Neon Genesis Evangelion is the defininitive of what the Japanese aren't afraid to do with entertainment: create something with the sole purpose of f**cking with your head.
First they take Christian themes, such as Angels and the Lance of Longinus, and twist them into something entirely different. Next they take 14 year olds, give them all psychological problems on a scale that you only can imagine, and pit them with the task of saving humanity's individuality. Finally, combine this with everybody else having complexes about being God, being worthless, and having one's existence recognized by others, and you have Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I would say the Christian imagery and themes are more a way of for the writers to insert something cool and somewhat mysterious for the typical japanese viewer. It's only in the US and other countries with a Christian background that things appear to have a significance that they don't.
You see this is in the West all of the time with writers borrowing elements of Egyptian or Eastern religions/mythologies to provide something mysterious.
The whole existential angst and questions about being accepted isn't really new. Any teen drama is filled with characters trying to get recognized by others and having doubts about their self-worth.
When will you people get it, capitalism, private industry always trumps government.
Look at NASA. Now look at Burt Rutan. Now look at NASA again.
Sure, then take a look at Burt Rutan again and wait until he makes something that that goes beyond what NASA did with it's Mercury flights ~45 years ago. Rutan had a interesting design and did a lot but the fact remains that Spaceship One can't even compare to the Gemini flights much less the the Space Shuttle.
I would rethink worshipping at the temple of capitialism. Studies have shown that nationalized health services can be run with a lower overhead and administrative costs than private healthcare services. There are other examples of pure capitialism being detrimental, e.g. monopolies.
Odly enough, it had been scientifically demonstrated that the earth was round at a time when Alexandria was a place with a really cool library, and that got obscured by this religious sect that had a holy book that implied otherwise.
Well, experts knew this as well in medieval Europe. The reason why Columbus had a hard time getting an expedition is because advisors to the Spanish court correctly estimated the distance from Spain to India and said that the distance was too large to feasibly make the journey using a western route.
Columbus screwed up his calculations by using incorrect conversions for units of distance and thought that the trip was feasible. If he hadn't run into the Americas, his expedition would have ended with his crew dying of starvation and/or dehydration in the middle of the ocean.
IIRC cesium melts at close to room temperature. A CPU could easily hit that temperature. Mercury would be good if it weren't for the whole "highly poisonous" thing.
Wait, you want to replace mercury with a metal that reacts violently with oxygen and water vapor in an explosion and which reacts with water vapor to form the strongest base known. CsOH is caustic enough to go through glass and will go through metals. IIRC, the only safe way to store cesium is to keep it in a glass ampule under a vaccuum or an argon atmoshphere.
I would stick to the mercury, at least with mercury you can use EDTA or some other chelating agent to sequester it and counteract mercury poisoning.
Crusader wasn't cancelled as far as I know. They decreased the order from the original projection of 1100 to 480. The contract was still worth 11 billion dollars. They took a "big hit," of cash.
Check again. This link says that the program was terminated completely.
Why not just get Iwill's 8 way opteron system, load it with 8 dual core optersons, put in two nvidia 6800 pci-e cards in sli mode, and put in a terabyte in scsi raid 5 storage as well as a well one or two scsi raid 1 arrays for the system and scratch disks. You can do this and still come out about $10 million ahead of your custom motherboard with dual fx-55 support. Besides why use a dual cpu solution when you can have a 16 cpu monster ready to do your bidding.
when you said "it's basically the same as the FX", i'm reminded of my dual athlon XP computer from a couple of years back. AMD said that you need athlon MPs for SMP. but the MP and the XP were essentially the same processor. the only differences were that the MP had added testing done, and the XP had some traces cut on its surface to prevent SMP capability. some conductive paint fixed that. is that the case here? or does the opteron actually have additional functionality that the FX physically lacks
Yeah, the 2xx opterons have the capability to setup a single coherent hypertransport link. You need coherent hypertransport links to get processors talking to each other without managling each other's memory.
Such as the one created by a Nuclear Airburst perhaps? Good think the N. Koreans aren't working on nucl... oh wait...
Look, if it gets to the point where North Korea uses a nuclear airburst then the robots or any other forces are useless. North Korea would toss a few nukes at the west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii as well as Japan and reduced Seoul to rubble with artillery before it uses a nuke to create an emp.
If that's the case then any forces at the border are going to get destroyed and South Korea and the US are falling back to regroup and launch a counterattack on the DPRK forces.
"If you speak these words, you will go to jail." That's a terrible concept. If you tell people what you observed in a public hearing with your own eyes and ears, it sounds like you can be fined and imprisoned by the Canadian government. In my opinion, that's just wrong.
