Re:Can Oscar's be given posthumously?
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Well, kinda...
Ledger's Joker is based more on the comic series which always had the Joker as more of a psychotic than a jokester. Perhaps it was the Adam West series's softening of the character that gave the Joker that impression in the general public. In the 70's when the Joker became even a bit more grittier, and through the Dark Knight and similar gn's, the "darkening" of the Batman universe came to influence Dini, etc. in how they developed the character for TAS, though a bit softer still since it was a kids show.
Ledger's version is easily the closest to the original Joker concept of a true psychotic criminal, one who not only revels in his own altered version of the world, but finds the humor in the differences of what is considered our normal and what he considers normal, and uses that humor as part of his villainy. Nicholson's Joker, while following closely to The Killing Joke origin of the Joker (and in my mind a weak cause for the level of the Joker's psychosis as required for the original character), was more along the lines of the 50's and 60's prankster Joker.
Either way, it will take a lot to find another actor who can come close to bringing the Joker to life in the same way Ledger did.
He is much worse, porn merchants don't lie about what they do. They also don't advocate the taking of people's rights. They don't endorse violence (except in the bedroom, with safe words...).
Democracy did not get its start in the U.S. on two points. First, previous democracies (yes, even previous representative democracies). Second, the US is not, by founding, a democracy but a Republic.
Thank you for playing the basic high school history game! Perhaps you should use your U.S. government brainwashing (err public high school education) for less academic pursuits.
People selfishly swallowing gallons of their own saliva, drinking juices in between just to get their next kick... Oh god, I hope the Republicans take over congress again so they can attack this scourge to society.
Think of the children! Defenseless, even on school yards! We will need to increase the number of police on the streets with packs of flour to stuff into people's mouths to prevent prevent them from getting high.
The simple way is to program imitation and have the bot perform the trick when there's any sort of audience.
Now, if the dogs could describe the necessary action instead, I'd be extremely impressed.
though the learning through imitation method may leave them more open to learn and improve upon what they learn.
I don't program, but I've seen other people do things and in my imitation improve on what I learn, so I figure the same would hold true, whereas if you rely directly on being "copied" from one dog to the other, this learning and improving wouldn't occur.
that operation could (and most likely would) cause the unit to fail sooner. plus, who's to say it failed off? maybe it failed broken, so it might be on and not working...
and us Engineers pull our hair out because the IT guys, the computer technicians, and computer scientists still haven't been able to get a solid, working, computer and networking system running. Anywhere I've worked.
I'm surprised noone pointed this out yet, but the study has a possible flaw in it. Its hard to say since I don't speak German, and the english version of the study hasn't been released yet.
The news article says
One group consisted of 60 users aged 25 to 55 with computer skills but no prior experience with Linux or Windows XP
It does not say whether they have had prior Windows experience at all. XP is very very very much like 2000, ME and 98 when compared to KDE or Gnome. So if they had any prior experience with one of the older Windows versions they would have an advantage to understanding XP.
So we'll have to see. If this is the case the survey could very well tell a different story than what this article talks about.
I've sort of done an unofficial survey of the same type. My laptop sits in my apartment living room and runs KDE as the window manager. When friends come over its used as the random computer that we search for stuff on while watching tv. All my friends(more technically minded, we do go to a major tech university) have no real problem using KDE to do stuff(browse web, IM, type in Kate, etc). The major complaint is that they're not familiar with the icons or the program names when they first see them. Now everyone knows what the Firebird and Gaim icons look like though. I've even had a few friends sit and play with it for a while to see what its like.
Plus, I use XP at work (sadly) and I find it much more difficult to use and I used to run 2000 (I switched to linux after its release).
Also, KDE sort of "looks" like Windows, which people frequently find confusing, since it implies that it will act exactly like Windows, which it doesn't
wait, is he saying gnome looks less like Windows than KDE does? Looking at the screenshots of XD2 in the article, it looks just as much like Windows as KDE does. OK, so the default puts the K task bar on the bottom like windows, but I have mine at the top of my screen, and I have a running apps bar at the bottom too.
