It's hardly a first because they ripped off the entire movie from Kishin Corps (aka Kishin Heidan, Geo Armor).
This is Kishin in a nutshell: Hitler teams up with alien paratroopers, and the Allies fight back using giant robots.
Now take the paratroopers and turn them into giant robots. Hey, what's up Sky Captain? Proving once again, you can be a career film critic and still be a clueless newb (my paper gave this movie three stars, mostly for the effects work).
Whenever I hear about Google recruiting, it depresses me because Google doesn't seem to understand that Geek Chic is over.
I say you can divide this industry into two kinds of people: those who want to hold down a job and have a life, and those who want their job to BE their life. Google is looking for the latter.
Agreed. Most recent reports on flouridation (I heard a report on democracynow.org about a month ago, plus web research) indicate that flouride is a nuclear byproduct with little human benefit.
Most flouridation websites tout the idea that "flouride is a naturally-occuring nutrient." As an exercise, go to your supermarket and look for products containing flouride. I submit that you will find just one - Dannon Flouridated Water.
Why not? The whole point of hydrogen is to facilitate the storage and transmission of energy. Hydrogen is not a power source per se, but rather a replacement for power lines. In fact, the biggest advantage of hydrogen over electricity is that currently, our storage capacity for electricity is zero.
According to the State of Wisconsin, wind power costs 9 cents versus 4 cents for standard fuels. Of course, this is still cheaper than what people are paying here on the east coast (10-12 cents I would imagine).
if the whole world converted to wind power in 15 years, the amount of power being extracted from the atmosphere would be more than the increase in greenhouse gas atmospheric energy
Awesome.
when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel.
I doubt it. The Germans did this in the 1930's, and it was pretty expensive.
for the first time in music history, the next big format was not about better quality (SACD and such) but about better portability (MP3).
Ummmm...hello? The cassette, 8-track, compact disc, and mini-disc were all about portability.
The one thing all these formats have in common is they fit in your pocket.
I'm hard-pressed to think of any high-quality audio formats that have caught on in the past 30 years. ADAT, SACD...the few examples I can think of are pretty esoteric and are usually found in a recording studio.
If you notice, I'm not counting CD's as high quality. If you think 16-bit audio is hot, I have a Super Nintendo I can sell to you.
Rose has some great information payload sizes as examples (like the entire information equivalent for our global genome fitting on a 100 pound laptop!).
Great while we're at it, let's also send them a Macintosh floppy disk. To make it fun, nobody tell them if its big or little endian. Anyone in the universe up for some GACTAGATTGAC?
Not entirely true. A dual-head KVM ($189) would allow you to switch both monitors, pumping your total screens up to 4. You could have 6000 or even 8000 pixel displays for *each* of two operating systems, for about $900 invested in monitors, cards, and the switch.
How about this...two dual-head FX5600 cards and two dual-input 21" trinitrons for a total of $700? With a switch on each monitor, you would have even more freedom. Or you could dump all your money into a 19" LCD panel, and live in the year 1996 with a measly 1280 resolution.
Common sense applied to airline security is that you *do* search everyone. Otherwise, how else can you say with certainty that you know what objects did and didn't make it on the plane?
This is old news - Bill Maher has been railing against searching old ladies for a couple years now. But of course, he's wrong. For one, terrorists could use these security loopholes to get things onboard. Two, you don't have to be a terrorist to get items confiscated. The old man could be senile and could be carrying a handgun just because he's a weirdo and likes to carry one.
The major problem with airline security is that it is run by uneducated ghetto kids making $9/hr. These kids don't have the confidence (or smarts) to dick people around like a bar bouncer would. Get real security professionals in there and you would have real security.
Quote: 'Making collaboration faster, easier and more efficient will be the next revolution in worker productivity, and we want to be in the forefront,' said Peter Rinearson, vice president for new business development in Microsoft's information worker group. 'We started by downloading Slashcode, freely available on the Internet. We will fix the bugs in search, login, and page display, and expect to ship product next week.'
The Antarctica strike occurred during an ice age, so even tidal waves would have been weakened to mere ripples by the calming effect of icebergs on the ocean.
