Why does somebody else need to pray for me? And how is anybody going to stop me from praying whenever and wherever I want to?
Prayer happens between one person and their Maker. What happens in revival tents and God Squad meetings and in pulpits is showmanship. That showmanship has its place, but not in the schools that everybody's kids (not just Christians' kids) go to.
Want your kid to be led in prayer at school? Put them in parochial school. If you don't think it's worth the sacrifice to do so, why are you carping at other people to Make The World Be Like You Want It To Be?
And civil behavior does NOT start at church. If you think it does, you've never taught second-grade Sunday School. Civil behavior comes from parents who DEMAND it, ALL THE TIME.
"We need to know that there is something bigger than us, or else it's all just somebody else's opinion on how we should live."
Think about that statement from the perspective of a non-Christian, and you might start to understand. Keep in mind that they think you are as incorrect as you think they are, and their Holy Book agrees with them. (this statement works for whichever "them" you can think of)
A symmetrical airfoil with zero angle of attack produces no lift. Think about the rudder on an airplane or a ship. However, when the AOA changes, the airfoil is no longer symmetrical with respect to the airflow.
Bernoulli's Principle isn't usually derived directly from Newton's laws. It's usually expressed as a conservation of mass/conservation of energy equation. Your expression is not totally dissimilar to the one we use in my aero classes.
As far as planes flying upside-down, the angle of attack is critical in determining the magnitude and direction of the lift vector. That's why you raise the nose of an airplane to make it go up...increasing the angle of attack moves the stagnation point of the free stream down on the airfoil, increasing the distance the air must travel over the top of the air foil.
Curvature is not necessary to generate lift. Flat plates (like your hand out the car window, or the balsa wood wing on your dime-store glider) generate lift due only to their angle of attack.
Getting insulted and getting executed are pretty different things. I can disagree with somebody else's religion. I can even say they're stupid because they practice such a religion. Neither of these things have anything to do with persecution! Only when some people start assaulting and killing people based upon their religion do I get my "Freedom of Religion" jones on.
Ummm...probably because Hitler didn't thump his Bible when he massacred millions. The Taliban purports to be the guardian of pure Islam. All the Muslims I know are absolutely revolted by the Taliban's practices.
Islam doesn't endorse the Taliban, but the Taliban claims to be following the teachings of Islam.
Yeah, real cool until their Army uses some direction finding gear to locate your position, and starts using you for bayonet practice. It's all pr0n and/. until somebody pokes your eye out...then you have a SERIOUS reorganization of your priorities.
No, see, they're DEFINED as terrorists retroactively because the FBI and ATF had to go Get Them and protect We The People from Dissident Elements. You know, defending Truth, Justice, and the American Way and all that.
"I like the sense of completion when I'm done with a newspaper, I feel like I know all of the important news."
What a horrifyingly inaccurate feeling. You only know the news that the newspaper company thinks you need to know. When I finish reading the newspaper, I can't help but wonder "What aren't they telling me?"
You're right, the render might not be high enough resolution to look good on cinematic 70mm.
Yup, I'm clear on how IMAX's format is quite different from the 5 perf 70mm. However, anymore it's hard to find big screens that don't have IMAX projectors in 'em. The good news is that the sound systems in those theatres are usually pretty phenomenal...that's the real reason I went to that theater.
It was funny to watch a movie on the screen in "letterbox" mode, though. : )
The story was engaging. The voice acting was fine. The animation and the eye candy were superb. Katz is STILL a moron.
And what's with dogging on Dr. Ross because she's "attractive but never makes it to sexy"? I'm not generally one who jumps all over sexist statements, but that's an absolutely reprehensible attitude: assuming an actress (real or animated) is only there to titillate you.
The movie was not supposed to be a complex, thought-provoking Think Flick. It was a fun-to-watch, engaging movie with absolutely staggering animation. Since Katz doesn't like "those Japanese sci-fi movies" either, I think that a) his taste is terrible and b) he doesn't know a thing about what makes a good movie, or why this movie was good.
Thematically, yes. Interconnectedness of life, cooperation overcoming conflict, collecting objects from around the world to Save The Universe...your big Final Fantasy themes are there.
Me, I loved all the FF games I've played. The movie was phenomenal, too, but I liked it for different reasons.
On another front, the vehicle design in FF was the best I've seen since the original Star Wars. Some really really neat stuff indeed. Hope Bandai makes cool, toddler-choking toys with lots of missiles that shoot off for poking eyes out.
I WAS hoping for a Chocobo cameo, but I was disappointed. Guess they didn't think us round-eyes were ready for photorealistic big-screen chocobo racing. Too bad. : )
Seeing it on an IMAX screen with God's own sound system was, to say the least, a moving experience. I do wish that they had a 70mm print available. Then we could REALLY pick nits about the textures! : )
Let's go ahead and put Japanese on the list of "bastard" languages that "steal" from others.
