There were a few scenes in which I felt the effects got ripped off and looked crappy. When they were saving the harvester from the Worm, the worm was awesome however the harvester looked like a bade truespace model. That part was slightly disappointing, how in some aspects the effects were beautiful and then another object in the same scene looked like crap.
I have to agree with the Luke Skywalker thing though, favorite quote "We wont last more then a few hours out here in the open..".. reminded me of Luke on Hoth.
Excellently written and thought out. I'm just posting to applaud your post. I made a previous one illustrating the differences between spoken from Mexican roots, and how the Spanish in Spain is prestige based. He went and called me a troll:).
The main reason in which I am writing, I speak Spain-rooted Spanish (rather rusty, I haven't spoken more than a few words in years gone by.. still have it but I find myself forgetting words quite often:/) and around here (San Jose, CA) I get a lot of Mexican-Spanish speakers giving my quizical looks when I speak Spanish. Is it better to speak in English and have people struggle understanding, or speak in Spanish (Spain rooted) and have them understand but then seem to dislike me? I do know that I have an accent (in Spain, most think I'm french.. strange) but it just strikes me as odd the reaction I get.
I remember a quote I heard that reminds me of this, "Never trust a gringo who speaks spanish, or a mexican who smokes cigars."
That doesn't really work, just in case you were wondering. I've done some interface extension research, and all the results point that tendon tension is too crude. We actually did a lot of studying on this, and the annoy thing about it is the tendons will be a different tension if the wrists are turned in a different position.
Another problem is that some people (for instance, myself) have enough skin and muscle over the tendons that you dont really get any signal from them whatsoever.
And the final problem that comes in, calibration is a bitch. You calibrate for one person and they use it, then another person and another. After dealing with calibration matrices for each and every person, with all of the possible rotation permutations it just becomes overly intensive to monitor each option.
A really promising approach is using dry electrodes to monitor EMG signals, these can be in the form of a tight bracelet and arm band. BioControl has some really cool stuff in this world. Such as a quarter-size diode that sits on your forehead and you move the mouse with your eye movement, it really actually does work well too.
"British lady"? "Traditional"? "Twang"? "Southern"? So, if your madame mutters a
four-letter word, she suddenly becomes "less intelligent", does she? What is the
nature of intelligence?
This is the point you are failing to grasp, both in my original post and in my previous. I will make it very simple for you: I shall walk to the corner market to purchase some eggs
As opposed to: Imma be walkin to the store down the fuckin street to buy some shit
Now, which one sounds more soothing, and intelligent? Look, from our conversation and my lack to speak any language with any degree of success.. hell I got a C in college english because I dont care enough about it one could assume that I'm not very intelligent. I'll give you a hint though, my IQ is near what you would see in say, Sharon Stone [same testing sequence]. So, that aside, I'm not saying anything about bigotry -- I have no idea where you got that from? For someone who is associated with Perl and seems well educated, damn you are lacking intelligence in quite a few areas. I say this due to one major reason:
You charge forth with an objection without even understanding what you are objecting too.
You spewed a bunch of numbers and expect authority over a subject.
But since you've impugned my credentials, which appear to be of some import to you,
permit me to display them for you.
Well then, you sure showed me didn't you? Damn man, you have obviously been beaten as a child for not standing up for things because you are so far out of whack of what I am saying then I think I have ever encountered.
Point #1 I did not attack your credentials, lets go back to the original statement that I wrote:
If all you can pull is statistics instead of life experience then that's bullshit.
Did you or did you not spew a bunch of statistics (that was actually in favor of my original post, talking about the linguistic diversity of Spanish folks - thanks for that point, appreciate it), yes.. yes you did. So.. if that is all you can do, then you are full of bullshit. These two points are very factual
Another point, I dont even really care about your credentials, a simple "Yeah, I've been through spain and speak a bit of spanish" would have sufficed, thanks for your life story though. You have completely and totally misread what I was saying, maybe it is due to my lack of writing skills which I acknowledge (I dont care to write better, it is sufficient) but then I look back.. Ah yes, my example of the British lady who sounds (being the operative term, as you put it previously) more intelligent... yep, there we go that sums it up right there, ask anyone you know what sounds more intelligent (not the speaker, just the sentence) and my guess is most of them would say sentence #1. So my point is this: You have no idea what the hell I am talking about. Hell, I dont even know if you know what you are talking about really. Reviewing things, just to make sure I am not off base, reveals that you have a stick shoved up your ass about something and you think that entitles you to accuse me of being wrong when you dont even understand what I am talking about.
