I have the DVD of "Gunsmith Cats," and it has commercial logos as part of the scenery. However, the story takes place in Chicago, so most of the stuff are American companies, not a perfect example.
I do know that more geeky anime like "Otaku No Video" is filled with inside jokes and images derived from real life companies, and some manga have placements (like a Pocky reference I read in a Oh! My Goddess book.)
Does this answer your question? ^_^
Re:The only thing needed to destroy windows....
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Another issue that most of the other posters neglect to mention is that just because the OS gets ported to x86 doesn't mean that there will be apps made for it. First off, PPC developers would have to recompile new apps, fixing sticky issues like endian order to ship on the new hardware.
Worse, x86 developers will have less incentive to develop for the Mac OS since they could then argue that such x86 users "can run Windows anyway." I sometimes wonder if Linux products like Wine and the CrossOver plug subtlely discourage developers from making Linux-native software...
The "murder" phrasing is in the New Internation Version, IIRC. "Kill" is from King James; most modern bible scholars believe that the original Hebrew word used in the Commandment refers to the premeditated, cold blooded taking of life, not killing in general.
This assumes that the application being tested is fully scriptable. This requires a factored application design and/or an object model to convert AppleScript commands into their corresponding events. Historically, Mac OS development tools don't automatically create apps with such a structure. And as another poster noted, the means to have AS work with non-scriptable apps requires the use of unreliable "osaxen" that make timing and reliablity metrics meaningless.
Wasn't there a recent story here about developing a multiple-mirrored telescope to allow high resoultion images of deep space? Some of the discussion even mentioned the notion of placing individual mirror elements in different places around the world to help improve resolution. Such a scope is harder to use than a single curved mirror (despite the cost savings) due to image distortion. I would think this kind of technology would be perfect for something like that...
Re:And they ar still using that moronic UI!
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Actually, they did fix the more glaring issues. The volume's a slider, the video controls are more obvious, the sound controls (when active) no longer use a drawer, and Apple has given up on the icon-based favorites interface.
The only reason I knew the cat it was CG was I knew that going in.
As for your intended point, I grew up thinking that TRON was almost completely CG. However, after listening to the comentary on the DVD, I was stunned by how much was DRAWN BY HAND. Therefore, just because I think/assume that something is CG as opposed to a costume or stop motion or what not doesn't mean all that much.
As far as I'm concerned, CGI has its place. And it's not for recreating living creatures.
Even if such creatures are extinct or never existed in the first place?
I have to disagree that the arena beasts in Ep. II seemed unreal; the cat-like creature seem rather convincing to me. Also, understand that CG is only the most recent "nonliving" technology to do FX. King Kong, et al, were stop motion, and I found them more convincing than Godzilla, which was a man in a costume.
The only shortcoming of CG right now, IMNSHO, is in modeling human motion and expression. But this is only because we, as humans, have much more experience observing each other than animals, so we tend to be more discriminating. In time, we will learn enough about out physiology to model our actions convincingly up close; CG can already do so at long distance in "crowd scenes."
This isn't pointless. True, Hollywood and "big" production houses won't do real-time animation. But, indie and performance artists may try this.
Are you aware that there's a active underground "Demo scene" of programmers/artists who make cool looking presentations? Some of the demos I've seen are impressive (and hypnotic) considering that the graphics and music are produced real time. I'm sure other/.'s can give some links to sites about the scene...
How do you think Mac users feel for not getting "all those titles" that show up on Windows? If dozens of software companies won't port their titles over, why should you expect Apple to do so themselves?
You're correct, and I find this truly sad... We've effectively made charity potentially illegal, since doing something out of compassion or to "scratch an itch" can lead to liability down the road.
Talk about coming full circle. ICANN was spun off of the U.S. government so it could be more independant and directly accountable to the Internet's user base; now the latter reason is being used to confiscate ICANN's independance.
I think we of the Internet community have been reminded of a tragedy of human existance... Where you have idealism, you have politics. In trying to de-politicize ICANN, it ended up being an excessively political body instead.
