Except that the point of the attack on New York was to unify the US and the Soviet Union against a common, unknown enemy. Instead there was a was an attack on a US city by an out of control US operative. I can almost see Kruschev beating a podium in the UN with his shoe over the issue, not engaging in peace talks.
First this is an attempt to become the defacto platform for Internet enabled tv, So you'll have set top boxes, televisions with integrated functionality, dvrs with it built in, blu-ray players, etc. The "Google TV Box" is to Google TV what the Nexus One is to Android.
Second, I think their strategy is just like every other Google product out there. They are going to enter the market early with a so-so product and then just iterate the hell out of it. So this version might not be all that great, but in 2 years when they've gone through 8 upgrades its going to be much better. Android, Chrome, Docs, even their search engine followed this exact strategy. This is how they've always done business. I'm not saying they're going to succeed here, its a tricky market and a product that doesn't have a a quick answer to the "What problem does it solve" question, but knowing Google I wouldn't count them out on a review of a v1.0 product.
You just have to change the user agent in the Google TV browser. Its trivially easy to do, but of course Google can't "officially" support a work around like that. The issue was resolved like 5 minutes after it happened. I fixed the problem on my box before I actually experienced it.
God I wish we would just implement all of the CSS print features in the spec so I could do exactly that. The only reason I've incorporated any type of PDF functionality into any web app I've written recently is that you still can't hit print from your browser and get a well formatted document out of it. Unfortunately I need this in IE because of my user base, and it'll be a cold day in hell before Microsoft does this as it moves Office one step closer to obsolescence.
The comparing of the opening shots of The Phantom Menace and A New Hope was a great piece of film design analysis. The scene of the blockade runner getting blasted by the star destroyer set up everything; there was a conflict going on, the rebels were weak and ill equipped and the empire was big, scary and not afraid to use force. The Jedis approaching the trade federation ships in The Phantom Menace told you nothing about either side, and that sort of weakly defined sense of design pervades the entire movie. The battle droids were never intimidating, they looked like they were designed purely to stand around waiting to be light-sabered in half. I mean storm troopers were a joke in an actual fight but at least they looked bad assed. Darth Maul had some scary design going on but he was out doing his own thing. Vader not only looked like a bad guy but he was also the fist on the long arm of the empire which added to his menace. Epic fantasy (yes, Star Wars has more in common with the Lord of the Rings then 2001) needs its clearly defined villains and heros, and some trade dispute is just not the right kind of conflict for this kind of movie.
I vote paranoid. In all the places I've heard of this used its only used as a way for the students to collect their own information and to monitor themselves and their own heart rate. These devices are generally only heart rate monitors, in no way are they designed to notice an arrhythmia, and I've never heard of the data being collected in any way. Besides since they've asked you to purchase the equipment, you would be better able to know exactly what the capabilities of the model you were asked to buy then a bunch of random Slashdotters. Stop reading the site and do some research.
Have you even seen the original in all its pre-CGI glory? There's that ultra realistic rubber Arnold head featured prominently in one scene that would have at least required a full torso mold of him. They might have made a full body cast at the same time just to have it available for other effects shots they had in mind. Total Recall would have needed one too. Hell, there are probably several full body casts of Arnold from various points in his career floating around because of all the special effect heavy movies he was in.
This is just the British press trying to stir things up and now that they have the "theme" of Obama being such a bad gift giver they're hoping to run with it. But look at the facts. They gave her an antique Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook that was signed by Rodgers; a very valuable antique, a great piece of American cultural history and supposedly Rodgers is one of the Queen's favorite composers. Then in addition they gave her an iPod Touch to replace her old iPod nano (which she supposedly enjoyed very much) filled with Rogers and Hammerstein songs and videos of her last trip to America. So we have a valuable piece of American history combined with an example of cutting edge American technology. How is this not a great, diplomatic, well thought out and appropriate gift? Of course the "story" the press is selling is that they gave the Queen something they sent an aide off to buy from the airport gift shop at the last minute. *sigh* This is going to become another "Al Gore invented the internet" meme isn't it?
We watch ours on our TV. The s-video out on our video card works great under Ubuntu. Getting the video onto a TV is a video card driver issue, not a mythTV issue.
That's why you need a front end/back end system. I've got our mythtv backend on a monstrously loud machine with 4 drives for 2 Tb of storage and a couple of extra fans installed to keep the whole thing cool. It sits back in my office with the other server hardware. Our front end is a whisper quite Shuttle pc with no hard drive. If it weren't for the blue led in front we wouldn't even know it's on.
Yeah, the original Clone Wars animated series was the only half way decent thing about the prequels. It really shows how out of touch Lucas is as a film maker that he took all of the series character development, moral ambiguity, dramatic tension and the best villain in the whole thing (Grievous) and shoved all of their scenes into a cartoon side project. It also showed all the signs of being run by people who had a deep understanding and love for the franchise rather then Lucas himself.
So there's a chance I can kill Jar Jar's great great great great great great great great great great grandfather and make it so the prequels never happened? This really could be a WOW killer, it would be the most popular MMO in history if that was an option.