You sir, are in the wrong. However I'm expecting yet another response illustrating how it is wrong to make judgements about a person based off of their dialect. I'll save you the trouble: No shit, that is what I am saying. I'm talking about the sentences, the language, the words and phrases and how those sound. Spare me another long lecture about my bigotry, because you are the one who needs to relax.
But thanks, you are at least intelligent to discuss things with even though you aren't understanding my point.
Absolutely, however I do think (and most people who speak mexican agree) that Spanish from Spain sounds more proper and (well anal, too.. another matter) slightly more intelligent. Keep in mind (as to my previous response) that I am in no way saying a Spaniard is smarter than anyone else.
I do find it funny when speaking spanish around here (California), I usually have to repeat myself (if they aren't from Spain). The whole point of me learning Spanish over other languages is Spanish was more useful. Ironic..
You mean: "I'm a bilingual American; rare, eh?" So, what's your second language?
Not English, surely.:-)
C++:)
More than one Spaniard in four speaks something other than castellano as their first
language. 17% speak catalá, 7% galego, and 2% euskadi. This doesn't even count the
various vestigial langauges like asturianu, leonés, or aragonés--which tend to be
second languages now if that, not to mention the controversial situation of the two
alde(i)as portuguesas that somehow never made it back over the border in 1640.
I'm not sure how that disqualifies me at all. I said that most spaniards speak multiple languages and this is statistically proving it. I did not ever say that they spoke Spanish as their native tongue. I really should have clarified my statement about 60% speak spanish and french. I intended metropolitan areas but left that out *doh*.
Now, to go to the cream of the comment - you say that it's stupid to associate a language with having a more smooth, intelligent sound. Why? I dont think that anybody would ever argue that a nice traditional British lady sounds very much more intelligent then say, a lad in the ghetto that uses mother-fucker to describe quantum physics. It sounds different, that's the bottom line. I made no reference to the actual individual being of a better mindset than any other either - I'm not sure why you made that assumption. Go listen to a Jeff Foxworthy tape and tell me if it's soothing to ones ear. The twang of a southern drawl is not something one associates with a well-defined education?
Why not? Well, they can't pronounce aluminium for starters - another reason is they can't pronounce most other words correctly. When a language is spoken where they do not pronounce the words correctly, it does not sound very pleasing unless you are from that region and then it sounds normal I suppose.
Either way, you really seem no more qualified to speak about Spain or the Spanish language than myself. If all you can pull is statistics instead of life experience then that's bullshit. 99% of statistics can be changed to meet the persons usage. (And yes, that is a joke).
I'm a bilinguist american, rare eh?
I started learning Mexican-Spanish, and quickly changed to proper Spanish (Spain roots) and have studied it ever since. I do have to agree with points that proper spanish is definitely creeping into the backgrounds, while mexican-spanish is still quite prominent.
What's the difference you ask? Take the difference between American-English and England-English, somewhat quite similar. I believe that Spanish rooted in Spain sounds much more intelligent, smooth, and educated - just my $0.02c - however biased I am from spending most my childhood learning it.
I have to say I think this article is bunk though. Go spend some time in Spain -- while everybody speaks Spanish (excepting Barcelona.. not even getting into that discussion) most speak 2 to 3 languages fluently. I'd say probably 60% of people speak Spanish and French that aren't in retail, 95% of retail people speak spanish and english.
Then you have the issue of Spanglish, the mixture of the two languages. Which I dont think is a massively bad thing, but I think is inevitable. When building a global culture, whoever has the biggest vote gets their way. So what happens? Most languages die out in that culture, except the super powers.
Be prepared to start speaking a mixture of American, Chinese, and Japanese - as they are the tech super powers now.
My post was in reference of code simplicity not portability.