As far as options, the thing that pisses me off about Gnome is that I can't or its very difficult to change settings, which just pisses me off and I log back into KDE.
Plus, whats up with Gnome's file save/open box? That thing needed work 3 years ago...
That said, XD1 was awesome, and I'm definitly going to give XD2 a try, as soon as they have a Mandrake build.
They tried this in L.A. like 2 or 3 years ago. I guess it didn't go over well and they changed it back to not having to dial area code for your local area code. I don't know exactly what caused them to switch back though?
www.kxlu.com is the website for my local college station. No commercials, no corporate money, they are funded by their yearly fundrazor. They work out of the campus of LMU in westchester, CA(but don't receive any funding or services from the school) and are known for being the first radio station to play bands like Guns and Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers on a show called DemoListen, which only plays demo tapes unsigned bands. Of course, even if you don't like that type of music, you will find something you like being played, but I use those bands to show how "New Music" they really are.
Anyway, they have a decent webstream, and I talked to the General Manager and he said said they would have a higher bitrate stream soon too.
So, now when my fingerprint is on their file they can check every product i touched as i thought about purchasing it.
What I really can't wait for, is when someone steals my fingerprint and starts charging their purchases to me. Cause we all know how easy it is to get a new fingerprint...
Re:it wasn't about the aliens...
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yea, I like how they tied Mary and Own's actions together to signify that maybe Owen wasn't such the asshole he comes off as.
Dakota Fanning saves the miniseries, which would have been horrible if the girl that plays the role was a bad actress. Anton Yelchin also does a great job as the boy Jason Clark, another difficult role to play.
agreed, its hard not to like a woman that likes Bob Mould and his band of merry men.
Re:it wasn't about the aliens...
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Lifetime and Hallmark channel viewers would have complained that it was too much scifi...
She could comeback, she does have one of the star jewelry piece, and if she's that powerful she can force the aliens to bring her back if needed.
Taken2 the "miniseries"...
it wasn't about the aliens...
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Taken wasn't about the aliens, it was about the abductees. The reason the aliens were in it so little was because Leslie Bohem wanted to concentrate on the lives of the people involved in the "alien conspiracy". It was scifi because it involved aliens and they're "secret plot to take over the earth", but beyond that, it was, like any good scifi(ST:TNG) about the people, their experiences together, etc. Sure, it wasn't amazing in that regard, but honestly, I've never seen a film of any length that was. I thought, for what Taken was written to do, it did an excellent job. I'm glad it didn't get any more into the aliens, I was sort of dissapointed in the 9th episode until i figured it out, because I was afraid they were going to "reveal" too much about the aliens.
Oh well, what do i expect from reviews by people that read slashdot...
its all about the frequencies being played. the thermoacoustic fridge uses very high frequencies that the compartment damps very well, plus all(most) of the acoustic energy is being used in the heat transfer so it won't be used elsewhere.
My uncle co-developed thermo-acoustic refrigerators for the U.S. Navy. He actually helped my build one for my Jr. High science fair project 10 years ago. Its still sitting in my garage.
wish i had more to add, but its nice to see the commercial community is finally catching on to this.
and africans are starving because there are so many of them living in a desert.
Oh, right, I forgot Africa has just become a desert that the people can no longer live on. Africans have been able to live in Africa for so long because there was food growing for them, its only recently with damns and other weather/geography altering technology being put in place there that they are all of a sudden starving.
my friends mom has a phd in nuclear physics(granted, she got it in russia, but she's used it here for the last 20 or so years) and she's milf, definitly babe in her younger years. Not as siliconey as Denise Richards, but she didn't have to make it in modern day cinema.
