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#300718
Topic
Remember Remember The 5th of November
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300718/action/topic#300718
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Originally posted by: HotRod
Originally posted by: C3PX
I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.


I was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.
No doubt it'll be turned into something completely different now, be celebrated on a different day and will have nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.


I didn't even know who Guy Fawkes was after seeing the movie. Maybe I didn't pay attention. Maybe I saw it as a movie that was trying to scare the masses into thinking the government was starting to control their lives. Either way, I didn't think it was that great.
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#300717
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300717/action/topic#300717
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I bet he is Ziggys new account.


Actually, Gryphon's been around the preservation forums for a while (or at least partially). He obviously doesn't post much, but his account isn't new.

I happen to agree with him. I think it's really lame to point out the difference of the title, especially since the title, IN THE MOVIE, hasn't been changed. The only thing that's been changed about the title is the DVD case. If I'm not mistaken, Spielberg even said, when it was released on DVD, that the actual title in the movie would not be changed. The only reason the DVD bore that title was to make it consistent with the others.
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#300698
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300698/action/topic#300698
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Since the studios seem to be content with just giving us higher bit rate mpeg2 video, as seen here http://www.blu-raystats.com/index.php, I'd say it is pretty meaningless. They have so much more space to work with, yet instead of getting movies in the superior VC-1 or AVC codec, we're getting the same old mpeg2. They only seem to use AVC or VC-1 when they're space constrained, like with HD-DVD.

Mpeg2 can look great if the movie isn't too long and/or you have a double-layered Blu-ray.

But why even bother when VC-1 and AVC are superior? They could save space and make the extras in HD as well. Right now, on most releases, the movie is in hi-def while the extras are all in SD (generally 480p I believe).


Originally posted by: lordjedi
As for data management, I don't know anyone that's even using regular DVDs for anything more than offsite archival purposes. They certainly aren't using it for regular backups and they most certainly wouldn't be using Blu-Ray for regular backups either. 50 GB still isn't enough for anything other than moving a large database across sites that aren't linked by a network. But since USB hard drives are much cheaper than BD burners and media, that's used instead. For general backups, we're sticking with tapes. For "live" backups, we're mirroring onto external hard drives. Blu-Ray wouldn't even come into the equation, much like DVDs don't either.

I dread the day when software comes on a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disc. I can't imagine how long that software will take to install (Adobe Dreamweaver and Illustrator CS3 already take 30 mins each, and they're on DVD).


Originally posted by: Tiptup
I'm not saying this bonus would be huge, but it would still be something. Things like PC games would have a sizable difference on a Blu-ray: faster installs, faster load times, more graphics, more cut scenes . . . I dunno, I don't really care that much. If Blu-ray can't be the dominant format, then I'd hope something even better comes along pretty soon.


Why would having a bigger disk give you a faster install or faster load times? Every PC game I've ever played install itself onto the hard drive and only uses the disc to make sure you have the game (which is pretty easily cracked). You'd get more graphics and more cut scenes, but a lot of those things are starting to become available through digital distribution. Take a look at Steam. You don't even have to leave your house to buy the game. You but the game in advance, they start preloading content onto your computer. When the game is released, it gets unlocked and you start playing. If you ever need to reinstall your system, you can back the game up or just redownload it. A lot of gamers would love more graphics, but I think you'd find that fewer want more cut scenes (unless it's a Final Fantasy game). The more you're taken out of the game and just watching cut scenes, the more it's like watching a movie and not playing a game.
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#300691
Topic
real life jedi academy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300691/action/topic#300691
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: lordjedi
It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah..


Hmm, I am guessing the whole Masters and Knights and trials changes took place sometime around the year 1999, am I right? My friend and I use to choreograph fights with metal broom sticks. Getting hit in the fingers by accident was incredibly painful. But it looked really cool we we could go at it full force. We broke a lot of broom sticks though.


Actually no. The Master, Knights, and trials changes took place just before ROTS if I remember correctly. We had actually just started meeting up as a local group of Star Wars fans in 1999. We didn't start our first lightsaber class until about 2003 (someone knew someone that did RenFair and could teach us the basics). We did it to learn lightsaber combat, which evolved into wanting to do a fan film, which then evolved into a choreographed battle for charity events. Somewhere along the way the officers of the club stopped caring about the age of combatants (it was originally 18+ only) and pretty much only cared about the ROE. Essentially, we had it setup so the club wouldn't be liable if you got hurt (hence only 18+ could fight) unless your parents signed a waiver and met with the Pres and VP of the club (we wanted the parents to know what their kid was doing and we wanted them to know who we were). That worked out fine for a while, but once we stepped down (I was the VP), nobody cared about enforcing it.

