Overall, the project has been very successful in meeting the objectives: reducing occupational health and safety (OH&S) issues, increasing security and increasing productivity.
Apparently, writers do know they should do that. It is once again the Slashdot editors who are illiterate. Or just plain lazy. Hey... maybe we should have them replaced with robots?
Somewhere down the curve it is perfectly fine to die of AIDS at 16, IF you've got it from fucking 5000 prostitutes in one day, while being high on speed and cocaine?
Though the American government seems to have taken it upon themselves to insure we all lead long, happy, tax paying lives, regardless of personal happiness.
Those evil bastards! Wanting you to live longer. I say screw em. Take a gun and blow your brains out. That will teach them to fuck with people's happiness.
And frankly if I need to watch in full res to not be completely offput by the graphics then there's something fundamentally wrong.
Let me get this straight... First you are complaining that the CGI is not up to your high expectations, but then you claim that there is something wrong with it cause you have to look at it IN DETAIL to be able to see the DETAILS?
But I guess that you are used to get your video from a direct to brain input that you got from your future self, who also told you the plot of all future movies. I mean... You already KNOW everything... no.. wait... YOU CAN GUARANTEE what the 120+ minute movie that is coming out 1.2.3.. 4 months from now will be like. Yeah... I guess I understand how looking at details to see the details could be annoying. Kinda.
And you can guarantee that they will not take any time to let the story breath underneath all of those explosions.
Or did you mean that WE can guarantee that? I don't see how are any of us qualified to do that. I'd imagine only James Cameron can make such claims.
After days of anticipation they have failed spectacularly. Instead of seeing it exclusively on Apple's site the internet got the first look at the trailer from France's MSN portal.
Predators shouldn't announce their presence. There's a scene in the trailer where a dino-thing jumps out of the bushes, roars, and runs after people. I see this all the time in action movies where some large animal is about to attack the hero: the predator rises from the bushes (or from behind whatever), bellows, then rushes to attack. But in that split-second, our hero is able to throw himself behind cover, narrowly avoiding being eaten.
Actually... no. You are judging the scene from a handful of out of sequence and cut-off shots.
One of the first things we see on the planet is Worthington's Avatar playing with these tube-snake-like flora. He touches one and it disappears, sucking back into the ground with a FROOMPF. He's delighted, playing around in this field of tall plants, making them disappear with a touch until he does that to one and it reveals a really pissed off giant rhino lookin' thing with a hammerhead nose.
It brays at Worthington's Avatar and stamps its feet, threatening to charge. The Moore Avatar and Sigourney Weaver Avatar are with-in shouting distance and Weaver stops him from using the giant machine gun he's carrying, saying the hide is too tough and that shooting it will only piss it off.
The Worthington Avatar is unsure of what to do, even thought Weaver is telling him this rhino thing is just putting on a threat display and won't charge if Worthington stands his ground. There's a herd of rhino-aliens behind this one, which keeps braying and using his hammerhead horn nose to knock down trees. It shows its displeasure by a colorful ruff raising (like peacocks feathers but armored).
The creature doesn't seem to know it's just a territorial threat display and charges Worthington's Avatar who just charges it right back, screaming. It stops and looks confused, then scarred, turning back and running away with the heard.
Of course that means a slick-skinned panther-like creature is behind Worthington. It leaps over him and charges the bigger game, which runs off... then it turns and realizes there's another smaller, but just as tasty morsel right in front of him.
Apparently, the predator-creature WAS all sneaky and hidden, going after the "rhino-aliens" but Jake's avatar alerted one of those who started to charge at him, in turn making the predator-creature think it's cover is blown and it's under attack so it turns from a hunter into a defender, roars and attacks.
Also, while you are at it, pay attention to scenes where Na'vi are being angry. They seem far more realistic then, as they squint their eyes and look more like humans in those shots.
Oh and Beowulf... Come on. This is several classes above Beowulf. Beowulf was barely above Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. They walked and articulated like puppets. Na'vi look real.
Alien and not quite humanly (as they are not humans) but they move like living things.
