I know she is Greek but come on, we can at least PRETEND she doesn't have a beard you could loose a badger in.
And as far I know Lego doesn't do boobies. Probably to avoid boys being afraid of sharp edges or girl afraid of them falling off if you wiggle them to much.
How much time did Linux have under development before it was released? What were the comparitive team sizes? GNU Hurd had a LOT of planning and a well established environment to be developed in, the team did the GNU tool set after all already. But they could do a kernel. Or do you think Linux spend years in pre-release development with hundreds of volunteers?
And 20 years of even slow development should show something.
Stop making excuses for Hurd, it is a turd. Sometimes that just happens, just because group X can produce Y doesn't mean they can produce Z.
Part of the problem is BSD itself, the GPL was instrumental in making Linux happen. After all, BSD was around long before and failed to attract the same attention.
When you come first with a large team and are over taken by a single fin, you fouled up. Just admit it and move on.
be honest, your settings, do they penalize Anonymous Cowards in how visible their posts are? Because you don't want to read just any anonymous post?
The best game servers require authentication, even to the point of only allowing people signed up to a small group for detailed identification. Would you accept a friend invite from anonymous? Read email that didn't come from a known source?
We all constantly insist that everyone identifies themselves to us before we are willing to interact with us.
So okay, not all those identities are linked to "real" identities, allthough the person known on slashdot as SmallFurryCreature can be found in other places with the same IDENTIFIER. Since my posts are linked to the IDENTIFICATION, they create a history based on which my posts get an extra mod point because I am so well known.
LinkedIn is perhaps the best know social site with real personalties. It is only useful because people are supposed to be who they are. If you create a fake profile on this and you get a job offer, don't count on getting it if you then confess you lied and you are really someone else. That wouldn't make you very trustworthy.
Even "pirates" do it, want to know if you trust a torrent? Look for a skull on thepiratebay.
Really, I find it so amazing when people say they want anoninimty from a logged in account.
Details cost money. A while ago I worked for a large company that produces printed content. During a presentation the presenter was very proud they had managed to get rid of a guy who was unwilling to adjust to changing times by retraining. The guy's job? Proof reading. He was a proof reader and that is what he wanted to do and continue to do. So when his position was made redundant, he was fired for being unwilling to change. This was meant to tell us that we had to be flexible and go with the flow. What it told me? I don't know, I was to busy noticing all the spelling errors in their publication.
How does this relate? Stuff like the driver setup used to be a part of the core development team and the reason big companies made better titles. It wasn't glamorous work but there are many developers who are no good with the latest 3D tech but who can write a reliable installer and test it over and over again on varying hardware and keep the program up to date. But it isn't glamorous.
So when companies can cut that job, they will. It used to part of every large publisher to have an installer routine that would handle all the setup. Now? That is an afterthought. When consoles became more capable then the xTh platformer, those companies that shifted towards the console instantly gave up configurability. There are a lot of console games where you can't even turn the music off. It just ain't an option. Why? Because it is easier, one less thing to test, one less setting that can be messed up.
But as the article rightfully notes, PC gamers expect more. So we ignore the bad ports and game companies think that the PC gaming market is dying (plugging their fingers in their ears to avoid hearing Blizzard laughing all the way to the bank for year after year).
Mind you, bad ports are nothing new. I remember some fairly old games that had it. Console producers can't do PC games. It is a different market. For instance, when I recently finally played on a console for the first time in over a decade I was quite surprised to see game go to a black screen to save progress at SAVEPOINTS... on a PC I just hit quicksave and it saves instantly never interrupting the game flow...
Poor console gamers. They don't just have to deal with poor design in ports, their native games suck too.
Point me to a single console game that earned as much for its producer as WoW. What platform is SWTOR for? Okay, so FF13 sucked on the PC but still is not available on the PS3. What platform is Civilization a hit on again? Oh and what about The Sims? Another money generator of which the console ports suck donkey balls.
And with games that come out on both platforms, the PC version is always a LOT cheaper.
But I note that your brilliant statistic handily includes ALL non-pc platforms while it excludes farmville and the like as PC games, wanna bet you also exclude MMO subscriptions.
Who makes the screens in the iPad? Who is begging who to please supply them with more screens?
