it wasn't intended to be one, or are you really suggesting that the law and order situation has gotten to such a state that there is no way for any government to protect its citizens from crime?
The police are no longer here to protect & serve, they are only around to detect & arrest after the fact.
And you don't see anything wrong with that? the shit you people put up with amazes me. Your government is there for YOUR benefit, as are its minions. YOUR taxes pay for them, and your civil obedience is another of the cost you pay to have your government serve you.
Yours is failing you in so many ways, and leaving you to pick up the pieces, so you and you friend stopped crime with guns. great. just dandy, and are you a trained professional with it? and are all the other citizens of florida you want armed?
Your state is failing to do its job, and telling you to sort it out yourself with guns, and you are applauding that!
three cheers for mob justice, let me know how that tarring and feathering goes for you lot...
yes but you see, while it might be difficult, it CAN be done, you are not legaly required to have a credit card, hence the voluntary bit.
Also a credit card gives me stuff and makes my life easier, I can have multiple cards with multiple vendors. Oh and yes, the govenment CAN track my movement with it but they have to ask for that data.
ID cards, I have no choice about not having, I have to pay for, It resricts my freedoms (oh magna carta, did she die in vain?) and this is the real kicker the government have all the information, all the time. They don't need to ask for my details, they will be provided by their security program that determins there is a 72.5% chance i have bad thoughts
These are people who's only experience with firearms are thru the idiot-box, & are perfectly comfortable with their government making them into good little citizens who have no means of protecting themselves from anything.
You are the one that appears to be hiding his head in the sand, the only thing you should need protecting from is your government, the other things you want to shoot criminals, terrorists, rabid dogs, it's the government's job to protect you from those.
The reason you have a right to bear arms is the right to defend yourself from oppressive governments.
Now do you really think you stand a chance defending yourself from YOUR oppressive government?
When a government is willing to imprison an innocent man for defending himself from criminals tony martin is hardly an innocent man he was convicted of manslaughter by a jury, the only reason the charge was reduced from murder was Dr Joseph found Martin to be a paranoid nutcase and not able to make rational decisions.
the man shot an unarmed teenage boy in the back, with a gun he was not legal entitled to (his shotgun license had been removed when he started shooting at people scrumping apples.)
in short tony martin is exactly the sort of person i want locked up, one un-able to distinguish between revenge and justice.
the only other case i can think of where the "victim" of crime was jailed for "defending" himself involved a factory owner who set a man trap in his factory for burglars (notice BTW burglars are UNARMED unlike robbers), he then proceeded to brutally torture captured burglar.
Now if you are sitting there and thinking good, it should be his job to meet out punishment to criminals, then you also are confusing revenege and justice and should go back and join the mob weilding pitchforks to which you obviously belong,as you are clearly not a civilised human being.
The fact that both Yojimbo and Seven Samurai have been re-made at least twice attest to the power of the original storytelling. Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa '61
A fistfull of Dollars -Sergio Leone '64
Last Man Standing - Walter Hill '96
Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa '54
The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges '60
Battle Beyond the Stars - Jimmy T. Murakami '80
I can't off the top of my head think of any other films that have as many re-makes (excluding shakespearian plays)
Can anyone think of any more titles that beat or match 2 re-makes?
yes although the stewart lee - alan moore interview is gone, the following alan moore - brian eno interview is there and is well worth listing to, particuarly the the bit about brian eno's luxury item on desert island disks, "a giant man eating spider"
In the US they could sue the manufactuer for selling flammable petrol. especially when they specifically ordered inflammable petrol and he gave them flammable stuff instead.
It's just that I can't quite see a chronically depressed robot as cute and adorable. We're talking about a robot who who caused a computer to commit suicide by telling it his view on life, and all the while I can't help comparing the costume design to a mechanized teletubby.
you forget that Marvin is a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.
The marketing division of which defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" and features a "genuine people personality"
admittedly the HG2G defines The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as; "a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".
Personally I find it entirely apt that Marvin looks like a cute teletubby, that's exactly the sort of design the Sirius Cybernetics Corp. would use.
Yeah, naked twister, vs. people who abuse children.
Get your head out of your fucking ass and say hello to reality, dipshit.
