Yoda appeared on a giant screen to accept the honor and spoke in his signature circuitous manner.
"Hmmm... grateful am I to this award receive. To win, I did not expect," he said. "Promise myself cry I would not."
He went on to thank supporters ranging from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas to Wookie Chewbacca, Vin Diesel, space monster Greedo and actor Steve Guttenberg.
He didn't expect it? Boy, that rendering farm and the voice actors sure must work in a hurry to produce a rendered imagine complete with voice acting in such a hurry! You'd almost think this is a huge show, a spectacle aimed at enriching those with the largest marketing/SFX budget! Almost like the gollum thing further on in the article:
Then, the emaciated Gollum clamored over to snatch the trophy from Serkis' hands.
"You're a liar and a thief," Gollum hissed. "It's mine!"
Gollum went on to deliver an expletive-filled tirade against the filmmakers, actors, MTV and audience, while Serkis stood by looking embarrassed.
Come on people, we're talking about the MTV awards here, brought to us by MTV; the epitomy of modern pop and hype culture. We're talking about something hosted by a TV station aimed at 14 year old girls who faint at the sight of $current_hip_boyband and wish to be like $cheap_spicegirls_knock_off while flooding the rest of the market with artists like $random_teen_chick and $overhyped_guy_who_looks_gay...
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Good point there; personally, I think the case is ugly as hell and that it'll be a cold day in hell I'll ever buy something like that. However, that doesn't mean others might like it, or the fact that even despite difference in taste between the person who created it and me, it's still quite a feat to make something like that. It's definitely art for sure, way better then most silly "standard plexiglass window, standard aluminium fanguard and a huge amount of standard light blue LEDs" casemods that flood the net lately. Even if you disagree with me on the fact it's art, you'll at least have to agree it's true case modding; case modding when instant window kits weren't around and all equipment can to be custom made. (As opposed to prefab cases with windows and all that.)
Have you ever been to a LAN party? Every time I go to one of these "massive lanning events" (200+ gamers) I'm stuck next to leety mc'leet's clan of anti-deoderant counter-strikers. Now throw 15,000 of these guys in a boat and add some sea sickness and you've got a biohazard.
... and a big, fat, floating target with the words "COUNTER STRIKE PLAYERS AND MP3 PIRACY AHOY! PLEASE DROP RIAA/MPAA AUTHORIZED NUCLEAR WEAPON ON FLASHY RED TARGET LOCATED ON THE FLIGHT DECK." all along the sides of the ship.
"detected strange signs of activity in the Martian soil - akin to microbes giving off gas,"
New standard for life, microbial farting! Bonus points if it reeks like hell, extra bonus points if the gas is combustible! Cookie for CBN if the microbial farts smell worse then his!
That he was indeed. Without a doubt, the works of Escher can be considered art by nearly everyone. It's good to see his works in times where anyone who can jam on a piano and/or playback is a mucisian and that throwing a bucket of paint on some cloth makes you an artist.
And referring to your sig, what the hell is wrong with being a Seth?:o(
Actually, it's quite a good idea! For use in X I mean, when Linux becomes mainstream. (About 2 months after Duke Nukem Forever is released) But think of the possibilities! Some script kiddie is trying to sound cool in his favorite cracks/scripts channel on DALnet, using excessive leet speak when all of the sudden, a dialog box like that pops up, disconnects IRC, sets a 24 hour sleep() call in init (to be removed after booting once) and reboots! Such simple joys!
If they are going to use an AMD* based computers they'll need an EXTRA wind tunnel instead to cool them.
* I got an AMD so I'm allowed to bash it:)
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Are they planning to aggressively port popular games to Linux?
How the hell does one port "aggresively"? Like this?
Programmer:COMPILE!!! COMPILE YOU WHORE!!! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I WILL MAKE DUKE3D RUN ON LINUX, YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF INTEL SHIT!!! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR PROCESSOR OUT AND PISS ALL OVER YOUR CHIPSET IF YOU DON'T COMPILE SUCCESFULLY THIS TIME!!!
If you were a leather-clad female trapped in a hovercraft with a bunch of antisocial geeks, you'd probably start to think you were God too.
Replace "in a hovercraft" with "on IRC" and it makes even more sense! Heck, you don't have to be wearing leather to be popular on IRC. Or look good. Or actually be female to be honest, as long as the general consensus agree with you on the fact you're female, you're equal to God, though God himself probably doesn't get a whole lot of "asl?"s
"Cyc knows that trees are usually outdoors, that once people die they stop buying things, and that glasses of liquid should be carried right-side up," reads a blurb on the Cyc website. Cyc can use its vast knowledge base to match natural language queries. A request for "pictures of strong, adventurous people" can connect with a relevant image such as a man climbing a cliff.
