No, he just skips over the parts that aren't that important. If it's a guy on stage with no props, spanning vistas of scenery aren't really that interesting.
He sums up the scenes and just gives you the gist of the movie.
It's really quite great. It may sound lame, but if you've seen it, you'll probably think it was great. Everyone that I've talked to that has seen either show has agreed that it's excellent.
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People get those gifts because they try. They don't understand math at all, but they know that you do "something mathy".
I get the same thing all the time. Last year, my mother-in-law got me a put-it-together kinetic flashlight kit for kids. (I'm an Electrical Engineer.) She tried.
This book might be an interesting read. That's probably what they thought.
My wife and I just saw him at the Roxy. Apparently, when he was doing the show in Vancouver, Sir Ian MacKellan was shooting another movie and decided, "Hey, that looks pretty nifty. I'm going to go see it."
SIM got a copy of the DVD and sent it to Jackson. Hopefully he'll get on the official DVD set.
I got the same feeling too: Holy crap, a guy from Victoria just made/. front page! Amazing!
There's always an analog solution to a digital problem. If you can play it once, I guarantee that someone will use that one time to hook it up to their computer and record it in a non-managed format. If you can only listen with X-brand headphones with a special adapter, someone will cut the cable and make a way to record the sounds in a different format.
No copy protection is fail-safe. As such, they will all fail.
I don't think we SHOULD "solve telomere aging on a genetic level, organ failure, neurological aging, long term development of cancer..."
We're supposed to die. I am smarter, faster, and stronger than my dad. My daughter is smarter, faster, stronger, and better looking than I am. She's a sleek new 2004 model, and I'm a 1977 beater. I'm supposed to die to make room for her and the other people her age.
You're supposed to die, too. Do you honestly think that you're so much better a human than any other human that's ever lived and ever will live that you should live for 1000 years? Should we even consider something so conceited? I don't think so.
Sorry, it's slashdot. Didn't mean any offence or to be rude. I always assume the worst here.;)
I still think that we're supposed to die. Think of each person as a cell instead of a complete organism. We're here to make a contribution if we can, have kids, then move out of the way (i.e. die) so the newer, faster models can take over.
The answer lies in Biology, which I guess you never took.
Your sperm won't be good copies after about 4 decades. For example, the chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome dramatically increase after the man hits 40.
As for women, they have a finite supply of eggs. Once they're gone, they're gone.
So, you can't have kids at the age of 700, since there won't be any eggs in the mother and the dad's sperm is going to be pretty bad quality.
Be careful about the priority you put on having sex in high school. It's not the end of the world if you don't get any.
If you get someone pregnant, there's a good chance that you're not going to do much else with your life but pay for that kid. As a general guideline, if you can't talk about the protection you're using, you're not ready to have sex. The same goes with a discussion about what you'd do if you get pregnant. Abortion? Adoption? Keep the baby? Elope? I'm sure you've heard it before, but remember that condoms don't work on their own, and birth control pills don't protect against STD.
I'm guessing you don't play an instrument. You should learn. How about singing? I joined choir because the gender ratio was 2 guys, 30 girls. That sure beat playing rugby.;)
Once you get into tertiary education, things should pick up. The school of nursing is like a goldmine, especially when you help with their reports. Biology and arts students are notoriously bad with computers, even at the PhD level. (Chemistry students do a lot of sims. )Why nursing? As much as I hate to sterotype, most of them are women. Just by being a guy, you're 80% there.
And, speaking of "picking up", make sure you use protection or you might pick something up. Your college's health department might give free Hep shots and condoms. (At my university, you just had to say that you were "a gay male engaging in 'unprotected and dangerous' sex" and they'd give you a lecture, a dozen condoms, and a Hep shot.)
2. They're trying to be funny to karma whore, having not read the explicit instructions stating that "funny" does not improve your karma.
Let me turn off the spin and give you a no-shiatter. It's had to explain in a tiny little window, but eh, I'll give it a shot and hope that you get some understanding.
