And we here in Europe. We the actual people. We are on your side.
If only you had the war power of the US. Then I would ask you to free us from the oppressive and illegal “government” that is the EU body. Come here. Wreck shit! You are welcome.:)
Also, be aware, that the EU “government” is not the people that live in the countries that it thinks it has control over. It’s actually pretty much the opposite. They are enemies. A treasonous conspiracy (not in the weirdo meaning, but in the legal meaning), and illegal in pretty much every country, if it weren’t for changes in laws that nobody got asked for and nobody wanted.
But you must agree, that java is still going very strong and even is dominant in some sectors.
I agree with the language stagnating. But I don’t care much, since I see it as fundamentally wrong to graft functional programming concepts on an OO / procedural language. It can only end in a Windows-ME-like mess of an inverse pyramid.
For those reasons, and because it just fits my model of thought, I started to move to Haskell. And boy did I not regret it. Like Gentoo moved me from “just a user” to someone that can solve *any* problem with the OS and being a real power user, Haskell moved me from being “just a programmer”, to being on the forefront of computer science and programming language theory. I now can write elegant functional programming in any language. Even PHP. It’s true, that the language does not matter that much, if you’re past a certain point. (Funnily, Haskell also can work as a language for.NET, and there are many Microsoft people active in its community.)
I think, in the long run, I will stop writing Java too, and never start with C#. (I loathe the ugliness of C-like languages anyway.) If only GHC (the coolest compiler/debugger I have ever seen) would support mobile phone development...
Yet another comment by someone who thinks Java is “applets in my browser”.
Java is THE dominant language for mobile phone development (96% of all phones support it, the other 4% allow it with a little precompiler), and “enterprise” server development (where is is the fastest mainstream non-C language, except for [maybe] OCaml/Haskell).
Java is not only going strong, with no decline in sight. It is dominant in many sectors.
Paraphrasing someone's very famous words: "If it ain't bust, don't fix it."
Leaving research exclusively in the hands of engineers, we would have perfectly functioning oil lamps, but no electricity. (Quote attributed to Albert Einstein.)
Can’t we just generalize it to 3 classes for every skill, and allowing users to make their own combinations, thereby allowing a giant number of freedoms with little work and general algorithms?
That’s the thing that struck me with Avatar. I did not find such “because we can” scenes. The only weird thing was, that sometimes things looked too big (or too small).
But stereo video really did fit the movie well. The first scene, inside that ship, you could really see the depth and size of that room. Which, with the added “what is this‘bottom’ of which you speak” look really made you immerse into the scene. I think most of the movie, stereo video was used how it should be used, and had a well-integrated point to it.
I hope others will follow that model. Then stereo video will become a success. Otherwise, it won’t. (And everything in between.)
It’s simple physics: With those glasses, everything has a depth position. Whether you want it or not. So even if you put the subtitles at position zero, it will still look like it’s hovering in space.
Don’t worry, I found the subtitles to be even more readable than normal 2D ones and was positively surprised.
There simply was no runtime available for a long time. But sibling commenter is right. Most modern WinMo devices do support Java. I just wrote “some”, because I knew that some didn’t support it. I did not know that it’s that well-supported nowadays. Thanks for the correction.:)
It’s stereo video. Just like stereo audio. 3D would be, if you could look at any frame from any position, rotation and depth focus. And slice away parts at will. You know. Then again, that would be 4D, because that volume has a time-dimension too.
So actually, normal movies already are 3D. Just not the dimensions you’d expect.;)
(Hey, what would happen, if you could make the time dimension the Z dimension, and then look at the volume from other directions, slicing it away differently?:D (If you then could e.g. center the frames not equally, but based on the position and orientation of the main character...:D)
1. Java is THE dominant platform if you want to program anything that works on pretty much all mobile phones on the planet. Apart from the iPhone, and some Windows Mobile phones, I don’t think there is a phone that can’t do Java. 2. In the real world, not many people care about the App Store or the iPhone. It has only 3-4% percent of the global market share, and technologically already was surpassed when it came to the market in Japan, was a novelty for about a month in most of Europe, and only in the USA has gained more than 10% for obvious reasons. Which means, others are still hugely dominant. So much in fact, that I don’t even think it’s worth targeting the iPhone platform. (I’m sorry, but if you now think I’m trolling, that’s the reality distortion bubble, created by the hype. I’m in no way hating the iPhone or anything. It has great raw power and a good UI. I’m just stating the facts as I know them from actually being in the market, and keeping up to date, because I need that to make a living. Prejudice is just stupid, and am happy to be corrected.:)
So I really see no point in yet another layer of inner-platform failure, to use JavaScript, when you already have fast Java with accelerated OpenGL, EAX-like audio support, and tons of functions. (Be aware that as much of it is accelerated, Java on mobile phones is vastly faster per raw CPU power, than on desktop VMs.)