Java code, which is why I've shunned it, is ugly because it's bloated. The actual code is, not talking about run time. It's rather stupid that you should have to set up a stream to avoid System.out.println. Java just looks silly to me. It's supposed to be a programming language, not something that resembles english.. (class blah extends blahblah)
Does anybody have a link to the so called bug paper?
It seems rather odd, I haven't been able to find anything on any news sites about the actual bug incident yet NEC and Sony are talking about a recall. If the bug is serious enough to demand a recall (I'm thinking Pentium math error type bug) we would hear about it from other sources. So, does anybody have those other sources?
Also, depending upon the type of bug couldn't the firmware within the chip be upgraded as the core of crusoe is programmable, it seems most bugs would be software centered although the possibility for hardware is definitely there. I hope this isn't Yahoo jumping the gun on a rumor that NEC is investigating. While I dont hold/. to a journalistic standard (It's just Rob's little playground, until people on here start calling themselves journalists) I would expect Yahoo to follow guidelines and not publish rumors. Where's the facts!?
First off, he was a good mathemetician - you got that right.
Secondly, no one ever takes what he says about AI as gospel. He is an early pioneer into the science of cognitive awareness. That is like saying that we take everything that Newton said as the utter fact without striving for more. There is so much more out there, he was just one famous name that did a lot of ground breaking work.
Also, The turing machine is a mathematical model of a computer that can do anything, but because it involves an infinite in the formula it is more or less impossible to tangibly create.
And also, who are you to declare what would have come into existence? Are you omnipotent? I sure hope not, because if omnipotence is handed out to those as closed-minded and ill informed as yourself than I'm surprised the universe hasn't folded into a singularity yet.
So it would be precisely how it is now then?:)
I learned that if I want good clothes you ask a friend (make sure it is a friend) of the female gender to go shopping with you. Most females love to shop, especially if for someone else (I do not understand this phenomenon). The reason it has to be a friend, is if you bring your girlfriend they will buy clothes that they like you in, which would more than likely not be what you like (Another strange phenomenon). I did this and it worked, I met the girl who is going to be my wife next month:)
Question about taxes - please respond if you know
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If you donate to a charity, how much of that is tax deductable and of what bracket of tax (State or Federal) -- I owe a lot every year, and I would rather pay a charity a few thousand than the Government which already is getting enough of my money. What is the process for this and how do I set it up? Any accountant advice is welcome, as I'm a dork and make too much money and have no accountant nor any knowledge about this stuff - qualified urls also very welcome. And yes, I am setting up something with an accountant, but it's hard to find good accountants in this area that dont charge more for their services than you owe in taxes.
The good news is the rangers are now much more popular. Look - every person has downfalls and benefits. My post was to be fair. Bush has a favorable history, at least favorable enough for half of the voting population to vote for him.
They're politicians, they are supposed to be dark, menacing and have ugly controversial histories or they aren't doing their job right.
I'm not a bush supporter either - my point is just be fair with evaluations and not these vague dissidents against him without any basis. Gore has as many (maybe more maybe less, I'm not God) strikes against him as Bush -- if you disagree you are naive and shouldn't be voting in my opinion.
My point is this: Bush has done things right, he has to in order to get where he is at today. If you think you can do better and want to - do it. If not, then you are that mother on the sidelines screaming for their fat little kid to play in the game.
But personally I would rather have someone in office that reflects the american majority (uses alcohol, drugs and is a real person) than someone who is robotic in everything they do (read Gore). The reason is simple, the president has no real unweilding holy power - they are merely a face to our nation. It's silly really.. all this talk about a man who doesn't do all that much in the major decisions of our country. They have advisors for the decisions people think the president made.
Now, when picking a president I myself would rather choose the one who has better advisors -- and in this case it is obviously clear who does, the dubya campaign won the presidency against odds and managed to put someone up there that has a shady history (even though everyone does) and win. Now that is some good thinking with some seriously smart people behind it -- now those are the people who are doing a lot of the real work. I think it's all in pretty damn good hands, because Bush's hands aren't touching it, just delivering it.
Well shit, I didn't see your name on the ballot so apparently you aren't.
