Culture? Or just governments? Yes, the Greek government collapsed, but the, well, I guess the culture went with it, to be rediscovered later.
The Roman empire collapsed and, well, I guess that went with it, too. A pope a thousand years later made a grotesquely inferior aquaduct system; the Colliseum was raided for wood to build some of the stuff at the Vatican, etc. etc. etc. So I guess that's a bad example, too. Current Italians aren't the Romans.
Egypt, well, I guess that's like Rome but even longer ago.
So I guess this is correct.
Well, once the government turns from keeping the trade routes open to lording and taxing its own people until no one moves much, well......but I didn't mean modern society! No sir, modern society'll get it right with 60k+ laws you must obey, and tax rates that make the most evil pharoah look positively benign.
Nope, I'm sure our society won't perish because we've got it down pat keeping things moving with the trade routes squashed and government intervention ("lording") at a high.
Actually, that it was post-apocalyptic when he invented it was the collision of two different histories. It had to be at that time because it was well-established. But it couldn't be at that time because another story said humanity was recovering from a huge war and obviously such massive technological development would not be occuring.
So they mishmash it together for ya anyway. Just be surprised you didn't see Doink! The humerous half-Ferenghi, half-blue-guy-with-antennae, from the year 2027 TV show Star Trek: The Fourth Generation, poking around Cochrane, in a "very special" CGI episode.
I don't wanna see "Serenity". Firefly Not Now, Thanks!
I don't wanna see Dune: The Sci Fi Channel Version
I don't wanna see Homes and Yo-Yo, Episode 3. Yes, I know it changed your life.
I don't wanna see The Shining: Steven King's Arguably More Faithful But Suckier Than The Best Director Who Ever Lived's Version
No, old Ultraman reruns don't count, even the one episode where the little kid cries because Ultraman is lying dead before he recharges like Hulk Hogan
In the book, the aliens tell her that there are encodings in certain transcendental numbers like pi, that, statistically, should not be there. These are similar to the aliens' message to Earth itself, but obviously, those messages must have been placed by whoever created reality. So Ellie writes a computer program that scans for it, and finally does, and is vindicated.
They couldn't waste such time like that in the movie, to say nothing of the technical talk about it, so they just came up with some less-obvious proof of her journey.
I, too, read it when it first came out, way back when.
I think the movie is a fantastic movie. Yes, they left out a bunch of stuff, what else is new?
But if you're (generic you) runnin' around claiming this is one of those crappy renditions of the original, like Howard the Duck or sumptin', you're barkin' up the wrong tree. This was the very first DVD I ever bought for home use, back when the only player I had was my computer.
> "A three-sided vortex (once limited to the greater Bermuda area > but in recent years expanded to be anchored at Crawford, TX, > Washington, DC, and Baghdad due to depletion of the ozone layer) > into which pour vast sums of the rest of the world's time and money" > explains the Bermuda Triangle.
Then again, I thought the other test results a few years ago demonstrating gravity was bound by the speed of light suggested its particulate exchange nature, and thus it was not a fundamental feature of spacetime geometry.
Anyone else find it disturbing the govenrment assumes control over deciding who gets to criticize it? What part about "Congress shall make no law" aren't they understanding?
Not to mention the web blog collections also might involve, oh, I don't know, people freely assembling to petition the government for a redress of grievances?
Nah, the government saw this coming: Government decides finance laws cover blogs, Supreme Court decimates the government, government look like fools.
ISP-based Usenet binaries are woefully inadequate. They don't have the storage space, nor care to, for it. You have to go pay for a service like giganews or some such if you really wanna get into the unspeakable sexual stuff.
It's "bad" that Han shoot first, yet this game is loaded with people going out looking for people to shoot first. Yes, you could be lame and wait for them to start running at you, but realistically, you shoot when they're still just standing there.
I played for a good 6-8 months as a dancer/pistoleer. Yeah, pistoleer sucked, but I wasn't in it for the combat, anyway. Eventually the dancing got tired (loved the outfits, too!) and left. This was two months after the Jump to Lightspeed, which I refused to buy.
As a casual player (read no more than 20 hours a week) I was never gonna unlock the Jedi slot, and even if I did, the astounding amounts of grinding required for little return (had buddies who bragged of soloing a Jedi player -- I thought they were supposed to be able to take on 2-3 other players?) would have prevented me from getting much progress.
I may actually re-activate again just to try the Jedi slot (may dump my dancer's points into it in a respec, if that's possible). Yeah, I heard the Jedi are even wimpier now, no more powerful than any other melee class, but I guess I can fantasize I have power, even if I end up like the green Twilek Jedi chick in Revenge of the Sith, cut down easily by regular troops.
Are these changes live yet? Is there a date? Ironically, I may reactivate to play the Jedi. A lame Jedi no more powerful than any other melee class, but a Jedi anyway.
Although my dream of being a Jedi dancer is evidently out the window.
