Actually, as I recall, the only space sound effects occurred during the space battle towards the end, which took place inside the atmosphere of Mr Universe's planet. The rest of the scenes (for example when they're floating through the Reaver fleet) were devoid of sound effects.
Damn, I need to go watch it again, now. Australian, US or UK edition... ah, choices, choices.:)
I rather think that is more indicative of your own browswing habits, Mr Owlnation, than it is of the Register's content.
Of the Register's 33 items showing on their front page today, I count 4 that could be dismissed as jocular items, the remaining 29 consisting of exactly the kind of news stories I would expect to see on a technology news site. By all means, go there yourself and prove me wrong.
This is entirely consistent of what I've come to expect.
I believe that you, however, skip over the items that I imagine you deem "boring" and skip straight to any items involving boobs or black helicopters.
This isn't going to be out 'til 2008 at the earliest. People could quite concievably have got bored with Eve Online by then, and be looking for something new.
I bet they're all over the shows that have space ships soaring around in space making whooshing noises. FFS, you can't get EVERYTHING right. It's an imagined future, with imagined weapons and imagined physics. You can only instill that with a given amount of real science before things start to get contradictory. That's why it's called FICTION.
802.11-b/g operate on the same frequency as microwaves (i.e. in the microwave spectrum); a microwave is shielded by physical means (no, no magical force fields when you power it up), and if you toss a laptop inside (don't turn the microwave on!) you can still connect to it over wifi with good signal.
I'd love to see the insurance quote for this one.
"And, sir, exactly how did your laptop come to be inside the catering microwave at your local subway?" "Well, I was testing this theory I read on slashdot, and my microwave wasn't big enough..."
Back in, ooh, 99, 2000ish if my memory serves, Jeremy Clarkson had a short-lived chat show called, surprisingly enough, Clarkson. One of the regular segments was putting something (like christmas lights, for example) into a microwave to see what happened.
The experiments I remember as being even more fun were the potato canon (a potato placed in a spaghetti tube with hair spray in the bottom that was heated to the point of ignition) and its larger brother, the turkey canon (similar principle, but with a steel bin).
When I saw Brainiac, it immediately reminded me of those segments of Clarkson. Plus, you know, it was fun for about half a series, but it's got old now. There's only so many ways you can blow something up... !
I remember finding it hysterical that the Neo Geo cost over £300 and the games themselves were in the £100 region... and yet, people still play the damn things NOW. It's probably the most iconic game system. Not sure that counts as a failure.
I have a friend who still has his Saturn set up purely because of some of the games that have just never been equalled on other consoles. Radiant Silvergun and Street Fighter Zero 3 spring to mind.
Admittedly, if you used it to play Tomb Raider or some of the other, more "popular" games, the user experience was less than satisfactory, but in the 2D arena, the Saturn stood alone.
Oh, and Saturn Bomber Man is the best iteration of that series, IMHO.
I'm currently re-watching it, as I initially caught it very late at night on C4 in the UK, and I think I meandered in some time in season two, and started really paying attention in season three.
Anyway, I think anyone wanting to see what all the fuss is about should watch 2x14: And Now for a Word". It's a classic Bringing In the Newbies episode, has a good mix of all the elements that go into the show (political machinations, space battles, dark humour in places), showcases most of the characters pretty well (especially the late great Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar) and will give you a pretty good idea whether you like the show or not.
"... jozikskeh?" "It's a cat word! It's the noise you make when you get your genital organs trapped in something" "Is it in the dictionary?" "It could be, if you're reading in the nude and you close the book too quick"
I'm about thirty years too young for this song, but maybe we should bring back the Alice's Restaurant Massacree in four part harmony as the rallying cry for our disenfranchised generation. All right, maybe our cause isn't as noble as stoppin' war an' stuff, but can you imagine maybe fifty people a day. fifty people a day walking into the RIAA offices, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out? Folks, they may think it's a movement.
Here in the UK, they've taken the angle that money put into the pirate "industry" (usually DVDs, but I imagine they'll lump it all in together) goes directly into organised crime and people trafficking. OK, I can buy that argument, to a point. It makes sense that the sort of crimes that are basically funding exercising for serious crimes of that nature should be cracked down on, and hard.
This guy, though, sounds about as far from that world as you can get. It seems to me the US centric *AA angle is all about the money.
www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/ - much more than just badgers. The On the Moon series are my personal favourites at the mo, and with Flash Player 9 I can now see all the ones I've been missing that require >8.
I'm sorry, but if the alternative is Fox News, I'll pay the bloody license fee and be damned happy with it. Seriously, the BBC is well worth it. It appears most Americans on Slashdot would kill to have what we have.
