huh? Don't you mean Apple is to the iPod as Henry Ford is to the Ford Automobile? Or Apple is to hard-disk based MP3 players as Henry Ford is to the car?
How can you compare handwriting analysis to tea leaves and goat entrails? One is a direct translation of the thoughts from someone's mind and the other is complete randomness. Why are signatures so unique and used as a de-facto identifier if handwriting and doodling has no psychological bearing.
Are these results accurate? I don't know and they might very well have been tainted by knowledge of who they were trying to "read," but that doesn't mean that all handwriting analysis is off base.
Call me crazy, but I'd love to have the ability to remember every license plate number and commercial order on tv. Some people already have such photographic memories (to some extent). I think even with the capacity to recall every little detail, doesn't mean that the big details will go into the background. We will still have the ability to categorize those memories as we do now, but instead of the small ones getting lost in the ether, we will be able to recall them at will. I think if the contents of everything we've ever read and done is logged permanently in our brain for easy recollection, we would be infinitely more intelligent, and would be able to link concepts that we've read about years ago with newly learned ones with a lot greater ease.
Yeah, college is a waste of time... if you want to spend the rest of your life as an uneducated idiot.
There were a lot of things I learned in college that I wouldn't have if I just went into the workforce - and not all of it relevant to the career I have. Not to mention that some of your best friends in life will be the ones you meet in college. Just because the little line on your resume won't help you get your dream job as much as before, doesn't mean that the furthering of your education in life is a worthless task.
You have the rest of your life to spend working, take another 4 years after high school to better yourself.
Yeah, it's interesting that they want to release a movie after the show went out with a whimper and now is pretty much forgotten. It's gotta have a helluva big marketing campaign when it's released.
I think it was ridiculous to make the DVDs so damned expensive.
this isn't a more realistic style of cartooning, this is rotoscoping, and as such can't even be considered animation. It's a more tedious process of color correction. If you apply a brush stroke photoshop filter to a photograph, it isn't called a painting, so doing the same to a live action segment (even if it's manually traced over instead of completely automated) can't be considered animation.
I was around 5 when I used a computer, a C64 that my parents bought for my brother and I. I never really did start programming, but played around a little with BASIC, but mostly played games (Space Taxi and Bruce Lee!!) I got into computers from my brother mostly, and as I got into computers my little cousin who hung around me started getting into them too.
Therefore, I don't think that putting a kid in front of a computer will make them like computers. You have to just set an example, and your kids will be interested in what you're doing. If the stuff you're doing is just too complicated, but they show interest, maybe check out DarkBasic. It's a BASIC like language that is used to quickly create games. I took a quick look at it a couple year ago and it seemed pretty cool, and simple.
I don't know if I want to see something from Lucasarts that isn't Star Wars related. All the great game developers from LucasArts have long since left, so I don't want to see how they ruin my favorite franchises.
what I wonder is how much more she could have done if she had gone to college and been an electrical engineering major...
Yeah, it's great that she succeeded and all, but I really hate these "High school drop-out does good" stories. They just attract the regular high-school drop-outs and give them more ammo to validate their stupid mistakes. "See, that guy dropped out and he's super rich!"
I was standing in line in a grocery store the other day, and I overheard 2 woman talking about how successful Spongebob squarepants was and how it's marketed on everything. One woman says to the other "And you know who the creator was before he made up Spongebob? [dramatic beat] a surfer." Sure Stephen Hillenburg might be a surfer, but that's not the extent of his background training.
Well, I was there when arcade games were "ruined" and I don't think fighting games did it. Fighting games were extremely popular at that time, but what did the arcade games in is that home consoles became almost as powerful as their arcade counterparts. I remember deciding that I'd rather get an SNES with Street Fighter 2 than spend the same amount of money playing SF2 at the arcade, and that's what did them in. Arcades didn't even change with the times. They only started innovating the way the games play, with stuff like Dance Dance Revolution much later on.
So what exactly is the difference between movies, symphony orchestras, and video games? All of them are pieces of entertainment where 1 or slightly more people create an idea and hire a lot of talent to bring that idea to life. I was going to say that the main difference between games and movies or music is that a game's success is measured in fun level, but that could be said for movies as well as music these days. And just like movies and music, there are some games that strive for emotional impact.
of course, IAAGA (I am a game artist) so my opinion is biased.
Well, you might be, but I'm not willing to pay for what the MPAA deems is "good enough quality" to offer as internet downloads. If and when they do come up with a iTunes program for movies, the movies are probably going to be tiny thumbnails compressed to shit (so they can get the highest market) and DRMed (so they feel better about doing it - and why wouldn't they? DVD is even protected and a lot harder to steal).
An internet offering by the MPAA will not go over well. It will always (well, for some time) be easier to run to a Blockbuster or subscribe to Netflix than it would be to download a crappy quality movie from the internet (and not to mention the fact that not many regular people want to watch movies on their Dell).
Finally, a spyware program that will help me get rid of the rest of my spyware. Better to have 1 program transmitting your information than 10, right? Where can I download it?
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Apple is to the iPod as Henry Ford is to the car.
huh? Don't you mean Apple is to the iPod as Henry Ford is to the Ford Automobile? Or Apple is to hard-disk based MP3 players as Henry Ford is to the car?
How can you compare handwriting analysis to tea leaves and goat entrails? One is a direct translation of the thoughts from someone's mind and the other is complete randomness. Why are signatures so unique and used as a de-facto identifier if handwriting and doodling has no psychological bearing.
Are these results accurate? I don't know and they might very well have been tainted by knowledge of who they were trying to "read," but that doesn't mean that all handwriting analysis is off base.
Worst... comparison... ever!
