What happened to this, what happened to that....blahblahblah. It's always the same. We've been pining for flying cars, jetpacks, driverless cars and taxis, and superfast air travel ever since someone thought them up. It's not going to happen. There will always be research, and always be a prototype, or an experiment.....but they will never materialize and be mass-marketed. Any change in transportation will require massive changes in the economy, roads, railroads, laws, etc. and people are resistant to change and not many people have the money to throw around to build a new transportation infrastructure.
We're all going to be driving normal cars, flying on normal planes, and riding normal trains for a loooong long long time. Better get used to it.
....along with the emergence of tv shows like "I Want a Famous Face" and "The Swan" has caused me to start babbling like an old man about how society is going to hell in a handbasket. And I'm only 18.
When I found this site a few days ago (linked on Penny Arcade), one of the first things that came to mind was how useful it could be to an actor who has to learn how to do a certain accent. In some of the more common accents they even have a list of rules on how most speakers of that other language speak (e.g. many Japanese speakers reverse their R's and L's).
Yeah, but they're releasing (according to Arnold) non-violent criminals only. We're talking potheads that got busted after getting pulled over or something. And they'll still be on probation after they're released of course.
This whole mess is still silly, but not that silly. Murderers aren't being let free to make room for file-sharers.
Pffft. Everybody knows that you should hide it in the A/C duct in your room!
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The real problem is that power users (of both Photoshop and esp. Maya) have keyboard shortcutting down to an art. They would work WAY faster with their left hand on the keyboard - probably more so than with this device. I don't see how having to re-learn your left hand muscle memory and the price tag justify this contraption. Interesting idea, though.
That's why I love my KeyKatcher that I've had for awhile now.....undetectable unless you look at the back of the computer, and even then most people will just think it's an adapter...
Anyway, if I saw a bunch of random stuff that I got from your machine, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to "decode" what you typed if I just found out what your dvorak software thingie converts each key to.
The best part of it all is the looks on all the geeks' faces in the crowd (when you can see them)....they're obviously not used to seeing beautiful and/or scantily clad women in person;).
But seriously, the following commercials have got to go: -car commercials -tampon commercials -commercials for medication that don't tell you what the hell it's for -ambulance chaser commercials
the following can stay: -Jack in the Box commercials -beer commercials, because they're usually entertaining
I'm sure I'm missing a lot, anyone care to add to either list?
I don't understand how it can be easily readable in sunlight - it says the display is "reflective" - wouldn't that mean if you were outside you'd just see huge reflections of the light from the sun?
...what all this bitching is about? Who the fuck cares if a grocery store has your name and address and tracks what you buy???
A) You might get a discount on items at a store. (Although I am aware that sometimes prices are inflated and then "discounted" for people who have the card, thus returning it to the normal price.)
B) If you lose your keys, the mini-card on my keychain says "Bring these keys to the nearest Albertson's." Bam, now they know where to return the keys. And if you give them bogus info, your keys are going to be lost forever.
Are you guys just a bunch of criminals? Seriously, what do you have to hide? Do you cover up your items at the checkout line so no one can see? I, personally, don't care if someone knows how many bagel bites I buy.
Just the fact that I can't fit one normal DVD on a single-layer disc. I really can't stand copying/backing up movies to multiple discs, which is what you used to have to do.
Well....maybe not ALL the compatibility issues....but just as long as the dual-layer discs play on most newer set-top DVD players I'll be fine. I've seen my friends copying/backing up DVD's and they'd have to use multiple single layer discs, and that's not the way I want to go.
Wow. That is officially awesome. An idea I just came up with - imagine brain-controlled music. You somehow use the output of an OpenEEG program to control a synthesizer...or to the extreme some sort of robotic device controlling a real instrument...oh man....
Haha I don't let them "push me around"....at the time there were simply no Region 1 DVD's available. I'm sure there were no R2 DVD's either. This was awhile ago, so the R2 and R1 versions were probably released at the same time, just without me noticing.
And also, if there's some way to get around region codes with a set-top DVD player, feel free to tell me.
I'm going to use the movie "Battle Royale" as a guide for some of your questions because these two movies are similar in many respects.
BR didn't get released theatrically released in the US, most likely because....well I don't think most Americans would take to it at all. And I'm not trying to insult Americans (hell, I am one), but our cultures are very different. Anime is also not usually screened in the US. I don't think the Cowboy Bebop movie did very well when it came here. This movie is based on an anime, and also looks like it will have a lot of cultural stuff that we just wouldn't get.
