Actually, my wife (read: very non-geek, not into computers or techonology at all) was intrigued by the trailer simply because it wasn't a might-as-well-not-go-see-the-movie-because-you-jus t-saw-most-of-it-here trailer. We both are sick and tired of knowing what will happen during the entire movie simply because we sat through a trailer or teaser.
P.S. Kubrick movies ALWAYS have the best trailers... he always did his own.
Listen. Ok, wait, you're still not listening. Ok, now listen.
I can't believe that I haven't read one post that actually got what Lanier is saying. Folks, he's saying this: with computer hardware running millions of times faster and more efficiently than ever before, NOBODY is writing software to take advantage of it.
He's not saying that the piece of shit proggie you wrote in PERL or C++ isn't a quality piece of shit, he's just saying that it's unimaginative and especially not written in any way that would actually take advantage of your computer hardware in any real way.
Maybe more than your proggie though, he's addressing visionary software -- or the lack thereof. What are we going to do with these super-computers? Is our goal simply to get the smoothest, cleanest, fastest game of Q3 ever? He's saying that we don't even have any idea of what we can or should do with these new technologies because we can't think outside of the boxes that we've simultaneously fallen into and yet made for ourselves by our language and ideology.
"Why Software Sucks" isn't saying that the "software" out there isn't/can never be quality... He's saying that we're going about it all wrong, that we have a misconception of what "software" is/should be and we perpetuate that misconception by the very way we talk about "software".
Talking about the quality of current software is a good example of this misconception and why it's so hard to see out of it.
Card has simply slipped -- gone downhill. Reading his earliest works and comparing them to his latest makes me wish he'd quit writing so he doesn't spoil or taint those earlier pieces of good writing.
He did the same thing with his "Alvin Maker" series -- as I've read the last 2 or 3 of the series I've actually come to be disgusted with Alvin himself -- and I have a sinking suspicion that Card had no intention of ever helping his readers lose any affinity towards the main characters of his stories.
Maybe it's the fact that he puts out a new book every 4 months, at least, that has contributed to the almost complete attrition of his good writing.
I know this is flamebait, but for the record, I've read almost every book that Card has put out, and only recently as I go back and read the earlier works have I realized why I am so disappointed with his newest -- they simply are not the same writing.
Even more interesting, I think, is that Buchanan had 2600+ votes in the 96 election. Why are 3400 votes for him, in an area with 15,000 registered Reform Party members -- and 2600 of whom voted for Buch. last election, so "out of place"? Answer: they're not.
P.S. Buchanan has no right or power to "concede" any of those votes over to Gore, whether they are rightfully "his" or not. Since when did the idea of sharing votes get legitimized? Answer: it didn't.
From the same guide: "But some state laws require electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote and provide that so-called "faithless electors" may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector."
According to A PROCEDURAL GUIDE TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE prepared by The Office of the Federal Register, "No Constitutional provision or Federal law requires electors to vote in accordance with the popular vote in their State."
But the thing is, I PLAYED Quake on it, and I'll be the first to tell ya', it wasn't that hot. No, seriously, it wasn't. Turns out that although it has 8,000+ processors, it only has one 32meg EDO chip of RAM and a 128k bus -- what were they even thinking?
It's not an infinite loop. It's an infinite regression. We don't eventually wind up back here with us or with "this God" that we're talking about, but continue forever, tracing God back to his creator, back to his creator, back to his creator, etc. ad infinitum. And what's wrong with that? Eternity as a lot of room for such things, I would think.
Actually, there are probably quite a few kids running to the public library or after hours to their school library to check out a little porn. I know, for example, that my concerned parents are paranoid enough about the possibility of the "interent" being used to check out porn, etc. and so they don't even have a connection in their house. Thus, my little brother, without a connection at home, I'm sure, would run to the library if he thought there is a chance that he could get off on the library's connection to boundless porn.
Point is, sometimes parents are "doing their job", or trying to keep their kiddies from doing what they consider is wrong. And maybe at school, faculty and teachers are doing the same. Libraries, however, could be the perfect loose end in the sense that nobody there has any responsibility to "protect" the kiddies from adult content (i.e. filth).
Maybe filtering IS a good solution on library computers... that is, if they can find/make a decent filtering software.
