What baffles me is why Hollywood keeps throwing cash at video-game-themed movies. They all stink on ice, and most of them lose money.
Resident Evil was a movie about Milla Jovovich's thighs, and for that reason alone it did well enough to warrant a sequel.
Likewise, Tomb Raider was a movie about Angelina Jolie's fake breasts.
Neither film had anything else going for it, and considering the outstanding shapes of Milla Jovovich's thighs and Angelina Jolie's real breasts (let alone the massive fake ones), one could argue that the video-game essense of these crappy movies probably dragged ticket sales down.
I mean, Milla Jovovich or Angelina Jolie... running around and shooting stuff... while showing off their wonderful thighs or breasts... How can you possibly make a dull, modestly profitable movie out of such a rock-solid formula for a blockbuster unless some other factor is utterly crippling the production???
Clearly, the video game adaptation is box-office poison.
I used the Keyspan IR remote sensor and programmed the universal remote from my audio amp to control it. I use the keyboard and mouse strictly for stuff like web browsing and playing World of Warcraft.
With the EyeTV 500 providing me free over-the-air HDTV with Tivo-like PVR functions, I'm very happy with the set-up.
Actually, I watched it in High School, and the crappiness of it was a big part of the appeal to me. It somehow managed to be a more-repetitive version of "Battle of the Planets" (an English-language mangling of "Gatchaman" which I loved as a kid.)
I'm not going to rip on nerdcore... whatever makes them happy, I guess.
The real head-scratcher of this story is: Since when did Wired magazine count as "the press"???
If there's a story here, it's that Wired hasn't done a story on MC Frontalot before now. This nerdcore stuff has been floating around "tha Internets" for years, and this kind of thing is what the folks at Wired live for!
Call me when MC Cris is on the cover of Time or Newsweek. A Wired story about nerds doing anything is nothing to get excited over.
I also on a mini for my media room, and I'm actually glad that I didn't get internal bluetooth.
I use the wireless mouse from a fair distance away from the computer, and internal Bluetooth range (in the very noisy RF environment that my house has turned out to be) would not have cut it. It totally sucks to use a wireless mouse that keeps dropping the signal and/or gives choppy performance.
With the external module, I was able to build a crude parabolic dish for it out of a $6 cooking wok and more than double the range.
Plus, it's a neat conversation-starter when people look up at my projection system and see the homebrew dish antenna next to it.:)
Analyzing one's routine allows you to somewhat accurately predict what they will do during that routine the following day? WOW.
No kidding. Talk about a non-story.
Just by talking to somebody for five minutes, you can accurately predict how much time they will spend eating and sleeping the next day, and that's over a third of their day right there.
Are they employed full-time? Ah, then the mighty Carnac knows how they will spend another 8 hours each weekday with a high degree of accuracy!
Honestly, considering how much data they collected, 85% is kinda shitty.
That's ok. The RIAA is evil. Everyone says so. So it's justified to break any and all laws that might get in the way of the cheapest possible download, just to punish those **AA bastards.
lol!
I just got bitchslapped right down the list of posts in my user profile, probably by somebody who thinks exactly along those lines.:)
The mafia wouldnt beat a person to death, they'd simple make the person vanish off the face of the earth. You'd think the mafia would do a professional hit.
People are beat to death by mafia goons all the time.
The "single pistol shot through the eyeball" execution is the stuff of movies. Mob thugs are no better at crime than regular thugs, they just have infrastructure in place to make it easier.
Yes there is a russian mafia, but if this is the most profitable spammer in russia its simply illogical for them to kill their cashcow.
Now it's my turn to get all Hollywood:
"You're only as good as your last brown envelope."
Russia is currently one of the most "bent" countries in the world. Pretty much nobody does business there of any sort, let alone shady stuff like hacking and spamming, without having connections to the mob.
Keep that in mind next time somebody tells you what a great deal allofmp3.com is. The cost is actually a few pennies a song plus some poor sap's kneecaps somewhere.
The J-pop filled soundtrack was one of the few that I didn't immediately turn off, either.
There was no J-Pop in JSRF.
The closest thing to a Japanese pop song was "Birthday Cake" by Cibo Matto (which was on heavy rotation during some of the best sections of the game.)
The singer from Cibo Matto was Japanese, but the band itself was from New York City.
All of their lyrics are in English, although they are sometimes unintelligible due to Miho Hatori's thick accent. Here they are, in case you are wondering.
As long as we are recylcling articles, let's recycle comments too.
I'll start with the old stand-by that this rise in popularity of "silent" PC's is just one more example of the Windows world playing catch-up to the Mac.
Oh, and I'll be the rush to suggest using active phase-cancellation to reduce ambient noise in the room.
Arizona's position on Daylight Saving Time is enlightened, and we should all follow their shining example.
If you want to go to work an hour earlier, just go to work an hour earlier. All this goddamn "pretend it's an hour later than it really is" bullshit is completely whacked. People who think DST is a good idea are like people who think setting their alarm clocks ten minutes later will improve the likelihood that they will get to work on time.
