Who modded me as a troll? I suspect a Blade Runner "fanboy." Is this what/. has come down to? If someone has a different opinion, and even writes it in a non-combative way, he is automatically modded as a TROLL?
I stated I didn't find Blade Runner to be that great, mostly prefer today's modern CGI movies, and asked if younger/.'ers also felt the same way. Please tell me how this is trolling.
Well I really did enjoy Ridley Scott's Gladiator, but that doesn't qualify as sci-fi.
The first Alien seemed too slow. It just dragged on until the Alien popped out. (Again, I didn't see that movie first. I saw Aliens #2 first.) However, Aliens kept me on the edge as many of them kept popping up and killing the humans. If I had to pick one of my sci-fi favorites, it would be Aliens.
I think movies by Stephen Spielberg are more than just "eye-candy." I found Minority Report and A.I. to be more interesting than Blade Runner. Look at the Alien series. I think most of us enjoyed Aliens (2) the best. Alien was directed by Ridley Scott, but not Aliens (James Cameron). Sure, Ridley Scott is a good story teller, but I don't think Blade Runner is the sci-fi movie.
Sure, I guess way back in the day when Blade Runner came it, it must have been visually exciting to watch. But as a younger person, I only saw it for the first time last year. Personally, I find most of today's modern CGI movies to be the same or more interesting than Blade Runner.
Do other younger/.'ers feel the same way? The only sci-fi movie that I can think of that I enjoyed from that pre-CGI era was Star Wars and Star Trek 2.
I cannot stand most ads. They are anywhere from 16 to 20 minutes per show. Smallville on the CW regularly has ads up to 20 minutes and a few seconds! That's less than 40 minutes of showtime! However, I'm also impatient and don't like waiting until the end of summer for the previous seasons to be available on DVD. Additionally, it's only SDTV, not HDTV on the DVDs. (Yes, HD does present a much better picture than SD.)
To get around this, I use both DVico's and MyHD PCI HD cards to record all of the shows I like. 24 and Heroes are on at the same time so I had to use 2 HD cards. I create batch scripts for VideoReDo to scan for commercials, then manually (and fairly quickly) cut them out. If I want to keep the show, I burn the MPG to a DVD or DVD-DL depending on the size. The cost of the DVD-DL for the whole season is the same as if I bought the season on DVD, plus I get it in HD and without any DRM.
As for the ads... if there are some clever HD ads, I'll watch them - once. If a movie ad is in HD and I'm interested in it, I'll watch it a few times.
I agree with you. I drive the "poor-man's" German car - a VW Golf. It doesn't have the BMW logo (or price), but is just as safe. The very first thing I noticed about the VWs, BMWs, etc. are the heavy doors. My boss drives a BMW and was broadsided by a pickup. The pickup was smashed up but the only damage he had was the electronics in the door. He says his car is tank. I feel the same way in my VW. I forget that the doors are flimsy when I get into my friends' Toyotas and always slam them hard. I can physically feel the difference in safety getting into a German car (tank) vs. a Jap car (coffin on wheels).
I witnessed a huge accident at my local college. Some hotshot was speeding in his "ricer" and ran the light. That caused a chain reaction as he hit other Jap cars, a BMW, and a Mercedes. The Jap cars were pretty smashed up and the ambulance had to rush the drivers to the hospitals. However, the BMW's and Mercedes's drivers were fine. Their front ends were smashed in, but the driver & passenger compartments were fine. If you blocked out the front end, you couldn't even notice they were in a horrible car accident.
The only cars I ever buy from now on will be German. I can't wait until the new diesel engines are made available in the US. They run just as clean as gasoline and get better mileage. However, I will not give up safety for a few extra MPG's. I would rather pay more at the pump than pay for the rest of my life as a cripple if I get into an accident. Maybe my attitude will change once all the SUVs, full-sized pickups, and 18-wheelers are off of our roads some years after post-Peak Oil, but for the meantime I also want myself and my family to be in a tank when we are on the road.
By my logic, if you invent something and would like other people to benefit from it, go through the proper business channels to bring your product to the marketplace. However, in this guy's case, he was just bragging about the kind of fuel his car uses. Yes, he has "freedom of speech" to do so and I fully support that. What I'm saying is that in this post-9/11 world, exercising your Constitutional rights will usually get you flagged as "suspicious" and invite police attention. Yes, it's wrong. Sadly, that's what our nation has come to.
