at issue;
the actual original actors are usually FAR more talented at vocal performance, than cheezy cheap ass foreign language actors used to "satisfy the euro and asian markets" - or vice versa; to break into the US market.
It's a bullet point on a brochure. The foreign language implementations are often just not as well-funded as the originals.
This is why the American Translation of Akira sucked eggs. The voice actors made me feel like I was watching a bad Scooby Doo or Flinstones episode.
When I watch the Japanese version with subtitles, I can read the script to get the meaning, but the japanese voices, which I do not understand, contain the original directed emotional content. The movie had MUCH more impact that way.
I believe that this problem could potentially be solved by better investment in the dubbing process, casting. Or, possibly, getting the ORIGINAL actors to say their lines in the foreign speech. (because maybe there's an American John Lithgow, but maybe a Japanese voice actor cannot be found that can match the way John Lithgow portrayed a given character) - in any case, even if you do it that way, it won't be the same, because no two performances from a given actor are going to be identical, especially when you throw a foreign language into the deal, because some phrases and jokes don't translate well, or the actor may not understand what's being said as well as a native speaker, so inflection and intonation won't be the same. But even that should be worked around as well.
My point is, just doing a cheapo dub just to get the asian or euro dollars is dishonest. It asks the foreign audience to pay the same 8 bucks for a product that simply doesn't work the way it would for an English-speaking audience, it's not of the same quality, and therefore, is NOT WORTH THE SAME TICKET PRICE.
If the studios want to charge the same amount of $ for tickets, they should put much more effort into the translation - and it cuts both ways, for foreign films going to the US.
Another example; Run Lola Run, (Lola Rennt), I rented the DVD, and I watched the first few minutes in English. Holy shit what a peice of crap! I then watched it in German with English Subtitles (luckily, I DO understand a little Deutsch) and the experience was MUCH better.
My message to foreign studios: If you want a better piece of the American film market, do a better job in the dubbing, and you'll totally kick Hollywood's ass.
Here's an exammple of how it was done right: Princess Mononoke. While it didn't to all that fabulous in the US market, it wasn't marketed as mainstream, it was an "art-film". And while the translation wasn't perfect, it was very well done. Let's have more of that, 'k?
#6
The fact is that humans can survive very well on a completely non-meat diet. . . .
The Matrix showed that humans can survive very well on liquified remains of other humans, with our brains plugged into virtual reality simulators.
"can survive" and "have a fulfilling life" are two very different things. While I feel blessed and lucky to live in a wonderful country like the US, where I can eat all the tender juicy steaks I want, and have a great standard of living, and still have money to donate to worthy causes (including feeding hungry children in places like Mexico and India, for example) - I do *not* feel compelled to lower my standard of living just to satisfy some vegan extremist's rhetorical fantasies.
Pol Pot thought that he could take millions of decadent fascist urban capitallist pigs, and march them out to the countryside and make them live on collective farms (as vegetarians, by the way), serving the common good. He's on the top ten list of history's worst mass murders of all time. 10 million of his own countrymen - whom he thought he was going to save from the pits of capitalistic depravity. Go watch "The Killing Fields", and think about that the next time they ask you at the grocery store "Paper or Plastic?"
But the spying was IN SUPPORT of the sanctions, and the enforcement of the sanctions.
Jeezus fucking christ! It's not like the US was stealing secrets on techniques of developing and building newer and better weapons of mass destruction! Iraq is like 60 years behind the US in that technology, and if they weren't cheating on their sanctions, our spying would not have yeilded any results anyway? It was certainly not "spying" in the conventional sense of the word. And even if we weren't spying, they would have found some other excuse to chase out the inspectors - The Iraqi Parliment has declared the UN null and void for crying out loud? The world is LUCKY that the US did that spying, because when the inspectors DID get kicked out, we knew exactly where to hit them. If the inspection process won't stop them, force is your only fallback measure - so the spying was necessary to deal with an intransigent opponent. Oh no, we stole the top secret plans for Saddam Hussein's giant vibrating golden dildo he uses to pleasure his harem! HA HA! Nobody can stop the US now!
