is on the local station. The NFL is the biggest money making sports league in the US and for EA and DirecTV this is a cash cow. If this law passes, then others can get the crazy idea that competition is a good thing too. Hey, if a company isn't allowed to have an exclusive rights deal when it comes to a particular phone, why should it be allowed in anything else? EA and DirecTV have enough money to bribe Congress to prevent that pro-consumer outcome.
If the bill somehow manages to get anywhere, us Americans can probably expect to see an ad on TV claiming how this bill is really anti-consumer using twisted logic. AT&T and Verizon won't give up their money maker without a fight.
Excellent ...
Oh wait, that was the other Matt Groening show.
In any event, it has to be better than the movies.
To AC #1
The "blind" search you are referring is not so blind. I don't care what some "blind" search says, my firsthand actual factual real-world experience shows Google to be the best. I'm no fan of Google, but until someone else is just as good, I won't be using anyone else. I care about results. Microsoft will never have a good search engine because they are too divided. Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft will always have a lot of money, they don't need to try to do what everyone else does.
Won't last
Here in the stateside part of the world, Microsoft has been on a huge advertising blitz. So naturally people will start to use it. But it won't last. Live search (of which Bing is really just an extension of) couldn't find the ocean standing in knee deep of water. I don't care what a Microsoft funded "blind" search study says. I know this from firsthand experience. Already there are stories floating around on the tubes about how Bing came up with bad results. Microsoft really needs to stop trying to do what others do better and just keep focusing on Windows and Office.
Maybe you should actually TRY tethering
I've been tethering with AT&T for 5 years now. Each time, the software to tether was included with my phone. First it was with a Nokia, no problem at all. Then with an Ericsson, no problem at all. Right now I have a Blackberry Bold and a non-tethering data plan and yet I can still tether with no issue at all. I have even been able to tether while roaming.
The problem isn't AT&T's network, but people not willing to try. Tethering isn't exactly plug and chug. And that is probably the problem. Just don't tell AT&T you are doing it.
The definition of stupidity
To do the same thing again but expect different results is stupidity. Big media wonders why people steal all the while they are pricing themselves right out of the business. If it wasn't so true it would be sad.
If these execs were a business like most other businesses (unless you are a bank or make cars), they would fail due to the stupidity of the business model. Adapt or die. Some other business comes along which has adapted and replaces the dinosaur who failed to adapt. But hey, it is a cruel world and you failed to change. No pity. The net result is deadwood is cleared out and a younger more dynamic company replaces it.
However, the music and record industry are unique and they know it. They have enough power to bribe Western governments to make favorable laws to them. The problem is, the dynamics still change and the media dinosaurs don't want to change. So what you have is the problem we have today: a collision between the new and a stubborn refusal to adapt to the new aided by the legal system.
What the music and record dinosaurs don't realize is that you can only fight the inevitable so long. You can only keep your finger in the dike for so long before it bursts. And now they made enemies, namely the consumers who will help you adapt. So when the inevitable eventually comes, no one will cry.
Hulu micropayments is a continuation of the failed policies of yesterday.
EA should rot and die!
I am already boycotting all thing EA. They will never get any of my money ever again. SecuROM is not the reason, but it does add to how much I hate EA. I hate EA because they hate competition. A good game studio comes along and what does EA do? Buy them and destroy the series with crappy sequels. If they cannot buy the studio, they attempt to destroy it in other ways. For sports games, they attempt to buy "exclusive rights" from the league.
Fast forwarding to the future, if EA was the only game studio left, I would never play a new game again.
I could take them seriously if ...
I could take Greenpeace and other eco-nazis seriously if they had verifiable proof for climate change. If you ask the eco-nazis for proof, they shout insults at you and brand you as a climate heretic. Any true science would welcome debate. If the science is sound and proof available, it cannot be disproven. Only the faux sciences, like climate change and phrenology, suppress debate because any debate will expose them. Why doesn't Al Gore discuss the climate with those who disagree with him? Why does James Hansen refuse to disclose his algorithm for calculating global temperature? I'll tell you why, because Steve McIntyre will come along and quickly disprove it, like he did with Michael Mann's hockey stick. McIntyre at climateaudit.org found out that no matter what numbers you put in, a hockey stick always comes out.
CEO's must make the company money. Taking into account a sham and a lie is not in the interest of the company. Of course, if capitalism was no more ...
Why no nuke plants?
Oh, that is right. Nuclear is cheap and very efficient. Can't be having that. Wind and solar is not cheap, which means it will lower the cost of living, which means the greens attain their goal of destroying our way of life. Meltdowns is a made up fear just like climate change to scare people. In reality, with a modern nuclear reactor, you have a better chance of seeing a flying unicorn than seeing a meltdown. Nuclear power plants exist in earthquake prone areas, and these have never had a meltdown. Furthermore, modern nuclear reactors produce 3 cubic meters of waste per year after reprocessing. We do not have more nuclear plants because the greens do not want them because cheap energy equals prosperity.
Lets suppose a solar panel converted 100% of the sunlight into energy. It never will, but lets assume that for this argument. Then the amount of energy produce by a solar plant the size of a modern nuclear reactor would still be far less.
