By setting the whole thing in America, with American characters, part of the nature of the original -- dislocation, being a foreigner, etc. -- was lost.
I tend to disagree with this. While they were didn't leave the country, they very definitely were not Alaksan - two LA cops didn't fit into small town fishing life. It's quite possible to feel dislocated and out within your own country, particularly a big one such as the US.
I do not understand why more people/corporations in the USA do not take legal action against their electric power suppliers. You guys suffer brown-outs, interupptions, and so on. Why, one slashdot poll was "how many surge protectors do you own?" or something like that.
I'm not sure what media coverage of us is like over where you are, but don't get the wrong idea. I've never suffered through a brown out, or non-weather related blackout(Tornados and Thunderstorms destroying power lines really isn't their fault). Yes a certain section of the country did last year - mostly because they built no new capacity for years and compounded the problem with a regulatory cock up.
Anyway, as far as surge protectors go, they're nessecary. Really, it's not the power companie's fault that your electricity isn't 100% clean. Things are going to get a little messy when your neighbor fires up his arc welder for a little heavy duty car maintnance. Or for that matter, when the de-humidifier I have sitting in the corner kicks in and dims the light. Hence, we have surge protectors.
Except: Lucasfilm isn't affiliated to the MPA or the MPAA.
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This "war-ez" business (to rhyme with, i dunno, say, "bore fez") started up some time around the 93-95 zone, in my own experience. I'm not slamming you personally by saying this, just making an observation, but I've tended to see this pronunciation taken up by relative newbies on the scene. I don't like it. "Wares" is simple and elegant, "war-ez" is two syllables, and does not roll off the tounge anywhere near as nicely.
I never heard this particular perversion of it until I got to college('99) where it seems everyone used it. In my experience, it's just people who haven't figured out the derivation of the word, and therefore how it ought to be pronouced. Personally, it brings out a desire to engage in some bitch slapping, just like when people say Information Superhighway without sarcasm.
There's the DMCA (or whatever floated to the top of the "Alphabits"TM bowl of some congressman's breakast that morning,) to slap you down with if you even try that.
DMCA only applies to reverse engineering copy protection systems. Propritary network drivers are not a copy protection system, so the DMCA does not apply.
Intellectual?? Come now...it's still a cartoon that has big robots fighting each other:P Not to diss it, I really enjoyed it, but saying it's intellectual etc, is just kinda stupid.
Ummm...If big robots fighting each other is all you got out of Eva, you really weren't paying attention. While it's not the most intellectual thing I've ever experience, its certainly a few IQ points above american telvision.
Often times the two are related, and the addict swings from one extreeme to the other. For example, three times a day for a few years, and then not at all for a few years.
Damn, and here I just thought I was having a bit of a dry spell.....
It is however interesting to note that due to the way such Fiestel ciphers work, a double DES is easier to break than a single. Why? I don't remember, I'm not a math major, and don't feel like getting out my Crypto notes from last semester.:)
Leaking fuel? As in liquid fuel? Since when can the shuttle carry up payloads with liquid fuel?
Actually, only the slashdot summary mentions a fuel leak. The article only says that there was a fuel tank malfunction - which could just as easily be a screwed up valve or clogged pipe.
I don't know about all this. Increasing yields, paying huge sums of money... in the end, it still means that less and less human intervention is needed, less jobs are created, big farms get richer and smaller farms just can't keep up.
Yup. This trend has only been going on, for what a couple of hundred years now since Mr. McCormick and his reaper. All in all, I consider this a pretty good thing, since it means that we now need about 2% of our population involved in agriculture to feed ourselves, rather than the 50% of the good old days. Food in cheap and plentiful, and I don't have to grow it.
This is the march of progress - technology makes things more efficient, so you need fewer people doing any given task. Costs go down, and more resources are available for all. Farming is just catching up to what every other industry did back in the 1800's. It's industrializing. You don't wander down to the neighborhood tailor to buy your cloths anymore(unless you've got a good deal of money) and you don't nessecarily buy your food from the family farm anymore. Small isn't efficient. If small famers want to compete, they need to form cooperatives and be as efficient. If not, well, thats capitalism and the other guy is cheaper. It's not as though we don't subsidize farming in ridiculous amounts anyway.
