The original 2 sequels were absolute improvements on the preceding version. Even in Warcraft III where they not only added more content, but *removed* some annoying features that slowed down gameplay (like ship building). The Warcraft sequels were more like full-blown improvements than "sequels," but they've always been my benchmark on how to do it right.
I really like your observation here. It wasn't so bad in TRON as it was in a movie I watched tonight, Transporter 3. I think directors are going for frantic action, but it ends up looking incomprehensible. Someone commented on this on another post, but apparently this is the pervasive influence of music video direction.
But, 3D isn't a soundtrack. It's supposed to be a flashy enhancement to a movie. I don't want "subtle" 3D. I want it to feel like a different experience for the $7+/ticket I paid (just checked my stub).
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Ditto on the weak 3D presentation. I forgot I was watching a 3D movie at times. But, I haven't really been all that impressed with *any* of the 3D movies I've seen. Just a lame gimmick IMO to get $6/ticket out of me.
But, I loved Tron. Even my girlfriend who "can't remember if I've seen any Star Wars movies" liked it. Seriously, how the fuck do you not know if you've seen Star Wars?
Scott is just as capable of making crappy movies as George Lucas is of creating great movies. Artists are often hit and miss, *especially* in the movie industry.
Degrees from the best schools are a built-in form of elitism in our education system. The unwashed masses can't practically afford to go regardless of how smart you are. Those with money can get it and get the elite stamp of approval, which opens up all kinds of doors once they do get out into the workforce.
You are *VERY* wrong. This policy was a half-way marker. It essentially allowed gays to serve as long as they weren't officially vocal about it. The result was, gays were open with their colleagues, which imparted to members of the military what it was actually like to have gay service members; not just people you *think* are gay. DADT was a "technicallly no, practically go ahead and do it" policy. The end result is the military for the most part doesn't give a fuck. I'm pretty pissed at the rabid gay activists too short sighted to see what was being done for them.
By your math, my personal unfunded mandates are 200% of my "GDP". That's inflammatory math you're citing. And, debt isn't necessarily bad when you're propping up a country on the brink of a total financial breakdown. My problem is that too much of our stimulus spending was invested in trickle-down economic theory, not the infrastructure investments that paved the way to our economic dominance post -WWII.
You're assuming that whenever the rest of us suffers misfortune at the hand of another person, we want their entire demographic obliterated. Thankfully, not many people think like you.
You, Sir, need to get out of your basement and mingle with the average computer user more often. We've got billion dollar social networks based on airing your humilitation.
I just watched the documentary "Why we fight" based on Eisenhower's exit speech warning us about the Congressional Military Industrial Complex. One of his quotes was, paraphrasing, the pursuit of absolute security will bankrupt this country. It's just not achievable. Working over a guy's package just to get on a plane accomplishes nothing.
I recall a Pew poll from around the time of the Iraq invasion that I think asked about Saddam's involvement in 9/11 based on primary news source. NPR got 80%, CNN got 70%, and Fox News 25%.
I started watching MSNBC back when I first started following politics, about 10 years ago. Back then, it was a CNN clone (or what CNN was before they went infotainment). Straight reporting, single host format. Not much discernible bias. They had Phil Donahue's talk show who was quite left-leaning and the only guy on the news actually speaking out against the Iraq invasion. And, I don't mean the post-rationalizers like Chris Matthews, who by the way reveled in his Right-Centrism before Olbermann made being on the Left cool. Well, MSNBC didn't want to be seen as the anti-war channel since we all know that people who object to war are homosexual, Communist, cowards. So, they fired Phil Donahue who by then had their highest rated show.
They then went out and hired a bunch of conservatives to, as Phil Griffin said it, make themselves "Fox news lite." They brought on Alan Keyes, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Mike Smirkonich [sic], Pat Buchanan, John Gibson, Michael "Weiner" Savage (yes, that one), et. al. and all the right-leaning mouth pieces they could find. They did their damnedest to be another Righty channel, but in our media climate if you're not Fox or Limbaugh, you're a part of the liberal media conspiracy. So, nothing MSNBC did could give them Fox News' street cred with the Conservative base. Coincidentally, Keith Olbermann was brought on and made his name being one of the few to publicly speak out on the Iraq war (this was at a time when people were being fired or worse for being anti-war mind you). On top of that, the Righties that MSNBC brought on turned out to be abysmal failures. Either they sucked, just didn't have the intellectual chops for political debate, or couldn't help themselves from making offensive comments (Savage's comments about homosexuals and Gibson's "Black people should be happy for slavery since it got them out of Africa" segment). So, MSNBC found new success for what they *thought* was leaning to the Left. When, in actuality it was because they hosted people willing to speak truth to power whatever end of the spectrum.
