The Russian government is rabid with fear at the moment.
At the moment? You were aware that Stalin the prime motivator behind Stalin's atrocities was paranoia don't you? The Gov't of Russia has been in a perpetual state of freak-out for nearly a century.
And what's next? Cameras installed in the bullets?
Just like in Natural Born Killers! Maybe we can add "filters" to give it a retro feel and sound fx!
Then they came out with Final Cut Pro X and when their users complained about the rampant bugs, overly simplified iMovie style interface and defeaturization, Apple told their user base to go fuck themselves -- as Apple is want to do and Premier went back to being on top again.
http://fortune.com/2011/06/22/...
https://discussions.apple.com/...
Anyway, far from being a learning moment for Apple -- this has been wholly adopted as their corporate ideology when it comes to their user apps. A lot of it is a focus on iOS and trying to make everything fall in line with iOS -- this was clear as early as 2007 when a trip to the Apple store had their laptop and desktop add-ons shunted to dusty corners while iPhone cases and accessories dominated the store. So this has beed a mentality years in the making based solely on spreadsheets of product sales and not user needs regarding user experience.
Even Woz wrote a rant (now pulled it seems) about ditching OS X in favor of Linux over the frustration of the mounting shit-pile of bugs and anoyances with OS X You can read comments about Woz' post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
feeding the average Joe's need to think they themselves could be an action hero?
So the "Average Joe" is literate, well spoken, well coiffed, can travel the world while getting dirty work done? What world is this that you live in? I think Taken just appeals to the audience that enjoys Bond, Bourne and Mission Impossible movies. Sure, he's not a "covert agent", but he does all the same sort of stuff.
say...speaking of shitty fantasy trilogies i thought that shit with the blue aliens was supposed to be a trilogy? whatever happened? i guess the merchandising and bluray sales didn't really hit expectations for a new sci-fi property/brand?
We here at James Cameron Heavy Industries are happy to report that not only did international Blu-Ray® DVD sales meet market expectations, they totally and utterly surpassed them. As such, we've turned the planned Trilogy into a TETRALOGY! That's right -- not two more, but THREE MORE 3D IMAX EXPERIENCE movies featuring cutting edge CGI technology for you to spend every last hard earned dollar on tiny theatre seats and cold, greasy popcorn
Sadly, this embarrassment of riches has caused us to push back the production schedule a bit to accommodate HIS Lord Jim's latest round of ass-raping of the Terminator franchise and to allow for more production coordination with Disney to develop a world wide network of Avatar theme parks in disney properties world-wide.
Need to see it to believe it? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...
"These are big, monster bursts of gamma rays, and one would think these must be monster storms producing them. But that's not the case. Even boring-looking, garden-variety, little storms can produce these."
When they get angry, they can become hulking MONSTER storms
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.