Eva disc 1 was by far the worst; ADV is talking about redoing it. However, bear in mind the movies are done by Manga Entertainment. They did a pretty good job technically with, for example, Ghost in the Shell (the dub still kinda stunk, though). Of course, their most recent release, Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise, blew goats from a visual standpoint. They pretty much screwed up every part of the authoring process.
So, you might get better, you might get worse.
A lesson in collaborative science
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Two part lesson here; first, theory; second, an example:
When you make a discovery of some sort, you submit it to a reputable journal. In your article, you clearly explain what you measured, what definitely happened to bring about that result, and limit your speculation to a few paragraphs at the end, labelled very clearly as speculation. You then invite peer review. You do not instantly call a press conference, you do not make dramatic claims which have very tenuous experimental backing. By waiting through the process of peer review, you lose nothing unless you're peddling snake oil in the first place. Finally, you follow the very simple mandate that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This sounds like a horrible double standard and is the sort of thing that makes people cry foul about modern science's "closed" nature. Bullshit. What makes a claim extraordinary is that it contradicts a very large body of evidence to the contrary. Newtonian mechanics was accepted because it had a huge body of evidence to back it up. Relativistic mechanics, in order to trump Newton, had to provide a substantial body of evidence proving that Newtonian was insufficient.
Part II--the example. I have knocking around here a preprint from a research team I participated in. In this paper, we set forth some radio astronomy observations which indicate the existence of wakes in the rings of Saturn (think bunching-together along the lines of ripples on a pond). Now, this is actually more important than it sounds--we focus on Saturn because it's somthing of a microcosm of the Solar System, and can answer lots of cool questions on planetary formation. We know there are wakes there--it's the absolute best explanation for our evidence, and really the only reasonable one. On top of that, this wake formation has been suspected for some time. So, does our paper trumpet the confirmed existence of wakes in Saturn's rings? Heck no. I don't have much of a reputation to stake on this, but even I'm leery of going out on a limb like that. And my project head has even more to lose. No, we stated "E-W asymmetries indicate the existence of wakes" yadda yadda. And now we're sitting on our hands (well, not exactly--we are repeating the results, getting more details) until the data start to come back from Cassini. I'm sure they will confirm our findings, but they aren't fact until that confirmation's in. We're talking a process of years for a relatively simply claim.
P&F didn't even wait months for a far more dramatic claim.
>Maybe because the police force is for the most part reactive, not proactive?
So? What do you expect them to do? Walk two paces behind known villains till they do a crime?
I don't know about Canada, but it is well-established precedent in the US that the police force does not exist to prevent crime. Deter by threat of punishment, yes. But every citizen is responsible for his or her own safety. The cops aren't required to come to the aid of someone in distress. They have to do their darndest to track down whoever did the deed, but stopping a crime in progress is not their responsibility.
DS9's best aspects were the ones they ripped straight from B5.
Okay, okay, BEFORE all the rabid Trekkies start telling me that DS9 started first, let me remind you that JMS pitched B5 to Paramount *long* before DS9 and they had plenty of time to steal his thunder. B5 itself was stuck in "I need a network" hell for quite awhile.
For example we developed the worlds first supersonic passenger plane
No you didn't. The Russians did. Concorde was the first commercial success--a joint venture with the French.
television and radio,
Marconi was British? Armstrong? DeForest? Edison? Fleming I'll grant--just one piece of the puzzle, though.
computers,
Information theory, sure. Turing was a genius. But computers? Zuse, Atanasoff, Berry--a German and two Americans. And don't forget John vonNeuman
cryptography
See note about Turing. But claiming crypto as a strictly British invention--pft!
and many more firsts which my English manners prevent me from boasting about here in this forum.
They don't seem to be terribly effective.
You are forgetting one rather incredible British scientist/engineer--Alan Bond, the developer of the world's first hypersonic jet engine. The government bought the patents, classified them, and they've been sitting in a vault for fifteen years. The British government doesn't want to use them, and if they can't have them, nobody else can either.
If Michigan really wants to attract High tech. businesses, they should do it with tax breaks (like Delaware) or support services (like New Jersey), not with courts.
Like abolishing the property tax and leaving the schools without funding, forcing an emergency sales tax increase?
