Much better. My six year old has grown tired of Scooby Doo. She much prefers Bill Nye and Fetch! with Ruf Ruffman. On a side note, at least I can stand to be in the same room when she gets to watch TV.
Great example.
As another, I'd like to direct your attention to the last cartoons Warner Brother Brothers / Looney Tunes, up to 1969. I have many of these on DVD and they're pretty depressing to watch, compared to the wonderfully thoughtful cartoons of the 40's and 50's (Hillbilly Hare squaredance was inspired by the craze of Square Dancing in Hollywood at the time, attened my many of the studio's production crew - inspired!)
Just gluing together pretty scenes with no interesting narrative won't do much, but as it'll be cheap you can bet television/cable will gobble up a bit of it.
Yeah I can't wait for the magic mirror's own story. That'll be scraping the bottom.
Considering Shrek the 3rd for high concentrations of pure awfulness I thought they'd already passed through the bottom and were taking a crack at bedrock beneath the barrel
We wouldn't want them to figure out that the scanners are hazardous until the contract to buy all those scanners has been fulfilled. You just know that some lucky contractor will make boatloads off of this.
Not to mention all those happy cancer clinics, eh? eh?
We've known for decades that every X-Ray you undergo incrementally increases your odds of a malignancy.
So management finally discovered SMP and threading about 20 years or so after it was introduced onto the types of systems all of these outfits have been using since the beginning of time?
Sedate this fellow before he starts to perpetrate some more "management".
No need.
As good animation is dependent upon good writing and good voice work, all this could do is bring even lower quality animated items to the masses. Seems to me, when I look over the total production time of any feature (despite the apparent cookie-cutter approach to movies) the writing takes up a tremendous amount of time. Perhaps a gifted ad-libber could do something well, making it up as he/she goes along, but you don't see a lot of those.
More likely to be of use in the board room or training than cranking out the latest Dreamworks flick.
You're sure, huh? You know, we only have evidence of life happening one time and in one place. If there is indeed no life on Europa and it does indeed have the conditions thought necessary for life to form, we might have to ponder the possibility that life is incredibly rare. I suspect that life is, in fact, incredibly rare.
In other words, it's dead, Jim.
Well, there's the Goldilocks concept, effective for carbon and water based life, such as we have on Earth. The idea there could be protein molecules formed in different ways isn't quite new, so we'd really need a specimen to examine to see if anything looks like it might be an life form with an alternate chemistry. Speculation that threre could be life is far more interesting than confirming there isn't any life anywhere else.
Yeah, if their summers are that mild, it doesn't seem necessary. But then again, as a proof of concept, it has to happen somewhere the winters get very cold but the summers could stand to loose a little bit of heat. If they're too cold during the summer, they can break up the ice.
Can't cite a source, but I do believe our bodies become accustomed to the cycles of a climate. Spending most of winter, for most of my life in colder climes I visited Athens, Greece a couple times in Winter. After a few days of 70 F/ 20 C I was miserable and felt overburdened by the heat. I booked flight for Geneva and when I stepped onto the tarmac in Switzerland, I opened my jacket to let the cool 10 F / -10 C air in. It felt good. I believe it was an example of a metabolism which was accustomed to generating body heat couldn't cope well with warmer weather in the middle of Winter.
With glaciers and Winter in decline across the world perhaps cities are noticing an increase in heat.
When they said nobody needed multicore processors I heard the echos of "640K should be enough for anyone" and "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home" Now they're trying to see how many they can jam on one die. 50 is a pretty odd number, though. Usuall see things in powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16) Perhpas they neede space on the die for Mickey or an etched portrait of Jobs.
Back in the day, my younger brother was a serious contender for Most Obsessed With Playing Robotron: 2084. He suffered a repetitive stress injury from playing it he called "Robotron Arm"
Not the same thing, I know. But did hear bout this on the BBC and thought it was pretty amazing. It's only a matter of time before we turn such a gift into weapons. BattleTech here we come!
Well that case, it even is still directly doing damage (crashing the server, downtime = lost sales/productivity). Compared to several other hackers that get in comparable trouble for literally just connecting and reading the content. Companies/government tend to want to hold the hackers liable when they connect/access, without actually causing any downtime. Time spent applying security updates for a flaw that should have been fixed before, is not downtime caused by the hacker that is downtime caused by the security team not having done it right the first time. Unless trade secretes were sold to a competitor, or downtime/data loss was caused, there are no "damages". In the same way that trespassing is not by definition theft.
