Go ahead and Google the TIA logo, if you want to get a little freaked out. This logo was pulled from the project when it started to get a little too much attention, but let me describe it for you:
The Rosicrucian (Iluminati?) pyrmaid w/ all seeing eye, with a beam of light (luciferian reference?) shooting out of the eye and encircling the planet earth. In Latin, the phrase "Knowledge is Power".
If that's not a little over-the-top, I don't know what is.
Wow, the people who are like "I loved this movie when I was little, so I rented it, and was like man, this sucks" really are pathetic IMHO.
The Dark Crystal is simply a classic. I'm sorry, but it is. Deal with it.
If you liked it as a child, and then rented it as a late 20-something or early 30-something, and found yourself hating it -- well, I'm sorry, but that means part of your soul died.
This movie is one of the fantasy greats, with an epic story, great puppetry, deep music and some very heady ideas. It is waaaay beyond most crap made for kids, and I daresay, probably encouraged me to think about some deep thoughts as a young kid that most other children's media never would have compelled me to think about. This movie was Henson at his best, up there with Labyrynth (or is that a crap movie too?)
Now, I love Genndy's stuff, although I'm not sure I see how his style would work with this kind of movie. But, I'm willing to give it a chance, that's for sure.
This kind fo thing is a cinch to set up under Mac OS X. And w/ Sprint EV-DO (over a Mbit down) costing $60-$70/month, quite worthwhile. I am my own hotspot everywhere I go!:-D
I don't think it's wonderful that a lot of our rights as Americans have been stripped away in the past few years (since the Oklahoma City bombing, really). But, to equate a brief, apparently friendly and polite visit by DHS to the fascism of other nations throughout history is absurd. In other times and places, you would be thrown in a forced labor camp for years, or maybe just killed, for reading the wrong book. This hardly constitutes fascism on that level, by a looooong shot.
Now, it is important to be aware of our rights being stripped away, and to protest against it. But please -- it is a disservice to try to say that "we are already there, folks" when we are so far from that kind of a scenario.
The Walled City from Idoru. Makes perfect sense that closed, invisible networks would begin to pop up in this bizarre legal environment. Too bad overzealous copyright holders are pushing people to develop technologies that will be of genuine use to truly "bad" people. Not that the real baddies probably haven't had their own darknets for years.
Several months back it started becoming impossible to find Sony's PVM series of professional broadcast monitors. Then I was told by my Sony distributor that Sony had ended all production of the PVM monitors. This caught me off guard, because the PVM monitors are THE standard in the video production industry. As has been mentioned, we're simply not at the point where you can judge color-accuracy on an LCD or plasma or whatnot. But then you have to consider, what are people color-correcting to, if there are so many display standards out there now, and NTSC is about to fade away in another few years? It's a very confusing time for the broadcast/video industry.
Apple has stated time and time again, in full public record (if they were outright lying, it would be an SEC violation, plain and simple) that the amount of money they make from iTMS is negligible at best. They think of it as a value-added to owning an iPod, but it is not driving revenues.
What this means is, Apple is in a COMPLETE position of power when it comes to online music distribution (which they almost completely control, despite it not making them huge money). Only the labels themselves have something to lose, if they stop selling through iTunes.
These threats are ridiculous. Why does Apple have any desire to lower prices to 30 cents a track, when the precedent is that ALL tracks are 99 cents each? I think the labels release statements like this purely to generate press, and remind people of their existence (which is likely doomed).
This reminds me of the automatic sentry gun from the movie Aliens.
What, you don't remember that part?
That's because the minute or two of the movie that featured the automatic sentry gun is edited out of the main cut of the movie. Ironically, on television a few times I've seen the longer cut that kept the sentry gun.
It was a cool scene, and surprise surprise, now you can build one yourself. GAME OVER MAN!!!!:O
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray use the same compression scheme. So Blu-Ray is still ahead. But, more prone to damage. Oh well. It's going to be an ugly, confusing mess which means -- job security for me, heheh (the company I work for sells and services Macintosh video production workstations, andcmaking sense of this wacky stuff for people is what we do daily).
I have to second this -- AVAM is one of the best art museums I've ever been to, and it's dedicated completely to "outsider art." It should pretty much be at the top of your list if you're in the Baltimore area (it's right on the waterfront). The current exhibit is called "Holy H2O" and from what I have heard it is very cool.
It's funny just how much of an issue safety has been made in many discussions of a manned service mission. The USA doesn't even give its troops armored vehicles in its war, and that doesn't seem to really rile people up (discussion of the ridiculousness of the war aside). You'd think a little risk to save what has IMO been one of the most profound scientific tools in all of human civilization would be deemed an acceptable risk.
