I don’t think this is going to do well among fans of the original, but then again there’s no accounting for bad taste. The trailer left me with the strong impression Quaid doesn’t even get his ass to Mars. And, Colin Farrel? Jessica Biel? I remember when attractive people used to be cast for movies… And another thing. How much fake plastic hype is too much? A teaser for a teaser trailer that’s not even on TV?
I don’t support racism but I wholeheartedly support everyone’s right to make offensive comments. It is tyranny to imprison anyone over a remark, no matter how offensive it may be. From the article: “A second year biology student at Swansea, Stacey was arrested after his comments on the social networking site were reported by other users.” The world has gone mad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992
In a rare show of respect for its users, Facebook is directing prospective employers to consider the legality of soliciting a user’s network password or face possible legal action by the social networking giant itself. This is a most welcome position for them to take, as inspection and demands by interviewers to see the contents of a prospective employee are becoming rampant. This is a start - for Facebook to show true respect for its users they must refuse to collaborate with regimes around the world in acts of tyrrany, including handing the information of its users over to repressive governments so that they can be imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
Back in my day, things ran on only one server and they had five nines guaranteed. And that’s how we liked it. Now get off my lawn!
Continuous heuristic analysis of phone calls means the entire call, not just the background noise, will be run through remote computers. Given the desire of various agencies to scour all communications in real time for key words and elements, how can this be good for anyone? http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/03/21/google-wants-to-serve-you-ads-based-on-the-background-noise-of-your-phone-calls/
A good overview of what seems to be a new trend in Linux desktop development - “we know better, you’ll get used to it.” I’ve tried to like GNOME 3 but I’ve ultimately reverted to using WindowMaker (which, fortunately, has resumed development) and some supporting apps. Too many aspects of the desktop metaphor were thrown away by the GNOME project in a blind effort to emulate a union between the Mac and the iPad.
Reasoning like the below is why Ubuntu is ultimately doomed. “Sometimes we must make sacrifices in order to keep our product looking good, and we really don’t care that you, the user, object to the notion of sacrificing usefulness for looks.” This is the gist of what’s explained below to the dissatisfied majority who are quickly switching to other distributions. http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/09/06/menu-discoverability-in-ubuntu-11-10/
Forget that the vast majority of app developers make pennies for their sweat and almost never make an equitable amount of money in the brave new Apple world of job creation. Sounds a lot like they want to pay Americans beans the same as they do for the Chinese slaves they have thugs hire to build their phones. From the page: “The app revolution has added more than 210,000 iOS jobs to the U.
The personal computer is still the only tool that can be used to truly create, and is the only computing environment in which the user’s imagination is the only limitation in play. Newcomer devices such as tablets and those smartphones which emulate the iPhone (almost all of them at this point) are designed not for creation but consumption - devices built with inherent limitations and sold at a 50% mark-up. Devices whose limitations can’t be surpassed without continuously purchasing new apps, which themselves are only useful for consumption of other content which generates revenue for them, but does not inspire or empower creativity in you.
“Any technology whose exclusive goal is to stop users from being able to make use of the content they have purchased is, in my opinion, unethical. DRM takes away users’ rights. For example, if I buy a TV show and want to criticise a scene from the show it on my blog, but the TV show is DRMed, how do I extract the scene, as I’m supposed to be able to per my Fair Use rights?
