Whatever you say Mr Boll
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Uwe Boll Smash!
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"I get bashed as the worldwide enemy number one in film-making by people who are working at Starbucks and who also want to make movies. It's ridiculous - it's completely idiotic because they're hitting on a guy who actually made it happen, but I started my career in the same position as anybody else," Boll argues.
Actually, we are bashing you because "you make it happen". Praise the lord that you are giving up on video game franchises.
His goal was not to progress on human-machine interfaces, but to investigate on what consciousness is, and on the impact of sending electrical signals to the brain.
It might be useful for understanding human though process and developing Strong AI. If we can understand how consciousness on the neural level, we might be able to recreate it via simulation (or other means).
And I applaud him for his bravery.
As someone would say in the dying last words of Otto Lilienthal (after his fatal experiement in flight): "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!")
Second life would make a decent app to have VR in, but I wish VR would come down in price and have better resolution.
Anyone have any VR head gear units they'd recommend or any news about VRDs? (virtual retina displays) I'd love to get one for the "cool factor" but I don't want to sink money into something that is going to be obsolete in 6 months and gives me a head ache after 15 minutes of use.
With a PDA you could setup the cradle in the living room (or wherever your setup is) and leave it charging when you're not using it and it would be an "always-on" type solution.
I've already got a DS and an Audiotron with a web interface and the grandparent has a cool idea.
However, I don't have PDA. Nor do I want to go out and buy one just for that. Besides, with the DS I can play Mario Kart. Can't with the PDA.
Is it necessary for survival? Only if the environment forces you to it. The current environment is technologically-driven, so you need to stay connected to have a social life, student life, work life, etc.
Well yes. Without technology I'd be hard pressed to earn a living at my current tech support job and I'd doubt I could make it very far hunting animals with my bare hands.
I for one do not wish to live in a world where I only live to 25 and have no teeth and live in the woods covered in lice fearing the dark. Even with 1950's technology I'd be hard pressed to make a living as comfortable today.
This is why the best solution is for technology to always improve and better our lives. Sure people won't always adapt and sometimes technology will be abused, but its far better to keep on the path than to revert to not having or just stop working on technology.
I firmly believe technology will make all problems today become irrelevant and all problems in the future will be quite minor compared to the issues we face today (old age, death, crime, boredom, etc).
Of course being a Singularitan, I might be biased or too optimistic.
That had to do it for me. I was under the assumption anyone could be a Jedi if they just tried hard enough and not because of some noble upbringing or good genetics.
Secondly, it added nothing to the movie. It isn't as if we didn't already have some knowledge of what the force was coming from the first three movies. I mean they could just have wandered by and said "I feel a strong presence in the force with this child" or something like that. Not this "let me whip out my tricorder and talk about something that wasn't mentioned in the first three films.
Those are one of the things I hope George takes out in the first movie. Heck... Why doesn't George just do them all over again.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", pretty much sums up my Star Wars I,II,III experience.
Seriously, I think 1024MB of ram doesn't cut it these days. Maybe we should just accept 4gb of ram will be the norm in 2007-2008. I seriously could use it with other memory hungry apps that are sluggish *coughs* Illustrator *coughs* Indesign *coughs*.
As I recall, John Carmack had a similar situation when he wanted to release the source for Quake* Exposing the source code for the (obscured) multiplayer network protocol made it much easier to write cheats. It eventually happens anyway, but hiding the source code gives some measure of control over the problem.
That is a good, but bad example. As far as I know, only a fraction of the people who use the internet play Quake 3 today. And this is a very small fraction even in gaming considering everyone else who is playing Counter Strike Source, Battlefield 2, or UT2K4.
Chances are there are going to be very few people interested in fixing bugs for Quake3A. (I hope one day that he will open up the network code down the road in order to benefit OSS as a whole when someday it really doesn't matter if Johnny Hacker hacks the quake community where there is only 12 people playing it and they all know Johnny Hacker in person)
But with Google... Everyone uses google. (well if you don't work in Redmond or have an AOL account)
Therefore the amount of people actually assisting would be quite large and the product would have a central maintainer.
Secondly, open source hacking will contribute to the quicker exploition (this may seem bad to some people but bear with me) but this lead to the quicker resolution of these problems and a final stable product.
