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For a lo tof people, the theatre is more than a big screen and big sound. It's also going outside ( as in not to someone elses house, something not so familiar ) and watching a movie in a theatre. I personally like the whole experience and the atmosphere at theatres, it's different than sitting at home watching a movie on your 50 inch HDTV with high-end sound.
Perhaps he's just looking for something to make use of his talents? Nobody wants to just waste away all of their time sitting and watching TV. It seems like he hasn't accomplished anything spectacular, some may be critical about that. But I say the more the reason to find something.
There are probably a lot of very bright ( and also a lot of not-so-bright ones ^_^ ) slashdotters here, but Im sure most have some way of making use of their talents. Some of us fiddle around with our computers, others play an instrument, or do some sort of carpentry.
I personally like to fiddle around with the computer ( often breaking some driver, and spending a week trying to fix it:) ) and have gotten back into my old hobby of drawing ( by hand ).
I'm sure there are plenty of hobbies to suggest, and there are a lot of interesting courses that one could take in University as electives.
Is there a way to have applications cache on startup? Some things like Firefox are run by people almost all the time, wouldn't it be handy for it to load up on startup?
I wouldn't say game developers or the at least the artists involved are bad at it, it's just the nature of computer-generated art in general.
What I mean is that a real painting has random-ish imperfections that somehow convey emotion, perhaps what the artist was feeling when he/she was creating the painting. Take a look at some impressionist art, like from say Monet. It's not so much about what you're seeing, but more about what you feel when you see the painting.
I think we humans in general rely a lot on emotions when it comes to recognizing things that are living/natural. If there's a painting of a few kids playing in a garden, you would feel the way the artist felt when he/she was there at the actual scene ( perhaps unconsciously ) through the little brush strokes within the painting.
It's just so difficult to have the same feeling with computer since the computer has a lot of control over the final product. Yes a physical paint brush and a computer are both tools, but you are still physically in control of where the paint goes with a paintbrush. It's just that the little imperfections that come from a computer generated piece of work seem too ( excuse my poor choice of words here ) rigid, and symmetric.
I have a Kingwin case, a higher end Lian-Li esque type of case. Just like there is a tasteful way to mod a car ( maybe some new rims and paint, and no ugly looking plastic skirts ), most Lian-Li modded cases are tasteful.
youre right. Virus writers can do a great deal of financial damage. But it isn't killing someone.
A murderer killed a person, and someone could argue that virus writers ruin peoples lives, and may indirectly end up killing people, but you can't look at things like that.
It's like that classic proverb that claims that all of our acts are selfish. This is technically true, but the level of selfishness is dependant on how direct the act is.
If you buy yourself a cake, and don't share it, then that's selfish. If you buy your friend a cake, and that made you happy, then I wouldn't consider that "selfish", since your satisfaction was achieved indirectly.
It's sort of the same here. Virus writers are not killers, one virus from them may cost the world a billion dollars, but it's not the same as taking a human life with their own hands. Just throw the writers in jail for a while, they shouldn't be executed for murderers.
1. There's simply too many of them!!!
2. Bad movies do not enrich my life, they waste my fuckin time.
Good point, but there isn't much you can do about it after you've seen the movie other than advise people you know against seeing it as well. There doesn't seem to be any point in wasting more time in being upset about it.
But it's a few pieces of entertainment, and the brainchild of another person
I believe the strength and size of the Star Wars community has reached a point where the Star Wars franchise isn't really Lucas' any more. It's more of a living thing, and just like any sort of child, the parent has no right to mistreat it or kill it off. I'm not speaking in a legal sense, but in a metaphorical sense.
I wouldn't say that Star Wars is Lucas' entirely any more, but instead every fan of the series has ownership of one piece of it.
One interesting thing I've found about people who tend to be tough critics with movies is that they tend to lose out on the "fun".
