A friend of my younger brother was over there a few years ago and had to ask my dad how to use the phone because he'd never seen a phone without a number- pad on it. Pathetic.
What about that is pathetic? I've run into the same problem before. I didn't know how to use one because nearly all of those phones have been phased out of use, and I hadn't seen them in use on TV or in movies before, so I quite reasonably had no idea what to do. It's not like there's a Rotary Dialing 101 in school that we've skipped out on.
May as well bitch about kids these days not knowing how to use a slide rule... which, incidentally, I've never even seen before.
Did no one notice that these shorts are being created by the guy that did Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack? I don't know about most people, but imo, those cartoons seriously kick ass. Samurai Jack's one of the most visually interesting cartoons I've ever had the pleasure of seeing (anime excluded, haven't seen much of that).
I can't wait to see what he does for Star Wars. I know that it will at least be interesting visually. Rock on, looking forward to it!:)
I lead a fairly ordinary life and I don't do anything particularly 'colorful' or unusual, but I still want privacy because, frankly, the level of control and oversight they're seeking falls into the realm of 'none of your fucking business.'
I'm not hiding anything, I just find it disturbing that they want to routinely monitor me as if I was the leader of a terrorist organization. One concern of mine is that if they ever managed to put up the surveillance measures that they wanted, they could then start wheedling away at the legal system and begin outlawing some mundane activities, then find a reason to arrest or detain me.
I don't want to have to live in a country where I have to be afraid of what I do or say for fear that I might piss off the wrong person and disappear.
I do realize that that's pretty bleak and paranoiac, but when I read newspaper articles about hundreds of innocent people ("terrorists") being jailed for months without any charges, I start getting nervous. Also read an article somewhere or another about some guy making a wisecrack about a 'burning bush' and then being jailed for three years. That's not a country I want to live in.
Wish I had mod points, because you make a great point. What if SOAD breaks up and whatever site offering the unlocking app goes down forever? What value will this have in two years? Five? Ten? What will be the point?
IMO, developing media like this is extremely short-sighted. Granted, it's just liner notes, but still I'd like to be able to come back to the album several years from now and be able to read the liner notes. With an ass-headed solution like they have now, I'd be shit outta luck. Isn't that nice?
The kind of value I would look for in an album is longevity. I frequently go back every few months and listen to the same music I did 3 - 4 years ago, and enjoy it all over again. Nearsighted tech like the SOAD example and DRM will most likely take that away from me. I just want to listen to music... I guess if things go really sour, I'll just keep "stealing" music as long as I can just so I can still listen to it freely... bah.
Forget distributed computing, we need to get Hugh Jackman's character from Swordfish, he broke 1024-bit encryption in under a minute. Like this would be any big deal for him?:)
Hey man, no need to be rude about it. Could you explain to me why exactly it wasn't? If I am actually interpreting irony incorrectly, that's something I'd want to know about so I won't do it again.
Am I the only one that finds it fiercely ironic that Google is providing regstrationless entry into a registration-only New York Times article talking about the ethics of using Google?:)
Chill out, man. While I do agree that the book should be read first, it should be noted that the movie isn't a perfect translation from the book. For FOTR, the whole love story was practically squat in the book, there was no Lurtz, Frodo wasn't the one that found the password, etc. I realize those aren't huge plot points but there are a lot of departures from the book.
And apart from that, there's simply the whole visual aspect of things being spoiled. I don't recall seeing that huge, badassed 3D Balrog in the book, for example. Obvious, but I think that it's a pretty good point. I've been trying to minimize my exposure to this movie, PARTICULARLY with the Ents, just so I can behold their total coolness on the big screen. That'd still be just as much a spoiler as if I hadn't read the book.
Your real point is still quite valid though. Any self-respecting human that hasn't read LOTR yet should buy a copy immediately:)
I don't know how other hosting services work , but I'm hosted for free on Planetquake and one of their policies is an ad banner on the top of *every* page, so I don't really have a choice in the matter. Not that I'm complaining or anything, as it's been wonderful to me for years, I'm just saying.
