You could try looking on the distributor's site - Tai Seng is the distributor, I think. Still, I don't know if it's possible to get on DVD, and if it *is* a DVD, it might just be subbed in Mandarin.
Give it a shot, though; let me know if you have any luck.
I think this might be the first time I agree with JonKatz; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a great movie. However, I don't know if I'd really classify it as a kung-fu film. Sure, there's fighting in it - very *good* fighting, thanks to Yuen - but kung-fu movies are more than that.
Don't get me wrong; if you like kung-fu movies, you'll definitely like CTHD, but it's really a bit more arty. I'm generally not a fan of wirework, which this movie is full of, but CTHD pulls it off nicely.
In closing, I must disagree with Katz on one point: the best kung-fu movie ever is Fist of Legend.
As a child of greater-than-average intelligence, I have to say that I deeply hated every moment of school. I made some good friends, and had fun with them, but, as a high school senior, I'm looking back on the last twelve years, and I can't help but feel that they were mostly wasted.
By contrast, my younger brother, who's also smarter-than-average, is being homeschooled. He's studying algebra, Greek, Latin, and Italian. Try finding any public school that'll offer that.
"Gifted" schools aren't any good either - take it from me; I go to one. Most magnet schools aren't much more than SAT-mills. My advice would be to let the kid study what makes him happy (while of course making sure that he's got some grounding in the liberal arts), and for God's sake, don't send him to any place that claims to be for kids like him.
You guys were among the first to release an MP3-only album; for a long time now you've been a pretty technically-inclined group. How did you guys make out, sale-wise, with Long Tall Weekend, and do you plan to do anything similar in the future?
Here in Philadelphia, we already have 10-digit dialing; I don't know how many other places have it too. It's a pain in the butt for maybe a week, but then it's really not all that different from dialing a regular phone number - you just have to include the area code. No biggie.
I think this recall is going to hurt them, at least temporarily, because they're *not* established.
I mean, look at their stock price. The day of their IPO, it was something like $50 a share. Now it's about $21. That's a hell of a slide in such a short time.
I hope they make it back up (I'm planning to buy some stock in them), but this is going to hurt their credibility at lesat a little bit.
The words "chilling effect" come to mind. There's no doubt that CD-R's are often used for piracy, of course, but this could easily go a long way towards stopping hardware companies from making the things, for fear of being held accountable...
Any figures on how much HP has to pay, or whether they'll be appealing this?
Hey - you realise that this means that I no longer have to wade through newsgroups; I just set this sucker loose, and have it send everything it finds to ~/.pr0n.
What I really want to see is something like the program "Earth" from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. The idea was that it was a 3D globe, updated to match weather data from satellites, and you could zoom in on areas, see traffic, troop movement, and all sorts of cool stuff.
I'm not saying that the kid's suspension was comparable to, say, getting flayed or something, but, as a HS senior myself, I'm very aware of all the bad stuff that can happen if a suspension is on your transcript.
Most college applications actually ask if you've ever been subject to disciplinary action (read: suspension), and if so, why. This sort of thing, if the suspension isn't removed from his record, could seriously hurt him with college apps.
I don't think that it's *right*, but the fact is that in the States, minors have extremely limited rights, as you said. The suspension will undoubtedly be purged from the record, because the parents will threaten to sue the school district - that's the closes thing kids have to a
"redress of grievances."
Obviously, the Chinese are planning to do some safety testing too.
In Tibet.
Reminds me of a propaganda song I heard somewhere - translated, it goes "Socialism is good, Socialism is good. In a Socialist country, everyone is happy."
Oh, those wacky Most-Favoured-Nation guys...
(a note: I don't mistake the Chinese government for a Socialist one, or for anything other than a monstrously corrupt, oppressive regime.)
Wouldn't they be better off using the Quake3 engine, since it can support splines? Or the Unreal engine, which has already been used for high-quality architectural renderings.
Is it just that Q2 is cheap to license these days?
And another thing: I'm really surprised that nobody has taken Photoshop to task for what it really is -- an amusing toy, but absolutely useless for any kind of real-world editing of streaming video. Anybody who would recommend such a half-finished product as a serious tool for manipulating visual media is obviously a either rank novice or a sheltered geek.
Um, are you a troll, or just stupid? Photoshop is designed to edit images. Still images. To manipulate video, you'd use Premiere or After Effects.
Besides, as far as I know, there aren't any serious video-editing apps out for Linux.
OK, I guess that was a troll...
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Yeah, but I've written a fair amount of code, and I taught myself to use Photoshop. I did a bunch of stuff with the GIMP, and I think it's nice, but I find Photoshop to be much, much easier to work with. GIMP's UI needs a lot of polishing, in my opinion.
Congratulations. You've seen through the crap that the Democratic Party puts out ("A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush!") and decided to vote for the candidate whom you believe to be better.
I'm a Nader supporter, too. I believe that the US Government has the potential to be a powerful force for good, and I also believe, very strongly, that things will only get worse under Gore-Bush.
Though unaffiliated, I used to consider myself a Democrat. Thanks to Gore, and his money-grubbing, pandering ilk, that's all over with. As we head toward Election Day, I can only hope for a mass defection of *true* liberals to Nader. If Gore loses, it's fine with me.
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You could try looking on the distributor's site - Tai Seng is the distributor, I think. Still, I don't know if it's possible to get on DVD, and if it *is* a DVD, it might just be subbed in Mandarin.
