'And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?'
With TRON and now Plan 9 falling into the hands of OSS the move to have the operating systems of computers taken over by old sci-fi movies is happening.
Note to self: do not use WOPR operating system for anything. Especially games.
Back in my day, we didn't have all that new-fangled technology to put ourselves in our favorite movies. We did it all in our minds! Uphill! In the snow! Through barbed wired and acid pits! And we liked it!
Oh, come now. Both of those particular examples were cool *movies* that enough people enjoyed (i.e. made enough $) for it to be worth making sequels. That they didn't necessarily match their inspirations doesn't make them bad movies.
Besides, any film with Milla or Angelina in it gets special dispensation.;)
but does the computer have full control over all the umm (forgive my foosball knowledge) "handles" at all time. I mean part of the game is having to let go and grab the next one. Kind of an unfair advantage if the computer does not have to do so.
Actually, I wanna know if we can still grab onto the far end of our opponents' handles. "Compute this, you metal monstrosity!":)
Slightly OT (and a SPOILER SPOILER if you haven't seen it), but your question reminds me of Reign of Fire in which the adults act out scenes from Star Wars for the children in the castle ruins. At first you have no idea what they're doing, but the dialogue begins to crystalize in familarity. Very nice touch.
'You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.'
Look, if you're going to start quoting the classics, at least get your measurements right. As every geek worth his/her/its salt knows, there's no such thing as 140 bwiddlethorms, since the bwiddle- (of course, bwaddthle- in the original Outer C!thornic branch from which all dialects in that quadrant descend) prefix can only refer to quantities in multiples of 90 (90, 180, 270, etc.). Don't get me started on the hideously non-canon 'secron' -- that's like saying the Ascetic Malform was a Xenirrific Frumphf, for Ulp's sake! And you call yourself a geek: zappydonks, I say to you, megalazappydonks!
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That must mean you're among the 1% who haven't heard of Google. It's only the very first site returned and all.
How do you envision the world changing if energy costs became a trivial part of economic equations?
;)
Somebody will undoubtedly declare war on somebody else.
Go read Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
'Bill the Cat' seems right on so many levels. ;)
Keep that guy away from the zoo and, dare I say it, public swimming pools! ;)
'And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?'
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African or European sparrow? ;)
Antitrust beat the hell out of movies like Hackers and The Net.
;)
Sorry, any movie with Sandra Bullock in a bikini typing on a laptop at the beach might qualify as Best Computer Movie Ever.
With TRON and now Plan 9 falling into the hands of OSS the move to have the operating systems of computers taken over by old sci-fi movies is happening.
Note to self: do not use WOPR operating system for anything. Especially games.
they'd pretty much decided the M in MTV didn't mean anything anymore.
:)
Yes it does, and it rhymes with Money.
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Did you check Uranus?
Sorry.
That isn't saying much. :)
Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.
No, Avril Lavigne singing* "Fuel" on the MTV Metallica tribute special is the enemy. Metallica is merely miscalculating.
* in the loose, "Slurring words together... Badly..." sense of the verb "sing"
Back in my day, we didn't have all that new-fangled technology to put ourselves in our favorite movies. We did it all in our minds! Uphill! In the snow! Through barbed wired and acid pits! And we liked it!
Oregon: You can kill yourself here, but you can't pump your own gas! Go figure!
What if you're buying gas to set yourself on fire?
This gives the phrase Gene Pool a whole new meaning!
*rimshot* Thank you, I'm here all week!
Oh, come now. Both of those particular examples were cool *movies* that enough people enjoyed (i.e. made enough $) for it to be worth making sequels. That they didn't necessarily match their inspirations doesn't make them bad movies.
;)
Besides, any film with Milla or Angelina in it gets special dispensation.
There *WAS* a linux port of Myth II. It was done by Loki.
More info here.
"IBM, Savior of Linux", wow. That may be enough to get RMS to take a bath.
;)
He'll never open the spigots unless it's "IBM, Savior of GNU/Linux."
but does the computer have full control over all the umm (forgive my foosball knowledge) "handles" at all time. I mean part of the game is having to let go and grab the next one. Kind of an unfair advantage if the computer does not have to do so.
:)
Actually, I wanna know if we can still grab onto the far end of our opponents' handles. "Compute this, you metal monstrosity!"
Slightly OT (and a SPOILER SPOILER if you haven't seen it), but your question reminds me of Reign of Fire in which the adults act out scenes from Star Wars for the children in the castle ruins. At first you have no idea what they're doing, but the dialogue begins to crystalize in familarity. Very nice touch.
One wonders, what language would have been used?
;)
French.
Look, if you're going to start quoting the classics, at least get your measurements right. As every geek worth his/her/its salt knows, there's no such thing as 140 bwiddlethorms, since the bwiddle- (of course, bwaddthle- in the original Outer C!thornic branch from which all dialects in that quadrant descend) prefix can only refer to quantities in multiples of 90 (90, 180, 270, etc.). Don't get me started on the hideously non-canon 'secron' -- that's like saying the Ascetic Malform was a Xenirrific Frumphf, for Ulp's sake! And you call yourself a geek: zappydonks, I say to you, megalazappydonks!
How weird, looks like there's a Neptune Canada. No word on temperatures. :)
If you can write 'the past three years' and still think you won the argument, you got worse problems than no apologies on your desk.