I'd consider that pretty much intelligent, compared to some people I know. Then again, some people I know can hardly be described as sentient, let alone intelligent.
(Reuters) Further research also produced an Instant Film Generation Algorithm (IFGA). The Perfect Film Formula (PFF) was then programmed into the IFGA and the scientists were delighted to see Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope produced spontaneously.
I didn't know Bad Acting was part of the Perfect Film Formula as well... *hides*
These are people who make their living by digitally date-raping whoever they can find. (And, yes, I use that word... please, I get emails about enlarging my member on a daily basis, and I'm a WOMAN, for crying out loud. At least send me breast enlargement ads instead.) They have no compunction about breaking more laws by filing a frivolous and false lawsuit in hopes that it will scare someone off.
Care for a trade then? I'm a guy and I get numerous breast enlargement spams these days. (I knew it was a bad thing to claim I'm female on those online forms years ago...) With our combined spam, I can finally have my 50 foot penis and you can have a ZZZ372 cup! (back aches included)
If you've followed the recent phenomenon of blogging at all...
No, to be honest I don't give a damn about weblogs, but I did have it forced upon me by a silly online news site aimed at geeks like me, called Slashdot. They all enforce the same shit name ("blogging") which is the most crap and annoying word, not to mention I'd sooner associate it with the art of turd-throwing with a straitjacket. Someone PLEASE make a seperate group for all those lovely stories about "blogging" so I can finally rid myself from all that crap.
If it's as cheap, revolutionairy and fast as they promise it to be, why not let it be usable on retro hardware? Simply create a whole wad of those things with extremely low densities so you can get a nice 1 or 2 gB strip of memory for 10 Euro. Just add a throttling system (enough space on the modules themselves left!) that makes it act like an equivalent memory module in mhz, so it can be set to perform like a 100mhz DIMM or like a 800mhz Rambus, at will.
And yes, if it'd work out and is real to start with, it would be a dream to work with. HDs faster then current memory... Does anyone else hear a small legion of database admins orgasming in unison at that idea? (especially if we can directly execute stuff from HD, without using memory in between)
New Redmond City, Microsoft archipelago: Only a few hours after the independance of Microsoft and the forging of their own sovereign nation, a coalition of warships and aircraft proceeded to assault and harass the Microsoft archipelago near the coast of Cuba.
"It [the attack] was overwhelming! Dozens of warships of various sizes, hundreds of aircraft, missiles, bombs... It was simply devastating!" remarked a 32 year old marine biologist, working on Cuba near the Microsoft archipelago. "On the horizon you can still see flashes and sometimes you hear the low rumble of a heavy impact or explosion. A large cloud has been rising shortly after the attack started! What's going on here anyways!?"
The US denies all responsibility for the attack, claiming the majority of US forces are hunting down three camels and an ageing donkey in Iraq who are suspected to be carrying weapons of mass destruction. However, European, Russian, Chinese and Japanese foreign ministeries have been eerily silent during the initial hours of the attack, giving no official response, despite the fact massive military movements have been reported prior to the attack.
At about 18:03 GMT, 6 hours after the first reports of the attack, a joint press-conference by European, Russian, Chinese and Japanese military and diplomatic staff in London shed some light on the recent events. "Starting at about 11:30 Greenwich mean time, our [the coalition] forces have begun their assault on the Microsoft archipelago. The Royal Navy, along with a large task force of warships from the Scandinavian peninsula have initiated a shore bombardment, backed by about 70 russian bombers based on Cuba. After about 30 minutes of intense fire, a combined assault force consisting of units from the German Wehrmacht and the Chinese People's Army have landed on all of the islands in the archipelago." as was stated by Alexander Ivanov, spokesman for the coalition. "Our forces have achieved a full and decisive victory over the Microsoft Republican Guard. About 1500 people have been taken prisoner, 30.000 reported dead by the initial bombardment. The captives will be taken to Japan and various European countries for questioning."
Concerns were raised in the UN general assembly as to why no declaration of war was sent prior to any hostile acts. These concerns were quickly dismissed as a declaration of war has been sent after all, but put on hold by Microsoft Support who then demanded a 'pay per incident' charge from the diplomatic staff. Refusal to pay for delivering a declaration of war caused Microsoft to ignore the declaration of war along with 21.894 other recent user complaints.
President George W Bush jr. has been unavailable for comment, searching for the Microsoft archipelago on a 1968 roadmap of Oregon instead.
