Well, minor panic over:) I don't mind it being 3D as long as it's not got obvious shots and looks fine on a flatscreen, no different to any other movie. Go Ridley.
I thought that this was the exact idea behind Hawking radiation, but the barrier in that example was the event horizon of a black hole? I can't see that this is anything different except for the barrier? How is this a new idea?
Or please please tell me I'm wrong and that it's a live action film after all, just done in 3D? Not like Beowulf which was 3D rendered characters? That could be tolerable, and would make my day!
No god please no, don't do it Ridley!!! The Forever War is my favorite sci-fi novel, and demands a live cast. There is some serious acting to be done here, a modern, adult sci-fi film, not a 3D film which is never going to be as good.
How can you take the misery and apathy of Mandella, and the serious, prolonged waste of life and turn it into effectively a 3D cartoon?
Get the damn budget and immortalise the story, or leave it until someone else can do it.
Indie artists have less perceived worth than major label artists, therefore no one is bothered about pirating them.
I bet you wouldn't get many more downloads if you simply gave the mp3's away for free.
What about selling them by heavily marketing them on the web instead, and giving them an inflated price. 'Best New Artist of the Year!!!' kind of thing, with an album costing $50 or whatever currency you're in. When the perceived worth increases, I bet you'll see all sorts of rips of it appearing on torrent sites. I'm not sure how that helps you in the end but are you surprised that indie label artists with hardly any marketing don't become popular?
There are clear laws against drug 'safehouses' and the like.
The internet hosts all kinds of links in all kinds of places. A law has to be unambiguous or it gets mis-interpreted. So while I agree with you in principle that they were perhaps morally guilty, they don't seem to have been convicted of an established crime.
Courts can introduce new laws, but this one has far ranging implications for the net as a whole. If you can't see the danger in such a law then you're not thinking long term.
Promting piracy isn't a crime, most of us are free to either promote it or decry it. Naming a site with 'Piracy' in the title isn't a crime. They didn't share any copyrighted material. They only supported a file sharing operation. It was the users who chose to use it in they way they wanted it. You can't sue a knife manufacturer for all the stabbings in the world.
I know you want to sidestep the legal issue and convict them of a 'moral wrongdoing', but you can't just make up your own laws based on your own moral compass.
Doesn't beat it but I was 28th August 2004, with this:
Guess who's just scored a Gmail account? They are like internet golddust:) I'm finally in with the elite crowd eh? 1Gb of storage........ ahhh, the space.
When someone as massive as google gets a confirmed spam address, simply respond back with many replies that are as good as genuine replies. Spam them with a few thousand and finding one becomes too difficult, therefore the business model falls away.
I know this is increasing spam short term, but remove the business model and it should stop long term. If other sites (yahoo etc) pick up a similar system for a coordinated effort can't spam be stopped?
What about a folding bluetooth joystick? I've wanted one of these for years and that would eliminate any need for buttons and touchscreen use, AND it's another peripheral to sell to the gamers out there. With MAME being enabled for pretty much any device these days, I want to see a standard bluetooth joystick (or joypad for the young uns) that you can fold up and put in your pocket.
I thought they would have a cool multi laser burner by now to up the write speed, or move the laser instead of the disc? You can build the laser stronger and rotate it at 10,000 rpm if you like.
That's why one of his chapters in the god delusion is 'why there is almost certainly no god'. That's an appropriate line of enquiry. He never tries to prove the non-existence of god - he is a decent scientist in his own right - but let's face it, the logical conclusion should be that the probablility of god existing is almost zero.
I thought the point was that the particles state is undetermined, and only collapses to one or the other upon observation. If the observation itself leads to the waveform collapsing and determining the spin of a particle (say), then the other entangled particle must collapse at the same time, regardless of distance - spooky action at a distance.
I thought there was no 'underlying' pre-determined state. Am I right or wrong?
Darwin did make predictions based on his observations. He observed a flower with an extremely long distance to it's store of nectar, up to a metre if I recall. He predicted a wierd kind of insect (maybe a moth) that must have a massive, metre long tongue to drink the nectar as an example of the two organisms evolving together. The moth was observed and catalogued about 20 years later if I remember right.
Happened to me as well. I don't think I've ever read about glass platters anywhere, but they definately shatter well when they go. I too, survived with my eyesight.
Not to every demographic, certainly not to me. I play games on the PC (CoD, HL etc - the big grown up games), yet on the Wii I mainly play silly games, like mario kart or sonic or brain training stuff, or guitar hero. This is because the missus also plays on the wii (who wasn't any kind of gamer before the wii).
One is the typical lone player in a room somewhere, the other is a social or family game played in the living room. I don't think we'd play hardcore games on the wii at all.