For your information; when you force someone at gun point to perform sexual acts against their will, we in the civillised world would call that RAPE and TORTURE, and attempting to trivialise it by calling it "naked twister", we would call CONTEMPTIBLE.
Flash as a technology DOESN'T break the hyperlinked web, anymore than Java, or JPEG breaks the hyperlinked web. The problem (as with all these things) is the poor implementation by bad web designers, or good designers working towards different goals than you.
Some designers for example don't want you to be able to teleport right to the middle of their site, they want you to come in through the front door, or at least a side door, so they can show you stuff on the way.
Now lots of people here will quickly decry that sort of design as evil and marketing led, and it CAN be i agree, however it can also be very useful when they tell me something i needed to know, when i wasn't aware i needed to know it and would never have looked for it on my own.
Fundamentaly it's all about design, and bad design is bad regardless of the technology.
There is little point in arguing with Him. All we really can do is bow down and submit to Him.
And if God tells you to strap on a belt of explosives and slaughter the infidels, well, that's His will and you'd better obey, right?
My advice?
If God talks to you, and asks you to do stuff like that, make sure you get it in writing first!
I think this is a quantum level above the Photoshop filters on an ordinary photo.
In a standard photo, where is light and where is dark is only an approximation to 3D properties from a specific angle
The use of multiple flashes gives a much more complete picture of depth.
The real question is what is the cost of this process, and how does it compare with laser modeling techniques?
If the cost and ease of use is not very low, i would say most of the uses of this technology would be better served by the capability of laser scanners to produce a high resolution digital 3D model of an object, rather than a 2D representation of a 3D object.
I know which one i would rather my surgeon was using i know that much!
I'm a bit concerned about the claims and assumtions regarding the "foolproof" nature of this technology.
Aurora say that they have a zero failure rate, but this is not proof on the "uniqueness" of their identification.
New technology like this very quickly becomes "magic" to the general public and the end users, and there is indeed a difference in the computer recognising your face vs a live cop... the computer is more likely to be assumed to be infallible
I think if you had 80,000 seats they might think about it;)
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did they really get complaints for that? that was a brilliant set of ads. Mind you the numbers of people that have to complain in order for a tv broadcast to be considered offensive is stupidly small. I seem to recall thing with 10 or 20 complaints being pulled, which compared to the number of people that watched them is quite disturbing... I mean more people than that believe david icke for goodness sake.
pot noodle are putting disclaimers on their websites now though. This one from natural noodling nearly made me wet myself laughing.
"If you're under 16, you shouldn't be here. You should be hanging out in shopping precincts with your mates."
I would agree with you that it would appear to be in these companies best intrests for us to distribute their shows by any means we see fit.
Now while we may feel justified in doing so, and suffer no pangs of guilt about it. It is not legitimate for us to do so without THEIR explcit permission.
You get a similar situation in staff theft from the work place, where people steal vast amounts of office stationery, because they feel justified in doing so. Their actions aren't legitimate, or legal, but they continue to do it.
Studies have shown the way to reduce office theft is not just to increase the penalties for stealing, but to REDUCE things that can be used to justify the theft to the individual... i work long unpaid hours, the company is a faceless corp... the company can afford it etc.
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not so much the double dare, more the feel smug and pretend it's not influencing your decisions.
Oh we also get the this product is amazing and will change your life ads too, but there is a large group of very post modern ads.
I'm not sure if it's just a cultural thing, for example Pot noodle (probably work safe, but you may need to reasure people it's not a porn site), a noodle snack food, who's new marketing campaign is based on the premise "it's filthy but you love it". The website is a parody of a porn site, the ads on TV follow the theme that this snack food is dirtier than most sexual vices.
I think pot noodles core market is students and truckers, who know full well it's rubbish food, but is quick and easy for lunch, or when you come back from the pub... I don't think you could run the same ads in the US, and i think it's a bit deeper than just cultural translation, i think it's an acceptance that an ad is by its very nature dishonest, lying sales speak, but even knowing that, there's no reason why you can't use that public knowledge to your advantage.
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Unfortunately, the TV companies will probably try to wrap it up in some evil DRM to prevent other people cutting the ads out and seeding the high-quality ad-free versions.
I know this is perhaps a controversial view on/. but DRM isn't evil per se.