My understanding is that tidal waves are seismic events that travel along the seafloor. They raise the water level only a few feet, and are essentially invisible until they hit shore and start climbing. Since icebergs float, it's not clear how they would suppress a shockwave happening below and around them.
Prof Van der Hoeven said: "The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event.
Yeah see, this makes more sense. It hit antarctica. Plonk. Except for the magnetic field....
You might not believe this, but there is a program called Real Alternative (as well as Quicktime Alternative) that allows you to play RealAudio and video with a third-party client. I installed it the other day...it works, and it doesn't force a reboot like Real's player.
Even liberal news outlets such as DemocracyNow.org, Fair.org's Counterspin, and Air America Radio have, or still use Real exclusively, leaving me to shake my head at how little the proponents of "freedom" understand the world they are now living in.
World oil supply predictions haven't significantly changed in decades, ever since the invention of the Hubbert curve in 1956, which predicted that the oil supply would rise in a bell curve and then fall off at the same rate. Of course there is quite a bit of sugary optimism, but as of the 1980's all the major reserves have been located, meaning that today we know pretty much exactly how much oil there is, and how long it will last.
It turns out that we are nearing that peak now, and since oil use is increasing rapidly, the second half of the oil era will be over much quicker than the first.
The US, by the way, has basically exhausted its supply (heard anything about Pennsylvania or Texas oil lately?) and with the middling exceptions of Candada, Venezuela, and Russia, most of the really big oil is in Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.
The "business community" has known these figures for quite some time, because the entire world economy depends on it. But as long as it doesn't yet impact their quarterly balance sheets, they sure as hell aren't going to tell you, the clueless consumer or stock buyer.
It's important to understand that oil will never really run out completely, but will simply get more expensive until we are squeezing every drop of black crud out of every bit of shale. A good oil deposit will gush out of the ground with no effort at all. Thus the debate is really about cheap, readily-available oil. Expensive oil sucks as we all know.
If it makes you feel any better, the amount of coal in the world is basically unimaginable. We lost our appetite for coal well before we even found it all. In fact, WWI was lost partly because the machinery of the Central Powers was still running on coal, and the Axis struck out in WWII to get a piece of the oil action.
As for Bush and Kerry with regards to oil policy, you're basically looking at polar extremes (yes, Iraq really is about the oil...)
For a company with $12b in the bank, Microsoft looks pretty weak right now. XP is popular but not really an improvement on 2000. Dot-Net is a late attempt, and has no foothold on Java. Their web/spyware products, like MSN and Passport, don't have much acceptance that I've seen.
The Win32 api is rapidly being reverse-engineered, and if that completes, Microsoft will have lost about 20 years worth of real estate. Meanwhile, Linux is ready for 64-bit chips. They're dead in the water in the server department - few medium-size sites are using anything but Apache/MySql/PHP, which are Unix tools even when they run on a Windows box.
The nail in the coffin will come when Unix framerates equal that of Windows, allowing equivalent gameplay and new interest in Unix graphics/interface programming. The maturation of a first-tier database such as Postgres will help too.
Seriously, what is the outlook for Microsoft in 5 years? HP Pavilions sold at Circuit City? Suits-and-ties running ASP? They are starting to look cornered into the MSCE business market with little R&D coming down the pipeline.
So I *do* need to use Real? Because you offer 4 formats, two of which I support, and neither of them seem to work at first glance.
After looking around, I realized why - the playlists are simply lists of mp3s, mpgs, rm's, etc. If your machine can play an mp3, then great. If it can't, it can't. That's all that seems to be going on here.
I had to hunt to find video. I eventually found some, in the WebTV section, and it turned out to be a couple mpgs of Fiddler on the Roof. No editing, no mashups, nothing.
Finally I noticed that the few mashups (also known as "remixes" btw) on your site appear to be rstp: protocol-specific. So the Real format now supports a start and end command. The more I look at your site, the more I wonder if it is a corporate venture by Real, because there's precious little here, other than the expectation that I will install Real software so I can laugh at Bush. Trade one virus for the other? How ironic.
I have an idea for stopping spam: Dont sign up for any.
Its a no-brainer rite?
