Well, the article says they've got a team of seven writers on it, including Groening (I imagine that Conan is too busy). The ideal scenario: these guys get together and say: ok, let's see if we can make this 100 times funnier than any episode, justifying the extra length, AND if we find we can't do it, we CALL THIS OFF.
The problems always arise when people start off with something that could have been good, realize it isn't going to be, and for financing or other reasons, proceed anyway. When I see a disastrous movie, I always wonder when the moment was that people started to realize, "this is going to be s**t."
I don't know about you, but the faux-girl power ads are all the rage everywhere I look. If it makes her look smart and capable, and him dumb and clueless, it will sell if she's buying.
Erm. Ok, forgive me for pointing out the absurdity of the (non)joke above. It obviously wasn't redundant to the poster. Made me laugh my ass off, in fact.:)
Man, when's the last time anyone got successfully sued for false advertising? I thought we gave that up in the '80's. We're knee deep in evasive logic, now. 4 out of 5 dentists recommend it -- and here they are: Fred, John, Billy, and Tim -- Bob, why do you have to be such a pain?
The courts don't care about your opinion. It is not a popularity contest. Elect someone on issues, who believes the things you do, and they'll make the laws that the courts have to enforce.
Cancer is a current problem.
I can file a lawsuit tomorrow if I want. It's only a problem tomorrow for my opponent. For everyone else, it's precedential value only comes into play when there's a judgment. Unless you think you've got some kind of cause for intervenor status.
digitalvengeance is right. The patent office does not have the mandate to judge whether a patent is valid or not. They also don't have the resouces. If they were going to have a specialized office, it wouldn't be compsci, it would be biotech, and even then, for them to "judge" your patent would be beyond the pale. They have no right to tell you that you can't patent your invention, unless it clearly can't work, you don't supply sufficient details of the design, or the design has already been patented.
Hmm. Personal note -- friend from school committed suicide many years back. I knew something was wrong when he dropped role-playing. Can't say for sure what was going on in his head, but facing reality head on, 24/7, was clearly not for the best.
but no mistake, porn sites put some resources into clamping down on those who hack into premium content. These guys aren't stupid. Also, given the investment-to-profit ratio in that biz, I wonder if it isn't a bit of found-money syndrome. It just happens, as a fringe benefit, that squeezing every last penny out of your customers is also good for business.
You make a good point. Sadly, no one seems to want that kind of interaction anymore. Too much of a hurry, too personal. As a result, can this be far off?
Honestly, though, prices partly keep me from being one of the guys you're handing ten albums to. I like to browse, but most people, if they don't have that personal relationship, would rather hit the checkout and be home all the sooner to start listening to their tunes, or on the way to someplace else.
Doesn't invalidate your point, but interestingly, Southeast Asia is full of "Playstation cafes", and I mean, full of them. Jammed with youth for every hour they're open.
Internet cafes still serve a purpose there, but also here -- the traveller, the new person to town, and yes, those without home computers or cable access. They're the phone booth of the internet (though they do have those type of terminals, too, in laundromats, for the bored). Not to mention, the gaming community makes extensive use of those cafes (annoying to those of us doing other stuff). The cafes will last, just not so damn many of them.
oh yes, that must be why I haul out my box of vinyl (I have one) so often. F**k that. In fact, the only reason I'm hanging on to my CD's is so I can prove I own them. I'm ripping 10-20 of them a week, and after that, they're going into storage. The only thing that gets used less than my CD player is my vcr. Oh yeah, and my record player.
now vinyl won't immediately go out of business, but that's certainly not because they're better than CD's. It has a niche market in what I tend to call "scratchy record DJ's" at local clubs -- the result being that the price of vinyl only hit garage sale value for a brief while before climbing again. Result: NOT much better value than CD's, but also won't die off.*
*where I am, vinyl runs about $10 and a CD $15. DVD's are the real bargain -- many I buy are the same price as the CD. (hell, PI on DVD was cheaper than the soundtrack)
Man, the way those lines were delivered was clearly an indication that this was a parody of the way news interviews simplify complicated issues, scoring cheap, but not decisive, points.
I'm on the same side here -- I'm from the generation that Dungeons and Dragons would turn into evil, raving, psycho-killers.
But this whole -- there was __ before -- logic is crap. Maybe *I*, as an individual psycho, decide wholly on the basis of AC/DC lyrics to do some unspeakable act. Fact 1: I'd have to be pretty screwed up to begin with. Fact 2: "There were killers before AC/DC" doesn't really have anything to do with this particular killing, the fact that I strangled him with bells painted red in his own blood. Maybe my natural violent tendencies would have found different expression instead -- maybe I just would have beaten the silly bastard. Who's to say?
