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What's that I smell...?I you ever if Lynch deserved as much stick as he got over the original film- now you know.
The original was inaccurate and goofy. But in spite of the cheesy Toto soundtrack, it was at least entertaining.
I never thought anyone could make the first book look as dull as books 2 and 3.
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How to stretch a three hour story into six...
- First take an established novel/film franchise and photocopy the script. Add no more than three additional scenes and take out a great deal of drama and character development- as well as any pesky inner-dialogue.
- Begin shooting. Cut together the dailies and find that the show will run short- very short.
- Have the actors talk slower. Hire Bill Hurt to slip into a coma on camera.
- Lengthy landscape shots eat up loads of time (See: Prince of the City), but they are expensive.
- If the actors refuse to speak more slowly, run the footage at a lower fps.
- Sell the DVDs before anyone sees a frame of it.
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Dawsons Creek has spaceships!The two-hour season premiere of Dawson's Creek was awesome last night. I was a little confused, what with all the worms and 'thopters and all. But I know tv-style framing and tv-quality effects when I see them.
I hear they spent three whole months on the post-production and it shows!
The WB has never seen anything like this before. Take that, 7th Heaven!
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L1, L2, Circle + Triangle= IRS Cheat Code
You'll see a special screen where you can write off damn near anything!
I often use my Id godcodes which allow me to instantly acquire all the color-coded passkeys. Since I work in a futuristic office complex, this is very helpful. It used to take me over an hour to get access to the washroom.
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Stupid Question: Non-OSX BSD For Mac?I can't compare Linux to BSD since I use Mac hardware- right?
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...with rolled edges and teakwood inlayI think I saw this on an episode of Norm Wilkins' Yankee Workshop - or was it The Furniture Guys?
Wakawaka.
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This is old news.I read about this being offered with AT&T Digital Cable.
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I didn't understand Dave Barry's PS2 Review at allHuh? What kind of review has cartoons?
Oh, well.
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I'm an American; I *demand* to be entertained.Great another subscription cost every month. Another method of distilling an industry down to five or six players. Another way to fix something that ain't broke until it is.
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Open the CD drive, HALI'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
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Hand TLDs over to the UN (he he he)The old maxims:
Concentrated power=bad
Distributed power=good
But what about power distributed to the point where it is completely ineffectual, but at the same time (due to its democratic nature) holds a great deal of credibility? You have the United Nations, a body which passed the Universal Declaration of Human rights back in the 1940's and has yet to develop any real teeth for it.
Mr. Dictator, sir? Please stop mutilating your own people in a desperate bid to hold on to power.
Laws without enforcement or the will of enforcement are worse than no laws at all. If ICANN is the United Nations, then we can do what we have always done: ignore them.
Will history remember the open-source phenomenon like it has communism: as a short-lived farce?
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The MercilessLike most of you, visiting family over this holiday season meant a lot of swearing at the television. Here are some clippings I found that you may find interesting or amusing.
Nothing Of Significance Occurring Outside of Palm Beach County
Nixon Throws Hat- and Most of Left Arm Into Ring
Florida To Media: "...But Will You Still Respect Me?"
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Now only Microsfot-made viruses will workBut script-kiddie macro viruses will still function perfectly.
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Socialized Broadband Like Socialized Medicine?Great, so now we'll have to wait in line to download our mail.
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Surfers, lichen protest WaveGenJust as wind farms in Europe have reportedly altered local weather patterns, would not sapping energy from the sea change the fluid dynamics in areas near endagered choral reefs, etc.?
It sounds silly (as was intended), but the more I think about it, we may look at renewable energy very differently in twenty years. From the long view, renewable energy sources like wind and wave may be much more environmentally sound - but far from the assumed perfection.
The legal questions here are similar to mineral rights cases of the last century. If your neighbor installs a wind farm near your property and suddenly your natural bird sanctuary is ruined, can you sue? We know from case law that it is legally hinky to divert a river onto your property no matter what your purpose (even generating renewable hydropower). Wavegen may have farther-reaching effects on the surrounding environment, slightly ruducing the amount of oxygen in the water, endangering wildlife by changing the way the tides play out in a given hydrosystem.
Something to think about.
