Re:Okay ... a few things that really bug me here .
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Can I see your invention?
Oh I'm sorry you dont have one?, I mistook your ranting for 'Don't give your money to things that might work but we wont know unless they're given money'.
Besides, how would you feel if you cut a project that was technologically advanced but your short-sightedness thought that it could never work and gave it to another country who then had a technological advantage? America is reknowned for doing such things.
Tv ruins your brain, mobiles give you cancer, junk food makes you fat, computer monitors ruin your eyes and now they say mp3s cause hearing loss.
Is there anything left that wont slowly kill or mame you over time? They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet.
Actually, that didnt have anything to do with it, there were two reasons why she refused to do the movie, one was that after looking at the script she wasnt happy that her character wasnt being taken in any new directions.
The other reason was that James Cameron was not directing, she didnt want to be involved in the project unless he was directing.
I guess the whole cheating thing is water under the bridge.
Okay, for the benefit of the people who havent really looked into this movie I'll provide the following information.
First off, I was quite interested in this movie so I found out if James Cameron was directing it, he is not... my interest dropped a fair bit.
Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it after looking at the script. Not a good sign.
I've looked at the storyline, and this sounds shockingly familiar to a fanscript I read back in '98. Although there are a couple of differences, the overall plot is exactly the same.
Perhaps *you* should have read the article a bit more, I never said it was in Lake Vostok, read a little further into the article and you would see:
DR SERBAN SARBU (Cave Biologist): We very soon realised that in fact this cave had never had an entrance, a natural entrance, was never opened to the surface and this artificial shaft that we descended was the only possible access into the system.
NARRATOR: It was like a bubble trapped in rock. Until it was broken into nothing from the surface had got into it, perhaps for millions of years. What they had found was a world as dark and isolated as Lake Vostok. To begin with they found nothing out of the ordinary, just a series of cramped tunnels. But when they arrived at a small pool there was a surprise in store for them.
SERBAN SARBU: The first surprise that I experienced was that we found a lot of animals present and when I say animals I think of spiders, centipedes, wood lice.
It's amazing how basic lifeforms can adapt and evolve to thier surroundings. There is also a small cave in the area around the arctic that scientists found that was esentially a bubble inside solid rock, it was found by accident.
It had inside it a small ecosystem with insect life that had evolved completely isolated from the outside world. None of the species had eyes because of the pitch black inside the bubble. Nor did they have any coloring at all, they were all translucent. Unfortunatly I only saw this on a documentry, but the transcript is online.
Do you think that where companies are being sued or forced into updating their webpages at great expense to include accessibility for the blind in their webpages when the blind could easily find another similar service offline is reasonable?
Our society needs an opposing side to compete or dislike, look at other things that are similar... football teams, car manufacturers, political systems, countries, religion... need I go on?
If everyone liked what everyone else did you really think we'd have much variety? It'd be darn boring eating the same food everyday and watching the same tv show every day.
I dont like him, he's doing nothing but damage to the net services in australia. The government is pushing to privitize the largest telecommunications company 'telstra', so what you might ask?
Well for regional centres the access to broadband is less than adequate and if it is pushed to be a private enterprise company then the new owners might not bother with the regional centres because of the cost involved.
In six years they never thought to have a backup/redundant system in place in case of a failure like this?
Even the best networks will come unglued sooner or later. It's surprising to see that most business' networks need prime operating conditions to function properly.
The reason for this can be put down to a couple of reasons.
First off, buying a dictaphone is still much cheaper than a PDA with software.
And secondly the whole voice/word recognition program market hasn't really accomplished any great leaps or bounds over the past five years, not to mention it's not popular in the mainstream yet.
As with all good ideas involving technology they hardly reach outside of the US, Japan or europe.
In Australia the X-Box is doing okay, still lagging behind the PS2 though. Such a service may never reach our shores, it's a shame because there would be a market here for it.
I guess it would depend if the market was big enough for Microsoft.
They had set delivery times. Could you imagine how many trucks and how big an operation they'd have to have to be able to service a city the size of Sydney?
I think you're underestimating what it would take to be able to provide a service that delivers within 2 - 3 hrs. First where I was living, it was an hour from the centre of the city by car (Depending on the Traffic), then there's the actual packing of the groceries, you think it would be cheap if they had to drive across the other side of the city just to deliver to one person? They'd have to deliver to a fair few people just to cover the cost of transporting the goods. On that alone would blow out the delivery time.
So there you go, a couple of days isnt long to wait.
I lived in Sydney, Australia, a couple of years ago. I tried a service called 'ShopFast'. It was the first time i'd used such a service, the main reason i was giving it a try was because i was too lazy to go and get groceries myself.
After ordering and waiting a couple of days, It was delivered and what impressed me was that I could pay by EFTPOS by use of a mobile EFTPOS terminal.
It was cheap, fast and I didnt have to go outside. Perfect for the geek that I am.
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Can I see your invention?
Oh I'm sorry you dont have one?, I mistook your ranting for 'Don't give your money to things that might work but we wont know unless they're given money'.
Besides, how would you feel if you cut a project that was technologically advanced but your short-sightedness thought that it could never work and gave it to another country who then had a technological advantage? America is reknowned for doing such things.
Tv ruins your brain, mobiles give you cancer, junk food makes you fat, computer monitors ruin your eyes and now they say mp3s cause hearing loss.
