Also: the main reason we remember R2D2 and C3PO is because we are shown many scenes from their point of view, but for most of those scenes no other characters are present (or paying attention to them), so none of the other characters in the movies actually have much reason to be especially interested in them.
In other words: they are special to us, because they represent us, the audience, in the movies. But to the other characters in the movies, they are mostly just part of the background.
I don't believe there is any power way to evaluate a linux distro than screenshots, except for maybe it's logo.
I'm sorry, but I'm just curious: how on Earth did you manage to misspell "other" as "power"?! (Assuming that's what you meant, but it's so far off it could just as well be any other word!)
Can someone please explain this to a non-American? I hate ads; as soon as they start I zap away (or more likely these days: I skip them), but this sounds like watching the ads during the Superbowl (I gather it's a big sport event?) is almost a bigger event than the Superbowl itself. What the hell?!?! Why would someone want to watch advertisements?
Monarchies are inherently dictatorships because everyone must follow the rule of a single person. A monarchy does not just imply a dictatorship -- it requires one.
Really? We're a monarchy, and I can assure you we're very much a democracy (in fact it's my opinion we have one of the best functioning democracies anywhere to be found). The Queen has very little real power, and has to do what the prime minister tells her, not the other way around. The same goes for almost every monarchy left in the world.
They have to somehow recoup the money they put into making them. Usually it's distributed over the price of the device on the one hand, and the price of its content or consumables on the other hand. Game console and printer manufacturers have chosen to keep the cost of the console / printer low and the cost of the games (for which they get royalties) / cartridges high.
It may be nice that that means you can buy the console or printer for a low price, but the downside is that they have to take all kinds of draconian measures to protect their income from the games (region coding and copy protection) or cartridges (chips which make third-party cartridges impossible). It might not be such a bad thing if the ebook reader costs a lot, if that means that you're more free to put on it what you want (such as any old PDF or text file), and ebooks will be less restricted (timing out after 90 days, etc.).
Of course if it turns out that the price will be high and there will be lots of restrictions, then yes, that's a bad thing!
I swear, they have the utmost respect for other religions and always live the higher standard everyday. Their media couldn't possibly be one of the most hateful in the world.
AvantGo has been doing this for many years! I remember using it when I bought my Palm V at JavaOne in 1998. It'll take any web page and let you read it on your PDA (or smart phone).
Production will start a long, slow decline, and prices will start a long, steady rise.
I thought the whole point of the peak oil theory was that prices won't rise slowly and steadily, but exponentially, due to various psychological and economical effects resulting from the fact that "the end is in sight," as it were.
I have been mentioning this to friends for years (including some who worked on the special editions and Eps I, II & III). The thing that makes Ep IV, V, and VI really cool is that the ships look real, beat to hell, and like they're really in front of you! GL always goes on about "suspension of disbelief" - well 30 years later, Star Wars still looks great with its low-tech special effects. Meanwhile, TPM already looks dated, having tried the "latest and greatest" CGI. Okay, end rant. Nice article.
I couldn't agree more. I've commented many times on the difference in looks between the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They were produced (at least RotS) around the same time, for similar amounts of money, and they have the same kind of epic fantasy storyline. But the Lord of the Rings movies look infinitely more realistic than the Star Wars movies. The obvious (to me, but apparently not to the likes of George Lucas) reason is that in the LotR movies most of what you see is real (Peter Jackson went out of his way to avoid CGI as much as possible), whereas in Star Wars most of it is fake (since Lucas went completely the other way and almost everything you see is green screen).
CGI is just not ready yet (not by a long shot). You don't even really notice it when watching an almost completely CGI movie like Star Wars, except that when the occasional shot comes by where the background obviously is real it feels like a breath of fresh air and you suddenly notice how plastic the rest of the movie looks. In the Lord of the Rings there is none of that. Everything looks so convincing that you don't notice it, except subconsciously, and can focus more on the story.
Of course the fact that the story (or at least the plot) of the Lord of the Rings is also infinitely better than that of Star Wars is an entirely different matter...:-)
I'm telling you, the world of Snow Crash is becoming a reality faster and faster. I always forget how old that book is (1992!), it's turning out to be pretty visionary! I'm off to buy my Metaverse deck...
However, if you do buy from iTunes, Apple provides the most lax DRM in the market. I have never, ever come across any limitation. I can burn as many CDs as I want, share the music with multiple computers, and copy them anywhere at will. When someone rattles on about iTunes DRM, it's clear to me they don't really use iTunes at all. If they did, they'd know the DRM is so invisible that most users don't even know it's there. I always forget it is.
This is the problem with iTunes. It brainwashes the masses into thinking that there's nothing wrong with DRM. That it's necessary and inevitable; even normal.
It's nice for you that life is so comfortable inside your Apple Golden Cage (TM), but what about people like me who would like to buy U2 songs online and then be able to play them on their Creative Jukebox Zen? Or their Empeg car MP3 player? Or their Linux workstation? And what happens to your precious music if Apple goes out of business? Or the RIAA decides they don't want to play along anymore?
if the feds come to your door you have to let them in.
