I agree completely. Even though I loved the books, I could accept the re-written plot-lines. The Bourne Identity was a great movie, but Supremacy bored me to tears. I was expecting some of the cool actions sequences like the first movie, but you couldn't see what was going on. On top of the bad camera work, the plot was pretty weak. I never go into a book-based movie expecting a great adaption**, but even on it's own the Bourne Supremacy didn't come close to the first one.
**I think Peter Jackson has raised the bar for me here.
One of the local computer stores around here just brought in the plasmas and large LCD's to their display. I don't think I could justify the expense for a monitor, but the lower-end, 30-inch, $1,000 model has got me thinking....
Am I the only one thinking of those old "If Windows PC was a car" jokes?
I'd be afraid people would start sleeping on the way to work (heck, I probably would). Unless the systems have a mighty good failsafe, that could be pretty scary.
I could never justify the $300.00 expense for the Tivo. I think their cool, but adding a monthly subscription kills it for me. I've been using a couple of TV cards in 2 PC's for a few of years, but I'd like a better solution for the living room (my girl can't understand why we need a computer in there). I wouldn't drop down $300 for the Tivo, but for an extra $10 a month, I'd like to try it out with Comcast/Microsoft. My dang bill is getting so high, what's another ten bucks.:)
I used to enjoy messing around with HTPC's (Meedio is really cool), but stuff is moving to digital and it's time consuming to keep it all running, much less explain to the less geeky how to run it. I could see a lot of people, who don't know anything about DVR's, going for this as a new addon service. After that, how many of them would need a new Tivo?
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I wish the PC version was coming out today. The first Halo isn't sucking enough of my free time up.:)
But since you bring it up, why would anyone pay around 80% of the original cost for the warranty?? That would be like going to buy a new $20,000.00 car (where the warranty might be more important) and buying a $16,000.00 extended warranty. I don't need to exaggerate much.
"...if they weren't trying to shove a warranty down our throats on every little item we buy."
Yeah, but for a $75.00 extended warranty, they'll replace your $50.00 DVD player if it breaks. I'm suprised they don't offer scratch warranties on thier CD's.
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I was joking, but while we're on it... Before the jurassic period, the insects did get quite a bit larger than they do today. I think the largest insect over found was a dragonfly species (from about 300 million years ago) that had a 2 1/2 foot wingspan. Not exactly movie-sized, but I'd duck if one was flying my way./by the way, we're talking prehistory, not history:)
Are you using a heisenberg compensator for this pen measurement?
I think the poster is trying to point out the how errors will happen with such a large system. Maybe, if all votes were electronic, we could count them accurately, but there are many counties with paper ballots. You are never going to remove the errors when humans are still counting votes by hand.
If 4000 votes were off, isn't there a chance that there are other errors that are not known about?
On the other hand, I've been hearing stories about this for a few days. Only the 4,000, Ohio vote story has made it into any major media outlets (as far as I can tell). If the other stories had any credibility, why wouldn't this be on the "top of the hour" with CNN? I'm not saying that there weren't some errors, but if this was as wide spread as some of the stories lead you to believe...why isn't this a bigger deal?
I know that some issues aren't liberal/conservative... deomocrat/republican issues, but which party currently has the better track record. I suppose you could break it up by jobs and copyright (DMCA) issues.
I agree with your point, however...I don't think there's ever been an election with this many lawyers waiting in the sidelines. There are observers from both parties in almost all of the battleground state polling places. The polls seem to indicate a win within the margin of error. I hope you're right, but I'm still expecting it to take a bit.
I'd be real suprised if we find out tommorrow. Unless there is a huge change from the polls, the lawyers are going to prolong the process for at least a few days. It would be nice to go to sleep tommorrow night and know who the next pres will be.
I saw this last night. I was interested in the visuals, after reading about the filming method. After ten minutes, the novelty of the effects wore off. I could get past the 30'-style campiness, but the actors didn't seem to be interacting with each other. As the movie progressed, you could tell that the actors were acting by themselves in many of the scenes. It was a neat idea, but it got really distracting for me after a bit. I think for a short film, it would have been pretty cool, but a full-length feature? I was bored out of my mind by the end of the movie...just my $0.02.
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I agree completely. Even though I loved the books, I could accept the re-written plot-lines. The Bourne Identity was a great movie, but Supremacy bored me to tears. I was expecting some of the cool actions sequences like the first movie, but you couldn't see what was going on. On top of the bad camera work, the plot was pretty weak. I never go into a book-based movie expecting a great adaption**, but even on it's own the Bourne Supremacy didn't come close to the first one.
