Too many episodes. I really enjoyed Lost, especially the first series but it was clear the writers ran out ideas and the show went to shit by the end.
American tv shows generally have a significantly high amount of episodes per year compared with UK tv shows.
I can get bored of some US tv shows that go on for 22-24 episodes in a year because the overall storylines get stretched far too thin sometimes and the writers get heavy on the padding-out, but on the flip side I often find myself getting annoyed when there are only 6 or 8 episodes of a UK show in a year because those few episodes are so very good.
Stargate had a 'stroke' when Richard Dean Anderson effectively left the show, I still watched it because it was Stargate but it was never the same again, like the Red Dwarf episodes without Chris Barrie (Rimmer).
I really enjoyed the Buffy series, I tried to enjoy the Angel series but it didn't rock with me so I gave up watching it fairly early on, I can't understand why they made a series continuing the 'life' of a dumbass emotionally weak vampire - why the fuck didn't they make a series about Spike? best vampire of the whole Buffy series.
Back in the early 80s I learnt how to make boomerangs, took them to school and during lunch breaks I threw them on the large playing field away from everyone, then some of the kids in my class purposely came closer to watch and then went and complained to a teacher I was throwing them too close to others, so I moved further away and guess what those little bastards did, yup, they purposely moved closer just so they could complain again to the teacher.
I somehow doubt kids would be allowed to throw proper wooden boomerangs in schools these days. Even when I moved schools mid-80s the new school didn't have a problem with my boomerangs.
I'm looking forward to when full colour e-ink displays that use zero power to display an image are very cheap and can be made to be as big as a normal poster, they'd be almost perfect for replacing traditional photos/paintings/posters on your walls
The basic ones wouldn't have any battery in them just a connection port you plug a laptop or module into to change the picture and then it stays that way until you want to change it again.
The more advanced ones would have some sort of extremely low power standby wireless connection so with a few clicks on your computer or smartphone you could update one or all of the e-ink pictures/posters in your house.
The only thing to watch out for would be hackers, you wouldn't want to wake up one morning and find all your wall pictures are displaying goatse...
I just hope he does better than the recent Robin Hood film of his, that one kinda missed the spot, so to speak. I didn't find myself rooting for any of the characters, good or bad they were both bland and unengaging.
I have that exact golf club LCD game, the full set of 7 different Tomytronic 3D games (as well as the clone fom Tandy), a few Atary Lynx's, that game&watch Mario game plus a pile more, Blip and Barcode Battler.
He who dies with the most games must've had the most fun in life - at least that's how I see it:)
If only their photography knowledge passed on to their LCD video glasses division, then their Zeiss Cinemizer LCD video glasses wouldn't suck.
For a company with a reputation of producing high quality lenses for cameras I was very suprised at just how bad the lenses were on their Cinemizers, the two different Sony Glasstron LCD video glasses I have are over 10 years older than the Cinemizers and have much superior optics, as do the Olympus EyeTrek's.
I can happily wear my Sony PLM-s700's for an hour or two whilst watching a movie or playing a video game on them but I struggle with the Cinemizers, even with their individiual diopter focus control.
The only reason I'm hanging on to the Cinemizers is that they can do 3D by feeding in a side-by-side 3D video into them it will split & stretch the video to each eye.
I only ever see the annoying fade-in effect when I use other people's machines, because years ago I made my own homepage.html which has a bunch of highly used links and search boxes from the major sites I use (google,ebay,imdb,archive.org etc.) so I truly get an instant search page appearing when I open up a new browser window or tab and click Home or press Alt+Home.
Plus extracting the html search code means you just get the plain search box with no other realtime-results bandwidth wasting cpu eating bullshit. I type much faster than the average web user so when I'm searching for something I don't need the results trying to appear as I type, because I type faster than the results can appear.
The main problem with 3D movies is that currently there's fuck-all out there to buy in comparison to the amount of normal 2D films.
The second problem is the various different 3D stored formats, for starters there's anaglyph (complete shite, a novelty not a solution), field sequential (low resolution), side-by-side & above/below (probably the best as any 3D display should easily be able to deal with it), plus any other new format some company dreams up in the hope of 'storming the market'.
