I think you missed the entire point of a "concept virus" on a non-widely distributed, or used, platform.
Really, this virus was written to demonstrate the flaws in.NET in a more vociferous manner than saying, "Hey there are potentially threatning flaws with.NET."
The virus is, already known to the virus protection people. The virus was not released nor spread in the wild and would have a damn hard time propagating about the Internet seeings how most people don't have the framework available...
The most excitement I get at work is writing Java libraries;)
I really never thought of the controller size being an issue, I guess because it works for my hand. One noteworthy thing, I was missing the buttons for at least 8 hours. But my XBOX is my first console since Super Nintendo.
Well, Tom Bombadil wore the ring and did not turn invisible. As it was put, Tom had no real control over the ring yet the ring also held no sway over him. The power the ring gives depends on its posessor. That is also why Gandalf would not takethe ring because the power he would gain with the ring would be much greater. Gandalfs fear was that ultimately the power would corrupt him and the terrible power he possessed would be used in evil and nefarious ways, so I am guessing that Saruon simply did not wish to be visible at that moment. Not that I like the fact they actually showed him, but I digress from your question.
I am torn here, but in the end I agree with you. In a movie you really need to use the medium to its full extent. The quickest and most effective way to communicate how powerful and terrible Sauron was is to simply show some scenes of his imposing, terrifying figure performing supernatural acts.
The books have hundreds of pages where they can let Gandalf ramble about this history or that to demonstrate Saruon's power. The book has time and words to paint him as a hidden, dark, and terrible power. The movie needs something to show you, at least to most people.
I think in the end with the eye and a couple other creepy effects and a little more hint dropping about Sauron and him using his powers from afar the movie would have been fine without the scene of him romping about a battlefield smacking people.
I was disappointed to see him romping around a battlefeed smacking people about. It just seemed like such a comic book portryal of such a dark and foreboding guy that a comic-book portrayal could never do justice, especially in the manner shown. Sure the scene was great but I think the mystery and hidden power is one of the things that keep the book so engrossing, and the entire theme so powerful.
If you really look deep you can determine a lot of about the ring and its powers. There are many hints and references to the kind of power it has.
The simpsons come to mind. From season one episode "Bart the General".
Bart first meets nelson and accidentally hits him and gives him a bloody nose. For the next few days Nelson proceeds to bully bart mercilessly. Bart enlists the help of his grandpa and a overzealous armed forces surplus store to aid him.
Next you see Bart putting his neighborhood buddies through what is obviously a simulation of basic training, running and singing, obstacle courses etc. One particular scene comes up where they run in front of a dog behind a fence.
One kid is very much afraid to run across in front of the dog. Bart starts yelling and slaps the kid. Immediately Bart's grandpa comes over and says something like this: "Hey you can't slap them. You can send them off to die and kill others, but you just can't slap them."
It is rather curt commentary on how basic training instructors can no longer physically touch anyone in basic training, yet the trainees are going to possibly be sent off to fight for their lives and be in very dangerous situations. I think the point is very good and holds the same point as the quote from Apocalypse Now.
(See, the simpsons really do have some fairly decent commentary in a lighthearted manner.:)
Anyhow it is silly dual natured facts of life like this that give me a great chuckle at the sheer silliness out there.
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So there we have it, the foot bothers you;)
Couldn't you have just said, "The foot bothers me?":)
I have decent speakers. I can tell a huge difference in a 128kbps encoded mp3 encoded directly from a rip and the cd itself. It is easy to tell on ANY CD I have ever listened to.
I can tell in *most* songs 128kbps from 256kbps, not always, but most of the time. I can always tell a difference in a 128kbps encoding and 384kbps encoding. Again, only with decent quality speakers, but the difference is clear none the less, in most cases.
I would not be so quick to dismiss peoples accounting of this simply because the differences are rather large. I hate when people say "CD qualuty = 128kbps", which is commonly done in portable mp3 players. They will sell 128kbps as CD quality so they can make it seem as their product can carry XYZ CD quality songs in ABC amount of memory.
Anyway, most people CAN tell if you tell them to listen for it.
