That's funny, because every time I've tried out Bing, it sucked compared to Google. Does Bing even HAVE an "advanced search" feature? Every time I try anything more complex than a one word search, the results are all over the map at bing, but dead-on with google.
Looker was also way ahead of its time in foreseeing a future where it was possible to have all-digital productions where the actors were just CGI'ed in. Now we're seeing the unfortunate results with dead celebs trying to sell me vacuum cleaners (Fred Astaire, I'm looking at you bud).
My personal favorite substitute for expensive early computer graphics was in Escape from New York. To do the sequence where Snake is gliding into New York and looking at a computer generated wireframe of the city; James Cameron simply cut out a bunch of boxes, painted the lines on them with phosphorescent paint, and shot it in the dark.
I use Sennheiser headphones myself--not because I'm an audio snob who thinks you MUST have Sennheisers or you're listening to crap--but because my headphones tend to take a lot of abuse and Sennheiser is the only company that sells a complete line of replacement parts for their headphones (which can be easily installed by a consumer). I got a little tired of snapping one wire or bracket on a set of expensive headphones and having to replace the whole set.
I said *relatively* rare. Yes, there are still a few nutball Al-quaida/Taliban/Abortion-clinic-bomber types out there, but compared to the overall population, they are a joke. Their attacks may be high profile, but even in their backwater home countries they are small minorities.
All it told me about my state was the number of grants given and the dollar amount of grants in total. It didn't tell me anything at all about what they were given FOR or whom they were given TO. Not very useful in determining if any of it was money well spent, or money wasted.
One of the greatest guy movies ever made. That was back when Walter Hill could do no wrong (his follow-up films were "The Long Riders," "48 Hours," and "Southern Comfort"). You could get extra chest hair just from hearing someone DESCRIBE one of that dude's movies.
Hey, if it can be used to keep some idiot from holding up a liquor store and shooting someone, I'm all for it. Sure, said individual SHOULD not shoot anyone because he has an individual sense of morality and because he recognizes that to advance as a society we must have a social contract in which we all show each other basic respect and courtesy. But, let's face it, most people are way too stupid to appreciate that level of social abstraction. So if we need to tell them that a sky god will come and kick their ass if they don't behave, then so be it.
The only real danger comes when a group of them (i.e. Crusaders or Jihadists) get it into their head that the sky god wants them to kill. But in the modern world that's (thankfully) a relatively rare thing.
I've got a Ph.D. and still make that mistake from time to time. Even though I know better, it's still easy to slip up. I also still screw up there/their/they're too, even though I know damn well the difference between them. And I can't spell "necessary" to save my life without a spell checker. There are just certain aspects of the language that tend to screw us up, no matter how much we study the language. Something about homophones in particular seem problematic (maybe because we unconsciously "sound out" the language in our heads as we type).
We should have never given these people the technology to make movies. They've progressed in only one generation from filmmaking to building rockets. Who knows what shenanigans they may be capable of in the next generation.
The American version does have its moments, but they're very diluted. And it's nowhere NEAR as brutally hilarious or apologetically black as the original. Thanks to it being on network TV, there can never be a moment as laugh-out-loud, jaw-droppingly funny as David Brent yelling "I think there's been a rape up there!" in the middle of that training session.
Seriously, if you're going to post this drivel, at least acknowledge the superiority of Ricky Gervais' version. I'm an American, and even I resent it when people assume that "The Office" is synonymous with the Greg Daniels version.
Yeah, I'm so dumb that I spent that $100 for the HD-DVD addon for my 360. And all I got out of it was over a hundred HD movies for $5-$7 a piece after the format died--many of which are the exact same titles the smart blu-ray people are paying $30-$35 for. I even was dumb enough to buy the first season of Battlestar Galactica on HD-DVD several years before it came out on blu-ray. And can you believe my dumbass even went so far as to spend $40 a pop on a couple of extra 360 HD-DVD player add-ons just to make sure I would always have a working HD-DVD player? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit on my retarded ass and watch a HD movie from my huge collection that cost me a fraction of what smart guys like you paid for your victorious blu-ray collection.
Do you really think it's going to work that way? You think studios are just going to give up the lucrative model they have now just so you can pay a small flat fee for all-you can-eat? No, let me tell you how it would REALLY work if they got rid of those "shiny discs": It would be exactly the same as it is now, with you paying $20-$25 per movie, only now you would only get a downloaded copy which you couldn't then resell or loan to a friend. The end.
And that is why you should PRAY that those shiny discs stick around.
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That's funny, because every time I've tried out Bing, it sucked compared to Google. Does Bing even HAVE an "advanced search" feature? Every time I try anything more complex than a one word search, the results are all over the map at bing, but dead-on with google.
Looker was also way ahead of its time in foreseeing a future where it was possible to have all-digital productions where the actors were just CGI'ed in. Now we're seeing the unfortunate results with dead celebs trying to sell me vacuum cleaners (Fred Astaire, I'm looking at you bud).
