I'm so glad that you mentioned AVP. It is a perfect example of what is wrong with the PG-13 centric model of movie making.
Remember the previous Alien and Predator movies? There was blood all over the place. There were even a few shots of naked boobies. And the comedic relief of the "You are one ugly motherfucker" line is missing.
I could understand a new franchise going for the PG-13 market. But established franchises like Alien, Predator, Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street should stick to their roots. It's going to be people in their mid 20s through late 30s who are going to see these films anyway. 13 year olds are like "Freddy who?" and "Wait a minute, the Predators are aliens too, right?"
Freddy Vs. Jason went for the R rating and made for a more enjoyable film IMHO.
AVP went for the PG-13 and wasn't as good as it could have been.
I'm not a hardware pro, but is this basically the same as having two seperate chips, or am I missing the point here?
Pretty much the same thing as having two processors, but once things are running at proper capacity, it will be cheaper to put two cores on one chip. In part because you won't have to reproduce the underlying electronics. The motherboards will also be cheaper. One socket means less money spent on R&D. If and when someone releases a dual socket/quad core motherboard it will be cheaper to design and build than a quad socket board.
I hate to disillusion you, but if an unfiltered viewing of moblogs are any indication, there are many, many adult men out there who think that showing boner pictures to women is the pinnacle of sophistication...
Some women actually req boner pics, but you just ain't s'posed to send them out to anyone who asks.
Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
The problem is that kids don't have the same amount of life experience. Sure, it stands to reason to most of us here that it would be a bad idea to take a picture of your boner with a camera phone and send it to a couple of girls that you know. I did a lot of dumb shit when I was 14. I wasn't dumb enough to send naked pictures of myself to anyone, but people still laugh at a couple of the idiotic things that I did 15 years ago.
This life experience causes me to be even more careful about the dumb shit that I consider doing today.
It is wrong to copy textbooks....I'm not going to condone it...
The RIAA and MPAA have time and time again told us that it isn't about right and wrong, it's about the law. In a place where it's not illegal to photocopy a text book, there is no legal dilemma. Why bring ethics into it?
Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect.
And how exactly do you prevent somebody from building their own 'rental' library for all of this transferrable content?
Isn't this what Blockbuster, Hollywood and Netflix are doing right now? Buy one copy of a movie and rent it hundreds or thousands of time for a profit?
Actually, nuclear bombs in general, and hydrogen bombs in particular, are not much of a risk for accidental detonation.
What if Muhammad Atta or Tim McVeigh had been able to locate this bomb. Accidental detonation is of the least concern. We have the potential for Uranium and Plutonium to find their way into the water just a few miles from the coast.
I'm no greenie, but I'd prefer not to have to check the catch of the day with a geiger counter before I eat it.
I mean seriously, Law Enforcement is now fucking with rich old white guys just like they have the minority community forever.
All of the minorities who were singled out of unnecessary attention in previous years are now ignored. People are pretending like it never happened. All of a sudden a few rich old white guys get bothered by the same treatment that minorites have come to expect and it's time to raise hell?
Yes, some of them will be pretty much useless after all of the time, but others will be more unstable.
Something called "Composition A" is RDX mixed with melted wax. That stuff will keep for a LONG time, since no water is going to penetrate the wax.
RDX has been used as an explosive since the 1920s. It's some powerful stuff.
Remember Saving Private Ryan? Remember the "sticky bombs"? That was Composition A. You can blow the treads off of a tank with a sock full of the stuff. Imagine what a boatload of it will do.
We're not talking small quantities of these explosives either, we're talking about a military transport ship.
That could be dangerous, but nothing compared to the Lost Hydrogen Bomb that is sitting in the atlantic just off the coast of the US.
Not exactly, it was carried atop a regular airplay at several hundred miles per hour, then the rocket booster kicked it up to the cruising altitude and THEN the scramjet engine was engaged for the 10 second burn.
It's damned impressive but it's not like it accellerated to 5000 mph from a standstill.
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His lines were all in Hindi, and not gibberish.
He had several lines in English too. Remember "The Muslim God will be cast down...Then the Hebrew God will fall...Kali Ma will rule the world."?
LK
I'm so glad that you mentioned AVP. It is a perfect example of what is wrong with the PG-13 centric model of movie making.
Remember the previous Alien and Predator movies? There was blood all over the place. There were even a few shots of naked boobies. And the comedic relief of the "You are one ugly motherfucker" line is missing.
I could understand a new franchise going for the PG-13 market. But established franchises like Alien, Predator, Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street should stick to their roots. It's going to be people in their mid 20s through late 30s who are going to see these films anyway. 13 year olds are like "Freddy who?" and "Wait a minute, the Predators are aliens too, right?"
Freddy Vs. Jason went for the R rating and made for a more enjoyable film IMHO.
AVP went for the PG-13 and wasn't as good as it could have been.
LK
I'm not a hardware pro, but is this basically the same as having two seperate chips, or am I missing the point here?