I think Apple is scared, that it might not be getting the next generation of screens if Samsung has need for it themselves. If Samsung can make more money selling tablets then selling screens, Apple is screwed because Samsung is currently in the lead in the screen market especially oled.
Also, this isn't just about tablets, iPhone sales are lower then Android sales and Samsung sells a lot of Android phones.
Apple is trying to get rid of the competition. Same as MS did with IE and we all know how that worked out for browser users. Apple without competition would be as boring in its line-up as MS.
So you can only protest against a government once it has opened the gas-chambers? Some might say it is a bit to late. In fact some people claim that the right to protest and even cause inconvience by doing so is the sign of a healthy democracy. A sign of a failing democracy is usually people going "oh it ain't quite a nightmarish hellhole yet, so lets all just lay on our backs until it is".
Okay, I know it is scary for a nerd but still, you can't put the "ceremony" off forever. Sooner or later you ARE going to have to kiss the bride AND even face the wedding night. Just close your eyes and think of the GPL.
Everyone always thinks that NIMBY is bad, until it is THEIR backyard. NIMBY is part of democracy. Either people get a say or they don't but once you give them a say, they are free to say things you don't like. Including, "not in my backyard".
The real problem is that all politicians are so desperate to get elected (not surprising, it is their job) that none dare to say "alright you don't want X so you don't get Y". No nuclear waste? Then no nuclear power for you. Come up with SOMETHING you do want in your backward to generate power or you won't be having any.
Electoral suicide. See Japan that totally failed to invest in alternative energy sources and now that nukes are politically sensitive, they are out of options. They got to restart unsafe reactors because they need the power.
Democracy, letting the monkey's run the zoo by electing the monkey that can fling his poo the best.
You see, the BSA is a bit of a scam. They are NOT the police even if they claim to be. IF they go after you and are wrong then you can sue them for costs. ALL costs. If you KNOW you are 100% opensource then that is very easy to proof. For instance, most licensed software doesn't even run on Linux. And judges do NOT like time wasters in their courts.
You should use the software you need but you also need to know the true cost of your production line. The BSA is part of the cost of using software from companies that are part of the BSA and it is a HUGE cost.
Do you know that if you bring a laptop with a license sticker on it into your company it is NOT enough? The license keys are worthless, you need to keep the INVOICE around. And that invoice needs to be tied to specific license keys. If you think, I use 10 windows XP machines and got 20 or so license keys you are NOT in the clear.
The BSA actually requires more proof then the police does off possession.
Buyer beware. And for many a company, Windows is hardly needed anymore. You just need to do it unless you want to get done instead.
And what is Zelda on the 3DS, a rehash. Off one of the oldest games. That will teach the likes of Halo or FF! Launch title, a re-release.
And there is a nasty voice in my head that Zelda is only the top franchise for Nintendo because everything else sucks even worse. A case of one-eye's claim to the throne.
Mind you, this is Nintendo, they do crap, good, crap. They screwed up with the 3DS, to expensive a console, to expensive games and the device an odd combo of features that never quite come together. The 3D effect itself is nice enough but putting games on it that require you to move the device itself to control it has to be one of the most dumb decisions in gaming history. And god knows there are a lot. And all of it on a device smaller then the DSi XL...
Maybe Nintendo felt sorry for Sony and wanted to give them an easy start with the PSP2.
Some games retail in holland for about 50 euro's. That is just to fucking expensive for what is often a game only marginally better then iPhone stye games. Take ridge racer, it is a joke of a game but Nintendo expects to get full price for it. It just is to much.
Nintendo still thinks it is the only game in town but the smartphone market has broken the casual gaming market wide open. It better adjust. It ain't the hardware price, you can't even buy a decent phone for the price of 3DS but I can load an awful lot of mobile games for the price of 3DS catridge.
As for the zelda remake... that is the MUST have title? Come one, that should have been a freebee or a special bundle. If Nintendo was a sheepherder then it would not just kill the sheep for its wool, it would machine gun the entire herd to do a blood sampling. By all means, bleed me for every nickle I got but do you got to bugger me at the same time while dancing on my mothers grave?
The hobbits are NOT just the members of the fellow ship of the ring but the entire people who believed that if they didn't mind the outside world the outside world wouldn't mind them. The majority of hobbits wanted nothing to do with the outside world problems. Only when the troubles came to them and a few hobbits helped them did they finally make a stand when they had no other option. Scouring of the Shire, the bit that did NOT make it into the movie.