My personal favorite substitute for expensive early computer graphics was in Escape from New York. To do the sequence where Snake is gliding into New York and looking at a computer generated wireframe of the city; James Cameron simply cut out a bunch of boxes, painted the lines on them with phosphorescent paint, and shot it in the dark.
And what has become of /. when this gets no "popcorn" tag? And you call yourselves nerds?!?!?
I use Sennheiser headphones myself--not because I'm an audio snob who thinks you MUST have Sennheisers or you're listening to crap--but because my headphones tend to take a lot of abuse and Sennheiser is the only company that sells a complete line of replacement parts for their headphones (which can be easily installed by a consumer). I got a little tired of snapping one wire or bracket on a set of expensive headphones and having to replace the whole set.
Now there's a good title for Slayer's next album.
I said *relatively* rare. Yes, there are still a few nutball Al-quaida/Taliban/Abortion-clinic-bomber types out there, but compared to the overall population, they are a joke. Their attacks may be high profile, but even in their backwater home countries they are small minorities.
All it told me about my state was the number of grants given and the dollar amount of grants in total. It didn't tell me anything at all about what they were given FOR or whom they were given TO. Not very useful in determining if any of it was money well spent, or money wasted.
Immortals excluded, of course. You are perfection, my lords.
One of the greatest guy movies ever made. That was back when Walter Hill could do no wrong (his follow-up films were "The Long Riders," "48 Hours," and "Southern Comfort"). You could get extra chest hair just from hearing someone DESCRIBE one of that dude's movies.
Hey, if it can be used to keep some idiot from holding up a liquor store and shooting someone, I'm all for it. Sure, said individual SHOULD not shoot anyone because he has an individual sense of morality and because he recognizes that to advance as a society we must have a social contract in which we all show each other basic respect and courtesy. But, let's face it, most people are way too stupid to appreciate that level of social abstraction. So if we need to tell them that a sky god will come and kick their ass if they don't behave, then so be it. The only real danger comes when a group of them (i.e. Crusaders or Jihadists) get it into their head that the sky god wants them to kill. But in the modern world that's (thankfully) a relatively rare thing.
Greece isn't foreign?
Somewhere there is a grown man--a very pathetic man--who is attempting to lift things with the Force.
Trust me, just pack in a bunch of anchovies with you in the chamber--WAY more valuable than cash in the future.
I've got a Ph.D. and still make that mistake from time to time. Even though I know better, it's still easy to slip up. I also still screw up there/their/they're too, even though I know damn well the difference between them. And I can't spell "necessary" to save my life without a spell checker. There are just certain aspects of the language that tend to screw us up, no matter how much we study the language. Something about homophones in particular seem problematic (maybe because we unconsciously "sound out" the language in our heads as we type).
We should have never given these people the technology to make movies. They've progressed in only one generation from filmmaking to building rockets. Who knows what shenanigans they may be capable of in the next generation.
If Peter Jackson were here, he would kiss you, sir.
In all fairness, the world had jogging long before 1944. They just called it "slow running."
If Andy Griffith could build the Salvage-1, then anyone could do it.
The American version does have its moments, but they're very diluted. And it's nowhere NEAR as brutally hilarious or apologetically black as the original. Thanks to it being on network TV, there can never be a moment as laugh-out-loud, jaw-droppingly funny as David Brent yelling "I think there's been a rape up there!" in the middle of that training session.
Thank God those whales and dolphins bombed Hiroshima or we might have had to face more of these things.
Seriously, if you're going to post this drivel, at least acknowledge the superiority of Ricky Gervais' version. I'm an American, and even I resent it when people assume that "The Office" is synonymous with the Greg Daniels version.
Yeah, I'm so dumb that I spent that $100 for the HD-DVD addon for my 360. And all I got out of it was over a hundred HD movies for $5-$7 a piece after the format died--many of which are the exact same titles the smart blu-ray people are paying $30-$35 for. I even was dumb enough to buy the first season of Battlestar Galactica on HD-DVD several years before it came out on blu-ray. And can you believe my dumbass even went so far as to spend $40 a pop on a couple of extra 360 HD-DVD player add-ons just to make sure I would always have a working HD-DVD player? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit on my retarded ass and watch a HD movie from my huge collection that cost me a fraction of what smart guys like you paid for your victorious blu-ray collection.
Do you really think it's going to work that way? You think studios are just going to give up the lucrative model they have now just so you can pay a small flat fee for all-you can-eat? No, let me tell you how it would REALLY work if they got rid of those "shiny discs": It would be exactly the same as it is now, with you paying $20-$25 per movie, only now you would only get a downloaded copy which you couldn't then resell or loan to a friend. The end.
And that is why you should PRAY that those shiny discs stick around.
Stop running down UMD! It would have worked if it weren't for those meddling kids, dammit!