Iraq is looking for any excuse they can to justify building weapons so that they can attack Kuwait, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and it's own citizens. Unless you want to pay $50/gal for gas, and watch millions more die, they simply must be stopped at all costs.
Frankly, I don't see why that regime simply isn't removed from power. All this pussy-footing around with legal sanctions and decrees has been given a chance to work, and guess what? every day since the last day of the Gulf War, it has been proven NOT to work. All it does is prolong the suffering of the Iraqi people under the dictator Saddam.
I mean, are meals included? What about booze? It would suck to pay that much money, and the food was bad. Or worse, it costs extra, and the prices are outrageous, and you can't exactly stop at McDonalds when you're travelling 17,000 mph.
"tourists" jump out of airplanes with parachutes on their backs every day.
Skydiving is as safe as you want to make it, of course. There are probably some good outfits out there, and others that are either run by idiots, or accountants who would cut corners for an extra penny. People can, have, and will continue to die skydiving. It does not deter more from trying "something thrilling". Part of the thrill is because it IS dangerous.
It also won't be the same with Scully tied down with a screaming brat - unless "they" kidnap the brat too (we'll see Sunday night).
The Satan Worshipper specialist partner could work out, especially since there was past involvement. That implies more soap opera side plots (which wasn't at all a bad thing about the original xfiles, you knew Mulder was a perv, and you knew Scully wanted him, and you knew they would eventually do it. - that was fun to watch - until it became tiresome after 5 years).
They really *could* pull off a decent transition of the XFiles, but I doubt they are capable. Someone else made the conclusion that the XFiles has been about formula, and rehashed to death plotlines, and a big soap opera for the past two years.
I think that the story line IS salvagable with the T1000 guy (I just can't call him anything else!) - but the writers are going to have to work damn hard, and churn out some damn good stuff, and CONNECT with the old material, without recycling it.
A lot of the fun of the old XFiles was the portrayal of little-known urban myths, (chubacabra, etc), monster-of-the-week, and frankly, they've run through them all. That angle is getting pretty weak - the only thing they have left is covering the fallout from past things (like the shape-changer guy whose in prison,etc). Then the Government conspiracy arc thing was great, but you can only drag that out so far, the bad guys need to get their comeuppance in the end, with drama, so once you destroy a 50 year old conspiracy, where do you go from there? You can't create a new one out of thin air. There's only one Government. Once cancer man was gone, that was it.
They've got some heavy challenges ahead. I think that the challenges are not insurmountable, but I also do not believe (based on past performance) that they will rise to the occasion. Sadly.
"This also explains why stereotypes ABOUND on network TV."
To say NOTHING of how they abound on Slashdot:
Stereotypes of what Geeks are like (not good writers), and what they like (boring details about the evolution of life on planets 1.4 times the gravity of Earth with a Methane atmosphere).
Sterotypes of what Hollywood Screenwriters are like (cocaine-snorting yes-men cranking out mindless drivel).
I know we have to explain these phenomena as best we can, but let's avoid calling Mr. Kettle black now, shall we?
It's ironic that Cameron Diaz is one of those actresses who is actually pretty decent at "subtle nuances of human expression" (see Being John Malkovich)
What we're all REALLY afraid of here, is that the stupid consumers will fall for this crap, and buy into this system. As DVD has demonstrated.
Let me give you an example of how the "stupid masses" have fucked ME over.
I like carbonated beverages.
I do not wish to ingest vast quantities of sugar and become a fat tub of goo.
I do not wish to ingest an addictive stimulant that alters my personality, gives me headaches, and makes me crave more.
Yet, the tastes of most Americans have dictated that your standard soda machine at any given restaurant has the choice:
Coke (sugar and caffeine)
Diet Coke (no sugar, but has caffeine)
Sprite (no caffeine, lots of sugar)
Water (no carbonation)
Oh, you can go to the store, and buy caffeine-free diet coke, or club soda, or diet sprite, but NONE of those are available at your basic McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, etc.
