I think it's relatively safe to say that even today it's not necessarily for popular portals (ala Yahoo!) to actively seek out links to add to their directory. It's all incoming. Moreover, they have complete editorial control and hand-pick which get in and which do not.
Given the exponentionally growing amount of data out there.. Popular portals have a signifigant amount of power over what gets seen and what does not. Granted, people will currently still fall back on search engines if a directory or portal doesn't give them what they need, but the portal usually comes first.
Now. Is it crazy to believe that some day portals might use this power as a cash-making-scheme? A scenario where you can wait forever to get editorial review or you can pay up front and be guaranteed an immiedate spot on the portal. (Where depends on how much..) This way portals still offer links to quality content (editorial poriton), but still rake in the cash from people who don't quality content but still want to be seen.
If enough advancement of information glut takes place, space on a popular portal could be almost as valuable as air time on primetime network TV.
If the battery life is only one and a half hours, it doesn't seem like this artificial heart will suceed in much besides keeping people alive in hospital beds.
Better than dying perhaps, but not really an adequate solution to heart disease.
Isn't it possible to position lithium batteries in the human body so that they will constantly re-power themseleves?
That's a pretty defunct arguement. The brain controls all activity of the body. If you cut off oxygen to the brain, the heart will stop beating, the lungs will stop function, and pretty soon blood won't be flowing anywhere. When you are in the Matrix, presumably the Matrix takes complete control of the brain with regard to outgoing impulses. Thusly, if you die in the Matrix, your body stops receiving impluses period and dies.
Of course.. That brings up another question entirely. Why didn't they have life support systems to keep the bodies alive until a given person could be dragged to an exit?
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Oh I wish that was the case where I saw it. *grin* Unfortunately only one theatre in my *state* carried the movie and it was selling out all week so there were a lot of people there who didn't know really what to expect from the movie (other than what they've come to expect from the horror genre). In fact one person immediately behind myself and my friend said after the movie ended, "That's what we've been wating for? That's stupid." Grrrr... I wanted to slap them silly.
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While this is true a low budget often causes higher creativity in how things are done. Star Wars for example. If Lucas had a huge budget would it have turned out more like Ep.1? *shrug*
Lo-Tech in the horror genre is excellent. I don't think anyone's scared of big scary monsters at this point. Or blood. Or gore. Or any of that. Repulsed? Yes. Scared? No. Our imaginations have the greastest capacity to frighten us. More than anything else in the universe. By leaving the exact nature of the beast unsaid in Blair Witch it allows our own mind to come up with something far worse than what any CGI team could produce.
How can you make a sequel period? There's no plot continuation to make. I suppose you could send more film students out, but it would be the same thing and thus not as effective. There's just nothing to build on... except showing more of the Blair Witch herself.. which defies the point of the movie.
Probably all the people out there who don't really have Net access, and even some that do. One friend of mine was trying to tell me how the backstory was true, because she read it somwhere on the net. =) Obviously noone's going to believe that the film students really died, but one would be surprised by how many people will believe that the Blair Witch is a real myth.
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Having a low budget does tend to make a better movie in some ways however, because it forces creativity. Well. Assuming the people involved are talented. Otherwise you get a B horror movie.
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*grumbles* BWP was very amusing in the beginning, but it really wore on my nerves when people kept laughing at the gradual breakdown of the characters and the tradgedy of their very obvious heightening insanity. It seems like everytime a certain word beginning with f was uttered there would be a giggle somewhere in the audience. Insistent laughter actually degraded my enjoyment of the movie. Bah. But naturally people have to laugh at everything they think is supposed to be a joke.
WB made a simple choice in pulling Buffy's episode from the air. They decided that the social morality of the time would not be accepting of such a thing. The primary reason for the pulling was *probably* more based on the idea that there could be outrage from concerned parents (*cough* 700 Club *cough) not on their feelings of tragedy over the shootings. Reality is the episode would never make anyone go shoot his neighboor, but there are people who would like you to think it would, because they don't personally like the show. Or because they want to make a name for themselves. Or maybe because they're just psycho. Whatever reason lots of people are looking for targets to do some finger-pointing at for this whole thing and the WB did not want to paint a bulls-eye on itself.. or even take the chance of drawing a microscopic X.
While AMD is not by far a new company it has just recently started truly eating into Intel's market share and indeed has begun (as I mentioned before with the K7) go up and above Intel's best processor (PIII) in speed, quality, and price. AMD may have been making chips for years, but finally it seems they now have the chance to completely overthrow the virtual Wintel monopoly.
It's not too difficult to believe that people would overclock their processors in order to spite Intel. For years now Intel has produced the only decent processors on the market and until AMD came along they've had no trouble getting whatever they wanted for their chips. And nobody likes a monopoly driving up their prices. Fortunately with Linux's rising popularity and AMD's cheaper and (with the K7) more effecient processors the WinTel market may find itself shattered if it doesn't adapt to the new market. (We can only pray)
Our local theatre has been intentionally causing lines.. refusing to sell tickets in advance, and closing the box office until about an hour before the next showing.. But despite the build-up not all the shows have been selling out.. however in some of the larger theatres in adjoining cities things have been a bit worse. I went Sunday to see Trekkies at one such theatre and every showing that day had sold out. 3 screens, and another in the same town had already sold out all the prime time showings (and this was around 1pm). So the fanatacism I guess is relative to location. As for me? I got my midnight screening ticket on the 18th.. and they were available till about 7 or so despite a week of being on-sale. A bit disappointing.
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I don't see how anyone can "understand" why it would be ok to take another human being's life regardless of the importance of your political message.
