The release of Spider Man was delayed (it was supposed to come out very shortly after sept. 11th) specifically so they could re-write the ending involving the towers.
I think you're combining a few events here. First, Spider-Man was always intended for a May, 2002 release date. These dates are set over a year in advance, and the movie was not delayed due to the September 11 attacks, nor was the World Trade Center involved in the plotline. It was Men in Black 2 which had this problem. According to its IMDB trivia section: "The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction, the film's ending was changed." I've seen such mentions of this elsewhere as well.
Now, the Spider-Man producers needed to rework and yank some of their promotional material after Sept 11. One character-shot poster was yanked (Spider-Man looking at New York with the WTC reflected in his eye visors). The second was a teaser trailer (search for Spider-Man World Trade Center on Youtube) that showed scenes unrelated to the movie (very common for teaser trailers). It was created for the trailer, though Raimi had toyed with the idea of finding a place for the web between the WTC towers in the final movie. That never moved past the planning stages, though. You can probably blame screenwriter David Koepp for the mediocre ending.. he's written a number of action movies that haven't really been strong on plot or character (Spider-Man, the Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Shadow, War of the Worlds). Look forward to his work in the next Indiana Jones movie. I'm excited about Spielburg, so-so on Koepp, and bleh on Lucas.
A few months after September 11 I was watching a movie at a university shown by their Friday night campus cinema. One of the things they did was acquire trailers for films they were going to show soon, and Spider-Man was on the slate. The Campus Cinema folks acquired a Spider-Man trailer but apparently never viewed it. Most of the audience didn't recognize it off the bat, though I did. I knew the reaction would be ugly.. and it was! Probably the most entertainment I've gotten from a trailer though.
Great idea! Movies would be only 3 minutes long and completely filled with explosions. You would of course, charge full price.
So... it's like a Michael Bay flick?
The best part about the movies is the good 3 minutes from a Michael Bay movie. The worst part of the movies is the other 117 minutes from the Michael Bay movie.
My wife didn't know what Rick'Roll'in was, but you can't Rick Roll someone by saying you'll do it, then actually do it. So I said I'd show her the Rick'Roll video, then sent her a link to goatse.cx instead. And afterwards said real Rick'Rolling was funny, not traumatic.
Unfortunately, trailers have little to do with movies anymore.
The very best trailer I had ever seen (to this date) was the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I released several months before the movie premiered. It looked incredible.
That's pretty much what I was hoping for in the Village. The problem was that the movie was steering you into that direction before it took a retarded 180 degree turn.
I think most of the people who went into Pan's Labyrinth with the right expectations were not disappointed with it. It IS a very good film and is the reason I'm excited about a non-Jackson-directed Hobbit.
One of Pan's Labyrinth's biggest problems is that it was sold as something it was not. Looking at the commercials only you would get the impression that it was another fantasy movie, possibly a kid's fantasy movie (since it starred a young girl). The fantasy elements were only a small part of the overall story though, which was certainly not aimed at kids. Very different from what it was marketed as in the States, but that's hardly the movie's fault.
Spielburg has had his share of excellent movies as well as his substandard movies. Many of 'meh'-quality movies had a screenplay penned by David Koepp, who also wrote this newest Indiana Jones movie.
So your big complaint is that a 7 year old OS (SP2 was released in 2004) doesn't install on a device that was released 3 years after it was? And of course, that hardware wasn't widely available until probably a year or two later.
The big problem for Microsoft is that a lot of people want driver and installer updates to Windows XP rather than Windows Vista. Reasonable or not, that's why people complain. We've tried Vista, we greatly prefer XP.
If you are having problems with "yum install {package}" or "yum remove {package}" I would suggest looking very carefully at your repos. I only ever have the default repos enabled and always select a repo with "yum --enablerepo={my_repo} install {package}". Also I would be careful with what repos you use anyway since some can really cause problems.
Unfortunately, most people need a lot more than what is provided by the standard "totally free software only" repositories. We need to be able to play mp3s. We need to be able to play commercial DVDs. We need programs like mplayer, xine or vlc, the Adobe flash plugin, and maybe even a quicktime and/or wmv plugin for firefox. That means adding in different repositories, and that's where the real dependency hell can come into play.
I can imagine the packager thinking, "Why would a encryption software module need the user to swizzle the mouse around a bit? Must be a piece of test code - I'll #ifdef it out, and if anyone complains, I'll remove the #ifdef's again."
Such checks aren't so hot though, as packages must be built with automated installation in mind, whether it's as part of the system installation or an automated package update. There's blame to go around on both sides; yes, once such a "feature" creeps in you can't just yank it out without repercussions, but the package authors should have found another way to do it in the first place.
Oh, they're not off the hook either. Randal Schwartz went to jail for for testing the security of systems he wasn't authorized to test at an employeer.
Or a thimbleful of diesel. £1.19 a litre! Sheesh. I'll let some American work that out in $/gallon. Then they won't grumble about $3/gallon.
