An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying.
Yup. Other movie ideas I'm having along the same approach:
X-Men movie but swap the DNA mutations for emo culture and hard metal/rock underground. Batman movie without costumes and gadgets, about the struggles of a billionaire Bruce Wayne to increase his company revenue. James Bond prequel. Like, how his parents met up and married or something? Toy Story movie about alcoholic toys in mid-life crisis, sexual problems and physical abuse. Star Wars movie set in the wild west. Jurassic Park, but instead of real dinosaurs, it turns out Dr. John Hammond hired ILM to make elaborate fake computer dinosaurs and escape abroad with hundreds of millions of investor funding. Saw 4, where it turns out everything in Saw 1, 2, 3 was a dream sequence of a poor patient dying of cancer, and telling the story of a cancer patient finding true love in his last days of life.
I was hooked on Chris Carter's long running "mythology". Talk about getting snookered.
When the supposed super secret conspiracy government was spilling all sorts of urban legends for everyone to see, and mystically collecting the evidence in the end, that should've tipped you off better.
You can't have a conspiracy that involved the entire horror pop-culture, and that is both so poorly kept that it has sprungs hundreds of weird cases across USA, and then still well kept enough not to leave evidence.
Not to speak of Fox and Skully's forensic analysis skills: oh, there's not a 50 foot monster here, means there's no evidence left! Bugger.
Part of the fun of the original series was the non-closure (no solid proof or clarity) and the tension between believer and skeptic. They drifted away from this later in the series, and even the first movie. At the end of the series, Scully became the believer and the new guy the skeptic, but it never quite worked right. For one, there was no sense of sexual tension between the new dude and Scully like there was in the original pair.
The problem with series is, that try to keep the status quo for years and years and that never happens in real life. So of course it didn't "quite work out".
How can there be strong sexual tension between you, single, and your single female work partner for years and years, and spend every day together and go through everything and nothing come out of it? It's a joke.
Another such element, if anything, Scully was a "non-believer" for far too long. She has seen and analyzed and solved hundreds of those "weird cases" and she's as skeptic as in episode 1? Nonsensical.
The mythology is indeed tortured since they kept finding clues everywhere, EVERYWHERE about weird stuff, and never getting anything real, so to keep "suspence" going on. But suspence can last only so long.
If worked for years, seeing so much shocking things, getting so close every time and ending up with nothing, I'd probably totally lost it and slit my wrists one day. Their initial behavior was mechanically copied from episode 1 onto season and season and it got old real fast.
While I have no doubt that worms etc can be created for OSX (or any OS, given enough time.) I'm not really fond of companies blowing their trumpet until they're certain. It's very rich to claim all that publicity without notifing the vendor, or even being 100% certain.
I know a word, that if I type here and you read it, you'll explode right there sitting on your desk. But I won't type it since I'm responsible.
Begging [begthequestion.info] the question does not mean raising the question.
The site explains how people use "begs the question" as a variant of "raises he question", and that's wrong.
Know what else is wrong? Registering a domain "begthequestion" and dedicating it to tutoring people how to talk. Languages evolve, and most of the interesting phrases in English (or any language) have origins that used to mean something else.
Did you understand what he meant to say? Do a lot of people use the phrase as he did? Yes to both. So it's correct.
Which begs the question, why am I on my own turn wasting time explaining any of this.
Most people use a word processor by typing something in, highlighting text and changing fonts, spacing, etc. A well instructed lesson in Styles will lessen the impact people have when switching to OOo. It will probably increase productivity once they learn to use styles instead of micro-managing their documents.
What has this to do with switching from MS Office to OOo. Both have styles.
Show your users how to use the Help Documentation. It actually works with OOo.
Again, what's your point. MS Office Help doesn't work? The burden is on you to demonstrate how and why you concluded that way.
it was almost impossible to work out what open-source was actually costing
Sounds like there's a disconnect between the IT staff and the business side of the house. Any CIO worth their salt would have had before-and-after metrics to compare.
