Alright, at 15% oxygen it is comparable to 6,000 ft. above sea level. Safe? Yes! If you have ever been skiing/hiking/anything active in higher altitudes (I know this might be asking a lot of some Slashdotters) you know that it is quite safe. You just have to pace yourself. So... think of working in one of these server rooms like Denver maybe. That said, it would make a good excuse for Scuba Gear Tuesdays.
This way the IT guys get there own personal Oxygen Bar to put the "exhausted" oxygen to good use!
"We donated the patent based under the assumption that it was worthless. Now that it isn't, we would like to have it back please." *waves DMCA around out of ignorance*
Thats exactly what charities needs to go with all of the useless junk in their second-hand stores. Second-hand patents!
The Chinese government has plenty of reasoning to go towards a single OS (or only a couple), because of it's ever-so-popular censorship. The problem with a bunch of Linux boxes floating around is that it is harder for the Internet Police to track them. Yahoo, Cisco, MS, Google... these being the big tech industries that have caught heat for bending towards the powers of the Chinese government
Of course we all know about the Yahoo thing... ya know, that journalist imprisoned in China because Yahoo lent a helping hand to the Internet Police. Google filters their search engines (search Tianamen Square in China and you get some very different results) heavily to abide by the Chinese governments guidlines (do no evil... but wait, help China oppress? nah!). Cisco provides much of the hardware used by the estimated 30,000 government internet police. And well, I don't think I have to try hard here to convince you guys that MS is doing their fair share of bending over, for the cash...
Regulation is on the Chinese governments priority list. If they can guarantee that there isn't anything un-monitored going on out there... add another tally for communism.
I don't think the Chinese government could honestly give two shits about whether systems have illegal copies of Windows on them. I just see this as another step in their complete control over the media. The Great Firewall of China
Anyways... yes. The internet is changing, as users are given the ability to share opinions more freely and the average user begins to value those opinions more and more, the internet effectively becomes more human.
After all, an article posted by a professor is a bit more raw than one shoved past the noses of countless editors at MSN.
I can now get that copy of Brokeback Mountain on my computer, cause really... who NEEDS a hard copy anyways?
I guess I have to recognize their effort at trying to get, yet again... another piece of the market. I think we might see this service being more popular further down he road... right now though, I would rather just go to Wal-mart and buy it. That takes like 5 minutes - the average movie-goer doesn' have lightning speed internet anyways, right?
I think it should be interesting to see the developments with the DRM on these monsters... just to see what they come up with. (the 6th computer that it is tranfered to gets a blue screen of death everytime that Derek over at the Movielink office presses the big red button)
Many of you keep talking about how these companies are parasites or whatever for basing themselves off of MS's errors. Well... sorta
They didn't so much base it off of a faulty OS, but the internal paranoia of consumers. To beat them, MS will have to defeat that before the actual bugs. Not to say that it isn't warranted, but the point being... While these companies may take a big hit, they will not die off. The one thing about parasites is... they can be very adaptive. These companies will live off of people who were pleased with their software the first time around, purchasing it again. That, and contract agreements with coprorations anyways. Also... Vista will still have its own problems. I don't think people will ever trust something to self-clean, people feel good about buying a utility...
Ask scientists how long life on earth has been around... and they will probably answer, "Millions of years!".
Anyways... my point being. The chance of a meteor hitting the earth in the relatively small window of time that it takes for us to figure out how to play Asteroids in Space are slim. I doubt that Deep impact will be coming true any time soon... or at least, like I said - before we can combat it.
Converting minerals on the moon into oxygen is the big idea for me. Just leave a machine running up there (maybe a converted Sharper Image Ionic Breeze) for a couple decades and the moon should have an atmosphere, right? LMAO
That is what I am drawing my information from on them... that and their main site of course. The Mask was 1993 btw... Habib Zargarpour was the Technical Director for it at ILM at the time, and earned the nickname "Particle-Man". Yada yada yada...
My point was never to completely remove blame from CG, but to point out that not all CG is bad. And not that movies without CG are worthless. The point being, that CG can really make a movie rock, especially from an imaginative standpoint.
You may have noticed in my previous post that I recognized that yes, some of these movies sucked.
And here is the fun part... you don't notice good CG. Bad CG makes movies suck when you notice it.
"WELCOME TO PLATO'S CAVE BITCH" - Someone I Can't Remeber
It really boils down to a basic mistrust by the population of the name "Jeeves"
I used to use ask... but switched to Google cause all the cool kids were doing it. That, and the color red pisses me off!
