punishment is for children and dogs. People who break the rules of society should be excluded from society. In the old days of the city state that ment shoving them out the front gate to wander the wastelands. Today it means locking them in prison.
radiation shielding research on the ISS. Being fried by radiation from the Sun is even worse than being fried by radiation in the Van-Allen belts. Going back to the Moon to put more flags and footprints down is pointless. Going back to utilize the Moon's resources is a lot harder to do without a good radiation shield.
I'm sorry, WTF, are you trying to suggest that Signs wasn't deep? Are you insane? How about Phenomenon, was that deep enough for you? If not, would you care to name any film that you consider to have depth?
Except that we would be signing a contract. Something I don't do just by buying something in a shop. If Apple wants me to sign a contract to get their software then print it out and hand me a pen. Don't pretend that I've signed a contract by writing bullshit demands on the box (or worse yet, in a popup license that I can't read until I've already bought the software).
There's one thing being developed at the space station that is terribly important for manned space flight: a radiation shield. When we went to the Moon, how big a ship we could take and how long we could stay were limited by exposure to the van allen belts. If we wanted to take a hundred people to the Moon we had to do it in 40+ trips cause any ship that could carry 100 people would expose them to radiation for too long. Having a station at the L1 libration point (where the gravity of the Moon and Earth meet) would allow us to refuel, change ships and do science. But you can forget about it if we have to make a radiation shield out of physical materials. So yeah, until we get that breakthrough (and some breakthroughs in propulsion would be good too) we won't have anywhere to go.
Just sending crew on smaller, less complex vehicles and sending cargo on larger, more complex vehicles would be a start. Of course, then you have to actually justify sending the humans whereas now you can claim that the humans are just hitching a ride.
Somehow I doubt you ever even did philosophy 101. The Matrix trilogy is about purposeful self sacrafice for a greater purpose. It's an attempt to present an alternative to today's self absorbed youth. As for Star Wars, you won't find a more formularic hero's journey. As such, it is the perfect thing to study if you want to learn the structure of a hero's journey tale. The Matrix trilogy is the perfect thing to study if you want to learn about creation stories of various cultures. Why your Catholic school saw the value of teaching you the hero's journey probably has less to do with it being a Catholic school than those schools which study The Matrix in religious education classes. I don't know if it is different in the US, but my friends who went to Catholic school tell me that they are openly taught all the popular religions and, these days, tolerance is encouraged. Frankly I'd love to see more of that and if a popular film can aid in that process, all the better.
Yeah, as I said, it's a compatibility advisement, not a "condition of sale". If I want to use non-official dip then it's my problem if it doesn't taste as good as official dip.. but it's still my right to do so.
What really gets complicated is the right of first sale doctrine. If I buy Mac OS X x86 in a box, preinstall it on a PC and then sell that PC along with the original media and the box the OS came in I hardly see how Apple has a case against me.
Maybe Dell will start doing just that. Although I doubt it.
Yeah, see, you actually have to think to understand the plotline. An education in religious symbolism will also help your appreciation of the film a lot. Do you know that kids in catholic schools study and write essays about The Matrix? It's just that good.
People wanna be spoon fed entertainment. The Matrix wasn't like that so they feel the need to criticise it otherwise they have to admit that they are intellectually lazy. It's like the opposite of the emperor's new clothes.
How about an anonymizer? Yeah, it's great that I can turn your phone number into an ip address with a directory and we can connect P2P, but it's a double edged sword - you can get my IP address just because I called you. Where's the anonymity? So there's a business for you, masking the source address by bouncing through a proxy.
I'm sorry, that still doesn't hold water. If I saw chips on the shelf of my local supermarket that said MAY ONLY BE EATEN WITH OFFICIAL DIP I'd have no doubt that it was unenforcable bullshit. Insanity. It's just absurd to think that a company can put "conditions of sale" on their products. The only "condition" is that you pay them the asking price. After that they should shut the hell up and let me enjoy the product.
On the other hand, if I buy a razor from Gillette it says on the box "for use with Gillette razor blades only". That's not an order.. it's a statement of compatibility. If I happen to find razor blades with a similar interface that I can modify so it is compatible, I don't imagine that a court in the land would allow Gillette to prevent me from using unofficial razor blades with their product.
The fact that software producers have more rights to restrict one's freedom than razor producers is just testimount to the failure of copyright law.
So it's just a marketing issue. I figure that if it was preinstalled with an icon on your average desktop linux distribution you'd see people playing it. But that's not gunna happen until there is packages and such. I think there might be an issue with that though, as you can only connect to official servers with an official client.. so people who want to build from source will have to run their own servers.
My understanding was that we are at this point in history because VoIP is now largely the same as talking over copper. I use VoIP daily and the only time I get glitches is when I'm downloading multimegabyte files which, I have heard, you can fix with those game routers. So yeah, arguing that VoIP+games doesn't work is just bollocks because I and many other people have done it. What I would really like to see is Sony integrate VoIP into a game so I can talk into my headset and other players who are within earshot of me can hear it and those who are out of earshot do not. i.e., I want to "talk in the world." Of course, maybe the reason why Sony isn't doing this is that it has been tried and found to completely ruin the game experience. That sounds likely.. but if it is optional, who cares?
I suggest you talk to the developers before you do anything. For all I know they'll tell you to go jump. Although I'd expect they'd welcome your efforts.
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Well, at least we can agree on Donnie Darko.