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I'm sure if you pushed the issue, they'd surrender
Concurrent with an American controversy about the WWII memorial on the Naitonal Mall, some French citizens are upset about the French memorial: enormous statue of a white flag on a baguette. www.ridiculopathy.com
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I'm sure if you pushed the issue, they'd surrender
Concurrent with an American controversy about the WWII memorial on the Naitonal Mall, some French citizens are upset about the French memorial: enormous statue of a white flag on a baguette. www.ridiculopathy.com
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Do I get a fleece pullover for subscribing?And is there going to be a swimsuit issue?
The first software package to come complete with blow cards.
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Reach fer the sky, varmint!People in general use Office as a default. Because the upgrade path causes thousands of offices to upgrade with no other motive than to keep in lock step with customers and suppliers, Microsoft has most of us by the shorties.
And most of you think that this is a bad thing.
What would you do if you walked into a room and everyone started handing you cash? Their hands are in the air and the bank vault has been opened. It's not so much robbery as just playing along.
Stick them (read: us) for everything they (read: we) have! It's the American way!
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Question: How do I make my Linux box crash more...hmmm...
I just don't like how resource efficient my linux install is. If only there was a way to introduce bloat.
Oh, well. I'll keep trying
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Form of an eagle! Shape of an ice hammer!To the rescue, here comes the KDE League!
In their headquarters deep within the earth's crust, they debate the future of the world's most windows-like Linux window manager.
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Wringing the cash from Herbert's corpseMost series degenerate after the first three books or so. This one lost its fascination after the original and only lowered past that. God Emperor was okay, but Children wasn't even worth the tree meat.
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'LectricVote2000If people don't trust paper ballots, what will they tryst? But in the IT community, the response to these failures will always be "well, you didn't use the unix flavor I use" or "you didn't tweak it right."
Security is always a matter of perception. If an election server is secure, but people don't believe it- it may as well be wide open. Think of the reduction in violent crime in recent years relative to public perception.
What will become of the counters?
Gore says "Listen to the Will of the People (At least the half who voted for me)"
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'LectricVote2000If people don't trust paper ballots, what will they tryst? But in the IT community, the response to these failures will always be "well, you didn't use the unix flavor I use" or "you didn't tweak it right."
Security is always a matter of perception. If an election server is secure, but people don't believe it- it may as well be wide open. Think of the reduction in violent crime in recent years relative to public perception.
What will become of the counters?
Gore says "Listen to the Will of the People (At least the half who voted for me)"
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'LectricVote2000If people don't trust paper ballots, what will they tryst? But in the IT community, the response to these failures will always be "well, you didn't use the unix flavor I use" or "you didn't tweak it right."
Security is always a matter of perception. If an election server is secure, but people don't believe it- it may as well be wide open. Think of the reduction in violent crime in recent years relative to public perception.
What will become of the counters?
Gore says "Listen to the Will of the People (At least the half who voted for me)"
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'LectricVote2000If people don't trust paper ballots, what will they tryst? But in the IT community, the response to these failures will always be "well, you didn't use the unix flavor I use" or "you didn't tweak it right."
Security is always a matter of perception. If an election server is secure, but people don't believe it- it may as well be wide open. Think of the reduction in violent crime in recent years relative to public perception.
What will become of the counters?
Gore says "Listen to the Will of the People (At least the half who voted for me)"
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Netscape and OSX to be released in tandom...... sometime next decade.
I'm still waiting for Mosaic 4.0 and Coplenand, dammit!
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This is NOT a gimickNot at all. Even though it may look like a gimick, it certainly is not. A map of Antarctica is a perfect non-gimicky metaphor for the oft-confusing structure of a world-wide network of data.
A new search engine that uses a xerox of my butt as a map...
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New game using this peripheral...My company is now working on a game for the head-based controller. It's called "Corporate Ladder" and it works like this:
You're a corporate peon, trying to work your way up to the top. Like dancing games like Um Jammer Lammy before it, Corporate Ladder rewards the player for nodding at appropriate moments. Nod when an up-and-coming exec is talking and you get points. Nod at the wrong guy and lose big. Get to the top and you can present ideas as well. You better hope they all nod for you! A network mode will be available Q1 2001.
You can see screenshots and download an alpha demo HERE. Good luck.
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Force-Feedback Option Scrapped... due to an abundence of whiplash and slipped disc claims against the company. Too bad, really.
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Simple Ballots vs. More ChoicesMany people want more candidates. People also seem to want simpler ballots. So, which is it? You can't have 5+ presidential candidates without confusing some people. And you can't defend a two party oligarchy simply because some people made voting errors.
I heard this on SNL: "Some people think that on-line voting would solve the re-count problems. Yeah, old people love the Internet. My grandfather is affraid of his answering machine."
