And that's sad for a Star Trek. What did the previews make it look like?
Hellraiser Nazis in Space.
Also it seemed to not go for any of the interesting content-drama-adventure that ST is known for. It was more of just an action movie... which everyone smirks at if you mention it in the same sentence with Star Trek ("That bald dude... an action hero? pfff!").
Hell even *sigh* Star Trek V had an... interesting presence. Sure, they blew up God with a photon torpedo but that's not the point. The point was that it was thought provoking SF, in line with what David Brin always touts, not space opera.
Trying to make it that will always turn people away from Star Trek.
Remember that AOL owns Roadrunner and they are already offering an AOL broadband service: basically TW Roadrunner with all the AOL crap thrown on top.
Of course any moderately intelligent person (10% or so of the total population perhaps?) doesn't install any of that shit...
Didn't NOLF2 implement something like this already
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If I remember correctly the AI in No One Lives Forever 2 is like this, on an in-mission level anyway. Sure, the overarcing plot is scripted but in the missions it is a different story. The badguys' AI aren't script based, instead behavior based.
It actually reminds me a lot of Flocking Behaviors and Boids except that the number of behaviors is increased (as the badguys, smoke, sleep, wander around, get coffee, get curious, search hiding places, etc) and the size of the flock is reduced (most badguys are solo but have intercommunication behaviors).
In the end: more autonomous AI therefore more variations to play.
I mean natural language recognition isn't that far along that you could pick up All profanity. And what about innuendo? To make an R movie TV primetime ready you'd have to take out things like "he's out getting his knob polished".
And then there is violence. How can you tell if a scene is violent? It's like those porno image filters from a few years back that failed miserably to parse out adult images while keeping false positives low.
Hell, I see any of these DVD players failing miserably. The first errant "fuck" that makes its way through would sink whatever company put them out.
The only sure way of censoring a DVD would for an editor to go into the DVD and say "1:15:30 to 1:15:42 are to be removed", "Insert alternative dialogue in Robert DeNiro's dialogue from 0:1:15 to 2:11:10". Of course does the modern technology support this? I guess you could have a separate "clean" audio track but I don't think you can arbitrarily have a DVD player skip specific time slots. I'd think you'd need a complete new edited video track as well.
My Dad graduated as a co-valedictorian of his undergrad back in the 60's. Of course he was an org chem major. The other two were nurses.
Now I think the real difference is how this has started to spread into hard sciences and primary school. Remember all that New Math crap?
Instead of right and wrong learning (which was seen as puritanical, porochial, or fascist) a wider birth is given to interpretation in the hopes that the student will find their own way to learn (so graded work may not be their strong suit, etc).
Of course the only thing I've seen come out of this is lethargy, procrastination, and soft, error prone thinking. See the calculator crutch. Hell I've seen CS grad students who have a hard time figuring out the maximum size of a 24 bit address. You can just see them curse the fact they can't break out the TI.
Ehhh. Such is life. Luckily the real world sorts out fakers in industry.
But in circle jerk fields like Literary Criticism, what's there to stop them?
I thought Gamespy.com had already cornered the market in crappy masturbatory game reviews. Hell, they're even going in the opposite direction by getting into crappy ill-informed boring articles on movies! AICN will have to sink to new lows if it plans to top a group who admit to not seeing movies they review.
Fight!
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The dumbification of/.
Yeah... great... what are you, fourteen? What do you suggest? That we concoct some crazy scheme to get back at the principal and the jocks?
I'm sorry but US football is a thrilling and complex game that is both viceral and intellectual.
But instead you decided to relegate it to some stupid stereotype of Big Dumb Hicks. Grow up.
Steve Albini (musician and producer... did In Utero, Surfer Rosa, etc) did this article on the Problem with Music. This all related costs for a band (an album, a single tour, and a few other things).
