I have an automatic '06 Toyota Matrix. At least 5 times now, while stopped at a red light and my foot was on the brake pedal, the engine RPMS shot up suddenly and the engine was roaring like I was getting ready to start a street race. Each time the car wanted to surge forward, and each time I stood on the brakes and threw the gear-shift into neutral. I could never reproduce it and the dealership could offer no explanation nor did they have any interest in looking into it. The floor mat was definitely not a participant in these very disconcerting incidents.
...click on Ron Perlman's name at IMDB.com. He's in a crap-load of current and planned productions, including "Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires", the sequel to "Bubba Ho-tep". He plays Elvis.
If Ron Perlman gets cast in this movie, I'm gunna fucking scream. If he gets cast as anyone but a PREVIOUSLY-TURNED-TO-STONE TROLL, I'm gunna start fuckin' shootin' people...
I'll have to strongly disagree with you. Completely. I've read the Hobbit and LOTR 4 times in the past 35 years (the first when I was 8), and I've seen the movies, oh, I dunno, 12-16 times each now. My wife and I make watching them an annual marathon over the Christmas holidays. We watch the Extended versions just to get as much of that Peter Jackson/ J.R.R. Tolkien goodness as we can!;-)
I would not describe the books as long-winded at all. The world that Tolkien created was incredibly detailed and alive, and his writing captured his intent with an attention to detail and style very rarely seen in the genre since. As for your description of the movies? Did we watch the same movies? To each their own I guess. I can't stand opera yet I know people who go all misty-eyed at some unlistenable (to me) aria. Regarding "Star Wars", I enjoyed the original trilogy as a kid (well, the first two movies at least. Hated the Ewoks), but they haven't stood up over time, at least for me. The first one is still a fun watch.
Whatever. More often than not people throughout history converted because the church was the biggest employer, controlled whatever education was available, and had a really nasty enforcement arm. Religions are merely cults that managed to last a long time. I've also read the Koran and the Bible and felt no overpowering rush to convert - quite the opposite actually. I heartily agree with Richard Dawkins' analysis of religions and share his contempt for them. He summed up the "god" of the Old Testament succinctly:
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
I recommend his book "The God Delusion", Ibn Waraq's "Why I am not a Muslim", and Christopher Hitchen's "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" if you're interested in clear and reasoned analysis of just why religion/cults are dangerous hypocritical bullshit organizations.
I'm Running Firefox on the Windows 7 RC, and v 1.1 of the Microsoft.NET Framework Assistant has the "Uninstall" button enabled. Looks like this was an old-news thing that's been fixed.
The vast majority of XP games run just fine in Vista and so therefore run just fine in W7. The compatibility must be for certain apps that cannot run in Vista/W7. for instance, I'm running Vista 64 and an older astronomy application won't run in my version because it has some older 16-bit code in it. There's no backward compatibility for 16-bit, only 32. I have to run XP virtualized using VirtualBox to run it. Same with an avi->dvd conversion app. On the other hand Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: World at War run just fine in my Vista set up (Server 2008 Enterprise configured as a workstation).
"They COULD be PCs, but they are not. They're not even close. They're strictly limited in format support and functioanlity. They're designed to deliver you content with microsoft and sony's approval"
YellowDog Linux runs just fine on My PS3. Sony even helpfully has a built-in feature to let you install and run other OS's. Surfing the web, reading PDF's, watching video content, printing, listening to music is quite nice on my PS3 and large LCD TV. (shrugs)
Obviously you don't download much content via BitTorrent. There are many BBC shows that I can't get on North American TV e.g. Richard Dawkins' specials on Darwin, evolution, and atheism; BBC's "Horizon" series (like PBS' "NOVA", some shows shared), sir Patrick Moore's "The Sky at Night" etc. Also many NOVA shows that I missed. I now have a large collection ready on demand to watch, no digging for a DVD. My wife copies her movie and hobby-related DVD's to the server. Again, no fumbling for disks. Concert films? Dozens. All high quality and ready to watch on a moment's whim. We also have satellite TV and a PVR, but even with 100's of channels, we may watch 3 or 4 at most, and even then not so much. On-demand what we want, when we want it is the ticket, and having them on the media server is the vehicle. Have torrents, will travel to the couch to watch.