Try again -- human hearing isn't measured in bits at all. And a 24-bit and 16-bit audio file can easily be differentiated by anyone with any ear at all. Also, the 64-bit music file seems to be referring more to the size of the file, and how much can be addressed by memory.
I remember really liking the Sonic CD soundtrack when I was younger, for the Sega CD. Hahah man that was a cool system. Snatcher was great!
So I realized you could play back Sega CD discs in your CD player, and I made a tape of the Sonic CD soundtrack. It was probably influential in getting me into electronic music.
Well, that was just about the funniest thing I've seen so far this year. That makes me pretty lame I guess, right?
In any case, I'm doing it -- I think I'm going to cut off the cable. No way they'll ever show content this quality on cable.
Yeah, on 2nd thought, I am going to try it sometime. Heheheh if I go to jail I'll be PO'd, but I would think they'd have figured out by now that $2 bills are for real.
Whoa -- OK, this was at the Best Buy I go to, right on York Rd. north of Towson. Wow, that's pretty scary. Yes, their employees are pretty dumb, but this seems kind of over-the-top. There is a lot of just-below-the-surface racial tension in Baltimore; I wonder if this in any way came in to play? One thing I do know is, I won't try to use $2 bills there any time soon!
Well, you may be taking me a little too literally. But spacetime is expanding, or so it would seem. Don't we interpret this expansion as the _passing_of time? But is it really passing? Of course I don't have the answers. But, reality certainly isn't so Newtonian as one would think going through the US education system.
This seems pretty significant to me, as a layperson. I always personally interpretted the classic double slit experiement as indicatiing "time" as we know it -- linear time, from moment to moment... Is BS. And perhaps, all time exists simultaneously, and it is the singularity of our consciousness that focuses it into a linear progression.
It's too bad more laypeople don't get into quantum physics, string theory, etc. The implicatisons are pretty amazing on both scientific and spiritual levels, and I have chosen to read much of what this science tells us as: The Universe (Multiverse) is One and Many simultaneously, we are all a part of it, and in essence, are all One. Time is an illusion on the ultimate level, as is the notion of our matter and energy being separate from every other element of the universe. Thus, death as we know it does not truly exist, when what you are is a focal point of the neverending Multiverse (God, if you wanna put it that way -- but that's up to you).
Gee... I wonder why they don't teach any of this stuff in the school system, unless you happen to go into phsyics?
I highly recommend The Tao of Physics by Capra (which I'm sure many scientists loathe). Also writings by Nick Herbert are pretty interesting. A lot of the stuff we are finding equations for now is what many indegenous cultures have taught for thousands and thousands of years. They may have communicated the ideas differently, but they strike me as having the same message.
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The Rosicrucian (Iluminati?) pyrmaid w/ all seeing eye, with a beam of light (luciferian reference?) shooting out of the eye and encircling the planet earth. In Latin, the phrase "Knowledge is Power".
If that's not a little over-the-top, I don't know what is.
Wow, the people who are like "I loved this movie when I was little, so I rented it, and was like man, this sucks" really are pathetic IMHO. The Dark Crystal is simply a classic. I'm sorry, but it is. Deal with it. If you liked it as a child, and then rented it as a late 20-something or early 30-something, and found yourself hating it -- well, I'm sorry, but that means part of your soul died. This movie is one of the fantasy greats, with an epic story, great puppetry, deep music and some very heady ideas. It is waaaay beyond most crap made for kids, and I daresay, probably encouraged me to think about some deep thoughts as a young kid that most other children's media never would have compelled me to think about. This movie was Henson at his best, up there with Labyrynth (or is that a crap movie too?) Now, I love Genndy's stuff, although I'm not sure I see how his style would work with this kind of movie. But, I'm willing to give it a chance, that's for sure.
This kind fo thing is a cinch to set up under Mac OS X. And w/ Sprint EV-DO (over a Mbit down) costing $60-$70/month, quite worthwhile. I am my own hotspot everywhere I go! :-D
The CrackBook Ho. (Props to Ed.)
Now, it is important to be aware of our rights being stripped away, and to protest against it. But please -- it is a disservice to try to say that "we are already there, folks" when we are so far from that kind of a scenario.
The Walled City from Idoru. Makes perfect sense that closed, invisible networks would begin to pop up in this bizarre legal environment. Too bad overzealous copyright holders are pushing people to develop technologies that will be of genuine use to truly "bad" people. Not that the real baddies probably haven't had their own darknets for years.
Several months back it started becoming impossible to find Sony's PVM series of professional broadcast monitors. Then I was told by my Sony distributor that Sony had ended all production of the PVM monitors. This caught me off guard, because the PVM monitors are THE standard in the video production industry. As has been mentioned, we're simply not at the point where you can judge color-accuracy on an LCD or plasma or whatnot. But then you have to consider, what are people color-correcting to, if there are so many display standards out there now, and NTSC is about to fade away in another few years? It's a very confusing time for the broadcast/video industry.