ObTroll: I'm now waiting for the protests from the UN, China, et al, that the U.S. is trying to exercise soverignty over the 'Net. (And the current U.S. administration using the War On Terror(TM) as the justification for doing so.)
As a long time Mac user, I'm surprised this article was mentioned on this site. Towards the end, it provides a real world justification for a one-button input device.
I would think most Windows/*nix people would think of such endorsement as heresy. (-;
The Turner/AOLTW exec who said this was theft completely missed the entire point of advertising...
I mean, if a Malted Battery Acid(TM) ad came on during a show, it might remind me that I have some in fridge. Wouldn't getting up to get the drink contribute to a possible future purchase to replace it, even though I'm now "stealing" since I'll miss the next couple of ads?
Even with a digital recorder that can skip ads, they are still recorded, meaning that the viewer may still end up seeing the very start or end of an ad, enough for some ads to be effective. And remember, people who are irritated by ads enough to skip them would be less likely to buy the product if they are "tricked" into seeing an ad for it, especially if they know of a competitor from what is perceived to be a less intrusive ad or from word of mouth.
IMHO, the best way advertisers and the media can cope with this new tech is to start to vary the length of commercials away from fixed-15 or 30-second spots. A 27-second or 19-second commercial can be just as effective, and modern digital technology can now ease the burden of scheduling that variable break times can cause.
The thing is, you're both right. The power of the goverment to scr-w people over is not out of malice, but out of incompentence. The saying that the Road To Hell is paved with good intentions is completely true. Because of human nature, any large organization, whether government, corporation, or church, is capable of and will perform great "evil." It's inevitable.
The coding style's overboard for two historical reasons...
Ben wanted Angband to become parameterizable, that is, he wanted as much of the game's monsters and world to be provided by external files. So, he wanted any future mantainers to understand what exactly is hardcoded and what is being read in dynamically.
IIRC, the current code tree decended from an old Macintosh port of 2.4.frog-knows. Since most developers were used to the PC 1.4 and Unix 2.4 versions at the time, the coding style may have been too different for most C coders to grok easily. Ben made this decision, I believe, since the then current Mac port most abstracted/separated the game logic from the UI.
I was thinking the same thing. The Atari/Mattel/Coleco era came to a crashing end when the market got oversaturated.
There may be a silver lining if a new crash occurs. It could yield a return of gaming to public facilities like arcades and game clubs. Places like Dave & Buster's and GameWorks could come out well if the home market thins out again, especially for hardward intensive games like motion simulators, "dancing/music" games, and gun/weapon shooters. Most of the home gaming public never really bothered to buy the peripherals needed to get the full experience on home systems.
It may also give Stern a chance to reintroduce pinball to the American public. I still wish Williams hadn't pulled a "Sega" with the Pinball 2000 project. We could have been playing "Episode II" pinball if they stuck it out.
The essence of the refutation is that the Demon... spends energy.
I came to this conclusion within the first paragraph of the linked discussion. Even if the demon is said to not need energy to open/close the shutter (which is a bogus assumption) and even granting supernatural knowledge of the molecules, the fact that the shutter is moving/changing state adds heat to the system via friction, so energy is being added to the system as a whole.
Maxwell's Demon can't exist not just because of the 2nd law, but that the prerequisite for anything "to not spend energy" doing work can't exist.
Simple; most people can't afford more than one system at a time. Human nature dictates that people will defend their choice or decision, even if eventually it makes them look foolish.
Some people put too much ego investment in their lifestyle decisions, apparently.
Sounds to me like just another example of the Man trying to keep us down...
You're not that far from the mark. This limit was placed in FCC licencing at military and law enforcement insistance to allow them to jam possibly illegal transmissions. (Not just out of national security, but to jam "pirate" stations as well.) Remember that much of the FCC's regulations were drafted during the Cold War.
Personally, I think this is more tolerable that legally allowing them to be able to listen in like they are pushing for now, but those were simpler times.
Not if the Denny's restaurant chain has anything to say about that...
For a while, they were offering a kid's toy (PowerRings, IIRC) that advertized themselves as "Nature's Building Blocks." That's what this story first reminded me of...
