Oh, yeah, Tom Cruise. I didn't recognise him because he hadn't had his teeth fixed yet, and the general badness of the movie obscured his bad acting a bit.
It's really terrible. Let me count the ways: the scenery is bad, with constantly falling flower petals, radioactive ones if there's any justice. The plot was created by taking a selection of cliches and not throwing any out. Pointy-eared fairies? Check. Comic relief shorties? Check. Plot to make the sun go away and create eternal winter? Check. Evil bad guy with horns who falls in love with the chick who pretends to like him only so she can strike when he's vulnerable? Check. Tim Curry is, no doubt, very grateful that he was unrecogniseable in that outfit.
Also I'm pretty sure that the girl unicorn had some rather impressive tackle, not that I look out for these things.
I have a theory, and it's this: Ridley Scott has, in fact, no talent at all, least of all for visuals. Yes, we all loved Alien, but why? Because the actors were so good. They pretty much directed themselves, and after watching Legend, I would bet a large some of money that Ridley was locked in a box for most of the production.
Chris Boardman apparently produced around 440 watts during his hour record ride (riding around a velodrome for an hour and going as far as you can -- in Boardman's case, 56.375km, about 35 miles for the yanks).
So I imagine a top cyclist could generate 500 watts for a shorter time. But I am certainly not a sports physician (although I am a cyclist).
Results also show that for pilots tested in both vertical and recumbent positions, power output was very close. Recumbent position then is a benefit since it takes advantage of In Ground Effect (lower support structure).
Does it have a price point for mass adoption? It's heavier and slower than a bicycle, with less range and carrying capacity. I don't imagine that it will ever compete with a bicyle on price either.
At first I thought it was just old age (I'm 31), but then I found out that lots of teenage guys have problems with vertigo too.
Half Life gave me extreme vertigo, and I couldn't get much past the introduction (yes, the non-interactive movie bit). The consequence of that is that I have no idea what all the fuss is about.
I was on a flight from LA to Melbourne, sitting next to a Canadian woman, who most certainly said "aboot." Of course it's not exactly the same sound as, for example, "boot", but it's not far away.
Well, the difference is that one is a serious issue with a dark past, and the other is a computer preference.
I would feel quite comfortable writing any old thing about PC users, because it's not that important, despite what you read on Slashdot. But race and intelligence? Never.
Helium was first discovered via its spectrographic signature in the sunlight, and nobody really new what its propertes were, since it wasn't isolated on Earth for another thirty years or so. The name comes from the Greek helios meaning sun. The -ium is because they thought it was a metal.
You know, every time Real is mentioned on/. somebody will parrot this. It's such a cheap shot: you haven't said anything that hasn't been said a hundred times before, and in particular, it's hard to imagine how a GPL'd player could possibly install anything that you didn't want it to.
Nor can I imagine Red Hat suddenly changing into the kind of company that distributes malware.
Perhaps you could post a comment that actually relates to the story at hand, rather than recycling the same old junk from a hundred other comments.
(PS: ok, I can imagine how a GPL'd product could install bad stuff, but I can't imagine that it (the malware) would be around long enough to make it worth anybody's time to put in there)
(I'm also aware of Ken Thompsons ACM Award speech, which doesn't apply in the slightest)
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Oh, yeah, Tom Cruise. I didn't recognise him because he hadn't had his teeth fixed yet, and the general badness of the movie obscured his bad acting a bit.
I would bet a large some of money that Ridley was locked in a box for most of the production.
Of Alien, not Legend.
Sigh.
Also, that dance sequence was stupid, not to mention the fucking mirrors.
I enjoyed it, and it scared the crap out of me.
It's really terrible. Let me count the ways: the scenery is bad, with constantly falling flower petals, radioactive ones if there's any justice. The plot was created by taking a selection of cliches and not throwing any out. Pointy-eared fairies? Check. Comic relief shorties? Check. Plot to make the sun go away and create eternal winter? Check. Evil bad guy with horns who falls in love with the chick who pretends to like him only so she can strike when he's vulnerable? Check. Tim Curry is, no doubt, very grateful that he was unrecogniseable in that outfit.