Clearly celeron yeild was much better at the time, so without Intel's internal numbers we can't know if this was good or bad for them.
You have a valid point, but seeing how Intel about that time started taking steps to make overclocking more difficult than it had been previously, I'd say the internal numbers didn't indicate that this was a good thing.
The Celeron/Pentium III wasn't a fiasco. Just because some enthusiasts bought celerons and used them in dual-boards, does not mean most people did.
He said Pentium II(2) not III (3). A great many people bought much cheaper celerons rather than PII's and overclocked them, getting very nearly the same performance for about half the cost.
About the only difference I can see is that the evil sprawl person might water their lawn, marginally driving up water usage.
Actually, being a resident of the sprawl, I'd say that around here there are people that probably dump as much water on their lawn as they use for all other purposes combined. Keeping a large lawn green in the middle of the summer takes quite a bit of water, particularly if its a dry year.
All quite true. However, if you can get it to the point where you can be outside part of the day without a space suit, even if you do have fairly hefty water consumption, it still beats a bulky space suit whenever you need to go out.
I assume terraforming implies creating an atmosphere that humans can breathe. So, around 20% O2, and 80% of something inert, presumably N2, but I guess something else could do as well. But, don't we need an atmospheric pressure similar to earth's?
We don't really need full atmospheric pressure. The problems can largely be solved by increasing the precentage of oxygen. Humans can pretty easily survive at a half or third of atmospheric pressure, provided that we have sufficient oxygen partial pressure to breathe. Think of what happens when an airplane loses cabin pressure at 30,000 feet - the oxygen masks come down so you can breathe, but peoples eyeballs don't fly out of their head or anyhing like that.
For that matter, I live in North Dakota at the moment and it gets pretty damn cold here too. Still, when you consider that LCD's don't work in cold weather either, it's really not a problem.
Um, I don't mean to flame, but why does it matter? Byte ordering strikes me as rather arbitrary.
Yes, it's completely arbitrary. Which means that since Kerberos is supposed to be Big Endian, Microsoft had no compelling reason to screw with it. Its arbitrary, but by no means interchangable. Now when using Kerberos you actually need the check every time you use an integer to determine which way 'round it ought to be, thus allowing for a whole new class of bugs. Hooray.
This would be the same post we see every time a DVD release is posted on slashdot. It's even more predictable than complaints about the Cowboyneal poll option. Get a clue - while theres a definite political slant, the Slashdot community isn't a homogonous opinioned political action group. We're just people who happen to read "News for Nerds". The people bashing the MPAA aren't nessecarily the ones buying the DVD's. This isn't the borg collective here.
I hate to say it, but Evangelion is not a great example to use when discussing the great frame rate used in anime. While the action sequences are truly outstanding, it sure looks as though they paid for it by making the rest of the show as cheaply as they could get away with. They certainly do a lot of stills and pans; just think of Asuka and Rei sitting in an elevator not talking or moving for 60 seconds.
That wasn't done because it was cheap - it was meant to show the tension between two characters. It was in my opinion, extremely well done. You're waiting for something to happen, and then it doesn't, and doesn't until Rei finally breaks the silence. It does a very good job of conveying that uncomfortable feeling of being a comfined space with someone you really don't want to talk to. I considered that scene one of the high points of the show. Similarly the scene with Kowaru and Shinji before Shinji snaps his head off as Shinji agonizes over whether he should or can kill this one person who he's actually been comfortable with in his entire life, particularly in light of the earlier incident where his father used the Eva he was piloting to destroy another, maiming one of his two best(only) friends in the process. It give you time to think about his dilemma and builds the suspence as you wonder what he'll do.