Holy crap! Nerddom just took a giant step towards the Sci-Fi fantasy of experiencing actual sex by playing back some factory worker dude's recorded memories of banging that cheerleader you were always staring at!
> but the company spokesperson said it was compatible > with OpenGL and Direct Draw, which is definitely > aimed at software developers who make 3D games.
In a room off to the side, a smaller announcement was made in that this new technology would be compatible with OpenGString and Direct Drool, which is definitely aimed at the pornographers who will be driving early adoption.
> 'The Justice Department has filed a legal brief in a patent dispute, > asking a federal court to delay any immediate shutdown of the > popular wireless e-mail system to ensure that state and federal > workers can continue to use their devices.' Apparently 10% of US > Blackberry users are government users."
No, I said you can't use it, not me. It's good to be the king.
We're all friends of Dorothy in one way or another...
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This is the most brilliant comment in the entire discussion.
UO had some real invasions, EQ had one or two, and badly executed. And people whine about an invasion messing up their cross-continental journey to go camp SoAndSo.
Some games did Realm vs. Realm (Dark Age of Camelot, as well as the good vs. evil and humans vs. elves vs. shorties vs. fatties servers.) And that sort of brings in the PvP action of Quake, although on a sordidly deficient scale.
It's the unknown that (well-done) PvP and invasions bring, the exciting unknown. I know of no game that's incorporated it properly.
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Culture? Or just governments? Yes, the Greek government collapsed, but the, well, I guess the culture went with it, to be rediscovered later.
...but I didn't mean modern society! No sir, modern society'll get it right with 60k+ laws you must obey, and tax rates that make the most evil pharoah look positively benign.
The Roman empire collapsed and, well, I guess that went with it, too. A pope a thousand years later made a grotesquely inferior aquaduct system; the Colliseum was raided for wood to build some of the stuff at the Vatican, etc. etc. etc. So I guess that's a bad example, too. Current Italians aren't the Romans.
Egypt, well, I guess that's like Rome but even longer ago.
So I guess this is correct.
Well, once the government turns from keeping the trade routes open to lording and taxing its own people until no one moves much, well...
Nope, I'm sure our society won't perish because we've got it down pat keeping things moving with the trade routes squashed and government intervention ("lording") at a high.
Nothing to see here, move along, move along...
Actually, that it was post-apocalyptic when he invented it was the collision of two different histories. It had to be at that time because it was well-established. But it couldn't be at that time because another story said humanity was recovering from a huge war and obviously such massive technological development would not be occuring.
So they mishmash it together for ya anyway. Just be surprised you didn't see Doink! The humerous half-Ferenghi, half-blue-guy-with-antennae, from the year 2027 TV show Star Trek: The Fourth Generation, poking around Cochrane, in a "very special" CGI episode.
> 'Contact' sucks, really, except for '22 hours of static on the tape'.
I wanna lock you in the room with the guy 30 posts above, who thought this was the suckiest part of the movie.
People, this is the top 10 list, not the top 500.
I don't wanna see "Serenity". Firefly Not Now, Thanks!
I don't wanna see Dune: The Sci Fi Channel Version
I don't wanna see Homes and Yo-Yo, Episode 3. Yes, I know it changed your life.
I don't wanna see The Shining: Steven King's Arguably More Faithful But Suckier Than The Best Director Who Ever Lived's Version
No, old Ultraman reruns don't count, even the one episode where the little kid cries because Ultraman is lying dead before he recharges like Hulk Hogan
> I mean the "eighteen hours of static line."
*** Minor book spoiler below ***
In the book, the aliens tell her that there are encodings in certain transcendental numbers like pi, that, statistically, should not be there. These are similar to the aliens' message to Earth itself, but obviously, those messages must have been placed by whoever created reality. So Ellie writes a computer program that scans for it, and finally does, and is vindicated.
They couldn't waste such time like that in the movie, to say nothing of the technical talk about it, so they just came up with some less-obvious proof of her journey.
I, too, read it when it first came out, way back when.
I think the movie is a fantastic movie. Yes, they left out a bunch of stuff, what else is new?
But if you're (generic you) runnin' around claiming this is one of those crappy renditions of the original, like Howard the Duck or sumptin', you're barkin' up the wrong tree. This was the very first DVD I ever bought for home use, back when the only player I had was my computer.
Which is pretty sad, because it's an awesome movie. But, like Aliens is to Alien, it's a completly different, but still fantastic film.
Of course The Matrix and Aliens are both heavy sci-fi, and are the top 1 and 2 action movies, IMHO, as well.
...and 5th element, while decent (and surprisingly re-watchable) was not a top 10 movie.
I'd have left off First Contact, and put Contact higher.
> "A three-sided vortex (once limited to the greater Bermuda area
> but in recent years expanded to be anchored at Crawford, TX,
> Washington, DC, and Baghdad due to depletion of the ozone layer)
> into which pour vast sums of the rest of the world's time and money"
> explains the Bermuda Triangle.
