I'd love to know what illiad and other "known" artist/toonists/etc. think about drawing women... in specific, how to deal with the women around them who feel the need to comment and critique they way you draw the female figure (in all it's forms, of course... this was added to destroy the inevitable "female figure? there's not just one!" replies).
Heck, maybe it's just bad memories of 6th grad art class when you are forced to draw sketches of your classmates, and you felt obligated to draw in a turtleneck sweater and jacket just so you could avoid the topic of their breasts altogether. However, I imagine that most comic artists and 3d-modelers for modern video games have to put up with a fair ammount of ribbing about how large or small they create figures for their characters.
To hell with them all! I hope a real hacker teaches them a lesson over this!
Maybe "real" hackers are the reason everyone's got their panties in a bunch and refuse to listen to reason when things like this happen... The mentality of "you can't trust anyone" seems to be becoming more prevalent at an accelerated rate. I guess trading the info on IRC for SupaL337WhaCKaB0mB2K2.com would have realized a truer sense of justice, eh?
(The sad part is that I can't decide if I'm being sarcastic or not...)
well, it all depends. the "perfect" flawless cg give the movie a comic-book feel, which is what spiderman is all about anyway. if it were lifelike/realistic, then it would not work as well for the true comic book fans.
Exactly. If I wanted that, I'd watch old reruns of The Electric Company on Noggin.
Um, hate to be the frist to tell you, but it's a COMIC BOOK.
Thank you. I'm getting sick of seeing people bitch about how unrealistic this was or how predictable that was. Come on... That's part of the fun of it. The movie is paying homage to the comic. Y'know, those cheesy pulp stories printed on cheap paper (at least back in the day). We read those things to escape reality, not complain about every little thing that "couldn't possibly happen". Of course it couldn't possibly happen. That's why they're Superheroes (and supervillans). Doesn't the phrase "Suspension of Disbelief" mean anything to you knitpickers? Sheesh.
Just for the record, has anyone here seen any 'sexually explicit' computer games??? I've yet to see one, 'cept for that Sega game where the anime bimbos in crotch-high boots do mega-split-roundhouse-kicks.
Ironically, while the lure of tiny tokens has shaped history and led scientists to unravel much of the riddle of the atom, the existence of the prizes themselves is perhaps the greatest mystery facing physics today. Who, they still wonder, put the prizes there?
Many have proposed theories. Einstein thought it was aliens. Niels Bohr suspected it was Einstein. Ernest Rutherford conjectured that the prizes were natural formations.
But most physicists today accept the argument espoused by Nobel laureate Ernest Walton, who along with John Cockcroft split the atom in 1932. In early 1946, Walton was thrilled to discover a decoder ring and secret message inside a carbon atom. After four days of painstaking work, he finally deciphered the message: "Sorry," it read, "you're not a winner. Try again."
[SPOILER ALERT] Actually, it's an entire arm [theforce.net]. [/SPOILER ALERT]
Wow... Think how powerful Vader woulda been if he'd still had all those midichlorians that were lost with his arm. Maybe he would've actually won in the final battle.
I do. I want Chewie on mine. Roowwwrrrrr-arrrarrr....
There's so many kickass things that could be done. I really liked the Bobba Fett Graphics, just didn't like the shape of those particular axes. I think the Millenium Falcon would be a pretty sweet graphic as well....or an X-Wing. And what about Yoda? "Your licks, learned, you have not."
My favorite part is Savenow which you agree to install along with the beta of Morpheus. Windows started locking up. I'm kinda suprised it's been running fine. After I install morpheus beta, machine locks up, morpheus beta is not running, machine locks up. hmmm. check the run line in the registry, yes morpheus dropped more free "stuff" with the install. again. Under windows 2000 it's: hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windo ws\curr entversion\run\savenow.exe and default install to: c:\program files\savenow\ It's also in add/remove if you like doing things the easy way.
Uhhh... No. I didn't get it. Just installed it a couple of hours ago. No savenow. Anywhere. Period.
Not that it matters that I speak my piece. Nobody listens to me anyway. I get no score. Ever. Don't know why. Guess I should just make a new user ID or something.
"However, Nenad Bicanic of the University of Glasgow says that the structure may be feasible. But he says precautions would be needed to ensure skiers could not be pulled into the mechanism at the top of the slope."
