Something like that, but now I have to compensate for all those caps (why yes, it is exactly like YELLING, how did you guess?) to make the lameness filter happy.
Gravity, 2013, might be argued to not be sci-fi but science fact, but presuming we can reasonably call it Sci fi, it did pretty well, bringing in about $723M in revenues.
Science fact? More like Science Fantasy with how it handles orbital mechanics. Very pretty, perhaps, but very impossible.
The worst part about watching 2001 on TV was the length of the "space tunnel" scene. Back in the '80s or so, 2001 got played every now and then, and there were at least two commercial breaks during the space tunnel scene. That made it rather hard to follow the ending.
I saw it once at an IMAX in the late '90s. The picture was wider than my field of vision, and I had to turn my head to see both sides. Of course I sat in the center, halfway up. It was a great way to see one of the great 70MM movies.
I am sad that they never did a parody of it, considering the kind of movies that Leslie Nielsen made later in his life. They could have called it something like "Prohibited Planet". He was so deadpan serious in the original that it would have been awesome for him to be deadpan silly in a remake.
Cheese? I don't order anything with cheese there anymore because I can barely taste it. The other day I ordered two Whoppers, and it was taking a while. "She put cheese on there by accident, so we're going to remake them because we can't just pick it off." "Don't bother, I don't mind the cheese, I just don't need it." And I was able to confirm that I really could barely taste the cheese. (To be fair, it's because of all the other flavors, but I've stopped getting cheese on burgers in general, not just BK. I don't want to pay 50 cents for extra calories that I can't even taste.)
My TRS-80 Model 1 16K was from back when they still had six month lead times. Somehow, my parents had found one that was mis-delivered to the wrong store, who decided they would keep it and sell it themselves.
The first thing I did when I turned it on was spend half an hour figuring out how to answer the question "MEMORY SIZE?" Sure, now I know to just press the enter key, but for the first thing that came up on the screen, it was badly documented.
A few months later, a trip to a big city and a visit to a real '70s-era computer store got me a Z-80 programming card that let me get into assembly language. I learned a lot of 8080 assembly language programming from Bill Gates by disassembling that code. (there wasn't much Z-80 specific code in there)
At a Fry's last month, I saw an end-cap display with what appeared to be a NES Classic running (IIRC) SMW. Looking closer, I saw the roughness of a 3D-printed case. It was actually a display for Nintendo-style USB controllers, using a RasPi in a 3D-printed case.
USR was such a cool company before they rushed to merchandise to the masses.
You mean "before they got borged by 3com", right? After that they were completely worthless. At least Zyxel got to make a couple of DSL modems before fading off into irrelevancy.
A good one here in Texas is the so-called "Silver Alert". Whenever an elderly person drives off in a car, AMBER ALERT goes up on highway text signs all over the state. Except that they always list the city name of the suburb where the person was last seen, and it's usually somewhere around Houston, because apparently they're the only ones making these reports, so nobody outside of the Houston area has ever heard of the place where it's happening.
Asteroids? Pleb. Gravitar was the ultimate evolution of Asteroids. I remember being able to play 45 minutes on 2 quarters. There was also Joust (pity the ports never seemed to scale the gravity properly) and Spy Hunter. And Gauntlet too, gotta get the high score by pumping quarters into a second character and playing two-handed!
I don't. It was slow as hell back in the day and harder to maintain than modern C code, but assembly language was a pain to use because we still had to run some kind of development environment on the same slow 8-bit computer, with 48K and one or two floppy drives. Either way we were screwed. People who wrote arcade video games had cross-assemblers on Vaxen and such, much less annoying to develop on.
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I loved Quark as a kid, too. And its disco-theremin theme song was awesome too.
Never mind... Slashdot was only showing me the first 250 or so until I clicked on a button. That's still shameful, though.
DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE! WELFARE! WELFARE! WELFARE! (throws chair)
Something like that, but now I have to compensate for all those caps (why yes, it is exactly like YELLING, how did you guess?) to make the lameness filter happy.
Just under a thousand replies, and not one mention yet of War Games? Or were you all trying to win by not playing the game?
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I liked it better when it was called Electric Dreams.
It was "The Music Man: IN SPACE!"
