I own an LLC and yes... Technically I'm the CEO, but until I find myself making millions of dollars (only in my wildest dreams) and have to answer to shareholders, I won't go around conforming to what typical CEO's are doing.
Mostly... Since I do 90% of the labor, it is more like I am the Marketing, Engineering, HR, and all company departments combined, but I digress.
Just incorporate and split your ownership 50/50 for right now and do the things that need to be done in order to get the business moving. Organizing now like you are multi-million dollar company is kind of pointless until you get your product/service out the door or at least in a nice presentation for potential VC's.
Because maybe non-radiation tolerant species are more probable in the universe (you know... Anthropic Principle and what not...)
And that we came about first because life (or at least carbon life) has to evolve by radiation mixing up dna to create random evolution over time with favorable mutations taking over while the unfavorable mutations die out.
Too much reaction to radiation over mutates us and kills us. Too little reaction, makes us not evolve and we sit around for a few billion years and do nothing.
Imagine drawing a character reaching for a glass of water. You just draw it.
Right, but it is rather hard to find people that can just up and immitate any art style so you can crank out all those frames. It is done, but arthouses tend to get specialty people who can immitate style (kind of like how all of Miyazaki films have the same style). This is easy to do in say Korea or Japan because of the many aspiring Manga artists, but in the US it is a bit different.
Most of our niche cartoons are rather stylized... Take the films Pocahantas and Lion king (Budget $79,300,000 (estimated)) for example. Even with frame saving techniques (such as layering of moving mouths over still bodies and paralax scrolling) its costly to have hand drawn animation in that level of detail.
Yes... The Rendering and special effects in Pixars animations cost an arm and a leg, but they give the studios more creative freedom. If they decide to change the script or alter the story they have an easier time adjusting the key frames and model skeletons than going back and having the artist redo all the cells.
Sorry for the long winded debate... 3d graphics was one of my minors (although a career in it never panned out) Most animations these days use a mix of the two and personally I perfer the hand drawn Anime ones any day over Pixars, but from personal experience its produces material faster (if not cheaper).
If this were even close to true the saturday morning cartoons aired today would be CG.
Well, even South Park is CG these days (they don't hand draw anymore) because it was so tedious.
Cell animation takes millions of man hours when you do a full feature budget with dozens if not hundreds of people doing cell by cell (remember 24 frames per second times 120minutes X 60 seconds X 24 is 172800 frames that you have to sketch, paint, photograph and then edit). Not only that many of the drawings will have to redone after simple mistakes and error checks.
With CG you simply do this all in one go.
That is one of reason most of the true hand drawn cartoons for saturday morning are outsourced to Korea. (But I wager most all cartoons are CG in one form or another)
yes full feature movies are expensive and take a lot of computer power to do, buut...
Long running series are easier to do because once you have the models (like reboot or that Johnny Brain one) you simply just have to treat them as puppets.
I bet if they ressurrected a bunch of old animators and had them produce a new Bugs Bunny cartoon, using old-fashioned 2D art, it would be just as big a hit as some modern/fancier show like "Ice Age".
Actually, the reason for the move to CGI in animation is that its cheaper and faster to do a CGI animation film than a conventional frame by frame hand drawn.
I can't imagine playing the Metroid game with a stylus, it could be nothing but painful.
I tried playing with the thumb peice and gave up, but then realized if I used the stylus like a mouse (I'm left handed, but I use my right hand for mouse movement like most people) and then my left hand thumb as the WASD movement control and left index figer for the fire button it worked seemed to play like a mouse and keyboard fps.
Oh and an other version of truly "self parking" cars? Getting a ride with a co-worker. Drops me off in front of the office. All it costs is to make two cups of coffee.
What? If I wanted to use public transportation I wouldn't have bought a car. And if I wanted to carpool, then it would mean I'm not an American;)
In Georgia, you would get shot for doing such a thing...
