What I don't understand is how a network show on primetime like NYPD Blue can show real life nudity, but a cable show on at 11 pm can't show cartoonish nudity.
I was incorrect, the birth rate is a negative number, but the lowering death rate means the population is growing.
As for the Indian thing, I don't think wars are decided by how many men you can put in the field anymore. China has the largest population in the world (they still edge out India), but they're surrounded by less-populated countries who are more than a match for them in a fight (Japan, Taiwan, Russia, etc)
There was a/. story on someone who reverse engineered some of Gates' (and Allen's) stuff, and found some pretty nice work.
Unfortunately, the sorry state of the slashdot search engine prevents me from finding it.
The 133t coders here should realize that coding a language interpreter that has to fit in a 4k computer with no keyboard or monitor is a little different than pounding out a few perl scripts.
I'm sure his school wouldn't just take the service's word for it; they'll most likely investigate, having several people manually compare the two papers, then ask the student to explain him or herself.
The Cost: Its expensive, I don't know how much it costs but its money. This means that money is being spent to catch the dishonest instead of helping the honest. Arguably there is benefit to the honest when the dishonest are caught but the level of benefit pales in comparison to what could be achieved if the money was directly spent on the honest students.
I think that 50 cents is better spent eliminating plagiarism than being spent on the honest students.
What are you going to do, buy them a few pencils every year with it?
There's also the question of, how do you know who the honest students are in the first place?
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The school has adopted a policy that if turnitin.com catches plagerism you must prove your innocence. I realize its not the court of law but it just seems wrong to me.
If you turn in a paper that is almost identical to one someone else turned in, then there's a problem. I really don't see the problem everyone has with this; plagiarism is a big problem, and I've known plenty of people who had absolutely no moral qualms about doing this sort of thing. If they get caught, good; I put a lot of work into the papers I wrote, and I don't want my degree to be deprecated because half the people with it are semiliterate.
Heh, how much do you want to bet the exact same story posted by a student from West Cowville Community College wouldn't have been accepted?
Slashdot story submissions are far more likely to be accepted if you a) name drop (MIT, Linus Torvalds, etc.), or b) use a lot of 133t jargon or technical specifications.
This story did both. Though I'm not sure why they'd be impressed by a switch referred to by it's model name, number, and speed. "Hey, I just installed a LNEPCI2 EtherPCI lan card with coax port" "wow, man, you must be some sort of god!"
But, from what I gather, and I have done some searching, Dick (aka Richard Morrell) seems to have a few screws loose. From all accounts, he is cranky and sometimes more than downright nasty.
An ill-mannered, non-social programmer? Impossible!
The entire audience I saw it with squirmed uncomfortably when they saw what was going on.
Really? I didn't notice that in the audience I saw it with, and the theater was quite literally a few blocks away from where the WTC used to stand. In fact the theater itself was most likely closed for a while after 9/11...
Actually, "Domesday" IS an old spelling of "Doomsday" (and the book was also referred to as Domesdei). It referred to the fact that the census was both unavoidable (EVERYONE was examined), and a final verdict--in other words, if the Domesday book said that Hugh de Montfort owned the castle at Saltwood (which, if anyone cares, he did), then he had the full weight of the law behind him. Any brothers or cousins who came forth to dispute that would, in theory, be ignored.
The humor of the title probably wasn't appreciated by many of the people chronicled in it, as the study was carried out on the orders of William I, who had just conquered them. It was, in many ways, an inventory of what he had just gained by beating the Saxons and taking their lands.
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Want to know why shows are popular? They have a theme. Whether it's the Sopranos with the mafia theme, West Wing with it's presidential theme, ER with it's hospital theme, or NYPD Blue with it's cop theme, these shows are popular because they interest people.
Before you said that shows became popular because they were unique; the Sopranos definitely is something we haven't seen before, and you could argue the same for West Wing (though there have been several shows dramatizing politics), but ER and NYPD Blue have been done many, many times before.
Like X-Files, the show has a dark view of science.
The X-Files has very little to do with real science. Vampires? Weird implants? Alien conspiracies? Pseudoscience doesn't equal science.
The CSI criminalists work in a depressing world where they nonetheless seek the raw truth, and believe in the ability of science to uncover it. Grissom is an older David Duchovny.
I hope you meant Agent Mulder. David Duchovny is an actor.
The breaks in the visuals can't be eliminated through just seeing them a lot. I could get used to it, maybe, but I don't WANT to get used to it; I like soaking in the panoramic shots.
And like I said, I prefer subtitling on live-action anything. But on anime where the character's mouths don't correspond with the sounds exactly anyway, it's not so much an issue.
Yes, I prefer a good dub to subtitles. That way my eyes don't have to flicker constantly to the bottom of the screen to follow the story; I miss too much of the visuals, which is in my opinion the best part of anime.
I saw Metropolis a few weeks ago, and a lot of stunning, panoramic shots of the city were diminished for me because the characters kept speaking.
Of course, when watching live-action foreign films I find dubbing grotesque.
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I decided to change my opinion from waiting until the BFA's
If you have a Bachelor of Fine Arts, chances are you're already annoying.
And you probably have long hair, hang out in coffee shops far too much, and watch dull movies.
What I don't understand is how a network show on primetime like NYPD Blue can show real life nudity, but a cable show on at 11 pm can't show cartoonish nudity.
Just makes no sense.
At least with software its easier for the bean counters to push overhead costs into different buckets.
You'd think software companies wouldn't almost universally hemorrhage money like they do...
The numbers can be a bit confused.
I was incorrect, the birth rate is a negative number, but the lowering death rate means the population is growing.
