Thank you, yes. A lot of people seem to get too distracted by Abrams' skill at Teh Shiny, and miss the little morality play going on. Actually, I felt the entire thing was about balance, and learning to embrace and control your emotions. Spock must embrace and channel his feelings, while throughout the movie Jim learns to control his, and to respect others. Both are needed to overcome Nero, who has lost all control of himself.
Heck, I've seen people get angry about all the times Jim finds himself hanging off of cliffs, ledges, etc., with no apparent introspection about the fact that it's a blatant metaphor for where he and the entire Federation are: they're hanging off a precipice, in danger of losing their future.
Yeah, I've never understood why there isn't a cheaper way to do digital projection. Why can't you make a 'digital film' that you can mount in front of an old projector's bulb? Might be pricey, but I'd think still way less than for a new digital theater projector. The local drive-in was begging for donations this past summer, so they could buy a new projector. All I can think is price gouging and/or collusion.
Er, no. Yes, it accumulates due to gravity, but it does not "set itself on fire due to acceleration": hydrogen fire (i.e. combustion) is a chemical reaction with oxygen (2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O). A 'star' is an accumulation of hydrogen until the pressure and heat due to self-gravitation are sufficient to allow sustained nuclear fusion to occur.
Having recently had to learn TI assembly to do things on some strangely designed DSP boards, I really do think it should be more widely taught. Memory management takes on a whole new meaning once you've had to fit your program (data acquisition and FFTs) and data into one shared 10kword RAM block which has some hardware-reserved blocks and various alignment requirements. I had plenty of conceptual understanding of how computers worked beforehand, but now things like shared busses, registers, stacks, addressing, interrupts, etc. have much more direct meaning to me, and I feel a lot more grounded even when coding in higher-level languages.
...Not to mention I feel grateful now that I don't often have to use ASM.
You don't even need IPS, just try to test out models in-person (or look for reviews that mention rotation). I've had some mid-range monitors with the problem you mention, but others that work just fine in either orientation.
Also, the most-common size I recall seeing for PC monitors is 1980x1200, though maybe that's changing with 'HD' sizes for TVs taking over.
But the experts say it is so! It doesn't matter that they are talking about a limited usage in a small set of cases, it is clearly blanket applicable to all possible scenarios and people! Give in to the 80 characters! Heck, we might as well just go back to 80-col amber terminals! Anything else is just a waste.
A definite plot hole and lack that will certainly get no help from this DLC is the fact that there was no fighting within the Citadel at the end. The endgame of ME1 established that the Reapers don't have any sort of 'kill switch' to clear the Citadel, and it's a huge city with a large population and a well-trained defense force (well-equipped, too, if you do certain side missions). They might have taken the indefensible central tower easily enough as in ME1, in order to close everything up, but taking the Wards should have been a real fight.
They obviously don't want harm to come to the structure (otherwise why bother moving it to Earth? Just blow it up: Crucible problem solved.) Thus they wouldn't be able to directly attack the Citadel the way they do planets, they'd just have to send in ground forces. I was expecting a fight once I got to that transport beam, a battle of attrition between forces constantly being dropped from some number of Reapers that had shut themselves inside the closed Citadel, and the CDF/C-Sec. Yet another place where Bioware failed at "your actions have consequences." Didn't do any CDF side-missions? Have fun grinding through streets littered with corpses, with no aid. Did all the missions? See the CDF holding their own. Buuut no.
The London mission as final gameplay was lame, it felt like a bad Modern-Call-of-Battlefield-War-Duty clone. Very disappointing, even before the rest of the craptastic ending.
I saw a talk about Levitating Dipole plasma containment, and the speaker mentioned that the technique could be applied to fusion reactors that, on a similar scale to ITER, would be much cheaper (much, much less superconducting material required). Is there any money going into LDs in general, and fusion applications in particular? It seems like a very elegant configuration.
A number of groups down there have raw data rates far too large to store over the winter and ship back (would be 100s of TB). So they send summary plots or averaged data back, and every week or so go through and use the summaries to pick out the interesting times/sectors of data to store long-term until pickup. Better bandwidth could mean better summaries/less averaging, which can lead to better data selection. Or, you know, the winterover teams just want to be able to get Netflix. Probably a little of each.