In fact, IMHO, Radio 4 is worth the license fee in itself.
[ot] I'd appreciate any tips you can give me on running a machine with low memory. My current work horse is a donated Toshiba Portege, which is ultralight, portable and just lovely, but only has 256MB RAM. I've got it running SuSE 10.0. It's got a PIII (coppermine) running at 600MHz, damnit, it should be pretty rockin', but it's SOO SLOW. I switched to Fluxbox because KDE is just unusable (although I've now switched to FVWM-Crystal, which, so far, I'm loving). I'm wondering if it's mainly disk access, since if it's doing something like running SuSE-config, it becomes so slow I have to wander away and do something else 'til it's finished. Is there any way to make it page less (apart from adding more RAM, which I'll do as soon as I can get my hand on a decent sized PC100 144-pin chip. Not as easy as it sounds...)
I realise this is completely off-topic, but it sounds like you've been battling the same monsters...
ARTS (Arts? ARts?) already allows you to do exactly what you just said, without downloading anything extra. I imagine other *nix audio technologies probably offer similar functionality...
... the LCIII used to make a noise like a funeral in a supermarket. I recall it well, since I got it a lot thanks to not seating my additional 4MB SIMM correctly.
Perhaps if there was a sensible recycling scheme in place, but, surprise surprise, there really isn't. As a family of 5.99 we produce more than the average amount of rubbish, neither I nor my wife drive, so there is no sensible method of getting our recycling to a recycling centre. We had a limited paper collection system, but our recycling bag was pinched one week and despite numerous requests to the council to have it replaced, we're still without one.
Still, I don't need to worry. The council hasn't deigned to supply us with a wheely bin either. We have to just dump our rubbish in our front garden until collection day, when some guy comes and chucks it all into the street. Then, some hours later, the collection vans come round and pick most of it up.
With a lot of the UK suffering under a similar setup, wasting money on RFID schemes is like Thames Water putting on a hosepipe ban when their pipes leak thousands (or is it millions?) of gallons of water.
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Actually, as I recall, the only space sound effects occurred during the space battle towards the end, which took place inside the atmosphere of Mr Universe's planet. The rest of the scenes (for example when they're floating through the Reaver fleet) were devoid of sound effects.
... ah, choices, choices. :)
Damn, I need to go watch it again, now. Australian, US or UK edition
I rather think that is more indicative of your own browswing habits, Mr Owlnation, than it is of the Register's content.
Of the Register's 33 items showing on their front page today, I count 4 that could be dismissed as jocular items, the remaining 29 consisting of exactly the kind of news stories I would expect to see on a technology news site. By all means, go there yourself and prove me wrong.
This is entirely consistent of what I've come to expect.
I believe that you, however, skip over the items that I imagine you deem "boring" and skip straight to any items involving boobs or black helicopters.
swapping out the hard disk. Wowzah!
This isn't going to be out 'til 2008 at the earliest. People could quite concievably have got bored with Eve Online by then, and be looking for something new.
I bet they're all over the shows that have space ships soaring around in space making whooshing noises. FFS, you can't get EVERYTHING right. It's an imagined future, with imagined weapons and imagined physics. You can only instill that with a given amount of real science before things start to get contradictory. That's why it's called FICTION.
Damnit, now my mouth tastes like the inside of a motorman's glove.
I'd love to see the insurance quote for this one.
"And, sir, exactly how did your laptop come to be inside the catering microwave at your local subway?"
"Well, I was testing this theory I read on slashdot, and my microwave wasn't big enough
Back in, ooh, 99, 2000ish if my memory serves, Jeremy Clarkson had a short-lived chat show called, surprisingly enough, Clarkson. One of the regular segments was putting something (like christmas lights, for example) into a microwave to see what happened.
... !
The experiments I remember as being even more fun were the potato canon (a potato placed in a spaghetti tube with hair spray in the bottom that was heated to the point of ignition) and its larger brother, the turkey canon (similar principle, but with a steel bin).
When I saw Brainiac, it immediately reminded me of those segments of Clarkson. Plus, you know, it was fun for about half a series, but it's got old now. There's only so many ways you can blow something up
I remember finding it hysterical that the Neo Geo cost over £300 and the games themselves were in the £100 region ... and yet, people still play the damn things NOW. It's probably the most iconic game system. Not sure that counts as a failure.
I have a friend who still has his Saturn set up purely because of some of the games that have just never been equalled on other consoles. Radiant Silvergun and Street Fighter Zero 3 spring to mind.