If someone acheives an exploit 6 months sooner because he has the source code, then chances are all the known exploits will occur with in the first few months of the release. This leads to a stable product sooner than it would if some guy finds an exploit by shear luck two years from now.
Think of it as a quick and painful burn in phase verus having to deal with a slow grind of headaches that continue over and over again.
After all... Even if you hide the source code to prevent the exploits from being found, the exploits are still there just waiting for someone to come across them.
A never ending war. Yeah, having it be "open-source" means that the community could constantly update it to prevent the latest abuses, but the people doing the abuse would just find new holes, since the source would be available.
You mean like Wikipedia? As far as I can tell, Wiki works. Well sort of... Vandalism happens all the time, but its swiftly dealt with (most of the time).
I think we are just faced with more eyes looking at source doing good and with a few eyes doing evil.
A few eyes (and I mean few) doing good verus a horde of blind men groping with the intention of doing evil.
Sure the small band of evil men with vision can be more effective, but if one of the blind horde army members broke through then the small force of Google employees might not catch the violation until a certain site is been spaming or phising for several weeks at the top rank.
As in... If Google kept it closed source they would have 50 employees watching for abuse and maybe 10,000 evil doers trying to abuse the system.
If page rank was open source, Google would have now 1,000,000 eyes vs 10,000 evil doers.*
*this is under the assumption that most humans are by nature good. I could be horribly wrong about this and for that matter we could all be screwed.
God told the Israelites to go annihilate a city (as in men, women, animals, anything that moves, some things that don't move, etc). The Israelites then decided that it was a waste to kill everything, and thought they should take back some wives, slaves, cattle, and other assorted wealth. Then God condemned them for disobeying him.
Hrm... So it was ok to commit genocide, but not ok to be a bit merciful while lining the pockets.
Kind of like the Chaos God Khorne from War Hammer 40,000. None of this pain or pleasure crap, taking slaves, or looting. Everything that breathes must die.
Still... An all powerful god woulnd't need men to go anhilate a city now would he? Unless God was playing an RTS at the time for his own amusment.
Well a God that plays RTS Games is a god I can relate with.
The main reason it's not selling well is the lack of excellent game titles. I know it's probably news to such elites as yourself, but MOST people buy gaming systems to, you know, PLAY GAMES.
I'd hate to be the Devil's Advocate, but if one found out that it was a trivial task to copy games then they would most likley sell more consoles. Although, they might not make money that way.
Secondly, I've seen some pretty cool legit mods with the original Xbox. Mame arcades and home media center/PVRs on friends systems. I was almost tempted to try to hack my Xbox to get my movie collection on it and try PRVing adult swim, but the feeling passed and I sold my Xbox and bought a DS. So far I've had more fun on that than the Xbox.
A modern Windows machine will always outperform a MacBook in games. More hardware, more options.
Hrm... But aren't they all using the same hard ware? I mean these are all laptops right? They are using Intel and then maybe ATI or nVidia? Hardware is not different.
Where on Earth you found that light has so much gravitational field? And why would be constant: shouldn't it vary with the luminosity of the star (which goes like mass^4, so it's highly nonlinear)??
Hrm... Good question. Mostly you can't measure Lights gravity because Mass gravity overpowers it locally.
Its like of like measuring gravity and all you have is magnets to work worth (or rather everything in your locality is made of magnets including you). Seeing that magnets have a more powerful force than mass gravity, you can't really see the affects of said gravity.
However, after you get out of the locality, the less powerful but more long range power takes over (like light). Otherwise our earth bound magnets would be pulling other magnets from all over the universe.
However, I don't know how this explains the expansion of the universe unless lights gravity actually has a pushing affect on all other galaxies like solar sails.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the original Hebrew old testament without vowels? Therfore everything had to be taken in context. I had a Jewish girl explain this to me one day about how Rabis simply new the context mostly because of handed down tradition.
If somebody thinks you have an illegaly copied file, they can trace back to the original buyer, who spread the file......who just so happens to be a single mother of 5 and 80 years old and has never touched a computer in her life.
By definition, you can't be practicing "illegal monopolistic practices" unless you're a monopoly.
Well, what if you are practicing something that will eventually lead to a monopoly? Such behavior would be illegal way before the company became a monopoly.
Want a real immersive FPS experience ? - drop $100 and spend a weekend out in the bush shooting paintball.
