Wow. Get a good view from that Ivory Tower? Perhaps not.
AI was drek passed off as sophistication by people who fool themselves into thinking it was something profound when it was merely hack philosophy and storytelling. Eloquently presented crap is still crap.
Ooooh, it's so insightful! Wow, that scene really captured the pain of unrequited human emotion even though he is a robot. Look how he never blinks...until the end, that's amazing! Yes, destroying robots highlights the harshness of human nature...but you almost pity the humans at the robot destruction rally because they will never truly experience the beauty of life as robot boy has. The robot boy creates his own belief system that never grants him peace, but science does! What an amazing, insightful commentary on organized religion!
Ok...I feel nauseated now. Great. Maybe I'll go watch Blade Runner so I can watch real insight in a beautiful film. That'll make me feel better.
We had one growing up on the OBX and it would go off with a piercingly loud alarm whenever national weather service issued a severe weather alert. You go to the box and hit the listen bar and you get all the info you need right away.
Usually our alert box would go off minutes before the tv stations picked up the warning bar. Not that minutes really mattered for the occasional sudden thunderstorm; but surely with tornado warnings delays of seconds would be a big deal?
Does everyone just have their tvs on ALL the time? Or do the tvs come on when there is a warning? Why doesn't a radio station provide the same service? What about people without tvs?
If radio stations do provide the alerts as well, then what does over the air tv do that radio doesn't; other than entertain?
Japanese games were (in the NES and SNES days) geared toward Japanese pop-gaming trends; but that didn't stop them from being fanatically popular in the US.
My wife and I have an 800 Mhz iBook, a 900 Mhz iBook, and a dual 1.8 Ghz (revised) G5. On every system spotlight zips along quite effectively and I notice no significant slowdown. Our G5 is houses our massive store of information (tons of music, movies, photos, etc) and spotlight is invaluable. The only time it is an annoyance is when I have 'put hard disks to sleep when possible' set and our firewire drive connected. Then every spotlight search will have to wait for the external drive to spin up before completing. Since it's a backup drive I try to keep it spinning as infrequently as possible so I just leave it disconnected unless a backup process is running.
How is spotlight for you without the external drives?
The biggest change is that you really can print photos at home now. Ten years ago that wasn't practical. People like having physical copies of their photos for an album, and you just can't replicate that with a screen.
Sure, but that's why I use internet photo printing services. Home printing sounds convenient and easy, but it invariably isn't unless you have a nice color laser printer. Inkjets still have the problem of limited cartridge lifespan whether you use the cartridge or not!
When I want ultimate convenience and don't mind a wait, I use iPhoto's built-in printing service (especially for its book creation). When I need a photo immediately I submit it to the nearest Wolf Camera online and pick it up an hour later. In both cases the quality is much higher than I could easily replicate at home with an inkjet; and with much less hassle.
Besides, the advent of easy (really easy) online photo sharing the biggest reason I printed photographs is now nearly handled; and I only really print bound books from iPhoto.
I have a black and white laser printer but only rarely use it; but it's perfect for those infrequent times when I want to print out something. The only time I need color is photographs and that's covered by the online solutions.
(Not to mention that most schools still won't accept your homework on a CD-ROM.)
In my experience many professors are preferring work submitted electronically. Although they still prefer.doc format to an annoying degree, but that's another post.
What was so bad about three? I thought it was the best HP movie so far. The first two were entirely too bound to their respective books. I didn't particularly care to watch what were essentially video companions to the books.
Three also had the awesome dementors and nice stylistic direction. The kids seemed more like real kids too.
Just bad ones who think that kids need no guidance or supervision. The ones who don't like to treat every day with their kids as a teaching and learning opportunity.
Did...did you just say that Christian rock and the Left Behind series are higher quality? Granted, mainstream isn't too high a target but I still have trouble seeing this.
I guess things have come a long way since Carmen and Chicks comics. Or maybe they seem higher quality to those with ears for the faith orientation; but to my impartial eyes and ears the lyrics and books seem trite, the emotions forced and self-serving, and the "faith" monetary based.
But don't just say "Christian" games go nowhere; I challenge you to find any real world religion well represented by fictional book, music, or video game. Where's my video game that simulates the Buddhist wheel of life and my character's struggle to wake up from it and break the chains that bind? Of course the realtime lifelong meditation would be tricky to gamify, but I'm sure it could be done.:-)
The best religious videogame I can think of is Ultima IV and that wasn't even a real religion (nice concepts though).
