This was ONE of my problems with the movie. In the beginning they showed that it took little effort to cut through the doors/hull of the ship, but 28 years later there was no visible change? You mean to tell me there wouldn't be a massive effort to salvage as much alien tech and materials from the ship as possible over the course of nearly 3 decades? The only evidence that we're given that humans have any interest in the ship itself were the long shots that used helicopters to provide a sense of scale. There should have been non-stop crews ferrying materials down from that thing 24 hours a day. It should have been crawling with research teams, anchored to the ground, etc.
I realize that the movie was about the Wikus, but I think the storytellers dropped the ball with what was happening in the background. My opinion...
Michael Moore should do a documentary about the DeBeers cartel. Although, I'm not sure how he'd tie THAT back into Flint, Michigan. You don't think a sweaty doughy white-guy would stand out at all hanging out around an African diamond mine, do you?
You've probably answered your own question. The rating system needs to be revamped to make the ratings more specific. They should have a toggle for advanced ratings, and let people rate (1 to 5 is fine) on cinematography, directing, music, storyline, acting, suspense, etc. Not sure if people would want to rate 20 items per movie, but if it meant getting better recommendations...
This might not be relevant, but why doesn't EFF or some other group begin submitting broad-idea intellectual property patents on things that we want to protect (and/or keep free) so that companies can't later try and patent the same things? I guess even a patent is no good if you don't have the pockets and lawyers to defend it. Has anything like this been tried by advocacy groups, etc.?
It seems to me, that if you make "random" passwords pronounceable so that people can remember them easier, the same rules that you applied to the randomizing could be used to greatly limit the number of possible password combinations for a crack.
The superhero interview 'bit' in the trailer looked like it was lifted straight from the The Tick animated series. *tap, tap, tap--is this thing on?*
Now Pixar doing a Tick movie, THAT would be Great!
We had a TERRIBLE time with the Sasser worm at work today. When I went home afterward I decided to run the Windows Updates (that I almost never do) to patch my game machine at home. My XP-Pro machine on a cable-modem was running clean (I've been playing City of Heroes since Saturday) before the Windows Updates. Ran the patches. Rebooted. Hangs on reboot. Hangs on reboot again. Hangs on a third reboot. After an hour of percussion therapy I booted into Safe Mode w/ Networking and updated a newer Video driver. Rebooted. Works fine now. It's amazing to me that Microsoft's own updates can render a machine unbootable (to a desktop).
I'm wondering if there's any way people (the world?) could begin a Class-Action Lawsuit against Microsoft for lost time, mental anguish, etc. due to their crappy software! Everytime this stuff happens I'm reminded of the Bill Gates cameo in the South Park movie. The memory of that scene never fails to make me smile!
I wonder if I could wash my cats with this?! Somehow, I don't think they'll be fooled. Might make hot tubbing in the winter a bit more tolerable... No need to towel off.
Stange...
Other than theft... It would be interesting (satisfying?) if the RIAA would bring the hammer down on these muggers for turning legit music into stolen music! Suddenly a petty crime would now get a $10,000 fine per song (or whatever the absurd fine is).
I believe it is only illegal to destroy/deface money if you intend to re-introduce it into the marketplace. Otherwise, you would see penny-stamping machines outlawed and banks wouldn't be allowed to put exploding paint cannisters in bank robbery bags (or maybe they would).
I can just imagine shipping the suits there first and then having the astronauts landing 100 yards from the crate. "Okay, lets draw sippy-straws to see who gets to run over there and get the suits!"
During college I helped supplement my tuition with odd winter jobs. I got a job for a month delivering 100lb propane tanks to lower-income houses north of Baltimore in the freezing December cold. One day, the dispatcher told us that we had to turn off someone's gas for months of non-payment. The driver gave the job to me. So as I walked to the side of the house to turn off the people's gas and collect the tank, I saw kids staring at me from the window (of a house about to get bitterly cold)...on Christmas Eve. I never felt so bad.
P.S. The end of the story is that someone paid the bill that evening, so someone made a special trip the next day to turn it back on.
