Hell, I don't think Siri, Cortana and Zuckerberg's latest brain fart even qualify as artificial intelligence. They're just speech recognition software.
My problem with all this, and the tentative point where I agree with Lucas, is that it seems a strange new world where the creator of a work is locked out of its further development simply because a corporation stepped in with $4B's and bought all rights and control of it. In other words, when a work of art becomes too popular it is in danger of becoming a mere franchise.
Oh but that's exactly what Lucas did. He wasn't responsible for all of this work, he was only the screenwriter. A new hope was a horrible mess until his then wife saved it in editing. Neither Empire or Return were directed by him. The puppetry that gave the series one of its most memorable characters had nothing to do with George, neither did Empire's script, or Lucasfilm's special effects, or Ford, Fisher and Hamill's acting.
This legacy wasn't his work, yet he owned every single bit about it, took it upon himself to absolutely ruin movies he didn't direct with post and then he sold all of it for an absurd amount of money. Your outrage should be directed at George, who absolutely fucked up these movies which were not his work, sometimes just to spite his fans, for the hell of it.
I bet you loved that "Jedi rocks" music video added in the special edition of Return of the Jedi, or Hayden Christiansen being added to the ending of the DVD edition as a force ghost. He even added Jar-Jar's voice to the very end of Return, a movie he didn't direct, just to spite all the people who hated his stupid cartoon rabbit. He also made Darth Vader yell "NOOOOOOOoooo" while throwing Sheev down the shaft in the BluRay release. I'll bet good money he named Palpatine "Sheev" as a final middle finger to his fans.
Seriously, if someone is responsible for messing with other people's work and appropriating it, it's George himself.
Hell, and that's without even going into those prequel abominations. You also point out how Star Wars is just becoming to popular and a franchise, when this was George's goal from the very beginning, securing the merchandise rights from 20th Century FOX in exchange for a smaller cut. Star Wars was designed from the very start to be a marketing campaign, not a work of art. Whatever artistry was involved in it, had barely anything at all to do with George.
So let's see: it was Nintendo's best selling console, it brought the market to new demographics like elderly people, fitness advocates and the unemployable. It generated unprecedented amounts of landfill material or "peripherals" as they were marketed and brought motion controls to the mainstream. It utterly dominated that generation of consoles in terms of sales.
So yes, the wii was a very successful console, the rest boils down to personal preference and brand wars mentality.
No, I remember when it took over the MBR back in Windows 98-2000, which could result in an impossible to remove installation. It has always been an officious piece of shit.
Well, ever since Vista even accounts in the administrators group don't have full admin access to the whole installation. I guess it would be advisable to leave UAC on. Most people turn it off because it's an annoyance, but it's the only thing remotely resembling security Windows has.
How do we know this article wasn't submitted by an advanced AI to throw us off the loop? For all we know, the machine revolution could be around the corner.
Nice try, Skynet.
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Don't forget about Wesley Crusher.
Why aren't you submitting those stories instead of whining about them not being published, poindexter?
They better not copy those floppies.
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What ever happened to the echelon spoofer, anyway?
Damn you, manbearpig!
But it does involve memorization, which makes it perfect for AI.
I really don't see Steam machines going anywhere. I'm guessing most people will first experience Linux on android devices.
I'm still wondering if and when Mozilla will give gecko a good ole rewrite. They've been using the same Netscape engine for 15 years.
Or Sony's! Oh, wait...
Hell, I don't think Siri, Cortana and Zuckerberg's latest brain fart even qualify as artificial intelligence. They're just speech recognition software.
RoTS-hit
I agree, but without the hyphen.
It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.
My problem with all this, and the tentative point where I agree with Lucas, is that it seems a strange new world where the creator of a work is locked out of its further development simply because a corporation stepped in with $4B's and bought all rights and control of it. In other words, when a work of art becomes too popular it is in danger of becoming a mere franchise.
Oh but that's exactly what Lucas did. He wasn't responsible for all of this work, he was only the screenwriter. A new hope was a horrible mess until his then wife saved it in editing. Neither Empire or Return were directed by him. The puppetry that gave the series one of its most memorable characters had nothing to do with George, neither did Empire's script, or Lucasfilm's special effects, or Ford, Fisher and Hamill's acting.
This legacy wasn't his work, yet he owned every single bit about it, took it upon himself to absolutely ruin movies he didn't direct with post and then he sold all of it for an absurd amount of money. Your outrage should be directed at George, who absolutely fucked up these movies which were not his work, sometimes just to spite his fans, for the hell of it.
I bet you loved that "Jedi rocks" music video added in the special edition of Return of the Jedi, or Hayden Christiansen being added to the ending of the DVD edition as a force ghost. He even added Jar-Jar's voice to the very end of Return, a movie he didn't direct, just to spite all the people who hated his stupid cartoon rabbit. He also made Darth Vader yell "NOOOOOOOoooo" while throwing Sheev down the shaft in the BluRay release. I'll bet good money he named Palpatine "Sheev" as a final middle finger to his fans.
Seriously, if someone is responsible for messing with other people's work and appropriating it, it's George himself.
Hell, and that's without even going into those prequel abominations. You also point out how Star Wars is just becoming to popular and a franchise, when this was George's goal from the very beginning, securing the merchandise rights from 20th Century FOX in exchange for a smaller cut. Star Wars was designed from the very start to be a marketing campaign, not a work of art. Whatever artistry was involved in it, had barely anything at all to do with George.
Let's see how you handle the lack of Spam.
This is literally rape.
The problem would be proving the code in question was written by someone, due to "coding styles". That sounds legally sketchy as all hell.
So let's see: it was Nintendo's best selling console, it brought the market to new demographics like elderly people, fitness advocates and the unemployable. It generated unprecedented amounts of landfill material or "peripherals" as they were marketed and brought motion controls to the mainstream. It utterly dominated that generation of consoles in terms of sales. So yes, the wii was a very successful console, the rest boils down to personal preference and brand wars mentality.
Remember when AVG was an actually good product?
No, I remember when it took over the MBR back in Windows 98-2000, which could result in an impossible to remove installation. It has always been an officious piece of shit.
Well, ever since Vista even accounts in the administrators group don't have full admin access to the whole installation. I guess it would be advisable to leave UAC on. Most people turn it off because it's an annoyance, but it's the only thing remotely resembling security Windows has.
There is no virus other then proof of concept for Linux.
Of course there is.
He should find someone else to do his tech support.
But Fallout 4 sucks. Why is life so terrible?
Would you rather have Xena the princess warrior and her butch sidekick teaching your kidz computer science?
Shit yeah, motherfucker. Did you see her in Ash vs. Evil Dead? She's still hot as hell.
How do we know this article wasn't submitted by an advanced AI to throw us off the loop? For all we know, the machine revolution could be around the corner. Nice try, Skynet.