My wife begs me to tell her honestly how I think she looks in new clothes. She would rather have her husband tactfully tell her he doesn't think a dress or pair of jeans suits her, than go out in something she doesn't look her best in.
Frankly, if you can't figure out a way to let your wife or girlfriend know that an outfit she picked out doesn't look that great on her without hurting her feelings... well, good luck in the rest of your relationship.
At night, there's a small red light in the sky. On that light lives four hundred pounds of thinking metal sent from Earth. I tell that metal what to do, and it does it.
Scott Maxwell, one of the rover's drivers, has a blog detailing the events of the mission exactly five years behind schedule.
Sulu offered nothing either and was basically "Harold" (from Harold and Kumar fame) on the bridge of the Enterprise... oh and he could fence. Was that an attempt to pay tribute to Picard or just an excuse to do a pointless and extremely cheesy sword fighting scene (I can't believe CmdrTaco thought this was the least cheesy Star Trek film!)
I haven't seen the film yet, and I'm not even a big fan of TOS, but even I know that Sulu was a fencer. There's a story behind it, too:
George Takei - the actor that played Sulu - was part of the Japanese internment camps of World War II where his family was relocated to a camp in Arkansas. He is one of the most notable early Asian faces on American television that went beyond the war-soured stereotypes (or background characters on M*A*S*H)... In one episode of Trek, Sulu goes a little nutters and the script said he was to fight Kirk. Takei was determined to fight in any style except kung fu and told the writers he knew fencing and then promptly worked his ass off learning how to fence.
If I was religious, it would have been a lot easier. Religious girls *will* drop you after you and they are in in love-- because a) god comes first and b) "they are going to be in heaven alone for eternity while you are in hell and it makes them sad."
So far, I have had the opposite experience. I am nonreligious and I married a religious (Christian) girl. She had a hard time with our relationship at first, but (apparently) the Bible does tell believers to stay in relationships with non-believers, I assume out of the hope that we'll be converted.
There will also never be any issues of backwards compatibility, every game will be playable for as long as the company feels like supporting it.
This is a problem in my book. Once I have purchased a console, it's mine forever, and the games I purchased to go with it are mine forever too. My copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES won't stop working just because Nintendo has decided they don't want to support the game any more.
I acquired Mass Effect and Coldplay's Viva la Vida within a few days of each other. I desperately wanted to play the game and listen to the album, but didn't want to give up one for the other... so I muted Mass Effect's music and put Viva la Vida on the stereo.
Long after getting my fill of Viva la Vida, I was still playing Mass Effect. It took a few months to realize that I'd been playing the whole time with the in-game music still muted.
It's a similar idea (up to six blades sharing up to 14 SAS drives and up to 2 switches with a web interface to control the whole thing) and it's been available for over a year.
Advanced trivia note: Ellen McLain is the only voice actor to have a part in all five games included with The Orange Box (Overwatch announcer in HL2, HL2:E1, HL2:E2; GLaDOS/turrets in Portal; game announcer in TF2).
I thought it was bullshit too, actually. A lot of the shots involved the talent running through the woods (brush, dead leaves, all that crunchy goodness), and as first-year students in an intro to film class we didn't exactly have our own Foley studio or access to a huge library of prerecorded stuff. Apparently he hadn't bothered telling us to not do that because he'd assumed no one would think to, which is kind of sad... (Even sadder is I'm the only one who did.) Ah well.
Have you ever actually done any film work? Sound design is hugely important in achieving audience immersion -- sound designers work hard to create an aural environment, and if they fail, the film fails. End of.
WALL-E deserved the Oscar because unlike Slumdog Millionaire, it's a fantasy world. There are no Waste Allocation Load Lifters or Axioms or hover lounge chairs for the sound team to listen to and recreate; they have to come up with every single sound you hear from scratch.
And someone else already mentioned this, but it's extremely rare for any film to use 'live' sound recorded on-site -- so much so that when I did this in one of my film production student projects, I was graded down; anyone in the industry (including my professor) will tell you that's not how it's done. Essentially everything you hear in any film is created later, either by technicians recording 'wild' tracks in the real world or Foley artists recreating sounds at the studio. Either way, each individual sound is isolated on its own track (if you have a car driving down a road, at minimum there's be wind, car engine, tires on pavement, but for it to be good there'd also be birds, car radio, insects, etc.) allows the sound designer full control over the final mix of the film.
