Hmm, that is certainly an interesting observation. Does anyone have any idea as to what percentage (in terms of either lines or percentage of bytes) of the 0.92 code is still debug / testing code that'll get ripped out before 1.0?
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Studio monitors are in some cases known to be overly bright in order to bring out all of the detail for the recording engineer. He knows this, and compensates accordingly. Also, the line blurs because many studios use hi-fi loudspeakers such as the Avantgarde Trios and the B&W Nautilis flagships as monitors, because they prefer a flatter frequency response. Dunlavy speakers also have some of the flattest frequency response out there, and are used quite enthusiastically in both home hi-fi and professional settings.
I will also point out that studio monitors are usually near, or medium field optimized, and do not sound as good from afar. They also may not be optimized for high dispersion in many cases. They do have certain advantages -- they can handle huge power spikes without damage, something most home audio loudspeakers cannot do. The price they pay for this protection circuitry, however, is in many cases a degradation in sound. In light of this, speaker crossover kits are often offered by other companies to mitigate this problem for those who decide to use monitors or monitor-descended speakers in the home. (example: Northcreek upgrades for the B&W Nautilis 800 series loudspeakers).
The Dynamat is a good idea, and so is the hooded vent at the back, but they hardly make a PC completely silent, which Home Theatre PC users and college audiophiles demand (I never turn my comp off, and most other ppl don't either.)
If you want some more good hints and tips, head over to AVS Forum and the Home Theatre Computer Section, and do a search on the word "quiet." Lotta people talking about all sorts of various solutions.
He obviously flew close this time. In fact, he hit our plane.
With no evidence to back it up. Because it happened before, it did again? Great logic. Are you sure you're not deficient?
Which wasn't the point. The point was that China was engaging in reckless endangerment of flights in international airspace. The point was that the Chinese had ample warning that such an accident was just waiting to happen.
Which begs the question. China is still an independent nation, free to do as it desires.
Which wasn't the point of the comment, of course.
which is why you did spend the greater part of your post on it.
Persecute atheists, you must be joking. And I really don't recall any 'wiccans' being sent to jail for being Wiccans. You are stretching mightily.
Athesists, admitted ones, are not elected to office. NO chance. As for Wiccans, a teenage girl recently was driven to suicide due to repeated tauntings about her religion. You read the news?
Do you have any evidence that such drug offenders are treated more gently in China?
What does that have to do with the US's behavior? Like I said, you're command of logic is sad.
I have do not know why you consider the US your bete noire. But you lack the persipicacity you claim, and have offered only ersatz erudition. An epigone, in other words.
In plainer language, you seem to have delusions of adequacy regarding your facility with logic.
HAHAHAHAAHA! I can smell the fear. How long did that journey through the thesaurus take? Oh, and how does my lack of "persipicacity" with regard to the US relate to my "facility with logic?" Does it not show at best (for your argument) that I'm uninformed about the US, not unable to argue logically? Thanks again for proving just who's the one that has no idea how to argue.:-)
It sure is for variable length sequences too. Otherwise, how do you download a list of md5 checksums for arbitrary files, and then download the files themselves, run md5, and check the results?
It's just that with a single byte, there are only 256 md5 values, and it's feasible to implement a 256-member lookup table.
2 bytes would generate 65535 byte sequences, and this explodes in a 256^n way, such that for long sequences, the total # of possible md5 values for a sequence of such length is astronomical, and thus "deducing" the source from the target is not feasible.
Right. You'll make all close-to-40-million people leave. I'll be surprised if even an _organized_ group clamoring about this issue would get more than 0.1% (e.g. 40,000) people to leave.
You don't see what he's saying. He doesn't _want_ to compress.
The MD5 checksum for a single byte is commonly known, and easy to compute, and is _deterministic_. That is, the md5 checksum of the letter 'a' will always be the same.
By asking for the md5 checksum of just the first letter, getting the checksum, and then comparing it to all 256 possible checksums, each of which corresponds to a unique value representable by a byte, he has just deduced the first byte.
He needs then only lather, rinse, and repeat for requesting a md5 checksum of the 2nd byte only, the 3rd byte only, etc. See?
Slashdot, besides being read by the trolls, is also read by a bunch of fairly well-to-do individuals. Prime target for an automatic reaping bot to come and harvest email addresses, which is why people here tend to obfuscate theirs in a way that fools the 'bots.
