"When you see how productive guys like him can be, it makes me wish that some people would just stay alive, and keep working, for a few hundred years more, instead of our typical mortal lifespans"
... but that would be circumventing God's garbage collector! Just as in Java, when God has no more use for you, he'll "collect" you on his own timetable.
Of course, you could always suggest someone is collected with a shotgun...
"Big Dipper" - ie big ladle. Which it does look like.
"In North America it is commonly known as the Big Dipper, because the major stars can be seen to follow the rough outline of a large ladle, or dipper;" - Answers.com
I think that if someone knows only one constellation, it's that one or it's little cousin. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find people in the English-speaking world (I can't speak for other languages) who have looked at the stars and don't know that. Constellations were my first introduction to stars, and I should imagine most others'. The first thing you realise is, it's like looking at clouds - not everyone sees the same things, but once it's reasoned to you it's easy.
Except, they had like three red years in a row, and Disney axed Bob and Harvey.
Actually, that was the end of the deal established when Miramax was bought by Disney; it was always part of the plan that Harvey and Bob would be heads until 2005.
Bob has kept hold of Dimension, which is actually much more profitable than Miramax ever was, so Disney have really only kept hold of a name, which is currently synonymous with Oscar success. Harvey's great talent was always in winning Oscars for his films, as well as having a good head for editing them (some would say he's overbearing and sometimes does it to impose himself on his filmmakers, but it's generally recognised that her has a good eye for these things), but Miramax has rarely been a cash cow.
For more info and background on Miramax and the Weinsteins (as well as Sundance and Robert Redford), check out Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind.
Well, as quotes go, it's quite accurate, as I've been in the same room as the man when he's said it.
Doesn't mean that he's the first to have said it - I've heard Dara O'Brien rip off a lot of Eddie Izzard material (although I'll defend him with extenuating circumstances - a couple of comics had dropped out of a rather ramous night up in Edinburgh, so he was ambushed in the bar of the venue, along with John Maloney, to replace them.)
About a year or so ago, I and three other Masters students worked on a similar project at the University of Southampton.
I've not RTFA (not had the time), but our approach was to split the images into segments (based on colour and texture) which were assumed to be objects. The segments would then be analyzed for various feature vectors, such as shape, texture, colour etc. These vectors would then be added into a database of numbers, and finally the segments grouped, giving a collection of classified sections which (hopefully) represent similar objects.
From related metadata such as keywords, you could then hope to build up an idea of what keyword matches which section. You could also come up with a relevance between two images, and thus search for similar images.
We didn't have enough time to make it bulletproof by any means, but our limited results were very promising.
Sorry I can't find the paper, but we've got some screenshots of the application here and here (you can see false colouring applied to the original image to display the segments)
Hey, it's just one thing that I chose to pick on - I've got many one-line quarrels with the screenplay, as well as bigger ones. I've read somewhere that Douglas Adams contributed most of the screenplay, which saddens me to think that he had to rip out some of it's soul to get Hollywood to make it.
And for those who would say "Well, you adapt it then!" - I was going to adapt and produce a stage version of the first two books(/series). However, on phoning the agents around this time last year, I discovered that the film rights meant it could not be done for at least four years.
Nevertheless, when I get more time on my hands, I shall adapt it and put my money where my mouth is...
"If you can't see it, it thinks it can't see you." - never heard anything approaching that.
The only references to the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal that I clocked were the crate with it in (on the Vogsphere) and the bit about Vogons being bureaucratic (beast getting their grandmothers etc)
Can anyone explain how in the hell the Baby Bells etc. are actually managing to push bills preserving their effective monopolies through state governments?
(Hint: saying 'bribery' might be true, but it ain't the kind of answer I'm after!)
... you mean "like a plank of wood" then I'd have to agree.
There was nothing there. Mos Def was bored throughout the whole movie, barely intelligible at times (*mumble mumble*) and... just not Ford Prefect. Sure, he was "weird" etc, but the passion, the joy was not there.
The movie could have done without the love story (although that did give rise to the thought-slapping things, which was quite a nice touch).
And the towels - they didn't explain the thing about the towels! At all! And where was the joke about the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal?
P.S. Bring a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses. As the starship Heart of Gold arrives at the planet Magrathea, the crew is greeted by a holographic recording. That recording is only a minute long; however, it's in 3D. You need a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses in order to properly enjoy that minute of film. This is not a spoiler; it's an enhancer.
That's actually Simon Jones, who plays Arthur Dent in the radio series and also starred as him in the television series.
