People throw huge amounts of their money into entertainment, and the entertainment industry. What did you expect to happen? Now the government's purpose is to serve Mickey Mouse.
Maybe they should wait until there's an actual need for this before wasting my tax money on it. Unless I missed the news about the manned mission to Europa.
I can't believe how many people are complaining about the screens. None of the Game Boys ever had a back light because they would have consumed ridiculous amounts of battery power. They've always *wanted* to put the light, but it's never been practical. Look at the Game Gear, which did have a light but consumed horrible amounts of batteries. I don't know how this new thing will deal with this problem, but I'd be interested if it's an energy-guzzler.
Game Boys and Game Boy Colors used the same chips as the TRS-80 (Z80's), so people often draw similarities between programming the two. The popularity of the TRS-80 might be why the Game Boy programming community got so large, and so much earlier than any other console.
I saw the Final Fantasy movie in Dallas. It was pretty good. But who the hell worries about supreme visual quality in movies? It's the story that matters! All this shit is just another excue to write bad movies (cf Final Fantasy).
Very cool, thanks. I always sort of wondered by the "shallow water approximation" could be so accurate in atmosphere modeling - it's pretty obvious from the first picture though!
Yeah but the Japanese are all about Hawaii. I don't mean that as a bad Pearl Harbor joke. Tons of Japanese live there (relatively speaking) and visit there all the time. Business-wise it probably was a little retarded, but there was a pretty good reason for it.
I'm guessing that this guy is using "fractal statistics" to describe the probability of the atmosphere moving into different states. I don't think that this necessarily implies that "The weather is fractal" or self-similar or whatever. The fractal statement is ususally at best an approximation anyway, and at worst completely untrue:).
But don't trust me too much on this (A good policy when reading slashdot posts!). All I know about fractal statistics is that it uses fractal function as it's distribution. Maybe someone else knows more about fractal statistics?
I think Brian's strips are amazing, but I really wish that he'd update consistently! For example, if he'd prepare his strips a few weeks in advance and get some scripts to automatically update, then we couldn't have to read about how life got in the way again! Bob and George is run by a graduate student in physics (which I know from experience doesn't allow much free time), but he makes them so far in advance that he doesn't face those sort of problems often.
Again though, I want to say that I do love Brian's strips a lot!
People are working to make this a success, though it seems to vary.
Kevin and Kell seems to do pretty well. The author, Bill Holbrook, does two other paper strips. I know that he's making a profit - my friend is his colorist, who tells me that Bill is all business, and wouldn't pay my friend if he couldn't afford it. But the strip has a huge variety of revenue sources, like book sales at Plan 9, merchandise, and special "memberships". Most people know Sluggy Freelance, which also does the same thing. It also seems to make a profit.
But other strips like Bruno the Bandit are just as high quality in art and humor (in my opinion at least), but it seems like Ian McDonald has had just no luck in turning it into a profitable business, even though he's a prominent member of Keenspot and has two collected books published. My friend (who colors Kevin and Kell) has also had trouble keeping his strip Unlike Minerva afloat - he just doesn't have the time to juggle the strip and day-to-day living.
Anyway, it seems like the very best can survive, but even the very good like Bruno have difficulty making it. I know of one strip right now trying to make it with "tips", 8-bit theater, which seems to be having some success. Hopefully the author, Brian Clevinger, will pull it off. But even then, he's just struggling to meet the costs of bandwidth.
I don't know what the future of this medium is. But if anybody at all can make it, then I think there's hope for others.
In Croatia there are these kiosks all over Zagreb that provide free internet access to everyone, although the keyboard is touchscreen so is a little annoying. They're provided by the Croatian telecom, HT. I don't think they're broadband, but they seem popular with all ages. I could see such a thing becoming popular in other countries, and using broadband.
First people were saying that they were dumping the server industry, now people are saying that they're getting out of PCs?? What's left? It's good news for my friend who does kernel programming for their servers, but I wish that people would get their story straight.
Heisenberg wrote a book called "Physics and Beyond". Or maybe "Physics and Philosophy". One was the sequel of the other, I don't remember which. Anyway, in a big part of the second book he talks about his days of working on the nuclear stuff, and makes it seem like he was trying to work on a nuclear reactor and not a bomb. He says that this is why he was cleared in the post-war trials, and that the evidence showed this pretty clearly. But he wrote the book when he was pretty old. Maybe he was trying to convince himself of something, since he was headed for the grave.
My brother's a security guard at a hotel. He's worked on Christmas for the last few years (5?). It's nice because it's usually an excuse for us to leave family parties early (since we travel about 150 miles every year to visit family).
Haven't you player Paper Mario? Luigi and Mario and even hanging out together at their house in that game. But... I don't know how "normal" Paper Mario is.
