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As I recall that's pretty much what people said at the time (and of course Cleopatra itself had an unfavourable review headlined "Thje Biggest Asp Disaster In the World")
I've not experienced any problems - where are you reading this?
I remember Cleopatra in '63. It got all sorts of Oscars awards and there was a showing of one of the scenes of the movie during the Oscar's Award TV program (in b&w). That made me want to see the movie but I was just 15, didn't drive and my parents weren't interested so I missed it until many years later. Meh, it was OK. Again, lots of big name actors, great sets, props, action, costumes, photography, etc but it was a loooong movie.
A few years later, in 1965 I was in Florida for a few weeks in the summer visiting my aunt & uncle. My aunt took her 5 kids and me to Cocoa Beach to see Dr. Zhivago and I really really enjoyed it despite its length. I think it was what got me interested in pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
Duckies!!
This one had a sorta Jurassic Park vibe...
I swear there was a brachiosaurus there when I took that...
He's still there; just hiding amongst the trees.
She is right. I had Adobe support on the phone for 3 hours. The call wait was over 2 hrs so I left my number for their call. The gal said they are swamped and my problem was not unique or isolated. I suspect it has to do with a recent update they deemed critical and the moment you sign in it appears as though your subscription goes null. I was forced into a windows update in order to continue with me a subscription which I prepay annually.
Edit: And a newer release that was incompatible with windows versions below 1809.
Well, the Oscars are actually just the industry giving each other a pat on the back. Doesn't mean much. The only awards that matter are the People's Choice Awards. Can't listen to critics, either. I mean...they all panned Star Wars! I'm just sayin'.
Dana
How true. Same for the grammys and the Emmy awards. It's the industry voting for those within the industry. That's why I have a problem with what's your fav product and PA's giving answers.
Some cute pictures for any who may find of interest~!
Um, no grass during the Jurassic period.
Hoard of hoards.
@ TJohn... Thank you TJohn
@ Kyoto Kid... Here's hoping you don't see fires again. Once is enough!
@ Charlie Judge... Thank you.
@ ArtAngel... That is one disaster I can do without. Earthquakes, Mudslides, Falling Trees, and Fires are more then enough to deal with. Wish you well!
John Hammond/InGen's mid 90's tropical Death-By-Dinosaur theme park- "Mostly Cretaceous, (But A Little Bit) Jurassic Park"...
They had grass there... probably because the movie was supposed to have taken place on a bunch of islands close to Costa Rica... also because most of the dinosaurs were Cretaceous and were glammed up for dramatic effect and science took a bit of a back seat.
So you are correct, the Jurassic dinosaurs would have been like "What the froyo, bro?"..."What's this stringy green stuff?"... But the mostly Cretaceous dinosaurs would have been like "Yo, I know this stuff... A Bruhathkayosaurus from India told me about this... it's like the new moss or something... you can eat it or make a nest out of it or even smoke it...".
Okay, they probably didn't smoke that grass, but apparently some time in the early 2000's scientists discovered some fossilized Dino-dung with grass bits in it.
I had no idea about that, I was actually looking for an article about the groundcovers (back then mostly mosses and ferns) that may have occupied the same niche as grass, but I found this... https://www.livescience.com/3912-dung-reveals-dinosaurs-ate-grass.html
Which is kinda interesting because (I think this article mentions it), I've read there were some small mammals in existence back then that seemed to be very similar to ones that subsist off of grasses, but there was no evidence grass existed back then so it puzzled scientists as to what their diet was... I assumed they were time traveling mice, but apparently not.
I'm annoyed I can't find the article about the plants that dinosaurs fed on that were very similar to grasses, it was pretty interesting because while these plants were not grasses, there were a bunch of plants that probably looked almost similar and would not have been that unfamiliar looking today... I think the article was sort of about how sometimes illustrators who are aware grass didn't exist yet, leave out all groundcovers, like it's grass or nothing.
I hate when the internet buries interesting stuff under tons of lame articles... it's especially frustrating when you discover something by "going down the rabbit hole" going from one link to another until you have no idea how you got there and once you lose that article, you can never find it again.
According to other things I found, the grasses that did exist were probably mostly were from India, parts of Africa and South America, possibly having spread from South America... but most of these articles are from 2005 and anything newer seems almost cut and paste... I wonder if anything new has been found.
NM.
New Mexico?... Network Module?... Nautical Mile?... Naughty Monkeys?... Naughty Mile? (Sorta like the "Green Mile" but with spanking instead)... Nitronium Perchlorate?... Nudist Meeting?... Nudist Monks?... Nudist Monkeys?... Nuclear Materials?... Nuclear Monkeys?... Noregs Mållag?(Det er en Norse ting)...
Don't leave us hanging... (vær så snill)
It was my stupid dinosaur grass thing... right...?... it came off as snobby, ill informed or I left out the Egyptian pollen bit...
Or you are warning us about the nuclear monkeys?
Okay...
Never mind.
Wait that's it!...
Noites Marcianas... the long running popular Portuguese talk show?
Hmm.
Yeah... it's okay I guess.
No Misty yet?... Misty where are you?
Speaking of grasses and stuff
Yes~
Non-complaint: Wheee... I finally replaced the unreliable CPU fan in my old computer. Yay! And while I had the computer on the operating table I also replaced its button battery. The old one was 8 years old, I figured it was about time. Although I almost paniced when I powered on after reconnecting the bazillions of wires to the back, front, & top that ran to the small army of external devices. Nothing happenened. Zero, nada, zilch, nothing!