I took over security when I started my first job as a programmer. I already had tried out code for various spoofs and what not. Never did anything nefarious with it (the worst thing I did was bring one system to its knees with a program to compute pi to some large number of places) I knew the weaknesses (those idiots in Milwaukee were only using standard passwords on DEC systems used by Field Service.. password to [1,2] was SYSTEM, password to [1,1] was DECSER or DEC[Month abbreviation]) I developed honey pots and left them around the system where people could find them. Great way to alert me what people were up to. I key scanned and logged everything of known miscreants and methods. It was fun, but too easy. Most attackers were of limited education and vision. Breaking into a system to crash it was idiotic. Breaking into a system to learn was what separated the men from the boys.
The local utilities give out dividends. If you want steady income, that's what you buy. It's boring. It's low risk. It's slow/minuscule/nonexistent growth.
That's what Microsoft has become: the office work flow utility. Microsoft worked very hard to become such a utility, all the while distracting the audience with the other hand lip-synching the word "innovation" which as everyone knows is mainly MIA.
They will never describe themselves this way directly in any media that gossips to the DOJ. You just have to look at their stock performance and the people who invest. It's obvious.
If it looks like a utility through the moneyscope, it is a utility.
There's danger in assuming the Office Workflow income will forever be a reliable stream. We've already dabbled in Google's Document tools and we're less likely to buy more licenses for Office when most of what people need is satisfied in Documents.
Were I Microsoft I'd be highly concerned about that as it's doing to Microsoft what they've done to other companies for years - giving away a core source of income.
If they invite Microsoft to the ISO open document standardization meetings, it's only fair they invite Facebook and Google to the privacy standardization meetings.
Participation is no guarantee of full adoption. We've seen it happen before.
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That is until Apple takes their app down for no apparent reason.
Or the Syrian government shuts down cellular communication or network communication among smart phones.
Apple wouldn't dare get into bed with the Syrian government, as the look of it would do immense harm to the company image.
Much better. My six year old has grown tired of Scooby Doo. She much prefers Bill Nye and Fetch! with Ruf Ruffman. On a side note, at least I can stand to be in the same room when she gets to watch TV.
Great example.
As another, I'd like to direct your attention to the last cartoons Warner Brother Brothers / Looney Tunes, up to 1969. I have many of these on DVD and they're pretty depressing to watch, compared to the wonderfully thoughtful cartoons of the 40's and 50's (Hillbilly Hare squaredance was inspired by the craze of Square Dancing in Hollywood at the time, attened my many of the studio's production crew - inspired!)
Just gluing together pretty scenes with no interesting narrative won't do much, but as it'll be cheap you can bet television/cable will gobble up a bit of it.
Are they going to remake Toy Story with the Crysis engine?
Toy Story Goes To War?
Yeah I can't wait for the magic mirror's own story. That'll be scraping the bottom.
Considering Shrek the 3rd for high concentrations of pure awfulness I thought they'd already passed through the bottom and were taking a crack at bedrock beneath the barrel
meanwhile, Europe bans them. A lot smarter than these fools running the US, g*d damn them.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-bans-x-ray-body-scanners
You must bring that up.
Can't you just quietly eat your hamburger made with a GMO wheat bun and hormone & antibiotic loaded meat?
We wouldn't want them to figure out that the scanners are hazardous until the contract to buy all those scanners has been fulfilled. You just know that some lucky contractor will make boatloads off of this.
Not to mention all those happy cancer clinics, eh? eh?
We've known for decades that every X-Ray you undergo incrementally increases your odds of a malignancy.
Really?
Where's the accountability?
There's accountability and accountability.
Perhaps they're backing down because of the cost - someone wants government spending to be less liberal (Ha!)
OR
Perhaps they're backing down because the cost of revealing the dangers, and thus potential lawsuits, scare them.
So management finally discovered SMP and threading about 20 years or so after it was introduced onto the types of systems all of these outfits have been using since the beginning of time?
Sedate this fellow before he starts to perpetrate some more "management".
No need.
As good animation is dependent upon good writing and good voice work, all this could do is bring even lower quality animated items to the masses. Seems to me, when I look over the total production time of any feature (despite the apparent cookie-cutter approach to movies) the writing takes up a tremendous amount of time. Perhaps a gifted ad-libber could do something well, making it up as he/she goes along, but you don't see a lot of those.
More likely to be of use in the board room or training than cranking out the latest Dreamworks flick.
You're sure, huh? You know, we only have evidence of life happening one time and in one place. If there is indeed no life on Europa and it does indeed have the conditions thought necessary for life to form, we might have to ponder the possibility that life is incredibly rare. I suspect that life is, in fact, incredibly rare.
In other words, it's dead, Jim.
Well, there's the Goldilocks concept, effective for carbon and water based life, such as we have on Earth. The idea there could be protein molecules formed in different ways isn't quite new, so we'd really need a specimen to examine to see if anything looks like it might be an life form with an alternate chemistry. Speculation that threre could be life is far more interesting than confirming there isn't any life anywhere else.
Because we all want them to pump out more Shrek films as fast as possible amirite?
Now I have to eat lunch, again.
