Crouching Tiger was great! I live in L.A., where it came out last Friday, and I saw it that night. It had great fights and an actual plot with actual acting. Michelle Yeoh was really good in it, I thought. And it had the coolest fight scenes I've ever seen.
I'm not a prodigy at all, but I'm, if I say so myself, pretty smart. I'm a senior in high school, with a 1560 SAT and eight APs, on which I've gotten six 5s and two 4s (the first AP I took was in eighth grade). I say this not to brag, but to give myself a little respectability. Clearly, I'm not in a league with this 9-year-old, but at least I have some knowledge of what it's like to grow up smart.
Anyway, aside from the valid points of many others about proper socialization and the value of just being a normal kid sometimes, I want to recommend the a solid respect for the humanities. When I was younger, I wanted to be a physicist, because I thought it was cool. However, I have always read large numbers of books, and not denied the value of things other than science. After a charismatic eighth-grade history teacher, I decided I actually was interested in history and politics. I have not let this get in the way of being nerdy by any means: I run Linux, I just finished an upper-division math course at UCLA with an A-, and I have a web design business. However, I have not let myself be narrow. As C.P. Snow pointed out in The Third Culture, it's perfectly possible to be interested in both science and music, or math and literature, and in fact it is unhealthy for scientists to sneer at the humanities, or vice versa. It seems that the questioner is concentrating on feeding the prodigy's desire for technical sophistication, which is perfectly good, but I urge him to instill a respect and love for art, history, language, literature and music along with differential equations and flow charts. These other areas shouldn't be formal and stuffy, though. I would expose the kid to everything and let him explore for himself, too.
That's not even the problem! The problem, in case you hadn't caught on, is that AOLTW will have unprecedented control over news and other media, and with huge holdings online and in real life (TV, movies, radio, etc.) it will be another huge step backward in the conglomerization of media.
What's your issue with corporate influence on OSS? I'm the first to criticize corporations, but I fail to see what's so bad here.
"How many people's mothers and bosses have even heard of "Mozilla"?"
Who cares? Mozilla still exists and will continue to exist, with or without Netscape 6. All that NS has changed is the number of programmers and the amount of money available to the project. mozilla.org will continue to operate, regardless. Likewise, I'm a happy consumer of Helix Gnome. Although the Gnome Foundation's effects remain to be seen, Helix has improved Gnome considerably in features, ease of use and stability.
Methinks you're trying to sound the alarm when there isn't actually anything to be upset about yet. If some corporate "benefactor" starts to actually meddle and censor, then I'll be worried, but I think as long as it's open, it's hard for a project to get corrupted.
Recently you played at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, where I live. Usually, the HoB is an over-21 club, as it was on that night. Why didn't you play at an all-ages club, since you have a large underage audience?
No, his point was that "thinner" measures thickness. So "five times thinner" is actually five times thicker. To say what they really meant, you'd have to say "one fifth as thick." Incidentally, as long as I'm being pedantic, five times thicker would be actually equivalent to 6 CDs stacked, not 5, because it's the comparitive form of the adjective, meaning you're adding, not replacing. Five times as thick would be equivalent to 5 CDs.
The thing with gopher was that all the gopher sites were exactly the same. They all had Alice's Adventures in Unix-land, and the CIA World Factbook, and How to Make A Nuke in Your Backyard, and all that crap. Now, of course there's a point to having mirrors, but this made it a little absurd.
This is way cheaper than even the cheapest real HDTV that I know of. Notice how there aren't any "normal" HDTVs? No 20 inchers. They're all at least 40 inches, and many are even bigger. There is a Sony Wega which is relatively small, but it's absurdly expensive, of course, because it's a Wega. $400, though, that's a different story. Combined with hard disk recording, this is pretty nifty. It's still not cheap by any means, but much more so than a real TV (which, admittedly, is bigger).
How was it experimental? It was produced by a large corporation. It was a video game machine. It had a CD drive in it. Big deal. Unless you just meant that that was the marketroid reason for the X.
Is Nike forcing the people there to work at gunpoint? If not, then the workers are exercising their best available options.
