if we can't get them to Mars alive? As far as I know, they still haven't come up with a way to protect people from the year-long travel's exposure to radiation. I think the trip would register somewhere near the maximum allowed by NASA guidelines (which is a lot higher than your average Joe gets), and that's assuming there's not some sort of solar event along the way. You get a singificant solar event, and everyone is going to start glowing in the dark for the last few minutes of their lives.
So, a space suit? That's easy. Build a safe ship. That's what I want to see. I don't think we're anywhere near doing that.
And that doesn't even address the issue of bone and muscle degeneration which from over a 1 year period in space and a year and a half in reduced gravity will be pretty significant. It's the bones that are the real problem. There are some possible medical treatments that might help, but at the moment, nothing that's going to be able to deal with the problem on that scale. I guess that's one of the disadvantages of being an adaptable species.
We got to the moon because the entire country was focused on it. Let's face it, the general public could really care less about a manned trip to Mars. They certainly don't care as much as they did back in the early Apollo days. And without that sort of public commitment, this just isn't going to happen anytime in the next few decades. NASA has a dwindling budget and the public doesn't really care. You simply can't go to Mars like that and expect to bring the crew home.
I'm all for going to Mars, but I'm also all for bringing the crew back in one piece. Without that, it's simply not worth it.
I just want a spam filter that blocks BAD English. All of my correspondence is with literate people. People I correspond with don't use: ur, u, and r as words. It would also be nice to check for words that are filled in with non-characters. Like |, as in V|agra, or letters instead of characters, as in C1a1is. These things would catch about 90 percent of my spam.
are the problem. Here's what google needs to do: Every page that has Viagra or Cialis, immediately gets purged. It then will need to add page rendering so it can render pages and then do some sort of pattern matching to look for anything graphic or otherwise that might vaguely be mistaken for viagra or cialis, and nix those pages as well.
Okay, so the people who actually want information on viagra or cialis will have to resort to the old fasioned way, watching TV, but at least that fixes the internet.
Actually, in China, India, and Indonesia, at least, they are going door-to-door looking for anyone with flu-like symptoms. In the meantime, the flu is beginning to spread to even more types of animals, animals that were previously immune.
Look, I'm not trying to say the sky is falling. All I'm saying is that everyone in medicine is having a shit about this because this virus has the most potential of one we've seen in years to be absolutely devastating beyond any of the pandemics in the past century. You can sit there and deny it's as big a problem as they say, but the simple fact is, it only takes the mutation in one person to make a pandemic. After it begins, there's an estimated 30 days to isolate all the infected people. If you don't get them all by then, then that's all she wrote.
The thing is, everyone who's a friend or family member of someone who's had it, has been tested. They're either not infected and fine, or they're infected and in the hospital. There have been no signs that anyone has a mild case of it. Otherwise you would have a lot of friends and family who are getting by just fine. That's simply not the case. So I think you're fooling yourself if you don't think this is a serious problem.
Also, could you tell us how likely it is that you would have BOTH versions of the flu at the same time? Seems to me that would be pretty small.
You're not getting it. It only takes one person with Avian flu to get the the regular flu as well, and you've got a pandemic. Period. So how unlikely is it for someone with Avian flu, who's immune system is already seriously compromised to get the regular flue as well? Not terribly unlikely.
You see, when you get the Avian flu, you're immune system isn't what saves you, it's what kills you. That's why in flu pandemics, it's the young healthy people who tend to die. Your body starts sending a massive immune response that destroys lung tissue. While your lungs are in this perilously compromised state, you are far more vulnerable to any other illness, so simply exposure to human flu is just about a guarantee that you'll get it.
There are so many sources to site, jesus man, learn to use Google. Start of at Wikipedia. Look up Asian flu, Hong Kong Flu, Spanish Flu, H5N1 flu. Check their references. Check here, and here, and here.
And frankly, if you can't figure it out yourself from that stuff, then you're just never going to get it and there's no point in me wasting my time trying to explain it to you. You'll just figure it out when your friends and family start dropping dead left and right, if you don't go first.
Your argument is pretty weak. So what if it 'is halfway there?' The mutation which makes it lethal may also revert it back to being non contagious to humans.
