IIRC, your system doesn't have to use RPM natively to be compliant. It just has to deal with RPM v.3 packages. This can be done by either installing RPM (can be done), or using alien to change the package format.
Actually, I think RA Heinlen got the last one of the basic dramtic plots with "Boy meets girl, boy gets girl pregnant, boy runs off, girl has baby, learns that she is a hermaphrodite, has sex-reassignment surgery, gets job in the time patrol, runs into her former self and impregnates her, recruits former self into time patrol".
His short story All You Zombies-- from 1939. Its my personal favorite short fiction because it was so damned weird the first time I read it. Its also very well written, especially considering it was one of his first fiction.
Its currently available in the recent anthology The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein.
I've seen the trailers for this and hearing the director's path to get this made reminds me of two recent anime.
The first, Voices of a Distant Star, is similarly, a labor of love by a single director. Its 25 minutes long, so you might want to check it out at Blockbuster (as I did) instead of purchasing it. It has an interesting catch for the plot, mixes 3-D and 2-D animation (both probably done on computers), and keeps up a nice pace. Definitely worth a watch if not a purchase.
The second, Last Exile, is currently being released on DVD, so there's some time left if you want to wait for the entire series (26 eps) to finish being released. Its also shown on G4TechTV, but I don't know the schedule. I like Last Exile because it also has the retro feel to it, with "vancraft" that are reminicent of WWI-era aircraft.
From the Sky Captain promos I've seen, Last Exile is similar in style in and art direction. You'll see plenty of flying retro-style craft battling futuristic enemies. However, Last Exile has a plot worth following.
I finally saw F911 two nights ago. Of course, its full of MM's opinions on matters, but the film forces something upon the viewer that is genuinely necessary:
It makes you think!
It shows that George W. Bush and the people in his administration are not the simple Mayberry-ites they try to project. These are people with histories and dealings with many of the bad actors in today's world. They have ties and influence (and influenced by) a lot of what is the core of today's terrorist regimes.
You can dispute the movie all you wish, but it makes you think and wonder what's really going on. Oh, and its highly hypocritical to hold MM to a such a high standard when the Bush administration is allowed a pass on too many matters.
I think everyone should see it. Be full-warned that it has a strong emotional thrust in the second half, and the last third is a good bit different. I'd say all of the contested distortions are in the first half of the movie.
Here's what I think Atari should do: Create a console on par with the SNES. That sort of hardware should be extremely cheap at this point, and could easily be manufactured for retail prices in the $20-$40 range. Sell simple "smart card" games (or something equally as inexpensive to manufacture) for $5-$10 a piece.
Its called a Game Boy Advance. It satisfies all of your criteria, and games from the Atari-era forward are often rereleased on it. You can even play those games on a TV using the GameBoy Player from Nintendo, or a hardware modification available online.
it won't matter how much money we throw at the schools or how lively and wonderful the teachers are
And in some cases its not the money we through at the school that is counter-productive. My mother is one of the best educators I ever hope to see. In her, in the heart of Georgia's poorest county, her students are an a "track system" where students are placed in classes ("tracks") according to ability.
Disregarding notions of fairness, this places the poorest performing (and poorest students) in here classes. She's had students who are capable to move into a higher track (i.e., able to perform at their grade level), but seemingly don't perform. Some of these student's mothers receive SSI checks for the child being declared mentally handicapped.
Except, the child is not actully handicapped. He or she will act such, but when encouraged to perform better, can do the work successfully. However, its a case of one-step-forward, two-steps-back. When the child returns from home after successful performance, he or she will perform worse, pretending to be mentally handicapped.
If you've lived in poor, rural areas such as this you'll know what's happening: that monther depends upon the SSI check, so the child is instructed to put on an act. I suspect some dicipline is used to enforce the notion with the child.
I can offer no solution to this problem except that the child could do better if the mother didn't depend upon an SSI check. However, its very likely that's the primary income for this family. I don't know whether the parent(s) are using that money to actually support the family or not, but its clear they are destitute and this girl's performance in a classroom has less to do with my mother's abilities to educate her, and more on the plight of her family.