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I have the DVD of "Gunsmith Cats," and it has commercial logos as part of the scenery. However, the story takes place in Chicago, so most of the stuff are American companies, not a perfect example.
I do know that more geeky anime like "Otaku No Video" is filled with inside jokes and images derived from real life companies, and some manga have placements (like a Pocky reference I read in a Oh! My Goddess book.)
Does this answer your question? ^_^
Another issue that most of the other posters neglect to mention is that just because the OS gets ported to x86 doesn't mean that there will be apps made for it. First off, PPC developers would have to recompile new apps, fixing sticky issues like endian order to ship on the new hardware.
Worse, x86 developers will have less incentive to develop for the Mac OS since they could then argue that such x86 users "can run Windows anyway." I sometimes wonder if Linux products like Wine and the CrossOver plug subtlely discourage developers from making Linux-native software...
The "murder" phrasing is in the New Internation Version, IIRC. "Kill" is from King James; most modern bible scholars believe that the original Hebrew word used in the Commandment refers to the premeditated, cold blooded taking of life, not killing in general.
This assumes that the application being tested is fully scriptable. This requires a factored application design and/or an object model to convert AppleScript commands into their corresponding events. Historically, Mac OS development tools don't automatically create apps with such a structure. And as another poster noted, the means to have AS work with non-scriptable apps requires the use of unreliable "osaxen" that make timing and reliablity metrics meaningless.
Wasn't there a recent story here about developing a multiple-mirrored telescope to allow high resoultion images of deep space? Some of the discussion even mentioned the notion of placing individual mirror elements in different places around the world to help improve resolution. Such a scope is harder to use than a single curved mirror (despite the cost savings) due to image distortion. I would think this kind of technology would be perfect for something like that...
Actually, they did fix the more glaring issues. The volume's a slider, the video controls are more obvious, the sound controls (when active) no longer use a drawer, and Apple has given up on the icon-based favorites interface.
Keep up.
This was already tried... It was know as Pointcast, or "Push Media."
There is nothing new under the sun.... *sigh*
The only reason I knew the cat it was CG was I knew that going in.
As for your intended point, I grew up thinking that TRON was almost completely CG. However, after listening to the comentary on the DVD, I was stunned by how much was DRAWN BY HAND. Therefore, just because I think/assume that something is CG as opposed to a costume or stop motion or what not doesn't mean all that much.
As far as I'm concerned, CGI has its place. And it's not for recreating living creatures.
Even if such creatures are extinct or never existed in the first place?
I have to disagree that the arena beasts in Ep. II seemed unreal; the cat-like creature seem rather convincing to me. Also, understand that CG is only the most recent "nonliving" technology to do FX. King Kong, et al, were stop motion, and I found them more convincing than Godzilla, which was a man in a costume.
The only shortcoming of CG right now, IMNSHO, is in modeling human motion and expression. But this is only because we, as humans, have much more experience observing each other than animals, so we tend to be more discriminating. In time, we will learn enough about out physiology to model our actions convincingly up close; CG can already do so at long distance in "crowd scenes."
This isn't pointless. True, Hollywood and "big" production houses won't do real-time animation. But, indie and performance artists may try this.
/.'s can give some links to sites about the scene...
Are you aware that there's a active underground "Demo scene" of programmers/artists who make cool looking presentations? Some of the demos I've seen are impressive (and hypnotic) considering that the graphics and music are produced real time. I'm sure other
Wah.
How do you think Mac users feel for not getting "all those titles" that show up on Windows? If dozens of software companies won't port their titles over, why should you expect Apple to do so themselves?
You're correct, and I find this truly sad... We've effectively made charity potentially illegal, since doing something out of compassion or to "scratch an itch" can lead to liability down the road.
Talk about coming full circle. ICANN was spun off of the U.S. government so it could be more independant and directly accountable to the Internet's user base; now the latter reason is being used to confiscate ICANN's independance.
I think we of the Internet community have been reminded of a tragedy of human existance... Where you have idealism, you have politics. In trying to de-politicize ICANN, it ended up being an excessively political body instead.
