Democracy will change into something else if people instead of knowing the truth, knows only what their government say, vote what they say, believe what they say. Making people aware of the truth probably set back democracy in that country instead of what it was turning into. And that works for every coutry.
Had no spoofs? Even in Airplane! was done a great one, you can see a few in imdb. But i give that Empire strikes back could had more.
But regarding culture, sometimes acts are stronger than words, you may not remember any quote of SNF, but for some generations saturday nights got a very specific meaning, and not just in the US.
Maybe arent there because they were great movies, but how they helped to build (for good or bad) the culture of the country. And if probably in that sense Saturday Night Fever had more impact than Empire Strikes Back.
Now if Lucas could do the same and stop killing our childhood movies the timing could had been better, in fact, could had happened before the cristal skull movie.
When i first saw Scratch, included with the XO, got stunned on how powerful it was, and how visual and intuitivel could be for the children. Not sure if there is a web based implementation, but is open, available for all platforms, and maybe more important, already included in a computer meant for children (not sure how much it count in the rest of the world, but in my country almost all school chidren have it).
What you must run? If everything is web, a pendrive with a live distro could qualify. Other alternatives could be LTSP or even Chrome OS. Now, if this is for running windows you lose anyway in costs, security and probably even administration
Probably is too little imagination what is needed to enjoy that movie. You start with a virtual world, your body gets digitized and gets into it and... well, somewhat, you get old (ok, you as user, your avatar keeps being of the same age), you need to eat and drink (and if well the water looks like something of that world, the food shown definately belong to this one) and sleep, even and specially when time matters.
For me the movie was a wasted opportunity. They had the chance to do an epic movie, something that updated that vision of virtual world to our current knowledge (keeping the look, but i.e. exploring evolved AIs, making programs not so unidimensional, giving them something to live for, ideas of networking not limited to team play, etc) and they seem to had focused more in the special effects and music than in the argument. Make me remember an ST:TNG episode where they found a Dyson sphere, and just visit it to rescue the old Enterprise engineer.
When GPS is already included in your camera stops to be something that you must buy intentionally and install on it to be something that you could be aware or not. Take current smartphones, with both camera and gps functionality, that could show or not that they are using geotagging, and that even depend on the app your using are using for taking photos.
And not just the camera, where you can eventually check the metatags of a photo and see if there is something that you could not like. What about apps that use network? Displaying ads from places around you, or sending away where you are (i.e. when you send a mail, as one extra header that would be nice to have), or just being client of network that could take advantage of that info to give you a somewhat "better" service (facebook, twitter, foursquare are 3 easy candidates)
If even because privacy problems, holographic display of information (a la star wars, at least) probably won't happen. But not so technologically disruptive glasses where you display to the wearer information, would be able to be 3d, augmented reality or HUD like displays, shouldnt be so far.
Dont attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Sometimes a software can be well intentioned, see a place where a lot of maybe useful information could be place and no look further on that, putting that in. Sometimes in some context that added information could be useful and intended, sometimes not, and you have not enough flexibility to decide by yourself when enable or disable that action.
Could the smtp protocol (and so every software that implements it) be considered traitorware? If you want to send an anonymous message it adds from which IP was sent, how different would be that from cameras that automatically adds gps coordinates in photos?
In the last term, a line between malice in this and what is not should be drawn, and will be very broad with a lot of things in the gray area, but would be good to have a list of what cleary is in the wrong side of it. And if well couldnt call traitorware all that is in the field of what sends somehow away information that could hurt your privacy, awareness of what they send and what exactly implies in that topic to use them, sometimes even in the manuals they warn which private information could be disclosed, well, that it be even the ones that don't disclose that.
If i would had killed in front of a lot of witness thousands of innocent people, and with a legal trick run clean of any charge, would you think that newspapers won't try to publish everything about me?
A DeLorean car, including a working Flux Capacitor, and MrFusion just to be green. Not only you will be able to get all those gifts, you will own Las Vegas too. If is asking too much, i could be happy with an antigrav hoverboard.
We aren't members of a rational society unfortunately. When you have things that you can't explain, reverse occam (the most complex possible explanation is the one that should be right) is what this "rational society" applies. And if there is a lot, people will see patterns even where they arent (except on them, of course) and act.
