Re:Lost: Seinfield for the [*] generation
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uninformed? (I didn't watch it, but I heard about it (or not), so that makes me qualified to have an opinion. I heard it sucked, therefore I think it sucks too! baaa.)
uneducated? (WTF? I don't get this mythologee philosophic claptrap. WTF is a parable? Something in math?! Two male bovines? I don't get it! Therefore it is dumb. qed.)
inattentive? (WTF? It took 6 YEARS? If it isn't 140 chars. or 2 minutes on YouTube I don't have time! Text me wut is al abt,k thx!)
unimaginative? (I want it ALL EXPLAINED dammit! There better be a machine that turns a dude into smoke or something, because *that* I could understand!)
I was thinking of the re-usable launch vehicle concept they'd been toying around with, along with stuff like what Rutan (sp?) has been doing... As opposed to the standard 'controlled explosion' they're doing now:)
Unfortunately, it probably is the best they can feasably come up with given the budget pinch they're under. There is already a huge infrastructure in place for testing and launch of L/SRB vehicles. To totally re-design everything from scratch would cost just way too much. Unfortunately.
On top of that if we are planning on re-visiting the moon before the Chinese get there, and going to Mars, then continuing the rocket program seems logical.
Let the privateers handle the space freight trucking industry IMO.
I think there's only a small subset of (inparticular the MGM) toons that were released in 'scope' which wasn't even used greatly until when, the late 50's early 60's?
Until then it was 4:3 ratio. So to say that 'most' were done this way is just not correct.
This is actually a common operation. We've had to do this before, to find out *which* 911 address/center we were actually being routed to (out in the boonies, on a county line, technically we have 2 addresses...*shrug*) We were told to do this by the local telco and our nearby copshops...
Granted you don't want to do it every day, but its not the taboo you seem to think.
Except FedEx/UPS packages rarely ride passenger airliners. I think its relatively common, however for regular mail to hitch a ride this way. I could be wrong though. How many "USPS" aircraft have you seen recently?
It's not about copying. It's about learning from, building upon, and deriving from the works of others. So long as they remain copyrighted/patented and "untouchable" that is impossible.
This applies more to patents than it does copyrights, but the concept is roughly the same.
If a work can be disseminated and freely shared without limits or boundaries -- real or imagined -- by anyone then that is where the real long-term value is, and where the proof of its value lies.
And this was mod'd 'Funny' why exactly? If the OSI-compatible license they're supposedly going to use allows for it, why would Linus and the gang possible be able to learn something (and hence borrow) from it.
1. The 3P0 'Tractor beam' lines were not in the movie until much later. My pre-THX, pre-SE widescreen VHS version does not have it in there. If you listen carefully it doesn't have the same audio characteristics as the line before it, it sounds "added." Presumably it was added to explain what they were looking for and what Obiwan was doing.
2. The Vader "hand waving" has always been there and there was never any missing dialog, at least none that's ever been released.
My experience has shown that errors/panics/etc. like that one, involving stuff like 'page_alloc','free_hot_cold_page', etc. are due to one thing:
*bad memory*
I'd run memtest86. Does gcc compile without problems on that machine? That's the other sure way to find out...compiling gcc is totally unforgiving of memory problems.
Somewhere I once saw a quote to the effect of "As evolved as we are the perceived best interface to a computer is to, in effect, point and grunt (WIMP) as opposed to actually communicating with the machine (CLI)." (Someone have the original?)
Now Billco(tm) wants to devolve the computer user futher. Now we can scratch some icons out on the cave walls and create a program? Gee, thanks, Bill! Don't get me wrong, I'm not a CLI zealot by any means.
I've done some "visual" programming in the past (LabView from NI) and while it was OK for simple Input->process->output type of tasks, once you had to perform any sort of (Even not-so) complicated decision making or logic it got really, really, ugly. Going to be hard to trace a program when you're trying to follow a little dot around all the "wires" you've got criss-crossed and entangled in your "program."
