Okay, you need to get up from your computer, right now, go to the nearest library, and check out a copy of the book. Read it, love it, live it... Okay, maybe not the live it part, but you get my point.
Stick to the first three (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, The Universe and Everything) though. The series kind of goes downhill in the last two books in the trilogy (Mostly Harmless, and So Long and Thanks for All The Fish).
From what I've gathered so far about the film, the only thing any Hollywood schmucks have to do with the actual filmmaking (aside from any special effects), would be with distributing it and promoting it in the USA. I've got faith that the film won't suck.
However if it does suck, we may see the nerd riots after all, except they'll be in 2005-6 instead of 2004.
The bad: Let's see, didn't the US Navy already experience a problem with an NT4-based ship being dead in the water? And a dead ship can't maneuver. If there are other ships around, that's not a good time to be invisible. (Captain of aircraft carrier: "What was that crunchy sound?")
Well, if you're that close, you can probably see the bloody thing (you're only invisible to radar & sonar), steer around it, shoot it if you have deck guns, or call someone who does if you don't.
IIRC, Patrick Robertson (author of various Naval techno-thrillers, ala early Clancy), posed a solution for this in one of his novels (I don't remember this one). The sub in question produced sound basically like standard ocean noise when it went into stealth mode (with a few alternates, like crunching ice if it was under an ice flow).
Well, when was the last warship/submarine sim. Besides, the bridges on most warships nowadays are enclosed anyway. And, if the Swedish navy is using the general ship shape we've seen before for stealth ships, then it'll look something like this
You sure it's NT 4? 2000 uses NTFS and it has USB support. Personally, I'm suprised they used a wooden wheel. IIRC, the majority of warships now have metal ship's wheels for steering.
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There was (and probably still is) an AP US History teacher at my high school who was a JFK Assassination buff. If, in class one was foolish enough (or snarky enough) to say that Oswald killed Kennedy, the class was practically guaranteed to derail for the rest of the day.
He even got an favorable article in the school paper when he took his class on a field trip to Texas to visit the assassination site, examine evidence and come to their "own" conclusion. I use quotes as I am uncertain about whether he graded down students who disagreed with him about Oswald's role in the assassination.
Yeah, but, y'see, Shatner sucks. One of the things Generations did not have going for it is the rest of the cast. They had Jimmy Doohan, and they had Walter Koenig, but no Nemoy, no Kelly, no Takei, none of the rest of the "family". I know they meant to pass the torch, but they still could have done things better.
Doing a movie focused on Captain Sulu would be an interesting and enjoyable movie and a good idea. Bringing back Shatner, considering that 1/3rd of the Big Three are dead, is a bad one.
However, I agree with everyone who says that Braga and Berman need to be sacked, or at least Braga (who was also responsible for writing M:I2).
Just because it's used for fire supression means that it's thermal specs are good. It simply means it's keeping oxygen from reaching the base of the fire. Temperature has nothing really to do with it.
It was hidden as an easter egg. IIRC it's in the same place as the bit with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jack Black from the previous years MTV Movie Awards was on the FOTR DVD.
Endgame was much better than "The Final Dimention", as, so far, it is "Endgame" and, best of all, Chris Lambert (or at least his character) dies!
What's really pathetic with the movies though is the best quicking explosion of the whole series is at the beginning of 2, with the other one being at the end of 1. Shouldn't they have kept going to one-up themselves with the quickening explosions or something?
Also for those older albums, go Garage saleing and try to find them on cassette. That way your money isn't going to the RIAA, and, should you decide to download the songs via P2P, you can legitimitly claim that you legally own a copy of the songs (the tape) and you're just backing up your copies in case the tape breaks or whatever.
Ditto for record albums (as in vinyl).
Also, some public libraries let you check out CDs and take them home. Some CDs are in bad shape (like my local library's copy of the soundtrack of Heavy Metal) but them's the breaks, and the new stuff generally tends to be in good enough shape to have songs ripped from them.
How come video games are targeted so much more than films?
Easy. The "grown-ups" in Congress are going "Well, movies weren't this violent when I was growing up, and we didn't have video games when I was going up, and there weren't school shootings when I was growing up, so it must be the fault of those dag-gum violent movies and those new-fangled video games."
Yes, that's a generalization, but unfortunatly it isn't too off base.
