On top of this, there are situations where if you can't eliminate emissions, moving the emissions is a desirable second best thing.
Don't forget that a million tiny engines that often burn fuel wastefully or ineffeciently pollute a heck of a lot more than one plant burning the same fuel but operating all the time at peak effeciency.
To say nothing of the more environmentally friendly scurbbers that can be applied to a smokestack.
Well, yes. They have the right to joke about anything and everything, and just about any joke that's funny and doesn't cross into sociopathy -- including every part of Star Wars, btw -- is fine.
I also have the right to say "that's dumb" and walk away, as publicly as I care to.;)
well if stories don't have flaws, then what's your explanation for things like director's cuts, special editions and reduxes of movies?
Why does a musician not always play a song the exact same way?
I remember in Don Quixote, his horse gets stolen, then in the next chapter he has the horse again then a few paragraphs later he's complaining about having to walk because a thief stole his horse. How the hell do you explain that, other than just by saying "Cervantes fucked up"?
Well, not having read the story that closely, I'd hazard (1) it's a case of Don being rather addle-brained -- could his "horse" have only been in his mind? or (2) a translation error.
If I can't find a plausible explanation for a story in about an hour of thinking about it--which is a fairly long time to spend, btw -- then I'd call it a "mistake" or an "error." Not a "flaw."
What's the difference? Make-up jumping from one side to the next on a movie is a mistake. Leia & co not switching ships is what folk would call "flaws."
Y'see, this is my assertion. Stories don't have flaws--they have parts that folk call flaws, but really are just "part of the story."
If it's any consolation, I've gotten irate at folk who mindlessly point out "plot holes" in just about any medium I've seen. Sometimes they're just assumptions for the sake of story (language is usually the biggest here), and other times they're things that expose a deeper story than a casual reading implies. (Novels are full of instances of this second one, btw.)
I know the movie isn't perfect--heck, there are things in the movie that bug me. I just can't stand the busybody "hey, you messed up" crowd, about Star Wars or about anything.
Shakesphere, Mozart, and Sammuel Clemens. (Odd that I know his real name and I can't recall his pen name...)
Not to mention that "long enough for a newborn child to have great-grandchildren and die" is long enough for a copyright. Expect Disney to lose next time they argue for a copyright extension. Especially since by the time that rolls around, most of the Senate will have grown up with Napster.
I saw Fantastic Four yesterday. It was bad, but not nearly as bad as the Hulk
there's exactly one relevant question here.
Do you like the Fantastic Four and Hulk in comic book form?
I ask the question because, IMO, every comic book movie Marvel has made since X-Men -- Punnisher, Daredevil, Elektra, SpiderMan 1 & 2, X-Men 2, Hulk, and The Fantastic Four -- has struck me as a rather good rendition of the comic books in movie form.
The comic books that weren't that popular weren't that popular as movies. The comic books that were popular were popular as movies.
While one might argue that this is a case of fandom propelling sales, I think it's a bit more a case of the movies doing a good job, and their relative popularity and quality being properly proportional to their comic book's relative popularity and quality.
(Which, btw, is why I heartedtly expect to think that any Avengers movie is going to suck. Because I don't like them in the comic books.)
2: Y'know, I cancelled by download 'cause of that transcript. The last thing I want is to encourage half-wits who fail to spend ten minutes thinking "why" and keep themsleves at "that's dumb."
Case in point: the plans for the death star were being transported at the start of the movie, which implies that for some odd reason, they couldn't be sent via intersteller communication. Probably because the secret rebel base doesn't have the massive communication platform necessary for such.
(And let's not forget the obvious time dilation you don't see in the movies--the Millenium Falcon moves fast enough that, even if the Death Star left right away, they still had a day or more to sit, plan, and decide what to do. Possibly a number of weeks.)
You'd think if a bunch of self-described geeks rave about a show that takes in space, there'd probably be some technical or scientific aspect to the show.
1: Why? I've seen geeks rave about 24, American Idol, and Survivor, for crying out loud.
2: Sure there is, but it's all in the cinamatography.
And more to the point, I'd wager that fantasy-geeks far outnumber "science fiction"-geeks, possibly by an order of magnitude. FireFly was quite obviously set in a semi-escapist world quite different from our own--thus setting it quite firmply in the "fantasy" realm, right alongside Buffy, Angel, StarGate, Farscape, and all the rest.
