If you watch the videos with Vin about the making of the second movie, a lot of its purpose was to flesh out the character of Riddick where they had barely scratched the surface in the first movie. It was already obvious that he was somehow fundamentally different from others around him and not just an escaped con in the first movie.
Personally the second movie worked. Its a totally different style of movie to the first, but the story works, especially in the DVD/BD release with full director's cut footage.
No, some of us just remember the same crap in the 70s about how the world would be in a new ice age by now.
We also remember very good science being ripped up because the data was falsefied or poorly collected.
When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion. Skeptics I have time for. Convince a skeptic, and you'll have won an actual battle. Convince a politician who wants votes and sees the sheep voters following your opinion already and you've accomplished little.
That's hardly insightful being completely wrong. Physics is one of those tasks that lends itself very well to multi-threading actually.
Its just a completely different way of designing software. Its very hard to find good programmers. Its even harder to find good programmers who are skilled in threaded software design. Just guess how hard it is to find the ones who can debug it:-).
I don't think either is perfect, but FYI my Twitter client stays at the last tweet I read until I scroll it. I can always "jump to top" to skip over the intervening tweets but that's beside the point.
First off, I only made one addition, not a dozen. Secondly, its an issue that has actually been discussed and resulted in legislation (there are scent-free schools, malls, etc.) and note that none of your replies are actually in the form I used for mine.
Correct. But the person trapped could have just as easily sent a text message to the people he's friends with instead of updating his facebook page and hoping someone would see the status update.
If you'd said twitter, I would've bought it, but texting EVERY person that MAY be able to help? That's awful redundant and subject to error isn't it? This is a broadcast request -- an SOS isn't meant to be sent to one person, its meant to be sent to anyone who'll listen.
For that purpose, Twitter is excellent, Facebook is not bad.
I have both Twitter and Facebook statuses on my Android home screen at all times.
Feel free to look up the amount of data sent to update Facebook statuses via the Facebook API on an Android smart phone. Its not much. Twitter would've worked too. Texting of course would not, since it's not broadcast.
Both are issues. If your code is buggy, the output may also be buggy. If the code is bug-free but the algorithms buggy, the output will also be buggy.
The whole purpose of publishing in the scientific method is repeatability. If the software itself is just re-used without someone looking at how it works or even better, writing their own for the same purpose, you're invalidating a whole portion of the method itself.
As a vastly simplified example, I could posit that 1 + 2 = 4. I could say I ran my numbers through a program as such: print f(1, 2); f (a, b): print $b + $b;
If you re-ran my numbers yourself through MY software without validating it, you'd see that I'm right. Validating what the software does and HOW it does it is very much an important part of science, and unfortunately overlooked. While in this example anyone might pick out the error, in a complex system its quite likely most people would miss one.
To the original argument, just because very few people would understand the software doesn't mean it doesn't need validating. Lots of peer review papers are truly understood by a very small segment of the scientific population, but they still deserve that review.
Magic eye images depend on being able to relax your eye muscles. Stereo input depends on your brain not trying to change your focal plane to match your depth perception.
They're two different issues, and while I empathize, I can't help but wonder where we'd be if all video games had to cater to all vision deficiencies, like the colour-blind (and they make up a good percentage of the population).
One of the first things I do is try to save money by buying a TV with fewer input jacks because I expect my receiver to switch audio and video for me. People who actually use their TV speakers for sound can ignore this comment of course.
You're confused in that most apps on the appstore have the same author and publisher. There's no requirement for this to be the case, any more than its required for a publisher to write up your back cover on a novel. That said, book publishing's an old business and software is still young, so there are a lot more self-published authors in the latter.
Point being, your use of the terms "author" and "publisher" are interchangeable inasmuch as they could be the same person but don't have to be.
Lots of books have their review list, etc. shown on the back. Do you think the Washington Post wouldn't review a book that has "#4 NYT Best Seller" on the cover?
I have to say, I love Bethesda games. They make fantastic fantasy RPG games. However, they're ALL buggy. Morrowind crashed more than any other software on my PC. Oblivion died randomly on me too. They seem to have very very poor Quality Control people, but their writers and artists are pretty top notch.
The ability to send signals upstream on the power lines worries me -- one could embed signals in the power supply fluctuations and leak data to anyone else on the line.
I care about the privacy of criminals too. If you have unpaid parking tickets, should the police be allowed to tear up your house on a fishing expedition for the hundreds of other laws you're not sure if you broke?
You have a right to privacy or else you live in a police state.
Judging anything by where you think it was headed reeks of fortune telling. Either they were a totalitarian state, despite failing your definition, or they weren't. What they may have become is an exercise in crystal ball gazing.
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If you watch the videos with Vin about the making of the second movie, a lot of its purpose was to flesh out the character of Riddick where they had barely scratched the surface in the first movie. It was already obvious that he was somehow fundamentally different from others around him and not just an escaped con in the first movie.
Personally the second movie worked. Its a totally different style of movie to the first, but the story works, especially in the DVD/BD release with full director's cut footage.
No, some of us just remember the same crap in the 70s about how the world would be in a new ice age by now.
We also remember very good science being ripped up because the data was falsefied or poorly collected.
