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Ahhh, its good to see the old classics getting rolled up and dusted off a bit sometimes.
For anyone that doesn't know abou the classic, here you go http://www.whos-on-first.com/, bloody brilliant. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was about 8 or nine and crying with laughter.
I think Nissan have decided they are a car company and that so long as they are still making cars, everything is just fine, thank you very much.
It may be the huge Renault/ non-Japanese influence @ Nissan, but they don't really feel the need to be all things to all men/ old people/ people with laws and big buckets of money/ old people that like tea but can't make it anymore.
... and then you get a couple of lumps of Uranium, not too big though, and bang them together, you should really be quite far away when banging them together... voila a bomb
Being British we generally use the double decker bus or the football field as a standard measure.
For examaple - 'So, that's a conversion factor of 8766 Albert Halls per moon-high rubbish-bin column. All we need to know now is the conversion rate of Albert Halls to double-decker buses and Olympic swimming pools - bearing in mind, of course, that, as the Beatles once told us, now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall."'
One of the biggest examples of this I can remember is the Disney cartoon 'Song of the South'. I only saw it while very young, but still remember the songs and characters. Was it really that offensive or just a victim of over zealous censorship.
I don't think I've really invested any emotional energy into it, I'm being a realist, it's a bloody movie. In a world of motgages, deadlines, bosses and families, it comes kinda far down my list of must-do's. I'm stating that the feelings that people have for the movies are more than just colours on celluloid, it is the whole package, everyelse that was going on in their lives at the time.
You know what, I don't really care who goes and sees it, I don't care who likes, I know many will and the day it is released Slashdot will be a bitch-fest, even if critics the world over praise it. There is nothing George Lucas could do that will get him praise on that first day.
So you were using the 'stick-that-is-my-light-sabre' toy then.
I saw 1 & 2 and thought that they were acceptable movies, sure they had their crap bits and just pure excuses for CGI, but they also had a lot going for them.
Now the Matrix, one was stunning. Two was pointless, bought it one DVD, watched about 70% of it once, I guess the disk will never see the light of day again, I guess. Never saw three, not even remotely interested, heard a bit, nothing that would encourage me to go.
I saw Star Wars when I was about 12, I think. I now see the new ones with my kids, they like 'em, they like the old ones too, I like that they like them all. I don't get too high & mighty about it, coz' they're only movies.
Nothing will be good enough for the Slashdot crowd. He could film it in super douper total emersion 3D-o-vision with the best script & acting on the planet and there will still be compaints from many of the Slashdot crowd. He could choose to be totally divorced from the bloody thing and people will still hark back to how it isn't quite as good as the one they saw while in their nappy 25 years ago, and George has spoiled.
Hindsight is invariably 20-20 and rose tinted. People seem to forget that the originals had their very dodgy moments too. What people remember is not just the movie, it is the whole experience that they had when sitting there many moons ago, before the got old and embittered by age and by supporting Windows boxes (coz supporting Unix doesn't embitter one as much does it). It was going with their parents, getting popcorn, sitting surrounded in awe by peers, with their parents or older siblings. Playing with X Wing fighters for weeks afterward. It was getting all the mags & figures & watching the cheesy kids shows jump on the bandwagon. It was the fact that this was totally new, nothing else came close.
I watched the rest, I await the next as does everyone else here, even those that refuse to admit it.
Oh and just to piss off the remaining readers I haven't offended yet, I love my TiVo.
We have an, unpublicised tech support website for our company use only. On looking at the weblogs, it looks like 80-90% of all traffic is attempted hacks. We even went as far as contacting the ISP of one particularly keen individual, they, of course, weren't in the slightest bit interested.
It is kind of annoying, isn't it. The Americanisation of movies annoys the hell out of me - The Italian Job (remake of a British classic), U-571 (mistelling of a British wartime event), the new War of the Worlds (American take on a classic British book), the list goes on
I believe that Steven Spielberg was initially approached to take on Harry Potter, but he wanted to cast Haley Joel Osment as Harry and set it in the US. The movie was only saved when JK Rowling digging her heels in and insisting that it stay in the UK.