By that I mean, what is the loss of actually enjoying a bad movie? What's the gain of hating it? I think I find myself rather lucky to enjoy most movies, even if they suck ( I was even able to stomach the Super Mario Bros Movie ). That way I rarely come out of a theatre feeling ripped off. And just because you enjoyed a bad movie doesn't mean you can't appreciate the good ones as much as everyone else.
I've come to really appreciate movies like Memento and Shrek.
So, does anyone care to explain the loss of enjoying a bad movie? I personally enjoyed EPI and EPII, although I didn't think they were the best movies on earth, I didn't come out the theatre with the obligatory "worst movie ever".
It's been my experience here in Seattle (home to Starbucks) that most folks are ordering lattes, caramel machiattos, mochas, etc. than a regular cup o' joe.
You do have a point there, this does give us the opportunity to experiment here.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're missing the most important thing here, and that's that we humans aren't lab rats, and an experiment that goes terribly wrong could hurt.
You can make it more controlled yes, but I'm also worried about the social implications. Think about it, several hundred years from now, we might have civiliziations on Mars, most likely made up of people who are much more intelligent than the average human being. Wouldn't this create a barrier between human kind? There are barriers like this already, between the rich and poor, between religions and also between countries. Imagine the kind of barrier that might be caused by people living on different planets. could they end up thinking they're superior to everyone else? Even if they are, will we have progressed far enough to treat eachother with respect?
We still have a great deal of racism these days, mostly implicit it seems. Imagine the kind of problems that may be caused by people who might ultimately end up looking radically different ( more than skin colour and slight variations in bone structure ) who grow up on planets with different amounts of gravity, and might in return have different levels of average intelligence. I'm not saying that we should abandon colonization completely. I'm just saying that perhaps we should learn to work as a team before we go and split off into groups. I think it will take some time before humanity will be socially mature enough to handle space colonization.
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I always thought it would be interesting if there existed such a thing. a "helper" worm, something will exploit a backdoor left open by a malicious worm, and perform cleaning, transmit itself to machines that are suspect of being infected and then remove itself.
Is such a "helpful" worm feasable? I can see how something like this could technically work, but Im thinking someone might catch it along the way, and decide to exploit it.
I'm not sure, if I was in a similar situation and wasn't very computer literate, I would probably panicking to myself, and would be too embarassed to tell anyone else ( and thus make it as if it never happened )
The "members" are mostly 14 year old kids, who just discovered that "heeey! i can use kazaa to download pr0n! wow!", and shortly after discovered "what do you mean it's illegal?
I believe in the right for every human being to have free porn, and will fight for that right!
I've found that in the case of tech toys and such, us guys are usually the ones that are impulsive.
I have the horrible habit of buying tech toys and computer parts impulsively, I'll see something, the price might look good, and I'll buy it.
Right now I'm a young adult ( second year University ) , and this sort of thing wont get me in much trouble right now, but I need to work on this.
It seems the roles are somewhat reversed, I've found that my mom is very smart when making large purchases and shops around properly, which are often tech or something along the lines of a car.
I have a feeling that I'm going to end leaving all of the major money management to my wife once I'm married, the worst thing she could do is buy $300 shoes, whereas what I could do is come home with a $1,000 video card, or worse.
I'm curious, could you suggest a good Digital SLR for a beginner? I've been wanting a camera for this sort of stuff, but I want to go digital since I find it cumbersome to use film. There are tons of cameras out there, but they're expensive, I'd hate to choose the wrong one.
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For a lo tof people, the theatre is more than a big screen and big sound. It's also going outside ( as in not to someone elses house, something not so familiar ) and watching a movie in a theatre. I personally like the whole experience and the atmosphere at theatres, it's different than sitting at home watching a movie on your 50 inch HDTV with high-end sound.
Perhaps he's just looking for something to make use of his talents? Nobody wants to just waste away all of their time sitting and watching TV. It seems like he hasn't accomplished anything spectacular, some may be critical about that. But I say the more the reason to find something.