But luckily for you, if Gore is elected you'll apparently be compensated for every time your song is played on the radio... Or wait, he says that you already are compensated every time your song is played. That's nice of him to say.
It's just a short little movie, but it has some of the animation sequences. You can also browse around http://www.dragonstone.com and maybe see some stills.
"To those who never played it, Dragon's Lair was developed by a former disney animator (I believe)."
Actually, it was Don Bluth, who did work for Disney and directed (and animated some?) "The Rescuers", but then went on to direct and animate such films as "The Secret of Nymh", "An American Tale", "Land Before Time", and recently did "Anastasia" and, of course, "Titan A.E.".
You mean to say that you are conceding the possibility of it taking 3970 years for Anakin Skywalker to become an 8 year old boy? I guess that means that his mom has been around for at least that long as well... And since he said he's been a slave for most or all of his life, man, that's got to suck. Living on Tatooine for almost 4000 years as a slave! No wonder he wanted to get out of there so fast...
Let's not forget... He has had, for the last couple seasons, a million nano-bots crawling around in and on him which Krycek has been using to control him. Believer or not, his life is no longer fully his own.
I think that the proverbial tables will be turned with the dynamics of the duo. Skully will obviously take on more of the believer roll (not to mention Skinner and Krycek) to balance the "text-book" FBI agent.
However, rather than using it to control that weapons system he mentions (and I'm sure everyone is really into... car weapons...), what about a browsing with your wireless connection to the internet?
Think about it... Eventually even accessing your MP3 server via your wireless connection and ordering up your favorite album for the trip to work, all using voice recognition.
The actor who played Darth Maul and who will be appearing as Toad in the X-Men is Ray Park. I guess he'll finally get some lines too... or at least maybe we'll actually hear his voice (it was dubbed over for TPM).
Except for the fact that Episode II won't even be done filming next year, let alone finished with editing and production, let alone released and up for an award...
I.E. Lucas is talking about something other than Ep. II or is being misquoted or has no conception of time or simply made a mistake. Those are all the "or-s" I can think of. Zooey
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Actually, my wife (read: very non-geek, not into computers or techonology at all) was intrigued by the trailer simply because it wasn't a might-as-well-not-go-see-the-movie-because-you-jus t-saw-most-of-it-here trailer. We both are sick and tired of knowing what will happen during the entire movie simply because we sat through a trailer or teaser.
P.S. Kubrick movies ALWAYS have the best trailers... he always did his own.
Listen. Ok, wait, you're still not listening. Ok, now listen.
I can't believe that I haven't read one post that actually got what Lanier is saying. Folks, he's saying this: with computer hardware running millions of times faster and more efficiently than ever before, NOBODY is writing software to take advantage of it.
He's not saying that the piece of shit proggie you wrote in PERL or C++ isn't a quality piece of shit, he's just saying that it's unimaginative and especially not written in any way that would actually take advantage of your computer hardware in any real way.
Maybe more than your proggie though, he's addressing visionary software -- or the lack thereof. What are we going to do with these super-computers? Is our goal simply to get the smoothest, cleanest, fastest game of Q3 ever? He's saying that we don't even have any idea of what we can or should do with these new technologies because we can't think outside of the boxes that we've simultaneously fallen into and yet made for ourselves by our language and ideology.
"Why Software Sucks" isn't saying that the "software" out there isn't/can never be quality... He's saying that we're going about it all wrong, that we have a misconception of what "software" is/should be and we perpetuate that misconception by the very way we talk about "software".
Talking about the quality of current software is a good example of this misconception and why it's so hard to see out of it.
Here's the link to the salon article: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/02/03/card /index.html
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And to some letters to the editor about the article: http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/02/05/card/inde
Card has simply slipped -- gone downhill. Reading his earliest works and comparing them to his latest makes me wish he'd quit writing so he doesn't spoil or taint those earlier pieces of good writing.
He did the same thing with his "Alvin Maker" series -- as I've read the last 2 or 3 of the series I've actually come to be disgusted with Alvin himself -- and I have a sinking suspicion that Card had no intention of ever helping his readers lose any affinity towards the main characters of his stories.
Maybe it's the fact that he puts out a new book every 4 months, at least, that has contributed to the almost complete attrition of his good writing.
