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If you're referring to what I found by Googling it (some years ago I would have had to just watch the film until I came across what you meant), that's a portable, flat device that shows video. Video is easily the least interesting feature an iPad has. Just a legacy technology, basically. IMO forward and backward are meaningless concepts here: without the industrial revolution, the world around us would be doing a whole lot better. But things sure are different and increasingly so.

Huh? If we're talking about day-to-day technologies like flying cars were supposed to be, smart phones, Google and Wikipedia obviously. Or if you're interested in cutting edge stuff then this thread is a good place to start.

http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/

Seriously, people in the 60s didn't even have the imagination to dream up the cool stuff we have now. The dream of flying cars: no traffic jams. That's a damn boring idea compared to the awesome technologies we use to help us masturbate. 60s dream technologies are based on the premise that we would still be doing the same shit we were doing fifty years ago, only better. Instead, we are doing amazing things nobody could have anticipated then.

Is that Jason Brody?

Just fiddle with the exposure of the RAW file. This will increase noise some, but that shouldn't be a problem. Depends on what you shoot with.

I actually prefer the original. If you crop too close to the bird, it's just a bird. Nachimir's crop cuts away too much of the boats in the background for me: you lose context. I would dial in a stop or so of exposure.

Despotify exists, but it's another thing entirely.

Huh. You could probably make a pretty interesting thesis by taking a few computer magazines and comparing the number of articles written by men and women through the years.

... I've played it and I couldn't say what it's supposed to be.

I just think this is an amusing statement Well, maybe it's like a crash helmet -- wearing one doesn't suggest you should crash into something.

... SpaceGun.

I would be, but I don't have a boat.

Politics is the art of the possible. You have to focus your efforts in what you can actually get done. There are many different ways of tackling the problem, so you try to find the ones where both parties can work together. Otherwise you just play to your own base, but alienate the rest of the country and nothing actually gets done.

Any plans to play more of this? I could play tomorrow. There's Steam Workshop for L4D2 now, we could try a mod.

I'm not either. All I know about Kalevala I've seen in TV miniseries and national romantic paintings. Reading it in school didn't come easily to me.

The problem is giving buttons full analog control. They're just tiny buttons. Cameras have had two stage shutter releases for ages -- you half-press the button to focus, then fully press it to trigger the shutter. This sort of two stage control could actually be useful.

Fucking Miranda and her backstory that explains how she was genetically engineered to look like a blow up doll. And hey, let's pan this camera across her butt for a few minutes.

Soccer and other good multiplayer games are a good example of how games generate stories procedurally -- that is, their systems are balanced in such a way that the forces in play often create events that we instinctively interpret as plots and stories. CK2 does this as well, as does DOTA etc. The weakest parts of CK2's story generation are the actually authored bits. The game creates events that suggest stories to us, but all meaning they have obviously comes from us. Games can make stories as long as you leave the meaning-making to humans. I also wonder if you could make a system like CK2 that didn't end up Macchiavellian... Hah, all the articles and books I read shy away from the computational model of the human mind. Could be just my field. AFAIK even Chomsky backed away from it and he's the most culpable for bringing it to linguistics. I'll do my very best not to comment on it further

What the what? How's your traffic fatalities?

You should post this in the Feminism thread.

Yeah... But the PS3 has an extra core to run system software and it's slow as hell. It's a damn pain to use.

Finnish national epic translated and recited. Yup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YZhf-AcnIyw

Blade Runner had that sci-fi photography weirdness! It's not the same thing but I put it in the same category. You have to remember Blade Runner is based on a book that was written before cyberpunk existed. The movie reimagined the book with a cyberpunk aesthetic, but adding hacking and computer systems would've been a pretty big change.