No, no, no. You're missing the point, and the previous poster to you was correct. To conduct a proper test for this, the test should have been set up according to the "sample a, sample b" idea. If the judges know beforehand what the format is for each sample, they can be biased against or for that format and reflect that bias in their responses. Have you ever taken a Practical Statistics class?
Offtopic? Uh, okay. Sure, I can see perfectly how a post about the Final Fantasy movie is offtopic in an article about the Final Fantasy movie. Dumbass moderator.
Amen on all points. I just cleaned up an old 486 I got for free so that my little brother could share my parents' DSL and use centericq and w3m. I'd have upgraded it, but it's one of those old closed-system Compaq Presarios. I can't even replace the broken double-speed CDROM drive. Thank god for a parallel zip drive and Zipslack.:)
I'm just curious, does anyone else here feel as guilty as I do when you have to throw out old hardware?
The hardware folks, however, don't really care if you are stealing songs, movies, or software. In fact, they would love for you to steal your software (that would give you more money to spend on hard
Not only that, but the more music/movies/software that someone illegally copies (I refuse to use the word steal or pirate to describe this), the more hard drive space one needs, or the more CD-R's/CD-RW's one needs.
I'll bet that all the CD burner manufacturing companies and hard drive companies had a massive collective orgasm when widespread music and movie swapping became possible due to increased consumer bandwidth.
Gee, I'm sorry that "make World; make install" is too hard for you to understand. I guess you'll always have to get X in binary form. And the whole two hours that it takes on my P2 are absolute hell; I might even have to go read a book or spend some time away from that one computer while it compiles! Gasp! The horror!
Granted, Gnome is more of a pain, but just untar all the packages in a directory, and make a shellscript that'll go into each directory in the proper order and do a "configure ( with the proper options set) ; make ; make install ; ldconfig" and it's easy. Gnome takes longer, granted, but just leave it going while you sleep and it won't matter. Same with KDE if you prefer that.
Oh, I'm sorry I've offended you. I mean, installing from source?! What the hell am I thinking, installing from source in an open source operating system! Pre-packaged binaries are the only way to go. You're absolutely right. In fact, I think I'll wipe out my Slackware installations and replace them with Debian, the One True Distribution. Not.
Geez, now I'm starting to understand where all the BSD folks are coming from. And as to your remarks on slow computers, it is precisely in those older machine that one needs even the smallest performance gain.
Now if only they could somehow convince thousands of ISVs not to "Create an icon on the desktop" as the last step of the default install...
Ditto. And I'd like to see applications categorized in the start menu according to what the application does,not by what company made it. Example: I don't care that Lucasarts made X-Wing Alliance, I just care that it's a game. Installers should always ask what the program goes into the start menu as.
You're right about the Emperor's ship, but that was a standard imperial military shuttle (I used to know the name of that class of shuttle from playing X-Wing, but I forget now.) Maybe he got a ride in a star destroyer and hopped over in that shuttle once he got there. And the Emperor was also big on the Force, so maybe he didn't really care about appearances all that much. Amidala was a not-too-bright queen of a peaceful planet, and probably wanted something pretty to fly around in.
Damn, it's been too long since we've had any decent "hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants" trolls.
Heh, all true. I was more referring to the fact that every single character has extensive knowledge of every aspect of physics and engineering. When I said "dumb people", I meant people who didn't necessarily have so much book smarts.
I always wanted to see a non-Starfleet trek show, featuring smugglers and drug-runners and privateers and other scum. Reasons:
1) No super-high-tech-magical technology. Does your average seagoing freighter have all the bells and whistles of an Aegis cruiser? I want to see a dingy, barely-functioning civilian ship with limitations.
2) I want to see real aliens, the kind that you'd find scummy civilian spaceports, way off the main shipping lanes. What's a more interesting place: 24th century San Francisco or Mos Eisley?
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
5) I really really want to see the Federation as, if not as outright bad guys, then chasing after the heroes of a story. Perhaps the main characters could have a bounty on their heads for drug smuggling or something, with every other low-life chasing after them for it.
6) I want characters without morals. I want to see telepaths who wouldn't hesitate to invade someone's brain as a main character. I want a captain who's willing to take innocent people hostage to get out of a situation. I want realistic, scared, survival-oriented people as the main characters.
7) An unfair universe. I want main characters to get killed off *permanently*. No time-travel, no alternate universe, no particle-of-the-week magic, no transporter-to-keep-them-alive, none of that crap. I want characters to die dramatic deaths when it would advance the story and make everything interesting.
Yes, I'm stealing many ideas from other shows. But I still want to see them in Trek.
Maybe the previous poster uses it at work or college, and didn't have to pay for it themself. You might be surprised, but some people actually pay attention to copyright laws.