I fail to understand your comment and what it has to do with/. Not everyone who mods their property do it for show. I'm assuming you mean modding your PC with flashing LEDs, etc. I prefer performance without any flash (literally). Your car, PC, etc. looks just like everyone else's but hidden inside is much better performance.
I never understood why people need to show off how they tweaked their cars. The "ricers" put fart-cans on their exhaust which doesn't increase HP, but rather annoys the hell out of everyone. And it's also a homing beacon saying "hey cops, come ticket me for my illegal mods." The same goes for this guy. His car runs on bio-diesel. Great for him (really). However, waving it in front of the cops or anyone else is just asking for at least an inspection by the cops. That's why I do stealth mods to my car. The exhaust sounds the same, there are no flashy stickers or huge spoilers hanging off my trunk. But underneath the hood, I've upped the HP and put on a better exhaust. I don't put on any bumper stickers or pro/college teams logos on my car because the opposing fans might scratch it.
Sadly, in this day and age, the concept of "freedom of speech" is nothing more than "hey officer, I'm suspicious - come investigate me." So I just STFU & GBTW.
My SoundBlaster Audigy X-Fi Elite has Dolby Digital settings: Night, Normal, and Full. The Night level tries to keep all sounds - quiet dialog to explosions - in the same volume amplitude. I can keep my speakers turned down and still hear the dialog as well as the explosions. Normal widens that range so the explosions are louder than dialog. However, I nearly always keep it on Full - dialog is low (like it is in real life), but the explosions are loud. It's great for horror movies, etc. where sound is used to create the mood.
So these Dolby settings can be used to "quiet" down these soundtracks. However, if the volume has already been encoded above a maximum level (think of a sine wave with the peaks and troughs capped), the quieter sound will still be distorted.
Like many/.'ers, I've had relatively few sexual encounters with women. (Multiply my amount by any number and it's still the same...) With a holosuite, however, it'll be he hottest chicks, but w/o the STDs or unwanted pregnancies. Just don't jerryrig it and put Quark's face on the body...
If I need to take a dump in a public restroom most likely all of the seats are down with someone else's piss. So I grab a wad of paper, wipe off the seat, put a fresh clean piece of paper on the seat and do my business. What's the big fuss? However, if there's shit on the seat, I'll go find another stall. I ain't touching no one's shit.
I know you were just joking, but recently I've been reading more articles about people getting arrested for "indecent exposure" for taking a piss in the bushes, then later finding out that they are now "sex offenders" and have to register with the same people who are pedophiles and child molesters. WTF? My fraternity brothers and I would piss all the time in the bushes outside the campus apartments as we stumbled from one party to the next. It's hard to believe that doing something as innocent as that would land us in jail and be grouped with rapists and other real sex offenders.
I record all of the broadcast shows in HD and use VideoRedo to put in markers at black frames. Those are the ones usually between the show and each commercials. When I go to cut the ads, I usually jump to each marker and watch the first couple of seconds of the ad. If it's interesting - i.e. the HD ads cost more money to produce and look better than regular SD ads - I'll watch the rest of the ad. The AT&T and Toyota Yaris HD ads come to mind. Old Navy's summer bikini SD ads also catch my eye. However, a lot of ads are aired more than once during the show, or at least many times on the networks during the shows I like to record. So I will watch the ads, but usually only once. But, since I've seen them before, when I see only the first couple of seconds, the whole ad pops back up in my mind.
Dude, we're talking about chocolate. I think you're reading too much into my comment if you think I'm coming across as elite and assholely because I like >= 70% cacao chocolate compared to the shit American corporations put out. Everyone around the world agrees cheap, American chocolate is shit. I've tried chocolates from across Europe in my travels, including some made by Monks in a monastery (Montserrat Chocolate). Some were milk chocolate but without any sugar. Again, a different taste. All of the non-US chocolate I've had were tasteful, smooth, and creamy. By comparison, the cheap US chocolate was... "sticky" for lack of a better word. So if being a connoisseur of chocolate makes me a snob, then so be it.
