The plot was captivating, even to someone who only has the faintest recollection of the video games: for those who played the games a lot, it was superb. Much like the original production of Dune: if you knew the books, it was one of the best movies made. If you didn't, you were lost. Though in the case of FF, being lost wasn't anywheres as bad as with Dune.
so your saying that if you loved FF already, you'd love the movie? how insightful...
this is exactly how a worse-than-mediocre star wars episode 1 received any positive feedback - from fawning groupies of the existing franchise. i never heard anything positive about the film outside of people who could recite the previous 3 in their entirety...
sorry, but if you like FF too much, you are not in a position to give an impartial opinion on the quality of the flick.
actually, the estimates of the number of genes in the human genome were much higher before all this sequencing took place. people were shocked there were so little. those guys will be scraping for quarters because their research was probably flawed.
science is convergent, and this is probably better research based on the other groups findings and subsequent research by other groups the first wasn't privy to.
there is no ambiguity in the definition, and there's not always a computer analogy.
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perhaps it has to do with the absence of the ruins of huge metal buildings... we have been the most advanced state of civilization on the face of the planet for hundreds of years running...
what other advanced civilizations are you talking about, praytell? mayans, incas? mesopetamians? egyptians? greeks? chinese? indian?
all very advanced for their times, but none come close. greeks, incas, egyptians, and mayans probably lead the way (and toss in romans for shear force of will... built so many things still standing...), but try to make any case that they can hold a candle to our progress.
Space. Computers. Genetics. Quantum physics. Relativity. Flying. Combustion engine. Electricity. Electricity distribution... it's tiring going on. None of these civilizations were near us. It's not arrogance, it's flat out truth. There's no conspiracy here, their not hiding the ruins of ancient skyscrapers.. we know this planet well enough to know we're the only ones to come so far.
i hate to sound the conspiracy theorist, but didn't holographic storage get an influx of money from the NSA? I mean, given what I know about the NSA, one might call them secretive. I understand that a lot of the mathematical work done there remains unpublishable for quite a while, even when done by visiting academics... and in a field which is usually incredibly open to publishing and collaberation... could there be any progress which just isn't being terribly publicized?
this really is a grab for information, i'm curious about the subject, and hadn't heard an news lately. hoping it's not all smoke and mirrors (no pun intended?)
no offense, but if you have the same amount of $ afterwards, it's free.
to call your personal information 'valuable property' is probably going too far. i see how you could say it, but let's not go too far here..
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sounds like that 'face' on the surface of mars that 'coudn't possibly have been anything but manmade' which of course turned out to be just a regular martian mountain...
you're out of you mind. these are hydrothermal vents.
even giving you the greatest benefit of the doubt, hydrothermal vents are just a manefestation of volcanic activity. why should this be atlantis as opposed to any other of the billion volcanoes across the world?
you're right, software can be no more stable than the hardware on which it's running.
the big difference imho is that slashdot does not advocate and stand to benefit from it's own brand of centralized web services. it's been said much more eloquently by other posters, but if passport or windows product activation went on the fritz, the results could be significant.
this might be a sign that microsoft is not ready to offer web services a la.NET
i live near boston, and i swear that i heard that homeruns was going out of business. given that i see about a million of their trucks in a day, i guess that's not quite true...
"A 1980 study of typical Ontario beaches found that 69 of every 1,000 swimmers had become ill within 10 days of swimming, compared with 29 of every 1,000 nonswimmers. Even relatively clean beaches sicken swimmers. The Natural Resources Defense Council warns that Great Lakes waters that meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards will cause eight illnesses per 1,000 swimmers."
You wish.
As a working scientist, I am almost flattered by the implication. Alas, most scientists are very ordinary in their abilities and knowledge in fields outside their expertise.
Just because one was a whiz at differential equations, doesn't make one a top-notch economist, philosopher, or a judge of human nature.
Think idiot-savant, not genius. It's a least closer to the truth.
i recently got out of my undergrad in math from cornell... meteorologists, biologists, and even most computer scientists would look like they have PhDs from charm school if put next to most mathematicians.
as a working scientist, learn to recognize tongue in cheek...
so you would say that CO2 impacts climate locally, but that this might not be true on a global scale?
these scientists aren't idiots, they're measuring CO2 levels around the world. if CO2 levels are up, the question is then "how much will this effect the climate", not whether it will or not...
