Oh, I loved L&S, and thought it was one of the best Disney movies in years. It wasn't forumlaic or have any of the cheezy elements that have plagued Disney for so long.
Interestingly, many of the animators for Lilo and Stitch were Hayao Miyazaki fans. Consider Nani going to 'Kiki's Coffee Hut' to look for a job (Kiki's Delivery Service), the raindrops scene (My Neighbour Totoro), etc...
Something that I wish would be incorporated in American animation is a wish that more of American animation said something about us.
We need more artists working in american animation. Currently, most (not all) american animation are products. The audience is carefully researched to elicit requirements (current trends, popular preferences) for the product, the film is designed to meet certain design specifications, and once the design is complete, the film is implemented (brute animation work). Then comes testing and bugfixes (this scene isn't quite right, let's fix it), and finally launching of the product and the associated marketing, promotional materials, mcdonald's toys etc.
Not to say this doesn't happen in other animation (take Pokemon for example).
Seeing as how the average workplace is more like high school than high school actually was,
Yeah, what the HELL is with that? When I went to college, I thought that I could leave all that immature stuff behind, and that was true (mostly). But when I started my first job, I was taken aback by the level of immaturity in the workplace - it just didn't make sense to me. I mean, from a naive point of view, if this stuff was left behind in highschool, and diminished during college, then WHY do these people (most of which are older than college students, and thus further along in their lives, implying wisdom, maturity, etc.) act like 15-18 year olds? And by immaturity, I mean stuff like name-calling, bullying, talking behind others' backs, this whole "I'm better than you, neener neener" attitude, whining ("this is too hard, I don't wanna do it"), laziness, obnoxious "Girl Power!!" attitude (it was pretty much accepted by college that neither girls nor boys should have special privileges or treatment), etc.
The trouble is that the 2.4GHz spectrum is unregulated. The college has no right to tell you that you can't use a legally licensed device in the 2.4GHz spectrum in the apartment.
Do the apartments belong to the college? If so, unregulated or not, I don't see how this is any different than not allowing legally licensed pets in the apartment.
OnDemand seems to be lower quality (picture wise and sound wise) than most DVDs though. Particularly if the digital cable box is not hooked up for 5.1 channel dolby digital output.
I take it you have never had a user call up, 300 miles away " all my text is gone ".
No, I have worked at a call center before for a few months, and there was nothing like that. Most likely because:
a) The users have better things to do than change their font color
b) If they do change it, I think as normally functioning human beings they would i) not change it to the same as the background color, but if they do, ii) realize the most likely cause of the problem when they hit apply
Hell, they tune the engine output acoustics on cars so that sports cars give a nice 'growl' while family cars have a subjectively quieter engine sound.
Exactly - in the consumer automobile world, image/feel/sound is just as important (if not more) as performance.
It would be a useful feature of windows if they lost contrast as they receeded to the desktop.
That would be kind of problematic if you still want to read text off something a few layers deep. I think the shadows concept is a good compromise, as it still gives a good illusion of depth, while not reducing readability of lower windows.
Surprisingly, I find that shadows actually give a sense of less clutterness. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the enhanced distinction in the Z dimension that makes it seem like things just have more "room" (i.e. they seem farther apart from each other than before).
one thing I've learned observing which software gets adopted and which does not, its that polish matters.
Exactly. Just like in the automobile world, polish matters, and can often make or break a deal. A lot of cars have "unneccesary bloat" (weight) which affects performance. But things like sound insulation, vibration reduction measures, and bells and whistles add to the overall "feel" of the car. Many manufacturers have admitted to paying particular attention to the sound made when closing the car door. They deliberately fine-tune the acoustics so that closing the door makes a nice, reassuring "thud", and deliberately fine-tune the springs and hinges on the door to make it feel "heavy" and "solid", when in fact, they have not actually changed the door structure itself. Look and feel plays an important role (consciously or subconsciously) in people's buying decisions.
But tahts just me coming from the administration viewpoint..
Of course an administrator doesn't care - they shouldn't care either. Eye-candy has zero affect on administration.
As a user, some will care (for good reason), and others won't (for good reason). Some people appreciate small details in car interiors such as knobs with rubberized feel, some don't. Some want their cars to "just work" and take them from A to B, some want more than that. Others sacrifice "just work" (reliability) for luxury (think Mercedes and their reliability problems) or high-end performance (think of driving a Ferrari on a bumpy side street).
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The gold standard is better than fiat money for a number of reasons, principally that the powers that be being unable to accellerate the princing presses, and thus create monetary inflation (empoverishing all in the process).
Not sure if I agree with that, but that doesn't really address counterfeiting anyways, unless you consider the government capable of counterfeiting.