Really kid, READ a book. Just once, it won't bite.
Poor Mr Lucas, I wonder how sleeps at night knowing he let his talent go to waste.
On soft pile of 1000 dollar bills while a fountain of liquid gold softly murmurs.
And I would trade a 100 American Graffiti for a single Star Wars. So called great directors that nobody actually want to watch are a dime a dozen. The number of Star Wars movies can be counted on the fingers of Yoda's hand (3).
The answer is not to give a little ground, it is for both sides to completely cave in.
The US welfare system and other social programs is a joke, they are horribly inefficient and provide little. Why does the US spend more on healthcare yet get less?
And why do the rich in America got an entire party supposedly representing 50% of the population cater solely to their needs? Because all the republican tax cuts are for the super rich, not the working middle class.
America needs to reform. A better tax system and more efficient spending. A lot more money in and a lot less money out.
Neither side is willing. Don't forget that the republicans need the social spending to avoid social unrest that would soon see just how much a security gate is worth when armed poor rise up. And the democrats got plenty of backers with corporate jets.
US politics has reached stalemate. The status quo works fine enough, in a world that doesn't change but the world has changed and the 50/50 distribution of political power makes the US unable to cope.
The US needs a plan for its economy, dare I say it a planned economy? That doesn't work if two parties are only intrested in the next sound bite, the next election in less then two years.
Just hold an election for the entire system (both houses) this year and just do the same thing whatever it is for 4 years at least. At this point what you do matters less then just doing ANYTHING. Cut all wellfare and deal with the civil uprising or tax the hell out of everything and deal with the civil uprising or don't do anything and deal with the economic mayhem. But do SOMETHING.
The reaction is as if we have been tricked AND didn't want to be tricked.
This explains the reaction between a cross-dressing male in a comedy situation and when we think we finally for the first time in our live gotten close to scoring!
Like I said above, for me the uncanny reaction only occurs in entertainment when I am bored. Chewbacca never triggered it, Jar Jar did. Old Darth Vader good, new Darth Vader bad. Most of the acting in the new Star Wars movies triggered the "this ain't real" reaction but we do not link it to the uncanny valley because the actors are real but the reaction is much the same for me.
Is the uncanny valley not just the same as we have with an air-stewardess smile? A cosmetic surgery freaks face? They are human (barely) but still trigger "this is wrong". Might all of this be nothing more then "this is bad acting" and not acting as in mimicing human behavior but acting as in successfully entertaining/engaging us? Why can everyone understand every emotion by a pair of desktop lights? Because the story tellers do a superb job of telling a story, engaging us. Meanwhile human actors can totally fail to convince us that they are even real let alone experiencing any emotions.
We accept good actors, we reject bad ones.
I would like to see this experiment, using the Spirits Within animation team with a story by Pixar. Or one of those lifelike robots used to express something interesting as a good actor would but with the silted animation. Bring in the entertainment and see if the reaction is the same. I don't think it is.
If this was true then people behaving oddly deliberately would be shunned, not payed huge sums of money to entertain us.
Why does a human statue not frighten us? Mime's? Oh okay, I give you that one. People doing the robot? For that matter I am not uneasy if someone around me is sick and some (mothers) go straight into care mode.
Might it be something far simpler? The Simpsons only trigger my "god this animation quality is crap" mode when the episode is bad. If the story is good, I don't care. R2-D2 never triggered any "this ain't real" reaction with me UNTIL he used those jets in the new movies. How come the desk-lights from Pixar are perfectly understood by people but Final Fantasy Spirits Within failed? The uncanny valley or simply that Pixar is better at telling a story? In understand the fears and hopes and dreams of the desktop lights... the chars from FF? Not so much. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if Pixar created a story with the animators from FF.
If it was a merely animal reaction then how does it explain barn-yard cats still happily chasing a toy despite them being intimately familiar with the real behavior of prey?
I think the uncanny valley reaction is triggered when our brain has already decided this is boring and then start to notice details that otherwise it wouldn't care about. The uneasy feeling ain't just "something is wrong" but also "I paid for this?".