Noon should always be when the sun is directly over my time-zone. If you want to adjust the business day according to available sunlight, it makes more sense to: 1. Change the start time instead of the clocks. 2. Do it gradually, the way available light changes gradually. That way you don't fuck up people's sleep cycles either.
I wonder if the health problems (and sick days off work) due to disrupted sleep patterns has actually cost our society more than the energy saved by the whole DST concept. Seems like something which should have been studied by now...
Your information on gender issues is fairly informative, however you are starting with one incorrect assumption.
Specifically, the case being argued here.
There are no reliable reports anywhere that Larry Wachowski ever had a sex change, and in all recent publications, he continues to be known as "Larry" not "Linda."
All this came about when, during an ugly divorce proceeding, he was dating a professional dominatrix. Shortly afterwards, he began to appear in public with pierced ears, plucked eyebrows, and rather feminine-looking clothing.
Anybody who googles with the "safe" filter turned off knows that humiliation is a huge part of the dominatrix/submissive relationship, and that "forced" public crossdressing is often part of the kink. Odds are, that was probably what was going on at the time.
In the wake of Larry appearing in public looking somewhat girly, several rumors began to crop up that he was a transexual, and the gossip columns of papers all over the country began printing claims that he was planning on having a sex-change operation and changing his name to "Linda."
If you do a quick search of the Internet, you will find a dramatic lack of stories dated any later than last Spring which say anything about it. This is because the rumored sex change was probably never anything more than a rumor.
So while I applaud you for trying to promote understanding and tolerance, please don't perpetuate false gossip about people while doing so.
Another rumor this he will have (not has had) a sex-change operation, printed over a year ago.
If there was any truth to this at all, he would have been a woman for a full year now. No, he's not a huge star, but he's a known celebrity, and nobody can produce a single document in any media which reports that Larry is now "Linda," no photos, no news stories, nothing.
Not that it's anybody's business anyway, but this "story" of him having a sex-change appears to be 100% pure bullshit.
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You'll never actually hear anyone say, "ooo, he's a good producer."
Except for Ismail Merchant, of course.
Answer: Money.
What baffles me is why Hollywood keeps throwing cash at video-game-themed movies. They all stink on ice, and most of them lose money.
Resident Evil was a movie about Milla Jovovich's thighs, and for that reason alone it did well enough to warrant a sequel.
Likewise, Tomb Raider was a movie about Angelina Jolie's fake breasts.
Neither film had anything else going for it, and considering the outstanding shapes of Milla Jovovich's thighs and Angelina Jolie's real breasts (let alone the massive fake ones), one could argue that the video-game essense of these crappy movies probably dragged ticket sales down.
I mean, Milla Jovovich or Angelina Jolie... running around and shooting stuff... while showing off their wonderful thighs or breasts... How can you possibly make a dull, modestly profitable movie out of such a rock-solid formula for a blockbuster unless some other factor is utterly crippling the production???
Clearly, the video game adaptation is box-office poison.
Well, yes... but not for the size of my dish.
I used the Keyspan IR remote sensor and programmed the universal remote from my audio amp to control it. I use the keyboard and mouse strictly for stuff like web browsing and playing World of Warcraft.
With the EyeTV 500 providing me free over-the-air HDTV with Tivo-like PVR functions, I'm very happy with the set-up.
Actually, I watched it in High School, and the crappiness of it was a big part of the appeal to me. It somehow managed to be a more-repetitive version of "Battle of the Planets" (an English-language mangling of "Gatchaman" which I loved as a kid.)
Just so you know...
g/click/s//clique/
After all, knowing is half the battle.
Go, Joe!
"Volton is coming to theatres!.
Great news...
we do know it will be produced by Mark Gordon ('The Day After Tomorrow').
Followed almost immediately by crappy news.
Oh well.
"Serenity" now!!!
I'm not going to rip on nerdcore... whatever makes them happy, I guess.
The real head-scratcher of this story is: Since when did Wired magazine count as "the press"???
If there's a story here, it's that Wired hasn't done a story on MC Frontalot before now. This nerdcore stuff has been floating around "tha Internets" for years, and this kind of thing is what the folks at Wired live for!
Call me when MC Cris is on the cover of Time or Newsweek. A Wired story about nerds doing anything is nothing to get excited over.
I also on a mini for my media room, and I'm actually glad that I didn't get internal bluetooth.
:)
I use the wireless mouse from a fair distance away from the computer, and internal Bluetooth range (in the very noisy RF environment that my house has turned out to be) would not have cut it. It totally sucks to use a wireless mouse that keeps dropping the signal and/or gives choppy performance.
With the external module, I was able to build a crude parabolic dish for it out of a $6 cooking wok and more than double the range.
Plus, it's a neat conversation-starter when people look up at my projection system and see the homebrew dish antenna next to it.
Analyzing one's routine allows you to somewhat accurately predict what they will do during that routine the following day? WOW.
No kidding. Talk about a non-story.
Just by talking to somebody for five minutes, you can accurately predict how much time they will spend eating and sleeping the next day, and that's over a third of their day right there.
Are they employed full-time? Ah, then the mighty Carnac knows how they will spend another 8 hours each weekday with a high degree of accuracy!