I think I'll let them work the bugs out first.
Yeah? Who is this Nenad guy anyway? He could be a janitor of the Uni of Glasgow for all I know. He is the guy (IIRC) that sugguested that people may get dizzy from this. I'm not sure how you get dizzy staying (relatively) in the same spot while the ground moves _under_ you...
I'm pretty sure anyone who is capable of carving (ie., has at least a couple years experience) wouldn't waste their time on this. It sounds like a tool that would be more successful at teaching beginners who are too afraid to actually start moving on real snow, since this thing could be stopped whenever they want.
I'm not so sure about that... At least real snow stays still. Did you see the size of this planned slope in the article? 13 stories tall! I'm too lazy to do the math to figure out what the diameter might be assuming about a 20 - 30 degree slope but that's got to be huge. It also looks to be setup like a little mock resort. I really really doubt that this thing would be stopped anytime someone wanted....
It does bring up another interesting question, though. What happens when someone can't figure out how to stand back up on their skis and it just sweeps them back around to the snow guns?
Then, of course, the states could hire the equivalent of a hieroglyphics expert to translate it.
To which they'd immediately be sued due to DMCA violations. Can't be out reverse-engineering stuff and breaking wingding encryption now, can we? Hmmmmm?
Granted, I don't know a lot of cops but I know a few. The few that I know usually have better things to do than hang out in the park with their music sniffer and bust people swapping tunes. You're right, it probably is a pretty simple system to thwart. I just don't think it'd be enforced. It's pretty simple to find out who's serving things up on the net, too. It's not very often you actually hear of busts, though. Come to think of it, I'd probably not be very happy if my tax dollars were going to pay salaries for people to monitor parks for people swapping music when those same people could be out investigating a missing person or homocide or something more threatening to our safety and well-being.
This could be a GB/GBA killer... espically if they release a Devkit that can be used under linux, BSD, and that other operating system...
Oh yes a devkit for Linux and *BSD should be a high priority for anyone trying to create a GB/GBA killer. I know my 10 year old cousin makes all his purchases based on whether or not there is a Linux devkit.
// Sarcasm ends here
Maybe not right now. What's going to happen when he's played enough games and he decides he wants to make his own? He's sure as hell not gonna make it on a GBA. Ten was probably about the age that I started coding. Granted, I wasn't making games for a hand-held console, but then again, that kind of tech wasn't around (for Joe Consumer) sixteen years ago, either. I sort of lost interest in programming to hardware but if I'd had this kind of stuff to play with, there's a serious chance I would've stuck with it. The nice thing about these being open is that people will (probably) pick 'em up in a couple of years for under a hundred bucks and by then, there will be so many tools, you won't have to buy any games for it.
Maybe the real question to think about is not how legal it is to pick open your lock or to even own the tools to pick a lock (would that count bobby-pins?).
but if using lockpicking skills to commit a crime, that increases the penalties, because you demonstrated specialized knowledge.
...to commit a crime. The question is: Is opening that lock a crime in and of itself? What if you run around, open the padlocks on people's sheds but never even open the door? There, you've used the skills to open a lock but was there a crime? Nothing was taken. There wasn't even any entry. In essence, nothing's any different than if there hadn't even been a lock to begin with. Maybe the crime is just in demonstrating specialized knowledge...
Kinda reminds me of the Salem witch trials sometimes...
I'm also in the same boat (along with the guy from Copper). I work as sysadmin for a set of Hotels in Vail. One nice thing, tho. I love the time and a half holiday pay! I did all my Christmas stuff with my family this previous weekend, though. My mom also had to work so we got together a few days early. When I got to work yesterday, I found out that our computers don't like to work holidays either. Oh well, at least I stayed busy enough not to think about what day it was...
That sounds like another case of the feds "Mitnicking" again - arbitrarily multiplying the damage reports for the sake of making things sound more serious.
1TB? come on. Maybe a seven drive external SCSI enclosure filled with 150GB drives. Otherwise, how would they do it? I'm no warez expert, how could you even get more than six 120GB HDs in a computer (assuming four IDE channels, a CDROM and a CDRW, leaving six free for those 120GB HDs... and four or five hundred CDRs besides?)
