Beats me. I guess I'm a too easily entertained simpleton dimwit, because I thought the movie was crap. I couldn't suspend my disbelief, when the Yakuza fail to have any, y'know, guns. They're not a knitting club, they're the Mafia, that solely exist through their ability to do violence.
World's fastest processor? Now that apple no longer has the worlds god damned slowest processor, its no wonder their sales are picking up. I have a slide rule that can compute faster than my G4...
Here's my beef with Hulk. I just didn't care about any of the characters. The crazy old dad didn't seem rational enough to be a good villian. Plus the material-morphing super-guy was, well, totally lame, not a good matchup for the Hulk to fight at all. Looking back on it, the best fight of the movie was Hulk versus the stupid CGI dogs. And that was just silly, too.
Ultimately, the Hulk's enemy was "the military industrial complex". Did the Hulk confront it? No, he moved to Columbia instead. Reasonable real-world behavior. But a boring movie plot.
Personally, I could not enjoy it because it just didn't make any SENSE! 200 bodyguards in a powerful crime syndicate, and none of them bring a gun!?! Trained assassin comes in by the front door, politely waits for her enemies to get organized before attacking?!? Sorry, without some sort of rational underpinnings, an internally consistant system if you will, I can't enjoy a movie. For this reason I found Kill Bill 1 to be a waste of time, and definately won't be seeing the second one.
"When was the last time you decided to see a movie based on a movie review? Film critics write to each other."
I use film reviews to filter the claptrap from the servicable, especially in the ever-stupidity-beset summer blockbuster genre. Based on the reviews, I saw Spider-Man, but passed on The Hulk. Now that the latter is on video, I can say I made the right decision.
Now why, oh why, didn't the reviewer come right out and say Kill Bill sucked, instead of dancing around it. (/me holds head in hands)
a matrix within a matrix still seems to be the only explanation that fits.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, just as there's more than one way to nest two realites. Unless you're using "matrix within a matrix" to also denote a sort of heaven-and-earth religious scheme.
I don't think the Architect is meant to be the antichrist. He's kinda hoping that Neo will set off a chain reaction triggering the destruction of the (imprecise) humans, but he doesn't mind terribly if Neo simply gathers 23 pod-born and re-inserts his code into the matrix to begin the cycle again. Isn't the antichrist supposed to, well, try a little harder than that?
that they've posted windows download locations, but what about the other platforms? I seem to recal this being an all-platforms release. You might think that you could find some info here, but then you'd be wrong.
(or maybe all those flash ads I supporessed give some info?)
Those people with extra $$$ get domeciles in areas with strict building codes preventing, say, billboards. Mendicino CA, Grinnell IA come to mind, but there must be thousands.
I know a filthy rich woman, who succesfully personally lobbied to keep all billboards off of Interstate 71 between her house and downtown louisville, because "she didn't want her friends to have to look at them on the way to the opera".
Today I was sitting at a Wendy's, heard a loud POP of a collision. It was at a busy intersection, and there happened to be an ambulance about 3 car-lengths away, waiting for a green. 8 seconds passed. I wanted to see who was at fault, and I could see traffic lights for both axes. They were all red, and stayed that way for at least 10 seconds.
Conclusion: the ambulance guys were quick on the uptake, and tripped the light.
Thanks, I guess on Mars you don't have to worry about cloudy (dusty?) days, so they forgo the weight of a serious battery. If its dusty/eclipse/night, they just go out for space brewskis...
Because the two rovers will be operating simultaneously on the surface, scientists monitoring their activities will have to set their clocks to Martian time, not Earth time. In practice, the extra 36 minutes each Martian day makes for a complicated rotation of workers' sleep
That doesn't make any sense to me. Do the rovers only function well during daylight hours or something?
You don't get it. It's a part of the game, and the only N-way question they ask is that one.
Plus, 20Q is tuned to answer yes-no questions, and it doesn't get much information from the first one.