Battle Royale has yet to see an American DVD release even though it came out years ago and it was a big hit in Japan. I'm stuck with a bootleg Korean DVD with poor subtitles and an inability to play the non-"director's cut" version, which has a bunch of silly scenes added.
So, to sum up, CASSHERN will probably never be released in the US (theatrically or on DVD), but eventually a version with English subtitles (probably not very good) will surface within the next few months/years and you will probably need to buy a bootleg to see it.
No, you're not a heretic, you understand. People have to realize the HUGE amount of people that work at WETA - I've heard horror stories about their sweat-shop type atmosphere (which goes for the likes of ILM as well). They have a large number of people, each working on a very small task, 99 percent of which require no creativity at all.....personally I'd rather work for Pixar or a smaller independent f/x house than ILM, WETA, etc.
Of course once I graduate college we'll see who will actually want me to work for them, and I might change my tune a little bit;).
At any rate, CASSHERN looks awesome....definitely looks like great cinematography and use of color...what I love most about Japanese filmmaking.
Okay, this John Titor shit is totally fucked up. Part of me is saying "This is ridiculous" but another part is saying "This doesn't sound so far-fetched...."
Am I a complete idiot? It's late at night and this stuff is messing with my head.
It should be noted that the flow of blood, chewing, other internal sounds, etc. would be a LOT louder if we didn't have the middle ear. One of its (theoretical) functions is to reduce the transmission of bone-conducted sound to the cochlea.
/trying to see if I can actually interject something I learned in my music psychology class into a conversation....
Awhile ago my friend and I formed a band (that only lasted for a few weeks) and we called it..."The Department of Homeland Groove". I thought it was catchy.
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What happened to this, what happened to that....blahblahblah. It's always the same. We've been pining for flying cars, jetpacks, driverless cars and taxis, and superfast air travel ever since someone thought them up. It's not going to happen. There will always be research, and always be a prototype, or an experiment.....but they will never materialize and be mass-marketed. Any change in transportation will require massive changes in the economy, roads, railroads, laws, etc. and people are resistant to change and not many people have the money to throw around to build a new transportation infrastructure.
We're all going to be driving normal cars, flying on normal planes, and riding normal trains for a loooong long long time. Better get used to it.
....along with the emergence of tv shows like "I Want a Famous Face" and "The Swan" has caused me to start babbling like an old man about how society is going to hell in a handbasket. And I'm only 18.
My favorite part is how Donald Trump donated 2 grand to both Bush AND Kerry. Either he's just a generous guy or talk about playing the field....
When I found this site a few days ago (linked on Penny Arcade), one of the first things that came to mind was how useful it could be to an actor who has to learn how to do a certain accent. In some of the more common accents they even have a list of rules on how most speakers of that other language speak (e.g. many Japanese speakers reverse their R's and L's).
Yeah, but they're releasing (according to Arnold) non-violent criminals only. We're talking potheads that got busted after getting pulled over or something. And they'll still be on probation after they're released of course.
This whole mess is still silly, but not that silly. Murderers aren't being let free to make room for file-sharers.
Pffft. Everybody knows that you should hide it in the A/C duct in your room!
The real problem is that power users (of both Photoshop and esp. Maya) have keyboard shortcutting down to an art. They would work WAY faster with their left hand on the keyboard - probably more so than with this device. I don't see how having to re-learn your left hand muscle memory and the price tag justify this contraption. Interesting idea, though.
That's why I love my KeyKatcher that I've had for awhile now.....undetectable unless you look at the back of the computer, and even then most people will just think it's an adapter...
Anyway, if I saw a bunch of random stuff that I got from your machine, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to "decode" what you typed if I just found out what your dvorak software thingie converts each key to.
The best part of it all is the looks on all the geeks' faces in the crowd (when you can see them)....they're obviously not used to seeing beautiful and/or scantily clad women in person ;).
I dunno....I think the chick is kind a cute....
But seriously, the following commercials have got to go:
-car commercials
-tampon commercials
-commercials for medication that don't tell you what the hell it's for
-ambulance chaser commercials
the following can stay:
-Jack in the Box commercials
-beer commercials, because they're usually entertaining
I'm sure I'm missing a lot, anyone care to add to either list?
