Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution, from the teaching co., is an excellent "intro" type of lecture series by a real professor, and it's the best physics "class" i've ever taken. Most (if not all ) the teaching co.'s audiobooks are great for learning outside the classroom with a real professor (and no homework too:)
Freddy comes back yet again, a hot chick and her friends start dreaming, friends start dying off one by one by the razor-glove clad freddy, hot chick finds Freddy's weakness, and "kills" him.. or does she?
Friday the 13th 4 - The missing movie
(I have never been able to find part 4)
Plot as follows: a bunch of teenagers go to a camp, by a lake, where much sex and boozing ensues.. mysteriously, one of them dies, and we find that Jason is back from the dead! much killing and sexing occurs, to the delight of all. A hot chick who without a boyfriend and the guy she likes the most (who was killed earlier on but managed to revive in time for the end) find a way to trick Jason into a closet/attick/lake/bathroom where they kill him by burning him, stabbing him, chopping him with an axe.. but he's still not dead! the boyfriend dies saving the girl, and she manages to outwit jason on a boat where he falls into the lake chained to a cement block (or the boyfriend's body) and "dies". Chick gets rescued, but will remain in the loony bin for the rest of her days.. and Jason lives!
Whether or not they were mechas or aliens I'd like to give you one point of comparison.. Mission to mars, that *lovely* *wonderful* [/sarcasm] movie where we meet the very sad alien at the end.. *that's* the alien these mechas reminded me off, and it took me completely out of the movie.. and hey, they ended up doing exactly what the one in the mission to mars movie did, that is, whine about the dead race, and wait for a [descendant/survivor] to show them what they had lost.
it wasn't a matter of me not "getting it".. it was a matter of me not caring after that point.
and through the whole movie, the cgi was great.. as soon as that flying half-cube showed up, the rest of the cgi looked way too cartoonish.
Anyway, I dont want to bitch about this movie anymore:)
I would pick when the narrator comes again, and you zoom out/in on the ice. Man, the first thought that crossed my mind when the next scene began was "Oh jesus what the f*ck is this, the borg?!"
first words out of my friend's mouth: "Oh great.. f*cking aliens"
Commentary heard from the people in front of me (a bunch of 10 year ol' boys): "finally something cool happens!"
honestly, I've never had such a good movie ruined completely by its ending.. I mean, there's been some terrible endings in a lot of movies, but nothing where the ending just destroyed the whole movie, even the good parts, because it makes you focus on itself so much.
uhuh.. who is this "we"? IIRC, "we" also did acid in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and I'll be damned if I dont hear my college friends saying "we all do acid nowadays".. not to mention the big E, peyote, marijuana (even though to tell the truth I never felt any psychodelic effects from pot), and so on..
So before you start preaching about what "we" did and what "our children" shouldn't be doing, at least give credit were credit is due..
And isn't it funny that what "we" used to do for fun, peer pressure, etc.. is what we want our kids *not* to do, just like our parents didn't want us to do those "evil drugs" and just like their parents didn't want them drinking that "evil alcohol" and so on, ad infinitum..
Now I'm one to say that drugs are bad <smirk> and that they'll damage your brains <smile> but what, exactly, do you think your kids are gonna do when you say "dont do it"?
I think you know the answer to that, since "we" all did exactly the same thing when our parents told us not to...
"oooh, feel sorry for me because I'm a drug dealer! oooh, feel sorry for me because I'm a complete f*ck up!"
I don't know.. there were several parts of this movie that made me laugh, but for the most part I just felt like I was watching a darker version of that *other* johnny depp classic, 'fear and loathin in las vegas'
at least that one wasn't about feeling sorry for someone.
Isn't there something to be said about knowing when to quit? or the old 'Sometimes you have to know how to choose your battles'? Why is napster still around?
Seriously, I don't mean to make it sound like they should just give up and die, but this is one battle that is just going to 1. cost them money (lawyers, bowing down to RIAA, etc) 2. time (which they could spend doing some new kind of distributed/freenet sort of thing) and 3. peace of mind, having to again bow down to the slightest whims from the lawyers of the other side and whatnot.
