That same piece was also played at one of Bill Clinton's inaugurations -- I don't remember offhand if it was the first or the second one, but it's true. I remember almost choking, I laughed so hard. BTW, I've got it on tape if nobody believes me.
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The first time I saw the show (ca. 1992), I thought, "Gee-awd, how can anybody watch this crap?" Then I happened to catch Human Duplicators, and after that, I was hopelessly addicted. The line that did it for me was "Guests of the Human Duplicator stay at the Motel 6, on the Beltline..." I was working as a radio announcer at the time, and, man, that spoke volumes to me. Since then, I've burned up two VCRs on that show.
Favorite episodes:
All 5 Gamera movies
The Day The Earth Froze -- "He has failed to bring back the sampo... Lemminkainen is a failure..."
The Creeping Terror -- "Well, it's creeping all right, but the terror part... it's just not happening."
Secret Agent Super Dragon -- "...confronts his adversaries in a deadly game of 'Hungry Hungry Hippo'"
The Last of the Wild Horses -- that was the one where they did the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" parody, and I howl every time I watch it
The Beast of Yucca Flats -- Proposition Deep 13: Blank Faces... Bleak Landscapes... NO DIALOGUE!
Rocket Ship X-M -- They really rip Lloyd Bridges in that one
Operation Double 007 -- A must for all Bond fans
Red Zone Cuba -- Possibly the single most depressing movie ever made, but -- the other day, I was extremely bummed out, and popped that one into the VCR, and Mike & Co.'s riffing completely cured my depression
Monster A Go-Go -- Hands down the single worst sci-fi movie of all time
Master Ninja I & II -- "Things are not what they seem, Lee!"
Fugitive Alien I & II -- "He triiiied to kill me with a forklift..."
Number One MST3K show of all time (IMHO) -- It Conquered The World with Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, and Beverly Garland -- also featuring the short "Snow Thrills" -- I can recite Peter's soliloquy at the film's end by heart:-)
Oh fsck it, they were all great, each one chock full of Rock-Climbing and Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis. The Invention Exchanges also rocked, and I really missed them when they were dropped.
Do not go gently into that good night, my little robot friends, go with a killer riff on your lips and undying defiance of conformity and mediocrity in your hearts...
You will be missed.
I have most of Seasons 2-7 on tape. Email me if you wanna trade.
If the current stylistic distinctions between open-source and commercial software persist, an open-software revolution could lead to yet another divide between haves and have-nots: those with the skills and connections to make use of free software, and those who must pay high prices for increasingly dated commercial offerings.
This bothers me. Let's not forget that free (as in "speech" or "beer") software is meaningless if people can't use it.
Gecko IS a BFD. It's the biggest BFD to hit the Web since the original Mosaic. You see all those little standards thingies at w3c.org? Well, Gecko supports all of them, and it's only a friggin' alpha.
BTW, your remark "It takes getting sold to AOL..." is WAAAAYYYY offbase. Gecko was standards-compliant before the sale was even a gleam in Steve Case's eye.
If you had any idea of what the hell you were talking about, you wouldn't be posting FUD as an AC, now would ya?
I followed a link from another post here (which I can no longer find, so let me express my thanks to The Unknown/.'er;-) to a ZDNet "Talkback" posting by one Tom Nadeau back in October, in which he says,
Preventative remedy: APIs must become public domain, for the good of all. An API is a necessary resource, the same way that water is a necessary resource for a farmer. To deny access to APIs is to imply that you should be able to deny access to farmers selectively based on whether you approve what they're growing or not. If all APIs on all platforms are public domain, conditions can only improve because no hidden traps (like the anti-DRDOS bug in Windows 3.1) can be used to prevent competition. It also would mean that unintentional bugs and inconsistencies due to management or programmer error would be weeded out faster. Only a monopolist would hate this. Product tying by means of APIs would disappear as well, since all products could 'tie' equally, no matter who developed them.
Another ZDNet reader expanded on this idea by saying something along the lines of, "Let's do it like so:
Let Microsoft keep their Byzantine source code.