If they can offer me all those hardware-accelerated APIs, an ability to check if the phone supports them, a fast JavaScript compiler, and 96% of all phones of the world having it pre-installed, I might consider writing for their platform.;)
You know the “equality” thing has shot way over its target, when women are told to somehow feel the need to get into jobs that most of them don’t like (no offense to those who do like it:), to follow some purely male ideals of what resembles a high-status job.
I think it’s not equality that is fucked up anymore. (Except for some old assholes in high positions.) It’s that true female values/interests are still seen as something “lower”.
Ask a woman what she *really* wants to do. What she dreams of. The goals in her life. Then filter out the society-imposed expectations, that she does not really want.
After that, you will find, that for nearly all women, becoming a great programmer is one of the very least things she would ever want to do. Most women would I know hate doing programming and math, etc.
The things most women really want to do, are somehow seen as “low-status” in society. And that is what is wrong.
But what strikes me most, is that, independent from the genders, raising a child, is never seen as something special that deserves respect and payment. It should be the most important, best payed, and most prestigious job in the whole world! After all, it actually IS the most important and hard job of all! And you can’t even quit! (Believe it or not, some people actually like having a child. How weird is that. </sarcasm>)
There’s one thing though: I saw it. In 3D (well, actually it’s stereo video). And if there is one single thing to say, then: If you see it, you MUST see it in 3D! I’d go so far, as to say, without 3D, it’s a completely different movie, and there’s no point in watching it any ruining everything that way.
Well, this was the first time I wasn’t checked for any camera. With a sixpack of pepsi, some sweets and chips in my bag. *fat grin*
Because: There’s no point in preventing it to be filmed, unless you got a camera that has two properly polarized lenses. (Actually, one polarized filter suffices. Thehehee...)
(I don’t get why anyone would ruin the whole experience, by watching some crappy cammed film with a mic recording, anyway. I even know people, who thought the movie was crap, solely because of them watching it that way.)
But instead, kumbaya-singing treehugger overkill in smurf land prevented me from enjoying what was otherwise an extremely impressive piece of film.
Q: How do you know that there is waayyyy too much of something in a movie? A: If even the main character in the freakin movie complains about it about a quarter in, but it doesn’t stop anyway, until the end.
One definitely sees that it’s the late realization of the dream of a 13 year old Cameron (which it is, according to Sigourney Weaver). In a way it’s like Star Wars Episode I. With parts of the most bombastic Star Wars in-between.
But I’d say the FX/VR is a whole new league. (Maybe because of the 3D and actors acting an an augmented reality suit.)
Around my friends “Hollywood“ already is a term, used to put a bad association onto something. It often is used synonymous to “plastic fantastic”. We try to avoid anything too close to that, out of experience.
I mean things like Scooby Doo, Hellboy, G.I. Joe, Fantastic Four, and everything targeted to young girls. Those really-low-level-humor movies, with bad masks, belly-laugh toilet humor, etc also belong there.
Of course there are still great things coming from Hollywood. So it’s really more the “mainstream trash“ that we avoid. The Britney Spears of movies.
Of course, there is the other extreme, with “artsy” movies, that really are just bad movies, and lack the essential “this is great” of good art.
But in there between, there still are some highlights. Like Inglorious Basterds, Avatar*, WALL-E, Idiocracy, or back then, Fight Club and Matrix. Although I agree, that the number of new great movies has gotten really really small.
But hey, they make more money than ever before, according to their own numbers.
___ * Seen yesterday in 3D. Bombastic, but too treehuggingly gay. But very impressive.
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And we here in Europe. We the actual people. We are on your side.
If only you had the war power of the US. Then I would ask you to free us from the oppressive and illegal “government” that is the EU body. Come here. Wreck shit! You are welcome. :)
FUCK THE EU!
Tell them to GTFO your laws.
They can’d demand shit from you anyway. :)
Also, be aware, that the EU “government” is not the people that live in the countries that it thinks it has control over. It’s actually pretty much the opposite. They are enemies. A treasonous conspiracy (not in the weirdo meaning, but in the legal meaning), and illegal in pretty much every country, if it weren’t for changes in laws that nobody got asked for and nobody wanted.
But you must agree, that java is still going very strong and even is dominant in some sectors.