I can't believe anyone still can say this with a straight face. It's so patently ridiculous to assert that a contractual agreement is sacrosanct because it was voluntary. If you're starving, and the two available options are (a) remaining unemployed, and continuing starving, and (b) going to work for a multinational and making a pittance, you're going to choose (b), just because it's better than nothing. Nobody thinks that employers should stop existing. The solution people are advocating is for wages to be regulated. This would not put Nike out of business, by any means. Furthermore, government is, or should be, the representative of the people, and serves as the guardian of their rights. Even if you don't think government should set a minimum wage, I think it is unreasonable to deny workers the right to organize. If you truly advocate capitalism, then it is perfectly fair for workers to bargain collectively, as long as each worker agrees with the policies of the group.
Socialism is wrong and does nto work. It has damaged Europe and the US;
Oh, I'm sure all the Scandanavians agree with you was they look around at their morally corrupt, malnourished, sick compatriots. Same for the rest of Western Europe. And we mustn't forget the Canadians, with their inadequate health care system. And public education is a Communist plot, too.
Europe has done bette because i has a greater cultural tradition to draw on, but even it is falling.
This is such a non sequitur. What does cultural tradition have to do with anything? Are you saying Italy is better off than us because they are directly descended from the Romans? Not that I think they are especially better off than we are, what with their Fascist, anti-Semitic and Stalinist tendencies.
I disagree with self-government in general
Wow. I've seriously never met anyone who was a monarchist. How many people do you meet these days who will admit to being antidemocratic? You oughta put yourself in a museum. Seriously, can you give a little argument against democracy? I'd be fascinated as to why someone would trust a dictator over themself.
OK, Mr. Clever. If you'd slowed down for three seconds, you might have had the revelatory thought that a combined AOL-Time Warner merger would not only control entertainment, but also more important forms of information such as news and Internet access. Granted, it's difficult to censor the Internet, but it's unnecessary to truly censor it in order to control what people see. People are lazy, and if it's easy to read what AOL puts in front of you and more work to go read The Nation, people will choose the easy alternative. The result of media conglomeration is a decrease in the number and force of conflicting views. Go read Chomsky or Project Censored to find out about these phenomena from reputable, non-conspiracy-theorist sources. If you're not worried about stifled voices, go check out the TV news, and compare it with the New York Times. Now pretend Hard Copy is all you can get, without going to a lot of trouble. Worried now?
Half the point of SACDs is that they're backwards-compatible, right? Wrong. According to my boss at the record label where I worked over the summer, some of the SACDs we distributed were not backwards-compatible. As far as I know, there's no way to know before you plop the disc in your player whether it'll work on your old-school CD player, either.
The page claims, "These architecture constraints [in kernel 2.2] limit the ability of Linux to scale well past two processors." This is ridiculous, since Windows has yet to come anywhere near Linux's massively-parallel abilities. Even with relatively small numbers of processors, Linux performs very well.
Yeah, I do speed, too, but I find if I do it on my own time, it doesn't get in the way. It's only when I take reds during fourth period that I get a bit hyper.
I dunno about this. I'm inclined to disbelieve it, just because it's not very good writing. The other example of Poe's cryptograms that I know of turned out to be a quote from a literary source, and of course Poes' own writing was very good. I could be wrong, of course, but this was my first reaction.
Granted, this wouldn't be astoundingly great, and it wouldn't offer solutions for font specification, spacing, etc., but why doesn't someone make a client that interprets *text* as text and _text_ as text? Those are commonly recognized shorthands that have existed for many years. Of course, the client would have to check to see whether there was a matching character, otherwise you'd get whole messages italicized when someone was using an asterisk for something else. But as long as it was turn-off-able, I don't see any major problems with this scheme.
If you really want to be technical, that was not an ad hominem argument, but instead a confusion of correlation with causation. That is, he didn't attack a person, but instead drew the erroneous conclusion that since Mozilla was happening at the same time as Netscape's market share was decreasing, it was the cause.
I don't think Moses was an animal. Also, the singular is Moses. Not "mose." And it was a racist myth that he had horns (although why you call them antlers, I can't say).
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Wow, ususally you have to wait 'til grad school to get a teacher that sleazy.
