You weren't paying attention, the narration while the shot is flying through the excavation makes it clear that they are the end product of robotic evolution.
You really want me to put all those backspaces in there? (And no, I wouldn't guarantee that everyone would know what Hidden^H^H^H^H^H^HStar Wars would mean.)
Here's the Q-S selection. No Rashomon there (though Hidden Fortress^H^H^H^H^H^HStar Wars does appear there).
* Q - S
* Raging Bull (1980)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* The Searchers (1956)
* Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
* The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
* Singin' in the Rain (1952)
* The Singing Detective (1986)
* Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
* Star Wars (1977)
* A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
* Sunrise (1927)
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
* Swing Time (1936)
I second the guy who pointed out no Antonioni - Blow-Up at least should be there (no, not the movie with Travolta)
No "It Happened One Night." No "The Third Man." "Yojimbo" (which is a great film, don't get me wrong), but not "Rashomon." (Yeah, yeah, "Star Wars" instead of "The Empire Strikes Back".) "Aguirre" but not "Fitzcarraldo." No Tarkovsky, I think. I didn't see any Eisenstein (not starting a list like that off with Potemkin is a crime against aesthetics). And to top it all off, the Yahoo! story says "his first criteria was" ARGGH.
Then again, what do you expect from Time? At least they've got "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "Wings of Desire" in there.
Take a look at who is standing next to Vader and Sidious on the bridge of the Star-Destroyer-like ship in the last scene with Vader. 1. It's a younger version of a character from Ep IV, 2. he's played by one of the better bad-guy actors in recent episodic television SF history.
Sometimes I don't WANT to run polished desktop apps. Not everything I do is best served by Office 2004 or iPhoto.
I'm running OS X 10.4 on both my iBook and my G5 (yes, I paid for the "Family Pack"). Ideally, I'd like to be running Fedora Core on my iBook because there are things I want to be able to do on my iBook that are slightly easier with Linux than they are with OS X (apps that simply are easier to use on Linux, rather than running them in an X11 window on OS X). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use my Airport WiFi card with any of the Linux distributions I've tried on the iBook, and I don't want to run Linux on my main desktop, since that has a lot of apps on it that aren't substitutable with Linux apps.
I've been thinking about getting a small, cheap desktop machine to run Fedora on, and yes, I'm considering a mini for that purpose because of the form factor, and because the hardware is solid.
Apple hardware isn't as much of a moving target as PC hardware is, so there are fewer hardware compatibility issues to deal with. Also, not too many pieces of PC hardware at that price point have Firewire 400 and DVI.
More or less. Salem, Massachusetts predates Boston by I believe 4 years (1624 versus 1630), and was the first settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded in 1620, was a separate colony until Massachusetts Bay and Plimouth Plantations merged in 1692. However, what happened is that the Massachusetts Bay colony government was transferred to Boston from Salem (I believe as part of the foundation of Boston).
The date of the law in question is important. 1675 is the beginning of "King Phillip's War" (there's a lot of debate about what it should be called, but that was what colonial Americans called it). Metacom ("King Phillip") was the sachem of the Wampanoags, who historically had been allied with the Mass Bay Colony and Plimouth colony (the Wamponoags signed a treaty with Plimouth in 1621). A complex sequence of events strained relations between the Wamponoags and the English colonies, and caused the English to force the Wamponoags to give up their arms in the early 1670s. When a Christian Indian was assassinated by Wampanoags (possibly for espionage), and the killers were executed, the Wampanoags rearmed and began to attack English settlements (in 1675). This led to a terribly destructive war between most of the Native American settlements in New England and the English colonies, though the Mohawks notoriously remained neutral, and there were many Christian Indians who were either neutral or pro-English. There were very heavy losses on both sides (massive losses, really, for the population sizes), the colony of Mass Bay lost its charter, the United Colonies were dissolved, and many Native American's fled the region.
So the law is a vestige of a nasty ethnic war. Even the various neutral Indians were banned from Boston. A lot of Indians were dependent upon English goods because of the drastic changes to their economies and agriculture resulting from deliberate actions by the English - buying land, etc. - and the terrible epidemics of the late 16th and early 17th century after first contact (mostly from contact with the small fishing expeditions who spent time along the New England coast - keep in mind that the first settlers of Plimouth were greeted in English by Squanto).
