No. It, like all entertainment experiences, follow the rule of the core experience. Everything else is there for that experiences' sake. And in that aspect, Star Wars was one of the biggest successes in human history. Hell, it's *decades* later, and we're still talking about it. And I bet, in some hundreds of years, if will be looked at like Beethoven or Shakespeare today. (But not because of story/aesthetics/etc, but because of the experience and the world to dive in it created.)
People here on Slashdot have a common repression of their emotional side, as being worse than their logical one. So they expect everything to have some logical explanation. Well, depending on what you call logical, I have one for you:
The room was meant to feel impressive and huge. Well, I guess you know how it felt. That was the point. Not the whys. And this is very often the case. Some movies are only about it, and make absolutely no sense, when you don't watch it with the "heart".
I, for one, love these strong impressions. They are just as important as a good story. Well, in fact, we designers of games (which are a superset of movies), are told not to look at the story/aesthetics/gameplay/technology alone, but to look at the *experience* as a whole.
And you can say what you want, and nitpick how you want, but the first Star Wars movies were some pretty damn impressive experiences. And that merchandising approach, to let people get into that world from as many angles as possible, was so successful, that... well... here we are, *still* talking about Star Wars!
True that. But *when* it lacks consistence somewhere. Even a tiny spot that you only notice in your subconsicince. Oh, when it lacks that consistence... you're fucked! Really. For example the current Star Trek movie: When he left Kirk down on a deadly planet, with a "chance" to find that base (did he have a compass and a map?), the whole thing died for me. But when he found Spock, I unintentionally loudly said "WTF??". And I got a dozen or so people around me, laughing, smiling, nodding or something, because they thought the exact same thing.:) Of course this was not enough, because if one pea-sized ball of red mass can kill a planet, of course you won't run away when someone steers a cubic meter of that mass right into some kind of temporal black hole, right?? You won't even look shocked. Noo, all cool. Nothing's going to happen, because the writer was a complete retard. ^^
Another example of this, was Mr floppy ear senator thingy (I deliberately erased its name from my brain) from Episode I.
You come from the quite possibly dumbest angle ever possible. So kudos for that.
Are you really thinking that it's to save on data transfer size, or are you drunk? It's, so you don't have to paste huge links in places where they don't fit! Like internal messaging systems of online communities. Especially those, that put a spaces in them every 20 characters or so. And it's for when you want to put it on real physical paper or tell someone over the phone, where a long link would be a nightmare.
The idea NEVER was to save bandwidth. You're just grossly hallucinating beyond belief!
Oh, and you can also submit malicious links via e-mail, or HTML, so it clearly MUST BE that it serves NO OTHER PURPOSE than to do that!
You're the biggest and most incompetent shit person I've seen this month!
Somehow, when I read "cloud computing" I always think of that scene from "Luniz - I got 5 on it", where they pass out because of the smoke inside their car, but with a large geek in a basement. And veeeery sloooowly...
And laws are defined by those with the most power, and therefore any similarity to your own values is purely coincidental.
Pirate Bay *was*, even by the laws, perfectly legal. They did not offer anything protected trough copyright. They offered unique IDs, and sources of where to get something like that. But that is also true for the catalog of a video rental store. Or a link list to an internal database of copyrighted material. If the actual *holder* (the source) gives it away without having the right do to so, *that* would have been copyright infringement. Everything else is not. Or else I could right now ask you about a movie with Jim Carrey, and where to get it. Then if you'd answer with "Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind, on Netflix", and someone there would offer me to download it without having the rights to do so, I'd sue YOU to hell and back, until you'd go to PMITAP? How about that for an argument? Wouldn't you just think "WTF?"?
But then there emerged some douches with big pockets and some judges wrapped in money in them, who got a delusional confidence in thinking something else. But this does not make TPB illegal. It makes the douches' actions illegal. And I don't think there's any difference between people blindly following the Nazis in the third Reich, and people blindly following such "laws" because they are "laws". Think for yourself, for once, would ya?
