I guess to me I've always thought about it this way, there were just too many hints leading towards it, without holding your hand and spelling it out for you.
Of course, the modern way of doing this (Sixth Sense, The Others) is to explcitly state the 'surprise', but in my mind BR was one of the first I saw that used this twist on the main character, and did it very well at that.
The local IMAX here plays 'Hollywood Classics' as they call them every weekend. seeing as the IMAX screen is almost square, and movies aren't, you get a mixed bag: shows done in 16:9 take up almost the entire width of the screen, and it's like watching a letterboxed/WS dvd on a tv, but really BIG. Movies that are more square (DVD buffs fill in the proper terminology) tend to actually take up less of the screen, especially the older and more deteriorated prints (Ghostbusters was a particular disappointment).
Points of interest:
Matrix is far and away the most popular to be shown so far. It sells out for every showing they've done (and they've had it at least 10 weekends now).
The screen (at least here in Winnipeg, Canada) is something like 5 stories high, well over 70 feet. Even if the movie frame doesn't entirely fill it, a good print plus the AMAZING audio systems they have really make for an experience (Saving Private Ryan anyone?)
The obvious choice, the Star Wars trilogy, has never been shown. I assume Lucas and his cash machine figure they can't make enough here, so why give the fans something they'd love?
One of the funniest scenes in the past few years of the Simpsons has to be when Ned and Homer are in the casino in Vegas, and Ned is having moral issues with gambling. So, he looks to the heavens, and asks if he should gamble.
Of course, in Las Vegas casinos the ceilings are absolutely covered with a/v packages to watch patrons, so the security guy mutters in a low voice 'keep gambling'. To which Ned proceeds to spend a huge wad of money.
This 5 second scene pokes fun at so many things at once, I'm always in stitches.
Actually, I think the whole thing is a load of crap, but it's quite hilarious to see the South Park joke when they do it. What most americans don't realize is that the 'american english accent' or whatever you want to call it, that's portrayed in movies, tv, you name it (and of course excluding heavily accented speech like New Yorkers or Bostonians), is actually very much like Canadian English.
2 things here: one, hollywood has a TON of Canadians in the business - tell me you've ever heard Micheal J. Fox say 'aboot' and I'll eat my hat.
Secondly, most of what americans think is the 'Canadian' accent is actually only spoken in the Atlantic provinces. Newfoundlanders have a very distinct dialect and pronunciation from anyone else in Canada, for example. There's also a milder form of this which is prevalent in Toronto, and of course that's where the majority of Canadian/american contact happens.
I'll tell you one thing though - I've lived in Canada my entire life, and we sound a lot closer to american TV and movie personalities than almost anyone from the US (ever been to North Dakota?).
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Yes, unfortunately the main players in the emulation 'scene' have the maturity and mentality of 8 year olds. Several years ago, a principle emulation/ROM site was shut down due to 'anonymous' letters to the ISDA.
And in case anyone's unsure, Nintendo does periodic sweeps of anything it sees as being bad - whether it be ROM sites, emulator sites, copying devices (Bung anyone?), or whatever.
Zophar's is far from the only site offering thr GBA flashlinkers for sale to the US; but the current webmaster is somewhat of a 'personality' and has many the enemy in the scene.
let's see, around here in Montreal the temperature used to be like -20 degrees celsius at this time of year. Well this winter, it's like -6 degrees celsius
Yeah, and in places like Georgia and Florida, they've gotten snow this year. While here in Winnipeg, it's currently 15 degress Celcius above normal and no signs of cooling down before spring. Doesn't mean much beyond this: weather CHANGES from year to year, and from location to location. Anecdotes aside, there really is no reason to think anything bizarre is happening, except for the fact that newssellers need to do just that: sell news.
Although there is so much supposed controversy around global warming I for one can attest to witnessing it first hand growing up in Austin, Texas. Every year consistently since I was a boy the summer temperatures have hit new record highs and for longer and longer periods of time. Last summer there was three weeks where the daily high temp did not drop below 100.
Considering we haven't been seriously monitoring the weather for much more than 100 years, and early recording instruments were semi-accurate at best, I don't think you can claim that recent record highs have anything to do with global warming. Keep in mind that the average annual temperature in Texas about 20,000 years ago was barely this side of freezing. Human-caused global warming certainly didn't do that!
Although I do have to agree with you, I'd take a bunch of nuclear plants over coal/oil/gas any day.