The truth is that we do stuff that most people can't understand. I'm smarter than most of the people I know. (The same probably holds true for most of the people on/.) I am more successful than anyone I went to school with, including most of my teachers.
I program VHF transmitters that track animals, wildlife, and assets via GPS and broadcast those co-ordinates up to 20 km away. I primarily use C, but my day-to-day routine also requires HTML, Visual Basic, and Assembly. I've also got a hand in designing the circuit boards.
I'm sure everyone on/. got that. Now, how many people do you know outside of work still understand that? How about the guy you went to school with who now runs the deli at the local grocer? The girl who - after 10 years - is now the manager at McDonald's? They don't have a clue. My mother-in-law knows that I "do something with computers" even though that's not the case. That's like saying a carpenter "does something with hammers". I get embarrased sometimes when I talk to the people I've known that haven't gone further.
"How's it going? I haven't seen you for a long time."
"Oh, I'm now running the gas station. How about you?"
"Good, I'm an Electrical Engineer, etc."
So where does that leave them? Exactly where they are. We're generally richer, having better health coverage, nicer vehicles, more attractive spouses, bigger houses, etc. In all respects, we're better off.
Now, I'm not elitist. I don't think that I'm better than any other person, and I think that with the same training and ambition, just about anybody could learn to do this job. (I mean, hell, *I* figured this out, so how hard can it be, right?;) ) I know that I don't have the physcial ability to dig ditches. (I could dig one, but I'd be more likely to rent a backhoe for the day.) Nor do I have the stomach required to clean toilets or mop floors.
So what do they have left? Ridicule us based on a sterotype that may not apply. This holds true in the media - look at how geeks are portrayed. It's always someone with big glasses, greasy hair, and clothes that don't quite fit right. To round off the stereotype, the typical geek is shy and awkward around women, and has a voice that's barely audible. When geeks are portrayed as cool, it's so over the top that it's ridiculous. Take the Matrix (please!). They're running around in skin-tight leather, trenchcoats, and sunglasses. It doesn't even make sense, but that's what we've got. The media either portrays us as loner dorks who sit in messy rooms and order pizza on a Saturday night or as rejects from a leather fetish bar who can't work a dryer.
The problem is that it's just not cool to be smart. You can buy expensive clothes, you can buy a cell phone, you can listen to the latest bads (and buy their CDs and cereal and posters!) but you can't buy a bigger brain. If you could, they'd tell you that you need an IQ of 222 to be cool.
I wear contacts, I shower regularly, and a lot of my stuff is tailored. (Well, my jeans aren't, but they're women's jeans and I'm a guy. What can I say? I biked to university and ended up with pretty big legs - normal guy's jeans don't fit.) I was in a choir for 10 years, and I have a pretty strong and projecting voice. "It goes right to the heart," was how one person described it.
I've been married for six and a half years, and I've got a fantastic 10-month old daughter.
They make nothing but the top of the line chips. That's all they ever try to make. They don't set out to make a Celeron or a 2.4G chip (at least, not anymore.)
They test all the chips, and the ones that pass enough tests at a certain speed are rated for that speed. The ones that fail are tested at slower speeds until they get to the threshold.
That's why some people have great luck overclocking a system and some don't. They folks who picked up a 2.0 GHz chip that barely failed the 3.0 GHz tests will be able to make a reasonably stable 3.0 GHz chip because it worked okay for most of the tests. Others get something that barely passed the 2.0 GHz tests.
You've heard that Celerons are great for overclocking, right? Well, yeah, of course they are - they're faster chips than what's stamped on them, albeit with a cache wasn't working right at the target speed.
If they fail every test, they send it to VIA to make chipsets.;) No, seriously: very few chips made with modern techniques fail every test, and those that do are recycled if possible.
A parent's basement? What in the world are you talking about?
The first campaign I played in was at my school in the library. I still have most of those dice.
The last time I played DnD was in a well-lit living room. My wife sat next to me, and we played with the DM's wife and her brother. Our kids played nearby. (Not DnD - they're too young... for now.)
