Once again, here is an example of the gaming industry paving the way for future technology. These same optical tracking techniques can be easily adopted to the highly sensitive sensors that will provide one half of the human/machine interface in the first generation of bioenhancements.
Bionics is still out of reach of most people, but in a few years such things as computer-enhanced vision, hydraulic jumping feet, and built-in tools will be commonplace.
It is so exciting to live in the time that we do. The human race is changing, and it's not going back.
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I have to say, I'm struck by the approach taken by the review. Most readers aren't going to click through to the full review, taking the snippet on the front page to be a summary.
In this case it is an irrelevent rant that needlessly attacks Hollywood studios. I would argue that this editorial content almost certainly does not belong in a movie review (which should be studio-agnostic, IMO), and without doubt should not be representing the review on the main page.
This doesn't even address the fact that comparing Gnutella users to the codebreakers in WW2 is a stretch, at best. Remember, those guys invented the computer in order to defeat Nazis. This is very different from sharing one's collection of Beck songs and downloading Simpsons episodes.
I don't know about anyone else, but I find this incredibly exciting. Interactive TV is just around the corner, and it's going to change everything.
Imagine watching a conference, and being able to ask a question from around the world. When real-time electronic translation becomes a reality, you don't even have to speak the same language as the person you're talking to!
Imagine watching sports, and choosing the angle of view!
The possibilities are literally endless. Let's jump on this, and Linux will be the OS that leads interactive TV into the new age of entertainment.
Hm, I'd say that could apply to any number of characters who like being among their own kind and their "feet on the ground", e.g., hobbits, orcs, ents (my personal vote), dwarves. Note that love songs were as common in Middle Earth as they are in the modern world. I personally find the entish love songs to be incredibly moving.
It's symbolic. Saruman "cheated on" Gandalf when he was "seduced by" Sauron. Gandalf (the singer) compares the Men and Hobbits of Middle Earth to children. Obviously, the song is of resignation, and as such might be along the lines of what Gandalf would sing in his darker hours. In the end he elects not to "leave [his] children".
YOU have attempted to attack my hypothesis without providing a counterexample
Untrue! Your hypothesis was that LZ and JRRT were irreconcilable. I provided an example of a song that reconciled them. QED.
you cannot disprove that Tolkien sucks
That is not a provable claim!!!
Lemon Song.
How Many More Times. ...
Hot Dog.
I dealt with LS in another subthread. HMMT mentions rings in like the 5th line and is about Rosie, for heaven's sake! If you need a reminder, that was Samwise's wife! HD is just a love song, so it could be about any couple from LotR. It deals with being apart, so I'm going to say it's most likely about Aragorn and Arwen.
All too easy.:) "Going West" is a metaphor for death, closure, and transcendence in LotR.
In more detail (my comments in italics):
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. smoking weed and drinking elfwine in Lothlorien
Made up my mind to make a new start, forging ahead in the War of the Ring
Going To California with an aching in my heart. knowing that in the end the singer will have to "go West" as the Third Age comes to a close
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. Galadriel
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that they're all the same. "jet plane" refers to the ships that take the Eldar back over the ocean
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today. sea imagery with commentary about transition from Third to Fourth Age
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake. Sauron's rise to power and the War of the Ring
Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow; the Istari were sent by the Valari to stem the flow of evil
I think I might be sinking. doubt
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high. if good triumphs, then the elvenkind and wizards will meet again in the West
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la Elven imagery, Galadriel again
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born. realization that it's time to move on after the Third Age
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems. Gandalf's vision as he tries to convince himself that good is destined to prevail
For example, do you think Fort Knox is secure? Could it keep out the Chinese Army if they invaded?...No, sorry, I'd prefer to be in charge of my own security, and lot leave it up to an inefficient government.
So, you could keep the Chinese Army out of Fort Knox? The government may not be perfect, but they get the job done more often than not.
I think all of us at slashdot knew that something like this would happen sooner or later. The whole concept of smart cards is fatally flawed, in that it relies on such provably insecure methods as security through obscurity and planned obsolescence to provide "security".
Not to mention the fact that they invade privacy. In the Constitution, in Article 4, where Congress is given the power and duty to take a decannual census, it is specifically stated that, "Beyond such Actions and Surveys as are required in the Construction of said Census, any and all Inquiries by Congress into the Private Matters of the Lives of Citizens is Therefore Banned." Pretty strong language.
But I guess that's what our forefathers fought for back in '76. I sure would hate to try to explain this to them.
Okay, what's the deal? I read the rules. They are careful to mention the number of lines for submissions, the deadline, and the prizes. But what is the contest actually for? I mean, is there a theme, or is it just a general contest? Can I submit any old project? Wtf?