I tried the power supply's master switch in both positions a couple times, still zilch. Then I spotted it (thankfully I still had the side panel off), I'd forgotten to plug in the primary motherboard power connector that had been disconnected so that I could easily get to the button battery. Whew! One pair of underwear saved.
@McGyver: When following links down a rabbit hole, I right-click a link, and select "Open in new tab". That way, when I've closed all of those new tabs, I find the one that started it all. Just a thought.
Dana
You can also hold ctrl while clicking the link.
or click with the middle button/wheel.
I'm flattered that you think my memory is that good.
I mostly browse the internet on my iPad... also, again I'm flattered that you think my memory is that good.
That one I wasn't aware of... probably because I used to be a Mac user for so long... also me having a lousy memory doesn't help.
Actually, when I'm aware I'm headed into uncharted territory, I do remember to do the "open in new tab" (which for some unknown reason Apple decided to rename "open in background", but one of the most annoying things an iPad will do is sometimes as you are scrolling or swiping, it will open a new window for some crappy ad, and if you go to close out that new window, it instead closes out the main collection of tabs you had open.
I thought it was me at first, but it has to be some bug or stupid feature... with Apple it's hard to tell sometimes what is a bug and what is an idiotic feature.
I'm positive they switch up stuff just to mess with users... Mac fans love that, people who are trying to get stuff done... not so much.
Does Mac still replace an identically named folder & its contents instead of merge the new contents with the old folder?
I always use that, usually the first button to wear on my meeces is the wheel clicker lol
Complaint - I've been watching the Champions League games and there's a massive crowd roaring in the background, but you can see that all the stands are empty. I've also watched some of the games with realistic sound, ie. none.
Not sure what's worse/better, a silent football match or games with fake crowd sound effects.
Complaint: I've run out of computers to upgrade.
Over the last two years I've done everything that is reasonable and even some things that are unreasonable to all of my computers. There are no more worlds to conquer. Every daily use machine is on an UPS. All daily use machines (and laptop) have at least one SSD replacing the system disk. All have more than adequate data storage. All have adequate automatic internal and external multiple backup schemes. All are completely fleshed out with memory*. I've added USB3 connections to those that can take advantage of it. Every machine has fully functional software. No machine has a part that doesn't work. My LAN is 1000Gb. My wireless is dual channel. My power connections are neatly organized and all my data wires are neatly tiewrapped. My computers are also connected into my primary TV display. I have wireless keyboards & mice where useful, also allowing me to play games on my big TV from my comfy recliner chair. have wirelessly controlled HDMI and audio switches so I don't have to leave my chair to enable a game. I'm so f'n happy.
It's that feeling you get when you run out of things to watch on all your favorite TV channels.
* My latest and greatest machine has 32GB of 2666 DDR4 RAM and could be upgraded to 64GB 3200 RAM, but I'd have to tweak clocks on the motherboard and I am loathe to fix things that ain't broken (besides having to buy four new, and more expensive, memory modules than I need, consequetly wasting four perfectly good and expensive memory modules).
Ghosts... the tortured souls of a thousand football fans condemned to forever haunt the stands in eternal torment... that might be marginally worse.
Marginally.
Silence is odd, but genuine... the canned cheers are weird, it's a football match, not 70s sitcom... and that leads me back to the ghosts... how do we know who those cheers were for... or when... or how many of those folks are still kicking about.
Think about how many rabid fans are out there who might not like their cheers misappropriated, plagiarized for the actions of a different team...
Yeah... it's not long before we see a massive spectral eruption, a phantasmagorical event that would surpass even the great Manhattan Crossrip of 1984 or the Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947, we're talking psychotically enraged sports wraiths, not mere shadows, but focused, non-terminal repeating phantasms, the big, bad nasty ones... class five full-roaming vapors! This won't be a bunch of trick or treater in sheets, going "Boo"!... This will lead to an upheaval of biblical proportions, fire and brimstone, rivers and seas boiling, the dead rising from their graves, human sacrifices... cats and dogs living together... Mass hysteria!
Then who you gonna call?
Nobody, that's who...
Quiet matches are way better.
Artificial audience. What's next? Artificial players? Certainly makes betting on the game iffy
I remember during the time I lived in Florida, the game Jai-Alai [high-lie] was popular. Big building (called a "Fronton" I believe), large audiences seated in the bleachers above the playing cage (yes cage), players with long throwing wickets tied to their arms and they'd whip a hard ball at wicked speed to bounce it off a wall to keep it in bounds either out of the reach of the other player or dangerously close and consequently uncatchable to the other player. Sort of a lethal game of Handball. Miss catching the ball with your wicket and you could get a killing blow on the head or a broken arm or ribs. Great fun. Of course with a great fun potential killing sport comes great betting opportunity. I went to the Fronton in Melbourne a few times and actually bet. Never won anything but I started thinking how can you bet on a desperate game like this played by human beings extremely susceptible to bribing and rife with petty jealousies. Dog racing yes, horse racing, maybe, but people hurling lethal objects at each other? The era of Jai-Lai in Florida is over, or at least diminished in popularity somewhat. But it was all extremely real. And just like car races I believe people were secretly hoping for an incident.
*Jai Alai
...in a post on the forums here. It had more to do with a recent update than actual performance.