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Offline lowZX14

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #975 on: November 25, 2008, 09:47:30 AM »
You're not supposed to give away your secrets.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #976 on: November 25, 2008, 10:06:39 AM »
Oh, well, sooner or later someone'd have discovered it. That engine is quite something, let them index more and more images and it'll become as known as Google.

(can I say "as known as"? Or does that work with adjectives only?)
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #977 on: November 25, 2008, 10:08:26 AM »
Pretty much takes the fun out of this kind of thing doesn't it? It's bad enough that people can utilize their uber search engine skills to identify people they've never even heard of.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #978 on: November 25, 2008, 10:09:10 AM »
Okay, try this one...




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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #979 on: November 25, 2008, 10:27:01 AM »
Just curious as to how much graphic modification is necessary to lead the algorithm off into a wild goose chase, if that is possible.

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #980 on: November 25, 2008, 10:36:41 AM »
Gort's buddy, Michael Rennie.

Guaranteed solved with 100% wetware.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #981 on: November 25, 2008, 10:38:34 AM »
Michael Rennie-of   The day the earth stood still fame
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #982 on: November 25, 2008, 10:43:37 AM »
Michael Rennie-of   The day the earth stood still fame
Ah Boner, my old nemesis (Somehow that doesn't sound quite right :uhoh) We meet again. :D
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #983 on: November 25, 2008, 10:44:35 AM »
Just curious as to how much graphic modification is necessary to lead the algorithm off into a wild goose chase, if that is possible.

Well, I don't know all the technical stuff... anyway the database is still too little for the engine to be really effective. And, yes, Cthulhu, like I said, that thing will kill games like this one.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #984 on: November 25, 2008, 10:57:18 AM »
Pretty much takes the fun out of this kind of thing doesn't it? It's bad enough that people can utilize their uber search engine skills to identify people they've never even heard of.
Hey hey hey, the uber search engine skills help us youngsters learn who these people are.  By going and looking for these folks I've learned a whole lot about people I had never heard of.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #985 on: November 25, 2008, 11:17:41 AM »
Apparently Klaatu didn't only fly spacecraft.

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Michael Rennie enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 27 May 1941 (#1391153). He was discharged for commission on 4 August 1942 and, the following day, was commissioned "for the emergency" as Pilot Officer (#127347) on probation in the General Duties Branch of the RAFVR. On 5 February 1943, he was promoted to Flying Officer on probation. He resigned his commission on 1 May 1944 (not invalided out, as studio publicity stated).

Rennie carried out his basic training near Torquay, in Devon, after which he was posted to the United States, where he served in Macon, Georgia, purportedly as a flying instructor—although no record of his holding such rank could be confirmed in the RAF's archives.
 
A story Rennie told to an interviewer, which was subsequently recounted in a number of his film-magazine biographies, concerned his period with the U.S. military. While stationed in Macon, he was asked by some of the American flyers what he did for a living. Upon hearing his response that in civilian life he was an actor and had appeared in a few films, they laughed disbelievingly. That evening, with free time on their hands, the group decided to go into town to see a movie. The film they picked, Ships with Wings (released in the UK in January and in the U.S. in May 1942), featured the tenth-billed Rennie in a few brief but prominent scenes as an RAF Flight Lieutenant. The Americans were astonished to discover that their British flying instructor was really as he described himself.

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #986 on: November 25, 2008, 01:21:15 PM »
Apparently Klaatu didn't only fly spacecraft.

Yeah, like many others, I skipped Rennie because his photo was so obviously him.

Here's an assignment for you guys: find a war-time photo of Jason Robards in his Navy uniform.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #987 on: November 25, 2008, 01:42:23 PM »
I've got a feeling that if you can't find it, I won't be able to either.
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #988 on: November 28, 2008, 09:05:24 AM »
It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #989 on: November 28, 2008, 10:10:06 AM »
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Cthulhu got it right a while ago....someone else find one, my brain hurts from still trying to find Jason Robards in uniform.

Cthulhu is a mean mean man  :furious :mad:
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