Broom Lake isn't in Roswell, New Mexico. Broom Lake is in Nevada. Nevada is a long way from New Mexico (an entire rather large state, Arizona, lies between them.
No need to post this anonymously, it's quite true. Total Recall was at best the disneyworld ride version of "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." Paycheck was a slightly worse film, but a slightly better adaptation. Blade Runner, on the other hand, *as released* was a poorer adaptation than either - though there are lots of wonderful subtleties that owe their presence to the book and don't impact your understanding of the film unless you've read the book - and yet is far and away a better movie than either.
The problem with the sub-title, though, and with Lorenz's remarks about the phrase "butterfly effect" is that the subtitle of Lorenz's talk reads like it is an allusion to an already-current idiom. (As well, I'd swear the whole expression occurred in something I had read dated before 1972). So I'd remain open minded about whether Lorenz is right about where the phrase came from.
Keep in mind that Livia probably wasn't quite as bad as Suetonius (or Graves) makes her out to be. Tiberius was a sick human being, but a semi-competent emperor, especially as an administrator.
Names like "Tiberius" were common at one time in the old South (US). That may be part of it. Christopher Plummer has fun with the name in ST6 - the only way his delivery of that line works is if you know who Tiberius was and why it's a very, very bad name for a diplomat. Anyway, my understanding is that Roddenberry named him James Tiberius Kirk, I think it's in the intro, written by Roddenberry in persona Kirkeis, from the novelization of ST:TMP, where "Kirk" says he was named after his uncle's favorite Roman emperor; I'm guessing that's a joke on the fact that Ernst Mason (Frederick Pohl) wrote a biography of Tiberius, and Pohl was an inspiration to a lot of the ST writers. But this is purely speculative.
Unpopular? Maybe. Inferior? Sorry, Bill, but even your own engineers don't believe that, no matter how much Kool-Aid you put out for them at the MS company picnics.
Maybe not. THX-1138 isn't in the same league as Solaris or The Sacrifice or Mirror (I haven't gotten my hands on Nostalghia yet), it's quite cold and lacks the incredible depth of interest in the cinematography of Tarkovsky's pictures. I'd recommend The Sacrifice, though. THX-1138 is basically what you'd expect from Lucas in his art-film days: a little too sincere, lacking in character development or subtlety of dialogue, but with a very strongly visioned stark "world."
The 10 minutes of driving are standing in for Kris's long voyage to Solaris. Yes, it's boring; you're supposed to watch the two of them relate to one another, a reminder of what Kris is giving up (human ties, family, etc.) by going to Solaris. That's part of what makes Hari so incredible - she's giving back to Kris what he has given up. Or so I understood it.
So let me get this straight: you looked at the campaign contributions by former Star Trek members, and chose to highlight Leonard Nimoy, who donated money to Howard Dean and Bill Bradley (*I* voted for Bill Bradley, and I would today), while ignoring the fact that Robert Beltran donated money to LYNDON LAROUCHE?????
Note that the only Trek star listed who donated to a Republican candidate was Ricardo Montalban, who played a villain. The fellow he donated money to lost. Now that's what I call method acting.
My guess - it'll be a frame story, Kirk just before his last flight on Enterprise B telling a Starfleet academy class (with Kurzon as one of the students, maybe) the story of a time in his youth when he met old Jon' Archer, Trip Tucker, and the great T'Pol in their last adventure (lots of makeup for all three, though of course T'Pol won't need nearly as much, and a kid playing a teenage Jimmy Kirk, helping out Archer in between torture sessions with Finnegan). No time travel, no Nexus, and folks will forgive the continuity issue of the fact that Shatner looks 10 years older than he did in *Generations*.
Yes, Romulan cloaking device was a minor violation of continuity, as the Romulan Commander in *Balance of Terror* describes it as a prototype. The Borg continuity issues date back to *Final Contact*, so you can't blame that on this series - since Zephram Friggin' Cochrane knew about the Borg, there's no way the first TNG episode with the Borg can have been such a surprise. As for the physical appearance of the Klingons, that's just one throwaway joke in DS9, and there's an obvious explanation: at some point in Klingon history they chose to use plastic surgery to hide the things that made them so markedly different looking from the Vulcans and the Humans because they felt that their ridges made them look more primitive than their enemies. That's why Whorf won't talk about it, it's humiliating that at some point Klingons tried to hide parts of their bodies out of shame. (The fanbooks aren't canon, as they violate canon wantonly.) There goes that continuity problem. Yes, there are serious continuity problems with Enterprise; on the other hand, I'd say that based on the past 4 episodes, they're FINALLY starting to remember what made Trek so interesting (though a Captain turning pirate was pretty inescusable).
