Wrong Galaxy!
It's the RDA ship co0ming back from Pandora. They picked a different time in the continuum to plot a new strategy for taking unobtanium from the Na'vi.
Submitted an Ask Slashdot question, posted to our blog and a few others too.
Where are the Na'vi finding feathers for their clothes and arrows? They are the only native creatures to Pandora that grow any sort of hair and I didn't see any feathered critters anyplace. Did I just miss it or is it accounted for elsewhere?
That touches on something my fiction writer friend was thinking the future would be like 20 years from now.
Things in virtual and real swing to the "too perfect" side and a market emerges for attractive but natural things. In adoption, relationships, erotica and modeling a premium on natural but attractive is emerging.
Works well the way he wrote it, especially since the female lead is looking for an entrepreneurial, bright guy with no cosmetic tweeks and just happens to find him.
The article covers what you mention.
Sigourney Weaver's Avatar looks 20 years younger than the real "version".
The CGI is described as accurate enough to replicate the actor down to the pours. My take was that it gives the director another tool for making an interesting movie and they still can't replicate what is inside the actor's head.
The report is "Bing Gains Market Share Faster"
It is all the way up to 10.7% now. Fine. Google has 65.7%.
You can show HUGE increases in your rate of market gain when hardly anybody is looking at you and then a few more look at you. The same number of eyeballs for Google is a small increase.
Am I wrong, or did someone cherry pick the most appealing metric for Bing to write a story about?
Pah! I saw Tom Baker Dr. Who episode years ago, where he reprograms a security camera to make it look like he's in the hallway, when really the Doctor is about to...
I knew Oceans 11 with George Clooney had to get that idea from someplace!
Dr. Who? Ocean's 11?! Don't you whippersnappers know that the idea originally came from Motley Crue?
Yea, right. Your "evidence" is just a music video.
You see none of the cars are designed to be driven by the blind. The blind do not get equal access to the roads from cars. So have they sued the car makers? Or the car makers have been grandfathered out of the ADA?
I swear at least 3% of the drivers I encounter every week are blind.
Is it just me, or are stories like this one becoming all too common?
It seems we are becoming a society of "if everyone can't have it, then nobody can!" Unless of course they are individually wealthy, in which case they will simply BUY the damn thing.
So, sighted (and poor) students are deprived because blind students can't have the same advantages. Suppose a device was invented that allowed only blind people to receive information. Do you think there would be an outcry from the sighted world that it wasn't "fair" and so should be kept out of their hands?
No more than the "outcry" from those of us who can do math over others using calculators (I didn't cry out, anyway). Oh, and I was still hearing the stupid "debate" my father told me about, when I was in college, about some students having better calculators than others being "unfair" to the poorer students, ON HOMEWORK! If you can't do it on the test it doesn't matter how you did it in your dorm room.
Pah! I saw Tom Baker Dr. Who episode years ago, where he reprograms a security camera to make it look like he's in the hallway, when really the Doctor is about to...
I knew Oceans 11 with George Clooney had to get that idea from someplace!
That's one funny thing about math, "close doesn't count", until you get to a certain advanced point. Then we say "this works for all but a few special cases... close enough."
That whole "dark matter" thing all over again? UGH!
I want to go this trade show and ask them to let me test-drive Roxxxy's physical capabilities. And then I'll say, "Hang on, can you demo how she can express love for me and be my loving friend as well?" And see if the sales rep can get through the whole thing without laughing.
I was sort of worried that this technology was making a leap past "realistic" future fiction. Not to worry.
bcrowell, the only way you can get any details about the product from their site is by opening a chat or submitting a question form.
And when wireless meant getting phone calls 300 feet from the house (1982).
If you go back a little farther wireless was any radio. Think Marconi, 1920s. Got the nickname from being a "wireless" telegraph system.
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Wrong Galaxy! It's the RDA ship co0ming back from Pandora. They picked a different time in the continuum to plot a new strategy for taking unobtanium from the Na'vi.
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Try saving a copy as robots.docx and see if that works ;)
Submitted an Ask Slashdot question, posted to our blog and a few others too. Where are the Na'vi finding feathers for their clothes and arrows? They are the only native creatures to Pandora that grow any sort of hair and I didn't see any feathered critters anyplace. Did I just miss it or is it accounted for elsewhere?
