An actor (as opposed to a 'star') can create subtleties of expression that may be beyond CGI. Think about it - intelligence, experience and talent, directly controlling facial muscles. As opposed to a CGI-jockey with a mouse shifting polygons around. Our brains are hard-wired to decrypt those facial signals and quickly notice when they are 'off' in some way. So, yes, this might replace some actors, but only the bad ones! Oh - and porn of course.
Exactly - just look at the BBC still broadcasting in mono to steam powered bakelite radios. Privatising them would force them to embrace new technology like TV, digital radio and the web.
Just one example of a band who uploaded their own music and shared it freely. This proved to be an incredibly sound business move for them. For their evil DRM schemes to work, the monopolists will have to lobby to make giving your own music away an illegal act.
'The question is: why bother releasing in.DOC when there's an RTF right above it? Hmm...'
As a service to journalists. They want this news to be printed after all.
Suggestion - an (anti) industry standard 'No DRM' logo for indie bands and lables to print on their CDs and CD boxes. Aware consumers then have a visible mark of righteousness that shows - 1 - the band or label respects their rights 2 - the band or label is not part of the RIAA/BMI Axis of Feeble
BTW - MSFT apparently wants to promote a Secure Audio Path all the way to the speakers - unless they also overnight convert every single pair of speakers and headphones in the world to digital, there's still an analog output to rip from. You might need to buy a couple of resistors...
'A United Nations-funded organization has produced a Linux desktop manual for novice PC users as part of an effort to encourage developing countries to use open-source software.' - ZDNet
(http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5322002.html)
but it's good to finally get electronic versions of those books that are bought by the yard to fill the bookshelves in 'Bohemian' pubs and coffee shops. To round out the experience, download the text of these books and write a PERL script to 'pulp' them. One gripe - plenty of books by Abbott but none by Costello - call that a library?
I've got one - first generation Compaq tablet PC obtained very cheap. Runs only iTunes, maximised full-screen. The aluminum housing goes well with iTunes. Makes quite a nice home stereo with a pair of powered speakers. To do: add a remote and some kind of decent looking USB CD/DVD drive to turn it into a small entertainment center.
Not to come over all gee-whiz and so on, but how relentlessly negative these posts are. The students deserve some congratulations for successfully completing an impressive piece of work. Maybe they didn't go the most efficient/difficult/brag-worthy route. So what? Everything they've learned will be useful, regardless of what hardware/software they end up using in the 'real' world. They probably had fun and have achieved something real, instead of just sitting back criticising.
Would it be possible/desirable/sensible to make/sell a Linux based thin client that used Google services for data storage? Wonder if Google would ever offer a branded thin client?
A Windows-powered Alfa-Romeo is the natural upgrade path for people who make brrrm-brrrrm noise when revving their mouse. Or who have an Acer Ferrari laptop.
'I am betting we can take Sony' 'Yes, you are. But inside this PlayStation is the most powerful games processor known to man. And you're asking yourself - how many processors are in the box? Is it three? Is it five? I don't even know - we just keep shovelling 'em in. So the question you have to ask yourself is: do you feel lucky today - punk?!'
Pints are an interesting special case of Imperial units. Over hundred of years, UK men have evolved the ability to quickly convert pints of beer into litres of bile. In fact our whole recreational life revolves (often literally) around the pint, and it's associated unit, the just-one-more. Strangely, no measuring scale for hang-overs exists. May I be the first to suggest the Beerfart scale?
Mod parent up! With a WiFi iPod, the remote in your hand IS the stereo system - wirelessly connected to a pair of monster Klipschorns if you so desire. Though losing your entire music collection down the back of the couch could be traumatic...
Not a great deal of chance of Apple releasing OS X for a PowerPC-based XBox but a huge chance of a hack to achieve the same end result. Ditto with the PowerPC-based Sony PS3. Though I suppose if this were do-able, it would also have been done for the GameCube which is yet another PowerPC box. Does anyone have any projections for what the balance of numbers between Intel & PowerPC will be when all the consoles are running on this platform?
Windows market share continues to decline, thanks to Microsoft's failure to port Longhorn to the the PowerPC. By sticking with its legacy Intel platform, instead of migrating to the industry standard RISC chips, Microsoft relegated Windows to a commodity office equipment OS whose sales thunder was rapidly stolen by open source initiatives. A SonyAppleIBMTendo spokesman commented, "serves them bloody well right".
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Thanks for that -I had thought it stood for Flagrantly Cheating Consumers
What's an FCC?
An actor (as opposed to a 'star') can create subtleties of expression that may be beyond CGI. Think about it - intelligence, experience and talent, directly controlling facial muscles. As opposed to a CGI-jockey with a mouse shifting polygons around. Our brains are hard-wired to decrypt those facial signals and quickly notice when they are 'off' in some way. So, yes, this might replace some actors, but only the bad ones! Oh - and porn of course.
