Everyone is talking about films that are nothing but a long continuous take. Frankly, who cares about that. Here are two that come to mind where the long continuous take has a purpose:
The opening scene from "The Player", not sure how many minutes but a LOT happens.
My personal favorite is from "The Stuntman" (Peter O'Toole). If you've seen the movie you know the scene.
I assume the submitter was joking, but chicken fat is also added to pet foods. I saw the chicken fat on ingredient labels at Costco. We just switched from a dog food that had corn in it, based on a friend's advice that a corn allergy is common in dogs. Wish we had known 6 years ago.
Back in my teens I worked a few summers at the phone company. In addition to realizing that I didn't want to work there as permanent staff, I also realized that the extremely inflated charges for making long distance phone calls were something I wasn't going to incur "going forward". With rare (long distance girlfriend) exceptions, I have almost never made long distance calls that I have to pay for.
F 'em forever.
I made a similar decision with CDs. They were always priced too high for my taste and I have not missed owning them. Radio, cassette tape, libraries and YouTube have all the music I ever wish to hear.
Fight the power. If you do, the most important thing that will happen is that YOU will become stronger. And less of a consumerist/sucker. As to those you boycott -- really who gives an expletive?
Thanks. I too am sick of plans and refuse to go that route. We are on T-Mobile pay-as-you-go's, and I like the "poor overpriced equipment" because I want about the dumbest phone I can get so I don't have any reason to use it except for essential reasons. Never been happier here as well.
Sure, and the power requirements for DOS are even lower, what's your point?
Nope, not true. DOS doesn't run a NOP/sleep thread. Even Windows 3.x & 9x didn't have it. Hence the creation of Waterfall and other cpu sleepers for those OSes.
This is less than was spilled in the Gulf War spill, about two and a half times more than the Amoco Cadiz and 250 times less than was burned by Saddam. Here are the Top 19 according to Wikipedia.
What's the practical difference between 6.3 and 5.5 seconds to get to 100 km/h?
Big difference. As a commuter I value the acceleration (along with other properties) of my vehicle. If everyone else takes 6.3 and I take 5.5, this difference will help me numerous times per commute to merge more easily or to be able to take advantage of the hole created in front of some grey beard, or in some cases to make the next light due to dumb configuration of light sequence. So it is not 6.3 vs 5.5 with car acceleration, it is relative acceleration that matters. In the dog-eat-dog world of commuting, acceleration matters quite a bit. For me, more acceleration equals less stress. My brother's "zero to 50 in 30" two-cylinder Toyota has no place on today's roads.
And FWIW this is at least partially true with other things -- if browser x is the slowest, whenever we run it we will notice. For me, IE v6, 7, 8 are all so slow vs Opera & Firefox that I simply never run them. Yet if I did an absolute comparison of IE.GE. 6 versus Netscape Navigator I would probably want to trash Navigator all over again. The weakest link gets kicked off the island, even if the difference is measured in fractions.
Hearing this I changed mine from 100 to 250, reloaded this page and promptly got:
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[i.e. it broke the thread into 50 comment pages, making things worse]
TZ is one of the hardest machines to keep running.
What about Jurassic Park? The ball went into unplayable areas regularly, and it had plenty of flimsy plastic things that jump and move and claw around until they broke. But great game play...
By your list I'd opt for Xenon. No pin has ever looked as hot and the final event is a geek's ultimate wet dream. Flippers and tilt were great as it was a Bally game.
In Williams country I'd nominate ST:TNG for its numerous stories, great final event, acceptable video mode, exciting warp factor progression and those insanely great launchers.
Down Gottlieb way I'd vote for Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the digital category, and Spin Out in the Best Value when you only have one Quarter at the Arcade category (because you could win up to 9 games in one game).
Ok, makes sense. Now could you explain why ESPN360.com recently became ESPN3.com? All I can think of is that ESPN360 intimidated people who were used to ESPN & ESPN2. These people are more likely to adopt ESPN3. Nevermind, I'm talking out of my hat...look away.
