A short flashback showing portman would be a nice addition. A scene with Jar Jar talking to the Rebels(or perhaps the Emporer that he gave the power to) would be pushing it a little. As long as George Lucas uses common sense, then there should be little or no problem.
It's the part about him using common sense that concerns me, I'm not too sure he has that much left...
The way I see it, they are doing you a sevice by including a little ink. I mean, flashlights, kids toys, remotes, and other electronics come with those dinky little batteries that last for like a week at most, if they come with them at all, and nobody seems to care, HP advertises that it comes with a "Starter" cartridge that is smaller that a normal cartridge, and suddenly they are doing something wrong. If they said that it was a full cartridge, then I would understand the lawsuit, but as it stands, I think HP will win.
I always though it was funny the way everybody always says that information should be free, as long as it's not my information.
If the RIAA was wrong for not wanting people to share their copyrighted information and sueing Napster, and the Co$ is evil for sueing Google over the whole links to copyrighted materials thing, then isn't the NY AG(or anybody for that matter) wrong in his sueing spammers. If making more tech laws is a bad thing when it comes to stopping copyright infringment, then the same goes for spam. Is the internet you're free haven where you can get whatever information you want, be it games, books, software and music(which everybody else wants you to pay for), or is it going to be the strictly regulated place where only authorized personel may access you medical records, and where companies cannot sell their marketing data(since you don't want them to)? And since these are closely related subjects, finding a happy medium would be quite difficult.
Besides, do you really want to give the government another chunk of technology to play with. This should be left up to software engineers to find better ways to filter spam, since they know what they are doing, as opposed to some greedy congressman whose computer exposure is limited AOL.
As with most other legal issues, more laws simply cause confusion, enforce the existing laws and only change them when some large advancement or discovery comes along.
That means that in the labs, or on a few desks, there are fantastic machines. However all the agents, clerks, and reguler workers wind up with really crappy machines. Just because some people in the CIA have the tech, doesn't mean that they all have it.
Strip away the personalty of any entertainer, and you're left with a "B-rate" level instance of that form of entertainment.
Not true, some of the members of Gwar started a side project called The David Broche Experience. While it didn't have the blood, guts and make up that create the personalities in the Gwar, it was still a great show.
I expect a sci-fi movie/book to reflect sci-fi. When I read a book or watch a movie, I do it for the story, the effects, or just to have a good time. Very rarely do I actually care what the writer was smoking at the time, who he was pissed at, or what the great political struggels were, while I am watching the movie. If the story is good and it intrigues me as to why something happens, then I will look around and figure out why he wrote it that way.
However, what I can do with out, are the way they throw fluff in to make the movie fit the time, for instance, I didn't really care for the spider-man on the flag scene that they chose to end the movie with. A lot of you will disagree with me on this, but to me, it just reeked of patriotic filler content. It doesn't help the story along, all it does is give the studio's PR department a warm fuzzy.
And let's face it, Spider-Man isn't even America's defender, he just sticks to New York, if you wanted a patriotic super hero, then they should have remade Captian America(or Superman, as he is DC's cheif patriot). I can see how this one would go now...
The super soldier program is reinstated in order to fight the Taliban. The only thing we need to find is the right actor(ess) to play the part. Since we want to reflect the modern world, it probably should be a woman, but most of the movie would have to show her struggle as she passes test after greuling test in order to start drug treatment. She would also have to be a closet lesbian, that way they can show how hard it is for homosexuals in the military to have a love life. That should take care of most of the movie right there, the rest would be a huge CG fight scene with Captian America driving around on her motercycle throwing her sheild like some Xena rip-off (but since this is a patriotic movie, it will be highlighted as brilliant or spellbinding, I mean "the Musketeer" got good ratings didn't it?)
In the end, I guess what I am trying to say is when it comes down to changing the story to reflect things that have little to nothing to do with the story line, just stick with what the writer originally had to say.
The CD itself is free, if you don't want to pay, then I suggest going directly to the warehouse, walking in and saying "Here is my free CD". Otherwise you are going to pay for the service of shipping and handling, just like if you buy a steak at a butcher, it is a lot cheaper, since you aren't paying for the service of him cooking it, which is what restaurants do.
