Are you trying to tell me that this whole damn time, we've never broken through the earth's crust and seen the mantle for ourselves? We can send something 8.7 billion miles away but we can't drill two miles down? Doesn't this strike people as a bit odd or disconcerting?
Personally I'd like to learn just as much about the earth under my feet as the stars above my head.
I'd like to see this get more funding and see us reach the mantle in the next few weeks instead of waiting for some time in the "coming years."
If the first shuttle has a design flaw, what's to say the second one isn't afflicted by the same problem? Won't there be a good chance of them stranding the rescue crew in addition to the original crew? If an aircraft crashes and the redesign to fix it crashes, would you send another of the same type to rescue it? Of course not!
Whatever the fuck happened to objective reporting? What is this, Fox News?:P Here's an idea: Give us a brief description of the facts and a nice informative link and keep your speculative comments to yourself.
mainly because the networks there are so slow; programs are at times behind by up to 8 months!
Or sometimes not at all.
I don't know what's worse... not getting the shows at all or getting one or two episodes before the network decides to air it at 2am every second Tuesday, which ends up being a repeat anyway. And then finally taking it off the air without even so much as a "Fuck you, we're outta here."
As an example, it took four years to air two seasons of Scrubs and that was with about six randomly omitted episodes. Then they showed three episodes randomly from the first dozen episodes of season 3 and then took it off the air completely.
If I had to pay a few bucks a week to get my regular shows as non-stream, non-DRM files, I'd gladly fork out for it. I travel a lot so I like to transfer stuff onto my laptop so I have something to watch to pass the time; If I have to be constantly streaming something or can't transfer the file to another computer I own, then forget it.
Incidentally, another distinction earned by Rodriguez during the making of Sin City, is that he joined George Lucas and others who have been kicked out of the Director's Guild. Rodriguez's offense, Howard says, was working with a co-director -- Sin City comic book creator Frank Miller -- who doesn't belong to the Guild.
I know it's slightly offtopic, but Robert Rodriguez wasn't kicked out of the DGA. He quit because they wouldn't allow him to credit Frank Miller as a co-director.
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Wow. Congratulations on a completely naive and ignorant post.
If you'd ever actually done any homework on the Sin City graphic novels the film is based on (Sin City renamed recently to The Hard Goodbye, A Dame To Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard and The Customer Is Always Right), then you'd realize this is probably one of the best and detailed plots ever conceived in comics to be translated onto the big screen.
Frank Miller single-handedly turned around the comic Daredevil when he took over and has been won countless awards and prizes for both his art and his writing. Not to mention he's one of the most respected artists in his field.
They used a digital backlot because of Frank Miller's extremely stylized artwork, which was never intended to mimic reality. It's meant to create a specific 'film noir' atmosphere which is intensely more gritty than real life. Frank Miller's Sin City has always been drastically drawn for deliberate effect and it's unlikely that one could achieve that with conventional filming. Personally, I think this is the one film in a very long time that actually can *justify* the use of CGI and the digital backlot process.
So either take back your words, see the film and realize it's not what you think it is, or sit down, shut up and don't see the fucking film. I guarantee it will survive just fine without your ten dollars.
As long as they still have some semblance of content control, I'm okay with it. Although I'm a big anti-censorship sort of person, there's a certain comfort I derive from knowing that all the entertainment provided in-flight won't be disruptive.
That is, I don't expect to see a film with a plane crash scene. I don't expect to see a kid playing AfterBurner or MS Flight Sim and crashing his plane. And I certainly don't expect to flick over to the news channel and see the latest news on an airliner that's just crashed only a few moments ago.
Obviously Boeing still seems to have control over what content the channels are going to provide, but let's hope they don't just pipe in a live CNN feed, even with a 30 second delay. The last thing I want is to be on a plane with a hundred passengers in a panic because they just saw footage of a plane crash in like, Kreplakistan, from a helicopter circling a smoking black smudge on the side of a mountain.
I've purchased 4 Samsung LCD monitors, 5 if you include the one I recommended to a friend and none of them have any lag whatsoever. I can play Battlefield, Desert Combat, Freelancer and even Moto GP2 without any lag at all.
I had no warning about this scheduled shutdown, so when I tried to load up the page and it failed, the first thing that flashed into my head was "Sweet Zombie Jesus, Slashdot's been slashdotted!"
I had all these images of newspapers like in the movies, where the front page of the New York Times and stuff has the article title in size 120 font, with such classic direct titles as "WAR!" and "ALIENS LAND" or "DEAD!"