What he meant is, every time he tried to compute it, his calculator gave him "E" (overflow).
FTFS: "Publishers may well be quaking in their boots"
Why are they quaking in their boots? Do they expect parents to download the poorly shot torrent and print it on their home printer for their kid's next birthday? Come on, now.
(not to mention it'll come out something like few times the price of the original book)
The new PSP is much slimmer than the original, but the original is slim too. The new PSP is much lighter than the original, but the original is light too. The new PSP is much shinier than the original, but the original is shiny too. The new buttons "feel better".
We'll talk a bit about the infrared and composite, but won't test it, or give you our feedback on any of this.
We're very excited (again).
The new PSP is much better than the original, but the original is good too.
Car windows aren't supposed to choke you if they're closed around your neck, but a prosthetic hand has to have the right balance of strength AND speed. What is the back-up release mechanism if there's a problem?
So it's technically a weapon that could malfunction in the right circumstances.. I wonder if he should leave his hand at the reception before entering a bank or a bar.
However given that this thing is supposed to be useful for casual activity, for extended periods of time, mobile, I doubt it has huge horse power built into it, for the same reason your phone doesn't have quad Xeon in it.
On the other hand, if you don't want to know the cutting-edge tech that -might- come out soon, you are probably on the wrong site. Geeks tend to value new ideas, even if they are impractical.
Like maybe this guy, who's desperately trying to come up with perpetual motion machine made of magnets?
Some geeks maybe value any new idea with a catchy news title "X will replace Y!!". But geeks worth their salt prefer actual facts that matter (check site slogan), and which aren't misleading.
First of all, this is not to replace LCD, but be another way to make e-paper. Unless you're ok with couple of seconds response from a LCD screen (the norm is somewhere 16ms gray-gray now, or lower), it's definitely not a great replacement.
And in that perspective, what do you know, e-paper is already cheap to make. So in the end we have just another way to make e-paper. Of course great, given patents and all, licensing, diversity on the e-paper market, competition... but.. actually nothing that matters to the average geek.
A little blockiness isn't going to ruin the emotional value of a TNG episode. A little MP3 artifacting totally ruins the emotional value of a Pink Floyd album.
You're comparing TNG episode with Pink floyd album.. I wonder what happens with your argument if I listen to audio version of a TNG episode and have screen-recorded your most favorite Pink Floyd video (with half the frames randomly dropped and horrible timing).
Now that I think about it, im not too sure what a DRM would do. Stop people from saving the actual stream and playing it back later through their player? Stopping people from taking the data before it goes to the soundcard and saving it?
Your soundcard doesn't receive the actual stream, it receives decoded PCM sound, the actual stream could be protected. I agree with music just re-recording and recompressing isn't that big a deal, you'll lose some quality but not too much.
Stream-ripping isn't analog recording. Stream-ripping becomes unfeasible with DRM (well unless the hack is trivially accessible and not pursued or fixed... which is never the case).
So the analog hole doesn't mean anything. They want to prevent direct digital ripping of the music on the station.
The reason the readership is there is because bloggers are picking apart opinion pieces throughout the editorial world and reshaping them by arguing against their positions. [...] frankly, the blog-0-sphere offers no substantial news reporting either.
I like how you went circle there arguing against your own position. Is this how bloggers do?
And let me tell you why why the masses won't get back to magazines even they got great tech reviews: because they're not free, and Internet is chock full of free information, you can research and read information for mere seconds that you can't fit in years worth of magazine issues.
Tech magazines will just move online in the end. The real loser are the industrial printing service businesses. They'll still be printing some flyers, brochures and books. But periodic printed press is doomed in mid-term.
The summary is mis-leading the reader as it makes it seem like all fees are paid for by the RIAA and the defendant got off untouched. Depending on how solid her fees were, it could still end very badly for the defendant. If her stated fees are actually due, this judgement will still cost her about $46k which doesn't sound like much of a victory to me.