:) ) and have gotten back into my old hobby of drawing ( by hand ).
There are probably a lot of very bright ( and also a lot of not-so-bright ones ^_^ ) slashdotters here, but Im sure most have some way of making use of their talents. Some of us fiddle around with our computers, others play an instrument, or do some sort of carpentry.
I personally like to fiddle around with the computer ( often breaking some driver, and spending a week trying to fix it
I'm sure there are plenty of hobbies to suggest, and there are a lot of interesting courses that one could take in University as electives.
Is there a way to have applications cache on startup? Some things like Firefox are run by people almost all the time, wouldn't it be handy for it to load up on startup?
I wouldn't say game developers or the at least the artists involved are bad at it, it's just the nature of computer-generated art in general.
What I mean is that a real painting has random-ish imperfections that somehow convey emotion, perhaps what the artist was feeling when he/she was creating the painting. Take a look at some impressionist art, like from say Monet. It's not so much about what you're seeing, but more about what you feel when you see the painting.
I think we humans in general rely a lot on emotions when it comes to recognizing things that are living/natural. If there's a painting of a few kids playing in a garden, you would feel the way the artist felt when he/she was there at the actual scene ( perhaps unconsciously ) through the little brush strokes within the painting.
It's just so difficult to have the same feeling with computer since the computer has a lot of control over the final product. Yes a physical paint brush and a computer are both tools, but you are still physically in control of where the paint goes with a paintbrush. It's just that the little imperfections that come from a computer generated piece of work seem too ( excuse my poor choice of words here ) rigid, and symmetric.
I have a Kingwin case, a higher end Lian-Li esque type of case. Just like there is a tasteful way to mod a car ( maybe some new rims and paint, and no ugly looking plastic skirts ), most Lian-Li modded cases are tasteful.
youre right. Virus writers can do a great deal of financial damage. But it isn't killing someone.
A murderer killed a person, and someone could argue that virus writers ruin peoples lives, and may indirectly end up killing people, but you can't look at things like that.
It's like that classic proverb that claims that all of our acts are selfish. This is technically true, but the level of selfishness is dependant on how direct the act is.
If you buy yourself a cake, and don't share it, then that's selfish. If you buy your friend a cake, and that made you happy, then I wouldn't consider that "selfish", since your satisfaction was achieved indirectly.
It's sort of the same here. Virus writers are not killers, one virus from them may cost the world a billion dollars, but it's not the same as taking a human life with their own hands. Just throw the writers in jail for a while, they shouldn't be executed for murderers.
1. There's simply too many of them!!!
2. Bad movies do not enrich my life, they waste my fuckin time.
Good point, but there isn't much you can do about it after you've seen the movie other than advise people you know against seeing it as well. There doesn't seem to be any point in wasting more time in being upset about it.
But it's a few pieces of entertainment, and the brainchild of another person
I believe the strength and size of the Star Wars community has reached a point where the Star Wars franchise isn't really Lucas' any more. It's more of a living thing, and just like any sort of child, the parent has no right to mistreat it or kill it off. I'm not speaking in a legal sense, but in a metaphorical sense.
I wouldn't say that Star Wars is Lucas' entirely any more, but instead every fan of the series has ownership of one piece of it.
One interesting thing I've found about people who tend to be tough critics with movies is that they tend to lose out on the "fun".
By that I mean, what is the loss of actually enjoying a bad movie? What's the gain of hating it? I think I find myself rather lucky to enjoy most movies, even if they suck ( I was even able to stomach the Super Mario Bros Movie ). That way I rarely come out of a theatre feeling ripped off. And just because you enjoyed a bad movie doesn't mean you can't appreciate the good ones as much as everyone else.
I've come to really appreciate movies like Memento and Shrek.
So, does anyone care to explain the loss of enjoying a bad movie? I personally enjoyed EPI and EPII, although I didn't think they were the best movies on earth, I didn't come out the theatre with the obligatory "worst movie ever".
