Harvard physicist Gerald Gabrielse said: "Our long experience with these very difficult experiments warns that antihydrogen may not have really been produced."
Meanwhile scientists at CERN say "The yanks are just jealous because we beat them to it."
He's masterminded (failed) plot to assasinate George Bush Sr
Strangely enough I've just been listening to a Bill Hicks CD in which he says we (the US) should have assassinated Bush to send Saddam a signal "Don't fuck with us!".
The DVD's worth buying, as it does have a shitload of extras, some of which have never been seen before. The extras were put together by Kevin Davies - who worked on the animation in the TV series and can be seen in the end credits as 'Mouse Trainer' or 'Bath Superintendent', and is a good bloke.
Instead of stealing Disaster Area's ship, they steal a super-evolving species' war ship. The TV series most likely changed it because they couldn't find a ravenous bug-bladder beast of trall in time. Read the Book or listen to the radio series (IMO they are much better).
The reason that changed was because the Haggunennon sequence of the radio series (together with most of episodes 5 and 6 of the radio series) was written by John Lloyd who was called in to help out as Adams was too busy working on Doctor Who to complete the scripts in time. Adams took out all of John Lloyd's material when he wrote the book - which rather surprised Lloyd as he'd thought they were going to write the book together. Lloyd did write The Meaning Of Liff with Adams though.
Arthur Dent - This is going to be a tough call, but my gut says recycle Mr. Bean.
Oh my god NO!!!!!! Rowan Atkinson hasn't done anything good since the last series of Blackadder - and is totally wrong for the part of Arthur Dent...
Trillian - Tia Carerra. I know, it never said Trillian was asian, but my image of her was always this exotic, immigrant British. If not her, than Mariana Sirtis (sans Troi accent, thank you).
I seem to remember that in the book, Trillian is described as arabic-looking.
I'm sure the fellow who played Arthur in the TV series is too old by now, which is a shame.
Agreed - Simon Jones is a great guy, and at Douglas' memorial service he turned up with the dressing gown from the TV show, which he's kept all these years. Great bloke, and I hope he gets at least a cameo in the movie.
The most annoying detail about H2G2, from a screenwriting point of view, is that it was originally a radio series.
And also from an effects point of view. The whole thing about Zaphod having two heads and three arms was thrown in as a joke because you can do that on Radio. Zaphod's second head originally spoke French. At some point in the second radio series it's implied Zaphod has grown yet another arm...
Works well on radio. Needs good effects work on screen!
Ford - ehhh, I don't see Jeff Goldblum. He needs to sound British.
He's a zarking Betelgeusian, for Zarquon's sake.
Seem to remember at one time Goldblum was Adams' choice - but maybe he's too old now.
-you get an email about a vunerability
-drop to a console and type the following:
$su -
$service httpd stop
-then upgrade when you have the time.
really now, how hard is that?
And in the meantime, what do I do when our customers start screaming at us that they're unable to update their datafile or use their service with on-line data delivery, hmmm?
And your problem is? I suspect your problem is you're a fat bastard. Being a porker is not about race or creed, it's about eating too much. It's something you can do something about - you can exercise, you can eat less. On top of that, being a fat bastard IS BAD FOR YOU! So stop whining, fatty!
So now we know the name of the bastard who invented smilies. Bastard. Allows emotions to be conveyed in plain text, does it? People have been expressing emotions in plain text for millenia without any fucking colons and brackets tacked onto the end to show whether it's funny or not. Stupid bastard. So now we just need to know the bastard's address, so we can go round there and mete out some suitable Jay and Silent Bob style revenge on the bastard. Next we'll track down and get medieval on the arses of those sub-literate fucks who spell everything like Prince song titles.
Star Trek exists as a metaphor for what we are today, and for what we are not.
Gene Roddenberry's original pitch for Star Trek was "Wagon Train to the stars" (Wagon Train being the name of a popular Western TV series of the time).
It's not a metaphor - it doesn't have any meaning. It's just a TV show.
