Austin Powers was fabulous? Maybe you should go watch it again now that your fever has broken? I'm assuming that the fever induced delerium was the only thing that could actually make Autin Powers entertaining. None of the movies has ever been anything more than a predictable catch-phrase ridden stream of pointless toilet humor!
Transitioning from a book to the big screen is usually a difficult prospect. I for one, do not want some second-rate hack destroying this story held dear by millions of readers!
Blockbuster has indeed been renting edited versions of movies for years now. One notable example is the Blockbuster version of Hellraiser. They've also been known to edit the music CDs that some stores sell.
We've all heard about the enviromental problems that a PC can cause if it winds up in a landfill. CRT monitors are a particular problem because each monitor contains between seven and fiftten pounds of lead. But how does that relate to digital television or HDTV? Televisions contain just as much lead as CRT computer monitors. So what happens if televisions currently in service are suddenly outdated because they are incapable (baring dual-tuner systems, or converter boxes) of displaying a digital signal? What kind of enviromental impact would be caused by every household in the nation throwing out their analog televisions? Is the government (or someone) planning on instituting a recycling program, or are we just going to bury the analog era?
Shortly before I completed the Computer Science program at a western Wisconsin university, the main computer science lab was converted to Compaq PCs running Windows NT 4.0 (pre Win2k, XP days). The seniors, who had traditionally worked off of the CS departments two DEC Alphas, widely regarded this as a mistake. The Compaq hardware would commonly overheat and shut themselves down without warning, but jumping through "Windows hoops" was incrediably frustrating. Professors had to spend time resetting permissions and tweaking registry settings just so we could create a project in PowerBuilder. As the semester continued on, everyone in the class recieved several house calls from Doctor Watson, and I lost count of how many times the MS-SQL server died on us. I fully realize that some of the problems may have been due to mis-configuration, but it was still frustrating compared to the three previous years of (mostly:)) pain free computing on the UNIX systems.
However the thing that really made me shake my head was when I saw a work-around for a Java IDE scribbled along the side of one of the white boards. The next time I was talking to one of the professors, I asked him if all the freshmen students were using IDEs and he said yes. Then I asked him if the kids were even going to see a command line by the time they graduated. He sadly said, "Probably not..."
Sadly I'm forced to agree. It seems that the shows have become extremly formula driven. Right now the equation seems to go something like Homer + silly accident = family trying to bail him or themsevles out of the problem. I love the Simpson's to death, I watch them every night right after the local news. But I think the time may be approaching where we should bid the show farewell rather then watch it slide into depravity.
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Getting it near a magnet will screw up your players inhibition unit and cause it to play nothing but folk songs though.
Austin Powers was fabulous? Maybe you should go watch it again now that your fever has broken? I'm assuming that the fever induced delerium was the only thing that could actually make Autin Powers entertaining. None of the movies has ever been anything more than a predictable catch-phrase ridden stream of pointless toilet humor!
Transitioning from a book to the big screen is usually a difficult prospect. I for one, do not want some second-rate hack destroying this story held dear by millions of readers!
Blockbuster has indeed been renting edited versions of movies for years now. One notable example is the Blockbuster version of Hellraiser. They've also been known to edit the music CDs that some stores sell.
We've all heard about the enviromental problems that a PC can cause if it winds up in a landfill. CRT monitors are a particular problem because each monitor contains between seven and fiftten pounds of lead. But how does that relate to digital television or HDTV? Televisions contain just as much lead as CRT computer monitors. So what happens if televisions currently in service are suddenly outdated because they are incapable (baring dual-tuner systems, or converter boxes) of displaying a digital signal? What kind of enviromental impact would be caused by every household in the nation throwing out their analog televisions? Is the government (or someone) planning on instituting a recycling program, or are we just going to bury the analog era?
Shortly before I completed the Computer Science program at a western Wisconsin university, the main computer science lab was converted to Compaq PCs running Windows NT 4.0 (pre Win2k, XP days). The seniors, who had traditionally worked off of the CS departments two DEC Alphas, widely regarded this as a mistake. The Compaq hardware would commonly overheat and shut themselves down without warning, but jumping through "Windows hoops" was incrediably frustrating. Professors had to spend time resetting permissions and tweaking registry settings just so we could create a project in PowerBuilder. As the semester continued on, everyone in the class recieved several house calls from Doctor Watson, and I lost count of how many times the MS-SQL server died on us. I fully realize that some of the problems may have been due to mis-configuration, but it was still frustrating compared to the three previous years of (mostly :)) pain free computing on the UNIX systems.
However the thing that really made me shake my head was when I saw a work-around for a Java IDE scribbled along the side of one of the white boards. The next time I was talking to one of the professors, I asked him if all the freshmen students were using IDEs and he said yes. Then I asked him if the kids were even going to see a command line by the time they graduated. He sadly said, "Probably not..."
Sadly I'm forced to agree. It seems that the shows have become extremly formula driven. Right now the equation seems to go something like Homer + silly accident = family trying to bail him or themsevles out of the problem. I love the Simpson's to death, I watch them every night right after the local news. But I think the time may be approaching where we should bid the show farewell rather then watch it slide into depravity.