Yes, exactly. This is the part that really gets me. Star Wars in its original format is, as you said, *important*.
It wasn't just a breakthrough film -- it was one of *the* breakthrough films. Lucas is denying himself his own place in history.
What he achieved through sweat, brilliance and vision -- he replaced with common, everyday CG that doesn't even look very good. His scenes are now cluttered, disjointed and look out of place with the rest of the film.
He took film history and replaced it with yet another season's standard fare. One would think that Lucas' enormous ego would encourage a re-release of the originals, not prevent it.
Give it a break. How on Earth did you not get modded, Troll? Are you saying that the developers who made YouTube (Flash based), Google Analytics (Flash based) and 99% of games which have taken the web by storm (Flash based), just don't know how to write "correct" code?
Every time somebody sends me a link of something supposedly "impressive" in HTML5, it looks weaker than old FutureSplash 1.0 stuff.
One would think that a country already so thoroughly invisible on the international stage would do whatever possible to promote visibility. Nice work, Belgian media. You've actually managed to erase yourselves from search.
A 6 digit, all alpha, all lowercase password, made from real words.
While it's entirely possible the password would have been hacked if the password was 16 alpha-numeric-punc chars, it's hard to by sympathetic to Vodaphone when they're this sloppy.
Swarm behavior requires a mutual awareness between devices. This is simply a remote control which affects a large number of units. The problem with this approach is that it only works initially, but random differences in movement become magnified over time. Since each bot movement includes a random margin of error (think: drunkard's walk) the "swarm" will dissipate over time and show less cohesion. In true swarm behavior, each individual actor (bot, in this case) is aware of the greater swarm.
As a professional programmer, you will be learning throughout your entire career. You will be re-training yourself constantly and unendingly.
Those who teach themselves to program (ie: the majority of good programmers) are the ones schools need to focus on, and teach them to program *really well*.
If you haven't learned *any* programming because you say "There wasn't a class". Then you should probably forget about it. You're not going to make a good programmer, because you sound like the kind of person who only learns from classes. And that's likely to be a very major problem for you in your career.
Any hacker will tell you that the smartphone is the juiciest target of them all. Loaded with credit card and direct billing capacity, and with manufacturer-customized OS's that are rarely updated or patched, and thrown together under tight deadlines.
Smartphones are the low hanging fruit of the decade. And of that fruit, Android is the juiciest because of it's relative lack of manufacturer updates.
Amazing how many here are convinced that we will travel the stars before self annihilation. The latter, by the way is more likely our current civilizational vector than a scientific utopia in which man roams impossible distances, expends infinite energy and overcomes the limitations of the human lifespan.
In most businesses, there is a tipping point at which consumers will slow their buying habits. What recording execs consistently fail to understand is that in the music business there is a tipping point at which consumers go away forever and don't come back.
The record labels need to remember that the option confronting users is on the one hand a model like Spotify -- and on the other hand, free (as in, I'll just bring a 2TB drive over to my friends house and get a lifetime worth of free music).
The belief that this can, or will ever be stopped is what consistently drives them to idiotic regulations which destroy their own business.
My bet is that this is the first console to really lunge at a complete online storefront pushing casual games.
In the era of Netflix and Apple's AppStore model of buying games at GameStop needs to officially die. Nintendo is poised to be the first to put online sales above all others because they're the least reliant on third party publishers.
Oh come on. I'll admit that complaining about cheap competition is lame, and their CEO deserves to be laughed out of the room.
But if there's one thing Nintendo deserves compliments on its 'innovation'. They're one of the few innovative companies in the gaming space. The Wii was pronounced dead before it launched, and then it surprised everyone by kicking so much ass. The Nintendo 3DS is going to do the same. Yes, Nintendo suffers from the same over-bloated ills of every large company -- but lack of innovation isn't one of their problems.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh... I thought the East-coast was a visualization of tax-dollars.
Most Slashdotters know very little about moisture down under.
If we're going to start acknowledging the horrifying growth of pseudo-science in our midst, can we include the no-proof-required branches of physics?
Isn't the surest form of protection to not log user activity in the first place?
Yes, exactly. This is the part that really gets me. Star Wars in its original format is, as you said, *important*.
It wasn't just a breakthrough film -- it was one of *the* breakthrough films. Lucas is denying himself his own place in history.
What he achieved through sweat, brilliance and vision -- he replaced with common, everyday CG that doesn't even look very good. His scenes are now cluttered, disjointed and look out of place with the rest of the film.
