I'm all for consumerism, cool movies with swords, and special edition collector DVD's with commentaries from the group of extras that didn't get picked for a scene. "Wow man.. that scene is really cool. I could have been a much better corpse than that guy."
Wait, this is Slashdot. Don't you mean, "I can't wait until the copyrights expire and it falls in the public domain so that I can watch it without somehow contributing to an evil empire of corporations out to make money from the helpless consumer"?
Wow, that'll teach me to reply to a post I just got to without refreshing.. If I posted something an hour later it would be redundant. If I post within 10 minutes of the damn parent, and within 2 of the other replies, maybe I'm just a slow typist/reader:) I think I'll start meta-moderating again and keep an eye out for "redundant" moderations.
Sure he does. It's called libel. In the civil courts he can sue the girl's family, the school district, the teacher the girl cryed to if she ran around telling everyone the story as fact, etc..
I like watching trailers before a movie, even for films I have no interest in deeing. It helps flush my mind of all of the scenes I've seen in previews and endless ads for the film I'm about to see. Sometimes, with a really good preview or two, I get in the zone and by the time the opening credits roll, I've almost forgotten what I'm about to watch.
Before DVD's, my biggest pet peave was when a tape would have the ad for the soundtrack (full of movie scenes) for the movie I was about to watch, BEFORE the film. Man that was annoying.
We used to make a game out of previews and ads in college. We'd guess how many ads and how many previews they would show before a given film we were about to watch. We had rules for what was an ad and what was a preview (previews had to be for upcoming theatrical releases, not TV shows. Ads had to be moving film, not part of the slide show. Occasionaly you'd get a border line ad/preview, like with James Bond picking up his BMW from Q when there was a James Bond filming coming out in the near future)
Ahhh... college.
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My grandparents don't have a phone, cable tv, or even an ATM card. I couldn't imagine trying to explain what I do from day to day at work.
I imagine that someday my grandchildren will have jobs that I am unable to understand the need for.
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Can you provide links to more information on this NES option Atari refused? I've never heard this before.
There was actually hope that the Arrow would be able to act as a space delivery system though. They would fly to the edge of space, invert and launch the payload on a booster rocket, then return to earth.
BTW, there's a pretty good (scores high on the geek movie scale) movie about the development and downfall of the Avro Arrow program, starring Dan Aykroyd. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118641
> The box now has a 450 MHz AMD k6/2 and runs my DNS and internal ftp server. Works good, lasts a long time.
Or you could have put Minix on the XT and let it do the same job. a 450 is a little overkill for internal DNS and lite ftp duty.. My 486 33SX acts as a web server, ftp server, IP Masquerade gateway, SAMBA domain controler, and calculates Mersene prime keys in it's spare time. Uptime since right after the newyear, when I replaced the battery on a UPS I saved from the trash (new server at work had no serial port)
I used to play large scale scenario games a few times a year. Hundreds of players per side, on hundreds of acres. Games would typically last 12 to 24 hours, with two "armys" and often with several smaller factions. Points were earned not for eliminating your opponents, but for holding key locations, capturing enemy forts, or capturing or eliminating an enemy officer or VIP. Being eliminated usually meant you sat out for 15 to 30 minutes, which can be a big deal duringa major offensive. Some games had a medic rule, where the medic could wipe off anything but a head hit. Usually you had one medic, and if they were eliminated, you lost them for an hour, or you had to spend earned points to buy a new one.
Anyway, these are the kinds of games where you see guys riding ATVs, helicopters on loan from the military or the local news (helicoptor is not a legal target. You just have to run and hide until it's out of ammo.) Night vision goggles, retired Motorola techs with his 2 teenage sons running an outpost with radio scanners and jamming gear..
If you're not a fan of tourney style paintball, you should check out scenario games. That tourney player who carrys a case of ammo on his back to fire during a ten minute game has to rethink his strategy or go broke (or more likely suffer a heat stroke) if he has to do it for 24 hours straight. There's just nothing like crawling across a field towards an enemy held fort in the pitch black of night, with your team in a ditch 20 yards behind, and the other team 20 yards ahead, trading insults, the occasional volly of paintballs, and million+ candle power spotlights.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes, both en route to Los Angeles: American Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard was lost. This is believed, but not confirmed, to have been one of the planes that crashed into the trade center.... American Flight 77, a Boeing 757 from Washington Dulles airport to Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew is unaccounted for. The jet that crashed into the Pentagon may have been this one, but that is still unknown.
United Airlines lost two planes: United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors.... United confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles with 56 passengers and seven crew aboard. It's possible, but not confirmed, that this is the second plane that hit the World Trade Center.
My father worked at a nuclear plant when I was in high school. He brought home a truck load (about 30) of lead bricks one day he bought from an on plant surplus sale.:) Those things were a lot of fun. I could probably stack 3 of them in my workstation case, but I'm not sure my pressed sawdust desk would handle it.
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I'm all for consumerism, cool movies with swords, and special edition collector DVD's with commentaries from the group of extras that didn't get picked for a scene. "Wow man.. that scene is really cool. I could have been a much better corpse than that guy."
Wait, this is Slashdot. Don't you mean, "I can't wait until the copyrights expire and it falls in the public domain so that I can watch it without somehow contributing to an evil empire of corporations out to make money from the helpless consumer"?
Beyond being a park, Pearl Harbor is also a maritime war grave, and is similarly protected.