Admittedly, if you used it to play Tomb Raider or some of the other, more "popular" games, the user experience was less than satisfactory, but in the 2D arena, the Saturn stood alone.
Oh, and Saturn Bomber Man is the best iteration of that series, IMHO.
I'm currently re-watching it, as I initially caught it very late at night on C4 in the UK, and I think I meandered in some time in season two, and started really paying attention in season three.
Anyway, I think anyone wanting to see what all the fuss is about should watch 2x14: And Now for a Word". It's a classic Bringing In the Newbies episode, has a good mix of all the elements that go into the show (political machinations, space battles, dark humour in places), showcases most of the characters pretty well (especially the late great Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar) and will give you a pretty good idea whether you like the show or not.
Personally, this season is blowing me away.
JOZXYQK!
"... jozikskeh?"
"It's a cat word! It's the noise you make when you get your genital organs trapped in something"
"Is it in the dictionary?"
"It could be, if you're reading in the nude and you close the book too quick"
I'm about thirty years too young for this song, but maybe we should bring back the Alice's Restaurant Massacree in four part harmony as the rallying cry for our disenfranchised generation. All right, maybe our cause isn't as noble as stoppin' war an' stuff, but can you imagine maybe fifty people a day. fifty people a day walking into the RIAA offices, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out? Folks, they may think it's a movement.
Here in the UK, they've taken the angle that money put into the pirate "industry" (usually DVDs, but I imagine they'll lump it all in together) goes directly into organised crime and people trafficking. OK, I can buy that argument, to a point. It makes sense that the sort of crimes that are basically funding exercising for serious crimes of that nature should be cracked down on, and hard.
This guy, though, sounds about as far from that world as you can get. It seems to me the US centric *AA angle is all about the money.
With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, 'splainin' what each one was ...
1. Make sure head of company that supplies voting machines is a vociferous supporter of your party ...
2. There is no step two
www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/ - much more than just badgers. The On the Moon series are my personal favourites at the mo, and with Flash Player 9 I can now see all the ones I've been missing that require >8.
I'm sorry, but if the alternative is Fox News, I'll pay the bloody license fee and be damned happy with it. Seriously, the BBC is well worth it. It appears most Americans on Slashdot would kill to have what we have.
In fact, IMHO, Radio 4 is worth the license fee in itself.
[ot] I'd appreciate any tips you can give me on running a machine with low memory. My current work horse is a donated Toshiba Portege, which is ultralight, portable and just lovely, but only has 256MB RAM. I've got it running SuSE 10.0. It's got a PIII (coppermine) running at 600MHz, damnit, it should be pretty rockin', but it's SOO SLOW. I switched to Fluxbox because KDE is just unusable (although I've now switched to FVWM-Crystal, which, so far, I'm loving). I'm wondering if it's mainly disk access, since if it's doing something like running SuSE-config, it becomes so slow I have to wander away and do something else 'til it's finished. Is there any way to make it page less (apart from adding more RAM, which I'll do as soon as I can get my hand on a decent sized PC100 144-pin chip. Not as easy as it sounds ...)
...
I realise this is completely off-topic, but it sounds like you've been battling the same monsters
ARTS (Arts? ARts?) already allows you to do exactly what you just said, without downloading anything extra. I imagine other *nix audio technologies probably offer similar functionality ...
... my brother has just gone back to university in Lebanon with a 40GB iPod 3G. I'm tempted to order him one of these cases just for the comedy value.
... the LCIII used to make a noise like a funeral in a supermarket. I recall it well, since I got it a lot thanks to not seating my additional 4MB SIMM correctly.
...
The crash didn't appear until PowerMacs
so that'll take, ooh, a couple of hours?
/little/ bizarre ...
I kid, I'm a huge Firefly fan, but the wording of the summary is a
(suppose I should take this opportunity to pimp the UK Browncoats Forum. Consider it pimped)
Perhaps if there was a sensible recycling scheme in place, but, surprise surprise, there really isn't. As a family of 5.99 we produce more than the average amount of rubbish, neither I nor my wife drive, so there is no sensible method of getting our recycling to a recycling centre. We had a limited paper collection system, but our recycling bag was pinched one week and despite numerous requests to the council to have it replaced, we're still without one.
Still, I don't need to worry. The council hasn't deigned to supply us with a wheely bin either. We have to just dump our rubbish in our front garden until collection day, when some guy comes and chucks it all into the street. Then, some hours later, the collection vans come round and pick most of it up.
With a lot of the UK suffering under a similar setup, wasting money on RFID schemes is like Thames Water putting on a hosepipe ban when their pipes leak thousands (or is it millions?) of gallons of water.