Re:This is one of the reason I want to see this mo
on
The Science of Iron Man
·
· Score: 5, Funny
Oh, and none of the "I got bitten by a mutant spider/got exposed to gamma ray/etc" crap that is usually associated with american super-heroes. tell me about it.
after watching spiderman, i was so psyched. I went right home, caught a spider, microwaved it for a few seconds to mutate its DNA a little bit, then I took it out and let it bite me.
and guess what?
No superpowers
spiderman is bullshit. this ironman fellow, this is real superhero stuff for sure...
step 1: take a $100 digi-cam step 2: break off the shutter button step 3: attach a motion sensor (about $10 each from sites like http://www.hvwtech.com/products_list.asp?CatID=114&SubCatD=186 (I don't work for them, but i've had good experiences, and i got free stuff when a shipment was late and i complained) step 4: send a constant voltage to the connector that detects when you have pushed the shutter half way down. step 5: hook up the motion sensor to the shutter button. step 6: you how have a cheep motion sensing digital camera for cheep. step 7: ??? step 8: profit
i have to say, i do support the levy, because it means i can download all i want and never get sued.
but here is the part where the levy is a miserable failure: independent bands.
many of my friends are in unsigned bands, playing bar shows on a regular basis, and they are actually making a living off of it. not a good living by any means, they are just scraping by, but they are doing it on their own.
But...lets say they want to burn some of their songs and sell them at their shows. every black CD has that nice levy on it, they pay it, but because they are unsigned, they get nothing back for it.
IF any of the money does make it past the labels and into the artists hands, it's going to acts like nickleback.
thats right, supporting independent music helps the big guys, too.
then if something's too complicated for most of the audience to get, it probably fails at expressing those things. in other words, it does suck, simply because it doesn't mean anything to the people you made it for. I don't understand quantum mechanics, does that mean that quantum mechanics sucks because it is too complicated for most people to get?
no, it means that science, physics and math are languages that people have to invest a great deal of time and effort into learning.
someone might argue that quantum mechanics is not intended for a general audience, it is made specifically for other scientists and theorists already familiar with the terminology and jargon found in that field.
well, the same has been true with art for the past 50 years. Most contemporary art is made with other artists as the intended audience, artists don't have the general public in mind whey they are creating a piece. if you really want to see ideas that have been watered down to the point where everyone is able to get what the artist is saying, look at some postcards. or many some dumb Hollywood crap fest.
art is a language that has been developing for years, and if you don't understand it, you have no one to blame but yourself for your ignorance in an area you have chosen to not study.
that being said, after you have invested years learning the language of art, you will realize that yes, half the stuff out there sucks ass.
~ Kyle, BFA (i will leave it to your imagination to decided if that BFA stands for 'bachelor of fine arts', 'bachelor of fuck all' or 'big fat asshole')
well, you were correct, so your post SHOULD have be modded '+1 insightful' however, if that were to happen, your post would no longer be insightful,it would become flamebait.
that is a paradox so unimaginable, it is making my brain hurt... Please...Provide me with some form of analogy so i can make sense of it all...
Will they ever be able to make a hat that lets slashdot users know if they will be modded '+1 funny' vs '-1 flamebait?' 6 seconds before clicking 'submit?'
step 1: back up everything, just in case (i typically ignore this step myself, but its good advice nonetheless)
step 2: burn your ubuntu ISO to a DVD or CD
step 2.0.1: insert CD into CD rom drive, restart computer.
step 3: keep hitting 'next' until its done.
it will ask you to make some new partitions, i have only ever set up on a single HD, this is what i did: 1 will be your winXP partition, 10 gigs is ok. another will be your Ubuntu partition, (mine is EXT3 FS, again, 10 gigs should be ok) and a 3rd will be a partition for your SWAP. (RAM X 2)
I add a 4th, a FAT 32 shared directory. even though ubuntu can now read/write NTFS, i stick with FAT because i'm not l33t enough to know any better.
after installation, when you restart, you should have a menu, where you can select winXP, ubuntu, safe mode ubuntu, something else, or some weird diagnostic thingy that never seems to end in 7.10.
while were at it, lets get rid of the periodic table of elements in chemistry class.