Don't kid yourself. The evidence for evolution is much, much stronger than is the evidence for human induced global warming. Climatic prediction is a very difficult problem.
wasn't comparing the strength of the evidence for both theories, but their popular perceptions.
i agree, but the correlation between rapid climate change, massive frog deformaties/die-offs, and the increase in industrial emission are pretty difficult to discount as entirely coincidence...
Nope, the fundamental nature of the math governing weather is the limiting problem.
i think it's in Gleick's 'Chaos', but there was an estimate made (paraphrased) that: with 64 bit floating point accuracy, arbitrary computing speed, and given inputs spaced 1 foot apart in every direction for 5 miles straight up, we'd only be able to very accurately predict weather 10 days into the future. after that point, the predictability breaks down quite quickly. think about how chaotic behavior was discover... lorentz running weather simulations, and achieving very different outcome because his printer cut off a few significant digits.
you point is great though.... without more and better data, all the computing power in the world isn't going to help meteorologists predict the weather better in practical ways.
Well... let's not be so cynical.
Money is not always the primary motivation. Rather, I'd say a lot of people in academica (as in journalism) are left of center in their politics. The evidence for global warming is suggestive but far from conclusive, and allows reasonable to come down on either side of the issue. Given the political leanings of most of the academics scientists, the tend to support the alarmist environemental crowd.
(I know, I know: you're saying how do I know that most academic scientists are left of center. Trust me. I work with these people day to day. Goerge Bush is pretty much the antichrist to these people.)
jeez, well you think that if our brightest are liberal, that might say something there?
yes, well you obviously do not live in a city where there is a palpable difference in temperature between the most congested, polluted areas and the outlying suburbs.
i would say that much like evolution, there certainly is a "scientific consensus", although an agreement between all people does not exist.
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The plot was captivating, even to someone who only has the faintest recollection of the video games: for those who played the games a lot, it was superb. Much like the original production of Dune: if you knew the books, it was one of the best movies made. If you didn't, you were lost. Though in the case of FF, being lost wasn't anywheres as bad as with Dune.
so your saying that if you loved FF already, you'd love the movie? how insightful...
this is exactly how a worse-than-mediocre star wars episode 1 received any positive feedback - from fawning groupies of the existing franchise. i never heard anything positive about the film outside of people who could recite the previous 3 in their entirety...
sorry, but if you like FF too much, you are not in a position to give an impartial opinion on the quality of the flick.
um, no.
actually, the estimates of the number of genes in the human genome were much higher before all this sequencing took place. people were shocked there were so little. those guys will be scraping for quarters because their research was probably flawed.
science is convergent, and this is probably better research based on the other groups findings and subsequent research by other groups the first wasn't privy to.
there is no ambiguity in the definition, and there's not always a computer analogy.
perhaps it has to do with the absence of the ruins of huge metal buildings... we have been the most advanced state of civilization on the face of the planet for hundreds of years running...
what other advanced civilizations are you talking about, praytell? mayans, incas? mesopetamians? egyptians? greeks? chinese? indian?
all very advanced for their times, but none come close. greeks, incas, egyptians, and mayans probably lead the way (and toss in romans for shear force of will... built so many things still standing...), but try to make any case that they can hold a candle to our progress.
Space. Computers. Genetics. Quantum physics. Relativity. Flying. Combustion engine. Electricity. Electricity distribution... it's tiring going on. None of these civilizations were near us. It's not arrogance, it's flat out truth. There's no conspiracy here, their not hiding the ruins of ancient skyscrapers.. we know this planet well enough to know we're the only ones to come so far.
oh, no - he doesn't exist either.
i hate to sound the conspiracy theorist, but didn't holographic storage get an influx of money from the NSA? I mean, given what I know about the NSA, one might call them secretive. I understand that a lot of the mathematical work done there remains unpublishable for quite a while, even when done by visiting academics... and in a field which is usually incredibly open to publishing and collaberation... could there be any progress which just isn't being terribly publicized?
this really is a grab for information, i'm curious about the subject, and hadn't heard an news lately. hoping it's not all smoke and mirrors (no pun intended?)
not really, i hear those little cantilevers can wear out the storage medium pretty efficiently.
no offense, but if you have the same amount of $ afterwards, it's free.
to call your personal information 'valuable property' is probably going too far. i see how you could say it, but let's not go too far here..
sounds like that 'face' on the surface of mars that 'coudn't possibly have been anything but manmade' which of course turned out to be just a regular martian mountain...
you're out of you mind. these are hydrothermal vents.
even giving you the greatest benefit of the doubt, hydrothermal vents are just a manefestation of volcanic activity. why should this be atlantis as opposed to any other of the billion volcanoes across the world?
try occam's razor sometime...
you're right, software can be no more stable than the hardware on which it's running.
