Actually, the peacecorps is looking for techies as well! But I think they are concentrating on things like wiring schools, training kids, etc. I know, 'cause they made the Big Push for me to join when I was graduating from college a couple of years ago.
These two plans could work together really well and tandum... I mean, what good is a tech startup without a stream of qualified workers, and what good is giving kids tech knowledge if they're all going to have to leasve the country to find work?
So with 75 gigs of space available to you, why even bother with MP3? Why not just store the raw WAV files? No need to take the quality loss of compression with that much space available.
I mean WAV audio only takes a up a MEASELY 10 megs per minute.:)
Or fluorescent discs./. ran this article a little over a month ago. A quote: "The 12mm (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) disc version of this memory will store up to 140GB"
What makes this extra cool is that according to Daily Radar a new KISS: Psycho Circus FPS is being developed using the LithTek engine. They just recently ran a preview. KISS on Linux? Oh yeah!
I had the good fortune to take the hardcover of this book with me on my first trip to London. It certainly made the whole experience seem very mystical and made a new place very familiar.
That same trip to London I learned a new word: palimpsest. To me, that word best surmises what makes Gaiman's worlds so wonderful.
What's amazing about Gaiman is not just his understanding of existing mythologies, but his insight into how mythologies evolve. He recognizes that real mythologies borrow both from history and the world around us. The world of Neverwhere (or Sandman for that matter) is a world of the totally new and layered on top of the extremely familiar, which for me makes them incredibly believable.
Maybe this is the equivalent to all those '555-****' phone numbers you see in movies. They want to make sure they don't actually hit a real IP by mistake, so they use a guaranteed false one. Perhaps we could encourage Hollywood to default to the 10.32. network.
A friend of mine is currently in the beginning stages of producing a movie dealing with computers and communication as a student project. The movie has as its central focus a group of men and women that chat via IRC. We are currently in the process of writing the script so I can't give too much away, but our main goal is have no two characters EVER appear on the screen at the same time.
Our challenge is to make this appealing and interesting. As some of you have already said, one of the main difficulties with filming any computer related activities is that reading text/code over a character's shoulder is dull and tedious to the average viewing audience. And most of the time the actions of hackers are normally not rewarding on a level that your average movie goer would understand. Our hope is that by choosing IRC instead of hacking/coding, we can portray people as actually getting quite emotional while looking at their computer screens. The important thing to remember is that the computer is just a tool, the focus should be on the people and their interactions. This is what makes a movie lik Wargames great. Hacking still plays a very important role in the film and we hope that our portrayal of our hacker character is accurate and lives up to the strict criticism of the Slashdot audience.
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Actually, the peacecorps is looking for techies as well! But I think they are concentrating on things like wiring schools, training kids, etc. I know, 'cause they made the Big Push for me to join when I was graduating from college a couple of years ago.
These two plans could work together really well and tandum... I mean, what good is a tech startup without a stream of qualified workers, and what good is giving kids tech knowledge if they're all going to have to leasve the country to find work?
So with 75 gigs of space available to you, why even bother with MP3? Why not just store the raw WAV files? No need to take the quality loss of compression with that much space available.
:)
I mean WAV audio only takes a up a MEASELY 10 megs per minute.
Or fluorescent discs. /. ran this article a little over a month ago. A quote: "The 12mm (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) disc version of this memory will store up to 140GB"
What makes this extra cool is that according to Daily Radar a new KISS: Psycho Circus FPS is being developed using the LithTek engine. They just recently ran a preview. KISS on Linux? Oh yeah!
I had the good fortune to take the hardcover of this book with me on my first trip to London. It certainly made the whole experience seem very mystical and made a new place very familiar.
That same trip to London I learned a new word: palimpsest. To me, that word best surmises what makes Gaiman's worlds so wonderful.
What's amazing about Gaiman is not just his understanding of existing mythologies, but his insight into how mythologies evolve. He recognizes that real mythologies borrow both from history and the world around us. The world of Neverwhere (or Sandman for that matter) is a world of the totally new and layered on top of the extremely familiar, which for me makes them incredibly believable.
Maybe this is the equivalent to all those '555-****' phone numbers you see in movies. They want to make sure they don't actually hit a real IP by mistake, so they use a guaranteed false one. Perhaps we could encourage Hollywood to default to the 10.32. network.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt.
A friend of mine is currently in the beginning stages of producing a movie dealing with computers and communication as a student project. The movie has as its central focus a group of men and women that chat via IRC. We are currently in the process of writing the script so I can't give too much away, but our main goal is have no two characters EVER appear on the screen at the same time.
Our challenge is to make this appealing and interesting. As some of you have already said, one of the main difficulties with filming any computer related activities is that reading text/code over a character's shoulder is dull and tedious to the average viewing audience. And most of the time the actions of hackers are normally not rewarding on a level that your average movie goer would understand. Our hope is that by choosing IRC instead of hacking/coding, we can portray people as actually getting quite emotional while looking at their computer screens. The important thing to remember is that the computer is just a tool, the focus should be on the people and their interactions. This is what makes a movie lik Wargames great. Hacking still plays a very important role in the film and we hope that our portrayal of our hacker character is accurate and lives up to the strict criticism of the Slashdot audience.
If you want to find out more about the film, check out http://movie.sloth.org.