This strategy can't possibly work, because it doesn't come up to the standard of _good enough_. Cassette tapes are, for many people, good enough -- sufficiently so that they'll eschew CDs because of cost. However, mp3s at 56k sound like shit, just like Microsoft intends.
Too bad this isn't _good enough_ for the average consumer, and given just a single piece of easy-to-use software that can encode high-quality mp3s (say, using either the ISO mp3 encoding spec or a modified one a la LAME or Blade), M$'s plan can fail.
Napster's shown the public how easy it is to trade files. I would not be surprised to see similar apps that not only allow trading, but also do high-quality ripping and encoding, into appropriately named files using CDDB or FreeDB, with one click of a button. Once those apps have been modified for XP, we should be home free again.
I'm sorry that this particular pilot flew so close on previous occasions that our pilots could get his email address.
I'm sorry you have no understanding of logic: he flew by close before, so he did this time?
I'm sorry that you took no corrective action when we complained about this pilot before.
I'm sorry that you don't understand the concept of a soverign nation, and that China doesn't have to do what the U.S. says.
I'm sorry that you are holding 24 Americans as hostage, and have violated american sovereign territory by boarding our plane.
I'm sorry that you're idiotic enough to believe that U.S. planes are soverign territories. Let's see some examples from previous times.
Furthermore,
I'm sorry that you have killed millions of your own people in your cultural revolution and great leaps forward.
I'm sorry that you've decided to bring up unrelated past deeds to justify your position. Oh, and I'm sorry that the U.S. had similar programs of marginalization and extermination for the native Americans. I'm doubly sorry that the U.S. put loyal Japanese citizens into concentration camps, Nazi-Germany style, during WWII.
I'm sorry that you persecute religious minorities such as the Fulan Gong, Christians and Muslims.
I'm sorry that the U.S. population persecutes atheists, Satanists, Wiccans, and pretty much anything not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.
I'm sorry that you feel you can impose your will on the people of Tibet and Taiwan.
Me too. I'm also sorry that the U.S. is still whole. After all, the North imposed its will on the south!
I'm sorry that you use prison labor and export those products to my country.
I'm sorry that in the U.S. prisons, heterosexuals are often forced into physically coersive homoerotic relationships, including rape. Oh, as a bonus: I'm sorry that the U.S. regularly imprisonates numerous non-violent drug offenders.
Please note my sincere regret at your _sad_ debating abilities, and I humbly await your gracious forgiveness.
I have no idea where to find them, but it's been said that people have implemented MIX virtual machines, and even his more recently risc-based theoretical architecture. They should be available for free _somewhere_.
Do they already know about _all_ of these links? (i.e. are they already attacking all of these sites?) It would be unfortunate if a link was posted to a site that was formerly unknown to the scumbags, and is now going to be attacked. (Even more unfortunate if it does not have the resources to defend itself.)
I remind you that the United States, the most ideal of all nations <rolls eyes> ruled that cigarette companies are responsible for people killing themselves with cigarettes.
there could potentially be override ability for actual need...
Best set up if somehow use is discouraged. Otherwise 'emergencies' will just be normal conversations, as everyone knows. Either a very substantial fee, or authentication afterwards somehow with a central authority, but both have issues:
fees are impractical because these would have to replace current phones, and current ones work well enough. Think Circuit City's Divx. People would not want to give up their phones for new ones that had reduced functionality and got smacked with fees. And of course, authentication afterwards with a central authority reeks of fascism, and privacy implications are obvious.
I think that a better idea would be to check in all phones at the door, and then to have an employee or employees be an answering service for all phones that are currrently checked in, and go and get the people who get called. So no loud movie theatres, and makes sure people won't annoy others if they need to talk.
Alternatively: license out phones that do not respond to 'silent zone' signals, but instead are full on, and give them only to people who are certified to need them (doctors and government law enforcement are the two kinds I can think of off hand). And of course, make big stiff fines for unauthorized possession of these phones.
In the end, I don't think that a technological solution can be smart enough to really provide many benefits without a huge number of drawbacks. I still seee legistlative solutions as being better, or at least social pressure (but the latter isn't happening, so oh well...)
