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Wait, wait, wait - you said the directors cut is on dvd and bluray but the extra 25 minutes is listed on the features on the bluray that aren't on the dvd?

Is the directors cut on dvd a different cut to the bluray, that is identical to the theatrical?

The offscreen fight actually reminded me of the future episode in season one where future Peter threw down with future Sylar, all offscreen and apparently awesome.

I really wish they'd have the budget to do an all-out fight like that, even if it was all fireballs in our eyes.

That said, I wish they hadn't depowered Peter either... it's okay having one awesomely powered character in Sylar and all, but I would have thought they'd be able to manage having Peter have several powers somehow, they just decided they were writing into a corner and all powerful characters had to go.

Except Sylar.

Although now he thinks he's Nathan, I guess he's only got one power too!

"although who doesn’t know the captain of the Jimmy Carter is a Terminator himself?"

I think you were just confused, bro - after all, several times there were comments about "making good time with metal at the wheel", Derek warning her not to trust the terminator leading them, and all sorts of things like that.

It was abundantly clear that the guy was a terminator, and rather than being an astute observation that you noticed and thought that the producers were trying to slip past us, you must have missed the several, open, hit you over the head times that people told us he was a terminator.

Man, I disagree with you about Derek, I love the character - although I do think they really need to come up with a plot for him. I thought BAG would be horrible when he was announced, and yet, he's the one guy I actually do enjoy on the show (apart from Cameron).

I just wish they didn't go with this long, drawn out Riley narrative, when their weekly adventures aren't cutting it - especially when they had a longer weekly narrative of Sarah's issues lately.

I mean, couldn't they just be infiltrating government labs, or geek think tanks, or someone who provides a great hazard for them more than just having the separate Weaver and Connors stories? I want to start to see some awareness of each other - something that provides some danger between each group.

For some reason I think that the ep they find out about Weaver et al, is the ep that Weaver is done, and it's going to be wrapped up too tidy this season.

Argh, you guys and your "must be a resident of the united states".

I get why, but it's so annoying whenever I see something cool and want to enter ;)

Woah! Sounds like a remake of The Assassination Bureau!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064045/

Well, the solar eclipse wasn't pointless - I've read quite a few interviews or items about people wanting to know what the eclipse meant, and sure they could have maybe covered the same ground in another way. Instead I guess they decided to show another eclipse and that's a bit on the nose, but it got the point across, and is going to drive the science of the show a bit further - plus moved some of the character moments along.

I kind of wish it lasted a while longer - like they lost their powers and had Suresh come up with the reason why and have the bad guys repowered and the good guys having to figure it out/get to Suresh to fight back.

I'm sorry if my criticism wasn't well done either, but I think the way you worded that review took on a meaning you possibly didn't mean and coloured the perception that you weren't too up on the history of the show, and obviously I wasn't the only one who got that idea in my head (from the other comments).

In any case - thanks for responding and showing you were cool to have the discussion!

I think that was obvious, they had something else they were retconning into that moment to weave into the history of that moment. I thought it was well done and had a bit more to it than the usual time jaunts going on.

Your point was that things we knew to be fact were a lie, for example Claire wasn't HRG daughter, from your own article - if you did know that, and it was a retread, then you didn't express yourself well in your review, because that meaning didn't come across at all - it really does seem like you think that is something we learnt last night.

So I didn't "prove your point" at all - re-read what you wrote.

And there isn't much that is a retread of the past - there have been a few minor ones of Hiro showing a history we haven't seen, and some other things we hadn't seen (like when he went back to discover who killed his father). I don't see much evidence of them covering the same historical ground over and over much at all.

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking - that was some bullshit in the review!

I mean we found out ages ago she's Nathan's daughter, and the Petrelli's were after her for half the first season - there was tonnes of stuff about her searching for her real parents.

Jesus, did the reviewer only start watching this year?