Honestly I don't know why more people don't go the old 'build your own PVR system'.
Having checked out the Knoppmyth site it would appear that after only a new PC, tuner card, degree in computer science and many weeks of messing around with it, I would certainly end up with something that will work.
It would only require my wife and kids completeing their associates in computing for them to be able to use it. Oh, and don't forget the job working nights that I will have to take on as I will spend all day every day supporting it.
I mean, who do these TiVo johnnies think they are? Why would mr & mrs joe public ever use anything that they can plug in and just have work. Don't they realise that everyone likes to tinker around way out of their depth.
### Caution the above passages may contain trace elements of sarcasm ###
Surely the problem with stuff like knoppmyth is that it is great for geeks, but impossible for mr & mrs ordinary, who wan to get home, switch on their tv and watch stuff they missed from earlier. Note I said, watch on tv, not some jacked up pc...
On his death bed in 'Mad About You', when he is trying to persuade them to name the baby after him. You could just tell that every scene he was in was barely scripted and a lot of fun.
Young Frankenstein, although not with him in it, is is classic humour....
This reminds of a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon, I think it was in the Weirdos from Another Planet! collection. They use their, very flexible, carboard box to travel to another planet (I'm pretty sure it Mars) and Hobbes makes a comment about them leaving garbage lying about
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Ahhh, its good to see the old classics getting rolled up and dusted off a bit sometimes.
For anyone that doesn't know abou the classic, here you go http://www.whos-on-first.com/, bloody brilliant. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was about 8 or nine and crying with laughter.
This is for marketing business lackeys, assume nothing
I think Nissan have decided they are a car company and that so long as they are still making cars, everything is just fine, thank you very much.
It may be the huge Renault/ non-Japanese influence @ Nissan, but they don't really feel the need to be all things to all men/ old people/ people with laws and big buckets of money/ old people that like tea but can't make it anymore.
... and then you get a couple of lumps of Uranium, not too big though, and bang them together, you should really be quite far away when banging them together... voila a bomb
Forgot the link - http://tinyurl.com/bqmxt
Being British we generally use the double decker bus or the football field as a standard measure.
For examaple - 'So, that's a conversion factor of 8766 Albert Halls per moon-high rubbish-bin column. All we need to know now is the conversion rate of Albert Halls to double-decker buses and Olympic swimming pools - bearing in mind, of course, that, as the Beatles once told us, now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall."'
One of the biggest examples of this I can remember is the Disney cartoon 'Song of the South'. I only saw it while very young, but still remember the songs and characters. Was it really that offensive or just a victim of over zealous censorship.
I don't think I've really invested any emotional energy into it, I'm being a realist, it's a bloody movie. In a world of motgages, deadlines, bosses and families, it comes kinda far down my list of must-do's. I'm stating that the feelings that people have for the movies are more than just colours on celluloid, it is the whole package, everyelse that was going on in their lives at the time.
You know what, I don't really care who goes and sees it, I don't care who likes, I know many will and the day it is released Slashdot will be a bitch-fest, even if critics the world over praise it. There is nothing George Lucas could do that will get him praise on that first day.
So you were using the 'stick-that-is-my-light-sabre' toy then.
No thanks, busy and not really motivated to.
I saw 1 & 2 and thought that they were acceptable movies, sure they had their crap bits and just pure excuses for CGI, but they also had a lot going for them.
Now the Matrix, one was stunning. Two was pointless, bought it one DVD, watched about 70% of it once, I guess the disk will never see the light of day again, I guess. Never saw three, not even remotely interested, heard a bit, nothing that would encourage me to go.
I saw Star Wars when I was about 12, I think. I now see the new ones with my kids, they like 'em, they like the old ones too, I like that they like them all. I don't get too high & mighty about it, coz' they're only movies.
