No, but really, does anyone see the resembelance in the most recent matrix trailer at the end where he flies past the castle and hogwarts/quiddich?
Neo: I don't need broomsticks.
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However, as we've seen on Slashdot, people still take time to carefully think their replies, rather kneejerk flaming, right?:^P
Flame from a few weeks ago.
You can go fuck yourself too. Want evidence for that? You're a prick. There, that's your evidence.
It still happens. There are some idiots here on slashdot, and despite best efforts to exterminate them with a flame thrower, they keep on popping up. We hope to eradicate them by modding them down and such, but they are very immature. Our hopes are that they will go back to their room in their mom's house and play Mario Sunshine or Yu Gi Oh instead of wasting our time.
Wow, I just flamed flamers. I feel dirty.
Problem is usually nobody sees them because they post anonymously and are under most people's threshhold, so moderators don't see it and therefore don't mod them down.
I think someone should be given a bunch of mod points, then sent every day to type in all the insults into the search and look through all the comments to see which ones are flames, and mod em down.
Actually, more and more people in the medical and possibly the scientific field (I only work with medical types) are breaking out into the internet. The thing is if you get over all the capitalistic nonsense spewed out on it, you get a really good way to communicate... If you can get past the spam and banner ads and adware and popups and spyware and...
Those are called windows media player visualizations. They come with your computer usually.
The thing is the king of artificial Synthesia, imoho, is old cartoons. Smells come across as green vapors, noises come across as *BLAM* of *BOOM* etc... And imoho, they get the general visual sense of it. As for seeing music, well, yeah, the visualizations on a media player, or fantasia works too.
Problem is everybody sees music differently, some people see a certain song... oh let's use Oorf's Oh Fortuna. Some see just red shapes in their head dancing to the music, others see a huge battle with medeival armies and dragons and stuff, and other people see their futures, etc. It's all relative, so unless it's person for person, it's kinda irrelevant.
What I'm wondering is can a person with synesthesia satisfy a craving by just smelling something?
...warning that they were NOT anonymous and that they could face legal consequences if they did not stop sharing copyrighted material.
I believe the IM went something like this:
We are the RIAA. Big Rosen is watching. You will cease and desist or we will blow up your home planet using... umm... lawyers. EXTERMINATE! You have no chance to escape make your time. *Evil laugh*
But seriously, what the hell do they think they're pulling on this one? A mass lawsuit to all who use Kazaa? Now that would be funny... Or maybe they're going to try to shut down Kazaa through mass scare tactics, hacking, and mass poisonings of the networks. Don't they get an idea? They really need to get a clue and realize that if they don't stop they will go under within months.
I can see it now... The RIAA placing their base of operations in Bahgdad, where they employ Saddam's torture chambers for P2P junkies...
I had a feeling after the war was over the corporations would come in and take what they could/try to create a market or something...
What next, sending AOL CDs there?
Get new AOL 8.1 in Iraq! You can now access any sites you want to without the government trying to kill you, and do practically anything... If you're willing to wait a few hours for the main page to load...
I really wish Lucas would give people what they want...
Jar Jar's head. On a silver platter. With Ewok sauce on the side.
No, really, I think George Lucas really needs to learn that he's been getting a pretty bad rap for Episode 1 and Episode 2. His storytelling skills have rusted, and he needs to realize that the magic is gone.
It was fresh when it came out, but now we're used to big aliens, flashy special effects, and bad acting. He needs to provide the people with something that actually lives to the level of innovating the originals had, instead of being all high and mighty and telling us it's an epic.
The thing is people know an epic when they see one. You don't need to tell them that it's an epic, because then there's a chance you could get screwed. Instead, imoho, he should revamp his methods, find what works/what the people want, and do it.
Another sad thing that I think the new ones have really lost was the feeling of the originals. The originals felt like they were made on a small budget and stuff, and the new ones just try to impress you with graphics and Jar Jar.