"UN nations opposing overthrow of Saddam found to have taken bribes from same".
Are you referring to the UN Oil-for-Food scandals? I seem to remember that the only source for that scandal (Ahmed Chalabi) is currently very much out-of-favor with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. Yes, that's the same Chalabi currently under investigation for passing sensitive American information to the Iranian mullahs. As far as I've heard, he's the only source, and he's been known to . . . shall we say, stretch the truth a bit.
Gold, however, can have value because the seller will use it for jewelry, or to electroplate his video cables, or even to pound flat and put on an office window.
And gold is just a metal. It has intrinsic utility, but it has no "value". We assign "value" by setting a rate of exchange. An ounce of gold has no intrinsic "value", it cannot in-and-of-itself be exchanged for everyday items required to sustain your life.
Try this: purchase a gold coin, go to your local grocery store, try to use the gold coin to purchase a gallon of milk. I'm willing to bet the shop clerk will laugh in your face.
Ask yourself: "Self, what is value?" Gold is not "value", though we assign a value to it. In the end, "value" is simply the exchange of one object for an object we desire or need. Those little greenbacks have as much "value" as we assign to them. Actually, the entire process is a good bit more complicated.
See, other people "buy" US Dollars on the open market. They "buy" the "value" represented by the little green picture of dead-white-guys. These markets obey all of the usual rules of supply-and-demand, much like any other thing of "value". However, instead of mining a metal out of the ground, we print greenbacks. The Federal Reserve (National Banks in other nations), monitors the exchange rate of the currency. Ours is left to "float", that is, it assumes the "value" assigned to it by the currency markets of the world. Other currencies set a "value", to the US Dollar, to a Euro, to ounces of gold, etc.
Oh, and our Federal Reserve can use monetary supply to help pull us out of tricky economic situations. Its a delicate thing, but increasing monetary supply in the face of depression can get enough money in circulation to pull away from the depression. Cutting taxes does something similar, but over a longer period of time (it takes time to legislate and then act upon a tax cut). Increasing the monetary supply is much faster and simpler. This must be balanced as rampant inflation is not desireable, but modest inflation helps keep money in circulation.
I've been burned by two shoddy laptop hard drive enclosures. Its *extremely* difficult to find any realy information about these things as most are "house brand" relabeled POS crud.
Can anyone recommend a reliable and decent enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive? I'd prefer one that costs under $50, but I'm having a hard time locating anything that looks like it'd acutally work.
Its still active and of the major campaign blogs it kicked major ass. It allowed all registered users to have their own blog, which became a very useful feature for individuals to post and retain community information.
It also didn't moderate (except for particularly egregious postings) by removal of posts. It used the moderation system from kuro5hin.org (and was based on scoop), which let the users moderate posts up and down. It worked pretty well, and the community kept a pretty fair hand in moderating.
When the Clark campaign was in full gear, it was the best of the major campaign blogs, by far. There was and is no comparison. And it formed a nice community that is still actively discussing things today.
One major point of the article is that is inefficient to carry around hydrogen as a gas, so carry it around as ethanol, which can yield 4 or 5 hydrogen molecules per molecule of ethanol. Its also easier to transport and store than gaseous hydrogen.
Now, producing that ethanol has been a net negative fuel using corn. However, the newer technology is to use the waste products and not the corn fruit. This is celluloid ethanol and is easier to produce, is cheaper, and can be produced using crops grown in the desert (switch grass).
Now, couple cheaper ethanol with a new (and very cheap) converter to strip off the hydrogen and we're talking about some power. True, it still produces carbon, but its less than fossil fuels and its all produced from plant-materials, so its not pulling carbon out of the ground.
I do not believe either produces a net energy gain once ALL factors of production have been accounted for - this includes . . ..
And until I read this article a couple days ago, I thought that was the whole story. Well, the article linked at the bottom of the #1 link is all about celluloid ethanol. This is produced from corn stalks, which are agricultural waste. It also suggest a plant known as switchgrass, which can be farmed in desert locales unsuitable for food crops.
It also presents a new way to extract the hydrogen from the ehtanol, even when there's still water present in the mix. This means not as much fuel needs to be expended to create today's fuel-grade ethanols.
