Good on them for packaging this up (at least) on a mac, and using itunes. Having the album art already embedded in the tags is awesome. The only thing better would be if they had the lyrics embedded in the tags as well, but perhaps that is asking too much.
Maybe its just me being nowhere near google-elite enough, but this thing seems to still have some MAJOR problems.
"We could not understand the location Australia"...I mean cmon! Its not hard to find! I even tried putting in a street address in the exact format specified on the oh-so-helpful sidebar, just to get a "We could not understand..." message. Way to go google, whole world my ass!
I just got back from seeing it at the midnight premiere here, and it was an enormous stinking piece of turd.
There are many many reasons why, but this pretty much sums it up: You have a situation where EVERYONE knows exactly what will happen. Anakin becomes vader, palpatine emperor, and most of the jedi get slaughtered. To make the movie even passingly interesting, Lucas HAD to do something more than simply connect point A to point B with his lovely CGI line. He did not, and thus the movie failed. You come out of the movie having gained nothing more than when you went in, except a numb behind, and a growing hatred for all things Star Wars.
Further to this, advertising also counts towards "local content". Hence why we get the constant re-dubbing of american ads with local voices. It is somewhat annoying, but probably a good thing in the long run, since its essentially making jobs for actors which otherwise simply wouldnt exist. More jobs = good, right?
Not the philosophy. Its actually the same production group that did the CGI for firefly. They are based in canada I believe, but the name escapes me at the moment. But yes, it looks the same, because its done by the same people.
Geez. All he needs to do is spend the amount of time he would have spent in line at a gym, and by the time the movie comes out, he'll be so buff and fearsome to all the ubernerds, he can just walk up to the front of the line, announce cutsies, and voila. Also he will probably be healthier, and far more attractive to the opposite sex thereafter, albeit still with the geekiness and the sabers and leia in the bikini glayven.
I think games are the key. My first programming experience was after playing that example game that came with qwbasic on the fearsome amstrad 512k, bananas or whatever it was called (thow banana at other monkey without hitting building, pretty simple), but at the tender age of 7 i had limited knowledge of angles and velocity, and I pretty quickly got sick of losing. So I decided to rewrite part of the game, and made it so every throw was a hit, the game got a lot more fun after that. Further learning of BASIC ensued.
Cue to the late 90s, Ive got my first pentium PC, Quake is just the coolest game ever, and mods are starting to come out left right and center, but they dont always work like they should. So I start tinkering, trying to fix whatevers borked, a year later and Im writing mods of my own, in QuakeC. Hence I picked up some dirty scripting in C. Quake 2 - C++, same dealy.
Win2k RC's start coming out, and being oh-so-cool, I decide that installing it will be a great idea. Uh-oh, no glide/gl support in 2k for my voodoo2, whatever shall I do. There was a very dodgy hack of a driver on the net at the time, but it didnt work for me. Hence I got my feet wet in driver code and ogl coding, albeit to a very limited degree - just enough to get the hack of a driver going on my system and play glquake again.
As much as we all hate the crappy 9.x vers of windows, and as much as those old games that we used to play may be boring now, I think getting them to work gave me the motivation to spend time learning what, I didnt realise at the time, would become my future. Shove the kids on a crappy machine with crappy games that they REALLY want to play, and sooner or later theyll have to figure something out.
Thats when you figure out which guy is the anti-terrorism officer, and make some kind of obscure insinuation about the person in question. "I think i saw him put lighter fluid on his shoes...i could be wrong though":D
Actually this feature still exists. Type in google or whatever into the address bar, and then hit CTRL-ENTER (instead of just enter) and it fills in the http://www. and.com on it.
Far cheaper solution is to simply build an oldish coppermine-based machine in a micro-atx form factor. Ive got a celey 866 running fanless, with a good quality copper heatsink, without fault. Coupled with a passively cooled video card and a silent PSU, and the only noise is the hard drive going crank!
because, quite simply, it IS a police state. I would find it quite interesting to see what happened if someone filed a trademark infringement complaint on the Jewish people (oh i dunno, pointy hats are trademarked by disney or some crap). Clearly homeland security dont investigate claims, they just kick down the door and start scaring people, so maybe making a blatant holocaust reference would make the point that the system is fascist.
"sequel system shock series"
Alliteration is great when youre being poetic, but it just makes you feel dirty when you use it in journalistic prose. avoid.