Should have taken the class on a tour to a site with welding equipment. I had a great view of the recent eclipse through one of those welding shields or screens or whatever they are called. I also heard that staring at the eclipse by a reflection in a bucket of water would work nicely...
What happens, for example, when some group of people (in this case, a country) decides to sue the openSSL group for a flaw in their encryption that allowed credit card numbers to be stolen?
Your group of people would get laughed at, pointed at, and ridiculed while they are being told to have audited all code they were going to use before using it on production systems. If I wanted, I could read through the entire Apache source code to look for any bugs before compiling it. I can also choose not to do that, but the fact remains that I have the possibility to look over my source codes and edit them. Hence why any (new) security breaches due to Apache would largely be my own fault. Even besides that, there's nothing to sue for. If I download the source codes for Apache the Apache Software Foundation doesn't make me pay anything, nor does it offer paid support.
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He didn't expect it? Boy, that rendering farm and the voice actors sure must work in a hurry to produce a rendered imagine complete with voice acting in such a hurry! You'd almost think this is a huge show, a spectacle aimed at enriching those with the largest marketing/SFX budget! Almost like the gollum thing further on in the article:
Come on people, we're talking about the MTV awards here, brought to us by MTV; the epitomy of modern pop and hype culture. We're talking about something hosted by a TV station aimed at 14 year old girls who faint at the sight of $current_hip_boyband and wish to be like $cheap_spicegirls_knock_off while flooding the rest of the market with artists like $random_teen_chick and $overhyped_guy_who_looks_gay ...
Good point there; personally, I think the case is ugly as hell and that it'll be a cold day in hell I'll ever buy something like that. However, that doesn't mean others might like it, or the fact that even despite difference in taste between the person who created it and me, it's still quite a feat to make something like that. It's definitely art for sure, way better then most silly "standard plexiglass window, standard aluminium fanguard and a huge amount of standard light blue LEDs" casemods that flood the net lately. Even if you disagree with me on the fact it's art, you'll at least have to agree it's true case modding; case modding when instant window kits weren't around and all equipment can to be custom made. (As opposed to prefab cases with windows and all that.)
... and a big, fat, floating target with the words "COUNTER STRIKE PLAYERS AND MP3 PIRACY AHOY! PLEASE DROP RIAA/MPAA AUTHORIZED NUCLEAR WEAPON ON FLASHY RED TARGET LOCATED ON THE FLIGHT DECK." all along the sides of the ship.
Oh yes, got to love staring at a 320x240 divx for 2 or 3 hours with a friend. "This blob of pixels is Neo! ... I think..."
New standard for life, microbial farting! Bonus points if it reeks like hell, extra bonus points if the gas is combustible! Cookie for CBN if the microbial farts smell worse then his!
It keeps complaining about operation being timed out when connecting to tracker... Tracker overloaded?
That he was indeed. Without a doubt, the works of Escher can be considered art by nearly everyone. It's good to see his works in times where anyone who can jam on a piano and/or playback is a mucisian and that throwing a bucket of paint on some cloth makes you an artist.
And referring to your sig, what the hell is wrong with being a Seth? :o(
I'm his evil alter ego. No seriously, I kick fluffy little bunnies and steal lollipops from babies. Tremble before me, proletarian!
Actually, it's quite a good idea! For use in X I mean, when Linux becomes mainstream. (About 2 months after Duke Nukem Forever is released) But think of the possibilities! Some script kiddie is trying to sound cool in his favorite cracks/scripts channel on DALnet, using excessive leet speak when all of the sudden, a dialog box like that pops up, disconnects IRC, sets a 24 hour sleep() call in init (to be removed after booting once) and reboots! Such simple joys!
If they are going to use an AMD* based computers they'll need an EXTRA wind tunnel instead to cool them.
* I got an AMD so I'm allowed to bash it :)
How the hell does one port "aggresively"? Like this?
Programmer: COMPILE!!! COMPILE YOU WHORE!!! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I WILL MAKE DUKE3D RUN ON LINUX, YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF INTEL SHIT!!! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR PROCESSOR OUT AND PISS ALL OVER YOUR CHIPSET IF YOU DON'T COMPILE SUCCESFULLY THIS TIME!!!
Well, our current standard is.... that we have NO standard. Hey, at least it's a start!
Replace "in a hovercraft" with "on IRC" and it makes even more sense! Heck, you don't have to be wearing leather to be popular on IRC. Or look good. Or actually be female to be honest, as long as the general consensus agree with you on the fact you're female, you're equal to God, though God himself probably doesn't get a whole lot of "asl?"s
I'd consider that pretty much intelligent, compared to some people I know. Then again, some people I know can hardly be described as sentient, let alone intelligent.
