...reinforces the widespread opinion here in Europe that the US administration...believe that the whole world should play by made-in-US rules except themselfs [sic].
That opinion exists outside of Europe too. Canada has signed several trade agreements with the USA. Notice that I don't say "free trade" agreements. If anything, theese trade agreements have increased the number of punitive tariffs against Canadian products. The fact that the courts have sided with Canada in every trade dispute has done nothing to remove these tariffs.
ILM does not make movies. They providce special effects for movies made by completely separate creative entities. And they're the best in the business.
Perhaps ILM's greatest strength is that they try to minimize the amount ot CGI they use. When a director says, "Then the spaceship crashes, the hero gets out, morphs into HairyBeast(TM), and fights the Mole People(TM)," probably the only pure CGI will be the morphing. The spaceship will be a model; the explosion will be blended from a real explosion; HairyBeast(TM) and the Mole People(TM) will be actors in well-designed, partially animatronic suits.
Look at everyone's favourite target: Star Wars III. How many pure CGI characters were there? Yoda. Obi-Wan's ride. That's about it. Everything else was primarily actors in suits or animatronics; whatever looked the best, not whatever was cheapest. Even Jar-Jar (who was created by George Lucas, not by ILM) was an actor in a suit, enhanced with a CGI head
You want to blame someone for the generally poor quality of movies nowadays, don't blame ILM; blame Disney. Why? Why not? They're as good a blame target as anyone.
I installed Windows XP Pro on a marginal system at work once. Then I installed Office XP. Took up 80% of the hard drive. I swear, the thing cried before I put it out of its misery.
No way man! Putting teh Xbox t33m on Vista totally r0x0rz c0z they can make it int0 a Vboxx!!! So I can h4ve teh spreadsh33ts for my MMO ch4rz on teh s4me b0xx as my g4mezz!!! 4nd I can g3t my b05s to buy me a Vboxx for w0rk c0z it5 b3tt3r th4n my c0mp, and I c4n pl4y g4mezz and just alt-tab wh3n h3 comez in!!!
*cough*, *cough*, *wheeze*...
Argh, sorry; I hope reading all that leetspeak wasn't as painful as typing it was!
We can debate wheather [sic] Harper's conservatives are the same as the old Tories...
My position in such a debate would be that they are far worse--maybe not from a fiscal point of view, but certainly from a social point of view. Thankfully, with a minority in the House, Harper won't be able to push us Bushward as much as he'd like to.
At least they've been honest enough to remove the Progressive from the party name.
This reminds me a lot of the passing of the bill that brought the Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) into existence. It was tremendously unpopular, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government, despite having an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, could not get the bill through the Senate*.
The rules state that if a bill fails third reading in the Senate (being passed down to the Commons for modifications after each reading), the bill is sunk, finished. After failing second reading, Mulroney found an archaic provision somewhere that allowed a sitting prime minister to increase the size of the Senate in a time of emergency, or some such wording.
Apparently, being unable to pass a terminally unpopular bill was a sufficient emergency. Mulroney stacked the Senate with just enough of his friends to pass the bill, defeating one of the checks and balances that limited the power of the Prime Minister.
Incidentally, Brian Mulroney lost the next federal election, taking his party from a record 212 seats in 1984 to just 2 seats in 1992. He was the most unpopular prime minister in Canadian history, and the only one who so completely killed his party.... a party that has recently made a comeback with Stephen Harper at the helm.
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*The Canadian Senate is kind of a compromise between the British House of Lords and a more modern senate. Its members are appointed by the sitting prime minister, and used to sit around the Red Chamber until they died, until a retirement age of 70 was finally set.
Samsung says that the Flash disk consumes only 0.1W when not in use and just 0.5W under load. For comparison, a typical mobile hard drive consumes somewhere between 1W and 2W of power in seek, read and write processes and between 0.2W and 0.8W when idle.
So when idle, it consumes between 50% and 85% less power. Under load it consumes between 50% and 75% less. The only 95% I see is comparing the flash drive at idle to the hard drive at full seek.
Maybe the OP does statistical analysis for government projects...
So find someone who has the following characteristics:
Tall
Big teeth
Big hair
Ability to talk for hours without saying anything
Likes to shake babies and kiss hands... or something like that
...and run him against Howard.