Heres a tip: Computers only do what you tell them to do.
I have 4-5 active email accounts, and only one of them is spammed, because I left it that way. I run no anti-virus, no spyware blocker, and I used Internet Exploder quite a bit until recently. The other day I ran Ad-Aware, just to make sure, and all I found were some data miners. No active processes, no malware, no popups. I also installed Spybot's TeaTimer registry alarm, and fortunately it went off once because I wasnt even sure it was working.
In other words, *nothing* is changing on my computer. My email load is like 0 messages/day, and if I want porn or garbage I sign up with my spammed account, get the password, and then never look back. Does this help?
Can someone please explain to me what "spam" is? I've been using email for almost 10 years and I still have no idea. It sounds like a huge problem yet I've never actually seen it.
I'll tell you what's annoying though, every week or so I get an advertisement in my inbox from some company I've never done business with. But of course I delete a few messages each day so I just delete that one too.
You guys should explain spam to me and maybe I can help you solve the problem. I'm guessing its some sort of virus in which case you should either revert to plain-text or get a virus checker. Outlook Express tsk tsk!
Barlow: You know, there are three things we're never going to get rid of here in Springfield: one, the bats in the public library, two, Mrs. McFierly's compost heap, and three, our six-term mayor, the illiterate, tax-cheating, wife-swapping, pot-smoking, spendocrat Diamond Joe Quimby.
Quimby: Hey, I am no longer illiterate.
Jesse: I'm a level 5 vegan, I won't eat anything that casts a shadow.
Lisa: Wow. Um... I started an organic compost pile at home.
Jesse: Only at home? You mean you don't pocket-mulch?
Bart: Hey, Lawn Boy! You missed a spot!
Willy: When I'm done with you, they'll have to do a compost-mortem!
I forsee a world where computing technology will be considered dangerous to public safety. Since it can be used to invade bank accounts, model nuclear weapons, and copy Hollywood DVD's, all "consumer" computing solutions will be closed end-to-end systems, and only a select few companies will have access to source code and hardware API's.
There will be a debate about whether individuals have a "right" to computing technology, much like the current debate over gun ownership. Of course, gun ownership is largely an urban/rural debate, but instead of simply establishing gun-free zones, the endless argument is about whether guns kill people or people do.
And so it will be with computers. Since computers aren't mentioned anywhere in the US constitution, it will be all the easier for Congress to restrict and regulate consumer hardware sales to just bare-essential, low-performing models.
Ridiculous? Well, in most states, you can't own a howitzer, and if you build a car it better be "street legal." Why do you think you have any more right to a desktop supercomputer?
Already, encryption technologies are export-prohibited, and DRM looms not on the horizon, but in our faces. Currently, you can purchase an Intel chip and write your own operating system, but what happens when those chips are not for sale? It's not like you're going to build your own $20 billion fab.
In my CS curriculum, the idea was broached that "mission critical" programmers should be licensed tradesmen. But will the transition to maturity in the computing field be guided by scientific guilds, or will computing become a secretive, heavily-restricted "military" technology?
The third-world doesn't need computers. They, and all of us, need guaranteed access.
I've noticed this. I think it's because sitting in front of the computer basically takes no energy. You can easily pull an all-nighter clicking and browsing around. Then you crash.
Any normal activity, like driving, shopping, going to work eventually exhausts me to the point where I want some good sleep. Coding will do that too, but video games, web browsing etc. doesn't seem to.
believe it or not, but you can dip your fingers in liquid nitrogen. i've done it, and i've seen others do it. hand comes out fine if you only do it for, like, 0.1sec....and obviously you'd be crazy to leave it in there longer than that.
watching dry ice skate across the floor is cool too. same principle applies in both cases...a layer of gas between the cold object and the warm one.
what else...color changing reactions are pretty cool. shake the bottle, bright red, shake it again, bright blue, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
It's hardly a first because they ripped off the entire movie from Kishin Corps (aka Kishin Heidan, Geo Armor).
This is Kishin in a nutshell: Hitler teams up with alien paratroopers, and the Allies fight back using giant robots.
