life outside of our solar system is probably not at all like the life we find here on Earth
My research suggests that we should expect most extra-terrestrial life-forms to be humanoids that speak english, although they will have some strange features such as blue skin or completely white eyes or something. But nothing so grotesque that your average/. reader wouldn't want to shag their women, who are all quite shapely.
We predominantly use the metric system. We do however cling to the use of imperial measurements for important tasks such as weighing drugs and measuring parts of our anatomy. Or so I am told.
I suppose this was bound to happen but frankly, the movies are long enough already, if they added in all this other crap you'd need a damned diaper to make it thru 1 movie.
I would have loved to see LoTR done as a series. From the first movie, The Fellowship of The Ring, I found the films to be incredibly fast paced as they raced through the events in the books. Jackson did an amazingly good job on the films, but it's impossible to do the books justice even with 3 long films. You miss out a lot of the smaller moments of interplay between characters that make the books special. There are so so many events in the books that you could easily break the story up into maybe 20 or 30 hour long shows. How cool would that be!. Although I understand that the idea might not be as commercially viable as making films.
Carp were released into Australian waterways to get rid of blue-green algae, which from memory is an algae caused by fertilizer run-off. The carp actually feed on this algae, which solves that problem, but unfortunately they have taken over our lakes and rivers. I can only guess that the idea of introducing Carp into our waterways was thought up by the same genius that introduced cane toads to protect our sugar cane crops.
Surely the first two films were evidence enough the Jackson can be trusted to transform the Return of the King into an excellent film. Like a lot of die-hard Tolkein fans I found some scenes in the first two movies a little disappointing, but these disappointments were completely overshadowed by the splendour of what are overall two fantastic movies. If you doubt Jackson at all then go and buy the special edition DVD and watch the behind the scenes footage where you see the passion and dedication that has gone into the making of these films.
This way, they capitalize off the plebs who hear that the lord of the rings is a good story and capitilize even more off the geeks who love the story already and want despratley to see a film version
I think you are being extremely cynical. The cinema version of the movie has to have a reasonable strucutre and flow so that the unwashed masses can enjoy the film. The fact that us nerds will have the opportunity to buy an extended version on DVD that dispenses with these restrictions is something to be applauded, rather than criticised. It's not like most of us wouldn't have bought it anyway, even if it didn't have the extended scenes.
One point Howard failed to mention was the superior coding ability of the student programmers who obtain higher levels of focus and creativity through their daily intake of illicit drugs;-)
I think SCO would be disappointed to have missed out on this award. Perhaps the award should be changed to "weasliest company other than Microsoft" to avoid being predictable.
Quoth the article: Experts say the technical breakdown of computers is still the main cause of data loss
I don't know who these "experts" are, but I respectfully disagree. I assert that the primary cause of data loss is users deleting the data, then realising later that they needed it.
How can you play favourites with Monty Python crew? I wouldn't know where to begin. It's hard to say who had what input into what
sketch, surely you can just appreciate the whole show and leave it at that.
Do any of the really classic Python quotes or scenes have Idle in them?
Hmm, how about the "I'm not dead" scene in The Holy Grail, or the bit where they are trying to determine how to tell if someone is
a witch... "Churches!", or the "Big Nose" scene in The Life of Brian. I love Michael Palin and Terry Jones, but I wouldn't rain on
Eric Idle's parade because of it. They are all legends as far as I am concerned.
HP is claiming the fastest Linux Supercomputer, not the fasted Supercomputer. The IBM computer you mentioned runs AIX, which is not Linux. The fastest supercomputer was built by by NEC. The fastest Linux supercomputer has just been built by HP.
The fact of the matter is that if you take the mass of the struck car, the type of tire and it's coefficient of friction, and the mass of the car which struck it, you can determine speed
How do you work out the coefficient of friction?. This is not a simple physics equation based on tire rubber. The cars crumple to a certain extent upon collision, which accounts for some of the transferred energy. How do you propose to determine the amount of energy absorbed by crumpling?. It seems to me that there are too many variables to make this type of analysis feasible.