Since you are not yet marked as troll, and play is still suspended at The Open, I'll waste a few characters on your post.
Microsoft has done some revolutionary things in the past, like giving away the TCP/IP stack Internet Explorer 4.0 for free when these products were very expensive and would have hampered the growth of Internet
MSIEv3 was such a gigantic piece of refuse that Netscape dominated the market and all were quite happy with that. MSIEv4 was sufficiently acceptable and insidiously integrated/promoted as to gradually build marketshare. Microsoft had no option but to give MSIEv4 away if they wanted to have a measurable presence in user land.
The idea that MSIE (any version) is somehow some great gift to mankind is vomit-inducing. Real reasons are offered here.
Have we already forgotten the anti-trust lawsuit over this very issue? Gates the extinguisher has become Gates the Rockefeller? Sickening.
It's hard, you know? The thing is to be able to think big thoughts, you have to turn some stuff off. You let go of things like nourishment or relationships in favor of your work so that you can use that extra space to squeeze in another algorithm. Maybe you ultra simplify a few routines in order free up those resources for your more important thoughts. Maybe you create a simple "survival" algorithm that allows you get dressed or shaved or to the office or to the grocer using the same small function set. But to an outsider you look like you are a mental case because the algorithm doesn't perfectly apply to each situation, so your clothes aren't quite right, and your walk to work takes a strange route. maybe you start to assign symlinks to certain objects for various values that are necessary for your work, which starts to hinder your ability to communicate with those around you. You try to avoid novel situations because you don't appreciate the distractions.
I just saw this posted in the WoW forum. What a douche!
The difference now is that the poor are heavily subsidized poor. This is a much more effective means of control: pay people not enough to live and then give them subsidies if they qualify. Fight the power and you lose your subsidies. Result: sheeple.
[deep thinkers] have always been few and far between
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
American geologists working with the Pentagon have discovered deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium of incredible bounty, amounting to nearly $1 trillion
And prepare yourself for Copperman, Cobaltman, Goldman and Lithium Man.
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Everyone is talking about films that are nothing but a long continuous take. Frankly, who cares about that. Here are two that come to mind where the long continuous take has a purpose:
The opening scene from "The Player", not sure how many minutes but a LOT happens.
My personal favorite is from "The Stuntman" (Peter O'Toole). If you've seen the movie you know the scene.
I assume the submitter was joking, but chicken fat is also added to pet foods. I saw the chicken fat on ingredient labels at Costco. We just switched from a dog food that had corn in it, based on a friend's advice that a corn allergy is common in dogs. Wish we had known 6 years ago.
Quit paying for music. Period.
Back in my teens I worked a few summers at the phone company. In addition to realizing that I didn't want to work there as permanent staff, I also realized that the extremely inflated charges for making long distance phone calls were something I wasn't going to incur "going forward". With rare (long distance girlfriend) exceptions, I have almost never made long distance calls that I have to pay for. F 'em forever.
I made a similar decision with CDs. They were always priced too high for my taste and I have not missed owning them. Radio, cassette tape, libraries and YouTube have all the music I ever wish to hear.
Fight the power. If you do, the most important thing that will happen is that YOU will become stronger. And less of a consumerist/sucker. As to those you boycott -- really who gives an expletive?
...150 million users...
500 million users and growing faster than anything else. I think Farmville has more than got EA's attention.
Why not use Prism's Armageddon instead. I still can't believe this wasn't used in the movie, boyfriend issues aside.
Thanks. I too am sick of plans and refuse to go that route. We are on T-Mobile pay-as-you-go's, and I like the "poor overpriced equipment" because I want about the dumbest phone I can get so I don't have any reason to use it except for essential reasons. Never been happier here as well.
Informative post but you forgot to mention the cell phone providers who did this to you.
