I was extremely sceptical when I first read about this. But now that i've thought about it for a while, a live action Eva film might not be THAT bad.
The important thing is that there's no sign of any hollywood studio being involved. I suspect that means that most of the creative work will be done by Gainax, with ADV providing the $$$$ and Weta obviously doing the special effects. If Gainax and Anno are left to do their thing, then the project might turn out alright. The special effects might look a big cheap due to a (relatively) small budget, but I can't imagine Gainax and Anno sanitizing Eva like everyone says.
But then again, this is Gainax we're talking about...
Baryonic matter cannot account for dark matter because of big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). BBN gives us a fairly accurate esimation of the baryonic matter density of the universe. The result derived from BBN agrees with the mean mass density obtained by summing the visible matter from a representative sample of galaxies. Thus this suggests that dark matter is non-baryonic.
Heh, they teach Haskell in computing 1A here at the University of New South Wales, supposedly to teach us good programming style. And having moved on to C, I can say that some things are definitely nicer in Haskell than in C. However, in other's it's a real bitch.
Being an (almost) purely functional programming language, I imagine that writing mathematical programs in it would be a piece of cake, but for anything else that requires states it's a royal pain in the but.
So Kazaa and Morpheus don't like people using client software written by somebody else and switch to a central authentication server to stop giFT from working.
In a way, they're acting no different from the record companies in trying to stop an alternate method of distribution (of sorts).
It's ironic (did I use the word correctly?) that this protective action has openned them up to lawsuits from the record industry.
"complete list of reasons still needs to be documented, but we suspect i) congestion-induced failures of BGP sessions due to timeouts; ii) flow-diversity induced failures of BGP sesions due to router CPU overloads; iii) proactive disconnection of certain networks; and iv) failures of other equipment at the Internet edge such as DSL routers and other devices."
Surely, the obvious solution would have been to assign a company of elven cavalry with magic swords, supported by Ents, and accompanied by guides familiar with the terrain. It's clear from the book that the elves could raise a huge military force when they had to -- why not use it for this mission?
Because any such attempt would have been smashed to pulp by Sauron's own army. Also, the nature of the ring is such that those who possess it for any length of time, however short are unable to destroy it. Sauron, in his lust for the ring was unable to imagine that anyone would want to destroy it. Thus the decision was to try and sneak the ring into Mordor. That means low key, powerful elves with magic swords aren't exactly low key.
Also there was an element of fate in it. Elrond said as much in the council. I'd give you a quote now but my copy of LOTR is an 8 hour flight away and I can't recall it off the top of my head.
That's my (in my opinion) pathetic attempt to answer your question. Hope it helped.
Cowboy bebop was never meant to be epic, if I you mean epic as in giant scope. The focus of the show is very much on the characters and having fun, which is served very well by the 'half hour bite-sized chunks.'
Although I understand your disappointment at the lack of connectivity. I'd have liked the Spike - Vicious - Julia relationship to be fleshed at a little bit more throughout the entire show, but considering how Spike had surpressed his past, it may be better the way it is, his past suddenly catches up with him, as the back of the last DVD says.
Military retaliation is inevitable. But I can't look at the situation in the Middle East and in Pakistan without some trepidation.
Anti-American sentiment is high throughout the region, and military action against the Taliaban and bin Laden will only serve to further agravate that and lead to more people joining the terrorists to fight 'the great satan'. Also, there is a risk that the governements in pro-western Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan could be toppled by popular uprisings in support of the Taliban and bin Laden.
This would be especially worrying in case of Pakistan as they possess nuclear weapons and delivery platforms for them (missiles). While all sane governments would hesitate before using nuclear weapons, I can't say the same for a Taliban like regime.
If I recall correctly, Apple bought Next Computers a few years back. Next was Jobs project so the takeover probably had something to do with his return.
From browsing about the net, it seems that a lot of the Next stuff found its way into OSX, so in a sense, Next is still with us.
that people continue to be amazed at the stupidity of big business. I'd have thought that countless hours of reading/. would have drilled that home already.
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Anandtech also has a preview of the R8500 & R7500. Anand Lal's final words are fairly interesting:
First off, although we don't always see things the same way I definitely agree with Tom on his statements that ATI should not have chose to present the Radeon 8500 this soon. Even had NVIDIA not released their Detonator 4 drivers earlier than expected, the Radeon 8500 was in no shape to be evaluated at all. The drivers were buggy and they lacked support for the full Radeon 8500 feature set. Although it's definitely interesting to see what the Radeon 8500 can do, ATI should be very worried that too many of you will get the wrong idea about the product. All I can do is present you with the picture as I see it.
I for one am glad to see NVidia has some real competition. However, it seems that ATI's driver department is going to let it down again. Although the card hasn't been released yet, I don't have much hope that the drivers will improve very much before the release. I hope that ATI will prove me wrong, in which case a Radeon 8500 may very well be my next purchase.
I really do hope that they'll succeed in making one. I imagine that it could be converted to launch satellites and that would really reduce the cost of launching objects (not necesserily satellites) into space. A reusable rocket is probably one of the first steps needed for the future colonization of space.
It will be interesting to see if they meet their goal of building a prototype in 2004. Contrast this with NASAs X33 which was supposed to have launched over a year ago now, and has still yet to be built.
Anybody know what's been going on in cold fusion research recently?
After that incident when two guys said that they had gotten cold fusion to work but it turned out they hadn't, cold fusion has been a taboo subject. However, there is research going on and they are getting results (more energy out than in), though nobody seems to know why.
Anyone got any ideas how us poor sods living outside the US and don't have cable can watch dune. Sticking it up on the web is not an option. Most of us don't have DSL or cable modems (duh) either.