Really, how about if you threaten the president or a member of the judiciary? Do you still think that imprisioning someone for that is a bad idea and wrong? What about if you scream fire in a theater and cause a panic that results in someone's death? Is that still totally acceptable and not criminally prosecutable? What about passing state secrets (e.g. plans on building a nuke or something) to another country? What about broadcasting lists of people and their locations so that a mob can kill them (c.f. Radio Rwanda)?
Freedom of speech is a great thing but it's not absolute and has limits that should be there. People may disagree but almost everyone would agree that freedom of speech should not be a shield against any consequences of your words.
Yeah, and all those records are changing how many times per minute?
Wait, they aren't? Oh damn. There goes your point.
Guess again. The domain records are updated at least once when a given domain expires. Given that there are a few million.org domains, you're looking at a volume of at least 50,000 updates a day. Add in nameserver changes and other things and you are easily handling a lot of updates per day. Now consider the lookups for whois or other services and you've a respectable amount of activity.
Just go to the postgresql.org website and check out the case studies to see other implementations using postgresql. Among other things BASF is using it to handle a agribusiness site that handles 25,000 concurrent users.
But you probably don't care since you're just trolling.
No, it isn't unethical. The main focus of MySQL has always been speed. MySQL is MUCH faster than PostgreSQL. If speed is an issue, then MySQL is the proper database to use (and MySQL has supported transactions since 4.0 see here). PostgreSQL is fine for a small to medium site or business, but for a mainstream site, it will not keep up.
I guess the.org and.info dns registries aren't mainstream then. They're running postgresql to handle those registries and they seem to keep up without problems.
Do a simple comparison of the two lists. The postgresql list has 1 item that can cause incorrect results or data corruption (RANDOM item). The other items either affect performance, list non-compliance with sql standards, or are applicable to versions of postgresql two major versions ago. Even then, there are a lot less items in the postgresql list then the mysql list.
I'm not a big wallstreet kinda guy, so go easy on me. I have a question:
Couldn't they have only bought 51% of the voting shares, and then drop the lawsuit?
No, majority shareholders can't do things like that since minority shareholders also have protected rights as well. Sony would need to buy out the company or it would face shareholder lawsuits and possible SEC sanctions if it tried to buy 51% of the company and drop the lawsuit.
Maybe if the clock rolled its way onto my bed and started harassing me that might do the trick, but I'm far enough from being a morning person that having the alarm going off won't stop me from snoozing, no matter where it is or how long it keeps going.
You don't want a clock, you want a pet cat or dog. They can get very insistent when it's feeding time.
Yes, except yum is much inferior to urpmi, both theoretically (urpmi has better algorithms and datastructures) and practically (yum has a shitload of bugs, such as big problems working with an install-root different from/). urpmi and apt-get are on par with each other in my experience (mature, good performance scaling), and I can't see why redhat shose yum, as both apt-get for rpm and urpmi are available to them and are both superior...
apt-get has major deficiencies in regards to multilib support (32 and 64 bit versions of an app or library installed at the same time) . Namely, it doesn't support it at all. This is a huge problem if you need to run 32bit apps or libs on your 64bit system. E.g. if you want to run openoffice.org on your amd64 system in 64 bit you'll need to run the 32bit version openoffice since it's not 64bit clean. Same thing if you want to run something like flash or realplayer.
If you look debian on amd64 gets around this by installing a debian ia32 install in a chroot and running 32bit apps in a chroot jail due to the apt limitations.
Given that people probably want to start migrating to amd64 systems and run a 64bit os, the fact that yum supports multilib and apt doesn't is a major bonus for yum.
How DO you people do it? Do you have bots scanning every Slashdot comment for mentions of low uids, or is there some kind of notification built into Slashcode itself?
Actually yes, any comment that mentions uid is sent to 100 randomly selected users with 5 digit uids or lower.
There is a legal doctrine of clean hands that covers this. Basically if you act wrongly or illegally then you can't go to the court and expect help in regards to the matter where you've acted wrongly. So although normally the CherryOS people might be able to go after people for a violation of their EULA, they can't do so in court if their code violates someone else's copyrights.
Why would the reporters who are being penalized have their names published and not Novak? In what manner can anyone argue that outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent serve any public interest. Novak should be charged with treason.
The reporter's names are being published because they are fighting the subpoena and I think they publicized the cases themselves.
Secrecy rules prevents the prosecuter from publicizing whether someone has testified or not but the witnesses can tell others that they have or have not testified.