But, the story doesn't have a happy ending. Phil Griffin is a ratings chaser. So, if a little left in the news got him ratings, well naturally a LOT of left would turn MSNBC into a juggernaut. He put Keith Olbermann in some kind of creative director talent finding role. This immediately turned KO into an arrogant, self-important douchbag. Check out theseclips from the 2008 DNC shortly after. Chris Matthews, who'd been the icon of the network and who obediently shut up about the contradictions of the case for the Iraq war and Bush elections, now felt that he'd surrendered his credibility and crown to KO and became even more of a loud, interrupting jerk. They went out and hired more liberals with more of a party- than ideological-loyalty and went for broke.
I used to watch/listen to MSNBC for 4-5 hours a day after work. Now, it's intolerable partisan drivel. KO is infatuated with his own voice and polishing his perceived mantle place next to Edward R. Murrow. Chris Matthews is basically using the show and his guests to spout his own views, sometimes completely disregarding the people he's supposed to be interviewing. Ed Schulz, while I admire his pro-labor efforts, just isn't smart and knowledgeable enough to have a prime time political show. Rachel Maddow is obsessed with her advocacy, even if it's some piss-ant church in Africa calling for murdering gays. I can't stand their prime time lineup anymore. Worst, they're not really doing what made them successful in the first place; challenging those in power regardless of party.
Does this mean I don't get my mhttp://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1913170&op=reply&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=ini-black hole blaster?
We can if we keep coming up with ways to manufacture them, rather than mine them. Which is what I think will happen before we get viable hydrogen power.
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The original 2 sequels were absolute improvements on the preceding version. Even in Warcraft III where they not only added more content, but *removed* some annoying features that slowed down gameplay (like ship building). The Warcraft sequels were more like full-blown improvements than "sequels," but they've always been my benchmark on how to do it right.
Ten years ago some young 6-digit ID Slashdotter was getting modded down for suggesting a Beowulf cluster of cores. Who's laughing now, mods?!?!?
Google "Jessica Biel red bikini"
I vote ThE MoSt AnNoYiNg SoUnD In ThE wOrLd!
Something needs to be put in place in the meantime; either voluntarily or compulsory.
I really like your observation here. It wasn't so bad in TRON as it was in a movie I watched tonight, Transporter 3. I think directors are going for frantic action, but it ends up looking incomprehensible. Someone commented on this on another post, but apparently this is the pervasive influence of music video direction.
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But, 3D isn't a soundtrack. It's supposed to be a flashy enhancement to a movie. I don't want "subtle" 3D. I want it to feel like a different experience for the $7+/ticket I paid (just checked my stub).
Ditto on the weak 3D presentation. I forgot I was watching a 3D movie at times. But, I haven't really been all that impressed with *any* of the 3D movies I've seen. Just a lame gimmick IMO to get $6/ticket out of me.
But, I loved Tron. Even my girlfriend who "can't remember if I've seen any Star Wars movies" liked it. Seriously, how the fuck do you not know if you've seen Star Wars?
That's a flat out offensive lie. Tthere's an English *and* a Spanish bible.
Scott is just as capable of making crappy movies as George Lucas is of creating great movies. Artists are often hit and miss, *especially* in the movie industry.
Degrees from the best schools are a built-in form of elitism in our education system. The unwashed masses can't practically afford to go regardless of how smart you are. Those with money can get it and get the elite stamp of approval, which opens up all kinds of doors once they do get out into the workforce.
USPS already adopted the "run government like a business" philosophy.
You are *VERY* wrong. This policy was a half-way marker. It essentially allowed gays to serve as long as they weren't officially vocal about it. The result was, gays were open with their colleagues, which imparted to members of the military what it was actually like to have gay service members; not just people you *think* are gay. DADT was a "technicallly no, practically go ahead and do it" policy. The end result is the military for the most part doesn't give a fuck. I'm pretty pissed at the rabid gay activists too short sighted to see what was being done for them.
By your math, my personal unfunded mandates are 200% of my "GDP". That's inflammatory math you're citing. And, debt isn't necessarily bad when you're propping up a country on the brink of a total financial breakdown. My problem is that too much of our stimulus spending was invested in trickle-down economic theory, not the infrastructure investments that paved the way to our economic dominance post -WWII.