In Pennsylvania and NJ we don't have much of a choice about the left hand lane. For some reason the road engineers were smoking crack and decided that it was ok for traffic to merge and exist on the left hand of the interstate (and we still have right hand merges and exits at the same time). There is a road in my current city that has the highest fatility rate in the nation mostly because of this ingeneous design.
So we got people trying to merge into the left hand lane from a compelete stand still and then got your slow pokes getting into the left hand lane trying to exit the interstate.
All this means is that there will be more and more reliance on software to keep people's lives safe.
You mean like how our nuclear power plants, air traffic control, and nuclear weapon systems are already tied to such systems?
But seriously (actually that was being serious) human error is usually 99% of the reason things fail. We have about 40,000 car accident deaths per year and not a single one of them were caused by a software failure.
It is truly scary that government officials believe that they are above the law. Laws are passed for a reason - for good or for bad, and we have to accept the law as it is, or collectively agree to change the law.
Dear American Revolutionaries,
It dumbfounds me to no extent why you are not obeying our laws like civilized people. For good or for bad, you must accept the authority of the British Crown and English Parliament. Perhaps you can collectively agree to petition us and we might change the law... If we feel like it.
But seriously, I don't think Sun's expansion or temperature change is affecting our current situation with global warming... But unless matter keeps getting fueled into the sun from extra solor system sources, its going to burn out (the majority of matter in the solar system is contained in the sun and even if it does consume all the planets via expansion its not going to make much of a difference).
Of course 10 billion years is a rather long time.
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Without patents, people would still invent, new drugs would be made, and new household products would enter the market. Money is to be made so it would continue.
Secondly, ideas are still stolen with patents in place. Its called the legal system, reverse engineering, and corporate spies.
However, patents were not intended to encourage people to invent so they wouldn't be stolen, but rather allow those ideas to be brought into public domain after 17 years.
Its not the innovation that I'm concerned about, but rather the accumulation of knowledge. On occasion in the 1800's (right after being first founded) the USPTO would revoke patents to bring them into public domain because they were deemed too beneficial to mankind (such as the first combine harvester). A compromise of a short term monopoly lets the inventor bring his invention in the open and after patent expiration allows the public to see how they created said invention.
This way... The inventions secrets are able to benefit society without "dying" with the inventors.
However, these "non-obvious" patents aren't really benefiting anyone since society kind of already knows how to do these obvious things.
What about organ damage caused by viral infections?
Good question. I assume it would be a matter of finding non-infected cells to replicate. If methods could show differences in viral (or cancerous) cells vs normal healthy cells to use for the process.
No seriously. Is welfare, social security, and medicare really the cause of 9 trillion dollars in debt?
Or maybe it is all those tax cuts that unbalanced the budget.
I'm not complaining about the economy, but I live in one or the more ghetto cities on the east coast and I have seen visible improvement in housing and the economy.
Either way, you can't possible blame social security on the current trillion dollar debt. However, it is sure going to complicate things in 10-20 years.
Has this actually happened, or are you crying wolf? If so, to whom did it happen, when did it happen, what fallout has there been...? In short, what are the relevant details to prove such an event ever occurred?
Well, if it did happen, then it would be illegal to talk about it much less prove it;)
But seriously... There are secret laws on the books and there is information we don't know. The NSA wiretaps came out only after a government leak. What else do you think they might be doing?
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I own an LLC and yes... Technically I'm the CEO, but until I find myself making millions of dollars (only in my wildest dreams) and have to answer to shareholders, I won't go around conforming to what typical CEO's are doing.
Mostly... Since I do 90% of the labor, it is more like I am the Marketing, Engineering, HR, and all company departments combined, but I digress.
Just incorporate and split your ownership 50/50 for right now and do the things that need to be done in order to get the business moving. Organizing now like you are multi-million dollar company is kind of pointless until you get your product/service out the door or at least in a nice presentation for potential VC's.
Why couldn't you have radiation-tolerant species?
Good question.
Because maybe non-radiation tolerant species are more probable in the universe (you know... Anthropic Principle and what not...)
And that we came about first because life (or at least carbon life) has to evolve by radiation mixing up dna to create random evolution over time with favorable mutations taking over while the unfavorable mutations die out.