Anywho, good for AOL on protecting the rights of the anonymous. But I guess the question lies, is anonymity enoforcable? If I try to be anonymous, does that mean I should legally be anonymous, even if they can find out who I was (via IP addresses, logs, etc)?
That will likely depend on the courts -- they will have to establish 'a reasonable expectation of anonymity,' and rule using that, just like the case law that we have today regarding 'the reasonable expectation of privacy.'
e.g. If I send a letter with no return address to a government agency lambasting them, a reasonable expectation of anonynimity says that they cannot use DNA gathered from sweat from the letter I wrote, match it to a DNA database that will probably be universal in the next 10-20 years, and then come after me.
By contrast, posting on a board where one knows the IP is tracked might diminish expectations of anonymimity.
Look at the time when Kalisto and UTOPiA started releasing their boot discs and Dreamcast ISO's. Suddenly, within a few weeks, the Dreamcast consoles are starting to finally SELL, instead of collecting dust on the shelf. I PERSONALLY know of six people who bought a DC at that time, and for that reason.
Yes, and the Dreamcast hardware is sold at a loss, and supplemented by the software. Thanks for pointing out yet again how pirates steal money from companies, in this case twice.
is the fault of the artists, of course, not the engine. I mean, look at Alice -- nice bright colors, very pretty and vivid.
The contrast is not the issue, as others have argued. No matter how I turn up the contrast on my monitor or video card, I suspect I will only see dark blue, brown, and black.
IMHO, it's probably because American McGee left. I seem to remember Doom being a lot more colorful without losing any moodiness, and it wasn't because the levels were lit like bad 80s disco clubs either...
My anthropology professor, at least, stressed that ritual objects used by cultures all over the world, no matter how beautiful they may seem to be a Westerner, cannot be classified as art if they are perceived to carry a definite functional (i.e. religious) value.
In fact, at least according to him, many anthropologists go so far as to define art specifically as that which is _not_ functionally useful, or at least objects for which function is of secondary value.
I don't think the DVDs are available piecemeal, and I do have the first set, and there seems to be no apparent extras. Check AnimeOnDVD for details if you really wanna know.
Well, they can for a while, but they'd be taking losses. The open source movement gives out free stuff pretty much forever, and has no such timelimit.
M$ can afford to tighten their belts to force a business competitor out of business, but for something decidedly nonmonetary, they have to be free AND compete on merit, and win. And that's far too big of a risk for them to take, because M$ engineers can't write software worth shit, and they know it.
Might be considered what Sailor Moon should have been. A sophomore effort, it's much better than Sailor Moon, which suffers from the "Monster of the Day" syndrome.
I'd also recommend Fushi Yuugi, the Mysterious Play, now that both seasons are out from Pioneer.
Grave of the Fireflies is about as moving as watching Sally Struthers plead about starving Africans -- the main character made an unwise choice, and then refused to swallow his pride, even when faced with the need to save his sister's life (my opinion is he could have gone back to his 'aunt').
In the end, it's a story of a young man who failed to mature enough to save himself, or the one remaining person he loved in this world. Unfortunately, the whole emphasis that the authors wanted to put out was more about "See the evils of war and how the Americans firebombed Tokyo! Ahhhhhh!"
Which just doesn't work, because we all know war is horrible, and Good People(tm) get hurt and die, and this film actually puts the responsibility for the tragic consequences squarely on the shoulder of the boy himself.
Now, my recommendation for sophisticated anime films:
Perfect Blue -- A famous pop singer who wishes to change her career and become an actress dealing with controversial topics is stalked by her former adoring <someone>. Spectacular look at the psychology of the hunted, and some pretty sharp questions about the questions of stardom. The anti "VH1 Behind the Stars <everyone>" story.
The End of Evangelion -- arguably the biggest mindfuck ever created. Not really understandable at any level unless you have the 26 episodes of the Evangelion TV series down pat, but that's a worthwhile investment in and of itself. No concise summary of End of Eva is possible -- to define it as merely yet another End of the World flick would be to do it a grave disservice.
I personally like this movie because of the ambiguities -- endless conversation and debate with friends afterwards.
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Creative Labs DVD-Encore 5x and 6x drives are both whisper silent.