Hehe, no seriously, someone not promoting late night radio actually went and looked into all the prominent cases. BTW, it's from the '70's, so there's a good chance there's a copy down at your library.
Then again, I thought the other test results a few years ago demonstrating gravity was bound by the speed of light suggested its particulate exchange nature, and thus it was not a fundamental feature of spacetime geometry.
Anyone else find it disturbing the govenrment assumes control over deciding who gets to criticize it? What part about "Congress shall make no law" aren't they understanding?
Not to mention the web blog collections also might involve, oh, I don't know, people freely assembling to petition the government for a redress of grievances?
Nah, the government saw this coming: Government decides finance laws cover blogs, Supreme Court decimates the government, government look like fools.
> rec.music.makers.bowed-strings
w einers.
It's not about people who hand out there, it's about people who hang out at alt.let.make.music.if.you.know.what.I.mean.bowed-
ISP-based Usenet binaries are woefully inadequate. They don't have the storage space, nor care to, for it. You have to go pay for a service like giganews or some such if you really wanna get into the unspeakable sexual stuff.
For the most part, you have to.
It's "bad" that Han shoot first, yet this game is loaded with people going out looking for people to shoot first. Yes, you could be lame and wait for them to start running at you, but realistically, you shoot when they're still just standing there.
I played for a good 6-8 months as a dancer/pistoleer. Yeah, pistoleer sucked, but I wasn't in it for the combat, anyway. Eventually the dancing got tired (loved the outfits, too!) and left. This was two months after the Jump to Lightspeed, which I refused to buy.
As a casual player (read no more than 20 hours a week) I was never gonna unlock the Jedi slot, and even if I did, the astounding amounts of grinding required for little return (had buddies who bragged of soloing a Jedi player -- I thought they were supposed to be able to take on 2-3 other players?) would have prevented me from getting much progress.
I may actually re-activate again just to try the Jedi slot (may dump my dancer's points into it in a respec, if that's possible). Yeah, I heard the Jedi are even wimpier now, no more powerful than any other melee class, but I guess I can fantasize I have power, even if I end up like the green Twilek Jedi chick in Revenge of the Sith, cut down easily by regular troops.
> in their first attempt to compete in the supercomputer OS market.
David Spade: I liked this OS better the first time...when it was called Windows NT.
10 feet tall
1200+ lbs.
And some MMORPG makers would think that this thing, with a human brain and a sword, would have a tough time defeating a rat.
Are these changes live yet? Is there a date? Ironically, I may reactivate to play the Jedi. A lame Jedi no more powerful than any other melee class, but a Jedi anyway.
Although my dream of being a Jedi dancer is evidently out the window.
Holy crap! Nerddom just took a giant step towards the Sci-Fi fantasy of experiencing actual sex by playing back some factory worker dude's recorded memories of banging that cheerleader you were always staring at!
> but the company spokesperson said it was compatible
> with OpenGL and Direct Draw, which is definitely
> aimed at software developers who make 3D games.
In a room off to the side, a smaller announcement was made in that this new technology would be compatible with OpenGString and Direct Drool, which is definitely aimed at the pornographers who will be driving early adoption.
> 'The Justice Department has filed a legal brief in a patent dispute,
> asking a federal court to delay any immediate shutdown of the
> popular wireless e-mail system to ensure that state and federal
> workers can continue to use their devices.' Apparently 10% of US
> Blackberry users are government users."
No, I said you can't use it, not me. It's good to be the king.
> is currently the "only commercial vehicle
> that can launch two mainstream telecommunications
> satellite payloads on the same mission."
It's also currently the "only commercial vehicle that can [b]blow up[/b] two mainstream telecommunications satellite payloads on the same mission."
Kitt would run like a little girl from the Mach 5!
It's been 14 seconds blah blah blah. Humm de dumm dumm dumb
One minute! Isn't this ever gonna end?!?!?
WTF, it's back down to 16 seconds?!?!? Who's programming this POS?
Ok, new poll: Who's programming this POS?
0 CmdrTaco 14%
0 CmdrTaco 12%
0 CmdrTaco 78%
0 CmdrTaco 33%
0 CmdrTaco 97%
0 CmdrTaco! 5%
Yes I know it doesn't add to 100 -- I'm not the one programming it!
> It's similar to trying to watch Buck Rogers or Battle Star Galactica (the original) with a straight face.
Actually, those are easier to watch with a straight face than Babylon 5 or Stargate SG1: Mars Needs Women
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This is the most brilliant comment in the entire discussion.
UO had some real invasions, EQ had one or two, and badly executed. And people whine about an invasion messing up their cross-continental journey to go camp SoAndSo.
Some games did Realm vs. Realm (Dark Age of Camelot, as well as the good vs. evil and humans vs. elves vs. shorties vs. fatties servers.) And that sort of brings in the PvP action of Quake, although on a sordidly deficient scale.
It's the unknown that (well-done) PvP and invasions bring, the exciting unknown. I know of no game that's incorporated it properly.