Your point (or part of it anyway) was that this isn't the government making the law, it's the software company making the EULA. Well, the government is the ultimate enforcing body of the EULA - ie: the government would be enforcing a law that intervenes with free speech. Hence the breaking of the US constitution.
As for your 'free will' argument, that's like saying a woman can just quit her job if her boss is sexually harassing her, because she has 'free will'. Of course everyone has free will, but illegal behaviour is still illegal behaviour, and THAT'S what the government is supposed to be for - stopping bullshit like this.
The first amendment says something to the effect of 'the government shall make no laws...' in regards to free speech. Saying 'free speech is not guaranteed outside of the government' makes no sense - the government, and ONLY the government, can make an EULA valid or not. If an EULA violates free speech, and the government were to enforce these laws, the constitution has been broken.
Frinstance - you want to open a bookstore. 50% of the people you want to sell to can click into your store. 100% of the people can head thru the door of a meatspace store. Your call. Jeff? Jeff? Anyone? Anyone?
Show me a 'meatspace' store where 100% of the US population has the ability to go into it, EVER, let alone any time and without leaving their home.
Unless you include Starbucks, nothing even comes close. Add the duplication and waste in setting up several thousand copies of the exact same store.. you're talking apples and oranges.
(one of)the biggest problem with this is that randomly selecting people to go into space is not only silly, it's downright DANGEROUS.
Sorry to burst some people's bubble, but obese people almost certainly cannot go into space, not when you're paying by the pound. Incredibly tall/wide people probably still can't fit into seats/suits/you name it (this was a major issue with early Astronaut selection).
I'm also pretty sure that NASA wouldn't want to send up anyone with intense psychopathic tendencies (to use hyperbole, but I can think of dozens of mental health issues that would keep people out of space).
NASA would pretty much have to set up a 'pre-selection' session for the lottery - otherwise, you'd have huge numbers of entirely unsuitable candidates winning (offhand, the obesity rate in the US is at least 20%.. never mind every other factor) who would then be disqualified and the draw re-done. And who would want to pay the cost of the physical/mental checkups required? Me and most of Slashdot I'm sure, but your average Joe?
Actually, for those wanting to use a 2600 but either only have a newer tv without a coax jack on it, or just hate the poor quality you get out of an rf-modulated signal, try this:
The instructions are for a 2600jr, but the steps are pretty much the same for a woodgrain unit. I've done it, and I can tell you, the picture is LOADS better.
I always found it funny seeing insurance contracts that covered impact by 'air and land vehicles, and spacecraft'. I guess the insurance companies aren't too worried about a satellite hit - the damage could be great, but the odds are rather slim.
Then again, they *do* exclude nuclear attack, so who knows:)
Nope, there're lots of people who are sensitive to this. I've been able to tell if a TV was turned on since I can remember (it was fun telling the teacher in like grade 2 that the TV wasn't on, and she didn't believe me until she realized it was unplugged and the switch didn't do anything:)
My current girlfriend is the first person I've met with the same level of sensitivity, but beyond the obviously broken tubes that anyone can hear whine, it really isn't a big deal. Just turn on some music to drown it out:)
All I had to do was submit my high school transcript with the application halfway through Grade 12. If you have good marks, it's harder to get a driver's license than it is to get into the University of Alberta. (Not to imply that it's an inferior University either.)
Nope, in fact many Canadian universities are very well respected. The difference here is, in Canada we believe in education for EVERYONE, or at least for the most possible. Not money, nor family connections, matter.
Of course, once you're in it's a whole different story. You still have to do the work involved, but there's no high-pressure entrance exam (at least not for a lot of Canuck schools) or insanely high fee. Kinda why we use a lot of government money in one of the few subsidies I can stomach: post-secondary education.
There's a reason why a majority (or so it seemed coming from my less-than-average high school) of Canadian kids go to University/College. No, it's not for everyone, and yes, a LOT of Canadians don't have degrees/diplomas. But usually, that's because of the student's performance AFTER getting out of high school (which is basically just a big social club where we learn algebra, anyway:)
I couldn't agree more. Especially considering this was an INTRODUCTORY course (or did I mis-read?). Let's face it, intro programs tend to be SMALL; there are only so many ways you can write a recursive factorial function, and in a class of several hundred students, chances are 2 of them will duplicate a LOT.
