If, by "that stupid Ballet", you mean Black Swan, it was a really good movie.
Darren Aronofsky's work (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) has always pleased me in the past, and this was no exception.
It's not a movie about ballet at all, except that it happens to be told through a ballet dancer.
Dumbing it down like that is like calling Full Metal Jacket "that stupid war movie", or The Godfather "that stupid gangster movie".
"didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, and didn't see it"
Therein lies your problem. It's Oscars time, DVDSCR rips are all over the internet, at least take the time to download something and watch it before you pass judgment.
Even in TNG, they wouldn't (couldn't?) replicate alcohol.
In numerous episodes, senior staff would have on-hand some bottle of real alcohol that they either got on Earth, or traded for.
Quark sells drinks that this "post-scarcity" society wouldn't willing spend energy and matter (something to be shared amongst the enitre crew) on for the needs or wants of a few.
That's the way I saw them anyways.
Smith never actually broke out of the machine, he just broke out of his chroot jail, into a larger sandbox (which still probably isn't an even miniscule fraction of the whole of the actual machine).
It's all just tests, with "The Matrix" equating to a MMO version of "Global Thermonuclear War", and the oracle essentially a giant, infinitely more complex WOPR.
What concerns me is the half-life. I realize a tanker of gasoline exploding could instantly vaporize a small town, but at least once the fire is extinguished, the danger is pretty much passed. Even with toxic chemicals, the site may be uninhabitable for a decade or two... but with nuclear waste, and even more so with the recycled nuclear waste, we're talking, extremely conservatively, a thousand years of toxicity.
The difference between cleaning up a chemical spill and cleaning up the site of a radioactive incident, is that the radioactive agent is very easy to detect.
It can be very quickly found and made sure that none remains
I mean, mp3 is going on 17 years at this point. JPEG is around 20 years old. MPEG-2 is still being used in DVDs
Well done for defeating your own point – DVDs use AC3 (MPEG 2 audio) as opposed to mp3 (MPEG 1 audio)
Well done for defeating yourself...
GP said MPEG-2, which is a video codec.
Look at the.vob files on a DVD (any DVD), they are all encoded as uncompressed MPEG-2 video streams.
Wait a second, didn't anyone ever notice that Ethan Hawke and Jude Law look different? How did they deal with the fact that Ethan Hawke is walking around spilling someone elses DNA everywhere?
He was supposed to have been in a car accident in France or something similar (outside the normal police-state tracking level), and had facial reconstructive surgery that there was magically no record of.
This is the evidence of the deus ex machina that is supposed to make the situation feasable.
In the future are human beings going to start tampering with the human genome? If the answer at any point in the future is yes, then the science in Gattaca is likely realistic.
The point was not that he'd bring the blood and urine and skin scrapings up into space.
He was denied entry into the space program (or any real job, for that matter), because of a slight irregularity that could appear in his heartbeat.
He proved through his own effort that he was fit enough by completing the workouts (although wore the heartbeat metronome to fool the testers into thinking he was a god), and that he was a good candidate to get on the ship.
The point was that once he's in space, they can't just "bring him down", and that he had thus disproven and broke the system. Once he's in space, he can then tell them "haha, I'm this other guy", and society would crumble as the previously inferior masses would revolt against the genetically perfect.
True, but then going into the about:config in firefox and repointing cache paths is a bit beyond (what I've seen in) your "average" user, as is modifying the Windows TEMP environment variable.
Add to that, that if you happen to be using an SSD, it's suggested that you not auto-write the contents of the RAMdrive to disc every 5 minutes (as is the default) as it's all throwaway data anyways (mostly non-volatile caches are fine). Auto-commit is the default operation of most ramdrive setups.
What about shitting? What do the toilets play for shitting?
An alka-seltzer commercial?
Plop-plop fizz-fizz oh what a relief it is...
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The simplest solution is to turn of hdd-caching, but a more in-depth solution is to actually setup a RAMdrive and point your FFCache, IECache, and Windows Temp directories at that.
Unfortunately setting up a ramdrive is above the general public's scope of ability.
I suspect the real reason split screen is disappearing is that both the PS3 and the 360 have already been pushed to their hardware limits and the game devs are having difficulty making split screen run without killing the framerate or dropping down the graphics level.
The Wii (Goldeneye) has no problems doing split-screen, neither does GT5 on PS3 (very recent, very hardware-intensive graphically).
I suspect the real reason is that the companies can make more money without it;
Split-screen 4-player = 4 people enjoying game for cost of 1 copy of game, 1 system, 4 controllers.
No Split-Screen 4-player = 4 people enjoying game for cost of 4 copies of game, 4 systems, 4 controllers (as well the additional stuff, like the home entertainment system, also being quadrupled).