Is this unexplainable BLUE DOOR...The escape pod from the Tantive IV seems to have been the set for a low budget series of commercials starring the droids, and a rapping salami, set all on bluescreen. Its the only explanation that makes sense!
Find it at 8:50 in ANH, if youre that way inclined.
Its really early in the morning here, so I could be wrong. But my math isnt adding up. Plutonium239 half-life = 24,300 years...lets make it really simple and round that off to 25k...How many lots of 25,000 go into 200,000? 8, unless I'm really whacked in the head...
Go see this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314063/
Same deal, digital set, digital characters. Its not the greatest film ever, but truly worth seeing at least once for the visuals.
You forgot chasing amy. A movie that, despite tackling romantic issues, was still funny as hell, had incredible dialogue, drama and well developed characters. KS said Chasing Amy was a personal film for him. Jersey girl was supposed to be a return to that personal film style. But wasnt, and sucked for it. If you compare the two films its obvious that KS is either really lazy or is now incapable of writing. Witty intelligent dialogue (with toilet humour, of course) is now replaced by musical montagues that shows peoples smiling faces - just so you KNOW what he's saying is oh-so intelligent.
Terrorism began in the middle east. A group called the Hashshashin (Assasins), led by a man called Hasan-i Sabbah conducted a lenghty series of terrorist attacks. He attracted followed to his ideals by, surprise surprise, luring them with drugs. He literally coked them up in his whorehouse, before sending these, most likely, children out to kill on demand. See the wiki I don't think I can make the connection between terrorism and drugs any clearer!
And thus I suggest that the best modification you could possibly do....FEEDBACK! Screw the crappy little vibration thing the sensor does when hit...make it deliver a stun-gun style jolt to the wearer...pain is good.
The Miranda IM client does this. The contacts list goes transparent when you use it. Right now I'm typing this with a faint, transparent contact list hovering over my text. Its not a pasted background image, its real transparency, I can put anything behind it and it works, even video.
It even does the "over time" thing. Albeit very quickly, but when its active, its pretty solid, when i start doing other things, it fades away.
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Good on them for packaging this up (at least) on a mac, and using itunes. Having the album art already embedded in the tags is awesome. The only thing better would be if they had the lyrics embedded in the tags as well, but perhaps that is asking too much.
Andy and _Linda_ Wachowski?
Maybe its just me being nowhere near google-elite enough, but this thing seems to still have some MAJOR problems.
"We could not understand the location Australia"...I mean cmon! Its not hard to find! I even tried putting in a street address in the exact format specified on the oh-so-helpful sidebar, just to get a "We could not understand..." message. Way to go google, whole world my ass!
I just got back from seeing it at the midnight premiere here, and it was an enormous stinking piece of turd. There are many many reasons why, but this pretty much sums it up: You have a situation where EVERYONE knows exactly what will happen. Anakin becomes vader, palpatine emperor, and most of the jedi get slaughtered. To make the movie even passingly interesting, Lucas HAD to do something more than simply connect point A to point B with his lovely CGI line. He did not, and thus the movie failed. You come out of the movie having gained nothing more than when you went in, except a numb behind, and a growing hatred for all things Star Wars.
Further to this, advertising also counts towards "local content". Hence why we get the constant re-dubbing of american ads with local voices. It is somewhat annoying, but probably a good thing in the long run, since its essentially making jobs for actors which otherwise simply wouldnt exist. More jobs = good, right?
Not the philosophy. Its actually the same production group that did the CGI for firefly. They are based in canada I believe, but the name escapes me at the moment. But yes, it looks the same, because its done by the same people.
Geez. All he needs to do is spend the amount of time he would have spent in line at a gym, and by the time the movie comes out, he'll be so buff and fearsome to all the ubernerds, he can just walk up to the front of the line, announce cutsies, and voila. Also he will probably be healthier, and far more attractive to the opposite sex thereafter, albeit still with the geekiness and the sabers and leia in the bikini glayven.
I think games are the key. My first programming experience was after playing that example game that came with qwbasic on the fearsome amstrad 512k, bananas or whatever it was called (thow banana at other monkey without hitting building, pretty simple), but at the tender age of 7 i had limited knowledge of angles and velocity, and I pretty quickly got sick of losing. So I decided to rewrite part of the game, and made it so every throw was a hit, the game got a lot more fun after that. Further learning of BASIC ensued.
Cue to the late 90s, Ive got my first pentium PC, Quake is just the coolest game ever, and mods are starting to come out left right and center, but they dont always work like they should. So I start tinkering, trying to fix whatevers borked, a year later and Im writing mods of my own, in QuakeC. Hence I picked up some dirty scripting in C. Quake 2 - C++, same dealy.
