Having rewatched it recently in anticipation of seeing Legacy tomorrow night one thing that stood out for me (apart from how much Halo looked like it, see: http://cyclomedia.co.uk/blog/?Halo_is_Tron ) were some of the mirror shots. Shots in the real world that reflected the computer world, bridging the gap to it from our side. One was in the office with cubicles spreading off to infinity in a grid pattern, another was a tall building, which looked like a large server. Clever.
Plus the animators who are in charge of the CGI people (See: Matrix 2, Blade 2, etc) obviously have no grasp of physics. Even just adding a bit of inertia/momentum/acceleration would make a world of difference
The folding city in Inception may be FX, but it's not (strictly) CGI. They stuck a camera on a crane and panned it up and over, rotated it a bit. Then took the footage and pasted it all together. That's why it looks so good. Because those actually are streets, cars, buildings and people. Not renders
Unless "prefers male / female" is just as simple as "prefers guitar / electronic music". Sure there's plenty of potential for nurture - if you grow up surrounded by guitar musicians, for example. On the other hand there are societal pressures, preferring guitar music is (arguably) the societal norm, as is preferring the opposite sex to same or either.
In terms of music I mostly prefer electronic, but there's plenty of guitar I like too, i guess I have an 80/20 split in that regard. And sexually I'm about a 95/5 split, with the 5% being the odd time I really would like some cock
My reckoning is that as society as a whole gets more relaxed, groovy, open and generally "who cares" about sexuality more and more people will feel absolutely no pressure either way and will openly call themselves bisexual. that is assuming that in a century or three those labels even apply any more
It's quite obvious that the keyboard is based off a typewriter hackjob when you realize that despite the massive amount of time spent doing math - in both development and office use - there are no multiply and divide symbols.
Having spent a zillion years being paid to press buttons on windows boxen my right hand spends a fair amount of time on the mouse and my left poised, pinky over the CRTL/Shift area, other digits ready to hit X,C,V (cut, copy,paste) A (select all) Z (undo) and Y (redo). When you're shifting things around they're all really handy
Iterestingly, though, the FPS single player genre already has a well established online community in the form of speedrunning. Imagine instead of having to record a demo, zip it, upload it, post on the forum, and do the reverse to watch others beat the level. For the uninitiated there are a varying number of categories, in Doom for example you have Tyson (only allowed to kill monsters using your bare hands), Pacifist (Get through without causing any damage), Speed (get to exit as fast as possible), Max (Fastest exit with 100% kills), Reality (get to exit without taking any damage), a single run may be elegible for more than one of these categories.
One of the first single player online games I saw integrated in this way was Project Gotham Racing 2 for the original Xbox, it essentially merged all your fastest times and such into a giant high score table for each event, but didn't force you to actually race on the track against other players to progress. Importantly, though, you could ignore the charts if you wanted and just get on with the SP game too
I respectfully disagree. Underworld always put on a great live show and are always touring. Always. The albums they put out are good for listening to, but the music sales aren't the core product, the Underworld Live experience is the product (heck their website is called underworldlive.com). Plus there's a semi official (Grateful Dead style) live show bootlegging scene. But even listening to the live bootlegs loudly on your own sound system just isn't the same as being there. Now they may not be all over MTV and consistently pushing the top of the Pop charts but seems to me that they must be making enough cash out of it to pay the bills and they get to travel the world in the process, certainly beats my day job.
This is a great example of a band that is in my opinion getting it right. Capitalism boils down to exploiting a limited resource for profit. The band playing live is the limited resource, the music and videos are the advertising that supports it. The music industry generally gets this exactly wrong, they put an album together and then send the artist on tour to advertise the album, totally ass-backwards. The fact that they can't pass Capitalism 101 says a lot about the industry.
Having worked with silverlight 4 for the past 6 months I feel qualified to moan that it isn't just WPF with a web plugin, there are so many hacks and workarounds needed to make it wpf-like it's not funny. Seems that Silverlight did indeed start as MS-Flash and WPF started life as Winforms for the 21st century and they're edging closer together across the desktop/web divide. If silverlight 5 represented a true unity of the two I'd love it.
Programming is not a production line, and trying to turn it into that leads to inefficient programmers, bad code, and maintenance nightmares. Programming is an art, a creative process, and a science, and there are definitely people who do it better than others, and platforms which make it easier than others.
Spot on and I work at a company where for the previous 15-20 years the MD (who started off as the programmer of the original version of the flagship product) believed that programmers WERE a comoddity you could just throw requirements at and get them done. The result? inefficient programmers, bad code, maintenance nightmares.
This MD is the one who for years vetoed migrating systems from shared access databases to SQL Server until he'd learnt enough about SQL Server himself to feel comfortable with it. This was before my time, but once or twice a stored procedure I've written has had to have a meeting about it because he didnt understand enough T-SQL to vet it. Seriously.
