Why are they using our politians? They should use their own.
That's a good question, indeed. As for why they are using politicians in the first place, though - that I can answer. Check out this recent annoucement from the National Institute of Health:
The National Institute of Health have announced that they will no longer be using rats for medical experimentation. In their place, they will use politicians. They have given three reasons for this decision:
1. There are now more politicians than there are rats.
2. The medical researchers don't become as emotionally attached to the politicians as they did to the rats.
3. No matter how hard you try, there are some things that rats won't do.
Considering the horrendously poor quality of digitization done on the Indiana Jones series (as evidenced by the DVD boxed set), I doubt that's ever going to happen.
Actually, Star Wars is the series with the screwed up CGI. Indiana Jones is still clean and pristine, thank God.
somehow, this post got parented wrong. i was (snarkily) replying to "John the Kiwi (653757)".
PEBKAC?
I don't think so. The same exact thing happened to me - comment number 12760951 was also in response to his post, but somehow got "parented" to the GP.
BZZZZZZT!!!! WRONG ANSWER!!!! Jeffrey Boam did NOT write all three scripts.
Lawrence Kasdan wrote the script for Raiders.
William Huyck and Gloria Katz wrote the script for Temple of Doom.
Jeffrey Boam was the screenwriter ONLY for The Last Crusade.
Thanks for playing IndyTrivia! Be sure to take a complimentary door prize on your way out!
I can't remember offhand the big guy in Crusade or how he died...
That's because he didn't. Pat Roach's only part in LC was extremely small (more of a cameo): he is the guard you see running with Col. Vogel toward the zeppelin yelling and waving at the pilot not to take off yet.
Oh, and the bonus DVD has him in a deleted scene: a short clip of Indy (in his "ticket-collecter" disguise) knocking him unconscious in the hallway of the zeppelin.
Considering that it's been 24 years since the first film, the new one should be set in approx. 1967 to properly compensate for Ford's age. "Indiana Jones and the Summer of Love"?
It doesn't have to be 24 years at all - Indy's age does not have to match Ford's real age exactly; after all, Temple of Doom was made several years later, and the storyline is set one year earlier (1935)! The main thing is that it should be somewhat plausible - and since "the '50s" gives one the impression of being two decades later than "the '30s", the change in Indy's age makes sense to the veiewer.
Oh, and FYI, 1936 (the year he RotLA storyline is set in) + 24 years != 1967
That Ford is too old to be doing this. Unless he can still act the part and look the part with makeup and CGI, I don't see how he can be Indi anymore. 10 year ago...maybe, but not now.
If you would be a true Indy fan (like me), you would have heard plenty about this on some of the many fan sites out there, such as The Raider. One of the key details you would have found out is that Indy IV will be set in the '50s, to compensate somewhat for Ford's age.
The article mentions this problem only in regard to government agencies, but the truth is, it happens all over (in regular businesses) as well. I'm not talking about/.ers who get free broadband through their neighbors open networks; I'm talking about businesses where one employee decides to make his life a little easier by setting up his own personal mini-network - but unknowingly putting the entire company's network at risk.
Indeed, NetStumbler's help file even suggests such a scenario as one possible use for the program:
"Wireless LAN Auditing
A corporate network administrator needs assurance that the wired LAN is not being exposed to unauthorized users. This can often happen when users set up their own wireless LANs for convenience. Such wireless LANs often have little or no security, which poses a risk to the entire LAN. The network administrator can use NetStumbler to detect the presence of these "rogue" wireless LANs."
At least now that this story has hit the news, perhaps more people will wake up to the danger and try to secure their critical networks (as long as they leave open at least one for me to use as a wi-fi hotspot;-)).
"When I press the 'shuffle' button, it just starts playing random songs."
Well, the GP may have been referring to some players manufactured by iRiver. There was a whole commotion going on a while back when it was discovered that quite a few of their players would indeed shuffle the song list; the only problem was that the shuffle order was the same every single time. For example, if tracks "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9" would get shuffled as "4,2,3,5,1,6,9,7,8", then every time you enabled shuffle mode, "4,2,3,5,1,6,9,7,8" would be the exact order of the songs. There was no randomness whatsoever to the list generation - it was the apparently the same algorithim every time.
Not only has this been around for a while already, but Computer Power User Magazine already reviewed this as far back as February. (Of course, at the time it still cost $180.) Incidentally, CPU Mag gave it a rating of "5 CPUs" - the highest rating the subject of a review can receive.
And for those of you who want to know what the advantages of this router are, here's the relevant part of the article from the link I provided:
Even more exciting is the router's GameFuel technology. Gimmicky as it may sound, GameFuel is the means whereby D-Link's DGL-4300 balances time-sensitive packets with the rest of your network traffic using dynamic fragmentation to divide larger packages into smaller streams and packet prioritization to classify the importance of packets according to a number of parameters.
And although the mechanics behind GameFuel are undoubtedly far more complicated, the only real concern is if the technology works. To test, I connected my workstation to one of the LAN ports and connected a wireless client to the same broadband connection; initiating two 500MB file transfers to the remote laptop at 54Mbps. Then, I fired up a P2P app on my workstation and began downloading several large DivX files. Imagine my surprise when, despite all of the concurrent network traffic, I was able to play Half-Life 2 Deathmatch without a hiccup.
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Can someone please explain to me what the Brooklyn Public Library has to do with this?
