We already know that dude.. it's 42.. it's the question we're not too sure of since the computer that came up with 6 x 9 was messed with by the Golgafrinchans.
Just a thought but if there is a climate change in the works today then it might be inevitable. If that's the case, then the computer might be able to tell you if it's coming or not by being given all the information about the environment for the last few years. It wouldn't be able to tell you if it was going to snow on Saturday but it might be able to tell you if it was eventually going to snow in the Sahara.
*sigh* fine. Here's the first page as it came up. "Not since Japanese filmmakre AKira Kurosawa's Ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur."
Translation: It looked good.
"Could use a little more humanity, but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals."
Translation: The effects were good... but...
Despite a quieter middle section, involving Aragorn's dreams of Arwen, this is even better than The Fellowship. There are scenes of cinematic perfction that steal your heart away."
This one I could see interpreted either way.
Then there was a review about it starting, staying and ending in the middle which I will ignore.
"While this movie, by necessity, lacks, Fellowship's heart, Two Towers outdoes its spectacle."
Translation: It looked good.
Well actually it means that 97% of them thought it was worth at least 6/10 since thats the minimum required for it to be considered fresh. And there are several reviews just on the first page that contain 'buts' in their summary and I'm sure I could find a lot more if I checked the reviews thoroughly (one of them called it the Twin Towers... I hope that was a joke). Anyways, since only time will tell on this I'm not going to argue it any further.
Ok reread what I said please. I said the reviewers ARE praising it but mostly for the effects. A few of them state flat out that they left Tolkien behind. Some say the movies lack humanity. Yet they will still give the movies a favourable review because the effects are pretty amazing. If it weren't for the effects however, I don't think it would be as praised as it is.
I'm also quite aware that most people don't want to hear that they're bad movies and will argue to the death with anyone who says that they are.
..was the best book by Clarke I ever read. That's a book they should make into a movie. The ending is one of the creepiest endings I've ever seen an author put forth.
Simple. They took a good book and made terrible movies. If you look at the reviews for TTT most of them can be compressed into something like.. "The special effects are great...but..." and then the reviewer generally goes on to say something about the movie that would normally be enough to give a movie a bad review. I think if it weren't for the effects, the critics would have panned the movie. And in ten years when the effects are more common place, the movie will probably be left behind.
(After homer opens a beer that Bart had placed in a paint shaker causing an enormous explosion)
Lou: Looks like an explosion at the old Simpson's place. Should we check it out?
Chief Wiggum: You kidding me? That's three blocks away.
Lou: Looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney.
Chief Wiggum: I'm proceeding in on foot, call for backup.
Lou (on the radio): This is a code eight. We need pretzels. I repeat, we need pretzels.
1) So you're not fueling corporate machines that do more harm than good.
2) I can see how expecting someone to make browsing easier can be thought of as "lazy". No, wait.. I can't.
3) You don't HAVE to pay for it.
4) Maybe he likes it better.
5)..
6) If you've never been hit with porn pop-ups or even regular annoying popups you are either not doing much surfing or hanging around the same web sites all the time.
7) For people who stare at browsers for hours, they may want to make it look different occasionally.
8) I downloaded and tried Opera and noticed a difference immediately and I'm on DSL.
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Why is it I keep seeing messages proclaiming celebrities dead in these threads? Get out more.
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If I had to list the things that lead to the allied victory, the atomic bomb would be way the hell down on the list. RADAR and Cryptography would be my top two (unless I'm forgetting something). The bomb wasn't even used until the Axis had already been crushed and Japan had been forced back to their mainland. The bombs were just used to prevent the US from suffering heavy casulties in group troups.
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He invented Geosynchronous Communcation Sattelites.
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Wasn't there a/. story recently where the Supreme Court had ruled that Bell DIDN'T invent the telephone but had ripped it off from the inventor who couldn't afford to patent it?
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The funny part about the Enigma machine 'capture' in U-571 is that the British had built working replicas already but it didn't do much good since the machine by itself is mostly useless if you don't know the setup. The British needed Alan Turing more than they needed the machine itself.
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Actually the generation gap is shrinking all the time. Our kids might be listening to the same music we are in 30 years.
Try reading the article next time.
Er... no it's not. The brain is a blazing fast computers that has an extremely bloated operating system that doesn't know how to handle the hardware.
We already know that dude.. it's 42.. it's the question we're not too sure of since the computer that came up with 6 x 9 was messed with by the Golgafrinchans.
