"How do you do that, while dancing aroud the stage, without missing a few notes?"
Singers have been doing it for centuries, with much greater musical sophistication than most popular music calls for and enough vocal power to fill huge halls without amplification, in an art form called "opera".
These days Newfies tend to refer to the rest of Canada as "the mainland" or "off the rock". Older Newfies -- who grew up before 1949, when Newfoundland joined Confederation, do indeed call it "Canada", though.
What lack of shadow? His shadow runs from his right foot to the lower left edge of the photo. The shadow does not touch his left foot because that foot is raised off the ground, but you can see the shadow of his left foot just below and too the left of the foot.
There is a shadow of some out-of-shot pole that comes across the image under the kid's right foot. The shadow of his right leg parallels that pole shadow for a short distance, to the end of the pole shadow. Slightly to the left of that, the shadow of the kid's left leg joins the right leg shadow, and the shadow of his body continus to the edge of the photo.
The dark aura around his torso seems to be the result of smudging out dark details on the underside of the tank with lighter grey.
Jackson is, indeed, a huge Kong fan. The star piece in his private collection of movie memorabilia is the last remaining Willis O'Brien Kong model that still has its original rabbit fur. This was the figure that actually fell from the Empire State Building model in the film.
On top of that, he's a huge Harryhausen fan, with a huge amount of respect for the classic adventure movies of that sort. He could do an excellent job.
No mystery there. You'll notice that all of the "disappearing" crosshairs go behind bright white objects. As it happens, when film is exposed the bright areas tend to "bloom" and bleed into neighbouring dark areas. So what happens when a thin black line goes through a bright white area? The bloom washes over the black line entirely and it disappears.
Coca Cola currently sells Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Coke, Barq's, Citra, Coke II, Dasani, Mello Yello, Minute Maid, Sprite, Fanta, Fresca, Fruitopia, Hi-C, Manzana Mia, Minute Maid Juices, Minute Maid Sodas, Mr.Pibb Nestea, Powerade, Simply Orange, Spirte, Surge, and TaB in North America. There are other products they sell overseas which you don't see here, as well.
Coca Cola had more than one product since 1946, when they introduced Minute Maid.
Where in SF are there electric street cars? I know the cable cars, but those are cable cars -- they're pulled by large cables under the road (visit the Cable Car Museum to see where the cables are powered from). They certainly aren't trolleys.
Beta shouldn't be on the list, because it's still used extensively. Any professional video shop uses Beta internally, since VHS does not have full NTSC resolution. Beta isn't dead -- it's just not a consumer product anymore.
Certainly not abandoned. Much of the equipment
left kept right on working after the astronauts
left, and some, such as the laser reflectors, is
still in use.
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This isn't about individual films being serious, but about the medium itself being taken seriously. The Japanese treat animation as another medium capable of doing anything that live action can do, and more -- Hollywood treats it as a vehicle for children's films only.
Not quite: if you define "piracy" as "undermining theatrical ticket sales by selling video copies when the film industry doesn't want you to" -- which is how the MPAA thinks of it. In their mind, no copy of a film should be legal on video until after the local theatrical release: zoning is their way of enforcing that.
Region codes are, at least in part, the result of the film industry practise of releasing films much later overseas than in North America. Very often, a film won't arrive in theatres in Europe until it's already gone to video in the US. If someone could then sell US videos in Europe, this would undercut the theatrical revenue from the films, since a portion of the potential audience would have seen the films on video.
Tape didn't create much of a problem since the standards conflicts between NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. The film industry was threatened by the idea that there could be one format usable all over the world at the same time, and insisted on the regional codes to allow them to continue with their practise of releasing films later overseas.
Of course, the zoning practise has been seriously undermined by peopel buying Zone 1 DVD players over the 'net.
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There are no stars in the sky in any picture which includes the lunar surface simply because the lunar surface is so bright, and stars are so dim. If you openned up the camera enough to register the stars, the lunar surface would be horrendously overexposed. By stepping down enough that the surface is not overexposed, the stars end up not registering.
Same thing with eyes, BTW: to see the stars, your eyes have to be significantly dark-adapted, and the bright lunar surface spoils that. During a lunar night, you should be find, however.
BTW, this also has to do with that other conspiracy favourite, the fact that shadows on the Moon aren't 100% black. They are slightly lit up by light reflected off the bright lunar surface.
If it's happening more often, the most likely reason is with a much larger volume of back-stories in/.'s history now than there was two years ago, it's that much easier to repeat a story. When you've only publishes a couple of hundred, it's easy to remember what's gone before: when you've reached several thousand, it's a little tougher.
Actually, I use IM without being an AOL customer. I have friends who are AOL customers I use it to chat with. I actually like the software better than the ICQ software: ICQ makes you click to see your message, click to open an in put window, type your reply, then click to send it -- two windows, and back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. AOL's does everything in one window without having to go back to the mouse often. ICQ doesn't have the problem either, of course.
