Heres a take from an artist that employs sampling... Something to consider.
"Sampling is like ancestor worship... you're reconfiguring the records that stuck in your memory" -DJ Spooky in an interview for Better Living Through Circuitry, an extremely good documentary about the rave scene
Ok.. I have various term papers and code I've written myself... my school doesn't have any stupid rule grabbing copyright, so I own the copyright free and clear on all of it. Wouldn't breaking past the routers firewall, circumventing the Windows XP user/permission scheme be a violation of the DMCA? If so, lets hit them with their own stick. It would be hillarious to see the RIAA itself brought down for a DMCA violation.
I'd say it may not be a criminal conspiracy at this point. While it appears to be clearly illegal, there may be legal loopholes, and an easy defense would be pointing out the lawyers assigned to look up all relevant laws to find such a loophole...
"But your Honor, part of these activities was determining the legality of these ideas. We certainly would not do anything illegal, so we had our legal research team investigate laws and past decisions to determine if this was legal while our technicians tested the feasibility on systems wholly under our control."
Things have to be changed, but killing off Vector and leaving Zapan out entirely are just too far. ITs foolish to destroy sequel potential to such a degree.
Ok, where the hell did the chick come from? Why the hell did they kill off Vector, who is critical to later portions of the manga. What about Zapan, another critical character?
They emasculated it. I will admit that the second part was done pretty well, but the first was pretty much worthless.
Actually, I can't recall all the details, but there was a study several years ago that suggested(didn't prove, but suggested this strongly enough that I felt at least that further research was warranted) that a part of the brain that is larger in straight women than in straight men, was enlarged in gay men as compared to straight men. I don't know if they researched lesbians to see if it was smaller than the average straight woman.
I think I read of it in the New Haven Register, they have a website somewhere you can google for and see if its in their archives... I'd like to say I saw it in 95-96 but I'm not sure.
The manga is very episodic and very discordant - it's not internally consistent, meaning sometimes she looks like one thing and has one set of abilities, and at the whim of Kashiro he'll go off on a whole different tangent.
Sounds like valid criticism to me.
Would be, if it made any sense to someone who has read the manga 3 or four times. If he had read it, and actually paid attention, and read it in order, he would see the progression. And he'd realize that much of the variation in her abilities was due to using different cyborg bodies, and different upgrades to those bodies.
You didn't even mention that many of Alitas changing capabilities were due to different cyborg bodies. Her head was basically all that stayed consistent through her various cyborg bodies.
As for her personality, she grew up a lot. Coming to terms with who she was in the past, who she was in the present, and who she wanted to be in the future really played with her mind, so of course thats a bit sketchy.
And I doubt this guy has read the manga, or if he has, he's read it out of order. There is a consistent progression, though Kashiro was seriously ill when he finished it and said that he basically wished he could have done a better job on the ending.
And, hopefully, access to enough accuracy and precision to not end up in the Earth's core. Even a fraction of an inch underground could be disasterous.
Good point. Perhaps it would be safer to target somewhere just outside the solar system.
Another interesting question: what happens to the matter inhabiting the place into which he suddenly appeared?
Interesting concern here. Perhaps the machine dematerializes itself and reconstructs itself with local matter? That would keep the matter in all areas balanced without your house fly issue. That could cause some dramatic effects in the landing zone. Severe weather if its reconstructed from air, seismic disaster if it tears out a chunk of ground... people dissapearing if it materialized at a rally...
Perhaps that is what caused Tunguska? A time machine could have targeted Siberia because it was known to be isolated. Unfortunately, they miscalculated the effect of the changes in air pressure and the winds created by the matter rushing into the materialization point, and those forces destroyed the craft in a collosal explosion.
Good point. There are many ways a simple position drift of Earth could be compensated for. That is the most trivial of the issues involved.
More serious is possible disruptions to the time stream and what could occur to correct them.
Most significant is his new found wealth could ripple through and prevent him from being born, or affect society in such a way that he would have no need to make the journey in the first place. Thus he doesn't come back- But, he did come back or else he wouldn't have not come back... thus all hell breaks loose and the fabric of our collective perception of time unravels and the universe is destroyed.
Another possibility is the "everything that can happen does happen in an alternate universe". Problem with this is, ok, yeah he gets filthy rich here, but since it simply creates a new reality that by the theory would have been created anyways, he really hasn't accomplished anything.