When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion. Skeptics I have time for. Convince a skeptic, and you'll have won an actual battle. Convince a politician who wants votes and sees the sheep voters following your opinion already and you've accomplished little.
That's hardly insightful being completely wrong. Physics is one of those tasks that lends itself very well to multi-threading actually.
Its just a completely different way of designing software. Its very hard to find good programmers. Its even harder to find good programmers who are skilled in threaded software design. Just guess how hard it is to find the ones who can debug it :-).
I don't think either is perfect, but FYI my Twitter client stays at the last tweet I read until I scroll it. I can always "jump to top" to skip over the intervening tweets but that's beside the point.
Every female I know with a computer and a cell phone is addicted to either farmville or neopets or one of the other flash based gaming sites.
You know, women?
All flash game sites.
Id on't care if its Facebook games or Neopets, there are a lot of people who visit these and wish they could do it from their cell phones as well.
What is it with you exactly? Oh yes, you're blind and stupid.
I said takedown notices. I never said DMCA. I said they get them, not that they were forced to obey them.
And anything I've said about home theatre has plenty of backup from people with a lot more knowledge than yours.
Have a nice day though, troll.
First off, I only made one addition, not a dozen. Secondly, its an issue that has actually been discussed and resulted in legislation (there are scent-free schools, malls, etc.) and note that none of your replies are actually in the form I used for mine.
But sure, go wax eloquent about random stupidity.
For people who don't get the custom desktop concept on Android, here's a sampling of people posting their desktops on Android phones.
If you'd said twitter, I would've bought it, but texting EVERY person that MAY be able to help? That's awful redundant and subject to error isn't it? This is a broadcast request -- an SOS isn't meant to be sent to one person, its meant to be sent to anyone who'll listen.
For that purpose, Twitter is excellent, Facebook is not bad.
I have both Twitter and Facebook statuses on my Android home screen at all times.
Feel free to look up the amount of data sent to update Facebook statuses via the Facebook API on an Android smart phone. Its not much. Twitter would've worked too. Texting of course would not, since it's not broadcast.
You obviously haven't noticed the people who get takedown notices despite being located on their own servers elsewhere, like the Pirate Bay.
And the women who wear way too much perfume or hairspray and make my eyes water the entire trip.
Both are issues. If your code is buggy, the output may also be buggy. If the code is bug-free but the algorithms buggy, the output will also be buggy.
The whole purpose of publishing in the scientific method is repeatability. If the software itself is just re-used without someone looking at how it works or even better, writing their own for the same purpose, you're invalidating a whole portion of the method itself.
As a vastly simplified example, I could posit that 1 + 2 = 4. I could say I ran my numbers through a program as such:
print f(1, 2);
f (a, b):
print $b + $b;
If you re-ran my numbers yourself through MY software without validating it, you'd see that I'm right. Validating what the software does and HOW it does it is very much an important part of science, and unfortunately overlooked. While in this example anyone might pick out the error, in a complex system its quite likely most people would miss one.
To the original argument, just because very few people would understand the software doesn't mean it doesn't need validating. Lots of peer review papers are truly understood by a very small segment of the scientific population, but they still deserve that review.
Magic eye images depend on being able to relax your eye muscles. Stereo input depends on your brain not trying to change your focal plane to match your depth perception.
They're two different issues, and while I empathize, I can't help but wonder where we'd be if all video games had to cater to all vision deficiencies, like the colour-blind (and they make up a good percentage of the population).
One of the first things I do is try to save money by buying a TV with fewer input jacks because I expect my receiver to switch audio and video for me. People who actually use their TV speakers for sound can ignore this comment of course.
You're confused in that most apps on the appstore have the same author and publisher. There's no requirement for this to be the case, any more than its required for a publisher to write up your back cover on a novel. That said, book publishing's an old business and software is still young, so there are a lot more self-published authors in the latter.
Point being, your use of the terms "author" and "publisher" are interchangeable inasmuch as they could be the same person but don't have to be.
You got that right except saying megabytes are 1000 gigabytes. Reversing those and you're doing well :)
Lots of books have their review list, etc. shown on the back. Do you think the Washington Post wouldn't review a book that has "#4 NYT Best Seller" on the cover?
I have to say, I love Bethesda games. They make fantastic fantasy RPG games. However, they're ALL buggy. Morrowind crashed more than any other software on my PC. Oblivion died randomly on me too. They seem to have very very poor Quality Control people, but their writers and artists are pretty top notch.
The ability to send signals upstream on the power lines worries me -- one could embed signals in the power supply fluctuations and leak data to anyone else on the line.
I care about the privacy of criminals too. If you have unpaid parking tickets, should the police be allowed to tear up your house on a fishing expedition for the hundreds of other laws you're not sure if you broke?
You have a right to privacy or else you live in a police state.
Judging anything by where you think it was headed reeks of fortune telling. Either they were a totalitarian state, despite failing your definition, or they weren't. What they may have become is an exercise in crystal ball gazing.
Just because you can't doesn't mean others wouldn't. Please don't speak for everyone else's dying wishes, nor their medical wishes.
I see some Parmesan in that sentence.