I doubt they would keep Asuka as Asuka. Think about it. All the source material calls her Asuka, and if this is such a preliminary stage, wouldn't it make the most sense to call her that? You think the costume designers would/can just change/pick the name on a whim? Somebody in charge has already decided the names will be changed, and the working names they've picked are Kate Rose (red suit) and Susan Whitnall (white suit). The only positive sign here is that they're referring to the last one as Rei/Ray, so they're still considering maybe keeping her Japanese. Which, by extension, means Shinji might stay Japanese since he's family (assuming they don't totally wreck that plot point, and I can see several ways they could avoid keeping him asian anyway).
Firstly, It's pretty much a given that the age of the core characters will be raised. 14 year olds may be fair game in Japan, but 'round these parts they're jailbait. The mere thought of teenage sexuality in any sort of realistic context (AKA outside an over-the-top horror or teen sex film) sends modern America into a panic over pedophilia. Sorry Misato. In America, adulthood isn't something you're allowed to practice or learn under the age of 18.
Unfortunately, the whole premise of EVA rests on adolescent issues writ large - sexual, existential, personal, and especially parental - most significantly manifested in the central characters' immaturity.
This is not to say the movie wouldn't get made. It would, but it would probably just be a confusing mish-mash of the flashier parts of the series with an abrasive touch. Like the American Godzilla, a crapfest of eyecandy.
Anno was also the source of a lot of the series shortcomings and deficiencies: highly personal to the point of incoherent control over the storyline and "philosophy" of the series, pandering to and belittling of the audience, and last but definitely not least, poor budget control. A true artist.
I'd be surprised if it had any ASIAN actors in more than a bit part. I don't recall any in the American version of Godzilla either, which is what this movie will probably turn out like (lots of eyecandy, and a total crapfest beyond that).
Do you really think the US Government would give up such a promising propulsion technology, just because of a little radiation and the prohibition of international law, at the height of the Cold War?
I think not. I reckon the data was sent to Area 51 (along with the nuclear plane plans) and was developed into a more flexible and controlled verision capable of atmospheric and space flight, utilizing dramatically improved minature charges derived from conventional nuclear testing. Undoubtedly it was responsible for many UFO sightings and tangential information.
Your pneumatic cylinders and steel wire (or in this Wisconsin guy's case a die to stamp out the cheese shapes) would be about one zillion times cheaper in terms of capital outlay, operating expenses, and maintenance.
If I'm not mistaken, these are the same sort of lasers used in tatoo removal and/or laser eye surgery. Both procedures are crazy expensive, and a large part of that cost seems to be due to the laser.
I wouldn't have considered my (rather facetious) post flamebait, until you suckers came along. I was only half serious. Obviously if you spend 99% of your time working with base 10 the rest are going to cause difficulties, even if you're intimately familiar with them. It certainly doesn't help that hex uses the same numerals decimal plus a few letters. I wouldn't know anything about base-12 scaling factors either, but I reckon if you were using base-12 number system it would be easier.
There's more than one way to count on your fingers than unary base-10 you know. I find that letting your fingers count as one and your thumbs count as four lets you count in hex without too much trouble and no alkward finger positions (It's possible to count in binary with your fingers up to 2^10, but it's pretty uncomfortable.)
Some of PB Parts prices were REALLY high. When the inverter cable running through the hinge to my iBook monitor frayed and shorted (I've had hinge issues with both my Apple laptops - my Wallstreet hinges actually cracked!) they were charging $100 for it. Apple charged even more to repair the whole thing. As it turns out, Small Dog sold the part for around $30, although you have to talk to their techs directly to get the price quoted. I'd familiarize yourself with PB parts prices first, and then go ask Small Dog.
Nice interconvertability in the metric system, but the wrong radix. You and your totally illogical base 10 system. A radix of 16 (or rather, 0x10) makes worlds more sense in the modern world. Incidentally, the imperial system measurements for weight, volume, and fractions of an inch are all based on powers of 2. Hell, even base 12 would be better - I have to divide by three, four, and six far more often than 5. I bet the British would have done it right, but apparently they left Le Systeme International d'Unites up to the French.
