What about movies like Triple X, Legally Blonde 2, and Van Helsing, where the stories and dialogue are written by computer too?
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I read somewhere that Spider was modeled after Hunter S. Thompson. This makes sense to me, but was it your intention? Besides the similarities in their characters, the only overt connection I have found is that in #13 (Year of the Bastard) one of the books on Spider's desk is a book by Hunter S. Thompson. So, what is it? Same person, or coincidence? And, if Spider is modeled on Thompson, do you know how he feels about this?
First of all, I'd just like to say that I absolutely love Transmetropolitan. I'd never read a single comic before it, or any other since. But that's not the point.
My question is, I've noticed at least two fairly obscure pop culture references in the artwork. The first is that the Diner in #32 (The Walk) is modeled after Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. The other, and my favorite, is that in #33 (Dancing in the Here and Now) there's a frame in which a man seems to be impersonating Tom Waits in a photo of him that I have only ever seen on the cover of his book of sheet music.
The Hopper image seems fairly accessible, but I was really suprised to see the Tom Waits one. It was only by force of sheer coincidence that I ever noticed it.
My question, then, is twofold. First of all, is it you who is responsible for these, or is it Darick Robertson, the artist? Second, do you think you could maybe point out some others that I missed?
Computer programmers are not that unfairly represented -- at least not any more so than librarians, football players, polititicans, fraternity members, Arabs, Texans or Woody Allen. Seriously, grow up. And I don't give a shit how much freaking karma I lose for this.
My computer crashed a few weeks ago, with years worth of school work and mp3s on it. In the process of trying to recover it I accidentally... started reformating. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot. It only got to about 2% before I shut it off. Anyway, how do I retrieve the data on the disk? Can I send it somewhere? Can I do it myself? How? How much will it cost?
At my high school they serve Mozilla across the network. It seems to work pretty well, and they control the things that you seem to want control over. Sorry I can't provide more technical details; my experience with the system pretty much extends to trying to get past the swear-word censorware. Anyway, server-side deployment might be something to look into.
Please hook up with a company to mass-produce these.
I just bought my third typewriter last week. I love the action those keyboards have, much better to get the creative juices flowing than a sterile Lite-ON. I was actually thinking in passing about hacking one to work as a computer keyboard, but I couldn't think of a way to make it work. You have. Sell them. It would be so cool.
Look, I don't buy that goofy illuminati crap about NASA never going to the moon, only faking it for publicity or to scare the soviets or to win a game of checkers or whatever. But there's one question I've never seen satisfactorily addressed. Perhaps there is a really good answer that I just haven't heard, and if so, please provide it. Anyway, why _does_ the flag wave when placed in the ground if there is no atmosphere?
I said this once before and got modded troll, but I'll try it again. It Seems To Me like Moores law, practically at least, has already failed. I'm not operating under scientific data here, but listen: It was about this time 4 years ago that AMD introduced the first 1 Ghz chip. Today the best you can buy (I think) is 2.4 Ghz, from Intel. In four years the speed should have doubled nearly 3 times, which would put us at 8 Ghz. So unless I'm missing something here, Moore is already dead.
Motherfucker. What the fuck? Jesus Christ. Shit. I now have no respect for law enforcement, not that I ever had very much. Holy crap. What a freaking bunch of morons. Motherfucker. Shit.
Often the most important part of a slashdotted article are its pictures. (Pictures of homemade roller coasters, case mods, explosions, et hoc genus omne.) Google doesn't cache pictures.
If you don't like it, turn off your cell phone. Send messages by pigeon, use a cup and string to talk to your friends, be a hermit.
Don't you get it? That isn't the point. It doesn't matter anymore if you use a cellphone or even own one. This technology uses cell towers like radar dishes to view an image of ANYONE and ANYTHING within range. You simply can't avoid it.