The Holland-GR-Lansing-Ann Arbor corridor is actually becoming amazingly high-tech--we have Smith Industries in GR, along with Steelcase and Amway (which have big IT needs). I'm working for a startup here. I have no idea why, but SW Michigan is turning into a happening place. Weather's depressing as all heck, though.
A couple of fibre thingies that have worked for me: Transduction has good enclosures for pretty cheap--they aren't razor-thin, but they work. ICP Vortex makes RAID cards, including Linux support.
They're both pretty helpful in the CS department, too, but please don't abuse that--enclosure and card are both in the $2000 range.
How would a company enforcing a IP aggrement that was sigined voluntaraily be a violation of civil rights?
Because it's a condition of employment. Corollary: Voluntarily agreeing to not participate in homosexual activity is fine. Requiring such "voluntary" agreement isn't.
Most of the Apollo 1 (actually Apollo 3, but we won't go into that) crew were slated for 13--as in, they would have been up at that point in the rotation. Of course, there were a lot of changes along the way and there's no telling that it would have stayed that way.
It's been posted on slash before, at that. I think I still have the aperture through which the first laser-cooled atoms passed...my basement is a mess. (FWIW, one of my professors assisted Phillips, and actually inherited the original apparatus).
The kernel docs explicitly state that if you're using PGCC, you're nuts. There's a reason those changes haven't been rolled into gcc yet. Incidentally, there's no such thing as egcs anymore. And finally, there's no sense in reporting bugs in the CVS tree without a corresponding fix or a very very well-narrowed problem definition--it's still in devel, and "it doesn't work for x" is not a big help in getting things fixed.
2.4.1 is for the thrillseekers and developers, 2.4.2 will be the next update intended for end users.
Wrong. 2.4.x is the stable kernel series. The even/odd rule only applies to the first minor number, not to the minor minor. All 2.3.x are devel and all 2.4.x are stable.
They figure they've got their butts covered because they have all of RIAA paid off. That leaves only smaller artists/labels who don't have the money (or the inclination) to sue, and so don't see any share of the money that Napster is making--including from their music. I can't wait until they get sued by, say, an animation studio whose soundtracks are being traded on Napster...
Pioneer's doing a new dub. Don't expect quite the same budget as with Mononoke Hime--Disney has slightly more funds at their disposal. The DVD will, of course, be bilingual.
Truckers using 11M CB radios do this all the time, but by using the ionized atmosphere during daylight hours.
Similar effect--bouncing off of ionized layers. However, that's a significantly more reliable communication medium.
Oh, and BTW, hams discovered ionosphere bounce, back when they were relegated to the "useless" frequencies "below 200m" (above 1.5 MHz).
Lolita isn't pornography, though, and therein lies a big distinction.
Ooops, so now we're into a big art vs. porn thing here. The issue here isn't child porn real or fake (which very few want to defend) but a question of portrayal of underage individuals in explicit acts, for any purpose.
Ah, but Thomson has been claiming that Ogg Vorbis is probably also in violation:
Baseless accusation. Thompson basically is stating: "There's no way anyone else can develop decent audio compression techniques. They must be ripping us off."
Just because they claim doesn't make it so.
Is it just me though, or is Andre on a litte too much coffee or something?
Dude, you've obviously never talked to Cliff Stoll. Compared to him, Andre's on Valium. I'm having this vision of Cliff sitting...well, above a chair, with the cushion averaging about four inches or so above the chair, and Cliff himself about another five or six above that as he bounces up and down. One of the marks of someone who cares far more about what they're saying than about looking cool...obviously excited about the topic. Andre strikes me in a similar fashion.
With the proper computer equipment, they might be able scan large chunks of sky quickly
Don't do much radio astronomy, do you? You need long integration times to knock down the noise and pick out the signals. Fast slewing is pretty well useless.
Better way, which is a little more expensive:
Go to a notary public and have them stamp, sign, and date the document and a statement saying that you presented said document to them on that date. It's usually about $20 and can save a lot of trouble. All you're doing is verifying that the document existed in your hands at that time, not proving authorship or originality, but it's better than nothing.
That really irks me badly. Idiot lusers who want kids to conform to their definition of "normal" so use the magic bullet - put 'em on drugs.
Tell that to someone I know whose life has been completely fucked up because he refuses to take his Ritalin. You need it sometimes, okay?