The next thing for ask.com... change name to "Google_eats_souls_use_us.com"
While their homepage design may be a little simpler... Google still loads quicker. Cause I gotta have my extra 5 seconds with page loads... it is a matter of National Security.
Look at all they have done. While some of the stuff on there may have sucked... there is some really fucking good stuff on there.
Also, if I remember correctly, they were some of the first to experiment with particle renders for CG (they used it in the Mask to create some of the storm/tornado transformations). Anyways... thats all aside from the point
Hey... more power to em. They get cooler stuff, they make more realistic CGs. And when all you nay-sayers are watching a movie, and don't notice a good CG... it has worked, and they have won. Don't fight CG now, soon it will just look like everything else.
I mean really though. If I were them I would be welcoming Google.
Increased interest in a project such as the Genome project would help, correct? And what is there to steal really? And who is going to care... I highly doubt that the kind of people who would download part of the Genome project and the people who download movies illegal are anywhere near the same breed. Sometimes I think people are just picking on Google, hehe. Google is simply going for their mission statement I suppose... I think it would be pretty crazy to have a public database of all of this shit. Haha, maybe the scientists don't really have anything anyways, and are doing this to cover it up:P. Like they just sat around playing with cats and never leanred anything, rofl.
and yes, "bio-piracy" sounds like possibly the dumbest term to ever be filed against Google.
Look... we all know that Apple hasn't done all the best things with their iPod, but I am for this 100%
For those of you who keep bashing people for "being idiots", you can shut it... not everyone can be as enlightened as you. Apple has provided their customers with more control... I am sorry if you are against that, but I have no reason to go against this. I am afraid that you guys are a little to quick to complain...
You should feel really cool... I mean, really. The fact that you have displayed so much skill, as to click fast and type a mind-boggling 5 character comment has earned my immediate respect. Congratulations you Anonymous Bastard.
It is nice to see some good software manuals out there. It seems like so many of the ones that you run into might aswell have been written in a different language. I am also just fond of the word Abuntu! Might have to tell my friend about this one... the other day he was complaining about his new box, and how it is hard to use, haha.
I would figure that any patent disputes would be settled in the contract though. Like...
"Because you are sponsored by VW, all respective research and technologies are ours, muahahah"
or vice versa, or... something like that. There would have to be a pretty clear relationship between the sponsor and the grunt, whether it be royalties or whatever
You sound like you are really ready for the planet to be overtaken by robots.
While the fact that so "few" (I am not sure of the validity of that statement)are working on improving robotics, you have to realize the massive task that it is to translate reality into a machine. And then... for that machine to independently make a decision based on the generalizations of their enviroment.
And about the A-bomb... they had Einstein, they cheated.
Hell yeah! Now instead of having friends or parents drive us everywhere, our cars can! And secondly... if I talk to my car, it just keeps bitching about low oil pressure. I told it to stop whining and go complain to the auto-shop. But the automated system at the shop accidently ate my car. Poor thing...
I love PBS documentaries man. You can learn sooo much from them in a nice little narrated package.
Maybe all these guys are geniuses and get grants to work on the stuff. Maybe university supported or something like that. Or! They make their money in half a year, and build robot cars the rest of the time.
I was talking from experience...
I know 3 PKs who have gotten into the drug-trade and been busted/ODed and had to change.
But you... you have beaten me. There are definitely more whores from pastor's... (I date a PK, and well *cough*)
You can't curb the problem, since well... priests who don't have kids because whores themselves.
So now we run into the problem of "Who checks the checker?"... the answer?
Welcome to THE MATRIX!
WIN HAWAII FOR NADER!
Anyways... I just say that they begin training government employees to be certified to maitenance thee things. After all, how many jerks are going to spill Sunkist on the machine while voting (lots)?
That way, the only people who we HAVE to trust is the ones that we are forced to trust anyways, the government.
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Photoshop...
I am so tired of these lame ass excuses for fake SS cards. I want to see some quality work!
Alright, at 15% oxygen it is comparable to 6,000 ft. above sea level. Safe? Yes! If you have ever been skiing/hiking/anything active in higher altitudes (I know this might be asking a lot of some Slashdotters) you know that it is quite safe. You just have to pace yourself. So... think of working in one of these server rooms like Denver maybe. That said, it would make a good excuse for Scuba Gear Tuesdays.
This way the IT guys get there own personal Oxygen Bar to put the "exhausted" oxygen to good use!
