I saw Howl's Moving Castle on a public theater screen (not much larger than a good plasma) with my wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 3, a couple of months ago. All of us were caught up in the story, its beauty and the way that it brought us into its world. It isn't perfect, and Billy Crystal's voiceover got particularly annoying at times to me and my wife, but overall the complexity and realness of patently UNREAL animated characters made the whole story riveting and beliveable to all of us. That is a good thing for a movie to do.
Highly reccomended. BTW, not sure why people thing Spirited Away is so inaccesible. Who can't relate to being the new person, caught in a world that is avaracious, cruel, sweet, wonderful, ultimately doomed, not what it seems, partially familiar and symbolic of mankind's un(?)intended war against nature?
Emotions ARE. Logic explains in an attempt to show you what you should do next (or not do).
Sometimes the two coincide. Someone is cruel to you in a realationship, so you decide to avoid him/her or someone like that person. Or emotion can be illogical. Someone is cruel to you in a relationship and you want their attention even more.
Also, emotions are extremely situational, as is logic. Normally I wouldn't cry about not getting a piece of candy (I don't have a huge sweet tooth) but if I were starving and I did not get it I might cry. Would that be logical?
This whole study is flawed, however. The sample, while large, is not diverse enough. STUDENTS are not a representation of ALL people and according to the incomplete and inflamatory press release, they focused on the differences at the high end of the scale. Nothing about the low end. Maybe there are more males below average as well as above average and in aggregate women are just as "smart". Certainly there are more men in jail, why not test them as well? How about mental hospitals? If you are taking an average you need to include all groups in that group.
I could believe that there are more genius men as defined by this study. But I also wouldn't be surprised if there were more super-dumb men as well. Who knows? I don't and these guys really don't either.
Anyway, any time a group in power (MEN in this case) asserts that they are better than a less powerful group (WOMEN in this case) you have to take their findings with a huge grain of salt. Of course, you may dispute that men actually have more power, but that is a generally accepted view when looking at things like wealth, weapons and political power.
All this study shows is that men do better at the high end of the standard (Binet?) IQ test. No news here, move along.
Here is my question, and it is only partially a troll. Why do you need to go Mach 20? I do know about escape velocity and such, though I jumped off the science learning train a long time ago. Why couldn't you get to the upper atmosphere slowly and then hit the low atmosphere rockets once you are out of the soup? That way you could use more conventional engines at least part of the way. As IANARocketScientist I am sure there is some catch.
Check out the thing about price-fixing http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/October97/425crm. html> mostly it seems he was trying to milk ADM himself, but there was some sort of widespread price-fixing action going on.
That was 10 years ago though and generally ADM has been half-decent.
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This is pretty off-topic, and I appreciate your consideration about noise and neighbors, but if someone is busting a lot of caps nearby I want to know about it, and hearing the noise is one of the ways to do that.
Cookies seem to be one thing that non-techie computer users know about, since sometimes it asks if you want to accept them. Anyway, seems like re-installing your hard drive would be harder than managing your cookies. $.02 -A
How is that easier than studying? Seems like a lot of work to plant evidence of bias just to get a good grade.
Anyway, it might work, but my favorite method of grade grubbing was to do the "aw shucks, prof, I'm workin real hard, but this [subject] stuff is just too hard." then go to class, don't do the readings, and still get a B!
Exactly, as long as distributors and repackagers are following the letter (and spirit?) of the license, whether it is GPL or something else, there is no need for anyone to be sore if someone makes money off it. The whole idea is that you are doing it for FREE, with no expectation that you will ever get money out of it.
If you don't want people making money off your work even if they do everything by the book in terms of attribution etc., then don't do it.
People bottle water and sell it. Did they make the water? Does it devalue the "free" water that you can get elsewhere?
Actually, the way that psychos from jail seem to get married/girlfriends/pen pals/conjugal visits, a dating site should prove that the people listed there ARE convicted felons and/or married. Might be a better biz model.... -A
There is nothing wrong with not knowing everything about a particular technology. No one person knows it all. However, the problems start when a person is willfully ignorant. They base their opinion on what they think and won't listen to others, even in the face of supporting evidence.
Even if a manager/ceo is not willfully ignorant, it still does not make them a good boss, it just makes them not bad in that area.
Choicepoint harvested data on people and they got hacked. If Google harvests information on individual users, even if they have no "bad" plans for it, that information may then be used in a manner that people don't like. However, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail or Google, whereas Choicepoint was/is collecting data on people who do not "sign up" for their service.
Actually it is even worse than that. I worked at an online computer vendor, and sometimes we would get defrauded. Even with the contact info, the address, etc. the police/FBI/Customes etc agents simply did not have the time to look into these things. We are talking up to $50K that they would not look into.
If there was no signature and physical presence then the merchant is out of luck. The customer doesn't pay, the credit card company doesn't pay, it is the merchant who pays.
However, one time a fraud tried to do it again, so we sent the police with the delivery person. That was stupid.
Maybe, but the real question is "what were the environmental conditions that led them to die out, or at least go into amber frozen bee gut hibernation?" If today's conditions are more favorable, they will do just fine.
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I saw Howl's Moving Castle on a public theater screen (not much larger than a good plasma) with my wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 3, a couple of months ago. All of us were caught up in the story, its beauty and the way that it brought us into its world. It isn't perfect, and Billy Crystal's voiceover got particularly annoying at times to me and my wife, but overall the complexity and realness of patently UNREAL animated characters made the whole story riveting and beliveable to all of us. That is a good thing for a movie to do.
