Hate smoke? Move to New York City or Delaware or El Paso, TX, or if you don't mind just in restaurants: Vermont, Maine, and Utah.
Back on topic, I'm assuming everyone sees the irony in the star of a lot of violent 80's action movies (and films so bad they make me violently ill) signing a law to warn against violence.
I support the idea of warnings & anything that gives parents more information.
Visitors--some of whom identified themselves as "Michael Jackson," "The Pope" and "Bill Clinton"--expressed the view that they already have freedom of choice and would be exercising it by using Apple's iTunes music service.
That's some pretty famous people coming to Apple's defense.
Wasn't this an idea that got some idiot kid kicked out of a panel at DefCon? For the life of me I can't find the story, but goes like this:
Panel on security at this year's DefCon. Very young attendee (on a panel) starts yelling about taking down the Republican sites, causing havok, etc. --- he doesn't seem to have any real political views other than to cause ruckus. He gets escorted out and generally booed by DefCon attendees.
If anything, I would suggest any journalism on this include both that crowd's reaction and this site's reaction, that is to say, it's a bad idea.
Well, now we might be splitting technical hairs. By adjusting a previously flawed calculation of mine, we know the PE is somewhere in the range of 100+, but now Google has a 25% discount (roughly) with the new price goals, which brings it to about 70.
Most people can tell you that at that point, the shares are certainly overvalued. If prices still sell at that level, people are buying. That doesn't mean it's overpriced to the market.
I could buy a can of RC Cola for $50. That might be fine to me (I'm independently wealthy* and very thirsty), but most people won't pay more than $0.50-1.00 for it.
Psst. Here it gets non-technical.
That being said, I have made serious considerations into purchasing Google stock, just so I can start calling it "My Search Engine". As of today, it said it is searching 4,285,199,774 web pages. If Google's shares total about 264 million, that means each share gets to search for a 17 webpages. If I get 5 shares (or whatever the minimum is), I have "search ownership" of 85 pages, and growing! You can bet if I win** some shares I'm going to start staking my claim, and you should too! Example: This webpage searched by Google thanks to R. Johnathan Prescott.
Then I know that if people search for sweaty men on Google, someone might click-through to their ad. That means I get $0.0000000002! With my 85 pages that I own, I will stake an ad campaign in mainland China. If everyone sees it (1.3 billion people! or 2.59999 bn eyeballs!***), and everyone clicks through, I'll demand payment for that myself, and get...
$0.26 richer!
Then I will go the grocery store, buy a $0.25 piece of candy, and strangle myself with the bag it came in.
Why do I want to buy Google?
________________ * Sadly, no. ** Best to think of it as buying lottery tickets, your outcome will probably be similar. *** Discount sinister Chinese bond villains with eye patches and others.
That was actually my comment exactly. Let me expand upon your initial idea, if you don't mind.
First off, don't show it live! At least not the first year or so, because you're gonna need practice to get good coverage. Think of what's more cinematic to see, a live NFL game or one of the "NFL Films". This sort of brings us to our next technical limitation.
This is easy to cover in existing PC games (especially modded ones -- who knows, iD games might already have this), it's a bit more difficult for console games. Specifically, you would need to create a utility that "tapes" the game, in a replayable, demo format. From that point on, a spectator should be able to access that feed and basically see it from any angle, including pause, rewind, fast-forward, and preferably, some sort of slo-mo to get that hip* Matrix style everyone is talking about.
Now, once this is done, you need to get a really good editor to put all this together, as well as a director. They don't need to come from the "traditional" film world -- I think Randall Glass would be excellent, for example, or . So now, say, a match on Blood Gulch (to stay with the same game), isn't just a first player perspective, but a third-person view. You have overhead shots of a gunfight, behind-the-vehicle shots of a Warthog, etc. This makes it much more exciting. Replay multiple angles of a scene, etc.
Here's another important part -- narration! You don't want to dumb it down too much but you don't want to use too many "insider" words. "That noob spawn-camped on the RFK. That's LOL! 45 TTT! Hahaha!"
The end result should be very close to watching a narrated action movie. Oh, and I don't want to see the players during the game! I don't care! They're mostly not photogenic at all.
The reality is that you have shaky video playing over someone's shoulder, and then the narrator saying "As you can see, Edgar300 is going wild!" with a shot of explosions in UT that don't tell me what he's getting "wild" about.