Heh,
I guess I am an infant since I have well over 1000 posts accumulated over the last say two or three years. Okay, in 900 days is 1000 posts honestly that much? So ive read slashdot daily and commented heavily in every 50-100 articles, BFD.
No kidding:( I have only one account and I have not had metamod in a long long time. I never abused my metamod privileges or my posting privs. I have always been straight up. *sigh*
Except that the first three letters are from LINUX. LINDOWS.
You could argue that they used the first part to make it sound like Linux.
Yeah, I need to protect my trademark on my operating system known as "FileOS". Any use of the word File or any deriviate based on tense or the plural form of file (files) is now forbidden, thank you HAND.
Well, they *DID* show the claoks all had the little green leaves.
It was visible and noticeable and the focus of the camera when boromir died, for at least 15 seconds. You know where they got them, I am sure they get explained in the next movie. (I hope)
If you ask me it will take someone clever who can work through problems with big egos to handle this, so his "contextual anecdote" more than made the point.
I was looking at a salary survey not to long ago. Middleware (CORBA/COM) programmers, on the average, have seen a drastic increase in salary compared to the rest of the programming world. It would appear Middleware is the hand that rocks the cradle. Mtrends and general programming / technology trends are gravitating towards middleware.
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Jeremy
I think you missed the entire point of a "concept virus" on a non-widely distributed, or used, platform.
.NET in a more vociferous manner than saying, "Hey there are potentially threatning flaws with .NET."
Really, this virus was written to demonstrate the flaws in
The virus is, already known to the virus protection people. The virus was not released nor spread in the wild and would have a damn hard time propagating about the Internet seeings how most people don't have the framework available...
Jeremy
Its Bah, check out the user number ;) I have been here a little while. :)
You have been Eradicated!!!
Anyways I agree with you.
(Quick Aside) You know, every time I see the name Eradicator now I cringe in rememberance of playing r.es on de_dust.
Jeremy
Me thinks someone let their marketing department get a little overzealous with the buzzwords. That whole damn press release is quite painful to read.
Nah,
;)
Last I checked I was not in the porn industry.
The most excitement I get at work is writing Java libraries
I really never thought of the controller size being an issue, I guess because it works for my hand. One noteworthy thing, I was missing the buttons for at least 8 hours. But my XBOX is my first console since Super Nintendo.
Jeremy
I happen to love the controllers. They feel firm and strong in my hands.
Funny aside: Halo describes the vibration of the controllers as something like this... "A pleasant vibrating sensation".
Anyways, the controllers feel good in my hands. I can play for 8hrs straight and have no discomfort at all.
(Disclaimer: I am 6'3" and can palm a basketball)
Jeremy
You improperly spelled pursuit in your essay. The part
"Cerebral persuits are very wide, varied and interesting,"
Should be
"Cerebral pursuits are very wide, varied and interesting,"
Anything I can do to help the divinely gifted is a service to man kind as a whole I am sure.
Seriously, share your drugs with the rest of the world.
Jeremy
We will have decades or no time at all, so says NASA.
Jeremy
Thanks, I recently got season 1 of the simpsons on DVD and that quote sprang to mind.
jeremy
Well, Tom Bombadil wore the ring and did not turn invisible. As it was put, Tom had no real control over the ring yet the ring also held no sway over him. The power the ring gives depends on its posessor. That is also why Gandalf would not takethe ring because the power he would gain with the ring would be much greater. Gandalfs fear was that ultimately the power would corrupt him and the terrible power he possessed would be used in evil and nefarious ways, so I am guessing that Saruon simply did not wish to be visible at that moment. Not that I like the fact they actually showed him, but I digress from your question.
Jeremy
I am torn here, but in the end I agree with you. In a movie you really need to use the medium to its full extent. The quickest and most effective way to communicate how powerful and terrible Sauron was is to simply show some scenes of his imposing, terrifying figure performing supernatural acts.
The books have hundreds of pages where they can let Gandalf ramble about this history or that to demonstrate Saruon's power. The book has time and words to paint him as a hidden, dark, and terrible power. The movie needs something to show you, at least to most people.
I think in the end with the eye and a couple other creepy effects and a little more hint dropping about Sauron and him using his powers from afar the movie would have been fine without the scene of him romping about a battlefield smacking people.
