What was your toaster's name? What did its voice sound like? What were its aneurisms like? How many times did you carry on a conversation with it?
C-3PO is such a commodity that he even has a nickname: threepio. Did Chewie puts him back together again when he was blown apart to not waste parts?
I think bigger questions are:
1) WHY IN GODS NAME did Anakin think building a protocal droid would help his Mom in the first place? How about a cleaning droid or a cooking droid? 2) What sense do slaves make at all in a world with Droids?
Lucas screwed up, it's okay, the sky won't fall, say it with me.;)
"Java lives on in the server-side world as a kind of VB-for-people-who-hate-Microsoft, and that's about it, but MS didn't kill it."
I am working on a multi-million-dollar project processing millions of transactions per month running on Solaris, integrating multiple trouble ticketing systems. It is written entirely in java. You have know idea what you are talking about.
"Famed as the most remote object ever made by man, Pioneer 10 is now 7.5 billion miles away (Until 17 February 1998, the heliocentric radial distance of Pioneer 10 had been greater than that of any other manmade object. But late on that date Voyager 1's heliocentric radial distance, in the approximate apex direction, equaled that of Pioneer 10 at 69.419 AU. Thereafter, Voyager 1's distance will exceed that of Pioneer 10 at the approximate rate of 1.016 AU per year)."
I am about as anti-ad as you can get in the mainstream. I have picked up adbusters a few times, I complain ceaselessly about branding of stadiums, I HATE virtual ads in broadcasts, and I use mozilla to block pop ups.
I also hated elevator ads, until I worked in a highrise building. When you are bored out of your mind and you have nothing to do, ads can pass the time. I commute every day on the subway in Toronto and having ads on the tunnel walls would pass the time. Advertising is definately not a panacea, but in this case everybody wins. I don't see what there is to complain about.
Now as far as Microsoft funding UofWestern...;)
One of my closes friends Jonathan Wong is coming back in a week after a four month stint in Ghana with Geekcorps. He says it is the time of his life and he can't wait to go back. My other friend was there for two months filming a documentary about him for his production company ( shameless plug). John was also recently profiled in a Canadian National business magazine, you can read his Geekcorps profile here.
If I had the time (and no fiancee) I would love to go.:)
Main Entry: literally Pronunciation: 'li-t&-r&-lE, 'li-tr&-lE, 'li-t&r-lE Function: adverb Date: 1533 1 : in a literal sense or manner : ACTUALLY 2 : in effect : VIRTUALLY usage Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.
Literally is an ADVERB. You can't buy LITERALLY anything.
"[C-3P0's] memory system has been erased, and so has R2's," Lucas told the site. "So they don't remember anything from the first trilogy. I'm telling you something from Episode III, but I shouldn't be telling you that, but I think most of the fans already know that."
What about Owen Lars?!?!?! He apparently worked with a droid named C-3PO for a few years and then doesn't recognize him 20 years later wtf???
I am a huge fan of the book but has anyone read the scriptment that OSC put up on the net? Ughhhh it was BAD It sounded more like Wing Commander than Ender's Game. Anderson is turned into a woman, Bean is more prominent in order to do the sequel (sidequel), Peter and Valentine are removed from the story altogether. The P and V thing I understand, a lot of the other stuff just shows how bad a FILM writer OSC is.
> Most European nations do not have the will to carry on any kind of extended operations. They would rather pull out and let the defensless die than deal with all the negative side effects of taking action.
"The west" would suddenly find itself reduced to "US, Canada, UK"
You honestly think that Canada would back the US use of nuclear weapons? NO FREAKING WAY. We are currently undecided about ANY attack on Iraq, and we are FAR more liberal up here than either the US or Britain.
Although there are some types of games that are worthwhile developing for a phone or P the underlying technology isn't there in the near term.
J2ME, which is likely the best hope, is not robust enough to handle gameboy-style games. It lacks necessary API's such image bliting, transparency (although SOME providers include it), and ABYSMAL sound support (4 sounds with blocking while the sound plays).
Things will get better with the next version I hope, but for now multi-media is not do-able.
Where Rutger Hauer and his dumb partner go to visit the Chinese man that made their eyes in a lab. Then the dumb guy starts putting eyes on the scientists shoulder while Hauer interogates him - funny stuff. Now it's all too real;)
Isn't waiting in line nowadays not only pointless, but actually a BAD idea. These guys could wait in line for the first show, and it gets sold out by advance tickets ala LOTR. They would be the biggest losers of all time (although that may be a redundant statement).;)
Example for mandatory open sourcing
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This gives us an interesting example of what Lawrence Lessig suggested earlier: mandatory source code release after a set period of time for software, which follows a reasonably short period of exclusivity.
This guys speech, as weird and freaky as it is;), would have not have come to light if Quake II had not been open-sourced after it ceased to become cutting-edge technology. By releasing the code after a reasonable period of time Carmack has given us a golden lesson in copyright. By putting the source in more hands we get more speech and interesting ideas put into the public domain, this is the kinda of thing closed source and excessively long copyright terms deny, e.g. Looking forward to David Fincher's Catcher in The Rye? Keep waiting, that book will still be in copyright over 70 years from now, and he will be long dead.
