If a producer doesn't need to have a character sound like a particular live human being, they'll increasingly opt for the low or no cost option of a synthetic voice. No pesky humans asking to be paid for their labor.
If the producer does need to have a character sound like a particular live human being, well that's great for the likes of Samuel L. Jackson or others with distinctive voices. They'll be able to charge what the market will bear for their talents.
BTW - I doubt a producer would just try and duplicate the voice. If they got a recognisably close facimile, wouldn't that be a legal minefield?
There's this theory that says that the closer the look gets to humans the lesser the real human-ness we feel. Which could explain why most of the cartoons involve talking animals
You're referring to an offshoot (corrolary?) of Scott McCloud's Big Triangle of visual iconography. Basically as you move towards the iconic, but without becoming too abstract, more people are able to identify, and are able to identify more strongly with, the character being portrayed.
That was Ken Goldberg's (amongs others, of course)project, The Telegarden. It finally went offline in August of 2004. The physical garden started out at the University of Southern California, and was then moved to the Ars Electronica Center in Austria.
The problem is that a script is supposed to be a just a guideline. A script by itself is nothing.. it takes a lot to bring it to life.. and a good chunk of that is the direction.
The second point is valid. The first one, however, is erroneous at best, at least as far as feature length films go.
Great movies typically (so much so that I invite the suggestions of counter-examples) start with great scripts. Chinatown, Lawrence of Arabia, Bladerunner, Alien, and on, and on. In fact, there is an ongoing debate as to whether or not screenplays should be considered and studied as their own particular form of literature. It is arguably more than just a guideline.
You are totally correct though regarding the importance and power of direction, auteur theory and all that. Without excellent direction (and all that entails), a great screenplay can easily end up as a drecky movie. Conversely, the best direction in the world (afaik) can't save a drecky screenplay.
Would you consider this game to be a further development of the Electronic Arts game, Majestic -
http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/10/majes tic/index.html? Do you remember it? Text messages & emails & pages at all hours of the day? A combination of "The X-Files", "The Game" and a lot of imagination. And then, it was pulled from the market right after 9/11.
If they are necessary then, by definition, everyone will follow suit or die.
Actually, yes. As China and India industrialize without enacting environmental protections, I wonder if, even with over 1 Billion in population each and somewhat different values as far as the government's responsibility to protect the health of individuals, as cancer and other environmental rates rise, they will be forced to:
Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on health care
Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on environmental protections
Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on internal social controls (although, how hard it is to control a continent of cancer ridden, asthmatic, immunocompromised citizens?).
This last one can be subcontracted out to religious institutions
Hey, wait! That last one sounds awfully familiar...
So, what are you willing to do to go to university? I worked full time while attending full time (CSULA, Class of 1994). Not the most prestigeous school, but it fit my needs and budget and was a great springboard to grad school.
No, I wasn't living at home, I rented. Yes, my spending on everything not related to rent, food & school plummeted to near 0. Yes, I got loan after loan after loan (now totally paid off). True, I had no social life. Yes, I kicked ass in my classes.
I'd say, given the determination that they've exhibited so far, that these guys have a pretty good shot.
I don't know you from Adam. I have no knowledge of your personal/scholastic/financial situation. But the question still stands, what are you willing to do to go to school? What are you doing right now to further that goal?
Why the emphasis on hand wringing on their inability to get into MIT (or Cal Tech, or Harvey Mudd or...). Those are all great schools, but are they necessarily the best in the world? Now, IMHO, If we as a nation can't see fit to somehow get them into such schools, perhaps we don't deserve to have them in our schools, and don't deserve to profit from their services when they are working engineers. There are engineering schools all over the globe. Hopefully they'll be snatched up by one of them.
I believe that municipalities are prohbited by federal law from entering traditional (circuit switched) telephony. Someone please verify.
WiFi is a data service, and largely unregulated.
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More Streamlined? No (as another poster already noted). But easier to cool? Perhaps.
But other examples of long distance running (cheetahs don't count(short bursts of extreme speed)) savannah inhabitants aren't furless. Why aren't zebras or gazelles naked? If they had a bigger brain to cool, would they just have striped skin (to keep the massed optical confusion effect) but little significant hair?
IMHO, the door is now wide open for the creation of a whole bevvy of hard edged, tech savvy television shows. Perhaps not all gathered on one channel, though. Some on DIY, others on TLN or Discovery.
Then again, with cable and dsl broadband as widespread as it is (yes, I know it is not ubiquitious), and fiber to the home just around the corner, maybe they could be all gathered together under one roof as a webcast.
Others have already expressed dismay at the USA-onlyness of the prize. The solution, of course, would be for a Non-USA billionaire or corporation or consortium thereof to offer a similar, but better, prize. Keep most of the rules the same, except that the corporation couldn't be American, and development & launch would have to take place outside of the United States.
I agree that $50 million seems too low. How about €100 million to €150 million?
Did anyone else immediately think of the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where the Navy patrol planes were found in the middle of the desert?
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason for this experiment was to explore new forms of resistance training for elite swimmers.
Since this didn't work out, does anyone know if someone is working on high-drag suits for training, kind of the opposite of the shark-skin like suits used for competition?
I'm sure that there exists withing the/. community the expertise to help the RNC stave off an attack of this sort.
Why do so? If you agree with the RNC, then because you agree with them. If you don't, then thinking along the lines of, "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it," would be the impetus.
Would the RNC accept help from fair minded netizens (yeah, I still like that word)? Would/.ers offer?
When you're an undergrad, all you can afford is ramen (occasionally PB&J or Mac&Cheese).
But then, when you're a grad student, you enter the realm of delicious Yoshinoya Beef Bowl!
Yummmmm!
