A friend of mine from sweeden says, while marijuana is legal in sweeden, you can't get a job or car insurance if you use it, so you're effectively a non-citizen.
Your friend is flat out wrong. Marijuana is not legal in Sweden. As for the job or car insurance, it's much the same as the US.
Drunk drivers aren't the problem in the big scheme of things, bad drivers are. If licenses were only granted to people who actually knew how to drive and how to behave in traffic fatalities would be lowered far far more than any pointless gesture like this.
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Watch the movie. Talk about the story. Appreciate the effort that went into trying to entertain your nit-picking self.
But most movies today are built wholly around the FX and CGI, so what are we supposed to talk about when those suck? A good story is rare nowadays, perhaps a way to computer generate decent plot lines is the next step in movie evolution.
"Given a choice, I'd rather pay for XChat than for mIRC. It's better software. (Note to XChat developer Peter Zelezny: If you're reading this, and you want me to send you $20, just say the word. Or I'll buy you a beer or 5 at the next conference we both attend. Either one is fine with me.)"
So you really think it's up to the developer to chase you down and beg you for money? Perhaps you should simply pay for a program which you seem to use a lot, that's how things normally work in the real world. Nothing says "I appreciate what you're doing, keep up the good work" like a small stack of green.
There are way too many whiny trolling kids on fully public servers, try to find clan servers that are open to public use as they tend to be more actively administrated and have house rules. Be polite with the server admins and make sure you understand the rules of the community. Most admins will listen to input and usually the trolls and lamers find themselves banned pretty quick. There are communities for all types, from no profanities allowed to no racist/sexist talk to everything goes, find one you like and lurk around to try to get an idea of what it's about before approaching admins with issues.
You do realize that any product you buy will now have a clause stating that by buying or registering the product you also sign up to receive special offers from them, their affiliates and whomever else they sell your information to? Explicit permission can be given in many ways, but few of them are actually explicit.
That's right, on Slashdot I've come to expect only highly informative articles of a technical nature with editorial commentary and journalistic integrity being of the highest degree! This is an outrage!
This really is insane. There is nothing new about this at all, it's a small shitty algorithm that I'm sure has been used in databases all over the world for the very same purpose. Nothing revolutionary, nothing different, nothing validating a patent. But good luck to anyone that want's to take them on in court to prove that they had it first...
This might sound like a flamebait, but it's just an observation: Typically the people most eager to defend their right to bear arms for protection against a corrupt government are also the first ones to protect the government and the actions of the government in cases such as the Patriot act and similar.
Explosions and fire are two things that GCI does not yet do very well
Uhm, that was my point wasn't it? CGI sucks for it and they still like to use it, basically pre-made scripts creating an explosion of a spaceship/plane/boat/building/sheep. Show [object], overlay [effect] over [object], tada! Instant CGI and much cheaper.
CGI sucks for animating humanoids aswell unless you take extreme care in the tiniest detail of the animation, which is what the original posters gripe was about. If you don't take extreme care in creating the effects it's just going to look wrong. Well made CGI can be stunning, the cheap bulk kind just looks bad, really bad.
But of course, my objection isn't that CGI is used to model 100.000 orchs attacking a fortress in LoTR for instance, although possible, it isn't feasible to do it in reality. My objection is to the CGI you see where they use to take shortcuts, I remember one of the worst cases was the movie Eraser, towards the end there's a burning warehouse which is basically a semi-transparent 2d sprite on top of the film, I guess actually torching a building was too expensive. And that's what my objection is, cutting corners to create a cheaper movie and creating horribly poor effects while doing so. We're backpedaling to the age when spaceships were beercans on strings, except now we use an ugly CGI cylinder on a path instead.
Ah, the new age of CGI. Remember Jurassic Park? Terminator 2?
Back when CGI was used to create things that didn't exist, or create spectacular scenes and special effects that'd be near impossible to make with conventional films. For a while now however, CGI is simply the cheaper alternative. It's easier, faster and cheaper to blow up something in a computer than to actually rig explosives, if it looks real is irrelevant. It is a step back to the corny special effects of previous decades where the audience is asked to not look to closely at the screen. When CGI is used to create scenes that are hard to do in reality it is a Good Thing, when it's used to keep the budget down it usually tends to suck badly.
It's like adding on and making an 4 lane highway into an 8 lane one, it allows you to handle more traffic. For most drivers it doesn't mean they'll get where they're going faster as the same speed limits apply. But a few proffessional ones will find that the extra lanes mean they can utilize the extra space better and drive faster.
Before the lawsuit: MS is treating us like fulltime employees when we're not!
After the lawsuit: MS isn't treating us like fulltime employees anymore!
Seriously, you get a paycheck? Good. You do not have a right to anything beyond that. That's it. Don't like it? Seek a fulltime position or find work elsewhere.
"Too bad it's not being settled on the technical merits of both products."
When was the last time anything was settled on technical merits and thereby gained widespread adoption? Zealots from both sides usually state their case and fanatically defend their position while the rest of us pick what we feel more comfortable with. Unbiased technical merit rarely gets attention, and even more rare is that it is the deciding factor when faced with a choice.
Uhm, then why not translate it to a more compact format serverside before moving it? That's one of the big advantages with XML you know, the ease of parsing, restructuring and formatting.