I go by history, and history shows he is much more qualified than you, I mean.. look at it this way Anonymous Coward is responsible for most of the trolls on/.! (that was a joke btw)
You are actually rather confusing - you are completely bypassing any facts and going purely off of what other people have told you. Bah for me sheeple.
Are you from Texas?
If yes, then wow you must have been living in a cave to not see the changes that Bush made for the better and also the democrats campaigning for him - obviously he did something right beyond toting his daddies name around.
And no, I didn't vote for Bush (or Gore) - but he is someone I would prefer to have in office over Gore, who is like watching a hooked on phonics commercial.
Bush has 2 things, a history that speaks kindly and the presidency. I'd say he earned that regardless who is daddy is, although it helped. Look at the facts before you spout off - Bush did very well in his life and he's gone a lot further than you have, so show him some respect.
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Mod this down, please so no other poor souls have to see that.
I have to agree with the Luke Skywalker thing though, favorite quote "We wont last more then a few hours out here in the open.." .. reminded me of Luke on Hoth.
The main reason in which I am writing, I speak Spain-rooted Spanish (rather rusty, I haven't spoken more than a few words in years gone by.. still have it but I find myself forgetting words quite often
I remember a quote I heard that reminds me of this, "Never trust a gringo who speaks spanish, or a mexican who smokes cigars."
Another problem is that some people (for instance, myself) have enough skin and muscle over the tendons that you dont really get any signal from them whatsoever.
And the final problem that comes in, calibration is a bitch. You calibrate for one person and they use it, then another person and another. After dealing with calibration matrices for each and every person, with all of the possible rotation permutations it just becomes overly intensive to monitor each option.
A really promising approach is using dry electrodes to monitor EMG signals, these can be in the form of a tight bracelet and arm band. BioControl has some really cool stuff in this world. Such as a quarter-size diode that sits on your forehead and you move the mouse with your eye movement, it really actually does work well too.
This is the point you are failing to grasp, both in my original post and in my previous. I will make it very simple for you:
I shall walk to the corner market to purchase some eggs
As opposed to:
Imma be walkin to the store down the fuckin street to buy some shit
Now, which one sounds more soothing, and intelligent? Look, from our conversation and my lack to speak any language with any degree of success.. hell I got a C in college english because I dont care enough about it one could assume that I'm not very intelligent. I'll give you a hint though, my IQ is near what you would see in say, Sharon Stone [same testing sequence].
So, that aside, I'm not saying anything about bigotry -- I have no idea where you got that from? For someone who is associated with Perl and seems well educated, damn you are lacking intelligence in quite a few areas. I say this due to one major reason:
You charge forth with an objection without even understanding what you are objecting too.
You spewed a bunch of numbers and expect authority over a subject.
But since you've impugned my credentials, which appear to be of some import to you, permit me to display them for you.
Well then, you sure showed me didn't you? Damn man, you have obviously been beaten as a child for not standing up for things because you are so far out of whack of what I am saying then I think I have ever encountered.
Point #1 I did not attack your credentials, lets go back to the original statement that I wrote: .. yep, there we go that sums it up right there, ask anyone you know what sounds more intelligent (not the speaker, just the sentence) and my guess is most of them would say sentence #1. So my point is this: You have no idea what the hell I am talking about. Hell, I dont even know if you know what you are talking about really. Reviewing things, just to make sure I am not off base, reveals that you have a stick shoved up your ass about something and you think that entitles you to accuse me of being wrong when you dont even understand what I am talking about.
If all you can pull is statistics instead of life experience then that's bullshit.
Did you or did you not spew a bunch of statistics (that was actually in favor of my original post, talking about the linguistic diversity of Spanish folks - thanks for that point, appreciate it), yes.. yes you did. So.. if that is all you can do, then you are full of bullshit. These two points are very factual
Another point, I dont even really care about your credentials, a simple "Yeah, I've been through spain and speak a bit of spanish" would have sufficed, thanks for your life story though. You have completely and totally misread what I was saying, maybe it is due to my lack of writing skills which I acknowledge (I dont care to write better, it is sufficient) but then I look back.. Ah yes, my example of the British lady who sounds (being the operative term, as you put it previously) more intelligent.
