The article uses the term "post-watershed" which apparently refers to programs broadcast after 9pm in the UK. This is a page with relevant legal regulations that are implicated...
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Good point! Who knows how many statistics showing IE's marketshare are inaccurate because of things like webspiders claiming to be Internet Explorer...
No, only adherence to standards and a widespread adoption of such hardware will increase the quality and speed of the wireless internet.
Internet Explorer still has a market majority of browsers and has for years jizzed in the face of standards. People to lazy and companies to complacent too bitch have for years accepted this. As another example, BETA videotapes were a "standard" for about five minutes.
Standards are meaningless unless implemented properly and widely accepted by a consumer base.
That was a fantastically interesting article! The concept of a human being seeing this theorized "fourth-primary" color is mind-boggling.
I think I'm going to go cry my suddenly sub-human self to sleep now.
While it would explain Mars having more impacts than Earth, it wouldn't explain that many.
I'm not sure about that. Every time I play as Mars in SimEarth I always bombard the hell out of it immediately with at least 20 Ice Meteors to form an ocean.
Who's to say that the universe doesn't play SimEarth the same way that I do?
Alright, I found "The Philosophy of Time Travel" online, which, while being somewhat atmospheric and mentioning "divine intervention," really did little to explain the fundamental premise of the film and it's associated paradox and questions.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the film was well done cinematically... however, the fact that it revolved around a bizzare science-fantasy concept which was used as a McGuffin, left me with an extremely dissapointed feeling at the end. I can only assume that my analysis of the film, and desire for a rational, logical explanation of its events has ruined it for me.
How did his actions prevent the "distruction of the entire universe?"
The airplane engine which fell on his house in the beginning, also fell on his house at the end.
If you recall, at the beginning of the film, the Rabbit led him out of his house, preventing his death. At the end of the film, Darko chooses to remain in bed and die. Thus, the tangent universe would never have existed unless the Rabbit had interfered in the first place. The tangent universe problem, which the Rabbit is supposedly trying to get Darko to fix, would never have been happened without the Rabbit interfering in the first place!
Ug. I am so sick of everyone telling me that I have to go see that movie. What a dissapointment.
The ending was horrible and the only interpretation that I could take away was that it was a retelling of the Christ story: ie. Darko's death was the "salvation" of his little town. Ew. Everything he was "forced" to do in the splinter universe was useless and accomplished nothing: the death of his girlfriend, manipulating his mother to get on the airplane, etc. POINTLESS!
Enough about the "invisible car"
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The thing that really irritated me about Die Another Day was the villain with diamonds stuck in his face... I mean, come on. The scabs would just fall out on their own.
The whole time I saw the movie I was sitting there wondering to myself, "WHY ARE THE FREAKING DIAMONDS STUCK IN YOUR FACE? HERE'S A DAMN TOOTHPICK, PRY THEM OUT!"
Talk about trying to make a "memorable" villain and failing horribly.
To earn money in game your Sim must use "job obects," which are similar to paining with the easel in the off-line version. In practice this results in waiting five to ten minutes for your task to complete, earning about $50 (enough to buy almost nothing) and repeating endlessly, pausing on occasion to eat, shower, etc.
After "playing" the game long enough you realize that it would be more fun to eat, shower, and paint in real life.
The name of the movie is stupidly enough, not "Face Off." It is "Face/Off."
I am hideously irritated by brand logos that include punctuation and extraneous characters in lieu of letters, like those worthless tee-vee shows Arli$$ and The $treet. "H4x0r" kids are bad enough, but does TV Guide really have to emulate those "clever" little title-designs in print?
Disprove what? A free-energy scheme, which has managed to hire a web-designer and leech some investment capital?
A rudimentary amount of research reveals the company you refer to was founded by a Dr. Randell L. Mills in 1991, and has so far failed in all attempts to produce results... a buisiness based on exploiting the energy of the alleged "hydrino," which I doubt any reputable physicist has even HEARD of, is a rather bad idea.
Please just listen. I know why you're here, pVoid. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, pVoid. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.
In my opinion, there's so much fantastic original material from artists like Poppy Z. Brite and Neil Gaiman on their website, that I don't even care how the sequels turn out. Although I do hope for the best of course and am rather excited for the trailers to start appearing...
Article: It's a given that The Sims Online will have a profound effect on the game industry...
That's garbage. I was beta testing TSO for a few weeks, and in my opinion, it's not going to take off.
Visualize this: playing a computer game... in which one's avatar is... sleeping. For twenty minutes straight, because your stupid "energy" bar is low. Meanwhile, you are forced to chat with other players to keep your connection alive because they boot you after fifteen minutes of idleness.
Even if the damn game does inexplicably manage to sell and retain players, it doesn't offer anything new at all to the genre.
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Yes, but my post got moderated (Score:5, Informative) and yours didn't.
Humperdumperdido! I can change blood into wine!
The article uses the term "post-watershed" which apparently refers to programs broadcast after 9pm in the UK.
This is a page with relevant legal regulations that are implicated...
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Good point! Who knows how many statistics showing IE's marketshare are inaccurate because of things like webspiders claiming to be Internet Explorer...
Nice sig, by the way.
When I have moderation points, I simply cannot view a /. article in IE... all the drop-down boxes freak out the rendering and I have to use Netscape...
By the way, try reversing your usage of "to" and "too". A little standard we call "the English language" doesn't appreciate being jizzed on that way.