The simple animalistic explanation for me fails to address all the times we have no issue whatsoever with things that are slightly off. After all, every time a woman puts on make-up should upset us, wears a bra (oh okay, that does upset me). All that causes "wrongness" in the picture but we don't care.
The example given by the parent of a herd of zombies has been proven by "Thriller" to be untrue. Same with the series Cats. People behaving as they shouldn't be and us paying to good money for it because we like it.
Be a big business, you must first be a small business.
What you and another poster below fail to grasp is that PHP as it was without modification suited facebook fine while it was growing. As it grew the demands grew but also the resources. Had they gone straight away for say a Oracle database with all the right software the software would never have been finished on time and on budget and they would quickly have run out of money. like all the dot com's that failed so hard.
Start small and cheap, then spend a portion of the income on improving.
Most of the Oracle and Java dweebs would spend millions of VC capital to build an application that can handle the entire world and then be surprised the plug is pulled before it is finished because there never was any income and the money just ran dry.
Really, this is the lesson from the bubble and so many just have not learned it.
Last time I checked Android outsold iPhone to a significant degree. Also Apple would be in serious legal trouble if it blocked a google+ app. So twitter is slightly more integrated. Well, calling on phones is more intergrated then whatapp. Doesn't seem to stop users at all.
Power without accountability is a terrible thing. Police for instance has power, so they must be accountable. But voters also have great power... but how are they held accountable? How are the voters for Berlusconi held to account for their actions?
That is why democracy is flawed. In a dictatorship you only need one responsible person. In a democracy you need millions.
its funny how the poor have advice like 'its about the money', 'play it safe' ' you can't start over' 'the economy is that bad' etc etc.
Sure, they didn't make it and we did, but it does taint their objectiveness to towards the real world.
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See what I did there? It is actually rather insightful because this is pretty much how it works. If you do something and it hurts, you won't do it again. But if you do something and it doesn't hurt, you will do it again. Success is positive reinforcement, failure a negative one. Well duh, but it does mean that a person who succeeded at X can't understand the experience of someone who failed at X and vice versa.
The rich are right, in that strategy Y worked for them. They are wrong because it doesn't work for everyone. Often for no other reason than that there is only so much room at the top. If everyone was a millionaire, everyone would be equally poor.
Android is NOT about making Google money directly, it is about breaking up the market. With Android and Chrome Google can set the pace of development. Remember IE6? Dead and burried because first Firefox and then Chrome refused to let it drag them down. Gone are the days you can get away with an IE only website, even MS itself now has to design its own sites work with other browsers.
It might not be obvious to the simple minded just how vital it is to Googles core business that MS or Apple or Nokia can control a market anymore. Android isn't a success for Google because Samsung has gotten big with it, it is a success because HTC and others can use it as well. Keep the market moving forwards and we will see where it ends up.
Like how suddenly Tom Tom is hurting because FREE mapping software on mobile phones obliterated their market. Google maps anyone?
Google competitors have tried in stale markets they utterly dominated. Google throws a stick of dynamite and sees what happens. Considering their income, it seems a successful strategy. Best selling phone from NOWWHERE. At least Apple had some experience with computers, hardware even handhelds. Google did it from nothing and blasted right past Apple and everyone else.
And every android user has a google account. A million activations a day. And you wonder about the ROI on Android...
You have to remember that this was during the last bubble and Google is rather famous for going against the flow. "Everyone" was using the investment money to buy Sun hardware with Oracle databases and those expensive chairs. Google went dumpster diving and because that ZERO cost hardware failed all the time came up with software that could deal with unreliable hardware meaning that google never had to buy 5 nine hardware at insane prices.
This was repeated by Facebook. You will find endless experts claiming you could never scale either PHP or MySql to be a serious site, yet one of the largest sites in the world runs on those two. Same as google proved linux was far more capable then just being a hobby OS for nerds. And proved it again with Android.
Google could afford to offer gmail with insane storage space because they had a very cheap hardware infrastructure. Had they build it with "proper" hardware and software the costs would have been astronomical.
But hey, you know better then Google because you run what mega-corp?
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I know she is Greek but come on, we can at least PRETEND she doesn't have a beard you could loose a badger in.
And as far I know Lego doesn't do boobies. Probably to avoid boys being afraid of sharp edges or girl afraid of them falling off if you wiggle them to much.