And in response to the post earlier in this thread about why Anime is so popular - Because something like Evangelion would never air on American TV. They would turn it into a show about fighting robots, instead of a show about the characters. Because of what FOX did to Escaflowne. Character development? We'll just snip that out and show about 5 minutes of the first episode so that they have no chance of understanding Hitomi's character, but that doesn't matter cause we'll get to the cool robots with swords sooner! Hmmm...people don't seem to like this so much, I wonder why? Guess we'll can it. Because Star Trek passes for decent Sci-Fi. Something like Furi Kuri? Yeah, right. In short, because it beats the hell out of another season lousy sitcoms, the latest Star Trek with it's neatly contained hour long episodes and no character development and whatever Survivor and Who wants to win Bus Fair clones they can throw at us.
But one thing that people need to realize is that the English voice acting is still *good* -- Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo, Nadesico, Rurouni Kenshin, and El Hazard are but a few examples of series where the English VA's are obviously skilled at their jobs.
Some English voice acting is good, yes. This is something that has improved greatly as anime has gotten more popular and more budgets have increased. None the less, there are still some truely horiffic dubs. To pick an example from the above, Rurouni Kenshin. The TV series dub in excellent. The OAV's and Movie(Samurai X) on the other hand, I really wouldn't care to watch dubbed. Or to pick another recent example, Crest of the Stars. It's just...flat.
Mostly, I while I do find the everything must be subbed zealots to be fairly annoying, I also dislike people who whine about having to read subtitles. I honestly tend to forget whether I watched something subbed or dubbed, unless theres something exceptionally good or bad about the voice acting. (Or in the cases like the Angel Santuary fansubs, which had the subtitles from hell)
Alas, there would be far, far more effective ways to test for such a system. Send the first copy of the SPAM to an address owned by the Spammer. Didn't get there? Guess it's a honeypot. No need for them to quit using other sendmail relays.
Your examples don't make much sense either. Intel was built on government contracts (the space program). General Electric is first and foremost a defense contractor. IBM and 3M depend on Federal spending for huge shares of their order books.
While these companies do sell to the federal government, the government isn't directly spending the money on research. For the most part these companies are spending what is their own money(Even if the profit was made from something sold to the government it is their own money) on R&D. The government is the largest consumer in the country by far, dwarfing all others. Finding a large corporation that doesn't sell something to them is pretty difficult, it doesn't mean that any R&D they do is automatically government funded.
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By setting the whole thing in America, with American characters, part of the nature of the original -- dislocation, being a foreigner, etc. -- was lost.
I tend to disagree with this. While they were didn't leave the country, they very definitely were not Alaksan - two LA cops didn't fit into small town fishing life. It's quite possible to feel dislocated and out within your own country, particularly a big one such as the US.
I do not understand why more people/corporations in the USA do not take legal action against their electric power suppliers. You guys suffer brown-outs, interupptions, and so on. Why, one slashdot poll was "how many surge protectors do you own?" or something like that.
I'm not sure what media coverage of us is like over where you are, but don't get the wrong idea. I've never suffered through a brown out, or non-weather related blackout(Tornados and Thunderstorms destroying power lines really isn't their fault). Yes a certain section of the country did last year - mostly because they built no new capacity for years and compounded the problem with a regulatory cock up.
Anyway, as far as surge protectors go, they're nessecary. Really, it's not the power companie's fault that your electricity isn't 100% clean. Things are going to get a little messy when your neighbor fires up his arc welder for a little heavy duty car maintnance. Or for that matter, when the de-humidifier I have sitting in the corner kicks in and dims the light. Hence, we have surge protectors.
But we'd have to leave behind Natalie Portman. And how would we manufacture hot grits on Mars?
Very good point.
Except: Lucasfilm isn't affiliated to the MPA or the MPAA.
My kingdom for some mod points...
And now, I've forgotten to close the italics tag after the quote. That sure ruins the '133tness of the whole thing, doesn't it?
This "war-ez" business (to rhyme with, i dunno, say, "bore fez") started up some time around the 93-95 zone, in my own experience. I'm not slamming you personally by saying this, just making an observation, but I've tended to see this pronunciation taken up by relative newbies on the scene. I don't like it. "Wares" is simple and elegant, "war-ez" is two syllables, and does not roll off the tounge anywhere near as nicely.