Win2k RC's start coming out, and being oh-so-cool, I decide that installing it will be a great idea. Uh-oh, no glide/gl support in 2k for my voodoo2, whatever shall I do. There was a very dodgy hack of a driver on the net at the time, but it didnt work for me. Hence I got my feet wet in driver code and ogl coding, albeit to a very limited degree - just enough to get the hack of a driver going on my system and play glquake again.
As much as we all hate the crappy 9.x vers of windows, and as much as those old games that we used to play may be boring now, I think getting them to work gave me the motivation to spend time learning what, I didnt realise at the time, would become my future. Shove the kids on a crappy machine with crappy games that they REALLY want to play, and sooner or later theyll have to figure something out.
Tis the season to be a comsumerist whore, fa-lalala-lalalala.
Thats when you figure out which guy is the anti-terrorism officer, and make some kind of obscure insinuation about the person in question. "I think i saw him put lighter fluid on his shoes...i could be wrong though" :D
Actually this feature still exists. Type in google or whatever into the address bar, and then hit CTRL-ENTER (instead of just enter) and it fills in the http://www. and .com on it.
:P
Handy huh
Far cheaper solution is to simply build an oldish coppermine-based machine in a micro-atx form factor. Ive got a celey 866 running fanless, with a good quality copper heatsink, without fault. Coupled with a passively cooled video card and a silent PSU, and the only noise is the hard drive going crank!
KOTOR. Nuff said.
because, quite simply, it IS a police state. I would find it quite interesting to see what happened if someone filed a trademark infringement complaint on the Jewish people (oh i dunno, pointy hats are trademarked by disney or some crap). Clearly homeland security dont investigate claims, they just kick down the door and start scaring people, so maybe making a blatant holocaust reference would make the point that the system is fascist.
Say this out loud 10 times in a row.
"sequel system shock series" Alliteration is great when youre being poetic, but it just makes you feel dirty when you use it in journalistic prose. avoid.
Is this unexplainable BLUE DOOR...The escape pod from the Tantive IV seems to have been the set for a low budget series of commercials starring the droids, and a rapping salami, set all on bluescreen. Its the only explanation that makes sense!
Find it at 8:50 in ANH, if youre that way inclined.
Its really early in the morning here, so I could be wrong. But my math isnt adding up. Plutonium239 half-life = 24,300 years...lets make it really simple and round that off to 25k...How many lots of 25,000 go into 200,000? 8, unless I'm really whacked in the head...
Which is substantially less, no?
Go see this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314063/ Same deal, digital set, digital characters. Its not the greatest film ever, but truly worth seeing at least once for the visuals.
You forgot chasing amy. A movie that, despite tackling romantic issues, was still funny as hell, had incredible dialogue, drama and well developed characters. KS said Chasing Amy was a personal film for him. Jersey girl was supposed to be a return to that personal film style. But wasnt, and sucked for it. If you compare the two films its obvious that KS is either really lazy or is now incapable of writing. Witty intelligent dialogue (with toilet humour, of course) is now replaced by musical montagues that shows peoples smiling faces - just so you KNOW what he's saying is oh-so intelligent.
Uh, actually!
Terrorism began in the middle east. A group called the Hashshashin (Assasins), led by a man called Hasan-i Sabbah conducted a lenghty series of terrorist attacks. He attracted followed to his ideals by, surprise surprise, luring them with drugs. He literally coked them up in his whorehouse, before sending these, most likely, children out to kill on demand. See the wiki
I don't think I can make the connection between terrorism and drugs any clearer!
A dingo did it!
And thus I suggest that the best modification you could possibly do....FEEDBACK! Screw the crappy little vibration thing the sensor does when hit...make it deliver a stun-gun style jolt to the wearer...pain is good.
How about Tim Russ' (Tuvok) very non-vulcan appearance in Star Trek Generations as a tactical officer? Had the ear putty off that day I guess...
I didn't think XP's transparency was that advanced. Maybe its Miranda+XP, ie a little code in both, thats creating the functional effect.
The Miranda IM client does this. The contacts list goes transparent when you use it. Right now I'm typing this with a faint, transparent contact list hovering over my text. Its not a pasted background image, its real transparency, I can put anything behind it and it works, even video.
It even does the "over time" thing. Albeit very quickly, but when its active, its pretty solid, when i start doing other things, it fades away.