On another note, This type of programming is *exactly* what Billco's vision of the future of computing is. That is, to take as much information (which ==power remember) *away* from the user as possible, and make them more *dependent* on Microsoft than they already are.
As for the speech recognition thing. This has been Bill's little fantasy for quite a few years already, hasn't it? I think we've got a *loooong* way to go before that becomes what he's hoping it will.
Back in September I got a Samsung Yepp, and I have to say that I like it. It plays just about any bitrate (incl. vcr) mp3 I've thrown at it. The interface is pretty sparse, but if you organize your files on the CD right it's not bad. It treats directories as albums, basically, so you can just go to the 'album' you want simply enough. Battery life is better than I expected and it hasn't just up-and-died on me yet...
Righto...however what the original poster was referring to was the initial response (at the time of the incident) of NASA that the foam couldn't have been the problem. I watched the NASA-Channel press briefings where the man-in-charge (forget names) passed around a chunk of the stuff and said "This *can not* be it!"
Come ON, CN, just create an all-anime channel like the silly "all-60s-70s-craptoons" boomerang and get it over with, and return CN to its former glory.
Anyone else severely distraught with their near annihilation of their looney tunes programming?
*ALL* of your new CN original shows blow, and blow quite hard. This is almost like Sci-Fi turning into the "Anything but sci-fi" network...
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I bet most stopped right there.
can I have your stereo?
* (in this case)
uninformed? (I didn't watch it, but I heard about it (or not), so that makes me qualified to have an opinion. I heard it sucked, therefore I think it sucks too! baaa.)
uneducated? (WTF? I don't get this mythologee philosophic claptrap. WTF is a parable? Something in math?! Two male bovines? I don't get it! Therefore it is dumb. qed.)
inattentive? (WTF? It took 6 YEARS? If it isn't 140 chars. or 2 minutes on YouTube I don't have time! Text me wut is al abt,k thx!)
unimaginative? (I want it ALL EXPLAINED dammit! There better be a machine that turns a dude into smoke or something, because *that* I could understand!)
The End of the World as We Know It.
Sure, but I feel fine.
*shrug*
I was thinking of the re-usable launch vehicle concept they'd been toying around with, along with stuff like what Rutan (sp?) has been doing... As opposed to the standard 'controlled explosion' they're doing now :)
Unfortunately, it probably is the best they can feasably come up with given the budget pinch they're under. There is already a huge infrastructure in place for testing and launch of L/SRB vehicles. To totally re-design everything from scratch would cost just way too much. Unfortunately.
On top of that if we are planning on re-visiting the moon before the Chinese get there, and going to Mars, then continuing the rocket program seems logical.
Let the privateers handle the space freight trucking industry IMO.
Sorry to nitpick, but...
I think there's only a small subset of (inparticular the MGM) toons that were released in 'scope' which wasn't even used greatly until when, the late 50's early 60's?
Until then it was 4:3 ratio. So to say that 'most' were done this way is just not correct.
This is actually a common operation. We've had to do this before, to find out *which* 911 address/center we were actually being routed to (out in the boonies, on a county line, technically we have 2 addresses...*shrug*) We were told to do this by the local telco and our nearby copshops...
Granted you don't want to do it every day, but its not the taboo you seem to think.
We really should have shotguns for this shit.
Except FedEx/UPS packages rarely ride passenger airliners. I think its relatively common, however for regular mail to hitch a ride this way. I could be wrong though. How many "USPS" aircraft have you seen recently?
It's not about copying. It's about learning from, building upon, and deriving from the works of others. So long as they remain copyrighted/patented and "untouchable" that is impossible.
This applies more to patents than it does copyrights, but the concept is roughly the same.
If a work can be disseminated and freely shared without limits or boundaries -- real or imagined -- by anyone then that is where the real long-term value is, and where the proof of its value lies.
