It seems like most of your comments are missing the point that seems most important to me: Communities are being routinely beaten by the phone companies. Not a single person in that article COMPLAINED about lousy phone reception, on the contrary they were all more than willing to accept lousy phone reception in exchange for not having Verizon tell them where they are putting the tower without their say.
Don't local communities have the right to make that decision? Why do all the technologically-holier-than-thou types assume that people don't realize they will have lousy cell phone reception? Much the same with nuclear plants; seems to me that most people who don't want them, don't want them at ALL, and are very much willing to put up with the consequenses of not having them even if it means building another poluting plant of another type.
Personally, I think it is nice NOT to have cell phone reception everywhere, and it's also nice not to have highways, power lines, billboards, SUVs, Computers, the internet, powerboats, and whatnot everywhere you go. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to find places like that in this country.
And I think it's DISGUSTING that Verizon can use a federal court to overturn local zoning ordanances.
holy CRAP! this movie is going to SUCK. LAVA? lava is why vader has to become a machine? the only thing lamer than lava would have been a band of rabid gerbils. no, that would have at least not been cliche. what the hell? vader is maximillian from the black hole now? great. yet another 2 hour long toy commercial.
the only way that i see that this movie could not completely suck, is if the entire film is a long downhill slope of misery. things start well, and the good guys just keep losing and getting slaughtered until the end of the movie.
kinda like the ending of empire, but MORE so, especially since there won't be another movie!
it would be the greatest cliff hanger ever! i have no doubt it won't happen.
the preview to AOTC made that movie look really good too. and i can't even think about that movie without getting cringes from it's spectacular awfullness.
i'm not say T3 won't be good, just the old wanring... never trust a trailer.
i like "art rock" myself, and that occasionally overlaps with the electronic scene. not just the biggies like kraftwerk, john cage, stockhausen, and whatnot, but sometimes there are some really brilliant people making stuff in electronic music. one of my favorites is thomas brinkmann, his album 'klick' is one of the few new music albums i have heard that imho is sheer genious. it consists of cutting slits into the last track of vinyl records and then mixes a couple of them together. as a bonus the design is fantastic, and the track titles are just the numbers of the tracks in binary.
two good resources for the more intelligent of electronic music: http://www.othermusic.com/ http://www.for cedexposure.com/
Obviously the best sites are easy to use AND pretty.
Yahoo, I have always found to be a monstrosity myself. It is far too 'busy' and complicated. That's the main reason I have never used yahoo. I think yahoo also represents the worst of the old coporate design standards - cram as much as you can into one page... especially ads.
Google, on the other hand, won me over immediately with their simple but functional design. When I first saw google, it was a breath of fresh air. Not only is it HIGHLY functional, but it is also generally regarded as EXCELLENT design.
btw, I have always thought the main slashdot page was too loaded down with crap also (though the ads are handled nicely.) The first thing I did when I finally logged in as a user was turn off everything in the preferences.
I saw AOTC first on film and then digital, and i must say, i expected to not be able to tell the difference, but the digital was decidedly worse.
everything was incredibly pixelated (there wasn't a clean line in the film) and any time the camera panned the whole image would start jumping. (makes me suspect that the lack of camera movement in the movie wasn't necessarily because lucas is a terrible director.)
i felt the color was washed out, and the cgi grainy, but that might just be my own aesthetic opinion.
at one point the sound actually started skipping! as did the image a couple of times, though not quite so blatantly.
in 1977 the sex pistols did a similar thing, with their single 'god save the queen' being the number one record in the land without it being listed on the charts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article /0,4273,4 416451,00.html
funny fingerprint scanners should be offered as a solution when we all know how insecure those are: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/15/ 223321 4&mode=thread&tid=172
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still not as cool as pykrete
It seems like most of your comments are missing the point that seems most important to me: Communities are being routinely beaten by the phone companies. Not a single person in that article COMPLAINED about lousy phone reception, on the contrary they were all more than willing to accept lousy phone reception in exchange for not having Verizon tell them where they are putting the tower without their say.
