I think one reason there wasn't more action was because the CGI was ungodly expensive. IIRC Ang Lee said the dogfight scene alone cost $20-$30 mil.
I also liked how they actually took the time to set up charachters, as opposed to X-Men and Spider-Man which felt edited to the bone. Not one extra second in any scene in those two movies.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.
Uh huh. Except the protected memory in OS X came from Next, which wasn't in competition with Windows.
It would be quite rude to read Slashdot while your in game charachter has the bomb your team is supposed to plant, or fiddle with Quicken while other players are waiting for you to make your move in Civilization.
If you're playing with someone else in the same mood, like a slow chess game where you check and see if the other guy has moved, that's cool. If not, you owe it to the other players to keep your focus on the game.
It's worse when it comes to politics, like when the NYTimes published an article a few years ago by one Adam Nagourney that anonymously quoted some Republicans talking about how Kerry "looks French." This helped get the media narrative rolling that Kerry was privledged, out of touch and alof, which is funny when you look at who he was running against.
i.e. the supid ones need to be weeded out early. It's not like we don't have fun making more of the little bastards....is that the dumb ones can hurt others before they hurt themselves. The 10 year old idiot with a lawn dart can take out the eye of a passing Eagle Scout before he takes out his own.
My grandma tells a story of a neighborhood kid who was coming back to the farm after doing some hunting. Rather than empty his gun, he shoots his last round into the family's outhouse. Problem one: his sister was using it at the time. Problem two: now he's an only child.
Oh wow, this coffee I spilled on my lap burned me, I wonder why that happened.
Contrary to right-wing propaganda, the lawsuit was not filed because the woman claimed McDonalds was responsible for making her spill coffee on herself. She knew that part was her own damn fault. The lawsuit was filed because McDonalds kept the coffee so hot that she suffered third degree burns on her legs. She was burned to. the. bone. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that McDonalds purpously kept it dangerously hot, that they had recieved hundreds of complaints from both customers and health inspectors.
Far from being a frivolous lawsuit, the McDonalds Coffee Incident was an example of a good consumer lawsuit.
If you can't afford children, don't have children.
And what if your job gets outsourced and you go from making a nice $60,000 a year salary to being an assistant manager at a Burger King? That's part of the problem with a lot of "pro-lifers" they only care about the kid when it's in the fetus, but after it's born, it's sink or swim elitism, baby.
I guess there's a good chance I'll get modded down for the heinous crime of coming out in favour of Microsoft
If HP offers the option of ordering a computer with other OS's, you have a point. If they don't, you do deserve to get modded down, but for spouting nonsense, not defending Microsoft.
The show where the first bad guy (of this version) was a bunch of mannequins coming to life? That would be a no.
The point of that episode was to set up the new Doc and the new companion, and make it "accessible" to viewers that had never seen Dr Who before. Later episodes are much better.
When I heard that Atlantis was going to be about a crew marooned on another planet, searching for a way home, I thought of a few alternative titles for the series:
Stargate: Voyager
Stargate: Sliders
Stargate: Quantum Leap
Stargate: Farscape
Stargate: Land of the Lost
Now that they are launching a third series, I have some more suggestions:
Another cruel-but-funny-but-unfortunatly-not-on-tape story: some guys had an apartment, a couch, and a cat. Whenever they would turn on the vacuum cleaner, the cat would run into the living room and hide under the couch. Which had low hanging drapes. So one day they lifted the couch up and removed the wheels and set it back down. The couch sat a couple inches lower to the ground, but it was hard to tell because of the drapes. You know what happens next...they turn on the vacuum cleaner, and watch the cat race into the living room to hide under the couch and WHAM, runs straight into the peice of furniture rather than under it.
And lastly, a free cat picture. As a long time cat person and owner of two domestic short hairs, I feel bad for the cat, but damn that sign is funny.
When our guys die in uniform, they are heroes and patriots. When their guys die they are crazy and irrational.
