It's plain in the interview that he has read the book closely -- multiple times!
I thought the answer was a little weird myself. It may have to do, however, with his characterization of Gollum. Serkis seems careful to make sure that the pathetic comes through in his portrayal, in addition to the malice.
Gollum is a warped creature; and maybe Serkis believes, in creating the character for screen, that somewhere, deep down, Gollum knows knows what the ring has cost him and regrets it.
In a development that will shock both the PC and pharmaceutical industries, PC pundit John Dvorkak will be "switching platforms."
Long known for his schizophrenic pronouncements concerning the Macintosh platform, sources close to him have confirmed Dvorak's musings have been caused by an adverse, though subtle reaction, to his psychotropic drug regimen.
"Yeah, he's said some crazy things in the past," quotes Dr. Sanghar Mumji, Dvorak's long-time psychiatrist. "You've got to cut him some slack though. Psychiatry isn't an exact science."
Industry analysts predict the dawn of a new day for Dvorak. One analyst, wishing to remain anonymous, remarks, "John has got a long road back, but I've got faith in him. I hear he's working on a Newton story."
What's up with these developers? It's like they're desparately trying to be one of the "cool kids," leaking the code to the Internet. "Yippee!"
So, in an attempt at trying to upgrade their status to being picked only second to last in gym class, all the legitimate developers who respect agreements they've made have to suffer.
And if that's true, it explains a lot. I can't tell you how many times I've had trouble with some kind of wacky typesetting in an O'Reilly book. Wouldn't using Tex or something avoid all of that?
Case in point: while I was still relatively new to Python, I picked up a book from them. Python sometimes prefixes variables with a double underscore, which, when run together in the typesetting, is difficult to distinguish from a single underscore.
Sorry, but I just can't agree that OS X's GUI is more "in your face eye candy" than Windows' is. This criticism from people is something I will never understand. For me (and I'll admit to being a Mac person), the whole article showed a Windows bias.
Granted, some people are just turned off by the genie effect and the pulsating of default buttons. But, for crying out loud, The XP GUI is the most garish set of colors. It looks like the artwork of the mentally ill.
The old Windows GUI was a bit staid, but at least looked business-like. How this mad, psychedelic fantasy of color can continue to sit on the desktops of businesses everywhere is beyond me. It's unprofessional!
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the MS v. Apple thing got settled out of court: Apple agreeing to drop the suit in exchange for the notorious "five year deal" whereby Microsoft agreed to continue to develop Office, et al., for the Mac.
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Actually, the real problem is political.
People will begin working at age 25, after completing graduate school; work until 65, when they take early retirement from social security; and then expect to collect from that "unending font of money" until they're 105.
If the cost of new works becomes prohibitive, perhaps a true liberal arts education based on the Great Books will return; ending the anti-intellectual, trendy nonsense that passes for an education these days.
Of course no one really believes that. But, just as Java is organized into packages, so should there be another level of organization above packages.
It just makes better conceptual sense, and offers a better guide to getting a handle on the language.
And from another practical point of view, a person might be able to buy a $35 book that will be 90% useful to them, rather than a $55 dollar book for which only two thirds or less will be useful during the coming year.
An author writing a book on J2SE must try to touch on every part of the release, or risk making his book seem "incomplete" by comparison.
(Note: I'm not talking about any one book in particular.)
I was especially interested in the part of the memo that talked about extensions being rolled into the main product. But, apart from backwards compatibility, I think it just makes learning the language more difficult.
I learned the language back in 1.3, and I'm amazed at how much more has been added to the 1.4 release. Sifting through the javadocs has become a bit more of a pain, but nothing someone already familiar with the language can't handle.
My concern is people who are learning the language. I think the API is becoming more and more overwhelming to future Java developers. Look how much fatter O'Reilly's Learning Java book has become!
A smaller J2SE with standard extensions to be downloaded as necessary makes better conceptual sense.
The ubiquitous presence of Microsoft products, coupled with their notorious vulnerabilities, is what puts the Internet environment in such a precarious state. This predicament is analogous to the supposed insidious danger for which environmentalists criticize so-called "frankenfoods."
The argument against genetically modified organisms in commercial farming says that big business will curtail bio-diversity by settling on one or two strains for each crop or livestock. A single virus or other bug could then wipe out that entire food supply in one fell swoop.
(Everyone is familiar with the potato famines in Europe and how it affected the impoverised who had come to rely on the potato as the sole staple in their diet.)
Personally, I'm fine with GMO's, but I think we are risking something along the lines of an "Internet potato famine" when we rely on a particular breed of computer products (a.k.a. Microsoft) that is riddled with such fatal flaws.
A little more "binary diversity" on the Internet would be a good thing.
Is this something new because of computer programming? There are plenty of people who sit all day long as part of their jobs.