I can't think of ANY legitimate reason why this law should still be on the books, period.
There are several important ad libs by Harrison Ford in both the Star Wars movies and the Indiana Jones movies. For example, the infamous sword-versus-gun scene was Ford's idea: he was too tired to do the whole scene in that heat, and convinced Spielberg that "if it was me, I'd just pull out a gun and shoot him." The first take made it to the screen.
The poster isn't having any trouble making this distinction; and he understands my point fine - that "one of the finest hours of drama ever on television" isn't such an extreme claim to make.
Don't you think there's a huge gap between "one of the best hours of drama ever written for television" and "one of the best hours of drama ever written?" I'd say that "33" is one of the ten best one-hour drama television episodes I've ever seen - but it doesn't rate in the top THOUSAND of hours of drama I've seen.
Did I, or did I not, say "NEAR-hard SF"? ? ?:-) I think this is as hard as we're going to get in a popular TV show. For comparison, take a classic hard-SF novel like *Mission of Gravity* - the story doesn't depict, but does require, FTL.
"Serenity" - a forthcoming movie based upon Joss Whedon's television series *Firefly*, which was a near-hard SF show set about 400 years in the future after mankind had migrated to another star system. The show is about the crew of a ship, Serenity, that straddle the boundaries of legality (smuggling, but nothing bad; carrying fugitives from the big bad corporate government) and are mostly loyal to their captain, Mal, who is a veteran of the losing side in a civil war against the big bad corporate government. The show depicted two classes of worlds: high-tech core worlds, and low-tech "Western"-style frontier worlds. Joss Whedon wrote Alien: Resurrection, and created Buffy the Vampire Slayer (both movie and tv show), Angel, and a few other things.
Somebody mod parent and grandparent up : both are informative. The ars technica article linked in the/. posting above (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/5) is a great introduction to what launchd is.
No hate. Just because I don't want to smoke the stuff because I think it's harmful with no worthwhile effects doesn't mean it's wrong that you do so. I just don't like people trying to correct other people's spelling wrongly (and you've apologized for that, so no problems here).
"Sinse" as in "sinsemilla," Spanish sin "without" + semilla, "seed" (itself derived from Latin, sine, "without," and from Latin semen, "seed." The slang spelling "sensimilla" is itself a misspelling. If you're going to smoke the stuff (I won't, I value my neurons too much), you should at least learn how to spell it.
I said it before, and I will say it again: explosive decompression; only that will make up for earlier obnoxious Jar Jar.
That's WAY too fast. How about moderately fast decompression so he swells up like in Total Recall, and thus suffers longer?
There's a fine balance to be struck here. Surely Jar-Jar deserves to suffer horribly, for 20 minutes of screen time, for the sins he has committed against us. But remember: that would be another 20 minutes of Jar-Jar.
Another approach: blow up a planet right at the beginning and then show Amidala crying because "poor Jar-Jar" was on it. And then don't show Jar-Jar. No, not at all.
The problem here is that we'd go through the whole movie in terror at the idea that Amidala was wrong, and that Jar-Jar will show up to surprise us (and force us to lose our lunches).
So perhaps a quick decapitation by Anakin's lightsaber, followed by a reassuring *thunk*, and a smile of satisfaction on the evil Skywalker's face, is the best we should hope for.
Trilogy comes from the Greek words for "three" (tria) and "word" (logos); logos can also mean a story or a narrative or statement. The Greek word is "trilogia" and is used to refer to three Greek tragedies performed at the same time. The main festival where Greek tragedies were performed, the Greater Dionysia, gave each of three playwrights the opportunity to present four plays, three tragedies and one "satyr play" (a humorous twist on the tragic form, but not technically, in Greek terms, a comedy); the term is particularly used of three tragedies presented together that extend the same narrative (e.g., the Oresteia, but NOT the Oedipus plays, which were produced over about a 30 year period and in non-chronological order - Antigone, then Oedipus, then Oedipus at Colonus). The use of "trilogy" for books and then movies is an extension of this original technical usage.
4 books is a tetralogy, from the Greek "tettara" or "tessara", "four". It is not, as the Alien folks would have it, a quadrilogy (from the Latin word for four). "Tetralogia" was also used by the ancient Greeks, to refer to all four plays in an individual playwright's Greater Dionysia production (for one, by Aristotle, in a fragment from a lost work - don't remember which one).