You might say, there's a little Steve Jobs inside all of us.
Apple has stated time and time again, in full public record (if they were outright lying, it would be an SEC violation, plain and simple) that the amount of money they make from iTMS is negligible at best. They think of it as a value-added to owning an iPod, but it is not driving revenues. What this means is, Apple is in a COMPLETE position of power when it comes to online music distribution (which they almost completely control, despite it not making them huge money). Only the labels themselves have something to lose, if they stop selling through iTunes. These threats are ridiculous. Why does Apple have any desire to lower prices to 30 cents a track, when the precedent is that ALL tracks are 99 cents each? I think the labels release statements like this purely to generate press, and remind people of their existence (which is likely doomed).
This reminds me of the automatic sentry gun from the movie Aliens. What, you don't remember that part? That's because the minute or two of the movie that featured the automatic sentry gun is edited out of the main cut of the movie. Ironically, on television a few times I've seen the longer cut that kept the sentry gun. It was a cool scene, and surprise surprise, now you can build one yourself. GAME OVER MAN!!!! :O
And here I thought it was 2005... Where have the last three years gone? My goodness, time does seem to fly by these days...
I wonder if it will be 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0?
Hah.
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray use the same compression scheme. So Blu-Ray is still ahead. But, more prone to damage. Oh well. It's going to be an ugly, confusing mess which means -- job security for me, heheh (the company I work for sells and services Macintosh video production workstations, andcmaking sense of this wacky stuff for people is what we do daily).
In my pants.
I have to second this -- AVAM is one of the best art museums I've ever been to, and it's dedicated completely to "outsider art." It should pretty much be at the top of your list if you're in the Baltimore area (it's right on the waterfront). The current exhibit is called "Holy H2O" and from what I have heard it is very cool.
It's funny just how much of an issue safety has been made in many discussions of a manned service mission. The USA doesn't even give its troops armored vehicles in its war, and that doesn't seem to really rile people up (discussion of the ridiculousness of the war aside). You'd think a little risk to save what has IMO been one of the most profound scientific tools in all of human civilization would be deemed an acceptable risk.
Maybe it has.... 3 screens?
Try again -- human hearing isn't measured in bits at all. And a 24-bit and 16-bit audio file can easily be differentiated by anyone with any ear at all. Also, the 64-bit music file seems to be referring more to the size of the file, and how much can be addressed by memory.
I remember really liking the Sonic CD soundtrack when I was younger, for the Sega CD. Hahah man that was a cool system. Snatcher was great! So I realized you could play back Sega CD discs in your CD player, and I made a tape of the Sonic CD soundtrack. It was probably influential in getting me into electronic music.
Well, that was just about the funniest thing I've seen so far this year. That makes me pretty lame I guess, right? In any case, I'm doing it -- I think I'm going to cut off the cable. No way they'll ever show content this quality on cable.
Yeah, on 2nd thought, I am going to try it sometime. Heheheh if I go to jail I'll be PO'd, but I would think they'd have figured out by now that $2 bills are for real.
Whoa -- OK, this was at the Best Buy I go to, right on York Rd. north of Towson. Wow, that's pretty scary. Yes, their employees are pretty dumb, but this seems kind of over-the-top. There is a lot of just-below-the-surface racial tension in Baltimore; I wonder if this in any way came in to play? One thing I do know is, I won't try to use $2 bills there any time soon!
Well, you may be taking me a little too literally. But spacetime is expanding, or so it would seem. Don't we interpret this expansion as the _passing_of time? But is it really passing? Of course I don't have the answers. But, reality certainly isn't so Newtonian as one would think going through the US education system.
http://twm.co.nz/Bohm.html
It's too bad more laypeople don't get into quantum physics, string theory, etc. The implicatisons are pretty amazing on both scientific and spiritual levels, and I have chosen to read much of what this science tells us as: The Universe (Multiverse) is One and Many simultaneously, we are all a part of it, and in essence, are all One. Time is an illusion on the ultimate level, as is the notion of our matter and energy being separate from every other element of the universe. Thus, death as we know it does not truly exist, when what you are is a focal point of the neverending Multiverse (God, if you wanna put it that way -- but that's up to you).
Gee... I wonder why they don't teach any of this stuff in the school system, unless you happen to go into phsyics?
I highly recommend The Tao of Physics by Capra (which I'm sure many scientists loathe). Also writings by Nick Herbert are pretty interesting. A lot of the stuff we are finding equations for now is what many indegenous cultures have taught for thousands and thousands of years. They may have communicated the ideas differently, but they strike me as having the same message.
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The techno-mediated cultural conspiracy
http://thewired.blogs.com/teotwawki/