You need to see past the particular case and seek long-term effects from such developments. It's unfair to the defendant, but who said the legal system is fair. Well.. someone did, but he was just kidding, the joker.
I doubt RIAA would have internal approval of their actions if they start consistently paying the defendant's expenses at the end.
You should have said "tech pundits", not "tech writers".
You, sir, commented are also -beep-*.
It's "bloggers" what all of you wanted to say. Yea, "bloggers". Why torture your sweet little heads calling it otherwise than it is. And in that perspective, the internet is full of people, aka bloggers, talking about everything and spewing garbage in all directions 24/7.
Why is it news that someone's freaked about GPL3. Hell, why is it news that someone is freaked about someone else being freaked about GPL3. Holy recursive Batman.
PS: That's not self-censorship, it's an actual neo-curse word. Now leave me the -beep- alone.
We can detect dark energy -- that's how we know it exists, because of its influence on gravitational phenomena.
Half the scientists attribute this to a formula error. I wouldn't be so quick to take some uknown offset in energy for... a bunch of extra dimensions with dark energy lurking in them.
It's just too cheap of a cop out. The "fraction of a milimeter dimensions" don't make sense to me. If these dimensions have some sort of limited dimensions, it means spatial must have some too. Which screws up with the 4D sphere universe theory or endless universe theory (it expands as matter expands with it).
It looks to me as if scientists are hanging onto tricky math to mix and match all weird phenomena they can't explain themselves on the quantum level. I'm not ready to accept those extra dimensions are any more dimensions than the red/green/blue quarks are actually red, green or blue. If they fess up "ok we're just making this up to make math easier", then doesn't matter what they claim about dimensions.
If the extra dimensions are indeed on the scale of.01 mm then there is hope that they will be able to one day experimentally prove it.
Did you just say a *non-spatial* dimension has a.. spatial dimension? Doesn't make sense does it. The "it's very thin" theory for extra dimensions is pure snake oil in my opinion.
If there are ever phenomenons like perception of time that they unwittingly described as dimensions to make the bottom line on their expressions, they are definitely not spatial. If they were spatial, we'd be able to witness them. The "we have eyes for three dimensions" makes no sense for a very similar reason.
I like Flatland's stories as anyone else, but still, as flat a sheet of paper is, it has thickness and I can fold it in 3D any time I want to. I wanna see a creature that exists only in 2D and sees only 2D, that's not a fictional cartoon hero.
That's help the plausibility of this idiocy a bit.
Are you honestly telling me that if I eat all burgers and fries (supersized!) in the world, BUT pass on the sugar water, I'll be thin?
I hate "silver bullet" articles.
Fructose has been known to be not diabetic friendly for ages now. Where's the news?
One way or another, fructose is but one of the reasons for obesity. There are plenty of ways to get obese and, yes, shockingly, the most common ones include eating all sorts of calorie rich food without giving your body a way to expend those calories (the other include illnesses messing with the ability of the body to metabolize properly).
You know the laws of thermodynamics. Energy doesn't come from nothing (much to Steorn's shock), and doesn't become nothing.
People prefer there was a simple way they could eat pizzas and coke all day long and sit on their asses, and just flip a switch, and it's all gone!
So.. let me get that straight. We solve the problem of energy we can't detect and dimensions we can't prove exist? Simple! We tuck the one into the other and thus explain everything in a single shot. Brilliant!
Now allow me walk away for today as I am laughing my guts out.
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An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying.
Yup. Other movie ideas I'm having along the same approach:
X-Men movie but swap the DNA mutations for emo culture and hard metal/rock underground.
Batman movie without costumes and gadgets, about the struggles of a billionaire Bruce Wayne to increase his company revenue.
James Bond prequel. Like, how his parents met up and married or something?
Toy Story movie about alcoholic toys in mid-life crisis, sexual problems and physical abuse.