Plus, from what this story, and a good deal of other experince tells us, paper money can always be faked, sometimes quite easily.
It can be faked, but the whole reason counterfeit bills are found is because they weren't perfect fakes - just good enough to pass the average eye inspection.
Gold helps because it can be acid tested (acid resistance), it can be wighted (it is very heavy), and it is fairly hard when not 24-carat pure (the bite test).
But paper money can be tested in similar ways as well - they were designed with numerous tests and features built in. However, the average person does not do the tests or check for the features. Is acid testing, weighing on a scale, or biting (not sure how easy that would be to fake) more convenient than checking for features on paper money? If it isn't, I still don't see the advantage of gold over paper (in terms of preventing counterfeits).
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The Gold standard. When money is gold, you can't fake it.
Why is that any better than paper currency? Modern paper bills are hard enough to fake. If we really wanted to, we could check every bill we received for all the anti-counterfeit measures and features, to be (reasonably) certain we are not receiving counterfeit money. How does gold help with any of this?
I don't know about you, but the last non-digital typewriter I've seen was in the 80's. All typewriters used in companies today have a display and store the text in not-so-small memory before you press that 'print' button - exactly for the reason you stated
Actually I was under the impression those were called "word processors" or something - I'm not sure.
I actually cranked out a typewriter the other day to cut down on distractions, and I found it did work.
With no instant distractions -/. springs to mind - I was able to concentrate on the task at hand much more effectively.
Until you proofread your work and find out that you need to add a paragraph on page 3 of 100, changing the pagination for every subsequent page.
Standing up to them will take money. They can drag out the court case for a long time, running up the legal bills to the point where the other side has to quit.
I seriously think there is something wrong with the legal system if that is the case. Shouldn't both sides have to pay any legal bills *only* after a decision has been made the case settled? That way a non-guilty defendent would actually not be afraid to *defend* him/herself.
You aren't scared that you might be punished (your ISP cuts the Internet access, police confiscates your computer, legal fees start piling up, you'll have to settle out of court or go banckrupt...) even if you're not guilty and there's no real evidence against you, just on some third-rate AIs word ? I would be, were I an American...
How can you be punished if you're not guilty? Even if you are wrongly punished, you would receive compensation. I really don't believe that you need to worry about being a law-abiding citizen. If you do, then there is *really* something wrong with the country.
Here is an idea for a simple user interface for beginners: instead of providing the user with a desktop, why not provide a simple menu with the following options?
That'll work for the first 3 days or so for the beginner, and many OEMs (IBM personal systems comes to mind) used to do just that - on startup, display a custom menu with a list, or selection of tasks. However all that seems to break down when you start installing applications, and it doesn't provide an easy transition to a "normal" desktop.
The article also says that cell use may still be banned during landings just to be safe.
Frankly I think they should ban it anyways during landings - it's not like anyone *has* to be on the phone during that *exact* time that they're landing.
Regardless, Lenin, Mao, Marx, etc. would probably not consider current China (PRC) communist. If communism to you means a socialist state controlled by one party of elites and the military interactive in the market economy, then yes it is. Otherwise, I wouldn't so easily label it.
It's hard to give a name to *any* economic or governmental system, because the systems in any country are constantly evolving and adapting to both world and internal situations.
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Interestingly, many of the animators for Lilo and Stitch were Hayao Miyazaki fans. Consider Nani going to 'Kiki's Coffee Hut' to look for a job (Kiki's Delivery Service), the raindrops scene (My Neighbour Totoro), etc...
We need more artists working in american animation. Currently, most (not all) american animation are products. The audience is carefully researched to elicit requirements (current trends, popular preferences) for the product, the film is designed to meet certain design specifications, and once the design is complete, the film is implemented (brute animation work). Then comes testing and bugfixes (this scene isn't quite right, let's fix it), and finally launching of the product and the associated marketing, promotional materials, mcdonald's toys etc.
Not to say this doesn't happen in other animation (take Pokemon for example).
Or Disney's Atlantis, for example. I personally think this is currently a much better use of CG than creating "realistic" movies.
I don't know, with some of the stuff people have suggested doing in this discussion, I'm not sure if I would want to eat those bagels or doughnuts...
Yeah, what the HELL is with that? When I went to college, I thought that I could leave all that immature stuff behind, and that was true (mostly). But when I started my first job, I was taken aback by the level of immaturity in the workplace - it just didn't make sense to me. I mean, from a naive point of view, if this stuff was left behind in highschool, and diminished during college, then WHY do these people (most of which are older than college students, and thus further along in their lives, implying wisdom, maturity, etc.) act like 15-18 year olds? And by immaturity, I mean stuff like name-calling, bullying, talking behind others' backs, this whole "I'm better than you, neener neener" attitude, whining ("this is too hard, I don't wanna do it"), laziness, obnoxious "Girl Power!!" attitude (it was pretty much accepted by college that neither girls nor boys should have special privileges or treatment), etc.