Honestly, considering how much data they collected, 85% is kinda shitty.
That's ok. The RIAA is evil. Everyone says so. So it's justified to break any and all laws that might get in the way of the cheapest possible download, just to punish those **AA bastards.
:)
lol!
I just got bitchslapped right down the list of posts in my user profile, probably by somebody who thinks exactly along those lines.
Glasnost brought with it Pepsi and McDonald's, so there were even some American food chains in Moscow before the fall of the Soviet Union.
The mafia wouldnt beat a person to death, they'd simple make the person vanish off the face of the earth. You'd think the mafia would do a professional hit.
People are beat to death by mafia goons all the time.
The "single pistol shot through the eyeball" execution is the stuff of movies. Mob thugs are no better at crime than regular thugs, they just have infrastructure in place to make it easier.
Yes there is a russian mafia, but if this is the most profitable spammer in russia its simply illogical for them to kill their cashcow.
Now it's my turn to get all Hollywood:
"You're only as good as your last brown envelope."
Russia is currently one of the most "bent" countries in the world. Pretty much nobody does business there of any sort, let alone shady stuff like hacking and spamming, without having connections to the mob.
Keep that in mind next time somebody tells you what a great deal allofmp3.com is. The cost is actually a few pennies a song plus some poor sap's kneecaps somewhere.
"Sears Craftsman Flashbombs"
That would probably be the first time a "lifetime warranty" would actually make me less confident about using a product.
Customers are no good to you when they're mangled and decapitated. :-)
The undertaker begs to differ
Exactly. How else is he ever going to utilize all those surplus four-and-a-half foot coffins?
The J-pop filled soundtrack was one of the few that I didn't immediately turn off, either.
There was no J-Pop in JSRF.
The closest thing to a Japanese pop song was "Birthday Cake" by Cibo Matto (which was on heavy rotation during some of the best sections of the game.)
The singer from Cibo Matto was Japanese, but the band itself was from New York City.
All of their lyrics are in English, although they are sometimes unintelligible due to Miho Hatori's thick accent. Here they are, in case you are wondering.
Wooosh.
That was his joke flying over your head.
Libertarian: label used by embarrassed Republicans, longing to be open about their greed, drug use and porn collections.
Gee, when you put it like that, Libertarians sound kind of cool.
As long as we are recylcling articles, let's recycle comments too.
I'll start with the old stand-by that this rise in popularity of "silent" PC's is just one more example of the Windows world playing catch-up to the Mac.
Oh, and I'll be the rush to suggest using active phase-cancellation to reduce ambient noise in the room.
That should start us off nicely.
Um. Yeah. I meant a link which actually supported your assertion that this was anything more than an old rumor. Guess I should have been more clear.
Way too serious? If it seems so, I think that's just an artifact of communicating by text.
Arizona's position on Daylight Saving Time is enlightened, and we should all follow their shining example.
If you want to go to work an hour earlier, just go to work an hour earlier. All this goddamn "pretend it's an hour later than it really is" bullshit is completely whacked. People who think DST is a good idea are like people who think setting their alarm clocks ten minutes later will improve the likelihood that they will get to work on time.
Noon should always be when the sun is directly over my time-zone. If you want to adjust the business day according to available sunlight, it makes more sense to: 1. Change the start time instead of the clocks. 2. Do it gradually, the way available light changes gradually. That way you don't fuck up people's sleep cycles either.
I wonder if the health problems (and sick days off work) due to disrupted sleep patterns has actually cost our society more than the energy saved by the whole DST concept. Seems like something which should have been studied by now...
Your information on gender issues is fairly informative, however you are starting with one incorrect assumption.
Specifically, the case being argued here.
There are no reliable reports anywhere that Larry Wachowski ever had a sex change, and in all recent publications, he continues to be known as "Larry" not "Linda."
All this came about when, during an ugly divorce proceeding, he was dating a professional dominatrix. Shortly afterwards, he began to appear in public with pierced ears, plucked eyebrows, and rather feminine-looking clothing.
Anybody who googles with the "safe" filter turned off knows that humiliation is a huge part of the dominatrix/submissive relationship, and that "forced" public crossdressing is often part of the kink. Odds are, that was probably what was going on at the time.
In the wake of Larry appearing in public looking somewhat girly, several rumors began to crop up that he was a transexual, and the gossip columns of papers all over the country began printing claims that he was planning on having a sex-change operation and changing his name to "Linda."
If you do a quick search of the Internet, you will find a dramatic lack of stories dated any later than last Spring which say anything about it. This is because the rumored sex change was probably never anything more than a rumor.
So while I applaud you for trying to promote understanding and tolerance, please don't perpetuate false gossip about people while doing so.
The were the creators of pants!?
Another rumor this he will have (not has had) a sex-change operation, printed over a year ago.
If there was any truth to this at all, he would have been a woman for a full year now. No, he's not a huge star, but he's a known celebrity, and nobody can produce a single document in any media which reports that Larry is now "Linda," no photos, no news stories, nothing.
Not that it's anybody's business anyway, but this "story" of him having a sex-change appears to be 100% pure bullshit.
Somebody call Snopes.