You get an e-penis to show off your accomplishments, except you haven't accomplished anything. Not only are the rewards virtual, you did nothing to earn them.
At least with the iPhone "I'm Rich App", you are clearly demonstrating the truth. You spent money to tell the world that you spent money.
Big displays have existed for a long time. Multiple pointers in a GUI have existed for a long time.
I'm sitting at a table, and I can only manipulate what I can physically reach. You've got 50 chefs in the pot.
This is an improvement over several people sitting at their own computers with a mouse, able to interact with the whole map, or if they only have permission to give orders for a small portion, then why not have that portion as their terminal, with the big display in the room for overall supervision.
I just don't see how this technology actually improves anything there.
I'm not offended. I just don't see how Surface helps or is relevant.
I'm not a huge Microsoft hater, though I acknowledge they've used illegal tactics. I administer Microsoft systems for a living, and I use some of their products at home still.
Are we going to see full massive expanions, or just these three pieces of DLC? I love Fallout, but I'm thinking of waiting to see if they release a Game of the Year edition like Morrowind and Oblivion.
Last I heard, Darren Aranofsky has been in talks for a RoboCop movie, but there were differing reports from the producers on whether or not it would be a sequel or reboot.
I have Cox in Nebraska, and I have noticed P2P speeds steadily dropping the past few months. Cox does offer and promote their SpeedBoost service, which I have noticed when using direct downloads they give you a priority boost in bandwidth if it is available. I've noticed myself pulling speeds that are actually higher than my limit.
So they may not be throttling everything, merely what they perceive as illegal downloading via P2P traffic. Unfortunately for me, I often download Linux DVDs via P2P.
Ahem, the guy who wrote that short story wrote the movie. That is the director's brother. He was adapting his own work into another medium.
Given that Nolan wrote both, he can be seen as creating something original.
Jonathon Nolan also wrote the screenplay for The Prestige (adapting someone else's novel, but a fucking fantastic adaptation none the less) and the screenplay for The Dark Knight, which pulls from several comic story lines for inspiration, but could be seen as an original story arch.
The concept of Ender and the Battle School was a short story. The concept for Speaker of the Dead, and what became books 2-3-4 in the Ender Saga were a much deeper concept, however he couldn't make it work. An editor suggested taking the character from the short story and using it for his Speaker concept. To do so, he then rewrote Ender's Game as a novel to serve as a prequel to set up Speaker, Xenocide and eventually Children of the Mind (though things were supposed to be wrapped up in Xenocide, but spilled over due to length).
To that extent, Ender's Game is to the rest of the series what the Hobbit is to Lord of the Rings.
And as much as I love Ender's Game every time I reread it, I think Speaker for the Dead is even better.
I keep hearing how a studio won't sign off on a movie that involves so many young actors, involves kids killing kids, involves arguably no adult leads, and in many ways is unfilmable. Try getting little kids to do the Battle School stunts.
However, the solution is so simple. Hire Robert Zemekis, who has done dark, mature material (see Beowulf) and family material (see Back to the Future, Polar Express, Roger Rabitt). He could find the right tone.
Even better, he is a special effects genius who has been perfecting mo-cap. In many scenes in watching Beowulf I forgot it was animated because it look so realistic, which was a big jump from Polar Express, and I imagine he will only get better with the technique.
With mo-cap, he can use older, better actors to play all the kid parts, but animate them to be age appropriate for the roles, do the Battle School stunts properly, etc. Also animated violence on kids is different from filmed violence on kids.
Not to mention the Fantasy Game sequences, the buggers, the space battles, etc.
This movie is crying out for mo-cap and animation.
Instead I read that Orson Scott Card rewrote the script to focus on Mazer Rackham as an adult lead, which is fucking stupid.
Card and Zemeckis need to do mo-cap Ender's Game, yesterday.
It would be Harry Potter meets Star Wars and do 400 mil domestic. Count on it.