You sir, are in the wrong. However I'm expecting yet another response illustrating how it is wrong to make judgements about a person based off of their dialect. I'll save you the trouble: No shit, that is what I am saying. I'm talking about the sentences, the language, the words and phrases and how those sound. Spare me another long lecture about my bigotry, because you are the one who needs to relax.
But thanks, you are at least intelligent to discuss things with even though you aren't understanding my point.
I do find it funny when speaking spanish around here (California), I usually have to repeat myself (if they aren't from Spain). The whole point of me learning Spanish over other languages is Spanish was more useful. Ironic..
C++ :)
More than one Spaniard in four speaks something other than castellano as their first language. 17% speak catalá, 7% galego, and 2% euskadi. This doesn't even count the various vestigial langauges like asturianu, leonés, or aragonés--which tend to be second languages now if that, not to mention the controversial situation of the two alde(i)as portuguesas that somehow never made it back over the border in 1640.
I'm not sure how that disqualifies me at all. I said that most spaniards speak multiple languages and this is statistically proving it. I did not ever say that they spoke Spanish as their native tongue. I really should have clarified my statement about 60% speak spanish and french. I intended metropolitan areas but left that out *doh*.
Now, to go to the cream of the comment - you say that it's stupid to associate a language with having a more smooth, intelligent sound. Why? I dont think that anybody would ever argue that a nice traditional British lady sounds very much more intelligent then say, a lad in the ghetto that uses mother-fucker to describe quantum physics. It sounds different, that's the bottom line. I made no reference to the actual individual being of a better mindset than any other either - I'm not sure why you made that assumption. Go listen to a Jeff Foxworthy tape and tell me if it's soothing to ones ear. The twang of a southern drawl is not something one associates with a well-defined education?
Why not? Well, they can't pronounce aluminium for starters - another reason is they can't pronounce most other words correctly. When a language is spoken where they do not pronounce the words correctly, it does not sound very pleasing unless you are from that region and then it sounds normal I suppose.
Either way, you really seem no more qualified to speak about Spain or the Spanish language than myself. If all you can pull is statistics instead of life experience then that's bullshit. 99% of statistics can be changed to meet the persons usage. (And yes, that is a joke).
I started learning Mexican-Spanish, and quickly changed to proper Spanish (Spain roots) and have studied it ever since. I do have to agree with points that proper spanish is definitely creeping into the backgrounds, while mexican-spanish is still quite prominent.
What's the difference you ask? Take the difference between American-English and England-English, somewhat quite similar. I believe that Spanish rooted in Spain sounds much more intelligent, smooth, and educated - just my $0.02c - however biased I am from spending most my childhood learning it.
I have to say I think this article is bunk though. Go spend some time in Spain -- while everybody speaks Spanish (excepting Barcelona.. not even getting into that discussion) most speak 2 to 3 languages fluently. I'd say probably 60% of people speak Spanish and French that aren't in retail, 95% of retail people speak spanish and english.
Then you have the issue of Spanglish, the mixture of the two languages. Which I dont think is a massively bad thing, but I think is inevitable. When building a global culture, whoever has the biggest vote gets their way. So what happens? Most languages die out in that culture, except the super powers.
Be prepared to start speaking a mixture of American, Chinese, and Japanese - as they are the tech super powers now.
Java code, which is why I've shunned it, is ugly because it's bloated. The actual code is, not talking about run time. It's rather stupid that you should have to set up a stream to avoid System.out.println. Java just looks silly to me. It's supposed to be a programming language, not something that resembles english.. (class blah extends blahblah)
Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!
;)
I am doing this in plain old text, and I am going to watch my karma gets modded down for each one of these.. hehe
#include
main() { cout "Java is just so much simpler.";}
While C++ is simple, HTML is hard as hell
Erp.. forgot to use pre
#include main() { cout
#include main() { cout "Java is just so much more simple. *cough"; }
I'm thinking a new sport, something about beeting up slashdot trolls.
What about the copyright restrictions?
BTW, I found your joke rather amusing and the site utterly stupid and a waste of bandwidth.
Nice work.
My original comments subject line was: Hello >click<
Damn you!
This is just stupid, with all those extra gadgets by the time you actually use it as a phone the battery will be dead.
I spend the other 318 days reading slashdot myself.
