Totally unrellated subjects. One is adapting sucesfull books, the other is overusing a TV franchise.
I'm more worried about the "prequels". I hate it when someone's name gets tagged on stuff he didn't write. His son has some author write stuff, he puts his name (wich is also his father's name, duh) on it: Profit. They did stuff like that with Asimov al lot...you see a book that has ASIMOV written in giant bold letters all over the cover, but if you look at the small print its only "inspired" by Asimov...sneaky publishing bastards.
I'm sorry, but as far as I can remember (I thought the miniseries was boring as hell and stopped watching as soon as I saw a worm...gotta see the worms), the guy they cast as Duncan Idaho in the miniseries was an average looking brown-haired dude, whereas Duncan is supposed to be a blond-haired pretty boy (And although we only see him for about 2 seconds in the movie, he did fit the description).
Reading/. is probably draggin down your literacy not improveing it.
Well, ok, does reading the articles posted on/. count then?;- )
Seriously, I am nowhere near illiterate, I speak 2 languages fluently (and can write adequatly in both of them) and bits and pieces of a few more languages, I read LOTS of books, and I read fast. But I don't read the paper daily. I just don't care about sports, so a good 1/3 of the newspaper's content is of no interest to me. And the paper is a hassle: You have to dispove of it (recycling), it gets your hands dirty, its a cumbersome format, and frankly, some papers are no better than/. when it comes to possibly causing harm to your reading skills.
So when I read that literacy should be measured by the number of newspapers you read in the last week, I say f0r63+ u u l4m3 gr4m4r n4z1!;- )
and to be able to delete songs away from the computer. i would love to see that come to my iPod
Ok, describe to me a situation where I can't wait to get home to erase a song. I mean, if the pod isn't plugged in a computer, you can't very well add stuff to it, so you don't need the extra room.
Extra features are allways fun, but I don't see how this one would be usefull... Hell, it would just make me nervous about letting my friends play with it.
God DAMN! I thought that stupid argument died in the 80's...
Listen, I don't talk to people I don't know on the bus, no one sane talks to people they don't know on the bus. If I'm listening to a walkman/discman/iPod while I'm not talking to people, that doesn't mean that the new-fangled evil electromechanical device is rotting my immortal soul and helping the devil turn me into an anti-social goat worshipper. No, it means that I like to listen to music more than I like to listen to the sound of traffic.
And whenever I'm in a gorram bus or subway, I really, really want to dissociate from the environment. The environment in a bus is noise and smelly strangers and boredom and a bit of motion sickness. Anything that helps me escape from that repetitive drudgery is more than wellcomed.
For some reason I am now able to control the outcome of these nightmares, as well as a lot of details in them.
Yeah, I used to do this as a kid...I'd realise I was dreaming, and I could will things to change. But once the nightmare fought back and I spent the night trying to make the monsters go away, only to have them come back everytime I relaxed a bit. Stressfull night.
And once (only once) I "woke up" in a dream, the whole dremscape just washed away and I was alone in "nothing", aware of being in a dream. That was fun, I started flying around (with my subcouncious providing a handy up/down reference), got tired of floating in nothingness, made the space shuttle appear (in take off) and had fun catching up to it and flying circles around it. Amazingly, it was actually a bit of a challenge to catch up to it, and I had to keep making a mental effort to keep my speed up, if I relaxed the space shuttle would start gaining on me.
I have the Matrix DVD (in its cheap-ass warner carboard box), and its english-only. Does anybody know if the 2 disc special ed will have more than one language (French and Spanish)?
I buy few Warner DVDs because they are so much cheaper than most other DVDs...they all come in this cheap, flimsy folded cardboard box (wich sounds as though you're breaking it every time you open it), and usually have only one language available and laughable extras (oooo! animated menus! wow!).
The recent ones seem to have gotten over the monolingual deal and have some actually interresting extras (the powerpuff DVD is from Warner, and its got 3 languages and funky extras like character commentaries). But I'd like to know in advance.
Nope, "A Deepness in the sky" by Vernor Vinge had a sensor net of free-floating chips used for surveillance.
