I dropped out after the first season because it was just so damn silly. You had a headless terminator roaming around town (how it did this without eyes was never explained), a woman who was married to a terminator without suspecting something was up (wouldn't the bed eventually cave in?) and numerous dangling plot threads left unresolved. What was behind the school suicides?
I don't believe it, someone else out there other than me remembers BEGIN, the first shareware package I ever registered.
Does anyone remember a DOS-based Trek-type game called UNIVERSE? It was a more complex version of Vtrek with crew management, derelict vessels, and tons of other races like Kzinti and Lyrans. It ran in yellow ASCII text, and you could view a map of the entire galaxy if you had a Hercules-compatible graphics card.
Given a choice between this show and the one that's going to be a twenty-year long epic about moisture farming on a desert planet, I choose the latter.
They also released a synopsis of the first few episodes:
1 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest. 2 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest. 3 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest. 4 - Luke helps out on the farm, fixing the family landspeeder. 5 - Treadwell goes on a rampage, and Luke and Owen have to put him down.
After fifteen years of wishing for one, I'm finally getting a Guges figure. Toycom showed off some prototypes at the recent Toy Fair in NYC. Check out the gallery here.
From the article: Stargate (called Defender II in this and most other classic game packages for some mysterious reason). There's no mystery about it. Stargate's name was changed to Defender II for home versions because of legal issues. The KLOV entry is here, but I believe this was even in the notes of previous compilations.
The reviewer gripes about the quality of the interview videos that were carried over from previous releases. I wonder if he would complain more or less if the videos weren't included.
Overall, I think the whole review is a little too harsh, considering you're getting more than twenty cames for $20! Come on...
When our kids went to school september 1st, I volounteered as computer fixer.
If you prepped that post in Word instead of Wordpad, you'd get a little red squggly line telling you that "volunteered" was mispelled. But maybe I'm just being silly.
It's 2003 for christsakes. Why am I still using an interface that was designed in the 1970's, when computers had a tiny fraction of the power and functionality they currently have?
I don't see why this necessitates changing an interface. We still use steering wheels and gas and and brake pedals in our cars, and that interface is nearly a hundred years old. Works fine, don't you think?
Jini platform, Schmini platform. Ken Arnold helped develop Rogue, and if that's not a worthwhile contribution to the human race worth mentioning, I don't know what is.
Not to nitpick, but these fish don't glow in the dark (photoluminescent), they glow under ultraviolet light (fluorescent).
Is that really worth the possibility that the fish will escape and reek havoc in the ecosystem?
Check out the article, the company says that more than 90 percent have been sterlized, but I'm sure really concerned about protecting their product, rather than the environment. As to whether or not the zebra fish constitute a ecological threat like snakeheads, check out this page - looks like they prefer warmer water.
Actually, I'm 31, and I had an Atari 5200 once upon a time, but I based the statement on what I've read that said the NES was a much bigger and widespread hit than the Atari 2600 was.
In the 1980s, after the FCC officially deregulated most rules surrounding programming and advertising, the animation and toy businesses were able to partner up and create a new tradition of half-hour commercials to sell toys. He-Man kicked it off, followed by G.I. Joe and Transformers, MASK, Sectaurs, the list goes on. Before long, this became such a common and profitable practice that it was nearly impossible to get a show on the air that wasn't some sort of a tie-in.
Then along came the NES, which truly revolutionized the home gaming phenomenon and became as commonplace as toasters in many households. Kids started spending more and more time with their came consoles and less with their toys, and this phenomenon continues to the present day, when video games continue to take up a larger and larger portion of floor space at toy stores every year.
It's especially pronounced in Japan, where, through the 60s, 70s and 80s there were jillions of live action and cartoon shows produced to serve as vehicles for promoting superhero, monster, and robot toys. Nowadays, there are only a few core brands left that have any kind of sustainability, with very few newcomers to the fold. Some companies like Takara have tried crossover products like Web Diver Gradion, but they haven't caught on as much as they'd like. Kids there are just having more fun with their Playstations and Game Boys.
Of course, there is the occasional Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh that achieve breakthrough success, but one could argue that these are pretty heavily game-based properties as opposed to toy-based.
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I dropped out after the first season because it was just so damn silly. You had a headless terminator roaming around town (how it did this without eyes was never explained), a woman who was married to a terminator without suspecting something was up (wouldn't the bed eventually cave in?) and numerous dangling plot threads left unresolved. What was behind the school suicides?
I don't believe it, someone else out there other than me remembers BEGIN, the first shareware package I ever registered.
