Go. And computers are a very long way off from beating humans in this one.
Re:It makes you wonder...
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How many really cool TV show pilots are sitting on a shelf collecting dust, never to be seen by the public?
MIA Uh-huh. You won't laugh because it's not funny. But if you still wanna hear it, I'll tell it.
VINCENT I can't wait.
MIA Three tomatoes are walking down the street, a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. The baby tomato is lagging behind the poppa and momma tomato. The poppa tomato gets mad, goes over to the momma tomato and stamps on him -- (STAMPS on the ground) -- and says: catch up.
Judging by the number of awful shows compared to the number of good shows that actually did make it into production, I'd say it's likely good we never find out.
Re:Yeah right...a "leak" on bit torrent
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That sounds like an interesting project. A virus that torrents every video file on infected computers. Once it got into a movie production machine it truly would be accidental.
Oh wait, they don't use Windows in Hollywood.
Re:Already tried & failed
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Stephen King is a bit of a mainstream pulp writer and he'd be catering to more tech savvy types. I can't see how that would work. In my opinion, it failed because his audience had higher standards.
Cory Doctorow releases the entirety of his books online while they get printed by Tor at the same time. He likes doing it and Tor likes doing it.
The most widely available pirated books online are probably O'Reilly's books. He doesn't mind.
Seriously, if I like a book I read online and I want someone else to read it I'm not going to email them a copy of the book or give them a printout. I'm going to buy them a copy. What Stephen King did was just moronic.
I'm a little curious about why the single point of entry into a nation's internet is through the ocean when the country is bordered on most sides by land. Was it a political decision or economic? I can see it going both ways.
Hahaha. Have you *seen* what they've done to Civ4?? It's totally 3D now.
My favorite part of Civ3 was the low quality graphcs that told you exactly what you needed to know and nothing else. The animations annoyed me because they were just pretty jazz that added nothing to the gameplay.
It's different now. The days of solid gameplay trumping graphical shiney are being mocked by this release. If the Civilization line is tarnished by anything it's Civ4 as it currently stands. If they're going to go as far as they've gone, which makes the game look more like Warcraft3 than a Civilization game, then why not throw something in that isn't just a half-assed attempt at 3D graphics integration? Why not throw in something that actually needs 3D for gameplay?
Dude, every post I've made in the last year has been burning karma. I've had "excellent" since before I even noticed it kept track.
I've tried to be an ass, a jerk, annoying, argumentative, whatever. Wouldn't you know it, my karma is the same and I'm much more likely to get modded up than ever before.
I think it's worth mentioning that these numbers are overwhelmingly bad. 81% satisfaction is the best out of any of them? Imagine the commercial: "Only 1 in 5 of our customers hate us." Free markets aren't supposed to work like this.
The Washington Post had an article about a certain vice president (they have many) who's been reserving seats in soccer stadiums and then helping women organize to force their way into the games (women aren't allowed). A couple guys were interviewed about this and I found their responses hilarious.
Saeid Safari, who wore a black Pink Floyd T-shirt, said he wanted the next president "to provide freedom for us."
Asked to define freedom, he said: "If we have girlfriends, nobody interferes."
Western music is banned there, btw, but when soccer teams win major victories the people generally take to the streets blasting Western music in celebration and the mullahs don't try interfering. Holding hands in public is illegal too, which is the interference he's talking about. From his friend.
"Ladies are good," said a smiling Atta Mohseni, also in his teens. "They really are."
I'm kinda curious as to where that comes from. Everyone on Slashdot refers to Jobs as kind of an ass yet I've never heard it anywhere else nor have I read anything about him that would lead me to that conclusion.
Re:Mod Parent +Hallucinatory, or something ...
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Once I figured out how easy it was to inset a laptop into a table there was no stopping me. That table now holds several hard drives on firewire, speakers, a power strip, cupholders, fans, lights, the works.
It's easy when the table is hollow. They used to call them doors. Now I have a 8'x4'x2" computer.:-)
Steven Levy's Artifical Life made it sound like most biologists abhor this kind of work. So while the puritanical biology journals are several hundred dollars a year these guys send up a big "Haha! F.U." and get mainstream support by rallying the gentle masses behind their freely available research information.
Coming from a friend in bomb-sweeping, her penchant for short skirts makes the job a little more gratifying. She's got the best body of any cabinet member in history.
Why do you think Mac people are always showing off our computers? We're not pugnacious pricks, we're trying to help the *nix community so that when MS finally pushes what OSX and Linux have been doing for years people will actually believe us when we offhandedly say it's been done before and they're being held back by Windows.
It's not right. I haven't seen that episode in two years and I knew which one it was.
Oh, and I always showed "Out Of Gas" either first or after "Serenity." My friends and I are all real anime fans so we're used to extremely long story arcs. The fact that the 5th episode is so hard to understand if you haven't seen previous episodes is actually a very good indication for those of us wanting complex storylines.
