Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] > See, Guillaume, I told you folks would come around to appreciating > the new rpmdrake! BTW, Jason meant, in his second paragraph, that > the side-to-side oscillating "Please Wait" window from Old rpmdrake > used too much network bandwidth when run on a remote display. He > makes a reference to "Knight Rider" TV show of the '80s that had an > automobile with a sensor that oscillated back and forth in the same > manner. That gimmick was stolen from the '70s TV show "Battle Star > Galactica" which further stole it from the '60s TV show "Star Trek," > which, in turn, probably got the idea from the '50s movies "The Day > The Earth Stood Still," and "Forbidden Planet." (Sometimes, we > Americans lack creativity... Look at any Movie since "Star Trek: > Undiscovered Country," which had the expanding ring around the > explosion of Praxxis. Every movie since then featuring an explosion > of sufficient size has included the same stupid gimmick...) thanks! I see now... d'you know that "knight rider" was called K-2000 here in France? i remember i enjoyed very much this program, the car was so strong :-). i heard that they stopped shooting it because it cost too much money.. > Again, I will repeat my praise of the new rpmdrake. At this point > I see only fear of the new/unknown in the voices of its naysayers. > It is something deserving of much praise. thanks again. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