Star Wars movie set in the wild west.
Jurassic Park, but instead of real dinosaurs, it turns out Dr. John Hammond hired ILM to make elaborate fake computer dinosaurs and escape abroad with hundreds of millions of investor funding.
Saw 4, where it turns out everything in Saw 1, 2, 3 was a dream sequence of a poor patient dying of cancer, and telling the story of a cancer patient finding true love in his last days of life.
I was hooked on Chris Carter's long running "mythology". Talk about getting snookered.
When the supposed super secret conspiracy government was spilling all sorts of urban legends for everyone to see, and mystically collecting the evidence in the end, that should've tipped you off better.
You can't have a conspiracy that involved the entire horror pop-culture, and that is both so poorly kept that it has sprungs hundreds of weird cases across USA, and then still well kept enough not to leave evidence.
Not to speak of Fox and Skully's forensic analysis skills: oh, there's not a 50 foot monster here, means there's no evidence left! Bugger.
Part of the fun of the original series was the non-closure (no solid proof or clarity) and the tension between believer and skeptic. They drifted away from this later in the series, and even the first movie. At the end of the series, Scully became the believer and the new guy the skeptic, but it never quite worked right. For one, there was no sense of sexual tension between the new dude and Scully like there was in the original pair.
The problem with series is, that try to keep the status quo for years and years and that never happens in real life. So of course it didn't "quite work out".
How can there be strong sexual tension between you, single, and your single female work partner for years and years, and spend every day together and go through everything and nothing come out of it? It's a joke.
Another such element, if anything, Scully was a "non-believer" for far too long. She has seen and analyzed and solved hundreds of those "weird cases" and she's as skeptic as in episode 1? Nonsensical.
The mythology is indeed tortured since they kept finding clues everywhere, EVERYWHERE about weird stuff, and never getting anything real, so to keep "suspence" going on. But suspence can last only so long.
If worked for years, seeing so much shocking things, getting so close every time and ending up with nothing, I'd probably totally lost it and slit my wrists one day. Their initial behavior was mechanically copied from episode 1 onto season and season and it got old real fast.
While I have no doubt that worms etc can be created for OSX (or any OS, given enough time.) I'm not really fond of companies blowing their trumpet until they're certain. It's very rich to claim all that publicity without notifing the vendor, or even being 100% certain.
I know a word, that if I type here and you read it, you'll explode right there sitting on your desk. But I won't type it since I'm responsible.
I'm accepting investor funding though!
Begging [begthequestion.info] the question does not mean raising the question.
The site explains how people use "begs the question" as a variant of "raises he question", and that's wrong.
Know what else is wrong? Registering a domain "begthequestion" and dedicating it to tutoring people how to talk. Languages evolve, and most of the interesting phrases in English (or any language) have origins that used to mean something else.
Did you understand what he meant to say? Do a lot of people use the phrase as he did? Yes to both. So it's correct.
Which begs the question, why am I on my own turn wasting time explaining any of this.
Most people use a word processor by typing something in, highlighting text and changing fonts, spacing, etc. A well instructed lesson in Styles will lessen the impact people have when switching to OOo. It will probably increase productivity once they learn to use styles instead of micro-managing their documents.
What has this to do with switching from MS Office to OOo. Both have styles.
Show your users how to use the Help Documentation. It actually works with OOo.
Again, what's your point. MS Office Help doesn't work? The burden is on you to demonstrate how and why you concluded that way.
With a Free Software project, anyone with some money can set part of the roadmap. Need a feature? Pay one of the developers to implement it.
I won't even comment on what I highlighted there. Just laugh.
it was almost impossible to work out what open-source was actually costing
Sounds like there's a disconnect between the IT staff and the business side of the house. Any CIO worth their salt would have had before-and-after metrics to compare.
What he meant is, every time he tried to compute it, his calculator gave him "E" (overflow).