Kirk at 70 is in the Nexus, remember? That means Archer will be visiting the Nexus. We can only hope that Whoopie Goldberg's Doppleganger is away on business, or there will be a massive wave of Trekker suicides.
The new one is surprisingly un-bad (is it good? not really, it's a 2 1/2 star movie, compared to Tarkovsky's 4+). Of course the style is quite different, and I felt it was far less psychologically acute.
Just in case this *isn't* a troll - may I recommend Tarkovsky's *Solaris*? Long, deliberate, cerebral, literate, lingers over shots, character and dialogue driven (i.e., not much in the way of SFX to speak of).
The script kiddies have Windows. They don't install Linux (and God knows they don't have Macs), so most of this stuff is written for Windows. Yes, Windows has an exceptionally bad security model, so this isn't the only (and may not even be the main) explanation, but it's important to keep in mind that it may be less about target richness than about how convenient a learning/test platform is.
Email has nothing to do with the web. They are two different systems using the same Internet protocols. And we used to have two different webs: the WWW, and it's older cousin, gopher. Know anyone using gopher anymore?
*The White Album* is practically a song book innovating all the styles that other bands have since spent their entire careers on. And it's at most their third best album.
That's my recollection as well. When they showed the lines on TV for Star Wars (from New York), everyone figured it was just a repeat of the Jaws phenomenon. I read the book before the movie was released where I live (not far from a pretty big city). It wasn't until the movie had been out for a while that folks realized how much bigger than Jaws it really was.
Nope. That would be a sort of Sidd Finch Zen ultra-perfect game. In The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, the title character, an American brought up on a Buddhist monastery who pitches 130 mph fast balls, pitches one game: 80 strikes. He walks off the mound before throwing the last strike to complete the game, as a kind of Zen gesture.
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GROOM Lake, sorry.
Broom Lake isn't in Roswell, New Mexico. Broom Lake is in Nevada. Nevada is a long way from New Mexico (an entire rather large state, Arizona, lies between them.
If you run Solaris ANYWHERE you deserve what you get.
You mean a stable, if unexciting and by-third-parties-under-supported platform? Yeah, I think you're right.
No need to post this anonymously, it's quite true. Total Recall was at best the disneyworld ride version of "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." Paycheck was a slightly worse film, but a slightly better adaptation. Blade Runner, on the other hand, *as released* was a poorer adaptation than either - though there are lots of wonderful subtleties that owe their presence to the book and don't impact your understanding of the film unless you've read the book - and yet is far and away a better movie than either.
The problem with the sub-title, though, and with Lorenz's remarks about the phrase "butterfly effect" is that the subtitle of Lorenz's talk reads like it is an allusion to an already-current idiom. (As well, I'd swear the whole expression occurred in something I had read dated before 1972). So I'd remain open minded about whether Lorenz is right about where the phrase came from.
Keep in mind that Livia probably wasn't quite as bad as Suetonius (or Graves) makes her out to be. Tiberius was a sick human being, but a semi-competent emperor, especially as an administrator.
Names like "Tiberius" were common at one time in the old South (US). That may be part of it. Christopher Plummer has fun with the name in ST6 - the only way his delivery of that line works is if you know who Tiberius was and why it's a very, very bad name for a diplomat. Anyway, my understanding is that Roddenberry named him James Tiberius Kirk, I think it's in the intro, written by Roddenberry in persona Kirkeis, from the novelization of ST:TMP, where "Kirk" says he was named after his uncle's favorite Roman emperor; I'm guessing that's a joke on the fact that Ernst Mason (Frederick Pohl) wrote a biography of Tiberius, and Pohl was an inspiration to a lot of the ST writers. But this is purely speculative.
Unpopular? Maybe. Inferior? Sorry, Bill, but even your own engineers don't believe that, no matter how much Kool-Aid you put out for them at the MS company picnics.
Wake me when someone comes out with a Mac or Linux/BSD version.
Maybe not. THX-1138 isn't in the same league as Solaris or The Sacrifice or Mirror (I haven't gotten my hands on Nostalghia yet), it's quite cold and lacks the incredible depth of interest in the cinematography of Tarkovsky's pictures. I'd recommend The Sacrifice, though. THX-1138 is basically what you'd expect from Lucas in his art-film days: a little too sincere, lacking in character development or subtlety of dialogue, but with a very strongly visioned stark "world."