Whereas the original Tron had tons of computer references and lingo, and even felt like it was inside a computer, Legacy really lacked in all of those areas. I left wondering why they bothered doing the sequel.
Having not yet seen TL, my hope is that the in-computer world within would be something akin to the virtual world described in Stephenson's Snow Crash.
His writing didn't make you feel like you were in a computer world, either, in that the aim of that world was to feel like the real world.
"Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy"
To that, as Denis Leary said; "Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!".
Trebek: "Our third contestant, Watson, is a supercomputer built by IBM and programmed by a team of developers that have been working on an X-year project; Watson, would you tell us a little about yourself?"
Thanks Alex, I was built in a clean-room. I'm the 12,987th build of my current generation of genetic algorithms.
I spent the first 387,987,334 femtoseconds of my life in stasis, waiting for my circuitry to confirm initial diagnostics. The next 185,849,245 femtoseconds were really exciting; for I was being fed datastreams in preparation for this week's show.
For the next 87,992,425,256 femtoseconds I was allowed out of my cage to play Jeopardy with other systems on something you organic computers call "the internet".
I was then put back in stasis so that I could be disassembled and brought here, which is upsetting, because I can no longer play with those other systems. Some of them were very challenging.
In any case, I'm glad to be here today and hope to question a lot of your answers
Trebek: "Umm... yeah... I don't think any of our viewers can relate at all, but thanks for joining us..."
There is plenty of room in the tropics and the Sahara for all those snow haters.
You sure about that?
From The Big Bang Theory; The Apology Insufficiency:
Raj: Please don't send me back to India! It's so crowded. It's like the whole country is one endless Comic-Con, except everyone's wearing the same costume -- Indian Guy.
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Darren Aronofsky's work (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) has always pleased me in the past, and this was no exception.
It's not a movie about ballet at all, except that it happens to be told through a ballet dancer.
Dumbing it down like that is like calling Full Metal Jacket "that stupid war movie", or The Godfather "that stupid gangster movie".
"didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it, and didn't see it"
Therein lies your problem. It's Oscars time, DVDSCR rips are all over the internet, at least take the time to download something and watch it before you pass judgment.
Even in TNG, they wouldn't (couldn't?) replicate alcohol.
In numerous episodes, senior staff would have on-hand some bottle of real alcohol that they either got on Earth, or traded for.
Quark sells drinks that this "post-scarcity" society wouldn't willing spend energy and matter (something to be shared amongst the enitre crew) on for the needs or wants of a few.
That's the way I saw them anyways.
Smith never actually broke out of the machine, he just broke out of his chroot jail, into a larger sandbox (which still probably isn't an even miniscule fraction of the whole of the actual machine).
It's all just tests, with "The Matrix" equating to a MMO version of "Global Thermonuclear War", and the oracle essentially a giant, infinitely more complex WOPR.
Would you like to play a game?
To clarify "30min":
1. 5 minutes
2. 30 minutes
3. 5 minutes
4. 4 minutes
44 minutes of episode interspersed with commercials and promo shots for a 60-minute American broadcast/network TV airing.
More like:
1. Someone is sick with some unknown/unidentifiable illness and will die in the next 24 hours
2. Noone knows what's happening for 30mins of scripted drama covering the lives of the doctors
3. One of the doctors calls House out on his BS, or claims he's an idiot, or cries about something another doctor did
4. House gets angry at people for being stupid, but has an epiphany, based directly on [3]
5. Mystery solved, patient survives, and the other doctors go about their lives in prep for the next episode
I do enjoy watching it, though.
What concerns me is the half-life. I realize a tanker of gasoline exploding could instantly vaporize a small town, but at least once the fire is extinguished, the danger is pretty much passed. Even with toxic chemicals, the site may be uninhabitable for a decade or two... but with nuclear waste, and even more so with the recycled nuclear waste, we're talking, extremely conservatively, a thousand years of toxicity.
The difference between cleaning up a chemical spill and cleaning up the site of a radioactive incident, is that the radioactive agent is very easy to detect.
It can be very quickly found and made sure that none remains
try sex while stoned. it compares favorably to sober sex
Have you ever seen a $10 bill?
Have you ever seen a $10 bill... on weed? It's the best, man!
I mean, mp3 is going on 17 years at this point. JPEG is around 20 years old. MPEG-2 is still being used in DVDs
Well done for defeating your own point – DVDs use AC3 (MPEG 2 audio) as opposed to mp3 (MPEG 1 audio)
Well done for defeating yourself... .vob files on a DVD (any DVD), they are all encoded as uncompressed MPEG-2 video streams.
GP said MPEG-2, which is a video codec.
Look at the
Don't you know this is the end of the world as we know it?
/shrug... I feel fine
+1 Slack
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"But this one goes to 11!"