Supposedly, there weren't many huge technological improvements in the time between ep 1 and ep 4, aside from the Death Star. A lot of the ships from the original trilogy featured beat-up patchwork ships that only smugglers and rebels used. If tech didn't advance much in the thirty or so years between ep 1 and ep 4, then it's possible to imagine a monarch of a wealthy planet having a nicer ship than anything a couple of dirt-poor smugglers could have decades later.
And the books don't count. The first one to quote from a KJA novel gets sporked.:)
Tell me about it. My college just bought two labs of those workstations for 3d modelling work. They're basically just PCs with fancy graphics hardware. Very nice hardware, but they cost far too much for what they do.
That's absurd! Thousands of people die every year from toxic coal waste (a good amount of which is released into the air, despite a complex filtering system).
Very, very true, and I thank you for bringing it up. In fact, less than a thousand kilometers from where I live, there's one of the world's worst coal-related toxin sites. Do a search for "Cape Breton tar ponds" in any search engine and you'll find tons of news reports on this problem.
The Sierra Club has put together a horrifying report on this site. By an astonishing coincedence, this place also has the highest cancer rate in Canada. Hmm.
And this is Canada, supposedly a bastion of environmental friendliness. Can any of you imagine what the situation might be like in countries where the local government doesn't care at all about the environment and doesn't have to be accountable to citizen's health concerns?
I'll be the first to admit that nuclear isn't a perfect solution, but stories like the Sydney tar ponds are what make me realize just how much more horrible fossil fuels can be. Nuclear waste may be more dangerous per mass unit, but at least there's a lot less of it.
I'm not a nuclear engineer at all, but I thought that I had once heard of a nuclear plant design in which robs containing material designed to stop a reaction were held in place in a grid that would mesh with a grid of fuel rods below them, using (I think) electromagnetic fields. The idea was that if there was an emergency, the electricity to the fields holding up the upper rods would be cut, the rods would drop among the fuel rods, and the nuclear reaction would stop. I'm probably getting some technical detail wrong, but I think I heard about this on a CBC radio documentary. Does anyone know about this?
Slashdot Mirror
Or a Wand of Enlightenment. That'll work too.
Hey, I thought we were talking about Clinton, not Bush.
No, no, no. You're missing the point, and the previous poster to you was correct. To conduct a proper test for this, the test should have been set up according to the "sample a, sample b" idea. If the judges know beforehand what the format is for each sample, they can be biased against or for that format and reflect that bias in their responses. Have you ever taken a Practical Statistics class?
Offtopic? Uh, okay. Sure, I can see perfectly how a post about the Final Fantasy movie is offtopic in an article about the Final Fantasy movie. Dumbass moderator.
Slightly offtopic, but am I the only person who remembers when anarchy-online.com pointed to a telnet BBS?
I wonder just how many poeple remember it.
Amen on all points. I just cleaned up an old 486 I got for free so that my little brother could share my parents' DSL and use centericq and w3m. I'd have upgraded it, but it's one of those old closed-system Compaq Presarios. I can't even replace the broken double-speed CDROM drive. Thank god for a parallel zip drive and Zipslack. :)
I'm just curious, does anyone else here feel as guilty as I do when you have to throw out old hardware?
The hardware folks, however, don't really care if you are stealing songs, movies, or software. In fact, they would love for you to steal your software (that would give you more money to spend on hard
Not only that, but the more music/movies/software that someone illegally copies (I refuse to use the word steal or pirate to describe this), the more hard drive space one needs, or the more CD-R's/CD-RW's one needs.
I'll bet that all the CD burner manufacturing companies and hard drive companies had a massive collective orgasm when widespread music and movie swapping became possible due to increased consumer bandwidth.
Gee, I'm sorry that "make World; make install" is too hard for you to understand. I guess you'll always have to get X in binary form. And the whole two hours that it takes on my P2 are absolute hell; I might even have to go read a book or spend some time away from that one computer while it compiles! Gasp! The horror!
Granted, Gnome is more of a pain, but just untar all the packages in a directory, and make a shellscript that'll go into each directory in the proper order and do a "configure ( with the proper options set) ; make ; make install ; ldconfig" and it's easy. Gnome takes longer, granted, but just leave it going while you sleep and it won't matter. Same with KDE if you prefer that.
Oh, I'm sorry I've offended you. I mean, installing from source?! What the hell am I thinking, installing from source in an open source operating system! Pre-packaged binaries are the only way to go. You're absolutely right. In fact, I think I'll wipe out my Slackware installations and replace them with Debian, the One True Distribution. Not.
Geez, now I'm starting to understand where all the BSD folks are coming from. And as to your remarks on slow computers, it is precisely in those older machine that one needs even the smallest performance gain.
Now if only they could somehow convince thousands of ISVs not to "Create an icon on the desktop" as the last step of the default install...
Ditto. And I'd like to see applications categorized in the start menu according to what the application does,not by what company made it. Example: I don't care that Lucasarts made X-Wing Alliance, I just care that it's a game. Installers should always ask what the program goes into the start menu as.