Given the kind of people who tend to be abducted by aliens or who anticipate the rapture, I say, "Yay apocalypse - bring it on!"
In this order...
Ham radio
Community radio stations
BBC local stations
Ad-free radio
BBC national stations
Leaving -
ClearChannel
Pirate radio
I can't wait
Exactly - just look at the BBC still broadcasting in mono to steam powered bakelite radios. Privatising them would force them to embrace new technology like TV, digital radio and the web.
So M$ is going to sue China in a Chinese court for breaking software patents only valid in the US. Wonder what the verdict will be?
Just one example of a band who uploaded their own music and shared it freely. This proved to be an incredibly sound business move for them. For their evil DRM schemes to work, the monopolists will have to lobby to make giving your own music away an illegal act.
'The question is: why bother releasing in .DOC when there's an RTF right above it? Hmm...'
As a service to journalists. They want this news to be printed after all.
... the CGI future-retro backgrounds are completely replaced, re-locating the entire plotline to the fictional town of Springfield.
Suggestion - an (anti) industry standard 'No DRM' logo for indie bands and lables to print on their CDs and CD boxes. Aware consumers then have a visible mark of righteousness that shows -
1 - the band or label respects their rights
2 - the band or label is not part of the RIAA/BMI Axis of Feeble
BTW - MSFT apparently wants to promote a Secure Audio Path all the way to the speakers - unless they also overnight convert every single pair of speakers and headphones in the world to digital, there's still an analog output to rip from. You might need to buy a couple of resistors...
'A United Nations-funded organization has produced a Linux desktop manual for novice PC users as part of an effort to encourage developing countries to use open-source software.' - ZDNet (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5322002.html)
but it's good to finally get electronic versions of those books that are bought by the yard to fill the bookshelves in 'Bohemian' pubs and coffee shops. To round out the experience, download the text of these books and write a PERL script to 'pulp' them. One gripe - plenty of books by Abbott but none by Costello - call that a library?
I've got one - first generation Compaq tablet PC obtained very cheap. Runs only iTunes, maximised full-screen. The aluminum housing goes well with iTunes. Makes quite a nice home stereo with a pair of powered speakers. To do: add a remote and some kind of decent looking USB CD/DVD drive to turn it into a small entertainment center.
Not to come over all gee-whiz and so on, but how relentlessly negative these posts are. The students deserve some congratulations for successfully completing an impressive piece of work. Maybe they didn't go the most efficient/difficult/brag-worthy route. So what? Everything they've learned will be useful, regardless of what hardware/software they end up using in the 'real' world. They probably had fun and have achieved something real, instead of just sitting back criticising.
Good point about the cruise missile though...
katie.cnn d d
katie.com.cn
katie.net.cn
katie.org.c
katie.fr
katie.it
katie.am
katie.tv
katie.m
katie.fm
katie.to
katie.sr
katie.la
katie.t
Grab 'em while they're hot!
Would it be possible/desirable/sensible to make/sell a Linux based thin client that used Google services for data storage? Wonder if Google would ever offer a branded thin client?
Wot an styupid qestyun.
A Windows-powered Alfa-Romeo is the natural upgrade path for people who make brrrm-brrrrm noise when revving their mouse. Or who have an Acer Ferrari laptop.
'I am betting we can take Sony'
'Yes, you are. But inside this PlayStation is the most powerful games processor known to man. And you're asking yourself - how many processors are in the box? Is it three? Is it five? I don't even know - we just keep shovelling 'em in. So the question you have to ask yourself is: do you feel lucky today - punk?!'
Pints are an interesting special case of Imperial units. Over hundred of years, UK men have evolved the ability to quickly convert pints of beer into litres of bile. In fact our whole recreational life revolves (often literally) around the pint, and it's associated unit, the just-one-more. Strangely, no measuring scale for hang-overs exists. May I be the first to suggest the Beerfart scale?
Mod parent up! With a WiFi iPod, the remote in your hand IS the stereo system - wirelessly connected to a pair of monster Klipschorns if you so desire. Though losing your entire music collection down the back of the couch could be traumatic...
I just need this one part to finish my Interocitor and communicate with Metaluna
Not a great deal of chance of Apple releasing OS X for a PowerPC-based XBox but a huge chance of a hack to achieve the same end result. Ditto with the PowerPC-based Sony PS3. Though I suppose if this were do-able, it would also have been done for the GameCube which is yet another PowerPC box. Does anyone have any projections for what the balance of numbers between Intel & PowerPC will be when all the consoles are running on this platform?
Windows market share continues to decline, thanks to Microsoft's failure to port Longhorn to the the PowerPC. By sticking with its legacy Intel platform, instead of migrating to the industry standard RISC chips, Microsoft relegated Windows to a commodity office equipment OS whose sales thunder was rapidly stolen by open source initiatives. A SonyAppleIBMTendo spokesman commented, "serves them bloody well right".