Nightmare on Elm Street Karate Kid Candyman GI Joe Pink Panther Street Fighter (not that there was much of a franchise to begin with) Tron (this project has waffled between reboot and sequel, but is now being called Tr2n) Terminator Salvation (technically a sequel, but one that isn't recognizing T3 as canon, and recast everyone to start a new franchise) Land of the Lost Fame The Stepfather Astro Boy Sherlock Holmes Hellraiser Superman Catwoman (a failed reboot, but a reboot none the less)
On one hand, he is a fine director and deserves praise as such. On the other hand, he is an egotistical prick who is convinced he is the greatest director on earth who said, and I quote, "I want to have sex with my movies."
So I feel obligated to knock him off his high perch.
Now that KDE has laid the framework for development, and recreated most of the features from KDE 3 as well, where do they go from here? Can they do something truly innovative?
(No, widgets aren't innovative).
The folderview, as a fullscreen containment with wallpaper theming is a plus. I'm looking for other innovations in how we interact with software.
Adjusting dialogs and the interface to work well on small form factors is another step in the right direction, but honestly I think they also need an Oxygen-widget derivative specifically for minimalist screens.
Multi-touch gestures are trendy, but other than mobile devices, I don't expect to touch my PC screen.
The concept of a fully-realized semantic desktop sounds interesting, but is currently half-baked at best.
Would it be a crime for KDE to steal some of the better innovations from OS X and Windows 7? Should KDE offer an official dock, or revamp the taskbar? What about both?
Kwin, for all its nifty-ness could take a few pages from Windows 7.
What about a crazy concept? People keep talking about a Web OS, cloud computing, etc. I've seen a proof of concept of Plasmoids served via a web plugin. KDE runs natively on Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris today. What if you could store your KDE desktop settings and sessions online?
Sit at any computer with most any OS, and have your desktop. Plasmoids that aren't installed locally could even be served up online.
Well, in the infancy of KDE 4, there was this project that was supposed to provide a consistent look and feel to KDE called Oxygen.
The early mockups looked fairly different from the first incarnation, and both look very different from what we have today.
Overall, it does look more consistent and polished. The taskbar looks sharp. The plasma theme looks sharp. The Oxygen widgets and window decorations are still plain and boring. I also still don't understand how Oxygen was largely plain white with no contrast for a year, where as the Plasma theme and taskbar was plain and black.
It was jarring and inconsistent.
However, the icons (save for the horrible folder icon) do present a very consistent, very professional appearance. It is hard to argue with the icon set on the whole.
I just want to see an Oxygen set for OpenOffice. I know OpenOffice isn't a KDE project, but most every distro ships with OpenOffice, and it would be nice for integration to see some Oxygen-based icons for OpenOffice.
Download it and make your own judgment, however I will echo the sentiment that it is a VAST improvement over 4.1 and 4.0.
I find it odd that Linus just made a stink about KDE a week before 4.2, and had he tried 4.2, he might have felt differently. Then again, last I heard he was using Ubuntu, and they made a big mess of their Kubuntu/KDE 4.x packages, which has really caused the KDE project some undue negative press.
That being said, there are some legitimate gripes about the previous releases, and some bickering over whether or not the KDE devs need users, or value their input, to which the varied KDE devs (expectedly of such a diverse group) gave varied responses.
openSUSE probably puts out the best packages, though I hear the Arch KDEmod packages are quite good as well.
I also really dig that I can run KDE (including Plasma) on Windows.
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Drugs were illegal in other countries before the US was formed. The concept of banned substances goes back farther than US history.
However, your attempt to suggest that defending free information is the same cause as legalizing drugs is pretty ridiculous regardless.
You get an e-penis to show off your accomplishments, except you haven't accomplished anything. Not only are the rewards virtual, you did nothing to earn them.
At least with the iPhone "I'm Rich App", you are clearly demonstrating the truth. You spent money to tell the world that you spent money.
Big displays have existed for a long time. Multiple pointers in a GUI have existed for a long time.
I'm sitting at a table, and I can only manipulate what I can physically reach. You've got 50 chefs in the pot.
This is an improvement over several people sitting at their own computers with a mouse, able to interact with the whole map, or if they only have permission to give orders for a small portion, then why not have that portion as their terminal, with the big display in the room for overall supervision.
