So, you can do all that using hardware acceleration through the normal Win32 API, using XAML and.NET today?
Slashdotters will invent any sort of argument to criticize something Microsoft did.
You're completely missing the point--ActiveX on top of an MFC app? They're removing all those layers and doing it all in hardware through.NET and Avalon presentation libraries.
Do companies like Microsoft or Sun make Developers certify that the code they submit in a particular check-in isn't "borrowed" from GPL'd or other open source stuff?
Well, as a matter of fact, yes they do. In a lot of professional contracts it's even stated that people pledge not to plagiarize code. It would make the company liable for something.
It's not like the code for something like, say, Windows, is locked away in a vault where no one will ever know if code was plagiarized or not. Lots of people have access to that code, including several major universities. Microsoft signs it out to people on a regular basis.
You can easily get the Windows XP bootloader to boot Linux if you so desire. I've done it before, complete with that nice text menu at the beginning. So even though XP writes the MBR, you can easily make it boot Linux.
Meanwhile, Fedora is completely fucking things up.
There have been rumors going around that Lucas has added up to 100 new visual FX shots to this version of THX-1138. He also added that sunset to the American Graffiti DVD.
Is there any truth to the rumors of these added shots? I wouldn't put it past Lucas.
The fact that you associate a comment which I made based upon a real news article opens up some interesting considerations about the state of your mind. Do you actively hate scientologists? Are they your personal scapegoat? Do you find that you make jokes or remarks about scientologists more than twice a week? Have you lost contact with someone whom you loved after they became involved with scientologists?
Not at all. I simply abhor any form of extremist thinking. I take no personal scapegoats--unlike you and psychologists.
A "real news article" doesn't mean a thing in a generalizing statement, as I can bring up a real news article to generalize any group of people.
I've heard much less about schizotypal disorder, which is considered by some to be a mild form of schizophrenia.
Basically, it's much how you might think a less severe schizophrenia might be. Usually people believe they have some sort of supernatural or magical power, some way of affecting things. For instance, genuinely thinking that if you wish for rain all day, it's going to cloud up in the evening and rain. They also say odd things or have eccentric beliefs. Often they'll have random thoughts that don't seem connected to the topic at hand, or they'll speak in metaphors. They also typically have social anxiety.
When someone tells you they will be praying for you or your family, it's another way of saying they hope things turn out well and that they care on an emotional level about the outcome, to the point that they hope that fate might turn out better, be it caused by chance or deity.
It's showing a little empathy. Have some heart. Sheesh.
This is exactly what Scientologists talk about. There's this bizarre level of vitriol. "Don't let the head-shrinks get their hands on you!" "The pro-shrink defense squad can go get stuffed, the truth is the truth."
Perfectly logical human beings know that, like any field, there are good people and bad people. Scientology actually preaches as a tenet that "psychs" are evil and want to control you. This post sounds exactly like the anti-psych posts you see at Scientology sites and on a certain newsgroup.
Yes, there are Scientologists who lurk around Slashdot. Remember the infamous deleted comment?
Just goes to show. Once the head-shrinks get their hands on you, for any reason, claiming to be normal is proof of your insanity and reason for them to hang on.
If you're not, sorry to accuse you of such--but you sound EXACTLY like a Scientologist. They will tell you that all "psychs" are evil and want to "get their hands on you." Then offer you an expensive course at one of their centers and tell you to avoid "entheta" (i.e., criticism of anything they believe in).
...and I loved the films. They were fantastic adaptations, and a lot of others agreed.
The hardcore folk who permeate USENET groups will always be unhappy, but I went in with the basic logical understanding that a movie is different from a book.
Not to mention that Tolkien himself was perfectly happy with hacking up the story to fit a movie--in a famous letter, he suggested removing Helm's Deep because it "wasn't important to the story." If Peter Jackson ever said that, fanboys would be at his throat. They never seem to realize that their beloved god Tolkien wrote it in a letter.
Tolkien was much less purist than he's been made out to be by his fans, who are really just projecting their mindsets onto him. Tolkien was revising and changing his core mythologies all the way up to the end of his life. He said he would have written Lord of the Rings differently if he was to do it over again.
Nobody said Lucas didn't have the "right" to make these movies because they're "his." When somebody argues how stupid something is, that doesn't mean they're arguing for the right to make it to be taken away.
I hate when you criticize something, them someone chimes in, "They have the right to make it because it's theirs." I never said they didn't have the right. I have the right to criticize what they DO with that right.
When people suggest Lucas not direct Episode III, it's just a fantasy suggestion. Get over yourself.
Lucas wanted the prequels to be some sort of groundbreaking technological breakthrough like the first ones were. But we all liked the characters and story of the first one, set in the environment of cool special effects.
Like with Jar-Jar. You know he was going for this "breakthrough" film with the first full CG character interacting with live-action flims. But nobody cared because it was stupid.
In Lord of the Rings, they weren't trying to be "revolutionary" with everything, they were just doing as much possible to create the story and the world it lived in. Gollum wasn't CG because Peter Jackson wanted to create a revolutionary character, he was CG because he didn't think a human actor could present the character visually the way it deserved to be.