Why do you think they have to put out patches for games? It's because they're written poorly by people who aren't at their best. If you don't get breaks and rests, you make mistakes.
If it's something as trivial as making a video game, then nobody's going to die when you send out code that's crap. I'll wager that anyone who says, "I can stay up all night coding" is the same kind of person who never documents their code because all they do are assignments for CompSci 101 or put in some undocumented changes for the 2.1.2.3.45.4445 kernel.
In my other window, I've got code up that someone's life may depend on one day. That's right - if it fails or crashes, someone's going to die. If the deadline approaches and it's not done, my response will be, "You're waiting. The code's not done," not, "Oh, I'll pull an all-nighter and ship it untested."
You may be wondering what I'm doing on/. when I'm doing that kind of code. I don't stop thinking when I stop coding. It's one of the many ways I solve problems. I guess it's like the Dilbert - the hour I spent in a meeting is "work", and the 15 minutes I spent in the shower figuring out why this bug is occuring are considered "non-work".
My point is, you have to take breaks and think about what you're doing or you end up with garbage. Have a life outside of work. That's what life is for anyway.
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No fees. That's why I use them.
So, how does this work on a film-based camera? Is the device really big and you hold it up in front of your face or what?
This is just nonsense.
Yeah, the series invoked Godwin and lost. I guess it's time to change my profile.
I actually cheered when I read this article.
I noticed that too. It's a fictional product. They're all fictional products.
No, he just skips over the parts that aren't that important. If it's a guy on stage with no props, spanning vistas of scenery aren't really that interesting.
He sums up the scenes and just gives you the gist of the movie.
It's really quite great. It may sound lame, but if you've seen it, you'll probably think it was great. Everyone that I've talked to that has seen either show has agreed that it's excellent.
But that's it.
That's all there is.
People get those gifts because they try. They don't understand math at all, but they know that you do "something mathy".
I get the same thing all the time. Last year, my mother-in-law got me a put-it-together kinetic flashlight kit for kids. (I'm an Electrical Engineer.) She tried.
This book might be an interesting read. That's probably what they thought.
Yeah, but will my modded Nomad 2 stop when it hears the sounds? Never in life. The old machines will keep being in demand just for reason like this.
If you can't get them anymore, you'll be able to import them from Canada or China.
My wife and I just saw him at the Roxy. Apparently, when he was doing the show in Vancouver, Sir Ian MacKellan was shooting another movie and decided, "Hey, that looks pretty nifty. I'm going to go see it."
/. front page! Amazing!
SIM got a copy of the DVD and sent it to Jackson. Hopefully he'll get on the official DVD set.
I got the same feeling too: Holy crap, a guy from Victoria just made
One fundamental thing, though:
There's always an analog solution to a digital problem. If you can play it once, I guarantee that someone will use that one time to hook it up to their computer and record it in a non-managed format. If you can only listen with X-brand headphones with a special adapter, someone will cut the cable and make a way to record the sounds in a different format.
No copy protection is fail-safe. As such, they will all fail.
You can look at closed source software. It's really not that hard. You take the compiled code, disassemble it, then read the assembly.
Get me a voting machine and I'll tell you if it's set to rig an election or not. Since I'm Canadian, your Mickey Mouse laws don't apply to me.
Weird. Eerie. I play the euphonium, too.
AC response? Silly at best, I know.
;)
I don't WANT to die. Nobody WANTS to die. I'm saying that we're supposed to die. If we don't die, what are the worms going to eat?
I don't think we SHOULD "solve telomere aging on a genetic level, organ failure, neurological aging, long term development of cancer..."
We're supposed to die. I am smarter, faster, and stronger than my dad. My daughter is smarter, faster, stronger, and better looking than I am. She's a sleek new 2004 model, and I'm a 1977 beater. I'm supposed to die to make room for her and the other people her age.
