the Time Traveller (he's never named) visits the Earth in 800,000 A.D. The sun is swollen and red, and things are starting to run down
Er, no. The sun is NOT swollen and red in 802,701 AD. At the end of the book he jumps many *millions* of years into the future and watches as the earth stops spinning and the sun turns into a red giant.
Well, I would at least have tried! Given that Jackson didn't even want to cover the Old Forest and the Barrowdowns (too complex and no fight scenes I guess)
Besides, there are many privately owned cameras working already around America, in ATMs, stores etc. I can't see how this is any different if they are not targeting groups or private property.
The key words there are "privately owned". A privatly owned business is perfectly entitled to cover the whole damned ceiling with cameras if they want. But when the government starts putting them up using *MY* tax dollars so they can spy on me, I have a bit of problem with that.
3. Mixing of data pointers and code pointers. The fact that I can take a function pointer and store it in a void * creates flexibility but also problems. The compiler is prevented from protecting the function pointers.
Strictly speaking this is not allowed by ANSI C. If you turn on -ansi -pedantic, gcc complains:
warning: ANSI forbids assignment between function pointer and `void *'
In many ways, the intensely connective Net is helping people become more disconnected all the time
I don't know about that. It depends on where on the Net you hang out. There are some tight-knit groups out there. My own example: next month I'm flying to London from the US for the annual Discworld MUDmeet. This year it's a little extra-special because it's the 10th anniversary of the starting of the MUD. Last year I think there were over 100 people in attendance. We have people come from all over the British isles, Scandinavia, the rest of Europe and the US. This year we might have a few Australians show up. So -- there are people paying hundred of dollars and flying thousands of miles for no other reason than to meet other people who play the same silly online game as themselves. Is that "disconnected"?
And does 'socializing' only count if you have people over for dinner? Oh sure, I don't know the names of the people who live next door, but I know details about people who live on the other side of the planet.
You get out of the Net what you put in. Logging onto a random chatroom and expecting it to instantly become a 'community' is like standing in the middle of Grand Central Station waiting for people to strike up a conversation. You have to give some effort.
but the American attitude towards public transportation is appaling. People feel so threatened if an alternative to their 3 ton gas-guzzling SUVs are offered.
Nope, your're wrong. The American attitude toward public transportation isn't the problem. The problem is that most public transportation systems (that I've seen) are inadequate. I live in nothern Virginia, and it's *11 miles* to the nearest Metro station, and there are no trains or buses that go anywhere *near* my workplace. And even if it did, I would have to drive to the Metro station, hope to get there early enough to get a parking space, pay a lot for parking, pay for the train ticket.... what am I saving again?
Maybe the real "problem" is that the US is just too darn big and the population is too widely distributed, I don't know.
. I got an HP digital camera for my birthday. I took some pictures, and upon plugging the camera into my computer, my pictures instantly popped onto the screen for download. I plugged in my printer and again, instant recognition.
I'm not disputing you, but your example is meaningless. A friend of mine came to visit for a couple days and brought his Dell laptop with XP on it. We plugged in my digital camera and Windows immediately saw it, got the pictures, and put thumbnail preview images in the window.
I'm sorry, but to me, crop circles have to be proof of something
Indeed. Crop circles are proof of two things:
1. People are gullible
2. There are other people who will go to great lengths, including getting up in the middle of the night to go out and flatten the barley, to demonstrate number 1.
Computer Engineering: This is a degree for hardware people. This is a degree for serious geeks who like math and logic, but don't want to become programmers.
Not really.:) My degree is in CompEng, and I sling code for a living. As some other posters said, CompEng (in general) teaches you how to solve problems, not how to program. You also get an understanding of how the damn machine really *works*, which a lot of people are sorely lacking.
Replacing Legolas with her in those scenes was much more than a minor change.
(YM Glorfindel). Yes, it was an improvement. They replaced a character who was inconsequential to the story with a character who turns out to be important later on. Well done, I say.
That's six year old technology, baby. And the rest of the world is just now starting to catch up.
That's a nice theory, but it's wrong. SGI hasn't been able to hold a candle to high-end PC graphics boards for probably 3 years, and they [used to] cost ~10x as much. I know because we used to use SGIs exclusively at work, now we use Linux-based PCs.
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Because of being afraid of Sauron he joins him, being his servant.
:)
Oh really? If you think that you should go see the movie a seventh time.
Consider this --
Saruman: Whom do you serve?
Lurtz: Saruman! [ie, not Sauron]
BTW the official theory is that the asteroid consisted of nothing but water
Got a cite for this? Otherwise I'm calling "bullshit".
Try Insure++ [parasoft.com] from ParaSoft.
:)
Seconded. Insure kicks ass.
the Time Traveller (he's never named) visits the Earth in 800,000 A.D. The sun is swollen and red, and things are starting to run down
Er, no. The sun is NOT swollen and red in 802,701 AD. At the end of the book he jumps many *millions* of years into the future and watches as the earth stops spinning and the sun turns into a red giant.