When our Founding Fathers were fighting the British, they were smart and clever to fight on their own terms, hiding behind rocks and trees rather than marching out in the open. When Iraqis use ambushes and roadside bombs to attack our troops, they aren't being smart and clever for fighting on their own terms, they are terrorists.
"our" guys don't strap 15 pounds of explosives to their chest and go looking for crowded marketplaces full of civilians
Our guys have advanced training and can take advantage of advanced tech. Their guys can't, and have to make do. And why don't you ask an Iraqi who has lost family to a U.S. military strike what the functional difference is between a suicide bomber attacking a market full of civilians and a cruise missing hitting a "valid economic target" that also happens to be full of civilians.
Yup, I miss Bill. And I didn't even hear of him until after he was already dead for 10 years, except for that bit at the end of that Tool song. Stoopid cancer...
Remember: they don't get everything wrong. And looking at the links, it doesn't look like they are wrong on this point. So I have to say: put up or shut up about the RIAA's lack of lying in this case.
The AC already said this, but you're simply splitting hairs. The article you cite indicates that the water was released from the dam for Al Gore's canoe trip.
But not BY Al Gore or his campaign. That makes the parent a liar. Deal with it.
Are you saying this is a lie because Al Gore didn't personally go and push the button to open the dam?
Who's splitting hairs? Pot. Kettle. Black.
Maybe you don't know the definition of "lie"? It's not about whether a statement is technically incorrect in an irrelevant detail. It tends to be about whether the statement is false in a way meant to mislead. The GP's statement is essentially true with regards to the canoe trip (not sure on the toilets). Al Gore was not an innocent bystander. Your post appears to be a lie
And you appear to be full of shit. See above. Al Gore did NOT ask for the water to be released - a normal event that was merely moved up by a few hours - nor have anything to do with the actuall release. End of story. Talking about wether or not he personally pushed the button IS splitting hairs - and you are doing it.
The treatment of Gore by the press was nothing less than a crime in 2000. Reporters decided they didn't like him, and decided to trash him any way possible. Either by distorting his words and ignoring context (a la "inventing the Internet") or making up negative stories out of whole cloth, as with Love Story and the "canoe trip". This wouldn't have been so bad if the press had say, held Bush to the same astronimically high standards that they set for Gore, but they didn't.
I do support a national patient's bill of rights. As a matter of fact, I brought Republicans and Democrats together to do just that in the State of Texas to get a patient's bill of rights through. It requires a different kind of leadership style to do it, though. You see, in order to get something done on behalf of the people, you have to put partisanship aside, and that's what we did in my state. We have one of the most advanced patient's bill of rights. It says, for example, that a woman doesn't have to go through a gate keeper to go to her gynecologist. It says that you can't gag a doctor, doctor can advise you. The HMO, the insurance company, can't gag that doctor from giving you full advice. And this particular bill, it allows patients to choose a doctor, their own doctor if they want to. But we did something else that was interesting. We're one of the first states that said you can sue an HMO for denying you proper coverage.
Despite his campaign rhetoric in favor of a patients bill of rights, Bush fought such a bill tooth and nail as Texas governor, vetoing a bill coauthored by Republican state Rep. John Smithee in 1995. He had his insurance commissioner draft into law some of the less controversial bits of the bill -- like letting women choose gynecologists as their primary-care doctors -- but constantly opposed a patient's right to sue an HMO over coverage denied that resulted in adverse health effects. Faced with a vetoproof majority in 1997, he had his legislative aide, Vance McMahan, do everything he could to sabotage the bill, to the point that Republican legislators complained on the floor of the Texas Senate. Then, faced with a vetoproof majority, Bush let the bill become law without his signature.
Remember how much fun the press had with the "inventing the Internet" yarn, despite the fact that Al Gore had more to do with turning DARPAnet into the Internet than any other elected official - what he was talking about when he said "during my term of service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Now imagine the presses reaction if Gore had tried taking credit for something he vetoed. Try and split that hair, Kohath.
Crime and lawyering are just different levels of thuggery.