Just imagine the front of the New York Times declaring "SLASHDOT SLASHDOTTED!"
Ahh, statistics are wonderful things, aren't they?
Reminds me of a couple of classic quotes about statistics:
Aaron Levenstein once said "Statistics are like bikinis; What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
and Thomas Carlyle once said, "A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures."
The thing is, I dislike the RIAA quite vocally, but I'd still probably believe them if they said their revenue is down. But the first thing they teach you about statistics in math is that "Correlation does not equal causation."
In a world that seems to be stagnant remakes... and rereleaces. The rereleaces are better then the remakes... And this is a rereleace that should be pretty good, (if your in the right mood) Seriously, have you seen a new movie or game recently? how about two? or isn't it all just the same thing with a souped up 3D engine, more polys, and different mapps? Stop coppying the classics, and just enjoy the classics.
I've seen a few new movies and played a few new games, but I find new (and novel I might add) ways to spell common words like release even more entertaining.
I pretty much learned how to touch type when I found the amazing world of IRC and stayed up late at night in the dark talking about the most inane topics with friends until the wee hours of the morning. Not being able to see the keys certainly helped.
Being a teenager and having the irresistable desire to be smarter than those that could type faster than me and type faster than those who were smarter than me also helped.
So... what you're saying is... the slow blade penetrates the shield?
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What do you do when one of your favorite show ends?
That's a good god-damn question.
I'd like to hear from some Quantum Leap fans after they were left with their mouths gaping open, speechless after watching the last episode, thinking to themselves simultaneously, "WTF?!"
Sure, some people change the channel. But there are times where you're just left ALL SORTS of screwed up, not knowing what the hell just happened.
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Wait a minute...
Are you trying to tell me that this whole damn time, we've never broken through the earth's crust and seen the mantle for ourselves? We can send something 8.7 billion miles away but we can't drill two miles down? Doesn't this strike people as a bit odd or disconcerting?
Personally I'd like to learn just as much about the earth under my feet as the stars above my head.
I'd like to see this get more funding and see us reach the mantle in the next few weeks instead of waiting for some time in the "coming years."
If the first shuttle has a design flaw, what's to say the second one isn't afflicted by the same problem? Won't there be a good chance of them stranding the rescue crew in addition to the original crew? If an aircraft crashes and the redesign to fix it crashes, would you send another of the same type to rescue it? Of course not!
Whatever the fuck happened to objective reporting? What is this, Fox News?
Just let me watch the damn show at the computer if the need strikes me! You lose NOTHING.
Not entirely correct. It'll cost them a metric fuckton to cover the bandwidth if it becomes popular.
mainly because the networks there are so slow; programs are at times behind by up to 8 months!
Or sometimes not at all.
I don't know what's worse... not getting the shows at all or getting one or two episodes before the network decides to air it at 2am every second Tuesday, which ends up being a repeat anyway. And then finally taking it off the air without even so much as a "Fuck you, we're outta here."
As an example, it took four years to air two seasons of Scrubs and that was with about six randomly omitted episodes. Then they showed three episodes randomly from the first dozen episodes of season 3 and then took it off the air completely.
If I had to pay a few bucks a week to get my regular shows as non-stream, non-DRM files, I'd gladly fork out for it. I travel a lot so I like to transfer stuff onto my laptop so I have something to watch to pass the time; If I have to be constantly streaming something or can't transfer the file to another computer I own, then forget it.
Incidentally, another distinction earned by Rodriguez during the making of Sin City, is that he joined George Lucas and others who have been kicked out of the Director's Guild. Rodriguez's offense, Howard says, was working with a co-director -- Sin City comic book creator Frank Miller -- who doesn't belong to the Guild.
I know it's slightly offtopic, but Robert Rodriguez wasn't kicked out of the DGA. He quit because they wouldn't allow him to credit Frank Miller as a co-director.
Kudos to him, I say.
Considering they're Canadians, wouldn't it be "POOONED"?
Lower case? No dots?
Please... it's not like this guy is e.e. cummings.
But it's not in metric! We're doomed!
Wow. Congratulations on a completely naive and ignorant post.
If you'd ever actually done any homework on the Sin City graphic novels the film is based on (Sin City renamed recently to The Hard Goodbye, A Dame To Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard and The Customer Is Always Right), then you'd realize this is probably one of the best and detailed plots ever conceived in comics to be translated onto the big screen.
Frank Miller single-handedly turned around the comic Daredevil when he took over and has been won countless awards and prizes for both his art and his writing. Not to mention he's one of the most respected artists in his field.
