All Star Trek movies have corny things like Uhura dancing, but I thought STV had a lot less of it. How can it even compare to STIV? That whole movie was one forced gag scene to the next! And the recent movies push the humor way too much.
The reviews of books I generally trust, however not just the average number of stars but rather the particular comments left. You can tell who read the book and who is fooling around. Sure there are people who will write a great review having never read the book, but I think they are also counterbalanced by an equal bunch of people writing a negative review who have never read the book.
Check out Why the Left Hates America. On the Customer's Recommendation section there is currently a book on Handballing and last week it was Mein Kampf. But after reading the real reviews from people who didn't like the book and then the real reviews from people who did you can get a good understanding of what to expect from the actual book.
I'd like to see RPGs that explore more historical time periods. Has there ever been a game that explored pre-Columbus North America or even Native American societies in general? or Rome of some period? Vikings?
What about mountain gorillas? We skulk around for those and are very careful not to interfere. Well, not interfere except when we drug one and cart it back someplace to be studied. Anyone know if we reintroduce them into the population after study?
If mountain gorillas could talk eh?
"These tall slender beings with barely any hair at all abducted me, probed me, stuck me with needles."
Yeh, no way some alien civilization would treat us like we treat mountain gorillas right?
The DMCA is probably the most anti-freedom law ever passed.
Right.
Sedition Act (1798)
SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President,...
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
If we stopped short of splitting the atom then we would have never had the threat of total nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads. How could we ever do without that?
If we don't make human-mouse hybrids that means we are back in the dark ages burning witches?
Yeh, chastise the Bush admin about emotional and baseless arguments some more.
Yeah, I've been pondering this myself. To be considered a "great game" today you have to have dazzling graphics, great video cut-scenes, detailed in-game models and physics, etc. Oh, and of course you have to have great game-play.
I'm sure that hold true for the computer and various consoles, but what about the GBA?
National Review is and has always been a paleo-conservative magazine, in favor of low taxes, limited governement, strong national defense (including a staunch anti-communist stance), free trade, and respect for traditional values (in no particular order).
They may well have been paleocon in the past, but definately not in the past couple of years I've been reading. National Review is consistantly in favor of foreign intervention and nation building. This is the big difference between paleocons and neocons, both talk about limited govt and how large govt is bad, but only one recognizes the origin of government growth: war is the health of the state.
Raising the voice at the end of a question may be easy enough. But how much? When? This is a question too, is it not?
Heuristics? You should be able to come up with a rudimentary rule set for certain things. And really the only limit to how accurate you can get is how much time you are willing to put into refining and lengthening the number of rules.
A good orator would read a more 'exciting' passage more quickly, and with more enthusiasm, punctuating key verbs and nouns. How is software to know which passages are more exciting, and which arent?
How do we know? By matching key words and phrases. Is there even an attempt at this?
It's not just a hard task for computers, but people too. Computers read aloud at about the same level as poor orator. Pho-net-i-call-y, in a dull drab monotone. Drop by the local high school, and listen to them reading shakespeare.
Even if it is too hard a task for a computer to leap beyond dull drap monotone for straight text to speech, do you know of any attempts at emphasis tags?
<quiet></quiet>, <excited></excited>
I find it really hard to beleive that this hasn't advanced at all since the 80s.
In a similar vein, why does text to speech still sound as crappy as Steven Hawking's text to speech device from his 80s documentaries?
I recently downloaded Microsoft Reader along with a text to speech add-in and it sounded horrible. Same thing with Adobe's eBook Reader (well, their's was a little better).
But why is this so? Why is text to speech even difficult? If you just have a human person speak all the different phonetic sounds shouldn't it be a simple matter of stringing together those sounds in a relatively seemless way?
I don't think that is what was meant. Leftism just doesn't sell as good on the web. If you look at successful news/opinion type sites, they are conservative. Even if you look at the best seller list for books, conservatism is doing really well.
Anne Coulter actually had a hard time getting her book Slander published, and yet her book became an immediate best seller. Somewhere there is a serious disconnect with marketing people and what they think sells.