What I see here is the RIAA trying to make an example of two hapless college students (I'd wager) who just happened to be downloading the wrong things at the wrong time. It won't fly, because if they do start picking on simple P2P pirates, they will either have an upsurge of very very angry P2P users who actually buy music as well or something worse... Maybe a countersuit? A lowered reputation? (wait, what reputation...)
Instead of being a bunch of arrogant shits, can't the RIAA realize that P2P will just die out on it's own if they provide a better way to obtain music. But they havn't done that really, and every step they take against P2P digs them into a deeper and deeper hole. Hell, I for one am never going to buy music again.
What they don't get is that P2P is like a hydra. Cut off one head and 3 more appear and start taking chunks off of you.
Maybe if the RIAA hadn't killed off napster, they might have a fighting chance. But the more they do against P2P, the more people realize that they are just bad people.
Even if these so called music pirates are hurting them, all they're doing is making a martyr of them, which anyone could tell you is a very very bad choice. By making a martyr they create a reason to really, really hate the themselves, and end up screwing themselves over once again.
Who makes the decisions for these people? P2P is made of people. It's not a computer bug or a virus, but millions of people. If those millions started using a RIAA endorsed P2P system, they'd make a lot of money. But instead they alienate them and that's the end of it.
I wonder which will win, the RIAA or P2P. By declaring war on P2P in the way the RIAA has, there has to be a winner and a loser. And I have my bets on P2P, and indie bands.
Plus, I think a lot of people would agree, the music industry would be a lot better without the recording industry telling us what music is hot and what music isn't, and what music we should hear and what music we shouldn't. They need to realize that their ways are over and they need to change.
My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003! Yay!
Those who are not so net saavy who I have had experience helping get set up on the wired have complained that they don't get any spam. They feel inadequate, or something, and feel left out.
I try to resist the urge to lay smackage down on them. I really do try.
Now has an excuse for having child pornography on his 'puter. "It was a computer virus... I love the children, but those darn computer viruses just upload such dirty pictures... I love the children though... But not like that... Opps, come back nose!"
And I don't even want to think about how Paul Reuben would try to explain his...
I hope the same. It was the gameplay, yes... But also the graphics really created a certain feeling. That's why I couldn't stand the graphics upgrade: The scientists didn't look like such chrome domes! I love the stylized look of half life, and I hope they do all in their power to save that.
Another thing I contribute to Half Life's success is that the protagonist is instead of a buff army guy, a physics nerd. You can't go wrong there!
How do you chose with such good movies? They're both good. I think if it were possible they should both win prizes, because both were excellent pieces of work.
Slashdot is not a flamewar board. Get a life, and don't put down other people's point of view. Instead of proving yourself wrong with your own insults, can't you maybe try to bring some evidence?
Wait, this is religion we're talking about... Never mind.
But still, putting people's beliefs down only comes back to slap you in the face. It does nobody any good, and it wastes valuable server space. (But then again, so am I.)
But please, if you want to try to say something, be mature and put forth an arguement. Insults and swearing don't justify a logical arguements, and all you end up doing is ruining the/. experience for all the people who try to escape here for some sort of intellegent debate.
*/rant mode*
So I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm tired of people flaming over mundane crap like this. Get a life, and try to be nice. Eat some friggin peeps, and read all the interesting articles here on them.
Now it's live action Alita, but what happened to live action Akira?
I still believe that when trying to turn an anime into a live action movie one should work with the utmost respect for the anime itself, and try to keep everything the way it was, without trying to over-americanize it. (by adding unnecessary sex, guns, and explosions... Although the sex part is well covered in a lot of animes.) Otherwise you get something that is... crap.
Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable.
So THAT explains the mass seizure when watching Anger management the other day...
In the future, these visualizations will work with windows media player and go with the music, holding little relevancy to anything, and yet people will love it. (sounds almost like a mac) Then people will start using it for business...
Meh, I want one that warns me when I'm in proximity to my boss...