They used a digital backlot because of Frank Miller's extremely stylized artwork, which was never intended to mimic reality. It's meant to create a specific 'film noir' atmosphere which is intensely more gritty than real life. Frank Miller's Sin City has always been drastically drawn for deliberate effect and it's unlikely that one could achieve that with conventional filming. Personally, I think this is the one film in a very long time that actually can *justify* the use of CGI and the digital backlot process.
So either take back your words, see the film and realize it's not what you think it is, or sit down, shut up and don't see the fucking film. I guarantee it will survive just fine without your ten dollars.
As long as they still have some semblance of content control, I'm okay with it. Although I'm a big anti-censorship sort of person, there's a certain comfort I derive from knowing that all the entertainment provided in-flight won't be disruptive.
That is, I don't expect to see a film with a plane crash scene. I don't expect to see a kid playing AfterBurner or MS Flight Sim and crashing his plane. And I certainly don't expect to flick over to the news channel and see the latest news on an airliner that's just crashed only a few moments ago.
Obviously Boeing still seems to have control over what content the channels are going to provide, but let's hope they don't just pipe in a live CNN feed, even with a 30 second delay. The last thing I want is to be on a plane with a hundred passengers in a panic because they just saw footage of a plane crash in like, Kreplakistan, from a helicopter circling a smoking black smudge on the side of a mountain.
Sounds like it's time for the not-so-paranoid to join the paranoid and really-god-damn-paranoid in using the Dead Man's Switch:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description
You set it so as if you don't login and reset the timer before a certain date/amount of time has elapsed, it will:
- Send an email out to people to warn them/tell them you're dead/imprisoned/abducted by that blind date
- Poo all over your sensitive files.
Awesome.
I think I saw this on Mythbusters Uncut!
I for one, welcome our new Arabidopsis overlords.
I'll have to second this.
I've purchased 4 Samsung LCD monitors, 5 if you include the one I recommended to a friend and none of them have any lag whatsoever. I can play Battlefield, Desert Combat, Freelancer and even Moto GP2 without any lag at all.
We will now truly be able to figure out how many New Zealanders it takes to change a light bulb.
Dude, my microwaved burrito has more computer power than the on-board computer of the Apollo spacecraft back in the day.
It wasn't a computer, it was ones and zeroes holding hands.
"I for one, welcome our new macaque overlords."
:)
I sincerely apologize, but I just had to say it
I had no warning about this scheduled shutdown, so when I tried to load up the page and it failed, the first thing that flashed into my head was "Sweet Zombie Jesus, Slashdot's been slashdotted!"
/.ED!"
I had all these images of newspapers like in the movies, where the front page of the New York Times and stuff has the article title in size 120 font, with such classic direct titles as "WAR!" and "ALIENS LAND" or "DEAD!"
Just imagine the front of the New York Times declaring "SLASHDOT SLASHDOTTED!"
Or better yet, "/.
Gary Gygax: "Here, take my +1 mace!"
Ahh, statistics are wonderful things, aren't they?
Reminds me of a couple of classic quotes about statistics:
Aaron Levenstein once said "Statistics are like bikinis; What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
and Thomas Carlyle once said, "A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures."
The thing is, I dislike the RIAA quite vocally, but I'd still probably believe them if they said their revenue is down. But the first thing they teach you about statistics in math is that "Correlation does not equal causation."
In a world that seems to be stagnant remakes... and rereleaces. The rereleaces are better then the remakes... And this is a rereleace that should be pretty good, (if your in the right mood) Seriously, have you seen a new movie or game recently? how about two? or isn't it all just the same thing with a souped up 3D engine, more polys, and different mapps? Stop coppying the classics, and just enjoy the classics.
I've seen a few new movies and played a few new games, but I find new (and novel I might add) ways to spell common words like release even more entertaining.
I pretty much learned how to touch type when I found the amazing world of IRC and stayed up late at night in the dark talking about the most inane topics with friends until the wee hours of the morning. Not being able to see the keys certainly helped.
Being a teenager and having the irresistable desire to be smarter than those that could type faster than me and type faster than those who were smarter than me also helped.
So... what you're saying is... the slow blade penetrates the shield?
What do you do when one of your favorite show ends?
That's a good god-damn question.
I'd like to hear from some Quantum Leap fans after they were left with their mouths gaping open, speechless after watching the last episode, thinking to themselves simultaneously, "WTF?!"
Sure, some people change the channel. But there are times where you're just left ALL SORTS of screwed up, not knowing what the hell just happened.
Now if only they could make a cannon that could get rid of those pesky bike couriers who lean on your car.