5 is a pentalogy, unless the author is Douglas Adams, in which case it is an "increasingly inaccurately named [...] trilogy". Adams clearly originally intended to write a trilogy, but somehow was convinced (or convinced himself) to write a fourth, then a fifth, book, and also somewhere along the way wrote two stories (one, the Genghis Khan story, cowritten with Graham Chapman, may have been written before the Hitchhiker's Guide; I'm not sure). Rather than find the technical term for a written work in 5 installments, he just kept calling it a trilogy.
6 is a hexalogy. This, or "duotrilogy," perhaps (the Greek word for two is duo), would be the correct term for Star Wars, though I can't find a use of "duotrilogy".
7 is a heptalogy.
8 is an octology.
9 is a nonalogy. The 9-part outline of Star Wars that Lucas used to talk about sometimes would have been a nonalogy.
10 is a dekalogy or decalogy. The Anglicization "decalogue" is widely used for the Ten Comandments; note that in the usage "decalogue" we have a different meaning of "logos" than "story".
11 would be a hendekalogy. I can't find another use of this word anywhere.
12 is a dodekalogy. This, too, doesn't appear anywhere that I can find.
13 would be a triskaidekalogy; the Greek word for thirteen is "triskaideka", "three and ten"; best known from the English word "triskaidekaphobia", "fear of the number 13".
24 would probably be tetrakaieikosology (I can't find this anywhere, but "twenty-fourth" is "tetrakaieikostos".
Compare 20,000 Zulu warriors to 2,000 fully equipped royal soldiers. Compare a force of about 1700 Lakota warriors to a force of a little under 800 US Infantry and Cavalry. Sometimes the best armed group doesn't win, if the force with superior firepower is surprised, and the technologies aren't too far apart.
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I worry that the alien visiting Earth will give us the "convert or die" choice we are so famous for giving our fellow humans.
You weren't paying attention, the narration while the shot is flying through the excavation makes it clear that they are the end product of robotic evolution.
Lucas isn't writing Indiana Jones 4, either.
You really want me to put all those backspaces in there? (And no, I wouldn't guarantee that everyone would know what Hidden^H^H^H^H^H^HStar Wars would mean.)
Here's the Q-S selection. No Rashomon there (though Hidden Fortress^H^H^H^H^H^HStar Wars does appear there).
* Q - S
* Raging Bull (1980)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* The Searchers (1956)
* Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
* The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
* Singin' in the Rain (1952)
* The Singing Detective (1986)
* Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
* Star Wars (1977)
* A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
* Sunrise (1927)
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
* Swing Time (1936)
I second the guy who pointed out no Antonioni - Blow-Up at least should be there (no, not the movie with Travolta)
No "It Happened One Night." No "The Third Man." "Yojimbo" (which is a great film, don't get me wrong), but not "Rashomon." (Yeah, yeah, "Star Wars" instead of "The Empire Strikes Back".) "Aguirre" but not "Fitzcarraldo." No Tarkovsky, I think. I didn't see any Eisenstein (not starting a list like that off with Potemkin is a crime against aesthetics). And to top it all off, the Yahoo! story says "his first criteria was" ARGGH.
Then again, what do you expect from Time? At least they've got "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "Wings of Desire" in there.
Take a look at who is standing next to Vader and Sidious on the bridge of the Star-Destroyer-like ship in the last scene with Vader. 1. It's a younger version of a character from Ep IV, 2. he's played by one of the better bad-guy actors in recent episodic television SF history.
Because Lucas had read Dune, Messiah!, where Mu'ad-Dib can sense his daughter Ghanima but not his son Leto. That's my only explanation.
Sometimes I don't WANT to run polished desktop apps. Not everything I do is best served by Office 2004 or iPhoto.
I'm running OS X 10.4 on both my iBook and my G5 (yes, I paid for the "Family Pack"). Ideally, I'd like to be running Fedora Core on my iBook because there are things I want to be able to do on my iBook that are slightly easier with Linux than they are with OS X (apps that simply are easier to use on Linux, rather than running them in an X11 window on OS X). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use my Airport WiFi card with any of the Linux distributions I've tried on the iBook, and I don't want to run Linux on my main desktop, since that has a lot of apps on it that aren't substitutable with Linux apps.