So, we have ethanol produced more efficiently from crop wastes, hydrogen transported more efficiently in the form of ethanol, and a catalytic converter than can extract the hydrogen. Pile all of this on top of a very efficient fuel cell and you've got yourself one heckuva neat system.
Its not the absolute best system, but its very, very good.
As usual, noone's reading the article before complaining about the unavailability of hydrogen.
Now, the article's a little pie-in-the-sky, but it gives and overview of some interesting new breakthroughs. First, is the economic production of ethanol from the wasted part of the corn crops, namely stalks. Second, the possiblity of farming other, more ethanol-friendly crops like switchgrass, which can be grown on land not useful for food crops. Third, is a new and cheap device capable of extracting the hydrogen molecules from ethanol, even ethanol with a bit of water, so it doesn't have to be as pure as is found in today's gasoline mixtures.
I'd say the final breakthrough isn't about science, its about being realistic. There are drawbacks to these other technologies, namely they still produce carbon-dioxide and carbon-monoxide. They're not pollution-free, but possibly their less polluting than what we currently have available. The last breakthrough is about accepting the very good even if its not the best. That's an important point.
Taken together, these breakthroughs are a bit aways from the market, but proper investments would help them come about sooner. I'm not sure I see why the ethanol lobbies should object as they could still get the money and sell the corn, too.
The budget under discussion is the product of *Congress*, not the Administration. The President that you revile as not supporting science has threatened to veto the NASA budget unless science funding is restored.
I just want to point out that that's a pretty tame threat on the part of the President. So far, he's not vetoed a single bill that passes his desk. I don't think he's really planning on starting any time soon.
And just to mention it, he's also threatening to veto the Highway and Transportation bill if he doesn't get his way with it. I might actually support such a veto as it sounds as if that bill is a bit of Highway and a lot of pork.
Slight quibble: all of those images are from the manga comics and stand-alone artwork. While they are the Ghost in the Shell character Motoko Musanagi, they are not "examples of important cinematography" as none are from a cinegraphic source.
Also, the movie is not the comic. I have not read the comic in its entirety, but from what I've read of it and of comments by the movie's director the movie is quite different in style and substance. I'd say one is that Motoko is not nude as much and the size of her bust is scaled back a bit. She also doesn't have her "side job" selling sexual experiences online. The comic featured much more graphic sex and nudity that the film ignores.
I'd go as far as say that very little of the nudity in the film can really be taken as sexually exciting as it is often paired with mutilation of some form, e.g. the Puppet Master's cyborg body exposes breasts but features detached limbs and lower torso.
I watched a camer-grab raw, so I can't tell you a lot about the story than what is already available, but there is much less nudity. This is mostly because (as is already well-known) the movie focuses on Batou. There is a bit of nudity, but the nudes are always known to be cyborgs or androids, usually in an unfinished or damaged state. I think the trailer features one such instance.
FWIW, one of the recurring themes in the GitS movies and TV shows is the use of artificial life forms as sexual aids. The "doll" featured in the trailer appears to be geisha model, which are also featured in an early episode of Stand Alone Complex. Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig also features Major Motoko as an escort and I believe the first comic (edited out in the US, but the pages are available online) has Motoko illegally selling female sexual stimulations online.
So, short answer, there's less, but it wouldn't be GitS without some. Oh, and plenty of violence.
Well, if I understand the GPL accurately, you can't use a GPL lib without sharing your entire codebase.
This is false. Much like the BSD-licensed code, you may GPL'ed code for anything you wish.
What you cannot do is to distribute GPL code without offering the same rights as you were given under the GPL.
So, if the app is just some random internal-use-only app, then using GPL code is perfectly reasonable and legal. However, if it is a product the company distributes, then yes, your code will need to be GPL compatible. There is more than one way to do so, some which would not mean disclosing the source of your code.
I've been following the news around the Changing World Technologies/ConAgra TDP plant for a couple years, now. Wouldn't it be somewhat more efficient to simply grow the algae and then pump it into the TDP process to output the oil?
