The particular brand of globalization done by American people is to treat "the rest of the world" as yet another "Hawaii".
Globalization can be good, pity some (non-internet enabled) Americans have a twisted idea of what it (the rest of the planet) is about. I think a re-education will solve all the problems, and not the hosting of a LAN.;)
This story is a case in point by grouping 'anti-American' and 'anti-globalization' into one concept. Showing just how easy it is to alienate the rest of the world (which should be an integral part of a globalization effort.
I own many of these titles, and have seen most of them.
This was a brave, but subjective attempt.
I think a better measure would have been the influence each movie had on the following generations of film. Such as how many re-makes was made of it.
For instance, "Star Wars" in my opinion was a remake of "The Hidden Fortress", but Star Wars got a mention and not Hidden Fortress. Sure the list of movies are of the "Best", which sorta makes them immune to critisizm, but a better measure would have been "greatest".
The one is subjective, and the other objective.
I think they wanted to at least touch on all the best directors that film-school fancy-pants students will recognise just so that they can get the support from the largest group possible.
Only one Fellini? Only one Terry Gilliam? ONLY ONE Korosawa!? No Matrix!!!
-sigh-
At least they listed "Lord of the Rings", but not "Harry Potter"? Hmm... I'm sure children's opinion should count as well!
Sorry, but IMDB's top 250 list is still my authoratative measure of "good". (Even if I disagree personally)
... the termination shock boundary passed by Voyager 1? This would depend on the (decrease od) speed of the solar wind and thus (decreased) solar activity some time in the past.
The 'software characters' did not need to, and did not intend to 'escape' the gamma ray [bursters].
Their intention was to find out the nature of the multiverse as to avoid other catastrophes that could/would affect them. (the 'end of time' springs to mind)
Thus all we need to do to escape gamma rays would be to migrate into software (or hardware) and bury ourselves beep beneath the core of an inert body (and also create backups!);)
I for one don't care much for people broadcasting the fact that they drive a motorcycle with a perpetuated engine fault (Harley).
I think they should perhaps have speakers embedded into their helmets to blast their own ears away. -grin-
I think some form of speaker system can be installed which will simulate some form of engine noise (Star Wars vehicles come to mind...) to help with the safety issue. Besides, the noise of some motorcycles prevent the rider from hearing others around them.
I too drive a 3.0 litre Porsche 911 SC, and am painfully aware how bad it is for the environment (and my fuel budget). Fortunately event though my exhaust needs to be replaced (I almost sound as bad as a free-flow modified VW Beetle!) the car is totally silent within. (Pretty cool really)
I'll miss the roar I think, but then again I'm all for viable (quasi-)electric vehicles.
I've been to Britain long ago, and somehow I have the recollection of Fluoride being put in the drinking water... but perhaps I'm confusing it with someplace else...
I think the Americans just plain eat crap... hence the cause of bad breath, weight problems and American spelling (had to blame something!).
PS: I'm from South Africa... thus mostly speak British English.
If a DELL is a standard configuration (Millions like it...) then I don't know what is... I've never heard of a Standard laptop brand. Most people buy brands, you know... does not matter if they test it on Linux or not... it's still popular and used by many people. I used an older DELL Latitude doing some pretty funky Linux development for about 2 years, and it worked fine... I thought I'd stick to the brand.
The JOKE is that an older Linux boot CD DID work... just not the latest stable Knoppix with kernel 2.6. So it DID work, but a newer Linux broke it.
And if it's my fault running an 'untested' Linux... ha! My point exactly! Why did the standard Debian distro not support my funky (but pretty common) device! At least it SORTA worked when I went to unstable... (Just got occasional kernel panics which were due to the 'unstable' part which I can accept) My problem was that 'stable' did not work at all. (It's dysfunction was consistent)
Drivers under Linux suck (compared to windows). Sure they are great... if you know how to manually tweak module settings. And I do... but I don't care to. I just want to do the basics... you know, like BOOTING and such.
People here are talking about the random old piece of hardware not supported, but I'm having trouble with my standard DELL Inspiron 9100/XPS laptop. So much so that both the latest 3.7 Knoppix and MandrakeMove did not want to even boot up on this! Even Windows worked without any funky drivers!