People don't remember Fellowship of the Ring because of the Balrog, they remember it because of the great characters and acting, plus with the added bonus of a Balrog scene, etc. Helm's Deep and the Pellenor Fields are just icing on a rich cake.
Star Wars has been nothing but green-screen stages with the other 80% of the film being finished in post-production. It's ridiculous. If Lucas had been directing Lord of the Rings, Bilbo's house would have been entirely CG using green screens. So would Rivendell, Mordor, and more.
Peter Jackson had them actually build Bilbo's house in two versions, big and small, just to get the sizes right for compositing. When the fellowship is walking over Caradras in the snow, they really dropped the actors from a helicopter onto the virgin snow of a real mountain in New Zealand and filmed it. Lucas would have said "walk them over a fake snow ground on a soundstage set, we'll CG in the background and sky...we can do it because we're filming digitally, lololol!!~~~" Hell, WETA even built the whole Dead Marshes set right in their freaking parking lot, actually importing real grass and mud, and so that's where those scenes were really filmed--a parking lot. You'd never know because it looks real.
Compared to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones was a flop. It did less numbers than The Phantom Menace. People weren't fooled twice, but curious lookey-loos like me did go to see it, mostly for the effects.
For a comparison, imagine if The Two Towers had done worse than Fellowship of the Ring. Luckily, each sequel grossed more on its opening weekend than the previous! But had Two Towers done worse, it would have been called a "flop" as well.
Han Solo was acknowledging Luke's beliefs. It was uncharacteristic for Han to say that, but he said it to acknowledge that he respected Luke and wanted him to make it back.
Ford loved working on films 1 and 2--he invented "parsecs" for that famous line. It was film 3 you can tell he wanted no part of...
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Again, what's the deal with Microsoft and huge buttons and icons? Are they trying to cater to the bad eyesight but too cool to wear glasses crowd?
Avalon is vector-based and resolution-independent. So you'll be able to just change the size yourself.
Another huge whiny issue solved.
So, you can do all that using hardware acceleration through the normal Win32 API, using XAML and .NET today?
.NET and Avalon presentation libraries.
Slashdotters will invent any sort of argument to criticize something Microsoft did.
You're completely missing the point--ActiveX on top of an MFC app? They're removing all those layers and doing it all in hardware through
Do companies like Microsoft or Sun make Developers certify that the code they submit in a particular check-in isn't "borrowed" from GPL'd or other open source stuff?
Well, as a matter of fact, yes they do. In a lot of professional contracts it's even stated that people pledge not to plagiarize code. It would make the company liable for something.
It's not like the code for something like, say, Windows, is locked away in a vault where no one will ever know if code was plagiarized or not. Lots of people have access to that code, including several major universities. Microsoft signs it out to people on a regular basis.
No. My usage was correct.
Next.
Completely false.
And what exactly does "almost stock" mean? Nice vague explanation there.
It's hilarious when people use that phrase. Nobody gets "convicted" of being a monopolist. It's not even illegal to be one.
Anyway, Red Hat has their little immoral qualms as well--for instance, anyone remember the removal of the Taiwanese flag?
This is a four-month-old "accidental" bug. It should be fixed by now.
You can easily get the Windows XP bootloader to boot Linux if you so desire. I've done it before, complete with that nice text menu at the beginning. So even though XP writes the MBR, you can easily make it boot Linux.
Meanwhile, Fedora is completely fucking things up.
A four-month-old accident...
You mean, not many details?
Come on, Hemos. You're always making dumb grammar mistakes. This place looks so unprofessional as a result.
FUCK YEAH
You're forgetting the part where George Lucas made it.
There have been rumors going around that Lucas has added up to 100 new visual FX shots to this version of THX-1138. He also added that sunset to the American Graffiti DVD.
Is there any truth to the rumors of these added shots? I wouldn't put it past Lucas.
The fact that you associate a comment which I made based upon a real news article opens up some interesting considerations about the state of your mind. Do you actively hate scientologists? Are they your personal scapegoat? Do you find that you make jokes or remarks about scientologists more than twice a week? Have you lost contact with someone whom you loved after they became involved with scientologists?
Not at all. I simply abhor any form of extremist thinking. I take no personal scapegoats--unlike you and psychologists.
A "real news article" doesn't mean a thing in a generalizing statement, as I can bring up a real news article to generalize any group of people.
Next.
I've heard much less about schizotypal disorder, which is considered by some to be a mild form of schizophrenia.
Basically, it's much how you might think a less severe schizophrenia might be. Usually people believe they have some sort of supernatural or magical power, some way of affecting things. For instance, genuinely thinking that if you wish for rain all day, it's going to cloud up in the evening and rain. They also say odd things or have eccentric beliefs. Often they'll have random thoughts that don't seem connected to the topic at hand, or they'll speak in metaphors. They also typically have social anxiety.