Maybe they're trying to prove a point, I don't know, but it seems to me that the point is moot or is being lost amidst the whole bowing down to do the RIAA's bidding. Sometimes a retreat, regroup, and reconsidering of tactics is better than a full frontal attack against a more massive enemy (RIAA lawyers and such).
I know but I want to be able to both hook up cable directly to my pc (when i'm at the dorm) and hook up the PC to a tv (when i'm at home) to watch dvd's, so both would be useful.
I'd prefer the tuner-only to the tv-out-only option though.
I think most online nicknames (unless they're brought from RL) are from band names/songs and book characters/locations. For instance, Marooned (a song title from pink floyd's division bell album) and my IRC nick Toxygen (a shortened version of Toxygene in the Orb's Orblivion album).
A lot of people i know use mainly character names from (esp.) sci-fi books though.
well, since today (according to the learning kingdom) is the anniversary of the "Outer Space treaty" let me quote them:
Nearly a decade after the USSR launched the first Sputnik into orbit around the earth and just two and a half years before the US landed the first men on the moon, the Outer Space Treaty was signed. Modeled on the Antarctic Treaty, it sought to set the terms for the exploration and exploitation of a newly opened territory. In addition to outlawing any exclusive national claims to extraterrestrial regions, it limited the use of the moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. It prohibited placing nuclear or other mass-destruction weapons in orbit, on the moon or other celestial body, or on any sort of space station. The treaty also outlawed using the outer space environment for any form of weapons testing. Signed by the U.S., USSR, and Great Britain (which at that time still planned a space program), the Outer Space Treaty was a major step in arms control. After the treaty came into effect, the U.S. and the USSR began to collaborate in space enterprises, including jointly manned missions.
History and full text of the Outer Space Treaty:
link
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> Okay, you're pulled apart and your entire > quantum makeup is sent somewhere else. What > stops you from becoming a pile of goo?
I wouldn't curse my worst enemy with going to Devry. All kidding aside, AFAIK, devry and other tech schools offer the good ol' "we'll teach you how to be a computer operator and how to work your way up to middle management" philosophy. I'd pick a real college, first off, and a real degree, if i wanted to get anywhere. And like someone else said, the CIS will be obsolete in a few years, whereas the methods of CS will last a lot longer, since you're learning the concepts, not the eye-candy.
"2. What happens if we're actually talking about Nazis?
hen you've already invoked Godwin's Law, and the chances are that your thread isn't going to last all that much longer as a sane discussion.
Them's the breaks."
500 MHz, probably will come with 64/128MB ram, why not just add a mouse/keyboard/floppy and call a spade a spade? this thing will be as fast if-not-faster than my PC dammit! Now just imagine if other technologies, like cars, airplanes, space vehicles, moved at relatively the same pace as computer technology... we'd have colonized half the solar system by now! It's time for all you computer engineers to look beyond computers and start helping out in all other areas!
to go before we reach the circle-within-a-circle huh? (Carl Sagan 'contact' for all you illiterates)
on a different note, i'm in calc II right now and we're doing all sorts of things with infinite series and whatnot, so i'm wondering if there's someone out there who'll explain to me in lamen's terms what the hell divergent and convergent series mean? maybe i'm not trying hard enough but it just seems to me that a limit approaching something, and converging on something, and all the rest just seems to go round and round and make little sense. BTW, i have a big test next week so i'll appreciate any help in understanding these infinite series (esp. power, taylor series).
An atheist is fishing somewhere in the loch ness, when all-of-a-sudden the loch ness monster comes out and starts approaching his boat.
"Dear god save me!!" screams the atheist..
[BOOOM!] a thunderous explosion stops all creation freezing it in place and time, and this deep, powerful voice says "I thought you didn't believe in Me..."
the atheist says "gimme a break God, a minute ago I didn't believe in the loch ness monster either.."