Kids seem to favour the Xbox at the moment - Wii isn't regarded so highly by them and the PS3 is too expensive with not great titles. I think Nintendo are between a rock and a hard place, in that they've done wonders to expand the demographic of players on the Wii, but in doing so they've had to market casual and family games rather than hardcore games because it's families who play the Wii the most.
Why can't a game manufacturer produce a fun add-on for a 'Johnny Lee' type setup? We can all make the glasses easily enough, and it would make your monitor a pretty good 3D device, acting more like a window than a monitor. I'm sure it wouldn't be so hard to do - can games companies really not spare a coder or two for a few days now and again?
The errors won't be in the same place every time, so you'd run it 5 times and take the majority base seen. Close to 100% accuracy with only 5 simultaneous runs over 30 mins and $5k? Sounds like a winner.
For a few selected DRAM producers yes, but in general governments should not let large players in major industries fail.
We're not in charge of economic policy and those who are know what they are doing most of the time. Economics is not an easy game to play, with no real correct solutions at times, just good estimates based on past, present and predicted results.
There isn't any kind of insane conspiracy scheme to keep businesses floating along when they don't deserve to, but there is a desire to keep the economy afloat and improving, with reasonable inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Market forces are not the be all and end all of policy, and to follow the markets purely would result in disaster every time. That would be batshit insane. Especially as the current global economic problems do not stem from poor business models, but initially from the banks failure to curb lending to sub-prime mortgages in the US.
I'm with the economists on this one - bail outs are new territory, but it will shorten the current crisis and have real benefits at the end of it, from economic to social.
And you think that car manufacturing has had it's day, and the industry should fail? Are you willing to give your country that much unemployment and suffering that will result?
There's right, and there's what we should do regardless. From a global perspective, letting companies go under due to a short term (which is becoming medium term) economic crisis is not helpful. Keeping them going is the best option, no matter if the government is helping them out. It is simply sound economic policy.
To let banks and car manufacturers like Ford and DRAM factories shut down based on some kind of 'fairness' policy is ridiculous, and would result in a massive global economic disaster.
I don't like the fact that 450+ billion pounds has been pumped into our banks from the taxpayers pocket, but not doing it would be worse for the country.
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Well, minor panic over :) I don't mind it being 3D as long as it's not got obvious shots and looks fine on a flatscreen, no different to any other movie. Go Ridley.
I thought that this was the exact idea behind Hawking radiation, but the barrier in that example was the event horizon of a black hole? I can't see that this is anything different except for the barrier? How is this a new idea?
Or please please tell me I'm wrong and that it's a live action film after all, just done in 3D? Not like Beowulf which was 3D rendered characters? That could be tolerable, and would make my day!
No god please no, don't do it Ridley!!! The Forever War is my favorite sci-fi novel, and demands a live cast. There is some serious acting to be done here, a modern, adult sci-fi film, not a 3D film which is never going to be as good.
How can you take the misery and apathy of Mandella, and the serious, prolonged waste of life and turn it into effectively a 3D cartoon?
Get the damn budget and immortalise the story, or leave it until someone else can do it.
Indie artists have less perceived worth than major label artists, therefore no one is bothered about pirating them.
I bet you wouldn't get many more downloads if you simply gave the mp3's away for free.
What about selling them by heavily marketing them on the web instead, and giving them an inflated price. 'Best New Artist of the Year!!!' kind of thing, with an album costing $50 or whatever currency you're in. When the perceived worth increases, I bet you'll see all sorts of rips of it appearing on torrent sites. I'm not sure how that helps you in the end but are you surprised that indie label artists with hardly any marketing don't become popular?
There are clear laws against drug 'safehouses' and the like.
The internet hosts all kinds of links in all kinds of places. A law has to be unambiguous or it gets mis-interpreted. So while I agree with you in principle that they were perhaps morally guilty, they don't seem to have been convicted of an established crime.
Courts can introduce new laws, but this one has far ranging implications for the net as a whole. If you can't see the danger in such a law then you're not thinking long term.
Promting piracy isn't a crime, most of us are free to either promote it or decry it. Naming a site with 'Piracy' in the title isn't a crime. They didn't share any copyrighted material. They only supported a file sharing operation. It was the users who chose to use it in they way they wanted it. You can't sue a knife manufacturer for all the stabbings in the world.
I know you want to sidestep the legal issue and convict them of a 'moral wrongdoing', but you can't just make up your own laws based on your own moral compass.
but expected. A good question is - will this stop anyone from filesharing at all?
Doesn't beat it but I was 28th August 2004, with this:
:) I'm finally in with the elite crowd eh? 1Gb of storage........ ahhh, the space.
Guess who's just scored a Gmail account? They are like internet golddust
love n hugs,
What about short term pain for long term gain?