Yeah, sorry about that. There should be a moderation option for "-1, Drunk."
No, only adherence to standards and a widespread adoption of such hardware will increase the quality and speed of the wireless internet.
Internet Explorer still has a market majority of browsers and has for years jizzed in the face of standards. People to lazy and companies to complacent too bitch have for years accepted this. As another example, BETA videotapes were a "standard" for about five minutes.
Standards are meaningless unless implemented properly and widely accepted by a consumer base.
That was a fantastically interesting article! The concept of a human being seeing this theorized "fourth-primary" color is mind-boggling. I think I'm going to go cry my suddenly sub-human self to sleep now.
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There's evidently an australian children's show called "Bananas in Pajamas," which has some rather nightmarish homoerotic(?) overtones.
I'm rather relieved that my Google search for "bananas pajamas porn" returned no results.
In Soviet Russia, everyone is a gay, vegetarian, pacifist!
No wait, that's California.
While it would explain Mars having more impacts than Earth, it wouldn't explain that many.
I'm not sure about that. Every time I play as Mars in SimEarth I always bombard the hell out of it immediately with at least 20 Ice Meteors to form an ocean.
Who's to say that the universe doesn't play SimEarth the same way that I do?
Queue "Fuck the Creationists" by MC Hawking!
They call their bullshit science like the word could give them cred,
if them bitches be scientists then cap me in the head.
If I remember my Joseph Cambell correctly, a great number of cultures believe that the water/ocean/flooding is the ultimate source of all life.
if you want some details on how it's done, read my other post.
Um... the other posts by username "Anonymous Coward" all involve a website called goatse, whatever that is.
Alright, I found "The Philosophy of Time Travel" online, which, while being somewhat atmospheric and mentioning "divine intervention," really did little to explain the fundamental premise of the film and it's associated paradox and questions.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the film was well done cinematically... however, the fact that it revolved around a bizzare science-fantasy concept which was used as a McGuffin, left me with an extremely dissapointed feeling at the end. I can only assume that my analysis of the film, and desire for a rational, logical explanation of its events has ruined it for me.
How did his actions prevent the "distruction of the entire universe?"
The airplane engine which fell on his house in the beginning, also fell on his house at the end.
If you recall, at the beginning of the film, the Rabbit led him out of his house, preventing his death. At the end of the film, Darko chooses to remain in bed and die. Thus, the tangent universe would never have existed unless the Rabbit had interfered in the first place. The tangent universe problem, which the Rabbit is supposedly trying to get Darko to fix, would never have been happened without the Rabbit interfering in the first place!
What the hell? Shouldn't this be a poll, or something other than a "News" article?
Go ahead and mod me offtopic. This whole damn article is.
Ug. I am so sick of everyone telling me that I have to go see that movie. What a dissapointment.
The ending was horrible and the only interpretation that I could take away was that it was a retelling of the Christ story: ie. Darko's death was the "salvation" of his little town. Ew. Everything he was "forced" to do in the splinter universe was useless and accomplished nothing: the death of his girlfriend, manipulating his mother to get on the airplane, etc. POINTLESS!
The thing that really irritated me about Die Another Day was the villain with diamonds stuck in his face... I mean, come on. The scabs would just fall out on their own.
The whole time I saw the movie I was sitting there wondering to myself, "WHY ARE THE FREAKING DIAMONDS STUCK IN YOUR FACE? HERE'S A DAMN TOOTHPICK, PRY THEM OUT!"
Talk about trying to make a "memorable" villain and failing horribly.
To earn money in game your Sim must use "job obects," which are similar to paining with the easel in the off-line version. In practice this results in waiting five to ten minutes for your task to complete, earning about $50 (enough to buy almost nothing) and repeating endlessly, pausing on occasion to eat, shower, etc.
After "playing" the game long enough you realize that it would be more fun to eat, shower, and paint in real life.
Good guess... here's the repost you predicted!
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Pedantic correction time, kids!
The name of the movie is stupidly enough, not "Face Off." It is "Face/Off."
I am hideously irritated by brand logos that include punctuation and extraneous characters in lieu of letters, like those worthless tee-vee shows Arli$$ and The $treet. "H4x0r" kids are bad enough, but does TV Guide really have to emulate those "clever" little title-designs in print?
And yes, that squishy noise was pretty amusing.
Now try to disprove it.
Disprove what? A free-energy scheme, which has managed to hire a web-designer and leech some investment capital?
A rudimentary amount of research reveals the company you refer to was founded by a Dr. Randell L. Mills in 1991, and has so far failed in all attempts to produce results... a buisiness based on exploiting the energy of the alleged "hydrino," which I doubt any reputable physicist has even HEARD of, is a rather bad idea.
Please just listen. I know why you're here, pVoid. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, pVoid. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.
In my opinion, there's so much fantastic original material from artists like Poppy Z. Brite and Neil Gaiman on their website, that I don't even care how the sequels turn out. Although I do hope for the best of course and am rather excited for the trailers to start appearing...
Article: It's a given that The Sims Online will have a profound effect on the game industry...
That's garbage. I was beta testing TSO for a few weeks, and in my opinion, it's not going to take off.
Visualize this: playing a computer game... in which one's avatar is... sleeping. For twenty minutes straight, because your stupid "energy" bar is low. Meanwhile, you are forced to chat with other players to keep your connection alive because they boot you after fifteen minutes of idleness.
Even if the damn game does inexplicably manage to sell and retain players, it doesn't offer anything new at all to the genre.