How much time did Linux have under development before it was released? What were the comparitive team sizes? GNU Hurd had a LOT of planning and a well established environment to be developed in, the team did the GNU tool set after all already. But they could do a kernel. Or do you think Linux spend years in pre-release development with hundreds of volunteers?
And 20 years of even slow development should show something.
Stop making excuses for Hurd, it is a turd. Sometimes that just happens, just because group X can produce Y doesn't mean they can produce Z.
Part of the problem is BSD itself, the GPL was instrumental in making Linux happen. After all, BSD was around long before and failed to attract the same attention.
When you come first with a large team and are over taken by a single fin, you fouled up. Just admit it and move on.
be honest, your settings, do they penalize Anonymous Cowards in how visible their posts are? Because you don't want to read just any anonymous post?
The best game servers require authentication, even to the point of only allowing people signed up to a small group for detailed identification. Would you accept a friend invite from anonymous? Read email that didn't come from a known source?
We all constantly insist that everyone identifies themselves to us before we are willing to interact with us.
So okay, not all those identities are linked to "real" identities, allthough the person known on slashdot as SmallFurryCreature can be found in other places with the same IDENTIFIER. Since my posts are linked to the IDENTIFICATION, they create a history based on which my posts get an extra mod point because I am so well known.
LinkedIn is perhaps the best know social site with real personalties. It is only useful because people are supposed to be who they are. If you create a fake profile on this and you get a job offer, don't count on getting it if you then confess you lied and you are really someone else. That wouldn't make you very trustworthy.
Even "pirates" do it, want to know if you trust a torrent? Look for a skull on thepiratebay.
Really, I find it so amazing when people say they want anoninimty from a logged in account.
Details cost money. A while ago I worked for a large company that produces printed content. During a presentation the presenter was very proud they had managed to get rid of a guy who was unwilling to adjust to changing times by retraining. The guy's job? Proof reading. He was a proof reader and that is what he wanted to do and continue to do. So when his position was made redundant, he was fired for being unwilling to change. This was meant to tell us that we had to be flexible and go with the flow. What it told me? I don't know, I was to busy noticing all the spelling errors in their publication.
How does this relate? Stuff like the driver setup used to be a part of the core development team and the reason big companies made better titles. It wasn't glamorous work but there are many developers who are no good with the latest 3D tech but who can write a reliable installer and test it over and over again on varying hardware and keep the program up to date. But it isn't glamorous.
So when companies can cut that job, they will. It used to part of every large publisher to have an installer routine that would handle all the setup. Now? That is an afterthought. When consoles became more capable then the xTh platformer, those companies that shifted towards the console instantly gave up configurability. There are a lot of console games where you can't even turn the music off. It just ain't an option. Why? Because it is easier, one less thing to test, one less setting that can be messed up.
But as the article rightfully notes, PC gamers expect more. So we ignore the bad ports and game companies think that the PC gaming market is dying (plugging their fingers in their ears to avoid hearing Blizzard laughing all the way to the bank for year after year).
Mind you, bad ports are nothing new. I remember some fairly old games that had it. Console producers can't do PC games. It is a different market. For instance, when I recently finally played on a console for the first time in over a decade I was quite surprised to see game go to a black screen to save progress at SAVEPOINTS... on a PC I just hit quicksave and it saves instantly never interrupting the game flow...
Poor console gamers. They don't just have to deal with poor design in ports, their native games suck too.
Point me to a single console game that earned as much for its producer as WoW. What platform is SWTOR for? Okay, so FF13 sucked on the PC but still is not available on the PS3. What platform is Civilization a hit on again? Oh and what about The Sims? Another money generator of which the console ports suck donkey balls.
And with games that come out on both platforms, the PC version is always a LOT cheaper.
But I note that your brilliant statistic handily includes ALL non-pc platforms while it excludes farmville and the like as PC games, wanna bet you also exclude MMO subscriptions.
Who makes the screens in the iPad? Who is begging who to please supply them with more screens?
I think Apple is scared, that it might not be getting the next generation of screens if Samsung has need for it themselves. If Samsung can make more money selling tablets then selling screens, Apple is screwed because Samsung is currently in the lead in the screen market especially oled.
Also, this isn't just about tablets, iPhone sales are lower then Android sales and Samsung sells a lot of Android phones.