Now take the paratroopers and turn them into giant robots. Hey, what's up Sky Captain? Proving once again, you can be a career film critic and still be a clueless newb (my paper gave this movie three stars, mostly for the effects work).
Whenever I hear about Google recruiting, it depresses me because Google doesn't seem to understand that Geek Chic is over.
I say you can divide this industry into two kinds of people: those who want to hold down a job and have a life, and those who want their job to BE their life. Google is looking for the latter.
Agreed. Most recent reports on flouridation (I heard a report on democracynow.org about a month ago, plus web research) indicate that flouride is a nuclear byproduct with little human benefit.
Most flouridation websites tout the idea that "flouride is a naturally-occuring nutrient." As an exercise, go to your supermarket and look for products containing flouride. I submit that you will find just one - Dannon Flouridated Water.
Why not? The whole point of hydrogen is to facilitate the storage and transmission of energy. Hydrogen is not a power source per se, but rather a replacement for power lines. In fact, the biggest advantage of hydrogen over electricity is that currently, our storage capacity for electricity is zero.
According to the State of Wisconsin, wind power costs 9 cents versus 4 cents for standard fuels. Of course, this is still cheaper than what people are paying here on the east coast (10-12 cents I would imagine).
if the whole world converted to wind power in 15 years, the amount of power being extracted from the atmosphere would be more than the increase in greenhouse gas atmospheric energy
Awesome.
when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel.
I doubt it. The Germans did this in the 1930's, and it was pretty expensive.
for the first time in music history, the next big format was not about better quality (SACD and such) but about better portability (MP3).
Ummmm...hello? The cassette, 8-track, compact disc, and mini-disc were all about portability.
The one thing all these formats have in common is they fit in your pocket.
I'm hard-pressed to think of any high-quality audio formats that have caught on in the past 30 years. ADAT, SACD...the few examples I can think of are pretty esoteric and are usually found in a recording studio.
If you notice, I'm not counting CD's as high quality. If you think 16-bit audio is hot, I have a Super Nintendo I can sell to you.
Rose has some great information payload sizes as examples (like the entire information equivalent for our global genome fitting on a 100 pound laptop!).
Great while we're at it, let's also send them a Macintosh floppy disk. To make it fun, nobody tell them if its big or little endian. Anyone in the universe up for some GACTAGATTGAC?
Not entirely true. A dual-head KVM ($189) would allow you to switch both monitors, pumping your total screens up to 4. You could have 6000 or even 8000 pixel displays for *each* of two operating systems, for about $900 invested in monitors, cards, and the switch.
How about this...two dual-head FX5600 cards and two dual-input 21" trinitrons for a total of $700? With a switch on each monitor, you would have even more freedom. Or you could dump all your money into a 19" LCD panel, and live in the year 1996 with a measly 1280 resolution.
I still can't buy a hybrid flexible fuel vehicle, so I can shift my usage over to a more renewable source.
Ethanol isn't renewable. The average American farm uses 10x as much energy as it produces.
Common sense applied to airline security is that you *do* search everyone. Otherwise, how else can you say with certainty that you know what objects did and didn't make it on the plane?
This is old news - Bill Maher has been railing against searching old ladies for a couple years now. But of course, he's wrong. For one, terrorists could use these security loopholes to get things onboard. Two, you don't have to be a terrorist to get items confiscated. The old man could be senile and could be carrying a handgun just because he's a weirdo and likes to carry one.
The major problem with airline security is that it is run by uneducated ghetto kids making $9/hr. These kids don't have the confidence (or smarts) to dick people around like a bar bouncer would. Get real security professionals in there and you would have real security.
Quote: 'Making collaboration faster, easier and more efficient will be the next revolution in worker productivity, and we want to be in the forefront,' said Peter Rinearson, vice president for new business development in Microsoft's information worker group. 'We started by downloading Slashcode, freely available on the Internet. We will fix the bugs in search, login, and page display, and expect to ship product next week.'
My understanding is that tidal waves are seismic events that travel along the seafloor. They raise the water level only a few feet, and are essentially invisible until they hit shore and start climbing. Since icebergs float, it's not clear how they would suppress a shockwave happening below and around them.
Yeah see, this makes more sense. It hit antarctica. Plonk. Except for the magnetic field....