Nothing like a Black or Mexican mugshot to bring out the AC epithets. I'll miss the legitimate AC comments unfortunately...
You're assuming that whenever the rest of us suffers misfortune at the hand of another person, we want their entire demographic obliterated. Thankfully, not many people think like you.
You, Sir, need to get out of your basement and mingle with the average computer user more often. We've got billion dollar social networks based on airing your humilitation.
I just watched the documentary "Why we fight" based on Eisenhower's exit speech warning us about the Congressional Military Industrial Complex. One of his quotes was, paraphrasing, the pursuit of absolute security will bankrupt this country. It's just not achievable. Working over a guy's package just to get on a plane accomplishes nothing.
Great point. Slashdot editors have developed this "National Enquirer"-esque obsession with misleading or false headlines to generate clicks.
I heard Satan himself forged that document so that his bastard child could lead us all down a path towards sin and sexual deviancy.
I recall a Pew poll from around the time of the Iraq invasion that I think asked about Saddam's involvement in 9/11 based on primary news source. NPR got 80%, CNN got 70%, and Fox News 25%.
I started watching MSNBC back when I first started following politics, about 10 years ago. Back then, it was a CNN clone (or what CNN was before they went infotainment). Straight reporting, single host format. Not much discernible bias. They had Phil Donahue's talk show who was quite left-leaning and the only guy on the news actually speaking out against the Iraq invasion. And, I don't mean the post-rationalizers like Chris Matthews, who by the way reveled in his Right-Centrism before Olbermann made being on the Left cool. Well, MSNBC didn't want to be seen as the anti-war channel since we all know that people who object to war are homosexual, Communist, cowards. So, they fired Phil Donahue who by then had their highest rated show.
They then went out and hired a bunch of conservatives to, as Phil Griffin said it, make themselves "Fox news lite." They brought on Alan Keyes, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Mike Smirkonich [sic], Pat Buchanan, John Gibson, Michael "Weiner" Savage (yes, that one), et. al. and all the right-leaning mouth pieces they could find. They did their damnedest to be another Righty channel, but in our media climate if you're not Fox or Limbaugh, you're a part of the liberal media conspiracy. So, nothing MSNBC did could give them Fox News' street cred with the Conservative base. Coincidentally, Keith Olbermann was brought on and made his name being one of the few to publicly speak out on the Iraq war (this was at a time when people were being fired or worse for being anti-war mind you). On top of that, the Righties that MSNBC brought on turned out to be abysmal failures. Either they sucked, just didn't have the intellectual chops for political debate, or couldn't help themselves from making offensive comments (Savage's comments about homosexuals and Gibson's "Black people should be happy for slavery since it got them out of Africa" segment). So, MSNBC found new success for what they *thought* was leaning to the Left. When, in actuality it was because they hosted people willing to speak truth to power whatever end of the spectrum.
But, the story doesn't have a happy ending. Phil Griffin is a ratings chaser. So, if a little left in the news got him ratings, well naturally a LOT of left would turn MSNBC into a juggernaut. He put Keith Olbermann in some kind of creative director talent finding role. This immediately turned KO into an arrogant, self-important douchbag. Check out these clips from the 2008 DNC shortly after. Chris Matthews, who'd been the icon of the network and who obediently shut up about the contradictions of the case for the Iraq war and Bush elections, now felt that he'd surrendered his credibility and crown to KO and became even more of a loud, interrupting jerk. They went out and hired more liberals with more of a party- than ideological-loyalty and went for broke.
I used to watch/listen to MSNBC for 4-5 hours a day after work. Now, it's intolerable partisan drivel. KO is infatuated with his own voice and polishing his perceived mantle place next to Edward R. Murrow. Chris Matthews is basically using the show and his guests to spout his own views, sometimes completely disregarding the people he's supposed to be interviewing. Ed Schulz, while I admire his pro-labor efforts, just isn't smart and knowledgeable enough to have a prime time political show. Rachel Maddow is obsessed with her advocacy, even if it's some piss-ant church in Africa calling for murdering gays. I can't stand their prime time lineup anymore. Worst, they're not really doing what made them successful in the first place; challenging those in power regardless of party.
Does this mean I don't get my mhttp://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1913170&op=reply&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=ini-black hole blaster?
We can if we keep coming up with ways to manufacture them, rather than mine them. Which is what I think will happen before we get viable hydrogen power.