Am I just crazy or do all of these self-proclaimed lords of grammar intentionally put spelling mistakes in their correction posts to indicate that they are joking?
um, AFAIK, the ending in the original release (happy music over green hills, etc.) WAS taken from another movie - scenery outtakes of "The Shining". This was added to give the movie a happy ending.
The director's version is a bit different.
I think you are understimating the "eye candy". You seem to dismiss this as if it were nothing of consequence. Blade Runner is one of the few movies I have ever seen that makes me beleive the futuristic landscape is real. Sure, a lot of the look and feel was lifted from Metropolis, etc. but how can you make a movie that doesn't (intentionally or otherwise) lift ideas from other movies.
It's really a pointless effort to try to link a movie and a book together. They are two different ways of telling a story and it's unreasonable to expect a movie to faithfully recreate a book (unless for some reason the author decides to write the screenplay, direct the movie, film the movie, etc - then you will probably get a bad movie!)
Just watch the movie on its own. You may not like Blade Runner or Dune, but try to view them as if you have never read the books - you will enjoy them more. I'm not saying it's not worth discussing the faults of a book-movie transition; just don't let that nitpicking detract from your enjoyment of the movie.
umm...Snow Crash anyone? Of course, it's just a book and you should really just relax, but still, the glass blades are in there.Nice to know there is some basis.
ummm...even though we have a DNA map, we still have only a hazy concept of what any of this genetic information does, and how the different pieces interact with each other.
Not to diminish the announcment, but what we have done so far is basically number-crunching. It will be quite a while before we can actually do anything useful with this information (of course, it's good to think about what we WANT to do with it now, but there's no need to panic!)
You make the concept of looking up and down in a game seem trivial - ever try walking around IRL without looking up or down? It certainly made the game much more interesting just with that addition.
Not to mention the fact that DOOM was pretty boring - I mean Marathon was the first FPS I played that kept me awake trying and trying to finish just one more level. Not just for the satisfaction of finishing, but I really wanted to find out what was going to happen story-wise. Creepy game!
Yeah, those pages (in IE5) are almost intentionally misleading. But I'm running NS anyway (despite CSS problems) just because I can do that read-only cookie-file trick. My point was that the local mirror is what made the post funny, but I guess I didn't think I'd have to explain that.
Anyway, how can that post end up with a score of 3 but still be marked "Offtopic"? I guess I'm confused about the moderation system now. Does it just keep the "category" the last moderator assigned, regardless of the score?
note: I have no real info, but as far as an announcement goes, couldn't he just be talking about an announcement of Bungie games being developed for Microsoft's X-box? This would make a whole lot more sense than all this talk of buying Bungie (which just make me cringe...I mean, "Marathon" owned by "Microsoft"? )
"Well, you gotta understand that there have been countless rumors of people buying us over theyears - Eidos, GT, Acclaim - and we've developed a policy of not fueling those mills by commenting on the rumors. In general, if you haven't heard something from us, it isn't true."
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Does that mean anything? well, not really, I guess, but at least it's a semi-official statement. Man, I hope it's not true.
Uhh...no offense, but I can't decide if you are being intenionally obutse for the point of making a joke or you just haven't read the book he's making reference too. (and no, I won't say what it is just in case it's the former)
fyi - that would be ZDNet editorializing (look at the article closely)
And anyway, this really IS an editorial - not a reporting piece. It would have been nice to have the link in the story point to an actual report, but hey, that's what slashdot readers are for! Thanks for the link.
just adding another vote and wasn't the MST3K movie riffing on "This Island Earth"? It would make a nice matching sequel. (but please bring back Joel and the original robot voices - one last time, for the movie!)
I remember a friend of mine was playing doom on a PC and I showed him Marathon on my Mac. "What's this? You can look up and down? Amazing!" I won't even get into how engrossing the Marathon story was. Ah, those were the days...