Even though I don't live in the US, I'm pretty damn sure that if the feds come to your door you do not have to let them in, unless they have a valid warrant.
The current market leaders include the Judeo-Christian God (nasdaq - GOD), with 2.2 billion customers, the Islamic Allah (nasdaq - ALLH), with 1.3 billion customers,...
<PEDANTIC>Actually, that's the same guy.</PEDANTIC>
You've probably heard of it, but don't realize just how much the planet has... Seriously on the order of 20x the world's total oil reserves, in terms of energy capacity.
Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Let's just not learn any fucking lessons at all and switch right over to the next non-renewable, environment-poluting, war-inspiring resource...
I don't know why everyone's so afraid of being in one of these when the power goes out. If I were designing it, obviously I'd put in some mechanical brakes that are only kept retracted by the application of power.
We're afraid that you're not going to be the one designing it!
I use the German client, just to get practice on my German. Every item I link is in German on the text bar. One day someone asked me why everything I linked on the chat was in German, and I said 'cause I'm using the German client, and he said.
"Sorry, I just can't support those who didn't support us during the war." Then left the Guild.
Now, be entirely aware that I am: a.) american, and b.) support the war.
Purely out of curiosity: would you have agreed with his action if he did that with someone who was in fact German, or who was against the war?
Wow, I got chills reading this. I just finished reading Ring by Stephen Baxter, which is amazingly relevant to this news. I won't spoil the plot, but among other things it is about dark matter being used to shape and influence the visible universe on a huge scale. Of course a liberal amount of artistic licence is applied, and Baxter's writing ability is less stellar than the plot, but the plot is on such an enormous, awe-inspiring scale that that hardly matters.
It was the first story from his "Xeelee Sequence" that I read, but I'm definitely reading more now!
I have no doubt the cell is going to be impressive, but we are quite along way away from an affordable processor than can replace a render farm (I believe thats what there refered as).
I'm not so sure about that. Already there are moments in games on the PS2 which look absolutely real. Gran Turismo 3, for instance, has a knack of looking so good that it's as if you're watching a race on TV.
The PS3 will enable quite a big leap forward in graphics quality, especially once the developers get to know it and learn what they can do with it, so I expect the number of times I'll say "whoa, that looks absolutely real!" to increase exponentially...
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Also: the main reason we remember R2D2 and C3PO is because we are shown many scenes from their point of view, but for most of those scenes no other characters are present (or paying attention to them), so none of the other characters in the movies actually have much reason to be especially interested in them.
In other words: they are special to us, because they represent us, the audience, in the movies. But to the other characters in the movies, they are mostly just part of the background.
I don't believe there is any power way to evaluate a linux distro than screenshots, except for maybe it's logo.
I'm sorry, but I'm just curious: how on Earth did you manage to misspell "other" as "power"?! (Assuming that's what you meant, but it's so far off it could just as well be any other word!)
This law will not make it out of committee.
This law will not make it through the House.
Uhuh. Sure. Just like all those other overbroad and draconian laws which take away rights from the common people.
Can someone please explain this to a non-American? I hate ads; as soon as they start I zap away (or more likely these days: I skip them), but this sounds like watching the ads during the Superbowl (I gather it's a big sport event?) is almost a bigger event than the Superbowl itself. What the hell?!?! Why would someone want to watch advertisements?
Monarchies are inherently dictatorships because everyone must follow the rule of a single person. A monarchy does not just imply a dictatorship -- it requires one.
Really? We're a monarchy, and I can assure you we're very much a democracy (in fact it's my opinion we have one of the best functioning democracies anywhere to be found). The Queen has very little real power, and has to do what the prime minister tells her, not the other way around. The same goes for almost every monarchy left in the world.
And the bad:
The Reader will sell for about $400.
They have to somehow recoup the money they put into making them. Usually it's distributed over the price of the device on the one hand, and the price of its content or consumables on the other hand. Game console and printer manufacturers have chosen to keep the cost of the console / printer low and the cost of the games (for which they get royalties) / cartridges high.
It may be nice that that means you can buy the console or printer for a low price, but the downside is that they have to take all kinds of draconian measures to protect their income from the games (region coding and copy protection) or cartridges (chips which make third-party cartridges impossible). It might not be such a bad thing if the ebook reader costs a lot, if that means that you're more free to put on it what you want (such as any old PDF or text file), and ebooks will be less restricted (timing out after 90 days, etc.).
Of course if it turns out that the price will be high and there will be lots of restrictions, then yes, that's a bad thing!
I swear, they have the utmost respect for other religions and always live the higher standard everyday. Their media couldn't possibly be one of the most hateful in the world.
So what's your point?
Place the Atlantis, intact, into the Simthsonian.
Just make sure all the toxic monopropellants have been thouroughly cleaned out.
Not necessary, the Enterprise is already there...
AvantGo has been doing this for many years! I remember using it when I bought my Palm V at JavaOne in 1998. It'll take any web page and let you read it on your PDA (or smart phone).
Production will start a long, slow decline, and prices will start a long, steady rise.