Could this possibly be the hypothetical "pendulium" swinging back against graphics-intensive gore fests? (don't get me wrong, I love UT and I'm eagerly awaiting UT 2003) Could we be returning to a time where near photo-realism and "twitch" game mechanics will be subsumed by games that graphics quality and instant gratification (even though there's nothing like the UT announcer saying "Godlike!") take a back seat to storyline and character development?
In a word. No.
Give me a good storyline, and character development, yes, but also give me bloody good graphics! When I look back at old games with their simplistic blocky graphics, I ask myself "What the hell did I ever see in these!"
I think it's really unfair that Nyarly has been modded to 'Troll' for stating a perfectly honest opinion. If I had the mod points I'd mod him back up to 'Insightful'
Once upon a time people would buy diaries - books of blank paper, in which to pour out their thoughts, woes, tributes to their cats, bad goth poetry (is there any other?) etc. They'd then put the diaries under the mattress or in a drawer, and probably forget about it after a few weeks. But now in this brave new world, people get blogs or livejournals, and witter pointlessly about things that nobody gives a fuck about but them. Tributes to their cat, goth poetry, brainless gibberish.
We have two linux web servers (one a backup of the other) running Apache 1.3.26. We've not upgraded to Apache 2.0 as basically what we have works and is pretty much bulletproof. As we don't currently have a spare server we could use for testing purposes, we're leaving it alone. Sometime, perhaps, but not right now. We do have one Windows machine also running Apache 1.3.26 - basically we needed a Windows web server for some web-based data drivers, and I really didn't want to use IIS for obvious reasons. (Basically, I think Microsoft would be doing themselves a favour by scrapping IIS and taking out a licence on Apache.) Does anyone know how well Apache 2 is in the Windows variant, as I heard it had significant improvements over 1.3.x so that might be worth upgrading.
And of course Slashdot is a perfectly fair, totally unbiased and absolutely accurate source of news reporting, and not a Microsoft-hating heap of trashy tittle-tattle and geeky wank fantasy at all. Oh dear me no.
Slashdot Mirror
Cracking cheese, Grommit. Tastes like Wensleydale...
Harvard physicist Gerald Gabrielse said: "Our long experience with these very difficult experiments warns that antihydrogen may not have really been produced."
Meanwhile scientists at CERN say "The yanks are just jealous because we beat them to it."
He's masterminded (failed) plot to assasinate George Bush Sr
Strangely enough I've just been listening to a Bill Hicks CD in which he says we (the US) should have assassinated Bush to send Saddam a signal "Don't fuck with us!".
Of course, it was funnier when he said it...
Fuck the US. Space does not belong to them. The Russians were there first, dammit!
The DVD's worth buying, as it does have a shitload of extras, some of which have never been seen before. The extras were put together by Kevin Davies - who worked on the animation in the TV series and can be seen in the end credits as 'Mouse Trainer' or 'Bath Superintendent', and is a good bloke.
Instead of stealing Disaster Area's ship, they steal a super-evolving species' war ship. The TV series most likely changed it because they couldn't find a ravenous bug-bladder beast of trall in time. Read the Book or listen to the radio series (IMO they are much better).
The reason that changed was because the Haggunennon sequence of the radio series (together with most of episodes 5 and 6 of the radio series) was written by John Lloyd who was called in to help out as Adams was too busy working on Doctor Who to complete the scripts in time.
Adams took out all of John Lloyd's material when he wrote the book - which rather surprised Lloyd as he'd thought they were going to write the book together. Lloyd did write The Meaning Of Liff with Adams though.
Arthur Dent - This is going to be a tough call, but my gut says recycle Mr. Bean.
Oh my god NO!!!!!! Rowan Atkinson hasn't done anything good since the last series of Blackadder - and is totally wrong for the part of Arthur Dent...
Trillian - Tia Carerra. I know, it never said Trillian was asian, but my image of her was always this exotic, immigrant British. If not her, than Mariana Sirtis (sans Troi accent, thank you).
I seem to remember that in the book, Trillian is described as arabic-looking.
I'm sure the fellow who played Arthur in the TV series is too old by now, which is a shame.