A keen TA is worth a lot more than just accusing students of plagarism based on coincidental code. Case in point: my brother and I both wrote one of my 1st year assigments. The programming guidelines were rather strict (I guess this keeps the TA's from having to spend much time grokking weird code), so the basic framework was pretty much set out for us. Now, both of us come from the same school of thought regarding implementation/testing/debugging, but still...
Our programs had several lines that were identical. Not just close; IDENTICAL. This in what amounted to maybe a 50 line program. The rest was similar enough, that if you DIDN'T look for the differences, you wouldn't have seen them. Thankfully he wasn't enrolled in the class with me at the time...
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Of course, the modern way of doing this (Sixth Sense, The Others) is to explcitly state the 'surprise', but in my mind BR was one of the first I saw that used this twist on the main character, and did it very well at that.
I, and most people I know, figured this out the first time we saw the movie back in 1982. And I was 8 years old at the time.
The local IMAX here plays 'Hollywood Classics' as they call them every weekend. seeing as the IMAX screen is almost square, and movies aren't, you get a mixed bag: shows done in 16:9 take up almost the entire width of the screen, and it's like watching a letterboxed/WS dvd on a tv, but really BIG. Movies that are more square (DVD buffs fill in the proper terminology) tend to actually take up less of the screen, especially the older and more deteriorated prints (Ghostbusters was a particular disappointment).
Points of interest:
Matrix is far and away the most popular to be shown so far. It sells out for every showing they've done (and they've had it at least 10 weekends now).
The screen (at least here in Winnipeg, Canada) is something like 5 stories high, well over 70 feet. Even if the movie frame doesn't entirely fill it, a good print plus the AMAZING audio systems they have really make for an experience (Saving Private Ryan anyone?)
The obvious choice, the Star Wars trilogy, has never been shown. I assume Lucas and his cash machine figure they can't make enough here, so why give the fans something they'd love?
Of course, in Las Vegas casinos the ceilings are absolutely covered with a/v packages to watch patrons, so the security guy mutters in a low voice 'keep gambling'. To which Ned proceeds to spend a huge wad of money.
This 5 second scene pokes fun at so many things at once, I'm always in stitches.
100-110 degree days? No thanks. At least you can dress for the winter. And I also don't enjoy perspiring just from being outside all summer long.
I'll take a few cold months for the nice, tolerable summers, thanks.
2 things here: one, hollywood has a TON of Canadians in the business - tell me you've ever heard Micheal J. Fox say 'aboot' and I'll eat my hat.
Secondly, most of what americans think is the 'Canadian' accent is actually only spoken in the Atlantic provinces. Newfoundlanders have a very distinct dialect and pronunciation from anyone else in Canada, for example. There's also a milder form of this which is prevalent in Toronto, and of course that's where the majority of Canadian/american contact happens.
I'll tell you one thing though - I've lived in Canada my entire life, and we sound a lot closer to american TV and movie personalities than almost anyone from the US (ever been to North Dakota?).
Nintendo of America Inc. (NOA) is providing this letter of notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, USC 17 1201(b) (DMCA) and the US Customs ruling dated December 20, 2001, regarding the import, distribution and sale of the Flash Advance Linker. US Customs confirmed the Flash Advance Linker violates the DMCA and is subject to confiscation.
This notice is addressed to the agent designated by Win-Developer to receive notifications of claimed infringements, as reflected in the current records of the U.S. Copyright Office.
NOA has a good faith belief that your GBA rom collection and flash linker infringes Nintendo's intellectual property rights in violation of section 1201(b) of the DMCA and subject to seizure under 19 USC 1595a(c)(2)(c) by US Customs.
The post describing your Flash Advance Linker was found at: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28286&thresho
Nintendo demands that you immediately cease the use of the Flash Advance Linker and turn it over to Nintendo.
The Flash Advance Linker appearing in your post has been identified by its title, description [and/or] depictions of associated artwork. Based on the information at its disposal on February 20, 2002, NOA believes that the statements in this notice are accurate and correctly describe the infringing nature and status of the infringing material.
Should you have any questions, please contact Nintendo of America Inc.
And in case anyone's unsure, Nintendo does periodic sweeps of anything it sees as being bad - whether it be ROM sites, emulator sites, copying devices (Bung anyone?), or whatever.
Zophar's is far from the only site offering thr GBA flashlinkers for sale to the US; but the current webmaster is somewhat of a 'personality' and has many the enemy in the scene.
