I don't think I've ever had a cartoon, nor any TV show for that matter, get me teary eyed the way Jurassic Bark did; judging from the reactions around the country alot of people were just like me. I think a lot of people were upset at *themselves* and not by the show itself, because they don't expect to get worked up by a cartoon.
It's an amazing credit to the writers that they were able to get a *huge* percentage of their audience to become emotionally entangled into a cartoon about a pet rock and a delivery boy 1000 years in the future.
If you look at the plot development they were really *really* good at developing the dogs character and his relationship to Fry in an incredibly short amount of screen time.
And the ending really shows what a good person Fry is (and what a great dog seymour was). Fry puts his loyalty to what he perceives to be his dog's desires before his own selfish interest and decides not to bring his dog back. And the dog, unbeknownst to Fry, had put his loyalty to Fry before his own life. The ending with both of them suffering because each chose loyalty over selfish interest is very tragic and also very moving.
Who among us wouldn't want a companion that cared so much about us? And who among us wouldn't hope that we could be so selfless about someone we cared so much about?
No mention of John Kerry, what he had for dinner, what his cats are doing, how he's ass-fucking an administration official, or how another blog got credit for something he wrote about first.
If you consider the sum total of all books printed you'd find that the average quality of the text would probably be at a 6th grade level due to the fact that infinitely more trashy pulp novels are printed each year than there are noble prize winning books describing the social structure of ants in Ebonia.
Same thing goes with blogs.
Not everyone has talent, but most people think they do. And that's true for writers *and* bloggers.
I'd be curious if the sensitivity of the surrounding neurons would increase to better sense the impulses generated by the implant. It seems that this would just be a small modification of the neural net...
As such it would seem logical to extrapolate that this approach would be far better with patients who still have low vision rather than no vision because their neural nets already have "the right wiring" so there's only one biological know (the sensitivity) that needs to be tweaked.
I've always thought that the best analogy for our eyes are two coaxial cameras. A very narrow beam, high resolution camera slightly off the centerline, surrounded by a wide-angle low resolution camera.
Rods, which predominate the wide-angle camera system, are like hyped B&W film... great night sensitivity, but grainy. Cones, which dominate the inner narrow-angle camera system give color vision, but require much higher light levels to operate.
We'd also need to know the size of the chip to figure out the angular resolution which is far more important than the raw 70x70 size.
70x70 that had a large angular span would be very very useful for navigating the world, even if it wouldn't help them read the fine print on the bottom of an auto loan.
70x70 that had a very small angular span would help them read the auto loan but would be absolutely useless for walking out of the house towards the car. Think about it... a blind person's white cane is an extremely high resolution device, but it's angular width is less than 1" at 6 feet.
Since the insurgents have figured out how disable Abrams Tanks, Apache helicopters and Bradley APVs with RPGs, these things will have a *very* *very* limited lifespan before the insurgents start lighting them up like pinball machines.
batteries convery chemical energy to electrical energy. Chemical reactions vary their speed based upon temperature. Your toy is at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, while the probe is at -400 degrees Fahrenheit.
So what you consider to be "minor battery draw" at room temperature is a far different story out in the cold of space.
This is too little protection for the people who need it (i.e. corporate/government protection), so those folks will opt for more serious protection.
This is too much protection for Joe Casual User who will pissed at bad cellphone reception, bad TV reception, bad coreless phone. Or downright ineffectiveness if they don't also paint the ceiling, floor and windows. (Note on business plan: Shit! Windows???!? What are we going to do about windows? )
This disaster also highlights the false economy of outsourcing. Companies saved money by moving work offshore because it was cheaper... but they probably didn't factor in the value of infrastructure and redundent transportation that the US provides over third world nations.
India may have the programmers and they may be cheaper per hour, but the risk exposure between crime, nuclear tensions with neighbors, and natural disasters has been ignored. The US's redundent power grids, interstates, and communications link cost money, but in cases like this is where the value is realized.
and on their discussion list was a report of another chute pull. If I remember right, on the first flight after the annual the pilot discovered that the left aileron hadn't been properly reattached and had pulled free and was dangling from one hinge. The pilot was able to get fairly low and slow over a golf course and pull the chute.
Given the choice between landing at DFW with no roll control or popping the chute... well the chute sounds pretty damn attractive to me.
I've got an unopened copy of OS/2 1.3 from way back in the dark ages, and the EULA is folded up and in an unsealed envelope on the back of the shrink-wrap. It seemed a bit much at the time, but I guess those IBM lawyers really do know their stuff!
What do you allege I did? Oh, no... Your honor *I* wasn't the person violating copyright laws. Haul that filthy lawbreaking PC away... Good riddence! (heh heh... time to move in the new Vaio I've been seeing on the side)
I have a number of friends that have their Instrument rating and own planes that have certified GPS systems, but no ADF. And there are lots of airports like GTU that have GPS & a NDB, but no ILS.
There are very few VORs located central enough to a field to enable you to shoot an approach off of them...
The only one that sucked was Xanadu. That movie is so bad that even Mr. Sinus couldn't save it.
Oh, and they flew in the guy that played opposite ON-J for the screening. Boy, how bad does your career have to suck to actually take a gig appearing at show making fun of your only big movie?
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I'd love to help them out (as I look at 6 cores sitting idle right now), but I just won't do VirtualBox.
is one reason NH folks refer to some of these people as Massholes.
I don't think I've ever had a cartoon, nor any TV show for that matter, get me teary eyed the way Jurassic Bark did; judging from the reactions around the country alot of people were just like me. I think a lot of people were upset at *themselves* and not by the show itself, because they don't expect to get worked up by a cartoon.
