It's more than just faddish CGI. I watched part of Man of Steel last night, and silently raged at two stupidities: the muted colors, and the shakey cam everywhere
Roger Ebert maintained this was more about hiding the shitty reality of CGI than trying to add subconscious action feels. I completely agree here. Compare vs., say, Watchmen, where action was crystal clear, and often in slo mo for that matter.
Then the movie ended, with Superman learning he must sometimes kill to save innocents. And the writers learning nothing about what Superman is.
This is a bigger issue that some realize. Give the computer a full virtual cube and it can solve it in microseconds or less. For that matte4, conjuring a list of turns should be sufficient for a computer.
It's been shown no cube is more than 20-something twists from being solved. I memorized a solution book, and just part of it, sufficient to solve any cube when I was a kid.
The rest is just mechanical manipulation. Should robot-specific cubes be allowed, with faced bolted to the robot? Or special grip attachments on the faces? Special bearings inside that won't jam or melt?
Solving a Rubik's Cube in 1s is not actually a hard real time requirement system, says the clueless Microsoft engineer, regardless of the app's designer's intent.
But are you free to move and not work? To seek not employment, but unemployment? To move to a place not with better job prospects, but better not-a-job prospects?
How about mandatory sterilization if you choose to accept a minimum income? This will stop inevitable evolution adapting to taking advantage of it, with commensurate feedback mechanisms increasing its amount.
Well, one thing's for sure. The supply of ither peoples' money is provably inexhaustible, shown by Greece and Germany last year. And that social spending is a drop in the bucket.
Here's what would happen: economic collapse as people retire and nobody is left to do the work. Some would for greater pay, but their taxes will go up even more.
It will be repealed once nobody wants to buy bonds anymore. This is just the same idea as payiny people to dig holes, then fill them in over and over, without the digging. It us a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works, which is driven by the actual, useful work done, and not by the water flowing over the wheel. Grabbing a hose and spraying everybody accomplishes zero useful work.
Exactly. European democracies are worse than the US in intrusiveness. And Russia, China, etc.? Saying these should even have a say in it, forget it.
This is complete and utter failure and stupidity. A nation dedicate to keeping the trade routes open is turning over control to places whose leaders are not of accord.
A long time ago, I read that a universe jammed with subatomic particle-sized computing components, about 10^^120 (for solid neutrons), running for the age of the universe at the speed of light, couldn't come close to playing a perfect game of chess, which has many powers fewer moves to consider.
Actually, that's a kind of press, the mechanical means of mass producing and distributing speech, specifically protected in the First Amendment alongside Speech itself. Modern courts have added "The Press"-qua-job-description, but the real reason is kings would backdoor censor by outlawing or controlling printing presses.
Indeed, there is a push on to do away with "The Press" job description, and being a "member" of "The Press" is synonymous with any citizen doing anything press-like, like picking up a cell phone camera or posting on Facebook. There is no special subset of citizens permitted greater freedom of speech than others.
Among other things, a newspaper heaved into your driveway cannot be punished as garbage. The front of your house is your open, public approach, and it's been to the Supreme Court, and speech wins every time. They can come up and knock, too.
Now if you put a fence around your yard and no tresspassing signs, that's different. A no call list might be similar to a no tresspassing sign.
To modern youngsters, this thief class is what you would call a rouge (haha). Except it is vastly different.
He could pick locks and disable traps and so on, a highly useful skill, and was a mediocre help in fights. But fights were far from all adventurers did.
Nowadays they are seen as fighters with a magical superpower called backstab that doesn't even need the victim to be simultaneously unaware and motionless.
In Dragon Age 2, true warriors are useless, and logically one should construct armies of the thieves who can simply turn invisible after super-backstabs-frontally-stabbs.
They quickly transferred it offworld to the Orion cluster, converted it to gold-pressed latinum, then bought passage on an old orbital tug converted to a small transport ship headed rimward.
I assume that's why they can't just go arrest of the people and transfer it back.