You're clearly very ignorant about virology, so let me educate you: All it takes is for someone with the Avian flu to contract the regular flu at the same time. If they are infected by both flus at the same time, the RNA for the two strains will cross and there can be a simple result of a mostly human strain version of the virus picking up the deadly aspect of the Avian flu.
That is where the danger lies. So the fact that humans are getting it at all makes it monumentally dangerous. Will it wipe out the species? Very unlikely. Will it kill hundreds of millions? Any mutation even 1/5 as deadly as this strain will. It could possibly kill more than a billion people. 1 out of every 6 people on the planet gone. How many members of your family would that be? And forget about the impact on peoples lives. The panic, the mourning, the diseases from bodies laying waste all over the world, there's also the economic impact that would have. 1 out of every 6 workers dead. No country, no family, would be untouched by the devastation that would leave behind.
That's the concern. It's not just another flu pandemic, it's about the worst case of a flu strain you could imagine. That's why people are making a big deal about it.
I disagree. There are exactly 206 confirmed cases of bird flu. Of those 206, 113 have died, a 55% mortality rate.
Are you saying there are a lot of people who might have gotten it and are fine? I seriously doubt it. Not a lot of people got Spanish flu and didn't have pretty severe symptoms. Anyone who gets H5N1 is going to end up in a hospital or dead if they don't.
Look, you can only use statistics for the cases you know about. So yeah, some people may have gotten it and been asymptomatic. I suspect the odds of that are exceedingly slim. The virus is simply too virulent.
The truth is, there aren't enough cases yet to determine an exact mortality. But the truth is also that this virus is killing a good percentage of the people who get it and if you're not worried about it, you simply don't really understand the nature of the problem.
If we believe the hype that the bird flu is a real threat to the health of the people of the world... which despite the hype from the media and the upcoming ABC made for tv movie... I have yet to see any credible evidence of despite much looking.
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with history. Credible evidence? How about 3 flu pandemics in the 20th century? The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. The 1957 Asian flu pandemic (1-4 million dead). The 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic (as many as 750,000 dead).
A flu pandemic WILL come, it's as much a fact as night following day. Will it be a variation of the H5N1 strain? Maybe, maybe not. Right now, it's the most likely candidate and the fact that it currently has a 50% mortality (as opposed to the Spanish flu which had a 2.5-5% mortality and killed between 50 and 100 million people), has people understandably concerned.
You can't see credible evidence despite much looking? Where have you been looking? Obviously not in history books or science books.
It's impossible at this point to determine how resistant the bird flu will be to Tamiflu if it becomes an easily contagious pandemic form. The reason? Because to become easily contagious, it has to mutate. When it mutates, it becomes a different virus which may be more resistant than the current strain, less resistant, or the same.
The difference from a mutation can be enormous. For example, the current virus has about a 50% mortality rate. It is very like when that when it mutates, this mortality rate will go down. The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 had only a 2.5-5% mortality rate and that was without Tamiflu. That doesn't mean this one will mutate into only having a 2.5-5% rate. It will likely have a higher rate, and frankly, I think a lot of the predictions of how many will die from an H5N1 mutant pandemic are lowball figures because they do tend to assume a pretty low mortality compared to what it's currently at.
But you're basically comparing apples and oranges at this point. A pandemic flu will not be the current strain because the current strain simply isn't contagious enough.
I'm curious how well you'd be doing posting reviews in say, Urdu or Hungarian. I strongly suspect the interviewer's native language isn't English. I don't know where the different guys on the team are from, but I know for sure that English isn't Oded's native tongue either. And with names like Diego Biurrun and Alex Beregszaszi, it's a good guess they're not native speakers of your precious language either. So, you might want to take your provincial attitude to your private little world where everyone speaks English fluently, or you could just cut them a break. At least they speak more than one language.
I don't use MPlayer, largely because the built-in UI (or lack thereof) makes it a pain to deal with. There are front-ends for it, but it's just not worth the trouble.
MEncoder, on the other hand is amazingly powerful. It's also a pain in the butt to use. I also have to say, the support, at least on the MEncoder forum is very lacking. When I first started using it, I was largely derided for not knowing all about video encoding to begin with and got more than one RTFM response.
The documentation is extensive, but the organization could definitely use some work and a few more real world examples would be helpful.