I've been thinking about getting a small, cheap desktop machine to run Fedora on, and yes, I'm considering a mini for that purpose because of the form factor, and because the hardware is solid.
Apple hardware isn't as much of a moving target as PC hardware is, so there are fewer hardware compatibility issues to deal with. Also, not too many pieces of PC hardware at that price point have Firewire 400 and DVI.
More or less. Salem, Massachusetts predates Boston by I believe 4 years (1624 versus 1630), and was the first settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded in 1620, was a separate colony until Massachusetts Bay and Plimouth Plantations merged in 1692. However, what happened is that the Massachusetts Bay colony government was transferred to Boston from Salem (I believe as part of the foundation of Boston).
The date of the law in question is important. 1675 is the beginning of "King Phillip's War" (there's a lot of debate about what it should be called, but that was what colonial Americans called it). Metacom ("King Phillip") was the sachem of the Wampanoags, who historically had been allied with the Mass Bay Colony and Plimouth colony (the Wamponoags signed a treaty with Plimouth in 1621). A complex sequence of events strained relations between the Wamponoags and the English colonies, and caused the English to force the Wamponoags to give up their arms in the early 1670s. When a Christian Indian was assassinated by Wampanoags (possibly for espionage), and the killers were executed, the Wampanoags rearmed and began to attack English settlements (in 1675). This led to a terribly destructive war between most of the Native American settlements in New England and the English colonies, though the Mohawks notoriously remained neutral, and there were many Christian Indians who were either neutral or pro-English. There were very heavy losses on both sides (massive losses, really, for the population sizes), the colony of Mass Bay lost its charter, the United Colonies were dissolved, and many Native American's fled the region.
So the law is a vestige of a nasty ethnic war. Even the various neutral Indians were banned from Boston. A lot of Indians were dependent upon English goods because of the drastic changes to their economies and agriculture resulting from deliberate actions by the English - buying land, etc. - and the terrible epidemics of the late 16th and early 17th century after first contact (mostly from contact with the small fishing expeditions who spent time along the New England coast - keep in mind that the first settlers of Plimouth were greeted in English by Squanto).
I can't think of ANY legitimate reason why this law should still be on the books, period.
There are several important ad libs by Harrison Ford in both the Star Wars movies and the Indiana Jones movies. For example, the infamous sword-versus-gun scene was Ford's idea: he was too tired to do the whole scene in that heat, and convinced Spielberg that "if it was me, I'd just pull out a gun and shoot him." The first take made it to the screen.
The poster isn't having any trouble making this distinction; and he understands my point fine - that "one of the finest hours of drama ever on television" isn't such an extreme claim to make.
Don't you think there's a huge gap between "one of the best hours of drama ever written for television" and "one of the best hours of drama ever written?" I'd say that "33" is one of the ten best one-hour drama television episodes I've ever seen - but it doesn't rate in the top THOUSAND of hours of drama I've seen.
Did I, or did I not, say "NEAR-hard SF"? ? ? :-) I think this is as hard as we're going to get in a popular TV show. For comparison, take a classic hard-SF novel like *Mission of Gravity* - the story doesn't depict, but does require, FTL.
"Serenity" - a forthcoming movie based upon Joss Whedon's television series *Firefly*, which was a near-hard SF show set about 400 years in the future after mankind had migrated to another star system. The show is about the crew of a ship, Serenity, that straddle the boundaries of legality (smuggling, but nothing bad; carrying fugitives from the big bad corporate government) and are mostly loyal to their captain, Mal, who is a veteran of the losing side in a civil war against the big bad corporate government. The show depicted two classes of worlds: high-tech core worlds, and low-tech "Western"-style frontier worlds. Joss Whedon wrote Alien: Resurrection, and created Buffy the Vampire Slayer (both movie and tv show), Angel, and a few other things.
Somebody mod parent and grandparent up : both are informative. The ars technica article linked in the /. posting above (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars /5) is a great introduction to what launchd is.
No hate. Just because I don't want to smoke the stuff because I think it's harmful with no worthwhile effects doesn't mean it's wrong that you do so. I just don't like people trying to correct other people's spelling wrongly (and you've apologized for that, so no problems here).