You did read the full thing right? I think this is what's called "quoting out of context"
here's you: " Basically he says that the NV20 is going to be fully designed around/for DirectX8 and then he goes to say most Manuf's havent caught up to DX7 which leads him to think that MS may be leading their nose some. "
here's Tom: " Nvidia's next chip 'NV20' is waiting 'just around the corner' and this one will sport a complete new set of features, all for DirextX8. Nowadays you wonder if Microsoft's DirectX is driving Nvidia or if it isnt just the other way around . Most 3d makers haven't even caught up to DirectX7 yet..."
Anyone read this book by harry harrison and marvin minsky? it's a pretty good book, and i found it ironic that (kinda like some of asimov's books) the "machine intelligence" ended up being "more human than human" so to speak.. i wonder if the constant quest to make MI seem less dangerous, pitted against the constant fear that most people have against alien intelligences will end up with the creation of a MI "more human than human".. then again, this would fit quite nicely with the whole "machines will save us from ourselves" mentality that some of us have.. i still say that the end of mankind will come when the robots take over and kill the weaker humans;)
.. if you ask me.. from the looks of the stills, seems to me the people in arrakis have plenty of water/food to go around.. i remember sean young from the movie and the other fremen in the cast were thin, almost anorexic looking, like you would expect from people who've spent their lives living in a desert world.. the new cast seems to have better access to nutrient-rich food than seems reasonable.. then again, pictures make you look fatter than you really are.. no wait, that was tv..
just a thought.
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hehe i've lived in an even (444) an an odd now (1751)
The one thing that linux is missing (it might change now with that Pan project) is a good newsreader/binary decoder like Free/Forte Agent.. and WINE runs that great, almost as fast as the windows version in displaying stuff, and faster at downloading (at least with cable, i dont know about anything else).. I downloaded this version (hallowine) and the display bugs from the previous version seem to be gone now.. i havent tried many other programs but so far this one works great.. My two pointless cents:)
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Einstein's relativity and the quantum revolution, from the teaching co., is an excellent "intro" type of lecture series by a real professor, and it's the best physics "class" i've ever taken. Most (if not all ) the teaching co.'s audiobooks are great for learning outside the classroom with a real professor (and no homework too :)
nightmare on elm street 4 - dream master:
Freddy comes back yet again, a hot chick and her friends start dreaming, friends start dying off one by one by the razor-glove clad freddy, hot chick finds Freddy's weakness, and "kills" him.. or does she?
Friday the 13th 4 - The missing movie
(I have never been able to find part 4)
Plot as follows: a bunch of teenagers go to a camp, by a lake, where much sex and boozing ensues.. mysteriously, one of them dies, and we find that Jason is back from the dead! much killing and sexing occurs, to the delight of all. A hot chick who without a boyfriend and the guy she likes the most (who was killed earlier on but managed to revive in time for the end) find a way to trick Jason into a closet/attick/lake/bathroom where they kill him by burning him, stabbing him, chopping him with an axe.. but he's still not dead! the boyfriend dies saving the girl, and she manages to outwit jason on a boat where he falls into the lake chained to a cement block (or the boyfriend's body) and "dies". Chick gets rescued, but will remain in the loony bin for the rest of her days.. and Jason lives!
see, it's not hard
- Marooned
Whether or not they were mechas or aliens I'd like to give you one point of comparison.. Mission to mars, that *lovely* *wonderful* [/sarcasm] movie where we meet the very sad alien at the end.. *that's* the alien these mechas reminded me off, and it took me completely out of the movie.. and hey, they ended up doing exactly what the one in the mission to mars movie did, that is, whine about the dead race, and wait for a [descendant/survivor] to show them what they had lost.
:)
it wasn't a matter of me not "getting it".. it was a matter of me not caring after that point.
and through the whole movie, the cgi was great.. as soon as that flying half-cube showed up, the rest of the cgi looked way too cartoonish.
Anyway, I dont want to bitch about this movie anymore
- Marooned
I would pick when the narrator comes again, and you zoom out/in on the ice. Man, the first thought that crossed my mind when the next scene began was "Oh jesus what the f*ck is this, the borg?!"
first words out of my friend's mouth: "Oh great.. f*cking aliens"
Commentary heard from the people in front of me (a bunch of 10 year ol' boys): "finally something cool happens!"
honestly, I've never had such a good movie ruined completely by its ending.. I mean, there's been some terrible endings in a lot of movies, but nothing where the ending just destroyed the whole movie, even the good parts, because it makes you focus on itself so much.