That said, after a month or so of struggling with it, I am pretty competent with it now and have yet to find a situation where it can't do what I want it to do. Convert from one format to another, resync video, make DVD compatible MPEGS (though it doesn't compose DVDs), etc. It's got a variet of filters, including I think 4 just for de-interlacing (I do a lot of TV captures to raw MPEG that need to be converted to AVI).
So the program itself is excellent. The support however, could definitely use some work. If you want to see some newbie bashing, the mencoder mailing list definitely a good place to hang out.
There are more than 8 signs that Dvorak is a gasbag. I site his numerous rambling predictions in the past that have turned out to be wrong more often than not. He just likes trying to raise a stink to maintain his dwindling readership.
This won't work under Windows XP SP2, apparently, so don't waste your time if that's what you have. Ummmm.... Not that I'm running XP... I'm a linux guy. Yeah... A friend told me. That's what happened...
We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry.
It is NOT theft. Theft is a criminal act and involves taking possession of something away from someone else. Copyright infringement is NOT a criminal act and does NOT involve taking possession of something away from anyone. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Well a know you (RIAA/MPAA) use this term because it's loaded, but it's simply wrong.
I'm not going to point to a particular site, but if you do a google image search on the words: bosnia pyramid
You'll find pictures of it. I'm kind of surprised nobody has considered the possibility before. If you see some pictures that give you a better 3D view of it, it very clearly has 4 slopes at 90 degree angles.
Okay, here I am on my 4th or 5th cup of coffee, and I disagree, vehemently! So how's that for being a "Yes Man"?
I agree it may make us more apt to listen and understand, but you have to keep in mind, the average person is a sheep. They follow along. Coffee may just make them more likely to listen, so it seems they're more apt to agree.
I think if you take people who tend to not be sheep and give them coffee, they'll just tend to not go along more because they'll actually be listening to the crap that's being shoveled and treat it as such.
I've actually played around with this idea. What you really need is voice, combined with keyboard and mouse and you really could improve speed of coding. With the lookahead that most IDE editors support these days, it's pretty easy to do symbol lookups which could be adapted to voice.
The real trick is with symbol names; variable names, method names, class names, etc. The problem is that these are not necessarily words that will be easily adapted to spoken voice, which is made significantly worse with hungarian notation.
But if you dump hungarian notation and use descriptive variable, method and class names (which is probably a good programming practice anyway), then you can probably get by pretty well.
I think it's brilliant that they're starting to use suctioned blood to resupply the patient. This is, more or less, perfectly good blood. It may need to be mixed with some anticoagulants, but otherwise it's got to be better than transfused blood. It's fresh and still plenty capable of carrying a full load of oxygen.
I'm planning on applying to med school in the next couple of years with the goal of going into surgery, so seeing an article like this on Slashdot is nice. The advancements in medicine over just the last decade have been incredible and I see no end to it. I'm looking forward to how much more it will advance by the time I'm in residency.
You don't really need Slashcode to do the design, though. You can simply save a few sample pages to straight HTML and then just change the stylesheet. You may need to fudge a few things here and there, but it appears to work fine with the Firefox File/Save Page As... menu item.
Not a measly RFID chip, though. I want Google plugged into my brain so I can stop typing to look stuff up. Someone call me when I can sign up for THAT implant.
Adobe, various Photoshop filter providers, and all users of Photoshop who have ever used artistic filters, are being sued in a class action suit on behalf of all visual artists for violating their copyrights in the use of brushes, plastic wrap, frescos, mosaics, tiles, pencils, stained glass, spray paint, charcoal, sponge, and anything else that might possibly be used by a real artist and can be reproduced in Photoshop.
Really, I don't think they could do any better than J.J. Abrams for a movie like this. The guy writes really smart, compelling stuff (Regarding Henry is one of my all-time favorites) and he's an impressive director, at least from the TV stuff I've seen him do. I'm actually kind of hoping this will spawn a new series. Anyone else get the feeling that maybe they're testing the waters? I wouldn't mind seeing a series created by J.J. Abrams. He's done well in the past, particularly with Lost and Alias.
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if we can't get them to Mars alive? As far as I know, they still haven't come up with a way to protect people from the year-long travel's exposure to radiation. I think the trip would register somewhere near the maximum allowed by NASA guidelines (which is a lot higher than your average Joe gets), and that's assuming there's not some sort of solar event along the way. You get a singificant solar event, and everyone is going to start glowing in the dark for the last few minutes of their lives.