In diamond age they had mites, microscopic robots that would decay into "toner", a dust-like pollutant. They had surveillance mites, but they were active robots, not passive sensors.
Im a smoker. I can go without smoking for a few days if the need be. I'm not as addicted to the nicotine as I am the psychological connection to the action of smoking.
I have a big comfy chair - a huge monitor and a very fast machine - in a room dedicated to computer gaming. I prefer this setup greatly over sitting on the floor in front of my TV.
The best way to kill one, though, would be to make a little trail of dirt that it follows around a corner, where you are waiting with a sledgehammer....
In a typical sci-fi/horror flick, you would never hang on to the sledge hammer, you would discard it for no apparent reason and then walk into a trap.
Copyright is pretty much international law with the Berne convention. I see no jurisdiction problem here.
They CITE THE FUCKING DMCA in the letter! You don't see that they use a US law to boss people around on a different continent as a jurisdiction problem? For Bob's sake! How far from the US to they have to be for it to be for you to consider it a different jusrisdiction?
Yeah, so? The letter threatens them with the DMCA, wich is not an australian law.
this is not fair use. this is an illegal distribution meant to subvert payment
Its australia, movies are released months after they were released in the US, if someone d/l it and watches it after its been released in one country but no in their own, they aren't subverting payment because they can't pay for it.
Well, they have a complicated quasi magical system to maximise profit by releasing movies at different times in different countries...they aren't about to stop, since it makes them rich.
As for Star Trek Nemesis...you aren't missing much. Rick (may he burn in hell) Berman must die!
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Totally unrellated subjects. One is adapting sucesfull books, the other is overusing a TV franchise.
I'm more worried about the "prequels". I hate it when someone's name gets tagged on stuff he didn't write. His son has some author write stuff, he puts his name (wich is also his father's name, duh) on it: Profit.
They did stuff like that with Asimov al lot...you see a book that has ASIMOV written in giant bold letters all over the cover, but if you look at the small print its only "inspired" by Asimov...sneaky publishing bastards.
I'm sorry, but as far as I can remember (I thought the miniseries was boring as hell and stopped watching as soon as I saw a worm...gotta see the worms), the guy they cast as Duncan Idaho in the miniseries was an average looking brown-haired dude, whereas Duncan is supposed to be a blond-haired pretty boy (And although we only see him for about 2 seconds in the movie, he did fit the description).
Well, ok, does reading the articles posted on
Seriously, I am nowhere near illiterate, I speak 2 languages fluently (and can write adequatly in both of them) and bits and pieces of a few more languages, I read LOTS of books, and I read fast. But I don't read the paper daily. I just don't care about sports, so a good 1/3 of the newspaper's content is of no interest to me.
And the paper is a hassle: You have to dispove of it (recycling), it gets your hands dirty, its a cumbersome format, and frankly, some papers are no better than
So when I read that literacy should be measured by the number of newspapers you read in the last week, I say f0r63+ u u l4m3 gr4m4r n4z1!
More interesting figures would be the number of people who read the newspaper daily
/. daily count?
Does reading
Just because I don't give money to the dead-tree pseudo-news peddlers doesn't mean I'm illiterate you know!
Star Trek: The Next Generation got a whole lot better around season 3, when Roddenberry pretty much lost control of the show and let Berman take over.
No, TNG got a lot better around season 3 when the writer's strike was over!
and to be able to delete songs away from the computer. i would love to see that come to my iPod
Ok, describe to me a situation where I can't wait to get home to erase a song. I mean, if the pod isn't plugged in a computer, you can't very well add stuff to it, so you don't need the extra room.
Extra features are allways fun, but I don't see how this one would be usefull...
Hell, it would just make me nervous about letting my friends play with it.
God DAMN! I thought that stupid argument died in the 80's...
Listen, I don't talk to people I don't know on the bus, no one sane talks to people they don't know on the bus. If I'm listening to a walkman/discman/iPod while I'm not talking to people, that doesn't mean that the new-fangled evil electromechanical device is rotting my immortal soul and helping the devil turn me into an anti-social goat worshipper. No, it means that I like to listen to music more than I like to listen to the sound of traffic.