Instead, require them to produce a 'public' or 'reference' implementation of Windows.
Let them produce any apps they want, but with the stipulation that all apps that MS wishes to market must first be demonstrated as working successfully on this 'reference' implamentation. If they want to produce an 'enhanced' version of Windows upon which these apps will run better, that's fine: that will make for a better Windows, which is ostensibly Microsoft's goal, anyway, right? But it will prevent them from using 'hidden' APIs."
I think this is an insanely great idea -- the playing field is levelled, because Microsoft can't pull a fast one on non-MS developers writing apps for Windows, and Microsoft even gets to keep its Sacred Windows Source Code(TM) under wraps.
Sounds like a plan to me... Anybody else see anything wrong with this?;-)
P.S. Rob -- Can you fix the BLOCKQUOTE and P tags sometime? Thanks.
*The preceding makes use of StyleSheet Technology(tm) unlisenced from Microsoft or anybody else to the full extent permitted by the/. posting software.*
No, "Democratic Republics" were countries like Poland and Czechoslavakia in the Cold War days or the current régime in North Korea.
Honestly, I get so tired of the Right WingNuts bringing up this false distinction between "Republic" and "Democracy". At least the "Tastes Great" vs "Less Filling" debate, while equally mindless, had at least some entertainment value and helped to sell beer. This "debate" has no redeeming value whatsoever, so just don't even start that crap here.
Who cares what the fsck it's called? We all get to vote directly or indirectly on matters of public importance, and it works, most of the time.
Let's split hairs over something important, shall we? Thank you.
Let us be generous and assume our august AC was employing a little-known artifact known as "sarcasm."
...Speaking of which, I have just applied for a patent on sarcasm. Now all you funny boys can start forking your cash over to Me. BWAhahahahahahahahaha...
Dammit, every time I start to think, "Well, maybe they're not so evil, after all," the Rats in Redmond pull another move like this...
~~MICRO$OFT $UX~~
Yeah, go ahead and say it. It feels good, and the company in question seems dead-set on proving that it's true.
I'd love to see the viddy, but I'm not downloading three megs of MicroCrap and spending an hour afterwards resetting all my file associations to see it. If this is made available in Real, AVI, or some other reasonable format, please post a link. I have too much M$Stuff on this machine already.
They actually planned to have a beta release out in August 1998, believe it or not.
And so they did, if you'd been paying any attention. (It was either August or September, I don't remember which off the top of my head.) What do you think all those references to "MozClassic" at mozilla.org and mozillazine.org are about, anyway? There was a surprisingly cool beta, which (and you'd know this if you'd actually bothered to read the fscking interview instead of spouting off about it as soon as your typing finger got all twitchy) was mothballed because it was decided to drop the old rendering engine and to go with NGLayout instead. As a result, the developers had to start over again to a large extent in order to integrate NGLayout with the existing ("new") front end. It was obvious that this decision was going to set the project back by several months, but it was done anyway for the sake of HTML/CSS/DOM standards compliance. Or did you skip the part where Jamie talked about XPFE? Do you even know what XPFE is?
I humbly and respectfully suggest you yank your head out of your posterior before you go posting any more FUD on the subject, okay?
So far as Mark Andreesen goes, he's not writing the code, so how is he supposed to know exactly when things will be done? As for Jamie, he's a coder, and not a bureaucrat. Do you think the module owners are cc:ing him every single piece of email they get, or what?
Sheesh. How ignorant. Get real.
At any rate, there was a MozClassic beta, I used it, so did a number of my friends, and we all agreed that it rocked. It had a slick new UI and was incredibly fast, too. I'm pretty sure that the source is still available for that version, as well -- dunno if there are still any MozClassic binaries floating around out there, tho.
Sign me, a Mozilla volunteer (even if I can't code C++ worth a crap) and damn proud to be one.
For a COMPLETE implementation of HTML 4.0/CSS-1/DOM-1, check out Gecko. Does the W3C specs TO THE LETTER. Not bad for an "alpha".;-)
M$ wants to turn the Web into one giant VB app. (shudder) Hence, all the proprietary extensions (such as "data binding") built into what it refers to as "DHTML". Yuck. Okay, so it DOES do a fairly decent job on implementing CSS scripting... it's just all the other crap M$ sneaks into its implementation that bothers me. Once again, I say: Yuck.