CDex works fine under Wine. I've been using it to rip my CD's(again, using --preset extreme instead of -r3mix) for the last 5 days straight with no problems(I have a LOT of CDs....) and I'm running Mdk9.0RC2.
maybe they could just build better movie theaters so we don't need to see movies in IMAX. I've been lucky enough to have seen movies in theaters that put IMAX to shame, and its quite an experience...
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Well, kinda...
Ledger's Joker is based more on the comic series which always had the Joker as more of a psychotic than a jokester. Perhaps it was the Adam West series's softening of the character that gave the Joker that impression in the general public. In the 70's when the Joker became even a bit more grittier, and through the Dark Knight and similar gn's, the "darkening" of the Batman universe came to influence Dini, etc. in how they developed the character for TAS, though a bit softer still since it was a kids show.
Ledger's version is easily the closest to the original Joker concept of a true psychotic criminal, one who not only revels in his own altered version of the world, but finds the humor in the differences of what is considered our normal and what he considers normal, and uses that humor as part of his villainy.
Nicholson's Joker, while following closely to The Killing Joke origin of the Joker (and in my mind a weak cause for the level of the Joker's psychosis as required for the original character), was more along the lines of the 50's and 60's prankster Joker.
Either way, it will take a lot to find another actor who can come close to bringing the Joker to life in the same way Ledger did.
He is much worse, porn merchants don't lie about what they do. They also don't advocate the taking of people's rights. They don't endorse violence (except in the bedroom, with safe words...).
I'd totally buy that game for my Xbox360 or "Windows Vista" based home gaming computer.
Democracy did not get its start in the U.S. on two points. First, previous democracies (yes, even previous representative democracies). Second, the US is not, by founding, a democracy but a Republic.
Thank you for playing the basic high school history game! Perhaps you should use your U.S. government brainwashing (err public high school education) for less academic pursuits.
People selfishly swallowing gallons of their own saliva, drinking juices in between just to get their next kick... Oh god, I hope the Republicans take over congress again so they can attack this scourge to society.
Think of the children! Defenseless, even on school yards! We will need to increase the number of police on the streets with packs of flour to stuff into people's mouths to prevent prevent them from getting high.
though the learning through imitation method may leave them more open to learn and improve upon what they learn.
I don't program, but I've seen other people do things and in my imitation improve on what I learn, so I figure the same would hold true, whereas if you rely directly on being "copied" from one dog to the other, this learning and improving wouldn't occur.
that operation could (and most likely would) cause the unit to fail sooner. plus, who's to say it failed off? maybe it failed broken, so it might be on and not working...
and us Engineers pull our hair out because the IT guys, the computer technicians, and computer scientists still haven't been able to get a solid, working, computer and networking system running. Anywhere I've worked.
from an electric power engineer,
thanks for sucking up precious KVars while we're trying to fix the supply problem.
The news article says
It does not say whether they have had prior Windows experience at all. XP is very very very much like 2000, ME and 98 when compared to KDE or Gnome. So if they had any prior experience with one of the older Windows versions they would have an advantage to understanding XP.
So we'll have to see. If this is the case the survey could very well tell a different story than what this article talks about.
I've sort of done an unofficial survey of the same type. My laptop sits in my apartment living room and runs KDE as the window manager. When friends come over its used as the random computer that we search for stuff on while watching tv. All my friends(more technically minded, we do go to a major tech university) have no real problem using KDE to do stuff(browse web, IM, type in Kate, etc). The major complaint is that they're not familiar with the icons or the program names when they first see them. Now everyone knows what the Firebird and Gaim icons look like though. I've even had a few friends sit and play with it for a while to see what its like.
Plus, I use XP at work (sadly) and I find it much more difficult to use and I used to run 2000 (I switched to linux after its release).
As far as options, the thing that pisses me off about Gnome is that I can't or its very difficult to change settings, which just pisses me off and I log back into KDE.
Plus, whats up with Gnome's file save/open box? That thing needed work 3 years ago...
