Excuse me? Do you think that we do not chemestry? Biological Anthropology is a biological discipline, and, I am not sure how it is in the United States, or wherever you're hailing from, but here biologists take chemestry as compulsory.
Actually, he was wrong. The experiment's controled variables from the onset changed the odds, but this was not reflected in his research. Furthermore, the odds of formation over disentegration are unfortunately impossible. This is NOT a supported theory today in the biological field. Miller was not an asshole; he was a bright guy, but the primordial soup is no longer the thoery most researchers support (there will always be a few, but there are still archeologists who swear by Atlantis).
As a student of Biological Anthropology, I have had the oppertunity to take a history of biological anthropology in which Miller was mentioned. Interesting guy, but the theory is not supported any more except by the few staunchest researchers.
In other words, this is pop science. It survives in text books (like many other evolutionary inaccuracies that nobody seems to be willing to update). In truth, the experiment did not conclude much.
In short, the amino acid theory in reality did not produce very much at all. Still, Miller dared to try it, which is a feat in itself.
Update those textbooks! Include him in the history section, but his theory is not much good anymore.
As an evolutionist (anthropology student), I must say that this is bad 'evidence' because it is not evidence. Evolution often must undergo speculation, and this is exactly what it is: speculation. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it is impossible. However, this is ~not~ going to be the argument used on evolutionist side. When we get to some more complex human behavior, we try to bind ourselves in the evolutionary framework (and that may not be the only factor at play, after all). However, just because it sounds plausible within the framework does not make it evidence. Having said that, it is a very good theory because it does SOUND good.
You're not talking evolution there, but AMBIOGENESIS. Ambiogenesis, the primordial soup theory, has become increasingly scrutinized for one simple reason: DNA and life complexity. Life, even in the simplest of organisms, is so complex that coming together out of nothing is virtually impossible. This theory is not thought in my university anymore.
With the fossilized bacteria found on Mars, they are focusing on the theory that an asteroid brought life to earth. This, of course, is not a real explanation. It doesn't tell us how it came on an asteroid, nor does it tell us where it is originally from.
RIAA has tried suing, and will continue to sue just 'normal' people in proving a point. However, this is a band-aid that will not change anything. MP3s are here to stay. Anonymous networks are not impossible; one can even mask themselves in Kazaa effectively. The main problem is the fact that if this is the solution RIAA has to MP3s, it is a very bad one.
Sooner or later, it is going to have to face up to the real challange of MP3s in a more constructive way. Looks to me like they are binding time until they think of something better.
Yesterday when driving I saw the BIGGEST shooting star in my life. It was huge and it elongated itself down for what felt like ten seconds (although, obviously, it wasn't even close), and it went STRAIGHT down. It was the most impressive thing I've seen from the skies, and I am wondering if it is a part of this meteor shower.
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MAndrake is still the OS I use, and this will continue to be so. It is the first distribution that made me convert from Windows. When I saw it, I couldn't believe the EASE of installation and the user-friendliness of the whole package. Regardless of the fact that even distros like Red Hat are getting easier to use, this is still the *only* distro which I can give to my non-convert friends. I have done this for a few people now while advising them which computer to buy, and ALL of them never needed help. Mandrake is just what the doctor ordered to show that Linux CAN be user friendly. It is one of the distros that definetely deserves all the support it can get!
No one deserves 25 million? Thats the most presumptious crap I ever heard.
These actors/actresses spend months away from family and friends on shoots, they spend decades learning their trade (anthony hopkins for an example). They deal with constant press pressure, they have MAJOR expenses in the form of security gaurds because of death threats and stalkers.
Nobody deserves 20 mil. Not even bloody stupid CEOs that are now fighting fraud alligations.
What's your point? What are you arguing? Do you even know? Cinemathographers, crew, etc. etc. also spend time away from families. I guess you think it is being filmed by ghosts? Sorry, no dice.
Constant media pressure? Purely their own choiceto be in the spotlight. There are actors, you know, who chose not to be in the spotlight. Regardless of your bullshit, this is more than possible.
The elitists are those who claim they deserve the cash more than the ones doing all the work. Sitting in front of a typewritter all day is hardly grueling labor. Guys like Mel do their own stunt work, they do lots of physical acting, tons of travel not to mention the extremely hard work they are put through in promoting the movie.
