South park looks like south park, because Trey Parker and Matt stone did the original episode 0 with paper cuts and kept that style, beside that south park is a comedy show and thus the style does not matter, the jokes do.
But this dreadful we only move ever 10 seconds style which the Clone Wars follows, was just developed to cut down on animation costs severely, at a time where animators were expensive and you had to hand draw every frame.
This kind of animation is the worst which ever had been in existence, and I really hoped it had died out a while ago until Lucas Revived it (aargh, dunno why)
Scientists in the year 3010 finally managed to unencrypt the DVDs from 2008 which the keys were lost in the great Bush Fires of 2020...
Nothing new was revealed, it was the same junk which has been unencrypted since scientists managed to rebreak the CSS key in 2989 which also was lost over time.
But it gave a good insight of the primitivity of the archaic pre Bush Fire cultures, which relied on something stamped on paper and they even destroyed sucessively their whole living base for gaining more of the paper. All in all the late pre Bush fire cultures now that scientists gained insight never reached the standards of the ones 20-30 years earlier, it is still undecided yet why this happened, because words like share holder value, or buy mania have not yet been deciphered by the language experts, but one thing is for sure, those people were primitive.
It is still undecided how such a cultural downfall after the heydeys of greece could happen 2500 years later, with cultural standards close to cavemen.
Ah come on, young indiana jones only was partially good, but it was generally one of the better shows.
The clone wars stunk, half of the show were pointless lightsabre batteles, and the animation was some of the worst ever produced (up on the same level of the dreadful cheapish 70s animation shows, like the Star Trek animated series)
Somebody once wrote an article about this style of animation which seemed to take over in the 70s for price reasons, titled, the day US animation died.
I always thought animators finally would have gotten rid of that style now that there are no cost reasons (you can do a lot with motion blending nowadays to save costs) but wham then suddenly the next show appears.
There is no next big thing for the IS because research is outsourced as well...
Nanotech the US only currently has a slight advantage, but not too much...
Exactly, the current US Patent situation being enforced upon the world is a huge pyramid scheme, and it is easy to bring it down, far too easy, it is just that a huge part of the world (china for instance combined with a bunch of other countries) simply dump it into the garbage bin. Now that every core technology is outsourced to those countries, one day it will be easy for chine just to dump it and ram the whole system into the ground. But there also could be some kind of reverse situation, like it happened with other industries before, the high tech stuff is outsourced, the patents run out, and voila you end up with a situation where the former outsourcers now dont have any products worthwhile, because the former workslaves now have the market and the knowledge, and to the worse they can now pay for the goods and even pay for the patents without any chance to recover unless china and others start to outsource to the US.
The whole thing is a global pyramid scheme, and I am really afraid of the downfall of this.
Patents run out, and the whole patent system crumbles like a house of cards if one region just says forget it we wont do it anymore...
What the US does is build a sand castle in the hope they can move in there and have to do nothing anymore.
What they do instead is that they build the sand castle and will start to scream and cry once it is crumbled (which happens for sure if you outsource everything)
Face it the current road of the US is one towards a third world country (I guess we will see the first serious affects in about 15-20 years when the first wave of bogus patents run out)
with too many laywes and business scrooges and almost no one who really still has the knowlegde and develops because all of them have been driven away, there is no future.
That only works for a few years, then the patents run out, the off shore companies have taken over the market, have their own patents, and the USA has nothing, not even the knowledge anymore.
The best way to become a third world country in no time is to rely on IP (which is a castle built in the clouds anyway without any real value behind it)
and drive away the people who really want to do research and build just for pure and plain greed.
Actually no, in my case I needed something low power which I could use as a server, for that purpose the mini serves very well.
(and is silent)
But I as soon as I explored the OS started to use it also for my desktop purposes, and since I am on a budget I cannot really afford the more expensive ones.
I am opting for the replacement route as well in the long run, currently the firewire box has to do it.
No... the some have 4200 ones, mine for instance, and the first thing I did was to move the OS to a firewire disk.
The next one which I will do is, to pry the box open and dump a 7200rpm platter in there.
You know that the 64 bit 128 bit etc... game is just a pure marketing stunt, this stuff never results in more performance or better games.
Heck even the old Mattel Intellivision back then was marketed as 16 bit system in a day when 8 bit systems were the norm, the console still was utter crap. The we are better because we have more bits (wherever often it is not even the processor) is a marketing ploy as old as the consoles themselves.
Yes, the dos virii really used to show that the authors knew the hardware, most modern virii are just the same vb script exploiting one IE hole again and again with other messages in there.
It does sound like the real problem is that he's kind of a prick. No offense. But it means that the execs are less likely to cut him slack. They kept saying in the documentary that he had a "reputation" for going over budget, which I suspect is mostly a reputation for being hard to work with.
