If they actually have a working prototype in 4-5 years (and I am inclined to give some weight to the claims of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works) it won't be another 15 years to commercial usage. The need is simply too high.
I think it's one of the finest examples of visual storytelling in a long time. There are long sections that could pretty much be straight from a silent film. It reminds me of the original Star Wars, in how it immerses us in this richly developed world without feeling the need to explain every detail, which sets the imagination aflame.
One of my favourite parts is when Furiosa simply turns the wheel and heads off road... and her entire crew follows without question. This tells you so much about her character without a single word. All of the "wives" have distinct personalities. Immortan Joe is a great villain because he has goals that make sense (he is a villain that doesn't see himself as a villain). His freaky sons, the War Boys culture and religion, the Many Mothers.. there are just so many interesting elements.
Do yourself a favour though and watch The Road Warrior. Immediately. One of the greatest action flicks of the 80's. Fury Road is essentially an extended version of its 3rd act, cranked up to 11. And if you've ever seen Waterworld, it's basically a point-by-point (and vastly inferior) ripoff of Road Warrior, just with dry land replacing oil.
The other two (Mad Max 1, and Beyond Thunderdome) are something of an acquired taste. The first has weird pacing issues (but features the same actor that played Immortan Joe as the primary villain!), and Beyond Thunderdome is just... all over the place. Still interesting though.
Um, I'm sorry but you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Mad Max: Fury Road used an incredible amount of practical FX and stunt-work, 80% was practical according to IMDB.
All the vehicles are real. All the chase sequences and crashes and explosions are real. They mostly just used CGI to dress up backgrounds, and for Theron's mechanical arm... that's about it. All the "action" is real.
We're in full agreement on Raiders of the Lost Ark though... greatest movie ever made.
The problem is the goddamn hierarchy in the first place. If they just offered a simple alphabetical list of applications (NOT folders you have to navigate through first) it would work great. Which is exactly how MAC OSX's application folder works.
I cut my teeth on Commodore and DOS, and do plenty of command-line work these days, but I prefer two quick clicks to launch an application, over having to type part of its name, thanks. It's 2000-fucking-fifteen, if you have to type in order to launch something, your graphical OS has failed one of its primary purposes. </rant>
I feel like all critics of electric cars are missing the massive allure of "refueling" FOR FREE.
You can drive from New York to LA for FREE in a Tesla thanks to their Supercharger network. Is that worth stopping every few hours to recharge for 20-30 minutes? Versus what, stopping every 5-6 hours to refuel for 5 minutes that costs you $50+ each time? YES, a thousand times yes, the cost tradeoff makes that absolutely worth it.
Why is this fact always missing from the "range anxiety" crowd?
Oh man, I've been waiting for someone to figure out how to do this. Feels like the last critical piece of VR... "reality capture".
Imagine... - Experiencing a live feed of a skydiver/basejumper/surfer/other extreme sport, where you can look around naturally in 3D - A probe in space or on another planet - An immersive control system for robots - On and on. You can now tap into and share someone else's experience viscerally, either realtime or recorded.
Of course HTML5 can do animations. What do you think transitions are? Obviously it lacks a polished industry-standard timeline tool like Flash had, but give the tools some time to mature.
all your flash games are right out
There are mountains of HTML5 games already.
and if your mobile doesn't have hardware acceleration? Forget it, its unusable
...as opposed to Flash and its ultra-smooth battery-sipping mobile performance?
The act of compilation itself does not protect the digital work (we're NOT talking about the source code here, we're talking about the end product) from being accessed. You can give the binary to someone else, and (in the absence of actual DRM features) they can run it. So it is not DRM in itself, that requires another layer.
Neither the DMCA's Wikipedia page, nor the bill summary mentions the word "binary" or "compile". Nor does some quick googling unearth anything supporting your stance here.
If I own a game, I am free to hack away it, install mods, trainers, hexedit data files, whatever the hell I want. As long as I am not bypassing any DRM features it has. The DMCA criminalizes cracking copy protection schemes. Not "all modification of binary files". If you have a source that says otherwise I'd love to read it.
Mobile browser statistics suggest otherwise, but OK let's join you in fantasy land where "iOS just isn't relevant" to the web.
How about Adobe? Is Adobe relevant to Flash? Because it was Adobe who pulled the plug on Flash mobile in 2011. Flash on mobile is a bloated battery-draining joke. Apple merely recognized that fact first.
And if you're suggesting that mobile web is less relevant than desktop web, you've gone full retard.
