Why would NASA want information on airlines' passengers? I can understand the Government, in general would, but NASA? NASA does space exploration, not national defense. What gives?
They "misplaced" one of their super intelligent space monkeys and are covertly trying to find where he fled to without alerting the unsespecting authorities.
Recent reports of fluctuating banana prices only spurred their resolve. Bonkers MUST be found before he mates!
Way to generalize. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's character designs on Evangelion were purposely made more realistic than typical anime - the eyes and faces are in more or less correct proportion, and except for some too-perfect bodies on the adults, the overall proportions are pretty much right as well.
I have here the Evangelion concept art book and a human anatomy book.
The evangelion characters' legs account for two thirds of their body lenght. Normal humans are about 50% leg in height.
I agree with the article submitter. In the anime the eva pilots are all teens correct? (Even Rei...sorta. )...the concept art Weta presented makes them all look like dumpy 20 or 30somethings IMHO. granted the anime style in general presents females as perhaps over-thin, but thats part of the character in some isntances--for examle Rei, who seems so frail and wispy and so forth.
Anime character typically have exagerated traits, most notably the proportions of the legs, and most obviously the large eyes.
Those concept art pictures depict normal humans with proportions that actually occur in nature and not just on paper. The kind of humans that are likely to actually show up for casting.
I had a friend who had an import of DOA1, when I would start winning against him he would put the option "bouncing breasts" on and I could never win again...and I liked it;- )
I think giving women an equal chance is great, but if they are going to do all the same bone headed, greedy crap that men do why bother?
I think its incredibly [censored] that people would think that women would be better persons than men. "Oh, the world is run by men and they are all evil and selfish...MEN must be evil and selfish!"...no, people who crave power are evil and selfish, women just die more from having babies, hence the fact that men got more power (hard to have power when you're dead). Now that medicine is changing the world, women finally get their chance to prove that they are as evil, stupid, selfish and cruel as men.
compare them to the Star Trek 'effects' of the same vintage there is no comparison, the BBC effects were low budget but they were much more imaginative. Star Trek's idea of originality was a new pattern of ridges on a new kind of alien's forehead.
Wrong-o, boy-o.
The foreheads started in the 80's, back in the 60's, it was ears. Jeez, if you're gonna spew cliche rants about a show, at least get your timelines straight.
Of course over in the UK we teach this thing called evolution in the schools so there is kind of an assumption that aliens are likely to be completely different.
Non humanoid actors are hard to come by.
The other thing is that the BBC still does a lot with radio, we are quite used to seeing stuff that leaves much to the imagination.
So, you got good acid in the UK then? Brilliant!;-)
here's the deal. You buy a AAC [...] You can buy the music from exactly (1) source - iTunes music store.
Er, no, its the other way around: If you buy from the iTunes Music Store you can only buy (1) format: AAC.
And then, you can burn 'em on CDs, and from then on its up to you: Play 'em in discmans, CD players, or re-rip 'em to MP3 or OOG and have a grand ol' time!
Apple, otoh, wants you to use their format using their music store and their portable player.
I am no English expert, but it sure sounds like they are tryin to say that WMA should be the only game in town, and are at the same time trying to play it off that they 'want' competition.
Doubletalk is doubleplus good!
Its a sentence constructed in a way that is meant to make its readers come off with a feeling that 1) Dell wants what's best for them, 2) Dell made industry choices based on what is best for the costumer (damned lie), 3) Dell's choice will become a standard, and therefore: if you buy a different standard than what Dell is selling you will be buying something that will be nonstandard in the future (ooooh, bad!).
Fahrenheit is well suited to the human condition on earth.
That's why when talking about robots on mars its utterly absurd.
0 F is roughly the coldest temperature people most people experience in
I'm Canadian you short-sleeved wuss! I bet you've never walked out to find that all the humidity in you nose froze up all at once when you inhaled...some people never lived.
And I think that most of humanity actually lives in tropical climes, where 0F pretty much never happens.
and 100 F the hottest (obviously there are greater extremes, but we're talking about the bulk of the population).
We have this newfangled thing called "fire" nowadays, gets quite a bit hotter than 38 degrees (what you'd call 100)...