When someone as massive as google gets a confirmed spam address, simply respond back with many replies that are as good as genuine replies. Spam them with a few thousand and finding one becomes too difficult, therefore the business model falls away.
I know this is increasing spam short term, but remove the business model and it should stop long term. If other sites (yahoo etc) pick up a similar system for a coordinated effort can't spam be stopped?
What about a folding bluetooth joystick? I've wanted one of these for years and that would eliminate any need for buttons and touchscreen use, AND it's another peripheral to sell to the gamers out there. With MAME being enabled for pretty much any device these days, I want to see a standard bluetooth joystick (or joypad for the young uns) that you can fold up and put in your pocket.
I thought they would have a cool multi laser burner by now to up the write speed, or move the laser instead of the disc? You can build the laser stronger and rotate it at 10,000 rpm if you like.
Is there a middle ground to be had here? Can atheists and theists both be right?
That's why one of his chapters in the god delusion is 'why there is almost certainly no god'. That's an appropriate line of enquiry. He never tries to prove the non-existence of god - he is a decent scientist in his own right - but let's face it, the logical conclusion should be that the probablility of god existing is almost zero.
I thought the point was that the particles state is undetermined, and only collapses to one or the other upon observation. If the observation itself leads to the waveform collapsing and determining the spin of a particle (say), then the other entangled particle must collapse at the same time, regardless of distance - spooky action at a distance.
I thought there was no 'underlying' pre-determined state. Am I right or wrong?
Darwin did make predictions based on his observations. He observed a flower with an extremely long distance to it's store of nectar, up to a metre if I recall. He predicted a wierd kind of insect (maybe a moth) that must have a massive, metre long tongue to drink the nectar as an example of the two organisms evolving together. The moth was observed and catalogued about 20 years later if I remember right.
I assume all that would be in the HDD driver side, and automatic, just a stream of bytes in and out but the byte storage different.
I'm suprised it's taken so long to get multiple magnetisation strategies to achieve more data density.
In a corporate environment I agree, but I reserve the right to mess up my windows or linux or mac box as much as I possibly can. Not that I do.
Inconceivable!
Happened to me as well. I don't think I've ever read about glass platters anywhere, but they definately shatter well when they go. I too, survived with my eyesight.
Not to every demographic, certainly not to me. I play games on the PC (CoD, HL etc - the big grown up games), yet on the Wii I mainly play silly games, like mario kart or sonic or brain training stuff, or guitar hero. This is because the missus also plays on the wii (who wasn't any kind of gamer before the wii).
One is the typical lone player in a room somewhere, the other is a social or family game played in the living room. I don't think we'd play hardcore games on the wii at all.
Kids seem to favour the Xbox at the moment - Wii isn't regarded so highly by them and the PS3 is too expensive with not great titles. I think Nintendo are between a rock and a hard place, in that they've done wonders to expand the demographic of players on the Wii, but in doing so they've had to market casual and family games rather than hardcore games because it's families who play the Wii the most.
Why can't a game manufacturer produce a fun add-on for a 'Johnny Lee' type setup? We can all make the glasses easily enough, and it would make your monitor a pretty good 3D device, acting more like a window than a monitor. I'm sure it wouldn't be so hard to do - can games companies really not spare a coder or two for a few days now and again?
The errors won't be in the same place every time, so you'd run it 5 times and take the majority base seen. Close to 100% accuracy with only 5 simultaneous runs over 30 mins and $5k? Sounds like a winner.
For a few selected DRAM producers yes, but in general governments should not let large players in major industries fail.
We're not in charge of economic policy and those who are know what they are doing most of the time. Economics is not an easy game to play, with no real correct solutions at times, just good estimates based on past, present and predicted results.
There isn't any kind of insane conspiracy scheme to keep businesses floating along when they don't deserve to, but there is a desire to keep the economy afloat and improving, with reasonable inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Market forces are not the be all and end all of policy, and to follow the markets purely would result in disaster every time. That would be batshit insane. Especially as the current global economic problems do not stem from poor business models, but initially from the banks failure to curb lending to sub-prime mortgages in the US.
I'm with the economists on this one - bail outs are new territory, but it will shorten the current crisis and have real benefits at the end of it, from economic to social.
And you think that car manufacturing has had it's day, and the industry should fail? Are you willing to give your country that much unemployment and suffering that will result?
There's right, and there's what we should do regardless. From a global perspective, letting companies go under due to a short term (which is becoming medium term) economic crisis is not helpful. Keeping them going is the best option, no matter if the government is helping them out. It is simply sound economic policy.
To let banks and car manufacturers like Ford and DRAM factories shut down based on some kind of 'fairness' policy is ridiculous, and would result in a massive global economic disaster.
I don't like the fact that 450+ billion pounds has been pumped into our banks from the taxpayers pocket, but not doing it would be worse for the country.