I particularly like the description for Transylvania, the spin off TV show where they try and simultaneously say it will have everything to do with the movie and nothing to do with the movie:
Transylvania, a dramatic fantasy television series conceived by Stephen Sommers and inspired by the world he's created for Van Helsing, his feature-film epic which will be released on May 7, 2004.
Transylvania will be connected in spirit and style to his big-budget feature film but will not share any major characters or storylines with Van Helsing.
And, what 'world' did Sommers create anyway? Buffy has a world. Van Helsing? Please.
Not when it screws with the entire history/timeline of the series and seriously inhibits the work any future writer could do to weave a coherent story in the Star Trek universe.
My hope for the franchise would be to take a few years off and then come back with something very different. Perhaps a show done from the prospective of one of the 'bad' alien races.
I'm interested in how well the public can estimate this demand and the price of the shares to be offered.
He speaks as though 'the public' is a different kind of public from the one that will be bidding on the shares. Gee, I wonder what use he could possibly have for getting a sampling ahead of time...
I would be midly surprised if you had one person go home because they where afraid you might be able to track them when the next snow storm hits and there to stupid to come back.
What if they are too stupid to spell themselves out of grammar nazi thread on slashdot? : )
Yes, but slashdot always seems to make sections right before the end. We got a LOTR section just before the third movie and we now got a google section just before the IPO.
However, writing a web front-end to a database (which is what a *LOT* of people end up doing for years and years) requires practically NO math 90% of the time. Of course, it't that 10% that will get you.
Ditto typing skills : )
If eric@gmail.com has used his address for anything confidential and is erased, eric-else comes and register eric@gmail.com and gets this guys personal information....
Preface: My name is Eric.
I was given the opportunity to get a beta test account, so I naturally tried "eric@gmail.com."
No go-- the system told me it wouldn't allow any user names less than six letters.
So I can guarantee your story will never happen exactly as you describe it.
That's right Eric, no one in the whole wide world has a name that's more than 4 letters long.
Intro Paragraph Should Grab Your Attention
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Videogames as Art
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I attempt to create a viable list of things that come together to make a videogame art, rather than just entertainment. I also explore how these three concepts (writing, design, and interactivity) have been used in other forms of media and how they're being further explored in the world of gaming.
I also demonstrate my ability to write a very boring, cookie-cutter introductory paragraph.
I like the idea of wiki, but I think there is an intrinsic problem in trying to have it create something like a textbook. A guide to London, fine, but I wouldn't trust the theory of evolution to be accurately represented in a biology book.
We just want lasting peace, which only Christ can provide.
Oh that's so cute in a brainwashing kind of way.
Reminds me of the other day when I was at Speakers Corner in London talking with a guy about how multicultural the city is. I commented that from my perspective as an American, London seems like a melting pot/mosaic society that works pretty well -- not perfect mind you, but better than anywhere I've seen before.
His comment: ``Once everyone has found Christ, then a multicultural society can work.''
although President Bush has written a letter urging the treaty's passage
That must be a mistake. You either meant that big US corporations wrote a letter on Bush's behalf, or that Bush sent the European Council a crayon drawing of his dog.
Reminds me of a physics professor who used to give us difficult quantum mechanics problems. When we'd start crunching it out by hand he'd say, `if only the school had $2,000 dollar calculators we could use.' That was our clue that MathCAD or Mathematica was needed to get the job done.
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I particularly like the description for Transylvania, the spin off TV show where they try and simultaneously say it will have everything to do with the movie and nothing to do with the movie:
Transylvania, a dramatic fantasy television series conceived by Stephen Sommers and inspired by the world he's created for Van Helsing, his feature-film epic which will be released on May 7, 2004.
Transylvania will be connected in spirit and style to his big-budget feature film but will not share any major characters or storylines with Van Helsing.
And, what 'world' did Sommers create anyway? Buffy has a world. Van Helsing? Please.
-Colin
it's better than nothing
Not when it screws with the entire history/timeline of the series and seriously inhibits the work any future writer could do to weave a coherent story in the Star Trek universe.
My hope for the franchise would be to take a few years off and then come back with something very different. Perhaps a show done from the prospective of one of the 'bad' alien races.