But two other reporters with only tangential links to the story, the New York Times' Judith Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper, are being held in contempt of court, and are facing 18 months in prison for not naming their sources in connection with the case. Clearly the judge in their cases feels the Valerie Plame story involves critical public interest, so the only question is why these two and not the guy who actually published it?
How do you know Novak hasn't already been called and revealed everything? Grand jury witnesses and testimony is usually kept secret and Novak hasn't been forthcoming.
The prosecuter could be trying to get other colloborating sources so that it doesn't turn into a he said/she said argument between Novak and a senior administration official.
Then you partition and seperate the tanks - fill up however many you *need* with fuel, and the rest with water. Dumping water is of course environmentally friendly.
Water is also a lot heavier than fuel, meaning the aircraft will need to be designed to handle higher stress loads if you want to test it this way. Also, water getting into your fuel system causes bad things to happen. Adding water to your fuel tanks means that you need to rip apart your fuel system and purge the system to get rid of any traces of water. All in all, testing with water is infeasible.
Out of curiosity, how/why can judges overturn convictions? Isn't the whole point of having a jury so that one biased/stupid person doesn't have the ability to single-handedly find guilty/acquit someone?
Except for a single biased/stupid person has the ability to single-handedly prevent someone from being found guilty. True, the judge will declare a hung jury and the prosecution can retry the the entire trial but there is a lot of power in each jury member's hands.
For minor crimes, the prosecution may even drop the case rather than retry it.
What's wrong with dumping the excess fuel before landing? I dunno.
The problem is that fully loaded the plan holds 18000 lbs of fuel. Even if they were to fly 40 hours straight and then dump the rest, you're still looking at dumping 9000lbs of fuel. That's about 3-4 tons, not exactly the most environmentally friendly thing to do not to mention the problems the locals would have with you dumping a few tons of fuel on each test flight with full tank of gass.
So, I'm back to using a commercial service to get the weather information my tax dollars already paid for....and they call the crap on 9/11 terrorism.
The surveillance data that was being provided was of orbital information of satellites that the Air Force was tracking including corrections and orbital decay information. This has nothing to do with weather information.
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I would say the Christian imagery and themes are more a way of for the writers to insert something cool and somewhat mysterious for the typical japanese viewer. It's only in the US and other countries with a Christian background that things appear to have a significance that they don't.
You see this is in the West all of the time with writers borrowing elements of Egyptian or Eastern religions/mythologies to provide something mysterious.
The whole existential angst and questions about being accepted isn't really new. Any teen drama is filled with characters trying to get recognized by others and having doubts about their self-worth.
Sure, then take a look at Burt Rutan again and wait until he makes something that that goes beyond what NASA did with it's Mercury flights ~45 years ago. Rutan had a interesting design and did a lot but the fact remains that Spaceship One can't even compare to the Gemini flights much less the the Space Shuttle.
I would rethink worshipping at the temple of capitialism. Studies have shown that nationalized health services can be run with a lower overhead and administrative costs than private healthcare services. There are other examples of pure capitialism being detrimental, e.g. monopolies.
Well, experts knew this as well in medieval Europe. The reason why Columbus had a hard time getting an expedition is because advisors to the Spanish court correctly estimated the distance from Spain to India and said that the distance was too large to feasibly make the journey using a western route.
Columbus screwed up his calculations by using incorrect conversions for units of distance and thought that the trip was feasible. If he hadn't run into the Americas, his expedition would have ended with his crew dying of starvation and/or dehydration in the middle of the ocean.
Wait, you want to replace mercury with a metal that reacts violently with oxygen and water vapor in an explosion and which reacts with water vapor to form the strongest base known. CsOH is caustic enough to go through glass and will go through metals. IIRC, the only safe way to store cesium is to keep it in a glass ampule under a vaccuum or an argon atmoshphere.
I would stick to the mercury, at least with mercury you can use EDTA or some other chelating agent to sequester it and counteract mercury poisoning.
Check again. This link says that the program was terminated completely.
Why not just get Iwill's 8 way opteron system, load it with 8 dual core optersons, put in two nvidia 6800 pci-e cards in sli mode, and put in a terabyte in scsi raid 5 storage as well as a well one or two scsi raid 1 arrays for the system and scratch disks. You can do this and still come out about $10 million ahead of your custom motherboard with dual fx-55 support. Besides why use a dual cpu solution when you can have a 16 cpu monster ready to do your bidding.
Yeah, the 2xx opterons have the capability to setup a single coherent hypertransport link. You need coherent hypertransport links to get processors talking to each other without managling each other's memory.