Man, this is bleak. OS X 10.0 was the first revolutionary change in the Mac OS since the transition from a flat filesystem to a hierarchical one (system 2? I'm not sure). 10.1 was a bug fix. Now with 10.2 it's back to minor interface tweaks. It is sad that OS X appears to have stopped developping. At least it gives Lin*x desktops another GUI to emulate...since M$ stopped innovating in '95, and GTKDE have pretty much got the Windows clone down to a science, it will give the OSS guys something to do. I guess I was just hoping that we would finally get out of the rut we've been in for a decade or so.
You know what would be way better than bomb-detecting bees? Bee-detecting bombs!
Imagine: a family reunion. Barbecue and beer in the park. The shady trees and babbling brook. Paradise.
Then: the buzzing of bees! A nest of trouble, stirred up by your mischievous nephew!
What to do?!?
Enter: your anti-bee force! A fleet of tiny jets, autonomous yet steered by a microchip! They soar around, bombing the bees with poison gas! The festivities continue, bee free!
Two facts blow apart your theory: 1) Tolkien sucks. 2) Led Zeppelin does not. The two are irreconcilable.
I note that you have attempted to attack my hypothesis without providing a counterexample. If "the two are irreconcilable" then any Led Zeppelin song should be impossible to interpret in Tolkien terms. I can therefore trivially disprove your claim with the counterexample of "Battle of Evermore." To disprove my claim you must actually provide an example of a Led Zeppelin song that cannot be interpretted in Middle Earth terms. I await your challeng.
No amount of liberty to give up is ever worth a false sense of security.
Typical knee-jerk conservative response. Did you ever consider the following: No amount of security to give up is ever worth a false sense of liberty. It goes both ways.
"Entertaining blend"? This must be some new, magical definition of the word "entertaining" with which I am not familiar.
A much better project would be a neural network system that takes the entire works of Led Zeppelin and J.R.R. Tolkien as input, and provides us with some amazing new fantasy rock as output.
I have determined that every Led Zeppelin tune can be interpretted in terms of Tolkien's Middle Earth with little difficulty. Please post challenges here.
I guess I'd like to believe that the Internet brings people together. It's the first truly global community, where English is a de facto lingua franca and technology makes all things possible, from cybercommerce to e-sex.
B2B, P2P, online auctions, email.
But what of the dark side, the cloud of the silver lining, the other side of the proverbial coin? The fact is, the Internet is an aid to terrorists, drug addicts, child molesters, and fundamentalists.
Sure, anything can be abused. But if the governments of the world don't catch up with technology, then the Internet is doomed to be just another place for evil to blossom. Don't get me wrong, I like freedom as much as the next man. As long as it doesn't come at such a price. Remember, the ends don't justify the means.
I think anyone who came of age in the late 80's and early 90's (colloquially known as "the 80's") will testify to the wonder and mystique of the so-called Neo Geo.
Hours spent playing games.
This was the architecture that paved the way for the 32-bit and better machines and consoles that today are commonplace. In addition to the introduction of parallelism and coprocessing into games, Neo Geo raised the bar for graphics and presaged the whole "multimedia" craze hyped by the media and ignored by consumers.
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I could define Nazis to mean bran muffins, and fight fascism during breakfast.
Bionics is still out of reach of most people, but in a few years such things as computer-enhanced vision, hydraulic jumping feet, and built-in tools will be commonplace.
It is so exciting to live in the time that we do. The human race is changing, and it's not going back.
In this case it is an irrelevent rant that needlessly attacks Hollywood studios. I would argue that this editorial content almost certainly does not belong in a movie review (which should be studio-agnostic, IMO), and without doubt should not be representing the review on the main page.
This doesn't even address the fact that comparing Gnutella users to the codebreakers in WW2 is a stretch, at best. Remember, those guys invented the computer in order to defeat Nazis. This is very different from sharing one's collection of Beck songs and downloading Simpsons episodes.
Imagine watching a conference, and being able to ask a question from around the world. When real-time electronic translation becomes a reality, you don't even have to speak the same language as the person you're talking to!
Imagine watching sports, and choosing the angle of view!
The possibilities are literally endless. Let's jump on this, and Linux will be the OS that leads interactive TV into the new age of entertainment.
What does the "FM" mean when applied to Internet radio?
Are you the same Rusty as the Rusty who runs kuro5hin?
The scientific community agrees that I am not an asshole. I am smart.
Hm, I'd say that could apply to any number of characters who like being among their own kind and their "feet on the ground", e.g., hobbits, orcs, ents (my personal vote), dwarves. Note that love songs were as common in Middle Earth as they are in the modern world. I personally find the entish love songs to be incredibly moving.
It's symbolic. Saruman "cheated on" Gandalf when he was "seduced by" Sauron. Gandalf (the singer) compares the Men and Hobbits of Middle Earth to children. Obviously, the song is of resignation, and as such might be along the lines of what Gandalf would sing in his darker hours. In the end he elects not to "leave [his] children".
