In 'Terror Of the Autons'we learn that the Doctor?s TARDIS is a Type 40 MkI, and the Master?s a Type 40 MkII. The Master often refers to the Doctor's TARDIS as an "antiquated heap of junk"!
> the Master on the other hand was equipped with a > TARDIS that actually worked.
According to the "Doctor Who Technical Manual", which unsupringly is somewhere in a box under my mother's house and has been for the last 15 years, The Master owned a "SIDRAT", not a TARDIS.
I don't remember what it stood for, but they had another clumsy acronym for it.
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In my experience there is already huge amounts of racial discrimination... at least at the immigration counter in the US. You are a Citizen, or you are an illegal immigrant with terrorist tendencies.
And you are treated like shit, independantly of the colour of your skin (I'm blonde haired, blue eyed and burn like a lobster).
Sorry, but when I arrive in the US for a two week networking conference, I am not about to run away and hide in the Rockies, or work without a visa cleaning dishes in the local McDonalds.
The irony is that when I had a stop-over in the US for a Brazil-Australia flight, I had to go through immigration to get into the country (2 hours), walk 5 minutes in LA airport to the second terminal, then join the queue to "bomb-scanned" to get on my connecting flight (another hour and a half)
The US has to be the only major hub that insists that people changing planes enter the country. (I've transitted in Sao Paulo, Heathrow, Singapore, Frankfurt and Narita.. all have transit lounges and bus-services between terminals where necessary).
Bloody stupid. You don't want illegal immigrants? Don't let them out of the airport.
Interview with the Vampire - Best evil vampire ever.... and actually the only role he has ever done that didn't make me cringe. Obviously not Oscar material, but not bad.
Still... for what he charges... "not bad" is not enough.
Still, it's always preferable to release a
movie in the region's native language, as it helps an audience identify with the characters on screen.
True, I am a native English speaker with a pretty good grasp of Spanish and very basic Portuguese... and I much rather watch a movie in any of these languages that is subtitled, not dubbed, no matter in which directiong its going. When you speak both languages you get the added "fun" of proofreading the subtitles. Sometimes they are so bad they distract you from the movie.
Animation isn't so bad... partly because the bad lip-syncing doesn't get in the way. For example, there are jokes in the Spanish and Portuguese versions of "Finding Nemo" that aren't in the English versions... mainly "play on words" type stuff.... so watching these dubbed is a definitely plus.
But could very well be the exception because its well done. Personally I hate English Dubbed Anime, but that could be because its usually so cheesily done.
Oh.. and MONKEY is the only TV program that's better dubbed than in its native language:)
1) Because the internationally agreed standard for measuring asteroids is "hey, we saw it first, and we speak imperial" and
2) 100 is a bigger number than 30 so it makes the people who spotted the asteroid look like bigger heros. Of course, if it was going to hit Bolivia or Siera Leone and there was bugger all we could do about it, the asteroid would only be 30m to stop people panicking and looting everything in site.
> just like movies the US is defininately way in > the lead
If I read this correctly, you are commenting on how the US movies are leading the world.
I think we are starting to see the end of the US dominance of movies. Essentially people are running out of ideas. For every "Finding Nemo", "Lost in Translation" or "Mystic River" (the three killer US movies on the last year IMHO, there is a:
The Ring - Remake of a recent foriegn film, in this case "Ringu", Japanese flick
The Italian Job - Remake of 60s or 70s TV show or movie, in this case "The Italian Job" from 1969 (?)
Terminator 3 - Tired sequel to a franchise better left alone.
Cheaper by the Dozen - Known face, known plot, nothing new, happy ending.
The french hit "Nathalia" (I think) has been sold to a US company, who are going to _remake_ the movie with a "big name" American Lead. It seems that the amount of money required to remake the movie is more than the amount that would be lost by forcing US audiences to read subtitles.
Having said that, the success of "The Passion" suggests to me that US audiences are actually more than capable subtitle readers, and that its the studios who are way off the mark. None of the movies I've praised here are "safe movies"... and I think that's why the US is losing ground. People are bored of the latest formula "hit", and are looking for something a bit challenging.
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Sorry, to get modded up on slashdot you should have written it in obfiscated perl.
Just imagine a beowolf cluster of beowolf cluster jokes!
> Wasn't there a 110v/60Hz versus 230v/50Hz issue?
That's why he's buying a laptop!
Everybody knows that Laptops run on batteries.
As far as the US is concerned, the "#" is a pound sign, so you can always just use that.
And who in the UK needs a Euro key anyway? Filthy contiental imported crap....
You are right.
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In 'Terror Of the Autons'we learn that the Doctor?s TARDIS is a Type 40 MkI, and the Master?s a Type 40 MkII. The Master often refers to the Doctor's TARDIS as an "antiquated heap of junk"!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/qa/mytholog
> What's next, arresting the kid that stuck his
:)
> finger into the dike?
And in typical Slashdot fashion, it all comes back to porn
> Cisco devices doing all the routing?
:)
Cisco routers use open source software. Just ask Linksys and the Chinese
> the Master on the other hand was equipped with a
> TARDIS that actually worked.