That said, XD1 was awesome, and I'm definitly going to give XD2 a try, as soon as they have a Mandrake build.
They tried this in L.A. like 2 or 3 years ago. I guess it didn't go over well and they changed it back to not having to dial area code for your local area code. I don't know exactly what caused them to switch back though?
www.kxlu.com is the website for my local college station. No commercials, no corporate money, they are funded by their yearly fundrazor. They work out of the campus of LMU in westchester, CA(but don't receive any funding or services from the school) and are known for being the first radio station to play bands like Guns and Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers on a show called DemoListen, which only plays demo tapes unsigned bands. Of course, even if you don't like that type of music, you will find something you like being played, but I use those bands to show how "New Music" they really are.
Anyway, they have a decent webstream, and I talked to the General Manager and he said said they would have a higher bitrate stream soon too.
So, now when my fingerprint is on their file they can check every product i touched as i thought about purchasing it.
What I really can't wait for, is when someone steals my fingerprint and starts charging their purchases to me. Cause we all know how easy it is to get a new fingerprint...
yea, I like how they tied Mary and Own's actions together to signify that maybe Owen wasn't such the asshole he comes off as.
Dakota Fanning saves the miniseries, which would have been horrible if the girl that plays the role was a bad actress. Anton Yelchin also does a great job as the boy Jason Clark, another difficult role to play.
agreed, its hard not to like a woman that likes Bob Mould and his band of merry men.
Lifetime and Hallmark channel viewers would have complained that it was too much scifi...
She could comeback, she does have one of the star jewelry piece, and if she's that powerful she can force the aliens to bring her back if needed.
Taken2 the "miniseries"...
Taken wasn't about the aliens, it was about the abductees. The reason the aliens were in it so little was because Leslie Bohem wanted to concentrate on the lives of the people involved in the "alien conspiracy". It was scifi because it involved aliens and they're "secret plot to take over the earth", but beyond that, it was, like any good scifi(ST:TNG) about the people, their experiences together, etc. Sure, it wasn't amazing in that regard, but honestly, I've never seen a film of any length that was. I thought, for what Taken was written to do, it did an excellent job. I'm glad it didn't get any more into the aliens, I was sort of dissapointed in the 9th episode until i figured it out, because I was afraid they were going to "reveal" too much about the aliens.
Oh well, what do i expect from reviews by people that read slashdot...
My uncle is Jay Adeff(guy in that last link of yours, actually, he put that page together).
He helped my build one 10 or so years ago for my Jr. High science fair project. It was small, but I could cool a soda can in it.
its all about the frequencies being played.
the thermoacoustic fridge uses very high frequencies that the compartment damps very well, plus all(most) of the acoustic energy is being used in the heat transfer so it won't be used elsewhere.
My uncle co-developed thermo-acoustic refrigerators for the U.S. Navy. He actually helped my build one for my Jr. High science fair project 10 years ago. Its still sitting in my garage.
wish i had more to add, but its nice to see the commercial community is finally catching on to this.
and africans are starving because there are so many of them living in a desert.
Oh, right, I forgot Africa has just become a desert that the people can no longer live on. Africans have been able to live in Africa for so long because there was food growing for them, its only recently with damns and other weather/geography altering technology being put in place there that they are all of a sudden starving.
my friends mom has a phd in nuclear physics(granted, she got it in russia, but she's used it here for the last 20 or so years) and she's milf, definitly babe in her younger years. Not as siliconey as Denise Richards, but she didn't have to make it in modern day cinema.
wow, someone that really understands what is actually going on. Plus it was well written...
a slashdot rarity...
CDex works fine under Wine. I've been using it to rip my CD's(again, using --preset extreme instead of -r3mix) for the last 5 days straight with no problems(I have a LOT of CDs....) and I'm running Mdk9.0RC2.
maybe they could just build better movie theaters so we don't need to see movies in IMAX. I've been lucky enough to have seen movies in theaters that put IMAX to shame, and its quite an experience...