Fortunately the current IT manager is a stubborn northener and has refused to give in to this guy over the past 4 ish years. Slowly very very very slowly he's turning the MD around to 1) letting the dev team have technical documentation (the requirement was that all documentation had to be understandable by all managers). 2) measure performance on whether a development meets the requirement - not on how frantically the developer is bashing the keyboard (and being architecturally minded i spend a fair amount of time NOT keyboard bashing, what with planning what I'm going to do and all that)
It's a very, er, interesting place to work and so far the challenge of it has outweighed my desire to run to the fucking hills (my manager pulled me aside recently to seek reassurance I wasn't planning on doing that just yet) but the fact is that it's all well and good being agile, being open to shifting requirements, to engage in the endless discussions about the shade of blue but at the end of the day the clueless fucktards in management will always, always think you are taking them for a ride, because they haven't a clue how any of it works an think you're ust out for a paycheck and will bullshit them with acronyms. When as far as they're concerened if the requirement is make button X do Y it should ALWAYS take 1 hour flat to bash out the code because if they can explain it in one sentence then how hard can it be to program!?
I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer, however I suck at coming up with ideas. Once one is in front of me I'm great at working out DB structures, relations, requirements and the nitty gritty of coding to implement it.
I was under the impression this is a general trait of skilled developers, lack of blue sky thinking ability, but great when faced with a pure technical challenge (interestingly, and slightly aside I have two daughters, one is similar to me, faced with a blank sheet of paper she has no idea what to draw on it without instructions. The other will just come up with something off the bat in the same situation)
If the condom broke, she said stop (or if she said stop regardless) and he did not then that is a major asshole thing to do and frankly, yes, it's rape.
My phone doubles as a GPS, and I have a fairly standard stereo unit that has a line in and usb port on the front. I have two USB sticks that live in the ashtray (AKA handy drawer, no smokers in my car). So get in, start car, insert USB stick, pick album, pick GPS destination, drive. What do you need a carputer for again?
No spindle noise too and it's not just the HDD that takes up a bunch of space, the bay itself can usually be quite chunky, and then there's the heat that they generate
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Having rewatched it recently in anticipation of seeing Legacy tomorrow night one thing that stood out for me (apart from how much Halo looked like it, see: http://cyclomedia.co.uk/blog/?Halo_is_Tron ) were some of the mirror shots. Shots in the real world that reflected the computer world, bridging the gap to it from our side. One was in the office with cubicles spreading off to infinity in a grid pattern, another was a tall building, which looked like a large server. Clever.
Plus the animators who are in charge of the CGI people (See: Matrix 2, Blade 2, etc) obviously have no grasp of physics. Even just adding a bit of inertia/momentum/acceleration would make a world of difference
The folding city in Inception may be FX, but it's not (strictly) CGI. They stuck a camera on a crane and panned it up and over, rotated it a bit. Then took the footage and pasted it all together. That's why it looks so good. Because those actually are streets, cars, buildings and people. Not renders
Me too, song lyrics. No I'm not telling you the name of my favourite band.
I was going to post something similar, but looked through the comments first. I like the idea of the cloud, but only if it's
1. Distributed - not tied to one provider, but fully abstracted
2. Encrypted - so that I, and only I can get the data out
3. Universal - So that I can log into any compatible networked computer anywhere in the world and have my desktop and apps right there
4. Free - As in price and freedom
Was X-Files "D0d Kalm", the ship is slowly dissolving. Tho in that ep people are rapidly aging too
Unless "prefers male / female" is just as simple as "prefers guitar / electronic music". Sure there's plenty of potential for nurture - if you grow up surrounded by guitar musicians, for example. On the other hand there are societal pressures, preferring guitar music is (arguably) the societal norm, as is preferring the opposite sex to same or either.
In terms of music I mostly prefer electronic, but there's plenty of guitar I like too, i guess I have an 80/20 split in that regard. And sexually I'm about a 95/5 split, with the 5% being the odd time I really would like some cock
My reckoning is that as society as a whole gets more relaxed, groovy, open and generally "who cares" about sexuality more and more people will feel absolutely no pressure either way and will openly call themselves bisexual. that is assuming that in a century or three those labels even apply any more
This
I've tried leaving certain torrents sitting there seeding and get zero leechers ever, presumably because I have bugger all bandwidth.
It's quite obvious that the keyboard is based off a typewriter hackjob when you realize that despite the massive amount of time spent doing math - in both development and office use - there are no multiply and divide symbols.
Having spent a zillion years being paid to press buttons on windows boxen my right hand spends a fair amount of time on the mouse and my left poised, pinky over the CRTL/Shift area, other digits ready to hit X,C,V (cut, copy,paste) A (select all) Z (undo) and Y (redo). When you're shifting things around they're all really handy
Iterestingly, though, the FPS single player genre already has a well established online community in the form of speedrunning. Imagine instead of having to record a demo, zip it, upload it, post on the forum, and do the reverse to watch others beat the level. For the uninitiated there are a varying number of categories, in Doom for example you have Tyson (only allowed to kill monsters using your bare hands), Pacifist (Get through without causing any damage), Speed (get to exit as fast as possible), Max (Fastest exit with 100% kills), Reality (get to exit without taking any damage), a single run may be elegible for more than one of these categories.