I think the real difference here is an evolutionary vs revolutionary principle. The USP port was just an evolutionary step in the development of computer peripherals, and didn't have much of an impact beyond your computer. Kepler did some great astronomy, but he also helped usher in an intellectual movement that turned away from the superstitious, mystical mindset that predated him and into a more rational, materialistic view of the world that impacted society, government, art, technology and almost everything else. You'd be hard pressed to draw a connection between the creation of USB and the Iraq war, but there is certainly a case to be made that Kepler's work laid the intellectual groundwork that led to the American revolution.
Me too, I made a great Duke Nukem map of the Evergreen State College my senior year that my friends and I had a great time with. I mean we regularly hunted each other down with super soakers there anyway, a virtual map seemed like the next logical step, and we'd all joked about what a great sniper location the clock tower would have made for years.
Lets also not forget that fanatical fan devotion is what got the movie made in the first place. If it weren't for the series huge DVD sales and vocal fan base the project wouldn't have been green lit in the first place. I think a lot of people were cheered it on even if they weren't 100% behind the movie in the hopes of keeping the franchise alive.
Agreed, I was a super geek about this and saw Serenity at a midnight showing the morning it came out. It was of course filled with heavy Firefly fans. I have never seen a crowd react as strongly as they did when Wash died. People literally stood up and screamed at the movie. Now if you hadn't seen the series theres no way that would have the same impact, he was just a somewhat minor character who piloted the ship. I don't think the movie even made it clear that he and Zoe were married until after he died. So there you go, Serenity's climax without Firefly equals a random death followed by some good action and effects. Serenity's climax with Firefly equals edge of your seat, white knuckled suspense where having already seen 2 dearly loved character die you're convinced they're just going to wipe out the entire crew.
Remember that this is home automation equipment. The ultra neat wiring was likely done to make the homeowner happy that he went with such a professional company. Professionaly installed home automation of this magnitude is only going to be in place in the most upscale of homes, we're taking in the multi millions. You don't want those kind of customers to think you did a sloppy job. Plus it's a home automation system. If the thing were easy to take apart, the home owner might try to fix it themselves instead of making a service call.
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Don't forget the flamethrower ejaculate! Seriously, possibly the worst sex scene in the history of film.
Except that the point of the attack on New York was to unify the US and the Soviet Union against a common, unknown enemy. Instead there was a was an attack on a US city by an out of control US operative. I can almost see Kruschev beating a podium in the UN with his shoe over the issue, not engaging in peace talks.
Yeah, I forgot to submit Nethax! (http://www.big-ape.net/nethax/) this year. Maybe next time.
First this is an attempt to become the defacto platform for Internet enabled tv, So you'll have set top boxes, televisions with integrated functionality, dvrs with it built in, blu-ray players, etc. The "Google TV Box" is to Google TV what the Nexus One is to Android.
Second, I think their strategy is just like every other Google product out there. They are going to enter the market early with a so-so product and then just iterate the hell out of it. So this version might not be all that great, but in 2 years when they've gone through 8 upgrades its going to be much better. Android, Chrome, Docs, even their search engine followed this exact strategy. This is how they've always done business. I'm not saying they're going to succeed here, its a tricky market and a product that doesn't have a a quick answer to the "What problem does it solve" question, but knowing Google I wouldn't count them out on a review of a v1.0 product.
You just have to change the user agent in the Google TV browser. Its trivially easy to do, but of course Google can't "officially" support a work around like that. The issue was resolved like 5 minutes after it happened. I fixed the problem on my box before I actually experienced it.
God I wish we would just implement all of the CSS print features in the spec so I could do exactly that. The only reason I've incorporated any type of PDF functionality into any web app I've written recently is that you still can't hit print from your browser and get a well formatted document out of it. Unfortunately I need this in IE because of my user base, and it'll be a cold day in hell before Microsoft does this as it moves Office one step closer to obsolescence.
The comparing of the opening shots of The Phantom Menace and A New Hope was a great piece of film design analysis. The scene of the blockade runner getting blasted by the star destroyer set up everything; there was a conflict going on, the rebels were weak and ill equipped and the empire was big, scary and not afraid to use force. The Jedis approaching the trade federation ships in The Phantom Menace told you nothing about either side, and that sort of weakly defined sense of design pervades the entire movie. The battle droids were never intimidating, they looked like they were designed purely to stand around waiting to be light-sabered in half. I mean storm troopers were a joke in an actual fight but at least they looked bad assed. Darth Maul had some scary design going on but he was out doing his own thing. Vader not only looked like a bad guy but he was also the fist on the long arm of the empire which added to his menace. Epic fantasy (yes, Star Wars has more in common with the Lord of the Rings then 2001) needs its clearly defined villains and heros, and some trade dispute is just not the right kind of conflict for this kind of movie.