I realize that not every provider is this way, but not everyone really has the luxury of that decision.If I had a choice in the matter I'd do away with it entirely, but TANSTAAFL.
What's the point of this? This is Maxis\EA's game. I don't see a bunch of protest-happy little shits developing this title. What makes people think that they have the right to impose their whims and demands on whoever they want? And this in particular, they seem to be trying to decide FOR Maxis who they can and can't accept money from to fund the game (not that they'd need help).
Anyone read 'Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light' by Leonard Shlain? That book highlights some similar occurrences to this throughout history, showing parallels between Salvador Dali to Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci to Isaac Newton, and dozens more, examining and comparing pieces of art to scientific discoveries and theories, then going into lots of detail and explaining each side of the equation.
The book shows through the course of history how artists have stumbled upon and understood in art what scientists later theorized and proved in science. It helps shed a light on not only the parallels between art and science but explain the inner workings of each, and treads through history looking at different art movements and explaining where they're coming from as wellExtremely interesting and compelling read, fairly heady at times, but overall quite good and DEFINITELY worth checking out if this subject interests you.:)
Want to see a Star Trek motif? Try and arrange a tour of Ensemble Studios in Dallas, Texas. (Ensemble Studios are the developers of the Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology.) I hear one of the presidents is a huge Trekkie, and that's why the both of the floors for the offices are decorated and designed Star Trek-style. Not just decorated and lit but the entire office spaces were built to those specifications. I mean, they even have a Holodeck! (which, sadly, wasn't fully functional when I visited.)
Seriously though, totally awesome place, incredible offices. They even have their own futuristic elevator and all this awesome mood lighting in these super-cool futuristic little light fixtures. Great big arches, huge circular swooping desks, TV walls, etc. Walking in the first time felt like I stepped onto a spaceship. Totally outstanding atmosphere.
I don't really know how to get in other than either knowing someone there (which I did) or going on a tour of there with the Art Institute of Dallas as a prospective student (which I did again three days later). Awesome bunch of people, great offices, great games, worth checking out if you can.:)
I run dual 17" monitors (GF4 MX and a GF2 MX) on Windows 2000 Professional and I don't even bother with NVidia's NView app. Haven't found a single use for it other than it being unreasonably slow for features I don't need. For everything Windows 2000 doesn't do out of the box, I just use UltraMon.
UltraMon still leaves a bit of a memory footprint but it's not nearly as bad or as slow as NView. It's this unobtrusive (and persistent) little system tray icon that gives me all kinds of settings that NView seems to offer as well, except faster. Some of the features I appreciate in particular are:
Shortcut keys to swap programs between monitors (proportionally or to fit - INCREDIBLY useful if you run different resolutions)
Shell extensions for switching monitors or maximizing.
A simple double-click on the systray icon (or a definable keyboard shortcut) to turn off the secondary monitor on demand, such as if you want to run an OpenGL game without the second monitor looking all weird.
Individual desktop wallpaper settings.
The program itself creates shortcuts that set a program to start on a certain monitor.
Saving window sizes and positions.
You can enable two separate taskbars if you want, and either have each taskbar show all the tasks or have each separate taskbar show the tasks running on that specific monitor.
That's the bulk of its features. Great little program. Unfortunately, yes, it is $40 to register, and there are discounts for multiple licenses, but for me personally it was well worth the cost for the extreme ease of use it provides me with my monitors.
I have tried NView, but it kind of seems like it's trying too hard to be useful, where UltraMon just works, and works great. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone with dual monitors.
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A friend of my younger brother was over there a few years ago and had to ask my dad how to use the phone because he'd never seen a phone without a number- pad on it. Pathetic.