I have to agree with you - the trailer doesn't give me a good feeling. It just looks cheesy.
BTW, I'm glad to see somebody point out that Dune the movie does have at least one good point - the atmosphere. It's hardly worth getting into all the various plot problems (too many to count, although you pretty much covered the important ones!). I enjoy the movie for the look and feel; I read the book for the story (and an even better aSKphere created by Herbert in my mind).
most mainstream, big studio movies that I have seen usually have Pan&Scan on one side and Widescreen on the other. This can be very useful when the rental copy is scratched and you have to flip it over to Pan&Scan to watch that one scene that gets screwed up! (very annoying, but at least I can watch it)
Oh yeah, can I just take a second to say that rental DVDs SUCK! Unless you can get them right away before every joe schmoe rents them and uses them to clean grout out of the shower tiles or toss as frisbees to their dogs or whatever it is that people do to scratch these things.
At least they are (somewhat) reasonably priced so I can hold on to a few favorites.
yeah, but then it wouldn't be an O'Reilly book, now would it? It's nice to see ORA have the smarts (although we knew this already) to poke a little fun at their own "serious" series of books - I mean, how perfect is that? You can put it right next to all your other "nutshell" books and nobody will notice! (at least not at first glance)
Slashdot Mirror
Am I just crazy or do all of these self-proclaimed lords of grammar intentionally put spelling mistakes in their correction posts to indicate that they are joking?
OTOH, he's not called "The Spelling Nazi".
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man i feel bad now for x@x.com
I guess I better think of a better fake address to use in filling out forms - that's just the fastest for me to type!
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um, AFAIK, the ending in the original release (happy music over green hills, etc.) WAS taken from another movie - scenery outtakes of "The Shining". This was added to give the movie a happy ending.
The director's version is a bit different.
I think you are understimating the "eye candy". You seem to dismiss this as if it were nothing of consequence. Blade Runner is one of the few movies I have ever seen that makes me beleive the futuristic landscape is real. Sure, a lot of the look and feel was lifted from Metropolis, etc. but how can you make a movie that doesn't (intentionally or otherwise) lift ideas from other movies.
It's really a pointless effort to try to link a movie and a book together. They are two different ways of telling a story and it's unreasonable to expect a movie to faithfully recreate a book (unless for some reason the author decides to write the screenplay, direct the movie, film the movie, etc - then you will probably get a bad movie!)
Just watch the movie on its own. You may not like Blade Runner or Dune, but try to view them as if you have never read the books - you will enjoy them more. I'm not saying it's not worth discussing the faults of a book-movie transition; just don't let that nitpicking detract from your enjoyment of the movie.
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Wouldn't want to have an epee, foil, or saber (or rapier) in my hand when going up against steel armor.
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umm...Snow Crash anyone? Of course, it's just a book and you should really just relax, but still, the glass blades are in there.Nice to know there is some basis.
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ummm...even though we have a DNA map, we still have only a hazy concept of what any of this genetic information does, and how the different pieces interact with each other.
Not to diminish the announcment, but what we have done so far is basically number-crunching. It will be quite a while before we can actually do anything useful with this information (of course, it's good to think about what we WANT to do with it now, but there's no need to panic!)
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Oh, to have Carl Kassel's voice on my answering machine!
Best show on the radio right now.
Bar none.
Best of all, you can listen to all the episodes in real audio on the NPR website here.
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You make the concept of looking up and down in a game seem trivial - ever try walking around IRL without looking up or down? It certainly made the game much more interesting just with that addition.
Not to mention the fact that DOOM was pretty boring - I mean Marathon was the first FPS I played that kept me awake trying and trying to finish just one more level. Not just for the satisfaction of finishing, but I really wanted to find out what was going to happen story-wise. Creepy game!
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Yeah, those pages (in IE5) are almost intentionally misleading. But I'm running NS anyway (despite CSS problems) just because I can do that read-only cookie-file trick. My point was that the local mirror is what made the post funny, but I guess I didn't think I'd have to explain that.
