IMDB is only so good. Lots of background trivia about actors, the films, and sometimes lists of notable quotes, but It's less sterling when it comes to surfing for comments. Google tosses up a handful right away. Here's and example of one film I'd like to get my money back on:
Cat In The Hat
What I'd like to know is how people can actually give this film more than 2 stars. Beautiful sets but the film is mostly garbage.
On IMDB you can see the 3.2/10 rating but have to click on the links to see the spread and more than just one viewers comments.
"No movie critics were harmed or even used in the making of this page."
You know, just in case people thought that they'd holf movie critics hostage in order to promote them...
More likely movie critics will take umbrage with this as it interfers with their ability to hold an audience and make a living. Worse even it may include some of their old reviews on news sites, where the critic isn't making a further dime on their performance and demand royalties from Google.
Even more stuff to learn. As if high school wasnt mind numbing enough.
If you're going to be a developer, you'd better get used to it. As hardware advances, so does software and there's always some guy around the corner with the latest, greatest language/tool/etc.
The thing that occured to me, years ago was the shift from 'no, we can't do that' to 'we can do that' which was mostly as the result of much faster hardware with more storage. Ways of doing things which required a lot of power were impractical within the confinements of old hardware suddenly became possible, only to encounter new things which were too grand for the hardware, etc. If you can, imagine trying to run on a 20 year old computer what you can run on a new one. It'd choke the old thing.
So, as the hardwave evolves, so the software and you're able to develop incredibly complex (and probably as unsecure) applications with toolkits which would have once entailed hundreds of thousands of lines of code in a few drag and drops and fill in the properties. It always gets me when I see some application which isn't really doing a hell of a lot is tying up 30 MB of RAM. We ran an entire college on 2 88 MB HD's once...
Now what am I to do with the truckloads of flag-free tuner cards I bought? Since social security is going down the tubes, I guess it is back to plan B for my retirement plans: leech off my kids.
Here's what you do:
Buy add spots along side John Basedow (he wasn't killed in the tsunami, btw)
Advertise them as virus filters for your home TV (hey, you didn't get any virii? It's working!)
??? (let the money roll in)
Profit!!!
Of course, the only fly in this is if Microsoft licenses some form of Windows for TV's and they get massively infected you'd better be in Costa Rica.
Many frequent flyers have reported good results using Lufthansa's wireless internet in the sky with Skype. By contrast, doign this on a highway just seems a little humdrum.
Isn't the signal actually relayed to/from the jet?
When the guy in the Luxus blasted past me at about 100 mph while blathering away on his cell call "hey fred, you should see how this thing handles on the shoulder of the road at 100 mph while one handed driving, marvelous..." he knew he could count on that keeping up with him. granted he was going substantially slower than the c (the speed of light).
Now he's assured that he could steer with his knees and type away on his laptop while driving similarly "hey fred, how to you spell 'psychopath'?"
The largest association of police chiefs will issue a national bulletin within 10 days [sometime this week] urging police departments to review the use of stun guns because of reports that the weapons may be related to numerous deaths.
They recently used one on some nut down the main drag in town who was holding a child and threatening to stab it. I have no problem with them using such means in such a situation. However I do wonder when they police use them just to subdue a wildman, such as a video I saw where three officers, each one firing at the suspect, zapped him. Looked brutal.
...do we really need to go mashing old new words into new new words for every little 'Net-related derivation out there?
It's stupidiotic, and it's getting irritannoying.
I have to look closely to see that it's not 'Spinning', what with these fonts and all.
spinning? someone was arrested for spinning? probably that rumplestilkskin guy, straw-into-gold and interfering with some hegemony.
I don't think the term 'Spim' is going to stick, it just doesn't have POW. Spam - now there's a forceful word, rhymes with Blam!
What's a cheep motor? Does it work with bird power?
Ruminate while I elucidate...
Cheap : Inexpensive.
Cheep : Of minimal quality, often inexpensive, but not always so.
A cheep motor would be good enough to do the job. Ideally one with crumby brushes which tosses a few sparks for effect and has irregular RPM to keep the switching unpredicable. Nobody likes a rut.
you can either challenge their decisions in court (assuming that someone isn't already) or get people fired up to fight.
Problem being, too many americans are too busy watching their spoon-fed share of culture on TV to care what happens, as long as the crap keeps showing up on their bigscreen they're fat and happy.
So the abacus, in use for centuries, comes in at #60 of all time, but the PowerBook 100, which was in production for a few short years is ranked #1?
The PowerBook 100 was a great machine and all, but let's be serious.
I prefer #79 (TASER X26, 2003) If you have one of these you can probably eventually get everything else on the list.
Pfft! Build your 0wn! All you need is a small high current cell, a high voltage transformer, an cheep motor to switch between charge/discharge of the primary coil, some light guage twisted pair and some bait stickers. (Test it on people who irritate you first, to make sure you don't have it set to deadly.)
This is what you get when consumer information is obtained and stored behind a cloak of secrecy. This is what you get when privacy laws are not enforced or valued. This is what you get when the standard consumer is ignorant and apathetic to the importance of person information.
