you don't 'lose money' if you take a while to make a movie.
This isn't even remotely close to true. Movies can live or die by current trends. It's hard enough to predict what people are going to want in a year, let alone X amount of time it takes to render effects on an old PC.
soon, we won't even need real actors or real scenes.
This is a nightmarish fantasy. I want to connect emotionally with the people in the movie. Even in some explosion-filled Michael Bay movie, I'd rather root for a flesh-and-blood generic action guy than some sort of simulation.
While it can make for interesting experiments, one thing we shouldn't automate is artistic endeavors.
...how much (at least in 1975) credit he was willing to share with Jack Kirby, co-creator of many of those same superheroes. It was a bit of a shock to read that after working with Jack to come up with the character of Galactus, the planet eating superfoe, and deciding what needed to be drawn on the pages, that Jack had, of his own volition and invention, introduced the "required" herald for the big guy, a character we've come to know as Silver Surfer.
Kirby was consistently mistreated at Marvel, and wasn't allowed to characterize the Silver Surfer the way he wanted. Stan Lee may be very personable, but that's because he's been cultivating that for forty years. Kirby deserves way more credit in the world of comic books than Lee does. Read "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story". Pretty much everyone involved (except Kirby, actually) comes off as an asshole.
Even something as simple as telling a child that you can make yourself smarter just like you can make yourself stronger makes a huge difference in how they perceive themselves and the world.
"...We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experence carries its lesson."
Minecraft... [is] not "hard" in the sense that you will fail a lot
...what game were you playing? On several occasions I've had a surprise Creeper ruin my day. And there is nothing more frustrating than dying underground with an inventory full of ore, golden apples, and your diamond pickaxe and running back only to either die again, or find that your items are just plain gone.
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel the need to link people to Qik: http://qik.com/
Its a video app for Android and iOS that will automatically upload your video once you take it. So even if your phone is confiscated, and the data deleted, the video is already out there.
I'm sure there are other services, but http://qik.com/ has a pretty good interface. Shoot the video on your phone, hit stop, video gets automatically uploaded to your account, YouTube, etc.
Android may be a threat in some ways, but Apple has the advantage of their App Store, and it's parallels. Parallels are the key. Many people that have an iPhone are tech-savvy. 9 out of 10 people I know who have iPhones have jailbroken (jailbreaked?) their iPhones, and have Cydia and Installous. The iPhone is a solid platform, and people want something for nothing, and the third-party software for the iPhone let's them get that something-for-nothing, and in a really sleek way. The SDK may hurt legitimate developers, but it allows for fast, intuitive and seamless pirating of apps. That is where Apple has the advantage.
I can't cheat the government, I can only cheat my fellow citizens and myself out of some worthy use of those potential tax dollars. Change your attitude before you start bitching about what people do and don't pay.
Setting aside purchases through services like iTunes and Steam, are the goods you buy online delivered via taxpayer funded public roads?
They won't say that maybe we wouldn't have these problems if we didn't keep meddling in the Middle East's affairs, often brutally.
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
The problem with this list is multi-faceted. Remember, first, that the list was selected by the public. This is not something that art institutes generally do (have you ever heard of popular vote picking any other art display? What about one meant to introduce a new topic?)
You're right about popular vote being an entirely wrong approach. That's the only explanation for Halo 2 beating Psychonauts. Psychonauts is one of the funniest, innovative, and visually interesting games, whereas Halo 2 is the middle of a trilogy (and not the strongest of the three), where you play another Space Marine shooting aliens.
This proposal might seem outlandish, but a global helium shortage is a very real problem that we're going to have to deal with soon. Many, many industries rely on helium, and the price is artificially low since the government is trying to sell off its reserves by 2015. Aside from fusion (or somehow mining the sun), there's really no way to get new helium (it's a noble gas, there are no naturally occurring helium compounds).
I'm not spewing rhetoric. You literally can not win against Anonymous. A group of faceless people, who's members are always changing, with several places and ways of gathering and organizing, is unbeatable. Get rid of one and someone will take their place, because it's that easy. Download a tool, hand over control, and you can be a part of Anonymous' work in under five minutes.
Who are you going to go after? The leaders? What leaders? Ideas are the leaders, and you can't kill ideas.
Anonymous is a new animal on the prowl, and there is no historical precedent for what it is.
The actual pollution problems, BTW, are when the ships show up in port. The "last leg" of travel causes the vast majority of their health consequences, and there's a lot of work underway to clean it up.
If this is the case, could this be mitigated by parking a few miles off sure and using more environmentally friendly tugs? Or will it all be the same amount of pollution in the end?
It seems like it would be easier to fix or retrofit little tugs than it would be to overhaul massive cargo ships.
It's a space station. We're not getting enough science out of our space station?!
It's a station. In space. Right now, we have humans off-world. Think about that for a moment. Surely these are important fields to develop if we want to survive as a species long-term.
...It does have ad block. Built in. Right click, block content. That take too long? http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
That'll block damn near every ad on the internet. And use css to remove the whitespace. I'm amazed at how many ads clutter every web page whenever I use somebody else's computer.
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you don't 'lose money' if you take a while to make a movie.
This isn't even remotely close to true. Movies can live or die by current trends. It's hard enough to predict what people are going to want in a year, let alone X amount of time it takes to render effects on an old PC.
soon, we won't even need real actors or real scenes.
