The biggest problem I've had with the desktop in Linux were the crappy aliased fonts in pretty much every program. Did the latest version of KDE fix this or does it have to be fixed in XFree86?
These matches are unfair! Computers playing chess, of course the human is gonna win, it's a damn human game. How bout we even it up a little by having Kramnik beat Deep Fritz in a game of BATTLE BOTS!
Yep, I could see that happening! Teeny Boppers all over the world trading classics like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Moby Dick, Shakespeare with their online friends because the writer is "speaking to them"
No one says that Star Wars is a great movie in the respects of great dialogue, great plot, great acting, great cinematography, etc. Star Wars is considered a great movie because it was practically the first of it's kind and it was a complete surprise when it came out. When you're 10 - 15 years old, you don't need a lot to convince yourself that a movie is great, just a couple of explosions, and some cool characters/role models. I don't care how cliche Han Solos dialogue was or how archetypal his personality was, I want to be Han Solo! Blasting people away on the Death Star, running around with a huge man-dog, and completing kessel runs in less than 12 parsecs! I also want to be able to cut peoples arms off in bars with a lightsaber and use jedi mind tricks to get girls!
Of course there are better movies out there in terms of pure filmmaking genious, but not many got into the hearts and minds of young people back in 77. Not many got kids picking up varous plastic tubes and recreating lightsaber fights in their kitchen. But that's what Star Wars did and that's why it's considered great.
Lucas tried to recreate the experience for todays kids with TPM but it just didn't work. You can't recreate the mysticism and originality of Star Wars today because everything's been done already. Todays kids have their role models in the Power Rangers or Pokemon. Lucas shouldv'e just stayed true to the fans and made a sequel for the people that have been waiting 10 years for it.
what about taking into account the trend of leaving a lot of things up to the graphics card. That figure would drop tremendously when we realtime raytracing, and a whole slew of other rendering tricks right on the card.
You lucky bastard... I didn't get one freakin SirCam virus e-mail... nobody loves me and all my friends are probably dumber than CmdrTaco's and all use outlook... When these virus writers write a damn e-mail spreading virus, they better make damn sure it spreads everywhere. It prevents hurt feelings that way... It's been a sad week.
Someone posted a reply about how this technology can be used to dub foreign movies with the actors original voice but in a different language. This reminds me of the Universal Translators from Star Trek. Can it be possible in a few years when processors are much powerful to instantaneously convert your speech to text, then run it through a translator and then convert it back to your original voice? That would be pretty damn cool. A couple of years back, I was thinking about how ridiculous the translators were but now it seems pretty close. IBM also has a commercial using something like this where some foreigners call this girls father about some shipping problems and she speaks to them in English and it automatically gets translated... my friends, the future is here.
What about when LucasFilms decide to create real lightsaber swords? Their trademark will be lost, they'll have to rename the damn thing or worse, not even make it and the hopes and dreams of every Star Wars geek is gonna get ruined. And all this just because some damn medical company wanted to infringe some damn copyright
the high resolution of the monitor coupled with the extrmely low resolution of the goatse.cx image would probably make the image smaller than the human eye can see... so no problems there.
"I noticed most of these attacks happening in the summer time...I've written a paper on stopping DoS attacks "
I've also written a paper on how to stop the problem... I have posted it for everyones convenience:
Stopping DoS attack
by The Neon Noodle
It has recently come to my attention that DoS attacks occur mostly during summer, which is likely due to kids being out of school. My solution then is to STOP SUMMER FROM COMING. Thank you.
Actors and animators will merge into one profession
That's already been happening since the beginning of the animated motion picture. Maybe you should pick up the book Acting for Animators by Ed Hooks. He's an actor who trains animators how to act. He's done it in PDI for Antz and a bunch of other companies.
Also, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (2 of the original "Nine Old Men of Disney") speak about this in their book The Illusion of Life:
"Basically, the animator is the actor in animated films. He is many other things as well; however, in his efforts to communicate his ideas, acting becomes his most important device." - The Illusion of Life
I got an idea, why dont we get the Romans back to help these people out!
Reg:...And what have they ever
given us in return?
Rebel2: The aquaduct?
Reg: What?
Rebel2: The aquaduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That's true, yeah.
Rebel3: And sanitation.
Loretta: Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aquaduct , the santation are two
things the Romans have done...
Mathias: And the roads.
Reg: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads, I mean the roads go without saying,
don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aquaduct, and the
roads...
Rebel4: Irrigation.
Rebel2: Medcine.
Rebel5: Education.
Reg: Yeah, yeah, all right. Fair enough...
Rebel1: And the wine.
Rebels: Oh, yeah
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, That's something that we'd really miss, Reg, if the
Romans left, huh.
Rebel6: Public baths.
Loretta: And it's safe to walk the in streets at night now Reg.
Francis: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, the only
ones who could in a place like this.
PFJ: Huhuhuh. Huhuhuhuhuh.
Reg: All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education,
wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and
public health... What have the Romans ever done for us?
Rebel2: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace. Shaddup.
I doubt that a few people disabling the advertising is going to put the web site out of business... Most people don't care about the advertisements or care but don't know how to get rid of them. So feel free to turn the advertisements off - there will be no repercussions.
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The biggest problem I've had with the desktop in Linux were the crappy aliased fonts in pretty much every program. Did the latest version of KDE fix this or does it have to be fixed in XFree86?
Don't knock Pointy Haired Boss Weekly. It's really a great magazine once you get passed the FUD... and the pointy hair.
I don't know what file sharing you're doing but mine involves nothing but copyrighted mp3s and porn.
Another text suggests driving the sword into the belly of a muscular slave.
as you can see, you left out a very important word... muscular. Something which Microsoft middle managers are far from.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of there... oh wait, nevermind.