I was disappointed to see him romping around a battlefeed smacking people about. It just seemed like such a comic book portryal of such a dark and foreboding guy that a comic-book portrayal could never do justice, especially in the manner shown. Sure the scene was great but I think the mystery and hidden power is one of the things that keep the book so engrossing, and the entire theme so powerful.
If you really look deep you can determine a lot of about the ring and its powers. There are many hints and references to the kind of power it has.
Jeremy
The simpsons come to mind. From season one episode "Bart the General".
:)
...
Bart first meets nelson and accidentally hits him and gives him a bloody nose. For the next few days Nelson proceeds to bully bart mercilessly. Bart enlists the help of his grandpa and a overzealous armed forces surplus store to aid him.
Next you see Bart putting his neighborhood buddies through what is obviously a simulation of basic training, running and singing, obstacle courses etc. One particular scene comes up where they run in front of a dog behind a fence.
One kid is very much afraid to run across in front of the dog. Bart starts yelling and slaps the kid. Immediately Bart's grandpa comes over and says something like this: "Hey you can't slap them. You can send them off to die and kill others, but you just can't slap them."
It is rather curt commentary on how basic training instructors can no longer physically touch anyone in basic training, yet the trainees are going to possibly be sent off to fight for their lives and be in very dangerous situations. I think the point is very good and holds the same point as the quote from Apocalypse Now.
(See, the simpsons really do have some fairly decent commentary in a lighthearted manner.
Anyhow it is silly dual natured facts of life like this that give me a great chuckle at the sheer silliness out there.
So there we have it, the foot bothers you ;)
:)
Couldn't you have just said, "The foot bothers me?"
Jeremy
Mosfet is a she :)
Mosfet is a SHE!.
...
Jeremy
I have decent speakers. I can tell a huge difference in a 128kbps encoded mp3 encoded directly from a rip and the cd itself. It is easy to tell on ANY CD I have ever listened to.
I can tell in *most* songs 128kbps from 256kbps, not always, but most of the time. I can always tell a difference in a 128kbps encoding and 384kbps encoding. Again, only with decent quality speakers, but the difference is clear none the less, in most cases.
I would not be so quick to dismiss peoples accounting of this simply because the differences are rather large. I hate when people say "CD qualuty = 128kbps", which is commonly done in portable mp3 players. They will sell 128kbps as CD quality so they can make it seem as their product can carry XYZ CD quality songs in ABC amount of memory.
Anyway, most people CAN tell if you tell them to listen for it.
Jeremy
Heh,
I guess I am an infant since I have well over 1000 posts accumulated over the last say two or three years. Okay, in 900 days is 1000 posts honestly that much? So ive read slashdot daily and commented heavily in every 50-100 articles, BFD.
Jeremy
No kidding :( I have only one account and I have not had metamod in a long long time. I never abused my metamod privileges or my posting privs. I have always been straight up. *sigh*
/game.
oh well its just the
Jeremy
Except that the first three letters are from LINUX. LINDOWS.
You could argue that they used the first part to make it sound like Linux.
Yeah, I need to protect my trademark on my operating system known as "FileOS". Any use of the word File or any deriviate based on tense or the plural form of file (files) is now forbidden, thank you HAND.
Jeremy
I used cygwin and a perl script I wrote to strip
comments, whitespace and ignore any non-code files:
find . | xargs stripcat | wc -l
Brute force but it works.
Jeremy
Well, they *DID* show the claoks all had the little green leaves.
It was visible and noticeable and the focus of the camera when boromir died, for at least 15 seconds. You know where they got them, I am sure they get explained in the next movie. (I hope)
Jeremy
If you ask me it will take someone clever who can work through problems with big egos to handle this, so his "contextual anecdote" more than made the point.
Jeremy
I was looking at a salary survey not to long ago. Middleware (CORBA/COM) programmers, on the average, have seen a drastic increase in salary compared to the rest of the programming world. It would appear Middleware is the hand that rocks the cradle. Mtrends and general programming / technology trends are gravitating towards middleware.
Jeremy
Easy to say until you really need a job..
Jeremy