So basically, I go to any fast food restaurant, and I'm screwed as far as choice goes. Even McBeer would be preferable (from the drive-thru!)
All because the MARKET has determined what choices I should have. The MARKET consists of, a colluding oligopoly of softdrink vending multinationals, and a whole lot of stupid consumers who don't know any better but pay a huge markup for products laced with addictive drugs and vast quantities of sugar. (huge markup=it costs McDonalds about a nickel for a large Coke, the cup is more expensive than the contents, but the IDIOT consumer pays over a buck).
A minor inconvenience, to be sure.
But apply these same forces to the entertainment market, and you can see where this is going.
We need to make an assumption here that is not a very pleasant one. One that goes against our ideologies. Consumers are stupid, lame, sheep that will buy anything that is crammed down their throats. The masses are stupid. They're easily brainwashed, lied to, and for the time being, have lots of money to waste.
But growing up in a democracy, and a Christian, I was raised to believe that no one person is smarter or better equipped to run things than any other, that you're supposed to love your neighbor as yourself. Anything else is elitist snobbery. Establishing classes, hierarchies or castes, is intrinsically bad.
But here we are, victims of the stupid stupid masses.
Why do you think crap like n'sync sells? Because the masses are tasteful musical geniuses? Why is Windows such a widespread OS?
I think about this crap, and I feel like I'm becoming a Socialist/Elitist.
Yes, to go out and automatically tweak others machines without their consent is definately wrong.
I can think of one silly example why it would be a bad thing; What if somebody was testing network security software, thinking that this hole was unpatched on a target machine, and now, all of a sudden it isn't, then there's a bug in his security software that potentially goes undetected, and that security software gets sold and widely distributed. Can the dumb 'ol worm guarantee that all systems on the net from that point in time onward will be patched?
That's just a silly example of an unrealistic situation - but for every one of those I can think up in the 5 minutes it took to read this/. article, real life probably has several good examples nobody's thought of.
The basis of testing, or even just running a computer, is having a known-good system state to run from. If some unknown element is being changed, for whatever reason, that's a variable that the operator is not aware of. And that's a bad thing.
I'm curious to know why you believe Discordianism is a made up religion. Although I am not a Discordian, I do know enough about the Principia Discordia and the beliefs of the religion to know that you should _not_ base your opinion on the perversions of it that you see in the news media. Seeing rebel stoners claiming holy war on others is not what Discordianism is about. Indeed, Malaclypse the Younger was all for peace and love. Read a little before you just lump it in with every religion.
Your point is valid in a lot of other ways though, a belief system is a belief system is a belief system. You'll still kill for it, you'll still put down others in it's defense.
Look, it's hard being a kid. Kids emotions range - some kids have strong emotions, and don't understand how to control them, others don't have emotions as strong, and have masterey over them.
One thing I noticed, particularly with families of asian origin, there is a typical tradition - moreso with orientals than indians from what I've seen, where the child's sense of self is deeply rooted in the family. That's how these children are raised, it's part of traditional oriental societies. I don't want to be cliche and use the term "honor", but I think that's what may have happened in this case (though, again, I don't recall having seen this as much in indian families I knew while growing up. More in oriental families, specifically, chinese and korean - didn't know any japanese).
So this kid, has all these talents, was an honor student, got straight a's I bet, brought pride and honor to his family, but also got exposed to the hacker culture too - and figured, hey, this will build my skillz, and also bring honor to my family. Instead, he got caught, and brought grave dishonor to his family. Now, I'm as white as they come, and I would have been mortified at the shame it would have brought my family had I ever been suspended. Bad grades, I excelled at, and that was shameful - but to be expelled, or even to be told that something I did was a jailable offense, that would have been pretty harsh - and I don't think I would feel too proud of myself after that. This kid must have really felt bad about how he made his parents look, he must have been too ashamed to bear it.