I guess you easily can get a bad reputation in the arts sector if you make a mistake once. To my knowledge, the only movie where he went severely over budget was Münchhausen. But the reputation is still with him, although he did some movies afterwards and none went over budget. (Fear and Loathing was after Münchhausen)
As for the main Actor, I agree with you, there would have been a handful of Actors who could have done the role, Peter O'Toole probably would have been an excellent choice. Dont beat me for this but even John Clesse probably could have done the job (although he looks totally different than what people expect from a Don Quixote)
Anyway I am glad the movie was not done anyway, the story sounded to move áway to strongly from the book, which by itself still has no decent conversation into a good movie. And what could I get from the documentary, this definitely would not have been it.
Actually Münchhausen was the only movie where he significantly ran over budget, as for Lost in La Mancha, that really was bad luck, I am not director, and I agree with the backup plan, but given that the spanisch weather is very consistent at certain times in a year, it really was bad luck, in the documentary, it became clear that they tried to shift things and hold out as long as possible, but what do you want to do if you dont have a single shot, the weather washes you down the drain, and the main actor cannot do it and the investors start to visit you out of nervousness.
The only thing I might be able to blame him for, is not to have a backup actor for the main protagonist.
Actually the first two were pretty awful, the third one done by the mexican guy was excellent....
(no wonder this guy did Y tu mama tambien as well, and the first two were done by a disney guy)
Actually you brought many things up to the point. Being European but loving the good sides of america (hey I spent some time there and I know there are two sides to the country one being very good and one being really bad, I really got the shudders when Bush started the DHS.
I have seen such things in the past, it is never a good idea to have an authority (although week in the beginning) which has basically military and executive and secret service power.
I cannot remember one such service which ended in a good way, I however can remember following ones:
The german gestapo, which basically had similar powers the DHS aims to in the long run. (believe me the recent bill which gave them those powers in the border regions made me shudder)
The eastern german STASI which coincidentally also had the same name (Staatssicherheit, which roughly can be translated into Country Security or Homeland Security if you translate it with a nationalistic sidetone)
The russian KGB in its worst times. And some others which are older (the police under the austria Metternich, which basically was the blueprint of a repressive country for modern times)
There is always the rule, give one side too much power, neglegt the principle of balance of power and you will end up in a mess in the long run.
If you can find any uber authority which in the end acted on the good deeds and for the general public, then give me an example, I cannot find one in history. Things simply get a life of their own if you dont restrict them and put them under contol by a similar powerful authority.
Well lets say it that way, the orvellian thing about the kids playing thought police was triggered by the HJ and similar organisations. Although that things occurred in Sovjet russia and nazi germany, that kids were putting their own parents in, those things were not the norm, but more on the seldom side.
Kids usually are not that stupid, only adults are, usually love of parents and kids to each other beats all other sidefactors.
I am less afraid of the kids in such systems, than I am of the adults (especially the young ones which are the most accessible to propaganda. The whole advertising industry is based on the fact that teenagers and young adults are the most accessible to brainwashing and propaganda.
After all the advertisement industry basically uses the same mechanism Goebbels used in the third reich, only the message is different.
So is kontact... kontact is the best pim currently in existence and even has a full blown groupware server behind it, porting contact would make the most sense, but is prevented by the Qt3 license which is only QPLed on Linux.
Hopefully Qt4 will cause a port of the many gems kde has to offer (Koffice, Kontact and the Groupware server behind it, Konqueror and others to windows.
Yupp Icelandic republic goes back to 800 to my knowledge.
It is always funny to hear the US tv propaganda of having the best working and oldest democracy.
The US democracy has legalized bribe (campaign donations) in the past and is selling out to the coprorations left and right (there used to be a list which senator worked for which corporation indirectly) thus has basically becoming a plutocracy.
At the current state of affairs, the best working democracies are probably currently Poland, the Tzech republic (despite the recent scandal) and still swizerland (although they sold out to a certain degree to the EU and the corporations), iceland and the other nordic countries.
Spain also again can be added to a good working democracy. But the US outside of the well working local democracy can hardly be called democracy at all.
As for the age... there is no argument about it, Iceland and others had democracies long before the US had its independence war, and even some indigenous north american tribes had longer lasting better working democracies before they went under as sideeffect of the war of independence.
Unfortunately that idea comes directly from Sovjet Russia and the german Hitler jugend.
Actually that indeed does work to some degree, but only to some, many people who were in the HJ or similar Sovjet organizations still became nice and critical adults during adulthood, because there is always the factor that only a certain percentage of people are sheep.
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South park looks like south park, because Trey Parker and Matt stone did the original episode 0 with paper cuts and kept that style, beside that south park is a comedy show and thus the style does not matter, the jokes do.