Crouching Tiger was great! I live in L.A., where it came out last Friday, and I saw it that night. It had great fights and an actual plot with actual acting. Michelle Yeoh was really good in it, I thought. And it had the coolest fight scenes I've ever seen.
Anyway, aside from the valid points of many others about proper socialization and the value of just being a normal kid sometimes, I want to recommend the a solid respect for the humanities. When I was younger, I wanted to be a physicist, because I thought it was cool. However, I have always read large numbers of books, and not denied the value of things other than science. After a charismatic eighth-grade history teacher, I decided I actually was interested in history and politics. I have not let this get in the way of being nerdy by any means: I run Linux, I just finished an upper-division math course at UCLA with an A-, and I have a web design business. However, I have not let myself be narrow. As C.P. Snow pointed out in The Third Culture, it's perfectly possible to be interested in both science and music, or math and literature, and in fact it is unhealthy for scientists to sneer at the humanities, or vice versa. It seems that the questioner is concentrating on feeding the prodigy's desire for technical sophistication, which is perfectly good, but I urge him to instill a respect and love for art, history, language, literature and music along with differential equations and flow charts. These other areas shouldn't be formal and stuffy, though. I would expose the kid to everything and let him explore for himself, too.
That's not even the problem! The problem, in case you hadn't caught on, is that AOLTW will have unprecedented control over news and other media, and with huge holdings online and in real life (TV, movies, radio, etc.) it will be another huge step backward in the conglomerization of media.
What's your issue with corporate influence on OSS? I'm the first to criticize corporations, but I fail to see what's so bad here.
"How many people's mothers and bosses have even heard of "Mozilla"?"
Who cares? Mozilla still exists and will continue to exist, with or without Netscape 6. All that NS has changed is the number of programmers and the amount of money available to the project. mozilla.org will continue to operate, regardless. Likewise, I'm a happy consumer of Helix Gnome. Although the Gnome Foundation's effects remain to be seen, Helix has improved Gnome considerably in features, ease of use and stability.
Methinks you're trying to sound the alarm when there isn't actually anything to be upset about yet. If some corporate "benefactor" starts to actually meddle and censor, then I'll be worried, but I think as long as it's open, it's hard for a project to get corrupted.
Recently you played at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, where I live. Usually, the HoB is an over-21 club, as it was on that night. Why didn't you play at an all-ages club, since you have a large underage audience?
What the hell? That wasn't flamebait! I was serious! Can't a guy be a pedant once in a while? I didn't do anything wrong.
No, his point was that "thinner" measures thickness. So "five times thinner" is actually five times thicker. To say what they really meant, you'd have to say "one fifth as thick." Incidentally, as long as I'm being pedantic, five times thicker would be actually equivalent to 6 CDs stacked, not 5, because it's the comparitive form of the adjective, meaning you're adding, not replacing. Five times as thick would be equivalent to 5 CDs.
The thing with gopher was that all the gopher sites were exactly the same. They all had Alice's Adventures in Unix-land, and the CIA World Factbook, and How to Make A Nuke in Your Backyard, and all that crap. Now, of course there's a point to having mirrors, but this made it a little absurd.
Ahem. KV-32XBR400 and KV-36XBR400. These are 1080i, which means they're HDTV-ready.
This is way cheaper than even the cheapest real HDTV that I know of. Notice how there aren't any "normal" HDTVs? No 20 inchers. They're all at least 40 inches, and many are even bigger. There is a Sony Wega which is relatively small, but it's absurdly expensive, of course, because it's a Wega. $400, though, that's a different story. Combined with hard disk recording, this is pretty nifty. It's still not cheap by any means, but much more so than a real TV (which, admittedly, is bigger).
How was it experimental? It was produced by a large corporation. It was a video game machine. It had a CD drive in it. Big deal. Unless you just meant that that was the marketroid reason for the X.