A couple hundred megs, maybe. But I highly doubt more than a handful of those computers were terabyte plus capacity (one to two terabytes... as the original poster suggests). I don't condone warezing, but I don't want to see the kids get lynched for a billion dollars of theft, either.
Typical sensationalism. I bet there's an awful lot of us that were at one point either FTP siteops or into the warez scene to some degree... its almost like a rite of passage for the internet-inclined. (donning flame suit)
I think a terrabye or two is reasonable. What they're probably counting is installed size. Typically, you can download something well under a 100 MB. By the time you get done unzipping, unraring, unacing, running the mp3 -> wav converters, and any other bundled warez utilz you can top 500 megs easy. With a 5:1 compression ratio, you could easily have a 'terrabye' of warez on a couple of 100Gig drives... So, while they probably are Mitnicking it, they can probably (at least to themselves and their superiors) justify it.
You have to be pretty stupid to pass up a chance to learn. Some one who needs a reason to pay attention doesn't belong in school.
Come back when you're 40; most folks have gotten over their superiority complexes by then and are ready to learn. Some of my most interested students have been older than me, but few have been younger.
Looks like your superiority complex is still alive and kickin'...
I've gotta give this thing mad props, too. I just got mine yesterday and it's more than I expected. I knew it was going to be a small unit, but I didn't really realize how small it was going to be.
They even included a nice little neoprene carrying case and four 'NEXkins' (different colors of little paper inserts for looks) for it. I got mine with a 128 MB CF card and all I did was throw some batteries in, plug in the CF card and plug it in through the USB port. Under Win2000, it was instantly recognized and added as a drive. They don't try and make you use anykind of proprietary software (but they do bundle it with Win Media Player 7 and Media Jukebox) and they proudly advertise that they are Non-SDMI. There is a cool little spectrum display and it's backlit by a pretty blue light. It recognizes the tags, can handle repeat one, all, or shuffle or can be programmed. Battery life is supposed to be about 20 hrs. on a pair of AA's, or about 4 hours if you're running a 1GB IBM Microdrive. The unit sounds nice and clear. The volume maxes out at 25, but I've found around 12 to be plenty of volume. Additionally, I like the headphones. They're the type that hook over the tops of your ears and the bar comes down around the back of your neck. I was looking for something to snowboard with and those headphones stay nicely out of the way of my helmet. I originally stumbled across it on E-bay, but I ended up just purchasing it from their homepage. FrontierLabs.
Read this review.
MP3.com liked it too. 5 Stars.
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Heck, maybe it's just bad memories of 6th grad art class when you are forced to draw sketches of your classmates, and you felt obligated to draw in a turtleneck sweater and jacket just so you could avoid the topic of their breasts altogether. However, I imagine that most comic artists and 3d-modelers for modern video games have to put up with a fair ammount of ribbing about how large or small they create figures for their characters.
Heh... There's an answer for that, too. (Thanks Barry!) Angst Technologies
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Maybe "real" hackers are the reason everyone's got their panties in a bunch and refuse to listen to reason when things like this happen... The mentality of "you can't trust anyone" seems to be becoming more prevalent at an accelerated rate. I guess trading the info on IRC for SupaL337WhaCKaB0mB2K2.com would have realized a truer sense of justice, eh? (The sad part is that I can't decide if I'm being sarcastic or not...)
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Death Star Opens Day Care Center
Pure classics. I remember when I first came across them quite some time ago. A couple examples of the few jokes that just don't wear out.
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Find a story to submit to Slashdot!
Exactly. If I wanted that, I'd watch old reruns of The Electric Company on Noggin.
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Thank you. I'm getting sick of seeing people bitch about how unrealistic this was or how predictable that was. Come on... That's part of the fun of it. The movie is paying homage to the comic. Y'know, those cheesy pulp stories printed on cheap paper (at least back in the day). We read those things to escape reality, not complain about every little thing that "couldn't possibly happen". Of course it couldn't possibly happen. That's why they're Superheroes (and supervillans). Doesn't the phrase "Suspension of Disbelief" mean anything to you knitpickers? Sheesh.
my $0.05 (keep the change)
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ummm... Here's a little sumthin' sumthin' for ya.
Enjoy!
