I agree, but these are the type of people who get burned by anything technological;) (as evidenced by them wanting you to put Exchange Server on their phones.)
Why, because of the menu bar? My wife's iMac desktop looks an alpha lot like her iPad, black background, rows of buttons/icons with shiny apple gradients across them.
I can see people possibly being confused by this, but these are the same people who are generally confused by everything involving choices in a computing environment.
The summary makes it sound like yet another conspiracy...
That's the typical logic that a Microsoft fanbois would make that "I didn't realize I couldn't run iMac applications on my iPad - they both have 'i' in them - they must run the same apps..."
Survey courses exist to introduce students to broad and general topics, the high school is quite clearly trying to educate students much more deeply on the individual general sciences (Googlin' State of Maryland's required subjects lists Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.)
In the article the author clearly states that he believes that forcing his son to take a science class (whether it is chemistry or another science) for an entire year is wrong; ergo, the summary is technically correct.
I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done. From the early Apple days, to my much beloved IIgs with your signature on it, to your teaching and philanthropy - it's mind boggling how much happiness you've brought to the world and how much good you've done.
Should all fan fiction be NYT Bestseller List worthy?
Building yourself a strawman here? LOL. I didn't say it need be 'oscar worthy', I simply asked if anyone else thought the trailers were amateurish to the point of being ridiculous. If don't agree, great, but stop trying to make it sound like I'm disappointed it's not 'Avatar' in chainmail.
All fan art worthy of the Louvre, instead of something that looks like it belongs on my fridge? I cringe to think of what you say about your kid's macaroni art family portrait.....
Sanctimonious much?:)
So why do amatuers making a fan film have to display a professional hollywood level of expertise?
Again, the only person making this stipulation is you. I, as is clear to someone less hotheaded and looking to argue as yourself, simply found the trailers to be shockingly amateurish.
If you had an OP that stated you thought the trailers looked great and wondered what other people thought - I would hope nobody who disliked the trailers would attack you for stating that you think fan films must be hokey pieces of crap...
I do actually, and I know that is is INCREDIBLY hard work. That being said, it is certainly achievable.
$82,000 is a lot more money than many films are ever made with and I don't recall seeing too many that were laughably bad like the trailers were.
Making a decent film is tough, making a decent trailer is much easier. If the trailer(s) are hokey, the movie is going to be an order of magnitude worse. As Clint likes to say - "A man's got to know his limitations..."
I hope I'm wrong because I've loved lots of other fan films.
Do you remember the Star Wars 'Cops' parody 'Troops'? It was Rubio and friends with a LOT of ILM/Lucasfilm guys helping out, made for nothing.
I remember laughing my a** off while working at SoftImage when some of the DigitalStudio guys made cuts and trailers out of it.
Why do you have to be a professional film maker to make something that isn't ridiculous? I know two different film makers who aren't "professionals" who make films with excellent production values for virtually nothing. One makes short comedies and the other makes many variations of film.
If you watch the trailers you'll see good locations, costuming, and decent editing. You'll also see ridiculous acting and, apparently, ridiculous direction.
Outside of possibly being an excellent learning experience for the people involved - will anything non-farcical come out of this?
I don't mean ridiculous in that the Cohen/Discworld story is a parody, there's nothing wrong with that, but the production values of the trailer seem totally amateurish - as if you'd given panavision or Red cameras to a bunch of teenagers who'd rather be doing something else.
...that's all Iran wants - a million pissed off teen/twenty-somethings will a whole lot o' anger and a newfound whole lot o' free time on their hands...
10 million lines of code doesn't need to be any more complex or confusing that 4 million lines of code, or 2 million lines of code, or 500,000 lines of code, et cetera.
Good organization, regression testing/QA, and DRACONIAN check-in rules make it possible.
I've never worked in 10 million lines of code before, but I've worked in 4 million line products (SoftImage/Microsoft.)
