Ironically, there were two (very irate) responders to my post, and both claimed I was repeating Republican 'talking points'. It's odd that both made the identical accusation; it almost seems like accusing detractors of repeating talking points is a... talking point.
Anyway: Cost of Iraq War: 700 billion. Other consequences: Some negative (cost in soldier's lives), some positive (democratic Iraq).
Cost of various stimulus packages: ~3 trillion. Other consequences: Any improvement to the economy is dubious, significant future debt accumulated. Add to that the idea of socialized medicine (if that isn't blocked), and we will be struggling with the consequences of this administration for many decades.
Congress is more to blame than Obama, however, in my opinion. Obama being in office merely removed the check on the legislative branch.
By the way, commenting on the president's race (when nobody else had) is pretty unseemly, and makes you seem like a bigot.
Whose talking point am I regurgitating? I came to the conclusion on my own. I realize that by labeling it a 'talking point' you hope to make it seem worth disregarding without any consideration as to the opinion's actual merit... but only an unintelligent person that goes along with group-think would fall for that tactic. (Is the term for that 'sheeple'? I think it may be.)
The entire film was hand-colored, from what I understand (well, not the 'real world' parts). Even the film of actors in the tron suits were reduced to black/white and then colored by hand, with fluorescence added. The exact process was unclear, but I think they had every frame of the 'computer' sections printed on cell, and each was painstakingly manually colored, lit, and rephotographed, in a process similar to an animated film. I don't think the fact there was manual work used to integrate/touch up the CGI means that it doesn't count as CGI, any more than the manual work means there wasn't live actors.
Although it's a bit gruesome, it does speak to the benefits of thoroughly testing products on animals. There is something to be said for systematically generating nerve injuries, cancers, diabetes, and so forth in animals and studying the effect of... well, EVERYTHING on their systems. we have nowhere near enough knowledge to predict or model the behavior of chemicals on the chaotic systems of life; we need to still rely on serendipity, so we might as well be rigorous about it.
You know, I think the first seven months of the Obama administration has already been more harmful for the country than the last eight years of Bush's... but I would never characterize Obama as 'dumb'. Wrong? Sure. In a very intelligent way, though.
They sit around all day text messaging each other. I think text adventures have a shot at a comeback. Not in the exact same form; I think a leap forward in parser intelligence will probably be required. It needs to be a little more forgiving. The text format itself is not a deal-breaker, though.
I think the inability of the bacterium to compete in nature might be a PLUS. I'd rather have it in pools that required constant human supervision, than spreading into the ecosystem.
Ideally, while they are engineering it, they will build in a tolerance/requirement for, say, growth in a high-ph environment. Then, it will have a hard time contaminating us, and we'll have hard time contaminating it.
I see you've been modded down to -1, so there's no that much point in responding, but I might as well: Yes there was. It contained a mix of practical and CGI effects. Certainly more CGI than in any prior film. The light cycles (partially), tanks, ships, landscapes... most were computer generated.
I think they should have looked more toward the Nintendo DS as inspiration, honestly. That thing can survive in 3rd world countries no problem; it survives 8 year olds. It's powerful enough to browse, the touch screen allows for a ubiquitous interface; just add a stripped-down linux and allow it to read/run from external memory SD and USB drives.
Low odds of an intercept. Now multiply that by thousands of orbits the body will make. The important factor is not that Jupiter will immediately intercept every body; just that a typical body will be more vastly more likely to be intercepted first by Jupiter than the Earth.
That's the goal of the adaption. They aren't trying for academic veracity; they're making an entertainment product. When the original game has an obscure joke comparing a Japanese pop idol to a historical figure from the Heian period, the translators will (and should) make an entirely different joke based on Britney Spears and Can-Can dancers... or maybe something entirely unrelated, which still works for characterization and plot. The craft and style of the translated product is more important than the accuracy.
The biggest problem with Godwin's principle is that it leads people to ignore even relevant and insightful mentions of nazism or hitler. The reason that Nazism is mentioned so often is because of clear extremity of it; it can, often, be used as a perfectly valid reductio ad absurdism... using Hitler to disprove a flawed generalization, as it is here.
You're overlooking the fact that there is no reason an amateur can't be more skilled than a professional. While the average amateur is less skilled, there certainly are amateurs in nearly every field that put most professionals to shame.
I disagree. C is still the major language used in embedded electronics. In addition, ideologically, it's importance is crucial since c syntax now lies at the core of nearly every major language.
Just checked: 33,242 C projects on Sourceforge, compared to 44,784 C++, 58,559 Java, 15,562 Python, and 10,871 Perl. (My shock there is Java... sourceforge projects are voluntary... people actually CHOOSE Java?) I'd also claim Javascript as an important, open-source language. You don't see a lot of full apps written in it, but globally it's VERY important, with fingers in all sorts of areas.