The 10 minutes of driving are standing in for Kris's long voyage to Solaris. Yes, it's boring; you're supposed to watch the two of them relate to one another, a reminder of what Kris is giving up (human ties, family, etc.) by going to Solaris. That's part of what makes Hari so incredible - she's giving back to Kris what he has given up. Or so I understood it.
So let me get this straight: you looked at the campaign contributions by former Star Trek members, and chose to highlight Leonard Nimoy, who donated money to Howard Dean and Bill Bradley (*I* voted for Bill Bradley, and I would today), while ignoring the fact that Robert Beltran donated money to LYNDON LAROUCHE?????
Note that the only Trek star listed who donated to a Republican candidate was Ricardo Montalban, who played a villain. The fellow he donated money to lost. Now that's what I call method acting.
My guess - it'll be a frame story, Kirk just before his last flight on Enterprise B telling a Starfleet academy class (with Kurzon as one of the students, maybe) the story of a time in his youth when he met old Jon' Archer, Trip Tucker, and the great T'Pol in their last adventure (lots of makeup for all three, though of course T'Pol won't need nearly as much, and a kid playing a teenage Jimmy Kirk, helping out Archer in between torture sessions with Finnegan). No time travel, no Nexus, and folks will forgive the continuity issue of the fact that Shatner looks 10 years older than he did in *Generations*.
Yes, Romulan cloaking device was a minor violation of continuity, as the Romulan Commander in *Balance of Terror* describes it as a prototype. The Borg continuity issues date back to *Final Contact*, so you can't blame that on this series - since Zephram Friggin' Cochrane knew about the Borg, there's no way the first TNG episode with the Borg can have been such a surprise. As for the physical appearance of the Klingons, that's just one throwaway joke in DS9, and there's an obvious explanation: at some point in Klingon history they chose to use plastic surgery to hide the things that made them so markedly different looking from the Vulcans and the Humans because they felt that their ridges made them look more primitive than their enemies. That's why Whorf won't talk about it, it's humiliating that at some point Klingons tried to hide parts of their bodies out of shame. (The fanbooks aren't canon, as they violate canon wantonly.) There goes that continuity problem. Yes, there are serious continuity problems with Enterprise; on the other hand, I'd say that based on the past 4 episodes, they're FINALLY starting to remember what made Trek so interesting (though a Captain turning pirate was pretty inescusable).
Kirk at 70 is in the Nexus, remember? That means Archer will be visiting the Nexus. We can only hope that Whoopie Goldberg's Doppleganger is away on business, or there will be a massive wave of Trekker suicides.
That's not how patents work - they are on the process, not the source code.
The new one is surprisingly un-bad (is it good? not really, it's a 2 1/2 star movie, compared to Tarkovsky's 4+). Of course the style is quite different, and I felt it was far less psychologically acute.
Just in case this *isn't* a troll - may I recommend Tarkovsky's *Solaris*? Long, deliberate, cerebral, literate, lingers over shots, character and dialogue driven (i.e., not much in the way of SFX to speak of).
The script kiddies have Windows. They don't install Linux (and God knows they don't have Macs), so most of this stuff is written for Windows. Yes, Windows has an exceptionally bad security model, so this isn't the only (and may not even be the main) explanation, but it's important to keep in mind that it may be less about target richness than about how convenient a learning/test platform is.
Ah, yes, thanks for the correction. (Are you sure it was 168 mph though? Are you talking about the SI article or the book?)
Email has nothing to do with the web. They are two different systems using the same Internet protocols. And we used to have two different webs: the WWW, and it's older cousin, gopher. Know anyone using gopher anymore?
*The White Album* is practically a song book innovating all the styles that other bands have since spent their entire careers on. And it's at most their third best album.
Damn. I'd pay real money to see that. But what would stand in for the gun?
That's my recollection as well. When they showed the lines on TV for Star Wars (from New York), everyone figured it was just a repeat of the Jaws phenomenon. I read the book before the movie was released where I live (not far from a pretty big city). It wasn't until the movie had been out for a while that folks realized how much bigger than Jaws it really was.
Nope. That would be a sort of Sidd Finch Zen ultra-perfect game. In The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, the title character, an American brought up on a Buddhist monastery who pitches 130 mph fast balls, pitches one game: 80 strikes. He walks off the mound before throwing the last strike to complete the game, as a kind of Zen gesture.
Less on the physics than the effects of that physics, from the New Yorker last week; here's a general audience article on knuckleball physics, an interview with Robert K. Adair, and finally, another physicist, Joel Hollander, who works on baseball: if you look at the master's theses list, you'll see one on the physics of pitching.