But as it would be in final production, with today's level of detail, that would be pretty cool.
Probably have to chain down the voice actors, though it you want the full effect.
They might simply be further ahead with creating several shallow fountains around the city. Evaporation could cool day temperatures, too.
Yeah, if their summers are that mild, it doesn't seem necessary. But then again, as a proof of concept, it has to happen somewhere the winters get very cold but the summers could stand to loose a little bit of heat. If they're too cold during the summer, they can break up the ice.
Can't cite a source, but I do believe our bodies become accustomed to the cycles of a climate. Spending most of winter, for most of my life in colder climes I visited Athens, Greece a couple times in Winter. After a few days of 70 F/ 20 C I was miserable and felt overburdened by the heat. I booked flight for Geneva and when I stepped onto the tarmac in Switzerland, I opened my jacket to let the cool 10 F / -10 C air in. It felt good. I believe it was an example of a metabolism which was accustomed to generating body heat couldn't cope well with warmer weather in the middle of Winter.
With glaciers and Winter in decline across the world perhaps cities are noticing an increase in heat.
Life on an Icy world or not, if there are no tontons, I'm not interested.
Yeah, nothing like curling up inside a good, warm gutted tonton on a colde night.
But not as we know it.
Then why do the French riot every other week?
To show their anger with their government. Seems to work, too. Their government often listens.
In France the government fears, or at least respects, the people.
Can't quite say that about the good ol' USA, can you?
When they said nobody needed multicore processors I heard the echos of "640K should be enough for anyone" and "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home" Now they're trying to see how many they can jam on one die. 50 is a pretty odd number, though. Usuall see things in powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16) Perhpas they neede space on the die for Mickey or an etched portrait of Jobs.
Not only are they increasing the capacity, they're increasing the charge speed. That's all we need, millions of super fast lions :(
If Marlin Perkins were here he'd have to rebadge the show EXTREME Wild Kingdom
In Soviet France robot controls you. In corporate America you control robot!!
Silly you!
In Soviet Russia government controls YOU!
In Corporate America corporations control GOVERNMENT
In Socialist France the people control GOVERNMENT
I for one welcome our new Robotron Arm masters.
Back in the day, my younger brother was a serious contender for Most Obsessed With Playing Robotron: 2084. He suffered a repetitive stress injury from playing it he called "Robotron Arm"
Not the same thing, I know. But did hear bout this on the BBC and thought it was pretty amazing. It's only a matter of time before we turn such a gift into weapons. BattleTech here we come!
Graphene. Is there anything it can't do?
Make nano-Golems to do the work?
It's full of tiny treadmills!
Being smart and poor ain't something to brag about. I'd know.
Ruthless people make the money. Intelligent and ruthless people keep it
Well that case, it even is still directly doing damage (crashing the server, downtime = lost sales/productivity). Compared to several other hackers that get in comparable trouble for literally just connecting and reading the content. Companies/government tend to want to hold the hackers liable when they connect/access, without actually causing any downtime. Time spent applying security updates for a flaw that should have been fixed before, is not downtime caused by the hacker that is downtime caused by the security team not having done it right the first time. Unless trade secretes were sold to a competitor, or downtime/data loss was caused, there are no "damages". In the same way that trespassing is not by definition theft.
I took over security when I started my first job as a programmer. I already had tried out code for various spoofs and what not. Never did anything nefarious with it (the worst thing I did was bring one system to its knees with a program to compute pi to some large number of places) I knew the weaknesses (those idiots in Milwaukee were only using standard passwords on DEC systems used by Field Service .. password to [1,2] was SYSTEM, password to [1,1] was DECSER or DEC[Month abbreviation]) I developed honey pots and left them around the system where people could find them. Great way to alert me what people were up to. I key scanned and logged everything of known miscreants and methods. It was fun, but too easy. Most attackers were of limited education and vision. Breaking into a system to crash it was idiotic. Breaking into a system to learn was what separated the men from the boys.
That's what Microsoft has become: the office work flow utility. Microsoft worked very hard to become such a utility, all the while distracting the audience with the other hand lip-synching the word "innovation" which as everyone knows is mainly MIA.
They will never describe themselves this way directly in any media that gossips to the DOJ. You just have to look at their stock performance and the people who invest. It's obvious.
If it looks like a utility through the moneyscope, it is a utility.
There's danger in assuming the Office Workflow income will forever be a reliable stream. We've already dabbled in Google's Document tools and we're less likely to buy more licenses for Office when most of what people need is satisfied in Documents.
Were I Microsoft I'd be highly concerned about that as it's doing to Microsoft what they've done to other companies for years - giving away a core source of income.
If they invite Microsoft to the ISO open document standardization meetings, it's only fair they invite Facebook and Google to the privacy standardization meetings.
Participation is no guarantee of full adoption. We've seen it happen before.