In the past, all or most of technology-related privacy concerns have differed from this one in a single simple aspect: you basically had to be an active user of whatever technology was exploiting your privacy to be vulnerable to it. Therefore in order for your credit card to be stolen online, it needed to, at some point be transmitted via an online purchase or transaction. More to the point, you actually had to OWN a credit card. A person with all his wealth in gold buried in his back yard had nothing to fear from hackers and the Y2K bug.
Similarly, spam, web tracking, email monitoring, phone tapping, phone-based GPS geo-location; all of these invasions could, by eschewing the technologies involved and choosing to live a simpler, less connected life, be avoided. The sacrifice involved was significant, but not unmanagable.
If technologies like these become acceptable forms of populace control, this axiom of "it only affects you if you use it" will no longer apply. A technophobe with no phone line and no electricity living in a cold-water flat in London will still be vulnerable to electronic espionage. The current range of this technology is anywhere cellular service is available. Considering I was able to make a call this summer from the peak of a 5000 meter isolated mountain top in the remote Italian alps, I find this idea truly terrifying.
The UK has, in recent years, been a bellweather for survaillance practices worldwide. As an American citizen beginning to see the sort of widespread video survaillance now common to those living in England, I make a simple plea to any UK citizens reading: Do anything within your power to stop this. Write letters, mail threatening powders, strip in front of parliment. (Note: don't mail powder. thats a bad idea) Anything to keep this idea from gaining a foothold. I ask this of you so that you aren't subjected to it, but also so that it doesn't eventually bleed into my country.
I guess I don't really know, but I'm assuming that the supreme court justices aren't treated like jurors and are allowed to keep up in the world. If that's true, and any of them happen upon Mr. Lessig's blog, I can't imagine them finishing it unswayed: not only are his arguments logical and convincing (as I'm sure they were in court, which is why this point is redundant from the POV of a justice), his writing is CONSTANTLY complimenting the court for it's treatment of the issues, from any angle possible. When the court refuses to go along with his ideas, they're exercising "rare and valuable restraint" about deciding when they can exercise their powers. When they agree with him on a point they're demonstrating understanding of his case.
If I didn't agree with Lessig about most everything he's arguing, I'd call him a hopeless sophist, using flattery and reciporical(sp?) reasoning to draw the court into his camp. As it stands, I'm glad we have such a great speaker and convincing logician taking _our_ side for once.
Actually, they claim to be using 12 normal car batteries (no word on what brand...) and there's a rumor on a news site that "Tilley may have replicated a Tesla process and created an electromagnetic vacuum that draws heretofore untapped energy from the atmosphere." So it wouldn't really be perpetual motion per se, just sort of free energy. In fact, an interesting event took place today at the track (apparantly) where the car was totally stopped due to a broken bearing or something but the batteries kept on charging.
I desperately want to believe this, but I'm not going to yet. Everyone else can make up their own minds.
Tilley wouldn't go into details about his innovation although he said he admired Tesla's work. From that, [reporter] Meland concluded that Tilley may have replicated a Tesla process and created an electromagnetic vacuum that draws heretofore untapped energy from the atmosphere.
So there you go. It's not technically a perpetual motion device, just practically one. Still doesn't change the fact that this thing stinks of negative ions...
don't be stupid. the geek speak is used primarily in dialogue, and realistically at that. he's not being lazy; he's being representational. besides, the plot devices are compelling and so on (well, arguably, I guess)
At the very least this work was not a work of masturbation. That just doesn't make any sense.
I remember I was in eighth grade when Intel announced their first gigahertz chip. It's been nearly four years, or well over 36 months; according to Moores law Intel should be selling chips faster than 4 gigahertz. What's going on?
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What about movies like Triple X, Legally Blonde 2, and Van Helsing, where the stories and dialogue are written by computer too?
I read somewhere that Spider was modeled after Hunter S. Thompson. This makes sense to me, but was it your intention? Besides the similarities in their characters, the only overt connection I have found is that in #13 (Year of the Bastard) one of the books on Spider's desk is a book by Hunter S. Thompson. So, what is it? Same person, or coincidence? And, if Spider is modeled on Thompson, do you know how he feels about this?