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There won't be a need for voice actors in those situations where the consumers of the games don't care what the character sounds like. I'd guess that this comprises the vast majority of game players. [I don't know how long the link will stay active]
If a producer doesn't need to have a character sound like a particular live human being, they'll increasingly opt for the low or no cost option of a synthetic voice. No pesky humans asking to be paid for their labor.
If the producer does need to have a character sound like a particular live human being, well that's great for the likes of Samuel L. Jackson or others with distinctive voices. They'll be able to charge what the market will bear for their talents. BTW - I doubt a producer would just try and duplicate the voice. If they got a recognisably close facimile, wouldn't that be a legal minefield?
That was Ken Goldberg's (amongs others, of course)project, The Telegarden. It finally went offline in August of 2004. The physical garden started out at the University of Southern California, and was then moved to the Ars Electronica Center in Austria.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Is any woman who needs it explained to her, worth your genes?
Well, you could contact Brightcove and pitch your own aviation oriented network.
Name of the journalist?
Date of the attack?
Name of the book?
Name of the magazine? Titles of the articles?
Not being snarky, just want verification. Thanks.Great movies typically (so much so that I invite the suggestions of counter-examples) start with great scripts. Chinatown, Lawrence of Arabia, Bladerunner, Alien, and on, and on. In fact, there is an ongoing debate as to whether or not screenplays should be considered and studied as their own particular form of literature. It is arguably more than just a guideline.
You are totally correct though regarding the importance and power of direction, auteur theory and all that. Without excellent direction (and all that entails), a great screenplay can easily end up as a drecky movie. Conversely, the best direction in the world (afaik) can't save a drecky screenplay.
Article - Gore on Apple Board & mention of Google Connectiont ml
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/mar/19gore.h
Would you consider this game to be a further development of the Electronic Arts game, Majestic - http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/10/majes tic/index.html? Do you remember it? Text messages & emails & pages at all hours of the day? A combination of "The X-Files", "The Game" and a lot of imagination. And then, it was pulled from the market right after 9/11.
If they are necessary then, by definition, everyone will follow suit or die.
Actually, yes. As China and India industrialize without enacting environmental protections, I wonder if, even with over 1 Billion in population each and somewhat different values as far as the government's responsibility to protect the health of individuals, as cancer and other environmental rates rise, they will be forced to:- Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on health care
- Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on environmental protections
- Pay ever increasing percentages of GNP on internal social controls (although, how hard it is to control a continent of cancer ridden, asthmatic, immunocompromised citizens?).
- This last one can be subcontracted out to religious institutions
Hey, wait! That last one sounds awfully familiar...BRILLIANT!
So, what are you willing to do to go to university? I worked full time while attending full time (CSULA, Class of 1994). Not the most prestigeous school, but it fit my needs and budget and was a great springboard to grad school.
No, I wasn't living at home, I rented. Yes, my spending on everything not related to rent, food & school plummeted to near 0. Yes, I got loan after loan after loan (now totally paid off). True, I had no social life. Yes, I kicked ass in my classes.
I'd say, given the determination that they've exhibited so far, that these guys have a pretty good shot.
I don't know you from Adam. I have no knowledge of your personal/scholastic/financial situation. But the question still stands, what are you willing to do to go to school? What are you doing right now to further that goal?
Why the emphasis on hand wringing on their inability to get into MIT (or Cal Tech, or Harvey Mudd or...). Those are all great schools, but are they necessarily the best in the world? Now, IMHO, If we as a nation can't see fit to somehow get them into such schools, perhaps we don't deserve to have them in our schools, and don't deserve to profit from their services when they are working engineers. There are engineering schools all over the globe. Hopefully they'll be snatched up by one of them.
I believe that municipalities are prohbited by federal law from entering traditional (circuit switched) telephony. Someone please verify.
WiFi is a data service, and largely unregulated.
Link to information to Nova (that doesn't launch a ton of popups).
More Streamlined?
No (as another poster already noted).
But easier to cool? Perhaps.
But other examples of long distance running (cheetahs don't count(short bursts of extreme speed)) savannah inhabitants aren't furless. Why aren't zebras or gazelles naked? If they had a bigger brain to cool, would they just have striped skin (to keep the massed optical confusion effect) but little significant hair?
Then again, with cable and dsl broadband as widespread as it is (yes, I know it is not ubiquitious), and fiber to the home just around the corner, maybe they could be all gathered together under one roof as a webcast.
The day after the merger was my last day of daily TechTV viewing. Viewing was itermittant until Patrick's last day.
Haven't watched since.
I guess I've been waiting for some new, original, G4TechTV (god, when are they going to ditch the stupid name) produced product.
Still waiting.
Others have already expressed dismay at the USA-onlyness of the prize. The solution, of course, would be for a Non-USA billionaire or corporation or consortium thereof to offer a similar, but better, prize. Keep most of the rules the same, except that the corporation couldn't be American, and development & launch would have to take place outside of the United States. I agree that $50 million seems too low. How about €100 million to €150 million?
Did anyone else immediately think of the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where the Navy patrol planes were found in the middle of the desert?
Since this didn't work out, does anyone know if someone is working on high-drag suits for training, kind of the opposite of the shark-skin like suits used for competition?
Why do so? If you agree with the RNC, then because you agree with them. If you don't, then thinking along the lines of, "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it," would be the impetus.
Would the RNC accept help from fair minded netizens (yeah, I still like that word)? Would /.ers offer?
Did IBM already patent this technology or was someone in their IP department asleep at the switch?
If IBM did file for and receive a patent, how do the two differ?
Are IBM and Microsoft in for a big patent battle?
Did the patent office screw up?
When you're an undergrad, all you can afford is ramen (occasionally PB&J or Mac&Cheese). But then, when you're a grad student, you enter the realm of delicious Yoshinoya Beef Bowl! Yummmmm!