Hmm, that is certainly an interesting observation. Does anyone have any idea as to what percentage (in terms of either lines or percentage of bytes) of the 0.92 code is still debug / testing code that'll get ripped out before 1.0?
Studio monitors are in some cases known to be overly bright in order to bring out all of the detail for the recording engineer. He knows this, and compensates accordingly. Also, the line blurs because many studios use hi-fi loudspeakers such as the Avantgarde Trios and the B&W Nautilis flagships as monitors, because they prefer a flatter frequency response. Dunlavy speakers also have some of the flattest frequency response out there, and are used quite enthusiastically in both home hi-fi and professional settings. I will also point out that studio monitors are usually near, or medium field optimized, and do not sound as good from afar. They also may not be optimized for high dispersion in many cases. They do have certain advantages -- they can handle huge power spikes without damage, something most home audio loudspeakers cannot do. The price they pay for this protection circuitry, however, is in many cases a degradation in sound. In light of this, speaker crossover kits are often offered by other companies to mitigate this problem for those who decide to use monitors or monitor-descended speakers in the home. (example: Northcreek upgrades for the B&W Nautilis 800 series loudspeakers).
The Dynamat is a good idea, and so is the hooded vent at the back, but they hardly make a PC completely silent, which Home Theatre PC users and college audiophiles demand (I never turn my comp off, and most other ppl don't either.)
If you want some more good hints and tips, head over to AVS Forum and the Home Theatre Computer Section, and do a search on the word "quiet." Lotta people talking about all sorts of various solutions.
He obviously flew close this time. In fact, he hit our plane.
:-)
With no evidence to back it up. Because it happened before, it did again? Great logic. Are you sure you're not deficient?
Which wasn't the point. The point was that China was engaging in reckless endangerment of flights in international airspace. The point was that the Chinese had ample warning that such an accident was just waiting to happen.
Which begs the question. China is still an independent nation, free to do as it desires.
Which wasn't the point of the comment, of course.
which is why you did spend the greater part of your post on it.
Persecute atheists, you must be joking. And I really don't recall any 'wiccans' being sent to jail for being Wiccans. You are stretching mightily.
Athesists, admitted ones, are not elected to office. NO chance. As for Wiccans, a teenage girl recently was driven to suicide due to repeated tauntings about her religion. You read the news?
Do you have any evidence that such drug offenders are treated more gently in China?
What does that have to do with the US's behavior? Like I said, you're command of logic is sad.
I have do not know why you consider the US your bete noire. But you lack the persipicacity you claim, and have offered only ersatz erudition. An epigone, in other words. In plainer language, you seem to have delusions of adequacy regarding your facility with logic.
HAHAHAHAAHA! I can smell the fear. How long did that journey through the thesaurus take? Oh, and how does my lack of "persipicacity" with regard to the US relate to my "facility with logic?" Does it not show at best (for your argument) that I'm uninformed about the US, not unable to argue logically? Thanks again for proving just who's the one that has no idea how to argue.
Ta!
It sure is for variable length sequences too. Otherwise, how do you download a list of md5 checksums for arbitrary files, and then download the files themselves, run md5, and check the results?
It's just that with a single byte, there are only 256 md5 values, and it's feasible to implement a 256-member lookup table.
2 bytes would generate 65535 byte sequences, and this explodes in a 256^n way, such that for long sequences, the total # of possible md5 values for a sequence of such length is astronomical, and thus "deducing" the source from the target is not feasible.
Right. You'll make all close-to-40-million people leave. I'll be surprised if even an _organized_ group clamoring about this issue would get more than 0.1% (e.g. 40,000) people to leave.
You don't see what he's saying. He doesn't _want_ to compress.
The MD5 checksum for a single byte is commonly known, and easy to compute, and is _deterministic_. That is, the md5 checksum of the letter 'a' will always be the same.
By asking for the md5 checksum of just the first letter, getting the checksum, and then comparing it to all 256 possible checksums, each of which corresponds to a unique value representable by a byte, he has just deduced the first byte.
He needs then only lather, rinse, and repeat for requesting a md5 checksum of the 2nd byte only, the 3rd byte only, etc. See?
Slashdot, besides being read by the trolls, is also read by a bunch of fairly well-to-do individuals. Prime target for an automatic reaping bot to come and harvest email addresses, which is why people here tend to obfuscate theirs in a way that fools the 'bots.