Everybody wants to deny the influence of everything, because absolutely unencumbered free will is a God-given (heh) right. "X determines behaviour" is a straw man, because the real argument is "X influences behaviour". Video games? Not in any way we can measure yet, in terms of violence. Just cause the kids in my elementary school were doing "Street Fighter moves" a few years ago, doesn't mean they wouldn't have been doing Bruce Lee moves a decade or two back.
But put the "there was violence before" argument in the specious reasoning bin, along with the "I played video games and am not a psycho" anecdote logic, which coincides nicely with "what about Columbine" anecdote logic. Anecdotes prove nothing but what happened in an individual case (if you have insight on it). Leave it to the stats, people. So far, they show no relationship.
Great movie. The migraines are a little hard to take, though, even second-hand. Since this new book apparently "de-bunks" many of the supposed occurrences of the golden ratio in art, that pushes Pi a little further into speculative fiction. But still, a hell of a ride.
He draws it over a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous drawing of man s anatomy.
MAX The golden ratio, if I recall, is this unique relationship between the length and width of a special rectangle called the golden rectangle.
TIGHT ON MAX carefully measuring out a golden rectangle.
The rectangle fits perfectly over Leonardo Da Vinci's Man.
MAX If you take the width of this rectangle and use it to form a square within the rectangle, the part left over is a rectangle that has the same ratio as the original rectangle. you can continue squaring the rectangle, over and over again, making the rectangles smaller and smaller to infinity.
TIGHT ON MAX squaring rectangle after rectangle. Then he draws the golden spiral through the rectangles.
MAX Then, if you connect a curve through these rectangles you get the golden spiral. The Pythagoreans loved this shape because they found it everywhere in nature.
Me, too. That's why I still have cable internet, and watch streaming video and DVD's on my home PC theatre. The TV/vcr get hardly any use at all, though sometimes I turn it on to get the hydravision effect, usually when guests are over.
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Well, the article says they've got a team of seven writers on it, including Groening (I imagine that Conan is too busy). The ideal scenario: these guys get together and say: ok, let's see if we can make this 100 times funnier than any episode, justifying the extra length, AND if we find we can't do it, we CALL THIS OFF.
The problems always arise when people start off with something that could have been good, realize it isn't going to be, and for financing or other reasons, proceed anyway. When I see a disastrous movie, I always wonder when the moment was that people started to realize, "this is going to be s**t."
Because of the two, only your finger is in biting range.
I don't know about you, but the faux-girl power ads are all the rage everywhere I look. If it makes her look smart and capable, and him dumb and clueless, it will sell if she's buying.
Erm. Ok, forgive me for pointing out the absurdity of the (non)joke above. It obviously wasn't redundant to the poster. Made me laugh my ass off, in fact. :)
Holy friggin hell. You deserve an award. And my sympathy.
Man, when's the last time anyone got successfully sued for false advertising? I thought we gave that up in the '80's. We're knee deep in evasive logic, now. 4 out of 5 dentists recommend it -- and here they are: Fred, John, Billy, and Tim -- Bob, why do you have to be such a pain?
The courts don't care about your opinion. It is not a popularity contest. Elect someone on issues, who believes the things you do, and they'll make the laws that the courts have to enforce.
Cancer is a current problem.
I can file a lawsuit tomorrow if I want. It's only a problem tomorrow for my opponent. For everyone else, it's precedential value only comes into play when there's a judgment. Unless you think you've got some kind of cause for intervenor status.
Do you?
Seller sues vendors for microprocessor patent infringement. Not news.
Seller wins lawsuit against vendors for microprocessor infringement. News.
Let me know how it turns out.
digitalvengeance is right. The patent office does not have the mandate to judge whether a patent is valid or not. They also don't have the resouces. If they were going to have a specialized office, it wouldn't be compsci, it would be biotech, and even then, for them to "judge" your patent would be beyond the pale. They have no right to tell you that you can't patent your invention, unless it clearly can't work, you don't supply sufficient details of the design, or the design has already been patented.
EVER.
Hmm. Personal note -- friend from school committed suicide many years back. I knew something was wrong when he dropped role-playing. Can't say for sure what was going on in his head, but facing reality head on, 24/7, was clearly not for the best.
NOT good for business.
What the hell kind of Freudian slip was that?
but no mistake, porn sites put some resources into clamping down on those who hack into premium content. These guys aren't stupid. Also, given the investment-to-profit ratio in that biz, I wonder if it isn't a bit of found-money syndrome. It just happens, as a fringe benefit, that squeezing every last penny out of your customers is also good for business.
Wait, no, that was Jack Black.
You make a good point. Sadly, no one seems to want that kind of interaction anymore. Too much of a hurry, too personal. As a result, can this be far off?
