Well, I remember quite clearly watching a making of special where they had little bus models, building models etc, and then filmed a mini-explosion. Maybe it was doctored up with CGI, but it was a miniature scene to start with.
I think the real kicker would be bus speeds over MMX or SIMD or any of that. Memory buses are more than a bit faster than they were back with the 8088's. Not to mention the 33Mhz PCI over the 8 Mhz ISA. And then there is on-board cache running at CPU clock speeds, etc, etc.
Just saying it is probably as much a function of that over basic clock speed.
1. Earth sends 'probes' (hee hee - he said 'probes') to Venus. 2. Earth accidentally 'seeds' Venus with our 'probes'. 3. New Scientist reports infected atmosphere on Venus. Possible bugs. 4. Earth sends more 'probes' to Venus to bring back sample. 5. Accidental release of sample into Earth's atmosphere...... 6. ? 7. Profit. 8. Earth decimated by 'venereal'' bugs, or VD.
There you have it. We are the origin of our destruction.
Well, you could use one of the taller trees as a tower.
AotC has to compete with 20 years of expectations.
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Comparing Spider-Man to AotC is not at all valid. For those of us who were enthralled by the Star Wars saga all those years ago; waiting for the long-promised sequel movies gave us for too much time to think of how good the rest of the movies could be.
As many of us found out; the Phantom Menace was not the movie that we wanted. How could it be; two hours of actual film trying to compete with 20 years of avid science fiction reading (I avoided the Star Wars fiction - not for any reason other than I was reading the classics); an entire teenage life thinking about what could happen in the Star Wars films. In my youth; just the thought that there would ever be any other films in the saga was almost mythical.
This is not to say that Phantom Menace did not have some (huge; obvious; horrible!) problems. Spider-Man just did not have this double-decade of cinematic baggage; it is a silly comparison.
And for me; AotC brought back something I really missed in the Phantom Menace - I was excited and intrigued by the story and the visuals. The last hour or so of AotC was fantastic to watch; heatpounding cinema. Nice, fun, light-hearted movie making. It left me with a sense of promise for the next one.
As another poster mentioned; let me see Spider-Man 5 in 20 years doing as well and maybe then we can make some comparisons.
I have two. I always wondered what kind of reaction I would get from the people at work if I wore them. One is probably way to small now; that would be the icing on the cake.
I think they would laugh *at* me. Not with me. They wouldn't 'get it'.
I don't want others using it, reducing it's lifetime.
This bit is flawed I think - how many people have actually burned out a cpu from regular (not overclocked) use? And I am sure that there is an appreciable percentage now running some sort of background task anyways; whether it is seti@home or one of the medical ones or povray or...
In almost every case your cpu will be obsolete years before it's lifetime is due to expire. I suppose that constant disk usage might be a problem; but due to the limited bandwidth they will be dealing with; I would imagine that data transfer would be best utilized if limited to large and sporadic transfers (lots of files aggregated together in a zip file for example) as opposed to continuous transfers in and out of small files.
And as for security, that is certainly an issue. But you have to read between the lines I think to see the big picture; imagine a government office sharing data and cpu cycles on all of the desktops. Redundant backup; tons of spare cpu cycles; and it is presumably secure anyways within the physical and logical location. Or at home; if you have more than one PC and all you have to do to share resources (effectively and transparently) is toggle a setting to borrow the spare cycles and storage of your friends and family.
I think it is an idea with merit; and no more flawed than the current setup most users are looking at with cable and DSL connection and other always-on connections.
Hollywood doesn't want high bitrate distribution of its prized material. It wants low bitrate...
Hm - that may be partially true; but look at something like DVD-Audio where the entire benefit of the format is very high bandwidth making it thusly hard to make an exact and *portable* (think p2p) copy. If Hollywood starts pumping out low bandwith media then they have done most of the hard work of media sharing for the pira... er, public.