I just don't see how this technology actually improves anything there.
I'm not offended. I just don't see how Surface helps or is relevant.
I'm not a huge Microsoft hater, though I acknowledge they've used illegal tactics. I administer Microsoft systems for a living, and I use some of their products at home still.
Having a map update with real time data requires Surface? Since when?
I've often wondered why we don't do this.
Forgive me for interrupting with a serious question, but what benefit does Surface offer in securing the Super Bowl?
Having this expensive multi-touch table will help, how?
This sounds like some rich NFL exec wanting to show off a shiny toy for the gimmick factor, and Microsoft wanting publicity.
However, I really fail to see any practical use of Surface here.
Are we going to see full massive expanions, or just these three pieces of DLC? I love Fallout, but I'm thinking of waiting to see if they release a Game of the Year edition like Morrowind and Oblivion.
After posting the list, I then also remembered the recent Hulk reboot, which was only a few years after the previous reboot.
Last I heard, Darren Aranofsky has been in talks for a RoboCop movie, but there were differing reports from the producers on whether or not it would be a sequel or reboot.
I have Cox in Nebraska, and I have noticed P2P speeds steadily dropping the past few months. Cox does offer and promote their SpeedBoost service, which I have noticed when using direct downloads they give you a priority boost in bandwidth if it is available. I've noticed myself pulling speeds that are actually higher than my limit.
So they may not be throttling everything, merely what they perceive as illegal downloading via P2P traffic. Unfortunately for me, I often download Linux DVDs via P2P.
And I just read today that they signed a new deal for an A-Team reboot, and a Tomb Raider reboot.
I always liked yellow on blue. High contrast and easy to read, yet easy on the eyes.
Oh, how I miss NC on DOS. Those were the days!
See him as an alien in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Same thing going on.
Ahem, the guy who wrote that short story wrote the movie. That is the director's brother. He was adapting his own work into another medium.
Given that Nolan wrote both, he can be seen as creating something original.
Jonathon Nolan also wrote the screenplay for The Prestige (adapting someone else's novel, but a fucking fantastic adaptation none the less) and the screenplay for The Dark Knight, which pulls from several comic story lines for inspiration, but could be seen as an original story arch.
Picking on Nolan is picking on the wrong writer.
The concept of Ender and the Battle School was a short story. The concept for Speaker of the Dead, and what became books 2-3-4 in the Ender Saga were a much deeper concept, however he couldn't make it work. An editor suggested taking the character from the short story and using it for his Speaker concept. To do so, he then rewrote Ender's Game as a novel to serve as a prequel to set up Speaker, Xenocide and eventually Children of the Mind (though things were supposed to be wrapped up in Xenocide, but spilled over due to length).
To that extent, Ender's Game is to the rest of the series what the Hobbit is to Lord of the Rings.
And as much as I love Ender's Game every time I reread it, I think Speaker for the Dead is even better.
I keep hearing how a studio won't sign off on a movie that involves so many young actors, involves kids killing kids, involves arguably no adult leads, and in many ways is unfilmable. Try getting little kids to do the Battle School stunts.
However, the solution is so simple. Hire Robert Zemekis, who has done dark, mature material (see Beowulf) and family material (see Back to the Future, Polar Express, Roger Rabitt). He could find the right tone.
Even better, he is a special effects genius who has been perfecting mo-cap. In many scenes in watching Beowulf I forgot it was animated because it look so realistic, which was a big jump from Polar Express, and I imagine he will only get better with the technique.
With mo-cap, he can use older, better actors to play all the kid parts, but animate them to be age appropriate for the roles, do the Battle School stunts properly, etc. Also animated violence on kids is different from filmed violence on kids.
Not to mention the Fantasy Game sequences, the buggers, the space battles, etc.
This movie is crying out for mo-cap and animation.
Instead I read that Orson Scott Card rewrote the script to focus on Mazer Rackham as an adult lead, which is fucking stupid.
Card and Zemeckis need to do mo-cap Ender's Game, yesterday.