Now, the time machine could have seperated him sufficiently from the space time contimuum that he is capable of changing past events without harming his own "past". But I don't expect to see that untill around 2885, according to my friend whose from 2886 and the Cartman TimeCo brochures he showed me. But then again I haven't seen that friend since Cartman called his future self an asshole.
One, remember, all position and velocity is relative to your point of reference. If the time machine is designed such that it considers Earth a still point of reference, with the right equations to account for movement of everything else around it(hey, in 200 years you could come up with that math), then he wouldn't have to do anything. Just punch in the time and he would show up at the same spot he left earth from.
Also, assuming he had access to a time machine, he surely had access to the computing power needed to easily calculate the position of Earth based on the center of the universe frame of reference.
Also, more esoteric methods could have been used. Perhaps psychic energies are better understood in his time, and he homed in on the psycic signature of the Earth to ensure arrival at the proper location. Maybe the Earths gravity well ensured he arrived at the proper planet by providing an anchor.
And of course the simple thing- He may have targeted 1995 or so, and simply kicked in his crafts engines to travel to the Earth. It would be trivial to figure out the general direction the Earths system would be in relative to where it was when you left. Then just compare some star charts with what you see ahead of you, narrow down which star is Sol, and rocket off..5C or so should be enough to get you to Earth in a couple of years after only a 200 year drift. I mean, I don't think the earth moves nearly that fast relative to the universal center, probably only a few tens of thousands of MPH. You'd still be deposted in the mily way, probably closer to Earth than Proxima Centauri...
Oops. Accidentally hit submit, I hate laptop keyboards...
Anyways, if you tell them something is a bad idea, and later it bites them in the ass, they may remember you.
One of the executives may say: "Sir, we had a consultant a few months ago, he did some good work- Also, he saw this coming. Perhaps we should bring him back on to help us get out of this?"
Company President replies: "Mr Jones, call that consultant. You can spend double the normal per consultant budget to get him in, we need this fixed NOW."
Tell them you think its a bad idea when you recieve a bad order, but if they say "do it anyways" do it anyways. Tell them politely, make sure you have your ducks in a row, and they should take it well- Especially if you have a better idea, even if they think their way is best, you will often gain respect for being a more active worker, who is sincerely looking out for their best interests.
Also, if you tell them something is a bad idea, then later it bites them in the ass, they may remember you
What version of Mandrake? 8.0 was a disaster, plain and simple, but after the past week having to rely solely on my Mandrake 9.0 laptop waiting for a new case for the desktop, its awesome. Stable(except Konqueror is pure garbage), fast, flexible... if it ran Visual Basic.NET(I need that for school) I could deal with Mandrake as my only OS.
Shit happens. Ever since mankind has discovered war, there have been incidents of accidental fratricide. In the chaos of combat, friendlies can look like enemies, you could be dropping excess bombs to lower your weight to conserve fuel for the return trip- Not realizing a friendly unit is in that area. Efforts are made to reduce the risk, but unfortunately it cannot be eliminated.
BTW... The reason there are more US on UK friendly fire incidents is the simple fact that there are a hell of a lot more US forces than British. Simple probability says that there will be more friendly fire incidents from the Americans. If you pay attention, we kill our own as often as we kill British, if not more so.
Have you ever heard of a typo? Now, if slashdot had a post spell checker, you might have a point, but it doesn't, so you don't. Some keyboards positively suck for typing, my typo rate jumped probably about 2,000% since my desktop went down and I had to rely on my laptop.
People are pure crap? You obviously have not met many of us. I'm a former enlisted Marine, and have served some time in the Army National guard. Some of the smartest, most dedicated people I know are in the military. And, as for my own intelligence- Deans list. 3.67GPA, 1340 SAT after being out of school for 6 years(750 on the verbal btw... if I had been current on my math skills, I would have been damn close to or even exceeding 1500). ASVAB, I maxed out scores on all but two of the areas, and scored some of the highest scores my recruiter had ever seen in those other two. Many very intelligent people serve in the military, for reasons varying from personal development(my primary reason) to money for college(my secondary reason) to fighting for their country, to many other things. Don't cast us all off as idiots simply because one of us makes a few minor typos.