Sorry, I gave the wrong URL at the Snopes Urban Legends site. The page for the email tax hoax seems to be offline at the moment.
The details: the original Canadian message claimed that a non-existant Toronto Star editorial sang the praises of a non-existant government Bill (bearing an incorrect Bill ID number) to tax email, which was being fought by a non-existant lawyer at a non-existant firm at a non-existant address in Toronto.
The US version of the message simply changed the Toronto Star to the Washington Post, the Canadian Government to the US Government, and the law office address (but not name) to an American address.
This is an old hoax. It started in Canada a few months back, and then moved to the US with barely a change to the text. You can find it at the Urban Legends web site at http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/internet.htm
There was a good article on the Goons in last Thursday's Toronto Star's technology section. The author says in a followup this week that he's never had so much response to any of his articles.
The Goon Show is broadcast on CJRT on Tuesday evenings in Toronto.
If you're interested, visit my Goon Show Scripts website at http://www.residents.com/Goons/
Preventing a few million folks from seeing the episode to spare the feelings of a few dozen is overkill. No-one is *required* to tune into it -- everyone affected by Columbine has the option to leave their TV sets turned off.
My SO & I were waiting for Rogers @Home cable modem service in Toronto, and getting more and more tired of it being put off in our area. When the January storm hit and we wanted to work from home, we decided that this was the time to press the issue -- to find that cable modem service had been pushed back *two* months yet again. So we opted for Bell Sympatico HSE (High Speed Edition).
We had only one problem with install: their switch was full and we had to wait an extra week for them to get a new card in to handle more connections. Other than that, it went in fine.
We've had one problem with service, too: HSE was down for five days at exactly the wrong time (The Residents did their first ever live videocast of one of their performances -- I do their website, I should have been watching). Aside from that, it's been wonderful.
We run three boxes with IP masq on a Linux server, and I have various services on my box (though not open to the public). Bell's attitude is, "We don't care -- just don't expect us to support it", which is fine with me. We do have to put up with DHCP and changing IPs, but it's not a big problem -- I just have my box email me whenever things change.
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"How do you do that, while dancing aroud the stage, without missing a few notes?"
Singers have been doing it for centuries, with much greater musical sophistication than most popular music calls for and enough vocal power to fill huge halls without amplification, in an art form called "opera".
These days Newfies tend to refer to the rest of Canada as "the mainland" or "off the rock". Older Newfies -- who grew up before 1949, when Newfoundland joined Confederation, do indeed call it "Canada", though.
What lack of shadow? His shadow runs from his right foot to the lower left edge of the photo. The shadow does not touch his left foot because that foot is raised off the ground, but you can see the shadow of his left foot just below and too the left of the foot.
There is a shadow of some out-of-shot pole that comes across the image under the kid's right foot. The shadow of his right leg parallels that pole shadow for a short distance, to the end of the pole shadow. Slightly to the left of that, the shadow of the kid's left leg joins the right leg shadow, and the shadow of his body continus to the edge of the photo.
The dark aura around his torso seems to be the result of smudging out dark details on the underside of the tank with lighter grey.
Jackson is, indeed, a huge Kong fan. The star piece in his private collection of movie memorabilia is the last remaining Willis O'Brien Kong model that still has its original rabbit fur. This was the figure that actually fell from the Empire State Building model in the film.
On top of that, he's a huge Harryhausen fan, with a huge amount of respect for the classic adventure movies of that sort. He could do an excellent job.
No mystery there. You'll notice that all of the "disappearing" crosshairs go behind bright white objects. As it happens, when film is exposed the bright areas tend to "bloom" and bleed into neighbouring dark areas. So what happens when a thin black line goes through a bright white area? The bloom washes over the black line entirely and it disappears.
Coca Cola currently sells Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Coke, Barq's, Citra, Coke II, Dasani, Mello Yello, Minute Maid, Sprite, Fanta, Fresca, Fruitopia, Hi-C, Manzana Mia, Minute Maid Juices, Minute Maid Sodas, Mr.Pibb Nestea, Powerade, Simply Orange, Spirte, Surge, and TaB in North America. There are other products they sell overseas which you don't see here, as well.
Coca Cola had more than one product since 1946, when they introduced Minute Maid.
Where in SF are there electric street cars? I know the cable cars, but those are cable cars -- they're pulled by large cables under the road (visit the Cable Car Museum to see where the cables are powered from). They certainly aren't trolleys.
Beta shouldn't be on the list, because it's still used extensively. Any professional video shop uses Beta internally, since VHS does not have full NTSC resolution. Beta isn't dead -- it's just not a consumer product anymore.
Other way around. C sharp == D flat.
Certainly not abandoned. Much of the equipment
left kept right on working after the astronauts
left, and some, such as the laser reflectors, is
still in use.