I pretty much stopped going when they started introducing a lot of rules meant to "protect me from myself". Like no hopping on one leg quickly, because you might not be able to stop and you'll run into someones blade. Of course, they let the "you must wear gloves rule" slide from time to time, again probably because they didn't really care to enforce it.

I don't believe anyone considered it "real" fighting except maybe one guy that was banned from the class for making threats.

As far as I know, it's still the biggest activity they do. I wouldn't mind getting into it again, but not with the group I use to fight with.
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#300614
Topic
real life jedi academy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300614/action/topic#300614
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Do they do any actual fights or is it all choreographed? I use to belong to a group that did that once a week. We did choreographed fights for charity events, but straight up combat the rest of the time. Let me tell you that getting hit by a Parks Saber blade can hurt unless the person pulls their hit. Choreographed fights obviously don't involve any hits and it looks like all those fights are choreographed.

I'm sure they have a lot of fun. I stopped being involved when the group I was with lost sight of what we were doing it for. It was originally done to prepare for charity events. It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah. Basically, in my mind, it became to much like everyone trying to make Star Wars real. They even had one student that wanted part of his "trials" to be him using his mind to find out which box a crystal was in. That treaded far to close to mysticism and religion for me.
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#300602
Topic
Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300602/action/topic#300602
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
While Blu-ray's superiority as a format doesn't translate to the general viewing of HDTV video, that sure as hell doesn't mean that its higher bit rate and a greater storage space is "meaningless." Perhaps people might like to work with content of even higher complexity and, if so, Blu-ray would be capable of that. For a simple example, additional "special features" for a movie release are possible on a BD. When you move away from movies and start talking about general data management, there are all sorts of reasons why we'd want Blu-ray to be the dominant format in the market.


Since the studios seem to be content with just giving us higher bit rate mpeg2 video, as seen here http://www.blu-raystats.com/index.php, I'd say it is pretty meaningless. They have so much more space to work with, yet instead of getting movies in the superior VC-1 or AVC codec, we're getting the same old mpeg2. They only seem to use AVC or VC-1 when they're space constrained, like with HD-DVD.

As for data management, I don't know anyone that's even using regular DVDs for anything more than offsite archival purposes. They certainly aren't using it for regular backups and they most certainly wouldn't be using Blu-Ray for regular backups either. 50 GB still isn't enough for anything other than moving a large database across sites that aren't linked by a network. But since USB hard drives are much cheaper than BD burners and media, that's used instead. For general backups, we're sticking with tapes. For "live" backups, we're mirroring onto external hard drives. Blu-Ray wouldn't even come into the equation, much like DVDs don't either.

I dread the day when software comes on a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disc. I can't imagine how long that software will take to install (Adobe Dreamweaver and Illustrator CS3 already take 30 mins each, and they're on DVD).
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#300452
Topic
Cash cow-abanga shit, another SW OT dvd repackaging for the holidays! Luca$$$
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300452/action/topic#300452
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Originally posted by: CO
What is so bothersome about the format wars, and the holding out by Lucas/Spielberg of many of their movies during the early days of DVD is that it never used to be like that with VHS & Laserdisk.

What holds these formats back from really taking off is great titles, and the reason you bought a VCR in the 80's was because the OT was one of the first movies out there. The reason you would buy a Laserdisk Player was because you could get the OT in widescreen. Now it seems like you have to wait for these formats to mature to the masses, THEN we will see the big titles.

Just think if SW, Jaws, Indiana Jones, LOTR, Back to the Future were all out right now on one universal HD format, I would be Best Buy right now and saying bye-bye to DVD, but why would I want to even venture into a new format with two competing products, and only a handful of 'A' titles?


Blame the media companies for starting the war, not the studios. All those movies would be out right now on one universal HD format (well, maybe SW excepted ) if the hi-def media companies had actually worked together and created a single standard. Instead we got two and low consumer adoption because no one wants to get stuck with a dead format.
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#300449
Topic
Cinematic Titanic- New MST3K Company To Riff Star Wars Holiday Special?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300449/action/topic#300449
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Originally posted by: C3PX
The Holiday Special is only around in super low quality, and is not the easiest thing to get your hands on, not to mention it only exists as bootlegs. Howard the Duck at least had a real VHS release. No to mention Lucas tries to pretend that thing doesn't exist, that would make it kind of hard for them to have a legally obtained copy and permission from Lucas.