"to support and defend the *Constitution* of the United States against all enemies, foreign and *domestic*"(emphasis mine).
This bit from the oath of enlistment is a clear mandate that we disobey any illegal order given. And yes, we respect that. If Dubya were to start blowing off Supreme Court decisions smacking down his administrations excesses(such as the PATRIOT act), at that point he would be one of those domestic enemies the Oath speaks of, and it would be all over.
Granted, immoral orders that arent' quite illegal are an iffy point, but there are some(most in fact) cases if it isn't driven by the immediacy of incoming rounds that you can go over that persons head and complain(just make DAMN sure your ducks are in a row or you will be out on your ass faster than you can imagine).
While the chain of command is firm, and orders are orders, there are systems in place to ensure you don't get ordered into a war crime, and even to protest bad orders should it not be something of immediate significance(of course, if said protest fails, you do it anyways). There have been a few times where I was told to do something and I raised a possible alternate mission that would have the same overall effect, but done faster/to a higher standard/with fewer resources/whatever... Sometimes the NCO or officer even agreed with me and amended his/her order. Sometimes they ignored me, so I had to do it there way....
The point of this overly long rant- We aren't robots that mindlessly do what people tell us to do.
That is NOT the Army making it required reading. There are significant administrative, mission, legal, and even larger cultural differences between the Army and the Marine Corps. I've been part of both, there are huge differences.
About 5 years ago General Krulak, Commandant of the Marine Corps, released a list of books he recommended Marines read. Enders game was one of them. It was mainly one of the whole "Place of the military in society" things.
THats the problem. Trying to balance affordability and safety- It doesn't matter how safe the helicopter is if you can't afford it in the first place. Military hardware is an especially difficult balancing act- Its not one or two we need and can splurge on, but hundereds. The fact that they are as safe as they are is amazing. Especially at the age of some of these things.
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Heres a take from an artist that employs sampling... Something to consider.
"Sampling is like ancestor worship... you're reconfiguring the records that stuck in your memory"
-DJ Spooky in an interview for
Better Living Through Circuitry, an extremely good documentary about the rave scene
Ok.. I have various term papers and code I've written myself... my school doesn't have any stupid rule grabbing copyright, so I own the copyright free and clear on all of it. Wouldn't breaking past the routers firewall, circumventing the Windows XP user/permission scheme be a violation of the DMCA? If so, lets hit them with their own stick. It would be hillarious to see the RIAA itself brought down for a DMCA violation.
I'd say it may not be a criminal conspiracy at this point. While it appears to be clearly illegal, there may be legal loopholes, and an easy defense would be pointing out the lawyers assigned to look up all relevant laws to find such a loophole...
"But your Honor, part of these activities was determining the legality of these ideas. We certainly would not do anything illegal, so we had our legal research team investigate laws and past decisions to determine if this was legal while our technicians tested the feasibility on systems wholly under our control."
"Case dismissed."
Try connecting to 192.168.1.102:25 and see how far that gets you.
Things have to be changed, but killing off Vector and leaving Zapan out entirely are just too far. ITs foolish to destroy sequel potential to such a degree.
Ok, where the hell did the chick come from? Why the hell did they kill off Vector, who is critical to later portions of the manga. What about Zapan, another critical character?
They emasculated it. I will admit that the second part was done pretty well, but the first was pretty much worthless.
Actually, I can't recall all the details, but there was a study several years ago that suggested(didn't prove, but suggested this strongly enough that I felt at least that further research was warranted) that a part of the brain that is larger in straight women than in straight men, was enlarged in gay men as compared to straight men. I don't know if they researched lesbians to see if it was smaller than the average straight woman.
I think I read of it in the New Haven Register, they have a website somewhere you can google for and see if its in their archives... I'd like to say I saw it in 95-96 but I'm not sure.
The manga is very episodic and very discordant - it's not internally consistent, meaning sometimes she looks like one thing and has one set of abilities, and at the whim of Kashiro he'll go off on a whole different tangent.
Sounds like valid criticism to me.
Would be, if it made any sense to someone who has read the manga 3 or four times. If he had read it, and actually paid attention, and read it in order, he would see the progression. And he'd realize that much of the variation in her abilities was due to using different cyborg bodies, and different upgrades to those bodies.
You didn't even mention that many of Alitas changing capabilities were due to different cyborg bodies. Her head was basically all that stayed consistent through her various cyborg bodies.