All I can say is Kevin Who?
punishment is for children and dogs. People who break the rules of society should be excluded from society. In the old days of the city state that ment shoving them out the front gate to wander the wastelands. Today it means locking them in prison.
and then he discovers that he isn't all powerful, that he's just a pawn and that the only way to free humanity is to sacrafice himself.
radiation shielding research on the ISS. Being fried by radiation from the Sun is even worse than being fried by radiation in the Van-Allen belts. Going back to the Moon to put more flags and footprints down is pointless. Going back to utilize the Moon's resources is a lot harder to do without a good radiation shield.
Wireless.
But that's technocrap.
Exactly.
I'm sorry, WTF, are you trying to suggest that Signs wasn't deep? Are you insane? How about Phenomenon, was that deep enough for you? If not, would you care to name any film that you consider to have depth?
Except that we would be signing a contract. Something I don't do just by buying something in a shop. If Apple wants me to sign a contract to get their software then print it out and hand me a pen. Don't pretend that I've signed a contract by writing bullshit demands on the box (or worse yet, in a popup license that I can't read until I've already bought the software).
There's one thing being developed at the space station that is terribly important for manned space flight: a radiation shield. When we went to the Moon, how big a ship we could take and how long we could stay were limited by exposure to the van allen belts. If we wanted to take a hundred people to the Moon we had to do it in 40+ trips cause any ship that could carry 100 people would expose them to radiation for too long. Having a station at the L1 libration point (where the gravity of the Moon and Earth meet) would allow us to refuel, change ships and do science. But you can forget about it if we have to make a radiation shield out of physical materials. So yeah, until we get that breakthrough (and some breakthroughs in propulsion would be good too) we won't have anywhere to go.
Wow, I can't imagine what religious significance there could possibly be in this.
Just sending crew on smaller, less complex vehicles and sending cargo on larger, more complex vehicles would be a start. Of course, then you have to actually justify sending the humans whereas now you can claim that the humans are just hitching a ride.
Somehow I doubt you ever even did philosophy 101. The Matrix trilogy is about purposeful self sacrafice for a greater purpose. It's an attempt to present an alternative to today's self absorbed youth. As for Star Wars, you won't find a more formularic hero's journey. As such, it is the perfect thing to study if you want to learn the structure of a hero's journey tale. The Matrix trilogy is the perfect thing to study if you want to learn about creation stories of various cultures. Why your Catholic school saw the value of teaching you the hero's journey probably has less to do with it being a Catholic school than those schools which study The Matrix in religious education classes. I don't know if it is different in the US, but my friends who went to Catholic school tell me that they are openly taught all the popular religions and, these days, tolerance is encouraged. Frankly I'd love to see more of that and if a popular film can aid in that process, all the better.
Yeah, as I said, it's a compatibility advisement, not a "condition of sale". If I want to use non-official dip then it's my problem if it doesn't taste as good as official dip.. but it's still my right to do so.
What really gets complicated is the right of first sale doctrine. If I buy Mac OS X x86 in a box, preinstall it on a PC and then sell that PC along with the original media and the box the OS came in I hardly see how Apple has a case against me.
Maybe Dell will start doing just that. Although I doubt it.
Yep. They should put a label on the box.
Warning: This film contains depth.
Yeah, see, you actually have to think to understand the plotline. An education in religious symbolism will also help your appreciation of the film a lot. Do you know that kids in catholic schools study and write essays about The Matrix? It's just that good.
People wanna be spoon fed entertainment. The Matrix wasn't like that so they feel the need to criticise it otherwise they have to admit that they are intellectually lazy. It's like the opposite of the emperor's new clothes.
Pretty easy to get it right on a console.
Not mention simple voice messaging systems and conference calling etc. Oh, and all the crappy pay-per-minute services that you get on POTS.
How about an anonymizer? Yeah, it's great that I can turn your phone number into an ip address with a directory and we can connect P2P, but it's a double edged sword - you can get my IP address just because I called you. Where's the anonymity? So there's a business for you, masking the source address by bouncing through a proxy.
I'm sorry, that still doesn't hold water. If I saw chips on the shelf of my local supermarket that said MAY ONLY BE EATEN WITH OFFICIAL DIP I'd have no doubt that it was unenforcable bullshit. Insanity. It's just absurd to think that a company can put "conditions of sale" on their products. The only "condition" is that you pay them the asking price. After that they should shut the hell up and let me enjoy the product.
On the other hand, if I buy a razor from Gillette it says on the box "for use with Gillette razor blades only". That's not an order.. it's a statement of compatibility. If I happen to find razor blades with a similar interface that I can modify so it is compatible, I don't imagine that a court in the land would allow Gillette to prevent me from using unofficial razor blades with their product.
The fact that software producers have more rights to restrict one's freedom than razor producers is just testimount to the failure of copyright law.
It's not my game. I'm not involved in it. I just think it's cool.
So it's just a marketing issue. I figure that if it was preinstalled with an icon on your average desktop linux distribution you'd see people playing it. But that's not gunna happen until there is packages and such. I think there might be an issue with that though, as you can only connect to official servers with an official client.. so people who want to build from source will have to run their own servers.
My understanding was that we are at this point in history because VoIP is now largely the same as talking over copper. I use VoIP daily and the only time I get glitches is when I'm downloading multimegabyte files which, I have heard, you can fix with those game routers. So yeah, arguing that VoIP+games doesn't work is just bollocks because I and many other people have done it. What I would really like to see is Sony integrate VoIP into a game so I can talk into my headset and other players who are within earshot of me can hear it and those who are out of earshot do not. i.e., I want to "talk in the world." Of course, maybe the reason why Sony isn't doing this is that it has been tried and found to completely ruin the game experience. That sounds likely.. but if it is optional, who cares?
What game was that? Quake II or something?
I suggest you talk to the developers before you do anything. For all I know they'll tell you to go jump. Although I'd expect they'd welcome your efforts.