You might not believe this, but there is a program called Real Alternative (as well as Quicktime Alternative) that allows you to play RealAudio and video with a third-party client. I installed it the other day...it works, and it doesn't force a reboot like Real's player.
RealAlternative
Even liberal news outlets such as DemocracyNow.org, Fair.org's Counterspin, and Air America Radio have, or still use Real exclusively, leaving me to shake my head at how little the proponents of "freedom" understand the world they are now living in.
World oil supply predictions haven't significantly changed in decades, ever since the invention of the Hubbert curve in 1956, which predicted that the oil supply would rise in a bell curve and then fall off at the same rate. Of course there is quite a bit of sugary optimism, but as of the 1980's all the major reserves have been located, meaning that today we know pretty much exactly how much oil there is, and how long it will last.
It turns out that we are nearing that peak now, and since oil use is increasing rapidly, the second half of the oil era will be over much quicker than the first.
The US, by the way, has basically exhausted its supply (heard anything about Pennsylvania or Texas oil lately?) and with the middling exceptions of Candada, Venezuela, and Russia, most of the really big oil is in Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.
The "business community" has known these figures for quite some time, because the entire world economy depends on it. But as long as it doesn't yet impact their quarterly balance sheets, they sure as hell aren't going to tell you, the clueless consumer or stock buyer.
It's important to understand that oil will never really run out completely, but will simply get more expensive until we are squeezing every drop of black crud out of every bit of shale. A good oil deposit will gush out of the ground with no effort at all. Thus the debate is really about cheap, readily-available oil. Expensive oil sucks as we all know.
If it makes you feel any better, the amount of coal in the world is basically unimaginable. We lost our appetite for coal well before we even found it all. In fact, WWI was lost partly because the machinery of the Central Powers was still running on coal, and the Axis struck out in WWII to get a piece of the oil action.
As for Bush and Kerry with regards to oil policy, you're basically looking at polar extremes (yes, Iraq really is about the oil...)
For a company with $12b in the bank, Microsoft looks pretty weak right now. XP is popular but not really an improvement on 2000. Dot-Net is a late attempt, and has no foothold on Java. Their web/spyware products, like MSN and Passport, don't have much acceptance that I've seen.
The Win32 api is rapidly being reverse-engineered, and if that completes, Microsoft will have lost about 20 years worth of real estate. Meanwhile, Linux is ready for 64-bit chips. They're dead in the water in the server department - few medium-size sites are using anything but Apache/MySql/PHP, which are Unix tools even when they run on a Windows box.
The nail in the coffin will come when Unix framerates equal that of Windows, allowing equivalent gameplay and new interest in Unix graphics/interface programming. The maturation of a first-tier database such as Postgres will help too.
Seriously, what is the outlook for Microsoft in 5 years? HP Pavilions sold at Circuit City? Suits-and-ties running ASP? They are starting to look cornered into the MSCE business market with little R&D coming down the pipeline.
So I *do* need to use Real? Because you offer 4 formats, two of which I support, and neither of them seem to work at first glance.
After looking around, I realized why - the playlists are simply lists of mp3s, mpgs, rm's, etc. If your machine can play an mp3, then great. If it can't, it can't. That's all that seems to be going on here.
I had to hunt to find video. I eventually found some, in the WebTV section, and it turned out to be a couple mpgs of Fiddler on the Roof. No editing, no mashups, nothing.
Finally I noticed that the few mashups (also known as "remixes" btw) on your site appear to be rstp: protocol-specific. So the Real format now supports a start and end command. The more I look at your site, the more I wonder if it is a corporate venture by Real, because there's precious little here, other than the expectation that I will install Real software so I can laugh at Bush. Trade one virus for the other? How ironic.
I have an idea for stopping spam: Dont sign up for any.
Its a no-brainer rite?
Heres a tip: Computers only do what you tell them to do.
I have 4-5 active email accounts, and only one of them is spammed, because I left it that way. I run no anti-virus, no spyware blocker, and I used Internet Exploder quite a bit until recently. The other day I ran Ad-Aware, just to make sure, and all I found were some data miners. No active processes, no malware, no popups. I also installed Spybot's TeaTimer registry alarm, and fortunately it went off once because I wasnt even sure it was working.
