I'm normally a fan of big screens, but lately where I live (Hartford, CT) there's an epidemic of people who won't shut up at movies or people who bring their two-year olds or younger to R-rated movies. Don't even get me started about the morally deviant fuckers who let their cell phones ring and then TALK in the theatre.
Most prominent was the not-so-great, but oh-so-silent movie "Signs" -- basically spoiled by the other people in the audience with cell phones or something loud to say to the person next to them. That made me wish for the first time that I'd waited until DVD and my regulated environment at home before seeing a new movie.
If it wasn't for morons like those in the theatres, I would be more than happy to see all my movies at the theatres. A pirated movie or DVD really pales in comparison to the big screen and big sound system in movie theatres. But the other sound makers in the theatres are just getting too much to handle.
Irony is when the expressed meaning bears a certain relationship to the opposite meaning or a different meaning altogether. What we have here is a funny, incongruous coincidence. Contrary to popular belief, Alanis Morisette did not get her language usage straight and it seems to have bastardized the word "irony".
Never mind the contradiction that she is a freelance writer who works for Microsoft, showing something is awry...
Can't you just see the marketing meeting? "We should mention Palm just to make it seem believeable." "And give our competitor free advertising, no way!" "Well what if we plug PocketPC at the end in an 'editor's note'?" "All right, all right, but women don't use words like 'features' use... 'treats' instead."
The point is moot that Apple is doing the same kind of careful marketing, but that they seem to be able to actually pull it off!
Apache's HTTP server has been by many measures the most popular web server on the web, and perhaps the primary application that drives people to Linux and open source.
And here I thought Microsoft Windows was the primary application that drives people to Linux and open source...
...great piece of his, btw. But remember at first adoption was quick and heavy. So invest in the beginning big, let it ride and get out before people feel like they have to wear a rubber mask to take a phone call.
As to the earlier reply, the idea that video is turn-offable only complicated the problem. Because if you turned off video, it was akin to *admitting* you were doing something visually distasteful. Because surely there was a reason you didn't just pop the video on...
Foster Wallace certainly can't be right about some things but when I read that part of the book I thought it was downright prophetic. (Unless of course the book got wildly popular.)
Actually it's more of a sin that he wasn't more incorporated into the script. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wesley was supposed to be some super-navigator who unified space, time, and thought, wasn't he? By the time his character would have been 30, I'll bet some damn interesting things would have happened to someone as gifted as him.
That would be a GREAT story line for a movie -- Wesley ending up in super-secret Starfleet intelligence and dabbling in deep 23rd century metaphysics, but something going wrong which required the attention of the Enterprise and maybe more Vulcan philosophy....
It's too bad they just turned him into a Starfleet Academy throw-away and left that whole great plot line. If anyone has any more details about the plot line, I'd be curious to learn them.
AB is amazing, and though his show put me off at first, I'm a big fan now. He is the only reason I can cook fish ("Hook, Line, and Dinner" at http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com ).
But he's not just a cooking geek -- the awesome production values in his show come from a history working with videos for MTV, and even some from R.E.M. I'm not sure which ones he was involved in, but it would be nice to know.
The lobster espisode was the best. Placing them where they were on the food chain has un-whetted my appetite a bit, but the in-depth instructions on how to kill them without pain (it's not dumping them in boiling water...) calmed my nerves when I actually had to do the deed. In AB's terms "the only creature you'll probably have to dispatch in your home kitchen."
Are there households with 3d TV already? Because if not, then "3d TV for the masses?" doesn't make sense... "3d TV" or "3d TV!" is the concept. "...for the masses" is when the masses get something everyone above them has been enjoying for some time. For instance: "Linux for the masses?" or "Dom Perignon for the masses?"
You obviously have never heard about "inertial dampers" -- early space-age technology which makes it possible to go to impulse speed without dying a horribly bloody death.
Of course, it requires a gravitational field which would eat up a small sun's worth of energy, but at least they weren't forgetting about inertia.
An amusing, technical, but annoyingly brief book called "The Physics of Star Trek" answers these and other questions.
And Republicans think that now it will still work... except there's no one to accelerate the spending of now, is there? I guess they missed all that good documentation...
Of course it's his intellectual property, and he's allowed to make any changes he wants. But that doesn't mean he'll change it for the better. There are better and worse works of art, you know.
My friends are allowed to put ketchup on their cornflakes in the morning -- this doesn't mean I shouldn't advise them it would be a really bad idea.
Of course bandwidth costs money, but if I'm going to be charged for the amount of bandwidth I'm using, I darn well better be in charge of how much bandwidth I'm using. And simply speaking, I'm not -- what if someone decides that I should really see a banner ad featuring Regis' voice telling me about the Tribeca film festival? With lights and electricity, I can just leave them off. Same with gas, heat, air conditioning, phone. But if the content I want demands outrageous bandwidth due to "entrepreneurs" of the internet advertising industry, I have no control over it. Don't even make me go into things like Gator, which eats away a chunk of bandwidth that I'm sure would allow for a couple more "heavy" users.