I still use Linux, mostly because of the price, but I have to test most configurations thoroughly before I can decide to use it. (Factor this into TCO?) When I hit on a stable combo, I just hope the MOBO does not stop being manufactured for a while at least.
When Linux runs, I have to admit... it runs well. Still beats windows for server applications hands down. (I've had windows servers crash on me because I right-clicked on the desktop.... but this was because no drivers were installed on it... something I soon and easily fixed.)
Also when I used to run Debian and upgraded to 'untested' I had some serious problems. I needed to do this because of certain USB support and proper Serial-ATA drivers. (I needed the 2.6 kernel) My machine sorta worked. (Well Quake 3 worked the best ever!) But most things were a pain... my removable 250 Gb external FAT32 USB/firewire drive was a real pain.
For now, I am still only running Linux on my old AMD K6, Windows XP on my DELL Inspiron and TV media machine (3GHz P4) and OS X on my Mac (Just Love Apple/OSX's user experience... sucks with game availability though). Perhaps Apple (Amiga/C64/etc) had the right idea about locking down the hardware a bit... the variety of chipsets are the greatest cause of frustration for PC (and Linux in particular) users!
Then why, if both are equally fun, does Slashdot articles like this even exist? The significance of the 5x5 solution was great when it happened years ago... so why is it newsworthy now? Is it because an American finally discovered it? Does it not point to the general lack of knowledge?
Then you ask why do Go players bemoan the lack of knowledge in the west about this mathematical wonder! Perhaps because Americans are slow? (It was the American Go Association reporting this after all...) The Dutch person who did this proof did it in 2002.
I've seen this on http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmallBoardGo
Also, 19x19's complexity is in the order of 10^500 and chess about 10^54.
But chess has more rigour as the unnecessary (debatable) obfuscation build into the game through the arbitrary complexity of the moving pieces, thus making it more difficult to get past the tactics to the strategy. Go, on the other hand, has a very simple rule-set similar to finite automata which lends itself easily to the human thought process, making it easy even for a beginner to be able to see dozens of moves ahead and get caught in it's rich strategy.
I am not debating 'which is better' here. If your into rigour and tactics, chess is your game.
Had my webcam(s) going, my alarm went off (with armed response in tow) AND I have the vehicle registration number. All this I gave on a CD (silver platter) to the South African Police, and they still managed to bungle it!
Stories like this only sound cool when someone paid attention...
Ah yes... could not remember so well... did much porting from Linux to win32 (native and Cygwin) at some point.
I remember not having a 'n' version to something like vnsprintf() or something... could not remember which it was though. Perhaps I eventually found it to be one of those underscore functions... -ponder- like _vnsprintf() -shrug-
Also had some trouble with missing helper defines like:
S_ISDIR()
and some other low-level socket defines being either missing or different. (I did some funky tweaks to sockets like disabling the Nagel algorithm for realtime sockets...)
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The particular brand of globalization done by American people is to treat "the rest of the world" as yet another "Hawaii".
;)
Globalization can be good, pity some (non-internet enabled) Americans have a twisted idea of what it (the rest of the planet) is about. I think a re-education will solve all the problems, and not the hosting of a LAN.
This story is a case in point by grouping 'anti-American' and 'anti-globalization' into one concept. Showing just how easy it is to alienate the rest of the world (which should be an integral part of a globalization effort.
I own many of these titles, and have seen most of them.
This was a brave, but subjective attempt.
I think a better measure would have been the influence each movie had on the following generations of film. Such as how many re-makes was made of it.
For instance, "Star Wars" in my opinion was a remake of "The Hidden Fortress", but Star Wars got a mention and not Hidden Fortress. Sure the list of movies are of the "Best", which sorta makes them immune to critisizm, but a better measure would have been "greatest".
The one is subjective, and the other objective.
I think they wanted to at least touch on all the best directors that film-school fancy-pants students will recognise just so that they can get the support from the largest group possible.
Only one Fellini? Only one Terry Gilliam? ONLY ONE Korosawa!? No Matrix!!!
