Without getting into your theory about Enterprise and where it sits in the whole Trek scheme of things I think that no, the Romulan cloaking device has not always existed.
It was introduced to the Federation in Balance of Terror for the first time. This is made very clear.
Since Enterprise is supposed to predate TOS it's badly out of place. The rest of it (Klingon appearance, Borg showing up) I have almost no concern with. The cloaking device thing though's just plain wrong.
Seriously chill out. It's an exaggeration ryanwright. It's meant to be slightly funny (but obviously if you don't know what we're talking about then you aren't going to find it even a bit amusing).
Read it again and insert a slightly sarcastic tone. Girls were going apeshit over Bloom from the moment he showed up on that film (or rather "those films") and it hasn't much slowed down. Additionally I went to all of those movies with my wife who confirmed that Bloom was in fact "hot" and the shrieks the other poster makes mention of in his reply to you were all over the place in just about every theater that I saw a LOTR movie in when Bloom walked onscreen for the first time.
On a positive note I saw Troy this weekend and he didn't go over nearly as well as he did in LOTR or Pirates of the Carribean. I think it's got something to do with the fact that his character is damned near unlikeable.
Legolas was a hero, played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob, and had some good lines, great scenes, and might have been the only member in the whole fellowship who looked clean throughout the picture (Hey, pretty much every other male lead in LOTR spent the majority of the picture with a half beard and covered with dirt or "stood" around 3-4 feet high).
His character in Pirates was a hero, played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob, and had some good lines, great scenes, and he saved the girl enough so many times I lost count.
His character in Troy is a whiny pussy who can't keep his dick from causing the downfall of his entire nation and who gets his butt kicked into the dirt in his only fight. He is played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob but all the good lines go to Brad Pitt (I guess he's got hearthrob rank or something) and Eric Bana (as well as all the great scenes). About all Paris gets to do is lose badly when he fights for the woman he loves and crawl away to get another, better man's help out of the mess he's gotten himself in.
True that. The estrogen surge during the horse-mounting scene was unbelievable. You could feel it building through most of the movie and when he did that little one handed flip up onto the horse they all went right over the top.
Plus it seemed to simply fit Legolas. A number of things he did in those films did an awesome job of demonstrating the grace and skill of an elf. A handful of them (the trunk surfing in ROTK and the stupid shield surfing bit in TT for instance) undermined most of what the better scenes accomplished. They were over the top.
Yes they are. While this drive itself wouldn't be capable of running Longhorn I'm sure that what was learned getting here will be put to use when they turn their attention towards the eventual drive they develop that's capable of running it.
Another decade full of baby steps like this and we're there!
I don't know if I find this to be too offtopic. I mean, technically it IS a possible use if I'm not mistaken.
I think you got an offtopic because you posted too soon. In another 15 minutes it would have been modded Funny (though it was only marginally funny at best).
Cool, I did not know that. Mine did and so I guess it was.
Loved that Rabbit but I abused it without mercy. I was an idiot when I was kid and knew nothing of maintaining my car. On top of that I had a microscopic budget to live on so even if I had been inclined to take care of it I wouldn't have been able to do it.
Still it ran and ran. Less than a quart of oil in it? It ran. No water in the radiator? It ran. Hole the size of a basketball in the passenger side floorboard? No problem. Missing windows (but no, not running Linux)? No problem. One friday my apartment complex hauled it off because it's registration was expired (by something like 2 years) and I didn't realize it until the following Monday so the storage fees greatly exceeded the cars value.
Dude, not only does your computer never mind you using other computers, it doesn't mind if you use multiple computers AT THE SAME TIME you're using it. Hell it joins right in without a peep of protest.
Nobody ever failed trying to talk their computer into "cluster-a-trois".
Well said. Star Trek stuff is insanely priced. I'd love to buy it all but I'm not giving them more than $50 or so bucks a season under any circumstances.
My wife and I buy a lot of DVD's including movies, television series, and anime. A lot of it is science fiction oriented and we never balk at forking over some cash to get a movie or series we really loved so you would think we'd be right in that target audience but we're not.
Apparently they're focusing on the DVD buying, SciFi loving, Money-is-no-object subset of our crowd.
...and people who support the people who don't do music and movies (such as office workers) have no real use for large hard drives in the hands of those who would save everything they've worked on for the last 5 years on it while ignoring their nice, fat, and regularly backed up home folder on the server.
Seriously, larger hard drives just get the stupid and the paranoid in trouble at work.
There aren't any legal music download services that work on Linux? What a bunch of bul....err wait a second.
Ok so that's true. What are you going to do about it? Huh? C'mon what do Linux guys do about things like "no legal music download services that work on Linux" when they run into problems like this?
That's right, you go make one. You get a bunch of hackers together and you start a project up to crank out a legal music download service that works on Linux and you do it right this second!
C'mon! Who's with me? The "iTux Music Store" is waiting to be born!
Yes they have some type of "arrangement" with Microsoft and no doubt about it Microsoft has punch. The problem in my mind though is that Microsoft tends to eat their allies in time.
I want an atomic powered FLYING car. Until they get those babies off the ground I'm not interested.
