..Is what I get when I try to load Victorinox at school. What are they afraid of, me attacking other students with Swiss Army Hubble Telescope polishers?
Treasure Horde not included. Wings sold separately. Vocal Chords sold separately. Fire Drivers sold separately. Destruction of nearby villages and other damages caused are responsibility of purchaser. Only Royal Standard Crown Gold Pieces accepted, buyer pays entire sum up front. Dragon may mate with cows. Resulting Cowragons may spread mad cowragon disease. Mad Cowragon disease vaccine sold separately.
What advantages does that bestow on me? Oh, I see, none. Why am I better off than I would be without an SCO license? Hmm, that's not explained either. So without it I'll be sued or something? Well, apparently not. But SCO has legal backing in doing this at least, right? Actually no.
So...anyone want to take bets on how many people actually buy a license? Probably fewer than the number of people who have bought X-10 minicams from those popup windows.
LOTR didn't win any supporting actor/ess stuff at the Golden Globes either. My hunch is that there were so many awesome supporting actors in RotK: Sam/Gandalf and many others - that they simply split the vote.
"All the Jedi are killed by Boba, Vader, and Anakin, including Ewan McGregor. All the jedi except Yoda.
Obi-Wan is not killed in Episode III, he looses his head in a lightsabre duel with Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker in Episode IV."...Hence he is killed by Vader, as claimed...
First of all: obviously they've thought of that. Adding to what others have said in their responses tearing the parent apart, I'd like to mention that the problem is probably not due to a general defect in the RAM card. It probably has to do with the conditions on Mars, the landing, etc - in which case the same problem would be affecting all of the (even redundant) Flash RAM cards: so it really is amazing that they got this working at all.
CopyLEFT says: We're going to Maine! and Pennsylvania! and Arkansas! and Ohio! and Michigan! and New Hampshire! aieeeeeaaaaaaaa!!!!!
CopyRIGHT says: duh...We have strategerie ha ha ha
CopyLEFT says: You might think you know where the lockbox is, and maybe you do. Or maybe that's a dummy, or a decoy lockbox. Only me and Tipper and the Secretary of Defense will know for sure.
Does this sound like Big Brother vs. The World to anyone else? copyRIGHT - spearheaded by a guy named Goldstein? and copyLEFT? What's next, copyGREEN and COPYCOMMIE?
If you read the FAQ links on the left side of the Amazon website screen, you'll notice that Amazon isn't making money off this - by Federal Law they can't just donate, but have to charge they're normaly money moving fee. But, they're donating to full revenue that they make from this project to charity (a Kids learn about Voting group).
So that's why the Rover isn't responding - it fell into a gigantic ocean! Free Shrimp for all!
But seriously, who does LJS think they're kidding? What are the chances that the Mars Rover would find an Earth-sized ocean? The most stupid thing I have ever heard. In the past few minutes, anyway.
More specifically, from reading these articles it seems that while increasing pipeline depth from 1 to 20 does decrease performance, there's a kind of negative parabola effect - for some reaons, once you hit 20, increasing the pipeline depth has the opposite effect. So with Prescott, we should be seeing the best of both worlds - with more pipeline depth (apparently a good thing) - and better clock speed and everything else.
Of course, I'm no expert so maybe the results of these links sway in Intel's favor only because of Access bias.
What would be awesome is if the two screens were placed right next to each other so that they could run as a single screen in widescreen mode - a 6" screen on a handheld! That would be especially sweet for 2D scrollers, for panaramas or puzzlers, and for ingame movies.
Sorry, this is OT, but does anyone know how I could find out the current number of members on/.? I want to know how long until I can metamoderate...some of these moderations make me want to...
Yeah...its cool how an actor's anima is contiguous between movies. Especially in Lord of the Rings: think Elrond=Agent Smith, Gandalf=Magneto, Legolas=Will Turner (from Pirates of the Carribean) , Aragorn=Frank Hopkins (from Hidalgo), and Arwen=Hot Babe (in every movie she's been in).
Also, Billy Boyd, who plays Pippin, will be a funny guy with cool accent in any movie he's in.
I assume you're referring to this AP article:
AP: Final 'Rings' Has Many Endings
Thu Dec 11, 2:56 PM ET
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
With "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," Peter Jackson (news) delivers a decent ending to his fantasy trilogy -- actually, about 12 endings.
