P.S. - Is it just me, or has anyone else ever had the craving to record the sound of the millenium falcon failing to enter hyperspace, and use that as their windows startup sound (not shutdown sound) (this of course was before I started using Leenukes)
You know, I have actually done this. No for real. And I have replaced the Windows start up screen with Bill Gates as the borg before. Of course, what really threw people off was when I Replaced my Windows opening screen with the Mac OS startup screen. Whew, I can tell you I got some looks over that one!
That's not entirely true though, you can't say that about the pod-racer scenes. That equipment looked exceptionally lived-in. True, the pod racers did look lived in, however, the pod racer scenes were the most cartoony of the movie. Especially considering that the scenery looks like it just crawled in off of Rebels Assult 1 than something rendered to look like real canyons and stuff. They could have killed the announcers, I hated them more than Jar Jar. HOWEVER I do see what you guys are saying about how Naboo was suppose to be a really nice planet and all. It is something that I hadn't thought about. I cannot think of the name of the city, but the city around the palace was extreamely believable. That worked for me. Oh, and the capitol city/planet. I was like, cool! And Tatooine DID look right, the city that is, so I can't say that they ruined the entire movie. =-)
Thank you, people agree with me. I think the shiny stuff made the movie unbelievable to me. And the scenery. Right before the battle, when they were showing the things comming over the hill, am I the only one who thinks that that was an unfinished computer job?
Christ figures are everywhere in western literature, and you don't have to look far to find other examples. Sometimes it is done well (like in Cool Hand Luke), sometimes not so well (In The World According To Garp, he was conceived when his mother raped an unknown dieing soldier.) You forgot The Matrix. Okay, it is kind of obvious that Neo is supposed to be the one, "My Savior, my personal Jesus Christ", but it is so well done, that I am still finding parallels between it and Christianity. I mean, that whole thing when they are walking down the street in the training program and Morpheus says (paraphrase), "All of these people are the very minds of those whom we are trying to save. But most of them are not ready to be unplugged, and some will die to protect it." Or the part where humans are born into slavery and don't realize it and must have someone (Neo) to save them. Did anyone else catch the whole deal about Zion, the last human city? Maybe I am just overananlizing this movie, but it sure does sound like these guys knew something about Christiananity when they wrote it, and with how well it parallells Christianity, I would think they were TRYING to do this. As for Episode I, I actually never caught that, but now that you mention it, I do think I heard that somewhere before. The virgin birth that is. It doesn't bother me too much, I am just courious to see what Lucas is going to do with it.
Thank you, because I sure was about to flame this guy. By the way, Bible is capitolized, it is the name of a book, and should probobly be Underlined as well. Yes, this guy is right, the Bible is a collection of poetry and other stories, but something you must remember is that the Hebrew people are extreamely concerned with preserving History. As for me, I am more ready to believe in the Bible than History according to Microsoft (aka Encarta). And even if you do look at the Bible as a bunch of myths and legends, remember that all legends have some truth behind them. If you have ever had the gual to take world history, you will realize that histories of other cultures go hand in hand with facts stated in the Bible. For example: It is a FACT that there was a man named Joseph who was second in command or something over Egypt. It is a fact that his father Abraham and family moved to Egypt during the time of the famine, and sat up home there. It is also a fact that Egypt later enslaved these people, who called themselves the children of Israel (Abraham's alias). It is also well known that there was an exhile from Egypt to the desert (the plagues things I will not go into). There are many other things in the Bible that do coincide with history, such as the rule of the Judges, the different Kings (such as David), the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babalonians, the Babalonian exhile, the Macabean revolt (if you have a Catholic Bible), etc, but I will not go into it here. Hmmm, I said this wasn't going to be a flame, but I guess it is. Anyways, I guess the point that I am trying to get accross is: Don't attack a religion or their holy book without knowing more than you obviously know about Christiananity and the Bible unless you really want to get flammed. And from the other perspective, don't try to force Christian views on people, some of the bloodiest times in the last 2000 years has been because people went overboard with trying to force their beliefs on others.