Anyway, how can that post end up with a score of 3 but still be marked "Offtopic"? I guess I'm confused about the moderation system now. Does it just keep the "category" the last moderator assigned, regardless of the score?
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wow, I'm seeing some nasty moderation fights on your comment.
:-)
c'mon, it is a pretty funny comment but your seemingly "helpful" mirror doesn't seem to work for some bizarre, incomprehensible reason
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They company that makes this notes the Snow Crash reference in their faq.
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note: I have no real info, but as far as an announcement goes, couldn't he just be talking about an announcement of Bungie games being developed for Microsoft's X-box? This would make a whole lot more sense than all this talk of buying Bungie (which just make me cringe...I mean, "Marathon" owned by "Microsoft"? )
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I found this on planetxbox
(quote from Bungie's Doug Zartman)
"Well, you gotta understand that there have been countless rumors of people buying us over theyears - Eidos, GT, Acclaim - and we've developed a policy of not fueling those mills by commenting on the rumors. In general, if you haven't heard something from us, it isn't true."
(end quote)
Does that mean anything? well, not really, I guess, but at least it's a semi-official statement. Man, I hope it's not true.
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Uhh...no offense, but I can't decide if you are being intenionally obutse for the point of making a joke or you just haven't read the book he's making reference too. (and no, I won't say what it is just in case it's the former)
Either way, it made me laugh, so thanks.
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fyi - that would be ZDNet editorializing (look at the article closely)
And anyway, this really IS an editorial - not a reporting piece. It would have been nice to have the link in the story point to an actual report, but hey, that's what slashdot readers are for! Thanks for the link.
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just adding another vote and wasn't the MST3K movie riffing on "This Island Earth"? It would make a nice matching sequel. (but please bring back Joel and the original robot voices - one last time, for the movie!)
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wow - quite a bit of useful info there! Thanks! (fyi - RE: ironchef.com - try something other than index.html when you go there)
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who the hell is this guy? He's got a weird haircut, funky shades, and actually knows a bit about food! And what's with the name?
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uh, Marathon? And it seems as though you did have a Mac at some point, so platform issues should be no excuse.
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I remember a friend of mine was playing doom on a PC and I showed him Marathon on my Mac. "What's this? You can look up and down? Amazing!" I won't even get into how engrossing the Marathon story was. Ah, those were the days...
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I have to agree with you - the trailer doesn't give me a good feeling. It just looks cheesy.
BTW, I'm glad to see somebody point out that Dune the movie does have at least one good point - the atmosphere. It's hardly worth getting into all the various plot problems (too many to count, although you pretty much covered the important ones!). I enjoy the movie for the look and feel; I read the book for the story (and an even better aSKphere created by Herbert in my mind).
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Heh, as if the most difficult thing to overcome is the limits of cat5 cable.
I mean, the hardest part is going to be using the crimper with the giant claws on your deep-sea submersible suit!
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most mainstream, big studio movies that I have seen usually have Pan&Scan on one side and Widescreen on the other. This can be very useful when the rental copy is scratched and you have to flip it over to Pan&Scan to watch that one scene that gets screwed up! (very annoying, but at least I can watch it)
Oh yeah, can I just take a second to say that rental DVDs SUCK! Unless you can get them right away before every joe schmoe rents them and uses them to clean grout out of the shower tiles or toss as frisbees to their dogs or whatever it is that people do to scratch these things.
At least they are (somewhat) reasonably priced so I can hold on to a few favorites.
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yeah, but then it wouldn't be an O'Reilly book, now would it? It's nice to see ORA have the smarts (although we knew this already) to poke a little fun at their own "serious" series of books - I mean, how perfect is that? You can put it right next to all your other "nutshell" books and nobody will notice! (at least not at first glance)
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shouldn't there be some sort of fine just for picking such a horribly puntastic name?
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