The slowest computer is 800mhz with 256 mb of RAM. Shouldn't be a problem there. I think the problem is when 4+ armies of 150 - 175 troops are attacking a single fortified position on the map to kill the wonder being built.
The reason could be the complexity of the games. The server can syncronize the location of a 3000 single entities on the map, or it can syncronize 3000 armies consisting of about 200 units(give or take), with each unit in the army having different orders from the rest of them. I've hit major lag with just 4 people playing AOE on a 100 Mb LAN.
Perhaps you're bot could get sponsored by the X10 camera guys. You could get all the camera's needed to give you're smart battle bot 360 degree visual recignition, and they could put pop up ads on the screen during the fight.
Transforming a laptop into a robot
Thu May 23, 9:04 AM ET
David Becker CNET News.com
LOS ANGELES--Sure, Aibo (news - web sites) the robot dog is cute, but can he fetch you a beer?
Grabbing a brewski from the fridge is just one of the real-world tasks promised by Evolution Robotics, a Pasadena, Calif.-based company that promises a popular but practical approach to robotics.
The company is at the Electronics Entertainment Expo this week demonstrating a series of "personal robot systems" that can transform an average laptop PC into an intelligent robot. The basic kit includes a rolling platform to mount the laptop on, a Webcam for capturing visual data and software to run on the laptop.
Company Chairman Bill Gross said the real breakthrough with the company's software is real-time processing of visual data. The Evolution software can interpret images at a rate of five frames per second, matching data captured by the camera with a library of visual references. Instead of executing pre-determined routines, as most robots do, the Evolution system can respond to its environment almost instantly.
"Vision is hard," Gross said. "Nobody has succeeded in making it work in real time."
Program the software to recognize a beer bottle and a refrigerator, for example, and next time you're running on empty, you just need to wave a bottle in front of the laptop's camera and request a refill.
While the beer routine made a good demonstration, Gross said he expects the system to have many useful real-world applications. A seeing robot could be a useful companion for a blind person, for example, or a sophisticated security camera. The Evolution software is based on an open programming interface, and Gross expects numerous amateur developers to create and share applications for the system.
"We want people to build useful applications around this," he said. "We think they'll be huge libraries objects this will visually recognize."
The first Evolution system, the ER-1, is available now for $599 as an assembled system or $499 as a kit, from retailers and directly through Evolution's Web site.
Have it roll into a room full of people, then when they are all looking at the fancy robot, it loads the goatse page. It can then email you to tell you when they are out of things to throw and is safe to return to the room.
I should have specified. That password if for the normal users. They have basicly no rights on the network, just enough to do data entry, or run a scanner. The management has an 8 character minimum, and all the admin passwords are over 10 characters.
Where I work, we enforce that passwords have to be a minimum of five characters, and that they are change every quarter. Plus we do not allow them to use old passwords.
Also we instituted a policy where, if we see a password on a post-it note on your monitor, you get your password changed and a warning. Second offense, we walk over, unplug your system, and take it away.
Did I mention that we will still require you to do your job?
Of course, maybe this was part of Lucas's point - that the Jedi *are* blind and incredibly shortsighted and they *need* a good swift butt-kicking by the more cunning Dark Side to whip them back into shape.
Yoda in particular wouldn't recognize the Dark Side until it swam up and bit him in the ass...:)
I just like how the Jedi helped set up the imperial army, talk about short sighted. There's also the fact that Jar-Jar just had to go and make an emperior out of a senator. I knew that if he died in the first movie, the world would have been better off...
Perhaps because you aren't supposed to move accident victims, it could aggrivate their wounds. Not sure how that applies to lightsaber cuts and force burns(dark side lightening attack thingy does burn right?), but perhaps Yoda was a jedi scout when he was young, and he was just remembering what he learned while getting his first aid badge.
Yoda totally had Dooku on the defensive the entire fight, to the point that he had to resort to dirty tricks to escape.
Now, I'm not sure how long Yoda could keep up fighting like that, but the way it looked to me, he would have won if he hadn't had to save Obi Wan and Anakin.
If you don't think that you're up to college right now, you can always go to a tech school. It's short and to the point, and there aren't a lot of the extra classes that they make you take in a real college. Don't forget that you can always go beck later to get your degree. Also, find a place with a good internship program, even if you don't get hired where you had your internship, you'll learn a lot, and maybe even be pointed towards a job at another company.