Secondly, streaming audio and video are big business. Charge people for indiscriminately visiting those sites and those sites will soon cease to be. All those kinds of cites cease to be and only commercial ones are left, or none are left and those selling bandwidth don't have anyone to sell it to.
This is a really, really bad idea and there isn't enough competition in the non-urban marketplace to discourage the trend. I suggest we whine and whine loudly!
Well, taking your conjecture that AOTC is a work of art (which it isn't -- it's a work of business), there's an additional question that Goethe should have asked:
4) Could I have done it better?
And the simple answer is "yes". If anything is about the means, rather than just the ends, it is art. The goal was worth doing in the way you put it, but he should have had a better goal: to continue his saga in such a way as to appeal to multiple generations at once, with depth and consistency, and, since an intricate story sucks without people who can speak it aloud, good dialogue.
There are literally hundreds of people in Hollywood with better sense for these things than Lucas, but he chooses to ignore them. Simply put: when one can't see that one has no talent in an area anymore, so much the worse for people who enjoy film when there's still money involved.
I could do it, and I haven't even seen the majority of the episodes! I don't understand why people (perhaps not the author of the preceding) think it's difficult to come up with a complex/coherent/interesting plot line, even given mistakes in the past. There are SOOOOOOO many talented creators out there, but instead of using them, the monied people who are failing their audiences prefer to hang on to it for its economic value. Capitalism might very well be a good economic model for many things, but it doesn't do much for creativity...
The EULA won't let you or Bioware distribute modules with copyrighted portions so that they can be safe. Yet they get rights to everything you create. They can't have rights to something that someone else with a copyright creates. So all you need to do is copyright some characters, objects, components, etc (anything which isn't dependent upon the toolset) and then they can't take credit for it, because of legal concerns. Copyrighting one character per area should be fine...
The one feature of Opera that really won me over for Opera was when they implemented Quick Preferences in the File drop-down. This allows me to two click turn off Javascript, Java, Cookies, pop-ups, and identify as a different browser. Don't even have to open a dialog box. I can also two-click to my proxy account for my school.
This kind of feature is what endears the Opera programmers to me -- fast, cheap, and totally in control.
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It's a reference to the movie "Sneakers". Quite funny. Not a bad movie either.
Yeah, but when am I going to be able to get the technology to jam children and loud adults?
I honestly think this is more of a problem than wireless devices...
I'm normally a fan of big screens, but lately where I live (Hartford, CT) there's an epidemic of people who won't shut up at movies or people who bring their two-year olds or younger to R-rated movies. Don't even get me started about the morally deviant fuckers who let their cell phones ring and then TALK in the theatre.
Most prominent was the not-so-great, but oh-so-silent movie "Signs" -- basically spoiled by the other people in the audience with cell phones or something loud to say to the person next to them. That made me wish for the first time that I'd waited until DVD and my regulated environment at home before seeing a new movie.
If it wasn't for morons like those in the theatres, I would be more than happy to see all my movies at the theatres. A pirated movie or DVD really pales in comparison to the big screen and big sound system in movie theatres. But the other sound makers in the theatres are just getting too much to handle.
Irony is when the expressed meaning bears a certain relationship to the opposite meaning or a different meaning altogether. What we have here is a funny, incongruous coincidence. Contrary to popular belief, Alanis Morisette did not get her language usage straight and it seems to have bastardized the word "irony".
Never mind the contradiction that she is a freelance writer who works for Microsoft, showing something is awry...
Can't you just see the marketing meeting?
"We should mention Palm just to make it seem believeable."
"And give our competitor free advertising, no way!"
"Well what if we plug PocketPC at the end in an 'editor's note'?"
"All right, all right, but women don't use words like 'features' use... 'treats' instead."
The point is moot that Apple is doing the same kind of careful marketing, but that they seem to be able to actually pull it off!
Guess NYT can count the days until their license audit. Sure hope that login server is running illegal NT!
HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chips To Date
Great, we'll all have valley-girl memory in our computers by 2005...
CPU --> Store like 0C 0F 12 14 at totally !3789AC3
And here I thought Microsoft Windows was the primary application that drives people to Linux and open source...
...great piece of his, btw. But remember at first adoption was quick and heavy. So invest in the beginning big, let it ride and get out before people feel like they have to wear a rubber mask to take a phone call.
As to the earlier reply, the idea that video is turn-offable only complicated the problem. Because if you turned off video, it was akin to *admitting* you were doing something visually distasteful. Because surely there was a reason you didn't just pop the video on...
Foster Wallace certainly can't be right about some things but when I read that part of the book I thought it was downright prophetic. (Unless of course the book got wildly popular.)
Actually it's more of a sin that he wasn't more incorporated into the script. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wesley was supposed to be some super-navigator who unified space, time, and thought, wasn't he? By the time his character would have been 30, I'll bet some damn interesting things would have happened to someone as gifted as him.