Ovens also happen to work very well on the fahrenheit scale (200 F - 500 F).
Yeah, I tried to set an oven to 200 celcius once and the fabric of space time caved in! It was the darndest thing!
Seriously, devices work well with the unit they were designed to work with? Wow! What an insight!
Basing temperature on a random molecule's states at a specific atmospheric pressure is fairly arbitrary and has little to do with the human condition.
Yeah, random. I mean, its what we are mostly made of! And if you don't drink any of it for 3 days you die. 70% of our planet is covered in it. Yeah, it has SO little to do with the human condition! Hell, most people have never even seen water! Totally random, totally unrellated to the human condition.
Not sure why IBm is pussyfooting arond on this one either, unless it's to make sure they don't piss off Microsoft so they'll be penalized in the retail or business support sector. Who knows why they're pussyfooting around with this.
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How many vibrators do they need?
Asuka is a Japanese name for an American character.
Asuka is half german half japanese...
Why would NASA want information on airlines' passengers? I can understand the Government, in general would, but NASA? NASA does space exploration, not national defense. What gives?
They "misplaced" one of their super intelligent space monkeys and are covertly trying to find where he fled to without alerting the unsespecting authorities.
Recent reports of fluctuating banana prices only spurred their resolve. Bonkers MUST be found before he mates!
Way to generalize. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's character designs on Evangelion were purposely made more realistic than typical anime - the eyes and faces are in more or less correct proportion, and except for some too-perfect bodies on the adults, the overall proportions are pretty much right as well.
I have here the Evangelion concept art book and a human anatomy book.
The evangelion characters' legs account for two thirds of their body lenght. Normal humans are about 50% leg in height.
Am I mistaken of will the cast of this movie NOT include any japanese actors?
If so... I already hate it.
Does Kate Rose sound like "costume designer" though?
Kate Rose
Maybe, just maybe its the name of the costume designer?
I agree with the article submitter. In the anime the eva pilots are all teens correct? (Even Rei...sorta. )...the concept art Weta presented makes them all look like dumpy 20 or 30somethings IMHO. granted the anime style in general presents females as perhaps over-thin, but thats part of the character in some isntances--for examle Rei, who seems so frail and wispy and so forth.
Anime character typically have exagerated traits, most notably the proportions of the legs, and most obviously the large eyes.
Those concept art pictures depict normal humans with proportions that actually occur in nature and not just on paper. The kind of humans that are likely to actually show up for casting.
I had a friend who had an import of DOA1, when I would start winning against him he would put the option "bouncing breasts" on and I could never win again...and I liked it ;- )
Nice FUD [...] Calories are Calories, the only difference is quantity.
Nice FUD indeed. You gorge yourself with cholesterol and hydrogenated oils and fats, I'll go cook with olive oil and eat some fish.
I think giving women an equal chance is great, but if they are going to do all the same bone headed, greedy crap that men do why bother?
I think its incredibly [censored] that people would think that women would be better persons than men. "Oh, the world is run by men and they are all evil and selfish...MEN must be evil and selfish!"...no, people who crave power are evil and selfish, women just die more from having babies, hence the fact that men got more power (hard to have power when you're dead). Now that medicine is changing the world, women finally get their chance to prove that they are as evil, stupid, selfish and cruel as men.
that Doctor Who does not have its own Slashdot topic.
There used to be one, but it got lost...
: )
compare them to the Star Trek 'effects' of the same vintage there is no comparison, the BBC effects were low budget but they were much more imaginative. Star Trek's idea of originality was a new pattern of ridges on a new kind of alien's forehead.
;-)
Wrong-o, boy-o.
The foreheads started in the 80's, back in the 60's, it was ears.
Jeez, if you're gonna spew cliche rants about a show, at least get your timelines straight.
Of course over in the UK we teach this thing called evolution in the schools so there is kind of an assumption that aliens are likely to be completely different.
Non humanoid actors are hard to come by.
The other thing is that the BBC still does a lot with radio, we are quite used to seeing stuff that leaves much to the imagination.
So, you got good acid in the UK then? Brilliant!