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You've got a point I'll admit but I think my homeless guy still has you beat. I've known him since high school and I'm 38 years old. He was a couple of years behind me so I'm guessing he's around 36 years old now.
Since roughly a year into college (He dropped out and began his nomadic existence at about that time) he's been pretty much as I described him. He had an apartment from time to time through his early 20's. At one time I know his roommates kicked him out and kept his precious manuals as collateral on money he owed them (they got paid) and shortly after that it was life in the cab.
When you get an Evercrackhead living for the game as long as Jade (yeah that's his name, hippie parents I guess) then maybe the video versions are coming into their own. Until then D&D is still the king.
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No, it doesn't count. I see where you might feel like it counts but it's just not the real thing. There's a certain "aura" around the D&D "lifers" that no video game, regardless of how close to the rules it sticks can ever match.
I knew a guy once who literally lived in his yellow cab. He drove it to make money during the day, had a large portion of his trunk filled with piles of D&D stuff, and was constantly asking people "Want to game up?". For all practical purposes this was a homeless man who lived to get lost in his fantasies.
Don't get me wrong. I like D&D as much as the next geek but I don't see anyone taking Neverwinter Nights to the point of living in a cab on McDonalds food. Sure you've got your Evercrack players getting counciling and stuff but they're a pale shadow of the D&D lifers.
I couldn't agree more. Not only that I thought the style he did it in matched the simplified style of many of the toys very well. Sure you've got your highly detailed toys that make sounds and junks like that but I remember how oddly proportioned my first X-Wing fighter toy was (back in the late 70's when those toys first appeared) and this matches it very nicely IMO.
Sorry, I'm neither a Republican nor particularly "uber-patriotic" but he was correct. And for the record I thought it was fairly funny when he brought up the Europeans with the laser eyeballs.
That's one of my biggest concerns too. There should be an international ban on those things. They're dangerous.
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Yes Star Trek is stale and tired but you're going way over the top calling Firefly "groundbreaking". Please.
There was absolutely nothing groundbreaking about Firefly.
N O T H I N G.
Hey, I liked it. I would have kept watching it. I was interested in where it was going. It was "interesting". "Groundbreaking" though? No way.
Without getting into your theory about Enterprise and where it sits in the whole Trek scheme of things I think that no, the Romulan cloaking device has not always existed.
It was introduced to the Federation in Balance of Terror for the first time. This is made very clear.
Since Enterprise is supposed to predate TOS it's badly out of place. The rest of it (Klingon appearance, Borg showing up) I have almost no concern with. The cloaking device thing though's just plain wrong.
Seriously chill out. It's an exaggeration ryanwright. It's meant to be slightly funny (but obviously if you don't know what we're talking about then you aren't going to find it even a bit amusing).
Read it again and insert a slightly sarcastic tone. Girls were going apeshit over Bloom from the moment he showed up on that film (or rather "those films") and it hasn't much slowed down. Additionally I went to all of those movies with my wife who confirmed that Bloom was in fact "hot" and the shrieks the other poster makes mention of in his reply to you were all over the place in just about every theater that I saw a LOTR movie in when Bloom walked onscreen for the first time.
On a positive note I saw Troy this weekend and he didn't go over nearly as well as he did in LOTR or Pirates of the Carribean. I think it's got something to do with the fact that his character is damned near unlikeable.
Legolas was a hero, played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob, and had some good lines, great scenes, and might have been the only member in the whole fellowship who looked clean throughout the picture (Hey, pretty much every other male lead in LOTR spent the majority of the picture with a half beard and covered with dirt or "stood" around 3-4 feet high).
His character in Pirates was a hero, played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob, and had some good lines, great scenes, and he saved the girl enough so many times I lost count.
His character in Troy is a whiny pussy who can't keep his dick from causing the downfall of his entire nation and who gets his butt kicked into the dirt in his only fight. He is played by a guy who was made to be a teen hearthrob but all the good lines go to Brad Pitt (I guess he's got hearthrob rank or something) and Eric Bana (as well as all the great scenes). About all Paris gets to do is lose badly when he fights for the woman he loves and crawl away to get another, better man's help out of the mess he's gotten himself in.
True that. The estrogen surge during the horse-mounting scene was unbelievable. You could feel it building through most of the movie and when he did that little one handed flip up onto the horse they all went right over the top.
Plus it seemed to simply fit Legolas. A number of things he did in those films did an awesome job of demonstrating the grace and skill of an elf. A handful of them (the trunk surfing in ROTK and the stupid shield surfing bit in TT for instance) undermined most of what the better scenes accomplished. They were over the top.
Amen brother, Amen.
World's first amateur nuclear power? Isn't that taken what with France and all?
"Well now, that was off said. He'll be cryin himself to sleep tonight on his HUGE pillow"
An offended grandmother you may very well be. You are not however a typical grandmother. That much is certain.
And..........yes. Funny. Modding patterns I believe are as predictable as anything ever gets
Yes they are. While this drive itself wouldn't be capable of running Longhorn I'm sure that what was learned getting here will be put to use when they turn their attention towards the eventual drive they develop that's capable of running it.
