Just to be pedantic... The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle does not just state that we cannot know both the velocity and position of an object, but that neither really exist independently until we measure them. Then measuring one effects the other.
If we measure an object's velocity 100% perfectly, then it no longer has a definite position.
I agree. We should have the right to watch these things whatever way we want.
However, it is a terrible sign of the instant-gratification-guaranteed culture that we should want to watch them in any way other than that which was intended.
If you want to watch the film, watch the film. If you don't want to watch the film, don't watch the film. Chosing a film you don't want to watch and insisting that it be presented as a film you do want to watch may be within one's rights, but that doesn't make it respectable.
I see your point and I agree with it to a degree, but what we are doing here is piling product on top of product on top of product in order to flatten out those minor irritations in our hour-to-hour lives.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just learn to live with the original? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have the character to do that?
Of course one should have the right to watch a film whatever way one wants, but why would one chose to do so? I still think there is an awful lot to be said for getting on with the little irks in life as opposed to insisting they be stamped out.
If we're only ever provided with what we already know we like, how can we ever change?
It like this: On the one hand, you can eat fresh salmon, bones and all. On the other you can eat sterilised, homogenised, boneless salmon, "99% fat free", "new improved taste" and "Instant gratification guaranteed". Ughh.
A common problem with much new management is that they prefer unconventional, obscure and, above all, dramatic interview techniques to the more mundane, thorough, tried-and-tested ones.
Such interviews tell you more about the interviewer than the interviewee.
Unless you were hiring a vacuum-repairer, that interview was a farce.
If you took a whole bunch of signed recording artists, and left them in a room with the appropriate tools, the result *would* be music
True, but I doubt it would be a top selling album. The record companies are not in the business of making music, they are in the business of selling CDs.
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Thanks for the tip, but I think I'll stick with the old faithful: A feed of cheese before going to bed. Now those are some tripped out dreams...
Finally computer game story lines are catching up with pen-and-paper RPGs.
Now if the graphics and audio could only improve on my imagination...
I'm sure certain directors would be upset if they knew I watched their movies drunk off my ass and made fun of them the whole time.
You sir, are a hero.
I can just imagine all the boffins pacing around the lab trying to decide who will be the first to test the new mass trasporter.
One of them is wearing a red sweater...
Just to be pedantic... The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle does not just state that we cannot know both the velocity and position of an object, but that neither really exist independently until we measure them. Then measuring one effects the other.
If we measure an object's velocity 100% perfectly, then it no longer has a definite position.
Is that cool or what?
I agree. We should have the right to watch these things whatever way we want.
However, it is a terrible sign of the instant-gratification-guaranteed culture that we should want to watch them in any way other than that which was intended.
If you want to watch the film, watch the film. If you don't want to watch the film, don't watch the film. Chosing a film you don't want to watch and insisting that it be presented as a film you do want to watch may be within one's rights, but that doesn't make it respectable.
I see your point and I agree with it to a degree, but what we are doing here is piling product on top of product on top of product in order to flatten out those minor irritations in our hour-to-hour lives.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just learn to live with the original? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have the character to do that?
Of course one should have the right to watch a film whatever way one wants, but why would one chose to do so? I still think there is an awful lot to be said for getting on with the little irks in life as opposed to insisting they be stamped out.
If we're only ever provided with what we already know we like, how can we ever change?
It like this: On the one hand, you can eat fresh salmon, bones and all. On the other you can eat sterilised, homogenised, boneless salmon, "99% fat free", "new improved taste" and "Instant gratification guaranteed". Ughh.
There are certain movies that are great, but not quite acceptable for my family to watch.
So don't watch the movie then. My God, since when did we give up the right to choose for the right to insist?
What next? "I want to read 'Crime and punishment', but I insist that it be presented to me as a light-hearted, romantic comedy"?
Thanks for the heads up. This is not really product placement anymore than the word "Lego" printed on every lego brick is.
And yes, as it happens. I am too lazy to read the article.
A common problem with much new management is that they prefer unconventional, obscure and, above all, dramatic interview techniques to the more mundane, thorough, tried-and-tested ones.
Such interviews tell you more about the interviewer than the interviewee.
Unless you were hiring a vacuum-repairer, that interview was a farce.
Best Non-Free Game - Quake 3 Arena
Best Non-Free 3D Action Game - Return To Castle Wolfenstein
That doesn't even make sense.
Alcohol causes dehyrdation... You can reduce this effect by drinking plenty of other (preferably clear) fluids.
So your're saying use mixers. Right. Got ya.
If you took a whole bunch of signed recording artists, and left them in a room with the appropriate tools, the result *would* be music
True, but I doubt it would be a top selling album. The record companies are not in the business of making music, they are in the business of selling CDs.
It's time that Sims' war machine was crushed once and for all.