Um... I own a copy of Blue Max. It was set during World War I, not World War II, and you're playing a RAF pilot anyway (every game starts with the end of "God Save the Queen").
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No, no, no, it goes "Haaa haaa haaa"
Stick to the first three (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, The Universe and Everything) though. The series kind of goes downhill in the last two books in the trilogy (Mostly Harmless, and So Long and Thanks for All The Fish).
However if it does suck, we may see the nerd riots after all, except they'll be in 2005-6 instead of 2004.
It was in the third-to-last Bond film (Tommorow Never Dies). There have been two more films (The World is Not Enough & Die Another Day), since then.
Well, if you're that close, you can probably see the bloody thing (you're only invisible to radar & sonar), steer around it, shoot it if you have deck guns, or call someone who does if you don't.
IIRC, Patrick Robertson (author of various Naval techno-thrillers, ala early Clancy), posed a solution for this in one of his novels (I don't remember this one). The sub in question produced sound basically like standard ocean noise when it went into stealth mode (with a few alternates, like crunching ice if it was under an ice flow).
Well, when was the last warship/submarine sim. Besides, the bridges on most warships nowadays are enclosed anyway. And, if the Swedish navy is using the general ship shape we've seen before for stealth ships, then it'll look something like this
You sure it's NT 4? 2000 uses NTFS and it has USB support. Personally, I'm suprised they used a wooden wheel. IIRC, the majority of warships now have metal ship's wheels for steering.
Don't forget to salt the water.
Yeah, same school.
He even got an favorable article in the school paper when he took his class on a field trip to Texas to visit the assassination site, examine evidence and come to their "own" conclusion. I use quotes as I am uncertain about whether he graded down students who disagreed with him about Oswald's role in the assassination.
There's langauage inappropriate for Slashdot? News for me.
Doing a movie focused on Captain Sulu would be an interesting and enjoyable movie and a good idea. Bringing back Shatner, considering that 1/3rd of the Big Three are dead, is a bad one.
However, I agree with everyone who says that Braga and Berman need to be sacked, or at least Braga (who was also responsible for writing M:I2).
Just because it's used for fire supression means that it's thermal specs are good. It simply means it's keeping oxygen from reaching the base of the fire. Temperature has nothing really to do with it.
It was hidden as an easter egg. IIRC it's in the same place as the bit with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jack Black from the previous years MTV Movie Awards was on the FOTR DVD.
They had phat guns too. Any idea what gun they used as the base for the props?
Correction then. Woo has never worked with Chan and Tucker in the same movie, as Parent was suggesting.
John Woo has, on the other hand, directed A Better Tommorow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, and most recently Paycheck. More likely, Shamus Aran's armor may swap out the arm cannon for two energy pistols or something, or two cannons like Schlock's
What's really pathetic with the movies though is the best quicking explosion of the whole series is at the beginning of 2, with the other one being at the end of 1. Shouldn't they have kept going to one-up themselves with the quickening explosions or something?
Nahhh. Mitchell was worse. I have that episode of MST3K by the way. I wondered why they had all that redundant narration during the movie. Now I know.
There is also the matter that although floppies have less storage space, they are much cheaper than a USB Flash drive.
Also for those older albums, go Garage saleing and try to find them on cassette. That way your money isn't going to the RIAA, and, should you decide to download the songs via P2P, you can legitimitly claim that you legally own a copy of the songs (the tape) and you're just backing up your copies in case the tape breaks or whatever. Ditto for record albums (as in vinyl). Also, some public libraries let you check out CDs and take them home. Some CDs are in bad shape (like my local library's copy of the soundtrack of Heavy Metal) but them's the breaks, and the new stuff generally tends to be in good enough shape to have songs ripped from them.
Easy. The "grown-ups" in Congress are going "Well, movies weren't this violent when I was growing up, and we didn't have video games when I was going up, and there weren't school shootings when I was growing up, so it must be the fault of those dag-gum violent movies and those new-fangled video games."
Yes, that's a generalization, but unfortunatly it isn't too off base.
RTFA. It get's mentioned, it's just not in the top 10.
Um... I own a copy of Blue Max. It was set during World War I, not World War II, and you're playing a RAF pilot anyway (every game starts with the end of "God Save the Queen").