Bullshit. What is all the work? Go check the leisure times of actors VS editors. Go to film school. Learn something. Most work isn't done by your precious actors. If you think editors are not important and don't do hard work, next time let the ACTORS assemble edits from rushes because they know it all. Do you know what rushes are at all? Assuming that you do, you better agree rushes are of equal quality to finals, otherwise you admit you're a fucking cluless troll. By the way, while you are at it, fire screenwriters. I'd like to see actors acting without a script. Would be VERY entertaining.
You sir are the one who knows nothing about the film industry. Scripts are a dime a dozen. There are only so many ways you can tell the same story, but acting them out is a far more intricate and challenging proffession.
So are actors. Dime an f'ing dozen. You really think 200 people in the world know how to act? Good for you ignorant jack-ass. What the fuck is your point?
Good actors save films. There are plenty of badly written movies saved entirely by the cast, look at the majority of the Star Trek movies for this. Look at Ransom starring Mel Gibson. I could give you a list as long as my arm, but I'm pretty sure it still wouldn't convince an elitist prick like you.
Star Trek is your idea of a good movie? No, I am sorry; other than to make money, it is boring, trite junk. OK, so you DON'T know anything. Horrible acting aside, you sitll haven't rebutted how acting can compensate for bad editing. It certainly does work the other way around?
I some experience, while it is obvious you are talking purely out of your ass. Not elitist, just more knowledgable than a stupid troll. Next time, let the actors do the entire film idiot. See how that turns out.
More important than actors? Fine you get your ass up in front of the camera.
Sorry pal but actors go through hell trying to make, they earn their dues just like everyone else. Drop the elitest attitude.
Fact is: a good editor can soften bad acting. Good acting will never make up for bad editing, not in a billion years.
He doesn't 'deserve' $25,000,000. Nobody deservs that much. And don't say "conditions that they have to work with" because so do cinematographers. Elitist? Hardly! Considering it is the actors self-congratulating themselves ALL the time, it seems to me they are the ones being elitist. Sorry, you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Are you a failed actor per chance, or a person that knows nothing about film? Which is it?
Getting in front of camera with all that light in your face may not be the easiest job, but for what it is, it is way to overpayed.
Don't like that? To bad, Mel will pack the house. No one cares who wrote, for better or worse.
Exactly. And how often do you go to a movie with 'super' superstars, to find out the movie sucked because of extremely crappy screenplay? A good actor can't help a bad screenplay. The fact that nobody cares is troubling. It's the reason why we have so much crap coming out every year.
Actors are important, but they are just one cog of the machine. AND, they are the easiest to compensate for, as I am sure you would know if you took any film courses whatsoever.
Before somebody jumps the gun and condemns me for bashing Mel Gibson, this post is more of a concern of a casual editor (working part-time in my father's company) and knowing a thing or two about film. Acting is the most highly overrated position in film, and with Mel getting $25,000,000 this will not change any time soon. Editors, cinematographers,screenwriters etc., which are far more important than actors, get salaries that are not even close, but do much more work. $25,000,000 is a lot for one of the easier jobs in the film industry.
While I think that the new GeForce card is constantly showing just how good it is, there is not reason to completely over-exaggerate its capabilities. I hate videos showing one model in a very simplistic scene and being hailed as 'most realistic 3D ever.' For these demos to be realistic, they need to have REAL scenes, with real moving objects. I wish marketing was more honest.
Regardless of the author's bias, I have found this to be true. My dad has a small editing video business with many partners. One of them just got the new PC workstation box and it smoked the Macs in pretty much anything. Macs still might be easier to use and less prone to headaching, but if raw speed is what you need (and that is often what you need when deadlines are looming), then the PC wins.
The only reason I see as to why this is popular is because it is found in WalMart. I bought a computer for my girlfriend a week ago, with almost the same specs, but a 100 MHz faster, and it came with Windows 98, which, granted, got changed to Mandrake. Oh, and it also had a real video card. The price was $260 Canadian. So, it was a fair bit cheaper too than this.
Honestly, though, just because it comes without Windows doesn't mean that it is immedietely a billion dollars cheaper. The licenses for integrated Win 98 is similar to that of Lindows. Instead, how about packing it with REAL Linux? Would that not be cheaper, as it would not cost consumers a penny more.