Still, I think this is one step in the right direction for PDAs: Combine them into a swiss army PDA that has a big hard drive and a bunch of other stuff so it could double as a PDA, cell phone, wallet, ID card, briefcase, backpack, pocket novel, etc. Of course then if you got yours stolen, you'd be kinda fux0red, but oh well.
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Spam tends to be a bit more in your face and vulgar though...
Hell, the subway's close enough, so there, we have it. Harry Potter and The Matrix. They're all the same.
But if it came down to Neo vs. Potter, I'd say Neo would wipe Potter all over the place. I mean, he can fricking dodge bullets and screw with reality!
Still, if Harry Potter had guns, Voldemort wouldn't be much of a problem, would he?
Oy Malfoy!
What is it, Potter?
BLAM.
No, but really, does anyone see the resembelance in the most recent matrix trailer at the end where he flies past the castle and hogwarts/quiddich?
Neo: I don't need broomsticks.
Flame from a few weeks ago.
You can go fuck yourself too. Want evidence for that? You're a prick. There, that's your evidence.
It still happens. There are some idiots here on slashdot, and despite best efforts to exterminate them with a flame thrower, they keep on popping up. We hope to eradicate them by modding them down and such, but they are very immature. Our hopes are that they will go back to their room in their mom's house and play Mario Sunshine or Yu Gi Oh instead of wasting our time.
Wow, I just flamed flamers. I feel dirty.
Problem is usually nobody sees them because they post anonymously and are under most people's threshhold, so moderators don't see it and therefore don't mod them down.
I think someone should be given a bunch of mod points, then sent every day to type in all the insults into the search and look through all the comments to see which ones are flames, and mod em down.
Although you couldn't pay me enough.
Actually, more and more people in the medical and possibly the scientific field (I only work with medical types) are breaking out into the internet. The thing is if you get over all the capitalistic nonsense spewed out on it, you get a really good way to communicate... If you can get past the spam and banner ads and adware and popups and spyware and...
The thing is the king of artificial Synthesia, imoho, is old cartoons. Smells come across as green vapors, noises come across as *BLAM* of *BOOM* etc... And imoho, they get the general visual sense of it. As for seeing music, well, yeah, the visualizations on a media player, or fantasia works too.
Problem is everybody sees music differently, some people see a certain song... oh let's use Oorf's Oh Fortuna. Some see just red shapes in their head dancing to the music, others see a huge battle with medeival armies and dragons and stuff, and other people see their futures, etc. It's all relative, so unless it's person for person, it's kinda irrelevant.
What I'm wondering is can a person with synesthesia satisfy a craving by just smelling something?
I believe the IM went something like this:
We are the RIAA. Big Rosen is watching. You will cease and desist or we will blow up your home planet using... umm... lawyers. EXTERMINATE! You have no chance to escape make your time. *Evil laugh*
But seriously, what the hell do they think they're pulling on this one? A mass lawsuit to all who use Kazaa? Now that would be funny... Or maybe they're going to try to shut down Kazaa through mass scare tactics, hacking, and mass poisonings of the networks. Don't they get an idea? They really need to get a clue and realize that if they don't stop they will go under within months.
I had a feeling after the war was over the corporations would come in and take what they could/try to create a market or something...
What next, sending AOL CDs there?
Get new AOL 8.1 in Iraq! You can now access any sites you want to without the government trying to kill you, and do practically anything... If you're willing to wait a few hours for the main page to load...
What next, AOL telling Megatokyo to stop using l33t because it's dumbing down the youth population? (AOL's philosophy.)
I'm sorry, but I find myself disgusted by a mix of salamander, idiot, and jamacian in one.
Jar Jar's head. On a silver platter. With Ewok sauce on the side.
No, really, I think George Lucas really needs to learn that he's been getting a pretty bad rap for Episode 1 and Episode 2. His storytelling skills have rusted, and he needs to realize that the magic is gone.
It was fresh when it came out, but now we're used to big aliens, flashy special effects, and bad acting. He needs to provide the people with something that actually lives to the level of innovating the originals had, instead of being all high and mighty and telling us it's an epic.