Does anyone remember a DOS-based Trek-type game called UNIVERSE? It was a more complex version of Vtrek with crew management, derelict vessels, and tons of other races like Kzinti and Lyrans. It ran in yellow ASCII text, and you could view a map of the entire galaxy if you had a Hercules-compatible graphics card.
Because I'm not downloading a 300+ MB file unless it's "fresh."
Given a choice between this show and the one that's going to be a twenty-year long epic about moisture farming on a desert planet, I choose the latter.
They also released a synopsis of the first few episodes:
1 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest.
2 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest.
3 - Luke helps out on the farm, collecting moisture for the harvest.
4 - Luke helps out on the farm, fixing the family landspeeder.
5 - Treadwell goes on a rampage, and Luke and Owen have to put him down.
Sounds like gallons of fun.
It's all well and good for dragons, but what are we to do?
Spider-Man in a giant robot, folks. I kid you not.
Irvin Kershner? Oh, yeah, because he did such an amazing job on Robocop 2.
After fifteen years of wishing for one, I'm finally getting a Guges figure. Toycom showed off some prototypes at the recent Toy Fair in NYC. Check out the gallery here.
Spelling errors usually bother me more than grammatical errors.
BTW, it's "usage".
When our kids went to school september 1st, I volounteered as computer fixer.
If you prepped that post in Word instead of Wordpad, you'd get a little red squggly line telling you that "volunteered" was mispelled. But maybe I'm just being silly.
It's there. Stargate's name was changed to Defender II for home versions. The KLOV entry is here.
It's 2003 for christsakes. Why am I still using an interface that was designed in the 1970's, when computers had a tiny fraction of the power and functionality they currently have?
I don't see why this necessitates changing an interface. We still use steering wheels and gas and and brake pedals in our cars, and that interface is nearly a hundred years old. Works fine, don't you think?
Jini platform, Schmini platform. Ken Arnold helped develop Rogue, and if that's not a worthwhile contribution to the human race worth mentioning, I don't know what is.
And I'm sure that this little bit of intellectual property (Gary Larson's cartoon) was appropriated with the proper permissions from FarWorks, right?
Way to further the cause.
But glow in the dark fish?
Not to nitpick, but these fish don't glow in the dark (photoluminescent), they glow under ultraviolet light (fluorescent).
Is that really worth the possibility that the fish will escape and reek havoc in the ecosystem?
Check out the article, the company says that more than 90 percent have been sterlized, but I'm sure really concerned about protecting their product, rather than the environment. As to whether or not the zebra fish constitute a ecological threat like snakeheads, check out this page - looks like they prefer warmer water.
Check out this page, some better pics of the fish and discussions about the implications of these little glowies.
According to the insider report at Yahoo, this is the first time Ballmer's done anything with his stock in over a year.
Yeah, considering the number of anime fans it's driven into therapy, I'd consider Evangelion "influential".
You can get a brain slug here.
Article here.
Hey, maybe once Ghana gets their IT infrastructure up to speed, they can launch their own version of the Nigerian Email Scam.
Unfortunately this says "the lack of a well-developed financial infrastructure limits the country's utility as a money-laundering center". Bummer.
Actually, I'm 31, and I had an Atari 5200 once upon a time, but I based the statement on what I've read that said the NES was a much bigger and widespread hit than the Atari 2600 was.
In the 1980s, after the FCC officially deregulated most rules surrounding programming and advertising, the animation and toy businesses were able to partner up and create a new tradition of half-hour commercials to sell toys. He-Man kicked it off, followed by G.I. Joe and Transformers, MASK, Sectaurs, the list goes on. Before long, this became such a common and profitable practice that it was nearly impossible to get a show on the air that wasn't some sort of a tie-in.
Then along came the NES, which truly revolutionized the home gaming phenomenon and became as commonplace as toasters in many households. Kids started spending more and more time with their came consoles and less with their toys, and this phenomenon continues to the present day, when video games continue to take up a larger and larger portion of floor space at toy stores every year.
It's especially pronounced in Japan, where, through the 60s, 70s and 80s there were jillions of live action and cartoon shows produced to serve as vehicles for promoting superhero, monster, and robot toys. Nowadays, there are only a few core brands left that have any kind of sustainability, with very few newcomers to the fold. Some companies like Takara have tried crossover products like Web Diver Gradion, but they haven't caught on as much as they'd like. Kids there are just having more fun with their Playstations and Game Boys.
Of course, there is the occasional Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh that achieve breakthrough success, but one could argue that these are pretty heavily game-based properties as opposed to toy-based.