Too much reaction to radiation over mutates us and kills us.
Too little reaction, makes us not evolve and we sit around for a few billion years and do nothing.
You don't have to be faster than the killer robot.
You just need to be faster than that any other humans you happen to be with.
Imagine drawing a character reaching for a glass of water. You just draw it.
Right, but it is rather hard to find people that can just up and immitate any art style so you can crank out all those frames. It is done, but arthouses tend to get specialty people who can immitate style (kind of like how all of Miyazaki films have the same style). This is easy to do in say Korea or Japan because of the many aspiring Manga artists, but in the US it is a bit different.
Most of our niche cartoons are rather stylized... Take the films Pocahantas and Lion king (Budget $79,300,000 (estimated)) for example. Even with frame saving techniques (such as layering of moving mouths over still bodies and paralax scrolling) its costly to have hand drawn animation in that level of detail.
Yes... The Rendering and special effects in Pixars animations cost an arm and a leg, but they give the studios more creative freedom. If they decide to change the script or alter the story they have an easier time adjusting the key frames and model skeletons than going back and having the artist redo all the cells.
Sorry for the long winded debate... 3d graphics was one of my minors (although a career in it never panned out) Most animations these days use a mix of the two and personally I perfer the hand drawn Anime ones any day over Pixars, but from personal experience its produces material faster (if not cheaper).
If this were even close to true the saturday morning cartoons aired today would be CG.
Well, even South Park is CG these days (they don't hand draw anymore) because it was so tedious.
Cell animation takes millions of man hours when you do a full feature budget with dozens if not hundreds of people doing cell by cell (remember 24 frames per second times 120minutes X 60 seconds X 24 is 172800 frames that you have to sketch, paint, photograph and then edit). Not only that many of the drawings will have to redone after simple mistakes and error checks.
With CG you simply do this all in one go.
That is one of reason most of the true hand drawn cartoons for saturday morning are outsourced to Korea. (But I wager most all cartoons are CG in one form or another)
yes full feature movies are expensive and take a lot of computer power to do, buut...
Long running series are easier to do because once you have the models (like reboot or that Johnny Brain one) you simply just have to treat them as puppets.
myspace has grown because they offered a unique service that people picked up on
Remember Friendster? That was around long before Myspace, but it didn't take off. Maybe it was better marketing or a fluke...
But Myspace wasn't the first nor was it unique.
I bet if they ressurrected a bunch of old animators and had them produce a new Bugs Bunny cartoon, using old-fashioned 2D art, it would be just as big a hit as some modern/fancier show like "Ice Age".
Actually, the reason for the move to CGI in animation is that its cheaper and faster to do a CGI animation film than a conventional frame by frame hand drawn.
I can't imagine playing the Metroid game with a stylus, it could be nothing but painful.
I tried playing with the thumb peice and gave up, but then realized if I used the stylus like a mouse (I'm left handed, but I use my right hand for mouse movement like most people) and then my left hand thumb as the WASD movement control and left index figer for the fire button it worked seemed to play like a mouse and keyboard fps.
Microsoft is trying to convince OEMs to sell more of their product? Those fiends!
*Monocle pops out*
With lawyers no less!
Oh and an other version of truly "self parking" cars? Getting a ride with a co-worker. Drops me off in front of the office. All it costs is to make two cups of coffee.
;)
What? If I wanted to use public transportation I wouldn't have bought a car. And if I wanted to carpool, then it would mean I'm not an American
In Georgia, you would get shot for doing such a thing...
In Pennsylvania and NJ we don't have much of a choice about the left hand lane. For some reason the road engineers were smoking crack and decided that it was ok for traffic to merge and exist on the left hand of the interstate (and we still have right hand merges and exits at the same time). There is a road in my current city that has the highest fatility rate in the nation mostly because of this ingeneous design.
So we got people trying to merge into the left hand lane from a compelete stand still and then got your slow pokes getting into the left hand lane trying to exit the interstate.
Oh well...