Give it a shot, though; let me know if you have any luck.
I think this might be the first time I agree with JonKatz; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a great movie. However, I don't know if I'd really classify it as a kung-fu film. Sure, there's fighting in it - very *good* fighting, thanks to Yuen - but kung-fu movies are more than that.
Don't get me wrong; if you like kung-fu movies, you'll definitely like CTHD, but it's really a bit more arty. I'm generally not a fan of wirework, which this movie is full of, but CTHD pulls it off nicely.
In closing, I must disagree with Katz on one point: the best kung-fu movie ever is Fist of Legend.
As a child of greater-than-average intelligence, I have to say that I deeply hated every moment of school. I made some good friends, and had fun with them, but, as a high school senior, I'm looking back on the last twelve years, and I can't help but feel that they were mostly wasted.
By contrast, my younger brother, who's also smarter-than-average, is being homeschooled. He's studying algebra, Greek, Latin, and Italian. Try finding any public school that'll offer that.
"Gifted" schools aren't any good either - take it from me; I go to one. Most magnet schools aren't much more than SAT-mills. My advice would be to let the kid study what makes him happy (while of course making sure that he's got some grounding in the liberal arts), and for God's sake, don't send him to any place that claims to be for kids like him.
You guys were among the first to release an MP3-only album; for a long time now you've been a pretty technically-inclined group. How did you guys make out, sale-wise, with Long Tall Weekend, and do you plan to do anything similar in the future?
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Here in Philadelphia, we already have 10-digit dialing; I don't know how many other places have it too. It's a pain in the butt for maybe a week, but then it's really not all that different from dialing a regular phone number - you just have to include the area code. No biggie.
I think this recall is going to hurt them, at least temporarily, because they're *not* established.
I mean, look at their stock price. The day of their IPO, it was something like $50 a share. Now it's about $21. That's a hell of a slide in such a short time.
I hope they make it back up (I'm planning to buy some stock in them), but this is going to hurt their credibility at lesat a little bit.
Dude, don't give them ideas!
Yeah, that "Anonymous Coward" guy posts here all the time.
The words "chilling effect" come to mind. There's no doubt that CD-R's are often used for piracy, of course, but this could easily go a long way towards stopping hardware companies from making the things, for fear of being held accountable...
Any figures on how much HP has to pay, or whether they'll be appealing this?
How is this different from myoelectric arms? Is there more accuracy, or what?
Attack of the Killer Robots, guys. Think about it.
Hey - you realise that this means that I no longer have to wade through newsgroups; I just set this sucker loose, and have it send everything it finds to ~/.pr0n.
Sweet!
In Romeo Must Die, Jet Li did the 360-kicking thing. He's the fucking *man*, and I have no problem whatsoever with that.
You've got me on the MI2 one though.
What I really want to see is something like the program "Earth" from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. The idea was that it was a 3D globe, updated to match weather data from satellites, and you could zoom in on areas, see traffic, troop movement, and all sorts of cool stuff.
I'm not saying that the kid's suspension was comparable to, say, getting flayed or something, but, as a HS senior myself, I'm very aware of all the bad stuff that can happen if a suspension is on your transcript.
Most college applications actually ask if you've ever been subject to disciplinary action (read: suspension), and if so, why. This sort of thing, if the suspension isn't removed from his record, could seriously hurt him with college apps.
I don't think that it's *right*, but the fact is that in the States, minors have extremely limited rights, as you said. The suspension will undoubtedly be purged from the record, because the parents will threaten to sue the school district - that's the closes thing kids have to a
"redress of grievances."
The name doesn't ring a bell, so I don't think it is...at least not intentionally.
Obviously, the Chinese are planning to do some safety testing too.
In Tibet.
Reminds me of a propaganda song I heard somewhere - translated, it goes "Socialism is good, Socialism is good. In a Socialist country, everyone is happy."
Oh, those wacky Most-Favoured-Nation guys...
(a note: I don't mistake the Chinese government for a Socialist one, or for anything other than a monstrously corrupt, oppressive regime.)
Wouldn't they be better off using the Quake3 engine, since it can support splines? Or the Unreal engine, which has already been used for high-quality architectural renderings.
Is it just that Q2 is cheap to license these days?
Um, are you a troll, or just stupid? Photoshop is designed to edit images. Still images. To manipulate video, you'd use Premiere or After Effects.
Besides, as far as I know, there aren't any serious video-editing apps out for Linux.
OK, I guess that was a troll...
Yeah, but I've written a fair amount of code, and I taught myself to use Photoshop. I did a bunch of stuff with the GIMP, and I think it's nice, but I find Photoshop to be much, much easier to work with. GIMP's UI needs a lot of polishing, in my opinion.
Congratulations. You've seen through the crap that the Democratic Party puts out ("A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush!") and decided to vote for the candidate whom you believe to be better.
I'm a Nader supporter, too. I believe that the US Government has the potential to be a powerful force for good, and I also believe, very strongly, that things will only get worse under Gore-Bush.
Though unaffiliated, I used to consider myself a Democrat. Thanks to Gore, and his money-grubbing, pandering ilk, that's all over with. As we head toward Election Day, I can only hope for a mass defection of *true* liberals to Nader. If Gore loses, it's fine with me.
Maybe Katz only posts because he gets off on it. That'd certainly explain why he won't just shut up.
Hey, finally RAMBUS has produced something.
That is, if you count lawsuits as "something"...