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I have an automatic '06 Toyota Matrix. At least 5 times now, while stopped at a red light and my foot was on the brake pedal, the engine RPMS shot up suddenly and the engine was roaring like I was getting ready to start a street race. Each time the car wanted to surge forward, and each time I stood on the brakes and threw the gear-shift into neutral. I could never reproduce it and the dealership could offer no explanation nor did they have any interest in looking into it. The floor mat was definitely not a participant in these very disconcerting incidents.
...click on Ron Perlman's name at IMDB.com. He's in a crap-load of current and planned productions, including "Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires", the sequel to "Bubba Ho-tep". He plays Elvis.
Whoa. Sorry. Kinda lost it there for a moment.
I'm much better now.
Let me rephrase.
If Ron Perlman gets cast in this movie, I'm gunna fucking scream. If he gets cast as anyone but a PREVIOUSLY-TURNED-TO-STONE TROLL, I'm gunna start fuckin' shootin' people...
Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ Ron Perlman rumoured to be in the movie...! Dare I say "Eeeeeek!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings and http://sponger.fr33webhost.com/BORR/index.htm
I'll have to strongly disagree with you. Completely. I've read the Hobbit and LOTR 4 times in the past 35 years (the first when I was 8), and I've seen the movies, oh, I dunno, 12-16 times each now. My wife and I make watching them an annual marathon over the Christmas holidays. We watch the Extended versions just to get as much of that Peter Jackson/ J.R.R. Tolkien goodness as we can! ;-)
I would not describe the books as long-winded at all. The world that Tolkien created was incredibly detailed and alive, and his writing captured his intent with an attention to detail and style very rarely seen in the genre since. As for your description of the movies? Did we watch the same movies? To each their own I guess. I can't stand opera yet I know people who go all misty-eyed at some unlistenable (to me) aria. Regarding "Star Wars", I enjoyed the original trilogy as a kid (well, the first two movies at least. Hated the Ewoks), but they haven't stood up over time, at least for me. The first one is still a fun watch.
Whatever. More often than not people throughout history converted because the church was the biggest employer, controlled whatever education was available, and had a really nasty enforcement arm. Religions are merely cults that managed to last a long time. I've also read the Koran and the Bible and felt no overpowering rush to convert - quite the opposite actually. I heartily agree with Richard Dawkins' analysis of religions and share his contempt for them. He summed up the "god" of the Old Testament succinctly: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." I recommend his book "The God Delusion", Ibn Waraq's "Why I am not a Muslim", and Christopher Hitchen's "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" if you're interested in clear and reasoned analysis of just why religion/cults are dangerous hypocritical bullshit organizations.
I'm Running Firefox on the Windows 7 RC, and v 1.1 of the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant has the "Uninstall" button enabled. Looks like this was an old-news thing that's been fixed.
The vast majority of XP games run just fine in Vista and so therefore run just fine in W7. The compatibility must be for certain apps that cannot run in Vista/W7. for instance, I'm running Vista 64 and an older astronomy application won't run in my version because it has some older 16-bit code in it. There's no backward compatibility for 16-bit, only 32. I have to run XP virtualized using VirtualBox to run it. Same with an avi->dvd conversion app. On the other hand Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: World at War run just fine in my Vista set up (Server 2008 Enterprise configured as a workstation).
"They COULD be PCs, but they are not. They're not even close. They're strictly limited in format support and functioanlity. They're designed to deliver you content with microsoft and sony's approval" YellowDog Linux runs just fine on My PS3. Sony even helpfully has a built-in feature to let you install and run other OS's. Surfing the web, reading PDF's, watching video content, printing, listening to music is quite nice on my PS3 and large LCD TV. (shrugs)
Obviously you don't download much content via BitTorrent. There are many BBC shows that I can't get on North American TV e.g. Richard Dawkins' specials on Darwin, evolution, and atheism; BBC's "Horizon" series (like PBS' "NOVA", some shows shared), sir Patrick Moore's "The Sky at Night" etc. Also many NOVA shows that I missed. I now have a large collection ready on demand to watch, no digging for a DVD. My wife copies her movie and hobby-related DVD's to the server. Again, no fumbling for disks. Concert films? Dozens. All high quality and ready to watch on a moment's whim. We also have satellite TV and a PVR, but even with 100's of channels, we may watch 3 or 4 at most, and even then not so much. On-demand what we want, when we want it is the ticket, and having them on the media server is the vehicle. Have torrents, will travel to the couch to watch.