(sorry for spelling im a bit drunk)
Seems like pure vindictiveness to me. What are they looking for a text file that says:
Plan to make millionzzz by me
1: offer to host police website for free
2: ?
3: profit!
Just pure petty minded vindictivness. I do worry that over there it is slipping into a police state (though of course all I have to base this on is the media).
the beeb has started to suck big time over the last few years:
#1: over reliance on ideas that prove popular. docusoaps. house makeover. garden makeover. crappy one off dramas. long running dramas. Comedies starring people famous in other comedies, no matter how bad the new show is. Horizon is now an excersize in nice camera angles and talking about the personalities of the scientists than talking about any theories they have.
#2: new digital channels they suck (apart from about 10% of BBC4), they eat money and have no viewers. Crikey, they interrupted a film last night on BBC3 (the only way that channel gets *any* viewers is to put on films that should be on the main channels) with their crappy 60 second 'news' which is celeb obsessed. I mean for 60 secs of unimportant news, couldn't it wait until after the film?
#3: BBC website. Eats money and most of it has nothing to do with the beeb. it in fact stifles creativity in the private market as they have money to burn.
#4: because of #2 & #3, it's repeat central on BBC2. excellent, another repeat of 'Porridge'? rather than trying out some some stuff?
really its getting to the stage that im going to scrap tv. i already stopped paying for sky as its full of rubbish. there is nothing I make time to watch.
exactly why I rent DVDs then copy them, removing those bloody awful ads, warnings and pointless extras that appear in justification of high DVD prices.
drives me nuts if say I buy a music single DVD. to watch a 3.5 minute single I have to sit through some bloody awful tacky ego boosting ident for the production company.
This may be news to them out there but WE DONT BLOODY CARE WHO PRODUCED IT AS LONG AS THE FILM IS GOOD. One film I saw I think had 4/5 idents at the start. and they are all so damn awful.
Do they think that anybody takes notice of the warnings or doesnt know that it is illegal? why not have a new CD format that forces you to listen to an audio warning and some crappy idents before listening to a CD. If that seems mad and unacceptable, why is this so different from DVDs?
yep plumbers and builders and carpenters at the moment can charge shedloads because there aren't that many about (and even fewer who are any good)
its called the market. its kinda like around Y2K when all the big banks had gone internet crazy and you could get contracts for stupid amounts (I myself was on 650GBP a day - $1300 at the current rate).
now its a damn sight lower. partially due to outsourcing and partially due to the govt granting work permits to people with IT skills
And the other benefit of course, you are your own boss!
lets hope the underlying VM interpreter (or whatever) is shared source of some kind.
otherwise can you imagine the random problems you are going to get when one of the devices has a problem with different VM implementation. Or security issues on individual VMs?
It took a good while to get the various flavours of Java VMs to all work pretty much the same, the same would be true here.
thats a BBC model B home computer on the left in the first shot, whats on the right? IIRC it looks like a Prime terminal if anybody here is old enough to remember them!
Ep 4. Wonderful. This was the largest grossing film, (next to Gone With the Wind), for a reason
yeah the reason was there was *nothing* like it. Nice story but the directing and script are total pants. ok i could forgive than in 1978 when i was like 6, but not now. I can't watch it now as I cringe at all the really appaling lines in the film. In fact those were the bits that needed changing for the new editions, not the SFX!
no movie with crappy acting and bad dialogue is great, no matter how good the storyline or SFX. part of the point I was trying to make was that the reason so many people do idolise movies with crappy acting and dialogue is that there is a complete lack of anything better in this genre.
which is a real shame.
unfortunately though because this genre is popular and because there aren't really that many films made 'in space' if you like, we all fall upon them like slavering dogs and they make money.
not until we turn our nose up at these dogs dinners will things get any better.
but then again this is almost all the high budget film industry isn't it!
