I'm not so anti SW prequels. Lucas has made a really impressive universe for his StarWars films, and it would be stupid to waste it.
What about if they made another trilogy of films following the example liad down by the game Knights of the Old Republic - set a triliogy in that same StarWars universe, with the already developed locations, mythlogy and nice Good versus Evil plot, but set it 1000 years in the past. You could have a whole new load of characters and focus the story in some Sith uprising or another. Oh, either avoid love scenes or get a director who can do them.
Heh - I guess I am still an Idealistic student. I can become old, bitter and mistrusting of the world in later life.
Perhaps the best way to stop the erosion of civil liberties is to wrap every tiny process to change a law in so much bureaucracy that no one can actually do anything..
God, that patriot act of yours is darn scary. does anyone know if there is an equivilant in Britain? I hope not, I like to think that British norms are more informed than American norms (Though the results of our last election seem to suggest otherwise.)
It scares me that any body, even governments, can have such power. I like to think that in the modern age, people are protected by bodies like the UN. It pisses me off when the governing bodies of countries like America ignore UN rules because they think they are above the international law. In a perfect world, no one would have such extreme power over anyone else...
Screw it, maybe I'll just give up the real world. People are always saying that nerds like me have 'poor social skills'. What a load of crap! Sure, in their world I might be considered a bit strange, but in the world that is most important to me, the internet, I am a good member of society. But I am off topic, so I'll stop.
Those images are very nice and all, but what does it mean? What are the centeral, red spheres in the middle - servers? I am confused. Someone, please explain.
There is no reason to go into space at all. But we still do, because it is human nature to expand, to grow, to learn and to seek out new places to live and exist in. The human race could happily stay on earth for the rest of its existance. We could prop up all the third or second world countries into the state of europe and America, and then stay at that level of development, for we would be content. But we won't - there will always be pioneers going to live on space stations, or the moon, mars or perhaps the moons of jupiter and Saturn one day, just because they can. We can't justify it, but we will do it anyway.
I would care significantly less for this law if just stealing a copy of a DVD was punishable to the same extent, but it is not. I don't know the details, so can someone post the maximum sentences you can get for pirating DVD's hard copy and selling them at a market or something? I would guess it would be much less.
maybe soldiers would object to being remote controlled... but what about genetically engineered super soldiers - half human, half rhino, half lizard. Now that would be cool. and feasible for use within the near future, too!
I never really liked the TV series. The tacky, low budgetness should, in theroy, suite the books perfectly, but alas... It doesn't.
I think HHGTTG just won't really go with being made into any sort of visual feature. It relies a lot on the descriptions, that if they were made into film it would be too easy not to notice...
Hey - don't think you guys who've been on computers for 25 years have the monopoly on Asciipr0n - I have been known to browse the archives ocne in a while...
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups/pinup11.txt
I agree. It is depressing to note that Google is the only real search engine that produces constant results. I can remember when searching for a page on the internet was like searching for a fish in the ocean...
while it still may take some time to get results, Google is simply the most effective search engine around. That doesn't mean I have to stop believing in conspiricy theroys, though.
I think that better teaching methods need to be developed that work better in tandem with computers. As a 16 year old student myself, as well as being a geek, I find that any lessons we have in school that are on computers my productivity is split 50/50 , 50% working, 50% posting on forums, reading web comics etc. As the parent said, this could be because the lessons are boring. (My school is classed as a techonolgy college - it has about 500 computers in it) My teacher for french tends to just dump us on the computers with a vague list of sites to visit to learn from. Thats a lot of temptation to just go do something else.
I also thing there needs to be better programs to keep students in check, and perhaps training programs for the teachers on how to make sure students are working - at my school they utilise software called "RM", a modded version of XP that creates a nice large large scale network that is easy to admin. It also comes with tools to control student usage of computers - tools giving remote access to students desktops, tools freezing the students screen when the teacher wants to speak, tools to display the teachers desktop on all students screens.. In theory it should work, but in practice the teachers are badly taught in its use, using the more advanced features rarely, and the more technologyically minded students, like myself, have ten thousand work arounds to sidestep all the features, anyway.
And the second reference in the article - that students work worse at home when exposed to computers. I myself spend all my free time on the computer - browzing the web, playing games, watcing anime, modding my case etc. I used to get little time to actually do homework, ending up doing it late at night. In an attempt to combat this, my parents put a curfue on computer access at 10:30pm - I can stay up till when ever I like, but I have to turn the PC off by 10:30. The effect this has had is that now I do all my homework and coursework handwritten, after 10:30, often staying up until the early hours of the morning to get it all done. Then I have my alarm set to wake me up at half six so I can get an hour of computer in before having to go to school...