Somebody will have to draw me a diagram here as to how adopting a foreign language word somehow diminish the parent language. Must be something like software "piracy".
The reason lawyers make so much money is because there's more to the terms they use than the dictionary definition. Monopolies are companies who exercise a large amount of control over a given market. Now, if you were paying attention in that little lawsuit thing with Microsoft, you'd remember that MS was trying to define their "market" as "personal computers", ideally including everything from mainframes to your car's ECU. In that definition of the market, MS certainly doesn't have a monopoly. However, in the market where they ACTUALLY compete (that is, Intel-based home and business computers), they control upwards of 80% of the market. And they can and do exercise their monopoly power in illegal, anticompetitive ways.
Keep your ad hominem attacks on the playground. If you want to have a discussion, feel free to continue. If you want to act like a dick, don't think I'm going to trouble myself to respond further.
It's called "gallows humor", and it's a long and distinguished tradition.
People who cannot see the moral difference between actual, physical violence and talking (or joking) about violence are at best poorly adjusted, and at worst sociopathic. I do not mean to imply that you fit either of these categories, but you might consider why one action is intrinsically harmful, and the other is not.
If you have a series of positions measured at discrete times, it's very very easy to get velocity. V=ds/dt where s is position and t is time. Take your change in s (your last two position fixes) and the time interval of the measurements, divide, and you've got an excellent approximation of your instantaneous velocity.
Making a microprocessor do this is trivial. Sending that number over a radio is also trivial. Your thought that the costs of implementing such a system would be prohibitive is incorrect, since the article says that it HAS been implemented, and rather widely.
Umm, I kinda thought their free-to-me barcode scanner was handy. THAT's value, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, you mean their business model didn't work? Poor them.
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Why does somebody else need to pray for me? And how is anybody going to stop me from praying whenever and wherever I want to?
Prayer happens between one person and their Maker. What happens in revival tents and God Squad meetings and in pulpits is showmanship. That showmanship has its place, but not in the schools that everybody's kids (not just Christians' kids) go to.
Want your kid to be led in prayer at school? Put them in parochial school. If you don't think it's worth the sacrifice to do so, why are you carping at other people to Make The World Be Like You Want It To Be?
And civil behavior does NOT start at church. If you think it does, you've never taught second-grade Sunday School. Civil behavior comes from parents who DEMAND it, ALL THE TIME.
"We need to know that there is something bigger than us, or else it's all just somebody else's opinion on how we should live."
Think about that statement from the perspective of a non-Christian, and you might start to understand. Keep in mind that they think you are as incorrect as you think they are, and their Holy Book agrees with them. (this statement works for whichever "them" you can think of)
You also see a software-addressable UI area, and a programmable jog-dial. Pick nits if you want, but it's still a stupendously flexible device.
Nice try, but you've just described the PalmOS based HandEra 330. http://www.handera.com
Go get a HandEra 330 and you're ready to rock. Compact Flash, Secure Digital/MMC, and a bad-ass high-res screen. It is THE monochrome PalmOS device.
http://www.handera.com
It's all about the angle of attack, baby! : )
A symmetrical airfoil with zero angle of attack produces no lift. Think about the rudder on an airplane or a ship. However, when the AOA changes, the airfoil is no longer symmetrical with respect to the airflow.
Bernoulli's Principle isn't usually derived directly from Newton's laws. It's usually expressed as a conservation of mass/conservation of energy equation. Your expression is not totally dissimilar to the one we use in my aero classes.
As far as planes flying upside-down, the angle of attack is critical in determining the magnitude and direction of the lift vector. That's why you raise the nose of an airplane to make it go up...increasing the angle of attack moves the stagnation point of the free stream down on the airfoil, increasing the distance the air must travel over the top of the air foil.
Curvature is not necessary to generate lift. Flat plates (like your hand out the car window, or the balsa wood wing on your dime-store glider) generate lift due only to their angle of attack.
Getting insulted and getting executed are pretty different things. I can disagree with somebody else's religion. I can even say they're stupid because they practice such a religion. Neither of these things have anything to do with persecution! Only when some people start assaulting and killing people based upon their religion do I get my "Freedom of Religion" jones on.
Ummm...probably because Hitler didn't thump his Bible when he massacred millions. The Taliban purports to be the guardian of pure Islam. All the Muslims I know are absolutely revolted by the Taliban's practices.
Islam doesn't endorse the Taliban, but the Taliban claims to be following the teachings of Islam.