The Fithp force the human race into a condition of servile surrender
So I assume they are here already? Or does being a wage slave in a 'democracy' that continously erodes our rights whilst we all sit and munch fried chicken watching the pap that the mass media serves us *not* count as servile surrender?:)
SW is a nice idea just apallingly badly done most of the time. The only reason we get so excited is that the sci-fi film genre is *so* badly served with horrible derivative works it makes SW seem ok.
kudos for Lucas for originally having the sage storyline and hiring some damn talented designers to put a unique feel on the films and superb effects for the time. And great music. But if he gets too far involved, it just sucks. Sorry George.
quick summary:
Ep4: poor directing, awful script, okish film Ep5: good! somebody else writes and directs (take the hint please) Ep6: Ok film, somebody else directs. bad dialogue is back thanks to georgey boy working on the screenplay again. story rear ended for commerical gain by adding the ewoks
Ep1: Atrocious. Hes back writing on his own and DIRECTING. Dammit george you were not very good to start with and its been 22 YEARS since you last directed anything. story again rammed in the chocolate starfish with the commericalisation of the pod racing scene (which takes up about 50% of the film it seems). pick a totally appaling actor for annakin. Take some of the best acting talent and turn them into cardboard with bloody awful directing and bad script. Hell I can't even remember what happens in this film apart from the pod race.
Ep2: A bit better, i.e. watchable. Script a bit better as hes working with somebody again for the screenplay. again choose an awful annakin. Whats now odd about this is that I can't think of a single point without music in the film. probably why the film seems better as the great music can actually make you feel the emotions that the script and directing cannot.
I don't know why he returned to the writing/directing roles, surely he realised that 5&6 were better than 3? Why couldn't he have turfed the directing/screenplay over to better people? He could have kept his repuation as a god, and become a benevolant god at that. What possessed him to do it?
To leave on a positive note, at least nothing else looks like star wars, it's too 'in your face' to copy. Unlike Alien which although a great film, every spacecraft interior now looks like it's out of Alien and unfortunately it seems a hell of a lot of stories just copy it as well...
Is that on a contract? over here (UK) camera phones are still going 250+ to buy outright. (32,000 yen = 156)
hey i'd buy it at that price, depending on its low light sensitityity. I tend to use mine mostly at night, so a low 'ISO' value would be be no good most of the time
there is a limit to what you can get usefully out of postprocessing. I'm gonna regret this but look at this image from my 7650.
It's sharpened to get the centre nice, but the corners are completely gone. ok you could correct the barrel distortion, but you are not going to retrieve any detail.
hey I go commando all the time:)
I think more explanation might be required...
'underpants' would be considered functional, not attractive. Greying 'Y' fronts for men or just awful plain but tatty underwear (perhaps with the day embroidered on) for women.
anything more presentable would be properly named - boxers, lingere, etc.
pants is just the lowest of the low:)
beats my nokia 7650 into a cocked hat. I recently did a trawl for my photographer friend who wanted a cam phone and it was disappointing what we found over here. Many phones were only qcif resoultion. the rest were pretty awful, on par with the 7650.
IIRC we chose the samsung v200 which was reasonable quality. Like the other samsungs it has poor sensitivity, but makes up for it by having a built in light.
or it will look pants. The big limiting factor in phone pic quality is the shocking quality of the 'lens'. Almost all the phones I've seen have had awful sharpness, low contrast and the most horrible pincushion distortion.
they are getting slightly better, but not much. In fact at the moment there is no point upping the resolution on camera phones because of poor lenses.
I'd give you a link to my Nokia Art page except I fear it/.ed:)
I think it's pretty outrageous just to yank the things out, surely there is some other solution?
portable storage of some kind whether masses of drives, tapes or whatever. or an ethernet cable routed outside to a truck with a sat dish on it. or something else.
No wonder we just continously get bloody awful films all the time.
It seems obvious just from the choice of the main two actors that the characters will not be the same.
If you change the characters then basically everything has to change, the dialogue, what people do, how people react.
you can't just bolt in entirely different people and expect it to work.
but they do. and that's why so many films are pants. and tv shows that cross either way across the atlantic and are remade tend not to work, somebody tampers with what makes it work - the characters.
no wonder they waited till after he died....
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(sorry for spelling im a bit drunk) Seems like pure vindictiveness to me. What are they looking for a text file that says: Plan to make millionzzz by me 1: offer to host police website for free 2: ? 3: profit! Just pure petty minded vindictivness. I do worry that over there it is slipping into a police state (though of course all I have to base this on is the media).
sounds like a great idea.
