Posts by Doug Thompson

Warner Bros revs up live action Akira

could be worst

The Yanks could have Akira as a white American and have it set in New New York.

Though that would be part of the yanks lame Inferiority Complex (Heroes the series) where hollywood has bad guys are brits and good guys as white yanks. Where if you have another view its "UnAmerican" (the new xenophobia) or anti-american.

This aside from all the conversions of Marvel mags into TV/Movie content this would imply Marvel is best(cos its yank) then when that is exhusted use Manga and Americanize it to make it 'wholesome' (if it anint yank it aint worth s**t!).

So in answer to "Why can't the Yanks leave awesome things alone " is because they need reflected glory as they dont have any of their own.

This is what we have come to expect from LA - why would they change now!

Wait till they rewrite the bible and have jesus as a white republican from a sunshine state...

Ofcouse, imagine the out cry if you took an american 'hero' and recast him as a say a french muslim villian? Ideally black and gay.

Thinking of the screne play right now......

How to speed up Windows Vista: official and unofficial tips

Remember Windows 95 and development in the 90s ?

Strange that XP&windows server std can only use 4gb and vista less. I also recall all these measures in the past, needing restarting 5 times a day with windows 95 (solved with Win98).

The removal of services suggestion - imagine a VistaHome Edn user being ok to fix these things?

So I am sticking to using WinXP or Windows 2003.

As much as I would like to use IIS7, it is impossible due to the damage of VISTA.

I recall with each Windows upgrade (98/2000/xp/vista) you have to double the resources just to stand still.

Sadly MS seems to have lost the plot with Vista in its search to be 'just like mac' rather than focusing on what it is good at.

If I wanted a Mac I would have bought one, and the mac Air at that.

So I will be sticking with XP64 till it is beyond not supported. Windows2003/2008 might be more viable than vista.

MS is giving vista away for free as a pre-installed system but you have to pay to have something performant on your pc or laptop.

The big contrast of course is to put Vista and then Ubuntu on the same spec laptop and then bench mark it then see what Vista is really worth.