This is true, and Lucas has a LOT of money, so he could be doing some crazy stuff like generating depth maps for the 2d, live action elements. With enough money almost anything is possible, for all we know he's got some sweatshop in Asia full of children shackled to high end pcs, painting fake z-depth information... frame by frame.
I saw the remake of Clash of the Titans in "3d" and it was put through a 2d to 3d conversion. The greedy producers had all the existing footage converted to stereo 3d, and the result was craptacular. At best stuff looked three dimensional the way looking into a viewmaster was "three dimensional". At worst it was causing me eyestrain and headaches, although the headaches could have been due to the total shitfest that the movie itself was.
If a similar technique is being employed for the Star Wars re-re-re-release than its likely going to have the same strange viewmaster looking effect.
I've done a fair bit of mindless semi-afk mining during my time playing eve, and never had much trouble with suicide attackers, can flippers, or other such stuff. I'd imagine that taking the usual minimal precautions like parking in a dead end, low traffic system would work relatively well.
Depending on how robust sikuli is, it might be possible to make a mission running macro, which could be even safer than blasting rocks (with the right ship setup, and such). Barring that I'd likely use sikuli on a second account to automate monkey work. Things like post-mission looting/salvaging, hauling, etc. are wonderful candidates for macro abuse.
...and things will stay as a republic - barring unlikely actions by uncontrolled intelligence agencies going rogue if a future leader tries to reign them in.
Don't worry, if our modern Praetorans act like their ancient bretheren, we'll have some interesting times up ahead.
Well, regarding the radiaton, I figure there's two ways to go about it.
The ugly way would be to build ships with thick walls of lead, or some other effective barrier material. The cons are obvious, with sheer mass being the biggest problem.
The other way I think might work would be to surround the ship with a magnetic field, the way Earth is. That would need a pretty big energy source. With the current attitudes toward nuclear materials in space, I don't see this being viable.
People also said that man will never fly, and yet I can look out my window right now and see at least 3 aircraft full of people who are doing the "impossible". We could get to Mars with today's technology, but for some idiotic reason the powers that be would rather expend huge amounts of resources on an utterly pointless war. Should we go to Mars? Hell, I don't know, but a manned Mars mission would probably benefit mankind more than dropping expensive laser guided bombs onto a $5 hut.
I propose wave after wave of chinese needle snakes. Sure, then we've got hoards of snakes on the islands, but I hear there's this species of gorilla that trives on needle snakes. Apparantly, a harsh winter will kill of the gorillas, and problem solved!
Sure we can, its called having children. My life is only important to myself, my family, and perhaps a small circle of friends. Outside that, the greater mass of humanity doesn't give a flying fuck about me, you, or anyone else.
In my opinion, turning the other cheek is never an acceptable response. You'll just end up with two bruised cheeks. Instead, use only sufficent force stop their attack. Read up on the Continuum of Force concept. If someone starts slapping my face, I slap em back. A little feedback will let them know I'm not to be trifled with. Most civilized people will desist. If they don't, then you knock em unconsious, and move on.
Slashdot Mirror
This is true, and Lucas has a LOT of money, so he could be doing some crazy stuff like generating depth maps for the 2d, live action elements. With enough money almost anything is possible, for all we know he's got some sweatshop in Asia full of children shackled to high end pcs, painting fake z-depth information... frame by frame.
I saw the remake of Clash of the Titans in "3d" and it was put through a 2d to 3d conversion. The greedy producers had all the existing footage converted to stereo 3d, and the result was craptacular. At best stuff looked three dimensional the way looking into a viewmaster was "three dimensional". At worst it was causing me eyestrain and headaches, although the headaches could have been due to the total shitfest that the movie itself was. If a similar technique is being employed for the Star Wars re-re-re-release than its likely going to have the same strange viewmaster looking effect.
While not as spectacular as a proton beam to the face, doesn't botox do a similar job of paralyzing the face, and thus reducing wrinkle formation?
I've done a fair bit of mindless semi-afk mining during my time playing eve, and never had much trouble with suicide attackers, can flippers, or other such stuff. I'd imagine that taking the usual minimal precautions like parking in a dead end, low traffic system would work relatively well.
Depending on how robust sikuli is, it might be possible to make a mission running macro, which could be even safer than blasting rocks (with the right ship setup, and such). Barring that I'd likely use sikuli on a second account to automate monkey work. Things like post-mission looting/salvaging, hauling, etc. are wonderful candidates for macro abuse.
This looks like a powerful tool for gold / isk / whatever farming. I'm tempted to resurrect my eve account and see if I can make an auto-miner script.
Firm pizza dough?
Not bags of sand?
Funny, I thought the term for this scenario was "Oh Fuck!".
Don't worry, even if all the Star Destroyers either gave up, or turned and ran, the Ewoks faced their demise.
There's a limit to how much you can abuse the rectums of even the dumbest of customers, and I think Microsoft is headed squarely toward that limit.
Yeah, such a waste of time that Dell is offering desktop machines with Ubuntu preloaded... cretin.
So? Once this pain ray comes to market, the renta-cops will have them too, and they'll use them the same way they've been using tasers.
Ze kommandant told me to march zese inmates into ze shower... I vas doing mein job!
Well, it looks like you can have both after all!
Someone's been playing a little too much San Andreas methinks...
Heathen! You forgot Nethack. That's enough game for anyone!
Indeed. I highly doubt that 10,000 years ago Thagnar lamented the fact that nobody would remember his daily struggles.
Don't worry, if our modern Praetorans act like their ancient bretheren, we'll have some interesting times up ahead.
The ugly way would be to build ships with thick walls of lead, or some other effective barrier material. The cons are obvious, with sheer mass being the biggest problem.
The other way I think might work would be to surround the ship with a magnetic field, the way Earth is. That would need a pretty big energy source. With the current attitudes toward nuclear materials in space, I don't see this being viable.
Meh, where's Zefram Cochrane when you need him?!
People also said that man will never fly, and yet I can look out my window right now and see at least 3 aircraft full of people who are doing the "impossible". We could get to Mars with today's technology, but for some idiotic reason the powers that be would rather expend huge amounts of resources on an utterly pointless war. Should we go to Mars? Hell, I don't know, but a manned Mars mission would probably benefit mankind more than dropping expensive laser guided bombs onto a $5 hut.
I propose wave after wave of chinese needle snakes. Sure, then we've got hoards of snakes on the islands, but I hear there's this species of gorilla that trives on needle snakes. Apparantly, a harsh winter will kill of the gorillas, and problem solved!
Brought my gun. Lock and load!
Sure we can, its called having children. My life is only important to myself, my family, and perhaps a small circle of friends. Outside that, the greater mass of humanity doesn't give a flying fuck about me, you, or anyone else.
In my opinion, turning the other cheek is never an acceptable response. You'll just end up with two bruised cheeks. Instead, use only sufficent force stop their attack. Read up on the Continuum of Force concept. If someone starts slapping my face, I slap em back. A little feedback will let them know I'm not to be trifled with. Most civilized people will desist. If they don't, then you knock em unconsious, and move on.
Some silly bastard subjected himself to a month's worth of olestra "enriched" products... the results were not pretty.