The proper venue for protesting was probably before the election. And who made the decision to use these machines and particular compnay? Probably the democrats that are now out of office.
I'm not sure how open source code helps the problem any since you can't verify that the open code you are looking at is the same code used in the machine.
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The good thing about working for peanuts is that at the very least you can eat.
All Star Trek movies have corny things like Uhura dancing, but I thought STV had a lot less of it. How can it even compare to STIV? That whole movie was one forced gag scene to the next! And the recent movies push the humor way too much.
The worst in my book was The Voyage Home.
Since when is UMass an institution of learning?
Check out Why the Left Hates America. On the Customer's Recommendation section there is currently a book on Handballing and last week it was Mein Kampf. But after reading the real reviews from people who didn't like the book and then the real reviews from people who did you can get a good understanding of what to expect from the actual book.
Excellent, thank you very much.
I'd like to see RPGs that explore more historical time periods. Has there ever been a game that explored pre-Columbus North America or even Native American societies in general? or Rome of some period? Vikings?
Let's not fault the man for being realistic, ok?
What about mountain gorillas? We skulk around for those and are very careful not to interfere. Well, not interfere except when we drug one and cart it back someplace to be studied. Anyone know if we reintroduce them into the population after study? If mountain gorillas could talk eh? "These tall slender beings with barely any hair at all abducted me, probed me, stuck me with needles." Yeh, no way some alien civilization would treat us like we treat mountain gorillas right?
$1,000,000 wasted is $1,000,000 too much.
Right.
Sedition Act (1798)
SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, ...
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
The ads never made me want to watch it. FOX has cancelled much better shows like Space: Above and Beyond, Brimstone, and VR5.
As for energy it does have that somewhat problematic radiotive stuff that we are trying to shove under a mountain for the next 10,000 years.
If we stopped short of splitting the atom then we would have never had the threat of total nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads. How could we ever do without that?
If we don't make human-mouse hybrids that means we are back in the dark ages burning witches? Yeh, chastise the Bush admin about emotional and baseless arguments some more.
I'm sure that hold true for the computer and various consoles, but what about the GBA?
... let's fight spam instead!
They may well have been paleocon in the past, but definately not in the past couple of years I've been reading. National Review is consistantly in favor of foreign intervention and nation building. This is the big difference between paleocons and neocons, both talk about limited govt and how large govt is bad, but only one recognizes the origin of government growth: war is the health of the state.
Heuristics? You should be able to come up with a rudimentary rule set for certain things. And really the only limit to how accurate you can get is how much time you are willing to put into refining and lengthening the number of rules.
A good orator would read a more 'exciting' passage more quickly, and with more enthusiasm, punctuating key verbs and nouns. How is software to know which passages are more exciting, and which arent?
How do we know? By matching key words and phrases. Is there even an attempt at this?
It's not just a hard task for computers, but people too. Computers read aloud at about the same level as poor orator. Pho-net-i-call-y, in a dull drab monotone. Drop by the local high school, and listen to them reading shakespeare.
Even if it is too hard a task for a computer to leap beyond dull drap monotone for straight text to speech, do you know of any attempts at emphasis tags?
I find it really hard to beleive that this hasn't advanced at all since the 80s.I recently downloaded Microsoft Reader along with a text to speech add-in and it sounded horrible. Same thing with Adobe's eBook Reader (well, their's was a little better).
But why is this so? Why is text to speech even difficult? If you just have a human person speak all the different phonetic sounds shouldn't it be a simple matter of stringing together those sounds in a relatively seemless way?
Anne Coulter actually had a hard time getting her book Slander published, and yet her book became an immediate best seller. Somewhere there is a serious disconnect with marketing people and what they think sells.
The big problem is the INS. How many of these terrorists have been let into this country when they should have been stopped at the borders?
I'm not sure how open source code helps the problem any since you can't verify that the open code you are looking at is the same code used in the machine.
Sure, that's the way it was before 1973.
Or rather farmers who can't compete with redder tomatoes. It's protectionism, not that there is anything wrong with that.