I dont care what any study says on that. ive smoked plenty of pot to know that i wouldn't be safe driving if i was high on it.
hahahaha, heehehehehehe, hahaha, there's a tree, hee hee hee, CRASH!
you get the idea.
Yes, I get the idea that you're probably one of the ones that shouldn't be smoking pot. You know, in about 18 years of smoking the stuff and being around people who do, I have never met ONE person that would behave like your described scenario. The dumb-ass giggly shtick, I always took that to be a hollywood fabrication. "Reefer Madness" and its influence springs to mind. But I guess some people just can't handle mind-altering substances.
I recall hearing about a study that tested (in simulators) driving abilities of straight, stoned, and drunk people. Guess what? The stoners tended to be the more careful, better drivers. Part of that I think is that when you're high, you know you're high, you know you need to compensate for attention-span etc. When your piss-drunk, you tend to forget that you're drunk, and figure being a complete idiot is just normal behavior.
I got 150 on an IQ test right after sucking down a huge bowl of weed. I would never have been able to do that while drunk.
Yep, remember your conservation of momentum, the bot doesn't move when it grabs the car, it should at least absorb part of the kinetic energy and have to push back, or be pulled along with the car a tiny bit. Consider a similar collision on a smaller scale, what would happen if you tried to halt a guy on a bicycle? And notice the bot casts a shadow but the car doesn't. Totally fake. Also notice all these "tests" are done with a locked-down camera, that's a giveaway of a bad CG producer, anyone with real skills would have used a handheld camera and used move matching.
The bot does move when it grabs the car, what's bothering you appears to be that its feet are not being forced to move as a result of absorbing the force of the travelling car. Why that performance ability should identify this as a CG hoax is beyond me. You also asked us to notice that the car has no shadow. Well I'm sorry, I tried very hard to follow your imperitave but I must confess I failed: I noticed that the car does indeed have shadows. I think you need to spend some time in a room with various objects and *more than one* lightsource and see what kinds of interesting and improbable shadows you can make. Careful though, you might convince yourself your eyes are using CG tricks to fool you and you'll go psychotically insane.
You obviously don't share porn on the p2p networks. Most of it is homemade and originally distributed by the people who made it. Certainly a percentage of it is cut from actual movies, but the majority is what is referred to as "amateur" work.
Erm.. I've got gigs and gigs of the stuff, and only a very small percentage of it is home-made. The bulk of it has been lifted from pay-sites and DVD-rips or captured from video tape. Or were you talking about kiddie porn?
Ok, so what are the other uses then? Besides taking the life of an entity, well I guess you could simply maim or cripple them. That makes it more legitimate somehow?
Merely threatening someone with a gun is a violent act in itself. Guns are for violence, period.
Fucking idiots shouldn't go around calling other people fucking idiots, how are we supposed to tell you all apart?
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If Sharman networks is encouraging piracy, then gun manufacturers are encouraging murder. But you don't see Smith & Wesson getting raided. Granted it's less trivial for me to obtain a gun and make the decision to shoot somebody, but I wouldn't have that power at all if nobody was making them. And that power will likely remain available to me for the rest of my days.
By the same logic it can be said that producers of alcohol, and car manufacturers combined encourage drunk driving, because these two products are used in conjunction quite a lot, yet both industries continue to thrive unmolested.
It comes down to personal choices made by the individuals who use these products. I dislike Sharman Networks for getting into bed with BDE and their 'secret' trojan module, and as much as I'd like to see them get a smackdown, I really hope they can just walk away from this.
Did anybody read the article? No ports are open on the server until the gateway has determined that the correct sequence of blocked attempts have been made in the right amount of time. Until then, scan all you like, you will get nothing.
Frodo throws Gollum and the Ring into the pit, defeating Evil.
That better not be how the movie ends, that would suck. It totally didn't happen that way. Frodo failed in the end, he succumbed to the Ring. The day was only saved by Gollum's greed and subsequent lack of care. That's why Gandalf was never so sure that Gollum should have been killed long ago, that he might still have a purpose.
This is because you are comparing them to the images you saw in your head while reading the book and will not apply to anyone else.
I think that's a really cool testament to the books. For even though it's true that we all saw something a bit different when we read them, most of us can agree in giving approval on how certain things were presented visually in the movies. That's some powerfully descriptive writing!
I like it - problem is that the Hobbit is long enough on its own that adding the stuff about the battle of the Shire would push it into enough to do at least 2 films... oh... wait... that might be a GOOD idea!
