Your Unpopular Opinion...

[Neltharion]

Still the same. Oil will run out. And it will happen long before we get our collective arses into gear and up into space looking for more resources.

The discovered Oil that is economically Viable for us to get out will last around 40-50 years.

After those run dry, we can turn to other areas in which to find Petroleum and Natural Gas, such as Oil Sands (Which is at this moment in time, not economically viable to acquire)

We have about, 20-30 years to research and develop alternate fuels, after that we need to ween ourselves off of the oil.

Nuclear is the way to go.

And if smoking is so bad, why not ban it? Convert all those tobacco plantations into agriculture? Surely the taxes cant be that important...?

Powerful lobbying by Tobacco companies, the immense taxes generated, and switching to agriculture will not make as much money.

[ondemand]

Dell makes some shitty computers. Bought a brand new one an the hard drive is defective. Had it only a year.

[Thedus]

Adobe Reader is bollocks. Most of Adobe's software is bollocks. Even their video editing and post-production software is prohibitively non user-friendly. But the fucking clunky, memory-hogging PDF bullshit coupled with irritating updates and security holes you could drive the Nostromo through...what the fuck, man? Fuck PDFs.

You know what else is bollocks? All the ass-wiping cunts turning a profit because of Adobe's non user-friendliness. Whenever I try to do something in PP or AE, I have to fucking google it and get all kinds of tutorials that you have to pay for. It's a cycle of bullshit. Adobe charges the most ridiculous prices, then makes the software so complex that you need a God damned bachelor's degree just to use the fucking shit. Fuck that shit, too.

I've been using Adobe products as a professional for 16 years now.  I've seen their entire catalog expand, and even seen some apps come and go (any one remember PageMill? or GoLive?).  I agree with you and also see it from Adobe's perspective.

I personally see Adobe as the Microsoft of the creative world.  They've expanded into a bloated uber conglomerate, with so many apps and functions in existing apps that it's easy to get lost in it all.  Add to this they have hugely specialized programs as well as programs that are so diverse in there ability that they exceed most people's usefulness.

I largely blame their acquisition of Macromedia for all of this (...as much as I love Dreamweaver).  The were heading in this direction prior to the purchase, but once Macromedia's line-up was absorbed everything just exploded.  It felt like Adobe didn't have control of the monster they had created anymore.

However, as a professional I get it.  Adobe stopped catering to the hobbiest or the casual professional about 10 years ago, and solidified that move in 2003 when they released their CS versions and suites.  As a huge aspect of the design market they had to choose who they were going to market for: the hobbiest or the professional... that's an easy choice.  They would make more money from professionals - the people who had the money to spend on the products.  As a result the user friendliness and intuitiveness began to dwindle, or become mired in dozens of pallets, sub-menus, and perplexing command names.

That said I do feel some apps like Acrobat are bloated and confusing.  Not to mention Adobe's created numerous problems with comparability between versions.  I ran into a massive snag on a project about a year ago because Bridge wouldn't recognize a client or their asset library. Turns out the reason was due to the fact that Bridge in CS4 (which I had) was not compatible with Bridge CS3 (which is what my client was using).  A major issue - and one that Adobe had not worked out a fix for at the time!

Personally I love GIMP, its for free and does most if not alot of the things that Adobe can do.

GIMP has it's place in the market - but you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find it being used in a studio.  Studios are going to use industry standards to assure a compatible pipeline from their shop to a vendor.  This is not to say that open source apps can't make a niche for themselves - just look at Blender!  It has become one of the industry standards.  But Gimp isn't there yet, and I doubt it ever will be.  On a hobby or even casual professional level it can be great though. If you will never need to use Photoshop on a professional level then GIMP can be a solid option.

[Hunter]

Blade Runner is overrated, pretentious pompous shite :|:)

[beckmen]

Just keep watching it until you like it like I did. 

[SiL]

I had to go through all four or five versions on the ultimate box set to find a cut I liked.

Dunno about pretentious, pompous, or even overrated, but I certainly didn't enjoy the damn thing until the last act.

[dude]

Fuck superhero movies, it's all the same shit different smell.

[Pandorag]

Fuck superhero movies, it's all the same shit different smell.

Fuckin' A!

[Hunter]

but I certainly didn't enjoy the damn thing until the last act.

Same! It gets rather tense and obviously poetic with the final few scenes. Just other than that, I don't believe it should qualify as a masterpiece. I'm kinda still bitter about the google-searching "Ridley Scott" everyday for the past 18-months thing though I'd never shit on Alien!

[Neltharion]

Fuck superhero movies, it's all the same shit different smell.

But some of it smells so good...

[dude]

With increasing rarity.

Some guy on IMDb found a magazine article interview with Stephen Hopkins from 1991 titled Predator 2: What Went Wrong. I'll post it this afternoon.

I'm just going to state my piece now and say that the producers where right to want Steven Seagal in the lead role. If it where him, the movie would've made money and Harrigan wouldn't be a rickety old man.

[severen76]

I'm just going to state my piece now and say that the producers where right to want Steven Seagal in the lead role. If it where him, the movie would've made money and Harrigan wouldn't be a rickety old man.

Fuck all that!

[dude]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jji78uEW14" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jji78uEW14</a>

[beckmen]

Ew, Seagal would be very low on my list. Dolph Lundgren would be very high. Probably third, after Arnie and Sly.

Actually, for me...Seagal and Glover are equally as bad for the role.

[dude]

Well according to Hopkins, Arnie wanted to do it, but between Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop and Terminator 2 had no chance. Again, I'll post the articles in a couple of hours.

True about Lundgren or Sly. 100x better choices. In fact that would mean no Stop or My Mom Will Shoot and he wouldn't have that lull period in the early 90's before Cliffhanger.