For me, is news. Is hoping that somewhat this years we matured enough to not get a multitude of crazy cults popping around, manifestations on streets and mass suicides. And with a bit of luck, the intelligence of a big group of people isnt anymore the intelligence of the stupidest of its members. But one thing is hope and another that it is really that way.
To put a very close example. Here are discussed topics related to how wrong are copyrights and patent abuses, RIAA/MPAA actions, sometimes link to sites and pages that could go more or less into that direction, or tell that some movie was leaked before going to cinemas and can be found in torrents... and that just counting main articles, counting user comments and submissions will get far worse. And part of the financement of the site are subscriptions that could be done with those credit cards.
So Mastercard will be willfully support donations to the KKK and similar causes, but will not accept anything from sites that could critizice RIAA/MPAA or their actions. Free market seems to end meaning anything but freedom.
All the attention is in the messenger, all the efforts are focused on Assagne, how to discredit, capture, torture and punish him. Not in the message itself. That means two things, they want to make the public to forget about the leaks themselves (that are bad, but not too bad), and that they want to ensure that Assagne, his organization or anyone else that would want to emulate him gets in touch with the real bad documents that exist but they already got sure that don't leaked yet.
I would like a reverse doppler sound, when coming close sound like going away and viceversa. Probably will be something that must be activated when i want to surprise someone.else whatever sound i would make will have its own doppler.
Is not that every living thing died, but that very few survived, and those very few could had common recent mutations (i.e. resistence to cold around ice ages) that could be misinterpreted as ancient genes as found in different species.
Some of the places they could fight probably are out of range (even if in range, could be a vulnerability, an infiltration mission could be badly screwed because someone called the wrong number, or would be bad of someones position could be triangulated). So or they use satellite signal, or they don't plan use it in the battlefield. Of course, are also good pocket computers with camera, gps and so on, so would love that them add i.e. some augumented reality apps to the current set for all.
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recently discovered tropical plants, named triffids, are being the new hot trend all across America and Europe.
Democracy will change into something else if people instead of knowing the truth, knows only what their government say, vote what they say, believe what they say. Making people aware of the truth probably set back democracy in that country instead of what it was turning into. And that works for every coutry.
Had no spoofs? Even in Airplane! was done a great one, you can see a few in imdb. But i give that Empire strikes back could had more. But regarding culture, sometimes acts are stronger than words, you may not remember any quote of SNF, but for some generations saturday nights got a very specific meaning, and not just in the US.
Maybe arent there because they were great movies, but how they helped to build (for good or bad) the culture of the country. And if probably in that sense Saturday Night Fever had more impact than Empire Strikes Back.
Now if Lucas could do the same and stop killing our childhood movies the timing could had been better, in fact, could had happened before the cristal skull movie.
When i first saw Scratch, included with the XO, got stunned on how powerful it was, and how visual and intuitivel could be for the children. Not sure if there is a web based implementation, but is open, available for all platforms, and maybe more important, already included in a computer meant for children (not sure how much it count in the rest of the world, but in my country almost all school chidren have it).
What you must run? If everything is web, a pendrive with a live distro could qualify. Other alternatives could be LTSP or even Chrome OS. Now, if this is for running windows you lose anyway in costs, security and probably even administration
Probably is too little imagination what is needed to enjoy that movie. You start with a virtual world, your body gets digitized and gets into it and... well, somewhat, you get old (ok, you as user, your avatar keeps being of the same age), you need to eat and drink (and if well the water looks like something of that world, the food shown definately belong to this one) and sleep, even and specially when time matters.
For me the movie was a wasted opportunity. They had the chance to do an epic movie, something that updated that vision of virtual world to our current knowledge (keeping the look, but i.e. exploring evolved AIs, making programs not so unidimensional, giving them something to live for, ideas of networking not limited to team play, etc) and they seem to had focused more in the special effects and music than in the argument. Make me remember an ST:TNG episode where they found a Dyson sphere, and just visit it to rescue the old Enterprise engineer.
Like Wikileaks?
..unless you are one of those deniers that think that the Global Pole Shifting wasnt caused by human activity.
When GPS is already included in your camera stops to be something that you must buy intentionally and install on it to be something that you could be aware or not. Take current smartphones, with both camera and gps functionality, that could show or not that they are using geotagging, and that even depend on the app your using are using for taking photos.