The same tired arguments, still incomprehensible to me.
The Wings of Liberty campaign was easily as long as the original SC campaign, with massively improved storytelling and gameplay. I'm sure Heart of the Swarm and the Protoss campaign will be just as long, and probably even better.
Halo 2 was easily 50% longer than Halo CE. Halo 3 was perhaps a tad short, but was gorgeous and epic and had a great ending.
All of the above came with complete, entertaining multiplayer (blah blah sc2 lan whatever) too, if you're into that.
In no way did I end up feeling overcharged for these games. Reach I felt robbed by, but that's another argument entirely...
People live on campus, take breaks, etc. A proper university network allows for legal recreational use as long as it does not interfere with 'work' uses (which can be a problem these days even sans torrenting, if a bunch of students are trying to stream Netflix/youtube/whatever videos at once).
I would put Banks' stuff more under "anti-heroic space opera", if there can be such a thing. I mean, come on, he starts off the Culture universe with an entire book from the point of view of someone who abhors the Culture and everything it stands for.
I would say more overly, even childishly optimistic. In the movie he's like one of those dinosaur kids that knows everything about them, and can't! wait! to! share! Which makes for a generally likeable character, but seems a bit off as the head of a huge, successful multinational corporation...
Seriously? Read The Federalist--some incredibly intelligent, thoughtful individuals shaped The Constitution. They did as much as they could to limit the powers of the Federal government, and really, they did a pretty good job--it's taken over 200 years for apathy, ignorance, power, and money to degrade things to their current state, and I think there's still some hope that things will turn around.
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Thank you, yes. A lot of people seem to get too distracted by Abrams' skill at Teh Shiny, and miss the little morality play going on. Actually, I felt the entire thing was about balance, and learning to embrace and control your emotions. Spock must embrace and channel his feelings, while throughout the movie Jim learns to control his, and to respect others. Both are needed to overcome Nero, who has lost all control of himself.
Heck, I've seen people get angry about all the times Jim finds himself hanging off of cliffs, ledges, etc., with no apparent introspection about the fact that it's a blatant metaphor for where he and the entire Federation are: they're hanging off a precipice, in danger of losing their future.
Kids these days...
Yeah, I've never understood why there isn't a cheaper way to do digital projection. Why can't you make a 'digital film' that you can mount in front of an old projector's bulb? Might be pricey, but I'd think still way less than for a new digital theater projector. The local drive-in was begging for donations this past summer, so they could buy a new projector. All I can think is price gouging and/or collusion.
You sure told him, Anonymous Coward! ...
Er, no. Yes, it accumulates due to gravity, but it does not "set itself on fire due to acceleration": hydrogen fire (i.e. combustion) is a chemical reaction with oxygen (2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O). A 'star' is an accumulation of hydrogen until the pressure and heat due to self-gravitation are sufficient to allow sustained nuclear fusion to occur.
Pfft, it's easy as long as your Heisenberg Compensators are properly aligned.
Agree, except for Absolution Gap. Ugh.
Obvious Rand is obvious.
Having recently had to learn TI assembly to do things on some strangely designed DSP boards, I really do think it should be more widely taught. Memory management takes on a whole new meaning once you've had to fit your program (data acquisition and FFTs) and data into one shared 10kword RAM block which has some hardware-reserved blocks and various alignment requirements. I had plenty of conceptual understanding of how computers worked beforehand, but now things like shared busses, registers, stacks, addressing, interrupts, etc. have much more direct meaning to me, and I feel a lot more grounded even when coding in higher-level languages.
...Not to mention I feel grateful now that I don't often have to use ASM.
You don't even need IPS, just try to test out models in-person (or look for reviews that mention rotation). I've had some mid-range monitors with the problem you mention, but others that work just fine in either orientation. Also, the most-common size I recall seeing for PC monitors is 1980x1200, though maybe that's changing with 'HD' sizes for TVs taking over.
