Apparantly, when shooting Wrath of Khan, the strategy was to do take after take after take, until Shatner wore out and began to turn of stage acting mode. At least someone figured it out...
I agree in some respects that digital is more intuitive, esp. if all you want to know is 'What time is it RIGHT NOW.' However, the analog gives you a better sense of 'interval', i.e. how much time has past or will pass before some event. This, perhaps, is more of a 'context' issue than 'intuitivness', but is the reason why I tend to prefer analog clocks (I do not wear a watch... never got around to buying a new one when the old WalMart watch died five years ago...).
A biologist, a physisist, and a mathematician are standing outside of a building. Two people walk in. After a few minutes, three people walk out.
"Aha!" the biologist says, "they must be breeding!"
"No, no," the physisist replies "this is could be bad. In order to preserve the laws of thermodynamics, someone else must go into the building."
The mathematician replys "But if someone else goes into the building, it will be empty."
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An engineer, a physisist, and a mathematician, and a statisticain are all staying at a hotel. In the middle of the night the engineer wakes up to find that his trashcan is on fire. He runs to the sink, fills his ice bucket with water and douses the flames. Then, just to be sure, he runs back to the sink, refills the bucket and dumps more water into the trashcan. With the fire out, he goes back to sleep.
A little while later, the trashcan in the physists room spontaneously breaks into flame, waking the physisist. He whips out his slide rule, does some calculations, then runs to the sink, fills his bucket with exactly.75 liters of water, and douses the flames. Having put out the fire, he goes back to sleep.
A few minutes later, the mathematician wakes up to see that his trashcan is on fire. He whips out a piece of paper, scrawls out some equations, then goes back to sleep, comfortable that a solution exists.
Meanwhile, the statisticain is running from room to room lighting trashcans on fire -- he needed more samples.
If we were listening to the same NPR report, it stated that Dean was a technophobe, but that he has learned to love technology in the last couple of years, hence he may be one of the best informed candidates in terms of technology.
The Lieberman bit cracked me up: basically, he uses the hardware and software that he does because that's "what Gore made me use."
Once you get used to Reverse Polish Notation, I guarantee that you will fall in love with the HPs. If, on the other hand, you decide you don't like you new HP-49G+, I would be more than willing to take it off your hands, for the cost of shipping.:)
I will never replace my HP-11C. Great calculator, though I finally had to replace the batteries this summer. I got that calculator from my father, and I know for a fact that the calculator is a few months older than I am (my father bought it in '81, when it came out). The 11C is a great field calculator. It doesn't seem to mind the heat, dust, cold, &c. as much as my 48GX does (even with the case). Also, it is much easier to carry around, and has all the functionality I need.
That being said, it may be time to replace the 48GX for the office.
2) The language of freedom & democracy is so universally accepted (and has been for a long time) that dictators use it too.
Most dictators are the "Unamimously elected" heads of their "Republic." Dictator's words ape those of true democracies, making comparisons easy (and irrelevant).
The manga of Nausicaa and the movie developed at about the same time. The movie only covers the first volume or so of the manga, as that is all that had been released when Miyazaki made the film.
Also, while I enjoyed the manga greatly, there are definite differences from one part or volume to the next, where Miyazaki's changing philosophy can be seen. The manga as a whole took something like ten years for him to complete, with long gaps between creative episodes.
The movie should not be seen as a reduction of the story (while many things are somewhat abridged, that is par), but rather a retelling of what had been written to date.
Also, the manga is quite easy to get in book form (took me three years to get the comic books, but the 'graphic novels' are easy to find). Try this or this.
I had forgotton about Totoro. I managed to avoid the whole dubbing thing with a bootleg of some sort. I am hoping that someone someday comes out with a legitimate version -- your solution is beyond my meager student's capacity.
Ignorance is forgiven. To add to the posts already made:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was one of Hayo Miyazaki's (sp) earlier films. Miyazaki is one of Japan's most well known and (in my humble opion) most talented animators. In fact, his most recent film, Spirited Away, is the highest grossing film ever in Japan, even beating out some Hollywood films.
The story of Nausicaa is set in a distopean future, where a poisonous wasteland is slowly encroaching upon human habitation. Like many of Miyazaki's films, he is rather heavy with the Green Stick (the same one that Greenpeace and other environmentalists like to beat you over the head with). It is also one of the most amazingly animated films that I have ever seen, contains a universe of well rounded characters that can actually be identified with (rather than simply cardboard cut-outs, like, say, any Disney character), and has a beautiful musical score.
I could go into more detail, but others have already posted the IMDB link and I do not wish to provide spoilers. This is a great movie, and when it comes out, I highly recommend that you catch it in a theater (if it ever gets there)or, at the very least, rent it on DVD and watch it with subtitles.
I agree, dubs are evil. However, they appeal to the audience that Disney (*not* Studio Ghibli) is targeting, i.e. younger people who cannot/do not want to read fast enought to enjoy the film. For purists like myself, all of the Ghibli DVDs yet released include the Japanese language tracks, along with subtitles.