How hilarious would it be if Afghanistan ended up with a more verifiable vote than the U.S. because they used open source technology to track the election?
Unless women in USA start wearing chadors (and get to vote like that) it is highly unlikely.
Your neighbor's landlines weren't actually landlines, but went through the air - e.g. over telephone poles.
If it goes UNDER the ground, nothing short of a cataclysmic earthquake/landslide should be able to put it out of commission. Plus, in case of an emergency, it can be used as a power source.
* Main Entry: flaunt
* Pronunciation: \flont, flänt\
* Function: verb
* Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flana to rush around
* Date: 1566
intransitive verb 1 : to display or obtrude oneself to public notice (a great flaunting crowd -- Charles Dickens) 2 : to wave or flutter showily (the flag flaunts in the breeze)
transitive verb 1 : to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade (flaunting his superiority) 2 : to treat contemptuously (flaunted the rules -- Louis Untermeyer) synonyms
-- flaunt noun
-- flauntingly \flon-ti-l, flän-\ adverb
-- flaunty \-t\ adjective
usage Although transitive sense 2 of flaunt undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout, the contexts in which it appears cannot be called substandard (meting out punishment to the occasional mavericks who operate rigged games, tolerate rowdyism, or otherwise flaunt the law -- Oscar Lewis) (observed with horror the flaunting of their authority in the suburbs, where men...put up buildings that had no place at all in a Christian commonwealth -- Marchette Chute) (in our profession...very rarely do we publicly chastise a colleague who has flaunted our most basic principles -- R. T. Blackburn, AAUP Bulletin).
If you use it, however, you should be aware that many people will consider it a mistake. Use of flout in the sense of flaunt 1 is found occasionally ("The proper pronunciation," the blonde said, flouting her refined upbringing, "is pree feeks" -- Mike Royko).
Isn't that a global trend? It's not like you get anything useful out of voting, like an iPhone or something, right? Why vote?
Regarding Japan... that is actually one of the plot points of 1990's manga, Sanctuary. Everyone should read it. It is one of the things that made Korben Dallas the man he is today.
*I've said this earlier couple of posts above and got modded down. Not exactly sure why. Honest to god - I am not buying it unless I can play "backuped" games on it. And by backup, I mean download from the internet. And by downloaded from the internet, I mean bought from the local shop that does the downloading and sells it to people who own the particular console.
That is how it goes here in Bosnia. $300 is still almost an entire average monthly pay. With import and Value Added Taxes + seller's profit margin it is way over that. Almost two average paychecks. $90 (price+tax+profit) for a GAME? There is a market for about 300 of those here. And about as many non-modded PS3s.
On the other hand, there is a market for tens of thousands of modded PS3s, hundreds of thousands of controllers and various spare parts.
The spike might be because of the current sale on the phone ends at the end of September and the additional offer of up to 10,000 yen in gift certificates ends this month, so people like me decided to make the switch now while the getting is good.
Perhaps you could have benefited from reading my post before criticising it. "Part of what undid Nazi Germany" You are aware the Nazi's were working on nuclear bombs as well aren't you? Pretty difficult if you won't use relativity.
First, as you have conceded in your other post it was not the theory of relativity nor the disregard for it. Second, as I've said here, they lacked resources - NOT science. Some of those resources were men (like Fermi and Oppenheimer) but essentially it was purely economical.
Oh... and third. Pointing out that you tried to cover your ass by adding a weasel word ("Part of what undid Nazi Germany") does not change the core meaning of your statement. Nor does it give any validation to that statement. Quite the contrary.
"I'm not sure why the fundamentalist Muslims don't have a religious problem with nukes for the same reason, perhaps it needs to be pointed out to them." I directly stated that they don't have a problem with it. I said I didn't know why.
Aren't you bothered sometimes with all those PETA and Greenpeace activists chasing you down the street and poring red paint over you? I mean... I somehow have this feeling that you are clad top to bottom in weasel skin. You do realize that what you "pointed out" up there is a textbook example of weasel word use?
