WiFi is now so ubiquitous that you don't have to worry too much about your neighbors leeching off of you - they've probably got WiFi, too. Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series "Gunsmoke." Famed director Howard Hawks (listed as the movie's producer) reportedly let Christian Nyby take direction credit on this film as a favor to Nyby, although Hawks allegedly did much of the directing work. Add in the fact that "The Thing" debuted only four years after the Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico, and you have a better understanding of why this film made a lasting impression on its viewers. The more the engineer understands where the artist comes from and where he's going, the better the engineer can prepare for the technical considerations of the session. The further the gas pedal is pressed, the more pressure is put on the throttle valve. That the movie featured a more vegetative antagonist than the book didn't bother audiences. Keep reading to learn more about why The Thing resonated eerily with audiences -- and bring along some herbicide, just in case.

Throw in the ideological clash between a military mindset hell-bent on immediately destroying every potential threat and a more objective, scientific perspective (events that were also mirrored in society at the time). The film's story begins as a small group of military men, scientists and an intrepid reporter investigate the crash landing of an unidentified aircraft near the North Pole. In this rendition of the tale, an American paleontologist (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) accompanies a group of Norwegian scientists (including Joel Edgerton) who, by chance, find a spacecraft that ostensibly crash-landed in Antarctica long ago. But when you peer through the lens of history to 1950s American life, the appeal and cultural significance of "The Thing" begins to make more sense. In fact, the flick had a psychological impact strong enough to spawn two more films. They also discover the frozen body of a creature that they deduce died during impact. Then, ominously, the body is accidentally thawed, allowing the mysterious creature to escape. In the climactic final scene, the men manage to electrocute the creature successfully. Runs at a lower voltage and clock speed -- This reduces heat output and power consumption but slows the processor down. In order to use either of these, you will need to have both an output on the DVD player, what is control cable and an input on the receiver.

These are the outputs you'll need to use if you are hooking the DVD player up to a "Dolby Digital ready" receiver. AMD chips are often cheaper, but lots of people are die-hard Intel fans. ­For years, people have heard that watching a movie on a high-definition (HD) set is like looking out a window. Very true, but a roommate isn't a parent; she's not watching your every move, and she probably won't care whether you get your homework done before or after going to trivia night at the student union. Your voice is digitized, and your voice along with thousands of others can be combined onto a single fiber optic cable for much of the journey (there's still a dedicated piece of copper wire going into your house, though). It's now ready for copper plating. It's now been proven that the innocent can be thrown in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Though its plot is, well, a little on the outlandish side, "The Thing" was received as one of the creepiest movies of the 1950s and is now hailed by movie lovers as an all-time great. The eerie, droning sound heard in "The Thing From Another World" came from an early electronic instrument called a theremin.

Cy Young was such an amazing pitcher, the award for each league's best pitcher is literally called The Cy Young Award. A 1982 version, called simply "The Thing," was directed by John Carpenter and starred Kurt Russell. This time around, the movie is being billed as a prequel to the Carpenter adaptation. Though gory, this adaptation remained truer to the book, substituting any sort of malicious plant life with the shape-shifter that Campbell had originally imagined. Campbell was one of sci-fi literature's most famous forerunners, and his success helped fuel the careers of great science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clark, among others. Its success spawned many other pseudo science-based, scary fiction films that captured the attention of the movie-going public for much of the 1950s. Its release occurred in the same year as "The Day the Earth Stood Still," which contrasted sharply with "The Thing From Another World." It portrayed a benevolent alien that arrives on Earth and is killed by defensive, anxious humans too close-minded to understand a greater picture of their place in the universe. But they're arguably not the same as having a home phone line.