>> ^Payback:
Why is this gay but not fuckinawesome?


cause on accouta yer in the closet, ya no-girlfriend havin' waaaanka!

Look, I'll just be honest here. I don't dislike apple. I just wasn't impressed with the iphone. In fact, I downright dislike it. Could've been done a lot better. And plenty since have come out with adaptations to the touch screen phone. As far as a rectangle with a button...I don't see anything groundbreaking there. In fact, I like a couple more buttons. Maybe like 3 buttons. Like a mouse should have. I like "properties" and I love dicking around with them.

It's not that apple shouldn't be credited with starting a trend, it's just that they've been surpassed when they should be leading the way. I mean they've had 3[?] upgrades since it first came out...yet those upgrades weren't anything special that'd keep them on the leading edge.

I tend to have weird anxiety dreams when I have a lot of plates in the air. Each spinning plate doesn't have to be a groundbreaking occurrence either; just has to be something preoccupying. Work. The little lady is flying out of town. Projects. Deadlines. Money. Debt. Scheduling.

When I was in college I would tape a piece of paper on the wall by my bed and write everything and anything I had to do. Somehow having it there I felt like it was off my mind momentarily, and that I wouldn't forget so I was okay to sleep comfortably at night. Once you move in with someone, she doesn't want you funkin' up the walls with your ghetto to-do lists.

Ever have those times when your mind starts racing while in bed, so you cannot sleep, then you check the clock and see it's already 4 in the morning and you have to be up in a few hours so you start getting more stressed and eventually you have to go to @rottenseed's house to rub one out in his mom so you can calm yourself again and get some shut eye for work?

>> ^Xaielao:
I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long.

Avatar is quite ground breaking and in 3D it really puts you into the world. I saw it again in 3D last night and with 5 movies coming out yesterday I expected there to be a decent crowd at best, but the theater was so packed there weren't enough seats for all the viewers. I couldn't believe that a month in the movie is still selling out at $13.50 a ticket for the 3D showing. And from what I heard the 2 theaters showing it in 2d were the same way.
It's an awe inspiring movie. Sure the plot is obvious and the acting isn't entirely Oscar Worthy but the CG is groundbreaking and they successfully surpassed what was considered unsurpassable, the Uncanny Valley. Anyone that finds themselves depressed and see's our own world as gray is weak of will in the first place. Our own world is thick with awe inspiring places and vistas as well. But since most people live in forests of concrete and glass and barely see any wildlife besides pidgeons and their entire lives are passed simply eking out an existence, I can see where such a life would be empty. And it's why I will always be a country boy.

"I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long." can you see how moronic that statement is ?

I went to see avatar thinking it might be good film , i left it thinking omg everyone is going to be slagging this off all that mony invested in it was a total waist, and that the people that did the back drops and cgi would be pissed off at a film that had the plot and delivery of something designed for a 8 year old to understand. ( and not in a good way)

I mean compare avatar to something like Jurassic park. CGI in jurassic park was ground braking and not just technically but interms of its implementation. also the story in Jurassic park and the pacing of the film and all the characters is fantastic. Avatar just feals Dead.

Then again avatar has made alot of money so there is obviously a market for it maby people just want simple films that require no thinking and that you can predict the outcome and pretty much the entirety of each sceen and the out come of the film instantly.



The only thing they did better than other films was some of the character cgi in a cupple of sceens. but you could still tell what was cg and what wasn't from the animation.

Granted if you havent watched allot of cgi then maby you would be highly impressed , but there has for a long time been alot of art work of photo real cgi outside of films , and you have Manny scenes in real films where they use photo real cgi on characters faces or various aspects and u would probably never notice it , in avatar you can tell when its cg or not.

I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long.


Avatar is quite ground breaking and in 3D it really puts you into the world. I saw it again in 3D last night and with 5 movies coming out yesterday I expected there to be a decent crowd at best, but the theater was so packed there weren't enough seats for all the viewers. I couldn't believe that a month in the movie is still selling out at $13.50 a ticket for the 3D showing. And from what I heard the 2 theaters showing it in 2d were the same way.