So, a space suit? That's easy. Build a safe ship. That's what I want to see. I don't think we're anywhere near doing that.
And that doesn't even address the issue of bone and muscle degeneration which from over a 1 year period in space and a year and a half in reduced gravity will be pretty significant. It's the bones that are the real problem. There are some possible medical treatments that might help, but at the moment, nothing that's going to be able to deal with the problem on that scale. I guess that's one of the disadvantages of being an adaptable species.
We got to the moon because the entire country was focused on it. Let's face it, the general public could really care less about a manned trip to Mars. They certainly don't care as much as they did back in the early Apollo days. And without that sort of public commitment, this just isn't going to happen anytime in the next few decades. NASA has a dwindling budget and the public doesn't really care. You simply can't go to Mars like that and expect to bring the crew home.
I'm all for going to Mars, but I'm also all for bringing the crew back in one piece. Without that, it's simply not worth it.
I just want a spam filter that blocks BAD English. All of my correspondence is with literate people. People I correspond with don't use: ur, u, and r as words. It would also be nice to check for words that are filled in with non-characters. Like |, as in V|agra, or letters instead of characters, as in C1a1is. These things would catch about 90 percent of my spam.
are the problem. Here's what google needs to do: Every page that has Viagra or Cialis, immediately gets purged. It then will need to add page rendering so it can render pages and then do some sort of pattern matching to look for anything graphic or otherwise that might vaguely be mistaken for viagra or cialis, and nix those pages as well.
Okay, so the people who actually want information on viagra or cialis will have to resort to the old fasioned way, watching TV, but at least that fixes the internet.
Actually, in China, India, and Indonesia, at least, they are going door-to-door looking for anyone with flu-like symptoms. In the meantime, the flu is beginning to spread to even more types of animals, animals that were previously immune.
Look, I'm not trying to say the sky is falling. All I'm saying is that everyone in medicine is having a shit about this because this virus has the most potential of one we've seen in years to be absolutely devastating beyond any of the pandemics in the past century. You can sit there and deny it's as big a problem as they say, but the simple fact is, it only takes the mutation in one person to make a pandemic. After it begins, there's an estimated 30 days to isolate all the infected people. If you don't get them all by then, then that's all she wrote.
The thing is, everyone who's a friend or family member of someone who's had it, has been tested. They're either not infected and fine, or they're infected and in the hospital. There have been no signs that anyone has a mild case of it. Otherwise you would have a lot of friends and family who are getting by just fine. That's simply not the case. So I think you're fooling yourself if you don't think this is a serious problem.
Also, could you tell us how likely it is that you would have BOTH versions of the flu at the same time? Seems to me that would be pretty small.
You're not getting it. It only takes one person with Avian flu to get the the regular flu as well, and you've got a pandemic. Period. So how unlikely is it for someone with Avian flu, who's immune system is already seriously compromised to get the regular flue as well? Not terribly unlikely.
You see, when you get the Avian flu, you're immune system isn't what saves you, it's what kills you. That's why in flu pandemics, it's the young healthy people who tend to die. Your body starts sending a massive immune response that destroys lung tissue. While your lungs are in this perilously compromised state, you are far more vulnerable to any other illness, so simply exposure to human flu is just about a guarantee that you'll get it.
There are so many sources to site, jesus man, learn to use Google. Start of at Wikipedia. Look up Asian flu, Hong Kong Flu, Spanish Flu, H5N1 flu. Check their references. Check here, and here, and here.
And frankly, if you can't figure it out yourself from that stuff, then you're just never going to get it and there's no point in me wasting my time trying to explain it to you. You'll just figure it out when your friends and family start dropping dead left and right, if you don't go first.
Your argument is pretty weak. So what if it 'is halfway there?' The mutation which makes it lethal may also revert it back to being non contagious to humans.
You're clearly very ignorant about virology, so let me educate you: All it takes is for someone with the Avian flu to contract the regular flu at the same time. If they are infected by both flus at the same time, the RNA for the two strains will cross and there can be a simple result of a mostly human strain version of the virus picking up the deadly aspect of the Avian flu.