It seems some armchair arguement could be made that producing the oil by using the algae as raw feedstock (or even to just keep the feedstock regular when other stock runs low, i.e., lack of turkey parts in Missouri) for a TDP plant would be more efficient than producing unrefined oils directly from the algae.
Since TDP produces more reliable product when the feedstock is regular, it may even be possible to develop algaes that have similar post-TDP properties to the regular feedstock (i.e., algae that generates products in similar proportion and quality as turkies).
it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil"
Who said we need to use land to do this? It could be quite effective to setup some off-shore containment areas (oil floats, so does algae) in any convenient ocean area and let nature take its course. No land used.
Wasting a 100x100 mile area is what the enviros will also complain about because of the disruption to the local ecology. There is no group harder to please than they are.
This may also be true for using some ocean-front property, but I think the use of land or ocean for these ends should more than satisfy most enviros. This is, of course, assuming adequate protection of the local ecology is taken into account.
Are you able to start working in modern Fortran? As in Fortran 90/95. I'm working on a similar task, though I'm actually rewriting the entire code from F66 + Cray pointers to modern Fortran (and not a pointer in sight).
Yeah, gotos can be a pain if the author uses them as control strucures (such as loops and if/then/else structures), which are available in F77. If they are used by control strucutures to direct the flow to chunks of code, then rewriting those chunks as subroutines or functions may help you're understanding.
The Earth's electromagnetic field is a popular choice among these hucksters. With this guy, it's magnets.
While this particular idea has to be proven not to be a hoax, there is at least some merit to the use of permanent magnets arranged properly to increase the efficiency of the output and desired effect.
Its been done with maglev trains by Lawrence Livermore National Labs using Halbrach arrays:
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Post.html
So, as you say, it could be a hoax and he a crackpot, but there is at least some precident for the technology the article describes.
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IIRC, your system doesn't have to use RPM natively to be compliant. It just has to deal with RPM v.3 packages. This can be done by either installing RPM (can be done), or using alien to change the package format.
Actually, I think RA Heinlen got the last one of the basic dramtic plots with "Boy meets girl, boy gets girl pregnant, boy runs off, girl has baby, learns that she is a hermaphrodite, has sex-reassignment surgery, gets job in the time patrol, runs into her former self and impregnates her, recruits former self into time patrol".
His short story All You Zombies-- from 1939. Its my personal favorite short fiction because it was so damned weird the first time I read it. Its also very well written, especially considering it was one of his first fiction.
Its currently available in the recent anthology The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein.
I've seen the trailers for this and hearing the director's path to get this made reminds me of two recent anime.
The first, Voices of a Distant Star, is similarly, a labor of love by a single director. Its 25 minutes long, so you might want to check it out at Blockbuster (as I did) instead of purchasing it. It has an interesting catch for the plot, mixes 3-D and 2-D animation (both probably done on computers), and keeps up a nice pace. Definitely worth a watch if not a purchase.
The second, Last Exile, is currently being released on DVD, so there's some time left if you want to wait for the entire series (26 eps) to finish being released. Its also shown on G4TechTV, but I don't know the schedule. I like Last Exile because it also has the retro feel to it, with "vancraft" that are reminicent of WWI-era aircraft.
From the Sky Captain promos I've seen, Last Exile is similar in style in and art direction. You'll see plenty of flying retro-style craft battling futuristic enemies. However, Last Exile has a plot worth following.
Check 'em out!
I finally saw F911 two nights ago. Of course, its full of MM's opinions on matters, but the film forces something upon the viewer that is genuinely necessary:
It makes you think!
It shows that George W. Bush and the people in his administration are not the simple Mayberry-ites they try to project. These are people with histories and dealings with many of the bad actors in today's world. They have ties and influence (and influenced by) a lot of what is the core of today's terrorist regimes.
You can dispute the movie all you wish, but it makes you think and wonder what's really going on. Oh, and its highly hypocritical to hold MM to a such a high standard when the Bush administration is allowed a pass on too many matters.
I think everyone should see it. Be full-warned that it has a strong emotional thrust in the second half, and the last third is a good bit different. I'd say all of the contested distortions are in the first half of the movie.