It's cool that you believe that and all, but it's a weird thing to proclaim in a public forum.
It is, but not as wierd as you take it to be. The parent I responded to "started it".
While it is arguable not proper to bring up one's religion in a public forum (and a LOT of religions, strong atheism and scientology included, violate it with abandon), it's nothing more than an insult to one's own religion not to defend it when it is attacked.
Um, not to take the wind out of your sails or anything, but the Vikings were not Christain.
Point 1: God is god of us all, even those that don't worship Him.
Point 2: The vikings were rather thoroughly Christianized. It's actually where the baptists come from (to grossly oversimplify.)
Point 3: Even before christianization, the norsemen (inclusive of vikings) had the most Christian of pagan religons. "Life sucks, but live well anyway" is a powerful moral.
IMHO the problem is that the "thin" client must have almost all the resources of a normal pc... processor, memory, video card, nic, screen, mouse, keyboard, usb ports, everything except perhaps a hard drive. So what's the point?
You apparantly don't understand the concept.
A thin client DOESN'T have any of the ordinary components. No CPU or RAM to speak of. No HDD. No expansion bays. Quite possibly no peripheral drives, either. It's just a box that you plug your input/output into.
Best dual-purpsose heavy-lifter and crew transport? Well, yeah.
But it's not a good enough heavy lifter that it replaced rockets. And it's not a good enough crew transport that everyone else is trying to build one.
I've heard that some of the shuttle engineers even balked when told of their budget cuts. They argued--quite rightly--that doing it right the first time would save money over the long run.
Yeah, and if that same "God" had meant us to cross the oceans 500 years ago, he should have given European powers a couple of jets to avoid scurvy and mutinies out of boredom.
1: small grammatical swipes at religion only makes atheism look even more stupid.
A bunch of engineers were tasked with the job of building a reusable space vehicle, so they paint some wings on a rocket, give it a windshield, and call it a space plane.
No. They drew up an amazing design that was state-of-the-art, entirely reusable, and a great thing.
And then a Republican president--Nixon, IIRC--told them no, build it for half the price.
stop moving kids onto the next grade if they really didn't perform at the level necessary. It's become an "everybody gets a trophy" society, and that's not consistent with the real world. Kids more than ever need to understand rewards and accountability.
Better yet, get rid of the trophy altogether. Divide school into fewer than thirteen segments, pair teachers and students for longer than a single year.
Have each segment advance ONLY by the student proving their knowledge to a satisfactory level.
I'd go further and suggest getting rid of segregated "subjects" altgether in high school, but then I remembered that my own schooling didn't have them until 5th grade.
You apparantly have forgotten the NES, Original Gameboy, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast. Each time a system ruled a market segment without challengers, that system was white.
Folk may prefer electronics black, but they sure as heck prefer their video game systems white. Or colorful.
Yes. Because we all know that a woman starving herself and never thinking about anything more than how she looks in a dress makes for GREAT lovemaking.;)
Well, *I* know the folloy of that. I won't presume to speak for you, but maybe someday you to can actually have sex.
also so does every reply in this forum decrease one's chances of ever having sex?
I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid.
But, instead, I'll simply point out that Wizards of the Coast is famous for Magic and buying TSR, and INfamous for the swining orgies and wife-swapping that were rampant in the company in years gone by.
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On top of this, there are situations where if you can't eliminate emissions, moving the emissions is a desirable second best thing.
Don't forget that a million tiny engines that often burn fuel wastefully or ineffeciently pollute a heck of a lot more than one plant burning the same fuel but operating all the time at peak effeciency.
To say nothing of the more environmentally friendly scurbbers that can be applied to a smokestack.
Well, yes. They have the right to joke about anything and everything, and just about any joke that's funny and doesn't cross into sociopathy -- including every part of Star Wars, btw -- is fine.
;)
I also have the right to say "that's dumb" and walk away, as publicly as I care to.
well if stories don't have flaws, then what's your explanation for things like director's cuts, special editions and reduxes of movies?
Why does a musician not always play a song the exact same way?
I remember in Don Quixote, his horse gets stolen, then in the next chapter he has the horse again then a few paragraphs later he's complaining about having to walk because a thief stole his horse. How the hell do you explain that, other than just by saying "Cervantes fucked up"?