More importantly, if you can't trust a machine-counted vote, do you trust a hand-counted one? If so, how would an SQL query make general citizens feel any better. Dan Rather says, "Omnibot5000 says that the winner is Voltron!" Florida voters would still demand an SQLdump printout and hand-counted rows.
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computer power vs. qualitative computationIt's a lot like the difference between gross motor and fine motor. The ability to write your name and pull a bus are completely different.
My Octane pulls busses all day long. But the qualitative difference between that and a human brain are enormous. It's apples and dumptrucks.
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Do what game designers do...depict a futuristic world where everyone wears specially-designed "plastic clothes" and telepathy is common - no need for expensive lyp-sync.
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Mention ".xxx" and Googlebots attack!The mere mention of
We ran a bit some weeks ago making fun of new domain names like
Read all about The Great Googlebot Clusterhump of 2000.
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Marketing their product to childrenWhat I find really abhorant about Microsoft indoctrinating young people is how they use cartoon characters like Joe Windowz to lure them in.
They advertise adult-only products like Win2000 during Pokemon and Batman.
You won't see Linux putting some innane cartoon character or mascot on every product. No sirree!
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Roadmap sez: Netscape 7.0 will babysit your kidsThat's Feature-rific!
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update handcuffs? Kinky.The despot with the larger market share is inherently more evil, rendering the lesser competitor destpots morally upright in a relative sense.
Death to the more successful tyrants!
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Hurray for hyperboleA man walks into a crowd of looters and says, "but isn't this supposed to be wrong?" and is summarily stomped to death.
Forget about the profit motive for a moment. What if someone tried to take credit for code you had written?
Wait a minute... this article was posted as a hyperbolic hit-generating intellectual sink-hole for suckers like me. Oops.
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FCC ... head ... up buttPretending that HD is innevitable is foolish. Even with a relatively cheap HD card.
According the original FCC mandate for HDTV, by 2006 all broadcast stations are supposed to cut off NTSC signals. But even if everyone, and I mean everyone coughs up the cash to buy a new set, the broadcast area pattern of an HD tower is reduced in half. So at least half the population would be unable to receive traditional through-the-air HD signals (or any TV for that matter- including tornado warnings, etc).
The magic number is 80%. If that number is reached within a station's "viewable area," then the switch must take place. But is that area calculated at current levels or the future halved area? If 80% of current broadcast area is the mandate (lawyers are still arguing over this), then the 80% level is impossible. HDTV can therefor never replace standard def for home broadcast.
HD will be used to project films for digital theatres because, although it does not look quite as good from a raw image quality standpoint, it is cheaper and more uniform in quality. And cheaper always wins.
But what, oh what, are those broadcasters going to do with all that bandwidth the government just gave away five years ago? ABC is no longer broadcasting Monday Night Football in HD. The Tonight Show may cut back its HD service soon. What's next?
ridiculopathy.com - We're trying hard to not talk about the election...
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FCC ... head ... up buttPretending that HD is innevitable is foolish. Even with a relatively cheap HD card.
According the original FCC mandate for HDTV, by 2006 all broadcast stations are supposed to cut off NTSC signals. But even if everyone, and I mean everyone coughs up the cash to buy a new set, the broadcast area pattern of an HD tower is reduced in half. So at least half the population would be unable to receive traditional through-the-air HD signals (or any TV for that matter- including tornado warnings, etc).
The magic number is 80%. If that number is reached within a station's "viewable area," then the switch must take place. But is that area calculated at current levels or the future halved area? If 80% of current broadcast area is the mandate (lawyers are still arguing over this), then the 80% level is impossible. HDTV can therefor never replace standard def for home broadcast.
HD will be used to project films for digital theatres because, although it does not look quite as good from a raw image quality standpoint, it is cheaper and more uniform in quality. And cheaper always wins.
But what, oh what, are those broadcasters going to do with all that bandwidth the government just gave away five years ago? ABC is no longer broadcasting Monday Night Football in HD. The Tonight Show may cut back its HD service soon. What's next?
ridiculopathy.com - We're trying hard to not talk about the election...
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The real race: Farrell Vs. HammondWho do you want impersonating the president? our last election2000 story - ever, we swear
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The real race: Farrell Vs. HammondWho do you want impersonating the president? our last election2000 story - ever, we swear
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The real race is between Farrel and Hammondwho do you want as president on SNL?
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Microsoft force users to buy all new apps? Never!