Here's what I think Atari should do: Create a console on par with the SNES. That sort of hardware should be extremely cheap at this point, and could easily be manufactured for retail prices in the $20-$40 range. Sell simple "smart card" games (or something equally as inexpensive to manufacture) for $5-$10 a piece.
Its called a Game Boy Advance. It satisfies all of your criteria, and games from the Atari-era forward are often rereleased on it. You can even play those games on a TV using the GameBoy Player from Nintendo, or a hardware modification available online.
it won't matter how much money we throw at the schools or how lively and wonderful the teachers are
And in some cases its not the money we through at the school that is counter-productive. My mother is one of the best educators I ever hope to see. In her, in the heart of Georgia's poorest county, her students are an a "track system" where students are placed in classes ("tracks") according to ability.
Disregarding notions of fairness, this places the poorest performing (and poorest students) in here classes. She's had students who are capable to move into a higher track (i.e., able to perform at their grade level), but seemingly don't perform. Some of these student's mothers receive SSI checks for the child being declared mentally handicapped.
Except, the child is not actully handicapped. He or she will act such, but when encouraged to perform better, can do the work successfully. However, its a case of one-step-forward, two-steps-back. When the child returns from home after successful performance, he or she will perform worse, pretending to be mentally handicapped.
If you've lived in poor, rural areas such as this you'll know what's happening: that monther depends upon the SSI check, so the child is instructed to put on an act. I suspect some dicipline is used to enforce the notion with the child.
I can offer no solution to this problem except that the child could do better if the mother didn't depend upon an SSI check. However, its very likely that's the primary income for this family. I don't know whether the parent(s) are using that money to actually support the family or not, but its clear they are destitute and this girl's performance in a classroom has less to do with my mother's abilities to educate her, and more on the plight of her family.
"UN nations opposing overthrow of Saddam found to have taken bribes from same".
Are you referring to the UN Oil-for-Food scandals? I seem to remember that the only source for that scandal (Ahmed Chalabi) is currently very much out-of-favor with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. Yes, that's the same Chalabi currently under investigation for passing sensitive American information to the Iranian mullahs. As far as I've heard, he's the only source, and he's been known to . . . shall we say, stretch the truth a bit.
ut hay, Chaos was cool:) [anyone ever able to beat Warmech?]
;)
Yeah, I beat a Warmech, but never a Warmech and Chaos afterwards. That was a plain dirty trick by Square
Gold, however, can have value because the seller will use it for jewelry, or to electroplate his video cables, or even to pound flat and put on an office window.
And gold is just a metal. It has intrinsic utility, but it has no "value". We assign "value" by setting a rate of exchange. An ounce of gold has no intrinsic "value", it cannot in-and-of-itself be exchanged for everyday items required to sustain your life.
Try this: purchase a gold coin, go to your local grocery store, try to use the gold coin to purchase a gallon of milk. I'm willing to bet the shop clerk will laugh in your face.
Ask yourself: "Self, what is value?" Gold is not "value", though we assign a value to it. In the end, "value" is simply the exchange of one object for an object we desire or need. Those little greenbacks have as much "value" as we assign to them. Actually, the entire process is a good bit more complicated.
See, other people "buy" US Dollars on the open market. They "buy" the "value" represented by the little green picture of dead-white-guys. These markets obey all of the usual rules of supply-and-demand, much like any other thing of "value". However, instead of mining a metal out of the ground, we print greenbacks. The Federal Reserve (National Banks in other nations), monitors the exchange rate of the currency. Ours is left to "float", that is, it assumes the "value" assigned to it by the currency markets of the world. Other currencies set a "value", to the US Dollar, to a Euro, to ounces of gold, etc.
Oh, and our Federal Reserve can use monetary supply to help pull us out of tricky economic situations. Its a delicate thing, but increasing monetary supply in the face of depression can get enough money in circulation to pull away from the depression. Cutting taxes does something similar, but over a longer period of time (it takes time to legislate and then act upon a tax cut). Increasing the monetary supply is much faster and simpler. This must be balanced as rampant inflation is not desireable, but modest inflation helps keep money in circulation.
