Score: 4??? FOUR?!?!
This poster is obviously a complete moron. They don't even store the characters on the client's computer computer, they store them on their own servers. His whole post is totally irrelevant and useless.
I feel there are some inherent problems with movie criticism.
The problem is that most people who review things are the very people who seem to have the most hang ups about that thing. This makes their reviews worthless to the rest of us who simply enjoy watching movies or reading books. So Mr. Moviereviewerman, you think Nemesis had a "derivative, punch-the-keyboard plot." You think it was "crude, but occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, merely for its sheer ridiculousness." You think that a movie like Nemesis is just too far below your standards. Well I bet you twenty bucks you have a painting in your house that you bought because it matched your couch, how pedestrian.
And how do you really know that they're "working" until you've both
1) Seen all 3 movies
2) Read all 3 books?
You might get to RotK and suddenlly find yourself out of your league. Or maybe you're getting a passable sense of what's going on but you could be much better off having read the books.
Trollish posting history?? I have positive karma and only ONE comment of mine has ever been modded to -1. Just because I don't just into a discussion fast enough to get modded often doesn't mean I'm a "sociopathic wacko."
This thread, for example, will never see the light of another mod point.
sigh, gg me.
Its actually a DIFFERENT crackpot attempt to make an invisibility cloak, my bad. In fact, kudos to the submitter for using the term "optical camoulage" instead of "cloak of invisibility."
That's because ITS FROM GHOST IN THE SHELL
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Look at the page again. Scroll to the bottom:
Publications
M. Shiro, Ghost in the Shell, Kodansya, 1991
M. Inami, N. Kawakami, D. Sekiguchi, Y. Yanagida, T. Maeda and S. Tachi, Visuo-Haptic Display Using Head-Mounted Projector, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, pp.233-240, 2000(vr2000.pdf(350k))
M. Inami, N. Kawakami, Y. Yanagida, T. Maeda and S. Tachi, Method and Device for Providing Information, US PAT. 6,341,869 , 2002
I'm not sure if that means that Ghost In the Shell was the inspiration or an actual source or what... but clearly the connection is not accidental.
gg, try to look at the whole page next time.
A first in Slashdot history...
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Not only have the editors forgotten that this has already been on Slashdot, apparently, the wonderful community hasn't noticed yet either.
Vivek Kulkarni, Information secretary of Karnataka, India:
"We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own."
lol
Or, as in they say in poorly written articles...
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EVERYTHING WITH MASS WARPS SPACE.
The more massive it is, the more it warps space. Black holes warp space so much it "tears," for lack of a better term. Two black holes combining into one huge black hole isn't going to do anything that they wouldn't do otherwise.
I feel compelled to respond since you're addressing my post.:)
I made several points you didn't address at all.
1. Why is digital money good? You say that digital money companies need to make a product and market it. WHAT PRODUCT COULD THEY POSSIBLY OFFER ME? I have a bank and I have paypal. I have never run into a situation where some kind of money service I needed wasn't available through one of those 2 institutions.
2. Even Paypal has security problems. Banks don't, end of story.
Your post makes no sense. I said: Digital money is not useful to me. You said: Digital money companies need to advertise more.
You don't explain why I should actually WANT digital money.
"When digital money companies start talking about what the customer gets out of it, then we'll get somewhere."
Again:
1)WHAT DOES THE CUSTOMER GET OUT OF IT?
2)Where are we trying to "go?" What is this "somewhere" that we're trying to get to?
Just because it's "digital" doesn't mean it's better or even good or useful.
"Digital money should be a reality by now."
Oh really? Why is that? What does this digital money do that my regular money doesn't?
I don't believe any digital claims of security anyway. My physical money is in my wallet and you'd have to hack ME to get it. Banks have physical money SOMEWHERE, and I'm pretty sure it's safer than digital money. Even if the bank gets "hacked" I have plenty of documents to show the bank that they're wrong.
On the flip side, consider Paypal...
It comes from an era where almost only intelligent people used computers, and was very succesful in those times. Games were dumbed down during the nineties
Careful, you're about to evoke a very specific, very ill-remembered Roberta Williams quote...
Nethack is different from most other "dungeon crawls" in that it is about content and strategy, instead of action and eye candy. There are hundreds of different items in Nethack, some magical, some mundane, all with some kind of use. Any troubling situation you find yourself can can be solved various ways, and no two solutions will yield the same outcome.
The game leaves a lot of room open for play style; try playing Barbarian, then try Ranger or (if you're a masochist) Tourist.
If you want more specific, in-depth information about Nethack (including some spoilers about dungeon depth, as you asked) then go to List of Nethack Spoilers which contains A LOT of information about Nethack.
The other great thing about Nethack is that it's open-source, which should automatically get it kudos with most of the people here.:p
"Thanks to movies and television series such as Star Trek"
I wouldn't exactly blame Star Trek or TNG, since they both take place centuries in the future...