If I were souless and naive I suppose I could see it that way. Take for example the John Edwards "jacuzzi case" where a five year old girl had her guts sucked out by a faulty pool drain. Once the girl's medical bills were covered, do you think the family gave one flying fuck who got the money, so long as it didn't remain in the hands of a company too cheap to pay for a $1 part to fix a known problem with their product?
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I think one reason there wasn't more action was because the CGI was ungodly expensive. IIRC Ang Lee said the dogfight scene alone cost $20-$30 mil.
I also liked how they actually took the time to set up charachters, as opposed to X-Men and Spider-Man which felt edited to the bone. Not one extra second in any scene in those two movies.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.
Uh huh. Except the protected memory in OS X came from Next, which wasn't in competition with Windows.
You'll look more informed
Is that so Mr. Pot?
Being a monopoly is not illegal, abusing a monopoly position is.
And how many monopolies have been convicted in a court of law that weren't abusive? Hence the "convicted monopolist" context I used.
It would be quite rude to read Slashdot while your in game charachter has the bomb your team is supposed to plant, or fiddle with Quicken while other players are waiting for you to make your move in Civilization.
If you're playing with someone else in the same mood, like a slow chess game where you check and see if the other guy has moved, that's cool. If not, you owe it to the other players to keep your focus on the game.
...much higher scrutiny. Any more questions?
It's worse when it comes to politics, like when the NYTimes published an article a few years ago by one Adam Nagourney that anonymously quoted some Republicans talking about how Kerry "looks French." This helped get the media narrative rolling that Kerry was privledged, out of touch and alof, which is funny when you look at who he was running against.
I also never knew about all the Representatives protesting the election without a single Senator signing on, and Al Gore having to shut them all up.
The problem is that the Administration wants research to be reviewed for political rather than technical reasons.
i.e. the supid ones need to be weeded out early. It's not like we don't have fun making more of the little bastards. ...is that the dumb ones can hurt others before they hurt themselves. The 10 year old idiot with a lawn dart can take out the eye of a passing Eagle Scout before he takes out his own.
My grandma tells a story of a neighborhood kid who was coming back to the farm after doing some hunting. Rather than empty his gun, he shoots his last round into the family's outhouse. Problem one: his sister was using it at the time. Problem two: now he's an only child.
What about "that which does not kill us only makes us stronger?" How about natual selection?
The fact that stupid people frequently end up hurting other people rather than themselves. Next question?
Oh wow, this coffee I spilled on my lap burned me, I wonder why that happened.
Contrary to right-wing propaganda, the lawsuit was not filed because the woman claimed McDonalds was responsible for making her spill coffee on herself. She knew that part was her own damn fault. The lawsuit was filed because McDonalds kept the coffee so hot that she suffered third degree burns on her legs. She was burned to. the. bone. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that McDonalds purpously kept it dangerously hot, that they had recieved hundreds of complaints from both customers and health inspectors.
Far from being a frivolous lawsuit, the McDonalds Coffee Incident was an example of a good consumer lawsuit.
If you can't afford children, don't have children.
And what if your job gets outsourced and you go from making a nice $60,000 a year salary to being an assistant manager at a Burger King? That's part of the problem with a lot of "pro-lifers" they only care about the kid when it's in the fetus, but after it's born, it's sink or swim elitism, baby.
What part of learning about avoiding strangulation in a hammock or playing around with radioactive materials is going to prepare kids to be adults?
Huh, didn't know the U.S. economy depended on the well being of Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular. Thanks for informing us.
It is ridiculous that the government does not support a consumer-driven economy.
That's because the government supports a business-owner driven economy. Didn't you get the memo?
I guess there's a good chance I'll get modded down for the heinous crime of coming out in favour of Microsoft
If HP offers the option of ordering a computer with other OS's, you have a point. If they don't, you do deserve to get modded down, but for spouting nonsense, not defending Microsoft.
The show where the first bad guy (of this version) was a bunch of mannequins coming to life? That would be a no.
The point of that episode was to set up the new Doc and the new companion, and make it "accessible" to viewers that had never seen Dr Who before. Later episodes are much better.