Look at DVD's; more than half the battle of making a easily portable copy is converting the mpeg2 to lower bandwidth mpeg2 or mpeg. I would think there is a good deal to be said for making very high bandwidth items. Personally; I don't find svcd's worth the effort of watching. If I want to own a movie; I want 5.1 audio. I want a nice case. I want the extra features and commentary. I can't make a useful copy of that; so I don't bother downloading pirated movies. I also live about 50 feet from a Blockbuster, so rental is an option.
I have, however; downloaded episodes of TV shows that I missed. The only part of that experience that is different from TV is that the commercials have been removed from the downloaded version. Compared to a converted and shared DVD which would be lower audio and video quality; and missing all of the extras that, for me anyways, make it well worth the purchase of the DVD. Not te mention the frequent aggravation of downloading a really bad or flawed rip; wasting time looking for the movie in the first place; etc. How many people do you know who are proud of thier massive collection of stolen movies.. and yet haven't watched all of them?
Of course, once DVD writers (and media) become mainstream all of this gets turned upside down. Expecially if this blu-ray takes off. You can fit a lot of movies on a 27 gig disc; even a few DVD's in their native format.
Yes, I had the very same thought. I think that the best way to get them to increase security would be to ditch a couple quarter billion dollar birds in the pacific. Or out the other way; either would have the same effect.
I think the very next day there would be some very frank discussions about security.
I got dinged on this one - on the Linux+ beta; all the questions that I got related to package management were rpm based. I may be a linux novice; but I know what I like and RedHat ain't it. I used slackware for a bit back in the 1.x(1.2?) days; and more recently Debian.
So I had only used rpm once or twice; and yet had to answer a half-dozen or so rpm-based questions on a "vendor-neutral" exam.
I used the input fields on the exam to complain about just that fact.
Re:Imagine an office full of these phones- Danger!
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Since apparently "it is impossible for people who hear the sound not to turn and face" this sound; if two or more of these phones go off simultaneously, your head will just tear clean off.
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Well, I remember quite clearly watching a making of special where they had little bus models, building models etc, and then filmed a mini-explosion. Maybe it was doctored up with CGI, but it was a miniature scene to start with.
It is my understanding that this was not confirmed until reviewing the tapes far after any abort would have been possible.
Maybe you are thinking of the paypal scam that was exactly the same deal; very legitimate looking pages:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/837882.asp
I think the real kicker would be bus speeds over MMX or SIMD or any of that. Memory buses are more than a bit faster than they were back with the 8088's. Not to mention the 33Mhz PCI over the 8 Mhz ISA. And then there is on-board cache running at CPU clock speeds, etc, etc.
Just saying it is probably as much a function of that over basic clock speed.
Yes. We put it there.
Here is the scenario as I see it.
1. Earth sends 'probes' (hee hee - he said 'probes') to Venus.
2. Earth accidentally 'seeds' Venus with our 'probes'.
3. New Scientist reports infected atmosphere on Venus. Possible bugs.
4. Earth sends more 'probes' to Venus to bring back sample.
5. Accidental release of sample into Earth's atmosphere......
6. ?
7. Profit.
8. Earth decimated by 'venereal'' bugs, or VD.
There you have it. We are the origin of our destruction.
the bloody trees around my house.
Well, you could use one of the taller trees as a tower.
Comparing Spider-Man to AotC is not at all valid. For those of us who were enthralled by the Star Wars saga all those years ago; waiting for the long-promised sequel movies gave us for too much time to think of how good the rest of the movies could be.
As many of us found out; the Phantom Menace was not the movie that we wanted. How could it be; two hours of actual film trying to compete with 20 years of avid science fiction reading (I avoided the Star Wars fiction - not for any reason other than I was reading the classics); an entire teenage life thinking about what could happen in the Star Wars films. In my youth; just the thought that there would ever be any other films in the saga was almost mythical.
This is not to say that Phantom Menace did not have some (huge; obvious; horrible!) problems. Spider-Man just did not have this double-decade of cinematic baggage; it is a silly comparison.