Apple is trying to get rid of the competition. Same as MS did with IE and we all know how that worked out for browser users. Apple without competition would be as boring in its line-up as MS.
So you can only protest against a government once it has opened the gas-chambers? Some might say it is a bit to late. In fact some people claim that the right to protest and even cause inconvience by doing so is the sign of a healthy democracy. A sign of a failing democracy is usually people going "oh it ain't quite a nightmarish hellhole yet, so lets all just lay on our backs until it is".
Freedom, your attitude towards it sucks.
Okay, I know it is scary for a nerd but still, you can't put the "ceremony" off forever. Sooner or later you ARE going to have to kiss the bride AND even face the wedding night. Just close your eyes and think of the GPL.
Married man walking!
Everyone always thinks that NIMBY is bad, until it is THEIR backyard. NIMBY is part of democracy. Either people get a say or they don't but once you give them a say, they are free to say things you don't like. Including, "not in my backyard".
The real problem is that all politicians are so desperate to get elected (not surprising, it is their job) that none dare to say "alright you don't want X so you don't get Y". No nuclear waste? Then no nuclear power for you. Come up with SOMETHING you do want in your backward to generate power or you won't be having any.
Electoral suicide. See Japan that totally failed to invest in alternative energy sources and now that nukes are politically sensitive, they are out of options. They got to restart unsafe reactors because they need the power.
Democracy, letting the monkey's run the zoo by electing the monkey that can fling his poo the best.
Que all non-opera users complaining the study is flawed.
Me? I used Opera when it was still pay-to-be-awesome.
It is simply the best browser for browsing. Firefox for development and Chrome for when I want to watch a Google Chrome only demo.
And like Debby, I don't do windows.
You see, the BSA is a bit of a scam. They are NOT the police even if they claim to be. IF they go after you and are wrong then you can sue them for costs. ALL costs. If you KNOW you are 100% opensource then that is very easy to proof. For instance, most licensed software doesn't even run on Linux. And judges do NOT like time wasters in their courts.
You should use the software you need but you also need to know the true cost of your production line. The BSA is part of the cost of using software from companies that are part of the BSA and it is a HUGE cost.
Do you know that if you bring a laptop with a license sticker on it into your company it is NOT enough? The license keys are worthless, you need to keep the INVOICE around. And that invoice needs to be tied to specific license keys. If you think, I use 10 windows XP machines and got 20 or so license keys you are NOT in the clear.
The BSA actually requires more proof then the police does off possession.
Buyer beware. And for many a company, Windows is hardly needed anymore. You just need to do it unless you want to get done instead.
And what is Zelda on the 3DS, a rehash. Off one of the oldest games. That will teach the likes of Halo or FF! Launch title, a re-release.
And there is a nasty voice in my head that Zelda is only the top franchise for Nintendo because everything else sucks even worse. A case of one-eye's claim to the throne.
Mind you, this is Nintendo, they do crap, good, crap. They screwed up with the 3DS, to expensive a console, to expensive games and the device an odd combo of features that never quite come together. The 3D effect itself is nice enough but putting games on it that require you to move the device itself to control it has to be one of the most dumb decisions in gaming history. And god knows there are a lot. And all of it on a device smaller then the DSi XL...
Maybe Nintendo felt sorry for Sony and wanted to give them an easy start with the PSP2.
Some games retail in holland for about 50 euro's. That is just to fucking expensive for what is often a game only marginally better then iPhone stye games. Take ridge racer, it is a joke of a game but Nintendo expects to get full price for it. It just is to much.
Nintendo still thinks it is the only game in town but the smartphone market has broken the casual gaming market wide open. It better adjust. It ain't the hardware price, you can't even buy a decent phone for the price of 3DS but I can load an awful lot of mobile games for the price of 3DS catridge.
As for the zelda remake... that is the MUST have title? Come one, that should have been a freebee or a special bundle. If Nintendo was a sheepherder then it would not just kill the sheep for its wool, it would machine gun the entire herd to do a blood sampling. By all means, bleed me for every nickle I got but do you got to bugger me at the same time while dancing on my mothers grave?