Indeed:
FTFS: "Publishers may well be quaking in their boots"
Why are they quaking in their boots? Do they expect parents to download the poorly shot torrent and print it on their home printer for their kid's next birthday? Come on, now.
(not to mention it'll come out something like few times the price of the original book)
Says you. epaper currently only does grayscale. This can do full color. That makes it very interesting.
looks like someone hasn't been following the news last few months
That was a boring article:
We're very excited.
The new PSP is much slimmer than the original, but the original is slim too.
The new PSP is much lighter than the original, but the original is light too.
The new PSP is much shinier than the original, but the original is shiny too.
The new buttons "feel better".
We'll talk a bit about the infrared and composite, but won't test it, or give you our feedback on any of this.
We're very excited (again).
The new PSP is much better than the original, but the original is good too.
THE END
Car windows aren't supposed to choke you if they're closed around your neck, but a prosthetic hand has to have the right balance of strength AND speed. What is the back-up release mechanism if there's a problem?
So it's technically a weapon that could malfunction in the right circumstances.. I wonder if he should leave his hand at the reception before entering a bank or a bar.
However given that this thing is supposed to be useful for casual activity, for extended periods of time, mobile, I doubt it has huge horse power built into it, for the same reason your phone doesn't have quad Xeon in it.
On the other hand, if you don't want to know the cutting-edge tech that -might- come out soon, you are probably on the wrong site. Geeks tend to value new ideas, even if they are impractical.
Like maybe this guy, who's desperately trying to come up with perpetual motion machine made of magnets?
Some geeks maybe value any new idea with a catchy news title "X will replace Y!!". But geeks worth their salt prefer actual facts that matter (check site slogan), and which aren't misleading.
First of all, this is not to replace LCD, but be another way to make e-paper. Unless you're ok with couple of seconds response from a LCD screen (the norm is somewhere 16ms gray-gray now, or lower), it's definitely not a great replacement.
And in that perspective, what do you know, e-paper is already cheap to make. So in the end we have just another way to make e-paper. Of course great, given patents and all, licensing, diversity on the e-paper market, competition... but.. actually nothing that matters to the average geek.
This makes Terminator's job in Judgement Day harder: peeling off your hand no longer means you're a killer robot from the distopian future.
A little blockiness isn't going to ruin the emotional value of a TNG episode. A little MP3 artifacting totally ruins the emotional value of a Pink Floyd album.
You're comparing TNG episode with Pink floyd album.. I wonder what happens with your argument if I listen to audio version of a TNG episode and have screen-recorded your most favorite Pink Floyd video (with half the frames randomly dropped and horrible timing).
You can tell Intel is sincere because they've followed the Linux naming convention... and come up with one that sucks :P
/. Think out of the box 360, iPeople!
Wii think DS is gnoming to zune be some global tendency in knaming
Now that I think about it, im not too sure what a DRM would do. Stop people from saving the actual stream and playing it back later through their player? Stopping people from taking the data before it goes to the soundcard and saving it?
Your soundcard doesn't receive the actual stream, it receives decoded PCM sound, the actual stream could be protected. I agree with music just re-recording and recompressing isn't that big a deal, you'll lose some quality but not too much.
With video it becomes more tricky though.
Stream-ripping isn't analog recording. Stream-ripping becomes unfeasible with DRM (well unless the hack is trivially accessible and not pursued or fixed... which is never the case).
So the analog hole doesn't mean anything. They want to prevent direct digital ripping of the music on the station.
The reason the readership is there is because bloggers are picking apart opinion pieces throughout the editorial world and reshaping them by arguing against their positions. [...] frankly, the blog-0-sphere offers no substantial news reporting either.
I like how you went circle there arguing against your own position. Is this how bloggers do?
And let me tell you why why the masses won't get back to magazines even they got great tech reviews: because they're not free, and Internet is chock full of free information, you can research and read information for mere seconds that you can't fit in years worth of magazine issues.