Yeah right. At that point, they simply send you a letter, showing that this is the SSN they got, and that that is your SSN, you you are that person, so q.e.d. Yes, they will actually think that that's proof, and go to court for it, if needed. Which means, you're back on square one.
Never underestimate how incredibly stupid and delusionally self-confident some people can be.
With private people, you can do even funnier things. Assume you have two different men calling you in anger, thinking you're someone else. (May happen when someone banged what they think is their girl, and they also think you're the one.) Then make each one as angry as you can, offer him to meet in the local gay neighborhood, and beat the shit out of him. At this point, you must have him thinking that he will actually beat the shit out of you. Tell them both where to meet, and that your identification is a flower in a button hole, or something as camp as possible.
Now you just have to go to a café nearby, watch them beat each other, and call the cops, saying that there is a gay couple fighting on the other side of the street. (But of course do not let the police find out that you're the caller, or who you are.)
...that will not go away. At least if it's a high-quality cable.
And that is high-speed low-ping no-radiation/no-wireless-attacks internet connections.
I can see the point for phones. But you will always have faster connections over a real cable. Especially oven an optical one. And in the future, with BluRay-quality YouTube, all shows online, and massive 100 GB game and TV show torrents, this will not go away.:)
You would love German nested sentences. You can construct infinitely long sentences with them, that literally are write-only.
Example: "Das, was das, das das, was das hat hat hat, hat das, was das, das das, was das, das das hat hat hat hat." das = that; was = what; hat = has.
Combine it with dashes, semicola(?), and other dependent clauses, and you can easily form sentences that span one or even multiple pages, and where the beginning of one sentence is nowhere even close to the end of it.
I'm simply used to writing things correctly, even with the keyboard. In all languages that I know. The good thing is that if you were good at it once, you can become good at it again, in very very short times. Something like a month. I noticed it, when I had to, because I got a job where I suddenly was surrounded by 20 French and Portuguese dudes every morning, that I had to communicate properly with. (No, my English is not perfect at the moment. It's because it's my third language, and in the summer, I just prefer to go outside and talk to real people in my native language.:)
And I always enable my spell checker only when I'm done writing something.
But you are right that you lose your trained abilities when you don't need them. That's efficiency at its best, and there is nothing wrong with it. An example of where it actually is bad, is our inability to run at least 100 miles in one run, like humans could do some 10k years ago, because of our habit, to wear shoes and to think their "assistance" would do us any good.
If I were the blogger, I'd prove my statements. If only for the fun of it.
If it isn't you could get evil: Just get a good looking guy to sleep with her (assuming that she's a married woman), then let the guy act as if he assumed her to be a hooker, and pay her. This should result in her totally flipping out... Let it happen in plain sight. It should be enough to prove that you only stated known facts.:P
But OK, I could not do that. But I would not be so stupid to state false terms without total anonymity in the first place.;)
The Pirate Bay already *was* legal. What they did now, is openly state that they themselves think it's not legal. Which would probably be the biggest failure they could possibly do.
If it weren't for their plan to try, what a bazillion of other sites tried in this exact form, where they all failed horribly without exception, and where there still are retards trying it again and again. Are they drunk? Did they learn nothing? Did they never read the news? Or is it like flies flying into an bug zapper?
Also, since when do you have to write your program/os in only one language?
Game developers mix their code all the time. C++ for the main part/glue, assembly for the tight loops and things that need speed-ups, and a (maybe compilable) scripting language like Python or Lua for, well, scripting (bots, map events, rules, etc).
I'd write an OS in Haskell for the main part, and assembly or C++ for the really low level or very speed-dependent stuff.
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I happen to think, George Lucas was a poor design choice. :)
Problem is: When they stop working, it rips you into pieces. ;)
Hey, don't insult the insane! They're not THAT desperate! :P
No. It, like all entertainment experiences, follow the rule of the core experience. Everything else is there for that experiences' sake. And in that aspect, Star Wars was one of the biggest successes in human history. Hell, it's *decades* later, and we're still talking about it. And I bet, in some hundreds of years, if will be looked at like Beethoven or Shakespeare today. (But not because of story/aesthetics/etc, but because of the experience and the world to dive in it created.)