Unable to settle on a finale among the many farewells and epilogues in J.R.R. Tolkien's text, director Jackson decided to use them all.
The result is an endless parade of false endings that will give you a great lower back workout as you rise from your theater seat thinking things are finally over, then settle back in for the next prolonged addendum.
This is the main flaw to an otherwise rousing, action-packed closing chapter that began with 2001's "The Fellowship of the Ring" and continued with last year's "The Two Towers." The nine-hour theatrical epic (more like 11 hours once the extended home-video version of all three flicks are out) winds up petering out in anticlimactic torpor.
Jackson does scale back greatly on the aftermath of the final good-against-evil battle, yet he preserves the main events to keep die-hard Tolkien fans happy.
So viewers are treated in some detail to such comparatively passive sequences as the survivors' return home; the ascension of human warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) to the throne and his wedding to Elf hottie Arwen (Liv Tyler); the mystical fate of runty Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Bilbo (Ian Holm), woolly wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Elf top dogs Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Elrond (Hugo Weaving); and the domestic bliss of Frodo's Man Friday, Sam (Sean Astin).
That baggage makes "Return of the King" the longest of the trilogy by far, clocking in at 3 hours, 20 minutes.
There's far too much cool-down time for casual viewers but probably not enough to satisfy the hard-core Tolkien legions. So why not put Blanchett back in voice-over mode, let her narrate a Reader's Digest condensed montage of Jackson's interminable ending, and save the elongated conclusion for the extended home-video cut?
The movie opens with a flashback explaining how Smeagol (Andy Serkis) came to possess his "precious," the nasty ring of ultimate evil, and the first dark deeds that began transforming him into wizened computer-crafted fiend Gollum.
Then the action picks up where "Two Towers" left off, with Gollum plotting to regain his precious as Frodo and Sam trek toward Mount Doom, where they must destroy the ring to keep dark lord Sauron from enslaving Middle-earth.
Meantime, Aragorn, Gandalf and the gang square off against Sauron's plug-ugly minions.
If you're looking for bigger and better battles than the first two chapters, "Return of the King" comes through. Jackson and his New Zealand crew, which filmed all three movies simultaneously, pile computer-generated props, sets and creatures as high as a Nazgul's eye to create the colossal combat scenes.
Bat-faced orcs ride gargantuan elephants into battle against humans on horseback. The adversaries engage in a very cool catapult duel that brings mountains of broken castle stone down on the warriors. Aragorn and pals Legolas the Elf (Orlando Bloom (news)) and Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies (news)) charge into the fray at the head of a ghastly ghost army.
Frodo's battle with a giant spider -- an encounter Tolkien placed at the end of "Two Towers" but which Jackson transplants to "Return of the King" -- is one of the creepiest computer-animated sequences ever produced.
Like "Two Towers," "Return of the King" is more a bruising action movie than "Fellowship of the Ring," the best of the trilogy on the strength of the intimate interplay among its misfit heroes.
Hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) again play larger roles, but much of the original fellowship members are relegated to prancing in larger-than-life mode. Secondary characters step up to provide the final film's most intriguing interpersonal drama.
Faramir (David Wenham), brother of the slain Boromir (Sean Bean)), vainly struggles to gain the respect of his conte
Most of you already know this, but: The scouring of the shire scene will not be in the extended edition - Jackson didn't like it and never filmed it...but 10 minutes of other scenes with Saruman and Wormtongue will be back for the DVD.
In the "Golden Age of Radio", the sponsor (sometimes two or three sponsors together) owned and sponsored the show - they paid for it, and it was their show...I believe that they paid the network for the time. Then the show was named after them, and could be shamelessly plugged, but in a funny way - the stars of the program would find every which way to work in the sponsor, and it was classy and often hilarious (in non-comedy programs, it was more subtle). While this might not be realistic or profitable in today's markets, I think a return to this format would be great for the consumer.
yeah, but remember, they said that there will be more than one PSP - for the different purposes: they're obviously taking this into consideration. I'm sure there will be the low budget one, the one that just plays games very well, the one with a cell phone too, etc.
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..Is what I get when I try to load Victorinox at school. What are they afraid of, me attacking other students with Swiss Army Hubble Telescope polishers?
I for one welcome our new script kiddie overlords..
You forgot the disclaimers:
Treasure Horde not included.
Wings sold separately.