That is where the danger lies. So the fact that humans are getting it at all makes it monumentally dangerous. Will it wipe out the species? Very unlikely. Will it kill hundreds of millions? Any mutation even 1/5 as deadly as this strain will. It could possibly kill more than a billion people. 1 out of every 6 people on the planet gone. How many members of your family would that be? And forget about the impact on peoples lives. The panic, the mourning, the diseases from bodies laying waste all over the world, there's also the economic impact that would have. 1 out of every 6 workers dead. No country, no family, would be untouched by the devastation that would leave behind.
That's the concern. It's not just another flu pandemic, it's about the worst case of a flu strain you could imagine. That's why people are making a big deal about it.
I have problems with these mortality figures.
I disagree. There are exactly 206 confirmed cases of bird flu. Of those 206, 113 have died, a 55% mortality rate.
Are you saying there are a lot of people who might have gotten it and are fine? I seriously doubt it. Not a lot of people got Spanish flu and didn't have pretty severe symptoms. Anyone who gets H5N1 is going to end up in a hospital or dead if they don't.
Look, you can only use statistics for the cases you know about. So yeah, some people may have gotten it and been asymptomatic. I suspect the odds of that are exceedingly slim. The virus is simply too virulent.
The truth is, there aren't enough cases yet to determine an exact mortality. But the truth is also that this virus is killing a good percentage of the people who get it and if you're not worried about it, you simply don't really understand the nature of the problem.
If we believe the hype that the bird flu is a real threat to the health of the people of the world... which despite the hype from the media and the upcoming ABC made for tv movie... I have yet to see any credible evidence of despite much looking.
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with history. Credible evidence? How about 3 flu pandemics in the 20th century? The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. The 1957 Asian flu pandemic (1-4 million dead). The 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic (as many as 750,000 dead).
A flu pandemic WILL come, it's as much a fact as night following day. Will it be a variation of the H5N1 strain? Maybe, maybe not. Right now, it's the most likely candidate and the fact that it currently has a 50% mortality (as opposed to the Spanish flu which had a 2.5-5% mortality and killed between 50 and 100 million people), has people understandably concerned.
You can't see credible evidence despite much looking? Where have you been looking? Obviously not in history books or science books.
It's impossible at this point to determine how resistant the bird flu will be to Tamiflu if it becomes an easily contagious pandemic form. The reason? Because to become easily contagious, it has to mutate. When it mutates, it becomes a different virus which may be more resistant than the current strain, less resistant, or the same.
The difference from a mutation can be enormous. For example, the current virus has about a 50% mortality rate. It is very like when that when it mutates, this mortality rate will go down. The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 had only a 2.5-5% mortality rate and that was without Tamiflu. That doesn't mean this one will mutate into only having a 2.5-5% rate. It will likely have a higher rate, and frankly, I think a lot of the predictions of how many will die from an H5N1 mutant pandemic are lowball figures because they do tend to assume a pretty low mortality compared to what it's currently at.
But you're basically comparing apples and oranges at this point. A pandemic flu will not be the current strain because the current strain simply isn't contagious enough.
I'm curious how well you'd be doing posting reviews in say, Urdu or Hungarian. I strongly suspect the interviewer's native language isn't English. I don't know where the different guys on the team are from, but I know for sure that English isn't Oded's native tongue either. And with names like Diego Biurrun and Alex Beregszaszi, it's a good guess they're not native speakers of your precious language either. So, you might want to take your provincial attitude to your private little world where everyone speaks English fluently, or you could just cut them a break. At least they speak more than one language.
I don't use MPlayer, largely because the built-in UI (or lack thereof) makes it a pain to deal with. There are front-ends for it, but it's just not worth the trouble.
MEncoder, on the other hand is amazingly powerful. It's also a pain in the butt to use. I also have to say, the support, at least on the MEncoder forum is very lacking. When I first started using it, I was largely derided for not knowing all about video encoding to begin with and got more than one RTFM response.
The documentation is extensive, but the organization could definitely use some work and a few more real world examples would be helpful.
That said, after a month or so of struggling with it, I am pretty competent with it now and have yet to find a situation where it can't do what I want it to do. Convert from one format to another, resync video, make DVD compatible MPEGS (though it doesn't compose DVDs), etc. It's got a variet of filters, including I think 4 just for de-interlacing (I do a lot of TV captures to raw MPEG that need to be converted to AVI).
So the program itself is excellent. The support however, could definitely use some work. If you want to see some newbie bashing, the mencoder mailing list definitely a good place to hang out.