I know this is flamebait, but for the record, I've read almost every book that Card has put out, and only recently as I go back and read the earlier works have I realized why I am so disappointed with his newest -- they simply are not the same writing.
Even more interesting, I think, is that Buchanan had 2600+ votes in the 96 election. Why are 3400 votes for him, in an area with 15,000 registered Reform Party members -- and 2600 of whom voted for Buch. last election, so "out of place"? Answer: they're not. P.S. Buchanan has no right or power to "concede" any of those votes over to Gore, whether they are rightfully "his" or not. Since when did the idea of sharing votes get legitimized? Answer: it didn't.
From the same guide: "But some state laws require electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote and provide that so-called "faithless electors" may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector."
According to A PROCEDURAL GUIDE TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE prepared by The Office of the Federal Register, "No Constitutional provision or Federal law requires electors to vote in accordance with the popular vote in their State."
But the thing is, I PLAYED Quake on it, and I'll be the first to tell ya', it wasn't that hot. No, seriously, it wasn't. Turns out that although it has 8,000+ processors, it only has one 32meg EDO chip of RAM and a 128k bus -- what were they even thinking?
Would you like to play a game of chess?
It's not an infinite loop. It's an infinite regression. We don't eventually wind up back here with us or with "this God" that we're talking about, but continue forever, tracing God back to his creator, back to his creator, back to his creator, etc. ad infinitum. And what's wrong with that? Eternity as a lot of room for such things, I would think.
Yeah, I think they called it the french revolution. I'm sure you can still get in on it if you hurry.
Actually, there are probably quite a few kids running to the public library or after hours to their school library to check out a little porn. I know, for example, that my concerned parents are paranoid enough about the possibility of the "interent" being used to check out porn, etc. and so they don't even have a connection in their house. Thus, my little brother, without a connection at home, I'm sure, would run to the library if he thought there is a chance that he could get off on the library's connection to boundless porn.
Point is, sometimes parents are "doing their job", or trying to keep their kiddies from doing what they consider is wrong. And maybe at school, faculty and teachers are doing the same. Libraries, however, could be the perfect loose end in the sense that nobody there has any responsibility to "protect" the kiddies from adult content (i.e. filth).
Maybe filtering IS a good solution on library computers... that is, if they can find/make a decent filtering software.
But luckily for you, if Gore is elected you'll apparently be compensated for every time your song is played on the radio... Or wait, he says that you already are compensated every time your song is played. That's nice of him to say.
It's just a short little movie, but it has some of the animation sequences. You can also browse around http://www.dragonstone.com and maybe see some stills.
Actually, it was Don Bluth, who did work for Disney and directed (and animated some?) "The Rescuers", but then went on to direct and animate such films as "The Secret of Nymh", "An American Tale", "Land Before Time", and recently did "Anastasia" and, of course, "Titan A.E.".
You mean to say that you are conceding the possibility of it taking 3970 years for Anakin Skywalker to become an 8 year old boy? I guess that means that his mom has been around for at least that long as well... And since he said he's been a slave for most or all of his life, man, that's got to suck. Living on Tatooine for almost 4000 years as a slave! No wonder he wanted to get out of there so fast...
Let's not forget... He has had, for the last couple seasons, a million nano-bots crawling around in and on him which Krycek has been using to control him. Believer or not, his life is no longer fully his own.
I think that the proverbial tables will be turned with the dynamics of the duo. Skully will obviously take on more of the believer roll (not to mention Skinner and Krycek) to balance the "text-book" FBI agent.
However, rather than using it to control that weapons system he mentions (and I'm sure everyone is really into... car weapons...), what about a browsing with your wireless connection to the internet?
Think about it... Eventually even accessing your MP3 server via your wireless connection and ordering up your favorite album for the trip to work, all using voice recognition.
The actor who played Darth Maul and who will be appearing as Toad in the X-Men is Ray Park. I guess he'll finally get some lines too... or at least maybe we'll actually hear his voice (it was dubbed over for TPM).
Rewarded for wit...
You're blinded by your own lack.
Think before you wright. Zooey
Zooey
Rewarded for wit... You're blinded by your own lack Think before you wright
Zooey
I.E. Lucas is talking about something other than Ep. II or is being misquoted or has no conception of time or simply made a mistake. Those are all the "or-s" I can think of. Zooey
Zooey