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I think we should be told!
Sure it does... From the article (and I quote):
my $0.05 (keep the change)
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[SPOILER ALERT] Actually, it's an entire arm [theforce.net]. [/SPOILER ALERT]
Wow... Think how powerful Vader woulda been if he'd still had all those midichlorians that were lost with his arm. Maybe he would've actually won in the final battle.
...my $0.05 (keep the change).
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Aah, who want's to be a good guy?
...or an X-Wing. And what about Yoda? "Your licks, learned, you have not."
I do. I want Chewie on mine. Roowwwrrrrr-arrrarrr....
There's so many kickass things that could be done. I really liked the Bobba Fett Graphics, just didn't like the shape of those particular axes. I think the Millenium Falcon would be a pretty sweet graphic as well.
It's a thought, anyway.
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Windows started locking up. I'm kinda suprised it's been running fine. After I install morpheus beta, machine locks up, morpheus beta is not running, machine locks up. hmmm. check the run line in the registry, yes morpheus dropped more free "stuff" with the install. again.
Under windows 2000 it's:
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\wind
and default install to:
c:\program files\savenow\ It's also in add/remove if you like doing things the easy way.
Uhhh... No. I didn't get it. Just installed it a couple of hours ago. No savenow. Anywhere. Period.
Not that it matters that I speak my piece. Nobody listens to me anyway. I get no score. Ever. Don't know why. Guess I should just make a new user ID or something.
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I think I'll let them work the bugs out first.
Yeah? Who is this Nenad guy anyway? He could be a janitor of the Uni of Glasgow for all I know. He is the guy (IIRC) that sugguested that people may get dizzy from this. I'm not sure how you get dizzy staying (relatively) in the same spot while the ground moves _under_ you...
Then again, what do I know?
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I'm not so sure about that... At least real snow stays still. Did you see the size of this planned slope in the article? 13 stories tall! I'm too lazy to do the math to figure out what the diameter might be assuming about a 20 - 30 degree slope but that's got to be huge. It also looks to be setup like a little mock resort. I really really doubt that this thing would be stopped anytime someone wanted....
It does bring up another interesting question, though. What happens when someone can't figure out how to stand back up on their skis and it just sweeps them back around to the snow guns?
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Then, of course, the states could hire the equivalent of a hieroglyphics expert to translate it.
To which they'd immediately be sued due to DMCA violations. Can't be out reverse-engineering stuff and breaking wingding encryption now, can we? Hmmmmm?
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Granted, I don't know a lot of cops but I know a few. The few that I know usually have better things to do than hang out in the park with their music sniffer and bust people swapping tunes. You're right, it probably is a pretty simple system to thwart. I just don't think it'd be enforced. It's pretty simple to find out who's serving things up on the net, too. It's not very often you actually hear of busts, though. Come to think of it, I'd probably not be very happy if my tax dollars were going to pay salaries for people to monitor parks for people swapping music when those same people could be out investigating a missing person or homocide or something more threatening to our safety and well-being.
But then again, what do I know?
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This could be a GB/GBA killer... espically if they release a Devkit that can be used under linux, BSD, and that other operating system...
Oh yes a devkit for Linux and *BSD should be a high priority for anyone trying to create a GB/GBA killer. I know my 10 year old cousin makes all his purchases based on whether or not there is a Linux devkit.
// Sarcasm ends here
Maybe not right now. What's going to happen when he's played enough games and he decides he wants to make his own? He's sure as hell not gonna make it on a GBA. Ten was probably about the age that I started coding. Granted, I wasn't making games for a hand-held console, but then again, that kind of tech wasn't around (for Joe Consumer) sixteen years ago, either. I sort of lost interest in programming to hardware but if I'd had this kind of stuff to play with, there's a serious chance I would've stuck with it. The nice thing about these being open is that people will (probably) pick 'em up in a couple of years for under a hundred bucks and by then, there will be so many tools, you won't have to buy any games for it.
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Advantages of watching older movies:
3. Characters who act like human beings, instead of ludicrous puppets being jacked around by plot devices and ridiculous situations.
6. Characters who show good principles and morals, instead of "oh, well, I just felt like it" ethics.
Contradict yourself much?
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Ford Francis Coppola??