That said, maybe a gentler approach would have been better, maybe a more intelligent look at his case, rather than branding his forehead with a big-red "H" because he learned how to turn on a computer - maybe that would have averted this tragedy.
But know. We've got to fully prosecute this "war on hackers", because the public's getting bored of the "war on drugs" and "war on terrorism".
erm - Disney INVENTED rotoscoping. In Snow White, I believe. Although Bakshi used a much more obnoxiously obvious application of rotoscoping (he did not mask the photographic look of the characters, which gave them kind of a strange super-realistic look, which was supposed to make them look more dark and magical).
When the movie is fully together, and ready for a true press-screening, then I'd say such an agreement would be *wrong* (cats and dogs living together wrong).
But in this case, we're talking about a pre-production preview, of some footage that's not cleaned up, or edited the same way as it will be in the final movie - just to gague reaction, probably to secure more funding, and build hype. That would be like a serious Computer magazine reviewing a proof-of-concept alpha release.
Let's give them time to finish the movie, and finish it right, and THEN worry about a proper review of the actual MOVIE, rather than trying to judge a MOVIE on what it's pre-production preview looks like. It's just not fair to judge at this point.
Why not use a simple backup system that maintains a searchable database of backed-up file versions? There are some nice ones out there that do this, even one that uses an Explorer plug in to give you a view of backed up data and the ability to restore it.
Except for the cute computer holograph chick, the show totally sucks.
Okay, one ship gets "frozen in time" by going too close to a black hole. Then another ship flies in, attaches cables, and tows it out. Sorry, I'll have to suspend my suspension of disbelief for that one.
Slashdot Mirror
"The Gentrification of Intellectual Property".
There are haves, and have nots. If you're a have not, get ready to pay the rent, or be evicted.
If you're a have, get ready to pay tribute to your lord - er, I mean campaign contribution to your congressperson.
at issue;
the actual original actors are usually FAR more talented at vocal performance, than cheezy cheap ass foreign language actors used to "satisfy the euro and asian markets" - or vice versa; to break into the US market.
It's a bullet point on a brochure. The foreign language implementations are often just not as well-funded as the originals.
This is why the American Translation of Akira sucked eggs. The voice actors made me feel like I was watching a bad Scooby Doo or Flinstones episode.
When I watch the Japanese version with subtitles, I can read the script to get the meaning, but the japanese voices, which I do not understand, contain the original directed emotional content. The movie had MUCH more impact that way.
I believe that this problem could potentially be solved by better investment in the dubbing process, casting. Or, possibly, getting the ORIGINAL actors to say their lines in the foreign speech. (because maybe there's an American John Lithgow, but maybe a Japanese voice actor cannot be found that can match the way John Lithgow portrayed a given character) - in any case, even if you do it that way, it won't be the same, because no two performances from a given actor are going to be identical, especially when you throw a foreign language into the deal, because some phrases and jokes don't translate well, or the actor may not understand what's being said as well as a native speaker, so inflection and intonation won't be the same. But even that should be worked around as well.
My point is, just doing a cheapo dub just to get the asian or euro dollars is dishonest. It asks the foreign audience to pay the same 8 bucks for a product that simply doesn't work the way it would for an English-speaking audience, it's not of the same quality, and therefore, is NOT WORTH THE SAME TICKET PRICE.
If the studios want to charge the same amount of $ for tickets, they should put much more effort into the translation - and it cuts both ways, for foreign films going to the US.
Another example; Run Lola Run, (Lola Rennt), I rented the DVD, and I watched the first few minutes in English. Holy shit what a peice of crap! I then watched it in German with English Subtitles (luckily, I DO understand a little Deutsch) and the experience was MUCH better.
My message to foreign studios: If you want a better piece of the American film market, do a better job in the dubbing, and you'll totally kick Hollywood's ass.
Here's an exammple of how it was done right: Princess Mononoke. While it didn't to all that fabulous in the US market, it wasn't marketed as mainstream, it was an "art-film". And while the translation wasn't perfect, it was very well done. Let's have more of that, 'k?