You're supposed to die, too. Do you honestly think that you're so much better a human than any other human that's ever lived and ever will live that you should live for 1000 years? Should we even consider something so conceited? I don't think so.
More to the point, we're all GOING to die.
Sorry, it's slashdot. Didn't mean any offence or to be rude. I always assume the worst here. ;)
I still think that we're supposed to die. Think of each person as a cell instead of a complete organism. We're here to make a contribution if we can, have kids, then move out of the way (i.e. die) so the newer, faster models can take over.
The answer lies in Biology, which I guess you never took.
Your sperm won't be good copies after about 4 decades. For example, the chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome dramatically increase after the man hits 40.
As for women, they have a finite supply of eggs. Once they're gone, they're gone.
So, you can't have kids at the age of 700, since there won't be any eggs in the mother and the dad's sperm is going to be pretty bad quality.
Be careful about the priority you put on having sex in high school. It's not the end of the world if you don't get any.
;)
If you get someone pregnant, there's a good chance that you're not going to do much else with your life but pay for that kid. As a general guideline, if you can't talk about the protection you're using, you're not ready to have sex. The same goes with a discussion about what you'd do if you get pregnant. Abortion? Adoption? Keep the baby? Elope? I'm sure you've heard it before, but remember that condoms don't work on their own, and birth control pills don't protect against STD.
I'm guessing you don't play an instrument. You should learn. How about singing? I joined choir because the gender ratio was 2 guys, 30 girls. That sure beat playing rugby.
Once you get into tertiary education, things should pick up. The school of nursing is like a goldmine, especially when you help with their reports. Biology and arts students are notoriously bad with computers, even at the PhD level. (Chemistry students do a lot of sims. )Why nursing? As much as I hate to sterotype, most of them are women. Just by being a guy, you're 80% there.
And, speaking of "picking up", make sure you use protection or you might pick something up. Your college's health department might give free Hep shots and condoms. (At my university, you just had to say that you were "a gay male engaging in 'unprotected and dangerous' sex" and they'd give you a lecture, a dozen condoms, and a Hep shot.)
Well, I shaved. /. won't let you change nicknames.
Here's why people think geeks can't get laid:
/.) I am more successful than anyone I went to school with, including most of my teachers.
/. got that. Now, how many people do you know outside of work still understand that? How about the guy you went to school with who now runs the deli at the local grocer? The girl who - after 10 years - is now the manager at McDonald's? They don't have a clue. My mother-in-law knows that I "do something with computers" even though that's not the case. That's like saying a carpenter "does something with hammers". I get embarrased sometimes when I talk to the people I've known that haven't gone further.
;) ) I know that I don't have the physcial ability to dig ditches. (I could dig one, but I'd be more likely to rent a backhoe for the day.) Nor do I have the stomach required to clean toilets or mop floors.
1. They're morons.
2. They're trying to be funny to karma whore, having not read the explicit instructions stating that "funny" does not improve your karma.
Let me turn off the spin and give you a no-shiatter. It's had to explain in a tiny little window, but eh, I'll give it a shot and hope that you get some understanding.
The truth is that we do stuff that most people can't understand. I'm smarter than most of the people I know. (The same probably holds true for most of the people on
I program VHF transmitters that track animals, wildlife, and assets via GPS and broadcast those co-ordinates up to 20 km away. I primarily use C, but my day-to-day routine also requires HTML, Visual Basic, and Assembly. I've also got a hand in designing the circuit boards.
I'm sure everyone on
"How's it going? I haven't seen you for a long time."
"Oh, I'm now running the gas station. How about you?"
"Good, I'm an Electrical Engineer, etc."
So where does that leave them? Exactly where they are. We're generally richer, having better health coverage, nicer vehicles, more attractive spouses, bigger houses, etc. In all respects, we're better off.
Now, I'm not elitist. I don't think that I'm better than any other person, and I think that with the same training and ambition, just about anybody could learn to do this job. (I mean, hell, *I* figured this out, so how hard can it be, right?
