Yeah, ok. You guys are so logical. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but got choked up at the end when he finally got to see his kids. I wanted to rush home and wake mine up and hug them. Guess I'm sentimental, and wanted it all to be real for him.
I just read the link above and now I've changed my mind. I had forgotten about all the little "wake up Cobb" references throughout. I guess the thing that bothered me the most was that if it is HIS dream why are we seeing what all the other characters are doing individually? You would expect a movie about his dream to be entirely from his point of view.
I don't know what movie you (or many) people saw but there aren't *THAT* many special effects in this. Yeah the bending city and the falling apart city, but that was hardly overdone. They probably spent more time on the van going off the bridge sequence, effects-wise, and the vast majority of people wouldn't look at that sequence and say "look at those effects!".
Personally I feel the best effects are the ones you don't see and by that account Forrest Gump had far more effects than this movie, and nobody would say FG was an "effects movie".
I didn't feel the need for an "ambiguous" ending - I think it was powerful enough without one. I think it should have cut to black JUST as the top fell over and hit the table.
Or, what would have been even more clever, was to have it start to wobble and then have his dad (?) walk by and snatch it off the table before it could fall.
I got one of the first A1000s. I bought the white ROM Kernel Manuals several months before I got the machine. I learned C by reading the RKMs and K&R.
Several months later I bought one of the first memory expansion boards (the Insider I think) from a small computer shop called Michigan Software. They ran a BBS that I frequented.
I spent thousands of hours with Amiga Paint, Aegis Animator (I think) and a music program (can't remember the name). Once I recorded a version of GhostBusters that I hand edited in the music software, than I added vocals using the speech synthesizer. I was 15.
The next year in high school I wrote a molecular modeling program for the science fair. You could load models and rotate them with a joystick. I remember being frustrated that I wanted BlitMaskBitmapRastPort() which allows you to blit an image through a mask, but my ROM kernel didn't have it. Eventually the new ROMs came out and I could finally finish it. Took me all the way to Puerto Rico for the International Science Fair and I won first place in computer science for it, as well as several awards for photography, for taking long exposure pictures of the computer screen in a dark room. My father had an Anvil Case custom built for the trip, and I remember when we got to the hotel room I unpacked the Amiga to make sure it had survived, and it wouldn't turn on. My sponsor was freaking out. I quickly popped open the top case, re-seated the memory board, and it started up fine. My sponsor thought I was a genius.
I was at a SIGGRAPH in 1989 and met several of the Amiga inventors (RJ Mical, Dale Luck, and some others). We ended up at RJ Mical's house (I think, it might have been Michael Bittner's house) talking about what it would take to build a 3D accelerator. Copper Bittner was there - I always thought she had a cool name. I was honored, at 18, to be taken into the fold.
I made a lot of pizza money in college selling my Periodic Table of the Elements program through Fred Fish (rest in peace) disks. I still have some German Deutsch-marks that someone sent me from Germany.
I remember the first time I tried closing a door on one of those walking plant things in Dungeon Master, and watching it get crushed to death, and laughing my ass off, spewing Jolt and M&Ms everywhere.
Later I sold a bunch of programming articles to Amigaworld Tech Journal. Those were fun times.
Eventually I sold my A3000, all my disks, peripherals, manuals, everything for $500, because I wanted to buy a PC to play Ultima Underworld. It's probably just as well, as I'm now sitting on several SGI machines in the basement that aren't worth anything either.
Japanese news reports have speculated that one blue-violet disk could be capable of holding more than 50 high-quality movie titles, easily fitting entire seasons of popular TV shows like 24. When the technology may hit markets was not indicated.
First they mention it being capable of holding 50 high-quality movie titles, following up in the same sentence with the show "24". I'm confused - which is it?
What the heck do you talk about at the water cooler then? How many extra hyper-miles you got from your Prius on the way to work? I can smell the smug from here!:-)
The Mac as you know it today wouldn't EXIST without Photoshop.
And you can blame Apple for no (until now) 64-bit version of Photoshop. After they promised 64-bit Carbon support, they removed it, and required everyone to rewrite their UIs in Cocoa to get it. Do you have any idea how long it takes to essentially REWRITE a huge amount of Carbon UI code to Cocoa? Adobe has every right to be pissed about this.
And for the record, Photoshop CS5 (in beta) HAS been rewritten in Cocoa and is 64 bits native.