I have Abiword installed alongside NeoOffice/J. TextEdit, that comes with OSX, opens most.doc files and Abiword opens the rest. I use NeoOffice for PowerPoint and writing my own stuff which I always print in the labs from a PDF.
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+1 libertarian
We all see the problem. We're just so worried "the other side" will win that we can't get off the side we're already on. It's an arms race.
Go. And computers are a very long way off from beating humans in this one.
Judging by the number of awful shows compared to the number of good shows that actually did make it into production, I'd say it's likely good we never find out.
That sounds like an interesting project. A virus that torrents every video file on infected computers. Once it got into a movie production machine it truly would be accidental.
Oh wait, they don't use Windows in Hollywood.
Stephen King is a bit of a mainstream pulp writer and he'd be catering to more tech savvy types. I can't see how that would work. In my opinion, it failed because his audience had higher standards.
Cory Doctorow releases the entirety of his books online while they get printed by Tor at the same time. He likes doing it and Tor likes doing it.
The most widely available pirated books online are probably O'Reilly's books. He doesn't mind.
Seriously, if I like a book I read online and I want someone else to read it I'm not going to email them a copy of the book or give them a printout. I'm going to buy them a copy. What Stephen King did was just moronic.
I'm a little curious about why the single point of entry into a nation's internet is through the ocean when the country is bordered on most sides by land. Was it a political decision or economic? I can see it going both ways.
Hahaha. Have you *seen* what they've done to Civ4?? It's totally 3D now.
My favorite part of Civ3 was the low quality graphcs that told you exactly what you needed to know and nothing else. The animations annoyed me because they were just pretty jazz that added nothing to the gameplay.
It's different now. The days of solid gameplay trumping graphical shiney are being mocked by this release. If the Civilization line is tarnished by anything it's Civ4 as it currently stands. If they're going to go as far as they've gone, which makes the game look more like Warcraft3 than a Civilization game, then why not throw something in that isn't just a half-assed attempt at 3D graphics integration? Why not throw in something that actually needs 3D for gameplay?
Dude, every post I've made in the last year has been burning karma. I've had "excellent" since before I even noticed it kept track.
I've tried to be an ass, a jerk, annoying, argumentative, whatever. Wouldn't you know it, my karma is the same and I'm much more likely to get modded up than ever before.
And I'm tired of submitting stories.
It's actually not a response. That came out several days ago. I'd been expecting it on Slashdot but it never came.
I think it's worth mentioning that these numbers are overwhelmingly bad. 81% satisfaction is the best out of any of them? Imagine the commercial: "Only 1 in 5 of our customers hate us." Free markets aren't supposed to work like this.
I'm kinda curious as to where that comes from. Everyone on Slashdot refers to Jobs as kind of an ass yet I've never heard it anywhere else nor have I read anything about him that would lead me to that conclusion.
+i
He ain't for real anymore.
Once I figured out how easy it was to inset a laptop into a table there was no stopping me. That table now holds several hard drives on firewire, speakers, a power strip, cupholders, fans, lights, the works.
:-)
It's easy when the table is hollow. They used to call them doors. Now I have a 8'x4'x2" computer.
No, do. Do talk about Magic. We played that game every single day during lunch back in High School. Great way to spend the time.
Oh wait, women. Hrm. Those were the only times I could forget about them. I guess it depends on your mood.
Steven Levy's Artifical Life made it sound like most biologists abhor this kind of work. So while the puritanical biology journals are several hundred dollars a year these guys send up a big "Haha! F.U." and get mainstream support by rallying the gentle masses behind their freely available research information.
It's what's on the inside that counts.
~or~
Beer.
And then every battle will be a little FPS shooter with whatever the applicable weapons should be.
*That* would be a kickass mod.
They had to have come from somewhere.
Nobody wants to see Condi sunbathing up there.
Coming from a friend in bomb-sweeping, her penchant for short skirts makes the job a little more gratifying. She's got the best body of any cabinet member in history.
Why do you think Mac people are always showing off our computers? We're not pugnacious pricks, we're trying to help the *nix community so that when MS finally pushes what OSX and Linux have been doing for years people will actually believe us when we offhandedly say it's been done before and they're being held back by Windows.
:)
We take so much ridicule for you guys.
I'm sorry Grandma, but Microsoft doesn't want you using Google anymore. Yes, yes, I know. They are, aren't they. Well, you could always buy a Mac...
Excuse me, but it's actually only a 32.33% chance. Repeating, of course.
It's not right. I haven't seen that episode in two years and I knew which one it was.
Oh, and I always showed "Out Of Gas" either first or after "Serenity." My friends and I are all real anime fans so we're used to extremely long story arcs. The fact that the 5th episode is so hard to understand if you haven't seen previous episodes is actually a very good indication for those of us wanting complex storylines.
Abiword.
.doc files and Abiword opens the rest. I use NeoOffice for PowerPoint and writing my own stuff which I always print in the labs from a PDF.
I have Abiword installed alongside NeoOffice/J. TextEdit, that comes with OSX, opens most