Actually, there were quite a few things I liked about Episode I.
First of all, he established the groundwork for what are sure to be two very dark and combat-filled movies.
Also, the lightsaber fight at the end was the best filmed so far.
Even during a second viewing, I was still laughing every time I saw the "thin client" attack droids in action. IMHO, anybody who doesn't think an entire army of Crow T. Robots getting their asses kicked by lizzard men is funny needs to lighten up a little. That battle alone was worth my seven bucks.
On the downside, turning The Force into super-intelligent germs was a huge mistake. In two brief scenes, he ruined the whole series by turning a beautifully impossible fantasy into a very implausable sci-fi load of crap.
This was even less forgivable than the cartoony Jar Jar, the Bat-Grapling-Guns that Amidala's royal guard used, or the fact that Brian Blessed (voice of the Gungan King) put in the corniest performance of his carreer since his hammy appearance in Flash Gordon.
This may be redundant, but these quotes have to be seen to be believed:
...Microsoft may be the only company in the world with the skill and clout to pull it off...
...the public will fully accept the HailStorm concept and Microsoft as a trusted repository within five to 10 years...
..Initially, HailStorm will consist of a universal password and a service...
...If you are in a car accident, HailStorm could automatically send your medical history and insurance information to the hospital before the ambulance arrived...
...Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has been vulnerable to attacks and system failures...
...They're the most attacked infrastructure there is on the Internet, they're the No. 1 target for hackers...
It'll never work. There is no fucking way I'd trust anyone, let alone microsoft, with that sort, or quantity, of private information.
no, the british always comment on the weather because they're all screaming faggots trying to hide their homosexuality by talking about something irrelevant.
I've not been moderated up since I started mentioning moderation in my sig
Are you sure it's just that you've just started talking out of your fucking fat arse? Actually, no it probably isn't that - then you'd get moderated up.
Phys Ed is not about learning physical stuff (at least it isn't for most people), it's about learning not to be a huge fat-arsed bastard. Kids today are getting fatter and less healthy by the year - they need some physical activity, or they'll all die of heart disease by the time they're 40.
Re:Inverse Square Law
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Optical SETI
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You said:
light has been manipulated to make the photons travel parallel to each other
This is impossible in practice, because to create a perfectly parallel (collimated) beam, it would need to be infinitely wide. A laser beam is generally gaussian in cross section, and the divergence of the beam is roughly:
lambda/(pi*omega_0)
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How often does your face appear on security cameras in shops,
streets, and buildings? Today's technology allows computers
to recognize your face, finger print, etcetera; technologies
collectively known as biometrics. It is also known
that governments
sometimes have the bad habit of monitoring our electronic
movements without us knowing (e.g. using the Echelon system).
These ingredients together enable Big Brother like systems
to be built and used by governments, so cautiousness is
needed when implementing biometric technology in our society.
We're going to be discussing this topic in more detail - so come along! --
Programming computer games is hard, probably second only in difficulty to programming enterprise-scale RDBMS systems. One thing we've seen time and again is how open-source is excellent at providing tools on the scale of emacs or perl, which do a fine job at a middle-sized application, but once the level of complexity reaches a large game or RDBMS, the level of centralised control that open-source allows just isn't sufficient to get the job done. Arguably, the only reason that emacs is as good as it is today is that rms rules the roost, and emacs is effictively run as the "cathedral" of GNU. --
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Actually, there were quite a few things I liked about Episode I.
First of all, he established the groundwork for what are sure to be two very dark and combat-filled movies.
Also, the lightsaber fight at the end was the best filmed so far.
Even during a second viewing, I was still laughing every time I saw the "thin client" attack droids in action. IMHO, anybody who doesn't think an entire army of Crow T. Robots getting their asses kicked by lizzard men is funny needs to lighten up a little. That battle alone was worth my seven bucks.
On the downside, turning The Force into super-intelligent germs was a huge mistake. In two brief scenes, he ruined the whole series by turning a beautifully impossible fantasy into a very implausable sci-fi load of crap.
This was even less forgivable than the cartoony Jar Jar, the Bat-Grapling-Guns that Amidala's royal guard used, or the fact that Brian Blessed (voice of the Gungan King) put in the corniest performance of his carreer since his hammy appearance in Flash Gordon.
...Microsoft may be the only company in the world with the skill and clout to pull it off...
...the public will fully accept the HailStorm concept and Microsoft as a trusted repository within five to 10 years...
..Initially, HailStorm will consist of a universal password and a service...
...If you are in a car accident, HailStorm could automatically send your medical history and insurance information to the hospital before the ambulance arrived...
...Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has been vulnerable to attacks and system failures...
...They're the most attacked infrastructure there is on the Internet, they're the No. 1 target for hackers...
It'll never work. There is no fucking way I'd trust anyone, let alone microsoft, with that sort, or quantity, of private information.
well, you know what they say. big feet, massive pen1s.
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no, the british always comment on the weather because they're all screaming faggots trying to hide their homosexuality by talking about something irrelevant.
Are you sure it's just that you've just started talking out of your fucking fat arse? Actually, no it probably isn't that - then you'd get moderated up.
Now, fuck off.
Phys Ed is not about learning physical stuff (at least it isn't for most people), it's about learning not to be a huge fat-arsed bastard. Kids today are getting fatter and less healthy by the year - they need some physical activity, or they'll all die of heart disease by the time they're 40.
lambda/(pi*omega_0)
where omega_0 is the minimum size of the beam (at the waist).
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Just stick these lines in your sblock.ini file for junkbuster:
opera.com
hitcents.com
advertising.com
qkimg.net
qksrv.net
click2net.com
And hey presto - advert free opera.
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We're going to be discussing this topic in more detail - so come along!
--
Programming computer games is hard, probably second only in difficulty to programming enterprise-scale RDBMS systems. One thing we've seen time and again is how open-source is excellent at providing tools on the scale of emacs or perl, which do a fine job at a middle-sized application, but once the level of complexity reaches a large game or RDBMS, the level of centralised control that open-source allows just isn't sufficient to get the job done. Arguably, the only reason that emacs is as good as it is today is that rms rules the roost, and emacs is effictively run as the "cathedral" of GNU.
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