Is there anything left that wont slowly kill or mame you over time? They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet.
I could see the designers and programmers involved with 'Duke Nukem Forever' getting a life time achievement award.
;)
(providing it ever does get released
Actually, that didnt have anything to do with it, there were two reasons why she refused to do the movie, one was that after looking at the script she wasnt happy that her character wasnt being taken in any new directions.
The other reason was that James Cameron was not directing, she didnt want to be involved in the project unless he was directing.
I guess the whole cheating thing is water under the bridge.
Okay, for the benefit of the people who havent really looked into this movie I'll provide the following information.
First off, I was quite interested in this movie so I found out if James Cameron was directing it, he is not... my interest dropped a fair bit.
Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it after looking at the script. Not a good sign.
I've looked at the storyline, and this sounds shockingly familiar to a fanscript I read back in '98. Although there are a couple of differences, the overall plot is exactly the same.
DR SERBAN SARBU (Cave Biologist): We very soon realised that in fact this cave had never had an entrance, a natural entrance, was never opened to the surface and this artificial shaft that we descended was the only possible access into the system.
NARRATOR: It was like a bubble trapped in rock. Until it was broken into nothing from the surface had got into it, perhaps for millions of years. What they had found was a world as dark and isolated as Lake Vostok. To begin with they found nothing out of the ordinary, just a series of cramped tunnels. But when they arrived at a small pool there was a surprise in store for them.
SERBAN SARBU: The first surprise that I experienced was that we found a lot of animals present and when I say animals I think of spiders, centipedes, wood lice.
It wasnt in Vostok, it was in Romania.
It's amazing how basic lifeforms can adapt and evolve to thier surroundings. There is also a small cave in the area around the arctic that scientists found that was esentially a bubble inside solid rock, it was found by accident.
It had inside it a small ecosystem with insect life that had evolved completely isolated from the outside world. None of the species had eyes because of the pitch black inside the bubble. Nor did they have any coloring at all, they were all translucent. Unfortunatly I only saw this on a documentry, but the transcript is online.
Link is hereyou sicken me little troll.
nice example right here
Our society needs an opposing side to compete or dislike, look at other things that are similar... football teams, car manufacturers, political systems, countries, religion... need I go on?
If everyone liked what everyone else did you really think we'd have much variety? It'd be darn boring eating the same food everyday and watching the same tv show every day.
So is the robot gruff, look like a biker and makes fun of your tattoo choice as well as laugh when you scream?
Any prizes for beating the 86 hour mark for gaming?
;)
Can't let Korea hold that forever
I dont like him, he's doing nothing but damage to the net services in australia. The government is pushing to privitize the largest telecommunications company 'telstra', so what you might ask?
Well for regional centres the access to broadband is less than adequate and if it is pushed to be a private enterprise company then the new owners might not bother with the regional centres because of the cost involved.
In six years they never thought to have a backup/redundant system in place in case of a failure like this?
Even the best networks will come unglued sooner or later. It's surprising to see that most business' networks need prime operating conditions to function properly.
Shouldnt there be a 802.11b/wireless topic?
You show them the moon through the telescope, they'll say the telescope has been tampered with.
You show them pictures, they say they've been doctored and are fakes.
You show them footage, they say it was staged and point out supposed inconsistancies.
You take them to the moon and show them the lander, they say it was planted there.
There is no end to it, just dont even bother.
I wonder if Metallica will sign any of the memorabilia ;)
The reason for this can be put down to a couple of reasons.
First off, buying a dictaphone is still much cheaper than a PDA with software.
And secondly the whole voice/word recognition program market hasn't really accomplished any great leaps or bounds over the past five years, not to mention it's not popular in the mainstream yet.
I guess it'd be an improvement over strapping someone to a rocket then hoping they survived the landing so they could tell you about it.
As with all good ideas involving technology they hardly reach outside of the US, Japan or europe.
In Australia the X-Box is doing okay, still lagging behind the PS2 though. Such a service may never reach our shores, it's a shame because there would be a market here for it.
I guess it would depend if the market was big enough for Microsoft.
Sydney doesnt have a large a market to support such a system.
A company can't provide such a service when it doesnt have get the funds to cover the cost of providing it.
The internet shopping industry may be big in london, that isnt the case in sydney.
They had set delivery times. Could you imagine how many trucks and how big an operation they'd have to have to be able to service a city the size of Sydney?
I think you're underestimating what it would take to be able to provide a service that delivers within 2 - 3 hrs. First where I was living, it was an hour from the centre of the city by car (Depending on the Traffic), then there's the actual packing of the groceries, you think it would be cheap if they had to drive across the other side of the city just to deliver to one person? They'd have to deliver to a fair few people just to cover the cost of transporting the goods. On that alone would blow out the delivery time.
So there you go, a couple of days isnt long to wait.
I lived in Sydney, Australia, a couple of years ago. I tried a service called 'ShopFast'. It was the first time i'd used such a service, the main reason i was giving it a try was because i was too lazy to go and get groceries myself.
After ordering and waiting a couple of days, It was delivered and what impressed me was that I could pay by EFTPOS by use of a mobile EFTPOS terminal.
It was cheap, fast and I didnt have to go outside. Perfect for the geek that I am.
We can see wayun(?) die all over again.
Who needs kenny when you've got him.
Would slashdot be considered safe?
You dont have to go far on here to find a link for goatse.cx courtesy of the local troll population.