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The important thing is that there's no sign of any hollywood studio being involved. I suspect that means that most of the creative work will be done by Gainax, with ADV providing the $$$$ and Weta obviously doing the special effects. If Gainax and Anno are left to do their thing, then the project might turn out alright. The special effects might look a big cheap due to a (relatively) small budget, but I can't imagine Gainax and Anno sanitizing Eva like everyone says.
But then again, this is Gainax we're talking about
Baryonic matter cannot account for dark matter because of big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). BBN gives us a fairly accurate esimation of the baryonic matter density of the universe. The result derived from BBN agrees with the mean mass density obtained by summing the visible matter from a representative sample of galaxies. Thus this suggests that dark matter is non-baryonic.
that he's getting paid for it. Perhaps if people stopped paying for spam to be sent, there would be no more spam.
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how does this new VM manager compare to the old one? I assume it's better, but exactly how does it improve over the old one.
And how does it compare to VM manager in other 'nixs out there, especially FreeBSD.
Heh, they teach Haskell in computing 1A here at the University of New South Wales, supposedly to teach us good programming style. And having moved on to C, I can say that some things are definitely nicer in Haskell than in C. However, in other's it's a real bitch.
Being an (almost) purely functional programming language, I imagine that writing mathematical programs in it would be a piece of cake, but for anything else that requires states it's a royal pain in the but.
In a way, they're acting no different from the record companies in trying to stop an alternate method of distribution (of sorts).
It's ironic (did I use the word correctly?) that this protective action has openned them up to lawsuits from the record industry.
Because any such attempt would have been smashed to pulp by Sauron's own army. Also, the nature of the ring is such that those who possess it for any length of time, however short are unable to destroy it. Sauron, in his lust for the ring was unable to imagine that anyone would want to destroy it. Thus the decision was to try and sneak the ring into Mordor. That means low key, powerful elves with magic swords aren't exactly low key.
Also there was an element of fate in it. Elrond said as much in the council. I'd give you a quote now but my copy of LOTR is an 8 hour flight away and I can't recall it off the top of my head.
That's my (in my opinion) pathetic attempt to answer your question. Hope it helped.
I wasn't aware that the english section of the offical site was up. The last time I checked, it was still in the process of being done.
Ohhh, I just checked, the english section is up. Cool.
Another nice site (not mine) is astroid blues
http://www.geocities.com/asteroidblues/
They've got some nice wallpapers.
Cowboy bebop was never meant to be epic, if I you mean epic as in giant scope. The focus of the show is very much on the characters and having fun, which is served very well by the 'half hour bite-sized chunks.'
Although I understand your disappointment at the lack of connectivity. I'd have liked the Spike - Vicious - Julia relationship to be fleshed at a little bit more throughout the entire show, but considering how Spike had surpressed his past, it may be better the way it is, his past suddenly catches up with him, as the back of the last DVD says.
Although I'd like to believe the story and wish it were true, I don't think we'll be seeing any G5s until this time next year at the very earliest.
Moto have a topnotch chip design unit, but their fabs suck big time and can't produce the chips in large enough quantities
Anti-American sentiment is high throughout the region, and military action against the Taliaban and bin Laden will only serve to further agravate that and lead to more people joining the terrorists to fight 'the great satan'. Also, there is a risk that the governements in pro-western Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan could be toppled by popular uprisings in support of the Taliban and bin Laden.
This would be especially worrying in case of Pakistan as they possess nuclear weapons and delivery platforms for them (missiles). While all sane governments would hesitate before using nuclear weapons, I can't say the same for a Taliban like regime.
Can someone please mod this down or remove this post.
/., despite what's happened this week.
Let's try to be civil here at
The Sydney Morning Herald has info and pictures. And the site also hasn't been /.ed.
From browsing about the net, it seems that a lot of the Next stuff found its way into OSX, so in a sense, Next is still with us.
that people continue to be amazed at the stupidity of big business. I'd have thought that countless hours of reading /. would have drilled that home already.
First off, although we don't always see things the same way I definitely agree with Tom on his statements that ATI should not have chose to present the Radeon 8500 this soon. Even had NVIDIA not released their Detonator 4 drivers earlier than expected, the Radeon 8500 was in no shape to be evaluated at all. The drivers were buggy and they lacked support for the full Radeon 8500 feature set. Although it's definitely interesting to see what the Radeon 8500 can do, ATI should be very worried that too many of you will get the wrong idea about the product. All I can do is present you with the picture as I see it.
I for one am glad to see NVidia has some real competition. However, it seems that ATI's driver department is going to let it down again. Although the card hasn't been released yet, I don't have much hope that the drivers will improve very much before the release. I hope that ATI will prove me wrong, in which case a Radeon 8500 may very well be my next purchase.
b0r1s, your link doesn't seem to work. I can't find the article by from searching the site either.
It will be interesting to see if they meet their goal of building a prototype in 2004. Contrast this with NASAs X33 which was supposed to have launched over a year ago now, and has still yet to be built.
I'm somewhat sceptical about this. How are they going to store enough power in the 155 shell for it to be able to generate such a powerful burst?
After that incident when two guys said that they had gotten cold fusion to work but it turned out they hadn't, cold fusion has been a taboo subject. However, there is research going on and they are getting results (more energy out than in), though nobody seems to know why.
Or at least that's what they say. Anybody remember the Kursk?
Anyone got any ideas how us poor sods living outside the US and don't have cable can watch dune. Sticking it up on the web is not an option. Most of us don't have DSL or cable modems (duh) either.