MS has made it so that IE is REQUIRED to access the Windows Update site. So, if you've managed to remove IE from your computer, you cannot update your PC to shield against Blaster and your PC will attack MS's site on the 16th. Except for some Internet lag though, it's not your fault because MS decided not to make the patch available to people that exclusively use other browsers. So... Those of us that don't use IE have been invited to attack MS's site by MS!!! How cool is that!
In the morning I need help finding my keys, my shoes, my work ID, etc. but I can't help but think I'll either lose the ID tags (before I apply them) or forget my password to the system when I need it most.
Maybe there was nothing that could be done. But they didn't even try and address the problem while the shuttle was orbiting. An offer to view the shuttle using a military satellite before re-entry was dismissed. If they'd been able to see the problem they MIGHT have been able to remedy it (especially if enough experts realized that the flaw might be catastrophic).
The 1st edition rules have the best flavor (maybe that flavor is nostalgia). The 2nd edition rules were a mess of 1st edition rules with extra rules piled on top. 2nd edition was an attempt by TSR to adopt ideas that other gaming systems were running with at the time, like GURPS's skill based system, etc. It didn't work because the core of the edition remained the same. The 3rd edition is the best system mechanically. It all makes sense. You ALWAYS want to roll higher on all dice rolls, etc. It is streamlined, etc. It is much easier to play than 1st edition. Also, 3rd edition has the Open Gaming License which is allowing DOZENS of third-party publishers to improve the system, which is GREAT. Some of the 3rd party publishers are putting out better quality materials than Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro (the newest owners of D&D). For those people (like myself) who want a taste for 1st edition flavor though, I HIGHLY recommend Hackmaster, which is a licensed 1st edition game with enough tweaks to make it great fun.
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This was ONE of my problems with the movie. In the beginning they showed that it took little effort to cut through the doors/hull of the ship, but 28 years later there was no visible change? You mean to tell me there wouldn't be a massive effort to salvage as much alien tech and materials from the ship as possible over the course of nearly 3 decades? The only evidence that we're given that humans have any interest in the ship itself were the long shots that used helicopters to provide a sense of scale. There should have been non-stop crews ferrying materials down from that thing 24 hours a day. It should have been crawling with research teams, anchored to the ground, etc. I realize that the movie was about the Wikus, but I think the storytellers dropped the ball with what was happening in the background. My opinion...
Michael Moore should do a documentary about the DeBeers cartel. Although, I'm not sure how he'd tie THAT back into Flint, Michigan. You don't think a sweaty doughy white-guy would stand out at all hanging out around an African diamond mine, do you?
You've probably answered your own question. The rating system needs to be revamped to make the ratings more specific. They should have a toggle for advanced ratings, and let people rate (1 to 5 is fine) on cinematography, directing, music, storyline, acting, suspense, etc. Not sure if people would want to rate 20 items per movie, but if it meant getting better recommendations...
This might not be relevant, but why doesn't EFF or some other group begin submitting broad-idea intellectual property patents on things that we want to protect (and/or keep free) so that companies can't later try and patent the same things? I guess even a patent is no good if you don't have the pockets and lawyers to defend it. Has anything like this been tried by advocacy groups, etc.?
It seems to me, that if you make "random" passwords pronounceable so that people can remember them easier, the same rules that you applied to the randomizing could be used to greatly limit the number of possible password combinations for a crack.
No really... Maybe I'm paranoid, but I NEVER enter information on anything that starts with http:// rather than https://
Seems to me, if dust on the solar panels was an eventual issue, they should have spent $400m + $20 bucks to equip them with wiper blades.
Anonymous Coward's link was provided so that he/she could make some revenue off people buying the book via that link.
The superhero interview 'bit' in the trailer looked like it was lifted straight from the The Tick animated series. *tap, tap, tap--is this thing on?* Now Pixar doing a Tick movie, THAT would be Great!
If stupidity equals running Windows Update and then rebooting to a blank screen? Yup, guess that's me! Wow, I am in awe of the size your brain! Idiot.
We had a TERRIBLE time with the Sasser worm at work today. When I went home afterward I decided to run the Windows Updates (that I almost never do) to patch my game machine at home. My XP-Pro machine on a cable-modem was running clean (I've been playing City of Heroes since Saturday) before the Windows Updates. Ran the patches. Rebooted. Hangs on reboot. Hangs on reboot again. Hangs on a third reboot. After an hour of percussion therapy I booted into Safe Mode w/ Networking and updated a newer Video driver. Rebooted. Works fine now. It's amazing to me that Microsoft's own updates can render a machine unbootable (to a desktop).