Don't local communities have the right to make that decision? Why do all the technologically-holier-than-thou types assume that people don't realize they will have lousy cell phone reception? Much the same with nuclear plants; seems to me that most people who don't want them, don't want them at ALL, and are very much willing to put up with the consequenses of not having them even if it means building another poluting plant of another type.
Personally, I think it is nice NOT to have cell phone reception everywhere, and it's also nice not to have highways, power lines, billboards, SUVs, Computers, the internet, powerboats, and whatnot everywhere you go. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to find places like that in this country.
And I think it's DISGUSTING that Verizon can use a federal court to overturn local zoning ordanances.
holy CRAP!
this movie is going to SUCK.
LAVA? lava is why vader has to become a machine?
the only thing lamer than lava would have been a band of rabid gerbils. no, that would have at least not been cliche. what the hell? vader is maximillian from the black hole now?
great. yet another 2 hour long toy commercial.
i think i'll go watch LOTR again.
this thing needs a HYPE campaign.
the only way that i see that this movie
could not completely suck,
is if the entire film is a long downhill
slope of misery. things start well,
and the good guys just keep losing and
getting slaughtered until the end of the movie.
kinda like the ending of empire, but MORE so,
especially since there won't be another movie!
it would be the greatest cliff hanger ever!
i have no doubt it won't happen.
"Warriors of Freedom"?
sounds more like they have been listening to Bush's speeches than playing video games.
the preview to AOTC made that movie look really good too. and i can't even think about that movie without getting cringes from it's spectacular awfullness.
i'm not say T3 won't be good, just the old wanring... never trust a trailer.
thank god i was born in 1977!
i like "art rock" myself,
r cedexposure.com/
and that occasionally overlaps with the electronic scene.
not just the biggies like kraftwerk, john cage, stockhausen, and whatnot,
but sometimes there are some really brilliant people making stuff in electronic music.
one of my favorites is thomas brinkmann, his album 'klick' is one of the few new music albums i have heard that imho is sheer genious. it consists of cutting slits into the last track of vinyl records and then mixes a couple of them together. as a bonus the design is fantastic, and the track titles are just the numbers of the tracks in binary.
two good resources for the more intelligent of electronic music:
http://www.othermusic.com/
http://www.fo
[ kealve the kunst ]
Obviously the best sites are easy to use AND pretty.
Yahoo, I have always found to be a monstrosity myself. It is far too 'busy' and complicated. That's the main reason I have never used yahoo. I think yahoo also represents the worst of the old coporate design standards - cram as much as you can into one page... especially ads.
Google, on the other hand, won me over immediately with their simple but functional design. When I first saw google, it was a breath of fresh air. Not only is it HIGHLY functional, but it is also generally regarded as EXCELLENT design.
btw, I have always thought the main slashdot page was too loaded down with crap also (though the ads are handled nicely.) The first thing I did when I finally logged in as a user was turn off everything in the preferences.
I saw AOTC first on film and then digital,
and i must say, i expected to not be able to tell the difference, but the digital was decidedly worse.
everything was incredibly pixelated (there wasn't a clean line in the film) and any time the camera panned the whole image would start jumping.
(makes me suspect that the lack of camera movement in the movie wasn't necessarily because lucas is a terrible director.)
i felt the color was washed out, and the cgi grainy, but that might just be my own aesthetic opinion.
at one point the sound actually started skipping! as did the image a couple of times, though not quite so blatantly.
in 1977 the sex pistols did a similar thing, with their single 'god save the queen' being the number one record in the land without it being listed on the charts:e /0,4273,4 416451,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Articl
funny fingerprint scanners should be offered as a/ 223321 4&mode=thread&tid=172
solution when we all know how insecure those are:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/15
oh.
sure.
give away the ending!
thanks a LOT cybrpnk2.
i didn't see any "spoilage warnings"!
- Cleave that kunst.
10000 years in the desert and they don't eve have a tan?
when is herbert and everyone since finally going to realize, the fremen are BLACK.
not only that,
but it is home of the world's first virtual state:
http://www.ljudmila.org/embassy/
is this going to change the way people interpret the classic tarkovsky film 'Stalker'?
obviously in times of crisis news from the web is useless. it took hours before i could get through to anything.
for now on there is a good ol' fashioned radio living in my cube.