Plus there is alot of story behind characters and off-handed comments the characters make about situations we the audience have no knowledge of. Each episode could pull a quote from a movie scene and expand on it (flashback style). The only drawback to this scenario is that the actors would need to be the same ones from the movies, or a close likeness, and I doubt you'd get many of them cheap enough for a TV show.
I'm sure volumes have been written expanding on the Star Wars sextet already, so a screenplay/teleplay would be fairly easy to adapt. Personally I felt SW3:ROTS could have used another 30 minutes or so, the end felt so rushed. Treat these tv shows like slices of time between and parallel to the movies.
Unfortunately being anal retentive does nothing for your sequel/prequel estimation. Since the series was intended to be a sextet of books, and Star Wars ep 4 was the first film, it's dubious as to what's a sequel and what's a prequel. Technically you're right, but as the movie order goes, he made one film and 5 sequels.
Um, if he defended himself, and won, it should have been a condition of the lawsuit that he won his 'costs' back as well. Lawyers are greedy, and they wouldn't take a case like this without a guaranteed paycheck. If defending against this case crushed his bank account, he should have gotten punitive damages as well as lawyer compensation from the prosecution.
Judging from the last few shows I went to, I really don't want to recreate the experience of a live show.
The heaving, standing room only crowd, the pot smoke wafting through the air, the unreasonable bouncers snatching people out at random. You can keep it.
I made a blanket reply to the parent post, particularly the section which read thusly:
"It's true that there are various "noisy" and uncontrollable aspects of modern CPUs, but if you take enough measurements and can establish a control, you can get valid information. It will not give you "the answer", it may help you to eliminate a set of data that is "not the answer". That is extremely valuable.
Some people actually monitor chip power supply variations to try to get this information."
"This vulnerability seems to be valuable mostly to people who already have access to the system."
Yep, and like the old maxim goes, there's no security if the attacker has physical access. Alot of this collegiate discussion of measuring voltages and doing fine-grained timing would require having physical access.
Yeah but at least US television is _watchable_. Everything I see on BBC america looks like it was filmed with 1950's equipment from the dawn of Color Television. There's motion blurring which I could hardly believe the first time I saw it on broadcast television.
Does this have anything to do with PAL to NTSC conversion or is England full of 'shite' broadcasting hardware?
What's the point of SLI? Well, first of all, welcome back from your coma. Second, SLI does for Nvidia cards now what pairing up 3dfx cards did then. You get roughly double the graphics processing power with a pair of cards in SLI mode. There are different modes you can choose for frame/field rendering but overall you get nearly twice the framerate and/or details.
Oh yeah, DeBeers is _very_ dirty. If you read the older Wired article linked high up in this thread, you'll find that they tend to be rather magical. The person in the article who was gathering Russian scientists for diamond engineering and marketing his product was actually contacted by DeBeers. They wanted to buy off his process and bury it.
The creepy part is when he was sitting in his hotel room, and he hadn't contacted anyone yet (so nobody should have known where he was). All of a sudden his phone rings, and it's a DeBeers 'agent', making him an offer. He refuses, and the DeBeers agent basically tells him to watch his back. He's ex-military so he probably expected something like that to begin with and was prepared.
Well back when both Apple and Amiga used the same processor (Motorola 68xxx cores), this was more relevant. However, the architectures of both were extremely different. It still surprises me that Apple didn't just purchase Amiga and use their tech back then.
I had a strong feeling someone would discount that source regardless of the research that went into it. I admit he goes off on a weird tangent towards the end but that's not what I was concerned with.
I'm usually not in the habit of feeding trolls or doing research for them, and I'm not going to do that today. Basically, it happened, the US profited, end of story.
"Oh, of course! Obviously the US is to blame! You don't need to explain it or back it up. Hell, your statement is so bad that it's not even false - it's just plain nonsensical."
The only thing nonsensical here is your childish reply to a completely foreign concept.
Depending on how much you treat the internet as a source, there's an article here about what I previously mentioned: click.