It worked for me, I spent two years at PTI got a great internship, and they hired me on full time after I graduated.
I thought the worst part was the kiss between Jar Jar and Yoda. I just about hurled.
I really hope that's a joke. Of course, clones are kinda like twins, aren't they... "Queen Amidala, meet, Queen Amidala" then start with the bad music...
anybody with a brawny PC, a special light detector and some lab hardware
Now all I need to do is hide it all in a closet. Seriously, how does this create a security risk, someone not only has to be in the room with you, but half a meter behind the monitor, which is a meter from the wall. Oh, and did I forget to mention, that all the lights had to be off. Like they said, it's a curiosity, and nothing else.
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I would like to say that I downloaded and listened to the songs, unfortunately, it appears that everybody on slashdot is doing the same.
It's the part about him using common sense that concerns me, I'm not too sure he has that much left...
The way I see it, they are doing you a sevice by including a little ink. I mean, flashlights, kids toys, remotes, and other electronics come with those dinky little batteries that last for like a week at most, if they come with them at all, and nobody seems to care, HP advertises that it comes with a "Starter" cartridge that is smaller that a normal cartridge, and suddenly they are doing something wrong. If they said that it was a full cartridge, then I would understand the lawsuit, but as it stands, I think HP will win.
If the RIAA was wrong for not wanting people to share their copyrighted information and sueing Napster, and the Co$ is evil for sueing Google over the whole links to copyrighted materials thing, then isn't the NY AG(or anybody for that matter) wrong in his sueing spammers. If making more tech laws is a bad thing when it comes to stopping copyright infringment, then the same goes for spam. Is the internet you're free haven where you can get whatever information you want, be it games, books, software and music(which everybody else wants you to pay for), or is it going to be the strictly regulated place where only authorized personel may access you medical records, and where companies cannot sell their marketing data(since you don't want them to)? And since these are closely related subjects, finding a happy medium would be quite difficult.
Besides, do you really want to give the government another chunk of technology to play with. This should be left up to software engineers to find better ways to filter spam, since they know what they are doing, as opposed to some greedy congressman whose computer exposure is limited AOL.
As with most other legal issues, more laws simply cause confusion, enforce the existing laws and only change them when some large advancement or discovery comes along.
That means that in the labs, or on a few desks, there are fantastic machines. However all the agents, clerks, and reguler workers wind up with really crappy machines. Just because some people in the CIA have the tech, doesn't mean that they all have it.
Not true, some of the members of Gwar started a side project called The David Broche Experience. While it didn't have the blood, guts and make up that create the personalities in the Gwar, it was still a great show.
However, what I can do with out, are the way they throw fluff in to make the movie fit the time, for instance, I didn't really care for the spider-man on the flag scene that they chose to end the movie with. A lot of you will disagree with me on this, but to me, it just reeked of patriotic filler content. It doesn't help the story along, all it does is give the studio's PR department a warm fuzzy.
And let's face it, Spider-Man isn't even America's defender, he just sticks to New York, if you wanted a patriotic super hero, then they should have remade Captian America(or Superman, as he is DC's cheif patriot). I can see how this one would go now...
The super soldier program is reinstated in order to fight the Taliban. The only thing we need to find is the right actor(ess) to play the part. Since we want to reflect the modern world, it probably should be a woman, but most of the movie would have to show her struggle as she passes test after greuling test in order to start drug treatment. She would also have to be a closet lesbian, that way they can show how hard it is for homosexuals in the military to have a love life. That should take care of most of the movie right there, the rest would be a huge CG fight scene with Captian America driving around on her motercycle throwing her sheild like some Xena rip-off (but since this is a patriotic movie, it will be highlighted as brilliant or spellbinding, I mean "the Musketeer" got good ratings didn't it?)
In the end, I guess what I am trying to say is when it comes down to changing the story to reflect things that have little to nothing to do with the story line, just stick with what the writer originally had to say.
The CD itself is free, if you don't want to pay, then I suggest going directly to the warehouse, walking in and saying "Here is my free CD". Otherwise you are going to pay for the service of shipping and handling, just like if you buy a steak at a butcher, it is a lot cheaper, since you aren't paying for the service of him cooking it, which is what restaurants do.