While I doubt it's the Holiday Special, it's not hard to get a hold of at all. Exhibitors at Sci-Fi and comic book conventions tend to have it readily available. It's also available on just about every p2p network around. The Holiday Special, for all its evilness, is the easiest thing to get a hold of these days.

If it were 10 years ago when Google didn't exist, there was no bittorrent or other main stream p2p software and the web was still in its infancy, I'd agree with you. But that's not the case anymore.
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#300386
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KOTOR III....maybe in 2008
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300386/action/topic#300386
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Originally posted by: C3PX
That really sucks. Stupid MMOs. If I wanted to interact with other people, I would go out and interact with people the old fasion way.

lord jedi, how did they ruin Galaxies? Wasn't that always intended to be a MMO?

Yep and it was a good one until the NGE when they made Jedi a class you could pick. Galaxies is suppose to take place during the Galactic Civil War, when any Jedi that might exist are few and far between. Originally, the Jedi class was something that was totally random and had to be happened upon (usually through playing a long time and building a skill tree big enough). Now, there's just clans of Jedi running around, slaughtering anyone they feel like because they can. I've heard stories of groups of them running through Tattooine and just destroying the Stormtrooper outposts because they can (they're Jedi, so they're pretty much unstoppable in a group).

Jedi are suppose to be hard to play (you need to hide from the Empire) and few and far between. The old RPG got it right, but Sony and LucasArts screwed the pooch when they made it a class you could pick at the start. That, and from one of those links I followed, it seems that a lot of players had their characters taken away when the NGE was implemented. It's no wonder so many people left it and went to WoW.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: C3PX
That really sucks. Stupid MMOs. If I wanted to interact with other people, I would go out and interact with people the old fasion way.


You do you realize you're interacting with people on a massively multiplayer online message board, right? ^_~

Seriously, though, I've never played any of the KOTOR games (don't have an XBOX), but I feel the same way about MMORPGs.


Do you have a PC with a decent graphics card? Both KOTOR 1 and 2 are available for PC as well.
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#300380
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KOTOR III....maybe in 2008
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300380/action/topic#300380
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Originally posted by: ferris209
Here is some terrible news, seems like there is some talk that KOTOR III is being worked up as a MMO, this sucks to me.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=174731
http://www.totalvideogames.com/news/Bioware_And_LucasArts_Reassert_Relationship_12327_5665_0.htm
http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/19/biowares-upcoming-mmo-based-in-kotor-universe/
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/23/bioware_working_on_kotor_mmo_/1


I guess ruining Galaxies wasn't good enough for them. Now they're going to destroy KoToR too? I guess they need a consistent revenue stream and figure this is the way to go. Oh well, no KoToR 3 for me (I don't pay to play unless it's my broadband bill).
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#300221
Topic
What happened to the live-action show?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300221/action/topic#300221
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Originally posted by: C3PX
A one hundred episode contract is quite a commitment too. If I am not mistaken contracts are usually for a number of episodes or a season, not the full run of a series, once the show becomes successful then they renew the contract for a longer period. Just to put this into perspective, Star Trek the Next Generation ran for 178 episodes over the course of 7 seasons. A 100 episode contract would be about five years. I am pretty sure this whole thing is fake, do we have evidence that Rick really said these things? Even the thing about the wait for the next DVD being for the format war to end, this is what many have been speculating, but if this had really officially be announced it seems like it would be all over the place.

I believe McCallum mentioned that before (someone posted it in another thread). He said they were waiting for the format war to end and if it didn't that they might just go forward with digital distribution (ie HD downloads).

Originally posted by: C3PX
Of course with the whole 50 episode thing with the CG Clone War thing, I guess I couldn't put it past them to be arrogant enough to think their series could last 400 episodes before ever airing. This series could be great, it could last ten years for all we know, it could have great writing and be nothing like the PT at all. It could have great writers and great actors and be outright fantastic. But this is not the way a TV series is usually done, if this is true it is hard to believe people that have been in this business for so long.


That's just it, they haven't been in the TV business. I'm starting to wonder if they really do know how it works. You are correct though. Shows usually start as either a mid season replacement (12 or 13 episodes) or a full season. Some shows don't last that long though (Vanished and Justice were both cancelled about halfway in, with Vanished finishing the story on MySpace). So there isn't really a "contract" per se. The networks order a certain number of episodes based on how well they think the show will do and when they plan to start it. If the ratings don't pan out early on, the show gets axed. This is why Heroes got a full season. They had stellar ratings for the first few episodes, so NBC ordered a full season. Then they got renewed.