I agree with the language stagnating. But I don’t care much, since I see it as fundamentally wrong to graft functional programming concepts on an OO / procedural language. It can only end in a Windows-ME-like mess of an inverse pyramid.
For those reasons, and because it just fits my model of thought, I started to move to Haskell. And boy did I not regret it. .NET, and there are many Microsoft people active in its community.)
Like Gentoo moved me from “just a user” to someone that can solve *any* problem with the OS and being a real power user, Haskell moved me from being “just a programmer”, to being on the forefront of computer science and programming language theory.
I now can write elegant functional programming in any language. Even PHP. It’s true, that the language does not matter that much, if you’re past a certain point.
(Funnily, Haskell also can work as a language for
I think, in the long run, I will stop writing Java too, and never start with C#. (I loathe the ugliness of C-like languages anyway.)
If only GHC (the coolest compiler/debugger I have ever seen) would support mobile phone development...
Yet another comment by someone who thinks Java is “applets in my browser”.
Java is THE dominant language for mobile phone development (96% of all phones support it, the other 4% allow it with a little precompiler), and “enterprise” server development (where is is the fastest mainstream non-C language, except for [maybe] OCaml/Haskell).
Java is not only going strong, with no decline in sight. It is dominant in many sectors.
What is .NET? ;)
I think ‘terameter’ (or Tm in short) sounds cool.
I think we should start to expect from others, to know, what a Tm, a Gm, a Pm, etc, are. I will certainly, from now on. :)
Paraphrasing someone's very famous words: "If it ain't bust, don't fix it."
Leaving research exclusively in the hands of engineers, we would have perfectly functioning oil lamps, but no electricity.
(Quote attributed to Albert Einstein.)
Isn’t that just another skill?
Can’t we just generalize it to 3 classes for every skill, and allowing users to make their own combinations, thereby allowing a giant number of freedoms with little work and general algorithms?
Isn’t this already done in pretty much every RPG?
Or intelligent life on earth! Now that would be serious bullshit! ^^
Your friendly dimensional overlord.
About Drake’s equation: Obligatory xkcd.
Looked at the sun trough a telescope, have we? :D
That’s the thing that struck me with Avatar. I did not find such “because we can” scenes. The only weird thing was, that sometimes things looked too big (or too small).
But stereo video really did fit the movie well. The first scene, inside that ship, you could really see the depth and size of that room. Which, with the added “what is this‘bottom’ of which you speak” look really made you immerse into the scene. I think most of the movie, stereo video was used how it should be used, and had a well-integrated point to it.
I hope others will follow that model. Then stereo video will become a success.
Otherwise, it won’t. (And everything in between.)
It’s not a question of “needing” them. :)
It’s simple physics: With those glasses, everything has a depth position. Whether you want it or not. So even if you put the subtitles at position zero, it will still look like it’s hovering in space.
Don’t worry, I found the subtitles to be even more readable than normal 2D ones and was positively surprised.
There simply was no runtime available for a long time. But sibling commenter is right. Most modern WinMo devices do support Java. I just wrote “some”, because I knew that some didn’t support it. I did not know that it’s that well-supported nowadays. Thanks for the correction. :)
It’s stereo video. Just like stereo audio.
3D would be, if you could look at any frame from any position, rotation and depth focus. And slice away parts at will. You know. Then again, that would be 4D, because that volume has a time-dimension too.
So actually, normal movies already are 3D. Just not the dimensions you’d expect. ;)
(Hey, what would happen, if you could make the time dimension the Z dimension, and then look at the volume from other directions, slicing it away differently? :D :D)
(If you then could e.g. center the frames not equally, but based on the position and orientation of the main character...
people are willing to kill themselves and civilians in hope that their god's will be done
As long as they don’t kill others because of it, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature... of natural selection. :)
Two things, my friend:
1. Java is THE dominant platform if you want to program anything that works on pretty much all mobile phones on the planet. Apart from the iPhone, and some Windows Mobile phones, I don’t think there is a phone that can’t do Java. :)
2. In the real world, not many people care about the App Store or the iPhone. It has only 3-4% percent of the global market share, and technologically already was surpassed when it came to the market in Japan, was a novelty for about a month in most of Europe, and only in the USA has gained more than 10% for obvious reasons. Which means, others are still hugely dominant. So much in fact, that I don’t even think it’s worth targeting the iPhone platform. (I’m sorry, but if you now think I’m trolling, that’s the reality distortion bubble, created by the hype. I’m in no way hating the iPhone or anything. It has great raw power and a good UI. I’m just stating the facts as I know them from actually being in the market, and keeping up to date, because I need that to make a living. Prejudice is just stupid, and am happy to be corrected.