Just a thought but if there is a climate change in the works today then it might be inevitable. If that's the case, then the computer might be able to tell you if it's coming or not by being given all the information about the environment for the last few years. It wouldn't be able to tell you if it was going to snow on Saturday but it might be able to tell you if it was eventually going to snow in the Sahara.
Yes and obviously you'd know more than the people who can design and build the most powerful computer in the world.
Ya, I'm tired of seeing compassionate intelligent presidents in movies. I mean come on, suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
Is this the same James Gleick that wrote Chaos: Making a New Science?
*sigh* fine. Here's the first page as it came up.
"Not since Japanese filmmakre AKira Kurosawa's Ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur."
Translation: It looked good.
"Could use a little more humanity, but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals."
Translation: The effects were good... but...
Despite a quieter middle section, involving Aragorn's dreams of Arwen, this is even better than The Fellowship. There are scenes of cinematic perfction that steal your heart away."
This one I could see interpreted either way.
Then there was a review about it starting, staying and ending in the middle which I will ignore.
"While this movie, by necessity, lacks, Fellowship's heart, Two Towers outdoes its spectacle."
Translation: It looked good.
Those are the first five reviews in order.
Well actually it means that 97% of them thought it was worth at least 6/10 since thats the minimum required for it to be considered fresh. And there are several reviews just on the first page that contain 'buts' in their summary and I'm sure I could find a lot more if I checked the reviews thoroughly (one of them called it the Twin Towers... I hope that was a joke). Anyways, since only time will tell on this I'm not going to argue it any further.
Ok reread what I said please. I said the reviewers ARE praising it but mostly for the effects. A few of them state flat out that they left Tolkien behind. Some say the movies lack humanity. Yet they will still give the movies a favourable review because the effects are pretty amazing. If it weren't for the effects however, I don't think it would be as praised as it is.
I'm also quite aware that most people don't want to hear that they're bad movies and will argue to the death with anyone who says that they are.
..was the best book by Clarke I ever read. That's a book they should make into a movie. The ending is one of the creepiest endings I've ever seen an author put forth.
Uhm.. Silence of the Lambs? The Godfather? Unless you mean SF only.
The movie was almost completely disconnected from the book. If they hadn't given it the same name no one would've even made the connection.
Simple. They took a good book and made terrible movies. If you look at the reviews for TTT most of them can be compressed into something like.. "The special effects are great...but..." and then the reviewer generally goes on to say something about the movie that would normally be enough to give a movie a bad review. I think if it weren't for the effects, the critics would have panned the movie. And in ten years when the effects are more common place, the movie will probably be left behind.
(After homer opens a beer that Bart had placed in a paint shaker causing an enormous explosion)
Lou: Looks like an explosion at the old Simpson's place. Should we check it out?
Chief Wiggum: You kidding me? That's three blocks away.
Lou: Looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney.
Chief Wiggum: I'm proceeding in on foot, call for backup.
Lou (on the radio): This is a code eight. We need pretzels. I repeat, we need pretzels.
1) So you're not fueling corporate machines that do more harm than good.
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2) I can see how expecting someone to make browsing easier can be thought of as "lazy". No, wait.. I can't.
3) You don't HAVE to pay for it.
4) Maybe he likes it better.
5)
6) If you've never been hit with porn pop-ups or even regular annoying popups you are either not doing much surfing or hanging around the same web sites all the time.
7) For people who stare at browsers for hours, they may want to make it look different occasionally.
8) I downloaded and tried Opera and noticed a difference immediately and I'm on DSL.
Again, you don't have to pay for it.
Unusable if you have the IQ of a pop-tart maybe. It seems fairly straight-forward to me, if you don't want to use the extra features just ignore them.
What kind of crappy dishwasher are YOU using.
Why is it I keep seeing messages proclaiming celebrities dead in these threads? Get out more.
If I had to list the things that lead to the allied victory, the atomic bomb would be way the hell down on the list. RADAR and Cryptography would be my top two (unless I'm forgetting something). The bomb wasn't even used until the Axis had already been crushed and Japan had been forced back to their mainland. The bombs were just used to prevent the US from suffering heavy casulties in group troups.
He invented Geosynchronous Communcation Sattelites.
Wasn't there a /. story recently where the Supreme Court had ruled that Bell DIDN'T invent the telephone but had ripped it off from the inventor who couldn't afford to patent it?
The funny part about the Enigma machine 'capture' in U-571 is that the British had built working replicas already but it didn't do much good since the machine by itself is mostly useless if you don't know the setup. The British needed Alan Turing more than they needed the machine itself.
...they really mean its small.