I'm wondering if there's any way people (the world?) could begin a Class-Action Lawsuit against Microsoft for lost time, mental anguish, etc. due to their crappy software! Everytime this stuff happens I'm reminded of the Bill Gates cameo in the South Park movie. The memory of that scene never fails to make me smile!
If you're very interested in the Sex & Dungeons & Dragons topic you will need to find a copy of (or buy) the Book of Erotic Fantasy.
Sorry, it's a merchant page but I can't link to the actual publisher's site from work. Needless to say, there is a Phil & Dixie cartoon in the book...
I wonder if I could wash my cats with this?! Somehow, I don't think they'll be fooled. Might make hot tubbing in the winter a bit more tolerable... No need to towel off. Stange...
Wouldn't want to insert the cache tube in one though...
Other than theft... It would be interesting (satisfying?) if the RIAA would bring the hammer down on these muggers for turning legit music into stolen music! Suddenly a petty crime would now get a $10,000 fine per song (or whatever the absurd fine is).
Not sure if WANT to see Graham Chapman's full monty in larger than life size...
I believe it is only illegal to destroy/deface money if you intend to re-introduce it into the marketplace. Otherwise, you would see penny-stamping machines outlawed and banks wouldn't be allowed to put exploding paint cannisters in bank robbery bags (or maybe they would).
I can just imagine shipping the suits there first and then having the astronauts landing 100 yards from the crate. "Okay, lets draw sippy-straws to see who gets to run over there and get the suits!"
During college I helped supplement my tuition with odd winter jobs. I got a job for a month delivering 100lb propane tanks to lower-income houses north of Baltimore in the freezing December cold. One day, the dispatcher told us that we had to turn off someone's gas for months of non-payment. The driver gave the job to me. So as I walked to the side of the house to turn off the people's gas and collect the tank, I saw kids staring at me from the window (of a house about to get bitterly cold)...on Christmas Eve. I never felt so bad. P.S. The end of the story is that someone paid the bill that evening, so someone made a special trip the next day to turn it back on.
CNN lists her full name as Brianna LaHara. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music. swap.settlement/index.html
27 years is a good goal I guess, but don't the Russians have to figure out how to land something first without crash-landing it?
MS has made it so that IE is REQUIRED to access the Windows Update site. So, if you've managed to remove IE from your computer, you cannot update your PC to shield against Blaster and your PC will attack MS's site on the 16th. Except for some Internet lag though, it's not your fault because MS decided not to make the patch available to people that exclusively use other browsers. So... Those of us that don't use IE have been invited to attack MS's site by MS!!! How cool is that!
In the morning I need help finding my keys, my shoes, my work ID, etc. but I can't help but think I'll either lose the ID tags (before I apply them) or forget my password to the system when I need it most.
Maybe there was nothing that could be done. But they didn't even try and address the problem while the shuttle was orbiting. An offer to view the shuttle using a military satellite before re-entry was dismissed. If they'd been able to see the problem they MIGHT have been able to remedy it (especially if enough experts realized that the flaw might be catastrophic).
The 1st edition rules have the best flavor (maybe that flavor is nostalgia). The 2nd edition rules were a mess of 1st edition rules with extra rules piled on top. 2nd edition was an attempt by TSR to adopt ideas that other gaming systems were running with at the time, like GURPS's skill based system, etc. It didn't work because the core of the edition remained the same. The 3rd edition is the best system mechanically. It all makes sense. You ALWAYS want to roll higher on all dice rolls, etc. It is streamlined, etc. It is much easier to play than 1st edition. Also, 3rd edition has the Open Gaming License which is allowing DOZENS of third-party publishers to improve the system, which is GREAT. Some of the 3rd party publishers are putting out better quality materials than Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro (the newest owners of D&D). For those people (like myself) who want a taste for 1st edition flavor though, I HIGHLY recommend Hackmaster, which is a licensed 1st edition game with enough tweaks to make it great fun.