I think it's relatively safe to say that even today it's not necessarily for popular portals (ala Yahoo!) to actively seek out links to add to their directory. It's all incoming. Moreover, they have complete editorial control and hand-pick which get in and which do not.
Given the exponentionally growing amount of data out there.. Popular portals have a signifigant amount of power over what gets seen and what does not. Granted, people will currently still fall back on search engines if a directory or portal doesn't give them what they need, but the portal usually comes first.
Now. Is it crazy to believe that some day portals might use this power as a cash-making-scheme? A scenario where you can wait forever to get editorial review or you can pay up front and be guaranteed an immiedate spot on the portal. (Where depends on how much..) This way portals still offer links to quality content (editorial poriton), but still rake in the cash from people who don't quality content but still want to be seen.
If enough advancement of information glut takes place, space on a popular portal could be almost as valuable as air time on primetime network TV.
--Sven
If the battery life is only one and a half hours, it doesn't seem like this artificial heart will suceed in much besides keeping people alive in hospital beds.
Better than dying perhaps, but not really an adequate solution to heart disease.
Isn't it possible to position lithium batteries in the human body so that they will constantly re-power themseleves?
That's a pretty defunct arguement. The brain controls all activity of the body. If you cut off oxygen to the brain, the heart will stop beating, the lungs will stop function, and pretty soon blood won't be flowing anywhere. When you are in the Matrix, presumably the Matrix takes complete control of the brain with regard to outgoing impulses. Thusly, if you die in the Matrix, your body stops receiving impluses period and dies. Of course.. That brings up another question entirely. Why didn't they have life support systems to keep the bodies alive until a given person could be dragged to an exit?
Oh I wish that was the case where I saw it.
*grin*
Unfortunately only one theatre in my *state* carried the movie and it was selling out all week so there were a lot of people there who didn't know really what to expect from the movie (other than what they've come to expect from the horror genre). In fact one person immediately behind myself and my friend said after the movie ended, "That's what we've been wating for? That's stupid."
Grrrr... I wanted to slap them silly.
While this is true a low budget often causes higher creativity in how things are done. Star Wars for example. If Lucas had a huge budget would it have turned out more like Ep.1? *shrug*
Lo-Tech in the horror genre is excellent. I don't think anyone's scared of big scary monsters at this point. Or blood. Or gore. Or any of that. Repulsed? Yes. Scared? No. Our imaginations have the greastest capacity to frighten us. More than anything else in the universe. By leaving the exact nature of the beast unsaid in Blair Witch it allows our own mind to come up with something far worse than what any CGI team could produce.
How can you make a sequel period?
There's no plot continuation to make.
I suppose you could send more film students out, but it would be the same thing and thus not as effective.
There's just nothing to build on... except showing more of the Blair Witch herself.. which defies the point of the movie.
Probably all the people out there who don't really have Net access, and even some that do. One friend of mine was trying to tell me how the backstory was true, because she read it somwhere on the net. =)
Obviously noone's going to believe that the film students really died, but one would be surprised by how many people will believe that the Blair Witch is a real myth.
Having a low budget does tend to make a better movie in some ways however, because it forces creativity. Well. Assuming the people involved are talented. Otherwise you get a B horror movie.
*grumbles*
BWP was very amusing in the beginning, but it really wore on my nerves when people kept laughing at the gradual breakdown of the characters and the tradgedy of their very obvious heightening insanity. It seems like everytime a certain word beginning with f was uttered there would be a giggle somewhere in the audience. Insistent laughter actually degraded my enjoyment of the movie. Bah. But naturally people have to laugh at everything they think is supposed to be a joke.
WB made a simple choice in pulling Buffy's episode from the air. They decided that the social morality of the time would not be accepting of such a thing. The primary reason for the pulling was *probably* more based on the idea that there could be outrage from concerned parents (*cough* 700 Club *cough) not on their feelings of tragedy over the shootings. Reality is the episode would never make anyone go shoot his neighboor, but there are people who would like you to think it would, because they don't personally like the show. Or because they want to make a name for themselves. Or maybe because they're just psycho. Whatever reason lots of people are looking for targets to do some finger-pointing at for this whole thing and the WB did not want to paint a bulls-eye on itself.. or even take the chance of drawing a microscopic X.
--Justin Hager
While AMD is not by far a new company it has just recently started truly eating into Intel's market share and indeed has begun (as I mentioned before with the K7) go up and above Intel's best processor (PIII) in speed, quality, and price. AMD may have been making chips for years, but finally it seems they now have the chance to completely overthrow the virtual Wintel monopoly.
It's not too difficult to believe that people would overclock their processors in order to spite Intel. For years now Intel has produced the only decent processors on the market and until AMD came along they've had no trouble getting whatever they wanted for their chips. And nobody likes a monopoly driving up their prices. Fortunately with Linux's rising popularity and AMD's cheaper and (with the K7) more effecient processors the WinTel market may find itself shattered if it doesn't adapt to the new market. (We can only pray)
Our local theatre has been intentionally causing lines.. refusing to sell tickets in advance, and closing the box office until about an hour before the next showing.. But despite the build-up not all the shows have been selling out.. however in some of the larger theatres in adjoining cities things have been a bit worse. I went Sunday to see Trekkies at one such theatre and every showing that day had sold out. 3 screens, and another in the same town had already sold out all the prime time showings (and this was around 1pm).
So the fanatacism I guess is relative to location.
As for me? I got my midnight screening ticket on the 18th.. and they were available till about 7 or so despite a week of being on-sale. A bit disappointing.