What about that is pathetic? I've run into the same problem before. I didn't know how to use one because nearly all of those phones have been phased out of use, and I hadn't seen them in use on TV or in movies before, so I quite reasonably had no idea what to do. It's not like there's a Rotary Dialing 101 in school that we've skipped out on.
May as well bitch about kids these days not knowing how to use a slide rule... which, incidentally, I've never even seen before.
[DanaCarvey] AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!! Smeedily feedily smeeeee! [/DanaCarvey]
Did no one notice that these shorts are being created by the guy that did Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack? I don't know about most people, but imo, those cartoons seriously kick ass. Samurai Jack's one of the most visually interesting cartoons I've ever had the pleasure of seeing (anime excluded, haven't seen much of that).
:)
I can't wait to see what he does for Star Wars. I know that it will at least be interesting visually. Rock on, looking forward to it!
I disagree.
I lead a fairly ordinary life and I don't do anything particularly 'colorful' or unusual, but I still want privacy because, frankly, the level of control and oversight they're seeking falls into the realm of 'none of your fucking business.'
I'm not hiding anything, I just find it disturbing that they want to routinely monitor me as if I was the leader of a terrorist organization. One concern of mine is that if they ever managed to put up the surveillance measures that they wanted, they could then start wheedling away at the legal system and begin outlawing some mundane activities, then find a reason to arrest or detain me.
I don't want to have to live in a country where I have to be afraid of what I do or say for fear that I might piss off the wrong person and disappear.
I do realize that that's pretty bleak and paranoiac, but when I read newspaper articles about hundreds of innocent people ("terrorists") being jailed for months without any charges, I start getting nervous. Also read an article somewhere or another about some guy making a wisecrack about a 'burning bush' and then being jailed for three years. That's not a country I want to live in.
Wish I had mod points, because you make a great point. What if SOAD breaks up and whatever site offering the unlocking app goes down forever? What value will this have in two years? Five? Ten? What will be the point?
IMO, developing media like this is extremely short-sighted. Granted, it's just liner notes, but still I'd like to be able to come back to the album several years from now and be able to read the liner notes. With an ass-headed solution like they have now, I'd be shit outta luck. Isn't that nice?
The kind of value I would look for in an album is longevity. I frequently go back every few months and listen to the same music I did 3 - 4 years ago, and enjoy it all over again. Nearsighted tech like the SOAD example and DRM will most likely take that away from me. I just want to listen to music... I guess if things go really sour, I'll just keep "stealing" music as long as I can just so I can still listen to it freely... bah.
You sure that wasn't Harry Knowles? heh
Forget distributed computing, we need to get Hugh Jackman's character from Swordfish, he broke 1024-bit encryption in under a minute. Like this would be any big deal for him? :)
ADDENDUM: *hot young female* nudity can make anything better.
Case in point: Any given cooking show. Iron Chef, Two Fat Ladies, Emeril Live, etc.
Hey man, no need to be rude about it. Could you explain to me why exactly it wasn't? If I am actually interpreting irony incorrectly, that's something I'd want to know about so I won't do it again.
Am I the only one that finds it fiercely ironic that Google is providing regstrationless entry into a registration-only New York Times article talking about the ethics of using Google? :)
Chill out, man. While I do agree that the book should be read first, it should be noted that the movie isn't a perfect translation from the book. For FOTR, the whole love story was practically squat in the book, there was no Lurtz, Frodo wasn't the one that found the password, etc. I realize those aren't huge plot points but there are a lot of departures from the book.
:)
And apart from that, there's simply the whole visual aspect of things being spoiled. I don't recall seeing that huge, badassed 3D Balrog in the book, for example. Obvious, but I think that it's a pretty good point. I've been trying to minimize my exposure to this movie, PARTICULARLY with the Ents, just so I can behold their total coolness on the big screen. That'd still be just as much a spoiler as if I hadn't read the book.