ObTroll: I'm now waiting for the protests from the UN, China, et al, that the U.S. is trying to exercise soverignty over the 'Net. (And the current U.S. administration using the War On Terror(TM) as the justification for doing so.)
As a long time Mac user, I'm surprised this article was mentioned on this site. Towards the end, it provides a real world justification for a one-button input device.
I would think most Windows/*nix people would think of such endorsement as heresy. (-;
The Turner/AOLTW exec who said this was theft completely missed the entire point of advertising...
I mean, if a Malted Battery Acid(TM) ad came on during a show, it might remind me that I have some in fridge. Wouldn't getting up to get the drink contribute to a possible future purchase to replace it, even though I'm now "stealing" since I'll miss the next couple of ads?
Even with a digital recorder that can skip ads, they are still recorded, meaning that the viewer may still end up seeing the very start or end of an ad, enough for some ads to be effective. And remember, people who are irritated by ads enough to skip them would be less likely to buy the product if they are "tricked" into seeing an ad for it, especially if they know of a competitor from what is perceived to be a less intrusive ad or from word of mouth.
IMHO, the best way advertisers and the media can cope with this new tech is to start to vary the length of commercials away from fixed-15 or 30-second spots. A 27-second or 19-second commercial can be just as effective, and modern digital technology can now ease the burden of scheduling that variable break times can cause.
The thing is, you're both right. The power of the goverment to scr-w people over is not out of malice, but out of incompentence. The saying that the Road To Hell is paved with good intentions is completely true. Because of human nature, any large organization, whether government, corporation, or church, is capable of and will perform great "evil." It's inevitable.
90% of Flash stuff SHOULD NOT be in Flash.
This sounds about right to NOT blame Flash for the misuse. I believe your typical Fortune file says as much...
"90% of anything is crap"
Here's a more recent site.
The coding style's overboard for two historical reasons...
I was thinking the same thing. The Atari/Mattel/Coleco era came to a crashing end when the market got oversaturated.
There may be a silver lining if a new crash occurs. It could yield a return of gaming to public facilities like arcades and game clubs. Places like Dave & Buster's and GameWorks could come out well if the home market thins out again, especially for hardward intensive games like motion simulators, "dancing/music" games, and gun/weapon shooters. Most of the home gaming public never really bothered to buy the peripherals needed to get the full experience on home systems.
It may also give Stern a chance to reintroduce pinball to the American public. I still wish Williams hadn't pulled a "Sega" with the Pinball 2000 project. We could have been playing "Episode II" pinball if they stuck it out.
The essence of the refutation is that the Demon ... spends energy.
I came to this conclusion within the first paragraph of the linked discussion. Even if the demon is said to not need energy to open/close the shutter (which is a bogus assumption) and even granting supernatural knowledge of the molecules, the fact that the shutter is moving/changing state adds heat to the system via friction, so energy is being added to the system as a whole.
Maxwell's Demon can't exist not just because of the 2nd law, but that the prerequisite for anything "to not spend energy" doing work can't exist.
...and most of us Americans probably scoff at vinegar on fries on top of that. Then again, I've known a few that like mayo...
(Personally, I find vinegar's ideal for high grease "county fair" style chips/fries.)
Simple; most people can't afford more than one system at a time. Human nature dictates that people will defend their choice or decision, even if eventually it makes them look foolish.
Some people put too much ego investment in their lifestyle decisions, apparently.
It looks like Katz and the MYT reviewer are just being part of the Zeitgeist.
And next year, "zeitgeist" will the new hot word for movies. (-;
Sounds to me like just another example of the Man trying to keep us down...
You're not that far from the mark. This limit was placed in FCC licencing at military and law enforcement insistance to allow them to jam possibly illegal transmissions. (Not just out of national security, but to jam "pirate" stations as well.) Remember that much of the FCC's regulations were drafted during the Cold War.
Personally, I think this is more tolerable that legally allowing them to be able to listen in like they are pushing for now, but those were simpler times.
Not if the Denny's restaurant chain has anything to say about that...
For a while, they were offering a kid's toy (PowerRings, IIRC) that advertized themselves as "Nature's Building Blocks." That's what this story first reminded me of...