Status: Job failed (task: failed with status 255). I suspect that was because I was trying to run it off an xgrid consisting of one G3 iBook, and it needs the velocity engine (though nothing of the sort was documented). However if that is the case it shouldn't have failed, it should have waited to run off of other computers and just ignored the G3.
I'm potentially seeing a situation where some well meaning non-compatible agent joins an open XGrid and flubs someone's whole job. There needs to be a way to not fail just because one agent can't handle a particular program.
Also I'd like to know how well the xgrid processes behave themselves when an agent is "Always available" but is working on other stuff. So far things seem to work OK.
Folks don't want to waste time looking for the best deal - that's why Amazon and Ebay have done so well (Wal-mart too for that matter). However, I think with both companies expanding into the same territory, one will eventually fall, although it will take a while. Probably amazon.
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Not exactly. Conventional wisdom states that if sunlight is being blocked, then that acts as a counter to Global warming because less energy makes it to the surface to heat it. However, blocked energy must still go somewhere. If it is reflected back into space (aka the increased albedo case) it does not cause warming. If it is absorbed by increased levels of pollutants in the atmosphere, then the energy is reradiated as heat from inside the atmosphere. In this case, the surface is not directly heated - but the atmosphere is, manifesting itself as global warming.
And your donation was much appreciated -- as have been the dozen or so others who have helped make things a little easier at this end.
I'm also truly humbled by the number of supportive emails I've received and I thank all those who have taken the time to send their words of support. I'll try to answer all of them -- since time is one of the few commodities I appear to have plenty of right now.
Suddenly the end of "It's a Wonderful Life" comes to mind, except this time with homemade cruise missiles blowing Mr. Potter's wheelchair to pieces.
Not to mention be a more realistic and perhaps difficult to characterize simulation of a more panic-inducing biological attack. The veracity of a chem attack would be much easier to verify - when people don't start dying immediately. A pseudo-bio attack would have the area on lockdown for days.
I suppose I can answer my own question by saying the X-jet deal never raised any red flags from the US gov't, even while the cruise missile project did. As many have pointed out, building a cruise missile per se can't be that complicated, thanks to the wonders of GPS and model aircraft, although a fast jet powered one is rather more impressive and many times more capable. In any case, denying the issue won't make it go away.
Based on your posts, I can't help but think that maybe if you had taken a more proactive legal approach to the IRD, tying them up in court, raising a stink, and winning penalties against them for their shoddy bookkeeping they might have been less abusive. Maybe you can still sue for some of it. But then again, IANAL in New Zealand.
It's really a shame, because frankly the X-jet is what I'm really interested in. (I'm one of the people that donated money for the book. OK, I also did it for the homebuilt pulsejet plans.) Propulsion technology is the most significant element of aerospace capability. If that company was really interested in the X-jet enough to build production facilities overseas, and there are no legal reasons to prevent you from developing the idea, you can probably still negotiate a profitable deal with them for the rights to the design, if perhaps on terms somewhat more amenable to them.
Venus has a rotational period of over 200 DAYS. By my calculations, Geostationary orbit is effectively non-existant at around 1.7 billion miles. No elevators for Venus!
Elevators make it easier but still not dirt cheap to move stuff up. Venus is comparable to earth in mass, rotation period, and size, and probably would be about as cost-effective as the earth elevator ($100/lb at best). Also, the extreme climate. Mining light bodies like asteroids, comets, and moons makes more sense - you don't have to spend anything because they're already "up", and sending them down is free, provided you don't destroy anything.
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I doubt they would keep Asuka as Asuka. Think about it. All the source material calls her Asuka, and if this is such a preliminary stage, wouldn't it make the most sense to call her that? You think the costume designers would/can just change/pick the name on a whim? Somebody in charge has already decided the names will be changed, and the working names they've picked are Kate Rose (red suit) and Susan Whitnall (white suit). The only positive sign here is that they're referring to the last one as Rei/Ray, so they're still considering maybe keeping her Japanese. Which, by extension, means Shinji might stay Japanese since he's family (assuming they don't totally wreck that plot point, and I can see several ways they could avoid keeping him asian anyway).