Uh, in the best case, they get log(N) questions for the price of one, where N is the number of multiple choice options, and the log is base 2, of course. Around HERE, serious players are made to start with 1) is it mineral? 2b) is it animal?
For their expanded, illegal first question, you'd do something like 1) is it animal, vegetable, or mineral 2a) [see above] 2b) is it "other"?
Actually, a better response to a would-be cheater who asks "is it animal, mineral, or vegetable" on his first question is: yes.
If we can stretch yes/no to n-way multiple choice, then a good first question is: which entry in this book (gesture at encyclopedia britannica) best describes it?
The entire point of 20 questions is that they have to be yes/no questions. These guys break that rule on their first question, "Is it classified as Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Other or Unknown?". If one is allowed to break the rules in this way, then the first question should always be: "What is it?", followed immediately by victory for the questioner.
What "features" can they cut that will lower their overhead? Bundled software? Isn't the incremental cost of that zero, since they've paid to develop it?
Uh, Have you ever seen these SOMEWHAT related movies called "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", or "Return of the Jedi"? They make this shit blindingly obvious. Like how can you miss that Palpatine is played by the same actor as the Emporor, and (except for the ageing makup) they look identical? Same thing goes for the clones. Didn't you notice they looked a WEE bit like stormtroopers? Jeez, are you like the least observant person in the UNIVERSE?
Yeah, and I fail to see how the blacklist maintainers will be able to tell the difference between these two sites:
Site A sells something and has paid spammers to link to it. Site B sells something legitimately, but unfortunately has a dirty competitor/enemy/whatever, who is also a spammer who "advertises" site B.
Its not obvious how to distinguish Sites A & B. And THAT is itself so obvious to me, that I'm suprised you can call the dissenting view "obvious".
For the frequently-used apps, this means I find them in order-1 time, without searching the list. On the other hand, I do miss having the numeric keypad for number entry.
Somehow I thought the best way of expressing this setup was to dumb it down to Alt-Tab.
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If I had the mod points, I'd give them to you. Data had no real robot characteristics, only human ones.
Beats me. I guess I'm a too easily entertained simpleton dimwit, because I thought the movie was crap. I couldn't suspend my disbelief, when the Yakuza fail to have any, y'know, guns. They're not a knitting club, they're the Mafia, that solely exist through their ability to do violence.
World's fastest processor? Now that apple no longer has the worlds god damned slowest processor, its no wonder their sales are picking up. I have a slide rule that can compute faster than my G4...
Here's my beef with Hulk. I just didn't care about any of the characters. The crazy old dad didn't seem rational enough to be a good villian. Plus the material-morphing super-guy was, well, totally lame, not a good matchup for the Hulk to fight at all. Looking back on it, the best fight of the movie was Hulk versus the stupid CGI dogs. And that was just silly, too.
Ultimately, the Hulk's enemy was "the military industrial complex". Did the Hulk confront it? No, he moved to Columbia instead. Reasonable real-world behavior. But a boring movie plot.
I agree, I missed the point.
Personally, I could not enjoy it because it just didn't make any SENSE! 200 bodyguards in a powerful crime syndicate, and none of them bring a gun!?! Trained assassin comes in by the front door, politely waits for her enemies to get organized before attacking?!? Sorry, without some sort of rational underpinnings, an internally consistant system if you will, I can't enjoy a movie. For this reason I found Kill Bill 1 to be a waste of time, and definately won't be seeing the second one.
Now why, oh why, didn't the reviewer come right out and say Kill Bill sucked, instead of dancing around it. (/me holds head in hands)
a matrix within a matrix still seems to be the only explanation that fits.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, just as there's more than one way to nest two realites. Unless you're using "matrix within a matrix" to also denote a sort of heaven-and-earth religious scheme.
