This is basically the equivalent of going from Fulltime Temp to Hired Employee.

I too was quite shocked to hear he died. He will be missed.

Voyager doesn't use energy to travel, it's still moving at the same speed it was 27 years ago when it used Saturn's gravity field to pick up speed and pass by Titan. The on-board rocket engines haven't been fired since, so any acceleration it may receive comes from the solar winds of our sun, which negate once it leaves the heliosphere.

Man in the Iron mask is one of his best movies, and also has Jeremy Irons in it (who, IMO, delivered the only good performance in Eragon), along with possibly Leo Dicaprio's most diverse performance since Gilbert Grape.

I was a little lost at the end of Halo 3 as to just where Cortana and John were. If the warp bubble closed with the ship only half in it, then they should have been left back at the Arc, which would place them beyond the solar system and a million light years away from the nearest planet. The only thing I could come up with is that they got tossed out somewhere in between earth and the arc.

Very solid animation too.

Someone complained about the later books creating more questions than they did answers. That's the whole point! Halo is built around the same titillation method used on tv shows like Lost and Heroes. They cause all this rampant speculation amongst the fans, and then Joe throws out a big season finale with Contact Harvest, answering tons of questions in one fell swoop, but still leaving a lot left unanswered so they can keep writing books.

Bungie deliberately left out a lot of story detail when they made Halo 1. They figured that most gamers wouldn't care about the specifics of the series (and they were right). This is why they never mention the other spartans, or anything else having to do with the master chief's past.

This was a good idea, but unfortunately it has led people to think that there is no real story there. The first two books were written to fill that gap. If you found yourself wondering what the hell Guilty Spark was muttering about in the library, you would probably like these books. The problem is that the books do not survive on their own. Nylund did not write the later books to be standalone, you can't pick up book three and get involved in the characters, you have to start from the beginning.

Joe wrote Contact Harvest for the fans of the series. There's a reason he waited until a month after Halo 3 had shipped to release the book. It's meant to be Halo's Revelations, the point in the series where everything comes together. If you've read all the other books and are into the story, Contact Harvest is amazing. If you're picking it up standalone, you'll hate it.

As a fan of the books, I don't like what I see in this announcement. The covenant war is over, there's already an alliance between the humans and the elites. I don't see what this book as to tell. Gray team makes me think of the spartan IIIs on Onyx, but if that's the case I'd rather it were Nylund finishing the tale.

There is still lots of story to be told (Spartan IIIs on Onyx, the retaking of the elite's planet, and whatever planet that was at the end of Halo 3), but this book doesn't sound like it covers any of that.

I've been playing with this idea in my mind for a long time. Manmade floating atoll cities seem like a great way to handle population issues.

Most of the characters in the film are based on real life hackers. Dade Murphy is loosely based on Kevin Mitnick, having received the same sentence of not being allowed to use a computer or touch tone phone.

I had the thing up until 1998 when my mother forced me to throw it out because she didn't want to pay to move it cross-country with us.

That actually made me double over in laughter.

The machines that end up getting so infected they're unusable are all owned by people who don't know anything about computers and think that the blue E on their desktop actually IS the internet.

Or they have a child with administrator access...

What I am surprised about is the lack of mentioning Anne McCaffrey's DragonRiders series. The story ended at All The Weyrs of Pern, they lived happily ever after, why keep going? And now her son is continuing the series even further with a completely different cast of characters in an earlier timeline.
I would have much preferred her do some more books in the Crystal Singer series. Killashandra was a cool character...

The same is true of Mark Hamil's Joker. No other actor comes even close to his nails-on-chalkboard take on The Joker's voice.

All tunnels weren't connected, however, so sometimes the ship would have to spend a day or more moving at sub-light to reach the next opening.

I find this hard to believe.

Alf can never be remade, it's that campy kind of show that could only exist in the 80s.

And shame on you for disparaging Darwin. He and Lucas were the whole reason I got into that show.

It was pretty clear some other students had discovered this too, there was graffiti all over the wall.

I have bad feeling about this Splice's potential, however. The poster looks far too much like a mix of Species and Alien. Most people are going to look at this poster and think "Eh, another crappy creature film"

I was all for AMD until recently when it came time to build an all new PC. The intel chips cost the same now, and make a fraction of the heat that the AMDs make. Considering that my old AMD is literally used as the heater in my office, I wanted to avoid that again.

Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, and Mario Bros.

I loved this movie when it came out for it's brilliant adaptation of game elements into real-world, actually plausible, devices. The film never attempts to take itself seriously, and that's why it is so much fun to watch.

I'm gonna have to go buy this now...

The opening of the stargate, the opening of the iris, the button activation sounds on the DHD, the electric discharge of a zat'niqita, and the clatter and clank of a Replicator's steps.

The sound of Mal's pistol firing (Firefly).

The sounds of the Rifles, AutoTurrets, and the huge plasma assisted autoguns that Mendez and Perez carried in Aliens.

The Predator's shoulder cannon.

The birds on Endor (Return of the Jedi).

I'll also second those awesome depth charges that Jango Fett used in Episode 2. I love that twang noise they make.

No, there's no point to this comment. Just think it's funny.

Attempting to do so in any "proper" literature always results in it being shelved in the religious section, or under opinion pieces.