Eh, we all pay the same price anyway. It's just that the US government subsidizes the fuel price, which we pay back through taxes. Or through borrowing from China.
If this is for real, there's a whole new class of electronic devices waiting to be developed. The Zeno effect has been observed experimentally, but only down near absolute zero. If it can be observed at room temperature, it could be useful.
No, no, clearly this proves that birds brains actually function normally close to absolute zero. The trick is to figure out how they're doing it.
This is one of the true of evils of the "harmonization" argument. "We must harmonize our laws to become more compatible." And then when one side implements a restrictive law, there is pressure on the other side to match it. Right now the UK is leading the way in Europe for that sort of thing with their surveillance efforts, and you can expect the surveillance proponents here in the US to point at Britain and say "see that? That's what we ought to be doing." Then a few months later it will be the same situation, but flowing from the US to Europe. It works that way with copyright law as well. Too bad that the pressure rarely seems to be over lifting restrictions, only for adding them.
The whole point of the moderation system is to decrease the visibility of people who are trolling, flamebait, posting wrong information, etc so that folks reading at the default level get a cleaner feed. By posting insults to the trolls you're only adding more noise and giving the troll the attention he wants but doesn't deserve.
Lucky. On my last plane flight I walked down the aisle towards my seat, noting there was screaming baby towards the front of the plane.. annoying, but fortunately 10 rows away from my seat. When I finally got to my seat though, I noticed it had been taken. There was an old Chinese couple who were tourists sitting in my seat and the seat next to it, and from what I gathered by examining their tickets they had bought seats separately and so were located on opposite ends of the plane. But they seemed rather nervous (probably because they were stealing my seat) and seemed (feigned?) to speak no English and very clearly did not want to be separated). So rather than make a scene, I agreed to switch tickets (the thought of spending the next four hours sitting next to an angry Chinese tourist didn't appeal either). So I walked back to where the woman was supposed to be sitting and settled down... in the seat directly in front of the howling baby. I got owned.
Lets be fair here, just because not everyone can do it doesn't on it's own make it a huge achievement. I can't plug a flat in a tire but that doesn't make it an achievement.
It would be if there was simply a small group capable of plugging flats in tires and they commanded great salaries because of it.
I don't buy into the glorification of actors and other celebrities (something the Church of Scientology shamelessly exploits), but I can still admit when actor puts in a really really good performance that it's an achievement.
Slashdot Mirror
The release of Spider Man was delayed (it was supposed to come out very shortly after sept. 11th) specifically so they could re-write the ending involving the towers.
I think you're combining a few events here. First, Spider-Man was always intended for a May, 2002 release date. These dates are set over a year in advance, and the movie was not delayed due to the September 11 attacks, nor was the World Trade Center involved in the plotline. It was Men in Black 2 which had this problem. According to its IMDB trivia section: "The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction, the film's ending was changed." I've seen such mentions of this elsewhere as well.
Now, the Spider-Man producers needed to rework and yank some of their promotional material after Sept 11. One character-shot poster was yanked (Spider-Man looking at New York with the WTC reflected in his eye visors). The second was a teaser trailer (search for Spider-Man World Trade Center on Youtube) that showed scenes unrelated to the movie (very common for teaser trailers). It was created for the trailer, though Raimi had toyed with the idea of finding a place for the web between the WTC towers in the final movie. That never moved past the planning stages, though. You can probably blame screenwriter David Koepp for the mediocre ending.. he's written a number of action movies that haven't really been strong on plot or character (Spider-Man, the Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Shadow, War of the Worlds). Look forward to his work in the next Indiana Jones movie. I'm excited about Spielburg, so-so on Koepp, and bleh on Lucas.
A few months after September 11 I was watching a movie at a university shown by their Friday night campus cinema. One of the things they did was acquire trailers for films they were going to show soon, and Spider-Man was on the slate. The Campus Cinema folks acquired a Spider-Man trailer but apparently never viewed it. Most of the audience didn't recognize it off the bat, though I did. I knew the reaction would be ugly.. and it was! Probably the most entertainment I've gotten from a trailer though.
So... it's like a Michael Bay flick?
The best part about the movies is the good 3 minutes from a Michael Bay movie. The worst part of the movies is the other 117 minutes from the Michael Bay movie.
My wife didn't know what Rick'Roll'in was, but you can't Rick Roll someone by saying you'll do it, then actually do it. So I said I'd show her the Rick'Roll video, then sent her a link to goatse.cx instead. And afterwards said real Rick'Rolling was funny, not traumatic.
Unfortunately, trailers have little to do with movies anymore.
The very best trailer I had ever seen (to this date) was the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I released several months before the movie premiered. It looked incredible.
That's pretty much what I was hoping for in the Village. The problem was that the movie was steering you into that direction before it took a retarded 180 degree turn.
I think most of the people who went into Pan's Labyrinth with the right expectations were not disappointed with it. It IS a very good film and is the reason I'm excited about a non-Jackson-directed Hobbit.