I don't think the Architect is meant to be the antichrist. He's kinda hoping that Neo will set off a chain reaction triggering the destruction of the (imprecise) humans, but he doesn't mind terribly if Neo simply gathers 23 pod-born and re-inserts his code into the matrix to begin the cycle again. Isn't the antichrist supposed to, well, try a little harder than that?
that they've posted windows download locations, but what about the other platforms? I seem to recal this being an all-platforms release. You might think that you could find some info here, but then you'd be wrong.
(or maybe all those flash ads I supporessed give some info?)
Its called: zoning
Those people with extra $$$ get domeciles in areas with strict building codes preventing, say, billboards. Mendicino CA, Grinnell IA come to mind, but there must be thousands.
I know a filthy rich woman, who succesfully personally lobbied to keep all billboards off of Interstate 71 between her house and downtown louisville, because "she didn't want her friends to have to look at them on the way to the opera".
Funny you should mention turning all lights red.
Today I was sitting at a Wendy's, heard a loud POP of a collision. It was at a busy intersection, and there happened to be an ambulance about 3 car-lengths away, waiting for a green. 8 seconds passed. I wanted to see who was at fault, and I could see traffic lights for both axes. They were all red, and stayed that way for at least 10 seconds.
Conclusion: the ambulance guys were quick on the uptake, and tripped the light.
Thanks,
I guess on Mars you don't have to worry about cloudy (dusty?) days, so they forgo the weight of a serious battery. If its dusty/eclipse/night, they just go out for space brewskis...
Uh, in the best case, they get log(N) questions for the price of one, where N is the number of multiple choice options, and the log is base 2, of course. Around HERE, serious players are made to start with
1) is it mineral?
2b) is it animal?
For their expanded, illegal first question, you'd do something like
1) is it animal, vegetable, or mineral
2a) [see above]
2b) is it "other"?
Actually, a better response to a would-be cheater who asks "is it animal, mineral, or vegetable" on his first question is: yes.
If we can stretch yes/no to n-way multiple choice, then a good first question is: which entry in this book (gesture at encyclopedia britannica) best describes it?
The entire point of 20 questions is that they have to be yes/no questions. These guys break that rule on their first question, "Is it classified as Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Other or Unknown?". If one is allowed to break the rules in this way, then the first question should always be: "What is it?", followed immediately by victory for the questioner.
What "features" can they cut that will lower their overhead? Bundled software? Isn't the incremental cost of that zero, since they've paid to develop it?
If the Samba team is this good, Microsoft should hire them, fire their existing developers, and port Samba to windows.
Uh, Have you ever seen these SOMEWHAT related movies called "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", or "Return of the Jedi"? They make this shit blindingly obvious. Like how can you miss that Palpatine is played by the same actor as the Emporor, and (except for the ageing makup) they look identical? Same thing goes for the clones. Didn't you notice they looked a WEE bit like stormtroopers? Jeez, are you like the least observant person in the UNIVERSE?
Yeah, and I fail to see how the blacklist maintainers will be able to tell the difference between these two sites:
Site A sells something and has paid spammers to link to it.
Site B sells something legitimately, but unfortunately has a dirty competitor/enemy/whatever, who is also a spammer who "advertises" site B.
Its not obvious how to distinguish Sites A & B. And THAT is itself so obvious to me, that I'm suprised you can call the dissenting view "obvious".
Uh, I read the article, and its not clear to me why you're insulting this fellow. I think its a ligit concern.
Ok, apologies.
I had imagined that the small wheels would lead to bumpy travel, but I didn't realize they had suspension.
Yeah, 1-big is more costly than 2-small when the rezzes get big. but in the realm where consumers dwell, its competitive.
Fair enough. I don't use Alt-Tab either, I rebound my numeric keypad:
kp0 = mozilla new tab
kp1 = emacs
kp4 = terminal
kp7 = mail reader
and similarly
kp. = maximize vertically
kp+ = maximize
kp- = iconify
kp* = raise
For the frequently-used apps, this means I find them in order-1 time, without searching the list. On the other hand, I do miss having the numeric keypad for number entry.
Somehow I thought the best way of expressing this setup was to dumb it down to Alt-Tab.