assume he's referring to Card's rantings against gay marriage, which aren't hard to find if you go hit Google. I've got to admit, I'm a little torn about this myself. It tears me up a bit to think that my patronage of this man's works (I've bought a lot of his books) has enriched someone who uses his money and fame to soapbox out his (IMO) detestable position.
We are talking about the guy who wrote books that had a race of super beings that were recognised by their blue eyes? If the aryan ubermench undertones didn't bother you so much, why are you so upset over the pink triangles?
I remember 5 years or so ago in school when we had to take a class on internet basics and we learned about screach engines. Ask Jeeves was my faviorite because it was one of the few that made sense. But over time I learned about Google and www.alltheweb.com, and I stopped using Ask because I found it's layout overbearing and hard to navigate.
5 years ago it acted as a sort of meta search engine, it would basically pull results from other sources and rate them for you (like, if you asked a question about movies, the imdb page was in the top 10 somewhere). But around 5 years ago, it changed. All of a sudden all it's results were obvious paid-for content and you couldn't force Jeeves to give you anything different. If you wanted to know where to BUY things, jeeves was it, but if you wanted search results that fit what you were looking for. No.
I don't want google to be a monopoly, but I don't see a reason to use anything else.
Is that the only companies willing to do any practical research in robotics is car companies because they use robotics on such a daily basis (the building of cars, of course).
I wish they'd make robot cars. Then we could walk around safe in the comfort of knowing that cars have been given a survival instinct and they won't let drunk people make them swerve into pedestrians and whatnot.
But I figure that the Detroit business men got put off the whole robotics thing by Robocop. I mean, come on, who do you think they identified with when they watched that movie? (Someone who gets fired and then shot by Robocop, that's who;-)
In retrospect it was an odd clinical dehumanization of something still carried out by humans.
In montreal there is a movie theatre where the cashiers are hidden away in a small room and what you interact with is their image and sound on a round screen.
Why not add a way for users to rate the appropriateness of the links. Sure it wouldn't be perfect, but you could have a human look at the top pages with a high page rank but a low user rating.
Because the spammers would write a bot to rate their page as "good result" and deploy it withing a day of that service's launch.
The other actors associated with the project, Jack Black
Jack Black is innit? Oh man, that's bad.
Anyway, it's not like I'm saying there is no way this will be good, I mean, that Jackson fellow has a great team around him, and they've proven that they can make a movie that includes giant monsters that kick all kinds of ass, but... It seems like a pet project that Jackson only gets to do because he's gotten SUCH a lot of success with his last project that he's now unstopable. And I'm a tiny bit worried that it's a situation akin to the "Lucas and Jar Jar" fiasco... where there is no one to tell him he's wrong about it. You know?
We'll see... I'm just completely devoid of excitement at this time. It's not the same as being filled with dread : )
If the movie-makers had any brain, it should be the same for them: Silmarillion should be a mine to be mined for more movie scripts!
There's no market for it. I can think of a ton of people I could tell that would be interrested to hear that a Hobbit movie is coming out, but only a few sword-owning ones who'd be interrested in the Silmarillion.
In the Real World, brand recognition and mass market appeal make for good movie scripts. Not intricate histories and complex mythologies.
As someone who's never read it, it sounds from your description like there isn't any story whatsoever. Surely there's something to it other than just notes? Is there enough of a story there to even make one movie out of it?
It's commonly known as "The Silmarillion", but it's true name is "a bunch of notes we found in dad's study after he died". It's interresting if you are fascinated by the rich cultural background he created for middle earth, but it's only a story as far as the old testament is a story. And boy, you'd better be in the mood for Elf genealogy!
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Troy was not bad but it also was not good.
Half of that sentence was true: Troy wasn't good.
In what way did Troy suck any less than your favourite movie of all time?
In no way whatsoever. None at all.
Think about it.
assume he's referring to Card's rantings against gay marriage, which aren't hard to find if you go hit Google.
I've got to admit, I'm a little torn about this myself. It tears me up a bit to think that my patronage of this man's works (I've bought a lot of his books) has enriched someone who uses his money and fame to soapbox out his (IMO) detestable position.
We are talking about the guy who wrote books that had a race of super beings that were recognised by their blue eyes? If the aryan ubermench undertones didn't bother you so much, why are you so upset over the pink triangles?
the simpsons mentioned ask jeeves last night? Maybe they knew something we didn't.
Yes, they knew how much they got paid to insert that ad in their content.
I remember 5 years or so ago in school when we had to take a class on internet basics and we learned about screach engines. Ask Jeeves was my faviorite because it was one of the few that made sense. But over time I learned about Google and www.alltheweb.com, and I stopped using Ask because I found it's layout overbearing and hard to navigate.