I've been burned by two shoddy laptop hard drive enclosures. Its *extremely* difficult to find any realy information about these things as most are "house brand" relabeled POS crud.
Can anyone recommend a reliable and decent enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive? I'd prefer one that costs under $50, but I'm having a hard time locating anything that looks like it'd acutally work.
This all reminds me of the hubbub about the Taiwanese flag in an old version of RedHat. I think their solution was to simply stop using flags, period.
Its still active and of the major campaign blogs it kicked major ass. It allowed all registered users to have their own blog, which became a very useful feature for individuals to post and retain community information.
It also didn't moderate (except for particularly egregious postings) by removal of posts. It used the moderation system from kuro5hin.org (and was based on scoop), which let the users moderate posts up and down. It worked pretty well, and the community kept a pretty fair hand in moderating.
When the Clark campaign was in full gear, it was the best of the major campaign blogs, by far. There was and is no comparison. And it formed a nice community that is still actively discussing things today.
And you miss the point. Here's the article obscured in one of the links:
ethanol and fuel cells
One major point of the article is that is inefficient to carry around hydrogen as a gas, so carry it around as ethanol, which can yield 4 or 5 hydrogen molecules per molecule of ethanol. Its also easier to transport and store than gaseous hydrogen.
Now, producing that ethanol has been a net negative fuel using corn. However, the newer technology is to use the waste products and not the corn fruit. This is celluloid ethanol and is easier to produce, is cheaper, and can be produced using crops grown in the desert (switch grass).
Now, couple cheaper ethanol with a new (and very cheap) converter to strip off the hydrogen and we're talking about some power. True, it still produces carbon, but its less than fossil fuels and its all produced from plant-materials, so its not pulling carbon out of the ground.
I do not believe either produces a net energy gain once ALL factors of production have been accounted for - this includes . . . .
And until I read this article a couple days ago, I thought that was the whole story. Well, the article linked at the bottom of the #1 link is all about celluloid ethanol. This is produced from corn stalks, which are agricultural waste. It also suggest a plant known as switchgrass, which can be farmed in desert locales unsuitable for food crops.
It also presents a new way to extract the hydrogen from the ehtanol, even when there's still water present in the mix. This means not as much fuel needs to be expended to create today's fuel-grade ethanols.
So, we have ethanol produced more efficiently from crop wastes, hydrogen transported more efficiently in the form of ethanol, and a catalytic converter than can extract the hydrogen. Pile all of this on top of a very efficient fuel cell and you've got yourself one heckuva neat system.
Its not the absolute best system, but its very, very good.
As usual, noone's reading the article before complaining about the unavailability of hydrogen.
Now, the article's a little pie-in-the-sky, but it gives and overview of some interesting new breakthroughs. First, is the economic production of ethanol from the wasted part of the corn crops, namely stalks. Second, the possiblity of farming other, more ethanol-friendly crops like switchgrass, which can be grown on land not useful for food crops. Third, is a new and cheap device capable of extracting the hydrogen molecules from ethanol, even ethanol with a bit of water, so it doesn't have to be as pure as is found in today's gasoline mixtures.
I'd say the final breakthrough isn't about science, its about being realistic. There are drawbacks to these other technologies, namely they still produce carbon-dioxide and carbon-monoxide. They're not pollution-free, but possibly their less polluting than what we currently have available. The last breakthrough is about accepting the
very good even if its not the best. That's an important point.
Taken together, these breakthroughs are a bit aways from the market, but proper investments would help them come about sooner. I'm not sure I see why the ethanol lobbies should object as they could still get the money and sell the corn, too.
I just want to point out that that's a pretty tame threat on the part of the President. So far, he's not vetoed a single bill that passes his desk. I don't think he's really planning on starting any time soon.
And just to mention it, he's also threatening to veto the Highway and Transportation bill if he doesn't get his way with it. I might actually support such a veto as it sounds as if that bill is a bit of Highway and a lot of pork.
Slight quibble: all of those images are from the manga comics and stand-alone artwork. While they are the Ghost in the Shell character Motoko Musanagi, they are not "examples of important cinematography" as none are from a cinegraphic source.