There is nothing wrong with a company wishing to protect its investment, and to be paid for its product.
The point at which it becomes evil is when it is used a vehicle for out-dated commercial models.
I believe most people would rather have a legitimate copy of something rather than a pirate, and would even pay money for that legitimacy. The problem facing owners of digital media, is HOW MUCH money are they prepared to pay. If the cost is too great, $15 for a CD, people will quite happily justify piracy to themselves.
I also think many IP owners fall into the mistake of thinking that better DRM will enable them to keep their prices higher. But as we all know once someone finds out how to crack their security, the high prices serves to fuel the market for pirates.
As an aside, having watched american adverts and english adverts, i notice a huge difference in approach. Correct me if i'm wrong, but in the US an advert treats you like a moron who will buy anything cause a guy with white perfect teeth say's it will change your life.
In the UK, our advertisers pander to our sense of intellectual superiority. Here the message tends to be, obviously we as advertisers know YOU are far too clever to fall for our marketing, but here is a clever and amusing advert, which you can pretend not to be influenced by. For an example of this sort of english ad check out some of tango's ads.. compare them to coke or pepsi for example who would have you believe a coke/pepsi can save the world... Tango on the other hand asks you to "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!"
In my experience lots of british people like watching adverts, (tango's website lets you e-mail the ads to people). The challenge faced by TV producers now is not to try and stop this new technology, but work out how to make it work for them. Making adverts that people don't mind watching is where i think their future lies.
i think a lot of it depends on what sort of stories you are looking to tell, and how much work you want to put in. I am assuming you'd use a game-engine because you want a relatively quick and cheap solution to your animation requirements. I agree that there are better looking games out there, but i'm not sure how they compare in the ease of setting up a scene?
to be honest, i think if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well and you much better taking the time to use a proper tool for the job. I'd use either flash for 2D work, or 3D StudioMax, both of which will do your future career no harm in picking up.
I'm not sure the same can be said for fiddling with a game, to get the shot your looking for.
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it wasn't intended to be one, or are you really suggesting that the law and order situation has gotten to such a state that there is no way for any government to protect its citizens from crime?
The police are no longer here to protect & serve, they are only around to detect & arrest after the fact.
And you don't see anything wrong with that? the shit you people put up with amazes me. Your government is there for YOUR benefit, as are its minions. YOUR taxes pay for them, and your civil obedience is another of the cost you pay to have your government serve you.
Yours is failing you in so many ways, and leaving you to pick up the pieces, so you and you friend stopped crime with guns. great. just dandy, and are you a trained professional with it? and are all the other citizens of florida you want armed?
Your state is failing to do its job, and telling you to sort it out yourself with guns, and you are applauding that!
three cheers for mob justice, let me know how that tarring and feathering goes for you lot...
Now come on.. we brits have always known how to identify the bad guys.. why do you think all the bad guys wear black clothes in the James Bond Films??
Now come on thats a gross simplification, if only it were that easy to tell who the bad guys are.
shame on you.
They might also be the ones with the bowler hat, tank full of sharks, fluffy white cat, or silver dentures.
yes but you see, while it might be difficult, it CAN be done, you are not legaly required to have a credit card, hence the voluntary bit.
Also a credit card gives me stuff and makes my life easier, I can have multiple cards with multiple vendors. Oh and yes, the govenment CAN track my movement with it but they have to ask for that data.
ID cards, I have no choice about not having, I have to pay for, It resricts my freedoms (oh magna carta, did she die in vain?) and this is the real kicker the government have all the information, all the time. They don't need to ask for my details, they will be provided by their security program that determins there is a 72.5% chance i have bad thoughts
These are people who's only experience with firearms are thru the idiot-box, & are perfectly comfortable with their government making them into good little citizens who have no means of protecting themselves from anything.
You are the one that appears to be hiding his head in the sand, the only thing you should need protecting from is your government, the other things you want to shoot criminals, terrorists, rabid dogs, it's the government's job to protect you from those.
The reason you have a right to bear arms is the right to defend yourself from oppressive governments.
Now do you really think you stand a chance defending yourself from YOUR oppressive government?