But this dreadful we only move ever 10 seconds style which the Clone Wars follows, was just developed to cut down on animation costs severely, at a time where animators were expensive and you had to hand draw every frame.
This kind of animation is the worst which ever had been in existence, and I really hoped it had died out a while ago until Lucas Revived it (aargh, dunno why)
Scientists in the year 3010 finally managed to unencrypt the DVDs from 2008 which the keys were lost in the great Bush Fires of 2020...
Nothing new was revealed, it was the same junk which has been unencrypted since scientists managed to rebreak the CSS key in 2989 which also was lost over time.
But it gave a good insight of the primitivity of the archaic pre Bush Fire cultures, which relied on something stamped on paper and they even destroyed sucessively their whole living base for gaining more of the paper. All in all the late pre Bush fire cultures now that scientists gained insight never reached the standards of the ones 20-30 years earlier, it is still undecided yet why this happened, because words like share holder value, or buy mania have not yet been deciphered by the language experts, but one thing is for sure, those people were primitive.
It is still undecided how such a cultural downfall after the heydeys of greece could happen 2500 years later, with cultural standards close to cavemen.
That trick is usually done by bound spirits of the old sith lords...
Ah come on, young indiana jones only was partially good, but it was generally one of the better shows. The clone wars stunk, half of the show were pointless lightsabre batteles, and the animation was some of the worst ever produced (up on the same level of the dreadful cheapish 70s animation shows, like the Star Trek animated series)
Somebody once wrote an article about this style of animation which seemed to take over in the 70s for price reasons, titled, the day US animation died.
I always thought animators finally would have gotten rid of that style now that there are no cost reasons (you can do a lot with motion blending nowadays to save costs) but wham then suddenly the next show appears.
There is no next big thing for the IS because research is outsourced as well... Nanotech the US only currently has a slight advantage, but not too much...
Exactly, the current US Patent situation being enforced upon the world is a huge pyramid scheme, and it is easy to bring it down, far too easy, it is just that a huge part of the world (china for instance combined with a bunch of other countries) simply dump it into the garbage bin. Now that every core technology is outsourced to those countries, one day it will be easy for chine just to dump it and ram the whole system into the ground. But there also could be some kind of reverse situation, like it happened with other industries before, the high tech stuff is outsourced, the patents run out, and voila you end up with a situation where the former outsourcers now dont have any products worthwhile, because the former workslaves now have the market and the knowledge, and to the worse they can now pay for the goods and even pay for the patents without any chance to recover unless china and others start to outsource to the US.
The whole thing is a global pyramid scheme, and I am really afraid of the downfall of this.
Patents run out, and the whole patent system crumbles like a house of cards if one region just says forget it we wont do it anymore... What the US does is build a sand castle in the hope they can move in there and have to do nothing anymore.
What they do instead is that they build the sand castle and will start to scream and cry once it is crumbled (which happens for sure if you outsource everything)
Face it the current road of the US is one towards a third world country (I guess we will see the first serious affects in about 15-20 years when the first wave of bogus patents run out) with too many laywes and business scrooges and almost no one who really still has the knowlegde and develops because all of them have been driven away, there is no future.
That only works for a few years, then the patents run out, the off shore companies have taken over the market, have their own patents, and the USA has nothing, not even the knowledge anymore.
The best way to become a third world country in no time is to rely on IP (which is a castle built in the clouds anyway without any real value behind it) and drive away the people who really want to do research and build just for pure and plain greed.
Actually no, in my case I needed something low power which I could use as a server, for that purpose the mini serves very well. (and is silent) But I as soon as I explored the OS started to use it also for my desktop purposes, and since I am on a budget I cannot really afford the more expensive ones. I am opting for the replacement route as well in the long run, currently the firewire box has to do it.
No... the some have 4200 ones, mine for instance, and the first thing I did was to move the OS to a firewire disk. The next one which I will do is, to pry the box open and dump a 7200rpm platter in there.
You know that the 64 bit 128 bit etc... game is just a pure marketing stunt, this stuff never results in more performance or better games. Heck even the old Mattel Intellivision back then was marketed as 16 bit system in a day when 8 bit systems were the norm, the console still was utter crap. The we are better because we have more bits (wherever often it is not even the processor) is a marketing ploy as old as the consoles themselves.
You forgot the appearance of the entire Star Wars cast in the Muppets show (actually that one was quite funny)
Yes, the dos virii really used to show that the authors knew the hardware, most modern virii are just the same vb script exploiting one IE hole again and again with other messages in there.
It does sound like the real problem is that he's kind of a prick. No offense. But it means that the execs are less likely to cut him slack. They kept saying in the documentary that he had a "reputation" for going over budget, which I suspect is mostly a reputation for being hard to work with.