"We donated the patent based under the assumption that it was worthless. Now that it isn't, we would like to have it back please." *waves DMCA around out of ignorance* Thats exactly what charities needs to go with all of the useless junk in their second-hand stores. Second-hand patents!
Only to compete with the Swiffer: Moonjet Edition.
Next step... Tax my /. posts
Anyways... my point being.
The Chinese government has plenty of reasoning to go towards a single OS (or only a couple), because of it's ever-so-popular censorship. The problem with a bunch of Linux boxes floating around is that it is harder for the Internet Police to track them. Yahoo, Cisco, MS, Google... these being the big tech industries that have caught heat for bending towards the powers of the Chinese government
Of course we all know about the Yahoo thing... ya know, that journalist imprisoned in China because Yahoo lent a helping hand to the Internet Police. Google filters their search engines (search Tianamen Square in China and you get some very different results) heavily to abide by the Chinese governments guidlines (do no evil... but wait, help China oppress? nah!). Cisco provides much of the hardware used by the estimated 30,000 government internet police. And well, I don't think I have to try hard here to convince you guys that MS is doing their fair share of bending over, for the cash...
Regulation is on the Chinese governments priority list. If they can guarantee that there isn't anything un-monitored going on out there... add another tally for communism.
I don't think the Chinese government could honestly give two shits about whether systems have illegal copies of Windows on them. I just see this as another step in their complete control over the media. The Great Firewall of China
Rupert Murdoch paid $580mil for it... he thought it was cool.
Myspace as of Feb. 2006 has 54mil accounts.
180k more accounts daily...
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/myspace.htm (yeah whateva, thats my source)
Anyways... yes. The internet is changing, as users are given the ability to share opinions more freely and the average user begins to value those opinions more and more, the internet effectively becomes more human.
After all, an article posted by a professor is a bit more raw than one shoved past the noses of countless editors at MSN.
I can now get that copy of Brokeback Mountain on my computer, cause really... who NEEDS a hard copy anyways?
I guess I have to recognize their effort at trying to get, yet again... another piece of the market. I think we might see this service being more popular further down he road... right now though, I would rather just go to Wal-mart and buy it. That takes like 5 minutes - the average movie-goer doesn' have lightning speed internet anyways, right?
I think it should be interesting to see the developments with the DRM on these monsters... just to see what they come up with. (the 6th computer that it is tranfered to gets a blue screen of death everytime that Derek over at the Movielink office presses the big red button)
Many of you keep talking about how these companies are parasites or whatever for basing themselves off of MS's errors. Well... sorta
They didn't so much base it off of a faulty OS, but the internal paranoia of consumers. To beat them, MS will have to defeat that before the actual bugs. Not to say that it isn't warranted, but the point being... While these companies may take a big hit, they will not die off. The one thing about parasites is... they can be very adaptive. These companies will live off of people who were pleased with their software the first time around, purchasing it again. That, and contract agreements with coprorations anyways. Also... Vista will still have its own problems. I don't think people will ever trust something to self-clean, people feel good about buying a utility...
Yeah... and in an attempt to kill Windows all those anti-virus companies would DIE!
Windows is their bread and butter, they rely on it being unreliable
MS has enough money to outlast all of those companies
They would just make their own anti-virus in the mean time
Then you have bunches of dead anti-virus companies, and MS still won! Haha!
semantics ruins jokes...
I think you are right, but I wasn't worried about it, ROFL. "googleeatssoulduseus.com" looks more like the name of a mythological character to me.
Ask scientists how long life on earth has been around... and they will probably answer, "Millions of years!".
Anyways... my point being. The chance of a meteor hitting the earth in the relatively small window of time that it takes for us to figure out how to play Asteroids in Space are slim. I doubt that Deep impact will be coming true any time soon... or at least, like I said - before we can combat it.
Converting minerals on the moon into oxygen is the big idea for me. Just leave a machine running up there (maybe a converted Sharper Image Ionic Breeze) for a couple decades and the moon should have an atmosphere, right? LMAO
Thank you very much for that, very interesting.
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That is what I am drawing my information from on them... that and their main site of course. The Mask was 1993 btw... Habib Zargarpour was the Technical Director for it at ILM at the time, and earned the nickname "Particle-Man". Yada yada yada...
My point was never to completely remove blame from CG, but to point out that not all CG is bad. And not that movies without CG are worthless. The point being, that CG can really make a movie rock, especially from an imaginative standpoint.