According to the "Doctor Who Technical Manual", which unsupringly is somewhere in a box under my mother's house and has been for the last 15 years, The Master owned a "SIDRAT", not a TARDIS.
I don't remember what it stood for, but they had another clumsy acronym for it.
No, XFree is dying.
:)
X will survive.
TiVo Killer
iPod Killer
BSD Killer
Apple Killer
Hell. Next thing they'll be prophesing the end of the Earth...or even worse... Betamax.
In my experience there is already huge amounts of racial discrimination... at least at the immigration counter in the US. You are a Citizen, or you are an illegal immigrant with terrorist tendencies.
And you are treated like shit, independantly of the colour of your skin (I'm blonde haired, blue eyed and burn like a lobster).
Sorry, but when I arrive in the US for a two week networking conference, I am not about to run away and hide in the Rockies, or work without a visa cleaning dishes in the local McDonalds.
The irony is that when I had a stop-over in the US for a Brazil-Australia flight, I had to go through immigration to get into the country (2 hours), walk 5 minutes in LA airport to the second terminal, then join the queue to "bomb-scanned" to get on my connecting flight (another hour and a half)
The US has to be the only major hub that insists that people changing planes enter the country. (I've transitted in Sao Paulo, Heathrow, Singapore, Frankfurt and Narita.. all have transit lounges and bus-services between terminals where necessary).
Bloody stupid. You don't want illegal immigrants? Don't let them out of the airport.
THIS is an iPod Killer.
> I always wanted to say, "Open channel D,"
> into my fountain pen.
I'm sorry, but exactly what is stopping you?
Spoiler alert, please!
I've waited 104 years for this movie, and you've just ruined it for me.
> Samson with The Rock and J.Lo
Except when you cut his hair he turns into Eric Banner.
Interview with the Vampire - Best evil vampire ever.... and actually the only role he has ever done that didn't make me cringe. Obviously not Oscar material, but not bad.
Still... for what he charges... "not bad" is not enough.
Put Johnny Depp in the role.
> Well, call me unimaginative
Unimaginative!
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they're lookin pretty lifelike...
Yeah.. The susan project's come along since since Revision 1. Personally I'm waiting for Susan3!!
this overview which also includes a very nice photo of two robots
One of those "robots" is actually a Storm Trooper... namely a retarded Jango Fett clone... not a robot.
C'mon... this is slashdot. You thought you'd get away with that?
Still, it's always preferable to release a movie in the region's native language, as it helps an audience identify with the characters on screen.
True, I am a native English speaker with a pretty good grasp of Spanish and very basic Portuguese... and I much rather watch a movie in any of these languages that is subtitled, not dubbed, no matter in which directiong its going. When you speak both languages you get the added "fun" of proofreading the subtitles. Sometimes they are so bad they distract you from the movie.
Animation isn't so bad... partly because the bad lip-syncing doesn't get in the way. For example, there are jokes in the Spanish and Portuguese versions of "Finding Nemo" that aren't in the English versions... mainly "play on words" type stuff.... so watching these dubbed is a definitely plus.
But could very well be the exception because its well done. Personally I hate English Dubbed Anime, but that could be because its usually so cheesily done.
Oh.. and MONKEY is the only TV program that's better dubbed than in its native language :)
100 ft across (why not 30m ?)
1) Because the internationally agreed standard for measuring asteroids is "hey, we saw it first, and we speak imperial" and
2) 100 is a bigger number than 30 so it makes the people who spotted the asteroid look like bigger heros. Of course, if it was going to hit Bolivia or Siera Leone and there was bugger all we could do about it, the asteroid would only be 30m to stop people panicking and looting everything in site.
even MS would presumably rather not pay a billion-dollar fine. I know their cash reserves are up in the 40 billion dollar range
Quick! Short Microsoft!
This sound investment advice bought to you by slashdot.
I wouldn't worry, if its just an asteroid, Bruce Willis will die to deflect it.
If, however, its a shitload of Vogons, we are fucked.
> just like movies the US is defininately way in
> the lead
If I read this correctly, you are commenting on how the US movies are leading the world.
I think we are starting to see the end of the US dominance of movies. Essentially people are running out of ideas. For every "Finding Nemo", "Lost in Translation" or "Mystic River" (the three killer US movies on the last year IMHO, there is a:
The Ring - Remake of a recent foriegn film, in this case "Ringu", Japanese flick
The Italian Job - Remake of 60s or 70s TV show or movie, in this case "The Italian Job" from 1969 (?)
Terminator 3 - Tired sequel to a franchise better left alone.
Cheaper by the Dozen - Known face, known plot, nothing new, happy ending.
The french hit "Nathalia" (I think) has been sold to a US company, who are going to _remake_ the movie with a "big name" American Lead. It seems that the amount of money required to remake the movie is more than the amount that would be lost by forcing US audiences to read subtitles.
Having said that, the success of "The Passion" suggests to me that US audiences are actually more than capable subtitle readers, and that its the studios who are way off the mark. None of the movies I've praised here are "safe movies"... and I think that's why the US is losing ground. People are bored of the latest formula "hit", and are looking for something a bit challenging.
Matt
From the article:
> Few people without a strong sense of civic duty
> would work a fourteen-hour day for $60 or $100
Maybe they should outsource voting booths to India.