Are my grades suffering? possibly, though not to anyhere near the extent these sorts of reports would have us believe. Do I care? no. and also: Are my abilities to social interact with others suffering, so I will become a closeted nerd who spends his life in a dark room? Hell no. I hate it when people say that the computer is so bad, that it inhibits the abilities of people to function in normal society. The question has to be asked: Is the "normal society" of today going to be the norm of tommorrow? No.
(Whoops... when a little offtopic there at the end)
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Yes, but Apple are but a member of an evil global conspircy, a group of super companies who serve an advanced alien race, and are trying to STEAL YOUR BRAIN to feed their evil masters.
These sorts of articles on slashdot always make me sad. It makes me wish I had a longer life span, not too live longer, but so I can see how this sort of technology progresses... And I want a spaceship.
As they said in the article, its about twice the price of a similarly sized tent, but significantly less cost than a portacabin. As a tent doesn't really offer very good protection from the weather etc, one of these Egg things is probably worth the extra £500/$950.Before this invention they have required one of those significantly more expenive portacabins if they wanted to create shelter that had a bit of substance - for instance if they were working in a cold, wet enviorment rather than the warm, dry African enviorment we usually imagine these sort of aid missions going on in.
(Olix uses knowledge gained in GCSE buisness lessons) does Kazza actually have money then? Where do they earn it from? I would have thought, if the company is private limited, then they would just declare the comapny bankrupt and start again...
yeah, but can you really see a couple of guys at a polytechnic getting together and spending twelve hours making something like that thing? I can't. Whether that is a statement for or against polytechnics, I am undecided...
... it would not work as an jpg. The device is just a run that is all around some guys room, and an image would not really be able to capture it. In a film you can have images of the set peices, graphics and actors, but with a little avi like this an picture would serve not at all to portray what is going on...
The really scary thing is that when I read this article, Beowulf Cluster is brought straight to mind rather than the Saga of Beowulf. It took me twenty seconds and a quick wikipedia search to understand what the film would actually be about.
It would be cool if the film was about clusters though. I imagine it would be some sort of Tron type thing.
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I'm not so anti SW prequels. Lucas has made a really impressive universe for his StarWars films, and it would be stupid to waste it.
What about if they made another trilogy of films following the example liad down by the game Knights of the Old Republic - set a triliogy in that same StarWars universe, with the already developed locations, mythlogy and nice Good versus Evil plot, but set it 1000 years in the past. You could have a whole new load of characters and focus the story in some Sith uprising or another. Oh, either avoid love scenes or get a director who can do them.
Heh - I guess I am still an Idealistic student. I can become old, bitter and mistrusting of the world in later life. Perhaps the best way to stop the erosion of civil liberties is to wrap every tiny process to change a law in so much bureaucracy that no one can actually do anything..
God, that patriot act of yours is darn scary. does anyone know if there is an equivilant in Britain? I hope not, I like to think that British norms are more informed than American norms (Though the results of our last election seem to suggest otherwise.)
It scares me that any body, even governments, can have such power. I like to think that in the modern age, people are protected by bodies like the UN. It pisses me off when the governing bodies of countries like America ignore UN rules because they think they are above the international law. In a perfect world, no one would have such extreme power over anyone else...
Screw it, maybe I'll just give up the real world. People are always saying that nerds like me have 'poor social skills'. What a load of crap! Sure, in their world I might be considered a bit strange, but in the world that is most important to me, the internet, I am a good member of society. But I am off topic, so I'll stop.
Joe Six Pack wih webhosting can now post a .torrent without needing a tracker.
Joe Six Pack? Who the hell let him on here? I don't want him getting his icky sports-juice all over MY network...
Thankyou, that was very helpful. I think I understand now.
Those images are very nice and all, but what does it mean? What are the centeral, red spheres in the middle - servers? I am confused. Someone, please explain.
There is no reason to go into space at all. But we still do, because it is human nature to expand, to grow, to learn and to seek out new places to live and exist in. The human race could happily stay on earth for the rest of its existance. We could prop up all the third or second world countries into the state of europe and America, and then stay at that level of development, for we would be content. But we won't - there will always be pioneers going to live on space stations, or the moon, mars or perhaps the moons of jupiter and Saturn one day, just because they can. We can't justify it, but we will do it anyway.
I would care significantly less for this law if just stealing a copy of a DVD was punishable to the same extent, but it is not. I don't know the details, so can someone post the maximum sentences you can get for pirating DVD's hard copy and selling them at a market or something? I would guess it would be much less.
