yeah. remember when SNES had the all-exclusive Street Fighter 2 (which single-handedly sold a million SNES's)? Then 6 months later, it was out on Genesis! (Good thing it sucked on the Genesis though...)
"Nintendo said last week that even though it has sold its Rare stake, it retains all intellectual property rights to the titles developed for its platforms by Rare, including well-known franchises like "Donkey Kong" and "Star Fox." "
So it looks like we can expect DK-cubed, Perfect Dark-cubed, etc...
The beautiful movie Cinema Paradiso is about a man in early 20th century Italy who runs a movie theater's projector. One of his job duties is to clip out and re-splice movie reels, eliminating all sexual scenes.
***SPOILER*** In one of the movie's finale, perhaps the most powerful scene, Salvatore, the films star, is treated to an entire movie-reel containing all of the spliced-together sexual edits that Spaccafico the projectionist had to edit out. This scene shows what a horrible shame it is that the audience had never been allowed to see these movie bits. Never in film history has there been such a powerful message about the dangers of censorship.
A few years ago, a student who ran the low-powered Tufts University radio network decided they needed more antena wattage and a bigger antenna, so they decided to hook up their station to the subway tracks outside the station for an enourmous antena *the tracks are above ground in some areas)! The signal was so strong that the FCC came in the next day and said they were in HUGE violation of some law, and people in Atlanta were picking up the station! The subway tracks makeup hundreds of miles of interconnected track! (Forgive me if I have the technical details wrong, but I have the general story right. Anyone from Boston may remember this!)
Mostly mute points... (I will now take the nerdly assumption that you think ep4, 5 and possibly 6 are much superior to ep1 and 2).
In Ep4, Why couldn't the Stormtroopers simply look at what garbage chute they fell into and blast them out? Or as you yourself brought up, throw a thermal detonator down?
Why do the badguys always think that their foolproof plans are always, well... foolproof? Ep4 - Death Star is indestructable Ep5 - The droid will never think of simply turning a switch and re-activating the hyperdrive at the end Ep6 - The Emperor's setup/trap plan will go along EXACTLY as he had hoped
You know, sometimes weird things DO happen. Why the hell did you buy from that weird online store when you KNEW it was a scam? Why did you answer that test question wrong in 6th grade when you KNEW the right answer? Why did you buy that outfit when you knew you'd never wear it? The point is, these are MOVIES (and damn entertaining, IMO - though you're entitled to your opinion on the movie). I never cared about these "holes" you mentioned before, and I don't care now about the ones I just thought of. Just my 2 shekels...
Um... According to this list here, Return of the jedi is at #11 and Empire is #15... So AotC would be the third (of 5) Star wars movies not in the top ten...
Remember the game 3 in Three? Where you were a number 3 in some computer file that got zapped during a power surge and you had to get yourself out using brain teasers, etc? That game ruled...
A digital picture frame is already made by a company called Ceiva, you can find out more here It's only like $100 from some places, and it can either be in single-picture or slide-show mode. Plus, it dims in low light and a button can advance you forward. The only catch is that it's a subscription service, and you have to pay like $5 a month, but it's still a nice piece of technology.
Hey I wonder what he thinks of the South Park episode in which the priest has to go to the vatican and go through the catacombs which look like Pitfall to get to the sacred document!
No, NASA does not forbid basteria from it`s spacecrafts.
However... in 1976, they Viking landers were the first to do an in-depth analysis of life on Mars (or perhaps, lack thereof). NASA`s chief wanted to be absolutely certain that they craft did not detect Earth-borne bacteria that had simply hitchhiked along with the Viking landers, so he had the nosecones (where the landers were placed on the launchpad) heated to 350 degrees F to kill any bacteria onboard, without frying the craft's equipment.
Why do geeks feel that they can change the name of the Moon? I personally feel that it is incredibly ignorant to call the Moon Luna or the Sun Sol. The Moon and The Sun are it`s names. It`s like people who insist on calling Israel Jewish-occupied-Palestine or something (NOT flamebait! Not getting into a I-P debate, just making an analogy!).
Does anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one? I understand that "The Moon" and "The Sun" are very Earth-centric terms, and obviously most planets and every solar system has their own "Moon" and "Sun," but I still feel that we have not come to a point where this name change is necessary. Any comments?
Um... there's been a vinyl record onboard the Voyager spacecraft for the last 25 years, and that's hurling through space at 80,000 mph! If yours can't last a year in your mom's basement, there's something wrong with your air!