I never heard this particular perversion of it until I got to college('99) where it seems everyone used it. In my experience, it's just people who haven't figured out the derivation of the word, and therefore how it ought to be pronouced. Personally, it brings out a desire to engage in some bitch slapping, just like when people say Information Superhighway without sarcasm.
There's the DMCA (or whatever floated to the top of the "Alphabits"TM bowl of some congressman's breakast that morning,) to slap you down with if you even try that.
DMCA only applies to reverse engineering copy protection systems. Propritary network drivers are not a copy protection system, so the DMCA does not apply.
Intellectual?? Come now...it's still a cartoon that has big robots fighting each other :P Not to diss it, I really enjoyed it, but saying it's intellectual etc, is just kinda stupid.
Ummm...If big robots fighting each other is all you got out of Eva, you really weren't paying attention. While it's not the most intellectual thing I've ever experience, its certainly a few IQ points above american telvision.
Damn, and here I just thought I was having a bit of a dry spell.....
It is however interesting to note that due to the way such Fiestel ciphers work, a double DES is easier to break than a single. Why? I don't remember, I'm not a math major, and don't feel like getting out my Crypto notes from last semester.
Leaking fuel? As in liquid fuel? Since when can the shuttle carry up payloads with liquid fuel?
Actually, only the slashdot summary mentions a fuel leak. The article only says that there was a fuel tank malfunction - which could just as easily be a screwed up valve or clogged pipe.
I don't know about all this. Increasing yields, paying huge sums of money... in the end, it still means that less and less human intervention is needed, less jobs are created, big farms get richer and smaller farms just can't keep up.
Yup. This trend has only been going on, for what a couple of hundred years now since Mr. McCormick and his reaper. All in all, I consider this a pretty good thing, since it means that we now need about 2% of our population involved in agriculture to feed ourselves, rather than the 50% of the good old days. Food in cheap and plentiful, and I don't have to grow it.
This is the march of progress - technology makes things more efficient, so you need fewer people doing any given task. Costs go down, and more resources are available for all. Farming is just catching up to what every other industry did back in the 1800's. It's industrializing. You don't wander down to the neighborhood tailor to buy your cloths anymore(unless you've got a good deal of money) and you don't nessecarily buy your food from the family farm anymore. Small isn't efficient. If small famers want to compete, they need to form cooperatives and be as efficient. If not, well, thats capitalism and the other guy is cheaper. It's not as though we don't subsidize farming in ridiculous amounts anyway.
Clearly celeron yeild was much better at the time, so without Intel's internal numbers we can't know if this was good or bad for them.
You have a valid point, but seeing how Intel about that time started taking steps to make overclocking more difficult than it had been previously, I'd say the internal numbers didn't indicate that this was a good thing.
The Celeron/Pentium III wasn't a fiasco. Just because some enthusiasts bought celerons and used them in dual-boards, does not mean most people did.
He said Pentium II(2) not III (3). A great many people bought much cheaper celerons rather than PII's and overclocked them, getting very nearly the same performance for about half the cost.
About the only difference I can see is that the evil sprawl person might water their lawn, marginally driving up water usage.
Actually, being a resident of the sprawl, I'd say that around here there are people that probably dump as much water on their lawn as they use for all other purposes combined. Keeping a large lawn green in the middle of the summer takes quite a bit of water, particularly if its a dry year.
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Hehe. The first search result is now a link back to this comment....
All quite true. However, if you can get it to the point where you can be outside part of the day without a space suit, even if you do have fairly hefty water consumption, it still beats a bulky space suit whenever you need to go out.
I assume terraforming implies creating an atmosphere that humans can breathe. So, around 20% O2, and 80% of something inert, presumably N2, but I guess something else could do as well. But, don't we need an atmospheric pressure similar to earth's?
We don't really need full atmospheric pressure. The problems can largely be solved by increasing the precentage of oxygen. Humans can pretty easily survive at a half or third of atmospheric pressure, provided that we have sufficient oxygen partial pressure to breathe. Think of what happens when an airplane loses cabin pressure at 30,000 feet - the oxygen masks come down so you can breathe, but peoples eyeballs don't fly out of their head or anyhing like that.