E.g. "I'm not sure why some part of all the clowns are not against pigfucking, perhaps they are not aware how perverse it is." Oh... You can argue later that you sad "some part", but it is quite obvious what the main statement implies.
As for this:
In any case: The Hadith Bukhari, vol. IV, chapter 524, p. 333: The Prophet said, "A group of Israelites were lost. Nobody knows what they did. But I do not see them except that they were cursed and transformed into rats, for if you put the milk of a she-camel in front of a rat, it will not drink it, but if the milk of a sheep is put in front of it, it will drink it."
Rats seem very inferior to me. YMMV.
First of all the language used there sounds like a "yo' mama" joke. "Yo mama's so ugly, when she walks in the kitchen, the rats jump on the table and start screaming." See what I mean?
Second, to clarify what I said in the previous post, there is GREAT distinction between deriding one's religion or people and creating a pseudoscience that "proves" racial and scientific inferiority/superiority - like Nazis did. Cause you can't have "religious inferiority". That would imply a sort of a scale for religions from right to wrong. And you can't have that in a monotheistic religion - He Who Is Called I Am wouldn't allow that. Only one God. Only one Religion. Period. All others are heathens.
Also, Jews are not a "race" - they are an ethno-religious group. If a gojim converts to Judaism, he becomes a part of the -religious group, but not the ethnic- group. That is why a secular Jew is still called a Jew, and a secular Christian or Muslim is called an Atheist. At the same time - there is no "Muslim people" - Islam is not an ethnic or racial distinction. Islamic religious fanatics may hate Jews both as religious and as an ethnic group, but their own distinction from other groups that may feel similarly is based on religion.
I.e. Both neo-Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists hate Jews, but should a Jew convert to Islam, only one group would still have the base for its Jew-hating.
On a side note... You do realize that while Bible and Qur'an (and Torah, and Popol Vuh, and The Epic of Gilgamesh...) are essentially a bunch of unverified literary works by
It's not like the lottery, or magic, it's physics and it will work for anyone who applies it. Had they applied the "Jewish" knowledge they rejected the outcome of WWII would possibly been very different regardless of other problems the Nazi's had.
You have (access to) that knowledge now. Can you build an atomic bomb and deliver it then to your desired target?
My guess is that the answer is no. Reason for that is that you lack resources. Both material as well as intellectual. Having a recipe does not one a chef make.
A very nice parallel to this "had only Nazis used Jewish physics" can be found in the USSR-USA race to space. Both nations have had the same starting point, and both got their hands on some of Nazi V2 rockets and scientists. But, as one of techs that have worked on the Soviet rockets had put it (it was in a documentary... probably something by National Geographic.. can't recall now) - while Americans grabbed all the bigwigs who "envisioned" the whole thing, Soviets got all the technicians who knew which valve went where. Which was one of the reasons why USSR had put the first satellite and the first human into space. Despite the fact that USA unlike USSR has not suffered any losses of men and resources at home and had an untouched industrial complex.
Information alone means nothing without resources. Be they material or intellectual.
I did. Still... not intrusive. Just flipped through several youtube videos and most of the time it hardly registers. Then again, you can still use beveling and drop shadow in Photoshop and NOT make it look tacky and fake.
BSG on the other hand had shakycam and meaningless zoom in completely calm scenes. Stuff like couple of people talking in a hallway. It almost gave me nausea at times.
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Overall, the project has been very successful in meeting the objectives: reducing occupational health and safety (OH&S) issues, increasing security and increasing productivity.
Apparently, writers do know they should do that. It is once again the Slashdot editors who are illiterate. Or just plain lazy.
Hey... maybe we should have them replaced with robots?
Somewhere down the curve it is perfectly fine to die of AIDS at 16, IF you've got it from fucking 5000 prostitutes in one day, while being high on speed and cocaine?
Though the American government seems to have taken it upon themselves to insure we all lead long, happy, tax paying lives, regardless of personal happiness.
Those evil bastards! Wanting you to live longer.