Vocal Chords sold separately.
Fire Drivers sold separately.
Destruction of nearby villages and other damages caused are responsibility of purchaser.
Only Royal Standard Crown Gold Pieces accepted, buyer pays entire sum up front.
Dragon may mate with cows.
Resulting Cowragons may spread mad cowragon disease.
Mad Cowragon disease vaccine sold separately.
What advantages does that bestow on me? Oh, I see, none.
Why am I better off than I would be without an SCO license? Hmm, that's not explained either.
So without it I'll be sued or something? Well, apparently not.
But SCO has legal backing in doing this at least, right? Actually no.
So...anyone want to take bets on how many people actually buy a license? Probably fewer than the number of people who have bought X-10 minicams from those popup windows.
You forgot step 6: Profit!
LOTR didn't win any supporting actor/ess stuff at the Golden Globes either. My hunch is that there were so many awesome supporting actors in RotK: Sam/Gandalf and many others - that they simply split the vote.
"All the Jedi are killed by Boba, Vader, and Anakin, including Ewan McGregor. All the jedi except Yoda.
...Hence he is killed by Vader, as claimed...
Obi-Wan is not killed in Episode III, he looses his head in a lightsabre duel with Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker in Episode IV."
Wait...so We found what USED to be an ocean? Free jumbo shrimp everybody!!
So we DO have rights to the spaceship at Area 51!!
First of all: obviously they've thought of that. Adding to what others have said in their responses tearing the parent apart, I'd like to mention that the problem is probably not due to a general defect in the RAM card. It probably has to do with the conditions on Mars, the landing, etc - in which case the same problem would be affecting all of the (even redundant) Flash RAM cards: so it really is amazing that they got this working at all.
CopyLEFT says: We're going to Maine! and Pennsylvania! and Arkansas! and Ohio! and Michigan! and New Hampshire! aieeeeeaaaaaaaa!!!!!
CopyRIGHT says: duh...We have strategerie ha ha ha
CopyLEFT says: You might think you know where the lockbox is, and maybe you do. Or maybe that's a dummy, or a decoy lockbox. Only me and Tipper and the Secretary of Defense will know for sure.
Does this sound like Big Brother vs. The World to anyone else? copyRIGHT - spearheaded by a guy named Goldstein? and copyLEFT? What's next, copyGREEN and COPYCOMMIE?
If you read the FAQ links on the left side of the Amazon website screen, you'll notice that Amazon isn't making money off this - by Federal Law they can't just donate, but have to charge they're normaly money moving fee. But, they're donating to full revenue that they make from this project to charity (a Kids learn about Voting group).
So that's why the Rover isn't responding - it fell into a gigantic ocean! Free Shrimp for all!
But seriously, who does LJS think they're kidding? What are the chances that the Mars Rover would find an Earth-sized ocean? The most stupid thing I have ever heard. In the past few minutes, anyway.
More specifically, from reading these articles it seems that while increasing pipeline depth from 1 to 20 does decrease performance, there's a kind of negative parabola effect - for some reaons, once you hit 20, increasing the pipeline depth has the opposite effect. So with Prescott, we should be seeing the best of both worlds - with more pipeline depth (apparently a good thing) - and better clock speed and everything else.
Of course, I'm no expert so maybe the results of these links sway in Intel's favor only because of Access bias.
What would be awesome is if the two screens were placed right next to each other so that they could run as a single screen in widescreen mode - a 6" screen on a handheld! That would be especially sweet for 2D scrollers, for panaramas or puzzlers, and for ingame movies.
Sorry, this is OT, but does anyone know how I could find out the current number of members on /.? I want to know how long until I can metamoderate...some of these moderations make me want to...
Scrabble/Chess accessories (super heavy weighted pieces)
Also, any of the cool USB devices here would be cool... the only problem with those is that they can short out the USB ports.
Yeah...its cool how an actor's anima is contiguous between movies. Especially in Lord of the Rings: think Elrond=Agent Smith, Gandalf=Magneto, Legolas=Will Turner (from Pirates of the Carribean) , Aragorn=Frank Hopkins (from Hidalgo), and Arwen=Hot Babe (in every movie she's been in).
Also, Billy Boyd, who plays Pippin, will be a funny guy with cool accent in any movie he's in.
err..sorry about the lack of line breaks...I did not realize I needed to manually code them.