The thing is people know an epic when they see one. You don't need to tell them that it's an epic, because then there's a chance you could get screwed. Instead, imoho, he should revamp his methods, find what works/what the people want, and do it.
Another sad thing that I think the new ones have really lost was the feeling of the originals. The originals felt like they were made on a small budget and stuff, and the new ones just try to impress you with graphics and Jar Jar.
*[/rant mode]*
Instead of being a bunch of arrogant shits, can't the RIAA realize that P2P will just die out on it's own if they provide a better way to obtain music. But they havn't done that really, and every step they take against P2P digs them into a deeper and deeper hole. Hell, I for one am never going to buy music again.
What they don't get is that P2P is like a hydra. Cut off one head and 3 more appear and start taking chunks off of you.
Maybe if the RIAA hadn't killed off napster, they might have a fighting chance. But the more they do against P2P, the more people realize that they are just bad people.
Even if these so called music pirates are hurting them, all they're doing is making a martyr of them, which anyone could tell you is a very very bad choice. By making a martyr they create a reason to really, really hate the themselves, and end up screwing themselves over once again.
Who makes the decisions for these people? P2P is made of people. It's not a computer bug or a virus, but millions of people. If those millions started using a RIAA endorsed P2P system, they'd make a lot of money. But instead they alienate them and that's the end of it.
I wonder which will win, the RIAA or P2P. By declaring war on P2P in the way the RIAA has, there has to be a winner and a loser. And I have my bets on P2P, and indie bands.
Plus, I think a lot of people would agree, the music industry would be a lot better without the recording industry telling us what music is hot and what music isn't, and what music we should hear and what music we shouldn't. They need to realize that their ways are over and they need to change.
Those who are not so net saavy who I have had experience helping get set up on the wired have complained that they don't get any spam. They feel inadequate, or something, and feel left out.
I try to resist the urge to lay smackage down on them. I really do try.
Were you are have you ever been involved with Apple?
Do you know anyone who is or has been involved with Apple?
And I don't even want to think about how Paul Reuben would try to explain his...
He must've spent all his time (when not studying physics) playing FPS! That explains his extrodinary combat skillz! (or according to the media.)
You're forgetting the originals. Batman. Superman. Now those were good movies.
Another thing I contribute to Half Life's success is that the protagonist is instead of a buff army guy, a physics nerd. You can't go wrong there!
And Nemesis isn't up for one. How strange. (ha.)
I heard him say that at the sakuracon. It's true.
Wait, this is religion we're talking about... Never mind.
But still, putting people's beliefs down only comes back to slap you in the face. It does nobody any good, and it wastes valuable server space. (But then again, so am I.)
But please, if you want to try to say something, be mature and put forth an arguement. Insults and swearing don't justify a logical arguements, and all you end up doing is ruining the /. experience for all the people who try to escape here for some sort of intellegent debate.
*/rant mode*
So I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm tired of people flaming over mundane crap like this. Get a life, and try to be nice. Eat some friggin peeps, and read all the interesting articles here on them.
I still believe that when trying to turn an anime into a live action movie one should work with the utmost respect for the anime itself, and try to keep everything the way it was, without trying to over-americanize it. (by adding unnecessary sex, guns, and explosions... Although the sex part is well covered in a lot of animes.) Otherwise you get something that is... crap.
So THAT explains the mass seizure when watching Anger management the other day...
Or it could've been Adam Sandler's acting...
In the future, these visualizations will work with windows media player and go with the music, holding little relevancy to anything, and yet people will love it. (sounds almost like a mac) Then people will start using it for business...
Still, I think this is one step in the right direction for PDAs: Combine them into a swiss army PDA that has a big hard drive and a bunch of other stuff so it could double as a PDA, cell phone, wallet, ID card, briefcase, backpack, pocket novel, etc. Of course then if you got yours stolen, you'd be kinda fux0red, but oh well.