#6
The fact is that humans can survive very well on a completely non-meat diet. . . .
The Matrix showed that humans can survive very well on liquified remains of other humans, with our brains plugged into virtual reality simulators.
"can survive" and "have a fulfilling life" are two very different things. While I feel blessed and lucky to live in a wonderful country like the US, where I can eat all the tender juicy steaks I want, and have a great standard of living, and still have money to donate to worthy causes (including feeding hungry children in places like Mexico and India, for example) - I do *not* feel compelled to lower my standard of living just to satisfy some vegan extremist's rhetorical fantasies.
Pol Pot thought that he could take millions of decadent fascist urban capitallist pigs, and march them out to the countryside and make them live on collective farms (as vegetarians, by the way), serving the common good. He's on the top ten list of history's worst mass murders of all time. 10 million of his own countrymen - whom he thought he was going to save from the pits of capitalistic depravity. Go watch "The Killing Fields", and think about that the next time they ask you at the grocery store "Paper or Plastic?"
But the spying was IN SUPPORT of the sanctions, and the enforcement of the sanctions.
Jeezus fucking christ! It's not like the US was stealing secrets on techniques of developing and building newer and better weapons of mass destruction! Iraq is like 60 years behind the US in that technology, and if they weren't cheating on their sanctions, our spying would not have yeilded any results anyway? It was certainly not "spying" in the conventional sense of the word. And even if we weren't spying, they would have found some other excuse to chase out the inspectors - The Iraqi Parliment has declared the UN null and void for crying out loud? The world is LUCKY that the US did that spying, because when the inspectors DID get kicked out, we knew exactly where to hit them. If the inspection process won't stop them, force is your only fallback measure - so the spying was necessary to deal with an intransigent opponent. Oh no, we stole the top secret plans for Saddam Hussein's giant vibrating golden dildo he uses to pleasure his harem! HA HA! Nobody can stop the US now!
Iraq is looking for any excuse they can to justify building weapons so that they can attack Kuwait, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and it's own citizens. Unless you want to pay $50/gal for gas, and watch millions more die, they simply must be stopped at all costs.
Frankly, I don't see why that regime simply isn't removed from power. All this pussy-footing around with legal sanctions and decrees has been given a chance to work, and guess what? every day since the last day of the Gulf War, it has been proven NOT to work. All it does is prolong the suffering of the Iraqi people under the dictator Saddam.
I mean, are meals included? What about booze? It would suck to pay that much money, and the food was bad. Or worse, it costs extra, and the prices are outrageous, and you can't exactly stop at McDonalds when you're travelling 17,000 mph.
"tourists" jump out of airplanes with parachutes on their backs every day.
Skydiving is as safe as you want to make it, of course. There are probably some good outfits out there, and others that are either run by idiots, or accountants who would cut corners for an extra penny. People can, have, and will continue to die skydiving. It does not deter more from trying "something thrilling". Part of the thrill is because it IS dangerous.
Evil Dead 2 was FAR superior.
yeah, Ninja world, and the mascot, "Lil' Nip!"
I agree about doing XFiles without Duchovny.
It also won't be the same with Scully tied down with a screaming brat - unless "they" kidnap the brat too (we'll see Sunday night).
The Satan Worshipper specialist partner could work out, especially since there was past involvement. That implies more soap opera side plots (which wasn't at all a bad thing about the original xfiles, you knew Mulder was a perv, and you knew Scully wanted him, and you knew they would eventually do it. - that was fun to watch - until it became tiresome after 5 years).
They really *could* pull off a decent transition of the XFiles, but I doubt they are capable. Someone else made the conclusion that the XFiles has been about formula, and rehashed to death plotlines, and a big soap opera for the past two years.
I think that the story line IS salvagable with the T1000 guy (I just can't call him anything else!) - but the writers are going to have to work damn hard, and churn out some damn good stuff, and CONNECT with the old material, without recycling it.