I say screw em. Take a gun and blow your brains out. That will teach them to fuck with people's happiness.
And frankly if I need to watch in full res to not be completely offput by the graphics then there's something fundamentally wrong.
Let me get this straight...
First you are complaining that the CGI is not up to your high expectations, but then you claim that there is something wrong with it cause you have to look at it IN DETAIL to be able to see the DETAILS?
But I guess that you are used to get your video from a direct to brain input that you got from your future self, who also told you the plot of all future movies.
I mean... You already KNOW everything... no.. wait... YOU CAN GUARANTEE what the 120+ minute movie that is coming out 1.2.3.. 4 months from now will be like.
Yeah... I guess I understand how looking at details to see the details could be annoying. Kinda.
And you can guarantee that they will not take any time to let the story breath underneath all of those explosions.
Or did you mean that WE can guarantee that?
I don't see how are any of us qualified to do that.
I'd imagine only James Cameron can make such claims.
It isn't sweating NOW.
After days of anticipation they have failed spectacularly.
Instead of seeing it exclusively on Apple's site the internet got the first look at the trailer from France's MSN portal.
...that could very well be a part of what lies behind the "every single science fiction book I read as a kid" line.
As for the story... This is but a teaser.
There is plenty of the story explained and revealed on wikipedia and elsewhere on the internet.
I couldn't even bother to finish a 2 minute trailer.
I do believe that there is a treatment for that.
They are all actually dead the whole time, being killed by the plants that live in the forest around the village.
Oh... and the "mentor-character" is actually the main bad-guy, who is stumped by closed doors and is allergic to water.
Over and out.
Predators shouldn't announce their presence. There's a scene in the trailer where a dino-thing jumps out of the bushes, roars, and runs after people. I see this all the time in action movies where some large animal is about to attack the hero: the predator rises from the bushes (or from behind whatever), bellows, then rushes to attack. But in that split-second, our hero is able to throw himself behind cover, narrowly avoiding being eaten.
Actually... no. You are judging the scene from a handful of out of sequence and cut-off shots.
Here is how that scene actually plays.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41793
One of the first things we see on the planet is Worthington's Avatar playing with these tube-snake-like flora. He touches one and it disappears, sucking back into the ground with a FROOMPF. He's delighted, playing around in this field of tall plants, making them disappear with a touch until he does that to one and it reveals a really pissed off giant rhino lookin' thing with a hammerhead nose.
It brays at Worthington's Avatar and stamps its feet, threatening to charge. The Moore Avatar and Sigourney Weaver Avatar are with-in shouting distance and Weaver stops him from using the giant machine gun he's carrying, saying the hide is too tough and that shooting it will only piss it off.
The Worthington Avatar is unsure of what to do, even thought Weaver is telling him this rhino thing is just putting on a threat display and won't charge if Worthington stands his ground. There's a herd of rhino-aliens behind this one, which keeps braying and using his hammerhead horn nose to knock down trees. It shows its displeasure by a colorful ruff raising (like peacocks feathers but armored).
The creature doesn't seem to know it's just a territorial threat display and charges Worthington's Avatar who just charges it right back, screaming. It stops and looks confused, then scarred, turning back and running away with the heard.
Of course that means a slick-skinned panther-like creature is behind Worthington. It leaps over him and charges the bigger game, which runs off... then it turns and realizes there's another smaller, but just as tasty morsel right in front of him.
Apparently, the predator-creature WAS all sneaky and hidden, going after the "rhino-aliens" but Jake's avatar alerted one of those who started to charge at him, in turn making the predator-creature think it's cover is blown and it's under attack so it turns from a hunter into a defender, roars and attacks.
Plot (and more) has been known for some time now.
You will see the "photorealism".
Also, while you are at it, pay attention to scenes where Na'vi are being angry.
They seem far more realistic then, as they squint their eyes and look more like humans in those shots.
Oh and Beowulf...
Come on. This is several classes above Beowulf. Beowulf was barely above Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
They walked and articulated like puppets. Na'vi look real.