It would be Harry Potter meets Star Wars and do 400 mil domestic. Count on it.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Karate Kid
Candyman
GI Joe
Pink Panther
Street Fighter (not that there was much of a franchise to begin with)
Tron (this project has waffled between reboot and sequel, but is now being called Tr2n)
Terminator Salvation (technically a sequel, but one that isn't recognizing T3 as canon, and recast everyone to start a new franchise)
Land of the Lost
Fame
The Stepfather
Astro Boy
Sherlock Holmes
Hellraiser
Superman
Catwoman (a failed reboot, but a reboot none the less)
Sadly, I'm probably forgetting more reboots.
And Quentin Tarantino plagiarized Pulp Fiction.
On one hand, he is a fine director and deserves praise as such. On the other hand, he is an egotistical prick who is convinced he is the greatest director on earth who said, and I quote, "I want to have sex with my movies."
So I feel obligated to knock him off his high perch.
Actually, last year Nokia started working on Qt branch on Firefox, but I haven't heard anything on it for a while. You can download a version here:
http://timeless.justdave.net/maemo/firefoxqt3.tar.gz
I could be mistaken.
Now that KDE has laid the framework for development, and recreated most of the features from KDE 3 as well, where do they go from here? Can they do something truly innovative?
(No, widgets aren't innovative).
The folderview, as a fullscreen containment with wallpaper theming is a plus. I'm looking for other innovations in how we interact with software.
Adjusting dialogs and the interface to work well on small form factors is another step in the right direction, but honestly I think they also need an Oxygen-widget derivative specifically for minimalist screens.
Multi-touch gestures are trendy, but other than mobile devices, I don't expect to touch my PC screen.
The concept of a fully-realized semantic desktop sounds interesting, but is currently half-baked at best.
Would it be a crime for KDE to steal some of the better innovations from OS X and Windows 7? Should KDE offer an official dock, or revamp the taskbar? What about both?
Kwin, for all its nifty-ness could take a few pages from Windows 7.
What about a crazy concept? People keep talking about a Web OS, cloud computing, etc. I've seen a proof of concept of Plasmoids served via a web plugin. KDE runs natively on Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris today. What if you could store your KDE desktop settings and sessions online?
Sit at any computer with most any OS, and have your desktop. Plasmoids that aren't installed locally could even be served up online.
Where do you think KDE should go in the future?
Well, in the infancy of KDE 4, there was this project that was supposed to provide a consistent look and feel to KDE called Oxygen.
The early mockups looked fairly different from the first incarnation, and both look very different from what we have today.
Overall, it does look more consistent and polished. The taskbar looks sharp. The plasma theme looks sharp. The Oxygen widgets and window decorations are still plain and boring. I also still don't understand how Oxygen was largely plain white with no contrast for a year, where as the Plasma theme and taskbar was plain and black.
It was jarring and inconsistent.
However, the icons (save for the horrible folder icon) do present a very consistent, very professional appearance. It is hard to argue with the icon set on the whole.
I just want to see an Oxygen set for OpenOffice. I know OpenOffice isn't a KDE project, but most every distro ships with OpenOffice, and it would be nice for integration to see some Oxygen-based icons for OpenOffice.
By that I believe you meant that KDE is targeted by jealous trolls because Qt is so much better than GTK. ::ducks::
Download it and make your own judgment, however I will echo the sentiment that it is a VAST improvement over 4.1 and 4.0.
I find it odd that Linus just made a stink about KDE a week before 4.2, and had he tried 4.2, he might have felt differently. Then again, last I heard he was using Ubuntu, and they made a big mess of their Kubuntu/KDE 4.x packages, which has really caused the KDE project some undue negative press.
That being said, there are some legitimate gripes about the previous releases, and some bickering over whether or not the KDE devs need users, or value their input, to which the varied KDE devs (expectedly of such a diverse group) gave varied responses.
openSUSE probably puts out the best packages, though I hear the Arch KDEmod packages are quite good as well.
I also really dig that I can run KDE (including Plasma) on Windows.