www.ubid.com is kinda like this.. it's mostly (or all?) computer stuff, but if a bid is made in the last 10 minutes, the auction time is extended for 10 minutes. If another bid is made, the auction time extends again, until 10 minutes goes by with no bid. It's kinda nerve wracking, if you're the winning bidder, and someone else keeps upping the bid, after the auction was "supposed" to be over.
Does anyone besides me have a hard time suspending disbelief long enough to get over the idea of "modern neanderthals"? I can't get the image of a guy with a big forehead and a deer leg club going around smashing traffic lights and computers out of my head.
The strips are used as a backup for the computer ATC system. The only reason controllers get good at using them is because the old system went down so often. Some of the older centers still use vacuum tubes! Yeesh!
At the point that they're that close, it's all on the pilots as to where they land. The controller will tell them to circle until it's their turn to land.
In busier airports at night (think LAX, DFW, ATL) you can see the planes lined up 2 minutes apart. That's what the controllers do. The pilots are responsible for centering themselves on the runway, and landing without crashing into the ground.
We at the FAA are very sorry for the loss of your husband/wife/child aboard AA/United/whoever flight number 123. Their death, and the deaths of all 206 other passengers and crew was caused by a minor glitch in the software used to keep track of all commercial jets in the air. You will be relieved to know that this glitch has been fixed, and is available as a patch to the local air traffic control center.
Thank you for your continued trust in the airline industry!
Signed, FAA Bigwig
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I'd rather the software WORK before I trust my life with it, thank you very much.
I kinda wondered about that. I thought it would have been better if Williams just used the "evil bad guy" theme from ANH in Episode 2, and just a hint of the Imperial March at the end of the credits...
But I suppose changing ANH's score to include the march would work too. (:
Quote: Lucas approaches the life and times of Darth Vader in much the same way biographer Robert Caro explores the life and times of ex-president LBJ (his latest book that's 1,300 pages long -- and that's just one volume of a projected four).
What gives JonKatz the right to say ANYTHING about overly long, strung out renditions of things that nobody cares about?
JonKatz approaches the life and times of Episode 2: Attack of the Clones in much the same way that Lucas explores the life and times of Darth Vader. He spends way too much time making up garbage and pulling buzzwords fromlate-90's culture. All he needed was a paradigm shift (or did I just miss it?) to use every known buzzword there is. Bingo!
and Post 9/11? COME ON! Geeze, this is a narrative about 2 movies, not the war on terrorism (yet another overused phrase...) Yeesh.
I would think that this would make the next Code Red even easier to code and distribute. Once the worm is on a computer, it just has to make a simple check, does the product key on this machine corrospond to the one that Microsoft locked out with SP1?
If not, delete self.
If so, run payload, know that the computer will NEVER be secure, and keep the back door open for whatever the worm writer wants to do with it.
Ouch.
Just in case the original gets slashdotted...
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Actually you can. The funniest thing about it is the standard disclaimer, "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page, nor responsible for it's content.
OK, first off, it's Jedi you're talking about, not Empire. The music that doesn't fit was added for the Special Edition of the movie. They aslo added cutscenes of celebrations on Tatooine and Coruscant. The version you saw on USA had the *original* music, that had the ewoks singing jub-jub, and without the CGI cutscenes. The original jub-jib music was only available on one CD-boxed set, I believe. The new soundtracks released for Jedi all include the school children singing.
Also, it's a lava pit, not acid, and it doesn't happen in Episode 2. Hopefully it will be included in Episode 3.
For using it as an under-seat media player, it will (sorta) work. You can insert a music CD, and it make it copy it (in wmp format) to the hard drive. No idea how many hours of music you can do, but it will store music, and allow you to play it back at any time.
So if you really really wanted to, you could use it as an (almost) mp3 player.
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www.ubid.com is kinda like this.. it's mostly (or all?) computer stuff, but if a bid is made in the last 10 minutes, the auction time is extended for 10 minutes. If another bid is made, the auction time extends again, until 10 minutes goes by with no bid. It's kinda nerve wracking, if you're the winning bidder, and someone else keeps upping the bid, after the auction was "supposed" to be over.
Ya, I bet it felt a lot like the first dream sequence in "Vanilla Sky" where he's running around Times Square, and he's the only person there...
Does anyone besides me have a hard time suspending disbelief long enough to get over the idea of "modern neanderthals"? I can't get the image of a guy with a big forehead and a deer leg club going around smashing traffic lights and computers out of my head.