This isn't about individual films being serious, but about the medium itself being taken seriously. The Japanese treat animation as another medium capable of doing anything that live action can do, and more -- Hollywood treats it as a vehicle for children's films only.
You're mis-reading the document. The rate is
not 60%. The highest tax rate in Canada is around
40%.
Sorry, the "Martial Law" sign story is just another urban legend. See http://www.snopes.com/spoons/legends/martial.htm for details.
It was in his latest Dilbert Newsletter, so if he's "not mentioning it", he's doing a really bad job of it.
Not quite: if you define "piracy" as "undermining theatrical ticket sales by selling video copies when the film industry doesn't want you to" -- which is how the MPAA thinks of it. In their mind, no copy of a film should be legal on video until after the local theatrical release: zoning is their way of enforcing that.
Not to say it's a good idea, of course.
...sort of -- though probably not how you think.
Region codes are, at least in part, the result of the film industry practise of releasing films much later overseas than in North America. Very often, a film won't arrive in theatres in Europe until it's already gone to video in the US. If someone could then sell US videos in Europe, this would undercut the theatrical revenue from the films, since a portion of the potential audience would have seen the films on video.
Tape didn't create much of a problem since the standards conflicts between NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. The film industry was threatened by the idea that there could be one format usable all over the world at the same time, and insisted on the regional codes to allow them to continue with their practise of releasing films later overseas.
Of course, the zoning practise has been seriously undermined by peopel buying Zone 1 DVD players over the 'net.
There are no stars in the sky in any picture which includes the lunar surface simply because the lunar surface is so bright, and stars are so dim.
If you openned up the camera enough to register the stars, the lunar surface would be horrendously overexposed. By stepping down enough that the surface is not overexposed, the stars end up not registering.
Same thing with eyes, BTW: to see the stars, your eyes have to be significantly dark-adapted, and the bright lunar surface spoils that. During a lunar night, you should be find, however.
BTW, this also has to do with that other conspiracy favourite, the fact that shadows on the Moon aren't 100% black. They are slightly lit up by light reflected off the bright lunar surface.
If it's happening more often, the most likely reason is with a much larger volume of back-stories in /.'s history now than there was two years ago, it's that much easier to repeat a story. When you've only publishes a couple of hundred, it's easy to remember what's gone before: when you've reached several thousand, it's a little tougher.
Actually, I use IM without being an AOL customer. I have friends who are AOL customers I use it to chat with. I actually like the software better than the ICQ software: ICQ makes you click to see your message, click to open an in put window, type your reply, then click to send it -- two windows, and back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. AOL's does everything in one window without having to go back to the mouse often. ICQ doesn't have the problem either, of course.
Sorry, I gave the wrong URL at the Snopes Urban Legends site. The page for the email tax hoax seems to be offline at the moment.
The details: the original Canadian message claimed that a non-existant Toronto Star editorial sang the praises of a non-existant government Bill (bearing an incorrect Bill ID number) to tax email, which was being fought by a non-existant lawyer at a non-existant firm at a non-existant address in Toronto.
The US version of the message simply changed the Toronto Star to the Washington Post, the Canadian Government to the US Government, and the law office address (but not name) to an American address.
This is an old hoax. It started in Canada a few months back, and then moved to the US with barely a change to the text. You can find it at the Urban Legends web site at http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/internet.htm
Please stop perpetuating this stupid spam.
Long live the Goons!
There was a good article on the Goons in last Thursday's Toronto Star's technology section. The author says in a followup this week that he's never had so much response to any of his articles.
The Goon Show is broadcast on CJRT on Tuesday evenings in Toronto.
If you're interested, visit my Goon Show Scripts website at http://www.residents.com/Goons/
Al has outlasted most of the bands he's parodied. I think he qualifies for "Icon" status. :)
Preventing a few million folks from seeing the episode to spare the feelings of a few dozen is overkill. No-one is *required* to tune into it -- everyone affected by Columbine has the option to leave their TV sets turned off.
My SO & I were waiting for Rogers @Home cable modem service in Toronto, and getting more and more tired of it being put off in our area. When the January storm hit and we wanted to work from home, we decided that this was the time to press the issue -- to find that cable modem service had been pushed back *two* months yet again. So we opted for Bell Sympatico HSE (High Speed Edition).
We had only one problem with install: their switch was full and we had to wait an extra week for them to get a new card in to handle more connections. Other than that, it went in fine.
We've had one problem with service, too: HSE was down for five days at exactly the wrong time (The Residents did their first ever live videocast of one of their performances -- I do their website, I should have been watching). Aside from that, it's been wonderful.
We run three boxes with IP masq on a Linux server, and I have various services on my box (though not open to the public). Bell's attitude is, "We don't care -- just don't expect us to support it", which is fine with me. We do have to put up with DHCP and changing IPs, but it's not a big problem -- I just have my box email me whenever things change.