The decline HAS happened, and is still happening (are you saying a decline from ~14% to ~11% in a single year is "insignificant"??). Flash was everywhere 8 years ago. People built fucking site navigation out of Flash, if not entire websites. Those days are long gone, Flash is relegated to specific niche cases now, and continues to dwindle. The mobile-ization of web access (on all platforms) is absolutely the death knell of Flash, albeit one with a very long tail.
Reviewing completed code doesn't tell you anything about the process of actually constructing it.
I recently did a presentation of a new framework at work. I decided to do it as a live-coding exercise. Everyone agreed it was far more engaging and illustrative than sharing a bunch of static code for them to look over. Seeing the end product is entirely different than seeing it built step by step.
Why would anybody have to "trust Slashdot" to post a comment here? Please be specific, instead of spewing rhetorical bluster that sounds good until you actually think about it.
I don't use this username or password anywhere else. What am I "trusting" Slashdot (or "the readership".. wtf?) with exactly?
Remove any of the people on your list (except maybe Elon Musk, and that remains to be seen), and things would've just been business as usual with a different person in the seat.
Linus has made an incalculable change to the landscape. We are in a different world because of him.
Disclaimer: I am not a Linux zealot. Windows at home, Mac at work, iPhone in my pocket. But credit where it's due, for fuck's sake.
I remember back in high school computer class (early nineties) we learned that Bell Canada's customer database was 4 TB.
That's 4 million megabytes, this was an inconceivably enormous amount of storage back then, when 1.44MB floppies were state of the art, and hard drives (if you had one at all) ranged between 20-80 MB.
Nowadays 4 TB is a comfortably sized 1080p movie collection.
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If they actually have a working prototype in 4-5 years (and I am inclined to give some weight to the claims of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works) it won't be another 15 years to commercial usage. The need is simply too high.
Lockheed Martin says 5
It's the death of all heat.
That's interesting... I never felt that kind of jarring disconnect.
They're wildly different movies in terms of setting and tone, but Max's character trajectory makes perfect sense to me.
The first movie shows Max with a family, and the final vestiges of civilization (which are already crumbling).
In the 2nd movie, civilization has completely collapsed, and Max is on his own... he has nothing more to lose.
First of all, "teleoperated waldo" is redundant.
Second of all, that's still a type of robot.
I'm beginning to think people are just starting to assume that everything out-of-the-ordinary is CGI by default.
Which kinda goes to show how good CGI has gotten, actually. People are no longer able to properly distinguish between the two anymore.
I think it's one of the finest examples of visual storytelling in a long time. There are long sections that could pretty much be straight from a silent film. It reminds me of the original Star Wars, in how it immerses us in this richly developed world without feeling the need to explain every detail, which sets the imagination aflame.
One of my favourite parts is when Furiosa simply turns the wheel and heads off road... and her entire crew follows without question. This tells you so much about her character without a single word. All of the "wives" have distinct personalities. Immortan Joe is a great villain because he has goals that make sense (he is a villain that doesn't see himself as a villain). His freaky sons, the War Boys culture and religion, the Many Mothers.. there are just so many interesting elements.
Do yourself a favour though and watch The Road Warrior. Immediately. One of the greatest action flicks of the 80's. Fury Road is essentially an extended version of its 3rd act, cranked up to 11. And if you've ever seen Waterworld, it's basically a point-by-point (and vastly inferior) ripoff of Road Warrior, just with dry land replacing oil.
The other two (Mad Max 1, and Beyond Thunderdome) are something of an acquired taste. The first has weird pacing issues (but features the same actor that played Immortan Joe as the primary villain!), and Beyond Thunderdome is just... all over the place. Still interesting though.
Um, I'm sorry but you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Mad Max: Fury Road used an incredible amount of practical FX and stunt-work, 80% was practical according to IMDB.
All the vehicles are real. All the chase sequences and crashes and explosions are real. They mostly just used CGI to dress up backgrounds, and for Theron's mechanical arm... that's about it. All the "action" is real.
We're in full agreement on Raiders of the Lost Ark though... greatest movie ever made.
Hear hear.
One of the most eloquent expressions of this came from (of all places) the founder of 4Chan, Chris Poole at a "Web 2.0" conference a few years back:
Source
The problem is the goddamn hierarchy in the first place. If they just offered a simple alphabetical list of applications (NOT folders you have to navigate through first) it would work great. Which is exactly how MAC OSX's application folder works.
I cut my teeth on Commodore and DOS, and do plenty of command-line work these days, but I prefer two quick clicks to launch an application, over having to type part of its name, thanks. It's 2000-fucking-fifteen, if you have to type in order to launch something, your graphical OS has failed one of its primary purposes. </rant>
I feel like all critics of electric cars are missing the massive allure of "refueling" FOR FREE.