And have to run around and get hit with painful palls and possibly get hit in the eyes and go blind? No thanks.
Want a real immersive flightsim ? drop $100 and spend a weekend learning to hang-glide, and get a feel for what flying is all about.
And crash and die? No thanks.
Want an immersive and memorable porn experience ? - drop $100, go out clubbing, meet dozens of attractive real people, have real conversions, get real phone numbers, and... the rest is up to you.
Well I am a clubber and let me tell you its not without its risks. Ever heard about that "it burns when I pee" scenario? Well it does burn. One of the more painful feelings I do recall. Secondly, with porn you don't have to deal with all that emotional baggage crap women always want to deal with afterwards. And lastly... Most people in the world are butt ugly.
Type B: It's about time we realized how horrible a monopoly this company has going for them. If we hope to have a healthy market in this area, we need to split them up and make them compete for the customer's benefit.
Type C: Apple isn't a monopoly but is practicing illegal monopolistic practices and the ruling forces apple to lead competitors use iPods (see Real and Napster) or stop using its fairplay DRM.
But I don't know if its illegal or not. Thats for the courts to decide.
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Polite Cell Phones
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"I don't want my movie interrupted by your stupid cell phone".
Peter Jackson is that you?
No but seriously, these aren't your movies. You didn't make them nor do you own the rights to them. You only pay a fee to aquire a license so your eyes can see them. There is an army of MPAA lawyers who will vouch for this.
But it is still rude to have a cell phone ringing and interupt the licensed viewing of said movies.
Actually yeah... I thought it was rather cool at the time, as my dad let me screw them in along the side. Almost wish we didn't sell the thing. I actually had learned how to use dos, but didn't know it at the time. On some floppy disks with games it had the instruction to boot with them and then hit dir and then type anything with exe at the end to run that game.
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"I get bashed as the worldwide enemy number one in film-making by people who are working at Starbucks and who also want to make movies. It's ridiculous - it's completely idiotic because they're hitting on a guy who actually made it happen, but I started my career in the same position as anybody else," Boll argues.
Actually, we are bashing you because "you make it happen". Praise the lord that you are giving up on video game franchises.
His goal was not to progress on human-machine interfaces, but to investigate on what consciousness is, and on the impact of sending electrical signals to the brain.
It might be useful for understanding human though process and developing Strong AI. If we can understand how consciousness on the neural level, we might be able to recreate it via simulation (or other means).
And I applaud him for his bravery.
As someone would say in the dying last words of Otto Lilienthal (after his fatal experiement in flight): "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!")
Second life would make a decent app to have VR in, but I wish VR would come down in price and have better resolution.
Anyone have any VR head gear units they'd recommend or any news about VRDs? (virtual retina displays) I'd love to get one for the "cool factor" but I don't want to sink money into something that is going to be obsolete in 6 months and gives me a head ache after 15 minutes of use.
With a PDA you could setup the cradle in the living room (or wherever your setup is) and leave it charging when you're not using it and it would be an "always-on" type solution.
I've already got a DS and an Audiotron with a web interface and the grandparent has a cool idea.
However, I don't have PDA. Nor do I want to go out and buy one just for that. Besides, with the DS I can play Mario Kart. Can't with the PDA.
Could you only imagine if the guy from the "YOU STOLE MY F***ING CLOUD SONG!!" audio clip showed up to your WoW party.
It wouldn't be pretty. I'd dare say the neighbors might be calling the cops on that event.
Is it necessary for survival? Only if the environment forces you to it. The current environment is technologically-driven, so you need to stay connected to have a social life, student life, work life, etc.
Well yes. Without technology I'd be hard pressed to earn a living at my current tech support job and I'd doubt I could make it very far hunting animals with my bare hands.
I for one do not wish to live in a world where I only live to 25 and have no teeth and live in the woods covered in lice fearing the dark. Even with 1950's technology I'd be hard pressed to make a living as comfortable today.
This is why the best solution is for technology to always improve and better our lives. Sure people won't always adapt and sometimes technology will be abused, but its far better to keep on the path than to revert to not having or just stop working on technology.
I firmly believe technology will make all problems today become irrelevant and all problems in the future will be quite minor compared to the issues we face today (old age, death, crime, boredom, etc).
Of course being a Singularitan, I might be biased or too optimistic.