@A J Stiles - Yes oil is finite resource. However, we have enough known reserves of oil to last decades at current consumption. This is KNOWN reserves with new reserves being discovered often. Right now off California oil is leaking naturally into the ocean. A reserve off Brazil was discovered which may have enough oil to satisfy the Americas for a decade. Oil is finite, but the end of it is nowhere near. Add to this, natural gas reserves exceed oil reserves. 30 years ago they said we would run out of oil in 30 years. Guess what? That wasn't true then just it isn't true now. Now, we should wean off it. Remember, however, that something will not succeed unless it is better, and wind and solar is not better. Solar may be better in the future, but not now. Really, we must be balanced and never dogmatic. We should wean off our use of oil and not cut off our use of oil.
@Blitz (post 2)
When Athlon 64 and Opteron came out, Intel had no answer. They both kicked everything Intel has in the gonads and still cost less. Yet despite the advantages of performance and price, AMD has having trouble finding a distributor. The reason was that Intel was giving discounts, not on how many units you sell like all other businesses, but on what percentage of Intel units you sold. It wasn't 100%, but it was very high. Motherboard manufacturers were making AMD motherboards unbranded. Does that sound fair? Intel strong-armed the competition to keep AMD down on purpose. The result was the you and I paid more for computers and Intel got even more money to keep AMD down.
Fortunately for AMD, HP was a maverick. HP had this crazy idea of giving customers what they wanted instead of telling customers what they wanted. Are you listening Dell or should I say Intel Jr? Dell refused to sell AMD chips stating that nobody wanted them. But at the same time HP overtook Dell as the #1 PC maker because of selling both AMD and Intel chips. Dell only started to sell AMD chips when Core 2 came out. Coincidence? Why would Dell only sell AMD chips when Intel had something better? Think about it.
My complaint with this fine is that one most affected won't see any of it. AMD was shafted, yet they will get nothing but a "you were right". Try paying the bills with that. Competition benefits us all. It is the reason why you can get a really good computer for 1/3 of what it have cost several years ago. Intel has the money to spare. They will be around tomorrow.
I'm not AMD loyalists, I am a price-performance loyalists.
Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right does
So I see an article slamming Microsoft and I scroll back to the top of Reg's website and what do I see? A Microsoft banner ad asking me I remember before the internet and email. I guess the slogan "Biting the hand that feeds IT" is appropriate on another level.
What?
"You'll see us innovating in search," said Ballmer.
If only that were true. Live search is terrible. I tried it, I really did. Until I did some comparisons and I was able to find what I needed with Google and Yahoo faster and easier. Not to mention that Google's and Yahoo's results were far more relevant. Those that do everything do nothing well. Get out of the search engine game; you will never be as good as Yahoo, much less Google.
Stick to what you do best
Those who do everything do nothing well. Microsoft needs to stop trying to be like Apple ... and Adobe and Google and well, everybody. The core of what you do is really good. Most of the new stuff you tried for the general market isn't worth what I just flushed down the toilet. The only new thing you did that is really good is VC-1. And that is just for movies. XBox 360 is good but really good.
Speaking of the toilet, I decided Zune was not worth my money when Microsoft came out with a brown Zune and decided the newest catchphrase would be "squirting". Imagine "squirting" with your brown Zune. Was some guy in a tie taking care of business in the Microsoft executive bathroom when he said "Hey! Brown is a good color and squirting is a good idea. It doesn't remind me at all what I just did."
Windows is good, don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise. Office is good, don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise. The XBox 360 is good enough. Leave Flash type stuff alone. Leave open document formats alone. Leave internet browsers alone. Live search couldn't find the ocean if it was standing knee deep in water, and that is an improvement when it couldn't find the ocean if it was up to the neck in water. Stop trying to be everything and just be focused.
@Tony Chandler
I have not seen the leaked movie. In fact, I had already decided NOT to see the movie long before I read about the bad reviews. None of the movies coming out soon will I see. None. That includes the new Terminator even though Christian Bale is a great actor. I am not going to see these movies because they all clearly are terrible.
Piracy and the economy is not killing the movie industry. Competition from other forms of entertainment isn't killing movies either. It is the sorry product Hollywood is putting out. These big studios think sex and CGI and violence can replace a good plot and story; it cannot.
The #1 problem with movie and music studios is they refuse the admit they are wrong. They blame anything and everything except themselves. Because, in their eyes, are not wrong, they will not change and the fundamental problem remains. Until movie studies demand a good story, ticket sales will always be down. I do not pirate movies, yet the last movie I considered worth seeing was Batman, The Dark Knight. How long ago was that?
Wrong crime
From what I've read, this movie is so bad it is a crime against humanity. No amount of CGI can improve the plot. The plot is what people are attacking, not the visual effects. A movie without a plot is like a Ferrari without an engine. Sure, it looks good, but it isn't worth the money.
If you are into conspiracy theories, here is one. This whole leak is suspicious. How could an unfinished movie just happen to leak out? Well, what if Fox decided to "leak" out the movie to generate buzz? Then the "leak" generated such bad reviews that Fox was forced to save face by coming down hard and claiming piracy. Let the conspiracy begin!
Proof positive
Comments to me are proof positive I am right. I struck a nerve. I found out a long time ago that the quickest way to make some angry is to be right. Try it.
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