Give me a Bioware RPG (with the good and evil possibilities that implies) set in Biblical times and I'd be all over that game. How cool would it be to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt...or betray them for a rich reward.
There is a reason that you vaguely recall it; your mind is trying to point out that the 9/11 attacks was a retaliation for our meddling in the Middle East (specifically our military bases in Saudi Arabia).
Thank god Central America hasn't risen up in a holy war against us; we've certainly given them even more reason to. (E.g. United Fruit Corporation and the Truman Administration)
I'm not military, so I'd rather not fight them. If I *am* fighting them that means that I've been drafted. If I've been drafted then the country and the military are in a tough spot. If the military is in a tough spot then it's a seriously entrenched force we're dealing with. If they are seriously entrenched in the United States then they are either a mind-numbingly superb invasion force or are citizens. Neither of those cases seems like it would be too good to deal with; so, yeah, I'd prefer to fight them at their home territory. But who are they? All terrorists? If we include all terrorists in our list then what about the Virgina Snipers? The Oklahoma City bombing? It's not like we can ship off to Terroristania and know that just about every moving human without a flag on is an Enemy.
What guitar replacing advanced technologies do you speak of? The only thing I can think of is the electric guitar (no more expensive resonance construction, let the amp do it!) and that seems to have enjoyed extreme success.
The Europeans were the first to have a global map. The Europeans were the first to have global colonies. The Europeans tamed the mighty continent of Africa in terms of agriculture (and had to give it back to the warlords only to be put back in poverty) The Europeans came to and populated most of America and that culture is what got us to the moon.
Nah, you should still say the Chinese.
1. While there is evidence pointing to a Chinese map that included North American pre-1500s, it is controversial evidence so I'll give you that one.
4. China didn't populate America and didn't get to the moon; BUT China (random sampling from Genius of China - DS721.T46 1986):
Used quantitative cartography (grid mapmaking): AD 200s
Recognized solar wind: AD 600s - an explanation for comet tails always pointing away from the sun
Transported and burned natural gas - 400s BC : "...they use bamboo tubes to 'contain the light', conserving it so that it can be made to travel from one place to another, as much as a day's journey away from the well without its being extinguished. When it has burnt no ash is left, and it blazes brilliantly."
Deep drilled for natural gas - AD 100s; their techniques for drilling were imported into Europe in the 1800s
Invented matches: AD 557
Mechanical clock: AD 800s
Moveable type printing: 1200s
Gunpowder: AD 900s
Explosive weapons: AD 900s - grenades, mines, bombs, etc.
Rockets: AD 1200s - "bees' nest" rocket launchers that launched over 300 rockets at a time must have been devastating.
The iron plow (since we are kind of talking about agricultural influence): 600s BC.
The efficient horse harness: 300s BC - the trace harness found its way into Europe via Central Asia. The Avars invaded Hungary in 568 AD and brought the harness back with them; they also imported the stirrup.
You sound like you are active in the world, which means you are gaining karma, which means you are being bound to this world (they say golden chains for good deeds, iron chains for bad deeds). That's not a bad thing as long as you think playing on the wheel is fun; but Buddha is one who has no chains. Thus, I don't think he'll offer much help if you want to keep playing on the wheel.
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Wow. Get a good view from that Ivory Tower? Perhaps not.
AI was drek passed off as sophistication by people who fool themselves into thinking it was something profound when it was merely hack philosophy and storytelling. Eloquently presented crap is still crap.
Ooooh, it's so insightful! Wow, that scene really captured the pain of unrequited human emotion even though he is a robot. Look how he never blinks...until the end, that's amazing! Yes, destroying robots highlights the harshness of human nature...but you almost pity the humans at the robot destruction rally because they will never truly experience the beauty of life as robot boy has. The robot boy creates his own belief system that never grants him peace, but science does! What an amazing, insightful commentary on organized religion!
Ok...I feel nauseated now. Great. Maybe I'll go watch Blade Runner so I can watch real insight in a beautiful film. That'll make me feel better.
You should use Firefox and using Firefox you should use the superbly excellent Flash Block and Adblock.
This isn't rocket science people. How else are you going to watch Ill Will Press?