Because, to an extent, the volunteers are succeeding by turning it from a donation to an optional payment for entertainment. "Watch us, be entertained, and please (if possible) donate money" is often a more palatable and attractive offer than simply "We need money to do good things". It turns it from a donation into an exchange. Perhaps it's shallow, perhaps it's crass, but it also works... much like capitalism in general.
GIF is non-lossy... unless you're talking about color resolution, and the old limitation of 256 colors. But the truecolor variants of GIF are 100% accurate, as much as any RAW or PNG. It's a lousy format, but it's not lossy.
Well, the small amount he evidently knows stil allowed him to make a reasonable question, which actually resembles bitching far less then your response does.
If the keyboard is better than a controller because it has a hundred keys, then would a new device with 200 keys be even better? Of course not.
The keyboard and controller serve two different, but related purposes. The keyboard is an immobile device that is placed on a surface. It is worked on. A controller is held. Both have different optimal configurations, a reflection of their different purposes. Certainly, some games benefit from keyboard control, just as some games benefit from controller control. Comparing the two, as if they were competing entries for the same role, is silly.
Unfortunately, the 360 is FAR easier to develop for. That and PC are almost the only possible choice for the independent developer... unless they want to do iTunes apps, or something. The Wii and PS3 just aren't really approachable except by a select few.
I would LOVE for the Wii to open up a marketplace (something much bigger than its WiiWare category), but I don't think it's something Nintendo would do.
Related: My son's physics textbook was going to cost us $150. Few used copies, because it was a new edition. But the publisher sold the exact same book in India for $15. The EXACT same book, in English, page for page identical, except a note on the back that said "not for sale in the United States."
Well, it was being sold in India. I bought it in the United States. Legal?
From the link, it appears that files (probably having an excessive amount of files) in the IE cache was slowing down Firefox cache? Isn't the Firefox cache entirely separate? Does it look in the IE cache to try to be friendly and helpful, and if so, can that behavior be turned off?
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the rules for prior art dictate that it has to be public knowledge for a year before it is considered prior art.
I've never seen or read that anywhere, and it doesn't make sense. Do you have a reference?
My theory, then, is that they were caused by the advent of photography, in much the same way Color was invented in the 50s.
Ironically, there were two (very irate) responders to my post, and both claimed I was repeating Republican 'talking points'. It's odd that both made the identical accusation; it almost seems like accusing detractors of repeating talking points is a... talking point.
Anyway: Cost of Iraq War: 700 billion. Other consequences: Some negative (cost in soldier's lives), some positive (democratic Iraq).
Cost of various stimulus packages: ~3 trillion. Other consequences: Any improvement to the economy is dubious, significant future debt accumulated. Add to that the idea of socialized medicine (if that isn't blocked), and we will be struggling with the consequences of this administration for many decades.
Congress is more to blame than Obama, however, in my opinion. Obama being in office merely removed the check on the legislative branch.
By the way, commenting on the president's race (when nobody else had) is pretty unseemly, and makes you seem like a bigot.
Whose talking point am I regurgitating? I came to the conclusion on my own. I realize that by labeling it a 'talking point' you hope to make it seem worth disregarding without any consideration as to the opinion's actual merit... but only an unintelligent person that goes along with group-think would fall for that tactic. (Is the term for that 'sheeple'? I think it may be.)
The entire film was hand-colored, from what I understand (well, not the 'real world' parts). Even the film of actors in the tron suits were reduced to black/white and then colored by hand, with fluorescence added. The exact process was unclear, but I think they had every frame of the 'computer' sections printed on cell, and each was painstakingly manually colored, lit, and rephotographed, in a process similar to an animated film. I don't think the fact there was manual work used to integrate/touch up the CGI means that it doesn't count as CGI, any more than the manual work means there wasn't live actors.
Although it's a bit gruesome, it does speak to the benefits of thoroughly testing products on animals. There is something to be said for systematically generating nerve injuries, cancers, diabetes, and so forth in animals and studying the effect of... well, EVERYTHING on their systems. we have nowhere near enough knowledge to predict or model the behavior of chemicals on the chaotic systems of life; we need to still rely on serendipity, so we might as well be rigorous about it.
You know, I think the first seven months of the Obama administration has already been more harmful for the country than the last eight years of Bush's... but I would never characterize Obama as 'dumb'. Wrong? Sure. In a very intelligent way, though.
They sit around all day text messaging each other. I think text adventures have a shot at a comeback. Not in the exact same form; I think a leap forward in parser intelligence will probably be required. It needs to be a little more forgiving. The text format itself is not a deal-breaker, though.