While we're on the subject, I've been wondering about something. I went to music school some years ago. The piano majors there practiced regularly anywhere from 4-8 hours a day. They didn't sit in front of their keyboards for 8 straight hours, but they sat plenty. They didn't use the chairs that most office workers use, however.
Piano players sit on a bench, sometimes padded, sometimes not. They don't sit back in their benches either, the way people do in office chairs, but sit on the edge of the bench with their weight forward.
So what I'm wondering is, does anyone out there sit like this? Do we have any accomplished programmers/pianists who could shed some light on the ergonomics of this? I'm wondering if we "keyboardists" shouldn't sit the way pianists do.
I have to agree. The whole notion that those millions of people would have been "somewhere else" is ludicrous.
The Internet has been around a long, long time. But, it was beyond even being unfriendly to the average Joe Enduser. It was the province of physicists and such.
AOL sucks, yes. But they had the genius to fill a niche that no one else even new existed. No -- sorry! They had the genius to create that niche.
They made it possible for a lot of technically challenged -- and even technically timid -- people to get online. That company fueled the Internet boom.
Using something like Photoshop opens a wide door for abuse. If technology is going to be used to help uncover evidence (and it already is), then the power of that technology should be carefully circumscribed and open to public scrutiny.
Law enforcement should be using some special photoshop-like application, designed to allow only those "enhancements" that are deemed legal. (I'm sure that's on open question at this point.) A non-governmental, scientific organization should be responsible for coming up with standards: standards which would of course have to be voted into law.
Any application that implements this approved technology must be, without reservation, open source. People must be able to review what the application is actually capable of.
After that, the applicability and weight of such evidence will be accepted or rejected by a jury.
I agree with the notion of deluting. I'm all for people coming to this country. But a side effect of that is the mindset the bring with them.
People in very many parts of the world take big government for granted and bow before it. If they come here and become voters, without ever really adopting a mindset that cherishes liberty, then they're hardly the people to stand up against government intrusion.
Unfortunately, there are so many native born people in this country whose apathy -- or lack of mental capacity to even concentrate on listening to such issues when they are presented -- leaves them no better.
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It's plain in the interview that he has read the book closely -- multiple times!
I thought the answer was a little weird myself. It may have to do, however, with his characterization of Gollum. Serkis seems careful to make sure that the pathetic comes through in his portrayal, in addition to the malice.
Gollum is a warped creature; and maybe Serkis believes, in creating the character for screen, that somewhere, deep down, Gollum knows knows what the ring has cost him and regrets it.
What now with the war going on, I'll bet Tony Orlando wishes he had patented yellow ribbons .
In a development that will shock both the PC and pharmaceutical industries, PC pundit John Dvorkak will be "switching platforms."
Long known for his schizophrenic pronouncements concerning the Macintosh platform, sources close to him have confirmed Dvorak's musings have been caused by an adverse, though subtle reaction, to his psychotropic drug regimen.
"Yeah, he's said some crazy things in the past," quotes Dr. Sanghar Mumji, Dvorak's long-time psychiatrist. "You've got to cut him some slack though. Psychiatry isn't an exact science."
Industry analysts predict the dawn of a new day for Dvorak. One analyst, wishing to remain anonymous, remarks, "John has got a long road back, but I've got faith in him. I hear he's working on a Newton story."
What's up with these developers? It's like they're desparately trying to be one of the "cool kids," leaking the code to the Internet. "Yippee!"
So, in an attempt at trying to upgrade their status to being picked only second to last in gym class, all the legitimate developers who respect agreements they've made have to suffer.
Nice going!
And if that's true, it explains a lot. I can't tell you how many times I've had trouble with some kind of wacky typesetting in an O'Reilly book. Wouldn't using Tex or something avoid all of that?
Case in point: while I was still relatively new to Python, I picked up a book from them. Python sometimes prefixes variables with a double underscore, which, when run together in the typesetting, is difficult to distinguish from a single underscore.
</rant>He played the lead in October Sky, didn't he? If that's the case, he would make an excellent replacement, though I still feel sorry for Tobey.
Giving BeOS its props -- I think the only reason the author of the article included it was to seem cool.
Yeah, I was being serious. But, I guess the reactions of "Mac fanatic" can seem pretty funny sometimes :-)
Sorry, but I just can't agree that OS X's GUI is more "in your face eye candy" than Windows' is. This criticism from people is something I will never understand. For me (and I'll admit to being a Mac person), the whole article showed a Windows bias.
Granted, some people are just turned off by the genie effect and the pulsating of default buttons. But, for crying out loud, The XP GUI is the most garish set of colors. It looks like the artwork of the mentally ill.
The old Windows GUI was a bit staid, but at least looked business-like. How this mad, psychedelic fantasy of color can continue to sit on the desktops of businesses everywhere is beyond me. It's unprofessional!
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the MS v. Apple thing got settled out of court: Apple agreeing to drop the suit in exchange for the notorious "five year deal" whereby Microsoft agreed to continue to develop Office, et al., for the Mac.