With this level of CGI I think Terminator Vacation is just around the corner.
Once you cross that twain (sic), anything is possible.
Posting AC obv.
Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer? Not seeing that is blowing up big, but maybe.
Yeah, if it's one thing that George Lucas has proven, it's that good special effects don't make a good movie.
Just like amazing graphics don't make a good game.
Was that a diss against Howard the Duck? It was, don't deny it!
That touches on something my fiction writer friend was thinking the future would be like 20 years from now.
Things in virtual and real swing to the "too perfect" side and a market emerges for attractive but natural things. In adoption, relationships, erotica and modeling a premium on natural but attractive is emerging.
Works well the way he wrote it, especially since the female lead is looking for an entrepreneurial, bright guy with no cosmetic tweeks and just happens to find him.
replicate the actor down to the pours
pores?
LOL, my bad usage.
But then who is Conan going to interview?
CGI Conan or real Conan?
The article covers what you mention. Sigourney Weaver's Avatar looks 20 years younger than the real "version". The CGI is described as accurate enough to replicate the actor down to the pours. My take was that it gives the director another tool for making an interesting movie and they still can't replicate what is inside the actor's head.
My comment was based on the title of the post and the content of the post. You even quoted what I wrote.
The report is "Bing Gains Market Share Faster" It is all the way up to 10.7% now. Fine. Google has 65.7%. You can show HUGE increases in your rate of market gain when hardly anybody is looking at you and then a few more look at you. The same number of eyeballs for Google is a small increase. Am I wrong, or did someone cherry pick the most appealing metric for Bing to write a story about?
Pah! I saw Tom Baker Dr. Who episode years ago, where he reprograms a security camera to make it look like he's in the hallway, when really the Doctor is about to...
I knew Oceans 11 with George Clooney had to get that idea from someplace!
Dr. Who? Ocean's 11?! Don't you whippersnappers know that the idea originally came from Motley Crue?
Yea, right. Your "evidence" is just a music video.
Maybe if Junior was blind he would finish better ;)
You see none of the cars are designed to be driven by the blind. The blind do not get equal access to the roads from cars. So have they sued the car makers? Or the car makers have been grandfathered out of the ADA?
I swear at least 3% of the drivers I encounter every week are blind.
Is it just me, or are stories like this one becoming all too common? It seems we are becoming a society of "if everyone can't have it, then nobody can!" Unless of course they are individually wealthy, in which case they will simply BUY the damn thing. So, sighted (and poor) students are deprived because blind students can't have the same advantages. Suppose a device was invented that allowed only blind people to receive information. Do you think there would be an outcry from the sighted world that it wasn't "fair" and so should be kept out of their hands?
No more than the "outcry" from those of us who can do math over others using calculators (I didn't cry out, anyway). Oh, and I was still hearing the stupid "debate" my father told me about, when I was in college, about some students having better calculators than others being "unfair" to the poorer students, ON HOMEWORK! If you can't do it on the test it doesn't matter how you did it in your dorm room.
Pah! I saw Tom Baker Dr. Who episode years ago, where he reprograms a security camera to make it look like he's in the hallway, when really the Doctor is about to...
I knew Oceans 11 with George Clooney had to get that idea from someplace!
but it seems unlikely such a thing would just fall out of its orbit)?
Don't forget the James Bond possibility!
That's one funny thing about math, "close doesn't count", until you get to a certain advanced point. Then we say "this works for all but a few special cases... close enough."
That whole "dark matter" thing all over again? UGH!
Don't eat the brown liquorice either. Garth told me.
Silly, you need a new wayback machine ;)
I want to go this trade show and ask them to let me test-drive Roxxxy's physical capabilities. And then I'll say, "Hang on, can you demo how she can express love for me and be my loving friend as well?" And see if the sales rep can get through the whole thing without laughing.
I was sort of worried that this technology was making a leap past "realistic" future fiction. Not to worry. bcrowell, the only way you can get any details about the product from their site is by opening a chat or submitting a question form.
The oldest I remember without help were $2000 286's.
And when wireless meant getting phone calls 300 feet from the house (1982). If you go back a little farther wireless was any radio. Think Marconi, 1920s. Got the nickname from being a "wireless" telegraph system.