That's how TV works. The fact that Lucas already has 100 episodes ready (5 seasons worth) shows that he doesn't have a clue how TV really works. Sure, he's got enough material for 5 years, but so did JMS (Babylon 5) and look what happened to that show. If it's horrible, the network will kill it. If it's great, they'll want more.

I'm starting to think that the only way this show will see the light of day is direct to DVD or by download (or both). If it's a free download, I'd take a look at it. If it's pretty good, I'd want it on DVD with extra features. If it's crap, it won't be worth the time.
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#300214
Topic
What happened to the live-action show?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300214/action/topic#300214
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Originally posted by: Laserschwert
Yeah, right, 400 Episodes... "The Simpsons" have just crossed Episode 400, and that's after 19 years and 19 seasons... I don't think - no, I KNOW that 400 episodes of SW won't happen. 19 Years of a SW-series? C'mon.


This was my first thought as well. 400 episodes?! That's 20 years! And this is for a show that hasn't even been picked up yet!

Lucas and McCallum are truely living in a dreamworld. Either that or they seriously haven't considered how many years are in 400 episodes.

How old is Daniel Logan anyway? Does he really want to play Boba Fett until he's nearly 40? Talk about being typecast.
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#300205
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Going in for a job interview soon.....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300205/action/topic#300205
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Do you know what is a good way to pass time at my job? Could I wear headphones while I do carts with a hood up?


You may be able to get away with wearing a single earphone. Ask your supervisor if it's ok for you to wear a radio with a single earphone.

On a related note, you haven't been working there that long (you posted on your fourth day). So you've worked no more than 16 hours and you're already bored out of your mind. I would also tell your supervisor that if they have any other jobs for you, you'll do those too. Otherwise, do whatever you can and stop looking at your watch.

When I worked at FedCo, as shitty as that place was, my supervisor actually listened. I was one of the few grocery dept guys that liked working the register (because the time absolutely flew by). So he put me there whenever he could. Any other time I ended up pulling soda and water as well as some other things. The soda and water aisle kept us really busy since water would practically fly off the shelf. I'd get it restocked and it would be practically empty on my next run.
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#300123
Topic
Need some nerd help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300123/action/topic#300123
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Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Deleting System 32 will show you your personal information.


I'm a WAN admin.


Try again.


As a WAN admin you should already know the answer to this question. Someone would essentially have to know your password, guess your password, or have access to the machine where the cookie is stored. So either logout when you're done (if it's a publicly accessible machine) or use a harder password.

For the youngins, WAN is Wide Area Network. Think of a business or college campus with multiple buildings that are all linked together.
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#300122
Topic
Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300122/action/topic#300122
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
i actually prefer blu ray since it has uncompressed PCM which hd-dvd titles do not.

the thing that really pisses me off though is all the releases with mpeg-2 crap which is what caused artefacting on dvd to begin with.

VC-1 and avc titles are much better looking.

24 frames per second playback is also a must so blu ray wins again.

HD-DVD players can decode uncompressed PCM. Whether the studios are putting it on the discs is another matter. See here.

Both formats do 24p as well. See the previous link.

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
wow so you are able to do something george lucas can't avoid major artefacting and blockiness like the awful gout.


This has nothing to do with mpeg2 and everything to do with Lucas using a laserdisc master from 1997. Any other DVD that has been remastered properly doesn't have this problem. Please stop blaming mpeg2 on what is so clearly a Lucas problem.
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#300015
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Heroes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300015/action/topic#300015
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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
Looks like Peter is really pissed off again. Remember what happened last time that happened? He nearly wiped out .07% of the world's population...


Peter wasn't really pissed of when he went nuclear. He may have been a little stressed by what was about to happen, but he didn't look pissed to me. And it doesn't look like being pissed off really works anyway. He wasn't able to knock those guys around when he tried it a couple of episodes ago.
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#299887
Topic
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299887/action/topic#299887
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Originally posted by: Mike O
Don't have Photoshop.

I wasn't suggesting you did. I'm suggesting that the guys that publish the photos did and used it to clean up and enhance the photos.

Originally posted by: Mike O
Now, Grey's Anatomy's Sara Ramirez is slightly more subtle.

That's a pretty girl. Curvy. Less va-va-voom. Less can be more, IMO.