Of course this is in early '90 dollars but here is the snip on the bottom:
Advance: $ 250,000 Manager's cut: $ 37,500 Legal fees: $ 10,000 Recording Budget: $ 150,000 Producer's advance: $ 50,000 Studio fee: $ 52,500 Drum Amp, Mic and Phase "Doctors": $ 3,000 Recording tape: $ 8,000 Equipment rental: $ 5,000 Cartage and Transportation: $ 5,000 Lodgings while in studio: $ 10,000 Catering: $ 3,000 Mastering: $ 10,000 Tape copies, reference CDs, shipping tapes, misc. expenses: $ 2,000 Video budget: $ 30,000 Cameras: $ 8,000 Crew: $ 5,000 Processing and transfers: $ 3,000 Off-line: $ 2,000 On-line editing: $ 3,000 Catering: $ 1,000 Stage and construction: $ 3,000 Copies, couriers, transportation: $ 2,000 Director's fee: $ 3,000 Album Artwork: $ 5,000 Promotional photo shoot and duplication: $ 2,000 Band fund: $ 15,000 New fancy professional drum kit: $ 5,000 New fancy professional guitars [2]: $ 3,000 New fancy professional guitar amp rigs [2]: $ 4,000 New fancy potato-shaped bass guitar: $ 1,000 New fancy rack of lights bass amp: $ 1,000 Rehearsal space rental: $ 500 Big blowout party for their friends: $ 500 Tour expense [5 weeks]: $ 50,875 Bus: $ 25,000 Crew [3]: $ 7,500 Food and per diems: $ 7,875 Fuel: $ 3,000 Consumable supplies: $ 3,500 Wardrobe: $ 1,000 Promotion: $ 3,000
Tour gross income: $ 50,000
Agent's cut: $ 7,500 Manager's cut: $ 7,500 Merchandising advance: $ 20,000 Manager's cut: $ 3,000 Lawyer's fee: $ 1,000 Publishing advance: $ 20,000 Manager's cut: $ 3,000 Lawyer's fee: $ 1,000 Record sales: 250,000 @ $12 = $3,000,000 Gross retail revenue Royalty: [13% of 90% of retail]: $ 351,000 Less advance: $ 250,000 Producer's points: [3% less $50,000 advance]: $ 40,000 Promotional budget: $ 25,000 Recoupable buyout from previous label: $ 50,000 Net royalty: $ -14,000 Record company income:
Record wholesale price: $6.50 x 250,000 = $1,625,000 gross income Artist Royalties: $ 351,000 Deficit from royalties: $ 14,000 Manufacturing, packaging and distribution: @ $2.20 per record: $ 550,000 Gross profit: $ 7l0,000 The Balance Sheet: This is how much each player got paid at the end of the game.
Record company: $ 710,000 Producer: $ 90,000 Manager: $ 51,000 Studio: $ 52,500 Previous label: $ 50,000 Agent: $ 7,500 Lawyer: $ 12,000 Band member net income each: $ 4,031.25
Of course Albini had a different point with this article: the majors screw people over so if you decide to not go independent, you are putting your life in your hands. Or from the article: "The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."
My parents have had to do 11 digit calling locally for the last three years or so (maybe four). The reason for this was because of the creation of new local area codes.
Well last year the local paper checked up on one of these new area codes and found exactly one phone number... and it was disconnected.
The strange thing is that the area isn't that built up and isn't expanding as fast as some other towns. Hell, I think it might be an enigma to SBC as well.
How about on the GNU/Hurd? They could make some Win32, OS/2 modules and work it in over an architecture that's going to try and be compatible with a horde of *nixes.
But then the question is: if a company makes a proprietary component on the Hurd, would they have to release the source as per the GPL?
Considering that they had to slash their discounts just to stay afloat. I searched twocds and found that I could save 32% on one and 0% on the other. And has the company even hit the black for a full fiscal year yet?
Sure, we can say "fuck 'em" but usually crushing a fledgeling industry (especially after the backlash of the Dot-bomb and now this Recession) isn't in our best interests.
And I especially like how they say this will solve the States' budget woes. Heh, Michigan alone has a $500 million dollar deficit. Do they really think that much internet merchandise is heading out of state to make up for that (roughly $10 billion in sales would be needed if a 5% internet sales tax was enforced)? Hell, even a fraction of that would still require a ridiculous amount of sales anyway.
And even then, who the hell is going to enforce it? What about ebay? Are they going to raid Paypal.com and demand that they turn over their records so the member states can bill people accordingly? How much bureacracy is that going to cost? I think they might be playing around with 1998 numbers here. Pfff. Try again.
For my current machine: I just pop of the side and I have access to everything. And then I don't need to close it to test my machine.
I guess that is the crux of the problem for this case. To actually get it up and running it must be closed, which means closing it part way, connecting the ribbon cables up, and then snapping it shut (since I doubt you want to run it with the tension of the mainboard + CPU on the IDE cables).
Now I have to say that it does seem to fix the mobo access issue. But it does this by making the case more of a hassle to get running. And that's too heavy of a black mark to ignore.
I thought the General version of Moore's Law was "The speed of a computer will double every 18 months or so".
Fine, originally it was "transistors" but I thought that if dual CPUs became a defacto standard in 12 months that would count towards Moore's Law instead of being illegal since the transistors aren't all on the same die.