As for the Indian thing, I don't think wars are decided by how many men you can put in the field anymore. China has the largest population in the world (they still edge out India), but they're surrounded by less-populated countries who are more than a match for them in a fight (Japan, Taiwan, Russia, etc)
They still have a positive birthrate, but they've managed to cut it down slightly over the past few years.
We're the plaintiffs. And -I- certainly want Microsoft penalized severely.
Our lawyers are the ones getting cold feet, though.
There was a /. story on someone who reverse engineered some of Gates' (and Allen's) stuff, and found some pretty nice work.
Unfortunately, the sorry state of the slashdot search engine prevents me from finding it.
The 133t coders here should realize that coding a language interpreter that has to fit in a 4k computer with no keyboard or monitor is a little different than pounding out a few perl scripts.
The bar WAS higher back then.
Bill Gates was a great coder; then he had to make a decision. Code, or manage. He chose the latter.
I'm sure his school wouldn't just take the service's word for it; they'll most likely investigate, having several people manually compare the two papers, then ask the student to explain him or herself.
The Cost: Its expensive, I don't know how much it costs but its money. This means that money is being spent to catch the dishonest instead of helping the honest. Arguably there is benefit to the honest when the dishonest are caught but the level of benefit pales in comparison to what could be achieved if the money was directly spent on the honest students.
I think that 50 cents is better spent eliminating plagiarism than being spent on the honest students. What are you going to do, buy them a few pencils every year with it?
There's also the question of, how do you know who the honest students are in the first place?
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The school has adopted a policy that if turnitin.com catches plagerism you must prove your innocence. I realize its not the court of law but it just seems wrong to me.
If you turn in a paper that is almost identical to one someone else turned in, then there's a problem. I really don't see the problem everyone has with this; plagiarism is a big problem, and I've known plenty of people who had absolutely no moral qualms about doing this sort of thing. If they get caught, good; I put a lot of work into the papers I wrote, and I don't want my degree to be deprecated because half the people with it are semiliterate.
I've never seen anything ENCODED in flash that added anything to a site.
I prefer a page of text; it actually does look better to me.
Just type find with no arguments and you can see every file on every computer on the net...
I dare you to do better.
Most real sources actually have the decency to RETRACT incorrect stories.
Heh, how much do you want to bet the exact same story posted by a student from West Cowville Community College wouldn't have been accepted?
Slashdot story submissions are far more likely to be accepted if you a) name drop (MIT, Linus Torvalds, etc.), or b) use a lot of 133t jargon or technical specifications.
This story did both. Though I'm not sure why they'd be impressed by a switch referred to by it's model name, number, and speed. "Hey, I just installed a LNEPCI2 EtherPCI lan card with coax port" "wow, man, you must be some sort of god!"
But, from what I gather, and I have done some searching, Dick (aka Richard Morrell) seems to have a few screws loose. From all accounts, he is cranky and sometimes more than downright nasty.
An ill-mannered, non-social programmer? Impossible!
The entire audience I saw it with squirmed uncomfortably when they saw what was going on.
Really? I didn't notice that in the audience I saw it with, and the theater was quite literally a few blocks away from where the WTC used to stand. In fact the theater itself was most likely closed for a while after 9/11...
Actually, "Domesday" IS an old spelling of "Doomsday" (and the book was also referred to as Domesdei). It referred to the fact that the census was both unavoidable (EVERYONE was examined), and a final verdict--in other words, if the Domesday book said that Hugh de Montfort owned the castle at Saltwood (which, if anyone cares, he did), then he had the full weight of the law behind him. Any brothers or cousins who came forth to dispute that would, in theory, be ignored.
The humor of the title probably wasn't appreciated by many of the people chronicled in it, as the study was carried out on the orders of William I, who had just conquered them. It was, in many ways, an inventory of what he had just gained by beating the Saxons and taking their lands.
Want to know why shows are popular? They have a theme. Whether it's the Sopranos with the mafia theme, West Wing with it's presidential theme, ER with it's hospital theme, or NYPD Blue with it's cop theme, these shows are popular because they interest people.
Before you said that shows became popular because they were unique; the Sopranos definitely is something we haven't seen before, and you could argue the same for West Wing (though there have been several shows dramatizing politics), but ER and NYPD Blue have been done many, many times before.
Like X-Files, the show has a dark view of science.
The X-Files has very little to do with real science. Vampires? Weird implants? Alien conspiracies? Pseudoscience doesn't equal science.
The CSI criminalists work in a depressing world where they nonetheless seek the raw truth, and believe in the ability of science to uncover it. Grissom is an older David Duchovny.
I hope you meant Agent Mulder. David Duchovny is an actor.
Practice more?
The breaks in the visuals can't be eliminated through just seeing them a lot. I could get used to it, maybe, but I don't WANT to get used to it; I like soaking in the panoramic shots.
And like I said, I prefer subtitling on live-action anything. But on anime where the character's mouths don't correspond with the sounds exactly anyway, it's not so much an issue.
How is the parent post insightful?
If it makes you feel better, I'm at the karma cap so I didn't gain anything...
Honestly, I don't understand all these emotional reactions to mods.
It's been out for 5 weeks already.
Just because you hate the chef doesn't mean you can't enjoy the food...
Yes, I prefer a good dub to subtitles. That way my eyes don't have to flicker constantly to the bottom of the screen to follow the story; I miss too much of the visuals, which is in my opinion the best part of anime.
I saw Metropolis a few weeks ago, and a lot of stunning, panoramic shots of the city were diminished for me because the characters kept speaking.
Of course, when watching live-action foreign films I find dubbing grotesque.
It is very, very, very difficult to feel sympathy for anyone who gets to telecommute.