i never noticed that because i was noticing this…
All riiiight! Thanks frakkintalos - that was exactly the picture I had found but I guess the link was protected and I couldn’t get it to show up. Thhe other pic was from the ep. “It’s Only a Paper Moon” when Nog returns from battle with his prosthetic leg and lays down in bed.
Glimfeather, you’ve got some nice DS9 chops - that photo is indeed from “Ascent.”
Thanks! I always wondered about that. I knew Silicon (Si) was, if not a metal, at least like a metal. But I never completely understood the difference between the two.
[Futurama Narrator] You watched it! You can’t unwatch it!!! [/Futurama Narrator]
Because they make your ears look big?
Especially if you’re a mammal.
…and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the Terminator CPU slot is exactly the right size and shape for docking an iPod Nano. :eek:
I know! First Pi Approximation Day, then Hobbit Day, and now this! It’s always a bad sign when we start forgetting important events. :rolleyes:
I’m not that far in the podcast yet, but if you’re talking about the T-X, I’m sure her boobs contain a lot more silicon than silicone. 
I am with you Audra, I was also 12ish when I saw T2 in the theaters. I remember all my friends in school talking about it and how cool it is (Liquid Metal Baby:D). I kept bugging my dad to take me because that was what everyone was talking about. I don’t think it is too much for the younger kids, especially nowadays. There is a big difference in even R rated movies. Like the difference between T2 and Audra’s favorite movie Boogie Nights (a great flick but I wouldn’t let kids under 17 watch it).
Anyone remember the movie Black Dog? Really terrible, about truck drivers? Anyway. I went to see if when I was like 9 and brought my friend along. His mom called my mom and said it wasn’t appropriate. I was like “wut” my mom was like “wut” and my friend was like “wut”
It was R but it was a real soft R. Like how (Tom Clancy’s) Air Force one is an R
is it just me, or do others also have problems downloading the full podcast?
hey, does anyone realise about 2/3 of the podcast time was spent on tangential discussions on everything else except T3?
I’m actually a huge T3 fan. I understand that the inevitability of Judgement day coincides with the renewed interest in the Terminator franchise. I understand that T3 is just a huge foreshadowing of the events in T4: Salvation.
I didn’t have a problem. When were you trying? Just now?
Your recollections about the first time you saw T2 reminded me that one of my favorite movie moments involves T2 too. I remember seeing Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in a packed large opening weekend theater, the kind we don’t have anymore in the time of 22+ screen multiplexes. Had to wait in a long line to be let into the theater. There were quite a few big blockbuster releases that summer with lots of great trailers, also being back in the day when the trailer was the first news you actually got of upcoming movies (I do remember the Rocketeer trailer eventually getting pretty old though). Anyway, when the T2 trailer came on and Arnie hit the screen the whole theater jumped up and cheered. It was a great spontaneous reaction, and was an atmosphere that certainly helped improve Robin Hood…
I’m about 1/2 way through listening to the podcast, and there’s some points I want to comment on.
Audra made the comment that a lot of major technology advancements were driven by the military. There’s a lot of truth to that. It used to be true. DARPA-Net was invented by the Department of Defense (DoD) and DARPA NET is the foundation that become the Internet. And DARPA was also what drove the creation of GPS ,etc.
BUT …and here’s the big BUT…around in maybe the mid-1980s a shift began to happen whereby the Military market became a smaller and smaller and smaller in contrast to the consumer electronics market. As a result, in the early/mid 90s the DoD HAD TO change their procurement policy to encourage military prime contractors to make use the microprocessors, memory chips, computers and other electronics that were built for the Personal Computers and consumer electronics. If they hadn’t done that (in other words if they kept only using MIL-SPEC computing technology custom made for the military) they could not possibly have stayed anywhere near the cutting edge of technology.
It’s a simple matter of economics. The talent, resources and money that an microprocessor company like Intel can throw at advancing computer technology is MANY MANY TIMES what a Defense Department lab could through at it (or a company selling technology only to the military). Why? Because a company like Intel is fueled by a massive market that is the PC/consumer electronics market. In contrast, the military market is really teeny, tiny.
Fast forward to today and if you look at a pie chart showing how the market for computing/electronics is divided up, the Consumer Electronics segment is HUGE, the Desktop Computer segment also huge, Telecommunications also pretty damn big. But the military market is probably 0.01 percent of the pie.
What all that means is the Military isn’t calling the shots when it comes to be basic building blocks (the microprocessors, memory chips, even software technology) to build the intelligence to go into robots, global military networks, unnamed aircraft etc. The military is just along for the ride.
Could anything have improved Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Maybe more Bryan Adams.
Be that as it may, tell it to the $650 Billion defense budget of fiscal year 2008.
I’m all for having a mighty military, but that figure gives me a pain in the old brain-pan.
…add that to the list of phrases I never thought I would hear. Was hoping for the “breast inflation episode”, but noooooooo
…great 'cast as usual guys!!
I do have one thing to add to Chucks “great Worf moments”. It was just after teh fight when Worf killed Gorkon. That mometn when they were putting the emperors cloak on him. In that moment, they were goign to accept Worf as the empries leader…he could have wiped away the whole “house of Mogh” incident and cleared his family name, restored his person honor, etc. All of it.
And he gave it up, because he knew it was the right thing to do and becuase he knew Martok would make a better leader.
For me that was the moment Worf became awesome
But I digress…I agree T3 was fun…but not at the level of T2 or 1. I am looking forward ot T4–I think Christian bale is gonig to make a great John Connor IMHO.
I can’t wait for the sarah connor chronicals - but i think we should call it “Summer is the hot Terminator show” instead.
giddy
Tigh, send 'em a spec script.
Scene: They’re on the run. Had to leave without taking any of their wallets, purse, anything. Time is an issue.
Then the truck breaks down, they pull into a roadside garage. Jump forward, and the mechanic comes out, and says, “I can fix it, but it’s gonna be $1000.”
They check their pockets, no one has any money, no credit cards, nothing. John says, “How are we going to get a thousand dollars?” Then the camera pans across the highway, to the Crazy Horse Gentleman’s Saloon Nudie Bar. Everyone looks at Cameron. Cut to inside of bar…
I really liked Sean’s observation that the “virus” was already loose before the events of the movie, but I have to disagree about its motivations. I’ve always thought that the “evil” machines vs. humanity was too simplistic. It seems to me that the “software” gained sentience once it was out on the the internet but had no malice per se – until humans tried to “kill” it by unleashing Skynet – the so-called “millisecond”. Then it defended itself. Maybe if there was some attempt to communicate with it instead of trying to eradicate it like vermin, all of this could have been avoided… 
Excellent point…