Sure, and while all this is great; tv still doesn't do anything essential other than entertain.
Your preference for tv is that it can entertain and warn at the same time, but anyone with a radio would still get the warning.
Not that entertainment isn't a great thing; but killing off over the air broadcasts won't be the loss of an essential service as many claim.
For each channel? At the same time? Do you see an inherent problem?
Isn't it awesome when the "losing" music turns around to the "winning" music?
XW-A wasn't the first game to use though though, Wing Commander (I-V) did the same thing.
The first to climb Everest? What do you think the Sherpa guides had been doing, pray tell? Or did they just guess their way when guiding?
China used clay tablet printing for widespread (semi, most people were illiterate) in the BCs.
AD 800s is for the mechanical clock, not an accurate timepiece. Try looking up when Europe created the mechanical clock. Exactly.
http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/mclock.html
Time measurement was very important for the Chinese since they based so much of their life on precise astrological measurements.
You don't have weather alert boxes?
We had one growing up on the OBX and it would go off with a piercingly loud alarm whenever national weather service issued a severe weather alert. You go to the box and hit the listen bar and you get all the info you need right away.
Usually our alert box would go off minutes before the tv stations picked up the warning bar. Not that minutes really mattered for the occasional sudden thunderstorm; but surely with tornado warnings delays of seconds would be a big deal?
Does everyone just have their tvs on ALL the time? Or do the tvs come on when there is a warning? Why doesn't a radio station provide the same service? What about people without tvs?
If radio stations do provide the alerts as well, then what does over the air tv do that radio doesn't; other than entertain?
"Good" and "Offense" are antonyms?
Over the air tv is an "essential medium"? Essential to what? Water cooler conversations?
Other than entertain, what does over the air tv do that the radio doesn't?
Japanese games were (in the NES and SNES days) geared toward Japanese pop-gaming trends; but that didn't stop them from being fanatically popular in the US.
My wife and I have an 800 Mhz iBook, a 900 Mhz iBook, and a dual 1.8 Ghz (revised) G5. On every system spotlight zips along quite effectively and I notice no significant slowdown. Our G5 is houses our massive store of information (tons of music, movies, photos, etc) and spotlight is invaluable. The only time it is an annoyance is when I have 'put hard disks to sleep when possible' set and our firewire drive connected. Then every spotlight search will have to wait for the external drive to spin up before completing. Since it's a backup drive I try to keep it spinning as infrequently as possible so I just leave it disconnected unless a backup process is running.
How is spotlight for you without the external drives?
The biggest change is that you really can print photos at home now. Ten years ago that wasn't practical. People like having physical copies of their photos for an album, and you just can't replicate that with a screen.
.doc format to an annoying degree, but that's another post.
Sure, but that's why I use internet photo printing services. Home printing sounds convenient and easy, but it invariably isn't unless you have a nice color laser printer. Inkjets still have the problem of limited cartridge lifespan whether you use the cartridge or not!
When I want ultimate convenience and don't mind a wait, I use iPhoto's built-in printing service (especially for its book creation). When I need a photo immediately I submit it to the nearest Wolf Camera online and pick it up an hour later. In both cases the quality is much higher than I could easily replicate at home with an inkjet; and with much less hassle.
Besides, the advent of easy (really easy) online photo sharing the biggest reason I printed photographs is now nearly handled; and I only really print bound books from iPhoto.
I have a black and white laser printer but only rarely use it; but it's perfect for those infrequent times when I want to print out something. The only time I need color is photographs and that's covered by the online solutions.
(Not to mention that most schools still won't accept your homework on a CD-ROM.)
In my experience many professors are preferring work submitted electronically. Although they still prefer
What was so bad about three? I thought it was the best HP movie so far. The first two were entirely too bound to their respective books. I didn't particularly care to watch what were essentially video companions to the books.
Three also had the awesome dementors and nice stylistic direction. The kids seemed more like real kids too.
Just bad ones who think that kids need no guidance or supervision. The ones who don't like to treat every day with their kids as a teaching and learning opportunity.
So businesses should know not to use Microsoft in a server capacity. Especially when there are free alternatives!
...you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
Did...did you just say that Christian rock and the Left Behind series are higher quality? Granted, mainstream isn't too high a target but I still have trouble seeing this.