And this was mod'd 'Funny' why exactly? If the OSI-compatible license they're supposedly going to use allows for it, why would Linus and the gang possible be able to learn something (and hence borrow) from it.
That's kind of the point, no?
1. The 3P0 'Tractor beam' lines were not in the movie until much later. My pre-THX, pre-SE widescreen VHS version does not have it in there. If you listen carefully it doesn't have the same audio characteristics as the line before it, it sounds "added." Presumably it was added to explain what they were looking for and what Obiwan was doing.
2. The Vader "hand waving" has always been there and there was never any missing dialog, at least none that's ever been released.
I think you mean Hong Kong.
:p
The day China 'gains control' of Taiwan I fully expect the draft to be reinstated and car factories repurposed as aircraft factories again.
Not only that, but it makes a very distinct sound when fired at you! (chews on cigar butt)
I guess it was inevitable... :)
Let the going-up-in-flames commence!!!
My experience has shown that errors/panics/etc. like that one, involving stuff like 'page_alloc','free_hot_cold_page', etc. are due to one thing:
*bad memory*
I'd run memtest86. Does gcc compile without problems on that machine? That's the other sure way to find out...compiling gcc is totally unforgiving of memory problems.
Somewhere I once saw a quote to the effect of "As evolved as we are the perceived best interface to a computer is to, in effect, point and grunt (WIMP) as opposed to actually communicating with the machine (CLI)." (Someone have the original?)
Now Billco(tm) wants to devolve the computer user futher. Now we can scratch some icons out on the cave walls and create a program? Gee, thanks, Bill! Don't get me wrong, I'm not a CLI zealot by any means.
I've done some "visual" programming in the past (LabView from NI) and while it was OK for simple Input->process->output type of tasks, once you had to perform any sort of (Even not-so) complicated decision making or logic it got really, really, ugly. Going to be hard to trace a program when you're trying to follow a little dot around all the "wires" you've got criss-crossed and entangled in your "program."
On another note, This type of programming is *exactly* what Billco's vision of the future of computing is. That is, to take as much information (which ==power remember) *away* from the user as possible, and make them more *dependent* on Microsoft than they already are.
As for the speech recognition thing. This has been Bill's little fantasy for quite a few years already, hasn't it? I think we've got a *loooong* way to go before that becomes what he's hoping it will.
$.02
and, uh, that should be VBR instead of VCR... that's what I get for posting before my caffeine kicks in! :p
Back in September I got a Samsung Yepp, and I have to say that I like it. It plays just about any bitrate (incl. vcr) mp3 I've thrown at it. The interface is pretty sparse, but if you organize your files on the CD right it's not bad. It treats directories as albums, basically, so you can just go to the 'album' you want simply enough. Battery life is better than I expected and it hasn't just up-and-died on me yet...
Righto...however what the original poster was referring to was the initial response (at the time of the incident) of NASA that the foam couldn't have been the problem. I watched the NASA-Channel press briefings where the man-in-charge (forget names) passed around a chunk of the stuff and said "This *can not* be it!"
Whoops?
let's see...we've got the code, the specs, we know how it works because we wrote the specs....
who do we call? Just about anyone else qualified to operate in whatever domain the app is written in and for...
welcome to open source! If Oracle went tits up tomorrow, who's going to support that? Don't say it can't happen, anything can happen.
Um, 2001:ASO was what, '69? Unless you know something about time-travel the rest of us don't then... do the math.
Come ON, CN, just create an all-anime channel like the silly "all-60s-70s-craptoons" boomerang and get it over with, and return CN to its former glory.
Anyone else severely distraught with their near annihilation of their looney tunes programming?
*ALL* of your new CN original shows blow, and blow quite hard. This is almost like Sci-Fi turning into the "Anything but sci-fi" network...
if you need something to help identify just what the heck you're looking at....
Try xephem
It's a part of debian and (used to be) red hat I know.... it's helped me to figure out what a particular bright object is at times.