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  1. Re:A general plea for sanity on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    wrong.

    Other people are allowed to have informed opinions that differ from yours and that's fine.

  2. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    What are we going to do now? the same thing you should have been doing, reading the book to your kids.

  3. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, becasue that would ahve been the whole movie~

    It's suppose to be a tie ti breath after a lot of action and tension in morder.
    So, film wise they should have been sealed in the barrels, plopped into the river, a couple of shouting elves, and then off a small water fall into the river.
    10 seconds off the dwarf's complaining.
    Next seen, getting picked up.

  4. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    I disagree. It could easily be three good 90 minute movies. As opposed to the nonsensical turds that actually are. well the first 2. Since I love the work, I continue to hold out hope that the last one will be good.

  5. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    In the book the Barrel scene is very important. It's the moment all the Dwarves go from not really trusting him yet, to completely trusting them.

    He seals them in the barrels so they are water tight.

  6. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't reasonable to include it.
    If when wanted to to : "Middle Earth - An adventurers guide", that would have been fine. The inclusion of the work in The Hobbit breaks story.

  7. Re:No perfect LOTR movie on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    That move was so bad, I want to dig up JRR and apologies for it on Bakshi's behalf.

  8. Re:The Hobbit didn't take the material seriously on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    "It's fantasy with wizards, elves and dragons, and you're talking about suspension of disbelief?"
    yes. Because it goes outside the contest of the film. THAT is what suspension of disbelief is. You set expectation and context. When you break that you break the suspension of disbelief.
    It doesn't matter if its LotR, 2001, or Die Hard.

    " Anything goes, "
    No, it doesn't.

    SPOILER!!!!!!

    The evil in LotR is immortal. It's never killed. There's kind of a point there.

  10. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Run time isn't a fair comparison.

    A good version could do 90 minutes JUST on Mirkwood. It could be an Alien like suspense thriller.
    So I would have likes to see:
    1) outsider / buddy film - up to Mirkwood.
    2) suspense thriller - Mirkwood
    3) suspense/action - The dragon and 5 armies

  11. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    It had more then one director.
    http://goo.gl/SmqcDs

  12. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Well, it's put together poorly. We're in a field, we're in a forest, now a field, back to the forest!
    Lets run around in circles while the Orcs run around us in circles for no apparent reason.
    Radgast? Bird poop?

    It's LESS of a person story then the book.
    There should be no material from the Silimarian.

    Dwarves were made as comic relief.
    It was about Thorin more then Bilbo.

    And I could go on about the nonsense story changes that added nothing. Remember, when you add cow poop to chocolate, you do not get better chocolate.

  13. Re:That has to be the most garbled summary.... on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    The movies were written for a Dora the Explorer level child, as opposed to children who new people dying in war, other children dying from diseases, etc.

    I've always disagreed with it being called a children's book. The fact that he wrote it for his children does not make it a children book. There was no age 8-13 category of books in 1937.

  14. Re:What partisan wrote this? on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 2

    No. the difference between 93 and 95 percent is irrelevant. This isn't someone getting 80% and someone else getting 95%.

    You're looking hard for an issue that isn't hear. I was in SAC. You, OTOH, should probably read my sig.

  15. Re:Sample Question on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll let you in on a secret.
    Just having the code stopped the problem they created the code to fix. Since it fixed the problem, it makes sense for it to be an easy number. I suspect the rpesident will be under a little stress if he had to actually use it, so you want to minimize mistakes.

    The security guy makes a classic security review mistake. Ignoring why and the practicality and the impact.

    So that actual number is irrelevant, and no, you don't punch the code and then missiles launch.

  16. Re:Good luck with that. on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    You should probably read that a little closer. In fact, read this:
    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/p...

    See, it doesn't apply here because the express intent of the device n the car is to record music.

    However, this part may apply:
    "Because no additional copies can be made from the Rio, the Rio makes less copies than the SCMS would permit."
    Can you copy music from the Cars device? If not, they got nothing. If you can, then you may have an issue.

  17. Re:It's not fair on Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle · · Score: 0

    "You speak as though insanity isn't a predictable outcome of decades of speed use and abuse."
    It isn't, and his speed abuse in no way caused his schizophrenia.

  18. Re:Wrong way to end on Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle · · Score: 1

    Yet the alternative history in the new Wallenstein games is awesome.

  19. Re:Considering his history... on Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle · · Score: 1

    He's never done a western.
    Post Civil war in space? yes.

  20. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    Much of the hardware design is done by apple. Don't confuse using off the shelf components with using off the shelf design.

  21. Re: $7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    "since it is the primary cause of RSI. "
    False.

  22. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 0

    Don't replay to AC that are using an anecdote. You're better then that ;)

  23. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 2

    Apples server hardware is horrible. This isn't a secret. They've never been able to do it well, it has never been their primary focus. i.e. core compeanct.

    They have finally come to grips with that and partnered with IBM.

  24. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't.
    I actual priced this out. Lock at the new 6 core maC. 4 grand for 6 cores and 16GB of Ram? crazy. If I bump up the specs to be a useful animation/artist box it was over 12,000 dollars. Obscene. Maybe with the IBM partnering they will get real servers at a reasonable price running OSX

  25. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    Couple of these plus tax:
    http://store.apple.com/us_smb_...