People here on Slashdot have a common repression of their emotional side, as being worse than their logical one. So they expect everything to have some logical explanation.
Well, depending on what you call logical, I have one for you:
The room was meant to feel impressive and huge. Well, I guess you know how it felt. That was the point. Not the whys.
And this is very often the case. Some movies are only about it, and make absolutely no sense, when you don't watch it with the "heart".
I, for one, love these strong impressions. They are just as important as a good story.
Well, in fact, we designers of games (which are a superset of movies), are told not to look at the story/aesthetics/gameplay/technology alone, but to look at the *experience* as a whole.
And you can say what you want, and nitpick how you want, but the first Star Wars movies were some pretty damn impressive experiences. And that merchandising approach, to let people get into that world from as many angles as possible, was so successful, that... well... here we are, *still* talking about Star Wars!
True that. But *when* it lacks consistence somewhere. Even a tiny spot that you only notice in your subconsicince. Oh, when it lacks that consistence... you're fucked! :)
Really. For example the current Star Trek movie: When he left Kirk down on a deadly planet, with a "chance" to find that base (did he have a compass and a map?), the whole thing died for me.
But when he found Spock, I unintentionally loudly said "WTF??". And I got a dozen or so people around me, laughing, smiling, nodding or something, because they thought the exact same thing.
Of course this was not enough, because if one pea-sized ball of red mass can kill a planet, of course you won't run away when someone steers a cubic meter of that mass right into some kind of temporal black hole, right?? You won't even look shocked. Noo, all cool. Nothing's going to happen, because the writer was a complete retard. ^^
Another example of this, was Mr floppy ear senator thingy (I deliberately erased its name from my brain) from Episode I.
...posting "endorsements" from a million sock puppet blogs, comments, etc.?
I mean if they are doing it over an anonymizing network, what's stopping them?
Nah. It's only 5.46 MB/s. So it's slightly more than half of 10Base Ethernet.
You come from the quite possibly dumbest angle ever possible. So kudos for that.
Are you really thinking that it's to save on data transfer size, or are you drunk?
It's, so you don't have to paste huge links in places where they don't fit! Like internal messaging systems of online communities. Especially those, that put a spaces in them every 20 characters or so. And it's for when you want to put it on real physical paper or tell someone over the phone, where a long link would be a nightmare.
The idea NEVER was to save bandwidth. You're just grossly hallucinating beyond belief!
Oh, and you can also submit malicious links via e-mail, or HTML, so it clearly MUST BE that it serves NO OTHER PURPOSE than to do that!
You're the biggest and most incompetent shit person I've seen this month!
Somehow, when I read "cloud computing" I always think of that scene from "Luniz - I got 5 on it", where they pass out because of the smoke inside their car, but with a large geek in a basement. And veeeery sloooowly...
Maybe we should foster that association. ^^
How about a robot that throws the marines. Preferably out of your country. ^^
depends on what the variable "USA" holds, and what the functions "if" and "==" (and perhaps "()") do :P
Hey, so the old name of Captain Obvious in "Nostradamus"?
Did he also work for Fürst Bismark, and at that time, look like this?
http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/pix/danke_hauptmann.jpg
And laws are defined by those with the most power, and therefore any similarity to your own values is purely coincidental.
Pirate Bay *was*, even by the laws, perfectly legal. They did not offer anything protected trough copyright. They offered unique IDs, and sources of where to get something like that. But that is also true for the catalog of a video rental store. Or a link list to an internal database of copyrighted material. If the actual *holder* (the source) gives it away without having the right do to so, *that* would have been copyright infringement. Everything else is not.
Or else I could right now ask you about a movie with Jim Carrey, and where to get it. Then if you'd answer with "Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind, on Netflix", and someone there would offer me to download it without having the rights to do so, I'd sue YOU to hell and back, until you'd go to PMITAP? How about that for an argument? Wouldn't you just think "WTF?"?
But then there emerged some douches with big pockets and some judges wrapped in money in them, who got a delusional confidence in thinking something else. But this does not make TPB illegal. It makes the douches' actions illegal. And I don't think there's any difference between people blindly following the Nazis in the third Reich, and people blindly following such "laws" because they are "laws". Think for yourself, for once, would ya?