One of Pan's Labyrinth's biggest problems is that it was sold as something it was not. Looking at the commercials only you would get the impression that it was another fantasy movie, possibly a kid's fantasy movie (since it starred a young girl). The fantasy elements were only a small part of the overall story though, which was certainly not aimed at kids. Very different from what it was marketed as in the States, but that's hardly the movie's fault.
Empire had a lot of well-written humor though, mostly in the interactions of the droids with everyone else and Luke and Yoda.
It was, however, humor used appropriately, not excessively.
Spielburg has had his share of excellent movies as well as his substandard movies. Many of 'meh'-quality movies had a screenplay penned by David Koepp, who also wrote this newest Indiana Jones movie.
So your big complaint is that a 7 year old OS (SP2 was released in 2004) doesn't install on a device that was released 3 years after it was? And of course, that hardware wasn't widely available until probably a year or two later.
The big problem for Microsoft is that a lot of people want driver and installer updates to Windows XP rather than Windows Vista. Reasonable or not, that's why people complain. We've tried Vista, we greatly prefer XP.
Unfortunately, most people need a lot more than what is provided by the standard "totally free software only" repositories. We need to be able to play mp3s. We need to be able to play commercial DVDs. We need programs like mplayer, xine or vlc, the Adobe flash plugin, and maybe even a quicktime and/or wmv plugin for firefox. That means adding in different repositories, and that's where the real dependency hell can come into play.
Such checks aren't so hot though, as packages must be built with automated installation in mind, whether it's as part of the system installation or an automated package update. There's blame to go around on both sides; yes, once such a "feature" creeps in you can't just yank it out without repercussions, but the package authors should have found another way to do it in the first place.
Random numbers are "hard."
You've had your house for 14 years. Times up. It's public property now ?
While I wouldn't want someone taking the house away from me after 14 years, I certainly wouldn't mind if they copied the design.
At least it wasn't a guy who hacks Perl.
Oh, they're not off the hook either. Randal Schwartz went to jail for for testing the security of systems he wasn't authorized to test at an employeer.
How much is that in Disneyland Dollars?
Or a thimbleful of diesel. £1.19 a litre! Sheesh. I'll let some American work that out in $/gallon. Then they won't grumble about $3/gallon.
Eh, we all pay the same price anyway. It's just that the US government subsidizes the fuel price, which we pay back through taxes. Or through borrowing from China.
No, no, clearly this proves that birds brains actually function normally close to absolute zero. The trick is to figure out how they're doing it.If this is for real, there's a whole new class of electronic devices waiting to be developed.
The Zeno effect has been observed experimentally, but only down near absolute zero. If it can be observed at room temperature, it could be useful.
The situation in Europe is but a few steps behind that in the US.
This is one of the true of evils of the "harmonization" argument. "We must harmonize our laws to become more compatible." And then when one side implements a restrictive law, there is pressure on the other side to match it. Right now the UK is leading the way in Europe for that sort of thing with their surveillance efforts, and you can expect the surveillance proponents here in the US to point at Britain and say "see that? That's what we ought to be doing." Then a few months later it will be the same situation, but flowing from the US to Europe. It works that way with copyright law as well. Too bad that the pressure rarely seems to be over lifting restrictions, only for adding them.
Almost sounds a bit like unknowningly violating a patent.
The whole point of the moderation system is to decrease the visibility of people who are trolling, flamebait, posting wrong information, etc so that folks reading at the default level get a cleaner feed. By posting insults to the trolls you're only adding more noise and giving the troll the attention he wants but doesn't deserve.
Lucky. On my last plane flight I walked down the aisle towards my seat, noting there was screaming baby towards the front of the plane.. annoying, but fortunately 10 rows away from my seat. When I finally got to my seat though, I noticed it had been taken. There was an old Chinese couple who were tourists sitting in my seat and the seat next to it, and from what I gathered by examining their tickets they had bought seats separately and so were located on opposite ends of the plane. But they seemed rather nervous (probably because they were stealing my seat) and seemed (feigned?) to speak no English and very clearly did not want to be separated). So rather than make a scene, I agreed to switch tickets (the thought of spending the next four hours sitting next to an angry Chinese tourist didn't appeal either). So I walked back to where the woman was supposed to be sitting and settled down... in the seat directly in front of the howling baby. I got owned.
This gets "insightful?" A moderator can agree with someone; that doesn't mean that person's comment deserves to be modded up.
I could tell who wrote this without even looking at the author attribute!
Classic JockTroll post.
It would be if there was simply a small group capable of plugging flats in tires and they commanded great salaries because of it.
I don't buy into the glorification of actors and other celebrities (something the Church of Scientology shamelessly exploits), but I can still admit when actor puts in a really really good performance that it's an achievement.
Please tell you didn't believe that nonsense cartoon from Bowling for Columbine.
Most of the other Bill of Rights Amendments are infringed, why not make it a clean sweep?