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the big difference imho is that slashdot does not advocate and stand to benefit from it's own brand of centralized web services. it's been said much more eloquently by other posters, but if passport or windows product activation went on the fritz, the results could be significant.
this might be a sign that microsoft is not ready to offer web services a la
i live near boston, and i swear that i heard that homeruns was going out of business. given that i see about a million of their trucks in a day, i guess that's not quite true...
what a great toy that was... probably relegated to garage sales now, sadly.
i doubt that was run by mayor giuliani...
http://www.environmentprobe.org/enviroprobe/pubs/e v633.htm
quoted from the article...
"A 1980 study of typical Ontario beaches found that 69 of every 1,000 swimmers had become ill within 10 days of swimming, compared with 29 of every 1,000 nonswimmers. Even relatively clean beaches sicken swimmers. The Natural Resources Defense Council warns that Great Lakes waters that meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards will cause eight illnesses per 1,000 swimmers."
more...
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/sewa18.shtml
http://www.sierralegal.org/
and the 1.6MB PDF finale...
http://www.sierralegal.org/reports/Sewage.pdf
yeah, for the money you're paying, you deserve more. anal-retentive lame-ass...
still have to give them props for trying to keep weissenstein's encyclopedia of mathematics online, though...
that being said, maple's the superior product for most uses, and if you're using it for any other reason, matlab's probably better...
yeah, everyone in canada is a rocket scientist, as compared to the mongol hordes south of the border.
keep dumping untreated shit into your harbors. even the US stopped doing that decades ago.
aw, you didn't appreciate the personal touch?
i'm amused. social ineptitude seemed to be math's area, but arrogance was pretty well cornered in CS...
You wish. As a working scientist, I am almost flattered by the implication. Alas, most scientists are very ordinary in their abilities and knowledge in fields outside their expertise. Just because one was a whiz at differential equations, doesn't make one a top-notch economist, philosopher, or a judge of human nature. Think idiot-savant, not genius. It's a least closer to the truth.
i recently got out of my undergrad in math from cornell... meteorologists, biologists, and even most computer scientists would look like they have PhDs from charm school if put next to most mathematicians.
as a working scientist, learn to recognize tongue in cheek...
so you would say that CO2 impacts climate locally, but that this might not be true on a global scale?
these scientists aren't idiots, they're measuring CO2 levels around the world. if CO2 levels are up, the question is then "how much will this effect the climate", not whether it will or not...
Don't kid yourself. The evidence for evolution is much, much stronger than is the evidence for human induced global warming. Climatic prediction is a very difficult problem.
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wasn't comparing the strength of the evidence for both theories, but their popular perceptions.
i agree, but the correlation between rapid climate change, massive frog deformaties/die-offs, and the increase in industrial emission are pretty difficult to discount as entirely coincidence
Nope, the fundamental nature of the math governing weather is the limiting problem.
i think it's in Gleick's 'Chaos', but there was an estimate made (paraphrased) that: with 64 bit floating point accuracy, arbitrary computing speed, and given inputs spaced 1 foot apart in every direction for 5 miles straight up, we'd only be able to very accurately predict weather 10 days into the future. after that point, the predictability breaks down quite quickly. think about how chaotic behavior was discover... lorentz running weather simulations, and achieving very different outcome because his printer cut off a few significant digits.
you point is great though.... without more and better data, all the computing power in the world isn't going to help meteorologists predict the weather better in practical ways.
Well ... let's not be so cynical.
Money is not always the primary motivation. Rather, I'd say a lot of people in academica (as in journalism) are left of center in their politics. The evidence for global warming is suggestive but far from conclusive, and allows reasonable to come down on either side of the issue. Given the political leanings of most of the academics scientists, the tend to support the alarmist environemental crowd.
(I know, I know: you're saying how do I know that most academic scientists are left of center. Trust me. I work with these people day to day. Goerge Bush is pretty much the antichrist to these people.)
jeez, well you think that if our brightest are liberal, that might say something there?
yes, well you obviously do not live in a city where there is a palpable difference in temperature between the most congested, polluted areas and the outlying suburbs.
i would say that much like evolution, there certainly is a "scientific consensus", although an agreement between all people does not exist.