And whenever I'm in a gorram bus or subway, I really, really want to dissociate from the environment. The environment in a bus is noise and smelly strangers and boredom and a bit of motion sickness. Anything that helps me escape from that repetitive drudgery is more than wellcomed.
Semaphore.
For some reason I am now able to control the outcome of these nightmares, as well as a lot of details in them.
Yeah, I used to do this as a kid...I'd realise I was dreaming, and I could will things to change.
But once the nightmare fought back and I spent the night trying to make the monsters go away, only to have them come back everytime I relaxed a bit. Stressfull night.
And once (only once) I "woke up" in a dream, the whole dremscape just washed away and I was alone in "nothing", aware of being in a dream. That was fun, I started flying around (with my subcouncious providing a handy up/down reference), got tired of floating in nothingness, made the space shuttle appear (in take off) and had fun catching up to it and flying circles around it. Amazingly, it was actually a bit of a challenge to catch up to it, and I had to keep making a mental effort to keep my speed up, if I relaxed the space shuttle would start gaining on me.
I have the Matrix DVD (in its cheap-ass warner carboard box), and its english-only. Does anybody know if the 2 disc special ed will have more than one language (French and Spanish)?
I buy few Warner DVDs because they are so much cheaper than most other DVDs...they all come in this cheap, flimsy folded cardboard box (wich sounds as though you're breaking it every time you open it), and usually have only one language available and laughable extras (oooo! animated menus! wow!).
The recent ones seem to have gotten over the monolingual deal and have some actually interresting extras (the powerpuff DVD is from Warner, and its got 3 languages and funky extras like character commentaries). But I'd like to know in advance.
Nope, "A Deepness in the sky" by Vernor Vinge had a sensor net of free-floating chips used for surveillance.
In diamond age they had mites, microscopic robots that would decay into "toner", a dust-like pollutant. They had surveillance mites, but they were active robots, not passive sensors.
You have not been watching Steve Irwin enough...
David Letterman said it best about decaf cofee:
;- )
"Its usless warm brown water"
Nicotine-free cigs? Why not just suck on an exhaust pipe?
Im a smoker. I can go without smoking for a few days if the need be. I'm not as addicted to the nicotine as I am the psychological connection to the action of smoking.
*cough*denial*cough*
They now have merged with one true Shaq to become RadioShaq! PH34R RADIOSHAQ! ;- )
I have a big comfy chair - a huge monitor and a very fast machine - in a room dedicated to computer gaming. I prefer this setup greatly over sitting on the floor in front of my TV.
Geez dude, buy a couch already!
our Minister of Heritage is a bumbling IDIOT.
Not to mention the PM, he's actually brain-damaged...sigh, our government is depressing.
The best way to kill one, though, would be to make a little trail of dirt that it follows around a corner, where you are waiting with a sledgehammer....
In a typical sci-fi/horror flick, you would never hang on to the sledge hammer, you would discard it for no apparent reason and then walk into a trap.
: )
luckily, all iCommune needs to do to counter this is to produce an MP3 player better than iTunes
BwahahahaHAHAHAhahahaAHAHAHAHAHahaha!
That's a good one : )
Well known fact.
: )
They CITE THE FUCKING DMCA in the letter! You don't see that they use a US law to boss people around on a different continent as a jurisdiction problem? For Bob's sake! How far from the US to they have to be for it to be for you to consider it a different jusrisdiction?
Oh...right, you didn't read the article...
The only company mentioned in that article was Warner Bros., wich is based in the US.
You, sir, are a troll...an uninformed pro-americanist troll.
Yeah, so? The letter threatens them with the DMCA, wich is not an australian law.
this is not fair use. this is an illegal distribution meant to subvert payment
Its australia, movies are released months after they were released in the US, if someone d/l it and watches it after its been released in one country but no in their own, they aren't subverting payment because they can't pay for it.
As for Star Trek Nemesis...you aren't missing much.
Rick (may he burn in hell) Berman must die!