:)
though we'd have to leave behind the 'conceptual artists'
the beeb has started to suck big time over the last few years:
#1: over reliance on ideas that prove popular. docusoaps. house makeover. garden makeover. crappy one off dramas. long running dramas. Comedies starring people famous in other comedies, no matter how bad the new show is. Horizon is now an excersize in nice camera angles and talking about the personalities of the scientists than talking about any theories they have.
#2: new digital channels
they suck (apart from about 10% of BBC4), they eat money and have no viewers. Crikey, they interrupted a film last night on BBC3 (the only way that channel gets *any* viewers is to put on films that should be on the main channels) with their crappy 60 second 'news' which is celeb obsessed. I mean for 60 secs of unimportant news, couldn't it wait until after the film?
#3: BBC website. Eats money and most of it has nothing to do with the beeb. it in fact stifles creativity in the private market as they have money to burn.
#4: because of #2 & #3, it's repeat central on BBC2. excellent, another repeat of 'Porridge'? rather than trying out some some stuff?
really its getting to the stage that im going to scrap tv. i already stopped paying for sky as its full of rubbish. there is nothing I make time to watch.
exactly why I rent DVDs then copy them, removing those bloody awful ads, warnings and pointless extras that appear in justification of high DVD prices.
drives me nuts if say I buy a music single DVD. to watch a 3.5 minute single I have to sit through some bloody awful tacky ego boosting ident for the production company.
This may be news to them out there but WE DONT BLOODY CARE WHO PRODUCED IT AS LONG AS THE FILM IS GOOD. One film I saw I think had 4/5 idents at the start. and they are all so damn awful.
Do they think that anybody takes notice of the warnings or doesnt know that it is illegal? why not have a new CD format that forces you to listen to an audio warning and some crappy idents before listening to a CD. If that seems mad and unacceptable, why is this so different from DVDs?
till a phone can do this?
clicky for beeb news item 16/5/03
yep plumbers and builders and carpenters at the moment can charge shedloads because there aren't that many about (and even fewer who are any good)
its called the market. its kinda like around Y2K when all the big banks had gone internet crazy and you could get contracts for stupid amounts (I myself was on 650GBP a day - $1300 at the current rate).
now its a damn sight lower. partially due to outsourcing and partially due to the govt granting work permits to people with IT skills
And the other benefit of course, you are your own boss!
lets hope the underlying VM interpreter (or whatever) is shared source of some kind.
otherwise can you imagine the random problems you are going to get when one of the devices has a problem with different VM implementation. Or security issues on individual VMs?
It took a good while to get the various flavours of Java VMs to all work pretty much the same, the same would be true here.
thats a BBC model B home computer on the left in the first shot, whats on the right? IIRC it looks like a Prime terminal if anybody here is old enough to remember them!
Ep 4. Wonderful. This was the largest grossing film, (next to Gone With the Wind), for a reason
yeah the reason was there was *nothing* like it. Nice story but the directing and script are total pants. ok i could forgive than in 1978 when i was like 6, but not now. I can't watch it now as I cringe at all the really appaling lines in the film. In fact those were the bits that needed changing for the new editions, not the SFX!
no movie with crappy acting and bad dialogue is great, no matter how good the storyline or SFX. part of the point I was trying to make was that the reason so many people do idolise movies with crappy acting and dialogue is that there is a complete lack of anything better in this genre.
which is a real shame.
unfortunately though because this genre is popular and because there aren't really that many films made 'in space' if you like, we all fall upon them like slavering dogs and they make money.
not until we turn our nose up at these dogs dinners will things get any better.
but then again this is almost all the high budget film industry isn't it!
The Fithp force the human race into a condition of servile surrender
:)
So I assume they are here already? Or does being a wage slave in a 'democracy' that continously erodes our rights whilst we all sit and munch fried chicken watching the pap that the mass media serves us *not* count as servile surrender?