**I think Peter Jackson has raised the bar for me here.
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One of the local computer stores around here just brought in the plasmas and large LCD's to their display. I don't think I could justify the expense for a monitor, but the lower-end, 30-inch, $1,000 model has got me thinking....
Am I the only one thinking of those old "If Windows PC was a car" jokes?
I'd be afraid people would start sleeping on the way to work (heck, I probably would). Unless the systems have a mighty good failsafe, that could be pretty scary.
Man, I was just playing around with MDK 10.1 community this weekend. I still can't figure out why I get "can't find X includes" when compiling.
the USAF already found Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy.
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I agree....
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I could never justify the $300.00 expense for the Tivo. I think their cool, but adding a monthly subscription kills it for me. I've been using a couple of TV cards in 2 PC's for a few of years, but I'd like a better solution for the living room (my girl can't understand why we need a computer in there). I wouldn't drop down $300 for the Tivo, but for an extra $10 a month, I'd like to try it out with Comcast/Microsoft. My dang bill is getting so high, what's another ten bucks.
I used to enjoy messing around with HTPC's (Meedio is really cool), but stuff is moving to digital and it's time consuming to keep it all running, much less explain to the less geeky how to run it. I could see a lot of people, who don't know anything about DVR's, going for this as a new addon service. After that, how many of them would need a new Tivo?
I wish the PC version was coming out today. The first Halo isn't sucking enough of my free time up. :)
I was being sarcastic.... :()
But since you bring it up, why would anyone pay around 80% of the original cost for the warranty?? That would be like going to buy a new $20,000.00 car (where the warranty might be more important) and buying a $16,000.00 extended warranty. I don't need to exaggerate much.
"...if they weren't trying to shove a warranty down our throats on every little item we buy."
Yeah, but for a $75.00 extended warranty, they'll replace your $50.00 DVD player if it breaks. I'm suprised they don't offer scratch warranties on thier CD's.
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I was joking, but while we're on it... Before the jurassic period, the insects did get quite a bit larger than they do today. I think the largest insect over found was a dragonfly species (from about 300 million years ago) that had a 2 1/2 foot wingspan. Not exactly movie-sized, but I'd duck if one was flying my way. /by the way, we're talking prehistory, not history :)
I admit that I didn't RTFA, but I thought insects were a lot bigger back then. With a difference in size, wouldn't that skew an experiment today?
Are you guys talking about SIMS?? I haven't gotten to the "night-club" level yet.
Are you using a heisenberg compensator for this pen measurement?
I think the poster is trying to point out the how errors will happen with such a large system. Maybe, if all votes were electronic, we could count them accurately, but there are many counties with paper ballots. You are never going to remove the errors when humans are still counting votes by hand.
If 4000 votes were off, isn't there a chance that there are other errors that are not known about?
On the other hand, I've been hearing stories about this for a few days. Only the 4,000, Ohio vote story has made it into any major media outlets (as far as I can tell). If the other stories had any credibility, why wouldn't this be on the "top of the hour" with CNN? I'm not saying that there weren't some errors, but if this was as wide spread as some of the stories lead you to believe...why isn't this a bigger deal?
I think it's CleverNickName...
"Except for Wil Wheaton, who's arrogance and habit of throwing feces at anyone who dares seek an autograph..."
When did this occur? I thought he was pretty good sport after the writers wrote him off the show. Doesn't he still do the cons?
I know that some issues aren't liberal/conservative ... deomocrat/republican issues, but which party currently has the better track record. I suppose you could break it up by jobs and copyright (DMCA) issues.
I agree with your point, however...I don't think there's ever been an election with this many lawyers waiting in the sidelines. There are observers from both parties in almost all of the battleground state polling places. The polls seem to indicate a win within the margin of error. I hope you're right, but I'm still expecting it to take a bit.
I'd be real suprised if we find out tommorrow. Unless there is a huge change from the polls, the lawyers are going to prolong the process for at least a few days. It would be nice to go to sleep tommorrow night and know who the next pres will be.
I'd be more concerned about the lasers that are attatched to freak'n sharks. Those are the kind you need to watch out for.
I saw this last night. I was interested in the visuals, after reading about the filming method. After ten minutes, the novelty of the effects wore off. I could get past the 30'-style campiness, but the actors didn't seem to be interacting with each other. As the movie progressed, you could tell that the actors were acting by themselves in many of the scenes. It was a neat idea, but it got really distracting for me after a bit. I think for a short film, it would have been pretty cool, but a full-length feature? I was bored out of my mind by the end of the movie...just my $0.02.
I think that depends if you're using the TOS scale or the TNG scale.