I can't believe anyone still can say this with a straight face. It's so patently ridiculous to assert that a contractual agreement is sacrosanct because it was voluntary. If you're starving, and the two available options are (a) remaining unemployed, and continuing starving, and (b) going to work for a multinational and making a pittance, you're going to choose (b), just because it's better than nothing. Nobody thinks that employers should stop existing. The solution people are advocating is for wages to be regulated. This would not put Nike out of business, by any means. Furthermore, government is, or should be, the representative of the people, and serves as the guardian of their rights. Even if you don't think government should set a minimum wage, I think it is unreasonable to deny workers the right to organize. If you truly advocate capitalism, then it is perfectly fair for workers to bargain collectively, as long as each worker agrees with the policies of the group.
It's the other way around. Plastic ones have existed for several years, although they haven't worked by being exposed to air.
Oh, I'm sure all the Scandanavians agree with you was they look around at their morally corrupt, malnourished, sick compatriots. Same for the rest of Western Europe. And we mustn't forget the Canadians, with their inadequate health care system. And public education is a Communist plot, too.
Europe has done bette because i has a greater cultural tradition to draw on, but even it is falling.
This is such a non sequitur. What does cultural tradition have to do with anything? Are you saying Italy is better off than us because they are directly descended from the Romans? Not that I think they are especially better off than we are, what with their Fascist, anti-Semitic and Stalinist tendencies.
I disagree with self-government in general
Wow. I've seriously never met anyone who was a monarchist. How many people do you meet these days who will admit to being antidemocratic? You oughta put yourself in a museum. Seriously, can you give a little argument against democracy? I'd be fascinated as to why someone would trust a dictator over themself.
OK, Mr. Clever. If you'd slowed down for three seconds, you might have had the revelatory thought that a combined AOL-Time Warner merger would not only control entertainment, but also more important forms of information such as news and Internet access. Granted, it's difficult to censor the Internet, but it's unnecessary to truly censor it in order to control what people see. People are lazy, and if it's easy to read what AOL puts in front of you and more work to go read The Nation, people will choose the easy alternative. The result of media conglomeration is a decrease in the number and force of conflicting views. Go read Chomsky or Project Censored to find out about these phenomena from reputable, non-conspiracy-theorist sources. If you're not worried about stifled voices, go check out the TV news, and compare it with the New York Times. Now pretend Hard Copy is all you can get, without going to a lot of trouble. Worried now?
Half the point of SACDs is that they're backwards-compatible, right? Wrong. According to my boss at the record label where I worked over the summer, some of the SACDs we distributed were not backwards-compatible. As far as I know, there's no way to know before you plop the disc in your player whether it'll work on your old-school CD player, either.
Oh, come on. Don't be so anal. This is nerdy. Don't tell me it's not a cool hack to ski down Everest. This isn't football, it's a clever stunt.
The page claims, "These architecture constraints [in kernel 2.2] limit the ability of Linux to scale well past two processors." This is ridiculous, since Windows has yet to come anywhere near Linux's massively-parallel abilities. Even with relatively small numbers of processors, Linux performs very well.
Yeah, I do speed, too, but I find if I do it on my own time, it doesn't get in the way. It's only when I take reds during fourth period that I get a bit hyper.
I dunno about this. I'm inclined to disbelieve it, just because it's not very good writing. The other example of Poe's cryptograms that I know of turned out to be a quote from a literary source, and of course Poes' own writing was very good. I could be wrong, of course, but this was my first reaction.
Granted, this wouldn't be astoundingly great, and it wouldn't offer solutions for font specification, spacing, etc., but why doesn't someone make a client that interprets *text* as text and _text_ as text? Those are commonly recognized shorthands that have existed for many years. Of course, the client would have to check to see whether there was a matching character, otherwise you'd get whole messages italicized when someone was using an asterisk for something else. But as long as it was turn-off-able, I don't see any major problems with this scheme.
If you really want to be technical, that was not an ad hominem argument, but instead a confusion of correlation with causation. That is, he didn't attack a person, but instead drew the erroneous conclusion that since Mozilla was happening at the same time as Netscape's market share was decreasing, it was the cause.
Yeah, because Bush is fighting for your rights! He won't make any concessions to the MPAA and the RIAA, no siree. He's a man o' the people.
I don't think Moses was an animal. Also, the singular is Moses. Not "mose." And it was a racist myth that he had horns (although why you call them antlers, I can't say).
Just havin' a little fun with your spelling.