My question is, I've noticed at least two fairly obscure pop culture references in the artwork. The first is that the Diner in #32 (The Walk) is modeled after Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. The other, and my favorite, is that in #33 (Dancing in the Here and Now) there's a frame in which a man seems to be impersonating Tom Waits in a photo of him that I have only ever seen on the cover of his book of sheet music.
The Hopper image seems fairly accessible, but I was really suprised to see the Tom Waits one. It was only by force of sheer coincidence that I ever noticed it.
My question, then, is twofold. First of all, is it you who is responsible for these, or is it Darick Robertson, the artist? Second, do you think you could maybe point out some others that I missed?
Once again, thanks for your work.
Computer programmers are not that unfairly represented -- at least not any more so than librarians, football players, polititicans, fraternity members, Arabs, Texans or Woody Allen. Seriously, grow up. And I don't give a shit how much freaking karma I lose for this.
Dave -
What did you think of the movie they made out of Big Trouble?
Joe
I was going to write something in response to this article. But then you wrote this, and there is no longer a need.
My computer crashed a few weeks ago, with years worth of school work and mp3s on it. In the process of trying to recover it I accidentally... started reformating. Yes, I know, I'm an idiot. It only got to about 2% before I shut it off. Anyway, how do I retrieve the data on the disk? Can I send it somewhere? Can I do it myself? How? How much will it cost?
At my high school they serve Mozilla across the network. It seems to work pretty well, and they control the things that you seem to want control over. Sorry I can't provide more technical details; my experience with the system pretty much extends to trying to get past the swear-word censorware. Anyway, server-side deployment might be something to look into.
Please hook up with a company to mass-produce these.
I just bought my third typewriter last week. I love the action those keyboards have, much better to get the creative juices flowing than a sterile Lite-ON. I was actually thinking in passing about hacking one to work as a computer keyboard, but I couldn't think of a way to make it work. You have. Sell them. It would be so cool.
Look, I don't buy that goofy illuminati crap about NASA never going to the moon, only faking it for publicity or to scare the soviets or to win a game of checkers or whatever. But there's one question I've never seen satisfactorily addressed. Perhaps there is a really good answer that I just haven't heard, and if so, please provide it. Anyway, why _does_ the flag wave when placed in the ground if there is no atmosphere?
I said this once before and got modded troll, but I'll try it again. It Seems To Me like Moores law, practically at least, has already failed. I'm not operating under scientific data here, but listen: It was about this time 4 years ago that AMD introduced the first 1 Ghz chip. Today the best you can buy (I think) is 2.4 Ghz, from Intel. In four years the speed should have doubled nearly 3 times, which would put us at 8 Ghz. So unless I'm missing something here, Moore is already dead.
Not that I really disagree with anything you're saying, but Sam's Club (brother store to Wal-Mart) does charge a cover to shop there.
Seems like you're in high school. How do you get away with carrying knives? If you've figured out a brilliant secret please key me in.
Motherfucker. What the fuck? Jesus Christ. Shit. I now have no respect for law enforcement, not that I ever had very much. Holy crap. What a freaking bunch of morons. Motherfucker. Shit.
Often the most important part of a slashdotted article are its pictures. (Pictures of homemade roller coasters, case mods, explosions, et hoc genus omne.) Google doesn't cache pictures.
If you don't like it, turn off your cell phone. Send messages by pigeon, use a cup and string to talk to your friends, be a hermit.
Don't you get it? That isn't the point. It doesn't matter anymore if you use a cellphone or even own one. This technology uses cell towers like radar dishes to view an image of ANYONE and ANYTHING within range. You simply can't avoid it.