Your real point is still quite valid though. Any self-respecting human that hasn't read LOTR yet should buy a copy immediately
I don't know how other hosting services work , but I'm hosted for free on Planetquake and one of their policies is an ad banner on the top of *every* page, so I don't really have a choice in the matter. Not that I'm complaining or anything, as it's been wonderful to me for years, I'm just saying.
I realize that not every provider is this way, but not everyone really has the luxury of that decision.If I had a choice in the matter I'd do away with it entirely, but TANSTAAFL.
What's the point of this? This is Maxis\EA's game. I don't see a bunch of protest-happy little shits developing this title. What makes people think that they have the right to impose their whims and demands on whoever they want? And this in particular, they seem to be trying to decide FOR Maxis who they can and can't accept money from to fund the game (not that they'd need help).
What kind of monstrous conceit is this?
Anyone read 'Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light' by Leonard Shlain? That book highlights some similar occurrences to this throughout history, showing parallels between Salvador Dali to Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci to Isaac Newton, and dozens more, examining and comparing pieces of art to scientific discoveries and theories, then going into lots of detail and explaining each side of the equation.
:)
The book shows through the course of history how artists have stumbled upon and understood in art what scientists later theorized and proved in science. It helps shed a light on not only the parallels between art and science but explain the inner workings of each, and treads through history looking at different art movements and explaining where they're coming from as wellExtremely interesting and compelling read, fairly heady at times, but overall quite good and DEFINITELY worth checking out if this subject interests you.
Want to see a Star Trek motif? Try and arrange a tour of Ensemble Studios in Dallas, Texas. (Ensemble Studios are the developers of the Age of Empires series and Age of Mythology.) I hear one of the presidents is a huge Trekkie, and that's why the both of the floors for the offices are decorated and designed Star Trek-style. Not just decorated and lit but the entire office spaces were built to those specifications. I mean, they even have a Holodeck! (which, sadly, wasn't fully functional when I visited.)
Seriously though, totally awesome place, incredible offices. They even have their own futuristic elevator and all this awesome mood lighting in these super-cool futuristic little light fixtures. Great big arches, huge circular swooping desks, TV walls, etc. Walking in the first time felt like I stepped onto a spaceship. Totally outstanding atmosphere.
I don't really know how to get in other than either knowing someone there (which I did) or going on a tour of there with the Art Institute of Dallas as a prospective student (which I did again three days later). Awesome bunch of people, great offices, great games, worth checking out if you can. :)
I run dual 17" monitors (GF4 MX and a GF2 MX) on Windows 2000 Professional and I don't even bother with NVidia's NView app. Haven't found a single use for it other than it being unreasonably slow for features I don't need. For everything Windows 2000 doesn't do out of the box, I just use UltraMon.
UltraMon still leaves a bit of a memory footprint but it's not nearly as bad or as slow as NView. It's this unobtrusive (and persistent) little system tray icon that gives me all kinds of settings that NView seems to offer as well, except faster. Some of the features I appreciate in particular are:
Shortcut keys to swap programs between monitors (proportionally or to fit - INCREDIBLY useful if you run different resolutions)
Shell extensions for switching monitors or maximizing.
A simple double-click on the systray icon (or a definable keyboard shortcut) to turn off the secondary monitor on demand, such as if you want to run an OpenGL game without the second monitor looking all weird.
Individual desktop wallpaper settings.
The program itself creates shortcuts that set a program to start on a certain monitor.
Saving window sizes and positions.
You can enable two separate taskbars if you want, and either have each taskbar show all the tasks or have each separate taskbar show the tasks running on that specific monitor.
That's the bulk of its features. Great little program. Unfortunately, yes, it is $40 to register, and there are discounts for multiple licenses, but for me personally it was well worth the cost for the extreme ease of use it provides me with my monitors.
I have tried NView, but it kind of seems like it's trying too hard to be useful, where UltraMon just works, and works great. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone with dual monitors.