An Earth-sized planet could survive in a stable orbit between the two gas giants.
The question then is, is it stable enough for one to form, not just survive. Very different questions.
Well, Jupiter's moon Ganymede isn't much smaller than the Earth (It's bigger than both Mercury and Earth's moon), and it orbits Jupiter. And if you're being technical, it also lies in between two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn).
Why is MY salary 1/100 of theirs?
Same with sports..
It's VERY simple why Michael Jordan makes $30 million a year and you don't. MJ makes the Wizards, for example, an extra $100 million with the extra television rights, jersey sales, ticket sales and gatorade bottle sales! It's not the Harvard guy upstairs in the boardroom that made the company the hundred mil, it's Jordan. Therefore he FULLY deserves that money! HE'S the one who brought it in!
If you make YOUR company $100 million a year annually, YOU TOO will be getting Jordan's Salary, or more!
So copying a friend's King's Quest 5 floppy is going go give you eternal damnation, but suicide bombings against civilians in Israel and New York City get you 41 virgins and eternal paradise?
If you ever listen to JFK's speech where he makes a man-on-the-moon-by-the-end-of-the-decade speech, you'll long for such a bold leader.
I agree with you, such a long-term goal that seems impossible at the time, but rallies the heart of the nation behind it would do so much good for progress.
Having previously detailed a period of history that was referred to as "The Clone Wars", his attempts at realistically meshing plot with his previously detailed Star Wars history were just pathetic.
If you listened to Yoda's perhaps-most-repeated line from AotC, you would have heard Yoda proclaim "BEGUN this Clone War has." The Clone Wars were not that one battle, they've just BEGUN with that fight. Man, someone needs a lesson in Yoda-nomics.
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yeah. remember when SNES had the all-exclusive Street Fighter 2 (which single-handedly sold a million SNES's)? Then 6 months later, it was out on Genesis! (Good thing it sucked on the Genesis though...)
One giant leap for an armadillo!
But seriously, this is great news for the industry that a private company has such success.
no it doesn't. According to the article...
"Nintendo said last week that even though it has sold its Rare stake, it retains all intellectual property rights to the titles developed for its platforms by Rare, including well-known franchises like "Donkey Kong" and "Star Fox." "
So it looks like we can expect DK-cubed, Perfect Dark-cubed, etc...
The beautiful movie Cinema Paradiso is about a man in early 20th century Italy who runs a movie theater's projector. One of his job duties is to clip out and re-splice movie reels, eliminating all sexual scenes.
***SPOILER***
In one of the movie's finale, perhaps the most powerful scene, Salvatore, the films star, is treated to an entire movie-reel containing all of the spliced-together sexual edits that Spaccafico the projectionist had to edit out. This scene shows what a horrible shame it is that the audience had never been allowed to see these movie bits. Never in film history has there been such a powerful message about the dangers of censorship.
...better yet, don't.
A few years ago, a student who ran the low-powered Tufts University radio network decided they needed more antena wattage and a bigger antenna, so they decided to hook up their station to the subway tracks outside the station for an enourmous antena *the tracks are above ground in some areas)! The signal was so strong that the FCC came in the next day and said they were in HUGE violation of some law, and people in Atlanta were picking up the station! The subway tracks makeup hundreds of miles of interconnected track! (Forgive me if I have the technical details wrong, but I have the general story right. Anyone from Boston may remember this!)
Mostly mute points... (I will now take the nerdly assumption that you think ep4, 5 and possibly 6 are much superior to ep1 and 2).
In Ep4, Why couldn't the Stormtroopers simply look at what garbage chute they fell into and blast them out? Or as you yourself brought up, throw a thermal detonator down?
Why do the badguys always think that their foolproof plans are always, well... foolproof?
Ep4 - Death Star is indestructable
Ep5 - The droid will never think of simply turning a switch and re-activating the hyperdrive at the end
Ep6 - The Emperor's setup/trap plan will go along EXACTLY as he had hoped
You know, sometimes weird things DO happen. Why the hell did you buy from that weird online store when you KNEW it was a scam? Why did you answer that test question wrong in 6th grade when you KNEW the right answer? Why did you buy that outfit when you knew you'd never wear it?
The point is, these are MOVIES (and damn entertaining, IMO - though you're entitled to your opinion on the movie). I never cared about these "holes" you mentioned before, and I don't care now about the ones I just thought of. Just my 2 shekels...
the first SW movie not to make the top ten.