At night, there's a small red light in the sky. On that light lives four hundred pounds of thinking metal sent from Earth. I tell that metal what to do, and it does it.
Anyone interested in the Mars Exploration Rovers' mission should check out Mars And Me, the unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver. Scott Maxwell is blogging his daily work at JPL exactly five years later. A very interesting and well-written look at the day-to-day operations of a truly amazing scientific expedition.
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My wife begs me to tell her honestly how I think she looks in new clothes. She would rather have her husband tactfully tell her he doesn't think a dress or pair of jeans suits her, than go out in something she doesn't look her best in.
Frankly, if you can't figure out a way to let your wife or girlfriend know that an outfit she picked out doesn't look that great on her without hurting her feelings... well, good luck in the rest of your relationship.
I'm leaving my kids a copy of all my digital possessions -- on Laserdisc! Fuck 'em!
I'm always on the lookout for a chance to plug his blog. We need more Mars-related /. submissions!
Scott Maxwell, one of the rover's drivers, has a blog detailing the events of the mission exactly five years behind schedule.
I haven't seen the film yet, and I'm not even a big fan of TOS, but even I know that Sulu was a fencer. There's a story behind it, too:
Then you're safe, our government will never find it.
For another perspective on Bill's success, and a deeply interesting look at success in general, check out Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers .
So far, I have had the opposite experience. I am nonreligious and I married a religious (Christian) girl. She had a hard time with our relationship at first, but (apparently) the Bible does tell believers to stay in relationships with non-believers, I assume out of the hope that we'll be converted.
Yes. That said, believe whatever you want. Just don't expect me to listen to you talk about it.
Thanks for the laugh.
So you're saying I should starve my teenagers... Brilliant!
I'm surprised that the Japanese, of all people, would invent this given their fetish for "used schoolgirl panties".
This is a problem in my book. Once I have purchased a console, it's mine forever, and the games I purchased to go with it are mine forever too. My copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES won't stop working just because Nintendo has decided they don't want to support the game any more.
I acquired Mass Effect and Coldplay's Viva la Vida within a few days of each other. I desperately wanted to play the game and listen to the album, but didn't want to give up one for the other... so I muted Mass Effect's music and put Viva la Vida on the stereo.
Long after getting my fill of Viva la Vida, I was still playing Mass Effect. It took a few months to realize that I'd been playing the whole time with the in-game music still muted.
You could always just disable the preview pane.
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Bravo, sir.
It's a similar idea (up to six blades sharing up to 14 SAS drives and up to 2 switches with a web interface to control the whole thing) and it's been available for over a year.
Advanced trivia note: Ellen McLain is the only voice actor to have a part in all five games included with The Orange Box (Overwatch announcer in HL2, HL2:E1, HL2:E2; GLaDOS/turrets in Portal; game announcer in TF2).
I thought it was bullshit too, actually. A lot of the shots involved the talent running through the woods (brush, dead leaves, all that crunchy goodness), and as first-year students in an intro to film class we didn't exactly have our own Foley studio or access to a huge library of prerecorded stuff. Apparently he hadn't bothered telling us to not do that because he'd assumed no one would think to, which is kind of sad... (Even sadder is I'm the only one who did.) Ah well.
Have you ever actually done any film work? Sound design is hugely important in achieving audience immersion -- sound designers work hard to create an aural environment, and if they fail, the film fails. End of.
WALL-E deserved the Oscar because unlike Slumdog Millionaire, it's a fantasy world. There are no Waste Allocation Load Lifters or Axioms or hover lounge chairs for the sound team to listen to and recreate; they have to come up with every single sound you hear from scratch.
And someone else already mentioned this, but it's extremely rare for any film to use 'live' sound recorded on-site -- so much so that when I did this in one of my film production student projects, I was graded down; anyone in the industry (including my professor) will tell you that's not how it's done. Essentially everything you hear in any film is created later, either by technicians recording 'wild' tracks in the real world or Foley artists recreating sounds at the studio. Either way, each individual sound is isolated on its own track (if you have a car driving down a road, at minimum there's be wind, car engine, tires on pavement, but for it to be good there'd also be birds, car radio, insects, etc.) allows the sound designer full control over the final mix of the film.
Prince of Persia (2008), and no, it was a waste of $50.
Anyone interested in the Mars Exploration Rovers' mission should check out Mars And Me, the unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver. Scott Maxwell is blogging his daily work at JPL exactly five years later. A very interesting and well-written look at the day-to-day operations of a truly amazing scientific expedition.