One major concern I have is the elevation of the 90-something elements as a means of all materials to an unrealistic importance. I just don't see why it's so important in and of itself. One could certainly be a competent physician, for example, and not believe in Oxygen or Carbon (or hydrogen). It seems to me that one could even be a quite competent practitioner of any of the bio-chemical sciences (other than the various sorts of helium balloon fillers) without necessarily agreeing with chemistry. Yet, we are constantly told that a failure to teach the periodic table at the high school level will destroy science education as we know it and result in a US population that is hopelessly ignorant of all science, etc. etc. I just don't buy it.
Quebec has had several referendums where the people were allowed to vote to decide, 'should I stay or should I go'
even with the question on the ballot being worded in an awkward way to encourage separation, the majority of the people still decided to remain part of Canada.
when will the people of Tibet be given their own referendum.
there are a lot of Chinese people working in Korea, and since they speak limited English, and I am here with a friend who speaks Chinese, and we are foreigners in a strange land, we spend a lot of time together, talking.
One day, Tienanmen square came up, and they wondered why Westerners always made a big deal about that particular spot.
"it was just a bunch of bad students" one said to me. she knew something happened there one, but no specifics.
that was all they knew. Tienanmen was just "A bunch of bad students"
I went online, showed them that famous footage. there was shock, outrage, and disbelief. 2 of them now refuse to return to China.
makes you wonder what our governments are hiding from us.
My Chinese friends are always making little jabs at me here and there, because British Colonialism was so awful, and wrong. And being white makes me inherently guilty of everything wrong with the world. (despite the fact that i am not British)
They all agree that Tibet is a part of China
I told them all "fine, i will agree to that, Tibet is as much a part of China as India is a part of Britian."
has anyone else noticed that whenever we have a war on anything it is a colossal failure Your 'War on Germans' (parts 1 and 2) were both quite successful.
Your 'War in Korea' worked out quite well for half the country...
but then Nam happened, and, well...its been down hill since then.
but the important thing is that they haven't ALL been collossal failures, You've just had a 60 year losing streek.
I'm sure things will turn around when you eventually declare war on Canada.
i do exactly that, for the past 7 years or so (since 2001, i think, not sure) i have had 2 email accounts, one is personal, the other is used for online forms, registrations, notifications, ebay, amazon shopping, etc.
it started as an experement. i wanted to see if my gender made a difference in the number of 'v1agra' ads that i got, so one account listed me as male, the other, female. (it made no difference - aparently, spammers think females want to have a bigger pen1s too)
while my main yahoo account (myrealname @ yahoo.com) is not perfectly spam proof, it only gets about 1 or 2 spam messages a year, hardley enough to worry about.
My other account (theheadlessrabbit @ yahoo.com) gets nearly 100 spam messages a day. most of them go to my bulk folder automatically and i never see them.
my facebook, slashdot, youtube, ebay, freeporn, etc. go into the main folder, and pop up on pidgin's email notification thingy, so i can quickly scroll through them all, see if any emails are important, or if i can delete them all.
It takes very little effort on my part.
for me, spam is not an issue.
i think all these anti-spam ideas miss the big picture: if no one bought products from spam, they wouldnt do it. we should be going after the idiots who reply to spam.
as a GitS fan, I should be excited by this, but why do i have a feeling that Hollywood will water-down, bastardize and destroy everything that makes the original great?
(and yes, i am talking about the beautiful nude scenes with the stealth suits breaking off. it was beautifully done.)
although God knows what happens God does not know it in "advance" because our notions of time do not apply to God. this is not an argument that an free will is possible with an omniscient God.
All this shows is that god is not omniscient. If he needs to watch it to know how it turns out, he is not all knowing.
can't they just genetically engineer flowers with more potent aromas?
then we will inevitably have a/. story about long delays getting the product developed, and the whole idea of new smelly flowers will get tagged as vaporware, which would be an entirely inappropriate tag.