Wow. Why all the anger and hatred at my opinion? I recommend Chamomile herbal tea to calm you down. Then you can take Ginkgo Biloba to strengthen your mind and form coherent sentences. And finally to get back into a good mood, a small bit of Peppermint should do the trick.
That's a very good article. And who ends up paying for the mess the Farm Bill caused? Us, the American taxpayer! Higher medical premiums, higher taxes to support the illegals, etc.
Clearly, we are limiting freedom by delaying those drugs for several years of testing. I mean, shouldn't people have the freedom to find out for themselves if a drug actually does what it says it does?
Actually, isn't that the reason Americans go to Canada and Mexico for their drugs? Or is it just the cost? (These are not rhetorical questions.)
Okay, I know you were being sarcastic, but I couldn't help laughing the whole time. Yes, I am a smug chocolate-lover!:-)
Besides, don't we do that with beer? After all, we could all be drinking the sweet pear-cider beer, but noooo, we need to indulge in dark (read: bitter) lagers.
Okay, I feel a little bit stupid posting my original post "FDA Attempt to Regulate Vitamins, Herbs as "Drugs"" when on that very page is an update saying that "after painstaking review of the FDA guidance document we have determined that the document does not call for any NEW regulatory or enforcement action, but merely clarifies existing ways that the FDA classifies (or "thinks") about different types of products used in alternative and complementary medicine."
However, in my defense, I've been sending that link out since before April 16th and didn't know the OCA posted an update. I did RTFA, but not after April 16th. Sorry about that.
Hey, in my libertarian-utopia we can all agree to disagree on particulars.:-) Just as long as we have the freedom to do what we damn well want to with our lives and property so long as we do not infringe on others.
The wording of the FDA's docket (as interpreted by the author of the article) implies herbs would be banned, not that the manufacturing process would be regulated.
I support the food labeling which is supposed to show the contents of what you are ingesting. If this FDA proposal is about regulating the manufacturing process and labeling, then I'm okay with it. However, the author doesn't think this is the case and it's actually regulating access to it.
And then just take a look at the environmental damage we are doing to Earth. We are just like every other animal on Earth. As we overshoot our planet's carrying-capacity, Mother Nature will "cull the herd."
but has thankfully let them continue their good work.
I'm glad to hear that. I did not know that Hershey's bought out Scharffen Berger. However, I do stand by my original statement that Hershey's chocolate (i.e. not their recently acquired high-end chocolate companies) is shit.
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Who modded me as a troll? I suspect a Blade Runner "fanboy." Is this what /. has come down to? If someone has a different opinion, and even writes it in a non-combative way, he is automatically modded as a TROLL?
/.'ers also felt the same way. Please tell me how this is trolling.
I stated I didn't find Blade Runner to be that great, mostly prefer today's modern CGI movies, and asked if younger
Well I really did enjoy Ridley Scott's Gladiator, but that doesn't qualify as sci-fi.
The first Alien seemed too slow. It just dragged on until the Alien popped out. (Again, I didn't see that movie first. I saw Aliens #2 first.) However, Aliens kept me on the edge as many of them kept popping up and killing the humans. If I had to pick one of my sci-fi favorites, it would be Aliens.
I think movies by Stephen Spielberg are more than just "eye-candy." I found Minority Report and A.I. to be more interesting than Blade Runner. Look at the Alien series. I think most of us enjoyed Aliens (2) the best. Alien was directed by Ridley Scott, but not Aliens (James Cameron). Sure, Ridley Scott is a good story teller, but I don't think Blade Runner is the sci-fi movie.
Sure, I guess way back in the day when Blade Runner came it, it must have been visually exciting to watch. But as a younger person, I only saw it for the first time last year. Personally, I find most of today's modern CGI movies to be the same or more interesting than Blade Runner.
/.'ers feel the same way? The only sci-fi movie that I can think of that I enjoyed from that pre-CGI era was Star Wars and Star Trek 2.
Do other younger
I cannot stand most ads. They are anywhere from 16 to 20 minutes per show. Smallville on the CW regularly has ads up to 20 minutes and a few seconds! That's less than 40 minutes of showtime! However, I'm also impatient and don't like waiting until the end of summer for the previous seasons to be available on DVD. Additionally, it's only SDTV, not HDTV on the DVDs. (Yes, HD does present a much better picture than SD.)