Everything was organized nicely, well written (for the most part), and most importantly - we had a very very rigid process for checking in that worked really well. We had 80 people working in the codebase - the subsection you worked on (i.e. "mentalray dag traversal" or "render farming") would have maybe 4 or 5 people working in it at any one time so although the codebase was huge (including active work in the DS framework XSi was based on) the scope of conflict was usually relatively small.
In the years I worked there I never saw the build break except when someone did not follow the check-in procedure. They brought out a really big hammer for times like that and hung the developer up like a pinata...
Hehe, EXACT thing happened to me in the 1985 San Diego County spelling bee. I got up there and (I have rather good hearing - though poor eyesight) the guy said clear as day "suet" and I thought to myself - "no way, that's a baby word" so I asked him to repeat it and he said it exactly the same way so I simply spelled "SUET, S-U-E-T, SUET" and he said "That is incorrect" and then spelled the word SUINT and then the son of a bitch (lol) even pronounced it properly by saying "Soo-int" insted of "Soo-it." A friend on the El Cajon all-star baseball team with me who was also in the bee told me everyone off stage freaked out thinking this guy was trying to trick people.
(I would have gotten my a** handed to me by later words anyhow, but that was embarrassing for me - the press picture they take of each kid on their first word shows me looking at him after being told what the actual word was and I have this "what you talkin' 'bout Willis?" look on my face.)
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Agreed, I was horrified when people started talking about OSX and iOS merging - a sure sign of the apocalypse.
I agree, but these are the type of people who get burned by anything technological ;) (as evidenced by them wanting you to put Exchange Server on their phones.)
Right, because THAT is how Apple goes about selling the iPad - "It's a bigger iPod."
LOL.
Why, because of the menu bar? My wife's iMac desktop looks an alpha lot like her iPad, black background, rows of buttons/icons with shiny apple gradients across them.
I can see people possibly being confused by this, but these are the same people who are generally confused by everything involving choices in a computing environment.
The summary makes it sound like yet another conspiracy...
That's the typical logic that a Microsoft fanbois would make that "I didn't realize I couldn't run iMac applications on my iPad - they both have 'i' in them - they must run the same apps..."
It's stupid whichever side uses the 'logic.'
...and I didn't have to read a disclaimer from Apple stating "Will not run OSX applications"...
...imagine using energy that cannot be used for internal combustion being used to produce petrol?
This could be a great help during civilization's crossover from hydrocarbon energy to wind/solar/fusion.
You seem to be conflating two different things:
"A science class"
and
"survey[ing] several science classes"
Survey courses exist to introduce students to broad and general topics, the high school is quite clearly trying to educate students much more deeply on the individual general sciences (Googlin' State of Maryland's required subjects lists Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.)
In the article the author clearly states that he believes that forcing his son to take a science class (whether it is chemistry or another science) for an entire year is wrong; ergo, the summary is technically correct.
...not elementary, middle, and high school curricula.
You may just have to accept that your kids are going to suck at things.
Think of all the money you'll save from buying your own "Congratulations on 10th place!" ribbons.
...and look how well that worked out. Lol...
Herbert Kornfeld, is that you? :) I'ze missed you dawg!
I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done. From the early Apple days, to my much beloved IIgs with your signature on it, to your teaching and philanthropy - it's mind boggling how much happiness you've brought to the world and how much good you've done.
Love the Woz!!!
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Vintage!
Should all fan fiction be NYT Bestseller List worthy?
Building yourself a strawman here? LOL. I didn't say it need be 'oscar worthy', I simply asked if anyone else thought the trailers were amateurish to the point of being ridiculous. If don't agree, great, but stop trying to make it sound like I'm disappointed it's not 'Avatar' in chainmail.
All fan art worthy of the Louvre, instead of something that looks like it belongs on my fridge?
I cringe to think of what you say about your kid's macaroni art family portrait.....
Sanctimonious much? :)
So why do amatuers making a fan film have to display a professional hollywood level of expertise?
Again, the only person making this stipulation is you. I, as is clear to someone less hotheaded and looking to argue as yourself, simply found the trailers to be shockingly amateurish.
If you had an OP that stated you thought the trailers looked great and wondered what other people thought - I would hope nobody who disliked the trailers would attack you for stating that you think fan films must be hokey pieces of crap...