- Marooned
the web is more important than ftp?
"Sure, we all did acid back in the sixties"
uhuh.. who is this "we"? IIRC, "we" also did acid in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and I'll be damned if I dont hear my college friends saying "we all do acid nowadays".. not to mention the big E, peyote, marijuana (even though to tell the truth I never felt any psychodelic effects from pot), and so on..
So before you start preaching about what "we" did and what "our children" shouldn't be doing, at least give credit were credit is due..
And isn't it funny that what "we" used to do for fun, peer pressure, etc.. is what we want our kids *not* to do, just like our parents didn't want us to do those "evil drugs" and just like their parents didn't want them drinking that "evil alcohol" and so on, ad infinitum..
Now I'm one to say that drugs are bad <smirk> and that they'll damage your brains <smile> but what, exactly, do you think your kids are gonna do when you say "dont do it"?
I think you know the answer to that, since "we" all did exactly the same thing when our parents told us not to...
my $0.02
"oooh, feel sorry for me because I'm a drug dealer! oooh, feel sorry for me because I'm a complete f*ck up!"
I don't know.. there were several parts of this movie that made me laugh, but for the most part I just felt like I was watching a darker version of that *other* johnny depp classic, 'fear and loathin in las vegas'
at least that one wasn't about feeling sorry for someone.
Isn't there something to be said about knowing when to quit? or the old 'Sometimes you have to know how to choose your battles'? Why is napster still around?
Seriously, I don't mean to make it sound like they should just give up and die, but this is one battle that is just going to 1. cost them money (lawyers, bowing down to RIAA, etc) 2. time (which they could spend doing some new kind of distributed/freenet sort of thing) and 3. peace of mind, having to again bow down to the slightest whims from the lawyers of the other side and whatnot.
Maybe they're trying to prove a point, I don't know, but it seems to me that the point is moot or is being lost amidst the whole bowing down to do the RIAA's bidding. Sometimes a retreat, regroup, and reconsidering of tactics is better than a full frontal attack against a more massive enemy (RIAA lawyers and such).
Man I never laughed so hard at a one-line reply before.. to quote Homer (simpson):
"It's funny cuz it's true!"
I know but I want to be able to both hook up cable directly to my pc (when i'm at the dorm) and hook up the PC to a tv (when i'm at home) to watch dvd's, so both would be useful.
I'd prefer the tuner-only to the tv-out-only option though.
I think most online nicknames (unless they're brought from RL) are from band names/songs and book characters/locations. For instance, Marooned (a song title from pink floyd's division bell album) and my IRC nick Toxygen (a shortened version of Toxygene in the Orb's Orblivion album).
A lot of people i know use mainly character names from (esp.) sci-fi books though.
well, since today (according to the learning kingdom) is the anniversary of the "Outer Space treaty" let me quote them: Nearly a decade after the USSR launched the first Sputnik into orbit around the earth and just two and a half years before the US landed the first men on the moon, the Outer Space Treaty was signed. Modeled on the Antarctic Treaty, it sought to set the terms for the exploration and exploitation of a newly opened territory. In addition to outlawing any exclusive national claims to extraterrestrial regions, it limited the use of the moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. It prohibited placing nuclear or other mass-destruction weapons in orbit, on the moon or other celestial body, or on any sort of space station. The treaty also outlawed using the outer space environment for any form of weapons testing. Signed by the U.S., USSR, and Great Britain (which at that time still planned a space program), the Outer Space Treaty was a major step in arms control. After the treaty came into effect, the U.S. and the USSR began to collaborate in space enterprises, including jointly manned missions. History and full text of the Outer Space Treaty: link
> Okay, you're pulled apart and your entire > quantum makeup is sent somewhere else. What > stops you from becoming a pile of goo?