- Stargate: Voyager
- Stargate: Sliders
- Stargate: Quantum Leap
- Stargate: Farscape
- Stargate: Land of the Lost
Now that they are launching a third series, I have some more suggestions:You cruel, cruel, but funny person you.
Another cruel-but-funny-but-unfortunatly-not-on-tape story: some guys had an apartment, a couch, and a cat. Whenever they would turn on the vacuum cleaner, the cat would run into the living room and hide under the couch. Which had low hanging drapes. So one day they lifted the couch up and removed the wheels and set it back down. The couch sat a couple inches lower to the ground, but it was hard to tell because of the drapes. You know what happens next...they turn on the vacuum cleaner, and watch the cat race into the living room to hide under the couch and WHAM, runs straight into the peice of furniture rather than under it.
And lastly, a free cat picture. As a long time cat person and owner of two domestic short hairs, I feel bad for the cat, but damn that sign is funny.
Wait, one more video.
When our guys die in uniform, they are heroes and patriots.
When their guys die they are crazy and irrational.
When our Founding Fathers were fighting the British, they were smart and clever to fight on their own terms, hiding behind rocks and trees rather than marching out in the open. When Iraqis use ambushes and roadside bombs to attack our troops, they aren't being smart and clever for fighting on their own terms, they are terrorists.
"our" guys don't strap 15 pounds of explosives to their chest and go looking for crowded marketplaces full of civilians
Our guys have advanced training and can take advantage of advanced tech. Their guys can't, and have to make do. And why don't you ask an Iraqi who has lost family to a U.S. military strike what the functional difference is between a suicide bomber attacking a market full of civilians and a cruise missing hitting a "valid economic target" that also happens to be full of civilians.
Yup, I miss Bill. And I didn't even hear of him until after he was already dead for 10 years, except for that bit at the end of that Tool song. Stoopid cancer...
Remember: you're on slashdot.
Remember: they don't get everything wrong. And looking at the links, it doesn't look like they are wrong on this point. So I have to say: put up or shut up about the RIAA's lack of lying in this case.
But not BY Al Gore or his campaign. That makes the parent a liar. Deal with it.
Are you saying this is a lie because Al Gore didn't personally go and push the button to open the dam?
Who's splitting hairs? Pot. Kettle. Black.
Maybe you don't know the definition of "lie"? It's not about whether a statement is technically incorrect in an irrelevant detail. It tends to be about whether the statement is false in a way meant to mislead. The GP's statement is essentially true with regards to the canoe trip (not sure on the toilets). Al Gore was not an innocent bystander. Your post appears to be a lie
And you appear to be full of shit. See above. Al Gore did NOT ask for the water to be released - a normal event that was merely moved up by a few hours - nor have anything to do with the actuall release. End of story. Talking about wether or not he personally pushed the button IS splitting hairs - and you are doing it.
The treatment of Gore by the press was nothing less than a crime in 2000. Reporters decided they didn't like him, and decided to trash him any way possible. Either by distorting his words and ignoring context (a la "inventing the Internet") or making up negative stories out of whole cloth, as with Love Story and the "canoe trip". This wouldn't have been so bad if the press had say, held Bush to the same astronimically high standards that they set for Gore, but they didn't.
In the third presidential debate of 2000, Bush took credit for a patient's bill of rights in Texas:
Just one liiittle problem with that:
Remember how much fun the press had with the "inventing the Internet" yarn, despite the fact that Al Gore had more to do with turning DARPAnet into the Internet than any other elected official - what he was talking about when he said "during my term of service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Now imagine the presses reaction if Gore had tried taking credit for something he vetoed. Try and split that hair, Kohath.
Crime and lawyering are just different levels of thuggery.
If I were souless and naive I suppose I could see it that way. Take for example the John Edwards "jacuzzi case" where a five year old girl had her guts sucked out by a faulty pool drain. Once the girl's medical bills were covered, do you think the family gave one flying fuck who got the money, so long as it didn't remain in the hands of a company too cheap to pay for a $1 part to fix a known problem with their product?