For that matter, I live in North Dakota at the moment and it gets pretty damn cold here too. Still, when you consider that LCD's don't work in cold weather either, it's really not a problem.
Um, I don't mean to flame, but why does it matter? Byte ordering strikes me as rather arbitrary.
Yes, it's completely arbitrary. Which means that since Kerberos is supposed to be Big Endian, Microsoft had no compelling reason to screw with it. Its arbitrary, but by no means interchangable. Now when using Kerberos you actually need the check every time you use an integer to determine which way 'round it ought to be, thus allowing for a whole new class of bugs. Hooray.
This would be the same post we see every time a DVD release is posted on slashdot. It's even more predictable than complaints about the Cowboyneal poll option. Get a clue - while theres a definite political slant, the Slashdot community isn't a homogonous opinioned political action group. We're just people who happen to read "News for Nerds". The people bashing the MPAA aren't nessecarily the ones buying the DVD's. This isn't the borg collective here.
That wasn't done because it was cheap - it was meant to show the tension between two characters. It was in my opinion, extremely well done. You're waiting for something to happen, and then it doesn't, and doesn't until Rei finally breaks the silence. It does a very good job of conveying that uncomfortable feeling of being a comfined space with someone you really don't want to talk to. I considered that scene one of the high points of the show. Similarly the scene with Kowaru and Shinji before Shinji snaps his head off as Shinji agonizes over whether he should or can kill this one person who he's actually been comfortable with in his entire life, particularly in light of the earlier incident where his father used the Eva he was piloting to destroy another, maiming one of his two best(only) friends in the process. It give you time to think about his dilemma and builds the suspence as you wonder what he'll do.
And in response to the post earlier in this thread about why Anime is so popular - Because something like Evangelion would never air on American TV. They would turn it into a show about fighting robots, instead of a show about the characters. Because of what FOX did to Escaflowne. Character development? We'll just snip that out and show about 5 minutes of the first episode so that they have no chance of understanding Hitomi's character, but that doesn't matter cause we'll get to the cool robots with swords sooner! Hmmm...people don't seem to like this so much, I wonder why? Guess we'll can it. Because Star Trek passes for decent Sci-Fi. Something like Furi Kuri? Yeah, right. In short, because it beats the hell out of another season lousy sitcoms, the latest Star Trek with it's neatly contained hour long episodes and no character development and whatever Survivor and Who wants to win Bus Fair clones they can throw at us.
Some English voice acting is good, yes. This is something that has improved greatly as anime has gotten more popular and more budgets have increased. None the less, there are still some truely horiffic dubs. To pick an example from the above, Rurouni Kenshin. The TV series dub in excellent. The OAV's and Movie(Samurai X) on the other hand, I really wouldn't care to watch dubbed. Or to pick another recent example, Crest of the Stars. It's just...flat.
Mostly, I while I do find the everything must be subbed zealots to be fairly annoying, I also dislike people who whine about having to read subtitles. I honestly tend to forget whether I watched something subbed or dubbed, unless theres something exceptionally good or bad about the voice acting. (Or in the cases like the Angel Santuary fansubs, which had the subtitles from hell)
Alas, there would be far, far more effective ways to test for such a system. Send the first copy of the SPAM to an address owned by the Spammer. Didn't get there? Guess it's a honeypot. No need for them to quit using other sendmail relays.
Your examples don't make much sense either. Intel was built on government contracts (the space program). General Electric is first and foremost a defense contractor. IBM and 3M depend on Federal spending for huge shares of their order books.
While these companies do sell to the federal government, the government isn't directly spending the money on research. For the most part these companies are spending what is their own money(Even if the profit was made from something sold to the government it is their own money) on R&D. The government is the largest consumer in the country by far, dwarfing all others. Finding a large corporation that doesn't sell something to them is pretty difficult, it doesn't mean that any R&D they do is automatically government funded.