"Sinse" as in "sinsemilla," Spanish sin "without" + semilla, "seed" (itself derived from Latin, sine, "without," and from Latin semen, "seed." The slang spelling "sensimilla" is itself a misspelling. If you're going to smoke the stuff (I won't, I value my neurons too much), you should at least learn how to spell it.
I said it before, and I will say it again: explosive decompression; only that will make up for earlier obnoxious Jar Jar.
That's WAY too fast. How about moderately fast decompression so he swells up like in Total Recall, and thus suffers longer?
There's a fine balance to be struck here. Surely Jar-Jar deserves to suffer horribly, for 20 minutes of screen time, for the sins he has committed against us. But remember: that would be another 20 minutes of Jar-Jar.
Another approach: blow up a planet right at the beginning and then show Amidala crying because "poor Jar-Jar" was on it. And then don't show Jar-Jar. No, not at all.
The problem here is that we'd go through the whole movie in terror at the idea that Amidala was wrong, and that Jar-Jar will show up to surprise us (and force us to lose our lunches).
So perhaps a quick decapitation by Anakin's lightsaber, followed by a reassuring *thunk*, and a smile of satisfaction on the evil Skywalker's face, is the best we should hope for.
Trilogy comes from the Greek words for "three" (tria) and "word" (logos); logos can also mean a story or a narrative or statement. The Greek word is "trilogia" and is used to refer to three Greek tragedies performed at the same time. The main festival where Greek tragedies were performed, the Greater Dionysia, gave each of three playwrights the opportunity to present four plays, three tragedies and one "satyr play" (a humorous twist on the tragic form, but not technically, in Greek terms, a comedy); the term is particularly used of three tragedies presented together that extend the same narrative (e.g., the Oresteia, but NOT the Oedipus plays, which were produced over about a 30 year period and in non-chronological order - Antigone, then Oedipus, then Oedipus at Colonus). The use of "trilogy" for books and then movies is an extension of this original technical usage.
4 books is a tetralogy, from the Greek "tettara" or "tessara", "four". It is not, as the Alien folks would have it, a quadrilogy (from the Latin word for four). "Tetralogia" was also used by the ancient Greeks, to refer to all four plays in an individual playwright's Greater Dionysia production (for one, by Aristotle, in a fragment from a lost work - don't remember which one).
5 is a pentalogy, unless the author is Douglas Adams, in which case it is an "increasingly inaccurately named [...] trilogy". Adams clearly originally intended to write a trilogy, but somehow was convinced (or convinced himself) to write a fourth, then a fifth, book, and also somewhere along the way wrote two stories (one, the Genghis Khan story, cowritten with Graham Chapman, may have been written before the Hitchhiker's Guide; I'm not sure). Rather than find the technical term for a written work in 5 installments, he just kept calling it a trilogy.
6 is a hexalogy. This, or "duotrilogy," perhaps (the Greek word for two is duo), would be the correct term for Star Wars, though I can't find a use of "duotrilogy".
7 is a heptalogy.
8 is an octology.
9 is a nonalogy. The 9-part outline of Star Wars that Lucas used to talk about sometimes would have been a nonalogy.
10 is a dekalogy or decalogy. The Anglicization "decalogue" is widely used for the Ten Comandments; note that in the usage "decalogue" we have a different meaning of "logos" than "story".
11 would be a hendekalogy. I can't find another use of this word anywhere.
12 is a dodekalogy. This, too, doesn't appear anywhere that I can find.
13 would be a triskaidekalogy; the Greek word for thirteen is "triskaideka", "three and ten"; best known from the English word "triskaidekaphobia", "fear of the number 13".
24 would probably be tetrakaieikosology (I can't find this anywhere, but "twenty-fourth" is "tetrakaieikostos".
Anything else, you're on your own.
D'Oh. Thanks for reminding me!
The latitude-longitude coordinate system is based upon the axis of rotation, not the magnetic pole.
Yes, but curiously enough they all lived in the middle years of the first decade of the second millenium . . . .
Compare 20,000 Zulu warriors to 2,000 fully equipped royal soldiers. Compare a force of about 1700 Lakota warriors to a force of a little under 800 US Infantry and Cavalry. Sometimes the best armed group doesn't win, if the force with superior firepower is surprised, and the technologies aren't too far apart.