...lately, at least to me, is that they are elements of the fantastic that dovetail nicely into the hollywood version of 'the real world' that we live in. They are grittier, people are less 'cookie cutter/superficial bad guys.' In most of the non R rated superhero movies I've seen you could always walk away with the feeling that the main villain could have, at any moment, had a change of heart because he's not really evil - he's just made bad choices (lol.)
In the darker movies, the most definitely R rated movies, you can see struggle, ugliness, depravity, insanity (not the laughable kind), all things that give the villain and the unfolding events a sense of gravitas and immorality that you can't (imho) really get from a movie that HAS TO fit in some production company's ratings 'box.'
Personally, if there's a superhero movie where I'm not really interested in the super hero itself (for some reason), and it is R rated - there's a very good chance I'll go to see it because the director has obviously not pandered to the 13 year old boy market (although he may be pandering to me by throwing in R rated stuff.) If there's a superhero movie that I am interested in and then I find out that it is PG-13, it's unlikely that I'll see it. Perhaps on video.
Seriously, imagine if the Dark Knight movies were made PG-13? What a loss that would have been.
and here me thought there was only one dark night film. silly of me.
Mod parent up. Any Turing-complete computing device, given enough memory and storage, can replicate anything this hardware can do.
A digital system can never perfectly replicate an analog system, and a clock-driven system can never perfectly replicate an asynchronous system.
except that it does not need to perfectly replicate anything. it just needs to be good enough. after all, the human brain is also not perfect. errors happen. they will also occur in digital systems. why is there any difference?
Paraphrasing a book (forget the name), if you took a dog and made its brain 1000 times faster, all you'd get is a dog that needs 1/1000th of the time to decide whether to sniff your crotch.
Thinking faster would certainly be very useful, but it may not necessarily mean that the output will be of a higher quality.
you're absolutely correct. but this is exactly what results in higher quality output. consider Einstein had a brain 1000 times faster than he really had. he would crack a problem in a day that would have taken 3 years. suppose a normal person like you(most probably) and me had a brain 1000x faster than normal. we would learn faster, understand faster. we would achieve in a week what would take even a genius decades to accomplish. simply due to faster processing speed. quality will definitely increase if you have a faster processor, simply due to greater resources you will be able to throw at a specific problem.
i think we can define good. any action that results in or contributes to the continued and sustainable survival of the doer is defined as a good action. okay, can you find any flaws in that definition of mine?
but that is the exact problem. early into the comments, there was a request for alternatives and we discovered that there is no other free streaming as customizable as last.fm.
note that ac is expressing his own disinclination to pay for a non-essential internet music service. although he may like listening to radio while he works on his pc but he may simply not believe it worth enough to pay for. how can you decide what he pays for and what he doesn't?
yeah, it will be good for the future of computers as well. all the idiots who click on 'allow' when the background dims without reading are going to get fucked up.
I don't understad why do drivers in the US who majorly drive big Ford trucks talk down to the developing world for driving small cars.
Remember India with almost 4 times the population has a much smaller carbon footprint than the US.
Stop driving your gas guzzlers for the next 20 years before you get a right to talk about carbon footprints. After enjoying the economic benefits of gasoline you want the developing world to give it all up and stay poor is it ?
1) You must get car insurance so when you hit me my medical bills and pain and suffering is covered. India does not have this
3) Your car needs to meet certain emissions standards. Low gas consumption is not the only concern in emissions. India does not have this.
4) Your car requires you to have a drivers license to drive, annual inspections/emissions. To make sure you have at least some cursory knowledge of the road rules, and to make sure your car's tail-pipe won't fal off in mid drive. India does not have this.
tell me, are you just mad or do you intentionally refuse to pull you head out of your ass? i don't know about anywhere else, but what i know about india is: 1. a third party insurance is mandatory in india. you can expect a month's prison term if you are caught driving without insurance. 2. ditto for emission standards. euro 5 standards are mandatory here and has to be checked every three months. 3. how in hell did you even think there is no driving license required in india? i won't even bother to explain. so next time, just try to collect some facts and some knowledge about what you talk about.
But that's not his argument. His argument is, here in north america, we made the huge mistake of designing communities such that a vehicle was a requirement for living.
then correct your mistake. you can't make others learn without them making the same mistake themselves. since the american people have for decades and continue to lead a life that has inherent wastefulness, they cannot advise others not to make the same mistake. you must correct yourself first, only then will you have a say in the matter.
no. if we breathe 100% o2, we will experience the rare sensation of having the retina detached from our eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity think before you type.
.15*2.72*365=150 days so i would have lived 150 days more if i wouldn't have used my car every day, or had continuous electricity. that seems quite acceptable to me.
no tweak. just don't disable anything. maybe there's something really wrong with your system. make sure you have sp2. believe me, vista feels really snappy to me on the same machine compared to both ubuntu and xp.
Hell, they don't even have simple search indexing working well in Vista, yet.
well that's just plain bullshit. vista has better and much more accessible search than spotlight on the mac.
Windows still can not approximately estimate the time it will take to copy a file from one local directory to another.
what the fuck are you talking about?? have you even seen vista copy files. its way faster than xp or ubuntu. it tells you accurate up-to-the-second remaining time. actually its the only place except imgburn where the remaining time actually means something.
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XP has ruled the desktop market for almost a decade now. Windows 7 shall rule the next.
that's pretty strong!
...lately, at least to me, is that they are elements of the fantastic that dovetail nicely into the hollywood version of 'the real world' that we live in. They are grittier, people are less 'cookie cutter/superficial bad guys.' In most of the non R rated superhero movies I've seen you could always walk away with the feeling that the main villain could have, at any moment, had a change of heart because he's not really evil - he's just made bad choices (lol.)
