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Alas, not that easy. Even if it were, it's their word against HR.
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You're gonna need a bigger boat room.
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Ray Harryhausen[^] who kindled my love of special effects leading to my secret hobby as 3D modeller has just passed away. Damn, but I still love films like Jason and the Argonauts, precisely because of his work.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I still love films like Jason and the Argonauts
Great film: still fun even the fx are a bit tired they still work.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The way the skeletons move in Jason makes them creepier than modern film versions.
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I am sure the funeral will be very moving.
Slowly.
One tiny bit at a time.
I loved the Harryhausen films, and yes, no matter how many times they remake Jason and the Argonauts, his will always be the definite article.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am sure the funeral will be very moving.
Slowly.
One tiny bit
at a time.
That is very funny but I would be worried that the coffin will pop open and a skeleton hop out! 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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5!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
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x2!
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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It's not the coffin opening that worries me, it's the skeletons popping out of the ground in the graveyard.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: my secret hobby as 3D modeller
Pics?
I remember seeing a TV program about his work on Jason &c and longed to be able to do that myself.
Years later I produced a TV show (PC TV - not widely watched, I admit!) and managed to score a copy of 3D Studio for use in the show.
Show suffered because of all the time I spent playing with 3DS rather than organising and writing the show!
It just occurred to me that I may still have the broadcast tapes in storage - I wonder if I could get them digitised and YouTubed - if only to give you guys a laugh at what I was like 20 years ago 
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
Pics?
Yes, exactly my thinking, bring the pics !
Josh has some great stuff, but I did not know about Pete ...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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R.I.P. I loved all those old movies and never knew who was behind it all.
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A bit inspired by the CP@Android thread below : From my experience, a lot of sites have actually a better mobile version than the corresponding app -- that they certainly felt compelled to develop at some point of time. Example : Yahoo!, especially their mail; or the Youtube app is a PITA compared to the mobile version.
I understand that sites with functionalities (social networks, banks, ...) develop applications, but to me, reading the online paper can be made from the mobile site and does not necessarily require a dedicated application.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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My favorites are the 'mobile only' sites, that render 200 pixels wide on my 24" flat panel  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Veni, vidi, vici.
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Rage wrote: reading the online paper can be made from the mobile site and does not necessarily require a dedicated application.
My wife does web development, always ends up bringing this up when I talk about learning apps.
"What for? So your sight will work on the phone, like it does perfectly fine the way I built it?"
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Mobile apps are better because the programmer is constrained to limited resources - screen space, bandwidth, processing power, memory. It's like the amazing things people could do with an 8K Apple II or Commodore PET, or a 64K PC or C64. But nooo, if you're developing a desktop-based web app, it's all bloat, bloat, bloat.
A lesson is to be learned here.
 Now where did I put my 6502 assembly language programming book???
Marc
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I was googling for some data I need for my project, and came across ... this site:
http://web.cortial.net/transfo/pertes_vide.html[^]
Pure design from 1998 à la Frontpage. Had me smile There must be billions of such sites, sleeping in their clothes from the last century...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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That's excellent!
It looks better than StackOverflow, anyway... 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Looks better than the site an applicant just included in his portfolio.
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Back when every page had to have a tiled background image.... for some reason.
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MehGerbil wrote: for some reason
I think you spelled "because it's awesome" wrong...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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This reminded me of the group project I did for my databases class. The grading TA told us that the looks of our website didn't matter at all, as long as all the functionality worked.
We really took that to heart, as our website was probably the most boring piece of **** to look at that I've ever seen on the web, but functionally, it was probably the best in the whole class.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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