You may have noticed in my previous post that I recognized that yes, some of these movies sucked.
And here is the fun part... you don't notice good CG. Bad CG makes movies suck when you notice it.
"WELCOME TO PLATO'S CAVE BITCH" - Someone I Can't Remeber
It really boils down to a basic mistrust by the population of the name "Jeeves"
I used to use ask... but switched to Google cause all the cool kids were doing it. That, and the color red pisses me off!
The next thing for ask.com... change name to "Google_eats_souls_use_us.com"
While their homepage design may be a little simpler... Google still loads quicker. Cause I gotta have my extra 5 seconds with page loads... it is a matter of National Security.
Okay... not everything they do is shit. That, and CG doesn't make movies worse... only if it sucks. You can go watch claymation if you would like.
http://www.ilm.com/ilm_services.html
Look at all they have done. While some of the stuff on there may have sucked... there is some really fucking good stuff on there.
Also, if I remember correctly, they were some of the first to experiment with particle renders for CG (they used it in the Mask to create some of the storm/tornado transformations). Anyways... thats all aside from the point
Hey... more power to em. They get cooler stuff, they make more realistic CGs. And when all you nay-sayers are watching a movie, and don't notice a good CG... it has worked, and they have won. Don't fight CG now, soon it will just look like everything else.
I mean really though. If I were them I would be welcoming Google.
:P. Like they just sat around playing with cats and never leanred anything, rofl.
Increased interest in a project such as the Genome project would help, correct? And what is there to steal really? And who is going to care... I highly doubt that the kind of people who would download part of the Genome project and the people who download movies illegal are anywhere near the same breed. Sometimes I think people are just picking on Google, hehe. Google is simply going for their mission statement I suppose... I think it would be pretty crazy to have a public database of all of this shit. Haha, maybe the scientists don't really have anything anyways, and are doing this to cover it up
and yes, "bio-piracy" sounds like possibly the dumbest term to ever be filed against Google.
Look... we all know that Apple hasn't done all the best things with their iPod, but I am for this 100%
For those of you who keep bashing people for "being idiots", you can shut it... not everyone can be as enlightened as you. Apple has provided their customers with more control... I am sorry if you are against that, but I have no reason to go against this. I am afraid that you guys are a little to quick to complain...
You should feel really cool... I mean, really. The fact that you have displayed so much skill, as to click fast and type a mind-boggling 5 character comment has earned my immediate respect. Congratulations you Anonymous Bastard.
It is nice to see some good software manuals out there. It seems like so many of the ones that you run into might aswell have been written in a different language. I am also just fond of the word Abuntu! Might have to tell my friend about this one... the other day he was complaining about his new box, and how it is hard to use, haha.
I would figure that any patent disputes would be settled in the contract though. Like...
"Because you are sponsored by VW, all respective research and technologies are ours, muahahah"
or vice versa, or... something like that. There would have to be a pretty clear relationship between the sponsor and the grunt, whether it be royalties or whatever
You sound like you are really ready for the planet to be overtaken by robots.
While the fact that so "few" (I am not sure of the validity of that statement)are working on improving robotics, you have to realize the massive task that it is to translate reality into a machine. And then... for that machine to independently make a decision based on the generalizations of their enviroment.
And about the A-bomb... they had Einstein, they cheated.
I really hope that that note doesn't reach David.
Hell yeah! Now instead of having friends or parents drive us everywhere, our cars can! And secondly... if I talk to my car, it just keeps bitching about low oil pressure. I told it to stop whining and go complain to the auto-shop. But the automated system at the shop accidently ate my car. Poor thing...
I love PBS documentaries man. You can learn sooo much from them in a nice little narrated package.
Maybe all these guys are geniuses and get grants to work on the stuff. Maybe university supported or something like that. Or! They make their money in half a year, and build robot cars the rest of the time.
I was talking from experience... I know 3 PKs who have gotten into the drug-trade and been busted/ODed and had to change. But you... you have beaten me. There are definitely more whores from pastor's... (I date a PK, and well *cough*) You can't curb the problem, since well... priests who don't have kids because whores themselves.
So now we run into the problem of "Who checks the checker?"... the answer?
Welcome to THE MATRIX!
WIN HAWAII FOR NADER!
Anyways... I just say that they begin training government employees to be certified to maitenance thee things. After all, how many jerks are going to spill Sunkist on the machine while voting (lots)?
That way, the only people who we HAVE to trust is the ones that we are forced to trust anyways, the government.