As for her personality, she grew up a lot. Coming to terms with who she was in the past, who she was in the present, and who she wanted to be in the future really played with her mind, so of course thats a bit sketchy.
And I doubt this guy has read the manga, or if he has, he's read it out of order. There is a consistent progression, though Kashiro was seriously ill when he finished it and said that he basically wished he could have done a better job on the ending.
That anime was utter crap.
PLEASE! Focus on the story from the manga and its themes, its a much more engaging and sensible story.
And, hopefully, access to enough accuracy and precision to not end up in the Earth's core. Even a fraction of an inch underground could be disasterous.
Good point. Perhaps it would be safer to target somewhere just outside the solar system.
Another interesting question: what happens to the matter inhabiting the place into which he suddenly appeared?
Interesting concern here. Perhaps the machine dematerializes itself and reconstructs itself with local matter? That would keep the matter in all areas balanced without your house fly issue. That could cause some dramatic effects in the landing zone. Severe weather if its reconstructed from air, seismic disaster if it tears out a chunk of ground... people dissapearing if it materialized at a rally...
Perhaps that is what caused Tunguska? A time machine could have targeted Siberia because it was known to be isolated. Unfortunately, they miscalculated the effect of the changes in air pressure and the winds created by the matter rushing into the materialization point, and those forces destroyed the craft in a collosal explosion.
Good point. There are many ways a simple position drift of Earth could be compensated for. That is the most trivial of the issues involved.
More serious is possible disruptions to the time stream and what could occur to correct them.
Most significant is his new found wealth could ripple through and prevent him from being born, or affect society in such a way that he would have no need to make the journey in the first place. Thus he doesn't come back- But, he did come back or else he wouldn't have not come back... thus all hell breaks loose and the fabric of our collective perception of time unravels and the universe is destroyed.
Another possibility is the "everything that can happen does happen in an alternate universe". Problem with this is, ok, yeah he gets filthy rich here, but since it simply creates a new reality that by the theory would have been created anyways, he really hasn't accomplished anything.
Now, the time machine could have seperated him sufficiently from the space time contimuum that he is capable of changing past events without harming his own "past". But I don't expect to see that untill around 2885, according to my friend whose from 2886 and the Cartman TimeCo brochures he showed me. But then again I haven't seen that friend since Cartman called his future self an asshole.
A couple possibilities-
.5C or so should be enough to get you to Earth in a couple of years after only a 200 year drift. I mean, I don't think the earth moves nearly that fast relative to the universal center, probably only a few tens of thousands of MPH. You'd still be deposted in the mily way, probably closer to Earth than Proxima Centauri...
One, remember, all position and velocity is relative to your point of reference. If the time machine is designed such that it considers Earth a still point of reference, with the right equations to account for movement of everything else around it(hey, in 200 years you could come up with that math), then he wouldn't have to do anything. Just punch in the time and he would show up at the same spot he left earth from.
Also, assuming he had access to a time machine, he surely had access to the computing power needed to easily calculate the position of Earth based on the center of the universe frame of reference.
Also, more esoteric methods could have been used. Perhaps psychic energies are better understood in his time, and he homed in on the psycic signature of the Earth to ensure arrival at the proper location. Maybe the Earths gravity well ensured he arrived at the proper planet by providing an anchor.
And of course the simple thing- He may have targeted 1995 or so, and simply kicked in his crafts engines to travel to the Earth. It would be trivial to figure out the general direction the Earths system would be in relative to where it was when you left. Then just compare some star charts with what you see ahead of you, narrow down which star is Sol, and rocket off.
Ok, I for one will never again buy a GW product firsthand. Even if I end up paying more(unlikely, but even if) I'll get what I need used from ebay...
This is unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Guess those 2000 points(and close to 600 dollars or more) I won't be getting...
Oops. Accidentally hit submit, I hate laptop keyboards...
Anyways, if you tell them something is a bad idea, and later it bites them in the ass, they may remember you.
One of the executives may say:
"Sir, we had a consultant a few months ago, he did some good work- Also, he saw this coming. Perhaps we should bring him back on to help us get out of this?"
Company President replies:
"Mr Jones, call that consultant. You can spend double the normal per consultant budget to get him in, we need this fixed NOW."