Eeek! The idea of the Scouring of the Shire as a stand-alone movie calls to mind that one Lucas did for TV, after the first trilogy was over, about the Ewoks having to save Endor or something. It would probably not suck so badly, but the association is there, and it creeps me out.
I'm actually kind of relieved that the Scouring of the Shire isn't in. Well, it would have been nice to have it in the extended edition, but please not the theatre. I've read the books at least 10 times and that part always makes me cry, I feel like I've dodged a bullet somehow.:)
I think it was an important chapter to the overall story, but also a huge bummer and buzzkill. It works in print, but not so well in a movie, I think.
It was, but when Jackson decided against having Aragorn get his hand chopped off by Sauron (revealed to be Aragorn's father) in the second movie (threw him over a cliff instead), the 'Revenge' part just didn't fit.
The stories are already known, the only spoiler would be if Peter Jackson decided to change course and drastic alter the ending of the movie or something ridiculous like that.
Yes, that's exactly what spoilage would be in this case. I was excited while watching the extended edition of the first movie, since I hadn't read up on what missing things were included. It was more fun that way. I clapped a lot as I saw things show up that I felt should have been there to start with. So, yeah, things like the Scouring of the Shire being left out, while not exactly news at this point, is spoily.
Erm, well there are currently a couple of popular LotR video game titles EA Games has published under Jackson's license, and one or two others in production. I think that would be the key to getting this kind of preview. So go write some games, or no movie for you!
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The time spent in recording studios is waste of money. How does it benifit society? I do not think creating music is free. There is a cost, but the payment should be found in the joy of producing it and knowledge that you are bring entertainment to the world. It should be a weekend hobby instead of a pay for job.
Well, as a weekend musician, I've gotta say that I agree and disagree. Personally, I have no interest in getting money for anything I produce (musical, graphical, or otherwise). It is indeed for the sheer pleasure of making. However, the tradeoff for this is that I have to work 10 hours a day doing something else in order to feed myself, which means I don't have as much time (and energy, by the end of the day) to hone things out. It would be awesome if I could just work on various forms of art all day, but to do that one needs to be supported, either by the death of a rich relative or the art itself. Money is not the carrot that draws this particular donkey, but it's still a nice dream. And if it should happen someday, that my love can also be my job, I'm gonna milk it for all I can. Why not?
That was probably one of the most nonsensical, off-topic, pointless Windows slams I've ever read on slashdot.
Nothing wrong with a bit of harmless fun. Of course it's nonsensical, which is the appropriate mode for discussion of Windows. You're taking it way too seriously.
Yes, I agree that Legolas as depicted is an accurate idea of what Elves can do. Elves kick anybody's ass, that's an established fact in the books. If you want to square off against a lone Elf, you need friends, and they better be good friends because most of them are going to die.
The article says that there are DRM protected music files, compressed, that only work in Sony players. Ok, but who does that stop or even slow down? The first session on the disc is the uncompressed, unprotected music files. How is this disc any different from any normal disc, in terms of how the user's habits with it differ? Joe Average buys it, it works in all his equipment as expected. Joe Haxxor buys it, rips the uncompressed audio and put mp3s on kaaza. The DRM files are for what, exactly? A value-added-feature for users with a special Sony Player?
It seems to me that if Neo is the 6th savior, then we are currently on the 5th Zion. The first savior got the first Zion going after being awakened. Neo's job is supposed to be to get the 6th Zion going after the robots destroy the current one.
They're clearly lying about this temp employee. No human being would make such an absurd assumption. Think of how many perfectly valid targets they have, millions probably. Can't do that with humans, they have to use dumb software or they'd never hope to make a dent in the situation. So, I wonder what could happen if this lie could be proven and demonstrated. Perhaps it could be used to sue for harrassment.
I've never looked at a trademark patent before, but what does it mean near the bottom, First use date, and First commerce use? Was this guy telling them in 1996 when he filed, that he had first used 'sex.com' in 1979? What?? Or am I missing something?
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I dont care what any study says on that. ive smoked plenty of pot to know that i wouldn't be safe driving if i was high on it.
hahahaha, heehehehehehe, hahaha, there's a tree, hee hee hee, CRASH!
you get the idea.
Yes, I get the idea that you're probably one of the ones that shouldn't be smoking pot. You know, in about 18 years of smoking the stuff and being around people who do, I have never met ONE person that would behave like your described scenario. The dumb-ass giggly shtick, I always took that to be a hollywood fabrication. "Reefer Madness" and its influence springs to mind. But I guess some people just can't handle mind-altering substances.