-Colin
(Link contains images of Dark Elves. May not be work safe.)
Alright people, fess up. How many of you clicked on the link because of the aforementioned-un-work-safe dark elves?
-Colin
Because the employers are in a better bargaining position.
-Colin
(please mod me underrated, not funny ... I'd like some more karma)
Then say something insightful or informative, don't crack a standard slashdot joke and beg for karma.
-Colin
I'm interested in how well the public can estimate this demand and the price of the shares to be offered.
He speaks as though 'the public' is a different kind of public from the one that will be bidding on the shares. Gee, I wonder what use he could possibly have for getting a sampling ahead of time...
-Colin
Look's like I'll be using Google.nl for my searches from now on. : )
-Colin
I would be midly surprised if you had one person go home because they where afraid you might be able to track them when the next snow storm hits and there to stupid to come back.
What if they are too stupid to spell themselves out of grammar nazi thread on slashdot? : )
-Colin
I read all blogs via RSS reader - no time to check 200+ pages daily.
If you are reading 200+ blogs, I think you have more that enough time to spare.
-Colin
Lazy critics will certainly remark that The Confusion has an appropriate title.
And critics who want to say the same thing but are too pompous to do so will criticize the `lazy' critics.
-Colin
Google is not the same as a Googol
-Colin
Yes, but slashdot always seems to make sections right before the end. We got a LOTR section just before the third movie and we now got a google section just before the IPO.
-Colin
However, writing a web front-end to a database (which is what a *LOT* of people end up doing for years and years) requires practically NO math 90% of the time. Of course, it't that 10% that will get you. Ditto typing skills : )
-Colin
If eric@gmail.com has used his address for anything confidential and is erased, eric-else comes and register eric@gmail.com and gets this guys personal information. ...
Preface: My name is Eric.
I was given the opportunity to get a beta test account, so I naturally tried "eric@gmail.com."
No go-- the system told me it wouldn't allow any user names less than six letters.
So I can guarantee your story will never happen exactly as you describe it.
That's right Eric, no one in the whole wide world has a name that's more than 4 letters long.
-Colin
It's stories like this that make all the duplicates, lame jokes and trolls on slashdot worthwhile. I take my hat off to these men.
It makes me want to do something like it in London, but sadly, the city streets lack the cartesian precision of New York.
-Colin
I attempt to create a viable list of things that come together to make a videogame art, rather than just entertainment. I also explore how these three concepts (writing, design, and interactivity) have been used in other forms of media and how they're being further explored in the world of gaming.
I also demonstrate my ability to write a very boring, cookie-cutter introductory paragraph.
-Colin
yes they like the word Wiki alot
How about wikifactsaredecidedbydemocracy?
I like the idea of wiki, but I think there is an intrinsic problem in trying to have it create something like a textbook. A guide to London, fine, but I wouldn't trust the theory of evolution to be accurately represented in a biology book.
-Colin
When I was in college, (and using windows) we called it a recreational reinstall. : )
-Colin
What do you think is the first thing the lions would do when they left the ark?
Eat the unicorns?
-Colin
Get into God's Word people, you won't regret it.
Sleep in on Sunday, you won't regret it.
-Colin
We just want lasting peace, which only Christ can provide.
Oh that's so cute in a brainwashing kind of way.
Reminds me of the other day when I was at Speakers Corner in London talking with a guy about how multicultural the city is. I commented that from my perspective as an American, London seems like a melting pot/mosaic society that works pretty well -- not perfect mind you, but better than anywhere I've seen before.
His comment: ``Once everyone has found Christ, then a multicultural society can work.''
-Colin
although President Bush has written a letter urging the treaty's passage
That must be a mistake. You either meant that big US corporations wrote a letter on Bush's behalf, or that Bush sent the European Council a crayon drawing of his dog.
-Colin
Well, you failed.
::sigh::
I know. That's the joke.
-Colin
Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive?
Must... Resist... Lame... Masturbation Joke.
-Colin
Reminds me of a physics professor who used to give us difficult quantum mechanics problems. When we'd start crunching it out by hand he'd say, `if only the school had $2,000 dollar calculators we could use.' That was our clue that MathCAD or Mathematica was needed to get the job done.
-Colin