I have some Zeiss Cinemizer LCD video glasses which are capable of displaying 3D by means of inputting side-by-side video squashed into a 4:3 frame, works ok but the resulting picture is half the resolution of SD video and the optics are shite, yes, shite optics in a Carl Zeiss product, even with individual diopter control on the Zeiss LCD glasses my old Sony top-end LCD glasses have much superior optics and are much easier on the eyes (but aren't 3D).
Finding clips & full films which I can watch on the LCD glasses has been a task in itself, only found a handful of clips which played natively on them, what little else I've found I've had to convrt from field sequential & side-by-side format.
I just hope this newly found 3D hype actually brings in more films in a format which isn't fucking anaglyph so it can be converted to play on whatever 3D system I have.
The play&charge kit looks like overpriced branded crap, I bought an unbranded rechargable battery pack for my brother's 360 and it came with a USB charging cable, total cost including postage; less than £4. Works like a charm, only one annoyance is the USB cable could be a couple of feet longer, if it eventually gets too annoying I'll chop & extend it myself.
Well spotted, something that gets me is that the pieces are 'stamped' down onto the iPhone with a strong enough jolt to trip the accelerometer - perhaps that's how they got some of the timing sorted in the hoax?
Forgot to mention that the BeBox has a known 'backdoor' specifically for Be support in case you have problems with your connection. As it's mentioned up front I don't have a problem with that, though I still use my own router because it's proved more reliable than the BeBox.
My ISP, BeThere, sent me a router when I signed up to them, called a BeBox, when I eventually move away from them I have to send the router back or pay for it (£30 or £50), but I just carried on using my Netgear one because it's proved to be extremely reliable and much more configurable.
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Too many episodes. I really enjoyed Lost, especially the first series but it was clear the writers ran out ideas and the show went to shit by the end.
American tv shows generally have a significantly high amount of episodes per year compared with UK tv shows.
I can get bored of some US tv shows that go on for 22-24 episodes in a year because the overall storylines get stretched far too thin sometimes and the writers get heavy on the padding-out, but on the flip side I often find myself getting annoyed when there are only 6 or 8 episodes of a UK show in a year because those few episodes are so very good.
It's the old conundrum of quality vs quantity.
Stargate had a 'stroke' when Richard Dean Anderson effectively left the show, I still watched it because it was Stargate but it was never the same again, like the Red Dwarf episodes without Chris Barrie (Rimmer).
I really enjoyed the Buffy series, I tried to enjoy the Angel series but it didn't rock with me so I gave up watching it fairly early on, I can't understand why they made a series continuing the 'life' of a dumbass emotionally weak vampire - why the fuck didn't they make a series about Spike? best vampire of the whole Buffy series.
And Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
You are Sheldon Cooper and I claim my five "*knock* *knock* *knock* Penny"'s.
The only reason to watch that show was the blue girl.
Red Dwarf.
"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast."
20 bucks? Pah! I donated a kidney!
Not sure whose it was though...
This reminds me of school and boomerangs.
Back in the early 80s I learnt how to make boomerangs, took them to school and during lunch breaks I threw them on the large playing field away from everyone, then some of the kids in my class purposely came closer to watch and then went and complained to a teacher I was throwing them too close to others, so I moved further away and guess what those little bastards did, yup, they purposely moved closer just so they could complain again to the teacher.
I somehow doubt kids would be allowed to throw proper wooden boomerangs in schools these days. Even when I moved schools mid-80s the new school didn't have a problem with my boomerangs.
I'll be interested if The Onion are doing the production.
I got Ophiuchus!
What do I win?
Build some in England, we've got more than enough cold, shitty weather here to cool datacenters.
There are a lot of tits on YouTube, unfortunately no breasts.
I see your Billie Piper and raise you Karen Gillan.
I'm looking forward to when full colour e-ink displays that use zero power to display an image are very cheap and can be made to be as big as a normal poster, they'd be almost perfect for replacing traditional photos/paintings/posters on your walls
The basic ones wouldn't have any battery in them just a connection port you plug a laptop or module into to change the picture and then it stays that way until you want to change it again.