In the darker movies, the most definitely R rated movies, you can see struggle, ugliness, depravity, insanity (not the laughable kind), all things that give the villain and the unfolding events a sense of gravitas and immorality that you can't (imho) really get from a movie that HAS TO fit in some production company's ratings 'box.'
Personally, if there's a superhero movie where I'm not really interested in the super hero itself (for some reason), and it is R rated - there's a very good chance I'll go to see it because the director has obviously not pandered to the 13 year old boy market (although he may be pandering to me by throwing in R rated stuff.) If there's a superhero movie that I am interested in and then I find out that it is PG-13, it's unlikely that I'll see it. Perhaps on video.
Seriously, imagine if the Dark Knight movies were made PG-13? What a loss that would have been.
and here me thought there was only one dark night film. silly of me.
also referred to as greater than the sum of components.
Mod parent up. Any Turing-complete computing device, given enough memory and storage, can replicate anything this hardware can do.
A digital system can never perfectly replicate an analog system, and a clock-driven system can never perfectly replicate an asynchronous system.
except that it does not need to perfectly replicate anything. it just needs to be good enough. after all, the human brain is also not perfect. errors happen. they will also occur in digital systems. why is there any difference?
no. even asimov once wrote in a preface that he wanted to show how difficult it is to bind an intelligent being using hard and fast rules.
Paraphrasing a book (forget the name), if you took a dog and made its brain 1000 times faster, all you'd get is a dog that needs 1/1000th of the time to decide whether to sniff your crotch.
Thinking faster would certainly be very useful, but it may not necessarily mean that the output will be of a higher quality.
you're absolutely correct. but this is exactly what results in higher quality output. consider Einstein had a brain 1000 times faster than he really had.
he would crack a problem in a day that would have taken 3 years.
suppose a normal person like you(most probably) and me had a brain 1000x faster than normal. we would learn faster, understand faster. we would achieve in a week what would take even a genius decades to accomplish.
simply due to faster processing speed.
quality will definitely increase if you have a faster processor, simply due to greater resources you will be able to throw at a specific problem.
i think we can define good.
any action that results in or contributes to the continued and sustainable survival of the doer is defined as a good action.
okay, can you find any flaws in that definition of mine?
Frankly, I'd rather have the more intelligent beings in charge. They would actually make more intelligent decisions!
exactly. it's better to have an intelligent enemy than a foolish ally.
Because there are so many alternatives.
but that is the exact problem. early into the comments, there was a request for alternatives and we discovered that there is no other free streaming as customizable as last.fm.
note that ac is expressing his own disinclination to pay for a non-essential internet music service. although he may like listening to radio while he works on his pc but he may simply not believe it worth enough to pay for.
how can you decide what he pays for and what he doesn't?
and why may that be, sir?
and your head too if used at point blank range.
yeah, it will be good for the future of computers as well. all the idiots who click on 'allow' when the background dims without reading are going to get fucked up.
why insightful? just because this post has some sane facts doesn't mean it can be posted anywhere.
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I don't understad why do drivers in the US who majorly drive big Ford trucks talk down to the developing world for driving small cars. Remember India with almost 4 times the population has a much smaller carbon footprint than the US. Stop driving your gas guzzlers for the next 20 years before you get a right to talk about carbon footprints. After enjoying the economic benefits of gasoline you want the developing world to give it all up and stay poor is it ?
fixed.
1) You must get car insurance so when you hit me my medical bills and pain and suffering is covered. India does not have this 3) Your car needs to meet certain emissions standards. Low gas consumption is not the only concern in emissions. India does not have this. 4) Your car requires you to have a drivers license to drive, annual inspections/emissions. To make sure you have at least some cursory knowledge of the road rules, and to make sure your car's tail-pipe won't fal off in mid drive. India does not have this.
tell me, are you just mad or do you intentionally refuse to pull you head out of your ass?
i don't know about anywhere else, but what i know about india is:
1. a third party insurance is mandatory in india. you can expect a month's prison term if you are caught driving without insurance.
2. ditto for emission standards. euro 5 standards are mandatory here and has to be checked every three months.
3. how in hell did you even think there is no driving license required in india? i won't even bother to explain.
so next time, just try to collect some facts and some knowledge about what you talk about.
But that's not his argument. His argument is, here in north america, we made the huge mistake of designing communities such that a vehicle was a requirement for living.
then correct your mistake. you can't make others learn without them making the same mistake themselves.
since the american people have for decades and continue to lead a life that has inherent wastefulness, they cannot advise others not to make the same mistake. you must correct yourself first, only then will you have a say in the matter.
no.
if we breathe 100% o2, we will experience the rare sensation of having the retina detached from our eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
think before you type.
.15*2.72*365=150 days
so i would have lived 150 days more if i wouldn't have used my car every day, or had continuous electricity. that seems quite acceptable to me.
in other news: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/study_multiple_stab_wounds_may_be
you're both saying the same thing. increased transistor count means more work per cycle.
yeah?
well we got along quite fine without the bulb too, and also without the pc. that does not mean that its bad to have a bulb or pc.
omg, this must be the first instance where a comment containing a variation of the "does it run linux" meme has been moderated offtopic.
no tweak. just don't disable anything. maybe there's something really wrong with your system. make sure you have sp2.
believe me, vista feels really snappy to me on the same machine compared to both ubuntu and xp.
Hell, they don't even have simple search indexing working well in Vista, yet.
well that's just plain bullshit.
vista has better and much more accessible search than spotlight on the mac.
Windows still can not approximately estimate the time it will take to copy a file from one local directory to another.
what the fuck are you talking about?? have you even seen vista copy files. its way faster than xp or ubuntu. it tells you accurate up-to-the-second remaining time. actually its the only place except imgburn where the remaining time actually means something.