-sigh-
At least they listed "Lord of the Rings", but not "Harry Potter"? Hmm... I'm sure children's opinion should count as well!
Sorry, but IMDB's top 250 list is still my authoratative measure of "good". (Even if I disagree personally)
Total Commander can see the files on the iPod using this file system plugin. (link to download may be broken, but plugin can be found elsewhere...)
;)
TC is all you really ever need, and can replace explorer quite effectively with loads of added bonuses.
I've also used a neat OS X util called Senuti (iTunes backward) to be able to copy from and to the iPod and do all sorts of other cool things.
(Next to zsh and vi, it's the cheese!)
... the termination shock boundary passed by Voyager 1? This would depend on the (decrease od) speed of the solar wind and thus (decreased) solar activity some time in the past.
Can one get arrested for speaking in anagrams?
Or perhaps committing puns? (debateable, this one is)
Mail.app in OS X has been doing this for some time now... kinda cool one can drag and drop e-mail addresses. (and do many other things with them...)
To get more Opera-like behaviour is easy and can be done by the extensible options in Firefox like SO.
Thus all those hotmail and gmail open link in new window pains will just go away!
Delicious Library is awesome value for the price, but if you only want to do Books, then look at Books for Mac OS X. It's OSS and free (for now?).
I don't know of any other apps for books which have not already been listed here... there are even less good ones for the PC...
The 'software characters' did not need to, and did not intend to 'escape' the gamma ray [bursters].
;)
Their intention was to find out the nature of the multiverse as to avoid other catastrophes that could/would affect them. (the 'end of time' springs to mind)
Thus all we need to do to escape gamma rays would be to migrate into software (or hardware) and bury ourselves beep beneath the core of an inert body (and also create backups!)
If you bothered to go to the AppleInsider link you would have noticed the article was posted:
"Thursday, March 31, 2005"
Never mind April... you're just the vanilla fool.
... when you have Google?
:P
But then again, Mensa is just a place for people who cannot entertain themselves on their own...
I for one don't care much for people broadcasting the fact that they drive a motorcycle with a perpetuated engine fault (Harley).
I think they should perhaps have speakers embedded into their helmets to blast their own ears away.
-grin-
I think some form of speaker system can be installed which will simulate some form of engine noise (Star Wars vehicles come to mind...) to help with the safety issue. Besides, the noise of some motorcycles prevent the rider from hearing others around them.
I too drive a 3.0 litre Porsche 911 SC, and am painfully aware how bad it is for the environment (and my fuel budget). Fortunately event though my exhaust needs to be replaced (I almost sound as bad as a free-flow modified VW Beetle!) the car is totally silent within. (Pretty cool really)
I'll miss the roar I think, but then again I'm all for viable (quasi-)electric vehicles.
Yup, same here.. I've got several copies already.
It will come free with your drive, and most good quality drives get bundles with it.... or at least all the ones I buy...
I'm very happy about this. It could make quite a couple of people ditch their Windows.
(Let's chance the offtopic) :)
I've been to Britain long ago, and somehow I have the recollection of Fluoride being put in the drinking water... but perhaps I'm confusing it with someplace else...
I think the Americans just plain eat crap... hence the cause of bad breath, weight problems and American spelling (had to blame something!).
PS: I'm from South Africa... thus mostly speak British English.
If a DELL is a standard configuration (Millions like it...) then I don't know what is... I've never heard of a Standard laptop brand. Most people buy brands, you know... does not matter if they test it on Linux or not... it's still popular and used by many people. I used an older DELL Latitude doing some pretty funky Linux development for about 2 years, and it worked fine... I thought I'd stick to the brand.
The JOKE is that an older Linux boot CD DID work... just not the latest stable Knoppix with kernel 2.6. So it DID work, but a newer Linux broke it.
And if it's my fault running an 'untested' Linux... ha! My point exactly! Why did the standard Debian distro not support my funky (but pretty common) device! At least it SORTA worked when I went to unstable... (Just got occasional kernel panics which were due to the 'unstable' part which I can accept) My problem was that 'stable' did not work at all. (It's dysfunction was consistent)
The Victorynox also has the blades on the inside... but the one I have is too heavy. Like Swiss tools better than American... less hype.