Also notable for being the first movie to do a full CGI sequence.
Gravity, 2013, might be argued to not be sci-fi but science fact, but presuming we can reasonably call it Sci fi, it did pretty well, bringing in about $723M in revenues.
Science fact? More like Science Fantasy with how it handles orbital mechanics. Very pretty, perhaps, but very impossible.
And it's just a damn good movie, too. But it took forever to get a DVD release because the rights were tied up for so long.
The worst part about watching 2001 on TV was the length of the "space tunnel" scene. Back in the '80s or so, 2001 got played every now and then, and there were at least two commercial breaks during the space tunnel scene. That made it rather hard to follow the ending.
I saw it once at an IMAX in the late '90s. The picture was wider than my field of vision, and I had to turn my head to see both sides. Of course I sat in the center, halfway up. It was a great way to see one of the great 70MM movies.
I am sad that they never did a parody of it, considering the kind of movies that Leslie Nielsen made later in his life. They could have called it something like "Prohibited Planet". He was so deadpan serious in the original that it would have been awesome for him to be deadpan silly in a remake.
How have I never even heard of this film before? It sounds rather like The President's Analyst in terms of satire.
Okay, "Alexa, sudo get me a dollhouse!"
Cheese? I don't order anything with cheese there anymore because I can barely taste it. The other day I ordered two Whoppers, and it was taking a while. "She put cheese on there by accident, so we're going to remake them because we can't just pick it off." "Don't bother, I don't mind the cheese, I just don't need it." And I was able to confirm that I really could barely taste the cheese. (To be fair, it's because of all the other flavors, but I've stopped getting cheese on burgers in general, not just BK. I don't want to pay 50 cents for extra calories that I can't even taste.)
My TRS-80 Model 1 16K was from back when they still had six month lead times. Somehow, my parents had found one that was mis-delivered to the wrong store, who decided they would keep it and sell it themselves.
The first thing I did when I turned it on was spend half an hour figuring out how to answer the question "MEMORY SIZE?" Sure, now I know to just press the enter key, but for the first thing that came up on the screen, it was badly documented.
A few months later, a trip to a big city and a visit to a real '70s-era computer store got me a Z-80 programming card that let me get into assembly language. I learned a lot of 8080 assembly language programming from Bill Gates by disassembling that code. (there wasn't much Z-80 specific code in there)
By Unix you probably mean Microware's OS-9.
Apparently Burger King made a slight change to the article and resubmitted it.
I don't really care as long as I keep getting those sheets of coupons.
At a Fry's last month, I saw an end-cap display with what appeared to be a NES Classic running (IIRC) SMW. Looking closer, I saw the roughness of a 3D-printed case. It was actually a display for Nintendo-style USB controllers, using a RasPi in a 3D-printed case.
USR was such a cool company before they rushed to merchandise to the masses.
You mean "before they got borged by 3com", right? After that they were completely worthless. At least Zyxel got to make a couple of DSL modems before fading off into irrelevancy.
A good one here in Texas is the so-called "Silver Alert". Whenever an elderly person drives off in a car, AMBER ALERT goes up on highway text signs all over the state. Except that they always list the city name of the suburb where the person was last seen, and it's usually somewhere around Houston, because apparently they're the only ones making these reports, so nobody outside of the Houston area has ever heard of the place where it's happening.
And it magically stores your code in the middle of the cloud? And then the cloud rains machine code?
Asteroids? Pleb. Gravitar was the ultimate evolution of Asteroids. I remember being able to play 45 minutes on 2 quarters. There was also Joust (pity the ports never seemed to scale the gravity properly) and Spy Hunter. And Gauntlet too, gotta get the high score by pumping quarters into a second character and playing two-handed!
I don't. It was slow as hell back in the day and harder to maintain than modern C code, but assembly language was a pain to use because we still had to run some kind of development environment on the same slow 8-bit computer, with 48K and one or two floppy drives. Either way we were screwed. People who wrote arcade video games had cross-assemblers on Vaxen and such, much less annoying to develop on.
Yep, and then you're restored to the point where it will again want to download Windows 10. WINNING!
You misspelled "Sliverblight". Hope this helps!
I guess Microsoft just thought that Flash wasn't insecure enough and that they could do a better job.