Another decade full of baby steps like this and we're there!
I know I can't wait.
I don't know if I find this to be too offtopic. I mean, technically it IS a possible use if I'm not mistaken.
I think you got an offtopic because you posted too soon. In another 15 minutes it would have been modded Funny (though it was only marginally funny at best).
Cool, I did not know that. Mine did and so I guess it was.
Loved that Rabbit but I abused it without mercy. I was an idiot when I was kid and knew nothing of maintaining my car. On top of that I had a microscopic budget to live on so even if I had been inclined to take care of it I wouldn't have been able to do it.
Still it ran and ran. Less than a quart of oil in it? It ran. No water in the radiator? It ran. Hole the size of a basketball in the passenger side floorboard? No problem. Missing windows (but no, not running Linux)? No problem. One friday my apartment complex hauled it off because it's registration was expired (by something like 2 years) and I didn't realize it until the following Monday so the storage fees greatly exceeded the cars value.
Chunky was gone but not forgotten.
My first VW (A 1981 diesel Rabbit, slow as Christmas but reliable to a fault) is the only car I've ever felt a compulsion to "name".
It was called "Chunky" and later "Chunkster".
The Rabbit was, in my humble opinion about the coolest lame car in the world. I loved that thing.
Dude, not only does your computer never mind you using other computers, it doesn't mind if you use multiple computers AT THE SAME TIME you're using it. Hell it joins right in without a peep of protest.
Nobody ever failed trying to talk their computer into "cluster-a-trois".
Well said. Star Trek stuff is insanely priced. I'd love to buy it all but I'm not giving them more than $50 or so bucks a season under any circumstances.
My wife and I buy a lot of DVD's including movies, television series, and anime. A lot of it is science fiction oriented and we never balk at forking over some cash to get a movie or series we really loved so you would think we'd be right in that target audience but we're not.
Apparently they're focusing on the DVD buying, SciFi loving, Money-is-no-object subset of our crowd.
Seriously, larger hard drives just get the stupid and the paranoid in trouble at work.
There aren't any legal music download services that work on Linux? What a bunch of bul....err wait a second.
Ok so that's true. What are you going to do about it? Huh? C'mon what do Linux guys do about things like "no legal music download services that work on Linux" when they run into problems like this?
That's right, you go make one. You get a bunch of hackers together and you start a project up to crank out a legal music download service that works on Linux and you do it right this second!
C'mon! Who's with me? The "iTux Music Store" is waiting to be born!
Yes they have some type of "arrangement" with Microsoft and no doubt about it Microsoft has punch. The problem in my mind though is that Microsoft tends to eat their allies in time.
I can't afford an atomic powered flying pig you insensative....oh nevermind.
I want an atomic powered FLYING car. Until they get those babies off the ground I'm not interested.
You've got a point I'll admit but I think my homeless guy still has you beat. I've known him since high school and I'm 38 years old. He was a couple of years behind me so I'm guessing he's around 36 years old now.
Since roughly a year into college (He dropped out and began his nomadic existence at about that time) he's been pretty much as I described him. He had an apartment from time to time through his early 20's. At one time I know his roommates kicked him out and kept his precious manuals as collateral on money he owed them (they got paid) and shortly after that it was life in the cab.
When you get an Evercrackhead living for the game as long as Jade (yeah that's his name, hippie parents I guess) then maybe the video versions are coming into their own. Until then D&D is still the king.
No, it doesn't count. I see where you might feel like it counts but it's just not the real thing. There's a certain "aura" around the D&D "lifers" that no video game, regardless of how close to the rules it sticks can ever match.
I knew a guy once who literally lived in his yellow cab. He drove it to make money during the day, had a large portion of his trunk filled with piles of D&D stuff, and was constantly asking people "Want to game up?". For all practical purposes this was a homeless man who lived to get lost in his fantasies.
Don't get me wrong. I like D&D as much as the next geek but I don't see anyone taking Neverwinter Nights to the point of living in a cab on McDonalds food. Sure you've got your Evercrack players getting counciling and stuff but they're a pale shadow of the D&D lifers.
I couldn't agree more. Not only that I thought the style he did it in matched the simplified style of many of the toys very well. Sure you've got your highly detailed toys that make sounds and junks like that but I remember how oddly proportioned my first X-Wing fighter toy was (back in the late 70's when those toys first appeared) and this matches it very nicely IMO.
And yet......he's right.
Sorry, I'm neither a Republican nor particularly "uber-patriotic" but he was correct. And for the record I thought it was fairly funny when he brought up the Europeans with the laser eyeballs.
That's one of my biggest concerns too. There should be an international ban on those things. They're dangerous.
$53?
No, no, no. I don't think your under at all. Actually you might be a couple of dollars over even IF we include the overseas numbers.
That's "No, I can't surf with only one hand you insensative clod!"
In this case use of the classic "Profit!!!" seems mandatory but also easy just like an "All your base" reference.
A "Soviet Russia" or maybe a "Beowulf cluster" comment done well though would really be nice.
I mean, as long as we're following the SCG's and all.