I mean that's what Ridley Scott did immediately after Blade Runner, right? The Tom Cruise fantasy "Legend" had unicorns running slow motion through a forest.... is there a connection?
The logistics of lightsabers always intrigued me... some possibilities:
- How fast can they turn off and back on? By timing it right you could bypass a parry but turning it off...
- Lightsabre trap... to stop others from using it, make it look like the other end is the business end.
- While most other forms seem silly (especially the two-ended staff), putting it on a long pole would be of definite advantage in some situations. But why stop there? Can you imagine a pair of light-sabre nunchuku? HOw about a garden rake with one stuck on the end? Or why not a boomerang with twin-sabre action that turns them on a few seconds after it leaves your hand, then back off when it returns... the possibilities are endless..
What I envision is something like this: We have several offices at various places in the world with low-cost labor and good wifi coverage. When you (in Second Life) enter a portal for "Real World(tm)", you pick one of these offices. At this point a hired "avatar" dons a pair of wifi goggles that lets you see what he sees, and gets commands from you to move about in this "Real World", and does so (they will require some minimal training). The offices should be positioned with a number of real world activities nearby such as playgrounds, beaches, bars, etc. You can either type commands that your hired avatar will attempt to say, or use voice chat to have you speak directly to other "Real World" people.
Should your avatar become incapactitated, it will be necessary to get some friends to do a "corpse run" to get the goggles back so you can venture forth again...
So it goes like this... you pay some premium fee and in effect it signs you up for every MMO out there and pays those fees (from your massive fee), creates a character with that name and as close to appearance as possible on each one of those worlds (reserving names would be problematic), and from the outside framework have portals to each that you enter and play each in windowed mode. And if really ambitious, have some way of coding objects to resemble gear from each one for when you step out of them.
Something like that, yes?
and then, to top it off, create an exchange rate between wow gold, uo gold, eq gold, linden lucre, tabula rasa credits, dereth pyreal etc etc etc...
I mean, what they observed already happened long ago. We're just observing it now, and that's fine, but theoretically they could just each independantly observe, timedcode, and then sync it all up later.
Its not like it was a live event where you had to have it just then.
I mean, the disc, any format, is obsolete, and this just helps push downloading as the primary format. HD-DVDs are cheaper to manufacture? Downloads have no manufacturing cost.
Everything else aside, I realized I don't buy DVDs to watch them again. How many times can you watch one thing? I buy stuff when I like it enough that I want to hand to other people I think should watch it. And on occasion to kind of show support for something like a show that was cancelled.. but that's not that common. 99% of the time they just sit there, taking up space.
Contrary to earlier belief, it is apparently possible to bash the iPhone online without becoming a net pariah, providing you make it clear that whatever flaw you are bashing is 100% AT&T's fault.
They will eventually just clone Steve Jobs. I mean its an essential part of the i-brand experience, no?
Oh, sure the first versions will be of low quality - arrogant, angry, prone to bouts of outrage, hubris, violence.... posing a danger to all those around him..... but in time they will improve and eventually make a better Steve Jobs than the original.
because the responsible oil companies will still control their fuel.
at least that was an argument made in the Who Killed the Electric car movie, more or less. They also implied the thing was like 40 years away from being available. Since I gather it will be disected on here anyway, just wondered how thin it would be sliced, as it were.
Wonder why they used Gran Canaria over Tenerife right next door, which has a peak almost twice the height as the highest on Gran Canaria, with Pico Teide being comparable to Mauna Kea... I mean I guess logistically building it might have been easier as it wasn't as steep, but I thought part of the point was to avoid as much atmosphere as possible...
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I mean that's what Ridley Scott did immediately after Blade Runner, right? The Tom Cruise fantasy "Legend" had unicorns running slow motion through a forest.... is there a connection?
Its a match made in heaven!
That kid in Jurassic Park was right....
As we know from Battlestar Galactica, making the hull from composites will make it invisible to Radar..
thus air traffic control will be unable to find them and guide traffic around them.
The logistics of lightsabers always intrigued me... some possibilities:
- How fast can they turn off and back on? By timing it right you could bypass a parry but turning it off...
- Lightsabre trap... to stop others from using it, make it look like the other end is the business end.