It's an awe inspiring movie. Sure the plot is obvious and the acting isn't entirely Oscar Worthy but the CG is groundbreaking and they successfully surpassed what was considered unsurpassable, the Uncanny Valley. Anyone that finds themselves depressed and see's our own world as gray is weak of will in the first place. Our own world is thick with awe inspiring places and vistas as well. But since most people live in forests of concrete and glass and barely see any wildlife besides pidgeons and their entire lives are passed simply eking out an existence, I can see where such a life would be empty. And it's why I will always be a country boy.

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@Xax There's a pendulum that swings between pretentious and derivative. I'll take the pretentious side every time. What you call pretentious today, will be called "groundbreaking" tomorrow.>> ^Xax:
Pretentious, particularly the little boy in the dress.

In 15 or 30 years, science will give her the face she wants using stem cell-based treatments. (Assuming civilization doesn't experience a greater slow-down than we've seen already in the last year.) Her condition is temporary.

That kind of progress is happening before our eyes:
"Groundbreaking Stem Cell Surgery Gives Boy New Cheekbones: Genetic Defect Causes Underdeveloped Facial Bones, Tissues." ABC News, Oct. 2009.

That's some GroundBreaking work you've done, getting to the gold.
You do realize that Gold comes from the Ground, Right? But they don't break it from the ground. They use cyanide to separate it from the ground. Which of course is breaking the earth in a whole different way. So here's to your kind of breaking and not the other way because either way, you still end up with GOLD!

Congrats!

>> ^EndAll:
Have any of his ideas actually been accepted by the modern evolutionary synthesis? I know, for example, that his work on memetics is largely considered pseudoscience.


Dawkins is widely regarded as a thinker and explainer, While his ideas aren't groundbreaking in themselves, he is among the finest to express them clearly, not only for the general public, but also fellow biologists. in this sense he has much more in common with Huxley than Darwin. Memetics is a field/subject brilliantly coined by Dawkins in the last chapter of The Selfish Gene, but Dawkins himself seems not to spend much time exploring the concept. His purpose of introducing it, seems to have been to suggest that natural selection, or Darwinism, did not have to be constrained to traditional biology (genes), but could apply to any mechanism capable of copying information with modification. Memetics is not regarded as pseudoscience nor science, it is an abstract concept meant to illustrate a point. It is pretty self evident that some ideas are better at surviving than others, and it is also pretty clear that this doesnt have to correlate with the idea's truth value. I could easily make up two sentences now that are clearly false, or atleast complete and utter nonsense that almost definately is false, yet I can make a good guess on which one gets passed on:
1. "All elephants will turn into pink bats with feathers by the end of 2009"
2. "Unless you pass this sentence on, your mother will most likely die within the hour"
If you honestly, truthffully cannot see which sentence I am guessing, and if you do a test with comptelely ambiguous results, then yes, maybe memetics has nothing to it. or maybe there is another explanation at work, btu i think its pretty clear that there is lots of evidence that memetics works, and little to suggest that it doesnt. Modern genetics, for instance, is actually increasingly SIMILAR to memetics, because our DNA is actually just genetic information. "Pseudoscience" is a word we reserve for bogus nonsense lik "homeopathy" and "faithhealing", not memetics.

"Groundbreaking for the World Trade Center took place on August 5, 1966. The North Tower (1) was completed in December 1970 and the South Tower (2) was finished in July 1971" -Wiki
----> 6 years to build em

"Initial plans, made public in 1961, identified a site along the East River for the World Trade Center.[6] As a bi-state agency, the Port Authority required approval from both the governors of New York and New Jersey in order to undertake new projects. New Jersey Governor Robert B. Meyner objected to New York getting a $335 million project.[7] Toward the end of 1961, negotiations with outgoing New Jersey Governor Meyner reached a stalemate." -Wiki
----> 6 years to plan for em

6+6=12...