And for me; AotC brought back something I really missed in the Phantom Menace - I was excited and intrigued by the story and the visuals. The last hour or so of AotC was fantastic to watch; heatpounding cinema. Nice, fun, light-hearted movie making. It left me with a sense of promise for the next one.
As another poster mentioned; let me see Spider-Man 5 in 20 years doing as well and maybe then we can make some comparisons.
Not valid if Spider-Man 5 comes out in 6 years.
I have two. I always wondered what kind of reaction I would get from the people at work if I wore them. One is probably way to small now; that would be the icing on the cake.
I think they would laugh *at* me. Not with me. They wouldn't 'get it'.
I don't want others using it, reducing it's lifetime.
This bit is flawed I think - how many people have actually burned out a cpu from regular (not overclocked) use? And I am sure that there is an appreciable percentage now running some sort of background task anyways; whether it is seti@home or one of the medical ones or povray or...
In almost every case your cpu will be obsolete years before it's lifetime is due to expire. I suppose that constant disk usage might be a problem; but due to the limited bandwidth they will be dealing with; I would imagine that data transfer would be best utilized if limited to large and sporadic transfers (lots of files aggregated together in a zip file for example) as opposed to continuous transfers in and out of small files.
And as for security, that is certainly an issue. But you have to read between the lines I think to see the big picture; imagine a government office sharing data and cpu cycles on all of the desktops. Redundant backup; tons of spare cpu cycles; and it is presumably secure anyways within the physical and logical location. Or at home; if you have more than one PC and all you have to do to share resources (effectively and transparently) is toggle a setting to borrow the spare cycles and storage of your friends and family.
I think it is an idea with merit; and no more flawed than the current setup most users are looking at with cable and DSL connection and other always-on connections.
Hollywood doesn't want high bitrate distribution of its prized material. It wants low bitrate...
Hm - that may be partially true; but look at something like DVD-Audio where the entire benefit of the format is very high bandwidth making it thusly hard to make an exact and *portable* (think p2p) copy. If Hollywood starts pumping out low bandwith media then they have done most of the hard work of media sharing for the pira... er, public.
Look at DVD's; more than half the battle of making a easily portable copy is converting the mpeg2 to lower bandwidth mpeg2 or mpeg. I would think there is a good deal to be said for making very high bandwidth items. Personally; I don't find svcd's worth the effort of watching. If I want to own a movie; I want 5.1 audio. I want a nice case. I want the extra features and commentary. I can't make a useful copy of that; so I don't bother downloading pirated movies. I also live about 50 feet from a Blockbuster, so rental is an option.
I have, however; downloaded episodes of TV shows that I missed. The only part of that experience that is different from TV is that the commercials have been removed from the downloaded version. Compared to a converted and shared DVD which would be lower audio and video quality; and missing all of the extras that, for me anyways, make it well worth the purchase of the DVD. Not te mention the frequent aggravation of downloading a really bad or flawed rip; wasting time looking for the movie in the first place; etc. How many people do you know who are proud of thier massive collection of stolen movies.. and yet haven't watched all of them?
Of course, once DVD writers (and media) become mainstream all of this gets turned upside down. Expecially if this blu-ray takes off. You can fit a lot of movies on a 27 gig disc; even a few DVD's in their native format.
Yes, I had the very same thought. I think that the best way to get them to increase security would be to ditch a couple quarter billion dollar birds in the pacific. Or out the other way; either would have the same effect.
I think the very next day there would be some very frank discussions about security.
I got dinged on this one - on the Linux+ beta; all the questions that I got related to package management were rpm based. I may be a linux novice; but I know what I like and RedHat ain't it. I used slackware for a bit back in the 1.x(1.2?) days; and more recently Debian.
So I had only used rpm once or twice; and yet had to answer a half-dozen or so rpm-based questions on a "vendor-neutral" exam.
I used the input fields on the exam to complain about just that fact.
Since apparently "it is impossible for people who hear the sound not to turn and face" this sound; if two or more of these phones go off simultaneously, your head will just tear clean off.