I enjoyed his cameo immensely (possibly because I knew it was him) and found one of the things he says one of the funniest things in the movie (I'm not sure if it's in the book).
As for my opinion of the movie - it looks good, it has a couple of good sight gags, but it's definitely not going to please the majority of those who have read the book. The Vogons are pretty cool though, but wtf was Mos Def doing in there ("anonymous throughout" - The Register; I couldn't have put it better myself) and what was with the love story?
The thing about games is immersion. Some feel they need photorealism for this; most use consistent universes - eg. if you can blow up one barrel, you can blow up any other; if you can make this jump, you can make this one that's the same distance.
Another technique for immersion is emergent gameplay - you at least feel that you're finding your own way through the level, or around the problem.
Graphics don't need to be great for this, they just need consistency so that your brain can switch on to the game and get it. You'll adapt to anything as long as it's a constant.
"The Brighton Express is an apt place for a pioneering Wi-Fi service, given Brighton's role as a high-tech media-savvy remote suburb of London"
Since when has Brighton been a "high-tech media-savvy remote suburb of London"? As far as I'm aware, the only thing Brighton's particularly renowned (infamous) for is its status as the UK's San Francisco...
"The flick that you are refering to is hard to execute and takes great skill."
A few years back, the maximum amount of bend in foils (when a 1kg weight hung on the end) was reduced in order to make the flicks harder. This was part of a number of measures proposed in order to make the sport more spectator-friendly, and in a way fair (another was to swap around the scoring lights; originally the electric scoring lights noted being hit, not scoring, so if your opponent hit you, lights on your side came on).
I recall one British U-17 foil champion who was almost unstoppable because he'd flick his way past you. Beating him was almost impossible - certainly for me!
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"When you see how productive guys like him can be, it makes me wish that some people would just stay alive, and keep working, for a few hundred years more, instead of our typical mortal lifespans"
... but that would be circumventing God's garbage collector! Just as in Java, when God has no more use for you, he'll "collect" you on his own timetable.
Of course, you could always suggest someone is collected with a shotgun...
Laugh, funny etc.
"Big Dipper" - ie big ladle. Which it does look like.
"In North America it is commonly known as the Big Dipper, because the major stars can be seen to follow the rough outline of a large ladle, or dipper;" - Answers.com
I think that if someone knows only one constellation, it's that one or it's little cousin. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find people in the English-speaking world (I can't speak for other languages) who have looked at the stars and don't know that. Constellations were my first introduction to stars, and I should imagine most others'. The first thing you realise is, it's like looking at clouds - not everyone sees the same things, but once it's reasoned to you it's easy.
Sorry to spoil the fun, but Mr. Bean is produced for ITV, and not the BBC.
I strongly suspect that they're not the ones who will look daft in January, and that's their point.
Except, they had like three red years in a row, and Disney axed Bob and Harvey.
Actually, that was the end of the deal established when Miramax was bought by Disney; it was always part of the plan that Harvey and Bob would be heads until 2005.
Bob has kept hold of Dimension, which is actually much more profitable than Miramax ever was, so Disney have really only kept hold of a name, which is currently synonymous with Oscar success. Harvey's great talent was always in winning Oscars for his films, as well as having a good head for editing them (some would say he's overbearing and sometimes does it to impose himself on his filmmakers, but it's generally recognised that her has a good eye for these things), but Miramax has rarely been a cash cow.
For more info and background on Miramax and the Weinsteins (as well as Sundance and Robert Redford), check out Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind.
Oddly enough, if you read the book by Winston Groom you'll find out that Forrest Gump was an astronaut as well, before crash landing in New Guinea...
Actually, The Daily Telegraph has the highest circulation of daily broadsheets in the UK by quite a ways.
Their figures here.
Well, as quotes go, it's quite accurate, as I've been in the same room as the man when he's said it.
Doesn't mean that he's the first to have said it - I've heard Dara O'Brien rip off a lot of Eddie Izzard material (although I'll defend him with extenuating circumstances - a couple of comics had dropped out of a rather ramous night up in Edinburgh, so he was ambushed in the bar of the venue, along with John Maloney, to replace them.)
Is this what you are referring to?
In short, yes, it was.
Thought so. To be fair, it's a slightly different URL, so there's not a hell of a lot that could be done about it.
Still, thought I'd seen it before.
I love déja vu.
2017: Sea of Tranquility
"Wow. The second people to land on the moon in 40 years... That team from NASA only beat us by a couple of days..."
