"Imagine an accident. I wouldn't want it to happen to me!" Is not insightfull.
We get these inane comments with every article about transport. Electric cars: Imagine getting electrocuted. Supersonic planes: Imagine a supersonic collision with a building. Space elevator: Imagine it falling on you. Ship: Imagine it sinks. Train: Imagine it derails. Etc, etc, etc.
We don't need to have those modded up! They're not saying anything original.
I've seen this kind of game in museums and exhibitions for a long time, they allways sucked.
Maybe this eyetoy finally has the processing power needed to make it good, maybe they've designed better games than the "proof of concept" ones that existed in the past. But to me it allways felt like the PowerGlove: Good idea on paper, useless piece of junk in real life. Hell, at least the powerglove is a cool toy to play with, this is just a very expensive mirror...
Really, Michael J. Fox tried to tell us this in the 80's in BttF3
That's Back To The Future II.
In the third movie they go back to the old west. Cowboys and whatnot. Its in the second movie that they have the power-lace nike sneakers and the auto-fit auto-dry talking jacket.
The PS2 DVD player blows. My roommate had a PS2, and we'd often try using it to play DVDs. But half the time I'd end up taking the disc out and putting it in my computer due to the PS2 having trouble.
Funny, I use my PS2 as my primary DVD player, it never gives me problems.
It just doesn't like certain scenes.
Maybe the disc is scratched? Maybe it wasn't burned right?
You pretty much have to buy the DVD remote for the PS2 as using the controller to play a DVD is completely unintuitive.
Lessee, + pad to move "cursor" around, big triangle shaped button (hmmm, the exact same shape as the "play" symbol on DVD remotes) that says "start"... Yeah, totally counter intuitive. Jeez.
Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology
Does this mean that our 60 gigabyte hard drives will be replaced with 60 jigabyte hard drives? :)
Case in point 1: Geo metros get excellent gas milage. But when a Geo crashes into a 30 year old Dodge brute, which car do you want to be riding in?
The Geo. The car with the purposefully designed crumple zones that will get crushed while absorbing the energy that would otherwise find its way in my bones and vital organs, killing or maiming me.
When modern cars get in accidents and get all crunched up, its not because they are cheap, its because oterwise you would get all crunched up and bloody.
I read a bunch of articles, the first one was in french. One of the bunch said "wednesday sept 3" somewhere in there... Frankly, the date wasn't important to me.
Dude, are you new around here? That was nothing, they've put stuff that was mostly links (with, worse, the same link many times) before.
you had 3 different links on the F5E, when one would have more than sufficed
The hell it would have. There are 2 different models of planes involved. I included a link for one, the other, and 2 side by side.
Note, this isn't a flame. I'm just trying to give you constructive criticism that might help in the future.:)
Well, the intention is good, but you seem to assume that they select the articles based solely on their obejective qualities. They don't. Such factors as the time of day, the amount of articles already accepted that day, who reads your submission, etc, come in.
Your submission is more informative
Yes, I included all the information I wanted when I first read the news and that I had to dig to get. Like, whodahell's that company? What plane is that? Pictures! Perrty pictures!
Frankly, I had a hunch it would be rejected (submitted it late last night...see above), so I kept it to post it in, as I did. My good action of informativeness was done, even if a lazier person got the glory of the main page article.
There's a scene in it where a child must pick up a sword to defend himself. This is fiction, but from what I understand from history there were times on this planet where kids did have to worry for their lives.
Not to mention that as soon as the DVD was announced for preorder it rose in the top 5 of DVD sales on amazon and they stopped accepting preorders within 24 hours because the demand exceeded the amount of DVDs they had to offer.
THAT is how they caught the eye of movie producers.
You can also go read my one and only entry in my/. journal for more info on why firefly is so loved despite its early cancellation.
I know this is a silly suggestion given this is Slashdot....but couldn't you have gone out and done something until it came on? Or is this just another way of showing your devotion to Firefly. This was a joke chillout.
I couldn't know when it would come on, hence the "leaving the TV on on mute" whilst doing something else...
Lucky you, I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY BRAIIIIIIIN!!!!;- )
Between this and the reruns on Space, I'm getting excited.
I don't have digiCable, so for me its this and my preordered DVDs, wich will get in just in time for xmas vacations, freeing my days for a nice long firefly marathon. Yay!