I thought the whole point of the peak oil theory was that prices won't rise slowly and steadily, but exponentially, due to various psychological and economical effects resulting from the fact that "the end is in sight," as it were.
Captain Chaos...
Aren't you supposed to be dead? :P
Why?
I have been mentioning this to friends for years (including some who worked on the special editions and Eps I, II & III). The thing that makes Ep IV, V, and VI really cool is that the ships look real, beat to hell, and like they're really in front of you! GL always goes on about "suspension of disbelief" - well 30 years later, Star Wars still looks great with its low-tech special effects. Meanwhile, TPM already looks dated, having tried the "latest and greatest" CGI. Okay, end rant. Nice article.
I couldn't agree more. I've commented many times on the difference in looks between the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They were produced (at least RotS) around the same time, for similar amounts of money, and they have the same kind of epic fantasy storyline. But the Lord of the Rings movies look infinitely more realistic than the Star Wars movies. The obvious (to me, but apparently not to the likes of George Lucas) reason is that in the LotR movies most of what you see is real (Peter Jackson went out of his way to avoid CGI as much as possible), whereas in Star Wars most of it is fake (since Lucas went completely the other way and almost everything you see is green screen).
CGI is just not ready yet (not by a long shot). You don't even really notice it when watching an almost completely CGI movie like Star Wars, except that when the occasional shot comes by where the background obviously is real it feels like a breath of fresh air and you suddenly notice how plastic the rest of the movie looks. In the Lord of the Rings there is none of that. Everything looks so convincing that you don't notice it, except subconsciously, and can focus more on the story.
Of course the fact that the story (or at least the plot) of the Lord of the Rings is also infinitely better than that of Star Wars is an entirely different matter... :-)
I'm telling you, the world of Snow Crash is becoming a reality faster and faster. I always forget how old that book is (1992!), it's turning out to be pretty visionary! I'm off to buy my Metaverse deck...
Why can't the content be encrypted by the user via an asymmetric key scheme (like PGP) and decrypted again once it's reached the target system?
I imagine they want to index the information, which they wouldn't be able to do if it was encrypted.
However, if you do buy from iTunes, Apple provides the most lax DRM in the market. I have never, ever come across any limitation. I can burn as many CDs as I want, share the music with multiple computers, and copy them anywhere at will. When someone rattles on about iTunes DRM, it's clear to me they don't really use iTunes at all. If they did, they'd know the DRM is so invisible that most users don't even know it's there. I always forget it is.
This is the problem with iTunes. It brainwashes the masses into thinking that there's nothing wrong with DRM. That it's necessary and inevitable; even normal.
It's nice for you that life is so comfortable inside your Apple Golden Cage (TM), but what about people like me who would like to buy U2 songs online and then be able to play them on their Creative Jukebox Zen? Or their Empeg car MP3 player? Or their Linux workstation? And what happens to your precious music if Apple goes out of business? Or the RIAA decides they don't want to play along anymore?
> who's gonna come out first, Axl or Duke ?
WTF, Axl is gay??!??
Screw Axl! Duke Nukem is gay?!??!?!?!
My impression of the United States is that personal accountability went out the window years ago...
if the feds come to your door you have to let them in.
Even though I don't live in the US, I'm pretty damn sure that if the feds come to your door you do not have to let them in, unless they have a valid warrant.
The current market leaders include the Judeo-Christian God (nasdaq - GOD), with 2.2 billion customers, the Islamic Allah (nasdaq - ALLH), with 1.3 billion customers, ...
<PEDANTIC>Actually, that's the same guy.</PEDANTIC>
You've probably heard of it, but don't realize just how much the planet has... Seriously on the order of 20x the world's total oil reserves, in terms of energy capacity.
Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Let's just not learn any fucking lessons at all and switch right over to the next non-renewable, environment-poluting, war-inspiring resource...
If you take two separate monkey clans ...
Hey, who are you calling monkey?! ;-)
I don't know why everyone's so afraid of being in one of these when the power goes out. If I were designing it, obviously I'd put in some mechanical brakes that are only kept retracted by the application of power.
We're afraid that you're not going to be the one designing it!
I use the German client, just to get practice on my German. Every item I link is in German on the text bar. One day someone asked me why everything I linked on the chat was in German, and I said 'cause I'm using the German client, and he said.
"Sorry, I just can't support those who didn't support us during the war." Then left the Guild.
Now, be entirely aware that I am: a.) american, and b.) support the war.
Purely out of curiosity: would you have agreed with his action if he did that with someone who was in fact German, or who was against the war?
It was the first story from his "Xeelee Sequence" that I read, but I'm definitely reading more now!
I have no doubt the cell is going to be impressive, but we are quite along way away from an affordable processor than can replace a render farm (I believe thats what there refered as).
I'm not so sure about that. Already there are moments in games on the PS2 which look absolutely real. Gran Turismo 3, for instance, has a knack of looking so good that it's as if you're watching a race on TV.
The PS3 will enable quite a big leap forward in graphics quality, especially once the developers get to know it and learn what they can do with it, so I expect the number of times I'll say "whoa, that looks absolutely real!" to increase exponentially...