Are you kidding? Samurai Jack is awesome! Dexter's Laboratory is very good too. Given the poor writing in Lucas' last two movies, and the fact that someone else is having a hand in at least the direction of these shorts, these may very well be more interesting than any of the prequels.
Good for Bear Pond. It has always been one of my favorite reasons to take a drive to Montpelier. I'll be sure to visit them more often when I up there from now on.
The RIAA has domain over live music too? Is the musician does during the duration of the contract is property of the record company. So a recording of Dave Matthews on Letterman would be subject to the same restrictions, technically?
(mostly spoiler-free) For filmmakers the only audience reaction worse than disappointment must be indifference. And I'm afraid that's exactly what I experienced after watching "Star Trek: Nemesis" this evening. I felt like I had seen almost all of it before, several times, and sadly by the end of the movie even the fates of my favorite Star Trek crew didn't seem to matter as much anymore. Four years is a long time to wait between installments and it felt like too much time had passed since their last big screen appearance. Things I had waited to see for years finally happened and I was left with an ambivalent shrug afterwards.
There were definitely some nice moments in the film, despite some stunningly weak parts of the plot which resembled non-sequiturs without explanations more than holes. And I sucessfully avoided reading spoilers about the movie so the big surprise did catch me off guard and it had emotional impact. But I was hoping for more than a mere rehash of the best Star Trek film or at least some more closure concerning the destinations of the less visible members of the crew. I have since read that those scenes were filmed, edited and then left on the cutting room floor along with Wesley Crusher's cameo. It's funny how I am starting to prefer the DVD director's cut editions of films over the versions which are initially released. To me, the additional material is usually worth some intermittent pacing and after watching a fully fleshed out story I still walk out of the cinema wanting more.
Any conjecture about what this means for the Space Station? How many astronauts/cosmonauts are currently up there and how difficult is for them to return now that the shuttle will be out of commission for a year or two? I haven't been following the program closely and don't know how often Russian spacecraft get up there.
Mandrake could set things up so every app pings their servers when it is launched. Of course, they'd need to know when the user reinstalls the app so the stats don't get corrupted. Maybe limiting the user to one install per box would do it.
Looks like the webmaster doesn't appreciate all of the attention a Slashdot mention brings to his website. The current contents of the index.html page:
Call me shortsighted, but I don't see the market for the 12" Powerbook. I think they'll merely be cannibalizing the sales of the existing iBook models. Consumers will be confused, product lines blurred.
...and why would I want to spoil the movies? I like to be surprised in the theater, something that's increasingly difficult to do the way trailers give away the entire plot of most movies.
I do believe you've hit upon the ultimate Slashdot comment. "This is nothing new." is appropriate for every past and future Slashdot post. Think of the time we can all now save.
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Are you kidding? Samurai Jack is awesome! Dexter's Laboratory is very good too. Given the poor writing in Lucas' last two movies, and the fact that someone else is having a hand in at least the direction of these shorts, these may very well be more interesting than any of the prequels.
Ask her out.
Good for Bear Pond. It has always been one of my favorite reasons to take a drive to Montpelier. I'll be sure to visit them more often when I up there from now on.
The RIAA has domain over live music too? Is the musician does during the duration of the contract is property of the record company. So a recording of Dave Matthews on Letterman would be subject to the same restrictions, technically?
(mostly spoiler-free) For filmmakers the only audience reaction worse than disappointment must be indifference. And I'm afraid that's exactly what I experienced after watching "Star Trek: Nemesis" this evening. I felt like I had seen almost all of it before, several times, and sadly by the end of the movie even the fates of my favorite Star Trek crew didn't seem to matter as much anymore. Four years is a long time to wait between installments and it felt like too much time had passed since their last big screen appearance. Things I had waited to see for years finally happened and I was left with an ambivalent shrug afterwards.
There were definitely some nice moments in the film, despite some stunningly weak parts of the plot which resembled non-sequiturs without explanations more than holes. And I sucessfully avoided reading spoilers about the movie so the big surprise did catch me off guard and it had emotional impact. But I was hoping for more than a mere rehash of the best Star Trek film or at least some more closure concerning the destinations of the less visible members of the crew. I have since read that those scenes were filmed, edited and then left on the cutting room floor along with Wesley Crusher's cameo. It's funny how I am starting to prefer the DVD director's cut editions of films over the versions which are initially released. To me, the additional material is usually worth some intermittent pacing and after watching a fully fleshed out story I still walk out of the cinema wanting more.
Any conjecture about what this means for the Space Station? How many astronauts/cosmonauts are currently up there and how difficult is for them to return now that the shuttle will be out of commission for a year or two? I haven't been following the program closely and don't know how often Russian spacecraft get up there.
"Want to use .NET but afraid of catching viruses that afflict Microsoft software? Expose yourself to Mono."
- Protect the Queen! - Which one's the Queen? - I'm the Queen. - No you're not. - Freedom! - Horrible, horrible freedom!
Eee gads. A quick glance at the topic and I thought this was a survey on masterbation preferences.
Scotty took my name off the warp drive's list of cool captains. That's it. I'm taking him off my list of favorite Scottish engineers.
6:28 pm
What type of tribble are you? I'm a fluffy one. (link snarfed from the Klingons)
7:12 pm
Had dream where I was in bed with Spock. What do you think that means?
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This whole debate is pedestrian.
Nah, that'd never work.
Dumb question... is Apple obligated to release any changes they make to X11 back to the open source crowd?
I wonder if this is Apple's way of assimilating some of the behavior of Linux for those people who only want to run an occasional app.
Okay, points taken. The differences are clear to me now.
Call me shortsighted, but I don't see the market for the 12" Powerbook. I think they'll merely be cannibalizing the sales of the existing iBook models. Consumers will be confused, product lines blurred.
Hmmm. I suppose I should read the article...
...and why would I want to spoil the movies? I like to be surprised in the theater, something that's increasingly difficult to do the way trailers give away the entire plot of most movies.
Great, geek humor... This stuff always makes me break out in a rash. A roomful of nerds singing these lyrics would be my definition of Hell.
"Please unfasten your seatbelt. You have twenty seconds to comply."
"Help! The buckle is stuck! I don't want to ride this anymore!"
Please don't let kids play with the submit button. They have problems with spelling and tend to believe most rumors.
Thank you.
To loosely paraphrase Douglas Adams, I love listening to the sound of stories like these as they whoosh over my head.
I do believe you've hit upon the ultimate Slashdot comment. "This is nothing new." is appropriate for every past and future Slashdot post. Think of the time we can all now save.