You forgot a couple. Q: If there is no sound in space, why are there sounds to the explosions? A: The photon torpedos also come with a compressed mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and other gases, so as to make a dramatic sound if the microphone is placed within close proximity. Q: How in the holodeck can you create a world bigger than the room that it is in? A: (off of a Star Trek card) The holodeck floors are actually a very complex moving treadmill. So even though you are really walking in place, the scenery around you moves, creating the illusion that you are walking. Q: Okay, I buy that, but if that is true, what about those episodes where someone else walks into the holodeck when someone else is using it, and will have to walk longer than the length of the holodeck to get to the other person. Stuff around these people do not seem to distort, so how do you explain this? A: ????? Q: How do dilithiam crystals really help make ani-mater? A: Q: The ship is not rotating, so how do they have gravity? A: ???? Q: If it truely is a federation of planets, why do most of the people on the bridge of the ship happen to be from earth, and only a couple are aliens? A: Audience appeal? Q: You ever noticed in the original series how there is no system to the stardates? A: That is not really a question, but a statement. Q: The holodecks work on transporter technology, correct? Okay, than in this case, it should be easy to take an inanimate object of the holodeck. If you take a person off, since it is being controlled by the computer, instead of disappearing, they should become stiff and inanimate. A: Someone thought of this, and to prevent having a bunch of stiff people standing around outside of holodecks, they make it so that if they step outside of the bounds of the holodeck, they disappear. Instead of limiting it just to people, the programmers were lazy, and decided to make it so that anything leaving the holodeck dissappears. Q: Okay, if this is true, then why do people eat on the holodeck, and are not suddenly starving when they walk out of the holodeck? A: Good question.
I think he ment that Episode I was just bad. Jar Jar was a pestering annoyance. The Ewoks just grow on you. Then again, I first saw REturn of the Jedi when I was 4, so I grew up with them. I think the real annoyance in Episode 1 is that there was SO much computer animation, it almost made the movie unbeleivable, and the fact that the only people who could act was Portman, that guy who played Que-gan (who cares about spelling, I am bashing here), and Yoda. Don't ask me where they dug up that kid who played Anikan. Sure, he was cute, but he couldn't deliver a line worth a flip. I say ax Jar Jar, throw in some Ewoks and Wookies, and find some decent actors. And I still like the whole models thing over Computer Animation, but maybe that is just me.
This is idiodic. I mean, It is a stupid command. I think the PAtent office has long since outlived their usefulness and should be shut down if they are issuing patents for stuff like this. Maybe if enough people persuade their congressmen right, they can reverse the patent. Or something.
I have several ideas. First, weblogs really annoy me in that they only log the numerical address and not the domain name of a site. Second, it would be cool if you could look up an area by a person's IP address, figure out where it is located, and specify news for that region. That would rock.
Okay, one thing that always annoys me about kernel upgrades is that it is almost impossible for me to find a what's new file. For those of us who do not dream in Perl, have hours to pour over cryptic documents, or know Linux outside of the RedHat inspired distros (Mandrake), could someone please write a simple what's new document or something? I mean, is this really too much to ask?
Cute idea, but not too useful. Usually, the processors on these satelites are designed for doing specific tasks, and crunching the numbers needed for doing SETI is probobly beyond its comprehension. HOWEVER, since it is in space, it has the advantage of not being under 1 governments control. With this in mind, lets launch our own satelite with a few terribytes of data, running Linux, and TCP/IP, and set up a warez site.
Ever seen Independence Day? I guess you have. But now we can use our Apple Powerbooks to send them a virus back, and we won't have to go into space this time.
I want to e-mail ET. Get an e-mail address like gravis777@nospam.voyger.nasa.ac (alpha centari). I was going to say that I wanted to e-mail Captain Janeway, but that was pushing it a little too far.
I have always thought your books (Not just the Hitchiker's "Trilogy") would make a great movie or even mini-series. I have seen the one that the BBC did back in the 70s or early 80s, and just groan. Have you thought about a big budget movie or mini-series? I would love to see all 5 of the Hitchicker's with little to nothing cut (BBC did a fairly good job of not elliminating stuff, except the last quarter of the first book and the first half of the second). BBC could do a good hob on Dirk Gently. Anyways, love your work!