A lot of the fun of the old XFiles was the portrayal of little-known urban myths, (chubacabra, etc), monster-of-the-week, and frankly, they've run through them all. That angle is getting pretty weak - the only thing they have left is covering the fallout from past things (like the shape-changer guy whose in prison,etc). Then the Government conspiracy arc thing was great, but you can only drag that out so far, the bad guys need to get their comeuppance in the end, with drama, so once you destroy a 50 year old conspiracy, where do you go from there? You can't create a new one out of thin air. There's only one Government. Once cancer man was gone, that was it.
They've got some heavy challenges ahead. I think that the challenges are not insurmountable, but I also do not believe (based on past performance) that they will rise to the occasion. Sadly.
would you like your Steroid Crunchies, or Steroid Crunchies with Marshmallows?
don't forget the toilet humor.
"This also explains why stereotypes ABOUND on network TV."
To say NOTHING of how they abound on Slashdot:
Stereotypes of what Geeks are like (not good writers), and what they like (boring details about the evolution of life on planets 1.4 times the gravity of Earth with a Methane atmosphere).
Sterotypes of what Hollywood Screenwriters are like (cocaine-snorting yes-men cranking out mindless drivel).
I know we have to explain these phenomena as best we can, but let's avoid calling Mr. Kettle black now, shall we?
I support anonymous posting
It's ironic that Cameron Diaz is one of those actresses who is actually pretty decent at "subtle nuances of human expression" (see Being John Malkovich)
What we're all REALLY afraid of here, is that the stupid consumers will fall for this crap, and buy into this system. As DVD has demonstrated.
Let me give you an example of how the "stupid masses" have fucked ME over.
I like carbonated beverages.
I do not wish to ingest vast quantities of sugar and become a fat tub of goo.
I do not wish to ingest an addictive stimulant that alters my personality, gives me headaches, and makes me crave more.
Yet, the tastes of most Americans have dictated that your standard soda machine at any given restaurant has the choice:
Coke (sugar and caffeine)
Diet Coke (no sugar, but has caffeine)
Sprite (no caffeine, lots of sugar)
Water (no carbonation)
Oh, you can go to the store, and buy caffeine-free diet coke, or club soda, or diet sprite, but NONE of those are available at your basic McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, etc.
So basically, I go to any fast food restaurant, and I'm screwed as far as choice goes. Even McBeer would be preferable (from the drive-thru!)
All because the MARKET has determined what choices I should have. The MARKET consists of, a colluding oligopoly of softdrink vending multinationals, and a whole lot of stupid consumers who don't know any better but pay a huge markup for products laced with addictive drugs and vast quantities of sugar. (huge markup=it costs McDonalds about a nickel for a large Coke, the cup is more expensive than the contents, but the IDIOT consumer pays over a buck).
A minor inconvenience, to be sure.
But apply these same forces to the entertainment market, and you can see where this is going.
We need to make an assumption here that is not a very pleasant one. One that goes against our ideologies. Consumers are stupid, lame, sheep that will buy anything that is crammed down their throats. The masses are stupid. They're easily brainwashed, lied to, and for the time being, have lots of money to waste.
But growing up in a democracy, and a Christian, I was raised to believe that no one person is smarter or better equipped to run things than any other, that you're supposed to love your neighbor as yourself. Anything else is elitist snobbery. Establishing classes, hierarchies or castes, is intrinsically bad.
But here we are, victims of the stupid stupid masses.
Why do you think crap like n'sync sells? Because the masses are tasteful musical geniuses? Why is Windows such a widespread OS?
I think about this crap, and I feel like I'm becoming a Socialist/Elitist.
Yes, to go out and automatically tweak others machines without their consent is definately wrong.
/. article, real life probably has several good examples nobody's thought of.
I can think of one silly example why it would be a bad thing; What if somebody was testing network security software, thinking that this hole was unpatched on a target machine, and now, all of a sudden it isn't, then there's a bug in his security software that potentially goes undetected, and that security software gets sold and widely distributed. Can the dumb 'ol worm guarantee that all systems on the net from that point in time onward will be patched?