Well, since the ending was all about Nicole overcoming things, facing the harshness
of the Australian outback and independantly striving on at the death of her lover -
showing how much she's grown and making a really strong statement... and we're
turning that into what? She's on her own because her bloke ditched her?

I can really see the girls warming to that.

Hey Rob,

Just looking through your code there, and I noticed you call something like this.GetFriendlyName(); from your view to get a nicer name for the logged in user.

Any reason for doing that rather than doing a Html.RenderAction<PersonalizationController>( c => c.ShowLoginControl(Page.User.Identity.Name)); in your Site.Master, and in that action in the controller maybe doing something like this:

public ActionResult ShowLoginControl(string username)
{
ViewData["NickName"] = GetFriendlyName(username);
return View("_summary");
}

It would achieve much the same and push the data rather than pull it from the view, wouldn't it?

What I find interesting is that they can place affiliate links to purchase music in content, but there's too much content for copyrighted material to be policed for removal, etc?

You gotta wonder how many Facebook / Yahoo! / etc companies are looking at rising hosting costs, lower share values, less interest in advertising and lower revenues, and no end in sight and are regretting not taking offers while they were around.

Hopefully they can last the long haul through this - but I can't imagine many toga parties on the company dime.

But, but... "you can't stop The Rock!" - shame that I know his wrestling catchphrases, and it's a bit of a stupid move since it's so distinguishing... but he probably has to pay Vince McMahon and the WwE some points everytime he uses it.

I really hate to say this, but if Katie is 5'9" and Cruise is 5'7" wouldn't that make her taller, her legs longer, and therefore Tom's pants would be short on her, not require her rolling them up.

Unless she's rolling them halfway up her calves so they fit him comfortably :\

A bit off topic - don't know enough about the situation to comment.

But how dare the Guardian steal Googles icon! Tsk to them.

Witty (WIndows-based, .NET) is open source and on Google Code.

1) To be honest, it could add signifcant time to a current process. However, it allows you to approach each piece of code written with a more formalised plan and goal, allowing you to actively plan your methods before writing them, it reduces the cost of maintainability and increases efficiency in assuring your codebase is cohesive and correct as you refactor and add methods around it.

2) I still think that testing and Quality Assurance is required. After all, all a Unit Test can do is test that the intent of what the developer was hoping to achieve for a particular method, does what it should. Quality Assurance should therefore be a review of the tests in place, of the project as a cohesive whole, user experience and acceptance and at the integration level.

3) Empirical evidence of the developers own experience that they are not travelling the same ground over and over, refactoring the same methods, but instead are writing tests that help them at smaller levels put together the building blocks for the program as a whole and are adding more tests and methods more than the time they are spending going back over existing code.

Also having someone revising the code can easily understand and follow the intent of what is being developed.

4) Same as 1.

5) Not sure of any studies, but I think the most important thing is giving it a shot and seeing if it helps the individual developer. It's sure helped me.

Hey Scoble, why don't you link to Jeff Atwood who wrote that post about Dare, rather than to someone who stole his post?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00107...

Hey Justin,

Yeah, I actually have 2008 unit tests running on mine, although I did have to install a copy of VS on the build server, which I dont quite like.

Then I executed the tests using the command line and an exec task.

There are xsl style-sheets for 2008 out now in the latest build - actually confirmed today: http://groups.google.com.ag/group/ccnet-user/br...

Hope that helps.

I'm in the same situation - just waiting for international release so I can buy one!!

And yet, all I can do is look at the most popular pages and go "ew."

Really it sounds like a mix of search and digg.

Of course it will never happen because they're publishing titles on Bluray discs for the games side.

And have made many mentions of how their games will no longer fit to DVD.

So they're sticking by it.

Of course they said Rumble is last-gen and that it messed with the SIXAXIS motion, but they're backpedalling that one.

"Obviously, what FSF is trying to do is force Apple into either licensing a large chunk of its software under GPL."

Or?