Exactly. I bought it on the first day, and now I can watch LoTR in DVD quality! Ahh... and it's larger than my computer monitor... ahhh. And did any of you notice that this 2-disc set seems to cost less than most 1-disc DVDs? That was nice.
The one frustrating thing, however, is that I didn't realize that this version wasn't the deluxe version until I got home and really looked at the back. Maybe that's my fault. But when I put the specials disc in and watched what I thought was the trailer for the Two Towers (again, my fault, I didn't read enough) I found it was the trailer for the DVD that I hadn't yet bought. It looked so awesome, I wanted that version instead. It did make me frustrated for having bought something that was different what I thought, and then almost getting teased for it.
But whatever. I'll surely get the 4-disc set in November, and I'll just give my 2-disc version to my sister or something. She and her hubby have DVD, it'd be a nice gift.
That would be nice if OSX would work on anything aside from PPC chips (ahem x86 anyone?), and if those PPC computers didn't cost 500% more than what I can make on my own...
The G4 graphics workstations cost $8500!! $8500. Read that one more time. I can buy separate parts and piece them together to get comparable performance for under $2000. Now that is just unnacceptable. It's fine for those few out there who do buy Macs, but if the choice in the future were $2000 or less for a DRM machine or $8500 for a machine you can use for anything you want, what do you think most people are going to do? They'll buy the cheaper, locked down computer and use the rest of the money to buy a car. At least those don't have DRM in them.
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because most poeple aren't addicted to crime, while many drug users are addicts, and therefore aren't deterred by anything.
not ALL drug users though.
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shock stick?
it's a SICK stick. hense the vomiting. that's what it's supposed to do.
probably. I couldn't find an actual price anywhere on the page. Why is it that companies will hide the price of something that they know YOU can't afford? Just tease me, I don't care. I just want to know if the fridge is really $20,000.
If electrons really were an "orbitsphere", then how could you explain the results of Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer from the 1920's? Their experiment of firing an electron beam at a piece of nickel and watching the resulting electrons bounce off and on to a photoelectric plate showed an INTERFERENCE pattern. Such a result could only be attained if the electrons exhibited wave-like properties. And in the world of matter (unlike photons) the wave is actually another way of describing the probability of the electron existing in any given position in space.
Yes it is, actually. Possible, that is. When the universe was in a period of expansion, it was definitely growing at a rate faster than that of light. That's because it's space ITSELF that's expanding, not matter or energy.
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No, there are actually 6 types of quarks: up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm. As well, there are 6 "colors" that each could have - red, blue, green, cyan, magenta, and yellow. This is known as quantum chromodynamics. So there are actually 36 different possible quarks, and they all combine in groups of 2 or 3 in many different ways to form hundreds of different hadrons (using 2 quarks) and leptons (using 3 quarks). So it's much more complicated than binary.
But if you want, you can think of it as binary in a much more fundemental way: something either exists, or it doesn't.
-andrew
Yeah, I definitely think this movie sucked freakin' ballz. The amount of rediculous plot holes was astounding. For instance (spoilers ahead, but trust me, I'm not giving anything away that's good):
1. The dude goes back in time to save his fiancee from dying, but fails, because she dies in a different way. He then says that he could go back a thousand times and she'd die every time. But HOW DOES HE KNOW?! He went back once. The guy is so completely obsessed with saving her that he spends four years of his life reinventing science and not shaving at all and after one try he gives up? Gimme a break. I'd have at least tried twice.:)
2. How is it that the uber-morlack could know absolutely everything about the dude, including why he's gone into the future, by reading his mind, but doesn't know that he's going to fucking pull on his necklace? C'mon.
3. 800,000 years isn't nearly enough time for the kind of geological change that the movie was depicting when the scientist (sorry, I've forgotten the characters name, I obviously didn't care) finally goes way into the future. I mean, were they trying to be literal with those fx? That looked more like millions of years in time travel, if you ask me. And how is it that there could be that much change in 800,000 years, but 7 BILLION (or was it 700,000,000) years into the future, the Morlacks are still living in the same fucking stupid aluminum-foil skull houses?
4. I love how the uber-morlack told the scientist that they save some of the eloi who are "suitable for breeding" and then the camera quickly turns to Samantha "I've got a see through shirt" Mumba. Looks like after 800,000 years, evolution can change human into morlack, but they still just want big titties!
5. Why doesn't anyone who builds time machines use it to go back to the beginning of the universe? or the end? Dammit, I'm gonna make my own time travel movie, just to see that.
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Exactly. I bought it on the first day, and now I can watch LoTR in DVD quality! Ahh... and it's larger than my computer monitor... ahhh. And did any of you notice that this 2-disc set seems to cost less than most 1-disc DVDs? That was nice.