It seems rather odd, I haven't been able to find anything on any news sites about the actual bug incident yet NEC and Sony are talking about a recall. If the bug is serious enough to demand a recall (I'm thinking Pentium math error type bug) we would hear about it from other sources. So, does anybody have those other sources?
Also, depending upon the type of bug couldn't the firmware within the chip be upgraded as the core of crusoe is programmable, it seems most bugs would be software centered although the possibility for hardware is definitely there. I hope this isn't Yahoo jumping the gun on a rumor that NEC is investigating. While I dont hold /. to a journalistic standard (It's just Rob's little playground, until people on here start calling themselves journalists) I would expect Yahoo to follow guidelines and not publish rumors. Where's the facts!?
Secondly, no one ever takes what he says about AI as gospel. He is an early pioneer into the science of cognitive awareness. That is like saying that we take everything that Newton said as the utter fact without striving for more. There is so much more out there, he was just one famous name that did a lot of ground breaking work.
Also, The turing machine is a mathematical model of a computer that can do anything, but because it involves an infinite in the formula it is more or less impossible to tangibly create.
And also, who are you to declare what would have come into existence? Are you omnipotent? I sure hope not, because if omnipotence is handed out to those as closed-minded and ill informed as yourself than I'm surprised the universe hasn't folded into a singularity yet.
So it would be precisely how it is now then? :) :)
I learned that if I want good clothes you ask a friend (make sure it is a friend) of the female gender to go shopping with you. Most females love to shop, especially if for someone else (I do not understand this phenomenon). The reason it has to be a friend, is if you bring your girlfriend they will buy clothes that they like you in, which would more than likely not be what you like (Another strange phenomenon). I did this and it worked, I met the girl who is going to be my wife next month
If you donate to a charity, how much of that is tax deductable and of what bracket of tax (State or Federal) -- I owe a lot every year, and I would rather pay a charity a few thousand than the Government which already is getting enough of my money. What is the process for this and how do I set it up? Any accountant advice is welcome, as I'm a dork and make too much money and have no accountant nor any knowledge about this stuff - qualified urls also very welcome. And yes, I am setting up something with an accountant, but it's hard to find good accountants in this area that dont charge more for their services than you owe in taxes.
They're politicians, they are supposed to be dark, menacing and have ugly controversial histories or they aren't doing their job right.
I'm not a bush supporter either - my point is just be fair with evaluations and not these vague dissidents against him without any basis. Gore has as many (maybe more maybe less, I'm not God) strikes against him as Bush -- if you disagree you are naive and shouldn't be voting in my opinion.
My point is this: Bush has done things right, he has to in order to get where he is at today. If you think you can do better and want to - do it. If not, then you are that mother on the sidelines screaming for their fat little kid to play in the game.
But personally I would rather have someone in office that reflects the american majority (uses alcohol, drugs and is a real person) than someone who is robotic in everything they do (read Gore). The reason is simple, the president has no real unweilding holy power - they are merely a face to our nation. It's silly really.. all this talk about a man who doesn't do all that much in the major decisions of our country. They have advisors for the decisions people think the president made.
Now, when picking a president I myself would rather choose the one who has better advisors -- and in this case it is obviously clear who does, the dubya campaign won the presidency against odds and managed to put someone up there that has a shady history (even though everyone does) and win. Now that is some good thinking with some seriously smart people behind it -- now those are the people who are doing a lot of the real work. I think it's all in pretty damn good hands, because Bush's hands aren't touching it, just delivering it.
I go by history, and history shows he is much more qualified than you, I mean.. look at it this way Anonymous Coward is responsible for most of the trolls on /.! (that was a joke btw)
Are you from Texas?
If yes, then wow you must have been living in a cave to not see the changes that Bush made for the better and also the democrats campaigning for him - obviously he did something right beyond toting his daddies name around.
And no, I didn't vote for Bush (or Gore) - but he is someone I would prefer to have in office over Gore, who is like watching a hooked on phonics commercial.
Bush has 2 things, a history that speaks kindly and the presidency. I'd say he earned that regardless who is daddy is, although it helped. Look at the facts before you spout off - Bush did very well in his life and he's gone a lot further than you have, so show him some respect.