It's amazing what some people can accomplish. I play that movie as background noise when I'm coding all the time, lol - "In a row?"
Do you know what goes into making a movie?
I do actually, and I know that is is INCREDIBLY hard work. That being said, it is certainly achievable.
$82,000 is a lot more money than many films are ever made with and I don't recall seeing too many that were laughably bad like the trailers were.
Making a decent film is tough, making a decent trailer is much easier. If the trailer(s) are hokey, the movie is going to be an order of magnitude worse. As Clint likes to say - "A man's got to know his limitations..."
I hope I'm wrong because I've loved lots of other fan films.
Do you remember the Star Wars 'Cops' parody 'Troops'? It was Rubio and friends with a LOT of ILM/Lucasfilm guys helping out, made for nothing.
I remember laughing my a** off while working at SoftImage when some of the DigitalStudio guys made cuts and trailers out of it.
Why do you have to be a professional film maker to make something that isn't ridiculous? I know two different film makers who aren't "professionals" who make films with excellent production values for virtually nothing. One makes short comedies and the other makes many variations of film.
If you watch the trailers you'll see good locations, costuming, and decent editing. You'll also see ridiculous acting and, apparently, ridiculous direction.
Don't conflate 'amateurish' with 'ridiculous.'
Outside of possibly being an excellent learning experience for the people involved - will anything non-farcical come out of this?
I don't mean ridiculous in that the Cohen/Discworld story is a parody, there's nothing wrong with that, but the production values of the trailer seem totally amateurish - as if you'd given panavision or Red cameras to a bunch of teenagers who'd rather be doing something else.
Wish I had points to give my friend...
"Good thing you didn't order hashbrowns..."
...that's all Iran wants - a million pissed off teen/twenty-somethings will a whole lot o' anger and a newfound whole lot o' free time on their hands...
Lol... "You better pick one thick enough - 'cause if I have to go out and pick it, you're gunna regret it..."
Well, perhaps she should treat them like children.
When my kids are a pain, annoying, or just outright bad - I don't berate or hassle them, I *punish* them. She should do the same.
Put counsel in the corner (one minute for every year of their age.)
That might work :).
...require everything necessary to continually contact you and annoy the sh** out of you.
How long until the Democrats have something similarly ridiculous as a contact farming tool?
10 million lines of code doesn't need to be any more complex or confusing that 4 million lines of code, or 2 million lines of code, or 500,000 lines of code, et cetera.
Good organization, regression testing/QA, and DRACONIAN check-in rules make it possible.
I've never worked in 10 million lines of code before, but I've worked in 4 million line products (SoftImage/Microsoft.)
Everything was organized nicely, well written (for the most part), and most importantly - we had a very very rigid process for checking in that worked really well. We had 80 people working in the codebase - the subsection you worked on (i.e. "mentalray dag traversal" or "render farming") would have maybe 4 or 5 people working in it at any one time so although the codebase was huge (including active work in the DS framework XSi was based on) the scope of conflict was usually relatively small.
In the years I worked there I never saw the build break except when someone did not follow the check-in procedure. They brought out a really big hammer for times like that and hung the developer up like a pinata...
Hehe, EXACT thing happened to me in the 1985 San Diego County spelling bee. I got up there and (I have rather good hearing - though poor eyesight) the guy said clear as day "suet" and I thought to myself - "no way, that's a baby word" so I asked him to repeat it and he said it exactly the same way so I simply spelled "SUET, S-U-E-T, SUET" and he said "That is incorrect" and then spelled the word SUINT and then the son of a bitch (lol) even pronounced it properly by saying "Soo-int" insted of "Soo-it." A friend on the El Cajon all-star baseball team with me who was also in the bee told me everyone off stage freaked out thinking this guy was trying to trick people.
(I would have gotten my a** handed to me by later words anyhow, but that was embarrassing for me - the press picture they take of each kid on their first word shows me looking at him after being told what the actual word was and I have this "what you talkin' 'bout Willis?" look on my face.)