In the past, all or most of technology-related privacy concerns have differed from this one in a single simple aspect: you basically had to be an active user of whatever technology was exploiting your privacy to be vulnerable to it. Therefore in order for your credit card to be stolen online, it needed to, at some point be transmitted via an online purchase or transaction. More to the point, you actually had to OWN a credit card. A person with all his wealth in gold buried in his back yard had nothing to fear from hackers and the Y2K bug.
Similarly, spam, web tracking, email monitoring, phone tapping, phone-based GPS geo-location; all of these invasions could, by eschewing the technologies involved and choosing to live a simpler, less connected life, be avoided. The sacrifice involved was significant, but not unmanagable.
If technologies like these become acceptable forms of populace control, this axiom of "it only affects you if you use it" will no longer apply. A technophobe with no phone line and no electricity living in a cold-water flat in London will still be vulnerable to electronic espionage. The current range of this technology is anywhere cellular service is available. Considering I was able to make a call this summer from the peak of a 5000 meter isolated mountain top in the remote Italian alps, I find this idea truly terrifying.
The UK has, in recent years, been a bellweather for survaillance practices worldwide. As an American citizen beginning to see the sort of widespread video survaillance now common to those living in England, I make a simple plea to any UK citizens reading: Do anything within your power to stop this. Write letters, mail threatening powders, strip in front of parliment. (Note: don't mail powder. thats a bad idea) Anything to keep this idea from gaining a foothold. I ask this of you so that you aren't subjected to it, but also so that it doesn't eventually bleed into my country.
I guess I don't really know, but I'm assuming that the supreme court justices aren't treated like jurors and are allowed to keep up in the world. If that's true, and any of them happen upon Mr. Lessig's blog, I can't imagine them finishing it unswayed: not only are his arguments logical and convincing (as I'm sure they were in court, which is why this point is redundant from the POV of a justice), his writing is CONSTANTLY complimenting the court for it's treatment of the issues, from any angle possible. When the court refuses to go along with his ideas, they're exercising "rare and valuable restraint" about deciding when they can exercise their powers. When they agree with him on a point they're demonstrating understanding of his case.
If I didn't agree with Lessig about most everything he's arguing, I'd call him a hopeless sophist, using flattery and reciporical(sp?) reasoning to draw the court into his camp. As it stands, I'm glad we have such a great speaker and convincing logician taking _our_ side for once.
I'm pretty sure they still shoot supervillains... or promote them.
Or elect them.
Actually, they claim to be using 12 normal car batteries (no word on what brand...) and there's a rumor on a news site that "Tilley may have replicated a Tesla process and created an electromagnetic vacuum that draws heretofore untapped energy from the atmosphere." So it wouldn't really be perpetual motion per se, just sort of free energy. In fact, an interesting event took place today at the track (apparantly) where the car was totally stopped due to a broken bearing or something but the batteries kept on charging.
I desperately want to believe this, but I'm not going to yet. Everyone else can make up their own minds.
Tilley wouldn't go into details about his innovation although he said he admired Tesla's work. From that, [reporter] Meland concluded that Tilley may have replicated a Tesla process and created an electromagnetic vacuum that draws heretofore untapped energy from the atmosphere.
So there you go. It's not technically a perpetual motion device, just practically one. Still doesn't change the fact that this thing stinks of negative ions...
The guys that do real stuff at ISS will get an extra cargo package the weight of the unlucky pop singer.
Lance Bass' weight is currently estimated at just under 30 pounds, without hair gel and not including ego.
What's your biggest gripe about the RIAA?
don't be stupid. the geek speak is used primarily in dialogue, and realistically at that. he's not being lazy; he's being representational. besides, the plot devices are compelling and so on (well, arguably, I guess)
At the very least this work was not a work of masturbation. That just doesn't make any sense.
I remember I was in eighth grade when Intel announced their first gigahertz chip. It's been nearly four years, or well over 36 months; according to Moores law Intel should be selling chips faster than 4 gigahertz. What's going on?