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Eva disc 1 was by far the worst; ADV is talking about redoing it. However, bear in mind the movies are done by Manga Entertainment. They did a pretty good job technically with, for example, Ghost in the Shell (the dub still kinda stunk, though). Of course, their most recent release, Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise, blew goats from a visual standpoint. They pretty much screwed up every part of the authoring process. So, you might get better, you might get worse.
When you make a discovery of some sort, you submit it to a reputable journal. In your article, you clearly explain what you measured, what definitely happened to bring about that result, and limit your speculation to a few paragraphs at the end, labelled very clearly as speculation. You then invite peer review. You do not instantly call a press conference, you do not make dramatic claims which have very tenuous experimental backing. By waiting through the process of peer review, you lose nothing unless you're peddling snake oil in the first place. Finally, you follow the very simple mandate that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This sounds like a horrible double standard and is the sort of thing that makes people cry foul about modern science's "closed" nature. Bullshit. What makes a claim extraordinary is that it contradicts a very large body of evidence to the contrary. Newtonian mechanics was accepted because it had a huge body of evidence to back it up. Relativistic mechanics, in order to trump Newton, had to provide a substantial body of evidence proving that Newtonian was insufficient.
Part II--the example. I have knocking around here a preprint from a research team I participated in. In this paper, we set forth some radio astronomy observations which indicate the existence of wakes in the rings of Saturn (think bunching-together along the lines of ripples on a pond). Now, this is actually more important than it sounds--we focus on Saturn because it's somthing of a microcosm of the Solar System, and can answer lots of cool questions on planetary formation. We know there are wakes there--it's the absolute best explanation for our evidence, and really the only reasonable one. On top of that, this wake formation has been suspected for some time. So, does our paper trumpet the confirmed existence of wakes in Saturn's rings? Heck no. I don't have much of a reputation to stake on this, but even I'm leery of going out on a limb like that. And my project head has even more to lose. No, we stated "E-W asymmetries indicate the existence of wakes" yadda yadda. And now we're sitting on our hands (well, not exactly--we are repeating the results, getting more details) until the data start to come back from Cassini. I'm sure they will confirm our findings, but they aren't fact until that confirmation's in. We're talking a process of years for a relatively simply claim.
P&F didn't even wait months for a far more dramatic claim.
>Maybe because the police force is for the most part reactive, not proactive?
So? What do you expect them to do? Walk two paces behind known villains till they do a crime?
I don't know about Canada, but it is well-established precedent in the US that the police force does not exist to prevent crime. Deter by threat of punishment, yes. But every citizen is responsible for his or her own safety. The cops aren't required to come to the aid of someone in distress. They have to do their darndest to track down whoever did the deed, but stopping a crime in progress is not their responsibility.
DS9's best aspects were the ones they ripped straight from B5.
Okay, okay, BEFORE all the rabid Trekkies start telling me that DS9 started first, let me remind you that JMS pitched B5 to Paramount *long* before DS9 and they had plenty of time to steal his thunder. B5 itself was stuck in "I need a network" hell for quite awhile.
I've run 0.8 (linux) on a P-166 with 32MB of RAM. It was sluggish, but useable. I wouldn't recommend multiple windows, though.
No you didn't. The Russians did. Concorde was the first commercial success--a joint venture with the French.
television and radio,
Marconi was British? Armstrong? DeForest? Edison? Fleming I'll grant--just one piece of the puzzle, though.
computers,
Information theory, sure. Turing was a genius. But computers? Zuse, Atanasoff, Berry--a German and two Americans. And don't forget John vonNeuman
cryptography
See note about Turing. But claiming crypto as a strictly British invention--pft!
and many more firsts which my English manners prevent me from boasting about here in this forum.
They don't seem to be terribly effective.
You are forgetting one rather incredible British scientist/engineer--Alan Bond, the developer of the world's first hypersonic jet engine. The government bought the patents, classified them, and they've been sitting in a vault for fifteen years. The British government doesn't want to use them, and if they can't have them, nobody else can either.
If Michigan really wants to attract High tech. businesses, they should do it with tax breaks (like Delaware) or support services (like New Jersey), not with courts.
Like abolishing the property tax and leaving the schools without funding, forcing an emergency sales tax increase?