You don't send blackmail letters AT ALL. You announce in private you intend to do the "right thing", or have your lawyer contact them. It's not illegal to accept hush money. You have to be a moron to get convicted of extortion when there are so many lawyers willing to legitimize it for a 15-30% cut of the action.
However it would be illegal if he were the one who did the hacking, or a partner of him.
Courts stop illegally-obtained info from being released by the person who stole it all the time. But if, once stolen, someone else stumbled across it, or was given it, as to a journalist, preemptive bans are slapped down on appeal.
I am surprised there isn't some good faith contractual violation here. When acquiring the rights to the movie, you might assume continued promotion via comicbook and so on.
One need only look at the difference between North and South Korea to see government influence on the economu can be far worse for the average person than the worst of global warming.
It's the often unspoken assumption brakes must be slammed on things that is the real danger, not attempts at amelioration here and there.
While the US Congress could refuse, perhaps, copyright protection, they could not order takedowns of uncopyrighted stuff, nor could they get away with any other copyright twisting to take it down.
Taxi companies with many million dollar tokens: We can't handle competition! Fire up FUD and the usual useful idiots.
Big government leftists: Insurance and licenses and Windex bottles! >:-(
GM: Hey, we will help, buying these guys out, the way we bought out street cars a century ago!
Captain Kirk: Nomad-leftist, you hate when big companies push competition out of business, especially collective enterprises.
Nomad-leftist: I hate it wne GM puts the little guy out of business. But I hate this little guy because FUD meme programming of my wetware. GM bad, but GM good. GM bad, but GM good. Must sterilize...must sterilize.
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It's more than just faddish CGI. I watched part of Man of Steel last night, and silently raged at two stupidities: the muted colors, and the shakey cam everywhere
Roger Ebert maintained this was more about hiding the shitty reality of CGI than trying to add subconscious action feels. I completely agree here. Compare vs., say, Watchmen, where action was crystal clear, and often in slo mo for that matter.
Then the movie ended, with Superman learning he must sometimes kill to save innocents. And the writers learning nothing about what Superman is.
This is a bigger issue that some realize. Give the computer a full virtual cube and it can solve it in microseconds or less. For that matte4, conjuring a list of turns should be sufficient for a computer.
Line 'em up next to the people from the buggy whip and tic tac toe industries.
Get back to work, Michael.
That's what she said.
This seems like disallowing peeling off the stickers, but allowing a tiny set of spray paint cans because robot.
It's been shown no cube is more than 20-something twists from being solved. I memorized a solution book, and just part of it, sufficient to solve any cube when I was a kid.
The rest is just mechanical manipulation. Should robot-specific cubes be allowed, with faced bolted to the robot? Or special grip attachments on the faces? Special bearings inside that won't jam or melt?
Solving a Rubik's Cube in 1s is not actually a hard real time requirement system, says the clueless Microsoft engineer, regardless of the app's designer's intent.
I'll never forget that statement.
But are you free to move and not work? To seek not employment, but unemployment? To move to a place not with better job prospects, but better not-a-job prospects?
How about mandatory sterilization if you choose to accept a minimum income? This will stop inevitable evolution adapting to taking advantage of it, with commensurate feedback mechanisms increasing its amount.
Well, one thing's for sure. The supply of ither peoples' money is provably inexhaustible, shown by Greece and Germany last year. And that social spending is a drop in the bucket.
Here's what would happen: economic collapse as people retire and nobody is left to do the work. Some would for greater pay, but their taxes will go up even more.
It will be repealed once nobody wants to buy bonds anymore. This is just the same idea as payiny people to dig holes, then fill them in over and over, without the digging. It us a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works, which is driven by the actual, useful work done, and not by the water flowing over the wheel. Grabbing a hose and spraying everybody accomplishes zero useful work.
Well, economically Richard "Wage and Price Control" Nixon was to the left of Kennedy. Go watch their famous TV debate.
Exactly. European democracies are worse than the US in intrusiveness. And Russia, China, etc.? Saying these should even have a say in it, forget it.