The one frustrating thing, however, is that I didn't realize that this version wasn't the deluxe version until I got home and really looked at the back. Maybe that's my fault. But when I put the specials disc in and watched what I thought was the trailer for the Two Towers (again, my fault, I didn't read enough) I found it was the trailer for the DVD that I hadn't yet bought. It looked so awesome, I wanted that version instead. It did make me frustrated for having bought something that was different what I thought, and then almost getting teased for it.
But whatever. I'll surely get the 4-disc set in November, and I'll just give my 2-disc version to my sister or something. She and her hubby have DVD, it'd be a nice gift.
-A
That would be nice if OSX would work on anything aside from PPC chips (ahem x86 anyone?), and if those PPC computers didn't cost 500% more than what I can make on my own...
The G4 graphics workstations cost $8500!! $8500. Read that one more time. I can buy separate parts and piece them together to get comparable performance for under $2000. Now that is just unnacceptable. It's fine for those few out there who do buy Macs, but if the choice in the future were $2000 or less for a DRM machine or $8500 for a machine you can use for anything you want, what do you think most people are going to do? They'll buy the cheaper, locked down computer and use the rest of the money to buy a car. At least those don't have DRM in them.
because most poeple aren't addicted to crime, while many drug users are addicts, and therefore aren't deterred by anything. not ALL drug users though.
shock stick?
it's a SICK stick. hense the vomiting. that's what it's supposed to do.
probably. I couldn't find an actual price anywhere on the page. Why is it that companies will hide the price of something that they know YOU can't afford? Just tease me, I don't care. I just want to know if the fridge is really $20,000.
If electrons really were an "orbitsphere", then how could you explain the results of Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer from the 1920's? Their experiment of firing an electron beam at a piece of nickel and watching the resulting electrons bounce off and on to a photoelectric plate showed an INTERFERENCE pattern. Such a result could only be attained if the electrons exhibited wave-like properties. And in the world of matter (unlike photons) the wave is actually another way of describing the probability of the electron existing in any given position in space.
ESSPLAIN DIS WIHTOUT QM, BEATCH!
Yes it is, actually. Possible, that is. When the universe was in a period of expansion, it was definitely growing at a rate faster than that of light. That's because it's space ITSELF that's expanding, not matter or energy.
uuuh, i think the point isn't that this is happening, but rather that news.com (a rather respected internet news site) is reporting on it.
foist poist
No, there are actually 6 types of quarks: up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm. As well, there are 6 "colors" that each could have - red, blue, green, cyan, magenta, and yellow. This is known as quantum chromodynamics. So there are actually 36 different possible quarks, and they all combine in groups of 2 or 3 in many different ways to form hundreds of different hadrons (using 2 quarks) and leptons (using 3 quarks). So it's much more complicated than binary. But if you want, you can think of it as binary in a much more fundemental way: something either exists, or it doesn't. -andrew
How is it that the next revolution in science always has to do with some disc that's rotating?
We're still stuck on that stupid UFO from the 50's. HELLO? That's so old. pff.
Yeah, I definitely think this movie sucked freakin' ballz. The amount of rediculous plot holes was astounding. For instance (spoilers ahead, but trust me, I'm not giving anything away that's good):
:)
1. The dude goes back in time to save his fiancee from dying, but fails, because she dies in a different way. He then says that he could go back a thousand times and she'd die every time. But HOW DOES HE KNOW?! He went back once. The guy is so completely obsessed with saving her that he spends four years of his life reinventing science and not shaving at all and after one try he gives up? Gimme a break. I'd have at least tried twice.
2. How is it that the uber-morlack could know absolutely everything about the dude, including why he's gone into the future, by reading his mind, but doesn't know that he's going to fucking pull on his necklace? C'mon.
3. 800,000 years isn't nearly enough time for the kind of geological change that the movie was depicting when the scientist (sorry, I've forgotten the characters name, I obviously didn't care) finally goes way into the future. I mean, were they trying to be literal with those fx? That looked more like millions of years in time travel, if you ask me. And how is it that there could be that much change in 800,000 years, but 7 BILLION (or was it 700,000,000) years into the future, the Morlacks are still living in the same fucking stupid aluminum-foil skull houses?
4. I love how the uber-morlack told the scientist that they save some of the eloi who are "suitable for breeding" and then the camera quickly turns to Samantha "I've got a see through shirt" Mumba. Looks like after 800,000 years, evolution can change human into morlack, but they still just want big titties!
5. Why doesn't anyone who builds time machines use it to go back to the beginning of the universe? or the end? Dammit, I'm gonna make my own time travel movie, just to see that.
Andrew
if it's true? If it was true, than Ronald Reagan said it in March 2000... but he hasn't been in a state of speaking since around 1998. HELLO? -d-mayn