Either that or the Flintstones... *shrug*
The strips are used as a backup for the computer ATC system. The only reason controllers get good at using them is because the old system went down so often. Some of the older centers still use vacuum tubes! Yeesh!
At the point that they're that close, it's all on the pilots as to where they land. The controller will tell them to circle until it's their turn to land.
In busier airports at night (think LAX, DFW, ATL) you can see the planes lined up 2 minutes apart. That's what the controllers do. The pilots are responsible for centering themselves on the runway, and landing without crashing into the ground.
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
We at the FAA are very sorry for the loss of your husband/wife/child aboard AA/United/whoever flight number 123. Their death, and the deaths of all 206 other passengers and crew was caused by a minor glitch in the software used to keep track of all commercial jets in the air. You will be relieved to know that this glitch has been fixed, and is available as a patch to the local air traffic control center.
Thank you for your continued trust in the airline industry!
Signed,
FAA Bigwig
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I'd rather the software WORK before I trust my life with it, thank you very much.
Yes, but 2 links, on security, and electricity.. you'll probably reach +5 interesting anyways. (:
I would mod you up if I had any points. hehe
I kinda wondered about that. I thought it would have been better if Williams just used the "evil bad guy" theme from ANH in Episode 2, and just a hint of the Imperial March at the end of the credits...
But I suppose changing ANH's score to include the march would work too. (:
Qui-Gon didn't die in front of Luke, though. That's the only way you become a ghost... dying while Luke watches.
Think about it.
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The fee would be taken by your local provider. Some local providers ate the charge themselves, so you might not have seen it.
Quote: Lucas approaches the life and times of Darth Vader in much the same way biographer Robert Caro explores the life and times of ex-president LBJ (his latest book that's 1,300 pages long -- and that's just one volume of a projected four).
What gives JonKatz the right to say ANYTHING about overly long, strung out renditions of things that nobody cares about?
JonKatz approaches the life and times of Episode 2: Attack of the Clones in much the same way that Lucas explores the life and times of Darth Vader. He spends way too much time making up garbage and pulling buzzwords fromlate-90's culture. All he needed was a paradigm shift (or did I just miss it?) to use every known buzzword there is. Bingo!
and Post 9/11? COME ON! Geeze, this is a narrative about 2 movies, not the war on terrorism (yet another overused phrase...) Yeesh.
Ban aluminum foil, paper, and pencils as circumvention devices!!!
Sorry, it had to be said. (:
I would think that this would make the next Code Red even easier to code and distribute. Once the worm is on a computer, it just has to make a simple check, does the product key on this machine corrospond to the one that Microsoft locked out with SP1?
If not, delete self.
If so, run payload, know that the computer will NEVER be secure, and keep the back door open for whatever the worm writer wants to do with it.
Ouch.
Go here: Grab your own text file
Hey, how did you find my password!?!
At least you got my login name wrong. I spell it with two "o"s.
In space, no one can hear you sing.
No wait, that's not quite right. hmmm.
Do you really want your MicrosoftRealDoll2002 to crash and give you the blue ball^H^H^H^Hscreen of death?
That's not a hairpiece... it's a tribble!
To wit: http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:zsbOtgGsZtYC: www.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF8
OK, first off, it's Jedi you're talking about, not Empire. The music that doesn't fit was added for the Special Edition of the movie. They aslo added cutscenes of celebrations on Tatooine and Coruscant. The version you saw on USA had the *original* music, that had the ewoks singing jub-jub, and without the CGI cutscenes. The original jub-jib music was only available on one CD-boxed set, I believe. The new soundtracks released for Jedi all include the school children singing.
Also, it's a lava pit, not acid, and it doesn't happen in Episode 2. Hopefully it will be included in Episode 3.
It looked more to me like Dooku could end up being Obi Wan's dad.
When Obi is suspended in the blue shaft of light, and Dooku is talking to him, it sounded a LOT like the Cloud City fight between Vader and Luke.
"Join me, and together we will rule the galaxy..."
I assume this was done with two iterations of Babelfish? Made it look more like Katz, and less like Taco.
My favorite phrase: "binks of flask of flask"
For using it as an under-seat media player, it will (sorta) work. You can insert a music CD, and it make it copy it (in wmp format) to the hard drive. No idea how many hours of music you can do, but it will store music, and allow you to play it back at any time.
So if you really really wanted to, you could use it as an (almost) mp3 player.