If I were you, I would have slashdotted them instead of slashdotting myself, but I'm a vindictive bastard, not a masochist
but sometimes low bandwidth and high latency help to encourage more careful thinking, resulting in higher quality.
Ok, that's it. Hand over your modem, you're back to snail mail!
: )
not that hotmail has an effective spam filter
And that's not a coincidence.
Hotmail is owned by greedy greedy Microsoft, and is a free service.
Why would Microsoft give away free stuff? Because they sell it to someone else, ie, the spammers.
That's my theory at least.
a while ago I got a spam that contained a few exerpts from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. I got a laugh of that one.
...never more ;- )
I found that 10F was the temperature at which you could feel the ice forming during a deep nose breath.
At -32c, its insta-freeze even with a shallow breath.
We should make a scale, teach it to boyscouts or something : )
here's the deal. You buy a AAC [...] You can buy the music from exactly (1) source - iTunes music store.
Er, no, its the other way around: If you buy from the iTunes Music Store you can only buy (1) format: AAC.
And then, you can burn 'em on CDs, and from then on its up to you: Play 'em in discmans, CD players, or re-rip 'em to MP3 or OOG and have a grand ol' time!
Apple, otoh, wants you to use their format using their music store and their portable player.
You think MS is giving those WMA liscences away?
if you want to use your purchased music from apple you can (as of righ tnow) play it on exactly 1 portable device, the ipod.
And exactly every single CD player in existance (including all portables) if you have a burner.
WMA's can be played on virutally any major mp3 player (except the ipod).
Every major player except the #1 player? Cute : )
And as far as I know, if you buy DRMed WMA: No CD burning for you!
I am no English expert, but it sure sounds like they are tryin to say that WMA should be the only game in town, and are at the same time trying to play it off that they 'want' competition.
Doubletalk is doubleplus good!
Its a sentence constructed in a way that is meant to make its readers come off with a feeling that 1) Dell wants what's best for them, 2) Dell made industry choices based on what is best for the costumer (damned lie), 3) Dell's choice will become a standard, and therefore: if you buy a different standard than what Dell is selling you will be buying something that will be nonstandard in the future (ooooh, bad!).
In other words: FUD.
Oh, PUHLEEEZE. Not more lame conspiracy theories. Heck, maybe the lander is just out in AZ somewhere, eh?
Well, I just checked arizona weather, and its clear skies all around...
So that's how they know it can't be mud: It hasn't been raining all week!
Fahrenheit is well suited to the human condition on earth.
That's why when talking about robots on mars its utterly absurd.
0 F is roughly the coldest temperature people most people experience in
I'm Canadian you short-sleeved wuss!
I bet you've never walked out to find that all the humidity in you nose froze up all at once when you inhaled...some people never lived.
And I think that most of humanity actually lives in tropical climes, where 0F pretty much never happens.
and 100 F the hottest (obviously there are greater extremes, but we're talking about the bulk of the population).
We have this newfangled thing called "fire" nowadays, gets quite a bit hotter than 38 degrees (what you'd call 100)...
Ovens also happen to work very well on the fahrenheit scale (200 F - 500 F).
Yeah, I tried to set an oven to 200 celcius once and the fabric of space time caved in! It was the darndest thing!
Seriously, devices work well with the unit they were designed to work with? Wow! What an insight!
Basing temperature on a random molecule's states at a specific atmospheric pressure is fairly arbitrary and has little to do with the human condition.
Yeah, random.
I mean, its what we are mostly made of! And if you don't drink any of it for 3 days you die. 70% of our planet is covered in it. Yeah, it has SO little to do with the human condition! Hell, most people have never even seen water! Totally random, totally unrellated to the human condition.
I heard some of these monasteries actually make money off brewing beer!
So? They're catholics, not mormons. Jesus turned water to wine, they turn grain to beer.
Not sure why IBm is pussyfooting arond on this one either, unless it's to make sure they don't piss off Microsoft so they'll be penalized in the retail or business support sector. Who knows why they're pussyfooting around with this.
You just like saying that word, don't you? : )
For God's sake, search for 'speakfreely' in your own engine. It returns ONE result! The same damned article!
/. editor, to them this is their last chance to slashdot that server to oblivion!
You're not thinking like a