But the experts say it is so! It doesn't matter that they are talking about a limited usage in a small set of cases, it is clearly blanket applicable to all possible scenarios and people! Give in to the 80 characters! Heck, we might as well just go back to 80-col amber terminals! Anything else is just a waste.
A definite plot hole and lack that will certainly get no help from this DLC is the fact that there was no fighting within the Citadel at the end. The endgame of ME1 established that the Reapers don't have any sort of 'kill switch' to clear the Citadel, and it's a huge city with a large population and a well-trained defense force (well-equipped, too, if you do certain side missions). They might have taken the indefensible central tower easily enough as in ME1, in order to close everything up, but taking the Wards should have been a real fight.
They obviously don't want harm to come to the structure (otherwise why bother moving it to Earth? Just blow it up: Crucible problem solved.) Thus they wouldn't be able to directly attack the Citadel the way they do planets, they'd just have to send in ground forces. I was expecting a fight once I got to that transport beam, a battle of attrition between forces constantly being dropped from some number of Reapers that had shut themselves inside the closed Citadel, and the CDF/C-Sec. Yet another place where Bioware failed at "your actions have consequences." Didn't do any CDF side-missions? Have fun grinding through streets littered with corpses, with no aid. Did all the missions? See the CDF holding their own. Buuut no.
The London mission as final gameplay was lame, it felt like a bad Modern-Call-of-Battlefield-War-Duty clone. Very disappointing, even before the rest of the craptastic ending.
Oh, delicious Cumberland Farms tuna on wheat, how I can I resist your siren's call?...
I saw a talk about Levitating Dipole plasma containment, and the speaker mentioned that the technique could be applied to fusion reactors that, on a similar scale to ITER, would be much cheaper (much, much less superconducting material required). Is there any money going into LDs in general, and fusion applications in particular? It seems like a very elegant configuration.
You're funny.
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(...also, damaged.)
A number of groups down there have raw data rates far too large to store over the winter and ship back (would be 100s of TB). So they send summary plots or averaged data back, and every week or so go through and use the summaries to pick out the interesting times/sectors of data to store long-term until pickup. Better bandwidth could mean better summaries/less averaging, which can lead to better data selection. Or, you know, the winterover teams just want to be able to get Netflix. Probably a little of each.
OMG yer so L337 can I touch your hair?
The international shippers charge extra to murder their way through the horde of sharks, giant spiders, and dingoes to get the games to your stores.
The same tired arguments, still incomprehensible to me.
The Wings of Liberty campaign was easily as long as the original SC campaign, with massively improved storytelling and gameplay. I'm sure Heart of the Swarm and the Protoss campaign will be just as long, and probably even better.
Halo 2 was easily 50% longer than Halo CE. Halo 3 was perhaps a tad short, but was gorgeous and epic and had a great ending.
All of the above came with complete, entertaining multiplayer (blah blah sc2 lan whatever) too, if you're into that.
In no way did I end up feeling overcharged for these games. Reach I felt robbed by, but that's another argument entirely...
People live on campus, take breaks, etc. A proper university network allows for legal recreational use as long as it does not interfere with 'work' uses (which can be a problem these days even sans torrenting, if a bunch of students are trying to stream Netflix/youtube/whatever videos at once).
Uh, new science stopped costing "$20" a long time ago.
I would put Banks' stuff more under "anti-heroic space opera", if there can be such a thing. I mean, come on, he starts off the Culture universe with an entire book from the point of view of someone who abhors the Culture and everything it stands for.
I would say more overly, even childishly optimistic. In the movie he's like one of those dinosaur kids that knows everything about them, and can't! wait! to! share! Which makes for a generally likeable character, but seems a bit off as the head of a huge, successful multinational corporation...
Seriously? Read The Federalist--some incredibly intelligent, thoughtful individuals shaped The Constitution. They did as much as they could to limit the powers of the Federal government, and really, they did a pretty good job--it's taken over 200 years for apathy, ignorance, power, and money to degrade things to their current state, and I think there's still some hope that things will turn around.
Check it: http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79
Works for me.