This strategy can't possibly work, because it doesn't come up to the standard of _good enough_. Cassette tapes are, for many people, good enough -- sufficiently so that they'll eschew CDs because of cost. However, mp3s at 56k sound like shit, just like Microsoft intends.
Too bad this isn't _good enough_ for the average consumer, and given just a single piece of easy-to-use software that can encode high-quality mp3s (say, using either the ISO mp3 encoding spec or a modified one a la LAME or Blade), M$'s plan can fail.
Napster's shown the public how easy it is to trade files. I would not be surprised to see similar apps that not only allow trading, but also do high-quality ripping and encoding, into appropriately named files using CDDB or FreeDB, with one click of a button. Once those apps have been modified for XP, we should be home free again.
I'm sorry that this particular pilot flew so close on previous occasions that our pilots could get his email address.
I'm sorry you have no understanding of logic: he flew by close before, so he did this time?
I'm sorry that you took no corrective action when we complained about this pilot before.
I'm sorry that you don't understand the concept of a soverign nation, and that China doesn't have to do what the U.S. says.
I'm sorry that you are holding 24 Americans as hostage, and have violated american sovereign territory by boarding our plane.
I'm sorry that you're idiotic enough to believe that U.S. planes are soverign territories. Let's see some examples from previous times.
Furthermore, I'm sorry that you have killed millions of your own people in your cultural revolution and great leaps forward.
I'm sorry that you've decided to bring up unrelated past deeds to justify your position. Oh, and I'm sorry that the U.S. had similar programs of marginalization and extermination for the native Americans. I'm doubly sorry that the U.S. put loyal Japanese citizens into concentration camps, Nazi-Germany style, during WWII.
I'm sorry that you persecute religious minorities such as the Fulan Gong, Christians and Muslims.
I'm sorry that the U.S. population persecutes atheists, Satanists, Wiccans, and pretty much anything not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.
I'm sorry that you feel you can impose your will on the people of Tibet and Taiwan.
Me too. I'm also sorry that the U.S. is still whole. After all, the North imposed its will on the south!
I'm sorry that you use prison labor and export those products to my country.
I'm sorry that in the U.S. prisons, heterosexuals are often forced into physically coersive homoerotic relationships, including rape. Oh, as a bonus: I'm sorry that the U.S. regularly imprisonates numerous non-violent drug offenders.
Please note my sincere regret at your _sad_ debating abilities, and I humbly await your gracious forgiveness.
Read MLP in Kuro5hin for details.
I have no idea where to find them, but it's been said that people have implemented MIX virtual machines, and even his more recently risc-based theoretical architecture. They should be available for free _somewhere_.
Do they already know about _all_ of these links? (i.e. are they already attacking all of these sites?) It would be unfortunate if a link was posted to a site that was formerly unknown to the scumbags, and is now going to be attacked. (Even more unfortunate if it does not have the resources to defend itself.)
Sigh.
I remind you that the United States, the most ideal of all nations <rolls eyes> ruled that cigarette companies are responsible for people killing themselves with cigarettes.
(I'm sure some atheiests have committed an atrocity in the name of atheism at some point in history.)
Care to share?
there could potentially be override ability for actual need ...
Best set up if somehow use is discouraged. Otherwise 'emergencies' will just be normal conversations, as everyone knows. Either a very substantial fee, or authentication afterwards somehow with a central authority, but both have issues:
fees are impractical because these would have to replace current phones, and current ones work well enough. Think Circuit City's Divx. People would not want to give up their phones for new ones that had reduced functionality and got smacked with fees. And of course, authentication afterwards with a central authority reeks of fascism, and privacy implications are obvious.
I think that a better idea would be to check in all phones at the door, and then to have an employee or employees be an answering service for all phones that are currrently checked in, and go and get the people who get called. So no loud movie theatres, and makes sure people won't annoy others if they need to talk.
Alternatively: license out phones that do not respond to 'silent zone' signals, but instead are full on, and give them only to people who are certified to need them (doctors and government law enforcement are the two kinds I can think of off hand). And of course, make big stiff fines for unauthorized possession of these phones.
In the end, I don't think that a technological solution can be smart enough to really provide many benefits without a huge number of drawbacks. I still seee legistlative solutions as being better, or at least social pressure (but the latter isn't happening, so oh well...)