It's been my experience here in Seattle (home to Starbucks) that most folks are ordering lattes, caramel machiattos, mochas, etc. than a regular cup o' joe.
Are you Fraiser Crane?
You do have a point there, this does give us the opportunity to experiment here.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're missing the most important thing here, and that's that we humans aren't lab rats, and an experiment that goes terribly wrong could hurt.
You can make it more controlled yes, but I'm also worried about the social implications. Think about it, several hundred years from now, we might have civiliziations on Mars, most likely made up of people who are much more intelligent than the average human being. Wouldn't this create a barrier between human kind? There are barriers like this already, between the rich and poor, between religions and also between countries. Imagine the kind of barrier that might be caused by people living on different planets. could they end up thinking they're superior to everyone else? Even if they are, will we have progressed far enough to treat eachother with respect?
We still have a great deal of racism these days, mostly implicit it seems. Imagine the kind of problems that may be caused by people who might ultimately end up looking radically different ( more than skin colour and slight variations in bone structure ) who grow up on planets with different amounts of gravity, and might in return have different levels of average intelligence. I'm not saying that we should abandon colonization completely. I'm just saying that perhaps we should learn to work as a team before we go and split off into groups. I think it will take some time before humanity will be socially mature enough to handle space colonization.
I always thought it would be interesting if there existed such a thing. a "helper" worm, something will exploit a backdoor left open by a malicious worm, and perform cleaning, transmit itself to machines that are suspect of being infected and then remove itself.
Is such a "helpful" worm feasable? I can see how something like this could technically work, but Im thinking someone might catch it along the way, and decide to exploit it.
Your diesel car may get very high miles, but as far as I know, diesel cars put out more harmful chemicals into the environment.
AFAIK, most people don't buy hybrids to save on fuel, but are instead to be friendlier to the environment.
I'm not sure, if I was in a similar situation and wasn't very computer literate, I would probably panicking to myself, and would be too embarassed to tell anyone else ( and thus make it as if it never happened )
The "members" are mostly 14 year old kids, who just discovered that "heeey! i can use kazaa to download pr0n! wow!", and shortly after discovered "what do you mean it's illegal?
I believe in the right for every human being to have free porn, and will fight for that right!
Is it made out of wood and will it play hockey?
I wouldn't say ALL reality shows are bad, although the vast majority are.
I really enjoyed Joe Schmoe and thought the Restaurant was rather interesting.
dont forget that SCO and the RIAA are in on it too.
And open source and Linux is the solution, somehow.
Yeah, well don't forget that Microsoft likes to make their own "standards".
I've found that in the case of tech toys and such, us guys are usually the ones that are impulsive.
I have the horrible habit of buying tech toys and computer parts impulsively, I'll see something, the price might look good, and I'll buy it.
Right now I'm a young adult ( second year University ) , and this sort of thing wont get me in much trouble right now, but I need to work on this.
It seems the roles are somewhat reversed, I've found that my mom is very smart when making large purchases and shops around properly, which are often tech or something along the lines of a car.
I have a feeling that I'm going to end leaving all of the major money management to my wife once I'm married, the worst thing she could do is buy $300 shoes, whereas what I could do is come home with a $1,000 video card, or worse.
Its those damn beavers chewing on the AP antennas eh.
Can someone perhaps suggest a link to a good site comparing the properties to all of these formats?
I've always been curious as to the strengths of each format, I haven't found anything clear on this topic.
You are so inaccurate there, you bring discrace to the name "Dr. Eeeevul" . It's:
ONE BEEELION DOLLARS MUAHAHA, HUAHAH, HAUHAHAHAHAH!!
I'm curious, could you suggest a good Digital SLR for a beginner? I've been wanting a camera for this sort of stuff, but I want to go digital since I find it cumbersome to use film. There are tons of cameras out there, but they're expensive, I'd hate to choose the wrong one.