No, no, son, the standard is "on the head of a pin", not "in a Volkswagen"!:)
Volkswagens are units of measurements for sizes of asteroids that are about to impact Earth.
Other measurements in this system:
% of the width of a human hair Length of a football field Length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool Equivalent # of bowls to 1 bowl of Colon Blow (or Super Colon Blow) cereal
That was one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen - well worth getting the DVD, or at least renting. If you missed it on the big screen, sucks to be you...
Monica Bellucci's best role to date (that I've seen), as well.
Yeah, and imagine telling the other inmates what you're in for. Reminds me of the Serta mattress "counting sheep" commercial where they're tossed in jail for ripping off the 'do not remove' tag from a mattress.
"What're you in for?"
"Oh, we were caught rip" "RIPPING A MAN TO PIECES!"
---
"What're you in for?"
"Oh, I got caught stealing a seg.....ment of a man's intestines...right outta his body...with my bare hands! While he watched!"
Oh yeah, hard time in the big house for this one...
I'd love to see the look on the judge's face if this guy is ever brought to trial. "You stole a _what_?!"
That's calculating in the wrong direction - things get bigger & heavier.
Plus, the Falcon travels through hyperspace, which wouldn't cause those effects - only relatavistic flight (_near_ the speed of light) would cause that.
From what I've read, the discrepancies came in when they redesigned the whole Falcon after the fact, unlike all the other sets used in the first movie. No big deal to me, but it makes for some interesting reading - apparently when they were trying to come up with a new design (the Rebel Blockade Runner was what evolved out of the original Falcon design) - it was good ole George who held up a hamberger and said something along the lines of "make it like this". Hilarious. Plus they had originally envisioned it flying in a different axis, rather than how it wound up - too weird imagining all that now.
I also really like looking at the "Art of Star Wars" books to see what all the original concepts were. Sometimes much cooler designs lost out to what we finally got to see, so they're a must-see for any SW fan.
Then he's gonna be _really_ pissed when he finds out the Millennium Falcon's size is off in all published Star Wars stuff from that of the movie set by about 40%!
Still, it IS the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, so allowances should be made.:)
Okay, Panther is due out RSN - and Longhorn is due in, what, TWO YEARS? I guarantee you, OS X will be much farther along by 2005, and the effect on OS X by the PowerPC 970 & succeeding processors (we'll have at _least_ the 980 and possibly 990 by 2005!) will be pretty astounding, if early, unconfirmed reports are even halfway accurate.
Okay, now about making windows do silly things - I gotta agree here - the first thing I do after installation of any system is turn off all window animations & effects. I want that extra millisecond!:)
I'm stuck temping on a weird laptop that keeps turning on window animation after every reboot - bizarre behavior. Plus it's Win98SE *sigh*. I haven't had to endure _that_ for quite some time.:(
I like OS X, and plan to switch to a Mac when I can afford a PPC970 machine (hopefully this year), but I must admit that I could do without all the extra window chrome in OS X. I don't even like the extra window chrome in Win Me/2000/XP (I turn it off, but it's still there in some apps like Windows Media Player), but in OS X, it's extra pixel hungry. And that frickin' metallic theme that Apple puts on everything now (despite their design guidelines) - yuck! Brushed metal looks good on hardware, not on software.
Still, aside from Apple, _someone_ is buying all those new Obj-C and Cocoa books. I know when I get my Mac (waiting for the PPC970 train), I sure as hell won't be using C++. Blech. Obj-C99 seems about the nicest solution anyone's come up with yet, short of Python. I love the syntax of Rebol, but I wish it was lower level, compiled, & open source. Oh well.
I'm still surprised by the # of people who complain about things lacking in C, without realizing that C99 addressed many of those issues. *shrug*
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I looked it up. Google is your friend.
> I'm not sure how many baby arms equal a bowl of Super Colon Blow...
I'm just guessing, but I think you'd have to eat 2^64 baby arms to equal one bowl of Super Colon Blow.
See, that's a common misrepresentation. Apple never said Macs were 'supercomputers', they said they were 'super computers'. :)
Nah, that's never used as a volume. If you want volume, you go with the Volkswagen units.
No, no, son, the standard is "on the head of a pin", not "in a Volkswagen"! :)
:)
Volkswagens are units of measurements for sizes of asteroids that are about to impact Earth.
Other measurements in this system:
% of the width of a human hair
Length of a football field
Length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool
Equivalent # of bowls to 1 bowl of Colon Blow (or Super Colon Blow) cereal
And you thought _metric_ was cool...
The Earth is Round & Microsoft is Evil!
Film at 11...
That was one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen - well worth getting the DVD, or at least renting. If you missed it on the big screen, sucks to be you...
Monica Bellucci's best role to date (that I've seen), as well.
Sorry, you'll have to have two shows if you want to see Caleb on TV after the finale. :)
"julienned preacherman" oh yeah
White male, late teens to early thirties, considered unarmed and extremely stupid.