No one would watch the show when it was broadcast into the comfort of our living rooms for FREE.
I watched it, but... I was willing to:
stay at home on friday nights to watch it.
spend the ENTIRE night watching FOX on mute absentmindedly (while killing time on the net) until it came on at 12:05am to then stay up until 1:05am to watch it.
spend the ENTIRE night watching FOX on mute absentmindedly (while killing time on the net) until it came on at 12:20am to then stay up until 1:20am to watch it.
Live with the frustration and disapointment of staying at home to watch it on friday night only to discover that its crap like Andromeda or Happy Gilmour that is playing in its time slot that week (sometimes with advance warning, sometimes not).
Stick to the show after having been promised in all the commercials all summer long that the first ep. would be the pilot featuring a Girl In A Box only to be shown ep2 in its place, with no girl-ina-box (the (quite excellent) pilot was the LAST show aired...go figure).
Watch episodes in first run OUT OF ORDER, seeing the "previously on firefly" segement showing something that was only seen the week after (and that completely fucked up the story, seeing as how important stuff had happen in the episode that they had not shown, screwing the viewer quite thouroughly).
endure the ads for Fox's crappy other shows during the commercial breaks.
etc
Most people aren't THAT dedicated to a completly new show.
And BTW, not only were people watching the show when it was on for free, but we also TOPPED OFF THE PREORDER LIMIT for the DVD in one day. Jeez, think about it for one second will ya...
Slashdot Mirror
Sigh.
Who modded THAT insightfull?
"Imagine an accident. I wouldn't want it to happen to me!" Is not insightfull.
We get these inane comments with every article about transport.
Electric cars: Imagine getting electrocuted.
Supersonic planes: Imagine a supersonic collision with a building.
Space elevator: Imagine it falling on you.
Ship: Imagine it sinks.
Train: Imagine it derails.
Etc, etc, etc.
We don't need to have those modded up! They're not saying anything original.
I've seen this kind of game in museums and exhibitions for a long time, they allways sucked.
Maybe this eyetoy finally has the processing power needed to make it good, maybe they've designed better games than the "proof of concept" ones that existed in the past. But to me it allways felt like the PowerGlove: Good idea on paper, useless piece of junk in real life. Hell, at least the powerglove is a cool toy to play with, this is just a very expensive mirror...
Really, Michael J. Fox tried to tell us this in the 80's in BttF3
That's Back To The Future II.
In the third movie they go back to the old west. Cowboys and whatnot. Its in the second movie that they have the power-lace nike sneakers and the auto-fit auto-dry talking jacket.
I treat my PS2 with the utmost care and I am on my 3rd due to breakage.
Jeeze! I bought mine when the xBox came out (hehehe) and it still works fine. Plays my DVDs, plays my games.
Did you "respectfully" throw it against a wall a bunch of times? Or do you let your cat use it as a toilet/cat-hair storage device?
Who the hell modded that guy up?
The PS2 DVD player blows. My roommate had a PS2, and we'd often try using it to play DVDs. But half the time I'd end up taking the disc out and putting it in my computer due to the PS2 having trouble.
Funny, I use my PS2 as my primary DVD player, it never gives me problems.
It just doesn't like certain scenes.
Maybe the disc is scratched? Maybe it wasn't burned right?
You pretty much have to buy the DVD remote for the PS2 as using the controller to play a DVD is completely unintuitive.
Lessee, + pad to move "cursor" around, big triangle shaped button (hmmm, the exact same shape as the "play" symbol on DVD remotes) that says "start"...
Yeah, totally counter intuitive. Jeez.
Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology
:)
Does this mean that our 60 gigabyte hard drives will be replaced with 60 jigabyte hard drives?
Mention the PATRIOT Act, not a word on the oppresive regimes of the Communist Chinese
RTFA!!!
Case in point 1:
Geo metros get excellent gas milage. But when a Geo crashes into a 30 year old Dodge brute, which car do you want to be riding in?
The Geo.
The car with the purposefully designed crumple zones that will get crushed while absorbing the energy that would otherwise find its way in my bones and vital organs, killing or maiming me.
When modern cars get in accidents and get all crunched up, its not because they are cheap, its because oterwise you would get all crunched up and bloody.
The only thing that was missing was the fact that she wasn't in a wheelchair.
That can be arranged...
collage students etc
;-)
Not just collage students! Papier mache students and bas-relief students too!