Curvy? That's what I call fat. Curves does not have to equal fat though. Take a look at Candice Michelle. She's definitely got curves, but she's not fat. Likewise, Jennifer Ellison has plenty of curves in all the right places. As far as I can see with Sara Ramirez, she's actually kind of chubby, which is probably why most of her pictures show her almost fully clothed. I'm not saying she looks bad. She looks pretty good for a woman her size. But that's definitely not just curves she has.
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#299755
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299755/action/topic#299755
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Originally posted by: PaulisDead2221
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: Tiptup
I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't like O'Reilly, but I find Colbert's routine rather funny myself. O'Reilly's a jackass. And then he tried to title himself our cultural warrior. Uhg.


Is their even a culture war?


GOD DAMMIT SEAN WOOKIE!!! Sorry but it's the same word I had to say something again!


Dude, you're going to have to give up or just stop using the Internet. It's a losing battle. Trying to correct everyone's spelling and grammar mistakes is only going to make you go insane.

Back OT. I watch O'Reilly just about everyday. I've honestly only seen him try to "spin" a couple of things in a different light. Most of the time, he asks yes or no questions about hot bed political issues and gets really long answers from the person he's interviewing. Case in point, he asked one of the people from a group that protects illegal immigrants if she thought it was ok for people to cross our borders illegally. She kept answering that all people are protected by the 4th amendment. This all had something to do with a household of illegal immigrants that the government busted into and essentially hauled people off to be deported. So basically, she wouldn't answer the question. From her answer, I gather that her opinion is that once you cross the border, illegally or not, you're protected by the 4th amendment, which is bullshit.

The only other time I've seen him "spin" an issue is when a house full of possible illegals caught fire and some children died. It was in New York and they basically have a local ordinance that says the cops can't do anything to investigate possible illegals. It was essentially a case where the house was totally overcrowded beyond what local zoning laws allow, but they were looking the other way because New York is a sanctuary city.
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#299747
Topic
Windows Vista
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299747/action/topic#299747
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Originally posted by: oojason
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Originally posted by: oojason
'Tis 1.8 Intel, with 2gb ram (uupgraded) and 200mb integrated graphics - which 'should' handle Vista Basic easily. For the speed and user friendliness of Vista I shall be going back to previous OS quite soon.

For some reason I did find Vista Premium runs quicker than Basic - though as I couldn't find a permanant (cough) way of upgrading the OS I reverted back to Basic.

Computers, eh?


Can I assume it's a single core 1.8 Intel? Like a Pentium 4? Or is it a Core 2 Duo? Also, I'll assume that your graphics chip isn't an ATI or Nvidia. In that case, you don't really hav 200 mb graphics ram. What you've got is an integrated POS graphics chip that's taking 200 mb of system RAM, leaving you with about 1.8 GB of system RAM. You could probably turn off Aero to get a speed boost.

The other question is, what do you consider poor performance? I've personally never seen bad performance from Vista outside of the initial user login (when it sets up the desktop).



apologies - I forgot about my post in this thread - aye it is a single core intel, but it has an ATI Radeon graphics card. The 'Aero' substitute I rarely use as I think it's just a nice gimmick - same as with the sidebar (which seems to be the main cause of the power hogging).

I put Win 2000 on on a dual boot - and that runs very smoothly (as it did on my old P3 2002/3 laptop) - I'll keep both on for now - but at the momoent I can't think of a reason why I'd use Vista over 2000 other than the gimmicks.


Better memory management, much better support for FireWire. Well, if it were Vista vs Win2k, that's the reasons I'd pick Vista. You're right about the sidebar though. I think that's the one thing I did turn off. Though, it didn't seem like a resource hog, I just didn't like it. And to be perfectly honest, I think the graphical things in both OS X and Vista are nothing but gimmicks. I am quite fond of the 3D flip though, especially since you can flip back to the desktop without having to click the "show desktop" button on the quick bar.
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#299745
Topic
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299745/action/topic#299745
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Originally posted by: Mike O
Originally posted by: Mike O
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
She's not baby faced, you're just getting older.


I'm about the same age as she is . Look at her in contrast with Sackoff's tomboyish character; she has a much softer look about her. Like I say; baby faced .


Tomboyish Katee Sackoff.

I rest my case.

EDIT: WHY WON'T THE PICTURES DISPLAY?


It's called Photoshop. The images you posted of Jennifer Ellison look like they all came out of a magazine. The ones you posted of the other two were from TV grabs. Photoshop can do amazing things you know.