When a government is willing to imprison an innocent man for defending himself from criminals
tony martin is hardly an innocent man he was convicted of manslaughter by a jury, the only reason the charge was reduced from murder was Dr Joseph found Martin to be a paranoid nutcase and not able to make rational decisions.
the man shot an unarmed teenage boy in the back, with a gun he was not legal entitled to (his shotgun license had been removed when he started shooting at people scrumping apples.)
in short tony martin is exactly the sort of person i want locked up, one un-able to distinguish between revenge and justice.
the only other case i can think of where the "victim" of crime was jailed for "defending" himself involved a factory owner who set a man trap in his factory for burglars (notice BTW burglars are UNARMED unlike robbers), he then proceeded to brutally torture captured burglar.
Now if you are sitting there and thinking good, it should be his job to meet out punishment to criminals, then you also are confusing revenege and justice and should go back and join the mob weilding pitchforks to which you obviously belong,as you are clearly not a civilised human being.
The fact that both Yojimbo and Seven Samurai have been re-made at least twice attest to the power of the original storytelling.
Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa '61
A fistfull of Dollars -Sergio Leone '64
Last Man Standing - Walter Hill '96
Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa '54
The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges '60
Battle Beyond the Stars - Jimmy T. Murakami '80
I can't off the top of my head think of any other films that have as many re-makes (excluding shakespearian plays)
Can anyone think of any more titles that beat or match 2 re-makes?
yes although the stewart lee - alan moore interview is gone, the following alan moore - brian eno interview is there and is well worth listing to, particuarly the the bit about brian eno's luxury item on desert island disks, "a giant man eating spider"
In the US they could sue the manufactuer for selling flammable petrol.
especially when they specifically ordered inflammable petrol and he gave them flammable stuff instead.
It is a bourgeoisie troll campaign
Ok now i have images of trolls with goatees drinking champagne laughing at the poor oppressed slashdot masses...
you forget that Marvin is a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.
The marketing division of which defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" and features a "genuine people personality"
admittedly the HG2G defines The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as;
"a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".
Personally I find it entirely apt that Marvin looks like a cute teletubby, that's exactly the sort of design the Sirius Cybernetics Corp. would use.
For your information; when you force someone at gun point to perform sexual acts against their will, we in the civillised world would call that RAPE and TORTURE, and attempting to trivialise it by calling it "naked twister", we would call CONTEMPTIBLE.
you damn language users think you're so clever... in my day we just used to point at stuff, and we liked it!
Flash as a technology DOESN'T break the hyperlinked web, anymore than Java, or JPEG breaks the hyperlinked web. The problem (as with all these things) is the poor implementation by bad web designers, or good designers working towards different goals than you.
Some designers for example don't want you to be able to teleport right to the middle of their site, they want you to come in through the front door, or at least a side door, so they can show you stuff on the way.
Now lots of people here will quickly decry that sort of design as evil and marketing led, and it CAN be i agree, however it can also be very useful when they tell me something i needed to know, when i wasn't aware i needed to know it and would never have looked for it on my own.
Fundamentaly it's all about design, and bad design is bad regardless of the technology.
There is little point in arguing with Him. All we really can do is bow down and submit to Him.
And if God tells you to strap on a belt of explosives and slaughter the infidels, well, that's His will and you'd better obey, right?
My advice?
If God talks to you, and asks you to do stuff like that, make sure you get it in writing first!
. I searched for coppit.com there, and a week later a squatter had it.
perhaps they had this plan for selling holes in the ground to put police in, that didn't work out for some reason?
Isn't this more like having the entire neighborhood join the neighborhood watch, then post everyone around the perimiter of a pedophile's property?
the trouble with mobs and vigilanes though is they are not very just, and can't be relied on not to attack the pediatrician by mistake.
lynchings are generally considered bad things for a reason, and this is what this screensaver amounts to online lynchings.
I think this is a quantum level above the Photoshop filters on an ordinary photo.
In a standard photo, where is light and where is dark is only an approximation to 3D properties from a specific angle
The use of multiple flashes gives a much more complete picture of depth.
The real question is what is the cost of this process, and how does it compare with laser modeling techniques?
If the cost and ease of use is not very low, i would say most of the uses of this technology would be better served by the capability of laser scanners to produce a high resolution digital 3D model of an object, rather than a 2D representation of a 3D object.