But that said, the Leatherman Micra and wave are pretty cool.
But then again, the most important purpose for a tool in my country is for self-defence.... does that count?
So I carry a 'Cold Steel' Vaquero (medium size). I needed something with a silver blade and looks mean (for law purposes)
What's wrong with your teeth?
-grin-
Drivers under Linux suck (compared to windows). Sure they are great... if you know how to manually tweak module settings. And I do... but I don't care to. I just want to do the basics... you know, like BOOTING and such.
People here are talking about the random old piece of hardware not supported, but I'm having trouble with my standard DELL Inspiron 9100/XPS laptop. So much so that both the latest 3.7 Knoppix and MandrakeMove did not want to even boot up on this! Even Windows worked without any funky drivers!
I still use Linux, mostly because of the price, but I have to test most configurations thoroughly before I can decide to use it. (Factor this into TCO?) When I hit on a stable combo, I just hope the MOBO does not stop being manufactured for a while at least.
When Linux runs, I have to admit... it runs well. Still beats windows for server applications hands down. (I've had windows servers crash on me because I right-clicked on the desktop.... but this was because no drivers were installed on it... something I soon and easily fixed.)
Also when I used to run Debian and upgraded to 'untested' I had some serious problems. I needed to do this because of certain USB support and proper Serial-ATA drivers. (I needed the 2.6 kernel) My machine sorta worked. (Well Quake 3 worked the best ever!) But most things were a pain... my removable 250 Gb external FAT32 USB/firewire drive was a real pain.
For now, I am still only running Linux on my old AMD K6, Windows XP on my DELL Inspiron and TV media machine (3GHz P4) and OS X on my Mac (Just Love Apple/OSX's user experience... sucks with game availability though). Perhaps Apple (Amiga/C64/etc) had the right idea about locking down the hardware a bit... the variety of chipsets are the greatest cause of frustration for PC (and Linux in particular) users!
I guess for the same reason you read it all over and over... for it to sink in.
A typical tree-hugging, Mac-using statement. ;)
Go draw something!
Then why, if both are equally fun, does Slashdot articles like this even exist? The significance of the 5x5 solution was great when it happened years ago... so why is it newsworthy now? Is it because an American finally discovered it? Does it not point to the general lack of knowledge?
Then you ask why do Go players bemoan the lack of knowledge in the west about this mathematical wonder! Perhaps because Americans are slow? (It was the American Go Association reporting this after all...) The Dutch person who did this proof did it in 2002.
I've seen this on
http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmallBoardGo
for some time now.
He-he...
;)
Funny how it was the American Go Association who reported this...
They were always a bit slow compared to the Dutch in mathematics.
I've read about this and 6x6 being solved a *long* time ago already here:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmallBoardGo
...or am I mistaken?
http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmallBoardGo
Also, 19x19's complexity is in the order of 10^500 and chess about 10^54.
But chess has more rigour as the unnecessary (debatable) obfuscation build into the game through the arbitrary complexity of the moving pieces, thus making it more difficult to get past the tactics to the strategy. Go, on the other hand, has a very simple rule-set similar to finite automata which lends itself easily to the human thought process, making it easy even for a beginner to be able to see dozens of moves ahead and get caught in it's rich strategy.
I am not debating 'which is better' here. If your into rigour and tactics, chess is your game.
Chess is the battle, go is the war.
Had my webcam(s) going, my alarm went off (with armed response in tow) AND I have the vehicle registration number. All this I gave on a CD (silver platter) to the South African Police, and they still managed to bungle it!
Stories like this only sound cool when someone paid attention...
Ah yes... could not remember so well... did much porting from Linux to win32 (native and Cygwin) at some point.
I remember not having a 'n' version to something like vnsprintf() or something... could not remember which it was though. Perhaps I eventually found it to be one of those underscore functions... -ponder- like _vnsprintf()
-shrug-
Also had some trouble with missing helper defines like:
S_ISDIR()
and some other low-level socket defines being either missing or different. (I did some funky tweaks to sockets like disabling the Nagel algorithm for realtime sockets...)