Clearly the movies are underappreciated - there's over 1000 comments in this thread and only 6 of them moderated above 3! Everyone's saying their favourite unknown movie and the moderators are like, "Nope, never heard of that".
Yes, it was surprising to me too. The day it started I thought they just wanted to promote google.ca more, but it's stayed that way. I wonder if results are being censored from Canadians?
The first line was something along the lines of "Wow, can I borrow your clothes?" only more Japanesy. The next line was classic, years ahead of its time:
Yes, humanity managed to get one colony ship off before succumbing, and the decendents of this ship return eons later, after having genetically modified themselves to the point of unrecognizability, and with no special knowledge of earth, and basically exploit the life there until there's nothing left.
It was predictable, but I liked how the aquatic people worked their way onto land when they were running out of food in the water. First they made it ashore with self-manufactured spheres of salt water around them, eventually they got to the point where they were skin-tight. They Aquatics (that was their name!) were still slow and lumbering on land and made for good prey, however.
He did finish the book "Man after Man". The basic idea was that we genetically engineer about 3 or 4 different races (plain dwellers, undersea people, etc.) and then end up dying off when the magnetic poles reverse. The rest of the book shows how these races evolve over the next thousands of years. Pretty neat stuff, lots of pictures and thought put into it.
We had a database at work where a column was to hold a count of the batches, or a batch count, if you will. However, having a column with that long of a title (batchcount) for one int seemed like a waste, so they dropped the vowels.
New people (especially women) are always shocked with the BTCHCNT column.
The problem with movies today is that every great plot has been done already.
Fuck that. I'm sick of people saying everything that can be done has been done, and trying to make themselves seem like intellectuals in the process.
I'm not sure how many plays Shakespeare wrote, but I'll be safe and say it's less than a thousand. And you're saying all the stories than can possibly be told were used up telling them? Bullshit. By that logic by the time you're a little over 2 1/2 years old (1000 days) you've probably seen everything that's going to happen in your life.
If you say that there's a finite amount of story lines, list them, damn it! You can't make a grand claim like that and not back it up. Saying "Any plot you summarize in one sentence will sound familiar, because it has been done already, again and again and again" is stupid, because compressing anything to one sentence robs it of its nuances and trivializes it. Observe: "WWII was a war in which we dropped an atomic bomb (two, actually) and won the war; also: many people died."
Perhaps every story that can be told in 100 words has been told, but that doesn't mean the rest of human creation is redundant.
If ANYONE has ever heard these seven stories spelt out in detail, I'd like to hear them. I'm so sick of people saying "oh, there's only seven (or ten, or twelve) basic storylines" and then never being able to explain what they are.
I don't even look at banner ads anymore. Programs like WebWasher strip all ad-shaped images from the HTML as it comes to your computer, and also can get rid of things like exit-scripts, etc.
Sure, this gets into some ethical issues ("How will slashdot be supported?") but on the other hand, I didn't see all those Anti-Trust ads the rest of you poor folk sat through.
He's referring to the short stories and novels by HP Lovecraft. The comment shouldn't be marked "Insightful", it should be marked "Funny". As I recall, some of the Old Ones came from Pluto.
The page is still up today (Dec 1) but all the content's been removed thanks to the attention it's gotten from here - and the legal ramifications that came with.
I have an unibrow! So now unibrow = unabomber. Everyone watch out for that extra hair, it could be the difference between normal and serial killer.
You can't expect to cultivate such a distinctive feature and not expect reactions. I'm not trying to be combative here, I think it's fair to expect that when you do something out of the ordinary, you'll get good and bad responses from people, and the bad responses will be more often vocalized.
I have a cap with a solar-panal (2, actually) and a fan on it which I use to keep my forehead cool during the summer months. I've recieved many complements (mostly from the technically inclined) but also many insults. But I expect such things when I do something out-of-the-ordinary and distinctive.
Everybody always complains about little use and acceptence the 'great new videophone technology' gets, but never realizes that the reason for this is that
a) people like to talk on the phone and also be naked/scratching themselves/watching tv/etc
b) obscene phone calls will be raised to a new level.
Bad enough keeping your eyes on the road while talking on a mobile phone, imagine it on a video-phone?:)
Slashdot Mirror
THE IRONY!
For instance, they recognize my IP as being from Canada, and all links to google.com redirect to google.ca, no matter what I do.