Well, not having read the story that closely, I'd hazard (1) it's a case of Don being rather addle-brained -- could his "horse" have only been in his mind? or (2) a translation error.
If I can't find a plausible explanation for a story in about an hour of thinking about it--which is a fairly long time to spend, btw -- then I'd call it a "mistake" or an "error." Not a "flaw."
What's the difference? Make-up jumping from one side to the next on a movie is a mistake. Leia & co not switching ships is what folk would call "flaws."
But it doesn't really matter, it was just a flaw.
Y'see, this is my assertion. Stories don't have flaws--they have parts that folk call flaws, but really are just "part of the story."
If it's any consolation, I've gotten irate at folk who mindlessly point out "plot holes" in just about any medium I've seen. Sometimes they're just assumptions for the sake of story (language is usually the biggest here), and other times they're things that expose a deeper story than a casual reading implies. (Novels are full of instances of this second one, btw.)
I know the movie isn't perfect--heck, there are things in the movie that bug me. I just can't stand the busybody "hey, you messed up" crowd, about Star Wars or about anything.
Are you telling me that you take star wars so seriously that it upsets you when someone pokes a little fun at it.
It's not Star Wars. It's art in general -- even intentinally campy art like Star Wars.
The equivalent is if someone read Tolkien, and said "why didn't they just invent gunpowder? This is stoopid."
Art is meant to entertain. When you come to something that doesn't seem to make sense, your second thought should be "what could explain that?"
Doing otherwise is lazy reading, poor thinking, and just plain rude.
it seems to me that westerns are about as ungeeky as you can get.
A single guy comes in from beyond society, sees corruption, acts, and leaves--often with no reward?
No, that's definitley in geek territory.
Public Domain?
Shakesphere, Mozart, and Sammuel Clemens. (Odd that I know his real name and I can't recall his pen name...)
Not to mention that "long enough for a newborn child to have great-grandchildren and die" is long enough for a copyright. Expect Disney to lose next time they argue for a copyright extension. Especially since by the time that rolls around, most of the Senate will have grown up with Napster.
I saw Fantastic Four yesterday. It was bad, but not nearly as bad as the Hulk
there's exactly one relevant question here.
Do you like the Fantastic Four and Hulk in comic book form?
I ask the question because, IMO, every comic book movie Marvel has made since X-Men -- Punnisher, Daredevil, Elektra, SpiderMan 1 & 2, X-Men 2, Hulk, and The Fantastic Four -- has struck me as a rather good rendition of the comic books in movie form.
The comic books that weren't that popular weren't that popular as movies. The comic books that were popular were popular as movies.
While one might argue that this is a case of fandom propelling sales, I think it's a bit more a case of the movies doing a good job, and their relative popularity and quality being properly proportional to their comic book's relative popularity and quality.
(Which, btw, is why I heartedtly expect to think that any Avengers movie is going to suck. Because I don't like them in the comic books.)
1: Agreed.
2: Y'know, I cancelled by download 'cause of that transcript. The last thing I want is to encourage half-wits who fail to spend ten minutes thinking "why" and keep themsleves at "that's dumb."
Case in point: the plans for the death star were being transported at the start of the movie, which implies that for some odd reason, they couldn't be sent via intersteller communication. Probably because the secret rebel base doesn't have the massive communication platform necessary for such.
(And let's not forget the obvious time dilation you don't see in the movies--the Millenium Falcon moves fast enough that, even if the Death Star left right away, they still had a day or more to sit, plan, and decide what to do. Possibly a number of weeks.)
You'd think if a bunch of self-described geeks rave about a show that takes in space, there'd probably be some technical or scientific aspect to the show.
1: Why? I've seen geeks rave about 24, American Idol, and Survivor, for crying out loud.
2: Sure there is, but it's all in the cinamatography.
And more to the point, I'd wager that fantasy-geeks far outnumber "science fiction"-geeks, possibly by an order of magnitude. FireFly was quite obviously set in a semi-escapist world quite different from our own--thus setting it quite firmply in the "fantasy" realm, right alongside Buffy, Angel, StarGate, Farscape, and all the rest.
I like science fiction, but there seems to be precious little of that in Firefly. It's basically a western in space, and I can't stand westerns.