-tCBG
Call me crazy, but I'd love to have the ability to remember every license plate number and commercial order on tv. Some people already have such photographic memories (to some extent). I think even with the capacity to recall every little detail, doesn't mean that the big details will go into the background. We will still have the ability to categorize those memories as we do now, but instead of the small ones getting lost in the ether, we will be able to recall them at will. I think if the contents of everything we've ever read and done is logged permanently in our brain for easy recollection, we would be infinitely more intelligent, and would be able to link concepts that we've read about years ago with newly learned ones with a lot greater ease.
I find that your statistics seem valid and don't challenge my moral values, so I'll take them at face value, and start spreading them.
Yeah, college is a waste of time... if you want to spend the rest of your life as an uneducated idiot.
There were a lot of things I learned in college that I wouldn't have if I just went into the workforce - and not all of it relevant to the career I have. Not to mention that some of your best friends in life will be the ones you meet in college. Just because the little line on your resume won't help you get your dream job as much as before, doesn't mean that the furthering of your education in life is a worthless task.
You have the rest of your life to spend working, take another 4 years after high school to better yourself.
Yeah, it's interesting that they want to release a movie after the show went out with a whimper and now is pretty much forgotten. It's gotta have a helluva big marketing campaign when it's released.
I think it was ridiculous to make the DVDs so damned expensive.
But still no Duke Nukem Forever? That's the only reason I'd want immortality
Bah! That link is USELESS without pics!
Excrete what?
Why, Soylent Green, of course!
this isn't a more realistic style of cartooning, this is rotoscoping, and as such can't even be considered animation. It's a more tedious process of color correction. If you apply a brush stroke photoshop filter to a photograph, it isn't called a painting, so doing the same to a live action segment (even if it's manually traced over instead of completely automated) can't be considered animation.
So do spelling errors... :)
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Those only generate huge costs in time for the spelling nazis who need to correct every spelling mistake on
I was around 5 when I used a computer, a C64 that my parents bought for my brother and I. I never really did start programming, but played around a little with BASIC, but mostly played games (Space Taxi and Bruce Lee!!) I got into computers from my brother mostly, and as I got into computers my little cousin who hung around me started getting into them too.
Therefore, I don't think that putting a kid in front of a computer will make them like computers. You have to just set an example, and your kids will be interested in what you're doing. If the stuff you're doing is just too complicated, but they show interest, maybe check out DarkBasic. It's a BASIC like language that is used to quickly create games. I took a quick look at it a couple year ago and it seemed pretty cool, and simple.
I don't know if I want to see something from Lucasarts that isn't Star Wars related. All the great game developers from LucasArts have long since left, so I don't want to see how they ruin my favorite franchises.
yeah, but only by people in red shirts...
Yeah, but the red shirts are always the first to die.
Yeah, it's great that she succeeded and all, but I really hate these "High school drop-out does good" stories. They just attract the regular high-school drop-outs and give them more ammo to validate their stupid mistakes. "See, that guy dropped out and he's super rich!"
I was standing in line in a grocery store the other day, and I overheard 2 woman talking about how successful Spongebob squarepants was and how it's marketed on everything. One woman says to the other "And you know who the creator was before he made up Spongebob? [dramatic beat] a surfer." Sure Stephen Hillenburg might be a surfer, but that's not the extent of his background training.
Well, I was there when arcade games were "ruined" and I don't think fighting games did it. Fighting games were extremely popular at that time, but what did the arcade games in is that home consoles became almost as powerful as their arcade counterparts. I remember deciding that I'd rather get an SNES with Street Fighter 2 than spend the same amount of money playing SF2 at the arcade, and that's what did them in. Arcades didn't even change with the times. They only started innovating the way the games play, with stuff like Dance Dance Revolution much later on.
You would prefer "Ten million people from around the world have downloaded the internet to their computer" ?
since he obviously has such little regard for the common man, I think he would've preferred "look idi0ts, IE sux0rz, download FireFox or get pwn3d!"
Yeah, "user" is a computer specific word not found elsewhere in the English language, huh?
the airlines themselves will (well, should) provide options for those people to have a more pleasant flight.
Ah, the optimist. When are you guys gonna learn that nothing ever works out in The Best Possible Way(tm)?
So what exactly is the difference between movies, symphony orchestras, and video games? All of them are pieces of entertainment where 1 or slightly more people create an idea and hire a lot of talent to bring that idea to life. I was going to say that the main difference between games and movies or music is that a game's success is measured in fun level, but that could be said for movies as well as music these days. And just like movies and music, there are some games that strive for emotional impact.
of course, IAAGA (I am a game artist) so my opinion is biased.
sorry, I accidentally pasted the wrong thing at the top of my post. I wanted to quote something from the original poster.
:)
good comic strip though
http://www.angryflower.com/timegr.html
Well, you might be, but I'm not willing to pay for what the MPAA deems is "good enough quality" to offer as internet downloads. If and when they do come up with a iTunes program for movies, the movies are probably going to be tiny thumbnails compressed to shit (so they can get the highest market) and DRMed (so they feel better about doing it - and why wouldn't they? DVD is even protected and a lot harder to steal).
An internet offering by the MPAA will not go over well. It will always (well, for some time) be easier to run to a Blockbuster or subscribe to Netflix than it would be to download a crappy quality movie from the internet (and not to mention the fact that not many regular people want to watch movies on their Dell).
So that's what happened with sex with geeks! damn, I joined geekdom way too late, and now the orgies are gone.
Finally, a spyware program that will help me get rid of the rest of my spyware. Better to have 1 program transmitting your information than 10, right? Where can I download it?
If they listened to us, they never would have released the iPod because everyone here knew it was going to flop.