The usual mistake grassroots campaigns make is trying to find someone with brains, a firm grasp of the issues, and a sense of justice and fairness. The average voter couldn't care less about these characteristics if the candidate looks like Danny deVito. Find someone who looks pretty and likes to talk and you'll have a winner.
Hell, recall Mel Gibson (if he's not completely Americanized) and run him. The women's vote would carry the election.
How does this affect the *really* big gambling sites, like NASDAQ and the NYSE?
Hey mods... Funny? I think this deserves at least one "Insightful" point. For most of the people who play the market, there's little difference between a day on the 'DAQ and a day at the track.
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What movie studio has been among the worst for releasing virtually nothing but poor sequels for the last few years? Disney animation. But now, with Pixar in the driver's seat for all of Disney animation (not just 3D CG), and with the cancellation of Toy Story 3, that is sure to change. Will other studios follow suit? Or would it take other crews like Pixar's to break them out of their collective rut?
As for Lucas, it makes sense that he's railing against the establishment. He's been fighting against the system since he started making movies. The big studios didn't want to finance American Grafitti, so he secured funding for himself, and it was a modest success. When he sought funding for Star Wars, once again the big studios wouldn't touch it. He secured funding for that enormous success himself, and created one of the best technical services organizations in the movie business. He's not even a member of the director's guild, having quit after the guild pressured him to put more opening credits into Star Wars.
Whatever you say about Star Wars, it's one of the few big-budget movie series that was created entirely according to the wishes of its creator, without a big studio saying "You can't do that. Do this to make is more commercially viable." The success or failure of the series was always in the hands of one person.
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That opinion exists outside of Europe too. Canada has signed several trade agreements with the USA. Notice that I don't say "free trade" agreements. If anything, theese trade agreements have increased the number of punitive tariffs against Canadian products. The fact that the courts have sided with Canada in every trade dispute has done nothing to remove these tariffs.
ZERO
ILM does not make movies. They providce special effects for movies made by completely separate creative entities. And they're the best in the business.
Perhaps ILM's greatest strength is that they try to minimize the amount ot CGI they use. When a director says, "Then the spaceship crashes, the hero gets out, morphs into HairyBeast(TM), and fights the Mole People(TM)," probably the only pure CGI will be the morphing. The spaceship will be a model; the explosion will be blended from a real explosion; HairyBeast(TM) and the Mole People(TM) will be actors in well-designed, partially animatronic suits.
Look at everyone's favourite target: Star Wars III. How many pure CGI characters were there? Yoda. Obi-Wan's ride. That's about it. Everything else was primarily actors in suits or animatronics; whatever looked the best, not whatever was cheapest. Even Jar-Jar (who was created by George Lucas, not by ILM) was an actor in a suit, enhanced with a CGI head
You want to blame someone for the generally poor quality of movies nowadays, don't blame ILM; blame Disney. Why? Why not? They're as good a blame target as anyone.
No, Sun. I am your codebase!
I installed Windows XP Pro on a marginal system at work once. Then I installed Office XP. Took up 80% of the hard drive. I swear, the thing cried before I put it out of its misery.
I see a new web site tag line/gif coming into use soon:
This site is best viewed with Any Other Browser.
...if CentOS staged this whole thing for publicity, or if the city manager is really that stupid.
A politician? Stupid? Nah, could never happen!
Yo, Fleischmann, that 'puff of heat' didn't come from fusion. Exactly what did you have for lunch that day?
Also, watch out for huge numbers of splogs put on every blog server by the candidates' campaign organizations.
No way man! Putting teh Xbox t33m on Vista totally r0x0rz c0z they can make it int0 a Vboxx!!! So I can h4ve teh spreadsh33ts for my MMO ch4rz on teh s4me b0xx as my g4mezz!!! 4nd I can g3t my b05s to buy me a Vboxx for w0rk c0z it5 b3tt3r th4n my c0mp, and I c4n pl4y g4mezz and just alt-tab wh3n h3 comez in!!!
*cough*, *cough*, *wheeze*...
Argh, sorry; I hope reading all that leetspeak wasn't as painful as typing it was!