All the arts & craft students are at risk!
Wich file? The "nifty video"? Save yourself the trouble, its mostly logos...lots of logos...
You didn't read the article too well, then.
I read a bunch of articles, the first one was in french.
One of the bunch said "wednesday sept 3" somewhere in there...
Frankly, the date wasn't important to me.
Dude, are you new around here? That was nothing, they've put stuff that was mostly links (with, worse, the same link many times) before.
:)
you had 3 different links on the F5E, when one would have more than sufficed
The hell it would have. There are 2 different models of planes involved. I included a link for one, the other, and 2 side by side.
Note, this isn't a flame. I'm just trying to give you constructive criticism that might help in the future.
Well, the intention is good, but you seem to assume that they select the articles based solely on their obejective qualities.
They don't.
Such factors as the time of day, the amount of articles already accepted that day, who reads your submission, etc, come in.
Your submission is more informative
Yes, I included all the information I wanted when I first read the news and that I had to dig to get.
Like, whodahell's that company? What plane is that? Pictures! Perrty pictures!
Frankly, I had a hunch it would be rejected (submitted it late last night...see above), so I kept it to post it in, as I did.
My good action of informativeness was done, even if a lazier person got the glory of the main page article.
: )
Hey, lookadat, august...
Sell, since the first news I heard was on saturday, I assumed that "wednesday" meant "last wednesday", not the one before.
Silly me
Reason why it was rejected: Article referenced was from MONEY.cnn.com and more than a week old ;-(
Lessee, the test was on wednesday, sept 3rd, I submitted it on saturday, sept 6th...
6 - 3 = 3.
1 week = 7 days.
3 - 7 = -4...therefore, LESS than a week old.
Basic math people.
Anyone else think it looks like a pelican?
My sister, I thought it looked like a boat...
Submited on september 6, 2003:
Northrop, working with the Pentagon and NASA sucessfully tested a "quiet" supersonic flight wednesday at California's Edwards Air Force Base. In the tests, an F-5E aircraft with a modified nose section flew supersonically through the test range, shortly thereafter, an unmodified F-5E flew supersonically through the same airspace, with the sensors showing a clear reduction in the intensity of the sonic boom produced by the F-5E modified fuselage.
There's a scene in it where a child must pick up a sword to defend himself. This is fiction, but from what I understand from history there were times on this planet where kids did have to worry for their lives.
Like the 21st century?
Man, seriously, child soldiers are not a thing of the past. : (
Did you change your sig before or after this story?
.sig for 9 months, ever since they announced they were putting Firefly on indefinate hiatus.
Either way, very on topic.
Had this
This story proved me right! : )
evil vampire Xander .
Er...notice how they are in the sun in that picture?
Whatever...
(Yeah, yeah, promo shot...bored now)
why isnt everyone getting on the PVR bandwagon already....
Because all the good shows are dead?
Personally I'm boycotting my local cable monopoly...
Firefly made no money to speak of as a television show.
/. journal for more info on why firefly is so loved despite its early cancellation.
Like I said...
I fail to see how any show that doesn't make money and gather a following in series Televsion catches the eye of movie producers.
It did gather a large following.
In fact, fans even bought an ad for the show in an industry magazine!
Not to mention that as soon as the DVD was announced for preorder it rose in the top 5 of DVD sales on amazon and they stopped accepting preorders within 24 hours because the demand exceeded the amount of DVDs they had to offer.
THAT is how they caught the eye of movie producers.
You can also go read my one and only entry in my
I know this is a silly suggestion given this is Slashdot....but couldn't you have gone out and done something until it came on? Or is this just another way of showing your devotion to Firefly. This was a joke chillout.
I couldn't know when it would come on, hence the "leaving the TV on on mute" whilst doing something else...
I was trying to remember that rhyme...
;- )
Lucky you, I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY BRAIIIIIIIN!!!!
Between this and the reruns on Space, I'm getting excited.
I don't have digiCable, so for me its this and my preordered DVDs, wich will get in just in time for xmas vacations, freeing my days for a nice long firefly marathon. Yay!
I watched it, but...
I was willing to:
Most people aren't THAT dedicated to a completly new show.
And BTW, not only were people watching the show when it was on for free, but we also TOPPED OFF THE PREORDER LIMIT for the DVD in one day. Jeez, think about it for one second will ya...