SW is a nice idea just apallingly badly done most of the time. The only reason we get so excited is that the sci-fi film genre is *so* badly served with horrible derivative works it makes SW seem ok.
kudos for Lucas for originally having the sage storyline and hiring some damn talented designers to put a unique feel on the films and superb effects for the time. And great music. But if he gets too far involved, it just sucks. Sorry George.
quick summary:
Ep4: poor directing, awful script, okish film
Ep5: good! somebody else writes and directs (take the hint please)
Ep6: Ok film, somebody else directs. bad dialogue is back thanks to georgey boy working on the screenplay again. story rear ended for commerical gain by adding the ewoks
Ep1: Atrocious. Hes back writing on his own and DIRECTING. Dammit george you were not very good to start with and its been 22 YEARS since you last directed anything. story again rammed in the chocolate starfish with the commericalisation of the pod racing scene (which takes up about 50% of the film it seems). pick a totally appaling actor for annakin. Take some of the best acting talent and turn them into cardboard with bloody awful directing and bad script. Hell I can't even remember what happens in this film apart from the pod race.
Ep2: A bit better, i.e. watchable. Script a bit better as hes working with somebody again for the screenplay. again choose an awful annakin. Whats now odd about this is that I can't think of a single point without music in the film. probably why the film seems better as the great music can actually make you feel the emotions that the script and directing cannot.
I don't know why he returned to the writing/directing roles, surely he realised that 5&6 were better than 3? Why couldn't he have turfed the directing/screenplay over to better people? He could have kept his repuation as a god, and become a benevolant god at that. What possessed him to do it?
To leave on a positive note, at least nothing else looks like star wars, it's too 'in your face' to copy. Unlike Alien which although a great film, every spacecraft interior now looks like it's out of Alien and unfortunately it seems a hell of a lot of stories just copy it as well...
start/run mplayer2 yowzer
Is that on a contract? over here (UK) camera phones are still going 250+ to buy outright. (32,000 yen = 156) hey i'd buy it at that price, depending on its low light sensitityity. I tend to use mine mostly at night, so a low 'ISO' value would be be no good most of the time
there is a limit to what you can get usefully out of postprocessing. I'm gonna regret this but look at this image from my 7650.
It's sharpened to get the centre nice, but the corners are completely gone. ok you could correct the barrel distortion, but you are not going to retrieve any detail.
hey I go commando all the time :)
I think more explanation might be required...
'underpants' would be considered functional, not attractive. Greying 'Y' fronts for men or just awful plain but tatty underwear (perhaps with the day embroidered on) for women.
anything more presentable would be properly named - boxers, lingere, etc.
pants is just the lowest of the low :)
Hey they are GREAT!
beats my nokia 7650 into a cocked hat. I recently did a trawl for my photographer friend who wanted a cam phone and it was disappointing what we found over here. Many phones were only qcif resoultion. the rest were pretty awful, on par with the 7650.
IIRC we chose the samsung v200 which was reasonable quality. Like the other samsungs it has poor sensitivity, but makes up for it by having a built in light.
what's a rough price of that 505i?
sorry, UK slang. if something is 'pants' it's awful and don't forget over here 'pants' means underpants no trousers :)
or it will look pants. The big limiting factor in phone pic quality is the shocking quality of the 'lens'. Almost all the phones I've seen have had awful sharpness, low contrast and the most horrible pincushion distortion.
/.ed :)
they are getting slightly better, but not much. In fact at the moment there is no point upping the resolution on camera phones because of poor lenses.
I'd give you a link to my Nokia Art page except I fear it
I think it's pretty outrageous just to yank the things out, surely there is some other solution? portable storage of some kind whether masses of drives, tapes or whatever. or an ethernet cable routed outside to a truck with a sat dish on it. or something else.
Ok you've heard the dollar is weak at the moment, but it's not 1=$1 its 1=$1.87. jeez what did think it was before?
actual amount nicked = $1029
for quick reference generally it hovers around 1 = $1.5
1. Make 'standard' Linux Distro available cheaply 2. ? 3. Charge loads more for it 4. Profit!
No wonder we just continously get bloody awful films all the time. It seems obvious just from the choice of the main two actors that the characters will not be the same. If you change the characters then basically everything has to change, the dialogue, what people do, how people react. you can't just bolt in entirely different people and expect it to work. but they do. and that's why so many films are pants. and tv shows that cross either way across the atlantic and are remade tend not to work, somebody tampers with what makes it work - the characters. no wonder they waited till after he died....