Alien and not quite humanly (as they are not humans) but they move like living things.
How hilarious would it be if Afghanistan ended up with a more verifiable vote than the U.S. because they used open source technology to track the election?
Unless women in USA start wearing chadors (and get to vote like that) it is highly unlikely.
Did Britney even vote in the US election?
It will be a total sham and a waste of time.
Votes are being sold for $10 a pop, nobody expects the elections to be fair so whoever wins election results will be contested, election ink safeguard is washable (then again, that may save some people's fingers), 13-year-olds vote, there are reports of people being hanged for voting and somehow Britney Spears is registered to vote.
But yeah. Sure...
A map and a bunch of anonymous SMS messages will SURELY fix all that.
They should have used a photo of Noam Chomsky instead?
But... Where would they find one of him without glasses?
And if they did - how would we know it was him?
...if I called you gay, you would understand that I am referring to your "joyful and carefree disposition"?
Language is a living, growing and changing thing.
Eventually, along the way, stroking your girlfriend's pussy in public becomes a lewd act.
Your neighbor's landlines weren't actually landlines, but went through the air - e.g. over telephone poles.
If it goes UNDER the ground, nothing short of a cataclysmic earthquake/landslide should be able to put it out of commission.
Plus, in case of an emergency, it can be used as a power source.
At least not for the last 433 years.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt
* Main Entry: flaunt
* Pronunciation: \flont, flänt\
* Function: verb
* Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flana to rush around
* Date: 1566
intransitive verb
1 : to display or obtrude oneself to public notice (a great flaunting crowd -- Charles Dickens)
2 : to wave or flutter showily (the flag flaunts in the breeze)
transitive verb
1 : to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade (flaunting his superiority)
2 : to treat contemptuously (flaunted the rules -- Louis Untermeyer)
synonyms
-- flaunt noun
-- flauntingly \flon-ti-l, flän-\ adverb
-- flaunty \-t\ adjective
usage
Although transitive sense 2 of flaunt undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout, the contexts in which it appears cannot be called substandard
(meting out punishment to the occasional mavericks who operate rigged games, tolerate rowdyism, or otherwise flaunt the law -- Oscar Lewis)
(observed with horror the flaunting of their authority in the suburbs, where men...put up buildings that had no place at all in a Christian commonwealth -- Marchette Chute)
(in our profession...very rarely do we publicly chastise a colleague who has flaunted our most basic principles -- R. T. Blackburn, AAUP Bulletin).
If you use it, however, you should be aware that many people will consider it a mistake.
Use of flout in the sense of flaunt 1 is found occasionally
("The proper pronunciation," the blonde said, flouting her refined upbringing, "is pree feeks" -- Mike Royko).
Isn't that a global trend? It's not like you get anything useful out of voting, like an iPhone or something, right? Why vote?
Regarding Japan... that is actually one of the plot points of 1990's manga, Sanctuary.
Everyone should read it. It is one of the things that made Korben Dallas the man he is today.
A mod-chip.*
When is the mod-chip coming out?
From the comments to TFA:
tiborg 08/17, 10:29am, EDT
Special pricing ending
The spike might be because of the current sale on the phone ends at the end of September and the additional offer of up to 10,000 yen in gift certificates ends this month, so people like me decided to make the switch now while the getting is good.
Perhaps you could have benefited from reading my post before criticising it. "Part of what undid Nazi Germany" You are aware the Nazi's were working on nuclear bombs as well aren't you? Pretty difficult if you won't use relativity.
First, as you have conceded in your other post it was not the theory of relativity nor the disregard for it.
Second, as I've said here, they lacked resources - NOT science.
Some of those resources were men (like Fermi and Oppenheimer) but essentially it was purely economical.
Oh... and third.
Pointing out that you tried to cover your ass by adding a weasel word ("Part of what undid Nazi Germany") does not change the core meaning of your statement.
Nor does it give any validation to that statement. Quite the contrary.
"I'm not sure why the fundamentalist Muslims don't have a religious problem with nukes for the same reason, perhaps it needs to be pointed out to them." I directly stated that they don't have a problem with it. I said I didn't know why.