I dare say that estimating speed at impact would be based more on analysis of skid marks, and crash analysis by experts who know what to look for.
Personally I would prefer a Mafia-Hitman public donation killing machine
This is a stroke of genius. I think mob mentality and violent retribution is very underrated these days. I guess too many hippies from the 60's and 70's are now in power.
A little off topic perhaps, but I am compelled to put forward a similar idea of my own which deals with public revenge.
I don't like taxes, and especially I don't like paying taxes to pay for scum to sit in jail, when they are better off in a hole somewhere. But capital punishment is also an expensive process because of the bureaucracy involved. The answer is what I like to refer to as the "Basher Lotto". Quite simply, when somebody is sentenced to death, instead of paying someone impartial to do the deed, provoke public outrage and hold a lottery to see who wins the right to do it.
Let me give you an example. Ted Bundy is sentenced to death. We hold a national lottery with, say, 3 winners, who all get to participate in beating him to death. I also think a nominal number of members from the victims immediate family should be given the right to participate by default. This might sound barbaric, but electrocuting someone or poisoning them is no party either. At least my idea brings revenue back into the system, and allows society to feel that they are involved in the legal revenge process:-)
Police said the alleged piracy concerned music, album covers and music videos from Universal Music, Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Festival Mushroom Records.
Unless they were selling pirate copies of this material then I think this is a huge waste of energy on behalf of the police. Lord knows there are more sinister things being downloaded than pirated music.
If I remember right, this was Mayor Quimby's way of diverting the townsfolks attention away from his tax hike, which was to pay for Springfields new Bear Patrol. Blame the Immigants I say!!!
I wouldn't have thought this was an underrated movie, there is absolutely no doubt this is a classic film. It's easily one of my top 10 favourites. Also one of the best...soundtracks...ever.
The bit where he straps the chainsaw to his hand and says "groovee" is the best...bit...ever. There were 3 Evil Dead movies though, not 2. The 3rd one also had some classic one liners.
While we are on the topic of comparing movie sequels, I have always thought that the Terminator was soooo much better than the Terminator 2. There's nothing like a good low budget classic. The Terminator 2 was a pile of crap. Hollywood took a great theme and threw a kid into the picture and some flash special effects, next thing you know everyone thinks it's better than the original. Bollocks!.
may we succeed afterward in rebuilding Iraq the way we succeeded in rebuilding Japan and Germany after World War II
The aim isn't to rebuild Iraq, the aim is to control it. The US doesn't want Iraq to return to its former days of glory. Much better that the Iraqi people are impoverished to the point where they have to give up their oil in return for food rations, just like they do now.
Unless of course you are talking about rebuilding oil wells. Those will be rebuilt in record time. Then the US will all be able to say that they have spent billions of dollars rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, and providing food rations. How very Magnanimous.
That is a good point. We can all hope that this is the thin end of the wedge, and more forms of invasive advertising get banned. I have often thought that advertising designed deliberately to annoy people should be banned. It's not like people will spend less and the economy will suffer just because annoying and invasive forms of advertising are outlawed. Society would be better off for it.
I don't know about the end of Sun, but Sun selling AMD chips in blade configurations suggests that even Sun doesn't see much future in Sparc technology. The Sparc chips don't cut the mustard these days in performance terms, although they do consume less power than the likes of Power, Alpha and Itanium. So Sparc is actually more suited to blade configurations than most of its competitors. If Sun has to sell AMD chips in this market segment to make a buck then I reckon good ol' Sparcy's days are numbered.
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life outside of our solar system is probably not at all like the life we find here on Earth
/. reader wouldn't want to shag their women, who are all quite shapely.
My research suggests that we should expect most extra-terrestrial life-forms to be humanoids that speak english, although they will have some strange features such as blue skin or completely white eyes or something. But nothing so grotesque that your average
We predominantly use the metric system. We do however cling to the use of imperial measurements for important tasks such as weighing drugs and measuring parts of our anatomy. Or so I am told.