Tech magazines will just move online in the end. The real loser are the industrial printing service businesses. They'll still be printing some flyers, brochures and books. But periodic printed press is doomed in mid-term.
The summary is mis-leading the reader as it makes it seem like all fees are paid for by the RIAA and the defendant got off untouched. Depending on how solid her fees were, it could still end very badly for the defendant. If her stated fees are actually due, this judgement will still cost her about $46k which doesn't sound like much of a victory to me.
You need to see past the particular case and seek long-term effects from such developments. It's unfair to the defendant, but who said the legal system is fair. Well.. someone did, but he was just kidding, the joker.
I doubt RIAA would have internal approval of their actions if they start consistently paying the defendant's expenses at the end.
You, sir, submitter of this "story" are an idiot.
You should have said "tech pundits", not "tech writers".
You, sir, commented are also -beep-*.
It's "bloggers" what all of you wanted to say. Yea, "bloggers". Why torture your sweet little heads calling it otherwise than it is. And in that perspective, the internet is full of people, aka bloggers, talking about everything and spewing garbage in all directions 24/7.
Why is it news that someone's freaked about GPL3. Hell, why is it news that someone is freaked about someone else being freaked about GPL3. Holy recursive Batman.
PS: That's not self-censorship, it's an actual neo-curse word. Now leave me the -beep- alone.
We can detect dark energy -- that's how we know it exists, because of its influence on gravitational phenomena.
Half the scientists attribute this to a formula error. I wouldn't be so quick to take some uknown offset in energy for... a bunch of extra dimensions with dark energy lurking in them.
It's just too cheap of a cop out. The "fraction of a milimeter dimensions" don't make sense to me. If these dimensions have some sort of limited dimensions, it means spatial must have some too. Which screws up with the 4D sphere universe theory or endless universe theory (it expands as matter expands with it).
It looks to me as if scientists are hanging onto tricky math to mix and match all weird phenomena they can't explain themselves on the quantum level. I'm not ready to accept those extra dimensions are any more dimensions than the red/green/blue quarks are actually red, green or blue. If they fess up "ok we're just making this up to make math easier", then doesn't matter what they claim about dimensions.
If the extra dimensions are indeed on the scale of .01 mm then there is hope that they will be able to one day experimentally prove it.
Did you just say a *non-spatial* dimension has a.. spatial dimension? Doesn't make sense does it. The "it's very thin" theory for extra dimensions is pure snake oil in my opinion.
If there are ever phenomenons like perception of time that they unwittingly described as dimensions to make the bottom line on their expressions, they are definitely not spatial. If they were spatial, we'd be able to witness them. The "we have eyes for three dimensions" makes no sense for a very similar reason.
I like Flatland's stories as anyone else, but still, as flat a sheet of paper is, it has thickness and I can fold it in 3D any time I want to. I wanna see a creature that exists only in 2D and sees only 2D, that's not a fictional cartoon hero.
That's help the plausibility of this idiocy a bit.
Are you honestly telling me that if I eat all burgers and fries (supersized!) in the world, BUT pass on the sugar water, I'll be thin?
I hate "silver bullet" articles.
Fructose has been known to be not diabetic friendly for ages now. Where's the news?
One way or another, fructose is but one of the reasons for obesity. There are plenty of ways to get obese and, yes, shockingly, the most common ones include eating all sorts of calorie rich food without giving your body a way to expend those calories (the other include illnesses messing with the ability of the body to metabolize properly).
You know the laws of thermodynamics. Energy doesn't come from nothing (much to Steorn's shock), and doesn't become nothing.
People prefer there was a simple way they could eat pizzas and coke all day long and sit on their asses, and just flip a switch, and it's all gone!
Dark Energy May Lurk In Hidden Dimensions
So.. let me get that straight. We solve the problem of energy we can't detect and dimensions we can't prove exist? Simple! We tuck the one into the other and thus explain everything in a single shot. Brilliant!
Now allow me walk away for today as I am laughing my guts out.