My creative nomad muvo had a hardware problem where it wouldn't work with my nice new shiny NForce2 Mobo, and five months later creative released a firmware update that solved the problem.
The possibility of such a brain leads us to question what we can call real. Is our entire life just simulated? Would we be able to tell? Does it even matter?
I think that last question was the one that I thought was most interesting. There is an old philosophical concept that if a man spends his entire life in one room he will never miss what he doesn't know about. As cypher said in the Matrix, "gnorance is bliss".
There really is nothing new under the sun y'know, everything is derivative in one way or another. The influences on the music of the beatles are all obvious, but we don't credit those influences for their music do we ?.
You can take the film apart and analyse each element but the fact is that the Wachkowski brothers were the people who put it all together and brought it to the mainstream. Inevitably they are going to get credit.
Might make you a bit lazy though, imagine getting used to it and then staying around a friends house. You would wonder why the telly doesn't come on when you enter the living room.
Say a P2P System broke a file into X bit chunks each with a unique id.
Then, instead of two people making a transaction of a copyrighted file, they just trade the "recipie" for assembling this file off the distributed system.
Maybe I'm being really dense but how does this differ from packets and TCP/IP ?.
When VHS established dominance of the video market, there were high barriers to change - your player and media were committed to that format. There are far less barriers to change in the ripped audio format, although there will still be some inertia, but there is nothing* to stop ogg vorbis becoming the dominant format.
I think you underestimate the dominant position that mp3 currently has. Most people's digital music collections are in mp3, is it really worth rencoding from the source into ogg ? (especially when large collections are concerned). What if the original CD is scratched or lost (or maybe you never really had a copy). And of course goign straight from ogg to mp3 would lower the quality which kind of defeats the whole point.
If mp3 and ogg vorbis ever became mutually exclusive because the people who own the licensing rights to mp3 don't want mp3 players that can play vorbis as well, then you could well end up with a situation like VHS vs. Betamax. It doesn't seem all that likely right now I'll admit.
The rumour I heard was that Emimnem has been lined up to play JC Denton.
They are going to ruin one of my favourite coputer games, I just know it.
Actually DX is probably one of my most favourite media experiences ever. Even the most absorbing films can't reach the kind of immersiveness that DX managed.
90% of world music is not copyrighted. If you describe napster as a music sharing service (which it was) then you can't say it was intended to violate copyrights. It's what its users did with it that is wrong, not the tool.
The car analogy is very compelling, cars are responisble for many deaths all around the world every day, are the car manafacturers liable ?.
The worst thing about it was the script, not the overall story just the dialogue mainly. It was all too predictable, by dumbing the story down and trying to satisfy the fanboys they created a very generic formula comic book film.
Saying all that I kinda enjoyed it, though most of the good bits were ripped off from Tim Burtons first Batman film.
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My creative nomad muvo had a hardware problem where it wouldn't work with my nice new shiny NForce2 Mobo, and five months later creative released a firmware update that solved the problem.
How many kids even know what burlap IS?
I'm an adult and I don't know what it is... (i'm sure it is prolly very funny tho)
Time to count the number of austin powers posts...
"Nasa along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency have launched a towards Saturn
A car ?, a piece of fruit ?, a major new military offensive ?. Please don't tell me it's just a boring old probe.
If it isn't making money then what use is it ?.
The possibility of such a brain leads us to question what we can call real. Is our entire life just simulated? Would we be able to tell? Does it even matter?
I think that last question was the one that I thought was most interesting. There is an old philosophical concept that if a man spends his entire life in one room he will never miss what he doesn't know about. As cypher said in the Matrix, "gnorance is bliss".
There really is nothing new under the sun y'know, everything is derivative in one way or another. The influences on the music of the beatles are all obvious, but we don't credit those influences for their music do we ?.
You can take the film apart and analyse each element but the fact is that the Wachkowski brothers were the people who put it all together and brought it to the mainstream. Inevitably they are going to get credit.
In fact, the only version of the movie Babe [imdb.com] that is available on DVD is pan/scan, so my wife and I won't buy it.
They probably thought that anyone who is old enough to married wouldn't buy that film, and of course kids don't care about aspect ratio's.
This is the first time US Astronauts have ever landed outside of the US.
I thought the moon people landed in the middle of the atlantic, does the US own that now ?.
Might make you a bit lazy though, imagine getting used to it and then staying around a friends house. You would wonder why the telly doesn't come on when you enter the living room.
Say a P2P System broke a file into X bit chunks each with a unique id.
Then, instead of two people making a transaction of a copyrighted file, they just trade the "recipie" for assembling this file off the distributed system.
Maybe I'm being really dense but how does this differ from packets and TCP/IP ?.
When VHS established dominance of the video market, there were high barriers to change - your player and media were committed to that format.
There are far less barriers to change in the ripped audio format, although there will still be some inertia, but there is nothing* to stop ogg vorbis becoming the dominant format.
I think you underestimate the dominant position that mp3 currently has. Most people's digital music collections are in mp3, is it really worth rencoding from the source into ogg ? (especially when large collections are concerned). What if the original CD is scratched or lost (or maybe you never really had a copy). And of course goign straight from ogg to mp3 would lower the quality which kind of defeats the whole point.
If mp3 and ogg vorbis ever became mutually exclusive because the people who own the licensing rights to mp3 don't want mp3 players that can play vorbis as well, then you could well end up with a situation like VHS vs. Betamax. It doesn't seem all that likely right now I'll admit.
Troll ?!?
I read it in the uk edition of PC Gamer a couple of months back.
The rumour I heard was that Emimnem has been lined up to play JC Denton.
They are going to ruin one of my favourite coputer games, I just know it.
Actually DX is probably one of my most favourite media experiences ever. Even the most absorbing films can't reach the kind of immersiveness that DX managed.
yeah cause there isn't mass looting in baghdad and loads of people suffering in poorly equipped hospitals.
Luna is a rogue state, did they join the coalition against terrorism ?, do we need any more proof ?.
I think you meant, "There is no spoon."
do sporks exist ?
sensible people = double plus good.
it was a seal that caused the challenger mishap as well.
90% of world music is not copyrighted. If you describe napster as a music sharing service (which it was) then you can't say it was intended to violate copyrights. It's what its users did with it that is wrong, not the tool.
The car analogy is very compelling, cars are responisble for many deaths all around the world every day, are the car manafacturers liable ?.
Holy crap, we're all next...
haven't they already started prosecuting college students ?
baadoozlewoogleboogle
The pacing was way off too
I would agree with this, it seemed to me that the movie had been cut up and redited several times, much like Batman And Robin.
The worst thing about it was the script, not the overall story just the dialogue mainly. It was all too predictable, by dumbing the story down and trying to satisfy the fanboys they created a very generic formula comic book film.
Saying all that I kinda enjoyed it, though most of the good bits were ripped off from Tim Burtons first Batman film.
especially since it was based on the Quake 1 engine (heavily modified)
Quake II engine actually.