Saudi Arabia is a pretty nasty country in general, so this isn't a surprise. One only need read the articles that appear at the BBC's website. They're probably more oppressive than China, but since they're strong allies with the U.S., this is not a message you hear often. Also, U.S. magazines sell significantly less when they focus on world issues (if the talking heads on TV are to be believed).
An interesting problem with Saudi Arabia is that they hear of Western media trashing their country, so they make the "logical" conclusion that this is how the governments feel about them. Why? Because the press is 100% controlled by the Saudi Goverment, so this is what they expect.
I wish I knew more about the PowerPC, but I noticed that the discussion has taken a turn to the usefulness of assembly. Someone also mentioned that there are no good assembly books. I totally agree - almost none teach effective techniques, but instead just explain the instructions (you're lucky to see a jump table explained). But Randall Hyde has an excellent online textbook for the x86 (mainly focusing on the older Intels). It does stress technique, and doesn't bog you down with too much syntax.
Just an added use of assembly---it's pretty essential in programming the older consoles, although probably not these days:). I don't know about the Game Boy Advance (I heard that a C compiler was planned in the pre-release days), but one definitly wrote in assembly for the older Game Boys.
Something like Loom might be considered art. And an original concept and delivery like The Fool's Errand might be considered art too. Something like Legend of Zelda was novel when it came out, but the two I mentioned are still unique and special, even today. I don't think that the majority of games are. Most games, from old to new, are designed to be cool fun, and maybe memorable, but don't really try to achieve anything new. Maybe games worthy of the title "Art" also aren't necessarily as fun (like of like movies). Well, that's how I see it at least.
Sorry, I meant chlorine molecules (Cl2). Once they're hit with radiation (which they easily do, even in the lower atmosphere), then they become free ions, and usually end up latching onto whatever they can find (probably HCl, but I don't know for sure).
But you're definitly right that the CFCs are broken down by radiation ("decay" was definitly a bad word to use), but they usually don't do so until they're well into the equatorial wind cycle, at which point the main byproducts (HCl and some other big chemical) are en route to the arctic ozone.
Unfortunately, this is pushing the extent of my knowledge, so I should probably defer to others who know more about it at this point:).
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People throw huge amounts of their money into entertainment, and the entertainment industry. What did you expect to happen? Now the government's purpose is to serve Mickey Mouse.
Maybe they should wait until there's an actual need for this before wasting my tax money on it. Unless I missed the news about the manned mission to Europa.
I can't believe how many people are complaining about the screens. None of the Game Boys ever had a back light because they would have consumed ridiculous amounts of battery power. They've always *wanted* to put the light, but it's never been practical. Look at the Game Gear, which did have a light but consumed horrible amounts of batteries. I don't know how this new thing will deal with this problem, but I'd be interested if it's an energy-guzzler.
Game Boys and Game Boy Colors used the same chips as the TRS-80 (Z80's), so people often draw similarities between programming the two. The popularity of the TRS-80 might be why the Game Boy programming community got so large, and so much earlier than any other console.
I saw the Final Fantasy movie in Dallas. It was pretty good. But who the hell worries about supreme visual quality in movies? It's the story that matters! All this shit is just another excue to write bad movies (cf Final Fantasy).
Very cool, thanks. I always sort of wondered by the "shallow water approximation" could be so accurate in atmosphere modeling - it's pretty obvious from the first picture though!
Shit, as soon as people gotta start worrying about additional fees, they'll dump that service. People want to know how much they're going to pay.
Yeah but the Japanese are all about Hawaii. I don't mean that as a bad Pearl Harbor joke. Tons of Japanese live there (relatively speaking) and visit there all the time. Business-wise it probably was a little retarded, but there was a pretty good reason for it.
I'm guessing that this guy is using "fractal statistics" to describe the probability of the atmosphere moving into different states. I don't think that this necessarily implies that "The weather is fractal" or self-similar or whatever. The fractal statement is ususally at best an approximation anyway, and at worst completely untrue :).
But don't trust me too much on this (A good policy when reading slashdot posts!). All I know about fractal statistics is that it uses fractal function as it's distribution. Maybe someone else knows more about fractal statistics?
Yeah... I don't think too much fo B&G these days either. I'm getting ready to give it up anyday now, but old habits die hard...
I think Brian's strips are amazing, but I really wish that he'd update consistently! For example, if he'd prepare his strips a few weeks in advance and get some scripts to automatically update, then we couldn't have to read about how life got in the way again! Bob and George is run by a graduate student in physics (which I know from experience doesn't allow much free time), but he makes them so far in advance that he doesn't face those sort of problems often.
Again though, I want to say that I do love Brian's strips a lot!
People are working to make this a success, though it seems to vary.
Kevin and Kell seems to do pretty well. The author, Bill Holbrook, does two other paper strips. I know that he's making a profit - my friend is his colorist, who tells me that Bill is all business, and wouldn't pay my friend if he couldn't afford it. But the strip has a huge variety of revenue sources, like book sales at Plan 9, merchandise, and special "memberships". Most people know Sluggy Freelance, which also does the same thing. It also seems to make a profit.