It just sounds like nit-picking bullshit. I've always thought of Moore's Law as "the IT industry will find a way of doubling computing power every 18 months" not some stupid unit of measure.
Shit, if superior engineering can double computation with the same number of transistors (via better design) shouldn't that count? It just sounds like someone getting into a huff about it and having too much time on their hands to fiddle with Excel.
The world would be a better place if PARENT'S PAID SOME DAMN ATTENTION!
Sorry to yell. But a warning like "Mature: sexual acts, graphic human-like violence, profanity. Age 18+" on the back of a game should be clear enough to anyone but your common moron.
Whoops! If the parents are too burnt out on valium to flip over the game box and read it before buying it for junior, a video game is the least of their worries.
I have no problem with warning labels and ID checking as long as consenting adults are not prohibited as well.
How possible is it that this moon was recently captured in Jupiter's gravity (say in the last few years)? Maybe this could explain it's eccentric orbit (ie that it hit tangentally enough that it wasn't sucked in while not so shallow as to bounce away)? Does such a thing happen or am I blowing smoke out of my ass?
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And that's sad for a Star Trek. What did the previews make it look like?
Hellraiser Nazis in Space.
Also it seemed to not go for any of the interesting content-drama-adventure that ST is known for. It was more of just an action movie... which everyone smirks at if you mention it in the same sentence with Star Trek ("That bald dude... an action hero? pfff!").
Hell even *sigh* Star Trek V had an... interesting presence. Sure, they blew up God with a photon torpedo but that's not the point. The point was that it was thought provoking SF, in line with what David Brin always touts, not space opera.
Trying to make it that will always turn people away from Star Trek.
... Gaping Maw.com article. It's number 2 on the list. And not for the easily offended.
Remember that AOL owns Roadrunner and they are already offering an AOL broadband service: basically TW Roadrunner with all the AOL crap thrown on top.
Of course any moderately intelligent person (10% or so of the total population perhaps?) doesn't install any of that shit...
If I remember correctly the AI in No One Lives Forever 2 is like this, on an in-mission level anyway. Sure, the overarcing plot is scripted but in the missions it is a different story. The badguys' AI aren't script based, instead behavior based.
It actually reminds me a lot of Flocking Behaviors and Boids except that the number of behaviors is increased (as the badguys, smoke, sleep, wander around, get coffee, get curious, search hiding places, etc) and the size of the flock is reduced (most badguys are solo but have intercommunication behaviors).
In the end: more autonomous AI therefore more variations to play.
I mean natural language recognition isn't that far along that you could pick up All profanity. And what about innuendo? To make an R movie TV primetime ready you'd have to take out things like "he's out getting his knob polished".
And then there is violence. How can you tell if a scene is violent? It's like those porno image filters from a few years back that failed miserably to parse out adult images while keeping false positives low.
Hell, I see any of these DVD players failing miserably. The first errant "fuck" that makes its way through would sink whatever company put them out.
The only sure way of censoring a DVD would for an editor to go into the DVD and say "1:15:30 to 1:15:42 are to be removed", "Insert alternative dialogue in Robert DeNiro's dialogue from 0:1:15 to 2:11:10". Of course does the modern technology support this? I guess you could have a separate "clean" audio track but I don't think you can arbitrarily have a DVD player skip specific time slots. I'd think you'd need a complete new edited video track as well.
My Dad graduated as a co-valedictorian of his undergrad back in the 60's. Of course he was an org chem major. The other two were nurses.
Now I think the real difference is how this has started to spread into hard sciences and primary school. Remember all that New Math crap?
Instead of right and wrong learning (which was seen as puritanical, porochial, or fascist) a wider birth is given to interpretation in the hopes that the student will find their own way to learn (so graded work may not be their strong suit, etc).
Of course the only thing I've seen come out of this is lethargy, procrastination, and soft, error prone thinking. See the calculator crutch. Hell I've seen CS grad students who have a hard time figuring out the maximum size of a 24 bit address. You can just see them curse the fact they can't break out the TI.
Ehhh. Such is life. Luckily the real world sorts out fakers in industry.
But in circle jerk fields like Literary Criticism, what's there to stop them?
There has to be some way we can blame George W. Bush for this!
I thought Gamespy.com had already cornered the market in crappy masturbatory game reviews. Hell, they're even going in the opposite direction by getting into crappy ill-informed boring articles on movies! AICN will have to sink to new lows if it plans to top a group who admit to not seeing movies they review.
Fight!
The dumbification of /.
Yeah... great... what are you, fourteen? What do you suggest? That we concoct some crazy scheme to get back at the principal and the jocks?
