I have some watchmen comics as well, but to expect that the movie will match the comic verbatim is unrealistic.
Peter Jackson worked some SERIOUS magic to get LOTR on the screen as close as he did. Give this director a chance and don't mash him because the tights on your favorite character is a shade of blue different than your comic.
No prob...the biz that does understand wins
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Companies with foresight and vision will investigate those technologies that can increase their productivity AND the bottom line profit. Patching the dam only keeps it from breaking until later. You have to build a better one at some point.
Grid computing works. It's used in science research quite effectively. Cloud computing is coming no matter what people want.
There was a time when companies had their own power production facilities, now they don't (for the most part). As networking becomes faster (both latency and bandwidth) it will become cheaper to run your software somewhere else than running it in your building.
OpenID will NEVER work because everybody wants to be the ID provider and hardly ANY sites (relatively speaking) want to authenticate against somebody else's database.
I looked into it and thought "cool!" until I realized that google (blogger), yahoo, smugmug, etc all will quite happily be the ID provider but NONE of the sites that are provides will accept OpenID's from other providers.
Modern CPU's are more than fast enough to do 1080p h264 decoding. 2 years ago hardware decode would of helped, now it's a moot point.
I want to see hardware acceleration of encoding from my graphics board. Encoding multi-pass h264 using ffmpeg with the quality options just freaking takes forever!
If Google were to refuse to comply their cred would jump in my book. Plus it would make big news and I'm sure once the news got a hold of it and the public starts to hear en masse that Viacom would be forced to back down. Or at the very least Congress, which loves to grandstand would haul Viacom before a congressional hearing.
Karma sure does suck. And Bill Gates has a ton of bad karma. What does he EXPECT? He laid the foundations for the crap he's dealing with in that message.
I find it hilarious that their answer to competing with Google is to out "google" Google by doing the BIG infrastructure cloud thing.
I hate to break it to MS, but Google is SO far ahead of them at this point that by the time they get anything in place that's even HALF the size of what Google has already deployed it will be far too late.
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Yup..I agree. I looked into OpenID about a month back to see how it had progressed.
Question 1 was...which openId provider do I choose that I already had an account on.
Then after that was settled, I quickly realized that there were NO SITES THAT I USED THAT WOULD ACCEPT OPENID AUTHENTICATION!
Yea sure, they have a list of dinky sites that niche groups use, but for the most part (like 99.9%) it's worthless.
I have some watchmen comics as well, but to expect that the movie will match the comic verbatim is unrealistic.
Peter Jackson worked some SERIOUS magic to get LOTR on the screen as close as he did. Give this director a chance and don't mash him because the tights on your favorite character is a shade of blue different than your comic.
Companies with foresight and vision will investigate those technologies that can increase their productivity AND the bottom line profit. Patching the dam only keeps it from breaking until later. You have to build a better one at some point.
Grid computing works. It's used in science research quite effectively. Cloud computing is coming no matter what people want.
There was a time when companies had their own power production facilities, now they don't (for the most part). As networking becomes faster (both latency and bandwidth) it will become cheaper to run your software somewhere else than running it in your building.
Except for Half-Life 2.....
NASCAR is 50/60's tech pushrod/carburetor muscle car racing on ovals.
As for using it in the comparison, seems like you would want to use a more modern racing series with cooler tech.
I REALLY hope that increased Marketshare will motivate games being ported to OS X. I fear it will have to be at least 20% for that to happen though.
OpenID will NEVER work because everybody wants to be the ID provider and hardly ANY sites (relatively speaking) want to authenticate against somebody else's database.
I looked into it and thought "cool!" until I realized that google (blogger), yahoo, smugmug, etc all will quite happily be the ID provider but NONE of the sites that are provides will accept OpenID's from other providers.
Yes, but if you were to plow your field would you rather use 2 oxen or 1024 chickens?
Personally I'd pay good money to see 1024 chickens plow a field but two oxen would probably be more efficient.
Should be a nice way to keep warm during those cold Illinois winters.
I have an airport extreme as well.
Very Stable....but pricey, and not too many options on it in the preferences.
Though the USB connection thingy for an external HD and the airplay mini-jack is cool.
Modern CPU's are more than fast enough to do 1080p h264 decoding. 2 years ago hardware decode would of helped, now it's a moot point.
I want to see hardware acceleration of encoding from my graphics board. Encoding multi-pass h264 using ffmpeg with the quality options just freaking takes forever!
Only if as part of the deal I had to somehow PROVE I voted in a particular way (like bribe an election official by promising part of the money)
If Google were to refuse to comply their cred would jump in my book. Plus it would make big news and I'm sure once the news got a hold of it and the public starts to hear en masse that Viacom would be forced to back down. Or at the very least Congress, which loves to grandstand would haul Viacom before a congressional hearing.
Two major terrorist attempts THAT YOU KNOW OF.
No, they probably learned from Commodore instead.
Karma sure does suck. And Bill Gates has a ton of bad karma. What does he EXPECT? He laid the foundations for the crap he's dealing with in that message.
But I'm really not sure where to start. I took C in college years ago, and really just dabble in in here and there (no serious work).
Kernel development and driver development seems like the equivalent of black magic. I could never understand the code.
So what does an intelligent but ignorant C beginner do if you want to go into writing drivers for LINUX?
So each being equally small in probability the two ways the LHC will get us is either by
1. Black Holes (like the article says)
or
2. Instantaneous conversion of all stuff on earth into exotic matter.
Personally #2 sounds more fun.
Is if the same people watching the Bushies will watch Obama as closely.
"They" that I am referring to is the 5.
Pressure? Supremes are there until they decide not to be. Pressure only works with people politicians.
No...but they DID admit to it in court last week in the presence of reporters.
Yes...but could the sun be ALIVE or Conscious? :)
I find it hilarious that their answer to competing with Google is to out "google" Google by doing the BIG infrastructure cloud thing.
I hate to break it to MS, but Google is SO far ahead of them at this point that by the time they get anything in place that's even HALF the size of what Google has already deployed it will be far too late.
yea....I DEMAND to run Virtualbox or VMware as a plugin for my browser! Why? Cause that would be COOL!