Tell them you think its a bad idea when you recieve a bad order, but if they say "do it anyways" do it anyways. Tell them politely, make sure you have your ducks in a row, and they should take it well- Especially if you have a better idea, even if they think their way is best, you will often gain respect for being a more active worker, who is sincerely looking out for their best interests.
Also, if you tell them something is a bad idea, then later it bites them in the ass, they may remember you
What version of Mandrake? 8.0 was a disaster, plain and simple, but after the past week having to rely solely on my Mandrake 9.0 laptop waiting for a new case for the desktop, its awesome. Stable(except Konqueror is pure garbage), fast, flexible... if it ran Visual Basic.NET(I need that for school) I could deal with Mandrake as my only OS.
ACtually, md was shorthand for mkdir. mkdir worked fine in MS DOS.
Shit happens. Ever since mankind has discovered war, there have been incidents of accidental fratricide. In the chaos of combat, friendlies can look like enemies, you could be dropping excess bombs to lower your weight to conserve fuel for the return trip- Not realizing a friendly unit is in that area. Efforts are made to reduce the risk, but unfortunately it cannot be eliminated.
BTW... The reason there are more US on UK friendly fire incidents is the simple fact that there are a hell of a lot more US forces than British. Simple probability says that there will be more friendly fire incidents from the Americans. If you pay attention, we kill our own as often as we kill British, if not more so.
Have you ever heard of a typo? Now, if slashdot had a post spell checker, you might have a point, but it doesn't, so you don't. Some keyboards positively suck for typing, my typo rate jumped probably about 2,000% since my desktop went down and I had to rely on my laptop.
People are pure crap? You obviously have not met many of us. I'm a former enlisted Marine, and have served some time in the Army National guard. Some of the smartest, most dedicated people I know are in the military. And, as for my own intelligence- Deans list. 3.67GPA, 1340 SAT after being out of school for 6 years(750 on the verbal btw... if I had been current on my math skills, I would have been damn close to or even exceeding 1500). ASVAB, I maxed out scores on all but two of the areas, and scored some of the highest scores my recruiter had ever seen in those other two. Many very intelligent people serve in the military, for reasons varying from personal development(my primary reason) to money for college(my secondary reason) to fighting for their country, to many other things. Don't cast us all off as idiots simply because one of us makes a few minor typos.
"to support and defend the *Constitution* of the United States against all enemies, foreign and *domestic*"(emphasis mine).
This bit from the oath of enlistment is a clear mandate that we disobey any illegal order given. And yes, we respect that. If Dubya were to start blowing off Supreme Court decisions smacking down his administrations excesses(such as the PATRIOT act), at that point he would be one of those domestic enemies the Oath speaks of, and it would be all over.
Granted, immoral orders that arent' quite illegal are an iffy point, but there are some(most in fact) cases if it isn't driven by the immediacy of incoming rounds that you can go over that persons head and complain(just make DAMN sure your ducks are in a row or you will be out on your ass faster than you can imagine).
While the chain of command is firm, and orders are orders, there are systems in place to ensure you don't get ordered into a war crime, and even to protest bad orders should it not be something of immediate significance(of course, if said protest fails, you do it anyways). There have been a few times where I was told to do something and I raised a possible alternate mission that would have the same overall effect, but done faster/to a higher standard/with fewer resources/whatever... Sometimes the NCO or officer even agreed with me and amended his/her order. Sometimes they ignored me, so I had to do it there way....
The point of this overly long rant- We aren't robots that mindlessly do what people tell us to do.
That is NOT the Army making it required reading. There are significant administrative, mission, legal, and even larger cultural differences between the Army and the Marine Corps. I've been part of both, there are huge differences.
About 5 years ago General Krulak, Commandant of the Marine Corps, released a list of books he recommended Marines read. Enders game was one of them. It was mainly one of the whole "Place of the military in society" things.
Where was this review last weekend! I bought it sunday.
Seriously though, I havne't read much of it, but your review does increase my confidence that I haven't wasted my money.
THats the problem. Trying to balance affordability and safety- It doesn't matter how safe the helicopter is if you can't afford it in the first place. Military hardware is an especially difficult balancing act- Its not one or two we need and can splurge on, but hundereds. The fact that they are as safe as they are is amazing. Especially at the age of some of these things.