In other words, *nothing* is changing on my computer. My email load is like 0 messages/day, and if I want porn or garbage I sign up with my spammed account, get the password, and then never look back. Does this help?
Can someone please explain to me what "spam" is? I've been using email for almost 10 years and I still have no idea. It sounds like a huge problem yet I've never actually seen it.
I'll tell you what's annoying though, every week or so I get an advertisement in my inbox from some company I've never done business with. But of course I delete a few messages each day so I just delete that one too.
You guys should explain spam to me and maybe I can help you solve the problem. I'm guessing its some sort of virus in which case you should either revert to plain-text or get a virus checker. Outlook Express tsk tsk!
Sounds exactly like DivX, which failed miserably and was subsequently replaced with an altogether different meaning of the word DivX ;)
Of course, one could argue that the original DivX was not flawed but merely ahead of its time. That seems to be what they're counting on.
Barlow: You know, there are three things we're never going to get rid of here in Springfield: one, the bats in the public library, two, Mrs. McFierly's compost heap, and three, our six-term mayor, the illiterate, tax-cheating, wife-swapping, pot-smoking, spendocrat Diamond Joe Quimby.
... I started an organic compost pile at home.
Quimby: Hey, I am no longer illiterate.
Jesse: I'm a level 5 vegan, I won't eat anything that casts a shadow.
Lisa: Wow. Um
Jesse: Only at home? You mean you don't pocket-mulch?
Bart: Hey, Lawn Boy! You missed a spot!
Willy: When I'm done with you, they'll have to do a compost-mortem!
Marge: Now throw compost on it!
I forsee a world where computing technology will be considered dangerous to public safety. Since it can be used to invade bank accounts, model nuclear weapons, and copy Hollywood DVD's, all "consumer" computing solutions will be closed end-to-end systems, and only a select few companies will have access to source code and hardware API's.
There will be a debate about whether individuals have a "right" to computing technology, much like the current debate over gun ownership. Of course, gun ownership is largely an urban/rural debate, but instead of simply establishing gun-free zones, the endless argument is about whether guns kill people or people do.
And so it will be with computers. Since computers aren't mentioned anywhere in the US constitution, it will be all the easier for Congress to restrict and regulate consumer hardware sales to just bare-essential, low-performing models.
Ridiculous? Well, in most states, you can't own a howitzer, and if you build a car it better be "street legal." Why do you think you have any more right to a desktop supercomputer?
Already, encryption technologies are export-prohibited, and DRM looms not on the horizon, but in our faces. Currently, you can purchase an Intel chip and write your own operating system, but what happens when those chips are not for sale? It's not like you're going to build your own $20 billion fab.
In my CS curriculum, the idea was broached that "mission critical" programmers should be licensed tradesmen. But will the transition to maturity in the computing field be guided by scientific guilds, or will computing become a secretive, heavily-restricted "military" technology?
The third-world doesn't need computers. They, and all of us, need guaranteed access.
I've noticed this. I think it's because sitting in front of the computer basically takes no energy. You can easily pull an all-nighter clicking and browsing around. Then you crash.
Any normal activity, like driving, shopping, going to work eventually exhausts me to the point where I want some good sleep. Coding will do that too, but video games, web browsing etc. doesn't seem to.
OMG. 20 replies so far and pretty much every one of them mentions either CRTs or LCDs.
The article mentions displays NOT ONCE.
The closest it comes is "eyestrain," which is one of several symptoms they examined.
This article is not about displays, it is about sitting in front of the computer.
oops. OP mentions sticking hand in molten lead. my bad, and...jesus christ.
believe it or not, but you can dip your fingers in liquid nitrogen. i've done it, and i've seen others do it. hand comes out fine if you only do it for, like, 0.1sec....and obviously you'd be crazy to leave it in there longer than that.
watching dry ice skate across the floor is cool too. same principle applies in both cases...a layer of gas between the cold object and the warm one.
what else...color changing reactions are pretty cool. shake the bottle, bright red, shake it again, bright blue, etc.