Wow, that'll teach me to reply to a post I just got to without refreshing.. If I posted something an hour later it would be redundant. If I post within 10 minutes of the damn parent, and within 2 of the other replies, maybe I'm just a slow typist/reader :) I think I'll start meta-moderating again and keep an eye out for "redundant" moderations.
Most movies I go to show trailers for OTHER movies.. not the one I'm about to watch.
There's a new site you may not have heard about yet.. it's called EBay.com :)
Sure he does. It's called libel. In the civil courts he can sue the girl's family, the school district, the teacher the girl cryed to if she ran around telling everyone the story as fact, etc..
I like watching trailers before a movie, even for films I have no interest in deeing. It helps flush my mind of all of the scenes I've seen in previews and endless ads for the film I'm about to see. Sometimes, with a really good preview or two, I get in the zone and by the time the opening credits roll, I've almost forgotten what I'm about to watch.
Before DVD's, my biggest pet peave was when a tape would have the ad for the soundtrack (full of movie scenes) for the movie I was about to watch, BEFORE the film. Man that was annoying.
We used to make a game out of previews and ads in college. We'd guess how many ads and how many previews they would show before a given film we were about to watch. We had rules for what was an ad and what was a preview (previews had to be for upcoming theatrical releases, not TV shows. Ads had to be moving film, not part of the slide show. Occasionaly you'd get a border line ad/preview, like with James Bond picking up his BMW from Q when there was a James Bond filming coming out in the near future)
Ahhh... college.
My grandparents don't have a phone, cable tv, or even an ATM card. I couldn't imagine trying to explain what I do from day to day at work.
I imagine that someday my grandchildren will have jobs that I am unable to understand the need for.
Can you provide links to more information on this NES option Atari refused? I've never heard this before.
You know, some physical activiy durring recess might have helped keep it running. Striking out at kickball rarely made us geeks break a swaet though.
There was actually hope that the Arrow would be able to act as a space delivery system though. They would fly to the edge of space, invert and launch the payload on a booster rocket, then return to earth.
BTW, there's a pretty good (scores high on the geek movie scale) movie about the development and downfall of the Avro Arrow program, starring Dan Aykroyd. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118641
It's usually called a franchise monopoly.
Not quite.. but check out "Footfall" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
>and did you see any wreckage of a plane at the >pentagon in any of the photos taken ? cockpit ? >wing ? fuselage ?
Yep, I have. Pictures of plane wreckage at the pentagon
> The box now has a 450 MHz AMD k6/2 and runs my DNS and internal ftp server. Works good, lasts a long time.
Or you could have put Minix on the XT and let it do the same job. a 450 is a little overkill for internal DNS and lite ftp duty.. My 486 33SX acts as a web server, ftp server, IP Masquerade gateway, SAMBA domain controler, and calculates Mersene prime keys in it's spare time. Uptime since right after the newyear, when I replaced the battery on a UPS I saved from the trash (new server at work had no serial port)
Isn't there some law that says the cable industry has to allow you to purchase a third party cable box?
Or just fill the entire container with an epoxy resin. Assuming the device has no moving parts, then this will make it last for decades.
You really think MS pays taxes?
Try http://www.waynes-world.com/wd24event.html and http://www.viperscenarios.com/ to start.
I used to play large scale scenario games a few times a year. Hundreds of players per side, on hundreds of acres. Games would typically last 12 to 24 hours, with two "armys" and often with several smaller factions. Points were earned not for eliminating your opponents, but for holding key locations, capturing enemy forts, or capturing or eliminating an enemy officer or VIP. Being eliminated usually meant you sat out for 15 to 30 minutes, which can be a big deal duringa major offensive. Some games had a medic rule, where the medic could wipe off anything but a head hit. Usually you had one medic, and if they were eliminated, you lost them for an hour, or you had to spend earned points to buy a new one.
Anyway, these are the kinds of games where you see guys riding ATVs, helicopters on loan from the military or the local news (helicoptor is not a legal target. You just have to run and hide until it's out of ammo.) Night vision goggles, retired Motorola techs with his 2 teenage sons running an outpost with radio scanners and jamming gear..
If you're not a fan of tourney style paintball, you should check out scenario games. That tourney player who carrys a case of ammo on his back to fire during a ten minute game has to rethink his strategy or go broke (or more likely suffer a heat stroke) if he has to do it for 24 hours straight. There's just nothing like crawling across a field towards an enemy held fort in the pitch black of night, with your team in a ditch 20 yards behind, and the other team 20 yards ahead, trading insults, the occasional volly of paintballs, and million+ candle power spotlights.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes, both en route to Los Angeles: American Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard was lost. This is believed, but not confirmed, to have been one of the planes that crashed into the trade center. ... American Flight 77, a Boeing 757 from Washington Dulles airport to Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew is unaccounted for. The jet that crashed into the Pentagon may have been this one, but that is still unknown.
... United confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles with 56 passengers and seven crew aboard. It's possible, but not confirmed, that this is the second plane that hit the World Trade Center.
United Airlines lost two planes: United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors.
My father worked at a nuclear plant when I was in high school. He brought home a truck load (about 30) of lead bricks one day he bought from an on plant surplus sale. :) Those things were a lot of fun. I could probably stack 3 of them in my workstation case, but I'm not sure my pressed sawdust desk would handle it.
They should package everything they send up in Legos!
Mine still works fine.. Ohh, I bet you didn't read the label and put your in the dryer after washing it.