Lets be frank here and I'm not trolling.
Nothing will be good enough for the Slashdot crowd. He could film it in super douper total emersion 3D-o-vision with the best script & acting on the planet and there will still be compaints from many of the Slashdot crowd. He could choose to be totally divorced from the bloody thing and people will still hark back to how it isn't quite as good as the one they saw while in their nappy 25 years ago, and George has spoiled.
Hindsight is invariably 20-20 and rose tinted. People seem to forget that the originals had their very dodgy moments too. What people remember is not just the movie, it is the whole experience that they had when sitting there many moons ago, before the got old and embittered by age and by supporting Windows boxes (coz supporting Unix doesn't embitter one as much does it). It was going with their parents, getting popcorn, sitting surrounded in awe by peers, with their parents or older siblings. Playing with X Wing fighters for weeks afterward. It was getting all the mags & figures & watching the cheesy kids shows jump on the bandwagon. It was the fact that this was totally new, nothing else came close.
I watched the rest, I await the next as does everyone else here, even those that refuse to admit it.
Oh and just to piss off the remaining readers I haven't offended yet, I love my TiVo.
I believe that the first PG-13 was Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom. The specifically created the PG-13 to appease Steven Speilberg...
We have an, unpublicised tech support website for our company use only. On looking at the weblogs, it looks like 80-90% of all traffic is attempted hacks. We even went as far as contacting the ISP of one particularly keen individual, they, of course, weren't in the slightest bit interested.
http://www.cbc.ca/redgreen/ - Bloody great show
It is kind of annoying, isn't it. The Americanisation of movies annoys the hell out of me - The Italian Job (remake of a British classic), U-571 (mistelling of a British wartime event), the new War of the Worlds (American take on a classic British book), the list goes on
I believe that Steven Spielberg was initially approached to take on Harry Potter, but he wanted to cast Haley Joel Osment as Harry and set it in the US. The movie was only saved when JK Rowling digging her heels in and insisting that it stay in the UK.
Honestly I don't know why more people don't go the old 'build your own PVR system'.
Having checked out the Knoppmyth site it would appear that after only a new PC, tuner card, degree in computer science and many weeks of messing around with it, I would certainly end up with something that will work.
It would only require my wife and kids completeing their associates in computing for them to be able to use it. Oh, and don't forget the job working nights that I will have to take on as I will spend all day every day supporting it.
I mean, who do these TiVo johnnies think they are? Why would mr & mrs joe public ever use anything that they can plug in and just have work. Don't they realise that everyone likes to tinker around way out of their depth.
### Caution the above passages may contain trace elements of sarcasm ###
Remember that 5% is still 1 in 20 visitors, advertisers still care about these kinds of numbers and will try to get around it.
By most you mean 95% of England, about 75% of Wales and almost none of Scotland, outwith Glasgow, so not really most...
This sounds like a perfect reason to run VMware on Linux and running a MS virtual machine for all those MS only situations
Surely the problem with stuff like knoppmyth is that it is great for geeks, but impossible for mr & mrs ordinary, who wan to get home, switch on their tv and watch stuff they missed from earlier. Note I said, watch on tv, not some jacked up pc...
They both love inappropriately capitalised names...
Kinda tenuous, I know, but it is late and I'm tired
Well whaddya know he's reading on a page full of HTML as well...
You went to Detroit & took pictures, what are you, an insurance assessor?
Isn't funny how the guy that posts this does so as 'Anonymous Coward' - we may have worked out who steveb or billg was
On his death bed in 'Mad About You', when he is trying to persuade them to name the baby after him. You could just tell that every scene he was in was barely scripted and a lot of fun.
Young Frankenstein, although not with him in it, is is classic humour....
This reminds of a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon, I think it was in the Weirdos from Another Planet! collection. They use their, very flexible, carboard box to travel to another planet (I'm pretty sure it Mars) and Hobbes makes a comment about them leaving garbage lying about