It's a shame that the third film didn't get a nomination for cinematography (neither did TTT, but FOTR won for it).
My suspicion is that after FOTR's win, the cinematographers in the Academy got the Extended DVD of FOTR, which showed how digital grading was used on pretty much every scene. "That's not real cinematography!" they cried, and shut out the subsequent two films.
You know, I do tech support for Macs, and I'm stunned how many people refer to it as the "open apple" key when they're clearly too young to remember the open-apple/closed-apple dichotomy...
...then why do Christians have a problem with it? If Revelation is coming to pass as written, then wouldn't they welcome it? Sure, the time of the Beast is supposed to be pretty grim, but they don't have to worry about that, they'll get the Rapture and be gone, right?
This is what has always puzzled me: Christians believe in an end-times myth which ends in good things for them, and they always try to forestall it. The point of a prophecy isn't "these things will happen unless you guys can somehow stop it," it's "these things will happen." Anything else isn't much of a prophecy. So for Christians, when the bad shit in the Bible starts going down, they should just sit back and relax, right?
5. Since when is the online store a part of having a portable mp3 player?
It isn't, but the formats provided by the online store are a factor in whether they are compatible with the player. Downloading a file in WMA format means it isn't going on the iPod without re-encoding.
Dubs should be used only for:
1) Godzilla movies
2) Old-school kung-fu movies
3) Some John Woo films, where the guy they got to do Chow Yun-Fat's voice sounded just like Cary Grant.:)
It lights a fire under the Gimp development team, doesn't it?
Does it? I dunno. The GIMP can be used as a Photoshop alternative for a lot of tasks, but really isn't a Photoshop competitor. I don't generally see them scrambling to adopt all the latest and greatest features of whatever new Photoshop version Adobe has put out... nor should they. Their product is never going to be Photoshop, it should concentrate on being a really good GIMP.
I thought the deal behind the name James Bond was that it was just an identity given to whomever happend to be Agent 007 at the time.
Well, in the films at any rate, there is a little (though not much) continuity carryover between them. Sean Connery's opening a can of whoop-ass at the beginning of "Diamonds Are Forever," for instance, is clearly in response to what happened to George Lazenby's wife in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." My take is that they're the same guy, and if you wonder how he's around the same age now that he was in 1962... well, you're thinking waaaaay too much for James Bond.
1920x1200 in a 15.2" screen is impressive. But I run at 1600x1200 on my 19" CRT and a lot of the crap on the screen is too damn small as it is! I can appreciate the impressiveness of being able to cram that many pixels in, but how practical is it? Especially on an LCD, where anything but maximum resolution tends to look distinctly fecal?
Having been a Marine for a number of years, I have to call bullshit on this. Unless you are incompetent, *never* cleaned your rifle, or are incapable of grasping the concept of proper lubrication, M16s just work.
The individual who wrote that comment is working from the M-16's old reputation. Early in its career, it did jam when wet. This issue was fixed quickly, but the reputation stuck through the remainder of the Vietnam War.
You're right. The US Army is unquestionably concerned with soldiers' lives, more than any army in history. A very small percentage of soldiers in modern conflict actually see combat, which is a Good Idea when it comes to bringing our boys home alive. Unfortunately, it has the side effect of requiring an alternative form of pacification -- which takes the form of bombing campaigns. These campaigns often start as so-called "precision" campaigns (like what we are seeing now) then if that doesn't work, they switch to good old-fashioned carpet bombing. There were reports of B-52's taking off from Britain... I have not read anything indicating they have entered the conflict yet. If they do, that is the end of the precision phase of the campaign. The B-52 is NOT a precision instrument... a single sortie creates a "box" 1kmx2km in which nothing gets out alive. The government weighs civillian life vs. the lives of our troops, and generally ends up favoring the latter.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Saddam Hussein is to blame for the oil fires, in both instances. But this time there is more onus on the US government because we knew he was going to do it if and only if we went in, and we went in, and he did it. Our forces were reported to be doing their best to stop this from happening, but that's not logistically possible. The argument coming from environmental quarters (and, indeed, most of the rest of the world) is that a diplomatic solution would have been preferable.
I'm just waiting for the environmental groups to step up to the plate and show their support for this war. Has anybody caused as much deliberate environmental damage as Hussein?
No. The oil fires of 1991 were an ecological catastrophe. Environmentalists HATE Hussein. But the majority of them are against the war. Why? Well, do you think he would have set the oil fields on fire if we hadn't attacked?
I heard that there was a rumor that the Iraqis dug trenches all around Baghdad and filled them with oil to set on fire for that purpose. (Peter Jennings made a deadpan crack about it being a "crude defense" but I don't think anyone caught it) It doesn't seem like they've lit it, if it in fact exists.