Highly reccomended. BTW, not sure why people thing Spirited Away is so inaccesible. Who can't relate to being the new person, caught in a world that is avaracious, cruel, sweet, wonderful, ultimately doomed, not what it seems, partially familiar and symbolic of mankind's un(?)intended war against nature?
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Up until your last 2 sentences, you seem to have some good advice. Then you went from being geeky to creepy. Really creepy. FYI.
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Emotions ARE. Logic explains in an attempt to show you what you should do next (or not do).
Sometimes the two coincide. Someone is cruel to you in a realationship, so you decide to avoid him/her or someone like that person. Or emotion can be illogical. Someone is cruel to you in a relationship and you want their attention even more.
Also, emotions are extremely situational, as is logic. Normally I wouldn't cry about not getting a piece of candy (I don't have a huge sweet tooth) but if I were starving and I did not get it I might cry. Would that be logical?
This whole study is flawed, however. The sample, while large, is not diverse enough. STUDENTS are not a representation of ALL people and according to the incomplete and inflamatory press release, they focused on the differences at the high end of the scale. Nothing about the low end. Maybe there are more males below average as well as above average and in aggregate women are just as "smart". Certainly there are more men in jail, why not test them as well? How about mental hospitals? If you are taking an average you need to include all groups in that group.
I could believe that there are more genius men as defined by this study. But I also wouldn't be surprised if there were more super-dumb men as well. Who knows? I don't and these guys really don't either.
Anyway, any time a group in power (MEN in this case) asserts that they are better than a less powerful group (WOMEN in this case) you have to take their findings with a huge grain of salt. Of course, you may dispute that men actually have more power, but that is a generally accepted view when looking at things like wealth, weapons and political power.
All this study shows is that men do better at the high end of the standard (Binet?) IQ test. No news here, move along.
Don't forget using a book's ISBN number to find a title. Perhaps the grandparent of the current PIN name redundancy. Calling Mr. Saffire?
Here is my question, and it is only partially a troll. Why do you need to go Mach 20? I do know about escape velocity and such, though I jumped off the science learning train a long time ago. Why couldn't you get to the upper atmosphere slowly and then hit the low atmosphere rockets once you are out of the soup? That way you could use more conventional engines at least part of the way. As IANARocketScientist I am sure there is some catch.
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how about if you just put a link on the front page of Slashdot?
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the oversimplified deal with ozone is this AFAIK
ground level +/-: ozone= bad
high atmosphere +/-: ozone = good
Check out the thing about price-fixing http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/October97/425crm. html> mostly it seems he was trying to milk ADM himself, but there was some sort of widespread price-fixing action going on.
That was 10 years ago though and generally ADM has been half-decent.
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This is pretty off-topic, and I appreciate your consideration about noise and neighbors, but if someone is busting a lot of caps nearby I want to know about it, and hearing the noise is one of the ways to do that.
Buy a Mac. Not cheaper, but it doesn't come with Windoze and lots of non-geeks know about it. BTW this is written on a Compaq.
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The anti-Waldo is Odlaw (think backwards), at least here in the US. Apparently the localize the books.
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Cookies seem to be one thing that non-techie computer users know about, since sometimes it asks if you want to accept them. Anyway, seems like re-installing your hard drive would be harder than managing your cookies. $.02
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Also, its cool looking. Small, you know.
How is that easier than studying? Seems like a lot of work to plant evidence of bias just to get a good grade.
Anyway, it might work, but my favorite method of grade grubbing was to do the "aw shucks, prof, I'm workin real hard, but this [subject] stuff is just too hard." then go to class, don't do the readings, and still get a B!
Maybe in the future, they will find a bunch of these things somewhere and call it Easter Egg Island and wonder what the heck was going on?
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No sorcerer of women are you, then!
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore/here
Exactly, as long as distributors and repackagers are following the letter (and spirit?) of the license, whether it is GPL or something else, there is no need for anyone to be sore if someone makes money off it. The whole idea is that you are doing it for FREE, with no expectation that you will ever get money out of it.
If you don't want people making money off your work even if they do everything by the book in terms of attribution etc., then don't do it.
People bottle water and sell it. Did they make the water? Does it devalue the "free" water that you can get elsewhere?
Actually, the way that psychos from jail seem to get married/girlfriends/pen pals/conjugal visits, a dating site should prove that the people listed there ARE convicted felons and/or married. Might be a better biz model....
-A
There is nothing wrong with not knowing everything about a particular technology. No one person knows it all. However, the problems start when a person is willfully ignorant. They base their opinion on what they think and won't listen to others, even in the face of supporting evidence.
Even if a manager/ceo is not willfully ignorant, it still does not make them a good boss, it just makes them not bad in that area.
Choicepoint harvested data on people and they got hacked. If Google harvests information on individual users, even if they have no "bad" plans for it, that information may then be used in a manner that people don't like. However, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail or Google, whereas Choicepoint was/is collecting data on people who do not "sign up" for their service.
Actually it is even worse than that. I worked at an online computer vendor, and sometimes we would get defrauded. Even with the contact info, the address, etc. the police/FBI/Customes etc agents simply did not have the time to look into these things. We are talking up to $50K that they would not look into.
If there was no signature and physical presence then the merchant is out of luck. The customer doesn't pay, the credit card company doesn't pay, it is the merchant who pays.
However, one time a fraud tried to do it again, so we sent the police with the delivery person. That was stupid.
Maybe, but the real question is "what were the environmental conditions that led them to die out, or at least go into amber frozen bee gut hibernation?" If today's conditions are more favorable, they will do just fine.
1) Install MacMame
2) put shell over MacMini
3) Enjoy!
Not all art is created to be seen by others. Usually the person making it has seen it though.
Is it music when you make a series of notes on a computer music program but never play it out loud? I don't know, just asking.