There just is not any interest in me seeing that sort of crap, and I think I'm probably a good target audience, considering I'm into games but not a "hardcore gamer".
* If this was 1998.
Re:I'm going to wait...believe it or not.
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and am not going to get taken like a sucker on this like I was with Fellowship of the Ring.
Purely your fault...
Peter Jackson announced the EE (extended edition) before the regular edition had been released.
The EE is an entirely different cut.
The extras are all different.
New Line offers at least $5 off if you send in the UPC from the first one, bringing the cost of the EEs down to about $20 when they come out.
And some Sony models (possibly the very overpriced Wega XBRs) have the ability to squeeze the 4:3 image into a 16:9 image, keeping the same resolution, just now in a smaller area.
That's not that far-fetched. At least the last time I was in Germany, the national (think NBC, ABC) TV stations still didn't run ads during TV shows. In fact, one station (ZDF IIRC) had a program called Meinzelmänchen which ran for about 30 minutes. Basically, it was 30 minutes of ads interspersed with 10-30 s animated spots of gnomes. It was wildly popular and the ads were all pretty good.
Considering you only saw TV ads once a day during that time, you also remembered the ads a lot more.
The people that have NO problem using Windows aren't calling you. The people that have issues and are "retarded" are the ones that you're "helping" -- that doesn't mean all people are retarded.
In 1999 al-Zawahiri undertook a top-secret program to develop chemical and biological weapons, a program he and others referred to on the computer as the "Yogurt" project. Though fearsome in its intent, the program had a proposed start-up budget of only $2,000 to $4,000. Fluent in English and French, al-Zawahiri began by studying foreign medical journals and provided summaries in Arabic for Muhammad Atef, including the one that follows:
[snip]The enemy started thinking about these weapons before WWI. Despite their extreme danger, we only became aware of them when the enemy drew our attention to them by repeatedly expressing concerns that they can be produced simply with easily available materials[snip]
That's either incredibly crazy, or scary, or both.
Funny. My finger's not tired, I use SpamBayes. Sure, I miss out on great messages touting... "A great opportunity... New and spreading via the Internet in a very big way-It's FREE to join, and it promises a lot. Too good to be true?"...but it makes it easier.
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Yeah, I could see why...
I didn't know Apple started putting Intel chips in their Powerbooks.
Hate smoke? Move to New York City or Delaware or El Paso, TX, or if you don't mind just in restaurants: Vermont, Maine, and Utah.
Back on topic, I'm assuming everyone sees the irony in the star of a lot of violent 80's action movies (and films so bad they make me violently ill) signing a law to warn against violence.
I support the idea of warnings & anything that gives parents more information.
Finally, more evicence of refreshing, live giving Dasani(TM) on Mars.
But they're ripping people off on Froogle, which still lists the shares at $108-135!.
What's the problem with ads being interspersed anyway? I'm sure most of us are used to reading an article and then skipping down
a few lines to get back to the content.
Well, I guess it get's really really
annoying sometimes.
That's some pretty famous people coming to Apple's defense.
...stupidity.
Wasn't this an idea that got some idiot kid kicked out of a panel at DefCon? For the life of me I can't find the story, but goes like this:
Panel on security at this year's DefCon. Very young attendee (on a panel) starts yelling about taking down the Republican sites, causing havok, etc. --- he doesn't seem to have any real political views other than to cause ruckus. He gets escorted out and generally booed by DefCon attendees.
If anything, I would suggest any journalism on this include both that crowd's reaction and this site's reaction, that is to say, it's a bad idea.
Well, now we might be splitting technical hairs. By adjusting a previously flawed calculation of mine, we know the PE is somewhere in the range of 100+, but now Google has a 25% discount (roughly) with the new price goals, which brings it to about 70.
Most people can tell you that at that point, the shares are certainly overvalued. If prices still sell at that level, people are buying. That doesn't mean it's overpriced to the market.
I could buy a can of RC Cola for $50. That might be fine to me (I'm independently wealthy* and very thirsty), but most people won't pay more than $0.50-1.00 for it.
Psst. Here it gets non-technical.
That being said, I have made serious considerations into purchasing Google stock, just so I can start calling it "My Search Engine". As of today, it said it is searching 4,285,199,774 web pages. If Google's shares total about 264 million, that means each share gets to search for a 17 webpages. If I get 5 shares (or whatever the minimum is), I have "search ownership" of 85 pages, and growing! You can bet if I win** some shares I'm going to start staking my claim, and you should too!
