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Yeah, I played a bit but MAN even the single player is a bitch. I'm stuck in the train level where there are a million guys and a friggin MG that shoots rockets right up my nose.
 
I don't think it sucked. It wasn't as good as Raiders and Last Crusade, but it was on par with Temple of Doom. But I watched it just to see Harrison Ford as Indy again...and he was incredible.
 
Its because Harrison Ford is awesome. 

Not too many flicks that he did (that I saw) that I didn't like.
 
Mega said:
Escape from Alcatraz. Awesome.



But Shawshank Redemption was better, even though I found out that it's pretty much based on this movie.
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Shawshank Redemption is based on the Novella by Stephen King... if King ripped off Escape from Alcatraz then your statement is still true :p
 
LooseCannon said:
I don't think it sucked. It wasn't as good as Raiders and Last Crusade, but it was on par with Temple of Doom. But I watched it just to see Harrison Ford as Indy again...and he was incredible.
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C-C-COMBO BREAKER


Yeah, it wasn't THAT bad, but it ruined the whole "magic artifact" thing with the aliens.
 
LooseCannon said:
For me, Indy is the classic Harrison Ford role. Not Han Solo, Indy.
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That makes sense.  He was one of the strongest characters in Star Wars, but that was an ensemble cast.  It makes sense that a stand alone character is more Ford.
 
Mega said:
Yeah, it wasn't THAT bad, but it ruined the whole "magic artifact" thing with the aliens.
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Which, of course, was much more outlandish than a nazi army destroyed by the wrath of God, sacrifice victims still alive after having their hearts ripped out by a Hindu priest who has magic powers thanks to ancient stones or an American nazi rapidly aging to death because he drank holy water from a wrong cup.
 
Genghis Khan said:
I told the kids to hold on as I needed to post "HI" in the madness forum.  One of the brighter kids is teaching the class now. :hello:
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I'm glad to see the education system is working!   ;)
Perun said:
Which, of course, was much more outlandish than a nazi army destroyed by the wrath of God, sacrifice victims still alive after having their hearts ripped out by a Hindu priest who has magic powers thanks to ancient stones or an American nazi rapidly aging to death because he drank holy water from a wrong cup.
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Or the cup next to it that was owned by a certain carpenter/messiah. 

I love Indy, but how outlandish is the whole 'rubber raft' used as a parachute in the Temple Of Doom?  Myth-busters, anyone?
 
Who cares if it's unreal, that's the point. What I mean is that the fourth movie is breaking th mythos of the last three by introducing Sci-Fi elements that basically mean that everything up till know was also invented by aliens or what not.




God I hate my internet. I'll never be able to play online! I'm calling the fucker tomorrow and asking for his boss.
 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
When you say to tape, do you mean zip drives? Why the fuck would a company still use that old technology? External harddrives and blank DVD's are quite inexpensive.
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When I mean tapes, I'm talking about LTO tapes. We use LTO4 and, by the sounds of it, this is what Wasted uses. We have to backup many, many terabytes of data each night and one LTO4 tape can back up 800Gb or, if compressed, 1.6TB so our whole backup solution is on only 5 tapes. Backing up to these is fast and recovery is fast. You'll probably find that most mid to large to massive corporations use LTO's.

Yes, external HDD's are cheap, but for what we need we will have to have banks of these disks. Not ideal. ;)

To back up to DVD's would mean we would have to write to, what, 7 or 800 discs each night - and it would take more than a day to run the daily backup routine. Again, not ideal. ;)

Or we could get a large SAN. But to get this to a DR site is just not practical (unless we have it at the DR site permanently and write to it each night).
 
I'd imagine that trying to index 800 cds or dvd's would be a nightmare.  "Albie, I need file xyz"  (Albie stares at the piles of discs).

And, yes, we use the LTO4's  (I forgot they could be compressed).  Our 'vault' is something like 4.3 TB (IIRC), so its great for incremental daily backups.  But we are still using tapes every day (I think one tape will do everything at this location, but we have servers at other locations, so we all swap around back up tapes.  The vault, I believe, is only backing up our local servers, and replicating one of the other off site locations.
Posting along.

All by my lonesome today at work-- survived (so far) a Wasted only day.

Listened to a lot of Seattle music today. 
 
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