The more advanced ones would have some sort of extremely low power standby wireless connection so with a few clicks on your computer or smartphone you could update one or all of the e-ink pictures/posters in your house.
The only thing to watch out for would be hackers, you wouldn't want to wake up one morning and find all your wall pictures are displaying goatse...
I just hope he does better than the recent Robin Hood film of his, that one kinda missed the spot, so to speak. I didn't find myself rooting for any of the characters, good or bad they were both bland and unengaging.
..and one of those, and those.
:)
I have that exact golf club LCD game, the full set of 7 different Tomytronic 3D games (as well as the clone fom Tandy), a few Atary Lynx's, that game&watch Mario game plus a pile more, Blip and Barcode Battler.
He who dies with the most games must've had the most fun in life - at least that's how I see it
Damn I wish I had mod points right now, that would've been a definite +1
re: decent carl-zeiss lens
If only their photography knowledge passed on to their LCD video glasses division, then their Zeiss Cinemizer LCD video glasses wouldn't suck.
For a company with a reputation of producing high quality lenses for cameras I was very suprised at just how bad the lenses were on their Cinemizers, the two different Sony Glasstron LCD video glasses I have are over 10 years older than the Cinemizers and have much superior optics, as do the Olympus EyeTrek's.
I can happily wear my Sony PLM-s700's for an hour or two whilst watching a movie or playing a video game on them but I struggle with the Cinemizers, even with their individiual diopter focus control.
The only reason I'm hanging on to the Cinemizers is that they can do 3D by feeding in a side-by-side 3D video into them it will split & stretch the video to each eye.
PARDON?
I only ever see the annoying fade-in effect when I use other people's machines, because years ago I made my own homepage.html which has a bunch of highly used links and search boxes from the major sites I use (google,ebay,imdb,archive.org etc.) so I truly get an instant search page appearing when I open up a new browser window or tab and click Home or press Alt+Home.
Plus extracting the html search code means you just get the plain search box with no other realtime-results bandwidth wasting cpu eating bullshit. I type much faster than the average web user so when I'm searching for something I don't need the results trying to appear as I type, because I type faster than the results can appear.
The main problem with 3D movies is that currently there's fuck-all out there to buy in comparison to the amount of normal 2D films.
The second problem is the various different 3D stored formats, for starters there's anaglyph (complete shite, a novelty not a solution), field sequential (low resolution), side-by-side & above/below (probably the best as any 3D display should easily be able to deal with it), plus any other new format some company dreams up in the hope of 'storming the market'.
I have some Zeiss Cinemizer LCD video glasses which are capable of displaying 3D by means of inputting side-by-side video squashed into a 4:3 frame, works ok but the resulting picture is half the resolution of SD video and the optics are shite, yes, shite optics in a Carl Zeiss product, even with individual diopter control on the Zeiss LCD glasses my old Sony top-end LCD glasses have much superior optics and are much easier on the eyes (but aren't 3D).
Finding clips & full films which I can watch on the LCD glasses has been a task in itself, only found a handful of clips which played natively on them, what little else I've found I've had to convrt from field sequential & side-by-side format.
I just hope this newly found 3D hype actually brings in more films in a format which isn't fucking anaglyph so it can be converted to play on whatever 3D system I have.
The play&charge kit looks like overpriced branded crap, I bought an unbranded rechargable battery pack for my brother's 360 and it came with a USB charging cable, total cost including postage; less than £4. Works like a charm, only one annoyance is the USB cable could be a couple of feet longer, if it eventually gets too annoying I'll chop & extend it myself.
Well spotted, something that gets me is that the pieces are 'stamped' down onto the iPhone with a strong enough jolt to trip the accelerometer - perhaps that's how they got some of the timing sorted in the hoax?
Forgot to mention that the BeBox has a known 'backdoor' specifically for Be support in case you have problems with your connection. As it's mentioned up front I don't have a problem with that, though I still use my own router because it's proved more reliable than the BeBox.
My ISP, BeThere, sent me a router when I signed up to them, called a BeBox, when I eventually move away from them I have to send the router back or pay for it (£30 or £50), but I just carried on using my Netgear one because it's proved to be extremely reliable and much more configurable.