Why ever would you have thought, past one instant of the series, that it WASN'T a western in space?
1: Yes, it accepts SD cards. Two at the same time, in fact.
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2: LINUX IS COMING TO PALM OS!!!
It's cool that you believe that and all, but it's a weird thing to proclaim in a public forum.
It is, but not as wierd as you take it to be. The parent I responded to "started it".
While it is arguable not proper to bring up one's religion in a public forum (and a LOT of religions, strong atheism and scientology included, violate it with abandon), it's nothing more than an insult to one's own religion not to defend it when it is attacked.
Except for that whole plundering, looting, and raping thing that they were famous for...
See the Crusades, the colonization of America, and the biblical account of the ancient land of Israel.
Plundering, looting, and even raping is something Christians do as much as anyone else. To paraphrase our Lord and Savior -- "we all suck."
Um, not to take the wind out of your sails or anything, but the Vikings were not Christain.
Point 1: God is god of us all, even those that don't worship Him.
Point 2: The vikings were rather thoroughly Christianized. It's actually where the baptists come from (to grossly oversimplify.)
Point 3: Even before christianization, the norsemen (inclusive of vikings) had the most Christian of pagan religons. "Life sucks, but live well anyway" is a powerful moral.
. No CPU or RAM to speak of.
Yes, Georgia, every word in a sentence IS important.
An ARM processor with 16MB of ram -- slower and less memory than my Palm! -- is "none to speak of."
Sheesh.
IMHO the problem is that the "thin" client must have almost all the resources of a normal pc... processor, memory, video card, nic, screen, mouse, keyboard, usb ports, everything except perhaps a hard drive. So what's the point?
You apparantly don't understand the concept.
A thin client DOESN'T have any of the ordinary components. No CPU or RAM to speak of. No HDD. No expansion bays. Quite possibly no peripheral drives, either. It's just a box that you plug your input/output into.
Best on the planet? Yes.
Best dual-purpsose heavy-lifter and crew transport? Well, yeah.
But it's not a good enough heavy lifter that it replaced rockets. And it's not a good enough crew transport that everyone else is trying to build one.
I've heard that some of the shuttle engineers even balked when told of their budget cuts. They argued--quite rightly--that doing it right the first time would save money over the long run.
If only, if only, if only.
Yeah, and if that same "God" had meant us to cross the oceans 500 years ago, he should have given European powers a couple of jets to avoid scurvy and mutinies out of boredom.
1: small grammatical swipes at religion only makes atheism look even more stupid.
2: He did. Ever hear of the vikings?
A bunch of engineers were tasked with the job of building a reusable space vehicle, so they paint some wings on a rocket, give it a windshield, and call it a space plane.
No. They drew up an amazing design that was state-of-the-art, entirely reusable, and a great thing.
And then a Republican president--Nixon, IIRC--told them no, build it for half the price.
Well, yes.
The Genesis launched the 16-bit era of console gaming, although, in the end, it was outsold by rival Nintendo's SNES console worldwide.
stop moving kids onto the next grade if they really didn't perform at the level necessary. It's become an "everybody gets a trophy" society, and that's not consistent with the real world. Kids more than ever need to understand rewards and accountability.
Better yet, get rid of the trophy altogether. Divide school into fewer than thirteen segments, pair teachers and students for longer than a single year.
Have each segment advance ONLY by the student proving their knowledge to a satisfactory level.
I'd go further and suggest getting rid of segregated "subjects" altgether in high school, but then I remembered that my own schooling didn't have them until 5th grade.
You apparantly have forgotten the NES, Original Gameboy, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast. Each time a system ruled a market segment without challengers, that system was white.
Folk may prefer electronics black, but they sure as heck prefer their video game systems white. Or colorful.
Quality, not quantity buddy...
;)
Yes. Because we all know that a woman starving herself and never thinking about anything more than how she looks in a dress makes for GREAT lovemaking.
Well, *I* know the folloy of that. I won't presume to speak for you, but maybe someday you to can actually have sex.
also so does every reply in this forum decrease one's chances of ever having sex?
I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid.
But, instead, I'll simply point out that Wizards of the Coast is famous for Magic and buying TSR, and INfamous for the swining orgies and wife-swapping that were rampant in the company in years gone by.