For more info, see any of the following series: Onegai Twins... aw hell just look at any anime/manga set in high school, which is to say most of them.
Firstly, It's pretty much a given that the age of the core characters will be raised. 14 year olds may be fair game in Japan, but 'round these parts they're jailbait. The mere thought of teenage sexuality in any sort of realistic context (AKA outside an over-the-top horror or teen sex film) sends modern America into a panic over pedophilia. Sorry Misato. In America, adulthood isn't something you're allowed to practice or learn under the age of 18.
Unfortunately, the whole premise of EVA rests on adolescent issues writ large - sexual, existential, personal, and especially parental - most significantly manifested in the central characters' immaturity.
This is not to say the movie wouldn't get made. It would, but it would probably just be a confusing mish-mash of the flashier parts of the series with an abrasive touch. Like the American Godzilla, a crapfest of eyecandy.
Anno was also the source of a lot of the series shortcomings and deficiencies: highly personal to the point of incoherent control over the storyline and "philosophy" of the series, pandering to and belittling of the audience, and last but definitely not least, poor budget control. A true artist.
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I'd be surprised if it had any ASIAN actors in more than a bit part. I don't recall any in the American version of Godzilla either, which is what this movie will probably turn out like (lots of eyecandy, and a total crapfest beyond that).
Femto shall destroy all other editors and make the open source world its own.
Just when Spheral Solar is finally working out the manufacturing angle. Their tech has the advantages of crystal cells but is flexible.
If you want a damned YANK, stinking up the screen.
He's the playboy president of the galaxy, not some boring prime minister. Sounds pretty American to me. Arthur Dent is the only really English one.
Do you really think the US Government would give up such a promising propulsion technology, just because of a little radiation and the prohibition of international law, at the height of the Cold War?
I think not. I reckon the data was sent to Area 51 (along with the nuclear plane plans) and was developed into a more flexible and controlled verision capable of atmospheric and space flight, utilizing dramatically improved minature charges derived from conventional nuclear testing. Undoubtedly it was responsible for many UFO sightings and tangential information.
Your pneumatic cylinders and steel wire (or in this Wisconsin guy's case a die to stamp out the cheese shapes) would be about one zillion times cheaper in terms of capital outlay, operating expenses, and maintenance.
If I'm not mistaken, these are the same sort of lasers used in tatoo removal and/or laser eye surgery. Both procedures are crazy expensive, and a large part of that cost seems to be due to the laser.
How odd. They do powerbooks, but not ibooks. Also it doesn't look like all models. What's up with that?
I wouldn't have considered my (rather facetious) post flamebait, until you suckers came along. I was only half serious. Obviously if you spend 99% of your time working with base 10 the rest are going to cause difficulties, even if you're intimately familiar with them. It certainly doesn't help that hex uses the same numerals decimal plus a few letters. I wouldn't know anything about base-12 scaling factors either, but I reckon if you were using base-12 number system it would be easier.
There's more than one way to count on your fingers than unary base-10 you know. I find that letting your fingers count as one and your thumbs count as four lets you count in hex without too much trouble and no alkward finger positions (It's possible to count in binary with your fingers up to 2^10, but it's pretty uncomfortable.)
Of course the offensive response was from an AC.
It's the part Bruce Campbell was born to play!!!
Some of PB Parts prices were REALLY high. When the inverter cable running through the hinge to my iBook monitor frayed and shorted (I've had hinge issues with both my Apple laptops - my Wallstreet hinges actually cracked!) they were charging $100 for it. Apple charged even more to repair the whole thing. As it turns out, Small Dog sold the part for around $30, although you have to talk to their techs directly to get the price quoted. I'd familiarize yourself with PB parts prices first, and then go ask Small Dog.