I recall hearing about a study that tested (in simulators) driving abilities of straight, stoned, and drunk people. Guess what? The stoners tended to be the more careful, better drivers. Part of that I think is that when you're high, you know you're high, you know you need to compensate for attention-span etc. When your piss-drunk, you tend to forget that you're drunk, and figure being a complete idiot is just normal behavior.
I got 150 on an IQ test right after sucking down a huge bowl of weed. I would never have been able to do that while drunk.
Slow down there speedy, I don't recall saying I believed it. I was taking you to task for spouting 'proofs' that were not evident.
Yep, remember your conservation of momentum, the bot doesn't move when it grabs the car, it should at least absorb part of the kinetic energy and have to push back, or be pulled along with the car a tiny bit. Consider a similar collision on a smaller scale, what would happen if you tried to halt a guy on a bicycle?
And notice the bot casts a shadow but the car doesn't. Totally fake. Also notice all these "tests" are done with a locked-down camera, that's a giveaway of a bad CG producer, anyone with real skills would have used a handheld camera and used move matching.
The bot does move when it grabs the car, what's bothering you appears to be that its feet are not being forced to move as a result of absorbing the force of the travelling car. Why that performance ability should identify this as a CG hoax is beyond me. You also asked us to notice that the car has no shadow. Well I'm sorry, I tried very hard to follow your imperitave but I must confess I failed: I noticed that the car does indeed have shadows. I think you need to spend some time in a room with various objects and *more than one* lightsource and see what kinds of interesting and improbable shadows you can make. Careful though, you might convince yourself your eyes are using CG tricks to fool you and you'll go psychotically insane.
You obviously don't share porn on the p2p networks. Most of it is homemade and originally distributed by the people who made it. Certainly a percentage of it is cut from actual movies, but the majority is what is referred to as "amateur" work.
Erm.. I've got gigs and gigs of the stuff, and only a very small percentage of it is home-made. The bulk of it has been lifted from pay-sites and DVD-rips or captured from video tape. Or were you talking about kiddie porn?
Ok, so what are the other uses then? Besides taking the life of an entity, well I guess you could simply maim or cripple them. That makes it more legitimate somehow?
Merely threatening someone with a gun is a violent act in itself. Guns are for violence, period.
Fucking idiots shouldn't go around calling other people fucking idiots, how are we supposed to tell you all apart?
If Sharman networks is encouraging piracy, then gun manufacturers are encouraging murder. But you don't see Smith & Wesson getting raided. Granted it's less trivial for me to obtain a gun and make the decision to shoot somebody, but I wouldn't have that power at all if nobody was making them. And that power will likely remain available to me for the rest of my days.
By the same logic it can be said that producers of alcohol, and car manufacturers combined encourage drunk driving, because these two products are used in conjunction quite a lot, yet both industries continue to thrive unmolested.
It comes down to personal choices made by the individuals who use these products. I dislike Sharman Networks for getting into bed with BDE and their 'secret' trojan module, and as much as I'd like to see them get a smackdown, I really hope they can just walk away from this.
b) every minute the admin cares about "port knockin" lowers the time he can spend for something else
So? Play UT2k3 at home rather than work.
Did anybody read the article? No ports are open on the server until the gateway has determined that the correct sequence of blocked attempts have been made in the right amount of time. Until then, scan all you like, you will get nothing.
MyDoom was secretly created in a Microsoft lab, with the idea of taking out two birds with one stone.
Frodo throws Gollum and the Ring into the pit, defeating Evil.
That better not be how the movie ends, that would suck. It totally didn't happen that way. Frodo failed in the end, he succumbed to the Ring. The day was only saved by Gollum's greed and subsequent lack of care. That's why Gandalf was never so sure that Gollum should have been killed long ago, that he might still have a purpose.
This is because you are comparing them to the images you saw in your head while reading the book and will not apply to anyone else.
I think that's a really cool testament to the books. For even though it's true that we all saw something a bit different when we read them, most of us can agree in giving approval on how certain things were presented visually in the movies. That's some powerfully descriptive writing!
I like it - problem is that the Hobbit is long enough on its own that adding the stuff about the battle of the Shire would push it into enough to do at least 2 films... oh... wait... that might be a GOOD idea!