First mention of midi-chlorians
That had to do it for me. I was under the assumption anyone could be a Jedi if they just tried hard enough and not because of some noble upbringing or good genetics.
Secondly, it added nothing to the movie. It isn't as if we didn't already have some knowledge of what the force was coming from the first three movies. I mean they could just have wandered by and said "I feel a strong presence in the force with this child" or something like that. Not this "let me whip out my tricorder and talk about something that wasn't mentioned in the first three films.
Those are one of the things I hope George takes out in the first movie. Heck... Why doesn't George just do them all over again.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", pretty much sums up my Star Wars I,II,III experience.
Wow. I had no idea either. Kind of cool.
Buy more RAM!
Seriously, I think 1024MB of ram doesn't cut it these days. Maybe we should just accept 4gb of ram will be the norm in 2007-2008. I seriously could use it with other memory hungry apps that are sluggish *coughs* Illustrator *coughs* Indesign *coughs*.
As I recall, John Carmack had a similar situation when he wanted to release the source for Quake* Exposing the source code for the (obscured) multiplayer network protocol made it much easier to write cheats. It eventually happens anyway, but hiding the source code gives some measure of control over the problem.
That is a good, but bad example. As far as I know, only a fraction of the people who use the internet play Quake 3 today. And this is a very small fraction even in gaming considering everyone else who is playing Counter Strike Source, Battlefield 2, or UT2K4.
Chances are there are going to be very few people interested in fixing bugs for Quake3A. (I hope one day that he will open up the network code down the road in order to benefit OSS as a whole when someday it really doesn't matter if Johnny Hacker hacks the quake community where there is only 12 people playing it and they all know Johnny Hacker in person)
But with Google... Everyone uses google. (well if you don't work in Redmond or have an AOL account)
Therefore the amount of people actually assisting would be quite large and the product would have a central maintainer.
Secondly, open source hacking will contribute to the quicker exploition (this may seem bad to some people but bear with me) but this lead to the quicker resolution of these problems and a final stable product.
If someone acheives an exploit 6 months sooner because he has the source code, then chances are all the known exploits will occur with in the first few months of the release. This leads to a stable product sooner than it would if some guy finds an exploit by shear luck two years from now.
Think of it as a quick and painful burn in phase verus having to deal with a slow grind of headaches that continue over and over again.
After all... Even if you hide the source code to prevent the exploits from being found, the exploits are still there just waiting for someone to come across them.
A never ending war. Yeah, having it be "open-source" means that the community could constantly update it to prevent the latest abuses, but the people doing the abuse would just find new holes, since the source would be available.
You mean like Wikipedia? As far as I can tell, Wiki works. Well sort of... Vandalism happens all the time, but its swiftly dealt with (most of the time).
I think we are just faced with more eyes looking at source doing good and with a few eyes doing evil.
A few eyes (and I mean few) doing good verus a horde of blind men groping with the intention of doing evil.
Sure the small band of evil men with vision can be more effective, but if one of the blind horde army members broke through then the small force of Google employees might not catch the violation until a certain site is been spaming or phising for several weeks at the top rank.
As in... If Google kept it closed source they would have 50 employees watching for abuse and maybe 10,000 evil doers trying to abuse the system.
If page rank was open source, Google would have now 1,000,000 eyes vs 10,000 evil doers.*
*this is under the assumption that most humans are by nature good. I could be horribly wrong about this and for that matter we could all be screwed.
God told the Israelites to go annihilate a city (as in men, women, animals, anything that moves, some things that don't move, etc). The Israelites then decided that it was a waste to kill everything, and thought they should take back some wives, slaves, cattle, and other assorted wealth. Then God condemned them for disobeying him.
Hrm... So it was ok to commit genocide, but not ok to be a bit merciful while lining the pockets.
Kind of like the Chaos God Khorne from War Hammer 40,000. None of this pain or pleasure crap, taking slaves, or looting. Everything that breathes must die.
Still... An all powerful god woulnd't need men to go anhilate a city now would he? Unless God was playing an RTS at the time for his own amusment.
Well a God that plays RTS Games is a god I can relate with.
The main reason it's not selling well is the lack of excellent game titles. I know it's probably news to such elites as yourself, but MOST people buy gaming systems to, you know, PLAY GAMES.