Example: This webpage searched by Google thanks to R. Johnathan Prescott.
Then I know that if people search for sweaty men on Google, someone might click-through to their ad. That means I get $0.0000000002! With my 85 pages that I own, I will stake an ad campaign in mainland China. If everyone sees it (1.3 billion people! or 2.59999 bn eyeballs!***), and everyone clicks through, I'll demand payment for that myself, and get...
$0.26 richer!
Then I will go the grocery store, buy a $0.25 piece of candy, and strangle myself with the bag it came in.
Why do I want to buy Google?
________________
* Sadly, no.
** Best to think of it as buying lottery tickets, your outcome will probably be similar.
*** Discount sinister Chinese bond villains with eye patches and others.
This is the same thing I do. I don't use AC, I just keep my fridge open and the cold water running all over the house.
I save the environment!
So now it's overpriced by a factor, of what, 6? Instead of 10?
That was actually my comment exactly. Let me expand upon your initial idea, if you don't mind.
First off, don't show it live! At least not the first year or so, because you're gonna need practice to get good coverage. Think of what's more cinematic to see, a live NFL game or one of the "NFL Films". This sort of brings us to our next technical limitation.
This is easy to cover in existing PC games (especially modded ones -- who knows, iD games might already have this), it's a bit more difficult for console games. Specifically, you would need to create a utility that "tapes" the game, in a replayable, demo format. From that point on, a spectator should be able to access that feed and basically see it from any angle, including pause, rewind, fast-forward, and preferably, some sort of slo-mo to get that hip* Matrix style everyone is talking about.
Now, once this is done, you need to get a really good editor to put all this together, as well as a director. They don't need to come from the "traditional" film world -- I think Randall Glass would be excellent, for example, or . So now, say, a match on Blood Gulch (to stay with the same game), isn't just a first player perspective, but a third-person view. You have overhead shots of a gunfight, behind-the-vehicle shots of a Warthog, etc. This makes it much more exciting. Replay multiple angles of a scene, etc.
Here's another important part -- narration! You don't want to dumb it down too much but you don't want to use too many "insider" words. "That noob spawn-camped on the RFK. That's LOL! 45 TTT! Hahaha!"
The end result should be very close to watching a narrated action movie. Oh, and I don't want to see the players during the game! I don't care! They're mostly not photogenic at all.
The reality is that you have shaky video playing over someone's shoulder, and then the narrator saying "As you can see, Edgar300 is going wild!" with a shot of explosions in UT that don't tell me what he's getting "wild" about.
There just is not any interest in me seeing that sort of crap, and I think I'm probably a good target audience, considering I'm into games but not a "hardcore gamer".
* If this was 1998.
Purely your fault...
And, on topic, I'll be getting the DVDs.
And some Sony models (possibly the very overpriced Wega XBRs) have the ability to squeeze the 4:3 image into a 16:9 image, keeping the same resolution, just now in a smaller area.
The bugs are right here. Of course, MS is still not calling them bugs.
All objects have some gravity, and even our moon has no magnetic field.
That's not that far-fetched. At least the last time I was in Germany, the national (think NBC, ABC) TV stations still didn't run ads during TV shows. In fact, one station (ZDF IIRC) had a program called Meinzelmänchen which ran for about 30 minutes. Basically, it was 30 minutes of ads interspersed with 10-30 s animated spots of gnomes. It was wildly popular and the ads were all pretty good.
Considering you only saw TV ads once a day during that time, you also remembered the ads a lot more.
No, you work in tech support.
The people that have NO problem using Windows aren't calling you. The people that have issues and are "retarded" are the ones that you're "helping" -- that doesn't mean all people are retarded.
That's either incredibly crazy, or scary, or both.
...and still no Metallica?
Maybe ZZT 2005?
Can't wait!
They are right in my spam folder. I think I had one false negative since I've began running it a couple of months ago.
Funny. My finger's not tired, I use SpamBayes. Sure, I miss out on great messages touting... "A great opportunity... New and spreading via the Internet in a very big way-It's FREE to join, and it promises a lot. Too good to be true?" ...but it makes it easier.
What if you need to review the Statue of Liberty to fight Vigo who has kidnapped Dana's baby?
I don't think Egon really wants to bother with these kind of stuff.
And here I was, loading Slashdot to pass the time instead of doing some work...
Hrm.
Time to stop monkeying around.