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The public email address in the post header should work.
Your friend is flat out wrong. Marijuana is not legal in Sweden. As for the job or car insurance, it's much the same as the US.
What do you mean? An African or European stunt plane?
It doesn't, that's why you control the accelerator.
Yeah, developing spacecraft is a lengthy process, just look at NASA. But they'll get it right. I mean, it's not rocket science.
To nitpick: It's not "welfare state", it's "well fare state". There is a difference.
Drunk drivers aren't the problem in the big scheme of things, bad drivers are. If licenses were only granted to people who actually knew how to drive and how to behave in traffic fatalities would be lowered far far more than any pointless gesture like this.
But most movies today are built wholly around the FX and CGI, so what are we supposed to talk about when those suck? A good story is rare nowadays, perhaps a way to computer generate decent plot lines is the next step in movie evolution.
Perhaps to prevent those with too much bandwith and too little to do from downloading it just for the hell of it?
So you really think it's up to the developer to chase you down and beg you for money? Perhaps you should simply pay for a program which you seem to use a lot, that's how things normally work in the real world. Nothing says "I appreciate what you're doing, keep up the good work" like a small stack of green.
There are way too many whiny trolling kids on fully public servers, try to find clan servers that are open to public use as they tend to be more actively administrated and have house rules. Be polite with the server admins and make sure you understand the rules of the community. Most admins will listen to input and usually the trolls and lamers find themselves banned pretty quick. There are communities for all types, from no profanities allowed to no racist/sexist talk to everything goes, find one you like and lurk around to try to get an idea of what it's about before approaching admins with issues.
You do realize that any product you buy will now have a clause stating that by buying or registering the product you also sign up to receive special offers from them, their affiliates and whomever else they sell your information to? Explicit permission can be given in many ways, but few of them are actually explicit.
That's right, on Slashdot I've come to expect only highly informative articles of a technical nature with editorial commentary and journalistic integrity being of the highest degree! This is an outrage!
This really is insane. There is nothing new about this at all, it's a small shitty algorithm that I'm sure has been used in databases all over the world for the very same purpose. Nothing revolutionary, nothing different, nothing validating a patent. But good luck to anyone that want's to take them on in court to prove that they had it first...
VA Software, Red Hat
You were saying?
How's the HURD doing again?
This might sound like a flamebait, but it's just an observation: Typically the people most eager to defend their right to bear arms for protection against a corrupt government are also the first ones to protect the government and the actions of the government in cases such as the Patriot act and similar.
Uhm, that was my point wasn't it? CGI sucks for it and they still like to use it, basically pre-made scripts creating an explosion of a spaceship/plane/boat/building/sheep. Show [object], overlay [effect] over [object], tada! Instant CGI and much cheaper.
CGI sucks for animating humanoids aswell unless you take extreme care in the tiniest detail of the animation, which is what the original posters gripe was about. If you don't take extreme care in creating the effects it's just going to look wrong. Well made CGI can be stunning, the cheap bulk kind just looks bad, really bad.
But of course, my objection isn't that CGI is used to model 100.000 orchs attacking a fortress in LoTR for instance, although possible, it isn't feasible to do it in reality. My objection is to the CGI you see where they use to take shortcuts, I remember one of the worst cases was the movie Eraser, towards the end there's a burning warehouse which is basically a semi-transparent 2d sprite on top of the film, I guess actually torching a building was too expensive. And that's what my objection is, cutting corners to create a cheaper movie and creating horribly poor effects while doing so. We're backpedaling to the age when spaceships were beercans on strings, except now we use an ugly CGI cylinder on a path instead.
Ah, the new age of CGI. Remember Jurassic Park? Terminator 2?
Back when CGI was used to create things that didn't exist, or create spectacular scenes and special effects that'd be near impossible to make with conventional films. For a while now however, CGI is simply the cheaper alternative. It's easier, faster and cheaper to blow up something in a computer than to actually rig explosives, if it looks real is irrelevant. It is a step back to the corny special effects of previous decades where the audience is asked to not look to closely at the screen. When CGI is used to create scenes that are hard to do in reality it is a Good Thing, when it's used to keep the budget down it usually tends to suck badly.
It's like adding on and making an 4 lane highway into an 8 lane one, it allows you to handle more traffic. For most drivers it doesn't mean they'll get where they're going faster as the same speed limits apply. But a few proffessional ones will find that the extra lanes mean they can utilize the extra space better and drive faster.
Before the lawsuit: MS is treating us like fulltime employees when we're not!
After the lawsuit: MS isn't treating us like fulltime employees anymore!
Seriously, you get a paycheck? Good. You do not have a right to anything beyond that. That's it. Don't like it? Seek a fulltime position or find work elsewhere.
When was the last time anything was settled on technical merits and thereby gained widespread adoption? Zealots from both sides usually state their case and fanatically defend their position while the rest of us pick what we feel more comfortable with. Unbiased technical merit rarely gets attention, and even more rare is that it is the deciding factor when faced with a choice.
Obviously you're not paying attention, he did something out of the ordinary in this one: There are no spelling errors!
Uhm, then why not translate it to a more compact format serverside before moving it? That's one of the big advantages with XML you know, the ease of parsing, restructuring and formatting.