And, finally, the fact that they are protesting the publication of these images means that they assume that the images work... but they don't know how. That's the same as the DMV forbidding the publication of Eye-Charts to prevent blind people from getting their driver's license. As if we know those specific eye-charts work for testing eye-sight, but we don't know how they work and cannot, therefore, make new or better eye-charts.
-Sean
Actually, I don't think you could have come up with a better analogy supporting the suppression of Rorschaach images. If DMV released to the public domain the current eye-charts they use for drivers license registration, what's to stop someone from memorizing the chart and trying to fool the test giver? It's the same premise with the Rorschach images.
Seriously, think about it. Have you ever asked yourself *why* people do things like that? Maybe it's just me, but it might have to do with the fact that we're constantly interfering with them - messing with their internal affairs, assassinating their politicians, selling chemical weapons to dictators, invading them, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents, abducting people, torturing them, stealing their oil (not to mention their archaeological treasures etc.), and so on.
I'm sorry, when exactly was the last time the United States armed forces killed "hundreds of thousands" of innocent middle-easterners? Hell, when have we ever killed any group of people on that scale that were not declared enemy combatants, for that matter?
Oh, since it seems you're making a case for their current activities and tactics, please don't say "Iraq."
"The bill defines the phrase 'extremely violent video game' as 'a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being,"
Does this mean that my plan to release a game involving killing, maiming, dismembering, and sexually assaulting images of furry woodland creatures will successfully bypass their ban?
1) Lots of people already know the story. Backwards and forwards.
2) They need to draw Halo fans and non-Halo fans. This was the same thing with LotR, where they had to draw Tolkein fans and laypeople (and did a good job).
As with LotR, the core demographic of this movie knows the story. Backwards and forwards. How did this hurt ticket sales again? If anything a situation like this creates a built in fanbase who are first to go watcha and promote your film. Both LorR and Firefly/Serenty are good examples of this. As far as drawing in non-fans, just make it a good movie. People will talk.
I find that, while I can't glare at the screen trying to pick up all the details, I'm not constantly glancing at the subtitles either. They're sort of just inside the field of vision, so I can see what is there without looking. You need to read outside your center field of view.
Huh? Sorry to nitpick, but I don't belive that this is physically possible. The human eye is only capable of perciving fine detail (like reading) from the light that falls on the fovea, which like in the center of the retina. The fovea is what 'creates' your centeral vison. I know this because after I recived an injury to my right eye a few years ago (retinal tear) I was no longer able to read with ease due to moderate bluriness and distortion of the word. Even so, my peripheral vision was wholy unaffected.
For myself, when I watch subtitled video I tend do the opposite of what you described. Namely, I flit my focus down to read the subtitleds quickly, letting my peripheral take in the other visuals onscreen. Then once I'm done I flit back up the action and wait for the next subtitle. Rinse, Repeat.
Ok, totally off topic, but am I the only one who thinks an executive at Columbia walked in on his kid watching Macross Plus one night and thought "Wow. This'd make a cool movie. We could call it Stea..."
Well I think the issue wasn't that the iPod wore out, as all equipment does, but the fact that Apple misrepresented how long the average iPod battery life should be.
"Then we have the guy who heard a voice telling him to build a boat, put two of everything in it, and wait out a world flood which later no one else remembers happening, like, say, the Chinese, having been around for 4000 years or more."
Of course the Chinese don't have records of it, godless red communists don't float!;P
Microsoft can make some brownie points by releasing this hyped file system for free, heading off the negative press over the postponment of longhorn...
Why is it that Microsoft is always accused of perpetuating an unecessary upgrade cycle, yet individuals continue to criticize them when they actualy take the time to polish said upgrade, rather than releasing it half finished?
This is false advertising - when most people think Chimera they think Dongeons and Dragons etc. They even have a picture of a lion with the head of a goat and the tail as a serpant.
True, but it wasn't that long ago that scientists were parading around that mouse with the human ear grown on it's back through stem-cell implantation. Who's to say that they couldn't grow say, a tail on human, which is probably the kind of thing that the religious right is afraid of.
Personally, I think I'd be kinda cool to have a few extra limbs. Sure be useful while surfing for por.. err.. doing research.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't the reason they're scrapping the Hubble because it'd be more expensive to repair it than to let it deorbit and send up a new telescope? Besides, didn't it preform above and beyond it's original mission profile?
I say let it go down in dignity and get some new tech up there, instead of letting it languish over the next decade with continual jury-rigged refits.
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And, finally, the fact that they are protesting the publication of these images means that they assume that the images work... but they don't know how. That's the same as the DMV forbidding the publication of Eye-Charts to prevent blind people from getting their driver's license. As if we know those specific eye-charts work for testing eye-sight, but we don't know how they work and cannot, therefore, make new or better eye-charts.