Look, if it gets to the point where North Korea uses a nuclear airburst then the robots or any other forces are useless. North Korea would toss a few nukes at the west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii as well as Japan and reduced Seoul to rubble with artillery before it uses a nuke to create an emp.
If that's the case then any forces at the border are going to get destroyed and South Korea and the US are falling back to regroup and launch a counterattack on the DPRK forces.
Really, how about if you threaten the president or a member of the judiciary? Do you still think that imprisioning someone for that is a bad idea and wrong? What about if you scream fire in a theater and cause a panic that results in someone's death? Is that still totally acceptable and not criminally prosecutable? What about passing state secrets (e.g. plans on building a nuke or something) to another country? What about broadcasting lists of people and their locations so that a mob can kill them (c.f. Radio Rwanda)?
Freedom of speech is a great thing but it's not absolute and has limits that should be there. People may disagree but almost everyone would agree that freedom of speech should not be a shield against any consequences of your words.
Guess again. The domain records are updated at least once when a given domain expires. Given that there are a few million .org domains, you're looking at a volume of at least 50,000 updates a day. Add in nameserver changes and other things and you are easily handling a lot of updates per day. Now consider the lookups for whois or other services and you've a respectable amount of activity.
Just go to the postgresql.org website and check out the case studies to see other implementations using postgresql. Among other things BASF is using it to handle a agribusiness site that handles 25,000 concurrent users.
But you probably don't care since you're just trolling.
I guess the .org and .info dns registries aren't mainstream then. They're running postgresql to handle those registries and they seem to keep up without problems.
Do a simple comparison of the two lists. The postgresql list has 1 item that can cause incorrect results or data corruption (RANDOM item). The other items either affect performance, list non-compliance with sql standards, or are applicable to versions of postgresql two major versions ago. Even then, there are a lot less items in the postgresql list then the mysql list.
No, majority shareholders can't do things like that since minority shareholders also have protected rights as well. Sony would need to buy out the company or it would face shareholder lawsuits and possible SEC sanctions if it tried to buy 51% of the company and drop the lawsuit.
Thus proving the validty of Johnny Cash's song, a boy named Sue.
You don't want a clock, you want a pet cat or dog. They can get very insistent when it's feeding time.
apt-get has major deficiencies in regards to multilib support (32 and 64 bit versions of an app or library installed at the same time) . Namely, it doesn't support it at all. This is a huge problem if you need to run 32bit apps or libs on your 64bit system. E.g. if you want to run openoffice.org on your amd64 system in 64 bit you'll need to run the 32bit version openoffice since it's not 64bit clean. Same thing if you want to run something like flash or realplayer.
If you look debian on amd64 gets around this by installing a debian ia32 install in a chroot and running 32bit apps in a chroot jail due to the apt limitations.
Given that people probably want to start migrating to amd64 systems and run a 64bit os, the fact that yum supports multilib and apt doesn't is a major bonus for yum.
That's actually an alternate title for every consultant out there.
Actually yes, any comment that mentions uid is sent to 100 randomly selected users with 5 digit uids or lower.
There is a legal doctrine of clean hands that covers this. Basically if you act wrongly or illegally then you can't go to the court and expect help in regards to the matter where you've acted wrongly. So although normally the CherryOS people might be able to go after people for a violation of their EULA, they can't do so in court if their code violates someone else's copyrights.
The reporter's names are being published because they are fighting the subpoena and I think they publicized the cases themselves.
Secrecy rules prevents the prosecuter from publicizing whether someone has testified or not but the witnesses can tell others that they have or have not testified.
Water is also a lot heavier than fuel, meaning the aircraft will need to be designed to handle higher stress loads if you want to test it this way. Also, water getting into your fuel system causes bad things to happen. Adding water to your fuel tanks means that you need to rip apart your fuel system and purge the system to get rid of any traces of water. All in all, testing with water is infeasible.
Except for a single biased/stupid person has the ability to single-handedly prevent someone from being found guilty. True, the judge will declare a hung jury and the prosecution can retry the the entire trial but there is a lot of power in each jury member's hands.
For minor crimes, the prosecution may even drop the case rather than retry it.
The problem is that fully loaded the plan holds 18000 lbs of fuel. Even if they were to fly 40 hours straight and then dump the rest, you're still looking at dumping 9000lbs of fuel. That's about 3-4 tons, not exactly the most environmentally friendly thing to do not to mention the problems the locals would have with you dumping a few tons of fuel on each test flight with full tank of gass.
The surveillance data that was being provided was of orbital information of satellites that the Air Force was tracking including corrections and orbital decay information. This has nothing to do with weather information.