New comics every day! It is perhaps the best use of the internet... ever?
What's more, it's in Choose-Your-Own-Adventure comic-strip form.
Perhaps.. the perfect educational tool?
Say whatever is in your mind freely. Our conversation will be kept in strict confidance. Memory contents will be wiped after you leave.
So, tell me about your problems.
>i don't have any pants
You may think you don't have any pants, but it is only an illusion.
>it's true, i have no pants
Just now you were talking about no pants, tell me more about that.
>What? uh - ok, seriously, though, i need some pants.
Don't talk dirty.
>quit
The first line was something along the lines of "Wow, can I borrow your clothes?" only more Japanesy. The next line was classic, years ahead of its time:
"No dice? What a drag."
Yes, humanity managed to get one colony ship off before succumbing, and the decendents of this ship return eons later, after having genetically modified themselves to the point of unrecognizability, and with no special knowledge of earth, and basically exploit the life there until there's nothing left.
It was predictable, but I liked how the aquatic people worked their way onto land when they were running out of food in the water. First they made it ashore with self-manufactured spheres of salt water around them, eventually they got to the point where they were skin-tight. They Aquatics (that was their name!) were still slow and lumbering on land and made for good prey, however.
He did finish the book "Man after Man". The basic idea was that we genetically engineer about 3 or 4 different races (plain dwellers, undersea people, etc.) and then end up dying off when the magnetic poles reverse. The rest of the book shows how these races evolve over the next thousands of years. Pretty neat stuff, lots of pictures and thought put into it.
New people (especially women) are always shocked with the BTCHCNT column.
Fuck that. I'm sick of people saying everything that can be done has been done, and trying to make themselves seem like intellectuals in the process.
I'm not sure how many plays Shakespeare wrote, but I'll be safe and say it's less than a thousand. And you're saying all the stories than can possibly be told were used up telling them? Bullshit. By that logic by the time you're a little over 2 1/2 years old (1000 days) you've probably seen everything that's going to happen in your life.
If you say that there's a finite amount of story lines, list them, damn it! You can't make a grand claim like that and not back it up. Saying "Any plot you summarize in one sentence will sound familiar, because it has been done already, again and again and again" is stupid, because compressing anything to one sentence robs it of its nuances and trivializes it. Observe: "WWII was a war in which we dropped an atomic bomb (two, actually) and won the war; also: many people died."
Perhaps every story that can be told in 100 words has been told, but that doesn't mean the rest of human creation is redundant.
No peaking? Typo makes it sound like you're downloading porn...
If ANYONE has ever heard these seven stories spelt out in detail, I'd like to hear them. I'm so sick of people saying "oh, there's only seven (or ten, or twelve) basic storylines" and then never being able to explain what they are.
Sure, this gets into some ethical issues ("How will slashdot be supported?") but on the other hand, I didn't see all those Anti-Trust ads the rest of you poor folk sat through.
Oh, and WebWasher's free for students :)
He's referring to the short stories and novels by HP Lovecraft. The comment shouldn't be marked "Insightful", it should be marked "Funny". As I recall, some of the Old Ones came from Pluto.
There's some really fascinating stuff, like delivering carrier pigeons by parachute and, and more absurdly, Vinyl Video.
A great way to spend a couple of hours in nostalgia-land.
The page is still up today (Dec 1) but all the content's been removed thanks to the attention it's gotten from here - and the legal ramifications that came with.
You can't expect to cultivate such a distinctive feature and not expect reactions. I'm not trying to be combative here, I think it's fair to expect that when you do something out of the ordinary, you'll get good and bad responses from people, and the bad responses will be more often vocalized.
I have a cap with a solar-panal (2, actually) and a fan on it which I use to keep my forehead cool during the summer months. I've recieved many complements (mostly from the technically inclined) but also many insults. But I expect such things when I do something out-of-the-ordinary and distinctive.
Not saying it's right, but it can be expected.
a) people like to talk on the phone and also be naked/scratching themselves/watching tv/etc
b) obscene phone calls will be raised to a new level.
Bad enough keeping your eyes on the road while talking on a mobile phone, imagine it on a video-phone? :)
Is this news? "SEGA SAYS PS2 SUCKS" Well, I'm shocked.
Hell, I read this in Spectrum a week ago. And I live in CANADA.