So I really see no point in yet another layer of inner-platform failure, to use JavaScript, when you already have fast Java with accelerated OpenGL, EAX-like audio support, and tons of functions. (Be aware that as much of it is accelerated, Java on mobile phones is vastly faster per raw CPU power, than on desktop VMs.)
If they can offer me all those hardware-accelerated APIs, an ability to check if the phone supports them, a fast JavaScript compiler, and 96% of all phones of the world having it pre-installed, I might consider writing for their platform. ;)
News at 11.
You know the “equality” thing has shot way over its target, when women are told to somehow feel the need to get into jobs that most of them don’t like (no offense to those who do like it :), to follow some purely male ideals of what resembles a high-status job.
I think it’s not equality that is fucked up anymore. (Except for some old assholes in high positions.)
It’s that true female values/interests are still seen as something “lower”.
Ask a woman what she *really* wants to do. What she dreams of. The goals in her life.
Then filter out the society-imposed expectations, that she does not really want.
After that, you will find, that for nearly all women, becoming a great programmer is one of the very least things she would ever want to do. Most women would I know hate doing programming and math, etc.
The things most women really want to do, are somehow seen as “low-status” in society. And that is what is wrong.
But what strikes me most, is that, independent from the genders, raising a child, is never seen as something special that deserves respect and payment. It should be the most important, best payed, and most prestigious job in the whole world!
After all, it actually IS the most important and hard job of all! And you can’t even quit!
(Believe it or not, some people actually like having a child. How weird is that. </sarcasm>)
Ok. Just my two cents.
There’s one thing though: I saw it. In 3D (well, actually it’s stereo video). And if there is one single thing to say, then: If you see it, you MUST see it in 3D! I’d go so far, as to say, without 3D, it’s a completely different movie, and there’s no point in watching it any ruining everything that way.
It’s like full THX glory against... mono sound.
Well, this was the first time I wasn’t checked for any camera. With a sixpack of pepsi, some sweets and chips in my bag. *fat grin*
Because: There’s no point in preventing it to be filmed, unless you got a camera that has two properly polarized lenses. (Actually, one polarized filter suffices. Thehehee...)
(I don’t get why anyone would ruin the whole experience, by watching some crappy cammed film with a mic recording, anyway. I even know people, who thought the movie was crap, solely because of them watching it that way.)
I saw in in full 3D and THX glory yesterday.
But instead, kumbaya-singing treehugger overkill in smurf land prevented me from enjoying what was otherwise an extremely impressive piece of film.
Q: How do you know that there is waayyyy too much of something in a movie?
A: If even the main character in the freakin movie complains about it about a quarter in, but it doesn’t stop anyway, until the end.
One definitely sees that it’s the late realization of the dream of a 13 year old Cameron (which it is, according to Sigourney Weaver). In a way it’s like Star Wars Episode I. With parts of the most bombastic Star Wars in-between.
But I’d say the FX/VR is a whole new league. (Maybe because of the 3D and actors acting an an augmented reality suit.)
A document was found, that showed that Hitler promised not to attack other countries and leave the Jews alone.
Also the pope just revealed that he had a phone call with the devil, who promised not to take away your soul, if you sold it to him.
And now for something completely different... THE LARCH! ... a gourmet tree, and fine dam material.
Thank you for watching otter news!
P.S.: And you thought it was a typo... Ha! ^^
where Comcast's feeds are the rotten wormy apples.
No shit? ^^
On the other hand: Why do you insult rotten wormy apples?
Around my friends “Hollywood“ already is a term, used to put a bad association onto something. It often is used synonymous to “plastic fantastic”. We try to avoid anything too close to that, out of experience.
I mean things like Scooby Doo, Hellboy, G.I. Joe, Fantastic Four, and everything targeted to young girls. Those really-low-level-humor movies, with bad masks, belly-laugh toilet humor, etc also belong there.
Of course there are still great things coming from Hollywood. So it’s really more the “mainstream trash“ that we avoid. The Britney Spears of movies.
Of course, there is the other extreme, with “artsy” movies, that really are just bad movies, and lack the essential “this is great” of good art.
But in there between, there still are some highlights. Like Inglorious Basterds, Avatar*, WALL-E, Idiocracy, or back then, Fight Club and Matrix. Although I agree, that the number of new great movies has gotten really really small.
But hey, they make more money than ever before, according to their own numbers.
___
* Seen yesterday in 3D. Bombastic, but too treehuggingly gay. But very impressive.
If you’re so influencable... then why don’t you come over and I’ll show you my beautiful pendulum here? :D