Sequels that are actually better than the original.
Yes, Lord of the Rings is being shot the same way. All 3 parts are being shot together.
These matches are unfair! Computers playing chess, of course the human is gonna win, it's a damn human game. How bout we even it up a little by having Kramnik beat Deep Fritz in a game of BATTLE BOTS!
Yep, I could see that happening! Teeny Boppers all over the world trading classics like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Moby Dick, Shakespeare with their online friends because the writer is "speaking to them"
No one says that Star Wars is a great movie in the respects of great dialogue, great plot, great acting, great cinematography, etc. Star Wars is considered a great movie because it was practically the first of it's kind and it was a complete surprise when it came out. When you're 10 - 15 years old, you don't need a lot to convince yourself that a movie is great, just a couple of explosions, and some cool characters/role models. I don't care how cliche Han Solos dialogue was or how archetypal his personality was, I want to be Han Solo! Blasting people away on the Death Star, running around with a huge man-dog, and completing kessel runs in less than 12 parsecs! I also want to be able to cut peoples arms off in bars with a lightsaber and use jedi mind tricks to get girls!
Of course there are better movies out there in terms of pure filmmaking genious, but not many got into the hearts and minds of young people back in 77. Not many got kids picking up varous plastic tubes and recreating lightsaber fights in their kitchen. But that's what Star Wars did and that's why it's considered great.
Lucas tried to recreate the experience for todays kids with TPM but it just didn't work. You can't recreate the mysticism and originality of Star Wars today because everything's been done already. Todays kids have their role models in the Power Rangers or Pokemon. Lucas shouldv'e just stayed true to the fans and made a sequel for the people that have been waiting 10 years for it.
what about taking into account the trend of leaving a lot of things up to the graphics card. That figure would drop tremendously when we realtime raytracing, and a whole slew of other rendering tricks right on the card.
You lucky bastard... I didn't get one freakin SirCam virus e-mail... nobody loves me and all my friends are probably dumber than CmdrTaco's and all use outlook... When these virus writers write a damn e-mail spreading virus, they better make damn sure it spreads everywhere. It prevents hurt feelings that way... It's been a sad week.
Someone posted a reply about how this technology can be used to dub foreign movies with the actors original voice but in a different language. This reminds me of the Universal Translators from Star Trek. Can it be possible in a few years when processors are much powerful to instantaneously convert your speech to text, then run it through a translator and then convert it back to your original voice? That would be pretty damn cool. A couple of years back, I was thinking about how ridiculous the translators were but now it seems pretty close. IBM also has a commercial using something like this where some foreigners call this girls father about some shipping problems and she speaks to them in English and it automatically gets translated... my friends, the future is here.
a pop-up ad on an article talking about the evils of pop-up ads
What about when LucasFilms decide to create real lightsaber swords? Their trademark will be lost, they'll have to rename the damn thing or worse, not even make it and the hopes and dreams of every Star Wars geek is gonna get ruined. And all this just because some damn medical company wanted to infringe some damn copyright
Playing video games might make them smarter but it also makes them KILLERS! What price do we have to pay to have smarter kids? WHAT PRICE?!
well at least we have some chance to survive so we won't have to make our time!
the high resolution of the monitor coupled with the extrmely low resolution of the goatse.cx image would probably make the image smaller than the human eye can see... so no problems there.
and sometimes, not even that.
"I noticed most of these attacks happening in the summer time...I've written a paper on stopping DoS attacks "
I've also written a paper on how to stop the problem... I have posted it for everyones convenience:
Stopping DoS attack
by The Neon Noodle
It has recently come to my attention that DoS attacks occur mostly during summer, which is likely due to kids being out of school. My solution then is to STOP SUMMER FROM COMING. Thank you.
Actors and animators will merge into one profession
That's already been happening since the beginning of the animated motion picture. Maybe you should pick up the book Acting for Animators by Ed Hooks. He's an actor who trains animators how to act. He's done it in PDI for Antz and a bunch of other companies.
Also, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (2 of the original "Nine Old Men of Disney") speak about this in their book The Illusion of Life:
"Basically, the animator is the actor in animated films. He is many other things as well; however, in his efforts to communicate his ideas, acting becomes his most important device." - The Illusion of Life
Wasn't it the rays of the yellow sun as opposed to the red sun of krypton that gave all of these people their powers.
I got an idea, why dont we get the Romans back to help these people out!
...And what have they ever
Reg:
given us in return?
Rebel2: The aquaduct?
Reg: What?
Rebel2: The aquaduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That's true, yeah.
Rebel3: And sanitation.
Loretta: Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aquaduct , the santation are two
things the Romans have done...
Mathias: And the roads.
Reg: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads, I mean the roads go without saying,
don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aquaduct, and the
roads...
Rebel4: Irrigation.
Rebel2: Medcine.
Rebel5: Education.
Reg: Yeah, yeah, all right. Fair enough...
Rebel1: And the wine.
Rebels: Oh, yeah
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, That's something that we'd really miss, Reg, if the
Romans left, huh.
Rebel6: Public baths.
Loretta: And it's safe to walk the in streets at night now Reg.
Francis: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, the only
ones who could in a place like this.
PFJ: Huhuhuh. Huhuhuhuhuh.
Reg: All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education,
wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and
public health... What have the Romans ever done for us?
Rebel2: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace. Shaddup.
From Monty Python's Life of Brian.
I doubt that a few people disabling the advertising is going to put the web site out of business... Most people don't care about the advertisements or care but don't know how to get rid of them. So feel free to turn the advertisements off - there will be no repercussions.
Zoidberg: Young lady, I am an expert on humans! Now, open your mouth and say "wubba wubba wubba."
Fry: Wubba, wubba, wubba
Zoidberg: What?! My mother was a SAINT! GET OUT!!