This is a nightmarish fantasy. I want to connect emotionally with the people in the movie. Even in some explosion-filled Michael Bay movie, I'd rather root for a flesh-and-blood generic action guy than some sort of simulation.
While it can make for interesting experiments, one thing we shouldn't automate is artistic endeavors.
Yes, brothers! Our faith will carry us into the stars! For the God Emperor of Mankind! FOR THE IMPERIUM!!
When's the last time you were off line for any significant amount of time?
You don't seem to understand that the theaters are at the mercy of the studios.
...how much (at least in 1975) credit he was willing to share with Jack Kirby, co-creator of many of those same superheroes. It was a bit of a shock to read that after working with Jack to come up with the character of Galactus, the planet eating superfoe, and deciding what needed to be drawn on the pages, that Jack had, of his own volition and invention, introduced the "required" herald for the big guy, a character we've come to know as Silver Surfer.
Kirby was consistently mistreated at Marvel, and wasn't allowed to characterize the Silver Surfer the way he wanted. Stan Lee may be very personable, but that's because he's been cultivating that for forty years. Kirby deserves way more credit in the world of comic books than Lee does. Read "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story". Pretty much everyone involved (except Kirby, actually) comes off as an asshole.
Even something as simple as telling a child that you can make yourself smarter just like you can make yourself stronger makes a huge difference in how they perceive themselves and the world.
"...We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experence carries its lesson."
Minecraft... [is] not "hard" in the sense that you will fail a lot
...what game were you playing? On several occasions I've had a surprise Creeper ruin my day. And there is nothing more frustrating than dying underground with an inventory full of ore, golden apples, and your diamond pickaxe and running back only to either die again, or find that your items are just plain gone.
On the road, hell is other people.
My friend pirated a copy before The Avengers came out. He watched it, then he went and saw it in a theater. Twice. If you build it, they will come.
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel the need to link people to Qik: http://qik.com/ Its a video app for Android and iOS that will automatically upload your video once you take it. So even if your phone is confiscated, and the data deleted, the video is already out there.
You have to pay people for the expense of figuring out what happened.
I can think of one person who knows exactly what happened...
Vunce ze rockets are up, who cares vhere zey come down?
I'm sure there are other services, but http://qik.com/ has a pretty good interface. Shoot the video on your phone, hit stop, video gets automatically uploaded to your account, YouTube, etc.
Android may be a threat in some ways, but Apple has the advantage of their App Store, and it's parallels. Parallels are the key. Many people that have an iPhone are tech-savvy. 9 out of 10 people I know who have iPhones have jailbroken (jailbreaked?) their iPhones, and have Cydia and Installous. The iPhone is a solid platform, and people want something for nothing, and the third-party software for the iPhone let's them get that something-for-nothing, and in a really sleek way. The SDK may hurt legitimate developers, but it allows for fast, intuitive and seamless pirating of apps. That is where Apple has the advantage.
I can't cheat the government, I can only cheat my fellow citizens and myself out of some worthy use of those potential tax dollars. Change your attitude before you start bitching about what people do and don't pay.
Setting aside purchases through services like iTunes and Steam, are the goods you buy online delivered via taxpayer funded public roads?
They won't say that maybe we wouldn't have these problems if we didn't keep meddling in the Middle East's affairs, often brutally.
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
The problem with this list is multi-faceted. Remember, first, that the list was selected by the public. This is not something that art institutes generally do (have you ever heard of popular vote picking any other art display? What about one meant to introduce a new topic?)
You're right about popular vote being an entirely wrong approach. That's the only explanation for Halo 2 beating Psychonauts. Psychonauts is one of the funniest, innovative, and visually interesting games, whereas Halo 2 is the middle of a trilogy (and not the strongest of the three), where you play another Space Marine shooting aliens.
This proposal might seem outlandish, but a global helium shortage is a very real problem that we're going to have to deal with soon. Many, many industries rely on helium, and the price is artificially low since the government is trying to sell off its reserves by 2015. Aside from fusion (or somehow mining the sun), there's really no way to get new helium (it's a noble gas, there are no naturally occurring helium compounds).
If you say so.
Who the hell still formats their search queries as full sentences? "What town was Beautiful Girls filmed in?" Really?
But you can't win.
I'm not spewing rhetoric. You literally can not win against Anonymous. A group of faceless people, who's members are always changing, with several places and ways of gathering and organizing, is unbeatable. Get rid of one and someone will take their place, because it's that easy. Download a tool, hand over control, and you can be a part of Anonymous' work in under five minutes.
Who are you going to go after? The leaders? What leaders? Ideas are the leaders, and you can't kill ideas.
Anonymous is a new animal on the prowl, and there is no historical precedent for what it is.
The actual pollution problems, BTW, are when the ships show up in port. The "last leg" of travel causes the vast majority of their health consequences, and there's a lot of work underway to clean it up.
If this is the case, could this be mitigated by parking a few miles off sure and using more environmentally friendly tugs? Or will it all be the same amount of pollution in the end?
It seems like it would be easier to fix or retrofit little tugs than it would be to overhaul massive cargo ships.
It isn't 50/50. The first orientation will always be wrong. Always.
It's a station. In space. Right now, we have humans off-world. Think about that for a moment. Surely these are important fields to develop if we want to survive as a species long-term.
...It does have ad block. Built in. Right click, block content. That take too long? http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ That'll block damn near every ad on the internet. And use css to remove the whitespace. I'm amazed at how many ads clutter every web page whenever I use somebody else's computer.