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Excuse me? Do you think that we do not chemestry? Biological Anthropology is a biological discipline, and, I am not sure how it is in the United States, or wherever you're hailing from, but here biologists take chemestry as compulsory.
Actually, he was wrong. The experiment's controled variables from the onset changed the odds, but this was not reflected in his research. Furthermore, the odds of formation over disentegration are unfortunately impossible. This is NOT a supported theory today in the biological field. Miller was not an asshole; he was a bright guy, but the primordial soup is no longer the thoery most researchers support (there will always be a few, but there are still archeologists who swear by Atlantis).
As a student of Biological Anthropology, I have had the oppertunity to take a history of biological anthropology in which Miller was mentioned. Interesting guy, but the theory is not supported any more except by the few staunchest researchers. In other words, this is pop science. It survives in text books (like many other evolutionary inaccuracies that nobody seems to be willing to update). In truth, the experiment did not conclude much. In short, the amino acid theory in reality did not produce very much at all. Still, Miller dared to try it, which is a feat in itself. Update those textbooks! Include him in the history section, but his theory is not much good anymore.
If you did not see EVIDENCE, which is constantly qouted in the movie, are you sure you are being objective yourself?
As an evolutionist (anthropology student), I must say that this is bad 'evidence' because it is not evidence. Evolution often must undergo speculation, and this is exactly what it is: speculation. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it is impossible. However, this is ~not~ going to be the argument used on evolutionist side. When we get to some more complex human behavior, we try to bind ourselves in the evolutionary framework (and that may not be the only factor at play, after all). However, just because it sounds plausible within the framework does not make it evidence. Having said that, it is a very good theory because it does SOUND good.
You're not talking evolution there, but AMBIOGENESIS. Ambiogenesis, the primordial soup theory, has become increasingly scrutinized for one simple reason: DNA and life complexity. Life, even in the simplest of organisms, is so complex that coming together out of nothing is virtually impossible. This theory is not thought in my university anymore.
With the fossilized bacteria found on Mars, they are focusing on the theory that an asteroid brought life to earth. This, of course, is not a real explanation. It doesn't tell us how it came on an asteroid, nor does it tell us where it is originally from.
RIAA has tried suing, and will continue to sue just 'normal' people in proving a point. However, this is a band-aid that will not change anything. MP3s are here to stay. Anonymous networks are not impossible; one can even mask themselves in Kazaa effectively. The main problem is the fact that if this is the solution RIAA has to MP3s, it is a very bad one.
Sooner or later, it is going to have to face up to the real challange of MP3s in a more constructive way. Looks to me like they are binding time until they think of something better.
Yesterday when driving I saw the BIGGEST shooting star in my life. It was huge and it elongated itself down for what felt like ten seconds (although, obviously, it wasn't even close), and it went STRAIGHT down. It was the most impressive thing I've seen from the skies, and I am wondering if it is a part of this meteor shower.
MAndrake is still the OS I use, and this will continue to be so. It is the first distribution that made me convert from Windows. When I saw it, I couldn't believe the EASE of installation and the user-friendliness of the whole package. Regardless of the fact that even distros like Red Hat are getting easier to use, this is still the *only* distro which I can give to my non-convert friends. I have done this for a few people now while advising them which computer to buy, and ALL of them never needed help. Mandrake is just what the doctor ordered to show that Linux CAN be user friendly. It is one of the distros that definetely deserves all the support it can get!
No one deserves 25 million? Thats the most presumptious crap I ever heard.
These actors/actresses spend months away from family and friends on shoots, they spend decades learning their trade (anthony hopkins for an example). They deal with constant press pressure, they have MAJOR expenses in the form of security gaurds because of death threats and stalkers.
Nobody deserves 20 mil. Not even bloody stupid CEOs that are now fighting fraud alligations.
What's your point? What are you arguing? Do you even know? Cinemathographers, crew, etc. etc. also spend time away from families. I guess you think it is being filmed by ghosts? Sorry, no dice.
Constant media pressure? Purely their own choiceto be in the spotlight. There are actors, you know, who chose not to be in the spotlight. Regardless of your bullshit, this is more than possible.
The elitists are those who claim they deserve the cash more than the ones doing all the work. Sitting in front of a typewritter all day is hardly grueling labor. Guys like Mel do their own stunt work, they do lots of physical acting, tons of travel not to mention the extremely hard work they are put through in promoting the movie.