One of the first single player online games I saw integrated in this way was Project Gotham Racing 2 for the original Xbox, it essentially merged all your fastest times and such into a giant high score table for each event, but didn't force you to actually race on the track against other players to progress. Importantly, though, you could ignore the charts if you wanted and just get on with the SP game too
It didn't need to work, the enemy just needed to think it did
"If you've done nothing wrong, you won't get caught".
Thanks for the new sig!
I respectfully disagree. Underworld always put on a great live show and are always touring. Always. The albums they put out are good for listening to, but the music sales aren't the core product, the Underworld Live experience is the product (heck their website is called underworldlive.com). Plus there's a semi official (Grateful Dead style) live show bootlegging scene. But even listening to the live bootlegs loudly on your own sound system just isn't the same as being there. Now they may not be all over MTV and consistently pushing the top of the Pop charts but seems to me that they must be making enough cash out of it to pay the bills and they get to travel the world in the process, certainly beats my day job.
This is a great example of a band that is in my opinion getting it right. Capitalism boils down to exploiting a limited resource for profit. The band playing live is the limited resource, the music and videos are the advertising that supports it. The music industry generally gets this exactly wrong, they put an album together and then send the artist on tour to advertise the album, totally ass-backwards. The fact that they can't pass Capitalism 101 says a lot about the industry.
Having worked with silverlight 4 for the past 6 months I feel qualified to moan that it isn't just WPF with a web plugin, there are so many hacks and workarounds needed to make it wpf-like it's not funny. Seems that Silverlight did indeed start as MS-Flash and WPF started life as Winforms for the 21st century and they're edging closer together across the desktop/web divide. If silverlight 5 represented a true unity of the two I'd love it.
Programming is not a production line, and trying to turn it into that leads to inefficient programmers, bad code, and maintenance nightmares. Programming is an art, a creative process, and a science, and there are definitely people who do it better than others, and platforms which make it easier than others.
Spot on and I work at a company where for the previous 15-20 years the MD (who started off as the programmer of the original version of the flagship product) believed that programmers WERE a comoddity you could just throw requirements at and get them done. The result? inefficient programmers, bad code, maintenance nightmares.
This MD is the one who for years vetoed migrating systems from shared access databases to SQL Server until he'd learnt enough about SQL Server himself to feel comfortable with it. This was before my time, but once or twice a stored procedure I've written has had to have a meeting about it because he didnt understand enough T-SQL to vet it. Seriously.
Fortunately the current IT manager is a stubborn northener and has refused to give in to this guy over the past 4 ish years. Slowly very very very slowly he's turning the MD around to 1) letting the dev team have technical documentation (the requirement was that all documentation had to be understandable by all managers). 2) measure performance on whether a development meets the requirement - not on how frantically the developer is bashing the keyboard (and being architecturally minded i spend a fair amount of time NOT keyboard bashing, what with planning what I'm going to do and all that)
It's a very, er, interesting place to work and so far the challenge of it has outweighed my desire to run to the fucking hills (my manager pulled me aside recently to seek reassurance I wasn't planning on doing that just yet) but the fact is that it's all well and good being agile, being open to shifting requirements, to engage in the endless discussions about the shade of blue but at the end of the day the clueless fucktards in management will always, always think you are taking them for a ride, because they haven't a clue how any of it works an think you're ust out for a paycheck and will bullshit them with acronyms. When as far as they're concerened if the requirement is make button X do Y it should ALWAYS take 1 hour flat to bash out the code because if they can explain it in one sentence then how hard can it be to program!?
I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer, however I suck at coming up with ideas. Once one is in front of me I'm great at working out DB structures, relations, requirements and the nitty gritty of coding to implement it.
I was under the impression this is a general trait of skilled developers, lack of blue sky thinking ability, but great when faced with a pure technical challenge (interestingly, and slightly aside I have two daughters, one is similar to me, faced with a blank sheet of paper she has no idea what to draw on it without instructions. The other will just come up with something off the bat in the same situation)
if they publish, what happens to the cat?
If the condom broke, she said stop (or if she said stop regardless) and he did not then that is a major asshole thing to do and frankly, yes, it's rape.
It's like a book store that refuses to sell a book about eBook readers
Didn't say I would TELL anybody what I read!
I want one!
My phone doubles as a GPS, and I have a fairly standard stereo unit that has a line in and usb port on the front. I have two USB sticks that live in the ashtray (AKA handy drawer, no smokers in my car). So get in, start car, insert USB stick, pick album, pick GPS destination, drive. What do you need a carputer for again?
Cool, I have UK Secret clearance for another 6 years, let's go read some with impunity*
(* Yes I know UK/US)
No spindle noise too and it's not just the HDD that takes up a bunch of space, the bay itself can usually be quite chunky, and then there's the heat that they generate