I assume you're referring to this AP article: AP: Final 'Rings' Has Many Endings Thu Dec 11, 2:56 PM ET By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer With "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," Peter Jackson (news) delivers a decent ending to his fantasy trilogy -- actually, about 12 endings. Unable to settle on a finale among the many farewells and epilogues in J.R.R. Tolkien's text, director Jackson decided to use them all. The result is an endless parade of false endings that will give you a great lower back workout as you rise from your theater seat thinking things are finally over, then settle back in for the next prolonged addendum. This is the main flaw to an otherwise rousing, action-packed closing chapter that began with 2001's "The Fellowship of the Ring" and continued with last year's "The Two Towers." The nine-hour theatrical epic (more like 11 hours once the extended home-video version of all three flicks are out) winds up petering out in anticlimactic torpor. Jackson does scale back greatly on the aftermath of the final good-against-evil battle, yet he preserves the main events to keep die-hard Tolkien fans happy. So viewers are treated in some detail to such comparatively passive sequences as the survivors' return home; the ascension of human warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) to the throne and his wedding to Elf hottie Arwen (Liv Tyler); the mystical fate of runty Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Bilbo (Ian Holm), woolly wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Elf top dogs Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Elrond (Hugo Weaving); and the domestic bliss of Frodo's Man Friday, Sam (Sean Astin). That baggage makes "Return of the King" the longest of the trilogy by far, clocking in at 3 hours, 20 minutes. There's far too much cool-down time for casual viewers but probably not enough to satisfy the hard-core Tolkien legions. So why not put Blanchett back in voice-over mode, let her narrate a Reader's Digest condensed montage of Jackson's interminable ending, and save the elongated conclusion for the extended home-video cut? The movie opens with a flashback explaining how Smeagol (Andy Serkis) came to possess his "precious," the nasty ring of ultimate evil, and the first dark deeds that began transforming him into wizened computer-crafted fiend Gollum. Then the action picks up where "Two Towers" left off, with Gollum plotting to regain his precious as Frodo and Sam trek toward Mount Doom, where they must destroy the ring to keep dark lord Sauron from enslaving Middle-earth. Meantime, Aragorn, Gandalf and the gang square off against Sauron's plug-ugly minions. If you're looking for bigger and better battles than the first two chapters, "Return of the King" comes through. Jackson and his New Zealand crew, which filmed all three movies simultaneously, pile computer-generated props, sets and creatures as high as a Nazgul's eye to create the colossal combat scenes. Bat-faced orcs ride gargantuan elephants into battle against humans on horseback. The adversaries engage in a very cool catapult duel that brings mountains of broken castle stone down on the warriors. Aragorn and pals Legolas the Elf (Orlando Bloom (news)) and Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies (news)) charge into the fray at the head of a ghastly ghost army. Frodo's battle with a giant spider -- an encounter Tolkien placed at the end of "Two Towers" but which Jackson transplants to "Return of the King" -- is one of the creepiest computer-animated sequences ever produced. Like "Two Towers," "Return of the King" is more a bruising action movie than "Fellowship of the Ring," the best of the trilogy on the strength of the intimate interplay among its misfit heroes. Hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) again play larger roles, but much of the original fellowship members are relegated to prancing in larger-than-life mode. Secondary characters step up to provide the final film's most intriguing interpersonal drama. Faramir (David Wenham), brother of the slain Boromir (Sean Bean)), vainly struggles to gain the respect of his conte
Most of you already know this, but: The scouring of the shire scene will not be in the extended edition - Jackson didn't like it and never filmed it...but 10 minutes of other scenes with Saruman and Wormtongue will be back for the DVD.
sorry, offtopic, but i like your signature.
In the "Golden Age of Radio", the sponsor (sometimes two or three sponsors together) owned and sponsored the show - they paid for it, and it was their show...I believe that they paid the network for the time. Then the show was named after them, and could be shamelessly plugged, but in a funny way - the stars of the program would find every which way to work in the sponsor, and it was classy and often hilarious (in non-comedy programs, it was more subtle). While this might not be realistic or profitable in today's markets, I think a return to this format would be great for the consumer.
yeah, but remember, they said that there will be more than one PSP - for the different purposes: they're obviously taking this into consideration. I'm sure there will be the low budget one, the one that just plays games very well, the one with a cell phone too, etc.