Does anyone have a reasonable explanation?
Do the apartments belong to the college? If so, unregulated or not, I don't see how this is any different than not allowing legally licensed pets in the apartment.
OnDemand seems to be lower quality (picture wise and sound wise) than most DVDs though. Particularly if the digital cable box is not hooked up for 5.1 channel dolby digital output.
No, I have worked at a call center before for a few months, and there was nothing like that. Most likely because:
a) The users have better things to do than change their font color
b) If they do change it, I think as normally functioning human beings they would i) not change it to the same as the background color, but if they do, ii) realize the most likely cause of the problem when they hit apply
I found AVAST to use much more resources than AVG, however.
Exactly - in the consumer automobile world, image/feel/sound is just as important (if not more) as performance.
Interesting enough, Apple does a similar thing as well, although the shadows on the bottom and right are slightly larger (but only slightly).
That would be kind of problematic if you still want to read text off something a few layers deep. I think the shadows concept is a good compromise, as it still gives a good illusion of depth, while not reducing readability of lower windows.
Surprisingly, I find that shadows actually give a sense of less clutterness. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the enhanced distinction in the Z dimension that makes it seem like things just have more "room" (i.e. they seem farther apart from each other than before).
Exactly. Just like in the automobile world, polish matters, and can often make or break a deal. A lot of cars have "unneccesary bloat" (weight) which affects performance. But things like sound insulation, vibration reduction measures, and bells and whistles add to the overall "feel" of the car. Many manufacturers have admitted to paying particular attention to the sound made when closing the car door. They deliberately fine-tune the acoustics so that closing the door makes a nice, reassuring "thud", and deliberately fine-tune the springs and hinges on the door to make it feel "heavy" and "solid", when in fact, they have not actually changed the door structure itself. Look and feel plays an important role (consciously or subconsciously) in people's buying decisions.
Of course an administrator doesn't care - they shouldn't care either. Eye-candy has zero affect on administration.
As a user, some will care (for good reason), and others won't (for good reason). Some people appreciate small details in car interiors such as knobs with rubberized feel, some don't. Some want their cars to "just work" and take them from A to B, some want more than that. Others sacrifice "just work" (reliability) for luxury (think Mercedes and their reliability problems) or high-end performance (think of driving a Ferrari on a bumpy side street).
Not sure if I agree with that, but that doesn't really address counterfeiting anyways, unless you consider the government capable of counterfeiting.
Plus, from what this story, and a good deal of other experince tells us, paper money can always be faked, sometimes quite easily.
It can be faked, but the whole reason counterfeit bills are found is because they weren't perfect fakes - just good enough to pass the average eye inspection.
Gold helps because it can be acid tested (acid resistance), it can be wighted (it is very heavy), and it is fairly hard when not 24-carat pure (the bite test).
But paper money can be tested in similar ways as well - they were designed with numerous tests and features built in. However, the average person does not do the tests or check for the features. Is acid testing, weighing on a scale, or biting (not sure how easy that would be to fake) more convenient than checking for features on paper money? If it isn't, I still don't see the advantage of gold over paper (in terms of preventing counterfeits).
Why is that any better than paper currency? Modern paper bills are hard enough to fake. If we really wanted to, we could check every bill we received for all the anti-counterfeit measures and features, to be (reasonably) certain we are not receiving counterfeit money. How does gold help with any of this?
Actually I was under the impression those were called "word processors" or something - I'm not sure.
Until you proofread your work and find out that you need to add a paragraph on page 3 of 100, changing the pagination for every subsequent page.
If that is the case, then I hate the society we live in. Why do people accept things like this?
I seriously think there is something wrong with the legal system if that is the case. Shouldn't both sides have to pay any legal bills *only* after a decision has been made the case settled? That way a non-guilty defendent would actually not be afraid to *defend* him/herself.
How can you be punished if you're not guilty? Even if you are wrongly punished, you would receive compensation. I really don't believe that you need to worry about being a law-abiding citizen. If you do, then there is *really* something wrong with the country.
That'll work for the first 3 days or so for the beginner, and many OEMs (IBM personal systems comes to mind) used to do just that - on startup, display a custom menu with a list, or selection of tasks. However all that seems to break down when you start installing applications, and it doesn't provide an easy transition to a "normal" desktop.
Frankly I think they should ban it anyways during landings - it's not like anyone *has* to be on the phone during that *exact* time that they're landing.
It's hard to give a name to *any* economic or governmental system, because the systems in any country are constantly evolving and adapting to both world and internal situations.