It's too long, it's too dull, it's too lame. But the mythic source he seems to have based this episode on is . . . "The McLaughlin Group"
It's like reading the latest dispatch on the Mongolian parliament, as reported by Elizabeth Drew in a really cranky mood.
the master Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and his young mentee, Anakin Skywalker (played by 'N Sync star Justin Timberlake - no, no, played by Hayden Christensen, who looks like an 'N Sync kid but doesn't have as much talent).
I'll tell you one thing: no star system central, as in, say, MGM, would have built a movie around the dim Americans who haunt this one. In fact, the movie is kind of a laboratory on American vs. British technique. Score: Brits 10, Yanks 0.
even an actual great actor, Samuel L. Jackson, seems ridiculous. He never looks comfortable as the Jedi Mace Windu, in robes and boots, and there's nothing he can do at all with a line like "The Genosians aren't warriors. One Jedi has to be worth a hundred Genosians!"
The 'N Sync kid is even worse. He seems to have wandered in from a Pepsi commercial. No, that would have been Justin Timberlake. Who knows where this dreary boy has been?
But the mythic source he seems to have based this episode on is . . . "The McLaughlin Group"
It's like reading the latest dispatch on the Mongolian parliament, as reported by Elizabeth Drew in a really cranky mood.
the master Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and his young mentee, Anakin Skywalker (played by 'N Sync star Justin Timberlake - no, no, played by Hayden Christensen, who looks like an 'N Sync kid but doesn't have as much talent).
I'll tell you one thing: no star system central, as in, say, MGM, would have built a movie around the dim Americans who haunt this one. In fact, the movie is kind of a laboratory on American vs. British technique. Score: Brits 10, Yanks 0.
even an actual great actor, Samuel L. Jackson, seems ridiculous. He never looks comfortable as the Jedi Mace Windu, in robes and boots, and there's nothing he can do at all with a line like "The Genosians aren't warriors. One Jedi has to be worth a hundred Genosians!"
The 'N Sync kid is even worse. He seems to have wandered in from a Pepsi commercial. No, that would have been Justin Timberlake. Who knows where this dreary boy has been?
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I thought it was excellent. Gave a good view of Imperial politics and furthered the character development. Consider the changes in Bury from Mote to Hand.
Longtime SF writer. His most famous story is probably "Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman", and he wrote the ST:TOS episode "City on the Edge of Forever".
That is, firing trails the downturn and hiring trails the upturn. First things go to hell, then people get fired, then things get better, then people get hired.
It seems that if you have RH7.2 and you have run up2date weekly you have everything except for Moz, kde3, Evolution, and some gnome collab app. Since I've been running kde 3 since the release and have Moz 1.0-RC1, I see no need to download the ISO's.
The Therac-25 was an automated x-ray machine that overdosed patients. Fatally. It was a UI bug rather than a software bug. It's dissected in "Killer Defects" (IIRC) by Negroponte (again, IIRC).
Has satellite internet service. Look around his website for details.
The main problem is latency. If you are downloading iso's it's great. 0.5 seconds to initiate the download, then it just comes roaring in. A site with lots of graphics, frames, and associated files that have to be downloaded individually sucks because there's that high latency on every file.
If I reply to that guy I am not offtopic, in the context of that thread. Just as this post is on topic to your post, which is, however, offtopic to the story.
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Damn. Well, I guess there's no reason for me to see Empire and RotJ, is there. Thanks for ruining it for me.
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Salon.com hates it. The Onion isn't impressed, and Adequacy rips it as well.
Ninja Yoda sounds fun though.
Hmmm. That sounds familiar. Almost Enronesque.
What's the difference?
That ain't big iron! The only system that runs both of those is the Alpha. And the Alpha ain't a mainframe.
Why not just say "arachnerd"?
"Listen to my brother, he's installed lots of car stereos."
Select "B" from group 1, "G" from group 2, and "E" from gouop =3, and you get this...
I liked vaxes. And vms. If DEC had avoided the merger then the Alpha might have gone somewhere.
No. The ops mod comments. A comment can get thousands of downmods in minutes, which implies either thousands of simultaneous moderators or a few with infinite mod points.
More spoilers at salon.
I thought it was excellent. Gave a good view of Imperial politics and furthered the character development. Consider the changes in Bury from Mote to Hand.
Is that you?
Well, that hasn't gone to court yet. More probable is that the airlines will be held liable for lax securiy.
Longtime SF writer. His most famous story is probably "Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman", and he wrote the ST:TOS episode "City on the Edge of Forever".
Just better searchers. Type 'peruvian' in the little search box thingy and that article comes right up.
This has already appeared on the other site.
That is, firing trails the downturn and hiring trails the upturn. First things go to hell, then people get fired, then things get better, then people get hired.
It seems that if you have RH7.2 and you have run up2date weekly you have everything except for Moz, kde3, Evolution, and some gnome collab app. Since I've been running kde 3 since the release and have Moz 1.0-RC1, I see no need to download the ISO's.
The Therac-25 was an automated x-ray machine that overdosed patients. Fatally. It was a UI bug rather than a software bug. It's dissected in "Killer Defects" (IIRC) by Negroponte (again, IIRC).
Story of my life...
would I be here?
The main problem is latency. If you are downloading iso's it's great. 0.5 seconds to initiate the download, then it just comes roaring in. A site with lots of graphics, frames, and associated files that have to be downloaded individually sucks because there's that high latency on every file.
So you are off topic, but I am on topic, right?