Is that you?
Maybe the real question to think about is not how legal it is to pick open your lock or to even own the tools to pick a lock (would that count bobby-pins?).
...to commit a crime. The question is: Is opening that lock a crime in and of itself? What if you run around, open the padlocks on people's sheds but never even open the door? There, you've used the skills to open a lock but was there a crime? Nothing was taken. There wasn't even any entry. In essence, nothing's any different than if there hadn't even been a lock to begin with. Maybe the crime is just in demonstrating specialized knowledge...
but if using lockpicking skills to commit a crime, that increases the penalties, because you demonstrated specialized knowledge.
Kinda reminds me of the Salem witch trials sometimes...
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Did the review need to be any longer than that?
I'm also in the same boat (along with the guy from Copper). I work as sysadmin for a set of Hotels in Vail. One nice thing, tho. I love the time and a half holiday pay! I did all my Christmas stuff with my family this previous weekend, though. My mom also had to work so we got together a few days early. When I got to work yesterday, I found out that our computers don't like to work holidays either. Oh well, at least I stayed busy enough not to think about what day it was...
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That sounds like another case of the feds "Mitnicking" again - arbitrarily multiplying the damage reports for the sake of making things sound more serious.
1TB? come on. Maybe a seven drive external SCSI enclosure filled with 150GB drives. Otherwise, how would they do it? I'm no warez expert, how could you even get more than six 120GB HDs in a computer (assuming four IDE channels, a CDROM and a CDRW, leaving six free for those 120GB HDs... and four or five hundred CDRs besides?)
A couple hundred megs, maybe. But I highly doubt more than a handful of those computers were terabyte plus capacity (one to two terabytes... as the original poster suggests). I don't condone warezing, but I don't want to see the kids get lynched for a billion dollars of theft, either.
Typical sensationalism. I bet there's an awful lot of us that were at one point either FTP siteops or into the warez scene to some degree... its almost like a rite of passage for the internet-inclined. (donning flame suit)
I think a terrabye or two is reasonable. What they're probably counting is installed size. Typically, you can download something well under a 100 MB. By the time you get done unzipping, unraring, unacing, running the mp3 -> wav converters, and any other bundled warez utilz you can top 500 megs easy. With a 5:1 compression ratio, you could easily have a 'terrabye' of warez on a couple of 100Gig drives... So, while they probably are Mitnicking it, they can probably (at least to themselves and their superiors) justify it.
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You have to be pretty stupid to pass up a chance to learn. Some one who needs a reason to pay attention doesn't belong in school.
Come back when you're 40; most folks have gotten over their superiority complexes by then and are ready to learn. Some of my most interested students have been older than me, but few have been younger.
Looks like your superiority complex is still alive and kickin'...
>it looks like it's a mysql limit they are hitting.
Just goes to prove you only get what you pay for. MySQL = Free = shit.
What happens when you DON'T get what you pay for?
M$ = Not Free = shit.
I've gotta give this thing mad props, too. I just got mine yesterday and it's more than I expected. I knew it was going to be a small unit, but I didn't really realize how small it was going to be.
They even included a nice little neoprene carrying case and four 'NEXkins' (different colors of little paper inserts for looks) for it. I got mine with a 128 MB CF card and all I did was throw some batteries in, plug in the CF card and plug it in through the USB port. Under Win2000, it was instantly recognized and added as a drive. They don't try and make you use anykind of proprietary software (but they do bundle it with Win Media Player 7 and Media Jukebox) and they proudly advertise that they are Non-SDMI. There is a cool little spectrum display and it's backlit by a pretty blue light. It recognizes the tags, can handle repeat one, all, or shuffle or can be programmed. Battery life is supposed to be about 20 hrs. on a pair of AA's, or about 4 hours if you're running a 1GB IBM Microdrive. The unit sounds nice and clear. The volume maxes out at 25, but I've found around 12 to be plenty of volume. Additionally, I like the headphones. They're the type that hook over the tops of your ears and the bar comes down around the back of your neck. I was looking for something to snowboard with and those headphones stay nicely out of the way of my helmet. I originally stumbled across it on E-bay, but I ended up just purchasing it from their homepage. FrontierLabs. Read this review. MP3.com liked it too. 5 Stars.