To get around this, I use both DVico's and MyHD PCI HD cards to record all of the shows I like. 24 and Heroes are on at the same time so I had to use 2 HD cards. I create batch scripts for VideoReDo to scan for commercials, then manually (and fairly quickly) cut them out. If I want to keep the show, I burn the MPG to a DVD or DVD-DL depending on the size. The cost of the DVD-DL for the whole season is the same as if I bought the season on DVD, plus I get it in HD and without any DRM.
As for the ads... if there are some clever HD ads, I'll watch them - once. If a movie ad is in HD and I'm interested in it, I'll watch it a few times.
I agree with you. I drive the "poor-man's" German car - a VW Golf. It doesn't have the BMW logo (or price), but is just as safe. The very first thing I noticed about the VWs, BMWs, etc. are the heavy doors. My boss drives a BMW and was broadsided by a pickup. The pickup was smashed up but the only damage he had was the electronics in the door. He says his car is tank. I feel the same way in my VW. I forget that the doors are flimsy when I get into my friends' Toyotas and always slam them hard. I can physically feel the difference in safety getting into a German car (tank) vs. a Jap car (coffin on wheels).
I witnessed a huge accident at my local college. Some hotshot was speeding in his "ricer" and ran the light. That caused a chain reaction as he hit other Jap cars, a BMW, and a Mercedes. The Jap cars were pretty smashed up and the ambulance had to rush the drivers to the hospitals. However, the BMW's and Mercedes's drivers were fine. Their front ends were smashed in, but the driver & passenger compartments were fine. If you blocked out the front end, you couldn't even notice they were in a horrible car accident.
The only cars I ever buy from now on will be German. I can't wait until the new diesel engines are made available in the US. They run just as clean as gasoline and get better mileage. However, I will not give up safety for a few extra MPG's. I would rather pay more at the pump than pay for the rest of my life as a cripple if I get into an accident. Maybe my attitude will change once all the SUVs, full-sized pickups, and 18-wheelers are off of our roads some years after post-Peak Oil, but for the meantime I also want myself and my family to be in a tank when we are on the road.
Not at all. I just keep quiet about what I'm doing. There's a difference.
By my logic, if you invent something and would like other people to benefit from it, go through the proper business channels to bring your product to the marketplace. However, in this guy's case, he was just bragging about the kind of fuel his car uses. Yes, he has "freedom of speech" to do so and I fully support that. What I'm saying is that in this post-9/11 world, exercising your Constitutional rights will usually get you flagged as "suspicious" and invite police attention. Yes, it's wrong. Sadly, that's what our nation has come to.
I fail to understand your comment and what it has to do with /. Not everyone who mods their property do it for show. I'm assuming you mean modding your PC with flashing LEDs, etc. I prefer performance without any flash (literally). Your car, PC, etc. looks just like everyone else's but hidden inside is much better performance.
I never understood why people need to show off how they tweaked their cars. The "ricers" put fart-cans on their exhaust which doesn't increase HP, but rather annoys the hell out of everyone. And it's also a homing beacon saying "hey cops, come ticket me for my illegal mods." The same goes for this guy. His car runs on bio-diesel. Great for him (really). However, waving it in front of the cops or anyone else is just asking for at least an inspection by the cops. That's why I do stealth mods to my car. The exhaust sounds the same, there are no flashy stickers or huge spoilers hanging off my trunk. But underneath the hood, I've upped the HP and put on a better exhaust. I don't put on any bumper stickers or pro/college teams logos on my car because the opposing fans might scratch it.
Sadly, in this day and age, the concept of "freedom of speech" is nothing more than "hey officer, I'm suspicious - come investigate me." So I just STFU & GBTW.
My SoundBlaster Audigy X-Fi Elite has Dolby Digital settings: Night, Normal, and Full. The Night level tries to keep all sounds - quiet dialog to explosions - in the same volume amplitude. I can keep my speakers turned down and still hear the dialog as well as the explosions. Normal widens that range so the explosions are louder than dialog. However, I nearly always keep it on Full - dialog is low (like it is in real life), but the explosions are loud. It's great for horror movies, etc. where sound is used to create the mood.
So these Dolby settings can be used to "quiet" down these soundtracks. However, if the volume has already been encoded above a maximum level (think of a sine wave with the peaks and troughs capped), the quieter sound will still be distorted.