But other strips like Bruno the Bandit are just as high quality in art and humor (in my opinion at least), but it seems like Ian McDonald has had just no luck in turning it into a profitable business, even though he's a prominent member of Keenspot and has two collected books published. My friend (who colors Kevin and Kell) has also had trouble keeping his strip Unlike Minerva afloat - he just doesn't have the time to juggle the strip and day-to-day living.
Anyway, it seems like the very best can survive, but even the very good like Bruno have difficulty making it. I know of one strip right now trying to make it with "tips", 8-bit theater, which seems to be having some success. Hopefully the author, Brian Clevinger, will pull it off. But even then, he's just struggling to meet the costs of bandwidth.
I don't know what the future of this medium is. But if anybody at all can make it, then I think there's hope for others.
In Croatia there are these kiosks all over Zagreb that provide free internet access to everyone, although the keyboard is touchscreen so is a little annoying. They're provided by the Croatian telecom, HT. I don't think they're broadband, but they seem popular with all ages. I could see such a thing becoming popular in other countries, and using broadband.
First people were saying that they were dumping the server industry, now people are saying that they're getting out of PCs?? What's left? It's good news for my friend who does kernel programming for their servers, but I wish that people would get their story straight.
Heisenberg wrote a book called "Physics and Beyond". Or maybe "Physics and Philosophy". One was the sequel of the other, I don't remember which. Anyway, in a big part of the second book he talks about his days of working on the nuclear stuff, and makes it seem like he was trying to work on a nuclear reactor and not a bomb. He says that this is why he was cleared in the post-war trials, and that the evidence showed this pretty clearly. But he wrote the book when he was pretty old. Maybe he was trying to convince himself of something, since he was headed for the grave.
Ebert was, I think, also primarily responsible for Akira's popularity in the U.S., as he was the first (only?) movie critic to review and praise it.
My brother's a security guard at a hotel. He's worked on Christmas for the last few years (5?). It's nice because it's usually an excuse for us to leave family parties early (since we travel about 150 miles every year to visit family).
Nearly everyone speaks English in Europe anyway, especially internet and other computer users.
The first 45 minutes are a bit slow going, but once the Fellowship starts coming together I just didn't want to blink.
:).
That makes it an even better adaptation of the book - I always remember Fellowship of the Ring being very slow compared to the other two books
Haven't you player Paper Mario? Luigi and Mario and even hanging out together at their house in that game. But... I don't know how "normal" Paper Mario is.
Jai Lai would be even better than it is now! But it probably wouldn't be as fun to gamble on.
Saudi Arabia is a pretty nasty country in general, so this isn't a surprise. One only need read the articles that appear at the BBC's website. They're probably more oppressive than China, but since they're strong allies with the U.S., this is not a message you hear often. Also, U.S. magazines sell significantly less when they focus on world issues (if the talking heads on TV are to be believed).
An interesting problem with Saudi Arabia is that they hear of Western media trashing their country, so they make the "logical" conclusion that this is how the governments feel about them. Why? Because the press is 100% controlled by the Saudi Goverment, so this is what they expect.
I wish I knew more about the PowerPC, but I noticed that the discussion has taken a turn to the usefulness of assembly. Someone also mentioned that there are no good assembly books. I totally agree - almost none teach effective techniques, but instead just explain the instructions (you're lucky to see a jump table explained). But Randall Hyde has an excellent online textbook for the x86 (mainly focusing on the older Intels). It does stress technique, and doesn't bog you down with too much syntax.
:). I don't know about the Game Boy Advance (I heard that a C compiler was planned in the pre-release days), but one definitly wrote in assembly for the older Game Boys.
Just an added use of assembly---it's pretty essential in programming the older consoles, although probably not these days
Something like Loom might be considered art. And an original concept and delivery like The Fool's Errand might be considered art too. Something like Legend of Zelda was novel when it came out, but the two I mentioned are still unique and special, even today. I don't think that the majority of games are. Most games, from old to new, are designed to be cool fun, and maybe memorable, but don't really try to achieve anything new. Maybe games worthy of the title "Art" also aren't necessarily as fun (like of like movies). Well, that's how I see it at least.
Sorry, I meant chlorine molecules (Cl2). Once they're hit with radiation (which they easily do, even in the lower atmosphere), then they become free ions, and usually end up latching onto whatever they can find (probably HCl, but I don't know for sure).
:).
But you're definitly right that the CFCs are broken down by radiation ("decay" was definitly a bad word to use), but they usually don't do so until they're well into the equatorial wind cycle, at which point the main byproducts (HCl and some other big chemical) are en route to the arctic ozone.
Unfortunately, this is pushing the extent of my knowledge, so I should probably defer to others who know more about it at this point