I guess you easily can get a bad reputation in the arts sector if you make a mistake once. To my knowledge, the only movie where he went severely over budget was Münchhausen. But the reputation is still with him, although he did some movies afterwards and none went over budget. (Fear and Loathing was after Münchhausen)
As for the main Actor, I agree with you, there would have been a handful of Actors who could have done the role, Peter O'Toole probably would have been an excellent choice. Dont beat me for this but even John Clesse probably could have done the job (although he looks totally different than what people expect from a Don Quixote)
Anyway I am glad the movie was not done anyway, the story sounded to move áway to strongly from the book, which by itself still has no decent conversation into a good movie. And what could I get from the documentary, this definitely would not have been it.
Actually Münchhausen was the only movie where he significantly ran over budget, as for Lost in La Mancha, that really was bad luck, I am not director, and I agree with the backup plan, but given that the spanisch weather is very consistent at certain times in a year, it really was bad luck, in the documentary, it became clear that they tried to shift things and hold out as long as possible, but what do you want to do if you dont have a single shot, the weather washes you down the drain, and the main actor cannot do it and the investors start to visit you out of nervousness. The only thing I might be able to blame him for, is not to have a backup actor for the main protagonist.
Actually the first two were pretty awful, the third one done by the mexican guy was excellent.... (no wonder this guy did Y tu mama tambien as well, and the first two were done by a disney guy)
I highly recommend all the works of LeGuin especially the EarthSea series. (which got a really foul treatment by the SciFi channel recently)
one comparatively evolved tribe, and one un-evolved tribe... Well that sounds like England and the US :-)
Actually you brought many things up to the point. Being European but loving the good sides of america (hey I spent some time there and I know there are two sides to the country one being very good and one being really bad, I really got the shudders when Bush started the DHS. I have seen such things in the past, it is never a good idea to have an authority (although week in the beginning) which has basically military and executive and secret service power. I cannot remember one such service which ended in a good way, I however can remember following ones:
The german gestapo, which basically had similar powers the DHS aims to in the long run. (believe me the recent bill which gave them those powers in the border regions made me shudder) The eastern german STASI which coincidentally also had the same name (Staatssicherheit, which roughly can be translated into Country Security or Homeland Security if you translate it with a nationalistic sidetone)
The russian KGB in its worst times. And some others which are older (the police under the austria Metternich, which basically was the blueprint of a repressive country for modern times)
There is always the rule, give one side too much power, neglegt the principle of balance of power and you will end up in a mess in the long run. If you can find any uber authority which in the end acted on the good deeds and for the general public, then give me an example, I cannot find one in history. Things simply get a life of their own if you dont restrict them and put them under contol by a similar powerful authority.
Well lets say it that way, the orvellian thing about the kids playing thought police was triggered by the HJ and similar organisations. Although that things occurred in Sovjet russia and nazi germany, that kids were putting their own parents in, those things were not the norm, but more on the seldom side. Kids usually are not that stupid, only adults are, usually love of parents and kids to each other beats all other sidefactors. I am less afraid of the kids in such systems, than I am of the adults (especially the young ones which are the most accessible to propaganda. The whole advertising industry is based on the fact that teenagers and young adults are the most accessible to brainwashing and propaganda. After all the advertisement industry basically uses the same mechanism Goebbels used in the third reich, only the message is different.
So is kontact... kontact is the best pim currently in existence and even has a full blown groupware server behind it, porting contact would make the most sense, but is prevented by the Qt3 license which is only QPLed on Linux. Hopefully Qt4 will cause a port of the many gems kde has to offer (Koffice, Kontact and the Groupware server behind it, Konqueror and others to windows.
Totalitarism always has the same face.... No matter being it the Nazis, good ole Josef Stalin, or whatever comes along in the swinedump of history.
Yupp Icelandic republic goes back to 800 to my knowledge. It is always funny to hear the US tv propaganda of having the best working and oldest democracy. The US democracy has legalized bribe (campaign donations) in the past and is selling out to the coprorations left and right (there used to be a list which senator worked for which corporation indirectly) thus has basically becoming a plutocracy. At the current state of affairs, the best working democracies are probably currently Poland, the Tzech republic (despite the recent scandal) and still swizerland (although they sold out to a certain degree to the EU and the corporations), iceland and the other nordic countries.
Spain also again can be added to a good working democracy. But the US outside of the well working local democracy can hardly be called democracy at all. As for the age... there is no argument about it, Iceland and others had democracies long before the US had its independence war, and even some indigenous north american tribes had longer lasting better working democracies before they went under as sideeffect of the war of independence.
http://www.kevingoebel.com/library/sindfrei.html
Unfortunately that idea comes directly from Sovjet Russia and the german Hitler jugend. Actually that indeed does work to some degree, but only to some, many people who were in the HJ or similar Sovjet organizations still became nice and critical adults during adulthood, because there is always the factor that only a certain percentage of people are sheep.