Like many /.'ers, I've had relatively few sexual encounters with women. (Multiply my amount by any number and it's still the same...) With a holosuite, however, it'll be he hottest chicks, but w/o the STDs or unwanted pregnancies. Just don't jerryrig it and put Quark's face on the body...
If I need to take a dump in a public restroom most likely all of the seats are down with someone else's piss. So I grab a wad of paper, wipe off the seat, put a fresh clean piece of paper on the seat and do my business. What's the big fuss? However, if there's shit on the seat, I'll go find another stall. I ain't touching no one's shit.
I know you were just joking, but recently I've been reading more articles about people getting arrested for "indecent exposure" for taking a piss in the bushes, then later finding out that they are now "sex offenders" and have to register with the same people who are pedophiles and child molesters. WTF? My fraternity brothers and I would piss all the time in the bushes outside the campus apartments as we stumbled from one party to the next. It's hard to believe that doing something as innocent as that would land us in jail and be grouped with rapists and other real sex offenders.
I record all of the broadcast shows in HD and use VideoRedo to put in markers at black frames. Those are the ones usually between the show and each commercials. When I go to cut the ads, I usually jump to each marker and watch the first couple of seconds of the ad. If it's interesting - i.e. the HD ads cost more money to produce and look better than regular SD ads - I'll watch the rest of the ad. The AT&T and Toyota Yaris HD ads come to mind. Old Navy's summer bikini SD ads also catch my eye. However, a lot of ads are aired more than once during the show, or at least many times on the networks during the shows I like to record. So I will watch the ads, but usually only once. But, since I've seen them before, when I see only the first couple of seconds, the whole ad pops back up in my mind.
Dude, we're talking about chocolate. I think you're reading too much into my comment if you think I'm coming across as elite and assholely because I like >= 70% cacao chocolate compared to the shit American corporations put out. Everyone around the world agrees cheap, American chocolate is shit. I've tried chocolates from across Europe in my travels, including some made by Monks in a monastery (Montserrat Chocolate). Some were milk chocolate but without any sugar. Again, a different taste. All of the non-US chocolate I've had were tasteful, smooth, and creamy. By comparison, the cheap US chocolate was... "sticky" for lack of a better word. So if being a connoisseur of chocolate makes me a snob, then so be it.
Wow. Why all the anger and hatred at my opinion? I recommend Chamomile herbal tea to calm you down. Then you can take Ginkgo Biloba to strengthen your mind and form coherent sentences. And finally to get back into a good mood, a small bit of Peppermint should do the trick.
That's a very good article. And who ends up paying for the mess the Farm Bill caused? Us, the American taxpayer! Higher medical premiums, higher taxes to support the illegals, etc.
Okay, I know you were being sarcastic, but I couldn't help laughing the whole time. Yes, I am a smug chocolate-lover! :-)
Besides, don't we do that with beer? After all, we could all be drinking the sweet pear-cider beer, but noooo, we need to indulge in dark (read: bitter) lagers.
Okay, I feel a little bit stupid posting my original post "FDA Attempt to Regulate Vitamins, Herbs as "Drugs"" when on that very page is an update saying that "after painstaking review of the FDA guidance document we have determined that the document does not call for any NEW regulatory or enforcement action, but merely clarifies existing ways that the FDA classifies (or "thinks") about different types of products used in alternative and complementary medicine."
/Waiting to get modded down into -1: Troll :-(
However, in my defense, I've been sending that link out since before April 16th and didn't know the OCA posted an update. I did RTFA, but not after April 16th. Sorry about that.
Hey, in my libertarian-utopia we can all agree to disagree on particulars. :-) Just as long as we have the freedom to do what we damn well want to with our lives and property so long as we do not infringe on others.
The wording of the FDA's docket (as interpreted by the author of the article) implies herbs would be banned, not that the manufacturing process would be regulated.
I support the food labeling which is supposed to show the contents of what you are ingesting. If this FDA proposal is about regulating the manufacturing process and labeling, then I'm okay with it. However, the author doesn't think this is the case and it's actually regulating access to it.
And then just take a look at the environmental damage we are doing to Earth. We are just like every other animal on Earth. As we overshoot our planet's carrying-capacity, Mother Nature will "cull the herd."