There are more than 8 signs that Dvorak is a gasbag. I site his numerous rambling predictions in the past that have turned out to be wrong more often than not. He just likes trying to raise a stink to maintain his dwindling readership.
This won't work under Windows XP SP2, apparently, so don't waste your time if that's what you have. Ummmm.... Not that I'm running XP... I'm a linux guy. Yeah... A friend told me. That's what happened...
We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry.
It is NOT theft. Theft is a criminal act and involves taking possession of something away from someone else. Copyright infringement is NOT a criminal act and does NOT involve taking possession of something away from anyone. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Well a know you (RIAA/MPAA) use this term because it's loaded, but it's simply wrong.
With Firefox, I don't even use the search box anymore. I set up a bunch of keyword based quick searches.
g [search string]
gives me a google search
wiki [string]
gives me the wiki entry
gn [search string]
google news
word [word]
dictionary lookup
weather [town|zip code]
gives me weather underground
imdb [movie|person]
Internet movie database
And so on and so forth. Much easier than having to pick one from a list and then typing the word(s).
It's my second favorite feature of Firefox after the tabs.
I'm not going to point to a particular site, but if you do a google image search on the words: bosnia pyramid
You'll find pictures of it. I'm kind of surprised nobody has considered the possibility before. If you see some pictures that give you a better 3D view of it, it very clearly has 4 slopes at 90 degree angles.
Very cool find, though.
Okay, here I am on my 4th or 5th cup of coffee, and I disagree, vehemently! So how's that for being a "Yes Man"?
I agree it may make us more apt to listen and understand, but you have to keep in mind, the average person is a sheep. They follow along. Coffee may just make them more likely to listen, so it seems they're more apt to agree.
I think if you take people who tend to not be sheep and give them coffee, they'll just tend to not go along more because they'll actually be listening to the crap that's being shoveled and treat it as such.
But hey, that's just my humble opinion.
In Harvest Moon, if you have more than ten cows in the barn, slowdowns will happen.
Hey, when you've got ten cows in the barn, the day's over and it's time to slow down.
I've actually played around with this idea. What you really need is voice, combined with keyboard and mouse and you really could improve speed of coding. With the lookahead that most IDE editors support these days, it's pretty easy to do symbol lookups which could be adapted to voice.
The real trick is with symbol names; variable names, method names, class names, etc. The problem is that these are not necessarily words that will be easily adapted to spoken voice, which is made significantly worse with hungarian notation.
But if you dump hungarian notation and use descriptive variable, method and class names (which is probably a good programming practice anyway), then you can probably get by pretty well.
I think it's brilliant that they're starting to use suctioned blood to resupply the patient. This is, more or less, perfectly good blood. It may need to be mixed with some anticoagulants, but otherwise it's got to be better than transfused blood. It's fresh and still plenty capable of carrying a full load of oxygen.
I'm planning on applying to med school in the next couple of years with the goal of going into surgery, so seeing an article like this on Slashdot is nice. The advancements in medicine over just the last decade have been incredible and I see no end to it. I'm looking forward to how much more it will advance by the time I'm in residency.
You don't really need Slashcode to do the design, though. You can simply save a few sample pages to straight HTML and then just change the stylesheet. You may need to fudge a few things here and there, but it appears to work fine with the Firefox File/Save Page As... menu item.
Not a measly RFID chip, though. I want Google plugged into my brain so I can stop typing to look stuff up. Someone call me when I can sign up for THAT implant.
Adobe, various Photoshop filter providers, and all users of Photoshop who have ever used artistic filters, are being sued in a class action suit on behalf of all visual artists for violating their copyrights in the use of brushes, plastic wrap, frescos, mosaics, tiles, pencils, stained glass, spray paint, charcoal, sponge, and anything else that might possibly be used by a real artist and can be reproduced in Photoshop.
've heard that there are these mythical things called "networks", where one can find the likes of Max Headroom.
Really, I don't think they could do any better than J.J. Abrams for a movie like this. The guy writes really smart, compelling stuff (Regarding Henry is one of my all-time favorites) and he's an impressive director, at least from the TV stuff I've seen him do. I'm actually kind of hoping this will spawn a new series. Anyone else get the feeling that maybe they're testing the waters? I wouldn't mind seeing a series created by J.J. Abrams. He's done well in the past, particularly with Lost and Alias.