I claim Mars for Gravis. Finally a place big enough for all my stuff. I will let the Hilton set up a hotel in the red district zone. I will make my money off of saleing advertisements that are viewable from Earth (with the Hubble on a REALLY clear day). For a mere (or a Mir) amount of money that would pay off the US debt 100 times over, you can be the first advertiser. I will use that money to set up "away missions" to start building structures. There will be research done as to make spacesuits suitable to working on Mars be less bulky so we can accomplish more. Now, you can be the first to hike Olympus Mons or the ancient pyrimids. Futer advertisements will go to fund Terreforming activities. Even futehr research will go to research on suspended animation, and to make launches cheaper, so we can get people there and back. Oh, it will no longer be called Mars, it will be called Planet Gravis. I will buy the trademark from Kingston or whoever owns Gravis now, and then sue anyone who says the name Gravis without paying me royalties. I will be in total control of this, so I will set up my own government. Christiananity will be the state-supported relegion, but they cannot tell you how to worship. We will set up Massive servers to mirror all Internet on Earth (since a signal takes 4 minuets to get tehre and 4 minuets to get back). They will all be Linux and Amiga servers. Age of consent will be 14 (anything younger is icky, older is a bit restrictive, unless you are like 60, then you shouldn't even be around 21 year olds). Maybe age of consent should be set to seeing anyone within a 10 year age span of yourself, as long as it does not go below 14. Ah, we got to get people there first, will worry about this later. Whatever it is, someone is going to throw a fit about it. Censorship will not be as heavy on Planet Gravis, but there will be a line drawn, because if you don't people are going to abuse it. Main line that will be drawn is with porn, where does it turn from being art to being errotic, to being illegal. Art can be viewed by anyone, errotic by people of a certain age, and illegal as in sex with minors and such. One would hope that people would be able to conduct themselves reasonably where you do not have to draw lines, but we all know where that leads. Now, when NASA gets board of the Hubble, I will purchase that as well. I will then rotate it and use it to take pictures and spy on you on the earth. An X-Ray lense will be used to see what you are doing in your house and such. Some material may be posted on a pay voyerism site. Some will be sold to companies who want to know about you. The rest will be handed over to Microsoft (at a price) so they can kill all Linux users. No, I don't like that. Oh well, surely you can have some fun with Hubble if you turn it arround and look at the earth with it. Well, later guys, and remember, don't mess with fake memory implants. If you truely want to visit Planet Gravis, just book the next flight out.
Creative has had this going since before December on their DXR2 cards, take a look at opensource.creative.com I also think ATI announced that they were releasing the specs for their DVD stuff or something for developers. Don't hold me to this.
I don't think I would be complaining about coming in at ONLY 24th. And what is really cool about this is that it isn't a specially built supercomputer, it is a bunch of clustered NetFinity Machines. This once again proves the power of Linux.
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You know, I have actually done this. No for real. And I have replaced the Windows start up screen with Bill Gates as the borg before. Of course, what really threw people off was when I Replaced my Windows opening screen with the Mac OS startup screen. Whew, I can tell you I got some looks over that one!
That's not entirely true though, you can't say that about the pod-racer scenes. That equipment looked exceptionally lived-in. True, the pod racers did look lived in, however, the pod racer scenes were the most cartoony of the movie. Especially considering that the scenery looks like it just crawled in off of Rebels Assult 1 than something rendered to look like real canyons and stuff. They could have killed the announcers, I hated them more than Jar Jar. HOWEVER I do see what you guys are saying about how Naboo was suppose to be a really nice planet and all. It is something that I hadn't thought about. I cannot think of the name of the city, but the city around the palace was extreamely believable. That worked for me. Oh, and the capitol city/planet. I was like, cool! And Tatooine DID look right, the city that is, so I can't say that they ruined the entire movie. =-)
Thank you, people agree with me. I think the shiny stuff made the movie unbelievable to me. And the scenery. Right before the battle, when they were showing the things comming over the hill, am I the only one who thinks that that was an unfinished computer job?
Christ figures are everywhere in western literature, and you don't have to look far to find other examples. Sometimes it is done well (like in Cool Hand Luke), sometimes not so well (In The World According To Garp, he was conceived when his mother raped an unknown dieing soldier.) You forgot The Matrix. Okay, it is kind of obvious that Neo is supposed to be the one, "My Savior, my personal Jesus Christ", but it is so well done, that I am still finding parallels between it and Christianity. I mean, that whole thing when they are walking down the street in the training program and Morpheus says (paraphrase), "All of these people are the very minds of those whom we are trying to save. But most of them are not ready to be unplugged, and some will die to protect it." Or the part where humans are born into slavery and don't realize it and must have someone (Neo) to save them. Did anyone else catch the whole deal about Zion, the last human city? Maybe I am just overananlizing this movie, but it sure does sound like these guys knew something about Christiananity when they wrote it, and with how well it parallells Christianity, I would think they were TRYING to do this. As for Episode I, I actually never caught that, but now that you mention it, I do think I heard that somewhere before. The virgin birth that is. It doesn't bother me too much, I am just courious to see what Lucas is going to do with it.
