Well, yes. For comic book reenactment is should be great.
But the level of jittery camera work and fast cuts (and fast pans too, now that you mention it) in "Bourne Supremacy" is so high as to cause dizziness and headache. Not even playing UT2k3 on a small arena with 32 players FFA deathmatch was so bad!
I was about to post the same thing. WTF was that? I know we shouldn't shun aside people with serious diseases, but a guy with epilepsy (your theory) or acute parkinson's (mine) just isn't fit to be a camera operator.
*sigh*. Why would I ask that question (as in 'being serious about asking it') after I put forth an argument that clearly supports that it isn't possible? And with REALLY BIG CAPS? Hint: It's a rethorical question, and its answer was an obvious "NO".
The post I was responding to pointed out that Java wasn't "cross platform" because the JRE wasn't cross platform. To wich I respond "duh, find me a piece of software that works anywhere, with no native-compiled parts (like a JRE)".
OO is appropriate for many cases, but nowhere near all of them.
Of course. There is no silver bullet in Software Engineering.
Take a look at the java hello world some time. It is EIGHT LINES. You have to crate a new class and reimpliment the main method just to be able to print text. Compare that to python, where a hello world is simply "print "Hello, World!\n"". That's why I don't like java.
You don't like a language because you have to write eight lines for hello world? Hmmm, sounds like a serious metric to me!
Me, I'd never choose Java for HelloWorld. "echo Hello World" will do just fine, or "perl -e 'print "Hello World\n";'. The thing is, I don't get paid for writing software that writes Hello World. I get paid for writing software that does useful things. And for doing useful things, Java is damn good.
The java byte code is platform independant (unless you use platform specific stuff), but the JRE needed to run it is not.
And this is different from PHP how? The PHP intepreter must be compiled for the platform. You can't just try to run PHP code with the x86-linux binary PHP executable on a x86-windows or a Sparc-Solaris platform.
Seriously, is there something that is TRULY portable as in NOT NEEDING ANYTHING for the specific platform?
I worked on my thesis with a Web Service integrator, and for example I used amazon+barnesnnoble+bookpool. One (unwritten) conclusion of my work was that Bookpool always had the best prices on tech books.
Anyone ever tried to accurately count a stack of ten thousand pieces of paper, dividing them into two separate piles in the process? I screw up occassionally just separating puzzle pieces into separate groups of edge and center pieces -- for small (100 piece) jigsaw puzzles!
I don't know how you count votes by hand, but in my country counting votes by hand involves at least three people (three "voting table staffers") and usually includes witnesses from each of the candidates involved.
One of the major problems with democracy is that the stupid people get just as much of a vote as the intelligent people. Allowing people to not vote at least lets a lot of the stupid people stay at home, and therefore increases the average intelligence of the voters.
Don't be so sure that the ones going to the booths are "more intelligent". Lots of them are the kind of voters that are easily brainwashed by propaganda/talk show hosts/party line blabber. You know, the ones that would have voted Democrat/Republican even if "Yog-Sothoth for prez, Cthulhu for VP" had been the democrat/republican ticket.
This is why they call it two-factor authentication.
Of course, a good secutiry practice would be to require the card AND a password.
But, as it reads in TFA, Gates is trumpeting "death of the password", so I somehow don't see them using passwords with the cards. An alternative could be that Gates was using marketingspeak:)
Unless you're somehow using Exchange and their calendar system...
Bingo.
For personal use, I use pine for mail and tin for newsgroups. But @work, it's use exchange or face the hassle of not having the company calendar/scheduling/address book available. Exchange:(
Ok, it is. But stay there, oppose the tyranny as well as you can. VOTE! Get congress back on the midterms so that the US can have a stalemate between congress and prez, so that Shrubya has to moderate a bit.
The error was to have a candidate whose electoral platform was "I'm not Bush".
The "anything but" platform seldom works out. That shit almost cost the current Chilean president the election in 2000. It cost the Chavez opposition in Venezuela the referendum on Chaves staying or going. And now it cost the democrats the white house.