And not just the camera, where you can eventually check the metatags of a photo and see if there is something that you could not like. What about apps that use network? Displaying ads from places around you, or sending away where you are (i.e. when you send a mail, as one extra header that would be nice to have), or just being client of network that could take advantage of that info to give you a somewhat "better" service (facebook, twitter, foursquare are 3 easy candidates)
If even because privacy problems, holographic display of information (a la star wars, at least) probably won't happen. But not so technologically disruptive glasses where you display to the wearer information, would be able to be 3d, augmented reality or HUD like displays, shouldnt be so far.
Dont attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Sometimes a software can be well intentioned, see a place where a lot of maybe useful information could be place and no look further on that, putting that in. Sometimes in some context that added information could be useful and intended, sometimes not, and you have not enough flexibility to decide by yourself when enable or disable that action.
Could the smtp protocol (and so every software that implements it) be considered traitorware? If you want to send an anonymous message it adds from which IP was sent, how different would be that from cameras that automatically adds gps coordinates in photos?
In the last term, a line between malice in this and what is not should be drawn, and will be very broad with a lot of things in the gray area, but would be good to have a list of what cleary is in the wrong side of it. And if well couldnt call traitorware all that is in the field of what sends somehow away information that could hurt your privacy, awareness of what they send and what exactly implies in that topic to use them, sometimes even in the manuals they warn which private information could be disclosed, well, that it be even the ones that don't disclose that.
If i would had killed in front of a lot of witness thousands of innocent people, and with a legal trick run clean of any charge, would you think that newspapers won't try to publish everything about me?
All newspapers are guilty of robbery, murder, rape or any other of the crimes they report in their pages, at least according to this logic.
At difference with War Games, playing is the only way that everyone wins.
I tought that the revolutionary molecule that would help with rocket propulsion would be thiotimoline
Don't read it with too much attention. Will eat your brain.
A DeLorean car, including a working Flux Capacitor, and MrFusion just to be green. Not only you will be able to get all those gifts, you will own Las Vegas too. If is asking too much, i could be happy with an antigrav hoverboard.
Too bad i can't have them for christmas.
We aren't members of a rational society unfortunately. When you have things that you can't explain, reverse occam (the most complex possible explanation is the one that should be right) is what this "rational society" applies. And if there is a lot, people will see patterns even where they arent (except on them, of course) and act.
For me, is news. Is hoping that somewhat this years we matured enough to not get a multitude of crazy cults popping around, manifestations on streets and mass suicides. And with a bit of luck, the intelligence of a big group of people isnt anymore the intelligence of the stupidest of its members. But one thing is hope and another that it is really that way.
To put a very close example. Here are discussed topics related to how wrong are copyrights and patent abuses, RIAA/MPAA actions, sometimes link to sites and pages that could go more or less into that direction, or tell that some movie was leaked before going to cinemas and can be found in torrents... and that just counting main articles, counting user comments and submissions will get far worse. And part of the financement of the site are subscriptions that could be done with those credit cards.
So Mastercard will be willfully support donations to the KKK and similar causes, but will not accept anything from sites that could critizice RIAA/MPAA or their actions. Free market seems to end meaning anything but freedom.
All the attention is in the messenger, all the efforts are focused on Assagne, how to discredit, capture, torture and punish him. Not in the message itself. That means two things, they want to make the public to forget about the leaks themselves (that are bad, but not too bad), and that they want to ensure that Assagne, his organization or anyone else that would want to emulate him gets in touch with the real bad documents that exist but they already got sure that don't leaked yet.
I would like a reverse doppler sound, when coming close sound like going away and viceversa. Probably will be something that must be activated when i want to surprise someone.else whatever sound i would make will have its own doppler.
Is not that every living thing died, but that very few survived, and those very few could had common recent mutations (i.e. resistence to cold around ice ages) that could be misinterpreted as ancient genes as found in different species.
Some of the places they could fight probably are out of range (even if in range, could be a vulnerability, an infiltration mission could be badly screwed because someone called the wrong number, or would be bad of someones position could be triangulated). So or they use satellite signal, or they don't plan use it in the battlefield. Of course, are also good pocket computers with camera, gps and so on, so would love that them add i.e. some augumented reality apps to the current set for all.