IANAL. Now let us begin.
Anywho, good for AOL on protecting the rights of the anonymous. But I guess the question lies, is anonymity enoforcable? If I try to be anonymous, does that mean I should legally be anonymous, even if they can find out who I was (via IP addresses, logs, etc)?
That will likely depend on the courts -- they will have to establish 'a reasonable expectation of anonymity,' and rule using that, just like the case law that we have today regarding 'the reasonable expectation of privacy.'
e.g. If I send a letter with no return address to a government agency lambasting them, a reasonable expectation of anonynimity says that they cannot use DNA gathered from sweat from the letter I wrote, match it to a DNA database that will probably be universal in the next 10-20 years, and then come after me.
By contrast, posting on a board where one knows the IP is tracked might diminish expectations of anonymimity.
Look at the time when Kalisto and UTOPiA started releasing their boot discs and Dreamcast ISO's. Suddenly, within a few weeks, the Dreamcast consoles are starting to finally SELL, instead of collecting dust on the shelf. I PERSONALLY know of six people who bought a DC at that time, and for that reason.
Yes, and the Dreamcast hardware is sold at a loss, and supplemented by the software. Thanks for pointing out yet again how pirates steal money from companies, in this case twice.
is the fault of the artists, of course, not the engine. I mean, look at Alice -- nice bright colors, very pretty and vivid.
The contrast is not the issue, as others have argued. No matter how I turn up the contrast on my monitor or video card, I suspect I will only see dark blue, brown, and black.
IMHO, it's probably because American McGee left. I seem to remember Doom being a lot more colorful without losing any moodiness, and it wasn't because the levels were lit like bad 80s disco clubs either...
My anthropology professor, at least, stressed that ritual objects used by cultures all over the world, no matter how beautiful they may seem to be a Westerner, cannot be classified as art if they are perceived to carry a definite functional (i.e. religious) value.
In fact, at least according to him, many anthropologists go so far as to define art specifically as that which is _not_ functionally useful, or at least objects for which function is of secondary value.
I don't think the DVDs are available piecemeal, and I do have the first set, and there seems to be no apparent extras. Check AnimeOnDVD for details if you really wanna know.
Well, they can for a while, but they'd be taking losses. The open source movement gives out free stuff pretty much forever, and has no such timelimit.
M$ can afford to tighten their belts to force a business competitor out of business, but for something decidedly nonmonetary, they have to be free AND compete on merit, and win. And that's far too big of a risk for them to take, because M$ engineers can't write software worth shit, and they know it.
Might be considered what Sailor Moon should have been. A sophomore effort, it's much better than Sailor Moon, which suffers from the "Monster of the Day" syndrome.
I'd also recommend Fushi Yuugi, the Mysterious Play, now that both seasons are out from Pioneer.
(go ahead, mod me down ...)
** WARNING: Spoilers and ENDING below.
Grave of the Fireflies is about as moving as watching Sally Struthers plead about starving Africans -- the main character made an unwise choice, and then refused to swallow his pride, even when faced with the need to save his sister's life (my opinion is he could have gone back to his 'aunt').
In the end, it's a story of a young man who failed to mature enough to save himself, or the one remaining person he loved in this world. Unfortunately, the whole emphasis that the authors wanted to put out was more about "See the evils of war and how the Americans firebombed Tokyo! Ahhhhhh!"
Which just doesn't work, because we all know war is horrible, and Good People(tm) get hurt and die, and this film actually puts the responsibility for the tragic consequences squarely on the shoulder of the boy himself.
Now, my recommendation for sophisticated anime films:
Perfect Blue -- A famous pop singer who wishes to change her career and become an actress dealing with controversial topics is stalked by her former adoring <someone>. Spectacular look at the psychology of the hunted, and some pretty sharp questions about the questions of stardom. The anti "VH1 Behind the Stars <everyone>" story.
The End of Evangelion -- arguably the biggest mindfuck ever created. Not really understandable at any level unless you have the 26 episodes of the Evangelion TV series down pat, but that's a worthwhile investment in and of itself. No concise summary of End of Eva is possible -- to define it as merely yet another End of the World flick would be to do it a grave disservice.
I personally like this movie because of the ambiguities -- endless conversation and debate with friends afterwards.