You're right about the Emperor's ship, but that was a standard imperial military shuttle (I used to know the name of that class of shuttle from playing X-Wing, but I forget now.) Maybe he got a ride in a star destroyer and hopped over in that shuttle once he got there. And the Emperor was also big on the Force, so maybe he didn't really care about appearances all that much. Amidala was a not-too-bright queen of a peaceful planet, and probably wanted something pretty to fly around in.
Damn, it's been too long since we've had any decent "hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants" trolls.
Heh, all true. I was more referring to the fact that every single character has extensive knowledge of every aspect of physics and engineering. When I said "dumb people", I meant people who didn't necessarily have so much book smarts.
I always wanted to see a non-Starfleet trek show, featuring smugglers and drug-runners and privateers and other scum. Reasons:
1) No super-high-tech-magical technology. Does your average seagoing freighter have all the bells and whistles of an Aegis cruiser? I want to see a dingy, barely-functioning civilian ship with limitations.
2) I want to see real aliens, the kind that you'd find scummy civilian spaceports, way off the main shipping lanes. What's a more interesting place: 24th century San Francisco or Mos Eisley?
4) I want some dumb people to crew a ship, not just the super-geniuses that Trek staffs Federation ships with.
5) I really really want to see the Federation as, if not as outright bad guys, then chasing after the heroes of a story. Perhaps the main characters could have a bounty on their heads for drug smuggling or something, with every other low-life chasing after them for it.
6) I want characters without morals. I want to see telepaths who wouldn't hesitate to invade someone's brain as a main character. I want a captain who's willing to take innocent people hostage to get out of a situation. I want realistic, scared, survival-oriented people as the main characters.
7) An unfair universe. I want main characters to get killed off *permanently*. No time-travel, no alternate universe, no particle-of-the-week magic, no transporter-to-keep-them-alive, none of that crap. I want characters to die dramatic deaths when it would advance the story and make everything interesting.
Yes, I'm stealing many ideas from other shows. But I still want to see them in Trek.
Maybe the previous poster uses it at work or college, and didn't have to pay for it themself. You might be surprised, but some people actually pay attention to copyright laws.
then why is Dark Angel doing well?
Hot chick in tight black leather, lots of action.
why did the matrix do so well?
Hot chick in tight black leather, lots of action.
Next?
Akira class? Will the first officer get a headache everytime he thinks of the ship? And the captain should have a motorbike. Definitely a red one.
"WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED ENTERPRISE?!"
Supposedly, there weren't many huge technological improvements in the time between ep 1 and ep 4, aside from the Death Star. A lot of the ships from the original trilogy featured beat-up patchwork ships that only smugglers and rebels used. If tech didn't advance much in the thirty or so years between ep 1 and ep 4, then it's possible to imagine a monarch of a wealthy planet having a nicer ship than anything a couple of dirt-poor smugglers could have decades later.
:)
And the books don't count. The first one to quote from a KJA novel gets sporked.
It just seemed appropriate to say that...
So your money helped create AOL? Tell me again why people should thank you?
Sounds like the Internet, too.
Tell me about it. My college just bought two labs of those workstations for 3d modelling work. They're basically just PCs with fancy graphics hardware. Very nice hardware, but they cost far too much for what they do.
That's absurd! Thousands of people die every year from toxic coal waste (a good amount of which is released into the air, despite a complex filtering system).
Very, very true, and I thank you for bringing it up. In fact, less than a thousand kilometers from where I live, there's one of the world's worst coal-related toxin sites. Do a search for "Cape Breton tar ponds" in any search engine and you'll find tons of news reports on this problem.
The Sierra Club has put together a horrifying report on this site. By an astonishing coincedence, this place also has the highest cancer rate in Canada. Hmm.
And this is Canada, supposedly a bastion of environmental friendliness. Can any of you imagine what the situation might be like in countries where the local government doesn't care at all about the environment and doesn't have to be accountable to citizen's health concerns?
I'll be the first to admit that nuclear isn't a perfect solution, but stories like the Sydney tar ponds are what make me realize just how much more horrible fossil fuels can be. Nuclear waste may be more dangerous per mass unit, but at least there's a lot less of it.
Wow! You could work for Greenpeace with that massive level of scientific knowledge!
I'm not a nuclear engineer at all, but I thought that I had once heard of a nuclear plant design in which robs containing material designed to stop a reaction were held in place in a grid that would mesh with a grid of fuel rods below them, using (I think) electromagnetic fields. The idea was that if there was an emergency, the electricity to the fields holding up the upper rods would be cut, the rods would drop among the fuel rods, and the nuclear reaction would stop. I'm probably getting some technical detail wrong, but I think I heard about this on a CBC radio documentary. Does anyone know about this?
It might be a merciful end to the parents and older siblings of the kids who drag them along to see Mickey, though. ;)