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But the level of jittery camera work and fast cuts (and fast pans too, now that you mention it) in "Bourne Supremacy" is so high as to cause dizziness and headache. Not even playing UT2k3 on a small arena with 32 players FFA deathmatch was so bad!
And I used to think Guy Ritchie was a bit overboard with the tv-commercial-like fast cuts... sheesh!
(my wife and I say "We too" re: the dizzy spells during the actions sequences)
I was about to post the same thing. WTF was that? I know we shouldn't shun aside people with serious diseases, but a guy with epilepsy (your theory) or acute parkinson's (mine) just isn't fit to be a camera operator.
Yeah, and in writing it is even easier to miss...
and we are on slashdot after all
Well said ;)
Nopes, they leave this decision to the PHB who just read a "Get the Facts" ad...
*sigh*. Why would I ask that question (as in 'being serious about asking it') after I put forth an argument that clearly supports that it isn't possible? And with REALLY BIG CAPS? Hint: It's a rethorical question, and its answer was an obvious "NO".
The post I was responding to pointed out that Java wasn't "cross platform" because the JRE wasn't cross platform. To wich I respond "duh, find me a piece of software that works anywhere, with no native-compiled parts (like a JRE)".
Of course. There is no silver bullet in Software Engineering.
You don't like a language because you have to write eight lines for hello world? Hmmm, sounds like a serious metric to me!
Me, I'd never choose Java for HelloWorld. "echo Hello World" will do just fine, or "perl -e 'print "Hello World\n";'. The thing is, I don't get paid for writing software that writes Hello World. I get paid for writing software that does useful things. And for doing useful things, Java is damn good.
And this is different from PHP how? The PHP intepreter must be compiled for the platform. You can't just try to run PHP code with the x86-linux binary PHP executable on a x86-windows or a Sparc-Solaris platform.
Seriously, is there something that is TRULY portable as in NOT NEEDING ANYTHING for the specific platform?
I worked on my thesis with a Web Service integrator, and for example I used amazon+barnesnnoble+bookpool. One (unwritten) conclusion of my work was that Bookpool always had the best prices on tech books.
I don't know how you count votes by hand, but in my country counting votes by hand involves at least three people (three "voting table staffers") and usually includes witnesses from each of the candidates involved.
Of course not. Would the devil get his instructions straight from Jeebus?
Don't be so sure that the ones going to the booths are "more intelligent". Lots of them are the kind of voters that are easily brainwashed by propaganda/talk show hosts/party line blabber. You know, the ones that would have voted Democrat/Republican even if "Yog-Sothoth for prez, Cthulhu for VP" had been the democrat/republican ticket.
Of course, a good secutiry practice would be to require the card AND a password.
But, as it reads in TFA, Gates is trumpeting "death of the password", so I somehow don't see them using passwords with the cards. An alternative could be that Gates was using marketingspeak :)
Nice!
Bingo.
For personal use, I use pine for mail and tin for newsgroups. But @work, it's use exchange or face the hassle of not having the company calendar/scheduling/address book available. Exchange :(
Democracy is one sheep and two wolves voting on what's for lunch.
"Could"? Try "will" on for size.
Ok, it is. But stay there, oppose the tyranny as well as you can. VOTE! Get congress back on the midterms so that the US can have a stalemate between congress and prez, so that Shrubya has to moderate a bit.
TACO SUCKS DICK!
Thank you Diebold!
The "anything but" platform seldom works out. That shit almost cost the current Chilean president the election in 2000. It cost the Chavez opposition in Venezuela the referendum on Chaves staying or going. And now it cost the democrats the white house.
How can we vote for a candidate who is dying. And that's the truth. Don't take my word for it, ask netcraft.
Some of us don't have the choice (at work).
At least I can install firefox, but mail clients that aren't OE are a big no-no.
He still makes movies, you know? He lives in France when he isn't making them.
It's like the goatse guy with intestinal parasites. And with reduced aperture, of course ;)
Apple, most expensive workstation? Pfff! Try a high-end Sun workstation...