As for FrontPage: If I've said it once, I've said it a million times -- why the hell does anybody want to use a so-called "authoring tool" that purports to know more about what you want to do than you do? I started out building sites using it. In less than 90 days, I'd learned enough about what I was really doing to become thoroughly disgusted with it -- to the point where I permanently exiled it from my system and went back to a text editor (until Dreamweaver came out, that is:-). Anybody who's used any of the "Visual" tools has run into the same thing, I'm sure.
Sure, M$ supports standards, but only while it sees an advantage in doing so... just long enough to try to hook people on its "extras"... Then -- ta daaah -- it's back to business as usual, above board as well as below.
I don't see the third trilogy being done either. In addition to the comments above about marketing and about the timeline being screwed up by the books, there's also the fact the the "current" trilogy won't be finished until around 2003-04. Then if Lucas were to wait ANOTHER 15 years... ain't gonna happen, kids. Sorry.
BTW, big THANK YOU to Rob & Co. for fixing the "flat" display option. I'm on a dialup (I don't work in a fancy office with a fancy T3 -- so shoot me) and using threads to see all the responses just takes like forever, man. Spasibo!
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Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Cliché as hell, but true.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Blow me.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Favorite episodes:
- All 5 Gamera movies
- The Day The Earth Froze -- "He has failed to bring back the sampo... Lemminkainen is a failure..."
- The Creeping Terror -- "Well, it's creeping all right, but the terror part... it's just not happening."
- Secret Agent Super Dragon -- "...confronts his adversaries in a deadly game of 'Hungry Hungry Hippo'"
- The Last of the Wild Horses -- that was the one where they did the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" parody, and I howl every time I watch it
- The Beast of Yucca Flats -- Proposition Deep 13: Blank Faces... Bleak Landscapes... NO DIALOGUE!
- Rocket Ship X-M -- They really rip Lloyd Bridges in that one
- Operation Double 007 -- A must for all Bond fans
- Red Zone Cuba -- Possibly the single most depressing movie ever made, but -- the other day, I was extremely bummed out, and popped that one into the VCR, and Mike & Co.'s riffing completely cured my depression
- Monster A Go-Go -- Hands down the single worst sci-fi movie of all time
- Master Ninja I & II -- "Things are not what they seem, Lee!"
- Fugitive Alien I & II -- "He triiiied to kill me with a forklift..."
- Number One MST3K show of all time (IMHO) -- It Conquered The World with Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, and Beverly Garland -- also featuring the short "Snow Thrills" -- I can recite Peter's soliloquy at the film's end by heart
:-)
Oh fsck it, they were all great, each one chock full of Rock-Climbing and Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis. The Invention Exchanges also rocked, and I really missed them when they were dropped.Do not go gently into that good night, my little robot friends, go with a killer riff on your lips and undying defiance of conformity and mediocrity in your hearts...
You will be missed.
I have most of Seasons 2-7 on tape. Email me if you wanna trade.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
This bothers me. Let's not forget that free (as in "speech" or "beer") software is meaningless if people can't use it.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Gecko IS a BFD. It's the biggest BFD to hit the Web since the original Mosaic. You see all those little standards thingies at w3c.org? Well, Gecko supports all of them, and it's only a friggin' alpha.
BTW, your remark "It takes getting sold to AOL..." is WAAAAYYYY offbase. Gecko was standards-compliant before the sale was even a gleam in Steve Case's eye.
If you had any idea of what the hell you were talking about, you wouldn't be posting FUD as an AC, now would ya?
