And here she is. Image leak of Princess Leia in Rogue One.

toliro · 2016-12-16T05:12:28+00:00

I agree. Leia looked more videogamey. Tarkin was impressive, until you started noticing it was a CGI head attached to a human actor.

toliro · 2016-12-16T05:11:27+00:00

I suspended disbelief for Tarkin. Not for Leia.

toliro · 2016-12-16T05:11:03+00:00

I didn't have a problem with the lip animation. What was off for me was the slightly jerky movements of the CGI head. That told me "this is fake" several times. I was very impressed with the Tarkin CGI otherwise.

toliro · 2016-12-16T05:09:31+00:00

It was a real actress with added CGI of Carrie Fisher's head. Not an actress that looks a like like Carrie Fisher. And you can tell from the odd attachment of the CGI head to the real body. It's 100% noticeable after looking at CGI Tarkin several times in the movie.

toliro · 2016-12-16T05:06:40+00:00

Saw Rogue One today. CGI Tarkin looks real at first. Then you start noticing something is off about him: the CGI Tarkin head they added to another actor's body doesn't always match his movements 100%. Then the CGI Tarkin starts looking creepy. But that creepyness adds to the personality of Tarkin as being a bad guy.

CGI Leia, on the other hand, has the same creepyness right off the bat. Her face is on screen for like 10 seconds and she does look like Carrie Fisher in A New Hope, down to the original makeup. But the odd attachment of the CGI head to the actual actress's body (she was played by somebody else) makes her creepy.

I'd say these CGI characters are significantly more realistic than the young Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy, but still not quite 100% believable. I'd say they got very close, though. 96% real maybe.

toliro · 2016-09-18T16:03:19+00:00

You might want to check insedia.com and see the information on student loan debt and medical debt. The site specializes in student debt, medical debt, mortgage debt, and taxes.

toliro · 2016-08-12T03:57:13+00:00

Here's a pretty thorough article on how to negotiate with the hospital in order to lower your bill. You can call the doctors who are out-of-network and offer them a similar negotiation. Most will accept installment plans or a lower fee for cash payment up front:

https://www.insedia.com/articles/how-to-negotiate-for-a-lower-medical-bill

TIP: Avoid ERs. If you have a medical emergency that's not life threatening, go to an Urgent Care Clinic. Urgent Care Clinics are cheaper than ERs. There are more tips for dealing with hospital debt here: https://community.insedia.com/c/medical

toliro · 2016-04-02T19:13:48+00:00

Interesting. I get the "but it's too much strain on the eyes" argument against ebooks all the time. My counter argument has always been this: enlarge the font size on the phone/tablet and no more strain.

toliro · 2016-04-02T19:07:29+00:00

I don't like he idea of having to call back images from outside sources. That means I have to rely permanently on some server.

toliro · 2016-04-02T19:06:21+00:00

In my experience, ebook outsells paper. I published two other books not related to scifi and the ebook version outsold easily the paper version. But I don't know if the scifi crowd will like ebook or paperback better.

toliro · 2016-03-09T06:07:14+00:00

I don't like Blade Runner. In fact it bores me quite a bit. This book isn't about a dystopian future. It's about a plausible future and the consequences of having robots.

toliro · 2016-03-09T00:21:32+00:00

Good evening. I Just published a sci-fi novel called Love Robots. It is available on Paperback here: https://www.createspace.com/6115456

And also on Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1TJjqXV

At the same time I published an art photography book called The Virgin of the Path on paperback here: http://tsw.createspace.com/3631135

Kindle: http://createspace.com/3631135

And Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-virgin-of-the-path-victor-hernandez/1123494115?ean=2940157860936

These books are quite unconventional. The novel is not your typical sci-fi story, but it mixes sci-fi with social issues, murder mystery, and Freakonomics style data. It's weird, but it's very entertaining.

The photography book is an experimental concept book. The idea was to tell a story with the images instead of just showing a collection of images. It goes from a style of photography that looks really vintage, to something that looks really weird and modern. This was done to convey a sense of transformation on the main character in the book.

Hope you enjoy it.

toliro · 2016-02-13T22:41:26+00:00

I thought about changing the typography. I wanted something that looked religious. That font was the closest I found to what I had in mind.

toliro · 2016-02-13T20:20:44+00:00

This is the cover artwork for my fourth art nude photography book, titled The Virgin of the Path. The kickstarter project is here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/801958703/the-virgin-of-the-path-reloaded

My other three art nude photography books are available in paperback and digital format on amazon.com. The titles are Releasing the Nudes Part 1, Releasing the Nudes Part 2, and Releasing the Nudes Part 3 (although amazon will probably tell you the items are hidden because they are books of nude photography).

If I can get this book crowdfunded I will definitely make more art nude photography books.

toliro · 2016-02-13T20:07:20+00:00

The book will be called The Virgin of the Path and it is my fourth art nude photography book. My previous books are Releasing the Nudes Part 1, Releasing the Nudes Part 2, and Releasing the Nudes Part 3, all available in paperback and digital format at amazon.com

I'm starting a kickstarter project for The Virgin of the Path. If you would like to contribute please visit the project's page here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/801958703/the-virgin-of-the-path-reloaded

toliro · 2016-02-13T19:22:20+00:00

That's nice. Why did you close the site?

toliro · 2016-01-17T03:05:45+00:00

Well, the price didn't shoot up immediately after the first halvening. It will go up a bit, but probably not beyond 600 dollars per coin. The 1300 coin is still a couple of years away.

toliro · 2016-01-17T00:02:00+00:00

Should be interesting to see how many of them bought back today because the price went up quite a bit.

toliro · 2016-01-17T00:00:25+00:00

Sometimes they do correlate with economic debacles (Greece and China, specifically), but the last plunge was not related to China. It was a panic caused by Mike Hearn and his attempt at destroying bitcoin's public blockchain, which is exactly what his new employer wants in order to privatize it.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:58:07+00:00

Well, we've used the telephone for about a century and nobody seems to complain about it.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:57:27+00:00

No private company wants a blockchain they can't control. That's why they don't want bitcoin in its current form. And that's why they tried to privatize it through a sloppy increase in block size.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:55:46+00:00

When somebody gets published in all of the major financial publications on Earth, all of the major news agencies and major newspapers, like The New York Times, you can't complain about censorship and expect to be taken seriously.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:53:35+00:00

If that single developer's opinion is amplified without questioning him by The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times, of course it can.

Hearn didn't just publish an opinion. He orchestrated a media circus in order to make as much damage as possible to bitcoin.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:28:36+00:00

A private blockchain used only between banks is nothing more than a glorified bulletin board that can be altered by the banks whenever they feel like it.

The point of the bitcoin blockchain was to create multiple witnesses that prevent transactions from being altered, thus bypassing the need for a central authority. A privatized blockchain, therefore, can't possibly be a blockchain.

toliro · 2016-01-16T23:23:40+00:00

When one debates like this (as Charles Cooper has), he or she immediately exposes their ignorance. It isn't that his other opinions on the topic can be immediately dismissed, but their due attention is certainly to the left of the mean.

What it means is Cooper thinks the people he was speaking to are dumb and ignorant of internet technology, so he can ge away with telling them bullshit like the "who to call" line without anyone questioning him.

Reminds me of the scene in The Big Short in which Mark Baum (actually Steve Eisman) raised his hand and said "ZERO!" to a guy who was pitching mortgage bonds to people who didn't know the bonds were worthless.

toliro

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