Honestly, though, prices partly keep me from being one of the guys you're handing ten albums to. I like to browse, but most people, if they don't have that personal relationship, would rather hit the checkout and be home all the sooner to start listening to their tunes, or on the way to someplace else.
Doesn't invalidate your point, but interestingly, Southeast Asia is full of "Playstation cafes", and I mean, full of them. Jammed with youth for every hour they're open.
Internet cafes still serve a purpose there, but also here -- the traveller, the new person to town, and yes, those without home computers or cable access. They're the phone booth of the internet (though they do have those type of terminals, too, in laundromats, for the bored). Not to mention, the gaming community makes extensive use of those cafes (annoying to those of us doing other stuff). The cafes will last, just not so damn many of them.
Records are better than CD's...
oh yes, that must be why I haul out my box of vinyl (I have one) so often. F**k that. In fact, the only reason I'm hanging on to my CD's is so I can prove I own them. I'm ripping 10-20 of them a week, and after that, they're going into storage. The only thing that gets used less than my CD player is my vcr. Oh yeah, and my record player.
now vinyl won't immediately go out of business, but that's certainly not because they're better than CD's. It has a niche market in what I tend to call "scratchy record DJ's" at local clubs -- the result being that the price of vinyl only hit garage sale value for a brief while before climbing again. Result: NOT much better value than CD's, but also won't die off.*
*where I am, vinyl runs about $10 and a CD $15. DVD's are the real bargain -- many I buy are the same price as the CD. (hell, PI on DVD was cheaper than the soundtrack)
you need the basis in grammar in the first language before you have something to compare against.
;)
something with which to compare?
Man, the way those lines were delivered was clearly an indication that this was a parody of the way news interviews simplify complicated issues, scoring cheap, but not decisive, points.
I'm on the same side here -- I'm from the generation that Dungeons and Dragons would turn into evil, raving, psycho-killers.
But this whole -- there was __ before -- logic is crap. Maybe *I*, as an individual psycho, decide wholly on the basis of AC/DC lyrics to do some unspeakable act. Fact 1: I'd have to be pretty screwed up to begin with. Fact 2: "There were killers before AC/DC" doesn't really have anything to do with this particular killing, the fact that I strangled him with bells painted red in his own blood. Maybe my natural violent tendencies would have found different expression instead -- maybe I just would have beaten the silly bastard. Who's to say?
Everybody wants to deny the influence of everything, because absolutely unencumbered free will is a God-given (heh) right. "X determines behaviour" is a straw man, because the real argument is "X influences behaviour". Video games? Not in any way we can measure yet, in terms of violence. Just cause the kids in my elementary school were doing "Street Fighter moves" a few years ago, doesn't mean they wouldn't have been doing Bruce Lee moves a decade or two back.
But put the "there was violence before" argument in the specious reasoning bin, along with the "I played video games and am not a psycho" anecdote logic, which coincides nicely with "what about Columbine" anecdote logic. Anecdotes prove nothing but what happened in an individual case (if you have insight on it). Leave it to the stats, people. So far, they show no relationship.
As the man pointed out, the went bowling that morning. Why isn't the blame put there?
would just paint the inside of my lungs, I may be able to jog in Toronto in the mornings.
Great movie. The migraines are a little hard to take, though, even second-hand. Since this new book apparently "de-bunks" many of the supposed occurrences of the golden ratio in art, that pushes Pi a little further into speculative fiction. But still, a hell of a ride.
He draws it over a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous drawing of man s anatomy.
MAX
The golden ratio, if I recall, is this unique relationship between the length and width of a special rectangle called the golden rectangle.
TIGHT ON MAX carefully measuring out a golden rectangle.
The rectangle fits perfectly over Leonardo Da Vinci's Man.
MAX
If you take the width of this rectangle and use it to form a square within the rectangle, the part left over is a rectangle that has the same ratio as the original rectangle. you can continue squaring the rectangle, over and over again, making the rectangles smaller and smaller to infinity.
TIGHT ON MAX squaring rectangle after rectangle. Then he draws the golden spiral through the rectangles.
MAX
Then, if you connect a curve through these rectangles you get the golden spiral. The Pythagoreans loved this shape because they found it everywhere in nature.
Me, too. That's why I still have cable internet, and watch streaming video and DVD's on my home PC theatre. The TV/vcr get hardly any use at all, though sometimes I turn it on to get the hydravision effect, usually when guests are over.
No. But you remain an idiot.
Thanks for playing.
Please come again.
ack. Judging ourselves by the same standards with which we judge others. Serves me right for replying to an AC.
Don't be an idiot.
I was talking about judging ourselves by the same standards with which we judge ourselves. Where out of that did you get Europe=angels?
And puhlease, talk to me about textbook omissions after your country decides that evolution isn't the work of the devil.