The hobbits are NOT just the members of the fellow ship of the ring but the entire people who believed that if they didn't mind the outside world the outside world wouldn't mind them. The majority of hobbits wanted nothing to do with the outside world problems. Only when the troubles came to them and a few hobbits helped them did they finally make a stand when they had no other option. Scouring of the Shire, the bit that did NOT make it into the movie.
Really kid, READ a book. Just once, it won't bite.
Poor Mr Lucas, I wonder how sleeps at night knowing he let his talent go to waste.
On soft pile of 1000 dollar bills while a fountain of liquid gold softly murmurs.
And I would trade a 100 American Graffiti for a single Star Wars. So called great directors that nobody actually want to watch are a dime a dozen. The number of Star Wars movies can be counted on the fingers of Yoda's hand (3).
The answer is not to give a little ground, it is for both sides to completely cave in.
The US welfare system and other social programs is a joke, they are horribly inefficient and provide little. Why does the US spend more on healthcare yet get less?
And why do the rich in America got an entire party supposedly representing 50% of the population cater solely to their needs? Because all the republican tax cuts are for the super rich, not the working middle class.
America needs to reform. A better tax system and more efficient spending. A lot more money in and a lot less money out.
Neither side is willing. Don't forget that the republicans need the social spending to avoid social unrest that would soon see just how much a security gate is worth when armed poor rise up. And the democrats got plenty of backers with corporate jets.
US politics has reached stalemate. The status quo works fine enough, in a world that doesn't change but the world has changed and the 50/50 distribution of political power makes the US unable to cope.
The US needs a plan for its economy, dare I say it a planned economy? That doesn't work if two parties are only intrested in the next sound bite, the next election in less then two years.
Just hold an election for the entire system (both houses) this year and just do the same thing whatever it is for 4 years at least. At this point what you do matters less then just doing ANYTHING. Cut all wellfare and deal with the civil uprising or tax the hell out of everything and deal with the civil uprising or don't do anything and deal with the economic mayhem. But do SOMETHING.
The reaction is as if we have been tricked AND didn't want to be tricked.
This explains the reaction between a cross-dressing male in a comedy situation and when we think we finally for the first time in our live gotten close to scoring!
Like I said above, for me the uncanny reaction only occurs in entertainment when I am bored. Chewbacca never triggered it, Jar Jar did. Old Darth Vader good, new Darth Vader bad. Most of the acting in the new Star Wars movies triggered the "this ain't real" reaction but we do not link it to the uncanny valley because the actors are real but the reaction is much the same for me.
Is the uncanny valley not just the same as we have with an air-stewardess smile? A cosmetic surgery freaks face? They are human (barely) but still trigger "this is wrong". Might all of this be nothing more then "this is bad acting" and not acting as in mimicing human behavior but acting as in successfully entertaining/engaging us? Why can everyone understand every emotion by a pair of desktop lights? Because the story tellers do a superb job of telling a story, engaging us. Meanwhile human actors can totally fail to convince us that they are even real let alone experiencing any emotions.
We accept good actors, we reject bad ones.
I would like to see this experiment, using the Spirits Within animation team with a story by Pixar. Or one of those lifelike robots used to express something interesting as a good actor would but with the silted animation. Bring in the entertainment and see if the reaction is the same. I don't think it is.
If this was true then people behaving oddly deliberately would be shunned, not payed huge sums of money to entertain us.
Why does a human statue not frighten us? Mime's? Oh okay, I give you that one. People doing the robot? For that matter I am not uneasy if someone around me is sick and some (mothers) go straight into care mode.
Might it be something far simpler? The Simpsons only trigger my "god this animation quality is crap" mode when the episode is bad. If the story is good, I don't care. R2-D2 never triggered any "this ain't real" reaction with me UNTIL he used those jets in the new movies. How come the desk-lights from Pixar are perfectly understood by people but Final Fantasy Spirits Within failed? The uncanny valley or simply that Pixar is better at telling a story? In understand the fears and hopes and dreams of the desktop lights... the chars from FF? Not so much. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if Pixar created a story with the animators from FF.
If it was a merely animal reaction then how does it explain barn-yard cats still happily chasing a toy despite them being intimately familiar with the real behavior of prey?
I think the uncanny valley reaction is triggered when our brain has already decided this is boring and then start to notice details that otherwise it wouldn't care about. The uneasy feeling ain't just "something is wrong" but also "I paid for this?".