My position in such a debate would be that they are far worse--maybe not from a fiscal point of view, but certainly from a social point of view. Thankfully, with a minority in the House, Harper won't be able to push us Bushward as much as he'd like to.
At least they've been honest enough to remove the Progressive from the party name.
Same here; check sig.
This reminds me a lot of the passing of the bill that brought the Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) into existence. It was tremendously unpopular, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government, despite having an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, could not get the bill through the Senate*.
The rules state that if a bill fails third reading in the Senate (being passed down to the Commons for modifications after each reading), the bill is sunk, finished. After failing second reading, Mulroney found an archaic provision somewhere that allowed a sitting prime minister to increase the size of the Senate in a time of emergency, or some such wording.
Apparently, being unable to pass a terminally unpopular bill was a sufficient emergency. Mulroney stacked the Senate with just enough of his friends to pass the bill, defeating one of the checks and balances that limited the power of the Prime Minister.
Incidentally, Brian Mulroney lost the next federal election, taking his party from a record 212 seats in 1984 to just 2 seats in 1992. He was the most unpopular prime minister in Canadian history, and the only one who so completely killed his party.... a party that has recently made a comeback with Stephen Harper at the helm.
__________________*The Canadian Senate is kind of a compromise between the British House of Lords and a more modern senate. Its members are appointed by the sitting prime minister, and used to sit around the Red Chamber until they died, until a retirement age of 70 was finally set.
From TFA:
So when idle, it consumes between 50% and 85% less power. Under load it consumes between 50% and 75% less. The only 95% I see is comparing the flash drive at idle to the hard drive at full seek.
Maybe the OP does statistical analysis for government projects...
So find someone who has the following characteristics:
The usual mistake grassroots campaigns make is trying to find someone with brains, a firm grasp of the issues, and a sense of justice and fairness. The average voter couldn't care less about these characteristics if the candidate looks like Danny deVito. Find someone who looks pretty and likes to talk and you'll have a winner.
Hell, recall Mel Gibson (if he's not completely Americanized) and run him. The women's vote would carry the election.
...or words to that effect.
That's where DJ and Michelle will convince the others to vote it down because of Joey's poker addiction.
Hey mods... Funny? I think this deserves at least one "Insightful" point. For most of the people who play the market, there's little difference between a day on the 'DAQ and a day at the track.
New mod category needed: Score: 5, Scary
What, you don't think it could happen in the USA?
...who swallowed a cat
How about that? She swallowed a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the rat,
She swallowed the rat to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
She swallowed the fly to catch the bacteria,
She swallowed the bacteria to catch the styrofoam,
I don't know why she swallowed the styrofoam,
Perhaps she'll experience lead-hydrocarbon toxicity effects.
De-orbit the IPS (International Porkbarrel Station) so it impacts precisely at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That will solve two problems at once.
What movie studio has been among the worst for releasing virtually nothing but poor sequels for the last few years? Disney animation. But now, with Pixar in the driver's seat for all of Disney animation (not just 3D CG), and with the cancellation of Toy Story 3, that is sure to change. Will other studios follow suit? Or would it take other crews like Pixar's to break them out of their collective rut?
As for Lucas, it makes sense that he's railing against the establishment. He's been fighting against the system since he started making movies. The big studios didn't want to finance American Grafitti, so he secured funding for himself, and it was a modest success. When he sought funding for Star Wars, once again the big studios wouldn't touch it. He secured funding for that enormous success himself, and created one of the best technical services organizations in the movie business. He's not even a member of the director's guild, having quit after the guild pressured him to put more opening credits into Star Wars.
Whatever you say about Star Wars, it's one of the few big-budget movie series that was created entirely according to the wishes of its creator, without a big studio saying "You can't do that. Do this to make is more commercially viable." The success or failure of the series was always in the hands of one person.
Put a heifer in your tank
Drop a floater in your tank
Move over Tony, here comes Clarabelle
Biodeisel? No. Shit, Sherlock!
You keep your phone on vibrate mode, don't you?
*sigh*... All of the thoughtful, serious replies I've given to /. topics, and my first +5 comes from a crack like this.
(No pun intended.)
Teenage Computer Geek Finds Hole
Girlfriend says "Finally!"