Um... According to this list here, Return of the jedi is at #11 and Empire is #15... So AotC would be the third (of 5) Star wars movies not in the top ten...
Remember the game 3 in Three? Where you were a number 3 in some computer file that got zapped during a power surge and you had to get yourself out using brain teasers, etc? That game ruled...
A digital picture frame is already made by a company called Ceiva, you can find out more here
It's only like $100 from some places, and it can either be in single-picture or slide-show mode. Plus, it dims in low light and a button can advance you forward.
The only catch is that it's a subscription service, and you have to pay like $5 a month, but it's still a nice piece of technology.
Hey I wonder what he thinks of the South Park episode in which the priest has to go to the vatican and go through the catacombs which look like Pitfall to get to the sacred document!
No, NASA does not forbid basteria from it`s spacecrafts.
However... in 1976, they Viking landers were the first to do an in-depth analysis of life on Mars (or perhaps, lack thereof). NASA`s chief wanted to be absolutely certain that they craft did not detect Earth-borne bacteria that had simply hitchhiked along with the Viking landers, so he had the nosecones (where the landers were placed on the launchpad) heated to 350 degrees F to kill any bacteria onboard, without frying the craft's equipment.
Why do geeks feel that they can change the name of the Moon? I personally feel that it is incredibly ignorant to call the Moon Luna or the Sun Sol. The Moon and The Sun are it`s names. It`s like people who insist on calling Israel Jewish-occupied-Palestine or something (NOT flamebait! Not getting into a I-P debate, just making an analogy!).
Does anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one? I understand that "The Moon" and "The Sun" are very Earth-centric terms, and obviously most planets and every solar system has their own "Moon" and "Sun," but I still feel that we have not come to a point where this name change is necessary. Any comments?
Where are these bargain "Asian computer market sales" in NYC? Anyone know?
I wonder what Jon Katz would say about all this? Whatever it's be, it would definately include his thoughts of the RIAA "in the post 9/11 world" :-)
vinyl doesn't last long enough to resell =P
Um... there's been a vinyl record onboard the Voyager spacecraft for the last 25 years, and that's hurling through space at 80,000 mph! If yours can't last a year in your mom's basement, there's something wrong with your air!
An Earth-sized planet could survive in a stable orbit between the two gas giants.
The question then is, is it stable enough for one to form, not just survive. Very different questions.
Well, Jupiter's moon Ganymede isn't much smaller than the Earth (It's bigger than both Mercury and Earth's moon), and it orbits Jupiter. And if you're being technical, it also lies in between two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn).
Why is MY salary 1/100 of theirs? Same with sports..
It's VERY simple why Michael Jordan makes $30 million a year and you don't. MJ makes the Wizards, for example, an extra $100 million with the extra television rights, jersey sales, ticket sales and gatorade bottle sales! It's not the Harvard guy upstairs in the boardroom that made the company the hundred mil, it's Jordan. Therefore he FULLY deserves that money! HE'S the one who brought it in!
If you make YOUR company $100 million a year annually, YOU TOO will be getting Jordan's Salary, or more!
D-Beta is gonna kick ass!
He was referring to the simpsons episode where Ralph says "Me fail english? That's unpossible!"
So copying a friend's King's Quest 5 floppy is going go give you eternal damnation, but suicide bombings against civilians in Israel and New York City get you 41 virgins and eternal paradise?
If you ever listen to JFK's speech where he makes a man-on-the-moon-by-the-end-of-the-decade speech, you'll long for such a bold leader.
I agree with you, such a long-term goal that seems impossible at the time, but rallies the heart of the nation behind it would do so much good for progress.
The day someone invents Cold Fusion or some other TRULY cheap & clean alternative to oil...
1) Goodbye Palestine!
2) Goodbye USA kissing up to our "friends" the Saudis! (holding telethons for suicide-murder bombers??? WTF?!?!?!?!?)
A drop in karma may be necessary here, but it had to be said.
NO AND THEN! (an' den! an' den! an' den!)
Having previously detailed a period of history that was referred to as "The Clone Wars", his attempts at realistically meshing plot with his previously detailed Star Wars history were just pathetic.
If you listened to Yoda's perhaps-most-repeated line from AotC, you would have heard Yoda proclaim "BEGUN this Clone War has." The Clone Wars were not that one battle, they've just BEGUN with that fight. Man, someone needs a lesson in Yoda-nomics.