This is what you get when consumer information is ALLOWED to the collected and stored by private agencies, without their knowledge. At least with the government there's the Freedom of Information Act. Who is to tell you how many companies are compiling personal info on YOU? We try to get laws passed, requiring them to gain your permission when gathering or exchanging, but oddly someone pops up and fights it. Probably people like ChoicePoint's lobbyists.
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Oof. Better wear cargo pants with reinforced pockets.
What I'd like to know is how people can actually give this film more than 2 stars. Beautiful sets but the film is mostly garbage.
On IMDB you can see the 3.2/10 rating but have to click on the links to see the spread and more than just one viewers comments.
More likely movie critics will take umbrage with this as it interfers with their ability to hold an audience and make a living. Worse even it may include some of their old reviews on news sites, where the critic isn't making a further dime on their performance and demand royalties from Google.
Hey. It could happen.
If you're going to be a developer, you'd better get used to it. As hardware advances, so does software and there's always some guy around the corner with the latest, greatest language/tool/etc.
The thing that occured to me, years ago was the shift from 'no, we can't do that' to 'we can do that' which was mostly as the result of much faster hardware with more storage. Ways of doing things which required a lot of power were impractical within the confinements of old hardware suddenly became possible, only to encounter new things which were too grand for the hardware, etc. If you can, imagine trying to run on a 20 year old computer what you can run on a new one. It'd choke the old thing.
So, as the hardwave evolves, so the software and you're able to develop incredibly complex (and probably as unsecure) applications with toolkits which would have once entailed hundreds of thousands of lines of code in a few drag and drops and fill in the properties. It always gets me when I see some application which isn't really doing a hell of a lot is tying up 30 MB of RAM. We ran an entire college on 2 88 MB HD's once...
Spyware, no doubt.
So today's lesson is: Weasels will turn to the courts to shut up those who would warn the public
funny thing is, it's the same lesson we've been presented before.
Here's what you do:
Buy add spots along side John Basedow (he wasn't killed in the tsunami, btw)
Advertise them as virus filters for your home TV (hey, you didn't get any virii? It's working!)
??? (let the money roll in)
Profit!!!
Of course, the only fly in this is if Microsoft licenses some form of Windows for TV's and they get massively infected you'd better be in Costa Rica.
Should't that be 50 million darkyears?
Isn't the signal actually relayed to/from the jet?
Now he's assured that he could steer with his knees and type away on his laptop while driving similarly "hey fred, how to you spell 'psychopath'?"
They recently used one on some nut down the main drag in town who was holding a child and threatening to stab it. I have no problem with them using such means in such a situation. However I do wonder when they police use them just to subdue a wildman, such as a video I saw where three officers, each one firing at the suspect, zapped him. Looked brutal.
Guess which one will actually stick.
I have to look closely to see that it's not 'Spinning', what with these fonts and all.
spinning? someone was arrested for spinning? probably that rumplestilkskin guy, straw-into-gold and interfering with some hegemony.
I don't think the term 'Spim' is going to stick, it just doesn't have POW. Spam - now there's a forceful word, rhymes with Blam!
He was arrested for extortion.
Ruminate while I elucidate...
Cheap : Inexpensive.
Cheep : Of minimal quality, often inexpensive, but not always so.
A cheep motor would be good enough to do the job. Ideally one with crumby brushes which tosses a few sparks for effect and has irregular RPM to keep the switching unpredicable. Nobody likes a rut.
Problem being, too many americans are too busy watching their spoon-fed share of culture on TV to care what happens, as long as the crap keeps showing up on their bigscreen they're fat and happy.
maybe I should break down and get one of those newfangled video to LP recorders...
What I consider one of my top gadgets I listen to the BBC on.
What's scary is how many items on this list I actually have...
Indeed. The Epson HX-20 was much cooler.
Pfft! Build your 0wn! All you need is a small high current cell, a high voltage transformer, an cheep motor to switch between charge/discharge of the primary coil, some light guage twisted pair and some bait stickers. (Test it on people who irritate you first, to make sure you don't have it set to deadly.)
d33r 54nt4, 1 b33n v3ry 1337 th15 y34r..
Yoda Sez: "Crumple YOU like cans, In Soviet Empire Sith do!"
No... that's when Jar Jar makes his third movie appearance.
Excuse me while I get warmed up!
nngghh! *bonk* nnggh! *bonk* nnggh! *crash* damn cheap walls around here.
That would be worth seeing.
Meanwhile, in that Bastion of Truth, Justice and the Liberty, Washington DC, George W. Bush signs The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
<sarcasm>at least america is safe from gay weddings</sarcasm>
This is what you get when consumer information is ALLOWED to the collected and stored by private agencies, without their knowledge. At least with the government there's the Freedom of Information Act. Who is to tell you how many companies are compiling personal info on YOU? We try to get laws passed, requiring them to gain your permission when gathering or exchanging, but oddly someone pops up and fights it. Probably people like ChoicePoint's lobbyists.