I'm a HUGE fan of German beers of all kinds, Bavarian beers especially. I've spent many many hours sitting in beer gardens there. I personally consider German beers to be among the best in the world. I don't think I would ever get tired of German styles if that was all I could drink. And you get the wonderful bonus of being next to Belgium!
But I can drive 15 minutes and find wonderful examples of pretty much every German style. I happen to have a keg of fantastic Hefeweizen from a local brew-pub that is a near dead ringer for Weihenstephaner on tap in my home bar.
Wisconsin was built from generations of German immigrants. Thankfully they brought their love of beer with them!
Yes, we do. Our cheeses are as diverse as our beers. I recently attended a cheese and beer pairing where there were a dozen wonderfully "stinky" cheeses paired with some fine Belgian-style strong beers - all made in Wisconsin.
It's one of the reasons I've stayed here for almost 20 years, despite hating the long winters.
Sorry, but our non-US friends would say that our beer is swill.
They would be wrong.
Seriously, with the possible exception of Belgium, the shear variety and quality of beers produced by the hundreds of micro-breweries and brew-pubs in Wisconsin tops anything I've experienced in the last 10 years in Europe. Anyone who has had the privilege of coming to the "Great Taste of the Midwest" knows what I am talking about.
That said, volcano permitting, I'm traveling to Belgium next month to work on a book about monasteries and "exotic" beers.
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I can't think of a time when I wasn't me in a dream. But then, I dream movies - seriously, from the poster to the credits. It's weird.
Yeah, ok. You guys are so logical. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but got choked up at the end when he finally got to see his kids. I wanted to rush home and wake mine up and hug them. Guess I'm sentimental, and wanted it all to be real for him.
I just read the link above and now I've changed my mind. I had forgotten about all the little "wake up Cobb" references throughout. I guess the thing that bothered me the most was that if it is HIS dream why are we seeing what all the other characters are doing individually? You would expect a movie about his dream to be entirely from his point of view.
I don't know what movie you (or many) people saw but there aren't *THAT* many special effects in this. Yeah the bending city and the falling apart city, but that was hardly overdone. They probably spent more time on the van going off the bridge sequence, effects-wise, and the vast majority of people wouldn't look at that sequence and say "look at those effects!".
Personally I feel the best effects are the ones you don't see and by that account Forrest Gump had far more effects than this movie, and nobody would say FG was an "effects movie".
No - the top was wobbling and about to fall.
I didn't feel the need for an "ambiguous" ending - I think it was powerful enough without one. I think it should have cut to black JUST as the top fell over and hit the table.
Or, what would have been even more clever, was to have it start to wobble and then have his dad (?) walk by and snatch it off the table before it could fall.
I got one of the first A1000s. I bought the white ROM Kernel Manuals several months before I got the machine. I learned C by reading the RKMs and K&R.
Several months later I bought one of the first memory expansion boards (the Insider I think) from a small computer shop called Michigan Software. They ran a BBS that I frequented.
I spent thousands of hours with Amiga Paint, Aegis Animator (I think) and a music program (can't remember the name). Once I recorded a version of GhostBusters that I hand edited in the music software, than I added vocals using the speech synthesizer. I was 15.
The next year in high school I wrote a molecular modeling program for the science fair. You could load models and rotate them with a joystick. I remember being frustrated that I wanted BlitMaskBitmapRastPort() which allows you to blit an image through a mask, but my ROM kernel didn't have it. Eventually the new ROMs came out and I could finally finish it. Took me all the way to Puerto Rico for the International Science Fair and I won first place in computer science for it, as well as several awards for photography, for taking long exposure pictures of the computer screen in a dark room. My father had an Anvil Case custom built for the trip, and I remember when we got to the hotel room I unpacked the Amiga to make sure it had survived, and it wouldn't turn on. My sponsor was freaking out. I quickly popped open the top case, re-seated the memory board, and it started up fine. My sponsor thought I was a genius.
I was at a SIGGRAPH in 1989 and met several of the Amiga inventors (RJ Mical, Dale Luck, and some others). We ended up at RJ Mical's house (I think, it might have been Michael Bittner's house) talking about what it would take to build a 3D accelerator. Copper Bittner was there - I always thought she had a cool name. I was honored, at 18, to be taken into the fold.