This is complete and utter failure and stupidity. A nation dedicate to keeping the trade routes open is turning over control to places whose leaders are not of accord.
A long time ago, I read that a universe jammed with subatomic particle-sized computing components, about 10^^120 (for solid neutrons), running for the age of the universe at the speed of light, couldn't come close to playing a perfect game of chess, which has many powers fewer moves to consider.
Actually, that's a kind of press, the mechanical means of mass producing and distributing speech, specifically protected in the First Amendment alongside Speech itself. Modern courts have added "The Press"-qua-job-description, but the real reason is kings would backdoor censor by outlawing or controlling printing presses.
Indeed, there is a push on to do away with "The Press" job description, and being a "member" of "The Press" is synonymous with any citizen doing anything press-like, like picking up a cell phone camera or posting on Facebook. There is no special subset of citizens permitted greater freedom of speech than others.
Among other things, a newspaper heaved into your driveway cannot be punished as garbage. The front of your house is your open, public approach, and it's been to the Supreme Court, and speech wins every time. They can come up and knock, too.
Now if you put a fence around your yard and no tresspassing signs, that's different. A no call list might be similar to a no tresspassing sign.
To modern youngsters, this thief class is what you would call a rouge (haha). Except it is vastly different.
He could pick locks and disable traps and so on, a highly useful skill, and was a mediocre help in fights. But fights were far from all adventurers did.
Nowadays they are seen as fighters with a magical superpower called backstab that doesn't even need the victim to be simultaneously unaware and motionless.
In Dragon Age 2, true warriors are useless, and logically one should construct armies of the thieves who can simply turn invisible after super-backstabs-frontally-stabbs.
Some guy in Nigeria: Finally!
They quickly transferred it offworld to the Orion cluster, converted it to gold-pressed latinum, then bought passage on an old orbital tug converted to a small transport ship headed rimward.
I assume that's why they can't just go arrest of the people and transfer it back.
You don't send blackmail letters AT ALL. You announce in private you intend to do the "right thing", or have your lawyer contact them. It's not illegal to accept hush money. You have to be a moron to get convicted of extortion when there are so many lawyers willing to legitimize it for a 15-30% cut of the action.
However it would be illegal if he were the one who did the hacking, or a partner of him.
Courts stop illegally-obtained info from being released by the person who stole it all the time. But if, once stolen, someone else stumbled across it, or was given it, as to a journalist, preemptive bans are slapped down on appeal.
That he is a man is sufficient evidence he wants to cheat.
I am surprised there isn't some good faith contractual violation here. When acquiring the rights to the movie, you might assume continued promotion via comicbook and so on.
One need only look at the difference between North and South Korea to see government influence on the economu can be far worse for the average person than the worst of global warming.
It's the often unspoken assumption brakes must be slammed on things that is the real danger, not attempts at amelioration here and there.
I used to work insane hours like that. Never helped me when downsizing came around. Work for your boss to climb? Never again.
Investigators have traced the problem to a faulty starter-generator
I.e. a big fucking coil, the exact kind of thing an EMP wants to whomp on, even with military hardening against it.
I see I was downmodded by a self-righteous censor who saw a possible idea that conflicted with his (I will assume it's a him) worldview.
While the US Congress could refuse, perhaps, copyright protection, they could not order takedowns of uncopyrighted stuff, nor could they get away with any other copyright twisting to take it down.
Taxi companies with many million dollar tokens: We can't handle competition! Fire up FUD and the usual useful idiots.
Big government leftists: Insurance and licenses and Windex bottles! >:-(
GM: Hey, we will help, buying these guys out, the way we bought out street cars a century ago!
Captain Kirk: Nomad-leftist, you hate when big companies push competition out of business, especially collective enterprises.
Nomad-leftist: I hate it wne GM puts the little guy out of business. But I hate this little guy because FUD meme programming of my wetware. GM bad, but GM good. GM bad, but GM good. Must sterilize...must sterilize.
It hurts because it is funny and true.