I don't understand how it can be easily readable in sunlight - it says the display is "reflective" - wouldn't that mean if you were outside you'd just see huge reflections of the light from the sun?
...what all this bitching is about? Who the fuck cares if a grocery store has your name and address and tracks what you buy???
A) You might get a discount on items at a store. (Although I am aware that sometimes prices are inflated and then "discounted" for people who have the card, thus returning it to the normal price.)
B) If you lose your keys, the mini-card on my keychain says "Bring these keys to the nearest Albertson's." Bam, now they know where to return the keys. And if you give them bogus info, your keys are going to be lost forever.
Are you guys just a bunch of criminals? Seriously, what do you have to hide? Do you cover up your items at the checkout line so no one can see? I, personally, don't care if someone knows how many bagel bites I buy.
Just the fact that I can't fit one normal DVD on a single-layer disc. I really can't stand copying/backing up movies to multiple discs, which is what you used to have to do.
Well....maybe not ALL the compatibility issues....but just as long as the dual-layer discs play on most newer set-top DVD players I'll be fine. I've seen my friends copying/backing up DVD's and they'd have to use multiple single layer discs, and that's not the way I want to go.
Wow. That is officially awesome. An idea I just came up with - imagine brain-controlled music. You somehow use the output of an OpenEEG program to control a synthesizer...or to the extreme some sort of robotic device controlling a real instrument...oh man....
This is what I've been waiting for.
Actually, now I have to wait until all the compatibility issues are figured out, THEN I'll finally get a DVD burner.
Yeah, I mean we'd have a glut of circus performers on our hands.
Haha I don't let them "push me around"....at the time there were simply no Region 1 DVD's available. I'm sure there were no R2 DVD's either. This was awhile ago, so the R2 and R1 versions were probably released at the same time, just without me noticing.
And also, if there's some way to get around region codes with a set-top DVD player, feel free to tell me.
Although now I see the other response to my post and see that they have now released a R1 version.
Well....because I don't have a Region 2 DVD player (I'm in the US)? And the bootleg was a lot cheaper.
I guess there are ways to watch it on my computer....but I'd like to be able to watch it on my TV.
I'm going to use the movie "Battle Royale" as a guide for some of your questions because these two movies are similar in many respects.
BR didn't get released theatrically released in the US, most likely because....well I don't think most Americans would take to it at all. And I'm not trying to insult Americans (hell, I am one), but our cultures are very different. Anime is also not usually screened in the US. I don't think the Cowboy Bebop movie did very well when it came here. This movie is based on an anime, and also looks like it will have a lot of cultural stuff that we just wouldn't get.
Battle Royale has yet to see an American DVD release even though it came out years ago and it was a big hit in Japan. I'm stuck with a bootleg Korean DVD with poor subtitles and an inability to play the non-"director's cut" version, which has a bunch of silly scenes added.
So, to sum up, CASSHERN will probably never be released in the US (theatrically or on DVD), but eventually a version with English subtitles (probably not very good) will surface within the next few months/years and you will probably need to buy a bootleg to see it.
No, you're not a heretic, you understand. People have to realize the HUGE amount of people that work at WETA - I've heard horror stories about their sweat-shop type atmosphere (which goes for the likes of ILM as well). They have a large number of people, each working on a very small task, 99 percent of which require no creativity at all.....personally I'd rather work for Pixar or a smaller independent f/x house than ILM, WETA, etc.
;).
Of course once I graduate college we'll see who will actually want me to work for them, and I might change my tune a little bit
At any rate, CASSHERN looks awesome....definitely looks like great cinematography and use of color...what I love most about Japanese filmmaking.
Okay, this John Titor shit is totally fucked up. Part of me is saying "This is ridiculous" but another part is saying "This doesn't sound so far-fetched...."
Am I a complete idiot? It's late at night and this stuff is messing with my head.
It should be noted that the flow of blood, chewing, other internal sounds, etc. would be a LOT louder if we didn't have the middle ear. One of its (theoretical) functions is to reduce the transmission of bone-conducted sound to the cochlea.
/trying to see if I can actually interject something I learned in my music psychology class into a conversation....
Awhile ago my friend and I formed a band (that only lasted for a few weeks) and we called it..."The Department of Homeland Groove". I thought it was catchy.
And now it actually makes sense.