If you are looking for a theatrical release of the subtitled movie, that is unlikely to happen. However, if you are looking for a legitimate replacement for your fan-subs, Disney/Mirimax/whoever-the-hell-is-actually-doing- this has actually done a good job of putting out the movies in the past.
Given the dubs and DVD releases of the rest of Miyazaki's films, I doubt very much that they will be changing much of anything. The music, which is oh so very important to the story, will remain the same (so says *I*).
Given the level of response to this "news" item, and the level of response to its predecesor, I would say that there is a great deal of interest in the Slashdot community. It seems that nerds are interested, whether it has anything to do with online rights or not. I would say that this qualifies as "stuff that matters," if not explicitly "news for nerds." If you don't like it, don't read the articles, and stop complaining.
In the animal kingdom, two creatures are the same species if they can (and do) interbreed and produce viable offspring (i.e. offspring that can also reproduce. Therefore, horses and donkeys don't violate that rule. Plants are another matter entirly, as such rules don't seem to apply (plants love to hybridize)...
This can raise some interesting questions. For instance, are Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans of the same species? They certainly could produce viable offspring, but they are on seperate islands and cannot travel from one to another to mate. Therefore, it would be possible to conclude that they are distinct populations, incapable of interbreeding, and therefore seperate species.
It is possible that a similar style of argument could be made for Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, however it seems more likely to me* that both were of one species, but different (probably interbreeding) populations.
Also, this does not really make the argument for Multiregional Theory, one way or the other -- there is not enough data. Something that anthropologists tend to do is take a single skull and assume that it is representative of the population. As more samples are taken (more skulls are found), the data becomes more reliable, but a single skull should not be used to descibe a population. It is not statistically sound.
* Yes, I do know what I am talking about. I am an archaeologist, and have studied different theories of human origin. While my opinion may not be of note to the academic community, I am certainly enough aware of modern theories to post here:)
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Apparantly, when shooting Wrath of Khan, the strategy was to do take after take after take, until Shatner wore out and began to turn of stage acting mode. At least someone figured it out...
This may not be exactly the solution you are looking for, but ctrl+click = right click.
I agree in some respects that digital is more intuitive, esp. if all you want to know is 'What time is it RIGHT NOW.' However, the analog gives you a better sense of 'interval', i.e. how much time has past or will pass before some event. This, perhaps, is more of a 'context' issue than 'intuitivness', but is the reason why I tend to prefer analog clocks (I do not wear a watch... never got around to buying a new one when the old WalMart watch died five years ago...).
Yes, thank you. Dot products and cross products, and if I never see another McLaurin Series again it will be too soon... (stupid normal distribution)
It is also rather frightening, but we seem to tell the same bad jokes -- I just posted the second one (or a varient thereof) to the main thread.
A biologist, a physisist, and a mathematician are standing outside of a building. Two people walk in. After a few minutes, three people walk out.
.75 liters of water, and douses the flames. Having put out the fire, he goes back to sleep.
"Aha!" the biologist says, "they must be breeding!"
"No, no," the physisist replies "this is could be bad. In order to preserve the laws of thermodynamics, someone else must go into the building."
The mathematician replys "But if someone else goes into the building, it will be empty."
--------------
An engineer, a physisist, and a mathematician, and a statisticain are all staying at a hotel. In the middle of the night the engineer wakes up to find that his trashcan is on fire. He runs to the sink, fills his ice bucket with water and douses the flames. Then, just to be sure, he runs back to the sink, refills the bucket and dumps more water into the trashcan. With the fire out, he goes back to sleep.
A little while later, the trashcan in the physists room spontaneously breaks into flame, waking the physisist. He whips out his slide rule, does some calculations, then runs to the sink, fills his bucket with exactly
A few minutes later, the mathematician wakes up to see that his trashcan is on fire. He whips out a piece of paper, scrawls out some equations, then goes back to sleep, comfortable that a solution exists.
Meanwhile, the statisticain is running from room to room lighting trashcans on fire -- he needed more samples.
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neh, i tried...
Better to set it up with this (it has been two years since calculus, so this may not be eintirly, 100% right, but you get the idea):
Q: What do you get when you cross a turkey with a chicken?
A: turkey * chiken * cos(theta)
You seem to have invented a new method of karma whoring, just reply to people's .sigs. I like it. Funny moderators.
Thanks for the explaination, by the way.
If we were listening to the same NPR report, it stated that Dean was a technophobe, but that he has learned to love technology in the last couple of years, hence he may be one of the best informed candidates in terms of technology.
The Lieberman bit cracked me up: basically, he uses the hardware and software that he does because that's "what Gore made me use."
What is this 16c you speak of? There is something with a higher number than 11c? By the Gods! the power of such a device should not be in human hands!