Thank you, because I sure was about to flame this guy. By the way, Bible is capitolized, it is the name of a book, and should probobly be Underlined as well. Yes, this guy is right, the Bible is a collection of poetry and other stories, but something you must remember is that the Hebrew people are extreamely concerned with preserving History. As for me, I am more ready to believe in the Bible than History according to Microsoft (aka Encarta). And even if you do look at the Bible as a bunch of myths and legends, remember that all legends have some truth behind them. If you have ever had the gual to take world history, you will realize that histories of other cultures go hand in hand with facts stated in the Bible. For example: It is a FACT that there was a man named Joseph who was second in command or something over Egypt. It is a fact that his father Abraham and family moved to Egypt during the time of the famine, and sat up home there. It is also a fact that Egypt later enslaved these people, who called themselves the children of Israel (Abraham's alias). It is also well known that there was an exhile from Egypt to the desert (the plagues things I will not go into). There are many other things in the Bible that do coincide with history, such as the rule of the Judges, the different Kings (such as David), the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babalonians, the Babalonian exhile, the Macabean revolt (if you have a Catholic Bible), etc, but I will not go into it here. Hmmm, I said this wasn't going to be a flame, but I guess it is. Anyways, I guess the point that I am trying to get accross is: Don't attack a religion or their holy book without knowing more than you obviously know about Christiananity and the Bible unless you really want to get flammed. And from the other perspective, don't try to force Christian views on people, some of the bloodiest times in the last 2000 years has been because people went overboard with trying to force their beliefs on others.
You forgot a couple. Q: If there is no sound in space, why are there sounds to the explosions? A: The photon torpedos also come with a compressed mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and other gases, so as to make a dramatic sound if the microphone is placed within close proximity. Q: How in the holodeck can you create a world bigger than the room that it is in? A: (off of a Star Trek card) The holodeck floors are actually a very complex moving treadmill. So even though you are really walking in place, the scenery around you moves, creating the illusion that you are walking. Q: Okay, I buy that, but if that is true, what about those episodes where someone else walks into the holodeck when someone else is using it, and will have to walk longer than the length of the holodeck to get to the other person. Stuff around these people do not seem to distort, so how do you explain this? A: ????? Q: How do dilithiam crystals really help make ani-mater? A: Q: The ship is not rotating, so how do they have gravity? A: ???? Q: If it truely is a federation of planets, why do most of the people on the bridge of the ship happen to be from earth, and only a couple are aliens? A: Audience appeal? Q: You ever noticed in the original series how there is no system to the stardates? A: That is not really a question, but a statement. Q: The holodecks work on transporter technology, correct? Okay, than in this case, it should be easy to take an inanimate object of the holodeck. If you take a person off, since it is being controlled by the computer, instead of disappearing, they should become stiff and inanimate. A: Someone thought of this, and to prevent having a bunch of stiff people standing around outside of holodecks, they make it so that if they step outside of the bounds of the holodeck, they disappear. Instead of limiting it just to people, the programmers were lazy, and decided to make it so that anything leaving the holodeck dissappears. Q: Okay, if this is true, then why do people eat on the holodeck, and are not suddenly starving when they walk out of the holodeck? A: Good question.
I think he ment that Episode I was just bad. Jar Jar was a pestering annoyance. The Ewoks just grow on you. Then again, I first saw REturn of the Jedi when I was 4, so I grew up with them. I think the real annoyance in Episode 1 is that there was SO much computer animation, it almost made the movie unbeleivable, and the fact that the only people who could act was Portman, that guy who played Que-gan (who cares about spelling, I am bashing here), and Yoda. Don't ask me where they dug up that kid who played Anikan. Sure, he was cute, but he couldn't deliver a line worth a flip. I say ax Jar Jar, throw in some Ewoks and Wookies, and find some decent actors. And I still like the whole models thing over Computer Animation, but maybe that is just me.
Anyone know how Google can afford a 4000 node cluster? I mean, there are like no ads, no subscriptions, etc.
Anyone attempted running Unreal, UltraHLE, or Quake 2 in Wine? They run better in Wine than they do under SE. PRetty cool IMO.
This is idiodic. I mean, It is a stupid command. I think the PAtent office has long since outlived their usefulness and should be shut down if they are issuing patents for stuff like this. Maybe if enough people persuade their congressmen right, they can reverse the patent. Or something.
I have several ideas. First, weblogs really annoy me in that they only log the numerical address and not the domain name of a site. Second, it would be cool if you could look up an area by a person's IP address, figure out where it is located, and specify news for that region. That would rock.
I like dotster.com myself. I have friends who transfered from NSI to Dotster, and they said it was an EASY process. I like them, and they are cheap.