I didn't know Bad Acting was part of the Perfect Film Formula as well... *hides*
Care for a trade then? I'm a guy and I get numerous breast enlargement spams these days. (I knew it was a bad thing to claim I'm female on those online forms years ago...) With our combined spam, I can finally have my 50 foot penis and you can have a ZZZ372 cup! (back aches included)
No, to be honest I don't give a damn about weblogs, but I did have it forced upon me by a silly online news site aimed at geeks like me, called Slashdot. They all enforce the same shit name ("blogging") which is the most crap and annoying word, not to mention I'd sooner associate it with the art of turd-throwing with a straitjacket. Someone PLEASE make a seperate group for all those lovely stories about "blogging" so I can finally rid myself from all that crap.
Speak L33T?
If it's as cheap, revolutionairy and fast as they promise it to be, why not let it be usable on retro hardware? Simply create a whole wad of those things with extremely low densities so you can get a nice 1 or 2 gB strip of memory for 10 Euro. Just add a throttling system (enough space on the modules themselves left!) that makes it act like an equivalent memory module in mhz, so it can be set to perform like a 100mhz DIMM or like a 800mhz Rambus, at will.
And yes, if it'd work out and is real to start with, it would be a dream to work with. HDs faster then current memory... Does anyone else hear a small legion of database admins orgasming in unison at that idea? (especially if we can directly execute stuff from HD, without using memory in between)
New Redmond City, Microsoft archipelago: Only a few hours after the independance of Microsoft and the forging of their own sovereign nation, a coalition of warships and aircraft proceeded to assault and harass the Microsoft archipelago near the coast of Cuba.
"It [the attack] was overwhelming! Dozens of warships of various sizes, hundreds of aircraft, missiles, bombs... It was simply devastating!" remarked a 32 year old marine biologist, working on Cuba near the Microsoft archipelago. "On the horizon you can still see flashes and sometimes you hear the low rumble of a heavy impact or explosion. A large cloud has been rising shortly after the attack started! What's going on here anyways!?"
The US denies all responsibility for the attack, claiming the majority of US forces are hunting down three camels and an ageing donkey in Iraq who are suspected to be carrying weapons of mass destruction. However, European, Russian, Chinese and Japanese foreign ministeries have been eerily silent during the initial hours of the attack, giving no official response, despite the fact massive military movements have been reported prior to the attack.
At about 18:03 GMT, 6 hours after the first reports of the attack, a joint press-conference by European, Russian, Chinese and Japanese military and diplomatic staff in London shed some light on the recent events. "Starting at about 11:30 Greenwich mean time, our [the coalition] forces have begun their assault on the Microsoft archipelago. The Royal Navy, along with a large task force of warships from the Scandinavian peninsula have initiated a shore bombardment, backed by about 70 russian bombers based on Cuba. After about 30 minutes of intense fire, a combined assault force consisting of units from the German Wehrmacht and the Chinese People's Army have landed on all of the islands in the archipelago." as was stated by Alexander Ivanov, spokesman for the coalition. "Our forces have achieved a full and decisive victory over the Microsoft Republican Guard. About 1500 people have been taken prisoner, 30.000 reported dead by the initial bombardment. The captives will be taken to Japan and various European countries for questioning."
Concerns were raised in the UN general assembly as to why no declaration of war was sent prior to any hostile acts. These concerns were quickly dismissed as a declaration of war has been sent after all, but put on hold by Microsoft Support who then demanded a 'pay per incident' charge from the diplomatic staff. Refusal to pay for delivering a declaration of war caused Microsoft to ignore the declaration of war along with 21.894 other recent user complaints.
President George W Bush jr. has been unavailable for comment, searching for the Microsoft archipelago on a 1968 roadmap of Oregon instead.
This would be allot more fun to see though...
Someone tell this person that if you don't have a clue what you're talking about it might be better to shut up instead of making a fool of yourself.
Should have taken the class on a tour to a site with welding equipment. I had a great view of the recent eclipse through one of those welding shields or screens or whatever they are called. I also heard that staring at the eclipse by a reflection in a bucket of water would work nicely...
Your group of people would get laughed at, pointed at, and ridiculed while they are being told to have audited all code they were going to use before using it on production systems. If I wanted, I could read through the entire Apache source code to look for any bugs before compiling it. I can also choose not to do that, but the fact remains that I have the possibility to look over my source codes and edit them. Hence why any (new) security breaches due to Apache would largely be my own fault. Even besides that, there's nothing to sue for. If I download the source codes for Apache the Apache Software Foundation doesn't make me pay anything, nor does it offer paid support.
Now, list the names of all the people who could use AND afford such treatments...