What if you copy at an angle? Can it still OCR that?
It costs about 60 cents per cubic meter to desalinate water.
There is no way it is cheaper to desalinate.
Nope, not true. DOS doesn't run a NOP/sleep thread. Even Windows 3.x & 9x didn't have it. Hence the creation of Waterfall and other cpu sleepers for those OSes.
This is less than was spilled in the Gulf War spill, about two and a half times more than the Amoco Cadiz and 250 times less than was burned by Saddam. Here are the Top 19 according to Wikipedia.
What's the practical difference between 6.3 and 5.5 seconds to get to 100 km/h?
.GE. 6 versus Netscape Navigator I would probably want to trash Navigator all over again. The weakest link gets kicked off the island, even if the difference is measured in fractions.
Big difference. As a commuter I value the acceleration (along with other properties) of my vehicle. If everyone else takes 6.3 and I take 5.5, this difference will help me numerous times per commute to merge more easily or to be able to take advantage of the hole created in front of some grey beard, or in some cases to make the next light due to dumb configuration of light sequence. So it is not 6.3 vs 5.5 with car acceleration, it is relative acceleration that matters. In the dog-eat-dog world of commuting, acceleration matters quite a bit. For me, more acceleration equals less stress. My brother's "zero to 50 in 30" two-cylinder Toyota has no place on today's roads.
And FWIW this is at least partially true with other things -- if browser x is the slowest, whenever we run it we will notice. For me, IE v6, 7, 8 are all so slow vs Opera & Firefox that I simply never run them. Yet if I did an absolute comparison of IE
Hearing this I changed mine from 100 to 250, reloaded this page and promptly got:
"(1) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (Slashdot Overload: CommentLimit 50)"
[i.e. it broke the thread into 50 comment pages, making things worse]
I think that set an off-topic record.
Third Time is a False Flag operation.
Can we just bomb their nuclear reactor and take all their oil already and quit with the fake reasons to do so?
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TZ is one of the hardest machines to keep running.
What about Jurassic Park? The ball went into unplayable areas regularly, and it had plenty of flimsy plastic things that jump and move and claw around until they broke. But great game play...
By your list I'd opt for Xenon. No pin has ever looked as hot and the final event is a geek's ultimate wet dream. Flippers and tilt were great as it was a Bally game.
In Williams country I'd nominate ST:TNG for its numerous stories, great final event, acceptable video mode, exciting warp factor progression and those insanely great launchers.
Down Gottlieb way I'd vote for Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the digital category, and Spin Out in the Best Value when you only have one Quarter at the Arcade category (because you could win up to 9 games in one game).
Ok, makes sense. Now could you explain why ESPN360.com recently became ESPN3.com? All I can think of is that ESPN360 intimidated people who were used to ESPN & ESPN2. These people are more likely to adopt ESPN3. Nevermind, I'm talking out of my hat...look away.
MSIEv3 was such a gigantic piece of refuse that Netscape dominated the market and all were quite happy with that. MSIEv4 was sufficiently acceptable and insidiously integrated/promoted as to gradually build marketshare. Microsoft had no option but to give MSIEv4 away if they wanted to have a measurable presence in user land.
The idea that MSIE (any version) is somehow some great gift to mankind is vomit-inducing. Real reasons are offered here.
Have we already forgotten the anti-trust lawsuit over this very issue? Gates the extinguisher has become Gates the Rockefeller? Sickening.
I just saw this posted in the WoW forum. What a douche!
because the poor had nothing else to lose
The difference now is that the poor are heavily subsidized poor. This is a much more effective means of control: pay people not enough to live and then give them subsidies if they qualify. Fight the power and you lose your subsidies. Result: sheeple.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
American geologists working with the Pentagon have discovered deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium of incredible bounty, amounting to nearly $1 trillion
And prepare yourself for Copperman, Cobaltman, Goldman and Lithium Man.