Pretty much the same thing as having two processors, but once things are running at proper capacity, it will be cheaper to put two cores on one chip. In part because you won't have to reproduce the underlying electronics. The motherboards will also be cheaper. One socket means less money spent on R&D. If and when someone releases a dual socket/quad core motherboard it will be cheaper to design and build than a quad socket board.
LK
I hate to disillusion you, but if an unfiltered viewing of moblogs are any indication, there are many, many adult men out there who think that showing boner pictures to women is the pinnacle of sophistication...
Some women actually req boner pics, but you just ain't s'posed to send them out to anyone who asks.
LK
SCO won't exist.
LK
Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
The problem is that kids don't have the same amount of life experience. Sure, it stands to reason to most of us here that it would be a bad idea to take a picture of your boner with a camera phone and send it to a couple of girls that you know. I did a lot of dumb shit when I was 14. I wasn't dumb enough to send naked pictures of myself to anyone, but people still laugh at a couple of the idiotic things that I did 15 years ago.
This life experience causes me to be even more careful about the dumb shit that I consider doing today.
LK
Put an electromagnet in it and it's a cancer causer.
LK
has anyone here tried to establish a dialup connection over VOIP?
Like those people who run emulators within emulators within emulators, something like this would have a pretty high geek-chic factor.
LK
linus: what are you rebeling against?
tux: whadda ya got?
Linus:Rebelliousness
tux:Ummm, ok. Let's get back to work then.
LK
Of course he didn't read it, how else was he supposed to make the FP?
LK
While it had a few bits of eye candy, it had no extended functionality over any of the other options at the time.
It didn't make the 486 that I first ran linux on cry like some other WMs at the time.
LK
Hans, thank you. Thank you for all of the hard work and dedication to giving OSS/Free Software a better filesystem.
You are "one bad motherfucker". Keep up the good work. Are there any plans to bring Reiser4 to the 2.4.* kernel?
LK
2: the Mexican shop could give a rats ass about US OR Mexican copyright law, whereas the local Kinko's might be more fussy.
It's not the Mexican shop's job to care about US copyright law.
I don't give a shit about Mexican copyright law. Why should they care about ours?
LK
It is wrong to copy textbooks....I'm not going to condone it...
The RIAA and MPAA have time and time again told us that it isn't about right and wrong, it's about the law. In a place where it's not illegal to photocopy a text book, there is no legal dilemma. Why bring ethics into it?
LK
Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect.
Gmail didn't come out yet. It's still a preview release.
LK
And how exactly do you prevent somebody from building their own 'rental' library for all of this transferrable content?
Isn't this what Blockbuster, Hollywood and Netflix are doing right now? Buy one copy of a movie and rent it hundreds or thousands of time for a profit?
LK
Actually, nuclear bombs in general, and hydrogen bombs in particular, are not much of a risk for accidental detonation.
What if Muhammad Atta or Tim McVeigh had been able to locate this bomb. Accidental detonation is of the least concern. We have the potential for Uranium and Plutonium to find their way into the water just a few miles from the coast.
I'm no greenie, but I'd prefer not to have to check the catch of the day with a geiger counter before I eat it.
LK
I mean seriously, Law Enforcement is now fucking with rich old white guys just like they have the minority community forever.
All of the minorities who were singled out of unnecessary attention in previous years are now ignored. People are pretending like it never happened. All of a sudden a few rich old white guys get bothered by the same treatment that minorites have come to expect and it's time to raise hell?
LK
Yes, some of them will be pretty much useless after all of the time, but others will be more unstable.
Something called "Composition A" is RDX mixed with melted wax. That stuff will keep for a LONG time, since no water is going to penetrate the wax.
RDX has been used as an explosive since the 1920s. It's some powerful stuff.
Remember Saving Private Ryan? Remember the "sticky bombs"? That was Composition A. You can blow the treads off of a tank with a sock full of the stuff. Imagine what a boatload of it will do.
We're not talking small quantities of these explosives either, we're talking about a military transport ship.
That could be dangerous, but nothing compared to the Lost Hydrogen Bomb that is sitting in the atlantic just off the coast of the US.
War is nasty business.
LK
An ordinance is a law. Ordnance refers to ammunition.
LK
I'm still holding out for the Indrema linux based console!
Just kidding.
LK
Are you sure that there wasn't a Pyramid inside of one?
LK
Not exactly, it was carried atop a regular airplay at several hundred miles per hour, then the rocket booster kicked it up to the cruising altitude and THEN the scramjet engine was engaged for the 10 second burn.
It's damned impressive but it's not like it accellerated to 5000 mph from a standstill.
LK
Why do we need to go mach 15 anyway?
Imagine how much lower FedEx and UPS delivery times will be.
Get that Moon Rock that you bought on Ebay in 3 hours or less.
Imagine how many spouses will get caught cheating. Call home to NYC from LA and 30 minutes later come walking in the door.
The possibilities are endless.
LK
I have 3 such examples under my desk at the moment.
LK