Once you get used to Reverse Polish Notation, I guarantee that you will fall in love with the HPs. If, on the other hand, you decide you don't like you new HP-49G+, I would be more than willing to take it off your hands, for the cost of shipping. :)
I will never replace my HP-11C. Great calculator, though I finally had to replace the batteries this summer. I got that calculator from my father, and I know for a fact that the calculator is a few months older than I am (my father bought it in '81, when it came out). The 11C is a great field calculator. It doesn't seem to mind the heat, dust, cold, &c. as much as my 48GX does (even with the case). Also, it is much easier to carry around, and has all the functionality I need.
That being said, it may be time to replace the 48GX for the office.
I stand by my statements:
http://gking.harvard.edu/files/naziV.pdf
Hitler was democratically elected.
The manga of Nausicaa and the movie developed at about the same time. The movie only covers the first volume or so of the manga, as that is all that had been released when Miyazaki made the film.
Also, while I enjoyed the manga greatly, there are definite differences from one part or volume to the next, where Miyazaki's changing philosophy can be seen. The manga as a whole took something like ten years for him to complete, with long gaps between creative episodes.
The movie should not be seen as a reduction of the story (while many things are somewhat abridged, that is par), but rather a retelling of what had been written to date.
Also, the manga is quite easy to get in book form (took me three years to get the comic books, but the 'graphic novels' are easy to find). Try this or this.
Definitly not the only one.
"It has only been 5 seconds since you hit reply"
La-la-lalala-la, la-la-lalala, la-la-lalala-la, lalalalala-la-la
Ha! I did notice that, but just assumed that my memory was going. I'll have to pay more attention next time.
Sorry, my bad, you are correct sir.
I had forgotton about Totoro. I managed to avoid the whole dubbing thing with a bootleg of some sort. I am hoping that someone someday comes out with a legitimate version -- your solution is beyond my meager student's capacity.
Ignorance is forgiven. To add to the posts already made:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was one of Hayo Miyazaki's (sp) earlier films. Miyazaki is one of Japan's most well known and (in my humble opion) most talented animators. In fact, his most recent film, Spirited Away, is the highest grossing film ever in Japan, even beating out some Hollywood films.
The story of Nausicaa is set in a distopean future, where a poisonous wasteland is slowly encroaching upon human habitation. Like many of Miyazaki's films, he is rather heavy with the Green Stick (the same one that Greenpeace and other environmentalists like to beat you over the head with). It is also one of the most amazingly animated films that I have ever seen, contains a universe of well rounded characters that can actually be identified with (rather than simply cardboard cut-outs, like, say, any Disney character), and has a beautiful musical score.
I could go into more detail, but others have already posted the IMDB link and I do not wish to provide spoilers. This is a great movie, and when it comes out, I highly recommend that you catch it in a theater (if it ever gets there)or, at the very least, rent it on DVD and watch it with subtitles.
I believe that is was meant to be ironic in some way, hence the string of 'Ls' and 'Os'
I agree, dubs are evil. However, they appeal to the audience that Disney (*not* Studio Ghibli) is targeting, i.e. younger people who cannot/do not want to read fast enought to enjoy the film. For purists like myself, all of the Ghibli DVDs yet released include the Japanese language tracks, along with subtitles.
- this has actually done a good job of putting out the movies in the past.
If you are looking for a theatrical release of the subtitled movie, that is unlikely to happen. However, if you are looking for a legitimate replacement for your fan-subs, Disney/Mirimax/whoever-the-hell-is-actually-doing
Given the dubs and DVD releases of the rest of Miyazaki's films, I doubt very much that they will be changing much of anything. The music, which is oh so very important to the story, will remain the same (so says *I*).
This falls into the second category -- "Stuff that Matters"
Given the level of response to this "news" item, and the level of response to its predecesor, I would say that there is a great deal of interest in the Slashdot community. It seems that nerds are interested, whether it has anything to do with online rights or not. I would say that this qualifies as "stuff that matters," if not explicitly "news for nerds." If you don't like it, don't read the articles, and stop complaining.
Just about right.
:)
In the animal kingdom, two creatures are the same species if they can (and do) interbreed and produce viable offspring (i.e. offspring that can also reproduce. Therefore, horses and donkeys don't violate that rule. Plants are another matter entirly, as such rules don't seem to apply (plants love to hybridize)...
This can raise some interesting questions. For instance, are Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans of the same species? They certainly could produce viable offspring, but they are on seperate islands and cannot travel from one to another to mate. Therefore, it would be possible to conclude that they are distinct populations, incapable of interbreeding, and therefore seperate species.
It is possible that a similar style of argument could be made for Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, however it seems more likely to me* that both were of one species, but different (probably interbreeding) populations.
Also, this does not really make the argument for Multiregional Theory, one way or the other -- there is not enough data. Something that anthropologists tend to do is take a single skull and assume that it is representative of the population. As more samples are taken (more skulls are found), the data becomes more reliable, but a single skull should not be used to descibe a population. It is not statistically sound.
* Yes, I do know what I am talking about. I am an archaeologist, and have studied different theories of human origin. While my opinion may not be of note to the academic community, I am certainly enough aware of modern theories to post here
Opiate of the masses, according to Marx.