South Park is animated by scanning cardboard cutouts into a computer and manipulating them there. Thing is, the cutouts that get scanned ARE life size. 4 to 6 feet tall. It's probably easier to put small details in that way.
I believe the first episode of South Park was made by filming actual peices of paper in front of a camera. If you look closely, you can see the shadow underneath where the edge of the paper curls up. I'm not sure at what point they switched over to computer animation. Either it happened fairly quickly, or Matt and Trey figured out that they can get rid of the shadows by putting a sheet of glass over the scene.:)
Wow. I remember that. That was the first computer that my dad owned. He used it to write the first edition of his book. I remember playing the old Scott Adams adventures on it when I was like 8 years old (30 now)
I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post:
"Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!)"
1. The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
2. If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem!
3. Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
4. Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.
Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.
"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes.. and all of this.. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
Then again, maybe it is just a myth. Just like all the virgin births from pagan mythology (Krishna, Perseus, Heracles, Romulus, Dionysus, Attis...) that christianity gets many of its concepts from.
is that there is no idea that is so stupid, evil, or pointless that SOMEbody SOMEwhere wouldn't think that it's a good idea. Most probably someone in the government.
If this stuff is in standard use when Longhorn comes out, MS is going to really have to make some changes to it if they want it to be as big a memory hog as previous versions of windows were.
Instead of reading brain waves, it reads heart rate fluctuations and skin conductance level (sweat), both of which you learn to control over the course of the game.
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He's referring to this
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now their are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.
But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.
The bag that my copy of Wired came in was open and the ::CueCat was missing :(
Not that I would have ever used it anyway.
South Park is animated by scanning cardboard cutouts into a computer and manipulating them there. Thing is, the cutouts that get scanned ARE life size. 4 to 6 feet tall. It's probably easier to put small details in that way.
:)
I believe the first episode of South Park was made by filming actual peices of paper in front of a camera. If you look closely, you can see the shadow underneath where the edge of the paper curls up. I'm not sure at what point they switched over to computer animation. Either it happened fairly quickly, or Matt and Trey figured out that they can get rid of the shadows by putting a sheet of glass over the scene.
this one
"Exidy Sorceror is pure magic!"
Wow. I remember that. That was the first computer that my dad owned. He used it to write the first edition of his book. I remember playing the old Scott Adams adventures on it when I was like 8 years old (30 now)
I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post:
"Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!)"
1. The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
2. If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem!
3. Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
4. Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.
Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.
In that case he probably will follow.
There had been a rumor the Berman might get the axe at one point? Is that still a possibility?
Get someone in there who cares more about the quality of the show then about demographics and the show will definatly get better.
A Googleplex is a 1 with a Googol zeros after it.
"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
.. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes
The USA can't admit that it has anything to learn from anybody.
Information Technology Association of America ... released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
Yeah, but the majority of Americans are stupid, especially when it comes to technology.
The point is that these machines are not WORTHY of that trust.
Aside from the 'peace and prosperity' thing, you might like this
That's number 11
corroborating witnesses
Corroborating witnesses whose stories weren't written down for the first time until several decades after the events supposedly happened.
By the way, there was no virgin birth prophecy. The word 'almah' in the original hebrew that was translated into 'virgin' just means 'young woman'.
Then again, maybe it is just a myth. Just like all the virgin births from pagan mythology (Krishna, Perseus, Heracles, Romulus, Dionysus, Attis...) that christianity gets many of its concepts from.
Ok, who is going to be first with the Ghostbuster jokes?
to recognize that as a Hitchhiker reference?
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First they ignore you... Second they laugh at you... Then they fight you... And then you win
this game combined with augmented reality technology
is that there is no idea that is so stupid, evil, or pointless that SOMEbody SOMEwhere wouldn't think that it's a good idea. Most probably someone in the government.
If this stuff is in standard use when Longhorn comes out, MS is going to really have to make some changes to it if they want it to be as big a memory hog as previous versions of windows were.
There is an adventure game called The Journey to Wild Divine.
Instead of reading brain waves, it reads heart rate fluctuations and skin conductance level (sweat), both of which you learn to control over the course of the game.