I'd hate to be the Devil's Advocate, but if one found out that it was a trivial task to copy games then they would most likley sell more consoles. Although, they might not make money that way.
Secondly, I've seen some pretty cool legit mods with the original Xbox. Mame arcades and home media center/PVRs on friends systems. I was almost tempted to try to hack my Xbox to get my movie collection on it and try PRVing adult swim, but the feeling passed and I sold my Xbox and bought a DS. So far I've had more fun on that than the Xbox.
A modern Windows machine will always outperform a MacBook in games. More hardware, more options.
Hrm... But aren't they all using the same hard ware? I mean these are all laptops right? They are using Intel and then maybe ATI or nVidia? Hardware is not different.
Unless you count AMD.
Where on Earth you found that light has so much gravitational field? And why would be constant: shouldn't it vary with the luminosity of the star (which goes like mass^4, so it's highly nonlinear)??
Hrm... Good question. Mostly you can't measure Lights gravity because Mass gravity overpowers it locally.
Its like of like measuring gravity and all you have is magnets to work worth (or rather everything in your locality is made of magnets including you). Seeing that magnets have a more powerful force than mass gravity, you can't really see the affects of said gravity.
However, after you get out of the locality, the less powerful but more long range power takes over (like light). Otherwise our earth bound magnets would be pulling other magnets from all over the universe.
However, I don't know how this explains the expansion of the universe unless lights gravity actually has a pushing affect on all other galaxies like solar sails.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the original Hebrew old testament without vowels? Therfore everything had to be taken in context. I had a Jewish girl explain this to me one day about how Rabis simply new the context mostly because of handed down tradition.
If somebody thinks you have an illegaly copied file, they can trace back to the original buyer, who spread the file... ...who just so happens to be a single mother of 5 and 80 years old and has never touched a computer in her life.
Oh and she's dead.
I read the article as "Using Watermarks to Combat Privacy."
Although, that would make sense.
By definition, you can't be practicing "illegal monopolistic practices" unless you're a monopoly.
Well, what if you are practicing something that will eventually lead to a monopoly? Such behavior would be illegal way before the company became a monopoly.
Want a real immersive FPS experience ? - drop $100 and spend a weekend out in the bush shooting paintball.
... the rest is up to you.
And have to run around and get hit with painful palls and possibly get hit in the eyes and go blind? No thanks.
Want a real immersive flightsim ? drop $100 and spend a weekend learning to hang-glide, and get a feel for what flying is all about.
And crash and die? No thanks.
Want an immersive and memorable porn experience ? - drop $100, go out clubbing, meet dozens of attractive real people, have real conversions, get real phone numbers, and
Well I am a clubber and let me tell you its not without its risks. Ever heard about that "it burns when I pee" scenario? Well it does burn. One of the more painful feelings I do recall. Secondly, with porn you don't have to deal with all that emotional baggage crap women always want to deal with afterwards. And lastly... Most people in the world are butt ugly.
Pretty soon we may hold a position very similar to France in the 1900's.
So does this make China as our Germany?
If so, should start learning how to say "I surrender!" in Cantonese or Mandarin?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this looks like Star Trek: TNG consoles.
Either way... I could really use something like this, but I bet it gets dirty really quick. My Nintendo DS is kind of greasy as it is.
Type B: It's about time we realized how horrible a monopoly this company has going for them. If we hope to have a healthy market in this area, we need to split them up and make them compete for the customer's benefit.
Type C: Apple isn't a monopoly but is practicing illegal monopolistic practices and the ruling forces apple to lead competitors use iPods (see Real and Napster) or stop using its fairplay DRM.
But I don't know if its illegal or not. Thats for the courts to decide.
"I don't want my movie interrupted by your stupid cell phone".
Peter Jackson is that you?
No but seriously, these aren't your movies. You didn't make them nor do you own the rights to them. You only pay a fee to aquire a license so your eyes can see them. There is an army of MPAA lawyers who will vouch for this.
But it is still rude to have a cell phone ringing and interupt the licensed viewing of said movies.
Actually yeah... I thought it was rather cool at the time, as my dad let me screw them in along the side. Almost wish we didn't sell the thing. I actually had learned how to use dos, but didn't know it at the time. On some floppy disks with games it had the instruction to boot with them and then hit dir and then type anything with exe at the end to run that game.