The simple animalistic explanation for me fails to address all the times we have no issue whatsoever with things that are slightly off. After all, every time a woman puts on make-up should upset us, wears a bra (oh okay, that does upset me). All that causes "wrongness" in the picture but we don't care.
The example given by the parent of a herd of zombies has been proven by "Thriller" to be untrue. Same with the series Cats. People behaving as they shouldn't be and us paying to good money for it because we like it.
There are a lot of phones out there and you picked a windows phone...
About the only advice I would take from you is on what straight jacket to choose. What one did you find hardest to chew through?
Tried your search result, you are wrong.
Be a big business, you must first be a small business.
What you and another poster below fail to grasp is that PHP as it was without modification suited facebook fine while it was growing. As it grew the demands grew but also the resources. Had they gone straight away for say a Oracle database with all the right software the software would never have been finished on time and on budget and they would quickly have run out of money. like all the dot com's that failed so hard.
Start small and cheap, then spend a portion of the income on improving.
Most of the Oracle and Java dweebs would spend millions of VC capital to build an application that can handle the entire world and then be surprised the plug is pulled before it is finished because there never was any income and the money just ran dry.
Really, this is the lesson from the bubble and so many just have not learned it.
Last time I checked Android outsold iPhone to a significant degree. Also Apple would be in serious legal trouble if it blocked a google+ app. So twitter is slightly more integrated. Well, calling on phones is more intergrated then whatapp. Doesn't seem to stop users at all.
Power without accountability is a terrible thing. Police for instance has power, so they must be accountable. But voters also have great power... but how are they held accountable? How are the voters for Berlusconi held to account for their actions?
That is why democracy is flawed. In a dictatorship you only need one responsible person. In a democracy you need millions.
its funny how the poor have advice like 'its about the money', 'play it safe' ' you can't start over' 'the economy is that bad' etc etc.
Sure, they didn't make it and we did, but it does taint their objectiveness to towards the real world.
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See what I did there? It is actually rather insightful because this is pretty much how it works. If you do something and it hurts, you won't do it again. But if you do something and it doesn't hurt, you will do it again. Success is positive reinforcement, failure a negative one. Well duh, but it does mean that a person who succeeded at X can't understand the experience of someone who failed at X and vice versa.
The rich are right, in that strategy Y worked for them. They are wrong because it doesn't work for everyone. Often for no other reason than that there is only so much room at the top. If everyone was a millionaire, everyone would be equally poor.
Android is NOT about making Google money directly, it is about breaking up the market. With Android and Chrome Google can set the pace of development. Remember IE6? Dead and burried because first Firefox and then Chrome refused to let it drag them down. Gone are the days you can get away with an IE only website, even MS itself now has to design its own sites work with other browsers.
It might not be obvious to the simple minded just how vital it is to Googles core business that MS or Apple or Nokia can control a market anymore. Android isn't a success for Google because Samsung has gotten big with it, it is a success because HTC and others can use it as well. Keep the market moving forwards and we will see where it ends up.
Like how suddenly Tom Tom is hurting because FREE mapping software on mobile phones obliterated their market. Google maps anyone?
Google competitors have tried in stale markets they utterly dominated. Google throws a stick of dynamite and sees what happens. Considering their income, it seems a successful strategy. Best selling phone from NOWWHERE. At least Apple had some experience with computers, hardware even handhelds. Google did it from nothing and blasted right past Apple and everyone else.
And every android user has a google account. A million activations a day. And you wonder about the ROI on Android...
You have to remember that this was during the last bubble and Google is rather famous for going against the flow. "Everyone" was using the investment money to buy Sun hardware with Oracle databases and those expensive chairs. Google went dumpster diving and because that ZERO cost hardware failed all the time came up with software that could deal with unreliable hardware meaning that google never had to buy 5 nine hardware at insane prices.
This was repeated by Facebook. You will find endless experts claiming you could never scale either PHP or MySql to be a serious site, yet one of the largest sites in the world runs on those two. Same as google proved linux was far more capable then just being a hobby OS for nerds. And proved it again with Android.
Google could afford to offer gmail with insane storage space because they had a very cheap hardware infrastructure. Had they build it with "proper" hardware and software the costs would have been astronomical.
But hey, you know better then Google because you run what mega-corp?