Also, the movie is not the comic. I have not read the comic in its entirety, but from what I've read of it and of comments by the movie's director the movie is quite different in style and substance. I'd say one is that Motoko is not nude as much and the size of her bust is scaled back a bit. She also doesn't have her "side job" selling sexual experiences online. The comic featured much more graphic sex and nudity that the film ignores.
I'd go as far as say that very little of the nudity in the film can really be taken as sexually exciting as it is often paired with mutilation of some form, e.g. the Puppet Master's cyborg body exposes breasts but features detached limbs and lower torso.
***SPOILERS***
I watched a camer-grab raw, so I can't tell you a lot about the story than what is already available, but there is much less nudity. This is mostly because (as is already well-known) the movie focuses on Batou. There is a bit of nudity, but the nudes are always known to be cyborgs or androids, usually in an unfinished or damaged state. I think the trailer features one such instance.
FWIW, one of the recurring themes in the GitS movies and TV shows is the use of artificial life forms as sexual aids. The "doll" featured in the trailer appears to be geisha model, which are also featured in an early episode of Stand Alone Complex. Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig also features Major Motoko as an escort and I believe the first comic (edited out in the US, but the pages are available online) has Motoko illegally selling female sexual stimulations online.
So, short answer, there's less, but it wouldn't be GitS without some. Oh, and plenty of violence.
Here's a quick link that may be of some value to you web-heads:
IE7 stylesheet
Include this stylesheet with your code and some of the IE quirks get handled for you. The page contains enough info to get you going. Good luck!
Well, if I understand the GPL accurately, you can't use a GPL lib without sharing your entire codebase.
This is false. Much like the BSD-licensed code, you may GPL'ed code for anything you wish.
What you cannot do is to distribute GPL code without offering the same rights as you were given under the GPL.
So, if the app is just some random internal-use-only app, then using GPL code is perfectly reasonable and legal. However, if it is a product the company distributes, then yes, your code will need to be GPL compatible. There is more than one way to do so, some which would not mean disclosing the source of your code.
I've been following the news around the Changing World Technologies/ConAgra TDP plant for a couple years, now. Wouldn't it be somewhat more efficient to simply grow the algae and then pump it into the TDP process to output the oil?
It seems some armchair arguement could be made that producing the oil by using the algae as raw feedstock (or even to just keep the feedstock regular when other stock runs low, i.e., lack of turkey parts in Missouri) for a TDP plant would be more efficient than producing unrefined oils directly from the algae.
Since TDP produces more reliable product when the feedstock is regular, it may even be possible to develop algaes that have similar post-TDP properties to the regular feedstock (i.e., algae that generates products in similar proportion and quality as turkies).
Or economically useless ocean ;-) There's a bit more of that than land.
Who said we need to use land to do this? It could be quite effective to setup some off-shore containment areas (oil floats, so does algae) in any convenient ocean area and let nature take its course. No land used.
Wasting a 100x100 mile area is what the enviros will also complain about because of the disruption to the local ecology. There is no group harder to please than they are.
This may also be true for using some ocean-front property, but I think the use of land or ocean for these ends should more than satisfy most enviros. This is, of course, assuming adequate protection of the local ecology is taken into account.
e.g. I'm working on a large F77 program (ugh...)
Are you able to start working in modern Fortran? As in Fortran 90/95. I'm working on a similar task, though I'm actually rewriting the entire code from F66 + Cray pointers to modern Fortran (and not a pointer in sight).
Yeah, gotos can be a pain if the author uses them as control strucures (such as loops and if/then/else structures), which are available in F77. If they are used by control strucutures to direct the flow to chunks of code, then rewriting those chunks as subroutines or functions may help you're understanding.
The Earth's electromagnetic field is a popular choice among these hucksters. With this guy, it's magnets.
While this particular idea has to be proven not to be a hoax, there is at least some merit to the use of permanent magnets arranged properly to increase the efficiency of the output and desired effect.
Its been done with maglev trains by Lawrence Livermore National Labs using Halbrach arrays:
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Post.html
So, as you say, it could be a hoax and he a crackpot, but there is at least some precident for the technology the article describes.