All this means is that there will be more and more reliance on software to keep people's lives safe.
You mean like how our nuclear power plants, air traffic control, and nuclear weapon systems are already tied to such systems?
But seriously (actually that was being serious) human error is usually 99% of the reason things fail. We have about 40,000 car accident deaths per year and not a single one of them were caused by a software failure.
Smarter cars will just make dumber drivers.
But we already have dumber drivers today. I think dumber drivers are the reason for the need of smarter cars.
I don't know what kind of illusions you have which electronic gadget might protect you from a mugging,
Well... Its called a 400 volt TASER.
It is truly scary that government officials believe that they are above the law. Laws are passed for a reason - for good or for bad, and we have to accept the law as it is, or collectively agree to change the law.
Dear American Revolutionaries,
It dumbfounds me to no extent why you are not obeying our laws like civilized people. For good or for bad, you must accept the authority of the British Crown and English Parliament. Perhaps you can collectively agree to petition us and we might change the law... If we feel like it.
Yours Truly,
King George
That means you either completely mistrolled for the slashdot groupthink, or you are the bravest Republican in the history of slashdot.
Hrm? Republicans are the majority in congress? All that irresponsible budget spending and big government had me fooled for a bit.
Well, how else are politicians going to get their laws passed?
No; the Sun is actually slowly warming up.
Huh? Someone better call god. The sun is violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics again!
But seriously, I don't think Sun's expansion or temperature change is affecting our current situation with global warming... But unless matter keeps getting fueled into the sun from extra solor system sources, its going to burn out (the majority of matter in the solar system is contained in the sun and even if it does consume all the planets via expansion its not going to make much of a difference).
Of course 10 billion years is a rather long time.
Without patents, people would still invent, new drugs would be made, and new household products would enter the market. Money is to be made so it would continue.
Secondly, ideas are still stolen with patents in place. Its called the legal system, reverse engineering, and corporate spies.
However, patents were not intended to encourage people to invent so they wouldn't be stolen, but rather allow those ideas to be brought into public domain after 17 years.
Its not the innovation that I'm concerned about, but rather the accumulation of knowledge. On occasion in the 1800's (right after being first founded) the USPTO would revoke patents to bring them into public domain because they were deemed too beneficial to mankind (such as the first combine harvester).
A compromise of a short term monopoly lets the inventor bring his invention in the open and after patent expiration allows the public to see how they created said invention.
This way... The inventions secrets are able to benefit society without "dying" with the inventors.
However, these "non-obvious" patents aren't really benefiting anyone since society kind of already knows how to do these obvious things.
What about organ damage caused by viral infections?
Good question. I assume it would be a matter of finding non-infected cells to replicate. If methods could show differences in viral (or cancerous) cells vs normal healthy cells to use for the process.
No seriously. Is welfare, social security, and medicare really the cause of 9 trillion dollars in debt?
Or maybe it is all those tax cuts that unbalanced the budget.
I'm not complaining about the economy, but I live in one or the more ghetto cities on the east coast and I have seen visible improvement in housing and the economy.
Either way, you can't possible blame social security on the current trillion dollar debt. However, it is sure going to complicate things in 10-20 years.
Has this actually happened, or are you crying wolf? If so, to whom did it happen, when did it happen, what fallout has there been...? In short, what are the relevant details to prove such an event ever occurred?
;)
Well, if it did happen, then it would be illegal to talk about it much less prove it
But seriously... There are secret laws on the books and there is information we don't know. The NSA wiretaps came out only after a government leak. What else do you think they might be doing?
Tony Montana could, if he had a montague.
But is safety guaranteed?
And do we get paid afterwards?
(sorry I'm having a wonderful time with an inside joke)
I'm sorry, but reciting written words does in no way constitute as PRAYER. According to dictionary.com...
I'm not that religious, but I suspect that dictionary.com isn't the first place I'd look to find out how to talk with god.
No, I'm pretty sure loyal Cthulhu followers reward is to be eaten last:
http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/positions.html
Cthulhu cultists will be given the following priveleges:
* They will die last.