It makes you wonder which lobby was behind this bill, doesn't it? Once again, large multi-national corporations wipe out the little guy.
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Franklin Brauner
...is that it's a BLACK box. Why on earth would you paint your container black, the most heat abosorbing color, when it contains heat producing, air sucking, computer & power components that prefer the cool. I painted my container with white Roofcoat, a Nasa developed product, that kicks back a good 75% of solar radiation. I guess Whitebox doesn't sound as cool as Blackbox.
Of course, if you need your mech-fix you can always check out the Stuart Gordon's wonderful pre-CGI Robot Jox (originally titled Robojox, which I much prefer). The film may be low budget, but as always Gordon delivers in imagination where he lacks in budget.
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Franklin
I'm willing to bet that just in time for the holiday shopping season a new iPhone will be released (iPhone nano, anyone?) and that this was the best way to liquidate the current inventory in preparation for that.
I'm fine with JJ blowing the canon open. Caveat: I'm not a Trek fan.
At Comicon, JJ Abrams got infront of a crowd of 6500 people and proudly said "I'm more into Star Wars than Star Trek -- but the script was so good I just had to do it." Now, you may not be a Trek fan, but I am. I'm fine with blowing the canon open, but Abrams' comment was like a slap in the face to a true Trek fan, of which I count myself one. So not only is the canon being blown open, but it's being blown open by a guy who'd rather be watching Star Wars. I find that offensive.
It's not the easiest business to pull together, and I don't see many more people even trying. What is it to any of us to wait a couple of years. Hell, I'll wait ten -- twenty years if I have to. But every journey begins with a single step.
I agree with you 100%, however I still find Verdana to be beautiful. One need not look farther than Emigre's Base 10 font to see that older, retro fonts are not only en vogue, but beautiful in a classic way.
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Franklin
VHS winning or losing had nothing to do with the technologies involved. It was that Sony didn't allow PORN on their format, and porn was the true killer app of videotape.
If Cinerama had won the format wars each film since then would have required 66% more celluloid film to shoot and project, since the process required 3 cameras. This would have created an ecological disaster, with a shocking usage of 66% more toxic processing chemicals, not to mention stock. It is safe to say that the world would be a more polluted place had Cinerama won the format wars.
Also, the great revolution in American cinema occurred in the late 60's and early 70's -- not because of the largesse of projection (and encumberance of a huge 3 camera setup) but because of the nibleness of lighter, newer equipment and sensitive film stocks. The coarse reality that 70's cinema focused on truly changed society, and it simply couldn't have been done in Cinerama (think about it, could Easy Rider have captured what it captured with the encumberance of Cinerama?).
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It makes you wonder which lobby was behind this bill, doesn't it? Once again, large multi-national corporations wipe out the little guy. == Franklin Brauner
Install EXPLORER DESTROYER and protest immediately.
...is that it's a BLACK box. Why on earth would you paint your container black, the most heat abosorbing color, when it contains heat producing, air sucking, computer & power components that prefer the cool. I painted my container with white Roofcoat, a Nasa developed product, that kicks back a good 75% of solar radiation. I guess Whitebox doesn't sound as cool as Blackbox.
At which time the old data center could be shipped off to Africa, et al., where they recycle EVERYTHING.
I wouldn't mind driving off with 5000 Opteron processors. Seriously, there's a downside to portability.
...that games should be slowed down in any way.
I honestly can't believe that in this day and age you should be having to perform any manual switching at all.
...that ice breakers keep checking out the passability of the ice, and busting big swaths of it up.
Of course, if you need your mech-fix you can always check out the Stuart Gordon's wonderful pre-CGI Robot Jox (originally titled Robojox, which I much prefer). The film may be low budget, but as always Gordon delivers in imagination where he lacks in budget.
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Franklin
I'm willing to bet that just in time for the holiday shopping season a new iPhone will be released (iPhone nano, anyone?) and that this was the best way to liquidate the current inventory in preparation for that.
And where exactly can I purchase one of those Openmokos?
(That really would have broken the canon!)
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was in the Star Trek DS9 episode, Tsunkatse. He had his ass handed to him on a plate by Seven of Nine.
Word has just come in that the monks are filing a lawsuit against you now as well, and demanding a retraction and apology.
I'm fine with JJ blowing the canon open. Caveat: I'm not a Trek fan.
At Comicon, JJ Abrams got infront of a crowd of 6500 people and proudly said "I'm more into Star Wars than Star Trek -- but the script was so good I just had to do it." Now, you may not be a Trek fan, but I am. I'm fine with blowing the canon open, but Abrams' comment was like a slap in the face to a true Trek fan, of which I count myself one. So not only is the canon being blown open, but it's being blown open by a guy who'd rather be watching Star Wars. I find that offensive.
It's not the easiest business to pull together, and I don't see many more people even trying. What is it to any of us to wait a couple of years. Hell, I'll wait ten -- twenty years if I have to. But every journey begins with a single step.
...and we all know what happens when the prediction reaches its obvious outcome.
Spam in a can.
Do the value of physics learned on Star Trek (in particular TNG) outweigh the theoretical physics discussed and movie conventions?
Because, obviously, they were in on it. Have you never heard of the boxer who throws the fight?
Case of the Great Hot-Wife Swap
Pity. It being a Saturday, I kind of wanted to read that article.
...the Soviets were in on it. ;-)
I agree with you 100%, however I still find Verdana to be beautiful. One need not look farther than Emigre's Base 10 font to see that older, retro fonts are not only en vogue, but beautiful in a classic way.
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Franklin
VHS winning or losing had nothing to do with the technologies involved. It was that Sony didn't allow PORN on their format, and porn was the true killer app of videotape.
If Cinerama had won the format wars each film since then would have required 66% more celluloid film to shoot and project, since the process required 3 cameras. This would have created an ecological disaster, with a shocking usage of 66% more toxic processing chemicals, not to mention stock. It is safe to say that the world would be a more polluted place had Cinerama won the format wars.
Also, the great revolution in American cinema occurred in the late 60's and early 70's -- not because of the largesse of projection (and encumberance of a huge 3 camera setup) but because of the nibleness of lighter, newer equipment and sensitive film stocks. The coarse reality that 70's cinema focused on truly changed society, and it simply couldn't have been done in Cinerama (think about it, could Easy Rider have captured what it captured with the encumberance of Cinerama?).