Because cheerleaders are known to get laid... and rather often at that
There, we'll make it funny only to comic book fans
Yeah, and in places like Georgia and Florida, they've gotten snow this year. While here in Winnipeg, it's currently 15 degress Celcius above normal and no signs of cooling down before spring. Doesn't mean much beyond this: weather CHANGES from year to year, and from location to location. Anecdotes aside, there really is no reason to think anything bizarre is happening, except for the fact that newssellers need to do just that: sell news.
Considering we haven't been seriously monitoring the weather for much more than 100 years, and early recording instruments were semi-accurate at best, I don't think you can claim that recent record highs have anything to do with global warming. Keep in mind that the average annual temperature in Texas about 20,000 years ago was barely this side of freezing. Human-caused global warming certainly didn't do that!
Although I do have to agree with you, I'd take a bunch of nuclear plants over coal/oil/gas any day.
Nah, if you REALLY wanted to be a dork in grade school, you needed the Transformer watch!
As for your 'free will' argument, that's like saying a woman can just quit her job if her boss is sexually harassing her, because she has 'free will'. Of course everyone has free will, but illegal behaviour is still illegal behaviour, and THAT'S what the government is supposed to be for - stopping bullshit like this.
Show me a 'meatspace' store where 100% of the US population has the ability to go into it, EVER, let alone any time and without leaving their home.
Unless you include Starbucks, nothing even comes close. Add the duplication and waste in setting up several thousand copies of the exact same store.. you're talking apples and oranges.
Sorry to burst some people's bubble, but obese people almost certainly cannot go into space, not when you're paying by the pound. Incredibly tall/wide people probably still can't fit into seats/suits/you name it (this was a major issue with early Astronaut selection).
I'm also pretty sure that NASA wouldn't want to send up anyone with intense psychopathic tendencies (to use hyperbole, but I can think of dozens of mental health issues that would keep people out of space).
NASA would pretty much have to set up a 'pre-selection' session for the lottery - otherwise, you'd have huge numbers of entirely unsuitable candidates winning (offhand, the obesity rate in the US is at least 20%.. never mind every other factor) who would then be disqualified and the draw re-done. And who would want to pay the cost of the physical/mental checkups required? Me and most of Slashdot I'm sure, but your average Joe?
http://www.atariage.com/howto/composite.html
The instructions are for a 2600jr, but the steps are pretty much the same for a woodgrain unit. I've done it, and I can tell you, the picture is LOADS better.
Then again, they *do* exclude nuclear attack, so who knows
My current girlfriend is the first person I've met with the same level of sensitivity, but beyond the obviously broken tubes that anyone can hear whine, it really isn't a big deal. Just turn on some music to drown it out
Nope, in fact many Canadian universities are very well respected. The difference here is, in Canada we believe in education for EVERYONE, or at least for the most possible. Not money, nor family connections, matter.
Of course, once you're in it's a whole different story. You still have to do the work involved, but there's no high-pressure entrance exam (at least not for a lot of Canuck schools) or insanely high fee. Kinda why we use a lot of government money in one of the few subsidies I can stomach: post-secondary education.
There's a reason why a majority (or so it seemed coming from my less-than-average high school) of Canadian kids go to University/College. No, it's not for everyone, and yes, a LOT of Canadians don't have degrees/diplomas. But usually, that's because of the student's performance AFTER getting out of high school (which is basically just a big social club where we learn algebra, anyway
I couldn't agree more. Especially considering this was an INTRODUCTORY course (or did I mis-read?). Let's face it, intro programs tend to be SMALL; there are only so many ways you can write a recursive factorial function, and in a class of several hundred students, chances are 2 of them will duplicate a LOT.
A keen TA is worth a lot more than just accusing students of plagarism based on coincidental code. Case in point: my brother and I both wrote one of my 1st year assigments. The programming guidelines were rather strict (I guess this keeps the TA's from having to spend much time grokking weird code), so the basic framework was pretty much set out for us. Now, both of us come from the same school of thought regarding implementation/testing/debugging, but still...
Our programs had several lines that were identical. Not just close; IDENTICAL. This in what amounted to maybe a 50 line program. The rest was similar enough, that if you DIDN'T look for the differences, you wouldn't have seen them. Thankfully he wasn't enrolled in the class with me at the time...