How much do any of you people know about how air traffic control works? These BS what if scenarios you all come up with reek of bad movie scripts that are neigh impossible. Seriously, each large airport (small town ones don't have this AFAIK) has 2 control towers, the main one and a backup. In the event terrorists take one out the other is still there. On top of that there is a regional ATC that coordinates things between different airspaces. Try learning how this stuff works and then come up with it's flaws.
"Total loss of power for a sustained time can cause loss of life, not to mention huge financial consequences. That 'non-critical' care you say might be inconvienienced might be someones organ transplant or chem therapy."
Have you ever worked in a hospital. Trust me, the generation system is more then enough to keep the OR and other areas open and fully functional. There is no way in hell they would ever even think of letting the slightest posibility of an interuption even begin to start to possibly think of happening maybe. They even keep IT and light going.
Do you know anything about medical records? Most places still use paper or at best scan the paper in onto read only media that is triple checked before it's committed. The places that do do electronic medical records still have safeguards, and on top of that J. Random Hacker assuming they can get into a HIPAA complaint site will still have to know about 1. the software and how to use it. 2. have to know medically how to make a useful change. 3. know the record they are changing is an active patient. Just to get a scope of how hard it is, most organizations have records for patients going back years, often only a small portion of the patient records they have are active. Now the software may mark the client as active in some obvious way but that is not something you can rely on.
Before worrying hackers or terrorists are messing with medcal records and killing millions of patriotic americans I'd worry about ten times as much about crazy angel of death types working in the hospital.
Hospital gear is not a cellphone, they don't try to put the kitchen sink in every item. I cant imagine a glucose monitor hooked up to any kind of network sorry. At best they record data internally and you can download it or otherwise manage it, but the user has to take the action.
Sorry but Law and Order is shit for 90% of it's writing about anything, especially technology. I don't take credible threat scenarios from tv writers.
Read up on HIPAA and look at what real world hospitans are doing to be compliant.
And it shows. At least over the last couple years it has improved to the point I turn off the English soundtrack after the first 2 minutes instead of not giving it a chance after all. Why do they always cast gravely voiced 40 year olds (who cant seem to try to sound different) as 12 year old boys. The list of atrocities in anime dubbing is so long a single/. post can not contain it, and it would form some sort of distortion in the space/time continuum.
I almost agree with you on the RAM part, but more powerful then the average PC? For that price highly unlikely. It's not like we are ending up with Pseries IBM machiens when we buy these.
"There all as bad for trying to drum up hype with daft names , sony just didit in a style more beffiting of japanese culture."
SONY isn't doing half what they could. I submit to you the Full Armor PlayStation Double Zeta Plus.
From a Usenet thread back when the "dragonball" came out (BTW Beboxes had a chip names kasumi): The "Kasumi" chip, for example...am I to guess that it has slow interrupt handling, and thus tends to putter on oblivious to the activities of its peripherals. It's also prone to not allowing the user to directly access it (eg. no supervisor mode;) However, it also gets so hot as to allow the user to cook a full course meal. Just stick the ingredients into the disk drive.
Dragonball series chips would run very slowly for long periods of time, until the chip builds up enough energy, upon which time stuff happens really quickly, and then goes back to it's normal drag-on mode;) This super-mode is usually preceded by the chip glowing a bright yellow, and will actually put out enough energy to destroy a small city.
The "Mihoshi" chip: Reduced instruction set, to be sure - and the exception handling would be particularly unstable (if frighteningly lucky).
Looks like you have not driven cross country in a while. With 2 week trucking schools pumping out drivers who think a truck handles and drives like a compact car (with a full load). I've had experiances that make me get flashbacks to The Duel on major highways roads in the last year. I ended up doing over 90 to get away from some crazy asshat who decided to, instead of using the left lane, pull into the right lane and then accellerate as fast as he could. When your rear view mirror goes from truck a few car lengths back to only seeing the center of the radiator grill you get a bit jumpy.
"The Passion of the Christ? The movie that broke box office records with no traditional marketing or advertisements"
In the USA it had TV advertisements. I remember seeing them.
According to Variety magazine(Feb 22, 2004):
"Passion" has shunned standard movie marketing techniques, instead building a core audience by creating a network of churches that are seeking to use the film to attract new members.
Icon and Newmarket, however, have launched their broader advertising campaign. TV spots began running on cable the middle of last week. On Monday, network ads began airing. Time has also been bought on Hispanic nets.