Eeek! The idea of the Scouring of the Shire as a stand-alone movie calls to mind that one Lucas did for TV, after the first trilogy was over, about the Ewoks having to save Endor or something. It would probably not suck so badly, but the association is there, and it creeps me out.
I'm actually kind of relieved that the Scouring of the Shire isn't in. Well, it would have been nice to have it in the extended edition, but please not the theatre. I've read the books at least 10 times and that part always makes me cry, I feel like I've dodged a bullet somehow. :)
I think it was an important chapter to the overall story, but also a huge bummer and buzzkill. It works in print, but not so well in a movie, I think.
It was, but when Jackson decided against having Aragorn get his hand chopped off by Sauron (revealed to be Aragorn's father) in the second movie (threw him over a cliff instead), the 'Revenge' part just didn't fit.
The stories are already known, the only spoiler would be if Peter Jackson decided to change course and drastic alter the ending of the movie or something ridiculous like that.
Yes, that's exactly what spoilage would be in this case. I was excited while watching the extended edition of the first movie, since I hadn't read up on what missing things were included. It was more fun that way. I clapped a lot as I saw things show up that I felt should have been there to start with. So, yeah, things like the Scouring of the Shire being left out, while not exactly news at this point, is spoily.
Erm, well there are currently a couple of popular LotR video game titles EA Games has published under Jackson's license, and one or two others in production. I think that would be the key to getting this kind of preview. So go write some games, or no movie for you!
The time spent in recording studios is waste of money. How does it benifit society? I do not think creating music is free. There is a cost, but the payment should be found in the joy of producing it and knowledge that you are bring entertainment to the world. It should be a weekend hobby instead of a pay for job.
Well, as a weekend musician, I've gotta say that I agree and disagree. Personally, I have no interest in getting money for anything I produce (musical, graphical, or otherwise). It is indeed for the sheer pleasure of making. However, the tradeoff for this is that I have to work 10 hours a day doing something else in order to feed myself, which means I don't have as much time (and energy, by the end of the day) to hone things out. It would be awesome if I could just work on various forms of art all day, but to do that one needs to be supported, either by the death of a rich relative or the art itself. Money is not the carrot that draws this particular donkey, but it's still a nice dream. And if it should happen someday, that my love can also be my job, I'm gonna milk it for all I can. Why not?
That was probably one of the most nonsensical, off-topic, pointless Windows slams I've ever read on slashdot.
Nothing wrong with a bit of harmless fun. Of course it's nonsensical, which is the appropriate mode for discussion of Windows. You're taking it way too seriously.
Condensing that into one movie (and I bet you'd prefer it to be only 90mins long) would be futile.
It's been done, Ralph Bakshi has already taught us what futility looks like.
Yes, I agree that Legolas as depicted is an accurate idea of what Elves can do. Elves kick anybody's ass, that's an established fact in the books. If you want to square off against a lone Elf, you need friends, and they better be good friends because most of them are going to die.
The article says that there are DRM protected music files, compressed, that only work in Sony players. Ok, but who does that stop or even slow down? The first session on the disc is the uncompressed, unprotected music files. How is this disc any different from any normal disc, in terms of how the user's habits with it differ? Joe Average buys it, it works in all his equipment as expected. Joe Haxxor buys it, rips the uncompressed audio and put mp3s on kaaza. The DRM files are for what, exactly? A value-added-feature for users with a special Sony Player?
It seems to me that if Neo is the 6th savior, then we are currently on the 5th Zion. The first savior got the first Zion going after being awakened. Neo's job is supposed to be to get the 6th Zion going after the robots destroy the current one.
No, I stand by my assertion. As the article described things, I imagine the ftp directory to look something like this:
o seNameLooksLikeABand.txti ngNerds.mp3
somescistuff.tar
someotherstuff.gz
ThatProfWh
somemorestuff.txt
Sing
yetmorestuff.tar
Is that a bit more clear? I really really don't think this was viewed by a human.
They're clearly lying about this temp employee. No human being would make such an absurd assumption. Think of how many perfectly valid targets they have, millions probably. Can't do that with humans, they have to use dumb software or they'd never hope to make a dent in the situation. So, I wonder what could happen if this lie could be proven and demonstrated. Perhaps it could be used to sue for harrassment.
I've never looked at a trademark patent before, but what does it mean near the bottom, First use date, and First commerce use? Was this guy telling them in 1996 when he filed, that he had first used 'sex.com' in 1979? What?? Or am I missing something?