I suppose this was bound to happen but frankly, the movies are long enough already, if they added in all this other crap you'd need a damned diaper to make it thru 1 movie.
I would have loved to see LoTR done as a series. From the first movie, The Fellowship of The Ring, I found the films to be incredibly fast paced as they raced through the events in the books. Jackson did an amazingly good job on the films, but it's impossible to do the books justice even with 3 long films. You miss out a lot of the smaller moments of interplay between characters that make the books special. There are so so many events in the books that you could easily break the story up into maybe 20 or 30 hour long shows. How cool would that be!. Although I understand that the idea might not be as commercially viable as making films.
Carp were released into Australian waterways to get rid of blue-green algae, which from memory is an algae caused by fertilizer run-off. The carp actually feed on this algae, which solves that problem, but unfortunately they have taken over our lakes and rivers. I can only guess that the idea of introducing Carp into our waterways was thought up by the same genius that introduced cane toads to protect our sugar cane crops.
Surely the first two films were evidence enough the Jackson can be trusted to transform the Return of the King into an excellent film. Like a lot of die-hard Tolkein fans I found some scenes in the first two movies a little disappointing, but these disappointments were completely overshadowed by the splendour of what are overall two fantastic movies. If you doubt Jackson at all then go and buy the special edition DVD and watch the behind the scenes footage where you see the passion and dedication that has gone into the making of these films.
This way, they capitalize off the plebs who hear that the lord of the rings is a good story and capitilize even more off the geeks who love the story already and want despratley to see a film version
I think you are being extremely cynical. The cinema version of the movie has to have a reasonable strucutre and flow so that the unwashed masses can enjoy the film. The fact that us nerds will have the opportunity to buy an extended version on DVD that dispenses with these restrictions is something to be applauded, rather than criticised. It's not like most of us wouldn't have bought it anyway, even if it didn't have the extended scenes.
One point Howard failed to mention was the superior coding ability of the student programmers who obtain higher levels of focus and creativity through their daily intake of illicit drugs ;-)
I think SCO would be disappointed to have missed out on this award. Perhaps the award should be changed to "weasliest company other than Microsoft" to avoid being predictable.
Quoth the article: Experts say the technical breakdown of computers is still the main cause of data loss
I don't know who these "experts" are, but I respectfully disagree. I assert that the primary cause of data loss is users deleting the data, then realising later that they needed it.
That Dingo stole my penis enlarger!
How can you play favourites with Monty Python crew? I wouldn't know where to begin. It's hard to say who had what input into what sketch, surely you can just appreciate the whole show and leave it at that.
... "Churches!", or the "Big Nose" scene in The Life of Brian. I love Michael Palin and Terry Jones, but I wouldn't rain on
Eric Idle's parade because of it. They are all legends as far as I am concerned.
Do any of the really classic Python quotes or scenes have Idle in them?
Hmm, how about the "I'm not dead" scene in The Holy Grail, or the bit where they are trying to determine how to tell if someone is a witch
HP is claiming the fastest Linux Supercomputer, not the fasted Supercomputer. The IBM computer you mentioned runs AIX, which is not Linux. The fastest supercomputer was built by by NEC. The fastest Linux supercomputer has just been built by HP.
The fact of the matter is that if you take the mass of the struck car, the type of tire and it's coefficient of friction, and the mass of the car which struck it, you can determine speed
How do you work out the coefficient of friction?. This is not a simple physics equation based on tire rubber. The cars crumple to a certain extent upon collision, which accounts for some of the transferred energy. How do you propose to determine the amount of energy absorbed by crumpling?. It seems to me that there are too many variables to make this type of analysis feasible.
I dare say that estimating speed at impact would be based more on analysis of skid marks, and crash analysis by experts who know what to look for.
Personally I would prefer a Mafia-Hitman public donation killing machine
:-)
This is a stroke of genius. I think mob mentality and violent retribution is very underrated these days. I guess too many hippies from the 60's and 70's are now in power.