He took film history and replaced it with yet another season's standard fare. One would think that Lucas' enormous ego would encourage a re-release of the originals, not prevent it.
Why not just print up some DVD's and sell those!
Wikipedia *is* a database. This is like proposing a search engine for "data"....oooh! Sounds amazing!
100% vaporware. But please don't tell the VC guys who got bamboozled. They're just figuring it out and hoping to pass the buck to a greater fool.
ActionScript is no longer ANYTHING like JavaScript. Argument: Fail.
Give it a break. How on Earth did you not get modded, Troll? Are you saying that the developers who made YouTube (Flash based), Google Analytics (Flash based) and 99% of games which have taken the web by storm (Flash based), just don't know how to write "correct" code?
Every time somebody sends me a link of something supposedly "impressive" in HTML5, it looks weaker than old FutureSplash 1.0 stuff.
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One wonders if Google can trace anyone who has previously used this technique to remove competitors from the index.
It would be fascinating to see just who has been a bad boy.
One would think that a country already so thoroughly invisible on the international stage would do whatever possible to promote visibility. Nice work, Belgian media. You've actually managed to erase yourselves from search.
A 6 digit, all alpha, all lowercase password, made from real words.
While it's entirely possible the password would have been hacked if the password was 16 alpha-numeric-punc chars, it's hard to by sympathetic to Vodaphone when they're this sloppy.
Swarm behavior requires a mutual awareness between devices. This is simply a remote control which affects a large number of units. The problem with this approach is that it only works initially, but random differences in movement become magnified over time. Since each bot movement includes a random margin of error (think: drunkard's walk) the "swarm" will dissipate over time and show less cohesion. In true swarm behavior, each individual actor (bot, in this case) is aware of the greater swarm.
Frankly, you're missing the point.
As a professional programmer, you will be learning throughout your entire career. You will be re-training yourself constantly and unendingly.
Those who teach themselves to program (ie: the majority of good programmers) are the ones schools need to focus on, and teach them to program *really well*.
If you haven't learned *any* programming because you say "There wasn't a class". Then you should probably forget about it. You're not going to make a good programmer, because you sound like the kind of person who only learns from classes. And that's likely to be a very major problem for you in your career.
Actually, it's all about Android.
Any hacker will tell you that the smartphone is the juiciest target of them all. Loaded with credit card and direct billing capacity, and with manufacturer-customized OS's that are rarely updated or patched, and thrown together under tight deadlines.
Smartphones are the low hanging fruit of the decade. And of that fruit, Android is the juiciest because of it's relative lack of manufacturer updates.
Amazing how many here are convinced that we will travel the stars before self annihilation. The latter, by the way is more likely our current civilizational vector than a scientific utopia in which man roams impossible distances, expends infinite energy and overcomes the limitations of the human lifespan.
Space travel cheap and safe enough? Lulz. The fires of optimism manage to burn bright against scientific reality.
... no the truly modern version would require a $2.99 iOS app to get the transmissions. "Free" is so last year.
Nothing a wee bit of hurtloam can't cure!
It doesn't take a genius to see that the extremely small form-factor would be especially prone to dust.
The 10,000 year number probably requires some idiotic assumption like "as long as it remains dust free".
In most businesses, there is a tipping point at which consumers will slow their buying habits. What recording execs consistently fail to understand is that in the music business there is a tipping point at which consumers go away forever and don't come back.
The record labels need to remember that the option confronting users is on the one hand a model like Spotify -- and on the other hand, free (as in, I'll just bring a 2TB drive over to my friends house and get a lifetime worth of free music).
The belief that this can, or will ever be stopped is what consistently drives them to idiotic regulations which destroy their own business.
My bet is that this is the first console to really lunge at a complete online storefront pushing casual games.
In the era of Netflix and Apple's AppStore model of buying games at GameStop needs to officially die. Nintendo is poised to be the first to put online sales above all others because they're the least reliant on third party publishers.
That's because they've got new damage-control issues to worry about...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html
Oh come on. I'll admit that complaining about cheap competition is lame, and their CEO deserves to be laughed out of the room.
But if there's one thing Nintendo deserves compliments on its 'innovation'. They're one of the few innovative companies in the gaming space. The Wii was pronounced dead before it launched, and then it surprised everyone by kicking so much ass. The Nintendo 3DS is going to do the same. Yes, Nintendo suffers from the same over-bloated ills of every large company -- but lack of innovation isn't one of their problems.
They'll be asking for government assistance soon. You know, to protect "jobs".