Be careful though, it may be too much for you to grasp in one sitting. Particularly striking is this quote, "Virtually no one knows that in Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio, in the Library of Congress and in the Department of Commerce in Washington, a "mother lode" of 1,500 tons of German patents and research papers were being mined furiously after the war. One gloating Washington bureaucrat called it "the greatest single source of this type of material in the world, the first orderly exploitation of an entire country's brain power."
Mining a country's brain power = intellectual property theft. A plan for a machine or a process is intellectual property. Prior to the war Germany was very strict about not patenting it's inventions in other countries or licensing the tech to other countries for production. Now you see why.
There are many, many documents and books related to this subject. It's just not that well known, because who wants to admit that the tech they're working with was stolen? If you come up with a revolutionary idea, and I shoot you and claim it as my own, is that wrong? When you said, "Things like copyrights and patents can certainly be good and useful, but they are not property law and they do not deal with peices of property. Thinking that it is property, thinking that it is or should be the same as property law, well that just leads to mistaken conclusions", did you ever consider books? You believe in physical property rights but not intellectual property rights? Do you think that books also should not be copyrighted because they are just made up of words in different order?
Oh and not to nitpick, but you should attend your English classes. I before E except after C would teach you that it's 'piece' not 'peice'. Also, 'rediculous' is spelled 'ridiculous'. It's one of the few words you know which is not spelled like it sounds.
Yeah, so they didn't fly, but we have Flying Squirrels who do vaguely the same thing, and I'm sure a lizard or two who do the same.
Basically they sensationalized it. It should be called Gliding Snakes. However, who'd want to read about gliding snakes? Nobody, that's who. Flying Snakes, otoh, are a whole different game!
I had no idea that 'spoils of war' was still an acceptable ideal. I've heard reports from Iraq that everything stay in Saddam Hussein's palace.
How, too, do you describe indiscriminate looting that eventually led to the Jews getting some of their gold back? If it's spoils of war, then it's fair game, and they shouldn't get it back at all since it was German gold.
"First, let us both agree that killing two birds with one stone is a good thing."
No no no. That's not a good thing _at all_. About the only time you'd accomplish this goal is if you killed a mama bird sitting on a nest of new hatchlings. And that's just plain mean.
That's a little known facet of WW2. The Germans lost not only the war but every single patent they ever had. Who did they lose them to? Oh, the USA of course. It was the single largest theft of intellectual property the world has ever seen, not to mention the absolute looting of major banks and households.
Ironically enough, a percentage of German gold was actually stolen from displaced/killed Jews and other countries that Germany had conquered. Tons of that gold made it back to New York where it was re-pressed with the Federal Seal, thereby making it US money. Through following paper trails and lots of hunting, Jewish advocacy groups located much of their own gold and the US government was forced to pay them back, with interest. This all happened very recently (the payback itself).
It's not a discovery for humanity, like meeting with aliens or finding another moon around Saturn, but a discovery for the scientific community at large.
I can imagine something like this would be very exciting, considering that nearly all mammals, rodents and other large creatures are already filed away. Insects, bacteria, and deep sea life are still being discovered, but something this large is very unusual.
My point is that it was a joke and the mods didn't get it. Surprise surprise.
My wife is Thai, so I know a little about what that part of the planet eats. I've been known to eat frog, turtle, alligator and snake on occasion, and something like this isn't too shocking.
Well, that's close. It was actually a quote from a Space Ghost episode where Space Ghosts's father showed up and talked smack to Zorak. Voiced by Randy Savage.
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Plus there is alot of story behind characters and off-handed comments the characters make about situations we the audience have no knowledge of. Each episode could pull a quote from a movie scene and expand on it (flashback style). The only drawback to this scenario is that the actors would need to be the same ones from the movies, or a close likeness, and I doubt you'd get many of them cheap enough for a TV show.
I'm sure volumes have been written expanding on the Star Wars sextet already, so a screenplay/teleplay would be fairly easy to adapt. Personally I felt SW3:ROTS could have used another 30 minutes or so, the end felt so rushed. Treat these tv shows like slices of time between and parallel to the movies.