So what do they have left? Ridicule us based on a sterotype that may not apply. This holds true in the media - look at how geeks are portrayed. It's always someone with big glasses, greasy hair, and clothes that don't quite fit right. To round off the stereotype, the typical geek is shy and awkward around women, and has a voice that's barely audible. When geeks are portrayed as cool, it's so over the top that it's ridiculous. Take the Matrix (please!). They're running around in skin-tight leather, trenchcoats, and sunglasses. It doesn't even make sense, but that's what we've got. The media either portrays us as loner dorks who sit in messy rooms and order pizza on a Saturday night or as rejects from a leather fetish bar who can't work a dryer.
The problem is that it's just not cool to be smart. You can buy expensive clothes, you can buy a cell phone, you can listen to the latest bads (and buy their CDs and cereal and posters!) but you can't buy a bigger brain. If you could, they'd tell you that you need an IQ of 222 to be cool.
I wear contacts, I shower regularly, and a lot of my stuff is tailored. (Well, my jeans aren't, but they're women's jeans and I'm a guy. What can I say? I biked to university and ended up with pretty big legs - normal guy's jeans don't fit.) I was in a choir for 10 years, and I have a pretty strong and projecting voice. "It goes right to the heart," was how one person described it.
I've been married for six and a half years, and I've got a fantastic 10-month old daughter.
They make nothing but the top of the line chips. That's all they ever try to make. They don't set out to make a Celeron or a 2.4G chip (at least, not anymore.)
;) No, seriously: very few chips made with modern techniques fail every test, and those that do are recycled if possible.
They test all the chips, and the ones that pass enough tests at a certain speed are rated for that speed. The ones that fail are tested at slower speeds until they get to the threshold.
That's why some people have great luck overclocking a system and some don't. They folks who picked up a 2.0 GHz chip that barely failed the 3.0 GHz tests will be able to make a reasonably stable 3.0 GHz chip because it worked okay for most of the tests. Others get something that barely passed the 2.0 GHz tests.
You've heard that Celerons are great for overclocking, right? Well, yeah, of course they are - they're faster chips than what's stamped on them, albeit with a cache wasn't working right at the target speed.
If they fail every test, they send it to VIA to make chipsets.
A parent's basement? What in the world are you talking about?
The first campaign I played in was at my school in the library. I still have most of those dice.
The last time I played DnD was in a well-lit living room. My wife sat next to me, and we played with the DM's wife and her brother. Our kids played nearby. (Not DnD - they're too young... for now.)
I've NEVER bought an EA game.
(I pay for my games - I just never liked what EA puts out.)
Why do you think they have to put out patches for games? It's because they're written poorly by people who aren't at their best. If you don't get breaks and rests, you make mistakes.
/. when I'm doing that kind of code. I don't stop thinking when I stop coding. It's one of the many ways I solve problems. I guess it's like the Dilbert - the hour I spent in a meeting is "work", and the 15 minutes I spent in the shower figuring out why this bug is occuring are considered "non-work".
If it's something as trivial as making a video game, then nobody's going to die when you send out code that's crap. I'll wager that anyone who says, "I can stay up all night coding" is the same kind of person who never documents their code because all they do are assignments for CompSci 101 or put in some undocumented changes for the 2.1.2.3.45.4445 kernel.
In my other window, I've got code up that someone's life may depend on one day. That's right - if it fails or crashes, someone's going to die. If the deadline approaches and it's not done, my response will be, "You're waiting. The code's not done," not, "Oh, I'll pull an all-nighter and ship it untested."
You may be wondering what I'm doing on
My point is, you have to take breaks and think about what you're doing or you end up with garbage. Have a life outside of work. That's what life is for anyway.
Killographic Entertainment?
That's a kick-ass name for a gaming company. I'm surprised it hasn't been picked up yet.
I think that a slower entity learns that it's slow, and learns to compensate. It's all about knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
John Henry should have made "making a tasty sandwich" part of the race - he would have won.
There's no such thing as a fair race.