Under optimum conditions and not counting any cleanup time/politics regarding the memorial site it should take at LEAST 12 years based on the initial build. How disingenuous can you be?? Do 30 seconds worth of research Glenn Beck. Until then, stop feeding America your lies.

Yeah, it gets a little boring sometimes, Enoch, but what doesn't? The place is what you make of it for the most part. Lots of people, including me have their complaints and things they'd like to change. Still I'm fairly convinced it's the Best Little Town on the Internet as far as community goes. I'm still convinced that the work we do here is pretty groundbreaking for how communities organize themselves on the Web. I haven't hung out in many forums, but VideoSift seems to me to have more user empowerment and self-moderation than any I've seen. Dag and Lucky keep a very loose hand on the reins. Things often run amuck because of it, but we learn a lot when that happens.

So don't say goodbye, say "see ya later", and take a break. Come back and post some videos because I appreciate you're unique perspective and it adds to the diversity of thought, even if you think no one appreciates it. Keep in mind that there are thousands of unregistered users reading what you write. Your voice is important.

Send along some of your prose, but be forewarned that I am a ruthlessly constructive critic. I'd say that a full 80% of my waking life is spent in creative pursuits, and the process is very sacred to me.

Anyway, see ya later. I find two weeks is all it takes to make me miss the Sift.

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this place is beginning to bore me.yet i find myself reticent to leave my fave fuzzy friend who wears the funny hats.anarchist ministers are not welcome here,that has become painfully obvious.

maybe there was a point in time where stirring things up and helping people perceive things from a different view brought a twinkle to my eye,bit now it just bores me.
nobody is interested in anything different,just the same regurgitated crap.
its like watching one big group circle jerk.
some great people,just...boring.

ill still post some videos.i know some will appreciate them,but i dont feel any urge to participate in giving free reach-arounds.
i been spending much of my time writing anyways,and i have been having a pretty good discussion with iamtheblurr.he seems a decent sort.
if you are interested i can throw ya a link to some of my material.its not half bad,for a hack like me.
keep fighting the good fight brother,you a cool cat.
stay cool brother..stay cool.

Tron was groundbreaking in that it was the first movie to use computers in the creation of effects and animation. On the DVD there is a great documentary on the making of it. Very interesting.

Though I have to agree, not as exciting as something like war games but it thrilled the Pac Man Geek generation and opened up new ideas. Looking back the basis was awesome but the story was weak. Let's hope they can fix the story and Blast us with some great stuff - It will all depend on the script because we've all seen the CG done to death and it can't survive on that basis alone!

I don't think I could handle a store full of Tron Action figures and Tron "Throwing Discs" all over again. Hmmm... (Frisbee might be leading this one... )

>> ^Mi1ler:
had me at "this is the ejaculation face of a stump tail makak"


quick! register www.primate-o-face.com !

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It was meant to have humor. She could have presented all the same odd facts without any of the humor (or video clip) and it would have been pretty boring.

Kinsey's work was quite controversial, but groundbreaking. I never heard of the ejaculate-distance-measuring experiment though.

omg. It's not a PR stunt people. Stop being such conspiracy theorists. 3DR hasn't done anything in years, so them closing would be the same as them remaining open--it makes no difference. I just want to stop hearing about DNF, and anything G.Broussard or S.Miller have to say.

That company is just not relevant anymore, and nobody cares about their once-great hero, Duke Nukem. He's now just as irrelevant as his creators. He has no soul. He has no unique, appealing notability or individuality that make him stand out from every other FPS character. He's just a masculine stereotype that nobody is interested in anymore.

There was a time when his archetype had its place in gaming, but these days, gamers demand more. There's nothing interesting about anything 3DR has shown about DNF to this point. Nothing groundbreaking or innovative at all. It feels like every other soulless FPS with no purpose other than gratuitous violence.

I, for one, am not sad to see it go, and have had no anticipation for its arrival since it was very first announced. I just wish the douchebag talking heads at 3DR would stfu and stay the fuck out of the media.

Let it go already.

thanks! Good to read new series are coming up..

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*promote