You can drive from New York to LA for FREE in a Tesla thanks to their Supercharger network. Is that worth stopping every few hours to recharge for 20-30 minutes? Versus what, stopping every 5-6 hours to refuel for 5 minutes that costs you $50+ each time? YES, a thousand times yes, the cost tradeoff makes that absolutely worth it.
Why is this fact always missing from the "range anxiety" crowd?
Oh man, I've been waiting for someone to figure out how to do this. Feels like the last critical piece of VR... "reality capture".
Imagine...
- Experiencing a live feed of a skydiver/basejumper/surfer/other extreme sport, where you can look around naturally in 3D
- A probe in space or on another planet
- An immersive control system for robots
- On and on. You can now tap into and share someone else's experience viscerally, either realtime or recorded.
This is basically Strange Days.
Of course HTML5 can do animations. What do you think transitions are? Obviously it lacks a polished industry-standard timeline tool like Flash had, but give the tools some time to mature.
There are mountains of HTML5 games already.
Nonsense.
The act of compilation itself does not protect the digital work (we're NOT talking about the source code here, we're talking about the end product) from being accessed. You can give the binary to someone else, and (in the absence of actual DRM features) they can run it. So it is not DRM in itself, that requires another layer.
Neither the DMCA's Wikipedia page, nor the bill summary mentions the word "binary" or "compile". Nor does some quick googling unearth anything supporting your stance here.
If I own a game, I am free to hack away it, install mods, trainers, hexedit data files, whatever the hell I want. As long as I am not bypassing any DRM features it has. The DMCA criminalizes cracking copy protection schemes. Not "all modification of binary files". If you have a source that says otherwise I'd love to read it.
No there is not.
The DMCA criminalizes the circumvention of copy protection, not "modifying software" in general.
Mobile browser statistics suggest otherwise, but OK let's join you in fantasy land where "iOS just isn't relevant" to the web.
How about Adobe? Is Adobe relevant to Flash? Because it was Adobe who pulled the plug on Flash mobile in 2011. Flash on mobile is a bloated battery-draining joke. Apple merely recognized that fact first.
And if you're suggesting that mobile web is less relevant than desktop web, you've gone full retard.
The decline HAS happened, and is still happening (are you saying a decline from ~14% to ~11% in a single year is "insignificant"??). Flash was everywhere 8 years ago. People built fucking site navigation out of Flash, if not entire websites. Those days are long gone, Flash is relegated to specific niche cases now, and continues to dwindle. The mobile-ization of web access (on all platforms) is absolutely the death knell of Flash, albeit one with a very long tail.
Thanks, captain obvious. That doesn't invalidate what I said.
Of course practice is invaluable. Learning by doing is still the best way.
But a combination of instruction and practical is better than either alone. Your original post is nothing more than "REAL men teach themselves".
Reviewing completed code doesn't tell you anything about the process of actually constructing it.
I recently did a presentation of a new framework at work. I decided to do it as a live-coding exercise. Everyone agreed it was far more engaging and illustrative than sharing a bunch of static code for them to look over. Seeing the end product is entirely different than seeing it built step by step.
That would be a strategic decision, not tactical.
Which means no division takes place. You are not dividing by zero, you are avoiding the division entirely, since the denominator is zero.
Which is exactly how "the math" would handle it.
OK, I'll bite.
Why would anybody have to "trust Slashdot" to post a comment here? Please be specific, instead of spewing rhetorical bluster that sounds good until you actually think about it.
I don't use this username or password anywhere else. What am I "trusting" Slashdot (or "the readership".. wtf?) with exactly?
But that one's trademarked. You'll be hearing from Atlassian's lawyers.
Ridiculous.
Remove any of the people on your list (except maybe Elon Musk, and that remains to be seen), and things would've just been business as usual with a different person in the seat.
Linus has made an incalculable change to the landscape. We are in a different world because of him.
Disclaimer: I am not a Linux zealot. Windows at home, Mac at work, iPhone in my pocket. But credit where it's due, for fuck's sake.
Neptune. Software written in C++ on Neptune would be very unusual.
I remember back in high school computer class (early nineties) we learned that Bell Canada's customer database was 4 TB.
That's 4 million megabytes, this was an inconceivably enormous amount of storage back then, when 1.44MB floppies were state of the art, and hard drives (if you had one at all) ranged between 20-80 MB.
Nowadays 4 TB is a comfortably sized 1080p movie collection.