No, there aren't many of what we would call rights in France. Freedom of Speech for example. They couldn't have a Led Zeppelin day on the radio for example, since a fixed percentage of the music must be in French. So freedom and constitutional rights in the United States have eroded to the point where Freedom is now defined as the ability to play Led Zeppelin all day?
How the hell do Content Laws have anything to do with Freedom of speech?
We have Canadian content laws in Canada as well.
CanCon laws in no way impeed my freedom to say what I want, when I want. I can say that Stephen Harper is a fucking douche, whos anti-media policies would be right at home in North Korea. I have the freedom to walk right up to his house, knock on his door and say it to his face (if he answers his own door...)
Why so much people in US do not like us French people ? Because the wine, food, healthcare, social services, and kissing are so much better in France, Americans have to hate you so they can continue to feel good about themselves.
Microsoft is supposedly making the move in part to ensure that Linux doesn't dominate the market for certain types of 'ultra-low-cost' laptops. so...Microsoft is afraid of Linux?
as a frequent photoshop / gimp user, i will tell you that the gimp is clearly NOT ready for the mainstream market.
while the tools work, the interface is not nearly as fluid and user friendly as photoshop. with the gimp, whenever the program selects something, a layer, window, tool, etc. it always gets it wrong. it may offer the same functionality, but feels like im fighting the program the whole time just to fet my work done. photoshop seems to just read my mind, the tool and layer i want to use next is selected after i finish what i'm doing.
if i want to rotate, distort, stretch, whatever, i do not want to type in a numerical value, i want to rotate and distort the freaken' picture untill it looks right.
I am sick of FOSS fanboys telling me the gimp is ready. I am an artist, i use both programs frequently, and I am telling you, as an artist, it is not ready. (note: I am a FOSS fanboy my self, typing this on firefox through ubuntu, with gimp running in the background)
I won't go into audio, but I am still looking for a linux equivalent of audiomulch to use with my m-audio sound card i haven't been able to find linux drivers for.
if you are an computer user for email/youtube/instant messenging/skype/writing/powerpoint, etc. Linux offers a better experience than windows. but for professionals, its just not there yet.
Slashdot Mirror
after watching spiderman, i was so psyched.
I went right home, caught a spider, microwaved it for a few seconds to mutate its DNA a little bit, then I took it out and let it bite me.
and guess what?
No superpowers
spiderman is bullshit.
this ironman fellow, this is real superhero stuff for sure...
i wish i had known about this during last months pwn to own contest.
Then i'd be running ubuntu on my cracked and pwned vista machine right now, instead of runnung ubuntu on my purchased and formatted vista machine.
step 1: take a $100 digi-cam
step 2: break off the shutter button
step 3: attach a motion sensor (about $10 each from sites like http://www.hvwtech.com/products_list.asp?CatID=114&SubCatD=186
(I don't work for them, but i've had good experiences, and i got free stuff when a shipment was late and i complained)
step 4: send a constant voltage to the connector that detects when you have pushed the shutter half way down.
step 5: hook up the motion sensor to the shutter button.
step 6: you how have a cheep motion sensing digital camera for cheep.
step 7: ???
step 8: profit
i have to say, i do support the levy, because it means i can download all i want and never get sued.
but here is the part where the levy is a miserable failure:
independent bands.
many of my friends are in unsigned bands, playing bar shows on a regular basis, and they are actually making a living off of it. not a good living by any means, they are just scraping by, but they are doing it on their own.
But...lets say they want to burn some of their songs and sell them at their shows. every black CD has that nice levy on it, they pay it, but because they are unsigned, they get nothing back for it.
IF any of the money does make it past the labels and into the artists hands, it's going to acts like nickleback.
thats right, supporting independent music helps the big guys, too.
thank you, blank media levy!
no, it means that science, physics and math are languages that people have to invest a great deal of time and effort into learning.
someone might argue that quantum mechanics is not intended for a general audience, it is made specifically for other scientists and theorists already familiar with the terminology and jargon found in that field.
well, the same has been true with art for the past 50 years.