Okay, one thing that always annoys me about kernel upgrades is that it is almost impossible for me to find a what's new file. For those of us who do not dream in Perl, have hours to pour over cryptic documents, or know Linux outside of the RedHat inspired distros (Mandrake), could someone please write a simple what's new document or something? I mean, is this really too much to ask?
Cute idea, but not too useful. Usually, the processors on these satelites are designed for doing specific tasks, and crunching the numbers needed for doing SETI is probobly beyond its comprehension. HOWEVER, since it is in space, it has the advantage of not being under 1 governments control. With this in mind, lets launch our own satelite with a few terribytes of data, running Linux, and TCP/IP, and set up a warez site.
Ever seen Independence Day? I guess you have. But now we can use our Apple Powerbooks to send them a virus back, and we won't have to go into space this time.
You can tell when it hits the satelite too, it goes from pings under 175 to pings over 700ms.
I want to e-mail ET. Get an e-mail address like gravis777@nospam.voyger.nasa.ac (alpha centari). I was going to say that I wanted to e-mail Captain Janeway, but that was pushing it a little too far.
I have always thought your books (Not just the Hitchiker's "Trilogy") would make a great movie or even mini-series. I have seen the one that the BBC did back in the 70s or early 80s, and just groan. Have you thought about a big budget movie or mini-series? I would love to see all 5 of the Hitchicker's with little to nothing cut (BBC did a fairly good job of not elliminating stuff, except the last quarter of the first book and the first half of the second). BBC could do a good hob on Dirk Gently. Anyways, love your work!
What more can I say.
I say that next week, they put up TTY Quake and play it. Whoohoo!!!
Whoohoo, I can transfer my whole HD in like under a second now. If only I could get an Internet connection that fast now.
Yes, we must bridge the airport with the local ethernet.
I claim Mars for Gravis. Finally a place big enough for all my stuff. I will let the Hilton set up a hotel in the red district zone. I will make my money off of saleing advertisements that are viewable from Earth (with the Hubble on a REALLY clear day). For a mere (or a Mir) amount of money that would pay off the US debt 100 times over, you can be the first advertiser. I will use that money to set up "away missions" to start building structures. There will be research done as to make spacesuits suitable to working on Mars be less bulky so we can accomplish more. Now, you can be the first to hike Olympus Mons or the ancient pyrimids. Futer advertisements will go to fund Terreforming activities. Even futehr research will go to research on suspended animation, and to make launches cheaper, so we can get people there and back. Oh, it will no longer be called Mars, it will be called Planet Gravis. I will buy the trademark from Kingston or whoever owns Gravis now, and then sue anyone who says the name Gravis without paying me royalties. I will be in total control of this, so I will set up my own government. Christiananity will be the state-supported relegion, but they cannot tell you how to worship. We will set up Massive servers to mirror all Internet on Earth (since a signal takes 4 minuets to get tehre and 4 minuets to get back). They will all be Linux and Amiga servers. Age of consent will be 14 (anything younger is icky, older is a bit restrictive, unless you are like 60, then you shouldn't even be around 21 year olds). Maybe age of consent should be set to seeing anyone within a 10 year age span of yourself, as long as it does not go below 14. Ah, we got to get people there first, will worry about this later. Whatever it is, someone is going to throw a fit about it. Censorship will not be as heavy on Planet Gravis, but there will be a line drawn, because if you don't people are going to abuse it. Main line that will be drawn is with porn, where does it turn from being art to being errotic, to being illegal. Art can be viewed by anyone, errotic by people of a certain age, and illegal as in sex with minors and such. One would hope that people would be able to conduct themselves reasonably where you do not have to draw lines, but we all know where that leads. Now, when NASA gets board of the Hubble, I will purchase that as well. I will then rotate it and use it to take pictures and spy on you on the earth. An X-Ray lense will be used to see what you are doing in your house and such. Some material may be posted on a pay voyerism site. Some will be sold to companies who want to know about you. The rest will be handed over to Microsoft (at a price) so they can kill all Linux users. No, I don't like that. Oh well, surely you can have some fun with Hubble if you turn it arround and look at the earth with it. Well, later guys, and remember, don't mess with fake memory implants. If you truely want to visit Planet Gravis, just book the next flight out.
Creative has had this going since before December on their DXR2 cards, take a look at opensource.creative.com I also think ATI announced that they were releasing the specs for their DVD stuff or something for developers. Don't hold me to this.
I don't think I would be complaining about coming in at ONLY 24th. And what is really cool about this is that it isn't a specially built supercomputer, it is a bunch of clustered NetFinity Machines. This once again proves the power of Linux.