That's a good question, indeed. As for why they are using politicians in the first place, though - that I can answer. Check out this recent annoucement from the National Institute of Health:
The National Institute of Health have announced that they will no longer be using rats for medical experimentation. In their place, they will use politicians. They have given three reasons for this decision:
1. There are now more politicians than there are rats.
2. The medical researchers don't become as emotionally attached to the politicians as they did to the rats.
3. No matter how hard you try, there are some things that rats won't do.
Bye bye, karma! (sniffle sniffle)
You mean interstellar.
Actually, Star Wars is the series with the screwed up CGI. Indiana Jones is still clean and pristine, thank God.
Dude, chill out. It. Was. A. Freakin. Joke.
No need to take it so personally. ;-)
Yeah, and I just heard the other day that %79.6 of all statistics are made up on the spot. Isn't that amazing? ;-)
PEBKAC?
I don't think so. The same exact thing happened to me - comment number 12760951 was also in response to his post, but somehow got "parented" to the GP.
Yes. ;-)
Me too! Here's my list:
Linux for servers. ;-)
Macintosh for graphics.
Palm OS for mobility.
Windows for Solitaire.
UH OH!
Let me be the first to say it: I, for one, sure as hell do NOT welcome our new Goatse overlords!!!!
BZZZZZZT!!!! WRONG ANSWER!!!! Jeffrey Boam did NOT write all three scripts.
Lawrence Kasdan wrote the script for Raiders.
William Huyck and Gloria Katz wrote the script for Temple of Doom.
Jeffrey Boam was the screenwriter ONLY for The Last Crusade.
Thanks for playing IndyTrivia! Be sure to take a complimentary door prize on your way out!
That's because he didn't. Pat Roach's only part in LC was extremely small (more of a cameo): he is the guard you see running with Col. Vogel toward the zeppelin yelling and waving at the pilot not to take off yet.
Oh, and the bonus DVD has him in a deleted scene: a short clip of Indy (in his "ticket-collecter" disguise) knocking him unconscious in the hallway of the zeppelin.
Why this hasn't been modded "hilarious" yet is beyond me...
It doesn't have to be 24 years at all - Indy's age does not have to match Ford's real age exactly; after all, Temple of Doom was made several years later, and the storyline is set one year earlier (1935)! The main thing is that it should be somewhat plausible - and since "the '50s" gives one the impression of being two decades later than "the '30s", the change in Indy's age makes sense to the veiewer.
Oh, and FYI, 1936 (the year he RotLA storyline is set in) + 24 years != 1967
If you would be a true Indy fan (like me), you would have heard plenty about this on some of the many fan sites out there, such as The Raider. One of the key details you would have found out is that Indy IV will be set in the '50s, to compensate somewhat for Ford's age.
Thanks, but I'll just have a slice of "Roast Beef a la slashdotted-server-remains", thank you. ;-)
Yup! Especially since I expected to be modded "Funny". Oh well, I guess it's better for the karma this way, anyway...
Brilliant idea, genius - it would work beutifully until one of the sharks sinks it teeth into a nice bite of inflatable screen.
Brilliant, Watson, just brilliant. ;-)
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that so far, not a single comment has been moderated "Insightful"?
Indeed, NetStumbler's help file even suggests such a scenario as one possible use for the program:
" Wireless LAN Auditing
A corporate network administrator needs assurance that the wired LAN is not being exposed to unauthorized users. This can often happen when users set up their own wireless LANs for convenience. Such wireless LANs often have little or no security, which poses a risk to the entire LAN. The network administrator can use NetStumbler to detect the presence of these "rogue" wireless LANs."
At least now that this story has hit the news, perhaps more people will wake up to the danger and try to secure their critical networks (as long as they leave open at least one for me to use as a wi-fi hotspot ;-)).
Think about what was just said.
"When I press the 'shuffle' button, it just starts playing random songs."
Well, the GP may have been referring to some players manufactured by iRiver. There was a whole commotion going on a while back when it was discovered that quite a few of their players would indeed shuffle the song list; the only problem was that the shuffle order was the same every single time. For example, if tracks "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9" would get shuffled as "4,2,3,5,1,6,9,7,8", then every time you enabled shuffle mode, "4,2,3,5,1,6,9,7,8" would be the exact order of the songs. There was no randomness whatsoever to the list generation - it was the apparently the same algorithim every time.
Hence, perhaps, the title of "erratic shuffle".
Yeah, it was probably both - yesterday and the day before. In fact, it was probably covered at least three times yesterday alone...
Clearly, you've never been to the "Electronics" section - my local Walmart has plenty of clocks on the shelves...
And for those of you who want to know what the advantages of this router are, here's the relevant part of the article from the link I provided:
Even more exciting is the router's GameFuel technology. Gimmicky as it may sound, GameFuel is the means whereby D-Link's DGL-4300 balances time-sensitive packets with the rest of your network traffic using dynamic fragmentation to divide larger packages into smaller streams and packet prioritization to classify the importance of packets according to a number of parameters.
And although the mechanics behind GameFuel are undoubtedly far more complicated, the only real concern is if the technology works. To test, I connected my workstation to one of the LAN ports and connected a wireless client to the same broadband connection; initiating two 500MB file transfers to the remote laptop at 54Mbps. Then, I fired up a P2P app on my workstation and began downloading several large DivX files. Imagine my surprise when, despite all of the concurrent network traffic, I was able to play Half-Life 2 Deathmatch without a hiccup.