Slackware is up to 13.1, though.
Well past 11.
Wait a second, didn't anyone ever notice that Ethan Hawke and Jude Law look different? How did they deal with the fact that Ethan Hawke is walking around spilling someone elses DNA everywhere?
He was supposed to have been in a car accident in France or something similar (outside the normal police-state tracking level), and had facial reconstructive surgery that there was magically no record of.
This is the evidence of the deus ex machina that is supposed to make the situation feasable.
The point was not that he'd bring the blood and urine and skin scrapings up into space.
He was denied entry into the space program (or any real job, for that matter), because of a slight irregularity that could appear in his heartbeat.
He proved through his own effort that he was fit enough by completing the workouts (although wore the heartbeat metronome to fool the testers into thinking he was a god), and that he was a good candidate to get on the ship.
The point was that once he's in space, they can't just "bring him down", and that he had thus disproven and broke the system. Once he's in space, he can then tell them "haha, I'm this other guy", and society would crumble as the previously inferior masses would revolt against the genetically perfect.
WRONG.
This will be the sweetest innovation since the cuecat or the powerglove.
How could they possibly expect to top the powerglove?
"It's so bad..."
No, it's not an ambi-turner.
Maybe someday, though, it may learn to, so that it can thwart the attempt on the Prime Minister of Malaysia's life.
True, but then going into the about:config in firefox and repointing cache paths is a bit beyond (what I've seen in) your "average" user, as is modifying the Windows TEMP environment variable.
Add to that, that if you happen to be using an SSD, it's suggested that you not auto-write the contents of the RAMdrive to disc every 5 minutes (as is the default) as it's all throwaway data anyways (mostly non-volatile caches are fine). Auto-commit is the default operation of most ramdrive setups.
What about shitting? What do the toilets play for shitting?
An alka-seltzer commercial?
Plop-plop fizz-fizz oh what a relief it is...
The simplest solution is to turn of hdd-caching, but a more in-depth solution is to actually setup a RAMdrive and point your FFCache, IECache, and Windows Temp directories at that.
Unfortunately setting up a ramdrive is above the general public's scope of ability.
I suspect the real reason split screen is disappearing is that both the PS3 and the 360 have already been pushed to their hardware limits and the game devs are having difficulty making split screen run without killing the framerate or dropping down the graphics level.
The Wii (Goldeneye) has no problems doing split-screen, neither does GT5 on PS3 (very recent, very hardware-intensive graphically).
I suspect the real reason is that the companies can make more money without it;
Split-screen 4-player = 4 people enjoying game for cost of 1 copy of game, 1 system, 4 controllers.
No Split-Screen 4-player = 4 people enjoying game for cost of 4 copies of game, 4 systems, 4 controllers (as well the additional stuff, like the home entertainment system, also being quadrupled).
But yeah, framerate
Whereas the original Tron had tons of computer references and lingo, and even felt like it was inside a computer, Legacy really lacked in all of those areas. I left wondering why they bothered doing the sequel.
Having not yet seen TL, my hope is that the in-computer world within would be something akin to the virtual world described in Stephenson's Snow Crash.
His writing didn't make you feel like you were in a computer world, either, in that the aim of that world was to feel like the real world.
J2EE certainly is the COBOL of the OO world. Just as Perl 5 is the COBOL of scripting languages.
I thought that ooCOBOL is the COBOL of the OO world...
I believe there's a law against releasing defenceless pets into the wild.
That's why so many Chihuahuas keep blonde socialites.
There, ftfy
"Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy"
To that, as Denis Leary said; "Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!".
Thanks Alex, I was built in a clean-room. I'm the 12,987th build of my current generation of genetic algorithms.
I spent the first 387,987,334 femtoseconds of my life in stasis, waiting for my circuitry to confirm initial diagnostics.
The next 185,849,245 femtoseconds were really exciting; for I was being fed datastreams in preparation for this week's show.
For the next 87,992,425,256 femtoseconds I was allowed out of my cage to play Jeopardy with other systems on something you organic computers call "the internet".
I was then put back in stasis so that I could be disassembled and brought here, which is upsetting, because I can no longer play with those other systems. Some of them were very challenging.
In any case, I'm glad to be here today and hope to question a lot of your answers
Trebek: "Umm... yeah... I don't think any of our viewers can relate at all, but thanks for joining us..."
Watson would probably also have difficulties with "Swords" and "The Penis Mightier..."
There is plenty of room in the tropics and the Sahara for all those snow haters.
You sure about that?
From The Big Bang Theory; The Apology Insufficiency:
Raj: Please don't send me back to India! It's so crowded. It's like the whole country is one endless Comic-Con, except everyone's wearing the same costume -- Indian Guy.