Also I'm pretty sure that the girl unicorn had some rather impressive tackle, not that I look out for these things.
I have a theory, and it's this: Ridley Scott has, in fact, no talent at all, least of all for visuals. Yes, we all loved Alien, but why? Because the actors were so good. They pretty much directed themselves, and after watching Legend, I would bet a large some of money that Ridley was locked in a box for most of the production.
Chris Boardman apparently produced around 440 watts during his hour record ride (riding around a velodrome for an hour and going as far as you can -- in Boardman's case, 56.375km, about 35 miles for the yanks).
So I imagine a top cyclist could generate 500 watts for a shorter time. But I am certainly not a sports physician (although I am a cyclist).
Check http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/ for various versions of Elite you can download.
e -tnk/download.htm (windows binary, or source).
The reimplementation can still be downloaded from http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/elite/elit
If that goes away, googling should turn something up.
programmers who's native language isn't English.
English doesn't appear to be your native language either.
Does it have a price point for mass adoption? It's heavier and slower than a bicycle, with less range and carrying capacity. I don't imagine that it will ever compete with a bicyle on price either.
At first I thought it was just old age (I'm 31), but then I found out that lots of teenage guys have problems with vertigo too.
Half Life gave me extreme vertigo, and I couldn't get much past the introduction (yes, the non-interactive movie bit). The consequence of that is that I have no idea what all the fuss is about.
It would, of course, be even nicer if people stopped messing the Earth up.
Score: -1 (I already have a mother, thanks)
I was on a flight from LA to Melbourne, sitting next to a Canadian woman, who most certainly said "aboot." Of course it's not exactly the same sound as, for example, "boot", but it's not far away.
Well, the difference is that one is a serious issue with a dark past, and the other is a computer preference.
I would feel quite comfortable writing any old thing about PC users, because it's not that important, despite what you read on Slashdot. But race and intelligence? Never.
What, the one that starts with "...as long as you don't take any of it too seriously"?
I bet there are areas on earth shaped like a man's dingdong
Funny you should mention that. Euro coins have an map of the EU embossed on them.
There's a reason we wish Norway would join already.
I'm not sure why Helium is an exception to this
Helium was first discovered via its spectrographic signature in the sunlight, and nobody really new what its propertes were, since it wasn't isolated on Earth for another thirty years or so. The name comes from the Greek helios meaning sun. The -ium is because they thought it was a metal.
So there you go.
Allegedly? The main loop of the C64 Basic interpreter was self-modifying, and it was put into zero page for an extra speed boost.
When you go to the store, do you point at the shelves full of bread and cry "You're only putting the bread here because there's MONEY TO BE MADE!!!"
Because if you buy something, the capitalists have already won.
You got modded informative. I love this place.
You know, every time Real is mentioned on /. somebody will parrot this. It's such a cheap shot: you haven't said anything that hasn't been said a hundred times before, and in particular, it's hard to imagine how a GPL'd player could possibly install anything that you didn't want it to.
Nor can I imagine Red Hat suddenly changing into the kind of company that distributes malware.
Perhaps you could post a comment that actually relates to the story at hand, rather than recycling the same old junk from a hundred other comments.
(PS: ok, I can imagine how a GPL'd product could install bad stuff, but I can't imagine that it (the malware) would be around long enough to make it worth anybody's time to put in there)
(I'm also aware of Ken Thompsons ACM Award speech, which doesn't apply in the slightest)
(unfortunately in dutch)
Eikel.
I don't have a car, and I do ride a bike.
Your turn.
You appear to be rebutting the "SUVs get bad mileage" meme by redefining 22-27mpg as good mileage.
And if he wiped out humanity, that's a paradox! He would have to exist in order to go back and screw up the timeline.
A paradox? In a time travel movie? Say it ain't so!
This is something I will download and proudly announce to the world that I did so just to protest the butchering of the story.
Is it showing my age to yearn for the days when protestors actually had to make sacrifices?