Yeah right. At that point, they simply send you a letter, showing that this is the SSN they got, and that that is your SSN, you you are that person, so q.e.d.
Yes, they will actually think that that's proof, and go to court for it, if needed. Which means, you're back on square one.
Never underestimate how incredibly stupid and delusionally self-confident some people can be.
With private people, you can do even funnier things.
Assume you have two different men calling you in anger, thinking you're someone else. (May happen when someone banged what they think is their girl, and they also think you're the one.)
Then make each one as angry as you can, offer him to meet in the local gay neighborhood, and beat the shit out of him. At this point, you must have him thinking that he will actually beat the shit out of you.
Tell them both where to meet, and that your identification is a flower in a button hole, or something as camp as possible.
Now you just have to go to a café nearby, watch them beat each other, and call the cops, saying that there is a gay couple fighting on the other side of the street.
(But of course do not let the police find out that you're the caller, or who you are.)
I can. I present: The *vertical* connection. Now you can stuck them in all 3 dimensions, and make your cluser actually look like one.
http://images.google.com/images?q=obama%20joker&oe=utf-8&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
No comment! :P
...that will not go away. At least if it's a high-quality cable.
And that is high-speed low-ping no-radiation/no-wireless-attacks internet connections.
I can see the point for phones. But you will always have faster connections over a real cable. Especially oven an optical one. :)
And in the future, with BluRay-quality YouTube, all shows online, and massive 100 GB game and TV show torrents, this will not go away.
You would love German nested sentences. You can construct infinitely long sentences with them, that literally are write-only.
Example: "Das, was das, das das, was das hat hat hat, hat das, was das, das das, was das, das das hat hat hat hat."
das = that; was = what; hat = has.
Combine it with dashes, semicola(?), and other dependent clauses, and you can easily form sentences that span one or even multiple pages, and where the beginning of one sentence is nowhere even close to the end of it.
I'm simply used to writing things correctly, even with the keyboard. In all languages that I know. :)
The good thing is that if you were good at it once, you can become good at it again, in very very short times. Something like a month.
I noticed it, when I had to, because I got a job where I suddenly was surrounded by 20 French and Portuguese dudes every morning, that I had to communicate properly with.
(No, my English is not perfect at the moment. It's because it's my third language, and in the summer, I just prefer to go outside and talk to real people in my native language.
And I always enable my spell checker only when I'm done writing something.
But you are right that you lose your trained abilities when you don't need them. That's efficiency at its best, and there is nothing wrong with it.
An example of where it actually is bad, is our inability to run at least 100 miles in one run, like humans could do some 10k years ago, because of our habit, to wear shoes and to think their "assistance" would do us any good.
...it isn't true. ;)
If I were the blogger, I'd prove my statements. If only for the fun of it.
If it isn't you could get evil: :P
Just get a good looking guy to sleep with her (assuming that she's a married woman), then let the guy act as if he assumed her to be a hooker, and pay her. This should result in her totally flipping out... Let it happen in plain sight. It should be enough to prove that you only stated known facts.
But OK, I could not do that. But I would not be so stupid to state false terms without total anonymity in the first place. ;)
The Pirate Bay already *was* legal. What they did now, is openly state that they themselves think it's not legal. Which would probably be the biggest failure they could possibly do.
If it weren't for their plan to try, what a bazillion of other sites tried in this exact form, where they all failed horribly without exception, and where there still are retards trying it again and again. Are they drunk? Did they learn nothing? Did they never read the news? Or is it like flies flying into an bug zapper?
Also, since when do you have to write your program/os in only one language?
Game developers mix their code all the time. C++ for the main part/glue, assembly for the tight loops and things that need speed-ups, and a (maybe compilable) scripting language like Python or Lua for, well, scripting (bots, map events, rules, etc).
I'd write an OS in Haskell for the main part, and assembly or C++ for the really low level or very speed-dependent stuff.
Nah. It's too big to fail. It will get a bailout.