The Holland-GR-Lansing-Ann Arbor corridor is actually becoming amazingly high-tech--we have Smith Industries in GR, along with Steelcase and Amway (which have big IT needs). I'm working for a startup here. I have no idea why, but SW Michigan is turning into a happening place. Weather's depressing as all heck, though.
A couple of fibre thingies that have worked for me:
Transduction has good enclosures for pretty cheap--they aren't razor-thin, but they work.
ICP Vortex makes RAID cards, including Linux support.
They're both pretty helpful in the CS department, too, but please don't abuse that--enclosure and card are both in the $2000 range.
How would a company enforcing a IP aggrement that was sigined voluntaraily be a violation of civil rights?
Because it's a condition of employment. Corollary: Voluntarily agreeing to not participate in homosexual activity is fine. Requiring such "voluntary" agreement isn't.
Most of the Apollo 1 (actually Apollo 3, but we won't go into that) crew were slated for 13--as in, they would have been up at that point in the rotation. Of course, there were a lot of changes along the way and there's no telling that it would have stayed that way.
It's been posted on slash before, at that. I think I still have the aperture through which the first laser-cooled atoms passed...my basement is a mess. (FWIW, one of my professors assisted Phillips, and actually inherited the original apparatus).
The kernel docs explicitly state that if you're using PGCC, you're nuts. There's a reason those changes haven't been rolled into gcc yet. Incidentally, there's no such thing as egcs anymore. And finally, there's no sense in reporting bugs in the CVS tree without a corresponding fix or a very very well-narrowed problem definition--it's still in devel, and "it doesn't work for x" is not a big help in getting things fixed.
2.4.1 is for the thrillseekers and developers, 2.4.2 will be the next update intended for end users.
Wrong. 2.4.x is the stable kernel series. The even/odd rule only applies to the first minor number, not to the minor minor. All 2.3.x are devel and all 2.4.x are stable.
They figure they've got their butts covered because they have all of RIAA paid off. That leaves only smaller artists/labels who don't have the money (or the inclination) to sue, and so don't see any share of the money that Napster is making--including from their music. I can't wait until they get sued by, say, an animation studio whose soundtracks are being traded on Napster...
Pioneer's doing a new dub. Don't expect quite the same budget as with Mononoke Hime--Disney has slightly more funds at their disposal. The DVD will, of course, be bilingual.
Truckers using 11M CB radios do this all the time, but by using the ionized atmosphere during daylight hours. Similar effect--bouncing off of ionized layers. However, that's a significantly more reliable communication medium. Oh, and BTW, hams discovered ionosphere bounce, back when they were relegated to the "useless" frequencies "below 200m" (above 1.5 MHz).
Lolita isn't pornography, though, and therein lies a big distinction.
Ooops, so now we're into a big art vs. porn thing here. The issue here isn't child porn real or fake (which very few want to defend) but a question of portrayal of underage individuals in explicit acts, for any purpose.
Operation Sundevil. Read Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown--available on gutenberg.
Ah, but Thomson has been claiming that Ogg Vorbis is probably also in violation:
Baseless accusation. Thompson basically is stating: "There's no way anyone else can develop decent audio compression techniques. They must be ripping us off."
Just because they claim doesn't make it so.
Is it just me though, or is Andre on a litte too much coffee or something?
Dude, you've obviously never talked to Cliff Stoll. Compared to him, Andre's on Valium. I'm having this vision of Cliff sitting...well, above a chair, with the cushion averaging about four inches or so above the chair, and Cliff himself about another five or six above that as he bounces up and down. One of the marks of someone who cares far more about what they're saying than about looking cool...obviously excited about the topic. Andre strikes me in a similar fashion.
With the proper computer equipment, they might be able scan large chunks of sky quickly
Don't do much radio astronomy, do you? You need long integration times to knock down the noise and pick out the signals. Fast slewing is pretty well useless.
Better way, which is a little more expensive: Go to a notary public and have them stamp, sign, and date the document and a statement saying that you presented said document to them on that date. It's usually about $20 and can save a lot of trouble. All you're doing is verifying that the document existed in your hands at that time, not proving authorship or originality, but it's better than nothing.
That really irks me badly. Idiot lusers who want kids to conform to their definition of "normal" so use the magic bullet - put 'em on drugs.
Tell that to someone I know whose life has been completely fucked up because he refuses to take his Ritalin. You need it sometimes, okay?
ATI's drivers are almost always immature at shipping.