A priest, a rabbi, and a Scotsman walk into a bar, and each one orders a beer. As they're drinking their beers, a parrot flies into the bar, perches on the counter, and it orders a beer too! The barman shakes his head and says, "Sorry. We don't serve animals in here." The parrot squawks indignantly and says, "What, doesn't the fact that I can talk count for anything?" "No," the barman replies, "Not at all."
Computers are very sophisticated and fast calculators. They can add numbers blazingly fast and accurate, but you try to get them to discern the meaning behind typed text or to analyze a picture to try to figure out what it is and they simply can't do it, and won't be able to for a very long time.
Hmmm... What if you had a range of colors, covering the world's various skin tones, and filtered images that contain more than a certain percent of any of those colors? Too much skin = image blocked.
>>I think your elitist vision of a net only accessible to the privileged educated few would be quite horrible
Why? Because we can have quality websites filled with stuff that we can appreciate?
Who judges? You? You may not give a rat's ass about Granny Lunkert's county-fair-winning rhubarb pie recipe and photos of "skeeter23"'s huntin' dawg, but their friends and family do. That's the point. The internet isn't just for the 'Technological Elite', it's for everybody, like it or not. That's called "democracy".
Overall, I am disappointed that John Woo decided to direct this movie, because even "Ethan Hunt" isn't the same "Ethan Hunt" anymore.
That's the point, actually. Apparently, Cruise's plan for the franchise is to have each sequel done by a different director, in that director's own personal style. Thus, the Woo MI is completely different from the De Palma MI, and whoever directs the third one will make another, stylistically different, movie.
Let's face it, be it a musician, writer, etc. these people are getting 10% of what we pay. Where does all of that money go? Personally, I'd rather have it go directly to the artists, not to these corporations.
So would I. But removing copyright laws would lower the artists profits to 0. 10% is better than 0.
What about a distribution scheme similar to what Stephen King did with "Riding the Bullet"? Apparently, he made 10 to 20 times the money off of that than he would have made had he sold the story to a regular publisher, even considering the number of copies that got passed around for free. Suppose artists could post their tracks for download, at (say) a buck a song? The customers buy only the songs they want - no crap filler. Not only do the artists get to cut out the middleman and get the profits they deserve, but they get direct feedback from their audience as to which songs are good and which aren't.
>>>>>> > I'd still like them to bring back the Invention > Exchange. That was definitely kool.
Unfortunately, that was uniquely Joel's territory; it was based upon his own patented brand of magic-laced stand up comedy (which is also from where the word "Gizmonic" stems). But who knows what'll happen on the eleventh, eh? Maybe Pearl will even gain a button specifically for Frank to push.
The 'On-Screen' reason for this was that Dr. F and Joel both originally worked at The Gizmonics Institute, where all the employees were constantly inventing things, even the janitors... An invention exchange was the typical greeting at Gizmonics - instead of just saying 'Hello', you would show off your new invention.
Mike never worked at Gizmonics, he was just a temp hired by Dr. F, so he didn't grok the culture.
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A priest, a rabbi, and a Scotsman walk into a bar, and each one orders a beer. As they're drinking their beers, a parrot flies into the bar, perches on the counter, and it orders a beer too! The barman shakes his head and says, "Sorry. We don't serve animals in here." The parrot squawks indignantly and says, "What, doesn't the fact that I can talk count for anything?" "No," the barman replies, "Not at all."
Well, who needs pictures of that stuff anyway? Bah!
Seriously, though, it still beats filtering out all graphics...
--Riff
Computers are very sophisticated and fast calculators. They can add numbers blazingly fast and accurate, but you try to get them to discern the meaning behind typed text or to analyze a picture to try to figure out what it is and they simply can't do it, and won't be able to for a very long time.
Hmmm... What if you had a range of colors, covering the world's various skin tones, and filtered images that contain more than a certain percent of any of those colors? Too much skin = image blocked.
--Riff
>>I think your elitist vision of a net only accessible to the privileged educated few would be quite horrible
Why? Because we can have quality websites filled with stuff that we can appreciate?
Who judges? You? You may not give a rat's ass about Granny Lunkert's county-fair-winning rhubarb pie recipe and photos of "skeeter23"'s huntin' dawg, but their friends and family do. That's the point. The internet isn't just for the 'Technological Elite', it's for everybody, like it or not. That's called "democracy".
--Riff
Overall, I am disappointed that John Woo decided to direct this movie, because even "Ethan Hunt" isn't the same "Ethan Hunt" anymore.
That's the point, actually. Apparently, Cruise's plan for the franchise is to have each sequel done by a different director, in that director's own personal style. Thus, the Woo MI is completely different from the De Palma MI, and whoever directs the third one will make another, stylistically different, movie.
--Riff
Let's face it, be it a musician, writer, etc. these people are getting 10% of what we pay. Where does all of that money go? Personally, I'd rather have it go directly to the artists, not to these corporations.
So would I. But removing copyright laws would lower the artists profits to 0. 10% is better than 0.
What about a distribution scheme similar to what Stephen King did with "Riding the Bullet"? Apparently, he made 10 to 20 times the money off of that than he would have made had he sold the story to a regular publisher, even considering the number of copies that got passed around for free. Suppose artists could post their tracks for download, at (say) a buck a song? The customers buy only the songs they want - no crap filler. Not only do the artists get to cut out the middleman and get the profits they deserve, but they get direct feedback from their audience as to which songs are good and which aren't.
--Riff
>>>>>>
> I'd still like them to bring back the Invention
> Exchange. That was definitely kool.
Unfortunately, that was uniquely Joel's territory; it was based upon his own patented brand of magic-laced stand up comedy (which is also from where the word "Gizmonic" stems). But who knows what'll happen on the eleventh, eh? Maybe Pearl will even gain a button specifically for Frank to push.
The 'On-Screen' reason for this was that Dr. F and Joel both originally worked at The Gizmonics Institute, where all the employees were constantly inventing things, even the janitors... An invention exchange was the typical greeting at Gizmonics - instead of just saying 'Hello', you would show off your new invention.
Mike never worked at Gizmonics, he was just a temp hired by Dr. F, so he didn't grok the culture.