-Shieldwolf
PS - of course I know the software is still under copyright, e.g. GPL via Id Software, I merely mean that it is gives you an IDEA of how this could work.
Not all information can be filtered. Just think DMCA and UCITA. Try and filter out the lame scenes in Episode I or mix your favourtie scenes from the Matrix. Scenario's like this will soon be an order of magnitude more common when WSPs start sending copyrighted material via phones through 2.5 and 3G. Your WSP can simply make deals with partners to send you the occassional spam along with the service that you require for your everyday needs, e.g. email, SMS/MMS messages. This stream of service can be protected by copyright (if they choose) and thus be given DMCA protection. The phone is a closed box that you cannot alter (too much), and any attempt to circumvent the Telco's controls on the phone is a felony charge punishable by up to 5 years in a federal penetentiary and up to a $100,000 charge. Scenarios like this will get more and more common as Telco's try to make money of their customer base, and customers try to control the media they recieve.
This brings up an interesting point about prior art and trademarks/patents. You could do a search through the archives to find the first occurence of something. Isn't there a company out there that was trying to trademark:-)? I seem to recall a story a while back.
So by your logic Manhattan Island isn't part of Mainland North America either. And Mexico isn't part of North America because it is closer to Ecuador than Chicago. Who care if Newfoundland is an island, it is part of North America, as are Cuba, Jamaica ans Panama. In case you feel like debating this CENTRAL America is a political term, not geographical.
I find these ads very annoying and having worked as one of the lead developers for a competing product (by the company EyeReturn), I feel a little responsbile.;) EyeReturn's concept is much cooler IMHO.
They say the Atari 2600 came out in 1976 - BUT the ORIGINAL name of that system was the Atari VCS (Video Computer System) the 2600 moniker was added later to keep it in line with the 5200.
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I counted 4(!) different widget sets in the screenshots; no two applications look anything alike.
I see differnt ones for QT, StarOffice and XUL, and a custom one for the MP3 player.
How can you sell something so inconsistent?
-ShieldWolf
What was your toaster's name? What did its voice sound like? What were its aneurisms like? How many times did you carry on a conversation with it?
;)
C-3PO is such a commodity that he even has a nickname: threepio. Did Chewie puts him back together again when he was blown apart to not waste parts?
I think bigger questions are:
1) WHY IN GODS NAME did Anakin think building a protocal droid would help his Mom in the first place? How about a cleaning droid or a cooking droid?
2) What sense do slaves make at all in a world with Droids?
Lucas screwed up, it's okay, the sky won't fall, say it with me.
-Shieldwolf
The actual URL is http://www.nakedwireless.ca/winudcol.htm
;D
I work for a computer company at the corner of Bay and Dundas on the map, which has tons of red push pins. Luckily there are no nudist colonies here
-Shieldwolf
That is the funniest thing I have EVER read on this site. :D
"Java lives on in the server-side world as a kind of VB-for-people-who-hate-Microsoft, and that's about it, but MS didn't kill it."
I am working on a multi-million-dollar project processing millions of transactions per month running on Solaris, integrating multiple trouble ticketing systems. It is written entirely in java. You have know idea what you are talking about.
"Famed as the most remote object ever made by man, Pioneer 10 is now 7.5 billion miles away (Until 17 February 1998, the heliocentric radial distance of Pioneer 10 had been greater than that of any other manmade object. But late on that date Voyager 1's heliocentric radial distance, in the approximate apex direction, equaled that of Pioneer 10 at 69.419 AU. Thereafter, Voyager 1's distance will exceed that of Pioneer 10 at the approximate rate of 1.016 AU per year)."
-Shieldwolf
I am about as anti-ad as you can get in the mainstream. I have picked up adbusters a few times, I complain ceaselessly about branding of stadiums, I HATE virtual ads in broadcasts, and I use mozilla to block pop ups.
I also hated elevator ads, until I worked in a highrise building. When you are bored out of your mind and you have nothing to do, ads can pass the time. I commute every day on the subway in Toronto and having ads on the tunnel walls would pass the time. Advertising is definately not a panacea, but in this case everybody wins. I don't see what there is to complain about.
Now as far as Microsoft funding UofWestern...;)
One of my closes friends Jonathan Wong is coming back in a week after a four month stint in Ghana with Geekcorps. He says it is the time of his life and he can't wait to go back. My other friend was there for two months filming a documentary about him for his production company ( shameless plug). John was also recently profiled in a Canadian National business magazine, you can read his Geekcorps profile here.
:)
If I had the time (and no fiancee) I would love to go.
You are using it incorrectly as well:
Main Entry: literally
Pronunciation: 'li-t&-r&-lE, 'li-tr&-lE, 'li-t&r-lE
Function: adverb
Date: 1533
1 : in a literal sense or manner : ACTUALLY
2 : in effect : VIRTUALLY
usage Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.