Didn't think so.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Preventative remedy: APIs must become public domain, for the good of all. An API is a necessary resource, the same way that water is a necessary resource for a farmer. To deny access to APIs is to imply that you should be able to deny access to farmers selectively based on whether you approve what they're growing or not. If all APIs on all platforms are public domain, conditions can only improve because no hidden traps (like the anti-DRDOS bug in Windows 3.1) can be used to prevent competition. It also would mean that unintentional bugs and inconsistencies due to management or programmer error would be weeded out faster. Only a monopolist would hate this. Product tying by means of APIs would disappear as well, since all products could 'tie' equally, no matter who developed them.
Another ZDNet reader expanded on this idea by saying something along the lines of, "Let's do it like so:I think this is an insanely great idea -- the playing field is levelled, because Microsoft can't pull a fast one on non-MS developers writing apps for Windows, and Microsoft even gets to keep its Sacred Windows Source Code(TM) under wraps.
Sounds like a plan to me... Anybody else see anything wrong with this? ;-)
P.S. Rob -- Can you fix the BLOCKQUOTE and P tags sometime? Thanks.
*The preceding makes use of StyleSheet Technology(tm) unlisenced from Microsoft or anybody else to the full extent permitted by the /. posting software.*
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Honestly, I get so tired of the Right WingNuts bringing up this false distinction between "Republic" and "Democracy". At least the "Tastes Great" vs "Less Filling" debate, while equally mindless, had at least some entertainment value and helped to sell beer. This "debate" has no redeeming value whatsoever, so just don't even start that crap here.
Who cares what the fsck it's called? We all get to vote directly or indirectly on matters of public importance, and it works, most of the time.
Let's split hairs over something important, shall we? Thank you.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Dammit, every time I start to think, "Well, maybe they're not so evil, after all," the Rats in Redmond pull another move like this...
~~MICRO$OFT $UX~~
Yeah, go ahead and say it. It feels good, and the company in question seems dead-set on proving that it's true.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Thank you.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
(Okay, so I'm easily amused...)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
I humbly and respectfully suggest you yank your head out of your posterior before you go posting any more FUD on the subject, okay?
So far as Mark Andreesen goes, he's not writing the code, so how is he supposed to know exactly when things will be done? As for Jamie, he's a coder, and not a bureaucrat. Do you think the module owners are cc:ing him every single piece of email they get, or what?
Sheesh. How ignorant. Get real.
At any rate, there was a MozClassic beta, I used it, so did a number of my friends, and we all agreed that it rocked. It had a slick new UI and was incredibly fast, too. I'm pretty sure that the source is still available for that version, as well -- dunno if there are still any MozClassic binaries floating around out there, tho.
Sign me,
a Mozilla volunteer (even if I can't code C++ worth a crap) and damn proud to be one.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
If AOL shuts down your site, get in touch with me. We have plenty of space. And I'd love to have some good Linux advocacy stuff on our server.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
M$ wants to turn the Web into one giant VB app. (shudder) Hence, all the proprietary extensions (such as "data binding") built into what it refers to as "DHTML". Yuck. Okay, so it DOES do a fairly decent job on implementing CSS scripting... it's just all the other crap M$ sneaks into its implementation that bothers me. Once again, I say: Yuck.
As for FrontPage: If I've said it once, I've said it a million times -- why the hell does anybody want to use a so-called "authoring tool" that purports to know more about what you want to do than you do? I started out building sites using it. In less than 90 days, I'd learned enough about what I was really doing to become thoroughly disgusted with it -- to the point where I permanently exiled it from my system and went back to a text editor (until Dreamweaver came out, that is
Sure, M$ supports standards, but only while it sees an advantage in doing so... just long enough to try to hook people on its "extras"... Then -- ta daaah -- it's back to business as usual, above board as well as below.
Fsck Micro$oft. I still don't trust the bastards.
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
I don't see the third trilogy being done either. In addition to the comments above about marketing and about the timeline being screwed up by the books, there's also the fact the the "current" trilogy won't be finished until around 2003-04. Then if Lucas were to wait ANOTHER 15 years... ain't gonna happen, kids. Sorry.
BTW, big THANK YOU to Rob & Co. for fixing the "flat" display option. I'm on a dialup (I don't work in a fancy office with a fancy T3 -- so shoot me) and using threads to see all the responses just takes like forever, man. Spasibo!
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)