Somebody call the Profiler! (or CSI)
Yeah, and imagine telling the other inmates what you're in for. Reminds me of the Serta mattress "counting sheep" commercial where they're tossed in jail for ripping off the 'do not remove' tag from a mattress.
"What're you in for?"
"Oh, we were caught rip" "RIPPING A MAN TO PIECES!"
---
"What're you in for?"
"Oh, I got caught stealing a seg.....ment of a man's intestines...right outta his body...with my bare hands! While he watched!"
Oh yeah, hard time in the big house for this one...
I'd love to see the look on the judge's face if this guy is ever brought to trial. "You stole a _what_?!"
Hey Miguel,
Nope, this was a few years ago, certainly not lately.
Hey, how come you have such a high Slashdot ID? I woulda figured you'd have an older account...
"Can Hollywood learn?"
"Trust the computer. The computer is your friend." :)
- bumpersticker seen on car in Microsoft parking lot
That's calculating in the wrong direction - things get bigger & heavier.
Plus, the Falcon travels through hyperspace, which wouldn't cause those effects - only relatavistic flight (_near_ the speed of light) would cause that.
From what I've read, the discrepancies came in when they redesigned the whole Falcon after the fact, unlike all the other sets used in the first movie. No big deal to me, but it makes for some interesting reading - apparently when they were trying to come up with a new design (the Rebel Blockade Runner was what evolved out of the original Falcon design) - it was good ole George who held up a hamberger and said something along the lines of "make it like this". Hilarious. Plus they had originally envisioned it flying in a different axis, rather than how it wound up - too weird imagining all that now.
I also really like looking at the "Art of Star Wars" books to see what all the original concepts were. Sometimes much cooler designs lost out to what we finally got to see, so they're a must-see for any SW fan.
Then he's gonna be _really_ pissed when he finds out the Millennium Falcon's size is off in all published Star Wars stuff from that of the movie set by about 40%!
:)
Still, it IS the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, so allowances should be made.
Yeah, I knew about the apps to remove the brushed metal from everything, but why is that even necessary?
:(
Plus, my biggest gripe is with all that wasted window chrome - I don't know of anything that can be done about that.
Still, even with it's faults, I'd rather be using OS X than what I'm using now (Win2K).
Transparent Aluminum is for wusses! :)
Okay, Panther is due out RSN - and Longhorn is due in, what, TWO YEARS? I guarantee you, OS X will be much farther along by 2005, and the effect on OS X by the PowerPC 970 & succeeding processors (we'll have at _least_ the 980 and possibly 990 by 2005!) will be pretty astounding, if early, unconfirmed reports are even halfway accurate.
:)
:(
Okay, now about making windows do silly things - I gotta agree here - the first thing I do after installation of any system is turn off all window animations & effects. I want that extra millisecond!
I'm stuck temping on a weird laptop that keeps turning on window animation after every reboot - bizarre behavior. Plus it's Win98SE *sigh*. I haven't had to endure _that_ for quite some time.
I like OS X, and plan to switch to a Mac when I can afford a PPC970 machine (hopefully this year), but I must admit that I could do without all the extra window chrome in OS X. I don't even like the extra window chrome in Win Me/2000/XP (I turn it off, but it's still there in some apps like Windows Media Player), but in OS X, it's extra pixel hungry. And that frickin' metallic theme that Apple puts on everything now (despite their design guidelines) - yuck! Brushed metal looks good on hardware, not on software.
> Have I been living under a rock? Are my dimes now worth 18 cents?
:)
Apparently so. That's what your dollars are now worth.
The End is Nigh! ;*)
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of Elderberries!
*Pfeh!*
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a, you silly Pizza Infidel!
Ahh! AHH! Pizza Jihad! There's an pizza infidel on Slashdot!
Our main weapon is fear.
And surprise.
Our TWO main weapons are fear and surprise.
And ruthless efficiency.
Our THREE main weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency.
NOOOOObody expects the Pizza Inquisition!
> Pepperoni and black olive please.
Freak!
How dare you despoil the sacred Pepperoni with the dastardly Black Olive!
The holy trinity of pizza are thus: Pepperoni, Italian Sausage, and Green Bell Pepper.
Oh yeah - NOBODY expects the Pizza Inquisition!
New _Apple_ code is C++? Yikes!
Still, aside from Apple, _someone_ is buying all those new Obj-C and Cocoa books. I know when I get my Mac (waiting for the PPC970 train), I sure as hell won't be using C++. Blech. Obj-C99 seems about the nicest solution anyone's come up with yet, short of Python. I love the syntax of Rebol, but I wish it was lower level, compiled, & open source. Oh well.
I'm still surprised by the # of people who complain about things lacking in C, without realizing that C99 addressed many of those issues. *shrug*
Skylab: (n) Government dogs trained to retrieve fallen spacecraft parts. :)