Untrue! Your hypothesis was that LZ and JRRT were irreconcilable. I provided an example of a song that reconciled them. QED.
you cannot disprove that Tolkien sucks
That is not a provable claim!!!
Lemon Song.
...
How Many More Times.
Hot Dog.
I dealt with LS in another subthread. HMMT mentions rings in like the 5th line and is about Rosie, for heaven's sake! If you need a reminder, that was Samwise's wife! HD is just a love song, so it could be about any couple from LotR. It deals with being apart, so I'm going to say it's most likely about Aragorn and Arwen.
Eh, built in handle? Pioneered by the Apple //c, IIRC.
As for "Achilles," it is a pretty straightforward mosaic Tolkienesque imagery and themes. A few select lines, my comments in italics:
Whoa, the songs to sing When we at last return again
...
Oh, to sail away To sandy lands and other days
singing about the end of the Third Age
To seek the man whose pointing hand
Saruman, obviously, whose emblem was a pointing hand
Wandering upon the rings What place to rest the search
obvious
Haha. To those not familiar with Zeppelin: Kashmir is one of the "dead giveaways" that all but mentions Elrond.
Just answering this so no one thinks I let a challenge go unanswered.
In more detail (my comments in italics):
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. smoking weed and drinking elfwine in Lothlorien
Made up my mind to make a new start, forging ahead in the War of the Ring
Going To California with an aching in my heart. knowing that in the end the singer will have to "go West" as the Third Age comes to a close
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. Galadriel
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that they're all the same. "jet plane" refers to the ships that take the Eldar back over the ocean
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today. sea imagery with commentary about transition from Third to Fourth Age
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake. Sauron's rise to power and the War of the Ring
Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow; the Istari were sent by the Valari to stem the flow of evil
I think I might be sinking. doubt
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high. if good triumphs, then the elvenkind and wizards will meet again in the West
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la Elven imagery, Galadriel again
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born. realization that it's time to move on after the Third Age
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems. Gandalf's vision as he tries to convince himself that good is destined to prevail
So, you could keep the Chinese Army out of Fort Knox? The government may not be perfect, but they get the job done more often than not.
Not to mention the fact that they invade privacy. In the Constitution, in Article 4, where Congress is given the power and duty to take a decannual census, it is specifically stated that, "Beyond such Actions and Surveys as are required in the Construction of said Census, any and all Inquiries by Congress into the Private Matters of the Lives of Citizens is Therefore Banned." Pretty strong language.
But I guess that's what our forefathers fought for back in '76. I sure would hate to try to explain this to them.
Okay, what's the deal? I read the rules. They are careful to mention the number of lines for submissions, the deadline, and the prizes. But what is the contest actually for? I mean, is there a theme, or is it just a general contest? Can I submit any old project? Wtf?
:(
Imagine: a family reunion. Barbecue and beer in the park. The shady trees and babbling brook. Paradise.
Then: the buzzing of bees! A nest of trouble, stirred up by your mischievous nephew!
What to do?!?
Enter: your anti-bee force! A fleet of tiny jets, autonomous yet steered by a microchip! They soar around, bombing the bees with poison gas! The festivities continue, bee free!
I note that you have attempted to attack my hypothesis without providing a counterexample. If "the two are irreconcilable" then any Led Zeppelin song should be impossible to interpret in Tolkien terms. I can therefore trivially disprove your claim with the counterexample of "Battle of Evermore." To disprove my claim you must actually provide an example of a Led Zeppelin song that cannot be interpretted in Middle Earth terms. I await your challeng.
Typical knee-jerk conservative response. Did you ever consider the following: No amount of security to give up is ever worth a false sense of liberty. It goes both ways.
Think about it.
A much better project would be a neural network system that takes the entire works of Led Zeppelin and J.R.R. Tolkien as input, and provides us with some amazing new fantasy rock as output.
I have determined that every Led Zeppelin tune can be interpretted in terms of Tolkien's Middle Earth with little difficulty. Please post challenges here.
Did you read the story? More like Hemos trolls again.
B2B, P2P, online auctions, email.
But what of the dark side, the cloud of the silver lining, the other side of the proverbial coin? The fact is, the Internet is an aid to terrorists, drug addicts, child molesters, and fundamentalists.
Sure, anything can be abused. But if the governments of the world don't catch up with technology, then the Internet is doomed to be just another place for evil to blossom. Don't get me wrong, I like freedom as much as the next man. As long as it doesn't come at such a price. Remember, the ends don't justify the means.
I attribute the success of 802.11 to its catchy name. It promises to sell even more units than the wildly popular IEEE-1394.
Hours spent playing games.
This was the architecture that paved the way for the 32-bit and better machines and consoles that today are commonplace. In addition to the introduction of parallelism and coprocessing into games, Neo Geo raised the bar for graphics and presaged the whole "multimedia" craze hyped by the media and ignored by consumers.
Modern PC games pale by comparison.
Yet I think they will rise again.