Print campaign launches on Sunday with ads in the New York Times, L.A. Times and other major metropolitan dailies.
"It's an aggressive campaign combined with a pretty much overwhelming grassroots and faith-based marketing campaign," Berney said. "We've tried to smartly combine the two." "
By "got to OZ" do you mean the Place (after the tornado), the Wizard, or Emerald City (that the wizard was in). Most of the movie takes place in OZ so I was a bit conflabulated by your use of OZ without saying if it was the land or the wizard.
"It really didn't even have the grace of the well done martial arts films (I'm thinking especially of the first battle, in the rain, in the sequal to Crouching Tiger, but I can't remember the title)"
Crouching Tiger had no sequal that I am aware of. However the next "big" Martial Arts film to come out that was hyped (and deserved it IMO) was Hero. I believe it has the opening fight scene you describe. More recently we got House of flying daggers, that IMO was too short to get done all it's plot, but the story really was just about the two of them not the war.
I believe Iron Monkey was released shortly after (or before) Crouching Tiger, and was not as hevailly pushed.
In Ringu, Samara when she is alive, shows you why she is scary. Her death only adds to her scary factor. Also given what she was in life it explains IMO quite well why she was such a powerful ghost. I watched Ringu after seeing The Ring and found the re-make to be week and flat compared to the Original, but some do say it made a lot of improvements over the original.
Then again I just saw Ring 2: Electric Bugaloo and unless I am mistaken they have totally killed continuity between the two remakes.
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How much do any of you people know about how air traffic control works?
These BS what if scenarios you all come up with reek of bad movie scripts that are neigh impossible.
Seriously, each large airport (small town ones don't have this AFAIK) has 2 control towers, the main one and a backup. In the event terrorists take one out the other is still there. On top of that there is a regional ATC that coordinates things between different airspaces. Try learning how this stuff works and then come up with it's flaws.
"Total loss of power for a sustained time can cause loss of life, not to mention huge financial consequences. That 'non-critical' care you say might be inconvienienced might be someones organ transplant or chem therapy."
Have you ever worked in a hospital.
Trust me, the generation system is more then enough to keep the OR and other areas open and fully functional. There is no way in hell they would ever even think of letting the slightest posibility of an interuption even begin to start to possibly think of happening maybe. They even keep IT and light going.
Do you know anything about medical records?
Most places still use paper or at best scan the paper in onto read only media that is triple checked before it's committed.
The places that do do electronic medical records still have safeguards, and on top of that J. Random Hacker assuming they can get into a HIPAA complaint site will still have to know about 1. the software and how to use it. 2. have to know medically how to make a useful change. 3. know the record they are changing is an active patient.
Just to get a scope of how hard it is, most organizations have records for patients going back years, often only a small portion of the patient records they have are active. Now the software may mark the client as active in some obvious way but that is not something you can rely on.
Before worrying hackers or terrorists are messing with medcal records and killing millions of patriotic americans I'd worry about ten times as much about crazy angel of death types working in the hospital.
Hospital gear is not a cellphone, they don't try to put the kitchen sink in every item.
I cant imagine a glucose monitor hooked up to any kind of network sorry. At best they record data internally and you can download it or otherwise manage it, but the user has to take the action.
Sorry but Law and Order is shit for 90% of it's writing about anything, especially technology. I don't take credible threat scenarios from tv writers.
Read up on HIPAA and look at what real world hospitans are doing to be compliant.
I think Lego Staar Wars did a good job on cutscenes and they didnt use any voice acting, no dialog either.
"Many anime voice projects are non-union"
/. post can not contain it, and it would form some sort of distortion in the space/time continuum.
And it shows. At least over the last couple years it has improved to the point I turn off the English soundtrack after the first 2 minutes instead of not giving it a chance after all.
Why do they always cast gravely voiced 40 year olds (who cant seem to try to sound different) as 12 year old boys. The list of atrocities in anime dubbing is so long a single
I want to know how much the original Biohazard/Resident Evil cast got paid.
"It's blood!"
"I hope this isn't Chris's blood..."
I thought AO was the X for consoles.
Also available on the PC.
The problem is people use RPG for 3 different (at least) gametypes that should be differentiated.
Japanese RPG (your square/enix type games).
CRPG (pc style rpg like bauldurs gate or might and magic).
Action RPG (Morrowind Jade Empire).