Literally is an ADVERB. You can't buy LITERALLY anything.
"[C-3P0's] memory system has been erased, and so has R2's," Lucas told the site. "So they don't remember anything from the first trilogy. I'm telling you something from Episode III, but I shouldn't be telling you that, but I think most of the fans already know that."
What about Owen Lars?!?!?! He apparently worked with a droid named C-3PO for a few years and then doesn't recognize him 20 years later wtf???
I am a huge fan of the book but has anyone read the scriptment that OSC put up on the net? Ughhhh it was BAD It sounded more like Wing Commander than Ender's Game. Anderson is turned into a woman, Bean is more prominent in order to do the sequel (sidequel), Peter and Valentine are removed from the story altogether. The P and V thing I understand, a lot of the other stuff just shows how bad a FILM writer OSC is.
my $.02
From the article:
:)
"In other words, machines should fast enough to run the game when it's released."
While I feel better
-ShieldWolf
> Most European nations do not have the will to carry on any kind of extended operations. They would rather pull out and let the defensless die than deal with all the negative side effects of taking action.
Glad you're not generalizing.
"The west" would suddenly find itself reduced to "US, Canada, UK"
You honestly think that Canada would back the US use of nuclear weapons? NO FREAKING WAY. We are currently undecided about ANY attack on Iraq, and we are FAR more liberal up here than either the US or Britain.
>Is there anything that Amiga now offers that Be didn't or MacOS X doesn't?
;)
How about running multiple resolutions at once? If that sentence doesn't make sense to you then you truly don't get it.
-Jeff
Although there are some types of games that are worthwhile developing for a phone or P the underlying technology isn't there in the near term.
J2ME, which is likely the best hope, is not robust enough to handle gameboy-style games. It lacks necessary API's such image bliting, transparency (although SOME providers include it), and ABYSMAL sound support (4 sounds with blocking while the sound plays).
Things will get better with the next version I hope, but for now multi-media is not do-able.
-ShieldWolf
Where Rutger Hauer and his dumb partner go to visit the Chinese man that made their eyes in a lab. Then the dumb guy starts putting eyes on the scientists shoulder while Hauer interogates him - funny stuff. Now it's all too real ;)
Isn't waiting in line nowadays not only pointless, but actually a BAD idea. These guys could wait in line for the first show, and it gets sold out by advance tickets ala LOTR. They would be the biggest losers of all time (although that may be a redundant statement). ;)
This gives us an interesting example of what Lawrence Lessig suggested earlier: mandatory source code release after a set period of time for software, which follows a reasonably short period of exclusivity.
;), would have not have come to light if Quake II had not been open-sourced after it ceased to become cutting-edge technology. By releasing the code after a reasonable period of time Carmack has given us a golden lesson in copyright. By putting the source in more hands we get more speech and interesting ideas put into the public domain, this is the kinda of thing closed source and excessively long copyright terms deny, e.g. Looking forward to David Fincher's Catcher in The Rye? Keep waiting, that book will still be in copyright over 70 years from now, and he will be long dead.
This guys speech, as weird and freaky as it is
-Shieldwolf
PS - of course I know the software is still under copyright, e.g. GPL via Id Software, I merely mean that it is gives you an IDEA of how this could work.
This just found in winsock.dll in XP:
seineewerastsisrorretadeuqla
Not all information can be filtered. Just think DMCA and UCITA. Try and filter out the lame scenes in Episode I or mix your favourtie scenes from the Matrix. Scenario's like this will soon be an order of magnitude more common when WSPs start sending copyrighted material via phones through 2.5 and 3G. Your WSP can simply make deals with partners to send you the occassional spam along with the service that you require for your everyday needs, e.g. email, SMS/MMS messages. This stream of service can be protected by copyright (if they choose) and thus be given DMCA protection. The phone is a closed box that you cannot alter (too much), and any attempt to circumvent the Telco's controls on the phone is a felony charge punishable by up to 5 years in a federal penetentiary and up to a $100,000 charge. Scenarios like this will get more and more common as Telco's try to make money of their customer base, and customers try to control the media they recieve.
-Shieldwolf
This brings up an interesting point about prior art and trademarks/patents. You could do a search through the archives to find the first occurence of something. Isn't there a company out there that was trying to trademark :-)? I seem to recall a story a while back.
-Shieldwolf
So by your logic Manhattan Island isn't part of Mainland North America either. And Mexico isn't part of North America because it is closer to Ecuador than Chicago. Who care if Newfoundland is an island, it is part of North America, as are Cuba, Jamaica ans Panama. In case you feel like debating this CENTRAL America is a political term, not geographical.
-Shieldwolf
I find these ads very annoying and having worked as one of the lead developers for a competing product (by the company EyeReturn), I feel a little responsbile. ;) EyeReturn's concept is much cooler IMHO.
-Shieldwolf
They say the Atari 2600 came out in 1976 - BUT the ORIGINAL name of that system was the Atari VCS (Video Computer System) the 2600 moniker was added later to keep it in line with the 5200.
-ShieldWolf