Ask Jeff Goldblum, he figured it out in "the Fly"
I wouldn't curse my worst enemy with going to Devry. All kidding aside, AFAIK, devry and other tech schools offer the good ol' "we'll teach you how to be a computer operator and how to work your way up to middle management" philosophy. I'd pick a real college, first off, and a real degree, if i wanted to get anywhere. And like someone else said, the CIS will be obsolete in a few years, whereas the methods of CS will last a lot longer, since you're learning the concepts, not the eye-candy.
just what exactly *is* molten water?
just curious...
from the FAQ:
"2. What happens if we're actually talking about Nazis?
hen you've already invoked Godwin's Law, and the chances are that your thread isn't going to last all that much longer as a sane discussion.
Them's the breaks."
500 MHz, probably will come with 64/128MB ram, why not just add a mouse/keyboard/floppy and call a spade a spade? this thing will be as fast if-not-faster than my PC dammit! Now just imagine if other technologies, like cars, airplanes, space vehicles, moved at relatively the same pace as computer technology... we'd have colonized half the solar system by now! It's time for all you computer engineers to look beyond computers and start helping out in all other areas!
just my $0.02
to go before we reach the circle-within-a-circle huh? (Carl Sagan 'contact' for all you illiterates)
on a different note, i'm in calc II right now and we're doing all sorts of things with infinite series and whatnot, so i'm wondering if there's someone out there who'll explain to me in lamen's terms what the hell divergent and convergent series mean? maybe i'm not trying hard enough but it just seems to me that a limit approaching something, and converging on something, and all the rest just seems to go round and round and make little sense. BTW, i have a big test next week so i'll appreciate any help in understanding these infinite series (esp. power, taylor series).
ever hear this joke?
An atheist is fishing somewhere in the loch ness, when all-of-a-sudden the loch ness monster comes out and starts approaching his boat.
"Dear god save me!!" screams the atheist..
[BOOOM!] a thunderous explosion stops all creation freezing it in place and time, and this deep, powerful voice says "I thought you didn't believe in Me..."
the atheist says "gimme a break God, a minute ago I didn't believe in the loch ness monster either.."
here's you: " Basically he says that the NV20 is going to be fully designed around/for DirectX8 and then he goes to say most Manuf's havent caught up to DX7 which leads him to think that MS may be leading their nose some. "
here's Tom: " Nvidia's next chip 'NV20' is waiting 'just around the corner' and this one will sport a complete new set of features, all for DirextX8. Nowadays you wonder if Microsoft's DirectX is driving Nvidia or if it isnt just the other way around . Most 3d makers haven't even caught up to DirectX7 yet
emphasis mine of course
try the nvidia mini-howto
the thing that helped me with the crashes was the little reference to Option "NvAgp" "1" at the bottom there, i set that to 0 and good-bye, crashes..
just my $0.02
Anyone read this book by harry harrison and marvin minsky? it's a pretty good book, and i found it ironic that (kinda like some of asimov's books) the "machine intelligence" ended up being "more human than human" so to speak.. i wonder if the constant quest to make MI seem less dangerous, pitted against the constant fear that most people have against alien intelligences will end up with the creation of a MI "more human than human".. ;)
then again, this would fit quite nicely with the whole "machines will save us from ourselves" mentality that some of us have.. i still say that the end of mankind will come when the robots take over and kill the weaker humans
.. if you ask me.. from the looks of the stills, seems to me the people in arrakis have plenty of water/food to go around.. i remember sean young from the movie and the other fremen in the cast were thin, almost anorexic looking, like you would expect from people who've spent their lives living in a desert world.. the new cast seems to have better access to nutrient-rich food than seems reasonable.. then again, pictures make you look fatter than you really are.. no wait, that was tv..
just a thought.
hehe i've lived in an even (444)
an an odd now (1751)
The one thing that linux is missing (it might change now with that Pan project) is a good newsreader/binary decoder like Free/Forte Agent.. and WINE runs that great, almost as fast as the windows version in displaying stuff, and faster at downloading (at least with cable, i dont know about anything else).. :)
I downloaded this version (hallowine) and the display bugs from the previous version seem to be gone now.. i havent tried many other programs but so far this one works great..
My two pointless cents