Each tends to have a diferent audience that follows it. Often one group does not consider the other groups games as true RPG.
I almost agree with you on the RAM part, but more powerful then the average PC? For that price highly unlikely. It's not like we are ending up with Pseries IBM machiens when we buy these.
Is everything you have ever done or ever will do new and unique, or have you ever done/created the same thing in a slightly modified form?
Dreamcast was last generation.
Residnet Evil 4 does that quite well, but it's not as fast paced as one of the 007 or other FPS games.
"There all as bad for trying to drum up hype with daft names , sony just didit in a style more beffiting of japanese culture ."
;) However, it also gets so hot as to allow the user to cook a full course meal. Just stick the ingredients into the disk drive.
;) This super-mode is usually preceded by the chip glowing a bright yellow, and will actually put out enough energy to destroy
SONY isn't doing half what they could. I submit to you the Full Armor PlayStation Double Zeta Plus.
From a Usenet thread back when the "dragonball" came out (BTW Beboxes had a chip names kasumi):
The "Kasumi" chip, for example...am I to guess that it has slow interrupt handling, and thus tends to putter on oblivious to the activities of its peripherals. It's also prone to not allowing the user to directly access it (eg. no supervisor mode
Dragonball series chips would run very slowly for long periods of time, until the chip builds up enough energy, upon which time stuff happens really quickly, and then goes back to it's normal drag-on mode
a small city.
The "Mihoshi" chip: Reduced instruction set, to be sure - and the exception handling would be particularly unstable (if frighteningly lucky).
If your from the south you eat em with salt and or cheese.
If your from the north then you eat em with pancake syrup.
"YOU CAN'T BEAT ME ON THE GRADE!"
Looks like you have not driven cross country in a while. With 2 week trucking schools pumping out drivers who think a truck handles and drives like a compact car (with a full load). I've had experiances that make me get flashbacks to The Duel on major highways roads in the last year. I ended up doing over 90 to get away from some crazy asshat who decided to, instead of using the left lane, pull into the right lane and then accellerate as fast as he could. When your rear view mirror goes from truck a few car lengths back to only seeing the center of the radiator grill you get a bit jumpy.
"The Passion of the Christ? The movie that broke box office records with no traditional marketing or advertisements"
In the USA it had TV advertisements. I remember seeing them.
According to Variety magazine(Feb 22, 2004):
"Passion" has shunned standard movie marketing techniques, instead building a core audience by creating a network of churches that are seeking to use the film to attract new members.
Icon and Newmarket, however, have launched their broader advertising campaign. TV spots began running on cable the middle of last week. On Monday, network ads began airing. Time has also been bought on Hispanic nets.
Print campaign launches on Sunday with ads in the New York Times, L.A. Times and other major metropolitan dailies.
"It's an aggressive campaign combined with a pretty much overwhelming grassroots and faith-based marketing campaign," Berney said. "We've tried to smartly combine the two." "
By "got to OZ" do you mean the Place (after the tornado), the Wizard, or Emerald City (that the wizard was in). Most of the movie takes place in OZ so I was a bit conflabulated by your use of OZ without saying if it was the land or the wizard.
All of what you say was being said on 09/10/2001
How can you tell the differnt versions?
"It really didn't even have the grace of the well done martial arts films (I'm thinking especially of the first battle, in the rain, in the sequal to Crouching Tiger, but I can't remember the title)"
Crouching Tiger had no sequal that I am aware of. However the next "big" Martial Arts film to come out that was hyped (and deserved it IMO) was Hero. I believe it has the opening fight scene you describe. More recently we got House of flying daggers, that IMO was too short to get done all it's plot, but the story really was just about the two of them not the war.
I believe Iron Monkey was released shortly after (or before) Crouching Tiger, and was not as hevailly pushed.
I hear (not ahving seen it) ther starting scene was ripped off from RAN.
In Ringu, Samara when she is alive, shows you why she is scary. Her death only adds to her scary factor. Also given what she was in life it explains IMO quite well why she was such a powerful ghost.
I watched Ringu after seeing The Ring and found the re-make to be week and flat compared to the Original, but some do say it made a lot of improvements over the original.
Then again I just saw Ring 2: Electric Bugaloo and unless I am mistaken they have totally killed continuity between the two remakes.
Are you implying that it is getting better in his wardrobe?
Never mind, it's one o'clock and time for lunch.