That's just a silly example of an unrealistic situation - but for every one of those I can think up in the 5 minutes it took to read this
The basis of testing, or even just running a computer, is having a known-good system state to run from. If some unknown element is being changed, for whatever reason, that's a variable that the operator is not aware of. And that's a bad thing.
If you can't beat em. Join em. Right?
I'm curious to know why you believe Discordianism is a made up religion. Although I am not a Discordian, I do know enough about the Principia Discordia and the beliefs of the religion to know that you should _not_ base your opinion on the perversions of it that you see in the news media. Seeing rebel stoners claiming holy war on others is not what Discordianism is about. Indeed, Malaclypse the Younger was all for peace and love. Read a little before you just lump it in with every religion.
Your point is valid in a lot of other ways though, a belief system is a belief system is a belief system. You'll still kill for it, you'll still put down others in it's defense.
Please do not lick this post.
Look, it's hard being a kid. Kids emotions range - some kids have strong emotions, and don't understand how to control them, others don't have emotions as strong, and have masterey over them.
One thing I noticed, particularly with families of asian origin, there is a typical tradition - moreso with orientals than indians from what I've seen, where the child's sense of self is deeply rooted in the family. That's how these children are raised, it's part of traditional oriental societies. I don't want to be cliche and use the term "honor", but I think that's what may have happened in this case (though, again, I don't recall having seen this as much in indian families I knew while growing up. More in oriental families, specifically, chinese and korean - didn't know any japanese).
So this kid, has all these talents, was an honor student, got straight a's I bet, brought pride and honor to his family, but also got exposed to the hacker culture too - and figured, hey, this will build my skillz, and also bring honor to my family. Instead, he got caught, and brought grave dishonor to his family. Now, I'm as white as they come, and I would have been mortified at the shame it would have brought my family had I ever been suspended. Bad grades, I excelled at, and that was shameful - but to be expelled, or even to be told that something I did was a jailable offense, that would have been pretty harsh - and I don't think I would feel too proud of myself after that. This kid must have really felt bad about how he made his parents look, he must have been too ashamed to bear it.
That said, maybe a gentler approach would have been better, maybe a more intelligent look at his case, rather than branding his forehead with a big-red "H" because he learned how to turn on a computer - maybe that would have averted this tragedy.
But know. We've got to fully prosecute this "war on hackers", because the public's getting bored of the "war on drugs" and "war on terrorism".
erm - Disney INVENTED rotoscoping. In Snow White, I believe. Although Bakshi used a much more obnoxiously obvious application of rotoscoping (he did not mask the photographic look of the characters, which gave them kind of a strange super-realistic look, which was supposed to make them look more dark and magical).
When the movie is fully together, and ready for a true press-screening, then I'd say such an agreement would be *wrong* (cats and dogs living together wrong).
But in this case, we're talking about a pre-production preview, of some footage that's not cleaned up, or edited the same way as it will be in the final movie - just to gague reaction, probably to secure more funding, and build hype. That would be like a serious Computer magazine reviewing a proof-of-concept alpha release.
Let's give them time to finish the movie, and finish it right, and THEN worry about a proper review of the actual MOVIE, rather than trying to judge a MOVIE on what it's pre-production preview looks like. It's just not fair to judge at this point.
Why not use a simple backup system that maintains a searchable database of backed-up file versions? There are some nice ones out there that do this, even one that uses an Explorer plug in to give you a view of backed up data and the ability to restore it.
ah, it ought to be before transporter technology too. Or at least before transporter technology was perfected.
(oops, turned another red-shirt inside out again. . . MEDIC!)
Or how about before artificial gravity?!
Klingon head ridges:
"we don't. . . discuss that."
Andromeda=incredibly stupid.
Except for the cute computer holograph chick, the show totally sucks.
Okay, one ship gets "frozen in time" by going too close to a black hole. Then another ship flies in, attaches cables, and tows it out. Sorry, I'll have to suspend my suspension of disbelief for that one.