Ah. So perhaps there ain't no Sundays to see. And someone asked if there are unique strips in "Classics of Western Literature" -- there are. And in "Bloom County Babylon." That's how they get ya.
Not in the case of people... My employer is renting my services, but he isn't renting
me -- he has no rights over my person, for example. Can't whip me, starve me, forbid me from going home (above the explicit terms of my contract, naturally)... and yes, I can leave, although other posters are absolutely correct in their assertions that economic realities relegate the "freedom" of the labor market to mere theory...
1995 is when Outland, Breathed's followup to Bloom County, ended. I'm not much interested in this strip, so who wants to do the math with just 1980-1989?:)
I remember Breathed saying in an interview that if you have all the books (including the large ones), then you have every Bloom county strip that ran in papers. This does seem dubious, though, given the dearth of Sunday strips in "Loose Tails"...
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My suspicion is that after FOTR's win, the cinematographers in the Academy got the Extended DVD of FOTR, which showed how digital grading was used on pretty much every scene. "That's not real cinematography!" they cried, and shut out the subsequent two films.
Just a theory...
You know, I do tech support for Macs, and I'm stunned how many people refer to it as the "open apple" key when they're clearly too young to remember the open-apple/closed-apple dichotomy...
This is what has always puzzled me: Christians believe in an end-times myth which ends in good things for them, and they always try to forestall it. The point of a prophecy isn't "these things will happen unless you guys can somehow stop it," it's "these things will happen." Anything else isn't much of a prophecy. So for Christians, when the bad shit in the Bible starts going down, they should just sit back and relax, right?
It isn't, but the formats provided by the online store are a factor in whether they are compatible with the player. Downloading a file in WMA format means it isn't going on the iPod without re-encoding.
Dubs should be used only for: :)
1) Godzilla movies
2) Old-school kung-fu movies
3) Some John Woo films, where the guy they got to do Chow Yun-Fat's voice sounded just like Cary Grant.
Nope, doesn't work. Maybe Desire.
<shudders>
Er... maybe not...
As for Watchmen, I think it's clear that Wil is Rorschach..
<reads sentences again carefully and whimpers for America>
Seriously, why is slashdot not a www site?
Hmm... <types "www.slashdot.org" into his browser... comes up with slashdot.org...>
Dammit! I just bought a copy of Transmit!
Err... doesn't the persistence of read-only FTP in the Finder justify your purchase of Transmit?
1920x1200 in a 15.2" screen is impressive. But I run at 1600x1200 on my 19" CRT and a lot of the crap on the screen is too damn small as it is! I can appreciate the impressiveness of being able to cram that many pixels in, but how practical is it? Especially on an LCD, where anything but maximum resolution tends to look distinctly fecal?
The clerk took the pennies... for himself? It may not be legal to pay with them, but I'm guessing it's probably still illegal to steal them, right?
You're right. The US Army is unquestionably concerned with soldiers' lives, more than any army in history. A very small percentage of soldiers in modern conflict actually see combat, which is a Good Idea when it comes to bringing our boys home alive. Unfortunately, it has the side effect of requiring an alternative form of pacification -- which takes the form of bombing campaigns. These campaigns often start as so-called "precision" campaigns (like what we are seeing now) then if that doesn't work, they switch to good old-fashioned carpet bombing. There were reports of B-52's taking off from Britain... I have not read anything indicating they have entered the conflict yet. If they do, that is the end of the precision phase of the campaign. The B-52 is NOT a precision instrument... a single sortie creates a "box" 1kmx2km in which nothing gets out alive. The government weighs civillian life vs. the lives of our troops, and generally ends up favoring the latter.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Saddam Hussein is to blame for the oil fires, in both instances. But this time there is more onus on the US government because we knew he was going to do it if and only if we went in, and we went in, and he did it. Our forces were reported to be doing their best to stop this from happening, but that's not logistically possible. The argument coming from environmental quarters (and, indeed, most of the rest of the world) is that a diplomatic solution would have been preferable.
No Iraqis are being killed.
I heard that there was a rumor that the Iraqis dug trenches all around Baghdad and filled them with oil to set on fire for that purpose. (Peter Jennings made a deadpan crack about it being a "crude defense" but I don't think anyone caught it) It doesn't seem like they've lit it, if it in fact exists.
Ah. So perhaps there ain't no Sundays to see. And someone asked if there are unique strips in "Classics of Western Literature" -- there are. And in "Bloom County Babylon." That's how they get ya.
1995 is when Outland, Breathed's followup to Bloom County, ended. I'm not much interested in this strip, so who wants to do the math with just 1980-1989? :)
I remember Breathed saying in an interview that if you have all the books (including the large ones), then you have every Bloom county strip that ran in papers. This does seem dubious, though, given the dearth of Sunday strips in "Loose Tails"...