I made a lot of pizza money in college selling my Periodic Table of the Elements program through Fred Fish (rest in peace) disks. I still have some German Deutsch-marks that someone sent me from Germany.
I remember the first time I tried closing a door on one of those walking plant things in Dungeon Master, and watching it get crushed to death, and laughing my ass off, spewing Jolt and M&Ms everywhere.
Later I sold a bunch of programming articles to Amigaworld Tech Journal. Those were fun times.
Eventually I sold my A3000, all my disks, peripherals, manuals, everything for $500, because I wanted to buy a PC to play Ultima Underworld. It's probably just as well, as I'm now sitting on several SGI machines in the basement that aren't worth anything either.
Japanese news reports have speculated that one blue-violet disk could be capable of holding more than 50 high-quality movie titles, easily fitting entire seasons of popular TV shows like 24. When the technology may hit markets was not indicated.
First they mention it being capable of holding 50 high-quality movie titles, following up in the same sentence with the show "24". I'm confused - which is it?
If you're to fucking stupid to realize what The Onion is, or that something came from The Onion, you don't get to comment about politics. Ever.
I'd say the same about people who don't know when to use the word "to", "too", or "two".
But I can't find local bestiality porn! I've tried! It usually ends up being an obese man having intercourse with a stuffed elephant.
So you haven't tried chat roulette then?
Not on Apple i-products. Usually you have to re-encode downloaded stuff as .mp4 files.
Here is a demo of it running on an iPad.
What the heck do you talk about at the water cooler then? How many extra hyper-miles you got from your Prius on the way to work? I can smell the smug from here! :-)
"Ever load up a completely random webpage to see an advertisement at the top for products related to what you're reading about?"
No. Thanks Adblock!
I can't be sure what happened to Procter and Gamble, but I just made a killing on pork bellies and orange juice!
1,000 maps could fit on a grain of salt
Table, Kosher, or sea?
The Mac as you know it today wouldn't EXIST without Photoshop.
And you can blame Apple for no (until now) 64-bit version of Photoshop. After they promised 64-bit Carbon support, they removed it, and required everyone to rewrite their UIs in Cocoa to get it. Do you have any idea how long it takes to essentially REWRITE a huge amount of Carbon UI code to Cocoa? Adobe has every right to be pissed about this.
And for the record, Photoshop CS5 (in beta) HAS been rewritten in Cocoa and is 64 bits native.
When they eventually get tossed, very few companies bother to scrub them.
With years of ass-stain buildup, who's going to bother scrubbing them? Better to just incinerate the lot. It's the only way to be sure.
There is also the nuclear option
That's right! Take off and nuke NC from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, of, er, something.
Fix -what- locally? Demand smaller gov't, and less taxes? Done!
That really worked well during Bush's 8 years, didn't it?
But I ALREADY paid sales tax on those stamps. What right does the state think it has to tax the sale AGAIN? THIS is what I really have a problem with.
I'm a HUGE fan of German beers of all kinds, Bavarian beers especially. I've spent many many hours sitting in beer gardens there. I personally consider German beers to be among the best in the world. I don't think I would ever get tired of German styles if that was all I could drink. And you get the wonderful bonus of being next to Belgium!
But I can drive 15 minutes and find wonderful examples of pretty much every German style. I happen to have a keg of fantastic Hefeweizen from a local brew-pub that is a near dead ringer for Weihenstephaner on tap in my home bar.
Wisconsin was built from generations of German immigrants. Thankfully they brought their love of beer with them!
Yes, we do. Our cheeses are as diverse as our beers. I recently attended a cheese and beer pairing where there were a dozen wonderfully "stinky" cheeses paired with some fine Belgian-style strong beers - all made in Wisconsin.
It's one of the reasons I've stayed here for almost 20 years, despite hating the long winters.
Thanks for mentioning. I'll add it to my itinerary.
Sorry, but our non-US friends would say that our beer is swill.
They would be wrong.
Seriously, with the possible exception of Belgium, the shear variety and quality of beers produced by the hundreds of micro-breweries and brew-pubs in Wisconsin tops anything I've experienced in the last 10 years in Europe. Anyone who has had the privilege of coming to the "Great Taste of the Midwest" knows what I am talking about.
That said, volcano permitting, I'm traveling to Belgium next month to work on a book about monasteries and "exotic" beers.