Actually, the real problem is political.
People will begin working at age 25, after completing graduate school; work until 65, when they take early retirement from social security; and then expect to collect from that "unending font of money" until they're 105.
Can anyone else see where this is going?
I'm just thinking of the cashier at the supermarket checkout counter, rolling items over and over the scanner until the machine reads the UPC.
I predict neck injuries!
Microsoft will just offer spammers a subscription service implemented in .Net to e-mail Hotmail users for them ;-)
If the cost of new works becomes prohibitive, perhaps a true liberal arts education based on the Great Books will return; ending the anti-intellectual, trendy nonsense that passes for an education these days.
Of course no one really believes that. But, just as Java is organized into packages, so should there be another level of organization above packages.
It just makes better conceptual sense, and offers a better guide to getting a handle on the language.
And from another practical point of view, a person might be able to buy a $35 book that will be 90% useful to them, rather than a $55 dollar book for which only two thirds or less will be useful during the coming year.
An author writing a book on J2SE must try to touch on every part of the release, or risk making his book seem "incomplete" by comparison.
(Note: I'm not talking about any one book in particular.)
I was especially interested in the part of the memo that talked about extensions being rolled into the main product. But, apart from backwards compatibility, I think it just makes learning the language more difficult.
I learned the language back in 1.3, and I'm amazed at how much more has been added to the 1.4 release. Sifting through the javadocs has become a bit more of a pain, but nothing someone already familiar with the language can't handle.
My concern is people who are learning the language. I think the API is becoming more and more overwhelming to future Java developers. Look how much fatter O'Reilly's Learning Java book has become!
A smaller J2SE with standard extensions to be downloaded as necessary makes better conceptual sense.
Of course, I meant to say "impoverished."
(I think it's time I switched to Safari and it's spell-checking.)
The ubiquitous presence of Microsoft products, coupled with their notorious vulnerabilities, is what puts the Internet environment in such a precarious state. This predicament is analogous to the supposed insidious danger for which environmentalists criticize so-called "frankenfoods."
The argument against genetically modified organisms in commercial farming says that big business will curtail bio-diversity by settling on one or two strains for each crop or livestock. A single virus or other bug could then wipe out that entire food supply in one fell swoop.
(Everyone is familiar with the potato famines in Europe and how it affected the impoverised who had come to rely on the potato as the sole staple in their diet.)
Personally, I'm fine with GMO's, but I think we are risking something along the lines of an "Internet potato famine" when we rely on a particular breed of computer products (a.k.a. Microsoft) that is riddled with such fatal flaws.
A little more "binary diversity" on the Internet would be a good thing.
Is this something new because of computer programming? There are plenty of people who sit all day long as part of their jobs.
While we're on the subject, I've been wondering about something. I went to music school some years ago. The piano majors there practiced regularly anywhere from 4-8 hours a day. They didn't sit in front of their keyboards for 8 straight hours, but they sat plenty. They didn't use the chairs that most office workers use, however.
Piano players sit on a bench, sometimes padded, sometimes not. They don't sit back in their benches either, the way people do in office chairs, but sit on the edge of the bench with their weight forward.
So what I'm wondering is, does anyone out there sit like this? Do we have any accomplished programmers/pianists who could shed some light on the ergonomics of this? I'm wondering if we "keyboardists" shouldn't sit the way pianists do.
I have to agree. The whole notion that those millions of people would have been "somewhere else" is ludicrous.
The Internet has been around a long, long time. But, it was beyond even being unfriendly to the average Joe Enduser. It was the province of physicists and such.
AOL sucks, yes. But they had the genius to fill a niche that no one else even new existed. No -- sorry! They had the genius to create that niche.
They made it possible for a lot of technically challenged -- and even technically timid -- people to get online. That company fueled the Internet boom.
Using something like Photoshop opens a wide door for abuse. If technology is going to be used to help uncover evidence (and it already is), then the power of that technology should be carefully circumscribed and open to public scrutiny.
Law enforcement should be using some special photoshop-like application, designed to allow only those "enhancements" that are deemed legal. (I'm sure that's on open question at this point.) A non-governmental, scientific organization should be responsible for coming up with standards: standards which would of course have to be voted into law.
Any application that implements this approved technology must be, without reservation, open source. People must be able to review what the application is actually capable of.
After that, the applicability and weight of such evidence will be accepted or rejected by a jury.
This goes way beyond pissing in the company coffee pot.
I agree with the notion of deluting. I'm all for people coming to this country. But a side effect of that is the mindset the bring with them.
People in very many parts of the world take big government for granted and bow before it. If they come here and become voters, without ever really adopting a mindset that cherishes liberty, then they're hardly the people to stand up against government intrusion.
Unfortunately, there are so many native born people in this country whose apathy -- or lack of mental capacity to even concentrate on listening to such issues when they are presented -- leaves them no better.