Unfortunately being anal retentive does nothing for your sequel/prequel estimation. Since the series was intended to be a sextet of books, and Star Wars ep 4 was the first film, it's dubious as to what's a sequel and what's a prequel. Technically you're right, but as the movie order goes, he made one film and 5 sequels.
He might be married. He intended to say 'girls can't direct anything entertaining'. Lots and lots of drama, very little action, no explosions.
Um, if he defended himself, and won, it should have been a condition of the lawsuit that he won his 'costs' back as well. Lawyers are greedy, and they wouldn't take a case like this without a guaranteed paycheck. If defending against this case crushed his bank account, he should have gotten punitive damages as well as lawyer compensation from the prosecution.
Then again, IANAL, and maybe his lawyers sucked.
Judging from the last few shows I went to, I really don't want to recreate the experience of a live show.
The heaving, standing room only crowd, the pot smoke wafting through the air, the unreasonable bouncers snatching people out at random. You can keep it.
It'd be a hell of alot longer than 3 minutes if it was edited. Particularly in Kill Bill 2, there's an insane amount of dialog and ponderous pauses.
Not that I don't like dialog in my action movies but there wasn't very much 'memorable' dialog like other Tarantino films have had.
I made a blanket reply to the parent post, particularly the section which read thusly:
"It's true that there are various "noisy" and uncontrollable aspects of modern CPUs, but if you take enough measurements and can establish a control, you can get valid information. It will not give you "the answer", it may help you to eliminate a set of data that is "not the answer". That is extremely valuable.
Some people actually monitor chip power supply variations to try to get this information."
"I certainly agree that this HT vulnerability looks pretty minor, but the people who try to break cryptography are often VERY clever..."
I agree with you there. In Soviet Russia, security cracks you!
"This vulnerability seems to be valuable mostly to people who already have access to the system."
Yep, and like the old maxim goes, there's no security if the attacker has physical access. Alot of this collegiate discussion of measuring voltages and doing fine-grained timing would require having physical access.
Yeah but at least US television is _watchable_. Everything I see on BBC america looks like it was filmed with 1950's equipment from the dawn of Color Television. There's motion blurring which I could hardly believe the first time I saw it on broadcast television.
Does this have anything to do with PAL to NTSC conversion or is England full of 'shite' broadcasting hardware?
What's the point of SLI? Well, first of all, welcome back from your coma. Second, SLI does for Nvidia cards now what pairing up 3dfx cards did then. You get roughly double the graphics processing power with a pair of cards in SLI mode. There are different modes you can choose for frame/field rendering but overall you get nearly twice the framerate and/or details.
Is this 'discount every mentioned source' week part two?
Oh yeah, DeBeers is _very_ dirty. If you read the older Wired article linked high up in this thread, you'll find that they tend to be rather magical. The person in the article who was gathering Russian scientists for diamond engineering and marketing his product was actually contacted by DeBeers. They wanted to buy off his process and bury it.
The creepy part is when he was sitting in his hotel room, and he hadn't contacted anyone yet (so nobody should have known where he was). All of a sudden his phone rings, and it's a DeBeers 'agent', making him an offer. He refuses, and the DeBeers agent basically tells him to watch his back. He's ex-military so he probably expected something like that to begin with and was prepared.
Well back when both Apple and Amiga used the same processor (Motorola 68xxx cores), this was more relevant. However, the architectures of both were extremely different. It still surprises me that Apple didn't just purchase Amiga and use their tech back then.
My intention was never to incite an argument, but the lazy folks who cannot use Google or the local library couldn't accept it.
Well gee, what a shocker. A guy named 'adult film producer' is choosing pussy over a dog.
Get it? PUSSY! I'm so punny today.
I had a strong feeling someone would discount that source regardless of the research that went into it. I admit he goes off on a weird tangent towards the end but that's not what I was concerned with.