It's an amazing credit to the writers that they were able to get a *huge* percentage of their audience to become emotionally entangled into a cartoon about a pet rock and a delivery boy 1000 years in the future.
If you look at the plot development they were really *really* good at developing the dogs character and his relationship to Fry in an incredibly short amount of screen time.
And the ending really shows what a good person Fry is (and what a great dog seymour was). Fry puts his loyalty to what he perceives to be his dog's desires before his own selfish interest and decides not to bring his dog back. And the dog, unbeknownst to Fry, had put his loyalty to Fry before his own life. The ending with both of them suffering because each chose loyalty over selfish interest is very tragic and also very moving.
Who among us wouldn't want a companion that cared so much about us? And who among us wouldn't hope that we could be so selfless about someone we cared so much about?
That episode still gets me all teary eyed.
Damn you Futurama writers!
No mention of John Kerry, what he had for dinner, what his cats are doing, how he's ass-fucking an administration official, or how another blog got credit for something he wrote about first.
If you consider the sum total of all books printed you'd find that the average quality of the text would probably be at a 6th grade level due to the fact that infinitely more trashy pulp novels are printed each year than there are noble prize winning books describing the social structure of ants in Ebonia.
Same thing goes with blogs.
Not everyone has talent, but most people think they do. And that's true for writers *and* bloggers.
Chunky-style air.
I'd be curious if the sensitivity of the surrounding neurons would increase to better sense the impulses generated by the implant. It seems that this would just be a small modification of the neural net...
As such it would seem logical to extrapolate that this approach would be far better with patients who still have low vision rather than no vision because their neural nets already have "the right wiring" so there's only one biological know (the sensitivity) that needs to be tweaked.
I've always thought that the best analogy for our eyes are two coaxial cameras. A very narrow beam, high resolution camera slightly off the centerline, surrounded by a wide-angle low resolution camera.
Rods, which predominate the wide-angle camera system, are like hyped B&W film... great night sensitivity, but grainy. Cones, which dominate the inner narrow-angle camera system give color vision, but require much higher light levels to operate.
We'd also need to know the size of the chip to figure out the angular resolution which is far more important than the raw 70x70 size.
70x70 that had a large angular span would be very very useful for navigating the world, even if it wouldn't help them read the fine print on the bottom of an auto loan.
70x70 that had a very small angular span would help them read the auto loan but would be absolutely useless for walking out of the house towards the car. Think about it... a blind person's white cane is an extremely high resolution device, but it's angular width is less than 1" at 6 feet.
Since the insurgents have figured out how disable Abrams Tanks, Apache helicopters and Bradley APVs with RPGs, these things will have a *very* *very* limited lifespan before the insurgents start lighting them up like pinball machines.
batteries convery chemical energy to electrical energy. Chemical reactions vary their speed based upon temperature. Your toy is at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, while the probe is at -400 degrees Fahrenheit.
So what you consider to be "minor battery draw" at room temperature is a far different story out in the cold of space.
it'd take a bigger impact for her to feel it.
[thunk] [thunk] [thunk] Any nerves not insulated by silicone?
course with earth and we have to figure out how to nudge it off course, the data this mission gathers will be invaluable.
The ass we save may be our own.
This is too little protection for the people who need it (i.e. corporate/government protection), so those folks will opt for more serious protection.
This is too much protection for Joe Casual User who will pissed at bad cellphone reception, bad TV reception, bad coreless phone. Or downright ineffectiveness if they don't also paint the ceiling, floor and windows. (Note on business plan: Shit! Windows???!? What are we going to do about windows? )
Thumbs down.
The rock abrasion tool could probably provide some useful dentistry.
Every real geek can remember the first time they took a soldering iron to the motherboard to secretly modify their father's computer...
This disaster also highlights the false economy of outsourcing. Companies saved money by moving work offshore because it was cheaper... but they probably didn't factor in the value of infrastructure and redundent transportation that the US provides over third world nations.
India may have the programmers and they may be cheaper per hour, but the risk exposure between crime, nuclear tensions with neighbors, and natural disasters has been ignored. The US's redundent power grids, interstates, and communications link cost money, but in cases like this is where the value is realized.
Hard to contribute to charity when you're unemployed. And as to India being the target... well... karma coming around in some sense.
and on their discussion list was a report of another chute pull. If I remember right, on the first flight after the annual the pilot discovered that the left aileron hadn't been properly reattached and had pulled free and was dangling from one hinge. The pilot was able to get fairly low and slow over a golf course and pull the chute.
Given the choice between landing at DFW with no roll control or popping the chute... well the chute sounds pretty damn attractive to me.
I've got an unopened copy of OS/2 1.3 from way back in the dark ages, and the EULA is folded up and in an unsealed envelope on the back of the shrink-wrap. It seemed a bit much at the time, but I guess those IBM lawyers really do know their stuff!
What do you allege I did? Oh, no... Your honor *I* wasn't the person violating copyright laws. Haul that filthy lawbreaking PC away... Good riddence! (heh heh... time to move in the new Vaio I've been seeing on the side)
I have a number of friends that have their Instrument rating and own planes that have certified GPS systems, but no ADF. And there are lots of airports like GTU that have GPS & a NDB, but no ILS.
There are very few VORs located central enough to a field to enable you to shoot an approach off of them...
Can I dig out my copy of The MajorBBS at that point? If it ran great on a 286-12, it should *sing* on my 2.4GHz Pentium!
I've never watch it the same way again.
The only one that sucked was Xanadu. That movie is so bad that even Mr. Sinus couldn't save it.
Oh, and they flew in the guy that played opposite ON-J for the screening. Boy, how bad does your career have to suck to actually take a gig appearing at show making fun of your only big movie?