When someone tells you they will be praying for you or your family, it's another way of saying they hope things turn out well and that they care on an emotional level about the outcome, to the point that they hope that fate might turn out better, be it caused by chance or deity.
It's showing a little empathy. Have some heart. Sheesh.
This is exactly what Scientologists talk about. There's this bizarre level of vitriol. "Don't let the head-shrinks get their hands on you!" "The pro-shrink defense squad can go get stuffed, the truth is the truth."
Perfectly logical human beings know that, like any field, there are good people and bad people. Scientology actually preaches as a tenet that "psychs" are evil and want to control you. This post sounds exactly like the anti-psych posts you see at Scientology sites and on a certain newsgroup.
Yes, there are Scientologists who lurk around Slashdot. Remember the infamous deleted comment?
Just goes to show. Once the head-shrinks get their hands on you, for any reason, claiming to be normal is proof of your insanity and reason for them to hang on.
If you're not, sorry to accuse you of such--but you sound EXACTLY like a Scientologist. They will tell you that all "psychs" are evil and want to "get their hands on you." Then offer you an expensive course at one of their centers and tell you to avoid "entheta" (i.e., criticism of anything they believe in).
After all, clicking the "Go away" link is so damned hard.
Meanwhile, there's an ANNOYING light bulb in OpenOffice that appears every ten seconds...
Clippy hasn't been around since 2000. He's not installed by default, and even when he pops up, a simple right-click and "Hide" makes him go away.
I think Slashdotters are stuck in 1998, just for the jokes.
...and I loved the films. They were fantastic adaptations, and a lot of others agreed.
The hardcore folk who permeate USENET groups will always be unhappy, but I went in with the basic logical understanding that a movie is different from a book.
Not to mention that Tolkien himself was perfectly happy with hacking up the story to fit a movie--in a famous letter, he suggested removing Helm's Deep because it "wasn't important to the story." If Peter Jackson ever said that, fanboys would be at his throat. They never seem to realize that their beloved god Tolkien wrote it in a letter.
Tolkien was much less purist than he's been made out to be by his fans, who are really just projecting their mindsets onto him. Tolkien was revising and changing his core mythologies all the way up to the end of his life. He said he would have written Lord of the Rings differently if he was to do it over again.
Nobody said Lucas didn't have the "right" to make these movies because they're "his." When somebody argues how stupid something is, that doesn't mean they're arguing for the right to make it to be taken away.
I hate when you criticize something, them someone chimes in, "They have the right to make it because it's theirs." I never said they didn't have the right. I have the right to criticize what they DO with that right.
When people suggest Lucas not direct Episode III, it's just a fantasy suggestion. Get over yourself.
Lucas wanted the prequels to be some sort of groundbreaking technological breakthrough like the first ones were. But we all liked the characters and story of the first one, set in the environment of cool special effects.
Like with Jar-Jar. You know he was going for this "breakthrough" film with the first full CG character interacting with live-action flims. But nobody cared because it was stupid.
In Lord of the Rings, they weren't trying to be "revolutionary" with everything, they were just doing as much possible to create the story and the world it lived in. Gollum wasn't CG because Peter Jackson wanted to create a revolutionary character, he was CG because he didn't think a human actor could present the character visually the way it deserved to be.
People don't remember Fellowship of the Ring because of the Balrog, they remember it because of the great characters and acting, plus with the added bonus of a Balrog scene, etc. Helm's Deep and the Pellenor Fields are just icing on a rich cake.
Star Wars has been nothing but green-screen stages with the other 80% of the film being finished in post-production. It's ridiculous. If Lucas had been directing Lord of the Rings, Bilbo's house would have been entirely CG using green screens. So would Rivendell, Mordor, and more.
Peter Jackson had them actually build Bilbo's house in two versions, big and small, just to get the sizes right for compositing. When the fellowship is walking over Caradras in the snow, they really dropped the actors from a helicopter onto the virgin snow of a real mountain in New Zealand and filmed it. Lucas would have said "walk them over a fake snow ground on a soundstage set, we'll CG in the background and sky...we can do it because we're filming digitally, lololol!!~~~" Hell, WETA even built the whole Dead Marshes set right in their freaking parking lot, actually importing real grass and mud, and so that's where those scenes were really filmed--a parking lot. You'd never know because it looks real.
Lucas can go to hell with Jar-Jar...
Source please.
Compared to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones was a flop. It did less numbers than The Phantom Menace. People weren't fooled twice, but curious lookey-loos like me did go to see it, mostly for the effects.
For a comparison, imagine if The Two Towers had done worse than Fellowship of the Ring. Luckily, each sequel grossed more on its opening weekend than the previous! But had Two Towers done worse, it would have been called a "flop" as well.
Matrix Revolutions did worse than Reloaded. Flop.
That's Harrison Ford acting.
Han Solo was acknowledging Luke's beliefs. It was uncharacteristic for Han to say that, but he said it to acknowledge that he respected Luke and wanted him to make it back.
Ford loved working on films 1 and 2--he invented "parsecs" for that famous line. It was film 3 you can tell he wanted no part of...