Agreed - Simon Jones is a great guy, and at Douglas' memorial service he turned up with the dressing gown from the TV show, which he's kept all these years. Great bloke, and I hope he gets at least a cameo in the movie.
The most annoying detail about H2G2, from a screenwriting point of view, is that it was originally a radio series.
And also from an effects point of view. The whole thing about Zaphod having two heads and three arms was thrown in as a joke because you can do that on Radio. Zaphod's second head originally spoke French. At some point in the second radio series it's implied Zaphod has grown yet another arm...
Works well on radio. Needs good effects work on screen!
Actually, the producer who thought 42 was an anticlimax was Ivan Reitman.
Ford - ehhh, I don't see Jeff Goldblum. He needs to sound British.
He's a zarking Betelgeusian, for Zarquon's sake. Seem to remember at one time Goldblum was Adams' choice - but maybe he's too old now.
Bloody hell, not that old base 13 chestnut.
Douglas Adams said many many times that he had never made a joke in base 13...
Maxis selling out to EA was a bad idea in the first place..
For the people at Maxis it probably beat the alternative...
Remember the time Tommy Hilfiger (ack spit) spammed every newsgroup on usenet?
I do.
Idiot!
And your problem is? I suspect your problem is you're a fat bastard. Being a porker is not about race or creed, it's about eating too much. It's something you can do something about - you can exercise, you can eat less.
On top of that, being a fat bastard IS BAD FOR YOU!
So stop whining, fatty!
So now we know the name of the bastard who invented smilies. Bastard. Allows emotions to be conveyed in plain text, does it? People have been expressing emotions in plain text for millenia without any fucking colons and brackets tacked onto the end to show whether it's funny or not.
Stupid bastard.
So now we just need to know the bastard's address, so we can go round there and mete out some suitable Jay and Silent Bob style revenge on the bastard.
Next we'll track down and get medieval on the arses of those sub-literate fucks who spell everything like Prince song titles.
Star Trek exists as a metaphor for what we are today, and for what we are not.
Gene Roddenberry's original pitch for Star Trek was "Wagon Train to the stars" (Wagon Train being the name of a popular Western TV series of the time).
It's not a metaphor - it doesn't have any meaning. It's just a TV show.
Damn it you beat me to it. Now I'll just grab my towel, some peanuts, drink a few beers and be on my way.
You might have trouble getting change from a fiver though!
Give me a good storyline, and character development, yes, but also give me bloody good graphics! When I look back at old games with their simplistic blocky graphics, I ask myself "What the hell did I ever see in these!"
I think it's really unfair that Nyarly has been modded to 'Troll' for stating a perfectly honest opinion. If I had the mod points I'd mod him back up to 'Insightful'
Enough retro throwbacks, already!
Once upon a time people would buy diaries - books of blank paper, in which to pour out their thoughts, woes, tributes to their cats, bad goth poetry (is there any other?) etc. They'd then put the diaries under the mattress or in a drawer, and probably forget about it after a few weeks.
But now in this brave new world, people get blogs or livejournals, and witter pointlessly about things that nobody gives a fuck about but them. Tributes to their cat, goth poetry, brainless gibberish.
It's a horrible waste of technology...!
We have two linux web servers (one a backup of the other) running Apache 1.3.26. We've not upgraded to Apache 2.0 as basically what we have works and is pretty much bulletproof. As we don't currently have a spare server we could use for testing purposes, we're leaving it alone. Sometime, perhaps, but not right now.
We do have one Windows machine also running Apache 1.3.26 - basically we needed a Windows web server for some web-based data drivers, and I really didn't want to use IIS for obvious reasons. (Basically, I think Microsoft would be doing themselves a favour by scrapping IIS and taking out a licence on Apache.)
Does anyone know how well Apache 2 is in the Windows variant, as I heard it had significant improvements over 1.3.x so that might be worth upgrading.
And of course Slashdot is a perfectly fair, totally unbiased and absolutely accurate source of news reporting, and not a Microsoft-hating heap of trashy tittle-tattle and geeky wank fantasy at all. Oh dear me no.
Yeah. I'd trust my life to a bunch of geeks with no clear design principles.