Most contemporary art is made with other artists as the intended audience, artists don't have the general public in mind whey they are creating a piece.
if you really want to see ideas that have been watered down to the point where everyone is able to get what the artist is saying, look at some postcards. or many some dumb Hollywood crap fest.
art is a language that has been developing for years, and if you don't understand it, you have no one to blame but yourself for your ignorance in an area you have chosen to not study.
that being said, after you have invested years learning the language of art, you will realize that yes, half the stuff out there sucks ass.
~ Kyle, BFA
(i will leave it to your imagination to decided if that BFA stands for 'bachelor of fine arts', 'bachelor of fuck all' or 'big fat asshole')
well, you were correct, so your post SHOULD have be modded '+1 insightful' however, if that were to happen, your post would no longer be insightful,it would become flamebait.
that is a paradox so unimaginable, it is making my brain hurt...
Please...Provide me with some form of analogy so i can make sense of it all...
Will they ever be able to make a hat that lets slashdot users know if they will be modded '+1 funny' vs '-1 flamebait?' 6 seconds before clicking 'submit?'
I'm actually 4096th English, just in case you are interested.
the short answer is "yes"
step 1: back up everything, just in case (i typically ignore this step myself, but its good advice nonetheless)
step 2: burn your ubuntu ISO to a DVD or CD
step 2.0.1: insert CD into CD rom drive, restart computer.
step 3: keep hitting 'next' until its done.
it will ask you to make some new partitions,
i have only ever set up on a single HD, this is what i did:
1 will be your winXP partition, 10 gigs is ok. another will be your Ubuntu partition, (mine is EXT3 FS, again, 10 gigs should be ok) and a 3rd will be a partition for your SWAP. (RAM X 2)
I add a 4th, a FAT 32 shared directory. even though ubuntu can now read/write NTFS, i stick with FAT because i'm not l33t enough to know any better.
after installation, when you restart, you should have a menu, where you can select winXP, ubuntu, safe mode ubuntu, something else, or some weird diagnostic thingy that never seems to end in 7.10.
your absolutely right1
while were at it, lets get rid of the periodic table of elements in chemistry class.
One major concern I have is the elevation of the 90-something elements as a means of all materials to an unrealistic importance. I just don't see why it's so important in and of itself. One could certainly be a competent physician, for example, and not believe in Oxygen or Carbon (or hydrogen). It seems to me that one could even be a quite competent practitioner of any of the bio-chemical sciences (other than the various sorts of helium balloon fillers) without necessarily agreeing with chemistry. Yet, we are constantly told that a failure to teach the periodic table at the high school level will destroy science education as we know it and result in a US population that is hopelessly ignorant of all science, etc. etc. I just don't buy it.
how old are you?
My Chinese friends here are mostly from smaller towns, and were born at/around the time Tienanmen happened.
i will post the lists of their towns later tonight, after i ask them how to spell the names properly.
Quebec has had several referendums where the people were allowed to vote to decide, 'should I stay or should I go'
even with the question on the ballot being worded in an awkward way to encourage separation, the majority of the people still decided to remain part of Canada.
when will the people of Tibet be given their own referendum.
you have no idea how true this is.
I am currently teaching ESL in Korea.
there are a lot of Chinese people working in Korea, and since they speak limited English, and I am here with a friend who speaks Chinese, and we are foreigners in a strange land, we spend a lot of time together, talking.
One day, Tienanmen square came up, and they wondered why Westerners always made a big deal about that particular spot.
"it was just a bunch of bad students" one said to me. she knew something happened there one, but no specifics.
that was all they knew.
Tienanmen was just "A bunch of bad students"
I went online, showed them that famous footage.
there was shock, outrage, and disbelief.
2 of them now refuse to return to China.
makes you wonder what our governments are hiding from us.