5 years ago it acted as a sort of meta search engine, it would basically pull results from other sources and rate them for you (like, if you asked a question about movies, the imdb page was in the top 10 somewhere). But around 5 years ago, it changed. All of a sudden all it's results were obvious paid-for content and you couldn't force Jeeves to give you anything different. If you wanted to know where to BUY things, jeeves was it, but if you wanted search results that fit what you were looking for. No.
I don't want google to be a monopoly, but I don't see a reason to use anything else.
Homer Simpson uses Ask Jeeves. He wrote on a Flintstones map last night "Dino. Short for dinosaur? Ask Jeeves."
I know, I shut my TV off in disgust at that point.
Wasting valuable joke time with advertising for inferior products... bleah!
My daughter is a college "chick".
It's time for "the talk" mr dad...
College chicks.
I love(d) Buffy and Angel... but somehow firefly didn't have the same magic.
Nope. It had post-apocalyptic space cowboys with psychics and mutants though!
the roland piquepaille method...
He's infringing on my fictional patent on generating flamewars to boost ad revenues? The bastard!
the editors seem to have the quality of a lower tier of Slashdot readers: grab the most inflammatory interpretation of a post, and run with it
Which means more page views, therefore more advertising revenue.
Is that the only companies willing to do any practical research in robotics is car companies because they use robotics on such a daily basis (the building of cars, of course).
;-)
I wish they'd make robot cars. Then we could walk around safe in the comfort of knowing that cars have been given a survival instinct and they won't let drunk people make them swerve into pedestrians and whatnot.
But I figure that the Detroit business men got put off the whole robotics thing by Robocop. I mean, come on, who do you think they identified with when they watched that movie? (Someone who gets fired and then shot by Robocop, that's who
In retrospect it was an odd clinical dehumanization of something still carried out by humans.
In montreal there is a movie theatre where the cashiers are hidden away in a small room and what you interact with is their image and sound on a round screen.
I hate that place.
They either mispelled "wheels" in a very contrived way or they are attempting to distract people from the fact that they can't do legs.
I would think that the guild of seamstresses would put up a fight over this... oh, she's the sewing kind of seasmstress? They never bother with them.
So, then, I'll just add that to the list of reasons to boycott Kraft products.
Why not add a way for users to rate the appropriateness of the links.
Sure it wouldn't be perfect, but you could have a human look at the top pages with a high page rank but a low user rating.
Because the spammers would write a bot to rate their page as "good result" and deploy it withing a day of that service's launch.
I still have major problems playing DivXs on OS X.
I used to, until I got mPlayer.
It plays pretty much everything (mpeg, avi, wmv). There's still some things that play wrong once in a while, but it's a rare thing.
Holy shit dude!
Warn us before linking to a flash site that automatically launches loud music! Sheesh!
Why not some old REAL lego blocks?
Because that would be hard!
Check out the Fell In Love With A Girl video by The White Stripes. Pretty much the same idea
Not really, that video was actual stop motion animated lego blocks, this is just 3D animation given a lego look.
One is an original and amazing way to do stop motion, the other is... I dunno, pointless.
The other actors associated with the project, Jack Black
Jack Black is innit? Oh man, that's bad.
Anyway, it's not like I'm saying there is no way this will be good, I mean, that Jackson fellow has a great team around him, and they've proven that they can make a movie that includes giant monsters that kick all kinds of ass, but...
It seems like a pet project that Jackson only gets to do because he's gotten SUCH a lot of success with his last project that he's now unstopable. And I'm a tiny bit worried that it's a situation akin to the "Lucas and Jar Jar" fiasco... where there is no one to tell him he's wrong about it. You know?
We'll see... I'm just completely devoid of excitement at this time. It's not the same as being filled with dread : )
Is there something strange about owning a sword?
I'm an axe man myself.
Personally, I think the book is a great work of literature, but it usually doesn't appeal to casual readers (too many names to remember).
That is probably the biggest issue I had with it. After a couple of hundred pages I had no idea who I was reading about anymore.
If the movie-makers had any brain, it should be the same for them: Silmarillion should be a mine to be mined for more movie scripts!
There's no market for it. I can think of a ton of people I could tell that would be interrested to hear that a Hobbit movie is coming out, but only a few sword-owning ones who'd be interrested in the Silmarillion.
In the Real World, brand recognition and mass market appeal make for good movie scripts. Not intricate histories and complex mythologies.
As someone who's never read it, it sounds from your description like there isn't any story whatsoever. Surely there's something to it other than just notes? Is there enough of a story there to even make one movie out of it?
It's commonly known as "The Silmarillion", but it's true name is "a bunch of notes we found in dad's study after he died". It's interresting if you are fascinated by the rich cultural background he created for middle earth, but it's only a story as far as the old testament is a story.
And boy, you'd better be in the mood for Elf genealogy!