Bullshit. What is all the work? Go check the leisure times of actors VS editors. Go to film school. Learn something. Most work isn't done by your precious actors. If you think editors are not important and don't do hard work, next time let the ACTORS assemble edits from rushes because they know it all. Do you know what rushes are at all? Assuming that you do, you better agree rushes are of equal quality to finals, otherwise you admit you're a fucking cluless troll. By the way, while you are at it, fire screenwriters. I'd like to see actors acting without a script. Would be VERY entertaining.
You sir are the one who knows nothing about the film industry. Scripts are a dime a dozen. There are only so many ways you can tell the same story, but acting them out is a far more intricate and challenging proffession.
So are actors. Dime an f'ing dozen. You really think 200 people in the world know how to act? Good for you ignorant jack-ass. What the fuck is your point?
Good actors save films. There are plenty of badly written movies saved entirely by the cast, look at the majority of the Star Trek movies for this. Look at Ransom starring Mel Gibson. I could give you a list as long as my arm, but I'm pretty sure it still wouldn't convince an elitist prick like you.
Star Trek is your idea of a good movie? No, I am sorry; other than to make money, it is boring, trite junk. OK, so you DON'T know anything. Horrible acting aside, you sitll haven't rebutted how acting can compensate for bad editing. It certainly does work the other way around?
I some experience, while it is obvious you are talking purely out of your ass. Not elitist, just more knowledgable than a stupid troll. Next time, let the actors do the entire film idiot. See how that turns out.
More important than actors? Fine you get your ass up in front of the camera.
Sorry pal but actors go through hell trying to make, they earn their dues just like everyone else. Drop the elitest attitude.
Fact is: a good editor can soften bad acting. Good acting will never make up for bad editing, not in a billion years.
He doesn't 'deserve' $25,000,000. Nobody deservs that much. And don't say "conditions that they have to work with" because so do cinematographers. Elitist? Hardly! Considering it is the actors self-congratulating themselves ALL the time, it seems to me they are the ones being elitist. Sorry, you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Are you a failed actor per chance, or a person that knows nothing about film? Which is it?
Getting in front of camera with all that light in your face may not be the easiest job, but for what it is, it is way to overpayed.
Don't like that? To bad, Mel will pack the house. No one cares who wrote, for better or worse.
Exactly. And how often do you go to a movie with 'super' superstars, to find out the movie sucked because of extremely crappy screenplay? A good actor can't help a bad screenplay. The fact that nobody cares is troubling. It's the reason why we have so much crap coming out every year.
Actors are important, but they are just one cog of the machine. AND, they are the easiest to compensate for, as I am sure you would know if you took any film courses whatsoever.
Before somebody jumps the gun and condemns me for bashing Mel Gibson, this post is more of a concern of a casual editor (working part-time in my father's company) and knowing a thing or two about film. Acting is the most highly overrated position in film, and with Mel getting $25,000,000 this will not change any time soon. Editors, cinematographers,screenwriters etc., which are far more important than actors, get salaries that are not even close, but do much more work. $25,000,000 is a lot for one of the easier jobs in the film industry.
While I think that the new GeForce card is constantly showing just how good it is, there is not reason to completely over-exaggerate its capabilities. I hate videos showing one model in a very simplistic scene and being hailed as 'most realistic 3D ever.' For these demos to be realistic, they need to have REAL scenes, with real moving objects. I wish marketing was more honest.
Regardless of the author's bias, I have found this to be true. My dad has a small editing video business with many partners. One of them just got the new PC workstation box and it smoked the Macs in pretty much anything. Macs still might be easier to use and less prone to headaching, but if raw speed is what you need (and that is often what you need when deadlines are looming), then the PC wins.
The only reason I see as to why this is popular is because it is found in WalMart. I bought a computer for my girlfriend a week ago, with almost the same specs, but a 100 MHz faster, and it came with Windows 98, which, granted, got changed to Mandrake. Oh, and it also had a real video card. The price was $260 Canadian. So, it was a fair bit cheaper too than this. Honestly, though, just because it comes without Windows doesn't mean that it is immedietely a billion dollars cheaper. The licenses for integrated Win 98 is similar to that of Lindows. Instead, how about packing it with REAL Linux? Would that not be cheaper, as it would not cost consumers a penny more.