It doesn't target anybody I could ever imagine caring a whit about. Still wrong, I suppose, but hard to get worked up about it.
I think the inability of the bacterium to compete in nature might be a PLUS. I'd rather have it in pools that required constant human supervision, than spreading into the ecosystem.
Ideally, while they are engineering it, they will build in a tolerance/requirement for, say, growth in a high-ph environment. Then, it will have a hard time contaminating us, and we'll have hard time contaminating it.
There was NO CGI in Tron.
I see you've been modded down to -1, so there's no that much point in responding, but I might as well: Yes there was. It contained a mix of practical and CGI effects. Certainly more CGI than in any prior film. The light cycles (partially), tanks, ships, landscapes... most were computer generated.
I think they should have looked more toward the Nintendo DS as inspiration, honestly. That thing can survive in 3rd world countries no problem; it survives 8 year olds. It's powerful enough to browse, the touch screen allows for a ubiquitous interface; just add a stripped-down linux and allow it to read/run from external memory SD and USB drives.
Low odds of an intercept. Now multiply that by thousands of orbits the body will make. The important factor is not that Jupiter will immediately intercept every body; just that a typical body will be more vastly more likely to be intercepted first by Jupiter than the Earth.
That's the goal of the adaption. They aren't trying for academic veracity; they're making an entertainment product. When the original game has an obscure joke comparing a Japanese pop idol to a historical figure from the Heian period, the translators will (and should) make an entirely different joke based on Britney Spears and Can-Can dancers... or maybe something entirely unrelated, which still works for characterization and plot. The craft and style of the translated product is more important than the accuracy.
The biggest problem with Godwin's principle is that it leads people to ignore even relevant and insightful mentions of nazism or hitler. The reason that Nazism is mentioned so often is because of clear extremity of it; it can, often, be used as a perfectly valid reductio ad absurdism... using Hitler to disprove a flawed generalization, as it is here.
You're overlooking the fact that there is no reason an amateur can't be more skilled than a professional. While the average amateur is less skilled, there certainly are amateurs in nearly every field that put most professionals to shame.
I disagree. C is still the major language used in embedded electronics. In addition, ideologically, it's importance is crucial since c syntax now lies at the core of nearly every major language.
Just checked: 33,242 C projects on Sourceforge, compared to 44,784 C++, 58,559 Java, 15,562 Python, and 10,871 Perl. (My shock there is Java... sourceforge projects are voluntary... people actually CHOOSE Java?) I'd also claim Javascript as an important, open-source language. You don't see a lot of full apps written in it, but globally it's VERY important, with fingers in all sorts of areas.
Because, to an extent, the volunteers are succeeding by turning it from a donation to an optional payment for entertainment. "Watch us, be entertained, and please (if possible) donate money" is often a more palatable and attractive offer than simply "We need money to do good things". It turns it from a donation into an exchange. Perhaps it's shallow, perhaps it's crass, but it also works... much like capitalism in general.
GIF is non-lossy... unless you're talking about color resolution, and the old limitation of 256 colors. But the truecolor variants of GIF are 100% accurate, as much as any RAW or PNG. It's a lousy format, but it's not lossy.
I think the eventual goal is to beat windows by having Linux run INSIDE of Firefox. Turning the desktop into a browser window is the first step.
Well, the small amount he evidently knows stil allowed him to make a reasonable question, which actually resembles bitching far less then your response does.
If the keyboard is better than a controller because it has a hundred keys, then would a new device with 200 keys be even better? Of course not.
The keyboard and controller serve two different, but related purposes. The keyboard is an immobile device that is placed on a surface. It is worked on. A controller is held. Both have different optimal configurations, a reflection of their different purposes. Certainly, some games benefit from keyboard control, just as some games benefit from controller control. Comparing the two, as if they were competing entries for the same role, is silly.
Unfortunately, the 360 is FAR easier to develop for. That and PC are almost the only possible choice for the independent developer... unless they want to do iTunes apps, or something. The Wii and PS3 just aren't really approachable except by a select few.
I would LOVE for the Wii to open up a marketplace (something much bigger than its WiiWare category), but I don't think it's something Nintendo would do.
Related: My son's physics textbook was going to cost us $150. Few used copies, because it was a new edition. But the publisher sold the exact same book in India for $15. The EXACT same book, in English, page for page identical, except a note on the back that said "not for sale in the United States."
Well, it was being sold in India. I bought it in the United States. Legal?
Hell if I care. Textbooks are a scam.
From the link, it appears that files (probably having an excessive amount of files) in the IE cache was slowing down Firefox cache? Isn't the Firefox cache entirely separate? Does it look in the IE cache to try to be friendly and helpful, and if so, can that behavior be turned off?