Well, I would at least have tried! Given that Jackson didn't even want to cover the Old Forest and the Barrowdowns (too complex and no fight scenes I guess)
Boring and pointless is my guess.
Funny, Troy was bullshit once too.
OK, if they find Atlantis, then we'll stop calling it bullshit. But I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
I'm with you there.
I'm not. I know people from Canananananada, and while they don't say "aboot", they do say "aboat".
Besides, there are many privately owned cameras working already around America, in ATMs, stores etc. I can't see how this is any different if they are not targeting groups or private property.
The key words there are "privately owned". A privatly owned business is perfectly entitled to cover the whole damned ceiling with cameras if they want. But when the government starts putting them up using *MY* tax dollars so they can spy on me, I have a bit of problem with that.
If you're not doing anything wrong, why get all strung up on the so called invasion of your privacy?
*sigh* If I'm not doing anything wrong, why are they watching me?
3. Mixing of data pointers and code pointers. The fact that I can take a function pointer and store it in a void * creates flexibility but also problems. The compiler is prevented from protecting the function pointers.
Strictly speaking this is not allowed by ANSI C. If you turn on -ansi -pedantic, gcc complains:
warning: ANSI forbids assignment between function pointer and `void *'
Jeez, 17 bytes of ROM and 13 of RAM. Imagine how many more features he could have added. :)
Imagine the images Galelio could have given us if it had been in orbit when the string of comets hit!
Um, it was.
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Um, Octanes had a PCI bus, but you had to buy a card cage. You plug your PCI cards into the cage, then you plug the cage into the Octane.
In many ways, the intensely connective Net is helping people become more disconnected all the time
I don't know about that. It depends on where on the Net you hang out. There are some tight-knit groups out there. My own example: next month I'm flying to London from the US for the annual Discworld MUDmeet. This year it's a little extra-special because it's the 10th anniversary of the starting of the MUD. Last year I think there were over 100 people in attendance. We have people come from all over the British isles, Scandinavia, the rest of Europe and the US. This year we might have a few Australians show up. So -- there are people paying hundred of dollars and flying thousands of miles for no other reason than to meet other people who play the same silly online game as themselves. Is that "disconnected"?
And does 'socializing' only count if you have people over for dinner? Oh sure, I don't know the names of the people who live next door, but I know details about people who live on the other side of the planet.
You get out of the Net what you put in. Logging onto a random chatroom and expecting it to instantly become a 'community' is like standing in the middle of Grand Central Station waiting for people to strike up a conversation. You have to give some effort.
It's about 40-50 pages and takes several hours to fill out.
Nah, mine was about 7 pages or so, and much of that was name, address, phone number kind of stuff.
but the American attitude towards public transportation is appaling. People feel so threatened if an alternative to their 3 ton gas-guzzling SUVs are offered.
Nope, your're wrong. The American attitude toward public transportation isn't the problem. The problem is that most public transportation systems (that I've seen) are inadequate. I live in nothern Virginia, and it's *11 miles* to the nearest Metro station, and there are no trains or buses that go anywhere *near* my workplace. And even if it did, I would have to drive to the Metro station, hope to get there early enough to get a parking space, pay a lot for parking, pay for the train ticket.... what am I saving again?
Maybe the real "problem" is that the US is just too darn big and the population is too widely distributed, I don't know.
. I got an HP digital camera for my birthday. I took some pictures, and upon plugging the camera into my computer, my pictures instantly popped onto the screen for download. I plugged in my printer and again, instant recognition.
I'm not disputing you, but your example is meaningless. A friend of mine came to visit for a couple days and brought his Dell laptop with XP on it. We plugged in my digital camera and Windows immediately saw it, got the pictures, and put thumbnail preview images in the window.
2) The people in the picture have no pubic hair, and the guy has a small wang.
The people in the picture are a copy of the images etched into the plate attached to Pioneer 10.
I'm sorry, but to me, crop circles have to be proof of something
Indeed. Crop circles are proof of two things:
1. People are gullible
2. There are other people who will go to great lengths, including getting up in the middle of the night to go out and flatten the barley, to demonstrate number 1.
Computer Engineering: This is a degree for hardware people. This is a degree for serious geeks who like math and logic, but don't want to become programmers.
:) My degree is in CompEng, and I sling code for a living. As some other posters said, CompEng (in general) teaches you how to solve problems, not how to program. You also get an understanding of how the damn machine really *works*, which a lot of people are sorely lacking.
Not really.
Replacing Legolas with her in those scenes was much more than a minor change.
(YM Glorfindel). Yes, it was an improvement. They replaced a character who was inconsequential to the story with a character who turns out to be important later on. Well done, I say.
If it did why didn't Tolkien do it?
Because Tolkien wasn't writing a screenplay.
That's six year old technology, baby. And the rest of the world is just now starting to catch up.
That's a nice theory, but it's wrong. SGI hasn't been able to hold a candle to high-end PC graphics boards for probably 3 years, and they [used to] cost ~10x as much. I know because we used to use SGIs exclusively at work, now we use Linux-based PCs.
No, because by the time the trial was over, I didn't give a rat's ass any more. Sorry.