"Look, there's Neil Armstrong's footprint! Isn't it amazing how, after all these years, it looks like it was only made last week!"
*ahem*
I've just found some more here and here
About a year or so ago, I and three other Masters students worked on a similar project at the University of Southampton.
I've not RTFA (not had the time), but our approach was to split the images into segments (based on colour and texture) which were assumed to be objects. The segments would then be analyzed for various feature vectors, such as shape, texture, colour etc. These vectors would then be added into a database of numbers, and finally the segments grouped, giving a collection of classified sections which (hopefully) represent similar objects.
From related metadata such as keywords, you could then hope to build up an idea of what keyword matches which section. You could also come up with a relevance between two images, and thus search for similar images.
We didn't have enough time to make it bulletproof by any means, but our limited results were very promising.
Sorry I can't find the paper, but we've got some screenshots of the application here and here (you can see false colouring applied to the original image to display the segments)
Hey, it's just one thing that I chose to pick on - I've got many one-line quarrels with the screenplay, as well as bigger ones. I've read somewhere that Douglas Adams contributed most of the screenplay, which saddens me to think that he had to rip out some of it's soul to get Hollywood to make it.
And for those who would say "Well, you adapt it then!" - I was going to adapt and produce a stage version of the first two books(/series). However, on phoning the agents around this time last year, I discovered that the film rights meant it could not be done for at least four years.
Nevertheless, when I get more time on my hands, I shall adapt it and put my money where my mouth is...
"If you can't see it, it thinks it can't see you." - never heard anything approaching that.
The only references to the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal that I clocked were the crate with it in (on the Vogsphere) and the bit about Vogons being bureaucratic (beast getting their grandmothers etc)
Can anyone explain how in the hell the Baby Bells etc. are actually managing to push bills preserving their effective monopolies through state governments?
(Hint: saying 'bribery' might be true, but it ain't the kind of answer I'm after!)
... you mean "like a plank of wood" then I'd have to agree.
There was nothing there. Mos Def was bored throughout the whole movie, barely intelligible at times (*mumble mumble*) and... just not Ford Prefect. Sure, he was "weird" etc, but the passion, the joy was not there.
The movie could have done without the love story (although that did give rise to the thought-slapping things, which was quite a nice touch).
And the towels - they didn't explain the thing about the towels! At all! And where was the joke about the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal?
P.S. Bring a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses. As the starship Heart of Gold arrives at the planet Magrathea, the crew is greeted by a holographic recording. That recording is only a minute long; however, it's in 3D. You need a pair of "red and blue" 3D glasses in order to properly enjoy that minute of film. This is not a spoiler; it's an enhancer.
That's actually Simon Jones, who plays Arthur Dent in the radio series and also starred as him in the television series.
I enjoyed his cameo immensely (possibly because I knew it was him) and found one of the things he says one of the funniest things in the movie (I'm not sure if it's in the book).
As for my opinion of the movie - it looks good, it has a couple of good sight gags, but it's definitely not going to please the majority of those who have read the book. The Vogons are pretty cool though, but wtf was Mos Def doing in there ("anonymous throughout" - The Register; I couldn't have put it better myself) and what was with the love story?
... they're duping comments.
Hey, that gives me an idea - find a nice little comment somewhere a week or so back and submit it as news... yeah...
The thing about games is immersion. Some feel they need photorealism for this; most use consistent universes - eg. if you can blow up one barrel, you can blow up any other; if you can make this jump, you can make this one that's the same distance.
Another technique for immersion is emergent gameplay - you at least feel that you're finding your own way through the level, or around the problem.
Graphics don't need to be great for this, they just need consistency so that your brain can switch on to the game and get it. You'll adapt to anything as long as it's a constant.
"The Brighton Express is an apt place for a pioneering Wi-Fi service, given Brighton's role as a high-tech media-savvy remote suburb of London"
Since when has Brighton been a "high-tech media-savvy remote suburb of London"? As far as I'm aware, the only thing Brighton's particularly renowned (infamous) for is its status as the UK's San Francisco...
"The flick that you are refering to is hard to execute and takes great skill."
A few years back, the maximum amount of bend in foils (when a 1kg weight hung on the end) was reduced in order to make the flicks harder. This was part of a number of measures proposed in order to make the sport more spectator-friendly, and in a way fair (another was to swap around the scoring lights; originally the electric scoring lights noted being hit, not scoring, so if your opponent hit you, lights on your side came on).
I recall one British U-17 foil champion who was almost unstoppable because he'd flick his way past you. Beating him was almost impossible - certainly for me!