The slowest computer is 800mhz with 256 mb of RAM. Shouldn't be a problem there. I think the problem is when 4+ armies of 150 - 175 troops are attacking a single fortified position on the map to kill the wonder being built.
The reason could be the complexity of the games. The server can syncronize the location of a 3000 single entities on the map, or it can syncronize 3000 armies consisting of about 200 units(give or take), with each unit in the army having different orders from the rest of them. I've hit major lag with just 4 people playing AOE on a 100 Mb LAN.
Perhaps you're bot could get sponsored by the X10 camera guys. You could get all the camera's needed to give you're smart battle bot 360 degree visual recignition, and they could put pop up ads on the screen during the fight.
Transforming a laptop into a robot Thu May 23, 9:04 AM ET David Becker CNET News.com LOS ANGELES--Sure, Aibo (news - web sites) the robot dog is cute, but can he fetch you a beer? Grabbing a brewski from the fridge is just one of the real-world tasks promised by Evolution Robotics, a Pasadena, Calif.-based company that promises a popular but practical approach to robotics. The company is at the Electronics Entertainment Expo this week demonstrating a series of "personal robot systems" that can transform an average laptop PC into an intelligent robot. The basic kit includes a rolling platform to mount the laptop on, a Webcam for capturing visual data and software to run on the laptop. Company Chairman Bill Gross said the real breakthrough with the company's software is real-time processing of visual data. The Evolution software can interpret images at a rate of five frames per second, matching data captured by the camera with a library of visual references. Instead of executing pre-determined routines, as most robots do, the Evolution system can respond to its environment almost instantly. "Vision is hard," Gross said. "Nobody has succeeded in making it work in real time." Program the software to recognize a beer bottle and a refrigerator, for example, and next time you're running on empty, you just need to wave a bottle in front of the laptop's camera and request a refill. While the beer routine made a good demonstration, Gross said he expects the system to have many useful real-world applications. A seeing robot could be a useful companion for a blind person, for example, or a sophisticated security camera. The Evolution software is based on an open programming interface, and Gross expects numerous amateur developers to create and share applications for the system. "We want people to build useful applications around this," he said. "We think they'll be huge libraries objects this will visually recognize." The first Evolution system, the ER-1, is available now for $599 as an assembled system or $499 as a kit, from retailers and directly through Evolution's Web site.
Have it roll into a room full of people, then when they are all looking at the fancy robot, it loads the goatse page. It can then email you to tell you when they are out of things to throw and is safe to return to the room.
I should have specified. That password if for the normal users. They have basicly no rights on the network, just enough to do data entry, or run a scanner. The management has an 8 character minimum, and all the admin passwords are over 10 characters.
Also we instituted a policy where, if we see a password on a post-it note on your monitor, you get your password changed and a warning. Second offense, we walk over, unplug your system, and take it away.
Did I mention that we will still require you to do your job?
Yoda in particular wouldn't recognize the Dark Side until it swam up and bit him in the ass ... :)
I just like how the Jedi helped set up the imperial army, talk about short sighted. There's also the fact that Jar-Jar just had to go and make an emperior out of a senator.
I knew that if he died in the first movie, the world would have been better off...
Perhaps because you aren't supposed to move accident victims, it could aggrivate their wounds. Not sure how that applies to lightsaber cuts and force burns(dark side lightening attack thingy does burn right?), but perhaps Yoda was a jedi scout when he was young, and he was just remembering what he learned while getting his first aid badge.
Now, I'm not sure how long Yoda could keep up fighting like that, but the way it looked to me, he would have won if he hadn't had to save Obi Wan and Anakin.
Do not - repeat: DO NOT - install the latest Critical Update from Microsoft for IE 6.
It just fried Jim's computer!
talk about timing...
It worked for me, I spent two years at PTI got a great internship, and they hired me on full time after I graduated.
I really hope that's a joke.
Of course, clones are kinda like twins, aren't they...
"Queen Amidala, meet, Queen Amidala" then start with the bad music...
But you won't need the PIN with a credit card. Just one gelatin finger, and a million dollar shopping spree...
Now all I need to do is hide it all in a closet.
Seriously, how does this create a security risk, someone not only has to be in the room with you, but half a meter behind the monitor, which is a meter from the wall. Oh, and did I forget to mention, that all the lights had to be off. Like they said, it's a curiosity, and nothing else.
I think I would notice something like that.
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