My Chinese friends are always making little jabs at me here and there, because British Colonialism was so awful, and wrong. And being white makes me inherently guilty of everything wrong with the world. (despite the fact that i am not British)
They all agree that Tibet is a part of China
I told them all "fine, i will agree to that, Tibet is as much a part of China as India is a part of Britian."
Your 'War in Korea' worked out quite well for half the country...
but then Nam happened, and, well...its been down hill since then.
but the important thing is that they haven't ALL been collossal failures, You've just had a 60 year losing streek.
I'm sure things will turn around when you eventually declare war on Canada.
i do exactly that, for the past 7 years or so (since 2001, i think, not sure) i have had 2 email accounts, one is personal, the other is used for online forms, registrations, notifications, ebay, amazon shopping, etc.
it started as an experement. i wanted to see if my gender made a difference in the number of 'v1agra' ads that i got, so one account listed me as male, the other, female.
(it made no difference - aparently, spammers think females want to have a bigger pen1s too)
while my main yahoo account (myrealname @ yahoo.com) is not perfectly spam proof, it only gets about 1 or 2 spam messages a year, hardley enough to worry about.
My other account (theheadlessrabbit @ yahoo.com) gets nearly 100 spam messages a day.
most of them go to my bulk folder automatically and i never see them.
my facebook, slashdot, youtube, ebay, freeporn, etc. go into the main folder, and pop up on pidgin's email notification thingy, so i can quickly scroll through them all, see if any emails are important, or if i can delete them all.
It takes very little effort on my part.
for me, spam is not an issue.
i think all these anti-spam ideas miss the big picture: if no one bought products from spam, they wouldnt do it. we should be going after the idiots who reply to spam.
as a GitS fan, I should be excited by this, but why do i have a feeling that Hollywood will water-down, bastardize and destroy everything that makes the original great?
(and yes, i am talking about the beautiful nude scenes with the stealth suits breaking off. it was beautifully done.)
please, be faithful to the original.
i thought that quantum physics has proven that the universe is probabilistic, not deterministic.
and since its quantum physics, that means you can have free will, and be subject to fate at the same time!
All this shows is that god is not omniscient. If he needs to watch it to know how it turns out, he is not all knowing.
can't they just genetically engineer flowers with more potent aromas?
/. story about long delays getting the product developed, and the whole idea of new smelly flowers will get tagged as vaporware, which would be an entirely inappropriate tag.
then we will inevitably have a
How the hell do Content Laws have anything to do with Freedom of speech?
We have Canadian content laws in Canada as well.
CanCon laws in no way impeed my freedom to say what I want, when I want. I can say that Stephen Harper is a fucking douche, whos anti-media policies would be right at home in North Korea. I have the freedom to walk right up to his house, knock on his door and say it to his face (if he answers his own door...)
now i realize you are +5 funny
with the exception of the super rich, when has tax ever gone down?
wow. this is good news!
as a frequent photoshop / gimp user, i will tell you that the gimp is clearly NOT ready for the mainstream market.
while the tools work, the interface is not nearly as fluid and user friendly as photoshop.
with the gimp, whenever the program selects something, a layer, window, tool, etc. it always gets it wrong. it may offer the same functionality, but feels like im fighting the program the whole time just to fet my work done.
photoshop seems to just read my mind, the tool and layer i want to use next is selected after i finish what i'm doing.
if i want to rotate, distort, stretch, whatever, i do not want to type in a numerical value, i want to rotate and distort the freaken' picture untill it looks right.
I am sick of FOSS fanboys telling me the gimp is ready. I am an artist, i use both programs frequently, and I am telling you, as an artist, it is not ready.
(note: I am a FOSS fanboy my self, typing this on firefox through ubuntu, with gimp running in the background)
I won't go into audio, but I am still looking for a linux equivalent of audiomulch to use with my m-audio sound card i haven't been able to find linux drivers for.
if you are an computer user for email/youtube/instant messenging/skype/writing/powerpoint, etc. Linux offers a better experience than windows. but for professionals, its just not there yet.
before we can be sure she is a witch, we weigh her. if she weights as much as a duck, then proceed...