I know which one i would rather my surgeon was using i know that much!
I'm a bit concerned about the claims and assumtions regarding the "foolproof" nature of this technology.
Aurora say that they have a zero failure rate, but this is not proof on the "uniqueness" of their identification.
New technology like this very quickly becomes "magic" to the general public and the end users, and there is indeed a difference in the computer recognising your face vs a live cop... the computer is more likely to be assumed to be infallible
I think if you had 80,000 seats they might think about it ;)
pot noodle are putting disclaimers on their websites now though. This one from natural noodling nearly made me wet myself laughing.
I would agree with you that it would appear to be in these companies best intrests for us to distribute their shows by any means we see fit.
Now while we may feel justified in doing so, and suffer no pangs of guilt about it. It is not legitimate for us to do so without THEIR explcit permission.
You get a similar situation in staff theft from the work place, where people steal vast amounts of office stationery, because they feel justified in doing so. Their actions aren't legitimate, or legal, but they continue to do it.
Studies have shown the way to reduce office theft is not just to increase the penalties for stealing, but to REDUCE things that can be used to justify the theft to the individual... i work long unpaid hours, the company is a faceless corp... the company can afford it etc.
not so much the double dare, more the feel smug and pretend it's not influencing your decisions.
Oh we also get the this product is amazing and will change your life ads too, but there is a large group of very post modern ads.
I'm not sure if it's just a cultural thing, for example Pot noodle (probably work safe, but you may need to reasure people it's not a porn site), a noodle snack food, who's new marketing campaign is based on the premise "it's filthy but you love it". The website is a parody of a porn site, the ads on TV follow the theme that this snack food is dirtier than most sexual vices.
I think pot noodles core market is students and truckers, who know full well it's rubbish food, but is quick and easy for lunch, or when you come back from the pub... I don't think you could run the same ads in the US, and i think it's a bit deeper than just cultural translation, i think it's an acceptance that an ad is by its very nature dishonest, lying sales speak, but even knowing that, there's no reason why you can't use that public knowledge to your advantage.
Unfortunately, the TV companies will probably try to wrap it up in some evil DRM to prevent other people cutting the ads out and seeding the high-quality ad-free versions.
/. but DRM isn't evil per se.
I know this is perhaps a controversial view on
There is nothing wrong with a company wishing to protect its investment, and to be paid for its product.
The point at which it becomes evil is when it is used a vehicle for out-dated commercial models.
I believe most people would rather have a legitimate copy of something rather than a pirate, and would even pay money for that legitimacy. The problem facing owners of digital media, is HOW MUCH money are they prepared to pay. If the cost is too great, $15 for a CD, people will quite happily justify piracy to themselves.
I also think many IP owners fall into the mistake of thinking that better DRM will enable them to keep their prices higher. But as we all know once someone finds out how to crack their security, the high prices serves to fuel the market for pirates.
As an aside, having watched american adverts and english adverts, i notice a huge difference in approach. Correct me if i'm wrong, but in the US an advert treats you like a moron who will buy anything cause a guy with white perfect teeth say's it will change your life.
In the UK, our advertisers pander to our sense of intellectual superiority. Here the message tends to be, obviously we as advertisers know YOU are far too clever to fall for our marketing, but here is a clever and amusing advert, which you can pretend not to be influenced by. For an example of this sort of english ad check out some of tango's ads.. compare them to coke or pepsi for example who would have you believe a coke/pepsi can save the world... Tango on the other hand asks you to "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!"
In my experience lots of british people like watching adverts, (tango's website lets you e-mail the ads to people). The challenge faced by TV producers now is not to try and stop this new technology, but work out how to make it work for them. Making adverts that people don't mind watching is where i think their future lies.
i think a lot of it depends on what sort of stories you are looking to tell, and how much work you want to put in. I am assuming you'd use a game-engine because you want a relatively quick and cheap solution to your animation requirements. I agree that there are better looking games out there, but i'm not sure how they compare in the ease of setting up a scene?
to be honest, i think if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well and you much better taking the time to use a proper tool for the job. I'd use either flash for 2D work, or 3D StudioMax, both of which will do your future career no harm in picking up.
I'm not sure the same can be said for fiddling with a game, to get the shot your looking for.