That would be a GREAT story line for a movie -- Wesley ending up in super-secret Starfleet intelligence and dabbling in deep 23rd century metaphysics, but something going wrong which required the attention of the Enterprise and maybe more Vulcan philosophy....
It's too bad they just turned him into a Starfleet Academy throw-away and left that whole great plot line. If anyone has any more details about the plot line, I'd be curious to learn them.
AB is amazing, and though his show put me off at first, I'm a big fan now. He is the only reason I can cook fish ("Hook, Line, and Dinner" at http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com ).
But he's not just a cooking geek -- the awesome production values in his show come from a history working with videos for MTV, and even some from R.E.M. I'm not sure which ones he was involved in, but it would be nice to know.
The lobster espisode was the best. Placing them where they were on the food chain has un-whetted my appetite a bit, but the in-depth instructions on how to kill them without pain (it's not dumping them in boiling water...) calmed my nerves when I actually had to do the deed. In AB's terms "the only creature you'll probably have to dispatch in your home kitchen."
Why don't they just give in already and call it Mao-crosoft?
Sorry, should be "3d TV ... sigh" category. Damn bracketed tags...
Are there households with 3d TV already? Because if not, then "3d TV for the masses?" doesn't make sense... "3d TV" or "3d TV!" is the concept. "...for the masses" is when the masses get something everyone above them has been enjoying for some time. For instance: "Linux for the masses?" or "Dom Perignon for the masses?"
... " category.
Personally, I'm more in the "3d TV
The memes got this one...
You obviously have never heard about "inertial dampers" -- early space-age technology which makes it possible to go to impulse speed without dying a horribly bloody death.
Of course, it requires a gravitational field which would eat up a small sun's worth of energy, but at least they weren't forgetting about inertia.
An amusing, technical, but annoyingly brief book called "The Physics of Star Trek" answers these and other questions.
And Republicans think that now it will still work... except there's no one to accelerate the spending of now, is there? I guess they missed all that good documentation...
Of course it's his intellectual property, and he's allowed to make any changes he wants. But that doesn't mean he'll change it for the better. There are better and worse works of art, you know.
My friends are allowed to put ketchup on their cornflakes in the morning -- this doesn't mean I shouldn't advise them it would be a really bad idea.
Of course bandwidth costs money, but if I'm going to be charged for the amount of bandwidth I'm using, I darn well better be in charge of how much bandwidth I'm using. And simply speaking, I'm not -- what if someone decides that I should really see a banner ad featuring Regis' voice telling me about the Tribeca film festival? With lights and electricity, I can just leave them off. Same with gas, heat, air conditioning, phone. But if the content I want demands outrageous bandwidth due to "entrepreneurs" of the internet advertising industry, I have no control over it. Don't even make me go into things like Gator, which eats away a chunk of bandwidth that I'm sure would allow for a couple more "heavy" users.
Secondly, streaming audio and video are big business. Charge people for indiscriminately visiting those sites and those sites will soon cease to be. All those kinds of cites cease to be and only commercial ones are left, or none are left and those selling bandwidth don't have anyone to sell it to.
This is a really, really bad idea and there isn't enough competition in the non-urban marketplace to discourage the trend. I suggest we whine and whine loudly!
Well, taking your conjecture that AOTC is a work of art (which it isn't -- it's a work of business), there's an additional question that Goethe should have asked:
4) Could I have done it better?
And the simple answer is "yes". If anything is about the means, rather than just the ends, it is art. The goal was worth doing in the way you put it, but he should have had a better goal: to continue his saga in such a way as to appeal to multiple generations at once, with depth and consistency, and, since an intricate story sucks without people who can speak it aloud, good dialogue.
There are literally hundreds of people in Hollywood with better sense for these things than Lucas, but he chooses to ignore them. Simply put: when one can't see that one has no talent in an area anymore, so much the worse for people who enjoy film when there's still money involved.
Spoken like a true anonymous coward...
I could do it, and I haven't even seen the majority of the episodes! I don't understand why people (perhaps not the author of the preceding) think it's difficult to come up with a complex/coherent/interesting plot line, even given mistakes in the past. There are SOOOOOOO many talented creators out there, but instead of using them, the monied people who are failing their audiences prefer to hang on to it for its economic value. Capitalism might very well be a good economic model for many things, but it doesn't do much for creativity...
IANAL, but...
The EULA won't let you or Bioware distribute modules with copyrighted portions so that they can be safe. Yet they get rights to everything you create. They can't have rights to something that someone else with a copyright creates. So all you need to do is copyright some characters, objects, components, etc (anything which isn't dependent upon the toolset) and then they can't take credit for it, because of legal concerns. Copyrighting one character per area should be fine...
The one feature of Opera that really won me over for Opera was when they implemented Quick Preferences in the File drop-down. This allows me to two click turn off Javascript, Java, Cookies, pop-ups, and identify as a different browser. Don't even have to open a dialog box. I can also two-click to my proxy account for my school.
This kind of feature is what endears the Opera programmers to me -- fast, cheap, and totally in control.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!