I'm usually not in the habit of feeding trolls or doing research for them, and I'm not going to do that today. Basically, it happened, the US profited, end of story.
"Oh, of course! Obviously the US is to blame! You don't need to explain it or back it up. Hell, your statement is so bad that it's not even false - it's just plain nonsensical."
The only thing nonsensical here is your childish reply to a completely foreign concept.
Depending on how much you treat the internet as a source, there's an article here about what I previously mentioned: click.
Be careful though, it may be too much for you to grasp in one sitting. Particularly striking is this quote, "Virtually no one knows that in Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio, in the Library of Congress and in the Department of Commerce in Washington, a "mother lode" of 1,500 tons of German patents and research papers were being mined furiously after the war. One gloating Washington bureaucrat called it "the greatest single source of this type of material in the world, the first orderly exploitation of an entire country's brain power."
Mining a country's brain power = intellectual property theft. A plan for a machine or a process is intellectual property. Prior to the war Germany was very strict about not patenting it's inventions in other countries or licensing the tech to other countries for production. Now you see why.
There are many, many documents and books related to this subject. It's just not that well known, because who wants to admit that the tech they're working with was stolen? If you come up with a revolutionary idea, and I shoot you and claim it as my own, is that wrong? When you said, "Things like copyrights and patents can certainly be good and useful, but they are not property law and they do not deal with peices of property. Thinking that it is property, thinking that it is or should be the same as property law, well that just leads to mistaken conclusions", did you ever consider books? You believe in physical property rights but not intellectual property rights? Do you think that books also should not be copyrighted because they are just made up of words in different order?
Oh and not to nitpick, but you should attend your English classes. I before E except after C would teach you that it's 'piece' not 'peice'. Also, 'rediculous' is spelled 'ridiculous'. It's one of the few words you know which is not spelled like it sounds.
Yeah, so they didn't fly, but we have Flying Squirrels who do vaguely the same thing, and I'm sure a lizard or two who do the same.
Basically they sensationalized it. It should be called Gliding Snakes. However, who'd want to read about gliding snakes? Nobody, that's who. Flying Snakes, otoh, are a whole different game!
I had no idea that 'spoils of war' was still an acceptable ideal. I've heard reports from Iraq that everything stay in Saddam Hussein's palace.
How, too, do you describe indiscriminate looting that eventually led to the Jews getting some of their gold back? If it's spoils of war, then it's fair game, and they shouldn't get it back at all since it was German gold.
"First, let us both agree that killing two birds with one stone is a good thing."
No no no. That's not a good thing _at all_. About the only time you'd accomplish this goal is if you killed a mama bird sitting on a nest of new hatchlings. And that's just plain mean.
Wait till PETA hears about this one!
That's a little known facet of WW2. The Germans lost not only the war but every single patent they ever had. Who did they lose them to? Oh, the USA of course. It was the single largest theft of intellectual property the world has ever seen, not to mention the absolute looting of major banks and households.
Ironically enough, a percentage of German gold was actually stolen from displaced/killed Jews and other countries that Germany had conquered. Tons of that gold made it back to New York where it was re-pressed with the Federal Seal, thereby making it US money. Through following paper trails and lots of hunting, Jewish advocacy groups located much of their own gold and the US government was forced to pay them back, with interest. This all happened very recently (the payback itself).
It's not a discovery for humanity, like meeting with aliens or finding another moon around Saturn, but a discovery for the scientific community at large.
I can imagine something like this would be very exciting, considering that nearly all mammals, rodents and other large creatures are already filed away. Insects, bacteria, and deep sea life are still being discovered, but something this large is very unusual.
My point is that it was a joke and the mods didn't get it. Surprise surprise.
My wife is Thai, so I know a little about what that part of the planet eats. I've been known to eat frog, turtle, alligator and snake on occasion, and something like this isn't too shocking.
Well, that's close. It was actually a quote from a Space Ghost episode where Space Ghosts's father showed up and talked smack to Zorak. Voiced by Randy Savage.