:-)
I guess things have come a long way since Carmen and Chicks comics. Or maybe they seem higher quality to those with ears for the faith orientation; but to my impartial eyes and ears the lyrics and books seem trite, the emotions forced and self-serving, and the "faith" monetary based.
But don't just say "Christian" games go nowhere; I challenge you to find any real world religion well represented by fictional book, music, or video game. Where's my video game that simulates the Buddhist wheel of life and my character's struggle to wake up from it and break the chains that bind? Of course the realtime lifelong meditation would be tricky to gamify, but I'm sure it could be done.
The best religious videogame I can think of is Ultima IV and that wasn't even a real religion (nice concepts though).
Give me a Bioware RPG (with the good and evil possibilities that implies) set in Biblical times and I'd be all over that game. How cool would it be to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt...or betray them for a rich reward.
Not here at work: Windows XP on a stock IBM. The presentation ran fine.
Too bad for all of us that our CIA intelligence wasn't listened too then.
How many memos will it take?
There is a reason that you vaguely recall it; your mind is trying to point out that the 9/11 attacks was a retaliation for our meddling in the Middle East (specifically our military bases in Saudi Arabia).
Thank god Central America hasn't risen up in a holy war against us; we've certainly given them even more reason to. (E.g. United Fruit Corporation and the Truman Administration)
I'm not military, so I'd rather not fight them. If I *am* fighting them that means that I've been drafted. If I've been drafted then the country and the military are in a tough spot. If the military is in a tough spot then it's a seriously entrenched force we're dealing with. If they are seriously entrenched in the United States then they are either a mind-numbingly superb invasion force or are citizens. Neither of those cases seems like it would be too good to deal with; so, yeah, I'd prefer to fight them at their home territory. But who are they? All terrorists? If we include all terrorists in our list then what about the Virgina Snipers? The Oklahoma City bombing? It's not like we can ship off to Terroristania and know that just about every moving human without a flag on is an Enemy.
Because that's bad Feng Shui dude.
What guitar replacing advanced technologies do you speak of? The only thing I can think of is the electric guitar (no more expensive resonance construction, let the amp do it!) and that seems to have enjoyed extreme success.
The Europeans were the first to have a global map.
.T46 1986):
The Europeans were the first to have global colonies.
The Europeans tamed the mighty continent of Africa in terms of agriculture (and had to give it back to the warlords only to be put back in poverty)
The Europeans came to and populated most of America and that culture is what got us to the moon.
Nah, you should still say the Chinese.
1. While there is evidence pointing to a Chinese map that included North American pre-1500s, it is controversial evidence so I'll give you that one.
2 and 3. China at one point had an empire that stretched from the China Sea to the Danube River in Europe. Conquering the mighty continent of Asia is a bit more impressive than Africa. Of course this vast empire was only held for a couple generations before splitting into sub-states.
4. China didn't populate America and didn't get to the moon; BUT China (random sampling from Genius of China - DS721
Used quantitative cartography (grid mapmaking): AD 200s
Recognized solar wind: AD 600s - an explanation for comet tails always pointing away from the sun
Transported and burned natural gas - 400s BC : "...they use bamboo tubes to 'contain the light', conserving it so that it can be made to travel from one place to another, as much as a day's journey away from the well without its being extinguished. When it has burnt no ash is left, and it blazes brilliantly."
Deep drilled for natural gas - AD 100s; their techniques for drilling were imported into Europe in the 1800s
Invented matches: AD 557
Mechanical clock: AD 800s
Moveable type printing: 1200s
Gunpowder: AD 900s
Explosive weapons: AD 900s - grenades, mines, bombs, etc.
Rockets: AD 1200s - "bees' nest" rocket launchers that launched over 300 rockets at a time must have
been devastating.
The iron plow (since we are kind of talking about agricultural influence): 600s BC.
The efficient horse harness: 300s BC - the trace harness found its way into Europe via Central Asia. The Avars invaded Hungary in 568 AD and brought the harness back with them; they also imported the stirrup.
You sound like you are active in the world, which means you are gaining karma, which means you are being bound to this world (they say golden chains for good deeds, iron chains for bad deeds). That's not a bad thing as long as you think playing on the wheel is fun; but Buddha is one who has no chains. Thus, I don't think he'll offer much help if you want to keep playing on the wheel.