-Sean
Actually, I don't think you could have come up with a better analogy supporting the suppression of Rorschaach images. If DMV released to the public domain the current eye-charts they use for drivers license registration, what's to stop someone from memorizing the chart and trying to fool the test giver? It's the same premise with the Rorschach images.
Or, you could just play it on the Xbox 360?
Don't worry, it's not so much of a loss.
Seriously, think about it. Have you ever asked yourself *why* people do things like that? Maybe it's just me, but it might have to do with the fact that we're constantly interfering with them - messing with their internal affairs, assassinating their politicians, selling chemical weapons to dictators, invading them, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents, abducting people, torturing them, stealing their oil (not to mention their archaeological treasures etc.), and so on.
I'm sorry, when exactly was the last time the United States armed forces killed "hundreds of thousands" of innocent middle-easterners? Hell, when have we ever killed any group of people on that scale that were not declared enemy combatants, for that matter?
Oh, since it seems you're making a case for their current activities and tactics, please don't say "Iraq."
"The bill defines the phrase 'extremely violent video game' as 'a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being,"
Does this mean that my plan to release a game involving killing, maiming, dismembering, and sexually assaulting images of furry woodland creatures will successfully bypass their ban?
WTF does FLGS mean?
Friendly Local Game Store.
But I see two problems:
1) Lots of people already know the story. Backwards and forwards.
2) They need to draw Halo fans and non-Halo fans. This was the same thing with LotR, where they had to draw Tolkein fans and laypeople (and did a good job).
As with LotR, the core demographic of this movie knows the story. Backwards and forwards. How did this hurt ticket sales again? If anything a situation like this creates a built in fanbase who are first to go watcha and promote your film. Both LorR and Firefly/Serenty are good examples of this. As far as drawing in non-fans, just make it a good movie. People will talk.
I find that, while I can't glare at the screen trying to pick up all the details, I'm not constantly glancing at the subtitles either. They're sort of just inside the field of vision, so I can see what is there without looking. You need to read outside your center field of view.
Huh? Sorry to nitpick, but I don't belive that this is physically possible. The human eye is only capable of perciving fine detail (like reading) from the light that falls on the fovea, which like in the center of the retina. The fovea is what 'creates' your centeral vison. I know this because after I recived an injury to my right eye a few years ago (retinal tear) I was no longer able to read with ease due to moderate bluriness and distortion of the word. Even so, my peripheral vision was wholy unaffected.
For myself, when I watch subtitled video I tend do the opposite of what you described. Namely, I flit my focus down to read the subtitleds quickly, letting my peripheral take in the other visuals onscreen. Then once I'm done I flit back up the action and wait for the next subtitle. Rinse, Repeat.
Ok, totally off topic, but am I the only one who thinks an executive at Columbia walked in on his kid watching Macross Plus one night and thought "Wow. This'd make a cool movie. We could call it Stea..."
THAT'S FUCKING LIFE
Equipment wears out.
Well I think the issue wasn't that the iPod wore out, as all equipment does, but the fact that Apple misrepresented how long the average iPod battery life should be.
Hell, get Joss Whedon on this project and I'd be all over that shit!
"Then we have the guy who heard a voice telling him to build a boat, put two of everything in it, and wait out a world flood which later no one else remembers happening, like, say, the Chinese, having been around for 4000 years or more."
;P
Of course the Chinese don't have records of it, godless red communists don't float!
Microsoft can make some brownie points by releasing this hyped file system for free, heading off the negative press over the postponment of longhorn...
Why is it that Microsoft is always accused of perpetuating an unecessary upgrade cycle, yet individuals continue to criticize them when they actualy take the time to polish said upgrade, rather than releasing it half finished?
This is false advertising - when most people think Chimera they think Dongeons and Dragons etc. They even have a picture of a lion with the head of a goat and the tail as a serpant.
True, but it wasn't that long ago that scientists were parading around that mouse with the human ear grown on it's back through stem-cell implantation. Who's to say that they couldn't grow say, a tail on human, which is probably the kind of thing that the religious right is afraid of.
Personally, I think I'd be kinda cool to have a few extra limbs. Sure be useful while surfing for por.. err.. doing research.
> Yeah: like cutting Hubble.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't the reason they're scrapping the Hubble because it'd be more expensive to repair it than to let it deorbit and send up a new telescope? Besides, didn't it preform above and beyond it's original mission profile?
I say let it go down in dignity and get some new tech up there, instead of letting it languish over the next decade with continual jury-rigged refits.