I vote paranoid. In all the places I've heard of this used its only used as a way for the students to collect their own information and to monitor themselves and their own heart rate. These devices are generally only heart rate monitors, in no way are they designed to notice an arrhythmia, and I've never heard of the data being collected in any way. Besides since they've asked you to purchase the equipment, you would be better able to know exactly what the capabilities of the model you were asked to buy then a bunch of random Slashdotters. Stop reading the site and do some research.
The sequels really needed to continue the genre change to be successful. Aliens 3 should have been a romantic comedy.
I thought he did, just a couple of months ago.
Have you even seen the original in all its pre-CGI glory? There's that ultra realistic rubber Arnold head featured prominently in one scene that would have at least required a full torso mold of him. They might have made a full body cast at the same time just to have it available for other effects shots they had in mind. Total Recall would have needed one too. Hell, there are probably several full body casts of Arnold from various points in his career floating around because of all the special effect heavy movies he was in.
This is just the British press trying to stir things up and now that they have the "theme" of Obama being such a bad gift giver they're hoping to run with it. But look at the facts. They gave her an antique Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook that was signed by Rodgers; a very valuable antique, a great piece of American cultural history and supposedly Rodgers is one of the Queen's favorite composers. Then in addition they gave her an iPod Touch to replace her old iPod nano (which she supposedly enjoyed very much) filled with Rogers and Hammerstein songs and videos of her last trip to America. So we have a valuable piece of American history combined with an example of cutting edge American technology. How is this not a great, diplomatic, well thought out and appropriate gift? Of course the "story" the press is selling is that they gave the Queen something they sent an aide off to buy from the airport gift shop at the last minute. *sigh* This is going to become another "Al Gore invented the internet" meme isn't it?
We watch ours on our TV. The s-video out on our video card works great under Ubuntu. Getting the video onto a TV is a video card driver issue, not a mythTV issue.
That's why you need a front end/back end system. I've got our mythtv backend on a monstrously loud machine with 4 drives for 2 Tb of storage and a couple of extra fans installed to keep the whole thing cool. It sits back in my office with the other server hardware. Our front end is a whisper quite Shuttle pc with no hard drive. If it weren't for the blue led in front we wouldn't even know it's on.
Seconded. I've been using MythTV for 5 years now and love it, couldn't imagine going without it.
Yeah, the original Clone Wars animated series was the only half way decent thing about the prequels. It really shows how out of touch Lucas is as a film maker that he took all of the series character development, moral ambiguity, dramatic tension and the best villain in the whole thing (Grievous) and shoved all of their scenes into a cartoon side project. It also showed all the signs of being run by people who had a deep understanding and love for the franchise rather then Lucas himself.
Why exactly can't you use agile methodologies with Java?
So there's a chance I can kill Jar Jar's great great great great great great great great great great grandfather and make it so the prequels never happened? This really could be a WOW killer, it would be the most popular MMO in history if that was an option.
Hows this for a geek tie in, I built my mythTV box specifically so I wouldn't miss Meet the Press. Very sad news.
I think the real difference here is an evolutionary vs revolutionary principle. The USP port was just an evolutionary step in the development of computer peripherals, and didn't have much of an impact beyond your computer. Kepler did some great astronomy, but he also helped usher in an intellectual movement that turned away from the superstitious, mystical mindset that predated him and into a more rational, materialistic view of the world that impacted society, government, art, technology and almost everything else. You'd be hard pressed to draw a connection between the creation of USB and the Iraq war, but there is certainly a case to be made that Kepler's work laid the intellectual groundwork that led to the American revolution.
Do you really believe that only politicians work for the government?
Me too, I made a great Duke Nukem map of the Evergreen State College my senior year that my friends and I had a great time with. I mean we regularly hunted each other down with super soakers there anyway, a virtual map seemed like the next logical step, and we'd all joked about what a great sniper location the clock tower would have made for years.
Lets also not forget that fanatical fan devotion is what got the movie made in the first place. If it weren't for the series huge DVD sales and vocal fan base the project wouldn't have been green lit in the first place. I think a lot of people were cheered it on even if they weren't 100% behind the movie in the hopes of keeping the franchise alive.
Agreed, I was a super geek about this and saw Serenity at a midnight showing the morning it came out. It was of course filled with heavy Firefly fans. I have never seen a crowd react as strongly as they did when Wash died. People literally stood up and screamed at the movie. Now if you hadn't seen the series theres no way that would have the same impact, he was just a somewhat minor character who piloted the ship. I don't think the movie even made it clear that he and Zoe were married until after he died. So there you go, Serenity's climax without Firefly equals a random death followed by some good action and effects. Serenity's climax with Firefly equals edge of your seat, white knuckled suspense where having already seen 2 dearly loved character die you're convinced they're just going to wipe out the entire crew.
Remember that this is home automation equipment. The ultra neat wiring was likely done to make the homeowner happy that he went with such a professional company. Professionaly installed home automation of this magnitude is only going to be in place in the most upscale of homes, we're taking in the multi millions. You don't want those kind of customers to think you did a sloppy job. Plus it's a home automation system. If the thing were easy to take apart, the home owner might try to fix it themselves instead of making a service call.