I'm sorry but US football is a thrilling and complex game that is both viceral and intellectual.
But instead you decided to relegate it to some stupid stereotype of Big Dumb Hicks. Grow up.
Dailyrotten.com just points to theRegister.co.uk article. It's like saying "Hey! I found more information here!"
True. Although you got the score wrong: 17-14 Bucs.
Trapped on summit... night is coming... Tell my wife I... First Post!
A Bachelor Degree in Waiting Around to Collect Your Trust Fund.
Give you something to talk about between skiing the Alps and summering in Barbados.
The Humanities strike again!
Of course this is in early '90 dollars but here is the snip on the bottom:Of course Albini had a different point with this article: the majors screw people over so if you decide to not go independent, you are putting your life in your hands. Or from the article: "The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."
I don't think anyone who's read Steven Levy's Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything
would consider Jobs presidential material.
IMHO... the dude's a prick.
My parents have had to do 11 digit calling locally for the last three years or so (maybe four). The reason for this was because of the creation of new local area codes.
Well last year the local paper checked up on one of these new area codes and found exactly one phone number... and it was disconnected.
The strange thing is that the area isn't that built up and isn't expanding as fast as some other towns. Hell, I think it might be an enigma to SBC as well.
How about on the GNU/Hurd? They could make some Win32, OS/2 modules and work it in over an architecture that's going to try and be compatible with a horde of *nixes.
But then the question is: if a company makes a proprietary component on the Hurd, would they have to release the source as per the GPL?
Considering that they had to slash their discounts just to stay afloat. I searched two cds and found that I could save 32% on one and 0% on the other. And has the company even hit the black for a full fiscal year yet?
Sure, we can say "fuck 'em" but usually crushing a fledgeling industry (especially after the backlash of the Dot-bomb and now this Recession) isn't in our best interests.
And I especially like how they say this will solve the States' budget woes. Heh, Michigan alone has a $500 million dollar deficit. Do they really think that much internet merchandise is heading out of state to make up for that (roughly $10 billion in sales would be needed if a 5% internet sales tax was enforced)? Hell, even a fraction of that would still require a ridiculous amount of sales anyway.
And even then, who the hell is going to enforce it? What about ebay? Are they going to raid Paypal.com and demand that they turn over their records so the member states can bill people accordingly? How much bureacracy is that going to cost? I think they might be playing around with 1998 numbers here. Pfff. Try again.
Well I think white folks should get the same sentences as minorities commiting the same crime. What makes you think that honkeys have the-
Wait... what are we talking about again?
For my current machine: I just pop of the side and I have access to everything. And then I don't need to close it to test my machine.
I guess that is the crux of the problem for this case. To actually get it up and running it must be closed, which means closing it part way, connecting the ribbon cables up, and then snapping it shut (since I doubt you want to run it with the tension of the mainboard + CPU on the IDE cables).
Now I have to say that it does seem to fix the mobo access issue. But it does this by making the case more of a hassle to get running. And that's too heavy of a black mark to ignore.
Stop showing it on Friday night! Contrary to what a lot of folks think, some of us actually go out and do social activity on the Weekends.
And no, Rosie Palms and her five friends doesn't count.
I thought the General version of Moore's Law was "The speed of a computer will double every 18 months or so".
Fine, originally it was "transistors" but I thought that if dual CPUs became a defacto standard in 12 months that would count towards Moore's Law instead of being illegal since the transistors aren't all on the same die.
It just sounds like nit-picking bullshit. I've always thought of Moore's Law as "the IT industry will find a way of doubling computing power every 18 months" not some stupid unit of measure.
Shit, if superior engineering can double computation with the same number of transistors (via better design) shouldn't that count? It just sounds like someone getting into a huff about it and having too much time on their hands to fiddle with Excel.
The world would be a better place if PARENT'S PAID SOME DAMN ATTENTION!
Sorry to yell. But a warning like "Mature: sexual acts, graphic human-like violence, profanity. Age 18+" on the back of a game should be clear enough to anyone but your common moron.
Whoops! If the parents are too burnt out on valium to flip over the game box and read it before buying it for junior, a video game is the least of their worries.
I have no problem with warning labels and ID checking as long as consenting adults are not prohibited as well.
How possible is it that this moon was recently captured in Jupiter's gravity (say in the last few years)? Maybe this could explain it's eccentric orbit (ie that it hit tangentally enough that it wasn't sucked in while not so shallow as to bounce away)? Does such a thing happen or am I blowing smoke out of my ass?
*checks*
Hmmm, no smoke yet.