Aren't you bothered sometimes with all those PETA and Greenpeace activists chasing you down the street and poring red paint over you?
I mean... I somehow have this feeling that you are clad top to bottom in weasel skin.
You do realize that what you "pointed out" up there is a textbook example of weasel word use?
E.g. "I'm not sure why some part of all the clowns are not against pigfucking, perhaps they are not aware how perverse it is."
Oh... You can argue later that you sad "some part", but it is quite obvious what the main statement implies.
As for this:
In any case:
The Hadith
Bukhari, vol. IV, chapter 524, p. 333: The Prophet said, "A group of Israelites were lost. Nobody knows what they did. But I do not see them except that they were cursed and transformed into rats, for if you put the milk of a she-camel in front of a rat, it will not drink it, but if the milk of a sheep is put in front of it, it will drink it."
Rats seem very inferior to me. YMMV.
First of all the language used there sounds like a "yo' mama" joke.
"Yo mama's so ugly, when she walks in the kitchen, the rats jump on the table and start screaming."
See what I mean?
Second, to clarify what I said in the previous post, there is GREAT distinction between deriding one's religion or people and creating a pseudoscience that "proves" racial and scientific inferiority/superiority - like Nazis did.
Cause you can't have "religious inferiority". That would imply a sort of a scale for religions from right to wrong.
And you can't have that in a monotheistic religion - He Who Is Called I Am wouldn't allow that. Only one God. Only one Religion. Period.
All others are heathens.
Also, Jews are not a "race" - they are an ethno-religious group.
If a gojim converts to Judaism, he becomes a part of the -religious group, but not the ethnic- group.
That is why a secular Jew is still called a Jew, and a secular Christian or Muslim is called an Atheist.
At the same time - there is no "Muslim people" - Islam is not an ethnic or racial distinction.
Islamic religious fanatics may hate Jews both as religious and as an ethnic group, but their own distinction from other groups that may feel similarly is based on religion.
I.e. Both neo-Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists hate Jews, but should a Jew convert to Islam, only one group would still have the base for its Jew-hating.
On a side note...
You do realize that while Bible and Qur'an (and Torah, and Popol Vuh, and The Epic of Gilgamesh...) are essentially a bunch of unverified literary works by
It's not like the lottery, or magic, it's physics and it will work for anyone who applies it. Had they applied the "Jewish" knowledge they rejected the outcome of WWII would possibly been very different regardless of other problems the Nazi's had.
You have (access to) that knowledge now. Can you build an atomic bomb and deliver it then to your desired target?
My guess is that the answer is no. Reason for that is that you lack resources.
Both material as well as intellectual. Having a recipe does not one a chef make.
A very nice parallel to this "had only Nazis used Jewish physics" can be found in the USSR-USA race to space.
Both nations have had the same starting point, and both got their hands on some of Nazi V2 rockets and scientists.
But, as one of techs that have worked on the Soviet rockets had put it (it was in a documentary... probably something by National Geographic.. can't recall now) - while Americans grabbed all the bigwigs who "envisioned" the whole thing, Soviets got all the technicians who knew which valve went where.
Which was one of the reasons why USSR had put the first satellite and the first human into space.
Despite the fact that USA unlike USSR has not suffered any losses of men and resources at home and had an untouched industrial complex.
Information alone means nothing without resources. Be they material or intellectual.
I did. Still... not intrusive.
Just flipped through several youtube videos and most of the time it hardly registers.
Then again, you can still use beveling and drop shadow in Photoshop and NOT make it look tacky and fake.
BSG on the other hand had shakycam and meaningless zoom in completely calm scenes. Stuff like couple of people talking in a hallway.
It almost gave me nausea at times.
Thanks for the heads up about shaky cam. That puts "District 9" on the "maybe when I can watch it for free" list.
I don't want to have to concentrate physically to be able to follow the story.
I go to the movies to entertain my mind, not my eye muscles or my vestibular system.