Nice interconvertability in the metric system, but the wrong radix. You and your totally illogical base 10 system. A radix of 16 (or rather, 0x10) makes worlds more sense in the modern world. Incidentally, the imperial system measurements for weight, volume, and fractions of an inch are all based on powers of 2. Hell, even base 12 would be better - I have to divide by three, four, and six far more often than 5. I bet the British would have done it right, but apparently they left Le Systeme International d'Unites up to the French.
Status: Job failed (task: failed with status 255). I suspect that was because I was trying to run it off an xgrid consisting of one G3 iBook, and it needs the velocity engine (though nothing of the sort was documented). However if that is the case it shouldn't have failed, it should have waited to run off of other computers and just ignored the G3.
I'm potentially seeing a situation where some well meaning non-compatible agent joins an open XGrid and flubs someone's whole job. There needs to be a way to not fail just because one agent can't handle a particular program.
Also I'd like to know how well the xgrid processes behave themselves when an agent is "Always available" but is working on other stuff. So far things seem to work OK.
Folks don't want to waste time looking for the best deal - that's why Amazon and Ebay have done so well (Wal-mart too for that matter). However, I think with both companies expanding into the same territory, one will eventually fall, although it will take a while. Probably amazon.
Not exactly. Conventional wisdom states that if sunlight is being blocked, then that acts as a counter to Global warming because less energy makes it to the surface to heat it. However, blocked energy must still go somewhere. If it is reflected back into space (aka the increased albedo case) it does not cause warming. If it is absorbed by increased levels of pollutants in the atmosphere, then the energy is reradiated as heat from inside the atmosphere. In this case, the surface is not directly heated - but the atmosphere is, manifesting itself as global warming.
And your donation was much appreciated -- as have been the dozen or so others who have helped make things a little easier at this end.
I'm also truly humbled by the number of supportive emails I've received and I thank all those who have taken the time to send their words of support. I'll try to answer all of them -- since time is one of the few commodities I appear to have plenty of right now.
Suddenly the end of "It's a Wonderful Life" comes to mind, except this time with homemade cruise missiles blowing Mr. Potter's wheelchair to pieces.
Not to mention be a more realistic and perhaps difficult to characterize simulation of a more panic-inducing biological attack. The veracity of a chem attack would be much easier to verify - when people don't start dying immediately. A pseudo-bio attack would have the area on lockdown for days.
You gotta spend money to make money, you know.
I suppose I can answer my own question by saying the X-jet deal never raised any red flags from the US gov't, even while the cruise missile project did. As many have pointed out, building a cruise missile per se can't be that complicated, thanks to the wonders of GPS and model aircraft, although a fast jet powered one is rather more impressive and many times more capable. In any case, denying the issue won't make it go away.
Based on your posts, I can't help but think that maybe if you had taken a more proactive legal approach to the IRD, tying them up in court, raising a stink, and winning penalties against them for their shoddy bookkeeping they might have been less abusive. Maybe you can still sue for some of it. But then again, IANAL in New Zealand.
It's really a shame, because frankly the X-jet is what I'm really interested in. (I'm one of the people that donated money for the book. OK, I also did it for the homebuilt pulsejet plans.) Propulsion technology is the most significant element of aerospace capability. If that company was really interested in the X-jet enough to build production facilities overseas, and there are no legal reasons to prevent you from developing the idea, you can probably still negotiate a profitable deal with them for the rights to the design, if perhaps on terms somewhat more amenable to them.
Venus has a rotational period of over 200 DAYS. By my calculations, Geostationary orbit is effectively non-existant at around 1.7 billion miles. No elevators for Venus!
Elevators make it easier but still not dirt cheap to move stuff up. Venus is comparable to earth in mass, rotation period, and size, and probably would be about as cost-effective as the earth elevator ($100/lb at best). Also, the extreme climate. Mining light bodies like asteroids, comets, and moons makes more sense - you don't have to spend anything because they're already "up", and sending them down is free, provided you don't destroy anything.