This was also in PC Gamer issue 148 - the may edition. Some guy made it and send it in for a competition. He won, by the way.
maybe soldiers would object to being remote controlled... but what about genetically engineered super soldiers - half human, half rhino, half lizard. Now that would be cool. and feasible for use within the near future, too!
I think HHGTTG just won't really go with being made into any sort of visual feature. It relies a lot on the descriptions, that if they were made into film it would be too easy not to notice...
Hey - don't think you guys who've been on computers for 25 years have the monopoly on Asciipr0n - I have been known to browse the archives ocne in a while... http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups/pinup11.txt
while it still may take some time to get results, Google is simply the most effective search engine around. That doesn't mean I have to stop believing in conspiricy theroys, though.
I think that better teaching methods need to be developed that work better in tandem with computers. As a 16 year old student myself, as well as being a geek, I find that any lessons we have in school that are on computers my productivity is split 50/50 , 50% working, 50% posting on forums, reading web comics etc. As the parent said, this could be because the lessons are boring. (My school is classed as a techonolgy college - it has about 500 computers in it) My teacher for french tends to just dump us on the computers with a vague list of sites to visit to learn from. Thats a lot of temptation to just go do something else.
I also thing there needs to be better programs to keep students in check, and perhaps training programs for the teachers on how to make sure students are working - at my school they utilise software called "RM", a modded version of XP that creates a nice large large scale network that is easy to admin. It also comes with tools to control student usage of computers - tools giving remote access to students desktops, tools freezing the students screen when the teacher wants to speak, tools to display the teachers desktop on all students screens.. In theory it should work, but in practice the teachers are badly taught in its use, using the more advanced features rarely, and the more technologyically minded students, like myself, have ten thousand work arounds to sidestep all the features, anyway.
And the second reference in the article - that students work worse at home when exposed to computers. I myself spend all my free time on the computer - browzing the web, playing games, watcing anime, modding my case etc. I used to get little time to actually do homework, ending up doing it late at night. In an attempt to combat this, my parents put a curfue on computer access at 10:30pm - I can stay up till when ever I like, but I have to turn the PC off by 10:30. The effect this has had is that now I do all my homework and coursework handwritten, after 10:30, often staying up until the early hours of the morning to get it all done. Then I have my alarm set to wake me up at half six so I can get an hour of computer in before having to go to school...
Are my grades suffering? possibly, though not to anyhere near the extent these sorts of reports would have us believe. Do I care? no. and also: Are my abilities to social interact with others suffering, so I will become a closeted nerd who spends his life in a dark room? Hell no. I hate it when people say that the computer is so bad, that it inhibits the abilities of people to function in normal society. The question has to be asked: Is the "normal society" of today going to be the norm of tommorrow? No.
(Whoops... when a little offtopic there at the end)
Yes, but Apple are but a member of an evil global conspircy, a group of super companies who serve an advanced alien race, and are trying to STEAL YOUR BRAIN to feed their evil masters.
These sorts of articles on slashdot always make me sad. It makes me wish I had a longer life span, not too live longer, but so I can see how this sort of technology progresses... And I want a spaceship.
As they said in the article, its about twice the price of a similarly sized tent, but significantly less cost than a portacabin. As a tent doesn't really offer very good protection from the weather etc, one of these Egg things is probably worth the extra £500/$950.Before this invention they have required one of those significantly more expenive portacabins if they wanted to create shelter that had a bit of substance - for instance if they were working in a cold, wet enviorment rather than the warm, dry African enviorment we usually imagine these sort of aid missions going on in.
(Olix uses knowledge gained in GCSE buisness lessons) does Kazza actually have money then? Where do they earn it from? I would have thought, if the company is private limited, then they would just declare the comapny bankrupt and start again...
and that would be the court battle of the centaury wouldn't it. Its like saying "Do not illegally distribute this movie" It just doesn't work.
Just reinstall windows. That'll solve all your problems.
Woo! British Nationalism! revoke 1776!
yeah, but can you really see a couple of guys at a polytechnic getting together and spending twelve hours making something like that thing? I can't. Whether that is a statement for or against polytechnics, I am undecided...
... it would not work as an jpg. The device is just a run that is all around some guys room, and an image would not really be able to capture it. In a film you can have images of the set peices, graphics and actors, but with a little avi like this an picture would serve not at all to portray what is going on...
The really scary thing is that when I read this article, Beowulf Cluster is brought straight to mind rather than the Saga of Beowulf. It took me twenty seconds and a quick wikipedia search to understand what the film would actually be about. It would be cool if the film was about clusters though. I imagine it would be some sort of Tron type thing.
http://www.saveenterprise.com/sfxrumor.htm Doesn't appear to be true.