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Score: 4??? FOUR?!?! This poster is obviously a complete moron. They don't even store the characters on the client's computer computer, they store them on their own servers. His whole post is totally irrelevant and useless.
Actually he probably has a bot that does it for him.
I feel there are some inherent problems with movie criticism. The problem is that most people who review things are the very people who seem to have the most hang ups about that thing. This makes their reviews worthless to the rest of us who simply enjoy watching movies or reading books. So Mr. Moviereviewerman, you think Nemesis had a "derivative, punch-the-keyboard plot." You think it was "crude, but occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, merely for its sheer ridiculousness." You think that a movie like Nemesis is just too far below your standards. Well I bet you twenty bucks you have a painting in your house that you bought because it matched your couch, how pedestrian.
The editor doesn't write the comments, jackass.
Those are created by user who submits the article.
but for the life of me, I can't figure out what in the world it is. Someone do some research and figure out what the hell is going on.
And how do you really know that they're "working" until you've both 1) Seen all 3 movies 2) Read all 3 books? You might get to RotK and suddenlly find yourself out of your league. Or maybe you're getting a passable sense of what's going on but you could be much better off having read the books.
Trollish posting history?? I have positive karma and only ONE comment of mine has ever been modded to -1. Just because I don't just into a discussion fast enough to get modded often doesn't mean I'm a "sociopathic wacko." This thread, for example, will never see the light of another mod point.
And what they are are adaptations of the books...
My first thought when I read the headline was "oh, gg, slashdot has been h4xxor3d."
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. I wish I had some mod points for you right now.
sigh, gg me. Its actually a DIFFERENT crackpot attempt to make an invisibility cloak, my bad. In fact, kudos to the submitter for using the term "optical camoulage" instead of "cloak of invisibility."
Publications
M. Shiro, Ghost in the Shell, Kodansya, 1991
M. Inami, N. Kawakami, D. Sekiguchi, Y. Yanagida, T. Maeda and S. Tachi, Visuo-Haptic Display Using Head-Mounted Projector, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, pp.233-240, 2000(vr2000.pdf(350k))
M. Inami, N. Kawakami, Y. Yanagida, T. Maeda and S. Tachi, Method and Device for Providing Information, US PAT. 6,341,869 , 2002
I'm not sure if that means that Ghost In the Shell was the inspiration or an actual source or what... but clearly the connection is not accidental.
gg, try to look at the whole page next time.
Not only have the editors forgotten that this has already been on Slashdot, apparently, the wonderful community hasn't noticed yet either.
Vivek Kulkarni, Information secretary of Karnataka, India: "We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." lol
EVERYTHING WITH MASS WARPS SPACE. The more massive it is, the more it warps space. Black holes warp space so much it "tears," for lack of a better term. Two black holes combining into one huge black hole isn't going to do anything that they wouldn't do otherwise.
I made several points you didn't address at all.
1. Why is digital money good? You say that digital money companies need to make a product and market it. WHAT PRODUCT COULD THEY POSSIBLY OFFER ME? I have a bank and I have paypal. I have never run into a situation where some kind of money service I needed wasn't available through one of those 2 institutions.
2. Even Paypal has security problems. Banks don't, end of story.
Your post makes no sense.
I said: Digital money is not useful to me.
You said: Digital money companies need to advertise more.
You don't explain why I should actually WANT digital money.
"When digital money companies start talking about what the customer gets out of it, then we'll get somewhere."
Again:
1)WHAT DOES THE CUSTOMER GET OUT OF IT?
2)Where are we trying to "go?" What is this "somewhere" that we're trying to get to?
Just because it's "digital" doesn't mean it's better or even good or useful.
"Digital money should be a reality by now." Oh really? Why is that? What does this digital money do that my regular money doesn't? I don't believe any digital claims of security anyway. My physical money is in my wallet and you'd have to hack ME to get it. Banks have physical money SOMEWHERE, and I'm pretty sure it's safer than digital money. Even if the bank gets "hacked" I have plenty of documents to show the bank that they're wrong. On the flip side, consider Paypal...
Careful, you're about to evoke a very specific, very ill-remembered Roberta Williams quote...
If you want more specific, in-depth information about Nethack (including some spoilers about dungeon depth, as you asked) then go to List of Nethack Spoilers which contains A LOT of information about Nethack. The other great thing about Nethack is that it's open-source, which should automatically get it kudos with most of the people here. :p
"Thanks to movies and television series such as Star Trek" I wouldn't exactly blame Star Trek or TNG, since they both take place centuries in the future...
Sorry, I should have clarified, I was talking about Farscape. And then there was Space: Above and Beyond.
The best science fiction shows on television never seem to make it... I suppose I just have an odder taste than most.
get phone calls from spammers anyway.
Slashdotted already?? Or do the editors even check the links?