Yeah, real cool until their Army uses some direction finding gear to locate your position, and starts using you for bayonet practice. It's all pr0n and /. until somebody pokes your eye out...then you have a SERIOUS reorganization of your priorities.
No, see, they're DEFINED as terrorists retroactively because the FBI and ATF had to go Get Them and protect We The People from Dissident Elements. You know, defending Truth, Justice, and the American Way and all that.
Newspeak. Gotta love it.
Adapt. Humans are good at it, by definition.
"I like the sense of completion when I'm done with a newspaper, I feel like I know all of the important news."
What a horrifyingly inaccurate feeling. You only know the news that the newspaper company thinks you need to know. When I finish reading the newspaper, I can't help but wonder "What aren't they telling me?"
You're right, the render might not be high enough resolution to look good on cinematic 70mm.
Yup, I'm clear on how IMAX's format is quite different from the 5 perf 70mm. However, anymore it's hard to find big screens that don't have IMAX projectors in 'em. The good news is that the sound systems in those theatres are usually pretty phenomenal...that's the real reason I went to that theater.
It was funny to watch a movie on the screen in "letterbox" mode, though. : )
The story was engaging. The voice acting was fine. The animation and the eye candy were superb. Katz is STILL a moron.
And what's with dogging on Dr. Ross because she's "attractive but never makes it to sexy"? I'm not generally one who jumps all over sexist statements, but that's an absolutely reprehensible attitude: assuming an actress (real or animated) is only there to titillate you.
The movie was not supposed to be a complex, thought-provoking Think Flick. It was a fun-to-watch, engaging movie with absolutely staggering animation. Since Katz doesn't like "those Japanese sci-fi movies" either, I think that a) his taste is terrible and b) he doesn't know a thing about what makes a good movie, or why this movie was good.
Thematically, yes. Interconnectedness of life, cooperation overcoming conflict, collecting objects from around the world to Save The Universe...your big Final Fantasy themes are there.
Me, I loved all the FF games I've played. The movie was phenomenal, too, but I liked it for different reasons.
On another front, the vehicle design in FF was the best I've seen since the original Star Wars. Some really really neat stuff indeed. Hope Bandai makes cool, toddler-choking toys with lots of missiles that shoot off for poking eyes out.
I WAS hoping for a Chocobo cameo, but I was disappointed. Guess they didn't think us round-eyes were ready for photorealistic big-screen chocobo racing. Too bad. : )
Seeing it on an IMAX screen with God's own sound system was, to say the least, a moving experience. I do wish that they had a 70mm print available. Then we could REALLY pick nits about the textures! : )
Sweet Christ, two years ago, the US government sold the Chinese MISSILE GUIDANCE SOFTWARE...and we're worried about a fucking game console?
Stop the world. I want to get off.
So you're annoyed that the world doesn't conform to your expectations? Guess what...I've got news for you.
It won't. Ever.
Let's go ahead and put Japanese on the list of "bastard" languages that "steal" from others.
Somebody will have to draw me a diagram here as to how adopting a foreign language word somehow diminish the parent language. Must be something like software "piracy".
The reason lawyers make so much money is because there's more to the terms they use than the dictionary definition. Monopolies are companies who exercise a large amount of control over a given market. Now, if you were paying attention in that little lawsuit thing with Microsoft, you'd remember that MS was trying to define their "market" as "personal computers", ideally including everything from mainframes to your car's ECU. In that definition of the market, MS certainly doesn't have a monopoly. However, in the market where they ACTUALLY compete (that is, Intel-based home and business computers), they control upwards of 80% of the market. And they can and do exercise their monopoly power in illegal, anticompetitive ways.
Keep your ad hominem attacks on the playground. If you want to have a discussion, feel free to continue. If you want to act like a dick, don't think I'm going to trouble myself to respond further.
I don't buy their products. However, for every one of me, there's a zillion other people who DO. That's what monopoly means.
It's called "gallows humor", and it's a long and distinguished tradition.
People who cannot see the moral difference between actual, physical violence and talking (or joking) about violence are at best poorly adjusted, and at worst sociopathic. I do not mean to imply that you fit either of these categories, but you might consider why one action is intrinsically harmful, and the other is not.
If you have a series of positions measured at discrete times, it's very very easy to get velocity. V=ds/dt where s is position and t is time. Take your change in s (your last two position fixes) and the time interval of the measurements, divide, and you've got an excellent approximation of your instantaneous velocity.
Making a microprocessor do this is trivial. Sending that number over a radio is also trivial. Your thought that the costs of implementing such a system would be prohibitive is incorrect, since the article says that it HAS been implemented, and rather widely.
Umm, I kinda thought their free-to-me barcode scanner was handy. THAT's value, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, you mean their business model didn't work? Poor them.
Listen to the music, and then tell me I'm wrong.