A little off topic perhaps, but I am compelled to put forward a similar idea of my own which deals with public revenge.
I don't like taxes, and especially I don't like paying taxes to pay for scum to sit in jail, when they are better off in a hole somewhere. But capital punishment is also an expensive process because of the bureaucracy involved. The answer is what I like to refer to as the "Basher Lotto". Quite simply, when somebody is sentenced to death, instead of paying someone impartial to do the deed, provoke public outrage and hold a lottery to see who wins the right to do it.
Let me give you an example. Ted Bundy is sentenced to death. We hold a national lottery with, say, 3 winners, who all get to participate in beating him to death. I also think a nominal number of members from the victims immediate family should be given the right to participate by default. This might sound barbaric, but electrocuting someone or poisoning them is no party either. At least my idea brings revenue back into the system, and allows society to feel that they are involved in the legal revenge process
Police said the alleged piracy concerned music, album covers and music videos from Universal Music, Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Festival Mushroom Records.
Unless they were selling pirate copies of this material then I think this is a huge waste of energy on behalf of the police. Lord knows there are more sinister things being downloaded than pirated music.
In truth I can't think of a statistic off of the top of my head that could prove the geekiness of a gaming community
You just need to add one question to the Survey:
Q: Do you often quote Monty Python while playing?
If the answer is "Yes" then, in my books you are a geek. Be proud of it. The answer "Ni" should also be accepted as confirmation of geekhood.
Could it be because of Indian workers?
If I remember right, this was Mayor Quimby's way of diverting the townsfolks attention away from his tax hike, which was to pay for Springfields new Bear Patrol. Blame the Immigants I say!!!
I wouldn't have thought this was an underrated movie, there is absolutely no doubt this is a classic film. It's easily one of my top 10 favourites. Also one of the best...soundtracks...ever.
The bit where he straps the chainsaw to his hand and says "groovee" is the best...bit...ever. There were 3 Evil Dead movies though, not 2. The 3rd one also had some classic one liners.
While we are on the topic of comparing movie sequels, I have always thought that the Terminator was soooo much better than the Terminator 2. There's nothing like a good low budget classic. The Terminator 2 was a pile of crap. Hollywood took a great theme and threw a kid into the picture and some flash special effects, next thing you know everyone thinks it's better than the original. Bollocks!.
may we succeed afterward in rebuilding Iraq the way we succeeded in rebuilding Japan and Germany after World War II
The aim isn't to rebuild Iraq, the aim is to control it. The US doesn't want Iraq to return to its former days of glory. Much better that the Iraqi people are impoverished to the point where they have to give up their oil in return for food rations, just like they do now.
Unless of course you are talking about rebuilding oil wells. Those will be rebuilt in record time. Then the US will all be able to say that they have spent billions of dollars rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, and providing food rations. How very Magnanimous.
73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase
And yet another revealing statistic, 100% of all pr0n addicts lied about their filesharing habits.
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That is a good point. We can all hope that this is the thin end of the wedge, and more forms of invasive advertising get banned. I have often thought that advertising designed deliberately to annoy people should be banned. It's not like people will spend less and the economy will suffer just because annoying and invasive forms of advertising are outlawed. Society would be better off for it.
I mean, I don't even know how to rebut that
Perhaps the Simpsons can help.
Teacher: Homer, would you like to present your rebuttal
Homer: With pleasure, *zip*
I don't know about the end of Sun, but Sun selling AMD chips in blade configurations suggests that even Sun doesn't see much future in Sparc technology. The Sparc chips don't cut the mustard these days in performance terms, although they do consume less power than the likes of Power, Alpha and Itanium. So Sparc is actually more suited to blade configurations than most of its competitors. If Sun has to sell AMD chips in this market segment to make a buck then I reckon good ol' Sparcy's days are numbered.
almost $3000 for the chip. wow, and for so many mhz, too...
:-)
But mhz doesn't really mean much, just ask Intel