- While most other forms seem silly (especially the two-ended staff), putting it on a long pole would be of definite advantage in some situations. But why stop there? Can you imagine a pair of light-sabre nunchuku? HOw about a garden rake with one stuck on the end? Or why not a boomerang with twin-sabre action that turns them on a few seconds after it leaves your hand, then back off when it returns... the possibilities are endless..
We need to get a client-plug in for that.
What I envision is something like this: We have several offices at various places in the world with low-cost labor and good wifi coverage. When you (in Second Life) enter a portal for "Real World(tm)", you pick one of these offices. At this point a hired "avatar" dons a pair of wifi goggles that lets you see what he sees, and gets commands from you to move about in this "Real World", and does so (they will require some minimal training). The offices should be positioned with a number of real world activities nearby such as playgrounds, beaches, bars, etc. You can either type commands that your hired avatar will attempt to say, or use voice chat to have you speak directly to other "Real World" people.
Should your avatar become incapactitated, it will be necessary to get some friends to do a "corpse run" to get the goggles back so you can venture forth again...
awesome!!
So it goes like this... you pay some premium fee and in effect it signs you up for every MMO out there and pays those fees (from your massive fee), creates a character with that name and as close to appearance as possible on each one of those worlds (reserving names would be problematic), and from the outside framework have portals to each that you enter and play each in windowed mode. And if really ambitious, have some way of coding objects to resemble gear from each one for when you step out of them. Something like that, yes? and then, to top it off, create an exchange rate between wow gold, uo gold, eq gold, linden lucre, tabula rasa credits, dereth pyreal etc etc etc...
I didn't know snakes lived up in the arctic.... I know they had oil, but not snakes...
I mean, what they observed already happened long ago. We're just observing it now, and that's fine, but theoretically they could just each independantly observe, timedcode, and then sync it all up later.
Its not like it was a live event where you had to have it just then.
now I'm afraid to put subversive music on the damn thing.... oh geez, I had some Cat Stevens, that's like a red flag...
I do watch it on my home theater system, from my PC in the other room, via xbox 360 and media center.
Even if you're opposed to using anything microsoft to do this, I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to accomplish this...
I mean, the disc, any format, is obsolete, and this just helps push downloading as the primary format. HD-DVDs are cheaper to manufacture? Downloads have no manufacturing cost.
Everything else aside, I realized I don't buy DVDs to watch them again. How many times can you watch one thing? I buy stuff when I like it enough that I want to hand to other people I think should watch it. And on occasion to kind of show support for something like a show that was cancelled.. but that's not that common. 99% of the time they just sit there, taking up space.
As you aptly noted, I omitted the "C", which represents the Speed of Light, which was likewise absent in this case.
Thus, what appeared to be a simple gaff to the untrained eye is actually a sophisticated reference en passant.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
You have to walk the plank.
I mean how to convince the wife that we need a three-way?
Now that Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, I would have expected headlines more in line with, say, the New York post.... you know, like....
Don't have a Gou, man!
Holy Gou!
Gouabunga!
Pass Gou, collect $200 (billion)
Is that to Gou?
lol I bet it doesn't work and everyone uses it uninstalls it and bunch of unsecured applications that are mess of...
oh, microSCOPE.
never mind.
Contrary to earlier belief, it is apparently possible to bash the iPhone online without becoming a net pariah, providing you make it clear that whatever flaw you are bashing is 100% AT&T's fault.
They will eventually just clone Steve Jobs. I mean its an essential part of the i-brand experience, no?
Oh, sure the first versions will be of low quality - arrogant, angry, prone to bouts of outrage, hubris, violence.... posing a danger to all those around him..... but in time they will improve and eventually make a better Steve Jobs than the original.
it at my greater than, and didn't preview the title.
because the responsible oil companies will still control their fuel.
at least that was an argument made in the Who Killed the Electric car movie, more or less. They also implied the thing was like 40 years away from being available. Since I gather it will be disected on here anyway, just wondered how thin it would be sliced, as it were.
Well, I mean, its now legal right? So all we gotta do is arrange to swap comment mods around and sit back and bask in the glory...
(singing) bluff, bluff, bluff the computer...
I think the whole article is a bluff. We're saying that we can beat them. We're hoping they believe that and don't call our bluff.
Wonder why they used Gran Canaria over Tenerife right next door, which has a peak almost twice the height as the highest on Gran Canaria, with Pico Teide being comparable to Mauna Kea... I mean I guess logistically building it might have been easier as it wasn't as steep, but I thought part of the point was to avoid as much atmosphere as possible...