The most dependable thing to empower any form of government is primarily division amongst the people being governed. What authority fears even more than intelligence is unity. It's easily deduced then that governments have rarely anything to be afraid of.
Actually I'm of the opinion that it would make me think of many other things before even considering the school-lottery angle.
Around here guns are mostly used in vendettas or settling disputes over property boundaries when they're not being fired in the air in some weird notion of celebratory reverie - and in the past 2-3 years of course ever-increasingly in suicides. Gun owners are quite common too and it's a matter of low intelligence machismo. In my neighborhood, which is pretty much a quiet residential one by local standards, there'll be some sort of gunfire heard during the day.
However, we somehow don't get people going on shooting sprees like that, and it's got nothing to do with them being responsible individuals or legal gun owners. Anything other than hunting rifles are usually illegally obtained and the areas that have the most are usually quite hostile towards the police (although a sign of intelligence usually, in their case it's just a reflexive reaction).
In hindsight and quite ironically, if some sensationalist news reporter made a comparison they'd easily come to the conclusion that "these guys don't play as many video games as the ones in the US". But of course that'd be tantamount to this classic graph.
For multiple devices you can use the device emulator in the android SDK. Somehow I don't think this is valid though, I'd imagine it's one of the first scenarios tested. At some point an uninstall event or nag screen will be triggered. Not that you can't get an .apk of the installed app in the meantime...
Truly a perfect example of people expressing opinions.
My favourite IMDB section is by far the "parental guide". It could also be used as a great quiz game, e.g. which movie does this refer to?
"The opening dialog is a lengthy and graphic explanation of an extremely vulgar interpretation of Madonna's "Like A Virgin", with many references to sexual promiscuity and the mechanics of sex."
And to get it back on track - I just noticed that one of my favourite movies ever hasn't had a mention: Jesus Christ Superstar. This rendition of the known story is IMO the most humane and touching (not to mention rather realistic). After seeing that it is well worth finding Ted Neeley's final performance of his role as Jesus in a 2010 theatrical rendition, should be on youtube - get tissues ready.
Wait, is all this because of some female math teacher of yours and a failed math test?
This is true - in Avatar for example they took the exact same scenario as the story of Pocahontas and remade it with aliens.
You are not bringing any facts, just your opinion. Same as everybody else. If your opinion coincides with others' and it gains momentum it can be the popular opinion - other opinions will stare at it with envy. Stating your opinion over and over will not make it a fact, nor does its popularity make it a fact.
No, that is not an opinion. That is an assumption. In the case of a weather forecast it can be a random assumption, an empirical one or one based on a method of logical deduction or simulation. In none of the above does the individual's opinion about the weather come in as a factor - "I like snowy weather" is closer to an opinion as it states the person's taste as far as the natural abomination of frozen water gravitating to earth is involved. You might've of noticed I've cunningly inserted my own opinion about snow to illustrate the point. Pro bono.
Assuming we're talking about fictional time-travel-as-seen-in-a-given-movie's-universe: in the then future time travel tech would likely exist, and you'd risk them coming back. Not to mention that you'd give off the co-ordinates of your setup to whatever future law-enforcement existed.
If you want a really good solution and assuming that co-ordinates are fixed to the location of the time machine, I'd say set it up in a location you knew for a fact to be a rock quarry and merge them with granite; or if you want to be very thorough use the exact location of an iron foundry's furnace. That would also make a nice sidestory about the iron workers there nicknaming it "Ole Puffy". If you want to be even more vindictive while writing the scenario take in account the fact that co-ordinates would like not be earth-relative, so just time it a week ago and they'll just appear outside the atmosphere. No need for prepubescent dino-involving daydreams unless you are genetically predisposed for such.
I think the most fun I've seen it done in a movie was that FAQ about Time Travel flick.
Not really. If it was a documentary, maybe, or if it was a non-Hollywood production for a niche market like Primer (and even that didn't really get in to technical detail). It's just a stylized work of fiction, not a manual on time travel or firearms for that matter - blunderbusses and long barreled revolvers indeed.
On the recent Boris-reverse-psychology-recommendation (he actually loves the movies he says he hates just to get people to watch them), that one was actually a pretty interesting one thanks to the characters involved and, surprisingly, IIRC didn't try to repeat the 6th sense effect.
The only thing I could possibly think of is that possibilities probably seemed more controllable when using the near past. Sending them too far back might change things too much, thus annulling the lifestyle the gangsters did this to preserve in the first place. Or perhaps exactly by doing this 30 year loop they figured it ensured the aforementioned lifestyle. Also the method of time-travel is not even really touched upon, so maybe the magic elves powering it could only do up to 30 years after licking the blue out of a rainbow; and we all know that the blue spectrum is horribly difficult to preserve.
On a different note I liked the way the near future was depicted in that movie. Instead of all flamboyant or blatantly-cliched-copy-of-Bladerunner it was just shitty and half-assed, pretty much like I expect the near future to be - the solar power mods for the "old" cars were great as was the more obvious contrast between social classes and the tech available. Also I liked the lack of pyrotechnics for the time-travel sequences, a movie cliche that has to die.
In general I'd say the flow of the movie was very comic-book like - which is not a bad thing if you like comic books.
That's not entirely accurate. The kinematics and animation are not 1:1 linked to physics in terms of the game engine. A different part of the game engine translates the physics output to motion that can be rendered by the graphics engine. If you want, you can split it to "graphics guys", "kinematic rigging guys" and "physics guys". The thing to keep in focus though is that with our fav indie projects you're usually talking about one guy.
"World movement" is not g-force/headphysics related. It keeps the camera level and moves the car around the camera instead of pinning the camera to the car. This is more like how a human's point of view in a car would be vs how an onboard camera would be. Hence at 100% the "world" around you moves around and at 0% the "world" doesn't move while the cockpit does.
I think there was genuine excitement to be found in observing how George Lucas attempted to balance his desire to eat the last of his burger, being addressed by some other guest and getting out of the way of a third.
Settings would reset and you'd get a message about that and low battery during POST. You can usually find a voltage indicator in a "computer status" sort of page in the CMOS.
From the synopsis it sounds like a slightly more complicated narration of the theme explored by Jack London's "The Star Rover". Speaking of, there's a movie sort of based on that mentioned earlier in this thread, by amp88 I believe, called "The Jacket".